The Express. — London, England, 1848-05-30 00:00:00

1111111.11111111111.11.11111111111.1.11111 11 . 11111111.1111111111.1111.11111.1.11111 . , ~ - . .. 1 THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 30, 1848. 3 _____ IOP --- - -- ,- IRO. sad 46,616 i. • ,pit increase, until in 1846, 1823, he saw no memo to an and the ship-ownen of ignars. (Haar, hear.) Let men the number of ships 2, 1823, the years Huekisson, the spa buil 'B,OOO, and 86,000 ; wher eas 1, the y amounted to 169,000, r, bear.) lie must obaerve; team -ships, which were die. clearly proved that there power of the ship °lin en builders to build these otinent. They were told 1823 greatly benefited the teat their effect he thought the shipping prior to those iently. In 1820 the British we countries with which we tooted in tonnage to 6,026, ,129,000 tons. If we ref erre d it would be found that there crease over foreign shippiug, mikieson'a law, the amount of rds was upwards 443,000,000, In 18W the foreign shipping none than 100 per cent. • but sited to upwards of 8,00d,000, chipping represented 40 per mployed ; in 1846, notwith ied by the transmission of g was only 41 per cent. of the ith regard to th.ae countries reciprocity, or otherwise, we ruled by the supposition that era were unable to compete en said on the subject of our pinion that our colonies were f securing a market for our fee our commercial marine. ould be explained by facts. In hich leftour por a wee 1:119,000 our colonies, and 803,000 to e colonial trade, chiefly of the d increased from 746,000 to ads to neutral countries had 21,000 tons, being an increase &mist trade, bar of 240 per teal countries. (Hear, hear) stry could remove the restric- I laboured, by enabling them North Am. rica, to bring their eat benefit would be confined lecturers here cou.d send out on their return voyage, eta a benefit would be cunferre snufacturer, but also upon 4.11 Cr. dependent upon his efforts. an who had last addressed the he effects which the proposed the East India shipping be- Now, he (Mr. Wilson) sp. el be held to be of greater ad than to adopt any means. ion could be imported and cofactors and cousumption r.) Hence he thought the facts :lent to establish the poeitien he a nothing in the tree trade prin. tended towards the navigation übt that the British shipowner compete with foreigners, or to ipping interest ought to be or rr matters to which free trade sion " that there had been too much harbour work," and Mkt* him speak of Mr. COBDEN'S proof of the truth of what he had alleged as merely an " attempt to clear up the statement of facts he had made." Can anything be more bum or dishonest than this conduct of the nines? It is essential to Mr. Cultures vindicetion that the country should be aware, not only of what he says for himself, but of the impression his statement made upon those who among his auditors are best qualified to judge of its weight and relevancy. Mr. HUME and the CHAN CELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER concur in declaring it conclusive and satisfactory, and even Captain HARRIS, though still grumbling at the severity of Mr. COB DEN'S language, admits that his facts cannot be ques tioned—that " there has been too much harbour work." And the Times, after doing its utmost to prepossess the public against Mr. CoRDEN's veracity, wilfully and malignantly suppreanes these testimonies to it. The Tunes cannot say that the subject to which it had devoted a long and laboriously abusive leading article was not of sufficient importance to warrant a full report of the debate on it in the Hume of Commons. This unprincipled trick of the Times is only a part of a systematic and concerted attempt to discreditand run down Mr. COBDEN. Lord J. RUSSELL set the example of en attempt in the House of Commons to talk of the Lonourable member for the West Riding in a supercilious and disparaging tone, in the expect ation that this would reader him less regarded out of doors. The small fry of the BAILLIE COCHRAtaS, in their eagerness to imitate the minister, as My Lord Duke and Sir Harry imitate their masters and their visitors in " High Life Below t 3 airs," have so caricatured the tone that the better feel ings of the CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER com pelled him to check this swarm of copyists. We may therefore expect less of such offensive language in future, but the fault must be amended altogether. It is lees Mr. COBDEN personally than the Manchester manufacturer that these gad-flies of the aristocracy aro vexed at. Their impertinence is directed against the class to which Mr. COBDEN belongs ; arid they may rest assured that the clans feels it, and will in due time show its resentment, if the practice is not desisted from. to inquire whether regulations which were teal when the "d e of Soglaed was in it. infancy ought to be eseitinued. I t wee felt, then, that the only posaibility of p log the colonies was to make them an Integral part of the mother country; to give them every privilege she en kee4 ; to matte their s. trade as free between them as wen between the poiuces of this island ; to leave them to adopt whatever et English laws they ph teed, Ire though they fouud laws souls Dutch, some German. w ee Spsuish, Mud some Portuguese, they would have Heal. g ensated with the mother country. But instead of this they sent them out constitution , from the Colonial-office which were never adapted to their state of society. (Hear, heur.) They preferred sacrificing the colonies to the mabdonance o f the manufacturing system—(bear, hear.); and they were .o iog on .ii the same dinvtioli now by continuing clasa lrgis (leo*, hear.) They km w that no trade could be carried on unless it was IN ilefiCisa to both parties, and yet ahoy inteuilid to give the beheld of their trade to the French e sed other toreigners, to the irejedice of their own brethren the coluniets. Thi y spo'ee of the abolition of the eern lawo, a n boasted of giving the poor cheap bread. Did 'hey thiuk that p did not see through them when they talked of cheapening the poor nein'o loat and at the Paine SSA. took away the pour man'. employment ? (Cheers.) They were ungrateful, end they were said to be set against the manuf.cturers. There wee no need of setting them' iss ee,t pee manufacturers. He sever spoke to an English a dmen or labourer vibe did nut :ay —nut in the Linguae. of Lord Bacon, e hich he was g .log to one, but in lenguoge which invoke ed the same an sat itll, nt, our ingratitude to only •keen inoieht into the inet.se 5.4 others." (Cheer..) The noble lord said thew he contemplated, with the pride of an Englishmen, the greaten sa of their colonial empire, and that if ever the time Caine when it we. necessary for their ado ales to separate from them, it should not be his hand that would sign the deg.!. Thew seetiments did credit tei him as an Enat.fiman,and were worthy of his high repuratien es a statesman. (Hear.) But thole woo one in this country greater than he, and if it was a painful thing for him to con template the time when he might sign such a treity, it must be doubly painful to the sovereign who swot as such love all her , ehildr.n alixe. The noble Led must recollect how-pain ful it warts George 111. to be ohlg. d to receive the ambas sada of the United States. Alio it they continued to pursue soap' licy they were now pursuing, they could not keep their goloid.s. They might be rich. but they would be aho con.empt ibis. The policy :of their Edwards went long beture that of their Bicherds. They :tied to mike their country great, because they knew that to make it great was to make it rich. (Hear, hear.) But tee object of your idolatry is wea lth. (He or, hear.) W. alihy you may be, and your mover ign may have au island like Corsica or Sicily, hut the sovereign or mamas of a great empire never can she be. Mr. F. SCOTT addressed the house, but in the midst of so much none as to be aLoust inaudittle in the gallery. Its concurred in the sentiments of his hon. friend who had just spoken but was surprised that bin hon. friend was not going to give his vote in accordance with the opinions he had so eh quently expressed. (Hear, hear.) Ile thought that as the c..mmittee of that house had not made ally re porton the subject, they ougia not to be called ou so hur riedly to give • d.cbion es 6o important question. The g eereachmente which they had already made m the naviga. lion laws were not attend, el with the results which should induce them to proceed in the same line of policy. Although he admitted that there was an increase in British -hipping absolutely, yet there was a great falling off relatively to other c lorries. The evidence which had been given &tore the Lords committee showed that the maniiing stri victuallieg of British y,setls was mote expensive than in foreign countries, acid prohibition was necessary in order that they might be able to compete succesolutly with other countries which poseessed superior advantages. A tenall reduction in the treightege was a small compensation for the loss which the abolition of the navigation laws would entail upon them. Mr. MOFFATT moved that the debate be adjourned to Thursday next, T which was agreed to. OBAGO RELIEF BILL. On the order of the day fur the house to go into committee on this bill being read, Sir H. WILLOUGHBY uked whether the sum of 5,0001 granted to relieve the sufferer. from the hurricane in Tuber° had Man paid out of the civil contingencies fund ? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that, although he might:have been justified in so providing for the payment, he had not dune it, but had retired coming to parliament for a distinct grant. The huuse then went into commi.tee on this Intl. On the clause proposing the loan to Guiana and Trinidad for the purpose of immigratiou of labourers into those co lonies being proposed, Sir H, WILLOUGHBY protested against the system of making such loans to the colonies. The clauses of the bill being agreed to, the house resumed, and the report was ordered to be received this day. Mr. V. HARCOUR t, by permission of the house, de livered in his quslificationo, and subscribed the puha. mentary roll, which he had neglected to do on taking the oaths and his seat as member for Oxfordsnire, the hon. gentleman when he text the oaths having been the e,de't son and heir apparent of a peer of parliament, and as ouch exempt from that rule of the house which enjoins the ob servance of the formaliti. a referred tn. SHANNON NAVIGATION. Dr. BOWRING was about to draw attention to this subject when an hon. memher moved that the home be counted.—There not being 40 members present the house stood adjourned. sacrifice at Sir WILLIAM'S hands is equally a guaran tee for the sincerity with which they profess to re gard this question, as outweighing in importance all others that now agitate the public. The advocates of parliamentary reform in parliament have given proof of their determination to force the discussion on a reluctant ministry and obstructive opposition; and having so far carried their point that they have placed themselves in security against any repetition of that game by which they were on the last occasion compelled to postpone the debate or commence it at • disadvantage; deserve every support they can receive from reformers throughout the country. The reform party in the House of Comm - ins has done its duty; it is now the turn of the reformers out of doors to do theirs. They must exert themselves to strengthen the hands of their parliamentary advocates, by putting it out of the power of the anti-reformers to allege with any plausibility on the 20th of June that the people do not wish for further reform. In this good work the reformers in Birmingham, Man chester, and other populous sites of tr ad e and com merce are earnestly at work. The more isolated knots of reform. rs, scattered through districts where landlord ascendancy strikes fear into the masses, ought to be following their example, and we have no doubt will follow it. There are many ways in which men may express their earnestness in the cause. Let ull select that method which appears to them most expedient or most lilt( ly to meet with the concurrence of tie circles in which they move. Petitions to parliament are one method. And with regard to them it may bo necessary to keep in mind that reci nt events have tended to throw discredit upon numeionsly signed petitions. Members, since the great abortion of the national petition, really do feel some distrust, and affect more. This is not the least evil of all such reckless and braggadocio die ingenuity as was evinced in the case to which we refer, that it affords trimmers a pretext for professing peeptit ism and remaining inert. The petitions wanted on the present occasion are such as carry on the face of each a gua rantee of their authenticity. The retormers .of Preston are resolved that there shall no doubt be left as to the wishes of thi it community with regard to parliamentary reform. They are preparing family peti t ions—petit ions "of the undersigned householder and family" in support of the measures embraced in Mr. HustL's motion. It is proposed that each such peti tion shall be signed by all the inmates of each house of 18 years of age or upwards. In the first column are the signatures of the parties; in the second their respo ctive ages; in the third their own pations ; in the fourth the designation of the house in which they reside. Petitions thus signed,' by the facility they afford for testing their au thenticity, are entitled to and will receive high cre dence. It is desirable that all parties who are able should write as well as sign their own petitions, as this voucher for the deliberation with which they have been prepared shows that they really ex press the earnest WIS' card those who for ward them, and that they are not merely signed out of good-humoured inability to say "no" to canvassers for signatures. A petition of the kind we have been describing may be written on hull a sheet et common letter paper, and even the most isolated families or reformers can easily con tribute this their mite to the cause. There is another way in which reformers out of doors can martially aid in strengthening the hands of their friends in the House of Commons at the present time. There are in parliami nt a great many mem bers who owe their seats to frequent prefessions— often couched in vague enough phraarology —that the,. are ready and willing to aid in extending more widely the possession of political power and influence, whenever an opportunity offers. Now gentlemen of this class are apt to be remarkably short-sighted, and have great difficulty in discerning the most palpable opportunity that liesbefore them. It is absol ately neces sary to point out to them that such an opportunity is now presented to them. Their doctrine is that it will be in vain to move unless a spontaneous de-ire for farther reform pervades the people. Whether such a spontaneous desire pervades the people, they will not trouble themselves to inquire, lest they should dis cover that it does. It is, therefore, incumbent on their constituencies to draw their attention to the fact. Every constituency who entertain the least doubt of the activity and sincerity of their member in the cause of parliamentary reform ought to for ward a well-signed memorial to him, requesting him to support Mr. HUME'S motion. And as such mem bers are an unaccountable generation and apt some times to find strange pretexts for not doing their duty—as some of them have ere now been known to refuse to do what was right by way of showing their indignant sense of the imputation conveyed in a request that they would do it—it were as well that such memorials were addressed to all liberal members without exception. The universality of the applications will remove all appearance of individual distrust, and with it any reason for taking offence at being thus reminded. Other means of impressing the House of Commons and individual members with a conviction of the ear nestness with which the people desire further elec toral reform, will doubtless suggest themselves to many. The more various the methods adopted the more unequivocal will be the testimony they bear in the aggregate to the spontaneity and universality of the desire. And the Importance of the end to be obtained ought to be a sufficient spur to reformers to tax their ingenuity and activity for some extra -ertion between this time and the 20th of next month. w ards together, wet 64,708 tons in 1842, and 46,816 in 1844. We have no returns separately of the maritime and fluvial navigation, but it may be stated, as a general ap proximation, that the latter enters for more than one-half into the whole number of vessels, with at least teo-fhths of the total tonnage. The traffic by the Elbe was mate rially affeired by the onerous tariff of duties imposed upon its navigation in late years. The commeroe of Hamburg abs rhs upwards of 90 per cent. of the total navigation of the Elbe. The commerce of Hamburg represented about the follow ing aggregate values in imports and exports of merchandise, by sea, liver, and lead corneae: 1612, 1819. 1844. t 1,600,00 £34,763,000 £31,010,000 F r the last year cited, the returns for the other. being omitted se superfluous and nattiness ry, the total movement thus presented was made up of imoorts to the value et about 17,557,0001., and of exit .rts for 18.4.53.0001. The fol lowing are the proportions in which the three countries which figure at the head of the list entered for imports and exports in the aggregate ma , * for 1844: Fluntirt. Prwria, for Gre. 4 Britain Iliwover The principal imports from Great Bri•ain consisted of raw cotton, ct.tton yarns and fabrics, woollen fabrics, cutlery, iron and steel, and indigo. The chi, I exports crow Harn burg to Great B halt' were raw wool, corn, and flour, and cotton manufactures. The moor ante of the trade with Hamburg to British in teroos may readily be estimated bt these figures. It may be idled, moreover, tkat as the total effective shipping of Hamburg couvisted, on th. I,t of January, 1845, 01 only 205 shiie, of the agorefato burden uf 50.9:17 tuns, inclusive of eight steam-vessels, of which flee carved on the Elbe, this 111011 t important traffic was caret, d on chiefly by, and all to the Advantage uf, British shipping. o well how to =predate. I ask of 'ogle enticipadoe, year Mend. chip for our sew chili, feeling sure that you will partake all the renUments of devotion and of affection which we all feel for you, ter Prince Albert, and for all your dear fanilly.--1 aeo, made= your Majesty's entirely devoted Nerraint and Mend, Milli•ANZLin. TO nag BILMINTT Tilt 11101:111 OW TIM PWeCil. Osborne, hoot. to, 1846. Madam,— I have jut received ye= Ma. yletter of the oth of this month, and I =dim to thank you for It. You will remember. perhaps, whit happened at Ea batman th e King and me : you know the importance I have always ra don= to the maintenance of oar cordial unthealandieg, and the seal with which I have labour= in it. You have learned without doubt that we refused to arrange the marriage between the Queen of Miran and our rotten Leopold (which the two Queens were fray =elms for), with the sole object of not departing from a course which might be more liveable to the King, although we could oot consider that 1 mune as the beat. Sou can then easily comprehend that the sudden annsumement of the double marriage could came ue nothing bin cm price and very deep regret. I ask pardoe. Madam, for speaking to you at the present moment shoat politics, but I am glad to he able to say to meneli that I have been always sincere with you. Begging you to present my riects to the King, I am, Madam, your Stalectj's very devoted sour a= friend. Vieroam R. MR. HORSILANII MOTION AND THE BIBB( OP LINCOLN. TO THE 110 HT HIV. THE LORD BISHOP OP LT COLA. My L.rd,—We cannot be sufficiently grateful to Mr. Herman for the zeal and ability he has displaytd in the service of the church, and for the good that will be derived from his exertions. The effect of them is most apparent, by the interest they create in the hierarchy, and the readiness displayed by your lordship to some forward and publicly comment upon them. The real state of the temporalities of the church has only to be folly known, and there is not a man, high or low, who is anxious fur the good of the church, and the welfare of the country, that will not lend his utmost en^rgies to remedy the enormous evils that now exist there. Every observation c.ming from such high authority is receic d by the pub ic with the deepest attintion, and causes red etions that will continue to assist aid advancc the great end ,ined at, and hoped for—a thorough refermatiun of the present vicious pr- - practices. four lordship is made to ray in the parliamentary report, that "to communicate facts to the bishop of the diocese shows the moat sincere desire to correct the abases in ttue church." Upon this hint I now proceed; and trust I do not flitter myself with a vain hope that, upon due odist deration of those abuses as they now land, your lordship will become a most determined reformer. You mentioned two inqances of beneficiary clergymen of your diocese who have perished, if not by absolute stares non, at the beet that can be said in the last degree of des titution : the one possessed of an income of "641. a year, not regularly paid ; " the other that of 951. These circum stances have been long publicly known. Have there been any and what wane taken to correct this abase, and to prevent its recurrence It is rated in the report of the ecclesiastical commission in 1835, that the Bishop of Lincoln and the down slut chapter have between them upwards of ninety " coolest utical preferments" in their patronage, not one h.ilf of which exceed an income of 1501. a year ; only ten that will afford the means of uneml - arrassed living, end not one that will give the peesessor the means of exercising, to any es tent, a charitable disposition. The remainder are such as lead to the destitution so much to be deplored. By what abuses has this come to pus ? Thus. There are sixty of these " livings," as they are called (hut the name is a l• st), that have been made vicarag e. That means, shorn of their rreugth, dispossessed of the great tithes. blow was this abase accomplished, and who is now in the receipt of these tithes ? • It is stated that in one of the destitute parishes, " the church was neglected, no service for six or nine weeks, and no administration of the sacrament for two years." Where were the dignitary overluokera all this time ? Had the parish refused to pay tithes there would have been no lack of service. Soca as above described are the circumstances of our hard working, efficient clergy, to whose exertions wo chiefly owe the respect and attachment that still remains to the church. I will now call your attrition to a contrast. It is stated in the before-mentioned report also, that there are in the cathedral church of Lincoln 47 dignitaries who have separate incomes and estates. Their aggregate incomes amount to 1,3701. a year ; the tate, are leased by . them foe 21 years. or three lives, at nominal rents, receiving large fines. The fines received by only five of these dignitaries appear in the report, and they are sa follows : Prebend of Langford Manor X975 No duty. Newington 472 To preach twice yearly. „ goambie•by slow Laura 9OO , onto „ Welton Painshall Here is the sum of 6,0971. of the church property pall In cash for the preaching of four sermons. Verily, my lord, the text for each of them should have been a sentence from St. Paul's Bpiste to the Romans: " Dost thou commit sacrilege ?" The value of the remaining forty-two estates it is difficult even to guess at; but the aggregate of the duty performed for them is stated to be the preaching of forty-eight sermons yearly. AU these abuses were going on at the time of the extreme destitution both of the ministers and the services described by your lordship, end they still continue. The church estates in the Lincoln diocese are stated to be managed according to the " usual custom," conseqm ntly they produce only two-sevenths of their real value, and the estimate will be as follows : 2-7tha received. 5-7thsloet. For the estates belonging to the etc.. X 4,913 E12,252 Do. The Dean and Chapter ... 7,692 COLON IA L. AUSTRALIA.—We have received Port Philip paws to the 13th of January. Their contents may be summed up midi r two n ends :—Expretoiun. of disaatisfse tion with the new constitution announced as in prep ration by E eel Grey, and c , mpleints of the scarcity and dearned of lainme Oa the first head, the deelm &lions of um s'ori l'atriot are as emphatic u thase of the Sydney Morning Herald. In the number or the Ideloournv paper Wnicn we have named, published on tl e 12'.k of January last we find the loilewing remark., which lesi-rve attention: lisinie weeks before the arrival of Earl Gre) . e last despatch, we ap prised our readers of the intention her ktahsty's governineet to annul 'he existing form el our ooneututioo, and tn nub-utute one similar to that inflicted on New Zealand. We then denounced the selleule u repugiitet t the letter u,d sprit of British connotational law, and those histitutions whist• proteetlng privdegns are sand to acountpa y us to every soil that uckhowledo s Oldish sway. belt evehnt truisms are not calculated to excite argument or die eumiun • and nubile opinion, no tar as it b. yet been en:dewed, througlitiut the colonies, he. concurrently reprobated the intend... tem ut a cede no utterly at variance silk all maxim. of existing f. ee governments. Little advantage can now he derived from prolix local thsunatinut on the threatened Injustice; the etfurt In required eierwhere. We cannot, however, omit to notice the eminent absur ' dity of the laudatory common places about the advantages of '• local eelLguve•timent," the "substantial enjoyments of representative goveromente," Ste., with which Lord Grey annihilates the franchise of a whole e luny ! Fur after all tnat bus been said and written on tue oubject, to this point is the question narrowed. The Louie earl believe. that thin antilirittah ace will enable the colonists "to meet inst tallow; worthy of the empire to which they belong." Ile behest. aileming the elective voice of the people, confin ing Ftern to the most limited of Indirect reprownLmon, vivo baelung the irresponsthilay of their delectitte, opening the do to bribery and corruptioe, and securing taxation with out representation, to be the mod effective mode by which we may be enabled to " elect institution. woriby of the mutate t which we belong I" Throughout the whole of toe despatch, bet one reason is adduced for this grievous Ingle two-ax., that " the legislative council has aborted all other powers of the colonial state." It hoe "Soothed" nothing mere than was needful-it " abeorbcd " much greater "powers" when it absorbed the " commits." But, ergo. hie lordship, be the legit halve council has absorbed all these cowers, I'll administer a mom uve, by making the local councils aba eb, de facto, the !col halve council, sad thus balance mama-. Agatu, thus) municipalities, or eac oral colleges, can uoly be eittablbaied where a certain decree of comentration exists, Ito. will this act In our situating °hones? Astern, members qualified fur the duties of represating Port Phan', m Ilie ti) ono , Legaseature are, rays his lordship, "unable to under take the expense of atoolooleg unit residences ani pursuitn in the °when, colony" for that pun p. ae. How thin, we would salt, cal, his lordship expect that the corporation nominees from own. Myer, tl anti Aultralie, Van Diemen's Lan", and Pori Phillip can abandon their "residences and pursuit." to attend the General Congress a, Sydney I Touching the powers of this said Congress, or " Central Legtoative Authority," we augur little benefit front its functions. The mutate district will always, Loin inset:is muses, have the predomi nant power, and we have had pretty tolerable experience that she knows how V. use It. The function of thin central authority will be to protect our common and collective Intern-hi-such as the impototim ui Import and export duties, the oueveyance in lettere, fornultoei 011 roods, runways" Sc. It would nut be very difficult to suggest eases which a dominant section 01 et... Cress would be enabled, m Use din metea and management of our cumuain Interests," to turn the scale in wed own favour. The expedaton with which Earl Grey eon. templates lurking Ms bantling tar up, Parliament will, we tea, make the reutoostrances of the colonists arrive a day after the fur. It in to be booed, however, that when tee bill is introdemed, Mr. Scott will prove our I,oel. per lemma tow u,t been thrown away. Wits regard to this labour ro.irlset the 10110 tog in formadou we extract irom use Port I'lssllip Harald, with a view to convey some useful intormatiou to our unem ployed labourers here at home. The Emigration-office in Westminster may possibly receive it about six montivi hence. , An a vessel mils from Ilobon's buy in a day or two, we have, at parucular requent, compiled the foil mueg authentic Kale of the wages ' paid at pra-svot In Melbourne to various classes of mechanics and labourers; and the remuuerattun is le +Acura every ituttenee stall higher, worn parties are enen;ed u, the interior, or the coast towns of A..ertou, Litoloug, Warrnambool, Puellauld, Bedsit, Re.: GERMANY. FRANKFORT.—Tue NATIONAL ASSEMBLY, MAY 26.—1 n the course of this day's sitting the assembly, on the motion of Mr. Heekacher, resolved to appoint a committee to take iato consideration the means of forming a German navy. M. }iergenhahn read the report of the committee on the affair at Mayence. The report states that the committee received their information from the civil and military authorities; the excitement which pre vailed rendered more extended inquiries inadvisable. The hostility between the inhabitants of Mayence and the Prussian garrison appears to date from March 22. In the late collision the Prussian troops had more killed and wounded than the inhabitants, and many of the wounds of the soldiers appear to have been inflicted by daggers. The committee recommend the removal of the Prussian troops ; the replacing of them by Darmstadt troops; and the re organisation of the national guard. M. Zitz entered e great length into the relations of the garrison and inhabitants of Mayence since 1814, and urged a revi sion of the arrangements of the garrison in that city, the present having been made at the most arbitrary epoch of the German diet. M. Sehmerling (Vienna) repudiated M. Zitz's encomiums on the Austrian troops in Mayence, as an insidious attempt to sow diseensien between them and the Prussians. M. Blum supported the views of M. Zdz. Prince Lych nowski defended the Prussian troops. Messrs. Beck erath and Welcker moved the order of the day, which was carried by a majority, the minority intimating their intention to enter a protest on the minutes. AUSTRIA.—MANIFESTO OP THE EMPEROR OF AUSTRIA.—His Majesty has put forth the following : biANIFIVITO To ter PEI:WM—The events which took place in Vienna on the 15th of May. force upon me the painful conviction that anarchical faction, supported by an academic legion and single divisions of the burgher and na tional guard, drawn away chiefly by foreigners from their wonted allegiance, wished to deprive me of liberty for the purpose of enthralling my provinces, which cannot but be universally exasperated at the arrogance of these individuals. as well es the righuninded inhabitants of my residentiary city. I had no alternative but that of having etc nose to violent measures, througn the medium of my faithful garrison, or quietly withdrawing for the moment to some one of my provinces, which, thanks be to God, have all remained true to their monarch; there could be no ques tion as to the choice to be adopted. I decided for the peaceful, bloodless alternative, and turned to the mountain country which had at all times been found faithful, and where at the same time I might more quickly receive intelligence from the army which is fighting an valiantly for their country. It is my firm resolve not to retract or lessen the gifts which I made to my people in March; on the contrary, I shall even be inclined to listen to the reasonable wishes of my people in a legal way, and to attend to the national and provincial inter , sta. They must, however, be such as have the general approbation, be presented in a legal manner, be discussed by the Diet, and submitted to me fur my sanction ; they are not to be forcibly exacted by unauthorised persons with weapons in their hands. This it is what I wished to teach my anxiously excited people for their general comfort, by my departure from Vienna, and at the tame time to remind them that with paternal love I have ever been ready to receive my sons• even those who have been looked upon u lust.---Innspruck, May 20. VIENNA, MAY 24.—The Wiener Zeituna, of this date, contains a ministerial disavowal of a proclama tion published by Count Banbelles at Salzburg, at tributing the flight of the Emperor to the fanatical efforts of a party in Vienna aiming at anarchy. The ministers declare that only through them can the sentiments of the Emperor be constitutionally made known, and intimate thai Baron Dobbllff has been sent to Innspruck as a constitutional adviser to his Majesty, in order to remove unconstitutional •efluences. This bronaht him to Adam r4ation laws. If he had shown wed the shipowner and the ship. a acted up-n them as it acted e bad proved that free trade had in but the increase of British wed that the national defences to be so. He found that in ole o. the B •• h merchant aen, while in 1840 the num w principle of action amounted 'rely, this large number of men lit be drawn rendered the royal ids in time of need, Tbne, he remove any doubts which might the navigation laws endangering leer, hear.) But there was an had been very much overlooked ate, and that was that since Kr. I his policy—a policy which had governments, and lastly carried rht hon barooet, the member for es of increased demand and con ic (Mr. Wilson' asked it an in in foreign shipping, how it would brought to this country tbe in raw materials for manufacture within tee last 20 years. During hject and intention of legislation last seven years) had hem to be imports and exp,rte. If that old have been necesaay to incense pping ; and he contended that it to divert, by high protection,cs when capital was scarce for ther d be better directed. In 1823 the 1 brought into this country was r it was 62,000 000 lbs. Of cotton seen imported 169,000.0001bn • in 1,000,000 lbs. Ot sugar the im port tuns ; in 1847 it was 410,000 the importation in 1823 reached year it was 2,950,000 qrs. This oreigo ships to bring these raw ma lt, however, the dipping interest et onmete succesefully with that of ne respects, there were nentrel • had greater ,ucectis. He had a , showing the number of ships en -1845. They were 571 in number, itish ships. And where did they go ti corneas to all the torrign countries =petition with the ships of Trieste, Lions. Only 20 came to the port of went to foreign ports. Ile was how accounts he had received during the its had been made agsinst the ear ere. This had been referred to in uoted by hi+ right hon. friend the of Trade. Ilia right hon. friend's vening had been corrohorated by a earl received from a highly respect ro, dated the Ist of April last, and m ships were getting freight at 50e., , arid though there were 21 English they were unable to get chartered earacter of their captains for careless . manner is which they discharged it," sad vies of "No, no.") bin d by a document which had been reek at Lloyd's, but which bad been mher of the committee of Lloyd's. r emained the great question as to great variety of opinice s were eater 'very high authority. Many thought reciprocity first adopted by Mr. Has principle now to be followed. He i r .ion. If free trade was good to this o make other nations adopt it. The the member for Oxford (Mr. Olad hat in 1844 and 1845 th e thee govern heir power to induce foreign countries I reciprocity ; hut their experienced rent them adopting again that coarse ng negotiations the eff .rte bad proved , thought it was quite right to urge the Ales of free trade, for it was better to Once that adoption than to attempt , * ts of reciprocity. On that ground be oposed by his right hon. friend (MI. i more successful than if his memo= procity treaties. (Hear, bear.) Ha ad cheered when he (Mr. Wilson) had of free trade. It was quite true, sad :, that at the present moment the com mis country were suffering under gloat tion of prices, and that there haa p 1 the usual demands for Whisk he would ask those bonoursele cheered, what would have bees the try if tree-trade principles had na n des tar.) Look at other countriee, it tatest wonder and surprise that Enema e to pass through the ordeal of dif6eultl she had recently been expace (Hears ful to refer to the condition of neig lids monopoly end restriction had been utmost tenacity, but he INS! confides% for the measures carried by the Tighe red) during the last seven years, the iuntry would have been greatly &gr a ' or, entertained the stronge st ho p es t at • fairly and fully developed, w ould be hem the germs of great and future mote biOND said he wished to state his stion, tesugh it was not his intent: to r o ment by giving a hosti le vote o _ In the first piece, he own ed he wa s Loul proposed by the government by rry a@ all thc code of laws relating had been passed from the reign. € 1 ! o the present time—laws t no enaca tee;tea t ete ase after age. It was said th nether development of the thing cies! hon. memeers might know what 02! entional term, but he con fess ' d be wes i ll r.nd it. It lie knew that Yorkshire _ er e, end L a ncashire on the other, and_tkee se expected to be produced, tot the ~.etee obstetric aid, and the Ecinonsist l the bantling. (" Hear," and laugheus bter. D dogma promulga ted in that e_j pest and selling in the dearest m.aket, i en ded that toy such a test t h e IV 1 and military , were to he eet ecn; the sages of ages had pronounced spelt," lreature is the greateet a test good ;" but the simple dettptu,f, a p Huy for a was sell " and laughter.) This was the prere. rnmetit had lounded this meneurc, pr e re ▪ Li. it to-night was, that by its ad ild be got at • much cheepce rate to ontry was now in a different P nly a• eren",... stood at the end of the war, not talsti int./peat uf other C,lltiet.l, other' a Mr. liuskuison, Mr. Wallace, aud Total loss Z31,512 perineum. I have no hesitation in telling your lordship that evtry dignitary who conforms to the present custom, and sigma a lease taking the usual fine, acts contrary to the laws of his country, and wrongs the church in the above proportion. This ce.culation is upon the presumption that the leases ars i all for twenty-one year. If any of them are for three lives the lou will be double. Here under your own eye, by the abuse of management, is a dead annual loss to the c hurch of 31,5121. If the votes of the separate dignitaries are added, and the whole fai h fully managed and fairly appled, there will be no more com plaints of destitution in the diocese of Lincoln.—ln the full hope of witnessing 3 our lordship's most conscientious exer tions in the removal of these abucs I remain, your humble servant. Alt OLD CiItALCIMAN. IRELAND. Drente, MAT 28. The United Irishman—which it was stated confi dently for some days was to have been continued by Mrs. Mitchel, and under the superintendence of the Rev. Mr. Kenyon, the lately suspended parish priest of Templederry—was last evening taken possession of by the police, who carried off the types, Arc., on a dray. Subsequently it appeared that Mr. Cavan Duffy had. ou the day . previous, purchased all the materials, and having intimated this circumstance to the authorities, orders were issued to restore the property, and at about 6 o'clock the types were brought back to the office in Trinity-street. Other accounts say that Mr. Mitchel, some days before his conviction, made a deed of sale of his effects and of the copyright of the United Irish:nan to Mr. John Martin, of Loughorne, and the Rev. John Kenyon, both of whom intend to continue the journal in the same spirit in which it has heretofore been conducted. Mr. Devin Reilly is said to be a part proprietor. On the production of this deed of sale, the persons acting for the crown are understood to have suspended the execution of the sequestration. i It is reported that, at a late hoer last night, the private residence of Mr. Mitchel was searched by a p a rty of police, under Inspector Guy, with a view of obtaining possession of objectionable documents, and it is added that a large quantity of manuscripts were seized. Mr. Smith O'Brien returned to town last evening 1 from the county Wicklow, where he hod been Below r ing since his trial, for the benefit of his health. Soon after his arrival he sent for hie physician, and, from what has transpired, it is believed that the state of his health is far from satisfactory; even the most i-au guine of his friends do not imagine that he can ap pear in public life for some time. In the anxiety to follow the caravan which con veyed Mr. Mitchel yesterday beyond the line marked out by the authorities, the people and the police, but only in a few instances, came into conflict. The former, of course, came off worst, and charges of violence against the police have been the consequence; that body, however, has demeaned itself in tac pre sence of very arduous duties for some days with great propriety, forbearance, and courtesy. No disturbance of public order followed the re moval of Mr. Mitchel last night. There was no talk even of violence or disorder, and when the police in terfered, which last night was done with peculiar gentleness, the people broke up and re-formed in other quarters. Today the fate of Mr. Mitchel is the subject of universal conversation, but of conversation only. The more violent among the clubs were indignant that no demonstration was made yesterday : but the more prudent thought it better to abstain from manifesta tions of weakness. To-day the propriety of raising a fund for the wife and children of Mr. Mitchel will be discussed by the clubs. Some very lils.ral subscriptions have been contributed; among them Dr. Atkinson, of the Freeman's Journal, 501. Mr. Mi chel's circumstances are the reverse of affluent. His chief support was the United Irishman, whicn is now in the hands of the police. A new journal will appear in a fortnight—the Ir?als Tribune. It was believed that in anticipation of the suppression of the United Irishman, Messrs. Mtchel and Reilly had prepared its successor; but I 'leder stand the new organ is of chartist origin and prin. ciples. Among the recipients of intimidating letters from the foolish friends of Mr. Mitchel was Mr. Henn. He was menaced with assassination if he dared to hold a brief for the crown. He held the briet, and did his duty. Yesterday he walked the streets slows and unaccompanied, and, of course, unharmed. Mr. Ilitchers friends are anxious to know what will be his final resting-place, the Bermudas or Nor folk Island. It has been conjectured that ministers would accept the offer of expatriation from Mr. Mitchel, with a pledge not to a...t er speak against England from his new home in the States. On these terms he might obtain a release. The following has appeared in the Nation: By virtue of this verdict John Mitchel is " put upon the country ; " and we call on "the country " to meet the responinbility in the only way it ought to be met. One man more has been added to tne lie' of Ireland's mart) rs— one man more has been ucriliced by England f.r his devo'ion to Ireland. This personal ca-a points the summit of that pile of wrongs which h..s been heaped upon us....NeWas 4,h• i k tinal*nd of patient endurance, and the ti ' veer O a k evil unite and arm. We mu s t do in a wee wee. maids as ma, Al Lave done in a yecr before ; every parts y, vskings,stieVs in town must arise, and be carolled. T yen be' more: - ti rest (Jr tne lord leader • of this cause b ,i p.diahoitour,ble' ..-; retre,it or in sie.ory. Tb. rr must be nos‘i_ ..• Old Irel..n or' '_, Young, or say distinction or di ff erence Wet \ea, toilet .74 r , I; t i i :r. • ' ii i tr ELECTION COMMITTEES—YESTERDAY. Dt:SLIN.—The commi tee appointed to try the I merits of the several petitions presented against the return made at the late election for the city of Dublin, aesernblen yesterday morning. It consisted of Lord Robert Grosvenor, chairman, the Marquis of Ormilsy, Mr. Sotheton, Mr. Bright, and Mr. Hamm. The first petition is that against the return of Mr. John Reyn this, on the ground of want of qualification ; and secondly, b• cause his majority was merely colourable by reason of bad votes. The petitioners there fore pray a scrutiny. The second petition was against the return of Mr. Grogan, and contained allegations of bribery and treating. Mr. Murphy, Q C., of the Irish bar, ap peared for Mr. Grogan ; Mr, Serjeant Murphy and Mr. Norton for the' petitioners against Mr. Reynolds Mr. Setjesnt Kinglake a. d Mr. C. R ,we were counsel for Mr. ttevnolds, and prosecuted the petition against Mr. Grogan. The committs e tit ailed to proceed with the peti tion against Mr. Reynolds in the first instance. After a pre liminary objection egainst the recognisancea had been argued, the committee gave leave to the petitioners to put in fresh reeognbance., which having hi en done, Mr. Serjeant Mur phy eeticeeded to open the case against Mr. Reynolds, and proposed to go into the scrutiny first, as probably they might thus obtain the seat from that gentleman, and be saved entering upon an invidious and very unpleasant inquiry. Mr. Rowe, for Mr. Reynolds, resisted the adoptien of such a course, on the ground of expense. The committee decided that Mr. Serjeant Murphy had the right to conduct the case in his own way. The sent and return were then put in, and the committee adjourned. LEtcesTEß.—Mr. Ker Seymer, chairman.—Robert Eden:nth, a waiter at the Bell, in Leicester, said he had fre• queotly seen Mr. Staines (an alleged agent of the sitting members) in what wt., called the committe-room, as well an in the private room of Sir Joshua Welmsley, He had also seen Mr. W. Rowlett, jun , Mr. Joseph Elds, Mr. John Ellis, Mr. Robert Elvis, the two Messrs. Harris, and Dr. Noble repeatedly in the committee room ; they were engaged in conducting the election. Mrs. Sansome, the irifs of Mr. D. Sansome, proved that her husband had been out of the way ever since D comber last, the period at which the petition was presented. The rest of the day was spent in proving the agency of patties. CUEVIENTIAM. — The committee concluded their laboun by unseating Sir W. Jones. .-.. ..... S2 0 per week 210 ditto ... ******* *** ***** ********* 6s. to 22 1122 75. pe , tiny , Is. to 7* ditto di dit tr to „ 7s. to** ditto -- .... ..... ... ,. 7s. to es. ditto -nal. „ 7s. to to. ditto . Loiterers kriekt.iyere 1ak0arar5........„.... Blatt:m.lllUL I%unit*, and iliac" _. „ Gs. to 7s. ditto o.donet-inakeio - „ „ 6s. to 7a. ditto 11 tokniatlet a.........« Be. to 6* ditto *outlets ... "Is. per week, anti board and to aging B.oiers -...- ditto ditto ditto bluienrnkers Li 2 per week Bout- intro ... 3 0 ditto whet:l.lols - .... -... 2 5 ditto SA*)Cre „„...- .... 2 2 ditto body-makers (cootaslekito) 2lO ditto e*i I Lige-unikers %% heelers o**3l-saittbs Ditto panders Thornier* tiaddil , 2 2 ditto Ship* light; ILi 2 weights Compositors W.o..s.ioskers ....... Curriero Beam-men hal.rs uU.i a sad THE Times has of late been besprinkling Mr. COBDEN pretty liberally with its Billingsgate. No body heeded this much, or cared for it. The value of abuse or praise from the Times is now pretty cor rectly estimated. Whatever it is the cue of that journal to say of any person, at any time, it says with all the coarse strength of language it is master of. That it will moat probably, at the prompting of sell. interest, to plea ,, e the public, say directly the reverse of the same person within a few weeks, or months at the utmost, it knows well, but puts no bridle on its tongue on that account. Trimmers between interest and character might express themselves more guard edly in orderto make their inconsistency less striking, but the Times has long thrown all consistency to the winds, and brazenly avows the fact. It calculates that strong language will be read asd, therefore, uses strong language. And the public buy the paper and read this strong language at its real value as a stimulant for the passing hour. No. body troubles his head because himself or a friend is blackguarded in the columns of the limes. But this chartered libertine of the press rather oversteps the limits of public tolerance, when finding vituperation unavailing it has recourse to the falsifica tion of intelligence. Some time ego the Times was pleased, in one of its high-spiced leading articles, to throw discredit upon Mr. COBDEN'S statements re specting the management of our ships of war. On Friday last Mr. COEDEN vindicated the accuracy of his statements in the Howe of Commons. As was to be expected, there was a liberal outpouring of professional wrath at his presumption. But there was no denial of his facts, and there were some marked admissions of their truth. Two of these admissions the Times has entirely suppressed, and the third it has toned down in such a mariner us to render it almost unapparent. After Mr. BAILLIE COCHRANE had gone to the verge of pirliammtary language with regard to Mr. COBDEN—if indeed not a little beyond it—the CHAN CELLOR OF TILE EXCHEQUER rose, and in the fairest and moat handsome manner declared that " the state ment made by his hon. friend the member for the West Riding had been completely borne out by the farts ; and he hoped that he would not be induced, by the personalities which had fallen from the last speaker, to continue the discussion." This statement of the CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER is omitted in the report of that gentleman's speech the Times published on Saturday morning. Mr. IleuE, in the course of the debate, commented strongly upon the attempt which had been made to run down his honourable friend the member fur the West Riding, arid congratulated him upon the triumphant manner in which he had established his statements from the official documents furnished by the Admiralty. Mr. HUME'S speech is entirely sup pressed in the Times report. Captain Mims complained with much soreness of the language used by Mr. CoBDEN, respecting the navy and the Duke of WELLINGTON, but of the matter of fact he said it " was not in question ; for lie (Capt. HARRIS) admitted that there had been too much harbour work." The hon. captain was nut strictly accurate when he said the matter of fact had not been questioned; its truth had been vehemently denied. But our business is with the Times, which in reporting Capt. llARRta's speech omits the admis- TRADE AND NAVIGATION OF NORTH GERMANY. The following brief, and in some respects necessarily incomplete, revii.w of the trade and shipping of the various states and territories of North Germany more immediately .:posed to the injurious consequences of a state of warfare, will perhaps be of more than usual interest under existing circurnstaiicem. It will place the Manchester Commercial Associationowhich have taken the lead in impressing upon the governmr nt, by memorial and deputation, the urgency and importance of bringing its accepted friendly mediation betwixt the contending parties to a prompt and peaceful issue, in possession of the more precise facts and figures which en intellieent body of merchants will best know how ' and moot opportunely to tura to account in furtherance of their objects. We begin with Hamburg, premising that the returns, which are the latest we have received, and assuredly the latest yet made public here, are not in all respects brought down to the same date. This default of complete. ness does not, however, materially affect the general view which it is desirable to present, sr the considerations which it is calculated to suggest The number of Teasels which entered the port of Ham burg from the sea during the quinquennial period from 1810 tr 1844, gives an annual average of 3,252, of 481,000 tonnage. These figures show an inerease in the navigation of more than 125 per cent in the epace of thirty years. In the year 1845, a total of 3,990 vessels entered tram the am, viz.: 435 coming from Teineatlan it ports; 1,366 coming from British ports; 1,901 coming from other ports of Europe. Of the values of the commodities imported in the same year by this mass of shipping we have no specific returns, hut, taking the maritime commerce, imports and exports together, at the same rate of proportion to the general corn mercisl utivernent as in 1843, which comprised the traffic with the interior of Germany, inclusive of a portion of that through Altona, we shoul4 have about 221 millions sterling of gee borne trade upon atotal aggregate movement of nearly 35 millions. As, however, 452 vessels more entered the port of Hamburg in 1845 than in 1843, whilst proportionally the sailings might be in the same ratio, the collective value of imports and exports by sea would probably be in excess also in the termer year. For the years anterior to 1845 we have more precise and abundant materials to work upon, without, however, being enahl d to detach altogether the special movement ef trade and navigation fro m the general movement, which compre hends that carried on by the Elbe awl by land-carriage. The sea and river navigation together *hews the following results for the years stated : 1812. 1843. 1834. Entries and railings of veleta together 'Tonnage T..e ears 1841, 2, tied 3 show a much greater shipping and trading activity than 1841. In 1841 the excess of shipping employer was equal to 148,477 tonnage, in 1812 to 100,175, in 1843 to 109,30.5 tons, mere than in 184-4. The entries and sailing' fur 1844 were thus distributed : Entries, 7,649, of 680,488 tonnage ; sailing', 6,744, of 593,180 tonnage. In this movement of navigation the trade with Great Britain in 1842 employed 2,320 vessels, entries and gs together, of 391,129 tonnage- but in 1814 only 2,187 vessels, of 383.775 tonnage. The country next in order fir the importance of its connexion by sea traffic ' with Hamburg, is Holland, which in 1812 had, inwards and ow waist's together, 802 yeast's, of 57,225 tonnage, in the trade; in 1811 reduced to 696 vessels, of 41,708 ton nage. The trade with Prussia, almost all by the Higher Elbe, occupied 682,000 tons, inwards and outwards, in 1812; in 1844, 496,052 tons. With Hanover, chiefly fluvial uovigatiun also, tho wnusge employed, inwards and out- Zit, erpreoo. MAILS. The mails for New Routh Wale", Van Dletnan's Lend, and New Zealand will be made up o n the evening of the 3lst M .y. The mails for the West Cast of Africa and Madeira will be made op on the evening of the 31st May. The mails for British North America, and the United Stetes, will be mane up en the evening of the 2nd June. The West India Miuls, including Bermuda, Nasau, /lacuna, Honduran, New Orleans, Vera Cruz, Tampitsa, and Porto Rico, and excluding three for Madeira, Jameel, Carthsgerie Santa Martha, Moires, Panama, West Coast of South America, 'and tit. Juen-de- Nicaragua, will be made up on the mornin g of the 2nd June. Ths ?Wahl for the Brazils, the River Plate, Monte Video, Pernam buco, Bahia, Madeirs, and Buenos Ayres, will be made up on the evening of the 3rd June. The mails for Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Madeira, Cadiz, and Gibraltar Will be made up on the morning of the ith June. Tbe overland clewed made, ries Marseilles, to the Mediterranean, Nam, Aden, CZTiCIII, llongeßong, etc., will be made up on the evening of the 7th June. The overland mails lee Gibraltar, Malta, Greece, the lonian Islands, Egypt, Adcn, Ceylon, India, llong-Kong, and China, via doutbamp tan, will be made up on the morning of the :'nth June. NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS. The number of STAMPS inroad by the authorities of the Stamp•othee, during 1847, to the DAILY NEWS was 3.447.009 This, we believe, is within eight per cent• of the number lamed to the Morning Herald, Morning Chronicle, and Morning Poet, ALL PUT TOGETHER. In addition to the above, issued to the DAILY NEWS, Morning Paper, there were issued for the Evening Edition, TES EXPRESS 778.714 Which was more, we believe, than were lamed either to the 6105* or Standard, Ereaing Papers. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. TAN Dav—Newo4gAs l tols.pwt 111 AfterwoA. 0 mt. pAse e A—Morws& ft In/a Art 0i Afliwwww. d ILA •Mn E. LONDON, TUESDAY, MAY 30. THE reform party in parliament are resolved to do their duty. At the urgent request of the members who meet at the Free Trade Club, Sir WILLIAM MOLESWORTII has waived his claim to priority for his colonial motion on the 20th of June in favour of Mr. Hume. A sacrifice of this kind, by one who knows so well as Sir WILLIAM the necessity of large and systematic colonial reforms, and who, by many years' study of the subject, has so completely mastered it, and acquired such an interest in it, is as strong a proof as he could give of the preponder ating importance he attributes to the ques tion of parliamentary reform. That Mr. HOME and his friends should have asked such a Mt Court. - - - - The Duchess of Gloucester visited the Duohees of Rini, yesterday, at her residence, Clarence House, St. James's, Lord Portman had an interview with Sir G. Grey, I , yesterday, at the Home-o ffi ce, and delivered to the right hen. baronet loyal addresses to the Queen from sixty-four parishes in Soinersetshire. Mr. M. Boyd and Mr. S. Browning had an inter view, yesterday, with the Right lion. H. Labouchere, at the Board of Trade. the Duke of Itoxbarghe had an interview with Lord J. Russell, yesterday, at his official residence in Down ingatreet. Baron de Goldemid, Mr. J. Bailey, and Mr. May nard, had an interview, yesterday, with the Commissioners of her Majesty's Wood s and Forams, in Whitehall-place. Mr. H. If. Jones and Mr. J. W. Welch, the chair man and deputy chairman of the Provident Clerks Associa tion, had an interview with the Right Hon. H. Labouchere at the office of the Board of Trade yesterday. Sir W. Berries, the chairman of the Commissioners for Attiliiing the Public Accounts, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday at his official nisi dance in Downing-street. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial ' office from t.,e governors of Hong.Korig, Ceylon, Australia, Mauritius, the lonian Islands, Malta and Gibral tar. The Lords' Committee of the Privy Council for Trade and Plantations had • meeting on Saturday at the s office o ff H. hf te Boort of Tde. There were present the Right Hon. Lthouchere, ra Granville , Earl Gnville, Earl Grey, find 1, Campbell, Sir J. Stephen, and Sir E. Ryan. THE CASE OF MR. MITCIIE URBANCES. L.—THREATENED DIST For some time past meetings of Irishmen and also of the chartists, have been held in various parts of the metropolis, who are advocates for the repeal of the union; and the resolutions passed have been to the effect, that in the event of any punishment being inflicted on Mr. John Mitchel, who has now been sentenced to 14 years' transporta tion, they would rise en muse, to demand front the Queen his release, and in the event of that request being refused to have reeouree to phyoftal force, to revenge the insult which they considered heel been thrown upon the Irish people. As soon as the news arrived in town on Saturday of Mr. Mitchei's conviction, the various clubs assembled at their respective places of meeting, and at many of them it was agreed that 'he members should arm themselves for a de mons ration on Monday evening. Accordingly last right a number of individuals assembled on Clerkenwell-green, and were addressed by several speakers in coarse and inflammatory language. When the orators had finished, the chairman sh.mted forth to the meeting, " Now, my . iriends, fell to in marching order," an injunction that was Instantly complied with. The roceseion then moved along St. John-street, Dos well street, down Old-street road, and along the City-road. On their way every street poured forth idler. to join the moving masa. In the City road, on its way to Finsbury-square, the procession received a large recession. The leaders of the mob seemed to be actuated by no definite purpose, for they marched round the square for about three-quarters d an hour. A word was thee parsed "To the west," sod they proceeded up Chiswellotreet, Beach-Areet, and Barbican, into Smithfield. Having reached the end of Holborn, the procession came to a stand still, and the leaders having again communicated a ass word, they proceeded to march at a very swift pace thee-gh King str et, Long-acre, Cran nourne-street, into Leicester-square, where they again halted. It will be readily imagined that so great a concourse of persons, marching through the streets, most of them being armed either with bludgeons, pitchforks, or other dangerous implements, created great exeitem- nt. Every street they passed added its quota to the stream, so that by 10 o'clock i was quite impossible to estimate the numbers with any de gree of exactitude. After leafing Leicester-square the con federates proceeded to the chattier,' assembly-rooms, where they were addressed from the windows by several persons, but in consequence of the continued cheering and waving of hats it was impossible to hear what passed, with the excep tion of a few words, each as "Be firm, "The time has now arrived," &c. After the parties had addressed them they left the rooms and joined the procession, which then pro . ceeded towards Oxford-street From this point they pro- I wetted down Crown-street, Whitcomb street, into Tratalgar square, where it was elm cted that some addresses would - be d- livered, and a general impression prevailed that it was I their intention to go down to Buckingham Palace ; but a strong body of police, which had beer, sent out under the command of Mr. Peace, of Bow-street, refused to allow them t remain in the neighbourhood, so that the precession wended its way along the Strand, through Temple-bar, and down Fleet-street, and in as direct a line as possible to Fins hury.oquare, where they were addressed by the leaders, who intimated to them that, having been disappointed in their expectations that night, by circumstances which it would not then be prudent to explain, they had resolved on disp vsing the assembly, reque-ting at the same time that they would meet again on Wednesday evening. The re porter was informed that nearly every man carried weapons of some description or other, but many of them were con cealed. By 12 o'clock the immense assemblage was com pletely broken up, only a few stragglers remaining here and there in the streets. 210 ditto COtYOCATTON OF TILE CLERGY.— ADDRESS TO - 2 5 ditto HER MAJ MT.—Her majesty having appointed yesterday ditto at half-past two o'clock to receive the address of the cleric. agreed upon at the late convocation, every necessary preparation had been made for the occasion. In con sequence, however, of the death of her royal highness the Princess Sophia, Sir George Grey, Secretary of ILICOLTTILAI. I about (milk State for the Home Department, in the course of the previous day forwarded a letter to the Archbishop of Canter s wads on die bury, informing his grace of the above melancholy event, autry.) and stating that her majesty wished the pres e n tation of the eglabouren ; adder's of the clergy to he postponed until Friday, the 10. h June. Circulars of Sir George Grey's communication ditto were immediately forwarded to the bishops mid other dig nitaries of the chinch who were to take part in the pr 0..... ..... buia e ceilings, and consequently no meeting took place in the m ditto postponement of presenting the address until after the funeral of her royal highness the Princess Sophie. which . e ~ inane, i as at present arranged, will not take place until Monday, the s of meat, 10 12th of Jane. lily, and wher THE Pollan BALL.—It is gratifying to record the doubled, and. fact that the " friends of Poland ' have survived the awful sakes• denunciation recently bestowed upon them by a contempo [Praia SERVANT rely. Far from being scared by the attack in question, they seem to have justly estimated its importance by re garding it with supreme inaifferenoe. At any rate there were no signs last night of a decrease in the ease only to Sue interest which has alwaya been felt in this country e; indeed it is for a brave and unfortunate nation. Willies Rooms ,ranches. Con as i were ' as on former occasions, filled even to inconveni- ch wanted, employer, here, ence by an assembly comprising no less of rank and influence if the " trades,' than was ever associated with the cause ; and every arrange d extortion. 1 ment was calculated to give effect to the entertainment given Ruch high wart in its behalf. It was considerably past eleven o'clock belere ably dear. A a ' the bell was opened, owing, we believe, to the noa-arrival beefily re in any wing scale f iof the lady patronesses, but the majority of the w .; i ammo, o 2t.pr company had arrived long before that time. The so oat Single " character" dances were the first on the list. week. Of these the most effective were the "Oak leaf ants of the jour quadrille," and the Mazurka, the latter being perforired by a some curious ladies in Polish costume. 'these dances, although entertain. is of the lab( . ing enough to those engaged in them, were viewed with im patience by the general company, whose amusemeots were Wetly loquacious postponed by this means to a very late hour. There were a *graph intormiop number of distinguished persons present, among whom we' vio, on a salary of sing a need scarcely mei,tion the name of Lord Dudley Stuart. - twi Se. ny. andand del ROYAL THAMES YACHT CLUB. Yesterday the llowunt him form opening match of the season took place, but owing to the on! U we recoil want of wind was a tedious affair. The weather, although sot here was earn extremely pl. aunt for an excursion, was most unfavourable housend a Year" situation In a tint for sailing. There was not enough of the propelling power throughout the match to test the sailing qualities of the Hata, squatter on yachts, and for the first three hours the surface of the water is wee ;the formes was as smooth as a well kept bowlithz-green, the yachts being nontha, wages sot. more indebted to the tide under them than to the wind above at be "bothered" Mr their tardy progress. Eventually the Daring was the had just rewired winner of the first pets", the S-cr t the winner of the stmend mime, and with ti class priz., and the Frolic of the third, and the prizes were mairne an round. presented by L ord Alfred Pa g et with appropriate speeches. • or "a rump and !sift. COBDEN AND 'rms.—The following letter i" 'M. 10e. from Mr. Cobden is published in the ilalia del Amok, • ,—We bave flit "LONDON, MAT 9.-1 am sorry to see it generally believed tanuary. The let in Italy, that our government has t ken a hostile attitude tch of business or towards that country. You may be certain that the English tee in the eon& people at least ervertain the most cordial sentiments towards left of Lord Grey, Italians, and sympathise with them in their struggle against peecate 1 at a pus Austria. Thu inference drawn from the language of our Recent sales of n minister in Turin is probably a xaggerated. He interfered ad produced a wto dissuade the Piedmontese nom attacking Austria, just as if 41. 33. per acre England interfered to prevent the three powers from ab per acre. The h sorbing Cracow, and for the tame reason, that England, River had delfts , having been party to organisation or disorganisation ee flecks. The w of Europe in 1814 and 1815, thought it netts at 4s. per bushel nary to protest against any territorial change. The English government could scarcely do otherwise than ~---.... protest; but I am certain it will not gi li,eyond FRANCE. SPANISII MARRIAGES.— The last Vein protest, nor give support to Austria against Italian interests. Public opinion in En g land runs very strong number of the Revue Retrospective contains the following against all intervention in the affairs of foreign countries. cnrreapondenct between the Queen of the French and Quetn And, although our government rests under the damini..n 01 Victoria, relating to the Spanish marrinites: the aristocracy, the Enelish people have sufficient power to TO RIM PIAMITT TOL QTLIRN OP ORIAT BRITAIN. from rushing into hostilities to preserve Madame,—Cordident In that great friendship of which your Majesty hut Oren us so many proofs, and in the amiable interest which you the terri"orial slaty quo of Europe. T herefore , whatever be have always shown to all our chadren, I hasten to announce to you the language ot the journals, do not allow yourself to be car. prevent any minister the *Athletic's of the =triage of our son, Mootpenslar, with the tied awry by the idea that Englieh power can be employed Infanta Louisa Fernando. This family met overpowers us with joy, because I hope that it will ensure Me happinessof oar dear son, - against Italian. Our sympathy st re w i th y ou, and we ho p e tee see yau fro , d from Austrian tyran n y , and t o be ha Italy and that we will find In the Infanta a new daughter as good and as theonly true happiness in this world, and which you, madam, know science and civilisation.—B. COBDEN. amtab'e as the elder one., and who will a dd to our internal ha in once more an example to the world of „ greatness and liberty, For married coupleswith:oU iastiliss,• isersnn. ; from £l6 to CSI Dow ilia°, ooh fanaii7 33 to 45 (Toe amount of rotes de wads on distance, whether in town or tar it, the rummy.) Fer oingle men—working labourers per week, snd find thentoelves CI to C l ss, Dow dtto and bound tihepherds, per annum, ditt0.......... /28t0.Cd2 11..,. , opera ditto Gent rat wend servont ditto 2B to 30 ke.ult acrattuta on s aim ditto Buil.clt drivers ditto 3O to 3d Gardeners 35 to 45 Coo* 3O to 50 • 'I too includes ration or "Ending," sad the following to the wale &Look d in the bush :-12tbo. of meat, 101toi. of flour; Ilb. tea; 2lbe. ouoar, f,r each person weekly, load where double rations are allowed lbw pr. portion is or counsokeldid. suit so on; married couple, arc moat tobty allowed doubts treidges. Thorough nervants, --- 26 to 35 Howermaids Woks 2B to 35 Nursemaids* • 't he above list has rehnestionly be each callings as are in pre:, leg demand in this provl ee ; indeed It la almost impossible to find sufficient hands in some brenehes. Oseth-makers, currier, and cabinei-makers,are very much wanted, as indeed are ail the other it s, so uiucn so. Mat the employers her, eepe-ially of mechanics, are compleiely atthe mercy of the ••• trade.," which often originates a spirit of combination and ClGolliun. Persona in the mother country may suppose that if such high wages are given, the *woes tares of lite are proportionably dear. A mechanic's or labourm's family coo be supported as cheaply at in any town in Great Britain, as will be seen from the following scale of provision price. :—Bread, 41b. loaf, Id.; beef, 24. per lb.; mutton, 2il. per lb.; tea, Is. ltd. per 1t,.; sugar, ad. per lb., sod so on. Single methinks can obtain beard and lodging at 10s. per week. Among the lased incidents of the journals from which we have been quoting, we find some curious illustrations of the effects of the actual state of the labour market in the colony : WAGE., iv GT/LONG. — An elderly loquacious lady was lately over heard by the writer of this paragraph intorming a lad who has a situ ation m a stationer's shop at Corm, on a salary of he. • week, that her son, a youth of 15, was obtaining Ba. a week and his board, as a draper's aseietant, in the same loccity. and deprecating the idea of the former's maternal parent allowing him to remain where he was, for such inadequate remuneration! if we recollect aright the salary of out youthful draper's iveboant here OM some 41. more than that eel-rid by the hero of . 'len Thousand a Year" (Mr. Tittletut Tit mouse), when bottling a similar situation In a first-rate London wire /loose. Areritslitin STRVANTS. — Mr. Ham, squatter on the Avoca River, ye*tei day engaged a man and hie wale (the former as bullock-driver, the latter as butler eper), for 12 months, wave S o t. per annum. The man stipulated that he should not be "bothered" to drive the dray into town. Fe-r Woim.—A shepherd who had just reeeired hG year's wages, met some of lie friends in Weihourne, and with the usual reckess prialivality tattered to Menu champavne au round. The party con sisted of elk—just a snug number or "a rump and dozen." &wee midnight be had "knocked down" 10e. SOUTH AUS CRALIA.—We have flee of joaroala from ACelaide to the '2lst of January. The legislative coun tit was to meet for the despatch of business on the 21st of ' March. The proposed changn in the constitution of the colony, indicated in the despatch of L , rd Grey, gofer as they could be understood, were depeecate 1 at a public meeting held in the Victoria theatre, Recent sales of mineral lands to the extent of 1,624 acres had produced a gross sum of about 6,8001., or at the rate of 41. 3i. per acre, the upset price being so more than 20s. per acre. The bush fires in the neighbourhood of Rocky Kiser had destroyed several sheep I s t o u t n al . Wheat was s o w ffo a c : t s i e n u g i n t g h e a t fl s ‘e r T b h us e h w e weather Rae flour 111.10 s. per ton.