The Express. — London, England, 1847-06-29 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 9. 1847, re• s allowed every measure proposed to be e ar n, end braved the undis g uised contem p t who felt their triumph to be rather in the im- OP" which their speeches end votes made out of r i brsee, than in demolishing opponents who had objeoseve their offices, to make them redoubtable. ' eppreesian ministers h ave now to settle their ac lot 'lathe King. whom they have placed in the otra d position of seeing all his demands rejected do first parliament he assembled around him. VlgraiLheilishplsa3nendatirmthuse di n et its v p e ra nt . se ures of n th o e p ta ro c ! s ite how the King will act on this occasion. pug appear as if no stone had been left unturned s mile the royal mind, even to the length of heap wigwam unpopularity on the ministers' heaps, „ Air t o provoke an outbreak of feeling that t oll forth a violent step on the side o p king. The diet was ushered in by a series of ▪ Ildisanco, some of a popular, others of a die- WA / oy, and mere of a highly unpopular, charte- What made the appearance of th es e devices the rsstisely was, that they all affected subjects the j o u* of which was, by the promise of the late ki l o reserved f the central diet. These ordinances iseshen followed up by others deeply affecting the *O. and even the security of property, of indivi ilk while the diet was assembled, sued, in some owes, while the questions to which they related i s i bosoms embodied in petitions to the crown. The g o glaring instance of disrespect to the assembled beisalforded by a decree published on the very day • the vote respecting the adoption of a property to w ss passed. It emanated from the bureau of the Iffesider of Clerical Affairs. In despite of the strong 's__ ion in favour of the catholic dissidents, Wit the diet has all along manifested, and notwith ouliag the majority which supported the petition, tut cull employments should in no way be made Ant upon religious convictions, this decree i he instantaneous dismissal of every teachef at yol who leaves the ltomau Catholic Church for i m ertrjlum opened to those who doubt the Pope's 7 1Co b o il. l i. wonder at the strong expression which the f ormally affrdrd of detlft-ing want of all eon in the ministry called forth? Some disap pistment was doubtless felt at the quiet and matter- HIM discussion which preceded this decisive vote. Ilss the tone of this whole episode, in the parlia soary history of Europe, has been one that evinces isell -command in the men placed in the critical saspienous position which the" members of the Ulan occupied. The bold policy adopted by the Ilei at BAVARIA is a precedent that, in the present at men's minds, can neither be sneered at nor ' . Germany wants a leader, and between a ors and an orator the choice would naturally, on an urgency, be decided by the substantial qualities Olive desired on the throne. In a similar case to ilhe present crisis in Prussia, Prince METTERNICTI &play kit more tact than has hete been shown. The lbagarian diet manifested, some years ago, a disponi tim to insist upon certain points being yielded by the crown. The Chancellor of Hungary was ready to carry out any violent measures dot might be wished at Vienna, and is said to lure only demanded that 10.1,000 additional troops &ski be quartered in Hungary to enable him to levy the customary taxes without summoning the &t at all. This motion, after mature deliberation in the council, was wisely given up . ; but as a matter of wee the chancellor had to resign, and the present diseellor was appointed, who introduced the con fusions demanded in a manner that reconciled the fgeity of the crown with the interests of the people. The people of central Europe cannot be expected to se such things done in the far east, and remain con tented with the rule of a minister who brings them into unnecessary conflict with the sovereign in the manner that has been effected at Berlin; and the 'leeches at the dinner to be given by the King to his hithful estates, at the termination of their labours, may prove amusing as well as edifying, unless some• thing is done to rescue all parties from the false position into which the ministers have led them. IT is astonishing how sceptical men in office are as to the possibility of men in office doing anything wrong. When Mr. T. Dcscovirin —now as long ago u the 26th of January last--moved, in the House of Commons, for a committee on the condition and ge nre' treatment of the convicts in the hulks at Wool wich, be was civilly told that his statements were muse. It was utterly impossible to believe that the gentlemen, whose duty it was to superintend the convicts could be guilty of the conduct imputed to them." "It was impossible to speak of the superin tmdent of convicts in reference to the discharge of his important duties but in terms of the highest enlo pm.' The lengthy report of Capt. WILLIAMS on the state of this be-praised institution, and the bulky minutes of evidence upon which that report is based, 1 1 meow before the public, and this official eulogy of officials will require to be " craftily qualified." With respect to the superintendent, his nephew, who is nominally his clerk, has by his own account, " foe several years been iu the habit of signing the mperintendcnt's name to o ffi cial documents , and has been subsequently to his appointment as clerk, "en - wed in business in the Strand." The uncle has 4001. a year, and an allowance of 1311. annually, " as rent for an office," which is not used. The nephew lass 2571. per annum. Captain WILLIAMS reports that " the visitorial duties of the superintendent have been most imperfectly performed." The official inter s:muse of the superintendent with the officers in the hulks "has been carried on in a very great degree by verbal communications, made on casual visits of the officers to the Home-office, of which no record exists." It was proved on the inquiry that "on three occasions boats manned by convicts have been sent away from the ships on private services for the officers of the establishment." That on one of these ocem-ions the errand was to send a desk to the superintendent which had been 'made for him by a convict carpenter on board the Warrior, sad on another to carry up salt water for a bath for the saperiatendent. It was also proved, with respect to a plot of ground which the Ordnance authorities have allowed to be cultivated as a garden for the use otthe convict establishment attached to the arsenal, that "the gardea has been cultivated by convict labour, the vegetables distributed among the officers and convict., and small quantities have occasionally been sent to the superintendent in London." In short, this official, of whom "it was impossible toe peak bat in terms of the highest eulogium, has fur years drawn a salary for which he did no duty, received an allowance as rent for an office which he did not use, employed the convicts to bring set water to London for his baths, cabbaged their eabbage, and indulged in similar petty items of ship purser-like peculation. Under such superintendence it was to be feared, aotwithstanding the high official disclaimer at the beginning of the session, that it was not " utterly impossible to believe Mr. Deecomnes charge against the parties immediately charged with the uperintendence of the convicts . Catain WILLIAMS lame up his description of the hig h-minded gen tleman whose incapability to do wrong was so strongly vouched for, in these pithy words : " Several of the officers employed in the convict establishment at Woolwich are manifestly incapable of performing their duties satisfactorily, in conse quence of age and infirmity ; others are so tainted by long habit with the vicious system of employing the resorts in work for themselres, and other trregulari lin; and the evidence develops against others cases of each a suspicious character, that, after giving the sebject every consideration, I feel I can do no less than advise a thorough re-organisation of the whole body , Really it would appear that the charges advanced by Mr. Duecomne on the 26th of January last have been amply established. And it ought also to be kept in mind that his case has been proved under great difficulties. Mr. DUNCOM BZ was taunted when be made his motion with asking for a committee in stead of a commission. He was sneeringly reminded that the commission charged with the inquiry into the kale of the Millbank Penitentiary, which he demanded but year, had declared the allegations upon which he asked it not proved. It was ironically insinuated that he thought "a commission, before which the witnesses could be examined on oath, a less satiafac try nude of arriving at the truth of statements floss a committee of the house, before which the witnesses enuld he examined on oath." And after this laboured display of small wit the inquiry was delegated not to a commission authorised to examine as oath, but to a simple inspector of prisons not so Ilathurised * 1 zi "The testimony," says CaptainWitmems., is his r e ee r t, " not 844) war oath, will be found MU; deaultory, and contradictory." AN interesting report on Russian intercourse with 1 , China, will be found in another column. The most important statement in this document, to which we alluded in our comments on the late move ment against Canton, is, that the Russian mission at Pekin has been allowed to assume a political cha racter, and that the new envoy is supposed to be already at Pekin. As it is highly improbable that the Chinese Emperor will acquiesce in the settlement of the Canton row, without some inquiry into the cir cumstances of a war made and a peace concluded against and by one of his gsvernors, without his own imperial knowledge and intervention, a renewal of diplomatic intercourse with him is inevitable on the part of Great Britain. The opportunity ought to be seized for insisting upon the reception of a resident Erglish envoy as of a resident Russian envoy at Pekin. Without this concession on the part of the liege lord of the "Central Flowers•," there can be no prospect of continuous pacific relations, or of a healthy extension of our trade with China. It is not merely the tumultuous democracies of the great towns like Canton and Voo-choo-foo, who com pel their governors to rule according to their most turbulent wishes instead of by law. Piracy is, from the mouth of the Yang-tee-Kiang to the island of Hainan, an hereditary profession all along the southern coasts of China. The most faithful subjects of the dynasty of Ming betook themselves to the waters as soon as the Tartars became masters of the laud, and the boldest spirits of the Chinese have carried on war by water against vessels of all nations, both under Mongols and Islantchoos. The governors pay black mail, too, or wheedle the rabbles of the towns and rubbers of the seas into observing so much of legality and external decorum as to prevent suspicion of their inability to rule being known at head-quarters. From governors who haven° power to com pel justice to be done to foreigners, and who conceal the fact from their master, lest he should depose them, no protection from law less aggression can be obtained by Englishmen in China so long as we have not some one at head 'porters to present our complaints immediately to the imperial government. We have no other alterna tive, in the event of direct and immediate communiea- tion with the central government at Pekin being refused, but either at once to withdraw from Chins, or commence a repetition of our progress in Hin dostan. The extent to which the report we have alluded to shows that Russian woollen fabrics find a market in northern China and Tartary, is a proof that we have not as yet gathered more than the scanty first fruits of Chinese trade. A SUGGESTION has been made, in the matter of the Ctxrox memorial, which seems very deserving of attention. To escape the various shoals which the unskilful ness of designers, the errors of judges, and the gross ness of the public taste place around the suggested commemoration, whether by a statue or a fountain and light pillar, it is proposed that the sum collected for a Cavrosi monument be appropriated to the building and endowment of an almshouse or hospital for decayed printers. We trust that this scheme will meet with duo con sideration from the committee. In the first place, such a building may be combined with the personal honouring of CAXTON by the erection, in some conspicuous part of it, of a statue of the first English printer. With such men as MARSHALL, FOI.EY, and BELL among our rising sculptors, we are pretty safe to secure a statue which shall not be ridiculous as that of NELSON, which no one can see, or monstrous as that of WELLINGTON which no one can help seeing. The front of an almshouse affords a site for a statue neither absurd like a high column which lifts the figure out of sight, nor disproportioned like an arch which inverts the established relations of the figure and pedestal. Moreover, we possess architects who can design a fine building; witness the almost com pleted buildings of the Treasury, the new houses of parliament, many of our lately opened streets—those about Leicester-square, for example, and the Blooms bury continuation of Oxford-street—and the many richly built churches of our PCGINS and SALVINS. Such a building, with such a statue, would, as it seems to us, represent most properly the peculiar nature of this commemoration of CAXTON. It is leas a monument to the man that is wanted than a me morial of the introduction of his art into this coun try. The asylum for decayed printers seems a graceful as well as a practically useful record of the latter event, while the figure of the pro , of yingraphus himself connects him with it as ho deserves to be Connected. Printers are a class the nature of whose work I superannuates them at a comparatively early period. I The eyesightsuffers in night-work, amid the bewilder ing niceties of minion and diamond types. In some I large printing-offices there is a sort of enforced fore sight, the men being compelled as a condition of employment to lay aside a portion of their earnings. There are also clubs among the different chums employed in the printing-office, and associations for their relief, supported by the capitalists of the trade, as well as the men themselves. Bat with all these' 1 aids, the sober and industrious compositor often finds himself at fifty, half blind, indigent, and out of work, after a life of labour, with a family still in part de pendent on his earnings. There would be many and deserving applicants for the shelter of such en asylum. We do not, in all cases, eonsider the foundation of such places de sirable. They are very liable to be perverted from their proper objects. Their funds are often misma naged, and their aid distributed by gross jobbery and unworthy favouritism. Bat it would be easy to guard against these mischiefs in this case, by en- 1 teadag the trustee ship of the asylum to a body not I too large, and comprising the most respectable master printers for the time being, who may employ regu larly above a certain number of hand., specially pro viding, at the same time, against the possibility of their introducing unfairly into the asylum their own worn-out servants. At any rate the usual abuses which beset each charities being well known, it would net be a very difficult matter to guard against them, in a case where a great body of the public unite their contribu tions to erect and endow the asylum, and, conse quently, can fairly claim a right to have the utmost publicity given to all the details of its administration. We do not see any reason why literary men should be included in the advantages of such an asylum as bas been proposed by a correspondent. We urge this matter on public attention. There can be no question that the consideration of art must, by no means, be lost sight of on such an occasion. But art may be perfectly well and worthily employed in the designing of such a building, with its accompanying statue. If the funds allowed of it (which is not very probable), painting might be called in to aid sculpture and architecture. With the doe regard to artistic commemoration of CAXTON, this project of an asylum for printers combines the carrying out of a highly benevolent and practically useful object. On these grounds we recommend it to attention. Oar letters and the Paris journals of Sunday con tinue to be engrossed with the details of official cor ruption disclosed in the parliamentary inquiries and discussions now held in the French capital. If the ministerial majority in the Deputies have smothered the Girardin scandals in the chamber, the journalist majority in the press has made amp le amends for this out of doors. One journal only, the Dawes, defends the cabinet. Of the three which it lately influenced, one is defunct from want of public support, another has found means of augmenting its subscription list by turning against the cabinet, and the third alone remains in the breach. On Saturday the report of M. Renouard was brough t before the Court of Peers assembled in secret sitting in the council chamber. This document, which was published in the Dakais on Sunday, occupies twenty closely-printed columns of a supplement to that journal. The court, after hearing it, and the statement of M. l)elangle, the Attorney-General, read, came to the decision that sufficient ground had been established to bring under impeachment two members of the Chamber of Peers, and two other persons of rank, wealth, and considera tion. Accordingly, an impeachment for haying, in 1842, corrupted, by aim gifts, and presents, the Minister of Public Works, been ordered to be preferred against General Cubigres, peer or France, and late Minister of War ; M. Pellapra, late Receiver- General ; and M. Parmentier, advocate ; and also against General Cubieres and M. Pellapra, for having, on the same occasion, resorted to fraudulent pretences to obtain the money of other parties; and finally ogoittet, M. Testa, peer of France, and late ac Minister of Public Works, for laming, on the same occasion, - cepted offers, and received gifts and presents, as in ducements to do certain official acts. M. Teeth is impeached under the 177th and 179th articles of the code, which attaches to the crime of which he is charged an infamous punishment. MM. Cubieres and Pellapm are charged under the 405th article, which renders the acts of which they are charged escroquerie, or swindling. It is not expected that the trial will come ou until the early part of July. The great reform banquet projected by the liberal opposition is fixed for the 7th July, and will take place in the gardens of the Chiteau Rouge. It will Include the deputies of every shade of opposition who are partisans of electoral and parliamextary reform, the editors and contributors to the journals, &e. Count Girardin has published the following letter in La l'resse, in reply to M. Onizot's observations in the Chamber of Deputies: The Minister of Foreign Affairs, not having given a satis factory answer to several letters I wrote to bun, requesting explanations, and principally on the strange lecture he made at the Chembre des Deputes on the 17th June, of a letter written by the Depute de Bourganeuff, in 1838, I consider it my duty to declare that I have &twists been ignorant of tke existence of this letter; and that I should have rejected the offer of the peerage in 1838, as I did in 1816, that 11 to say, on conditions as dishonourable for him who would have ac cepted them as far the minister who could have proposed them.—Lieut—Gen. Comte Dr GIILAIWIN.—Paris, June 27, 1847. The Madrid journals with the letters of our corre spondent have arrived, the latter of which we give elsewhere. The Nuncio has delivered to Queen Isabella a letter from the Pope, in which his Holiness expresses the utmost sorrow for the unhappy differences be tween her Majesty and the Prince Consort, and en earnest hope that they may soon be terminated. A band of Montemolinists in the neighbourhood of Bur gos, hailed by the Cabecilla, called El Estudiante. have burned one of the signal-houses of the line of telegraphs so as to suspend for the present that mode of communication. El Curreo repeats the assertion that King Louis Philippe has addressed an autograph letter to the Prince Consort. All the advices which arrive from Switzerland in dicate the approach of a crisis in the confederacy, and the final solution of the difficulties raised by the sepa ratist cantons. The share which foreign diplomacy has taken in these movements confers on them a spurious international character, notwithstanding their intrinsic domestic interest. In a fortnight from the present time the Federal Diet, which is the legisla tive body of the union of the Swiss cantons, will be in full session. This body is composed of delegates sent from the grand councils or independent legisla tures of the several cantons. It assembles at present at Berne, and is presided over by M. Ocheenbein, the president of that canton. The chief questions which will occupy the attention of the diet will be those by which, in fact, Switzerland is and has been for a considerable time distracted, even to the imminent risk of civil war; viz., the dissolution of the ultra-montane league, and the expulsion of the Jesuits. These points having been already de bated in the cantonal legislatures, tho dele gates sent by them respectively to the diet are fur nished with instructions so definite as to strip them of all deliberative character, and convert them into mere mouthpieces for the utterance of the votes of the cantons on these questions. It is now certain that the majority of the delegates are vimmissioned to vote in the affirmative on both these questions. Most of the delegates are instructed to vote for the most vigorous and prompt measures for carrying this into effect. There are three or four, however, whose powers are not so extensive as to warrant them in voting for the forcible intervention of the federal executive in the cantons is the contingency of re sistance on the part of the latter to the federal authority ; and before the decision of the mea sures necessary to enforce the dissolution of the league, and the expulsion of the Jesuits, these delegates will have to apply to the cantonal authorities for fresh instractions. Recourse to force on the part of the Vorort, or executive body of the diet, seems inevitable ; for it is certain on the one hand that the diet will vote these measures, and it is scarcely less certain on the other that the cantons of the league, or some of them, will resist them by armed force. The cantons of Lucerne and the Valais have explicitly declared through their governments that they will resist by armed force any decree of the diet having for its object either the dissolution of the Sunderbund, or the expulsion of the Jesuits. The efforts made by French diplomacy, seconding that of the despotic states of Eastern Europe, to check the progress of the liberal cantons, and protect the league, has only been followed by an augmenta tion of that influence it was directed to suppress. The majority of the diet favourable, to a revision of the federal pact, either by means of the existing powers of the diet or by a constituent assembly, is increased by every election. Some of the cantons, suck as St. Gall and Soleure, which had been in some measure neutral, have now joined the majority, stint ulated to repulse foreign intervention on questions purely national; and at present there are thirteen can tons and a half which have given definite instructions to their delegates, among which are included the leading cantons of Berne, Geneva, Bale, and Zurich. The French ambassador has lately made a tour of the cantons, and used his influence to induce those of the Grisons and Tessino to give qualified instructions to their delegates. No success, however, attended this measure. It appeare,therefore, that the menacing communication of M. Bois le Comte to M. Ochbensein, instead of intimidating the smaller cantons, has only roused them to more energetic measures. The council of war of the diet, the first military authority of the confederacy, has just assembled at Berne, and the two federal colonels, MM. Rattiman, of Lucerne, and Zeigler, of Zurich, who have declined seats in it be cause M. Ochbensein presides over it, have been re placed by two superior officers of the liberal party. MADRID, JUNE 22. The depositions of the witnesses examined in the trial of L% R. vs, have been publish.d in the Coerce of to day ; which, however, came out so late that I have barely time to send you a meagre outlive of the facts whieh result from these documents. The most important testimony is that of Francisco Fernandes, a hackney-coachman. This witness deposed that at half - past two in the afternoon of the 4th of May, he took up a person, subsequently identified with La Rita, and a lady, at No. 13, Calle de la Concepcion Oeronima, the house in which La Rita lodged. After driving his fare about to a number of different shops and places, the lady got out, and La Rive remained in the carriage alone. Between six and seven be set down La Rita at a shooting.gallery, and waited for him there till a quarter after seven. Here the evidence of the armourer's shop-people takes up the story. After La Rita had fired 24 pistol-shots at the target, he asked Stephen, the lad in at tendance, to load for him a brace of pistols, which he had. It appears that Lv Rita had left one of the pistols the day before to be mended. He produced the fellow to it now from his pocket. Stephen gave him the one, which he had left the day before, repaired. He loaded them both, and La Ries put them in his pocket. La Rive now drove to the Presto, where he fell in with the line of carriages which frequent that promenade in the evening. Before 8, he de sired the coachman to leave the file, and drive to the Calls de Alcols, where he made the coachman pull up nearly opposite the great inn of the Pates Peninsular's, on the ,r4ht hand side of the way as you drive from the Prado the Puer•• del Sol. He remained inside the carriage these. After the chaise had remained about 20 minutes in this way, the Queen came driving by in her carriage from the Peados* the usual rapid rate, surrounded by her grooms and mows ries. The Queen's coachman deposed that at the moms.. of his passage before the Pastas Penineulares, a wagon on the other side of the road obliged him to approach the pavement on the right hand, where he saw the chaise drawn up. Hs approached the chaise nearer than he otherwise should have done in consequence, and just when be was passing it he heard two reports, one immediately succeeding the other. He turned his head, expecting to re. ceive orders from the queen. The queen motioned him to drive on. He drove on through the Puerta del Sol into the Calle Mayor, where the queen ordered him to stop. Her Majesty was accompanied by Don Francisco de Paula and his daughter the Infanta Josephs. She mentioned the two shots. He then received orders to drive with increased speed to the palace. The Clamor of the 20th fires a brosdpide of questions at the Correo upon the monetary decree, to each of which it desires a categoric answer of yes or no. There arguments seem to me not the less deserving of attention because the Correa, having had two full days to prepare itself, has not taken the leas. notice of them. I, therefore, present you the substance of these remarks in a condensed shape. The Spanish dollar contains 489 4 grains of pure silver : the isabelino, or new dollar, 450. Therefore the creditor who is obliged to receive 20 new rcals, or an isabelino, instead of a Spanish dollar, will lose rather more than 8 per cent, The loss occasioned by the tariff of 1823, fixing the French dollar at 19 reals (referring to the same standard of the Spanish dollar is equivalent to 20 reels) was 3 per cent. Therefore the decree, instead of curing this evil, as it professes in its preamble, has introduced another evil of the same kind, but greater by 6 per cent. Now the new isabelino is equal in weight and alloy to the French dollar, and therefore contains the same quantity of pure silver. But , the isabelino repre sent* 20 reels, while the French dollar represents only 19, Therefore the possessor of a French dollar changing the ihr an halsedine pays one real to cover lisodillasence of ins representative value, and thus incurs a loss off/ per cant. Therefore the holden of French dollars will naturally melt them down and sell them in the shape of ingots or import them. The government, consequently, will not be able to lay hands upon the 5-franc pines, paying for them at the rate of 19 realm, and melt them down to make isabelinos, as the deem pretends. Moreover, the exchange on Paris, or the French money given in exchange for the Spanish dollar, is 5 francs 24 centimes, and below its intrinsic par. The in. trinsio pa of the imbelino, above which it will not rise, will be 4f. 95e. Therefore the Spanish merchant will receive from his French debtor 29 or 30 centimes leas than his due for every sum of 28 orals owing to him ; in other words, will lose 6 per cent. The porticos of the decree which relate to changes in the gold coinage sre equally unsound. The new neaten, representing 100 new reale, contains 145.35 grains of pure gold. Now, the gold coin called ounce, at present in circulation, contains 474.34 grains of pure gold: therefore, according to the proportion of the centen and real fixed by the decree, the ounce ought to represent 326.35 reals. But the decree fixes its value et 320 ! The ounces, therefore, los ing as coins, relatively to the centens, 2 percent. of their value, will be, of cosine, like the 5-franc pieces, withdrawn from circulation and melted down; or will be exported to places where 82 francs and more may be pot for them, instead of the 80 fixed by the decree. The s•franc pieces and the gold ounces will therefore disappear. The government cannot immediately replace these main elements of the currency with a new coinage, partly from want of the precious metals, and want of funds to buy them ; and partly because if these wants were supplied, the mint istablishments in actual existence would not be able to produce in a year, nor even in many years, all the coin necessery. The coasequence will be a frightful monetary nixie. ITALY.—Rout, JUNE 19.-- The anniversary of the accession of Pius IX., was celebrated not only in the Roman States, but in Tuscany, and in the Duchy of Parma. Disturbances broke out on this occasion at Parma. Oa the 16th a solemn high mass was celebrated, and was attended by a great part of the population ; about 100 young men then went lathe different quarters of the town, distributing bread and flour to the poor. In the evening general illuminations took place. The bishop, who is an Austrian, the commander of the garrison, and a Swiss colonel, had unfortunately not illuminated their hotels. The populace assembled in crowds before their respective residences, and testified their displea sure by booting them anti breaking their windows with stones. The garrison wan called up to arms ; some detach ments of infantry, and a equndron of cavalry, arrived on the spot, and, without any warning, immediately fell upon the crowd, wounding men, women, and children. The popu lace gathered together in crowds, on the 17th, and assumed • menacing attitude. The military displayed on their side the greatest vigour, and several persons have been arrested. Count Cutelli, n.aycr of Parma, has protested against the conduct of the military authorities, and has sent his reek. mations in to the Arch-Duchess Maria-Louisa, who is now taking the waters in Germany. HOLLAND.—By letters dated on Sunday last, re ceived in the City this morning, it is stated that serious riots had taken place in certain districts in Friseland. They commenced on the Friday evening previous at Harlingen, and had their origin in woe shipments of potatoes going for ward to England. Several houses were sacked, and among them those of the burgomaster, principal notaries, and pee ket agents. The destruction and plunder ►t the burgo inuter's alone was estimated at 100,000 florins. The go vernor of the province arrived at length with troops, mud put down the rioting; but tranquillity was not re-established before Sunday morning. In the mean time, profiting by the absence of the governor and moat of the troops, similar die tu chances broke cut at Leeuwarden, the chief town of the province, where it is said bloodshed ensued from the troops firing on the people before order could be restored. The two British packets in port, Magnet and John Bull, were attacked with stones, and the captain of the latter severely wounded. It is stated that after the tumult was over, the crews of those vessels collected and cut overboard no less than nine tons of the stony missiles with which they bad been assailed. OEHMANY.—BERLIN,JI:NE2S.—The official jour nal has published in its number of this day the debates of the 19th inst., in the Second, and of the 17th inst. in the First Chamber. Their substence appeared in the Daily Neva. The political circles of this capital bad fixed definitively the close of the diet for to-morrow ; as yet, however, there is no sign from head-quarters. Ministerial councils have been fre quently held of late. An impression is abroad that the King intends to yield to the request that the legislature be con vened periodically, but that he will not condescend to inti mate so much on dismissing them. Some anxiety is felt by ministers teat the deputies should refuse to elect either standing committees or the committee on state debts. A few days ago the collective First Chamber and about 100 deputies were invited to • great Me at Sans Souci. It is remarked that none of the members who voted in the ma jorities against the court were invited, and not one of the Rhenish members. GERMAN UNIVERSITIES.—Professor Albrecht, one of the seven deposed Gottingen professors, has received a call from the faculty of law at Munich. It is said that the King of Hanover, annoyed by the falling off in the attend ance on his university (it had about 1,300 students in 1824, at present it has under 600), has resolved to take the office of rector inagnificus on himself. That will settle it: SWEDEN.—STOCKHOLY, JUNE 14.—A rescript, dated the 11th of the month, authorises the free impartation of corn into all parts of the Swedish dominions. UNITED STATES AND MEXICO. The Hibernia, Captain Ryrie, arrived yesterday morning in the Mersey, alter a quick passage of little more than nine days, from Halifax. Her dates are: New York, Jane 15; Boston, June 16; Halifax, Jane 18; New Orleans, June i ; Brazes, June 4 ; Vera Cruz, June 1; Puebla, May 29; Mexico (city), May 21. he intelligence from Mexico is not decisive as to the result of the presidential election; but it seems conclusive as to the fact of Santa Anna not having been re-elected. The election was held simulta neously in all the states in a condition to use their constitutional privilege on the 15th May, but the re- tarns bad not been received at Mexico up to the latest dates from that capital. It is, however, confidently I asserted that Santa Anna was not anywhere voted for. He had also experienced a pretty unequivocal proof of his loss of popularity when he entered the capital on the 19th of May, having been received with hisses and pelted with stones. These accounts came, it is true, from Americans—from enemies prompt to believe the worst of the position of a man whom they hate ; but in the main we suspect they will bo found to be accurate. Of course, nothing mere had transpired of Mr. Trist's mission. The American leaders will not open their pacific budget till sure of Herrera's election. The American army had not advanced beyond Puebla. The divisions were closing ap, and concen trating on Puebla. General Scott was expected to arrive there en the 4th of Jane. It was understood that as soon as the new recruits joined, the army would be pushed forward upon the city of Mexico. Preparations for resistance were making at Rio Frio by the Mexicans ; but after the route and dispersion of two armies, with the scarcity of arms which is known to pervade the republic, and with the embit tered spirit likely to be infused into the spirits of Santa Anna's soldiery, should the news of his uni versal and even contumelious rejection as president prove true, no stand of any moment can be looked for. No movement against the• American troops had taken place at Puebla. But the road from Vera Cruz to Jalapa continued to be rendered insecure for small parties by bands of broken Mexican soldiery. The Mexicans do not, however, appear well adapted for this which has been conceived to be the national mode of warfare of the Spanish race. They are indifferent marksmen, and appear to have little relish for the business. Notwithstanding the exhortations of Some of the clergy the guerilla bands continued few and inconsiderable. And such of the American officers as had had experience in Texan warfare found no difficulty in keeping them effectually in check. At Vera Cruz some more cases of the real sons& pride had shown themselves : but, for the season, the sickness among the troops really appears to have luso inconsiderable. Complaints were made of re missness in landing stores, of expenses incurred for demurrage, and so forth ; but in all such enterprises as that of the invasion of Mexico, there will be every now and then a screw loose, and grumblers who make the most of it from a constitutional pleasure in ,easaplaining. The new liners were beginning to I eaMe in. The Zendica arrived at Vera Cruz on the 128th of May, with about 200. Col. Daniphan's advanced guard had reached Saltillo. At Washington the misunderstanding with Brazil attracted some attention, but inspired no serious alarm. Mr. D. Tod, the new minister from the United States to the Imperial Court, was about to embark at New York for Rio Janeiro in a ship of the line. His instructions were conciliatory, and such as would soothe the wounded dignity of the Brazilian government. After landing Mr. Tod, the Ohio (the I vessel in which be was to sail) was to pass round Cape Horn to the western coast of America. Com modore Jones, appointed to that station, was to pass overland to California, and join his squadron at Monterey. Quite an excitement appears to have been occa sioned in the American mind by the arrival of the Canadian yacht Alice, at Milwanbie, on Lake Erie,' " direct from the Atlantic." "A sea-going vessel," exclaims the New York morning Courier and In quirer, " has teach - odour lakes." [Coal enough this, considering that one half of them belong to Great Bri- tain.] And again, " Think that what vessels of peace I may do—vessels of war can do." Of a truth, oar transatlantic kinsmen are becoming strongly bellicose. A British yacht cannot pay a friendly visit to their ports but they are imme di ately conjecturing how they would receive a hostile one from a British man-of-war. This is rank childishness. The acceants which we have quoted under the I head of markets are highly satisfactory. The Courier mitt Inquirer states, in reference to past supplies : To show whit the seprirli of bresdstufil to Great Britain and Ireland hew beat this 111.010111, tort Iti from let September last to the early part of June—little owe Man motith•—we annex • table of shipments tram the ports named Con meet Wbeet. 1 S eem,. SW, BM. Bus. ue. 12th June New Toth 931,734 289,771 1,118,273 5,259,759 11th „ Baltimore 265,990 06,136 63,533 1,612,250 2r.d ~ New Orleans 509,231 23,512 274,307 3,452,247 sth „ Philadelphia— 204,779 187,090 440,831 958,871 sth ~ . ..Norfolk sth „ Boston sth „ ...Other porta ... 49,648 47,507 32,457 317,626 2,074,715 653.919 13,621,929 There may MW ad to 567,379 bushels it cob sod barley, and then we km Be 11100.10.111 et lak. of flour sad magi V 33,731 And at Ugh* ist misken, equal at deli toads auk to 6 , 199,939 Dbl. Total, reduced *tends. 11,503.573 Ma millions barrels direr and earn meal have alreedy been mot in a little over thrteugenrths of the year to Crest Britain and Ireland! The prime rang there at the last dates were higher than ever, awl etampedig all that can b.' got to mar ket will be send In de resteinteg rpru - Ur of the year, before the iblyamols WO al We yesx's crop. It is not in our Jedg name as imaggsrseplsodasbe that 1,250,000 hla. cued, or the equim- Mat &bred is beide sed barrels will be sent forward, and then we 014014 ben ler dr ems eareynte seven and a quarter millions of bands dam awl maal, or their equieslent in grain, contributed by be Whit SOW 14 "feed klngland,” which a late Lcodon true. use aeewslo ilkk• MINT presumptuous and not at all a praiseworthy ~ea our wt. These Weal weigh 2001bs, each—and cilculating them at that mei& would afford one pound a day for nearly one third of a yew twoivemillloa people-or half the popolltion of Great Britain and helm& Th ere areborse3B veverls on the berth now loading for /Treat Britain. end es telgbishave rather a tendiney to rise, ship menu will be hunts& Tics diem mad canals ore taxed to their utmsrl to br rag to the brolmedtb• surplus of the interior. Already we have received flour, sat wbesbyetlueing it [odour, near 774,000 bbls. more than In any precedes me at this time ; and of Indian corn mercers glrtthh" weessy ree weeks will he in in Napalm Is TC,1071. It bo sal YNe amiss of les well generally, but the grain will riot be gry mesh foe shipment before september or Octoter. The United Oldie ship Macedonian, lent by the government to carry pcovilkiliS to Ireland—after much &- laic., colmquent upon mime pally local, at last sailed this morning. tier c:arga, contributed by whale besevoleete, and urea which it is understood no !might is le las pig gibes bp rßritisk geramment or be the sale of any parte( dir mitt as Mows 1,0t7 Clothing ..... *fp. 30 boss Rice . 200 Mal We. 5,179 Peas sett bap 1.132 Mime 4 1 Corn Corn Beans gage 2,103 Meer O4 Beam ls. 122 Tea chats la This is a far more profitable and pleasing task than writing about war. We are anxious to drive a trade with the union for their breadstuffs, and glad to receive their fraternal assistanct in the day of dearth. May it be long ere there be any occasion for us to show by similar ready liberality -how cordially we feel the friendship that has been testified on their part. The benefits realised in America last year from the sale of breadstuffs and the prospects of the coming crops had imparted general prosperity to the country. The state of the money market was easy, firm, and buoyant. BRITISH NORTH AMERICA.—From the Nova Scotia journals, received by the Hibernia, it appears that the day tor the general election had not been fixed. It was believed that the nominations would take place on the 29th of July, and the polls on the sth of August. The Canadian House of Assembly bad been the scene of some vigorous sparring be tween the ministerial and opposition parties. The sufferings of the emigrants is the sea-board pro vinces continued to be great. There were several vessels in quarantine at St. John's [New Brunswick]. The number of the sick was 450, and there had been 143 deaths. About 5,000 emigrants had arrived there since the opening of the "Eason. On the 2nd of June the Loosthtank, of Dublin, for Quebec, out seven weeks, applied at Miramichi for assistance. Of 467 passengers, 117 had died on the voyage, and 100 were unable to help themselves ; the crew, from exhaustion, were unable to work the ship. Between the time of the vessel's being brought to the wharf and the 7th, 40 more of the passengers died. [For Corn Markets see lost yam and for Cotton but page.] RUSSIAN TRADE AND INTERCOURSE WITH CHINA. The principal seat of the Russian trade with China is at Kiachta, and the Mongolian frontier establishment Naitmaichin. Second in importance to that emporium is the commerce maintained at Kokand by caravans from Oren burg. The Chinese and Usbeck merchants from Turkistan and Haase assemble there to meet the Russian traders, and carry on a valuable traffic. From these regions, as well as from North-Western China, small partites of native merchants start for Semipalatinsk and Troizk in Siberia, where a simi lar, but not such an extensive, traffic takes place. A great deal of illicit bartering has existed to the east of Kiachta, between the pomades of the respective frontiers, and often indirectly by European merchants. The commerce on the Amur and in the distant parts of Siberia has hitherto been very trifling, and almost entirely confined to those who hunt the fur animals for the Chinese market, and the convicts of that country who are banished to the banks of the river to expiate their crimes. The Chinese government has, since the conclusion of our peace, very much relaxed its restrictive regulations respecting the Russian commerce. The prohibitory system, which had hitherto been maintained at the frontiers of Chinese Turkistan, and along the great wall, against the Chinese elucidators, led occasionally to revolts, in auppiessing which the Emperor was obliged to dis burse liege sums. There is, moreover, a desire to place the Russians under obligations, to secure the loyalty of the Mongol tribes by epeaing the road to gain, and to remove every possible occasion of collision. The statement as to an increase of commerce may, therefore, be considered as correct. This is further corroboreed by the very large quantities of a thick kind of Russian blue cloth, found to many of the northern cities, and selling at such a reduced rate as scarcely to cover the prime cost. In former times this article might be found in a single shop to the amount of 100 pieces ; in 1846, thousands appeared in all the large trading cities of the north. As the Shansi merchants, the principal and leading firms in the Russian commerce, have very extensive connexions throughout Tartary, and in all the provinces north of the Kiang, the consumption of these woollens, on account of their reduced price, ban as much increased as that of our cotton geode. When we, however, reflect that this commodity cannot be produced as cheap in Russia as in England, that it has to undergo a long and tedious land carnage; and, when sold on the frontiers, to travails deserts before reaching the consumer; it is probably sold at atom But the Emperor of Russia wishes to encour age the native manufacture, and the loss is made up by the return trade. The commerce carried on in Kiachta is a mere barter trade. In 1830, the whole importation of woollens at that place amounted to 164,552 yards ; in 1839, to 1,297,230 ; in 1840 it rose to 1,328,912. These were two years of a more or less suspended trade with England, but the quantity is still very large. • Tea, the principal export, has increased in a similes. manner. In 1838 there were bought 43,070 boxes each of 100 lbs, and 71,940 pieces of brick tea; in 1839, 47,950 boxes and 60,430 pieces. On this commodity the greatest profits are realised ; one account states that what was bought in 1839, at Kiachta, for 7,000,000 of dollars, realized 18,000,000 at the fair of Nischengorod. All the nomadic tribes of Western Asia use the brick tea (which often passes as a circulating medium) in profusion ; hence the largo gain of the Russians, (who may he said to possess the monopoly), and at the same time the readiness with which they incur a loss upon their imports to pay for this article. Not long ago some merchants prop vied to trade by sea to the five Chinese ports now open for foreign commerce, on account of the cheapness of water carriage. This, however, was not allowed. No regular accounts are kept of the im ports and exports of the caravans, and still less of the illicit traffic of the Mongolian frontiers. The declared amount of imports to Northern Asia, in 1840, was 3,615,130 in Russian dollars, and of exports 8,892,952. About 11 12th, of this are absorbed either directly or indirect'y in the Chinese trade. The native statements en this subject are very vague, and as the Chinese merchants find ways and means smuggle a great deal, the Custom-house returns cannot fully relied on. Since 1843 the Russian government has endeavoured place its commercial relations with China on a more liberal footing, and in some measure carried this point. The mis sinn at Pekin was to assume a political charaeer, instead of being, as hitherto, a mere institution for acquiring the lan guage. For this purpose considerable efforts hare been made, which any ultimately tend to realize the wishes cf the Russian!. We have beard of the new envoy, and he is probably now at Pekin. So much may he considered cer tain, that Russia will leave nothing untried to cetablish its influence and political isecenderiey there. Our commercial intercourse with China (not to mention the contiguity of the Thibetien and Indian frontiers) is of greater extent than that of Russia, and of a sufficient magnitude perhaps to re quire from China the same concession of a constant resident at the court, that has been yielded to Russia. The revision of the treaty in 18.54 might afford a legitimate occasion fur the proposition. The opening of a free navigation on the Amur has long been a topic of negotiation, and it is believed that the Chinese government, without giving a positive assuot, has tacitly allowed each an arrangement. NEW TOWN-HALL AND MARKET-HOUSE AT BRMNT FORD.—In consequence of the necessity arising for the erec tion of a count) court in Drentfotd, for the hearing of cases under the new Small Debts Act, a company is now farming for the erection of a town-hall and market-house, upon the site of the present ancient market, which will afford accom mediation for the holding of the county court, petty avail,' a, public meetings, and for a nessiort for the rule of corn, cattle, i pigs, sleep, poultry, fruit, and as) 'Muer siescriptimi farm and garden produce, according to the existing charter. Zbe 11.11. H. Prince Albert left Buckingham-palace for Oxford at nine o'clock yesterday morning. HAL H. went to the terminus of the Great Western Railway at Padding ton, where he wet joined by H.R H. the Hereditary Grand Duke of Saxe Weimar. Their KR.HII. left by a special train at twenty five minutes put nine o'clock. Prince Albert and the Hereditary Grand Duke of Sue Weimar left Word at half-past four o'clock in the afternoon, teturned to Paddington by a epee s 1 train at six o'cicak, P 4 ince Albert proceeding to Buckingham-palace, and the Heredi tary Grand Duke to Marlborough-house. H.ILH. the Hereditary Grand Duchess of Saxe Weimar visited the Queen yesterday. H.ILH. the Duchess of Gloucester 'visited their Majesties the King and Queen of the Dclgians yesterday at Buckingham-palace. The royal dinner-party yesterday at Buckingham palace included their Majesties' the King and Queen of the Belgians, his Excellency M. Van de Weyer, the Duke of Wellington, the Marquis and Marchioness of Douglas, th Countess Vanderstraten, the Earl and Countess of Claren don, Viscount Melbourne, Lady Beaus:ale, Lord and Lady J. Russell, the Right Hon. Sir R Adair, Major de Hoer kerke and Dr. Carswell. The following had the honour of receiving invitations for the evening: Madame Van de Weyer, the Marquis of Douro, Viscount and Viscountess Jocelyn, Lady Byron, Mr. G. B. and the Hon. Mrs. Angell, Col. the Hon. C. B. Phipps, Col. the Hon. Sir E. Cost, and Mrs. Ilourcrie. The Queen had a musical performance for the gratification of the august party, at which Madame Dorus Gras, Kniapel, NI Roger, and Herr Pischek had the honour of singing, Mr. Anderson presided at the piano forte. Her Majesty's private band was in attendance. Lord Kingston had an interview with Sir G. Grey yesterday at the Homc-office. Mr. Wickham, chairman of the Stamps and Tares, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday. Despatches were seat off last evening from the Colonial-office for the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope. The Judici•il Committee of the Privy Council sat yesterday. Judgment was given on an appeal from Jamaies, ' " Gordon r. II irafall." An appeal from the Court of Arches, "Phillips r. Phillips," was part heard. The Master of the Rolla, Lords Brougham and Campbell, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Cornwall, and the Judge of the Admiralty Court, were present. His Royal Highness Prince Waldemar of Prussia, travelling uerier the name of the Count de Rowenaieirg, is shortly expected to arrive in this country. The Viscount Feilding left town yesterday for Cam bridge, on a visit to the Master of Clare Hell. The Countess Schirnmelpenninck, the lady of the Netherlands Minister at this court, and Mr. Pemberton and family, landed at Blackwell-pier cn Sunday morning, from the General Steam Navigation Company's mail strain-ahip, Ocean, that left Rotterdam on the previous day. The Marquis and Marchioness of Bojnana, Colonel Dixon and family, and Capt. Fell, arrived at Blackwell early yesterday morning, by the Geneva, Steam Navigation Com pany', steam-ship, Soho, after a delightful trip of 19 hours from Antwerp. TILE FATAL ACCIDENT IN BERMONDSEY. Yesterday morning the inquiry into the cause of the accident arising from the falling in of one of the arches belonging to the L =don and Gravesend Railway, in Great Russell-street, Bermondsey, was resumed in the Board-room of Bermondeey union workhouse, before Mr. Carter. the coroner. and the jury empannellcd upon the former occasion. Alfred Bingham, a labourer, deposed that he wee at work for Mr. Justice, foreman to Mr.litrown, as ex cavator, on Friday, at the time of the accident, filling up the spans at the top of the arch with rnncrete. On his returning with his barrow from depositing concrete, he felt something move; he was not far from the centre of the arch, and near the key-brick when the brick work fell es d buried him in the ruins. He was so much alarmed that he had no opp3rtimity of noticing any minute circumstance, nor could he say whether the arch gave way at the centre or at the sides. He had been at work on that part of the railway about two days. One side was nearly filed up, and the other partially so. Nothing articular was noticed by witrics, or pointed out to him re lative to the stability or instability of the arch. Mr. Brawn hal told him to-be careful not to put more filling in on one side than the other. Ile had never seen anything to alarm. him, nor anything different in the construction of the arch to that of others. Mr. Thomas Grissel (of the firm of Griasel and : Pito), de posed that he had been called upon by the engineer of the railway to give his opinion of the quality of the materials. He considered them to be of the beat description, and he did not see anything in the nature of them to cause the accident. He was eatisfled the arch did not fill from the instability of the abutments. Having been much engaged in this Fort of work, he wan of opinion the work wee properly and faithfully performed. But little of the concrete appears to have fallen with the arch. The coo crete, as far as he could pay, had been filled in to a level on each side. The object of easing the arch is to &low it to take its own bearing, to test the solidity of the work. The mortar being fresh there is considerable pressure, end if the mortar had been bed the arch would have come dower. If the arch did not follow the centres it was a sound arch, and the builders were justified in the course of five days ias he had been informed was the cue) in removing th ribs alto gether. The centre is merely left fora few days as a matter of precaution. Looking at the form of the arch, it would Oman steed witeent mortar at all. It was not cus tomary to use cement except in the winter. The circumstance of the mortar becoming hard or dry was not essential. The arch had been turned under very unfavourable circumstances as to weather. Ile was fully of opinion that the manner in which the centre was re moved was the cause of the accident —The Coroner: Aye, but that is because of some thing you have heard.—Witness : Yes, what I have seen in the papers. I em of opinion that if the centre had been properly removed, in the ordinary way, that the arch would not have fallen. It was one of the simples! acts for a builder to throw down an arch after he had built it—the slightest neglect would produce such a result. Mr. Grieiell then went into an elaborate exposition of tare causes of the accident, by reference to a model of the arch which wee brought in. Looking at all the facts detailed in the boy Smith's evidence with respect to the horse and cart pulling down the hi-pole, be had not the least doubt it was that which caused the accident. The circumstance, he considered, to be purely accidental. Mr. Pinhorn, civil engineer, was next called: Mr. Barlow is the company'. engineer, and witness was employed under him in surveying the work and taking superintendento of it. The works have been about ten months in progress. Witness had inspected them on the morning of the accident, and they appeared perfectly safe. At the time of the accident the arch had been turned about ten days. He thought the arch so well constructed, that he could scarcely believe that it bad fallen when he heard of it first. He was decidedly of opinion that the bi-role caught the rib when the hone and cart pseud, and that the rib was knocked over and the bridge fell. (An illustration of this position was then given by Wittiest, who, proceeding to the model, fixed the imitation line in a man ner similar to that named, and the ribs and materials fell, leaving a miniature wreck exactly like the real one produc ing the digester.] Mr. J. Will, bricklayer, said he was passing just be fore the arch fell, and his attention was arrested by the fact that the arch was set in mortar, and the centre struck. The arch was two or three inches from the centre. He pawed under the arch, and wing no p'atform, but men on ladders, about fire of them, he thought there was Borne neglect. The centre ribs were then down ai.d put on the other side. There ought, in his opinion, to Dave been a platform. There appeared to be a great want of care. He bad no doubt the cart had caused the acci dent, He saw the bi-pole after the arch was dawn. He believed that the arch would have stood many years if there had been proper care in taking down the centres. If the mortar had been properly set, the arch would have stood, but in his opinion it was too wet for the centres to be struck so early as they were. Witness saw a hone and cart, but he did net notice any rope attached to the pin of the cart. Witness heard a scuffling just before the noise made by the fall of the brickwork.—By the solicitor for the deceased parties If a person had been appointed to guard the ro; e, the accident, in his opinion, would ant have hap pened.—By the solicitor for the contractor He was sstis fied there ought to have been some stage or something to prevent any accident. In his opinion, there was not sufficient protection nor a sufficient look out kept for the safety of the public. He considered that there was not sufficient caution taken in preventing parties from passing through the arch while the men were employed in striking the centres ; while he considered that no man ought to have been sent or to have gone away, for any purpose whatever, leaving any ropes untied or unguarded. Mr. Samuel Beesley, architect, deposed that he had seen the remaining portion of the archway, and was of opinion that the materials were of the very best qua lity, The buttresses were unghakee, and the arch turned like those of the adjoining arches. Me was satisfied even. regard was paid to the safety of the public in the coestrne ton of the arch. The jury returned a verdict " That the deceased parties, Frederick Messenger and Mary Thistletos, were accidentally killed, and that the jury are desirous of expressing to the proper authorities their sense of the incautious manner in which the hey in their employ has acted, and their desire to recommend to the contractors of such works to apply to the Incal commissioners for leave to stop up any public way over which an arch may be turned, more particularly t ie the striking of the centres, so as to prevent any such accident as this in future." The inquiry was then concluded, after a sittieg, u r ou this occasion, of more than six hours. COMMERCIAL TRAVFLLERS' SCHOOL—The quar terly court was held yesterday fur the election of children, and for ordinary business. dtr Willcockson was voted to the chair. The report stated that the hoard, since the lam court, had been chiefly employed in 'risking arrangements for this, the first election of children. The premier , which the/ had fixed upon, at Wanetead , were capable of accom mo atigg from 150 to 200 children. There wen 4 acres of ground, and a 'este had been entered into for 21 years at an annual rent of 1201 ; the right of purchasing the freehold within sir month., Inc the sum of 2,6001., resting with the board of management; these terms the board considered highly advantageous. A master and matron had been ap pointed. The auditor's report stated that the receipts, in cluding 831. 14s. 6d. donations, and 2561. 9s. annual sub scriptions, received, were 6,3431. 16e. The disbureement was 1,7011. is for !loch, leaving a balance of 6621. 11.. The reports were adopted, as was a resolution empowering the I ,`