The Express. — London, England, 1851-04-10 00:00:00

dons of thought. the full exercise of the intellectual faculties, and with the civil liberty which springs therefrom. The departure of such men, however to be regretted on personal grounds, is therefore quite as much a testimony in favour of the protestant church as it can he construed to be in favour of the ltomish communion ; for it is some evidence that the former does not possess that fundamental error which has beguiled Mr. Hoer, out of it; and this con stant secession from it on the ground of its want of catholicity ought to lead 1)r. PCSET, Mr. GLADSTONE, and those who act and think with them, seriously to reconsider their position to • the church; and it• they resolve still to remain 1 1 therein, to st , te plainly and distinctly the reasons on which they do au. For to them this aeries of practi cal abnegations of their distinctive view of the church of England by their old friends is both logi cally and religiously a serious and awful warning. Leeds, too, has lately witnessed a deplorable scene. Nothing less than the public and ostentatious pro fession of Itomunism by several of the clergy and some of the laity of St. S.lviour's in that town—a church built and endowed with tractarian funds, and in the gift of Dr. l'l'sEY and Mr. NI %Raton. At this ceremony, Father Newseve, not unappropri ately, perhaps, preached to or addressed the assemblage ; and the burthen of his discourse was, that each individual secession from the Eng lish to the Itomish church was a miracle ; that, consequentl, the Rotnish communion in Eng land was miraculously supported and must ulti mately prevail ; whereas, argued the late fellow of Oriel, the English church rested altogether on the tem poral power; "take that away and it goes;" and that whenever abandoned by the state it would be ahundoned by Gone and crumble to pieces. Though bow long the state would uphold it, the Father did not condescend to predict; and, failing to do so, left the term of its future existence conveniently uncer- tarn. We must, of course. be prepared for Romish con gratulations and rejoicings over such secessions as these; to hear theta attributed to divine agency, and accepted a- indications of the greater things vet to corms But a lit n Father NEwssex goes further than such enthusiasm ought fairly to carry him, and treats each separate ease as a positive miracle, it is just as well to remind him, that he may find this doctrine of miraculous agency in, or rather of the miraculous character of doss conversions, dangerous and in convenient. The Father is now a member of a church claiming as a whole infallibility; but that church has not assigned to its priestly units sepa rately the pessession of any such power; and, when the Pother asserts that a miracle has been wrought in his person. and in the persons of each of his co pe-everts. we base only his oven word for it; and that his own prey jou, curter has shows to be very weuk. and changeable. So, if he can clothe the ordinary es. tits of life—the legitimate results of premises Cork argued out to their natural con clusions if Euth. r NEM MAN chooses in his ent Int airson to say on his own authority that they are miracles, he must not be surprised if other people, (nuttily rush and exultant, follow this example. and el • for their changes and variations of 'pillion a miraculous character also. The Father calls, of rause, his conversion a miracle, because it was to what he deems to be truth. But JOE SMITH amid his disciples think Mormonism to be' the truth ; and they are just as much entitled because of that peroutsion and belief to ascribe miraculous agency to the steps by which they reached their truth. as the Father is to that chain of sequences from catholicity. by a hick he at lust got to his truth. And so, if religions sects get into the habit of discovering miracles in the ordinary vacillations of human in tellect and opinion. and of announcing them to the world as such on their own authority without any of the preternatural evidence% of miraculous occur rences, the age of miracles will quickly be re &torsi ; and. stimulated by the example of Ito monism, tither men its Father NEW M sS; will attribute variations in their views and midi menfis not to the groa th, the exercise, or to the weakness of their mental faculties, but to divine agency manifested and exercised in their separate and individual welfare. And that, we submit to Father Nswet vv. in pus less excited moments, :could not be a state of things calculated to advance true religion, to promote civil government, ur to matte men good eitizeo- or prosperous members of society. It is, of course, possible that in the goodness and mercy of the AlAiltiliTV the present age may be bless . ed and fasoured with mirack%; but that is a porstihility so remote, so improbable, so inconsistent with the course of religious occurrences for fifteen centuries, is. awful in its considerations, and so fur beyond all human anticipation, that rational men, with all the ordinary agency for the propagation of true religion already vouchsafed to them, do not rely on mirachs for the advents-mem of what they hold to be religions truth. And when they hear a miraculous diameter claimed for events for which they can find severely logical causes, they cannot have much IN' evict for the church on behalf of which it is made. If the Romish church he so obviously the only true church- -if it be the only communion in which men can certainly find rest and peace, and faith and hope, and assurance, it can hardly require the perpetual succession of miracles that is put forth for its glorification. And the effect of true miracles on men being so inssistible, if those occurrences to which it assigns sup ernatund causation were really the violent interference of the I leity on its behalf, the aisle Christian world would long ago have been re. •ted to the ]tannish church. When, then, Father NSWat ‘N has recourse to this statement, he rents to prove either too little or too much—either that his so-called miracles arc works of supereroga tion, or that they do not produce the ordinary TV milts or effects of the character he assigns to them. Not content. however, with giving to his new church a miraculous reputation derived from his own entry into it. Father Nswu 1X will have it that his old church is altogether temporal, that without state support it would crumble into dust. But, admitting for a moment that such would be the ease, that which mould fall would be the framework of an ecclesiastical organisation, not the protestant religion itself; not the Bible, not the faith handed down to us from the Saints. The Father. in his new develop ment. can neither Ace nor imagine any religion but that in the hands of a great incorporation of priests, with popes and hierurehs, and bishopm and patri archs at their head; he has no notion that men can be saved a ithout such agency. Ile overlooks the exilltenee of religion in Scotland; he cannot cast his eves across the Atlantic: ; and he obliterates the success of protestant nonconformity front his knowledge of English history. And, having done this, he infers that the withdrawal of state support from the English church would be the ruin of protestantism in this country ; and, of course, lead to the supremacy of popery. The state then in the Father's opinion is the main stay of protestantism in England. Be it so: but in that event the Father cannot object to our remarking how overwhel • g a motive the !tarnish church must have to disturb, perplex, and overthrow the state here in England. If the state he the great obstacle to its success by upholding the Euglitth church, the readiest mode of removing all impediments to its , progress is, of course. to get rid of the state as now I constituted. When, then, the Father enters into I such a train of reasoning, he gets into an argument' not calculated to give high impressions of the loyalty to the English state of the Romish priesthood. Fhr suggests a reason why he and his brother ecclesiastics cannot love the ° English state, cannot desire its permanence. Father Newsisst ought to be more cautious in hi. enthusiasm. As to the consequences which he would ascribe to a separation of church and state, they arc little to be dreaded, because of the- improbability of the sepa ration. even if it would produce such consequences. Rut that it would. is exactly what the Father fails to prove. And at the very time he is making that assertion as to the results of separation, it is [oleo cated by a party in the church, with a view of in creasing the religious power of the church; and by dissenters, to remove what they think is the great obstacle to the spread of protestantitim. SEICTDE BY PRUSSIC AClD.—Yeaterday • long I inquiry was gone into before Mr. W. Carter, the coroner, at the Marlborough Arista Tavern, Westmoreland place, Cambt tar, H, into the circumstances connected with the death of Mr. William Augustin Dubourg, chemist, aged 29, who de4royed himself, as was demonstrably proved, by taking pru••ic acid. The unfortunate man Ic behind him several lett, rs, one soldrocied to the coroner, assigning di.tress of mind as the reason of the terrible act he was alsent to commit. The jury returned • verdict of temporary FRANCE. icIIDNISS DAT EVENING. The great obstacle to the formation of a ministry at this moment is evidently the divided state of the parliamentary majority on the great question of the day—the revision of the constitution. The President thinks that the time has come for cutting the knot, if it cannot be in a legal way untied: in other words, for carrying the revision by a simple majority, if the majority of three-fourths cannot be found. At least three-fourths of the Assembly, on the other hand, regard such a proposition as a downiight provocation to civil war. fhe government has no doubt made , ip its mind to deal with this alternative ; but the I important question is what fraction of its late sup porters, or of those who are still disposed to support it in a peaceful policy, would follow the govern sent of Louis Napoleon is so desperate a venture. Now it may be safely affirmed that this fraction is almost wholly confined to the Bonapartiats pro perly so called, and numbering in the Assembly about 30 votes. No doubt a more extensive party would be prepared to feel their way towards an extra-legal revision of the constitution, with a view to the prolongation of Louis Napoleons powers; but if such a view is entertained simply from a hope of rallying the whole majority to such an extra-legal revision, and from the conviction that the recon struction,with this object, of the majority which car ried the electoral reform of May might * face without fear the worst threats of the opposition, and that so imposing a union of the government and the ma jority with the firm attitude of the troops, would either overawe all attempts at insurrection, or at least so immediately crush seditious demonstra tions as to avert all serious apprehensions of civil war, involving a fierce contest like that of June, pits; if such be the hope, it would prove vain. Meanwhile the must conflicting statements are in circulation as to the possibility of any re construction of the majority on such a base as the extra-lcgul -vision of the constitution. That the statement of the Assend#l4 also moo e, that the old majority to unanimous for such a revision, is agross misrepresen tation, is clearly proved from the repeated emphatic phrase of the Opinion Publique : "Ni une henry ni un eeu de plus," which is attributed to the Count of Chambord himself. Then the moderate republican I party, represented by the Ordre, and the party of M. 'Tiers, by the Messogcr, are equally decided in their opposition to an extra-legal revision. I doubt even, whether a majority of the Rue des Pyramides Club would pledge themselves unequivocally to support' such a measure independently, although they might wish the whole parliamentary majority could meet I upon it. Now, this being the state of parties, the difficuPies encountered by Louis Napoleon in 1 homing a ministry . at this moment with the programme of " Revision at all hazards," are at once I easily explained. One word more. Suppose in the first I week of June a motion is made for the revision, and' thrown out by being opposed by more than a fourth of the house; and that then a motion be brought for ward 4 the government to proceed to the revision by a simple majority, what president of the As sembly will be found bold enough to put a question from the chair which would expose him to be tried by the lligh Court for treason, and possibly sent to Belle Isle? Would the prudent M. Dupin run his neck into such a noose? Not very likely. But supposing a president of the Assembly could be f d bold euough to do it, the whole Left, com prising 222 members, would resign their seats in masse. No person can doubt that such an act would amount to a declaration of civil war. If the Assem bly did not dissolve itself immediately and appeal to the people, rebellion would start up armed over all France. But civil war would not be averted by appealing to the people ac cording to the restricted suffrage of May 31 ; there must be some inure comprehensive mode of election than that to make the socialist drop his gun, and take his electoral ticket, if he be entitled to one, to the niayory. Hence it is that Odilon Barrot advo cates electoral reform, with the view of cutting away the ground of rebellion from under the feet of the socialists. What he proposes will not be a return to the law of March, 11419, but it will remove the unjust difficulties which have been thrown in the way of attesting the electoral domicile, and so disarm all reasonable opposition. From the foregoing data 1, draw the conclusion that the efforts of that party which is attempting to reconstruct the majority, with a view to an extra-legal revision, will fail, and. constsmently,that a definitive cabinet, inorder to clear out from port without being wrecked, must be bused upon an opposite principle—one of legality. If the legal right be thrown upon the side of the 80-1 1 cialistA by a coup-Aloe, even were the government I supported by a simple majority in the Assemble, it will be very difficult for the President to stand on the revolutionary ground which he will have created for himself. A much better chance fur his ultimate t anecess would lie in leaving his election to the na decal voice when the fixed moment for an appeal to the country arrives. Then, indeed, a decided majo rity over his competitors could hardly fail of bearing him wee more into the President's seat, and an un reasonable vote of the Constituent Assembly would stand no chance against the immediate declaration of the sovereign will of the nation. At present there appears no chance of reconciling the majority to the hazards of a conjettetat. The ministry of transition having signified in a body to the President that the prolongation of the present interregnum was attended with great in convenience for the public business, another effort was made on Monday to construct a definitive cabi net, by a combination of the old ministers, Baroche, Fould and Rouher, with MM. Benoist d'Azy, de Crouseilhes, and other legitimists. The latter, how ever, distinctly refused to accept office under the con ditions offered, au that one more attempt. has failed. The tone of M. l)ufuurc in the debate on 'the Hospitals Bill has been noticed as auguring a disposition not to be inflexible in declining office. At the end of the sitting of the Assembly M. Mole I was noticed caucusing among the benches of the right for the legitimist combination. The Patric. contains the following notice : " It is annouueed anew for to morrow the formation of the cabinet the con utitution of which has been attempting during the but two weeks." I hear from a good source that it is probable the names of Fould and Baroche will disappear from the next ministerial combination ; but the party of the Rue des Pyramided, which is represented by those two ministers, will furnish their successors m the definitivive cabinet. A message is spoken of as on the eve of appearing; but, the difficulties of the crisis turning upon views which cannot be publicly pro fessed by the President, this report is improbable. The Municipal Bill committee has taken to-day an important resolution. It has decided that the num ber of highest-taxed citizens, appointed in conjunc tion with the municipal council to elect mayors, should be equal in number to the municipal coun cillors. M. Pascal Duprat yesterday presented the fol lowing amendments to the bill on the national guards: ' - - Art. 14. Citizens who demand to be exempted from the ordinary service shall be placed in the reserve, provided they prove that that service imposed on them a too onerous charge. Art. 3.i. All citizens inscribed on the lists of the ordinary service and the reserve are called upon to elect the colonels, lieutcnant•culuncls, chefs-de-batsillon, cusiuns, officers of the general staff, officers, sub-officers, and corporals of the legions, battalions, squadrons, companies, or sub-divisions of companies to which they belong. Art. 119. In the three months following the promulga- tion of this law the government shall proceed to the organi sation of the different corps of the national guard in all the communes of the republic. The elections shall take place immediately atter such organisation. The national guard dissolved by the executive power will be reorganised at the same period. While an amendment to the bill on Monts-de-Piste was discussing in the Assembly, M. Sainte Beuve proposed the adjournment of the Assembly from the! 12th inst. to the 28th, so as to suspend the sittings of the Assembly during holy week and Easter. M. Baudin opposed the adjournment as unconstitutional, if, as was proposed by M. Sainte Beuve, no com mittee of permanence was appointed, and as contrary 'to the regulations for not having been referred to I the committee of initiative. M. Sainte Beuve ! supported his motion, upon the grounds that repose was necessary, and the penod indicated suitable to such repose. M. Pisestory thought the motion inopportune in the presence of a ministry of • transition and when the formation of a definitive and parliamentary cabinet was impatiently expected. Ile moved that the motion should lie referred to the committee on leaves of absence. M. Miot demanded I the previous question, with the divi-ion of ballot. THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 10, 1851. MM. Baca and de Sera proved that this proposition of the Mountain was not in accordance with the rules of the house. The previous question being put, was rejected by assis-et-lere by a large majority. The adjournment for a fortnight was thrown out by a slight majority ; and finally the adjournment for a week, from next Wednesday to Easter Wednesday, proposed by M. Coquerel, was adopted. ISo message made its appearance, nor was any de finitive cabinet announced. The other proceedings of the Assembly presented today no interest. It was agreed to pass to a second delibCration on the law for constituting property in Algeria; then the last deliberation on the bill for' 3lonts-dc-Piete. The programme of M. Lamartine' set forward in the Pays of to-day, advocates the legal revision of the constitution, and the restoration of universal suf frage. M. Lamartine is persuaded that the latter measure would regain for the President all his former popularity, and tacitly implies that he might be re , chosen President by acclamation, and thus armed with an irresistible title. If the government present no bill on the Avignon Railway, the committee appointed to examine M. 'lance's proposition will demand that the committee co the budget of 1831 should give up the old bill, while the former committee would prepare a new bill Ito bring as soon as possible into the Assembly. The Moliteur contains the appointment of a com lasittee of inquiry to investigate the state of the mer chant marine. There was a fall of 35c. to-day in the Fives, which closed at 93.3. The Threes fell 13e. and closed at 37.41 CU Court. The Queen will hold a Pricy Council on Monday next, the 14th inst., at Buckingham Palace. Summonses were issued yesterday from the privy council office to the ministers and officers of state. Her Majesty and Prince Albert walked yesterday in the garden of Buckingham Palace. The Princess Royal and the Princess Alice took a carriage drive yesterday. The Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, and the Princesses Helena and Louisa, took their accustomed exercise yester day in the garden of Buckingham Palace. The Queen had a dinner party yesterday at Buckingham Palace. The company included the Duchess of Kent, Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, his :Excellency Monsieur Van de Weyer (Belgian Minister), Monsieur de Marescalchi (French Chargé d'Affaires), Lady Fanny Howard, Viscount and Viscountess Barrington, the Right Hon Sir Charles and Lady Mary Wood, Colonel Hon. Charles and Mrs. Grey, and Sir Charles Lyell. Lord I.yttelton had an interview with Earl Grey yester day at the Colonial-office. A deputation from the Institute of British Architects, consisting of Mr. Fowler (vice-president), Mr. Mocattt (chairman of the committee), and Miami. Scotts and Nelson (honorary secretaries), had an interview with Lord Seymour yesterday at the office of her Majesty's Commis , 'Milers of Woods and Forests in Whitehall-place. Lord Monteagle had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday at his official residence in Down inf-street. The Oxford University Commission met yesterday at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury in Doss fling-street. Present: The Bishop of Norwich, the Dean of Carlisle, the Master of Pembroke, the Rev. 11. G. Liddell, J. L. Dampier Esq., the Rey. Professor Po sell, the Rev. G. 11. S. Johnson, and the Rev. A. P. Stanley (secretary). BANQUET TO MINISTERS AT TILE BIANsioN-RousE. SPAIN. DISSOLUTION OF THE CORTES. The long-established custom, which requires the chief magistrate of the greatest city in the world to extend at least once during his year of civic sovereignty the hospi talities of the Mansion-house to the members of her Majesty's government, was honoured lest evening. The scene of the entertainment was, as usual, the Egyptian hall, which was gorgeously decorated and brilliantly illuminated for the occasion. The company, which assembled at about seven o'clock, included Lord John Russell, Lady John Russell, the lion. Elizabeth Lystcr, Countess Minto Sir George and Lady Grey, Marquis and Marchioness Of Clanricarde, Sir Charles and Lady Mary Wood, Marquis Breadalbane, Vis count and Viscountess l'aimerston, Earl and Countess Mul grave, Marquis of Aberconi,Viscount and Viscountess Mel gund, Earl and Countess of Effingham, Lord Brougivent and Mi. Ilubhouse, bird Overetone, the American Mi nister, and Mrs. Lawrence, M, de Marescalchi, the French Charge d'Affaires, the Right lion. lox Malik, Lord Robert Grosvenor, Lady ileslop and Miss Elliot, Admiral Berkeley and Lady Charlotte Berkeley, Lord and Lady Marcus liill, Sir John ilerschell, Lady Gifford, Count R. iteventlow, Right lion. Sir William ' Somerville, Dart., M.l'. ' the Attorney-General, the Sobel tor-General, Lord and Lady Alfred Paget, Lord George Lennox, the lion. J. E. Elliot and Mrs. Elliot, the lion. W. G. Ilayter and Mrs. liayter, Mr. Cornewall Lewis anti Ludy Theresa Lewis, Sir Thomas and Ludy Fremantle, Sir Edward and Lady Buxton, Sir William and Ludy Moles , worth, Miss Stales, the Right Ron. J. W. Fitzpatrick, Mrs. ' and Miss Fitzpatrick, Sir De Lacy and Lady Evans, Sir W. Gibson anti Lady Craig, Major-General Sir William Morison, the lion. Mr. anti Mrs. Itaikes Currie, the lion. Charles Nihon Villiers, Sir Benjamin and Lady Hall, the Attorney-General for Ireland, Sir Moses and Lady Monte- Sure, Sir John Guest, Mr. anti Mrs. Townley. Upwards of fifty distinguished guests expected at the banquet were prevented front being present from illness and other unavoidable can-es. After the dinner, the pledging in the loving cup—to which Mr. Marker, the corporation toast-master, challenged, on the part of the Lord Mayor, each guest in name, title, and degree—and the chanting of the grace, "Fur these an d all thy mercies given," The loyal and routine toasts were drunk with the usual honours. Tlw LORD MAYOR then rove and spoke as follows: My lords, ladies, and gentlemen, I am aware it is unneces sary for inc t call your attention at any length to the toast am now shout to propose, I may however say that though this is not at all a political meeting—that we arc not assem bled on this occasion fur any political purpose—but that it is one of the most distinguished privileges of the chief magistrate of this city to have the honour of entertaining during his year of office her Majesty's :Moisten. (Hear, hear.) I have availed myself ut this privilege thus early in the year, and I assure the members of the government who have done me the honour to accept my invitation that they never were entertained in this Ball with a more sincere and hearty welcome than on this occa sion. (Cheers.) It is my sincere belief, and I hesi tate not to declare it, that they are actuated by the purest wed most patriotic motives, and that their most anxious desire is to promote the best interests of the empire. (Loud cheers.) Therefore it is that 1 have great pleasure and I feel it a high honour to have the honour of proposing the healths uf my distinguished guests—her Majesty's Ministers, and with thattoast I would especially associate the name of the noble lord who is ut the head uf the government, and at the same time one of the representatives in parliament of this great City—my Lord Julio Russell. (Much applause.) The toast was responded to with much cheering. Lord .1. RUSSELL, who was received with loud ap plause, said—l rise to return to you, my Lord Mayor and this distinguished company, on my own part and on that of my colleagues, our moot grateful thanks for the honour you have done us, as a ministry, in proposing our healths this day. I beg to assure you, my Lord Mayor, that we feel it a great relief, as you have justly observed, that we are nut here to speak of any political questions. I feel, therefore that I am not at liberty to enter into any of tho s e p o l itical discussions which prevail in this country at the present moment. Your lordship has said, and it is all 1 would wish you to say, that you believe we are actuated by u sincere desire to promote the wel fare of this great empire. 1 trust I may be allowed to say that as one of the representatives of this city, it has always been my wish to promote the general welfare, and even if at times I have appeared to have differed from she wishes of the majority of this great cor poration, I trust they will still give me the credit of being actuated by honest and sincere convictions. (Cheers.) Here 1 might content myself with returning my thanks for the honour of this uight, were it not that this day recals to me the position in which we were placed three years ago. We can all recollect that on the evening preceding the 10th of April, 1815, there were doubts, misgivings, and fears that there might be some violation of the public peace; and many were apprehensive that loss of life even might ensue on the following day. lint on the evening of that ensuing day we found ourselves perfectly sufe—nafe, I will venture to say, net from the armed force (small as it is maintained in London, though that force would no doubt have done its duty had there been cause for it—(hear, hear)—not on ac count of the presence of that armed force, but because the people themselves rose. They rose not to cause, hut to prevent, riot and disturbance. They ruse to maintoin, not to subvert, the institutions of the country. (Cheers.) I trust that on any similar occasion the sante spirit will be evinced, and that knowing the benefits we enjoy under our free government we shall always be ready to defend it in its integrity, and to transmit the benefits of cur free insti tutions to our posterity. My Lord Mayor, we are now about to see in this country a large number of foreigners to assist in what, I trust, will be one of the most interesting sights the world ever saw. I kuuw it has been said, and rumoured—and your respected Recorder has mentioned elsewhere the rumour—that advantage will be taken of that occasion by some of those foreigners who will come to visit this country, to disturb our internal peace; but I feel con fident that tent peace peace will be preserved, not only by the strong arm of the law and of justice, but also because I feel that any, who being our guests on such an occasion, should attempt to disturb our internal peace, would be con demned by the universal voice of mankind as guilty of the greatest violation of the sacred laws of hospitality. (Cheers ) On that great occasion which we are about to witness, when those who are about to visit this country, never having had occasion to be in England before, shall see with admiration the extent of our trade and commerce shall see a thriving population— they will have reason to be convinced that there must be something excellent in the laws, something excellent in the spirit, something excellent in the traditions of a people who exhibit such • spectacle. (Cheers.) In this city lain sure Our Paris correspondent, writing last evening, says the following news has just reached us by tele graph from Spain : Madrid, April 7.—The Cortes have been dissolved to-day, and in three months there will be a new election. M. Bcrtrnn de Lys, Minister of Foreign Affairs, is named Minister of the Interior ad intertm. M. Arteta passes to the Public Works. It may be supposed that this important resolution taken by the cabinet has been determined on by the adoption of the particular vote of M. Millare Alonzo, seconded by MM. .Mon, Pidal. San Luis, and other ancient ministers, who were to take a part in these discussions. The Madrid journals of the 4th state that in the discussion on the bill for the regulation of the debt, after M. Bermudez de Castro had con cluded his speech, M. Alonso, the dissentient mem ber of the committee on the bill, insisted, in a brief but energetic discourse, on the necessity of making radical reforms in the different departments of the government, of clearly ascertaining the resources of the state, and of fixing the estimates, before proceeding to the settlement of the debt. When he had concluded, the debate was adjourned. The discussion was continued on the 4th, when the Count de Fabraquer warmly supported the bill of the go vernment for the settlement of the public debt. M. Bermudez de Castro again spoke against it, and had not finished his speech at post-hour. In the com mittee on the estimates the president of the council proposed that the salary of the vice-president of the royal council should be increased to 120,000 mats, but the proposition was not favourably: received. Some friends of Count de San Louis, Minister of the Interior in the cabinet of General Narvaez, had pre sented him with a gold medal, bearing a very flatter ing inscription, as a token of their esteem, and of their admiration of his public services. greath n a o r t e oniy on plineasynroewninammaukunit,ghm akwlc but on onetnhnei,adrgmt of my colleagues, for the kind honour done us in affording us an opportunity of being present this evening ; and on be half of myselt and those colleagues I thank you for making me your guest at this banquet, given to her Majesty's minis ters. My Lord Mayor, you have alluded to a subject of very great importance, not alone to this nation, but to the world at large—the Great Industrial Exhibition about to take place in this country. (Hear, hear.) My Lord Mayor, I am one of those who believe that that design was conceived in wisdom, that it has been carried out with great energy 1 , and consummate judgment, and that those men who con- I celled it, as well as those who have had the arrangements of the exhibition, will have done great honour to themselves, and, when it shall be finished, will have brought great glory to England. (" Hear, hear," and cheers.) I believe that design to have been a beneficent and a wise one, I believe it will tend to cement the peace of the world; and therefore I, as one of the corps diplontatique, have taken a great interest in its success. (Hear.) I have no doubt that peace and goodwill will reign in your larders for the next six months ; and that when the great numbers of foreigners, who will come to take part iu that exhibition, shall return to their native countries, they will carry back with them the kindest feelings towards this great nation. (Cheers.) I believe nothing can exceed the pains that have been taken by the royal commission executive com mittee, as well as by every person connected with this great undertaking ; and I cannot sit down without saying that I have evidences, as every foreign minister must have, of the desire of not only the British govern ment, as well as the public institutions of London, but also of noblemen—propris tors of articles of rare vertu, to render every possible facility to the visitor to gratify his taste or curiosity. (Hear, hear.) I believe the foreigners who will come here will have every consideration as well as the kind est feeling that this great nation is capable of bestowing— (lleous hear)—and that when you shall have concluded your exhibition, when all shall have been closed, no man in Eng land will have cause to regret its having taken place, and that no foreigner who shall have visited you will depart without kinder feelings than those he en-, tertained on coining amongst you. (" Hear, hear," and cheers.) But I have said sufficient. I therefore thank you for your great kindness in inviting the diplomatic corps to this festive hoard; and I assure you I will always remember with pleasure the distinguished honour of having been present at this banquet given to her Majesty's ministers. (Cheers.) The LORD MAYOR then rose to propose the " House of Lords." The Marquis of ABERCORN having returned thanks, Lord JOHN RUSSELL proposes! the "health of the Lord Mayor." lle believed there never had been a Lord Mayor who discharged the duties of his high office more to the satisfaction of his tellow citizens than the right hon. gentleman who was their host on this day. (Hear.) As a member of the executive government he felt that the right discharge of those ditties was of the utmost importance not only to) the nietropolis, but to the country in general. (Hear, hear.) It was a matter of gnat conse quence to the ministry to have a Lord Mayor on whose cur , dial co-uperation they could rely, and to whose judgment they could look for assistance in any emergency tint might arise. (hear, hear.) From the right lion. gentleman whose' health he now proposed, he was convinced should the urea sion occur, they would receive that valuable co-operation and assistance. (Cheers.) The toast was drunk with cheers. The LORD MAYOR returned thanks. It had always' boss his desire to do all that belonged to the functions of his office in the way which most conduced to the interests of , his fellow-citizens and the country ; and if, at the end of his year of office, he should have succeeded in obtaining the approbation of the citizens of London, he should feel he had : done some good in his generation. (Hear, hear.) After a brief pause, The LORD MAYOR again rose and said—My lords, holies, and geutleasii n, d feel particularly gratified in being su fortunate as to obtain your hearty response to the toasts have submitted to you ; and 1 am sure I shall be equally , fortunate in that w Meh am now about to offer to your notice —the " House of Commons," the more so because I purpose coupling with it the name of that distinguished statesman, the mention of which by his Excellency the American nister has called turtle from you so warm a response. I t propose to couple with that toast the " health of the Lord Viscount Palmeniton"—(loud cheers)—to whose valuable services, not only in the senate, but throughout the world, we are deeply indebted. (Cheers.) Viscount PALMERSTON (who was loudly cheered) ; rose and said: My Lord Mayor, ladies, and gentlemen, in . the name of the House of Commons b beg to return you t our grateful acknowledgments for the compliment which you have just paid to that great and noble assembly. For . myself I !nowt cordially and sincerely thank you fir having t dome me the great honour of coupling my name with the r Commons' House of Parliament. lam still more indebted to you, my Lord Mayor, for the kindness, for the flattering, and I am sorry to say the undeservedly flattering . terms, as far as I ant myself eon t vented, in which you have introduced that toast. t It is natural on an occasion on which you have I assembled at your hospitable board so many of the most . distinguished men of the country—men distinguished by . services of every kind both civil and military--at a time when you have also the presence of the most distinguished representative, as he has called himself, of the world (hear, r hear) —of the foreigu world—hut who, from the sentiments which he expresses and the contial interest lie takes in all t that conet.nis the welfare of this country as well as his own, we can hardly call the representative of I foreign ministers, we may claim almost as One Of ourselves (cheers)—it is natural that you should call to the reini.mbrance of the assembled company.the House of Commons—that important branch of our legislature— for you, my lord, who are the head of this great cot:unser- ' cial metropolis of the world—you who at this moment re present to us the commercial princes of England, must feel the value of that legislation of which the House of Com ' mons has been SU long the instrument. (Cheers.) Fur its vain would the country be possessed of inexhaustible re sources ; in vain would be the vastness of the intelligence of its people ; in vain the enterprise, the skill, and the capital of its merchants—if the laws of the country did not give freedom at home, and security for the enjoy ment of the fruits of industry. (Loud cheers.) It is the dispensation of Providence that mankind should be divided into rich and poor—that the rich should be com paratively few, and that the pour should he comparatively many. No human legislation can alter that arrangement ; but it is in the power of lawgivers so to enact that the poor shall he protected from oppression by the rich; and that the rich shall be defended against violence from the poor. (Cheers.) That duty the parliament of England has amply and successfully performed. (Hear hear.) Thence it is, my lord, that while we ' have seen all the nation+ of Europe convulsed with disorder while we have seen industry suspended and commerce paralysed, while we have seen institutions, civil anti political, over thrown—while we nave seen fields that ought to have been trodden only by peaceful husbandman trodden by the tramp of the iron heel of armed legions—while we have seen those fields deluged with the blood of kindred people or of hostile armies—the people of this country have ex hibited nn example of tranquil order and obedience to the laws which, as lung as the history uf these times shallendure, will command the admiration of mankind. 1 say then, my lord, that it is natural you should pay to the House of Commons the compliment you have bestowed; and I am sure that the House of Commons will respond to the sentiment which has animated your lordship in propos* it. After thus performing my duty in thanking you for the toast you have proposed, and for the honour you have done me, perhaps you will allow. me to travel somewhat further, hut still, I trust not departing from the character in which you have called on me to stand; for although the Rouse of Commons arc inure intent on its sterner duties, it is nut therefore re gardless of that respect which is due to the fairest portion of creation. (Cheers and a laugh.) I hold that I am a not less faithful representative of the feeling of the House of Commons, when I invite the assembled company to drink the health of my lady mayoress (Cheers.) The toast was ~sunk with due honours, after which the ladies retired. I The LORD MAYOR next proposed " the English Bar," coupling that toast with the "health of the Attorney and Solicitor-Generals." (Cheers.) The ATTORNEY-GENERAL returned thanks, and expressed his conviction that his hun. and learned colleague the Solicitor-General would perform the task more worthily than he could, fur he had, as it were, a hereditary right to it. It would be always u source of pride and gratification to the bar, and a great incentive to its members in the per formance of their duty, to possess the approbation of so en lightened a body as the citizens of London. (Cheers.) The next toast was " The Members for the City of Lon don," to which Mr. Masterman responded. "The Magi strates of London" was next given ; after which the com pany retired. GERMANY. The Nereigkeies Busses from Vienna of April 5, ; says, the answer of Prince Schwarzenberg to the 1 last Prussian note was yesterday despatched to Ber lin. It contains the result of the negoc•iution be- 1 tweer. Prussia and Austria, which is, that Prussia returns to the old diet. The question of the presi dency, which was pending; is settled by a reference to the fifth article ol• the Buudesaete, which awards the presidency to Austria. At Berlin a police ordinance, dated the sth of April, and signed Ilinekeldev, has been issued, and addressed esp•c•ially to the Nliuister of Westphalia, complaining of the conduct of strangers, especially literary then (Germans they must be), who having permission to reside in Prussia, endeavour, by their writings, to excite the people against the government. The police threaten these persons with prompt dismissal from Prussia by virtue of the edict of the 22nd of June, 1817, and of the 31st of Decem ber, 1842, if they abuse their privilege of residence. Our correspondent writes as follows : BERLIN, Arum 7. The Emperor of Austria returned to Vienna front Venice in the afternoon of the 4th inst. As the arrival of the an swer to the last Prussian prupesals depended on the period of the Emperor's return, it is anticipated that it will arrive in the course of two or three days. It was stated yesterday that a preliminary answer of some kind had arrived, but the report was unfounded. The German question is in a most pe culiar position. Prussia his declared that, unless her last demands be agreed to by Austria she will depute a pleni potentiary to the Frankfurt Diet, and has called upon her former allies to do the same. The majority of the latter have declared their willingness to do so, and as they have made no conditions, and as, moreover, there arc among them several who most anxiously de sire that the old diet should be restored in its ancient form, it is not improbable that they may depute to Frank fort without waiting for the Austrian answer. Supposing Prince Schwarzenberg to accept the Prussian proposals, the two powers united will still have to deal with the resistance of the ninor states, a resistance which has increased in strength in proportion with the greater knowledge which has been acquired of the extent and purpose of the Austrian plans. If Prince Sehvrarzcnbcrg reject the l'russian proposals, and Prussia despatches a plenipotentiary to Frankfort, the question respecting the Austrian provinces will immediately appear in the foreground. The Austrian government are bent on procuring the admission of the whole of the Austrian provinces, and ore prepared to evade the protest of France, unless it he backed in a strenuous manner by England. Prince Schwarzenherg is said to'' • have declared that he never would permit even nn , ideal line to be drawn through the territories of the Aus trian empire, and it is said that in the pride of re-established power he is even really to venture a war with France, if that power should continue its resistance to his plans. Ilowever that may be, he will • not desist front his demand for the admittance into the eon , federation of Hungary, Slavonia, Croatia, and Lombardy, and the question will be the first to be settled on the re ' assembling of the Diet, in which each state plIthlOWS a veto. The Kress.: Zeitung says that the Austrisux answer is not ea peetCd before the 10th inst. The Osservatore Da niato confirms the news of Arup Pasha having gained a signal victory in Bosnia over the insurgents near Jujee. Part of them having taken refuge m a church, It was set fire to, and they would all have perished, had not a strong body of in surgents come up in time to release them. The town of Jake has been plundered by the rebels, and the two suburbs of Krezluk and Kogluk burnt down. The army of the Seniskier is well provided with every necessary of life. Omer Pasha left Livno on the 17th ult. for Jajce, accompanied by , Fazli Pasha. Their harems followed on the 18th. Ali Pasha and his son are still at Livno under arrest. Several thousand men have already been enrolled in Albania for the army of Bosnia. Letters from Bosnia, of the 23rd ult., in the Milan Ga:ette, announce that Omer Pasha has commenced the bombardment of Jajce, and that it is believed the . . s . . they will meet with a cordial reception • and , I have no _ . .. . _ doubt they will have reason to be grateful for the splendid EAST INDIA }loose.—Yesterday a ballot was hospitality that is ever there exhibited by this powerful cur.. taken atthc East India Howe fur the election of six directors poration. (Cheers.) And I trust that when the period of the in the room of William Butterworth Bayley, Esq.; Russell Exhibition shall have concluded, we may all congratulate Ellice, E.sq. ; Sir Richard Jenkins, 0.C.8. ; Ross Donnelly ourselves not only on the excellence of the productions of Mangles, Esq., M.P.; John alasterman, Esq., M.P.; and art and industry which will have been exhibited, hut that AlD sor John Arthur Moore who go out by rotation. At six so many people of so many different nations, whether of o'clock the glosses were cl osed and delivered to the scruti- Europe or of our brethren on the other side of the Atlantic, neers, who reported that the election had fallen on John meeting in this great metropolis, will he means, by the iu- Cotton, Esti.; John Loch, E , .q.; Charles Mills, Esq. ; terchange of friendly relations, of placing on a still more . secure foundation than that on which it now rests the William Henry Chicheley Plowilen, Esq., M.P.; Henry Shank, E ; and Henry St. George Tucker, E blouse, A great and inestimable blessing of the peace of the world ! . (Loud cheers.) Court of Directors was also held at the East India 1 when the thanks of the court were voted unanimously to The LO RD MAYOR, in proposing the next toast, " The John Shepherd, Eq., chairman, and Sir James Weir Hogg, Foreign Ministers," expressed his regret at the absence, Bart., M.P., deputy-chairman, for their great application from unavoidable causes, of many of the members of the and attention to the affairs of the East India Company diplomatic body, who, on some future occasion—as he had during the past year, every confidence in the assurance of her Majesty's ministers TRAGEDY AT 'MARCH, ISLE OF ELY.—An extraor- that the most friendly disposition was entertained towards i CUURCEI BUILDING ACTS MlENDMENT.—Tester &nary occurrence has just taken place in this district, in us by all foreign nations—he hoped to see as his guests in day Lord Carlisle's bill (now in the House of Lords), to consequence of which one life has been sacrificed, and two that hall. (Hear, h.ar.) lie would couple with the toast amend the Church Building Acts, was printed. It contains others placed in considerable danger. Mr. Miller, a brewer i the health of that distinguished man, his Excellency Mr. 31 clauses, and was not explained when introduced. Among and moister in the above locality, suspected that two of ' . Lawrence, the American minister. (Cheers.) , other things, it provides that the commissioners for build his maid servants were in the habit of pilfering his flour, The toast having been heartily responded to I log new churches may, by order under seal, fix a and on Monday he accused them of it, but agreed, on their His Excellency the AMERICAN MINIS'I t ER returned moderate rental on a certain number of free seats in a promising better behaviour for the future, to look over the thanks. He said,—My Lord Mat or ladies and gentlemen , church where they have before established pew rents, and offence, and continue them in his service. On Tuesday I am sure his lordship has expresse d feelings of regret that uu the vacancy of the incumbency may revoke such order. morning Mr. Miller's two servants were missing, and also an- must be common to this distinguished company at not It is proposed that not more than two-thirds of the accom ' other female in the employ of his sister. On the same evening having more of the diplomatic corps present on this wee" modation shall he subject to pew rents. The commissioners 1 the body of one of Mr. Hitler's servants was found in a 11011. My own disappointment is beyond anything that I , may order a certain portion of free soots to be appropriated field at the bark of the town, and it was ascertained that can express. I had anticipated the pleasure of meeting ,to the deserving poor inhabitants of the parish or d is trict. her death had been caused by laudanum. The two other many of my colleagues, but I know that some of them are; Pew rents are notto be established for the churehofanandent girls were discovered almost in a dsting state in an outhouse prevented attending by indisposition or other sufficient , parish or chapelry. It is further proposed to enact that on on the premises of Mr. Miller. They were suffering from causes. (Hear, hear.) My Lord Mayor, lam here, then, not persons permanently endowing a church the commissioners the effects of laudanum, but the usual remedies were at only as t c representative of my own country, but 1 may may transfer the right of nomination to such persons, can onise applied, and it is hoped they m ay recover . It has say as the representative of the world. (Cheers and , poruition being made to the original incumbent. There ' been ascertained that the three girls bought three separate laughter.) I see not another foreign minister present ; but . are 17 church building acts, and it is declared to be expo , fuurpeonyworths of laudanum, at three different druggists' I do ace the able representative of a foreign 'tient that the same should be amended as pointed out by shops on Tuesday, and that they all agreed to etrl their minister here. (Hear, hear.) I wish it were . the intended act, which is to extend to England, Wales, existence together. otherwise. (Rear, hear.) But, my Lord Mayor, 1 and the Channel Islands. insurgents cannot hold . out long there, as the walls are already in a tottering condition. Nevertheless the chiefs of the insurrection are sending fresh re cruits daily to Jajce. Many Christians of Banjaluka have made their escape to the Austrian territory. LAW INTELLIGENCE. l'illS DAY. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. Barons Ma. nownissioirsa YAMS. IN RE ItiVINO. The bankrupt, described as a merchant, of Gloucester street and of Prince Edward's Islaud, applied for his certi ficate. The balance sheet, prepared by Mr. Hutton, of Bucklersbury, exteirded over four years prior to the 3rd of January, 1849, and contained wane consid. ruldo it•ans. Ile owed to uie‘ccured creditors, 4,686/. ; to thus bottling security, 1,8061. The assets were estimated at 4401. is good and doubtful debtors, and 9211. in property ; propel ty held by creditors, 680/. The pro fi ts had been 1,4561.; capital, 1,267/. ; losses, 4,8941. ; trade expenses, 6811. • inte rest and discount, 44;/. ; law charges, 621 . ; hexer: a nd per sonal expenses, 1,205/. The circumstances of this case were somewhat peculiar. The bankrupt was a nephew of the celebrated lies. Edward Irving, who created such a ferment in the spiritual world about a quarter of a century ago. Some years shim the bankrupt went to Prince Edward's Island, wi n he had tilled a position of great respectability, having a seat in the legislative council of the colony, and holding other honorary appointments. Ile had entered ' largely into contracts in the timber trade, having funned a connexion at home for its disposal; but, owing to the reduc tion of the duty on Baltic timber, ha had been hivolved in heavy Imam I'M bankruptcy had occurred two years ago, the delay having arisen from the necessity of procuring tho books and accounts from l ' rincc Edward's Island, whither the bankrupt had proceeded to assist in realitiug the property. Mr. Graham, the official assignee, reported that the lurks had been well kept; the only assets received was about 18/., the pmeceds of some timber sold in Scotland. There was a hope or something being realized by the bankrupt's property in the island, whither he would proceed as soon as he ob tained his certificate. Mr. Lawrence supported the bankrupt's application, and said he hoped his honour would grant a certificate of a high class. The bankruthetad gone out to the island two years ago, under protection of Mr. Com missioner Shepherd; hut this was disregarded in the colony, and he had been imprisoned there seve ral months. There was every prospect of his property in the island real:sing 921/. ; it had been considerably dimi nished in value by the reduction of the ditty on Baltic timber. The bankruptcy had taken place two part ago. Mr. Commissioner Shepherd felt great difficulty or pewit's the bankrupt without his books • he was din:chi to ',raw them with him from the island; but on his return the vessel was cast away, and the hooks were lost. His Honour thought he could not grant more than a common certificate. It was the ease of n man owing .5,000/. or 6,11001., and not producing a single farthing. Mr. Lawrance submitted that the frame bail arisen from unavoidable losses. Ile had begun in 18 14, with a capital of 1,200/ , while, during his period of trading, his bawl had been 4,s'J4l. The reduction of duty on Baltic timber had operated very injuriously to the colioural growers ; for, sup posing the cost price of timber to be the sante in Prince Edward's island and on the Coat:nent, the freight Irma the former place was three times as expensive as front the latter, the voyage being three times as lung. Ibis Honour and that seemed to be the hest instific aim% of the (sinew pursued by the government with re,,,tr.l to the trades using timber in this country. In [ilk cape it ap peared the bankrupt hail been insoivent before the altera tion referred to, and had gone on straggling with his diet (little.. Under these circumstances he was nut catilkd to more than an ordinary certificate. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. TILLS DAY. OLD COURT. Berosoc Mt livrce MAII - 1.14 En,, Axa )!it. BAux NANTISI. William Gray Smythe, who was convicted yesterday af ternoon of a felonious assault upon 4 little girt under very agggavatedeireumstanecs, was I ght op tor judgment. Mr. Justice Erie, addressing the prisoner, sahl,that after a very careful inquiry the jury hail found hint guilty of a most atrocious offence, and heentirely coneurred in the pro priety of that verdict. it appeared that he had carried on a system of corrupting the minds of young females for his own base purposes, and that he hail employed his agents persons who hail bethre fallen a victim to hint, and the eirso was altogether one of the very worst possible ddicriptioff. Under these circumstances he felt it his duty to pass upon him the full penalty of the law, which was thtt he be transported beyond the seas for the term of his natural The prisoner was then arraigned with a yonog woman named Frances Forman, alias Taylor, for it wisilemeannor. Mr. Payne and Mr. Parry iippeared for the prosetittinn ; Mr. Clarkson and Mr. Ballantinc were for the defence. This was a prosecution instituted under the provisions of a recent act of parliament known as the Bishop of Win:Ws net, and the indictment imputed to the defendaats the offence of conspiring together to procure the 661 , nd:a of several young women under twenty-one years of age. Two girls, named Catherine Stacey, who wai , 17 years of age, and Mary lauman, 16, were examined, and they clearly established the charge. Mr. Clarkson, who did not ask a question of atilt, of the witnesses, betide any more evidence sat gone into addressed the court, and said he felt he could nut struggle against the facts, and the dcfendatib, would theestere a ith his sanction, plead guilty. Ile begged at the same dint: to inform the court that the female defendant had originally fallen a victim to the man who stood by her suit., and that all the proceedings she afterwards adopted were under his authority. Mr. Baron Martin, after consulting Mr. Justice blanks, addressed the defendants. Ile said that an Btu lII4iC pri soner was already under sentence of trensportatruit fur life fur another offence, it woull be unnecessary for 1 • to pats any further sentence upon him. With regard to tho woman, he could not help consideriug that her oftener was one of most aggravated character, and that her conduct Lad hem both unwomanly and disgraceful. Ile then sentenced her to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for two years. COVENTRY ELECTION.—The rumoured return of Mr. Strutt nag proved groundless. On Monday, the elec tion of a member of parliament for the city of Coventry, in the place of Mr. Turner, the new Vie?-Clunicellor, took place, when the Right lion. Edward Struts, late member for Derby, was nominated, as was Mr. Geoid), of Coventry. No speeches were mode by the proposer or seconder of either candidate; and when Mr. ti!rutt attempted to ad dress the electors, the uproar was so greet that he mg* compelled to desist. Mr. Geach then Cbtaillt.l a hearing, when he cal.ed upon the assembly to hear Mr. Strutt, nod show fair play, observing that he did not like to fight ou the side of any party who refused to hear the it nests. Mr. Strutt was then allowed to proceed, and bo announced that he was in favour of free trade, the eaten ' siun of the cuff age, and vote by ballot, and the general education of the people. Mr. Leach explained that he had he,'u waited upon lute the previous night by a ceputation from the electors of Coventry, who informed him that the liberal party were nut united in accepting Mr. Strutt, taut that should a conservative be proposed at the eleventh hour there was great danger of his return. lie stated that he was most desirous of reconciling the differences at present existing, and recommended that there should he a of concession among the different sections of the lib.e sl party, as most conducive to the SUCCCM of their common principles. lie rejoiced to find that whatever might be tho result of the present contest, a liberal and a free trade r would be returned for Coventry. lie expLaatel that he was prepared to extend the suffrage to rated householders, and that he advocated the ballot; that the result of the free-trade measures had confirmed hint in his opinion of their justice and wisdom; that he was u.s advocate fur rates being levied fur the purpose of procitilog means fur the education of the entire people, and that every parent should have the right to claim the instruc tion of his child. On the suhject of the papal aggression he wished to be particularly explicit, fur on that point ho feared he might hold opinions not aeceptalile to the eke:tors. lie deprecated the course taken by the catholic., and, as a member of the Church of England, as well as on political grounds. he should deplore the spread of cathohcism in this country, but he feared that to attempt to prevent such a result by legislative enactments would be unsuccessful, and tend to increase the evil. Ile should, moreover, de plore anything like a return to the old sy,tein, under which religious disabilities were imposed. When the show of hands was called for there was an overwhelming majority in favour of Mr. Leach, and on behalf of Mr. Strutt a poll was demanded. The polling commenced on Tuesday morning, and was kept up until four u'eleek, when the numbers were—Gl:web, 1,669; Strutt, 1,1/11 maiurity in favour of Mr. °each, AM. ?MANCHESTER PATENT LAWS ItLPOIC•1 At ou t- Tion.—A meeting of persons desirous of a reform in the present law affecting patents was held on Tuesday, in the Manchester Town W. Fuirbaini, C. 8., presided. He urged the necessity for an immediate reterm of the patent laws, and of petitioning parliament on tho subject. Ile contended that the b a i g d I ll omp l i thatLotg brougham l d tanhed 7 S c o tla nd,holec m di t d n not o ar a i t i n en e d et t ku :s h an u h adg o d h ul t i b l e l e i l e bi s a u t; 0 i b i rit t i : o l : RP t b m o ,, ul : °P r u r -b e i ; at the outset 301., of which 101. was to he paid as a fee for leave to petition. lie (the chairman) thought the vrhole cost I ought not to exceed 1101. at the most, in order to bring I the protection of a patent within reach of men of the ; humbler classes. Mr. Whitworth moved the adoption of • petition to parliament, praying for the establishment of one office to grant patents for the Unit:d Kingdom—that the proce;.ure be as simple as possible, and that the costs of: ob taining patents bunt more than is necessary for maintain ' ingthe office in efficiency ; and that Lord Brougham be re ' quested to present the petition in the House or Lords, not Mr. Milner Gibson in the House of Commons. Mr. Kidney Potter seconded the resolution, and it was carried. It was ado moved, sad resolved unanimously, that Mr. Bright, Mr. Cobden, Mr. A. Henry, Mr. Westin:ail, Mr. Heald, and Mr. Kershaw, be requested to support the petition. Dr. J. Watts moved the third resolution : " That it be an in struction to the secretary, in any correspondence he may have with parties on the subject, to state that it is the earnest desire of this meeting that the first cost of a patent should in no case exceed the sum of 101." The resolution was seconded and carried unanimously. A vote of thanks te the chairman was pawed, and the meeting terminated. SINGULAR FATALITY.—It is a curious incident that fur two centuries a lord Clonbrock never lived to see the majority of his heir. His lurk on will be of age in a few months, and th • e ed upon Lord Clonbrock as to thru* Bureau state.—Cork Examiner.— \ • 0 ' *of •--'` • • V Y l • ••••—• • • tr il k 1,1 alp ~~