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

studied harmony—thin oar contemporary underlines, frig we should not comprehend him—under the oele hrsted Het Ds, the discord of Lord NORMANDY'S and Grizeres voices grated on his excellency's cars. Accordingly, Count IVA PPONY, employing the science which he had learned from the great HAYDN, brought t h e diplomatist and the minister together, in order to their correcting their wrong notes,and trying once more their old duet. Count D'APPONY, no doubt, sate down to the piano, and Lord NORMANBY'S tenor was found t o on admirably to M. GUIZOT'S counter-bass. The voca lists both agreed, that what put them out before. w as the ladies on both aides joining in with their vcra' n. To thui story the Morning Herold ingeniously adds s oother, which is a kind of parody of it. Monsi,tir Da MALEVILLE, one of M. TRIERS' marquises, made some sharp reflections upon ALEXANDRE DLIMAS, and mt t h e prodigal kindness of the state in placing a m an•of-war at his disposal. ALEXANDRE DUMAS in stantly sought out every old and very prosy academician, va c whose pomposity and whose very name never f il o t o provoke instant laughter. This personage M. Mies talks over, and persuades to carry a hostile mange for him to M. DE M.tLEVILLE, asking when scd where the Marquis De LA PAILLETERIF, as Drum; calls himself, shall have the honour of cu tting the Marquis of MALEVILLE'S throat. This challenge De MALEVILI.E gravely declines with the w ise, that " he has not the honour to be so exquisite a ? enflaming IS ALEXANDRE DUMAS." There can be no better satire on quarrels and duelling than this ' sock challenge and mock reply, with the singular oddity and unfitness of the personage, persuaded to figure as bearer of the fool's errand. Our budget of folly is not exhausted. His Majesty of Bavaria has fallen enamoured of the spirited LOLA MOTES, and is laying his kingdom, his person, and his coronets at her feet. The Times informs us, that this shocks the " proverbial propriety of Munich." Poor, dear old Times shows itself twin brother to the Morning Heald in this phrase, Munich being about the moat dissolute capital in Europe, the King of Bavaria never having passed a day without a mai knee en litre appearing at his court, and jostling his 9aeen. But royal freaks of this kind are more serious in years of scarcity, when bread is not to be had, and when beer has risen a penny a quart. In such titan it is dangerous to shock the morality of the Bavarians. His Majesty, too, is of Lord RADNOR'S school, and holds that to provide food or labour for his people is not his business. King Ludwig, there fore, although a poet, is unpopular, and his ministers have seized the pretext of LOLA MONTES'S favour to withdraw from office in a period of universal famine and " propriety." AMONG other parties on the West Coast of Africa with whom we have entered into commercial conven tions, are the king and chiefs of the Cape Mount country. The original treaty, signed in February, 1841, secures " free and unrestricted " intercourse with the native population to all English vessels; protection to all Englishmen landing, and the right to establish a British factory. The slave-trade is de clared to be totally abolished, and all traffic in slaves to be punishable. Slaves, the property of natives not subject or tributary to the chiefs, or of white men, are not to be permitted on any account to enter the territory or pass through it. In the event of misun derstandings between natives and persons under the protection of England, the offending parties are to be delivered to the country to which they belong for punishment. The conditions cf this treaty were fully confirmed in January, 1846, by the king and chiefs of Cape Mount, and Commander W. Jones, the senior officer in command of the British squadron ; and with a view to their more easy and certain enforcement ad ditional articles were added. In virtue of these the king and chiefs engage to punish severely all per sons subject to or within their jurisdiction who shall take part in the sale or export of slaves from Cape Mount to foreign countries. No European or any other person is to be allowed to reside within the Cape Mount territory for the purpose of carrying on the slave trade. If it be found at any time that the slave trade has been carried on through or from the territory of the chiefs of Cape Mount, Great Britain may interfere by force to suppress the same: and British officers may seise boats and vessels engaged in carrying on the slave trade. The subjects of the Queen of England may trade freel y in any article they may wish to buy or sell, within the territories of the chiefs of Cape Mount, who pledge themselves to allow no privilege, and show no favour to ships and traders of other countries in which those of England are not admitted to participate. Representations have lately been made by the chiefs of Cape Mount to the British authorities, that their faithful observance of these treaties is subjecting them to disadvantage. By faithfully acting up to them, they say, they have lost the profits they for-1 surly derived from the slave trade, and no legitimate commerce has yet found its way . to their shores to compensate them for the deprivation. This subject, so important to the trade of Africa, will no doubt be brought under the consideration of the Colonial-office and Board of Trade. It is much more easy to prohibit the continuance of in old established tr ad e than to introduce a now sae. But unless the latter and more difficult task be accomplished, all treaties such as that of which we have been recapitulating the substance will prove no better than so much waste paper. When it is argued that in this country well-educated and seriously disposed traders, who are anxious to keep holy the Sabbath-day, cannot keep their shops shut on a Sunday so long as they see those of their neigh bows open, it is not to be expected that the uncivi lised African will long resist the temptations of the gainful slave traffic, unites we put him upon a way of making equal profit by a more honest calling. The chiefs of Cape Mount state that their country is rich in corn, timber, palm oil, ivory, and gold dust. Their river has been traced inland for a hundred miles. It joins the sea about 30 miles to the east of Sherborough island; is consequently of easy access from Sierra Leone, and if permanently reconciled to legitimate traffic, would place the Gallinas between two anti-slave-trade communities. The roadstead off the mouth of the river is said to afford good anchor age; and at some distance inland the river assum the form of a lake, in which there is an island, to which the natives have been in the habit of resorting to trade with Europeans. Could not some of our merchants engaged in what is called the " floating trade" to West Africa be induced to associate for the establishment of a factory there, in terms of the treaty of 1841? Might not the steamer under the govern ment flag, which it is understood is to ply between the West Indies and the Kroo coast, to facilitate the passage of free African labourers to the colonies, be permitted to touch at the Cape Mount factory ? A provision trade between that country and the West Indies might thus be promoted, and personal visits rif the natives to the islands highly conducive to their progress in civilisation. THE two first of the series of permanent measures projected for the improvement of Ireland are now before the public. The bill authorising landlords, or tenants having two lives or twenty-five unexpired years of lease yet to run, to borrow money in order to make improvements, contemplates a desirable and we must hope not an impracticable change in the relations of landlord and tenant in Ireland. This bill pßoses an insight to have been obtained by both anWords and tenants into the community of interests subsisting between them. As a consequence of this Wight, the landlord pledges his land for advances towards drainage and other improvements, in con sideration of which the tenant agrees to an advance in ha rent corresponding with the improvement Wetted. We trust that such unanimity is something more than Utopian. The second bill empowers the guardians of unions to give out-door relief to aged and infirm paupers, sn a to levy rates for that purpose under sanction of the Poor-law Commiscioners. By introducing these two bills simultaneously, the landowner is called upon to provide for one portion tithe accumulation of paupers upon his estate, while the nation interferes to help him out of his present difcalties by lending capital sufficient to effect im rorments at a mosonable rate. Between the land .l°4l and the able-bodied pauper no mediation is "rred• The labourer is a ssume d to be worthy of `a hire, and all parties are left to do the best they tan devise for the common benefit. fto this last score much has to be done by the Irish landlord to make amends for past neglect and abuse of tract. To him, in his capacity of grand juror, ma 'filtrate, or representative in parliament, the guid- Ike of the domestic policy of the country has been entrusted, and ho is responsible for its re sults. It is no excuse that he is himself a sufferer by ' the measures which he countenanced. Ile had en dence sufficient for many years past of the decreasing prosperity of the tenant class in Ireland, and could not mistake the cause of the growing misery. But he unquestionably adopted, and systematically cherished, the notion that the maintenance of a dignified position by landlords was synonymous with national pros perity. The landlord interpreted the identity of his interests with the common weal in a manner, that led him to take his individual wealth to be an infallible index of the general prosperity. Instead, therefore, of mistrusting a system which daily widened the gulph between the rich and the poor, the Irish land lords assumed that such growing separation of in terests was calculated to inspire no alarm. It was held in Ireland (and to a certain ex tent in England), that the growth of pauper ism was a condition of certain stages of human existence, and not the result of wilful neglect or pre tended blindness on the part of those who had the power to prevent it. If these observations arc found by any to bo uncharitable, we invite them to ask for the parliamentary paper specifying the number of land-occupiers in Ireland, and the size of their holdings. Evidence is produced in that document of a change ands deterioration of the social system in Ireland of the most striking description, which, although only made manifest to English readers by the publi cation of this paper, was daily and hourly apparent to the inhabitants of that country. It is recorded as a fact, most accusatory of the higher closes of that country, yearly summoned to act as landlords at home and members of parliament in London, that they have for long years been occupied in founding, in cherishing, and finally in protecting a system which daily gave irrefragable proof of its tendency to engulf the mass of the people in mental as well as physical degradation. We are not here speaking of erroneous calculations of systems of industry. We will take the theory of the party which is responsible for the present state of thi"gs, and assume for a moment that land, and even land applied to the growth of particular crops, is the paramount source of wealth, to the preservation of which everything else must give way. We adopt that theory for a moment, and ask on the showing of this paper, how it was possible to calm all misgivings of conscience on seeing the accumulation of human power upon an area so disproportioned to the num bers crowding to it. and to refrain from all warning of the imminent danger which threatened from such a course. The fieroest opposition was long offered by landlords to all proposals for unfettering trade, for cheapening the price of food, for spreading education and fostering a spirit of religious toleration : and on what grounds? Either the proposed improve ment was declared to be hostile to vested in terests in church and state government, or to mili tate directly against the landed proprietors' pro sperity and influence. Of 883,097 land occupiers, we find 221.231 holding and tilling lees than five acres each. The number of holdings denominated " gardens," and less than one acre in extent, is 148,463 in addition to the above. The holdings under ten acres are 409,27 G without the gardens, corresponding to a population of at least two millions. At least another million is located on lots averaging between ten and twenty acres. ' In England and Scotland a family of three individuals, with two horses, can till sixty acres with case. What is then to be said of the tillage carried ou by an individual to an acre, or to that where an acre is expected to find food for the five mouths whose energies are consumed in its culti vation ? One half of the landholders in Ireland have farms below ten acres in area. Only one-fourteenth part of the occupancy is employed on estates exceeding y ape A man may err in rating his trade higher in the public estimation than that of another, and the pro ducers of food have long enjoyed a kind of prescrip tive pre-eminence above the producers of other articles of necessity and comfort. But every man must be expected to understand the best way of conducting his own profession, and there is no ex cuse admissible for a landlord's encouraging a mis application of power in farming to the frightful extent that is here demonstrated. As no landlord would employ two labourers to an acre on any land he farmed himself, so he cannot be held to be ignorant of the consequences of allowing an agri cultural population to agglomerate in that proportion on the soil. If any still suppose that such calcula tions are no business of theirs, as long as they get their rents and uphold the dignity of the class to which they belong, we have, in the present con dition of Ireland, a proof of what that dignity now reposes on. An enervated, intellectually de based population was reared by confining their ex ertions to agricultural labour after their number far exceeded the demands in that sphere of industry. An accident exposes this wretched people to the stings of famine. It is to prevent an exercise of not improba ble retribution that England has now interfered be tween the Irish landlords and their tenants. The object of the loan is to allow all parties time, and to supply the means wherewith to change from a noto riously bad system to one which shall provide a field of labour more suitable than potato-digging for mil lions of our fellow-countgmetr. It is not without misgivings as to the result which they are likely to lead to, that we watch the progress of these measures, and the spirit in which they are met, by the Irish members of both houses. We Lave received our Paris express of Monday. The meeting which took place on Saturday last be tween Lord Normanby and M. Guizot, at the hotel of the Austrian ambassador, the particulars of which we published on Monday in our Paris correspondence, occupied, to a great extent, the Paris journals of Mon day. A statement of the arrangement which has thus re-established the necessary official relations be tween the Embassy and the Minister of Foreign Affairs, appeared in the leading columns of the Debate, and, as it is the version of the matter anthoriscd by M. Guizot himself, we shall give it literally : . . . • If we are well informed, on Friday last the British ambas sador requested the ambassador of Austria to act as interme diary to bring about a reconciliation between him and M. Guizot, and to take the initiative in the affair. The Minister of Foreign Affairs is said to have replied to this invitation by authorising Count d'Appony to declare, as ho bad constantly said, since the sitting of the Chamber of Deputies of the fith of February, and in the speech pronounced by him in that sitting, that he never meant to cast an imputation on the Food faith or the sincerity of the British Ambassador. M. Guizot is said to have quoted on this occasion the fol lowing portion of his speech ,—" After the question of necessity comes that of good faith. Gentlemen, it is with regret that I put it. I, for my part, have never questioned the intentions or good faith of any one : when I enter into discussion with foreign adversaries, or those of my own nation, I only behold in what I discuss —errors, or a good or had system of policy; but I should never impute bad faith to any one ; the freedom and dignity of diplomatic relations, as of the parliamentary debates, commend it, and whatever different line of conduct may be pursued towards myself, by whomsoever it may be, I shall still adhere to the line of conduct I have always followed in this re spect." The English Ambaseador is said to have de clared previously, on his part, to Count d'Appony, that on the occasion of his soiree of the 19th Feb., he never had the intention of hurting the feelings of the minister, and disavowed all the reports circulated on the subject. Matters being thus explained agreeably to the dignity of both parties, M. Gu ts ot and Lord Norznanby met on Saturday, at five in the afternoon,at the Austrian ambassador's, and, without any further explanations, resumed their usual relations. It is solely with an aim of being useful to the re-establishment of good harmony that we have thought fit to expose shortly these facts ; and we hope that no trace* will be left of an in cident which has already too long occupied the public at tention. Each of the other journals of Monday gives its account of the interview ; the circumstances which preceded and those which are likely to follow from it. On the whole, it will be seen that the account which was sent to us by our Paris correspondent on Saturday evening, immediately after the interview took place, is cot rect in substance and spirit. All the statements concur in representing M. Guisot as requiring that the initiative in the rap prochement should proceed from Lord Normanby ; and it appears accordingly that the ambassador re quested M. d'Appony to take such steps as might remove the barrier between the embassy . and the office of foreign affairs, without compromising the honour of either party ; and the meeting was accord ingly brought about. It is not true that a cordial feeling of mutual amity has been revived. Nothing can be colder cr more formal than the present relation between the parties. It is barely that which is necessary to enablo the public business to be transacted. Intelligence of the decease of M. Martin (dn Nord), late Minister of Justice, was hourly expected in Paris. His successor had not yet been appointed. I M. Hebert, whose nomination had been favoured, was opposed by a certain august personage. M. Ensile de Girardin had also intimated to M. Guizot that, in the event of the appointment of M. Hebert, La Frew would oppose the cabinet. An article in the Mhats of Monday appears do signed to prepare the public for the permanent aboli tion of all import duties on grain. The interest on Treasury Bills commencing from the Ist of March is fixed at 3 per cent. for those of from to 3 to 5 months, 3{ per cent. for those of from 13 to 11 months, and at 4 per cent. for those at 12 months. The Bank of Marseilles has raised the rate of dis count to 6 per cent. The King of the Belgians was to leave Paris to day for London. The Queen was to remain at the Tuileries until his return. The anxiety entertained respecting the question of subsistence continues unabated, and is, in fact, now the great question of the day ; for it extends not only to the present season, but to the succeeding one. The rise in all the markets is steadily progressing. The large deficiency still to be obtained is looked for first from southern Russia by the ports of the Black Sea, and later from the United States. In almost all the markets which supply the capital, wheat has already attained 40fr. per hectolitre, and in some 42fr., the latter being equivalent to d s. 6d. per quarter. Bread has risen in Paris to a price equivalent to 24d. per lb. The utmost disquietude prevails in several of the departments. At Rouen and Havre a considerable rise has taken place. Buyers from the interior arrive daily at these towns, but find no supply. The trade is the more alarmed because no considerable arrivals are expected there soon from America or the Baltic. Along the coast the fear of a famine is general. At Rouen a rise on flour of 6fr. per sack took place on Friday. The prevailing opinion is that the present year will be even more disastrous than 1817. The disadvantage of prohibitive or protective laws has been just manifested in the relations between France and the Rhenish States. Urged by the pre vailing scarcity, the French government has lately endeavoured to induce the Rhenish governments to remove the export duties chargeable on grain sent across the French frontier, claiming to be placed, in respect of this commerce, on the same footing es Switzerland. To this it has been answered, that the question as regards Switzerland is different from that with respect to France, because the former people are regular customers, be the crops good or bad, but that France, on the contrary . , until pinched by the present • necessity, has obstinately excluded the productions of the Rhenish states. The exportation of cattle has been cited as an instance of this, and the measures taken by France for the last twenty-five years to obstruct the importation of all German products. The Madrid mail, with the journals and corre spondence of that city, of 24th, was received at Paris on Monday. The approaching departure of Queen Christina for Paris was definitively announced. The union of the banks of St. Ferdinand and Isabella was sanctioned by the ministry. The discussion on the address was continued in the Chamber. El Espanol says that, on the 23rd, the report which was circulated on the Bourse, that Estella had de clared in favour of the Count de Montcmolin, was unfounded. El Tiempo says that General Manzo was to be named Captain-General of Madrid i Roncalez, of Valencia ; and that Don Manuel Concha would replace General Breton in Catalonia. El Clamor Pubiico says that letters received from Portugal affirm that Don Miguel had disembarked at Oporto, coming from London. FRANCE.—PARIS.—The Count de Rambateau, Prefect of the Seine, having,in consequence of the large sums required for the public works which are proposed in the inte rest of the city of Paris, and for the occupation of the labour. log classes, recommended to the Municipal Council to raise a loan of 25,000,000 ft., the proposition ho been diecussed seri approved of. By means of these new resources the munici pality will be able to proceed actively with the public works which have been reached upon. The extent and import nice of these works may be conceived, when we state that the central markets are estimated at about 20,000,000 fr.; the new hospital, 6,000,000 fr.; the quays and ports, 2,000,000 fr.; and the church Ste. Clotilde, 3,000,000 fr. The total esti mate fur the improvements is 72,000,000 fr., but the works that are considered really urgent, are estimated only at 62,1100,000 fr. Of this amount there are 12,000,000 fr, in hand. The other 50,000,000 fr, will be supplied by the ordinary resources of the city, and by the new loan. The works are to be completed in 1858. " It is said in the political and religious world," says the Conatiterionnel, "that a bill is about to be pre sented in the Chamber of Peers to re-tore the ancient de pendence of the Chapter of the Cathedral of St. Denis, and to free it from the authority of the Archbishop of Paris. It so added that the presentation of the measure is only de layed by the absence from Paris of Count de Portia., who is engaged at Toulon is promoting his son's election as deputy." M. Weyland, Minister at the French Court of their Royal Highnesses the Grand Dukes of Saxe-Weimar, Meelenbourg-Strelitz. and Oldenburg, died suddenly on Saturday, at his residence in the Rue Caumartin, from an attack of apoplexy. Sinew RECK OF SHE CARAT BE.— We extract the following account of the loss of this steamer from a letter addressed to La Float, dated Jan. 14, four leagues north of St. Louis, Senegal On the 11th instant, at half past nine. a.m., a thick fog at the time, the frigate returning from Madeira and the Canaries, grounded at the very mo. meat that orders had been given to take soundings. My servant rushed into my room, exclaiming that the Caraibc bad grounded. Two or three heavy shocks had already apprisl.d me of the fact, and I jumped out of bed as a wave washed into my cabin. and went on deck undressed. I at once perceived the danger of our situation, as the timbers shook at every new sheek. We were, in tact, in the very midst of the formi dable breakers which form a foaming girdle round the greater part of the coast of Africa. The first hour was awful. The masts were successively cut away, and the guns thrown over. baud, with the exception of some to fire signals of distress. As the tog cleared up it was clear that we were on the coast of Barbary, and so hemmed in by breakers that there was no chance of get ting clear from them, but at the same time we made out vessels which to all conjecture were riding at anchor be. furs St. Louis. There was, therefore, some hope of aid, either by land or by sea, though scarcely probable of the latter, owing to the heavy swell and the size of the breakers. Alter en hour of intense anxiety the vessel neared the coast • little, and an attempt was made to lower the boatse five successive attempts were made in vain, the boats were swamped and the men in them perished, with the exception of the master of the captain's gig, who was thrown on shore, and reached St. Louis in a state of nakedness at half-past eleven, where he announced the disaster. In the hopes of establishing communication ' with the land by means of a rope some of the blacks on beard made the attempt, notw.thstanding a strong current land a tremendous sea. Of eight only one succeeded in car rying the line on shore. M. Boyer, a midshipman, remarkable for his daring and courage, then boldly under took to hind to superintend and organise means for saving the rest of the crew. With great difficulty he reached the land in a half-drowned state, and immediately set to work to arrange the lines and tackles for landing the man. But time seemed to pass awfully fast for those who remained on hoard. At about one o'clock a detachment of cavalry made its appearance, arid soon afterwards the governor of Senegal, accompanied by his aide-de-camps, • number of civil and military engineers, and most of the inhabitants of the island. In a short time a cord was esta blished between the vessel and the shore. Four or five of the sailors were landed safely, when three were drown successively. This discouraged the men : but at this juncture some canoes, brought on camels from the interior, arrived. The men of the island are noted for the dexterity with which they guide their canoes through the breakers. Thanks to their courage and devotion, we had only to de plore the loss of three more men of the crew after their arrival. Before six in the evening all were landed, the commander and admiral being the last to leave the ship. The calls being made, it was found that 21 lives had been lost, 18 sailors, a cabin boy, and two voltiguen. What are the causes of this disaster. It is to be attributed to fatality, and to an unhappy occurrence of unhappy eireurastances. TM nautical talents and experience of the admiral are well known, and no went of proper cau tion or prudence can be ascribed to the officers. On the 12th the crew of the Caraibe encamped on the beach, en deavoured to save all they could from the wreck, and suc ceeded in saving meet of the officers' chests, arms, and other articles. We are still encamped on the shore at the time I write, hut, in a few days, we are to proceed to St. Louie, when all hopes of saving anything elm from the wreck must be given ms. SPAIN.—DoIe ENRICWE.—A RARE EXAMPL E.— The marriage. of princes have lately been political affairs ; but Don Enrique has declared, in an address to the Queen, his intention to marry purely for lose, coasulting, as he saye, only his " own heart and the duty of • cavalier" (el deter dews caballero). He confesses that, since the mar rives of the Queen and her sister he has felt very lonely, that he has determined to marry none but a Spanish lady, and that his affections am now wholly devoted to Benefit* de Castello., for whose sake, he adds, he is willing to endure all passible sacrifices. ITALY.—A letter from Naples states that a treaty of commerce And navigation between Chet kingdom and the Zollverein was concluded on the 28th Jan. last. SWITZERLAND. —AVALANCHES.—A letter from Chamounix of the 19th ult, states that on the 15th, at 7 in the evening, an avalanche fell with a tremendous noise from the so-called Aiguitlem-rouger, burying the hamlet of Chable. The hamlet, which consists of five houses and a few small manufactories is situated in a narrow glen which was com pletely filled up by the masses of snow, as was also the bed THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 3, 1847. of the Arts, which rune through it. In one bonse eleven potions were saved owing to the strength of the walla, and worked their way out ; some others were found alive, but the remainder perished. The Grit person that me:Ted ran to the villas., of Prate to give tho alarm, but it was difficult to ruako out tho petition of the houses. Owing to the miaow of snow and the fear of avalanches no aid could be &stained till the IGth, from the priory, when the doleful tinkling of the eon vent bell gave the alarm to the inhabitants of the pritieipal village of the valley. They at once proceeded to the spot of the disaster, but one immense winding sheet of snow wrapped up the buried village, with a chimney appearing here and there from the solid white mass. After two days digging seven corpses were dug out, and six persons still alive. Toe unhappy persons who survive have lost their all, and it is hoped that the government will come to their timely succour. GERMANY.--JENNY LIND AND THE STUDENTS. —At a certain German town last autumn there was a tre mendous furor about Jenny Lind, who after driving the hole piece mad, left it on her travels early one morning. The moment her carriage was outside the gates a pack of rampant students, who had escorted it, rushed back to the inn, demanded to be shown Jenny's bed-room, and swept like a whirlwind up stain into the room indicated to them, tore up the sheets, and wore them in stripe as decorations. An hour or two afterwards a bald old gentleman of amiable appearance, an Englishman, who was staying in the hotel, came to breakfast at the tableePlatite, and was observed to be much disturbed in his mind, and to show great terror wh a student came near him. At last he sold, in a low voice, to some who arise near him at table, " You are English gentlemen, I observe? Most extraordinary people these German students: u a body, raring mad, gentlemen." " Oh no," said somebody, " only excitable, but very good fellows, and very sensible." " By heavens ' sir!" returned the old gentleman, still more disturbed, " then there's some thing political in it, and lam a marked man. I went out for a little walk this morning, after shaving, and while I was gone;"--he fell into a terrible perspiration as he told it— they burst into my bedroom, tore up my sheets, and are now patrolling the town in all directions with bits of 'em in their button-holes."—ln the confusion the students had gone into the wroagreom.— Dense/as Jerrold's Weekly Newspaper. BAVARIA.—LOLA-MONTES.—A letter from Munich, of the 22d, says—" The exasperation of the populace of our city against idyll's , . Lola-Montes has become so great, that the authorities, in order to prevent disturbances, have required the young lady to quit the town. This she did tut night, going to the village of Staremberg, satiated at about five leagues from Munich. Iler carriage was escorted by a strong detachment of dragoons from the garrison." RUSSIA.—The latest accounts received from the Caucasus, state that General Woronstoff ho:' offered to eva cuate all the little fort', and only to keep inaisa and Sou koum-Kale, on condition that the population along the coast are to give no aid to Chiamel-beg, are to keep up a good understanding with the Russians, and to furnish a con tingent of 35,000 men, commanded by Circassian chiefs, to be employed only in war against Christans. These propo sitions have been rejected. The Emperor has issued an ukase, prohibiting foreigners to serve as volunteers in the army. Foreigners desiring to serve, must tint become Rus sian subjects, take an oath of allegiance to the Emperor, and take • rank in the army. To hasten the termination of the railway from St. Petersburg to Moscow the emperor has ordered the issuing of two series of treasury notes, each of three million roubles, to bear interest from the Ist of February. Ilia majesty has also ordered two similar series to be issued, is case the ex penses of the railway should demand new funds. POLANI).—WARaaw.—The following is the text' of the oath exacted from the priests appointed at the Eccle siastical Academy at Warsaw I, the undersigned, promise and guess before Almighty God, one in the Slyly Trinity, that I desire and engage myself faithfully and Mnserely to serve and to be obedient ii, all things to 11.1.11., my real, legitimate, and moot gracious *meter, the Emperor Nicholas Pawlowis, aut ocrat of all the Russia, end to 11.1.11. the heir to the throne of all the }UMW,. the Grand Duke Alexander Nieolaserrix, I engage myself likewise to observe and defend, without sparing my bit or a d=y u lt 3 lood . , t al l t ,i th i f rights a t :d t izr .. - =l " tu=i t etr exti c r e l also engage myself to support as much as is in my power everythisg attached to the imereets of ILIA. owl the state. In consequence, if anything should come to my knowledge likely to be detrimental to the rights of his Prfairsty, not only will I inform him of the tame immediately, but will endeavour to prevent it by all means inny power. I also engage ts keep secret enything that may be rionDled to me, to fulfil cone:Untimely the sheltie impe -1 red woe me either by regulations or established ese_me, either by the present general oath or by private oath administered to me by my superiors, in the name of R.I.M. Finally, I er.gage myself not to act contrary to me duty and to my oath, in *came private or family in terest, out of friendship or hatred, and tout in all things conform able to the duty of a faithful aubject of H.1.M., so as to be alwaye prepared to render an account of it before God and lu terrible Judgment. etn eotrn. ILitit. the Duchess of Kent visited the Queen yesterday. Her Majesty, accompanied by the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, and the Princess Alice, walked yester day in the gardens of Buckingham Palace. Hrr Majesty and Prince Albert inspected, at Buckingham Palace, two medals of Lord Hirdinge, the work of Mr. G. G. Adams. The Queen had a dinner party yesterday. The company inAuded H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent, their Royal Highne.ses the Duke end Duchess of Cambridge ' His Serene Highness Prince Frederick of lies., their Excelleneifs Baron and Baroness de Cetto, Hu Excellency Baron de Hugel, the Marquis and Marchioness of Lansdowne, Lady Augusta Ca. dogan ' Lady Fanny Howard, Baroness de Speth, the Eire of Auckland and the lion. Miss Eden, Lord and Lady Ashley, Lord Ernest Bruce, the Right Hon. Sir Robert and Lady Peel, and Mr. Edmund Mildmay. 11. It. 11. Prince Albert presided yesterday after noon at a meeting of the commission for promoting and en couraging the Fine Arts in the rebuilding the Palace of Westminster. IL R. H. arrived at Owydyr House, • shortly before three o'clock, attended by his Equerry in Waiting, Col. Bouverie. The commissioners present were the Marquis of Lansdowne, Lord J. Russell, Viscount Mahon, Viscount Morpeth, Lord Ashburton, Lord Colborne. the Right Hon. the Speaker, Sir Robert Liam , Inglis, Mr. Benjamin Hawes, Mr. Henry Helium, Mr. G. Viyme, and Mr. T. Wyse. The Secretary, Mr. Eastlake, W 33 in attend. *nee. At four o'clock Prince Albert and the other Commis. 'loners, proceeded to the Palace at Westminster, and went over the new Houses of Parliament, attended by the architect, Mr. Barry. TT. RR. Hll. the Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary, and H.S.H. Prince Frederick of Hesse visited the British Museum yesterday. Several members of the " Short Time Committee" from Manchester attended yesterday at the Treasury, to deliver a number of petitions to Lord John Russell. Despatches were sent off last evening from the Colonial-office for the Governor of Ceylon. A deputation of gentlemen from the centre of the county of Kent bad an interview with the Right Hon. E. Strutt, yesterday, at the , Alice of the Commissioners of Rail ways, in Great George street. The Bishop of Barbadoes had an interview with Earl Grey yesterday, at the Colonial office. The Earl of Devon had an interview with Bir G Grey yesterday, at the Home-office. Sir R. Ferguson bad an interview yesterday with the Right Hon. E. Strutt, at the office of the Commissioners of Railways. MARRIAGE IN Mon LIFE.—We are informed that a =triage is on the tapir between Lord Alfred Paget, M.P., son of the Marquis of Anglesey, and Miss Wyndham, daughter of the Countess of Listowel. The fair lady is sister and co-heiress of Lady Macdonald. TIIE DUKE OF SOMERSET.—Last evening, upon making inquiry of Dr. Parrott, the medical attendant of the Duke of Sommaet, relative to his grace's health, we ascer tained that all unfavourable symptom. have disappeared. ILLNESS OF THE HON. J. A. VILLIERS.--We are happy to hear that the Earl and Countess of Jersey have, by the most recent letters from Rome, received favourable accounts of the health of the Hon. J. A. Villiers. DEATH OF LORD CLANMORRIe.--This nobleman, to the regret of all who knew him, died on Sunday last,' after a short illness, at Rugby, in Warwickshire. The de. I ceased baron bad reached his 39th year, having been born Jan. 22, 1808. Denis Arthur Bingham, Baron Clanmorris, of Newbrook, in the county of . Mayo, in Ireland, was the third baron, and succeeded to the honours and estate on the demise of his brother in 1829. In 1826 he espoused Maria Helena, second danghter of R. Pease, Esq., of Rol. borough, county Galway. The deceased baron leases a large family to deplore his loss. His successor is John Charles Robert, who will attain his majority in November neat. (From last night's Gazette.) BUCKINGHAM PAT.ACE, FEB. 27. —Her Majesty having appointed the Right. Hon. Henry Earl Grey to he lord lieutenant and custos ratulorum of the county of North umberland, his lordship the day took the oaths appointed to be taken thereupon, inst:ad of the oaths of allegiance and supremacy. LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, JAN. 25.—Notice is hereby given, that her Majesty will hold a drawing roam at St. James's Palace, oil Thursday, the 2.6 th March next, at two o'clock. N.B. The knights of the several orders are to appear in their collars, it being a collar-day. FOREIGN OFFICE, MARCH I.—The Queen has ap proved of M. Eugene Bero as Consul at Newcastle for his Majesty the King of the French. - _ WAR OFFICE, Moore 2. Ist Drag. Gds.—B. Tomlin to be cornet, by per., vice Brine, who ret. 7tb Drag. Gds.—Cornet J. T. Cramer to be brut., by per., eke Riddell, who ref. ; W. 8. Woad to be cornet, by per. 14th Lt. Drage.—Corect and AdJt. R. P. Apthorp to here the rank of lie t.; Con" R. T. Woodman to be beet, without per., rice Barrett, dec.•. A. J. Curet" to be cornet, without pie.; burg. A. Stewart, freenfilst F., to be our,- viee emyth, app, to 87th F. 4th P.—Ens. J. It. Lovett to be lieut., by per., rice Chetwodit, app. to Bth Lt. Drage. ; Eon. F. H. Purre, from 74th F., to be ens. 12th F.—Ena. E. Feeler to be NUL, with the rank of beet.; It. N. Irving to be ma., wlthoutpur. 14th F.—F. Le Mcworier to be ens., without per., vice Dumas, deceased. 16th F.—Ens. G. de la P. Bervelard to be lieut., by put., vice Fer gus," who rcL ; B. C. Blaelaszn to be ens., by per. 87th F.—Lieut. H. B. Phipps to be eapt., by per., vice Parkinson, who yet. ; Ens. J. L. George to be lie", by per. ; W. Pollard to be ens, by per. 42nd B. D. Abrreromby to be heat., by pur., vice Bethune, who ret.; J. W. Balfour to be eno., by per.; H. Montgomery to be I ens., by per., vice Cameron, app. to Ist or Oreoadier Regt. of Ft. 57th F.—Capt. F. W. Coithurst, from 11.-p. 75th F., to be apt., site 0. Edwards, who each., turns. differ.. LieuL J. Mainly to be apt., by per., sire Colthuret, who ret.; Ens. O. Armstrong to be beat, by per. ; 11. Butler to be ens., by per. Slat F.—Ausist i - 4 14 t in P. Gomm U, from 80th F., to be mug., vice Crawicy Mr t, be eau., by par., vice Persia, app. to 4th y. . - . - tiOin F.—H. C. Leese to be mint_ -ears., elm Gunmen., prom. in Glee F. Tit; F.—Em. C. P. Beata* to be lieut., by Pur., 'toe Beottnek, fem. in dm Mounted Riflemen; E&,. P.l. 0. naancirra, from 68th F., to be ena. 87th F.—Hurg. R. D. Smyth, tram 14th Lt. Drags., to be &erg., vice R. A. Femme. M.D., who rot. on b..p. Ceylon Rifle Rent.—Lieut. R. Watson to be ann., without pur. Cape Monate 1 Riflemen—Lent. A. C. Itentiva, from 81th Y., to,be eapt., by pur.. vim C P Uinnon, who ret. bamin..—Qtpt. F. W. Conners., o Sith V., to be =Joe in the Rttsrrrss OTATT.—.I.III•Neb, DLit., to be essist-nug. to the Force', Mee 8. 11. Hardy, M.D., who fet• nn h..P. MFAIONAN.V.—The commission of Capt. K. Murchison, of 29th F., has been antedated to Dee. Oo(iiiikANcE, F. 27. .... - RL Arllliery—WiriL.Blajor W. Elliott to be quo t..mast. RI. Ens ineers—be- Capt. li. D. Harness t, Is. cayt ; See. Capt. IL T. Ford to be coot., vice Wertheim, placed on Fended. List; First Lieut. P. J. Ilornby to be sea espt.; nee. Lieut. J. T. Burke to be foot lieut.; flee. Lieut. F. E. Cox to be feat Wet., eke Calton, pinned on fended. Ust. THE LATE SIR GEORGE GIPI'S. This brave and intellig,ent soldier, who expired at Canterbury on the 2Sth ult., in the 6;th 3 ear of his age, was one of our peninsular veterans. Re ohigiocd his commivuon of second lieutenant in the corps of Royal Engineers on the 11th of January, 1809. He heearne tint lieutenant on the 21st of December in the same year ; captain, on the 30th of September, 1311; brevet.maior, on the 10th of January,lB3; ; and regimental lieutenant-colouiA on the 2.3 rd of Ni.vembs r, 1841. He screed in the I'eninsula to the end of the war. was present at the siege of Bastajoz, in M.irelt and April, 1312 ; in the affair at the pass of Biar, battle of Castilla, at other smaller affairs in Cataloi.ia, at the capture of the Fort of Balitquer, the siege of Tarragona, and blockade of Barcelona, in 1313-14. He led one of the columns of assault at Fort Picarina, during the siege of Bsdaj as, and was wounded in the left sun on that occasion. Hu was knighted in 183.5. In .1837 he was appointed to succeed Sir Richard Bourke as Governor of New South Wales. THE ANNEXATION OF CRACOW. A meeting, convened by the Literary Association of the Friend" of Poland, was held y.s:erday at the Free masons' Hall, Great Queen.street, to petition the crown e a the late annexation of Cracow to the Austrian dominions. The platform was crowded with distinguished persons. The Marquis of Northampton buying been voted into the choir, Lord Dudley Stuart read letters Gam a numb.x of noblemen and geridensen, who, while regretting their ina bility to attend on that occasion. exorcised their cordial con currence in the collects fur which the meeting was convened. The CHAU:MAN then opened the business, stating that he had Slot slay deviated from • rule which he had laid down for himself, not to take the chair in any public assembly, both on account of his health and the eituat'on which he micupied as President of the Itnyal Society. But he consi dered that the present °secession was one which culled for a departure from any rule of the kind, from the necessity which existed for the respect of treaties and for the main. tenancy of peace. Earl FITZWILLIAMproposed the first resolution : 'Ito! W the opinion of tine Mftt.l.W, the ruth:ary occupation of the town and territory of Waco*, and their ana,-.ltion to the empire of Austria, are manifest and flagrant violation+ cf the general act of congress Or treat's' of Vienna, concluded between England, Prance, Austria, Itusnia, Prima-I,2nd other powers, by whii. la it wa.stipuleted without neerictila or proviso, ss Mat Crieow 'Sankt not be occupied by • military fare• nn any pretest w :weever, nil should for ever re main u free and independent city." Lord WItAt:NCLIFFE seconded the resolution, evolving that the present was no party question, but one lor all par tit and all countries. . . . The resolution having been carried with acclamation, Lord Dudley Stuart read a letter which he bad just re ceived horn Sir S. Canning, the British representative at the Ottoman court; wherein he expressed the stronge,t sympathy with the present proceedings, and regretted that the nature ut the office which he held would nut admit of his presence oa that °ma ion. Bar B. COWLING TON proposed the second resolution : That, ism if the existence and independence of Cracow had nut been guaranteed by treaty, the aggremiiins of Kneels, Austria. and Prussia on that city wadi have oonvdtuted a glaring infra -tion of the principles of justice and International law; but that being ao guaranteed. the conduct of that states in abolishing the indep tmt existence tot Cracow, notwithstanding their repeated nssuramt that no such step woe in contemplation, and without the consent of the other powers parties to the treaty of Vienna, neon be further eon. stirred as netting an affront to Mat powers, and to England on one of than. _ . . _ _ _ The Earl of Ant:MPIL and St:Runic briefly seconded the resolution, which was carried unanimously. Lord 13 Caesium' moved the third resolution : That as the tranquillity and preeiserity of all communities, whether of nations or of individuals, depend on the maintenance of jiodice, the repretwion of violence, and the fulfilment of engagements ; and as, on the contrary, tranquillity and props city are endangered when the weak are abandoned to the mercy of the strong, when sacral rights and duties are permitted to be violated, and solemn obligations to be d.firtga•de t, therefore this meeting views with no Ices alarm than indignation, the measures adopted by the governments of Russia, Austria, .d Prussia towards Cranow, and the other provinces of ancient Mend, believing, that each steauires arc not onl; ip the highest degree unjust nrid impolitic, but that they directly tend to weaken respect for trzati , s, to retard the pr,zrew of civilisation, to ette•.urtere the projects of ambition, to atriluctlien the enemies of order, and to endanger the peace of borope. After commenting on the motion, his lorddlip went on t, aay that the vgremion committed on Cracow was but one of many similar outrages on Poland. Already four monstrous aggressions had been perpetrated, since the first great one, when, in spite of every right of man and law of God, three greatnations divided Poland, like robbers after they had made their plunder. (Cheeri,g.) That nation and that people, to whom Europe was mote indebted than any other, was thes divided. lie wanted words to state it as he ought. But fur the protection afforded by Poland, Austria herself would not have existed as a nation, and • Turkish Pacha would have ruled in Vienna. (hear, hear.) Mr. MarruawlitcL aeconskd the resolution. The resolution baring been carried unanimously, Mr. 1). URQUHART propoord That thts meeting has learned with profount satisfaction that the gneetnroent of the Ottoman Empire has on the prosett, es on former occasions, sigtaltred Its condemnation of the injustice of which Potand has been the victim. . . Sir Ildiuux BARNARD keeonded the rese.utior „ which was also carried unanimously. The LORD MAYOR proposed the fifth resolution : Thit this meeting gladly avails itaelf of this opportunity to express its 'dm:ration of the generous b rat of indignant feeling with which the press and the people ern:awe received the tidings of the annihila tion of the in leinndenix of Cracow, and t declare its sineffe pleasure at, and cordial Aympathy wit% the °pig.= at the mate drat generally and warmly espreasnl Prance, of the value and neceanity of a closer and undigurtnil alliance with Great Britain. and its *rung conviction that such a union is resesitnil to the preservation and further peaceful development of the liberty of Europe, and of vital importance to the best intereate of the whale . human race . . . . ---- Mr. BEALKS seconded the reicilution, rejoicing to see the interests of France and England united upon the prennt question. This rnolution having been also unanimously carried, Sir CHARLES NAPIER came forward to propose the last reselution amidst cheering which lusted several minutes. Re spoke briefly of the importance of preserving treaties of the kind inviolate, and moved That a humble address be presented to her Majesty the Queen. humbly thanking her Majesty for the dintiret espreamion . of her senti ment, in reference to Cracow contilined in her Mainly . speech on opening the session of pardnoicat, and humnly praying her Majesty to adopt any ninartlres which may appear enicidated to avert the coda which muid otherwise inn - it - C.ly micese to all the states of Europe from the continued rests of Ir.oirinec exerelied by Russia, Aleut, and Cruse* towards Poland, and for ameliorating the conditiim of that oppreceed satin. Mr. J. S. DCCKINGEISI seconded the resolution, which was carried. Captain JARLIONSKT, a Polish officer, then moved • vote of thanks to the chairman, nicking ..n eloquent address on behalf of his countrymen. who, he said, would never relax in their efforts until the attainment of their independence. Lord DI'MAY SIVART *wended the resolution, going into the general qui stion at considerable length. Some in terruption was caused to his lordship's speech in consequence of an assault, which, it was understood, was committed by Mr. Beniowaki, upon Mr. Urquhart; which was explained by the Chevalier Weirciski to have no relation to the pre sent proceedings, but to have originated in a private quarrel. The CHAIRMAN then biiefly returned thanks, and the meeting separacd. DISTRIBUTION OF THE FUND FOR THE RELIEF OF DISTRESS IN InEtAloili.—Remarks have been made in certain quarter! respecting the " coat" of distri buting the bounty collected by the British Association for the Relief of Distress in Ireland and Scotland; but we can state that such cervices are gratuitously performed. Officers in both services, clergymen, pro- Imional men, and even noblemen, are now acting as uepaid agents of the society in Ireland. The last volunteer from the ranks of the aristocracy is Lord Robert Clinton, brother of Lord Lincoln, who has departed for Ireland, to act in the harassing hut benevolent capacity of agent. 'nu METROPOLITAN COURTS OF REQUESTS.— Notices were issued st the various courts of requests for the recovery of mall debts, stating that yesterday summonses ceasedto be issued for executions, in consequence of the sew act coming into operation on the 15th of March. On Monday the following notice was issued for the court of requests of the Tower-hamlets :—" In consequence of the notification in the supplement to the London Gazette of the sth of Fe bruary ult , further sittings of the court will be held after the 4th of March, but the offices of the court will continue I open for the receiving of sidtors' monies until the 10th of March, at two o'clock." THE 'I4IAME4 TUNNEL.—Yesterday a general as sembly of proprietors of the Thames Tunnel Company was held at Radley's Hotel, Bridge-greet, Blackfriarv, to receive the annual report. Mr. Blundell, the secretary, read the statement of the receipts and expenditure ending Dee. 31, which chewed that, including tolls, 4,2101. 14,. sd, an.l 1,4901. 13e. 81. balance in hand, the receipts amounted to 7.1481. 10s. 10d., and that, after paying the necessary ex penses, there was a balance in band of 6241. 10s. 6d. Among the latter was a sum of 1,6611. 17s. 7d. paid to the Loan Commissioner., who were still owed, of the loan borrowed, 250,5001., and the interest on it, amounting to 40,88 W. An objection was raised to the payment of the income-tax, it being remarked that the company derived no profit from the concern, when the chairman said that the objection should be made to the commission, re. INSTALLATION OP A FRENCH LODGE OP FREE MABONB.—Lut night a very grand ceremonial took place at the FreeunsonV-hall, Great Queen. street, Lincoln's-inn Fields, being the installation of the first French Freemasons' Lodge in England. At the request of a considerable num ber of the brethren of the craft, natives of France a warrant for the installation of the lodge, was granted by the Right Honourable the Earl of Zetland, the Most Worship ful Grand Master of England, and the ceremonies were con ducted on a very grand scale. The lodge bears the title of ' Loge Francium de la Tolerance," and carrying out the principles (the title would import) in its fullest extent. Ladies an to be admitted as sisters of the craft. SOTER'S CII V.AP icours.—Sir,—For those who have the chance of procuring a few potatoes once a week, they may he used with advantage in the following manner : —No. 3, Potato Soup—Haring prepared the soup according Ito receipt No. 2 (already published), when nearly done, wash bud a pound of potatoes, pick out the black spots, if any, and cut diem iu small dice, put them into the soap to hod for twenty minutes, or a little longer, until do.,e; then put a quarter of a pound of common flour into a stewpaa, moistened with a gill of cold water, so as to form a liquid paste, stir it in the soup quickly with a spoon ; let it - boil another five micuirs,and the soup is ready, wad will strongly taste of potato, the short time of ebullition nreservirg all the aroma of that incen.tent root. Having promised to make my receipts public for the henefit of the labouring daises of society, I think that if u man could treat his /spicy once a oresk with a food c died potato soup, evsry member of it, who had previously fed en that root, and who arc now nearly de prived of that food, would worship the day of the week when such a luxury shou'd be dhplayed on their humble table. No. 4, Peas Soup.—Have a quarter of a pound of fat bacon ; if none, take leg of beef, veal, or pork, cut it into dice, peel and slice two good-sired onions, or three small ones, fry them with the meat until lightly brown, then aid halt a pound of vegetables, either worsts or turnips, well wralied, but not peeled, ales leeks or any other vegetables, which you fry gewly ; then add one pound of yellow peas, pr.:Mott-1y soaked some hour., and eight quarts ol water, three ounces of salt, half an ounce of tiro rn sugar ; let the whole boil gently fir two hours, stirring it now and then. Put into a stewpau half a pound of common flour, mixed int s a liquid paste, quite smooth, with cold water, and pour it into your tom, stirring the contents with a wooden spoon so ..a to min it ; boil 'gain a quarter of an hoar, and ,arse. Since I gave publication to toy two first receipts, 1 fount that all thew soups, if made the day before, and warmed up, are much improved in quality, merely requiring to be warmed slowly, 1111.1 stirrel now owl thus before using, A. Sovrm.— Itcforui Club, Fs b. 27,1847. PROSELYTISM AND DESTITUTION IN IRELAND. CONVIIIMITION MUM THS We have been favoured with the following interest ing corrtspondenee ea the strove subject : Wr-d^ian Oeoter.ary Ilan and tinsion4orew, thaboiNtate.street-nithin, bads" Yet. 26. To the Committee of the British Asuctation for the re lief of extreme dist, ma in Ireland and *saint& —Ger. tlemett We respectfully take the liberty of informing you, that, in the benevolent elf no now making, by your meoeintion and by others similarly engaged, fur the relief of our destitute fellow-suhjects in !reload and Scotland, the NVeisleyan Methodists of this country have felt a moat lively interest. That interest there is reason to believe they hive manifested, by individually contributing, in cammon with their re spective neighbours and friends, to the general subscriptions opened in various parts of the aingdom, ns wed as in this metropolis, for the purpose of mitigating the awful calamity with which it has pleased divine providence meld; us. But in order that no available means in their power might be neglected fur "tormenting the charitable furls which this exigency so largely requiroi, it was further r solved to recommend that congregational collectione should be made in all the Wesleyan chapels as soon as might be practicable. To a great extent this recommenditinti has been n.net cheer fully adopted; collections, aided by some additioeed private contributions, have already lieen trammitted to a central committee in London, amounting at present to nearly thir teen thousand pounds. Tho committee has immediately proceeded, in the execution of the trust confided ta their discretion, to direct a first distribution of grants in aid of several usocinti ins and other agouties which were deemed most likely to secure an effiient and impartial accompli-hment of the object in view ; and we have now the pleuure of tendering to the acceptance of the British A-sociition the sum of five thousand pounds as a donation to the fonds under its management, in the full persuasion that its opera ions have been, and will continue to be, judiciously end ably directed, and that its influence with her Majestys government, and amongst its own subordinate agents in Ireland and elsewhere, will he so employed es to prevent as far so poesihle the unworthy intrusion of any sectarian partialities or antipathies, and to secure to sufferers of every elites and denomination n fair share, in proportion to the iunount and urgency of their dis tress, of audience, attention, and relief. This ustpeatful in timation the Wesleyan central committee will take the liberty of conveyin t , , to the other arwseiationa or agencies to which they may offer similar assistance for the prosecution of their respective plane ou behalfof that committee.—We bane the honour to be, gentlemen, your very obedient SefLillts, (Signed) 'f 14031[AS 1.M1311, Treasurer. ELI/All Haute, Sub Treasurer. No. it. British Ausseistion ter the Relief ei the eNtreme Distress ' Irked Wl4 Snotland, Cummittanroam, South Ses-Beuee, Feb- 27. Gentlemen—On behalf of the committee of the British Assockeion for the Retie(' of extreme Distress in Ireland and Scotland, it is my duty to tender to you, a: representing the body of the Wesleyan Methodists of this country, our grateful ecknouledgments for your munificent contributions to the funds which are entrusted to cur adminis tration ; and I ant desirous, at the same time, to assure you of the cordial and unreserved con currence of the committee in the eenerous and enlightened views expressed by you ie the letter which has accom; anied that contribution. The duties in which this committee are now engaged, have not beta un dertaken by it lightly or unadvisedly. We clearly perceived from the commencement the serious responsibilities which wouhl reef upon us, and the ditlieulties by which we ehoutel be surrounded. But we felt confident that the British public would exhibit a liberality erromensurete with the magnitude of the emergency; and that it would judge with kindness and consideration the exertions of those who shoell under take to bear the heavy anxieties and to make the 'artifice of time and personal eneagement necessarily incident to the discharge of such a trust. The communications which reach us daily from various quarters, and most espe daily the dona tion of five thousand pounds by the body of. Neetelevan Methodists, and the terms in which it has been conveyed to us, afford us the most encouraging assume e that we shall not be disappointed in our anticipations. Thus supported, we shall cheerfully persevere in oar exertions, eneleeveurinpt to administer the trust reposed in us in such a manner as may best evince our deep sense of humiliation under the set ere calamity with which it has seemed fit to Almighty Gad to visit our beloved country, and our solemn conviction that such national in flictions ought to extinguish altogether those unfortunate differences, whether they be sectarian antipathies or political diesentione by which mankind are too easily disturbed. The field of Christian benevolence, s> far as it depends on the example and influence of this committee, shall bn preserved sacred from the intrusion of unworthy jealousies, and all the offiees which arise out of sympathy with the desolate and afflicted shall be diecherged by us with strict impartiality and in the pure spirit of universal kindness ennobled into a solemn duty. May the blessing of God accompany the efforts which are now put forth by the government end by every class of the people of this kingdom tor the relit lot our distressed brethren and fellow-countrymen—may ultimate good be thus extract• d from present evil, and may we all learn in the severity of national affliction the appropri and invaluable lemon of perusal humility, of mutual forbearance, cf bro therly sympathy, and Christian love.—l have the honour to be, gentlemen, >oar faithful servant, (Signed) &tutu. Jones LOYD. IRELAND. DUBLIN, Mimes 1. A circumstance occurred to-day, which stamps at once the popularity of the ministerial measure of out door relief to the poor of Ireland, end promises to facilitate its operation throughout th. 2 country, so as to ensure not alone favour but games)). A deputation of the poor-law guardians of Dublie, with the Lord Mayor, who is 'ago chairman of tiro North Dublin Poor-law Union, at their head, waited upon the Lord Lieutenant, to represent to him their anxiety to com mence immediately the administration of nut-door relief to the destitate and able-bodied poor, and to ask his Excellency's sanction for such a step. His Excellency, after listening with great attention to the deputation, was pleased to give the required sanction, and the deputation then retired, resolving that the system—in anticipation of the temporary relief measure—shall commence forth with. lam assured that inspectors are already ap pointed to select the objects of relief, and that out door assistance to the poor will be in operation in Dublin on to-morrow, or the next day at farthest. The Lord Mayor, the head of this movement, for many years fought the battle of out-door relief against O'Connell, through the columns of the journal of which he was the bead. He has been at length suc cessful. Before the Solicitor-General Las recovered from the excitement of his election and his bills been fairly discharged, his constituents hay: fallen upon him with a formidable catalogue of improvements which he is to propel through parliament or otherwise within the shortest possible period. Among the elements of regeneration which Mr. Monahan is to compound for the City of the West are the ceinitruction of a pier and breakwater, the improvement of Lough Corrib, and the formation of a railroad between Dublin and Galway. Nothing short of a thorough line will satisfy the Galway citizens; and Mr. Monahan must coax the government on that point. Then he is to have a barrack built, though this was only partially discussed ; but, above all things, the Solicitor must give his aid "in enabling them to obtain grants." The Galwegians will have no sinecure representative in furor°. 'fhe bench would Le a relief to the Soli citor-General. The through and-through gentlemen of the repeal party were quite wroth at the return of Mr. Shiel. Yet the "splendid phantom" has proved a very sub stantial reality for the poor ).? , )s.rvan fishermen. By his exertions a cargo of ..ofrlVOns has arrived, shipped by the government,; 40s no of the poor, e 4 044.0.12aie consisting of 176 bags of 0144.53.,bags of whitmeal, 309 begs of pea m , .109 bags of boad. This is very generous on ' the goody' t, and the seasonable supply ,;1 1 " ring." is . v. ; - Emigration growing ' ! ye are crowded with multitudA 'Allay ut of the well-fed and comfortable. lave seen several ~=~