The Express. — London, England, 1847-04-05 00:00:00

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Adiellers tedlaWattlis . 0 DAILY NMI^ and LIMBOS ^ bays lass =llm !an PIAMISTREIST, to No, 10, POOTIMILIITIMET,iLIIIZWILUT,eontianous to thaPrlntrt arid Palifiasi Mrs. Se. Advertlarones blast tar Tha Erpress, Lord= analog =pm root be at Os Me by Two o'olook °a thedor at pablisatfice. MOB WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE. Tim DST—Lades Si Ws. post 4; ARamn4 SI DNA peg 4 113-11ossow —limb& I Ws. put 3 ; Afterwee, 2$ da. poet S. LONDON, MONDAY, APRIL 5. We have just received a copy of a very important pamphlet, entitled " The School in its Relations to the State, the Church, and the Congregation," bearing internal evidence of a semi-official origin, and, there fore, explaining with authority the motives which dictated the late Minutes of Council. Had this ex planation accompanied the first publication of those Minutes, much of the present opposition to the go vernment scheme of aeration would have been pre vented. The opponents of all state aid in public education are very few • and the world would have seen that the enemies of every scheme of national education whatever, ought not to be received as fair critics and commentators upon any. We have already pointed out this inconsistency in the party headed by Mr. BAINES. Men who assert that no national system ought to be established, and in the same breath demand that an act of parliament should be substituted for a minute of council :—men who pretend that all great legislators have had no other object than to establish despotisms, and who pl ace Athena, Sparta, and by implication the states of New England, in the category of absolute governments, are either too ignorant to understand an historical precedent, or too obstinate to yield to the most conclusive argument. The education of the people by the state, and the identification of the state with the people, were cardinal principles of puritan ism, and the early nonconformists held, that the abandonment of the one would necessarily involve the abandonment of the other. The essence of dissent is, the intelligent and deliberate rejection of formularies propounded by some authority. In order to advance dissent they consequently le:ooured to increase intelligence, and inculcate deliberation. The very last thing they would have desired is igno- rant acquiescence ; and, therefore, in the only land where they had legislative power, they guarded against such ignorance and such acquiescence, by esta blishing that plan of state education, which we have quoted in a former article from the early history of Massachussetts. As the controversy has advanced, the position of Mr. Buses and his party has become more painful and more isolated. He occupied a false position, analo gous to that of a professed Atheist, attempting to dis cuss the historical evidences of the gospel; for a man who set out with the principle that no revelation was possible had of course predetermined that any asserted revelation must be untrue. In like manner Mr. B uses and his friends, having resolved that all government aid was bad, must have, d priori, resolved that any possible form in which it could be administered must be improper and unjust. They had reached this conclusion without any con sideration of the premises, and hence, when they proceeded to devise premises , they covered themselves with ridicule, by adopting the fifty-six absurdities of the list of objections, which they seem now, from very shame, to have abandoned. As we had anticipated, the violence and excess of Mr. BAINES and his party have produced a re-action in the intelligent body of nonconformists; amongst those who have been accustomed to reverence the old Puritans and the early Pilgrim Fathers; amongst those who believe that the ignorant rejection of formularies is not one whit better than their ignorant reception ; amongst those who believe that it is not the interest of any sect to perpetuate training in vice by preventing the state from encouraging virtue; from those who believe in the first principle of liberty, that men Should Anow their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain. In the nineteenth century it was too hazardous an experiment for a few violent leaders, and two or three ardent journalists, to get up as fanatical an animosity against the Church of England, as the lowest class of Orangemen used to manifest in Ireland against the Church of Rome. After the first burst of passion was over, reflection called attention to the rank non sense which men had been taught to utter as a cry, and the rational part of the dissenters mustered courage to speak out. Among the many indications of this healthy and hopeful reaction is the following petition adopted by the voluntary Sunday-school teachers of Birmingham on Friday last : TO TILE HON. THE COMMONS OP THE UNITRID EtNODOSI OP GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND IN PARLIAMENT ASSINBLED. The humble petition of the teachers of the Protestant Dis senting Sunday school connected with the Old Meeting House, in the borough of Birmingham .• EHEWETH,—That the said school has existed for upwards of half a century, affords to its members the use of several valuable institutions for mental and moral improvement, including an extensive benefit society, casual fund, and a considerable library. The number of male pupils in the school is upwards of fire hundred, a great part of whom are adult persons. All aro instructed by the exertions of nearly one hundred voluntary teachers, most of whom here' been educated in the school as pupils, and are actuated by a desire to extend to others the benefits of in struction they have received, and the discipline to which they have been subjected. That in consequence of the in adequate and very limited means of instruction possessed by the working classes, your petitioners, as managers, have ever felt it to be incumbent upon them to give the pupils of the said school, on the Sabbath day, in addition to rtt`4,4l;; lion derived at a place of worship, as extensive and ireful a course of instruction as possible, such instruction including writing, arithmetic, grammar, and geography. Your peti Honer have anxiously watched the progress made by the pupils in their education, and the effect the instruction given has had upon the mind and character, and they rejoice in being able to testify, as a well-ascertained truth, that their exertiora have been crowned withthe most happy results; and they can bear testimony to the fact, that the pupils more ad vanced in knowledge become happier andbetter members of so eiets than those whose knowledge has continued more limited. That, notwithstanding all voluntary exertions made to carry out the great work of education among the rising generation of this empire, your petitioners, from their own knowledge and experience, can testify that in the very populous district in which they reside, ell the means at present in operation, though very considerable, are altogether insufficient to meet the demand ; and they feel certain that, unaided by govern ment, the friends of education will never be enabled effi ciently to afford that more extended amount of daily educa tion which the humbler clover require, under the circum stances in which they are placed. Your petitioners, there fore, (gains deeply the importance of the subset hail with gladness the measure lately introduced by the members of her ?day rvy's government into your honourable house, for the better education of the people, under the direction and con trol of inspection, as recommended in the minutes of the com mittee of council of education, presented to your honourable house by command of her Marna , ; and they verily believe the same, if carried out under wise and proper direction, and upon the broad principles of religious liberty, will be of immense advantage to society at large. Your petitioners, therefore, humbly pray that your honourable house will take the subject into its serious consideration, with the view of carrying out the recommendations contained in the afore said minutes, or adopting such other measures for the better education of the people. on the principles of civil and reli gious liberty, as to your honourable house may seem meet ; and they have requested their president to sign this petition oat their behalf. CHAS. H. EDWARDS, Presadent. We have now to turn to a very different class of opponents, of whom Dr. VALIGIIAN, the Economist, and the Manchester Examiner, may be regarded as the exponents. We speak rather doubtingly of the Economist, for, while it one week denounces any national system which would tax bachelors for the education of the children of married men, it has this week declared its approbation of the American system and its machiuery of local management under state superintendence. The Economist has lost much of its authority, by allowing its statistics to overpower its economics ; its editor appears unable to emancipate himself from the most dry and direct inferences derived from the labo rious tables he has constructed, and to be either un able or unwilling to enter into the large and philoso phic deductions which can alone give life and autho rity to a liberal science. Ile writes too mach in the spirit of the tradesman commemorated by BASTIAT, who estimated the commerce of the nation by the traffic of his own shop. It required some such peculiar constitution of mind to devise the notable argument on which the editor has rung the changes, to utter weariness, in the last number of his journal, and which, in a multitude of words, asserts only this simple proposition—that because the British state has done many things badly, it should be prohibited from attempting to do anything well. This is one of the crotchets to which clever men are occasionally subject, end on which they may very safely be permitted to indulge, as they are not likely to win many proselytes to a whim, or gain many disciples to a sheer absurdity. With Dr. VAUGHAN and the Manchester Examiner we have too much in common not to treat their objec tions with r esp ect, and receive their opinions with attention. We agree with them that the American system, or the national system which has succeeded so admirably in Ireland, would be preferable to that laid down by the committee of the privy council. We have evidence in former minutes that the government would have adopted the very same conclusion, de sired equally by Dr. VAUGHAN, the Manchester Examiner, and ourselves, had the question of national education been propounded to them absolutely and unconditionally. But they had, either to do what they have done, or to abandon, as Dr. VAUGHAN admits, " the course of popular education altogether." With not only deference to the scruples of Dr. VAUGHAN, but even with sympathy in them, we still cannot but applaud the government for having adopted the more calm and philanthropic, though more difficult, course of persevering in the great task of education, turning aside only from such obstacles as were insurmountable, and with no sacrifice either of principle, or of any of the great and final end/ of education. THE trade with Brazil is a very important item of British foreign commerce. There were, in 1845, only eleven states or nations—keeping our colonies and de pendencies out of view—to each of which we exported, in the course of the year goods amounting in value to a million or upwards. Among these eleven Brazil occupies exactly the middle place. The exports for 1845 to the Hinted States of North America, Germany, Holland, France, and Italy respectively, exceed in value those to irazil. The exports for that year to China, Turkey, Russia, Belgium, and Chili, fall short in value of those to Brazil. The value of the exports to Brazil in 1845 was within a trifle of two millions and a half; the value of the exports for that year to France, Italy, Brazil, China, Turkey, and Russia, respectively, exceeded two millions and fell short of three. The British trade with Brazil is of that kind which is generally admitted to be the most profitable—the trade of a country, the staple exports of which are highly finished manufactures, with one the staple exports of which are raw material, or goods in the earlitit and simplest stages of artificial prepara tion. Our national barter with Brazil is of a kind calculated to bring us larger profits than any we can carry on with France, Italy, or even Turkey. There is a greater variety in the lmown products of Brazil available for our market than in the known products of China. Perhaps in respect of actual importance and capability of indefinite extension, our trade with Brazil is at this moment more nearly on a par with that to Russia than with that to any other foreign country. It is more obviously our interest to cultivate a good understanding with Brazil,so as to impart security and facilities of extension to our commercial intercourse with it, than was formerly the case. The social relations of the United States afford little reason to expect that their cotton cultivation will expe rience any material extension for many years to come. The demands of our cotton manu facture are evidently outgrowing the power of supply in the cotton-growing states of the Union. Of all other cotton-exporting countries, Brazil is the one which can most speedily increase the quantity or im prove the quality of its production, and there is none more favourably circumstanced in respect of distance and shipping facilities. All things considered, therefore, it will be easily imagined with what anxiety an important section of our trading interests await the result of Lord How- DEWS mission. This country has much at stake upon that minister's sweets in smoothing the asperities of feeling towards this country which have been awakened in Brazil. The Sugar Duties Act has gone a certain length towards allaying them ; but there another act, only two sessions old, which would re quire to be repealed in order to enable our envoy to commence his labours with any reasonable prospect of success. By treaties contracted between the Brazilian and British governments, it was agreed that the slave trade should cease to be carried on by the subjects of Brazil after the 13th of March, 1830; that the slave trade should be considered piracy by both govern ments; and that courts of mixed commission should be established to try the ships and subjects of Brasil engaged in the slave trade. The duration of the ar rangement under which these courts of mixed com mission were instituted was, however, limited to fif teen years from the day on which the slave trade was to become illegal. The fifteen years expired in March, 1845. Since that time, Brazil and Great Britain have still been bound by treaty to use their efforts for the suppression of the slave trade ; but each country has been at liberty to act quite independently of the other. The exasperation against England which prevailed among the people of Brazil at the time the courts of mixed commission expired, on ' account of the then existing sugar tariff, rendered fruitless all attempts on the part of this country to procure a renewal of joint measures for the suppres sion of the slave trade. Thus check-mated, the government of the day had recourse to a measure, unparalleled in British legislation for its disregard of national rights. An act of parliament was passed in July, 1846, conferring upon our own Courts of Admiralty all the powers formerly possessed by the Courts of Mixed Commis sion, and extending to British courts authority to try and condemn Brazilian subjects captured on the high seas in the act of carrying on the slave trade. The only shadow of an argument in support of this usurpation of a jurisdictioa appertaining to the law courts of Brazil alone was no better than a play upon words. It was said that the Brazilian government had bound itself to consider the slave trade as piracy, and that all states have juris diction in cases of piracy. But it is only in respect of what is recognised to be piracy by the law of nations that all states have such a jurisdiction. A treaty between the Brazilian and British governments, bind ing them to punish their respective subjects convicted of engaging in the slave trade as pirates, could not make the slave trade piracy by the law of nations. Nay, a treaty contracted by the Brazilian executive could not, without the sanction and co-operation of the I Brazilian legislature, make the slave trade piracy by the law of Brazil. The act of July, 1845, professes to give a British court of law power to punish the subjects of another state as pirates for an act which certainly is not piracy by the law of nations, and which is not even piracy by the municipal laws of that other state. The people of Brazil bitterly resent the contemp tuous disregard of their national sovereignty evinced by this act of the British legislature. They resent it the awe warmly, because they are conscious the English legislature relied upon their weakness when it passed mach an act, and would never have dreamed of enact ing such a law had France or the United States been the countries that were to be affected by it. Bo long as this act of July, 1845, is allowed to re main on the statute book, there can be but slender hepee et any fruit from Lord Howl:one's mission. And the =soma, and vexation to which our traders with Brawl are in consequence left exposed, are of a nature materially to cramp their transactions, and render them precarious, if not unprofitable. Until the justly wounded national pride of Brazil is soothed, we have THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 5, 1847. no right to expect a renewal of the moderate tariff of duties on our merchandise, and the privileges and ad vantages which we enjoyed under the treaty of com merce with their government, which expired in 1843. One instance of these privileges will suffice to show their importance. By that treaty, wills of British subjects made according to the forms of British law were recognised in Brazil, and the property of British subjects dying intestate was administered by the British consul, conformably with the English law. Now the property of British subjects dying intestate in Brazil is administered by the native courts, which is tantamount to confiscation ; and property in Brazil, devised by a party resident in England in a will made agreeably to English law, would be treated as if he had died intestate. Queen Isabella has at length emancipated herself, ' and dismissed the cabinet. This important intelli gence was brought by an extraordinary express, which arrived in Paris late on Thursday evening, sad was confirmed by the regular mails of the 28th and 29th, which have since arrived. From the various versions which are given of the affair, we collect the following circumstances, the accuracy of which may be relied upon. In the course of the day, on the 27th, the Ministers of the Interior and of Finance had transacted business as usual with the Queen. At a late hour of the even ing, M. Roca de Togores, Minister of Public Instruc tion and Commerce, attended her Majesty at the palace . on public business. The Queen expressed to this =sister her wish that the cabinet should resign. The minister replied that personally he was ready to do so, bat that he did not believe his colleagues would consent to retire. Her Majesty then proposed to M. Roca de Togores to countersign two orddn nances, the one dismissing the Duke of Sotomayor, President of the Council. and the other nominating M. Pacheco to that office. These two ordonnances accordingly appeared next morning in the Gazette. No other appointment had been as yet officially announced, but the principal members of the new cabinet were known to be as follows :—M. Pacheco, President of the Council and Miuister of Foreign Affairs; M. Salamanca, Minister of Finance ; M.Pastor Diaz, Minister of Public Instruction; M. Benavides, Minister of the Interior ; M. Sotelo, Minister of Marine • and M. Mazarrcdo, Minister of War. Of these, the three moat powerful and influential, MM. Pacheco, Salamanca, and Pastor Diaz, belong to the Puritan section of the opposition, and the three others affect different shades of Conservatism, and are connected with the Moderado party. The Puritans in the Cortes bold the middle place between the Moderados, or Conservatives, and the Progretaists, or Liberals. In the qucstionof the marriages,the Puritans were against the Montpensier marriage. General Serrano emerged from his concealment on the 28th ult., and presented himself to the reporter of the commission charged with the inquiry regarding his conduct. This affair will of course be dropped. General Cordova was named Captain- General of the province of Madrid ad interim, and military governor absolutely. The Gazette of the 29th contains an account of the reception of the depu tation of the Cortes at the palace, and the address which it presented. M. Arrazora having . declined the portfolio of Grace and Justice, it is held ad interim by M. Benavides. The three candidates spoken of for this ministry were : MM. Bahamonde, Pena y Aguayo, and Calderon Collantes. The new ministry presented itself in the Chamber of Deputies on the 29th, when M. Pacheco declared in the name of the cabinet that his colleagues and himself were determined to pursue a moderately liberal policy, and that they desired an adjournment of the chamber for some days to give them time to con sider the several projects of law presented by the late cabinet. He declared that his foreign policy would be especially Spanish, that good relations would never theless be maintained with all foreign powers, and that the government of the Queen wouldnot allow the crown of Portugal to be put in peril. He said that the government of the country would be conducted on strictly legal and constitutional principles, but that if extraordinary emergencies required exceptional mea sures, the government would not hesitate to adopt them, relying on parliament for an indemnity ; that with regard to the amnesty, the cabinet would favour everyone who acknowledged the present Queen. eligi ble to public functions. In short that the ministry intendedto pursue a course of enlightened and moderate liberalism, enforcing respect for the royal preroga tive, the maintenance of order, and the establishment of the benefits springing from the revolution. The chamber received with marks of much favour this declaration of the new cabinet. A proposition wan subsequently offered by M. Gon zalo Moron, and other deputies, far the production of the accounts between the government and M. Salamanca, the latter having been, in his commercial capacity, engaged in various transactions with the state. After some explanation on the part of MM. Pacheco and Salamanca, a division took place, in which the proposition was rejected by a majority of 134 votes against 50. Thus, in its debut, the new ministry appears at once to have commanded a large majority. MM. Mon, Pidal, Martinez de la Ross, Roca de Togores, Bravo Murillo, Sejas Lozano, and °liven, and other supporters of t he late cabinet, voted in the minority. It was thought probable that the present state of affairs would bring back M. Olozaga to Madrid. It was expected that the Cortes would be adjourned for a fortnight. The Paris journals of Friday and Saturday announce the retirement of Count St. Aulaire from the embassy in London, the approach of which event was mentioned, some time since, in our corre- spondence. Don Enrique arrived at Marseilles on Saturday, with the intention of remaining for some time in that city. In the course of Saturday he was visited and complimented by the principal military and civil an thonties of the place, and by the Spanish consul. A carious and unexpected event, however, soon followed this sunshine of official favour and congratulation. To the great astonishment of every one, an order was re ceived by telegraph from Paris, late the same evening, to the effect that the prince should depart before morning for Italy. Accordingly, at four in the morn ing, a travelling carriage with post-horses waited at the door of his hotel, which carried him by compul sion to Nice. No explanation of this proceeding was given either to the local authorities at Maraeilles,or to the prince himself. ROME, MARCH 25. Another of those popular manifestations of which Rome has 80 often been the scene since the advent of Pins IX., took place in the holy city on the 25th ult. That day being the Festival of the Annunciation, the holy father was to hold a Capella Papale at the Minerva, whither he was expected to proceed in grand state. The retr9grade party, iscited by Aus trian agente, put in circulation a report that hostile pieceege were contemplated on the part of the populace, in consequence of the recent establishment of the censorship. It was communicated to his holiness that he would be stopped on his route, that his horses would be unharnemed, and that ho would be compelled to proceed by such a route as the people should dictate. The agents warned him of his danger at the moment he was about to leave his palace. His holiness, thanking those who thus apprised him of danger, sent one of his chamberlains to observe the disposition of the populace. This functionary returned with a report that he only heard such excla mations as "Corragio sante Padre, eonfidatevi al yes tro popolo!"--.' Courage! holy father, trust yourself to your people !" " Assuredly I will trust myself," re plied the pope, end immediately ordered that none of the arrangements should be deranged. The corttlge immediately proceeded to the church amidst the accla mations of the populace. Daring the long ceremony in the church,the report of this incident spreading rapidly through the city, deputations were hastily formed from the pupils of La Sapienza,the members ofthe commercial club,andthenobles,whohurriedtothePiazzadiMinerva, and formed two dense hedges from that to the Qui rinal, between which the procession returned amidst the most enthusiastic cries from the populace. On arriv ing at the Quirinal Palace, his holiness immediately presented himself on the balcony to thank his affec tionate people, when instantly, by a spontaneous movement, the multitude dropped on their knees and received, uncovered, the papal benediction, after which they separated quietly. FRANCE.—The INDIA OVERLAND MAIL.—We extract the following from the Constitraionnel of Friday : The Courtier de Marseilles simonised a few days since that the English government had definitively ado pted the Mar seilles route for the passage of the Indian mail. The Augs burg Gazelle, on the other hand, afilrmed that an agree ment bad been concluded between Austrian Lloyd's and the British government to convey, at its own expense, the Indian mail twice a month by Trieste, Germany, and Bel gium. The real truth seems to be this, that the Indian mail, comprising all the journals, letters, &c., which can be sent by post, of a weight of 9 or 10,000 kilos. and filling fourfosirgons, will be forwarded SI hitherto by Marseilles ' ;. but that twice a month the Indian despatches, consisting o f a few letters and journals for the government and the East India Company, will be forwarded by Trieste. HAVRE., APRIL 3.—REDUCTION OP FRENCH CUS TOMS Dirrize.—We learn by a communication made by M. Dubois, the deputy of Havre, to the Chamber of Commerce of that place, that a disuse to the following effect will be inn bodied in the forthcoming law on French customs, : All her iron, sheet iron, sine (whether rolled or not), hemp, and flax, if to be used in the construction or repair of French merchant vessels, may be brought into the country free of duty.—Journal du Howe. ITALY.—Tuam, MARCH 18.—The King of Sir dioia's illness has become alarming for the last few days. On the 17th it was found necessary to apply leeches te ice. To-day he was worse ; and bleeding was resorted to. The members of the diplomatic corps came in a body to inquire respecting the king's health.—Allgemeine Zeitung. NAPLES, MARCH 17.—A letter from this capital says: "His Majesty the Emperor of Russia has ogain invited the king, in the most flattering terms, to pay him a visit at St. Petersburg. Accordingly, a report has been in circulation, for some days past, that their Majesties intended to take a journey to Vienna, and other planes. Howe, cr, it is well known that his Mmesty is fond of keeping hi, pro ' jects of travel secret, and that he is accustomed to take those about him by surprise, no more is spoken of at preeen• than a journey which the king will take to Rome immediately after Easter. HOLLAND.—THE HAGUE, APRIL 2.—The health of the king has so far improved that no bulletin was issued on the above day. GERMANY.—VIENNA, MARCH 23.—1 t is said that the demand made by Prussia and Saxony for a crap*. racy stoppage of the customs duties on the Elbe, as far as regards the entrance and transit of corn and vegetab' es, has been refused, for special reasons, by the Supreme C .art of Finence.--Count de Pilsach, the Austrian Ambrose Inc to the court of Bavaria, is not to return to Munich, b- i t is to be appointed ambassador ador to some other court. — Thv Otto man Porte is said to have protested against the lent :honed stay of the ex. Prince Michael of Servia, at Bucharest. MARCH 26.—M. Prokesch, the Austrian m :eider at Athens, who has been absent from thence on lei, ee, left Vienna on the 29th ult., en his return to his post, v, hieh is said to have been hastened by the existing difference between the sovereigns of Greece and Turkey. From April 1, the Vienna mails for Hamburg, Lu beck, and Bremen, will no longer be sent by Dresden, but by Breslau and Berlin, as the shortest route. As the govern ment of the Prince of Tour and Taxis has consented to re duce the transit postage, asi igle letter will cost us more then 18 kreutsers (761 centimes). - - • • • • MARCH 30.—The marriage of the Archd whew Mary with the Count of Trappant has been decided u.ion. PRCSSIA.—BERLIN, MARCH 23. The edict of toleration, about which so much has bees said, will appear shortly, the deliberations of the council upon it having been closed. From what has transpired, it appears that the prin cipal points of it will be as follows :—A distinction will be made between the churches which are recognised, and the tolerated sects. The United Evangelical church, which is at present the state church, and the Roman Catholic church, form the category of the recognised forms of worship; all diss.mters, such as the ancient Lutherans or Paleolutherans, the G :rman Catholics ordissenters, are to be comprised in the category of tolerated sects, and are to be placed under the control of the Minister of the Interior and of the police. The otter r two churches are to remain in the attributions of the Mini.ter of Worship. The ecclesiastic' of the tolerated sects may ad minister the sacraments, draw up civil acts, and keep regattas, which will consequently possess an official character. A question of some importance, which presented itself in the course of the discussion, was, to whom the property of the church was to belong, in the event of the inhabitants of a commune passing from the recognised church to one of the sects? This question has, it is said, been decided in favour of the church of the state, no matter how small may the number of persons remaining faithful to it. HALBERSTADT, MARcia 29.—A fire, consider able in extent, occurred in the neighbouring town of Wernigerode. The fire broke out in a baker's shop, where trial wee being made of a new oven. The progrt,s of the flame*, rendered fiercer by a strong west wind, was so great that in two hours upwards of 244 houses were burnt down. Notwithstanding every exertion, the fire was still burning up to the time this account was written. Owing to the speed with which the flames spread, it was with difficulty most of the inhabitants escaped, and it is feared that several men, who are missing, seven children, and a servant girl have perished. EMIGRATION.—Upwards of 6,000 German emi grants have, within the last fortnight, passed through Co fogne, on their way to Bremen, Havre, and Antwerp, where they will take their departure for America. The greater art of them seemed to be rather well off. The town of Menden was lately so full of emigrants that it resembled the camp of a wandering tribe ; the streets were literally crammed with baggage, and people waiting for the steamers. It is calculated that 120,000 Germans will emigrate this year. The desire to emigrate has extended to districts in Germany where it was never before felt, and amongst others to the rich tnd fertile Saxon province of Prussia. The Nurenstterg Correspondent states that the whole of the inhabitants (sir hundred) of the village of Meimbressen, in Electoral Hesse, are about to emigrate to America. COLONIAL. CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.—The Sun of Saturday rye (but without mentioning dates or source of informs tion) • " We regret to state that accounts have been re ceived from the Cape which represent that Captain Gibson and Dr. Howell, of the Rifle Brigade, accompanied by the Hon. W. Chetwynd, 73rd Regiment, went on an amateur excursion among the Kaffir., fell into an ambush, and thus 1 all et them fell a sacrifice to their imprudence." Obr eourt. WINDSOR, SUNDAY.—The Queen and Prince Albert took their accustomed early walk this morning. Their RR. HH. the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, took walking and pony exer cise this forenoon in the slopes. H. R. H. the Princess Helena was also taken an airing. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, the ladies and gentlemen of the Court, and the domestic household, attended divine service this morning in the private chapel of the Castle. The Hon. and Rev. C. Leslie Courtonay officiated. Yesterday her Majesty and her Royal Consort walked in the vicinity of the Castle in the forenoon, and all the Royal Family took their usual airings. Their Excellencies Monsieur and Madame Van do Weyer, and Mr. G. E. and the lion. Mrs. 0. B. Anson, had the honour of joining the Royal circle at the Castle at, dinner yesterday evening. The state apartments in Windsor Castle continue to be open gratuitously to the public on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays; and this week (being Easter week) on Monday and Wednesday also. The Lord Chamberlain's tickets may be obtained in London ' gratis, of Messrs. Paul and Dominic Colnaghi, printaellers, 14, Pall-mall Eat; Mr. Moon, print seller, 20, Threadneedle-street; Mr. Mitchell, bookseller, 33, Old Bond-street; Messrs. Ackerman and Co., printaellers, 96, Strand. They are available for one week from the day they are issued. Residents and visitors at Windsor who have not had an opportunity of obtaining them in London may obtain the tickets on application (between one and three o'clock, for admission between two and four o'clock) to J. Roberts, Esq., the inspector in the Lord Chamberlain's de partment, at his office, in the Winchester Tower Windsor Castle. But these tickets will be available for the day only on which they shall be applied for, and will not he given to persons coming from London or its vicinity. The hours of admission to the state apartments are, from Ist April to 31st October, beteen Eleven and Four. The tickets are not transferable; and it is contrary to her Majesty's command that payment for, or in reference to, them be made to any rit:son whatever. Guide-hooks may be obtained in London Tor Id. each, from the parties who issue the tickets for the state apartments, and for the same sum from the Queen's tradesmen in Windsor, where these notices appear. H.R.H. the Duchess of Gloucester visited her Majesty the Queen Dowager yesterday, at Marlborough House. H.R.H. the Duchess of Cambridge visited the Duchess of Gloucester on Saturday, at Gloucester-house. The Marquis of Lansdowne (Lord President) :was better on Saturday. Despatches were sent off on Saturday evening from the Colonial-office for the Governors of the North Ame rican colonies. H.S.H. Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, and Earle Cawdor and Bathurst, attended Divine service yesterday in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The Bishop of London ad ministered the sacrament. FOR THE EASTER HOLIDAYS. - . THE MISSIONARY MUSEUM street, Finsbury, where an hour or two may be pro fitably passed on any Tuesday, Thursday, or Satur day throughout the year—application having been pre viously made for a ticket. The articles contained therein were supplied chiefly by the missionaries employed by the London Missionary Society, additions being made from various sources. They consist of specimens in na tural history, of weapons, household utensil,, &c., from:the South Sea Islands. China, India, Africa, and America. 'fhe idols which were worshipped by the natives of those places form a principal part of the oollec tion, many of them having been sent over from the South Sea Wends in 1816, when Peewee the King of Tahiti, was converted to christianity—his example being followed by the principal chiefs. Some of the specimens in natural history are very fine; in particular a giraffe, shot in the Griqua country, South Africa, by Mr. Campbell's party in 1814, measuring 16 feet in height. The whole collection, indeed, is well worthy a visit. SOCIETY OF MITS.—EXHIBITION OP MODERN BRITISH MANUFACTORES.—This interesting exhibition, the private view of which we noticed in our paper of Tuesday, and which has since been honoured by a lengthened visit from Prince Albert. is to be seen, free of expense, in John.street, Adelphi. Though the collection is small, it contains many specimens of British taste and industry which will well repay attentive inspection. The objects are principally those sent in by competitors for the prizes awarded by the society for the best specimens in the various departments of useful and ornamental British manufactures. The specimens best worthy of attention are those of wood carving by ma chinery, some of which are very beautiful, and those in porcelain, which certainly equal, if they do not excel, la beauty anything ever achieved by the famous craftsman of Dresden or Sevres. THE POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.—At this institution, usually so much frequented at the present season, Mr. T. R. Jones, F.R.S., and Professor of Comparative Anatomy at King's College, has, for a short time, taken the place of lec turer, generally occupied by Di. Ryan, in consequence of the illness of the latter gentleman ; the subject of the lecture being Animal Mechanism. Amongst the additions recently made to the exhibition are some fine specimens of electrical eels, and an electro-magnetic telegraph signal apparatus, the patent of which belongs to Messrs. Gamble and Nott. As a whole, this institution appears to excite unabated interest, and will bear a repetition of former visits. The prier of admission is one chilling. Zootooreat Gsaorms, REGENT'S PAHL—This delight ful resort, we are glad to find, will, from this day, be accessible to the public on insre convenient terms. By pay ment of a shilling, admittance may now be obtained, without the added condition, as hitherto enforced, of obtaining a member's order—a process which must have been • little troublesome to many who wished to visit the gardens. The gardens will he open on these terms the whole of the present week, except Saturday, and on Monday and Tuesday in each subsequent week. The gardens, generally, present as favourable an appearance as could have been anticipated from the extremely uogeaial weather which has lately pre railed. The animals are all in good condition ; and amongst the recent additions to this most extensive menagerie, may be specified a South African Fox—a donation from Sir E. Belcher RN., which has been placed in a new den in the flower - garden ; and seven North American Squirrels a pur chase by the society, which are to be seen in the small quad ruped-house. Probably no institution in or near London presents greater attractions to the student of nature than these delightful gardens. SURREY ZUOLOOICALGARDBNB.—These gardens are open daily, and form a very attractive resort. Several additions have bean made to the menagerie ; and • new and spacious entrance to the gardens has been formed, a little nearer the Kennington-road than the old entrance. Towne OF LONDON. —Amongst the various attractions for holiday people with which the metropolis abounds, the Tower of London, from its antiquity, and its deeply inter esting historical associations, takes • prominent position. The curiosities open to public view were diminished by the fire in 1841, the train of artillery, and small armoury, to gether with the various articles deposited in the same rooms, having been destroyed ; but there still remains to be seen' the Horse Armoury, which is contained in • room about 150 feet tang, at the eastern end of the building, and consists of a line of equestrian figures, wearing the armour used in dif ferent periods of history, from the time of Edward 1. The walls and ceiling arc fancifully decorated with arms, acorn- trements, military trophies, &c. The visitor is next con ducted, through the White Tower, reported to have been built by William the Conqueror, to Queen Elizabeth's Ar moury, so called from the circumstance of its consisting chiefly of weapons used in her reign. One of the principal attractions in this room is an equestrian figure of Queen Elizabeth, in • costume of the period. Some interest, ales, attaches to this apartment from Its having been the prison of the unfortunate Sir Walter Raleigh; • dark closet cut out of the wall, which is enormously thick, is shown as :his sleeping chamber. A block and heading axe (the latter used at the execution of the Earl of Ewe:), as also various instrument. of torture, are, amongst other relics of • bygone age, deposited in this apartment. The only remaining exhibition is the Regalia (of which the 'lower has been the depository since the reign of Henry the Third), now placed in the new jewel room, erected in 1841, and which is admirably adapted for the display of its costly and magnificent contents, consisting of several crowns., used by various sovereigns and their consorts, the chef-ea-titre being the new state crown made for her present Majesty, the value of which is acid to be one million sterling. Scep tres, orbs, and other ensigns of royalty, make up the splendid collection of crown jewels, the whole of which are estimated to be worth three millions sterling. We have only to add, that the price of admission to every part of the Tower now open to the public has been reduced to one shilling. Although recreation is provided for all classes, at ell seasons, in and around this vast metropolis, yet, at one of the most generally-kept holidays in the year—Rester--ex traordinary attractions are usually pat forth to lure all sorts and conditions of holiday-makers. Formerly, these consisted of the most trifling and puerile attractions: but of late years something of a more healthy end instructive character than fairs, games, and theatrical shows, has been demanded by even the humbler portion of the population. Hence, although providers of the lighter endless intellectual allurements, are never idle ar this season, museums and exhibitions of the useful and fine arts are not open in vain, on every great day of leisure, but are visited by appreciating thousands. At the head of the museums stands, of course— THE BRITISH MVPRUIC—This great national establish• ment will present more than ordinary attractions to the Easterlings. Several of the new rooms will be thrown open for the ilr.t time, to which the grand vestibule, decorated by Colman under the superintendence of Smirke, forms a noble entrance. Of all the new apartments, those which on Saturday most deeply interested us, were the Lycien Room, containing the Xanthisn marbles, brought over by Sir C. Fellows, and among those most prominent, the tombs of the Satraps ; and the Phigalian Room, contain ing the Halicarnusissi marbles, presented to this country by Sultan Abdul Mejid. All of these are acquisitions of the last year ; u are also a marble bust of Apollo, and one of a Meant: priest. A sarcophagus, decorated with& battle of the Amazons, from Beyrout. A collection of bronze, iron, and We now give • short directory to the Art Exhibitioss gold Anglo-Roman antiquities, consisting of portions and which are Although not strictly coming under this Migraines of armour, end horse-furniture, discovered at bead, we commence with the two cathedrals, mammo th Stanwick in Yorkshire , was presented by the present Doke their chief attraction, after their magnificent architect are, : of Northumberland. A collection of Peruvian antiquities the sculptures which they contain. was added by 0. Brandon, Elm. A suit of armour, made ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL. —We would, by all of the skin of a crocodile, several crocodile mummies, and recommend a visit to St. Paul's, the triumph o r sepulchral vases, 1,5.59 coins, i. e., 161 gold, 776 silver, 622 our ecclesiastical architecture, and the deposito r y a. copper; and 52 medals, are also new. The Msmmslia our illustrious dead. The monuments and body of the church Room contains a re-arranged collection of the =mouth& will revive historic recollections and gratify national pride; before belonging to the Museum, among which we the whispering-gallery and geometrical staircase will 'vita particularly noticed a splendid specimen of the Lithuanian curiosity ; while from the external galleries may be lee s bull, presented by the Emperor of Russia. In the whole, a prospect which defies comparison with the world. Th e during the put year there have been added to the several library must also be visited, chiefly rem uksble for contaia. parte of the zoological collection 18,676 specimens of different fog the first Book of Common Ployer ever printed, sad elutes of animals; viz., vertebrate :—mammalia, 1,360 ; a flooring, consisting of 2,300 pieces of inlaid oak,' birds, 1,911 ; reptiles, 633 ; [Mee, 631. Molluscs and radiate, Neither must the cluck, the ball, or the great bell, ho 3,960. Annulosa, 10,181. Total, 18,676. Besides the fish, forgotten; nor the subterranean wonders of the crypt. , reptiles and insects prepared in the house, there have been where, in stays goon by, the scripture, were read sad prepared by the duffer during the past , year mammalia, expounded to the early reformers. We would add to saw 390 birds, 696 ; reptiles and flab, 6 ; lepidopterous insects, suggestions a glance at Sir James Thornhill's paintings c o 1,600 ; hymenopterous insects, 600 ; skulls and skeletons, the interior of the dome, but that the dust and cobwebs or 456. In the mineralogical branch also several important 120 years keep them so carefully concealed, as to reader addition' have been mode, The country has, we think, re-a- them almost invisihle to ordinary optics. The monument; son to be satisfied with the judicious activity which has are more visible. They consist of specimens of sculpt or , been recently displayed by this department of the public ter- more interesting for the heroes they serve to commemorate, vice. Mr. Greaville's munificent donation of his library, oo than for the taste with which they are designed, at copies, we should add, one of the new rooms. the skill employed in their execution. We had almost MUSEUM or Ecosomic GEOLOOT.—This institution, in forgotten the most neeeuary part of our information --and Craig's-court, is open gratuitously to the public, daily, from much we regret that it is necessary—and that is the tariff ten till five. Its objects are to illustrate, on the most ex- fees which form an indispensable preliminary to a sight of tended scale, the useful applications of the geological and these wonders. Monuments and body of the church, 2d. ; mineral wealth of the kingdom. At present, owing to the whispering and two outside galleries, 6d.; hall, Is. 6d. ; confined limits within which this instructive collection is library, gis at bell, geometrical staircase, and model-room, crowded, the design cannot be fully carried out : there is, Is. 6d. ; clock, 2d. ; and crypt, Is. ; in all, 4i. 10d. each however, sufficient evidence of the national importance of person. this design in the specimens already accumulated in Craig's- WESTMINSTER ARBEY.—NO new or remarkable addition court, when it shall be extended in its new location in Picca- has been made to the relies in this venerable structure during dilly. It contains a valuable collection of ores of copper, tin, the past year, but it is impossible to visit it without finding iron, lead, and silver, and several very cimplcte exemplifi- that something has been overlooked on former occasions cations of the meta`lurgical processes ' • also many iUustra- which creates a new interest. The more recent addition s tions of metallic manufactures, amongst which may be peed- are a statue of Wilberforce, powerfully true to life, eularly noticed the commencement of a series exhibiting the which is placed above the spot where his remains lie ESP of mixed metals, bronzes, &c., in different ages and in companionship with those of Pitt aid Canning. The countries. In a similar manner the use of silica and the me- monument to Southey has added another memorial of tallic oxides is shown in numerous specimens of ancient the great spirits of literature that are collected in Poets' and modern white and coloured glaze, and a valuable Corner. The reduction of the price of admission to 6d. plops collection of the enamels of all ages. The application of clays a visit to Westminster Abbey within the reach of almoo to the purposes of use and ornament is well illustrated by every one, with only the drawback of being compelled to specimens of Egyptian, Etruscan, and early Mexican pot. go in parties, closely attended by an official not remerkable tery; and also porcelain of the middle ages, and seine of the for best specimens of modem British fictile manufacture. To Tee NATIONAL GALLERY brings us to the picture exit this series a very interesting addition has been recently made; bitions. The additions made to this gallery, have the excellent collection of Mr. Enoch Wood, of the pro- already been noticed in this paper. Of every picture in it gnu of our Staffordshire manufacture, haying been pur- some useful and necessary information is afforded by the chased by the government. Not the least useful part of authorised catalogue, which can now be obtained for a few this museum is the collection of those stones employed in pence. various parts of the kingdom for building and other useful THE Soctirm or Battiest AIITISTIL—The exhibition purposes, showing that we possess, within our own island, dieplayed by this society has been so recently noticed in this marbles, porphyries, and other rocks, which rival in beauty paper, that we need say no more then that the price of ad and durability any continental productions. The opera- mismon is—in common with all other galleries not freely lions of mining are illustrated by numerous models of steam- open to the public—one shilling. engines for pumping and winding, water-wheels of various THE DIORAMA in the Regent's Park opens today with kinds, and the modes of crushing and cleansing the ores. In views of St. Mark's at Venice and Seville. For a detailed addition to these, some models accurately exhibiting the notice of these artistic deceptions we refer our readers to workings of mines, both above and below ground ; and din- Thursday ' s paper. sected models, showing, with greateerrectness, the structure THE ANORAMA. in Leicester-square, gives the visitor a of some of our coal-fields, may be inspected with much at- vivid idea of Grand Cairo. vantage. Owing to the deficiency of accommodation, a most Amongst the miscellaneous exhibitions, one of the most valuable collection of British fossils, accumulating under the numerously attended is operations of the Geological Survey of the United Kingdom, MADAME TUSSAVD'S ESHIEITION.—An addition his and arranged by its officers, are at present deposited in been made of the figure of Pope Pius IX., dressed in his other premises ; and until the building io progress in Pie- pontificals, and in the act, it would seem, of granting a cadilly is completed, they cannot be inspected by the public. benediction. Of the likeness we are unable to speak ; bit UNITED SERVICE Muszese.—The entrance to this insti- two French Roman Catholic clergymen who were present, tution is now placed in Whitehall-yard. The museum coin- and said they had seen his Holiness, pronounced it to be prises trophies of British arms in India, curiosities from "striking." A handsome figure of Henry VII., attired China and the Burmese empire, specimens of the military in a sumptuous velvet robe, trimmed with ermine, and equipments of Eastern nations, specimens of natural history, wearing the collar of the Order of the Garter — one also of and much that is illustrativeof arts and customs. The public Mr. Macready as Corialanus, an excellent likeness—have are to be admitted without any charge or restriction what, been introducad since our last notice of this exhibition, where soevcr, on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, between the half a day may be very amusingly and not uselessly spent. hours of 11 and 5. On the subsequent days of the week, the Coiosszeo.—This is an exhibition which is entitled tothe admission will be subject to the usual limitation, which is, most extensive patronage. As a result of mere private enter. an order from a member of the institution. prise, it is excelled by no one of its rivals either in the interest EAST INDIA. 110USB MUSEUSL—An addition has been or the appropriateneisof the subjects exhibited—artistic merit lately made to this interesting and valuable collection, of a or general effect, and that it has not been so popular as it de number of rare fossils, antediluvian remains, and Indian serves can be attributed to no o'her cause than the high curiosities, to the exhibition of which a new room has been price hitherto charged for admission. The proprietors devoted. For these the company are chiefly indebted to have, however, at length remembered that there an Dr. Faulkener, who expended his means, talents, and suer- more of the sight-loving public in a condition to gratify pies in their collection. On Saturday last this museum was their curiosity at an expenditure of 2s. than ss. or 41., visited by upwards of one thousand persons of the more re- and have reduced the charge for admission to the whole of spectable classes. We must correct an erroneous impression the building—the Panorama of London, with its extraordi which is generally prevalent, that this place, like most others nary effects of (in the evening) moonlight, thunderstorm on of a similar character, is open to public inspection in the the Thames ; the Swiss Cottage ; Mont Blanc ; Cavern of early part of the Easter week. There is no digression Stalactites; Hall of Statues, &c., included—to the former whatever from the usual rule of admitting the public on sum ; and ere long they will probably discover that thou- Saturdays only. On other days a special order is required. sands will pay Is., which seems to be the recognised charge It is possible the directors, whose munificence and liberality for admission to our metropolitan exhibitions, when tens will are proverbial, will alter his rule in favour of forthcoming not pay 2s. Nowhere, however, can the holiday maker ob holidays, Lain more value fey his 2s. than at the Colosseum ; and in SIR JOHN SOANE'S MUSEUM.—This valuable collection, the numbers that will avail themselves of the reduction to which is too well known to call for any particular remark, is pay a first visit to it during the Easter week, the proprietors open to the public on the Thursday and Friday of every will, without doubt, find ample reward for what they have week, tickets being obtained b previous application. It is, already done, and be stimulated to still further dependence therefore, of little avail to the majority, who keep their on the many instead of the few. holiday early in the Easter week. THE COSMORAMA, REOENT-STREET.—TIMI chamber' of _ _ v M: is situated in Bloomfield- this establishment will open to the sigittasen and holiday .. , . makers three separate exhibitions of simost diversified chis. rector. The first of these—a new claimact of public patron. ago—is an exhibition of a collection of " illuminated nib. lungs from ancient monumental brasses." The collection comprises about 200 figures of distinguished personages who flourished in the period of time commencing with the reign of Henry 111., and ending with that of Charles 11., and, oa the whole, presents a source of amusement, instruction, and interest to the historian, the antiquary, the students of an cient costume, and the admirers of the fine arts. To enume rate the gems which the exhibition contains would require almost the repetition of the whole catalogue. Suffice it there fore to say, that in the suit of rooms which are occupiedby these curtous facaimiles of ancient art will be found con centrated some of the finest specimens of monumental brasses which are to be found in Westminster Abbey, in St Mary's, Warwick; at Winwick, Lancashire; Sefton, Lanca shire; Cobham and Hever, Kent; in York Cathedral and St. Alban's Abbey. The specimens are exquisitely illuminated, and the collection, we doubt not, will prove highly attrac tive. In the Cosmommic Gallery, the proprietors hove added several new views, which cannot fail to add to the po pularity which the institution deservedly enjoys. The third exhibition invites the lovers of natural monstrosities to at tend the daily levees of the fat lady, Mrs. Armitage. Tea charge of admission to each of these lounges is one shilling, and, we believe, half that sum is the fee demanded for emit juvenile visitor. Such holiday-seekers as prefer country jaunts to town ex hibitions may indulge their desires at small cost . the metre politan lines have announced their respective attractions Isr the Easter holidays. The most novel are those of the South- Western, which tempt tourists by return tickets to hie. To rand from will cost by the first class only 55 Ss. &Li by the second 41.3 a., including the fares of the steam-picket. The fares to the Channel lalanda are also proporminably reduced. A less expensive trip on the Great Western line to Win4o l will afford very great gratification. It will be seen by re fereuce to the Court Circular that her Majesty has ordered the state apartments to be thrown open to public inspection during the Easter holidays, without any of those drawbacks and annoyances to which visitors were formerly exposed. SOCIETY OF SCHOOLMASTERS.—The ttnnUßl general meeting of this society was held, by permission of the Royal Literary Fund, at 78, Great Russell street, on Saturday. The Rev. Dr. Morris was in the chair. The treasurer's re port was read, showing a total of receipts of 5251. 17s. 61. disbursements to &strewed schoolmasters, their widows 554 orphans, 3471. 165. 10d. ; miscellaneous expiable. 351. 13s. 11d. ; making the total expenditure, 3831. 10s. 9d.; and leaving • balance in hand of 1421. 6s. 9d. The Ards. bishop of Canterbury was then reelected president, and the Bishops of London and Ripon honorary presidents; the Rev. Dr. Wordsworth was elected a vice-president; the SIT. Dr. Russell, treasurer; the Rev. Dr. Morris, chairman of the committee ; and the committee were re-elected, with the addition of the Rev. J. Cooper, of St. Paul's school, the Rev. J. Dyne, of Highgate, the Rev. Dr. Hawkey, of Eton ed. lege, and E. Wyndham, Esq. This concluded the business. This society was first formed in 1798, on the principle of life assurance, and was continued on the original Ow Br thirteen years, daring which time nearly 7pool. was pude° forty families for claims that accrued, or were samara. sad nearly 6,0001. was distributed in charitable donation. I'lB2l the assurance society was dissolved, and the surplus of the joint stock, amounting to more than 14,000 tome divided among the surviving shareholders; and the WOO- Man, possessing 4,0001. Three per Cents., then became ass of a purely charitable nature, its aid, which had been pm vionaly limited to subscribers, being extended to mown Oil ushers of endowed and boarding schools, their widows Mg orphans; and still more recently it boa enlarged its dors so as to include proprietary schools. DEATH OF MR. WILLIAM LEMAN REDE.- 02 Saturday morning, at six o'clock, this gentleman expired as his residence in Southamptonotreet, Strand. He had bees suffering recently under a painful and dangerous complus', against which he struggled. Ou Friday morning, Were. he continued to sink rapidly until be expired. Mr. Rode was a dramatist and the author of many successful Wire burlesques. He has also been for many years • writer es several of the first periodicals of the day. Mr. Reda wit only 46 years of age. PRINTING BY THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPIL-41,11 were invited on Saturday to a private view of Mr. Brets! system of printing by the electric telegraph. The male operation is very simple, consisting merely eta row et kir, similar to those of a pianoforte, marked with the leases the alphabet, at one extremity of the line, and at thssde r S printing machine which a slight electric power is eress'',.. to regulate, and which, without limit of distance, plats letter at the same instant that the corresponding hey pressed down. Lines to the extent of 4,000 miles are in progress in North America, conni cting Halifax end! 1 101 , 1 York, Washington, and New Orleans. I Vhen we dusk ,s! the development of which such a system may be su m med. be capable, the idea is truly astonishing. They out It print at the rate of 87 letters per minute, in gook let; type; and it is expected that by December next the now in progress in America will be eompleted , and tipo means of instantaneous communication will be throughout the United States and Lower and Upper C t s a a n s ol t REWARDS OF TEACHERS.—SIR,—I have • school of 280 children on the British system del the greater part of twenty years, on a salary 0 1 _, per annum, !en which I have to support mytelt s's 7 and five children, and to pay rent and times ing to between 131. and 141. a-year. After payied.e2r. pounds for a Life Assurance, what means, I ask, are IMM to provide for sickness and old age ? But here goleesn; steps in, and says, " Your labours have bees a bend [