The Express. — London, England, 1847-03-01 00:00:00

BUSINESS IN THE LORDS (THIS DAT). ORDER OF THE DAT.—Bacare .—Labouring Pox . . (Giasbej Mu. BUSINESS OF THE WEEK IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. MONDAY, Massa 1. ORDERS OF Tiff inv.-Strm., (committee and report).- Wars ass Maass (Committee). eeCOND Rumaila..-Ans Sr., ; Hallways; CbmoLidated Food (8,000,11001 r BULL se Cossorrre.-Landed Property (Ireland); Poor Relief (Ire. land) ; Customs duties. NOTICT.4 or MOTIONS ON ORDERS OF TUE DAY.-(h committee of ways and meow) Chancellor of the Excheqoar to move resolutions for loan. (la committee of supply) eeetary-st-War, to mom army estimates; and Mr. Ward rereselobing gwy animaters ; tltr De lii Evans, to mom an address reistini to the laJurtice of the War c• warrant of May, 1•16, in raps& of general takers whore dohs hare been limited to lasona! eerrior ; the same, to mom for oopy of representation I against rations stoppages la the ooloons ; Sir lbairofd Douglas, to call attention to the cares of medical °Moen% Burma.% sod paymasters not included in the warrant of Jul)), 1846. (ln Mins unties on I..ded Property (Ireland) 8111.1 Mr. Roebuck, to 'Wen that loans to Irish proprietors ought to be acrompanied with aei tension of all burdens on property in Ireland, which rest on It In England. Mr. Grogan, to mom amendment .1 clx.e. 3. ;la OF mitts* on Poor Relief Bill (Ireland.) Mr. Wrightson, to propose /ink tattoo of the amount of rates annually leviable by guardian. WI. Poolett Scrope, to mew eatemion of the principle of the Mai onordes• to Iceland, and to move amendments to clauses I mad 10. Mr It. W. Barron, to more additional clauses and amendments to chnneß Lord John Russell, to move amended elauos. Mr. Mackinnon, to sus addition to first clause. Mr. Shaw, to more that owners of tithe rent charge berated ...cilia( to their net intone. Lord Courtemy, towels ansaedosent to clause I. Mr. GrenorV, to hoc , ' additiomal dams- Mr. Smith O'Brieo, to mom additional clauses. (On motion to eon. snit Customs Duties Bill)-Lord G. Bentinck, to move that it be n. /erred to special committee. !sorters.... None. m klarros.-.Mr. 'Lindley, to nett Iced John Konen questions respecting the Educational Grant, and the minute of the Council of Education presented sth Feb. Mr. ha Mauls, to introduce a bill limiting enlistment in the army. Bir George Grey to intraluer a bill to amend Drainage Act. TUESDAY, MARI.I 2. NOTICES OF MOTIONS.-Mr. Bouverie, to move for select committee on refusal to grant sites for churches in Scotland to the Free Ent. Mr. Bright to move for what committee on the reification of cotton in India. Mr. E. Denison to move for select committee on the English Yodesisatical Commimion. Lord J. Russell to introduw bill to amend acts for appointment of eccleciaatical com missioner. Mr. Raskes to call attention to he report of the commit tee on settlement and poor removal. Earl of Lincoln to call attention to the petition of Mr. Mara. Mr. T. Duncombe to call &finalist to petitions frorn Warrington against certain Lancashire junior, Mr. Mods to call attention to the ems of the Black Cat. Lard G. Rea dmit to move for returns relation to railway companies- Mr. Badly, to more for returns relating to diatilters and distillation. Mr. Smith O'Brien, to mom for Maros of deaths from starvation in Ireland. Mr. T. Duocombe, to reeve for copies of charges and evi dence in the cam of Daniel Toyer._ WEDNESDAY, Much J. ORDERS 01' THE DAY.—Soroso Roams° —Rating of Tene ments (No. I) pin. Buz to Commrrem.—Feetortee BILL NOTICES OF MOTIONS ON ORDERS OF THE DAY.— (In item nutter on Factories 84114—Mr. Roebuck, to mom ameadmenta Mr. Brown, to more additional clause. THURSDAY, Kum 4. NOTICES OF MOTIONS,—Mr. Gods" to introduce bill men. =Life &mummy. Mr. firenstry Dora, to intrude« bill le Semithlekl Market. Mr. &wall, to call mutation to the report of the Amderrer Union Committee. Mr. Hume, to move mods lions reledire to Cramer. Mr. Y. Smith, to tame deduation (hot the of the Colcatiel teed and Emigration Commtheimere ought to powers of Mr. Dentembe, to more teat the Duke of Brawriekh peados' be referred to • sleet ematelttme. ORDERS OF Mt DAY.—Frermaa Commearnee or Rouen Os : Market and Pain dams; Commiadoinere claws; Gmworks Muses ; sod Watermark. Muses bilk irite ellartsoS. The mail. for New heath W... Van Mamie% Land, and New Zealand will be made op ce the evening of the Id March. The Wen India milk lembeleve then he *aim Mcedarm, sad the Hamonsh, will le muds up le Me meamike et the lad March. The mails for &NY Meth Amerlah Memeds. and the United &Mee will be made up se Or emeing erf the iled 'Web. The emrharl malls kr Olbellor OMNI. the lode Wanda ZawA im. Ceylon, Pals. liessekeive =lpie rorroarra. mar Iv sr dr somasse tOs def The ores Mir linide, Ithiet Mr. ark Vidor, Parrui, =4 .11. 4. 166115 . org AYsse wM be wide up as et 4111sL The nab ller elm Opeete.lMea. Madeira, Ciulls, and Gibraltar, will be may up mile mender of the 7th Marsh. The overland sisal malbh vie Marseilles, to the Mediterranean, FOTPt• Aden. °elks. Win, Nang Keep, Ike., will be made up ou the eeamg of the Rh limb. TO CORRESPONDENTS. The Abutlig Owns " MPRE!3B " tisso Ism =NOY ED from 90, FLEET-1911tEET, to No. 10, Hoovzszsarava, MEET-STREET, soativous to the Printing sad PollYiksi Moss. 'We oisost oia waxily corarstudostioo t tl o ut mot to os i rail= "l ssalmos ilm" NUTTIER CAN 4 4`E UNDER/lAN TO RUM ANT INICHIPTS Sadeeellemeale biniel far The Brpreee, lanta oneelee payee, mit le at the ear by Two o'cioek co the day of pablioatke. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE. TO DAT —lionsiag, 33 W. put I ; Afternoon, I I min. lost 2. 11Balknutow —Maniac, 30 min. pm* 2 ; ARen33oo, 44 1:1:03. part 2. LONDON, MONDAY, MARCH 1. PRINCE ALBERT is elected Chancellor of Cambridge. With the support of the cabinet ministers and of their predecessors, Lord LYNDHURST and Mr. GOL'LBURN having voted with Lord LANSDOWNE and Lord GREY, with ail who are connected with the court, and almost all who have been, or may be, attached M it, on his side, with the resident members of a college, which numbers on its boards one-third of the senate unani mously in his favour, Prince ALBERT has polled 9.3 l to 839, a minority which at least justifies " the pro ceedings of certain persons," as Dr. WHEWELL cour teously termed, and untruly represented his Royal Highnt es to have termed, the steps taken to promote the election of Lord Powis. Some curious reasons were invented for supporting the royal candidate. Because Lord Pouts voted for the Maynooth grant, which we have no doubt Prince ALBERT approved of, it was discovered that the noble lord's supporters were tractarians. The ultra-religious pretended to be lieve that the Prince would be a no-popery Chancellor, and their chief representative at Cambridge exhorted his friends to support the good cause, influenced no doubt by pious motives, but urging the suspiciously worldly argument, that " the nobility in London, and others best qualified to judge," preferred the royal Protestant. We are not, however, disposed to criticise the com position of the majority too closely. It had some disadvantage to contend with in the singular mixture of rudeness and servility which increased the previous unpopularity of its leader at Cambridge, and added many votes to the unsuccessful side. The apparent refusal, moreover, by the Prince of the proffered honour must considerably have embarrassed some of his supporters. There is one curious circumstance which deserves notice: Lord POWli is known as a public man almost exclusively by his exertions in favour of the see of St. Asaph. tefore Lord JOHN RUMELL*4 present administration, he was, perhaps, the only living member of either house of parliament who had practically and efficiently served the church in as far as the episcopal element is essential to the constitution of that body. In the House of Lords he received many compliments and thanks from the fathers of the Church. In the Senate House of Cambridge he did not receive one vote from them. The clergy came from all parts of the kingdom to show their gratitude for Lord Powis's real or sup posed, at any rate intended, services; but not one bishop of high or low church—of Whig or Tory politics—thought a rescued bishopric worthy to be put in comparison with that divinity that cloth hedge a prince. The Bishop of LONDON, who has always kept up the character of a model prelate, a kind of ideal occupant of the episcopal bench, of course dis tinguished himself by his zeal in favour of Prince ALBERT. It is much to the credit of his clergy that so many of them preferred protesting against syco phantic adulation of rank, to the deference which they would naturally have been inclined to pay to their ecclesiastical superior. It would be absurd to pretend that the university is likely to receive any serious damage from having elected a Chancellor who can scarcely, from his peculiar position, fulfil the duties of the office. In practice they have long been reduced to a mere form, and the Prince may, if he thinks fit, easily eclipse his predeces sors in the pageantry of public ceremonials. In ease of need, some peer will no doubt be found to represent the university in the Upper House in the place of the Chancellor; and, in the event of a visita tion by the crown, it must express itself through the medium of some inferior functionary. The real danger consisted in the degradation of conferring the office unasked on one who, with no pretensions to it beyond his exalted rank, could only perform its duties unobjeetionably as long as they remained merely nominal. The bona fide and severe conte s t w hi c h h as t a k en place will i n a great measure have redeemed Cam bridge from the imputation of servility, which is, if not a national, at least an academical vice. We leave it to the Bench of Bishops to feel enthusiasm for Lord Powts on account of his services to the Church. His merit on this occasion tx3naisted in giving his name to a resistance to courtly adulation, and in re fusing to give up his pretensions in deference to his princely opponent. It is discreditable to the country, and disadvantageous to princes, that honours appro. prated to particular classes should be laid at their feet by wholesale, so as probably to be received with con temptuous indifference, with the chance that the refusal to offer them may give rise to resentment. The Prince's domestic virtues and abstinence from political interference are deservedly appreciated in England ; but it is satire in a very thin disguise to call upon him to "protect,* se Dr. WHEWELL expresses it, the studies of the university. His Royal Highness is said to be possessed of considerable attainments, but he has, to say the least of it, cot counteracted the mediaeval rigidity of the etiquette of our court, nor has he, by patronage of merit or in social intercourse, in any way shown himself exempt from the indiffer ence to art, literature, and learning, which has uni formly characterised the dynasty into which he has been adopted. We state this undeniable fact from no desire to criticise Prince ALBERT'S character, but to show how exclusively he was indebted to his rank for his selection to fill the highest academic office. lacidentally,.and against the wish of most of his supporters, it is possible that his nomination may lead to good. We cannot suppose that his German education has instilled into his Royal Highness any extravagant love for English abuses. If he takes any part in university affairs, we have no doubt that he will, on the whole, wish rather to further learning, than, as the' ultra-Protestant worshippers of the " nobility in London" expected, to persecute Papists and Tractarians. By a judicious and delicate exercise of his in fl uence he might smooth many difficulties which have hitherto lain in the way of improvement. It so happens that most of the worshippers of abuses, being also fanatical admirers of worldly rank, have supported the Prince on the present occasion, and may, therefore, be disposed to yield to his wishes. It is impossible that he should be acquainted with the details which require reforma tion ; bat if he is not already aware of the state of the question of religions tests, be will soon have it forced upon his attention. It would be far better that the university authorities should voluntarily facilitate the admission of non-conformists, than that they should receive them unwillingly and grudgingly. Prince ALBERT himself once lived without the pale of the English church, and may not unreasonably wish to see the co-religionists of LUTHER and CALVIN, or even those who, like one branch of his family, still adhere to Rome, admitted to share in the benefits of academical education as freely as he himself enjoyed it in the unsectarian lecture rooms of Bonn. There is another abuse which his influence might still more easily remove. He might readily procure from the crown a removal of the offensive and insult ing law which compels the university to grant de grees. to noblemen and their relatives after a shorter noviciate than that required of the commonalty, and with a ceremonial of ludicrous servility. He might induce his supporters, the heads of houses, to refuse admission in future to the some class, under the distiactive title of fellow-commoners, which entitles them; to a separate academical costume, and leads them to associate exclusively with one another. It is to the false estimate of rank, fostered by these two institutions, that his Royal Highness owes his present election. It would be a curious specimen of even-handed justice. if, with the indifference which princes are said to feel to subordinate distinctions of rank, the Royal Chancellor was to take the first step to the abolition of these disgraceful relics of barbar ous times. On the whole, it is as well that the contest which has terminated, while it involved a principle, has led to little practical result. Lord Yowls could have done the university little good ; the Prince may pos sibly effect some good, and has little power of doing harm by his ignorance of its institutions. Any excess of oriental etiquette in the relations of the Court and the academical authorities would lead merely to re gret at the choice which they have made, without seriously affecting the interests of the great body of the university. On the other hand, a hearty sympa thy with the cause of learning and improvement, and a judicious exercise of influence against obsolete pre judices, would insure an amoant of regard and gratitude which has seldom been paid to the Reis faineants of Cambridge, the GLOUCESTERS and CAM DItNB who have been accustomed to figure at the head of the university calendar. POLITICAL economy has certainly a thorough-going representative in its godson, the Economist, which continues to exclaim in the name of its paternal science against everything that has been done in the I way of charity or interference by government for the alleviation of Irish distress. Government, according to the Economist, is, or ought to be, a business of police, and nothing else. It ought to preserve order, clear the way, sweep mendicants from the high roads of life ; but, to feed, or to employ, or to take more count of the existence or sustenance of the poor, than providence does, is heresy on the part of a govern ment: it is worse than heresy ; it is a blunder, that only aggravates the ill. The Economist follows up this dignified and pater nal view of the duties of a government, by telling the present one, that, what it ought to have done alter learning the total failure of the potato crop, was to " let ill alone," and to fro forth and proclaim by herald that it would neither import food, nor distribute food, nor lend money, on mortgage or in any other way. The only effect of the approaching famine upon Lord J. RUSSELL, as Prime Minister, ought to have been, according to the Economist, to make him tighten the strings of his purse, or of the state purse, more closely than usual, and then go to parliament for an increased police force to keep the peace, and quell any impatience of the starving Irish, until they should be sufficiently reduced by famine. Instead of labour rate and relief bills, we should have had a coercion bill and an insurrection act. Such is the recipe of the poli tical economist for governing Ireland. The result, according to the journal, would have been, that the landlords would have found both money and employment and food for the poor. The Economist does not say where. From two thirds to four-fifths of their rents were lost to the landlords, all of whom, almost, had in cumbrances to pay off to an amount far greater than what remained. The tenant, who had lad his store of provision, kept what money he could for the inevitable hour of famine. The refusal even to lend money to a nation, which for the season was reduced to pauperism, was at the same time to inform the corn trader that there was no use in sending provision to Ireland, where there were no funds to pay for it. What the Economist recommends, was a decree of forced starvation, with fetters and constables' staffs to render starvation palatable. There is but one way of reading and comprehend ing this recommendation, which is, that, when by any mal-administration, or neglect, a population has been allowed to grow up in a country beyond what can be subsisted in times of scarcity, it is the duty of go vernment to project and provide for the extinction and starving down of the surplus. The law of NIALTIICB should be rigidly enforced, not merely pro spectively, but retrospectively. Whenever a famine threatens, then is the time for a wise government to exert itself, to arm its police, and to see that the process of starvation, as ordained by providence, be effectual and universal. If the F,conomist does not mean this, it means nothing. It is absurd to lay down as an abstract and unexceptionable rule, that all countries produce food enough for their population, or, in case of crops . failing by blight, have wealth enough to buy provisions for the year. Is this true of Ilindostan ? When the rice crop fails there, the portion of the zemindar, or land lord, perishing with that of the ryot or cultivator, and that in a country where there are neither roads nor trade, ie government to look on and see the whole po pulation perish ? Government alone can there make an effort to keep a spark of life in the people. This is one extreme. The other is that of a wealthy country like Holland or England, where landed pro duce forms but a third or a fourth of the annual re venue, and where, even in times of famine, the wealthy portion of each district may, perhaps, be left by government to find food and employ for the more in ' digent. But is there no middle state—one in which the better classes of the afflicted district can do much, but cannot do all—in which government, especially where it is the government of a large and wealthy empire, can and ought to interfere to save life in the more ind*eat and pestilence-stricken province? Undoubtedly. As there are states in which government alone can come to the relief of famine, and states where government interference is not needed, so there are states where government must partially interfere, and aid the propnetorial classes in what they cannot do altogether of themselves. The difficulty . is to fix the d ue proportion, not to allow the proprietary and monied class to shirk their duties, yet not to drive them to ruin, and despair, and dissffection. No doubt it is difficult to hit the proper medium ; no doubt it is difficult to keep to it even when found. Joint undertakings are tasks of the greatest perplexity ; and whatever be the wisdom, the fortitude, the vigilance of government, it will be assailed by the poor, and their tribunes, for doing too little; by Irish landlords for the same fault, coupled with the crime of pressing too hard upon them. English economists, at the same time, will cry that government is doing too mach; and in their abstract wisdom will appeul to the anti-Irish prejudices of Englishmen, thus swelling the dry and hard-hearted absurdity of impracticable logic into the passionate and irrational cry of Saxon and Celtic antipathies. It has evidently been the aim of government to steer between the two extremes, of the non-interference and economist principles which would let ill alone, and the all-interference demands of the Irish. As to the economists, they are of themselves neither numerous nor formidable; but they unfortunately lend their respectability and show of reason and of principle to another party which is both numerous and formidable, and which consists of those who hate Ireland for its creed, for its poverty, for its misfortunes, for its impracticability, and for the vengeful feeling which it harbours and vents against English supremacy and the English race. On the other hand, the all-interference party would be little formidable, were it merely Irish. But, most unaccountably, the English protectionists and their singular chief have turned aside and stooped to flatter the most selfish and most extravagant of Irish hopes and demands, and thereby rendered them so ram pant, that Irish extravagance in the way of argument and proposal has passed all bounds, and has provoked from the exclusively English and the economists a series of taunts and recriminations, which have done more to sow hatred and separation between the' countries and the races, than years of administrative wisdom and liberal policy can be expected to coun teract know how dangerous it is to interfere between such parties. Mr. JOHN O'CoNNELL, who stood up on Friday evening in parliament to denounce the eco nomists, turned upon us too as having denounced the ustoward effects of Irish exaggeration. In the article which the honourable member alluded to, we men tioned the distrust entertained of the statements and arguments of Irish politicians, a distrust occasioned by the strained logic and distorted arguments of, now, many years' standing. We regretted that this feel ing at present stood in the way of full cre dence being given to accounts of Irish distress, which, wo feel convinced, are but too true. Irish argument has been long calculated to intimidate, not to convince ; to produce effect rather than to manifest truth. In the present state of Ireland and its relative position to England, sack a school of eloquence is misplaced, whilst the simple and the true style of natures not easily found and improvised by those who have so long deserted it. For our part we are determined to keep the middle path between Saxon and Celtic exaggeration, between economist and mendicant, between the supercilious contempt and the rancorous hatred thus mutually generated between the intemperate, the ignorant, and the selfish en both sides of the Channel. e shall have the struggle now violently renewed in parliament. The Irish poor-law is about to come on for discussion, and will mil forth every discordant opi nion, every struggling interest, letting loose passion and prejudice in the fullest extravagance of expression. There could be no debate, which, if fairly and calmly undertaken and carried through by English and by Irish, could be better calculated to offer full in formation to both, or one which ought to excite stronger feelings of mutual charity and respect Let it be considered how one intemperate speech, one in considerate word, mars all this. The first requisite for such a discussion is temper : wisdom itself is but the second. MR. WARD had to perform a very ungrateful task on Friday. He had to unfold estimates of increased expenditure to a parliament, upon, which the list of domestic exigencies had so lately made such a heavy impression. He NI as compelled to talk of foreign rivalry to politicians of a most pacific temper, and had either to gloss over the abuses of an old and rotten system, or, by exposing them, embark upon a sea of reforms and innovations, that might raise a very emeufe of old stagers and red tape men. Personally, too, the Admiralty Secretary had not a few difficulties. _ _ _ All have been well braved and surmounted. The necessity of rivalling and competing with France was stated frankly and unprovokingly. The expe diency of increased force, augmented means of de. fence, and better pay to that class of soldiers requiring some scientific knowledge and experience, was ad mitted and well received. It is fortunate for the country that party struggles are not carried on this year upon small or vital questions ; such is the ad vantage of having on the benches of opposition, men who have been ministers yesterday and may be ministers to-morrow. What Mr. WARD was obliged to tell of French preparations and Frenefl resources is calcu lated to make a deep impression. It need not, however, excite either alarm or despondency. The picture of the good working condition of the French dockyards would be more startling than it now is, if the French government did not betray such an over inclination to rely upon the efficiency of its fleets and armies as insuring the power of the state. Competition in the field of peaceful rivalry seems either to be undervalued at Paris as a source of in fluence, or to be rejected as hopeless. The money spent in France in the last ten years in fortifications and warlike preparation would, if allowed to circa late peaceably in trade, have done much more to ele vate the nation and to strengthen the ruling dynasty, than all the steamers or the dockyards that have been built. Even now the works at Toulon depend in great measure on English aid, both for workmen and machinery, whereas it has been possible to allow the government workshops in England to run so low in point of efficiency, on account of the aid which the crown can always command from the private workshops at all our principal ports. It has, however, been wisely felt that it is not merely money, or materials, or carcases of vessels, which con stitute strength, nor even men, so much as the spirit which animates men. The p ...scions, and valiant, and indomitable spirit of the tritish seaman still, no doubt, exists, and would be found effective as ever. But science has introduced into the navy a new ele ment, in which intelligence and education play a much greater part than formerly. And to meet this new state of things, as well as to vivify what remains of the old, it was necessary to introduce new mo tives, new rewards, new principles. The system of appointment and promotion accord ing to fitness, character, and education, is now to be introduced into certain classes of the navy. We may hope that it will one day be introduced as the law of higher grades. But let DS be contented with the pre sent instalment of the principle, which Mr. WARD has smuggled in, and which is as much calculated to Five an impulse to education as to ameliorate that important class of petty officers whom it concerns. Sir JAMES GRAHAM spoke like himself and Mr. GORLBURN'S four years tip, and not like Sir ROBERT PEEL'S colleague of 1848, when he caviled about increasing the pay of engineers. We are much mistaken if a general increase of the pay of seamen, in some proportion to that of the merchant service, would not be found in the long run, and on the ay..t rage of years of war and peace, a saving, independent of the increase of our resources and of confidence in them, so well calculated to deter au enemy and pre vent war altogether. The Paris journals of Saturday contain nothing of general interest. The projected changes in the se condary ministries continued to be spoken of, but ne thing positive was as yet decided. The law relative to transatlantic correspondence was still under dis cussion. _ . . We are assured that communications by letter on public business between the British ambassador and the Ministcr of Foreign Affairs have been resumed ; the ambassador having addressed a despatch to M. Guizot on Friday. It was mentioned in the salons, and repeated in some of the journals of Saturday, that NI. Guizot had consented to avail himself of the first opportunity which shall be presented in the Chamber to make such an explanation on the subject of the offensive expression in his late speech as would, or ought to, satisfy Lord Normanby. The opposition journals seek to envenom the quarrel by declaring, in advance, that such a proceeding, on the part of M. Gaizot, would be base, and would for ever degrade him in public opinion. The Epoque, a journal which was understood to be under the pztronsge of M. Guizot, and to have a semi-official character, has ceased to circulate, being absorbed by the Presse, the proprietor of which has purchased the interest in its existing circulation. The cause of the failure of this journal has been erro neously stated in the Paris correspondence of the Morning Herald of Thursday last, In which the writer says, that "with a large subscribed capital, backed by ministerial influence, and sustained by subscription, the Epoque has, nevertheless, failed, because it attempted, against the experience of all its, contemporaries, to publish at half price." This is altogether contrary to the truth. The annual subscription to the leading Paris journals, the anstitationnel, the Presse, and the SU'ele, for example, was 401., at the time the Epoque commenced. The subscription to the Epoque was 32f., being, therefore, 30 per cent. abort the other I journals. Instead, therefore, of being published at half-price, the Epoque was actually published, as the correspondent of the Herald ought to have known, at a higher price than the journals with which chiefly it had to compete ; and this was obviously one of the causes of its failure. But the statement of the cor respondent of the Herald is in spirit even more con trary to the fact. Some years ago the annual sub scription to all the leading journals of Paris was 80f. The instinct of self-interest prompted some of them to lower the subscription one-half, and the others, with the sole exception of the Journal des Ik - bats, which still retains the original annual subscription of sot:, soon followed. The result was, that the circulation was immediately increased in &large ratio. At present the Journal des Debuts, conducted by the first lite ' racy talent, enjoying exclusively the advantage of the earliest communications from the government, always the first to give the intelligence of the tele graph, and the contents of cabinet expresses, has a circulation ander 10,000, while Le Siecle, as opposi tion paper, having none of these advantages, has a circulation of upwards of 3.3,000. La Presse, not withstanding the unpopularity of its contract with the Russian legation and Marta Christina, has a cir culation of above 26,000, and the Constitutionnel 23,000. Such are the consequences of half-price, to which the corn spondent of the Her.sld ascribes the failure of the Epoque. An interview was to have taken place on the 27th, at five o'clock, at the house of Count d'Appony, the Austrian ambassador, between M. Guizot and Lord Normanby. The effect of this interview would pro bably be a reconciliation between these two states men. Count d'Appony was chosen as mediator, and his mediation will no doubt produce the most favour able effect. A correspondence had already been ex changed between M. Guizot and Lord Normanby, which had led to the hope that a reconciliation might be possible. It is therefore probable, that on leaving Count d'Appony's, M. Guizot and Lord Normanby will be on the best terms. The Madrid mail, with correspondence and journals of the 22nd inst., was received in Paris on Saturday. The Chamber of Deputies continued its debates on the address. M. Cortina made a speech against the ministry, and was followed by M. Hos de Olano. On the morning of the 22nd, M. Pidalcommenced his reply, and continued, according to some of the journals, amidst murmurs from the Opposition. At the de parture of the mail he had not yet touched upon the foreign questions. Great alarm was felt respecting the Carnet move ments. The chiefs of the insurrection were in Cata lonia, where Forcadell had been named Captain- General by the Count do Montemolin. The other chiefs had all received from the same authority provincial commands. The reports were con tinued that Cabrera was in Spain, and only waited for a further enrolment of troops to open the cam paign. On the evening of the 21st, it was said that ristamy had entered Cervera with 30 men, and the next day a colonel, two commanders, three captains, and a company of soldiers, had joined him. At Lerida a detachment of the regiment of the Princess, in spite of the entreaties of their officers, submitted to the insurrectionist chiefs. The government authori- ties have required the inhabitants to give up their sporting arms for the public defence. The whole province is in a state of alarm. El Clamor Public., says, that it was reported on the evening of the 21st, that the cabinet had resigned in consequence of a difference of opinion among the ministers, respecting the dismissal of General Breton, a measure which has been strongly urged by all the deputies from Catalonia. The same journal states that letters had been re ceived from Portugal on the 21st, in which it is stated as certain that one of the queen's generals who had attacked some troops that had made a sortie from Oporto had been completely routed. Letters from Galicia said that the insurrectionary bands there were daily reinforced, and that a great number of the alcades and ' -. "-kaers of police , THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 1. 1847. protected the rebels instead of pursuing them. FRANCE. POPULATION.— The Moniteur pub- 1 Hebei an official account of the census of 1846, from which it appears that the population of France then amounted to 36,400,486 souls. In 1841, when the previous census was taken, it was only 34,230,178, thus showing an increase in five years of 1,170,308. In 81 departments there has been an increase in the population, and in .5 a decrease. The de partments in which the increase has been the most remark able are—The Seine (169,000), Nord (47,000), Rhone (44,000), Finisterre (38,000), Bouches du Rhone (38,000), Oironde (34,000), Lfire Inferieure, C6tes du Nord, Cher, Haute-Vienne, Morbihan, and the Haut-Rbin. The five departments in which the population hasdecreased are—The Eure (2,533), Lozere (813), Jura (734), Meuse (662), and the Rhone (531). At the commencement of the present century the population of the French territory was 27,000,000. The increase in 4G ears has, therefore, been 9,000,000. SUPPLIES OF FOOD.—The Gazette des Crisco, pub lishes the following table of the result of the corn harvest and potato crop in different states of Europe : In Southern Russia the corn was of a good quality, but edema quantity. In Central and Northern Russia the harvest was abundant ; the potato disease was only felt iu a few districts. In Poland the corn harvest was bad to both quality and quantity : the potato crop failed generally. In Scandinavia a bad harvest. In Prussia, generally speaking, in all the provinces both po tato crop and harvest were bad. In Saxony and Holstein • fair harvest, hut the potato disease committed great ravages. In Hanover the harvest was bad, and the potatoes universally failed. Ia Wurtemberg, Baden, and Bavaria, the quality of , the grain was good, but the quantity small. In Turkey the maize was good, and 'the rice and wheat mediecre. The ;harvest varied in the different provinces. Austria is similarly I situated. In Italy nein and corn were good, though burnt in some provinces—potatoes are but little cultivated in Ra'y. In Switzerland the quality was good, but not abundant: the potato crop failed. In France the harvest universally bad, and the potatoes failed nearly in every department In the Netherlands, and in Belgium, the corn-harvest was equally bad, as also the potato crop. In England the corn-harvest was good, the potato crop partly failed. In Scotland the grain was inferior, and the potatoes failed. Ia Ireland both harvest and potato crop failed. The Reforms states, that bread at present sells at l at 6 . 1 centimes (6d.), the 21b. loaf, at Lons-le-Saunter. Ex- I orlfitant as this price is, it is exceeded in several towns both in Alsace and in Lorraine. The Mouehe states, that the merchants of Saint Brienne, in Brittany, had, in con sequence of the high price of provisions, freighted a ship of 400 tons burden to proceed to th 3 Levant for • cargo of Wheat, which they were determined to sell to the less affluent classes at first cost. The Message,. do Nord announces that the price of Wheat had risen two francs the hectolitre in the market of Lille on Wednesday last. The Commerce de Duakirgue states that a further rise has takes place in the C..ra market of Be es. The Potriote de la Meurthe states that at the market of Nancy, on Saturday last, the 20th of February, , there were but .50 hectolitres of Wheat offered for sale to a population of 40,000 souls. The consequence was a rise of I one franc the hectolitre. SWITZERLAND.—The French journal of Frank fort of the 21th contains a correspondence from Zurich under the date Feb. 20, in which it instated that serious disturbances had taken place on the Austrian and Sardinian frontiers of the canton of Tessino, in consequence of large purchases of corn having been made on those frontiers, for the purpose of exportation. The inhabitants of Varese, Laveno, Lesto- Calende, and Arena committed many excesses, such as pillaging the corn stores and oorn boats, and destroying carts and waggons filled with core. The custom-Lou: officers of Cwtalello, a town on the boraers of Sardinia, were obliged to fire on the crowd, two of whom were killed and several wounded. ITALY.—ROME.—DON MIGUEL.— The Preise gives a letter from Rome dated Feb. 18, from which we quote the following remarks:—" The prince left Rome be tween the 22nd and 24th of last month. The pontifical government. like all the European governments of the day, bad recognised the legitimacy of the claims of Don Miguel to the throne of Braganza ; thus when, after the invasion of Don Pedro, the Infant was compelled to seek a refuge at Rome, Gregory XVI. and his government received him as the legitimate King of Portugal. At the close of 1845 the Pope made an arrangement with the government of Donna Maria. A nuncio was sent to Lisbon. A previsional compromise re gulated the affairs of the church ; the queen was recognised, and a change took place in the position of Don Miguel. A proposition was made to him to accept proposals made by the Portuguese government, that he should recognise that government, and receive in exchange far his title an annual income from his territorial poeseernions, and a pension as In fant. Don Miguel refused. The Roman government was compelled to act. His titles and royal honours were denied him, and his annual allowance reduced two-thirds. The prince made no complaint, but did not appear any more at public ceremonies. In these two phases at the prince's sojourn at Rome, first, as recognised king, and then as Infant, the pontifical government never considered him in any other light than as a guest. The enjouni of Den Miguel at Rome, imposed, perhaps, on the Infant by Austria, was, as regarded the papal governineet, quite voluntary. It must be concluded from this, that whe ther the prince informed the government of his intended departure, or said nothing at all about it (which is much more likely), there was but one line of conduct open to the papa! government ; that is to any, not to interfere. But if the pontifical government was aware of the pro. jeeta of the pretender, it was, at least, • diploma tic duty to inform the Portuguese legation at Rome of it. I now come to the tion of his ni,ee, Don Miguel had seldom resided in the city, but had spent the neater portion of his time at his villa at Albano, and passed his time in the chase, or in the culture of his lands. When he came to Rome his stay was but a short one, and was usually occasioned by his wish to share in some of the ceremonies of the different orders of penitents with which he Is connected ; end if the information I have received be correct, as I fully believe it is, his evasion was conceived and resolved in the assembly hall of the bre thren dello mores via Giulia. As each brother who enters the hall is enveloped from head to foot in a black cloth or winding sheet, it will be conceived how easy it was for the Englishman or for the two Frenchmen, who, it is said, organised the plan of his flight, to communicate with him without arousing the suspicions of the ambassadors and the public, or even of any one of his own household. On the appointed day, the carriage of Colonel B—, an Englishman, with post horses, drove out of the gate Del Popolo, between nine and ten in the morning. A few mo ments afterwards, Dou Miguel rejoined the colonel in a shoot ing carriage by the same gate, left his gun in it and mounted on the box of the English carriage, which left at the usual pace on a word from the colonel. What direction the carri age took after the first post-station is not known. The lega tions interested in watching the movements of Don Mi guel could not have remained four or five days igno rant of his evasion, as was here the case. The Portuguese, Spanish, and French legations, have remonstrated on the subject, and demanded explanations from the secretsry of state. Nothing is said of the English legation. According to report, Cardinal Gizzi ret lied by evasive answers." CRACOW, FEB. 17. —The ladies of Cracow have formed a committee for the purpose of keeping in a good condition the monument raised in that city to the memory of Kosciusko. GREECE.—The misunderstanding between a Greek officer and the Turkish minister, which we noticed lately, has not been settled. The lfonifeur Gres, of the 10th inst., contains the following letter from Janina, dated 22nd January:—" I ante to you under the vivid and lively impression of some events which have just taken place at Janina, and have caused some anxiety among the Christians. In the night of the 9th and 10th of January, a mussulman, Said-Effendi, Was assassinated by some villains, who entered his house in the hopes of carrying off a large booty. One of the culprits, a Greek rays, of the name of Nassos, was arrested. When put to the torture, he confessed his share in the crime, and declared that his accomplices were two Greeks. Ziki Effendi, the Kehaya-bey of the governor, known for his hatred of the Christians, thought he had found a pretext for a pent cution of all the Greeks. For • whole week, armed men seised every Greek they met, and used all sorts of persecutions. The French consul addressed remonstrances to the governor of Epirus, Heroin Pacha, the result of which win that the persecution of the Greeks partly ceased. Kehaya Bey persuaded the Turks that the culprits were kept concealed from the authorities, although the French consul twined the Turkish authorities in their endeavours to discover the real culprits. By his orden, two Greeks, Michela* and Karechelios, were arrested and imprisoned, suspected of having been in relation with the assassins. The Kehaya-bey fancied that if he put them to the torture he might get something out of them. The French consul refused to hear of such a thinF. Ziki Effendi felt that he could not openly brave the trench consul, and made no reply, but on the night between the 19th and 20th, the unfor tunate Michalis was by his orders taken from his cell and secretly conducted to the seraglio, where he was put to the torture, till the following morning. The French consul, informed of what was going on, arrived in time to save him from his execu tioner, and caused Michalie to be conducted to the Greek consulate, where he was locked up. The Kehaya bey, furious at this, sent for three individuals of the very dregs of the Turkish population, whose hatred of the Chris tians was well known. They had a long conference with Ziki Effendi, alter which they paraded the principal streets, invoking the names of Allah and Mahomeci, arid calling to arms the true believers, appointing the mekheme (a tribunal of the Cacti) as the point of meeting, where the Kehaya bey was present in person. The Csdi, Abdullah Effendi, was too well inclined to second the projects of Ziki Effendi. He sent some of his men to &mist the emis series of the Kehaya Bey, and in a short time the pepu!ous quarters of the town were swarming with furioas men with drawn swords. shouting death against the Christians, the Franks, and their consuls, and calling the Mussulmen to arms in defence of their religion. A scheik addressed the multitude, declaring that the spirit of Said Effendi had appeared to him at various times. demanding vengeance. Others added that the Djins (spirits of the air) had been con sulted, and had replied that the assassins of Said Effendi had not left the city, but were concealed in the house of a high personage. The mob at once proceeded to the seraglio of the Governor of Epirus, demanding the blood of the Chris tians and the heads of the consuls. The eeramander of the regular troops of the garrison, Mahmoud Bay, arrived at the same moment, and demanded from Hafouz Pacha two or three companies to restore order. Hafuns Pacha refused, and Mahmoud Bey was compelled to retire. A few mo ments afterwards the mob bad forced an entrance into the dwelling of the French consul. The servants of the consul presented themselves armed to defend the staircase, when M. Sabatier appeared in person, ordered his men to liy down their arms, and walking boldly up to the assailants, demanded the reasons of their violence and aggression. This presence of mind astonished them ; they hesitated, and this moment was taken advantage of to thrust them out of the courtyard and close he gates. Eight or ten shots were fired at the consul, but no one was hurt. The armed force arrived a few moments afterwards, and the mob dispersed. Heroin Pacha then made his appearance, pale and discon certed, offering to hang any one the consul liked. Many arrests were made, but it is to be feared, as is often the case in Turkey, that the real culprits will be spared sad their misguided tools executed. Such are at least the hopes of Ziki Effendi and Vebib Effendi, who trust to a report drawn up by themselves, which they will compel the Chris tians to sign, and which will be then forwarded to Con stantin:2S," THE LEVANT.— SUPPLIEM OF CORN. The Courrier of Marseilles rays that the commercial advice, from the Levant are of a satisfactory character as regards the arri val of grain expected from those ports. A vessel from Odessa had brought the intelligence to Constantinople that, on the 4th, the ice had broken up, and that more than 50 vessels were able to sail for the Bosphorus. From this circumstance it is hoped that, if the thaw has not yet become general, it will not be long before it becomes so, and that departures will take place without interruption. It is stated that nu merous vessels had been engaged at Constantinople and Smyrna to take in corn, at the different ports of Turkey, for Marseilles. TEbt eroun, The Queen held a Privy Council at three o'clock on Saturday afternoon at Buckingham Palace. It was attended Phis R.H. Prince Albert, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Lord esident ; Lord Cottenham, Lord Chancellor; the Earl of Minto , Lord Privy Seal ; Lord J. Russell, First Lord of the Treasury ; Sir G. Grey, Secretary of State for the Home Department ; Viscount Palmerston, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; Earl Grey, Secretary of State for the Colonies; the Earl of Auckland, First Lord of the Admiralty ; Sir J. Hobhousc, President of the Board of Controul ; Lord Campbell, Chancellor of the duchy of Lan. caster ; the Earl of Clarendon, President of the Board of Trade ; the Marquis of C.anricarde, Postmaster-General ; the Earl Forteacue, Lord Steward ; and the Duke of Nor folk, Master of the Horse. Her Majesty having been pleased to appoint the Right Hon. Henry Earl Grey to be lord lieutenant of the county of Northumberland, his lordship ! took the customary oaths. Mr. C. Greville was the clerk of the council in waiting. The Queen gave audiences to Lord J. Russell, the Marquis of Lansdowne, and Earl Grey. Her Majesty was attended by the Earl of Listowel, Lord-in-wait ing; the Marquis of Londonderry, Gold Stick-in-waiting; Lord E. Howard, Vice Chamberlain; Lord M. Hill, Comp troller of the Household ; and Admiral Sir E. Codrington, Groom- i n-waiting. The royal dinner party at Buckingham Palace on Saturday evening included the Duchess of Kent, their Excellencies Chevalier and Madame Bunsen, Prince Loewenstein, Lady Fanny Howard, Baroness de Speth, kla•l Delawarr, Viscount and Viscountess Folkestone, Lord and Lady Dalmeny, the Right Hon. Sir Charles and Lady Mary Wood, and Lieut.-Col. the Hon. C. B. Phipps. In the evening the following had the honour of joining the royal circle: Tne Earl and Countess of Rosebery, and the Ladies Primrose, Lord Alfred Paget, the MiousCodrington, Lieut.- Col. Seymour, and Capt. Francis Seymour. Yesterday morning her Majesty and her royal con sort tuck their usual early walk. the Queen and Prince Albert, the Ditches' of Kent, the ladies and gentlemen of the court, and the domestic household, attended divine ser vice yesterday in the private chapel in Buckingham Palace. The sermon was preached by the Bishop of London. The Hon. and Rev, C. Leslie Courtenay assisted in the service. The Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princiu Royal, and the Princess Alice, took their accustomed airings yesterday. H.R.H. the Duchess of Cambridge attended divine service yesterday in St. Nichael's Church. H.R.H. the Duke of Cambridge attended divine service yesterday in St. Paul's Church. H.R.H. the Duchess of Cambridge, and H.S.H. Prince Frederick of Hesse, honoured the It a lian opera with their presenee on Saturday evening. Mr. Bright, the chairman of the Royal South London Floricultural Society, had an interview with H.R.H. the Duke of Cambridge, at Camhridge House, on Saturday, to present the report of the Hailstone Committee, which his royal highness was graciously pleased to accept and to " WI:H. the Duke of Cambridge honoured the Marquis of Northampton with his company on Saturday evening, and afterwards honoured Viscount and Viscountees Palmerston with his company, at their residence, in Carlton house-terrace. A cabinet council was held at half-past four o'clock on Saturday afternoon, M the Foreign-office. The ministers present were Lord John Russell, the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earl of Minto, Sir George Gre, Viscount Palmerston, Earl Grey, Earl of Auckland, Sir John Hobhouse, Lord Campbell, Karla' Clarendon, Mar quis of Clanricarde, the Right Hon. T. B. Macaulay, and the Right Hon. H. Lebouchere. Viscount Morpeth after wards joined his colleagues. The council sat en hour and a half. Mr. Hindley, M.P., and Mr. Bardwell had an in terview with Sir George Grey, on Saturday, at the Home office. The Solicitor-General for Ireland had an interview with the Right Hon. 1' Milner Gibson on Saturday, at the office of the Ikard of Trade. THE SPEAKER'S LEVEL.—The Right Hon. the Speaker of the Hann of Commons held hts second and last levee on Saturday night, at his mansion in Rateneepai n previous to which he had a parhamentaryattertaineanst. Sir Robert and Lady Peel entertained his Excel lency Count de St. Aulaire, his Ezeelleney Prioce Casteki„ cala, the Countess of Jersey and Indy Clementine Vlllina, Viscount and Viscountess Mahon, Viscountess Villiers, Via. counter Hardinge and Hon. Mies Herdinge, and a idea party to dinner on Saturday last at the family residence is Whitehall-gardens. THE MARQUIS OP NORTHAMPTON'S CONVERSA ziONE.—The President of the Royal Society, the Marqui s of Northampton, bad his second soiree on Saturday evening at his mansion on the Terrace, Piccadilly. An unusually numerous meeting of the member. of the different scientific and learned societies took place, besides many distinguished individuals connected with the literary world and the fine arts. The noble marquis opened his saloons for the reception of company at nine o cock, and on this occasion not less than 500 persons availed themselves of his lordship's invitation. ISCOUNTESS PALMERSTON's ASSEMSLY.—ViSCOMH and Viscountess 'Palmerston received a select party to dinner on Saturday last. Her ladyship subsequently had an as sembly, at which a brilliant circle of the diplomatic corm including his Excellency Count de St. Aulaire, the French ambassador, were meat. ELECTION OF CHANCELLOR TO THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE. CAM BRIDGE, SATURDAY.—Thin morning the poll was resumed at nine o'clock and finally closed at twelve, 713 votes having been given for Prince Albert and 5O fur Earl Pelvis. At twelve o'clock, Henry Gunning, Esq., the senior Esquire I3edell, said " Cessatum est a scrutinu ;" then the Vier-Chancellor unlocked the vote-boa and counted the votes, when there appeared for Earl Powis Prince Albert Majority for ILR.II. Prince Albert .... 116 . . Then the two proctors took their places in front of table, and the senior proctor (the 'ter. Ed. Brumell, o, , a John's), having read the name of each voter aloud s. E/4 senate, and having done the same as to the votes fo. Lord Powis, he said " Ego E. 8., Senior procurator hujia aca demia, electum a yolks, pronuneio Celei•siuum sncipem Albertum in Cancellerium hujun academia'." The announcement of the numbers was receive 1 with tre mendous cheering. Amongst the voters to-do' for Prince Albert, we observed the Bishop of Worcester, the Speaker of the House of Commons, the Dean of Bri .01, the Masters of Jesus and Sidney Colleges, and the Regiatxary of the Uninrsity. Lord Godolphin voted for Earl I'eas. We understand that the number }galled on this occasion (1,790 votes) is the largest on record At the last contest for the High Stewardship, in 1840, the numbers were, for Lord Lyndhurst, 923 ; Lord Lytielr 457; total, 1,380: and a t the last contest for the CBosatllorship, as we have before stated, the numbers were, for the Duke of Gloucester, 466 the Duke of Rutland, 331; total, 819. THE ROYAL SOCIETY. Our scientific readers, who are not fellows of the Royal Society, have perhaps heard that very important changes have been made in the statutes of the Royal Society with regard to the election of fellows, though, at the game time, they may be ignorant of the exact nature of than changes. Formerly, the course was for a candidate to be recommended by six or more fellows ; to be proposed at an ordinary meeting; and, at the expiration of six weeks, to ha hallottea for, when, if there was a majority of two-thirds of the votes in his favour, he was elected. This plan of proceed ing has not been found sufficiently restrictive with regard to the elecions, which have been more numerous than the council conceive desirable for the reputation of the society. After long deliberation, the council have enacted new sta. totes, with the view of limiting the number of annual elections, and of more closely examining the qualifications of the candidates. The following extract trim the first chap ter of the statutes will best explain the course which it is in tended to pursue. At the first ordinary meeting of the society in March, 1844, the names of all seauedidates du v propieed after the first day of March, 1817, and in subsequent years at the fiat ordinary meeting in March, the names of all candidates proposed etubsequently to the first meeting in March of the preoeding year, shall be annourued by the secretary from • list arranged In alphabetic.' order, without reference to ths dates of the certificates of the candidata ; arid these eatificates shall be suspended in the meeting-room until the day of election. In the first week in April a bet shall be painted, containing the amines of all the candidates to announced at the first meeting is March, arranged iu alphabetical order without reference to the Odes of the oertificatea, together with the names of the fellow. by whom each caniklate is proposed and recommended; and a copy of much hat shall immediately thereafter be sent to every ordinary The council shall select by ballot from each primed hot of candtdeta a number net exceeding fifteen, to be recommended to the society for election; but no such election by the panned shall be valid unless eleven members at least be present and vote, • maim ity deciding, or, in the event of equality, the president or his deputy having a meting vote. At the find ordinary meeting of the society in May, the president, or hie deputy, shall read from the chair the names of the candidates whom the council have selected as mat eligible, arranged In alphabetical order; and after such meeting, a circular letter shall be forthwith rent to every fellow, naming the day and hour of election, and incloning a punted list of the selected candidates, with spice for such alterations as any fellow may deter. The elections are to take place the first Thursday in Jane, and to be effected by lists, fellows having the power of nib stituting the name of any candidate or candidates in lieu of those in the priuted list. A majority of two-thirds of those voting to elect. Thus, no candid ste will undergo the painful ordeal of being black-balled, which has not untreguently happened ; and he may, if he think proper, continue sus pended as a candidate. MARYLEBONE VESTRY. IlEsincrioN.—Shortly after the Rev. Dr. Spry had taken the chair, Mr. Efolgkinson, a guardian, entered the vestry-room, and begged a temporary suspension of the business, to enable him to communicate to the board some important information respecting the state of the poor of the parish. He said that there were 860 men in the workhouse yard at that moment imploring fcr bread, without obtaining any relief, or the prospect of it, as there was no work for them. Unless immediate steps were taken to give them food, he could not answer for the result. Mr. Glazier denounced the conduct of the guardians in allowing 800 to starve, as being outr.igeous and scandalous in the extreme.—Mr. Raw linson (magistrate): If there are 800 of our fellow creatures starving, why not adjourn this meeting instanter, and let the guardians assemble and devise measures to relieve them ?—Mr. Michel: Of the 22,000 lately relieved in the workhouse, a vast majority were impostors.— Mr. O. Daniell: It was lately resolved to abolish the labour test, and to afford insistence to every applicant deserving relief. If that resolution were acted upon, such a frightful statement as had been just made would not have come be , fore them. Every poor person ought to obtain instant relief. The guardians having promised to inquire into the statement, and Mr. Skase, the surveyor, having guaranteed to provide all the able-bodied with work, the segect was dropped. Hens NT'iI.PARK RAILWAY.—Sir Benjamin Hall informed the 'every that government would not allow the railway to run through the Regent's-park, and that it would protect the property of that neighbourhood from being injured by it, ea its course would be directed as far nortii as possible el the park. IRISH WASTE LAND IMPROVEMENT COMPANY. A half-yearly meeting of this company was held on Saturday at the King's Head Tavern, Poultry. There was a very thin attendance of shareholders, and after wait ing three quarters of an hour beyond the time appointed, the Chairman (the Earl of Devon), said that although there was not a sufficient number present to oonstit tate a legal meeting, he saw no reason why the shareholders present should not hear the report which had been prepared for their information by Col. Robinson, although they could take no measures upon it. Col. Horst sox accordingly read the report. Early in March last, in the apprehension of scarcity, circulars! had been addressed to the stewards of the estates directing them to call the tenants together, and urge them to cultivate other crops, and not to rely on the potato, as • failure in that crop would otherwise entail starvation upon them, No large an amount of the seed being dimased, and it being impossi ble to tell the good from the bad. Instructions were also given to the stewards to supply seeds of various descriptions on loan, to all the tenants who would sow them properly. He (Col. It.), visited the estates in April, and tried every pos sible means that the greatest anxiety could congest to persuade the tenants to cultivate other crops rather than the potato, but so great was the partiality of the Connaught till for potatoes, and so accustomed were they to them as their staple article of food, that all his exertions and labour& had met with but limited success ; the new tenants clung to the beaten tack, and would grow little else, while the older ones followed the advice given them. Various works for the improvemeat of the estates had been laid out; the farm offices had also been erected for the convenience of the to tants, several of whom were industrious during the summer months. The yearly returns had hitherto shown the in crease of the tenant.' crops; but in August the potato blight spread its effect over every district. Going then on his an neal tour, he found the people in an apathetic state of despmrs from which it was impossible to arouse them. Assisted by competent persons, he examined, in the course of the two succeeding months, upwards of 700 potato fields, and found that nearly all the new tenants hod lost from one-fifth to the whole of their crops, and that there was an alarming defi ciency of food; while those who had adopted the advice given to them, were in good condition, and had realised large profits. He then called on the !teemed' to suggest some system of reclamation and cul tivation which, according to their practical experi ences, would be best adapted to their particular class of land. A brief address to tbo tenants was printed and circulated describing the.dangers of their situation ; and seeds of all useful kinds were offered on liberal term , to all who would properly cultivate their land. Early in October the seed, were supplied to them ; a small quantity of Indian corn was also purchased, and it was to be regretted that a larger quantity could not be obtained, as a great amount of distress might thereby have been prevented. While the prices of provisions remained moderate, many of the tenants hail laid by some small sums to pay their rents; but after wards it was impossible to carry out to the silt' htest extent that salutary arrangement; and he thought that he would not have been fulfilling the objects of the society if he had pressed hardly on men who were in general so orderly and industrious. At the present time the society was ir , ' employment to 200 men, besides women and children ; 4 4 supporting about 000. The total population of the cites' amounted to 3,000, none of whom were in the workhouse • the gaol; the aged and the helpless being supported by p • vat. charity. There was every reason to expect that a greater number of acres of well prepared land would be brought into cultivation in the present, than in MI preceding, year ; and that the famine, with all its calamity, would result in advantage to the tenant.. The usual annual prizes for the encouragement of the teams?.