The Express. — London, England, 1848-04-27 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 27, 1848. IT 15 a great mistake to ascribe the growing discontent in Ireland to the spread of political theories. The imagination of a few hot-brained zealots in Dublin and Cork may have been dazzled by late events in I'aris and Berlin, and there may be a score or two of young men in the popular party in Leland who are actuated by a book-learned adminrion for ancient Rome or modern America; but there is little democratic spirit in Ireland, and what there is, is to be found rather among the tra ditions of Presbyterianism in loyal and lacouic Ulster, than among the malcontent catholicism of the more loquacious South. Hatred of the system under 1 which they live pervades, it is true, the great mass all the population of all creds ; bat this discontent is not limited to the poor. They have their peculiar wrongs, which they are often ready to wreak upon the wealthy and high-born, whom they not unjustly accuse of frequently aggravating the hard ships of their lot. But, with the excep tion of the question of landlord and tenant, there ale none M the topics of Irish discontent in which a certain portion of the middle classes do fopmpena thise in a greater or les s de g ree. Men oopulence and refinement will , of course, be &Worn found em broiled in public agitation. But the traders of the t o wns, and many of the lesser gentry—the clergy of all sects. lawyers, and physicians—all are alike conscious of the existence of great evils affecting the entire community, for the cure of which they may differ as to the remedies, but for the apparent neglect of which by the legislature they are every day be coming more and more disposed to cherish strong re sentment, and to utter warm reproach. Hence the demand or repeal, and hence the thrrat of r e volution. Were the latter seriously attempted, it would indeed effectually drown the cry for the other. Sooner than put to sea with such pilots as Messrs. O . I3RIEN and MricliEre, all who have any thing to risk or lose would instinctively rally round any government, as men over taken in a sudden storm will resort to any tree for shelter. But we are thoroughly persuaded that the danger of such a misfortune as an outbreak, either in Dublin or the provinces, if it ever really existed, is wholly past. There will be no collision between the people and tho soldiery. The seeds of sedition have indeed been sown broadcast all over the land; bat the sowers have proved themselves to be but political children, who, in the impatience to be so mebodies and to accomplis h something tierce and heroic, are incapable of preserving plot or pown lan, and are destined to eff ect nothing beyond their summary dispersion and discomfiture. Meanwhile Dublin resem bles a cam p ; its pub lic buildings arc fall of troops; sentries and pa trols march up and down • and rumours and alarms evey now an then are circulated, whereat for the moment d elderly women shudder, and the next day young men laugh aloud. Trade and industry naturally suffer the while. There has been less duty, it would appear, received for cus toms during the last six weeks than in any cone spending period within recollection, and the amount does rot reach one-half of that paid for home con- sumption during any previous six weeks of last year. The merchant and the dealer prefer allowing their va rious duty-paid stocks to run down at practical loss and inconvenience, rather than maintain them at their ordinary extent in stores and warehouses, where, in _ the event of public commotion, they would not be sec ure. Thus profits are dim inished and employment LONDON; THURSDAY , APRIL 27. is curtailed at the ver y moment when the spirit - of in- WE fully agree with a great deal of the opitions dustry was beginning to revive after its long prostra uttered by the Times yesterday morning, respect- lion, and the country was likely . to show symptoms lag the cheritaole edifices and establishments to be if recovers , after its recent calamities. Such are the raised in commemoration of the 10th of April. The practical timings of physical-force patriotism. sentiments avowed yesterday by the Times on the No doubt the present effervescence will subside ere Kennington-common meeting, are precisely those leng, and the mettle of the vitriol-throwers er h this paler expressed on the day after timed ; but then only, we maintain, will the real that meeting. We then pointed out, how few danger begin. The practical grievances of Ireland of the processionists on that occasion were evil dis- are social, not political. The wants of the country posed, how circumscribed was serious disaffection, are thoee of adequate occupation for the strong, ar.d how visionary any real danger to the commonwealth, on adequate security fur the weak. The tenant needs that day especially, and consequently how inexpedient protection for the fruits of his labour, the Welton' it was to represent any one class of persons or needs protection for his person, those of his house opinions in the country as triumphant over 11thors. hold and immediate deiiendents. Neither will ever These opinions of ours, boldly uttered on the of find the security they desire by the direct interven- April, it did not suit the Times to come rotted to ticn of law, hoe ever strineent or severe ; and to this until the 20th, but on the 2Gth it does repeat them. conviction both are slowly steadily coming. In- We cannot do otherwise than remain true to our direct means, and the interposition of new and a sstfi opinions, and to agree with the Times of yesterday neutral influences can alone turn away their muted to the inexpediency of any tone of triumph, and suspicions, whose prevalence now works a common mach more of any arch or edifice of triumph, evil, and by-and-bye the rich and poor will join in the recording a great victory , gained upon the 10th; for invocation of those great and healing changes, with had that day been sea victory gained by one large and out which Ireland never can emerge [corn her sad and brave set of Englimen over another large and de- shameful plight. feated set, the memory of such a day and such a vie- An indistinct perception of these truths has already tory ought to be drowned in oblivion. If the defeated driven many a sober-minded man to daily with the were 200,000 or 10,000 Englishmen, we would not, notion of repeal. Re looks; around upon the hest of all, believe, but certainly we would not brand, evils that afflict all classes and degrees, and he \ such a number of oar countrymen as rebels and as asks in vain, what is the imperial legislature cowards. If there were no such number of dangerous doing towards their eradication ? The poor-law men, and if the number of such was comparatively was, indeed, a great deed done, and a great small, as we believe and have declared, where is the and indispensable ingredient secured of a redeeming victory' policy. But it was, and is, and can be, but an in- Nevertheless, cold water should not be flung upcn 1 gredient —in many respects a dangerous one --though a scheme so philanthropic and so noble, as tae upen the whole an essential of redress. Applied b ePiddi Order Memorial. To that name surely there I alone--withoat lenitives or stimulants, as each were can eno objection. For, however, there may have i required—applied without nice and careful discrimi been no especial victory contested or won upon the i nation of dissimilar conditions —applied with flippant, 10th of Amel by man over man, a very great and • blind, and offensive uniformity under all circum very signal victors , has most certainly been both I stances, and without any of those sustaining aids and contested and achieved throughout all the period , adjarcts which so powerful a medicine administered that has elapsed since the French outbreak—a. i for the first time to a deeply-disemsed patient ob. victory of prim:4es, a triumph of ideas, • victory of vimudy required—the poor-law has worked a vast the sentiments of order, good fellowship, loyalty, and amount of unnecessary mischief, and in a great respect of the law, over a sentiment of turbulence and variety of wee a exasperated and embittered the dis license, and over a thirst for a social and political content of the entire community. Saturnalia, which, in pretending to establish the There cannot be a more striking proof than that rights of freedom and the interests of the poor, would which the wo.tehedly inefileient and mischievous mal have proved fatally deetructive of both. Let any me- administration of . the Irish poor-law supplies; of the the erprogi MAILS. The mails for New south Wales, 'Van Dieman's Land, and New Zealand still be made np on the evening nf and Madeira be made the 3Otti April. The mills for the West Coast of Africa Up on the esciang of the 30th April. The Wc,t. India Mails, including Bermuda, Nassau, Marled:ln Randuras, New Orleans, Tera Cruz, Tampico, and Porto Rico, and eta:Ming those for 51adera, Jame', Carthagena, Banta Martha, Chagres, Panama, Went Coast of South Ame 2rtea,ed May. and St. Jua n- de- Ni ca ragua, will be made up on theevening of t he The mutual mails for Gibraltar, Malts, Greece, the totitarag lonian Mune:3, Egypt, Aden, C e ylon, India, Meng -Kong, and China, Sou Ma, well be made up on the inornizip, of the ltd May. The mails for the Muds, the River Plate, Monte Videe, Pernam buco. Bahia, Madeira, and Buenas Ayres, will be made on the evening of the 4th May. The mails for British North America, and the United states, wet be made up on the evening, of the sth May. e overland closed malls, rut Marseilles, ge to the Mediterran the nean 'he , Egypt, Aden, Ceylon, ladle, liong-Kong, , be made o evening of the ztio May. The malls for Vigo, Oporto, Liebon, Madeira, Cadiz, and G:braltar will be made up ou the morning of the sth May. NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS. The number of STAMPS issued by the authorities of the Stamp-office, during 1847, to the DAILY NEWS was 3,447,00 9 This, we believe, is within eight per cent. at the number issued to the Morning Herald, Morning Chronici4, and Morning Post, ♦LL rut vuotlvitan. It addition to the above, issued to the DAILY NEWS, Morning Paper, there were issued for the Evening Eila;,,n, TILE EXPRESS '778,714 Which was more, we believe, than were issued either to the Globe or Standard, Evening Papers. D IGD WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tut. Mr—No -fling, All min. put 7 ; AnfT•Onll. mi.. mat 3...tlennotr —Morning, 19 atla. out 3; Atteroosa. 37 Vlllll. part 9. hollowness of the cant that was once so popular among persons calling themselves friends of popular freedom—we allude to that of universal assimilation. The offspring of superficial knowledge and of pro found self-conceit —the theory of governing men on merely arithmetical principles—assumes that because be their ultimate interests may bo supposed to similar, their present capabilities, desires, and heliogs, might be taken to be alike. No -1 Wog in reality can be more dangerous or absurd. Men have ever been, and will always be, dissimilar ; 1 1 and communities must differ ; and the impartial legislation which disregards such differences, is in truth suicidal, when it is not inoperative. The Irish poor-law of 1847 is a fatal specimen of this. In one half the kingdom for the ne cessities of which it was intended, its provi sions, if not the best and wisest possible, were a least not palpably unsuitable; and there it has accord ingly been got to work with compara tivel y little noise or mischief. But for the rest it was partially or wholly unadapted. Poverty, instead of being the ex ception in many unions of the western districts, is the rule. Taxation commensurate with such wants is either abortive, or it amounts to mere con fiscation of property. In the one case, the paupers perish with a mockery of right to relief, recently conferred by the state ; in the other, the only classes who, by employing labuur could help efficiently to render the burden dale rates endurable, are paralysed and prostrated. Yet when such in stances have arisen, and. the localities justly com plained, they have been met with curt maxims of abstract economy or the official coicombry of mis -----------.7-7—_ English farmers, in put o riginated in efforts made by landlords to induce tenants to rest contented as yearl fory termite, with the add ition of the right to be paid certain thneimlanprovdioerdameanrets nifowejecgrteedatlbyyopthpeoßleanddtolordth,escuocah, right to depend on mutual iureement in each case. 1 cession of any legal claim to tenant right. The will, hopelessness of any effectual tenant right act, will, wedsn induce farmers to direct all their efforts to ar the question of leases; and we have lately seen signs of such a change of object, amongst which may be mentioned the discussion at the Farmers' Club, to which we arc about to refer for the purpose of show ing the waste incurred by landowners through the wilful mismanagement of their own estates. The occasion was a lecture by Mr. It. Smith, a well known agriculturist in ltutlandshire, on " The im portance of union between landlord and tenant to develop the resources of British husbandry," a topic which the lecturer handled iu a liberal spirit, though with a tolerator of yearly arrange ments to which all his facts and illustrations ran counter. After enumerating various important improvements in husbandry, such as draining, build ing, removing fences and timber, breaking up inferior pastures, reclaiming waste land and the like, as those to which the active co-operation of the landowner is essential, and the extensive evidence afforded by the actual condition of landed property of the absence of such co-operation, Mr. SMITII referred to the contrast presented in Norfolk and East Lothian, where the tenants farm under leases, and added, " I could wish that a similar union of interest between landlord and tenant pervaded the whole empire, and which it would be easy to accomplish if the landlords of Eng land would more generally meet v theenterprising t e nantry of our country, by ging Meat aen against the ricissitmles tf uncertain tenure." Here we see that to the union, which all agree would produce m imense improvement in the value of lded part of perty, nothing is wanted but the will o n the part of landlords to concede to their tenants security of tenure. Again, Mr. SMITII said, "From the prac tical knowledge I have had of the various customs of tenure throughout the country, I am prep ired to ~how that such union is strength, and that it is best supported and carried out by long leases, or security for unexhausted improvements, under which agriculture has made rapid s trides, t ena nts have flourished , and Me property if the hin:llords doubled. And, after al luding particularly to the immense increase in the value of land in Norfolk and Lincolnshire, through the enterprising farming of tenants, "secured against the vicissitudes of uncertain tenure," he said " that the a hole has been accomplished, the hualord .seareely knowing what has been gai»g on, beyond the daily im proved appearance of his estate; and that, while on the one hand it has cost him nothing . beyond the nominal guarantee, the estate has been improved by the tenant's capital at least 300 per cent." But it is this " nominal guarantee," a lease, which landowners are reluctant to afford, because, forsooth, their tenants will no longer be their political dependents. How long will the active and industrious middle classes consent to bear oce-half of the landowners' share of public taxation to uphold such a vicious system of misma- placed power. Mr. TWISLETON has done more for the cause of re peal during the last twelve months, than Mr. Jinni O'CoNNELL in the last twelve years. In a country whose physical condition he understood, or which, being homogeneous, he might possibly be made gradually to understand, we think likely enough that ho might be found a useful publ servant ; and in a country like England, where no man dares to take supercilious airs upon himself towards any respectable class of the community, he would probably have never been betrayed into the ridiculous and mischievous assumption of superior wisdom and knowledge which has rendered him one of the most thoroughly obnoxious men engaged in the subordinate departments of Irish government. But unfitted by previous habits to conform to the temper of any class or section of the people amongst whom he was unfortunately sent, and indisposed to listen or to learn, Mr. Twists:m:4 has been entrusted with a task the most difficult and delicate which care be conceived; and the result is that all the faults of the law have been greatly aggravated by the follies of its administration, and at the present hour it is noto rious that a very large portion of the discontent of the few, and of the disaffection of the many, is stimu lated into altion by the hat red and resentment which have thus arisen. Our conviction, not now expressed for the first time, is that every department of government in Ire land has been over-centralised. Nothing is left for the people to do. Every function has been usurped by the Treasury, the Home-office, and the Castle; and when the blunders and omissions of half-informed power provoke popular exclamation, and incessant eppeals for redress to supreme autii , rity, in the be wilderment and helplessness they have brought upon theselves, statesmen and legislators protest that it is "rally ite impossible for government to do every thing.' Se wo think ; and therefore we earnestly wish, that it would not try. Why not, for instance, allow the unions in Ireland more discretion as to lesr they will each administer the law? It is idle nonsense to reply : " they would never do it equally well, and there would be no uni formity." They could not by any conceivable per versity do it more uniformly ill than it is now done. Sonic localities might do worse, bat the guilt of mis conduct would be detected speedily and locally, and the whole system would not be damaged thereby. Mistakes might be made experimentally, but their fruits would be gathered where they grew, and il warned beforehand —not twitted, or scorned, or driven—by a forbearing and discreet central authority —the people would more readily yield to advice in future, or weak out of their errors in due time. At all events, the unpopularity created by each act of controlling rigour would not be dangerously concen trated upon a point too near the seat of all authority and rule, as unfortunately it is now. nagement Nlr. SMITH read a communication he had received from an East Lothian farmer, detailing the causes of the good farming of the Lothians, which depended upon long leases as " the principal cause of their present high state of cultivation i" and then turned to the yearly tenants of England, saying, "even under the best of landlords, lite is precarious, and it then becomes a speculation for the future. Again, some slight difference with the agent, the disturbance of game, or other trivial cause, might lead to the dis charge, at the end of six months, of a principal and valuable tenant; and, possibly, at a moment when the t en ant had invested the bulk of his property in the soil, and is thus cast upon the wide world with his reduced capital." That such cases of hardship and injustice are not uncommon, may be gathered from the instances upon which we have on various occa sions felt it our duty to comment, and it is well known that these things are seldom much known beyond the immediate localities. Yet it is to pre serve to landlords the power of committing such acts of injustice that the rest of the community bears an undue share of taxation. And the lecturer concluded by referring to the increasing po pulation of this country, daily requiring an increased supply of food, and said, " Hence follows the absolute necessity of a speedy but healthy union of landlord and tenant, to develop the yet bidden resoutces of our native soil.' And what is it that hinders such development? There is no difficulty in finding farmers of competent skill and capital to uccupy land in any part of Eng land. On the contrary, there is immense competition for farms, and it is this competition which mainly enables landowners to sustain the mischievous system of yearly tenancies, a system which drives great num bers of intelligent and enterprising men, and large amounts of capital, away from the business of hus bandry. And, yet, dealing thus with their own pro pray, the landocracy or these realms use their domi nant political influence to esce t the industrythrow of the nation. ------- WHEN every attempt to equalise taxation and render its pressure more tolerable by becoming more fair, is resisted by the governing powers, because the first effect of any such alteration would be to throw a larger share of taxation on the landowners than they now bear, it becomes necessary to inquire into some of the incidents of landed property. We not long since had a committee of the Lords inquiring into the "burdens on land," which exhibited DO little in genuity in ferreting out all the items of expense which landowners, as such, did, might, or could incur, and their lordships undoubtedly contributed, to the full as much as could be expected, towards exposiug the evils ot our real property system. But they missed the discovery of that which lies on the very threshold, namely, that the greatest burdens on land ar e its landlords. And let us no t be misunderstood, for we do not mean that the landlords as receivers ot rent are burdens upon the land ; but that the laws they have made for their own class objects, and the modes of management individual landowners adopt under the influence of their class pre judices, do present the most formidable im pediments to the improvement and good cul tivation of the soil; and if such burdens on land affect the community injuriously, they are not less mischievous to the landowners themstl , •es ; for the mismanagement of landed property which pre vails almost universally in England, greatly d nishes the rent that would be paid under a better system. Some economists have defended taxation upon the ra l t e i a n , g th t a l t io i s t e s c u -tf po ec n t is w t increase c re a ase t a no:l l u s c i t: t n o b u y s esteixmtrua exertion, in order to meet the tax, and by so doing, they produce, in addition to their former production, not only the tax, but something over and above. This may be true within certain limits, which, countr how ever, have long since been passed in this y. That principle was announced in favour of the landed interest, and as yet has been applied in practice only to industrial interests. Let us see whether it is not far more applicable to our landed aristocracy. It is admitted the landowners do not pay their fair share of taxation. The inequality of the in come-tax furnishes a glaring and a modern instance. So clearly is thls impressed en the minds of persons acing ander landlord influence, that Lord JOHN RE :-SELL, in resisting some of the efforts made in parliament to equalise the pressure of the income tax, deprecated a graduated scale on the ground that it would press hardly on the country gentlemen, and look like a vindictive proceeding agatnst them for their imposition of the corn-laws. Again, the exemp tion fensible of land n by theob l an downers a from prate and legacy ditties is inde eve nd, in fact, has never been seriously defended. So the stamp duties, which have been urged as b irdens on land counter vailing the probate and legacy' duties on personal pro perty, do not, as we shall Lereatter take occasion to show, fall upon the great masses of land in the hands of our landed aristocracy. Now, independently of the mere justice of equal burdens upon all classes, oathe can show, as we shall on the best possible ority, that our land owners do actually th row away, by their own wilful mismanagement, partly caused by the operation of their own erroneous legislation, tar more of annual revenue than would enable them to meet the largest possible increased taxation that might fall upon them by making them bear a fair and equal -share of the public burdens, we shall be doing them an essential service. All that they would lose would be a certain semi-feudal influence, for their just political influence would be rather strengthened. Our readers have seen something of the efforts which are making by the tenant-farmers of England to obtain a tenant-right, that is, a claim on the part of yearly tenants to be paid for certain portions of the improved value they have, by means of their own capital and industry, given to the farms they occupy, and which, as the law stands, the owner of the farm may at any moment appropriate to his own use by turning out the tenant. There can be no doubt that some improvement of the law to regulate pay ments to outgoing .t enan ts is required. Bat the great and substantial security farmers desire is that of a lease, which is jast what land lords are unw illing to grant, because their tenants become at once personally and politicilly inde pendent. Indeed, the tenant right movement of the -------.--- . rights of the subject, but they exercise a criminal juristic tim pretended to be pro srtlede within which touches his property and personal liberty. That the law they adminis ter urgently requires amendment. That their system of pro- educe is incompatible with the effectual attainment of the ends of Justice. That they are not only inefficient but costly. That their continued existed* is injurious to the =tope s and a scandal toh o the judicial systma of t he country.-. HUME, to submit to t house, that the time is arrived when the intereets of the united king dom urgently demand that prompt and decisive measures ebould be taken by this house for the removal of the mimes on which just com plaints on the port of the Irish people are founded; and stub that view to owns se -1. That an humble address be presented to her Majesty, praying that else whl be graelotoly pleased to take into cansiderution whither the government of Ireland by a viceroy Is one longer neces sary, and whether that office ought nut to be abolished. 2. That amoneet toe MOM prominent of the grievences of rlan ts the taw by which the whole caleciaeurail property Ireland man- U 7 is aselgned to the clergy of • small seo of the popu'ation; and that this house pledge Itself, after peewit!. Ing for existing rights. and for the claims of her Majesty's pro teetant eubjects who are members of the cotablishel eaurch, to CO. operate with her a u Mjesty in effecting such a settlement of church preperte ill Ireland will give satisfaetio. to the Nish people. 3. By placinethe parliamentary coiffeuse on a basis by which an adequate constituency . shall he secured, and hr passing a mastic:cry bill for s oli-go atlector registration. 4. By granting municipal institutions fur the ycram int of cilia, horoughe, and towns In Ireland on the same ptinctple, and to the name extent us the cities, borough., and towns of England array munic..l limit...es. 5. By amending the resod jury lawa.-Mr. ritEscit, to mate an an amendment to 21e. Humeri motion, re'stive to Ireland, that in case it ehould apr-ar to the houee desirable to enter into the consideration of the state of Ireland, with a view to the adoption of remedial measure", the N ibjecte to which their ea:anion should be directed are i I. The repent of the tainting poor-law, and the enactment of a measure which will,without wde- I erection to the property of the eonutry, moire relief tour exte tut destit nsu , poor. 2. 'the employment of the people by means of a i te ve application of the pi maple contained in the Land improvement set 1 clOth tic.), and the adoption of measures to facilitids the y com reckitumoner ation . of waste lend.., and complete PUC such a system of rallte- I Lion res will serve to develop the meows' of the county .m ioal 3. To 1 JA-i , r colonisation to a limited extent. 4, To Mace the enaritie , of the country on each a bled as will Oct the to the prattle I the extent of relief to which they are entitled from of money annually subscribed 101.1 tented for that amputee. 3. 'to adjust the claims upon the counties for the repay- meat of the money advanced by government withia the I last two years, according to their respective ability to dis. i charge the same, by diminishing where necrieary the amount of instalment., mid the pert seta at which the retail lll.nts are to be fondly cotnOleted. 0. Ts facilitate the sale of eneimis red estates be the adoption of a system at once sound, speedy, and inexpensive. f. To secure a state pronsion for the itoman catholic c , gy, in case they should decide to accept it.-Sir W. MOLESWORTIL vt rill the at tention of the house to the subject of the colonies, and is submit to the consideration of the house a motion with regard to c..lnnial govcin meat and expenditure.--Mr. Ito ART, bill to abolish forfeiture. of property to the crown in cases of telony.-Mr. ANSTEV, to move en address to the crown on the subject of the recent important political events in Austria, Pulaai, and Fru.sia and prat tug her Majesty that she will not consent to any new territorial or other airangement, con sequent on such events , tha t does not recognise and Nature to the Polity people their lawful liberties and indepeodence. - -Sir 11. VER NEY, to move the co n s ideration of the petition of Mr. 1 . Vane ;M -arstal alon fermented Feb. tel.-Mr. EWART, hill to I.dmit all persons who l for a certiin time !Lave hien members ol any temperance or total abstinence society. or of any mechanics' Institution, oe of any other fiterare or ninon , in.tionion, or who shall have fora certain' time ban di , poeitas in any saving. bank (being duly registered., to the e woos, of ttio elective tranchise, and that the preperty qualifies non be abolished.-bir. G. A. )(All I LTil3l, hill to slier and amend act of I and 2 Vie., e. 50, in so far an relates to the mode of making tithe rout charge in Trete/1.1 liable to your-rate.-Mr. BAINE.4, till foe removing certain den ens in the administration of criminal justice.-Mr. BARELY, to call ths atter:ion [ tau t chin to the pi - moot leapotte spicily of legislation practirea in ciown eolonieti.-M r. WINK lii.4, bill to repeal the Railway Cenirrilseioli AM. -Mr. EWA it - r, that the present eystem of ilispropertionate indirect taxation is lOjtalUUS to tat commerce and manulacti.tio, and unjuat to the working classes of the couutry; that the ea r itliditront licee of a more direct ' , stem of taxation oil r ealised propety would re trade and mnufactures• and he eventually besselleLil to nll eta...es of the ( -immun a ity. -Sir W , . rail it ERVILLE, bill to worm; in act of the 3rd and 4th years of her present M.ijesty, for the regulation of muni cipal corporations in Ireland.-Sir P. NUGENV, to ask the of ettaneeltor of the Exchequ er whether the Fifth Benoit the lloatd of Works (irebial), relative to arterial drainage, is prep:wed, and when it will be laid befere the public ; to ask Sir William Somerville whether it io the iutention of her an government to roduce any &Henan*, by way of amendment, m the present Fishery beta ',lielmili, during the preistateersion ; and, if to, how soon it may be expected.-Mr. URQUHART, address , to her !Majesty to summon., in Ireland, a parliament to :idyl' , with her llajdoy concerning the tract a nd ot that biarloni. 'ma in the opinion of this house a standard for the mina!, militar i. and ordnance eetablishments !Mould be adopted, unit that the expenditure for these objects ought not to excited that of the year 1635. That, in accord ewe with the resolutions adopted in 1821, an excess of income OM e3pentliture ehould be provided in years of peace, and applied to the reilitction of debt of during var.-Mr. TURNER, to ask the Right lion. Steretary of State for the Home Dep irtment whether he a able to inform the house the number of in constables sworn to act in support of the conetituted authorities in cave any lodge disturin ante had taken place on Moeday Lice, and oleo the pro bable number of per sons who tendered their renices and could nut be sworn for want ot time.-Mr. COWAN, hilt to provide an equitable arrangement of the difference* affeeting the churches and eiapete in Scotland, commonly. called cenad Noir, churches -Mr. OtOIINE, select committee,. to Inquire onto the state of the law as respects the appointment of receivers of the Courts of Chancery and Equity Exchequer in Ireland ; and the effect a the present law, amt ts.gulation. et tee sa nt court ia the monger. ment of estate. under their control, and how star the mote has mit a...el to the improvement of the eaid estates and the coalition of the tenantry, or the contrary.-Mr. M.GREGOR-Seleet committee, tee Laqiiire into the management and expenditure of tie naval dockyards of the United I:Module and British poectstio... - Mr. MOORE, committee of the whole home on the pre rent Foote of the temporalities of the Irish Church. -Dr. meat,HlM] copies of any memorials presented to the govern and of any correspondence on the subject of a reform of the House of Beye, Isle of Man, with the Home-Aim, stare the last par liamentary returns; reclantions for enforcing the payment cf the I gross revenue tato the exchequer by all the departments of receipt, I and of all lends received by the departments of expenditure other than by parliamentary grant*, no that the whole amoont of the national I income should be subjected to the efficient control of the 'louse of Commons; That it be recommenied to the emnreithes sitting on the eel:mates to consider whether the rums appliNl to the public *erect., without previous parliamentary sanction, and which appear bv the Parliamentary Return, No. el, of the present wagon, to * have amounted in the last year to 7,030,438/. Ils. ; 2-12 d. should not he paid into the exchequer, and the ileum of the mew lie subjected to votes of the house.-Mr. SCLLIVAN, bill for the amendment of the grand jury lawn in Irelanth-Mr. WY LIS, bill to extend the elective tranchi•iti to a.l male pc paying 1 leY,--..-s-go rt or income tax morial be raised in commemoration of the whole period, and of the sense, patience, wisdom, and determination, especially of the lower orders, to seek the development of liberty by none save constitutional means. Erect a monument to this, the great distinction between En gland and the rest of Europe in the spring of 1818, and no Englishman, no lover of liberty and of order, will refuse to contribute to it, if it be wisely, greatly and philanthropically conceived. We feel perfectly assured, that these sentiments already pervaded the intentions of the members of the committee. "Men such as they could never have con templated connuemorating a triumph. They never meant to have a group, emblematic of their purpose, to be that of a ST. GEORGE Slaying a dragon, or a HERCULES cutting off the hundred heads of a Hydra. They never meant to erect a Down-with FEARGUS Hospital, or an Anti-Chartist Washhouse, nor yet an Anta-CocumeNe Bastile, for feeding and relieving the poor. It is parodying the sentiments of honourable men to accuse them of this. Their only fault lay in putting the 10th of April too forward—a ffaurom lt easily remedied, and fallen into, probably, more a desire to flatter the enthusiasm, and catch the con tributions of the ° specials," than from any other reason. Let the obnoxious particularisation disap pear ; let the committee expunge from its programme that triumph over chartism that the Times has ex punged from its columns, and all will be ready to aid in commemomting the resistance of the English to the crude and precipitate adoption of foreign frenzy. We sincerely hope that the committee will perse vere. It is one of the best signs of the times, this very committee list. The three great prelates of the south, with Baron ROTHSCIIILD, Sir Moses Loid ARUNDEL and SURREY, CIIARLES MONTE- PEAR SON, piotestant and catholic, Jew and dissenter — all uniting for a charitable purpose—oh! that we could have such a board of education—that, however, is too much to hope, though an educational institute in the metropolis wculd be the noblest and the fittest Pablie Oeder MePtoriql. It would be the true an tiaote for the poison, the true specific to provide against the recurrence of the dreaded epidemic. But it is impossible, and therefore we neither propose nor discuss it. The medicine to be offered cannot be, what it ought best to be, the medicine of the mind. The alleviation of physical ill dare alone be contemplated. And, heaven knows, that much is wanting, much im peratively required to be done. We cannot say that we are much in favour of hos pitals,and for reasons that we shall develop on afuture occasion. But lodging-houses and wash-houses —and we do not see why they cannot be united—are such palpable and permanent blessings to the poorer class of the population, that we trust sincerely that the committee will persevere, and take advantage of any enthusiasm or any excitement to raise fun& and combine i4forte for so beneficent a purpose. It would be a disgrace to the country, as well as an irreparable loss to the peer, were such a design and suzli a com mittee to be snuffed out by a capricious article of a journal. sequence or not I cannot say; but on the following day there was a large party who intended to make a demonstration in front of the palace of the King, with the view of demanding the destruction of the forts which command the city, and perhaps as mach or more with the view of cutting off the subterraneous communications between the palace, the forts, and the sea. The demonstration seems, however, to have been made in the presence of the King himself, as have learnt from authority that is worthy la' belief that another programme was presented to his I Majesty in council, prosing, amongst other things, the suppression of the Chamber of Peers, the imme diate destruction of the forts, the sending a steam-fleet to the Adriatic, with the view of preventing a descent by the Austrians ou the eastern coast. The King refused to concede ; the last point, however, was urged strongly, and will be conceded I think. His Majesty said that in the present date of his relations with Sicily. he had need of nll his disposable naval force ; but, as the voice of the public is so strongly in favour of the movement, and us Signor Totfetti is now here as delegate from therm visional Government at Milan to request such assist ance, resistance will be difficult. In the meantime, before even Toffetti has been presented to the King. the ministers declare through the official journals, that, " having been informed of tho object of his (Toffettes) mission, and perceiving all the importance of the report, they will exert every effort to ensure its succor." And yet, in the moment that daily en croachments are being made on the King's authority, and that he is formally dethroned by the Sicilians, he sends ONO of his troops off to Lombardy. The elections begin this day, but awaken anything but that greet excitement which might have been Ex pected. Many names are in circulation ; among others that of Hug ziero, minister of ecclesiastical affairs, =ndidate for Naples, and of Duca di Proto as one of the elective peers. The only address to the electors that I have seen is by the Conte Correiall to the electors of Sorrento. The movement towards Lombardy still continues. The 10th regt. of the line have already left for Leg horn, whence they started fur l'adua. From Sicily I am enabled to state that on the 13th April it was declared by the general parliament of Sicily, that Ist, Ferdinand Bourbon and hit dynasty hare for ever fallen from the throne of Sicily. 2nd. Sicily shall be governed by a constitutional yocvrn nsent, and shall call to the throne an Italian pricier as soon us it shall hare reformed its statute. Telegraphic reports of 11th and 12th, from Messina, state that there has beer the usual tiring on both sides. I hear I that from want of troops nod provisions the citric's! of Messina cannot be maintained much longer; up I to this time the citadel has not renewed its firing; the Ishots seem to have been exchanged between a fort adjoining the citadel and the city. On Sunday I several king's steamers and a frigate came in, and now, in this critical moment for the kin" dom, , a fleet (it is decided) is to be sent off to the Adriatic with provisions and armaments, and, some say, with troop.. The King, it is confidently reported, is to join his troops in the Abruzzi after the meeting of parliament. Many ask will he ever return—will he not take ad vantage of the opportunity to bid adieu to his " amatissimi sudditi." There is, indeed, no love lost between him and his subjects—when he appears in public his Majesty is received with marked coldness, 1 presenting a striking contrast to that obsequiousness 1 which has always marked the Neapolitan public. The Conte di Itignon, who is here on a special mission from Charles Albert, had his third audience yesterday, when he was decorated with the cross of ' commander of the royal order of St. Ferdinand and . g i 'l i to g a t t c h s e , r e quest Nyihsi o o f o his f St the ro i Sardinian l o f Merit . o f f Majesty, a squadron of the Royal Marine, consist ingou'rkgstrtinre'eam troops on board, under the command of General W. ',Pepe, are to repair directly to tbe Adriatic talec (Fart with the Piedmontese in combatting for to Italian independence. Further , go vernment undertakes to send to Venice immediately officers to instruct the Venice volunteers, or to lead t hem to battle, and particular officers of artillery to direct the field bat teries. The Minister for the Interior has placed 6,000 additional muskets in the bands of the nteional 1 guards of the city, and is about to purchase many I others. A long list of contributors of the land tax I by anticipation is published this morning. Petitions to the number of 2,192 have been pre ' rented to the ministry for relief at Easter. News arrived from :Messina says that the Messinese are in strong force, and there is a report that the King is about to withdraw all his troops from the citadel The Sicdian question and that of the Venice republic will it is thought be referred to the dec ision of the Italian League. The Indepentlenza e Lcya of the 15th says: " The' decree which pronounced the dethronement of the King of Naples, and dell his race in Sicily, has been welcomed at Palermo by cries of enthusiasm. Cries were uttered of ' Down with the statues of the Bourbons!' and thousands of voices echoed ' Down with them!' No sooner said than done. All the statues were thrown down from their pedestals. They began with that of Philip V. The only one respect( d was that of Charles 11., because he was just and benevolent." TUSCANY. —The Concordia of Turin, of April 21, cites an article from the Gazette of Genoa, stating that on the 18th the French ship of war, the Fried land, with the flag of Admiral Baudin, entered the Gun' of Six zria. Two ships and a frigate had also 4I arrived, and other ships were expected. own. GERMANY. BADE.N.—The republicans have every where been beaten. The bands hare fled and separated. Hecker has made his escape to BA, but Struve was taken on the 21st, at the village of Sackingen, as he was shut to pass the Rhine into Switzerland. Hes sian troops occupied o h he 21 n tst poldshOhe and the Schusterinsel, which had been L eo full of German workmen. About 240 men of the free corps which were at Grosshuningen on the 21st, left that place by rail to Elsatz. AUSTRIA. —We have the 'Vienna journals of the 21st. The Emperor, after having accepted the rest anon of the Burgomaster of Vienna, M. Von Czapko, has declared by an imperial resolution of the 29th of March, that the post of Burgomaster of Vienna might be considered vacant. Previous to the filling up of this post it appeared necessary to call the attention of the burgher committee of Vienna to the altered state of things, and to suggest that the office of bur gomaster might probably call for some modification. the Burgher committee has therefore resolved to defer the election till the middle of May. PRUSSIA. —A letter from Posen,of April 20, says The state of things here is still very unsatisfactory and critical. It is true that the large encampment has been broken up, in consequence of the convention ; but, although they have dispersed, they are assembling in small groups in other quarters. No further ex cesses have been committed. Mieroslawski has again addressed the King, stating that the people are by no means satisfied with the former concessions, because Count Milzsnski altered the position on his own re sponsibility. The greatest apprehensions are enter tained for the Easter festival. DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES. We have received Hamburg papers of the 22nd which furnish some items not before published. A letter from Kiel, of the 21st of April, says :—The Provisional Government has this day received intelli gence from London, according to which, the British cabinet does not consider the proceedin"s of the Diet as a declaration of war against Denmark, and will in consequence maintain a preliminary neutrality. On the 19th, at Elsinore, the Prussian ships lying at anchor in the roadstead were laid under embargo by the Danish ships of war. A private letter from Flensburg positively deLle. the reports of the bad treatment whichthc Schlcsw:g- Holstein troops are said to have met with in that city. Both the German and Danish troops are equally well received by the citizens ; few excesses were com mitted against the Germans on their retreat, and the report that scalding water, &:,,., was poured upon them was quite without foundation. A miller, who took some Germans under his protection, was seized by the Danes with all h is people, but was aft liberated. The inhabitants of Flensburg have main tained a decidedly n eutral position. The wounded among the Danes and the Germans are tended with equal care, and honourable treatment is given alike to both. On the 21st General Wrangel, coming from Stettin, set ont from Hamburg for liendslatirg. He was ac- companiid by of Pr Qs4 the eldest sou , . general L a com mand of &Wee, ~ _........ciu mantis has issued A notice, calling upon Germans to lend their assistance in the approaching war, as free corps. Prince Frederick Cb of Prince Charles. His Es t oday fur t The Cb Wood Usti °" T The Bi retadaY. FRANCE.—PARIn, APRIL 25.—CATAMO re Cfskevit.Lokf—A heavy explosion, attended with 1 P" we lately occurred at Chat aloe. It resembled the sh ° O.; gi o f — .„' earthquake. A great number of persons rushed intothe k- and a cry of " To the iron foundries" was i n „,...i v - eee55,..,.... Shortly afterwards some work me n,blackened and h ea' .- a e,„„, head to foot, came into the town, running throuall u tb e , -- 7. and uttering the most heartrending shrieks. On e --„ :, the foundry every house contained one or mor e lnivi'° n „."' man more or lees burned, and suffering excrui un eg lu T, tures. In the very midst of the fire which wa ' s ' d ti e -- , i ,' . the high furnace, were women , children, i CI:. mm eirlhirg i ' their husbands, sons, avid brothers. The extent of the kr deer is not yet known. One of the masters et the forge, " Charles Yverhault Rotielat (the son), of La Chat - mi e hel Vergue, his friend, and the cashier, wtrerc:' and il victims. Five persons have perished, awl the number, 'u" ' - those injured is not yet known. The cause of the oxide was, that having to cast a very large than of iron, ih n dug a hole in the earth into which some water flOwed; 1 : Immediately the molten iron exploded wita great coise. DISTUREANCES IN TILE FRENCH Float - Bent e Serious dieturhences took place at Mantes on &May, re to the elections. Some d ay s previously, et N e u.' ' nl ti gove rnme nt commissary, had caused a Het to be extends l distributed, continuing the names of 12 candidates for national assembly, and bearing the words below: „ To folded in two and thrown into the urn." The club oi ' Union Ilipablicaine, highly disapproving of the whole , ceding, took another list on Saturday to M. It fet, the printer in the place. But just as the title was ' iie:i have it printed, M. Roux c o me and threatened him ' if did so, to take away his license. The p rinter, in ecnseeua was obliged to yield. The next morning, in ce a s e V of a decision come to by the meni.ipal council, the den was beaten and the national guard calif out; it w at the same time deterrninai to send M. ltoux away. eel; he appeared, and saw the crowd which hail assembled, s hear , them uttering cries of A bar le commissaire! called them canaille, and declared that be did not fear Id they could do. The crowd, hueever, fore I him to t raiiway, and thi re compelled him to Fut into one of t carriages of the train that was going off. lle thence Poissy, end proceeding thence to St. Germaie, pecee r a cuiranaers, whom he took with him to establish his author at Mantes. He re-entered Mantes the same evening eef and estateishe I himself at the Prefecture. The crowd, e mint at this pros ruing, forced their way:into the Preet and broke everything that they could lay their hands The troops fraternised with the national guard, and last Id, Roux was. obliged to again totes hi. departure the railway. Delegates from the club jointed: aely eau V er s a illes, and, representing the matter to M. Jamul, tl 1 commissary there, obtained froin him that mother wan nary, M. 1 motet, should be pent to take NI. Reux's plat That gentleman arrived at Mantes yesterday at Gear in tt morning.—The Union of Besancon states th.a a keen ago a deplorable event batik piece at St. Germain, near Lot The ails' or prevented a man who had been conlemnel fa 1 robbery from voting in the election of officers of the mama guard. This so exasperated the DIOR that he relabel murder the Mayor. He armed himself with a oral placed another in the hands of his brother They then pursued the Mayor, and rushed after ' into to bunko in which he he.l sought refuge. See that his life was really menaced, the Mayor polled , pistol from Iti , breast . , and, after vainly summoning hi ',salients to withdraw, discharged it at the nearest war killing him on the spot. The other took to flight Th mayor immediately placed himself in custody, exit an ion! tigation having proved that he only acted in silt-dome, I was liberated. The ('currier de !Terre states that the mini ter of the interior has confirmed by a telegraphic dome the dismissal of M. Chancel, sulneommisioner in the Oct by M. Froussarel, commissioneregeiltral et the doper of the Isere, the prone, and the, Hautes-Alyea. have been given to Rend H. Clianeel to Paris. The Garet do Languedoc states from Saint Gaudens that M. Joky, c government commissary of the Haute Garonne, in a sine to the eleeors of Stint Geudens, said, " If you do not el the persons whom 1 propose to you, dread to witness a t newel of the sanguinary days of the WO of Anse; or 2nd of September." M. LAFFITTP. ON R.kILWAYS.—M. Charles TAR has addressed a long letter to the Journal des I),:hats on t pr oposed purchase of the railways by the state. In course of it he says—" if it be desired to form an ides of deplorable effect which the taking of the railways by I government, without any discussion, and aceemplithed by decree rendered in virtue of its dictatorial power, woo nroduce, it is sulfieii vet to ascertain the impression caused the minds of the representatives of the different lines of 1 way 14 the overtures which the minister made them in lot meeting convoked by him. None of his numerous I positions, none of the moles:of purchase indicated by I appeared satisfactory, and especially none could restore. 'Hence. For persons 'to believe themselves in . rarity they must know that they are els° i, liberty' and a discussion before a tribunal of arbitration, even should its deertoi not be more advantageo ose us to te that. the prep...it:one of the geeertitoevt, tom cl confidence to the companies, and prove to their nut shareholders that, in dispossessing them of the lines, it not desired to spoliate them. As to the practical MOM the application of the measure, it would be too long to pose them h. re in detail; it seems to me, h there can be no discussion on the general bases, on the; col principles, according to which the different weave ought to he treated. All the railways have different colt des charges, and censequeatly different conditions of ce mice. They may, however, be classed in three very dotal categories . those which are completed, and have been work for a time sufficiently long to render it possible to estimi the importance of their revenues—these which are only course of construction , or which, already partielly termine may have opened a fraction of their length to traffic fivally those which hare Leen recently terminated. Fur railways terminated and already worked for some time, l those of Orleans, Rein o, Havre, &c., the only equitable he for taking them would be that which should us calculated the amount of their receipts, whatever be the price at whi the shareholders purchased their shares. The primit shareholders, although at present there are very few t h es e enterprises, and altho u g h the y only paid the pr of issue, have incurred all the risks of the affair, e it was only in offering them the chance of profits to realised tbat they were induced to offer their capital. Eqs demands that the promise made to them hail be lee ts.at they shell net be punished for the courage which ti had when every one was so distrustful ; that they be pis en the same line as those who, having bought their of at a later period, paid them on the price of revenue of I liner, and besides pave a premium for the hopes of the . tune, hopes guaranteed by the Villiers den charges, which twee the shareholder against any purchaser of the line 15 years, and even after that period set ferth in advance conditions of the purchase b y the state. The price of shi determined according trithe revenue eught then to be ma tainted, es p e cially as on consulting the laws and cahiers charges of the different companies, it will be seen that it the uniform basis on which the purchase is to be rapist Ilquity also demands that for the lines which are still onl; construction, the state shall repay the shareholders whole of what they disbursed, and that it shall not U them support the consequences of the erroneous estir su pplied to the companies by the governmeat, which wer e obliged to accept at the beginning wit it being possible for them to control the w of the engineers " des roots et Chouveca." Ti only strictly just with respect to them, the eh holders of railways in construction, and who at I sent find it impossible to continue their undertaking, in to be placed in the position in which, confiding in the raises of the government, in the estimates of their engin and in the maintenance of public tranquillity, they rs el of; th e ir fortune. Finally , as r e g ards the shareholde lines which, having been able to surmount all difficul have arrived at the end of their career, and have been' in spite of events to open their lines, as for instance C from Slontereau to Troyes, and from Amiens to Souk the state does not only owe them the repayment of they bare disbur:cd, but also a just indemnity for tk vantages of which it deprives them at the very mo m me w hich they were about to receive the price of their I will not speak here of the questions relative to the contracted by the companies, to the orders given by the the engagements of every kind which n they th hive mufti In disposseasing t hem, to put ftself iei , vettiment can only take their obligations to its chug. simplest good sense indicates it." BELGIUM. —The continued inundations in parts of Belgium cause much apprehenion. The Jc du Linitioary Beige says, it is really inconceivable th government should take no step s , to remedy the Muni of Scheulensbroree, which, at tins momsut, is cowl submerged. The dykes have been broken in several in consequence of which there is a vast accuraulat water during the last few days. The oats and potatoe. to have been sown today, but it was found impractic consequen ce of the land being submerged wall water , numerous cattle which usually graze here at, the cone ment of April wholly without fod s hould be *del der. It is of ' most im are portance t h a t instant messures the draining of the couetry. RUSSIA.— ST. PETERSBURG. The lb , I Corresponding of the 22nd of April says, apprebeceia entertained at St ; Petersburg of a prohibition to expel Letters of the 15th, homey .1., he that a notice has ji received by the authorities of the customs from the m commanding that no obdaele shall be opposed to hat of precious metals by sea. AGGRI Laster po p. t o ok cense the r former rn condition which hav considered c rowded • chair was legatee. its above oonstito •enere order," the ha men_ ;Will Sat I they idle. this I the i LAMBETH PENSION SOCIETY.—This charit eiety, the object of which is to grant pens..ins hems deserving persons of Loth bezes, resident m tie Ah) have never been chargeable to the pc, r-rate, annual meeting yesterday evening at the Horns Kennington.—The Rev. Dr, Dalton, Iltetor of LI having been called to the chair, the secretary prom read the report, from which it appeared that the during the past year were, annual bubscri fv.i qui, 6 life subscriptions , 2051. 75.; making, with nroceeds sermon, etc., a total of 9671. lls. The e x cense' Pensions, 690/.175. ; and the balance in har.,l, was af burit eme nts, 731.175. 3 d. T he society, which , was in 1826, had received since the commenccesent,l6,{ which aum.12,7881. ham been dispensed in pensions Of deserving inhabitants of the borough. The I although showing a alight increase, did nct tab ,I;it greats In the prosperity of the society as its great t and the amount o distress in the estersive borne both via teem t cell for. flu o s t,),ib, nit : th.pl.:, ig s iach n i,,emi o o w d. ninoowypatEine.ctcewe,Rass,:::..y,,,:tt.nl friend,e. o h. uot. molten 0 . t i h ileh ' dnnst.s e ubk. l . r a kayi ~. .c , t7 n eh d . uy:".}.,: f ..Q. e s ' x v eglpeyo t ! ous. mini. g .' :tic,. perished, .. , . ‘ ,eThh n '. : po,g,smi ihicedhr r th. ie du ' : h cm ... , ete l ai : a : 0 I . samep, guard :e dc : ,p *l e t t listceel• a iii - nuar l t l ' f, i hat t tyt l fe, Ctormtrieh,ata, called , h i n iseestwou the l e en ° l .tvl.o r . ,fsekr, caused, .°,. t i ,ium t h i i.dit,o r : s i i l it ~, .. . i '4 l: e . . i ,i e nsc. : l - yEs i e, ' :4%. ‘. l . rd,,,t 11. . ~, D - 1 1: 04.h. ' ftl i: . s ,h, ~ : ~ . . , dI - th Th n clihn g f .- chair was d d j legates. fhe CH Ite above.. constituti , meters of order," ai n i t , , d e e H i , l i i t ph i . n g the names of 12 candidates fr i the nate y icidt ro .Remo wn .r.iE in ci to tn.t:e th tsc e immn u ddo ri tit . hi ' .. : gtou: Tl i hi dh u n:iti l: .7. o ,, i , ..._ men oul gieateel i trees exist Out of ployed, ii remainde ' reduced , still won icaine, highly disapproving of the whole . . they dei another list on Saturday to M. It fet, the , idle. fI. this state the print ought to other po ing class evil was fluctuat , and saw the crowd which had assembled breathe uttering mies of A bat le commissaire . a tin, we onaiile, and declared that be did tee fear a' leas p to. The crowd, hoecvcr, fort 1 Lint ti th tnren, th. re compelled him to wt into one of th annum he train that was going off. Ile aliehte! a The an mending thence to St. Germoie, poiceee o equivah Rom he took with him to establish his autbsro rions gr He re-entered Mantes the came evening at'e at a low es I himself at the Prefecture. The crowd , nil . here o n woe ruling, forced their way:into the Priact, '. upon th verything that they could lay their heads .. fortune fraternised with the national guard, te e . evil th r wss. obliged to again take hi. departure . " labou Delegates from the club lama& .rely went . workin nd, represeuting the matter to M. Jared, . sident I there, obtained from him that another moue works icotet, should be sent to take NI. It .ux's Pa., all the san arrived at Mantes yesterday at four is th (" No, fhe Union of Besancon states th .t a few da epithet able event took place at St. Germain, near . now r prevented a man who had been eonieranel f report a voting in the election of officers of the aid . is so exasperated the man that he resolved that th s Mayor. He armed him self with •o , at trod I another in the bands of his hi... . And a pursued the Mayor, and rushed after .• may Its of then Se in which he hod sought refuge. See . fanlike re fe was ally menaced, the Mayor palled su are at lii. breast, aid, after vain l y summonin g , fferi o withdraw, discharged it at the nearest's' , and fu re t on the spot. The othe r took to flight. In The area o diately placed himself in custody, ..nt an inc. some wing proved that he only acted in ro Ifdeoenee, . thous ed. The Cowries . de l Isere states that the ram' , interior has confirmed by a telegraphic deeper , your actua l al of M. Chased, sulreommisionsr in the Drums ,issued, commissioner - general of the department The miser re, the battle, end the, Ilautes-Alpes. Gide Pen' given to send M. Chancel to Paris. The botrtt the aloe states from Saint Gainless that M. July, us &twat it commiesary of the Haute Garonne, in a i • . lane cots of Stint Gaudens, said, " It you do not a • that s whom 1 propose to you, dread to witness a ing t of ex the sanguinary days of the 70th of Asps; or elven ptember." lithe. FFITTF. ON R.kILWATS.—m. Charles Laffi . and env teed a long letter w the Journal des Thbats on th. the purchase of the railway . b y the state. In th. fully t he says—" If it be desired to form an idea of th:. 11 110 T, s effect which the taking of the railways by .. of nt, without any discussion , and aceem p lithed by a folk entered in virtue of its dictatorial power , wool. to it is sulfide nt to ascertain the impression caused '. ski t lior § of the repreeentatives of the differont lines of rail he overtures which the :Weimer made them in th nro ing convoked by him. None of his numerous p • skit , none of the moles:of purchase indicated by hi.• is we satisfactory, and especially none could restore con rem For permns 'to believe themselves in dui they must know that they are also .• w sec i and a discussion bzfore a nth anal of arbitre.iA old its decrees not be mote advantageou s to the • f prop...it:ass of the government, tam a vs. foe se to the companies , a nd p rove to their smote .. SU tiers that, in dispossessing the m of the lints, it • In ed to spoliate them. A. , to the prac tical meanf . oo IA cation of the measure , it would be too long to ex al le re in detail; it seems to me, however, th . r a be no discussion on the general hates, on the gen sb !inlet, according to which the different coequal. In ohe treated. All t he railwa y s have different cohi Pt rges, and consequeatly different conditions of ex' • al SI They may, however, be classed in three very distill• ti ies: those which are completed, and have been work u ne sufficiently long to render it possible to estim • ri , wortance of their revenues—these which are only ' P of construction, or which, already partiolly terminat o e re opened a fraction of their length to traffic— , e f those which hare been recently terminated. Fur . i Fs terminated and already worked for some time, r t if Orleans, Retie u, Havre, fee, the only equitable b t ing them would be that which should tie t calculate id. d . I 'a unt of their receipts, whatever be the price a a areholders purehased their shares. The primiti I I alders, although at present there are very few 4 enterprises, and although they only paid the p i ke, have incurred all the risks of the affair, I only in offering them the chance of profits to A that they were induced to offer their capital. Eq , Ids that the promise made to them 'hail be Ito hey shell not be punished for the courage which I. hen every one was so distrustful ; that they be pl • i same line as those who, having bought their sh eater period, paid them on the price of revenue of and besides gave a premium for the hopes of the hopes guaranteed by the cahiers des char f the ges, whiline . the shareholder against any purchaser o ars, and even after that period set Myth in advance dons of the purchase by the elate. The price of sh mined according trithe revenue eught then to be m d, es p e cially as on consulting the laws and cahiers pea of the different companies, it will be wen that I uniform basis on which the purchase is to be regale ity also demands that for the lines which are still onl truction, the state shall repay the shareholders le of what they disbursed, and that it shall not a support the consequences of the erroneous estim died to the companies by the government, which e obliged to accept at the beginning wi being possible for them to control the T vo the engineers " des Ponta et Chauvees." . r strictly just with respect to them, the s. lees of railways in construction, and who at t find it impossible to continue their undertaking, 0 re placed in the position in which, confiding in the es of the government, in the estimates of their engin l in the maintenance of public tranquillity, they ex• .is. fortune. Finally, as regards the shareholders o es which, having been able to surmount all difficu . ro arrived at the end of their career, and have been spite of events to open their lines, as for instan to Bout ce . • , m Siontereau to Troyes, and from Amien s e state does not only owe them the repayment of ey have disbur:cd, but also a just indemuity for itch of which it deprives them at the ve their ry moose hich they were about to receive the price of will not speak here of the questions relative to the attracted by die companies, to the orders given by th to engagements of every kind which they their place hove enters II dispossessing them, to put itself i, eroment can only take their obligations to its charge. impleat good sense indicates it." lIELGIUM.—The continued in in s orts of Belgium m ust much apprehewion. T a ble t• he ist Lingbourg Beige says, it is really inconceiv gov.rn m ent should take no step s , to remedy the toes of Scheulensbronts, which, at this mom s ut, is to • submerged. The dykes have been broken in seven. in consequence of which there is a vast area eta tie water during the last few days. The oats and potase to have been sown today, but it was found impnano raco consequ ence of the land tie i n g submergo re at d with dm co numerous cattle which usually graze he ment of April are wholly without fodder. It is ot most importance that instant raeuures should be ade the draining of the country. RUSSIA. —ST. PETERSBURG. The 11 , Corresrondene of the 22nd of April says, apprehenU• entertained at StoPetershurg of a prohibition to expo Letters of the 15th, howdy :r, sly that a notice has; received by the authorities of the customs from the - com manding that no ob s t acle shall be opposed to the of precious metals by sea. . .-----.------_--eeeo — '-_ . LAMBT.TII PENsime Socurrs.—This cbarita ciety, the object of which is to grant pe!ls.utsto,G. , deserving persons of Loth sexes, resident in ;i.e . T te : i olio have never been chargeable to the t. p e u h r i () r t., annual meeting yesterday evening at t . . Bennington. The Rev. Dr. Dalton, lloctor of I. Li.o .• h rdl:i a ,ufar m y : rid n g int huognbebt:einee.ettnpopputcti.retallo report, from rra t tal o swl. t we h orh e f, i., c c,6lah l m l n ai :i,i r t..k , . iiian t; :, eabe:uwtiseenlesiid: e ep, t t s rhi,..c r „a y :tetps p e,thaid r ns i s, 0 .. 15 Pensions, 6961. 17s. ; and the balance in hand-, .c 1- bursements, 731. 175. 3d. The society, which was. sl in 1826, had received since the commein penu ncerne9t , lt , a t which sum 12 , 7881 . hes been dispensed 0 e r , deserving iuhabitants of the borough. T_lct although showing a slight increase, did act ells . a greats in the prose of the society as its great . in, and the amount of &nese in the eel:testy:, bonnie ac- beth would seem to cell for. 1 1. ITALY. The Gazette (f Milan says, that NNW' Trotti, of the Piedmontesc troops, was made prisoner, in a sortie by the Austrians at Peschiem, and was taken to that town. The Piedmontese army are masters of the most advan tageous positions near Verona. The heavy artillery is arrived. Two envoys from Parma have offered the concourse of their troops to King Charles Albert, who has accepted it. General Dumndo, with the Pontifical troops has invested the fortress of Fer- rare." A letter from Botzen, of April 19, says : We learn from Verona that field-M inhal Ittdetclti has undertaken a general reconnoisance on the line from Vt rona to Mantua, and the result was that preponderating forces were seen everywhere. Large stores o: provisions were being brought to the head-quarters. The reinforcements from Austria have left the Isonr , , and arc in full march through the Venetian territory to Verona.—P.S. We have jnot re reivf d a large consignment of guns from the army in Italy. They are the result of the disarming which ltadetzki ordered at 1r erona. A letter in the Vienna Ga:ette of the 21st, from I'ontafel, a small town near the Isonzo, dated the 19th, states that the head-quarters of Field Marshal Count Nugent had come betore Palma Nuova on the 18th. I I Skirmishes with the insurgents were of frequent oc currence ; and the towns of Codroipo, Prevano, and Valvasone, in advance of l'alma Nuova, were occupied' by the Austrian troops. General Nugent was to begin his approaches against Palma Nuova on the lath. By the occupation of Codroipo, Udine was threatened, and would no doubt soon be occupied, two infantry regiments, llohenlohe and Prohaska, having been sent to seize the passes leading to that town. Letters from Trieste of the lath state that the steamers of the Austrian Lloyd were armed and under the command of Lieut.-Isjor von Kudriafsky, ready to support Count Nugent. NAPLES. —We have news from the capital of the 18th. Our correspondent, writing on that day, says: New ministerial appointments have been mad e, and those from the most radical portion of the com munity. 1). Francesco ltuggiero, an advocate, has been named Minister for Ecclesiastical Affairs ; 1). Paolo Imbriani, Minister of Public Instruction ; Giovanni Bursotti, Coadjutor of Minister of Agricul ture and Commerce; Conforti, Minister for the In terior. These, with one or two exceptions, represent the ultra-radical element of political feeling, and are, moreover, mere instruments in the hands of a dcmo cratic clique--not large, perhaps, but, from their ve L ry e nergy and a certain de g ree of talent, powerfu Hence there is now a feverish bustle in every minis terial department, and decrees upon decrees, addresses upon addresses, to the intendante, bishops, &c. &c., are daily poured forth through the medium of the official journals. The address of Conforti to the Neapolitans, on his acceptance of office, is remarkable for the arrogance and egotism which it displays. On I the night before his appointment he declared, as I am i n f o rmed, at a certain dub, that the power of the King was much too great—that the Chamber of Peers ought to be swept away. Nevertheless the next morning he was invited to hold office. There is amongst a party in Naples, as also in the provinces, a desire for the constitution of Ib2o, as I have told you throughout : the minister winks at it and evidently encourages it. The modifications ad mitted by the King are only taken as instalments of greater concessions which will be demanded here after, and probably made. On Saturday a number of Italians arrived front Paris, and it is not surprising if they should attempt to propagate republican extreme -Finciples amongst their friends. 'Whether as a COll othrr ing eli era 'a anT lees them mutat The i equiv, rens at • lc hue ups