The Express. — London, England, 1852-03-10 00:00:00

gite erfreoo. • als.a Mao U"mlLiye7•l: ^ l;WaWisie sine moires Waft; palibla Way Tana/ yriiq Nei; to Or kr pia athenimmaralsanda at .114 Ilayna"Laika lama( paw, nut be st dte Oft% Ilatalladma Tye Wait as ay el pailiaka NIGH WATUR AT LONDON BRIDOII. Ten D4ol—aimftft 41h aIawdr.s.AMMINAS, MM. 1 . 48 . 189 V . 41 101111 1111410 411100..a.alliraida. tn. LONDON, IVED.VBSDA 7', MARCH 10. nit extraordinary calamities, material and moral, to which society has been exposed within the last ten years--such as the potatne rot and the political convulsions which ensued throughout Europe—throw most prominently into relief the advantages that have arisen from unshackled commerce. No policy, commercial or other, ever conferred half so many bonefita on this empire as the freedom successively given to trade since 1842.1 n order to supply our mar ket—opened to the exertions of agriculturists in all parts of the world—those agriculturists have in many places much increased their growth of food, and instead of our now being dependent on the small surplus they raised beyond their own wants, they have in a great many places grown corn for our manufacturing pope lotion who make cottons and cutlery in return. For all Europe this has been beneficial, and we shudder as we imagine what would have been the fate of the starving peasantry of Germany had England, in stead of being able to spare them considerable quan tities of food (37,168 qrs., and 74,400 cwts. of flour, to the end of last year, and a good deal since) gone into the market, as in 1847, *rich competitor for the paltry surplus of Egypt and Russia—and raised the general price to nearly double the present quotation. They, as well as ourselves, must, with a different policy, have been exposed to the extreme calamities of fittuine. let this admirable policy,—which has I almost enabled our old country to keep pace with the United States, the most prosperous community that ever existed—a party amongst us, animated by the most sordid and selfish desires, has forced itself into office to reverse. Banded toge ther for no other avowed object than to gratify ambition, and nourish a despicable avarice, the pro tectionists have made it difficult for others to carry on the government; and at length, honoured and rewarded for their obstructive proceedings, as a sorry necessity they are placed in office, and the public is daily admonished to submit passively to their rule. Our present purpose is to direct attention to some of the commercial consequences,--especially as concerns the food of the people,—of that policy which Lord Denny is to substitute for freedom. . _ _ The return, No. 28 of the present session, ordered by the Rouse of Commons to be printed on Feb. 6, gives us a list of no lees than fifty-two distinct countries whence food, grain, meal, or flour, of some kind or other, not including rice, was imported into the United Kingdom in 1830. The three great sources of our supply, in that year, after France— whence we derived, both in 1830-61, great quan tities of food, and in previous years,—were the Rus sian ports within the Black Sea, Prussia, and the United States. Such an official return for 1831 las not yet been published, but we have ascertained from other sources that the falling off from these three sources in 1831 has been considerable. Thus from Odessa there was sent to England in 18.51 only 696,036 chetwerts, against 954,466 chetwerts in 1830; from Konigsberg and Danzig the two prin cipal ports of export of Prussia, there was sent an 1831 336,968 quarters, while in 1830 we received from the whole of Prussia 833,630 quarters ; and we have received from the United States since last September 83,411 quarters less than in the corresponding period of 1830-1. The obvious and avowed reason for the decline of im ports from all these countries was the compara tively low price in England. Importation ceased to pay; it was even followed in many cases :by a loss, and importation accordingly wase Now, the average price of wheat in 18.50 was 40a. 3d., and in 1831 38e. 7d., a difference of only Is. fld., and that difference sufficed to curtail our supplies to the great degree of which we have just given specimens from some of the chief sources. _ _ _ Lord DEBBY is reported to have said that it is o:wording :to the amount, or quantity, of foreign produce excluded by a fixed duty that the supply is diminished and the price enhanced. But the pro testiocista propose to levy a duty at least tour Buss or five times as large Si the reduction of rim which kept such large quantities (rein our meakeb bet year. A fixed duty, which actually pportion of the wheat for the government, to prevent imports exactly like a reduction SnThere is only a certain quantity of manu ikasounodities to be given for food, or their semesentatim, so much money: and if the govern mat, by taking to itself a perdm of the food, or keying a fixed duty on it, wNek is equivalent, raises it uttidelese emirs perehming pewee :IL irk.e meneibelneed o amianie m- Martead impedes esemeree to a greater West s ampiete igeseame the 'overwound an efieshie. If lard DERBY mamba the eats of belied mid amide% sr the ailing*, Wert= Wa he ft price bore sad millatprice Areal, hewill Isom thatelikinda daub m well as the earn beds are afters with • mg imargin,—that the petite are way low, and them the eemiedes will Maw that a axed d ea grebe et le. at 7a, midge tits price at 1 SAISPOL,:sky- is Mame AM isd of belle, em l a the seleamy lie !miaow edam* half the traders of the maples Tie the aid median of things, mast the ems kw, tab had restricted itself; it hes now ex or is expanding, to the sew conditions of (--and to force it beak wall lie a kind of Madam like squeezing up the het el all the women of bighead to the Climes. pose.. Fee eamnple, it is dated in the paper No. 28 slime rained to, that he seek plasm u Wallachia, the empires for 1840 were 294,6041. against 218,6771. in 1 exam of 76,027 L, and to Egypt the exports were, in 1840,818,8111. against 838,4114 mod in 1819--an mem of 10,4301. i and we know, though we hem net yet sem the cads' re turns, that die quantity of geed to ist rorted ezi gaypt in 1831 meth exceeded the en 18.10. Mime are only apesissem et the new trate whisk is everywhere stewing wend eatemile. with 721 is Imtesteenee fir Nudes of tr ade, =be masked tam, and subsequently simihnitat by a teed duty ea corn. Lod DONT, mire know doll, is well acquainted with )(suably end mak thembre, be aware that the differeeee if a trw *Wimp par chetwert at Odessa induces the imelea maim to employ more or less of their vo Lgrain their own estates. It is the same in whim, is corn is &am a dear, the 16,000 Mb that are at work ea the Mae nt farms or estates ere not te work or kept quiet. The thing works la the wane way in the United States, where the flemive hurry their grain to market, or employ it in faUsaisa pip s or for distilled's, as the Prue varies aMs eats. per herbal at New York. A Sied duty of 4s. or le. maid most preboWy keep out of the coustry threedenethe or feu -Mae if the grain now impaled; end, by duateniag die out, roles es erhaps to whate--eftos the sejoymeet of &Mime—would be • woriamiag height, the prise et hod at home. It is supposed diet mash a min weal& pot aim mallet= WWII into the pockets of the fteetra and land- After the list year or two it would have no mesh Abet t it would mealy stile se mask trade, im poverish so many marehants mad eneanketurers, Marring down the peopiee—would thrust them, as formerly, through sines of huger, dis content, riot, and ineamesders, nearly bale east a number ma would be isaniehmtlp ihd by the mein of our own soil, and make a ominous min of tide sow flourishing empire. Yet, with seek Made saes quences staring us in the face, ea certain to ensue as blood is to flow when the flesh is wounded, we are entreated to let these protectionist ministers dabble with the national welfare, and allow them to use all the power of the government, established only for good, to work, if they possibly can, this enor mous mischief. We are supplicated to enthrone the principle of evil, and allow it to secure itself in its high place by falsehood, corruption, and fraud. YEBrERD & parliamentary rettir& o : m r&lelabla which a ff ords sumo interesting inf n atr nbr tiv• to savings banks. The return gives the MEW bee of do ton and the amount of the deposits in thee, banks up to the close of the year IMO. It is smother evidence of the bireeinge of free-trade that I the poorer Glasses of the bat are not only able to enjoy increased comforts bat ma able to MO mcge money. At the end of 1848, the number Individual 40-. on in savings . banks i ,. i1111111911 of 1860 it had risen to 1 THOUSAND additional • hapi .tho:l;44l Nded during the last two years to Ile somber &those. who are able to put by ; so that if savings banks may be taken, as we are sure they may be, as indica tions and tests of the progress of the people, here is an important proof to add to the many already accu mulated of the advantage the free-trade system has secured to oar population. The money eposited by individual depositors in savings banks at the end of 1848 was 28,232,8801. At the end of 18.10 this amount hail increased to 27,198,5831., or within very little of a million. And it is most satisfactory to observe, that by far the larger proportion of this increase was in deposits of trifling amounts. The following comparative table shows that the portion of tho population who aro able to lay by . the smallest sums aro those whose deposits have increased the most since free-trade became the law of the land. Dere/tont 1848. 1850. Increase. Nereus. Lees than 201 636,430 677,969 41,639 .. „ 240,663 2.51,131 10,448 1001 102,033 106,510 4,177 „ 150/ 31,644 36,609 965 18,639 18,914 376 .. Exceeding 2001. 2,617 2,448 .. 1,034,940 1,092,681 62,191 So much as to this return in so far as it exhibits the satisfactory condition and progress of the people. Looking at it in another point of new, we regret to say that it appears to exlubit no improvement in the system upon which the National Debt Commissioners proceed in their dealings . with the public money. Despite the present very high price of Consols, there is still a deficiency of upw ard s of a million and a half in the savings bank fund. The amount of money due by the Commissioners to the trustees of savings banks was, on the 20th Nov. 1850, 31,406,5431. To meet this amount they had the following meta : Securities valued sit Cash uninvested 60,099 2%721,944 Leaving a deficiency of £1,681,601 Whenever the funds may chance to fall,—as they are very like to do with the present government in power,—the value of the securities will fall too, and wo shall have a heavy addition to the deficiency. This is an kgreeable reflection for the tax-payer who has to make up the money : and still more so when he con siders that such deficiency arises from no fault of his own, but simply from the mismanagement of those who, in past years, have 'lnd the control of this fund, and who have played ducks and drakes with the savings' bank , money in order to prove themselves excellent financieis. Agitationhydrationof the unprincipled wayln which our rulers have gone to work, and of the very little taA they have paid to the public pocket, is, afforded by this Tay return. Tho public will remember that niimerable bill introduced by Sir CHARLits WooD in series 1860, in which he pro p:wed to cut down the MIMI en savings bank de posits, and to make the Insteas responsible for all the knees he, or succeeds" Iffational Debt Commis sioners, might entail mem them At the time that bill was introduced nething amid be more flourish ing than the state of the wings banks. Every Masse day, sad semetimeo every succeeding day, the government beast wee going upon ' Change, and login SAIL meth of Re6md Three per Cants ea alma et the whip beaks fund. All thrsegit the month et Imeney be nada them pur dome, sad so on through theZrert etFebreszy— SAM et stock wee it emi shied to the emmidee held oa seseent at swigs _hake by the semminiesers. parliament bed seercely met , ilbsn it became known that Sir CHARM WooD in tended to meddle with the savings baths. What i was the instant consequeroe P A oeunden of de posits ! Up to tho 11th and 12th of February, 1830, no Ise tha= m a ri day was invested in the funds : (netball& the investments were suddenly 11=• OA the Ist of February 30,0001. worth 11111160 d to be sold : on the 4th of March It/1001. wmlh mom and so on every week up to Jul,, when it btellams understood that the govern ment bell we. vistimily beaten. It was not until cll= i t ut le in gsmegned and the Cu4Nce.t.tott of gene to Halifax, that the savings emeeneei their previous vigour. In August, knew^ iseedisset was restored ; and from that time IS be el et the year 1860, the purchases of stock • Meant et savings banks went on at an Menne zpseante- ed to the new Savings Banks Return is an account of the annuities granted under the powers given to savings banks by the acts 3 WK. IV., and 7 and 8 Vicr. eh. 83. We regret to say that this branch of the operations of savings banks appears u menceeriful as ever. In sixteen yeas the number at lib annuities granted by all the aviep banks of Grant Britain has only been 6,779. The mount of the annuities now annually payable is 1111,546 L But to meet this sum the annual revenue delimit& from the capital invested is only 48,6881.! So that the nation is annually loaing66,767Lbythispetoperation. Women told some years ago that be annuity brand woad right itself—that as lives lldl is =thZ weld leek well, and the nation wield pelginniy. Ws regret to lay we me ao slims et giefficted event at gem*, When we hat had the swings beaks assents Mee a& now sonswitat lees than two c omeL ago, the meat los apes the imanitim vim 1281. It is fair 116,7371., of 1041.811 addi Ike is Ms quite r a ft moist Ohm. A haw nr met the savings banks have mild themselves of lito johns ited ibis by 7 sail II Tem to pest beeellele delbeei annuities he hems of yams. Tres the wapitis, of the epea4o this weal be a ameillandi at lmsima - We einervo Met only 11411 at sash Mind de bore Itess= ir lat area upon these there is a Ins at MIL • he whilst 4621/. is annually teb illemoulleolkeehg 1411171. accrues hem e maw& of She savings beak INA hes to sake ap th e s wed seeelly awes the asthma debt end sir aliens try te inks the pablio believe that these Lees are sat hose at Mk but that the annuity immit is iheihilis, mil that it is " the high rate et blemet ea bona " that is the cause of the delielonsise oak mimmiagement occasion& A "antheeidee" have, it is reported, bees = et lately a t the idea of catching a . 4 green the Exchequer.' Upon the strength of Mr. DISRAELI'S accession to office there is quite a stir : the Comptroller-General pro duces long-delayed returns, and " her lia na's's Registrar-General of Friendly . Societies" alteletters to the people in obscure lttful periodicals. But wo are mistaken in 111 b. BRESAIIIN DISRAELI, if he is limed quite se matilly. He will, we rasped, avoid the snares whisk Sir CHARLES WOOD fell into bodily. He will not run his head against the savings banks with quite so entire a conviction that he shall not Idamage himself; nor vote away thousands a year in salaries with quite so much carelessness es to whom THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY FRANCE. ,awof Turin sPAti ou , i tez t r has bar ionahai prb. Marls Duke of Rogues. died at Wide* ,os the 2ite kt half-illet nine la the morning. ~ . v .., after ahlltoesi of she dam the bill marshal of Nipokon has expired in eine. at ' : y e of 78. The capital feature in Marmon th bi og ra ph y is the separate eapitalatiea by whisk he the Em peror at Foetal:Mean, and according to which he un comod his master 'by! drawing off his turps denude to Versailles, and leaving the road to Footainbleau open to the allied moues concentrated at Paris. Lamartine has attempted, but without much success, to whitewash due evidently hue desertion, which at once stopped all peeeibility of negotiating the imperial regeasi, an home thus far from impro bable, mid ?muddied the Impure, lathe rock of Elba, hem which he ime diatimed to *shine so glorious a return methellOthar Marsh arthe sent year. Marmont, rivalled by his bells* of the Emperor to the cause of the Berarbess, and prevented by the excess of his apostasy hem imitating the weakness of Ney, Israel me of the fugitive court at Gaud, sad mastered France with the second Restilladom He was cominander-in-chief of the army whoa Cholla X. was expelled by the citizens of Paris Mir crimes which have been sinoo pardoned to Lode Napoleon. By his fidelity to the exiled court tithe elder Bourbons, Marmont repaired in gems samsare the stain which his treacherous be trayal of the Emperor, in 1814, must ever leave upon hie memory. A note, whose official character is stamped by the signature of " Communiqué," has been inserted in the Patric, for the purpose, it Amid seem, of show ing how unblushingly tho ministers can prevari cate. Everybody knows that immediately after the promulgation of the confiscation decree of January 22, the Muniteur was obliged to state that General Arnaud had given in his resigna tion on ',that day, together with the other ' ministers, but that he had been induced by the President to retract his resignation, which was accepted. A note is now inserted in the jour nals of the government to make it appear that complete harmony has prevailed between Louis Napoleon and his Minister of War. But you will observe that the contradiction of dimensions is confined to thaw matters which am- cern the war department: It is, in fact, intended to discredit the report, which I sent you from a good source, that General St. Arnaud had refused to sign decrees for putting upon the retired list officers whose attachment to the Orleans party is notorious. The note is as follows: A report has been several timcs circulated that certain differences had arisen between the President of the Re public and General St. Arnaud. This report is absolutely false. We declare, fee the sake of truth, that since the se cession of General et Arland to power not the slightest different* has taken plan between him and the President I'pas any one of the questions relating to his ministry. Ve 'Ann this in the most formal meaner. Not oven in the limited sense which is given by the latter part to the denegations is this official communication trusted by any thinkinK person. But it is highly significant, as showing the jealous appre hension entertained lest the rumoured differences between the President and his minister of war should gain credit. This fear is the better grounded, as it is now matter of notoriety that M. de Morny, the other chief agent of the coup flat has been worried b 7 a series of small persecutions, and visited by mor tification' which have driven him into decided oppo sition. Thus, after it had been settled that the ox-minister of the interior should be president of the Clops Legnica?, and candidate for Paris, the desired place has been given to M. Billanit, and the candidature of do Morey thrust into a corner, where his double election is evidently a mutinous answer to the official note, which asserted in the Coudituinousel that every double candidature would be opposed by the government. To-day there prevailed at the Bourse fresh ru mours concerning the intention to convert the Five per Cents. I hear to-day that Marshal Excelmans is to be ap pointed to the post of grand marshal of the palace, when the new soup-detest establishing the empire shall have been struck. General the Duke do Mortemart, who recently signalised his adhesion to Louis Napoleon by accepting • command in the Cher, is likely in that came to succeed Excelmans as Grand Chancellor of the Legion of Honour. The chateau of Menden has, I hear, been granted to Marshal Jerome Bonaparte as a summer residence. A decree in the Moniteur declares it to be indis pensable for every public functionary to take an oath el allegiance, in accordance with Art. 14 of the con stitution ; and orders that in case such oath is re fused. or its terms modified in any way, the person so acting shall be considered as having given an his resignation. Special decrees shall determine the mode in which the ministers, members of the great bodies of the State, officers in the army and navy, magistrates, and functionaries, shall take the oath in question. The following is the text of the oath required by Art. 14 : " I swear ebedienoo to the constitution and fidelity to the Passident." It is remarkable that, while the virtu of ma oath is so curiously described and imbed ipini in the above decree, the ematitntien peddle no oath to be taken by the IPsesfierk hinusif. It is fair to suppose ' ft* hie sonsoismee must have been sorely tormented by tin oath that he swore to that constitution which he destroyed on Dec. 2, since he . shrinks from ham- I pertng himself in like manner again. A special train arrived at Havre the day before yesterday, from Paris, with 477 prisoners condemned to transportation. They wero escorted by a detach ment of sixty of the gendarmerie mobile, and were immediately taken to the Florida basin, and embarked on board the Christophe Colombe, which soon afterwards left the dock. Among the number sent on board her are M. Salve, ex-chef de bataillon of the national gnai4 of Sotteville, a pointer named Aymard, M. Le leer-Villiers, of Rouen, and M. Pen&, who was the organiser of the Montegnard game. The Ilea says : Nialty sa-reprisvatstive of the Nievre, arrived In Paris ea W , with 40 oessisonen, tree Braers. He aseria me met at Ivry asi is the selysnoss tbe as asw' Tirr,.... = aged Om OM maw; eirpiiihus I. be ido4s. 14 Wools dasdaadea b. .m Is him Wm pp lOW ea. The ikair esebbees - alleealeWtively orgasi dei Raking mamma Ibeteuipereey Chamber lined Yen Orme of Aiyinelet Pads Wthe mew useeeetAigli,lM3. Aar Eleisft see fa the esiedes le Ibe emeeelleed leibliede mei dim es have lea IMMO tidal belie MO et min; and the elm, übt Ile _eslemeelleliee es wool and talker be emir delembei mum wool, when canii a b il l Pm& Wens Ilembiss beyond tbe aps et Geed Ism lft to pay ( 1 3 X C ad suiseens, and ethos ha Resign b ere Wawa, or from ether esestries, the isms as at prone ; imi tallow, when fran beret Ospe Horn or the Claps of Good Hope, in French bottoms, having to pay 6fr. the 100 kilog. ; when Am other countries, 10fr. ; and when in foreign beltssas or by land, 13fr. Marshal Jerome Bade, President of tho Se nate, has made the following nominations in the internal service of that body.: M. Ballard, wad ie &gin of IL Illewlwa t Illiaisfer of Patille ksifsesdria. Ito beea email essisfsay a/ Ile Its& dina tithe Slade i IL &Ow" bra et Sr mpg lime heal writers of the )Hosier, s newel heel er wham i M. Ferri, asobsal widgae et lib, Ati=t. m yopias' Ileiketaist is IL Prima s Pg. !wed. am dohs, a Lreviipered qtariotte Cordes ii smirolel llhoolia X de Miiville, welawi maw IkeZ is t so lie aisisisfts et I% of Weighed's. Is amid w aft IL V is sp. =swim of floe Mei Its }sam; H. , ai runt salirlinelse et the pal wise. is arm/ /baster of the elakistrative weds, of the !lush I M. Develasy, who was weitsseer et ilie filil Chamber sifters. hi tea the wicallsktlie limb ; Dr. Firawl, via M e MiiiiNi lo Data, is awned w n5......vi 11.4.. fuset lbra eon artil li e g ti all swillswissegars of the Chamber of ran have beim be It WIS be sus ky a paragraph in the Mes eta/Fr OA IL Mot has arrived at Havre, with other punimi minesed to transportation. no Prow NapoWneenne contradicts rumours awrfent for MIN days, that the President of tho Re public, hoe boon dangerously ill--acute rheumatism, brain elbolerine, having all been mentioned as anises 101111pwhich be hew been attacked. The President of the Republic patiavisit yester day to the Tuileries. Ile went there in a light two hone carriage, which he drove hirnselG 1), MARCH 10, li Arrifig crrit-tbird of She candidates elected u mask Isere of theLegidstive Bodg y ees ;members till lagidative Amiably. 11111 . MM. _Mowry Mai. aide& Mu wled, Waal Brokaw do Maim, Br ed, Brotalasar B sews, Wolves, Iratosk i aMthessalsa, r ti .Clee se z e /Z z. avid, Delays , Besse, Dew Daman, C. Dugle dis tb a rdasx, i t a i s a t:Viors, "" .V.4LT l Et d. =} de as: Omusli, &Meadows, Janyler, Leave Ladoosofte, Leos do alb, Lo lmpovao, lanth re t e andritArr oomte, Logorreo, Wet, we% r, Last lairs d'Aalasy, Ls:quite, . & m aw, Lemmas; Leant, Marrow. me.. talembert, - Maria, Moray, Moolommt, m e g, Raadoing, litiasessi4 Itiebf. . erf doll:, &oink, &ohet &Abeam, Talmo, o, Tinter, Velma, Viard, Wut-Viroosz, Wendel. The result of the election for Corsica is now known. The government candidate, M. fieverin Abbattuoci, has obtained nearly the whole of the votes. The Sink says, as an on die merely, that the decree far the suppression of the university will not appaw ; the normal school will be preserved, and a WU for a new law of public instruction will be sub mitted to the consideration of the Council of State. This, if true, is a check for the Jesuits. It has been decided that the members of the new elective AssemblT are to take the official title of de puties in the legislative body. M. Parmenber, mayor of Montpllier, who has been just elected as a deputy to the Legislative Body in the department of tho Gard, has since died of a diabetic affection. At the Bourse the Five per Cents. rose 20c., closing at 103.70 ex div. • the Three per Cents. rose 100., closing at 69. ihe Bank of France shares fell 65f. Versailles railway (left bank) rose 8.76; Tests and Bordeaux fell 7.00; the other liner are without ma terial change. they go. THE " TilltS" PROPOSAL TO " GIVE LORD Dwr A TRIAL."—(TO the MYR et the De* Nee.)—Bier Yoe ask why the rime whim be slee die wrest rigger • trial. Now, prehebly yen see set exam et the peen hstinsey between the el' the new end Mr. Disraeli, sad w l = lies e a r , e lrelhar nay have ask so one ana_tsiL preebß , this blenseil. even Scdenes, tent te—ladosie ail., 10— " New trust thine t he as leas rastethoo is his wiekasees. Tbenta di e mas Yong sad machine, yet take goal sat beware of Ws, ear that shalt be unto him as vibes wiped • leolde and thou shalt know that Ms net heft set bees ~ler wiped away. Set bia sat by thee, ket edits be bob overthrown thee he Deady to thy plan; sabre let lit at at thy right bed. lee be seek to take az g at. oat that at lest teases. be her ray weals, and tberewith." fielessea's advise II far beta r that at these who talk &beat w styles him • trial." What, waddima give • trial to imy sae vibe bed get late your been ? Wadi yea rest eyiii4 eg g sup libe b• Wendel hitsb sr eat Mee yea tTM Delia if W. magi ray. Wen ses be ete mistake es to the ideation of the banglesi sal so Ist as say et tie pettiest datable-rigger, WU weal Ist the , and sob their Abbe% of • bellytell NMI of tksfr rosy fawn Claim aid the pee fiat lig* as baud.—Yoar &n -aiad arm; No Pintas Tim ROYAL BANK OF AVOTlALlA.—Yestarday a claim was beet t in before Wrair Bieber& by a selkitor ap- Mr. John Blair, sneer of ea alleged debt of MO W N. latereet. The biter dlriarl WON* MP fry mown at moss law. SWITZERLAND. Thelndependanee of Berne says: We published yesterday an article from the ladverulanee Help which announced that France bad transmitted an ultimatum to Switzerland. We learn, in feet, that a now trate reached Berne yesterday ; but if we are to believe per- I ID= who declare they are well informed, that note was completely favourable to the Federal Council, so that the difficulties with France are removed for the moment. The Suisse of Berne says: It is this moment stated that a penile note, and favour able to this authority, reached Berne yesterday. It is not impossible that such a note arrived, but it appears certain that the Federal Council has not received it. Rumours in a contrary sense have circulated Madre to the sudden departure of M. Gobineau, the First Secretary of the French Legation at Berne. It is now known that this diplomatic agent left on Monday night for Paris. All sorts of stories are circulated on that subject, bat up to the pre sent wo have reason to believe that those of an alarming kind are entirely unfounded. The Suisse of Berne makes this single comment upon the French note published in the German journals : - - - - - - - - - II this be the text of tbo note it most certainly be admit ted that such language cannot be maintained towards an independent state. Tho Suisse protests with spirit against the tone of the A menablee Nationale and tho other French jour nals that threaten intervention in Switzerland. Al luding to the alleged internal divisions in that coun try, it says The issue of the struggle of 1847 has proved that the Bonderbundisn clement was extremely weak. We need not say that it has gained nothing tines, and that, on the con trary it has lost much. Now, it is in this clement that many journals, who study Switzerland upon we know not what map, seek the basis of a strong government. What publicists! We might ask them if they think Louis Napoleon Bonaparte would have been able to preserve his power, if, on Dec. 20 last, he bad obtained 500,000 votes only out of 8 millions. The question and the proportion are the same. SPAIN. In the rumoured resignation of Lord Bowden the Herald* pays: Several journals have announced that the Ambassador of her Britannic Majesty in this city has sent in his resigna tion to London in consequence of the change of cabinet which has just taken place. Although such a proceeding is usual in diplomacy,end all the representatives of the Queen of England abroad give in their resignation not only when there is • total change of cabinet, but when the minister on whom they depend is changed, this step has not yet been taken, inasmuch as Lord Bowden does not yet know officially of the nomination of the new Minister of Foreign Affair'. Nevertheless, resignations are not always accepted ; and not many years ago we saw a ministerial change in Eng land without any one of the diplomatic agents being changed. We should be very glad if the same fact should now occur es regards Spain. Whatever may be the foreign policy which Lord Derby proposes to follow, we believe it difficult for him to find a better representative for Spain than Lord Bowden, or one more acquainted with oar cus toms and ideas, or more generally respected by all parties, and, consequently, better qualified to draw closer the ties of friendship, which, in our opinion, are alike advantageous to both countries. Six journals were seized at Madrid on the 3rd inst.. by order of the political chief, namely :—The Constitutional, Clamor Public°, Las Novedades, 06- sereador, Opinion Publiea, and Ileraklo. ITALY. PIEDMONT. In the sitting of the 6th the Chamber of Deputies at Turin com*ted the election of the members of its bureau, after which tho Minister of Finance presented the following eight bills, : For the ap probation of the treaty of commerce concluded be tween Piedmont and Sweden ; for that of the treaty of commerce with France; for the registration of private agreements; for the modification of the tax laid on matrimonial contracts; for the median). Lion of the personal tax; on the tax to be lad on stipends and pensions; for the construction of a bridge on the Gravellone; for the reform of the central administration of the state, and the for- motion of the Court of Accounts. TY Minister of Public Instillation presented a bill far the organias lion of the sdor administration of public instruc tion, and mas br the institution of a social fund among alinsobei theaters, for the purpose of pro viding passim thr them when disabled. In er/f the present abundance of money in theP markets, the King has, on the proposities die Mister of Finance, reduced the interest urea sthisquer bills to 4} per cent., if due within .l mad% mad to ba per cent. if the bills are for a law pieW. GERMANY. VIENNA, Dimwit 6. According to telegraphic despatches, the Emperor had, on the morning of the 3rd inst., at Verona, a grand review in honour of the Grand Prince Con stantine, who was present. The Emperor and Re detzky wore the Russian uniform, and durirg the review the Russian hymn was played. The Emperor then proceeded to inspect the fortifications, and after wards entertained the general staff and the chief local authorities at the imperial table. At 6 p.m. ho left Verona by train, and arrived at Venice in three hours and a 'half. Next morning, at an early hour, he embarked in the war-steamer Volta for Trieste. Lord Derby's speech in the House of Lords, upon the refugee question has been received, as it might have been expected, with extraordinary satisfaction in Austria, and the Vienna papers are very eloquent upon the subject. The Audriaa Correspondence, the mouthpiece of the ministry, complains of the pitiless manner in which Prince Schwarzenberg's despatch to Lord Granville has been handled by the English papers, and congratulates itself on the favourable contrast in the language held by Lord Derby on the same subject. The Lloyd, which is supposed to express the sen timents of the government, has the following upon the late changes in the administration of affairs in England : From our point of view, a tory cabinet is better than a whig one ; but our wishes must not be confounded with our opinions. Lord Derby will fall. The conservative party in England is now taking up a position which no conservative party ta any land can bo ld with honour. When the privileged dames of a state are so ill advised as to make laws which only serve their own interests, to the prejudice of the rest of the people, they are lost. Only the poor and their representatives have the right to be selfish; the rich ought never to make laws for filling their own pockets. While the bales have for their rallying cry " Tho constitu tion so it stands!"—" No changes,' .they may conquer; bat when they write upon their banners the words" Dear bread," while whigs, Peelites, and the men of Manchester take " Cheap bread " fur their motto, the result of the struggle ceases to be doubtful. The tones assert, indeed, that the cheap bread of the manufacturer brings want and hunger to the agriculturist, and declare that the whigs have built the prosperity of the towns ou the ruin of the agricultural population. To this argument of the landlords there Is, - :iii Kb, no_el featly *Avian : " Lows: the rout oakum will pee also." The between the milliaaa of cities and mil population, bat a couple of - see ea; thoopaad tory 1 The ransom's of the possible change in the corn laws of Englandhave been received with the utmost oonstefnatiest is each of the oorn-growing districts as are still in a position to export. Upwards of 300 ships in the Black Sea, and a still greater number at Coestentinople, are lying idle; and in Constanti nople extreme anxiety was manifested (at the last advice's) on all hands for the first whisper of the pro jested changes in England, no merchant venturing to Night a vessel until something positive was known. This was felt more (says a letter from Trieste) on account of the favourable state of the weather, and the probability of quick peerages. The scanty news we have from Hungary says that goverment is making all passible efforts to establish Ss new organisation; but the work goes on very dewy, partly from a dogged passive resistance alum the people themselves, and partly from qwele between the men in authority. Notably smog the latter the Archduke Albrecht and Count triirare sparring away as vigorously as ever. k i npnt Regiment of infantry, which has just returned from Holstein, is to be quartered at Free burg.. Famine and bad government, poverty and military occupation of the country, are making things in Hungary almost as bad as they can be. It must be remembered that an Austrian regiment sad an English one are two very different things. An Austrian regiment is a little army of sonic 4,000 men. The natural inference is that the state of affairs in Hungary has grown so far worse of late as to require a reinforcement of 4,000 men to tho large army which overspreads the land like a plague of locusts. DEATH OF MARSHAL MARMONT. Another of Napoleon's favourite captains has quitted the scene in which he has long ceased to sustain au active part. The name of Marshal Marmont will live in association with those of Bernadotte, Bayonet, Lund!, and Earthier, his companions in arms, but Englishmen will especially remember it as that of a general most constantly found in opposition to our own commanders. Marmont was with Bonaparte in Egypt, and accompanied bim , with Murat and Lames , when he had resolved to quit the slue of disaster. In the successful campaign of 180:i, which ulti mated in the peace of Presburg, Marmont commanded an army corps, and at its termination, having invaded the bile of Haim and defeated the united Russians and le its neighbournood, earned the titular dig nity w be Dana till death. In 1812 we find him opposed to We in the Peninsula. He commanded at the battle of iLmanes, es honourable to the British arms, and there rushed a severe wound. In February, 1814, he was operating la conjunction with Mortier on the Marne for the defence of the territory of France itself, and, being com pelled to retreat, fell back upon Paris, Match 20. Ten days afterwards be was fain to espi . ulate to the allies, and on the 31st of March marched out of Paris. Marmont now took the oath to Louis XVIII., and kept it when Bonaparte returned from Elba. It was his singular lot to have to surrender Paris a second time, namely, in 1830, when be had been entrusted by the reactionary ministry of Charles X. with the command of all the troops. This may be considered the most interesting position which he occupied, and the following account of his conduct and feelings, from a record of that time, will be read with interest. Early in the morning, the Marquis de &mow/ilk, grand referendary of the Chamber of Peers, repaired to head quarters, and obtained an interview with Polignac. He pressed upon the latter the absolute necessity of ministers putting a atop to hostilities, by repealing the ordinances, and resigning. His expostulations were supported with great warmth by Marmont. Poligoac was obstinate, al though the marquis stated, that all the ministers seemed to him to be subjected "to a power above theirs." Ile next proposed to Marmont to make prisoners of the mini-ten, with the assurance that the announcement of this fact would put an end to the movements of the people. The marshal, according to the account of the marquis, was moved to so great a degree, that he shed tears of rage and indignation, end hesitated between hie military duty and his feelings. Ills agitation was nearly convulsive, and we saw him twice refuse with vehemence the orders which officers came to demand of him, to use cannon against the populace. Marmont's heart was never In the cause for which he was fighting. On the Monday, when the ordinances were first promulgated, he said to his friend, M. Arago, the astro nomer, " Well, you see that the fools have pushed things on to extremities, just as I told you. At least you will only have to lament such measures as a citizen coda good French man, but how much more am Ito be pitied—l who, as a soldier, shall be obliged to get my head broken in the sup port elects that I abhor, and of persons who have long seemed determined to give me as much annoyance as pos sible." On the Wednesday, before the deputies had arrived, M. Arago had made his way, with some danger, to the Carousel, and urged upon the marshal that he should instantly declare to the king that he would not retain the command of the troops unless the ordinances were recalled. " The marshal," lays M. Arago, " allowed me to develop my opinion, but I saw evidently that his whole person was labouring under excrutiating feelings. His sentiments con cerning the ordinances were the same; he seemed to agree with me, that the step I proposed was grounded on justice, but yet, in consequence of something that cannot be defined —something which bad its source in the habits of a military life—he did not think that then was the moment to put it in execution. A marshal of France, an old soldier, ought not, in his opinion, to propose any concession as long as the chances of the battle were uncertain." Marmont was right for once. When he accepted the command he knew that the purpose of entrusting him with it was to enforce obe dience to the ordinances. To have laid it down because he found they were resisted would have been treacherous u well as absurd. THE CAPE MAIL STEAMER BOSPHOREIL—By gentleman who arrived in Plymouth on Monday evening, we learn that the Bosphorus, Cape mail steamer, was six days behind her proper time in arriving at Sierra Leone, on her outward voyage, and from the weather which prevailed after her leaving Sierra Leon*, on the 6th of January, it was presumed she would be still more after her time in ar ' riving at the Cape. Presuming, therefore, that she would be six days after her time in sailing from the Cape for England, she could not be well anticipated to arrive at Plymouth before the 10th or 11th of March ; and, allowing for the strong eastwardly winds which have prevailed for some days, it would be difficult to approach the mouth of the Channel. Tho gentleman who gave this information, as to the Bosphorus, Captain J. V. Hall, came home from Sierra Leone in the Ceres, merchant ship, of London, which put into Falmouth on Satur day, through the impossibility of getting up the chan nel against the strong east wind. He left Falmouth on Monday, and came on to Plymouth in the Mercury, Irish steam-packet, When the Ceres left Sierra Leone, on the 18th of January, a large fleet of merchant ships were lying there. THE MzErTEREANFAN.—The Peninsular and Ori ental Steam Navigation Company's ship Euxine, Captain It. W. Evans, arrived at Southampton this morning, with dates from Constantinople, Fehrusry 10th; Smyrna, 21st ; Malta, 26th; Gibraltar, March 2d. The Euxine has en 'metered heavy easterly gales 'cross the Bay of Biscay. She brings 27 passengers, specie, value 2,000 f., and a large and valuable cargo of Levant produce. On the lit instant the Euxine spoke her Melon'', ship Britannia, from Gibraltar, bound to Malta,:all well. At Gibraltar exchange on Lon don, at 90 days', was quoted at 61*; Spanish pillared 11 per cent. Eemtitm. STATE OP NEWCASTLE-COURT, STRAND.—Lant night an inquest was held by Mr. Laughers, at the Castle Tavern, Portugal-street, Lineoln's-inn-fields, as to the death of an illegitimate male child named Addison, about two months old, which was found dead in a house in Newcastle court, Strand.—Elisabeth Butler said she lived in the room with the child's mother. On Saturday morning, about 6 o'clock, Mrs. Addison, the mother of the child, got up, and said she found it was dead. The father got up too, and expressed a hope it was not, and then, finding it apparently so, ran with it to the King's College Hospital.—The Co roner : Who was the mother of the child I—Witness: Caro line Hailes, my cousin.—The Coroner : Thew else was not married. Who did she live with I—Witness : A man named Addison, a sweep —The Coroner : Tell me now the whole of the persons who slept in the room.—Witness: There were Addison and my cousin, two boys, and myself.—The Coroner: How old were those two boys I—Witness : One was 17, and the other 21.—The Coroner: Did you ell sleep in ono bed I—Witneas : Addison and my amain slept in one bed, the two boys in another on the floor, and myself in another bed on the floor.—Then altogether there were six persons of both sexes sleeping in the room. What were the names of the boys, and who were they 2—The witness said she did . not exactly know their names. They were the sons of Mrs. Hades. Ur. Baker asked the witness, with the permission of coroner, whether she had not a child two years old sleeping with her I—The witness said she had. (Great sensatien in court.)—The Coroner: Then why did you keep that back. Was that illegitimate like the rest ?—Witness said it was.— Caroline Hailes, the mother, gave nearly a similar account of finding the child dead in the morning, and was asked by , the coroner if she considered this a fit state of living in ? She said she believed it was usual with poor persons. She , was examined at some length, but her answers were only a , corroboration of the testimony of the last witness.—\t m. Addison, the father, was next called, and, in addition to , the above, stated that the whole six had, in different places, slept in the room for the last two years. (Great horror , was espressed.)—The foreman . Now, mind what you , swear, wheriyou lived in Little Stele's-place had you not an old women residing in the same room ?—Witness replied he had, but ihe was dead.—The Coroner : Then that made ; seven of both sexes.—Mr, . Cheatle, the house physician at King's College Hospital, examined the body of the child when it was brought there, Ile atti ibuted death, not to suffocation, but to a want of free air, under which the child gradually sank and died.—The Coroner observed that never in his life bad ho beard of such a grins ease of immorality as bad that day been placed before hue.—The jury found— " That the deceased died accidentally horn a went of free air, and had gradually tank." trOt COUtl. OSBORNE, TUESDAY. The Queen and Prince and the Royal children walked and rode in the grounds at Osixwne yesterday. The lion. Col. and Mrs. Grey had the honour of receiv ing an invitation to dinner. Lord Hastings had an interview with the Earl of Derby yesterday, at his official residenos in Downing -street. Tho Bishop of London had, also, an interview with the noble earl. A deputation, consisting of Sir Do Lucy Evans, Mr. Leslie, Chairman of the Coacbmaken' Cuiumittee; Mr. Booker, Mr. John W. Peters, Mr. John Robson, and Mr. R. Turner, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official residence in Down ing -street. Messrs. Powlee and Schneider, from the Port Philip and Colonial Mining Company, had an interview with Sir John Pakington yesterday at the Colonial -office. A joint deputation from the Electric Telegraph Company and the Irish Sub-Marine Telegraph Company bad un in terview with Mr. Secretary Walpole yesterday, at the llome Office. The deputation consisted of Lurd Enkine, Mr. Su; Mr. 0. Lathom Browne, and Colonel Wylde, directors; Mr. West, engineer; and Messrs. Robert Wilson and L. IL Winekworth, solicitors. The Earl of Devon had an interview yesterday with the Chancellor of the Exchequer. ' The Oxford University Commission had a meeting yes terday, at the official residence of the First Turd of the Treasury, in Downing-street. Present—The Bishop of Norwich, the Than of Carlisle, the Master of Pembruke, the Rev. It. G. Liddell, the Rev. Profaner Powell, and the Rev. A. P. Stanley (secretary). Mr. John Wood, Chairman of the Board of Inland Re venue, hod art interview yesterday with the Chancellor 01 the Exchequer. Despatches were received at the Colonial-office yesterday from the Governors of the North American provinces. MINISTERIAL EXPLANATIONS.—It is confidently stated that no formal ministerial statement is likely to be made before Monday next, when, in both Houses of Parliament, new explanations from Lord Derby and his colleagues may be looked for—all i decidedly in favour of a "protective" policy. Mr . Disraeli s not likely to be returned to parliament in time to take his seat in the House of Commons by Friday night. MEETING OF I,ll3EltAt. MEM BEAM of the lions° of Commons, invited by Lord J. ROY!, II to a roof. ri-ner on the present positiou of public attain, 1, to be held on Thurs day, at twelvo o'clock, at his lordship's residence, Cite sham-place. (Fran last night's Ourt?..) LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S-OFFICE, MARCH 2.—Notice is hereby given, that her Majesty will hold a levee at St. James's Palate, on Wednesday, 21th March instant, at 2 o'clock. _ _ LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S-OFFICE, MARCH 2. —Notice is hereby given, that her Majesty will hold a dra•vinet-room, at B'. James's Palace, on Thursday, the let of April neat, at 2 o'clock. - - ----- BUCKINGHAM PALACE, MARCH s.—This day had audience of her Majesty, the Count Ki.lmansegge, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from the King of Hanover, on his return to England after temporary ab sence, and the Prince di Carini, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from the King of the Kingdom of the Two %Lilies, to deliver his credentials in the .anie cha• ratter from his Royal Highness the Duke of Panne, to which they were respectively introduced by the Earl of Idalmesbni y, her Majesty's Secretary• of State for Foreign Affairs, and conducted by Colonel Cornwall, Assistant Master of the Ceremonies. _ ST. JAMES'S PALACE, MARCH s.—The Queen has been pleased to appoint Orlando George Charles Bridge. man commonly called Viscount Newport, to be Vice- Chamberlain of her Majesty's Household, in the room of the Right lion. Edward George Fitralan Howard, cool. moll)/ called Lord Edward Howard, resigned. WHITEHALL, MARCH 5. Tho Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the great seal, granting unto Lieutenant-General the Right Honourable Henry, Viscount Hardinge, G.C.B. the office of Master-General of Her Majesty's Ordnance of ;he l'nited Kingdom of Great Britain end Ireland. The Queen hoe also been pleased to direct letters patent to he passed under the great seal, granting unto Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Plunkett Dunne, the office of Clerk of the Ordnance of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. WHITEHALL, Manor s.—The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be paooed under the great seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, appointing John Dorney ]larding, Esq. D.C.L. to be Her Majesty's Advocate-General, in the room of Si: John Dodson. FOREIGN-OFFICE, MARcii 5. The Queen hail been pleased to approve of Don Antonio Ferrer de San Jordi as Vice-Consul in London, for her Majesty the Queen of Spain. DOWNING-STREET, MARCII 0. —The Queen has been pleased to appoint Norman Ramsay Masson, Esq., to be clerk in the Registrar's Department of the colony of Hong-Kong. lioßsE GUARDS, FEBRUARY 26.—The Queen has been pleased, on the recommendation of Field Marshal the Commander-in-Chief, to appoint Captain Edward Suther land, half-pay unattached, to be one of her Majesty's hon ourable corps of Gentlemen at ARM vice Smith decemed. CROWN OFFICE, MARCH 9.—:MEMDEItS RETURNED TO SERVE IN TRIS PRESENT PAULLUlENT.—Colcliester: The Right lion. John James Robert Manners, commonly called Lord John James Robert Manners, First Commis sioner of Works and Public Buildings. Abiwzdon : Sir Frederick Theaigcr, of Bryanston-square, in the county of Middlesex, Knight, her Majesty's Attorney-General. Stam ford: The Right Hon. John Charles Berries, of Saint Julian's, Seven Oaks. in the county of Kent, President of the Board of Control. Midhurst : The Right Hon. Spencer Horatio Walpole, one of her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State. Buckingham: Richard Plantagenet Campbell Grenville Nugent Chandos Temple, commonly called Mar quis of Chandue, one of the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury. • COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY TILE LORD LIEUTENANT OP PNNIBROILPAIIIIII.—COTIIOI James Broft Byers, and Cornet Frederick Leopold Sapieha Manteuffel, Baron de RuMcn Baron Fients, to be Lieutenant in the Castle. martin Yeomanry Cavalry. COMMISSION SIGNED BY THE. LORD LIEUTENANT or LANCASIIINE.—Sir Thomas George Hesketh, Batt, to he Colonel in the 2nd Regiment of the Duke of Lancaster's Own Militia. COMMISSION SIGNED BY TIIE LORD DECD.:SANT or Oxrosiosuiar.—Adjutant George Cuming, to be Cap tain in the Oxfordshire Regiment of Militia. COMMISSION SIGNED BY THE LORD LIEUTENANT or Firesitinz.—Dugald Stewart Lawrie, Gent., to be Lieutenant in the Fife Militia. ROBBING A BISHOP.—On Thursday night last, a couple of expert but profane thieves effected an entrance into Auckland Palace, whilst its inmates were all in bed. After scouring the culinary and reception apartments with out profit to themselves or loss to episcopacy, they aeended to the next storey. There the irreverent scamps found their way into the zoom where the Bishop of Durham and Mrs. Maltby slept; and thence, notwithstanding the very !lateral inquiry from Mrs. Maltby, " who was there," they managed ,to retire, carrying off with them the bishop's purse. The contents, however, probably disappointed tho rogues. as they are reported not to have exceeded three pounds. Next day the bishop entertained the judges on circuit. VoLxEsTonk.—The town clerk has received an in timation from the Lords of the Treasury that this port is to be raised to tho fourth elan. A memorial was forwarded from the town council some time since on the subject, and we understand that' Mr. Brockman, the member for the borough, has exerted his influence to obtain the desired result. The imports have of late so considerably inereavd that the custom-house is now being made one-third larger to afford accommodation.—Maidstone Journal. _ FIRE AND EXPLOSION AT A TAR FACTORT.—. Yesterday morning, shortly before S o'clock, the inhabitants of Deptford were greatly alarmed, in consequence of an explosion and fire of a serious character taking place in the premises belonging to Mr. Edward Dorset, naptha and tar manufacturer, situate on the brink of Raven's Bond Creek, Deptford. The origin of the disaster could not be clearly a scertained, but shortly after the men had commenced week an explosion was baud resembling the discharge of a piece of artillery. At first it was imagined that one of the locomotives on the Greenwich railway had blown up. The inhabitants on proceeding to the spot whence the noise proceeded, found the premises which were something like 20 feet high in a blaze, and the stock in trade was or such a combustible character that it soon became ignited, and ran like liquid fire over the ground. and baying entered the creek a large sailing barge narrowly escaped being destroyed ; as it was, one side of the vessel was ex tensively scorched. Such was the force of the explosion that a heavy steam boiler, eight feet wide, was litt,d from its original position and thrown over a wall eight fro high, and one of the workmen was so seriously injured by the hot i liquid as to be obliged to be removed to the hospital. With all possible expedition the engines from Messrs. Penn's factory, one from her/Majesty's dockyard, two of the Low don brigade, that of the \Vest of England Company, and another from Watling-street Brigade, attended. It that time every portion of the building in which the misfortune commenced was wrapped in flame, consequently not the least chance remained of saving any of the contents. Un fortunately the sufferer was not insured for a sleek penal 'THE "DERBY" NIINISTRY.—" Them's the jockicS for me ! " cried the gentleman at dinner—silent, till a plate of dumplings had been set before him—whom, till he Nulled bigmouth, a poet had been admiring as the most intelligent looking man he had ever seen. The remark dispelled the illusion; it was not a very wise one. but there would have been some sense in it, as applied to her Majesty's new ministers. For, as the Doncaster Garette rib•erres -" The turf is wonderfully well represented in the present cabi net, which combines four of its stanchest support. rs ins the Perim. of the Premier, the President of the Council, the! Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, and the Master of th' horse.' The last-named a_ppointment, doubtless, is filled by a coat potent person. We wish we could say as much of the others.—Punch.