The Express. — London, England, 1848-05-15 00:00:00

. ?Clans del sed the mo. (a brother of tnt, receiving t 3 a.m. on plain clothes, is quartered, snbliers, end nation., and tmope wa tt room, where ther officers, Fords at half :cnee of neces -1 the barrack, to opened the n the creet, and dividing oldiers' sleep co:onel sat up .eroora, where e second and onel and his republic, and words, some of and pistols, id an ensign. , named, I be. , holding hie ins his name. on of the poll_ wanted to kill rely demanded era out of the It, joinin• in the colonel at monstrances to duty in vain; own in a body, panied by the Vuerts del Sol, !aptain.general, might retrieve ,fight upon the misers, have trona the 'F-U-07; .era, and gained h through bye ty ur the secret sae at the fOCS: thls circuitous their numbers le, a. they hid iavoured by the one to the house oth. , r was more I in front of the a strong post in yor, and, taking IlVettllel and ar- ,szz I all round). Rudriao, extend is obbquely to lich were ilzo at organ of th; ad po.anos coa st 300, is eri mark ; but from tatione must hays ive of the people. 'flack of the go- ring an eneniy ; idiul of civilians 1 been opened for the patrols had ps, wherever they g priwmerS many is. Nut even an Ding barricades— as the revolted strengthen their hiring such loose rould be brought sat these soldiers sd a retired pro they uttered to the own colonel and tech. d on them reet entering the be Calle Mayor. , ed with discharges the Calle Msyor, palace ; directing ti-anon that passed, timent of Espagas. i Villa, after sutler upon the arcades or. The Bake of e Boteros, as the first entry into the iptain of the Can oe. The revolted, d out to the captain mild win Madrid; shouting " Viva la mand to fire. The halt pat six. The rough Calle Ciud►d dtery of three bras street, which drove of the arcades, back were shattered, and *ion of thtm. It ten, the fire of the our, Brigadier Lee red of a column of t beside him held up is a signal to the in• the shower of balls the houses, shops, wound cl horse, ha gesticulations rather • of the revolted near :cd him. lie pro s as surrendered. ne defections Iron t waver. A sergeant . offered, if assured of esently did. General lace. Still some 100 and their fire could aria being brought up and shrapnel. These neouotered the worst ers at discretion, togs ir might he considered sere left dead on the n B imingo Velo, for- Bothers named Tana. ounded is not known. he Cazadores of Bast, moo, who were Mune- it to see the prisoners, about their faces, hair, rate fight, with their cords, marched within the garrison, from the m crowded to the sad ed more. But no one nil the end of the rrcd all further pro while the military lisade of the garden Tack of the l'oeito, mounced their bloody eld in the open air: the ere occupying in turn a to each. It was only r had been caught with ing of one sergeant, two md five paisanos, were military prisoners were o had shown the most :o undergo the same fate. enforced by duty, at this wive details, which are nteresting. One of the , for the love of God, one I man, for this thirst is was taken of this agon said bitterly, " Do you o deny us a confessor ?" I to die ; for these spared of their fate until the condemned, who were fellows, who w re des heir companions, under elves were to sub spiritual priv beeg de aggravate their &o at. cart in t, which, by g a icipated death, inflicts a listressing than the pain aartial had selected the of the Puerta de Aloes, sa is customary on the the garri so n, wi thth the vast crescent. The officer, the sentence in the midst. met about 10 yards apart, is not to be the custom to eted as executioners were the wall. Four muskets x.rhed. All of these, ex vs, who wept and could t the wall, exhibited the lion. The half pay officer uero por la libertad, y no I die fur liberty, and shall of command being given he rest of the spectacle ii ih and blood. Many, not d by single discharged, the me mortal part, heart or mental shots. T his horrible in the afternoon. Mean m the hill of the Al dded in mournful i gnat i on looking towards discharges were he the ou r down the opposite hill, egiment bands playing their les galloping down tkuungli lumen to till artillery p ath. have profoundly affected amcly, the return of those chose li ve s had been spared. wobegone, y without rdercd, somme anlame, others all pinioned, with one ex piteous spectacle i eves ex piteous mem ber ; and their staring eyes seemed to ri fleet the dismal I s ight they bad just witnessed. Nevertheless one was even por tly s kewed, and held up his bead proudly. He seemed anxious to show that he wiu not dishonoured by bonds, by displaying a silver-keaded walking-stick, which he was suffered to retain possession of. The head 0 the gang was a pa, douching figure, in rusty black, like a poor German student or achoolmaster, with a prodigious beard and and light disordered hair, who was lame, wounded perhaps, and o bliged to make painful efforts to keep pace with the swift antrehieg troap and their gay band. &literals has published a circular to the political chiefs, in which he extols the victory of the government, dwells on the cowardice and insignificance of the foolish and ascribes the insurrection, in common with the foolish moderado papers like the Espana, to foreign gold. This implicit and absurd accusation against Sir Henry Saliva is of a piece with the rest of the ronduct ot ministers towards Our representative, of whom they believe every ridiculous talc their spies and in. f o rmers bring. The following address to the Queen has been signed by all the medersdos of any consideration in Madrid : “SEtioliA,—The undersigned congratulate your Majesty and the government on the triumph obtained in the morning of this day over the disturbers of public order, and offer, as Spaniards and gentlemen, their fertunes and lives at the feet of your Makety.—Madrid, May 7, 1848 . ... An address, I understand, is also getting up by the pros ree istas, but which will, probably, be considered as convey ing a side censure on the government, and not be permitted to be presented. The captain general's °facial account of the execution to the Minister of War furnishes a feature or two in addition is the above account. The clemency of the government is em• tolled for not decimating the whole two battalions—that is, for not causing IGO men to be shot. The executioners were c hosen from the guilty regiment. The .altliers not shot were gripped of their unitonm, and conducted to the public prison : they are condemned to hard tallour in presidio for life. But probably the day of their delivery is not far off. The captain.aeneral addressed the troops, with an admoni tory allusion to the executions, sad the corps defiled before the bodies of the executed, and then marched to their several _ barracks. Many soldiers of the two battalions which revolted have fled, having succeeded in gaining the open country through the l'uerta del Toledo : among these are six sergeants, who bail the chief hand in seducing the troops. They are adv, r tised, and the captains-general are ordered to be on the alert to arrest them. The Dukes of Osuna, Alba, Abrantes, and other nobles and commoners, presented themselves yesterday at the palace, to offer their lives and fortunes at the feet of the Queen, and were harangued by Narrate, who modestly disclaimed the merit of having conquered the t , oicure in favour of the army's valour and loyalty. Latest News.—D. Jose Fulgosio, Captain-General of New Castile, did not live to see his promotion to the rank of teniente-generaf inserted in the Gazette. He expired at six o'clock this morning, in great agony. The wound wan im flitted in his lett groin with a blunderbuss quite close. All the gates of the city are carefully guarded, and no one per mitted to leave Madrid, even to take a walk in the neigh bouring allevs, without a special order from the political thief. Thiiwas also the case ye,terilay. ITALY. Our Paris correspondent writes as follows, under date of Saturday: The journals and corre spondence of Turin to the 9th have reached me, in cluding a variety of details from the theatre of war. It appears that the Duke of Savoy was actively engaged in inspecting the works constructed round Peschiera preparatory to the bombardment of that place. The Italian forces which invested it were making the most active preparations for the siege. General Manno commanded the artillery, and guns of enormous calibre had alrea.:y been fixed to batter it; it was expected that the cannonade would be opened on the 6th. According to the latest accounts at Vienna, Baron Wilden had arrived with his men at Volargno, and is therefore in close communication with the Field Marshall, General Radetzki. Count Nugent was with the head-quarters at Conegliano ; the vanguard was at Sussigano. The enemy is on the other side of the river, and has there placed its field-pieces and troops. The Ponte di Piare has been completely burnt down. Two battalions have been despatched to Carp di Ponte, and to Ilellerno, to keep open the communications in the mountains and the Strada d'Allemagna. PAPAL STATES.—A great mass of journals and correspondence have been received to-day, bringing news from Rome to the 4th instant. All that we have communicated for the last few days in a scattered form is substantially confirmed. A struggle, in fact, is maintained between the pontiff, in his capacity as a temporal prince, and his subjects. The pope, on the one hand, entertains conscientious scruples against levying war against Austria. His subjects, on the other hand, devotedly attached to his person as they are, and not unthankful for the part which he has taken in advancing liberal institutions, are nevertheless inflexibly determined that the Roman states shall not stand passively by while all the other Italian provinces and principalities are uniting in a noble effort to expel foreign rule from the peninsula. In short, they are resolved, one and all, to drive the Austrians beyond the Alps, and the utmost that will be conceded to the conscientious sera; les of Pius IX. is permission to retain the nominal sovereignty of his states, while a laical ministry, exercising the execu tive power independent of him, shall do that which his scruples forbid him from doing. It appears, from the letters we have received, that frem the lst to the 3rd inst., Rome was without a govern ment. The ministers had resigned, and others had not been appointed. The manifestoes of the Pope remonstrating against a war with Austria, were no sooner posted on the walls than they were indig nantly torn down ; the civic guard were placed in pickets at the palaces of the cardinals, to protect them from popular indignation; the entire population resembled in clubs, and sat in permanence. A deputation, consisting of MM. Fiorentino, Mam miani, Sterburi, and General Rigano, was unani mously named to go to the Quirinal to inform the Pope of the ultimatum of the people, which involved three conditions :-1. A ministry composed only of laity. 2. The dismissal of Cardinal Antonelli. 3. The dismissal of the Austrian Ambassador. 4. That war should be proclaimed in the official Gazette. The ministers, in reply to this demand, supplicated the people to grant them two days to endeavour to accomplish these objects, and promising that if they did not succeed they would retire in a body. It was notified also that a statement would appear in the official Gazette to the following effect: The ministry, with its president, being unanimous upon ill questions, is engaged at this moment with Italian hearts in adopting all the measures which they believe in their con science necessary or useful for the well being of the state, and for the triumph of the Italian cause. It was also decided that an envoy should be de spatched to the army to regularise the position of the troops and the volunteers. M. Farina was accord ingly despatched on this mission. At seven in the evening the deputation returned to the assembly with the reply of the ministers, upon which several motions of a violent character were proposed, whereupon M. Fiorentino exclaimed, " Do you desire a revolution—do you desire anarchy or foreign intervention ?" The people responded, "No revolution !" "No foreigners in Italy r " Then," rejoined M. Fiorentino, ' you must grant two days to the ministry to resolve the immense difficulties which surround them." The cries of the people, not satisfied, called for an explanation from the balcony. M. Fiorentino thereupon entreated Ciceroacchio to address them. " Alas ! my dear sir," replied the tribune, " if the question is to disembarrass the Fear Pope of the scoundrels which surround him I am your man, but I am not good at speechifying." Again urged, he went to the window and said to the people, " My friends, a common match is suffi cient to burn a straw mattress,but it seems that three days are necessary to overturn a government. Let us wait!" The crowd then retired in admirable order, bat with an unequivocal air of determination. These events took place on the 2nd. Op the night between the 2nd and 3rd the nationaltuard con tinued under arms. A letter dated on the morning of the 3rd says that all the ministers bad secretly fled from Rome, and that a new ministry was then being formed. A letter of the sth from Civita Vecchia, announces the formation of a new ministry, thus composed : Cardinal Chiacchi, President of Council, par inte rim, Cardinal Grioli, Count Marchetti, Foreign Affairs; Forenzio Mamiani, Interior; Pasquale de 11°6 i , Grace and Justice; Lunati, Finances; Prince Doris. Samphili, War; Duke di Rignano, Commerce; Caletti, Police. Letters of the 4th say that Rome was then tran quil, and that the cardinals were relieved from the Poreillance of the national guard, with the exception of Bernetti. The . department of foreign affairs was resolved into two, ecclesiastical and temporal ; Car dinal Orioli presiding over the former, and Professor 'Marchetti over the latter. Distrust, however, still prevailed. Complaints were made of the undue inter "nee of foreign ministers at the Quirinal. The ministers of the Italian states, informed of this, assembled at the Dutch embassy, and protested against this abuse of diplomatic privilege. An address to Count Mamiani was presented by the national guard, demanding that the following articles should form the programme of the new ministry : 1. Po re-establish the Italian nationslities, which had been trodden under foot. 2. To unite with free people and liberal gnvernmen I, and preserve only with absolute governments such relations as the interest of commerce oblige. 3. To trust in lumen', and not in foreign assistance and promises. 4. To create a new pact between the people conformably to their true interests and the natural and un changeable principles of international right. 6 Never to compromise with Austria, nor to sign any peace not having for its basis the Alps as the rontien of Italy from the Vero to Brenner° and thence to ()warner°. 6. A blank in the original. 7. To make our diplomacy worthy • free and great nation. No znore dissimulation, no more deception — moderation and courage. The municipal council held a meeting, at which it expressed a wish that the Popo should become a mediator in the Italian question; and that if his ne gotiation should not have a happy result, that the war should be continued. The propositions to recon cile the duties of a prince with the requirements of conscience that should be made to Pius IX. should be the following : 1. To become a mediator of peace. 2. Not to oppose the military operations pending any negotiations. 3. That the conditions of peace should be—A, Italian nationality and in dependence; B. withdrawal of Aurrians from Italy; C, a diet to sit at Rome to tiz the conditions. 4. After the ac ceptance of these preliminary conditions the Popo to be created pres Vent of the diet. 5. If the conditions are not accepted the war to be prosecuted with his consent anti ap probation, and with the aid of the prntiflcal army. One of the expedients proposed for evading the' difficulties arising from the conscientious scruples of ' the Pope was to order all the Roman troops to place themselves as volunteers directly under the standard of Charles Albert. The last advice. say that the ministry above men tioned had not proved satisfactory to the people, and that all was stiil involveti in uncertainty. PIEDNIONT.—The Prince Eugene, lieut.-general of Sat dinia, opened the parliament on the 7th, with a speech on the part of the crown, in which, alter re viewing the position of the King of Sardinia and of ' the country, with reference to the other Italian states, he declares that as he has the courage to undertake, so will he have the courage to carry out to its termi nation the liberation of Italy, and that so soon as the desired league shall be firmly established with the other parts of the Peninsula, such changes in the laws shall be made as should tend to attain for Sardinia that degree of favour to which, for the welfare of Italy, Providence would lead it. NAPLES.—We have a letter from our correspon dent, of the 4th inst., which, among other interesting matter, contains the news of an armistice having taken place between the Nlessincse and the com mander of the citadel on the tad of May. GERMANY. CAPITULATION OF THE POLES OF POSEN. PRUSSIA.—The following letter from our Cologne correspondent brings the latest news from Posen, and other parts of the Prussian territory: COLOGNE, SATURDAY MORNINO, MAY 13. The Polish insurgents in Posen, threatened as they were with utter annihilation by a vastly superior army in point of numbers and discipline, have laid down their weapna un conditionally, and place d themselves entirely at the mercy of their conquerors. The capitulation took place on the Nth lest., at Mielozyn, between 0 mum and Wretches, the Polish force at that time amounting to 13,000 men. According to the Breslauer Zeitung, the Poles bad lost 7,500 in killed and wounded during the battle, near Miloslaw, on the 4th inst. The same journal states that during the contest at Zokalews, where the Poles defeated the Prussians, the former had some hundreds of their men burned to death in a sheepfold, which the latter blocked up and set fire to. These lows, and the intelligence that almost every day the Prussians were receiving reinforcements, particularly in artillery, made the I'ules reflect on the desperate nature of the contest is which they bad embarked, and in duced Mieroalawski, a judicious as well as brave par tisan chief, to otter terms of submission, after he had in vain attempted to break through the enemy's ranks that hemmed him iu on three aides, leaving only one outlet of escape—the one leading to Minis. General Von Womb, the bitter enemy of the 1 olish race, and to whose irritating conduct the majority of the evils which have lately afflicted the duchy of Posen may be attributed, taking advantage.of his position would listen to no terms, but sternly demanded an unconditional surrender. As before stated, the entire corps then laid down their arms. The government has sub mitted to the king a proposition to parcel out the national demesnes in the duchy of Posen to those soldiers who have fought against the Poles. The price of the acre is set down at 15 silbergrotchen (about Is. 61.), and the land will he duty-free during three years. The tenants, more aver, will be furnished (gratis) with timber for erecting their dwellings. It appears to be the general opinion, that al though the Poles have surrendered unconditionally, they will be treated indulgeatly. In fact, the government will not dare to punish them as rebels. It is worthy of mention that 104 students of the university of Berlin have petitioned the government to grant a full amnesty to the Poles. It appears by severs' journals that the men under Mieroalaw ski's immediate command, had attained to a good state of discipline, and unequivocally declared in favour of the prin ciples of their leader, who is a stern republican. The Minister of War has issued a circular, expressing his conviction that all those officers who have been chosen as deputies to the Berlin or Frankfort Diet will be allowed by their superiors to proceed to either of those cities, in order to fulfil their honourable miesivil. The elections for the German parliament at Frankfort ter minated at Berlin on the 10th ind. Herr Camphausen, the president of the council, was one of the six successful candi dates; and Dr. Nauwerck, a republican, another. Both were elected in two districts ; and as Herr Von Roan (formerly president of the commercial tribunal, and at present the Prussian ambassador to the United States of America) was chosen in two or three districts as a substitute, it is probable that he will be electeu as a deputy. There appears to be some doubt respecting the accuracy of the statement that the Emperor Nicholas had arrived in Warsaw. Several German journals persist in the assertion, but an English courier who arrived at Berlin on the 9th inst., declared that when he left St. l'etersburg, three days before that date, the Emperor was still in that capital, and that there was no talk of his going to the Polish capital. Acccording to the Berlin correspondent of the Cologne Gazette, the cavalry regiment of the Lsndwehr of that me tropolis is about to petition for the return of the Prince of Prussia, under whom, it is added, they will conquer or die. The want of employment is still the great complaint of the working classes of Belli°, and the hopes which they had placed on the great fair at Leipsic have been disappointed, as very little business has been transacted there up to the present time, and as no fresh orders have been given. The Berlin manufacturers at present in Leipsic have requested the minister of finance to advance the sum of one million of thalers upon the goods which they have in that town, where they purpose depositing them until there is a demand for them. By sending them back to Berlin there would be no chance of selling them—so state the manufacturers. The minister has held out the prospect of a compliance with their demands. This advance will enable the Berlin manufactu rers to meet their pecuniary engagements. The one million in question will be deducted from the ten millions voted by the last Diet for the support of Prussian industry, The elections in the above capital of Silesia for Berlin have terminated in favour of the radical party. AUSTRIA.—From Vienna, under date May 8, we learn that the Emperor had accepted the resignation of Baron von Falatzka, president of Lower Austria, and had charged Count von Montecucoli with the affairs of that office. The Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung contains a corre spondence from Tenth, under date May 3, in which it is stated that the cabinet of Vienna has re ceived a note from the French cabinet, threatening to interfere in Italy, with a force of 250,000 men, and 400 cannon, in case Austria should enter into an alliance with England against the independence of Italy. This statement has a very doubtful appear ance. Gallicia is still greatly excited. Two new ministries have been created at Vienna ; one for public works, and the other for commerce and industry. IENMARK AND THE DUCHIES. According to accounts from Kolding up to the evening of the Bth, the I)anes had been bombarding Ftidericia all that morning, from 24 ships of war, and had fired it in two places. The Prussian artillery replied in good style, and had sunk some craft belong ing to the enemy. 10,000 Swedes will shortly assemble at Gothenburg, whence they can be forwarded in eight hours to ' Jutland. The Swedes entertain great hostility to the Germans, and their junction with the Danes would, in all probability, turn the tide of the battle. The Berlingedte Zettung of Copenhagen positively asserts that 20,000 Swedes have received marching orders, and that a corps of Swedish allies may shortly be expected to arrive on the I)anish territory. From German ve ult. to the 3rd inst. not less than sixty-four ssels were captured by Danish men-of-war. A bill for a war tax to the amount of four millions of rix dollars has been laid before the Danish paxlia ment at Roeskild (the old capital, at least royal residence, at Denmark). It is hinted that Russia will supply the needful cash, the funds being at a rather low figure in the royal treasury of Denmark; so much so, indeed, that the King is converting all his valuables into hard coin. THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 15, 1818. PORTUGAL. with &Cup of the highest satisfaction. I warmly appre ciate the many gratifying torpors of the loyalty of the citivon of your ancient city, and of their firm attachment to the principles of the British constitution. It is my earnest desire to reign in the affections of my people, and to uphold and strengthen the free institutions which this country has long enjoyed, and which I feel to be the surest foundation of its happiness and prosperity." The Oriental Company's steam-pecket Montrose, Captain J. Bowen, arrived at Southampton yesterday, and landed her mails under the charge of Lieutenant Y. Rainier, R.N., Admiralty agent. her dates are : Gibraltar, May 6th ; Cadiz, 7th ; Lisbon, Bth ; Oporto, 10th; and Vigo, 10th. The Montrose brought 22 packages of specie. LISBON, MAT 9. A ministerial crisis is daily looked for, the effect of which will be to hand over the government of the country once more to Costa Cabral. The palace fac'ion that will bring back the minister to power is apparently at war, and split into two sections—the one assuming moderation U a garb, being headed by the ex-minister himself; while the ultras of the party have ranged themselves under the leader ship of Cabral's brother Jos4. The affected antagonism, however, is unreal, and the pretended quarrel is a juggle. A most melancholy spectacle has also been witnessed during the past week in the Upper House or Chamber of Peers. It may be remembered by your readers that in last year's discussions in either Howie of Parliament in Eng land, upon tho subject of our interference in Portugal, ministers in the course of debate referred to a proclama tion purporting to have emanated from the Oporto junta, to have been dated from Coimbra, and to have had appended to it the signatures of the Marquis of Louie (the Queen's uncle), and of the Viscount de Saa, and others, its purport tieing that the object of the revolt was " to de throne the Queen ;" and it was principally upon the strength of this document that Lord Palmerston justified British in• terference. The asserted existence of this paper has now been the subject of violent contention in the Portuguese chamber. The Marquis of Louis and other peers assailed have boldly charged the ministers with " fraud and forgery," and denied upon their honour that any such proclamation ever was issued, or similar intent ever contemplated by the mem bers of the Oporto junta. The Duke of Saldanha at last confesses that " ne such document exists, and that he now believes it to have been a foreery," bearing in mind that Col. NVyldo compelled the nob!e duke to retract and confess a similar impudent forgery, in which the English commis sinner's name was made a handle of, when the duke pleaded " state necessity" as the apology for having pledged his word as a marshal and a peer to a published falsehood, Commerce of all description is suffering sadly, the most solid firms are struggling only to meet expenses, tew are the houses but are carrying on business at a loss, and if we have not a speedy change in the government English trade must be ruined altogether. Exchange on London, 30 days, 621, ; ditto, 00 days, 621. In metals no alteration. The Stromboli is now the only British vessel of war in the Lisbon waters. DEATH OF LORD ASHBURTON. The unexpected decease of Lord Ashburton took place at 3 a.m. on Saturday, at Longlest, the aat of his daughter, the Marchioness of Bath, in Wiltshire, after a few days' illness. The noble lord had complained of indisposi tion hut four days before his dissolution. Lord Ashburton had for the last 40 years taken an active share in political affairs ' and, from the high roeition he occupied in the City of London, as head of the great com mercial firm of Baring Brothers, of which he became the head on the death of his father in 1810, his opinion on commercial matter had obtained much respect in the House of Commons. He was educated at Oxford University, and in 1812 entered parlia ment as member for Taunton, which he continued to repre sent up to 1820. He than sat for the family borough of Cal lington, Cornwall, during the two successive parliaments. In 1831 he was elected member for Thetford. At the next general election he was returned for the northern division of Essex, for which he sat up to 1835, when he was elevated to the peerage by Sir Robert Peel. The noble lord had filled various offices in the government during the administration of the Earl of Liverpool and the fluke of Wellington. In 1828 he was made a member of the Privy Council. On Sir Robert Peel coming into office in December, 1834, the noble lord was appointed President of the Board of Trade and Ma ter of the Mint, with a seat in the cabinet. His lordship went out of office with his political friends, having • few days previously received the honour of • peerage. In 1842 his lordship was selected by Sir Robert Peel to go on • special mission to America, to settle the delicate differences then existiug between the two countries. The right hon. baronet could not have found • more able person to carryout the views of the British government. His lord chip's visit to America was most succsseful, and ended in the Washington treaty. On his lordship returning to England, he received the congratulations of the right hon. baronet and the approbation of his sovereign. His lordship was a trustee of the British Museum and of the National Gallery, and a D C.L. of the University of Oxford. lie was a munificent patron of the fine arts of this country. His lordship was born Oct. 27, 1774, and was consequently in the 74th year of his age. Ile married Aug. '23, 1798, Miss Anne Louisa Bingham, eldest daughter of the late Mr. W. Bingham of Philadelphia, • member of the senate of the United States. By that lady, who survives her husband, his lordship leaves issue three sons and three daughters, namely,—the lion. W. Bingham Baring, M.l'. for Thetford, who succeeds to the title, the lion. Francis Baring, the lion. and Rev. Frederick Boring, the Marchioness of Bath, the lion. Louisa and the lion. Emily Lydia Baring. The Buing family originally came from Bremen. SIR DE LACY EVANS AND THE WEST MINSTER REFORM SOCIETY. At the request of Sir De Lacy Evans, we insert the following communication. The title, as well as the hotly of the letter, are his. He is responsible for both. We merely perform our duty as journalists in affording him an opportunity to express his sentiments in the manner which to him appear. proper : " TO THE FOURTEENTH PART OF THE WESTMINSTER REFORM SOCIETY. " Gentlemen,—T avail myself of this, the first non-par liamentary day of the week, to reply to your communica tion. The above fractional denomination is, I beliese, about the numerical proportion you bear to the society whose name you assume. And I have thus addressed you, lest your in discreet proceedings should prejudice the estimation of the great majority of that hitherto judieous and public-spirited associatom with whom I have had the pleasureof finding my self invariably in accordance, since the institution of the society, some fifteen years ago, to the present time. You have managed, by concealing your object from me and my friends, to scrape together a small meeting, in which to pass a resolution of censure on my past conduct in parlia ment, and of direction as to what it should be in future. You are pleased to say that my 'recent course' in the House of Commons is deeply to be regretted. Permit me to ask you, gentlemen, how am I to mend my ways, and so relieve you from this deep concern, unless you will designate a little more distinctly the conduct you object to ? I have not been left in ignorance, however, on this point. lam in formed by several who attended the meeting and who voted against you, that the ' recent course' thus evasively alluded to meant, in fact, some remarks lately made by me, in the House of Commons, in answer to an honourable member who had preceded me in the debate. Seeing, then, that the cause of your anger and disapprobation has been so ridiculous and misplaced, I shall not take the trouble of miy further reference to it " But when you order me, in the name of the Westminster Reform Society, to place myself under the political guidance of " Messrs. Hume and Cobden," you must forgive me for saying that you not only compromise the character of that society, hut exhibit in a very conspicuous degree your own folly, or that of those who have set you on. Why it was hut the other day, previous to the threatened chartist pro ceeion, that I found myself at issue with the opinions of the honourable member for Montrose. I considered it my duty to tabort the government to prevent that procession from passing through the streets of the city I represent, boasting of violent intentions as the leaders of the chartists did, and escorted as it was expected it would be, by all the thieves of the metropolis, thus exposing the industrious inhabitants of Westminster in particular, to every species of outrage, tumult, plunder, and even lose of life. In opposition to which, the hon. member for Mont rose saw no inconvenience to be apprehended from a million of persons moving in procession through our crowded streets, and ridiculed, as I understood him, the preparations of government, &c. And with regard to the latter hon. gentleman whom you name in your resolution to be one of my chiefs, I feel still more astoahthed at your proposi tion. He it is, who has deemed it his duty pub licly to asperse, to use no stronger term, the offi cers and men, without exception, from the highest to the lowest, of the army and navy ; giving to the illustrious chief of one of these professions a peculiar and revolting measure of disparagement, in which strain he has been followed is va rious speeches as is duty bound by numerous partisans. This may be all just—it may be quite right to warn the country against the interested motives and evil intentions of those persons who have sheil k their blood in their country's service, and who are now systematically held up to odium at public meetings. But as I Morels to be an bumble member of nee of these ' horrid trades,' as the phrase now is, it is rather too much to direct me to take as ray leader the hon. member who has pursued this course, and thus reduce myself to silence under any amount of contumely. As to the reforms required by the condition of the country, I consider it a gra tuitous affront to be admonished on the subject, as I have always supported such measures, and always will do so, be they proposed by whom they may. " With a population of nearly a quarter of a million, supe rior in other respi•ete to every city of the empire, I have felt it of course a high honour to represent for so many years so pre-eminent a constituency as that of Westmiastee. But I should feel noae were I to submit to be thus dictated to, silenced or restricted in the freedom of discussion and action, even by the whole body of the constituency, still less by a dozen or two of misled gentlemen, as in this instance, how ever respectable they . may be individually. In that case, I should fall at once into the degraded position of a mere delegate, instead of remaining the independent and unfet tered representative of the lieerat interests end welfare of the city and of the country generally, which it has been my uniform endeavour to be. Gentlemen, recommending you, when you next assume the authority of selecting parlia mentary leaders for your representatives, to reflect a little as to your right to do so, and as to the qualities requisite for useful parliamentary leadership, I remain your be odient servant, DE LACY EVANS. Saturday. HOLLAND.—Tus HAGUE, MAY 11.—In the sitting of the Second Chamber of the States General, Count Schimmelpenninck made the following unlooked-for com munication:—His excellency stated that the ministers were giving their serious attention to the modification of the fundamental law, but that there wan a difference of opinion upon the subject among the members of the government, which would render a change in the ministry memory. The King had been advised of thin state of affairs, and it was necessary to await his decision. His Excellency stated that the government continued to watch with lively zal over the interests of the nation, and announced that the project of law relative to the modi fl,ation on the duty of multuro rea;:y, and would be presented in a few days, unites the new miais!ry should make any change. Seve ral: members urged the necessity of the speedy decision of this important question.—M. Verwey Migan proposed that the declaration of the president of the ministers should not be regarded as conclusive, and urged that the ministers would unite to consider whether it would not be practicable for them to come to a unanimous 'decision.--M. Gevers Von Enelegust, after thanking the member, stated that there was little hope of such a termination, as the ministers had been anxious to arrive at a unanimous opinion, but found it impracticable.— M. Von Rosenthal asked whether it would not be possibl?for the ministers to continue their labours in the revision of the fundamental law as far as they were of one accord upon the principal points, and to debate at a later period upon those respecting which there was a difference of opinion.—The sitting of the tirst chamber of the States General will be held on Wednesday, the 17th inst. CONFIRMATION AND CONSECRATION OF THE BISHOP ELECT OF CHESTER. The lormal ceremony of confirming the election of the Rev. Dr, John Graham to the see of Chester took place on Saturday morning, at St. James's Church. Piccadilly. The more important and solemn proceeding of the conse cration of the new bishop was performed yesterday morning in Whitehall-chapel by his Grace the Archbishop of York, assisted by the Bishop of Durhsm and the Bishop of Lincoln. The sermon was preached by the Bi'hop's Chaplain, the lire. Mr. Cartmell, who selected for his text the 10th chapter of St. Matthew, verse 32: " Whosoever, therefore, shall confess me before men, him will 1 confess also before my Father which is in heaven." From this text the reverend gentleman preached • brief but mcst appropriate discourse, which he concluded by invoking the divine blessing upon the bishop elect in his labours to promote the gospel of Christ, " and him crucified." The sermon ended, the ceremonial of consecution was proceeded with. gbt Qrourt. BAPTISM OF THE LNFANT PRINCESS. The ceremony of the baptism of the infant Princess, fourth daughter of the Queen and Prince Albert, took place on Saturday evening in the private chapel of Buckingham Palace. The Queen Dowager and Royal Family, the foreign princes in this country, the clergy, the foreign and eahinit ministers, and the ladies and gentlemen 01 the royal household, assisting in or invited to the ceremony, ar rived at the Palace between six and seven o'clock. At 10 minutes before seven o'clock the Lord Chamberlain conducted the Queen to the room in which the Queen Dowager and the other illustrious visitors had assembled. lier Majesty was accompanied by the Prince of Wales, l'rince Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice. The procession of the sponsors was immediately marshalled by Garter King of Arms and passed into the chapel. Prince Albert, proxy for the Duke Gustavus of blecklenburg Schwerin ; the Queen Dowager, proxy for the reigning D D u chess of Saxe Meiningen ; uctiesa of Cambridge. proxy for the Hereditary Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg Strelitz, formed part of it. On the entrance of the sponsors the Queen's private band, which was stationed in the gallery of the chapel, played the last movement of Handel's Corona tion Anthem. The sponsors were conducted to their station by the ccmmunien table on the north side close by the foot of silver gilt, which was elevated on a circular pedestal of white and gold. liar Majesty's procession was then formed, and entered the chapel. The Prince of Prussia leading Prin cess Alice, the Queen, leading Prince Alfred, pre ceding the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal, who entered together, and were followed by the Count of Syracuse, the Duchess of Gloucester, the Grand Duke Bee nerd of Saxe Weimar, the Duchess of Kent, Prince Frede rick William of Hesse, Princess Mary, Duke George of Mecklenburg, Grand Duchess of Saxe Weimar, Princess Amelie of Saxe Weimar, Princess Anne of Saxe Weimar, Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, the Muter of the Horse to the Queen, the Duke of Norfolk, K G , the Duchess of Su therland, and the other ladies and gentlemen of the court. The Queen and the other royal personages were conducted to seats opposite to those of the sponsors by the Lord Chamberlain and the Lord Steward; the royal children being placed by her Majesty on her left, and the royal visitors sts tioning themselves in a line with her Majesty. The Mistress of the Robes, the great officers of the household, the Groom of the Stole to l'rince Albert, the Vitt-Chamberlains, the Lord and Groom in Waiting to the Queen, and the Lord and Majestyn Waiting to the Prince, took theirepr laces near her . The Treasurer of the Household mained behind the sponsors. Iler Majesty being seated, the following corale, the music of which was oamposed by Prince Albert, was performed : la Wed gay morn, ere sprightly youth By vice and folly is enslaved, Oh, may thy Maker's glorious name Be on thy infant mind engraved. So shall no shades of sorrow cloud The sunshine of thy eurly days, But happiness in ensiles round Shall still encompass all thy ways. This conk was performed by her Majesty's private band and the boys and gentlemen of the Chapel Royal. When the music had ceased the Lord Chamberlain, ac companied by the Groom of the Stole to Prince Albert, con ducted the infant Princess into the chapel. The royal infant was dressed in a robe of Honiton lace over whit* satin, and was attended by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton. Her Royal Highness was carried by the head nurse. The baptismal service then commenced, and was performed by the Arch bishop of Canterbury. The Queen Dowager made the re sperms on the part of the illustrious sponsors; and on his grace asking the name of the child, her Majesty named the Princess LOUISA CAROLINE ALBERTA." The service being completed, the Princess Louisa was car ried from the chapel. A grand chorus was then performed, to the words Rosanna to the God of Israel. In him rejoice—declare his praise— , /salt kis name for evermore. 1 . (From a service—Mozart.) This concluded the ceremonial ; and the august sponsors quitted the chapel, followed by her Majesty and her illus. trtous visitors, and passed in procession up the grand stair case to the Thronemoons THE Ramat; or.--The Queen gave a state banquet, in the Picturegallery, in honour of the occasion. The table was covered with geld plate, having interspersed among the epergnes and candelabra a number of reduced copies of the Warwick vase, filled with the choicest plants, in flower. On the buffet, at the south end of the gallery, were arranged a number of the more valuable and interesting articles of plate from the Royal Treasury, enriched with elaborate carvings in ivory, medallions, and precious stones. At S o'clock, the Queen was conducted by the Lord Steward and the Lord Chamberlain to the banquet in the picture.gol tory, accompanied by the royal family, the foreign minis ters, the cabinet ministers, and the other ladies sod gentle men s playing atendance at the ceremonial, the military band en duty y " God save the Queen" on the entrance of the august party. A cabinet council was held on Saturday the the Foreign-office. It was attended by all the ministers in town. The council sat two hours. Prince Soltikoff and suite, and Major Alex. Abazte left London on Saturday morning early by the General Steam Navigation Company's mail steam ship John Bull, for Hamburg. THE QUEEN'S ANSWER TO THE CITY ADDRESSES. The following was her Majesty's answer to the address of the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the City of London, presented on Friday : I have received with the greatest oatiefaction your loyal and dutiful address, and I am very sensible of the affectionate interest which you have expressed in my domestic happiness. I rely with the most entire confidence on the loyalty and attachment of the City of London. I can receive no higher gratification than to be assured of the affections of my people, whose constitutional rights and liberties it is my constant desire to maintain, and with whose happiness my own is in separably connected." The following was her Majesty's answer to the address of the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons of the City of London, presented on the same day: "1 hare marred your dutiful and affectionate addttu Mon, the bar would have to decide all contested points upon Mr. Hildyard, M.P., said, all he could say was, that he each individual case of hardship wh ich an y member might was a neighbour as well as a personal friend of Mr. Yorke, wish to be brought forward. He should therefore move and that he identified the body en the previous day, at the what in parliamentary proceedings wou ld be called the workhouse. Ile hal known him many years, and always previous question, the effect of which would be, in fact, that considered him very eccentric. no resolutions whatever should be proposed. A juryman observed that he thought too much praise could Mr. COLliUlai then came forward, and with much warmth not be given to Mr. Buckles, the chemist, of liond.street, of manner defended the conduct which had been pursued for withholding the poison from the deceased gentleman, by the memben of the bar practising in the parliamentary and that it was much to be regretted that the same precut committees. He would, therefore, move an amendment, tion was not exhibited by the assistant of Mr. Hudson. to the effect, " that it was competent for a barrister, if he The Coroner said he quite concurred in the observation. thought fit, to refuse any brief that was offered to hies." He had personally known Mr. Yorke, who had on many After rime further discussion the amendmen t of Mr. Col- occasions—perhaps as many as a hw.ared times—told him barn was negatived by a large majority. Sir Frederic (Mr. Wakley) that if ever there was an inquest held upon Thesiger's amendment was also negatived, and upon the him, he should hold it. He would also repeatedly ask him resolutioes being put the meeting decided in favour of the (the Coroner) whether he did not thick it likely that he Solicitor-General's resolution, in opposition to the resolu- should some day hold an inquest on anot her member of the Lions proposed by Mr. Hill ' , almost unanimously, there House of Commons, whose name of course ho should not having born not more than twenty hands held up in their mention. Indeed s trong the whole of the unfortunatemight favour._ manners led to a belief that he was not d in his right mind; and after the evidence the jury had heard from the medical gentleman who had examined the body, that he found no less than 12 drachms of water in the ventricles of the brain, and general inflammatory action of the brain, and that deceased was walaing about with his head in that condition, the jury could have no difficulty in coming to a conclusion that be had !destroyed himself in an unsound state of mind. He (the coroner) believed that all the symp toms which the deceased had described as being suffered by his dog were those which he was actually suffering at the time himself. lt the jury wished for further evidence he would go into it, but after what they had heard he had no doubt they were satisfied. The jury returned a verdict " that Henry Gallitano Red head Yorke, M.P., died from the effects of prussic acid, ad ministered by his own hand whilst in an unsound state of mind."—The body of the unfortunate gentleman was, shortly after the termination of the inquest, removed to his late residence for interment. RUMOURED MINISTERIAL CHANOES.—The Hants Advertiser of Saturday, says "We announced a fortnight since, in reference to Sir Robert Peel's special visit so her Majesty at Osborne, that rumour asoribed to that visit the proposition for a change of ministry, and other measures which no minister or en-minister, except Sir Robert Peel, could be 'apposed capable of contemplating. What wee mere rumour has now taken a more definite form, and we believe we are justified in stating that from the arrange menta made at that visit will result a change of ministry, with Sir Robert Peel at the head of the government, a sweeping financial reform in every department of the state, and recipients of the public money, an extension of the franchise, and a shortening of the duration of parliaments." The HIBERNIA, Capt. Shannon, sailed from Liver pool on Saturday for Halifax and New York. THE DISSOLUTION OF THE "NATIONAL" ASSEMBLY. —At the meeting of the delegates on Saturday a desultory discussion took place with respect to the presentation of the national memorial. It was urged that proceuiocs did no good. One member said that go home he must, the state of his exchequer preventing him staying longer in London and another that the national memorial had proved a national failure. Upon this considerable confusion arose, and noise and uproar for a moment stopped the proceedings. A mem ber then got up and said there was no use denying the fact that the assembly did not represent the chartist body ; whilst another said it wan all nonsense to think of a procession under present circumstances. Several other delegates then spoke upon the subject, and it was ultimately resolved that the presentation of the memorial should be lett with the executive. It was then moved and seconded that the assem bly, at its rising, should dissolve. An amendment was moved, that the assembly should only adjourn for six weeks; but the original motion was carried by a large majority. An address was then agreed to, stating what had been done by the assembly, and calling upon the people to organise, and to consider the propriety of forming a new assembly. A vole of thanks to the chairman and to the officers wan agreed to nem. eon., and the national assembly quietly dispersed,to meet no more. ALLEGED FAILURE OF THE GREENLAND FISHERY. —The Hull Advertiser of Friday publishes a letter from Lerwick, announcing the arrival of the smack Pledge, which brings very discouraging news from the seal fishery. The country has been full of Bay ice during the whole season, in which most of the ships were beset, hut are liberated again. Twenty sail, all empty, were beset in the ice from the oth April to the 20th, in tat. 71 40 north. One Dutch ship has been lost in Johnny Blain ' nine of the crew saved. Strong easterly winds prevailed during the season. There was, however, a report of the Commerce having caup,ht 000 seals, and the Traveller 1,000. THE FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAT.-DEATH OF ANOTHER Seerestan.—lNQUEST. Mr. Arthur Lee, of Wadnam College, Oxford, whose inju ries were fractures of the leg and thigh, was taken matte rially worse on Friday, and notwithstandingthat every effort which medical skill could suggest was employed to arrest the unfavourable symptoms, the ill-fated gentleman expired in the course of Saturday, from the effect produced by the inju ries upon his nervous sistem. When our account of Mr. Lee's death was despatched, Capt. Blair continued in a dis tressing and hopeleu state. The other passengers were going on as favourably as could be expected. On Saturday after noon an inquest was held in the Swindon Hotel on the body of Mr. Lee. The witnesses examined were those who gave evidence at the Shrivenham inquest, and the facts elicited were substantially the same. It being found impossible to conclude the inquiry satisfac'orily on Saturday, the inquest was adjourned till Wednesday next. TILE BAR ON THE SUBJECT OF PARLIA MENTARY FEES. On Saturday a nuw.eroue meeting of the bar took place in the Old Hall, Lincoln's-inn, convened by the At torney-General to take into consideration certain matters relating to parliamentary feu The Attorney-General took the chair, and stated that he had been induced to call the present meeting from the following circumstances. It ap peared that a resolution had been come to by many of the b misters practising at the parliamentary bar not to take any briefs from companies or other persons where there were any fees remaining unpaid to other counsel upon pre vious business transacted on behalf of such clients. That in consequence of this resolution one of the Queen's counsel practising at that bar bad felt it hie duly to decline taking a brief which had been offered him by a particular company, and at the same time he had solicited his (the Attorney General's) advice as to whether he was justified in taking such a proceeding. His answer was, that he did not consider it was competent for the learned gentleman to refuse a brief when offered to him, under the perticiaar circumstances of the case. He had then been requested to attend a meeting of the parlia mentary counsel upon the subject ; he had done so, but in consequence of certain resolutions then about to be proposed, he had feared that he might be compromising the general opinion of the bar, and had, therefore, suggested that another and larger meeting of barristers should be con vened. This second meeting also took place, but as very few members of the bar had assembled, he had considered it THE REFORM MOVEMENT. better again to adjourn the meeting, in order that more ' publicity might be given to the profession, and he had ---- therefore called a general meeting, and he was happy to see I so large an attendance upon this occasion. Having now LEBONIL—On Saturday a meeting of the Martleb one vestr y VOTE OF THANKS TO THE MEMBERS FOR MART - I explained his reasons for calling the bar together, he would I took place request Mr. Hill, as the senior member pre s e nt, to move at the Court-house. The rat. rector , Dr. Spry, such resolutions as he might think ht. occupied the chair. Mr. Nicolay brought forward a notice for Mr. flies then rose and said, that in consequence of the a vote of thanks to the members for the borough, for their difficulty arising in respect of business transacted at the par- general conduct in opposing the Health of Towns Bill, and in liamentary bar, the leading members who practised there INQUEST ON MR. REDHEAD YORKE, M.P. their efforts to effect a reduction of taxation, and to those An inquest was held on Saturday, by Mr. Wakley, me:nbers of parliament who had joined them had come to a resolution to direct their clerks not to take movement Mr. Nicolay dwelt upon the assiduity of the in the latter any briefs unless the fees which had become due in the pre- at the Elephant and Castle Tavern, King's-road, Camden borough members, Sir B. Hall and Lord Dudley Stuart, in virus session had all been paid. The object of this resolution town, for the purpose of investigating the death of Mr. reference to the sanitary bill, the window tax, and especially was, that the barristers might protect themselves air fret the Henry Galgacas Redhead Yorke, aged 45, member of par improper c ,one which had been taken by various parties in liament for the city of York, who committed suicide i n the that of Sir B. Hall with regard to Ireland a nd the income omitting to pay their fees that had become justly due. He Reg tax He next referred to the new movement for th e reduc ent's Park on Friday last. tion of taxation under Mr. Hume , and contended that the . considered this a most proper and wholesome rule, and cal- W. Nicholson, butler to the late Mr. Redhead Yorke, at advances made by the members for that borough deserved culated to raise the character of the profession, and he 81, Eaton-equare,said • I last saw him alive a few miuutee not only the thanks of their own constituency , but t hose of thought that any members of the bar who had signed this after nine o'clock yesterday morning. He then left home, resolution were justified in refusing to take any brief from saying he was going down to the house, but that he should the constituency at large. Mr. Glasin s e con ded the persons who had omitted to pay their fees. He should, be back again about eleven o'clock. The examination of re solution.—Sir J. Hamilton, Batt : , cordially concurred therefore, move first, that it was the opinion of this meeting this witness was here broken off, and that of the surgeon in the thanks, which he considered deserved.—The that it was co mpetent for the barristers to enter inta the re- who had made the post mortem examination commenced. motion was put and carried unanimously , amid lou d ap , so l u tion which they had done; and, secondly, that it was as Mr. J. R. Williams, surgeon, 158, Grove-street, Camden - rence in the resolution and said it had never been his lot to louse —The rev. Chairman expressed his cordial concur competent for any member of the bar, who had signed that town , having made a p o st-mortem examination of the body witness more zeal and attention to the interests of a coned resolution, to exercise his judgment in refusing to take a brief of Mr. Yorke, had no doubt but prussic acid was the cause of tuency in his life, more especially by Sir B. Hal l, whom he offered to him where the fees had not been so p a id. death. had been longer acquainted with than the noble lord. The SOLICITOII4.II3NERAL, in addressing the meeting, said James Tonle, modeller, 14, Aldenham-street, Somers- wo (Cheers.) —Lord Dudley Stuart and Sir B. Hall having m ho had consulted with very many of his friends—chiefly town, said : Shortly before one o'clock on Friday, those who practised at the Chancery bar—as to the propriety of passing across the Regent'a-park, in the direction of Cum- versify returned thanks, th e vestry separated. the present proceeding, and he was expressing the feelings of herbed - gate, and saw the deceased lying on his back on the BIRMINGHA3II.—Otth correspondent writes on Satre all with whom he had spoken that there resolutions were grass. I went up to him, and maw him lying with his eyes day as follows :—The declaration in favour of household most objectionable. He disapproved altogether of a meeting half open. I endeavoured to raise him, and called for as- suffrage and the other reforms of the moderate party has of the bar for considering a question solely relating to the sistanee, but it was more than ten minutes before any one now received upwards of 8,0 , 30 signatures. To the manifesto way in which fees were to be taken. The gentlemen who arrived. I think he was then dead, but Ido not think he issued by the new political union, or complete suffrage party, complained had the remedy in their own hands ; the rule of was dead when I first saw him. I did not see any phial about 6,000 names have been appended. It is not improba the bar had always been that no brief should be taken us- containing poison near him. Some medical gentlemen bled however, that many persons have signed both documents. less the fees were paid upon it, and, if any section of the bar came, and having declared that the gentleman was dead, he To-day therm appears in the Journal a letter from Mr. Joseph thought fit to deviate from that principle, either for the con- was removed by the police. Sturge, from which the following is extracted : venience of themselves or their clients, they ought to bear Henry Kelsey said : I was passing through the Regent's- I have always been anxious to promote good understanding be. tween the middle and working claw., and have recently been glad the responsibility of their conduct. Another rule of the bar park about twerty minutes past twelve o'clock, and, observ was, that no barrister could refuse to take a brief except trig a small mob of people, I went to g see what was the to wee that there is no dispn•dtion on the part of the noit-clectoth to iiiterfere with a movement in favour of household suffrage by a under peculiar circumstances. He did not think that the pre- matter. I then saw a gentleman lying dead, and about portion of their fellow-count en, though I very much doubt sent cane was one which justified &departure from that general three or four yards from the spot I picked up the bottle I whether it is either consistent or politic in those who hold my rule. It was altogether contrary to the dignity of the bar that new produce. It is labelled with two labels, marked view. to take any part in promoting it. The longer I live the a combination should be made for the pu r p ose of formin g a "Poison." more I am convinced of the wisdom as well as j ustice of granting to every man as a man an equality of political o rights, and I am rule as to how the payment of fees should be regulated. If Mr. Williams (the surgeon), in answer to a question from this were allowed there would soon be a combination for re- the coroner, said that the bottle produced was a half-ounce more with fl and moreupet'lliteinrt trove an th d ene wth en Ctris! 1 fusing fees under a narticular amount, and various other bottle, and had contained prussic acid. There were the cc- tisa forbearance, the great Way of the elector., when they have resolutions which woufd be quite inconsistent with that high mains of prussic acid still in the bottle. examined the subject as closely as some of them have, will see that a character which the bar of England had always maintained. Mr. W. Gibbs, assistant to Mr. ctudson chemist, of the suffrage based upon this principle is not only more sound, but far It WM his intention, previously to entering the hall, to have Haymarket, said : I know the bottle produced. It isone I gave more free from objections, eves in a practical point of view, than moved resolutions expressive of his disapprobation of the to Mr. Yorke, M.P., yesterday morning, about half-past to household ex suffrage, while it does not com mit the great injustice of purposes for which the meeting had bees called, but since o'clock. I sold him in it a drachm and a half of prussic acid, coun clu t ding e a n l f ar , large a cts c i i i f ti zoot proeide t and intelligent of their rights. lam sangume in the Dop that the commencement of the proceedings he had altered his of Seheele's strength. I knew Mr. Yorke well, and he said there is now such a P 4irit of candour and charity abroad, that the mind, and, with the concurrence of a great many of his he wanted some prussic acid or strychnia, for poisoning his day i not far distant ia which all the productive classes will cordially friends, he would simply move a resolution in the negative, dog, and be remarked to me that I knew the dog well, dad s goly, but peaceably, unite in removing the power of a that it is not competent for the members of the bar to refuse which I did, as the deceased had frequently brought the dog despotic oligarch"; and tee u would residence in effecting thee union, I see winch shall entitle to a Ito take briefs where the fees previously incurred to other with him to our shop. He said the dog was subject to giddi vsoot:bi.C.et'welvew instead n t .r siiiTernolth.l think We question has, members of the bar have not been paid, and that it is not ness. I asked him if he was aware of the dangerous nature of however, now assumed a shape in which ft would be desirable t o n hold , competent for any member of the bar who shall have signed the poison , and h e said o Yes," and asked me which I thought a public meeting fairly to test, in a friendly spirit, whether the pee -1 such resolution to act in accordance with it. was best, prussic acid or strychnia, and I tol d him p russic Pte of Birmingham are generally in favour of household or manhood Mr. T ALHOT then addressed the meeting, and said it acid. Mr. Yorke was well known at our establishment, suffrage. would be necessary for him in some measure to explain the from coming for medicine, and I served him without besi- MEETING AT LIVERPOOL. — On Saturday afternoon nature of the proceedings in parliamentary practice, as he tation. At the rime he purchased the poison he ordered a meeting of the council of the Financial Reform Association bad no doubt there were many (tentlemen present who were some pills and medicine, winch was sent to hishouse. I did was held, Mr. R. Gladstone in the chans—The Chairman unaware of the difference which existed between that pra n c e - not note anything particular in Mr. Yorke i t conduct at the stated that Mr. Wylie, whose attention had been recently tics and any other. It was impossible, he raid, to carry out time he purchased the poison. considerably directed to the subject, had drawn up a rough the general rule as to the pre-payment of fees. It was out Mr. William Henry Buckles, 86, New Bond-street, ex- sketch of the plan of financial reform which the association of the ques ti on to calculate beforehand the length of time amined :lam a chemist, and know Mr. Yorke, who came to should adopt and advocate, which might be referred to a which the business might occupy, or the quantum of labour my house about half-past nine o'clock yesterday morning. committee to be that day appointed.—Mr. Wylie read the that might have to be expended upon it. The practice had, He said, I wish you, Mr. Buckler, to send me a pill and a paper, which was in the shape of an address from the council therefore, grown up of allowing a certain time after the con- very mild black clraught. He ale; said, I wish you would to the public. It referred to the excessive amount of the elusion of the busiaess for the payment of fees. This give me some poison to poison my dogs, one—you know national expenditure, calling esp . eeial attention to the increase leniency, he was sorry to say, had been greatly abused, and which I mean—is very large,. and is affected with aof 7,200,0001. in the estimates since 1835, under the head of it was not an uncommon thing for the solicitors or nervous irritation and giddiness in the head. I told him it " forces," and suggested that without pairingthe efficiency parliamentary agents absolutely to refuse payment of was dangerous to have sech things, and he said yes; but that of the army or navy, the outlay for our forces in a time of the fees, and then to take their papers to another I knew the dog, and it was better to. get rid of him this het peace should be brought down from its present barrister, and the same course might then be repeated. weather, and the other one also, as it had broken its leg some am ount of 18,900,0001. to 12,000,0001. It was also pro- It was in consequence of such constant occurrences that time ago. I thought he looked rather strange, and I told posed to fix as the extrem e expenditure for the the resolution had been come to by which the section of him that I would bring some strychnia with me and do it following departments : the civil government, 1,000,0001. the profession practising at the parliamentary bar deter- myself to-morrow morning. To which he said, " Oh, to- justice, 1,250,0001. • diplomacy,2so,oo ol . ; miscellaneous and mined not to receive briefs unless all fees to counsel who morrow ! ah, very well, to morrow," and he then left.—By all other expenses, '1,500,000/. ; retaining uat present the had, been previously engaged were paid up before the tom- the Coroner : I have noticed lately that Mr. Yorke, whocharges on the national debt, 28,000,0001., and making • mencement of the following session. In the present instance quently visited my shop, has appeared very thoughtful, more total expenditure of 44,000,0001. To meet the greatly.re he had received a brief from a well-known company, the fee particularly since he has been in Parliament. I have known duced expenditure, it was proposed, in accordance with the upon which was paid ; but immediately afterwards dream- him many years, and always considered him a very eccentric principles of the association , to tax property and not in stances had come to his knowledge which induced him to man. There appeared something about his manner which 1 dustry. The value of the real property of the country was make inquiries, and he had consideted it his duty, having did not like, and that induced me not to let him have the stated at 2,400,000,0001., one per cent. upon which would himself signed the resolution not to take briefs where the poison.—The Coroner: You acted very properly, sir. yield 24,000,000/., whilst flre per cent. upon achedales B, C , previous fees remained due, to refuse this brief. He had sub- Nicholson, deceased's butler, recalled : I have lived DI , and Eof the property tax was estimated at 4,000,000 sequently asked the opinion of the Attorney - General, who with Mr. Yorke seven years. He was a very eccentric man. which united amount, 28,000,0001., it was proposed shoul had differed with him. He begged further to state, that He was sometimes very violent in temper. He sometimes be specifically applied to meet the charge upon the national whether ho had acted right or wrong, he was only actuated complained of pains in the head in the morning. I have ob- debt. The other sources of income were estimated to be (net by a strict sense of honour and upright conduct, and had served that he has been much more calm the last few days. expense of colleetionbeingdeducted : Ist, stamps, 6,000,0001.; take* the tonne he had done solely with a view of support. He latterly gave orders that none of his tradesmen should spirits, 8,000,000/. ; sugar, tea, tobacco, wine, and coffee, ing the dignity of the bar, and carrying out those resolutions see him, and that, unless he gave special orders, he was not at (at present educing 15,000,0001.), 8,000,000 k; total, which he considered for the general benefit of the barrister home to any one. 50,000,0001. In these estimates the amount of indirect tax practising with him. Mr. Williams recalled : Having examined the brain, I ation was endeavoured to be limited to those articles on Sir F. Tunehme then came forward, and said he could say that it was not healthy as an organ . There was great which the cost of collection would be the smallest, and with neither support the resolutions proposed by Mr. Hill, nor vascularity in the ventricles, and the general appearances of a view to pave the way for their repeal when the intbject of could he consent to the negative resolution moved by the the brain leave no doubt on my mind that he was insane. direct taxation shall become more familiar to the public than Solicitor-General. His opinion was, that this was sot a sub- The Coroner : There was enough disease in his brain to at present. Under the head of stamps would be included the ject which called for any interference on the part of the bar. produce insanity in half a doren men; and after the evidence probate and legacy duty ,on real property, the repeal of the It was the duty of each barrister ter act as he thought most of the surgeon, lflr. Williams, I really think it would be an duty on marine and fire insurance, and a general rzvisiou of in accordance with the feelings of honour and propriety, act of inhumanity to proceed with the inquiry further. As the present duties. The repeal of the assessed taxes and of and not to call upon the liar to give any expression or opinion Mr. Hildyard, however, is present, perluips he may wish to the excise, with the exception of spirits, wasalso included upon the subject. If this were to be done upon every coca- say something. in the plan; and it was proposed that Ms riven') of the . 11 , i. , 11 1 i 1 ii . 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