The Express. — London, England, 1847-12-23 00:00:00

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Tun Dal 1616116.1. 0 Ws. pm* I . Abbess.% W. AML Toaktl..-411.nlaiL 17 El& WA 3. 31*.**.*3. 3 .1 ,333 3. LONDON, THURSDAY, DEC. 23. - Taxan could not well be a more striking example of the futility of excluding persons of certain religious opinions from political power, lest they should make that power , subservient to their peculiar religious interests, than is to be bound in the history of M. Goizor. That statesman has ever been a conscien tious protestant; nor could Sir ROBERT INGLIS himself denounce the Jesuits in more hateful language than M. GUIZOT has done in his writings. And yet M. °vizor, advanced to the post of Prime Minister of France, has done more for catholicism and for the Jesuits than any former mi nister of France. He has done his utmost to nullify the law which forbids the establishment of the ino nestle orders in France. He has thrown over the Jesuits in Switzerland the moat zealous patronage . and most efficient protection that the French ministry could bestow. He hem befriended the catholic church in Spain, and restored to it all its unsold property, al though that property was mortgaged to the national creditor. Whilst in his alliances M. GPIZOT has determinedly turned his back upon protestant England, and joined the interests and policy of France with catholic Austria, entering with that power into a kind of Romeo catholic league for the rapport of that religion, its influence and wealth, throughout the East, and especially in Syria. In fact, the most hyper-catholic statesman, that Europe has seen in this century, is no other than a Huguenot. M. Goizor's original motives for pursuing such a line of policy were no doubt patriotic. The King of France in the olden times exercised a great deal of supremacy and power by virtue of his being the mod Christian King. The revolution and NAPOLEON had substituted other claims and founded them upon something more solid than orthodoxy. But NAPOLEON'S physical-force sceptre having been broken, M. GITIECIT thought it best to grasp once more that of Louis XIV. And until very lately M. Gutzon has brandished the catholic sceptre with much auooess in Rome and Madrid, in the Lebanon, and even on the coasts of Siam. In addition to the very praiseworthy motive of gathering up for France and turning to its profit all those old and stray elements of power which had been lost or neglected, M. Golan found another, in the circumstance that he had formidable rivals in the French court, in the cabinet, and in the conservative party. One rand objection of these rivals to M. Ouncrr and to his pretensions to wield the office of prime minister was his protestantlem, and his being thereby pre cluded from having the confidence of the church. These rivals hated °vizor much as the ELDONB and the PEELS (the PEEL of former days) did CANNING. They admitted him to be a valuable . secretary for foreign affairs. But that he should be prime minister, or that he should nominate his friend' to the ministry of justice and public worship, this was declared destructive to church and state. M. Gomor's triumph over these rivals is well known; the death of Mauler DU NORD and the decay of ;Som., together with his success in the Spanish marriages, won for him the King's full ad hesion, and placed him in the seat of prime minister. M. Guitar, however, in that proud position, seems still to feel it necessary to quality, and to peeve him self as catholic as the pious court of the Tuileries could require. Hence the blunder of embarking so zealously:in the cause of the Jesuits of Lucerne, with a firm belief, however. at the lame time, that the Jesuits were able to defend themselves in Lucerne, and that the rev. fathers had too much of the hereditary wisdom of the order to engage in a resistance which they were alto gether unable to support. M. Gutzon thought him self politically safe, as well as theologically prudent, in holding out for the Sonderbund, and bully ing Lord Peuteasron in its behalf. Un fortunately M. Bois LE CONTE utterly deceived M. Gower as to the military resources of the Swiss Jesuits. And the result has been that whatever the French prime minister has gained on the score of his catholic orthodoxy, he has lost tenfold in reputation for cautions and successful policy. M. G uizor cuts a sorry figure at present, and should the official communication on the subject be ever made public, M. Gutzon will cut a figure still more ridiculous. Notwithstanding all this, we cannot Ray that we see any chance of M. Clrrizor's fall, or of his long reign coming to an end. His immense supe riority to his rivals of the conservative is undoubted. M. Duceteritt may proteins to tranacendental wisdom, but it is the wisdom of the owl, which may keep up its reputation until it opens its mouth. His church and state claims have been effaced by M. Gutzor's Swiss crusade, which, how ever unfortunate, will still find him favour with the clergy. The court could not make more use of Du- CENTEL than of Gutzon in carrying a dotation, whilst the bitter is the wisest and the ablest minister for completing that Spanish policy, hitherto so suc cessfully ursued. Az to the efforts of the liberal opposition, their banquet speeches andagitation, these may be useful for keeping up the spirits of a zealous minority ; but as even in doing this the agitators have indulged in strong anti-dynastic symptoms, such as refusing to pledge the King's health, their demonstration will have as great an influence in making mcderados and conservatives rally round M. GUIZOT, as in stirring up the more thorough liberals to persevere in their grudge. and persist in political discontent. The first attempts of the French opposition, pre paratory to the meson, do net give much promise of moues. Already they seem to lave retreated from their determination to dispute M. Sauzera claim to the presidency. They thus defer their hopes of fight ing even an honourable battle with the minister, to the time when chance may bring; contending parties on a fairer field. Yet surely, if M. Onizor's support of the Jesuits in Switzerland, and hie failure in that support, do not offer sufficient advantages to opposition, there can be little hope of any other question proving more favourable to them. THE sixth report of the Copyhold Commissioner, has just been made and laid before parliament. It is document full of instruction to those who, from personal interest or otherwise, are desirous of abro gating that most offensive remnant of feudalism, copyhold tenure. The report may be considered under three divisions: First, what has been done, which is small enough ; secondly, what the commis sioners hope may be done hereafter, which Is no great deal ; and thirdly, what they despair of accom plishing at all, which is just the objects earnestly demanded by copyhold tenants, and which they will not succeed in obtaining unless they can interest the public in their cause. The commissioners refer to the report of the eeleet committee of the Howe of Commons in 1838, where in, although the plan of mere voluntary enfranchise ment was recommended for a time, " a more coercive measure was pointed out as alone calculated to meet the wishes and wants of the country." Their sub aeqnent repast is a timid, indirect, reiteration of that assertion. Six years' experience has enabled them to report, "that there is s slow and gradual advance" in the enfranchisement of copyholds held under eeelesiutioal lords ; so that they deem it " probable that almost the whole of such oopyholds will, is time, disappear." Now, as the " in time" is somewhat indefinite, and as it t h u r tken the Interval between 1851 (when many thousands petitioned parliament "that copyholds and the like might be taken away.") and 1838 (when a parliamentary committee recommended compulsory *or '. S• Mid .01l lay larder words, there lithe within whith sash cop holds will s :3Ear mike the Volealary lititanokismut Ast. eltrue; hat meamiminers, in g thl l distinctitea wises _the blame on ***nor Instead of the primipal offenders, when they sty, " the canes' of this feet me to be Sold partly in the lees andieThed indomme of the elswerds—en Woke ray Variany "Mg to saftesobiesmeed—mad . pertly klp.. expesietimi of both lards sad tweets that same loather steps will be taken byy the *hills . tar e to sateen. oessmutation enfran At all mots, the lords of minces exhibit " a general iadispositiea to move." And why shoul d: l=s active to entombing P They are in the of an injustice , often the source of great pro t, sad they mean to keep it as lug as the pabfte shall burly permit them to do so. But though the commissioners whip the stewards—and bad enough they are, every copyholder knows—tho real delin quents are the lords, as we shall presently show from the report itself. There is appended to the roped a tabular statement of the enfranchisement. made does the last report They are chiefly made by embalm tical lords of manors, and seem to consist of Wats& tenements, for neither the extent of the lands ashen chimed, nor the names of the copyhold tenants, are given. Where the fines were arbitrary, frent five to six years' annual value was the general pefea sa• franchisement ; and where the fine was ass year's value was paid. The quit elder mak 'ead i old rents seem to have bank "beapht it from 28 to 32 years' purchase. Not bad terms flume for the lords. The ecclesiastical lords who enfran chise voluntarily, if less obdurate than their lay brethren, at least know how to make a good bargain with their tenants. So much for what has been done. Let us now see what the commissioners hope to do. They my "if the hopes of the committee of 1838 are te be fulfilled at all, the time seems come when some more efficient measures should be adopted to accele rate the extinction, if not of the copyhold tenure, yet at least of those social and economical evil' which are the moat distinctly identified with it." Here the reader will almost hope that the commissioners are taking heart of grace to speak out boldly to lords of manors; but, alas ! their courage soon evaporates when they come to details. They say the maim-este betaken will be either a complete general compulsory enfran chisement, or a more limited and gradual commute lion, getting rid of the " uncertain and mischievous" incidents, but leaving the tenure so amended. They think it impracticable to pan a measure for compel eory enfranchisement, because lords do not like it, and therefore they dwell not upon it. They therefore recommend a "limited system of compulsory com mutation." They begin by mentioning a measure even more limited than that they mean ulti mately te propose—a little minimum, of which the landocracy will doubtless avail itself. This consists in enabling each oopyhold tenant to obtain compulsorily a commutation of the heriota for a fixed payment. They say " those vexatious inci , dents create a very general feeling of irritation, much greater than their average pressure warrants ; and that a bill "to effect this object alone would not meet with any opposition." Talk of the "average pressure" from henots not warranting the irritation they occasion! Let the reader imagine the seizure of , 'his finest horse, hie prize ox, or his last new agricul ' tural implement out of doors, or hie moot cherished I work of art within, as the best beast or chattel " in the name of a heriot"—the penalty of holding pro. party by feudal tenure—and would he not be nri tated ? Possibly this incident may be commuted. Even lords of manors understand that when English- ' men are justly irritated, the cause of irritation is in : some peril. But, says the report, this would "only remove a vexation—the substantial economical evils i would remain untouched." These are " uncertain I OM, which drive capital from improvements on land, and in rights to timber, and control aver buildings." These evils the commissioners say might be got rid of, by changing the uassetain fine to a fixed one, by setting a value on the I :fl to timber and so forth, and compelling the lord to swept a fall eqqivalent for the abandonment of I them rights. This principle being adopted, " each inflkidual tenant may be empowered to call on the to commute his uncertain payments, and I ated. "lllll" a i t a lord a consideration." This plan, says the I report will be met by " one very serious objection ;" it is that " the lore will complain that when their solvent and merebble tenants have commuted, they I will be 1911 milk a had remnant, constituting a much lees deskable tam bey on their manors." Now just me Ikea what the brae of this objection is derived, and the real nature of lords' objections to commute or • seftemellbe will be apparent. The lord has a right to levy ea uncertain fine, which must, however, bear sem *dim to the value of the copyhold property that elks will depend upon the amount of capital the tenant is able- or willing to lay out in its %mparrement ; end therehey rich and improving boob are kir tilt* lark seek to catch in tied see of 4spikilil tisane, And as rich eel iseprevieP 1101411111,11 these who would commute ar enfranchise, therommeat the law gave them power N G t o do, the lordesmadd object to individual commu tation, because, after one dip had been made into the pockets of the rich tenants, the lord could dip no more, and the empty pockets of the poorer tenants, copy holders unable to improve their lends, would alone remain open to the lordly fingers. Is not this a plain proof that what lords of manors lie in wait for is the capital their copyhold tenants, forgetting that they must die, or may be compelled to sell or mortgage, expend i n improvement ? The way in which - the I commiaeioners would remove the objection is, that whenever two-thirds in value of the copyholds in any manor have been commuted, the lords may be entitled to call upon the commissioners for a compulsory com mutation of the remainder. Whether even this mild measure could be carried, remains to be seen. There are some other points in this division of the report, to which on another occasion we shall refer. Lastly, the commissioners have no hope the lords of manors will comment to a compulsory commutation of their right la minerals. "It is guarded," says the repeat, " with great jealousy by the lords, and should be left as it mw is" Indeed ! what will the espyhtdders at etellideldre, and othirmining &Mobs, say to that P Why limeediould be sap mese Mb* in pueg °a vales ea what is bias fit the beim of the in the ma* 0 0 17holdilkan. Ow in the ease deka lands, omilekkg Hi owldi an daily oldest. of valsallase sad woes. ip ant profess to comprehend. AM the Gemininims see squally hopeless of ow l minutia' where es kils/p improved value will per , 1 bahly be attaissill as an exertion or outlay as the past of timeoln as likely to esquire mks am balk. er hoar lissere lade at mane " 110111101MOda that a oceirdsery I tilli made at ease will deprive them of their dime of 1 this reopestivs value.' We do not sammalser whether the Highland chiefs reoeived wasperatioa for their loss of black mail when the &Wake of law put a stop to cattle lifting in the lowleade, but if they did, that would unquestionably form a resident for the claim here asserted by lords of manors. A CASE, important in itself, and still more so on ac count of the state of public feeling which it indicates, was tried before the Circuit oourt of Uitenhage (Cape oolony) on the 28th of September last. The incident out of which the trial arose appears to have been as follows. In the month of May, a colo nist of the name of Satire was serving along with others as a waggon-driver attached to the detach ment of troops stationed at Fort Peddle. The fort was close premed by the swarms of marauding Bat firs in the neighbourhood, and the garrison was small. The waggon-drivers were in consequence called upon to cut wood. They appear to have kad an impression, in the first place, that their services were ilimited to the waggon duty; and in the second place, that sufficient care was not taken to protect them from the Baffirs while cutting wood. Under this impremion, several of them, and among others SMITH, when ordered out by Cumnino, a non-commissioned officer, to cut wood on the 9th of May, expressed un willingness to comply. CUMMING reported this to Colonel LINDSAY. When the colonel spoke to the drivers, some of them refused at first to go for wood, 1 1 but ultimately consented. He, however, declared that one of them must be flogged for an example to the condition garrison reamed • sharp usdbeittil s yle * 101 l liable to the safeties eft the colony: We do not dispute DEM% tO Calk SMITH after a abarspree& IMSII . TOIII7 prudence in podding Iff eeimilm in the way be did—and still more, the jsmffsead humanity of the general deportment of L i T and the mili tary towar d sthe "n on drivorti•ff aim civilians engaged or pressed into thetransport mike—is more open to doubt. These men do not ' understand either the punctilious rigidity of military discipline or the advantages to be derived from it. Admissions which escaped the military witnesses spew that no pains had been taken by the officers to explain to the waggon-drivers what was front them or why, and that the private Biers had kept aloof from them as from an inferior mate. In the same regardless manner it appears to have been assumed that these men mast understand military matters sufficiently to appreciate the protection afforded them while foraging. In consequence of this neglect, it is obvious that an impression prevailed among the waggon drivers of their being looked down upon, oppressed, and exposed unnecessarily to danger. In this temper, to use the words of the witness Cireausio, they began, when ordered out to cut wood, " to grumble, appeared diseathelled, and did not wish to go. Even of SMITH, CUMMING does net say that he positively refused. " Barra grumbled, but witness does not recollect the words he used; could not recollect his words—it scented to be denial." Upon the strength of this " seem ing denial," Crams° went and told Colonel LINDSAY "that the waggon-drivers refused to go and cut wood; and that he could not carry on hie duties unless an example was made of some of them." Col. LINDSAY asked CUMMINO to point out the ring leader ; he pointed out Ssurn,who waa,without further ' inquiry, ordered to go to the rear. The colonel then desireddesiredthose who refused to go, to place themselves beside SMITH, which a few of them did. After some words of remonstrance, however, they all consented to go, and SMITH was going with the rest, when, without being allowed a hearing, he was, by Colonel LINDSAY'S orders, seized, tied up, and flogged. We have told the story as it was told at the trial by the military witnesses, principally by CUM MING himself ; and without questioning Colonel LINDSAY'S right to exercise sharp and severe disci pline, we must say that the treatment of SMITH was harsh and unjust in the extreme, and calculated rather to make all the civilians pre ssed into the ser vice mutinous and disaffected, than to establish dis cipline. Whatever his faults as a statesman, Sir ANDRIES STOCKENSTROM had the merit, se a military leader, of inspiriting the class to whom SMITH be longs to be always prompt and enterprising in danger, and to bear the hardships and restraints of a campaign without murmuring. Colonel LINDSAY and his brother officers might have done as much had they condescended to rememberihat waggon-drivers could not be expected to understand the minutia of military law ; and that waggon-drivers, as free citizens, are sensitively alive to the appearance of neglect when placed in unaccustomed circumstances of danger. But our officers, it seems, accustomed to command men drilled to act with machine-like submission and regularity, could not condescend to win the confidence and attachment of undrilled men. And, having left their camp-followers uninformed of what was ex pected from them till the hour of extreme peril ar rived, they punished one of them cruelly for the consequences of their own neglect. The worst part of the story remains to be told. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL refused to prosecute Colonel LINDSAY, and, another counsel having been em ployed for the prosecution, the ATTORNEY-GENERAL accepted a brief for the defendant. This was all right and proper. But the ATTORNEY-GENERAL. had no right, with a view to influence the con duct of the jury, to make statements unsup ported by evidence. He told them that" the defendant was placed on hie trial at the volition of • party ;" that " a Dr. TANCRED had been collecting subscrip tions from the humane to carry on this case ;" and that Dr. TANCRED'S " character was unworthy of respect" Neither in the examinations nor in the eroweexaminations of the witnesses, do we find any trace of what was here asserted by the ATTORNEY GENERAL as matter of fact. From the tone el many , letters (both of civilians and soldiers) from the Cape, which we have seen during the last twelve months, we have reason to fear that a considerable degree .of ill-will exists between the military and the majority of the settlers. It is ex tremely likely that party spirit has been in voked to aid in the prosecution, bat the irregular statements of the ATTORNEY-GENERAL convict him of being as decided a partisan as any on the opposite side out of doors. It is but too obvious, from many symptoms which transpired in the course of the trial, that the civil officials through out the colony are making the case of CoIoneI:LINDSAY and the military their own, and, by their keen par tisanship, making it a party question with many of the most respectable settlers, who might otherwise have remained neutral. . This is a matter that will crave wary handling on the part of the home government. It was neither GEORGE GRENVILLE'S Stamp Act, nor the tea duty, that occasioned the revolution in our North American colonies. That movement was the result of a long series of vexatious and contumelious acts by military and civil functionaries from the mother country, exas perating the colonists. The same silly conduct may pave the way to the same results at the Cape of Good Hope, and we fear in other colonies too. A summary of the following appeared in part of our lut evening's issue. We have received our Paris despatches of Tuesday. The ldng and the royal family took up their resi dence in the Tuileries for the winter on Monday. Lord Normanby was at the reception et St. Cloud on Sunday evening Marshall Soult arrived in Paris on Sunday. A letter, dated the 14th inst., from Malta, is given by the Journal •ies Debate, which affirms that the insurrection at Patras was not so serious as the re. in the Cbsirrier de Mamales represented irregular troops are mid to have mutinied age Last their colonel. Some shots ware tired, and two men were killed. The bank was pillaged, and about 4,0001. taken from it. None of the inhabitants, ac cording to this letter, took part in the affair which, as to the rest, had no political character. The ver sion of the Debats mist, however, be taken with cau tion. The Madrid mails of the 16th have arrived. The reduction of the insurrection in Catalonia was making rapid progress. Two cabecillas bad voluntarily surrendered, and a third had retired to France. The Faro says, that an order has been actually signed to make a payment to all classes of public creditors. The evacuation of Ferrara by the Austrians, which we have already so often announced as an approaching event, is now really about to take place, or rather, 1 according to the latest advioes, has probably already I taken place. By letters from Rome of the 10th, we learn that despatches had been received at the Austrian embassy in that city, informing the ambassador that all was finally arranged. The official notes on the subject were to have been interchanged between the pontifical court and the Austrian minister on the 10th. The evacuation of the city only will be effected ; the citadel and the barracks near it will continue to be occupied by Austrian troops, as they always have been since the general peace of 1815. Notwithstanding the contradictions given in the ministerial journals of Paris, reports are still received a general insurrection in Sicily. The Neapolitan government stops, as far as it an, the transmission of political information of every kind between its territories and the rest of the world, and the difficulties attending the acquisition of correct and authentic information, give rise to a multitude of spurious and exaggerated reports. The Tuscan jour nals last received say that the steamers which arrived in their ports on the 11th, instead of contradicting, , have confirmed the previous reports of the Sicilian in , earreetion. Letters of still more recent date from Naples are, grPexcitemenip.. These .. represent :o st ple stidionaly abstaining from affording any ground to the government for the exercise of arbitrary measures, but at the same time rendering it manifest that they are only waitingto see whether the indispen treble reforms can be obtained by pacific means. If they be obstinately resisted, no one doubts that serious troubles will ensue Reports have arrived of collieions between the Modeneee troops and the people in Massa, in which the former were worsted and pat to flight. Toe Turin paper mentions a rumour that Massa and Car rara are to be annexed to Tuscany. Ibrahim Pacha arrived at Lucca on the 12th. We have advices from Rome to the 11th. The Pope had confided to Count Pietro Ferretti an im portant financial mission. On the 9th his holiness re ceived Lord Minto in private audience, who commu nicated to his holiness despatches which he had re ceived from London. Lord Minto was to have left immediately for Naples. A letter from our own cor respondent will be found below. Affairs in Switzerland proceed without any new in cident of importance. Oar advice* from Berne are to the 1 i th. It is understood that no step will be taken in relation to the revision of the federal pact before February. Meanwhile the most constitutional means of attaining that end will be considered by the go vernment. It has been ascertained at Lucerne that the Austrian government had lent the Sonderbund 300,000 florins, without interest, and had supplied 3,000 muskets for its troops. The Austrian minister, M. Kayaerfeld, had arrived at Bile, accompanied by his secretary of embassy. Dr. Steiger was elected president of the grand council of Lucerne, by a majority of 66 votes out of 96. M. Krudener, the Russian minister to the Swiss confederation, had resolved to suspend any measures with regard to the proposed conferences until he should receive further instructions from his govern ment. This resolution was the consequence of the events which have occurred in Switzerland since the instructions he has received were despatched. The funds, amounting to 40,000 francs, which were taken from M. Siegwart Muller by the Piedmontese authorities at Domodossola have been restored to him, he having proved that they formed part of a sum sent by the Austrian government in aid of the Son derband, and that he was about to restore them to that government. M. S. Muller denied having ab stracted anything from the federal chest. He declared that the members of the government of the Sonder bund had taken the chest to Altorf in the expectation of being enabled to coatinue a resistance on the part lof the lesser cantons, but that having seen this to be impracticable, he sent the keys of the chest to the authorities of Lucerne, and afterwards the chest itself. On the 16th Sir S. Canning had a long conference with President Ochaenbein. ROME, Inic. It. Along with Sir W. Parker, our admiral in the Me diterranean, arrived, yesterday, Mr. Abercrombie, our ambassador at Turin, and General Sir Frederick Adams, of Waterloo celebrity. All are guests of Lord Miuto. Cicemacchio has this morning placarded the town with the following singular document, which gives insight into the state of society here, and de serves to be " placed on the minutes" of Conciliation hall for more than one reason: . . . PROTESTATION.—I, Angelo Brunetti, better known as Ciceroacchio, find it necessary to announce that I have no connexion with place beggars, and cannot procure situations for needy persons. lam a simple man, earning my bread for my family by honest industry. I do not frequent ante chambers or the halls of great people. It is made known to me that people are going about collecting money, by way of tribute to me, as a man who ought to be supported at the public expense. These men are impostors and traffic on public credulity. My only . wish is to do my duty as a citi zen, and to forward the interests of the dwellers in the noblest land the run ever shone upon--the land of Pio None The hour of noon is now announced in Rome by the discharge of a 24-pounder from the Castle of Bt. Angelo. Monsignor Morichini, pro-treasurer, has lately sus pended from office an employe of the Camera who was detected in concealing articles to the amount of 1,000 acudi (thus depriving the Camera of 100 scadi of duties), and had obtained a fascia passare in return ing to Rome by Civita Vecchia. GERMANY.—PRIISSIS.—IXTERNATIONAL COPE ntous.—The Berlin Official Gazette contains a notice issued by the criminal court of Magdeburg, to the effeet that two translations of Dulwer's " Lucretia" (one by T. Oelker, the other by A. Bretschmann) have been declared piracies by that tribunal, and intimation given that all parties bellies them may be prosecuted and punished, at the =tam* of Duncker and Humblot, of Berlin, the copartnery exclusively entitled to publish a German translation of that work. 11ESSE DARMSTADT, Dec. 18.—The Grand Duke opened the Diet on the 17th by a speech, from which we extract the following : "In order to discuss a right of uniform exchange in Germany, a congress has been opened, to which almost all the German governments have sent delegates. lam happy to be able to state that this first at tempt to establish a general law throughout Germany has been successful. The project for a right of exchange for Germany, resulting from the deliberations of the congress, will be submitted to your sanction as soon as the neoemary preparatioas have been made." BA VARIA.—M CHICK, DEC. 16,—The Rteateat joy prevails in Munich in consequence of the pa • of a decree on the censorship d the of which the ere the chief points: Pace the of Jesewry ". 2l. , the cessorship will ea low apply trierekies erierealey the affairs of the coinatey, lad previews sasehtiams ea this head, which existed from UM Se 11111; tea again come in force. Oa and after the above dowsers but the following will be subject to a previiiseel emeaerhip (*or tawsigen census): Subjects naiades telbrelogepelitios; midis transgreesing any existing rad law; and etierhs the honour of private penteee, This dimmed h epieel " Louis," and eenntenainsa by the ministers. elpai GREECE. THeeenl.3. Lneles.e, Dec. 1. Generale Veleatees, PaySitalateo, Dimind, Dar gadjild, ited Mat e l• = win Wilda, bees illameaced as in a Wee ef the cruiser Tetvellsa, hare quitted the Grecian with 170 Mown% and preemie' *mobsa to the retbedlire of Larissa, demand. tug to le allowed to serve is the Ohm= army, desiring ' that they had bean, and whited te soak beenek ealposto of the Behliae Porte. The Goveleer-Geeend ef Thmely, rseidbas ie. Lathes, Mahar Ifelmee Praha, resived throe kindly, wad provided theawith sphered realweee, meths Timid& govaremat dosaidlieve aemasa upon their news& COLONIAL. CEYLON.—By the Indian mail we have dates from Ceylon to the 15th of November. At Colombo a =a siderable degree of excitement had been created in come. quince of three ordinances which had already reached a second reading in the Legislative Council, These swilnamses are : one to repeal so mu of the charter aa gives provoke.* to the judges of the Supreme Court. One for the " more convenient and speedy trial of eases in which the crown is interested," :by virtue of which the Queen's Advocate, or any of hie deputies may institute any civil or criminal cue in any district court he pleases, although net properly within its jurisdiction, or at any tame to change the venue from one district court to another. And by the third it is to be enacted that the principal person in charge of every estate cultivated with coffee to an extent of live acne shall transmit to the government agent of the province, or one of his assistants, a true and correct return of the number of acres of every suck estate which shall on the first day of such month have been under coffee culti vation. Another ordinance of greater importance, however, is one for effecting changes in the tariff, the chief of which are the abolishing of all expert duties except that on cinna mon, which is to be reduced from Is. to 4d. per lb. The Auditor-Oeneral, in seconding the first reading of the ordinance in the legislative council, said on the subject of the results to follow from it, and the remedy proposed to make up the deficiency to be created, that the probable loos to the re venue from the abolition of the export duties on all other articles might be stated at 10,0001. per annum from let Sept. next. The reduction of the duty on cinnamon would probably produce a further loss of 10,0001. so that there would be a deficiency of 20,0001. to be provided for. This the govern. meet proposed to effect by the imposition of • tax or license ' for arms, which was estimated by his hon. friend the Colo nial Secr etary,i in his report as likely to produce 7,6001. per annum. They further proposed to introduce a tax on car riages and horses, estimated by the same authority at 2,5001. per annum. The renaming 10,0001. per annum it wail intended to make up by the imposition of various stamp duties. The ordinance had been read a second time, and would no doubt pea.—From a comparative statement of the imports and exports at the pert of Colombo for the quarters ending Oct. 10. 1848 and 1847, it appears that the total imports for thisland last year were isomparstively thus : 1848, 200,4831.; 1847 248,8211. ' • increase, 48,1381. ; and the total exports thus : 1848, 87,1231. ; 1847, 02,4621.: increase, 26,3291. l'h• following on the subject of the coffee crops is from the Coleasegampreer , of Nov. 16,andshowa that the yield will be plau lg an _ : The crop this year will not, we think, • • of 1848 by any considerable amount. The old with aim inceptions, show light crops, and the would Wipes, bai far the amber of neap int Court. WINDSOR, WEDNESDAY.--The royal .dinner at the Coatis this evening included the Ditcher of party the Ledy in Waiting on the Duchess of Kent, the Baroness de Booth, Lsdr Augusta Bruce, and Sir G. Couper. The band of the ()rowdier Guards was in attendance during dinner. Her Majesty's private band afterwards attended at the Cutle. The Duke of Cambridge (President) visited the German Hospital, Deleon, yesterday, to preside at the board of the house committee. The Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary visited the Duchess of Gloucester yesterday, at Gloucester house. The Archbishop of York had an interview with Sir G. Grey, yesterday, at the Home-office. The Earl of Devoo had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, yesterday. Lord Montaagle had also an interview yesterday with the right hon. baronet, at his official residence in ELECTION OF COMMON COUNCILMEN. The polling in the four contested wards was con tinued yesterday, with the following results. The new can didates are distinguished thus • : BILLINGSGATE (B).—CarlinflDep.), 63; R. M. Philippe, 66 ;B. B mar, 66 ;J. • 85 ;W. Williams, 65 ; Barnes, 64 ; J. Roberts, , ; •J. Cannon, 43; H. H. Piper, 31. The poll re-opens at three o'clock this afternoon, and will finally close at four. COLEMAN-STREET (8). —At four o'clock the state of the poll was declared to be: Allan, 83 ; Hall, 84 ; Hale, 84 ; Davies, 81 ; Johnson, 52 ; Bracher, 73 ; Perkins, 69 ; •Webater, 88; •Vallance, 60. The poll will be open to-day from twelve to two o'clock, when the election will terminate. PORTSOICEN (B).—The result of the polling for this ward up to last night wee Wright (deputy), 80; Christie, 75 ; Porker, 75 ; Juteum, 79 ; Hayward, 65 ; Danford, 51 ; Killby, 79; Thomson ' 67 ; •Vile, 52. The poll opens to morrow ( th is day) at three, and finally closes at five. • THZ EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 23, 1847. - _ asabassaa) a arta aas not ke fooilligliii: and StaiiittlfteC SOT dad lit •a waggpei-wheel, hoover, girlie ' . 'b t , ihe Macanese; of Marseilles, *awes that no: give their l,l er: Pell m bear e te o g. Though old to = s et! r t sr= m e liar aaa d pe aw e b o ut 'ved u b l u ms vengrdre . *hen nd{atedin It rr tilen ev:n f a ar de. a Veit pe rep } Moegleeg:itstiSir.icleepbeinufarindxstacrtg:tti general : that rat a : i f iZ leT, and the L am : r i g be of *Auer quality. The plasters ere now in the thick of musket kis this eyest•al probability of the ensV, common assenlVind the , Y, *nee protracted trial, tinned to be manilletad at :e theatres, sad the &mho- th e * k i n wafte ; sid , in ~,,...q . .,„,,, of th e continued deimmere. Bat the assubst afforded by the Marna a elmget of gi• ritiee were in a constat state of .pr ehension , but DO rain for the last few weeks they are 'o ff ering great imam- ) Seidelisstiosi sopybold toots, cold though it be, In so far aistrtot law is concerned , we have no Images took p lace. The Intendant o Catania, alarmed veuiesca. Some omen, Mama nearly all, are what is tech- Ism sod groW mewed with that offered to the doubt that the verdict is erroneous. Martial law was at the general excitement, had applied to the military l iii,:.lii ter_!": _a_ m1 1 ,.1 fr2,_ 7, r_e . t. 3 of_e! ! _l_rh„ich. ha , fel: - seats GI lay lords. in force in the district at the time, and Siam, in et . Syracuse for a remforomnent, but the in tuu 7 ori a r Tr wo ' pert or e . , :z t w e l aii r m — p a• ing Ett = The eomdeemeeere say, nit is different with copy- virtue of his contract, was • camp kalower. Inds- that he had 1 : 10 t Mere . thin otlfflood to eit i liteletout 1,600 and 2,000 feet above the sea letel hire ohb =Ow tr a in& r in other words, there is no pendently of thew eircumetanose, the beleaguered maintain the tranquillity of the province where the been picking for the kit &LT weeks or two month*, and • rah movholds will disappear condition of the fort and the emallneseof the . garrtson Freatest excitement prevailed. Than letters represent considerable quantiv of coffee in the parchment akin has . ........._ __ ...-.3:-..01v AU.sta;llines Pram effnedine any been despatched to U°4triatX'''. to is N. EAST INDIA HOUSE. A quarterly general court of proprietors took place yesterday. The chairman of the honourable Emit India Company, Mr. H. St. George Tucker, presided. At the usual hoar the proceedings were commenced by the reading of the minutes of the Met court, and the list of documents lately presented to parliament upon Indian affairs. The chairman then announced that the dividend warrants would be delivered on the 6th proximo. SUGAR DUTIES AND THE SLAVE TRADE.—Mr. AR BUTHNOT rose for the purpose of asking a question (having received permission from Mr, Poynder, whose notice of motion stood first on the pride of the day) so to whether a memorial sent to the court of directors by the East India and China Trade Association, for a change in the sugar duties in favour of the growth of India, had been for warded to government 7 The great alterations that had been made in the sugar duties were not only ruining the East India but the West India planters. And, further, a direct tendency had been given to the increase of the slave trade. That trade had in fact recently very considerably increased. The lion. proprietor was about to proceed in an argument upon the point, but he was called to order by Mr. Poynder who suggested that a question was only to be put. (Hear.) The CHAIRMAN said the hon. proprietor was certainly out of order in the attempt to make any remarks upon the -ob ject referred to. Ile could assure the hon. proprietor and the court that the memorial referred to had been received by the Court of Directors, and that it had been forwarded to the ' Board of Control for the Affairs of India, with the strongest expresaions of a confident hope of the court that the prayer should receive the most earnest attention, and that the points urged might be acceded to. (Hear.) THE MONEY PAYMENT TO THE TEMPLE Or JUOGIR NAUT.—Mr. POYNDER, having been called upon proceeded with the following notice of motion, That the late correspondenot between the honourable court of di rectors and the Bengal government relative to any pledge having been originally given for the tiontioned sup po rt of the temple of Jugger naut on the scanned of the district at Cuttack, in the province of Orissa, already laid on the table of this court, be printed for the me of such proprietors as may previously signify in writ ing their desire to =id that, with the leave of the court, he would substitute another resolution for it. The CHAIRMAN asked the hon. proprietor if he wished to address the court upon the notice of motion, or upon the substituted cue which he intended to introduce __Mr. Form en replied that he ocrtainly did Wish toaddress the court upon the substituted motion. The SZCIINTAM reed the original notice of motitei, as given above, and the flellowing That, admatiog to lime awn& es the Naga government, trans mitted fearless piss are by the Omit of rarsatcra. sad doled Feb. 20. 1831, theitelog dolt deteembed iellekeneet dierelbell Mat all connexion wltt. sad ahalolrtst Ike feloletzoet role eel eteimetes of Ind* sod tweet etvettleg le the Yet port ecereepodease of the mart vide he lewd geteemeet. wasted to M hid ea do labia of thls eau% demeasozettee thee at gie4e, Snot or basest, eras ever elm be Ow ewer% state rP7edJ tad she ad verting tt theemehmed mod many et mese wade by the Wet eeteemot he the eter v e g t . thst Mt*. Its pdists. eree meet the teepned oleo= feud emmelatiss. to emegetere 'Nelda mart mei pre= firgeemhee ewe. art the theltheedtte et di bogie. awl Oster hems Iht WI endow pr eledy se If ele told degas b bed new leas isar4 IYIe elert m...iii4 le et tedelea .d thet e.t tfe se lleeel v.. = i r s twel v im. = beemee the bmpedeee *ay et this omit le sktistimity sad the eettettmW Weer% art le lettere that all mei rapport of thel hewer tereellle god. The C sinizmut mid the papers asked for Mond be printed. Mr. POTNDBR wiiisd, however, to address tie mat; and he contended most emphatically that the preemesie of I n di a had pledged ItseLf to make the annual maw pigment to those whe wine at the head of the grow man widik oc curred at the temple at Juggercaut. Could It be bases& for a motnadthat that illustrious man, the Marquis of Wellesley, would bees lent himself to such a transaction ? Could awe hem been any pledge that these enormities should be sena timed ad alened - OK by a money payment to them he these. An authority on that point elrlrr taata Lrivy) bag dated am _ ~Mw w irr 1112 . 11Crie Urn. Peeema.-11.6 .11apeasot ft ett isl et Teem tee pared away emit t at useteitebbeste d meet debeelbles 'Wed mambo. Os the bey et shombei the bleb betine Sea Wel Eirlimi Nabob mtembet Seem met =lvidety le bleb bee. Impanels to Wine Oat Selene et we use et the Memo sed dim= dimedat er the sebbbleee et POMO. se els elbelltelg 0111ar lAA Op abet ea ohm lbe ma d toe It thee bre owe et ere er alb mils Oily mug teleamsl fit lid *the hebeeithe et dr gevatesseut. ale emeharal NNd beseebbst lift as iinalur al the dm Setae giveremeat be bent = s d ee L ub a grim etpbblisa awl imseelballes. Ile l shrebed. midi ea embelemst art edible is. eetzemset enggeet. The possil. cit WA bine Ste beltrat beelsell tbe / it teueekies, Mos ate viers et Sr Lib Mtn. nlaviM awe Ire lbws at bled Is rot lembeeb The wig • bibartwall set Imam Meth ((Oiliest tele ere we" eel tbe web win le plumb/ay ettee Awl& dol. _ _ hall Mar prieenti—ramelawairettli mai sesmaisimale et wogi id lwidewatl hal tt Ma The basibmi abut heep air sad dew the weig ihe sin me se hued se le bibs the lle" mg an Via het Itlel . are le 111 Z mi m si rsel thaw thetwed led nosh a Iledwan behladoe to flew meditelt. la hint et oar lea who loyawures est to be 110110111114 bare MOW IS the bib I ZZIFI=I , 2 mil Mho tramedsa et 1110ineese bat I Cle bd ra . iskin seut iudiown. beer. Iblele mem epert em et heik tla wer e r g — thAedral eme wit givers the eldelvame, sada le eased try el Ma eselltbela la =e y e: Medea. I ria an zr .... a t j e tt al s d rellsetza= the seentrylept teats meal eannalt. Itellwesee (maimed the his. peoprietor) u to Bya, or • pledge or seal to Wail We =awl payment being *wahines' for all thus, tree set bawd etualll bet mot. The Cilium/we WI the itaulkia ashes the court related to the printing el certain and to which he did not intend to ear any oppee4iea With mud to the paper which the hes. proprietor had since handed up, he trusted that he would allow the consideration of it to be postponed until the next court day, and let it stand as a notice of motion only. The origami question was then put and carried. POYNDRII said he could not consent to postpone hit other motion. The Cliatemes said he should oppose it, and at length , Mr. Poynder agreed to adopt the natation of the chairman, , and the motion was postponed accordingly. I Tan RAJAH or Barraae.—Mr. Lewis said he had 1 given notice of a motion relative to the case of the Rajah of Batters, but uit had not been printed with the other notices I he would give notice of it for the nut oourt day. Mr. Bru.ivais maid he had entered the court under the impression that the notice referred to by the hon. proprietor would be brought on that day ; but es it was postponed he would himself call the attention of the court to the subject, and intended to conclude with a motion. It was true that the Rajah of Batten was dud, but his cause was not. It had more supporters than ever. His enemies had not yet been punished, and, until they were, his friends would never cease to call for a full investigation into all the circumstances of his case. The hen. proprietor detailed at great length the facts of the case, and eoncluded by moving f or an ingrdry,ite. Mr. G. THOHPSON, in seconding the motio n , said he would bring the subject forward at every court until justice was done to the character of the late re,jah, .rho had fallen a victim to the persecution of his enemies vid the obduracy of the court of directors • in fact, he wr e a mur d ere d man . The agent at Banana h ad more than two years ago reported to the Bombay government that be yaw fast &inking from the effect of the climate of Bensue, vtbdeh was very different from the part of India ir. which he was born. He had repeatedly memorialised the government for permission to remove from B.enares to ma other part of India, the climate of whie4 we more 'cassaba to his con stitution, but no attention. was paid to kis assafak although the agent had himself dated - that, If nod to vitiate:ldy l remove from Benue., he wou ld • thaws te the climate. The gov ernmen t o f l a g s l a g Dena aware. that he was slowly sinkin g en d er the drub the alma. He had not died from any disease, but was slowly nuedettld. It was his dying with that a full invatigstioa *add Late place into all the charges that had b een b rut him. He (Mr. Thompson) wished to know w h at was to be dope with hie territory. He believed the e r koZ, tentien wan for the government to Like possession of it family, however, lived to demand jesuee, and a u , „... n never rest satisfied until they obtained It. Hie adopi n i!„ wu entitled to and would claim all hie property R. the eon of a first cousin of the retail. O s tb st o, ask, did the directors intend to do with reference tsb: 111 ► viving relatives ? He would bring the subject banes next court. The Cilauutais said he would sot go into a eau had already been decided in that court seven o r e i g h t nZ• Tke directors had that day received official intou nni Z, the death of the rajah. The directors did not kw,: the climate of Benaree disagreed with him until I * a! chairmen) received a letter to that effect from Mr. son, and they Immediately sent out a despatch diretf il he could have his residemoe changed to anylocality desire. He should move that the court be adjounied. 1 Mr. G. Tuoiereox opposed an adjournment and u n k, warm and indignant terms of the treatmentof the l i y t e, a and the conduct of the Eut India Company ; b r i ng st , times called to order by Mr. Tucker, the chan unn, stated in reply that Mr. Thompson wu acti ng the put. ycalumniator. After some further strong remarks, the countess adjoi n* by a majority of 27 to 6. THII LONDON MORTALITY FOR THE FAIT wa x is, according to the report of the Registrar-General, n a week ending Dec. 18, ler than that of the previon.t days, although considerably above the averag e . 11, 0 4:: in London 1,946 persons, being exactly 900 above the rage of the corresponding period during the he 4 1 ,, autumns ; but 470 below the number of deaths i n eh.... ending the 11th instant. Diseases of the 'nags aud.,,._7 of respiration still continue to prove fatal to en, tapat r• double the average of casualties front those melodist y t number of deaths front these causes lost week In t 04 whilst the weekly average during the last five manna ni no more than 333. REGULAR MAILS TO THE WEST COAST OF Ana k —Arrangements have been made for making up mgt r 4 General Poet-office for the west coast of Africa anthe m ing of the last day of every month. The math win 4 % veyed by her Majesty's ships, which will call at Idadau, * Sierra Leone. When the lut day of the month luxe s , a Sunday the mail will be made up the previous new. All letters and papers for Sierra Leone will be seat l i tt mails, unless directed " per private ship ;" and for and other parts of the west coast, if directed by Majesty's ship." THE SOCIETY OF ARTS held its seventh meeting g the present session last evening, in the great mon, ecn. Adelpbi—Mr. B. Botch in the chair. The subsecten t , for the lecture of the evening was lithography in dl branches, including the splendid art of print/ea in gold u d colours, so beautifully exemplified in the production alb, Owen Jones. The lecturer, Mr. Smith Williams n i , brief history of the origin and process of the art of from stone, dividing his object into five sections and trating the gradual advaelse of the lithographic art by em u of prints which were attached to the walls of the leave. room, showing very distinctly the vast strides which the pe, femora of lithography had made since the invention as originally put in practise, as respects the Sue arts. It ktl course impracticable to give an abstract of a lecture to es tirely composed of minute details, as that of Mr. Willett necessarily was. The specimens hung round the room offset some very beautiful objects for the inspection of the maul spectator, and the society is preparing for exhibition wins a few days a moat elaborate and complete collection of litho graphic works in all their various grades and colour, eo u offer at a coup d'eeil all that has been achieved by our native practitioners in this department of art. This exhibition mil open on the 27th inst. CROYDON AND EPSOM RAlLWAY. — Yestertley, t public meeting of gentlemen, complaining of the daily knew. veuienoe and annoyance experienced by the pessengen se the Croydon and Epsom Railway, was held at the North and South American Coffee-house, Royal Exchange, to take into consideration the beet means to be adopted to obtain ro dress, acd to remedy the evil. The meeting, which had bees convened by public advertisement, was numerously and respectably attended.—Mr. Davenport, on taking the chsin stated that it was held for the purpose of mender , ing the inconveniences to which gentlemen residing on the line between London and Croydon were subjected, in cm. sequence of the continued alterations of the time of the trains, the abolition of the use of covered third-dus car. riagee, and other evils, to which all persona travelling= the line were now exposed. One of them was the refusal b grant annual second-class tickets, and also daily tithes, be. tween Epsom and London and the intermediate station; another paint was the disparity in the rates of farce henna the Ist, 2nd, and 3rd claws. It was contended that a teas. rial, embodying all the points, should be prepared and pia aented to the directors by the chairman and a deputation Mr. Maitland, Mr. John Moon, of Norwood, Mr. OEM, and other gentlemen concurred in their condemnation ant caprice with which the departures of the trains were theta, of the irregularity of their arrival, and of the breach e( which those who had taken annual tickets had experienced by the alterations mads.--Mr. Maitland, jun., eventually need a resolution to the effect, "that from the representing' made to this meeting it was evident that the paasengenb the Croydon sad Epsom Railway were subjected tom, and *emus grievances with respect to the cab d even the want of punctuality, and the genets] lal accommodation afforded by the company, and in air to remedy such grievances the chairman be authoried sign and present, on behalf of the meeting, a memorial a the directors, calling attention to them with a view tonne removal." The resolation having been seconded by le Starling, was unanimously agreed to. Several gender were named to assist the chairman in the preparation die memorial, which, it was announced, would lie for lipase at the North and South American Coffee-house on Thu* and Friday next, and the meeting adjourned to yens* three weeks, then to receive a report of the result of tk eammunication. PMILLIPit-OARDENB RAGGED Sczfool.s.—The ist manual meeting was held in the St. Pancras Vestry Beim Gordon-street, Gordon-square. Lord Ashley presided, El opened the proceedings by congratulating the meeting on ds Feat progress which had been made in the mummies ml influence of ragged schools since he had last met the psma society a twelvemonth ago. The great advance waithisi been made he attributed to the encouragement of intonil pursuits ; and he recommended the attention of this es* to that system if they had not already adopted it. Ice miler he mentioned the two schools which had heenale blished at Westminster where nearly all the chili:lam ma clothed in garments made by their own hands, as mak ing a model which he recommended to the bainifor if the directors of every school of the kind. The aids attending these schools were not like the children of palm mere) poor, but were ahem aid in vioe, and required • Ohl disdp to reader them respectable in society, be hems *lend the insensate. which they received weepimill* unless unless aeleamomied by instruction in mos UM Made. His lorddlipmmaiaded by ogling on the monesth mad the report el Pr aommittea kr the past year. Ms 'amenities thuds, _mhec a sit i m e rt=ation of the oasis le whisk the echoed Mil stated did= mow a paid easibegoeite matiadadl daily between nine awl beak s, and two and fivel u Vtleldel In to everiMa &es _Woo a week, dinged daily to religiose legAreadma. They had alma ein eem e ni t= Maelheemik, superintended by lid esieseplation • workbag _ l l . llO l pawpaw"' MEEMMg the boys trades. The wish hens thesis& inn the year by an average a helms4 80 abilitem daily. The appearance of dm did= sidereklylmmeoved; their behaviour was imam and respesimlie, and they had . made gnat pogrom ing, widths and the ordinary had heart tion. Ths vreairish dews had leaf about Ude, stab flip. The 11111.04 aims bed made preys& assamt etas eikety is dire , d tiashose. eeadl>a eanitem urged ea the better senor eirbridise exertion to ware this Tim nmelode Soft the yew had amounted to 1141. 0 the ilibusammate la OK 13., which left s Wham 141. Nos Masi r espasee of the wwhl mese to 1001.—Thrtt emwi eft report, which war Jagegit sea unanimonsly adapted. she gees lemon the meeting in furthereaseell I si t iL eaCTIIORIZED AMPOTATION.—Sir, — Nom has become the general practice in oar public katydid; patients to be thrown into a state of stupefaction by tar that powerful narcotic agent, chloroform, previously le* dergoiag a surgical operation, allow me to call regsfle tiou, and that of the public (through the mediae ef 10 journal), to a very dangerous abuse likely to be sudelet vincial infirmaries of this discovery. I allude in _ being occasional ly fatal pe r formed ffecuensuing without th fm ec , o n ns t e t n e t ferinQ mrprise felt by the patient upon awakening sad Mak that be has lost a limb. An instance of this kiellaille recently occurred in the Wilts County Halal Ais man, named George Perry, was brought into tle dater imitation on the 13th of November, troubled with shade in the leg. It was thought advisable to extract the VOA to which he readily cemented, but expressed a most t ri wish not to undergo an amputation of the limb, eves his life might be at stake. Notwithstanding, as lb ult., the day appointed for the operation, ha wai . _ .. 116 % under the influence either of chloroform er saligor me i than the limb was amputated. He died ail dg , Father) to Jognam-Balierary, Des. 90, 1847. THE MODEL LODOER.—He is a quiet doff. A smile is permanently settled cubic eases his 11 hie boots in the mat Wore he walb erials iM high rent, and has few friends. He leaves his He has a cellar °toads at a time. He takes in a and is not in a hurry for it in the morning. 4• b later than ten. He shaves with cold water. ea up a bill. He in fond of children. He likes to sweetmeats, and to take one occasionally $0 ebe He never has supper. He never dines at IWO% on a Sunday, and that rarely. The landlady dinner ; it is generally a very large joint, irto_ vegetable", a very large pie, and a very large rue He never inquires for the joint, or the pie, or mast day. He lends his hooks cheerfull'. R. about the exact number of his shirts. De bell. He pays for extras without a murmur. Rusk. Does not object to a flute and a piano pie% est tunes at the same time. He is never ia meat last; if it is not paid the very day it beams , 0 4 UP men Is became he h as paid it the day Mike. TM Leave is dumpish, rich, and contented.—Pwasil' s HOSPITAL.—Sir,—You Ru? OD t. latiefritedig gleessies No I hoe eheersel is ' Mob gni aildba I sale* adlilit OW erg Poi