The Express. — London, England, 1847-08-07 00:00:00

istboalle nit Irides* Nestles briards Know mem ber% ‘lllB i for -activity and usefeinses, are as far le fine Col. thus. WOOD as can be esneeived. Now, of OIL Taos. Woon's political creed it is impossible to spa positively. Ma is a man of negatives. He is saver bard In the house. If we recollect rightly, hia chief, if not his only reported speech, was upon some question connected with his milihry proforma, a meet about which the electors of Middlesex were C•balflY most profoundly indifferent. Then Woo to the electors indicates the same negative qualities. "He would not vote for shortening the duration of parliaments, nor would he vote against the law of primogeniture ; " and it may be safely assumed as political sequences that he would not reetriss entails, or confer upon the tenant farmers et Eng that protection for their floating capital—the tenant- ts they are so univer sally demanding from the 1 ladst irte Again, " he would not v the extinotioa of church rates, unless the diameters lilt allow them be to paid out of the consolidated fan nor would he vote for the abolition of the game-la although he thought landed proprietors would soon pet an end to game preserving, because it and agricultural im provement could not go on together." These are a few of the negatives by whicli Col. Taos. WOOD seeks to enlist in his favour the suffrages of the men of Middlesex. Will such a can didote meet the requisitions of the dissenters? Will such a refusal to vote for the abolition of the game laws satisfy the game-ridden farmers of the southern and western parts of the county—and that when the refusal is coupled with a distinct admission that game preserving " and agricultural improvement cannot go on together ?" Has Colonel Taos. WOOD deigned to look into the evidence before Use game I committee? Has he no suspicion how much mischief by game is proved to be acting upon his late consti tuents? Oh, but the landlords are of their own free will to give up game preserving, because it Is inju rious; but what signs . are there of their doing se? Will CoL Tilos. WOOD, inform the electors why this feudal code is to be continued to protect a system with which "agricultural improvement cannot go on ?" Is he aware that the game laws form the great source of crime in the rural districts ? Does he know that 4,000 persons are annually convicted of offences against the game laws; and that home secretaries, prison inspectors, chaplains of gaols, and all who have to do with the statistics of crime, or come in contact with the inmates of our prisons, declare with one voice that the game laws are unjust and demoralising? Perhaps the game preserves at Littleton will explain the blindness of the late member for Middlesex to The evils of the game laws. Nor are Col. Trios. Woon's general views of the operation of free trade or agriculture end commerce such as to entitle him to the confidence of the Middlesex electors. He has con formed to free trade with Sir ROBERT Put. His mall merit is that of following his leader instead of running a muck with Lord GEORGE SENTIENCE, a merit which might perchance entitle him to sit for pins small borough, as a hopeful political neophyte, ..e but cm give. him no claim on the metropolitan county -4. constituency. For each a post men of ear clone - - iioo.B are required. Ekdia as a protectionist, he tries • to fake some amb ig uous passage in his former address liflB4l a peg on which to hang the following declara tion in favour of Sir R. PEEL'S measures. He said:— "Since those measures had been purred he saw tenants Competing for farms at improved rents, and Imam also that land was selling for a higher price than it brought before. The late meeting at Northampton proved to him that the landed gentry were now finding a subatitate for fox-hunting in attention to the details of improvement in husbandry." Here again we dad Co. Taos. WOOD referring to the amateur attention of the landed gentry to husbandry' as the means of accommodating the agricultural in . . • . toot to a state of freedom. One would suppose that there are no farmers in Middlesex, for tarmers' questions are altogether omitted. Not a word about leases, not a sentence on the law of distress : the tenant-right question is un noticed ; and all that occurs to Col. Taos. WOOD in connection with agriculture is, that rents have im proved, and that some squires are taking to farming instead of fox-hunting. Does not this speak volumes to the intelligent electors of Middlesex P Col. Teas. WOOD'S sympathies are with the squires ; he think' as ' r o landowner, and a landowner only. lie knows nothing of industry or the industrious ; hut, having come into parliament to uphold a monopoly of the pewle's food, he now seeks to be retained as member for Middlesex—he, in the eleventh hour, relaxed his grips on the national subsistence. Such a claim will never prevail against the intelligent liberalism of Mr. OSBORN W, who has proved himself a man of such energy and political promise that even a protectionist journal, while suppor ting Col. Taos. WOOD, admits that Kr. OSBORNE appears everywhere to be -the . • popular candidate, and that, too, with people of all parties and persuasions." 2 Ons of the most curious and istereding demmuni tias at present in widenos is that at the Sandwich Wends. There, an a people who yesterday, as it were, meld rely be regarded as savages, and who =yet mere infanta in civilisation, we Mod po led emanisme yearly ealealig, milk a eta adeoadel monarchy soder whisk eiesatim is pro ' ,and,equitablelaws frameinniadhomed. the e by whisk this his been & Wad is -..' mat Maar le this do meesito 1. 0 Permanently settle& among the natives of the r Santini& Islands there is • population et Rare . =sr which can sairesly exceed inbsur a 1 individuals of all ages. O Ml et I • time are (or were—for a amaiderable Ilea of them have been naturalised) Ameeissa etftsons, one-fourth English assts; tb, me most miscellaneous in their engin. Timm Dui. puns are the merchants, mbeelsasstors, mennho twers, and clergymen of W. Sam et times are planters on an extensive seals. The gewsnare is vested in the r a, queen, and a eleadershiello he. hinging to the family ; bat the ndosiehientlen is almost exclusiesagentrinted to minikiass 'sleeted bele wag the Escrepsan settlers. Alm Illaiiim at . iinialace, Pabli• Instroctoo, and Foreign _Andre— ' Attemey and Solicitor-Genani—the heads of the . and Timmy dominants —the Chief the Said of the espial, and several of are either dareloas or Eng , The Miaow maw is which tholes . *rite J Om dellissil Mew emir their • - meresibaig hoe ambled then la lobe and M o th did wlllintinpele of law—to ertabi an , ad heamausit dues of civil govensment— the. stolid. el which industry and commerce age de European and the high caste motive race ineming one by intormarriages, and the ' a obi somety from a barbarous to a civilised stab diluted with Mews& cele rity, and &the& paillitsinagis For this goad credit is MOM et lea dee to all the sect& above enumerated ; bid is an especial manner to Mr. JUDD, now, in his ospatityof Minister of Finance, the legislator and ruler of the Sandwich Islands. To the comprehensive views and Arm cha racter of that gentleman is the present satisfactory condition of the whole group mainly . attributable. The ascendency . which his character gives him, both over the aborigines and the European settlers and visitors, has prevented collisions between them, ~ and has compelled foreign epeernments to abstain from meddling with the intermit affairs of the islands. The foundations of a civilised state have been laid, and the rearing of the sapordrestato far advanced, by 1 efforts, within the epees of a quarter of a oat The intellectual, meal , ad re li gious character of Hawaiian people will he east in the English they are de facto a 64,0_4 the United States. This North American union has now its colonies, as well as its parent monntry, England. Rightly viewed, all the u territories " of the IJIDOD which have grown up, or are growing up into states, am colonies; but the continuity of territory in the case of most of them causes an apparent difference. The remoteness of the American settlements in Oregon, California, and the Sandwich Islands, renders their analogy to our English over-sea colonies more obvi ous. In all of these regions American settlements have been founded and are certain to endure. The proclamation of Governor KEARNEY to the Califor nians, and the at the Governor of Oregon to hie extemporised • , are evidence that these ter ritories and their inhabitants are to stand henceforth in a relation of dependence to the government at Washington. The settlers in Oregon will be in a great measure of unmixed Anglo-American race. The descendants of the Mormon settlement in California will in time occupy the whole land as surely as those of the Pilgrim Fathers exclusively possess NW England. The connexion of the Sandwich Islands .z.*" nor Union will be less close, less the result it 4mi red leintl oonnexion, than of the boodle et arising from the preponderance of Am* -as among the first missionaries and settlers thorn, cv Inned by the greater repair of American whalers as aserehantmen to those is lan ds than of any other m and to the necessary increase in their majority, • that the Columbia and the Bay of San Francisco. become American ports. The north eastern shot,. f the Pacific and its nearest island groups are in the progcea of settlement, and their commerce with that of the surrounding regions is about to be developed by American, as surnly as the same work is briny l'ected on its south-western coasts and the adjoin. ~ island groups by British, colonists. What the Ano.tn;ian settlements and New reaboad are to Great Britain; Oregon and California, with the Sandwich Islands, are about to be to the Staten. is matter of congratulation L. Great Britain, not of jealousy. The joint labhurs of England and America are required to reclaim the Penile for the profitable ass of civilised men. 'Between them—to say nothing of the secondary efforts -of-other nations —that wean, with its continental shores and islands, which at the beginning of the present century were scarcely turned to any account by civilised men, are rapidly becoming u much frequented, and converted to as profitable purpose, as those of the Atlantic . It will be a useful lesson to our countrymen—though we fear scarcely flattering to their vanity—to con trast the manner in which the Americans have done their work is the Hawaiian, with the manner in which we are doing our work in the New Zealand, group. But this mast be reserved for another paper. IT would be impassible to produce a stronger ex emplification of the magrik power of the word repeal upon the Irish than theAsumstance of the Dublin election. It had been completely abandoned to the tories. Every liberal of respectability shrunk from the contest. Mr. /end O'Coissmi, was bowed out by the supporters of his family on the plea that both real and funds were wanting. Yet, at the eleventh hour, a repealer of no note whatever having chanced rather than oared to stand, the people ralhdd round him, and the mere people, without leaders de, or ganisation, as in the revolution of July, carried the day. Some might think that the return of the Liberator's remains to the capital of Dublin acted like ZIeKA'S akin stretched on a drum, to awake the old and somewhat dormant spirit of repeal. The event does not is the least impugn our remarks yesterday, written on the supposition that the tories bad triumphed. The causes of liberal backwardness, and of presumed defeat, are there most truly explained and laid down. And the result does but corroborate the observation. The ultra-conservatives were little satisfied with either GREGORY or GROGAN. TRESHAM GREGG denounced them, and Mr. REYNOLDS declared on the hiudings that he had many promises of con servative plumper". The result for the future is oven more important than for the present. Dublin is added to the list of those metropolitan constituencies, where nothing abort of extremes will go down. Maui' journals of Thursday, with our usual patesillOndenef, reached us yesterday, and the follow ede4 in part of our last evening's issue. r • in the course of his tour in the south of Frame, has visited Mareeilles,where he has had a most brilliant and enthusiastic reception. The merchants,' public functionaries, and the most respectable inhabi teats joined in giving him a banquet. The students of the public schools manifested great enthusiasm on the occasion, the career of M. Timers being presented to them as one well worthy of their emulation. It will be recollected that Marseilles is the birth.plaos of this distinguished statesman aid historian, and that he received his education at the Lyceum of that city. M. Thiess was born there on the lath April, 1797, of parents in the humblest rank. Serious disturbances have broken out at Lisieux, the pre cause of which is the high price of grain. The ! i i n dt telerence of the local authorities, aided by the police, became necessary, and on the 2nd forty.dx persons had been arrested. M. Tuja, councillor and secretary-general of the prefecture of the department of the Haute Loire, has resigned his situation, because, as he nays in a letter to the prefect: "Shameless nepotism, corruptioi, Tensity, rapine, are everywhere ; the public fortune is abandoned to shameless waste, and the considera tion and honour of the "wintry are degraded in the most deplorable manner." M. Tuja adds, that a " pure air us necessary to him, and he cannot live in an infected atmosphere." The Madrid journals and correspoadenee of the 31st tilt. have been received. Advicee say Gen. SerMao is likely to accept an important poet. The journals contain s paragraph, invested with an air of affected mystery, respecting a grave measure which has become indispensable, and about which the cabinet have had several discussions, all of which means, and is intended' to be so understood, that a divorce is indispensable, as well for the peace and happiness of the sovereign as for the respectability and the security of the king. dom. Msetemolinist skirmishes continue in Catalonia. MADRID, Lox 31. The palatse-tossellv wW wilbst nee any party costened ale lashing to settle ape*, beet entomb IhnsiallllN by a Peaceable nook hats henyhetdyannelung evidently to it esiointionary him. The King's attempt to take 'I plooe as it ware by storm ' as soon as it was vaeaM by lb royal address, is the unmistakeable evidence ef a assign to set himself up in the capital as the of a resolutioesry faction of the nioderadoc had succeeded in this bold design—l mean, of admittance into the royalAlcazar, and making -master ofdlis, which is the strongest fortram in Madel4l he would have had copious opportunities of is as. council with the chiefs of the army, serylebt have lifted the , standard of-revolt with some dooms or woos. He might have kindled at had a deft war, in the very heart of the n. Nearly all the effiesee t t i te nth e on mplo k y in t the meyy are moderation. The ' Which the Qapp has made in &veer the pereedsts, of which party so many distinguished smodies have latsiy hem recalled from exile, the decree of a 11101 - Is Arguelles, and other si whisk' have (to ans a Spanish oriental phrase) whitened the ban of the liberals, and lifted their hopes of a speedy acoemion to power, have been, of mums, gall and wormwood, motives of eaters tear and dittylounde, to their political enemioNwitserhatede sEned with blood, which is seldom saaverged in 8 when the occasion offers. Thee is no doubt, whatever podasitme of loyalty may be made at pre mot by modliestrolb, that, if ties assured el the to power, mils It= of with des swiftness of hails holiest of self-prwarealiss. Ile mould at once istiontili their swards against ;111 iimme=t. Even if they wore safe from a sexisseVeletton under a ft quite evident Cra gg y arar l a i r s kahre Aloes Mid emoluments, to which they cling shied as mach as to life. The King has seized the hisele of thesa•Jeare te hold himself in reserve as the bead of the moderados, in case they should be driven to revolt by the advent td -*sir enemies to power. In doing so he has gained an army, while they have pined a chief, whom name would sound as well for a rallying cry as that of Carlos VL The present ministers, well aware of these dangers, acted well in scotching the snake at the palace door. Once inside, it might have defied them. At the Pardo, it is autos easy to get up a pro nunciamento. Comings sad gained notable peados to such a place are observed, commented te, and pat people on their guard. Nothing there can bedew dam, clam, and if susp icion are excited the remedies are easy. It is not a fortress. But if any more attempts such as that on the palace should be made, it is easy to see what will be their upshot. The King will be removed toe place of security ; perhaps the Castle of Segovia may be selected for his residence. There is no doubt that he and his adAh it tve done their best to incense the Queen, whose 've nature may at some unexpected moment b into some strong maturate. •The studied insult if the grandees ab senting themselves from the levee of the 24th, Rae not mended matters. There is little doubt but the e ; in the cabinet councils lately held coercive mss sures have been suggested with regard to the dis posal of a royal person that would be far Irma suggesting agreeable idea's to his mind, if they came to his knowledge. This, then, is the turn which the palace-question ts taking. Meanwhile, the present ministers may be looked upon as a sort of mezzoter mine, a dyke which holds apart from mingling in conflict the agitated elements of the two great parties. Concha, who is daily expected here, or at La Gra*, would be, no doubt, a great card for them—en , ..11111 k THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 7, 1847. immense secession of strength. Re is young and ambitions, not pledged to either party, bat standing aloof to carve oat his own game—no doubt, with the sword. Such a sword flung into the ministerial scale, would do much to make the other kick the beam, for recent events, without challenging display of military talent, have done muck to increase his popularity with the army. Awordingly, we may be pretty certain that Don Manuel will be courted and caressed as much as possible by all parties. Lately he has exhibited a tendency towards liberal opinions, which incline people to think that he will not show himself insensible to the probable flatteries of the court. 0 On the evening of the 28th the Queen gave a little tea-party. The company was confined to about a dozen persons. Among the ladies were Senora Pacheco and the Marques& de Valverde. The prin cipal men were Santa Colours, Pastor Diaz, and Generals Serrano, Dominguez, and Roe de Olano. The Queen Nang, to a piano accompaniment, several national songs, among others a Polo Andaluz and the Toros de Puerto. The party lasted from half-past 10 to 1. Next morning at half past 11, the Queen set out on the hunting excursion to Rio-Frio, where she would pass the night, and probably return late next day to 'La Granja. Monsignor Brunelli was expected at the royal seat ; and when he made his appearance all the magnificent fountains were to play in compli ment to the urbane nuncio. Meantime one or other of the fountains played daily. The order of the expedition to Rio-Frio was this : the sertithembre was sent on ahead in three coaches and a gakra or van. In the same carriage with the Queen eat Santa Coloma and Pastor Diaz. An escort . of cavalry followed, amounting to 15 horse, relieved at Quita-Pesares by a similar escort. Then came a berline with the Marquis of Ma/ pica, Pena y Aguayo, Gen. Dominguez, Senor Vega ; Generals Carondolet, Serrano, and Res de Olano ; and Senores Cami nero and Marqueai. The day was immensely hot, and the gentlemen packed in the berline must have found this part of their excursion anything but agreeable. Letters of the latest date from Barcelona announce the arrival of 20 English ships of war in the bay. Of course all the Catalans imagine that we are going to push our cottons down the throat of Spain with can uon-balls. The list of persons decorated by the Queen of Por tugal is given in the papers. It offers little interest. Concha is decorated with the Grand Cross of the Tower and Sword. FRANCE.—HAVRE, At:i3.4.—Tile EXPLOSION ON BOARD TILE COMTE to'Eu.—A letter from Havre Up : " The dreadful accident which has occurred on board the Comte d'Eu engrafts every one's attention. The vessel was altogether constructed umber-work and machinery, by private manufacturers. The hull, which was of iron, arid ereatted by M. Normand, was remarkably elegant in its form. The narrowness of %tile sides demanded a steam engine of great power ; but occupying only a small space. The best engine makers of the Oretteot employed all thwart to meet these conditions. The system which they employed has been used with the utmost success for the last eight years en the Rhone and the Saone. Each boiler was com posed of two horizontal cylinders; huperporied and com municating by large tubes; the lower cylinder commu nicates at one end with the farnace, and the flame is forced' to - pus through a numhar of tubes crossing the cylinder la all its length, and ending at the chimney at the other end ; water envelopes these tubes in every part. Bars of iron, tinned firmly, strangers's-aka-upper pert of the furnace. If any dangle of rupture was to be apprehended, ' it was in the tubes through which the flame passed, whereas, on the contrary, it was the upper part of the furnace whisk burst. What waalb• cause of Our ? Must it be attributed to a fault in the Making, or to some defect in the metal at that place ? Oe did the engine-men, charged to supply the boilers, allow the water to fail so low se to leave the top of the femme uncovered, and in that way exposed to get red hot from the action of the Or, ii it the system itself the is to be acefted, as ert ii tc t plicated for the cir culation of the and attentive inves tigation cattgone ent, and decide on all them questions. ~...rzlarre, in giving an account of theintarmeett of the whit who were killed by the bursting of the boiler on bottle *Monde d'En, states that it had received an Acid aoomantoasking the number 10 and the wounded 8, reducing the %hal of sufferers to 18 instead of 20, as first stated. Bartels the morning ell the rehab in the harbour and docks had their flags hoisted Itali an& high, and every other token of mourning was shown both at the port sad in the town. At 8 o'alock there wee a large assemblage In the chapel of the hospital, where the funeftl melee was performed by the clergy of the pariah. At 0, the procession with 10 coffins moved to theeemetery of St. Roch, followed by the crews of the Brodeur, and every other government shop lying off Havre, all dier civil, naval , and military authorities, the national gaards, o ew of the Cow* d'Eu, and a large train of the citizen, all classes. When the bodies were laid side by aide in paves, the ceremony was urnidaded by the flung of volley, or musketry over them. Two sittings of the Civil Tribunal of the Seine have been occupied with the hearing of a ease of some in terest to the theatrical world. M. Itaroche, as advocate of Y. de Caters, Winker of Antwerp, consul judiciaiee of his too, M. Ernest de Cater', called upon the tribunal to (helms null and void an obligation of 25,000 f., and a contract of marriage, subscribed and entered into by the latter in favour of Mile. Judith, a clever and handsome metre* of the Theatre Frani* the marriage contrast setting forth that the fair damsel bad remitted no lees a sum thanl7s,ooof. to H. de Caters as her &raise, who acknowledged to have received it. M. Bareche set forth that his client wt a member of the Belgian senate, and a wealthy banker ; that his son, Y. Roost de Caters, having unfortunately formed as intimate connexion with Mlle. Judith, bad spent immense sums upon her—in one year as mach as 175,000 f. i that to prevent him from continuing to squander away his fortune, hie father had got kiwis( appointed hie tensed jailiciaire, and had remeeved him how Paris ; and that then Mlle. Judith ed him to sign, before a notary, on Bth October, Tart contract of marriage, by which it was stated that she looped him 175,000 f. in money, &c., which he acknow ledged to have received, as also furniture, horses, diamonds, ' he. of the talus of 25,0001., and a promissory note for 26,0001, signed by him. The marriage never took place, laid the learned counsel contended was never intended to take place, the object of the contract being merely to con- I statute H. de Caters, a debtor of 175,000 ft. to Mlle. Judith. 111 W Judith had brought an action for the restitution of the I.lWr. before the tribunal at Antwerp. The learned gpehidementergued that, being entered into after • conceit ja • • • had been appointed to him, the contract of M. de Caters wee mall and void, and he entreated the court to de clare It null, in order to toil the son of him client from doh eonsequeneet of his folly.—M. Ikon Duval, the advocate of Mlle. Judith, raid that this " young man" was a child of about forty years of age, and that with all his charming want of experience, he wag one of those fine follows who form relations with momss and women, under pretence of being very wealthy, and who pay them in written promises, and subsequently do not honour their signatures. At the I time be was presented to Mile. Judith she was surrounded by a circle of rich and liable/table admirers, and M. de Ca ters, as a Fleming, was not qualified to debut among them. But he talked very arritinaly of marriage, and that caused him to be favourably received. He also wrote letters in which be solemnly protested his love, and stated that ' his family would sot oppose their marria ge. Mlle. Judith was I ttfr 17 oars of age, and it was not unnatural, as peers of and France had frequently married activism, a ' eMce ihould re that a son of a Belgian senator would mang e = mums " as be had arrived at so ripe an age. The road tsitors, in which M. de Caters be waitedites Isameste slide soul at being separated from hie beloved, lineal that he had eatietained a gloomy idea of seeking comnialloh in suicide, promissid that he would do fine thieve kw a child of 1114.1ndith, whisk he called " sets petit Oeseges," era glade solemn oaths that he ocedilered himself bar Masa& and that he was determined he how her. la another letter he spelt* of MM. Judith's Miffier as his " dear and good mother-in-law." The learned them Went on to state that H. de Caters had = ll M Ml rremttr blighted to the puree of Mlle. Judith for eiveasee, emi that She bad paid his gambling debts. On was weemiiew Ise toot kw toe richly furnished house, and told her that that furniture and house were her p ; but mole days after Mlle. Judith was compelled to pay the bill hr the l'arniture, and to make a eachfift to get out of the contract for the purchase of the honest. It was to recom pense her for these disburiminusts that he had signed the obligations. The horsed gentleman then read several let- Jere from M. de Caters, in all ot whir& be mieke of Mlle. Judith as his future wife. Ono of them leNiMi was dated from a debtors' prison at London, into whisk ha had been thrown by some of the numerous crediftre be bad is Eng land. The learned gestlemiga remarked with some severity on the want of good faith which M. do Caters had shown in signing a marriage contract after he krsew that a comma jUtikkaril bad been appointed, when the contract booms aster* call. But he ceatasied that the sum mestlemel Ur `amilleset aloes is great part awe dishonoured pro of 3L de Caters held by Mlle. Judith, end that 11z: tea formiarsthat they were without sabre. mant ises, —K. , in esti7 M...ed that the conduct of Y. de Cams lesd deed sed repeated that he had @even tide"' a greet pert of his - NUL Jutish is g v ery IMO thne. He issalaWgwei • veau sA V serious la the obligation and twehhot he had ' That he had never touched air-pert sf the 17 him' din the contract, et the time It tem sakheleavelieshateweelear fromthe fact that he was rhoftigoileein a a et London. Mlle. Judithhed, in fasi,Weat her mule shot . him to London, and it was there that he hat dreamed er a marriage, and it was only them beim* the mother premed it. The learned gentle:ma demied that 1), Oahn had ever rehired MOTS this Iva lode huh 10e. Judith - and as to es the little child, Geier, who had been spoken of, he I h xd we not, might be , the wma.ol De Caters, he having been born before item bed say ameezion with Mlle. Judith. After the rromersar-do- Rai, whoa proposed that the obligeffen the 21,000 f. should be di► dared good, and the makes contrast void, the UMW its decision fora week. poste wed ITALY.—NAPLES.—Jobbing in the stocks has here, as everywhere else, been the cause of much immorality,and great misfortunes. The Chevalier Ferri •propoeed to the King to enact a law forbidding time bargains ; and this measure, Which wu immediately carried into effect, has pro dead all the good consequences which wen expected from it, by puttiag an end to the speculation wh so often brought families to ruin and placed public tranquillity in jeopardy. The conversion of the Five per Cent. Steck, who* is taking place , gradually, is progressing without diffi culty, and the reduction of duties on articles of importation and exportation. ITALIAN FRONTIERS, JULY 26.—1 n come gam* of news, just arrived from Italy, and which gives ~Onto dread ' crises mere or less violent. a body of 20,000 nom are to he east, on oblervaties, to Como, a few leagues distant hem Milan. The troops are to 'be levied out of the metre ef Austria and ether provisoes of the empire, so that the army of Italy may not be weakened . It is sated that Field Marshal Count Bodetsky has been invested with tell powers to seed troops into the central parte of Italy, amerstlng to need and eireumatanoes. Fresh distarbances are laid to have broken out at Parma. At Rome the papu lees is said to have ' , vociferated cries of insult as they passed before the hotel of the Austrian ambassador. The Austrian garrison of Ferrara is to be increased.—Correrpoodani de Nuremberg, July .31. CHIRMA/ff.—PRUSSIA.—BERLIN, AUGUST I.— BASIQUIT TO Ma COnoBN.—A banquet was given to Mr. Cabals, fa Berlin, on the 31st ult., by the members of the Fres-trade Association. Mr. Cobden had gone on the same day to Potsdam, by invitation of his Majesty, but made he a at the dinner about 8 o'clock, when lie was re ared with great andante by some 150 gentlemen who had assembled os the occasion. The chair was taken by Burgo master Nannye, who expressed his happiness at being able to p esve to such a man as Mr. Cobden that the principles which have been so victoriously carried out in England are, so he SA a beginning is taken into consideration, sufficiently powerfully represented by the influential assembly he was then addressing. Mr. Cobden replied in English, which was afterwards translated into German by Dr. Acher. Amongst the Matte that followed there was one "To the triumph of freedom of trade on equal conditions for England and Germany," proposed by Professor DOnniger, who introduced it with some remarks on the origin and principles of the Zollverein. Dr. Acher referred to the position of Hamburg with respect . to the other portions of Germany, in reference to the principles of free trade. The North American consulleneral in Trieste, Herr Waren., ant delivered an eloquent discourse, which was greatly ap plauded. This gentleman, who was born in Sweden, and brought up in North America, speaks German with the utmost fiuency. During the evening, Dr. Spokler addressed the distinguished guest in English. The speeches have not t been published. .CftEFELD, AUGUST I.—BANQUET TO HERE Von Bicesturn.—A grand dinner was given on the 31st uIL at Crefeld, to this distinguished member of the Prussian diet. In responding to the toast to his health, Herr Von Beckerath observed, that since the closing of the diet, a remarkable movement had been observed Molest provinces of the monarchy. " What," he asked, "is the meaning of the frequent festivals which have lately taken place ? What the signification of that movement, which, proceeding from the diet, and mysteriously working its way, pervades not only the educated classes, but every stratum of society. Not without justice is a nation likened to an individual. There is no more important, no sublimer moment in the life of any man than when the first ray of a higher consciousness breaks upon his soul, and when, recognising himself as a morally free being, he takes his first eventful step upon a self-chosen course. So, a nation is quickened with hitherto unknown feelings in the course of its development; it be comes conscious of its very self, of its very life, in a general organ, when, joyful and amazed, it beholds itself in the mirror of a national representation, whose deeds are its own." • • • "The Germans (subsequently observed the speaker) are an unmixed ancient people, who have pre served their language, and their peculiar manners, under obstinate contests and most difficult circumstances ; and who, when they appeared almost weakened to death, rose up again with a giant's might, and, scattering their adversaries, asserted the indestructibility of their nationality. Their defeats were not so much the work of overpowering &so, ea the results of their own internal dissensions. Since the VIMII of the war of liberation, the idea of a durable nations' unity has been cherished by that people. That idea to not satisfied by a mere system of confederacy. A seem to the object in view was made by means of rff e rilt erein." Towards the close of his address, Herr Von Beedrarath spoke as follows: "Independently of any human will, mart the people possess the nght of approaching the throne respeedully at appointed periods, in order to ex ercise their rights in the legislature and in the ficallen of the state, to express their wishes, to delibmilla shmenin their weal and their woe ; in Mort, in order to bees= sis ledous of their independent existence in the hoe explodes of opinion. Hence the eagerness with which Prussia-meg, all Europe—looks forward - fbr the solution of that ques tion. One happy'dictum from the throne, and all will be settled. The dangerous vacillation of our public affairs will give way to rooted fixity, and the foundation-stone of Prue, Nan and German greatness will be laid. Let us trust to the Lints wisdom for the speedy utterance of that word." AUSTRIA.—VIENNA, JULY 29.—The opening of' the next diet in Freeburg is fixed for the 124 of November next. According to accounts from Clificia, a considerable mortality prevails among the peasantry and lower clam is tha_t_provorm. W USTEXBERO.--MORAL TOlTURE.—Aneitasel& airy circumstance occurred at a recent siting . of one et* eft* ilitre at Ulm. A peasant named Louis Redsteeker, Ihse. of Ruhethel, was about to be tried for having bleed r peasant of the same village. In answer to the muntions of the presiding judge, he energetically denied hie guilt. The judge told him that he had confessed et befog, des memaining magistrate, when he said that he had done seem meant of the moral torture to which the examining me.* teats had subjected him. " This magistrate," he west es to my, " threw in my face the hands of the murdered ass. which had been cut off his corpse. He also showed an Ow ribs of the corpse, and said that if I did not avow the elms of which I was accused, the dead man wenld apprise at *let before my bed, end would say to me, ' Louis Leal memo me the life on have taken!' The magistr ate Ora asked =tt I in ghosts, and, on my answering in the "re, toll me that a meat number of them would ones sad drag me le bell if I did not confess! Terrified et the lm*, I esseemed all that he wanted, and sibereresit my esmilmion!" The examining meglinete wee tel seemsoned before the court, mileele elheihrl had emeeloyed the means ofintimidelisaileied by** petemer, the mart declared the raisins meld= sad memseal Or ease for times memdm. It Ora to th - e MAW/ of Justice a roped et the eimileet oldie eme- Hl ° V ia LL D.—A letter fie* fin Neve, pnbliebei lin the Independence Beige, gives tbe amounts, the difference which are said to exist in *royal family et Holland Yon are aware that the lahallitents of the royal radieneelave be • long time past been accustomed Se have the med impesbable and the most scandshes rope* circulated mess them, and believed, the gem* pond which are am* devoid of faeadedia. We w mameeld vary prudes*, and avoid Obq deenistien rumours. Nevertheless, the repeet, exteivibrej to yid& the Prince of Orange thinks of rename*. his eventual rights to the throne, is given out mite such aus pices, and surrounded by such cirearestences, that I think it my duty to communicate it to pm, without, how ever, wishing to give it more authentieigy than it really deserves, For a time was Pohilb flossls fletakimit of the serious differences Mama KM. sad the Prince of Or ange. On the ether band, the Prince of Orange lives on the very worst terms with the Princes., his wife. This &thrown ' we are assured, arises from a cases so &Wats, sad the consequences of it would be so driploratile, that we abstain from making it known. At all events, If the cause to which these annoying dis sensions in the royal .family are attributed are true, the resolution of tike Prince of Orange would be the immediate and hosed nonce of it. In consequence of thie to numerous others, the Prime of Orange hat Me firm resolution to renounce his rights to the enatianies to the throne. He is said to have communirnted this readalita to the princess, who imme diately _wrote to ha athar. the King of Wirtem= enplaned to him 'tibia had led to a which would ham lier - Sri throne that biz use ides alarms her se to the her to., the prince, who, acme day or ,_,photaid *so* I tothae. It is in this way the nampodell *Mel of die Kb. of Wirteinherg at the Rom but espleimid. eh* make ne itennelee err lice Om sent I may ea wall swedes that the Wag et Wiries t:meg, in place of taking up his reeidease either at the King's palace or that otitis son-in-law, hes takes repels in the Hotel de 'Tempe," RUSSIA.—ST. PrrelitthrßO, JULY 27.—1 t that at the assault of Oergebil the Rawlins had 7,700 killed sad *ended, of whom 83 were oaten. On the re turLettierM of Colonel Jewdoktedre On fell into an o f Leighton', and lost 5 Mee e nd 14= elbee tile setreat oftholioniens, nuesiewe of and eppeared la Ms Smiles sad the Meadatim dee aad epreallbg werer iosellatles mew dm team which are= the invaders. Siam diem semi* the came of is Mid in Mill higher honour them mar. The whole it in madon, and it amen that lismfi is a ▪ in nee important enterprise mei* the lifireime. Woman, wad *Meg Irrelmsaa.. Oar alit i ve= the esemy, le st elm to renew the dim it loorilloo lent b gob ts destroy the plese, - Ziomme the impemelem whieMtbe Mast ef the imedembes puedneed inset t berm as fie *has ho making great ra bh, important tion. ftaMe tehj, e l. 4 as the Techigenes bed wend time annul dm lads Hence and Pi It is said that the And hm Mee We their hands. Is aseeqnence, the commander-in-ehlet has rain: forced the slight wing. The marching ef mum fres the interior !em been suspended ea emmeat et the delere." HORSE-FLEBH. — There is from association some disgusting in the mere sound of this word, lint there is nothing I assure you revolting in the thing signified, ;(pr I have tested and relished both young hone-flesh Fwd wilt. The difficulty seems to me more in the name than in the tante :—" Hass-meat" I suppose, would not do, as it is understood to mean beans or oats. The Danish word " mad," pronouns's' " mkt," signifies food of any kind ; the second mop of hay called in England " aftermath" is au doubt the same word. " Flesh " in Danish is restricted to " pork." " Ede" (eat) in Danish is to feed; and the Dana and Norwegians are always=sed at hearing the Swedes make use of it as we do, it to hams bed ing. Thu ue the sigailmtims tame modified in Mar. est laagames. This paladin, by way et apology to tie deliesasioul ram& wiaL acce th e o r d itish I have Sseas- WWI teem a Dania Vow, In eessepreees et the peeled deems gig= artistes at first nmemetb jkePig lism l usat, Dr. With, a/shalom., Rhea', ass pima • ittle work "On ow et =sans/Ira as nod," which certainly doors were paced Omar of ftk, Imememr, feriae ow se veliserd et to this eserzy; es as MK theesph the wattlesed re We Itekweeri. ierg, M railiesies et Dora rd we rliM tessisower le ma or the pithelke spirt Ness r, OM enehhileh t = te Ire wet limo Nor her Orsdresahawsra awd by Oleo liar le owed adder the rie at Ow reekerwribea meet In the IMES alee.lllo law prise et beef di yesselled kr a melee of years (44 , .. we rwadese ) bee we dealt Yee the awes that benalled rarely at table; It las =de ter at the Chttellerhava hors of weereetiat that it bee doss lbet lire tow pre* red. Now that the of bee t hoe ailed, It would serer the awe a( hase peke Ash his spell erg the poem drew. thet Wlthia the bat twova reede, at thest =to b A ase deaghteabirst of Chrisikeehres IftaftM% de leers bre bola at mat, el =Ns hem arrerreaties bee siermel err ark& ; Yidbrbass et the pdart ltd. to lid. parlor& Wove seek wbakeers food, that treat der weed I astkras park kisser= Kurt dare are various aske w e m t i ES tl. by Oki its ewer testa as be get rid of aid it bums Meal as beef. it odd reser that a oat rare la nape be sleeted et oral pre bits hardediew. Dr. show ware what ebweirerees it a vhslawere, eat lw whet err r asebtarra, aerie et bad.—lt Wee eumstly noisawl that the isle Medal Detreek Wadi et harsollab ea the loyal= eerie, by lob ems," le what be maid to renew the It man artiste el IMAM food. It I. a curious eiratirkace, cruet of the prat diffiedike is the introduction of 'Eris/A=lV ho the sera was the ilawiras of the Scandinavians for horse-Seek whir the Orb et dire days sort red as the food of idolaters, wed strkdy he dek wawa the re oL—W. Cht Court. The royal dinner-party at Osborne on Thursday included the Grand Duke Constantine of Russia, the Duke of Nassau, Count Mensdorff, Baron de Branow, Viscount Palmerston, the Marchioness of Ailesbury, Admiral de Lutke, Earl Granville, Colonel Wylde, Lieut.-CoL the Hon. ckarles Grey and three gentlemen in waiting on the Duke of Nassau. The band of the Royal Marines attended during dinner. Yesterday morning the Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Grand Duke Constantine of Russia, the Duke of Nassau, and Count Mensdorff, walked in the plea sure grounds and plantatimis of Osborne. The royal children went to the beach yesterday morning and took their accustomed walking and riding exercise. Dr. Bowring had as interview with the Right lion. Henry Labouchere yesterday at the office of the Board of Trade. Her Majesty and Prince Albert haring signified to the Grand Duke Constantine their desire to see the Russian squadron recently arrived at Gravesend, destined to convey the Grand Duke and retinue back to their native chores, his imperial Highness and his Excellency Baron Brunow im mediately forwarded a despateh to M. de Berg, the Premier Secretary to the Ruseiaa Legation, and Rear-Admiral Count Hayden, commending the squadron to leave Gravesend fur Portsmouth. M. de Berg left town at a late hour on Thur. day night by poet to Gravesend, and several of the officers of the squadron who were at the Italian Opera were instantly sought and ordered to repair forthwith to their respective vessels. Captain Monet, commanding the squadron, had returned to his vessel that morning, and consequently war at hand to receive the instructions. The squadron sailed soon after seven o'clock yesterday morning for Spithead. The Grand Duke Constantine and the Duke of Nassau return to town this evening. (From last night's Gazette.) ST. Jamis's PALACE, AUG. 3. —The Queen bas appointed the following chaplains in ordinary to her Ma jesty.—The Rev. Dr. C. Wesley; the Rev. E. Nepean. FOREION OFFICE, ACO. 3.—The Queen has approved of Mr. W. &oven, as Consul at Dublin for the free Hanseatic city of Bremen ; of Mr. H. C. Stakemann, as Consul at Port Adelaide for the free Hanseatic city of Hamburg • and of Mr. R. N. Hunt, as Consul-General in the tinited/ingdoin for the 'mum of Muscat. WAR-OFFICE, Aro. 6. 4th Drag. Gds.—Burg. C. Pine, from 511th F., to be mug., vice W. Gardiner, who ret. oft b..p. 9th L. Drags.—Cornet W. W. Bird to be Bout., by put., vim King, whose pozn. by pur. his been canc. ISM L. Drage.—Lient. J. A. Oldham, from 55th F., to be lieut., ice Dmny, who each. 14th L. Isrags.—Amist.-Surg. B. Bridgernan-Wrtrore, teem 59th F., to be avist...iturg., vice Thomson, prom. in 58th Ise F. Ods.—Cept. and lieut.-oa. and Brevet Col. G. Thornton to be =Joe, by pur vice Brevet Cot. Sir H. R. F. Davis, Bart., who mt. on b.-p. pur., Una.; Brevet Col. C. Leslie, tam 11.-p. Unst., to be eapt. and lieut.-eel.; Lieut. and OW. lion. 0. Cation to be mpt. surd lieut..ooL, by pm., vice Loam who ret. ; Ens. and Lieut. Hum B. W. lasceUra to be Bent. sad mot, by put. ; Los. C. N. Hogg, from 73rd P.. to beam. sad lieut., by pur. 9th F.—Capt. C. H. Yenta; from 53rd F., to be rapt., vise Have. lock, who ash. 12th F.—Asaist..Burg. N. /Lehrman, M. 8., from 17th r., to be amist..aurg., vice Chambers, prom. in 30th F. ISM F.—Ens. R. Dora to be lieut., by par., vice Costa; who at.; F. Etas= to be ens., by pur. 19th F.—Capt. Is, genders to be major, by pur., rice Simpson, who ret. ; Lieut. R. Warden to be apt, by pot.; Ens. W. H. L. Warner to be Heat., by par. ; Ens. 11. Bnadell to te lieut., by pnr., vise Mansergh, who at.; H. Daimon to berm., by por, rice Warner ; H. F. Massy to be ens, by put., vice Brachia. Rah F.—Aint. R. Brisoor, from 55th I', to be lieut., Tice Smith, who excb. 336 P.—Eno. A. W. Ord to be lieut., by put., vice Russell, app. to la F. Gds' A. Hughes to be an., by pur. ; Assist.-Surg. J. W. Chambers, M.D., from 12M F, to be surg., vise Lister, dec. 41st J. H. Moray, from 96th F., is be apt., vice Raw- U tth F.-13m. N.C. Browne, from 76161 F., to be OM, eicelleglimen, who ezeb. 53rd P.—Brevet Major C. F.llamiock, from 9th F., to be rapt, vim Fenton, who each. 55th F.—Lieut. A. Denny, from 13th L. Drags., to be lieut., Mee Oldham, who each.; Lieut. R. Smith, from 25th F., to be Bent., ace who exch. 576 .—Lieut.-CoL H. 8. Phillips, from h.-p. 31st F., to be lent eel., vine G. E. Jaws, who each.; Assist: Sorg. J. T. Richardson, tan 60th F., to be nag., vise Bunter, prom. on Staff. 99th F.—Arata-Stlrg. A. 8. Thomson, M.D., from 14th L. Drags, to be stag., vise Pine, app. to 4th Drag. (Mardi. 59th P.—T. C. O'Leary to be assim..eurg„vice Hridgeman-Wigstrom, app. to 14th L. Dray. 67th F.—Ens. Count W. C. Rivaro'a to be Sea., by put., vice Fords, who mt.; E.H. Steward to be em., by pur. 73rd F.—A. Walnieeley to be am., by pur., rice I.logge, app. to Ist P. Ode. 76th F.—Ene. G. H. J. Belgian; from 45th F., to be ens., vice wbo cub. Braiertneby.—Capt. T. A. Rawlins, from 4lst F., to be apt., vice Th. wbo exch. lath Y.—Liena E. Bayley to be apt., by par., vim Walker, who rem; Ina W. F. L. Gospel= to be Ilea, by pur.; U.W. Grogan to F. . era, Malice T. Fitzgerald to be quart-mast., vise Crozier, ' deo. tharracmixi.—Lunt. G. Hamilton, from 55th F., to beciapt, with ' opt par. Hoserrsz ikrirr.—fiurg. R. IL A. Heater, from 57th F, to be staff ming of first cam. ROTA!. IitUTART Azrzra.—Breg..Cierk and Amilet..Paymast. W. 'Omaha to be quart-mast., vice Y. IL Byrne, who race a salary allowance. - 11xtronarnard.—The comedown et Lind. J. A. Macdonald. In the 96411 pone, has been dated the 314 March, 1617, instead of sth March, 1645. ADMIRALTY, AIX, B. RI. Marines Gent. Cadets G. Gregory, IL G. Elliott, and J. Wright, to be eat. lleuto. ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF ENGLAND. A monthly council wan held at the society's home, in Hanover-square, on Wednesday last, the Raid of Yarbo , • rough, president, in the chair. Ftwarsots.-21r. Raymond Baker presented, on the part of 1 the finance committee, the report of the society's accounts for the month jut ended, from whish.lt appear . hat, on the 31st of July last the invested tapitake the society stood at 8,9991. stock, with a wrest cask balance of 2,1161. in the hands of the bash^ so* goad Maw being male up .1 the following spatial between aseeely, Northampton rub. seriptioes, 6134: arrears of sabee a esseieed, 3081 • life aaspesitime, 1661. •' and swsL aWle We for current' par-. poem 1,410 k Theemaell asfirmei this report, and the, weld mememeMetlea it esandefel, that immediate step amid be Ohm be assartela the peeper means of amnia, am* the erealg merle saM•ender the powers of the elsartse, egebattash maim es ire is arrear of their sub scriptions to the eseietp--Mr. Baker laid before the council :1= ted" mama eemmeted with the current accounts of the misty. lmeenstaire P =as.—The maned agreed to the following weak& limier for implements at the York faistiag, soh- Met te web eseiltiosa as they may at sham earth* Apt ha ..sires Mr their eompetitisa, namely:— - =4111: ypr i r aito Tein *m i er i L.,—.. melee 6 Gem lair A. I et palm lO Mum, dberibette Dreithee piper 1111 maim 20 Cieleilei seill II Mew, Sf ravaire. oll Or *Ole Omend N Mee • Oda are ° darceseMis. lo Miasma iseided that the auditions lOW*, them pipe Mmeaki/se taken into aoselieration at their assathly easethar in Nowselster ninn i es the report of a assealtass, ameletuz of :fir. OsT ir et a, l iter, siii Mr. r PI2Z i s p.,...u. ll (tonddi), end Mr. B. r. Benn w ett!, to whom should be referred the regukelions under which stock or plumate should be conVeyed to and from country meet .!ti ... society. „ Rea Capt. Rowel gave nodes that he should save, et the monthly Dessalain °pencil, " that in future, in Clam L i: M at er/a pest's[ the certificate ;" and Mr. Paw • lighten as list of aroma should be gima to Oda " common dalftatill tits " fird mas of bi N tb overV il'all :la , 114.141 adims.x : . v ..., Saw Sorra-Worms Swot NATIOATION Cox- PANT.—The first men' retie( of ~ears was held at the Nine Elms, yen/Play, at be debak ' • W. TM, Bee., in the chair. Mr. Blreem, Wisher ie the , read the report, of which the fillowis fo mast net the maim was eielibbei tek the Nil . its *IA wee is finiber, William ir do sem. Feint Oisege‘r; mil leer et Me el lima ft *Oa Ceseca l atim haw tea lbereqemor yr 60,/MIA. mg tor toolslg is doom , Ills pude& the= art gm -1 eselme fee lessemillime therm Mimi lam& Me a.Ss ' to stt t =inz Mee lla s tral SO 11 mesa 6, 110 1111W i t ha rottms et MI beerepswee. Tye elber ie re li at i. i pegnis7 ... .Q easel. Ow marl Write: sm. wee • week be. teen Ilemeeimeiee sot The elesomal lid a Olin; el lir of five per am. per ia =' be idea; la repel et ibeV iss eriel =lie Mb issi..Tbe sea eilemt s time: es klle Gebel ta Whew el ett ow i rem eesehee se _ ef WM, lit lite IN of Sr Fr= be, 7 is of ant 1111111 lOW larG l ietZa beerett co Sib be. two nee. 11106, me eber 1, MIN dr We it meth, Illiossi if es 00 .. 8 .1. 1661,1 21 ._ 76; mei 111 ion dlibor • Warn, • paid for man; 3,3321. If& 111 1 9. 23 .1 0 1 1 . id. ; kering b:Luso. in wad at 1,0301. 3s. id.—The revenue account of essagar, shOwstitatlliessaniustof earningehas Leer 21,904 k 1 is Bd. ; MIL Mali.; assannts an various accounts, W. 12s. 7d; aaaali~lo 111,77111. Oil 4d. The current working expenses haring tan slims drat of 2 , 1979 no mins Ilinn ,906 12s. 1 1. 7w td.id. , It follows that there ternatns a lall. The chairman, after a few observations, begged to say one word with respect to the ranting charters to steam com panies, with a view to their being guaranteed in the same way that other companies were guaranteed. At that moment there was some difficulty on the part of government in allow ing a company which possessed ships or steam-boats to have a charter or deed of incorporation; and on that account it was impossible to avoid incurring individual responsibility, A strong attempt had been made by the Holyhead Company to obtain the sanction of the legislature to the principle of a railway company advancing a certain sum of money towards this desirable end. A clause having that object pained the House of Commons, but the general committee thought it raps dient to stop its further progress, and accordingly it was withdrawn. He (the chairman) could not understand why a ship should be placed in a different position from a railway or anything else ; and seeing that the General Steam Navigation Company did possess the requisite power to a certain extent, he could not see the fairness of refusing to grant a similar power to railway companies. In their own cue the difficulty was obviated by the railway company agreeing to advance 50,0001. as a monger on their ships, and undertaking that if they did not obtain 5 per cent , it should be made up by a contribution from its funds. Oa the present occasion, he was happy to say, no contribution would be required. When the trade of thst great com mercial entrepot Havre, and of the great river Seine, were opened up, and Havre was brought within six or seven hours' distance, as it were, from England, the very best mule must attend the undertaking. It was hoped that through a suggestion which had been thrown out, the difficulties of regular ceremonies- Han between Havre and Southampton would be muds diminished. Havre being a tidal harbour, it was thought that vessels should sail constantly and regularly at periods corresponding with given trains from England, whether by night or by day, a certain train always finding a steam vessel in Southampton ready to sail for Havre ; and to meet the dif fi culty of the tide at Havre, it had been sug gested that a French steamboat, drawing one foot or fifteen inches of water, might be chartered to proceed in and out of the port. It was a great superiority which they possesssed over other lines of communication, that from Southampton or Gosport a vessel might start almost at any period without being controlled by the tide, and sometimes not sailing at all. The chairman having gone over the accounts, proposed the following resolution ,—" That the report now read, be adopted, printed, and circulated amongst the proprietors." Mr. Rogers, of Leamington, seconded the motion.—ln reply to a question, the chairman said he thought the directors might soon have to call up a IL or 2/. more per share. They would not ask for mote than was absolutely necessary; and the amount he had mentioned would be sufficient, unless the trade became so much developed as to require the building of another vessel.—Mr. Lancaster winked to know how the question of insurances stood ? —The chairman said the directors had found some of the old ships insured, and others not insured. He would be glad to see the company become their own insurers, putting by a certain sum as a reserve fund ; but he was afraid that, inasmuch as 50,0001. had been lent by the railway company on mortgage, there might be some diffi culty in effecting such an arrangement. One question was whether, if the ships must be shared, it should not be at the option of private gentlemen to incur the risk. The solicitor ( Mr. Bireham) said he appeared there in a double capacity, and, as representing the rail may company, he must tell them that, as long as they retained the 50,000/., they mast iosure their ships. Mr. Lancaster said that the only question which he had intended to raise win the best mode of effecting the object. The chairman said he believed it was customary for in dividuals to take a line in a ship without being members rf Lloyd's. Mr. Lancaster might, if he pleased, indorse for 2001. or any other amount. The solicitor said the insurance must be satisfactory to the railway company, and he did not know whether or not the directors would enter into an examination of individual responsibility. The motion for the adoption of the report was then agreed to. A motion was then proposed and carried, declaring a dividend at the rate of .51. per cent. per annum from the commencement of the company on Ist Oct. up to 30th June last, payable on and after the 20th inst.—J. !Hobert, Esq., and W . Reed, Esq., were then elected directors . — Mr. Reed, in returning thanks, stated, that having left Paris at 7 o'clock on Saturday morn ing last, he arrived at the hotel at Southampton, rid Havre, at 10 o'clock in the evening of the tame day. Only G hours and 1 minute elapsed from the clearing of the harbour at Havre until the vessel arrived opposite the Nab Light in the Isle of Wight. —The trustees of the company were then in creased from two to three in number, by the addition of William Tite, Esq.—On the motion of Mr. Rogers, a vote of thanks was given to the chairman, by whom it was bristly acknowledged. ROYAL NAVAL SCROOL.—A snecial general meeting of the corporation was held yesterday, at the Thatched House, St. James'a-street, for the re-electi in of the president and council, who had resigned their offices, in consequence of the difference of opinion which exists among the corpora tion on the subject of the recent propositions of the council (which were adopted at the last meeting), for throwing open the school to other climes besides the sons of naval o ffi cers. —..---- Considerable time was spent at the commencement of the proceedings in the discussion of the subjects which had caused the resignation of the council, which, however, led to no result, the meeting being incompetent to take measures upon any of the several plans proposed for the rege neration of the society. A resolution was then moved by Mr. Gillett, and seconded by Dr. Weatherhead, ex pressing the regret of the meeting at the disunion which existed among the corporation, and requesting the president and council to allow themse lves to be re-elected. Admiral Bowles, the president (who wan also chairman of the day), concurred in the expression of regret, and said that having taken into consideration the difficulty of at once pro , Tiding other officers, the council and himself had consented to resume their offices until the general meeting in May next, when the question upon which they had resigned coald be further considered. He begged it to be undentood, however, that they had not altered their opinion as expressed in the rules which they had proposed, for they believed some aid of the kind to be neat/eery to the continuance of the s xiety, which he did not hesitate to say needed the most strenuous etertions of the profession for its maintenance. After some further discussion the resolution was passed uoanintouslj-, and the officers re-elected in due form, which terminated the proceedings. VAN DIEMEN's LAND.—Sir,—ln the city article of the Times newspaper of the Bth of July last appeared a remark, purporting to be from a correspondent in Van Die men's Land, of which the following is an extract : " And .44 4 . the flockmasters, on visiting their estates, had fo und litt le reason to complain, this year, of aboriginal edation." On the same day I wrote to the editor, re ing on the absurdity of such a communication, and explaining that the aatives were all captured and taken are of in Bass's Straits, and that Van Diemen's Land was the only colony in Aus tralia free from much a nuisance. I also remarked on the injury that had been done Australia in general by misrepre. sentation, front actual ignorance of facts, and requested him to remove the unfair Impression his remark was calculated to produce. I subsequently wrote to know if he had re ceived the letter, but no notice was taken of either one or the other. Now, the Times, in its magnitude, may make light of st ating what is injurious to a distant and helpless colony, and waive all courtesy when any one better acquainted with the subject is at the pains to set them right ; but its eminence in public estimation only adds to the injury, and shows, presuming on its position, with what little care its reports are made. As no portion of the article I allude to could be true, the writer either wilfully wrote fabely, or wrote at random to make out his contributien...434.o WALIPIRLD, • 16 years a colonist in Van Diemen's Land, 34, Fallinell, Aug. 13. GROSS CASE OF TREATING.—We hare authority For stating that Lord George Bentinek, at the Lynn election, distributed to his constituents an enormous quantity of gammon from the hustings.—l'unc4. . REPORT OF THE ACT'ING COMMITTEE OF 1 '' WEST IND/A. PLANTERS AND MERCHANTS. The West India colonies are undoubtedly more efil cloot=represested in this = thin anyzther of our tint 4 tk u o l ly w n;P o resioned. As& this (14 deo bimetl y t /7 tl p e entkalleentee theory in Ireland work 4) els only be 1 oillobanod to the great number of Wad ban peep inton who laddela the mother country. Ateseinellels bes ef -course its bad alma as its good side • but the aboonoso of the West Lisa loom • *sada.' ooniittos In senonis that interests lon di onaminto milk ohs beldam oa th s gromosok nth 1 gm atm BOW agony or nolsoill group ea lad moth , dab for. This obeseenlie• lien bon somplind by the usual animal Mort towel.. NOM lanadillob" to the " standing com mittee" of Wed /sat planters and merchants. [We really wish then gonlionsn would designate themselves by some . ants lames deneenheation.j It is characterised by the same tot lad antait of isihnoation that have mashed all its W. It is eat able eas' of the views of the most t Notion of the West India interest—the grest capitalists, who, mixing much in general sonetY, 'Mee the tendency of the age, and learned the neceo dty of cowp'ying with it. Our object at present is not to canvass the justice of the ' views enhanced b these gentlemen, hat simply to put out readers in po of them. They apnea dissatisfaction with last session's settlement of the duEas on rum, with the unnecessary conditions appended to the permission to nee sugar in breweries and distiller*, and with the con tinued ezeltrion of molasees frail both breweries and distilleries. They intimate their intlmstion to " conthul lortheir just claims for perfect freedom in the Is ell e l l produce, as wall as equality of legal privallles , W. the lino distiller. Four sub oslaild anenaajmnsdales.l. thongs: colonies are disc - detail r—Thosillpestive duties on home and colonial , he . of sr ranging the amount of duty 100; e . a • Inspirited ease-jaw ; the description of • • su gar,witi a view to ax ifi equitable rates of 1... jo proportion to their comparative value • sad - . or immigro. 'on of free labourers into . ---- the cat. ' -% this views "stained • , the - . "" . s ae the. •. • • "---- - .._ _ i ; er *este& siya= attalt stip Why sboni.l we eel noel 1: 06 " 1. . wbe l era, to an unmet Vasica 1., that nada be importeti et nese re amer let t sole gat Ibis .1! a than wo Id be eel, ilment • na tpcw the i' t might, it could o d be Qt 1 east fart ~ U e~ao m ou W ra would rant. I¢ all a i¢ttodort,.rn of a act p t operU-. of which weft as ever, 074radiLlil well ad apted to th and the soother wane and dear— , order to :Ircß•r_ l 2 eke low. whi ch at delicate ,pptrattis ca pitol, would sot. • But such opporatin pereons oral paid, an 4 the pro; If any accident apparatus, or if I during the arop great is tn. AA, tin proprietors from ads attars und.tateril thought tend damn otos edvontop from the r m tgnitun to be mere- nolepend But why should we when we can have tb Liverpool, and Blast Inas except where lb be rendered peel ton of sugar ma toot of canes, and the mill hout the s; centralising oo a tor canes at each estate, advantage which • o confined to the OMIT which would be, st I in this country—if c ennoble duty. DITFIXXXT Qoni Earle or towel to afford to Hr the plediire of merit Inner. 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