The Express. — London, England, 1847-02-09 00:00:00

MADAME DULCKEN'S SECOND SOIREE MthiICALII wail eke per Whet wedlitaday t IC. M bur nethow. us. Ilarieyeireet, throadieltegueta. The weweete at baligeet eight o'clock weelaely. Per ' *bib be abeiwil at the grind* met ware eumat egibei Maduwe Nerley.strert. The third aed beit ele ell Übe pile ie W 14th February. SINGING CL A 118 E S.-APOLLONICON IROWlL—Oreelor, JOI IN II I.:LIAM oar No. .91 for Lulea, rlll ormertre on Monday enable, Feb rarry 11, at hall-pia II o'clock.. Orr No. NI for Lair, will commence on Monday ermine, Feb nary 13, ati4Wl4lse bottom 9 o'clock. Or No. 93 Or Oswiecim, will commence this resing, Feb. 9, ata rszereinat T o'clock. Clan Von IS for Gentlemen, will mamma on Friday evening, Mervyn, et Italf-p•A 8 o'clock. Tern: Twelve Milli. es for Or tootle of Aity Lemons, or two pi=of *TM Shilling% and Stxpence rub. and full parnotbars ray be bad at the ApoOanioon Roam, IC St. Martla'a-lane. of ER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. The Mowing outline of the maggesiesti the Masan 1e47 subsolled to the Nobility, Patrons of the Opera, and to the Public. It is presented in the confident hope that the me mond exertions made to secure, under cies-unmans:es of peculiar difikulty, (Unpin more wo rthy of the first Theatre in Europe, and of Its disttrtgtdohed Patrons, will ensure the onnUnuntion of their support. ENGAGEMENTS FtIR THE OPERA. Mdlie. Jenny Lind, Meths. Del Carmen Montenegro , Male. San. titbit, Millie. Fenian', end Wins. Solari, the contralto Mdlie. Vietti, and Indite. Dario Norio, and Malmo restellan. Traiectdni, the greet tenor of Italy, and the favourite tenor, Signor Gordon!; Sig. Superchl; Sig. Lablache; Sig. Roselle; Sin. Covent; Sig. Douche, of La Sods, bin fine appearance; the erletinded tom cantthte liter Simonet, and Sig. Labbeise. In addition to the above, arrangements are pending with sig. thietti, of the Italian Opera at Paris. That great componer the Chevalier Meperbeer, Ms arranged to visit this country to bring out the "Camp de •" the principal parts in the "Camp de sileso" by Mdlir. Jenny Lind and Sig. Trenchant. The celebrated Dr. Felix M. ndelsoohn Bartholdy will likewise visit England, and produce en Opera raper, composed for her Majesty's Theatre ; the libretto, founded on ' The Tempest" of sta.. written by M. So ibe. 31inuidn. Malik. Jenny Lind ; reedlita l aT . i;. Gardent; Cultism, Ilerr Sunnite ; and Prospon, Sig. fantods. It ia likewiee annuuneml with great annfaction that Sig. Verdi, having rendered (root bis revere filmes, had reldrvoir r d :red for this theatre a new Opera, of which the plot is fun on the "Robbers . of Schiller. _ . . . . . . RimaiM 7 B (Tiers of ;;Robert Bruce," lately produced at the Amdemie Royale, has alm been secured. Mesdames Castellon, sanchiolf, and Montenegro; Signori Oardoni, Superchi, arid Eraschini, will appear berore Easter. Wills. Jenny Lind, whom engagement eminence* In March, and extends until the endoritic Seasomerill appear immediately after Easter. Director of the Music and Dioducair —M. HALVE. Is addition to the above, several (Mersa new to Ikea country, will be produced, and the repertoire will be mdeeted from the chefs. ercauvre of Mozart, Ciroarcea, Rowini, lawizettl, Mercadante, OM. lint, Re. The strictest attention boa been paid to all the detail., ao that an ensemble may he presented perfect in all its parts. A nu merous orchestra, of the most distinguished talent and power, ho bees selected from mine of the best Ofelle.tran of Europe, eocabined with former roentorious artistes of the establishment. The chorus he bees chorea with the greatest care from Italy, Germany, and England, and will comprise upwards of eighty per formers. ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE BALLET. Mdlle. Carlotta Grist, Mdlle.Limille Gratin, and Mdlk. Cerito; ist ad dition to which an engagement bee been made with ?Mlle. Caroline Korn {of La smla, at Milan, and Other great theatres of Italy), who wilt make her fled appearance on the first night etas ears in a new ballet expeaely composed end artanired for bee by M. Paul TaghooL SUR*. Wauthier, of La Scala; Madame Petit lategben, Mlle. Honore, Montfort, Mesa.* Thavenot, Jolter, LiMmineux, Fanny Nantes, and Beetle ; and Mdlle. Caroline Ilemisert. In con sequence of the enthusiastic manner in which able gent artiste was monied oat season, home are entertabied OM Male. Tagliced may be induced to appear fora halted numbers( perhwinenore. M. 9L Leon, M. d'Oe, M. Gmgoelin, M. Ui Mal* MO Wham, SL Gouriet, Paul Teatime'. and N. Perrot. Orglear of tbe ballet mune, Signor Pugni principal artist, Mr. IllathalL Maitre. de Ballsa-11. Paul Tagliont, M. Oisatliiisu de la a t enet, mad AL Parrot; doessmeltre de Ballet, M. Gowelin ; Der" M. Petit. VORIGINAL GIUND BALLET be grelmad, written ea -As. her alasjesty's Theatre, by tbe aidinded pot Hoary Heine, en a anbr ia misated true dl. old bomb at Ossmeny. • novel and CVOw mdesstat vials theantaldidiuma rhtdebled le Os= at a mobs , awl lialbsulsbed pasabo• andled adalirabui Pad de Orrin and Pas des Mars will Is Imbed, rad an aide* raw Deviatbasesent, tro arable Grand Pas by Y. Perrot. whisk odder all the pecu liar in tuneable, al lb* Via des Akar. and Pas de gram will present a novel lastare of sulking miens:ay and will combine the talent of all, to be entitled Lb CONSTECLATION. THEATRE ROYAL HAYNI ARK E'f.—Great Vittlell and derided hit' The new and original comedy, In five %ciao: the:4OlOGL FOR SCHEMING will beaded every evening with the fairy extrivaigenna of the INVISIRLE PRINCE, embracing the entire strength of the compan4.Early applications should be made kw private boxes. Walls, and 9;.. THIOPIAN SERENADERS.--TO-NIGHT.— OT. JAM E'S THE iTRE. -The celebrated Ethiopian Serena- Pell. Harrington, White, Stanwood, and German, will give thew' inimitable entertainment this Evening (Tuesday). at St. James's Theatre; To-morrow Morning `` Wednesday) they will re pen t their Day Performance ut the St. James'sThmtre, commencing at Mil-pant Two o'clork ; To-morrow Evening (Wednesday) Crosby-hall ; Thursday evening at the St. Jamen's Theatre; Friday (for the lent time), at Crosby Hall ; and Saturday neat at the St. Janice'. Theatre. EGYPTIAN -HALL, PICCADILLY.—LANTUM ETHIOPIAN SIRRENADRRS. —The anivenal appenhation of enraptured thousands demands a costimmence a( their matchlere en tertainment. The team of the Lent= are es bewitching a. they are novel. --The new .lof "The 6thlestim Gentleman," and the over ture to "Luce Neal " nightly received with the most enthusiastic ap piause.—TlLfs EVENING (Tuesday), Feb. 9, and every evening during the week except Friday. —Doors open at half-pant 7.—MORN ING PERFORMANCE thin day and Saturday neat at 3 o'doek. Remeeel snit', ts. ; Balcony, la Placer may be secured tram 12 to 3 daily. GRANI) — HARMONIC HALL, GRAPES TAVERN, Smithwark Bridge-road, Porneurh. — reured Pur suant to Act of Parliameet.) • Proprietor, Mr. RICIIA D PREECE. -OPEN EVERY EVENlNG—triumphant nuccem—ceocerts monettre --nnotwealled company of vocalist, and =laicism Many thousands of ppm not previously aware of the existence of the magnificent plain demure/mem have pronounced it to be annorpomed. The =lardthe appointments, the beauty of the paintings., end the tyle, and etiquette observed in every department of this NY boor surprised and delighted all who have withered a entertainment. Lint of vocalien engaged every evening Teim4esses. Atkinson and Ilyams ; Ramon, Mmes. Hamblin and ; Comic and buffo singers, Mmes. W. Wank and Poi ; M Julia Sinclair, the delightful bravura singer, wheat re motion has been one of the wort flattering and brilliant description; Ale Siegfried, comic balled vacated ; Mime. M. and U. Hodson. led adniired sister duetUsts ; American Barlow, the renowned Mabel& and illuminator of negro life. Characteristic dancing and powerful orchestra. Doors open at 7, enamel commences at half pant 7. Mee meteor director. Mr. W. Womb.. Adnitadon: ad. Vie Oporto. MAILS. • The mails for Vigo, Oporto ? Lisbon, Madeira. Odli end Gibraltar, WM be reside up on the morning of the 17th Febnisry. The Went India mails, including those for Mexico, Honduras, and the Harannah, will be made up on the morning of the 17th February. Thc overland wells for Gibraltar, Malta, Greece, the lonian Islands, F' o Aden, Ceylon, lathe, Hong-Kong, and China. via Southampton, made up on the monling of the loth of February. The overland closed mails, ria afaraelllee, to the Mediterranean, Feypt, Aden, Ceylon. inns, 11011( Kong, ne., will be made up an the assume of the 24th February. The mails for New South Wale., VII/1 Diemen's Land, and New Zealand will be made up on the evening of the let Morel. The mails for BritiA North America, Bermuda, and the United Staten will be made up on the ermung of the 3rd March. The mails for the Brazils, the Inver Plate, Monte Video, PLIIIII/13. =Mina, Makin, and Burnos Ayres, will be mole ap on the of the ith March. TO CDRRESPONDENTS. We cannot notice, Wiwi , inTlietion that le sent to us anonymously but thaw art...idiom to addrow no in eonfldenee will Mad their conadenor rr•preted. NEITHER CAN WE UNDERTALE TO RETURN ANY MAN CSCRIIPTS WHATEVER. •: Advertisement, intended for Tee twee; Lemke evening paper, mitt be at the OW& by Two o'eloick on the day of publicatke. mciti WATER AT LO:IIDpN-BRIDOTt, rau DAv--79:weIng. 21 min. wet 7; Afternoon, 32 dz. past 7. To-Yosacm—Marab*, 2.5 min. pad 2; Afternoce, 3 min. put 9. LONDON, TUESDAY, FEB. 9. IN the House of Lords, yesterday, the Chelsea Pen sioners Bill was read a second time; and the Buck wheat, &c., Bill, committed. Lord BROUGHAM again brought the subject of Irish pauperism in Li verpool under the notice of the house, and took occa sion to repel a charge, made against him elsewhere, that he was inimical to Protestantism. A discussion followed on Irish distress, after which the Earl of Mor.vreAsnect, moved for certain returns, with the view of showing the total amount of the charges on land in Ireland ; but, on an intimation from the Loan CHANCELLOR that it was impossible the required in formation could be gken with correctness, the mo tion was withdrawn. In the House of Commons, Lord JOHN RUSSELL gave notice of his inti ntion, on Monday, the 22nd inst, to submit a financial statement to the house.—On the question of going into committee on the I)estitnte Persons (Ireland) Bill, a recriminatory debate took place in reference to the conduct of Irish landlords; after which, the house having gone into committee, the remaining clauses were gone through, several amendments were proposed and adopted, and others withdrawn.—The Brewing from Sugar in Breweries .nd Distilleries Bills also went through committee; and the Customs Duties Bill was read a second time. GrIZOT took the opportunity of stating fully to the French Chamber of Deputies on Friday last, the reasons which guided his policy and actuated his oon duct in the double affair of the acquisition of the . Infanta and the abandonment of Cracow. Never, in the annals of statesmanship, have motives been as signed for public conduct, so petty, and per sonal, and puerile, as those alleged by M. GUIEOT to have been his grounds for breaking pledged faith with England, and severing the alliance between this country and France. M. Cluixox's continued reproach to all his rivals has been, that they sacrificed the granite politique to the petite. Never surely was there an example of the sacrifice of •great and national policy to small dynastic interests ' and ministerial piques, at all comparable to the striking one of the Spanish marriages. It is, unfortunately, but too evident that Lord ABERDEEN had established a certain bond of personal relation between the ministers and sovereigns of the two countries, the effect of which was to render the French court certain, that nothing would be done or suffered by England contrary to French views on the Peninsula. Lord ABERDEEN'S written notes are indeed as independent and rude in the matter of the contemplated marriages as Lord PALMERSTON'S. But this was merely the official , destined to look digni fi ed on the table of ppaarrlament. In contradiction with these, was evi dently the real attitude of Lord ABERDEEN towards 'the French King and minister. Both these personages were quite assured that as long as the Tories remained in power, no attempt would be made to ensure the independence of Spain against them, or to secure the succession to the Spanish throne from their machina tions. They were perfectly confident that full time would be allowed them to absorb the Spanish prin cesses and succession at their leisure, they in turn being kind enough to save appearances for Lord ABF.RDItEN. In this state of diplomatic relations between the countries, any minister of any party succeedinn. to Lord ABERDEEN, must have disturbed that under ; standing upon which the French court relied. No statesman in our kingdoms could have been found to carry it on. And indeed Lord ABERDEEN himself was so convinced of it, that he carried his secret with him out of his office, and left no trace of his occult, personal, and free-masonry understanding with M. GuIZOT. The retirement of Lord ABERDEEN from office was thus, certainly, a great annoyance to France. The 7lmes,in this the organ of the Frem h embassy in London, assured us the other day, that when the first rumour of the Tories going out was current, and when the Whigs were coming in, uncertain who would be their foreign minister, M. GUIZOT instantly despatched powers to Count BRESSON to precipitate the Spanish marriages, the very powers on which Count BRESsoN subsequently acted. Whoever suc ceeded Lord ABERDEEN WILY therefore marked out beforehand as the victim of French treachery. When, later, the Whigs did come in, the be haviour of M. GLIZOT and of M. DE JARNAC, as evinced in their letters, is precisely that of ladies who have lost their lovers, who miss the wonted delicate attentions, and who are fall of pique and quarrel. jealousy, and misgivings. Without taking into account the haste and hurry, the absorbing business, the labour of night as well as day, necessary to put a now minister in possession of the state of affairs in his office, M. Gutzoi com plains that his letter, written the very moment of the new ministry's accession, was not instantly answered. M. DR JARNAC, too, in hie correspondence, gives himself all the airs of a petite nlitreue. He, too, bless the mark, is highly offended, when at last some despatch is written off to Madrid, without being first communicated to him. This was a breach of the entente eardirele with M. DE JARNAC. And all these petty, beggarly, boraluir passion% more fit for a novel of the Marquis DE LA PAittrreatE, than of grave statesmen, are brought forth solemnly by M. Orizar as the pretexts of a breach between two great countries. M. Ot•izirr's impassioned reproach to Lord Pni.mkairros is, that he actually wrote to Mr. BULWER a letter in which the name of Coburg occurred, and the word France was not to be found. And this grave state reason for resentment is arranged in an epigram, " trig Cabourg dt plus, et la France de maim," worthy of Punch or the Charirari. This surely is not politics, nor even comedy : it is farce. If, however, the accession of the Whigs, or of Lord PALMERSTON, really alarmed the French government for the emcees of their secret designs on the Infanta, they should, as M. Tftixas alleged, have been frank, and stated their suspicions, instead of acting secretly upon them. M. °emir should not have gone on with that long series of duplicity, assuring Lord NoR MANBY, up to the last moment, that the marriages would not take place en m'me temps, and afterwards excusing himself by saying, that not en ',Wale temps meant, that one marriage would precede the other by two or three minutes. On this point M. Gutzirr says not one word in his speech. We cannot indeed say that M. GUIZOT'S attempts to disprove the charge M . trea chery are a failure. For, in fact, the attempt at refutation is not made. The treachery is admitted ; and the excuse offered is the old one, " the end has sanctified the means." "These marriages," exclaimed M. Gutzon, "are the only great feat that France has achieved, by her own solitary efforts, since 1830." If M. Omor had boasted that France, under his guidance, had achieved a victory in the field, and braved a potent foe in open campaign, unaided and alone, there might be glory in the vaunt. But to boast of an act of larceny committed alone, of an act of treachery auccesafully achieved in secret, of a friend tricked and overreached ;—in such a feat M. OUIZOT should not boost of France being without an accomplice. Where should she find one? Such is the fable, such the moral of the Spanish marriages! But M. GUIZOT gives at the termination of his speech a still more fabulous account of the present and future, than of the past. Ile insinuates, lor indeed plainly represents, the present cabinet of England, as making offers to the absolutist powers to unite them against France, and form a new coalition : —a likely story. At a moment when the utmost that statesmanship in England can effect, is to remain passive, or confine political aims merely to that which none can oppose ; at a moment when a majority for even twenty-four hours is the Cynthia of the minute, to be caught and fixed ere it evanesce, and when ten Englishmen can scarcely be got to agree upon the most pressing interests of the pocket or the mind ; that at such a time England should furnish forth u Pirr to concoct a new continental coalition, is an idea which does some credit to M. GUIZOT'S imagination, but none whatever to his common sense or good faith. This spectre of a new European coalition, M. OUIZOT goes on to tell the French Deputies, may be conjured and defied by the said deputies remaining good boys, and Conservatives, and, above all, by their eschewing M. 'NIERS. If M. THIERS was to come in, the coalition of M. Grain's conjuring would surely fall upon France. According to M. GUIZOT, all would be well in the east but for M. Timits, and all in England would be as France wishes it, but for Lord PALMERSTON. GUIZOT'S sole principle and secret in policy consists of personal sympathy and antipathy. Such is the wisdom which decides the fate of empires, and the peace of the world. Tin object contemplated by the bill which Lord GEORGE tir..vrtNt K obtained leave to bring in on Friday night, is too urgent and important to admit of time being wasted on the contradictions of its pro moters. Lord GEORGE BENTINCE, it is true, states, as one recommendation of the measure, that it will - _ enable shareholders "to get rid of their shares at a premium ; " while Lord STANLEY, as peremptorily, declares that its object " was not to raise the price of shares, or facilitate the sale of them." This incon gruity, however, only shows that the bill (in common with many others) labours under the disadvantage of being ushered into the House of Commons by parties who neither devised nor drew it, and who but imperfectly apprehend its scope and tendency. Any imperfect acquaintance which the noble lords may have shown of the object of the bill, to which they have stood godfathers, leaves its real merits un affected. It would be about as fair to set it snide on account of the incompatibility of their arguments, as to dismiss it on account of Lord GEORGE'S schoolboy rhetoric when he declared that its authors' time " was measured by moments" (m the time of most people is) " and its value by flowing gold." The bill proposes to raise sixteen millions on re deemable perpetual annuities, or annuities for terms of years. The Commissioners of the Treasury are to be empowered to advance loans to Irish railways to the Isame amount—in the first instance out of the" growing produce of the consolidated fund," or by the issue of exchequer bills. Applications for loans must be sanctioned by public meetings of the companies in whose behalf they are made. The railway commis sioners are to examine the works of the railways to construct which applications for loans are made, and report on their adaptation to afford employment, and the prospects of their being remunerative. The Com missioners of the Treasury are to act on the reports of the Commissioners of Railways. When loans are granted, security is to he given by mortgage for re payment, in terms of not less than thirty years. The rights of prior mortgagees are to be secured; the companies are to be taken bound not to exercise further powers of borrowing without the consent of the commissioners. The commissioners, in case a company proves unable to complete the works, are empowered to enter into possession and execute them ; sell the railway when completed ; and until sale to lease it or let the tolls. Repayments are to be made into the Bank of Ireland, and the receipts of the Commissioners of the Treasury are to be sufficient dis chnrges. Provisions aro made for the regular pay- THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 9, 1847. ment of labourers and due attention to their comfort and health. _ ..... We think we have stated the tenor of the bill fairly. It is one of which the author has no reason to be ashamed : it evinces respectable powers of combination and adaptation; and with regard to its technical pre patation it is decidedly superior to V.e average of bills introduced in the House of Commons. Never theless our first impression, that if passed into a law ' it would seriously embarrass the finar.cial and mone tary relations of the country, without effecting any corresponding benefit for Ireland, is increased instead of diminished. . _ The proposal to add sixteen millions to the national debt at this time is of itself sufficient to give pause. Our readers will remember the petition of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce in 18-10, relating to the management of the Bunk of England in regard of the currency, and the committee lof the House of Commons on banks of issue, appointed li n consequence of that petition being presented. It 1 was proved by the Manchester gentlemen before the committee that towards the end of 1835 and beginning of 1836, great fluctuation in prices had been occa sioned by the Bank of England's departing from the principle upon which it usually regulated its conduct as a bunk of issue, to the senous embarrassment of trade, and the ruin of niany individuals. It was proved by directors of the Bank that their deviation from their general practice had been forced upon them by the consequences of the raising of the West India loan. That loan amounted to fifteen millions: the first instalment was paid in August, 1835; the last in September, 1836. If the raising of fifteen millions had such an effect on all our markets at a time when trade was otherwise prosperous, what will the raising of sixteen millions have at a time when pressure is felt from a scarcity of provisions; from a short crop and low stocks of the raw material of our princi pa l textile manufacture; and the paralysis of foreign de mand for our manufactures, occasioned by the wide extent of deficient harvests? In 1833-6 there were no other loans in the market ; but the go vernment has already incurred, and is about to incur, liabilities for tae relief of Ireland to the amount of at least nine millions, which in the present state of trade are not likely to be provided fur otherwise than by loan. The money liabilities which government would incur under Lord GEORGE BENTINCK'S bill are not the only, nor even the most weighty, liabilities to which it would subject them. The clause em powering the Commissioners of the Treasury to enter into possession of railways, com plete the works, and sell or lease when completed, is the most alarming part of the act. It contemplates a contingency—a certainty of govern ment being compelled to take in hand a large amount of railway property; to incur upan that property in definite expenses ; to manage it, it may be, at a large yearly loss, or dispose of it for a small fraction of what it cont. In accepting Lord GEORGE'S bill, parliament would accept a bill for an undefined and undefinable sum ; would pledge the national credit to they know not what. This indefinite liability parliament cannot be mad enough to incur. The definite liability of sixteen millions might, in the face of all hazards, be incurred, if it could be shown that the expenditure would really benefit Ireland, or that the money could not be laid out in some way better suited to benefit our country men there. Let us dispassionately inquire what kind and amount of relief this large outlay is calculated to afford. Lord GEORGE'S bill is not calculated for the relief of the immediate exigencies of this year of famine. It is one of those measures which can only promote the per manent amelioration of the social and economical con dition of Ireland. The rail wav companies must meet and resolve to apply for loans; the railway commissioners must examine into the actual condition of the applying companies, the progress of their works, the prospect of returns on the capital, and so forth. W e ask any man acquainted with the history of Irish railway speculation within what period are such inquiries, if conducted bund.firk, likely to terminate ? We say no thing of companies got up by needy landlords to pro mote sales of patches of land at unreasonable prices ; nothing of London speculations, where half-a-dozen gentlemen, managers in as many railway companies, lend to those in which calls are not paid the money of those whose shareholders are gulls enough to pay. We take the Great Southern and Western--a line in part opened for traffic, a line which ought to pay—as a specimen of the reckless in volvement of Irish railways. By the balance-sheet produced at the last half-yearly meeting of this com pany, it appears that it has received a loan of .50,0001. from the Bank of Ireland, and has made " investments" in, or, in plain English, lent to four other railway companies 26,50 W. Within what given time will the railway commiadoners be able to un ravel such tangled and complicated accounts ? What clue will they find to guide their estimate of the probable success of such entangled speculations? These facts, which show that considerable time must elapse before the sixteen millions can be made avail able for the use of Ireland, are also of a na ture to damp our hopes as to the benefit of the application. The loans to railway companies will enable them to remit or modify their calls; and by enabling some to proceed which otherwise must have been at once abandoned, will admit of labourers being sooner set to work. But the loans will not re establish Irish railways in public confidence as a mem ' of investment. The value of Irish railway shares had begun to fall before the effects of scarcity were felt in the money market, and they have fallen from the loss of character consequent upon the reckless and incon siderate (in many cases stronger language might be used) mismanagement to which we have been advert ing. The loans advanced by government will not restore the confidence of parties who are capable of , paying future calls ; such men will not thereby be induced to risk their money in them, on the faith of booty inquiries conducted by the railway board. The loans administered in the way Lord GEORGE BENTINCK contemplates will only enable the works to be carried on for a short time, then to stop, and leave the face of Ireland burdened with constructions as incomplete and worthless as the two canals from Dublin to the Shannon. And, by thus throwing away sixteen millions the country will be disenabled to expend money for other purposes that would really benefit Ireland. IVe have formerly stated, and now repeat our belief, that a certain amount of money, judiciously applied, might be devoted with advantage to the promotion of railways in Ireland. We concur with Earl FtrzwIL LIANI (in the general view expressed by that noble lord—not in his details) in thinking that the employ ment on railways afforded by this means might be beneficially combined with an extensive system of emigration. FRANCE.—M. d'Haussonville, who was lately commissioned by the French government to bear some recons 1 ciliatory explanations to the I- lynch ambassador at the Court of St. James's regarding the Spanish marriages, has returned from London ; and reports say he has succeeded in the object of his mission . —L'Esprii Public, Feb. 6. NETHERLANDS.—()CCCeSTION OP LABPAN.— According to the Nieuwe Rotterdanache Courant, Feb. 6, there is considerable excitement among Dutch politicians with regard to the occupation of Labuan. The Courant complains especially of the terms in which the Morning Chronicle anonunced the fact, on which it comments as follows England could never be jealous. The more con temptible, then, must he the condo-% of a wealthy elate in grasping the possessions of a poor country. How is the act to be juatificd ? It has been proved, even by the travels of Brooke, that Sarawak is a dependency of Sambas, which is undoubtedly a Dutch possession. But it there no pretext for the occupation ? Certainly ; the paper abovementionefl has found it, and it is this: A Danish vessel was eapturid by pirates. The Singapore paper, changed the Danish into a Dutch vessel, and from this mistake of the papers, the inference is drawn that the Netherlands are too feeble to defend their pease...ions, and that generous England, therefore, met take them under her protection. 0 disinter sted England! who does not see further spoliation in perspective ? a plan of occupation going on from Labuan to Sarawak, thence to other part. of Borneo, and (ruin Borneo to Java ?" GERMANY.—.% MODERN HENRY Vlll.—Prince Hatyfeldt, a member of the Roman Catholic aristocracy in Silesia, intends to dirwilve his present marriage, and con tract another. As it is only in very few cases that his Holi ness at Rome grants the dissolution of a marriage, the piece inteods to embrace the Protestant faith, a mecum dance which is much talked of, and causes • great sensation in the higher circles. Prince Hatyfeldt is a brother of the Countess Ilatyfelilt, whose law-suit lately made so much noise. VIENN.I.—The counsellor of state, Baron Werner, is appointed so depute of Count Vou Munch Bellingliamen, ▪ president of the biet, whenever he should be absent from Frankfort. Count Vou Munch Bellingbausen still remains president of the Diet ; but, in order to relieve Prince Met ternich from the weight of business, will always make a considerable stay here, and not return to Frankfort except in urgent eau , s. SWEDF:N.—STOCKIIOOI, J ‘l4. 30.—The greatest activity prevails at present in all the departments of govern ment. The object of this is the preparation mammary for the approaching Diet. GREECE.—The Augsburg Gazette of the Ist con tains advises Imm Athens to 3 so . 19. The Chamber d Deputies was occupied with different bills, ea the budget wee still in the hand. of the emarnimion. Col. Spiro killing, who had oh. tamed a leave of rong, , to proceed to Naples, was at Corfu, and held in bin heads the thread. of a conspiracy, the aim of which was a well organised armed descent into the north west provinees AMERICA.—EXI'wsIoN or A LOCOMOTIVE.—A disa.trous explstdon occurred on the Reading Railroad, lest es ning, near Philadelphia. A locomotive exploded, killing seven persons. The report was heard four miles di.t.ust. The mangled limbs of the unfortunate person. were thrown a great distance. The concussion hrnke every pane of glass in a house in the vicinity.—New Ycr* Express. WEST INDIA AND MEXICAN MAILS. The dates from the West India Islands, brought by the Dee, are as follows : Honduras, 20th Dec.; De merara, iSth ; Trinidad, 7th; Barbadoes, 9th; Grenada, 11th; Jamaica, 13th; St. Thomas, 18th; and Ber muda, 24th January. She has brought the following passengers: Captain FranUand, R.N., hte of her Majesty's ship Alarm, from the Gulf of Mexics“ Captain Broadhead, R.N., and Captain Hankey, R.N., from the Pacific, late of her Majerty's s h ip Colltngwood ; Captain Gardner, from Panama; Captain Monday, lt.A , and Captain Cratton, R.A., fr o m Jrntaica; Captain Bristow, West India and Captain Downs, R.A ifrom Barludoes ; Sir William Codrington, Bart.; Tollemsche, E q., M.P.. and son, from Antigua; M. Moyer. Russian consul at Ilavannah Ilrut Womyra and lad••, Int West India Itegt., from Saint Kitts; Captain kitager.dd and lady, West India Itegt., from Nassau. _ FILEIGHTS. From Tampico on merchants recount 37,992 dole. Vera Cruz —ln bar silver 77,976 lu dollars 104,573 ~ Belize-- Silver and gold Plata Buto —12,05 G Pacific and Spanish Main, in gold dust and gold 112,240 „ Total 21 grrona of cochineal, 97 bake of tobacco, 161 chests of cigars, 2 barrels of c,garetaa, 20 live turtle. JAMAICA.—The Severn sailed with the mails on the Bth; but ou leaving Jactnel on her way to Porto Rico, her surbisarsl engine gave way, and she returned to Kingston (Jamaica) for repairs. wluch she reached on the 12th. The agents of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, immediately after the vessel's arrival, issued a notice ta the effect that the Teviot would proceed on the 17th, at 10 a.m., with the mails for England; that the Thames would proceed at lb. usual time to St. Jago de Cuba, and on the 23rd take the mails for England from Kingstm ; that 11.81.'s steamer Hermes would proceed to the Spanish Main instead of the Thermal (taking no freight but small parcels) ; and that the Severn would depart on the 14th or loth fur England direct, making use of her sails and one engine. Politics were in abeyance during the recem of the legisla ture. The accounts of the weather and crop arc on the whole favourable. On the 14th of December a copious shower of hailstones, of half en hour's duration, fell at Cocoa-walk est.te, in the wish of St. Dorothy's—a meteor ological rarity in a tropical country. The stones are de scribed as rounded, but flattened on one side. The following report from St. Thamesindbe-Eist, dated Port Morent, sth Jan., and published in the Despatch, is a fair average sample of the coudition and views of the planters throughout the bland: _ . All the militia the Vale of Plantain Garden have been at wort. since Monday. The appearance of the estates is equal to anything I have *rem for the last 17 years, and I think there will be as much sugar made in that Markt this crop as there used to be in times of slavery. mi. fact is entirely attributable to African immigration. Were it not fur that, the Vale of Plantain Garden River would have been thrown up long ago, to my knowledge. We have delightful rains, and if we have a good spring, we shall have excellent Crops twit year. The labourers in the Port Morant district have not yet resumed labour. We hope they will have concluded their Christnuoi dimipationa this week, and that they will be in at: field on Monday next. In this quarter the people have all left the estates, and a, living on the Imds they have purchased, on that they are altogether independent of the egad., which, on the other hand, are thus kft entirely at their mercy. We need a large addition of African labourers. A meeting of gentlemen was held in Kingston, on the 4th of January, to take into consideration an extensive scheme of irrigation, set forth lat.ly in a pamphlet by Mr. M'Grachy. On the motion of W. %V. Anderson, Esq. (a proprietor in the island, and attorney for the Earl of Airlie), secondid by Dr. Spalding, a committee was appointed to confer with Mr. M'Oeschy on irrigation and other import ant objects connected therewith. Jam tics, with its moun tain-ridges, and interspersed districts liable to drought, is eminently tilted to he the scene of such an enterprise. The districts to which Mr. M'Oeachy's attention has hitherto been directed are, Liguanea, the Caymans, in St. Catherine, the plains of St. Dorothy, Veer, Clarendon, and St. Thomas in the Vale, and Luidas Vale, in St. John. The present pro. duce, according to Mr. M'Cleachy's estimate, of these districts amounts to 14,150 tone; but, by a combined system of ma nuring and irrigation he conceives that thin produce would be increased by no less an amount than 33,97.5 tons. It is said that the Caynonsas alone, if properly and sufficiently irri gated, are capable of yielding 1,000 tons of sugar per annum. On the 12th of January the comm'ttee reported to another and more numerous meeting, recommending the adoption of Mr. M•Geachy's scheme, and stating that sources fir the supply of water and sites for the proposed cultivation could be obtained. After the report had been read, it was resolved, en the motion of John Vincent Furrier, Fail., seconded by W. Wernyas Anderson, Esq. " That the report be referred back to the same com mittee to examine the sites referred to, confer , with the proprietors, and report on the terms on which the I came can be acquired by the proposed company ' • that it be referred to the same committee to inquire into the cost of preparing such site for carrying out the objects of the com pany, particularly the coat of making the supply of water available, and the probable returns to be derived therefrom by the company, and report thereon ; and that the com mittee be enlarged by the addition of those gentlemen present at this, but absent at the last meeting, five to be a quorum." INLAND CH•RITIES.—The commissioners appointed to examine into the state of the inland charities have published a fifth report. The mismanagement appears to have been great. For example : On arriving at the Vera Free Grammar School the commiasioners found the head master absent at a sugar estate he had recently parchamd. Of the two deputies he had left to officiate in his aence one was entirely illiterate, and the other nearly so. The boys had a ragged, dirty, and squalid appearance. Examinations of the parents of lays ftom Kingston belonging to the school are appended to the report, and disclose a shameless want of attention to the comfort of the children. GUlANA.—Betweeu the despatch of the mail just received and that which preceded it 150 coolies had landed from the Martin Luther. Emery's Journal is scandalised at an idolatrous procession of the Coolies in Berbice during the holidays. Is the reverend editor surprised that a sea voyage should not hare made them Christians at once? and sorry that they have been brought to live among Christians and where they may learn better? There had been a good deal of rain, but not in such quantities as to impede the finishing of the crop. The Guiana Times Rates: have it on unquestionable authority, that the draft of a bill has been forwarded by Lord Grey to the governor by last mail, assimilating the condition of the Coolie here to his condition In the Mauritius, wherein provisions are already to operation. Prom all ae counts, it is bowel upon the principle., that with the Coolie, mammal from the famine and misery of his own country, guaranteed, on the faith of the British government, continuous work at • certain rate of pv, and curried to the colonies in which it cosy be obtained free of oast, ragrancy and idlentes am crimes. It prop.. to make it compulsory on every Coolie immigrant to enter into indentures for one year. He ma y refuse; but the penalty for refusal is to be a monthly payment equal to live shillings sterling, to obtain which, will, at all eveut, comp el him to work the law cm, of mime, only be made applicable to those to arrive, to whom the teemnof the contract have been explained by the agents In Calcutta and Madre.. It will be better for themselves. Employment must be seemed to them at the guaranteed rate of remuneration —a iodide, for a tariff task. And how much better for the colony' Tarim months steady labour on one place would remove all tendency to vagrancy. This boon to the planters, however, is not to be con ferred, unalloyed, and for nothing. The estate which get, appren tices, is to pay a bonus for them in aid of the immigration fund of two pounds sterling for Mlle adonis, and in proportion for females and children." TIIINIDAD.—Tne GOVERNOR AND LEGISLATIVE COVNCIL.—On the 29th of December Lord Herri• men iwtallrl Ci.ovrrnor and. in and over the island of Trinidad sal Ms obssadeneies having been pre. Measly only Lieutenant -Owee—sr. At the same meeting of Council, the new S." ' wal (for the time being,t Acting Attorney-General), the Hon. Herbert Bowen, the oaths of office. A despatch relating to immigration wee then read from Earl Grey, in which he stated that most cone usively nothing could be done until the restrictions were removed, and that there wa a doubt as to whether, under the Usury Law, they could raise money at a higher rate than 5 per eon , . He then went on to state that it was neces• miry that the expenses incurred by the Land and Immigra. tion Boxed, forthe purposes of immigration, (about 35,00 W.) sh mild he trausrnitted. Upon this Mr. Losh moved, se. vended by the Hon. A. White, that the governor should be authorised to pay the amount from the general or other funds of the colony ; but as it was the opinion of the chief judge that it would be better to pass an ordinance for the purpose, the attorn , y general gave notice that he would bring toreros. one at , he next meeting of the board. After which the board adjourned WINDWARD ISLANDS. BARBA DOES. —Go vernor Reid returned from Tobago on the morning of the 2nd of January. On the sth he attended the first meeting of the 13,rbadoes Legislature, after its brief prorogation, in persn. In his speech he congratulated the members of the council and assembly on the general progress visible throughout the West Indies "It will he • mums of *armee to me," be said, "to lend the aid of which I am capable, towards accomplishing this great end. Logislativo measures may, doubtless, say abt.ti yet it is my pasuasion that It is to public opinion, tiering Indelikal 'Wok that we must trust, nither than Is dr apunilis ligilimage assolimila It trill be, gentlemen, M my via sal Fig delle Is oldie le maintain. .ninterroptedly, that =lns by sill Om ignegment ef Barbados has for a long Vasbeti been lirimmay. I *WI ever study to in- Milaila se rigid • sum d Ihs /di swim. as is consistent with the alishway at thole Ingllnlinna pea ay think proper to I.llltain ; end I eel no daunt of Lew mil lathe public intereus rendering the danberatioas In wthll Ind yen drody engaged very useful to this tiessin TOunißA oty.. 0.--Oovernorßeid's prompt visitand judicious conduct while oat the island gave general satisfaction. It is to he hoped that this will encourage him to visit all the islands under his charge, and see iut t their affairs with his own eyes. In his address to the legislature, be observed , "I have no doubt that many of your laws requite reeimen and ainerriment. There "Muhl, I think. be • law far limiting the duration of roue parliamenoi. I re - wmosend that an act he pawed for the nine twt-mot voters-The feee to public linkers should all Le fixed by or, but in nettling them, existing interest" should be resprmed, or equitably commuted. But Ido not deice you to enter immediately upon thole important subject. They require deliberate connderatin, and there fore should net be hastily enacted. My recrionnaendation vi jou is., that matters of prepping necessity only, earn as the payment of the public creditor. should now be provided for; as my ono Poignant leads me to th nk that those other matters which require more time for wawideration. had better not be entered upon, until after I afford the Wand en opportunity ol rreurring to • general election." We regret to learn th it since the governor's departure very stormy debates hare arisen , whether on the. old ground of dispute or some fresh one in hot raid. BERMUDA.—The new governor and the civic authorities of Hamilton hare been inter hanging new year's amenities. On the lot of Janunry a new weights and mea sures Act came into operation, by which the imperial atm dards were, fur the first time, introduced into the colony u the only legal once. But the most important intelligence from the "still-vexed B. Tmoothis," is the following, which affords inereawd prirpects of security to our West Indian draftier' : The introduction of the floral Man Wert India Mown-packet,. into the ware and commoili•us har‘our of It. George'. (from which they have hitherto been excluded by dangerous sho.ll, in mid-channel:, io an event moat likely to take place a , no great dirt -our of time. Ity the sumer... Jul submarine operation. eef SergL limb with the galvanic battery, under the :ible and kindly-awarded soneni-ion of Cokmel Barry, }LE., thaw obstacles have almeat magically divappeamd ; and the entrance to St. Georytea harbour will noon become anglciently wife trot SIXICiMmr fur venal, of the 'argent sue. The ehantre of station from Ireland Wand (whence the olthai at prevent resort) to St. Georg, 's, to a CinUlllStatilee particularly dc..nible in regard to trade. heal intereourse, and the general oreoperity of the century. Elpedi tim. no is the denoutcb which the rte to pocket. receive here, it can not but be facilitated by the .ontemplated alteration of depot ; for the nude twer•khilit) of the Wort of Cs.”rge is sul well known, and Ito great; natural advantage., for the 'inflame we have named are too pal ledge. th d we owed not travel into the region of argument for a sup ply of evidence. Ebe liroun._ - -- WINDSOR, NIoNDAY. The Queen and Prince Albert took their usual early morning walk. The royal family t. nk walking and pony exercise in the grounds around the castle. Viscount Morpeth left the castle to-day. Their H.R. the Duke and I) chew of Cam h,idee, the Princess Mary, and Ii.S.H. Prince Frederick of Hesse urristsl in town yestent.tv, from Kew. The Duke and Duche. of Cambridge d s Prince Frederic of Hesse dined with H.R.H. the Duchess of Gloucester at Gloucester House. A Deputation of the dirt,u.r+ of the Rezent's Canal had an interview with the Commivsioners of H.M. Woods and Forest., yesterday, at their office in Whitehall-place. A deput Mon of the Aborigines' Protection Society had an interview with Earl Grey, yest. relay , at the Colonial - office. A deputation from the Light Dues" Association had an interview, yesterday, with the Earl of Clarendon, and the Right Hon. T. Milner Giheon, ut the Board of Trade. A deputation from nat.:het had an interview with Lord Mor path, yesterday, at the Mate of the Womb and For.sts. A deputation of master spinners and manufacturers in favour " The Ten Hours Bill" had an interview with Sir George Grey yesterday at the Homemfflce. The Archbishop of Canterbury had an interview ymterday with Earl Grey at the Colonial-ottice. A deputation of the Birkenhead Deck Company and Commissioner. had an interview with the Commissioners of her Majesty's Woods and Forests yestemisy. Lady J. Russell pained a good night on Sunday night, and was much better yiotenlay. THE OVERLAND M.‘ll. AND THE COMBINED MORNING l'aitestit.—We copy the following from the Inchon News of yesterday :—"' Some four or five days ago the Daily News got exclusive despatches, through the medium of Mr. Waghorn. These were copied into all the papers, both morning and evening , not only without acknow ledgment, but under the representation that they were derived through the medium of the India-house. Unfor tunately far them, the Daily New had taken the precaution to make some verbal alterations in their intelligence, and, strange to say, by some specks of magnetic sympathy, the papers from the India-house were altered in pre cisely the same words. This was an odd coincidence, and some people are ill-natured enough to say, that the story of getting them from the Indisihouse was trumped up fur the occasion, rather than acknowledge the obligation to the Daily News, of which paper they pretend not to know the existence. We can scarcely believe that papers of such high principle as the Times, &c., would willingly be guilty of a disreputable action ; but whetheror not, the Daily News is under great obligations to them, for a surer method of en hancing the circulation and character of the obnoxious jour nal could not have been kit upon by its opponents."--In commenting yesterday on the weekly papers to which our Indian news was transferred without acknowledgment, we omitted to place in the list of honourable exceptions Douglas Jerrold's Weekly Newspaper, and the Garrhyiers' Chronicle, in both of which journals the Daily NCIOB was duly quoted. CLEANSING THE FOOT PAVEMENT.—Yesterday, in structions were forwarded to the police to report all houses from which the snow was not cleansed from the footpath in front thereof before nine o'clock in the morning. By the New Police Act, all pervons neglecting to cican,e the foot patha in front of their houses before the above hour, are liable to a penalty of 40s. COMPENSATION TO THE SURVIVOR.% OF THE LATE Mn. Bor tzg.—At the recent meeting of the Midland Rail way Company, at York, Mr. Hudson, in alluding to the melancholy and fatal accident to Mr. Bowler, the commis sioner of the Leeds District Bankruptcy Court, who was killed on that railway, said that he had intended to head a subscription with a sum of 500/. as compensation to the family of that gentleman, but the company had altered their intention and intended to present the family with .5,000 guinea instead of a subscription. THE SUGAR I)isrlttssic BILL.—Our emrespondent, the Greenock dis'iller, has drawn our attention to an over sight in our remark(' on his last communication. The 3s. 91d. of which he speaks is simply the spirit duty, not the sum of the malt and spirit duties per gallon. He proceeds to state that to this 9/d. should be added ls. 41d., lees 814. of malt allowance. as the half of the duty on a bushel of malt, which, according to his estimate, produce. only 16 gallons. To this we demur for various reasons : infer also, beenuse the malt duty ought to be spread over 18 instead of I 6 gallons; and because malt is not used alone in making worts by distillers—unmalted corn being mixed with it. Our cor respondent seeks to make out that he pays Bd. of malt duty on every gallon of spirits. A respectable and extensive English distiller, whose letter we published yesterday, says: —" The actual amount of malt duty which the distiller pays upon the quantity of malt used in his distillery, is equal to I id. per gallon.' Add lid. to 31i. 91d., we have 3a. 11/d. per gallon paid by the Scotch distiller, and rum is to be charged 4s. 2d. per gallon. THE SNOW-STORM.—Yesterday, the metropolis wan visited by the heaviest fall of snow that has occurred during the last five years, accompanied by a sharp frost that rend the thoroughfares extremely dangerous Foot-pusengers and Isor4es might be seen falling in several plates, especially on the wood-pavement; the various bridges, but more parti cularly Westminster and Blackfriars, were the scenes of frequent disasters, being at times imputable from the number of prostrate animals. A man named Woodward, living in Smithson-4mm, Chelsea, crossing Westminster- Bridge leading a horse drawing a waggon of wood, in de scending the hill slipped under (he fore wheel, which passed over him, and he is not expected to reenter. A woman named Philps fell on the foot-path of this bridge, by which her leg was fractured. An on being driven fmm Smithfield to Clare market, dislocated its shoulder in Cursitor-street, Chancery-lane, and greatly to the horror of the inhabitants, had to be slaughtered before it could be removed; the different railway trains were also considerably delayed from the cautious manner in which they were obliged to proceed to prevent the engines going off the rails. INFORMATION UNDER THE METROPOLITAN BUILD INGS ACT.—Covar or Rarausra.—A case of considerable importance came on in a Court of Referees, being, we be lieve, the first held under the Metropolitan Buildings Act, for a breach of the provisions of this act. The court was opened at the office of the district surveyor, Bermondsey square—Mr. Simenondt, the registrar, presiding. Referees, Mr. Shaw, Mr. Poynder, and Mr. Hooken. The informa tion was promoted by a Mr. Boulanger, a Frenchman, occu pying premises in the rear of Bermondsey New-road, and there earning on the butane.. of • japanner. A Mr. Sag den, a builder, having thought fit to form a new street in the vicinity of his premises, had built several houses, leaving but ten feet space between them and Mr. Boulanger's property ; ' whereas the act requires that no alley shall be constructed less than twenty feet wide, and no street less than fifty. Several witnesses were examined, and these facts were morn to in evidence. The defence set up was that the land was private property, although it was admitted that it had been a public way for a great number of years. The official re ferees said they knew of no private interests, and that the Metropolitan Buildings Act was never intended to serve private purposes, but the interests of the public at large. After a very protracted discussion, the proceedings were brought to a close, it being understood that the informant had fully made out his case, which will require the demoli tion of the houses or a sufficient cempentation to Mr. Bou langer. The official award, however, will be made in a few days, The court was then dissolved. IRELAND. DUBLIN, Pas. 6. The Secretary of State for the Home Department has addressed a letter to the Lord Lieutenant respect ing the measures for the temporary relief of destitute persons. A summary of this document is subjoined: After stating that the board is to be formed in Dublin, with Sir John Burgoyne at its head, Sir George Grey gory on to my that—.. In every eleetoral diviaaon of the unions in Ireland, in which it shall appear that extraordi nary measures of relief are required, a relief committee *hal be established, under instructions to be givon fur this pur pose by your excellency, who will be entrusted with a large discretion in the composition of it. The duty of these com mittees will be to ascertain, as far as possible, from time to time, the number of destitute persons within the electoral divi sion for whom relief is to be provided; with reference to this duty, instructions will be furnished to them front the central board. Funds are to be supplied : fleet, front the ratesamemed and levied within the union by the board of guardian, for the relict' of the poor. Secondly, from voluntary subscriptions, either local or received from any general fund raised by charitable eontributious.—Thirdly, fromgrante of money from the public treasury, the amount of whick will, as a general rule, bete a certain proportion to the aggregate amount de rived from the two former sources ; such proportion how ever, being varied at the discretion of the Central Board. It is intended that relief should be given only in food, to be purchased by the comrailt 9 0119 of the fun& at their die- 3 pied. Whenever it is practicable, etch food will be sold i but gratuitous distribution will be senetioeed in canes in which no Meeill of parehesing iit exist. If flour or meal U sold, it will be neemery to adhere to the rule hitherto enforced, by which such food is required not to be sold at lees then the cod price. But this rule will not he enforced in the case of soup, which is the kind of food, which will be chief?y distributed by the relief com- mittees. The mode of distribution will, in fact, be similar to that which in now in extensive operation, by means of soup kitchen, established in many ports of thecountry, from which wrap is supplied to large numbers of persons at • very moderate price. This mode of relief appears to he the most economical so well as the most efficacious which has yet been adopted. By its general application,whenever required, through the agency now about to be established, her Ma- jesty's government trust that the most effectual means within their power will be taken for relieving, on the most extensive Seale, and at the kite expense, the pressing and urgent wants of large numbers suffering I from destitution, and who are not included in the direct means of relief hitherto adopted by the govern- ment. One mein object of the proposed alteration of the , system of relief, under the present eireunetances of the country, is, to restore the ordinary relations betwecnowners and occupiers of land and the Ishourii.g class, and to remove the alleged obstacles to the employment of labour in the cul- tivation of the land. It is of the greatest importance that this object should be constantly kept in view, and that the relief to he afforded should not be an inducement to idle- 1 nem, but should, if possible, be made a stimulus to labour. Gratuitous distribution should, therefore, not be sanc- tioned in any case in which it is ascertained that the per- sons applying for relief have the opportunity of obtain- ing employment and wages sufficient to provide them- selves by their industry with the means of purchase. . Upon this, and other important matters of detail, the Central Board will have to exercise a vigilant superintend- i core, and will issue from time to time such instruction* to the relief committees as may appear to them to be required. The relief committees, with a view to the calm and deli- berate discharge of their duties, should at their dis- cretion admit those persons only from whom they may obtain information. or applicants for relief: their meetings will thus not be liable to the interruptions and disorders which have so frequently arisen from the indiecti minate admission of all persons at the presentment sessions. Such indiscriminate edmiesion, then for., should be forbidden by an order from your Excellency. The proposed plan is intended to be a aubst ilute I.A. the mode of relief provided by the to N'ic., c. 107 ; but it is impassible that the change l'iom the one system to the other can be carried into effect at once, and simultanieualy, throughout the country. The vast extent of the relief works in progress renders this change one of no ordinary difficulty ; and the men arc to be discharged gradually, and with great caution. Sir John Burgoyne will be authorised et. to select from among those at present employed in connelion • . with the relief works, a certain number of officers to be , placed at the disposal of the board, to proceed to any part of the country from which representations of urgent distress t may be received, either for the purpose of local investigation or of superintending or assisting in the measures which may be deemed essential for the relief of such decrees. i IRISII RELIEr' COMMITTEE. • SIR,—In your edition of the 28th ult., your Dublin correspondent indulges in some very free animadversions on the conduct of relief committees in Ireland generally, and is • Galway and Clare partiedarly ; and he ascribes their alleged malpractices to the corrupt tendencies of the landlords. l'cr- mit me, Sir, as • member of a Clare committee, to say a few words on t' is matter. Your correspondent cannot be ac- rinted with the constitution of relief committees, when h. I ma the landlords with all their supposed misdeeds. I will not wrong your journal by suspecting it of a share in the plot, to mini ad the public as regards this country, and to dry up the fountain whence the stream of charity had begun to flow towards us from generous England, and I trust that you will allow me an opportunity of explanation. I It is not my intention to undertake the defence of every committee in Clare. In such Ca" the true way to inform I the public is, that a writer confine himself within the limits 1 of hie own experience. To avoid all risk of error I will not go beyond my own district, which happens to be the iden- tical one where the Major Ball, quoted by you, resides. It comprises three parishes, via., Kilchreest (Major Ball's), Kildysart (mine), and Kilfidanc. Of these the second and last are large parishes. Now, air, the committee for this district, according to the usual practice, consists of magis- trates, police officers, clergy of both persuasions, and pour- law guardians. My parish, Kildysart, is represented by a county magi-trate, a police officer, five clergymen, and two I poor-law guardians. Surely the nsi , deeds of this committee cannot be chargeable on the landlords. The fact is, that with the exception of another magistrate, who seldom visits t this part of Clare, Major Ball himself is the only large 1 landed proprietor on the committee, and no one can justly accuse him of unduly extending the limits of relief. The case of his tenant, Chambers, was, es you inform the public, mentioned by Major Ball. This occurred at a meeting held at Kildysart for the purpose of going through the lists with It Captain Wynne, " the excellent inspector" of your cores- pondent. If it be true, as alleged by Major Ball's informant, that Chambers possesses a freehold property in another parish, the general committee were ignorant of the matter. This man, no doubt, redden on Major Ball's estate, but that ' gentleman ie not a regular attendant at the committee meetings, and was not present when Chambers was recommended for work in the last list mode out. No other landed proprietor from Kilehreest attended; yet the recommendation came from one or more Kilchreest member', Consequently the person chargeable with it was not a Claire 1. landlord. hone of the Kildysart members recommended him. I can acquit myself of all blame in the matter ; for I hare no knowledge either of the man, or of his means. At all events do not, in this instance, blame a Clare landlord. Had you, sir, been present at the meeting, you would not have left it under the impression that in our district the landlord chug were guilty of lavishing relief. Captain 1 . Wynne and Major Ball came together to the meeting from 1 Portfergus, the mansion of the latter gentleman, and they were evidently prepared to support each other in the work of exclud- ing the small farmers from relief. The only active opposition i they encountered was from three clergymen—one Roman Catholic, and two Protestant. The Kildysart poor-law guar- I dam did not speak, but were known to disapprove of the exclusion of the small farmers, many of whom are reduced to extreme poverty. The Kilehreeet poor-law guardian acted with the other party. The Killidane members were absent. Do not, then, blame the landlord in this case Self-interest, if not • ranee of supposed duty, is enough to deter him from taxing himself overmuch for the relief of the distressed cultivator of the soil. He will not let himself be ruined that the poor man may not part with his cow. So much for the landlrad. But why say so much of him? lie can defend himself. There is one that cannot. The poor struggling farmer wearily endeavouring to support a family on the scanty pro- claim of a few cold wet acres on the bog skirt, and the bleak mountain-aide. You will confer on me • great favour, sir, by granting me a little space at another time to state fairly e and briefly the case of the poor small farmer of a little- favoured locality. And from the explanation in my private letter, you will admit my position to be such so oug h t to free me from the trammels of prijudice or views of self interest. I am, sir, your very obedient servant, A MEMBER or • CLARE RELIEF COMMITTER. —.—.—. PROVINCIAL. • CLARA:MTS.:Rem RE. I ANOTHER ARGUMENT COS • MORGUE. —The Broolol , Mirror says :—. The revolting circumstance of a dead body having been left exposed in the public paths of our city, F. which we noticed in our last paper, has again occurred in the course of the present week. The corpse of a man that was discovered floating in our river was conveyed by some watermea to Rownham Ferry, where it wee suffered to re- main with no other covering than a little straw, procured ' at the expense of • policeman, as the o ffi cers of our public a hospital and poor-law unions refuse to receive such bodice or to have anything to do with their interment. We know not what was done in the case which occurred last week, but if the in- torment was eventually undertaken by any public officer, there can be no reason why it should not have been done in this instance slat, without permitting public feeling, es well ! as decency, to be again outraged, as on the former occasion. If there be any doubt, and which appears to be the case, as • to who are the parties legally liable to the requisite eapenses r under such circumstances, surely the law officers of the cor- poration, in whose government the city is placed, should have the point decided." Altaic. .. MR. Hu LLAree HISTORICAL CONCEZTS. Ile e , 11, second of these aoncerta (of the nature and purpose of whistle we have already given some account) took pleas Let evening I is Exeter-hall. The programme embraced an kJ:Wrestling period in the history of English music—from the restoration to the end of the seventeenth century ; and contained a selection from the works of Routes, Humphreys, Wise, , I Blow, Creyghton, and Purcell. The concert, like the Let, was divided into two parts, the one comfiest( of sacred, and . the other of secular music. The anthem► were fine speei- s mens of our old ecclesiastical school ; particularly Pureell's verse anthem, " Behold, I being you glad tidings," which, being one of those written ter the Chapel Royal after the Restoration, was accompanied by en orchestra of stringed instruments. The principal past of the secular music was ' the drat act of Purcell's opera, , • Dido and looses," which, though a juvenile production of its illustrious author (having been composed by him at the age of nineteen), is strongly marked by his powerful and original genius, Probably Mr. Hullah's plan of giving an entire art of this opera was the bestow the connection of the several :pieces was thus pre- , • served ; but some things might have been found, in the second and third ants, more beautiful and expressive than I t • any of those Which were given. As it was, ho w e v e r , th e p er - formance was exceedingly interesting. The air, " Ah, my Anna," was very finely sung by Miss Rainforth ; and the dialogue in recitative between the Queen and Anna, " Grief 1 1 increases by coact ding," was equally well delivered by that laay and Mine Dolby. The celebrated duet and dome, " Fear no danger,' was deliciously sung; and we may say in general, of the chorus singing throughout the evening, both in the sacred and secular music, that it was admirable, and not to be equalled by any other choral singing that can be heard in London. The body of voices, numerically large, is not only tires and powerful, but so die eiplined and subdued as to be capable of giving the finest 'shade* of expression and effe c t. Th e principal vocalists • besides Miss liaintorth and Miss Dolby, were Mr. Lackey, . Mr. W. Seguin, and Mr. Machin, all of whom acqnitterl themselves with great ability. The performances were much upplauded, and • number of the pieces encored. CLERICAL. NW... VC—Rev. L. B. Mambo* of %%Rem Cell a Oxon, 1 1 -A-. to Warman It, owing and ef flerseseMe ;• rob" 4111., wills ✓esulence ; pat. tha U. Ohessiisr; erne br see of she an. J. fatty. ftev. E. BA le L ea re. dinettes of Sew. loses. Pr. 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