The Express. — London, England, 1846-12-22 00:00:00

2 ERL'NETTI'S MODEL of ANCIENT JERU SALEM, Min the days dour Redeemer—the labour of years— the Bade and Josephns —nearly 200 superficial fort— in Dahlia, Liverpool, IM., by at least 60,000 persona insluding 1,000 dergysen and WO travellers to the Iloly Lend.-213, Pacmdilly, on end after Monday 2lst Instant, from Eleven till Five Feven till Ten. AdraiMmeo, Is. Children and Benno* 6d. A Israeli every hour In _ . .._ SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY, EXETisx tLL.—TO-MORROW EVENING (Wednesday), Den 14 will be performed HAN DE. '8 ORATORIO. stPASIAII. • Principal Vocal Performers—Madame Condon Allan, Wm 11. B. Ba Mr. M.invenk, and Mr. H. Phillips. T v be a lluul and Chorwi will consist of above SOO Performers. Whet; Ss arch; Reserved Scats (in the area or gallery), may be Obtained of the principal MuslcAellent; of Mr. Rowley, S 3, Charing ens; of Mr. Ries, 102, Strand ; o rMitchell, 39, Chlring-OCIIL THOMAS BREWER, Ikea LAST NIGHT at CROSBY-HALL. r / THIS EVENING, at Fight o'clock, Mr. WILSON will give his LAST ENTERTAINMENT, when hz will ping " Taw Of a' the aids the wind clan Maw," " Over the water to Charlie," " haat left toe ever. Jamie," " Saw ye Johnnie coming !" "In yonder ho SR ney Vi e , " "Ste is mine," " John .Unterson," "0, whistle and some to you," " The Suldicee Dream," "My boy, .Tammie," " The Fl o' the Fen at," "My toeher's the jev el," Annie Laurie," " Allister M•Alliatcr."—Planufecte, Mr. Land. THRONE ROOM, CROSBY HALL.—Maciame Adelaide, Maddsne Miehau LAVIN and Mons. Louts d'Revitte, have Ova honour to announce that their RI:UNION DANSANTR Is held at tha above room e v e r y Thursday eVerdrig. —For particubors apply at 7, illiriAtTret, St. JPIDeS . S, 13, Mount-street, Grosvenor row% or at Orosbydndl. N _ R. DEMPSTER'S ORIGINAL BALLAD SOIREES.—Mr. Dempster, composer of the " Lament of the EanlifraaL" " blind Boy,' " May Quern." and other American Melodies, has the honour to sumounco that his SECOND MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENT will be given at the ritiNcEsi's CONCERT /Loom, Distbastreet„ Oxford-street, TO.MOPROW EVENING, December 21, on which occasion he will sing a seLstion from his own compasltione. To commence at EWA o'clock . TlCketi., la Reserved Seat, 2a. 6d.; Llallery, Is. To be had at Duff and Hodg man% PA. Oxford-street; the Doors; and of Mr. Dempster, 11, iloward-strect, Strand. __-___ cIfCILEBILANS CASINO do VBNISE and B AL =corm at the BATIIS, 21 8 , SI& Ilulborn, WILL OPEN S EVENING (Tae tar), Dec. d. The Orchestra will em. brace upwards of Forty Performers, selected fame the Philharmonic, Ancient Concerts, and Her Majcst y's Theatre. wdr. -**.leags.ll. lila groveand Patsy. Conductor —Mr. G. Cooke. Prinr;oul V..calists—Miss M. O'Connor, and Mears. Wrighton and Bucliaal. The Salon de Dense, the most superb boll room in the metrop le., will be under the superintendence of Mr. C. Olirean. A Turkidi smoking Saloon, Persian Galleries, and extewiee Floral Promenades. t Choice refresh ment+, &e. Concert at H a lf-past Scsen ; 11,11 a Ralf-peat Nine. —Admiyalon, Is. eT HEATR E-ROYAL ADELPHI. - MONDAY , TUMMY, and WF.DNF.SDAY.—WoudertaI Scenic Meta to Fairy Spectac le of TIIE PILCSTOM DANCERs; or. The Willa Bride. Welk, Madame Celeste. With TILE MAIO WITII THE MILKING PAIL. Maly, Mrs. Fitorilliam.—And POWDER AND BALL On SATURDAY NEXT trill to produced a New Gmn , l Romantic Drama, called COLUMBA, TUE 0011SICAN SISTER; or, The Twelfth at August. COVENT GARDEN THEATRE.-A FREE ADMISSION (not trannteraltie) for sale.—Apply, by letter pre paid, to It. S. T., laithiur a s eirtdaig Library, Adam's-terrace, etutden-tarn. - uhr portoo. MAILS. The overland closed malls, ens Marseilles, towill the be made he Metlitenunui, Egypt, Aden, Ceylon, India, Von; Kong, Sec., up on t evening of the _4th Deiamber. The mails for Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Madeira, Cadiz., and Gibral t ar , will be made up on the morning of thc 2dth December. The mails for New South Walen, Van Diemen's land, and New Zealand will be made up on the evening ti the 3lst December. The West India mails, including th for Mexico, and the Ilavannah, will be made up on the morning id the 2nd January, oe,rlawl mails for Gibninar, Malta, eirreoe, the limian Island., Egypt, Aden, Ceylon, India, llong-lione, and China, rid Southampton, will be made op on the evening of the 24 January. The mails for Briti4l North Amerioa, Bermuda, and the United Buttes, will be made up on the eveniag of the 4th January. The mails fd• the Brazils, the River Plate, Monte Video, reniam hue'', Bahia, Ma hire, and Buenos .tyres, will be chspateheil on the evening ul the ith January. TO CORRESPONDENTS. ••• Adaornament. , intended for The Ex yres , , London meningpaper, moot at the Office by Two o'clock on the day of publicatiuu. HIGII WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE. Teo DAY —Morning, 15 min. poet 4 ; Afternoon, 3, min. past 4. To-Maamow—Morning, min. past 5; Afternoon, 27 min. past 5. LONDON, TUESDAY, DEC. 22. Trw first great end proposed by the series of government measures for the regeneration of Ireland is the due employment of the population, and the proportioning of the demand to the supply of labour. All will admit that this is the primal object to be looked to, and to be attained by no violent, coercive, or revolutionary measnro. Now, any one measure would infallibly have much of this character, if we consider the enormous quantity of at present super fluous labour to be dealt with. One of the chief causes of Irish distress is, that the peasant population has been allowed or incited to increase, not in proportion to the demand for, and to the wages of, labour, but to the possibility of the peasant squatting for himself, and extracting a scanty sustenance from a small spot of ground. This has been, in reality, an abdication on the part of the Irish landlord of his proprictorial influence and privi leges. his negligence or his political ambition have given birth to a mongrel class, which is neither that of day labourer nor of land tenant, but which has all the bad qualities of both, without the good qualities of either. As things are, such a peasant is of no use to the landlord. Without capital, or skill, or stock, or aught save his labour, the landlord can only extract rent from such a tenant by grinding him to the lowest grade of subsistence. The peasant feels that he is worth no more, and he submits, until, perhaps, a little more weight is added to the burden, a little more taken from his means, and then he rebels and slays; for lie is on the verge of existence, and rather than be pushed out of it he is ready to turn outlaw. This feudal mode of keep ing serfs was tolerable when food was abundant and produce stagnated in the grange or in the field. However low the peasant was kept in the scale of civilisation, at least lie was fed. Mo dern times, in Ireland, have merely superinduced the privations of actual famine, with more light from knowledge to see and be conscious of them. Were Ireland indeed as advanced as a portion of this great and wealthy empire might be, it would not be found to be over-peopled. Without speaking of the:numbers of its agricultural poptilation,which might be transferred to the manufacturing, a transterrence taking place in the northern and improving counties of Ireland, the rural population itself, which gives seven millions of souls to fourteen millions of amble acres, is not more than such a number of acres might find in profitable employ. That, however, cannot be done at once, permanently. Opinions are very varying as to the amount of real destitution in Ireland. Some witnesses before the '-' committee of last session spoke of two and one millions of paupers ; others estimated the num .., one-third of the above estimate. And both may true. At certain times there may be two-aad-- - millions of paupers in Ireland. There is nearly 1 a million of houses of the worst or fourth class in Ireland, of which the owners certainly require to be -4 in the Kale of earning and of lite. Nor can there iy hope of elevating the mass, unless the upward rnovenunt be felt by all simultaneously. To locate • thousands here on waste lands, and get rid of thousands more in emigration, leaving the great pauper element unmingled and unmodified with -sme richer and better ingredient sufficient to change 'kole tone and colour, would be of no use. But we 4 fairly calculate that the abstraction of 150,000 labourers from the common current of agricultural employ would make a sensible difference. We see at present that the employ of not quite 300,000 labourers on public works has left the farmer without aid in his agricultural business. The permanent abstraction of half this number would probably ye no more than a fair supply. And if by apply to the remainder other measures, such as greater fixity of tenure, compensation for outlay and im provement, with the poor-law screw threatening, in case of neglect, to tighten upon landlord, farmer, awl labourer, then we do think that fair hopes might --.tertained for bringing Ireland into a normal Jut how employ the 150,000 labourers ? By the ope ration of the acts lending money for permanent -lprovements and drainage, and by that for the zlaiming of waste land, which is in contemplation. A surely cannot be impossible to absorb 100,000 male labourers. From the evidence of the manager of the Waste Lands Improvement Saciety, it appears that j,OOO acres may be reclaimed, at the outlay of a pound an acre, furnishing permanent employment for 2,000 people, and bringing a large profit on the outlay in the lapse of a lair lea , e. In the 2,000 people, there should be 500 male labourers. The reclaiming of waste band, therefore, in counties cavourable to it, especially the maritime ones, offers large and profitable field for the permanent occupa and location of a large proportion of surplus labour. The reproductive improvements under 9th and 10th 'Tiet., and the drainage acts, afford a wider source of tporary than of permanent employ. It still, how r, does enlarge the cap anlitics of employ, not only rendering more land productive, but by increasing i 11 find in I done at Opini destituti I : Lords' third m ber at o , 1, be true. half mi half a t Ireland 1 i raised i be any DIOVCM some t I some tl pauper some n its whr may fa l ' i . labour( 1•emplol at pre ' labour: aid it abstrai t leave I ing to i ' fixity proven I ' ' case of I l labour be e state. But ration improl 1 . ' reclain l it sure labour ' I Waste 10,000 pound for 2,0 outlay people reelair I . I favour a larg, I i tion I, labour The 1 1 1 of Viet tempo 1: i : over, II 11 by ret 1 1 1 • • i I • • 1 i • • . • , 4. . • THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY ; EVENING, DECEMBER 22, 1846. the hind, which may and which ought to be available for improvement and for labour. Then there is the alternative of 7emigration, especially in inland counties. In Kildare, for ex ample, Mr. JOHN LATOCCHE, may have some reason for loudly demanding it. In Longford, another central county, where half the popu la tion are this moment employed on the public works, emigration seems almost indispensable. But that it can be mo re profitable than domestic employ on the coast of Clare, where waste lands abound, and fisheries invite, is very doubtful. From fifteen to twenty thousand male labourers annually emigrate from Ireland to the New World. Laws are already in fort* for facilitating their emigration, and the operation of these laws may bo strengthened. The sales of land, either by government, in defaultof interest or instalments being paid up, or by the land lords themselves to get rid of incumbrances, cannot fail also to attract capital to the land. That portion of the estate, disencumbered by the payment of the price of the remaining portion, will have its rent more available for agricultural employ. Whilst that acquired by the new purchaser will draw most pro bably from the savings of trade to outpour them upon the land. The wealth of the town population in Ireland has been greatly augmenting of late years, whilst the influx of the rustic population into towns has not increased, as we sec by the last census. The operations of the Savings Banks show the increase of civic prosperity even in the midst of agricultural dis tress, the traders in produce and the exporters of it finding their gains probably augmented by the crisis. Any measure throwing land, in more tempting and manage able portions into the market, would in Ireland have the same effect, that revolutions have had in France and in Spain, by pouring back that wealth and population which bad government and insecurity concentrated and made to stagnate in towns, and not in manufacturing or industrious towns either, and giving an immense impulse of prosperity, as well as a general desire of order and good govern ment, to those countries. AN interesting pamphlet has been transmitted to us from Nova Scotia--" Letters to Lord John Rus sell, by Mr. Joseph Howe." In 1839, when the question of responsible local government for the British North American colonies had just been raised by . Lord DURHAM'S report, Mr. HOWE published a series of letters to Lord Jolts, advocating the con cession of responsible government to the colonies. The views advocated by Mr. Hovre have to a con siderable extent been acted upon since that time, and in the opening of his present letters he contrasts the seven years previous to 1839 with the seven which have since elapsed, with considerable effect. In the seven years . previous to 1839, the journals of every North American colony presented " their annual bill of indictment" against their local rulers in the form of addresses to the crown, and the imperial authorities, though not always directly charged with the grievances complained ot; were sometimes openly implicated and boldly menaced. During the last 'even years the local executive governments have been left to settle accounts with the colonial assem blies, and the storms have burst on the heads of those who provoked them, while Downing-street has been left in comparative repose. In the course of the seven years which preceded 1839, the mystification in which colonial government had become involved compelled all the North American colonies to send delegations to London—some of them twice or thrice. They were compelled to do this for the settlement of such questions as how much salary a Nova Scotian judge ought to have, or who should sit in the executive council. These matters are now deter mined by the votes of the legislative assemblies, and no delegations have gone to Downing-street since 1839. In the seven years tirevions to 1839, there were two insurrections, costing four millions sterling. " From the moment," says Mr. HOWE, " that the leader of Lord SYDENHAM'S government boldly avowed in his place in the assembly, the re sponsibility which he and his colleagues owed to the legislature, you might (but for questions of foreign policy)have defended North America with a serjeant's guard." From this retrospect of what has already been achieved, Mr. Howe turns to direct attention to what seems to him yet wanting to make the new system work quite smoothly. Since the introduction of the new mode of local administration by Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S despatches in 1839, colonial governors have been practically irresponsible. It is their councillors for the time being, not themselves, who are responsible to the local legislatures. They proclaim themselves and are truly re sponsible to their sovereign alone. But that respon sibility they have never been made to feel, and never expect to feel. Mr. Howe's proposal is : " Leave the representatives of her Majesty free to select their advisers from any of the parties which exist in the countries they govern : but let it be understood that they must not become partisans themselves ; and that when, from personal incapacity, personal quarrels, or want of tact, they are unable to fill up their chief offices, secure the supplies, and conduct the govern ment with efficiency, by the aid of a working majority, their removal will be the inevitable result." Not their removal only for Mr. HOWE, arguing on the analogy of the officer tried by a court-martial for running his ship upon a rock, suggests that "at least an unsuc cessful and incapable governor should incur the penalty of failure and incapacity in all other branches of the public service." He adds, "It should be the care of the imperial authorities to make every colo nial governor feel that his responsibility to his sovereign is a reality, and not a fiction. I can devolve soy responsibility upon no man,'—' my duty to my sovereign compels,' and such like phrases, which governors often repeat with a flippancy that raises an incredulous smile on the face of a colonist, would then be words of fearful import and deep sig nification, pronounced with grave deliberation, and conveying an assurance of good faith, upon which North Americans would surely rely." From this subject a transition is naturally made to the selection of governors. " Men are trained," says Mr. Howe, for the army, the navy, and for the di plomatic service of the state; but we have no normal school for the education of colonial governors. The consequence is, that two or three provinces arc often mismanaged before the neophyte has learned to I l govern well, if indeed he ever learns." Mr. HOWE proceeds to illustrate how the unreasoning obedience required in the army and the navy by the nature of the services renders them bad schools for colonial governors. The drawbacks of the diplomatic service are also indicated. He hints at a very different school in this passage: I am aware that the selection of governors for North Ame rica, at the present time, is no easy task : because men of a different order of mind, and with a higher style of training than pass muster in other portions of the empire, are required by the exigencies of this 'continent. To under stand this, my lord, let us take a governor of l'ilassaehusett., and inquire by what steps he has risen to the elevation he enjoys, and by what process his mind has been ripened for the :ss=of his high functions. Born within the state he is y a citizen, bound to her by filial and patriotic feelings--his early studies, not less than the active pursuits of manhood, make him familiar with her people and their diversified, interests. The strusrales by which he ascends through the hustings to this House of Representatives, and thence to the Senate, presiding, it may be, at times over one branch or the other, give him a training and experience eminently calculated to prepare him for the gubernatorial chair. To provide for the British colonies governor , to work our monarchical system, as these men work theirs, is a con summation most devoutly to be wished for. The second letter of the two now before us may be regarded as an expansion of this hint. The object to be attained is—That, on the one hand, equal allure ments may be held out to our young colonists to cal , tivate all their intellectual faculties to the utmost, as the peculiar institutions of the neighbouring states hold out to their youth; and that, on the other hand, the inhabitants of Britisl North America, by being made to feel themselves as completely identified with the institutions of the empire, as the citizens of the United States are with theirs, may be imbued with an equally devoted patriotism. 'Various suggestions arc thrown out as likely more or less to promote these objects : representatives in parliament for the colo nies; promotion for colonists in the Colonial-office; opening to them a career in the army or navy. Ti'e example of the Highland regiments raiqecl by CIIATTI%M is referred to. " Try some such experiment in North America. Raise two or three regiments—train colonists to command them—let it be understood that in those corps merit only leads to promotion ; and give theni, in name, dress, or banner, something to mark the province whence they came. Try a frigate or two on the same principle; call one of them the Nova Scotia; man her with the hardy fishermen who line our sea-coast, and hoist the Mayflower beneath the Union Jack when she goes into action. From the heads of these regiments, and the quarter-decks of those ships, the fiery spirits of North America would pass, if they were worthy, into the higher grades of both services: they would be to us what West Point is to the youth of republican America,—schools of insdruction and dis cipline ; and then we should be prepared not to envy our neighbours, but to meet them on the frontier or the coast when the meteor flag of England was unfurled." These and such as these are the thoughts which are now fermenting in the minds of our North Ame rican colonists. It is desirable that the English public and its statesmen should be aware of the fact. The moment requires that they should be noted We have thrown loose the cable of protection which tied the colonies to us; we must grapple them to our side by other bonds. The matter is urgent ; the very last letter of our Montreal correspondent shows that the parliamentary warfare in that colony is about to be renewed by the popular leaders. Mr. IlowE, from whom we have quoted, is no republican ; he is the descendant of a loyalist of 1776, and proud of his lineage :—" My father left the old colonies at the Revolution, that he might live and die under the British flag. I wish to live and die under it too ; but I desire to see its ample folds waving above a race worthy of the old banner." FRANCE.--RtILWAYS.—The Journal des Chemins de Fer announces that "the Minister of War strongly ad vised the construction of the railroad between St. Quentin and Manbeuge, as highly advantageous, in a military point of view, and that most probably it would be the object of one of the few railway bills presented to the chambers in the course of next session. Ihe receipts of the Paris and Orleans Railroad during the week ending on the 15th inst. were 173,9331., and from the beginning of the year, 8,880,4741. Those of the Paris and Rouen line, during the same week, were 143,2191., and since the Ist of January, 7,980,9.531. The Tours and Orleans section of the Bordeaux road pro duced, from the 10th to the 16th inst., 62,6061, and since its opening on the 2nd of April, 2,196,697 f. The receipts of the Northern Railroad, between the sth and the 11th inst., ammonisted to 1.97,041 E—via. travellers, 15,959 in number, 94,87 W. ; and Memo gad ;sartimumli/;102,164 1 ." AN EXPENSIVE COPYRIGHT.—Ths Areithiabop Of Paris, M. Affre, has just produced a little book, entitled " An Elementary Catechism an the Doctrines of the Catholic Church." The work, very inconsiderable in appearance, and having nothing remarkable in its composition, has been the subject of most eager rivalry oa the part of the Paris pub lishers, who have exhibited as much anxiety for its possession as if it were a second " Monte Christi'," or a new production promising the sale and popularity of the " Mysteres de Paris." The Archbishop has received for his little book the sum of one hundred thousand francs.—Atlas. BELGIUM.—BRVSSELS, DEC. 19.—Yesterday and this afternoon the Chamber of Representatives was busied with the discussion of the remainder of the budget of the Interior. As usual, the debate took a political turn, the leading opposition members accusing government, and par ticularly Count de Theux, the Minister of the Interior, of being submissively devoted to the Roman Catholic bishops, and of having established numerous convents. The minister, in reply, asserted that he had only sanctioned the foundation of three institutions of the Smuts hozpitalii , na, and that fewer establishments of that kind had been formed since 1830 than during the corresponding period under the Dutch government. The government was also reproached with baying fostered a system of university education which gave a preponderating influence to the clergy. The misery of the Flanders was brought again on the tape, and M. Rogier, in alluding to the assertions made by somehonourable members to the effect that that misery might be traced to the non existence of a customs union with France, condemned such statements upon the ground that they only tended to deceive the inhabitants of the distressed provinces by engaging them to expect a measure which, under present circumstances, was altogether an impossible one. 1,1. de Mulenaere ex pressed the opinion, that " a commercial association with France upon a larger basis than the existing one would be the most efficacious remedy for the sufferings of the Flanders. In the senate yesterday and this afternoon the discussion turned principally on the law relating to province. M. Dumon Dumortier contended, in opposition to M. Vergauwen, that the hand-spinning and weaving trade in the Flanders had no chance el competing with machinery, not withstanding the great sacrifices made by the state (with re feraice to customs revenue and grants a money) to sustain it. The hon. senator urged the government to extend the operations of the Belgian Exportation Society, in order that it might export, not only the linens of the Flanders, but the general produce of the country. After pointing out the in sufficiency of land in the Flanders, compared with the popu lation, and the scarcity of labourers on the other hand, in the Campine, M. Dumortier recommended the immigration of a portion of the Flemish population into the latter district. The suggestion called forth marks of approbation from many members, but it was combatted by the Minister of Finance, chiefly upon the ground that such an immigration would be premature, and that he did not yet despair of the prosperity of the linen trade of the Flanders. He argued that it was not always advisable fir a government to interfere in the affairs of a people, and asserted that although Eneland hail, in a few months, expended more than 160,000,000 of francs in Ireland, it had not remedied the evils of the latter country. lie warned her senators against sanctioning the principle that it ought to be as in England, a regular system of p ux rates. The minister attributed the present decadence of the Flemish linen trade to the loss of the extensive markets which it formerly possessed in Spain and in the Spanish solo ' nies, and to the fact that the only real market it now had was the French one. The various articles of the law were under discussion this afternoon. - - - • ITALY.—A letter from Rome, of the 9th, says: " The Pope has just issued a decree by which the convicts in the prisons of Rome, and who are very numerms, are no longer to be permitted to work fur tradesmen, to the injury of the honest and industrious, who are unable to manufac ture articles at the low rate charged for them by prisoners. Some hesitation is said to have existed on this subject, not withstanding the just claims of the different classes of honest and industrious workmen in Rome, on account of the desire of his Holiness to entourage habits of industry in the prisons, by rendering it the interest of the prisoners to practise them, but the matter has been so judiciously regulated, that con victs for fixed periods will still be able to gain a trifle, which may be laid by as a fund against the temptation to crime on their leaving prison, and the honest labourer will receive the fair reward of his industry. The Pope has in this affair set an example which other governments would do well to follow." The Duke of Lucca has issued two decrees estab lishing a new organisation of the finances of the Duchy, and created a public debt, with a sinking fund, on the model of that of Piedmont. Bonds are to be issued of 500, 400, and 200 seudi. The public debt is fixed at 800,000 scudi. NETIIERLANI)S. AMSTERDAM, DEC. 17. Accounts from Anaheim, Nymepren, and other pl ices state that the Rhine, the Meuse, the Yawl, and the Waal are full old:tiling ice. According to the Zwolle paper, the mouths of the Zuider Zee are nearly blocked up by ice, and all navi gation is nearly at an cod. The arrivals at Hellevoetsluys yesterday were the Commercial Packet, the City of London, and the Rainbow, from London, and the Harmonic and the Afina Halberdina, from Liverpool. The Anuterdantsche Courant of this evening .tabs that a meeting of calico ma nufacturers was recently held in Hengelo, in order to take steps for improving that branch of iouustry. It was resolved to forward a petition to the King, begging his Majesty to intercede with the Handel-Maatachappij (the great com mercial company of Holland) for the adoption of measures tending to prevent a stagnation in the calico trade. A deputation has proceeded to the Hague. The Dutch Society of Literature and Science has just proposed the following prize essays for the commencement of the year 1848:—" A genuine history of the government of Leicester in the Netherlands;" " An account of the historical novel, and an appreciation of its worth ;" An essay on the origin, development, and influence of the civic aristocracy in the province of Holland." All these essays may be written in any one of the following languages: Latin, English, French, or German; in the last the Roman lettere must be employed. The Federal Diet of Frankfort has ornamented the pieces of artillery intended for the fortresses of Ulm and Rastadt with the Eagle of the Austrian empire, as an emblem of the Germanic Confederation. In order to distinguish these from the arms from those of the other states, which have also the double-headed Eagle, the German Eagle has neither the crown, the sceptre, nor the sword, attributes which were added only in the latter days of the German em pire. This measure is enasidered to be a first step towards a common flag for all the states of the Zollverein. A letter from Breslau Mates that the change of costume imposed upon the Jews of Russia and Poland by the emperor of Russia has caused great loss to the silk manufac turers of Silesia, who provided the silk garments for the Isrealites. A single manufacturer of Silesia provided silk for the dresses of the Jews to the amount of 900,000 dollars. RUSSIA.—We learn iron St. Petersburg that the Emperor of Russia has adopted the proposition made by the Asiatic committee, for the free export of linen cloths through the customs on the frontier of Asia. PERSIA.—THECHOLER.A.—TREBIZONDE, NOV. 20. —We have received letters from Teheran of the 28th of Octo ber, from Tahreez of the 4th of November. Nothing of im portance had taken place in Persia, except the continued prevalence of the cho.era, which had extended to the other provinces. whore it had not appeared last spring or summer. Mohamed Schah's health had much improved ; during the whole time of the prevalence of the cholera he had resided in the mountains. This monarch, en weak in mind and body, is less afflicted with the gout than he was. lie is oc casionally to be Been riding dressed in tatters, in the environs of Teheran, attended by a numerous guard of cavalry. The heir to the throne, whom the cholera has just carried off, was, like his father, of a frail constitution and weak intel lects. Persia has to felicitate herself at the death of this young prince, who would have been still less capable of governing than his father. He had become the humbled servant of Russia—the mere mention of the name of the " (tar-blanc" made him tremble. When in 1837 'he Emperor Nicholas visited his provinces on the other side of the Cantasus, the Schah sent his eldest son to Erivan to compliment him. The diminutive size of the Persian Prince was a remarkable contrast to the colossal figure of the Rite sian lionseror. Eye-witnesses of this ins rvicw hale told me that it was with difficulty that the Emperor could refrain From laughing when he saw before him a wink child dreeed in a grotesque manner with an immense pointed cap, in the shape of a sugar-loaf, on his head, and bowing with timidity when he approached the Bowater. The Cur, however, contained himself, took the young pripeli o hip, ca ressed him, and put a ring or great Tattle on his tiger. It is said that the heir to the throne never rgot the impression produced on him by this iIItOZVIOW. e cholera Wall stiU at Tabrees at the departure of the last Tartar courier, but it had not committed such great ravages there as at Teheran and Ispshan last summer. Tabrees stands on a height, and it is expected that the severe cold, which set in in October, will soon put a stop to the disease. The European consuls bad left the town and retired so Herbi, at the foot of Mount Sahant. Behmen Mirza, governor of Tabreez, and brother of the Schuh, had retired to Halat Buschan. It appears that the cholera had ceased to commit its ravages at Ispa ban, but that it still raged at Schnee and Kiernan. This plague has not advanced in the direction of the Caucasus; Tiflis and Erivan are still free from it, and the rigours of the season will prevent its passing the Caucasus. But Europe is threatened with this terrible plague in another direction. After having carried off numbers of the inhabitants of Bus sora and Bagdad, it has got to Diarbekir. There is a constant commercial Intercourse between this town and Aleppo, and it is much to be feared that it may spread into Syria. ANIERICA.—A SLAVE CASE.—A curious slave cane took place lately in New York. Information was re ceived at the office of the National Anti-Slavery Standard, on the 19th of October that a brig, culled the Mobile, from Savannah. and commanded by a Capt. Buckley, had on board a coloured man, who was supposed to be a slave ; that he was not allowed to leave the vessel, that the mate had been seen to beat him, and that his cries had attracted the attention of several persons in the neighbourhood, to some of whom the man had declared himself to be a slave. On 1 the r^ception of this intelligence, Elias Smith, who is an officer connected with the Anu-Slavery eflice, immediately procured a writ et habeas corpus, and with an officer pro ceeded to the Mobile. After a good deal of altercation the poor fellow was brought from the ship and taken on shore He bore upon his face and person evident marks of the ill treatment to which he had been subjected, and of the stout resistance he had made before the officers of the Mobile had succeeded in confining him in the irons which were found upon him. According to the statement of Captain Buckley, this per son, George Kirk, concealed himself on board the brig Mobile, at Savannah, and was not discovered for several days atfer she sailed front that port for New York. She was then too far upon her voyage to return. lie acknowledged him self to be the slave of Mr. Chapman, of Bryan, Galveston, who had hired him to a Mr. Warren, a stable-keeper in Savannah, in whose service he was when he concealed him ' self on board the Mobile, in the hope of reaching New York, and gaining his freedom. It was the purpose of Cap ella Buckley to confine and conceal him till the brig returned, or ism other opportunity offered by which he could return him to Savannah. This outrageous and inhuman purpose would, no doubt, have been successful, but for the vigilance of Mr. Lewis and the promptness end energy of Mr. Smith. The ease came before the court of oyer and terminer, and the fact having become publicly known, the court-room and the passages leading to it, were crowded with people of all complexions and classes, and of both sexes. The City-ball was surrounded by hundreds of people, chiefly coloured, who awaited in deep anxiety through the whole day, the decision of the court. On the following day a decision was given by the presiding judge, Judge Edmonds, and George was discharged from the custody of the captain of the Mobile. George was brought into court to hear the de cision, and hardly left the court-room when officers arrived with a new process, to take him before the mayor, under an infamous law of New-York, by which a right is given to the captain to seize and return any fugitive who may be found on board his vessel, on an order of the mayor or recorder. George was out of the building but a moment before the officers were in pursuit of him, and was taken, amid the shouts of an excited multitude, to a place of concealment. He was subsequently found out, and brought again to prison ; mid this was done merely for the sake of a reward of fifty dollars, offered by the captain of the Mobile, instigated by which, and authorized by the chief of police, the whole po: iee force of the city became slave-hunters. Under a new writ of habeas corpus, the case again came before Judge Edmonds this morning, but what the result may be it is im passible to tell. ARRIVAL OF TIIE ANTELOPE, SCREW STEAMER. —LivEttroot, DEC. 21.—The splendid vessel, the Antelope, screw steamer, Captain O'Brien, arrived in the Mersey this afternoon alter a passage of 31 days from Pernambuco. She left Rio on the 2nd, Bahia on the 13th, and Pernambuco on the 19th of Nov. She brings dates from Rio of the 4th Nov., the papers having been forwarded after her to Pernambuco ; but as the packet from the River Plato bed not arrived she brings no news of the remotest interest. The exchanges continued stationary, viz., 28 to 281. Freights unaltered. The Swordfish, which left Liverpool on the 30th of October, arrived at Pernambuco in 27 days, and answers to letters sent out by her have been received by the Antelope. COLONIAL. MAURITIUS. —•-- • —• The Mauritius papers of the 29th of September advise the receipt of a despatch from the Secretary of State, suggesting new arrangements for the supply of coolie labour to the isllnd. In obedience to instructions, Sir W. Gomm had laid a minute before the legislative council, calling upon them to take into consideration the propriety of imposing a d rect tax on the employers of coolie labour, and the esta blishment of an indefinite period of service instead of the rr..sent meet^ of annual engagements The Cerneen pub lishes the following observations on the subject ; We do not think that the Government will be justified, in the •tate of embarrassment in which the country is, in retaining the duties already existing for the purpose of meeting the expenses of immigra tion, and levying the direct tax proposed, unless it applies the surplus receipts over the attendant expenses to a more considerable intnaluc don of la's:purer& Applied to any other purpose, it would only be a fiscal exaction as arbitrary as inopportune. For the rest, we will never omit to repeat that, if the tipsters of engagement is changed, even if the number of Immigrants is increased, we shall have neither order nor regularity in labour, as long as the government is unable to cause its laws and regulations to be executed by means of an effectual and sufficient police. NEW SOUTH WALES. _ _ There are papers and letters from Sydney to the 19th of August. The meeting of council had been postponed to the Bth of September. An impression appeared to prevail that an attempt would be made to defer the settlement of the Crown Lands question till next year. The feeling that justice to Port Philip required its separation from New South Wales appeared to be gaining around at Sydney. Accounts had been reeeivtd at Sydnt y of an outbreak of the prisoners at Norfolk Island having taken place, and that before it was suppressed chief-constable Smith and three other constables were killed. About 1,100 of the prisoners had in consequence been placed on the chain, and secured in the various buildings. Another revolt was threatened when the account left. Valedictory addresses to Sir G. Gipps, from teetotal so cieties, the Mechanics' School of Arts, from certain of the citizens of Sydney, and settlers in one or two country dis tricts, have been moved, adopted, and presented on the occa sion. A subscription fur a testimonial to his excellency (which at the time we write amounts to 1,01014 has been got up by the Very Rev. the Vicar-General. Many highly respectable persons joined the clergy in their demonstration. On the otter hand, the opposition It( pt up their fire. A j ent d'esprit was handed about proposing to erect a column to commemorate the close of the official careers of Lord Stanley and Sir George, with the following inscripti-n :--'• This column is erected by the colonists of New South Wales to commemorate the retirement, or rather the dismissal, of the Right Honourable Edward Geoffrey Lord Stanley from office as Secretary of State for the Colonies; and also the rccal of Sir George Gipps, Knight, from the government of this colony individuals by whose nets every interest in New South Wales has been sacrificed, and whose exercise of arbi trary powcrhas done more to alienate the affections of a loyal people front monarchical institutions than many years of good government can redeem." WEST INDIES. - The accounts generally from the West India Islands are favourable as to the crops. JAMAICA.—PROBABLE PRICE OF SUGAR. We have already more than once directed attention to this inte resting subject ; and so far as experience has as yet gone, our prognostications have been found to be pretty nearly correct. During the ensuing season, it is not likely that sugar will fall lower than an average—say . of 30s. per cwt. in bond; and had the past fruit season in the mother coun try been more favourable, it is not improbable that the price might have ruled even a shilling higher. Lower, dur ing the period of the is. ditfertntial duty, it is certainly not likely to go, as that would be to suppose that the present price in the continen-al markets would fall, which under the present circumstances is almost impossible. Thus, calculating the prices on the continent for brown at 225., and yellow 25a, they will not be sold in Ragland under 435. and. 46.., and our planters obviously need not sell similar qualities under these rates, which leaves them 295. and 325., liable, of course, to the various expenses of transit. The following, with which we have been recently favoured, puts the matter in a very clear light; and may be relied on, as the opinion of a party capable, from his position, of arriving at a just conclusion :—" Taking 50s. 6d. as the average price of sugar it. the British market since the reduction of the duties on British plantation sugar to 14.., it follows from reference to actual sales, that 29.. ld. per cw t. has been the price lately received by the producer on the average. Of this price 9s. ld. has been the result of protection. which take away, and (tither things remaining the same) 19s lOd. will be the future price of sugar ; thit is, the grower w , ll receive nearly 10-22ds, say two thirds of the present price only. Hence, to preserve the present ratio of profit (or los.) the cost of production must he reduced 33 per cent or one third 1 , 1 , w, in the year 1848, when the crop which we are now about to plant will come to market, there will be afte July 5 a protection of 4s. 6d., which will go to augment the price of slave-grown niter just admitted to competition with ours. For the last year foreign slave-grown sugar—say Porto Rico, similar in quality with ours, brought, on the average, 145., but fur several years previous only 12a. could be ob tained for it, and at that riots it was found the the commo dity could be profitably grown by slaves, and new lands were continually brought under cultivation. Assuming, how ever, the price .o he 1a.., and addieg the differenticl duty o' 4s. Gd., it results that fork ign sitar will rule at 18s. 6.1. for our quality in the British market, or come into coxpetition with ours at :.bout the mice Blitidt plantation has been valued at for the year commencing July 5 1818. If from any cause foreign sugar advanc , •s lr - yond the e•timated price, the price of British plantation will also be augmented in like sum : tnel so, on the other hand, if the price of foreign sugar recede to what it was in 1645, and pr.-cloudy, the price of I British plantation will he lower than 18e. 641., or less than two-thirds of the present price will be realised to the grower." —Jamaica Times. TILINIDAD.—TriaGOVERNOR.—Lord Harris pro ceell, d ran Wedneaday, the 4th ult , to Turn (the N.E. extre mity of the World) by Arintn, and returned on the 11th by Abe(lf - - WINDSOR, MONDAY.---11.1111. Prince Albert en joyed the sport of shooting this morning. Lord and Lady J. Russell, and the Hon. Miss Lister, arrived at the Castle on a visit to the Queen. Viscount Palmerston left the Castle to-dty. H.R.H. the Duchess of Ctmbridge visited H.R.H. the Duchess of Gloucester yesterday. The Committee on Education of the Lords of her Majtsty's most hon. Privy Council had a meeting yesterday at the Couneil•office. The Lords present were, the Marquis of Lansdowne Lord J. Russell, the Earl of Minto, Sir G. Grey, the Earl of Clarendon, th . . Chancellor of the Exche quer, and the Right lion. 'f B. Macaulay. Mr. D. Honing and Mr. 11. Chard had an inter view with the Earl of Clarendon yesterday, at the Board of Trade. The Earl of Devon had an interview with Sir G. Grey yesterday at the Home-office. Mr. Mosqucra, Minister of New Granada, transacted business yesterday at the Foreign-office. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial °flies from the Governors of New South %Vales, the Mauri tius' and Cape Coast Castle ; and alto from the Governors of the West Indio Colonies. Mr. G. F. Young. and Mr. Dunbar had an interview ve.terday with the Earl of Clarend n, at the office of the Board of Trade. THE DEATH OF SIR G. 11. BARLOW, BART., G.C.8., took place, after a lengthenti :hoes•, at his seat near Farnham, Hants, en Friday last, at the advanced age of 82 years. He enterid at an earl)• age into the civil ser vice of the East India Company, and in October, 1805, on the death of the Marquis Cornwallis, strceedcd as Governor- General of India. After retaining that appointment till May, 1807, he was they a lected to till the office of Governor of Madras. In 1803, previous to b coming Governor- General of India, he was created a barunet, and eventually .or his great public services, the honour t r civil Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath was conferral: on him. He mar ried, iu April, 1789, Elizabeth, daughter of Mr. Burton .. hcla Th h e e late hd baronet f r a O n t v d from that lady • -" txrhf Barlow, by Bart. divorced of ily of dhalely opening up this o gaymfounr among the bridle p -road. The deceased baronet is succeeded by his third - I, O 'Z, 71. 4„. 1816 . acs. His ohjcct was to f a r e rti rt ic a d in ep t a h rt e department , coa l tystructnininge& tSneemownitheshirilroenberiti;tWbi ,r on the 17th of November. The prizes were :-1. e venera rone $ emise a Civil Grand Croy claws, his lordship had offered four mews: to be contended l s h eerly sixt h y le ye h er a s in t lnd d ia, and wassreatly eseeee e carriage -road p e re rdu n ca t a t i ron l book and 40 dollars for the boy or girl showing the best Order of the Bath becomes at the disposal of thi knowledge of scripture history, geography, arid chronology; vetument. " t 2 he A h tio 6t o o k ri" and of 3o E dlla a rn dollars fur the greatest ad vancement iu arithmetic ; 4. A book and 10 dollars for the b est s p ecimen of writing. No child nostldforgeneral history, geogr a p h y , and and Trinidad ; 3 . A b ook and 20 above the age of 16 was to be allowed to contend ; attendance on an island school was not obligatory ; but none who are receiving or has e received an education superior to that hieh can be afforded by the lower classes of society will be allowed to contend. THE LEGISLATI/RE.—Three important faded, occupied the attention of the Council of Government at their latest electing on the 2nd of Nov. ;-1. A letter from the It. C. Bebop Smith was laid before the board. The law in force in the island recognises no successors in office to the bishop, vicar apostolic; the consequence is, that the present incum sat cannot establish a title to lands vested by donation in his predecessor for charitable sand pious purposes. Again the law attributes no right of property to the Catholic cures in the vestments and plate used in celebrating divine service in their churches. With regard to the plate and vestments, a prisoner, tried some time ago, got off, though proved to have stolen articles from a Roman Catholic church, because it could not be proved to whom the property belonged. A com mittee was appointed to report on Dr. Smith'' , application. 2. Public Offices.—At present Mr. Lacoste holds the offioes of master of the supreme court, registrar of deeds, and taxador, at a salary of 8001., with 2001. for clerks in the Registry-office, 1501. for a clerk in the Master's-office, and 601. fur stationery—in all 1,2101. Capt. Chapter, the government engineer, receives 36. W. Mr. Bridgens, super intendent of public works, 3001., and 201. for stationery. The expenditure of the Commissary of Population's Office is— Mr. Sorzano, commissary r f population, 250 1 . ; Mr. M. &w -ean°, assistant, 1 501 .: and for stationery for the office, 20/. —in all for this office, 4201. The total charge for the several offices being . 2,31.51. sterling per annum. The interests of the colony require that the offices should Le differently organised, and that the strength of some of them should be in creased. The report of a committee on this matter was presented, which recommends:—That the office of master under the supreme court and taxador be separated from that of registrar, and that the salary and office expenses of the master and taxador be fixed at 9601. per annum. That an officer to be called registrar-general, be appointed, to register and have the custody of deeds, register births, deaths, and main iges, and take charge of censuses and the collection of island statistics ; his salary and office expenses 7301. per annum. That a " board of works "be instituted, consisting of a colonial engineer, colonial surveyor, and assistant sur veyor and clerk ; salaries and office expenses 1,410/. per annum. That the preseut offices not included in this arrange ment be abolished. The attorney-general is to move the adoptian of the report at the next general meeting of the council. 3. The attorney-general moved that the bounties on inter-colonial immigration do cease and determine on the sth of May next. Mr. Burnley moved as an amendment, after the word " That" to strike out all that follows, and insert " That the members of the legislative council unfeignedly thank his excellency the governor for the communication con tained in his message graciously addressed to them at their hest meeting. They are at all times disposed respectfully to attend to any directions emanating from her Majesty's Secretary of State for the Colonies, and whenever they are made acquainted with the r, scone and motives which have induced the Secretary of State to disapprove of the policy of inter-colonial immigration, which was duly and deliberately considered by his predecessors in office, before it met their decided sanction and approval, and which throughout a period of seven years has been found to work advantageously es well fur the interests of the labourers introduced as for the inhabitants of this colony, they will immediately take the same into their serious consideration, with the view of meet ing, if practicable, the Secretary of State's wishes."—On taking the vote, Mr. Burnley's amendment was lost by 6 votes to 4. A technical objection was taken by the chief justice to the motion of the attorney-general, who with drew it in consequence.—The governor then communicated a despatch from the colonial minister, intimating the inten tion of ministers to facilitate the immigration of free labourers from Africa. lMsetGlt tTlON.—Within the short space of a week there had been two arrivals of emigrants from 'Madeira, 160 by the Peru and 216 by the Dalhousie. They were of all ages, equally proportioned as to sex ; and all followers of Dr. Kelley. GUIANA.—THE LEGISLATUME. — Art ordinance was passed by the Court of Policy on the 13th of November, "for regulating the rights, duties, and relations of servants and employers in British Guiana." It is of course subject to the approval of the home government. Its most important clause is thus described by the Royal Gazette: "Our readers are aware that permission was some time ago grsnted in general terms by the home government, for the introduction of labourers into the colony from all hearts of the world, except Africa ant Asia, under contracts to serve with the imparters for three years. The present ordinance gives effect to that permitision. The 12th sec tion declares that contracts, provided they be reduced into writing, and signed by the intending emigrant. in the presence of a notary public or British consul,—whose signature to the contracts is also required,—may be made out of the HEIR! of the colony, for terms of service to ante for threeyears from the date of landing in the colony, with any inhabitants of the continent or islands of Europe, the con tinent or islands of America, the Anwes. Muleira, the Canaries, and the tape de Verd Islands ; or MICII contracts with such parties sad r such terms may he made on their Loading in the colony, by writing, before a special justice of the peace. The signature or seal of the notary pablie or consul proves itself here in all courts; but the wilful tendering in evidenee of a false contract is felony. ftew ever, there are restrictions to these contracts. An immigrant so introduced can, if be please, on giving one month's notice and paying the expenses incurred in conveying him to the colony, caned any such written contract at any time after six months' service. The immigrant also on his arrival can have the option of claiming the current rate of wages in the colony, instead of any rate for which he may have stipu lated in his contract. reasons IRCeleillg away servants are matte liable for each offence to a tine of 45 dollars, together with discre tionary damages at the pleasure of the court. By another clause all hirings entered into with newly arrived immigrants are presumed to be for six months. TRIALS FOR SEDITION.--The Guiana Royal Gazette states : The Supreme Criminal Court for the two counties of Demerara and Essequibo, will be held on Monday next riXov. 23.] The calendar is rather heavy. Some intereq will attach to the session in consequence of indictments, at the instance of the crown, having been sorrel on time parties —the liev. E. A. Wallbridge, a clergyman belonging to the London Missionary Society ; Mr. J. Alters ; and Mr. J. Emery; for the writing and publication of seditious libels, in some recent num bers of a local print veiled Emery's Journal. WINDWARD ISLANDS.—BIRBADOES LECIS LATUILE.--The House of Assembly met on the 'l3rd of No vember, pursuant to adjournment. Messrs. Gooding anal Blades took their seats fur St. Philip.—Mr. Preseod brought to the notice of the house the death of a woman named Nancy Ann King, and the circumstances attending her death, as detailed by witnesses, who appeared before the coroner's inquest, and moved that a respectful address be prepared and forwarded to his excellency, requesting him to lay before the house a copy of the inquisition. It was agreed to.—The greater part of the rest of the sitting was taken up with a spirited discrisaion on the legality of the last election. Messrs. Prescod and loniss argued that his excellency the governor had acted illegally is Issuing the writs at the time he did ; and the former concluded by moving that the house resolve itself into a committee for considering the matter. — The Attorney and Solicitor General and Mr. Grant con tended that his excellency acted quite consistently with the I law ; their opinion prevailed, and Mr. Prescod'a motion was lost.—The house adjourned to Tuesday the Ist of December. FALKLAND ISLANI)S.—By the Trafalgar transport, arrived at Spithesul, there is intelligence from these islands to the 19th of September. Its report of the state of Faiths there is discouraging. There were about 100 inhabitants on the island. Most of the emigrants were employed by government in making roads, at Of. to Gs per day. The sheep had nearly all perished. No vegetables were reared on the settlement. General discontent pervaded the settlement, and had turned itself against the governor. HONDURAS.—We have elsewhere reprinted from the Daily Noes a statement and comments on a late criminal investigation at Honduras. Was it a matter of accident that we ourselves received no Honduras fife by the last mail ? The daily journals give but a very cursory glance over colonial pipers but such a serious investigation was sure not to have escaped our more painstaking eyes. We have but to express our satisfaction that the attention of our able contemporary happened to fall on the Honduras Obserrer. —Colonial Gazette. [Our account of the proceedings at Honduras, as will appear from consulting the file, was partly taken from the Honduras Oiserrer, but was also in part a private communication- We give " but a cursory glance " over colonial papers.) ELECTION OF COMMON COUNCILMIN.„ WAYDSIUTES. Yesterday, being St. 'llomas's-day, the wards in the city proceeded to the elevion of Co nu e , Councilmen for the ensuing year. The corn-law e uer . which formed the principal subject of eisc uss i on at meetings lent yeer, was - replaced oe the present occaeo e the more locally interesting dispute between the Coe r C e Aldermen and the members of the Common Ceuneil, on su b ject of the Freemen's Qualification Bill. l e every wardmote the members of the lower court took opportunity to lectere the priesiding aldermen for th e i r willingness to support the bill, and at one o r t wo mot , the aldermen objected to put resolutions on the e e° placed in their hands for that purpose. ite ALDEMOATE WARD.—A rent deal of in', rest was e. tached to the proceedings in this ward, Sir Peter Le er : the Alderman of the ward, being the only soother of II; Court of Aldermen who supported the Court of Com e , Council an Po) attempt to curry the Cunneen Coul e e Eiigibility Bill. Sir P. LAU Itl E having ascertained that no new candid. * was to be proposed, rose and addreesed the eonstitua rat In the peculiar position of the two brunch , eof the tone r e' tion, and the part he had felt himself constrained to take in the recent discussion, be was desirous fully to explai n h i views, cliff rent as they were from those avowed by the majority of his brethren. (Cheers.) It was now 20 p at since he had been sent to the Court of Aleeruaea by e t , suffrages of those around him, and the two obj ect , he was, from the commencement, most anxiou s e effect were to open the Court of Aldermen to the public, see to secure to the Court of Common Ceuneil, es the annoys, elected representatives of the Freemen of Leaden, the Mee. nistration of the city funds. (Hear hear.) The first hid, after a struggle of nearly el: years, been obtained, and t h e accomplishment of the second, he re juiced to think was ree very di-earit. As to the subject of the present d ispute, he would only ray that the course pursued he the Court , Common Council had his most cordial approbeijoe, sad should have his moe: cordial support ; while the me an , was rendered necessary by the change of times, it wee see culuted to be further benefetial to the constitienees, breads it gave them a Luger field of candidates from width t o m e et their representatives, and even now it did not leave their choice so free as it was with regard to the election of eld er . men. It bad been stated in the Court of Aldermen that* matter had originated as a mere election clap -trap. Th e could not have been the case, because the collision wet the act of the aldermen, who had never offered the s e e k er opposition until the t hird reading was moved, and therittey started an objection, which though ester:Ably made to cast bill actually sprung out of their dread of the bill wl.icbeu to follow. and which was to resit the coetrol over them} funds in the Court of Common Council, ju-t as the coned over the public purse was vested in the Hooe of Comma% (Hear, hear ) The last was the great measure which tee constituencies should call upon their representatives to earl through without delay. (Cheers.) It was a simple melte tutionel point that the money of the citizens thould be pendcd according to the votes of the rtpreseatatives of tee citizens, and although he could not charge his laceher alike men with dishonourable, he ce:trinly coat and did thew them with lavish and improper expenditure of that imam Was it not lavish expenditure in them to pewee te e ' decayed members of their own court? (liese Into that court a man should not go without being mi m e of property which would secure him against ewe a emit. gene}. (Cheers.) The Common Council never pensemee never thought of pensioning, say of their body, and shy should the aldermen have such a privilege ? It was tree that the offices of alderman and sheriff were eremite ofiee, but there was no compulsion upon any one to fill theme le had not the nee:leery means. A lavish liherality in the i.e. tributien of other people's money - might Inc ime an iodates motet to persons to seek such appointments as pecuniuy a te creations, awl recent events showed the Inglefel ono quences of experiments, in which tee property, or the se. posed property, of others was itivolved. (Hear.) He sa sure that whenever a proper case was made out, dm Cow mon Council would exercise a „coneiderste and judiese liberality, and, if they did not exercise due dear* they could be celled to account. But who could call th aldermen to account ? (Hear.) Ile could wit illustretetbe. position better than by stating a re rout recommendation of the city aldermen with regard to the canines-loner of 02 police. It appeared that that officer had thought it not is proper to employ two of the force as his servants, they beg; all the time in the force, and paid out of the rates as pis. men. Alderman Copeland brought the subject before de aldermen, and what was the result ? Why the committee declared the charges proved, that it was a most imprepe practice and must never happen again ; and concluded be recommending that the commissioner's salary should le what ? Diminished ? No. Increased from SOO/. toe:lei. a y car. (Laughter and cries of " Hear.") Now was sot that a monstrous abuse ? And was a body of gentle= who, as individuals, were of course beyond all nree cion, but who could so trifle with the interests of the free. men, fit to be entrusted with the city's purse? The alder= had tried that on before, but they were defe ited by the lade pendence of the representatives ; end still they claimed to disburse the funds for the same :dread sad rui.chievoul pur pose. (Hear.) He believed, at least he hoped, that the aldermen would, before it was too late, see the grave met they were committing in placing themselves in opposition to the freemen of London. Ile was anxious for peace, not for triumph ; but, if a contest was inevitable, he should,at what ever personal pain, range himself with his tellow-chisels, to support of their common rigors and privileges. (Cheers.) After some discussion on the subject of the oldermaei speech, Mr. BE %SEEN said that every year the court of aldermen was deteriorating, and if they went on at the present ret, be expected that they would, in a railway spirit of peculation, determine to divide the balance in the hands of the climb* lain amongst themselves. (Laughter.) After having pas corded at some length to observe upon the conduct of as branch of the corporation, which he contended eouldnotbe corrected without application to parliament, he mend the following resolutions : Tnat this wardmote do mod cordially ‘uptmrt the Common Canto in their attempt to reqtrain the wan-potion of the Court of alders. them an unlimited control over the Pity find'; but that altertit opinion of the lea, ned recorder, that the repreteniative put of tit corporation had no power to hollow eta:it red, aint, it teas, the imperative duty of the citizens at brae t i call to the interference of the Imperial Parliament, and to Fof that such alteration, may be rode in our municipal r vernment, as shall bring it more inunediaelv ;obi 1111 governed, and prevent the immense ree,nuea of the Pity el WIN from being perverted to private ptitpow, instead of the nobles patriotic uses for whiAt they were originally inteni'ed. That w earnestly recommend the Court of Common Canted to throw thew Pelves at once upon their eotartituebtx, to call a public meeting we state their caw, and that petitions to Parliament be presentedfin each ward praying for the abolition of a life-appointed magitarali and for the introduction into the corporation of ettleient retire/og. deer. (Hear, hear.) Mr. BEAscxv, in the course of his observations, said& Court of Common Council was not altogether free fromth blame of having violated the trust reposed in them, and* cased Mr. Godson, one of the representatives of the Wol, of hat big given a presentation to Christ's Hospital to de child of a non-freeman who had nothing to do with de ward. Mr. GODSON, in answer to the charge, stated that be hie never been asked for his presentation by any individuals the ward. He certainly had been solicited strongly to Of it to the child of a gentleman of independent property, a more than one instance, but he rejected the solicitations, and bestowed it where he knew well it was wanted, and am I great source of relief and comfort. He then defended the Court of Aldermen from the charge of haying lavishly or improperly expended the City money, and asserted that the Court of Common Council expended two or three times * much in dinners as had been distributed in charity and bene- volence by the other body. All the old members were then unanimously returned, and the proceedings terminated, amidst cheers. with the tole lowing motion : That the special thanks of the w-rdmotc be tendered to Alderman Sir Peter Laurie, for the support be gave the Common Council in the late struggle. , ALDOATE.—Mr. Alderman Humphrey presided at th is wardmote, which was held in the ward schoolroom... U Deputy Lake, Mr. Fisher, Mr. Massey, Mr. Whiteside, Mr. Salter, Mr. Tertian, Mr. Clifton, and Mr. Freeman, "rxr. re-elected without opposition. BASSISHAW.—This wurdmote was held in the vesture"' of St. Michaels, Basinghall-street, Mr. Alderman laniteed in the chair. Mr. Bretton, Mr. Lister, Mr. Wilson, erel, Mr. James, were the former represen tatives of this v ex . and they were all proposed for re-election. A fifth candidate Appeared in the person of a Mr. Clarke, for wh om a p oll" demanded. BILLINGSDATE,—Mr. Aldermnn Sidney p it ' s wardmote, which was held in Fellowship-half, :f• at the Hill. Mr. Deputy Curling, Mr. Bower, Mr. Roberts, Mr. Williams, Mr. Phillip., and Br. Old, teed proposed for re-election. Mr. Johnson retired. There v!e ,, e four new candidates, vie. Mr. Barnes, Mr. Cast n, Mr• Ch °, and Mr. Piper, making eleven candidates in all. Apa demanded in the usual form. ward. BRIDGE.—AId. Sir C. Marshall presided at this mote. Mr. Deputy Pewtress, Mr. Nntt, Mr. Hill, if .. • Cope, Mr. Low, Mr. Chadwick, Mr. Witham, and "' Mathews were re-elected. resided at ttdi BROAD-STREET.—Mr. Ald. Musgrove pus-- wardmote. After the proceedings were opened, a 104 °_!," St. Mary-st• cussion took place on the prevailing difference, in the CO corporation, and resolutions were passed urging the 2 1 1' sizableness of a speedy settlement of the ma tters a issue ben Mr. R. tween the two courts —Mr. Depute Cor ne y , .W. Jupp, Mr. H. F. Gadsden, Mr. J. White, Mr. C. Wertg!'. Mt. H. Marriott, Mr. T. W. Foster, and Mr. S. Baker forre weet. the former candidates, and all of theta w ere proposed . election. On the name of Mr. White being called, Mr. Alt hams charged that gentleman with an improper diergaiti presentation to Christ's Hospital, which comeinto hi. ban virtue of his office, and which ought to have been beet° on the child of some inhabitant td the ward.—A. long' angry discussion ensued on this point ; ultim tidy a resrer, lion, declaring Mr. White's answer to the charge l Cunrest° and unsatisfactory, was unanimously passed.—Mr aster was proposed as a new candidate, and the show of hand being • against Mr. White, a poll was demanded on hie . be e no' ti , CANDLEWICK. — (TAE LORD 1111ATOK'S WALD). 1 ward, which returns six members, all the old member.= returned — viz.: J. Evans (deputy), C. Bond, T. t.'" J. Blades, J. B. Towse, T. R. /temp. 'did te e ' CASTLE BAYNARD.—MT, Wll5Oll Fr" Mr. Deputy Hicks, Mr. Hoppe, Mr. Coftingwood, •:s•i Bailey Mr. Rownson, Mr. Ferrer. Mr. Muggeridg e, Mr. Arllard were re-elected without opposition. Cni:.tr.—Mr. Ald. Thompson in the chair. Mr. 'fir , ,o -.... caw last 5 , en suing jun. (II w arden was pr man I" SeVella g. SM Mr. F. Mr. 11 , 23. A pointer Mr. I Alders N''' f poll furt.