The Express. — London, England, 1847-04-06 00:00:00

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On the present occa sion these returns will be inspected with less of a narrow partisan feeling, than as an index of the country's ability to grapple with continued destitution in Ireland. Regarded in this point of view, the returns are eminently cheering. There is an increase for the year upon every item of ordinary revenue except two, the stamps and the crown lands ; and in both the exceptional cases the decrease is trifling. There is, likewise, an increase for the quarter upon every item save two, the taxes and the crown lands ; and on these also the decrease is inconsiderable. The increase in the customs is, 1,132,002!. for the year, and 48.5,7551. for the quarter ; in the excise, 661,5721. for the year, and 26,4071. for the quarter; in the post-office, 52,0001. for the year, and 4,0001. 1 for the quarter ; in the miscellaneous, 129,273/. for the year, and 1,0711. for the quarter. The increase oa the income of the year is 1,538,168.; of the quarter, 403,6321. The general result prompts confidence in the country's resources for struggling ktainst the cala mity by , which it has been visited. A more narrow inspection of details strengthens this confidence. There is a marked increase both in the customs, which indicate the condition of our general trade, and, in the post-office, which indicates the activity of commercial enterprise. But the same scrutiny suggests the great and increasing amount of individual privation which is attendant upon this general prosperity. The increase upon the excise has been rapidly , diminishing . during the last two quarters; and the increase in the property tax speaks of a more stringent exaction of that impost. In creased payments to the state, concurrent with di minished expenditure for household comforts, must, it is obvious, be at present the lot of a numer ous section of the population. These facts read a lesson to statesmen : they . warn them while cherishing an honourable pride in the . power and resources of their country, to be wary in the measures by which they meet the present emergency, inasmuch as careless husbandry of the public means cannot fail to inflict an immense amount of personal suffering. The comparative statement of income and charge for the last quarter in these returns is calculated to allay undue apprehensions of a monetary crisis, arising out of the arrangements for supplying the destitute districts in Scotland and Ireland. The total income for the quarter is 10,661,4171.; the first instalment of the loan of eight millions is 960,0001. ; giving a total of 11,621,4171. The total charge, including 2,300,0001. of advances to Ireland during the quarter, under the act 9 & 10 Vic. ' c. 107, is 10,992,6361., leaving a surplus of 628,7811. This sur plus, added to the 1,365,4554 of surplus remaining at the close of the quarter ending sth January, 1841, gives an available total of 1,994,2361. The amount issued during the quarter just ended, of the sums granted by parliament out of the consolidated fund for supply , services, is 5,461,1961. So the probable amount of exchequer bills required to meet the charge on the consolidated fund during the quarter does not exceed 3,466,9601. A visitation like that against which we are strug gling would have paralysed and sunk aimed agy other state : but Great Britain, under God's pron. dence, will wrestle through it, not without much of transient pain, but without incurring permanent de- crepitude. school of either heroism or virtue. And, although financial skill has been shrouded with all high quali ties, and covered with all sorts of mantles, it has never, since the early days of MENDIZABAL'S ministry, succeeded in commanding respect. Senhor SALA MANCA is es clever as any of his predecessors, and no doubt he will now do some very clever things in a financial way. The Cortes have, in deed, contested his powers, and recalled the large letter of credit given to MoN. But Senhor SALAMANCA is a man of the world, and of resources, who will pay the army—one essential point And he is, moreover, a man with whom the fareign bondholder may find much advantage in deal ing. If not a citizen of the world, Senhor SALA MANCA is a citizen of every bourse in the world. The French cry out, already, that PACHECO'S an English, or a BULWEB ministry. The temptation to taunt M. GUIZOT with having so soon loot French influence at Madrid is quite irresistible to the j ou rnalists of the French opposition. Of what use , however, can the possession of influence at Madrid be to any European power at present? The succession to the Spanish throne has been stolen. As long as influence could ensure that, M. Guizor kept the in fluence. What more does he want for the present? To restore the constitution, to counsel an amnesty, to bring about a reconciliation of all lib eral Spaniar&, and guide the Queen in the course likely to win for her the affections of her subjects —these are all the aims that an English envoy could propose for himself, and they are certainly Spanish aims. We should much prefer doing without the risk and the obloquy. So far from England desiring to take charge of the present dilapidated and disastrous state of Spain, we feel confident, that if France and CHRISTINA have, for the moment, abandoned their charge of that court to England, they have done the wisest thing they could do. It was evident, that a Carlist insurrection was brewing; equally evident that the Moderados, under French control, were too unpopular to raise a national resistance to such in surrection. On the contrary, the continuance of the :tfrancesado rule at Madrid would only have completed the disgust of the provincial liberals, and flung them into the arms of the Count of MONTE- MOLIN. The change that has taken place is certainly the wisest move against him. Whether this change will be persevered in—whether the Mederado officers of the army will allow PAcnr.co and his cabinet to be come reconciled to the Liberals, or whether the same cabinet will be able and willing to restore to the citizens of Madrid, and of the provinces, their rights, and institutions, and security, remain yet to be seen. One thing alone can be asserted, and this is, that the desires of the young Queen tend to the establishment of a liberal and independent government, such as will secure her popularity and, establish her throne. Every generous person mast be anxious and inter ested for her success. THE young Queen of SPAIN has at length succeeded in emancipating herself, thanks to the counsels and advice of General SERRANO, and her Majesty has constituted a new cabinet of the leading men of that party, which, though Moderado or conservative, are anxious to try once more the experiment of a coned tational government. Senhor PACHECO and his friends have some ideas, which were considered very sin by the court over which CHRISTINA presided. g h ui r t i i ;: . were for respecting the liberty of the person, allowing some latitude for the liberty of the prem. They deprecated the execution, or proscription, of po litical opponents, opposed the military dictatorship of NARVAEZ, and deprecated the Infanta's marriage, as placing the country in too great a dependence of France. This was considered by the court as being absurdly particular ; and the deputies, who pat for ward such principles, were ridiculed as Puritans. As the Liberals support the Puritans for the time, both have a majority HI the Cortes. And this majo rity is increased and strengthened by its being known, that in case of a dissolution and general election, the Puritans and Liberals would almost solely com pose the Cortes, to the exclusion of the courtiers, the military butchers, and the venders of their prin tease& But a majority in the Cortes, present or future, is not sufficient to give solidity to a Spanish ministry. It mast have, moreover, the support of the army. Unfortunately, the Spanish army has been divided, even more than the nation, into the two great parties of Liberals and Moderadoe. The former, ever predo minant in it, have been scouted and expelled. The present constitution of the army and its officers is decidedly Moderado. And although it may tolerate Paulsen, yet if there be a suspicion, and there must be more than such, that he leans on the Li rats, must trust them, and reappoint their generals and officers, there will ensue serious resist ance on the part of the present chiefs of the military force. It is, therefore, in the barrack and in the officers' mesa-room, far mare than in the Cortes, the press, or the public, that the fate of the PACHECO cabinet, and the attempt of tim Queen to have a semi-liberal ministry, will be decided. One symptom of this difficulty and a proof of the fact that the present is more a military than a political crisis, is to be perceived is the difficulty of getting any one to take the office of Minister of War. There have been three or four changes lately; aad. now, CONCHA, a spirited_ young officer, and a Modert standing about halfway between NARVAEZ SERRANO, has refused it. A ministry, supposed to be under the influence of SERRANO, wil l scarcely get a Moderado general to take the war-office ; and for SERRANO to take it himself would be to COMMINICO too abruptly the change. Next to the war aloe in importance, is the ministry of filmic.. 4ain is more fertile in tinanciera than statesmen.. The profession of making fortunes by p stocks and coin is, in the Peninsula, a ve ry ry fameartbs one—it being, indeed, the only certain Toad to adulate. We cannot poi that this is it do. kis; all the whilb it acts, educating those who avail themselves of its services to do without it in the long run. A good santiory system once established through England would be perpetuated in the same way as the present want of system has been. People will, in time, be as likely to build houses without doors and windows, as without drains and water-closets. A street will be sewered in the same regular way as it is now paved. It will be es much a matter of course that houses should be ventilated, as that they should be furnished with stairs or fire-pluses. When all this is the case, a central sanitary board will have done its work, and may retire, as a Roman Dictator did when the common-weal h ad passed the crisis for which he accepted office. The recognition of this sanitary question, as one in which govern ment is bound to move, is a new feature of our times. We congratulate the noble and humane men who, 16 years ago, commenced their beneficent agitation for this end; unlike most agitations, in that it imputed no motives, stirred no strife, worked for no personal gain, contemplated no party triumph, on having brought the country to this, the first, but most laborious, stage on the road to their contemplated results. UNTIL We have Lord MORTETH% Health of Towns Bill before us it is impossible to determine how far he has fenced round his central body, or reconciled its control with the free action of the local function aries. But a general consideration of the eanitory question shows many points in which a sanitory mea sure may with peculiar advantage combine central control with local activity. In the first place, the subject involves no party topic or political cry. The central board can never become a head-quarters of partisanship, or a laboratory for the preparation of sectarian measures. All the objec tions which lie so near the surface when a central authority begins to administer the educational favours of the state, disappear when sanitary reform is being dealt with. Besides, although the board will consist of three paid and scientific to two unpaid and un scientific official members, its subject matter is one in which the latter must be guided by the former. The minister is concerned with sanitory measures, as they conduce to the peacefulness, orderliness, and general prosperity of the country. But of the medical and engineering part of the ques tion he can know but little, and must be guided by his scientific associates, who, we presume, will be independent of party, and peculiarly qualified for that superintendence which they will have to exercise. Nor need we fear for such a board many of the evils which so hampered the Poor-law Commissioners. Those functionaries had to deal with a question, the application of whose principles varied in every instance, and of which the principles them selves are vehemently contested. Besides, at every step, the Poor-law Commissioners struck upon some great social problem, which forced them either to outrage unscientific humanity by resistance, or to peril their system by weak concessions. Again, that com mission was inefficient for want of a more numerous corps of inspectors and assistants. They were, in fact, overweighted. Now none of these difficulties need stand in the way of a sanitory board. Of the mischiefs such a body mast attack, all science and humanity have already admitted both the nature, the causes, the intensity, and the remedy. They will be acting on foregone conclusions. Except a West minster Commissioner of Sewers, no one will now dream of denying that sewers ought to be egg-shaped, instead of square—that they should be regularly flushed with water, instead of being made depositories of un diluted and stagnant filth. There are no Maltha sians with one theory, and anti-Malthasians with another, in sanitary matters. Then, the remedies to be be applied, unlike their effects, are scientific, not social. It is true, some private interests may, suffer for the moment from the removal of a nuisance, or the opening of a cul-de-sac, but, the sacrifice will be made up in many demonstrable ways, each as the increased efficiency of workmen, the diminution of police expenses, and poor-rates. Self interest, truly conceived, is unquestionably enlisted on the aide of the proposed changes. The board, it mud be remembered, is to do nothing, except through its local inspections. It moves on local application, receives the plans which the municipal surveyor has provided, and approves of them, or points oat their de ficiencies for correction. Here is no initiatory legisla tion, properly so called, of the central body. The thing to be done is determined on the spot, and a higher authority is called in to see that it is the right thing. We do not see how this can be said to diminish self-reliance, or supersede self-government. It is only seeing that self-reliance is wise, and recalling self-government to its conditions where these are forgotten. It is not taking the reins from the driver, but informing him of a ditch ahead, or sug gesting to him the best means of avoiding a collision. Meanwhile, let us see what strong grounds for the supervision of a central authority are to be found in the peculiar nature of the work to be performed. As things are, a dozen boards in every town are, and have for years been, doing what, to be well done, should have emanated from one source. Drainage has boon independent of sewerage, gas of water, lighting of paving, levelling of afreet arlangernent. The bill proposes to transfer all these powers to the town councils. Thus the mischief of conflicting juris dictions will be avoided for the future, and its existing effects gradually amended. But if all these works must henceforth be carried on by this one body, their task will be proportionately increased in difficulty and intricacy. They will re quire the aids of medicine, chemistry, civil engineer ing, and architecture. Few towns, except the very largest, can of themselves furnish such a corps of officials as and be called in to advise and plan for the new mandeipal commissioners. Liverpool may, and Manchnisr, and a few other of our great com mercial and laminlbeturing places. They , will need bat little wesetision from the central board, and will pas* swim but little. But in the majority of plates, so sanitory step of an important kind can safely be taken without subjecting the local plans and surveys to the highest authority—not vexatiously to interfere with, but carefully to verify and test them. The work is of that kind which should be done once for ell, and well. It involves too much trouble and displacement of existing arrangements to allow of its being tinkered and altered without intolerable inconvenience. Let the inhabitants at Fleet-street testify to the nuisance which sewerage repairs alone may occasion. Now without the best advice, and the strictest inspection, this sort of patch work rill be of frequent occurrence. At all events the evil must be guarded against, and no means et guarding against it appears so effectual as ad central inspection by peFuliarly qualified . persons, etached from all local prejudices and petty interests. We have expressed a desire, in all cases where a central authority is instituted, that it should be of limited duration. We believe that a central sanitary board is, from ii priori causes, unlikely to be perpetual. It carries within its breast its own act of abdication. If it dos its work well, it loam itself, at had, nothing to THE ,EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 6, 1847. The engrossing topic in Paris on Sunday was the change of ministry in Spain. The ministry and its friends looked grave. The opposition was triumphant, and the promises of what has been ironically called the grande ?antique of M. Gaizot, so reverberated by his ministerial organs after the Spanish marriages last autumn, are now mer cilessly reproduced by the unrelenting malice of his opponents. Where, they ask, is the evidence of the predominance of French influence, which was so confidently promised in the Peninsula? Where, save in the Montpensier dower, can be found a single advantage to counterbalance the apparently irreparable embroilment with England? The Spanish marriages, it was said, would produce' no other change in Europe than the immutable es tablishment of French influence in Spain. " But the result," says the Conatitutionnel, " has been in all re spects the contrary of this. While everything has been changed in the rest of Europe, nothing has been altered in Spain. France has no influence there ; she cannot save the ministry which effected the mar riages from sinking under the weight of its unpopu larity. Prudence has dictated the retreat of the heiress presumptive to Paris, and an overruling ne cessity has driven after her the ex-Queen-Dowager. Regent. The master of the situation is a young general in the confidence of the Eng lish embassy, to whom Mr. Bulwer addressed his protest against M. Isturitz's intrigues, and who now makes and unmakes ministries. During the last week, MM. Guizot and Duchatel have been making the most strenuous exertions to rally the supporters of the cabinet, for the purpose of smothering the proposition of parliamentary reform produced by M. de Itimusat, in the bureaux, so as to prevent even a debate upon the subject in the cham ber. The result, however, of these ministerial exer tions has not been satisfactory ; and, apprehensive of another check, like that sustained in the case of M. Davergier de Hauranne, they have thought it more prudent to give up the point, and appear to acquiesce in allowing the presentation of the proposition to the chamber, rather than engage in a struggle in the bureaux at the imminent risk of defeat. Contrary, therefore, to the universal expectation, an article ap peared in the Debate on Sunday intimating that snob is the intention of the cabinet. The object of the proposition of M. de Remulat is to effect tome reform in the enormous system of cor ruption by patronage which at present prevails, and is from year to year on the increase in the cham ber. The Chamber of Deputies, which consists et 469 members, includes 195 placemea, the breath of whose nostrils is drawn from the patronage of the Tuileries. The advices from Madrid of the 30th ult. bring no further intelligence of interest. The formation of the new ministry was in progress; the appointments announced in oar correspondence of yesterday having been gazetted on that day. The Ministry of Justice had not yet been filled ; but it would probably be conferred on M. Bahamonde. The new ministry had received the felicitations of its friends, and the con gratulation of various corporations on its accession to power. M. Salamanca was preparing to make exten sive changes in the personnel of the department of finances. The report mentioned in oar correspond ence of yesterday, that Espartero would receive the embassy at London, was still credited. It was also said that Narvaez would be sent to Paris. The Gazette de Madrid of the 30th gives a detailed report of the speech of M. Pacheco in the Chamber; but, as we gave the substance of it yesterday, it is needless to quote it. General Serrano addressed to the fiscal charged with the prosecution against him, on the 28th, the following letter: Your Excellency, —My conviction that it was not consistent with my duties as a senator to accept an appointment which the government of her Majesty wished to confer upon sae, his given rise to a prosecution against me which, to the public journals, has been entrusted to your charge. never had the intention of withdrawing from the autho rity of the tribunals. The desire of avoiding an act of vio lence contrary to the respect due to me as a member of the high legislative body, was the sole cause of my ceocesliag myself. Convinced that the law must be obeyed, and duty own innocence and the consistency of my conduct as due to my position, I present myself to your excellency to be judged. and I await your orders in the Hotel Rue d'Alcala, No. CS, where I reside.—Madrid, 28th March, 1847. El .Espanol says that Don Patrizio de la Esoossiza would be named Political Chief of Madrid ; DOll Jose de la Concha Captain-General of Madrid; General Cordova, Governor; General Serrano, In spector of Cavalry ; I)on Manuel de la Conchs, In spector of Infantry ; General Roe de Olano, Inspector of the Civic Guard ; General Oribe, Inspector et Carabineers ; and that General Prim would also be advanced to a high post A motion was intended to be made in the Senate by Count de Vigo against the new ministry, similar to that which had been lost by a large majority in the representative chamber, but, on finding the result in this latter assembly, it was withdrawn. El Espanol says that one of the first measures which the new ministry will propose to the Cortes will be a project of law to re-establish the liberty of the press. _EI Clamor Public° says that General Fnlgosio, brother-in-law of the Duke of Rianzares, husband of Queen Christina, has been dismissed front his com mand as Governor of Madrid. ROME, MAR= 28. The struggle between the Roman newspapers and Austrian interference, of which we had reached the crisis when I wrote last, has just terminated in the total discomfiture of Metternich and the triumph of the press. The " edict," forced on the pusillanimous (31.7;, has, thanks to the firm attitude of one local editors, become a dead letter; and yesterday all our journals came out fresh and vigorous as ever, without the ghost of a " government stamp," and evincing no trace of meddling censorship. The Cotemporatseo, at the head of the public instructors, shows redoubled energy from its short repose, and contains articles of an eloquence and ability which the Parisian Delude has seldom exhibited. I transmit you yesterday's number. It is understood that no change will be attempted in matters of public journalism "for the present year," and such a concession to the late out-bunt of opinion is quite tantamount to a final settlement It is a point of etiquette tacitly understood in Rome, that no edict once promulgated can be formally repealed, however it may be suffered to lie dormant : for in stance, the late Governor Marini issued an ukase against fox hunting in the Campegna, according to which the horse and his rider are still liable to fine and confiscation ; yet the hounds meet twice a week, and the whipper-in is reckless ; habemus contra to Catalinam senatus consultum vehement et grave ; txreint tanowim pladium in vagind recondition ! Last night, another kindly effort was made to aid the life struggle in Ireland, and produced a thousand dollars. Adelaide Ramble (Sartoria), in unison with a number of amateurs, German, Russian, and Italian, got up an extemporaneous concert ; and the Spanish Envoy at this court flung open the long dmmUd halls of the once gorgeous palace of his national embassy for their reception. Lord Ward paid for the lights, and Earl Compton sang, as did Countess Calergi, De Rongemont, Prince Wolkonsky, Count Cestlebarco, and bliss Brown, of Maya. Nearly three hundred years ago, in these identical saloons, Olivarex and the general (of the Jesuits) Aquaviva organised the rebellion of Hugh O'Neil, in Ulster; and here the " blessing " of the Spanish Armada was concocted. IThe same roof looked down last night on somewhat more meditable proceeding% Pius liX ., .have popularity flags not among the lower and middle claim. does not meet with the same enthusiasm among the selfish and worthlems " nobles," who have for ages preyed on the vitals of this land without exhibiting a particle of the quali ties by which their forefathers bought their honours and distinctions; it is true that some of these Roma* Patrician families at no period produced any great men, but merely gained wealth and an hereditary position from the accidental elevation of a Pope, whose stupid nepotism became a mine of inexhausti ble revenues to his lucky relatives. Some very pro minent and very frivolous leaders of fashionable life here will recognise themselves in this description. Not of. this origin, however, is the faintly whose mansion the Pope honoured last week with a visit, being the first time he has paid each a compli ment to any of his private subjects. Prince Massimo, ' though an indifferent postmaster, is unquestionably one of the best born and truest gentlemen in Rome, being an undoubted descendant of the sole surviving Fabius out of the 300 who marched to Cremera ; and through Fabius Maximus and a line of known consuls and subsequent magistrates of this city, traceable in every link to the present day. Mabillon, Litta, and Cardinal Mai, have each in turn elucidated this unrivalled ge nealogy, so as to defy cavil. But if anything: were wanting to corroborate the testimony of parchments and marble inscriptions, the experience of every tra yeller from Civita Vecchia, or Florence, might be ap pealed to as to the slow-coach system prevalent under the present functionary, whose kin:nanship to the `reef esoutaior is thereby invincibly proven. Lieut.-General Sir Dugald Gilmour died here on the 25th. He had fought at Quiberen, Copenhagen, .Corunna, Talavera, Busaco, Nivelle, and Toulouse, and was Colonel of the 2nd Rifles. lie lies with beats and Shelley. To their grave the finger of glory points steadily, as it may to his now. Gibson 's statue of the Queen sails in the Tiger from Civita Vecchia for Southampton, on the 9th of ApriL The rules of your Academy are not s t stringent in point of time as to preclude her Majes entrance through the portals alter they are cloud by regula tion. If you are over scrupulous on the point ' so much the worse for yourselves. The Prince of Ca nino visits England by the same conveyance, and the convenience of this new line of the Peninsular and Oriental boats is beginning to be generally appre ciated throughout Italy. DAMASCUS, Manes 8. There is a legend that Mahomet paused on the crest of tha Salahieh that overhangs Damascus, and turned away, refusing to enter the city, saying that his paradise should not be of this world. Certainly there cannot be a more sublime and beautiful view. The trees at this moment are all out in leaf and many in Bower,. Only picture to yourself the effect of one blooming forest unrolling itself for massy leagues each way in the plain below : the domed city booking in the midst ; blue streams creeping to it from Mount Hermon ; the line of the desert horizon losing itself in the sky, between the faint blue hills of Palmyra on the N.E., and the darker masses of the Haouran on the S.E. ; while, to your right and left, the bluff headlinds of Anti- Lebanon march out into the vast plain. Presently, you dive down into the sea of blossom below; and aired between fragrant orchards to the city-gate. Within, it seams as if you were riding through some immense village ; so unvaried are the mud wets on either hand by anything in the shape of architectural elegance. You are, therefore, not a little surprised when the inn which receives you, ' which is no better in external appearance than any other portion of the clay street, turns out to be a sumptuous palace within, with marble-paved courts, fountains, orange tree<, alcoves adorned with mosaic, chambers with abun dance of Moorish carving, painting, and gilding ; in abort, quite a little Alhambra. You sleep in rooms as big as a church, lulled by fountains, which are no doubt very plea sant in summer, but in the sgueiah month of March might be &greased with, with great advantage to the traveller's health. This is one of the best houses in the Jewish Tsar ter, which is famous for the splendour of its rtsideetea. The principal Jewish family is Farkhi, who, Ida IR* connexions, form a numerous clan. The two =inbreeds* of this house are at issue about an affair which has maths great deal of noise here, and of which the details ate else gular and mysterious. Moses Farkhi, at the point of death, gave into the bailie of his wife Deborah certain papers, which he directed her to deliver over to his brother Rafael. But Deborah, who was then pregnant, conceiving that she might derive some ad vantage to her issue by the possession of these papers, neglected to execute the dying injunction of her husband, and after his decease continued to retain the papers. In the meantime Rafael died, having remained, up to tht moment of his death, in complete ignorance of the disposition of Moses in his favour, and leaving heirs his three sons, from whom Deborah continued to withhold the documents, now become their right by inheritance. Some years elapi, when a certain Israelite of Constantinople, by name Khaim Khermona, son of the wealthy banker of that name who was put to death by Sultan Ma hmoud, came to D ,mucus, and sought the hand of Deborah in marriage. The widow of Moses received his suit favourably . they became contracted according to the Jewish manner: and in the intimacy which ensued previous to marriage Deborah fell so entirely under the inffuence of her betrothed, that she concealed from him none of her affairs, and among other confidences disclosed to him the matter of the papers which she detained in her poseession. Khaim Khermona having got wind of these, did not rest till he had wormed out of his fond widow the key of the casket where she kept her papers and jewels. He now not only seised the documents in ques tion, but according to the subsequent declaration of Debo rah, jewels and other papers of value. Khermona, how ever, denies this, affirming that he secured no more than one document. While bent on turning this to his exclusive advantage, and devising expedients for availing himself in the most profitable manner of his discovery, the Farkhis, obtaining knowledge of his proceedings, surrounded him and beset him with questions. Foremast in importunity were the heirs of Isaak Haim Farkhi, brother of Moses, whom the astute Khermona fooled to the top of their bent in supposing that the secreted instrumeat would turn out a great accession of fortune to them. But finding that Menaghim, the elde,t of these, desired to obtain possession as cheaply as pos sible, by menaces or perhaps farce, Khermona transferred the document to the hands of his friend, Shadi Stambouli, dragoman of the Prussian vice-consulate. Upon this, Menaghim and his party, at the end of last October, sent in a formal petition to the Prussian vice-consul, M. Timone , representing that papers belonging to them, and subtracted from the possession of Deborah Farkhi, had been deposited in the bands of the Prussian dragoman, and demanding the restitution of these. This was the first step towards making the affair public, The Prussian vice-consul instantly seat for Sbsdi Stambouli, to question him about the matter. On the other hand, the Kehaya of the Pasha, in the absence of his chief, who was then absent from Damascus on the pil grimage to Mecca, having had the business brought to his ear, urged the examination of Shadi Stambouli. An infinite series of pe ti tions, protests, rejoinders, examinations, and citations take place ; and, at last, on November 18, all the parties interested are summoned to main their appearance at the Prussian vice-consulate, to be present at the opening of the sealed document. I must here explain that M. Timone is also the dragoman of the English consulate, and that, during the absence of Mr. Wood, he resides in that house, which has alrmly Issoome so familiar to the European public, by the many riegs and engravings which have been made of its banded amt. Hither then all Farkhis, male, and female, repair ; the Mbar profusely decorated with jewels. A venerable Rabbi at their head. All assembled, after due rounds of cahliouns, sad coffee., the cancelliere breaks with the big seal. All eyes are on his fingers and faciri l = pent in eagerness is Menaghim Farkhi. Perhaps the mow tent, will make him a millionnaire. Perhaps not. We shall see. The chancellor looks at him and reads with swift accent. It is a bill made payable to Rafael Farkhi, and signed by hank Khaim, the father of M enaghim ; the amount 3,000 purses, or 15,0001. Not more confounded was Shylock at the unexpected turn, which the pleadings of the "second Daaiel " took against him, than was Menaghim Farkhi at the prise, which he had pursued with so much eagerness, and hunted into the net of chancery, turning out —worse than a blank—a debt. On the other band, radiant are the visages of the heirs of Rafael, whom gratula tory friends forthwith surround. But notes of 23 years standing are not so swiftly realised in cash. And now the via-consul steps in to demand his fee of 2ê per cent. on the deposit. Unless this be paid down on the nail in hard cash he will not part with the bill. Meantime, Utak Khaim Farkhi, who is liable for the amount of the bill, disappears, and cannot be anywhere found. The heirs of Rafael are perplexed. They decline paying the deposit fee, affirming the surrender of the bill by Shadi Stambouli, their agent, to have been forced, and not voluntary. The match between widow Deborah and Khaim Khermona is broken off, and Kern on& imprisoned upon suspicion of hav ing abstracted other valuables from the casket of his affianced. The grand bone of contention remains in chancery, and so the matter hangs, filling the Hebrew quarter with feverous agitation and hot dispease, exercising all tongues. FRANCE.—Pans, ARIL 4.—Count Roy, formerly Minister of Finance under the restoration, and reputed to be the most wealthy landed proprietor in France, died in Paris on Saturday morning : he is reputed to have left a perty of 80.0001. a year. pro Tun FRENCH POST-OITICE.—The slowness of the transmission of the correspondence front London is begin. sing at length to raise strong expressions of discontent. The made, which leave London at eight in the evening, are never distributed in Paris before ten o'clock on the morning of the second day, and frequently not until after midday. Never theless, Ibe yeas asedsary for their actual trensmission need not Mud damn bears. The Corsatitistioutel of Sunday notion dde ohms is the post nuns department thus : " Not• withdrawn( the seenent is oml geed awaked in the trans mission of sensmien ei the railway from Andra la= lis asepatehes wbfd loam London in the swig am new dieledsnald i Pests dB the of the essemi day, or 36 home MISS their deperhere,rlds . st ai Ttp the time requisite for their lamemienos is espy 16. This amsdhisa might be obtained it the podoolise authorities would hug a hide more sheaths to the intomets of Com e have Paris at seven us the evening wa assM at Amine at de m, and at Ablriville at _ . :a_.,__.. haltpast twelve at night, comprising the necessary delays. From Abbeville they may proceed by mail to Boulogne, where they can arrive at six a.m. The despatches may then be immediately embarked and landed at Folkestone at half past eight, whence they can be conveyed by the South- Eastern Railway to London, when they may arrive at eleven o'clock in the forenoon. Being distributed before the Ex change hours, they can answered by the evening mail , which leaves London at nine o'clock the same evening. The despatches may be shipped at Folkestone at half•past eleven, landed at Boulogne at two in tha morning, at Abbeville at half-past seven, at Amiens at nine, and at Paris atone o'clock, which would allow time for the letters to be distributed during the Bourse, and to be replied to by the mail of that evening. Thus a letter might be written in London and an answer received in thirty-six hours, whilst the time required at present is seventy-two hours. This, however, would require that the mails be transmitted by Boulogne and Folkestone instead of Calais and Dover, so at present. The distance between Boulogne and Calais takes two hours and • half ; but the sea passage by Capin being an hour km, the difference would be only en hour and a half. PRINCE DE POLIONAC.—The funeral of the Prince de Polignac took place on Saturday at St. elermain-en-Laye. It was strictly private, the members of the family being alone present. It was the wish of the prince to be carried quietly and without pomp to his last abode. His mortal remains have been conveyed to Piopas, and placed by the side et those of his elder brother, who died about a month since. HOLLAND.---11AOUE, MARCH 24.—EDUCATION OF CHILDREN BY THZ STATE.—We announced, a few days since, that a project of law, presented by the Dutch govern ment, for abolishing the :silvan law, regarding the education of children by the state, of the XIII. year of the Repablle, bad been rejected by the States General. A new project, definitively abolishing this law, has since been adopted by the legislative chambers. GERMANY.—BERLIN, MARCH 30. UNIFORM Posrann.—Letters from this capital inform us that all the states of the German confederation are at present concerting measures for a uniform rate of postage for letters throughout the whole of Germany, and that a congress will shortly be held at Dresden to this end. Meanwhile, the Postmaster- General of Prussia, M. de Schaper, has proposed another reduction of the postage is the Prussian states, and his pro position has been favourably received by the council of nisten. M. de Grunwald, lieutenant-general in the Russian service, has, according to the Journal de Francjort, arrived at Berlin, reed with a mission to the King. INTERNATIONAL COUYRIGLIT. M. Alexandre Dunker, an eminent bookseller of Berlin, has received the decoration of the Legion of Honour from the King of the French, for a circumstance which more than the civil dis tinction honours the trade of which he is a member. His house in Berlin is one of those which deal most largely in French publications; and, anticipating the tardy action of international arrangement, be has for some years voluntarily i resigned a very large amount of profit by excluding from Ws transactions all piratical editions, and refusing to sell those issued by the !suitable proprietors.—Athennion. VIENNA, MARCH 25.—The condition of the manu facturers in this city is deplorable. Most of the cotton spinners work at a loss, and have been obliged to diminish the number of their hinds. The unemployed spinners in Vienna are now about 1,500 in number. They have neither bread nor work ! AUgemsine Zeilung. REDUCTION OF TUE ARMY.—A reduction will take place in the Austrian army, to the amount of 8,000 men ; the troops which in the ordinary course would have been dis beaded next year, will be disbanded this. The saving made by this reduction will be one million of florins. It Is stated that Archduke Albert will be named civil and military governor of Galieis, and his brother Archduke Charles- Ferdinand is to succeed him in the command of the forces in Lower Austria. BADEN.--CARLSRVIIE, MARC!! 27.—The Manheim Journal of the above date says This evening three hun dred men of one of oar regiments patrolled the whole town, and visited all the taverns and public-houses, in order to see to the safety of the city, which, according to a gipsy prophecy, was to have been set on fire on the night of the 27th. Several families in Stephanie and Academy streets had, a few days previous, commenced to pack up their linen and clothes, in readiness for any emergency. THE TWEED ROYAL MAIL PACKET.—The locality where the wreck is said to have occurred agrees too exactly with the estimated ship's place on the day assigned to it, the strength and capricious set of the currents in that part of the Gulph are so well known, and the statements in the American journals are too definite, to leave thorn for hope that the re port is altogether unfounded. We yesterday stated that at all times, and especially at present, there ware generally few passengers on thsa part of the voyage. We are enabled to corroborate this statement by an announcement furnished yesterday by Capt. Chappell, the indefatigable secretary of the Royal Mail Steam-ship Company. When the Tweed left Granada, her starting point on the present voyage, she bad but seven passengers on board for Vera Cruz. These were—Mr. Price, of tho firm of Manning, Mackintosh, and Co., of Vera Crux ; Mr. Ellice, nephew of Russell Ellice, ' Esq., the East India director ; Mr. Ynchausti, Mr. Ferias, Mr. Fontecha, Mr. G. Le Charlier, Mr. Bausel. It is poe aible that passengen may have booked from Jamaica and the Havannalt for Vera Cruz, in which event they would of course be on board when the alleged wreck took place ; but it is not considered probable that any had so booked. The officers and crew of the ship alone number ninety souls. COLONIAL CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.—Loss or CAPTAIN GIBSON, Da. HOWELL, AND THE HON. ME. CHETWTND. —We have received the details of this melancholy event. They were all new comers, and unacquainted with the Kaffir character and tactics. Captain Gibson and Dr. Howell had the charge of 70 men, and the sick, en the banks of the Kei. Being short of rations, they went with a party to take some cattle for use. They fell in with a herd, apparently unguarded (placed in all probability as a decoy), I and, accompanied by four Hottentots, detached them- 1 1 selves from the men to drive them away. They were waylaid by a party of about 150 Kaffirs, and the officers, with two of the Hottentots, killed,' before the soldiers, alarmed by the firing, when two miles distant from them, could reach the spot. Dr. Howell's horse was killed at the first fire, and his friends sacrificed their own lives rather than abandon him. They had fired away all their ammunition, and their dead bodies were found lying beside seven or eight of the enemy whom they bad shot. - The bodies had been mutilated in a shocking manner by the beastly savages. Capt. Gibson was married his wife and family are in Europe. lie was about to retire from the service, and it is said had indeed given up his papers and might have left the camp, but declined to do so as long as his corps (the rifles) was in the field. The Hon. Mr. Chetwynd was not more than twenty-five years old, and Dr. Howell was about the same age. Zbe (cart. WINDSOR, MONDAY. The Queen and Prince Albert took walking exercise, this morning, in the Slopes. The royal family took their accustomed walking and pony exercise, to-day, in the pounds around the Castle. His Serene Highness Prince Lowenstein is expected to arrive at the Castle this evening, on a visit to her Majesty. the Duke of Cambridge arrived in town yesterday, from his residence at Kew, and visited her Ma jesty the Queen Dowager, at Marlborough House. Despatches were sent off yesterday evening from the Colonial-ofliee for the Governor of the Falkland Islands. The Marquis of Sligo has arrived at Farrance's Hotel, Upper Selgrave-street, front Ireland. Mr, Henry Tufnell, M.P., has left town for Dublin. Sir Gaspard Le Merchant, the lately appointed Governer of Newfoundland. left town with his suite, and embarked on Sunday at Liverpool, is the steamer for Halifax. CITY OP LONDON GENERAL PENSION SOCIETY.— Yesterday a general meeting of the subscribers to the above society—founded in 1818, fur providing a permanent relief to decayed artisans, mechanics, manufacturers, tradesmen, and their widows, above 60 years of age—was held at the Londoa Tavern, for the election of 4 additional pensioners hem a list of 22 candidates. Luke James Hanmrd, Esq., in the chair. The report stated that there are now, inde pendent of yesterday's election, 32 men and 29 females. The men receive 11. 75., and the females 18s. per mouth. The directors stated that His Royal Highness the Duke ot Cambridge would preside at the anniversary festival in May, when they hoped to increase the pensioners' payments to the original amount, being 4s. more than the peasant monthly payments. ACTIONS IN THENEW COUNTY COURTS.—As action' in the superior courts for BUMS not exceeding 201. have been discontinued, it is desirable to know what actions may be brought in the New County Courts. The offices of the metropolitan districts are now opened, and several of the courts in a few days will be in active operation, It appears from the act and the rules of practice, that demands are not to be divided, but may be reduced to 201., and the judg ment of the court is to be taken to be a discharge of the remainder. All pleas of personal actions, where the debt or damage claimed is not more than 201., whether on a balance of account or etherwise, may be holden in the county court under this act, without writ; and all such actions brought in the court are to be determined in a summary way, accord ing to the provisions of the act; but such court is not to have cognisance of any action of ejectment, or in which the title to any incorporeal hereditament., or to any toll, fair. market, or franchise is in question, or in which the validity of any devise, bequest, or limitation, under any will or set tlement may be disputed, or for any malicious prosecution, or for any libel, slander, or for criminal conversation, or for seduction, or breach of promise of marriage. Nothing ap pears in the act to prevent an action for an assault where the damages are not laid at more than 201. THE ETHER-VAPOUR.—We extract the following from a paper by Dr. Gardner upon this interesting subject in the Lancet : " The first published intimation in the medi cal journals in this country, of the power of ether-vapour, was that contained in a reference and paragraph in the Lars : cee,of December 26, 1848, and published at length in the communication of Dr. Bigelow, of Boston, and Dr. H. J. Bigelow, of Measachusetta, United States, transmitted to Dr. Boott, of (lower-street, in which it was stated that the patent bears the name of Dr. Charles T. Jackson, a distin guished chemist, sad of Dr. Morton, a skilful dentist, of this city, as inventors, and has been issued to the latter gentleman as proprietor.' It is certainly a matter of no slight interest to trees the history of the discovery,—to ascertain the respective merits of the two persona who are willing to share the honour— to liar* whether, by a happy accident, by a train of rea- coning, or by long-continued and anxious experiment', te was at length arrived at. Moreover, the questions will arise, Is there any other person claiming the discovery Revs they any grounds for their claims, real or apparent? What aid or assistance did the discoverers derive f rerus sources beyond their own minds ? I am fortunately enabled, by a communication just received from Boston, from the yap best authority, to return a very satisfactory answer to soused these questions. To Dr. W. T. G. Morton, a native of Masse. cements, practirring in Boston as a dentist, is the world mainly indebted for this great discovery. The history of the dia. covery is as follows : Dr. Morton having received the its. pension from some source (of which more in the sequel) that a means of obviating the pain of surgical operatkee was greatly desired by surgeons, and no doubt confirmed la this feeling by his own practice of extracting teeth, eon. meneed, upwards of two years ago, making experiments to attain the object. He tried, it appears, a number of agent,, always first making his experiments upon himself, often in. turfing no small danger, and once during that period with very nearly fatal results. Dr. Morton had, whilst a etudes% attended the lecture' on chemistry of Dr. C. T. Jackson, and he communicated to Dr. Jackson the object of his raped. mental inipiry. The latter, in answer, observed that Imbed seen, in his college days, sulphuric ether, in a highly ore oentrated auto, produce insensibility, and it might thews. fore answer his purpose. On receiving this hint, D r , Morton hurried home, and locking himself up in Menem; saturated a sponge with highly concentrated ether, looked at his watch to note the time, and then covering his mouth and nose with the saturated sponge, he inhaled the ether as freely as possible. He soon began to feel approaching insensibility, the sponge fell from his hand, he reclined Ina in his chair, and entirely lost his consciousness. As he b egsa to recover, he felt a numbness of his limbs, a sensation as nightmare, and he anxiously desired come one to come and rouse him. At length, however, he fully recovered his osa seiousnes, and looking at his watch, he found, to his inex pressible delight, that he had been insensible eight minutes: As soon as he was able to leave his room he was anxiom try the ether on a patient. A stout healthy man soon pre sented himself to have a tooth extracted. The ether was inhaled, the tooth extracted, and the patient asserted that he was entirely unconscious of pain. Other operations tol -1 owed, and Dr. Morton became satisfied of the safety and efficacy of the ether vapour. This was La the month of Sep tember, 1816." COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS' SCllOOLv.—Yesterday, a quarterly court of this charity was held at the London Tavern, for receiving the report, auditors' statement, and for the transaction of general business, Richard Groneock, Esq., in the chair. The report stated the objects of the institution to be the clothing, maintenance, and educational the destitute orphans of deceased, and the children of meets sitous, commercial travellers. There are now .531 donors al 6,2211. 18a. ; and 286 annual subscribers, including 1001. annum from the National Mercantile Life A•surance Come piny. The present annual income of the institution is 582/. sa. Since Christmas last there has been an addition% the funds of 8581. 9s. • and there is now invested in the Them per Cents. 5,0001. It was stated that in June next the elm tion of twenty children into the sthsols would take place. EDUCATION.—Sir,—I see the opponents of the government plan of education are boasting of returning money they have already received to the treasury again, The two places I have seen actually named are, Essex and Coventry. If no one else has written to you about mow coming from the dissenters of Coventry to the treasury, I wish you would get your correspondent in td at city to inquire about it, for I think it will turn out to be a mistake, if not something worse. It is several months since I was in that renowned city, but I have no doubt you will find the following facts correct on inquiry A few years ago, one al the dissenting ministers in the city wanted to build a Seedy school, and, money not coming in to his wishes, he applied to government, and obteincd, somehow or other, a consider able sum, with, of course, engaging, by deed I believe, that a day-school should be taught on the Limessterian system. The government school inspectors, however, could not find this school, from some misdirection ; and when I was last it Coventry, the whole mystery had just been cleared up, by the persevering efforts of the present inspector for that die. evict, who found out the lost school, and the parties who got the money from government. As the school had never been toed as a day-school on any system, :the money wee ordered to be returned. If ths should prove to be the money now boasted of as returned, I fear voluntary people will lose more than they will gain by Raying anything shoat it.—J. B.—Reading, April 3, 1847.—P.5. I gave you my name, as a guarantee that the facts can be relied on. THE EASTER FAlRS.—Yesterday the usual Satoh nalias, peculiar to this season, commenced at Greenwich, Stepney, Wandsworth, Chalk-farm Brook-green Hamm smith, and the Chalk-road, Islington. At Greenwich Richardson's," and " Algae's" Crown and Anchor booth, occupied their usual positions, surrounded by a host of mime candidates for histrionic and terpsichorean fame, the plats being thronged throughout the day with countlessAhousands from the metropolis. Stepney, the next in magnitude, was equally well attended, and the others received a propor tionate share of public patronage. All of them were under the control of the police, who caused all amusemeGss cease at 11 o'clock. _ _ • CREMORNE GARDENS.—Though the weather was by no means favourable for out-door amusements, these gar dens were thronged with vioitora during the whole of the afternoon and evening. Yesterday was the first time of their being open this season, and the chief entertainmeot was afforded hp Mr. Green and his Nassau balloon. The process of inflation,which was watched with great interest by the crowd, having been completed shortly after six o'clock, the car was attached, and Mr. Green, accompanied by shod twelve gentlemen, ascended. There was a brisk breeze fres the north-west, and, after clearing the gardens, the bailout almost immediately crossed the Thames, and was carried off in the direction of Clapham and Brixton. After the d► parture of the balloon, • concert was given in the theatre of the gardens; this was followed by a ball; and the entertain merge were closed by a grand display of fireworks. Several improvements have been made in these garden; singe last season, and the grounds are now in good order. INQUESTS, YESTERDAY.—POVERTY. — Before Mr. W. Baker, at the Rose and Crown. Queen.street, Upper East Smithfield, on the body of Christopher IM`Geary, aged 46, who died on Friday morning. The deceased was for merly in affluent circumstances, and carried on business is Jersey as a woollen draper. lie became reduced in his affairs, and about three months since fell Jersey with his wife and two children. On arriving in London he obtained a lodging in Queen-street, for 2s. 6i. per week. He wu in great distress, and could scarcely procure any food for hie family. He subsequently obtained a scanty subeisteace by selling rags to several Irish brokers. lie suffered from greet rivatiens, and his health was much impaired, during** Past few days. On Friday morning last he appeared very fl, and after eating some dry bread for his breakfast, he laid himself down upon a miserable bed, the only article of knit tune in the room, where he shortly afterwards expired. Mr. Brown, a surgeon, made a post-mortem examination faiths body, and attributed death to a diseased heart. Vadat: " Natural death."—Tan BODY OF A CHILD FOUND to A PORTHANTEALT.—Before Mr. Bedford, at the Rising Ens, Charles-street, Grosvenor-square, on the body of • new-bora male child, name unknown.—Elizabeth Furberville, lady's maid in the service of Miss Wilson, of No, 2, Upper Eccles ton-street, 13elgrave-square, said that on Saturday Wt. whilst searching the boxes in • lumber-room, she found tbs body of the child rolled up in a white cloth, and packed ins portmanteau —Mr. E. Span, surgeon, of No. 77, Onwessee street, said that he bad made an external examinstioa of the body, and saw no marks of violence. It bad been in the bK about a month, and was far advanced in decompositioa. It was in such a state that it would be impossible to learn eves by opening the body whether it had been born alive or net There was ample proof that the mother had received se medical attendance.—Mr. Wilson said he had made aline. estuary inquiries, and could not find by whom the child bad been put en such an extraordinary place. It was evident however, that some one in his house was guilty of caw cealing it. The jury returned a verdict of" Found due—. STHANOH SCWHIL—CNNECESSAILY NOVI:AL—At the Dol. phia public house, in Union-street, Lambeth , before Kt. Carter, on the b ody ' of Miss Mary Booth, who was in Mt 81st year, and who expired as far back as Sunday west When the jury were impannelled, the coroner intoned them that they had been called together in consequence oil letter he had received from Mr. Thomas Booth, the nephrli and the lawful heir to the deceased, and who completion that the option of calling a jury or not should be left to es ignorant person like Dunn, the summon ing officer. Bean asking Mr. Booth's reason for writing such a letter, he should call the medical witness and one or two othenW prove the cause of death. The deceased had been, for wards of 50 years, a confidential servant to Mrs. We a lady residing at No. 7, Walcot-terrace, Kennington who is now in her 93rd year. For three SOW weeks preceding her death she bad been .llO bearing under • severe bronchial affection , an d I" been attended by Mr. Wagstaff, • surgeon in We neighbourhood, who was of opinion she would net over it. On Sunday week she got tip for a short time, In soon afterwards requested to be placed on the but t on shortly a ft er died. bi r .Wagstaff declared that there could!!! be the slightest doubt that the death of the deceased Mg been occasioned by the bronchi a affection, a disesse, said, of which some thousands of aged persons had 00 daring the late winter. At the conclusion of the examining of the witneues, the coroner called upon Mr. Booth to w it as his reason for writing to him, and calling for the present vestigation, and that gentleman replied that on die March Mr. Wagstaff gave • oertificate, accounting kg, causes of death, and semi days, a ft e rwards ' and wine._ asking for or obtaining his perm -soon , had taken it n!“' himself to open the body. If, in the first instance, ben t satisfied that the death had been produced fecal II causes stated in the gentlficate, there WM not WI slightest cause for a post martens examination. Se w , of th n e fa j r ury his here dammais e n sae•ta ininAtlsat or as w pe a rai s not ia;th is aaaarta inter tar of the sanusecing aim, sad declared mat In opinion the inquest was qu ite unaecasary.—The canna said that it was the duty ef the constable in the flint imssep Is nmakelnquest n t i te Jan, in a raan o w n r7w are as nnootjulaicessaryawiriaiesnanaiaa, 4,lSc7ff:tanhtdastnilirbiethnete,eseenc.....l coroner, entered upon in metes that were unnecessary, thE were both liable to be diamlassrl from their 'await: l ;Z the present instance it appeared that his officer bed ex proper discretion, as no inquest was neress ary,and [beep% would not have been put to the expen se of holdinton, it not been for the letter he had received from Mr. Don. The inquest-loom was then cleared, and the jury , 2ft52 2 411. 01 deliberation, returned • verdict that th e deceased nee from the effects of a bronchial attack, and not ff.:ISOM injury done to her.--SOPPOMLU INFANTICIDE. — the tame coroner, at the King's Heed, nnbeihra,ni.on.rntbha.eradtbl,7lpyiyelaire,ftw.ahetriema up in an a ti w aa i hi p n ,r i o l l p i n i` o, e g u t h ii l dt be t h re L . 4 a verdict was recorded. I