The Express. — London, England, 1852-07-23 00:00:00

the ervresio. TO CORRESPONDINTS. Mn♦ wl TOW.% of " The Yip..." 11•1111Sialai Me owe maim& pablipplied may Terisy sad Proplay atight. h Yom. lot Mwitl.mesioleassipsd la. .11s, Scrum." Lpse,n Itvetplag yew, amp t Mss do 011 ho, 11, amperisdrell. spy Two o'cpock ea tbs day W frabliortana. MOH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Idi tidv.4lagyinik Illur.....learise% N. 4 . 0 . ...uuenr—Satautg. 7k. 12 ar .—.ll4resosa. 71.4016 LONDON, FRIDAY, JULY 23. Tilt present condition of that great borrower from England—the Republic of Mexico—is curimis and important. If not in the violent agonies of dissolution, that State is seen in process of painless extinction. National life is almost out. There is in the capital the framework of a government remaining ; there is a President still ; there was a Congress • few weeks ago. But between the governmental heart of the Republic and its provincial members there is little or no circulation ; little or no re sponse; little or no sympathy. There is a central government without authority, without power, without means pecuniary or military, almost without hope. The capital is half in ruins; the ports are dilapidated; the roads are unsafe; the mines are unprofitable; the army is disbanded; the old soldiers have become highway robbers; and rifting a dili gence hue become so ordinary a danger of travelling, that when two young English gentlemen resisted and successfully repelled one of these attacks, general surprise was felt and expressed at their audacity. Worn out by a diagram war into which she rashly rushed, by heavy payments for an inglorious peace, and by the loss of a province which might have compensated her even for these disasters ;—having • boundary dispute with an ambitious neigh bour still unsettled—with apprehensions by no means unfounded of further aggressions— with wronged and defrauded debtor* clamour ing far payment of their just demands on her sea -coast, and with a race of savage Indians dis quiet:ng her other frontiers, and penetrating into her interior, Mexico is, indeed, in a helpless plight. These, however, are calamities, and difficulties, and embarrassments, out of which nations have risen and recovered, either by the imported vigour of their rulers, or the inherent force of their people. And could tither of these qualities of renaissance be dis covered in Mexico, we might hope for its resuscitation. But though President ARISTA may have honesty, be has few other elements of greatness; public men of repute or expectation besides him there are none; and, worse still, the people of Mexico have sunk into the slough of despond. In spite of Aiusra's en treaties, the Congress has dissolved without provid iag for the ordinary support of the government; and though ARISTA may proclaim a Dictatorship— invited by such Congressional want of patriotism— even that apparently inevitable refuge for Mexico can form no remedy where atrophy is so universal and central authority so weak. Yet, shorn of Texas and deprived of California, the republic of Mexico still includes one of the fairest and richest portions of the earth. Though far from fully peopled, it has population enough in numbers to constitute a powerful state; and if its re maining mineral wealth be now insignificant when compared with the boundless riches of what were a few years since its Pacific provinces, it has nearer the surface of its fine soil riches readily and easily . won by the truest sources of all national prosperity—syste matic and intelligent industry. What Mexico wants is not territory, capabilities, or even popula rity; it wants men with energy, courage, and enter pure to wield and to make its fortunes. And its real difficulty is how to create these out of its pre sent inhabitants. The fault is not in the star., but in themselves, that they are thus. The truth seems to be that the old Spanish ele ment in the character of the population of Mexico his yielded and given way to the Indian and Agee element ; and:that, in this hybrid admix ture, a long continuance of misgovernment—a meow ion of revolutions—a degradation of national, sad a demoralisation of individual, character, have done their worst—until society itself is in danger, Mexico, without governmental force or security— without central unity or localised strength—now lies a tempting prize to an ambitious neighbour. whose appetite has already been whetted and re warded by large and profitable slices of its territories. Before the lest war, Europe might excusably in dulge in debits, and Meeks' as to the military power of Lira pommel Mexico. It eau now do so no lows. Magda le widierat an army, and almost without the mom finking see ; with the beet she cesli get briber she b as match for the United States eggemnively Mimi Her safety and iade pendenee an a seas weak net on her ability to mid an mask, bet es the arra sense which mew restrain "wombed amelt. But, on the other bal. her di si as a nation invitees the rola of her plslatba so individuals; and an their weal =puse and their prospects lower, a desire he plasm es a sialeMay dindake. Who the Imeme radiant that nab. Mien le the on, an is T i et Amebas rate ve tbe of everypepriater and plaint in i r ld the fate of Make will ant hag retails Aad mum the et this base sea be &sad by the of a nOmijoesemeet—lbe &slim of his.. destiny airselly Min* en the Mouitan indepnihmee ROM item later ▪ eatmoun we needful ; for extend agency is prtsetly imam It is in vain to talk d maintain ing the present territorial arrangement and balance of true-Atlantic power • idle to rave shoat United States ambition and untiorality. The semeneise et Texas proves bow worthless aim sea milliame an these. If the Mexican guerillas* bad the sad the strength to meet the ezialkig= is its history, Mexico mold maintaia lie pa :eon amongst satires; eibeivise it will Olt lea aa easy prey. The sepley is overrea Mie, oomph aad hew phethood in law boob we a mat d Nom this t st per as does lep tailpho the Pm and IR l_he swiely et the elimulL Sub a step et Ma White • lie boa to ems the tad is ravel ile Wall Bet to de waft is he 11141 sad pew ibee i 1 the do-melee policy gummed by the ode gewasmet. it in sweet Ihei the iatrodaslits piled States swim, timid at awe dliehitikeelieset all we qt. to eaellegeesy ". = law wig slim% avert- Viz annul =Wags et the Agricultural &mistime —just now spoke thde ssason—are vsey in teresting to way pssgis who know little or whin about ateisalturo. Ara sign of the timeo—os s z gestive arum mimes facts in the history of civilisation and pogroms, they are intend*/ to woe who, as STDIUT Stalin said, do net know a from a bird—• pig from a lock— a piano* hem a dorm Isms of craw of num bet the istradostisa of thrashing and tho dal sui p =sod bad pasaisa• =tisk susuld in MI" dadvist• - thus days thresh log maims wars paintett—at least in am amentisc—bles and scarlet, no invariably as farm u s :--tbsso are midditoipd pospis =us who reussalser how, os shildtwo, thr7 oat of the wishes umminst dap, in market tows, and saw, either a basting mob following • y Threshing WAIN with threats sad curses, or of throwing about dm hies and scarlet frapecnts sf some machine which they had bass wall inuring that the prsem. Weald ' illiei to demand damages, nor any melistratatm punish the offence. Those were in this %it the war, when the King was claimed by th e tarsi interest as their own peculiar sovereign, nod was called FARM= GEORGE. Those were as dap when the manufacturers were very low; ihealpi markets closed to them ; taxes at boos. !nosing heavily upon them; and the agricultural inter= looking down upon them as an inferior order of society. The distinction between the two orders wes almost like a difference of race ; and the landed interest regarded a connexion with manufacturers, in business or in pleasure—about mortgagf.s or at provincial h as the white inhabitants of American cities regard the intrusion of mulattoes into their churches and their public walks. Who could then have believed the difference that half a century would make P Lest week's show at Lewes, if preseated to PAM= (imams in a glass, would have seemed like • glimpse into snot planet—from the change in the moral aspect of the business, even more than in the mechanical. The steps by which ma • change hie esta blished itself are distinctly marked is the retrospest, however little they could be anticipated. At the time we have spoken of, there were few districts in Eng land in which the agricultural population did not out number the manufacturing oadessamereiaL But,aftcr the peace, when the world to apes its avenues to our commerce, the great tigp hem which can never stop till the two shamee—hen SWUM till re cently—shall have become completely amalgamated. As manufactures increased, and esmiNION it coarse rose, young men and maidens palmed ever from the one class to the other, and altered *dr proportions every day. A farmer in the LAWN, would still count (and his household as beicmgiag to him) with the agncidtural class; but, for ens son who might remain with him on the farm, then might be two absent on very different beams t for one daughter who managed his dairy, there might be two married to shopkeepers or artisans. The Cum berland statesman might be clinging to his paternal acres, though they were mortgaged ; but his sons were not, as formerly, on the fells with the cattle, nor his daughters at the loom, weaving the grey homespun for family use. The lads were shopmen in the next city, or weavers in the Yorkshire towns ; and the girls were at service, or in the cotton mills of Lancashire. In the next generation, this migration told upon the numbers; and every census presents us with evidence of the continuous diminution of the agricultural population, not positive but comparative—not in itself, but in proportion to other classes. - - - - - Before this fact was fully recognised,—and it seems to have been little noticed till the League made a prominent exhibition of it—a change was creeping over the notions of some people, who had no love of change—a conviction that it was a very good thing for farmers to live near manufacturers, however little they might like such company in their neighbourhood. The rural districts were of old the loved abode of the farmer ; a district where he might look abroad to the verge of the horizon, over noble breadths of wheat on the levels, and swells of oats on the uplands, and scores of acres of roots where grain had been before, and was to be again ; with meadows and copses between, and no roofs but scattered oars of thatch, and no smoke but the blue thread which showed where the labourer's kettle was boiling. Now, the strange spectacle was seen of a fanner here and there sitting down within sight of tall chimnies, or within hearing of the railway train which was going from one group of tall chimnies to another. The reasons for such a change of taste must be strong; and they I were strong. The farmer has no more liking for fluctuations of fortune than the tradesman. He found that the vicissitudes of farming were much reduced by sitting down near a market, where there were always tens of thousands of people buying food. He found that an unlimited supply of manure, within easy reach, went far to compensate for the sight of tall chimnies. lie found that it was no bad thing for his land to grow less wheat and more mutton, beef, butter, and poultry. This is now so plain and familiar, that it is with surprise• that we remember how recently the late Sir R. FELL made that address to the Tamworth farmers which was called one of his most telling speeches—pointing out to them the advantages they enjoyed from their being so near Birmingham and other manufacturing towns. Meantime, the agitation of agricultural subjects was making farmers of not a few manufacturers. This has been an all-important change for agricul ture. The activity, enterprise, economy, and constant vigilance which are indispensable in manufacturing pursu►ts, are precisely the qualities in which our farmers require, or did till lately require, example and stimulus. Year by year we see the accelerated progress of the changes, under which the farmer becomes, from the anx ious or careless waiter upon the seasons, the skilful and active manufacturer of food. Hs is learn ing to keep his books like a merchant. He is learn ing to compose his soils as the dyer composes his dyes. He is learning to select his ingredients, and his seeds, and his cattle, as the manufac turer purchases his stock-in-trade. He is inducing his labourers to value his labour-saving machines, showing them how St. Bwithin may be evaded for the hay, and many a damaging storm for the wheat, by the use of machines which mow and reap as much in an hour as human arms could lay low in a day. Science is entering into the business at ssedtime, and skill at harvest, while there is ample room for industry all the year round. And how is it with the labourer P The show rooms at Lewes and other agricultural displays may tell. A glance round the implement mom is enough for those who have been there. Those who have not will learn with more pleasure than surprise that more men are already employed in the implement manufacture than have ever been alleged to be dis placed by the use of machinery on the land. There is more produce ; and there will be more and more yet. The occupation of the cultivator is raised and ennobled by the introduction of science into all its parts. The demand far rural labour is on the in crease, and the quality of the labour is rising; the rustic—once almost as dull as the clod he trod on— being now wanted as • skilled workman, command ing the implements which do for him his former work. The skilled operative of the field is growing into fellowship with the skilled operative of the factory ; and the bread mark of distinc tion between the agricultural and the manu facturing class is fading away. Artisans are already indistinguishable, in point of dignity or clamifioation, whether they are village blacksmiths risen into importance as agricultural implement makers, or humble town carpenters who have made their fortunes by improvements in mules or looms. Their employers will ere long be indistinguishable too, as manufacturers of whatever is neemaary, whether food or clothing. When the open-air spirit of farming has penetrated among the manufacturers, and the old English geniality infects them, from their intercourse; with the rural clone, as markedly as their scientific and economical virtsss are v ing among the tillers of the soil, there will be a rub bing out of a column or two in our statistical works, an obliteration of one division in the future census, and, we may hope, an effacing of jealousy and rivalry between what have been too long called the hostile interests of country and town—of laud and manufactures. MARSHAL EXCRLHANS. Th. Dean vole** ostitiod sMa of the Theo in tt ess 2,"fes the 611essii raps, of tbe terser of the Mamba Emesimews, • Pinsk moldier 01 the Empire and of the wad Alba o/Dee. 2, entered the army wader Napo leon. • irOYaM weer se • eavehy *bow stinanood him to be grand lawyer le Korel. Pei of Maple, sad he was mods by Nepsiessupwelei of ~ma, • coma of the Em pire, sad pond eider de b Ligies silleaneur. While Mum, kimono, awl howelhoter, was es the way to his Ingscifet itheimene thimosed le make his =beanies' 1/1 the 11111161/1111. Saimaa to be reasind by the es Obeedier of lass order et he. Loafs. I:Jahns , kir his. • asset asersershieme with Karat beim beseeopted, ho was WWI sad essuml is January, 1814 by the military law•ellsess of the Kies who's be hod been ea as • Mile owl • on, diesiotint military orders, adulator, Wir *kip Miseilve to the Ike sod the oeveralesst, *2 es a *digs* of dm ale be led lOWA as s yanked' the wear of at Lou s, la del thy** the easel, sod thew bimesif at She bee of the Kim, to whom he anis men ea atteelemmt sad • filmdom, invio lable and eternal. Two osoatbe bad net peeled who, he Meal the hell-pay isles at Bt. Desk, and eseerspeahetl the le the Eerltaw lie mars from >rhm To bit be mon doe sane ffsor lrAshks Sdelity. He leek mesa ener tile emoreemil of • corps of cavalry, and whammed Ms Gatos negate et Waterino. Louis XVIII. received wry ores the renewed sawirstmei of sabesimies emitlevehmieess ; VlTlt i tiees he was exiled. Ho rothethoi sAm hie Man to Tranoennomployed till 1826, when be we vein send to active service, under the media of the Dasher d'AngouNine, who, with h bririnA slimed lima and his family much favour and lindens. With them he was closely connected, when the remittable of 1830 put an end to that dynsaty. No sooner had Wang declared for the men of the barricades than he offend the award to the new king, and was not only well received. hen honour ably rewarded. Having entered the NMI" Veer the re pul,lis in 1798, he could not very well ewes the sew repub lic of 1814, and so he did nothing to pee** the overthrow of Lis friends the Orleaniats ; but he new favoured the TM aet;qll, and supported the majority in the chamber. On is ilcstruction be attached himself at eon to Louis Napo leon. THE EVROS, FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 23, 1852 FRANCE. ream, Teivassfax Rvenurfe. A mournful event has spread a palatal sensed= throughout Paris on the eve of the Praiident'sretim The aged Marshal Exeelmans has been thrown Ma his horse, and died lut night from the co names of his fil l, at a poor home in the Sh h of This brave officer of the empire, alt in his 77th year, was still hale and vigorous , and • e old Adam's, kis winter was " frosty bet kindly." He set out at 8 yesterday evening from hie hotel at Paris. tooom paaied and attended by • ddmestic, and on horseback by the road of Sevres to the =irof Breteuil, to pay a visit to the Princess Matilde, who lives there. The horse which the marshal rode, singular to my, was one given him by the General St. Arnaud, for the express purpose of replacing a fiery steed which threw the old officer at a review, and as the safest creature he could mount. The ecident hap pened near the close of his ride, within a short dis tance from the gate of the park of Bt. Cloud. It is not at this moment known whether the marshal's fall was occasioned by the movements of his horse, or whether he was seized with a fit; but he fell with much violence, and unfortunately upon the paved road. It was ten o'clock when the fatal accident happened; but several persons ran immediately to the marshaffessistance. In the meantime his son -- and servant lifted him from the ground, and used every appliance to restore his senses, but in vain. His head had sustained a violent contusion, and the skull was fractured. The wounded man was borne into the back room of a cabinet close at hand. Messengers were despatched immediately to apprise the Princess Matilde, who sent for physi cians to St. Cloud and Ville d'Avray. Notwithstanding all the remedies applied by these, the marshal, after suffering great agony for some hours, expired, at two o'clock this morning, in the arms of his moo. The curate of Sevres administered to the dying Man the last sacrament. A telegraphic despatch was imme diately sent to the President, at Baden, to inform him of this mournful accident. The marshal leaves a widow and children to deplore his lows. The following telegraphic despatches have been received to-day. Baden, July 22, 6 a.m.; Strasbourg, 101.—The Prince dined yesterday with the Princess Stephanie. In the even ing there was a reception. He will leave Baden at nine o'clock, will stay to breakfast at Strasbourg, leave at one I o'clock for Luueville, will sleep there, and will be is Paris in the course of to-sorrow. tii;;io; 11.20.—The Prince has jut re turned to Strasbourg, amidst the acclamations of the erowd. A simple picket of IIIIirlag•111 escorted his carriage, but all the population of Strasbourg eager to cantemplate owe more the features of the Prinz*, gathered round him, crying, " Vire Nap oleon! Vive L'Empereur ! Vivo Le Stu mm de la France " From the Porte d'Austerhtz to the re • shower of bouquets poured into his carriage. he love of the people was never manifested in a more sym pathetic or enthusiastic manner. There is probably some mistake in the first of the above despatches, according to which the President is to sleep at Luneville to-night. Unless the ar rangements mentioned in the Monitor to-day have been changed, he will sleep at Nancy. The follow ing communicated note, sent to the journals atNancy, is confirmatory of that arrangement : The Prince President, in returning to Paris will leave Strasbourg en Thursday, the 22nd, at one o ' clo ck. At half peat two he will be at S.zrebourg, and at four at Luneville, when he will review the troops of the garrison. He will arrive at Nancy, where ho will sleep, at half-put seven in the evening. He will set out again at a very early hour the nut day. The latest intelligence in the government or is that the President will arrive at Paris at about five to-morrow evening.lA carriage, to be in waiting at the Strasbourg railway station, will convoy him direct to St. Cloud. It appears from the telegraphic despatches pub lished to-day by the 41fonigeur that Louis Napoleon passed the night of Tuesday at Baden, as a guest of the Dowager (band Duchess Stephaine, at her cha teau of La Favorite. The prefect of the Bas-Rhin writes that at Strasbourg the population was so occupied in thinking of the Prince that the muni cipaf elections were entirely forgotten. He adds that the President was well received at Baden, and when be appeared on a balcony the crowd greeted him with acclamations. The next morning on the parade he was received with the same marks of sympathy. He received the despatches forwarded by .the from the Minister of the Interior at Paris, and told the memenger that he should return to Strasbourg 'on Thursday, leaving Baden at nine, and reaching the Alsatian capital at eleven. After breakfast he would leave at one for Luneville, review the troops there, and witness some cavalry manceuvres, and then proceed to pass the night at Naney, so as to be bask at Paris on Friday morning. The young princess et Vim was, I understand, staying with the Grand- Duchess Stephanie at the time of - the President's visit to Baden. It is remarked of the prefect's telegraphic despatches that they aro addressed exclusively to the Minister of the Interior, and not, like preceding messages, to that member of the cabinet and the minister of police jointly. The prefects in general show much reluctance to correspond with the minister of police, as they are enjoined to do by the decrees establishing that autos ; and the divided allegiance of the administrative func tionaries is in general (nand throughout Francs to be • source of inceirmal disputes and confusion. While the Prince was absent on his journey to Baden a dinner was given at the principa l hotel of Stras bourg to sweaty persons connected with railways, some of whims were delegates from the German rail way companies. The speech made on this occasion by Count de Seer, pres id ent at the board of directors of the Strasbourg railway, is remarkable as an awl- Mons opening of a more intimate understanding between the railway companies of France and Ger many. Amoeba suede resist was M. Retool, director of the Martinsburg railway, with which it is proposed is Om a junction from Strasbourg to Ulm. M. Renonard de Bona" threty to the Corps Legislatif for Strasburg. inesemiad to Louis Napo leon a petition praying kr an misisety to political offenders, as an inessnri far rendering the remembrance of tie at.. more piing. It is curious to mots by Idol stealthy degrees Louis Napoleon appeashas the wait of his ambi tion. At Nancy his shake woe Maned witbaths purist bse. At fitreabwmg he adsgisd for Site kat time the white breathes and je , ±)frhieta l whilkhined an invariable boaters al the Farrefs military me tense. _ _ Twedelashammts d soldiers for the Pope's army pawed through Loos le &Wilier last week, ne w thetr way to Tournaa, to embark on the Saone. The canton of Fribourg and Valais have hitherto &r -aising tie iris numbers of men for the service. The amine arrearuits who have Joined the depots at Mantas sad Pontarlier is estimated at from 4,000 to 0,000. Dr. Versa gives today another chapter of his "France Mamie d which I here give you the sabatense Re le otOl on the enblest et ruse, a thoraUlemel tat& se ddl kr es his pant dirisseese p, has AIM& ho posies, seen results of his la teens', selides. redestisa of the army, he fa l y sl e3l,, is the spoils of way able sea Videaddre Dr. Verebbsadd~pSedy pest reheat which, is the new donation of win pat • dap an &halts la the maw • !edam* efts team es red pseeAls Wiry the dater driall .'sin Me wan= reform to the saw diselles ofreesskirsbne it he him the annwity of tidies Is Is 16 leak asi wadi. Is es. plain. liewpwr, hs thermr costae ttlt sesisst pee. des thieswily, eel leis an. diet the 'overwind will set Wage Ids • sestets Awes slam*. in a wester so lespostest e w pupas of the senntry. He does not shoe the liberty Ar which he ado. Is it p he Mildly inquires, is redoes the may by 100,0000 sr 10,000 osni—in ether weeds, is Mese the pubs eapsditsre by or 50 edam at ham 1 1111. lksersts. asaaseler of Mete, appistod le Mead the budget of 1361, said that the easy was rieerwery is keep dews social esaletion that nut be Aught whin etandin• ' -‘. l . ameba the earth whoa ea have, and wins :1 Wr . ad washed kr Art it abseil the spin. Whether 1100illalla sail Ispiese the insistenswee of a pet milieu, esemblishasst is &Anodise solely tie the Preddent of the &phis. when Dr. Vow rowsainal as Ms list and only jets, Y Mk mattes. Ist, if the Presides' ware io Wks the laidatkre, sad predelm that • peat rstaallas OW army sight be ..fly made, he would eve •• wo w *pain so o s Wy Ass le the romp /dist, and fresh pledges of ran . Hero he Ash Ids assawity of of =fir Loafs Nepeless, bele Ida readiness pan, he straddled la hie heart a hatred it the treaties of 1816, and Prasee long dieted these forthap sf reesetwest against that messes' of Ms reams paid is the dairies of manned Damp& bat shilississa imiwumado rowan for (seta cou nseled by dm. All hemp skin ler peace. What so ellnetnally se • speslessaus recludiss of the arny would prep to the wed my ossinies of Louie Napalm that h• no lowit of the glory of a byoyeao opooloi After Ude say be preen& by a proem of enlieeadia prove the potties with which he set oat, that la no ether way eta a greatlmmelal redeem be effected. Pab/ki weeks 1 asset 214 be simekeil. resseeslimmt is salmi's he leeks ve es Peel, thee li th e he regards es out et the questisth OA 111111fillii mew taxes that have bees pre. et the eatery, the Aw that swath Ile the , mad the kith emcees width ferif. tis tee NM for eves the cleat of i l li t r a mlllimes or own s . to try experlammte with tax payers. Thop Pew& will bear ices..path calamities wales the ONOrni• of • revolnUm4 bat, the danger over, they will nee eth murder at the Oa of a pin in a matter a tenth*. The rely tax he will bear of is that upon the ighipiests sthes. Here the OWN pert of his nature peep sin. Frame I. mined with Meths et who carry the Mee et Wisely es the meat et —immoral, ill temluatel dam without his se Ithealle. To tea seek f r i lmat a imessmee et /shah,, hot et pubic salubrity. In et the peat Wars width be hopes Ott at the hands of the be as wsly swivel a men equitable dis tribalism ef Immodes t oil ble pith am this subject ho reams ices_ . •••!_ oo l 6 _ _ _ _ The ipal omen et Montauban have voted 1,0001. for tie reception of the President in their town. . _ _ The municipal council of Sagnres de Luchon have voted an address to the President, praying him to extend his visit to the south as far as the Pyrenees. The Journal de la Marne says that the Prince has promised that the works of the branch from Rheims to Eperna7 shall go on without interruption, and , that he will take advantage of the inauguration of the line to visit Rheims._ The members of the University who conduct the journal des Samos, wishing to make some compen sation to M. Barthelemy St. Hilaire for the loss of his professorship in the College of France—a loss ' , consequent upon his refusal of the oath—have ap pointed him editor of that journal in the place of M. ' Eugene Burnout, deceased. M. B. St. Hilaire was elected by eleven votes out of twelve. The owner of a mad dog having neglected to ob serve the police regulations has just been sentenced by the tribunal of Lorient to pay 5 001. damages to the family of a person who died from the bite of the animaL At the Bourse the Four-and-a-Half per Cents. fell 5, closing at 103.20; the Three per Cents. fell 6, and closed at 72.40. Bank of France shame rose 10. The Western railway roes 6 ; Havre, 2.60 ; Rouen and Bordeaux and Tester, 1.25 each; Lyons fell 2.50; Marseilles and Btxsabourg, 1.26 each. BELGIUM. The liodipendasoe Belie, says that M. Lebeau too, has, after an interview with the King, declined to form a ministry. The 21st anniversary of the reign of the King of the Belgians, and the definitive consecration of na tional independence, wu celebrated on Wednesday at Brussels with the usual pomp. All the public edifices and the vessels in the basins were decked out with the national flags. A grand Te Deese was sung at the cathedral of St. Michael and Oudule. The :King, their Itoyal Highnesses, the Duke de Brabant, the Count de Flandre, and the Princess Charlotte, attended. They were seated on a raised platform on the right of the high altar. The ceremony was also attended by the Pope's Nuncio, the Drench, Data, Bavarian, Turkish, Swedish, and Danish ministers, the minis ters, and high state functionaries, &c. SWITZERLAND. The Ausirian Lloyds of Vienna states that Prince Louis Napoleon has sent a diplomatic agent to Neuf chatel, to endeavour to effect an arrangement favour able to Prussia. GERMANY. The Cologne Gazette states that several domi ciliary visits have lately been made by the police of Berlin at the residences of persons suspected of carrying on a correspondence with the German jour nals. The chief object, says the Cologne Gazette, was to discover the correspondent of that journal, who uses the initial N. The Kress Zeihusg announces, that as it was seized for articles on the Zollverein, it will refrain from comment on that subject. The Kress: Zaung of the 20th, says : The ministry of state, ut he hat sitting, was eampied with several constitutional questimm i sod the number that of paragraph 68, which speaks d she erdinanne on the se act of the First C ha mber . It lie bola Melded that there be presented to the hosed Caminer arstriarg the next melon, not only • bill on the wimposhiss et the First, but • didlititive electoral law he the IllseamL The First amber will be composed of umbrae asmad by ordinance. The Asillaitim electoral law foe the Semi Chamber shall net laws es • It is primary dud= as its bsels. isz bfi st tecipally the elemwe er the somas seasidersit now &Mei *lift Cease of &am will be a deliberative Iri s Prism Regent el Baden arrived at Berlin on the 20th, on his way to Oarlmilim The Cologne Gen& mates from Peeth that the Princes of the House of Orleans have purchaeed a very large estate in Hungary, for which they have engaged to pay by . yearly instalments. A letter dated Vienna, July 17, says: The project of M. de Bruck for forming all the states of Central Italy iato a customs union is the constant subject of ministerial deliberations. At the present time there are Tuscan representatives here ea the part of Parser , Modena, and y. Another from Frankfort has the following, dated July 17: The states of the Darmstadt coalition have given or will shortly give in their aoce•sion to the treaty of 7th Septem ber, as condition that • treaty of commerce shall be nego dead "with Austria. Pumas, it la said, will accept the proposition. THE NEW CRYSTAL PALACE. Tha Mat iar=t =lainart sc lo the thastrno tisa the New o etheted in the nesethatiamosey mean flathingdoy lies ems smil gate, and She whole eine saboodin aphid has Ma up in Semen de hw Moe. The emeaste akeaptlw et the ism the -offs of the ma of (math while he le hive en Merest Mil the mellembe of mho las his toured away more epanisthrs, wire= s eipet is • temseasp Mang ea mem= value. tr i t i = one en of Ile Ma wide the MOM of reensitellea wear et the oath C ib tle i ntept is hot disappearing from Hyde Park, Mite en P Hill swift mystenne rows aad nobs of Meths thew tiwsaeolwa ansmened hen on there with • Masehop lithe poons, te Wine that opmesises have =en thia the raw Plemes was mum snore pepeetine. Ur_ M dreymettaged mem Ohs thet cad the hiseW t h at Pthe hi a tufty, Naha dame to disowns labials se ceatinpe n t elms may arise or raw thee ethe hisambee. His poen °nine of the Wean with he pea hainres of want sa laried dreneept wialabonsfr eed disonehont ham beta Ordis are hone ell MINIM OMR Jens and Dishy ent, is moat that ask sessetibe Ile his cycler pressed with the work et roan lir. Jenne niftiest will negro thir meltedimmt is his INIIN ante Alhembr!, sad Kr. Wyatt peambes mem " bet ape of Poison in the deparimin Masan to his nap. Architectural series are pealed i.e. the 8 Me to the reneisome, to which 110 bale will be spreimme of the better times which lag pessaleil deer. The inner may now sielM be lehla had% thme being Mb boa bet that, nn the modsom eanted he aid Crystal P on the Mime of these ..Heide which were Men the ropiremate of That lindleg, thay will, by the in agar nent ? !ors ont samatitiai that will may man • emir" day usable so To the peli desmosieno fir Joseph Tame le air= his span =1 the Abeam We selsaihm end Ids p ham beta oen Mine las hem Mewe with Ilie bet et emit an eash elege d et the pressedime speak amiplies Meld be amnesty Im proper, sashes dna imp day imperions masanest an alteration or as imperoment. It will aot, however,be citing too gross • pablisity to Mint meets with Ois viathr booths abed kis enmity the interior features the Crystal Poises will demon on sa Weeded amen esplanade, richly desecated with dowers and My husisin from which Wary pro ossd down a broad walk ils tits first of the graft Ibmileins with it. jet of two Mahn het Is height. An Maim Obis walk will Wag 'dm to the Matairi empallasee, Mr had het in dimmer, with its still higher jet, and swersond b its title if satellites, unmated with all the was kipsis of the apholegy. The waist wens i.e.,. vim to Whit Sit SIM billkat results will be pill sod Mmeosive, nod their laspederb lig y e li g who ham • naimil MINIM ON seem "pm will sie4 the least banresting that et the HAMM& It la lordly necessary to add that the Men beano et the site will be taken the Most ailments of in the mats. The tress are there already sad in naaeasito ahnedame,snd se he the therms time is..fiident pesease for their perfeeties sal potesism la lit het, that they in entrusted to the acme hens that mien the Chanweeth Conservatory, sod man the Visterie Salo enmensfully under its trying shame eldthate. Prom all we have been able to learn them an be little dent bet that these is as honest intention on the pet of the Mena he make the Crystal Pains semeddent far beyond a men Mos of aamemeet, end that their intention, if eseeesefully, carried oat will prods= permanently beneficial results on the Wi llklllll9ll ht when the new structure is mainly in- Int court. PLYMOUTH, Jett 21. The Queen and Prince Albert, attended by the Marchioness of Ely, the lion. Caroline Cavendish, the Earl of Hardwick*, &c., landed this morning at nine o'clock at Mount Edgcumbe. The carriages of the suable earl were again In attendance to convey the royal party through die grounds. Shortly after 9 o'clock the Prince of Wales and Prince Alfred and the Princesses Helena and Louisa, attended by Lind George Lennox, flit James Clark, Mr. Gibbs, and hliss Illhardt, embarked in the Fairy royal yacht, and proceeded to the Breakwater, where their Royal Highnesses landed and remained about en hour and a half. Prince Albert, attended by Lord G. Lennox and Colonel the Hon. C. Grey, proceeded in the barge of the Victoria and Albert at haltpast 11 o'clock to the Victualling.yard, where his Royal Highness was received by the Port Admiral and the Commanding ()facer of Engineers. The Prince in spected the Prince of Wales's Redoubt, the Citadel, and the new fortifications at Stadden Point, after which his Royal Highness returned to the Victoria and Albert. At four o'clock, the Queen, Prince Albert, the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princesses Helena and Louisa., attended by the suite, embarked in her Majesty's steam-yacht Fairy, and proceeded up the Tamar, on her Majesty's return. The Fairy made a circuit into the Cat water, and her Majesty and the royal party returned on board the royal yacht at half-past seven o'clock. The Earl and Countess of Mount Edgcumbe and Lord Valletort had the honour of dining with her Majesty this evening. Her Majesty's yacht and the royal squadron are ex pected to get under woigh for Osborne at six o'clock to morrow morning. The Ducker of Kent, attended by Lady Fanny Howard and Sir George Couper, arrived at her residence, Clarence House, St. James's, yesterday morning, at half-past eleven o'clock. Her ReTal Highness left town in the afternoon, on her return to krogmore. The Bishop of London had an interview with the Earl of Derby?esterday at his o ffi cial residence in Downing.street. The Right lion. T. F. Kennedy had also an interview with the noble earl. Earl Fitshardisge had an interview with Mr. Secretary Walpole yesterday at the Home-office. The Cambridge University Commission had • meeting yesterday at the ofacial residence of the First Lord of the Treasury, in Downing -street. Present : The Bishop of Chester tbe Dean of Ely, Professor Sedgwick, and the Rev. W. If. Bateson (Secretary). Mr. Macgregor, M.P., had an interview with the Chan cellor of the Exchequer yesterday at his official residence in anwning-stmet. Mr. Montague, from the Cape of Good Ilope, had an Interview with Sir John Pakington yesterday at the Colo. nial-office. Despatches were received from the Governors of Hong Kong, Ceylon, the Mauritius, Malta, and the Lord Dish Conunissioner of the lonian Islands, at the Colonial-office yesterday. Despatches were also received from the Gover nors of South and Western Australia. TIER MAJESTY'S CRUISE. PLYMOUTH, THURSDAY. AS we stated yesterday, her Majesty the Queen, in the course of the forenoon of Wednesday, landed mud visited the Earl and Countess of Mount Edgeumbe. Prince Albert landed at the Royal William victualling yard, and visited the several forts and batteries in the port. In order to accomplish this, his royal highness availed himself of th e carriage of Admiral Sir John Ommanney. We also stated thatthe royal children, accompanied by Mr. Gibbs, their tutor, went out round the breakwater in the Fairy. We add now that the party afterwards landed on that great national work, and amused themselves there for sometime. The day was beautifully fine. The Sound was like a lake, and the heights everywhere being occupied by people, the scene was one of great interest. The whole of the steamers and royal ships in the harbour were dressed and looked remarkably gay. Her Majesty re nsalned on board the royal yacht all the forenoo n . I n the afternoon she went on board the Fairy, and went up the Tamar some miles. On returning, the Fairy, instead of going immediately to liarnpool, steamed from Devil's Point to the entrance of Millbay, where she lay to for a few minutes, to allow the royal party time to look into that harbour, she then steamed slowly along under the Hoe and Citadel, close to the share round the Fisher's Nose into Catwater, looking into Sutton Pool, and laying to for some minutes off Queen Anne's Battery. She then steamed round Catwater, and again under the Citadel (the batteries of which fortress firing a royal salute, and the band of the 77th regiment playing God save the Queen,") and across the Sound to her moorings in Ilarnpool, when her Majesty, Prince Albert, and the royal children returned to the Victoria and Albert. In the eourse of the afternoon, and while the royal party were on board the Victoria and Albert, the fine ship Spar tan, Capt. Sir 13. Hate, was towed out of harbour by two steamers, the Pike end Conflates, and as she was dressed with Sap from stem to stern, and the whole of her rigging to top royal yards fully manned, the men dressed in white trousers and jackets, s he presented such an aspect as is sel dom seen. On nearing the royal yacht, the attention of her Majesty and the Prince Consort, who were below at the moment, was called to the vessel, and the Queen at onto ran upon deck without a bonnet, and the Prince without hat. On the appearance of her Majesty, who was evi dently pleased with the sight, the erew of the Spartan greeted her with such a hearty round of cheers as only Bri tish tars can give. The Queen watched the progress of the vessel until it was hid from sight by the intervention of Bt. Nicholas's Island. Yesterday morning, about 8 o'clock, the Queen and Prince Albert landed at Mount Edgeumbe, and walked up to the stables, where they desired Joseph, the coachman, to get the horses ready and drive them round the park. The coachman was going to call the family, but the Queen would not allow them to be disturbed. In the evening the Earl and Countess of Mount Edgessmbe dined with her Majesty and Prince Albert. On tho afternoon of Tuesday, 'Alfred Rooker, Esq., the mayor of Plymouth, accompanied by C. C. Whiteford, Esq., tho town clerk, went with Edward 81. Aubyn and C. Tripe, Esqrs. (in the absence of the mayor and the town clerk of Devonport), attended oa board the royal yacht for the purpose of learning her Majesty's pleasure as to the receipt of an address which the councils of each town were ready to present on behalf of the inhabitants. A letter was written by the Mayor of Plymouth, of which the following is a copy " My Lord,—The civil authorities of Plymouth and De vosport have been natarallr ua dstrius to evince their gratifi cation at the arrival el her at this port, b u t wi s h a t the same time le stsmis den e presentation of any ad dress er ether desseessentlen which might possibly Interfere with her Majemy's wirer, se to her visit being regarded a private one. I Maoism yesterday, in company with the authorities et Dowels.% selsedel en board the royal yacht, daring the Memo if her Milady at Mount Edc combo, la the kews of helep able le ere main her Majesty e wishes is the 1/0411. inn So Mace of my conianniea ties with the siege r ammewl. Lewd Adolphus Pitsela- I have dam hues espeellag some neMeation from : k r e the te up M het sone having arrived this moment, nest that year isedsh will be I plowed to spew le her the snatiesmie of ip the local audsmiliss, whom I have the Imam is repswesat, and to =MI disks le set in every respect in sub * hes vides. If Is Majesty will permit the eir from the towns of Plymouth sad peer Israidp will prehehly be able to as certain at whet time it will be agresible le her Majesty to reasive,the some.—l have the hisser to be, year lordship's obedisnt surnat, " A. Boole& " The NO et Ilarderiaks." The Earl iifiarWieke was absent, and the authorities at ant received an answer that her Majesty's visit was a strictly private one, and that in each eases it would not be consistent with her wishes to receive any deputation with addresses. Hut yesterday morning a letter was received from the Earl of Hardw ick., intimating that her Majesty would be ready to receive an address. The following is a copy of the noble earl's letter :- 11.11.8. Victoria and Albert, Plymouth, Jely 21, 1852. —Blr —I have the Mesa, to aeknowledo the receipt of year letter of this dog's dads. And I reply to express my l'Erthat I was ant es beard when you visited this ship. . her Majesty's sommeede fa entree' to you her reath noes to recasive an adduce Ikea the eve authorities of Plymouth sad Demurest, and that her Majesty will direct her BeereWyd leads to glee an answer thereto. If the address be Beromded to me, I will take care to lay the gams WM, her 11141.17.-I have the honour to be, rte., " To the Mayor ei Plymouth. " MARDWICiI." As there was no time to be lost, the Mayor, town clerk, and some meshes Odle council, agreed upon an address, which was sent a/yesterday to the royal yacht. The fol lowing is • dopy orthe Plymouth address: " TO 13112 BIOST EXCILLIXT DIAIIIII7. " May it piema year Mejesty,—We, your 111 . *asty's loyal males% the mayor, aldermen and co of the Memel elf Plymouth, desire to Offer to your jesty . the ezpreadon dear heartfelt gratification that your Mejesty has again honoured this ancient port with your royal pre sence. We eiterieb with the deepest satisfaction the re asemlaimee tithe former occasions on which we have been jumaitiod to enjoy the like honour, and respectfully assure your 'Nosey that the lapse of time has only increased our feelings of Membrane to your Majesty's person and govern ment, as we have red increased experience of your Ma- Mk"egaatltatigtasT ul rale, and your deep solicitude for the somel. Inte/knosed, sod social welfare of every elate of your , naivetes. We rejoice at the manifestation of your Ma s saikninished partiality for that element with which the BMA name and empire are Ito gloriously iden tified, mad to which we again owe your Majesty's pretence in ear Mobeer, and we earnestly pray that your Majesty Wee dates to enjoy the blessings of invigorated mit nonsetie happens, and reign in the affections of a mind and loyal people." TM teem semen et Davenport also sent an addles. It I was only at a late hour that the intimation was given that such an address would be received. It was, therefore, has tily prepared, in conference with each members of the coun cil as could be got together. This fact will account for the council not having been specially summoned on an occasion of so much interest. The following is a copy of the Devon port &driven :- 1 "TO TEM YOST IICILL2ICT MAIIITY. " We, the mayor, aldermen, and burgesses of the borough of Devonport, beg leers to express our humble and dutiful attachment to your Majesty's royal person. " Many and great are tho blessings which this country, ander j'rovidence, has enjoyed in the course of your Majesty's happy reign. Whilst, in the words of the great historian of the age, " doctrines hostile to all science s , all arta, to all industry, to all domestic charities, doct rines which, if carried into effect, would in thirty years undo all that thirty centuries have done for mankind. and would make the f • provinces of France and Germarty Its savage as Congo and Patagonia, have b een avowed train the tribune, and defended by the sword, in oar inland the re gular course of government has never been for a d.y inter rupted ;" and it has been your Majesty's glory, by the countenance so freely bestowed on the enterprise of vourrej a t consort, which:originated, matured, and c inducted to a sue eeeeful close the grandest exhibition which the world has ever yet beheld, to demonstrate to the assembled multitude collected from every quarter of the civilised globe, h ow great and incalculable are the benefits of peatefui rivalry la productive industry, and of free and unrestricted intercoune with all nations. I "It has been, moreover, your Majesty's great privilege t o demonstrate in an unmistakeable manner on the occasion is question, that which is the real strength of a loyal nation rallied in firm and peaceful array round a parental throne. " We humbly desire to record our deep sense of the debt of gratitude which is due front your people, and that jour Majesty may long be spared to reign over us, and to stimu late our exertions for a progressive advancement in all our moral and social relations is our earnest prayer. Oiven under our common seal this 21st slay of July, 1852." It appears that on the way down the Channel the royal party landed at Babbicombe, in Torbay, on Monday after, noon, at about three o'clock. Immediately that the royal standard was signalised at the Coast Guard Station, and, it was known that her Majesty was on board, the utmost ex. n te e m . p e e ri c t te p d r w e I t e ht d n rri te l l o i l e h the em s, : ca; squadron, rorib that teiT i . sp preach was not known in Torquay until after the royal party had reached the shore. Mer Majesty rowed elect along the beach, and appeared to be mach gratified with the lovely scene which Babbicumbe presents bens ath the evening sun, which was then beaming in all its splen. dour, whilst the rich foliage extending to the water's edge, and the towering cliffs, cast a deep shade army the valley. I'rince Albert, with the youthful Prince of Wales and Prince Alfred, landed upon the beach, sad ascended through the beautiful grounds of Mrs. White head. On reaching the down his Royal Higbee.' hailed • hackney-coach which was paesing, and requested that he might be conveyed to St.Msry Church. Tbe driver having nordea that it was the Prince, declined, as he war engaged to fetch Mr. John %Voodley to Ate the Queen. But at leceth he assented to take them as far as be could. On meeting Mr. Weodley, the Prince very politely offered to dismount, het " es they were strangers" they were pressed to than: the carriage; and the l'rize Medalist at the Groat Exhibition had the additional honour of lionieing his un known guest over) the village and Lis far tamed marble works ; after which he courteously gave up the carriage, and proceeded in hopes of getting a glimpse of Prince Albert; His Royal Highness afterwards drove through Torquay, and thence round the new terrace road above Meadfoot, returning to the yacht aeon after six o'clock. The squadron then got under weigh, and steamed tine round the head lands towards Torbay. Nothing could exceed the beauty of the scene as the vessels approach e d Anetey's Cove, passing so immediately beneath the preci pitous cliffs that those upon the summit could look directly down upon theirdecka. In hall an hour the rope yachts had entered Torbay, and dropped anchor opposite Beacon Hill. The bay instantly swarmed with yachts and busts, whilst every height which could command a prospect was studded with gazing crowds. The squadron had now ken augmented by the arrival of the Odin, Sampson, It an , couta, Magicientic, and Retribution, steam rrigatev, sad the Vivid steam tender, making together a fleet of nine magnificent vessels. The local board having karat from Lord Hardwicke that her Majesty would receive an ad dress, and that a reply would be returned through the Se cretary of State, the board met and agreed to one,which was afterwards presented by a deputation. A royal sa lute was fired from M alders Hill, and some splendid rockets and blue lights were displayed from the grounds on Ettenheim. Shortly after eight o'clock on Tuesday morn ing, the royal party were again on deck enjoying the cool sea breeze and the beautiful panorama of the bay. The bay was studded with yachts, the Torquay hand playing at in tervals the national anthem and other loyal airs. tier Majesty was at the same time seated in the round-house on deck quietly sketching Tor Abbey and other points in the bay, the young princes gambolling over the vessel, and seeming fully to enjoy the animated scene. About ten o'clock the boats were lowered and manned, and her Majesty, attended by her suite, entered the barge with the royal standard hoisted at the bow, preceded by the gig, and escorted by the other boats of the yacht, and rowed rou n d beneath the cliffs from Beacon Hill to Tor Abbey Sands, passing close along by the pier, and thence returning to the yacht, which immediately proceeded towards the Berry Head. The steam frigates had gut under weigh a short time before, and were just leaving the bay. DEPARTURE FROM PLYMOUTH. This (Thursday) morning, the steam-vessels compcning the .Royal squadron got under weigh, and l e ft the Sound, steaming to the eastward. The five large steamers—the Odin, Sampson Barrsoouter, Retribution, and Magi cienne, first pau sed the Breakwater, and were followed by the Victoria and Albert, Royal 7acht, the Fairy tender, and the Vivid. On getting outside the Breakwater, the Vivid passed a-head of the Royal yacht, and was evidently taking up her position as avant courrier to the squadron. As the Victoria and Albert passed through the Sound, the Royal standard was saluted from the Impregnable and the forts, H.M.'s ships Queen and Spartan. It is supposed that the Royal squadron were to proceed direct to the Isle of Wight, her Majesty being expected to be present at the regatta at Ryde. RETURN OF lIER MAJESTY TO OSBORNE (BY lILICTRIC T1L1011.4110 PORTSMOUTH, FRIDAT MORNING. Her Majesty returned to Osborne last evining, about easset, and the armed smart arrived at Spithead at r 8 o'clock this morning. THE FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT AT BURNLEY. Tho inquest in this case was resumed yesterday morning. Mr. Hargreaves, the coroner, took his scat at the court-house at 11 o'clock. Great interest was excited by the proceedings, the court being thronged throughout the day. Capt. Wynne, government inspector of railways, was present. It will be remembered that the fatality was occasioned by the train coming in collision with the "dead buffers" at the end of the siding, into which the carriages passed instead of down the main line, in consequence of tee points not being attended to. John Parker, the pointaman, has been in custody ever since the accident. The 20 or 30 persons who were more or lees injured are recovering. The chief facts elicited in evidence were as follows: On the night of the accident Parker left a man named Crabtree in charge of tho points, while he went forward to meet the approaching train. Crabtree entrusted the points to another man named Bridge, and whilst he bad gene away a distance of a few yards to another pair of points, for the purpose of letting the engine of the Goole train (which had been de tached) into the shed, the train itself came up, and there being no one to attend to it, it pined on to the siding, where the cotheon took place, instead of down the main line. Nei ther Crabtree nor, Bridge are in the service of the railway company, but both of them have been in the habit of ren derieg gratuitous Resistance at the station occasionally, the former going there regularly for the purpose of carrying 'codrs' luggage, and the latter (who is a blacksmith) sown amusement," as wee stated, after he bad done his work. TWA' was the first time Bridge had tandertaken to officiate as pointaman for a passenger train, though he had occasionally turned the points for odd luggage earn end for an engine and tender. Ile thought himself competent to attend to the points from what he had sees, and from knowing the way they ought to be turned. Conflicting evidence was given as to whether Bridge had time to return from the engine shed points to to the Bast Lancashire or main line points before the train paused. Some witnesses stated that sufficient time was afforded him for that purpose, whilst Bridge himself said he returned to his post as quickly as possible, and was too late. After a lengthened account of the accident from Parker, the pointsman, the inquiry was adjourned till to morrow (Saturday). DEATH nom THE BURSTING OP A SODA WATER Bo:I'LL—As the warehousemen at the White Hart, New- market, named Callan, was engaged in unpacking some soda water, on Monday, one of the bottles suddenly burst, and a quantity of glass struck him very severely in the face and eyes. He was taken home, and some of the glen ex tracted from his eyes, but after suffering the most excru ciating pain, from inflammation and mortification, be died, delirious, on Thursday, leaving a wife and three small chil dren unprovided for.—lpesoicA Express. EFFECTS OP CHEAP JUSTICE.—Tho effects of the County Courts are not more remarkable in the diminution of the number of cases in Westminster Hall, than in the di minution of the number of inmates in the Queen's Bench Prison. Till the operation of the County Courts Act, the average number of prisoners was upwards of three hundred ; at present there is scarcely a third of that number, and a full half of those have been in confinement from a period antecedent to the passing of the act referred to. One man has been la prison for the space of forty years. Ile en tered a hale and strong man of 35; he is now in his dot ige. Two have been there (or thirty-one years • four for twenty years ; and a considerable number for upwiiirds of ten years. Every advanoe made by our legislature in providing cheap justice for the people must necessarily have the effect of diminishing the number of prisoners for debt all over the kingdom. Not unfrequently, persons have been kept in con finement for many years for the mere costs in an action, irre spective of the alleged debt altogether, u for example in a case where the judge had ordered that each party should pay his own costs. Cheap justice will render such cases rare, it beinonore difficult to run up a large bill of costs for pro ceedings in the county courts than in the superior ones. A reform in the Court of Chancery will also have the effect of diminishing the number of prisoners in the Queen's Prison. Many of the Chancery prisoners are committed for con tempt ; that is, they may have chanced not to appear to some summons at the Master's or Registrar's Office, or otherwise, as the case may be, during the progress of the suit, which may have been prolonged to a tedious duration. The costs connected with such contempt, are enormous. 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