The Express. — London, England, 1847-10-30 00:00:00

was was nasevao7 ffisolhoad. the grow= " et all ist d a= T wee IMardeh, the were 45- moralised, and the wide libels emir, sal la wean. The reaskfee each a state of hes of swis► sity been tie's and Mina; but it is for the , the government, molt en all thus who, living la liars, and exereiskg antheeltp, lam at heart the Was Moneta of Ireland, to same the mama et tbe pre, 'alb, opal laws, impartial jest'% and hthendeg sWear on the work et social vegsmeolesea, mad the pee/le et this country in the porton assy an le seem. Something to this effect weald Weimer well from the bishops ; but they a olonnia thee tale • with the penal laws, and left it to the Lord Lisatemeat to " point the moral." Towards the close of be reply his excellency makes the following appeal to targeod sense of the country, which seems to us far name asa oonable than any historical apology for its faults: If ever a nation at any time was imperatively called up= by circumstances for united exertion, it is Ireland at the pre tont moment ; hardly emerged from a calamity whisk has no parallel in the annals of history, we are about to Mier upon another crisis of appalling magnitude, which finds as unprepared, and weakened by division. If ever there was a time when *elfish feelings, sad party strife should be re. placed by Christian charity, it is now, in the presence of a great and common danger. There is no Mil upon whom some duty does not devolve, and if those eleven possessing Whence in their respective spheres will meet to gether, and recognise the absolute necessity of those duties being performed, and will to each apportion his share of the burden, the difficulties of all will be diminished to an extent which now appears impossible; and if the exhortations of religion, never in vain addressed to the Irish people, be beard in behalf of order, and self-sacrifice, and resignation, then we may humbly hope that the blessing of the Almighty will attend elf ots so made to meet the calamity which, for purposes to us inscrutable, has been permitted to fall upon this country. Advice so wise and good as this is, so plain, so practical, so parental, cannot fail, we think, to be heard above all the din and babble of the day—cannot fail to be received with gratitude, and to stimulate thousandsto a sense of their public duties. The bishops compare the rights of property with those of life, and deplore, as we all do, that the subsisting relations between landlord and tenant are unjust and oppressive, pregnant with misery and disorder. And this naturally leads to their opinions on the legal provision now established for the poor, which they describe as "a resource totally inadequate to the magnitude of the evil." They object to at first as " a provision left at the capricious discretion of those who administer it, without any compulsory enactment in the case of their neglecting each a duty," and then their lordships pro ceed to object to it in foto, and in principle, affirm ing that "no extent or stringency would make it an adequate remedy ; that any legal provision must be inadequate ; and that there is no hope for the poor of Ireland, or refuge from oppression, since the destruction of those asylums (meaning the monastic establishments), " in which were treasured, in trust for the indigent, the accumulations of piety, cheaply feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, educating the Ignorant, and affording consolation under every infirmity that affects human nature." Were this opinion of the catholic hierarchy well founded, hope less indeed would be the condition of Ireland; Lord CLARENDaN might be excused for throwing up his mission, and the patriot and philanthropist might rest from their labours. The repeal of the anion itself is feasible, compared with the restoration of the monasteries, by which measure alone, say the bishops virtually, can Ireland ever be rescued from her present state of destitution. To all this Lord CLA RENDON has replied with consummate ability; he gently rebukes their lordships' premature condemna tion of the poor-law, observing that though in some cases it may prove inadequate, "the extent to which it will fall short has yet to be ascertained." "If the guardians are reluctant to enforce rates—if thoee who are able to pay them refuse to do so— a gross derelic tion of duty is committed by both, but the non application of the law does not prove its inadequacy. I can, however, assure your hirdships that it shall not be left wholly dependent urn the capricious discretion . of those who administer it, but that a close, constant, and rigilant inspection will, as far as is possible, secure the effectual carrying out of its provisions." The vigour of this language, the spirit and firmness of this declaration, will produce the happiest effects. The ill-disposed will see that the energy of the govern ment is equal to its humanity ; the well-disposed will support it with redoubled zeal ; the poor will know that they have not only a resource in the law which they never possessed until now, but that they have a patron and protector at the head of the government, who will carry out its provisions with a strong hand, and secure them its benefits to the uttermost farthing. It must have been difficult to deal gravely with the monastic longingsof the hierarchs: but Lord CLAREN DON did not allow them to pass without the following sensible observations: It would be unbecoming on my part to contest the judg ment of your lordships respecting the abolition of those asy lums alluded to by you, nor shall I advert to the opposite conclusions to which I have myself arrived after long residence in countries where similar atabliahments existed; hot I fully admit, that with the rapid increase of popnla tion, the charitable spirit of former times may have fallen into decay, and on that account the necessity of rendering it compulsory is all the more stringent. In the following passage the Lord Lieutenant sternly discharges an unpleasant but imperious duty while he gives praise where it ie due, he follows it by an unflinching administration of rebuke where it is equally merited : " Considering . that the prospects of the winter were alarm ing, and foreseeing that scanty would exist, and the means of procuring food would be insufficient, I have endeavoured through every channel, private as well as official, to obtain accurate information as to the state of the country, end the preparations that were making to meet the crisis ; and it is my duty to state that although in many parts of Ireland the landowners and the farmers are stannowdy and with manly courage exerting themselves, and are proving that they are fully alive, not to their own intends alone, but to the wants and sufferings of those around them , yet th at their ondoct is painfully 'mistreated with that of others, where no mesh sense of obligation appears to exist; and with entire einadence I appeal to the candour of your lordships whether f landowners who have contributed little or nothing towards the support of the poor, and do not avail themselves of the facilities afforded by the legislature for improving their es , totes—whether persons in easy circumstances who resist the payment of rates—whether farmers who refused last season to cultivate their land, unmindful of the will of their - Creator that by the sweat of his brow w shall live, while ethers now, who, although well able to abed it, abs olutely WINO to give employment to a sing le man, and who, after harvest time , have turned away their asevante—whether Zse not really in distress who promote tumultuous wan. in the vain bap* of intimidating the government to - new the pabile work& which lee to so meek demoralise des—l will oak whither's* saes, who will make asither redeem mar mitten thoeselem, en la a maditics w deist that duties whisk the pmeepse of eagles end t h e Manse of society impose upon them should be prebemed ohm, or rather that the means he this 'bride Werra& by the go vernor* tom AIRIMIS ell struggles with atldisaltles, sod at a awimset whim ie Baelaad trade imiteedit are dilasWausl y low, with the ieaedlste of Modred' of deernds . brag thrown oat of and being as dssdtsts the means de:Masse as moat la Timmy. The Irish of no class or. otoostcotod to has the truth spoken in any looms, moth Is. is Wimp so bold and explicit as this. This will do mere sew' rice in Ireland than an ism of a thousand for every letter in the parograph. The spirit oil teeth will be a powerful ally o! the spirits of justice and mercy. An administration thus vigorously grappling with the vices and follies of all the orders of - society is a new, and will be a memorable, era in Irish history. The measure of relief just afforded by our govern ment to the commerce of the country, formed, of muse, the chief topic of discussion in all circles in Paris on Thursday. The improvement of our funds consequent on the measure produced a corresponding effect on the Bourse. M. Dufaure ban displeased the opposition press, by refusing to preside at a reform banquet. The honour , able deputy receives the compliments of the minis- I terial journals. The household of the Queen Dowager of S pa in in Paris and at Malmaison is broken up, and the chil dren of the Duke of Rianzares, with the entire smite, have left for Madrid. Advice. from Algiers were received in Paris. The following account of Abd-el-Kader is taken from the 5 Echo d'Oran of the 16th inst.; : The attention which continue' to be bestowed on aD ; that concerns the existence of the Emir induces ns to give some new details so to his situation. The deira is still at Kasbat-Zelouln, a little town of the Guelaiii, situated nine leagues south-east of Melilla, and two and a half leagues from the sea, from which it is separated by large salt-ponds. It was in this position, whilst the Emir went with regular troops to meet the Beni Amer and the Haehem, that the people of the neighbourhood committed hostilities against the tents which remained without defenders. Abd el-Kader, crushed though he was, immediately felt that his maintenance in the country which served him as an asylum . depended on the prompt chastisement of those who had just • attacked him. It was thus that an encounter was brought about in which the Kabyles of Ouelaia, drawn into the plain by a pretended retreat, left on the s pot 600 of their men. The fires of thirty-six regulars paid for this sworn Lame. diateay after, the Outdid& had to pay an enormous fine. All the country trembled, and under the impression of the —.saint which be had just gained, the Emir, it is said, • • prima limit et inesliweble Aware of wee. We will net repeat all tha beetalM by whisk he astkevown t raise the delinge et hie Moven. He ae . ye that he k alma Is arreli whit the Ds, _that tM ma is wsi babes itiee, but Me are kkabaris leldsh Ids le tey abOW te seem the Demi Awe sail the Hach= palish IOW; diehrsTst's Momper quoting a laths from Tod= c"be wilt& 15rd'le aretelles Ameediegthere mw to believe e h ems" tie * illielleweassess sesediras I. h to be divided as Adhere es Ow sleet of Iy : The Besse, JOIN mg the steassiltple Panama, tal a, at Guess • the the Friellead, mid* bless the Om sf Reer-Adiniral Irsditseast, the Bosom* sad gyp . at Senate ; airl the Implies, at Parts Ilege.s. The Damn« and liweist steam-fricates ass ea stestwaths--ane in the A&le the ober is the Bay enterise. View Admiral the Prime de Selma, l 5 k atal said, Seas to Chita Yowl& to the ?Bea steamer. We have advice. from Berne to the 24th. On that day the Diet held a secret sitting, at which it was un derstood that a vote was paned to organise imme diately on a war footing an army of 50,000 men. The commiesiouers sent to the cantons of the league had all returned, having received the same answer as that which we have already reported in the case of Lucerne. An immediate expedition to Friburg was spoken of, in which the federal troops would be warmly supported by the protestant population of Morat, who are now objects of persecution on the: part of the cantonal government of Friburg. The report of the resignation of Oen. Dufour, commander in-chief of the federal troops, which was given by the Animal des D.Fbate on Wednesday, is retracted and contradicted by that journal on Thursday ; but it gives a similar report of M. Am-Rhyn, the chancellor of the federal government The Diet was to have Lad a public session on Monday, at which the presi ' dent was to present the report of the commissioners deputed to the cantons of the Sonderbund. It was also expected that a loan of 180,0001. would be pro posed to cover the expenses of the war. The following is the apology sent to Mr. Peel by the president of the diet: The president and council of state of the Federal Directory have hastened to bring to the knowledge of the government of Berns the complaint which Mr. Peel, the chargé d'affaires of her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain, addressed to them on the 21st of this month, on the subject of the de plorable event which occurred to him on the preceding night, and to invite that government to give it explanations on this subject. The government of the canton of Berne immediately ordered an investigation to be instituted, from which it re sults that the sentinel on duty at the gate of Mont, after midnight of the 20th, when he saw a person approaching, cried three times in the German language, " Who goes there ?" prescribed by the military regulations, and ar rested the unknown person who desired to pass. The post having taken arms caused the person, whom it pretends not to have known, to enter the guard-house. But u soon the guard perceived from the card, which the unknown per .= presented, that it might have to deal with a person highly plaoed, it caused the gendarme attached to the poet to be all and this individual recognised the chargé d'affaires of Great Britain. From that moment Mr. Peel was no longer prevented from returning to his hotel. The govern ment of the canton of Berne in transmitting this information to the Federal Directory expresses its liveliest and most sin cere regret on the subject of this deplorable incident, and the Federal Directory on Its part makes it its duty to repeat these same sentiments to the chargé d'affaires of Great Bri tain, in expressing how much it is pained at the disagreeable position in which Mr. Peel was placed. The president and council of state of the Federal Directory have the honour to renew to the chargé d'affaires of her Britannic Majesty the assurance of their moat distinguished consideration. (Signed) Gehaenbein, President. A letter in the National, from Berne, dated the evening of the 24th, gives the following account of the circumstances which led to the sudden meeting of the diet on that day : This morning the president of the diet received from the governments of Zurich and Saint Gall an official notice that in the latter canton the partisans of the Sonderbund sought to bring about a rising, and that they had induced a certain number of the militia to disobey their chiefs ; whilst on the other hand, the rebel troops of Schwit: had approached the frontier of St. Gall, in order to make au irruption there, to join the mutineers and march on St. Gall, with a view to overthrow the liberal government, and substitute for it the ' ultra montane regime. Zurich, warned in time, had marched I troops in order to support its confederate, St. Gall, and then sent notice to the diet of the gravity . of the state of affairs, and demanding that the most efficacious measures should be adopted. St. Gall has made the tame demand. At the same time other official communications were received at Berne, pointing out other hostile seta on the part of the Leagee. In consequence of these facts, the president immediately con voked the assembly for one o'clock at noon. The diet voted an immediate levy of 00,000 of the federal troops. This levy will be succeeded by another equally strong, should circum stances render it necessary. The Alba, of Florence, announces that military tioas were in progress in Modena. Brescello EaMelt put in a state of complete defence. Three pieces of cannon had been sent to Reggio, and it was said that quarters were being prepared there for a numerous corps of Austrians which was expected to arrive. The Putrid, another Florentine journal, of the 20th, says that Pius IX., intending to pass some days at Sabiaco, on the frontiers of the Abruzzi, has invited the King of Naples to meet him at this abbey to hold an interview with him. The King is in hesitation whether to accede to the invitation or no. The same journal publishes an article relative to the affairs of the Two Siciliee, containing a meet hor rible picture of the atrocities committed in the Cala bria' by the police and military force. It was at Reggio *specially, after the bombardment, that the most dreadful barbarities took place. The custom house Miners who had at first joined the insurrection, and who had to obliterate this fault, showed themselves most cruel and dastardly. The gendarmes had to be messed for having been disarmed without a blow, by the people, at the first explosion. And they dealt their blows without aerel, c ri ne glt i or wrong, upon wan m a e ll:tosLw o bi , fell in their ija c y.4; they e their hairs and cers Tearcle hair by hair. And what wee thus done, in broad day, in the face of all, is nothing, it is said, when compared with the deeds which mimed in the dark, and in the silence of the prisons. Then, to extort °sone dons, they have had 11100e7111 to tortures which the inquisition itself would disavow. The minister of the polies, del Caretto, bad sent Cioffi to Reggio, at once the most dreaded and the most ignoble of his creatures, and the wretch appears to have thought himself obliged to be equal to his odious fame. It was only on the arrival of the Procarear-Enneral of criminal justice at Libetta that a stop was put to these bloody scenes, and that the victims began to breathe. It is said the authorities of Messina have opened a letter of the English consul, The latter immediately informed Admiral Pother, commender of the squadron, now off Malta, of the fact. The Pallas, a Roman journal, of the 16th, reports a NAM of brutal violence., alleged to be committed by the stunisit soldiery in Ferrara against the popula tion et that city. The following events are stated to have taken place on the 14th : tlesseekr two hours since, says our correepondent, the Austrians en duty committed grave misdemeanors, sad we simeld certainly have had to deplore the monad miller tam bad not Cardirl Cheehl hastened to exert his autho rity. • mason of the am* of Gierrawe Weesnoli ear i = liefitS, at abseil See steps Orem the Austrian hisaer, whoa the latter dealt him a very shiest =a the at his peek with the betieed bad I ant Sr der imlnetbresos eta jabot (D. Sal=raerlaborsee s = buss I • a by •she • crowd immediately milestesleelles aila =ont tostitying trawaver the WA Motile inteetien, the Priest, addreehrif theessemishaeolker,bompl blot Mare to ginner* Minims orlon to his met. Tho t enser in reply, lambed tho Oast ve German, sad brandished his sword at Ida. At Pho some Want ow Minp.ii, a ;repenter, wb wee owning from his workshop, mopped lobe the pees, non impaind what was the MUM lens Meade Weeps mai lin to relate what had takes pm, when the maw, bed ea the leallensivo rasp. tortanntely without lelorlos anieseelbr en wig Oho ad et dring,thop had ell Sid in diforent dieestiens. The aim ea net sa ddled with this. said set his soldiers, nail 111.411. M them to chow the people with their bayaeste. The aellortunate =liwoe tales end conducted to the guerd.hisses, the bolabsorin with the flat of their saber. There the poor iima bosom the object of the wanton eruelty of the ; they straek him with their swords and fists, mat in Ids eel hung him up to a hook by e nail. The semems et the of edemas wretch wore terrible; but hh persenners soadened their barbarous treatment. Daring this, the soldiers hod Sneed themselves . in a square, end minded their arms. Cardinal Cumin, informed of thee deeds, sent kr Itingardi, on his own responsibility, and bed him and the hospital of St. Anne. He was in the INA dreeltal Mate ; hie heel wee revered with cuts, his body with tenthos, and his wombats was extreme on account I of the blood he had bat. Several persons were injured in the affray ; a Swiss sheer en leave of absence, Lieutenant Ghersviller, received a at in his left arm, a lady was trodden under foot, and several preens very ill.treated by the soh diem. The °Moen, apprehending what will never be dose by the population of Ferrara without the consent of their sovereign caused themselves to be escorted by patrols to their lodgings. The posts are doubled ; nobody goes out of 1 doers. t. The Roman correspondent of the Semaphore affirms that the number of wounded was considerably greater than is above estimated. Fears were entertained that it would be impassible to maintain order in the town. We learn from Brussels that considerable dissension prevails amongst the members of the Belgian cabinet, and that threats of resignation have bees held out by some of them. It is generally believed that the head of the cabinet (M. Rower) has gone a step further than some of his colleagues think prudent respecting THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVE N ING, OCTOBER 104 7• She dismission, car recommended diarnimiam. some public fityldloclrks• ' • • ' . • FRANCE.—Parris, OCT. 2A.— ! li fl, AND Ex tant 7 r04.1004--aThrrel~ If y „ wpm . tin table of the merehandhlf fraftrOud and:averted daring 'the first nine mouths of 1847, 1846, ead 1845, ea well as the movement of navigation during the some period of 1847 and 1846. The following are the principal - mob - in importe: tiam(specialoommenos) may be remsWeekikelgi7. compared with 1846, en augmentation 0f4,588,000 ftiatt quintals (the metrical quintaUs 4,22141b5. English) la s o min s iutl,4so-1111, ► metrical quitah fOr coals (01. n) ; 127 for east Ina (Bildiant; 71,000 for colonial angst ; 76, Oar oleaginous grain ; a 2,000 for sine, of first fueiou The diminution amounts to 192,000 metrical quiatels tar setion (Americus) ; 24,000 for raw wool ; 25,000 lir Hasa threads and tissues ; 22,009 for foreign ewer, ha Is exportation there is an augmentation of 267,000 bee. Whew In potable liquors; 129,000 metrical quintals in salt; 36,000 metrical quintals in refined sugar ; 224,0001. in eteans.engines and locomotives; 183,000 metrical quintab in corn • 25,000 metrical quintal on dye-stufb, etc. The other'! articles, whether for importation or exportation, remain sta tionary. The navigation during the first nine moetha of 1847, employed in arrivals 16,282 vessels, and 2,098,000 teas; in departures, 10,630 vessels, and 1,175,1)00 tons; or 1e the two movements, 2,972 vessels, and 328,000 tons same thou for the corresponding period of 1846. The French flag has lost 193 vessels, but has gained 48,000 tons. The part of the foreign fisg has increasd by 2,169 vessels, and 179,000 tope ; its progress is in particular perceptible in the arrivals. The general increase of tonnage in 1847 iv due in great part to the extraordinary transports of corn, and has been princi pally favourable, as appears from the above figures, to the foreign flag. ACCIDENT.—The Afoniteur Pariaien of Wednesday evening has the following The poet-boat destined to act as a botarde,au or breakwater between the present floating dock at Cherbourg, was, in the evening of the 25th, put on one of the slips of the building yard of Chantereine fur MIN necessary repairs. Under this circumstance it was impos sible for vessels to go out of the dock at high tide without great risk, and therefore it was resolved that the post boat should be again launched when the tide fell. In performing this operation the fistenings of the heavers by which she was held gave way, and the hawsers and chain were broken, and the boat came down the inclined plane with such velocity that the shorn, by which it was supported, were scattered with great force in all directions, and killed seven men em ployed in the yard, and wounded 23 others, more or less severely. The latter were carried to the hospital, end have every ere taken of them that their cases require, and the Minister of the Merino has given orders for relief to be afforded to their families." MADLLE. DE Luzzv.—Madlle. de Lazzy is still confined at the Conciergerie. At twelve o'clock on the 27th she was seen walking in the court-yard, and reading a volume which appeared to be the " Histoire des Girondins " of M. de Laniartine. She was attired in black. HOLLAND. Tun STATES-GENSIttL. Tim HAMM, Ocr. 27.—This afternoon, the Second Chamber voted by a majority of 48 to 2 the entire project of address in reply to the King's speech. It will be sent up to the First Chamber. • . te d.Sistes-* interests pt this rest Op MO* ' l2, a ill devoted to the limn. My /mu mayor and gmmet, Istrall remember this ;day to midslog how.— 11.) It wee Use resolved that tke speak of tla• 011amberkin and the ogelt of Mr. greoke be 'Meriden the,jourials oaths court. 111 i; Brooks Omsk the hand of hiloweb* with she members of the court. and retired smith/tweet applause. THZ PICTEMB OV TN* KINIV•4O7 THZ Fat:Stew—The T ow nnjolksweis=troar, addressed to the Lord to =she g al= 7" raVe l at i lfi glet e.esr test,. comumbeelegle Mrsemmalso et *We sited to Menai it the Chet 1 Ommose Osumi I lamina so this Is arrwordlag the ' emus tette So subsek• I Met aware; It will sand sings Weft liceew to be, my Lad Mayor, year hub Omaha esevoil. V. Nun. the Lord Mayor. letter was misled to lee entered as the journals. Tae LONDON AlaMmOtrime.—Deputy Allan brought up the report of the Caen, Coal. and Finance Committee, ups the reference "to AIM • rmeggoo i • on with the trustees and managers of the Leaden , for the Mush, of the property, and the satire management and control of the in stitution to the corporatism of London, to be enegnegtt the inmates to be appointed by the Court of Commis eff in such manner as tbey may think proper." —The report, to which considerable immolator is attached, says : We referred theism° to a meld emraittee, who have retorted to us that they Mee proceeded datele, ead eneeted a seventies smontly le the Mem Omer odd regent end*Ma awed amt. kg *Mho sehmelasee te the eimiselea, hid Y.Yamib will to. tees ey the lealtellem It hes he. tint the sten aid so et Me ilmasesse ISM he asoveyed to the e tb tees nand laser men: sod, Is pmeneem:4=l:: that dust, the emmilMe et menemmeet have We day test en New deesdre Obi Owlets is germ *emerge le the orpesullia at lambs, er Mesa perms or wises es they may sopelet to mann the esammisee. and the eyeaM simmlftes be smemmeMen thet, mss • Darr mom* eraseall. bikes amested by the tr weehosid be eetleelled loam spes thedember br mohair t i the sawn et Os crease dim set Me emes—amady, sheet mot besared ameds, stile they hem gest=s=e reset In tail welassneo NM Masse And we beg farther t me* Met. the treeless sell sil ties having any legal or seellehleniereet the prognety, have, in cons ad with the resammeeildas at the lenmeherlt, 'Controller, sada Midler. agreed es emery the property le the corporation beteg damped MIL my seedlaisak the media onnoinee is it te hethetriny to seessemend thin en km seen desell. IN assenienes erhi 1b mosumennetles Not Meer Mem mem% approved by Ude sem% met le Me =Was seek mama air semis as the evert weg Wok peeeerj a ==ts, suumliten egret with the medal comailltee fa tear After some conversation ' in which it wee suggested, end apparently with effect, that the word " allowances ' should be substituted for t. endowments," the report was agreed to and ordered to be printed. °Azar CITY IMYROTEMINTB.—Deputy Allan brought in -• • • a bill for raising moneys for the purpi;see of improvements within the City, under the London (City) Improvement Act of 1847. The bill is founded upon the report from the im provement committee, sad reposes to raise 300,0001. for fin. provernenta from Cannemeeetet to St. Paul's, sod 200,0001. for improvements not yd determined upon. The bill was read a first time, and °mimed to be read a second time.—Mr. R. L. Jones brought up anapest from the improvement com mittee recommending thmteetribution ofsool.towardsthe pro posed improvement in Weed-et. A communication was at the same time presented frau the commissioners of seism agree ing to vote 5001. in aid of ft sane object.—lt was agreed to that the COMMiIIIiGIIBIII Of soma should be empowered to refer the matter to ajar', if/omm Morley refused the offer of compensation made by the sett The court then adjourned. MEETING OF THE ANTI-GOLD LAW LEAGUE. The fifth public meeting of this newly formed league was heldlut evening at the London Tavern, Bishops gate-street, in order to give the inhabitants of the City the opportunity of hearing an expositioa of the principles of this body. Mr. F. Bennoch, the chairman of the former meet ings, presided ; and there was a tolerably large attendance. The CHAIUMAN opened the proceedings by remarking that the late Mr. Rothschild had said that England, with an ample currency, might become the manufacturing country of the world, but that, with a restricted currency, her manufactures must necessarily go toother countries. It was astonishing that the government had not taken heed of this warning. Owing to our restrictions of the currency. rival manufactories had now sprung up all over the continent ; even in the wilds of Sweden we had our opponents. By the act of the lyislature of 1819, resolving everything into gold, it was rendered im possible to carry out the vast transactions of this empire, for which the medium of gold was not sufficient for one-fiftieth part. (Hear.) The act of 1819 hod the effect of adding one-third to the national debt and to all annuities ; thus robbing the public debtor to that extent. The burden was still further aggravated by the repeal of the taxes on property, on the mistaken ground that these were war taxes. (Hear.) The bill of 1844 caused • still further contraction; and the consequence was that in times of com mercial dist ress the price of money rose to an enormous extent; then a tide of gold set in ; parties were glad to get i rid of tat 21 or 3 per cent. ; and all kinds of wild specula tions were generated—men of straw being set up es compe titors to the regular merchant. Then came a crash, and all the imaginary profit was sacrificed in a few months : the progress was gradual; the sacrifice immediate. (Hear.) It was said our currency was expansive, but if so, it expanded when it ought to contract, and contracted when it ought to expand—thus, in one sense, carrying slut the scriptural maxim, that he who has much shall have more given him , and from him who has little all shall betaken. (Hear, hear.) It was said that our currency had been rendered sell-adjust- ing ; but this assertion had been falsified, as well as every other on the same subject. Within the last two years, the public stocks had fallen from 15 to 20 per cent. ; tea, from 40 to 70 ; sugar, from 30 to 40 ; coffee, from 30 to 60 ; cern, 30 ; cotton, from 25 to 30; and houses, 20 per cent. ; and manufactured goods of all kinds were all but unsaleable. The loos to the country during the last twelve months was nearly equal to the whole of the national debt. (Hoar, hear.) This might go on for a year or two, and then we should have a glut of gold ; an illegitimate and exotic trade would be introduced ; to be followed by ruin; and we should be thrown again in the dust. (Hear.) The foundation of our monetary system was decidedly unjust; and as long as that system continued would these consequences follow. The League therefore declared unconditional war against the bills of 1819 and 44. and demanded their total repeal. They proposed to go on educating the public mind, till the strength of numbers demanded a change. They must have no tinkering or plastering; or, if any plaster were used, it must be a paper plaster. Many had pleasure in hearing the ring of a sovereign, and, having one in their hands, thought themselves safe for one week at least—(hear) : but gold was nothing to man; he could not eat it ; and a currency based 'on solid credit was far preferable. Many asked, " What ! would you have a currency without gold 1" Yes, without gold, as regarded our domestic transactions ; but with it, it a medium of exchange for foreign transactions, to be bought and sold, like any other article, at its market value. (Hear.) A paper cirealation might be ren. dared ample, and far more safe than one based on gold. It was not necessary to go far to see that paper might be made safe. In Scotland paper had cleared the wilds, ren dered the Clyde navigable, reared manufactories, and given an impetus to all trades. Paper had fought our battles up to 1817, and finally conquered near Brussels. (Hear.) In 1825 a paper circulation of 1,600,0001. saved the Bank of England from ruin. In 1847 it had saved many from going into the Gazette, and had averted a civil revolution which might have laid in the dust the greatness of this country. (Hear, hear.) And, under proper regulations, nothing more was necessary to ensure the continued and progressive welfare of this nation. But a paper currency was denounced as inconvertible. The truth was, the present currency was so, because it professed to be convertible into gold, wlile that metal was not equal to one fifth the circulation. Those were the " inooneertibles" who professed to give us a gold currency, and did not give one-fourth enough. Bat it was pleasant to believe that we were on the eve of a change. (Hear.) At their last meeting the list of unfortunate traders was being swelled to an enormous extent ; merchants were declaring themselves unable to meet their engage ments; links had begun to fail, some eripportedb, richest proprietaries, and others tottered on the bank of ruin. Then ministers became alarmed ; the " hopeful" Wood began to think there was something in it, and Lord J. Russell the same. Peel was called,•probably by the elec tric telegraph, to the rescue • this Mephistopheles, with his wooden Faust, came to the celebrated nocturnal meeting in Downing-street; and then, malgri the feelings of a parent strangling hie line, it was decided that the bill should be strangled, at least;for a time. (Hear) Still, it was mid Lord Grey and Lord Palmerston had stood out for the inte grity at the bill ; Lord J. Russell and Sir C. Wood had de limit' themelvee net yy pared to carry on the government salmi fi wee • and after a period of most anxious semmemee, the eenesseileimmat was made from the bank, and M gnaw up desk left with delight at the boon. In his apish. there lad sever bees a clumsier concession. Minis tees had made a kind of awkward apology for their former resistance. Then they fixed the terms—eight per cent. Never before had a government fixed a minimum of inte rest; a the other hand, they had often interfered to pre vent the leeches of the commercial system from pillaging the people by usury; but never before had a minimum rate of discount been fixed by authority, to be legalised by a bill of indemnity. There was nothing to prevent the rate of discount rising to twenty per cent. Consols had rushed up with • fearful velocity to 84 ; but this was a mistaken movement, as the subsequent result bad proved. Then there was a proviso that the people should have a share of this extra profit. He should like to know when the public would get the extra three per cent. Pro bably when the eight or ten millions advanced to Ireland were repaid, which might be at the day of judgment, but not before. (Hear.) This proviso was most unjust to the Bank ; it threw on them all the odium of the measure, while the Chancellor of the Exchequer sought to secure all the 'dean. tags. (Her, • hear.) Not only was the league bound to oppose the kW of 1814, bat afro that of 1819. It was said the latter bill had placed the currency on a sound basis. If so, how had it happened that it had fallen beneath the very fi rs t trial ? (Hear.) Let them take care that there was uo resuscitation of this bill—no galvaniaing of its e (Laughter.) Let the new parliament, soon to ameZt i ll, take care to be right on this question ; for on their just legis lation entirely depended the welfare of their constituents. Let them support a fair, nano:tutting currency based on the credit of the state ; then would England go on prospering and to prosper, and become the manufacturing country of the world. (Cheer.) Mr. J. DUJICAN said the fundamental principle of the league repudiated the idea that money was intrinsically valuable. Money was the sign, not the thing sig.' nified ; a token or symbol of the produce of la bour, which was the source of all wealth. In that sense gold was a very fitting representative of money, because it condensed labour; but iron, timber, or adios, or any other substance, was just as fit a representative of money. Money had two uses—to pay tales, and to carry on industrial exchanges; and a perfectly valueless instrument was quite sufficient to do this amongst ourselves. But to deal with foreigners it was it- elms—then gold was repdred. Conlin*, his remarks, therefore, to the sort of sway weer lazy for our dotnestie operations . , be would murk diet in a good tad paternal government the subject aught net to be Compelled to pay taxes Ia any way that was burdensome to himself. And if the object could be obtained by the means of iron, timber, or other material, payment ought see to be reqcired in a foreign metal, not a 'relive of this teregigh and which could not be retained here, even by the mews itself. It was therefore umbra fa the crown to require the subjects to Ito that milk& it *earl not do itself. (Hear.) Anciently, all taxes WWI paid la Wed, sometimes even is labour per formed, as by thombing the corn of the sovereign. Ia pro ems edam Maimed* ef receiving taxes, from the heareating beseini beerueeniest hence the baguettes of rer i b li rgener' telly et weed, whack continued in me down to Iffild, Ned a board of milli bed set fire to the late House of Cominens. (Hear.) Mr. fees Taylor, in his " Essay on Morley," gave a minute description of these tallies, and the purposes they had served during six centuries. During that period this empire had attained its greatness, founded its colonies, and reared its political constitution, such as it was. Durin d the same period, Spain, the great mint into which the of the Mexican mines was enured, sank; while England rose with her wooden tallies. (Hear.) Gold equipped the armada under Philip—our timber money destroyed it. (Cheers.) The guarantees dell the liberties we had had been obtained while this money was in use • and we might safely conclude that the greatness of thi n em would not be affected if all the gold and silver in the universe were buried in the ocean. (Cheers.) Did the bul- Batista imagine that the fields would not be ploughed with out a plough of gold, or that railways must have golden rails ? Even the greatest of their opponents, the Times, with its privileged inconsistency, had on Monday last conceded the whole question, by admitting that gold had not a natural and spontaneous existence in this country, and that we ought not to have an exotic currency, the contrivance of the state, forced upon us. (Cheers.) This was precisely the description of the currency. Pity it was, that an influential journal should be tolerated in such inconsistencies; but it was for the public to correct and put down, as they best knew how, inconsistencies so gross and insulting to its readers. (Cheers.) One objection to this movement was that it would be fraudulent to pay the public creditor with a paper pound. Had he thought so, he never would have joined the league. The capital or the country was estimated at 5,000 millions, and, taking the national debt, for the sake of round num bers, at 1,000 millions, 4,000 millions were left. This ought to be paid by some one—they said, by the propertied classes. (Hear.) If the propertied classes would come forward and pay this, there was an end of the matter ; if net, they ought to be made to pay the haterest, which was paid at present by the labouring classes through the customs and excise. One of two things ought to be done. Either let the interest of the debt be wholly paid by a tax on property, or let it be paid in a paper depreciated by such an amount as to express the indebtedness of the propertied clue. Taking this de predation at ten per cent. assuming the paper pound to be worth 18s., this was no injustice, but merely a removal of the burden from the shoulders of the weak to those of the strong. (Cheen.) If all taxes were levied on property, every article would sell for its real value; but if, in addition, taxes were imposed on production in its different stages, the result must be, an augmentation of the price of the article. In such a state of things the untaxed foreigner would na turally be ab'e to undersell the domestic producer; and hence, free trade without a free trade in gold, was an injury. But let our domestic intercourse be conducted by a paper currency, and we could not possibly be injured by foreign competition. (Heir.) The Times on Monday had said, " The pressure is already relieved, and would be further relieved by a suspension of railway works and a general contraction of mercantile engagements." (Hear.) Pretty relief truly! to increase the capital of the country by throwing thousands of labourers on the poor rates, and compelling/ merchants to sell their goods at a ruinous loss. (Hear.) Another objection to the principles of the League was founded on the assumption that the gold pound was of a certain invariable weight. Thu was false; originally the pound was 12 ounces, as its name implied, but it had undereone no lour than 22 successive reductions. Why then should Sir R. Peel compel the adoption now of a pound of the same weight as the pound of 1797 ? (Hear.) The system thus established was eminently injurious to the poor man, for the wages of labourers had fallen in consequence of the bill of 1819. The wages of the West India Dock labourers had fallen from 20s. to 151. and the wages of labour in the manufacturing districto had suffered a still greater diminu tion. This was a necessary consequence of the bill of 1819, than which, with the bill of 1814, nothing more destructive to the interests of the labourer could have been con ceived. Gold was the only article in the country untaxed; when it rose, the price of every other commodity, the price of labour included, suffered • reduction. There were periods when the price of gold tell below that of other articles ; then periods of prosperity and enterprise ensued ; the foreigner came in, and finding gold untaxed took it away, leaving taxed articles in the ware houses. (Hear.) Then the Sank put on what was vulgarly celled the screw, refusing to discount good paper, in order to reduce the price of taxed commodities below that of gold. This effected, the foreigner brought back the gold ; but who paid the cost ? The working man,—witne s the stoppage of mills in Lancashire, of iron-works in Wales, and of railway operations all over the country, as recommended by the Times (Hear.) Yet, the gold was to be brought back, by the infliction of famine, typhus fever, and death, on the masses of the people ; then the public charity stepped in to provide for them. The system in effect said to the working mu,—" Yon bare been an industrious man, and a good workman ; but the gold has gone ; you must be discharged; and if you attempt to solicit relief an officer of justice will lay hold of you ; your comfortable home. must be broken ate, and you must find shelter in a union workhouse. This is very had ; but you may thank Sir R. Peel and the bullionists for this." (Cheers.) It had been justly observed by the chairman that government had never before fixed ' a minimum of interest. Queen Elisabeth had fixed the maximum at 10 per cent., and subsequent reduc tions had been attended, as Sir Josiah Child had well re marked, by a tenfold increase in the number of wealthy merchant'. The proposal of the Chancellor of the Ex chequer, to share the exorbitant interest of 8 per cent, now proposed, was an indirect tax on the working man, on whom it would be thrown by the merchants and tradesmen. Under such a state of things salaries would be reduced, and what chance would the clerks of London now have of rising, as the Lloyds and the Peels, the authors of the bill of 1844, had done ? (Cheers.) Let etch, then, use his influence to spread the principles of this society; and though they might not be at once successful, they already had encouragement in seeing what ministers had recently done to hope to obtain the abrogation of this bill of 1841. Its present suspension was a prelude to the turning round of Sir R. Peel, for after Lord J. Russell had removed the buttress from his bill of 1819, he would no longer be answerable fee: its effect. This was, no doubt, what was passing now in Peel's mind; but whatever might be done by him, by Lord J. Russell, or Lord 0. Bentiock, this League cared nothing; they were only seeking to promote the good of the nation at large. Pdr.C4P73, in applying himself to the effect of our mone tary system upon our foreign trade, animadverted upon the utter confusion which prevailed is the statements annually furnished by the government to the country of the condition of our imports and exports—a confusion which rendered it impossible, without close study and exact investigation, to arrive at the real facts of the case. The mystification created, in reference to some classes of articles, by the dis tinction between official and declared values, was alone mill cient to confuse all but the more initiated ; and the more so that the official value was calculated upon a now wholly antiquated scale of prime, whereas the declared value was that which, from year to year, the foreign exporter calcu lated to realise for his goods. More than 20 years ago Mr. Irving distinctly expressed his conviction that our scale of official values ought to be raised 30 per cent. Mr. Capps then dwelt ulare utter disadvantage in which the English trader was , in reference to the foreign exporter, by our imposing a led value upon gold. The foreigner came here and in the first place got more for his goods by 30 per cent. than he could obtain for them on the continent. Next, on look ing round for the best investment of bin realised price, he found that he could get gold here at par perhaps 20 to 30 per cent. lees than he could purchase iton the continent ; and, as • matter of course, be took gold with him instead of goods. To get back our gold we had then to sell him our goods, at a reduction equivalent to the price of our untaxed gold, and so it went ea, to our yearly enormous loss. To show the dif ference between the results of our foreign trade, before and after the ebeasse in ear system, he would read to the meeting a table he had prepseml Orem Mr. Porter's " Progress of the Nation," which woulketthe same time, illustrate the utter discrepancy between _ and declared value. la 1800, the official value of out exports was, in round numbers, 22 millions, the declared value being 36,showing a difference of 14 millions. The following years can thus : Official mine Deans/ Difference. 1801 45 11413 imi --- es as . 14 37 ...... 13 IOW 1807 1800 Mee 1810 11111 - - 1812 ...... 28 1814 1810 ..... 41 1818 1817 1818 1810 In the years preceding Peel's Bill, and pending the appre hension of that measure, the difference between the official and declared value had thus been growing less and less. In the years after, the difference wee altogether unfansurable, so that in the past year the difference between the o ffi cial value of our exports and the declared was not less than 63 millions, being in the 'proportion of 100 millions to 47, a seal of things veiled, however, by the systematic mystifica tion of our Custom-house returns. As to the interest on money advaneed, taking the seals at the Bank, nothing could be more fluctuating than it had been under the present sys tem. Take the past 10 years. In 1836 it was 3 per cent., in 1837, 41; in 1838, 21; 14 1839, 31; in 1840, 6; in 1841, 6; in 1842, 4 ; in 1843, 21 • in 1844, 3 ; in 1845, 61; in 1846, bl ;at which rate it hi d remained till the present usurer government just now fixed it at 8. Mr. TAYLOR having replied to more quotient', the meet ing separated. RAILWAY ACCIDENTS.—On Thursday afternoon, es a goods train on the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln. shire Railway was pausing through the tunnel at Woodhead, it got off the line, and so broke up the rails, of which there is but one pair, that the whole of the night, and up to eleven o'clock yesterday, was spent in getting the tunnel clear for the Uarne to proceed. No damage wu dose beyond that.—Yesterday • platelayer on the Manchester and Liver pool line, named Jonah Woods, wee killed by • train, through remaining t,o long at his work on the line. SUICIDE OF A WEST INDIA MERCHANT.... INQUEST. Last evening Mr. W. Payne held an inquest at the Fountain Hotel, Whiteeross-street, to inquire into the er ,. enmstances attending the death of Mr. John Henry B o yf o ry . aged 70 years, lately residing at 3S, Upp er liarleyome&—' and carrying on business es a West I adia merchant is Bil: later-court, City. John Richardson, assistant chemist, said about half. eleven o'clock on Thursday morning th e deceased cm:seines Mr. Battley's shop, and inquired how Mr. Battle; was, sad whether he was at home. Withers replied that he was it the counting-house. The deceased said, " Oh, never wad-. pray don't distarb him. I have known Mr. Batl ey tun years ; my name is Dr. Rsndell." He th en said Ito wanted an ounce of hydrocyanic acid of Scheek's strength , remarking that before witness gave it him he should wish t o see the bottle, as the strenZh and qualities of the acid varied so much. Witness feelinglionfident that the deceased was medical man, reached down the bottle containing th e oe i ct. The deceased asked witness to allow him to smell it. Wit., ness took out the stopper and remarked that the deceased would find the acid quite strong enough. At this moment the deceeled knocked the stopper out of witness's hand, and, seizing the neck of the bottle, said he knew well math what hydrocyanic acid was. Witness struggled hard to get the bottle back ; en observing which the deceased gav e its sudden jerk, and in so doing scattered the acid about his tea and over witness's ann and clothes. The deceased thee left go of the bottle, and witness said, "My go sir, you have done for yourself." The deceased le. plied hurriedly, " I wanted! I wanted !" and lss toned out of the shop. Witness gave an alarm, soil various parties were instantly dispatched in different direr dons to seek the deceased. In a few moments Mr. Bettleye porter returned, having discovered deceased in a belt a i i shop within a few paces distance. Witni es immediately went there, taking with him some solution of anima* which he administered to the deceased, under the dilutes of a medical gentleman. Witness could not ay that the de ceased ha i not swallowed some few drops of the arid, bat he believed that the sprinkling aver his face and inhalation of the vapour by the deceased would alone have been sufßeimt to cause death. The deceased was perfectly collected in be manner while talking to witness in the first instance. Mr. Edward Joliffe proved having accompanied the lea witness to superintend the administration of the aim:lona The deceased lived for 10 minutes or a quieter of an hoer, and from that circumstance witness was of opinion that , little, if soy acid had been taken internally. It there Dui been deceased could not have lived so long. Elizabeth Barrett, shopwoman to Mrs liendenon, balm , of Red-cross street, deposed to the tact of deceased ham ! rushed into her mistress's shop. On doing so, he Mime. diately seized a chair, and sat down. Several :artin hot Mr. Battley's came shortly afterwards. Mr. Southwood, Fore erect, to whose surgery the deemed was removed from Mrs. Hendersou's shop, said that, 0,11 ro moving the contents of the stomach by the stomach-pump,s strong smell of prussic acid was perceptible. Oa analyst. tion, however, no poison could he detected, and witness wn of opinion that very little, if any, acid had been swallowed by the deceased. Witness had never heard of death result ing from the inhalation of the vapour of prussic acid, hut believed that it might do so under certain circumstances. James Alder, butler in the service of the deceased, said be last saw his master alive on Thursday morning, at half-pat 9 o'clock. He was then leaving Harley-strut for the City. Witness had noticed the deceased to have been in a wry nervous sad agitated state on several occasions lately, hat was not aware of any cause for it. Mr. William Charles Shams, clerk in the service of the deceased, said he had observed a vast difference in the ele ceased's manner during the past few weeks, and his aliens to business questions were such as frequently to excite wit. nese's surprise. Witness was not aware of anything homy occurred to vex deceased's mind beyond deprecation in colo nial produce; and he knew that deceased nail a large balmier in his banker's hands. Ti e deceased was a man of my temperate and regular habits generally ; of late he bass peered completely bewildered while transacting business a the office. _ . Mr. George H. Deffell, son of the deceased, said his Wm had been particularly afflicted by the commercial =barns menta and difficulties which bad prevailed fur some tine past. On Saturday loot be remarked to witness that "nun dreadful to think of the state of affairs." The failures which bad occurred among the deceased's friends and neighbours distressed him very much, and he himself, of course, suffer/1 from the general depreciation which had taken plate in es lonia! produce. On Wednesday last witness particululy observed that he wax very much changed in his manner, hi strength appearing to hive failed him altogether. There being no other evidence, the Coroner summed up, remarking ou the melancholy nature of the case, and the jury having consulted for a few momenta, returned a verdin of " Temporary insanity." THE SUICIDE LN ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL— INQUEST. Last evening Mr. W. Payne held an inquest in the board-room of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, r,spectteg the death of Mr. William Davison, aged 54 'year., a soiliciter, lately residing at 21, Bloomsbury-square, and formerly a member of the common council of the City of London. J. Richards said he was a guide at St. Paul's Cathedral. The deceased gentleman was received by him about half past eleven o'clock on Thursday morning, He first saw the library, and subsequently the gee...,stric.al staircase; fres than.. tns deceased to the western gal lery, over the great western entrance. The deceased, while in this gallery, inquired the exact height from the ground. The de cea sed passed on from witness in the direction des Whispering-gallery, where he was received by another guide named Thompson. W. Thompson said the deceased came to him in the Whispering-gallery at the time stated. Witness desired deceased to go round to the other side of the gallery,:t . di% that he would whimper to him if he did so. The deceased remained in the gallery some time and convened both with witness sad other parties. After the lapse of about twenty mloollso, dr other viaitore having retired from the gallery, gad vital= being engaged in reading, he heard a hat fill, sad, looking he observed the deceased at about 200 feet distance tress hanging from the iron railing by in buds. Witmer made a sudden exclamation of alarm, and the next instant gam the deceased nuddenly fall from the gallery to the pavement of the cathedral. • as. =ism, at work in the cathedral, proved having wen 4111111111111 in the act of lolling. Mr. J. Lamming, son-in-law of the deceased, said his hther-in-law formerly practised in Bread -street, Cheapside, 86d bad resided in Bloomsbury-square during the past twelve sleuths. Witness had been in the habit of seeing deceued two or three times a week for the last two yearn, and had latterly remarked him to be in a very low and desponding ,is. This, witness attributed to the indefinite delay of a Pressey wit, in which he had been engaged for some yeas urn Oa behalf of a client to whom he had made lair. ad • The deemed kilt home on Thursday morning te keep as riggelobarrat, width be did not fulfil. Witness en waiting is NO blot at bis house in Blootastrurraquare, who Intelligence of his death reached him. Mr.W. Fogs, managing clerk to the deceased, gave en dance of a similar tendency as to the state of mind in wind deceased had latterly been. Mr. \V. P. Brodrilob, surgeon, of 12, Bloomsbury-Num was next examined. He deposed to having attended decersi professionally during the past 12 months, the latter poetics of which he had observed him to suffer greatly from derees aims of spirits.—The house surgeon described the extend injuries deceased had received, which were remarkably slight, considering the height from which the unfortunate gentleman had fallen. The jury returned as 'verdict—" That the doomed, Wd lism Davison, des troyed himself while labouring undo OW porary insanity. ' MURDER IN BIRMINGHAM.- MUST ON THE MURDERESS. An inquest was held last evening, in Birmingham, on the body of the woman Wilkes, who murdered her four children last Saturday, and who died on Thursday naming in consequence of the injuries she inflicted on herself. Tke witnesses were, with an exception or two, the same as that who had been examined at the previous inquieinea ; the following is the only additional evidence adduced : The witness Banks spoke to the fact of the deemed having stated in his house the day before the murder es committed that she was in very bad circumstances ; east that she bad been very unlucky ever since the death of le husband ; further, that she had been to relieving *Sims kr relief; that they made a sort of sneer at her. At that tat she appeared perfectly sane. Mr. 8. 8. Whittall, the resident medical officer at IN Queen's Hospital, deposed to the effect that the demard, at the time of her admission to that establishment tat three incised wounds on her neck, one of them being a aessls of lathes in depth, with the edges somewhat irregular, that the larger vessels had escaped. Deceased me MSS time in a state of much collapse, and warmth was applia, a were various remedies, but without effect, death hobs suited on the day stated above. During the time dears e was in the hoerntat she remained quiet and made no attesSt to injure herself. On the Monday prior to her deed: too said that she hoped she should riot get well, for that du should have a deal to go through if she did; that [m ilt . _, been to the board of guardians for relief, and they bodraa ° her abruptly from the door. Mr. Langston Parker, surgeon to (the Queen's flo* tal, mated that he had seen the deceased from day to aah and that she unquestionably died from the wound is throat: prior to that event she answered all Oa"! rationally, and witness did not perceive any indicates mental disorder. The Rev. J. C. Miller, incumbent of St. Msztin'O, BO` mingham, said, I remained with the deceased dariq time she was in the Queen's licepital. She said respecting the cause of her own suffering or probable desk. A good deal passed between us on the rulject of the dads of the children. In the course of this conversation she C* hoed to me her guilt of the murder of the children, sad Cl impression is that the time she specified wan two IS tho morning. I questioned her as to her motive, and the !ea was an impression on my mind that it was the strataa! of her circumstances, although not actual destituum. asked . her if they wanted bread, to which she a '_„ ` No, we were not so bad as that." She dr impute blame to any person ; but spoke of harlot apps . 0 have her children taken into the parish asylum, relieving °Moor had told her they could only take a I"`"'' a ,. them, either two or three. She also spoke of having bo a - the workhouse to attend the board of guardians ea the e Tiou. Wednesday, but that she was told to wait, sad ill welt unable to do so. In all my conversations with there were no indications of unsoundness of mind. The jury had not delivered their verdict at the this parcel was despatched, but, looking at the nature of ta dente, there aka be no doubt as to what its tamer Math int court. WINDSOR, FRlDAY.—Prince Albert enjoyed the sport of shooting this morning. His Royal Highness was accompanied by Lord John Russell ; the Earl of Morley, Mr. Gore, and Colonel Seymour were in attendance. The Rev. James Prince Lee left the mole ro-day. M. Stratenas, the Netherlands chargé d'affaires transacted business at the Foreign-ofilee yesteMay. Mr. Chaplin, NIX., and Mr. Lacy, MP., had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday at his official residence in Downing-street. The Attorney. General and the Lora Advocate of Scotland had an inter view with Sir George Grey . yesterday at the House-office. Sir John Henry Pelly had an interview with the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson yesterday, at the office of the Board of Trade. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England had • • --- • epeeist general Meeting yesterday, at their odic; in White hall-place. [From last night's Gazette Downixo-smerr, Ocr. 29.—The Queen has been graciously pinned to give orders for the appointment of Rear- Admiral Sir Thomas John Cochrane, Kot., Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, to be an Ordinary Member of the Military Division of the Second Clam or Knights Commanders of the mid Order. WAR-OFFICE, Ocr. 29. 9th Lt. Dram—Lieut. W. Drysdale, to be cant, by per., vice Dea con, who rya; Cor. C. F. Clifton, to be Beet, by pur., vice Drysdale; E. Hunt, gest, to be nor., by par., vice Clifton. 13th Lt. Drags.—Lleut. F. F. W. Hervey, to be lowa, by per, vice Msdocks, who ret.; Cor. A. Tmanama to be Met-, by per, vice Hervey ; P. B. Smith, gent-, to be oory by per., vice Therna.VOL 14th Lt. Drags.—Capt. W. A. Gasmen, Sam 89th P., to be rapt, vice Ong* who exchanges. Coldatream Reg. of F. Utuuda—Bray.-Ikier Lieut. and Capt. H. Daniell to he cant. and Ileutael., by par., vice Knox, who ret ; Ens. and Lieut. C. 8. Burdett to be lieut. and rapt, by pur., vice Daniell. C. R. Haagen, gent., to be em. and lieut., by per., vice Burdett. lot F.—Lieut. J. P. Gore to he cap-, by per., vice Ones, whom promotion has been cancelled. F.—Liens E. Moreton, from b..p. of the mgt., to be lieut, vice Bennett. 'pp. paymaster of the 18th F. 18th F.—Lieut. F. L. Bennett, from the 9th F., to be paymaster, vice G. 1. Cell, who retires epee halapay. 21et F.—See. Lieut. H. 8.0. S. Knight, to be Al* hest., without per., rice Deere, deceased. 30th F.—Lieut. H. E. Reader, from 11.-p. of the met, to be lieut., vice P. Flynn, who melanges. 44th F.—Copt. W. Spring, from 92nd F., to he rapt., viol Philipps, who exe 38th PM F. W. Fellows, to be UM., without par., vice Ramsay, app. adj. ; W. Calcium., gent., to be ens., vice Fellows. 97th B.—Lieut. C. E. Law, from the 6911, F., to he lieut., vice Brown, who ex 39th P.—Ens. a t a .rß..9. Stanhope, to be Mut, without par, vice R. J. Lloyd, den; H. Kean, gent , to he ens., vice Stanhope. _B9th F.—Lieet. E. J. B. Brown, from 37th F., to be lieut., vice Law, ese 80th r h . 2 4 1 ..t. W. Nunn, gent, to be ens , without pur., vice Hart, promoted in the 29th Foot. 82nd F.—Capt. J. A. L. Philippe, rom 44th F. to be eapt., vice Spring, who ear. ; Lieut. 8. P. Jarvis, from the RI. Canadian Rifle boßeg., to be lt., vice White, wbo exchanges. th F.—Captain C. T. Chifilths, from the 14th Lt. Dreg.., to be amt., vies 041/18,13, who exchange, W Ist W. I. itim.—Ena H. Jones to be Beet., without per., vice John stone, dee.; Ens. S. D. Stubbs to he lieut., by par., vice Bridgman, who ret.; R. P. Fletcher, gent., to be ens, vice Stubbs; C. T. Ham gent, to be ensign, •M Jaos Roy. Canadian Rifle Reg.—Lieut. H. White, from the 82nd P., to he lieut., vice Jarvis, who exchanges. Dayton Rile Rag.-2nd Lieut. W. H. Hampliirem, to be let Beet., vice Mina, who retiree; C. (life, gent., to be Ind lieut., by purchase, vice Hhreys. Hoverrai. ump ST AM—Aasist.-Surg. J. T. W. Bacot, from the 39th F., to be asairt-sorg. to the tome.. EKHIBMON OF THE " LION QUEEN " BEFORE HER MAJES44.—List evening two of Mr. Wombwell's earavana, containing the per forming wild animals, having been de tached from the rest, and drawn up on the eastern side of the quadrangle, Windsor Castle, just beneath the windows of the corridor, a platform was erected in front, on which were placed 24 brilliantly lighted oil lamps, supplied from the castle. Shortly after 7 o'clock, her Majesty, the Prince Consort, with the Prince of Wales and the royal family, the Dachas* of Kent, the visitors at the castle, and the gentle men and ladies of the court, appeared at the windows of the corridor, which were thrown open, Mr. Wombwell's band performing the National Anthem. Miss Chapman then com menced her performances, showing her astonishing command over the wild animals, highly to the gratification of her illus trious spectators. At the conclusion of this exhibition, which lasted for nearly half an hour, her Majesty was pleased to command that an acknowledgment be conveyed to the " Lion Queen" for the gratification she had afforded. COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL THE RAJAH OF BARAWAlL—Yeeterda a court was held for the despatch of banner —The alderman at tended in their scarlet gowns, and the ,wee ernalheen in their marrine gowns. The galleries were erewded with ladies ; and others sat among the nassalmrs. Mr. Brooke was introduced by Sir Peter Laurie, the mover, and Mr. Richard Taylor, the seconder, of the mdse. eeekelizdPott him the freedom of the City, and wet reeinal very marked applaus.—The Chamberlain then nee, sad read the farming nainates lbse Se berm.et tote ja z a lox, of the ease fifty wr inses, be b his hews 'kooks, Ma el Sera • ...Iselettberrimhzetbs diseeart of the wens, am Ihuslee. and bibbsubbew yYSs& by bin hb lobe Mudd Parase. suebbews any la the pe=rablibinsett W rR New sadd=cers mat at lissuelt, hi last hind, awl lewes the erste et we senwssteltC=r Amawharan— masa a view ts les eta pit•an. meensed— ° ! I reek e frrienvelsweelmen:. avirselma sworn luau a Aim et London. in the used fa no" the Olsenhertain addressed to Was long and complimentary Ipso* in which he stated that his ex cellency is a lineal reresenteilve of one who, in the reign of the second Charles, sumbidned the office of Lord Mayor of London. Mr. Barman then spoke r follows : My Lord Mayor, Mr. Chamberlain, and gentlemen, I am so sensible of the very high honour which I now receive at your hands, that I fled great difficulty in adequately expressing my feelings of pride, gratification, and surprise. Every Englishman fairly esti mates the privilege of citizenship in a free country, but to become the citizen of this, the greatest capital of the globe, is a source of just and national pride. This honour yen have conferred upon me. With reference to my ancestor, to whom allusion hu been made, I am proud here to renew the links which have been so long broken. I glory in the amobation, and such a testimony of it proceeding from a body so capable of forming a just opinion. I am surprised, for I had no expectation of this honour; but I will not now say that it is not deserved, for my fellow-ntizena say that it is. (Cheers.) I have little to say about myself. lam conscious of good motives. I am con @dons that it is my wish and intention to act rightly. It would be repugnant to my feelings, and no doubt it would be repugnant to the feelings of those by whom I am sur rounded, if, after what has been already said, I should si my own praises and boast of my own achievements. (Cheen n l As for the them, I trust that piracy will soon be iso crush that a small boat will be able to rowed from one end to the other of the islands in perfect safety. (Cheers.) I trust that the poorer classes will reap the benefits of their industry, that the island of Borneo and the neighbouring islands will be completely open to British commerce, and that by gentle means the blessings of civilisation and the light of the gospel will shine in these benighted lands. I trust, too, that, at a future time, you will be able to say that a citizen of Lnulois attempted to gain this object. Again, I return you my most grateful thanks. and assure you, that if in anything I can contribute