The Express. — London, England, 1852-02-07 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LOHOS.—Fit/DAT, Fri. 6. The Loan CHAIM:SLUM took kis mat at 6 o'clock. TICK KAFFIR WAR. Basel GREY, is reply to questions from the Sul it Maliambury, admitted that • practice had prevailed same what extemiv* el sending out gunpowder hem this country to the sftp, where it had been purebred by the Leers; but, ea Melee esmideratian, it had hoes doused lest to endeavour Ss meet lie 1111160 when it the colony, rather thee attempt la check it from " Cipt si t try. As ordinance bad been pored (but toe Me) by dat Legislative Council at the Cape for intercepting the Ingo thin; and the armasodme as the African statism bad Ise pa n labad sae of Ms monk ender his wimmad mem& locrlsd meet at Aids& i erw d.r eall Is ft inim the west the Was. It was to his malts knamprelmasikie.kuuw the Wm laws in esisisems at the Ceps agalnst *aside garipswirr to the Kalllsts est this trade MI Isis Arm& a pen ea long. The sammiedore reported that the Wade wee new stopped; bat daring the last few moths several hundred tons of powder had been landed along the western coast. In reply to • farther question, Earl GREY added that the instructions he bad given extended to the prevention of the trade in arms as well as gunpowder intended for the enemy. The Marquis of LONDONDERRY expremetl his satis faction at the handsome way in which the Duke of Wel liegton bad spoken of Sir Harry Smith, and wished to know if General Cathcart had bees appointed to succeed him by the enanniander. iiechief, or by the Colonial-orace. Earl UREY deprecated any irregular discussion on so painful a subject. For the present the noble mar quis must rest satisfied with this much. It ap peared to his that, for reasons stated in the de spatches, to which the noble marquis bad adverted, that Wiser ought to he relieved. He consulted his col. /segues on the subject, and with their unanimous consent he determined to submit that advice to her Majesty, ulna coanderations not exclusively military, es thine who read the despatches would perceive, and as was evidenced by a meat discussion in that house. No doubt it wee a very panful duty to relieve Sir Harry Smith; but baying de termined upon that rour.e, they did not select any came Illlcse name should be submitted to the Queen, as his see moor, without consulting the highest military authority. Hs nail consulted the noble duke who sat at the table, and ha thought that he would bear him out in saying, when he named General Cathcart as one who might properly be ap pended to that responsible sitaatinn. the answer that he aseeived from the conuatadar-M•chief was that, if Sir Harry Smith wet* lobs relieved, he did not know any °Seer more It lobe employed than (h o. Cathcart. This, be hoped, was • satisfactory answer, u he should decline to go into any further explanation. Having had a great deal of inter course with Sir Harry Smith before he went to the Cape ; laving the highest respect fee his character ; and believing him to be an oMeer justly deserving the high reputation which he bore, it bad been his lot, in the conduct al pwWie affsirs, to have so painful • duty east on him as to have to advise her Majesty to recall him ; but believing la ▪ conscience that that measure was necessary, he could not shrink from performing his duty, painful as it might le. (llrer, hear.) AFFELLATE JURISDICTION OF TILE HOUSE. EctriItIKOUGIIAM moved for • Meru of the number of appeals from the courts of EnglaucL Debug, ead . tieot- Lead to that house. Ordered. COMMON LAW PROCEDURE AMENDMENT BILL. In reply to a question from Lord LTKOHCIVIT, Tie LORD CHANCELLOR said he had no objection to Hue bill being reed a seeded time ea Thursday next, and that the committee should be taken a week afterwards. With reference to the Scotch appeals, he begged to say that he should be happy to sae any arrangement which might be wet convenient to all parties. THE COURT OF CHANCERY. . . A desultory coeversatme t►es took place between the Lord Chancellor, Lord Brougham, Lord Lyndhuirst, and Lord Cranworth, or to the bill for the reform of the Court of Chsecery; Lord Brougham and Lord Lysdhunt es ranee their °Minos that the bill ought to have been brought into that boom. The LORD CHANCELLOR said he would give the muff his best consideration, but he meld sot pledge him self to introduce it is their lordships house. Their lordships sdjoursod at a quarter past 6 o'clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—FRIDAY, FEB. B. The boom met at e fry minute• before 4 o'clock. PETITIONS PRESENTED._ _ COPTIIOLD EXTRANCIIINRIEWIT BILL.—Ia favour of, by Mr. AOLIONBY, frees s *see ie Liaeobsehire. Mania WAIL—By Mr. 0. RICARDO, from the city of Wereeessr, Easing the rootioauee or, sad for so inquiry Lob the grievances of the Roar tribes. PATINT LAWS.—Fur reform of, from Msochester, by Mr. N. GIBSON. inowttinoc—By Mr. M. 011I8ON, twin Lodes, kw repeal of. OMAN PINXT POATAOII.—By Mr. CIIBSON, frogs Southwark, in favour of. TRARAFORTATIOX TO VAN Dtawar's laavo.—By Sir W. MOLESWOKTH, dewed by the Bishop of artery wad the Roams sadistic Mawr of Van Dieuieu'a Lark eau plaiai of a breach of faith on the part of gouvesswat in ast a h oliahl.B traseportatios to that coloay. TIN bus. asembrr gave soda ea mottos (winded on the pilaw Ow as early day. HEE MAJESTY • IIItErLY TO THE ADM'S& Lord MARCUS HILL , tbb II ~Aoki. sppssnd St the bar, and, apse rz.by the Speaker. said—l have to is. b tills obs. to the commands of this houromblo tisane, I hove bad the hamar of +skim on her Majorty. owl prooratio, to her the eddies. of this honourable Wow to mid& Mt Majesty has bees graciously pleased to MOM A. iambi Dower : .1 have received with much MIAOW per loyal and datifal address. You may rely on ory moost donne to to with pa is your oudisvouro to pm moo the otWaa mg prooperity of all dame of sty ati *on." (Lipid dom.) RETURNS. _ _ Os the =Wei r. mums, Mum este ordorsd et the popsistios st Lard Weise, is the moo fora as w volsovs 11ili od. as the adios of Mira's Ilboanntsto, roam esswooted with tits _lll NEW WASTMINSTER Sr IL lila di istirri.it.tite;greersit -- "mtirepseed is sends= the resenemodeds• et the esoniudesers es to Ihs messed sits Ar ts sew Wiles; sofa as, whether So NIS hod st Se heni el the Pseud of Werke was pre pared to bs is • bill Is Isesoin Se peoperty mod estates sew vested k the beads of Se Islip esmiseissers to the cosassimississ of weeks? Lea SITIIOIIII replied SS in sessedsase with the ressonwsdatten of the asesseheismos it wee istended t. am Is aka ma seestrues the mew hello es the she pre ed to Ismedir the property and Ilhe bade et the anshissos to the works sessaisame. And losught_ ky Ohs men of the sesskolos be added. is maw 1I • • /Misr r. that It wee meet lissiraide that as See sissil be ki taking Ss wirP is premed with the waZ i a: i t i . l that is a dew sr two would ere • notice es the POLITICAL REFUGEES. Lewd J. Et enema Ober Meisety, earreepeadence with ts re. spisting the foreleg. referees resiri g ai s t te v =r; bed J. RUSSELL, haven hem latentegnied lig Lord D. Stuart, stated that the esnewais lathe weesspapese ti the etatiege rushy peepeseseed yea Amelia Neer ea Ms. Mather, a Mash eageek et Meows. were she tasks age s 4 WO the seaman of the Amides awasel• ties, idle, la the lea iawenes, instilled it, ea the that it was the tete in the Austrian mar Re en= wise reeeieed hulk while is the Collialed of beep w est the olloading party dews. It was now ededeied that as Leah reuittals]. bus reparation was retard mire Mr. Nam. L the bat limn, mid he did not nom ts hook whir be deeihred to do. Lad Grooving, sa voading the etiened et ihe adage, bed isehleesil Kr. esseleit to sake inquiries sad all hit mainhaelen. sod, on the deemodi et Mr. Mather, a judicial inquiry wee now pending. EOCCATIOk IN SCOTLAND. memo t whetlwr it was thin intention to introduce a WI ea tin subject of national education in Scotland ? Thu LORD ADVOCATE was understood to reply that govenuand had no moth intention. EAST INDIA CDIIIPANIIII CHARTER. Kr. 111411EiiiitpTireilWeiTtit; eonsw ;xiibe East laths Charte!.verets. be ee•yed J RUSSELL would give notice in the course of the ensuing week. PERFORATED POSTAGE STAMPS. Mr. GROGAN begged to ask whether any arrangement had been made with the patentee relative to the supply of perforated postage stamps to the public, or if it were the Mtention of the government to purchase the potent sr agree for the use thereof, so that the public might enjoy the con sommes* a the slaws J Mr. C. LEWIS raid that Mr. Archer, the patentee in question, had prepared a machine for perforating postage stamps, which bad been submitted to the consideration of the authorities at the Poet-office. A .um of 6011. wee therefore offered fir the use of the machine, but bad been declined. The question wet then re-considered, and on the advice of the Postmaster General, after further inquiry, the sum of 2.0001. was offered, but had also been de clined. Mr. OROOAN did not think hie question had been an swered. Mr. LEWIS mid that the second offer having been de clined, the authorities had not attempted to make any other arrangement. LAW OP SETTLEMENT. Mir J. PA KINGTON gave notice of his intention to ask the president of the Poor Law Board, whom he did not a.* in hi. place—it was difficult to ere who was in his place— whether he intended to bring in a bill t r the better regula tion of the law of settlement BOROUGH Or HARWICH.-BRIBERY. Sir DK LACY EVANS wished to a4k the hon. member for Donetabire whether he wee prepared to renew hie mo tion for a committee to inquire into the bribery practised at H Teich. Mr. BANK ES ward that the committee which sat last session was founded on a petition presented to that house by himself. and signed bye very rem eetable body of inha• &tints of Harwich. Unless that petition were renewed ho should not onew his mottos. Mr. BAN HEM alto ts•.• *astir,. of hi, intention to ask the right hoe. the Attorney fleneral whether the Indemnity to IP/inseam Bill, posed Is.t ...ins in referenee to this sub ject, would take elf, ct also tie those witnesses who ob etrseted the inquiry by absenting themselves from the smug 00111118810NR118 OF Lend fOITMOUR replied to Lord b. tended is s very feet days to brims is a of the ismassesteot of sewers. GENNEAL COMMITTEE _ _ A is a, Us a ONS WI a @ern NI 8i It Parriii. The following gentlemen general committee of elections. Buller, Sir George Clerk, Sir sad Wilson Fatten. ENCUMBERED ESTATES SALES (IRELAND). Mr. FRENCII gave monies of his intention to ask the Eon. Secretary for Ireland • question with reference to the We of an incambered estate on which there was a lases for 701. during two lives, sad which had bra totally disre garded. BOARD OF INLAND _REVENUE.—TIIE NEWS- PAPERS STAMP ACT. Mr. M. OIBSON asked a question as to the intentions of the government, in consequesee of the Court of Inland Re value not agreeing with the decision of the Court of Es chequer as to the liability of periodical publications pub lished at intervals of 28 days and upwards being subject to the newspaper stamp duty. Ile wished to ascertain whe ther further prosecutions were to be instituted, or whether as bill was to be introdueed to dispel ail doubts on the w• tof the Newspaper Stamp Act. he CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER declined onewering a question which involved important legal points, but be might bey he had not the slightest intentier. of pro pang to take steps to reverse the decision of the Court of Eszliequer, whatever doubts be might entertain on the subject. Lord J. RUSSELL added that there were some doubtful points in the judgment, which were under the consideration of the law oaken, and until their opinion was received, no answer could be given as to the intentions of government. SUPPLY. In a committee of the whole house, aßer a suggestion from Mr. Henn, that the estimates should be laid on the table as speedily as possible, and that no expense should be incurred on account of the militia until the opinion of the house was taken upon the subject, it was resolved that a supply be granted to her Majesty. CHANCERY REFORM. The SOLICITOR-OENERAL said, is moving for lean M bring in a bill for the relief of suitors in Chascery, he was vary desirous to take the earliest possible occasion of stating briefly to the house the course of mestures which it was the intention of her Majesty's govertment to take in reference to t►e amendment of the abuses and grievances which ham misted for a very long time in the Court of Chamery, aad in which so considerable an interest had beea taken of late years in that house. The bill then before the house Ins a bill founded on the report nude by the committee which had sat to investigate the system of furs in the mutts of law smill equity. The first bill—it was but the first of a serise—hmd bees prepared by direction of the Lord Chancellor. It weed with all the recommendations contained in the repast. and would be found to be • most °uteri il boon te the suitors I. that court, by relieving them front the vest variety et bee levied in each. TMs bill would hernher be Mewed up by one which would carryout the recommendations contained in the report of the committee—while had been laid upon the table of the house--appointed to *sire into the whole system of the Court of ChWrinNi. illi In" lhosakiffte mg every portion of its practice, end thigh he MIMI would afford elhohsell relief to the melinnaate gaiters la Menem. With eqpill to the present bib, he would staid the house eft isms years ago a Oinintitte• we. on the mom ia lie. IVatesa to inquire = ls t whole ealsllll if hes. Their report regernesied the total a it the meet et 'Sews et tbe courts of equity by hie objectionable, owl thesrabstitut ion of salaries. The Achim of the seems ef he. would do away with the impastion to ieersese the dim tor which they were levied ma the one head, sad as the ether with the laajtatiew IS Risappropriab the ammo Mellooted by ✓e illisetors. In dealing with writ • spleen, it that there we whet an sell* • • Illi ntfi lli theV il iniedealt with. It was absolved by the ismidilie ea Ile somber of free pair he ese pee an meths Sin MINK i the immanatence rd .see isimeilil ebb whkb war be loteetly oryee l it a t So he.... lie besivesisese mad easoyance wadi be Mil farther (ppm* whin it we known that, in one in ellenre, in NMI Mee alone, there had been paid 29tik to 392 ✓esew, theyeethe having le pay that an helm obliged Os gob 392 doss et the aims et the dilibeest yortiseogysisisi *receive thew There wen N aim is the lees* et *me fees : 90 persons had to be mad re. Three 90 weld ' he put on their affidavit u to the this they remind; ben there were 40 more who could ass, and whim were sworn to by their crime NI 11117 114 4 of their reports alone. this system led the emeasittee to reco=t hg abilb tion of the whole system et fees, sad the mum* it lbs efeeneby salaries. Bulb them asseenee SIM teeperd it be earned oat by the prworiged. he um s IP* tem of stamps was wisps& Pis he him Iss C by a stamp duty p committee though:Z * oe 809101111 .1811.111" Impithee with the whole system, aught to be abibbel. were made to this fund by sultana§ iiiiiit et hos massaal. lag to 100,0001. per annum gad. till *bee hoe, no tom a atm than 119,0001. wm paid bir lbws. The grievance did not rest thaw. Then was lbe Seisms' nail. A large amount et emit was ennead, in the Bank in the name of the Aesseenuit Geneva it . ant invested in any assielbe. As early as the taiga of Owes 11. an act was peeled to mule the °swat of Choweasy to LIMA a poetise ettims dieting en* sod to mph" eaegaer ponies in 'Semi et the mart. The an isseeird was Awn time to time varies, eels hod perwail essonsiding that earn, so that the amount new basasse la the Three per CAMS. MIASMA sod :Thesermi•Abwitor put Cent. Coml. me 1,991,91/14 srearling te the recent et the Caen of Cheiesiy_ ,_ as bees red Imam ewe. In =et time, the ilivideade arising fns this steak lad M esesiderable, sad another act of peellemeat woo pemai for kneed* the dividends, whish et most asiotried to the sea el 4141.111... ssui eying • sem et 6,600.505 E, said* ben mss t wilitee - fayesited la toast. (Elear, hear.) The bedew wamthe bwile essesied to about 112.000 L ayear. It wee (gybed ho the ef various isms or the emit. nisdi allinort Wl= wee oppiled is the isgsessit des le me Lard Chew gist, sprodeet et bis - ease am Speaker of the Ikea f o r m ils. 04 of it were aril also the two Leeds 91191einet mien, Mil the two Vim-Chancellors amid lese e se r a.. Thus the soften paid the judges Maw* pastime, sad who aegis to be sage a geled st es te r exposes. It wee dine* apposed is di te is Woes be obi et site 'sort; Neil iiieteiglii yawn Miele, le _pay *be Awe te make di ' Melt 4 their fetus.. They certainly wed .ea )ray their share if the Gayness it Ilse yisisilibig. The eighty elf the Lord Chiseler rive' MM. he addition IBMs ILSIOL as eyeellwe et the Mad et Lids. Besides Abet there wan We Ueda Janine m 11,99 W. • year, and tbe Vies-Chasedby •11 6 111101_ ~ making 27,0001. • year in ate A grad imbeir bid already been effeeted by alleming the pile et elite espies from ls. 6d. per ale, to *Le fidre did shwa is that shape had * Minfi n a l t Being the last swam seesideratios whethar am Milfr di a ilir or tiiie ra md ealiars' fu s :d he eashi rs. a year be mimeo tam 11.101 die I =s le be deb by Ibadadarta the *Am' ' ...f ... i was pespered es the peoleg et this hill t• robe to the amount of MAW aim. The valtent M . would still be eseetributiog HUM. • year te the idedabrodsa efjustiee, and halm reiaideas 2S dediel earmaary. Thom were • vest Mt stemmas it width the commission bed sialsoillhe ebilibm. edille than were ethue *fish they merely leaving the Lord the Cbamodier to lik They resseawswaied tilidition et the a:: sd'ausiter of rem* el Or dad. d aseraiala, lee ef Ma aflame ale% Waesembs dr balm. Oda Maw to nit s de selesdersi webs. Pnber, they Owed set of efts idea wad pie by In, &mow others alleles' that the Lied Cheerdise hod is secretaries. Now the ant of thee samseuies was his lesiship's priasipal whims essestery, end of nuns odd ad be dimmed — with. The weed was the neesoMmy of deereen es ewe leblab It was pro posed to abolish. het the owl* weld not be very great, as the =g o = may bey yews& • year. There were two odier set seireeeledi with the Court of Chancery, one the awadary he dr posetedea to livings department, and the ether is the isms et gesaashelone of the pesos. Theme Awe lathe the Loth Chancellor proposes to giSpenee withk eannelidetiag she duties into one office ; the sett we the secretary Is lunacy, who performed any senetuiel duty for the Chancel- W., but acted as registrar in lunacy. He would be continued under his proper designation. The remaining Secretary use the secretary in bankruptcy, whose salary, which had been complained of, and which arose from fees, amounted to 1,20 W. a yesr, the being an arrangement that whenever the fees excenled Minns he should account for the surplus. There was also an officer called the chief registrar in bankruptcy with a similar salary, and it was at drat proposed to abolish his office and make the secretary perform the duty. But the hon. member fur Oxfordshire moved for a committee of inquiry, and it recommended the abolition of both offices. In consequence of that report the vecret4ry in bankruptcy had been prevailed upon to re sign withuipt compensation, and the office of chief registrar would not be tilled up on the next vacancy. The abolition of ties. two offices would cause a saving of 2,4 1 101. a year. Another officer, about which anxious inquiry had been made, was the chalTwas and deputy chasms. The salaries amounted to 1,8381. a year , and by an act pared in the present reign it was proposed to abolish them at the terminati'm of th e pr e s en t holdings. It we. now proposed to abolish Win at once, making com pensation, besides which the following offices were proposed to be aholished. The present Lord Chancellor had two gen tlemen of the chamber, at +alma& of 700/. a year each. Doe of these untlemen was of the utmost assistance to his lord ship, being often employed until one and two in the morn ing, but ihi,ither it MAA proposed to abolish, making a saving of 7001. a year The a 'hay of the secretary remain- I i ng would be reduced to 5001.5 year, making a saving of 9002. ' a year in all. The deputy sealer's c6lll, is, with a salary of ' 21492. a ye 6r, was to be &polished, as also, eter.l..ry of di•crees, 601.; clerk of affidavits, 1,0001. . • assistant clerk, 8001. ; and second assistant clerk, 4001. 'the sholition of the clerk of reports office would save 11140/ , hut • payment of 4001. a year would be required for the duty hither.° perlortued by that officer. TIM 1 offices &doorkeeper, 317!.; of crier, NW/.; an I some others, amounting to 4W1., making a total of 4,1811. • year, would ininirdi ityiy be saved, minus come empedigemn t o ' ,ti r i ng parties. These, with the 1,818/. previovsly enumerated, mule • Pot .1 of (in round numbers) nearly 7,000 f. a year. Besides thise the commission had recommended very im portant reductions in the 11..partrn..nt of the Accountant- Oeneral of the Court of Chancery, who, was paid in rather THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY 1,600 bq L S• ,t ... with d' three of Hi ' 4ll re Steel, els ... baby c . pe ask wat. I I t=t _ ble i___ _._ = I ; 6, '"'s per% It sae messeseu es i see era to mg) as arrangenenst by villa the as time ..at ears, iiiseli ba yalA___W *tiny at 3,0001. • rM A naiddli-datubli bi WI& Ilhalirsiary do lavas smestita k lift An efilW ens . Weill V e arr al r e til d thalissiSsilit *deb bit rimy yew. =WINO Ils selsteallir be had peetinsiy este be•eleeks • saving st dont WOW. • yam bat, be . the seilese' lead was bealkesed with esapentee Os six inks end othmeorseenting se &best • year, tehidi, vibes it espbsei, Veda Wag 11116 *kW* laving berent 100,0001. • yule; est imbed be biped that tees MIN of these arrangeseesle ..d& be that his taw pan tbe soda be miessei eitatedtartrena fie palmist at M i me d iamb rid of di ohms enema the batting d tisk bads, sash asseeste, shriek they easel ger ker the moos as at a bealunos. trader than cleans simuse, be titesght the bill we*ht be fairly teeseed • bill lir the Wier elf Who he dr Court of Clammy. (linar.) Ilwrist assiegitai that then was ansther bil Is alive Os Imes. eel boned sembet seseisteel by Kb= ID Wis bie bill. Leave gives. Ana SU PPLY OF THE METROPOLIS. Lord SEYMOUR, in moving to introduce the 00VINII ment Water Bill, submitted that the objects to be attained in a water supply were quantity, quality, and cheapness. The Thames within the tidal influence was not a fit source of sup ply. He believed the Thames above the tidal influence, the New Rim, and the Les, would afford a proper source. It would be nimbie to adopt the report of the commission to go to the sands of Surrey as the sole source of supply, though.he believed •eonsidelable quantity might be obtained from thence. He proposed that ell the houses under 101. should be supplied at • fixed rate in order to ensure a sup ply to the poor. The present charge for such hones* in London as compared with other towns was very high, and it would be necessary to make inquiries ins order to As the rats for bowie of this description. It was not prepead to exclude private enterprise from supplying the He did not think it possible for any govemmaset ' taking on itself that duty to five public selisilmer s z s at he dea even did a municipal corporattma oda,beel such • body could undertake omit a dimy veldt eilheatnee. But whether the supply was unlwdhsa by bodies to be hereafter created, or by pails ma= thought there should be government sad antral, is order to protect the consumer from feeaitfaat supply, bad water, or high charge, but he was not prepared to lay down the seals of rates until after more inquiry. Leave was then given to bring in the bill. Viscount EBRINOTON rase to address the house, but the question bed been already put and carried. Mr. MOWATT then owed to bring in his bill for rest- deg the water apply sad drainage of the metropolis in emintisidemees representing the inhabitants. Ilia was mesetially a ratepayers' bill. That was, that the in 'BMWs Ida bed te pay, end who were aloes interested, theeld have the memposot of the supply of water and the &nip of the alma. He prieweed to divide the metro polis late seventeen digitises, in ash of erldedi a district eemailmhe , elected by dm esteems% dread wooese, ender the esehei in central booed to be ahead by the diarist comoielioies), width eland also hereupon Se hew ISM missiamen amused by the government. Mit geoid le • far safer med. ef obtaining a pleetihi limply of good water at a cheaper rate than the geeseassent plan, or than by leaving the matter in the bob of private water companies. He peagosad to La the inalinenn of rating for the water supply, dieloge, empsaeities to ex isting water commies sod el gem imposer, at la. in the pound per aname, mad to is the isintal by means of en mities of 201. a year seemed apes the rates. Lord DUDLEY STUAkT seitoded the media Lord EBRINOTON apposed of the prepeollfis to unite H e drainage and water sup* wader ese mentagesest. He complained of the Chiseller of the Ershetersr. lavishing money in other wept, remise 501 A In the Nerd of Health, to enable thin the leede et the me tropolis. After a brief ma Lore was then given; and the bill (Mr. Hewett's) was brought in and read a first time. DR. REID. Mr. B. OSBORNE moved, pursuant to notice, that Dr. Reid be called to the bar of the house, and questioned u to the means at his disposal for ventilating the new buildings. Tbe hon. member observed that, nest to the question of a good supply of water, a matter which had until now been engaging their attention, the house would take the greatest interest in the question of a good supply of air. (Hear, bear.) It would, indeed, be an excellent thing if the government would turn its attention more closely to the subject, and bring in a bill for the better supply to that house of good wholesome air. He proposed that they should call Dr. Reid to the bar of the house, and there GU him a series of plain questions certain to call forth plain answers. (The bon. member bete read six questions which he proposed to be put.) Lord SEYMOUR thought that if the house began by calling on Dr. Reid they would have to call Mr. Barry and sterol other persons. (Hear, hear.) It seemed to him that to take such a course would not be placing the house in a very dignified position. A committee would in every respect conduct the inquiry more satisfactorily. Dr. Bead represented that the impediments which obstructed him had been in existence for five years; and the house would probably not be prepared fee a history of the whole period. (Hear.) Mr. HUME hoped that the noble lord would not per severe in his opposition to this motion. What was wanted was immediate action ; and as they could not adjourn the house until the committee had made its report, a committee would not answer the p . No one could amid the atmosphere in that house. At one time the moisture was dropping from every face, and if they left the house for one of the pamages they found themaelvee in the midst of blasts which would (Im am a delicate constitution. Mr. W. SHOWN could state as a fact that one boa. gen esis had aught such a dreadful cold from the changes Cf eemporatere in the house on the first night of the session that be had been confined to his bed sins. STUARTLad D. hopcd that Dr. Bad wield be tailed in. LOTrtii. RUSSELL confessed that he did not think the ventilation of the house was very perfect at pmeat. At the same time be could not think that the matter would be so very easily settled by calling in Dr. Reid. Dr. Reid might explain in ten minutes all that la wished to be dons ; but what Dr. Reid might wish to be done, might in the opialon of Mr. Barry be destructive to the architecture of the house. (Hear, hear.) Having heard Dr. Reid, they mould not in lassies refuse to hear Mr. Merry. The hew mould not in justice decide on doing at Ines whatever Dr. Reid might ems, The questions *l* would trim weld not be determined properly by the while hems ; and it would be far better to refer the in quiry to a earnmitles. (Hear, hear.) After a few words Bois Mr. NIIVIABOATZ, Mr. BRIGHT begged to observe that the pendent, I were against the esnintittee. Beate one had always contrived to base the committees. (Hear, hear.) ' Mr. t3COBELL amid either the architect or Dr. Reid must give war. Mr. MOF} ATT sawed, as an amendment, that the mat ter be referred to • !sleet committee. — Ti - oiaTsa — iii; - 46 - sd - - - - -- -- For the wales 66 Against it Oa the nradmissica of the mane Dr Reid was already at the bar, aad was Wiwi saaainsd by Mr. B. Osaoasa. In mown to • variety of qwwthwo. Dr. H•H said —that the plans upon which the valliadaa Ina sowdostod were not hu ; but such as lobed dVsys goottabal apish Hs regarded himself aa Nag mar eel, The Menai fault was that of Magda. as arahibolasal area which did not subs& Me ..arse! air. The rssok was that sorrows of air lewd .la k every side. Atatiort sense was the lawadostiow be. the sareidon sod lobbies of greet volumes of slosita ; asathor own was the non ventilation of the gas langs. The ramoliss he would suggest were—the euchring Of the extends*, asi the smoke from the De' Maoris. ailiaseys ; the irtatflatita of the lamps; and the bsOdfaiesM ak wall resadllta gram In two days he would sadsetaur to remove the pramisgst defects at an expense of from IDOL to 3001. Dr. Reid having withdraws, Mr. HUME proposed that Dr. Reid should be asked to put hi. suggestions in writing. Sir B. HALL thought that, so the house had now fallen under the charge of Lord Seymour, the matter should be left in hie hands. After • lively discussion, it was agreed that Dr. Reid's evidence be printed; and that Lord Seymour should report OS Wednesday if any difficulties stood in the way of carry ing the suggestions Into effect. CHANCERY REFORM. The SOLICITOR-OiNEliAEObtaM;l leave to Ming te • bill for the relief of the suitors in the High Court of Chancery. METROPOLITAN WATER SUPPLY. Lord SEYMOUR obtained leave to bring in a bill for the ►etter supply of water to the metropolis. The other notices were disposed of, and The house adjourned at live minutes to nine. APOTHECARIES' llALL.—Names of gentlemen who passed their examinatior. in the science and practice of INl•dieiae, and received certificate; to practise, on Thun der, Feb. 5, 1862:—Alfred Ball, John Lacy, Mark Kebbell, Brighton ; CharlcaChihnall, London; Wm. Tidboald Lux ten, Winklidh. Devon; John Bidlake Mountford, Exeter. GOVERNMENTAPPOINTMENTB.—Yesterday a return i to the Home of Comm-•m was printed, showing that since I the Gth April, INS, 84 new appointments in 54 govern. went departments had been made 4 the annual amount of 144,3145!., w had in the same period 2,176 places were Rho- • lisped, the salaries and pay of which amounted to 323,94?,!. The reductions made in the salaries 4114 eIptIOCS of the 64 Ispertmeutv were 40,514/. PUBLIC DEPARTMENTS.—According to a return to parliament issued yesterday, the expense of 64 publie de partm. in 1118 was 4,023,2511., and in 1851 the expense was 3,743,7601. Deducting the increase of 61,4601., the ' decrease in the eaponses of the departments in 18,1 was 279,1911. BIRTHS AND MAItIll WES IN Nv.w Sortie WALE& —According to the annual book of statistics published by the Colonial Secretary for New South Wale., the number of births in New South Wale and Port l'hillip during the 10 years ending in 800 was 111,24.1, and the number of marriages daring the same period 20,591. erPreoo. 41 TO CORN ESPON DENTS. I Moil el The Eipross." ' - plifshog ~ ~~ .06•1 bl . -- sestalatar ...• ism amines eb . mly Torotoy owl Yrift otglit. to tino hir pm& Wooltionsobtoloodod for *. TM Ramos," Load's ltwoolos pow. moot be stir Oar, le. Doevvrie.atteet, by Two o'olook a a the . OP et Islikilim NIGH WATIIK AT LONDON BRIDGE Tau I)44—Mersing. A. 11,4 Aftms.s, Sa. 1044. hosesain4-14sollag. IL ika....— Afserrea. 4k. Iltak. LONDON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7. ON Monday next tho members of the Employers' Association in London once more throw open the doors of their workshops to such operatives as will undertake, for the future, to repudiate all undue in terference with the terms and hours of labour. In thus adopting a course which wo ourselves have more than once recommended to their sense of right and humanity, the employers have acted well. Retribution, it was easy to foresee from the be ginning, could not be long averted from the parties implicated in that criminal blunder, the strike of the engineering operatives. Not three weeks have elapsed since the acts of the Amalgamated Society reached a practical development, and already has the inevitable punishment begun to fall, paying, of course, its earliest visitation to the weakest and, unhappily, the most innocent associates in the dispute. Mr. New ros's constituents, or dupes, we know not which to call them, belonging to the society, may hold on the war for some weeks, or it may be months longer. Having been for years in the receipt of excellent wages they are naturally possessed of larger indivi dual resources against temporary necessities. They have, besides, access to a military chest stocked with the produce of former savings, and form part of an organisation by which idle and recusant members are supported out of the earnings of the rest, so long as these latter retain their employments. A secondary class, called the " non-society men," and comprising a largo number of skilled workmen, were also tolerably well off in their individual fortunes, so long as they continued at work, and are now admitted by the executive council to a liberal share of the re sources possessed by the Amalgamated Society for their maintenance during the " strike." In paying 7s. or 10s. a week to many hundred " non-society men," the council have sacrificed to the necessity of widening the basis of their operations against the employers. Too exclusive an appropri ation of the funds belonging to the society would have utterly ruined their cause. The public would have refused all aid or sympathy ; the operatives themselves would have detected too surely the nar row selfishness that prompted their movements—if they had denied all share in their stock of supplies to the companions whom they had involved with them selves in an industrial paralysis. Formidable, in deed, as the organisation of the society looked when directed against a few individual firms, we doubt whether it would have had much power over the whole mass of interests engaged in the engineering busi nem, if acting only by, and upon, its own members. The masters might in that case have fallen back upon the large numbers of uuaasociated and skilled hands to be found in the workshops, and quietly allowed the Amalgamated Society to issue its notices and withdraw its members into unproductive idleness whenever Mr. Newroe and his council might think At to perpetrate so suicidal an act. By promises Rest, and donations since, the society have avoided this immediate danger. The "non-society men" are is bet bought up out of the reach of the employers Are the present. But this has been accomplished through large drafts upon a limited and easily ex haustible fund. And the council, while preventing theemployers from obtaining skilled operatives enough todispense with the members of the society, are but listening the day of destitution and surrender. There is, however, a third class, who have keen no active part in the strike, yet on whom, as our columns daily show, the conse quent sufferings are falling with terrible seve aty. What are called engineers' " labourers" ensive far less wages than naturally come to the share of skilled operatives ; and being of little or no seise to the Amalgamated Society in the present to have received the barest possible pittance out Elbe funds distributed by the executive council. Illisepence a piece to more than a thousand labourers thrown out of work in London alone was grudgingly aided to as much mo e, collected from public sub esiptions, as the whole of a week's allowance. liven this meagre donation was accompanied by a warning that henceforth the labourers must expect se farther aid—the Amalgamated Society having more than enough to do with its funds, on other den. At the same time we learn from the bitter com plaints urged at a recent labourers' meeting that eller a fortnight's cessation of emp loyment dis tress was already in their homes . Well might , the labourers resist the desertion of their - fellows. 1 " They were reduced to the utmost straits," said poor Joins LLOYD, at the meeting, " but it was not their fall: they had no hand in it and need not be schussed of their distress. They trusted and hoped that the public would understand the question, and that the aristocratic workmen would not be supported Y their endeavours at self-aggrandizement, to the peat loss of every other class. The judge of the Southwark County Court was, Galled upon to reespissi in a very practical way the maternity and the naleservedneas of the straits to which the engiaesses labourers have been reduced. Is adicerniag the giant against one of Meows. Mesa .ay sad thein's late workmen, Mr. Bestial ensi with esnensidable leniency. The defendant add act per a farthing, being "only a labourer." Wks YS engineers struck, he was thrown out of iisek aim what little he had saved was gone, and he was sempelled to sell his clothes to buy food. It use a proof, es the judge allowed, that combination nem workmen " not only ruined themselves but awry person connected with them." employers now propose to hasten the arrival sf the tine when work shall be resumed. No lON lest that we can discover has hitherto been tried in seder to discover how far the " work mea's eseepiracy" has really spread. The maters, ening the notices against °tertian mad piesswork plaearded in the workshops, summarily required their removal, and in default closed their gates at once, without inquiring, as it seems, how many of the hands owed submission to the society, or how many looked upon its missives as mere idlehravada Both aides, no doubt, have acted rashly and angrily. If both had been stubborn to the end, there was no solution to be discovered for the difficulty until the weaker party—of course the operatives—were forced to give in by sheer starvation. But we rejoice to Learn that no false pride has induced the employers to posh Matters to this lamentable extremity. On Mesa, the shops in London re-open to non-mem bers of the society. The interests of multitudes of hmocent workmen were at stake, oven more then their own. The moment that the resumption of work was possible every consideration of justice and prudence combined to urge them to lose no time in doing so. Justice to the labourers and considera tions of self-interest equally called on them to seize the first opportunity of setting their vast produc tive 'system in motion once more, and finding an industrial subsistence for the thousands who are now pining in want and idleness through no fault of their own. Now that the workshops are once more to be open, the return of nine-tenths of the hands now on strike will not bo long delayed. They will flock in hundreds to "welcome home again discarded faith" under the flag of industry. THE prompt declaration of the prom on the sub ject of the militia has not, it would seem, been with out its value, if we may judge by the statement of Sir Cit:ottuE GREY in the House of Commons last night. The government are evidently alive to the , difficulties of their position, and must (eel them still more severely if they ask for army augmentation of any kind, unless they couple with such require ments a pledge to carry out an efficient plan of army and ordnance reform. If the country ' really wants additional protection, protection it must have ; but no war-panic should be allowed to cajole the members of the House of Commons into an in- considerate vote upon the subject. Many of the statements as to the likelihood of a hostile attempt upon England are based upon very insaffieient grounds. One of these may be instanced. It is . urged that the French army us a body thirst for war. As to the French soldier, there cannot be a greater diffUeepie than between Trim of the empire, and him of the present tune. Although torn from his home by the conscription thin, u now, still ke left at home merely its common enjoyments. In France at I present there is money, industry, and the greatest opening for the poorest man to rise and make himself independent. The day-labourer in France—and there are not many—can and does save; and, there fore, has • keen interest in being active and free. In England nineteen-twentieths of the earners live from hand to mouth, and from day to day. In France the poorest peasant, when young, looks to better himself, and the army offers no prospects. Those who enter it aro either those who are unable to pay for a substitute, or those, more lucky, who have re ceived some GU or tiOl. for acting as substitutes. Both these parties are chiefly anxious for one thing, the expiration of their term of service. Those who have got nothing arc anxious to begin earning and saving, and making a step towards settling. Those who have a little sum in store, as the price of their engagements, aro anxious to employ and turn it to gat; d . Th , Lt o e nt n!I of m th i e . French nmt a rm ythus a il m ue a to t Europe or at England, but to go hunt for gold and ease at home,—everyFeenchman's village being a Ca lifornia to him in imagination. Take such an army, composed of such officers and soldiers. Bid them obey their government and do their duty; and they will do it by landing in England, or marching to the Rhine. But tho French army is now a body of men who will ask why they are put to do this. Water loo is too old a pretext. No doubt the resuscitation of that defeat would augment anger and inveteracy, were cause given for either. But what cause has England given? Its public men and its press dis approve of the confiscation of French liberties. Is that an utterable cause of invasion? NAPOLEON himself never collected an army of invasion until he had offered England terms of peace repeatedly, and written to the King of ENGLAND personally to de sire it. It was because England would not make peace, would not let Franco alone, would suborn and subsidise enemies to her on the continent—these were the fair, at least the plausible reasons, which NAPOLEON gave for meditating and preparing inva sion, and for demanding of an army to undergo the risks and undertake the horrors of such an enter prise. If such precautions were necessary then, how would a scheme of invasion and a war against Eng land without a cause be viewed in France now ? French opinion is not so senseless, so rabid, or so truculent. There may or may not be danger from the present ruler of France,—but ministers and people should first see the fleet home from the Tagus before they think about turning useful traders into bad militia-men. Let them call for volunteers if they please— and plenty will offer themselves—but to try conscription in England would bo to adopt one of the worst of French fashions. ,-FEBRUARY 7, 184.: FRANCE. PARIS, FRIDAY EVIINII4O. I have to-day to call your attention to the mean ing of the decree, which appeared in the Monileur of yesterday, empowering the President to name special committees in the Council of State. In fact the question of the legality of the confiscation of the Orleans property will be referred ultimately to the Council of State • and by this decree Louis Napoleon constitutes himself judge in the case in which he is a party. Lord Cowley, the new British Ambassador, is ex pected to arrive in Paris next Sunday. Col. W. Morton, charged by the American govern ' ment with a special mission to Germany, has arrived in Paris There is no news stirring to-day, if I except the fresh telegraphic despatch dated from Madnd on the afternoon of the 3rd. This clears up three points of importance. The weapon was a poinard, and the assassin a priest, and he was immediately arrested. The fact of the criminal being an ecclesiastic is rather cm barraasing for the Pays and other newspapers,which took the occasion to make a fresh onslaught on the atrocious crimes of demagogues, and to declare that when society was at stake the old brag of Louis XIV. about the disappearance of the Pyrenees was truer than ever. What the organs of Napolconism will say now the dastardly blow was aimed by a fana tic of that order whose interests have been re garded with peculiar favour by the present govern ment, is not very clear. Meanwhile the atrocity of the attempt is singularly aggravated by the occasion on which it was perpetrated. The church of Atocha is situated at the bottom of an alley of trees, which traverses the end of the Prado, and conducts to one of the gates of the park of the Retire. The Queen on such solemn occasions passes down the Calle Alcala, then through the Prude, to the alley men tioned. As all this line was occupied by soldiers the deed must have been attempted in their presence, and the criminal's escape was next to impossible. A line of Queen's messengers has just been estab lished by the British government, from Paris to Turin. Heretofore despatches to the latter capital were conveyed by post. The celebrated Miss Howard gave yesterday a sumptuous dinner party, at which Louis Napoleon and some English noblemen were present. It is said that the price of the Illonitetir is to be considerably reduced. As the only inducement to buy the other newspapers is that they give the con tents of the Moniteur for a less price, this measure would of course consummate their ruin. The Paris correspondent of the Indetsenclance Beige states that two cardinals have declined the seats in the Senate assigned to them by the constitution of January 14. The French 'papers, although filled with the de bates of the British parliament upon the 3rd, con tain no leading articles upon the part o‘those de bates which has excited most interest here—l mean the explanations of Lord John Russell and Lord Palmerston. On Wednesday evening took place, in the old hotel of the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce, the first reception of the Minister of Police. Mem; ben of the Corps Diplomatique, the Senate, and the Conseil d'Etat were present. The Moniteur Parisien insists that the author of the attack upon the Queen of Spain must be one of a gang of sworn murderers, impelled by the same evil principle that directed the hand of Louvel, Ali baud, and so many others. It then makes the follow ing reflections: I desire to be mistaken, but in the presence of a malice so deplorable it is necessary to watch to bring the sympathies of the two nations into closer contact. Louis XIV. said, " There are no longer any Pyrennees !" Let us watch, for there are no longer any troutiers since crime has become an opinion—l was going to say a political principle. The following ironical allusion to the political antecedents of M. Montalembert, in M. Guizoescom plimentary speech of yesterday, has been much noticed : You sir, during a long period, placed your efforts in the service of religion under the protection of the favourite ideas and sentiments of our epoch; you often made the cause of the Christian church an instrument of opposition; side by side with Alio cross you often, and sometimes per haps with a little fiery impetuosity. unfurled the flag of liherty—that flag, so powerful and so seductive, which easily leads away the people, and which even men such as you cannot Gdlow without some danger both for the cause that they would serve slid fur themselves. But, so soon ea tilt danger was indicated to you, whether by your own reason or by the supreme authority of the church, you drew hack; you submitted yourself, air, with that beautiful Christian docility which is at once wisdom and virtue. The prefect of the Maine, finding the extraordinary powers for closing hotels, inns, cuffs, and public houses, conferred by the decree of December, 29, 1851, ineffectual for the suppression of political con versation has dissolved a number of "comics," where the better orders of society have been in the habit of meeting for social purposes, as they do in the clubs of London. From the praises bestowed upon this measure in official quarters it may be expected to be extensively imitated. The returns of the Bank of France for the past week are somewhat more unfavourable, as the dis count-accommodation in l'aris has declined not less than 6 millions, although in the provinces there is I an increase of about 2 millions, the amount of the (former being 49,748,819 fr.; and of the latter, i 75,067,964fr. Thu metallic reserve has fallen o ff a I little more than I million in Paris, whilst it remains' nca , ly as it was in the branch-banks. On the side of the liabilities, the amount of notes in circulation has decreased 101 millions in Paris, and augmented 2 millions in the brunelt•hunks. The current-ac count of the treasury has fallen off I' millions, the present amount being 75,927,431 fr. Ordinary ac wants-current have increased 6 millions in Faris, and about f a million in tho provinces, the amount of the former being 118,522,732 fr.; and the amount of the latter, 26,192,8671 r. The whole amount of the metallic reserve is now 6711 millions, to , 5864 millions of notes in circulation. At the Bourse the Five per Cents. fell 4.7 e., and closed at 102 f. 80c. ; the Three per Cents. fell closing at 64f. 60c. Bank of krone(' shares tell The railway market did not greatly feel the we nets of the funds. Orleans ram 7f. 50c ; Rouen, :4 4 Versailles (right bank), '2l. ; but th e l e ft b ank fell 7f. 60e. ; Northern, :if. 75c. ; Lyons, Butklogs ; and Dieppe, 2f.60e. SPAIN. The following are the latest telegraphic despatches received in Paris up to last evening :—" p t *d Madrid, Feb. 3, 2 p.m.—The Queen hus vm-r1 the morning tranquilly ; the fever and tho breal inthunn ion, both inevitable, have moderated." A later despatch says :—."lhe suppuration of the wound is going on in a regular inouncr. Nu atti. dent has supervened. When her Majesty received the wound, which was indicted on her side with poniard, and not with a pistol, as ut first Muted, r.lie was proceeding to the church of Atoeha, surround e d by her court. The ansassiii, whu is a priest, has been arrested." We find the following in the l'aerie (Nei' paper) of Thursday evening: The attack made on the Queen of Spain has produced a deep and moat painful actuation in l'aris. All the repre sentatives of the fort ign powers and a great number of French political personages called this morning at th e 116 tel of the Spanish minister. The French Minister of Foreign Affairs was among the number. General Itogiot called in the name of the Prince-President, to express sympathy and regrets for the misfortune which hid hapts-ned to Queen habella. _ Dates from Madrid, by the ordinary channel, are of the Ist. The Queen was to repair in state to the church of Atocha in the afternoon ; and the troops would line the way. There is a talk of reinforci ng the garrison of the Balearic Isles, pis.libly in conse quence of the sheep's eye cast by France upon hat Mahon. SWITZERLAND. A letter from Berlin of the Ist, in the Bri , lea Gazette, states that news had arrived there of the conclusion of a treaty between the Austrian govern ment and the President of the French Republic, fixing the eventualities which shall cause the occupa tion of Switzerland by Frame and Austria. This news, says the letter, has occasioned great sensation in Berlin, as it is considered that such a treaty ought not to have been made without the consent of Pravda. ITALY. TURIN, Fix 3. The Chamber of Deputies has adoptLd, b% a btrung, majority, the bill on Public Security. • ROMAN STATES. Our Roman correspondent, writing on the 31st January, says that a complete ministerial change is shortly expected. The k reach troops had been rein forced by a thousand men. Colonel Nlunit was ex pected. Public penance, as during the middle ages, bad been revived at Ancona. The export of oak timber from that port was expected to be prohibited. Lord Bloomfield was recalled from Rome. GERMANY. JAN. 3. The Second Chamber is resting from debates on the constitution to discuss the budget of the Ftate. Meanwhile the government occupies itself with form. ing a new organisation of the First Chamber, to re place that which legally expires in August. A con ference on the subject took place at the Ministry of the Interior on the 3rd, when, besides MM. Man teuifel and Westphalen. several members of the party of the right—namely, Count Alvensleben, M. Stahl, M. von Duesberg, Count Itzenplitz., and the Under- Secretary Nlanteuffel—were present, having been invited on this occasion to give their opinions. The Kreuz 7.citusy states that the Austrian go- vernment has declared its readiness, on account of recent events in Copenhagen, to withdraw its troops from the Eider and the Lower Elbe ; and that it is not improbable that their departure will commence at the beginning of the next week. The Ilanibury Anstsblatt has a semi-o9leMl para. graph, stating that the representative of Hamburg at Berlin had received an assurance of the proximate withdrawal of the Austrians from the free city from M. Manteuffel. VIENNA, Fill. 2. The fear of the possible proceedings of the French government goes on increasing; it is acknom ledged here as well as in England that the personal wishes of the President are certainly not for war on account of the dread he would entertain of a successful gc neral ; but it is thought that he may be forced even tually into hostilities abroad to keep peace at home; and in this case it is believed that hi s tint attack would be either on the Rhe nish provinces of Prussia, or the Austrian states of Italy. To guard against this it has been the constant effort of the' more enlightened states men in Austria and Prussia to conclude a treaty on the basis of that proposed in 1840,m hen the latitude of France gave rule to similar apprehensions in Ger many. By this treaty it is desired that Austria should support Prussia on the Rhine, and that Prus sia should aid Austria is Italy in case of French in vasion. The treaty of commerce between Belgium and the Zoliverein, which has been delayed so long, was finally ratified and signed at Berlin on the 22nd of Janry. An enthusiast named Ilories--pmbably maa—and who is now undergoing imprisonment for some poli tical offence at Prague, has made a proposal to the Austrian government to place a discovery at their dis peal in exchange fur his liberty, by which they will be able to make a clear profit of forty million of florins in gold and silver yearly! Attention has been given to the subject so far that he has been instructed to communicate the nature of his discovery. The absurd jealousy of the press is earned to such an extent in %ienna that even the little Jew pedlars, who are generally the correspondents of the German papers, are watched by the police. A few days since, one of them being just about to slip his letter in the poet was seized in the heinous act, the letter taken from him, and he has not since been heard of. In fact the profession of a free lance in the middle ages was scarcely so dangerous as that of a knight of the quill in Germany. DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES. A letter dated Hamburg, Feb. 3, in the Inth!pt n donee Belgr, say*: Count lleventlow-Criminil, minister for Holstein. has arrived at Kiel, from Copenhagen, to enter upon the duties of his new post; and the Clianitterlain Von llille, the negotiator of the recent treaty, has just started for London, where he is accredited as minister plenipotentiary of the Danish government. Despatches from our resident. at Vienna and Berlin have just an nounced to our Senate the approaching evacuation of our city by the Austrian troops; their departure will take place simultaneously with the retirement of those who, in eon' junction with the Prussian troops, occupy Holstein. Our population is not yet completely Treasured, but think that a federal corps will still be kept in the north of Oersaany. TURKEY. The Caoyne Ginene states, from Constantinople , 24th ult., that the question of the holy places has been settled, to the satisfaction of the French minis ter, on the bases of the treaty of 1700. It is added that a Itouman banker had tied from Constantinople to Odessa, leaving a deficit of 15 millions of Turkish piastres, of which 13 millions are owing to the go vernment. SCINDE Pim: MONEY (2nd Diattibution).—Royal Hospital, Chelsea, 3nl February•, 1852.--Notice is hereby given, that by order or the lords and others, eommis , imoll for managing the affairs of this hospital, that the unchim 4 shares of a second distribution of prise money to her jesty's 22nd Regiment of Font, for the captures of Merattee and Hyderabad, in Lower *Mile, in 181:4, under Item ral Sir Charles James Nvier, will be payoble at my office, on and after the pith instant, between the hours of 11 and 2 o'clock.—A. J. !doom' EAD, Secretary.—Gaaite.