The Express. — London, England, 1851-01-29 00:00:00

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Is selliss to ~TOW mw , * MM ispuldos dielle abut MI Ow psiffel ow% sod .flit, obteever. aspeelelly sand Is di slow& moo lbstatabo. mime, MI art. Oa miry bay moo Waft A* prise et die MUNI be IbteeNele. • kereislar. The mod whip et Or Lummos WZE so • toollomi mot i•••blima le sawrtl••••• ••••rtisminsi ses• be rt Sedans b Wldlerio• at of Wore it Is Or maisig al ark Irsid‘h asion bore= Is r imilber of lilleuri•Cy. 101 issysii•atral, rest.sbee. trite erpreots. TO CORRESPONDENTS. Mosillocsoestalstosiod dtr " Tbs Esprois." London Emilie mem. milic!io of !koyfika, 1.6 Basierimlnst, by Two o'clock Qs tk• HIGH WATILK AT LONDON EAMON. Tin MT—Marais& lA. Sm. Afternoon. lA. Twasaisow—lforslag, lid 17... ..Aftersooa, 14 23at. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29. Tue man is never wall who is for ever doctoring himself. Nay, the man is never well, who is for ever thinking of his state of health, who feels his own pales, turns his mind too keenly to the state of his intestines, and who creates half of his own nervou s.= by reflecting upon it. Such are the malades imaginaires of whom we meet so many instances amongst the idle, people who are committing slow suicide in search of health, who seek nutrition in a pill-box, invigoration in a strata bath, or who do penance in wet sheets for their own sins or for those of their ancestors. The French politically resemble very much these maisties imayinaires of private life. To all appearance year Frenchman is in florid health. His exports are increasing, his imports show bow much life is en joyed, and how easily those enjoyments are paid for. His revenue is increasing, his agriculture improving, mendicancy does not show itself, nor bankruptcy, nor famine. Discontent and insurrection have given up utterance. Still the Frenchman declares that he is polit:c illy in a very sinking state, threatened by anarchy, about to be devoured by socialism. His neighbour E gland is thinking of nought save how to rob him, and do him an ill turn. And in this excited state cf over self-consciousness and suscepti bility, this melancholy France, instead of sitting down and enjoying the health and wealth,with which the gods provide it, keeps on a plaintive, malingering, and contentious existence, which makes all who look upon him to be in doubt whether he is most to be pitied, ridiculed, seriously condemned, or heartily destAsed. our part we see nothing on earth the matter with the fellow, but to be mode to know it. All he wants is to be turned out of the hospital, or out of the sick corner in: which he skulks, brooding upon imaginary ills and wrongs. He should be driven into the highways of life, and be made to for get his confounded body politic, and all its ail ments. And in truth the great mare of the French are, we believe, wakening to common sense and every day life. But their politicians are still nvilades irnaginaires. Nothing is totheir mind. Forgetting how they grumbled under the cold sl.ade of the monarchy, they loudly complain of the want of some one of its branches over them. And the word republic fills them with horror, although the rogues make such ample and excellent use of the powers which a re public really gives their clam, that they have taken the place of monarchy, and rule with all its jealousies, its prejudices, and its caprices. As the most unnatural and deleterious employment for an individual is to be fathoming his sanitary sys tem, and forcing alteratives upon it, so the most dan gerous and pernicious duty that an fall to the lot of sovereign or assembly is to be eternally laying or changing the foundations of government, meditating and discussing the relative merits of monarchies or republics, and giving rise to parties whose antagonise , .ed ieeieed or lying within the limits clone constitution or allegiance, take the whole singe of political metaphysics, and stretch so apart that all common action or sympathy is denied them. The founders of republican forms of government were well aware of file danger. They fully saw how widely different were the duties of framing a con stitution and of legislating according to the law and spirit of a constitution. Herce the distinction, so wisely observed in America, between conventions elected by the people, and elected for the establishing or the reform of the fundamental law, and con pewee or representative assemblies, convened to per- form the regular legislative business of the time. There is no one cause to which the French may so much attribute their interminable failures in repre sentative government, as to their ever having wil fully cooteinded and mixed up the functions of a convention and of a regular legislature. The first rule of a conventioo, or of an assembly to settle the form of government, should be its menieg fresh from the people to every act of the kind, so that there should not be a murmur, or a die _ sentient voice, or a doubt, for the malcontent to take hold of. A regular legislature, more especially in a country young to political experience, requires time for the members to mature their views. At least, if the people and the constitution so will it, that a legis lators shall have • three years' duratioo, no incomes asses ma result from it in the way of its not repro /seating the people for the purposes of common legislation. But in the great question of sovereignty and forms of government, where the people have • right to exercise immediate influence and voice, an emembly of four yeah' duration, actiog as a woven tioe all that time, is little less than a tyranny and as esarpatirro. The French National Aseembly, since It met, hes less in truth nothing elm than a convention. It has never done anything else than disease and propose asseares and pas laws for effecting changes in the randamaital law. Its debaters and disputers have been moearehlo, anai-niortarchic, republican, ultra npablicsa parties, all bearing directly upon the Osten form at government, and the particular ' Celthat wee to be at the head of it. an* and socialist, legitimist and Orleanist, have each and all shown themselves and declared their views. The Imperialists could not be expected to be silent, and to bold beck their own pre tansies* when all others pat forth theirs. And hence the interminable strife and struggle which has placed all parties at veriest*, flung the government into ono ramp, the assembly into another, aid which, in truth Mises • greater provocation to anarchy, than any state of thaws or of opinion that the socialists them selves ever brought about. What renders the dificulty still greater and the dispute insoluble, is, that this great promss is pleaded before a wart which has no power whatever to give_ jedgment. The National Assembly has aopower to dig& between monarchy and republic. It had the power when first sammosed in ironveatioo, but it spat that power in proclaiming a republie, and after many changes in solemnly flung 'a form of govern mat. The leaders of the eassmibly, M. Beam= sad M. Mils, have a hundred time °pertly de clared their dissatisfaction with thin form of va unt. Loins NAPOLEON is equally diattiefMd. This Mimes has widened with sosembly and Pang aea; seek entrenching Itself in distinct poeitioas, the latter with a non -parliamentary ministry, the essembly in a naver-cesaing coovention. Sorely then is bat one way of patio( an end to a quarrel so impossible for the two parties swged in ft to settle. It is to restore to the National Assembly ' its true fetes, that of ootaiug bosh from the peopl e. However the seastitatisa may have sot • for it, still the set o f the Assembly's disso lving it self, the Penni:min at the same time consenting, gins she to no just oompleint, infringes no tae's right, sad pets an end to strife. If LolrlD Nsrotsoo low takes roarer to oppose the Amiably, it is that he considers it not to remora the country. But an ameenay, freshly re-alested, the President could not with any obstiz si o= were It MI nionarchist Its votes sad would eamisad rispoot. The democrats alone would hare just ground of eons ' plaint from the electoral limo Which has &Oen their constituents from the ern. titit Trues in Itflikeipt state may weU abide by the votes slits settled at sew and householders. That elsertots wiitiegjols and decree the republic as tile only form iftgoieni meat possible and OwiApt with pee* sesey sew must be convinced. AM - that is went:fog is to give authority and power to it. If M. TRIER" therefore, be sincere in the professions of his late speech, he cannot object to a dissolution; neither ought the Pompom'. Whilst the army and the citizens must both desire it, as the only means of avoiding civil war. That snob would be the universal cry sod opinion of the country, if the country were allowed to express an opinion, there can be little doubt. But one of the great aggravations of the present crisis is, that owing to the restrictions on the peen, the prohibition of assoelatioos, of meetings, and addresses, popular opinion hu neither voice nor expression. And the PRESIDENT and the Assembly are obliged to grope their way and form conjectures se to the sovereign opinion of the public, which is universally stifled by the harangues of party and the clamour of mercenary organs. Mr. BENNETT'S histrionic exhibitions at St. Bans hee have been succeeded by a dull afterpieee, into which the chief performer bas not bun able to infuse much of the Attic wit of those Greek comedians on whose shoulders he was raised to the See of London. When Mr. BENnerr led the antics of the priests within the brazen gates of the "Holy of Holies ; when, issuing from the chancel into the pulpit, he crossed himself three times in the name of the Holy Trinity ; when he addressed his audience not as his "beloved brethren," but as "an infuriated mob ;" when the inurmursof ill-repressed indignation mingled with the " 'Demme ries" of lighted candles and glittering cruse', or with the mockeries of "intonation, prostration," and other " medieval monstrosities," there was some thing of excitement mingled with the melancholy mirth, which all these follies produced. But since the curtain dropped on Mr. Bement as the high priest of St. Barnabas, and he has appeared as the correspondent of his indulgent and humph ,' cable diocesan, the public have become at once di.- gaged and indignant. They ask when is all this folly to end? Haw long is the church of England to be led forth to make sport to its enemies? How hug. are the curates of Mr. BENteker to enaot and greelaira the same popery as their master, and to restive the tacit countenance of the prelate by whom lig are licensed ? We are happy to announce this morning that the siice of the public will not be much longer over tasked; that the last act of the/arcs will soon be lobbed; and that the curtain will drop, as the Right Hoe. and Right Rev. CHARLES JAMES, Lord Bishop of London, shall introduce to hie wearied audience the assessor of Mr. Beengrx, in the person of the Hee. and Rev. ROBERT LIDDELL, the Vicar of Barking. How far the change of performers will give satis faction may be best understood, when Mr LIDDELL'S history becomes better known. In the meantime, Mr. BENNETT'S admirers may rest assured that the motto of their new incumbent will be " neater ceitigio retrersem." He will not conduct them beck into the hag deserted paths of old fashioned and deserted protestantism—he will not damp their hallowed seal he "sacraments to be gased at", or rubrical idolaby, or ritual observances. The interval which Is to elapse before Mr. BENNETT legally re signs, and Mr. LIDDELL is legally appointed, will be sufficient just to modify the • exoeseive ritualism" of St. Barnabas, so tar as to prevent "the sham" from being confounded with the "reality." The Vicar of Barking is weli known as a high Anglican priest, one of those " observers of days and months and years" of whom the great Apostle of the Gentiles, in his primi tive simplicity, expresses fears lest he should have bestowed on them " labour in vain." His fame is not indeed very wide. It is neither European, nor yet entirely Anglican. He is known as a younger son of Sir THOMAS LIDDELL, whom GEORGE IV. created Lord RAVENSWORTIL He be. longs to a large family, which has been well to do in the world, the daughters having made high matches and the eons secured good preferment in the church and the army. Mr. BENNETT'd successor himself married a daughter of Dr. WELLESLEY, late rector of Bishop Wearmouth, and was, in 1836, pre sented by the College of All Souls, Oxford, to the living which be will now vacate. His parish includes that of Great Ilford, which a few years ago was the scene of an ecclesiastical inssute, which for intensity alinnat apawno t during ito ownallutianCo the riot of St. Barnabas. Daring that sacerdotal tempest in the provinces, Mr. LIDDELL, with his neighbour Archdeacon GRANT, of Romford, stood by and supported his fellow col legian and fellow priest, the Rev. Mr. BAUGII, the Vicar of Ilford, whose locality is now at Rome, but his whereabouts in the Church of Rome or of Eng land somewhat dubious. The check then given by the laity of Ilford to the sacerdotal pretensions and Romish practices of their priests was highly beneficial not only to themselves bat to their clergy. Mr. BAUGH retired from the wane of his defeat muttering many censures on the duplicity or faint heartedness of the diocesan, who first led them into the field of °intent and then be trayed his followers. Mr. LIDDELL was II sympa thiser with Mr. Beoca's sentiments, but he wisely bent before the storm, and has been content to carry Anglican absurdities no further than his people could bear them. MOM recently, Mr. LIDDELL was one of the fore most of that idatuated throng, who crowded round the standard set up last July by Lord FSILDINO and bis associates, in protesting against the QueeN's su premacy in deciding the great GORHAM cause. He was present when Mr. Sewell. made his disloyal harangue, and menaced the Quzim with the prospect of going down to posterity with the curse of perjury on her tomb. This is to be the termination of the farce of Mr. BeeNtrr's resignation. It is perhaps well that it should be so. It is well that the game should be played out, and that the public may understand what our bishops mean. The belief same weeks back, and, indeed, the ap pearance, was, that Puseyinn was abashed; that those high churchmen who had led themselves and their flocks in so many eminent and flagrant instances to the gates of Rouse, were at last aware of the inevi table tendencies of their doctrines, and that they were parposed in sinaseity, if not in humility, to retrace their steps. But Dr. Poesy's " Bull of Defence," offence be should have styled it, impudent as that of Pits himself, elevating the Prayer Book above the Bible, and declaring Tractarianism to be eternal, oomee forth as a timely challenge to all Scrip tural Christians to push for the decision, as to whether the foundations of the Anglican church were laid in the Liturgy or in the Bible. Tam history of the Madrid aid Valencia Railway babble now bring unwound by Master JOHN ELUAH BLHNT, under the operation of the Winding-up Act, is a romantic tale. Though at present onIT partially told, the main facts of folly and of cupidity, of ere ' dulity and of dupery, of greediness and of plunder, are plain enough. Mr. W. CaAswics, the greet conjuror of the di rectors, is, to be sure, yet wanting; he still keeps " over the ems and far away ;" and, in his absence, the secret of all the tricks performed cannot be made apparent ; but enough has been disclosed to show how easily, order certain circumstances, as hundred thousand pounds sterling may by a little sleight of head be transferred from honest, but foolish, people's pockets, through bankers' amounts, railway loam, and the Stork &change, to nowhere. There it is -106,0304, at Messrs. MAsTsimax sad Co.'s. Iley Presto. It I. game. Whither, not even that Monsieur CAILIII of this CiA, Mr. DANIEL WstirLt HARTZ; can telL inither, Master Stun though lAISTOILOded by all the powers of Chancery, will sot probably be able to dirroover. It is goes where it ma net be found. That alma to be the result of the matter. Ills origin of the babble vas, mays Mr. Liam one of its dopes, a fidasbiag pmereenae" from Colonel STOPPOILD, for writing which be bad I,OOOL, pro. Weise all aalseribeee 90 per mat. from a railway bettiessrj Madrid and Wiwi.. This was in ths days whoa or English hoe bad to pay per o at. sal the Wesel sums to hare 1 t hem them in the ; wingelitke for capital, b clapping an addition! 1 oat. on his If so, the par Colos si know his owl onntrymen mach bettor than he appals to have understood the Spaniards; sad yet THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY .EVENING, JANUARY 29,, pu._ z ued it was on his perfect comprehension of Spanish cha racter and morals that the enterprise was . _ *.i jin 1 1 dulling pewspeotnel weakened lefranga ef doeforsetad coon% of membei i el parlia tracters„. presided, peer by Mr. W. MAD wici erly, i r is sa.d, 4 builder, and moved by a es iaear forum, Colonel BTOPFORD. It proposed the% 80,000 'hares should be antigned to Ragland, and 40,000 to Spain. On the former a deposit of 106,0001. was quickly paid in this sober City of Lou don ; on the latter only some 8,0001. could be raised in gay and lively and speculative Madrid. Neverthelrea Mr. W. riedes and the Colonel perse vered. The concession was obtained front the Spanish goversusent ; a caution of 17,0001. was depo sited fix the due fulfilment of the undertaking ' • but the line was never sarveyed ; the enterprise was ahan doped ; Mr. CHADWICK and the Colonel quarrelled, without being able, like Peaelsern and Loekst, to make matters up again • Dr. MCCANN, with the character istic caution of his country, advertised and gszetted himself out of the concern, as soon as he saw 'meeker. a-head ; other directors quietly attemp•ed to drop all connexion with the affair; Mr. CHADWICK alone stuck to the funds; now removing them from this banker, and then placing them to that account; at one time lending them to the South Western Rail way, at another taking are of them himself. In the midst of the confusion and turmoil of wrecked companies in 1847, whilst Cotters were engaged in getting back what balances they could from their deposits in other companies, the Madrid and Valencia would appear to have escaped attention. At last, however, Mr. DANIEL WHITTLE HARVEY, eager in the chaos after railway directors, pounced upon it ; he demanded accounts ; he required a statement ; he insisted on a return. Mr. CHADWICK, it would appear, refusing the former, con sented to negotiate about the latter. Mr. HARVEY is known to be a close shaver in such affairs ; be found his match in Mr. CHADWICK. After prolonged dis cussion, after check and counter-check, they approxi mated ; they only differed about Is. a share in the amount to be paid to Mr. HARVEY; that differ. epos was apparently yielding, when Chancery inter• posed, and left Mr. Cnseiwlcx master of the field for a little time longer. It was but a short triumph ; the Winding up Act was passed_i a fatal petition was presented and referred to Master BLUNT ; Mr. CHADWICK took ill; recovering a little, he has gone in the maturity of his life to enlarge his experi ence of men and manners by foreign travel; leaving behind him the mysteries of the Madrid and Valencia Railway bubble to be unravelled as best they can without books, without money, and without his pointing out the leading threads of the knot to be un tied. The books have gone, the funds have gone, he has gone; the shareholders and his colleagues are, ' like Lord Ullin on the loss of his daughter, " lett lamenting." We are wrong; all the funds are not gone; the 17,0001. paid the Spanish government as caution money, that government, notwiihstaadieg its ill re pute in money matters, has returned; it is the differ , enoe between 106,0001. and 17,0001., vie., 89,0001., that has disappeared, and fur which there is nothing to show. This difference the official assignee, representing the original shareholders, charges against Mr. CHAD wiCieB Colleagues in the direction, requiring them to ac count for it. And thus at present the matter stands before Master BLUNT, Under Mr. CHADWICK'S autocracy 89,0001. have been dissipated in some way or other. Are they, who allowed Mr. CHADWICK to exercise absolute authority over that enormous sum, to be responsible for his dealings with it? That is the question ; and a very pretty question it is. But until it is resolved by Master BLUNT, farther remark may u well be suspended. FRANCE. PARIS, TUESDAY EVINING. An explosion of the inveterate discord reigning between the extreme parties of the National As sembly having broken up the coalition against the government, another momentary pause has ensued in the conflict between the legislative and executive powers. Meanwhile, if we look back over the last few weeks, crowded with acts of reciprocal aggression and exasperated strug gles, now that the smoke of battle has cleared off, we shall find that Louis Napoleon has made no mean progress towards the emancipation of his authority from the trammels imposed upon it by the constitution, and rivetted by the leaders of the parliamentary majority. The situation is exactly the same as on the day when Gen. Changarnier was deposed from his dictatorial command. What is be come of M. de Remusat's committee of public safety, and of the Titanic efforts of MM. Thiers, Berryer, Lasteyrie, sod Dufaure to storm the Napoleonic Olympus? Hu Louis Napoleon budged one foot? Hu his last message disavowed the ministry snatched from his side ? Has he retracted a syllable of his policy, or admitted more than before the subaltern rank of the position ascribed to him by the constitution? Has the army of Paris been reorganised, or General Ba raguay d'Hilliers been sent to the right-about? Not a bit of it. The heads of the coalition alone have backed and drawn in their horns; and the result 8f all their mouthing, mutual univalent!, and club tactics, hu been to replace a definitive serious cabinet, whose measures they had approved, voted, and insti gated, by a cabinet of transition. The defeat of the coalition, and re-union of the old majority, together with the reassuring declarations of M. Royer, have tended to give a favourable impulse to affairs at the Bourse. The Fives closed, at a rise of 1 per cent., at 96.20 ; the Threes gained 70c., and closed at 57.80. The sitting of the Assembly to-day presented no feature of interest. M. Cheron addressed a petition to the Assembly for authorization to execute a war rant of arrest on M. Mauguie. A committee will be appointed on this question to-morrow in the bureaux. On the demand of M. Pascal Dupnt the great communal law drawn up by the Conseil d'Etat is placed on the order of the day for Wednesday. Extensive changes are said to be contemplated in the appointment of prefects, with the view of putting in persons devoted to the personal policy of the Pre sident. _ All the people recently taken up for belonging to the secret society called the " Union des Communes" have been liberated, with the exception of five persons. The journals of order adopt generally a tone of con gratulation at the reconciliation of the fractions of the Right in the vote of yesterday, and on their return to their old alliance against the Mountain. M. Desmouseeaux-Otvre has presented a motion for making the counter-signature of a minister essential to aU documents emanating from the Presi dent of the Republic. The committee on Oirardin'a motion for reforming the newspaper reports of the debates in the Assembly bee terminated its labours. It recommends that the //Leaver should be ready at eight in the evening to distribute its proofs to all newspapers applying for them. Mortimer-Ternanx has been named reporter. NIIS, lax. 2s. i pre No —.. 3 do. Now Lam. I do. a„.... for Ai Par NNW. Orsmin 8 91 1 03 A IT 33 3740 3740 OS 11 AS 75 ell 10 370 93 73 96 " 90 94 " 0 • • lislurra Oa M _ Soler. I, IMO —.„ Mary Mrs 1mir...... N Mary Da. 1443 — • Berm lAN. IBM 704 . De. —74 . De. — . llea•ary Bode— II Pisdabost &p. 41.1149 es to . Der ram 2732 So .7 BOIIIISL-80. Germain, 410 16 ; Versainas (right beak), 167 60; (UR beak), 186; Paris and Orleans, 860 ; Pans sad guess, 6B7 60 ; Roma sad Ram, 276 ; Marses944 ad Avignon, 188 75; Btrasboari sad Sae, 143 76 ,• Caen, 898 26 ; Orleans sad Bordeaux, 400; North, 476; Paris wad stra•boarg, 360; Toys sad Maus, 260. TURIN, UN. 14. The Chamber of Deputies has adopted the testify of commerce sad navigation with Frame by 109 rota spinet 94; aad the treaty ormarsing literary property by 89 Totem against 43. PORTUOAL—Lisboa letters of the 18th instant state that the Peale=lar and Oriental Company's steamer Jupiter had not been heard oL Her un wind created the greatest alarm. The government wu attempting to obtain from the Cores a grant of 33,000 L for the oonatroction of steamers. The muesli of the application was doubtfaL The debate on the Bak pWtion has been referred to a committee. SPAIN. MADRID, hair. It On Saturday, at 5 in the afternoon. wtion tfie Queen , and Ling Consort were on their way to Atoeha Church, one of the bulls destined for the bull tight on the following day escaped from its driver,' and placing itself abreast of the leaders of the royal carriage, accompanied teem to a considerable distance, till at length by the dexterky of the coachman, who gave the horses a madden turn, they got rid of their dangerous companion. The bull then turned to the left, and rushed into the crowd, trampled several per sons under foot and gored an old woman, and was finally driven out of Oliver gate. Don Andres Borrego, Don Ramon de la Saga, and Don Isac Vitlanenva, have been appointed as Royal Commissioners to represent the Spanish nation during the Exhibition at London. MADRID, LUIL 22.—Three per Cents., 34 11-16; after Boles, 341 cub, 34 11.16 paper. Four per Cents., 13. Five per Cents., 131; after Boas, 131 paper, 131 cash. Coupons if ; after Baba, 71 cash. Passives, 41; after Boles, 4 1 16 cash. Bank of Sc. Ferdinand, 96 paper. Ba sting, on London, 60.66.—The 23rd being • least day there was no Boles. t. Lowast. Cicalae. S 3 3O 9375 9x20 9330 is" o 6s7i, f 9 77e. GERMANY. The papers re-assert that events in France have frightened the conference in Dresden into the rewind= of establishing a provisional central power —a new interim, in fact—to be placed in the hands of Austria and Prussia alone. The impracticability of the scheme lately proposed will be fully proved should this provisional power be set up. A force of 100,000 men is to be placed at its disposal, and Austria has signified her wish that the command of this force should be given to Prussia. The papers 'gee, in this apparent generosity on the part of Austria, a design to identify Prussia as mush as possible with despotism, by making her its executioner; by which, as the great police power of all Germany, she could render herself universally unpopular. Austria is still making all efforts to gain proselytes to her Zoll union projeet, and the agita tion against it on the post of Prussia and her confederates is increasing daily, At the meeting of the Zoll Congress at Vienna, fourteen of the deputies left the Assembly, as the Minister of Commerce had prohibited the discussion of principles. Prohibition and protection were the only two principles recognised. The introduction of free trade was repudiated alike by the Minister of Com merce and all the deputies, but a tendency that way was apprehended by some. The deputies who had threatened :to throw up their missions have re turned to the Assembly, on the declaration of M. von Bruck that protection is the principle on which all their proceedings are to be based. M. Kraus, President of the Second Coart of Cessation, has been appointed the successor of M. Schmerling. A proclamation was placarded in the streets of Hamburg iin the 25th, announcing the arrival of the Austrian troops, and calling upon the inhabitants to give them a suitable reception. Those on whom troops are quartered, are to receive, to lighten the burthen, twelve shillings (Hamburg money) per day, of which the city pays eight shillings. The Austrians were expected at Hamburg on the 28th. Bitux, hot. 27.—Voluntazy Loan, 1081 ; New Loan, Foot and eMalt per Cents., 100; Natioaal Debt, 841; Com mercial Marine Society. Premium, 127 ; Bank Shares. 96. VIENNA, Jaw. 25.—Five per Cent. Metalliques, 951; Pour-and-a-Half per Crate., ditto, 831. Bank Shares, 1137. Exchange on London. 12.40. UNITED STATES. Our correspondent writes : NEW YORK. Jaw. 14. This abolition movement received its greatest impulse at the teat Presidential eli mom, when Mr. Van Buren, being disappointed in his aspirations for a re-nomination and re• election, took ground against the southern states, whose cause he had always previously supported. His son, a clever, wiry, and fluent youth, " took the stump" I and produced such a division in the democratic ranks that General Taylor, the whig candidate, was materiuly assisted, Mr. Van Buren's plan was to hold the balance of power and compel the denvoraticconse rvatives • ithe r to uni to an behalf of Ilia fatter (Cr a third rate for the presidency, or of himself as United Sates sen►tor from New York. In this he has been most signally defeated. His followers have forsaken hint, his party is dispersed, and there is none poor enough to do him reverence. Oa the evening of the Bth of January he had the boldness to atend a public ball at Tammay Hell, a well known place of public resort, which is owned by a democratic society of this city. He was rudely received, requested to withdraw, and insulted in various ways. He bore this treatment with great good humour and firmness, for he saw how critical his position as a politician was. He carrieu himself bravely through the whole night, but his feelings must have been sorely tried. At the end of each toast three groans wore celled for and given at the mention of his father's name, and the manifestations were strong and violent. Our news from Nicaragua is interesting, but not very encouraging. A large number of American travellers have crossed by that route, but they have met with great delays and difficulties. The last party which came across were nearly a month on the wey, and were subjected to great difficulties. They navigated the lake in a sailing vessel, and came down the river in bungoes. Since the Americans have made their appearance in that quarter prices have nearly doubled. At Grenada, Rye or sir hotels or taverns have been opened by the Yankees, and the people there are in ecstasies with the prospect of having business and commerce with the United States. Our local news is somewhat interesting. The arrival of the City of Glasgow at Poilsdeiphia his been the subject of great rrj icing. This is the first time it foreign steamer ever entered that port. To solemnise the occuion properly, the legislature of the state came down in a body to Pailadelphia to see her and bacquet on board of her. The usual quantity of speeches were made, and of toasts ware given. Here we rather smile at the exaggeration of a trifling incident. Still, yin may perceive what pleasure it gives as to lacrosse the intercourse between your nation and ours. DR. POSEY ON THE PRAYER-EOM—Dr. Posey, in a " Letter to the Bishop of Loudon in Explanation of some Statements by the Rev. W. Dodsworth," says, " It ie worse than idle to talk, as some have done, of putt ing down ' Tractarianfsm,' in order to check sooenione to Rome. Such might drive hundreds from the church for tots; but while that precious jewel, the Prayer•bouk, remains, they cannot destroy or weaken Tractarianiam. It was out of Holy &rictue and the formularies of the church that Tractarianism arose. It was cherished by oar English &elute. It war ripened by the fathers. It war ripened while most of the writers koew scarcely • Roman book, and only controver 'lolly. Trattarianism was entirely the birth of the English church. Ita lite must be co-existent with the formularies with which it is embodied. Tracteriaciam was net beheaded with Laud, nor trampled under foot in the Great Rebellion, nor corrupted by Charles 11., nor expelled with the non jurors, nor burnt, together with the Common Prayer-book, to Scotland, nor extinguished by the degradation of the church through Walpole, nor in America by the long.deeied episcopate. Even the pared and :maimed Prayer-book ot the church in the United States still affords it a home • and the li sameness of the struggles implies the sante priccip • of e. 4 Referring to the anii•P•pal excitement the rev. gentleman •ays " That cry has come in part from undefined fears, in part it comes from thou* who would desire an amalgamation of protestantism, by destroying what is the charactenstio of the church of England. Its real aim mast be, not man nor their teaching, real or supposed, but the mane and swan• tee of that teaching, the Begliah prayer book. That prayer book poreree the hearts of the people, the real people of the char.h of England, her devout communicants, whether amoog the educated or the village poor. A louder cry would rise up in its &lance, not to the earthly sovereign, but to Rim who would hear—the Ring of kings, and the Lord of lords. The prayer book, as it is, blase hearts faster to the church of England than the episcopate. The very feeling which has now been raised against innovations (whatever they be) would tell with tenfold force against any mutila tion of Mom services, wherewith their fathers and their lathery' fathers praised, prayed to, and worshipped God, The prayer book, which passed through the fanfare of the rebellion, will net be allowed to perish now." FILE AT THE New CROSS RAILWAY STATION.— Lest night a lire broke out at the carriage depot omnected with the New Cram Station of *a Loudon, Croydon and Bright.' Railway. This building, which was formed almost exelmively of timber, was within a short dktaues of the booking offices, and was some hundred feet long, and of ran. tient width to allow of three lines of rails. Ta• latter were moored with carriages, consisting of woad and third class and a few of the first class. The Are commend at a few minutes after 10 o'clock, and wham dlemeered wee ramming up the timber walls. An Instant alma wee given, and aristanos tiering arrived, the most sersanoss exertions were made to cut off the spread of the lame sod remove the various carriages. Untortaaately, the lams travelled with tha rapidity of lightaiag, aad ow "sedgy measly 150 het in length of the *eddies promoted toe 111M1.01110 sheet of dame. • gnat many aerrhges of all obsess were pulled out of the biasing praoles, wets in a amoral state of ignition, bat aMt ember, probably as many se 20 or 30, took fire almost dookeasonaly, and the cal y caws there appeared of saving the smeesiader of this va' liable property was by pulling down thabhaffing at the points nes yet reached by the fire. The to the railway emespany, with those of the ss = "l 4l, West of England Company, and others, under the personal soperiatodenes et Mr. Ihaidweed, Mr. Henderson, the chief dams of the district, and Mr. Csanorton, rendered all the aid that was poasible ; bat at half-patt one o'clock this • •the are was far from being entirely extinguished, althoug all danger of any further extensioa wee over. The dosage doe ono be very considerable. Ons thing is fortunate, that otwithatanding the great ices of . the buinass of the liras will not Shekel{ origin of the &seater was not stated. .„ ! p;;; • 1 Int COW. ' WINDSOR, TITMDAT, Jaw. 28. The Queen walked this morning in the Slopes. The Hoyal Faintly took walking and pony exercise in the groan& ironed the Castle. Priam Albert went out hunt• ing this morning, attended by General Wilms' and Lieut.- Colonel P. U. Seymour. Lnd John Russell and Lord Seymour left the Castle to-day. The Queen will hold a Privy Council on Monday next, the 3rd February, at Buckingham Palace. Sum. menus were ironed yeeterday from the Privy Couneil•ot6a to the limisten sad Offioen of Bute. --- A cabinet council was held at half-past two o'clock yesterday afternoon, at the Foreign-office. The Martinis of Lansdowne arrived in town in the forenoon, front he seat, Bowood Park Wilts, and wee present at the meeting. Lord John Rimed returned to town yesterday from Windsor Castle, and attended the oenacil. The other ministers present were the Lord Chancellor, the Eirl of Minto, Sir George Grey, Viscount Palmerston, Earl Grey, the Chancel lor of the Exchequer, Bir Francis Baring, the Earl of Carlisle, the Right Mon. Henry Lsbauchere, the Marquis of Clanricarde, and the Ri4ht Hon. Fox Maul.. Sir John Hobboues arrived in town at half-past three o'clock, and joined his colleagues. The council eat three hours. Mr. Howe bad an interview with Earl Grey yes terd!y.sttheColonial - Mi . . Rude, M.P. for Paisley, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Eschequer yesterday. The Chief COMI:041101111r of the Poor Lowe had also an interview with the Right Hon. Baronet yesterday, at his residence in Downing Street. Lord Seymour returned to town yesterday from Windsor Castle. The Postmuter-General had an interview on Mon day with the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial Office trom the governor of the North American Colonies. Lord Ebriagton is about to retire from the Secre taryship of the Poor Low Board, and will be succeeded by Mr. R. W. Grey, as parliamentary secretary. Mr. Nicholls also retiree on account of ill health, and w ill be succeeded as permanent secretary by Lord Courtenay, who baa already acted so a poor-law inspector for eereral years. The Rev. Mr. Brodie, second son of Sir Benjamin Brodie, has been appointed by the Bishop of Winchester to New Alresford, but whether as its incumbent, or only as curate to the Rev. George Sumner, rector of Old Alresford, is not, as yet, certainly known in the parish. (Prom lilt nlittt's Caulk.) DOWNING -STREET, JAN. 2l.—The Queen hen been pleased to re-appoint Sir Charles Augustus Fits Roy, Kat., to be Capt.-General and Governor-in-Chief in and over the colony of New South Wales, and to appoint him to be Cop t►in.Gsneral and Governor-in-Chief in and over the colonies of Van Diemen's Land, Victoria, and South Australia, and to be Governor General of all the colonies of Australia, including the colony of Western Australia; further been pleased to re-appoint Sir William Thomas Denison, Kat., Captain in the corps of Royal Engineers, to be Lieutenant. ' Governor of the colony of Van Diemen's Lind, and Sir Henry Edward Fox Young. Knt., to be Lieutenant. Governor of the colony of South Australia, and to appoint Charles Joseph La Tube, Esq., to be Lieutenant-Governor of the colony of Victoria. FOREIGN-OFFICE, JAN. 27.—The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Lieut-Gen. the Earl of West morland, G.C.8., now her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at the Court of Berlin, to be her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Pleni• potentiary at the Court of Vienna; also been graciously pleased to appoint Rear Admiral Sir Edmund Lyons. Bart. and G.C.8., now her Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary to the Swiss Confederation, to be her Majesty's Envoy Extra ordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at the Court of Stockholm; al,o been graciously pleased to appoint Arthur Charles Magesis, Esq., now acting Minister Pleaipoten• tiary at the Court of Vienna, to be her Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary to the Swiss Confederation; also been graciously pleased to appoint the Hon. Henry George Howard, now Secretary to her Majesty's Legation at the Court of Lisbon, to be Secretary to her Majesty's Legation at the Curt of Vienna._ _ _ _ FOREIGN -OFFICE, JAN. 27.—The Queen bas been pleased to approve of Mr. Thomas Hailing as Consul at CCM. s for his Msjesty the King of the Belgians. FOREIGN -OFFICE, JAN. I s.—The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint John Bell, Esq., now British Vice-Consul at Oran, to be her Majesty's Consul in Algeria. WIIITEUALL, JAN. 27.—Her Majesty has been pleaeod to grant the office and plate of Reader of Physic in the Usiver►i:y of Cambridge unto Henry John Holies Bond, M.D., in the room of John Haviland, Id.D., deceased. CUIdhIIBBION SIGNED BY THE LORD LIEUTENANT OP LANCASlillill. —Joseph Jones, En., to be Deputy- Lieutenant. NAVAL MEDALS.—Admiralty, Jan. 25.—Three years and seven months have now elapsed since notice was first issued by command of her Majesty, in the Gazette of Ist June, 1847, requiring all persons to make application who should consider thews/len qualified to receive a medal for their services during the late wars, ea therein specified. Although above 17,000 officers, seamen, and marines, and soldiers serving as marines, have, alter investigation, been declared qualified, it is supposed that none claims may be still outstanding. My Lords the Commissionen of the Admiralty therefore direct, that all remaining claims, under the Gaunt notices of Ist June, 1847, let June, 1848, and 11th February, 18i0, .be brought forward without loss of time; and notice is hereby given, that no claim will be taken into consideration unless it is submitted before the Ist May next ensuing.—By command of their tordehipa, J. PARKEL COUNTY RATES EXPENDITURE. An aggregate meeting of representatives of the several metropolitan parishes in the county of Surrey took plan last evening, at the vestry room of St. George's, South. wark, " to consider the beat means of promoting the move meat in favour of county tin►ncial boards." The attendance comprised members of the hoards of guardians, church wardens, overseen, and vestry clerk., from the following parishes; St. George, Southwark; St. Mary, Newington; St. Saviour, Southwark; St. Mary, Battersea; and Mary lebonr. Mr. E. COLLINSON, chairman of the board of guar dians of St. George's, presided. He said it was absolutely necessary that some step' should be taken, on account of the great increase in the county rate expenditure. Last union a bill bed passed a second reading in the Commons, I but had been shelved by ministers , because it appeared only to be supported by the county of Lancaster. Lord J. Rus sell, however, had stated to a deputation, that if the opinion of the metropolitan parishes, and those in other parts of the country, were strongly expressed, it would no doubt have weight with the government. For this purpose the present meeting had bee. convened; and by united action the object might be attained. That it was highly desirable no one could doubt who noticed the large proportion of parish. expenditure which was occasioned by the county rate. In the parish of St. George it was a penny in the pound in each quarterly rate; and the Surrey county rate had been increased in the last ten years from 14,7001. to 49,0001. (Hear, hear.) This movement had been undertaken out of no disrespect to the magistrates of the county, but en the simple ground that the ratepayers ought to hove a control over the expenditure of their money. At present, owing to the expensive way in which prisons were built and con. ducted, the oust of a prisoner was three times that of a pauper. (Hat hear.) Mr. J. DAY, vestry clerk of St. George's, the honorary secretary stated that he had received communications from the parch officers of Lambeth, Christ Church, Epsom, and other parishes, expressing their full oancarreace in and their dears to smut the object of the meeting. In 1837, the pariah ef St. George had paid only 8231. 81. Bd. as county rate; in the tut year it was 1,9101. 81., being en increase of 1,0471. le. 411., or upwards of 100 per cent. in 11 years. The total of the county rate last year was upwards of 49,0001.; and its expenditure was very imperfectly detailed in the amounts rendered by the magistrates, of which only one copy was 'applied to each pariah. Some of the items were of a very lumping description, for instanoe :--sundry dis bureements for the four gaols, 6,1001. 6s. 7d., of which 1,6391. 131. was for the county gaol alone; repairs and additioas for the same, 1,1191. Ge. ; rep a i rs to Britton gaol, 6121. 16s. 3d.; repaint° the Lunatic Asylum. 2,1491. Os 2d.; salaries of the officers of the foes gash, exclusive of turnkeys and watchmen, 3,1821 81. 101. These were the only details which were vouchsafed to the ratepayers. When the parish officers were called on for their quotas of the county rate, they must pay It immediately; otherwise they were subject to a penalty of 10 per cent., which mast be paid by the overseers themselves, for es it was assumed that they could ley a rate soh it was necessary, the auditor would not allew it out of the poor rates. Mr. CARVER, churchwarden, of Battersea, moved al resolution, approving of the steps that had been taken on this question, and pledging the pariah officers present to use their beet endeavour to tarry out the ousels their respective parishes, by using the necessity of vestry meetings, and of petitioning parliament. Mr. MAY, of St. Saviour's, seconded the etiolation. Mr. FENTON, a deputation from the *nutty of Lancaster Union, stated that the aunty rate throughout the country had been doubled sines 1836. The magistrates, as a body, emotion on the subject, though needlessly so; for they admitted the principle, which indeed was at the basis of the English eonstitation, that taxation and representation ought es go together. Mr. Roberta, of Rochdale, the secretary of the Leaman% committee, had come to tows to assist in drawing up a bill whisk should be free from the defects of that of last year; and he trusted its provisions would secure the approval of all the metropolitan parishes. The resolution was unanimously agreed to. Mr. PIKE, of Newington, moved a etiolation, requesting each perish to send on. delegate to the Surrey union, es co operate with the Middle's: parochial officers. Mr. BARON seconded the resolution. Some other etiolation' were adopted, end a vole of Ulnae to the chairman cloud the proceedings. APPREHENSION AND COMMITTAL OF MRS. SLOANE. The following additional particulars regardin g th e • . . pprehension of hire. Sloane will be read with interest' The statement that Ws. Sloane left this country immediately alter the first examination of Ur. Sloane, is, there is reason to believe, correct. Since the finding of the true bill by the grand jury against Mr. Sloane, Superinten dent Hodgson, of the City police, and Sergeant May, of the detective force, to whom the person of Mrs. Sloane was known, have been indefatigable in their exertions to trace her whereabouts, and have visited Twickenham and various parts of this country in search of her ; but in consequence. of the repeated statements, and the conviction that she war residing at Boulogne, those officers proceeded to that port on Thursday. On arriving at B inlogne the officers proceeded to institute • close inspec.ion of the several hotels and lodging houses, but satishictory tidings could not be obtained, and the seclusion of the Sloanes apparently defied detection. Towards the legir part of last week, the Boulogne police communi cated to the City officers their belief that a party answering the description of the Sloane' were in the town, but as no conclusive information could be elicitad,• stratagem via devised to get the landlord of the house in which they were supposed to be located to a cafe, and interrogate him, if possible, on the subject. After some time he admitted that there were three parties answering the description furnished him, residing in bin house. They consisted of a lady and gentle man, and &stout young lady, and that they went by the natne of Smith. They led • very secluded life, and that the lady only tektite house at an advanced period of 'he night fora walk As one of the officers was known to Mrs. Slam, it was ne cessary for him to adopt some disguise, and IA accordingly adorned himself with rather • prominent pair of moustachois, and on Friday eight, shout 11 o'clock, they placed them selves on watch for the Mrs. Smith, and she shortly appeared pursuing her usual nocturnal walk. As her face was closely concealed with • veil, the officers had some difficulty in seeing her features, but on passing by one of the street gas lamps, they contrived by same mean., as if the result of accident, to raise her veil, and she was at once recognised to be Mrs. Sloane. She was allowed to return to her dwelling, and as the laws of France require a ascend witness to establish identity, an express was forwarded to London for one to come over. The party arrived on the Sunday, and on Monday morning the officers proceeded to the lodgings of Mrs. Sloane. On going into the second floor, they found Mr. and Mrs. Sloane and Miss Bevan:. The French authorities then demanded! their passports, and it being discovered that they, had assumed a name not their own, they were informed that they had rendered themselves liable' to the operation of the French laws, and that they must quit Boulogne. Not being permitted to travel through France with • false passport, they had no alternative but to take their passage by the first steamer for Falkstone, and at 5 o'clock they were escorted by the police of Boulogne to the quay aide, where the steamer was moored. Although Mrs. Sloane's discovery was kept as secret as pos sible, the fact by some means got wind. Some hundreds of the principal inhabit‘nts collected on the quay to witness the departure of the Sloanes, but not a murmur or expression fell from them. Fortunately the passengers . . on board of the steamer were unconscious of their being on board, and they thus escaped observation. The moment the steamer reached Folkestone Harbour, Mr. Hodgson, the superintendent of the City police, who we. accompanied by Sergeant May, a detective officer, announced to Mrs. Slows that she wee his prisoner, producing the judge's warrant for her apprehension on the charge of cruelty to her servant. I That she was prepared for the announcement there is little doubt, as Mr. Sloane was acquainted with Mr. Hodgson, he having in a great measure been the mesas of rescuing him from the violence of the mob alter his examination at the Guildhall police-court. Mrs. Sloane wu wretchedly dejected thriughout the passage, and became much affected, • se did Mize Meaux, on leaving the steamer. Mrs. Bloaas was dressed in an old black silk bonnet and thick black veil, the lower part of her face being covered ; she also wore as old and faded black silk cloak; and her appearance wee altogether most pitiable. FEMALE EMIGRATION FUND. - DEPARTURE OF FEMALE EMIGRANTS. .• Yesterday a very interesting spevaclo was afforded in the embarkation of about 30 teusele 'emigrant., under the auspices of the Female Emigration Fund Society, on board the ship Stately, laying off Gravesend, and bound for New Zealand. This interesting little colony formed the eighth detachment of deserving young women rescued from the miseries of London needlework, and the horrors sod tempta tions of London destiqtion by the benevolent exertions of Mr. Sydney Herbert and the ladies and gentlemen who hove co-operated with him in the formation of the society. Previous detachments had been de spatched to Australia, to the ,Cape of flood Hope, and to oar North American Colonies, and la.ve all arriv..d sale at their destinations, and obtained imm. diets and satisfactory employment. The committee, L.,wever, thought it more advisable to break new 'ground on the present occasion, and accordingly enraged the whole after put of the ship Stately, a fine new v. ssel of 700 tons, and booed for Auck land. The completeness of the arrangements on board the vessel yesterday, and the care and humanity with which every available comfort bad been accumulated for the benefit of the poor voyagers, was evident and satisfactory. Everything, in fact, has beendoce to render a voyage of four months as little irksome as possible. The emigrants are all young women, between 20 and 30 years°, age, many of Hunt of pleasing features and genteel appearance; but all, not,- wVhstatidiog a month's careful nursing at The Home," bearing in their faces indelible marks of the privation and misery from which they had been rescued. Of course every individual present had her tale of gallery to recount ; but the ewe of two sisters, aimed Wilson, 'which we had from the lips of the elder, forms too forcible an illustration of the life of a London needlewoman to he pseud without some notice. The elder of these two young women is about thirty, and the younger about twenty-two years of age, and about ten years ago they were deserted by their father and mother. For several years they supported themselves at peak binding," one of the minute sub-divisions of London labour, until at last • machine was invented by which the operation could be performed, and the peaks for boys' cap. (the material of their trade) completed in a moment. They struggled with adversity, getting from bad to worse, for some yens longer, until at last they were found literally dying from want of food, in a wretched garret in Lantstreet, kept from the workhouse by honest pride, and from suicide only by a s•rong sense of re ligion. Through the kind exertions of the legal committee they were rescued from their dreadful situation, and atter a month spent in recruiting their broken health at the Home, they went on board the Stately yesterday, fell of gratitade to their preserver., and of hope u to their future prospects. It is but justice to them to add, that their character bad borne the strictest investigation, both their . mployers and their neighbours testifying that their only crime was extreme poverty. The emigrants were accompanied to Graves end by the Right. Hon. Mr. Stuart Wortley, Hon. A. Kiaraird, lion. Percy, Key. Mr. Queckett, Mr. Hely, secretary to the fund, and some other mem bers, lay and clerical, of the general and local com mittees, who minutely inspected all the arraogements, and ascertained the presence and quality of all the requisites for the voyage. The emigrants were feelingly addressed by Mr. Kinnurd on their future duties and prospects, and encouraged to good conduct by kied advice and admonition. Mr. Queckett followed with some practical hints, among the rest one not to forget writing to their benefactors, at the same time mentioning the rather singular fact, that of the whole five or six hundred already seta out, only one had written back to the c - ,mmittee. The young women listened with deep attention, and many seemed much affected at some of the obetrvations addressed to them. A kind fare well was then given, end the committee left for town, while the poor girls who had been in. objects of their care crowded the gangway, and waved theft handkerchiefs until the steamer was out of might. DEATH OP MR. WILLIAM DOLMES.—This gentle man, who for so many yeah acted as whipperin to the tory party, was a native of the county of Sligo, born in 1779. His father, an opulent brewer, wag the eldest descendant of • family long settled in the King's County, acquired consi derable property in Slip, filled the iffice of High Sheriff of that county in the year 1810, and after • long and rather prosperous life, bequeathed some portion of his possessions to his son. Mr. Holmes entered Trinity College, Dublin, at the usual age, and after completing his education, obtained ' a commission in the army, served some years in the West Indies, and was military secretary there to Sir Thomsa Hislop. In 1807 he married Lady Strong. (widow of Sir James Strong., Bart.), retired from the army, and obtained a f seat in the House of Commons It was in 1808 that he came in for Grampound, and during twenty-three years he continued to be a member of the Lower House; but from 1832 till 1837 his parliamentary career was inter rupted, and in 1841 brought to its final ekes. He an successively for Grampoend, Trope', Bishop's Castle. Henbane, and Berwick on Tweed. In the high and palmy days of Toryism the peculiar talents of Mr. Holmes were is great request, for in the private assuagement of the members of an unreformed House of Commons he wait without a rive/. Mr. Holmes was by the side of Mr. Percival when he sank ander the hand of an assassin, and he also happosed to have been within • few yards of Mr. Heskisson when that well known statesman came by • violent though accidental death. Lord Liverpool succeeded Mr. Pereeval as First Minister of the Crown. and having held office during the long period of 15 years, Lis administra tion was followed by the several governments of Mr. Canning, of Lord Goderich (now Earl of Hip,n), and of the Duke of Wellington. Of all then Mr. Holmes was a supporter in the House of Commons, taking no part in the debate, bat excellent sate of the division. Gradually his health declined, and on Banday nal, to the great grief of his many friends, be died.