The Express. — London, England, 1848-05-24 00:00:00

sgh)set, ' omitted to state that RI 11444 the quantity I • raw silk retained fur home on swell 4444 amounted te 4021.00011 w ; bong 1815, to 4 058.000 he 1846 to 4,090.000, being greater thins etie peer... year. He I admitted that it decrees , d in 181 l tu 3,60 1 1 1 0 be , but then there bad been a gradual incit.. in tile •• or our lk manufactures to compensate tor that, la la4l 0u 764,000r exportl, in the B ilk trade mounted to 736,11001 , Imo 1 ., is 1818 to 887,000 r.. slid in 1147 to 9 7 8 , 0001 . Ihe noble lord had talked of the iiijuri us introduei .ii of rotten and weolin goods; but what effect he would ask iii r. turn could 300,0001 of wooden goods have upon the woollen manumetures of thie country, the spots of which amounted to about 7,000,0(011. ; or elm frect could 200,0001. of cotton g 0..., w nich he b. .i veil was the MO *mama imaorti el, have up in •ur cotton export', am tinting as they del to 17.000,0001. or 18.000 0001 Ile conic*. tt that lie war. unatee t•.aether from the noble lord's statement, the drift of tie argument with reference to colonial t.in tr, tor, so tr 'num any reduction having taken place in the price of colonial umbel, it was heilier in J u 1817, than it oast been at any period since the per 11442 ; a•.tl tow a. tar from the colonies having suffereo any lose whatever tram the diminution in the differential duties, they had up to the month ot June last year hem receivitig a higher price for their timber then the. tad received in 1812 It wa , true that, iu the spring of the present yt ar, the sane d prcitsion which had affected ever) other trade, hail at last rt ached 'he umber trade ; it was. however, the last which was err.. eel, and the cause was the suspeneiou of the railway works owing to the menet try pres•ure. (Hi ar, hear.) lie (Sir Clerk) was net aware there was any other branch ot trade or commerce to which the noble lord had referred; and he was titre that, if the noble lord would upp:y his mind an:l attention to the general trade of the country, and not to that of London alone, he would fled that lie could not justify many of the statements which he had matte. The returns Irmo the Board of Trade showed that the disturbances in France had not thrown into this country so gr. at a qu lathy of silk goods as was opposed , while they showed hat there had been an Merest.. in the export.. of Briii-h maiitilactured silk greeds. 1 • 181 d they amounted to 57,800,000:1w., and in 1817 to 58,900.0101Jc Aad in the firs. two mouths of the resew year there hid been an increase in the declared value of the exports or e•impored with the corresponding two months of the year 1816. Therefore, as he hail already said, so far lions the foreign distuibances and want to confidence in the stabinty of the French government twinit of auy bene• fit to this country, it ought to be the earnest wish of every MO in this country who desired to improve the social condi tion of the people, that peace and traliqtellity should be restored throughout the whole E .o. 1 ar, hear.) With teis and an e bund int harvett, of il e a pe on-eque l itely, cheap toed, there would le., instead of wont of employineut ariaing from (onion com)etitioe, an abundance, and tee trade and manufactures of this country be rai ed to a state of ones ampled prosperity. (If tar.) Mr. LABO UCH ERE said the noble lord the member for King's Lynn had, in the coerce of his s p eech, arraigned the entire commented p bey of the gnomon. lit of which the right tun. baronet th•• member for Tsonerorth wee at the bead. awl nail endeavoured to connect the m attires and changes which that government has carried and effected with the distress whch lied Melt prevailed in this c 'entry, and whith the, all most di reit) deplored. The defence of those measures had very naturally Men under liken by the mem. ben of that government to-night. H. (Mr. Laltouchere), as en indiyolutti menden of the house, had given his humble support at that time to the policy in this respect of the right hon. baronet (Sir R. Pet)), aid nothing had since °Centred to Cause i t rri t tht he had done so. On the co h ntr m ary, o he eg wail pei a tectly smile tied that during the trying leriod which this country had lately hail to go through, the alteretions in the e minter cial po.i..y made by the right hon bonito t, and especially I the altered -lit in the corn laws, had produced most bent ficiol I effect., bolt politically, morally, and axially, and had mainly cootributed to enable thus country to ride tl.rough the difficulties, and to surmount them, and to exhibit to the world that while either nations wit re torn with interest dia. cud, and or_rwhelmed by commercial di.trese, this country Mato struggle through eve. y difficulty. and come out with renewed mud inereased energy. (Hear, hear.) lie (Mr. Labouehere) could sympathise in the defence made of those measures by the right hon gentleman the zip mber for the University of (Word (Mr. Gladstone., and by the tight hon. baronet the member cur Dover (Sir O. Clerk), end was so well sari fled with their vindication of the principles of those measures, that he should not have thought it justifiable in him to addrees the house at all, were it not ne. mud, to allude to the particular motion of the noble lord opposite (Lord G. Bentinck). He (Mr. Labauebere) agreed with the right hon. gentleman (Mr. Gladstone) that there was one opinion teemed to inherent in the noble lord, a. to make it difficult to meet on any common ground of argue Meet. Tne not.le lord colic , vied that any foreign import into this country was of itself an innovation, and that all fon iga gods imported into this country threw out a certain number of Englishmen who would otherwise have employ ment. In this he ( sir. L tboucht re) coed no: agree, Unitas the noble lord could satisfy him that foreign net ons made a present of their .goods to this country. Unless they did so, twee goods must be paid for by the produce of the industry of the English population ; and thus commerce became nut merely a boon to one coun try, but to all natiot.s engaged in it. (Hear, hear.) Now, with regard to the •i.k trade, taking it for a series ut years, it could be 'Armed with truth that th imports of silk goods here had increased, and the exports of silk goods manulecimed here tad increased also. And both these re. salts were perfectly Cnsist. lit. The importations of foreign silks dot not interiere with the manufactures of teie country ; both could go on well together ; but nrehing could be more fallacious than the note>, that this omen.y tad been de luged with sick good' from the contin , lit of Europe, and ea pecially from France. There was, he knew, a common fl el mg abroad (+ince the late events in Fretice) that silk goods had been brought in to the infinite injury of our manufac turers; that the shops were full of them, and that our mann lecturers had thereby been deprived of their bread. The facts, however, did not bear out ar.y such assertion. Here was a return of the amount in value of the silk goods imported from the continent in the three months ending the sth April, 1847—it amounted to 144,0001., and a return for the three months ending .in April, 1848, showed an amount of 141,42 a, being a diminution of between 3,000!. and 4,0001. This at once proved that it was neither true nor just to assert that this country had b. en deluged with silk goods tram the COntintnt of Europe, and that whatever di.- tress this cour.try had to regret, the existence of it in Spital fields and elsewhere was nut to be attributed to this cause. (Hear, hear.) As he Pad already gated, he felt really un willing to go over grounds which hail b •en so well argued by the two members of the late government who had spoken. But the noble lord opposite Lord G. Ben- Bock had refereed to the 'vaunts pe ( ricaleelly laid on the table of the house by the Board of Trade, and had looked at those returns with great els picion. He (Mr. Labouchere) had no hope that anything he could sett would shake the opinion of those returns formed by the noble purl who held the metien, that they were concocted, and had an air of mystification about them. Now if there was any fault to be found with them this respect, it was a fault of very old standing, for the returns were now made out in the very same form and manner as had been adopted in the year 1832, when they were in tended only for the use of the government, so that if there was any mystification, it could only have been to deceive the members of the government themselves. Since 1832 it had been thought right the , the returns se prepared should nut be limited to the gov, rument, but should be contmuni• toted to parliament, and no change had been made in draw icier them up, except by the addition of snicks which, be coming important, were appended to the lid. If, how ever, ar.y hon. in, miser wished a more detailed account of the various trtichaeof import and capon, he would have no diffizulty in ob . . lining information from the finance =mints. which every year were furnished with a table comprising the quantities of every article imported or ex ported paying more than 1001. in duties. From these finance accounts, which comprised more than 100 different heads, any delusions that the Board of Trade might be supposed to practise might be exposed and laid hare. (Hear, hear.) With regard to the returns moved for by the noble lord, he (Mr. Lthouchere)should not offer any opposition, though to some of them he could point out considerable objections. The noble lord asked for a return of the prices at which various article had been sold in the City of London. The noble lord must know that none of the government depart ments had the means of getting accurate information upon such a sutject ; and though the duty hint, in some instances, been undertaken by public departments, he thought the practice Objectionable, and ught not generally to be raquircd. In this instance he would endeavour to obtain the information in the best way he could, but it must be with the distinct understanding that it was imeos:ible that any government department could be answerable for its correct ness. With that understanding he should offer no objection to the returns moved for by the noble turd. (Hear.) Mr. M. GIBSON said it perhaps might nut be becoming in any member to comment upon the course which the house chose to pursue in the conduct of public business, but if he might be permitted to offer an opinion, he must say Ili it the course taken to-night was rather peculiar. The first part of the evening had been devoted to the question as to whether to-morrow (Wednesday) should be thrown away, end atter that three or four hours had been occupied in mak ing and heaciug speeches upon emotion for unopposed re turns. t Hear.) This practice it was quite competent for the house to pursue, but it was a practice not exactly in accordance with its usual proceedings. (Hear, bear.) The effect of this occupation of time had been to defer the impor tant motion of his hon. friend the member for Montrose (Mr. Hume) to a very distant day—(cries of " No, no") —well, then, to delay it for some time ; and be must say, that if upon one question more than another it was desirable there should be an early decision, it was just that sort of motion which his hon. friend had put upon the aotice-book. (Hear, hear.) He (Mr. N. Gibson) really thought many honourable members had a right to complain that the noble lord opposite (Lord G. Bentinck) had deprived them of two days in a session when business was so press• tog, that repeated complaints had been made that it was impoteible to pursue bills of a most important character. He must be excused remarking, that to say by a vote, that, be. cause the race for Derby was to take place, the house would not to morrow proceed with business, was not a course of proceeding very becoming the House of Commons, and it was unjust to those Scotch members who took an interest in the Entails (Scotland) Bill, which, owing to the adjourn ment till Thursday, would be thrown back three weeks, if it was not lust altogether. (Hear, hear.) With respect to the question raised by the potent motion, it had been so fully discussed that it was wholly unnecessary for him to go through the statistics which had been brought forward, but he must make one et mark, viz., that if the noble lord who , lad brought forward the motion really had a doubt as to the opinion of the house on the commercial policy adopted by the late government, he would act a fairer part if be brought the question forward as a distinct motion. As the noble I.nl bad moved for elaborate retort , . Will, It would cause great expanse and Winslow, and proihiloiy not be of AM% Wie, ina the la sod riot op ial coo.. Pre pare as we ll wad th e (Haar, wo ears 04! sad . a▪ nd ;title °i f rovement Le coto. by 11 " to n o e 0 c so" ,: in the r yTetU ra t of wor k ' ad th at hot Vdti t t atufacton irca Of. the nvos° THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 24, 1848. he heat me at every public meeting, I can wily say that I never had the pleasure of meeting him but once. Mr. COBDEN —I said the lion. gentleman or his fol lowers. Mr. H. BERKELEY postponed his motion on the subject of vote by ballot to the 20th of June. Mr. O'CONNOR Paid he would withdraw his motion for an adjournment. (No, no.) Lord J. RUSSELL—The hon. gentleman only moved the adjournment for the purpose of addressing the huu.e I hope the douse will allow the other business on the paper to be disposed of. I cannot see th:it there is any objection, or anything unusual, in the hon. mem ber for Montrose postponing his motion till a future opportunity, as he was sit able to raring it on to-night. (Hear, bear.) With regard to the other question which the hon. gentlemen raised between themselves, the hon. mem her fur Nottingham saying that the working clatse* had no confidence in the motion et the hon. member for Montrose, and the hon, member for the West Riding saying that no confidence ought to be placed in the hon. member for Not tingham—(laughter)—without making any obeervation on this question of personal confidence—(laughter I— I must say that my belief is that the middle and the working classes of the country neither wish for the one great ref am nor the other—(sheen.)—tbat they are neither anxious for the permits's charier, nor for this great plan of re form which comes near the charter, as proposed by the honourable member for Montrose. (Hear, hear.) I believe they wish neither one our the other, and' that thee sea their t,uc interact is that there should he • gradual progress of reform, and that this house should give its attention to the que•tiens before us, and that in the p ace and quiet of the country lies their true interest. (Loud minis terial and opposition cheers ) I he motion for the adjournment was then withdrawn. BOOR LAW (IRELAND). Mr. FRENCU, in moving for a select c' , mmittee to in , ( t iara into and report on the statements contained in the p e tition from the county of Roscommon, which was pre sented on the I.s'h day of this instant May, an to the work ing of the Irish poor-law, comploined that the poor law ardent woe introduced into It, land after it hod been pro nounced unsuitable to that country on the highest autho- THP: EXPRESS.—EPSONI RACES. — l'he result of nob dett Dame grill be pubildted. the same ermine, b "The gke erpretai. MAILS. ‘ The overland closed mails, Qalareeillert, to the Atsliterranean, Egypt, Aden, Ce lon. loot', Hong-Kong, etc, will be nude up on the evening of the 11th May. The mails for Unush North America, and the United States, will be 111110 e up on the evening of the 28th May. The nulls for Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Madeira, Cadiz, and Gibraltar will be made up on the morning of the 27th May. The mulls fur New Mouth Wales, Van Iheotan'a Lend, and New Zealand will be made up on the evening if the dint M y. The mails for the Weal '.stet of Afrioa and Madeira will be made op #l.ll the evening of the 31.1 May. Ilse Went India Nails, including Bermuda, ri.AVIU. Honduras, New Orleens, Vent Crur, Tumpun, and Porto Kist, and deluding those for Modena, darted, tt.'atthntetvi, &tots Martha, Chromes, Panama, Went Covet of South Antertni, and st. J Nicaragua, will be nude up on the meaning of the 2nd June. The mails for the Brazils, the Kiser Piste, Monte Voist, Premien bun% Bahia, Madeira, mid Buenos Ayres, will ce made up on the evening of the 3rd June. The overhaul mails Gibraltar, Molts, Greece, the linen Wands, Egypt, Aden, Ceylon, Hong-hong, unit China, era Southamp. too, will be mode up on the 1110111i14 of the 20th Jut* NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS. The number of STAMPS issued by the authurities of thr Stamp-ottice, during 1847, to the DAILY NEWS was 3,447,009 This, we believe, is within eiyht per cant of the ~umber issued to the Morning Herald, Nursing Claroasele, and Wornino Post, ALL PUT TOO P.TH BK. In addition to the abase, issued to the DAILY NEWS, Horn* Paper, there were issued for the LVMSIVI Edition . TILE EXPRESS 778,714 Which was more, we believe, than were issued either to he Globe or Standard, Eteitiult Paper.. TO OiIIittP.4POSDESTA. The length of the Krighley Wo, aul our hotted ewe, were the eattees of Sts aor.•uteertuat. rity. Sir 0. GREY regretted that this motion tad not beret postponed, for it was impossible that duo *Reclean could at • hat hour be given to the subject. Fur his OAR NM, he could not eidetic the house to agree to the motion. %Vanes**e for a committee on the poor law could not, without incehve.iience, be brought over at preseat from Ireland ; and with respect to the particular petition to which the hon. mernbir referred no inquiry could he instituted respecting it which id net nume the form of an investigation on the general question. Looking forward to the time when a really useful inquiry wig it be instituted, he trusted the house would negative this motion, it it were insisted on. particu larly as the British Association was now spending 10,0001. a week in Ireland, and making the greatest exertions to alle viate the misery of the people. (Hear.) Col. CONOLLY did out go the length of denying the subversion of the Irish poor law ; but thought it required material amendment. Properly carried out, he had no doubt that law would prove • decided blea.ing, but et course it could not be expected to be brought to maturity in an hour. Much of its aumiuistration, hoe ever, was yin, arbitrarily tied despotically managed. Mr. Twisleton's mune Win much objected to, and he was bound to soy that he did nut think it was ouches to ensure confidence or invite co operation. Mr. M. FOX said that Mr. Twialeton was an extremely ' tubule and sensll,l. pers,n. Sir D. NORREYS censured the arbitrary manner in which no fe-ver thou 40 boards of guardians iu Ireland had been dismissed. Mr. M. J. O'CONNELL hoped the bon. gentleman would withdraw his motion for the present. There was mirth in quiry needed ou the subject before it could be judiciously broute t forward. Sir W. SOMERVILLE assured the Douse that the disso lution of boards of guardians in Ireland was uo matter 04 mete wish the commission, but simply a matter of necessity. The commission had ear. ry desire to coeduet their admiral.- tration without any approach to Arbitrary rules. Col. DUNNE thought that a searching inquiry into the working ot the poor law in Ireland was absolutely essential Mr. P. S. BUTLER concurred in the necessity for an inquiry into the pour law in Ireland ; the prevent adreinisr [ration of which excited much dissatistution there. Mr. FRENCH withdrew his motion. NATIONAL LAND COMMITTEE. Mr. F. O'CONNOR moved for a select committee to in quire into the National Lind Company and it. prospects. Th • motion was agreed to. ROMAN CAL HOLIC JURORS (IRELAND). Mr. KEOGH. in moving fur the rf turn. of which be had given trisee, begged to premise that he was actuated by no sympathy for the gentlemen who had lately been put on their trials for sedition in Dahlia. He thought an insult And been offered to the Roman catho lic. of Ireland, and they thought so themselves, by ttieir ex elusion from the jut, panels. The list of jurors for the city of Dublin consisted of upwards ul 600. 01 these 44 were se lected to form the panel, and this number was reduced hy the crown striking if 1 2 and the traverser striking off 12. The crown hod, et the late trial of Mr. Meagher, struck oft II out of 12 Roman Catholics who were lett on the revised jury list, Amends: the gentlemen who were to struck of as Roman Catholics were some of the mad rfspecteble inhabitants of Dubin. Ile would specify partepalean Messrs. Campbell and Mr. Power. The former highly cr. ditable merchants, the latter a man of fortune. Now, what he desired to ask the hon. baronet opposite ass, what were the grounds up en which the crown lawyers in Dublin had struck these gentlemen's names off the jury panel ? There could be no confidence in the adminis tration ot the law in Ireland whilst such prae. tires were allowed. The government was with out an excuse for its conduct on the occasion in question There hod been some great blunders committed in Deland during the late trials. lie believed that it the Roman catholic* who bad been struck off had been left on, and those who had been left on the panel had been struck off, the result would have been to have rendered the government certain of a verdict. The only one of the Roman ea:holies left ou the jury was a person of no note—who had been ch tirman of a repeal meeting only four days helore. He went about !muting, after the jury WAR discharged, what be had done. But the most curious fart was that he was left on the list by a mistake ; for being vestry-clerk ot St. Mark's church it was concluded he was a prate scant, whereas he was a staunch Roman-catholic (" Hear," and a laugh.) Mr. C. ANSTEY seconded the motion. He thought that the conduct of her Majesty's law officers in Ireland had been one nestle of error, and that government were bound to take prompt steps for a speedy reformation. Lord J. RUSSELL regretted that the hon. and learned member bed not postponed his motion until there had been time to receive information from Ireland. He bad not cer tainly expected that the present government would have been fxposed to a charge of partiality on the ground of exclud ing catholic from juries. He entertained then, as he hail formerfy, the opinion that the exclusion of Roman catholics from juries as such was an extremely wrong and tiejustifl able proceeding. (Hear, hear,) lie would remind the house that Roman catholics had under the pre sent government received as much favour in public appointments as protestant', as might be evidenced by the fact of the Attorney-General and the Undir.Serretery for Instead being la ith members of that persuasion. (Hear, hear.) The moment he heard that prosecution+ for sedition had been determined on, he had written to his noble friend at the head of the Irish government, expressing his hope that nn i n terterence should take place with regard to the jury. For his part he would much rather see men acquitted than that any such conduct should take place (Cheer. ) His treble friend had, in reply to him (Lord J. Russell), expressed a similar opinion; and when he waeinform.d that a Realm catholic had been excluded from the jury without any reason arising from marked politieil conduct, his noble friend expressed his sur prise, and stated, that if such conduct had b en pursued it had been entirely without his knowledge or approbation. (Cheers.) Having said so much, he could not go further nto details until he hail received more complete informa tion. He believed, however, that neither the Lor I -Lieutenant nor the Attorney General had any wish to exclude a juror on the around of religion, or that the jury should be exclusively protestant. The tacts proved that to have been the case, seeing that a person had been left on who had held out against the majority of the jury, considering that he was tint bound by his oath to art contrary to the interests of the faction to which he belonged. Mr. M. .1. O'CONNELL regretted that his hon. and learned friend had not waited for further information. Mr. REYNOLDS vindicated the respectability of the Roman catholics who had been struck off the panel in the case of Mr. S. O'Brien, Sir G. GREY defended the Attorney General, and stated that at the special commission that law officer had not chal lenged a single juror on the score of politics or religion. After a few words from Mr. F. O'CONNOR, the motion was agreed to. IRISII REPRODUCTION LOAN ASSOCIATION. Mr. J. A. SMITH obtained leave to bring in a bill to de -1 solve this association. .. The house adjourned at a quarter to 2 o'clock. hos- HIGH WATER AT 1.06160 N RUH/0C 146 Morni.s. 60 mi. paw 6 Aldvdme. i mid. odd It sod—Marems. fdias. pod , Altdresed 16 P. .161. 6 di , tmed by the same consummate prudence and plicy that have marked his sway and mai agment of the Pro visional Government. In spite of Mn. JACOB Ounicht's conversion of the hoes to the cause ot West Indian monopoly, confusion has become worse confounded amongst the opponentsof free trade in sugar. Discord is their only character istic: they have as many opinions, and as differing views, as a congress of German metaphysicians; and tho cliques and sections into which they are divided are as intolerant of each other as were the Laprarians and Sup alspsarians, and all the other ariana of the Synod of Dort. Lord G holm , : will not be taught by, and snubs, the Weis Indian Committee, who are free-traders on principle, and monopolists on interest. The com mittee seek to gain converts to their exceptional views amongst the Liberals, rather than support from the Cosservatives, and turn entreatingly to Lord imt N, and imploringly to Sir Itostar, and won't have the cause of dear sugar damaged by an alliance with h gh-priced corn. And, Ishmael-like, the hands of the Anti-Slavery Society are turned against pro tectionists, free traders, and West Indians they will not consent to this country having cheep sugar, or the West Indies having cheap labour. They are opposed on principle to protection, but insist on their clients, the West Indian negro, it, having in practice a monopoly of sugar. They are for freedom to the labourers, and for slavery to the planters ; and they invite their followers at home to cease consuming slave-labour sugar, which they cannot distinguish from fee-labour sugar. No wonder that, amid this B she' of opinion, this clashing of interests, and this bitterness of cligseries, Lord GEORGE's committee cannot agree on a report. 'f he case on both sides was closed before the Easter recess; the evidence has been weeks before the pub lic ; and expectation has been tip-toe for the lest month for the summing up—for the views of the committee—far its recommendation —fur that unanimity which was to settle the question. The Times has once or twice begotten a hope that the report was ready—has spoken as if it were in the printer's hands—nay, has even affected to refer to the coutenta. Yet has it not appeard ; and there are 1 1 rumours that it not ,ready ; that its basis has not been agreed on ; that the more the evidence is consi dered, the more discordant are the conclusions to which it brings members of this committee. First, it is said, the Chairman, Lord GEORGE, produced a monster report, nearly 300 folio printed pages in length, with an appendage of some 150 resolutions. This alarmed the committee; whereupon Lord GEORGE un dertook to mitigate the infliction and cut down the enormous document, in the preparation of which he had passed Easter ; but, as this reduction was not accompanied by any modification of principles, the chairman's report (so runs the story) is still regarded as so objectionable that he hos been compelled to hand the subject over to Sir EDWARD BURTON, in the hope that sentiments of philanthropy may produce what audacity, self-confidence, and stable mindedness have failed to achieve. Thus situated, the free traders on the committee are quite right in standing strictly on the defensive. The committee was not of their seeking, and their duty is to see that its results do not damage the great cause to which the country is committed. Let them rest content with defeating any assault on their principles. Parliament can deal with the evidence and the ques tion just as well without, perhaps, much better, than with a report—at least better than with such a report as would satisfy either Lord GEORGE BENTINCK, or Sir EDWARD BUXTON ; for (though from very different motives) both would deprive us of cheap sugar; and that is what we must now stand by. Free traders may still depend upon this, that sugar is eon, and corn is sugar. Unsettle the sugar law, and the corn law is in danger. When the corn mono poly tell, the sugar monopoly tumbled after it. Re store the latter, and the former may be again built up. It is not because the protectionists as a body care for the West Indies, the planters, or the blacks, that they are now struggling for a restoration of the sugar monopoly; they care as little for them as JUDAS did for the poor. Their ordinary conversation is one strain of abuse of the West Indians, who, as they allege, deserted them on the corn laws ; but they care a great deal for themselves, for their own selfish interests; and, under the guise of regard for the West Indies, and of humanity, they are now endeavouring to restore the stream of tribute formerly paid by the people of this country to their own pockets. Lord GEORGE had not the sanction of the leading West Indian merchants and planters now in Londoa in mos+ g for this committee; he has not consulted them during the progress of its investigation ; he does not entertain opinions in common with them ; and be does not possess their confidence. In short, the suc cess of Lord GEORGE BENTINCK'S views in this com mittee would be a serious blow to West Indian interests. For they, as the principal persons con nected withthese colonies, now know lull well that pros perity can only be promoted by immigration ; and im migration as a means of restoring it Lord GEORGE des pises : protection is his only remedy. He will have that or nothing. And both protection and immigration these colonies cannot have. For give them protection, and the necessity to them of additional supplies of labour ceases to exist. If, by protection, they can be pros perous without immigration, to put this country to the expense of supplying them with labour is only to throw money away. The West Indians must, there fore, make their choice: they must either argue the question of their restoration to prosperity on protection, or immigration principles. It they prefer the former, the tree trade party will of course cease to give them any assistance in the latter. If they prefer the latter, the i free traders are bound by their own principles as well as in justice to men converted to sound views, to' leave no stone unturned, nor any prejudices disre garded to procure them free labour wherever it can be got. But there must now be no shilly-shallying—no running with the hare and hunting with the hounds —no philandering with LORD GEORGE and coquetting with Sir ROBERT. The designs of the protectionist in reference to the general subject of free trade leave free traders no alternative but to call on the West Indian interest for an immediate and definite decision. And in common with all liberals we wait with interest to know whether hereafter we are to be their friends or opponents. LONDON,WEDNESDAY,MA Y 24. TILE National Assembly of France has already thrown out two antagonistic and prominent parties, which have scarcely allowed themselves time to form ere they indulged in acts of mutual hostility and rancour. One of these consists of the democrats, the men who professed republicard-m even in the bosom of the monarchy, who think that much may be done by, as well as for, the people, and who, having made the revolution of 1848, been allowed to form the go vernment after it, and, as it were, to lead and to inau gurate the republic, look upon the notabilities of the Louis-Philippist rfwinie, with the s ime contempt and dislike, with which the leaders and achievers of the revolution of 1830 viewed the notabilities of the old Bourbon reign. Opposed to the democrats has arisen a party, of which the nucleus consists of the liberal notabilities of the last reign—the members of the opposition in the last chamber. These identify themselves with the middle and industrious classes, to whom the revolu tion has brought anything but prosperity — who are , with right and reason, furious against anarchists and communists, and troublers of the public peace, and who, however timid in the month of March, have since mustered so strong and unanimous in the national guard es to be full of confidence and zeal. The great majority of the National Assembly has not as y , t joined either of these two parties, but is induced to swell for the moment the ranks of one or of the other, according as the current of opinion or circumstances may require. The two prominent I parties are already endeavouring to wound and discredit each other to the beet of their mutual abilities. The moderates exclaim against all the democrats as anarchists, and they take advantage of the late fanatic attempt at revolu tion to treat such as a conspiracy of the entire demo- critic party, and to implicate in it not Obly the ministers, hut even M. I>e LAMARTINE himself. At this task the old dynastic press labours with great zeal; and although it is the height of absurdity and injustice to suppose such a man as DeLausterise, forexample, privy to an attempt to enable BAREES and BLANQUI to overawe his own government and destroy the chamber, nevertheless, even from this extreme of accusation the French moderadoes do not shrink. The democrats, on their side, have not been slow to erect and to open their batteries. One of these ac- I cuses the old dynaeties as aiming to restore the ORLEANS family, as nourishing reactionary designs, as having professed momentary adhesion to the repub lic in a mere fit of terror, and as being now anxiously ' employed in undermining the same republic. One accusation is probably as untrue as the other. But both will serve their purposes. By the one, M. 1)E LANIARTTNE will be rendered unpopular with the cit'zens and with the national guard, flung aside from the government, and forced back into the ranks of the democrats : by the other, all the efforts of the friends of MM. BAREOT and Tut sits to establish laws and institutions repres sive of popular influence will be considered as so many steps to monarchy ; whilst, to support them selves, a government composed of moderates, will be forced' to employ measures of rigour, perhaps to seek the aid of the military, and, in short, to fall into the odium of a censervative party, and that amidst the distrust and hate of that large conservative party con seeing of 1 , gitimists, of Guizotis's—the great aristo cracy of landed and moneyed wealth. Let us hope that more prudence and fairness may come to prevail as the members of the National Assembly acquire more experience. The citizens and national guard of Paris conducted themselves far tootimidly Irom the 24th of Feb. to the Ist of May. They crouched and trembled, allowed the mob to reign with out check, and left the task of quelling that mob to men of risk and courage like DE LAMARTINE. This ac quiescence gives some alarm to the popular leaders. The fears of the citizens have since evaporated. They find themselves masters. The foolish riot of Mon day, got up by the very dregs of the democratic party, is seizedon by the moderates as a pretext for discrediting and ousting all the democrats. DE LAMARTINE him self is threatened with discredit, nay with vengeance, because he will not join in the outcry and accusation against all the democrats, and because he remains still true to that mild and moderate course which he so successfully pursued since February. On the other hand, the moderates of the National Assembly have no little reason to be indignant with the band of anarchists who violated their hall of sitting,. who insulted, and even, as far as was IT is amusing to observe how the Times, the great in their power, dissolved them. Punishment champion of the aristocratic parties, regards the to the guilty, to BARISES, to COURTAIS, is just. reform movement, and the men who have associated But; good policy and common fairness would for its furtherance. The Times, as usual, contemplates have exempted the government from the general such an association with a pair of spectacles, of which suspicion. The task of keeping peace and pre- the glasses are not fellows; the one magnifying the venting explosions during the dangerous days; of object, the other diminishing and reducing it to in- March and April was most difficult. It was not to be significance. The Times, however, does not shrink done without soothing many hot-headed chiefs, flat- from writing down at the same moment, in the same tering many impracticable patriots, and making use column, the evidence and the expression of both its of some not very reputable instruments. Without glasses. any force whatever at its disposal, the Pro- Tke eye which looks through the orange glass of visional Government, or at least De LAMARTINE, Toryism appreciates the muster of reformers as con was obliged to condescend to much that was temptible—as a herd of outcasts, like those which not dignified. To expose all these to the first peopled Herne. The obstacle they are likely to light by the public trial and confrontation of all present will be no more than that caused by an old these instruments of order and disorder, DE LAMAR- woman's hostility to pay for her omnibus in Fleet- TINE thinks evidently im ;oldie. Yet his motives, we erect. Money they can possibly have none, for feel confident, are good,' and his aims honourable. millowners and manufacturers care for nothing that The dynasties, however, would not shrink from die- does not touch their pockets, and are incapable of crediting De LA?dARTINE, even for whathe has done in making any sacrifice or effort for principle, or for Ditewnso-Rooms.—The Queen will hold a drawing- behalf of order during that trying period, when the freedom, or for the emancipation of their caste. As to the middle classes, they are incapable of combine room on Siturday next, at 2 o'clock, to cel-brate her Ma- dynasties hid themselves in their homes. This, we jesty's birth-day. Another will be held on Friday, 2nd June. repeat, is ungenerous and impolitic, however natural flock or exertion the if they do stir, they ean easily be DESTRI7CTIVE FIRE IN HUNGERFORD-MARKET.— it may be in the struggle of party, frightened by bugbear of French anarchy and Last sight , about a quarter past ten o'clock, a fire of consi- It was proposed in the assembly some days ago to continental republicanism. derable extent broke out in the eastern gallery of Hunger- draw n the The other eye, however, which looks through the ford market , which fin. nearly two hours burned with great pan address to the French people on subject of the late events. In this was introduced a green and the magnifying glass, gives a very different vehemence. The flames commenced in the hay stores be longing to Mr. Milligan, a range of buildings one huadred sentence reflecting on the ministry, and expressing a account ;A the reformers. Their league, to its appre and thirty-three feet long, immediately over a number of overnment would not come to terms hension, is a very big and formidable thing indeed fi,limongers' shops. Poliee.constabln 55 F was the first to orunderstanding with the anarchists. The members it is a threatening monster, like the gigantic spectre make the unwelcome discovery, by seeing flames shoot out o f the executive met, and resolved instantly to resign, of the Bracken, frightening the traveller out of his wits, of the store immediately adjoining the tower on the northern if the injurious sentence was voted. M. BERARD, the and should it perchance grow larger portending side of the gallery. The officer raised an alarm, ars o ns • the course of a few minutes several hundred pe proposer , accordingly withdrew it. This shows that nothing less than anarchy and revolution. The Reform hastened to the scene to render as.istance. All the dynasties are not yet crewed to form a govern- League reminds the Times of the Irish Repeal that they could do, however, proved unavailing, meat themselves, even with the aid of M. Malawi'. Association and party, which it is wont to tremble for the wind wafted the flames along so rapidly that For our own part we shall be well pleased at the before in one breath, and to load with contempt and the eastern gallery from the tower to the Dolphin Tavern, triumph of a bour •par ty, provided their triumph gems facing the water, was wrapped in one sheet or flame. The • P engines of the London brigade, \Vest of England, and be just and secure. France cannot have more upon the Reforlu league as something so ominous, , th , at County establishments, were early in arriving, and not capable rulers then the BARROTS, the VERRIERS. and government ie implored to kill it in its infancy, by standing the torrents of water scattered over the fire, it con- the DUFAURES, although it is as well to remember giving evidence that it is prepared to adapt its policy tinued to progress. The firemen, however, managed to that these gentlemen have shown theMSelTes as hostile to the requirements of the time, and showing itself confine the flames to that portion of the market in which to, and jealous of, En landas M. DE LABLARTINE has determined not to stand still when all is change they originated, but they were not extinguished until the . g whole 01 the sto frt.= the northern tower to the Dolphin shown himself the contrary. Still, if DE LAMARTINE around;' Sound counsel, capital advice, this of the were totally destroyed, and the tavern seriously damaged. cannot conciliate the support of the middle classes, he grove eye, notwithstanding the contrary conclusions of At the time of the outbreak a number of waggone loaded must fall. Yet we shall see this accomplished with the, orange one ! Bat unfortunately each double views with hay and straw were standing in the bay market, but much misgiving and regret. For not only do we are' very apt to neutralize each other ; and ministers who owing to he exertions of the firemen, although the burning question the justice of the calumnies directed against way imitate the 7'imes in looking at the world of affairs flakes wets sent flying in all quarters none of the lowled ' him, but we continue to suppose his recent con-e spectacles—half whig, half tory—are v,hie , e', were damaged. The proyelty destroyed, it is un-through coalition pee . elarstaad, was iliscred. duct toward". Unite-W.4JAN anti the denrcritt but too likely to take a mixed and conftv.,ed vie :v, and he would remind hint that a distinguteht d ',tend of his in the other house, Ire pet silent of the Agricultural Protectien Society, had toimpleineil of economaida musing tor long re turn., and cau•iug great public expense, with the view of becomi. g popuser with their constiturtits." Unduub•eoly, the noble lore would repuoiate the title of ao economist ; and with his enemies to restore direct bastion, and add to the price of the peer Moles Alger and tea, and all articles t f c.•neumpti•m, he could not lay claim to the title or the poor man's friers.. And haring let the coin laws slip thee. h his II gets, he mart not cell himself the f trnier's trued; for the farmers would ttttt thank him for mintopelies in which they had no titer at, nolo* he would ensure them the reenact ment of the omen law.. ( Hear.) Mr. HENLEY congratulated the hon. gentlemen who had last sp,k. it in his having changed his seat from the ministerial beech*. Hr had been amazed 'o hear the hon. gentlemen enlarge un the waste of time in the t oat e; end so must every one who recollected how that hoe. gentleman a til Ilia friends used to rs turn again, mei again, and a alt, to their favourite topics, until they got what they canted. (L eel cheer. front the free traders.) Now he 'rancid to prevent those who opposed his views rout doing the same — (hero., hear) —jut 14.44 r that he and his friends. might di-cues Nome atettract polluted questions, and thee divert. the winds of the peep-e tram the real causes ul their distress , . But hon. members on his (Mr Ilenlty'a) aide held their opinions hentoth , and were nut to be put down by twaddle abut waste of time. 600 U. BENTINCK wished to sive an explanation with rote renca to ~,,, thug( that hod alien from the right hon. uentleman the member for the Usiv.nsity et Oxlord ( Mr. Gl►dstone). Ile hod charged that right hon. gentlens and he now repeated the charge—with having Butted and misled the hove hy a return of the home coesuinotion or silk for a perisel of 10 years down to 1843, purposely 1.-acing out 1841, in which year there was a large increase. He had done this, in oriter to chow a great increase in 1846 and 1847, with which two years he bed cowered the dt-ot node' period telt reed to This was not a track and msnly state-' in+ jut, bu' ohe celestial , d to mystify and mid-ad. On the au'•Ject of , iinber, sec whole of hi. (Lord George'.) argument had referred to 1848, set the right lioneurehle geed man had met it by referring to the cri.i• of 1847. Hu rs (titillated the charge of the right honourable gentleman upoositr (Mr. Gibson) as to his wish to make sugar dear, end said that he had heen struggling in committee upstairs to get th duty on colonialsug sr seduced a halfpenny a pound, in which he had been opposed by the right bon :entlimen. He (lend George) had also been charged with waati.•g time, by mikiog a speech on an unopposed return ; but it *as only slice he hod made his speech that the return had seen corm-wed tn. Alter this was done the right hose gentleman (Mr. Gibson', had risen in his plate, and waved the time of the house, not by di sc ussing the question lie lore it, but by discug.ing whether it was right or not the' the house should have i. holiday next de)/ to see the Derhy. (Hear.) Ile (Lev.' George) was at a loss to ilts oover why the right hon. gentleman should have tak. n such an abhorrence to the Downs at Epsom, utiless it were that he had been proposed by Sir Thos. Gooch lor the representation of the county of Eaffolk, as the most privatising prorectiosist vote—(leughtir) --and the right hon. gentleman knew what a choltine hilt the re was at Room for wilts that were disposed to run Jody. (Laughter.) Ile (L•ord Orange) denied that he looks d tin .11 breign imporboion. as of ; hut it was a greet evil that, whilst the rioters of our own colonies ware paying a du y ♦.ryong from 60 to 127 per cent , foreign production•, whe ther agricultural or us snuractured, should not pay at least an equal tea. (Hear.) Alter thanking the house tor the petience wall which+ it he tad him. the returns were ordered. WALSALL ELECTION PETITION. The SI'E ul El. int•-rmed the heir that he had received notice that it war rot the intention el the twines...re its the case to petite. d with the petition against the return for the borough of Weigel'. PARLIAMENTARY REFORM U ME said that he was very sorry that at that late hour he could not proceed with the motion of which he had given notice. (Cries of "Go on, go on.") It woe then peat l t o'clock. (" Go on.") lion. members who cried "Goon " would allow him to judge wh .t he thought he-t to do. Ile knew the duty be had undertaken, and that it would lie im possiole for him at that hour to state what he thought roniht to be stated with respect to so important a question. ( Hear, hear.) And to leave the matter in doubt would he the worst of all courses. (Hear, hear.) lie had been waiting the whole evening in order to bring the quer ion forward, and no person was more disappo.nted than he was a• not being able to do no. lie found that the first open day would be the 20th of June. (" Rear, hear," and I tighter from the opposition benches.) Ile would fix the motion for that day, an I he hoped he would then meet with no impediment. (Laughter.) Mr. F. O'CONNOR moved the adjournment of the house in order that there should be a motion betore the hduse on which he could speak. lie agreed with the hon. member for Montrose that he should be allowed to speak for himself, but he hoped that in future he would not undertake to 'eek for the country. (Cheers from the opposition.) On a former occasion lie had cane from a g. eat distance in speak on the motion. lie had deceived him (Mr. O'Connor) a first time, but it would be his own fault if the hon. member for Montrose deceit , d him a second time. (Laughter.) Tue hon. member for Os ford was quite right in saying that the subject of the hon. gentleman's motion was but " a tub to the whale." It was an important subject, however ; but it could hive been brought on that night, and the d. hate adjourned The hon. m , caber for Monts se salted the working classes to fraternise with the middle classes, and he lima -It had come to the conclusion—bat with grew- violence to his (relines — (laughter) —to abate a great portion of the principles he had always strenuoivily advocated, and which he would always continue to savor ate. lie had not been well treated, fur were it nut for the insurance of the hon. member that he ' would bring the subject forward on the first opportunity, hr (Mr. O'Ciiiing r) would bring on his motion. Attar the middle classes making an appeal to the working clas.es for union, and after having been before deluded by the middle classes, he asked the hon. member for ilontroee whether he I, thought it likely that he for one, or that the working Owes, would confide in Aim' (Cheers from the opposition.) lie told the hon. gentleman, and those with whom he acted, that they must make a determined stand. They had jug gled the people for the last month, and now they were going to postpone the question for another month, wh he might have brought it forward th it night, and the debate I would be adourned. Ile wu uot surprised that hon. gentlemen opposite should think they obtained a great triumph, and that they should smile and treat with derision the position in which the hon. member bad placed his con stituents. (Laughter.) lie would not be a party to such " a delusion, mockery, and snare." (" Hear, bear " from the opposition.) lie would not be a party to coun•elling the working classes to place confidence 1, in men who he believed in hie soul and conscience only in. tended to use them for their own purposes. (Loud oppoei tion cheers) He believed thet the country would not be satisfied at the postponement of the motion, and he agree d with the hon. member for Oxford that it was only " a tub to the whale." (Laughter.) Mr. COI3DEN.--1 think there can he but one opinion in the house and in the mind of every honest and intelligent man in the country, that my hon. friend the member for Montrose is blameless for the delay which hits taken pine. (Hear, hear.) I think no reasonable man will suppose that any man, having the conduct of so important a question, ought to bring it forward at 11 o'clock at night. (Hear.) I object to so important a question being discussed at that hour, and if it was brought on at five o'clock I question if a whole evening would suffice for its pro. er discussion. (Hear, hear ) The hon. gent. man has undertaken to give advice, not in very courteous or complimentary language, to my hon. friend. (Hear.) If I might venture to give advice to my hon. friend. I advise him that in the conduct of this import ant question he will out follow the advice and still less the exam,le of the hon gentleman—(eicers)—who calls him self the leader of th • working ammo+, and who for nine years has been advocating the people's charter. Mr. O'CONNOR—Fifteen years. Mr. COBDEN—I believe the hon. gentleman himself stated the other day at the Convention that, after bin 15 years of leadership, he had but one man in the house on whom he could depend, in his own absence, to advocate the principles of the charter. (Name, name.) I believe one I member was mentioned, but I do not know who be weal (Laughter.) I think that one fact is sufficient to warn my hon. friend how he follow the track of the hon. member for Nottingham ; and if anything can open the eyes of the working classes of this country to a just sense of the value of the leadership of the hon. member, it is the position in which their cause has been placed in this house, and in the country, by the hon. gentleman, after his fifteen years of leadership. Sir, I have had a long experience of the hon. gentleman, and he will not accuse me of any personal hostility towards him, for certainly no man has lavished so many compliments on roe as the hon. member for Nottiagham; and, with my experience of his conduct out of this house, by contriving to array the working classes against every man who was disposed to assist them in carrying forward their objects, if' trey wished them to succeed—l say the hon. member has done more to retard the political pro gress of the working closes than any public man who ever lived in thin country. (Hear, hear.) I speak after a long experience of the hon. gentleman ; and no person has • better right to speak on this subject than I. For seven years I had directed against me the retention Mo tility of the hon. gentleman while advocating what I be lieved then, and what I believe still to be, the cause of the working classes—l mean the abolition of the tax on food. (Hear, hear.) That hon. gentleman did all he could to array the working classes against me on t hat sub j ect, and I had more hostility to encounter from him and his party than I had from the Duke of Buckingham and all his followers. (Hear, hear.) What was the result ? I never fraternised with the hon. gentleman or his myrmidons-1 never frater nised or succumbed to them for a moment. (lieu, heu.) I always treated him as the leader of a small insignificant and powerless party. I never identilied.him with the mass p ot the working elutes of the country. (Hear, hear.) I treated him then, as I treat him now, not as the leader of the working claws of the country, but as the leader of an organised faction of the smallest portion of the commu nit. (Hear, hear.) I never failed to beat him and Ids followers in public assemblies in every county in the king dom. (Hear, hear.) I speak for myself, and only for my• self ; but in any agitation which I enter upon for the political franchises of the working classes, as I never have, I never will, fraternise with the hon. gentleman or his orga nised followers ; and, as I said before a hundred times, I say again, that I set them at defiance now. (Hear, hear.) I exhort my hon. friend not to be deluded by anything that fells from the hon. gentleman as to his power with the Sort ing classes of the country. As he was weak before, he is powerless now ; and as to his authority with them, it is equally unimportant and uninfluential with respect to any political question. (lieu ' hear.) My hon. friend may fe el assured, notwithstanding the unwarrutteble and ferocious attack of the hon. gentleman, that the people of this coun try would not withdraw that co nfidence which the great mass of the nation had in him. (Loud cheers ) )44. O'CONNOTX.—When tht 401 L, 1,141 t in part panic, part contempt, neither take precaution, nor make concessions, incapable of either being or doing one thing or the other. Such, we opine, will be the result of ministers or legislators looking through their double spectacles, which the Times so politely lifts !min its own nose, to obfuscate and perplex the ciear•sightednesa of its lordly patr us. GERMANY. THE GERMAN PARLIAMENT. FRANKFORT, MAY 20.—0 n the 19th M. Von Gawern was elected interim President of the German public [this was announced in the I:press of yesterday] by a majority of 3 io votes out of 397. M. von Seinan (who received 85 votes for interim President) was elected Vice• President by a majority of 341 out of 392. On taking the chair M. von Gagern addressed the assembly as foliose': Gentlemen,—With the feelings excited by your choice of me lam little in condition to speak. True it is but fur a brief time that I will be calltd tin to justly your an Aden's by my conduct in this tffice ; but even for that hnef time I must implore your leient judgment and 1,6W/ince. I pledge myself in the eyes n of the German people to k. ep their interests alone in view. I pledge myself, as the organ of the assembly, to entire freedom from partisanship. We have in hand the greatest work evi r undertaken by Germans. We have to frame a C011itllY•i011 for the whole of Germany. Our vocation and our lull powers we have received from the so., reign people. (Unanimous cries of " Bravo !'•) Conscious of the difficulty, the impossi bility, to accomplish the task with the ,caution of the governments, the preparatory parliament has tran4 reed it to us. Germany will. to be o.e empire, on: people. This mu.t be brought about by the co-operation of a I it. gorern m nts, and its people of all ranks. We mu. 4 bring about this co-operation. On whatever points discrepant opinions miy exist, with regard to unity there is but one mind. The nation is resolved to be one, and to strengthen this unity against internal and external attacks. And to this end it is that I claim your patience with my short comings and your assistance, while I continue to till this chair. Had the ap pointment been for a longer period I must have d. dined it, as incompatible with the office I hold under my own govern ment. (" Brava !") I now address myself to the discharge of my presidential duties. M. von. Seinan said : I thank you for this more than honourable distinction.. I will not indulge in repetitions. My sentiments are the same as those expressed by my friend and colleague. When called upon to act in his absence, it. will be my strenuous endeavour too maintain order, to ascertain the will of the majority, and fulfil it. The sitting of the 19th was suspended at 2 p.m. and resumed at 4 p.m. The assembly was di vided into 15 sections of 26 members each, for the purpose of verifying the missives of the members, and appoint ing committees. The decisions of the sections against the admissibility of any member wi:l not be final, but must be confirmed by the assembly. M. Itaveaux (Cologne) moved that parties elected both to the German parliament and the constituent assembly of Prussia, might be allowed to sit in both. The debate on this motion was adjourned till Monday. grbe Court. The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princes Royd, the Princess Alice, the Princess Helena, and the Princess Louisa, arrived at Osborne, Isle of Wight, at two o'clock on Monday afternoon from town. The Duchess of Kent arrived at Osborne at two o'clock yesterday afternoon on a visit to her Majesty. Her Rol el Highness crossed from Gosport in the Fairy steam pacaet. A deputation, consisting of Sir Isaac L. Goldsmid, Mr. J. Bailey, an:t Mr. Maynard, had an interview with the Commissioners of her Majesty's Woods end Forests yester day in Whitehall-place. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colo nial-office, from the Governors of the North American pro vinces. Despatches were also received yesterday at the Col•wial-office, from the Governors of the West India colonies. [From last night's Gazette.] WAR.OFFICE, Mar 23. 3rd Drag. Gds.—Cor. W. IL Blade to be heat., by par., site Oakes, who feta ; A. llnnt, gent, to be eor., by par., vice Slade. 3rd Lt Drip.--Cor. T. S. Townend, from the 14th Lt Drags., to be coy., vice Smith, app. to the lath Lt. Drags. btli Lt. Drags.—tor. Y. E. 3Lacstorbten to be lieut., by pun, vice Salunarshe, who rem.; & J.O. Calthorpe, gent-, to be cor., by pur., vice Marnaghten. 9th Lt. Drags.—Cor. C. A. Delmar to be lieut., by put, vice Kemp, who rets.; It. Sutherland, gent., to be cor., by par., vice Delmar. 11th, Lt Drags.—Cor. M. C. Smith, from the 3rd Lt. Drags., to be Coe., vice Townend, app. to the 3rd Lt. Drags. 17th Lt. Drags.—Lieut. .1. E. Eleerning, to be rapt by par., vice` Lyon. who ret.; Cur. W. L. K. Erakille, to be lieut., by par., vice Pieerning. Bth Regt. of F.—Lleut. A. Taylor, to be nut-, by par., vice Cook son, who ret.; Ens. H. E. Fardoll, to be lieut., par., vice Taylor; IL J. Wilkinson, gent., to be ens., by par., vice Pardell. 10th F.—W. 11. P. G. ninety gent., to be ens., by par., vice Backe, app. to the 78th F. 261 h F.—Lieut-Col. A. T. Hemphill, from 29th F., to be lieut.icoL, vice Mountain, who each. 29th F.—Brevet -Col. A. S. 11. Moun d C. 8., from the 26th V., to be lieotl, vice Hemphill, o 19th F.—Lieut.R. Thompson, to be eapt, by par., vice J. Grant (2nd), who net. ; Ens. G. Cincheater, to be Beat , by par.. vice Thomp son; F. Gostling, gent., to be ens., by par., vice Chichester. 57th I.—Ens. J. Hurd, to be lieut" be Par TiCV Armstrimg, app. adjut.; Limit. G. Ar03611011(1, to he adjut Hunt, prom.; A. N. Anr.etrong, gent., to be ena., vice ilaaaard. Bth F.—Ens. F. R. C. Easter, to be n Un, without par., vice C. C. Master. dec. ; J. R. Johnstone, gent., t be tux., vice F. R. C. Monte. bOth F.—LieuL E. F. Campbell, to be adjut., vice Jones, prom. Ith F.—J. Gordon, gent., to be ena., by pur., vice 1 .". Toll, who ret. 78th F.—Brev. Lieut.-Col. G. Browne, from h.-p. unatt., to be major, vice R. J. P. Vaeraill, who each. Capt-. 1. Burns, to be major, by par.. vice Browne, who ret.• Lieut. T.Garratt, to be rapt., by par., vice Burns ; D. Stu art, to be lieut.. by par., etc.- Cur. ratt ; Ens. H. B. li. Rohe, tram the 10th F., to be ens., vice Stuart. 84th V.—Lieut. J. Faircloth, to be quartermaster, vice J. Farrell, who retiree on halfipay. 99th F.-11- W. Beaks°. , gent., to be ens., without par., vice Rua. sell, whose appointment h s been cancelled. Ist W. I. R in.—Lieut. N. Craig, to be cant., without par., vice C. Murray, dee.; Ens. W. N. Watts to be lieut.. vice Craig; En% J. Fanning to be lieut., vice Watts, whack pri motion, on the 9th April. 1848, hes been cancelled; A. W. Mackay, gent., to be ensign, Vice Fanning. lloserrat ferarr.—Assis...Surg. R. W. Fraser, )1.1)., from the 34th F., to be staff-our;. of the 2nd 63.411. Erratum in s the Geurre of 12th May, 1049.—F0 " Captain" R. MacGregor. f the 15th F., to be mpt., without par r , read " Lieut." , R. MacGregor, from the 15th F., to be caul., tko. ADJOURNED INQUEST UPON MR. DAKIN. Yesterday the adjourned inquest to inquire into the cause of the death of Mr. Dakin, the tea dealer in St Paul's Churchyard, was held before Mr Payne, at the London Coffee-house. Mr. W. M. Wilkinson was present to watch the proceedings en behalf of the deceased gentleman's family, and Mr. Edwin Jaa.es, the barrister, attended fur Messrs. Brown and Co., the patentees of the cylindrical oven, to which the fatal accident has been attributed. Mr. Frill ,11, the inventor of heatieg water under pres sure, said he had examined the cylind rical oven, and under stood perfectly , the manner of winking it. It was made of cast iron, which he considered was a very improper material for an apparatus which had to b‘ ar the excessive pressure of 2,0001b5. to the square inch, and was suns to 500 or GOO degrees of temperature. He considered that the casting was defective, and that the accident would not have happened if the oven had been made of wrought instead of cast iron. There were airholes visible in the casting. He also considered that the apparatus had not been pro perly erected. The witnesses on the part of Messrs. Brown and Co., the inventors of the apparatus, were then called. Mr. G. Tatter said he was an ironfounder at West Brom wich, Staffordshire, and was the party who mode the cylin drical oven. It was made of Staffordshire iron, which cost in the rough state from 3/. to 3/. per ton, which was the mar ket price fur pig iron at the time. In casting iron it was usual to leave a column head at the top about six or eight inches high, and the cylinders supplied to Mr. Dakin were cast in that way. They were east from the top. and the column or head which was left was broken off on each cylinder, and made level with the casting. It was usual to do so when the casting was 'o be subjected to a great pres- sure. A few sir bubbles were perceptible on the outside. The sum which Mr. Dakin wa - . to pay for the cylinders was at the rate of 151. a ton. The market price of pig iron of the same quality as that used by them was 31 18s. at the 're scat time. He considered that the cylinder was perfectly safe, and capable of resistir.g the pressure which it had to bear. There was nothing in the appearance of it which. showed that the casting was defective. George Hamden, one of the sufferers from the accident, who was obliged to be assisted /60 the room, was next exa mined. He said he was in the employ of Messrs. Brown, and was present when the accident happened. He was di rected to get up the fires is order to dry the brick work on which the cylinder was raised, and which had been built up in the night. He lighted the fire about 1 o'clock, and Mr. Dakin came in and told him to get up the heat, as he intended to roast some coffee. Witness told him that it would not he fit for the purpose for three or fear days, but he said he would have a batch of coffee that night. Mr. Dakin then went away, and returned shortly afterwards, and inquired whether it was ready for the coffee. Re t o ld him it was sot, when the deceased again requested him to get up the heat. Witness accordingly opened the dampers, which had been previously shut, and got up the heat to 500 degrees, and afterwards called the attention of the deceased to the water running out of the brickwork in consequence of its damp state. Mr. Dakin said, s' Oh! never mind that it won't hurt " He told him at least half • dozen times that it was net fit for use in the state it was. When the explo sion took place Mr. Dakin was standing by the middle of the machine. and witness, who was at his airtspi4Vogked down and rendered insensible. On ogrotirrg firhis Ira* hitr . crawled down stairs, and wan taken teethe hospital; -, J a mes Norris, • working engineer& in the Employ GC, Messrs. Brown, depoeed to having tested the boiler at s' yes sure of 3,000 lbs. and upwards. He tissl , p 0; • tale:: Blir ',. -74 Dakin's intention to get it into woritrwri the Was - • 0r... should have felt it his duty to protest , fagginst such, Pro . needing. \_. - • - - bit. John Wright, one of 'Messrs. B ze rowin fereo 9o4 l7 next examined at great length. ThiiMisitywoml, deposed ti was the fact that Mr. Dalikeimj..rf 'my. a s ear to Messrs. Brown for the use of their In reply :0 ).U. Welkislior, the witrwil. said be attributed the 11l