The Express. — London, England, 1847-04-01 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—WEDNiaDaY, MARCH 31. The SPEAKIR took the chair at 12 o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. PETITIONS.-By Sir R. thous, from the Provost and Yellows of Eton Coilee. &unmet the Windsor, Stamm, sod South-Weetern R s o f Mr. M m m f l m s from rmillio nernen Mutest the London, and Cheltenham ithilwsy Md. Col. Rue, from Col. SIM Ibmp,• ' aping the same. Mr. as, from certain parties, added theEdinburet most Northern Railway Bill. BEOOND ItEAPINGS.-Caledonnut Railway (Branches to Willem town, to FAuldhvu.e, and to Biggar and Broughton); Caledoonn way (Edinburgh Station, and Brioche. to Gemmel and to the Ma Its - keup a i rr u tiner Resew. 1; i CoLh mo este n r s, Navigation and ]copse s; llllTcjiester'itturporation Waterworks (Power to mil to the Manchester I and Salforterworks Company); Manchester Corporation Weer (Power to porch the Manctienes and Salford Waterworks); BUM. PUBLIC BUSINESS. PETITiONA -DT Mr. bowie, from a place In Emek. Meshed the Raman Ortholic Relief Mr. Bowan" from Bradford, two petitions, me is favour of and one ageing the government scheme of 'decodes.thargerr, from Leeds% in faeour of the echerne.-- Ey Mr. Mess, from Oreat Drillield, against the same.-By Major Urania, from Carlow, against trees-officio guardian clause in Irish Pow Bill.-By Mr. B. Dthison, from Bradthed, in favour of the bill for the orotaation of feraideso-By lord bamos, from Liverpool, signal by the two rectors, the tackero of the celkne, end ot praying for the education uf the middle climes as well as the poor.- Ey Mr. lisussisitros, from • place in Norlisamptossegae, whist th e education scheme.-Fly Lord J. Kuwait. from Rugby and district of Ail Saints, 04!. Pancras, In favour of th- same; from Wexford, for re peal of the unloa.-By Sir G. Gaol, (rota Denbigh, for amendment of law relative to juvenile offenders; two petitions from Davenport against the government scheme of education. -By Captain Parana., from Brighton, Mr. 011,MIZ from Lancaster, in favour of the Row= Catholic Relief BBL -By Mr. MtCsitene, from grand jury of city of Clark, in favour of uniformity of rating for relief of the Irish poor. SECOND KEADINGS.-Prlecina (Ireland) and Troops during Elec tions Bills. C)MICTIEE.-Army _Service Bill. REPOltft4.-Pour Rebel (Inland), fever (Ireland), Harbours, Po., domes. Portland Metier Bilk. 411111 D ge:ADINCL-Coseenw Duties BBL RETURNS °EDI:RED.-0n the motion of Mr. Main return of boys entered on board bee Modesty% sides Or Mel& of war, from Ist atlas. to list Dec., 1844, bee sebum ll obiesa, and howeilesseell ; elan, a return ol the somber of reeky cillsers, seamen, or boys, in vslidel, discharged , doserhid, or Mel, Ise same period ; return - be Ste Begister-Cemealef lingling. cd the number of boys opmendsed be same period, and be whet time aggeenticed; return of number et orals ankideil be erns period, son bow 'darted ; eke loseletwapy of mbar of *Mum Ohm before their attest sereftessentheftbult•lle Trees 11111.-On the media ef Cionessw, retwni sore( money bailed our by ehr Jake =Mrs, Imiseese le the corpersdee el Ur efty_el slue et all new pall by Lord Cludesstit red tbs Must Osrueilsome te the suite of the cierperstlen el the Ay et Wile; sue Warr bielersespelled to thethinblatienet the Debeentare =it TIES odorriempom, sal, if say pert of sea debt Metres dme mei - pordenbre. 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New llocsu or Psmarumer.-Mr. name or Tuesday, the 13th ef April, to move for • Memo, the sumo oxpooded ea the erection of the new Bootee of Pune:sent to December leek and to Inquire the whole amount repulsed for their completion. Tar Mr UOPOLITAS BOELDINO• Acr.-Mr. T. Dream ea, on the 10th April, to move for • slept committee to inquire Into the operation or thie set. MASTERS IN CHANCERY. Mr. 11UNIE said that as there was a vacancy in the mas terships in Chancery, by the resignation of Mr. Lynch, be wished to ask if it was the intention of the noble lord at the head of the government to fill it up until the report of Vice- Chancellor Wigram, and others, who had been appointed to inquire as to the best way of rendering the duties of those officers more efficient, was received Lord J. RUSSELL said when the vacancy occurred he re ceived a communication from the Lord Chancellor, stating that he wished to consider whether anything could he done in this matter before the office was filled up. He (Lord J. Russell), therefore, consented to wait a fortnight; and, if necessary, there wonld be a further delay. ADJOURNMENT OF THE HOUSE. Lord J. RUSSELL begged to move that the house at its rising do adjourn till Monday, 12th April. On that day I propose to go into committee of supply, and to take the re mainder of the navy estimates. I believe the honourable and gallant member for Liverpool, and the honourable and gallant member for Westminster, have notices of motion on going into committee of supply, which I hope they will take on that day. I also propose then to take a further stage of the Army Service Bill, and any other busine , s which is on the order of the day, to which there is no objection. As I ;said the other day, I shall not take the supervision of the Poor Relief (Ireland) Bill till a future day. On the Friday after the recess it is my intention to propose the third reading of the Poor Relief (Ireland) Bill, and the Improvement of Landed Property Bill. JEWISH DISABILITIES. Mr. TRELAWNY begged to ask if it was the intention of the government to introduce a bill for the removal of Jewish disabilities ? Lord J. RUSSELL-It is not the intention of the government to bring in ouch a bill this session ; but the sub iect is under the consideration of my right hon. friend the Home Secretary, and a bill will be introduced in a future session. POLICE AT BRIGHTON. Capt. PECHELL renewed the question he had put to the right hon. gentleman the Horne Secretary, on Friday evening, with regard to the case of lour persons who had been taken into custody at Brighton, and who were not allowed to consult with their legal advisers without the presence of a policeman. He wished to know if there was any inten tion of altering the law on this point ? Sir G. GREY said that on inquiry he had ascertained that on the occasion referred to, the policeman was not in ouch a position as to hear what pained between the prisoners and their solicitor, and he bad been assured by the magis wates that every facility was always given for such commu nications. POOR LAW COMMISSIONERS. Capt. PECHELL wished to know if it was the intention of the government to supersede the present poor-law com missioners during the present session, or if they were to continue in office? Lord J. RUSSELL-My right hon. friend the Home Secretary pas a bill in preparation on this subject, which will be brought in after the recess. CLERKS OF SMALL DEBT COURTS. Mr. AGLIONBY wished to ask if the clerks of the old Metropolitan Small Debt Courts, who had been displaced by the operation of the new act, would receive any compen sation for the loss of their offices ? Sir G. GREY said the appointment of these officers was vested be the act in the judges or the courts, subject to the approval of the Lord Chancellor, and he did not believe that the clerks alluded to, who had lost their places, came within the rule which entitled them to compensation. IMPORTATION OF CORN. Mr. NEWDEGATE was understood to urge on the go vernment the speedy production of some returns in relation to the importation of corn, for which he had moved on the 4th February. Mr. HAWES said the subject bad list been neglected by his right hon. friend the Viced'resident of the Board of Trade, who was absent from illness, but he would commu nicate with him on the subject. The motion for the adjournment of the house was then agreed to. PUBLIC WORKS (IRELAND), Mr. LABOUCHERE wished to correct an inlets curacy in a statement which he bad made with regard to the reduction of the number of persons co the public works in Ireland twenty per cent He bad gated correctly that the directions of the govern ment were that the reduction should be 20 per cent. on the aggregate, and he proceeded to say that it was left to the discretion of the Lord-Lieutenant to apply that principle to a large or *roan extent, in different places according to min cumstances, so that the general aggreg ate was 20 per cent. He found that the Lord-Lieutenant did not conceive that the discretion was in him ' but ought to be leR to the Board of Works, acting under the orders of the Treasury. He thought it was due to the Lord-Lieutenant to make this statement, and he thought he had evinced a sound judg ment in leaving it to the Board of Works to apply this dis cretion, as they must have the best knowledge as to where it should be carried out. Mr. STAFFORD O'BRIEN thought the Lord-Lieutenant had exercised a sound discretion in leaving this to the Board of Work,, and from information he had received he could say that the plan was working satisfactorily in his locality. Mr. EWART asked if there were any returns of the de crease of labourers on the public works. Mr. LABOUCHERE said a return was on the table of the house, and would be furnished from time to time. Lord J. RUSSELL said as they were shout to adjourn, he might as well mention that by the last account, for the week ending March 27, the sum expended on the public works was 210,5061. ECCLESIASTICAL COMMISSION. went would be made to sheolve the hon. and learned mem ber from attending one nr other of the committees. PAUPER LUNATIC ASYLUMS. Mr. NICIIOLL lugged to ask the right hon. gentleman, the Secretary for the Home Department, whether her Ma jesty's government contemplated any alteration in the law respecting pauper lunatic asylum, whereby counties or b ,roughs having no asylum for the pauper lunatics thereof, will be relieved from the duty of erecting or providing such an asylum in conformity with the provisions of the act 8 & 9 Victoria, ch. 1'26, and the 9 & 10 Victoria, ch 84? also, whether it was intended to enforce the performance of that duty ? Sir GEORGE GREY had no hesitation in answering, that it was not in the contemplation of government to make any such alteration in the law. With respect to the second question, the right hon. gentleman was aware that under the first act it was provided that if, within three years from the pawing of the act any county or borough shall neglect to perform that duty, the secretary of state was empowered to call upou the justices to do so. The three years would not expire until Aug. 1848, but at the expiration of that time the home-aecretary would, of course, agoras the performance of the duty imposed by the statute.. POOR REMOVAL ACT. Mr. It. YORKE inquired whether, in the event of there being no general revision this session of the poor-law system, the government intended to repeal the Poor Removal Act. Sir G. GREY was not prepared at present to answer the question. 'rhe subject of the law of settlement was now under the consideration of a select committee, end he would rather reserve the expression of any opinion until that com mittee had presented their report to the house. Mr. R. YORKE said that if the house did not receive any information on the subject soon after the Easter recess, he should feel it his duty to more fur leave to bring in a bill to repeal the Poor Removal Act. POOlt RELIEF (IRELAND) BILL. On reading the order of the day for the bringing up the Report on the Poor Relief (Ireland) Bill, Mr. HAMILTON claimed permission to read tothe house a letter he had received from Mr. Longfleld, of Kauturk, in reference to a statement made on a former evening by the leo, baronet, the member for Marylebone (Sir B. Hall), that Yr. Longfield, though he received 6,0001. a year, had contri buted only 151. to the relief committee. Mr. Longfield in his let ter stated that his property in Kanturk was a rent-charge of 4361., and that to the relief committee of that union he had given 301., or just double the sum stated by the hon. baronet. He added, that instead of his income being 6,0001. it was I only 3,0001. and that he subscribed the sum of 2501. to dif ferent relief committee' throughout Ireland. Sit B. HALL replied that he had made the statement not from his own knowledge, but from information contained in letters which had been addressed to him, and he had now in his hand two letters from rev. gentlemen resident in the district of Kanturk informing him that his statements were perfectly correct. In these disputes about Irish facto he thought it would be well if a return, which on his motion bad been ordered on the 4th Feb. last, was directed to be made forthwith. That return would show the amount of subscriptions given in each union in Ireland, and this would prove whether or not the Irish landlords had done their duty at this trying crisis Mr. LBFROY had received many letters from gentle men resident in Ireland, complaining of the attacks made upon *on in that house, not only by the hon. baronet Eh.Mk B. Hall) but by the hon. member for Rochdale S. Crawford), who was himself an Irishman. The ........d several extracts, and stated that he should Ike ream in obtaining authentic means of vindi. tawny of the Irish landlords from the unjust and tue• attacks to which they had been subjected in that home. Mr. J. YOUNG begged to call attention to the terms of the return moved fur on the 4th Fels. by the has. baronet the member for Marylebone, who had now left the house. A portion of the return was for " the amount et any subscriptions for the relief of the poor in every union in Ireland, distinguishing, first, the balance (if any) remaining from the subscriptions of 1845 and 1846; secondly, the private subscriptions advanced by owners, lesson, and emu. piers of property, within each union; third, the subscrip tion, received from other mums; and fourth, the amount received from public grants." Such a return would include the names of ostentatious rich persons who wished to show the extent of their charity, while from it would be excluded the names of those who were resident on their property and quietly discharging their duty to the poor around them. Against such a return he must protest, as being calculated to create invidious distinctions and to raise unjust inferences. In hie opinion it ought to be expunged from the records of ' the house. Sir G. GREY agreed in thinking that this return would give a very incorrect view of the manner in which the resi dent Irish landlords had conducted themselves. The house had, however, a right to demand the amount of the local subscriptions, in respect of which public grants had been made. He would, in the recess, undertake to consider if such a re. turn could be given without making any invidious dis tinctions. Mr. P. SCROPE thought the return as ordered most de sirable to be furnished to the house. He had hitherto re frained from stating the contents of letters he had received, showing the neglect by the Irish landlords of the duties which belonged to them, but if the hon. member for Lmg - ford ventured, alter the recess, upon their defence,he (Mr. P. Scrope) should no longer keep back the information he had received. Mr. STAFFORD O'BRIEN hoped the house would be spared this threatened recrimination. (Hear, hear.) It was contrary to the spirit and temper which the government had exhibited throughout the discussiion of the important measures which they had curried through—measures which, though he had opposed in parts, he should, as a magistrate sod landlord, endeavour to carry Mao operation and effect, with the same feeling and spirit of forbearance. (Hear.) Mr. V. SMITH thought the return would he most unjust sad invidious. The course would be to move, in case it was presented, that it should not be printed. Mr. GOULBURN suggered that, as the bon. member for Cavan of course would not, in the absence of the hon. member for Marylebone (Sir B. Hall), move to rescind the order, it would be well that he should receive an assurance from the government, that the return, so far as it related to the amount of individual subwriptious, should not be made , until his hon. friend should have an opportunity, after the' recess, of moving in the matter. Mr. LAI3OUCHEItE said there was no difficulty, after what bad been stated by his right hon. friend (Sir G. Grey), in giving that assurance. After a few words from Mr. TRRLAWNY, the converse. tion dropped, and the report was brought up and received. Sir G. GREY moved the insertion, JO clauses 1 and 2, of words extending the provisions of those clauses to p p0 000rr persons disabled from labour by severe sickness or aeeldsat. Inquiries were made, by Mr. P. Senora and Mr. G. HAMILTON, an to the provisions for medical officers; in amwer to which Sir G. GREY stated that the 13th clause embraced the neeessery provisions. The bill was ordered to be read a third time on Friday, the 16th Aril. ARMY SERVICE BILL. ._. .. . -. The house then went into committee on this bill. Sir DE L. BVANB said he wished to make a few remark* on some statements which had been made by the right hon. gentleman, the late secretary at war. After declaring that 16 years was the average period of service entitling to a pen sion, the hon. and gallant officer proposed the extraordinary boon to the soldier of a reduction of a single year. Such a leontaiopathic measure would be perfectly nugatory. (Hear, bear.) The hon. and gallant member for Liverpool had appeared to chance himself with the care of the duties of the Chancellor of the Exchequer; but he thought that right hon. gentleman and the government at large might safely be trusted with the pecuniary part of the question. As to the dis patch of the Duke of Wellington from the Peninsula, which had been referred to, it did not appear that the slightest difficulty had been experienced in re-enlisting the men. ' This fact was abundantly sufficieut to remove the fears which had been expressed as to the operation of the bill now before the house. To object to the bill because it made no provi , sem for honours and rewards, aa had been done by the hon. sod gallant member for Liverpool, was entirely out of place ; kr Ss resat measure was one relating to enlistment only, net to rerenirds and honours to the army. He rejoiced to /sow that, under the present management, many promotions from the ranks were taking place ; in the last year, no fewer than 43 non-commissioned officers had been promoted to cornet-ships and ensigneies ; and another instance of the in creasing liberality of the government was in providing out fits for those officers. This, after all, aras but tardy justice ; in these measures we had been anticipated by the French and Russian governments. It had been made matter of complaint that there was no general officer in the present cabinet ; but there were at least four individuals who had filled the office of secretary-at-war, and their opinion was of es great weight on a question of this kind as that of as many general officers. The hon. and gallant member then pro ceeded to reply, at some length, to an attack which had been made upon him in the Morning Posl, referring to a despatch of the Duke of Wellington, in which his grace had expressed an opinion that the pensions were inadequate, and that the government had never taken an extended view of the sub ject,—he contended that the inference was that the noble duke was favourable to the changes now proposed. Mr. GOULBURN said, that no sufficient argument had been offered by the right hon. the secretary at war against the proposition that had been made on a former day for ex tending the period of enlistment to 14 Tears. lie thought it extremely improbable that commanding officers would be more backward to re-enlist men who had served 14 years— and had thus had four years' more experience—than those who had only served 10 years. By adopting the longer pe riod of 14 years, he oontended that the danger would be avoided of introducing distinctions, and consequent dissatis faction, into the army. He thought it extremely improper that attempts should be made to influence this important discussion by surmises as to what might be the feelings of a distinguished individual with whom the eovernment had been in communication on this subject. (Hear, hear.) The question of 7, 10, or 14 years service was a most impottant one, and one which could not fail greatly to influence the character of the army. By adopting limited service, he believed that • better class of men might be obtaimed ; but he wee decidedly in favour of not fixing the period lower than 14 years. If the ten years' system was adopted, its necessary result, after it had been some years in operation, was, that one-tenth of the men in every regiment would be annually discharged ; and this occurring with regard to regiments in the colonies, would greatly en hance the expenses of transport. It was highly probable that when a regiment was on active service abroad, all the men whose periods bad expired would re-enlist ,• but in the colo nies, where there was little excitement, and little stimulus to a military teeter, it mild not be doubted that the great bulk of those discharged would not re-enlist. As to the amount of pensions, he deprecated any interference on the part of this house, but he thought it moat desirable that the well-con ducted soldier who had served 21 year, should receive, un der the regulation of the proper authorities, an amount of pension which would place trim beyond the reach of want. (u t or.) go was confident that this might be dune without Lord 1. RUSSELL the introduction of a bill for amending thecommie/dor, till Tuesday, April 20. COMMITTEES OF THE HOUSE. kir. AOLIONBY wished to appeal to the house in COM. quence of no notice having been sent to him till this morning of his appointment as a member of a railway committee. He thought that a notice should be sent to members who were selected for any group, so that they might have an opportunity of ascertaining whether there were any reasons why they should not be put on it. This was, however, not done, but only a general notice was sent. requeetiug to know when he would be ready to serve. it was only this morning that be received a notice that he was appointed chairman of a group which sat on the 28th April. He was already on two other committees which had not terminated their labours. The railway committee would require from him continuous attendance, and therefore he asked to be relieved from serving upon one or other of the committees he had men tioned. Mr. F. MAULS laid if the hon. and learned member would repeat the statement he had just merle to the house to the chairman of the committee of sekction, no doubt; an arrange tration a degree o f wisdom, which is by no means more the lot of cabinet winisters thun of town mayors. In order that this new sod central authority should not become a permanent ilie;atorship, it should not be given to a minister; above M.'. not to the head of a ..litieal department, like the Secretary of the Horne I ,'oe. We must own that we !mould have preferred a committee of the Privy Council, notwithstanding I Lord MORPETII'S objection, which we think a very futile one, viz., the present unpopularity of such com mittees. Great reforms, even in health and education, are not to be worked by smiles or summer sailing. It is rough work; a little unpopularity is inevitable, and Lord MORPETII'S new board will not escape it. How ever, we accept the board, and, as a board of sanitary reform, destined to abdicate its powers, as soon as the reform was complete, and a system of health in towns established, we would give it much greater powers than Lord MORPETII has thought fit to claim. And greater powers, we think,his commis sion will want. As a permanent and fixed board, exercising supervision, it would not require so much. Government has been wise, we think, in entrusting the execution and control of sanitory measures to the municipal bodies. If these bodies are not fit for each a task, what are they fit for? There may no doubt be inconveniences, parties the unavoidable drawbacks of a free system. But to tell the muni cipal bodies of England that they cannot direct or control the opening and building of their own sewers, would be directly outrageous. All that is required is to enforce exertion and provide intelligence. But the subject of the machinery by which the central board is to direct monitory reform, is a subject to bo treated separately and fully. For the present, we shall conclude with a summary of the provisions of the bill. /It provides for the appointment of a Board of Health and Public Works, to consist of three paid members, one member of the government, and the Chief Commissioner of Weeds and Forests as ex- officio chairman. This board is to have the power to direct inquiry into the sanitory condition of any town or district, whether on petition from the place or otherwise. The inspectors will then make a entry and report, and the necessary powers for executing any required works will be conferred on the lowa administrative body. This comprises the first or central stage of the operations. The local body, it is proposed, shall, in corporate towns, be the existing town council. Unincorporated towns may apply for incorporation for sanitary pur poses, or elect a body of commissioners, to which the ,antral board will nominate, as adjuncts, a num ber not exceeding one-third of those so elected. The act is to be confined to England, including Lon don. It proposes to give a power to the crown, of extinguishing all bodies of commissioners acting under local acts, for any purpose connected with sant tory legislation, in order that their various powers may vest in one and the same authority. The bill also proposes the appointment of an inspector-general, to be an engineer of eminence, and of a medical in spector-general, in addition to the local surveyors and health officers to be appointed by the local authorities. Provisions are to be inserted in the bill for enabling such authorities to contract with gas and water com panies, to construct works, and, if necessary, compel the sale of such works, as already existing. The expense of permanent works will, by the bill, be spread over a aeries of years, and imposed on occu piers, instead of owners, according tothe recommen dation in the report of the Health of Towns Associa tion on Lord LINCOLN'S bill. THE discoveries effected by Sir THOMAS MITCIIELL in his attempt to reach Port Essington by an overland , route from the junction of the Darling and Macquarric rivers—of which an account appears in this day's publication—are more practically useful than brilliant. His party do not appear to have met with any stirring adventures, and comparatively little has been added by their researches to the light thrown by Dr. LEICII HARDT on the physical geography of that part of the Australian continent. lint Sir THONI has laid open extensive tracts of country—available in the first place for the pioneer operations of the stockholder, and ulti mately for those of the tiller of the soil—easily acces sible from the Bathurst district by the route of the Maequarrie and Narran, from New England by the Darling and the Narran. These discoveries will, it is to be hoped, act as a spur to urge on government to attempt a final and satisfactory settlement of its misunderstandings with the stockholders of New South Wales—since the obvious advantage to be derived from promoting emigration in the present state of the country has not had that effect. Already, almost all the lands within the previously explored regions of New South Wales arc occupied as sheep or cattle stations by stock holders. That enterprising clam will immediately precipitate themselves into the new country. It will be a heavy drawback on the progress of the colony if they are to carry along . with them all that uncer tainty as to their actual rights—all that precarious ness of tenure, which has for some years contributed to render the value of property in Australia fluctu ating and deceptive, and to keep alive jealousies and grudges between government and the subject. The controversy with the stockholders has, on the part of the government, been carried on, hitherto, too much as if it were merely a land-granting question. In point of fast, it has passed that stage, and merged to a great extent in a land-tenure question. As long ago as 1836, Mr. WAKEFIELD, when exa mined before the committee of the House of ghe epprtgo. MAILS. The West India =tils, including three for Mexico, Honduras, and the ilavannalt, will be made up on the morning Mike 2nd April. The overland mails for Gibraltar, Malta, Grew*, the lonian Ulundi, Ervitt, Aden, Ceylon, India, llong•Kong, and China, rile Soutnam;aon, will be MAC up on the morning of the and The mean for Width North Amerka, Bermuda, and the United States, will be mark up on the evening of the 3rd April. The Sarah Sande steamer is appoints:] to roil *MI Liverpool 011 the Otto April, for New York ; letters in time on the sth AWL The mails for the Brent* the River Plate, Monte Video, Pernien =Bthia, Madeira, and Buena , Ayres, will be made op tut the of the Stb AprO. The mails for Vigo, Oporto Lisboa, Madeira, Cadiz, and Gibraltar ail IDs made no en the morning of the 7th April. The event:mit timed mails, via Marseilles, to the Mediterranean, =Adele, Ceylon, India, ]long Kong, Re., will be made up oa the tithe 7th April. 11111 MMUS for New South Vales, Van Diemen's Land, and New Zola will be made tip on the evening of the 30th April. TO CORRESPONDENTS. Tye Ai lsrthis Moos ot the " DAILY NEWS^ Awl " EXPREsS ' base boos =WED b SO, FLEST-STREET, to No. to . DOUVIDISIWOIIIIIIT,PLIZY-MEET, contiguous to the Yrtetles . . . - red ... l;libllt 0 — Yea •.• eetwerdeseseete Yodel Ihr The Espouse, London evening paper sane be at tbe Ogee by Two *dock on the day ot publicatioe. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE Tars Mr --Numb% $0 =la. part 2 ; Altaracam, 47 rola. pest 1 ToAtaaaow—llaralap, 0 ada. past 3; Aftarnaaa, 10 win. pa.* 3. LONDON, THURSDAY, APRIL 1. LAWS, regulating or interfering with matters pecu liarly local, like the Sanitory Hill just proposed by Lord MORPETA, are, like Indian idols, easily shaped and carved, and require no wonderful effort of art to give them symmitry. The great difficulty and the great care are to be met with arid observed in building the car which is to support the idol, in framing thehuge wheels and axks, pole and canopy;— the machinery, in short, on which the idol is to be moved through the throng. As to the expediency and necessity of improving the sanitory condition, not merely of towns but villages, there is little use in wasting words, or crowding figures. There is not one of 114 that hath not suffi cient demonstration under his eyes and nose each day, and overpowering and disguiting demonstration after a little search. These sights and scenes, too, appeal, not merely to our feelings of humanity for the poor, but to a more homely sense of conservation for ourselves. Stench and fever expand and One trate the dwellings of the rich, as well as the hovels of the poor. If the question be merely, shall it be done, the answer is a universal affirmative. But the more im portant question is, how ? Our race and country are both of them of self-governing habits. From time immemorial there have been in England municipal rights, local administration, authorities elect. Shall we cashier all these, because they have been tardy or reluctant in the making of sewers and the widening I of streets? Nor is it merely shall we, but can ' we? These considerations end queries do but afford a glimpse of the host of difficulties, which mu-t have met the first imaginers of a sanitory 1•w 011 the very threshhold. And, no doubt, by such • statesman as Lord MORPETII, the representative of a world of busy and populous towns, they were well examined, weighed, and wisely solved. That some central authority should exist, some power to afford intelligence where it is wanting, to en iwee activity where it is slack, and overcome stupid re sistance where it chooses to entrench itself in disease and filth, is manifest And the first question is, where it should be lodged? Our own opinion of these newly and necessarily created centres of authority is, that they should be trusted with great powers for a time, and for the purposes of the reform to be carried into effect, with provision for these powers expiring, and for authority in a great measure returning, the reforms being once effected, to those local magistrates to whom, in our system, they rightly appertain. Such is our opinion of boards, whether for administration of poor-law, the extension of education, or the enforcing of sanitory provisions and regulations. We would meet the objections to the dictatorial powers of commissioners, or the centralising tendency of boards in the capital, by rendering temporary, at least, the first fulness of power, and marking the limit of its duration. Without this, we can well con ceive the general resistance likely to be offered by all towns and localities to a permanent system of legis lstion, which would render the people automatons, and require for the spring and source of all adrainis- Commons on the disposal of waste lands in the colo nies, pointed out the inexpediency of making grants of such lands on any other tenure than fee ,imple. lle showed that quit-rents, and all analogous arrangements for the conveyance of only a limited or terminable proprietary right, bad uniformly ended in a remission of arrears, and transformation of the - tenant right into a fee-simple right; and that, until the crown acquiesced in this losing arrangement, quit-rents, and all other sorts of rents, had served merely as a provocative to litigation and bad blood between the crown and the colonists. . . . These views prevailed : since that time there have nominally been no conveyances of waste lands effected in the colonies, except on the terms of ax out and out sale. But, de flan, in New South Wales, a new kind of tenant-holding under the crown has been allowed to creep in. The " limits of location" have been arbitrarily fixed, and no sales of waste lands allowed beyond them. At the same time, stockholders have been allowed to occupy the " cattle-runs " outside of those limits with their herds and flocks, on paying annually a certain sum for their annually renewable licenses. Call these licenses what you will in the tech nical language of the law—let lawyers make what fine-spun distinctions they like between lands occupied under a license, and lands held under a lease--the stockholders of New South Wales are, in the accep tation of common sense, rent-paying tenants of the crown. And the precariousness of their tenure under a title which must be renewed every year, together with the advantage taken by the local authorities of this unprecedented and anomalous sort of tenure, to claim the right of depriving a stockholder of his license and station, not for any breach of contract, but utterly unconnected with it, for moral delinquencies, or alleged moral delinquencies, has opened up a wide field for oppression and abuse. The stockholders are naturally anxious to render their condition more secure, less exposed to the arbi trary caprices of men in authority. And Government has ehewn a desire to meet their wishes. But an obsta cle is interposed by the difficulty of bringing the two parties to agree as to what is the actual situation, and what are the equitable claims of the stockholders. In the progress of this controversy, individual stock holders may have made exorbitant demands, and the natural disposition of mankind to take the most fa vourable view of their own case renders it highly probable that the whole body may have asked more than regard for the general interests of the community would make it fair to concede to them. But on the other hand, there can be little doubt that government have too much disregarded the fact, that the stock holders are in possession, that they are in possession by its own act, and that possession, most . especially in the awe of parties so rem .to, is nine points of the law. The general tenor of the news received from the colony, ever since the arrival of the present governor, has been such as to inspire a hope that an arrange ment could be more easily effected now, than seemed possible a year ago. It would be of no use to rake up old grievances, for the purpose of allotting to all parties their respective shares of blame ; enough, that in the hands of the late governor, the dispute with the stockholders had become an embittered personal quar rel. The latest accounts from New South Wales indicate a growing disposition among all parties to settle the matter amicably. Surely, son,: l farmers regard the landowner. This to a great means inig:.`t be devised by which the preca - extent , accounts for the way in which It; farmers re• rious tenant-t..nure of the stockholders in their I garded the Agricultural College 11 s a landowners' " runs," mighf be commuted for full proprietary scheme. rights over a less extent of soil, on the payment of a reasonable fine. This having been done, the country might 6c divided into townships, within which the owners of tie uranted lands might have a right of pasturage over the angraneed lands, so long as they remained ungri. nted, proportioned to the extent of land held by encl. • The private property of each individual would thus be distinctly defined ; his right to use the common stoc:•••, and the duration of that right, would also be distil. ctly defined. And by pushing ou the demarcation of .townships as fast as population projected itself into the new country, each adventurer would know with eertai.ity that he was to receive for his money so much land in absolute pro perty, and along with it a right of commonage, the extent and duration of which, and its consequent value, the circumstances of the district would enable him to estimate with tolerable precision. PennArs there is no kind of education so much wanted in Englund as agricultural education. From the landowner, the lord of thousands of acres, to the labourer, who earns his weekly pittance by manual labour, none of the classes whose livelihood is derived directly from the land have any knowledge of the great business whereby they live, which deserves any other title than empirical. Traditional practices, and the rudest and loosest observations, form all that con stitutes the knowledge of the practical farmer and the farming labourer. Facilities of locomotion often seem to effect in this respect but little improvement. The farmer, or the labourer, going from one district to another, usually carries with trim the prejudices and customs of his original home, and applies them without much consideration of the circumstances of his new location. A correspondent in Perthshire, whose letter we published on Tuesday, well observes, " the people want training in agriculture, and an in tellectual education fitting thereto at least," and after wards adds, " there is no business in the world but requires training. Agriculture alone has been left to the caprice of untutored human nature ;" and he closes his letter with this melancholy truth, " the landlords, as a mass, have no knowledge of the treasures lying ready to be dug out of the soil, and hare none qualified to direct, and but a sorry squad to execute, the work." All this is perfectly true. The farming labourer undergoes no training what ever. He is left to pick up a knowledge of any par ticular department of farm-work as he best may, nor does he receive any intellectual cultivation which might help him to observe, and to profit by, the expe rience of others. There is no doubt that mach might be done by good local schools; and in rural districts industrial teaching should be largely combined with other instruction. The culture and nature of plants, the care and habits of animals, the effects and causes of atmospheric changes, ought to be taught tho roughly to all the youthful peasantry. To persons not practically acquainted with husbandry, the dif ference between individual labourers is scarcely cre dible. " Some men are better worth a guinea a week than others are seven shillings," is a common expres sion amongst farmers, and it is literally true. And ' this difference is usually to be traced to early training and association. The good or the inferior men belong to good or bad families, or good or bad sets ; and we use the words good and bad in an industrial, not a moral, sense, for it is too often the case that some of our most energetic labourers are the most prone to ir regularities of conduct. This arises mainly from de fective education and want of early habits of moral restraint. But, beyond the school teaching which every agri cultural labourer ought to receive, we think some thing in the nature of apprenticeships would be found most advantageous, both to masters and men. And to make such engagements useful, the working men themselves should have an interest in teaching any particular branch of industry in which they are expert. For instance, an experienced shepherd or cowherd (servants of great value and very scarce) might be permitted every year to receive one or two lady as assistants, from whose earnings a moderate sum might be deducted by the experienced workman as the price of instruction. The great obstacle to this, as well as to all else, that can be suggested from elevating the rural labourers, is the low rate of wages which the generally inferior cultivation of our soil has induced. But this obstacle, though great, is not insurmountable; and we sincerely hope, that in the movement in favour of educa tion for the working classes, which is com mencing, the agricultural labourer will not be lost sight of. Improvement in the quality of rural labour would assuredly tend to increase its reward. To illus trate this, we may refer to the advance which, during the last twenty years, has taken place in the vete rinary art from the improved education of its practi tioners. Formerly, the farrier and the cow-leech ob tained their diploma in the blacksmith's shop : the manual dexterity required to nail iron on the hoof of a horse was su2posed to confer knowledge sufficient to administer medicines to live stock. The remunera tion obtained by such professors of veterinary art was sufficiently low. Now, however, there is, in nearly every district, a veterinary practitioner of some edu cation, who is daily becoming more and more em ployed by farmers, greatly to the advantage of their stock ; and that, notwithstanding the charges of vete rinary surgeons are higher than farmers at first I acceded to. - - - . Our correspondence and the Paris papas of Tues. dal hare reached us. fhe effect of the article published in the Jour..al des .12K;buts on Monday, and referred to in our Paris correspondence of yesterday, was to produce au im. mediate and considerable fall in the different kinds of securities. The Five per cents. fell one harper cent, and the Threes above a quarter. Railway shares in general underwent a corresponding change. It was affirmed, however, and with some truth, on Tuesday, that the unfavourable change in the market was not due to this cause alone. The difficulties in which the Minister of Finance finds himself involved, owing to the unusual delay in the transmission of funds from the receivers-general, also begin to produce their effect. These were noticed by as fully on a former occasion, and begin to exhibit that aggravation which was sure to arise from the imprudence and want of foresight in the department of finances, which led the minister to decline accepting the offer of advances formerly made by the receivers-general. A further cause of embarrassment at present is the financial condition of many of the great lines of railways. In the fever of speculation which seized all classes daring the last two years, these great enterprises were un dertaken on schemes or conditions which now turn out impossible to be performed without loss. Leases have been accepted, the shortness of which ren ders it indispensable that a large portion of the profits should be absorbed for a sinking fund. But this is not all ; the estimates of the lines which in England are made by the companies and merely accepted by parliament, are, on the contrary in France, made by the government and accepted by the companies as part and parcel of their bargain. These estimates have, in many cases, proved to be greatly under the actual cost of the lines ; the com panies have, therefore, been called on to provide a much larger capital than was stipulated for when they made their contracts with the state, while, neverthe less, they enjoy no extension of their lease nor any other adequate means of replacing this augmented capital. Under such circumstances, some of the com panies find their directors shrinking from their res ponsibility of conducting the enterprise, surrendering their trusts, and throwing the concern back upon the body of proprietors. To relieve these, and similar embarrassments, government has proposed to refund to the companies a portion of the deposits paid by the latter to the state, in proportion to the capital which they have expended; but this expedient is considered on all hands inadequate to the exigencies of the crisis. A meeting of the cabinet was to have been held on Tuesday or Wednesday for the discussion of this question. It was expected that one of the most important of the great trunk-lines, the Paris and Lyons, world be immediately brought to a stand. This is one of the lines in which the actual expenses have greatly exceeded the estimate, indeed, been very nearly doubled. The directors, who are to meet about the middle of the month, will, it is understood, resign their functions, having de cided not to take, under existing circumstances, the responsibility of conducting the concern. It has appeared strange, that notwithstanding a general fall in the price of grain in the markets, which are within the radius which supplies Paris, the price of bread for the first fortnight of April should suffer a further increase. The cause of this, however, is easily explained, the price being regu lated not by the price of grain for the last fortnight, but the preceding one. The present fall of grain, if it be sustained, will only produce its effect on the price of bread in the second fortnight of April. The present price of bread in Paris is 2,1 d. per lb. A director of the Imperial Bank of St. Petersburg had arrived in Paris for the purpose of arranging with the Bank the details of the financial operation proposed by the Emperor. The chambers have rejected the proposed tax on dogs. Prince Polignac, minister of Charles X., rendered celebrated for signing the ordonnance which produced the revolution of July, died on Monday night of an attack of gout, at St. Germain en Laye. The frigate La Bayonnaise, which sailed from Cherbourg on the 15th, will take M. Forth-Rouen, envoy of the King of the French to China. The seat of the mission will be established at Canton. M. Forth-Rouen will be accompanied by Count de Noailles, Secretary of Legation, and an interpreter. But not only do labourers in husbandry require more education, their masters are often quite as much in want of instruction. Farmers, as a clam, are not merely deficient in scientific knowledge which might be eminently useful in their business ; but they want that accuracy, order, and habit of observation and comparison, which other branches of industry find essential to success, and which would be equally valuable in husbandry. Few farmers keep well arranged accounts from which they can tell, with any approach to accuracy, what portions of their business are moet or least profitable. Fewer, still, keep any correct or detailed record of their operations. The most petty traders are usually better accountants than farmers employing the . largest capital. Yet, who have so much leisure during the largest portion of the year for self-instruction and study as farmers, though they make so little use of it? Nothing would tend to correct this so much, as the adoption of the business of farming by the more edu cated classes. 'fhe prejudices of the landowners, however, at present, prevent that. No man of educa tion would submit to hold a farm as a yearly tenant, or to the cap-in-hand system which prevails on Eng lish estates. . . The letters and journals of Madrid of the 25th ult. have been received. . . . The debate on the Address in the Cortes was con cluded on the 24th, when the address was voted with out an amendment. A conversation took place, in which MM. Mon, Mendizabal, and the Minister of Finance took part, on the subject of the claims of the foreign creditors of the state. The question of raising funds for the benefit of these claimants, by mortgage or otherwise, ou the church property, which was de clared to be the property of the state, was advocated and opposed. 'this discussion, however, led to no result. El Foment° of the 23rd says, that Carlist bands are spread over the country, and, what is worse, give themselves up to deplorable excesses. El novo, of the 25th, says that news was re ceived from Cadiz, dated 20th March, to the effect that intelligence had been received from Portugal that two battalions of volunteers, amounting to 700 men, had left the city of Faro, and that they had embarked for Evora. On the 6th these two battalions passed Aya Monte, commanded by one Maldonado, a political chief, and president of the re volutionary junta of Faro. They directed their march towards Evora, to reinforce the garrison. It was said that horses and artillery had been sent by land. Much indignation was expressed by the ministerial journals at what they call the infamous calumnies upon Queen Isabella published in some of thejournals of Paris and London, and they say that instructions have been sent to the Spanish minister, at Paris, to prosecute La Patric for defamation. The family of Count Bresson has left Madrid for Paris, and the furniture of his hotel had been sold. FRANCE.—PARIS SAYINGS BANK.—The follow ing is the movement of the Paris Savings Bank during the last week:—Deposits made on Sunday, 28th, and Monday, 29th March, by 3,558 depositors, of whom 318 new, 493,302 f. ; reimbumments made to 2,559 deposimrs, of whom 757 closed their balance, 1,029,055 f. ; funds bought on demand of depositors for an amount of capital of 110,305 f. 35e.; demands of reimbursement on 28th March, 875,221 f. MR. O'CONNEI.i..—Mr. O'Connell let Paris on the 29th inst. by the five o'clock train for Orleans, accom panied by his youngest son, D. O'Connell, and the Rev. Dr. Miley, his chaplain. Mr. O'Connell was to sleep at Orleans, and to proceed en poste to Lyons on Tut . slay. DEATH OF A.NOTIIER OF NAPOLEON'S GENER%LS. —We have to announce the death of General Coast Drouot, at Nancy, on the 24th. Count Drouot was born in that town in 1774. He entered the service. as lieutenant of artillery, in 1793, after having studied in one of the military schools. He made the carapsigns in Egypt, and obtained, by his conduct, the notice of Napoleon. In 1808 he was nominated colonel of :he artillery of the Imperial Guard. He served in all the campaigns of the Empire, comprising those of Rusaia and Saxony in 1812 and 1813. Having risen to the rank of lieutenant-general in . -1813, and aide-de-camp to the Emperor, he distinguished himself greatly at the bat tles of Lutzen, Bautaen, and daring the difficult campaign of 1814 in France. After the fall of Napoleon, lie ace,mYs bled him to the island of Elba. At Waterloo he did his ut most to change the fortunes of the day, and after the defeat rallied the remains of the army under the walls of Leon. For this he was brought to a court-martial by the government d the Restoration, hut defended himself with such names', that a majority of his judges declared him not guilty. Since then he lived retired, at Nancy, where he gained universal esteem. He steadily refused all the offer's that were mah , him by the present government, and possessed no other dis tinction than his rank in the army, and the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour. Napoleon had the highest opinion of the deceased. He called him " The Sage," and always re gretted that he had not followed his advice to remain at Elba. He left him by his will a sum of 100,000 fr. ; ell of which General Druot spent in charity. SWITZERLAND. FRIBERG.—The Rerue de Geneve, of the 23rd of March, states, that the position of the political prisoners at Friburg is most trying. Those who are unable to obtain assistance from their friends are suffv ing from hunger ; and, in several prisons, the straw uport which the unfortunates lie has never been renewed, OW forming en accumulation of vermin and dirt painful to think of. HOLLAND.—THE HAGUE, MARCH 30.—ILLYgas or Tni Ktoo.—The Mao: Courant (evening paper of the 29th) published bulletins of an attack of palpitation in the heart from which the king has been suffering. His WIWI first felt a sudden oppression in the region of the heart ac companied by violent palpitations ; bleeding was had recourse to, sines which operation the king has almost entirely* covered. GERMANY.—VIENNA, MARCH 24.—The news that the Emperor of Russia had bought fifty milli°, ci French stock, was received by extraordinary soli , 114 Vienne, on the 23rd ult. A rise was immediately manifest The redemption of the farmer class, then, must come by the elevation of the farmers themselves ; and there are many men amongst them earnestly desirous of promoting that object. With that view, they are amongst the best supporters of educational establishments which are especially connected with agriculture. With the main body of farmers there is a disposition to discountenance such establishments. Thus, on referring to the report of a meeting of the proprietors of the Agricultural College at Cirencester, we find it stated by Mr. HOLLAND, one of the council, that " great difficulties arose, in the first instance, from the fact of eo much prejudice existing in the minds of tenant-farmers generally, who could not be induced to take any interest whatever in the under taking. Those tenant-farmers, whose conduct formed an exception to the rule, subjected themselves to a great deal of unpleasant scoffing at fairs and markets, or wherever they happened to meet their neighbours. Had it not been for the persevering conduct of the latter class it would have been difficult for the bene- volent founder of the college to carry out his inten tions." It must, however, be observed in palliation of the mode in which the west country farmers are said to have treated the supporters of the Agri cultural College, that it was an institution got up by the landowners, who have pertinaciously kept their tenantry in a state of dependence and insecurity, and devoured their capital with game. Even the offer of improved education, presented under such auspices, might not unreasonably be suspected by the farmers. This feeling of distrust on the part of the tenant-farmers towards the landlords was often strongly expressed before the game-law committee of last session. As an instance: a Hampshire farmer having stated that it was often agreed by landlords that game should not be so abundant as to injure the tenants, yet such agreements were seldom obsffved, was asked, " How has he (the tenant) not the full benefit of his agreement ?" To which he replied, " Because landlords, generally speaking, are so en lightened and so well-informed, that they twist and twirl themselves about the tenant by promises of this sort" Oddly as that is expressed, it pretty correctly I indicates the sort of distrust with which the tenant- ik THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 1, 1847. any injury to the finances of the country. And, looking at the provisions of this hill with reference to the pensions of those who only served 10 years, but did duty fur 12 days in the year for the follotving 20 years, it ems a positive injustice to those who served 21 years, nut to give them • higher amount of jfimsion than the first class. There was a vast dif ference between the claims of the two claws of men ; and this ought to he °Doddered in the amount of pension. Mr. F. MAULE ecpromed a hope that the committee on the bill might now be allowed to proceed. Clause the first was then proposed, and Sir IL DOUGLAS sauced that the period of service to entitle a man to retirement and pension, should be 14 )ears instead of 10, as was proposed by the bill. Mr. HUME expressed a hope that it would be made 7 years instead of 10. It might be said that such a course would lead to great expense ; but even ar, they were bound to incur any expense to keep their soldiers as men might to be kept. Col. LINDSAY supported the amendment of Sir H. I Douglas for the substituiion of 14 yams for 10, because by that means they would have a larger number of the older class of soldiers in the army. la his opinion, the men of Id or 16 years' standing were the most usetul, front their knowledge of the discipline of the army. He quoted the authority of the Duke of Wellington and Napoleon, to show that an army of recruit* was of little or no use without a ',age mixture of veterans. Mr. F. MAULE said that last night he stated his reasons for objecting to enlistment for 14 years, and, notwithstand ing what ler had now hen-d, he still adhered to his opinion, that a 10 years' enli-tment was better than that proposed by the right hon. baronet (Sir H. Douglas). Cul. T. WOOD supported the proposal fur extending the -period of enlistment to 14 years. Col. SIB MORP supported the amendment, which was opposed by Major Lar•an. After a few words from Mr. CoLLerr, Sir H. DOUGLAS, in reply, stated, that with respect to the artillery, he well knew that if they restricted the period of enlistment to 10 years, it was utterly impossible that that department of the eerily could be worked effleier.tly. The house then divided—For the amendment 27 Against it . 62-33 The clause was then sgreed to. On the second clause being proposed, Col. T. WOOD moved that the words " during the last year of" be inserted instead of the words " after complet ing." His object was to compel a soldier to give notice of re-enlisting in his own regiment, if he wished to do so, during the last year of his service. Mr. F. MAULE thought that the proposition of the hon. and gallant gentleman would restrict the soldiers too much. The clause as it at present stood gave the soldier the option of menlisting in his own regiment six months after getting his discharge. After a 'short discussion, Col. T. Wood withdrew bit amendment. Mr. F. MAULE could not pledge himself, at the pre sent moment, as to what arrangement might be made for granting the bens fit of free discharge to the old soldiers. After a brief conversation, the clause was agreed to. The remaining ciauses wire also agreed to, with some verbal amendments. _ _ Major LAYARD proposed the following clause : That, at the expiration of three years from the pawing of this act, soy person now enlisted to eery. her Majesty, who shall have com pleted the term of ten ream in the infantry or twelve years in the cavalry, artillery, or other ordnanor corps, to be reckoned as afore said, and who gull give three calendar months' notice to his com manding °Meer that be is desirous of being discharged. shall be entitled to the benefit of this act, and to the provisions thereof, is MI full and envie a manner as if enlisted after the pawing of this act. Re was sun, from the liberal opinions expressed and acted on by the government, that they would see the hardship of the case by the present bill, as it affected men now in the service, and therefore be hoped they would agree to the clause. Sir DE L. EVANS seconded the clause. Mr. F. MAULE said the executive government was armed with the power of applying the provisions of the bill at any period of service, and he thought the adoption of the clause proposed would be all but a work of supererogation. It would also be very inconvenient to adopt it, as it would not be expedient for the government to make any declaration of the course they meant to adopt, with reference to giving men at present in the army the benefit of their discharges, with ..tat having some knowledge of the working of the measure, and its Effect on the public mind, as well as in the existing army. After a few words from Sir Da L. Evaks, and Colonel LINDSAY, Msjor lAyard withdrew the clause. The house resumed, and the chairman reported progress. The house then adjourned at a quarter put 5 o'clock, till Monday, the 12th of April. NOTICE. 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