The Express. — London, England, 1852-05-07 00:00:00

U exprems. TO COREESPONDINTS. rArta..r The Ewer: . esegelefty . 04 .^V pubbabed rwini Triode, sal PAW •Iskt. d... 6 ,7 t MIS ane.ted fee The Ispeoe," Loden Vesta. payer, I oho, W. beuvert.street. by Too &desk es the F est*,,, mull WATER AT LONDON BRIDOI Teo 1141 —Emma& 4 4 . Mc Aftereess, 44. Shn. 1a IN. Y. 44. a Alkerases. LONDON, FRIDAY. MAY 7. Tue Ministers promised not to insist upon carry is; any legislative measures in the present parliament not immediately and indispensably B i ll e d i.e. They promi.sed to take the sense of tile nation upon ilwer own claims to public confidence 1 , 0 , : the s originated any legislation that can be to without endangering the national seen ntv. If they are honest men they will keep their %ei ; if the multiform and ilbassorted opposin g niaj , eity possess the avernge sense and spirit of Englishmen. they will compel them to keep their soreL when they give signs of a desire to break it. N.oe it can easily be shown that the Militia Bill is ere of those measures which might with perfect safety IN- put oil till another 2445i011. The determined stand Aira i ot this obnoxious measure last night was , I „ l , s ;iliont its immediate value. The Hom E .S E c RE . 1 Oa admitted the doubts of the government by noti fying their intention not to pass the ballot this year. This is in Ober. rendering the plan weaker for its sneered purpose than ever. Why pass an emascu lated ahrunlity P Since Mr. WALPOLE declares his intention of postponing a vital part of the militia sheme tin twat year. why nut postpone the whole et it It is from the e einent of Europe, indeed from France it anyn he re, that we have in any case to apprehend au invasion. Nobody pretends to look Cr a flotilla of steamers, crammed to the teeth with o h.to, 'tea dr rine, ones and artillery, teem New York or Boston. It is not pre tended that the C./tit can effect a landing on ear shores by a n.ap de 1101 in, or that a new holy Armada is about to be rigged out in Spain ; or that t h e SWAN is to combine all the Mahmuctaa ricers —the catitct races of Algiers and Sallee-- Iva:ost England ; or that Denmark is going to bum down London in revenge fur Copenhagen ; or that sespelen, or Holland, or Belgium are pregnant with projects (.1 buceancering descents on the coasts of Nortolk or Northumberland. Under NAPOLEON the LI tit P, as under NAPOLEON the GREAT, FEIEee is the bugbear held up as dangerous. Now, tarry though we should be to become bail for the: French Par.stneNt ; much though we doubt whether Le has the sense to see the folly of war and attempts at conquest, and convinced though we are that his sad and oath are alike little to be relied on, ws can see pretty clearly that he is in no condition to carrel with England. The French PicestnENT has undertaken to croak rarlismentary government and re-establish despotism in Rance. Ile aims at investing himself with auto cratic power as great as ever was exercised by Louis or the pre-sent Emperor of Russia. And he Les addressed himself to the three great " legitimate" losers of Europe, calling upon them to reward the geoil service he has done them—in reducing France to a condition in which it shall no longer set a bad example to their discontented subjects—by recognising ban es one of their own body. The " legitimates," after mature deliberation and consultation among themselves, have decided that M. BONAPARTE asks too mach. His services to the cause of despotism thee neither deny nor undervalue. They are willing to ajl anything in reason to show their gratitude. They will graciously allow him to retain for life the arbitrary power helots uved. But M. BONAPARTE is not a jure dirian he itary prince, and to re cognise him u the founder of a dynasty would be to abandon the principle of legitimacy. Their rods are not completely served by subjecting France to a despotism unless the despot be, like themselves, legitimate." The great work so well begun by M. BONAPARTE cannot be regarded as complete until HENRI V. is restored to the throne of his ancestors. They will allow M. BoNArszre to retain that throne tre fife, bat HENRI V.—or the children or the legiti matt heirs of that prince—mast be his successor. So kiwis has decreed, so Prussia has decreed, and so Aueria—eince the death of Prince Sam IRZENBEILO vtll decree. _ _ The French Pazetoesir is not satisfied with these taus. Naturally enough he places a higher price is his vertices than the powers who are hinting with him do. Nor is it easy to convince him that the nephew of the NAPOLEON who placed the impe- MI crown of France on his own brow isl see " legiti mate" than the descendant of Fastomuce who planed the kingly crown of Prussia on his own brow oily some fifty years earlier. Besides, NI. BOXA rit rt knows—no man better—that " pcimuita Is nine points of the law," and that the three mirth twerp potentates will find it no easy matter *serve a proems of ejectment upon him in behalf of Knit V. M. BONAPARTE, therefore, and the essele et Bt. Petersburg. Vienna, and Berlin, are at odds ea the 'pities w Nether the NAPOLEON dynasty is es lend to be inscribed in the Sirre dor of itaropeen 41. 1 At present the contest is being wooed actively be tame the CZAR and M. BocArurf armo ut e. n As yet, :hero is no talk of an appeal CO the struggle scarcely the lees inveterate. The swami of Sir (ides ikerrrucA was a far less effective lieleement than the bonds and mortgages of whisk he bed contrived to stake himself muter ; sad tie Autocrat of kesstt appears to have studied, atten tively and to good purpose, the " New Way to pay Old Debts." Some time ago the EMPEROR Sin( s:i.d ID the French hinds to the amount of two atiiliona Tho ambitious aims of M. llosArsara require that he ahould have the free disposal of large mu of money. With a subservient sham legisla tic. courts of law subjected to the "contentious jaicliction" of the Council of State, and the Bank ut France completely under his thumb, he as deli with the French exchequer as he pleases; bat If that ischts t uer Is empty, he is nothing the better of this Cd" r. To replenish the drained exchequer M. ..s.eemire has commenced a series of financial ope rifems. of which the redaction of the interest on the national debt is an essential part. Here the Itemise S.r ( Mrs !retread...A steps in and threatens to cheek cute him; threatens to throw one million sterZuf .0-averted Five per cent. Rental into the and. luring thus beat down their rice, to demand prompt payment of the other million. Ths poor Inoeveuee gees his speculations about to be paralysed his wily powerful, and relentless creditor. But still M. BONAPARTE is not entirely at the merry of the autocrat. Though the three northern potentates have a oesamon interest as opposed to liberty in the west of Europe, they are divided among themselves upon certain special interests to which *lcy attribute great importance. The Pen.slavism rA Russia threatens the Sclavonic territories and po pennon. both of Austria and Prussia. Austria ia in ro condition to make a stand alone against Russia, for 1 ' ha. only been able by the assistance of Huai& to Fit down the revolutionary movements in Hungary wad Transylvania. Pinnius, with its scattered and urrew territory, is still leen able to stand alone against Russia. But Austria and Prussia, though fob exposed to danger by the unscrupenlolubewcwwwch nir policy of IttlaSia, have incompatible aims and in ?meta which prevent a sincere and cordial alliance between themselves. Ever since the first FREDERICK placed the crown of Pecan on his own head, a struggle for NOW ddidy in Germany has been in Winos Aloh a end Pniseia. Since the bssolutiea d Ole ft.cin.in mince, Austria has 'MIMI lin be properly a Grrn sn powe r . Its Garman leniteriss end sehiests an. when eserpesed yid; Bebania, ('adiva, Hungary, Italy, MI WNW previous is • a non-German Pwratin ', l "'via would williney sorties pert d i = Susie. er lea, is ceder te Mete use lily f•r the tic tem/mean territoriesit Midi Preede, es tb e°^lrmy. L. mesatially a Gimes slate ; k bee a tiny interest in preserving West Sae elemee terri tory. even under its present aamideee eel ematis vvy constitution. Prowls is thesetseed with ian encroachments in Peen, and with French encroachments on the Ribes and can only i. ft sil itself by keeping alive a determination in the Gemian princes and peoples to assert the Missoluble nationality of Germany. Neither Prussia nor MLitt* therefore, are disposed to 00-operate ac- tively with Russia in its struggle with the French PRESIDENT ; but neither Austria nor Proton is dis posed to draw closer their bonds of union in order to strengthen themselves against Russian aggression. Here then is a promising field for the diplomacy of the French PREsIDENT, and it will not be left un tilled. His emissaries will be—are busy at work, to keep alive and exasperate the personal animosities and antagonisms of the three northern powers, in or der to prevent any such coalition among them as might endanger the stability of his power. The four great powers of Europe are at this moment deeply engaged in a game to outwit and outgenenl each other; and they play this game with fear and trem bling. Not one of them dare appeal to popular sen timent; they know too well that such an appeal, if success fol, would bring into the field an enemy able to destroy them all. They are squabbling among themselves about the division of the spoils, in a con stunt agony of fear lest their plundered subjects should break loose and re-assert their rights. The President of FRANCK has other business to mind than an invasion of England ; the other F.uro peon powers arc little likely to leave him at liberty to engage in such a wild and objectless crusade, much less to aid and abet him in it. All that is necessary to ensure peace to England is, for Eng land to stand aloof from the miserable diplomacy, intrigues, and quarrels of tho continental powers. Leave them alone to thwart and plague each other, and keep watch and ward over their oppressed and discontented subjects, and they will in turn be but too glad to leave us alone. There has in fact seldom been a time when the likelihood of invasion was more obviously unreal. The question of the re-modelling of our defensive establishments may with perfect safety be left for the decision of a new parliament. And any thing more unprincipled, or more insolent, than for a moribund House of Commons, in these circum stances, to force upon the public the unpalatable Militia Bill of ministers—or any modification of it— owlet well be imagined. ntu uttl Pr^ ten pit is the thr rA Pt rn i' I fTI 01 Iff th .1 ft *1 A E f. tr FRANCE. THI , RADAT EVENINO. The .I(oeiteur announces to-day that by a decree of the 3131 instant, issued upon the report of M. Fortoul, Minister of Public Instruction, M. Villemain, profes sor of French eloquence at the Faculte des Lcttree de Paris, and M. Cousin, professor of the history of ancient philosophy at the same faculte, have been admitted, upon their demand to, justify their rights to a retiring pension. 'Phis is merely an official form of announciug that those celebrated professors have been deprived of their chairs because they decline to take the oaths of fidelity to Louis Napoleon. The designation of faculte des lettres do Paris is the new jargon invented by the government since the coop ,t, tat. Before that event the professors of the college de France and l'Ecole Nor/wile, were irremovable; but the late decrees of public instruction have broken down the independence of these institutions and made a fusion of the same branches of various metro politan institutions under the name of faculties. To-day have been distributed to the regiments of artillery at Vincennes some howitzers, of which trial has been made lately, executed on a model in vented by Louis Napoleon. These pieces are very well made; they bear on the breech the entwined cypher of LB. and, report adds, an imperial crown above ; but this is possibly an exaggeration. To-day a new engraved portrait of Louis Napoleon made its appearance for the first time in the windows of the print shops. The medallion enlosing the Prince's bust is supported on one side by a cuirassier, and on the other by an agricultural labourer. The bourgeoisie may well be scared at a scutcheon resting on such sup porters; for the policy of the Elysee, long ago de scribed by M. de Persigny to Count Montalembert, was to crush the middle classes between the army and the peasantry. The ephemeral reign of modern princes in Franco must naturally tend to make those who are not blind to the experience of the past or insensible to the hazards of the future, cast about while they are in power for a foreign asylum, where they may find re fuge when fallen, and devote a portion of their civil list to the acquisition of property which the may en joy when they have no longer a complaisant senate 'to mama them with 12 millions a year. Thus it is rumored that Louis Napoleon has purchased, for the prime Alt 64,0001., a vast property, which belonged to the Deauharnais family in Poland. A few days ago a communicated note appeared in the Mmiterr, to announce that none of the tickets bleed for the ball of the 11th at the Ecole Militabre would be admitted, and that a set of fresh tickets of another mime would be distributed. It appears that this in the arrangements for the ball was ooeadma the disappearance et some 1,600 tickets tesa tko Tian where they were kept. No end of gemtp _is he circulation about this angular Jobbery, MIMI was probably dictated by a pecuniary spaelatko. 01811•16 OMB is charged, kr the department tithe Bohm via a gado: skim to that whisk MM. Quark agar" rasim4 and Cannibal have emoted kr the dspartalak dlle Centre mai bath. M. Myra is to verify the Meiers of the implitated in the eveuts of December. A 14 n r a r u g snber of these still remain in the forts of bayed Biostre; het by far the greater number of lbw who VISO asould sad condemned for partied. tka tassosis at Paris hays been already to Africa. A olowardested note in the Moositewr says: t hie mom to the mostatim te lie e eseiesmisa et the loos of Whew fon Pods Cbw hmuj, hid *sea %Mow to Ossle. howner, SSW imam the montion et them tue in, sad to emionog fhb weeks, a hill ha jolt Dm NA hire the KM bete, Irving too In shiest to open a opodlt of =o as es the leinetes et lift to Ito divided the negotiate. The wens whirl will be I % t a te a stateby lama et these merits will be over to the mmiseetnising Ms cat ne=ls part of the orahvostft whit* win be allowed to dom. This** has pods's& a certain swamies at the Beum, w here , _ I/omm" it was oomidered as a " bearing • niancenvre. We read in the Petrie: time speculators for • fall have eadeaverenel to raise a report that Ruda was radiate' by daily sake the Five per Coat. Rests whisk she pareheeed la 1847. Redman tea be mere Ise thee this statement; so sales of the WM have tam Hesides, hew meld it be probable tint Russia mead sell. even at 100 tr., Week whkh, with is tenet at lye per seat. sines the Stasi March, represented a reimbursement valise of mere then ISO& We. The awsefillutiestesei ear : The pubis retinae le la rapid prognedea. The math of March led presseted ea bmweeme - et eve Wilkes as com pared with the serrespeadien swath et lest year. It ap pears that the increase la April wee 1111 ret eoesiderabW The Patric obtains a oommaameAM 110 t• st* that the commander of the Ist military division can not gm invitations for the ball to the President of the Republic to soy foreigners not mereareeuded by their =hammer. The general-b-slibt ham issued a similar notice. It has been decided that the bands et the regi ments at Paris shall execute at the Chun Mars on the 10th, M. A. Adam's meat, ailed the St. Civil*. Yesterday, M. Adam had a eentweace with General Marian, relative to the chaise et the other pieces. The Petri, of yesterday evening, says : 0, It is positively stated that the &play ei Stomas which was intended for the evening et the 10th will not take place until the 12th." Sixteen allkers of the 'Turkish army have arrived in Perim to attend this fetes. The prise at the Seias in to give a grand dinner end ball next week at the 116 tel de Ville, in hawse of the tiertalions et the army who arrive to receive the se& es __May , 10. Themion d State, at a general meeting peter daif:tell al urgt i t i te vi t e l if lrentieg a endit . fte the i et the Seises% and aka 11111 br =Meg 20.0 lam They aim %r -adiated the dim essiss of the MA Le asseaffas the seas d " Lotman Ceimiaslie The eath hes hem reseed by 31. Menet, the ex repromilative and 'member et the coonsilieneral of the Memtbm IL de Beitivsiz as °nisi% oho has sat is the same oessen-cosend fw the lest 22 year% M. Fells Daehomolat,s/ the eesadliessral of the Puy de Deem. IL de Chasdville, ea es ti.* weeibm d the eouncil-peoral of Lderismo adIL A. Osipia of the woo somil members d the icipal mama of r asi rasto L ari Too have signified to the ma inne yor their Metal to take the ea& Although Frame is still nominally a repnblie, it z=b) le miloortlel es speak slightingly by and el the empire that is to come. The mkt of the lie and Vilaine has given a Tim. EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 7, 1852. second warning to the Pau Courier do k Bre "Ps*, in eonsequenes of an article a gai nst the proclamation of the empire on the 10th. The prefect describe the article as tending to throw suspicion upon the loyalty of the government, and to ridicule beforehand the great solemnity of the 10th of May." He tbrther describes it as manifesting an intention to diminish the general confidence, and to invalidate the effect of a great political manifestation. In con sequence of this second warning the journal now lies at the mercy of the prefect, who may suspend it any moment. Most of the provincial press may be ex pected soon to be in the same position. Seven men have been arrested in the Saone and Loire upon the charge of belonging to a band of in cendiaries at Longpierre. Three of them have been before in custody on suspicion of being concerned in the late tires, but they were discharged for want of proof. They have now been denounced by a person named Balleaut, who admitted having been their accomplice, and has since got out of the way. The government believes it to be certain that the incen diary conspiracy existed, and that it was founded upon political motives. One of the prisoners has been heard to say ►hat if on Fob. 24 the mayor had given 100 fr. to celebrate the anniversary of the re public there would have been no tires. At the Bourse, the Four•and-a-Ilalf per Cents. ram 40c., closing at 100.25 ; the Three per Cents. rose 30c., and closed at 70.45. The Northern Rail way rose 8.76; Orleans and Havre, 3 each; Lyons, 3.73; Central and Strasbourg, 2.60. Teste and Bor deaux fell 12.50. Rouen fell sensibly in the morning, owing to the postponement of the concession of the Cherbourg line, but recovered to yesterday's price, of 772.50, at the close. Dieppe fell 2.50. Vjt Court. The Queer rwentsred the ball-room with Prince Albert after supper ea Wednesday night at 20 minutes past 12 o'clock, and womobod until two o'clock, joining occa sionally in tomcat Me dem& Her M ai sety awl Pylon Albert retired from the state rooms at two Vela. 'The Dllll6llll of Cambridge and the Princess Mary, mad the Duke a Cambridge, took their de parture at Ms some thne. Duman dm maned, and the ball oceasheind, the remaining Ashore booing all quitted Buckingham Palma before three o'clock yesterday morning. Her Mikity and Prince Albert, attended by the Countess of Charlemont, the Hon. Mary Seymour, the Hon. Matilda Paget, Lord Polwartb, Lord Chutes Fitzroy, and Lieut.- Col. the Hon. A. Gordon, honoured the Royal Italian Opera with their presence last evening. Prince Albert, attended by the Marquis of Abereorn, Viscount Mandeville, Captain Francis Seymour, and Lieut.- Col. the Hon. A. Gordon, went shortly before 12 o'clock yuderdsy to be present at the comminnoratlon shard festival of the Choir Benevolent Fund in Westminster Abbey. His Royal Highness returned to Buckingham Palace at a genitor before 3 o'closk. Her Royal Higbnies the Duchess of Kent visited the Quern yesterday, at Buckingham Palace, and partook of luncheon with her Majesty and Prince Albert. The Prince of Wales, the l'rinoeu Royal, and younger memhen of the Royal Family, took their usual riding and walking ezercise yesterday. The Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary, at tended by Lady Suffield and Baron Knesebeek, dined with the Duchess of Kent yesterday, at Clarence House, St. James's. In the evening the Duchess of Kent, accom panied by the Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary, honoured her Majesty's Theatre with her presence. Lady Fanny Howard was in waiting on the Duchess of Kent. The Duke of Cambridge had en interview yesterday with Mr. Secretary Walpole at the home-office. The Sardinian Minister had en interview yesterday with the Earl of Derby, at his official residence in Downit,g street.—The Earl of March had also an interview with the noble earl. A deputation from the Local Board of Health for the district of Bushels's, near Manchester, had an interview yesterday with the General Board of Health, at their offices, %Whitehall. The deputation consisted of the following members of the local board:—Mr. \V. R. Callender and Mr. William Entwiale, attended by Mr. William Burdett (law clerk to the local board). The deputation were 'mom • palsied and introduced b Mr. Brotherton, kLP., Mr. Milner Gibson, J Mr. ames Kershaw, M.P., and Mr. J. I'. B. Westhead, M.P. The Baron De Teissier had an interview yesterday with Mr. Secretary Walpole at the Home-office. Lord Robert Grosvenor and a deputation had an inter view with the Earl of Derby yesterday at his official residence in Downingetreet. A deputation consisting of Sir Robert H. Inglis, the Rev. Henry Venn (secretary of the Church Missionary Society), and the Rev. Peter La Trobn (secretary of the United Brethren) had an interview with Sir John Pakington yes. terday at the Colonial-office. Mr. John Wood, Chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue, had en interview with the Earl of Derby yes terday. Lord Naas had also an interview with the noble earl. Mr. Prettily had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday at his official residence in Downing street. . . Mr. Bullock had an interview yesterday with Sir John rakington at the Colonial•office. Despatches were received at the Colonial-ofßee yesterday from the Governors of Hong Kong and Ceylon. Despatches were also received from the Governor of the Mauritius. Despatches were sent yesterday to the Governor of Gibraltar. Prince Albert has been pleased to express a do sire to be regarded as the patron of the his of Skye Emi gration plan. Mr. Orlando Bradbury, of Her Majesty's Chapels Royal, has been appointed secretary to the 'Noble men and Gentlemen's Catch Club, is the room of James Elliott, Esq., deceased. THE RAJAH or Coon° and his daughter left Southampton with Major Drummond and his family by an early train yesterday morning, to take lodgings at Mivart's Hotel for the Rajah, previous to his taking a private resi dence. The rajah and the major returned to Southampton in the afternoon, and the whole of his family and suite pro ceeded to London by the 7 p.m. train. The rajah'''. wives left the Eunine, completely veiled, on Monday night, at 9 o'clock, and were conveyed to Hadley's Hotel in a closed carriage. They were met at the door of the hotel by the rajah and one of his principal attendants who both held umbrellas' over the heads of the ladies as they alighted. As ewe as they left the carriage they took the umbrellas themeless, mid einspletely screened themselves from view. Diving the resell ef their slighting from the carriage, however, • 'Hewn of one of them was obtained, and it was noticed that the hdy had a thin gauze veil over her face, sad fine black nes. The rajah was exceedingly anxious Ire en ewe sheriM observe the ladies, and appeared agitated until they were Wily in their apartment. His aritatrin was as whim he had eandacced them up stairs, that he eeali net open the deer of the apartment, and imagining it was inekel, lis teneseted that the gas should be extin guished in dm pow where they were standing, which was usnesil•MW dens. The prince has given up his eerie. He is • pensisser of the East India Company, and has been residiegat Pma zee on an allowance of 12,000 L • year. Yester day sannsidee siahervents, who, by his desire, observe most stnetlythemuheet their caste, had albs. of foodallowed them which einehlell id rice, onions, and penis, which the cooked and ant in the epee air at the back of the hotel. They have but esee mai a day, and their drink is water. They are, In het, Oriente! vegetarians and teetotalers. At night they slept in the plumage' and under tables in the hotel. GERMANY. The Augsburg Gazette states absolutely, and on authority, that the Darmstadt convention has been ratified by all the governments which took wt in the conferences held in that city. The New l'russian Gazette states that the Duke of Au[,•usten berg has come to an understanding with the Danish government upon the subject of terms on which ho is to forego his claims to the succession in Holstein, and that only a few unimportant details remain to be settled. The Emperor of Russia is expected to arrive in Vienna on the Bth. The King of Prussia was to leave on the sth for Silesia, to meet the Empress of Russia lie will be accompanied by the Princes of the Royal Family, the Grand Duchess Dowager of Mecklenburg, and the Prince Charles. His Majesty would halt a night on the road, and wait at Breslau the arrival of the Empress. M. de Illeyerinek, the Marshal of the Court, and M. de Manteutfel, Aide-de-Camp of his Majesty, will go to the frontier to take the orders of the Empress. The Russian Ambassador will go to Granitza, the first Russian station from the frontier, to receive her Majesty. The Empress will not come to Berlin, but will proceed direct to Potsdam. SWITZERLAND. BERNS, MAT 4. The government commission appointed to consider the railway question has terminated its labours. The majority is in favour of the construction of the line by the state, The minority, consisting of MM. Etcher liaugerbuhler, Bavier, and Blanchenay, is of opinion that they should be left to private enterprise. There will therefore he two re ports. That of the minority will not suggest any particular lines. The report of the maj ,rity with respect to the railway from Zurich to the Lake of Constance, will be in favour of the line by Wyl and St. Gall. It will also recommend the line of (Men by Soleuro and Lyss, with a branch to Berne and Thonne, instead of that by Haute Argovie and Schenbuhl. The contemplated outlay amounts to four millions sterling. SPAIN. The Spanish government has given its approbation to a plan for executing a railway from Madrid to tho French frontier, at Iran, where it will join tho Frinch railway. The passage over the bidassea will be executed at a common expense. PIEDMONT. A letter from Genoa, of May, 3rd says that the French fleet will stay longer on the coast of Italy than was supposed, and that its neighbourhood will not be without influeneen Tuscany in the matter of the Leopoldine laws. From the tone of this letter it is to be inferred that the influence spoken of will be used to make the people submit to the revocation of the laws by the Grand Duke. LOSS OF THE BIRKENHEAD. Yesterday the apart alerted cat Mr. Richards, miter's eriatant, Bows., A. 8., Thomas Dann, AD , Abel Naas, seamy seam, mad John Ashbolt, et, ker, for the kw if XX Mtkaaltrad off Cape Danger, Carres_wis resemeil ea board th e Victory. evidlease basin heat taken, Ales =;relneed ewe bear tad three (pewter* the court was weed again, mina The fudge Advocate reed the following finding :—" The Court has. te observe. in the Int place, that, hem the at. fortuities eirsastitesee et the Meow issemeeding sad the priacipel dem ef the. skip hawks pithead. they feel it is la the highest degree Mesa% sad Sit it Right le waist. to pre emerate IS the deemed, wires acothee fkr am seer the 166441 onset be ellliclwolle bat thug nand their epees that the Wel le was edits le the wins Wag w ere to Maple bed is skies presistity if ease tbey stilt we set preelsded boa *Weis with wile et the de parted der the umber they displayed ha the seensat of 011111•11 gomi, astimieble anxiety sheers Ice the NMI of dal amen mid dads's. to the exclaim, of all till comddereakee. Ina rarest to the priaoneve tried trader the authority of Ma erase, die wart havt ines ' . deliberatalj weighed sad eawidesed the whole of the e sn adjudge" that se lime is imputable le thin, sad deth adjudge the mid Mr. Becebsid listed Illearb, aid dela Bowen, Thome Des, Jcbs Amhbelt, sad AM dime, be fully acquitted ; sal they are bobby fully acquitted accordingly." LICILNSID Vicrtukume ASYLUM.— Toluratty, the sousivoseary hatted of OW hwthnlisa was coleheeted at Ne Ihramerrad Tam i fi zr Cl soatQesserobrootaistraskriaa- Milo mike the p lir Wary Mom Tito ' gush arambsood upwards 41111, wad sionagatho sompary at the golaripsi teals then MN way plasma act faiielta eassooted with the imadia al hoosso4 bat who teek The eintwien ea labiate Oho p= hoot asolkes arks. la whisk MOM bum thossomblogo irs hip a surabor elpssomar readmai it impossible lir is absioursa to Sielialt possallogs without big baissaily upon b ad auserift the ssa • thesimt at Ilse grasks awl iso ar i aha awe ad Wood to with OM atliatirs whidt would dim. trisobaut osodosii. Tho Mak bourovar, larded ths red booluesofter ovaaki& was assamodsa oudible that we 1111•11 saalkdi to pear die hiloalos hob boa the spook albs didnas. They hid lima hula the slaw most Cl sabordplkas oat dosodues whisk hod boa road to y thou by tie seardar, that thaso was, s ia doh -lands (arising hada the soma Cl bathos &kis* rad satkowlailladise wisp to the amplame) orawaridai to skarn was ph to & lad kat Aho airdsibtdisoo =ld has sausaased that a haps MOM al that do& dandy maid ha vast by Me poosoadsai Ws day. la Sow et amiss with this dimity then wow area hoe or had dlllassetioss mot with thdr nog Eland soodiorsdiss. The Mat was we asylums iastkuted 311 esei the weld was whisk thry had is orodod with a view of Wing to Oho spiritual anima of the Faci lites% Cl their bawdy; a e nif tha alai was a ladies' wing, to which be had re gartiodasly oat wasted, a airor=to hie amied, in the mid &ser a ; pr hss e o b lisorrail that 161 . who har been assehors of the lissasod Thanatos' be woo now reselvta. relief in the inentacks. la the bike win Maw WM soma thirty issaalos, who. wove alldideal7 =bat the toads had as seablod lissra to rosake Igi veekly salary. .Ueda ark arerwmpromara, be abed he sod teltow as the ompopular able Cl Wgam- Ike, sad ask this to put mos tease apse thassesivsa I. maw that carrimierso might be able to heir vibes 1111111101.11117 late West. He sincerely hop ed the eantribatiewe the aberity—aa they had ounerwassi Übe- AnrWlend it the tom we . He receladed br . rraday to the Vistuallen . Asylums. " The ,brewers distillers, amt nrovr i blid dbe ad mirable sad ia the swam it via Mutated t h at the board ' wipe lest roar the advaritisio rdtt 34aV id Oho mount of or" so ao lam it rut= =Oda opsit atudidok that derived in any w is Zs iam peedine pens of pip s szioloaeo, saw dam years 1860 pad 11N. lidos the dome ow. to a considerable sweat were asiont io dodag the moist TUB WWI AND =WM COMPANY have giver NEIN be two new sunsets to be built for the osunsgumos d the Posdardar maW. Thole etearaers are ask trbeMP loesberloo isi Whom war. The Peoin solar alb lava abnookithsto bora otamod by paddle bet elewmeeL NATIONAL SOCIETY. The following important memorial has been pas seated to the oenteefttee of the National Society "To the Most Res., the Right Der., and Right Hon. in President, Viee-Pniiidealet, end Committee of the National Society for P the Rikention of the Peer in the Principles of the fahßelsed Olneveh thronatent England and Wales. " We, the imbelfgeml Embers of the MIMI ReelelV, and Ohs= nazis* di promote the edoesties at the pm to the pridee of the thumb of Weddell Ira tai a l e 41 attached membese, desire la t thb say memorial to the esmatinee to the nt of the National Ihreielp• II aseinsisely' -• R ai ny fi g 0 lately modsended 'th hem the babefty which, eit thil lost =noel masdag of the society, th e for Am yeas pest tin the society was end a g m . test entered attempts to hinder COraille. Operation of the t and the society. We ceninsti • = zl therefore, but Matti& memorial will be received ae en musing the of a great body of the dergy_asil laity Ofaar Char& a Clain , upon the 8111mtlY18-81681. tentraittee of the Society. And soma the re mainresdation contained in this memorial beitiepted by the amunittee, there liC e r e sson c to expect that while agita tion will thereby be a 0011deleallie istosese is the nomber et sessaben in the nmenst eta* deles dons win asses, did that far larger means' die rad be seeered:hr sodending the blessings of a mid abieraits to &wowing MONO of the population. Adttbring be tor ims:e doss of the la the cause of @della* by the pendent M he resources In thediebildllin et grants for sew sehool-roorns, is nabs the stand ard of sexpdremen "hr teachers in the solleiretraining in stitutions, gad in the facilities offoedet % the dergy and 141111111 he soiled haps lad other opparatos, res bd Weak wader the gresiing beam of the l ossaiks, to nab. W' thiatedleldlnali dispirit La pedants of the 'roaiaree. " First—That SW/ threoglt the president. and *frepresidentsilaublinte to ostisidt lee the &dee ed side Owlet, et this %Med ineettag Sash tlist et sandiddest ep eel: rho sethinftsee as may remonaly %expected to enalidaws dr the church gamily ; sad that =dell boidneesio he transacted, Ind resolutions to bo dared et the enamel should be seat to the sob mdben, whe shield e U they pleas, to vote by pestai s o s a f a r_ sehkeeb net predalled by the charter. . net a men will meoperethis with.% Mots the 'edam** iff the peer thea t Ar tai lat should for th with resumed, the don the committee of pelit isti orl% exact no' *sedition of white the church can reassiddy monplein. " Thirdly—While the an ready tO acknow ledge the great improvement =Sly %nal seuncils in some of the bonne dens, they would nrio_npon the the sone antes in whom h *NW the when' ' et en- Ftthe gnat imPortenee et redwing all arch ma ,..,.., stSn Ann tithing institutions & 11 the model visiiiiii : o r in wen -ordered churches, end old& rows been reetentmendadV moat all the of theMMB OB •l eat oth to "le peroeldel bili Ver. ... .' ' " fflasnr ea T h er ola memeddids would me, that, in protidlag laseisstion he etenikor whalers hi the midst?' Inegtadtme 6r schools, the whilst vignesee s Z meted, In order be t the apparent imeilift et doctrine or net ' strictly in ectordeses With articles and fdrseosies of the Chord% of liegiehil. The above limanwiel was deposited with the secretary en April 19th, liffed. a /110111iD ter La7looll. liellUre of National Society 565 Ditto , wit asemben 771-1,396 Besse sea clergy, members of National Seelety . Ditto, net members 7OB-1,118 Card_ of he., member, of Na tional Ditto, not limbers B7— '. in Curates, members of National Society .....2 Ditto, not Melabers —is: Total signatures 1,061 Members of National Society. 1,794 Non-membore of National Society. The above list comprises the signatures of 10 poem IS eons of peen, 17 baronets, 16 members of the House of Commons, 5 deans, 13 arehdcacons, 2 chancellors, and 35 rural deans. The lay signatures are, with few exception', those of persons of largo indopentlent property, or of profs,- Mortal mon, including particularly a great many county ma gistrates, bankars,and physicians." 2.60 SOCIETY FOR IMPROVING THE DWELL INGS OF THE WORKING-CLASSES. Yesterday a public meeting in aid of thin society took place at Willis's Rooms, King-street, Bt. James's square. The Duke of CAMBRIDOI in the chair. The meeting was very fully attended, and amongst the cone any were a large number of the most distinguished mem bers of the aristocracy, including the Ducheu of Suther land, the Duchess of Argyll, the Duchess of Norfolk, the Duchess of Bedford, the Bishops of London and Oxford, the Earl of Ellesmere, Earl Talbot, Viscount Castlereagh, Visoonnt Ingestre, Sir John V. Shelley, Bart., Sir William Fraser, Bart., Mr. Monckton Milne% M.P., Mr. J. E. Denison, M.P., Mr. Slaney, M.P., and others interested in this important movement. HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS, in commencing the pro. ceedings, apologised for his appearance in the chair, as there were many distinguished wrens around him who had taken the greatest interest in the ob ject for which they were assembled, end who, ow that account alone, were far more capable than he was of occupying this responsible position. But 1 having been requested to attend on this °cession, he felt that the business for which the meeting was convened was of such importance that he could not resist the appeal made to him, sod he sincerely trusted that lie should re ceive their encouragement in his endeavour to promote the objects in view. (Cheers.) Ile had himself been a great deal ab.ent from London, and bad not found time to give that attention to this subject which it well merited. lie felt that in order to discharge the present duty pro perly, he ought to have a full knowledge of the general state of the case, but inasmuch as various resolutions would be proposed, he trusted that they would make allowance fur any deficiency on his part, and not charge him with a want of becoming seal if ho merely gave them a brief outline of the Waimea for which they were met • together on this occasion. (Hear, hear.) There could be but one opinion upon the fact the society deserved their deepest attention and the attention of all who felt any interest in the welfare of their fellow- creatures. It was a society supported by voluntary ennui. butions, and its object was to improve the dwellings of the labouring classes. Suet an institution was well worthy of every support they cudld give it, as there was no doubt that the moral and social improvement of the people must in a great measure depend upon the habitations iu which they dwelt. (Cheers) To his noble friend, Viscount In- gestre, the greatest praise was due, for the philanthropic manner in which ho had come forward to assist his fellow-creatures. (Cheers.) Another society—called the St. James's Society—having a similar purpose in view, had been requested to join them, so as to enabl e ) the good work to be carried on with the best possible chance of success . Their united efforts ) , had produced this meeting, and had enabled them to I commence the building of the dwellings for the working classes. A long lease fur a site had been obtained, mid they were in hopes that right buildings would soon be cont. pleted, capable of containing GI families, and in all likeli hood the accommodation would he extended, not only in this part of London, but in other parts, where the incon veniences of a crowded metropolis were most severely felt. He considered that this would prove a great and important charity, if they could once establish it, and he had every reason to hope from this large and influential meeting that there was every prospect of ultimate success. (Loud cheers.) A report was then read which gave a favourable account of the prospects of the charity, stating that the foundation of the society dated from the 31st of June list, and that the patronage bestowed upon it had gradually increased. The Bishop of LONDON proposed the first resolution : " That the present condition of the dwellings of the work ing classes in various parts of the metropolis is must inju rious to their health, comfort, and morality, and that it is highly desirable that every exertion should be made for their immediate improvement." The right reverend pre late commenced by observing that this was not the first I association which had been established with the object now in view, for he bad himself been connected with other institutions of a similar nature. It was not to be inferred from the mention of this fact that there were any feelings of jealousy in the minds of these who had promoted the institutions he had alluded to ; he merely represented the fact in order to let the present so ciety know that they were gladly welcomed in the field of charitable enterprise. (Hear, hear.) He conceived it to be one of the great advantages of such meetings as this that they were the means of bringing together a large number of persons from the middle and higher classes of society for the climes purpose of hearing statements of the nuseries which beset their poorer brethren. It was a good thing that those who teak their position on the sunny heights of this world should look down upon the gloomy vales below, and endeavour to Modred the cha ritable principle that mankind were bound by the ties of fraternal duty to assist and encourage one another. (Hear, hear.) It was a sad thing to contemplate the crowded and wretched hovels in which the poor were compelled to live without any of the decencies and very few of the com forts of life. Little did the higher clams think, when travel ling through the streets of this great emporium of commerce, what a mass of human misery lay closed behind them in the courts and alleys—end in the very neighbourhood of palaces, and the dwellings of the richest metchants. This observation applied to the parishes of St. James's and'! St. George's, Ilanover-square, and not alone to those dis tricts with which poverty was more popularly emaciated. There was nothing like figures to prove these statements, and he would therefore give them a few statistics in further- Ince of the view he took upon the subject. In the pariah of St. George's, out of 1,46.5 families of the labouring! clams', 929 bad only one room to • family, and 408 had only two rooms to a family, without any convenient Olen, or any of the necessary provisions for the comforts of life. The rural labourer passed his time under the bright light of heaven, whereas the labourer of the metropolis was compelled to choose between the smoky street and hie own habitation, and was often obliged, from the absence of comfort at home, to go abroad, there to seek sources of enjoyment which in the end proved detrimental to his own health and injurious to the welfare of his family. Domestic comforts not only comprised the common appliances of food and raiment, but the decencies of a well ordered family and the happiness of . the children. Give the poor their comforts, and they should effect a great good by strengthening the position ef that ' class of the community which ought to be the basis of the 'social pyramid. Let them begin their good work by remov ing these social evils—and their name was legion—which seemed to bid defiance to the efforts of Christian philan thropy. (Cheers.) It was a remarkable fact that the rate of mortality differed is almost incredible proportion not oily between the inhabitants of town and country, but between the various inhabitants of the same city. He hoped that every exertion would be made to render the efforts of the society as beneficial as it must be, if properly and charitably supported. (Loud cheers.) Mr. J. B. Damson M.P., seconded the resolution; which was carried unanimity. The East of ELLESMERE moved the sewed resolve. boo, " That the evils incident to such a state ofthings cannot be eakindy OMMIOOII by individual exertions, and that a gensied having been formed for the pupas of re- Ves ir Oft these evils, it deserves the active and support of the community at larp." The a ti expeessed the readiness he felt to discharge the duty _wig& had been devolved upon him, as it O radea hie ea - eggerninity of showing bow deeply he eggeetieled the modest of the illustrious person who aseimpial ea shale, sad ohs had brought to their recollec tion the geed qualities of his revered father—not by con tras batby similitude. Re was also glad to have it in his pewee le wired the praiseworthy efforts of his young and anti Mad LW, Lessem, who bad coma forward to do thee whisk eeesee in Lev , every man should endeavour to 4 "l'he via lltu, 0 1 7 . [F ig al a D in " generati on. etls Tut ' : lad expesued indict conviction that this was a work to whisk all pilaw there assembled were bound, accord .log tether opportunities, to contribute their share. They 'know how impossible ft was for the poor man to build for limit( a /amble dwelling, aad if, by beading proper lharnen one as were cosaimplated by this society, they Aide Vine •ea abet:dant return for the capital iliii ett, there was an additional reams why the Meek iiiimid be persevered in, the more ?o ddly as It would produce another satisfactory re turn" in the discomfiture of those individuals who did not CAM bow crowded the dwellings of their poor tenants were, provided they got their miserable weekly rents. The present charity, because it was safe, had a special claim u their notice. As they degraded the dwelling, so did tl pon degrade the dweller, and by providing better homes for the poor, they mast radially improve their fallen condition. The right rev. prelate made an eloquent appeal is eil ize sp:hles of the company in favour of the scheme, and he very forcible language upon the position which the duke occupied in fulfilling, as he conceived, the &Mead his high station, by encouraging the natural beteentlegat a noble and generous mind. (Chem) The resektioa was carried. Biel. V. lIHRLIMY then moved—" That this meeting, fully sinalbli ef the danger of substituting charitable egesaise lir isidivideid exertios, is of opinion that, by the 1111,11111 M of mad dwelling-houses, with strict rreeggaarrdd to semsenall resales, the society now formed may indilled eabipsie, sad draw forth the reseasese bath of sitilleadweiteL" Me hoped cad koMed that this.= slag would balibired vp, sad that It await he set iambi the wateepelis bat thewegheet the . Mr. NONOITOIt 1111.1111 t, M.P., seconded th e r t Xuties, which was e*pported by Mir WILLIAM Pusan, Bert., and Mr. SLANST, M.P. Carried. Lord INGESTRE then proposed the fourth resolution, eardially acknowledging the exertions that had been made ether societies incorporated fora similar purpose, but do tted, GO intensive was the need, that this society, f ea a somewhat different basis, would find &handout reset Sr its labours. His lordship concluded by reputing a TOW of thanks to the illustrious chairman. The high sasaafpeee which had been bestowed upon the movement, that it was a step in the right direction • sad be was grateful for the manner in which his vitality —if ho se speak—had been encouraged and supported. Rev. Mr. JACKAOM fiupported the resolution end also MN vote of thanks. Carried unanimously. His Royal highness returned thanks, and the pro seedier; terminated. SAMBRE AND MEUSE RAlLWAY.—Traffic for the month of April, 1862, 1,1501. 6s 7d.; April, 1851, 7701. ii. 11d.; April, 1860, 8661.9 x. 24. FATAL COLLIERY EXPLOSION.-UPN ARDS OF TWENTY LIVES LOST. SHIELDS, THURSDAY, 9 r.st. This forenoon a fearful explosion took plate in the A pit, Hebburn Colliery , five miles from this place. There were 200 men and boys in the pit, but the explosion was confined to the Chapter flat. en advance worki,.g. The whole of the men and boys in that portion of the colliery, amounting to 22 in number, were instantly killed by the fire, which was quickly exting u i s h e d, i n . conseysence of meeting a horse drawing a number of tube along tie rolley way. The horse was upset and severely injured, but the men travelling in the tube fortunately escaped. The pit was well ventilated, and nothing is as yet known as to the cause producing the accident. The lessee of the c dliery is Mr. Easton, of Gateshead. The colliery is in th e fiery Bonham seam, and this is the third explosion that has taken place in it during the last 20 yearn. Thi *hole of the bodies were brought to the hank in about too hours after the accident occurred. No injury has hei. dune to the ventilation. The inquest will be held on Sati.rday. THE ALLEGED MURDER NEAR. DRURY. LANE. Yesterday afternoon an inquest was held by Mr. Bedford, at the Plough Tavern, Carey-stn•• t, Lin coln's-inn, on the body of Mr. Robert Clarke, it, d 51, a coachmaker, some particulars of w hove death in a•i•..equence of brutal violence received by him in a noturinte. IWILIK: Banbury-court, Lung-acre, have already appeared Mr A. Haynes attended to watch the ease on l - ,ehttlf of the accused. _ _ . John llenwood, police constable 9.5 F, repeated the evidence he gave at the examination before the tr eixtrate, to the elf•ect that shortly before two o'clock or, Sunday morning last, while on duty, he found deceased 'rtting on the past:tient, and leaning against a wall cppusite a house kept by & David Lo Hart co, at 31, Ha-street, the aiela door of i which sin Batibiary-court, and believing that be was the same man that about a quarter of an hour prevasualy he had seen enter the house with two females, he call. el out to know whether there was anybody who knew anything of him. Several voices answered, " 1 know nothing all of him," and en retreating the question he heard a • 'rice say, " Don't answer him." Eventually the sergeant ante up, and finding that the man was dead, they come yo I him on a stretcher to the station, and from thence to King's Culls ge Hospital. Thomas Bridgewater, house surgeon of King College Hospital, had examined the body, and diecove; d several slight bruises on the upper part of the right eyelid, a small quantity of fluid blued in the mouth, and a btu,* on the nose and upper right jaw. Ile then minutely de• tiled the result of the post-mortem examination, which leaved that the heart, and, with the exception of the lungs (e ich were congested an consequence of the sudden death), ilia viscera were healthy. Olt ranking the skullcap, be taut .1 the tis sues of the head very vascular, and the inembri.aes more adherent than natural; there were effusion , of 1. sal from the membranes, and at the base of the bruin, ae I clots of blood on the ventricles. From these and other u!amerances the witness was of opinion that death resulted Irma concus sion of the brain, at which conclusion he had arri ed, inde pendently of the history of the occurrence. I .neussion would have been produced by a blow, or a fall, or , eith, but there was no corresponding external bruise ; but -till many cases had occurred in which no external mark of .. blow, or fall, had been left, although death had resultee tom con cussion. Alice Tillett, /Co. 10, Valentine-place, Illackf ars-road, deposed that, while walking with a girl, named ayes, on Sunday morning, between land 2, in Trafalgarsq.•sre, hey met deceased, who, although tipsy, was able to Will steadily, and proceeded to Belasco's house in Banbury-- 'art and went upstairs. Tho woman Delano demanded of the deceased, who said he had no money, and lay doe a to sleep on the sofa. Mrs. Belasco and a servant then e. Inmeneed abusing him and called him " Irish," whet. he f :.t up and threatened to strike any une who repeated it. Rieman took him by the arm gently, and he was going quietly ...way, and when on the landing the man Belasco abused hi,•l for not Raying, and pushed him rather violently with L .'h hands. Taken quite by surprise he tell down the stairs h. i 4 down wards with his hands under hint, his head string every stair until he reached the bottom, where he lay t. Sonless, his head on the mat and his legs up the stairs. 13 , lasco fol lowed, knelt down, and struck him three or lAir times about the head, at the same time nide, ng him out. On the witness remonstrating with B. two, he said " You're a woman of the world, you aught to know better;" and his wife gave them earn a elan of gin, and told them "If there was any heeler about it to say he had fallen down stairs." Mrs. a and two female servants then dragged deceased out by the eollar and put him sitting against the wall, and a minute or two after wards the policeman called out. The wituiss and her com panion remained, by the direction of Mrs. Bel i.e.', some short time longer in the house; and the latter went out with them and again told them to say he had fallen elai”rn stairs. Witness, however, turd the first policeman she ii.et of the occurrence, gave her address, and said she would be forth coming if required. Cross-examincel.--On the day of the examinatim• at Bow street she went into a public-house in Bryalges-smet with some women, who offered her 1001. if she liked to go away, which she refused. The jury hero expressed a desire to examine the Animas*, which, having been done, and on returning, t) Coroner summed up, and the jury, after a short cm •ohation, returned a verdict of " Manslaughter " agair-t David At Bow-street police court the two Helene' .ind their servant were again examined, when Mr. llridgeu.iter gave the evidence above reported. At the close of the inve►ti gation, Mr. Hall said that 6.s the ea+e was con , hided, he wu in a position to give an opinion upon the whu,e of the evidence, and he considered he waa warranted in e arning to the conclusion that each of the finale prisoner- might be discharged, no proof being given that they had acted in such a manner as to cause the fatal results to th ,leiseased i , all the injurie. having been inflicted by the male oriaosur. The witnesses were then bound in the sum of n../. each to give evidence at the next sessions of the Centre. Criminal Court against the prisoner for wilful murder. Mr. Hall hoped that the parochial authorities would insti tute proceedings against the house in Hart -street, which was well known to have been a most infamous place for a considerable time. _ . . Mr. Mow*ley, chairman of the guardians of the Strand Union, who was present, said he would lose no time in drawing the attention of the board to the circumstance. BURNING OP THE ROTAL YACHT SCHOONER TITANIA, AT COlT6B.—About ten o'clock on V ilnesdsy evening the schooner yacht Titania, of 100 ton, ' the pro perty of R. Stephenson, Esq., was discovered to be un are; and as she was in the midst of the fleet hai ed up on the wind in Cowes Harbour, groat fears were !ertained that many of the finest yachts in England line .t be de stroyer'. The large town fire engine was got iit o a horses boat and towed up to the burning yacht, but nit as being stated that she had • quantity of gunpowd , : in bar augaernes, the men were cautioned not to go mar her. Bat kr this unfortunate circumstance, there w.is such a number of men, and such powerful engines, th.o. the fire mast soon have been got under. Their exertion , wt-re now principally directed to the saving of the Tenant in cutter yacht, belonging to Captain Smith, and • 'amour yacht belonging to Mr. O'Shea, in which they were •ureessful ; but the Titania, the competitor of the celebrated America, was . completely burnt out. Her masts went by the board soon after midnight, but she kept burning till n arty day light, when the sailors finding that the magazil.e did not blowup they would no longer believe that she het: 2 cwt. of gunpowder in her, and boarded her aft, playing toe engines with such effect that, although her iron sides wer• red hot, they soon put the fire out. The gunpowder was found to have been protected by the magazine from both fire and water. Her valualilcs are all destroyed ; even the plate is ell melt. d down. She hes her bowsprit alone standing. Ther, was con stant shouting from East Cowes shore that the Talisman was on are, but it was only the reflection of tr. • red•hot sides of the 'Titania en her that gave her the appearance of being on fire also. The paint is much blivered, andt the pitch has run out of her seams ; but she ha. received little other damage. The tire is stated to have even occa sioned by the over-heating of the flee in tiring Hut cabins and furniture, the owuer being earesited on. board. Had the wind been from the south ~stead of the east it would have been a fatal affair for . .he other yachts (about twenty) that were near her. N powder should be allowed to be kept on board the yai tits when laid up. ANTI-MILITIA MEETING AT OLDHAM.—One of tho largest and most spirited meetings ever recent., ed in tho borough of Oldham was held on Wednesday rti, lit, in the Town Hall. Two thousand persons were prem.:, but the numbees who found admission were hut a small i onion of these edits presented themselves, and were tun. back for Mug elf rum. Public feeling has been worked upon by I* Illakfir its prospect of an early election, lint the bit- IMMO apolitical divisions has Men thrown a,i to for lb. 11111111 Mat, and there seemed to be but one sentiment as to eitiermination to resift the new Militia Hill. Mr. Peter Sa vige resided, Mt a petition again,t the proposed Militia was carried unitnimoudy. The people in Oldham, Winchester, and the other large manufacturing towns have not 'I, retofore 'resisted the Militia Bill so energetically as was •o be ex pected, from n feeling of false security. The entolment of a militis was imminent some few years ago, but the danger rolled sway like a summer cloud; and now ei:ais Lord John Russell's Militia Bill has been recently del, ated with so little uf effort from the people—in fact by the factious op position of a late member of the government it, :f, rather than the voice of the people—that all belief in militia bine had beets shaken. The Militia Bill of the proem govern ment looked en inuch like • mere ghost of the I , i'liter one, that may people have thought it would " snu ff he morn ing air " in the first division after the Easter holidays, and are only now beginning in reality to be afraid. It need not be disguised, however, that there is a feeling among the old physical force party of the working people inclined to f the militia scheme, in the belief that the " people" would by then means get arras in their hands The suediti ' oi this notion", and it. wickedness. W 1.1 exposed recently at a Manchester 'mating by a spoaker i•, opposing the government measure. OCEAN PENNY POSTAGE.—A I k . t am!. delivered by Mr. Elihii Ilurritt, at the Melba • .' . • • . South- ampton-buildings, last evening, cap ‘ .....,,,r 1 A. • ..ects au and feasibility of ocean penny • 'T"'": • ;. • . 4 .th r was received with the warmest and • tenet by a large and influential audien •• • . • • ~ foreigner'. A peMillit 6 pitillament_ • '•• : -:floa4 rare was proposed by Mr. Paxto ...M XT. Edwards, and was carried u ' ~...., . 1. ~,, • , -= 7, 4 t ',.. .' ' " • . ' . , r 1 ^ dR