The Express. — London, England, 1852-05-04 00:00:00

I ths a Chargers de Timmins. hitherto t W u .* ; were to have ea additive of TPA Bra. la r m ertelehlt teeepo. a r0W , 100. 1.7 0 ,,„f co a et the te be bet there week' r resruailing &mate lathenewepees may. Wee wt be • ce h r my, then, to be Milemsed ? la the east of the lord the resabst ter Lewis the ether ht then ger , two suggestisUS worthy •ff .4,i...A the embodiment of a Leger amber st pow about 10,00 u (es we understood). is Soldem) did nut think that corgis MOM , e d to that extent, but he theme* Oleg miglth.e.-I:nich increasedand they.would,forMarketbo of ise nne • , of forte. t h e noble l ord also sorriojne..n el 10,900 militia. He (Captain Spider's) • would be better if that number of regular troops geigh- . 1 hs•.a who would be more serviceable and Il e et.,Wo•e thought that this bill should Ire passed, ...min; the c ompulsory part of it, the ballot, and if the farm t „ "is r. stored from five years to three years, ; L id the bounty of 01. spread over the three years, it would • • lallitht week for that time for only 21 days' ser tuir7C year; that rum would gardens, he rent of many of [!Turd labourers' mitigates and and the militia, rpm b e iog thought a hardship, would by received with ▪ fhr g ratitude. If 40,000 men were obtained fur • mama voluntary enlistment, they would form the nevielis of an effective force. He did not think then ...s my immediate fear of invasion, but the state of Irria‘u ss 'itch es to cause some appfehrus'oni on that run' tie theueht that the militia should nut have the Mee en form as the Mint, but one something like the pen ••ie. which only cost it :ie. The hon. and gallant nom be. 0 , oluerred that he hoped the house would the amendment as merely an etfert to impede •-• m soil wou6l go into committee to deal with t h e 1., a psi [:cal 111.,ItUvr. Ile 1;I:Iti II could 1..• understand the conduct of the bi t . ei n'!. nun the Secretary to the Admiralty. The hon. matienauslead taken upon tinned( almost to l ec t ure , en d irertainiv ta inter at, the hon. member for theWeit go the st.nt and accuracy of that hon. member's informe rs,. ogi roe al affairs. ts, cow that the Secretary to the Mdiutos.., h of euly h.. n in his office about sic weeks, and pre Hole 1.1 talking mile, ha 1 not distinguished himself by env prefundity en naval affairs, he (Mr. Bright) could not t h, n king that if the lion. gentleman (Mr. Stafford) ,a. 001 ,..trut to occupy the position he had occupied that ugh:. h in. friend ~Mr. Cotsgen), who hid sat ter three y' it s er. es intimately connected with this subject, eu.;ht at tr ee [ fairly entitled to lay his views be pee the bun.. t Cheer. ! lie rose to Maintain the views of b o. nu red. 1 h. hero. member who had just sat data 6.d represented this motion as • motion to cause de ft, ,Mr. bright) denied that ; it was a motion to the farts as to the means of defence before the ga mey. (liar. hoar.) So fee the house and the ma ny were proceeding in ignorance of the exact ba g , A mild,' bill involved this trilling eircum ce—that it propmed very nearly, if not quite, to death this numbs., of oenons within the United Kingdom, esaatelvd nth the prole...lion of arms. (Rear, hear) And, asteithdarrOier ere preamble to the 42nd George ill., irbich a, t w s. incorporated with the bill now before the b ow ,., a h. nin it was state I whereas • respectable nuntary ham under the command of officers possessing ' si ded property within (treat Britian is essential to the conititution,” he took the liberty of asserting that rat establishne . nts beyond • demonstrated ne. moil see,' quite contrary to the ....institution of the coun try, aml win repugnant to the spirit of the representative Wl:tan-re. everywhere. Representative institutions im psi s gamesmen% hosed upon the good will of the people ; and :unitary establishms nes to support the ;osteologist wire utitovesiaty in a country enjoying such institutions. Be *mod undertake to prove, that a measure like this would be h.stite to the industry and freedom of the country; sad that. there being no necessity for it, there was not so Whreg to the country which would not be prejudiced by B. Ile would view this measure in reference to the prin. eikl.s issue:4 recognised hi that house—the principles of ex pihericy :mil policy; soil he would waive for a moment thine Wont tidings, on this question, which he no doubt ens. ; but in which be could not expect many h. o in. rah, es would sympathise. Ile looked hauls to the pot history ut the cuun.ry for facts to guide him in this debate. The nght hon. gentleman the Chancellor of the Soloquer bail referred rorrowlully on Friday night to the imartiele.-torgotten 28,000,0001. which we had sunually to pay ► interest On • principal sum of 800,000,0001., which ear feretathers had expended in war. Since the cessation of war we had spent annually • sum equal to about 11.00,0 Of., being the interest on an additional sum of fieteetialllol., Inc the purpose of guarding against war. and, after all this expenditure in war, and in the prepare fiell ler war, and after nearly forty years of peace, the government came forward and declared that Less are agreed to spend 350,0001. more, what had gorse befare would be useless, and England most be regarded in hourly danger (Laughter and cheers.) Be asked for the evidences of the eagerness of the french people fora war with England. Ile pointed to the pn,nat ent of Louis Philippe, to the provisional FOirefik. sot ue•ler Lamartine, to the republic and the National Aormlq, and he would ask if anything had occurred meter au of those governments to indicate an essentially sari hhglials spirit? They could and no pretext in the miuut government of France. Nothing had happened nuc lb, eury. date( to show that the French people were slaloms for a quarrel. (Hear, hear.) Theo he altogether denied that ittlthey had • shadow of ground fur their present at- pre (and he was not one of those who were in closed to attack our press for its boldness) for months alter *hat was called by some the usurpation of Louis tiats.leoa had poured on incessant fire of accusation against the new system ; and yet, with the whole ones of Paris at the disposal of the President, not a syllable had appeared is the way of reply to suggest that any international hate had been provoked. Ile (Mr. Bright) would admit meek against Louis Napoleon; but he reigned with the approval of Fran,-, attested by the votes of the wejor4 et the people. It there was ego reason mege than ter why he tolerated, it was beaus then was a easeelemessee in the lie irt oh the people of Flume that, although as de fence cou'ol be offered for the means be had taloa, edll la the results he had produced, sad la the system be had organised, was to be head the BairMD curity for at least the temporary mese a the coutry. Of course, therefore, this semlldemers dr redid upon a peace policy, and the prestige of Leah Napoleon's government would immediately disappear spa the slightest suspicion that a piratical and marauding ea. peditim to England was contemplated. (Hear, hear.) TU noble lord the member for Tiverton was the real tither of this bill. (A laugh.) The noble lord was for • militia hid in 184 h—in feet it was his hobby; and hie peat influence had induced the noble lord the member for legion to adopt his views, lie should like to know why the noble lord the member for Tiverton was afraid ? Did he 'spirt danger from that ruler whom conduct he had himself applauded? lie was not sure that the noble lord had not stated in one of his despatches that the peace of Europe had been secured by the President of France. Rat the table lord was no authority to him on that speraisek a althoueh the proposition for a militia was perfectly Ml tent with the noble lord's system of poliPes. The UM& meat Di • militia would liberate troops for font* sok% and enable the noble lord to carry on that universal aOll, many and incessant interference with foreign couatriee of which he was so fowl, as it was generally believe=j; was never so happy as when cajoling or bullyin Name foreign country. The lion. and leanmed the member for Sheffield had called the noble largle= seta. and thin militia bill was necessary, he (Mr. 1111 rapp.td, to act as an extinguisher for some of the wale !sal 's conflagrations. Bat he thought the had :lead paid dear enough for the project of the lord. Hear, hear," and cries of "Divide.") They boil heard of the number of ships on the coast of Africa, and of the wars waged with savage princes in that country. (Cries of ') Indeed, the noble lord'a doing so little for fl rim at home, and so much for freedom abroad, re minded him of a character in Mr. Dickens's last work. Ile thought that the nobleloed might truly be called the Miss Jellahy of statesmen. (A laugh.) Thelon:slim they were docussiog was not so mach one of fact as of impression and sentiment. (Impatience and cries of " Divide divide.") He would not detain the house with details. He objected to the bill, • r, and he objected to any increase of force as • sehstitute, because on ease whatever bad been made. The hoe. member concluded by expressing his intention to op pose the bill, and stating that if ever it passed that house it wool! be quite impossible to work it in the country. (Cheers.) Mr. WIIITESIDE said that the house had received some useful information from the two members, who might pro perly be said to represent the great centres of intell*ence. The hon. member for the West Riding bad informed them fl at . t,ry one of our ships was in the wrong place, and they Loui h. an] from the hon. member for Manchester, that every eminent statesman in this country wu wrong in his opinion. The hon. member for the West Riding bad repudiated in terference with the affairs of foreign nations ; but was there any member of that house who had dealt stronger denunciations against foreign nations, of whose con duct he disapproved, than the hon. member himself 1 (Hear.) The Inn. member had appealed from that house to the con itilarneiri, and in so doing had violated the theory of the constitution. He would, in short, Invert our mixed g .vernment into an absolute 0 ..m0i racy. (Conservative cheers.) The hon. member I hot aikid where was our navy Would it not be always at Lod l c pre vent invasicu I The same question had been asked of Mr. Pitt when the French fleet escaped our &d -read in • fog and appnvaehed the moat of Ireland. If that armament had landed in Ireland the would have been tom tram the British empire only to be reconquered at the f millions of money and oceans of blood. (Hear.) Lit that was act the only instance. He wanted to know .t ea. that the French fleet cooped from floehrgle, • 1 , .* Nipper Tandy was enabled to land an the to rust .f Ireland Ile was struck with the ildwas .d ti, ereurnente addressed to the house The • ..1 Ih• amble lord (Lord John Russell) menet hel".:er '1 he opinion of the noble lord (Palmentmg the I. Tiverton went for nothing, and theh. tlf • men who sat on that (the lainiste • z it Ibe nt for nothing. And what motive fillig le deter. [acts? bey knew the truth, he hp la see( ha , l spoken the truth ; bet white SSW al uc" woe mentioned it we. wet 11110 MIA st Chatham or of Burke - that the y %S Idle Nes of NI hat th e y had heard the rigid 111. asiow e r Inc Wiltshire say that that Illimet stateeewel wegst.'l to him the propriety of segnaising the 7..•. .. il cono.lidating the militia law. That maid " !, member tor the West !tiding: the great *WWI, that h' tip to had declared against Ida. The bah Meneheocr commenced his spas* by •• it ithionstitational thing to have a al& sad . r a re I% 44" br ' t • unlit presentative serameat. 161•1111 did he tad that the militia was an ameastitationel form t It had existed in this country, not merely from the time of Charles I. or Charles 11., bat front the time of Alfred, and it was maiataised by Chatham in 1766. Mr. BRIGHT explained.—He had not said that a militia was tincenamitatietsal. What he said or meant to say was that the oilstones of • military form was contrary to tit; spirit of representative institutions, sad that say force be yond that which was absolutely necemary was antagonistic to the principle of the constitution. . • Mr. WHITESIDE—But who was to pronounce upon the necessity? (Lend cheers.) Wu it the triumphant majority of the house who had promonneed an opinion, or was it the minority—however respectable end vigorous, or intellectual? Were they at liberty to argue that it was unconstitutional when the question had been settled by thu only tribunal known to the constitution? 'They might tell him it was very expensive —and so it was. But was it so expensive an invasion or insurrection, and was not the apprehension of war or invasion almost as Injurious as war or invasion themselves? The bon. gentleman said this danger was all visionary, and that if there were any danger he could not discover it from what had taken place in Fraure. Was not France a vast military power, and was it not centered in ene hand? That was the ground, and the rational ground, for apprehension ' because the same rules and principles that would appl y to settled order end government could not he applied in this case. But the hon. gentlemaii said the effect of a militia was to cor rupt. Where did he find that the use of arms was to cor rupt. Ile agreed with the hon memher fur the West Riding that they had nothing to gain by war, lout they might have everything to lose. If there were, as the hon. !mother fur Manchester said—if there were glory in war, of that they bad had enough. They could not excel their 11:114 victo ries, nor surpass the splendour of their military triumphs. But this measure was peaceful ; it was intended to maintain peace, to preserve the institutions under which they lived, and to transmit to p .sterity the blessings incalculable that thee enjoteil. (Loud cheers.) Mr. RICE sppealcol to the hon. member for the West Riding (Mr. Cobden) not to divide the lhow.e. If he did, he for one could not vote with him. Ito voted against the second reading, because he believed toe proposed militia would be useless fur the defence of the country. and because he objected to the compulsory clauses. But after the dila ' 'ion on the second reading, his object now was to get into committee as soon as possible, for the purpose of removing throe compulsory clauses. Mr. M.UREUOIt most el the adjournment of the debate. Mr. MITCIIELL seconded. ihe6iIANIIIII6IiWiIVe EXCHEQUER said it ap peared to him the question had been amply debated, but it there were one ur two gentlemen who wished to express their opinions to the house, he was sure the house would hear them; but he hoped they might divide upon the amendment of the hon. member for the West Riding to- night, and that the motion for adjuurnmeut would not be pressed. Mr. GIBSON hoped the right hon. gentleman would consent to the adjournment. The house then divided : For the adjournment Against it 291 Najletty . against —223 On oar resealmilaion into the gallery we found that Captain Sanwa, had moved the adjournment of the house. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER would, under any circumstances, leave opposed the motion, Mos: much as its effect was to stop the progress of business alto gether. (Cheers.) Mr. MITCHELL supportid the motion. Ile did not think that, considering the grave nature of the bill, it had been sufficiently debated. (Hear, hear.) They had only had two nights on the second reading, and they had only had half a night upon the present motion. (Hear, hear.) Mr. WAKLEY assured the right hon. gentleman that, as fu as his knowledge went, this was a most unpopular mo tion. (Cheers.) Ile therefore felt it to he ahsolutely his duty to obstruct its progress by every means in his power, and at every stage. (hear, bear.) It was his desire to see the bill defeated; for he believed it to be in every respect an unconstitutional and prejudicial measure. (Cheers.) He hoped the right bon. gentleman would consent at least to the adjonniasent of the debate. (Hear.) The Marquis of GRANBY observed that if hon. gentle men opposite were determin, d to obstruct the public buil sinew, he hoped that at h a,t they would not affect to be anzioas foe a speedy dinoilution. (Cheers.) Mr. BRIGHT hoped the right bon. gentleman would consent to the adjournment. The right hon. gentleman had himself often pressed 3 similar motion. ([leer.) Mr. CLAY thought time should be given to consult the feeling of the country ; and that, seeing the number of peti tions which had been presented against it, it ought not to be passed at that hour of the night. Lord J. RUSSELL suggested that nothing would be gained by opposing the motion for adjourning the debate. Perhaps an arrangement might be made by which it might be mused to-morrow. (Hear, hear.) The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER had felt it necessary to oppose the adjournmect of the house, but, bowing to the higher authority of the noble lord, he was willing to consent to the adjournment of the debate, and hoped that those hon. gentlemen who had motions on the paper for to-morrow would consent, in obedience to the noble lord's suggestion, to postpone them, in order to allow this debate to be then resumed. (hear, hear.) Captain BCOBILL withdrew his motion, and the debate was adjourned till to-morrow (this day). The Registration of Births, Deaths, and Marriages Dill was read a second time. _ . . The report of the Committee on Compensations, in re spect to the Secretary of Ilmikrupte Office Abolition, was received mid agreed to; and the compensation clause was inscribed in the bill incommittm.. The house attoursed at oue o'clock. PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEES. METROPOLIS WATER SUPPLY COMM ITT EL—Yeder day the provisions in the government bill mere to have been considered and settled ; but, in consequence of some misunderstanding, the matter was deferred, and the com mittee proceeded to examine Mr. Simpson, engineer to the Chelsea Water Works, on the merits of that company's meteor.. _ _ OXFORD, WORCISTIR, AND WOLIFIRRAMPTON RAlL WAT.—Yeeterday, in the cue of this company's petition for additional provision, the examiners declared that the stand orders were not complied with. CLAVIIIIIIN'S FLAX COMFANT.—Yesterday, in Mr. Ber nal's committee, the preamble of this bill was declared proved. LIVIIRIPOOL CoRPORATIO.4 WATERWORX/.—Yesterday the committee of the Mouse of Lords declared the we amble of this bill to be proved, so far only as relates to the proposed deviation of the main conduit pips at various places, through the property of Sir J. Geare4 between be tween 'Lindley, and Knowsley, and negativing those portions of the bill for reservoirs at Aspall, Ashtee, and Ecelceton, sad supply of water to Hisulley, Ashton, and Present. mapreem of " Li boat• altorretht anbetitut hos. tfe peso the erniil.l 1 (Cheen: Mr. it loafed in petty be The hoe tf.at t et: had hi-at eminent The hoi terhrcni then• an decunru duct he i be hon etituenei theory twieert &mot re had mkt hand to Wed of mirel in that ars tom fete bat tha hoer it • acd hn ioutho r tut a nothine meat+ the Dn Ltie. dotort Lived mutt (9 hot. oteett•r Nem , hate s L.,. that h tea. ai era Ot court. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, aeoarapanied by the Princesses Helena and Louisa, took a drive, yesterday afternoon, in an open carriage and four. The 'Themes in waiting, Lord Charles Fitzroy and Lieut.-Col. A. Gordon, attended on horseback. Price Albert rode out on horseback, yesterday moining, attended by Lient.-Col. Hon. A. Gordon. The Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and the younger ' members of the royal family, took their accustomed exer cise, yesterday, in the garden of Buckingham Palace. Specimen prints of the series of comprehensive picturea of the Crystal Palace painted by Mesas. Nub, Hsghe, and Roberts, were submitted to her Majesty and Prince Albert, yesterday, at Beekingham Palace. The Queen had a dinner party yesterday, at Bucking ham Palms. The company included the Duchess of Kent, the Disks of Wellington, the Dyke of Newcastle, the Mar ques' and Marchioness of Kildare, Lady Anna Maria Daw son, Bareness de Spoilt, the Earl and Countess of Sandwich, Viscount and Vieemustees Palmerston. Viscount and Via cosatess Mahon, and Admiral Sir William Parker. The Duchess of Kent went to Frognsore yesterday morn mThe Thither returned to Clarence House, St. James's, he afternoon. The Finance Committee debt Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 18.51, had a meeting yesterda y at the Palace of Westminster. Present—Earl Grenville (chairman), Sir Alexander Spearman, Sir William Cubitt, r. T. F. Gib son, and Mr. Edgar Bowring (secretary). Mr. Duke, Mr. Carpenter, and Captain Owen attended. Viscount Torrington had an interview with the Earl of Derby, yesterday, at his official residence in Downing-street. The Earl of Manta:ashen had also an interview with the noble earl. A deputation on the subject of the introduction of a clause into the new Metropolitan Sewerage Bill, to exempt land used for agricultural purposes from being rated under the said bill, had an interview with Lord John Manners, Whitehall-place. at the office of Public Works and Buildings in Whitehall-place. The deputation consisted of Mr. Wood (Hanger hill, Ealing), Mr. Cressingham (Cershalton), Mr. Par (Merton), Mr. Atkins (Lewisham)), Mr. Bridger (Mitcham), Mr. Adams (East Ham), Mr. Raincock (Bed dington), Mr. Pawley (Bromley), Mr. Hammond (Bilkers), Mr. Martin (Tooting), Mr. Thompson (Ilford), and Mr. John Downes (Bromley, Kent), secretary to the committee. Mr. Lockhart, M.P. for Lanarkshire, had en interview with the Secretary of State for the Colonise, yesterday, at the Colonial-office, to present a memorial from the hand loom weavers of Scotland. Mr. Spooner, M.P., Bailiff of King Edward's School, Birmingham ; the Rev. G. H. Gifford, Head Muter of the school; end Mr. Whiteley. Secretary to the Governors, had ea interview with Mr. Secretary Walpole, yester day, at the il(011•11.1111. The Earl of Canlipa' and Admiral Hornby had inter , views with the Zed of Derby, yesterday, at his official residence, in Dassuleretveet. The Duke of Bfewesietie had an interview with Mr. Secre tary Walpole, yesterday, at the Home-office. The Earl of Zetland had also an interview with the right hon. secretary. Despatches were received et the Colonial-office, yesterday, from the Governor of Cana.la. Despatches were also re ceived from the Governor of Malta. Despatalres were sent yesterday from the Colonial-office to the Governor of the Maaritius. I)FATII OF MR. JOHN UALRTIIPLT F.R.S.—This distinguished member of the medical profession expired on Sunday morning, after a wrote and protracted illness. The lamented deoresed held the appointments of consulting surgl on to the Royal Ophthalmic Hospital and North Lon don Infirmary, and also a Nat at the council table of the Boyd Collar of thmess. TnE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 4 1852. glie Crane's's. In this choice of chairman, the . _ has got the benefit of a good name and the government of a thorough partisan. There is something sonorous in the mention of a BARING presiding over en inves tigation into the state of the government and admi mstmtiou of India. It sounds as if all the Ise cumulated wisdom and experience of a family long accustomed to public affairs, remarkable for commercial success, and enjoying a position equally distinguished in society, politics, and trade, had been brought to bear on the inquiry. The selection must have been Mr. DISRAELI'S ; for he knows, better than all his colleagues, the virtue of en imposing name. And, no doubt, Mr. THOMAS BARING has much of the ability and all the keenness of his ram ; but he also shares that infirmity of opinion and purpose which neutralised the public usefulness of the late Lord ASHBURTON; and he has been unnaturally forced into the position of a thorough party politician by the misadventure of his first parliamentary contest, from the effects of which he has never yet recovered. Mr. BARING is not, therefore, exactly . the person to conduct a large and comprehensive inquiry into the actual condition of British India, into the form of its government, or into the best means of develoying the happiness of its people. But, on the other hand, he is not a bad man to preside over a survey of India on a more confined scale ; to talk over little improvements in what already exists, to ask pertinent questions on the uctual state of things, and to conclude with a series of sug gested alterations, very safe, because very small. And that is very much what was wanted. When the report is made, the name of BARING will give it weight and authority. In renewing, with certain changes, the present Charter Act, things will be made pleasant; and sooner or .later, we dare say, Mr. fliou.sa BARING will himself become a director. Fur by the time he quits the chairmanship of the committee, ho will, at all events, know something about India, and that is more tha n: can be said when he goes into it. Though the subjects of inquiry proposed by the government were confidentially communicated to the committee, do what members may to keep them secret, these things will ooze out; and they have in this case. The subjects are substantially as follow : 1. The authorities and agencies of government, at home nil in India. 2 The military and naval establishments. 3. The finances, the territorial and other sources of reve vie, and the trade and navigation of India. 4. The judicial establishments, European and native, and he modes of administering justice, civil and criminal. 5. The measures adopted for the promotion at education. 8. Works of local improvement. 7. Ecclesiastical provision for the diffusion of Christianity. 8. Miscellaneous topics of inquiry. All these are, of course, very proper points of in quiry; and fairly and thoroughly investigated, the result would no doubt be a large body of invaluable information buried in unreadable blue books. But in the list there are three very remarkable omissions. In the first place, it is not proposed by government to ascertain, except indeed incidentally, as far as it may be reached by examination into the financial and judicial systems, tho material condition of the 130,000,000 of people who really constitute India. Now, this is the all-important point to he ascertained; for by the condition of the inhabitants, by their well or ill being, by their pro gress or decay, by their happiness or misery—ought the character, the sufficiency, and the fate of the present system of . government to be decided. The next omission is of inquiry into the policies which have led to such immense additions to our Indian dominions since 1831—additions which were never contemplated by the framers of the measure of that year or by the parliament which enacted it. Itis the fashion to say, even with a new Burmese war in band, that our Indian wars arc over. This is the merest delusion. We have been at Cabul once; and the same spirit may carry us there again. Cashmere is as tempting for rounding off our territories as the Punjoub was. The independence of Nepaul lies between us and a natural boundary in that direction. We have crossed the desert to annex Scinde, and may disregard other deserts in like manner. The only secunty against other wars and conquests is in the expression of parliamentary opinion, and that it seems we are not likely to have. And lastly, the committee has not to enter into any inquiry into our relations with native Princes within the circle of our own territories. The Indian government has once already announced the annexation of the Deccan : but into oar relations with its sovereign, the NIZAM, no investigation is to take place. Lord Dautousie looks askance at Oude; threatens to terminate the titular sovereignty of the Emperor of Det.nt, secured to him by solemn treaty ; and has actually set aside the right of adoption, hitherto an established rule, not only of Hindoo suc cession, but of Hindoo faith. Yet all these topics of inquiry arc tahoosd by government; the committee must not broach one of them. TO CORIiT:SPONDENTB, 4 044415 d Edifies ;I. ft; !spa rou"bal;rilirl muse welih'Ve " Gamete,' Is p published ivory Treeday ea.l Yridry sled. la thus rat. %Ira twetoeittillaterlot los "TM Es esses,"lrudes Events, :•.r(t. tutvl tw of the Mike, I.'. HOligerlt.lKTO[t. ..17 Two °Week ur the dap of HIGH WATEIt AT L4INI7ON HIGDON TN,. MT —Merlin. lb. Va. Afternoon, ?b 0... Ithreasow—Monlas. 411ai Mumma. &a. 6s. LONDON, ZUESDAY, MAY 4. YESTERDAY week, when thc . greater number of those who had voted in the diseaon on the Militia Bill had left the house, a motion was unexpectedly made for leave to bring in a bill to legalise treating at county elections throughout the United Kingdom. The true nature and tendency of the scheme,' bad we no other means of testing its men's, might with tolerable certainty be inferred from the complexion of those who supported its introduction after midnight in the manner we have alluded to. A few liberal members—in actual numbers not mustering a score—happened accidentally to have remained somewhat longer in the nearly deserted chamber of legislation on the occasion in question ; and against the indecent pro ceeding of introducing so important a me sure at so unfitting a time, they naturally protested, and even tually divided. In the list of the majority arc to be found the names of WALPOLE, Dtsitseti, Beers. FORD, PAKINOTON, HENLEY ' CHRISTOPHER, Lord J. Maeseas and Lord NAAS, NAPIER, EMMISON Ts:N PR:NT, 11. BAILLIE, Lord CLAUDE HAMILTON and O. A. HAMILTON, BATESON, DUNNE, TROLLOPE, 1110 X, STAFFORD, Lord NEWPORT, and though Lit, not least, the defender of injured political Innocence and champion of virtuous Harwich, Sir FITZROY KELLY. In other words, the motion for leave to bring in a bill to render it lawful to give county alsetorm meat and drink for coming to the poll, would have been carried by the votes of the of alone, had there not been a single independent member of the tory party present. The preliminary stage having been thus appropri ately passed in an almost empty house after midnight, an attempt was forthwith made to get it forward another step by proposing according to form, that the bill should be read a first time. This notable effort was only defeated by the accidental departure of members, and the consequent adjournment of the house. Notice has, however, been given fur to-morrow, that a motion will then be made in favour of a first reading; and it is to this point that we particularly direct our present remarks. It is, we believe, not usual, indeed we believe it is not permissible by the standing orders, to discuss the first reading of a hill for the introduction of which leave has been duly conceded. The motion is consequently made in general without attracting notict—the initiatory debate having usually taken phice on the previous I motion for leave. However this may be, it is clear that if the expiring parliament would avoid the stigma and disgrace of having seriously harboured the scandalous desig n of augmenting the cost, and thus limiting the choice of candidates at future elections, its determination may most decisively be shown by a peremptory negative on the earliest opportunity that presentsitself. The question is one of broad and fundamental principle—not of paltering compromise or huxtering detail; and the country will watch with jealous interest every symptom of wavering or inde anion in so plain a matter of duty. The flimsy disguise which is made use of to cover the nakedness of the proposal is that, inasmuch as treating is now practised in spite of the law which forbids it, without rule or regulation, it would be better, for the sake of introducing order and system, to legalise the vicious proceeding and make statutablo provision for the perpetration of the act. Thie is precisely the philosophy of the French law respect lug gambling-houses. On the wretched plea of endeavouring to cheek and guide the culprits we are asked to recognise the sin ; and in the delusive hops of setting decent limits to debauchery we are to commit the gross indecency of publicly sanctioning the exaction of money or money's worth from every candidate by every elector who votes for him. It is idle to argue that where all get tickets for refreshment none are influenced corruptly thereby. The same thing was said regarding the payment of head-money, which was a stipulated fee extorted by force of custom in certain plains, and which both sides were compelled to submit to. pay. Yet committee after committee resolved not merely to strike off the poll every vote which was proved to have been so tainted, but has actually decided on the disfranchisement of whole classes of electors who appeared to be peculiarly . addicted to this description of treating. In all consistency the promoters of the present bill arc therefore bound to extend its provi sions to the care of head-money, which is, in point of fact, nothing more nor lees than treating, com pounded for by the payment of a recognised and cus tomary sum. The present proposal is pro fessedly confined to counties; but the corruptionists in boroughs will support it with no disinterested zeal. They well know that, once sanctioned in counties, the debas ing practice can never be seriously arraigned as wrong in the cities or towns. If Mr. AITWOOD were now in parliament, he would doubtless vote for Sir EDwARD BUXTON'S ° Boozing at Elections far ther Encouragement Bill." What Mr. Arrwoon'a nominee, Sir FITZROY KELLY, thinks of the proposi tion we have already seen. He would thus be enabled legally to commit the same offences against public morale in Suffolk which he and his notorious patron have so frequently denied having practised at Har wich; nay more, they may console themselves with the hope that in future their victualling stores and gin shops, in town as well as county,may be thrown open without hesitation, for the days of unlimited not are at hand, and debauchery at elections is about to be provided for by law. To pretend to believe that any committee appointed to try a petition against a borough member for giving porter or the price of it will ever declare the return void, when in the same county the expenditure of thousands in tread ing has been made legal—is mere hypocrisy. The same thing cannot be at the same time both right and wrong; and once the sluices are opened, the flood will penetrate through every fantastic fence, and overflow every capricious landmark, until all is sub merged in one common level. If county electors are to be consoled with bottled porter and rump steaks for walking five miles once in seven years to vote for a knight of the shire, who will have the impudence to contend that a shopkeeper in good business bas no claim for compensation for lose of time and pan when he wastes half his day at the borough sander tion or at the polling-booth? Of the two, it Wienemsy to show that the cue of the town voter islismpontly more plausible than that of his rural esiglienr but confessedly the shades of circumstance ese in each infinitely . varied, and the general rule mest either express indiscriminate permission or absolute and inflexible inhibition. Nor will any one who possesses ordinary intelligence --and who sincerely desires to see elections cheap seed and corruption checked, be misled for a moment ar th. pretended limitation of amount chargeable for sob voter to the sum of half-a-crows. Who is to jeer of the value given for the nominal sum ? The firer 10,0001. a year will readily avail himself of Ss cover which it is thus proposed to alas r leihthent iag rO Oollfthidhaillte nrn tic ss kets ', asogetitor for the honour of representing the alinmehe of the county in parliament ; and what sort ef evidence will be conclusive to prove that a first- Tete dinner and .. not a bad bottle of wine " was given to every independent'ticket holder on tr re d i g of the poll? or who will prevent unlimited e tare over and above the statutable ounces of beef sod bread and tho parliamentary measure of pals slat But we trust we have said enough to expires ft- demoralising tendency of this unprecedented props* and that without the formality of any deliberate dis mission the House of Commons will refuse to bear it read even a first time. nue, ET►RT mail from India brings news that renders more evident the need for sound legislation on the affairs of that country. The Select Committee ap pointed to enquire into the subject mot on Wed nesday, when Mr. TwistAs B.sillso, on the selection of government, was appointed chairman, and the sub jects to which it is proposed by the government to confine, the committees inquiries were produced. committee FRANCE. PARIS, MONDAY EVENING. The dinner given to the President yesterday by his uncle Jerome is much talked of, es a sort of inau guration of harmony among several members of the Bonaparte family, who have been hitherto widely se parated by political or other differences. Besides the Prince de Canino, whose untoward voyage to Civita Vecchia obliged the Elyse to affect displea sure, if it felt none, Napoleon, the son of Jerome, was present. Loui4 Napoleon opened the ball at the Tuileries last night with Lady Cowley. The Prince slept at the Tuileries, as is usual with him after giving a ball at that Palace. The catholic party are a good deal soandalised at the President's visit to the Dame Aux Camelia, and his present of a bracelet to Mdllo. I)oche, whose brilliant performance of this interesting piece of frailty drowns the Vaudeville nightly with the sen timental tears of the Parisian public. People talk of a marriage as imminent between M. de Persigny and the...daughter of the Prince de la Moskowa, on whom the President would bestow a brilliant dowry. I informed you in a previous letter that the whole tribunal of commerce of Evereux had refused to take the oath of fidelity to the President. To-day it ap pears that M. David, the procureur-general, has illegally used force to prevent the members of the tribunal from meeting before their successors were appointed. You are aware that Evreux was the place for which M. Ouizot iat in the Chamber of Deputies. The refusal of the oath in the present instance is a proof that the influence of that ex minister is not yet extinct in the Eure. The journals are alarmed at • report that the price of the Moniteur will be reduced to 40fr. per annum, and that the official paper will be allowed to insert advertisements. This would indeed give the coup de grace to the dying press. The proceedings of the Corps Legislatif to-day were commenced by M. Billault reading from the chair a letter from M. Casablanca, Minister of State, to inform the house that on May 5 a funeral service in honour of the emperor would be performed at the Invalides, and to request that members would attend in full costume. M. Billault drew lots for • deputation of 25 members,who, with the bureau,would represent the Corps Legislatif in an especial manner. All the members were however not the less invited to be present. The order of the day for the debate upon the rehabilitation bill was then read. M. ()raider de Camargue said ho approved of the principle of the measure, and looked upon it as a necessary element of the now penal system. But he opposed it u being premature, and contrary to all principles of good ad ministration. Doubtless the bill would be a favour able instrument for developing the colonisation sys tem, for one consequence of it would be to attach rehabilitated persons to the soil. But was it wise to enter upon this question before hand, when the colo nization system itself had scarcely been studied P lie then recapitulated the history of the legislation on rehabilitation. He spoke of the efforts made by Napoleon to cleanse the augean stable of revolution, and yet Napoleon lived to see the end of many of his institutions, for this reason, that what was better necessarily spi o u e n e l from what was only good. It was now pro to transfer to the courts of appeal that power w ich ought to be vested in government alone. That was an anomaly. The government was the corner stone of society. If the general were taken away from the army, nothing but a mob would re main ; if the captain were taken from a ship, nothing —(the conclusion of this figure was loot in • burst of laughter). The execn,tive power should not be deprived of the supreme right of granting pardons, for rehabilitation was but a species of pardon. M. Veron rose to support the bill. (Cries of "We cannot hear you.") M. Veron then left his seat on the front bench of the Centre, and walked to M. G. de Caseagnac's bench, which is the 4th on the extreme right of the house. (An univer sal burst of laughter accompanied this change of position.) He reminded the house that the Presi dent of the Republic had reserved the initia•ive of all laws to himself. The prestnt bill had been adopted, by the Council of State. The house, then, ought to adopt it. The intervention of the courts of appeal had been objected to, but who, then, was competent to give an opinion in such matters? Should it be the council of state? Evidently not, for t A l;ia, for want of competent knowledge, would be obli themselves to consult the courts of law. The 1 ha of the state ought not to be pestered by solid , tions which might carry him too far, like a horse broke loose that could not be stopped. (Laughter.) Wisdom and moderation were the lice props of ull power. The Marquis el'Andelurre, on rising to speak, found himselt unable to make himself heard from his place, and following M. h'eron's example he removed to the more elevated bench of M. de Caasag wee. Aa immense explosion of laughter saluted this evasion of the fundamental rule of the constitution of the Chamber, that de puties arc not to speak from a tribune. A member here observed that if all speaker: , were to do the same the favourite bench would in fact become a tribune. (" True, true.") M. Billault said that according to the regulations every speaker ought to speak from his place. But there wus a consideration above the regulations, and that was how the speaker could be heard. In suppressing the tribune, it was wished to suppress all theatrical display, but that was all. (Applause.) The Marquis d'Andelarre, on resuming, said that his principal objection to the bill was that it admitted persons condemned for misdemeanours only (correetionnellement) to rehabilitation. Many attempts had been made to introduce this innovation, but they had always been rejected. In almost all such cases there would be no use in rehabilitation. A bad functionary, a bad schoolmaster, who might obtain his rehabilitation, would not regain his place the sooner. M. Adolphe de Belleyine sup ported the bill. M. do Montreuil proposed that re habilitation should not be allowed to apply to po- litical offenders. The reporter maintained the government measure. The house then passed to the discussion of the articles. The first article was adopted, subject to a formal alteration sug gested by M. Rotator, one of the councillors of state appointed to advocate the bill before the house. At this moment M. Billault interrupted the proceedings by announcing that he had just received a letter from the minister of state, presenting the budget for l 8 3, approved by the Council of State. He proposed to nominate a committee of two mem bers from each bureau to examine the budget. M. Rogues said that ho thought two members would not be enough, and proposed that there should be three from each bureau. This suggestion was con sented to. The budget was ordered to be printed mid distributed. The debate on the Rehabilitation Bill was then adjourned till to-morrow, and the house rose at six o'clock, having sat four hours. The Marquis de Lavulette, minister plenipoten tiary at Constantinople, who is ut present in Paris, en conpl., is about to leave for his post with the title of am bass ador. From returns published in the Moniker it ap pears that the average price of the hectolitre of wheat, which, on the 29th of February was 17fr. 99c., and on the Ist April, 18fr., fell on the lot instant to 17fr. 814 c. A further decline is expected, owing to the demand for exportation to Northern Germany having diminished. The improvement noticed lust week in commer cial affairs has been fully maintained. The provin cial shopkeepers, who, since prices were raised by over speculation in January last, refrained from making their assortments, are now driven to pur chase by the necessities of home consumption, and that at the prices asked by the manufacturers. The cabinet makers in the Faubourg St. Antoine con tinue to be fully employed. The differences between the masters and men seem to have been settled amicably. The retail trade in Paris is naturally in high spirits at the prospect of the immense influx of foreigners and provincials expected to be present at the grand military display of next week. Already the hotels and furnished houses are filling fast. The sale of noureautfa has a little slackened, owing to the fact that the spring purchases are in a great measure concluded, but business at Rouen and Mulhouse is as active as ever. At Lyons the long looked-for orders from America have been re ceived, and most of the factories are in full work. It is understood that many of these orders are for the Universal Exhibition at New York, which pro ject has not been given up, as was at one time re ported. Large purchases of wine have been made at Bercy throughout the week. Letters from all the wine-growing countries confirm but too fully the alarming accounts of the state of the vines, owing to the frosty nights of April 20 and 21. The Orleans district has suffered the least; but in Burgundy, and the south, where the plant is more forward, the damage has been immense. The loss in many places is estimated at half the crop. In the environs of Beaune, it is said, the whole growth of the plain is destroyed. The vines on the hill-sides are not in jured to the same extent. In Provence and Savoy the mulberry trees are looking badly. The leaves have been pulverised by drought and white frost. Raw silk at Lyons and St. Etienne has consequently been quoted lfr. to 2fr. per lb. higher. The last accounts from the Dromc and Ardeche, however, speak more hopefully of the coming silk crop. The late fine rain has suddenly restored the trees to their usual appearance. This seasonable rain has had the effect of universally checking the rise in corn and flour. It is not believed that the wheat crop has been seriously injured. Flour at Paris has fallen from lfr. to 2fr. per sack. The iron masters have effected more sales than for some time past, but the high prices oblige purchasers to restrict their demands to ;the smallest quantity absolutely required. At the Boone the Four-and-a-Half per Cents. fell 10c., closing at 100.20; the Threes fell 30c., and closed at 70-60. Bank of France shares fell sfr. Some heavy sales were effected in railways at lower prices. Rouen fell 15; Orleans, 12.50; Central, 7.50; Havre, 2.50; Dieppe rose 1.25; Northern, Lyons, and Tours and Nantes remain without change. ITALY. TUSCANY. The governmental crisis in Tuscany continues. A letter, dated Florence, April 25, says: The ministerial crisis is protracted, and the Marquis Bowels encounters refusals wherever he offers a minis terial portfolio. Meanwhile, the disquietude and con sternation of the nation increair, and commercial operations are prejudiced, especially at Leghorn. In prospect of the repeal of the Leopoldine laws, the 'peat Hebrew banking and mercantile firms aro contemplating the liquidation of their affairs, and the transference of their establishments to Genoa. The conduct of our Grand Duke is truly incom prehensible. About a fortnight ago he left for the Maremma. On the eve of his departure he had a long conference with Baron Hugel, the Austrian ambassador; and Monseignor Bronsoli, Bishop of Fiesole. Those eminent men, who well know the disposition of the nation, came to -tonvince him how prejudicial to Tuscany and his family mutt be the repeal of the popular laws of hie grandfather. Such advice coming from the lips of an Austrian ambassador could not be suspected. All seemed to be arranged. The Baidaseeroni ministers, with the exception of Doccella, were to retain their portfolios. The Tuscan Monitewr was to publish a declaration guaranteeing the existence of the Leopoldine laws, and only one little stipulation, confin ing the pleadings of Jewish advocates in the courts to the affairs of their co-religionists, was to stand as a memorial of the crisis. All this was drawn up on paper, and all that was wanting to confirm the arrange ment, the sign-mannal of the Grand Duke, was to be given next day. The morrow came, and the ministers learned that the prince had gone into the country, and had signed nothing, nor yet left a word for their guidance. This was a fortnight ago, and the cabinet has only once heard from the sovereign, when it received • message directing the auppnrsoa of 11 Costauzionale, which had published some moderate articles in favour of the Leopoldine laws. Minis ters were reluctant to suppress a journal which sustained the principles on which they had resigned, so they com promised the matter by arising one number, and the COlO. tuzionale continues its publication. The personal position of the minister and the country his become exceedingly critical by the sudden departure of the Austrian troops, which occupied Sienna, Lucca, and Arena. There are at this moment no more than six thousand men quartered between Florence and Leghorn. Should troubles arise, what could ministers do against men protesting, like themselves, in favour of the civil liberties of Tuscany. It is only too certain that, should such misfor tunes occur, the Austrians would return with increased force, and the country would have to support the burden of an occupation more oppressive than ever. . THE KAFFIR WAR. The mere.hant-ship Maidstone, Captain Hash, from Calcutta, which left the Cape of Good Hope on the 17th or March, landed a passenger at Plymouth yes terday. The accounts from the seat of war are seven days later than those by the Agincourt, on Saturday. Colonel Yarborough, of - the 91st, has been slightly wounded; Ensign liibbert, of the 91st, wounded; Captain liranley, of the Cape Corps, wounded; and 1 26 soldiers of the 91st and 74th Regiments killed land wounded. These casualties occurred among a patrol who had successfully attacked sonic Kaffir kraals in the Water kloof, and who were themselves attacked on their return (as usual by combined Kaffirs and Hottentots). This aflitir occurred between the let and l'ith March. Sir Harry Smith left King William's Town on the 4th of March. His forces were divided into three divisions, and consisted of the 73rd, 60th Rides, and the 43rd and 12th Lancers, Artillery levies, &c. TILE PENINSULAR MAIL. The Oriental Company's steam-packet Madrid, Captain John Weeks, arrived at Southampton lust night, and landed her mails under the charge of Lieu James Inglis, ILN., Admiralty agent. Her dates arc: Gibraltar, April 24; Cadiz, 23; Lisbon, 29; Oporto, 30; and Vigo, 30. She brings news that the Janus and .Intelope, with a party of men from the Vengeance, were 6 tupluyed at Cape Spartel saving government stores w.e.licd ashore from the wreck of the ship Calpe, at Lisbon. The only Portuguese topic of interest is the Queen's favourable reception in the provinces. Exchange .51; discount of Lisbon Bunk notes two per cent. The Madrid passed H.M.S. Dragon, steering for the Tagus, having a water-logged vessel full of timber in tow, supposed to be the Oilinerston. Our correspondent writes : LISBON, Apun. 29. In the present month there have been cancelled and burnt papers to the am , mnt of 408,838,781 roil. ; billets created at various antecedt ut periods for various amounts, and some titulow admisUble in the purchase of national pro perty ; also billets created by the present ministry, those of J one 9, 18.51, amounting to 342,200.000 rein.; and utherv, of 6th August, 1031,amounting to 309,815,0110; also certificates of capitalisation and other paper of credit belonging to the external debt, amounting to 1,940/. 3n. 4d.; also Lows of the Bank of Lisbon to the amount of 37,148,111/0 rein.; all this is merely a deceptive proceeding; it would sound like a redemption of permanent debt in the ears of many, but it is merely the cancelling and burning of obligations paid ; that in, money borrowed upon the growing revenue. But tho funded debt goes on not only unredeemed even in part, and irredeemable, hut increasing, to I inf,rmed you when I sent the estimates. _ . Movement in the wino market at Oporto for the month of March.—Manifested and entered into store 11,716 pipes of all denominations. Exported to the ports of Europe 1,856 pipes of wine, of the first quality, and 3 pip.. of brandy ; to ports out of Europe 7 pipes of wine of the first quality, and 653 pipes of wine, and 25 pipes of Geropiga, both of the second quality ; to ports of the kingdom 20 pipes of wine, of the first quality, and I.i pipes of brandy ; ! despatched for consumption; 7 pipes of wine of the first quality, 1,116 pipes of wine, and 4 pipes of (icropiga, both of the second quality, and 10 pipes of brandy to supply waste, leakage, and for flavouring: 791 pipes of all deno minations. The sales for the mouth being 3,720 pipes of all kinds, including the fractumal parts. Vessels coming from the brazils are in future to be sub jected to a quarantine of only five days when they arrive in ballast, or with a cargo not susceptible of infection, pro vided tint no deaths or sickness shall have taken place on board during the voyage. It is said that Victor Hugo and Alexandre Dumas have asked and obtained leave from the government of Portugal to reside in this country. The celebrated General Maneilla has arrived in Lisbon, and intends to make it his future residence. On the 23rd tho Albim and Indefatigable sailed to the north ; on the 24th the French stemutr of war Veloco came in for coals, on her way to Newfoundlat.d ; and on the 26th the Amazons, Brazilian steamer of war, put into the Tagus for coals, on her way to Rio de Janeiro. GERMANY. THE ZOLLVEREIN. BEIZLIN, APRIL 30. The business of the conference hero cannot as yet be said to have commenced. Since the formality of inauguration and the dinner with the king, only ono meeting has been held, last Monday, when the pre sident merely communicated some proposals for the forms of procedure, and the commissions s, after a little irrelevant conversation, returned to their lodg ings. To-morrow another meeting will take place, and probably pass off with as scanty re sults. The commissioners are in an awkward position, and no one likes to come out first with his declarations. The Prussian govern ment has demanded a declaration whether the docu ments circulating in the papers as minutes of the Darmstadt conference are authentic and complete, and, in such case, how far they have been ratified. Should the reply be in the affirmative, the Prussian government will, nevertheless, not at once break off the negotiations, but give the southern states as much time as possible for quarrelling with each other and receding from their coalition ; if, however, they remain firm, and especially if they urge the obligatory force of the Darmstadt convention, or the Vienna protocol, as a bar to their accepting Prussian proposals, then Prussia will cut the matter short. As long as they do not obtrude their agreements with each other as an obstacle to free negotiation, Prussia will ignore the matter, and give them leisure to think better of their hastysteps. In the meantime, the Prussian go vernment has offered a demonstration of its intention to make a move in opposition to the protectionist sys tem, on which the southern states found their ope rations. The Prussian Minister of trade, on receiv ing lately a deputation of protectionist Silesian members of the chambers, replied, that the government's aim was, to reconcile its regard for the interests of home industry with the justclaims of the home consumer, and that, therefore, the promise of maintaining all the rates of the present tariff could not be given. Ile said this with reference, especially to iron, having convinced himself, that the prosperity and progress of home production would not suffer from a reduction of the present high rates of import duty as well on pig as on bar iron; because, since the government had reduced the mine tax, and the railroads had so mate riallycheapened transport, thereby greatly reducing the cost of coals, the German iron-masters would, under a very moderate protection, be able to bear foreign competition, if they continued to adopt the improvements elsewhere made in the manufacturing process, as it was for the general interest that they should do, and which they would the sooner do if the tariff were reduced. It is rumoured that Prussia will propose reducing the duty on pig iron from 20s. to ss. per ton; and the duty on bar iron from 90a. to 60s. the ton; this latter reduction being prompted by the desire to revive the importation of bar iron, which, since the raising of the duty in P 442, has of Into very much declined, whereby the exchequer loses a valuable source of income. The general free-trade union of East and West Prussia has held a meeting at Elbing, and voted an energetic address to the ministry, of which I will send a translation by the next post. SPAIN. The opposition journaisbaie resolved to suspend their publication for three months, from the 4th of May, the eve of the day on which the new law of the press comes into operation. THE ELECTIONS. Town lIAIILETS.-1,68t evening Messrs. Thomp son and Ayrton, two out of the five candidates for the re prebentation of the Tower Hamlets at the forthcoming general election, attended a crowded meeting of the elec tors at the Manor-house, Hackney, for the purpose of stating their political views. Both gentlemen, at comider able length, addressed the meeting, which was very noisy and by no means unanimous, and tinnily a resolution ap proving them as candidates was put and carried. WEST OLOUCESTER.—Ii is stated that Mr. Kings cote, son of the ♦eiersn Colonel Kingecote', and nephew of the Duke of Beaufort, will be brought forward as a candi date for West Gloucestershire, in the liberal interest. SORTR WESTERN RAILWAY.—It is found that the defalcation' that led to the Night of Mr. Storm, the traffic superintendent of toil line fur twelve years, are not so con siderable as at first apprehended, but that his accounta are io great confusion. liis wife and family are understood to have joined him abroad, and his absconding is under stood to have mainly arisen from liabilities unconnected with the railway. '''Z i l I 1 '