The Express. — London, England, 1847-11-09 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVEvING, NOVEMBER 9, 1847. CANARY ISLANDS.—The political chief of the Canary Islands has ordered that all articles coming from the island called Great Canary, shall be aebjected to a quarantine of live days, in consequence el an epidemic climate having broken out. Measures has. also been taken at Cadiz to prevent the disease from entering Spain, and a medical corn- ISIUSSOIS has been sent to examine into ft. Earnest hopes are expressed that it may not turn eat to be the yellow fever. COLONIAL. WEST INDIES.—TRINIDAD. The Port of Spain Gazette of Oct. 1, contains a petition to parliament • from the inhabitants of this island. It is • temperate, ratio- cinative, and able document. The prayer of the petition is al follows : 1, That Means for the suppreerion of the slave-trade now exidleg bitemin huts Meimers goveinnsent and other countries be mine satinest, mad that tome new and rigorous commure he the delesdee sad n on of sea Mem as have u idmiselipluiredneedforeign filientrim —2. That es m indimeMidike mans of reducing the met of production, your eselthern elate be allowed esembieted moms to the omit of Atm end to all ether Owes whence they may obta treeb silkier to their hes Manilas population.-- 3. 'That you in r pettelemes (daimon Belli* egkiesle s he bare the West India Wwies emeldered and treated se Miedmil plea Mahe Britt b empire, and, therelhee,ewAtled thew dude predate introduced rota the market& of nand semispla the same Nene as the agricul- tural produce el ter ewe eseatises w time q remene to be rativi from roger *meld be laded emiladeely upon Wet produced by dare labour, which yam poldiewe essesea, ea the seam of jasike and morality, ought sat It= lathe esegeMilagery as that mode by wee labour. 4. TIM seven es seem be permitted to be used lathe hreweetes sad Melleries of the United Kingdom. 5. That the dm* behoves rum and British spirits should be °Wild* In a previous number of the Gazette it is stated : Copies of this Weldon have been forwarded to all the other colonies, end their lebehimats invited to m.ke a simultaneous effort sou to maks ma stimdminis cell for relief before the imperial legislature. We trend Yfs mersweet will he fully carried out, and that the new Howe of Ommem, at as early day, wig find tbeenowlves obliged to decide on the Important question--Are our sugar colooles to be raved or deadened ! GUIANA.—It will be seen from the following ex tract from the Royal Gazette that in this colony the project of a congress; from all the islands at St. Thomas has met with a favourable reception British GuLaw at List has, like the surrounding colonies, taken the alarm. The sugar bill is to be denounced ; parliament to be ap proached with remonstrances; and the convention of delegate. at rat. Thomas to be sanctioned and supported. This is as it should be. On Friday, the 24th nit , • preliminary meeting of the most influen tial gentlemen in the colony won held in thin city, at wnich it was re solved to call together—that rare event in the quiet tenor of our ex istence -a general meeting of the inhabitants, for the jin.c of pre paring a petition to the British parliament sett', g forth our griev ances and praying for retires.. la common with the other colo nies, we bare remised an invitation from the Comber of Commerce In Jamaica to send two delegates to meet the delegates selected by the different British possessions in the Vint Indies at the foreign island of Bt. Thomas, sad that as early as possible. Right heartily will this 'when,ou be re- Fpantled to; and recreant would be the colony that should bark in this emergency, and mar the union of the Moat es. The object of the emigre., which will assemble at it. Thom., must be to all, we should think, roe-evident. In the Jamaica circular. it is stated to be „ in order to resolve on such a combined movement in support of the declining interest of thew important eutectics, as may carry with it all the weight and importance due to the property and intelligence of her Majesty's subject. in the West Indies." This language ie com prehemive enough to imply any specific measure., whivh may be deemed expedient for seeming our interring and which may he corn atible with the weight which "property" wries with it, and the de mands on which "inn Iligence" insksta. Detail. must be len to the delegates, to the fultire, and to the chapter of acci dents. But the main object is explicit and obvious. The grand object of the Jamaica Chamber of Commerce, and of all strong-minded and sensible colonists—all but the wavering and the insipid—is to organise on the neutral ground of tit. 'Thomas • great West Indian Confederacy, armed with full powers of deliberation, correspondence, and resolu tion, in all that may concern our joint intense.. Before busbiess can be attended to, the organisation, the ruler of proceeding and adjourn ment, and the duration of this body, mustbe determined. We inistake the temper of the times and of the free-traders in Europe, if work for more than one IDDital be not carved out for the delegates, who, we suspect will fi.d it recces/try to adj urn front time to tune. Better, infinitely better, that no convention at ill take plate, thee that it should be dissolved after making some partial and unsustained demon. titration, or one moment before Tatham.* be granted to these injured colonies. . . . At the time the mail was despatched the weather was favourable. The following account of an expedition of the governor is from the journal 'bore quoted : IDs excellency the governor has oven, ter the course of the fortnight, on a tour op the Kahaicony river, which his excellency visited to a cimaiderable dl.itance born its mouth. The klahaicony tin in the eastern district of the county of Demerara, at a iliataoce of about f ',',ll:2,l:7:err;o""*"rtion onf - thTher'e up ar farms e along In ban settlement. and schools. Theme latter, it is understood. the governor visited. Among others who attended his excellency was tir. an ,y lately appointed the medical oominisaioner for inspecting d reporting upon the condition of the hospitals on estates. Some instruc tions from the government have, within the last two or three days, been published for the guidance of the doctor in his new duties, and have appeared in our columns. Among other rules, it I. laid down that every possible information concerning Use canuition of the dif ferent kmds of immigrant', who become inmates of the hospital; shall be obtained by the medical oonionsaioner from the managers and others in charge of the estates. There is no other mode of en forcing the production of thin species of testimony, except by Inter dicting those plantations on which it is refused from allotments of immigrants by the Immigration Agent-General ; and the recusants are accordingly the atoned with a stoppage of the supplies of labourer. in ease they continue uncommunicative. But there is little fear on this score It is the intercat of the planters that the government should clearly understand the position of thi mwelves and the people tinder them ; and, we are persuaded, that a NU conf.ssion will show that in a majority of instance', everything which the, memo of the owners permit Is done far the invalids on the estate. WiND WARD IS LANDS. BARBADOEX. The official Glade states in its number of 7th October last : We fear much that the rumours that are atioat of Governor Reld's ultimate retirement from ilibs es/nmsad are too true. We understand that her Majewy's government have salted his excellency to recon sider the determination which be expressed to them some menthe ago—not to eery° with Jude Reddie or Mr. Athill--and that tine re quest het been accompanied with very flattering marks of the confi dence and esteem of the monster ; but we learn with regret that the governor has not felt himself at liberty to change his resolution, under miming circumstanees. The whole question will probably assume a new aspect on the arrival of the packet--for we are told that Lieut.- Colonel Torrens, the late Lieutenant-Governor of St. Lucia, was met on the 30th of August In Liverpool, where he bad just landed from the Hibernia steamer; having, on hearing of Mr. ReddicAs reinatate mcnt, requested and obtained leave of absence to pronredto Ergland, for the purpose of demanding from lord Grey the grounds upon which his ((blow( Torrene) veracity bad been impeached, an I Ma statement set at naught by Dr. ltobineon'a assertions. The affaD, therefore, cannot rest where It does; and we shall look with interest for the intelligence concerning it, which, In all probability, (hemming packet will convey. AMERICAN INTELLIGENCE.—Later accounts from America are now daily expected with great interest. The packet ships of she 16th and 21st ult. from New York are now out respectively 22 and 17 days; and the French mail steamer from that city will shortly be due at Cherbourg. She would leave New York on the 2.5 th ult., and is now out, therefore, about 13 days. A ruu of 16 days will be a credit able performance for one of that line of vessels. The Boston steamship Cambria may be looked for on Saturday. A remittance of 28,000 f. was received in anticipation of the forthcoming dividend on the bonds of the state of Maryland by the last steamer.—Lirerpool Albion. frbt erourt. WINDSOR, MONDAY.—The Queen and Prince Al bert took their accustomed early walk. The Royal Fatally took walking and pony exercise in the grounds adjacent to the Castle. The royal dinner party at the Castle this even ing is expected to include the Duchess of Kent, Count and Countess Dietrichstein, Baroness de Speth, the Earl and Countess of Jirsey, Lady Clementine Villiers, Viscount Pal merston, and Sir Robert and Lady Gardiner. Dr. Lushington had an interview with Sir G. Grey Yesterday, at the Home office. Dr. Bowring had also an in terview with the right hon. hart. Lord J. Russell, as First Lord of the Treasury, has issued invitations to a full-dress dinner, on the 22nd inst., to a party of forty members of the House of Commons. The banquet will be given at his lordship's official residence in Downing•sttreet. The Marquis of Lansdowne, Lord Presi dent of the Council, will give a full-dress dinner co a party of peers the same evening at his residence, Lansdowne House. The Right Hon. H. Labonehere has arrived in town. Mr. Fonblanque entered on hie duties yesterday, in the statistical department of the Board of Trade. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office from the governors of the West India colonies.—lles patches were also received yesterday at the Colonial-office from the governors of Ceylon, Malta, and Gibraltar. COURT OF ALDERMEN. Yesterday a court was held for the despatch of the last remaining business of the mayoralty. TILE CONVICT AUNT ANN HUNT.—Alderman Moon, is one of the visiting magistrates of the gaol of Newgate, pre sented the following communication which he had rsoeired from Sir G. Grey, and communicated as directed Whitehall, Now e, 1047.--Gentlemen,—With reference to the ense of Mary Ann Hunt, the convict under nentemae of death in the gaol of Newgate, in which me the sheriffe, for moons reported to me, directed that the execution of the sentence should he delayed, sod afterwards, by command of her Majeety, the capital sentence woe resulted until further order should be given I have the hon ou r to Inform you that, under the emend circumManCen which hove occurred In this cane, her Majesty has been pleseed to command that that amt. knee shall not be carried into effect. I request that you will own. Munlcate to the primate thin information. The prisoner will be detained In !imitate until after her expected confinement, when the commuted mntence will be notified.—l am, gentlemen, your most obedient servant, o.oam. SUNDAY TRADING. —A report was read, which stated that, in obedience to an order of the court, to consider the report of the inspectors of weights and measures for the last year, the committee for general purposes certified that they proceeded therein, end directed the inspectors to visit their districts upon some Sunday, and report their obserwations as connected with Sunday trading; and having subsequently received • report from them thereon, they had annexed the sale to that report. The committee had considered the !sub ject of Sunday trailing, and were of opinion that it is not expedient for the inspectors to exercise the duties of their office upon Sunday.—Sie P. Lsuriesaid the committee h a d re commended that the inspectors should not be directed to inspect the weights and measures of trod espeople on Sundays, because so to employ them would be anctioning Sunday trading by the authority of the court. He would tell the poor, how ever, for their government, that the shopkeepers who traded on Sundays were . the grosiest of all the impostor s with when `.l , could e, ... .... ..................... Is „„, 14 v e ;;;;; i w•j o r i li a — c - t. :o;;;;•rnek••,`... w."....rn surgeon, i e net d he y tu t tte it r i q h ui - i fe - w n'a um ieti.' h aTiiir - e . .too l T e ti w i t t e t urgeoe, WWI called, and suggested the removal of the child gentlemen. - Anyuung 0 " I.° l"'"`""'" !" 7 -- —.- ---- ----, :"--- "7:" - - a "--- is coro To fleece e were d i ffi cu l t H i es e to,e wan ee not contendedfe fo r preventing C with 'P l n e h t hi:op.:Otis:see:lst from r of h o Newington workhouse.—Ann Dispain, nurse at the week- y b ie ut e n d e h y h e d ry a o h th r er e res em pec che t h wthdra h r from ey. the market, ants iv, .:In t h•-i quite inadequate," say they ;" it won't work; it can t recepuon was prepared for the King at Genoa . In nwspwatmeto be carried out; it will never do," It is not the made - Such advice, as the vigilance of the agents In CaraboboTh e first act us establishing a bank of issue, or continuing al .--- Sunday trading. q yof the law they really fear, but its effectiveness. of the government allows to issue from Naples one already existing, would be to mortgage property amount- , fr 712 geeing in ceraries on Sunday morning, but he wished that They declare that it won't work, being resolved that are filled with narratives of an atrocity' so revolt- " The introdueersof Mis Ter: ex . t v erire moose or Immiers- the trading should cease at Lige. o'cl o ck . —Tho report was tee although every nourishment and attention was Riven itdied yizusei it said ie she received the child from the last witneas, and pe in l e to es one-third w. 1 i ever m h o more e Wanbefore the th e p circulation ehb.e. w Any h i c h other it e m 0d..., - ' a j it shan't work, and do all in their power to prevent it ing that it is impossible not to cling to the lion also pledgele c t u h lt e rval i on ve in the h space th eeflit: of f ea th rs e tad ' greed W. bed with one of the female inmates.—When the fc from working. Sir Luaus O'BRIEN (of all men tying .) l hope that they are more or lees exaggerated. allgualall gree, if a greater proportion than one-third eight tneir Whole deceased was first brought its extremities were cold, and, seriptien of property might answer for this mortgsgeequid e l a 0 well with government stock ; but yet the latter is the m condemns it as " the means of encouraging idleness That such measures could be deliberately adopted a grant should to found at that time uncultivated, the grant ERRATUM.—In our article of yesterday, on the about four o'clock on the following morning —E. D. 'Hewitt 01 amongst the lower classes." The lesson of idleness is by any civilised government of the present day shall be reduced to the actual amount of land then in eulti- state of our relations with Brazil, the year 1814 was incor- , atio .... redly printed 1814. state and covered with mud. He believed that the child had said that when he saw the deceased it wan in an exhausted convenient form. Secondly, it is advisable, for the interests of the country, to maintain the value o f this stock. Thirdly, it renders expensive and tedious inq unnecessary. a SI .7 much more likely to be 1 ed from the example of such almost exceeds thu compass of belief : still more died from the exposure and exhaustion consequent upon the The bank of issue would necessarily obtain on au seem - I employers will be consummated by the ruin of the employed. What is wanted to ensure the permanent prosperity of both employers and employed is an equalisation of the supply and the demand of labour; or, at all events, a reduction of the destructive inequality now existing. " I cannot but think," said Mr. MeatVALE, the new Under-Secretary of the Colonial Department, to the University of Oxford, when its Professor of Political Economy, and it will now be the learned gentleman's duty to enforce the truth on Earl GREY, and to urge that intelligent nobleman to work it oat practically—" I cannot but think that anyone who has Impartially examined the present condition of these islands will see that sooner or later this result—the lowering of wages—must arrive. The only choice is between the ruin of the capitalist and the labouring class together, and the proper adjustment of the rela tions between labour and capital. The present [Mr. MKILIYALE is speaking of 1841] rate of wages is maintained only by the unnaturally enhanced price of sugar. The naoment that Ass mires way, if a reasonably cheap supply If labour be not introduced, the whole social system reel sire way with it." The period foreseen by the new Under-Secretary has arrived : the acts of parliament by which the primer West Indian sugar was enhanced in this country have been successively repealed ; sugar is now low in price beyond the anticipations of the most sanguine free-trader; and, as Mr. MERIVALE foretold, the social system in the Antilles is giving way. Capital, its key-stone, is rapidly disappearing; the cultivation of sugar is endangered ; the tastes of the negro acquired by the possession of wealth are in hazard ; and the gradual relapse from comparative civilisation to a very backward state will, unless averted, soon commence sad rapidly go on. And what has govern ment, which thus by its acts lowered the price of sugar, done to lower the price of labour—what has it done " to introduce a reasonably cheap supply of labour" — what has it done to avert the downfall of the whole social system ? Nothing effectual—nothing that has had any influence on wages. What will it do now that it has called to its service the abilities and the knowledge of Mr. NIERIVALE ? This is the question which Lord Jolts RUSSELL undertook on Friday last to bring under the consideration of the cabinet. In the midst of the general depression of the West Indian Colonies, there is one remarkable exception— there is one large island which is able to compete with slave sugar countries: and the reason of its ability is most instructive. Barbadoes is struggling through the contest between free and slave labour successfully. Estates in that island are still saleable at fifteen years' purchase : whereas, in the colonies of Jamaica, Guiana, and Trinidad, sales are not practi cable for a satisfactory settlement at any price. Yet in soil, climate, and in energetic proprietary, Jamaica, Guiana, and Trinidad are quite equal to Bar badoes. The difference consists in the comparative densities of population. The cause of Barbadian prosperity is, that the means of subsistence there presses on, and stimulates, labour. In Trinidad the average work of the peasantry does not exceed four or five hours a day, and they are paid by task, according to the nature of the work; but in Bar badoes they give a good day's work for comparatively a low day's wage—say tenpence or a shilling. The prosperity of Barbadoes is founded on abun deuce of labour. Can any reasonable being then doubt that, with similar abundance, the whole Antilles would be equally prosperous? Not Mr. MERIVSLE, we are sure. WE expected little from those meetings in Dublin dignified by the name of councils, and we have not been disappointed. It gives us no satisfaction to see a number of gentlemen assembling at the Rotundo, or anywhere else, as it were merely to establish the fact of their lamentable inconsequence of ideas and incapacity for business. We never wish to use the term " Irish" sarcastically ; but it is impossible, speaking with any sincerity, to avoid remarking that our Irish neighbours have a logic of their own, and a way of proceeding in public business, which distin guishes them broadly from the people of this country. Take as an instance the first sentence of the speech of Mr. FAGAN, member for the city of Cork—a place whose representatives might be ex pected to possess some of the qualities that give a man weight in " council." He rose to second a resolution, and said "he came there without having any pre pared speech in his mind, and would, therefore, lay before the meeting the ideas which had occurred to him in the order which had suggested itself since he came into the room." What a promising exordium to an oration by a pillar of the state—a man sent from Cork to Dublin, and about to proceed from Dublin to London, to direct a government and enlighten a senate ! The " order" of Mr. FAGAN'S ideas may be conjectureJ, and the value of them also. We have been in the habit of nailing such order by the name of hocus-pocus; but wo confess it is a method admirably suited to the ideas to be arranged. There is not an idea worth one farthing in Mr. FAGAN'S speech—indeed nothing that can be called an idea at all; we read it, and ask, but ask in vain, what is it about ? what does it suggest ? what does Mr. FAGAN want? what does the member for Cork propose? And yet this gentleman takes upon him to lecture Lord CLARENDON, and talk of blunders made by the government : to be sure he graciously admits that they were " committed under peculiar and trying circumstances." How gratifying it must be to government to have its faults so tenderly dealt with by a man of Mr. FAGAN'S weight! The next "councillor" who spoke was Mr. SMITH O'BRIEN. The resolution he proposed was as follows : That while we fully recognise the claim to subsistence of all our fellow-countrymen, we consider it but equitable that the necessary charge for the relief of the cleats* should not be borne exclusively by any particular class or slaws, bat should be shared by the community at lama. That, with this object, we would suggest that an illoolll* Of pro perty tax should be imposed in Ireland, the proceeds of which should be applied to the relief of the destitute, in aid of local taxation ; and in the case of absentees we deem ft expedient that the per tentage of such tax should be Mahar than in other cases. This was seconded by Mr. JOHN O'CoNNELL, who commenced in a manner intensely Irish, by stating that it was understood that " they were not to be con sidered pledged to any resolution which they pro- posed or seconded ; in fact, that the resolutions; were to be considered merely as affording them °ppm. tunities of speaking their minds upon the various topics of importance to the country, and not as_ tin* mg themselves to any particular measures." linala, farce we have here! What is to be said of this, bat , 1 that the meeting where it was uttered must have been held expressly to burlesque the proceedings of sensible men ? It is the first time we ever heard of a body of men meeting to resolve, and not pledged by their resolutions. Mr. JOHN 'CoNNELL's notion of a resolution is as comic as anything to be found in RABELAIS, or SWIFT. But the sole object was evidently talking ; to have something, or nothing, to meet and talk about; and a resolution for an income tax answered as well as anything else ; it gave: those gentlemen "an opportunity of speaking" what they call " their minds . The question is, how the country is the better for this speaking of minds? How doss it help us in our difficulties? Of what use is it to poor benighted Lord CLARENDON, who has of course been anxiously expecting a flood of light from the Rotundo to direct his steps and save him from the commission of any more "blunders"? We are glad to see that one or two gentlemen objected to be stultified by passing resolutions to which not evil mover and aeconder were to be pledged. But the objectors were in a sad minority. Mr. O'BRIEN thought the objection "unreasonable." " They were not legis lating," he said, "but merely expressing opinions conveying their meaning as much as they possibly could. He entirely approved of the motion." his certainly a great satisfaction to think that Mr. O'BRIEN, Mr. FAGAN, Mr. JOHN O'CONNELL, and their fellows, were "not legislating" upon this oc casion. It is frightful to think of such legislators. We should as soon think of choosing WILL O'WisP and JACK O'LANTERN for our leaders as Mr. WILLIAM 8. O'BRIEN and Mr. JOHN O'CoNNELL. It would be difficult to say which pair of O's—the men or the meteors—would lead one furthest astray. There is one idea certainly prominent enough in the speeches of the wise men at the Rotundo—aver sion to the poor-law. The selfish instincts are much stronger than the intellectual powers of these Irish gentlemen. " Anything but the poor - law; it is . - it menu Sir Lectus O'BRIEN, than from a legal provi sion for the poor, which has not made the peo:le of England idlers. The only sensible observation made at this ostentatious meeting fell from Mr. KEOGH, member for Athlone, who said " he looked upon the distress as being temporary, and thought it could be removed by the exertions of the landholders of Ire land, if they thought fit to use them." This speech was, of course, received with that silence which does not signify assent at public meetings. Our Paris despatches of Sunday have arrived. The journals continue to be occupied with the affairs of Switzerland and Italy. The King and Queen of the Belgians left St Cloud on Saturday, and arrived in Brussels that afternoon. It is announced in a semi-official form that the Post-office authorities are seriously occupied with • project for accelerating the despatch of the mails be tween Paris and London. The Madrid mails of the 2nd inst. have arrived; the usual rapid shifting of the figures in the political phantasmagoria goes on. M. Pacheco, the ex-Prime Minister, who has scarcely arrived at his embassy at Rome, has been superseded by M. Martinez de la Rosa, and M. Morrano Lopez has been replaced at the Hague by M. Bazo. Private letters say that General Espartero has de clined the London embassy, and that he has received an order not to enter Spain. On the evening of the Ist alarming reports were spread at Madrid ; the officers of the different regi ments in garrison there were ordered to remain night and day at their respective quarters ; rumours of ministerial changes were everywhere circulated, and it was admitted by the partisans of the government that extraordinary measures of precaution were adopted, the cause of which, however, did not transpire. General Roe de Olano, the intimate friend of Gene ral Serrano, resigned the ministry of public instruc tion on the let. It was said that the portfolio had been offered to and refused by M. Pidal ; it was also offered to M. Burgos and M. °liven. The Eco del Contereio, alluding to the case of the singer Mirall who had been removed from Madrid to Valencia in a manner so mysterious and arbitrary, says that he is now compelled to leave the country, no cause for this odious persecution being assigned ; the ministry want to throw the responsibility on the police, but it is well known that the latter can only act under the authority of the government. We abstain, says that journal, from reproducing all the scandalous suppositions which have been produced by this persecution directed against a poor artist who has no resource but the exercise of his profession to supply the wants of his family. Despatches have arrived from various parts of Switzerland, those from Bale and Berne reaching to the 4th inst. The Diet assembled on that day for the purpose of coming to the last resolution on adopting measures for executing its decrees by force of arms. The decision was finally taken, and would be the signal for the commencement of hostilities. The news that the canton of Isiturchitel was occupied by the Her aese troops was premature. On the let instant further reinforcements of the troops of the Sonder bund had arrived at Lucerne. Two battalions of in fantry had marched from Lerme, Unterwald, and Uri : a battery of six pieces of heavy artillery, and two companies of carbiniers had also arrived. Three powerful steamboats have been established on the lake of the four cantons for the expeditious transport of the troops between canton and canton to such points as may require their presence. The cantonal govern ment of Tessin had suspended its functions tempo rarily, having established a council of war invested with the most extensive powers, with a military tribunal, of which the chief seat was to be Lugano, but which had powers to delegate C , , issioners to all districts of the canton, as r• `.l might re - that t' quire. A letter from Bile of the 4th says the Austrians had closed the passage of the Splugen, which forms the chief communication between the canton of the Orisons and Lombardy. Two federal military tribunals have been esta blished to sit, one at Berne, and the other at Zurich. The Burgomaster Furrer, deputy of Zurich, with the rank of colonel, was appointed grand judge at Berne ; and M. Cassimir Pfyffer, of Lucerne, was to fill a like office in the tribunal at Zurich. The Gazette of Zurich says that the federal army will amount to 100,000 men, including the reserves. The people of Zurich are animated with the greatest enthusiasm. They have come forward spontaneously with offers to provide for the families of those who are summoned to the field. The Federal Gazette V Argau mentions desertions from the Lucernese troops. The Gazette of Rile says that in a conference be tween the federal commissioners and the cantonal go vernment of Bale, M. Sicgwart Muller declared that he saw no means of effecting . the pacification of Switzerland, except to divide it into two parts, the catholic and the protestant. Letters from the frontiers of Friburg announce that the people of that canton were barricading the passage of the Tine. On the 30th workmen were en gaged cutting down trees and throwing them across the road, which they also strewed with enormous blocks of rock, so as to render the passage of troops impracticable. It was even said that the road was in certain places undermined. The frontier of the can ton was patrolled at night by cavalry. The liefretie of the Sth states that two Bernese ci tizens in Friburg had been found hung and disem bowelled. The following are the details given by that journal: An set of the most atrocious barbarity which has just been committed at Dirlaret, a village well known for its fanaticism end its mendicants, has excited the most heartfelt indigna tion throughout the whole community. Two young natives of Berne, Scheidigger and Zbiuder, tilers by profession in the canton of Neufchatel, were called to arms and left here immediately, in their uniform, to answer the appeal of their country. In passing through the village of Dirlaret they were perceived by some of the inhabitants, who immediately thronged round them, crying " Down with the Bernese." The unfortunate youths were immediately seized, conducted before the presbytery, hanged, and disembowelled. Wehave no words to express the indignation excited by this atrocious act, committed on two youths who were passing inoffen sively, and who could at most have been ed as prisoners of war. We are told the troops of Berne are so exasperated that they can with difficulty be kept in order. In any other circumstance we should have recommended forbearance, but in presence of such an infamous, dastardly murder, we can but my : Soldiers of Berne, revenge your brethren! The decree of the cantonal government of Lucerne, declaring that canton in a state of siege, and estab lishing martial law, has been published. It is need less to give it here. The Sardinian government has given loose reins to the popular manifestations elicited by the reforms lately promulgated. These festivities were to be con tinued for three days. They began on the let, with a general and improvised illumination. On the evening of the 2nd there was a torch-light procession, such as we know no example of, except in the chief cities of the United. States, where demonstra tions of that kind are occasionally witnessed. Seve ral thousand persons paraded the city, each bearing a torch and a banner with the words—" Viva Carlo Alberto ! Viva Italia! Viva le Riforme !" inscribed on the latter. On the 3rd, another assemblage was to take place at a popular cafe lately established with the title of the " Cafe Gioberti," after the well known writer against the Jesuits, when the mass of the peo ple was to join in an hymn, which wee composed in celebration of the epoch. The Marquis Azeglio took a prominent part in these proceedings. The King was expected to leave for Genoa on the 3rd, where he in tended to pass the present month. A procession, composed of the entire population of Turin, was to accompany him as far as Moncalieri. All the car riages and horses in the city and the neighbourhood were hired for this purpose. In the evening of the 3rd the theatre was to be illuminated, and the hymn sung there. All the persons arrested in the late jrncules had been or wereto be immediately liberated. The measures affecting the press gave universal satis faction. It was said that Count Villa Nicorina, ex minister of war, so well known as a zealous reformer, was to be governor of Turin. M. St. Martin, minis ter of foreign affairs, was also favourably spoken of. It was expected that like festivities would take place in all the chief cities and towns. A,.magnificent that they should be witnessed without strong and indignant protest by the diplomatic agents of the con stitutional states of Europe at the court of the Two Sieilies. We give the following from letters quoted by the Augsburg Gaulle : The execution of flee Cslabrian youths at Gene (says • correepondence addressed to the Augsburg ()assets) is con sidered as one of the most deplorable episodes of these blood days. These young men had not even attempted to the royal porter ; their designs went not beyond a change in the administration; and, in fact, the necesaity of their pardon had been so strongly felt, that it was granted, but unfortu nately arrived two hours after the fatal execution. No per son considers this delay as an effect of chance. Among these unfortunate victims was ,the young Belli, the author of a tragedy, and editor of the journal 1 'Artisia ; and Gemelli, grandson to the celebrated author of • voyage round the world. It is said that General Nunsisnte, son to the person of that name who gave the word to the soldiers who shot Murat, has committed great atrocities. It is publicly reported that this general prevailed on a lady, by his pro mise of complete amnesty, to acquaint him with the place of concealment of her son, and caused hint to be shot two days after. Among the fees related concerning the different per sons employed by government who have been exposed to the pursuits of the insurgents, the following is related of the in tendant of Meosina, called Ligori:—When, in consequence of the insurrection, this functionary was transferred to Co dense, the proofs of • very curious operation were found in his registers. Ligori had purchased of a citizen of Marseilles a certain quantity of merchandise, and had entered into an engagement with him to pay him by monthly instalments. The merchant received these sums regularly till the de parture of his debtor. On examining the registers, it was found that Ligori had inscribed in them this merchant as a spy of the police, and that the sums remitted to him in pay ment were entered in the books as his silary for pretended services rendered by him. Its reported that a project is entertained at Vienna of annexing Parma to the Austrian territory in Italy. The imperial government, it is said, foresees the ulti mate necessity of surrendering Ferrara and Comma chio to Rome, and looks for an equivalent in the mili tary position afforded by Parma. A note to this effect is reported to have been transmitted to the Aus trian embassies at Paris and London. - - - Letters from Naples of Oct. 24, quoted by the iu9Bburg Gazette, mention important diplomatic negotiations which have been opened with that go vernment. Divisions of the English and Freud) fleets were expected et that port. The Nourellista of Marseilles gives letters from Naples of the 29th tilt. They contain no new facts of importance, but continue to offer a most deplorable picture of the condition of the people, and the inex orable oppression of the government. FRANCE.—H ICIIIWAY ROBBERIES.—The diligence from Vannes to Lorient was stopped on the 3rd inst. at half past six is the morning, in the wood of Pont Sale, hy about a doses men, who, by a discharge of fire-arms, kille d two of the hours. Two gendarmes, who escorted the diligence in consequence of 70,000 f. of government money being in the vehicle, attempting to resist, were fired at in their turn, and one killed. The other at once rode off u hard as he could, to convey the intelligence to Auray. 40,000 f. were carried off by the robbers. The authorities are endeavouring to discover the authors of this crime. it appears that for some time past the roads in the south of l'rance have been in- Cited by highwaymen, whose exploits and whose exquisite politeness to their victims equal those of their most renowned and most accomplished predecessors. On the evening of the 4th inst. six men attacked a post !liaise between Atx and Martigues, but the postbov having whipped his horses vio lently, they started off, and left the highwaymen in the lurch. On t h e someday, however, another band succeeded in robbing some travellers on the road to Italy. Numerous othercrimes of a similar nature are stated to have occurred. The perpetrators of them are not, as has been supposed, the convicts who escaped from the bagne of Toulon, all the convicts having been captured. Several of the highwaymen have been arrested. . _ _ FATHER LACORDATRE'S CHARACTER OF PIUS IX.— The Speegageur de Dijon publishes the following extract from a litter, addressed to a friend, by the celebrated pulpit orator. Father Laeordaire. It will be read with interest, as showing the opinion entertained of the Pope by one of the most diatinguished of the Preach clergy. The letter was net, however, it is stated, intended for publication: " I have again seen Rome—l have seen Pius IX. You ask me what I think of him, of his reforms, of his advt rsiries, and of Isis partisans. I demand nothing better than to satisfy you, having the old habit of confiding to you all my thoughts as often as the good God gives me the oppor tunity. Pill, IX. is goodness, sincerity, softness, simplicity, calm in person. He is moreover, firm-hearted. In the midst of this deluge of counsels and prediction, the Popes ap pears serene, and sure of himself ; he comets on God, and on his people—a people upright, honest, sincere, profoundly at tached to religion, and which gives at this moment to the whole world the spectacle of manly docility, of pious and unstained gratitude, of au admirable diecernmeat of its true interests. The papacy was between two charms— Austria and Italian radicalism. Pius IX. looked to the right and the left, and found in his heart and in his faith a path between the two. He has desired of his own will, and with invincible sincerity, to meet the wants of hie peo ple ; and alone, without diplomatic support, he has encoun tered in the very hearts of his children all the strength he required to promote their welfare. The union between the people and the sovereign is at its height. Nothing can de scribe Rome at this moment. It is a fits which has lasted for 18 months, both a religious and a national fete, in which all the sentiments most dear to man have their place, their expression, their flight, their silence. For my part, I can not believe in a sad issue to so noble a movement—God is there. All Italy, with all its shades of opinion, is under the same charm; Pius IX. reigns from one end of the Penin sula to the other. These things are not of the man alone. Jesus Christ has desired to show once again what a Christian revolution is, and he could cot give a more salutary example to nations and kings. BELGIUM.—BRUSSELS, Nov. 7.—A great sensa tion has been caused by the dismissal of Baron d'Huart from the government of Namur. The baron on quitting the government of this province has addressed the following cir cular to the commercial administrations : thence, Nov. b.--Gentlemen,- I have the honour to inform ran Nat In pursuance of a royal decree, under date of the 2nd of this month, I resign after this day the funstions of governor, to which I ma celled on June 1, 1840. You are entitled. gentlemen, to my frn, titude for the honest and intelligent mdstance you have always given me; and I beg to offer my sincere thanks for it. The generous confidence which you have Invariably placed in my administration will always be improvised upon my memory. The flattering confidence reposed in me by the proe.ncial council, the 'Mice and emerleneed et-operation of ita deputation, dirteted by Ana and intention. In perfect accordance with my own, rendered my task agreeable and tees. Ilenoe, it is improsible to nay how great Is my grief at the dissolution of them relation. which were esta- Waded between no. My conscience beers me witnem that I have tot anything to make myself useful to the province, and It is sa to me to know that my effort. have been productive of acme geed. The continuance lid your esteem will be my invaluable reward. Permit me, gentlemen, to reckon upon it in my retreat, and amet the mauranoe of my high regard.—(Signed) D . 111,12; Min rof State. The ministry- has not given any explanation of the cause which induced the removal of M. D'Huart. SINGULAR DIAT/L— ON the 2nd instant, a young couple, who had been married that morning, resolved to pass a few days of the honeymo in in Brussels, and accordingly took the train for that city. On their arrival at Malines the bus bend got out of the train to procure some refreshments for hie wife ; but unfortunately the train proceeded on its course before his return. He immediately resolved to hire a two horse conveyance to Brawls (about four French leagues dis tant), and soon started on his journey. Towards nightfall a very thick fog (the first of the season) arose. AU, however, went well, until the carriage reached one of the suburbs of Brussels, near Luken, when the driver, not seeing his way clearly, drove °tithe high road into the canal. The unfor. tunate individual in the carriage, having no means of extri cating himself, was drowned, as were also the two horses The coachman contrived to jump off his oat and to save himself by swimming. Meantime the wife arrived at her place of destination, where she named the night. The next morning, finding that her husbaad did not arnve by arty of the trains from Malines, she became greatly alsrmeo and spoke on the subject to some of the gentlemen connected with the railway. About 10 p.m. the accident became known to them, and they sent off an express to Antwerp in order to communicate it to tke family of the deceased. His brother immediately went up to town, and after having given the first order' respecting the body of his unfortunate relative, conducted the widow of the deceased back to Antwerp, where, after mach precaution she learned, for the first time, the melan choly intelligence. AUSTRIA.—VIENNA, Nov. I.—The Emperor and Empress intend going to Presburg for the opening of the Hungarian diet, in company with the Archduke the Stadt holder. The Arch-Duchess Maria Louisa will leave for Parma on the 6th, and will probably reach that capital about the middle of November. Count Munch Bellinghausen has arrived here from Frankfort by way of Carlruhe, Stott surd, and Munich. His circuitous route is said to be in lam connexion with the affairs of Switzerland. Every= hare is in a state of expectancy as to what may be th e d measures consequent upon the disorders of that country, which are not likely to be terminated without bloodshed, VENEZUELA.—" We observe," says the Port if Spain (Trinidad) pouffe of the lot of October "by ' a sweat number of the Garcia de Vennuelo, that a stream of iMmigration is about setting in there from Germany. A 'Preach house in Dunkirk and Paris had entered into a con-' lime with the Venezuelan government to send out to that emintry not less than 80,000 immigrants—natives of Switzer land, Belgium, Prussia, and any of the cities or dominions of the Germanic confederation—free of all charge tor their con veyance, and on the sole condition, in fact, of receiving grants of and on which to locate these immigrants in the following province., and to the extent here mentioned, viz.: uare leagues. In the province' of Camas and Barcelona, was te lands now esisting in the intone of Rio Chien. Cbagara now, Onto, Angus and Soledad, and in the island of oetninlac In T Cumesso—la the cantons of RinCaribe, Oda* Caro pans, awl Ilaturla ll7 Idinsolbs.ea the castor at Altmann:la sad Pori* lIS IA Orw.- ABOLITION OP TOLL-ILOLS.—Lent evening a meet ing of the inhabitants of St. Pancras took place at the Bed ford Arms tavern, Camden-town, for the purpose of taking effectual mementos for the entire abolition of toff-bars in the northern suburbs of the metropolis. Mr. Rees, one of the commissioners of the Southampton Paving Trust, was called to the chair. Mr. Boyce, the honorary secretary, read a letter from Lord Dudley Stuart, expressing regret at his un avoidable absence ; he, however, begged to assure the meet ing thet his best wishes were with those who were endea vouring to diminish the charges on the rate-payers of St. Pancras, in respect of the tolls, and that he would be happy to do all in his power in parliament to promote what ap peared to him so lendable an object. Ile (Mr. Boyce) read also received a letter from Mr. M. Furster, M.P. for Ber wick-on-Tweed, who war deeply interested in the subject. The hon. member said he was prepared to give the oppo nents of toll-bars his meet cordial assistance in parliament. Ilia letter then proceeded, " I have witnessed for some time past the proceedings of this road commission with con• aiderable surprise, and have felt convinced it is de generating into a mere job, as all such commissions do if they are not looked after. Unless the rate-payers take the matter up, the commission with its snug berth*, and toll.bar nuisances, will he perpetual. The commissioners began well enough. In 1827 they removed 27 bars in one day, but latterly they have been rather increasing than reducing the number. Ia 1827 there were eight or ten gates and an end less number of ban on the nail between Edgeware and the City. They began by removing the whole of them from the aristocratic part of the road near the West End, but left the one nearest the City, which is still maintained, and is now situate almost in the heart of the metropolis. About Hackney and Newington they have acted in the same spirit. The com missioners say the railways have reduced their receipts by lessening the number of stage-coaches, but I suspect the xum ber of omnibuses yield a larger revenue than the stage coaches ever did." Since the last meeting had been held upon this subject the committee had felt it their duty to in quire into the management of these metropolitan turnpike trust commissioners, and they found, by a rcport published by order of the House of Commons, the income of the year 1844 was 70,4081. 16s. 2d. Oat of this they paid their clerk, 1,0201., and surveyor a salary of 2,3 3. 51. 18e. Bd. Amount of dbt, 32,0001. One individuil connected with the commission was in the receipt of a salary of no less than 3,6711. 10s—Mr. Philpot, in moving the first resolution, proceed• d at some length to show that not only would the abolition of the bell-Oars be a benefit to the general public, but that if they were abolished and the roads taken into the bands of the parish the inhabitants would save something like lid. in the pound. instead of losing thereoy. lie con cluded by moving " That the injustice so long perpetrated en the parish of St. l'ancres, by the continuance of a great number of toll-gates on a small portion of turnpike road, is greatly aggravated be the extravagant expenditure of the money so collected therefrom. This meeting therefore pledge themselves to co-operate with the anti-toll-bar com mittee in their endeavours to accomplish the entire abolition of such a monstrous imposition."—Mr. Collins second. d the ! resolution, which was carried.—Mr. Merriman moved the second resolution, to the effect, " That the present system of collecting the tolls on the metropolitan roads is clumsy, ineffieient, and unworthy of the present civilised state of society, and that a more equitable system should be adopted in lieu thereof." This motion having been seconded and carried unanimously, Mr. Spooner, in moving the third, dwelt at some length upon the extravagance of the compassion, as shown by the parlia mentary return, and the necessity for the subject being brought under the notice of the legislature. He moved That Lord Dudley Stuart, M.P., Sir B Hall, Bart., M.P., the members for the borough of Marylebone, and M atthew Forster, Esq., M.P. for Berwick-upon-Tweed, be reaps et fully requestd, on the assembling of parliament, to move for a return of the income and expenditure of the metropolitan turnpike trust commissioners for the years 1815 and 1810." —Mr. Spong ecconded this resolution, which was also adopted unanimously.— Votes of thanks were given to Lord Dudley Stuart and Mr. Forster, M.l'., for their expressed readiness to forward the objects of the meeting in parliament • end, a similar compliment having been paid to the chairm an,l the meeting separated. NEW METHOD OF SIGNALS FOR GUARDS ON RAIL WAY TRAlNS.—Yetterdny experiments were made on the Brighton and Chichester Branch Railway, of an invention of Meesrs. Brett and Little, of Furnival's-inn, for giving the means of communication (the necessity of which had been demonstrated by some recent accidents) between rail way guards and drivers. Some minor experiments have been made daily during the past week. Yesterday the invention was applied to a whole train, and the experiment was watched by Mr. Copley and Mr. Fountain, connected with the engineering department of the Brighton terminus. The modus operandi is soon explained, for the invention is one of a most simple kind. On the engine, and close to the driver, is placed an alarum bell of a peculiar but simple con struction, not liable to get out of order or to be affected by the oscillation of a train, and requiring to be wound up as a clock only about once a week for ordinary use. When not required for signals the alarum is prevented from acting by a catch. Contiguous to this Is a permanent magnet connected with the inventors' patent gal vanic battery, which is placed at the opposite end of the tender. Wires are petard from the alarum to the bat tery, snd thence continued throughout the train in this manner : From chain to chain of each carriage is placed a galvanised wire, running beneath the carriages, so that the simple operation of hooking the usual seety chain turns a galvanic communication with as many carriages as are fur nished with the connecting wires. At every guard-box a pair of branch wires is carried up at the end of the carriage into the box, where, by the simple operation of moving a small winch, the galvanic circuit is completed, the magnet immediately acts on the catch so u to lift it, and the alarum is set in motion close to the driver. Pairs of branch wires ran likewise be carried into every carriage of the train if thought desirable, and thus a means is afforded to the pa-sen gers as well as the guards of apprising the driver of danger. In the experiment yesterday morning the safety chains were in their usual condition, and it was, conse quently, anticipated that some failures might have occurred from the rust rendering the contact of the hake and conse quently the galvanic circuit incomplete. Such, however, was not the ewe. In every instance the signal was made without a single failure. To avoid, however, the possibility of a failure from this cause, the exidetion of chains long out of use, it is proposed by the inventors that the chains should be galvanised by a very simple inexpensive process. The code of signals, or mode of telegraphing a message, will, of course, be a subject of future arrangement, and presents no difficulty, should the galvanic apparatus, which we have endeavoured to describe, eventually succeed, u our reporter is assured by the railway . o ffi cials was most completely the case with the rough experiments made yes terday. This morning (Tuesday) the 10 o'clock train from Brighton will consist of the carriages used in the experi ments of yesterdny. It will arrive at the London-bridge station at 12 o'clock ; and Mr. Clarke and the railway engineers will be in the train, in order to give the invention another trial. FRONT OP A HOUSE CARRIED AWAY BY A CARA cert.—About a quarter before nine o'clock yesterday morn ing, so the vehicles used to convey the artid,s that form the Chinese Exhibition from Fairfield, Bow, en route for Bir mingham, entered Leadenhall-street, one of the caravans, which was heavily laden, with a greater breadth at top than at bottom, drew up close to the kerb, when, on coming oppo site to No. 70, which is in the occupation of Mr. Cockburn, toyman, the front of whose hour. is one of the old projecting ones, extending 4 feet 7 inches beyond the line of houses, the heavy packed load caught against the projecting front. The carman, not being aware of the danger, and having a power ful team, whipped his horses, which made them go for ward, when a terrific crash was heard, and in an instant the projecting portion came down. The police-constable on duty was knocked down by some of the falling timbers, but sus tained no serious injuries. INQUESTS, YESTERDAY.— SUSPECTED CASE OP POMO:VINO AT HACKNET.—Before Mr. W. Baker, resumed a' the Dolphin Tavern, Mare-street, hackney, on the body of Mrs. Frances Sheridan, aged 70, alleged to have been poisoned. The deceased was the widow of an officer in the army, and lately resided in the above street with her son William, an excise officer, and two daughters. Oa the former assembly of the jury William was charged with having murdered the deceased by poison, and he was yester day taken into custody on the coroner's order.—Mr. W. Tidy, surgeon, of Mare-street, said that he was first called to deceased on the 23d ult., and found her very sick and vomiting. One of the daug hters told witness that she had been taken suddenly ill, and had vomited similarly to her mother. Witness suspected that she had been taking some thing deleterious, and the daughter volunteered an accuse, tion against her brother William, complaining at the same time of various acts of violence on his part towards the fa mily.—Police-sergeant Hswkes said that there had been family disturbances for some twelvemonths past.—MrjHak in, surgeon, said he saw deceased a few hours previously to her death, which took place on the 29th ult. He had since made a post mortem examination, and found the liver was unusually large, and the lungs were perfectly healthy. The stomach contained about six ounces of dark fluid. The contents of the stomach were sent to Dr. Letheby for analysis. There was sufficient poison in the bowels to account for death.—By the Coroner Irritant poison would have pro duced all the appearances described.—Dr. H. Letheby, chemical lecturer at the London Hospital, stated that he re ceived three jars from Mr. Hakin, the smallest one con taining the contents of the stomach, and the two larger ones the stomach and the intestines together, with portions of the liver and lungs. He had subjected about half a pound of the liver to analysis, and was able to detect an abundance of arsenic (exhibited to the jury in a glass tube). It was more than sufficient to cause death. Had further analysed the contents of the liver, and detected arsenic there also. De ceased had evidently for some time been suffering from arsenic, and from the detection of arsenic in the contents of the intestines he was of opinion that deceased had had a dose within forty-eight hours of oar death.—The Coroner suggested an adjournment of the proceedings, in order that in the interim the prisoner might be taken before the magistrate, and the matter undergo a thorough investigation. Adjourned accordingly.—CHlLD MURDER. Before Mr. W. Carter, by adjournment, at the Pilgrim Tavern, East-lane, Walworth, respecting the death of • newly-born male child that had been murdered and left in the public streets.--Mary Cook, of East-lane, t h h W ea: i r r o d:t g r t h h e h f r 'e sta ted ri.o e. a i f are called infant.that r cohn t he night Orchard-place, gee.hott and or o f round to . 23 t o n d e a w u l l y.b narrow she rn child lying in the • . . severe loss of blood. There was no question that the deceased bad been wilfully neglected. The jury returned a verdictof " Wilful murder against some person or persons unknown."_ CHILD KILLED WITH SYRUP OP POPPISS.—Before Mr. W. Carter, at the Hampton Court T Francis-street, Newington, respecting the death of Harriet Jane Cloak, aged 7 weeks, whe died from the effects of poison. —Mr. It. Pnor, surgeon, of Marlborough-place, Walworth, said that he was called on Wednesday afternoon last to the the deceased, whom he found in a dying state, and from its appearance he felt satisfied that it was suffering from the effutts of a nar cotic. Ile accused the parents of having given the child something of a deleterious nature ; which the father denied ; but subaequently he admitted that he lied given the de ceased some medicine, which they had procured from Mr. Bellamy, a chemist, residing at Newington.causewse. Wit ness examined the bottle, and found that it contained a con. coction of opium, commonly called syrup of poppies, which was used to a great extent by persona totally ignorant of its poisonous properties. Witness had no hesitation in saying the ehiid had been killed by the mixture which had bee n administered by the parents inadvertently.—The father stated that on Sunday, the 31st ult., he and his wile took the deceased to Mr. Bellemy's shop, es it laboured under one. tiveness. They had been giving the child castor oil, when Mr. Bellamy suggested a change, and gave them a powder, and on the following morning he sent them a bottle of medi cine, which was that Mr. Prior had taken charge of. Th e deceased was quite healthy previous to taking the medicine, and they were totally ignorant of its being dangerous—The Coroeer animadverted in strong terms on the culpable nature of the case, and the investigation was eventually adjourned for the attendance of Mr. Bellamy.-- MYSTERIOUS Aer•th.—Before Mr. Higgs, at the Bull's Head, Clapham, relative to the death sf Mr. Jonathan Orme, aged 76, a retired tradesman, possessed of considerable pro. petty. On Saturday afternoon lan, at four o'clock, the re mains of the deceased arrived at St. Paul'a Chapel far inter ment. Aaron Orme, a son of the deceased, obtained an interview with the Rev. Mr. McGill, the curate, and hewing' stated that he believed his father's death to be the result of violence and improper means, the curate ordered the body to be locked up in a vault until a coroner's inqui et co u ld be holden. Aaron Orme deposed that his mother died in 1840, and that on the 23rd of June, 1843, the deceased married his servant girl, Itachel Ilagebrook, aged 23 . A, estrangement consequently arose between the deceased sett his children, and for a twelvemonth none of the family had seen him. The last who saw deceased was his eon Aaron, who went to him for some assistance as be was in distress, when be found his parent under the entire subjection of his wife, who told him to take his children and himself into the workhouse, and not come troubling them. On Thursday lout, the wit ness Aaron and his brother received each a letter from de. ceased's wife. The letters were addressed from 6, St. George's-place, Brixton-road, which was one of deceased's houses, and stated that their parent was dead, and that if they wished to ate him before he was buried, they were to come immediately. In one of the letters deceased was said to have expired OA Sunday, and in the other on the Monday. The deceased's eon Aaron went to St. George's place on Thursday evening, and requested to see his father. The widow told him he must come again on Saturday, when he would be buried. She then told him the deceased, who had been very imbecile for the last twelve months, had left her all his property. Another extraordinary fact was, that although the widow had led the witness to suppose hi e father's body was then in the house, he was in tact then lying dead et her mother's house, near Chelmsford, from whence he was only brought to town on Saturday, by the Eastern Counties Railway. When he saw his iither on Saturday, which he did nut do without great diflecul y, he was astounded at his attenuated appearance, which caused the communication to the clergyman.—Dr. M'Donough proved he had made an external examination of the body. It was much attenuated, and deceased had evideat'y been neglected; and there were ulcers on the wrists, as if he had been hound with cords—The inquiry was adjourned, in order that a post mortens examination might be made.— FISTALOCCURRENCEON7FIEGRAND JtheeTlONCANAL.—Be fore 3lr Mills, at Uxbridge, to inquireintothe circumstances attending the death of Anne Bridges, aged 40, who died on the night of Friday last from the effect of injuries she re ceived ea the evening of that day week. The der aged was the wife of Isaac Bridges, a monkey-boat man, living at Tipton, in Staffordshire, and in the employ of Mr.Biesell, the canal carrier, in whose service he had been 30 years, having himself been been in a monkey-boat on the Grand Junction Canal. On Friday, the 29th ult., Bridges was proceeding with a boat called the Ruth, and followed by another but called the George, of which his brother, Aired Bridges, was captain, Brom London to Northampton. When in - Bewley Deep, in the parish of Hayes, near Uxbridge, they were met by two boats going in a contrary direction. Bissell's boats are what are called slow boats, travelling only by day, while Crowley's boats are " fly-bores," travelling both night mid day. According to the rules laid down for the navigation of the canal, it is the duty of the boats coming from London to keep the ineide, nearest to the towing-path, and fur the in coming boat to stop his horse and let the rope go under the outgoing boat. This the first of Crow ley's boats did, but the second, of which G. Childs was the captain, did not stop their horse, which was close to the hedge instead of the water, when Isaac Bridges raised his rope over the Wellington's horse, and called to Hickman to stop his horse, which he did not de, and the Wellington's (the second of Crowley's boats) rope consequently forced the rope of the Ruth off the spring, and dragged the deceased off the hatchway, under the tiller of the boat where she was steering, steering, and threw her into the canal. Her husband hear. ing her screams, instantly jumped into the water to rescue her, but being a very heavy woman, and the canal being beyond his depth, they would have been both drowned had not the husband's brother, hearing the cries, ran to their assistance, end by means f the Wellington's rope got them out. It was then found that the eame rope was fastened round the deceased's right leg and wrist, by which she had sustained serious injuries, from which the blood was Bowing profusely. The unfortunate woman was taken on board the boat, and on theirarrival at Uxbridge, was attended by a sur geon till her death, which took place on Friday. AMa morfem examination . of the body was made ; there could be no question whatever that the injuries the deceased had received were the Cause of death. Verdict: " Manslaughter" against William Hickman. The prisoner was then committed to Newgate. THE PANIC AND THE CURRENCY. One currency act car.not be destroyed without sub stituting another. The repeal of the act 1844 cannot be carried alone. There must be a substitution of some other scheme for that which recently existed, which is, indeed, only suspended. Three modes of arranging the eerie of paper money are suggested : the first is an exclusive issue by government; the second, an issue by specially-privileged in corporations, companies, and individuals, as m present; the third is by free trade in money—that is, by permitting all companies who con comply with the regulations devised and adopted, to issue bills for small viols payable in bullion on demand. To the first scheme we have a leading objection, arising from the circumstance that the government me chanism is already sufficiently unwieldy, and again from the suspicion that might be engendered of government inter. ference through its issues with the course of business. In reference to the second or existing scheme, while we deny sot the abstract right of government to manufacture, or even to manufacture exclusively, paper money, yet vs dsay any right, in justice, that it can have to pass sway Ibis privilege to a certain number of private companies er individuals. The right in law is net to be qua. dossed. The legislature makes the statute, but what is right in law may not always be sound in policy or just is smarals. We see no ground to justify the bestowal of an ex clusive privilege to make money—the current representative of capital—and itself real capital or not, as the case may be. The government have monopolised the conveyance of letters, which is done ill and cheaply . the work is not done ill be muse it is done cheaply ; but both characteristics exist to gether ; and without denying the right of the government to essevey the mails exclusively, we should deny the moral right of the legislature to bestow this privilege or Maness en one or two private companies—on the London and ,oetk Western, or on Pick'ord and Co. We have, therefore, • radical objection to the second plan. It is a monopoly, and sli monopolies are essentially imprudent and impolitic. The third plan prevailed in Scotland to the date of the act 1845 and 1846, which confined the power of Outing paper money exclusively to the banks of issue then estab lished in that country. The Bank of England Charter presents an objection to the adoption of free-trade in the metropolis and some parts of England. That charter has its date, and it has its money value. We know when it will die out, and we know also that it may be bought out ; while we do not think that any wax which could be necessary for that purpose should pre vent a great national reform. Assuming, therefore, that the Bank of England can be approached with proposels regard- Mg the sale of its charter, we reach the conditions on which say company might be permitted to issue notes for small same payable on demand. Thus are many distinctions between a bank and trading asnaposies for general purposes. In depositing money,• mesa satisfies himself respecting his banker's sonclar and saisency. Inquiries are not often made; appearances are seedily set down for feces; and sometimes the shrewdest depositors choose the crooked stick • yet we are boiled to sappose that in a leisurely acid deliberate transaction, nun , assa is done, in this regard, on a sound basis. A bank of issue, however, asks credit from the public. Its wares are thrown into every Males hand ; and it is not de sirable, as a shopkeeper or trader takes their bills, that he should be obliged to consult some authority regarding their validity. They should bear the mark of being coed and solvent promises to pay on their brow. There should be so doubt left on the enbject. The government warranty can be affixed to each note, and thus, wherever it pares, it may be known to represent in good faith one pound, or five, or ten pounds' worth of negotiable property. In asking security for the currency we are reminded of the much larger capital in deposits le ft with bankers; but that is the business of each individual depositor; while the currency affects all dames, and no clans should, we repeat, be com pelled to maks special inquiries regarding the character and solvency of every Bank in the kingdom. Our proposal embrace*, first, the purchase of Consols by the hankers who mean to issue note., equal in *mount to one-third above the sum which they intend to issue. Thus, if their fixed issue shall be 240.0001., we propom that they should hold government stock to the nominal value of 320,0001., productive of dividends annually to their concern, but in every other respect withdrawn from the market, and • %,