The Express. — London, England, 1851-03-29 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 29, 1851. Y avethatamod, Which would leave a totally inadequate force. inO RTUOTJESE TAUGHT by a NATIVE oil LORD JOHN RCSSELL announced last night in the (Divide, divide.) . r LisaO. pousetly soma steel Wm IndUM. French, led 1 House of Commons, on the part of the government, ~,,nisi. orlon Ar Ilwaaaa tan a ( ma l e al s r af t c 4. br • that the intention had been laid aside of introducing Sir W. MOLESWORTII said he had mentioned the artillery add engineers included. othensl eniees A Mat Iserma . , eze. oted ariA eerie punctuilfry. • Ur. J. MACtiltE(i o X, whet wee received with vehement Adiress Ala, ement Xr. Cufiin, Laredo. De Mary. lausoowsis. 'any measure, during the present year, for the pur sh., diet " divide, divide " nod who only uhtaiuml a peel al ! and. anfitao lt. I obt: of abolishing the office of Viceroy in Ireland. The grounds stated by r this —etermi heariaz afterkeeping Fret yet amidst the uproar for atm G REAT EXHIBITION.—NIe.srs.EVERSFIKLD nation were twofold i—tirst, the estate of the public ite em i...i...., awl he believed time we could Det tladdellly and HORNIt's SPECIAL nttusrmt hog been esta'lubed wit bilraw ie.. n the eohnii , five thougaud 1120.0, thOUlth at Or tot perm.. of al/waded via.tots to 1,41 , 1• All what A. clovlvtOu.V• business at this advanced period of the session,which th.- -4n. - time be believed Vs, reduction they made troll lioit in DOCXEn air APAR tlakSts as be 0.t.i , ./d in re.teet.ble rendered it highly improbable that any proposal the army mint be from the colonies. Ile maintaine d eveeheeeheel"' andto wet it"' co a l, " le eve' "'el; t't.el.."4 leading to p rotracted discussio t could ' h that L.l the :forth At.-ricat eololllet all that every mark ansone.t t hew ed ...inatithap ...,I,,aueatm.,hq.„., ,k,,, . ~ I , Int out great t a , ~ f : bred q,, iii .a.,;,,,i a ti,,,,, merely the stele- oulativ. ilvisM &Am' of 100 Ili Nth - 1 ,411 w AVII or et olden , . 81 inconvenience, be carried into statutable effect ; and, tom.. ', Ihe etaielusi ,, ti of the ...Meta •w i• Imt amid the , ro^l,l,l.7::istriLletlet.l al Per ~,..: a : lA ' :* .t . e '.1:;,,", „ I P e t . 11 1,',: . 1 k 0 .,.. 1 secondly, that a depth of feeling had been shown to too ' : , i ...ter bud cries of " Oh, oh," awl " Divide, divide,' ra :mike apartments, but • soma he as required .0 entry; souther are exist HI Ireland hostile to the change, which he which .u.xueded.) 11.. did not think that they could, Wao grilling to censer duels tied room, ,Lf with the corneae ese of a did not feel justified in denying or in treating dur.,..1 tilt. year withdraw tire thousand men from the 5 iii,5,.,,,,,.. preferred), as this seesminoJatlon is lba ly to to itaull el . Either und would X o.eh American I.:think*. The withdrawal of them would , nesded-purther lawmatkin way to awahlell at their Merges and I with tercgard. gro amply suffice , ei..ey 4 ~ .....at portion of the v , or, and if the y did with- Game Amory Oakes, 4., Parktmentgoreet, a ethoin.mr. I to warrant the conclusion to which ministers have dr .. t: . n., tb. y could nod Withdraw . them all at ono- r i t)usE and Esim E AGENcy.-Ipits o f -we think wisely come. A gosyrnment which finds • I tt' I , ..init the um n into a state of de,u (lattalit, r, -nit ion .. .• . itself in a position like that in which the Iloogrw ant Apartments sent ices by pm& sa applicant's to present tuti.m. (Continued laughter.) He (Mr. Macgregor) ki n I.W. bEiLIMIDT, home tad edam vent, and at:et...neer 20. ' . . occupants of power are placed, unable to carry, save would prefer leaving the Seeretaly of State fur j ,„,,,.. 4 .,. 40 , 0 0.1 . Ow f'....n.e. to the fi rst instance, and after- • with the utmost difficulty and after infinite partying, w.ll , is 01. el.cretary at War, to moke the reduction.. pA . fENT t/FFICE.—NO I ICE TO INVENTOItS. ' measures of actual moment to the empire at forge, Ile thuerot it would he wise in the Chancellor of the Ili. -PATENTS and ItfiGIXTRVIIKts of I%vas ;loss oil- . would clearly be inexcusable if they sought out eh, ea, r •••• aunounce on Mowlay what he intended to do. TAIS LIE mod Advice to Inventors gratuitously stivei. a ' ' ell wire 1 Subect sof adininistrative experiment whereon t t • Th.y tow:• r the right hon. in utleinun kept off making his regard to the meth. of then ingentionam tar wl.. awl toll , ofe• -, , . or) Glatt iat-t, the greater injury he would do. Ile (Mr. Mac- tat,nt 3 ! , then"eattlee a eaStOlOt , The °Mood Inr"Metlt,....nto7 DO their . . le d ativ e hand. We have seen February sustor; th. , attlit that the 1.4 thing he timid In would to be d on PPlicatt , oe will be •wwschd by Pwl-- °T " LAI u•AIN wasted in vain negotiations, and March mis-spent so st El..t.t-, Patcata.filce, 123, l'hatierrfaane, L inclon. to r seal the window tax eutirely, and to renew the income ,in valuer talk. April is close upon us, and neither I - • tit 1.1 ISM VIVI. I.3t.NISIIED ItEsII)ENCE of a Faintly leaving estimates nor budget, nor colonial inquiry, nor' Mr. II: - Sit: said, in ord. rto remote the diffieulty which F town, to ke LET, In • erg..rate sharks'. contiguous to the i African squadron vote, nor the West India question, his iam. triead felt with regard to the reduction, lie would ‘ae' - ' 4l .• l•°d ne'r Lb° bra" 34....'"' The h "" is .faal"a' sod lur any other of the annual • ' •• • • state that the rocniiting aas to the amount of 12,000 men ashes, and hued ni. with evrey sonvena nos foe • gent:room' , . 1 „ ; ines itabilities, lave yet • • y•-•.r, a nd if they stopped that they would ut-rooluplioh the escolguhruent ; 'be) rintipal roadrui a zwist of an t. eze i s , 4 M... CI Mont dtnine. wn posed of. lo set about bureaucratic specula.' ry ehret. ISe house did not seem to he aware that this vote mom. Il l o a d • ,c i ,4. 1 br. l i t h our EtlieVO L eZrota ' s t- woth ' ..` in • p o" , ; . ::::: 4 .fi loos or changes would be insufferable Quixotism and 14 "' ! "" I a la " . t e r udite" let tb""heewe' 'f eking the iteshet7u,loolmite dace.. Terms moderate, wr Wren of six mon M. triltillg• litland has contrived to get on with al iv. year. from ISA to 1/4 4 , inelusive, be found that the _**l lea :P . eload). li. Coo Mn. IVL-vo Douse Aida, ie.., Si. Wig- septum; executive for some six centuries or so, sap uw. ao.toutiL - d too 13,27 11.1. - 1.11. for ordnance, army, tend Eqq .. 4ne .4c.,„,,qii,,,,,„„, navy ; w: ...• for the live year§ (rm lx Pi to Iti4o the amount •• L. te1,21,07.0., "honing an o f 1 , 1 ..... of 21,2, i XI UltItAY'S ItAN DIIOO K S, 11441. the system in the eyes of our official doctrinaires, in ;le : . tat lie . years, IllOt all tleto• of 1,100,090/. llt the ITI. ADVICNIAMI,NTS ~,u.,.,k4 , insertion in all.ltitAY'a she muy at all events contrive to gt on without est. nolitute of 15.10 over the expenditure of lb:15. (Item.) IiANDMOoK .4 L NDON, must ti , tosw.atll. 41 to the Pteoloner further ecaltraii2atiuti for another . The looio• tilt% disided : bet. re ate lith of April next; and for inse.liein in MA MK.VY'S For the am...aliment 47 LIMII:Ve.eiTAL 11414118001i5. keP.re the knot May. nut we own that we are glad Lord JOIIN had Agiunst it Th, tote. WA , . then mireed to. fIiHE PAltLoUlt NIAOAZINE of the LITERA- • higher considerations intluenced him. A constitu tio the remilmi..ion of the reporter , to th.• gallery, Mr. TEMP. Or ALI. SAllooNS, mull be published rails m Aptil, mania minister need never be ashamed to assign, as Ili Vt. was powteding against proceeding fordo r that night, I.r the 3cd of May, to be Cuellinletl Weekly, price 2,1. It :real b • the a cause for abandoning a legislative scheme, that the it 'WARN WOW It tillortor 'kat 12 o'clock. idetr.v and the rbnlr.t": the '''''''''llM'l.'ne'. The arcs number delita.sute opinion of those who are to be effected by] Mr. f. MA 1 . 1.1 i said the 401 of April was fait approach- wit. be • gammon% ~t the Single thiee; um Is ,If of it will tr• dr. imt, la:though th ey might hare two in hand for the rot. 4 to an ably-train. ankle (iiketrateti by we'd errmings!, the change is contrary to his own. When Lord eresept y- sx, that . .. iy could wit. b„. ap HIM: TO ENJOY LONININ DEMING THE EXIII y, ee ry primer , LOTION. A J/CRILtal was sent to pacify Canada, and to recast the traumata' steel Engrarnte moll aim be gime 'nth the Panther. plo• dto the expentlitun: of the enming year. Ile hoped Loden: Ifoolgtonaad Stomman, sad all booksellers. provincial polity by which that troubled land should h i , 1 4 .... friend would 'toil allow the sob, to be taken. - he in future bnivernest, no one intagined, nor did he 1 Mr. %I:11.1.1AM'; said he wi•lsol to show the injustice of etmnfies 61.1DE.W•Ohil YO H. VIsITOILi DUEINO THE no send uf the item", and especially with regard to the dif. OKY.Ar EX 111161110 S. pretend that, individually, he was convinced of the F. reams of E.Mt. Ile niahed to go into &Evil. (Oh, oh.) T ()ND( /14 IN ALL 1 I'S 6LIIItY; or, lilw to intrinsic reasonableness of all the grievances and Ile hail a duty top eriodos and he should not lie prevo.nted kJ F:njy London diaries the (treat LatoibiMon. No. 0. price td. grudges of the malcontent colonists. Lord lienn.‘3l from performing it by claaWar. Ile moved that the chairman f0 ui , , , ,T, 1,vi,21,*, , i1,..., , ,, ,, rtw'„,7 , 4 , :0t i0 utiji=tr,tt b 71; ,„ „,. felt and knew that his duty lay in discovering the wpon trogre,s. , ~ , , . . . . . , durong the brew Exhibition. Nu. XXVIII., price ltd. To he von. minimum of sacrifice of provincial pride and preju- Mi.• ..li,N+ - Arr said he had on aunt" . ", 11.41 " - 'n onY plo•ted ml , ire kis numbers, witto nearly Malengravinp, and a band, di ce which the stabilit fthe • II d him' y 0 empire compe e the .0.-stion should nit be further debated that evening. elm* map o r 4,, q 1., It app.-soros evident that the house was not digigmed to IMNDON: %hat to See, and How to Pea tt. WtOt numerous to exact ; and having found that, he wisely judged Cut. f 111•011 such a sli.cussion as many members might do- enemy...ow Sints., eatb, pnte 111. that aU besides ought to be left to the gradual pro sin, For aid:once, he had the prosumptim too think that lintbn Attalla ~., grow of time and experience. hence the peace and Le roma Itimselt show that ale kluction of more than 5,1100 :; .a .." . ` I 6 . 11 .0 ud. London htebta tlemplon eotlft own in the army, so far front impairing it. eflicietity, would Landon: 11. 0. Clarke and Co.,{, Exeter-dung,. of his memorable interposition. Canada has not been ... h a, r g ood service to the colonies, for the sake of which it was pr.-wildest that our military c.latilishment was kept up - " " assimilated" by force, or imperialised in forms; but tut a t prewnt foontimt. (Impatiinte.) A. the house was Canada has been practically redeemed from disattee- not pro pared too listen tot any MOO, he 14111,111t1 "appal the gilt earPreo* thin, and more chwely than ever united to England. resolution that 1b...pi...1i0n Ms adjourned. 'Mr. F. NI AI : LE said, that if the hon. member for Lam- -...- In local affairs she bias been let alone. With the hem (Mr. Williams) would take the truulde to n•aol tlic TO CORRESPONDENTS. exception of her chief governor and chief m il i ta ry , tea given Infon. the el c o nittce last r af, l. would aoisectoo mc.ntoolatended kW .TM Express,. London Evening paper, officer, all posts have been filled by colonists who riot every rapt:station that he could rt quin., owl only given inu,, la at the Mho., Is, Houma...awed, by Two o'clock ou the had raise among by talent or by industry to it a tar better m. •r titan he (Mn. t. Mottle) could do ; day of publication. hat ica-t,..ti-d by oloaanto 0i1... from the War (Aim (litar, hear.) Ile liope•d the house would consent to the cute. lIIGII WATER AT LONDON BRID GE. ways local likings and leanings have b een 1 tt 'herr.) Tens Dav-Murning, ID,. 9m. ..... _Afternoon, 12h. 32m. recognised and complied With ill local legislation and Mr. 44 ILIIAMS prothstel against the voting of 31 mil- To-nsimow-Moundat, IM. Min. MOTOWN lb. 2dia. local goventment, which do not and could not be' how , all r midnight. made to square with our metropolitian notions of . 'lle haw, then diTilll4l, 11 1 ./t tot. motion Adoind it eto ru-c.ol, ring the gallt•ry ,se bound opposite system of government, is in every respect Mc. II I'sl F. &cluing that No long as a man in the the reverse. 14,1- , sooda -Loot by I he 'timid 'anis!. Estimated by its inherent tendencies, we have Is•ol J. I, I NSF. .1. sciol that if the hon.,. did not pa, from the outset been opposed to the attempt to trails tie satiate he stemid ta• compelled to take them the but thing on VI lay, the relict of which would he the tier the transaction of Irish business to Westminster. 1 ,... 1 ...eme-iii of the motion fora rommilt. eon the liaffire, l %Ye have always said we thought the conception a of w hick he had given notice. Ile thought, therefore, it , blunder and the experiment hazardous. But even .4,1•41 la , much better for the house to continue the mad. , were it otherwise, we should heartily approve of the! duration Ot thole ettiatott , (Loud cheer.) conciliatory and constitutional deference to local Nlr. II t; MX remarked that *lea I. had Mrs advancing Int ;he he .. Ira or it might be nonigneo., hut he thought it ' opinion avowed by the PRIME MIN isibu in relinquish ite silty tis take the (course he hail dour: Olot if the , ing a project which is unquestionably distasteful to I . 1 ,...ti0u were putt ee he sioualol move his proposition the great body . of the community whose feelingsought ! IA 1.1.1 , file eonunittee of suppl y . Ile was greatly oltio.O l to he consulted in the matter. 'lhere may be runes ' 1 I . the idea of 'Mimi money idler 12 o'clock, but .till 60 wherein the real or supposed interests of t he two wail admit that the majority of the house--anal he would n o t call it • tyrannical majority -(hear, hear) - nations differ. hrhaps these instants.% are fewer • • wt. wasted own. tClovers.) than any party or faction is ever likely to contilis. :qr. ADM:IMF:A complained that he was not fairly blot if such there lw, we do not affect to say that the to tot 10) the noble loonl, in deference to whom he had . will of the more powerful must not predominate, given up the posit* he posnwsill by withdrawing his and that the stronger will not have their way. Cyr ..,,,,... ~, ~,,,,,..., moon Kallraria. The subjcet %A* orally one of groat Ittiporl,lare, .tlot do eply anis teal a large in- thin see are, however, that the seldoiner ouch actual 1 .. r ....r ..r to, comary. (Hoar. hoar.) or supposed points of difference are recognised or Ion! J. 111 sle.El.l. goad it was qui t e right that the loon. dwelt upon by statesmen, the better fur both cowl gentleman should receive an raid:ovation. a d tO the tries ; and it nerds little logic to satisfy any impur sr.ter. of the house, alter Alt amendment had been put and (hit observer, that where no great or paramouunt divided maws, no other resolution could he proposed ; the only tn. !not that 11011111 Own be pr05.,11.4., tlelt the , object is to be gained, it is worse than au error on Speaker should Irare the chair. : Ike Speakt .mew l hail 1 the part of the niore influential partner in empire to derided no deal h night, in retentive to the m.dion of Ow how 1 dictate terms or forms to the less powerful. In. odor Me lamodu (('oloncl Sildhorp), which stood before that of the h.. gentleman (Mr. Aohlo•rio-)). Therefore, it wa , init....461c that hie a n d .014101 ellille MI. lie UT• party imended to lure prortgaleil 1/11 Monday, before tiny Ml. r 1.14.11.1e*, with the estimate.. The how gentlemen wm...1 ...••• the position in which the Muse stood. (In the te , .... .%eril any WI . that might remain. not haring he , o pod In the ellotro , of the )...tr, stool,' be n-turned to Ile - EtelieltOof. Then Ewe. utiles. the house now consented to so.. certain gums. there would not be. eon the :oh Aprthi any rt. mey for the emergencies of the survive. (It rat.) As, th. Imo. member for Montrose knew that. he hoped be n ...LI not IlerletTte in his opposition. (Near, hear.) M r II I: MI: said that, ti ..how what he intended to do, 1 le woad state that he nseant to put on the hook, a notice, Is ...n going into committee of supply, that the holes. would not grant any further sttpplit s until the filtallet,ll stAtelttellt w• • mote. their, lett.) Aft.•r a few word. hole Mr. AntiltaLte and the elltt- I I I 1.,..11 of the Earllellt Ell, "I, . liftfutfr ...of in, no. not at all certain that the . 1 .,.,,..n of theColtille puisued by the lime member foe Mootiow. being Trill ..l.oll.ltvie. would he larticipatect 111 out or door, (hear, bear.) Generally .leaking the -- - wart .11 11 . - It has been the fate or the purpose of ministers this session to promise great things and to du small ones, to award a sentence of death, but straight supersede it by a reprieve. People in writing plays and novels manage to bring about those sur prises; but we have never heard that they were good ministerial tactics. Pint we had Lord Jimx dealing a very vigorous blow at popery ; whether his arm relented or relaxed we will not say. But popery is not slain. Then the CuaNcsaa.on of the Exctisaar EA promised for very certain he would annihilate the window-tax. When he came to the test, however, he wielded a razor instead of an axe. and instead of the CHAN cuunt putting en end to the window tax , it was the window tax that put an end to him. 'then Li,rd Joilx was to deal with the giant office of the lamp Citasciaa.on. The least that was pro ' raised, that lie would split it in two, and give us working functionaries, instead of a prodigy, whose duty and delight was to do impossibilities. Well . here, too, Lord JOHN has relented. Contem ' plating the mighty office and personage of the bow limit CHANCELLOR, which he under , took to sacrifice to the real and substantial good of his country, lzwel Jolts relented. Ile leaned awhile . upon the axe with which he was prepared to smite, ' and became soon lost, first in contemplation, then in admiration, of that great Magog of administrative and publu impre.ion , o a., that if ilay part of till• busiuesa - of thak how.• arm door ill a dotenly. 1311.41i14.11111ry uhanau, It t voting of large .uma of iu ttttt .y. (11a-ar. hallr • " ' -a hi. motion. sod thil THE subject of railway audit is once more before parliament. Three sessions ago, it will be recollected, Lord MoNri..tGLE induced the House of Lords to puss a bill for the purpose of establishing a government audit of railway balance sheets and accounts ; but that measure gave way in the House of Commons to the almost universal opposition of railway share holders. During the next recess, railway directors undertook to prepare a scheme of independent audit fur the consideration of the forthcoming session of parliament. But the scheme which they, or rather which their lawyers devised, was so slight an improvement of the existing law of audit, gave such inadequate powers to share holders, and marred what it did concede so effectually by the introduction of the principle of finality to, !accounts once audited tinder its provisions, that the: directors themselves abandoned it, and resigned the subject to those to whom it naturally and really be longed, viz., their constituents. The question was thereupon taken up by an influential body of share holders; but ere their measure was quite completed parliament met, and Lord GRANVILLE. on the part of the government, last session introduced into the House of Lords a bill having for its object a govern ment audit. Lord STANLEY was then appealed to by the shareholders committee, and, on his submitting their scheme to the Upper House, both it and Lord GKANVILLeS bill were re• fenced to a select committee of that house. By this committee a compromise of the ques• Beni was attempted; it moulded and amalgamated the provisions of the two bills into a composite mea sure.; but the difficulties and intricacitsof the blended . bill were so manitist, that when it came fairly before I the House of Commons, no progress could be made! with it ; so it sulk red in the general massacre of the; innocents of the session 1850. On the opening of! parliament this year, government gave nu sign ofj any intention of renewing the contest with share- " holders, in which they had been twice worsted , and ' Mr. LOCKE has again submitted the Shareholders Audit Bill to the consideration of the House of Cum mons, in the hope that parliament will at last legis late on this important. and, as we are with him per suaded, this pressing subject. The main objects of Mr. LoCKE't measure are uni ' fortuity of railway balance-sheets and half-yearly accounts; perfect independence in the appointment of auditors on the part of shareholders ; a selection by them of competent persons as auditors; the diffu mon of hill information to shareholders on their pe.- euniary affairs, previously to their half•yearly meet ings. so as to produce useful discussion and consider ilea thereat; and generally to give shareholders in creased powers of examining into the state of their own Alters. These objects Mr. LOCKE seeks to attain by means of shareholders themselves without in any way calling in the aid or intervention of any department of the executive government in matters - and truly no concern judicial rlLlaliroo. - 4. - . " It is a pity," quoth Lord links. " here in this wide land, covered by the cold shade of the aris— tocracy, where the professions arc debarred of all promotion, where merchants cannot be' lords till they Is eotne country gentlemen, where physicians are un worthy of titles under any transformation, where the high offices of the church are no longer obtained by the unconnected clergy, the bar alone has the privilege of sending one of its members, not only into the House of Lords, but to the very seat at the summit of it. Tu be sure, one solitary 'wrens, who reaches that highstution.atter Heaven knows howmany wind ings by buck stairs, has little lett iu him of the racy soil from which he sprung ; and, as to his sympathies, they are far more of the new world titan of the by-gune one. it matters nut. It is a fair symbol. This lawyer amongst the peers, like the death's head ut an Egyptian feast, will serve to • remind their lordships that there axe such beings as the ignoble. The Chancellor's presence on the woolsack, as the representative of learning . and talent amidst the magnates of birth. will serve, as the one literary genius does, the one and no more, who invariably graces the assemblage of our worldly great. There is a spite of democracy in this, a delicate and almost imperceptible flavour, that is not dangerous, and that must be useful. Let us pro • serve the office and the unity of the Lord Chancellor." These philosophic and liberal reasons which we have shadowed forth in the Prhne Minister's solilo quy, were employed us the arguments of his speech. The Lout) CHANCELLOR and democracy are both, no doubt, highly flattered by them: but the honest public cares little for either; and Joh% Butt , who blends little semi ttttttt with his polities, will tind no compensation for the delays, expenses, and caprices of Chancery, in being tad that his humble Wit may atipiry to that eminence. 1 he fact is, that Lord JottN has shown himself too tender towards tlw person andotfiewof the CIIXSWELLOR ; that he has conserved the dignity. but utterly unpro vided for the efficiency of the office. Taking away , the ecclesiastical jurLdiction, is surely not relieving of a burden, unless in the tout-pad sense of the term. What the CusseEttox is relieved of, is the business, but not the superintendence of Chancery. to the business of which Judges are called from other courts, where they might more efficiently settle the many eases which will by consequence flow into Mr. lit hr would not prim . boo.. then risumod. A I*1•01,i'Ill ENT OF A VICF:XIIANCELLOIt BILL. This bill read a third time and paiwed. mr:Titurous tlytwiNtis DILL. lts , bill via% read 3 time. CI:OWN ESTATE, ut:ui:Nrs rAnK. 1..r0l SKY SlOr It moved for leave to bring in a bill fur tr.o. , 'erring the duties of paviinf, lighting, watering, and elean.ing part, of the crown estati• in the district of the Ite g. a, ',park. and certain stn•et , and places in We.tininster, from the eintui•aiiiiiers acting undo Mi end acts of their late Man 'lns king thyme the Fourth and King William the Fiirth, to the pariahs , ; mul flu transferring the juridic ti the Nud comme.,ioners over certain other places in W.•dininster to the l'onnui,-ioners of her Maye.ty•• Woods, Forest., land lies, nuts. Worlo, and Building., and for .4'.. r purpises. Leave wa , gii I %Witt/A EMENT OF IOWNS fIItEI.AND) BILL. S.r . SOMEILVILLE iuoved that tin wleet eonmuttee On this Intl should tuti.ist it 19 member , , and that the fol low tug members should be added Mr. :Sully, Mr. Wye- Trot, Mr. tirscr, a id Sir I'. Nugent. I 14, former part of the ition being agreed to, the name. were put seriatiis. Mr. SI-71.'LLV objected to verve. The thee, other name , were Agreed to. Nir MAIIEIt moved that Mr. Itiluold , 's name should be added. Sir W. SOMEItVII.I.V. objeeted. Mr. lIUMM thought the reason as,iitued by the right hon. wintery (sir W. Somerville) for the ezelwiion of the hon. member for Dublin from the uonunittee was a reason wit) he damn be on the tominittee. sir R. FEIttiLSON hoped sone member for the western or -ou tlier , hurnighs would be ...elected. instead of the hon. - posmessed more knowledge on ....... hon. baronet an au- attain—lie would uut say 'e thought he hat nut been Secretary toe Ireland. As , vnt he did not think his Dublin. Ile complained le en MAW by the right hon. . deprive him of u pest un the baronet alvo lull the great O'CONNELL. the house Chancery. As at * present arranged. or intended to he arranged, the CHANCELLOR will have to do a portion of every thing. and not do that portion heartily, spending some of his time in the Court of Chancery, some of his time hearing appeals in the Lords, presiding over its sittings, attending the Cabinet , and all the ti me . looking forward to the political squall that may in a thrice interrupt all his high duties. The first and vital part that ought to have been dealt with, was the appellate jurisdiction itself of the Lords, which ought to be transferred to a real, experienced, business-doing tribunal, and not a mock one, as the House of Lords is. sitting on appeals, without the Lords. There is nothing so loudly called foe throughout the country as a b.nu fide Court of Appeal. The fudicial Committee of the Privy Council suffices already fur appeals from Indus and the colonies. *Why not for Ireland and Scotland? It receives appeals from ecclesiastical courts. why not from civil ones? Let it be constituted to give it full efficiency. Let the CoAxer.itsot keep the appeals in bankruptcy, and 1 1 be the Chancery judge. as well as the judicial =ember of the cabinet. This will preserve the unity mid dignity of the office to the utmost that Lord 'Jolts, as the admirer of antiquity. could desire. And the CIIANCELLOR's liberation from the Court of Ap peal would give him time to attend to his own court, without dragging other judges from their duties. will be brought to bear on railway directorates and M. Dupont de Bust= opposed M. Vatimesnirs ministerial M. Armand Benin, with regard to a management; economy in their administration will order of the day, as a confirmation of the law of the change being on foot here. In the be thereby enforced; a reliable appreciation of the 31st May, which the Left could not accept. He was second article he states that the incorpora. actual worth and probable prospects of the various called to order by the president. The order of the tion of the Italian and Masonic provinces has companies will be arrived at. day was then put to the vote and adopted by 466 already taken place. That not the case. Prussia has Su fur the schedules to Mr. LOCKE'S bill will votes against 21. in truth consented to it, and Baron Manteuffel has, form, even as they stand, a very great improvement Ou the reading of the proposition of M. Arnaud in his memorial, again declueed that no opposition in railway half-yearly accounts. But it may, we de l'Ariege, the withdrawal of this motion was re- would be raised against it. But it does not follow think, be suggested to him, that the introduction into neared. that because Prussia has consented to it that tho the schedules of comparative columns; that is, of M. Leon Faucher drew the attention of the Asaem. , small states will. On the contrary there are very • columns which would place in juxta-position the bly to the tactics of the Left in withdrawing the mo- • excellent reasons for believing that the small states figures of the corresponding half-years, would greatly tier', and charged that side of the house with sinister . will, on this point, resist as firmly so they did tho increase their value ; that it is very important to show objects in postponing the discussion. proposed establishment of a college f nine, with • the average rates at which the contracts for the I M. Etcheverry said that la. had manifested the in- eleven votes fur the Engem Rath. supplies of ordinary articles of railway consumption tention to resume the proposition, because its with- The Princess of Prussia has received an invitation are half-yearly taken; and that the legislature should drawal was disrespectful to the Assembly. from Queen Victoria to visit London during the somewhere confide the power of altering and int- 1 M. Rae said that the twit had been withdrawn Exhibition. She will leave in the beginning of May, proving these forms. because its authors would not allow it to be u , ed fur and will be followed shortly afterwards by the Prince Hitherto railway auditors have very much been the base purposes of intrigue. (Murmurs on the !of Prussia. the nominees, and sometimes the mere tools, of Right). I The first chamber is to meet next Thursday in tho directors. This Mr. LoeKE proposes to correct by 1 The proposition was then allowed to be with- concert saloon of the theatre. denying directors all power to interfere or even to • drawn, and M. Etcheverry renounced his intention zundnadel cannon are to be introcluced into the vote in their appointment ; by the annual nomination of takin g it u p for a motive, which 1 have explained /russian • ) artillery. of an audit committee of shareholders, whose duty it - elsewhere. I shall he to propose two persons as auditors; by I The Assembly then proceeded to discuss the enabling the shareholders to select as an auditor a proposition of M3I. Ranee and Lalande on the person who shall not be a shareholder ; and bylAvignon Railway. The old system of construction of authorising them to remove from office at any meet- railways by the state is now complet el y ex p loded on Mg specially summoned both directors and auditors. I all hands, and the contest now hes between COMO* . To auditors so appointed the bill „ n aives, in addition sion for a hundred years to financ ia l com p anies, or to existing powers, very large and comprehensive confiding the construction to one company, and the authority to examine accounts, to report on objec- I working. for a shorter lease to another, the state re , tionable items to directors with a view to their un- wanting proprietor. In this way the works executed, mediate correction, to make joint or several reports on pain of forfeit, by the first company, are paid for to shareholders, and to employ eccouutants. All very • the second,whichagainrepaysitsell out of the profits of important powers, and calculated to enable auditorsithe line. The Assembly had to-day to debate these to arrive, if 90 inclined, at the true state of affitirs ; two rival systems ; meanwhile the chambers of cont but accompanied by an indefiniteness of the real end move throughout France have pronounced generally of audit, to which Mr. LOCKE might usefully turn in favour of the latter, and decry secular leases of • his attention. important lines as a great evil. What is audit ?Wo confess we have never heard, M. de Rance demanded that the proposition should' or seen, or mad of ally adequate definition of the be referred to a special committee, instead of the word. If to check receipts or expenditure, entered committee of the budget of 1849, as proposed by the • in certain books, with their corresponding vouchers report. pasted into other gueual books be audit, nothing can Magne, Minister of Public Works, proposed be simpler—nothing less satisfactory. But Mr. that the motion should be rele-rredi to the old coin- LocKE, we presume, aims at something deeper, more mine on the Avignon Railway Bill. searching, and more comprehensive than this. And The debate was adjourned to to-morrow. It is the real difficulty is to define where direction ends thought that a special committee will be appointed. and audit commences. That the auditors should The Monit,or contains the appointment of a great have sonic controlling authority admits of no number of sub-preliets. doubt; but that such authority ouglit not to interfere Yesterday, after a protracted debate on the q ues-, with the administration of the company's affairs, is tion of the suspension of M. Micheletti lectures and' quite as certain. For example, they . ought to possess the dismissal of M. Jacques from his post of teacher, power to inquire into the prices given fur coke, for the Assembly adopted the pure and temple order of grease, and other articles of consumption; and if they the day by 4.10 votes against 197. find them inordinately high, they ougt to apply to lire Council of State adopted in its sitting of yes i the direction the moral control that a report on terduv the bill for the administration of the totemic', the subject to the shareholders would involve. But on the first reading. it is doubtful whether under section Bof Mr. LocKE's The Minister of Public Instruction has addressed bill, they would be authorised to go so far into detail; a circular to all the rectors of academies in the de- and, if not, it is therein defective. At all events, it partments, recommending them to exercise the is very important that their duties should be stated strictist surveillance over the lectures on philosopy in terms sufficiently large and comprehensive. and history in the colleges. On another point further power might be advan- The Ministers of Marine and Commerce and the: *toasty given to the auditors; it relates to the Director-General of the Customs were heard yester closing of the capital account. The auditors on this day by the committee on the deep-sea fishery of point might be usefully authorised to make investiga- France. After a minute examination of the difierent trots, and to report their opinion to the shareholders; clauses, the committee determined to support the bill and thus assign sonic reasons for keeping that open of the government, and appointed M. Ancel reporter. which it is the interest of shareholders to close. The metallic reserve of the Bank of France con- Lt short, us railway shareholders have so few tinues to increase, showing an augmentation of 31 means and opportunities of themselves knowing the millions in Paris, and 2 millions in the departments. true state of their companies' affairs, the greater the The discount accommodation has diminished 1 of ' opportunities given to the auditors to look into mat- million in Paris and 5 in the provinces, the amount tors for them, the better will their affairs be of the former being 47,403,565 fr., and of the latter, managed. 73,889,9491 r. On the side of the liabilities, the notes On several other points Mr. LacKea bill contains in circulation have increased 101 millions in excellent provisions; particularly one to restrain di- Paris, and 11 millions in the departments. rectors front filling up vacancies unless to constitute The account-current of the treasury has declined a quorum, and another to enable shareholders to re- 231 millions, paid principally for the half-year's in duce boards of direction to five. But it also has a see- terest of the Three per Cents., the present amount tion, taken feom Lord MoNTEAGLE'S bill, calculated being 93,050,890 f. Private accounts current in only to give trouble; and that is a dimetion that the Paris have increased 1:11, and in the brunch banks register of shareholders "shall be made up" once a about three quarters of a million, the amount of the month—a provision which, if making up mean ha- former being 81,818,916 E, and of the latter lancing thu register, will, fur all practical purposes, 23,109,597 E The whole amount of the metallic re suspend the transfer business of the great companies serve is at present 5341 millions, to 5241 millions of for ten days at least in every month; and if it do notes in circulation. not mean balancing the register, it is difficult to say At the Bourse to-day there was a complete change what it does mean. in the tone of the market, and much firmness in the On the whole, Mr. LocKE's bill is, so far as it funds. There was a rise of 35 centimes in Fives, goes, a good measure; but we doubt not that it may, which closed at 94.20, and a rise of 211 c. in the and wilt, be greatly improved in the Howe of CUM- ' Dares, which closed at 57.85. moms. DENNIARK A.ND THE DUCHIES. FRANCE. The Chnettr de BA , contains a letter from Berne of March 2.i, which says:—" I have just this moment received intelligenee from Friburg stating, thut this day at one o'clock, disturbances had again broken out there. The gates of the town were closed, and the firing of cannon was heard on the side of the Jesuit's Convent, A much larger body of malcon tents had advanced on this occasion than ou the preceding." M. Hansen has given notice that on Monday ho will call *limn the government to explain its views respecting the Duchies, and ask whether connexion with Schleswig will not endanger the liberal consti tution of Denmark. Count Criminil, the Danish commissary in Hol stein, has left Kiel for Copenhagen, to procure fresh instructions. General Von der Horst has been called upon by the commissaries to resign his command to General Itradentleth, and has complied. The non-nativo officers serving in the Holstein army are all to be dismissed without delay • those who entered the service previous to the battle of ldstedt with six months'. and those who entered afterwards, with three months pay. HAMBURG, MAnctr The house of Solomon Ileum has negisiated a new four per cent. Swedish mortgage loan to the amount of 3,31"000 marks bunco. It is secured on the union of real estates in the province of IVcrmland, which abounds in iron and wood. The estate~ are put down at less than half their value, and the union chartered by royal act, dated l:lth July, 1850. A sinking fund is attached to the plan, topic bock the capital in full, by drawing the bonds halt-•early. so that in -10; years the whole will be liquidated. Thu scrip was done on 'Change to-day at 931. SWITZERLAND. PAIIIS. FRIDAY ECTNIN(I. Notwithstanding the expectations raised by the series of important propositions on the order of the day, there was not any great importance in the doings of the Assembly. The great news is tout Odilon Barrot has come to an understanding with the President for the forma tion of a cabinet. This, at least, is believed by several well-informed persons, and it is expected that some authentic confirmation of this report will appear on Monday. Odilon Barrot will propose a revision of the law of May- Sl, in conformity with the resolutions of the Municipal Bill Committee. M. Dupin gave yesterday a flagrant instance of the extent to which he is capable of warping his office to serve the designs of his party. 1 have' already mentioned that M. Arnaud de l'Ariege, unwilling that his motion for the abolition of the electoral law of May should be used as an instrument of intrigue by the ()demists, in order to snatch a vote from the Assembly which would shut the door against electoral reform, desired to withdraw his proposition. Ile placed for this purpose, in the hands of M. 'lupin, at three o'clock, a letter formally renouncing the motion. This letter the president of the Assembly - not only refused to read during the remainder of the sitting, although called upon repeateillyby the whole Left to do so; but when M. Arnaud mounted the tribune at the close of the sitting to announce the withdrawal of his proposition, Dupin would not allow him to speak under pretence of the ballot then going on on the motion respecting the suspension of M. Michelet's lectures. The President of the Assembly next alleged that there were not members enough left to form a house, while the Orleanistswere hastening away to validate his excuse in their service. Finally, as soon as the ballot was closed he declared the sitting at; an end. Such was the dignified and impartial course preserved by M. Dupin to keep M. Arnaud's proposition on the order of the day for to-day. To-day the Assembly presented a crowded attend am of members and visitors eager to watch the course and learn the results of a sitting which pro ' mired to be stormy and eventful. First of all M. A. de FAriege mounted the t ribune toprotest byway of incident on the proses-rerbal, againt the disgraceful juggling of M. Dupin on the preceding day in de (eating his withdrawal of his motion, although he had placed a letter in the hands of the President of the Assembly early in the sitting. to announce the step he wished, to take. M. Arnaud then gave notice of the resignation of his post as secretary of the Assembly. After some explanations from M. Dupin, who bore witness to the valuable services of IM. Arnaud, the ',now-verbal was adopted. The Assembly then proceeded to discuss the motion of M. Desmares, proposing to subject the President of the Republic to the same law of election as the Assembly. M. Waisse, Minister of the Interior, renewed, in the most formal way, the declaration he had pre viously made, that the government did not eon ' - the least degree the application of one _ . SPAIN. MADRID, MAF!eI! 23. M. Bravo Murillo attended to-day 'the sitting of the Cummiitee on the Settlement of the Debt. General O'Donnell is to be dismissed from the post of Inspector-General of Infantry. member for Dublin, as they poreessed more knowledge mil the sulejert. Mr. REYNOLD:4 renheidered the hon. baronet an au- thority wee regarded borough alfaire—he would nut say t borough tubbing. (Order.) Ile thought he hail not been fairly treated by the right him. Secretary her Ireland. As ", a member of the Imperial Parliament he did not think his emertious should be confined to Dublin. Ile complained i that an unworthy attempt bad been made by the right hon. II baronet (sir W. Somerville.) to deprive him of a seat on the conituilkr. The right bon. baronet alw left the ist se l'or the motion g tin th e motion of Mr . Miteura. t.,the following IITh r. Mitchell. Mr. t'ornewall lo•wi., Mr. Olad.tone. Mr. id- t lion Brown. Mr. Anderson. Mr. Buster. Mr. an Ilowtw , n. Mr. Ooulburn, Sir John forte Buller, Mr, Arvhibalet Bestir. Mr. William Fagan. Mr. MuoilZ Sir George Clerk. Mr . Mai regur, and Mr . Alderman Hum- the house adjourned at half-pool 1. PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEES. ST. ALBAN, ELECTION.--The general committer of elections have articled the following member • to try the lition ea.pbeioing of an undue ekctiun for thin borough: n. Y. Charter* Sir B. Hall, Mr. H. Stii.,rt, Mr. U. E. Adair, and Mr. B. Ellice, jun., (chairman). ATLE4BVIIT Et.ecrioN.—The following members have been ammo* led to try the merits of this thAitiou : am. J. W. Yarteccat, Sir 6,7. Hayes, Mr. J. IL Smith, Mr. W. Mir, Mr . G. A. Hamilton (chairman). • GERMANY. The German papers inform us that the report of M. Manteutfers retirement from the ministry of fo reign affairs continues to prevail. The Calnyne Ihrzelle speaks of the critical position in which that minister stands with a high person age. In case of his retreat from the tbreign office, it is said, however, that he will retain his post as President of the Council. Count Alvensleben's services at Dresden in checking the downward career of concessions, the same journal says, are be ginning to be appreciated as well by the king us by the public. The contents of the last Prussian note to the Austrian cabinet are not known ; but a complete reslnralenn plan, it is reported, has been laid before the two governments and partially acceded to. The prevalence of this re port shows the exasperated state of the public mind in the liberal political circles. The Austrian Reirks Z,itany says that a memorandum on German affairs is in preparation at Vienna, which is to be commu nicated to all the German governments, urging them to adopt the Austrian policy, as their only security and defence against revolution. Our correspondent writes: BERLIN, Malin( 24. The all-important conferences with Count Alvens leben have terminated. After having had several long interviews with the King and Baron Munteuffel, the count returned to Dresden by an early train this morning. A ministerial conference took place this afternoon, at which the results of the deliberations I between the Prime Minister and the Prussian pleni-; potentiary were laid before the cabinet. , Their exact nature cannot of course be known ; but it was whispered about to-day that the result would he the. rehabilitation of the old Bundestag with the addition of an executive power. The old Plenum and the Engere Math to remain, but whether with the same distribution of votes or not depends, I understand, on the negotiations with Vienna. Both powers are, however, said to have agreed to restore the old Diet. I am not in a position either to confirm or to ques tion this statement, but I can assert, upon very reliable authority, that the old propositions for a of seven with nine votes, or in c which it has really an .. template in college ._ - I o - ' -•- to( the suffrage as the . sly means of secseer;. _ a gos .. ___,.. With a view to uniformity of accounts, Mr. law to the election of the representitiv college of nine with eleven votes, or a college es and another ec onomical government ; and, further, that the measure% Locxes bill provides schedules of the forms in which to that of the President. twelve with seventeen votes, instead of the present I a d vocate d by the National Reform Association are highly having entire . the stock shares and mortgage account, the capital M, Desmares explained that his motion was i Engere Rath , have no further chance, and that all i es se ntial and practicable; and the meeting, aecount, the abstract of working stock, the statement merely calculated to remove all doubts which had , the promises which have been made by Prussia and confidence in the president and council, pledges itself to u s e vans to support and carry out the same. of loans, the revenue account, and the balance-sheet been raised by rumour on this subject. I Austria respecting either have been cancelled. Fx-rn sevens 11tY I ONGEVITY —There Ore twenty -lof all railway companies are, should this measure M. de liCrdrel. the reporter, said that after the I morrow will probably clear up all doubts on the ' • - • ' - • • I ouc persons living at this time in Hawkhurst whose united T o _ every legitimate m become law, to be made out. Hitherto each company declaration of the Minister of the Interior, he per-", ages reach a total of 1,743 years, on an auerage of 93 years has had its own system of such half-yearly state- sister more than ever in the conclusions of his re- The French government have despatched a third Ito each individual. There arc also 40 other residents, whose question. I meuts ; some very comprehensive, otliers most ire- port, which opposed the taking into consideration of . note respecting the admission of the whole of the' ages form an aggregate of 2,937 years, giving an average of , perfect ; and though generally a comparison of the the motion, because there was no uncertainty as to Austrian provinces into the confederation at Vienna. results of one haltyear with precethng half-years the legislative provisions existing on this subject, It is not in the shape of a protest, but is a reply to could be made from them, to compare the general which distinctly subjected the President to the same I the Austrian objection to all foreign interference affairs of one company with those of other companies law of election as the Assembly. 1 upwards of 73 years to each ; and out of about 2,NUO per . ; , I.OIIS, which this hisis estimated to contain, fully 100 f, 1_ in ran . Ithe re-arrangement of what l'rince Schwarzenberg, that the wear and tear of is, under the existing contrariety and diversity of M. \'atimesnil proposed an order of the day thus ,in this respect, unjustly terms the affairs of Ger system, a work of study and labour such as * few motived :—" The National Assembly, after craving' many, only will or can undertake. But, by uni- heard the declaration, loyally made . by the Minister I SZme surprise has been created here, by a second formity of accounts, what is now difficult and un- of the Interior, in the name of the executive power, , article on the affairs of Germany in the Journal des certain will become easy and definite; and by means 1 and adhering to the conclusion of the report, passes IDi tats, which von have doubtlessly seen. I have 1 of comparison, a great moral weight and pressure to the order of the day." 1 is said, The oldest persons have all been married proving will prove to have reached an average . age ..,3 double blessedness tends to lengthen life as well as to increase its enjoyment. Sir John Herschel finds the atmosphere at Hawkliurst more clear, and, therefore, better suited fur astronomical observations, 1 than at almost an • other place in England, which care ma- I o st f an so ce is la n rg o e do a ub n t i u n m ti be ma r tel of y co i n u nec iu te ka d b w it. ith u th m e It a ,n i f is e t s o i3 ' contradicted tlic statements made in the former Journal. TURKEY. The Austrian papers represent the insurrection in Bosnia as acquiring new force. Fifteen thousand insurgents had assembled at Jaicza, and a munlerous fight with the Sultans troops had taken place in the close neighbourhood of that town, in which the ad vantage seems to have remaintd on the side of the rebels. Several hundred fell on both sides. The whole neighbourhood of Baajaluka had taken arms. Omer Pasha had not yet conic up with the insur gents. COLONIAL. NATAL. A file of the Natal Fit; ....... dates to January lith, has been received. Tlw outbreak of war at the Cape colony was known at Natal on the 14th, and great anxiety was felt as to the probable influence of that event on the new settlement. The local autho rities has not issued any notice on the subject. Mr. Shop:tone, it was stated, had issued orders to the natives to he in readiness to accompany him—to the number of 20,000—into the old colony. Many of the servants at &Urban had left their places with a view of joining the commando, and the projected route laid down was through Faku's territory. The natives appear to be willing for the work, and it was expteted that a laxly of 20,000 strong, c • gin the rear of the Kinks who were attacking the old settle ment, would be followed by desirable effects. The weather had been propitious to the young crops, whose value it was thought would be increased by the war at the Cape. Gainnerce was progressing favourably, the number of business firms having doubled within a few months. In D'Urban, the colonists were showing symptoms of social progress by the establinioneot of a library and museum, and also a commercial association. A. conveyance com pany has established an omnibus route between Nat7td and la:rhan. Vbe Court. The Queen and Prince Albert honoured Drury lane Theatre with their presence yesterday evening. The royal suite consisted of the Countess of Des.irt, lion. Amelia Murray, Lord Elphardone, Lord Alfred l'aget, and Colonel liou eerie. . . . . Prince Albert resk nut on horseback yesterday morning, attended by Colonel Boost:rte. Prince Albert presidia' yesterday afternoon at a meeting of the Commission for Promoting and Encouraging the Fine Arts in the Rebuilding the Palace of Westminster. His royal highness arrived at the Palace of Westminster at a quarter before 3 o'clock, attended by Colonel Bouverie. Time columis•ioners present were : the Earl of Carlisle, the Earl of Aberdeen, Viscount Canning, Lord Colborne, the Right Hon. the Speaker, Lord John Russell, Viscount Mahon, the Right lion. Sir James Graham, Sir Robert Harry Inglis ' Bart., and Mr. likllam. The secretary, Sir Charles Lock Eastlake, and Mr. Aubrey Uteri were in at tend:nice. The meeting broke up at half-past io o'clock. The royal family took their torn-torued exercise yesterday in the garden of Buckingham Value, Captain Howarth, R.E., had an interview with Earl Grey at the Colonial-other yesterday. Despatches were sent off yesterday from the Colonial office to the Governor of the Canada., and also to the Go vernors of the other North American Colonies. '- 'the Transatlantic Pat•ket Station Commission met yes terday at the other of the Board of 'trade. Present, Earl Granville (chairman), Sir James Gordon, K.C.It., Sir John 1•'. Bunpsyne, K.C.11., Captain Stephenson Ellerby, and Lord Hobart (secrtary•). Mora Bat Swill's Gazette.) ST. JAMES'S-PALACE, MARCH 26.—The Queen was this day pleased to confer the honour of Kuighthood upon John Kerle liabertield, liwtuirc, Mayor of the city of Bristol. WHITEHALL, MARCH 2t4.—The Queen has been pleased to constitute and appoint Sir John Hominy, tint. , %the office of Master and Keeper of the Rolls and Records in Chaumry, vacant by the surrender thereof by the Right Honourable Henry Lord Langdale. Cnows-enter, Mmult 26.—Member returned to serve in this present parliament for the borough of Dun garcon: The lion. Chocks Frederick Ashley Cooper Ponsonby, of St. James's-place, London, in the room of the Right lion. Richard Lalor Sheil, who has accepted the office of Steward of Her Majesty's Chiltern Hundreds. SIR ALEXANDER COCKBURN hut was expected) been promoted to the office or Attorney mer.al, in placeof Sir John Remaly, and aucceeded a Solicitor-General by Mr. Pap Wood. . _ REPRESENTATION OF CLARE.--Several candidates are already mentioned for the seat about to be vacated by the retirement of Major M•Namara ; among others, Colonel Crofton Vandaleur, of Kilrush House, and Mr. Cornelius O'Brien, who was defeated hy Sir Lucius O'Brien at the last general election. Meanwhile the Roman catholic party of Clare mean to present an address to Mr. M'Namara, re questing that he will ret.iin his seat until they can select some lit person to take his place. NATIONAL REFORM ASSOCIATION.-011 Thursday evening a public meeting was held at the King's Arms Tavern, Mile-end-road. Sir F. Knowles, Bart., having been invited to preside, addressed the meeting, enforcing the principles and objects of the association. The meeting adopts d resolutions delaring that the present ministerial crisis renders necessary a vigorous and comprehensive agi tation, and a friendly co-operation on the part of all ela,sses of reformers to enforce a wide and immediate extension of Aring -rod nod