The Express. — London, England, 1848-03-10 00:00:00

by the monarchy against the people between Lyons and La Croix Rouse, at a time when the monarchy premeditated the annihilation of the republican workmen, should no longer remain in existence ai.cl still menacing Inasmuch as the destruction of this detested wall is intimately allied to the project of cons tr uction of a vaster 014Ctifig11 beyond the Vale of La Boucle, defending at once La Croix Rouse, and Lyons, which are two sister towns, the re union of which b along been demanded by all; the com mission of the Provisi mal Government decrees that the for tified elkeiltie between Lyons and La Croix Rousse shall be demolished, with the exception of Fort St. Jean, which is considered indispensable to the common defence, and the barracks necessary for the service of the republic. In accordance with further dispositions of the Provisional Go vernment, the land and buildings of that enceinte will be made useful in the interest of the people. (Signed) it.itntintrist. AR AGO. We give the following as it has reached us, without Touching for its correctness. . . Ws hsvc been made acquainted with a very curious fact, which admirably pourtray- the state of the total confusion now pr. veiling in France. The Marquis de Polignac, second son to the famous minister of Charles X., was present at a ki n d o f evening party, given in the state apartments of the Tnileri. s by the banditti who had taken possession of Use palace, and played on the pianoforte while these men gave themselves up to the most indecent kinds of dancing ima ginable. The steam frigate Asmodee returned to Toolon on the 4th inst. from Civita Vecchia, where she landed 20,000 muskets for the Pontifical Government. The conoular agent at Toulon, on hearing of the atrocities committed by the Austrians in Lombardy, had re signed his poet. P.S. The Threes, which closed on Wednesday at 56, fell on Thursday to 46, and closed at 47. GERMANY. RENEWED DISTURBANCES IN MUNICH. A portion of the following appeared in last even ing's Express. We have news from Munich to the evening of the 4th. It appears that on the 3rd the disturbances which had broken out on the 2nd and continued during the night, had extended over the whole of the 4th. On the 3rd great masses of the population had assembled, and the drum beat to arms befote half past one. The perturbators were not dispersed, however, but divided. They went about the town in groups of from fifty to one hundred, making a most dreadiul noise. The groups were pre ceded by white flags. Stories were thrown from the court garden at the windows of the new palace. Barricades were erected at every passage, to impede the passage of the cuirassiers. The guard of the principal pest arrested one of the pert urhators, but he was immediately set free, upon menace that all should be broken. The civic guard then met, and sent strong patrols round the town. The cry of " Long live the Republic" was heard on all sides, as well as " Long live Germany: . The greater part of the perturbatore appeared to be workmen. On the 4th the inhabitants and the students pre sented to the king a petition, numerously signed, demanding the abolition of the censorship ; the publicity of the proceedings of the tribunals; trial by jury ; the responsibility of ministers; electoral reform; a German parliament; and, in fine, the immediate convocation of the states for the realise tion of these objects. On the same day Prince Wal- I lerstein repaired to the Hotel de Ville, and an nounced that the king, inconsequence of the above mentioned petition, had resolved to dissolve the Chamber of Deputies, and to convoke a new chamber for the 31st May. This communication was received' with enthusiasm, and hopes were entertained that the city would become immediately tranquillised. But such was not the case. On the evening of the 4th, an insurrection on a fearful scale broke out after the population had been kept in a state of the greatest excitement during some 30 hours. The Deutsche Zeitung states that, on the evening of the 4th the doors of the civic arsenal were burst open by an infuriated crowd, who took posses sion of 4,000 muskets, 6,000 new swords, and a num ber of old weapons. The alarm bell was continually ringing in St. Peter's church. All the military were under arms, and were ranged in front of the palace. Letters from Munich, under date March 5, state that the King, in order to appease the armed multi tude which had assembled on the previous afternoon in front of his palace, had acceded to their demand to convoke the Diet on the 16th inst., instead of the 31st of May next. After the King's brother, Prince Charles, had assure d the crowd that that royal promise would be kept, the latter gradually dispersed, and numbers amonpt them brought back to the Town-Hall the arms which they had taken from the arsenal, as already related in this paper. The legislat.ve as sembly of Wurtemberg is convoked for the 13th. According to accounts from Ilesse-Cassel, up to the morning of the 6th inst., the Prince Elector had dis missed the obnoxious minister, Herr Scheffer. All the prince's family have removed to Wilhelmshole. It appmrs that, howe‘er, the Grand Duke is rather obstinate in his opposition to the wishes of his people. The greatest excitement prevails in Hanan and Cassel. A message to that effect was laid on the table by the Laibags Commissar (the Minister of the In terior), and the sittings of the assembled committees were then declared to be closed. This is a concession on the part of the King of Prussia, but he has as yet carefully abstained from naming the fixed periods at which the diet is to meet. According to the Rhine and 3filtelle gazette, five estafettes left Cublentz a few days ago, bearing orders in various directions of the ltherush provinces to call out the war reserve. The veer reserves of the 7th and Bth army corps (Rhineland and Westphalia), and of the 4th (pro vince of Saxony), have been partly called out, and the Posen reserves entirely so. The Madyeburg Gazette asserts in positive terms that the older for convoking the United Diet has already received the royal signature. It adds that the cabinet order for assembling the Diet will also contain some satisfactory announcements respecting the liberty of the press and other concessions. The greater portionof the troops garrisoned in Wesel have received orders to hold themselves in readiness to march, in order, it is thought, to maintain tranquillity in the large manufwAuting town of Crefeld. The town council of Elberfeld has resolved to appoint a com mittee for the purpise of making arrangements with employers, to give occupation to persons deprived of it in that Prussian Manchester. The said (fennel) has also taken the oppoitanity of petitioning the King to convoke the Diet without delay. The con cessions required by the town council of Elberfeld are liberty of ti , s press, freedom of speech, improvement of the lectoral law, a " deciding" vote on the part of the Diet, and the passing of laws by a simple ma jority; representation of the states amongst the authorities of the German confederation; freedom of religion, and the submitting of the penal code to the United Diet. A considerable number of troops, in fantry, cavalry, and artillery, left Coblentz on the 6th inst. for 'frt ves and Saarlouis. Letters from Dusseldorf, dated the .sth, say that on that day a petition to the King, covered with 600 signatures, was sent to demanding—lst, A faithful representation of the people, with a delibera tive voice in all questions concerning legislation and taxation. 2nd, Unlimited liberty of the press. 3rd, Institution of the jury for political misdemeanors. 4th, Individiril liberty. sth, A system of progressive taxation. nth, A law for the working classes. ith, The communication of the new penal code to the re presentatives of the people. Sth, Right of meeting. 9th, A German parliament. The PI ince of Prussia has left Berlin for Cologne. The Duchess of Orleans arrived on the 3rd inst. in Berlin. Saxony appears to hold out for the present against the demands of the people, but it must yield in a short time, otherwise the people of Leipsic, one of the most advanced" cities of Gcrmiuy, will make further and more energetic, if not more convincing, demon strations than they have just done. The answer of the King has not yet appeared, and differences seem to exist in the present cabinet. A letter from Dres den, dated March 3, states that Herr von Falkenstein, Minister of the Interior, had given in his resignation. The King at first refused, but afterwards accepted the resignation, when Herr von Falkenstein insisted that he would not be himself thepretext for any public demonstration or breaking of the public peace. Meetings have taken place in divers parts of Saxony, in which addresses demanding reform have been adopted and forwarded to the King. In a speech of the rector of the University of Leipsio to the students, he calls upon them to remain true to the system of order, right, and legality, under whatever circumstances they may be placed, and to bear in mind the example of that greatest of European nations, England. A letter from Darmstadt of the 6th brings the intelligence that the Hereditary Grand Duke of Hesse Darmstadt had been proclaimed co-regent, and that Baron H. de Gegen had been named minister in the room of Herr von Thil, who has resigned. A proclamation signed by both these new dignitaries declares that all that appertains to the guarantees of civil and political liberty will be granted to the people. The liberty of the press has been granted, as well as the general armament, the right of public meeting and that of petitioning. As to the question of a national representation, the Grand Duke has declared that the federal act has not satisfied the just demands of the German nation, but that he will try and make the German princes share in the conviction that a national representation would contribute greatly to the consolidation of Germany. Nothing can exceed the exultation at Frankfort at the emancipation of the press. The following ap pears in the German Journal of Frankfort of the 6th: _ And we also have the liberty of the press ! It was an nounced to the citizens yesterday evening by the Senate. The odious censorship is abolished for ever. The press is free ! That ignominy which has long galled Germany, dis appears at last. Darkness is dispelled ! No more censor ship! Who cannot but rejoice? Baden, Wurtemberg, the Grand Duchy of Hesse, Naraau, have preceded us. Five states of Central and Southern Germany new possess, amongst other rights, that most important one, liberty of the press! Other states of Germany will soon enjoy this benefit. May they obtain it without bloodshed! We ex pect from our senate the fulfilment of the following desire,: Abolition of all exceptional laws promulgated since 1819, the jury, the general armament, equality of rights of the citiren, without distinction of religious f►ith, liberty of assn. elation, political amnesty, and reintegration in the full en joyment et civic rights : order and perseverance—such is our motto. Extraordinary military precautions were taken at Frankfurt on the night of the sth inst., to prevent a threatened insurrection. The troops of the line and the civic guard were all under arms. The elector of Hesse Cassel has granted nearly all the demands made by the people. Letters from Carlsruhe, dated the 6th, say that the first chamber of the states has voted an address of thanks to the Grand Duke, for having immediately attended to the wishes of his people, in granting the liberal institutions they demanded. The address was presented to the Grand Duke by the President of the klargravo Chamber William of Baden, accom panied by the two secretaries. The Grand Duke gave a most affectionate reply. The second Chamber of the States has received a petition signed by an immense number of the citizens of Schopfeint, de manding the liberty of the press, trial by jury, and the establishment of a German parliament. By electric telegraph from Hull, we leant that the steamer Queen arrived there from Hamburg last evening. She left Hamburg on Tuesday morning, the 7th inst. There had been repeated attempts to create disturbance ; hut, up to the departure of the steamer, the authorities had repressed such efforts, and the town may be said to be quiet, although beneath the surface there was deep dissatisfaction. HOLLAND. ASSEMBLING OF THE STATES GENERAL. THE HAGUE, MARCH B.—At the Bitting of the Second Chamber of the States General, on the 7th, his Ex cellency the Minister of Foreign Affairs laid before the as sembly the official communication made by M. de Limartine to his Majesty's Ambassador at the court of France. The letter was of the following tenor : " M. le Baron,—l have the honour to inform you that the Provisional Government of the French reput , de has confided to me the porlefeuille of Foreign Affairs. The re publican form of the new government has altered neither the position of France to Europe, nor its loyal and sincere desire to maintain its relations of good harmony with those powers that desire, like her, the independence of the nations and the peace of the world. I shall be happy, M. le Baron, to concur, by every means in my power, in this desire of the nations, in their improved dignity, and to re mind Europe that the principle of peace, and the principle of liberty, had birth on the same day in France.—Accept, M. le Baron, &c. &c.—(Signed)—LAMAJLTlNE.—Faris, Feb 27." To this letter, which contains quieting assurances for the maintenance of peace, our ambassador imme diately replied in unison with the several other em- bassies which had received similar communications. The embassies felt it necessary immediately to sup port a government, whatever might be its form, which shows by its actions that it has an eye to the preservation or the establishment of _peace and order. Meanwhile, the King's ambassador at Paris has been commissioned to re main there, in order to represent the interest of the Nether lands officially. Notwithstandii g the assurances of peace which I t eve just mentioned prudence demands that pre cautionary measure should be taken in the event of possible contingencies. Of these any coadjutor of the department of the Interior will give your high mightinesses ti's necessary information. In taking these measures, it is a happy cir cumstance that the best understandi g and unanimity sub sists between the Netherlands government and that of Belgium. The King's ambassador at Brussels has been cornrnicsioned to state that we hope and desire that the very advantageous neutral position of Belgium may be maintained. The Netherlands government attaches the greatest importance to the maintenance and consolidation of existing treaties, and does not aim at anything further than tne continuance of the independence of Belgium and the confirmatiin of the relations already subsisting between the two kingd max The Belgian government set a high soda., on these views, of which more than one proof has been received here. The communication of his Excellency the Minister of the Inte rior was es follows : Your High Mightineeses,—The King has commissioned me to communicate to you, in reference to Art. 207 of tke fundamental law, that, in conseque..ce of recent events that have taken place in France, his Majesty has thought fit to command that the troops of the national militia levied in ' 1847, who would soon be summoned from the reserve into active service, es well as those on furlough of the levies of 1845 and 1846, shall be put under arms. Although there is no immediate d inger of war, yet the consequence of the events can be so little calculated upon that the attention of the government has been seriously directed to the adoption of precautionary mea sures for the security of our frontiers; and it has determined to increase the land force, as well as the defensive measures by sea. The proposition fur the increase in the departments of the army and navy, with the measures for carrying them out, shall be immediately submitted to your High Might incases. I am also commissioned to say that the atateof the treasury induces the prospect that these measures will be no additional burden to tke community." The minister, after having made this communication, added : " I take this opportunity to state that the chotges in the fundamental law proposed by his Majesty at the opening of the present session shall be submitted to your High Mightiness without delay." Several projects of law, relative to the finances, &c., were then laid before the Chambers, accompanied by a royal message. The following announcement was then read :—The re signation of M. F. A. Van Hall, Minister of Finance, of M. de la Sutras, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and the nomination of Count de Randwyk as Minister of Foreign Affairs, and the Chevalier Van der Heim, as Minister of the Intetior, and the Chevalier Van Rapped, as Minister of Finance. The President announced that he had received communi cations of the treaty of commerce and navigation concluded in December last between the Netherlands, Sweden, and Nor way. A committee was appointed to make a report upon this subject. The Amsterdam Handelsbind of the Rth instant appears to think that the ma,ifesto of the French Minister of Foreign Affairs is, on the whole, a satisfactory one, remarkable not only for the elevation of its ideas but also for the s.drit of moderation which reigns in it. BRU:SELS, MARCH 8. The leading journal of Antwerp energetically cen sures the government for the extraordinary military preparations it is now making, particularly in the above commercial capital of this country, which (as the journal in question adds) will in a few days be pat in so strong a state of defence, that one would imagine that a powerful enemy was about to make a coup-de•main there. The measure in question is (it contends) unnecessary, and the money expended to strengthening Antwerp would be much better em ploye,. in giving work to the unoccupied. By spnd ing the large sums in such works the money ad- %arced to the treasury by the recent law will be thrown away, and Belgium, in a few months, will be as poor as ever. The Belgian ministry, in fact, ap pear to be losing a portion of that prudence which characterised their first movements after the events in Paris. The Brussels papers are urging the government to abolish the stamp duty en journals. The statement made by one of the Belgian provincial papers, to the effect that the government have taken steps for repairing and strengthening only those fottres.es which are on the frontiers of France, is in correct, inasmuch as the forts on the Scheldt are already undergoing improvement. The Moniteur Bdge of this mornibg, after copying from the Parisian journals the account of the interview between M. Lamartine and the Belgian ambassador in Paris, adds the following paragraph " We are enabled to state that M. de Lamartine hastened to assure the Prince de Ligne—as the first pledge of the continuance of friendly relations be- THE EXPRESS FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 10, 1848. tween France and Belgium—that the former enter tained a profound and inviolable respect for Belgian independence and nationality, and for the neutrality which WAS solemnly guaranteed by treaties to the latter." . Mainers was totally suspended yesterday on the Brussels and Antwerp exchanges. The Independonee of this evening states that the individual (M. BAker) who is at the head of the so called Belgian-Parisian Company, having in view the proclaiming of a republic in this count.' y, was ex pelled from Belgium by order of a council of war, fur forgery. The civic guard still continues under army. The French Provisional Government has addressed a letter to the Belgian Minister at Paris, respecting the armament decreed by this country. The continued depression of our funds, and the cessation of nearly all monetary transactions, are creating considerable enessiness. The banks are pro ceeding very cautiously in their discounts. At Bruges an appeal has been made to the inha bitants to give encouragement to th 2 national manu factories. _ . —......._ The great procession of the Carnival came off yesterday amidst sleet and rain. Every window was tilled with ladies and children anxious to get a sight as it passed. Tho utmost gaiety and good humour prevailed. wasidered se newV essights. ?kr tun pied for inter fering yid ffiedia ot Ude eity in z i e es he pretest ot the aseritisist ilisosisery he elikleselthe ease, es there ste wiled lie sewt &MO sh irt ylrlde et 4 so bee hes s et ls hp& liege U het ter do mot Oink I saiimer7 to d mach Ws Is to tho weasel pasha sheekeg and bileig he paths deseley wee W sheet - enedelses to aU. every week dim end WOK Pe W diemodelly. Mash we hdisee is wtheet pordhltsem _other pert et thile melngille. We Wm else am swift wililffebW an sermpums whit the Clig ..em sempain, Milk all the comes sad elm whisk he Oh idleness ere daily waggikid with mew. tea then Is one peewee pedals. hotwidteendthe the MITT filMeMpare ahem, tome& the astsseire Irate whirl we haws amnia oat, we hem NM ellakied to pay off a debt of long standing, r of lets meld he redoes the rates upon the inhabiteets of this city. The sewers which we have constructed ham been built upon the MMadest principles, with the tow to benefit posterity as well as the gement generation, and in conformity with the Periposat end opinions of prof...doted men of known and 2=llleed to free, Integrity.Yqt a and are ready mow, we l Iwo le be esboleted tz nP l r :ige a r n t thew aled mese= ty. We n beg to from =rodeos oil et per beseerable court to the system 11 61 • 01 1 by memo* lh gesheelhematraliene all the institutions . 1 ( the sole Mee Maar MEIN. • system which, by depnving the people of their Pit tfalies of the mmegentent and control of their own Whim. his les Y a country to a change in the whole system d The results which would follow a system el whoa serried out by a transfer of the power now anise by** people into tie hands of government menmimkreilly meet be, thure, obvious to all who serioutly reflect upon the mibjeett ma we feel It our duty to express our conrictioe that the comegeemese de government board with government influ ence, and a peuenege serried oat to all the minute details of all in ternal drainage, geeing, and other similar works, with the raising and bin nig et eaeep under the eciatrol of government Mimes, will be found a meettetolerable burden. We are satitad your honour- MI: court will feel the I, ijmuce of taking the control of the sewers of the City of london out of the hoods of the repreeenUitivee of the people, and we recommend yoor hoeourable court to persevere in the bill which the commatimers hare brought Into parliament by your rime:log and to oppose in the meet decided manner any bill which may be broiled lino parliament by the government, to deprive the citizens of Loudon of the management and regulations of their scene, which from the earlieet period they have esercised. Deputy Peacock moved that the report be printed, and a copy sent to each member, and permission be given to the comminionme to Circulate weir, wherever and to whet extent they should consider neces.ary. —Mr. J. T. Norris seconded the motion. • - - Stacy __... Mr. said that Lord Morpeth declared there was little doubt that the City seweregewea a model for all others. (Cheers.) What then could government mean after such an acknowledgment ? The citizens would, he trusted, take care not to surrender their rights tamely into such unscru pulous hands—Mr. Anderton impressed upon the civic com munity the necessity of retaining the management of their own affairs in their own hands. In other countries the bad effects of the system of centralisation of which the govern ment measure formed a part had been felt ; and he trusted that England would, on every occasion, mist any at'empt to extend it. (Cheers.) He believed the press would be in favour of the citizens in opposing so mischievous an encroach ment. (Loud eheers.)—After several observations from Mr. R. Taylor, Mr. Wire, Mr. Harrison, Mr Kemp, and others, the motion was agreed to unanimously, and amidst the loudest cheers. METROPOLITAN COMMISSIONERS OF SEWERS. _ The metropolitan sanitary commissioners held a court of sewers at ten o'clock yesterday morning. Lord Morpeth in the chair. Among the trommisaionen present were Mr. Chadwick, the Hon. Mr. Byng, the Dean of West miaster, Mr. Broderip, Lord Bbrington, Mr. Lambert Jones, Mr. Leslie, &c. On the motion of the chairman, it was or dered by the court that a precept be issued to the Sheriff of Middlesex, to return a jury to make presentment of the parties and property liable to be rated to the eastern division of Westminster sewers, and the court for the division was appointed to meet on the 10th of April. It was ela ordered that 460 feet of sewer be built in the Marylebone and Finchley-road, upon t .e payment of the sum of 2,0001. by Mr. Iford on befall of Mr. lidwards. The report of Mr. Phillips, surveyor, on the report of the sanitary committee of Idarylebone, was ordered to be printed. On the motion of the noble chairman, it was ordered that 860 feet of 12-inch drain-pipe:be laid down in an open ditch receiving the drainage of many houses in Gloucester-street, Sboreditch ; and power was given to the committee for ge neral put poses to appoint an assistant surveyor for the Hol born and Finsbury district. The Bscarrsay then read the following resolutions of the committee for general purposes : Resolved, ann. cow, that the public refuse of cities is the property of the public. That the refuse matters riontained in the sewers of the metropolis should remain under the control of the metrop:ibtan com missioners of sewers. That any profit obtainable from such refuse matters should he applied, under the sanction of the commissioners of sewers, to the dilatation of the rates. That the bill of the Great London Drainage Company, now before the house, would entirely ap propriate to this private company, without any compensation, the whole produce of the metropobtan sewers. That Ude bill would have he effect or entirely superseding the metropolitan commissioners of sewer, That in the opinion of this commlarion no plan of appro priating the contents of the metropolitan sewer. ought to be enter tained until the general survey and levels have been completed. Mr. CHADWice in moving that the resolutions be adopted by the court, observed that it was fortunate for the share holders in the sewage manure companies that the commission had interfered to delay their operations, for it was discovered in the case of one company that they proposed to construct a tunnel which they estimated at 25,0001., but which it was ascertained should net cost more than 7,0001. In another ease it was proposed to use the sewage manure of certain districts, and an annual profit of 60,0001. was expected from it, without making any allowance whatever to the rate payers. The subject of applying sewage manure to the im provement of land was under the consideration of the com mittee, and they desired to have authority from the com mis•ionere to make experiments with reference to the application of sewage manure to land. The resolutions were adopted, and the authority asked for granted. A petition was read from Mr. Stallwood, a rate-pryer in the Holborn and Finsbury district, complaining of the ex cessive expellee which attended the collection of the rates of the division, an , ' praying that the local commissioners might be compelled to give an explicit account of the moneys re ceived and expended. The petitioner stated that a silver breakfast service had been purchased out or the rates fur the benefit of the local commissioners, and he prayed that this service might be valued, and the amount epplied in diminu tion of the rate. The petition was referred to the committee for general purposes. A memorial from the inhabitants of Holborn was read, and referred to the committee for general purposes The Treasurer reported that 3 ,335 1.4,. 4d. had been ex pended since the last court. Toe court then adjourned to Thursday the 23rd inst. SCHOOL FOR THE INDIGENT BLIND, ST. GEORGE'S FieLns.-The annual general meeting of the governors and friends of this institution (of which her Majesty is patron) was held yesterday at the Loudon Coffee-house, Ludgate hill, to receive a report from the comm.ttee of management and for the election of officers for the present year. The Right Hon. the Earl Radst - ck presided. The Marquis of Bute, the Right lion. the Earl Cornwallis, the Earl of Eldon, the Lord Bishop of London, the Bishop of Win. cheater, and Lord Teignmouth, wire elected vice-presidents. From the report. which was read by Mr. Or, ueber, the secre tary, it appeared that the institution was established in 1799, for the education of the blind. Instruction is con veyed not merely by oral information, but Also by means of books in raised or embossed letters, thus enabling the blind to acquire knowledge by their own exertions, and rerdering them in some degree independent of their teachers. The Scriptures, both of the Old and New Testament, the Liturgy, together with several other useful works, have already been printed. The other greet design of the institution is in structing the indigent blind in a trade, whi.di is considered the most useful part of the charity. During a period of 46 years, 350 persons, exclusive of those who have been place d on the permanent list or died, have been returned to their families able to earn from 6s. to 28s. per week. The total number of pupils has increased from 15 males, ad mitted in 1800, to 75 males and 76 females ; and a manufac tory has been established, where articles mode last year, en. tirely by the hands of the blind persons, were sold for 1,216/. The financial statement, up to the 31st December, showed the receipts to have been-from donations, 2,1331. 12s. ; from dividends, 2,0271 64. ; rents, 801. 5.. 3di ; pariah allowance, for board of pupils, 1721. Is. 6d. ; sale of goods. 9141. 7s. 10d.; good. received, 2331. 13s. 4d.; legacies. 1,0911. 12a. 6d.; do. in cash. 1,1631. se. ; sale of stoek, 1.5761. 13.. ; balance in hand, 1,1571. 12.. 2d. ; making a total of 9,4681. 12s. 4d. The expenditure for the same period amounted to 7,8671. Is. Ild., leaving a balance in band of 1,6011. 4s. sd. -The report was adopted.-The noble Chairman remarked that a very important subject had been entirely loot eight of, namely, the election of a president in the room of his Gr..ce the A.-chbishop of Canterbury.-On the motion of Mr. Miller, it was agreed that Lord ltadstoek should com municate with the Bishop of Winchester, and a.eertain from him whether his brother, the Right Rev. Dr. Sumner, the Archbishop (elect) of Canterbury, would consent to act as president, which was agreed to.-A vote of thanks to the chairman closed the proceedings. NEW BRUNSWICK AND NOVA SCOTIA LAND Cold ' PAN ir.-Y•sterday the usual annual meetint was hell at the offices of the company, 5. Copth al cou rt,T hrogmo r ton-s• rcet. The chair was takenoy 3lr. J. Moxon. The report of the direc tors stated that the tot it amount of emigration from English and Irish ports in 1847 amounted altogether to about three times as many as in ordinary seasons ; but the greater number consisting almost exclusively of Irish in the lowest state of poverty and disease ; the emigration of the efficient climes had fallen much below the usual number, and the ex pectations farmed of the sale of land had therefore been dis appointed. The number of acres of land disposed of in 1847 did not amount to more than 1.819 purchases ; the gross sum of purchase money was 4751., the highest and lowest prices being respectively 205., 12s. 6d., and 4.. 6d. per acre. The number of acres sold in 1848 was 3078. The number of settlers its that year was 167, and in 1847, 172. The produce in 1647 was: wheat, 451 bushels ; buckwheat, 2,579; easta, 11,307; barley, 169; rye, 839; torn and pease, 359; potatoes, 18,231; turnips, 2,136; hay, 795 tons. The number of cattle, 429 head ; horses, 101; she .p, 432; pia, 271. The amount of land cleared up to this time was 3 . 128 acres. Considering that the harvest of 1847 in the province generally wee not so good as in the previous year, the directors) considered that the above returns, compared with those of that year, were satisfactory. Capt. Hayne's estimate of expenditure in 1817 was 1,8551. curreeey, and the sum actually disbursed having amounted to 1,8621. 19s. 72., excluding 123!. 16*. 9d. paid for settlers' remittances, the directors considered that his calculations on that side of the account had been very nearly realised. The re ceipts fur the year, estimated at 2,687!. cerrency, had realised no more than 1,6861. ; and the directors observing that his estimated receipts for 1847 and previous years had been founded mere upon accounts due than on those likely to be realised, they instructed Capt. Haynes, about the close clod,l n : a ustear, to forward an estimate of receipts in future as needy at possible, on items which could be relied an. The result woe that the Stanley receipts for 1848 were caudated at 1,1701., end the expenditure at 1,1361. 4e. Bd. If those estimates should be realised, there would be no necessity for say remittances from London. The directors stated that they bad deemed it necessary to exorcize a rigid ecionoary, and had accordingly reduced their payments, both at Stanley and in London, by a consi derable amount. The position and liabilities of the com pany on the 31st December, 1846, were as follows:—Loans due to the bankers, 1,5001. ; two tells drawn from Stanley, due 1848, 2801., being 1,7801. Deducting the balance at the bankers', the liabilities amounted, on the 31st December, 1847, to 1,5861., which haleness &ring the cempany exceeded the estimate by about 1861. The debit on the Stan), y balance-sheet had, however, been paid off -leaving a balance in favour of about 601. The director' under those circum stances had resorted to a call of It. per cent. The di rectors estimated that th. re would be a total deficiency on 31st December, 1848, of 3101. They noticed that surveys had been made for several*railways In North America, which they conceived would greatly benefit the company if carried out. The total quantity of land sold and granted, up to the 31st December, 1847, amounted altogether to 27,263 acres, leaving 633,164 acres still remainii.g. The total cash hithi rto received on land sales amounted to 4,4841. 6.5. 5d., currency. The amount still due wu 4,1721. 34. Id. The secretary then read the official report of Capt. Bayne, on which the shove was mainly founded, and which entered into various details respecting the management sf the company during the post year. The debtor and cred i tor colon ial account shower& total of 1,9861. 161. 4d., out of which • b dance remained of 1301 Ils. A conversation ensued on various matters connected with the state and prospects of the company, in the emirs, of which the Chairman observed, that as they could not look upon their operations to have been altogether successful, he would recommend, as the government were likely to enter into large public works, having, he b. lieved, a disposition to connect their North American possessions by means of a railway, that the company should still hold its land in as economical a manner as possible, until an opportunity pre sented itself for its sale, at such a price as to give &respecta ble dividend ; and be believed that this opportunity would occur before a very few years had expired. The report was adopted, and the usual routine business—consisting of the re-election of the directors and auditors—being transacted, the proceedings terminated. GERMAN HOSPITAL, DALSTON.—The anniversary festival took place yesterday 'Teeing at the London Tavern, when about two hundred gentlemen sat down to dinner. Sir R. H. Inglis presided in the absence of the Duke of Cam. bridge. The toasts drunk, in addition to the usual prelimi nary ones, were " Prosperity to the institution" and the health of the King of Prussia. The Chevalier Bunsen ac knowledged the latter toast. The healths of the Duke of Cambridge (the president) and Mr. B. B. C.bbell and the vice-presidents followed: they were responded to with due honours. The report stated that the number of patients re lieved by the hospital since its foundation, and We three dispensaries in connexion with it, amounted to 4,215, of whom 941 had been re. ceived as in-patients, and 3.274 as out patients ; of the latter a small number were Enclisb. The premises at , Dalston, though capable of considerable enlargement, at present afforded room only for 40 beds; whilst the applica tions had been so numerous that many patients had, neces sarily, from time to time been refused admission. To meet the expellees incurred in the purchase and repairs of the building, the fitting up of the wards and sanatorium, and the maintenance of the establishenint up to the present time, 8,9121. 17s. 2d. had been received in dona tions and subscriptions; but a debt of 2,260/. (in chiding 1,6001., part of the purchase-money of the premises) stall remained, the liquidation of which called for renewed exertions on the part of the friends of the insti , lldoo, the more so as the annual expenditure was about 1,7001., while the annual subscriptions amounted at present only to 5801.—The Secretary announced a long list of do nations which had been received during the evening, amount. ing in all to 1,4261. 15e., of which 661. 16s. were annual. They included 251. from the chairman, and 501. respectively from the Queen Dowager. Miss Burdett Coutts, and the Duke of Cambridge. SWEARING IN SPECIAL CONSTABLES.—AD order was yesterday issued by the Secretary of State for the Home Department, directing that in consequence of the authorities and other influential persons, in various parishes of the me tropolis, having expressed their willingness to be sworn in as special constables for the protection of property and preser• vation of the public peace, the magistrates of the chenets were immediately to make arrangements for the swearing in of such respectable persons as were disposed to act. THE TIMES " REFORMING ITSELF.—Sir,—It must be gratifying to you to observe the good effect of the lecture you gave the Times fur making too much of the Trafalgar square row. Not only has the Times desisted from exagger ations on this head : it was yesterday at the trouble of trans lating the very article in which you chastised it into it. own more diffuse style—omittine, of course, the passage which re• lated to its own blunder. if the Times perseveres in thus implicitly repeating at second band the prompting+ of the Expresz, it may come in time to be a decent and sensible Journal.—Z. BLUNDERS OF THE BANKRUPTCY If there is one thing more needful than another in a com mercial country like our own it is accuracy as to dates in matters of business, the more especially where individuals cannot conduct their own affairs with success, and have to place them under the contrel of the Court of Bankruptcy. The fiat ?netted against James Oliver Mason, John Mason, and Alfred Mason on Tuesday last, and which appeared in due course in your columns of yesterday, has the following dates named as the days for the two. meetings held for the working of it—viz. April 23 and May 18. The former day is on a Sunday, and both are palpably wrong, inasmuch as they exceed the period (42 days) allowed by the statute to the bankrupts for the disclosers of their affairs. What the right drys arc I presume a subsequent re-advertising will disclose to the public and the creditors of the bankrupt firm, to some of whom the error will, I fear, lead to great incon venience. In addition to the ample salaries all .wed to the commissioners and employes of the court, the Lord Chan. eclior had hitter direct his secretary of Imekrupts to provide each deputy registrar with a copy of " Monre's Almaeack," so that blunders so egregious as the above may not in future occur. I have myself examined the Gazette, and have ascer tained that the error actually exists there, and is not attri butable to any erecr in the abstract published in the aaily journals. The publication of this letter may perhaps save similar blunders hereafter. The one now complanced of must have pissed the ordeal of the attorney taking out the fit, who pre; arcs the advertisement ; the deputy registrar, who peruses all documents ever put on the proceedings of the court ; the commissioner, who notes ths days of meet ing; and, lastly, the messenger who hat to act upon it and see et is duly inserted in the Gazette.—A. F.—Lon don, March 9. INQUEST, YESTERDAY. MEDICAL TREATMENT. —By Mr. Mills, in board-room of the Middlesex Hospital, upon Henry Dickenson, aged Luz years, the sou of a re spectable carver and gilder.--The father stated that culy lest January deceased sustained Blight injuries from his clothes catching fire. Mr. La Rue attended him, and ordered in the space of • fortnight seventeen different boxes of ointments, of various colours. At the expiration of the fortnight Mr. La Rue said that the last ointment, a rot one, was declared by another surgeon to have done more harm than good. He then sent Mr. Davies, another surgeon, to attend deceased in his stead, who repeated the ointment treatment, and after another fortnight declared the deceased was doing well, and in a fair way of recovery. But as the child's appearance was dangerous, Mr. Briery, surgeon, was called on two hours after Mr. Davin had spoken so favour ' ably of deceased's condition, who said that he was in the most imminent danger, and that he should be instantly re ' moved to the hospital, and he was accordingly conveyed to the Middlesex Hospital.—Mr. Dickson, the house-surgeon, found tea ounces of matter under the left knee, and the , back of his head was one mass of sores. The bone of the left leg was so diseased, that nothing could rave his life but amputation, which he could not endure in conse quence of his exhausted state. He bandaged the head, the back part of which was so diseased that the bone under the scalp was, exposed. In his opinion deceased died of ex haustion, produced by abscess at the kme and general disease consequent thereon. Deceased's lath, r frequently exclaimed that his child had been killed by improper medics.: treatment before he went to Use hospital, and several j urors ex premed a desire to accompany their verdict with a censure upon that treatment, but upon the coroner's recommenda tion they returned the following verdict .—" That deceased died from exhaustion, produced by burning accidentally in flicted clueing his mother's tcmporary absence." The jury expressed a hope that publicity would be given to the melan choly occurrence through the tams, to prevent a similar trifling with human life being again repeated. In reply to a question from the coroner, Mr. Dickenson said that Messrs. La Rue and Davies were properly qualified surgc•ns, and also declared himself perfectly satisfied with the treatment of his child while in the hospital. RIOTOUS PROCEEDLNGS LN MANCHESTER. Our correspondent, who dates his communication, " Manchester, hursday, Five o'clock," says: Up to yesterday there was every appearance of tran quillity here, but in the evening, atter I had despatched my parcel by the express train, a crowd of people assembled in Tib-street, opposite premises used by the board of guardians fur the employ merit, as a test of disposition to work, of able • bodied peepers. there were only a few hundreds of men, women sad lads present, and th.ir object appears to have been merely to rent their indignation again: the hosed of guardian for giving t mp:oymo. t to did*, rent hrai.ches of trade fur less wages than those usually paid. After hooting and creating come excitement in the neighbourhood they were dispersed by the police, without difficulty. This morning a more serous and better organised attsck on the mills began, having for its object to turn out the hands yet employed, and create .listurbance, as in 1842. About 10 o'clock near upon 63') people, chiefly 'out , e, from fourteen to eighteen years of age, assembled at New-cruss, from time immemorial almost the centre or nucleus for mob gatherings, silo re an Irishman harangued them from the upper *tips of tl.e Cr .se, and, after u:iudi..g to the affairs of the previous ev,...lng, in Tib• street, advised that they should adjourn their meeting to the outskirts o: the teem, where their is rant meters could not interfere wita them. Taey proceeded in a ',toggling trAly from New Cross, at this suggestion, along Oloham-road, through Spital.strect, crossing the bridge at the top of Jersey-street On a piece of waste ground in New Islington they halted, ' where the leader again addressed a few words to them, ex pressing his regret that some of the party had broken the windows of shopkeepers in their route. He told them that these ware people almost bankrupt, and poor as themselves, and they ought not to destroy their property- He said they ought rather to look at the pampered and rich aristocracy as the great mule of their misery, and he advised the people to proceed from thence to the mills, and through the streets of the town, in procession. to enlist sympathy on their ride. Three cheer were given fur the French republic, and the crowd, now augmented considerably in numbers, moved forward tower& Messrs. Kelly and Gilmour's cotton mill, which is in the neighoathood. Notwithstand ing the apparently peaceable diapositicn of the mob, their movements seem to have leer directed, as in the great turn-out and riots of 1842, by partite who had some pre concert, sod some of whose secrets bad owed out, as usual on such occasions; for the magistrates, who had met on the previous evening and taken tome steps for increasing the strength of the civil force, had ceased bodies of police ti be stationed near some of the principal mills in that direction, towards which the mob now proceeded. The first mill the mob proceeded to woe that of Messrs. Kelly and Gilmour. Immediately they prevented themselves under the windows, the hands inside hailed them, but the doors of the mill had been fastened, so that the owners might tern a deaf ear to their summons to turn out the hands without personally encountering them. They thundered at the doors for some time, however, and et length the proprie tors apprehending that these obstacles to their entrance would be forced, intimated that the hands should turn out if diapered, and join them. They gave a shout of triumph, and wasting till a great number of the workpeople had joined them—the yeunger portion of the males ap parently nothing loth to do so—the word was given to march forward. This r.eighboutheod, ADCO3II. literally Entitled with cotton factories, but the mob, now in creased to something like 2,000 in number, passed some of them without notice. They stopped next at tho deer of Messrs. George Clark and Sons, in Percy-street, and I.udly demanded that the woikpeople should le turned ore, at tempting at the same time to force the (rent doors. Before they could effect their object, however, they were en.ouss tered by a force of about 20 of the C division ol p-lice, uudee Superintendent Seymour, who endeav, ured at first to dis perse them quietly. The police, however, were assailed with stones, brickbats, and staves in great number,, and ha 1 to defend themselves. For about twenty initiates a severe struggle ensued, and it was doubtful whether the polio, would not be compelled to retire. A reinforcement oppcw twisty opining up at the end of that time the mob were die persed—or, rather, were compelled to wore, for they ap• peered to tollow out some ulterior scheme previously agreed upon, and prooeeded towards Messrs. Kennedy's mid, in Great Animate-street. In the attack upon Memo. Clark and Sons' mill several policemen were severely hurt with brickbat,, which for some minutes were hutted at the no in shower., and one was taken to the statiou-Louse for surgical assistance. Many of the snob must have coffered ma the es counter, though I believe not fatally in any ease. On t he way to Messrs. Kennedy's the mob stopped for a moment at the doers of the cotton-mill of Moors. S M. Moore and Son, and left the marks of some brickbats on the doors and broke some windows. They also broke a few panes in the windows of Messrs. George Woolley and Sous' factory, Great Ancoato-street. The attack on Messrs. Kennedy 'omill was one of the mode serious affairs of the morning. The principal frost of this, lefty mill is partially covered by some low buildings, used as an entrance-lodge and for oeunting-houses, so that canes could not be so effectually hurled at the windows of the main front, some 600 or 700 in number; but the mob made an attack on the lodge door and on the windows of the coantimehouses. Mr. R. Kennedy, wi:o is a borough Mee gistrate, was sittir.g at one of the desks, with the side of his face exposed to the front windows, intending in another mo ment to leave the works and go upon 'Change, when the at tack commenced, and was taken somewhat by surprise with toe shouts to turn out the workpcople. Before he could leave his seat the at:lday' s were beret in, and the glass flew in fragment, upon him. A groat number of brickbats and stones, weisjhbig upwards of a pound, were also hurled through the windew, a.th such force as to leave the impression of their presence on the opposite walls of the rooms. '1 he mob at this time seas atimated to amount to 3,000 people. Mr. R. Kennedy (111th only partner at home) instantly rrderel his mechanics (es portion of the bands loss likely than the spinners to have e sympathy with the mob) to be sumtnon.d. These men 4c armed with stiles, must of which had 'Lein unused on the shelves of the lodge since 1842), and drawing up no me chanics in the entrance in two tiles, he tried to got the hoes of the mill fire engine, worked by a force of 24-horse pewee from the steam-engine, to clear a sparse for his man to get out; but for some reason the hose could not be go; into play with sufficient haste, and the sortie had to be made with out this cover. Mr. Kennedy led the sortie into the very midst of the assailants, and a body of the C. division of police coming up at the same time end tiling them in flank they were soon dispersed. Mr. Kennedy received several severe blows. His foreman of mechanics (a body of men employ , el in all large cotton mills to keep the machinery in order) was bully cut on the forehead, and one of the mechanics also received a severe scalp wound. They made seven prisoners, of v - hom two only were full-grown men, the others being a woman and four youths of about 16 or 17 years old. Two of those had received severe cuts on the head, and out of them, a morn youth,wu curried into the mill its a state of ineensikillty. A very large portion of the mob were youths, and almost at the onsetmovement d o e ( . the pe, e i neo . n u d nt h er oo t , h .r e e d j a :r b. in u ei t p al the "a ilso e 7. ojf flu attacking party, probably with the view to directing further operations. It was reported that the youth above men tioned was d.ad, but the fact of his being carried into she mill in a state of insensibility sufficiently accounts fur the rumour. It was also rumoured that a policeman hid been killed, and his body carried away by the mob to cs.aceal the fact ; but, on nujeiry, the statement turned out to be untrue. _ . _ The mob were dispersed in several direetion,,but a lar body of them subsequently rallied, and ptoceeded to the mill of Messrs. Houldsworth ■nd Bon, in Newton-street, where they broke some windows but the police interfering; they sees e again dispersed without infecting their object, winch was to turn out the hands. The next point of attack um • more distant past of the town—Chester-street, Choi Iton-upon-Medlock, and about one o'clock a large body of people, amongst whom • leaf of bread was borne on a pole, api erred in front of Messrs. 111,1nd/end's mill Here the 1) division of police, in wrest force, under Superintendent Taylor, having been previously assembled near the spot, were brought down upon them, and a fierce encounter took place, in which Mr. Ta)lor was au severely handled that he bad to be removed to the iefirmai y. The web was ultimately dispersed. At too o'clock, how ver, soon after the bands at Messrs. Birley's mill in Chaster-street, had retarned to work, • mob presented themselves at the door and attempted to tura them out. A police. force was still present in the neigkbourhoeel, and consequently this body was dispersed before they hail done much damage. At about 20 minutes past three o'clock this afternoon, art suede was made also on the mill of Mr. J. B. Thorpe, Bateman'obuildings, Blackfriar4, near the centre of the town, but the police freely repelled it, and it ended in the mob retiring with a few broken heads. At the moment et which I write there is no doubt the movement is still going on, but the police and the i...gis •rares are now so thoroughly on the qui vice, that little fear is entertained but the affair will be settled wi bout the matervention of the military. As • precautionary measure, • thou , and speciol constables are to be sworn in owl em bodied to-night. IRELAND. DUAT.:N, MARCH n . Town-councillor Carolen brought for Ward hie mo ' tion for French congratulation yesterday. The muni cipals assembled in great lorce, of whom 42 formed a majority in support of the motion, while the fri..nds of the ex-monarchy only numbered 5 ! The tom of the meeting wee temperate, with the excepti"ii of Mr. Hamilton, who, in his extreme loyalty, covered hie own cause with ridicule. A committ.to of lane was appointed to draw up the address. The citizens and tradesmen of this city are also preparing for a grand demonstration. t. Provi sional" bodies are now in great rt qui6ition,ar.d, cceord ingiy, one has been for some days in existence &lila rat ing on the appointment of a permanent directory to carry out the arrangements for the meeting. Last night the permanent committee was named, oonbisting of forty members. A form of requisition to the chief magistrate was agreed upon, which, inter etlia,su4gicits the consideration of the measures to be adopted " for the protection of the liberties and the soil of this coun try, in any emergency to which the present etre of European politics may give rise." A dangerous element was thrown into the cauldron by a Mr. Scaiber, who recommended delegation, not only from the trades of Dublin, but from the various districts of the country. Though Mr. Mitchel "was not dis posed to regard the Convention Act one straw," the peril was suppressed by the prudence and firmness of the chairman. The meeting adjourned, with vehe ment shouts for the French Republic. The following very exhortative paragraph is taken from the address of the Sarsfield Coniederate ('lab, to their brethren in Fnunx: Oh, citizen., you know not bow deeply, bow tru!y, we s7 eap:Alum with you—brothers on the red fields of Ftmienoy and Land., s hue cur loved reszdtild fell. Shall Frenchmen and Irishmen no Finger fraternise Proud of their participation in the victories of Franca, in the olden days, tdmll Ireland not now milt at the greatest of her eictories I Frenchmen. we do vault; we feel u if the victory were our own. The old tics which bound us are m yet unbroken. Is heart and feeling we arc comrade a still. Your triumph to our tri umph—yew happiness our happiness. Victors of the berrieredeo— who shall measure the amount of our obligation —the depth is oar gratitude-to you and bowed down by swim-Lead wrongs--strickes to the earth by permitted pestilence end eon... Tied famine--victims of every tyranny, yet robbed of every meals of es. .64.1/IC4.,—the national spirit which ), or forefathers appl...sicd, and which your own Wm Rollin had witnessed in '4l, bad well nigh perieled wneu the announcement of your glorious achlemneent mine ail , glad tidings °ferret joy to t eel Mute oueillsoirrerheal to, aid to cheer us with the taeurance that Freedom is ever witun the ;r.otp of those whomanfully reek her. - - There are some misgivings as to the demonstration iu Dublin on the 17th. Many apprehend a prohibi tion by the executive. SCOTLAND. THE MOTS, Great praise (says the Scotenian) is duo to the Sheriff, the Dad Provost, and magistrates, and Mr. Morey, the ac..sig superintei !cut of police, fur the able manner in which they conducted themselves during the disturbance. The special constables were unceasing in their exertions, sod many indi viduals, not previously sworn in, came forward with com mendable alacrity to be enrolled for the preservation of the peace. About fifty indivisluals have been taken into cuitody by the police. Daring the riot the ery of "Vire la Republique " err one or twice beard ; but there war nothing else that CO in the slightest degree identify the 610414i4 with any yohooll motive whatever. gbe court. The Queen and Prince Albert took their usual early walk, yesterday, in the gardens of Buckingham Palace. Viscount Palmerston had an audience yesterday of the Queen. The Ductless of Kent dined with her Majesty and Prince Albert, yesterday evening, at Buckingham Palace. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon, at the Foreign-office. The Ministers present were the Mar quis of Lansdowne, Sir George Grey, Earl Grey, the Chan cellor of the Exchequer, the Earl of Auckland, Sir John Hohhonse, Lord Campbell. the Right Hon. H. Labouchers Viscount Murpeth, and the Right Hon. T. B. Macaulay. The Council sat one hour and a half. Earl Spencer had an interview with Sir George Grey, yesterday, at the Hotne.oface. A deputation, consisting of Mr. Pendarves, M.P., and Wears. Judlow and Kmgdoo, on behalf of the Pen zance Corporation, had an interview with Viscount Mor peth, yesterday, at the office of the Commissioners of Woods and Forest*. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England had a general meeting, yesterday. Despatches were sent off yesterday evening from the Colonial-office for the Governor of the Cape of Goo/ Hope. GUIZOT.—This gentleman has received numer ous visits tA the nobility and from the foreign ministers since his arrival in London. He has maintained the gre►test privacy up to Wednesday, when he made return visits to the principal members of the government. DEATH Or TUE DOWAGER LADY CAWDOR.— Isabella Caroline, Dowager Lady Cawdor, expired yesterday at two o'clock at her residence at Twickenham. Her lady ship. whn :nu eldest daughter of the late Earl of Carlisle and Lady Margaret Caroline, second daughter of Granville, first Marquis of Stafford, was bons 3rd S 1771, and was, therefore, in her 77th year. In July, 1709, her ladyship married Lord Cawdor, by whom she had two sons, the pre sent Earl Cawdor and the Hon. Copt. George Campbell. COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL Yesterday a court was held for the decpatch of business end the discussion of mat ten of (laic importance. Tits STRZWT DISTURRANCBIL—Mr. Bailey expressed an earnest wish to know horn the Lord Mayor whether any ! thing had been done to protect the shopkeepers of the city from a repetition of the injurious annoyances to which they had been for the last two days subjected from the disgrace ful conduct of number. of boys and young men, who aP peered to be mixed up with some of the worst characters la the metropolis. (Hear, Year.) He produced • large stone which he said had been dashed through a window in a house in St. Paul's churchyard as a specimen of the sort of missiles used by the blackguard mob, and stated that on the day be fore almost all the houses;in that vicinity were closed, and ladies were afraid to pay their accustomed visits to trades people in consequence of the great excitement which pre ! vailed.—The Lord Mayor assured the court that the city authorities had used all possible precautions on the occasion lof those disraccful street disturbances; that every man connected with the city police force had b een out for the last 48 hours, and that the magistrates were in direct communi cation with other parties, so that if an outbreak were to take plate it woeld be put an end to in a very short time. (Hear.) As to the breaking of windows, he could not see that the magistrates were able to prevent that ; but he was sorry to fled that the shopkeepers had adopted the injudicious expedient of shutting up their houses, es it was calculatid to operate as a symptom of alarm. (Cheers.) A crowd of persons, chiefly boy. had done some mischief in Cheapable, and in passing the boy., had shown an inclination to have • fling at the windows. The police, how ever, quickly diverted their attention from that object, and they soon disappeared altogether. He (the Lord Mayor) was not under the slight, st apprehension as to any disturb• ance is the city ; but he was ready to swear in any number of special coastablos which might he considered necessary, and he was prerared to provide them with staves and other weapons for the preservation of the public peace immediately. (Cheers.) The citizens might place the utmost reliance upon his assurance, that in leas than two minutes, in the event of any terrific occurrence, an overpowering force would be in operation. (Cheers ) SANITARY REOULATIONG FOR THE CITY OF LONDON.— Deputy Peacock, the chairman of the Commission of Sewers, presented the following report, which while being reed was greatly cheered in various passages : We desire to inform your honourable mart of the course which we hove pursued In reference to the bill for the sanitary improvement of City of London, in conformity with the order of your honour. able court of the 17th day of December last, end of the present posi tion in which we are place, in respect thereto. Precious to which it muss be advisable to refer shortly to the proceeding. upon the health of towns Bid introduced into parliament by Lord Morpeth In the last ft./slon of parliament. The conandesionere having, with the sanction of your ha/nov(01e court, decided on opposing the bill introduced by Lord Morpeth, Mau acted the City Itemembranter to obtain, ice the Aral inst.nce, an intervime with Lord John Blown, Lord Morpeth, and Sir George Grey, to request that the City of London might be exempted from the imeration of the bill. After an interval of a few day-, the commissioners were favoared, through the Remembrance . , with the fallowing letter Odic* of Works, April 13, 1347.—L0rd Month prawn= hie conk pliments to the City itemembrancer, m nd as it has been the intention of her Majesty's government specially to exclude the City of London Itself from the operation of the Health of Tema Bill, inumuch as their commiosionern of sewers are already in distinct connexion with the corporatim, he imagines that the deputation who proposed to honour the several members of the goon =lent with a personal inter view will not deem it necereary to put themselves to that trouble." This communication rendered any petition against the bill unneces sary, soul a clause was afterwards introduced by Lord Morpeth into the bill exemption the City of London from its operation. Lord Morpeth persevered for some time to tarry the bill, but ultimately withdrew it, signifying his intention to bring in a similar bill in the present =ion of parliament- No new circumstances have arisen since the communication with Lord Morpeth last year to justify any alteration in the decision which the government then acme CO, 10 exempt the City of London from the operation of the government h It, and the mitamiceonere did rot, therefore, anticipate any apposition to the bill sanctioned by your honourable court for the sanitary regulation of the City of London, in which are =dulled all the important points of sanitary regulations contained in the hill for promoting the public health introduced in the pre-eat mention ef parliament by the government With respect to the bill which we bare, under your icetruetion, introauced into porno- Mean thin erasion, we met upon several emanate= to discuss the same, and conferred with • committee of the Court of Aldermen thereupon, and at the close of the month of December last prepared the bill. which was lodged in due tonne in parliament, and it having pared 1.11, standing orders committee oi the House= Commons, the sheriffs, on the 17th day of F. loamy last, presented a petition for leave to bring in the bill, and the home harieg given have it was read the first Ume on the 11th of February, and ordered to be read a mond time. That by • recent mantling order of the Hemmed Commons all private hilts are ordered to be read • second time within ten days alter the Ant reading. times it became oseeseAry that the hull should he read a second tone on or Oak re the 21st day of February lam. but • having In the interim deemed It advis thle to ascernon olatinctly the Intention. of her Mamety's government with regard to the hill, we made arrangements for • deputation to attend Lord Morpeth on the subject on the February last, beds.] by Mr. Fannon, Mr. Mai terman, Mr. Sheriff Cubitt, Mr. Alderman Sidney, and Mr. Charles Norton, at the aloe of Woods and Forest+, when Lord Morpeth informed us that if the bill were proposed for • second reading, he should feel it Ins duty to oppose it, and that the gore, oment intended to introduce • bill to comprehend all toe metropolis within one commie/ion of sewers, and to include the City of london in its provisions. That upon being asked when mach bill world he introduced, his lordship stated that he would not pledge himself as to time, but that it would probably be ready within a fort night from that periorL Cpon being vented to consent to • postpone ment of the Fecund leading of our bill until the government bill were brought in, he rooted he mould not consent, nor should be oppose it; he would Dot interfere therein. Under these circumstances we son atdered the Mist crone to bo adopted was to get the order of the first reading discharged with • view to Introduce It again when the govern ment bill was brought in, which was accordingly done; and we take this the earliest opportunity to inform your honourerae court of the result Your honourable court have been informed of the appoint ment by her Malady's government of a commirarion to inquire late the health of the metropolis, who published their first report some time since, wherein wall contained certain =bubo statements of the number of ca-co, deaths avd recoveries, hi the time of the cholera in the year Ilia In the City of London, by • mieitatement altogether unamonotable, the population is therein repreeented a. having Men only 33,191, in-teal of 122,093, as i. given in the official po iulation et-turns, and as the number of deaths is in the mine table put down at the full amount it increases the ratio of death.. in the City ci London. se ID 133, instead if 1 in 345, as was the fact. To this Important statement so prejudfeal to the City of 1.011 on, and incontrovertibly untrue, we drew the attention of Lord Morpetta, b. a letter, addremed to him, tut oag since as the 17th day of December last ; but, to this mom nt, wr bare had no reply to that letter, nor seas the emir been rectified. We deem it right to inform your honourable curt, that our chairman, with the clerk and curveyor. have been osamin Al by the saidtoy Commission, at Cyr) - dyr florae, on three cemiono recently, and It is with retret tic it we feel =lop lied to allude in terms of dimpprobation to the course of examination pursued by them as unjust, and ceiculated to elicit • before your hcmourable Co pt t iol aviebivrieoff statement tbesuhjec In of fic l u artt c. g tad with our ope rations of late year. in this city, we beg to istFrs you, that within lb.. sty nod its liberties are contained about 630 acres 0! ground, and this comparatirely small area is new intersected by upwards of 42 mules of diluent pato= sewerage, Since the year 1540, several miles of new sewers hare been emmtracted at a cost of upwards of 230,0001., and in the whole City of London only about three miles of sewers smut now, ander any circumstance., he required to be made; and if, ccording to the pro. TLiiOILS of the governmeet bill for promoting public health, turtles were compelled to drain bore with= 100 feet of a public rinser, the present siewers7% very few exceptions, would be sofa- Gent for the entire (i of London. The sewers are all in good con dition ; they are wen at sad the commissioners are actively in completing • system of flushing the whole of them. it I C I therefore. be my that the drainage of this city tsar be tb. eta no tb. the ned no gCO ban Loth acre. love e de co& .0 go corls tem& .scks. Creis lecret prera• 'rend rose, ait; A i ~~~ I