The Express. — London, England, 1848-03-03 00:00:00

P"" the two powerful nation' which border either side of the ChenneL That weak, uncertain, in-considered poem which the Orleans dynasty endeavoured to secure meat now be hanged into a peacoat ones beneficial to all. This toportitht affair is henceforward left to the decision of the two nations, and that restores us to confidence. The egression of the will of Franco will be impeded by no obstacle, and we think that she will, without any restriction, lade upon maintaining -*ace. On their side, the English people have sufficient weight with their government for them to preserve peace also, if rimy wills so to do ; now, we ready believe they also desire to maintain peace. And do we not know, moreover, that that cause has already met with the warmest sympathy in England ? And this sympathy will We certainly increase and create the double advantage of influencing the determination of the English government, and of silencing in France that imagines, and that rancour w hich may stall exist. The force of circumstances is always stronger than the will of man; and here the force of circumstances is for peace. The French republic, occupied in organising itself, occupied in its endeavours to make its advent fructify in (tweet of the laborious classes of its popula tion, would not enter into a wee unless the European nationalities were in pail. On the other hand, there does not exist in England any government tool-hardy enough, Or sufficiently subversive, to compromise the interest of all by a war. The neutrality of England appears certain for the tiros being. Will this neutrality be converted into something of a more intimate nature, into something mix effic.mious for the peace and security of Europe ? that is what time, events, and men, will prom But what is certain:is this, that if the two great nations join in any great common Kim of Justice and civilisation, they will poise in the reale with a weight that nothing can counterbalance. One of the first t) present his adhesion to the re public, at the Ministry of the Interior, was M. Na poleon Duchatel, the brother of the proscribed ex- Minister of the Intel ior. The provisional government has caused a military of safety to be off -red to the representatives of foreign powers. The Count d'Appony has accepted this offer; the Archbishop of Nicea, nuncio to the Pope, has declined it. Darin.: the late agitation a body of the inhabitants of St. Germain made their way into the military prison, and released nearly 500 of the persons who were confined in it. A considerable number of the prisoners have come to Paris, and presented them selves at the head-quarters of the division, desiring to be re-admitted into the army, or, if this was denied them, to be allowed passes to their native places, which they indicated, where they would be found if it should be thought right to make them undergo the remainder of their punishments. The report that M. Jollivet, the deputy, had been shot in the late struggle, is unfortunately fully confirmed. The Gazette de.; Trildusaut says: —" It is an nounced to us that the company of the Northern Rail way has declared to all the workmen and agents of its enterprise that it has decided to admit them to a participation in the profits. The participation is to be settled in the following manner. The products are to be divided-1, to salaries ; 2, to the interest of the capital and to paying it off; 3, the profits, be yond those two chapters, to be divided between the shareholders and the agents and workmen, in the proportion of the capital in money to the capital in labour." L'Unien points out the following curious coinci dences between the circumstances attending the fate of the two monarchs who preceded the republic : As in 1830, three days, and the saute three days of the week, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday ! As in 1830, a man (Si the people taking his seat on the royal armchair ! Louis Philippe was dethroned in the game month as the Duke of Berry was assassinated! Raised to the throne by barricades; he was hurled from it by barricades. Like Charles X., Louis Philippe had a grandson, and this grandson was of the game uge as the Due do Bordeaux in 1830. Like Charles X., Louis Philippe, at the last moment, wanted to abdicate in favour of his grandson, and he like wise received for answer, "It is too late!" Charles X. fell shortly after Hussein Pacha, the de y of Algiers; the fate of Louis Philippe arrived soon after the day on which Abd-el-Kader was brought a captive to France. Now for Louis Philippe as far Charles X. we say " the ex-King." But there exists a difference, which the people in their justice acknawb dge aloud. Charles X. departed poor into his exile, and Louis Philippe will in his enjoy his im mense wealth. The Abbe de la Mennais is causing a certain agita tion with an article in his new journal, Le People Conslitoont. The abbe seems to tear the existence of some plot in favour of the Count de Paris, and calla on the people to demand satisfaction on this subject at the hands of the provisional government, already the conservatives of the revolution. The abbe de claims vehemently against all idea of a regency under any shape whatever. The following letter has been addressed by M. Louis Blanc to M. de Rothschild : - • Sir,—A printed paper has just been banded to me contain ing these words , :—" 1. To adopt all possible measures to prevent the exit of capital from Paris and France. 2. To place the houses of Ro.hschild, and of the other bankers, under strict surveillance. 3. To oblige the firm of Roths child to lend to the French republic the capital necessary and indispensable for the first wants of the people, ecc " I hasten to assure you,. r, that my name has been audaciously usurped. The provisional government is about to take mea sures to prevent the circulation of printed papers which are not guaranteed by any personal respon-ibility. The managing committee of the Association for the Defence of National Labour has addressed the follow ing circular to the members : Gentlemen, the gravity of circumstances has imposed new duties on your association. The republic is proclaimed. There is no power without order. And order is the idea which dominates the association of which you have con stituted us the representatives, and which you have founded out of the pale of all political opinion. Without order, in fact, there is neither consumption, nor labour, nor wages— no prem. nt, no future. Such must be the sentiment of our associatts, end therefore we rely on their co-operation. Events render it indispensable. They hove induced us to promise to the Minister of Commerce that, to contribute to the maintenance of order, every manufacturer, &c., will make it a duty in proportion to his means to create employ ment. It is thus that every shop will become a national shop; and as such will be entitled to the protection of all. Bat this situation imposes grave duties on industry. You nobly understood them when, in the year which has just passed, you maintained labour, and assured the nourishment of the working classes. The sacrifices which humanity then imposed on you an e lightened patriotism now de mands. Yuu will not be untrue to your former conduct, and within the limits of what is possible you will renew the aactifices previously made. Especially employ your personal influence that your example may be followed by all. It is thus, it is by these means, that we shall draw closer the union between all citizens. And, let us not forget it, the union of citizens is the peace of the country; there, to-day is the first element of labour, the first element of public security and_ prosperity.—Accept, &c. (Signed) Omen, President; MIMEREL, Vice-President; Loris LEBEIJP, Secretary ; Joserta Psaiza, Treasurer. The Agricultural Congress held, on Wednesday, its second sitting ; M. Oaspann in the chair. Messrs. E. Lefebvre and Perrot informed the meeting of the decree of the provisional government, instituting a permanent commission at the Luxembourg to regu late the interests of French agriculturists. This de cision was hailed with expressions of great satisfac tion by the members present, and it was voted that the members of the bureau should proceed on Mon day to the Hotel de Ville to thank the government, and to express a hope that several of the members should be included in the commission. M. Allier, the director of 1;cio;l of Petit-Bourg, then ropOsed, first, that in the distribution of funds to be employed in the construction of national workshops, agriculture should not be forgotten ; and next, that agricultural schools or colonies should be at once established for the education of poor orphan children. After some discussion this proposition was referred to the committee appointed to express the wishes of the congress. The question of agricultural credit was then brought forward, and gave rise to some discus sion, and eventually the congress by a vote expressed a hope that the republican government would, as promptly as possible, utilise the mass of information collected relative to the question of mortgage, for the purpose of improving the present system. The sit ting then terminated. A letter from Amiens, dated 3 p.m., on Tuesday, says:—" The reports spread about disagreements here are unfounded. The town is quiet, though the people dislike a republic. " In consequence of but one line of rails being laid down there was a collision the day before yesterday, by which the two engineers were killed, and eleven passengers hurt." The T following opinions of men whose names will be recognised do credit to the sagacity of " Timon," M. de Cormenin, who wrote a book under that name some years since, and from which we extract the fol lowing : Grizor.—His soul is too full of pride to leave room for ens other sentiment. He might be thrust head foremosi into the ocean, and he would not admit that he was drowning ; and he believes in his own infallibility with a violent and desperate faith. How is it that he who has seen so near the bottom of so many false hearts, so many evil consciences, and so many venal and vain corruptions, has not blushed to theeyes at the trade he was carrying on? How could he, a Calvinist, persecuted in the person of his an cestors for the liberty of religious discussion, forbid liberty of political discussion to so many sovereign makikidaters of 4:Lartera? Guiw6 Lae ivw laaitativa than Odilion Barret. lie makes up hie mind quicker, and he carries oat his resolutions with the rigidity of purpose which characterises him. Oinzot, instead of following the spirit of the age in its undulations and successive transformations, and in the way of progress, has sought to form a society which cannot exist in reality, half English and half doctrinaire, which has gone on all of a piece, and which will go of all of *puce. This is a work contrary to nature. The people will demand an explanation .f all this, and will require an amulet then will there be frightful cracks in Mat edifice, beaten on all sides by the storms of denwerary. Then it will he necessary to fly with all speed, and Guitot, the pretended conservative, will probably be the first to ffy. GARNIER PAGES is a man both pure and honest; of simple manners, and a severe republican without being extravagant, and of the most disinterested cou rage. I am deceived of he would make a good minister : he has the talent, though not the wish, for such a post. He has a rapid glance, which goes to the bottom of things—a mind which is not overruled by imagina tion, fruitful in resources, prompt in expeaients, and persevering in means. Some day Me radicals ef the Left, who are now silent, will shake of Mc bonds of monopoly uhich fetter them, and will be permitted to discuss the . fundamental theories of gorcrnnient in a national and constituent assembly. ARAGO.—As fir you, Arago, you have disseecred yourself by a rare and heroic effort from that servile dependence in which power retains so many noble characters and men of noble genius, and you have preferred being with us to governing your country with the oppressors of liberty. DUPONT DE L'EUItE.—A Homan, bat of ancient Rome—honest, without ostentation, republican by his principle, in his manner, by his character, and by hie virtue—a character rare at all times, but especially so where the apostates of honour and liberty walk with out shame or contempt, and place on their own fore heads golden crowns. We have received the Madrid mail of the 24th, The greatest anxiety was still felt with respect to French affairs, of . which no fresh news had arrived. The Threes had been done at 29, at 00 days. FLIGIIT OF LOUIS PHILIPPE, HIS FAMILY, AND CABINET. The French journals continue to Ripply various particulars relating to the precipitate flight of the fallen government on Thursday and Friday. The bellowing selec tion, some of which appeared in only a port of our yester day's impression, will he read with interest: The flight of Louis Philippe was marked by an incident which is too much to the honour of our population for us not to receive it eagerly. At the very moment the sx King was making hi , escape from the Tuileries by the postern of the pont4ourennt to join the small carriage which was in attendance for him, he was surrounded by the people ' who crowded on his passage. The 2nd Itegiment of the CuirasAers, which was stationed on the Place de la Conconle, hastened to protect his escape; but in the situation of effaire it was utterly unable to protect bins from the revenge of the people. However, the soldiers f this regiment, who neither did nor would make use of their arms, did their utmost to open a passage for him. An officer, on seeing the peril in which Louis Pnilippe was placed, exclaimed, " Gentlemen, spare the King!" Upon which a atenteeian voice, issuing from the crow, was heard to reply, " We are not assassins! let him depart!" " Yes, yes, let him depart! let him de part !" became the general cry. The people had been too brave during the combat not to be generous after the victory. The following are more particulars respecting the flight of Louis Philippe, given in • letter addressed to the National: " The mayor and ex-ad joint were abseat when the ex. King arrived at St. Cloud on Thursday about three o'clock, escorted by some national guards and dragoons to prevent his being annoyed. The commandant cried that the King had abdicated. After having descended from the little carriage in which he had come, he asked to have riding. horses. Being told there were none, he went into the public omnibus, which took him to Versailles. He was accom panied by the Queen, the Duke and Duchess of Montpensier, and the Duchess of Nemours. Be only stayed at the chateau three quarters of an hour. lie told the adyoint he had been basely deceived. In the evening his valet, Provost, arrived at St. Cloud, bringing tense clothes for the King, for in his hurry he had taken nothing. This valet had in the morning, with tears in his eyes, said concessions must be made to the people, that Paris was very agitated. What think you was the reply ? "Tis only the aossip of the eafis, we will bring them to reason, in a few hours all will be settled.' " The following further particulars will be read with interest: " We have heard from an authentic souree," says the Memorial de Rouen, lately an official paper, " that many members of the royal family have arrived at Eu in their flight, in the most pitiable condition. The Duchess of °times; arrived:with her two children covered with mud and with very few clothes. The guardian of the chateau and his wife furnished them with clothes and rendered them assistance. The report of their arrival having been spread in the town, the National Guard went in • body to the palace, which it guarded, declaring its resolution not to quit the Mace, happen what might, until the royal family were in a place of safety. It was, in fact, reported that they were pursued by a mob, who would assassinate them," A letter received from Dreux, by the Journal de is Repub. 'ague, says: "On his arrival atVermilles,Louis Philippe and hie family finding no post horses, were under the necessity of demand. ing bosses of a regiment of cavalry. His flight had been so rapid, and so unforeseen, that it was necessary at Trianon to make a kind of collection, which produced 200 franca ; it was with this sum he si t If on his journey to Eu. " We hear from Dreux that the ex-King and his family left this town on the 2.3 rd, at nine in the morning. In order to conceal their departure, the footman, who was seated on the box, had taken off his livery, and put on a riding coat and other articles of wearing apparel, bought two hours before. The sub-prefect was waiting for the carriage on its coming out of the town, and took his place OR the box by the side of the footman. The gen darmes of St. Andri, having demanded at the post-inn of their locality who were the persons in the carriage, the sub prefect alighted from the box, said a few words to him in a whisper, and the gendarmes immedia,ely withdrew." A letter from Dieppe, dated Saturday, states that the Duchess of Orleans and the two young princes, her sons, had arrived in that town, with the intention of embarking for England. The Mode says :—" M. Onizot escaped on Wednesday evening from his hotel by • back-door, and set out in a cabinet-courier caleche for Calais, where he has, it is supposed, embarked for London. The same evening, M. Deleseert left the Prefecture of Police in disguise. About ten o'clock, the same night, M. Hebert quitted the chancellery by the door of the Rue Neuve du Luxembourg. He sent several times to the Etat-Major and to the chateau to demand a reinforcement of troops. Re complained, both in his own name and in. that of MM. Dochatel and Guizot, of having been se gravely led into error by the Minister of War and General Sebastian' as to the feeling of the army. ' The ministers loudly attributed to Louis Philippe the re. sponaibility of all the measures of rigour which had been adopted." THE EX-ROYAL FAMILY OF FRANCE. The fugitive members of the ex-royal family are still widely separated. The Duchess de Nemours and the Duke de Montpensier have not yet arrived in town from Southampton: they are expected to reach the Belgian legation this morning. With regard to the ex-King and Queen, the same uncer tainty which has so long prevailed as to their present retreat still exists both at t he French embassy and at the Belgian legation; but last night a rumour was current that Viscount Palmerston had received in formation of his 'Majesty's " whereabout," thougb, from prudential motives, the fact was not made public. Of the Duchess d'Orleans, with the young Count de Paris and the Duke de Chartres, nothing is positively known, but it is stated that they have escaped into Germany. The Duke de Nemours and the Duchess de Montpensier remained in privacy throughout yesterday at East Sheen. M.Duchatel, the late Minister of the Interior, has I arrived safely at Brighton, and remains for the pre sent at that watering-place. Of M. Guizot nothing is known, and we regret to add that we were in error yesterday in announcing the safe arrival in Et gland of the aged mother of the ex-minister. The lady who has accompanied the two daughters of M. Guizot to London is their governess. Madame Guizot is still in France. A cabinet courier arrived in town from Brussels last evening. At the date of his departure the most perfect order prevailed in that city. BRIGHTON, THURSDAY. It is already known that at the request of the Board of Admiralty, who sent down to Brighton a special messenger on Sunday, the steam-vessels of the Brighton and Continental Steam Packet Company were got in readiness for sea with the utmost des patch, for the purpose of plying between this and the opposite coast. Yesterday afternoon the Brighton steamer, Capt. Ryan, left Havre at three o'clock, with despatches from the French provisional government to the English government. She arrived at Newhaven at nine o'clock, having made the passage in six hours. The despatches were conveyed to town by a special train. The Newhaven, Captain Moore, arrived at New haven harbour to-day, at one o'clock, bringing des patches for the government. These arriving too late at Brighton for the regular trains were sent up to Loaduu by a special 6:4lix.e. Tlw Sa wbaSery aceord- .. - .... .._ .... , _ THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 3. 1848. big to tr , from the British consul, sailed to Dieppe, to pick up there any members of the ex-royal family who might be awaiting means of reaching the English coast. lit Treport it appears the republic had been en thusiastically greeted, and it was rumoured that the palace at Ea had been threatened. The Dieppe left for Havre this morning at half wit S. The Brighton left at 11, with return despatches for Havre. SOUTHAMPTON, THURSDAY EVININO. (Up Electric Yclearspß.) The Wonder has arrived. General Thierry, Aide de-Camp to the Due de Nlontpensier, was in attend ance at the Cocks to receive the royal fugitives, •the Duchess de Nemours and the Due de Montpen sier, from Jersey, but the weather and i lness pre vented them from leaving. Communications were, however, received from the royal party for the Count do Jarnac. M. Duchatel, tho late Minister of the Interior, who arrived yesterday from Havre, and wbo was staying at the Royal Hotel, has left for Brighton. He declared that Louis Philippe and M. Guizot were safe. The Princess Montjoie, who arrived with M. Duchatel, and who was at the Tuileries when it was sacked, has left for London. rn, court. The Queen held a Court and Privy Council at three o'clock yesterday afternoon at Buckingham Palace. At the court the Earl of Aberdeen had an audience of the Queen, and delivered to her Mejesty the riband and badge of the Order of the Bath, worn by his brother the late Sir Itobert Gerd n. The Privy Council was attended by Prince Albert, the Lord Pre.ident, the Lord Chancellor, the First Lord of the Treasury, the Secretaries of State for the Home, Foreign, and Colonial Depirtments, the Ch medlar of the Exchequer, the First Lord of the Admiralty, the Chancellor of the Duchy of L mcaster, the President of the Board of Control fur the Affain of India, the President of the Board of Trade, the Lord Steward, the Lord Chamberlain, the Master of the !lease, and the Oroom of the Stole to Prince Albert. The Queen, in council, made an alteration in the sheriffs for Radnorshire and Nottinghamshire. The lion. W. Bathurst we' the clerk of the council in waiting. Her Majesty gave audiences to the Marquis of Lansdowne, Lord J. Russell, and Visct. Palmerston. The Duke and Duchess of Saxe Cobourg visited the Duchess of Kent at her residence, Clarence House, St. James's, yesterday, and alao visited the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge at Cambridge House. Sir William C. dyad, ILA., took the last sitting for the miaiatere of the Duchess of Saxe Cobourg, painted by command of the Queen. A deputation, consisting of Lord Robert Grosvenor, Sir De Lacy Evans, Mr. Thomas Baring, Mr. H. Brandt, Mr. A. Brandt, Rev. George Evcrard, and Mr. F. J. Field, had an interview with Lord John Russell yesterday, to pre sent to his lordship a petition to the House of Commons lie the rep.al of legacy duty on charitable bequests. A deputation from the Buckinghamshire Railway had an interview with the Right Hon. Edward Strutt, on Wednesday, at the office of the Commissioner; of Railways, on the presentation of the memorial to the Railway Comma stoners on the part of the local interests of the Buckingham shire Railway Company and the canary of Buckingham. against the proposed alteration of the Birmingham and Oro- ird Railway from a single gauge to a double gauge railway. The Earl of Oxford had an interview with Sir G. Grey yesterday . General Bell had also an interview with the r ight hon. baronet at the Home-office. Lord Rendlesham had an interview with the Right Hon. E. Strutt on Wednesday at tire office of the COIOJIWIF sioners of Railway- in the Board of Trade. The Earl St. Germans had an interview with Earl Grey on Wednesday. Mr. Wilson, M.P., had also an inter view with the noble earl on Wednesday at the Colonial•offiee. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England had , a general meeting yesterday. Lord Kinnaird had an interview with the Chan cellor of the Exchequer yesterday. Mr. Hindley, M.P., had also an interview yesterday with the right hon. baronet at his official residence in Downing-street. Sir Edmund Head had an interview with Earl Grey, yestenlay. Despatches were sent off yesterday evening, from the Colonial-office, for the Governors of Malta, Ceylon, and Hong-Kong. Despatches were sent off on Wednesday evening . - - - -e for the Governors of the West India Despatches were received on Wednesday at the Coloninl-oelce from the Governors of the Cape of Gond Hope, New South Wales, Van Diemen's Land, New Zealand, and South Australia. .PRINTERS' PENSION SoolErv.—The Marquis of Northampton, we are assured, hos kindly consented to preside at the ensuing anniversary dinner of the Printers' Pension Society. ROYAL ASYLUM OF THE ST. ANN'S SOCIETY.—The annual fe,•tival in aid of the funds of this institution, which was established for " maintaining, clothing, and educating the chil ;yen of those once in prosperity," was held last even ing at the London Tavern. Mr. B. B. Cabbell, M.P., pre sided; and after the usual routine toasts proposed the me mory of the late president of the institution, the Archbishop of Canterbury. The toast was drunk in silence. It was followed by " Prosperity to the Royal Asylum of the St. Ann's Society," in proposing which the chairman alluded particularly to the fact that there were only two societies in the metropolis—of which the St. Ann's Society was one—that did not confiae their sphere of benevolence to one locality, but extended it to all the w.rld. The taut was drunk with due honours, and was followed by the health of the Count de Montemolin, who sat at the right hand of the chair man ; to which his royal highness replied in brief terms. In the course of the evening Mr. Leeks, the secretary, read a long list of subscriptions, araountiag to 9271.; they in cluded a legacy of 5001. from the late Mr. Addeley, of Upper Clapton, 201. from the Chairman, and 10/. from the Count de Montemolin. The report of the managers of the society for the past year showed that the receipts amounted to 5,9181. 14s. Id. ; out of which 5001. had been invested in the purchase of consolidated and reduced annuities, while 73!. 1 Is. 6d. remained in the hands of the treasurer. THE SOCIETY FOR ASSISTING FOREIGNERS IN DIS TREsS.—The annual general meeting of the members of this society was held yesterday at the Loudon Tavern, Bishops gate-street. John Lthouchere, Esq., presided.—The chair man having addressed the meeting, Mr. J. Horneman (the secretary) read the report, which commenced by deploring the loss which the society had sustained during the last year by the death of two of its viceinesidents—namely, his Grace the late Archbishop of Canterbury, and the Duke of Northumberland. Notwithstanding the commercial em barrassment which had prevailed amongst the mercantile community, the same set as heretofore had been evinced in carrying out the society's benevolent objects. At tie last anniversary dinner 2,4171. were collected, in addition to 2;0!. granted by the Bank of England. His Royal High ness Prince Oscar of Norway and Sweden, and his Royal Highness the Hereditary Grand Duke of Saxe Weimar, were smolt* the liberal donors of last year; and the King of Hanover had signified his desire of subscribing 501. an nually. During the last year 88 persons received weekly portions of 6s. each, and to nearly 100 allowances were granted varying ;rom ts. to 2s. 6d. per week, making the total amount distributed 1,421/. So 9d. Them had also been 2,711 cases of casual relief, entailing on the society an ex penditure of 1,1631. 14s. Bcl.—The report having been adopted,l2 pensioners were elected, and a vote of thanks to the chairman closed the proceedings. ACCIDENT ON THE NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY.— The Liverpool train, which usually comes in at 11 o'clock p.m., did not reach the Easton terminus this morning till past one, in consequeace of a luggage train having blocked up the rails, not far from Trine. It appears, from the im perfect account brought to us, that the engine of the luggage train ran off into a canal, in consequence, it is said, of the neglect of a pointeman. We have not heard whether any lives were lost. REVISION OF TAXATlON.—Sir,—Althongh your columns mud be much occupied at this peculiar crisis, yet I venture to solicit the insertion of the following paper on taxation, as it is a subject of the utmost importance, and I am most anxious to have it brought before the public in some tangible shape, which hitherto has not been the cue, though so often alluded to in parliament, and also in many of your valuable remarks. 'The object of taxa Lion is, first, to support public credit; and, secondly, the protection of the person and property. The public credit must be sustained. The person pays well fur the protec tion afforded, by indirect taxation ; but property is neither duly nor fairly taxed. Many of our direct taxes bear hard on some species of property, whilst others are compara tively free ; many are troublesome and expensive in the collection—are inquisitorial and vexatious: amongst the first are the window and assessed taxes—amongst the latter the income-tax and many parts of the excise. I would pro pose to remedy this by repealing the present property and income tax ; by getting rid of all the expensive machinery of the excise—repealing all the duties collected under this head but those on spirits (which should be transferred to the customs), and those on nearly all the licences, which should be granted, as the ale-house licences are now, by the magistrates in petty sessions; and by the repeal of the window, assessed, and land taxes, except game licences and certificates. To meet this reduction, I propose to substitute a direct tax on all property, landed, funded, and in houses. The funded property is easily collected at &certain sum in the pound, and the others in the same way as the present peor-rate is collected in England and Wales. The machinery for this is all ready; it is cheap in collection, plain and straight forward in its bearings. It is true that objections might be made to the mode of rating adopted in one part of the country as compared with another; but the valuation of property under the New Poor law Amendment Act has left very little to require change, and that is mere matter of detail ; but as to its fairness, simplicity, and easy mode of collection, no one I think can make an objection. Some kind of direct taxation we must have resort to; for though it is just possible that our expenses may be reduced, yet at the present extraordinary period, when no one can tell what the morrow may produce, we must not talk of re ducing our means of self defence. I have not mentioned hieetiessil envie, buetige i am 591 *olo=4 wash pc, Tainted with thearentry to judge whether there le at present a machinery suariently similar to that of 'lnland to act sport, bat I am well enured it weld be *wily arranged. Ireland I would not tax yet, more than she is taxed at present (for it is a fallacy to ay ehe pays eo MUM" tan), by continuing the payments ender schedule D I must occupy your spans yet a little farther by a few gram, to bear oat my plan, bated upm the parliamentary returns of 1846, the only oars complete enough for my pumas within my reach : I the redaction it the window, monmed. Sad la" tan" rust pine cortillnatos, most' So .84,S bof 1104 Income and 'sooty Venous seise duties (prom) 8,060,234 Total to be repealed 1 . ' 633 ' 355 Preen this may rawly be deducted, as 'laving In the expenic of aftlectas 16,132,332 Then deduct say, trout the fanda. £2,000,000 And to be paid by Irish praprietccsou at present £13,130,335 leaving to be collected in Great &MN, on land and houses, the sum ef, say in round numbers, 13i millions. The poor. rate for England and Wales, as raiai d at present, amounts to near eight million*. I know not what the rate in the pound may be throughout the country, but in this district it is Is. Cl.i in the pound If, therefore, we had to raise this sum in England and Wales only, it would probably not amount to more than 12 per cent. ; and if Scotland is added, and hereafter Ireland, the per centage would of course be considerably lees. And when we consider that the taxes I propose to repeal are, for the greater part, taxes on property, it will I hope be conceded that this plan is only exchang• ing a dear, vexatious, and complex mode of ramii g a re venue for one that is cheap, simple, and straightforward, and gives a finance minister an easy mode of calling fur an increase or making a reduction, by demanding so much in the pound, according to the p smeh rate-book. I am well aware that many details must be Deemery be fore eve* this simp'c plan ten be arranged, but I will not take up your valuable space at this in anent further than to mention two Tenants under a lease should pay half the property-tax of the land they hold; this is but fair, as the repeal of so many taxes directly affecting the farmer would otherwise be a direct gain to him,—with tenants-st.will the landlords could make their own terms; and the landlord should pay the property-tax on all land rand houses rated at 51. and under. I have is ier placid this sketch before you, and that it may meet with your atten than and that of a discerning public, is the sincere hope of your obedient servant, JOHN MAXWELL TYLDEN.—MiI , seed, Sittingbourn, Kent, February 28. 1 1 A LONG SMUT FROM THE GALLERY.—If, sir, the practice of alluding to the contents of newspapers, or the reading of them by members in the House of Commons, be no longer a breach of privilege (as was the ease in the good old times), I desire to ask why you have not—fir your exclu. sive intelligence on the subject of news from France would i have fully justified you in et, doing—sent a copy of one of your late editions direct to the Speaker, with a reques , in or der to allay anxiety, that he would communicate your, the latest fitelligence for the general information of the house ? I am induced to ask this question in consequence of the fol lowing paragraph, which appears in the parliamentary re port of the Morning CLrontcle of this day : " Immediately upon the conclusion of the noble lord's speech, within a very 1 few minutes of six o'clock, a late edition of the Morning Chronicle was handed to him, over which he was observed to met • hasty but anxious glance." Now, looking to the 1 pantomimic change which has transmogrified the " old I house of theChronicie" into a " Lincoln green coeservatory," it is not at all unlikely that Lord Palmerston took a "hasty,' but to say an "anxious" glance is going rather too far. The Times parliamentary report also contains a similar puff direct for that once great thunderer, in lauda tion of its own " fourth " edition (filched probably from the Daily News), though the characters are changed—Mr. Ta na being the exhibitor of the placard, and Lord J. Russell the astonished reader. No doubt the parliamentary reporters are generally blessed with a large development of the organs of " hearing," and it may be of " sight;" but, inasmuch as the use of " telescopes" was contrary to the orders of the house, in the house, that rule also must have become obso lete, for, without such aid, it is impossible that the must microscopic member of that body could have detailed the circumstances referred to as having transpired within his own view and notation. Inasmuch as these extraordinary facts are not adverted to in the parliamentary summary of either the Times or Chronicle, it is to be presumed that they escaped the lynx-eyed vigilance of thoto whose duty it is always to be " WIDE AWAKE." A PETITION TO THE GOVERNMENT, lying in the underwriters' rooms, Liverpool, praying that a protective force be stationed at or near Canton, in order to prevent a re currence of another such murder as has lately been com mitted there, has received a great many signatures. IRELAND. .DCBLIN, MARCH 1. There was a levee at the Castle, which was not co numerously attended as the last. This is easily ac counted for by the absence of the bar and the attend ance of the gentry , at the assizes. Sir 11. Barron has been victorious in Waterford over both his opponents. It will be a heavy blow to the aspiring Young Ireland party, when they find that Mr. Meagher did not poll one-fifth of the con stituency. The splendid ruins situated upon the Great Rock of Cashel have fallen. In connexion with this ancient monument exists one of those pro phecies which trbound so much in the traditional his tory of Ireland—namely, that the year which wit nessed the fall of the rock would also see a great revolution in England. It is easy to trace out the motives which animated the prophet. But though such Monmouth and Macedon parallels have little weight with the educated, they move the ignorant with great force. Net a peasant in Munster who does not regard the English revolution as certain as the fall of the rock. A funeral procession reached the spot a few minutes after the fall. Had it reached sooner, the loss of life might have been fearful. The provinces do not appear particularly excited by the French intelligence. We have no demonstra tions, or notifications for public meetings. Dublin has refrained as yet from any great display of enthu siasm. Cork, es usual, will be first in the field with civic oration and address. . _ - - Under the Land Improvement Act the five unions of Kerry have applied for 267,258 L, of which the Treasury sanctioned 87,950/. The applications and grants for Kerry exceed those of the county of Cork. There are 534 prisoners confined in Clonmel gaol, of whom 168 are for trial at the ensuing assizes. Of these 16 stand charged with murder, 11 robbery, 13 shooting with intent, 12 burglary, and 103 larceny. ALTAR DIINVECIATIONS.—A letter from the Catholic Bishop of Killaloe ha• been published in reference to the case of the Rev. Mr. Nolan, recently suspended for denuncia tions against the police. The bishop says : It has been a role of this diocese for the last seven or eight years, that no priest, curate, or pastor should attempt, under any pretext whatsoever, to indulpe in invective against, or denounce from the altar or the pulpit, any person, without my permission or that of the vicar of his dietriet. This rule was made by me; and here, in Justice to the respectable clergy of this diocese, I feel bound to state, that in the establishment of it I was influenced chiefly by a desire the more effecteally to restrain this very reverend gentleman frore the indlligellee ER an Inveterate, and, as It would seem, an incorrigible propensity. I will not now my hew often, since the promulgation of this min the rev. gentleman Ma been called to account by me for his Melanoma of it ; but this I may not omit, that about twelve months does, more or lees, I felt It to be my duty to compel him to make a swat homiriating apology, from the same altar from which be bad assailed him, to a Mr. O'Keefe, a miller, and one of his parishioners, who complained to me that his life was placed in imminent peril by his unprovoked attacks upon him from the altar, and In other places. On this occasion I declared to the Rev. Mr. Nolan that, should I ever again mein proof of such on offence against him, I was determined forthwith to deprive him of the administration of his perishes for ever. • • On the 10th I arrived at Nenagb, accompanied by the Very Be.. Mr. Kenny, whom I took with me, for the double purpose, as I told him, of being a respectable witness of my conduct In the transaction, and of depu ting him to Mr. Nolan with the following communication from me, MR, That if he was innocent of the charge preferred against him, he should undoubtedly vindicate himself, and repel it, but, if guilty, that I advised him, that hi. only prudent and proper course was at once to submit, promising him that, in that case, I would not put in execution the threat of depriving him for ever of the adminis tration of hi. parishes." To this eannowneation the Very Rev. Mr. Kenny brought me the following reply That Mr. Nolan would at once submit, if I would give him an assurance that I would not suspend him," and this assurance I most emphatically refused to give him. Mr. Nolan then came to me with Mr. Kenny to confess his offence, and perceiving that he was somewhat disposed to shuffle, I desired that he would give me a distinct answer—yes or no—did be use the language charged against him In the police report, which I reed far him, or anf language of similar import' Ills answer was, that be did use language of similar import,. and this was in the preeenoe of the Very Rev. Mr. Kenny and Mr. O'Dell, sub-inspector. REPRODUCTIVE EMPLOYE ENT.—I have already noticed the gratifying stimulus applied by the poor-law to the easier classes of society, to find out modes and means of pro fitable employment for the labourers. In Tipperary an esociation of this nature has been formed for the North Riding, and this has set them about making profitable the labours of the paupers now employed in the workhouse, as well as to detach from stone-breaking the vast numbers now in the receipt of out-door relief in Nenagh Union, a number consuming 17,000 in a week. In the gaol of that town, where there were on an average, during the past year, 326 prisoners confined, of whom 272 were employed, the profits on their labour amounted to 2971. Bs. Id. in the year, or one sixth the whole expense of maintenance of the prisoners. " The gaol, at present," says the local paper, " is the work house, and the workhouse a gaol." The cost of outdoor relief, at the present quantity afforded in Nensgh Union, would be 23.0001. per annum. THE POPE'S REscliwr.—Dr. Walsh, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Owory, has directed his clergy to abstain from polluting their altars with political topics, or any others but thole connected with the observances of religion. He has likewise forbade them to c•ntinue as rent collectors for Conciliation Hall; and has ordered them in every other way to obey the spirit of the recent rescript from Rome. Loss OP THE CALTPSO.—The Calypso, iron steamer, of Dublin, and bound for Rio Janeiro, has been lost on Arklow Bank. This vessel left Dublin on Monday, having, after leaving Liverpool on her voyage, touched the land at our harbour's mouth, in censequence of the derangement of her compasses. The compasses were sent back to Liverpool to be set to rights, were again shipped, and she sailed for her destination. Probably her loss may have arisen from a Lew deritagement. A; aik gnaw slit g g Wlal witch. SCOTLAND. EDINSITROH, MaRCH 1. Although the teleg raph and the third edition of the Myren brought the intelligence of the abandonment, on the part of government, of an augmented income tax, neither the town council nor the citizens have given up their meetings. The incidence of the im post is me odious as ever, and the general feeling is, that an ahmirakeable demonstration of public opinion should be made on the subject. The council meeting took place yesterday, when resolutions of the usual kind were palmed unanimously. The public meeting took place at one o'clock to-day, the Lord Provost presiding. Mr. A. Dunlop was the only representa tive of the parliament house on the platform, the complement of speakers being made up of mercantile men. A knot of chartists raised some disturbance— one of the chief speakers upsetting the gravity of the assemblage by remarking that a good budget might be looked for from the moon as soon as from the whips. The amendment of the party was that the Queen be petitioned to dismiss Lord John Russell and empower Mr. Cobden to form a cabinet. The Glasgow chartists have held a large meeting in connexion with the French movement. The first resolution was That the citizens of Glasgow, in public meeting assembled, do most cordially congratulate the French people on the triumphant achieve ment of their rev,iluti m, rejoice in the overthrow of a despotic and unconstitutional government, and hail with feeli•igs of sympathy, hope, and admiration the advent of tue m•aoluhment of social, poli tical, and religious liberty on the broad basis of a new and popular constitution. This resolution was supported by Dr. M'Dowall, of London, in a long speech, in which he maintained the right of the people to self-government, and inveighed against the present rulers of the country fur their entire ignorance of the principles of social and poli tical economy. - THE UNIVERSITY RIOTER/I.—There ie a talk of the pro• fc•sore abrogating or mitigating the sentences passed on the riotous students. The professors are afraid that these brawls may injure the university in distant places : but it is more likely that parents ad! be displeased to find their sons rus ticated two years for accidentally happening to be in volved in an unpremeditated disturbance, or even on the spur of the moment taking part in the same, than they will he afraid of lite and limb being endangered in frays once ery five years between students and policemen. instructions] from the i Co!noir,. PROVINCIAL. REMARKABLE ENCAPE ON --- ---- NORTH UNION RA I LWAY.—On Tuesday night, about ten o'clock, it was acciden , ally diacovered that an embankment between the Euiton and Coppul stations, on the North Union line, about eight miles from Prtston, had given way. Before eleven o'clock one end of the wooden bridge had sunk considerably, and the embankment adjoining suddenly fell in to the depth of about 20 feet, carrying with it both lints of rail, and leaving a frightful chasm, into which the caprial train from London, then coming up, would, but for the dixovery, have inevitably keen driven. The loss of life and demolition of prwetty might thus have been terrible. Immediately on receiving twelligence of the circumstance a special train was despatched from Preston t 3 bring the passengers and luggage onwards. The traffic on the line (says the Preston Uwe dims) must be impeded for some days by thu mishap. MANCHESTER PETITION AGAINST INCOME TAX, MILITIA, AND FOREIGN INTERTENTION.—This petition, adopted on Tuesday night, was signed en Wednesday by 5.030 electors, embracing men of all parties, and iacluding the mayor and a con , iderahle number of the aldermen and town councillors. On the Exchange it also received many signatures. It was despatched to London on thc same night for presentation. orant,” von 'FRB DESTRCCTION OF MACIIINERY JOY TRADES UNIONISTS.-At the last Yorkshire Assiz -a two broilers, A. and T. Heatheoat, grinders, were indicted and found guilty of feloniously damaging the machinery of P. Bradshaw, of Sheffield, fer which they were scrummed to be tran‘ported tor seven yon. Marine the trial the Heathcoats stated to the under-governor of York Castle that they had been em ployed to destroy machinery by the trades union, that of the roan grind, re, with which they were connected. This was told to the Sheffield police and some of the magis trates, who thought it right to institute proceedings against the parties most seriously implicated. The razozgrindire union is composed of a very large number of men, and the ordinary &flab' were managed by a committee of about a. dozen. The more secret trans actions have been entrusted, however, to only four—John Drury (the secretary), John Marsden, Thomas Bulls!, and William Hall. When any men in the union have neglected to pay their weekly contributions, or "natty brass,' as it is termed, it has been the practice for some one employed by the committee to destroy the tools and machinery with which they work. In consequence of the statements made by the Heatheoats at York the four men above-named were taken into custody, and a writ of habeas corpus having been obtained, the Heatheoats were brought to Sheffield to give evidence. The examination commenced on Tuesday morn ning, and di i not terminate till Wednesday night. During the whole of this time the spacious town-hall was crowded in all parts with people anxious to witness the proceedings. The charge against the four men, Drury, Mersa. n, Belies, and Hall was for inciting and commanding the two Heath coats to destroy certain machinery.—A. Ileathcoat was called, and said: lam by trade a razor grinder. lam now a transport. We had a union in our trade, called the Razor Grinders' Union. We had a commits e which met at the Queen-str,et Hotel, and sometimes at the New Waggon, in the Hartahead. John Drury was the secretary. I know John Marsden, Thomas Bullaa, and Wm. Hall. They are all in court. They all formed part of the committee, and acted in that capacity. I last saw them thus acting on Saturday night, the '27th of November, 1847. They were in the large chamber of the Queen-street Hotel, which is the place where they transacted business. At that time I went to the com mittee for my scale. [Weekly allowance when out of work.] The committee were then silting to pay scale, and to receive money from those who came to pay their "natty" money, or contribution. The four prisoners were there on that night. When I and my brother were in the committee-room, Drury and Marsden said, " We have some jobs want doing ; and we want the father and wan that work at Relham Wheel, doing before Monday." They explained this to mean Peter and William Bradshaw. Hall and Bullu were sitting by the table, and heard all that passed. Hall a little time after said that the father, Peter Bradshaw, had been to the place where he (Hall) worked, namely, Reynolds', in Sims-croft, and was doing work very cheap, and it was time he was done for. I then ask , d what it was they wanted dui. g. Drury then said, " We want you to go and take all their tools, and throw them into the dyke." Drury also said that we were to take their razor blades, which they were grinding. I told Drury that it would damage the tools to terow them into the dyke, and Drury replied, "Neer mind, we went them damaging." He also told us it would be the least trouble to throw them into the dyke ; it would not make so much noise. I then told Drury we should have a job to chuck theigrinding stones in ; but he said, " Oh, break them : take the laps off, and throw the polishers and glazers, and all they have, into the dam." I then asked what they would give us for doing the job. Drury said he thought at would be a fair thing if we get half of what the Bradshaws owed, and the other half to be put into the blx. Peter Bradshaw owed 235., and Wm. Bradshaw between 100. and I la. I then asked what would be done if we were caught. Drury and Marsden replied, there would be no danger; for if we got taken, they would make it up with the prosecutors if possible, let it cost what it would. Drury and Mamden also said, that if they could not make it up with the promise tors, they would get the beat help they could, and try to buy some of the witnesses. We then consented to do what was required. Drury then got up and said, " Those who are of opinion that this job shall be done, and that the Heathcoats shall have half the money which the Bradshaw' owe, will please to signify it in the mural way, by holding up the right hand." They all four then held up their hands. Heathcost further deposed that he and hie brother destroyed the machinery of Bradshaw, and after wards undertook and executed several similar commissions for the trades union committee. In continuation he said: We had been promised by the committee, that if we did the job. well we should have Si. and a bottle of wine. I told them this at the general meeting. They stopped 30s. and the bottle of wine, because we did net do the job well ; and we got 31. 10s. The general meeting knew that the job had been done, and what we were to be paid for it. At this stage of the proceedings it was announced that the case would stand adjourned till the following morning. On Wednesday the inquiry was resumed. The court was again crowded in every part. Thomas Heathcoat was the first witness called upon, and his examination ex tended over several hours. His statement in all mate rial points was parallel to that matte by his brother. The next witness was George Armitage, the accomplice of the Heathcoats, he having assisted them in committing the crimes for which they were sentenced to transportation. His evidence, with that of William Robinson, John Stead, William Blackwell, and Peter Bradshaw ' also nzor.grind en, was corroborative of the statements made by the Heath coats. The case for the prosecution having been closed, the magistrates decided to commit the prisoners to Yerk Castle for trial at the ensuing assizes, an applieation was made for their liberation on bail ; but it was refused, except as to Marsden, who was in a state of ill-health. THE NEW TRAINING SCHOOL about to be estab lished in Cheltenham appears likely to become one of the most important institutions of its kind in the kingdom ; and from the energy and zeal manifested by its promoters, and the liberal spirit in which their appeals have been met by the public, there seems every reason to augur most favourably of the result. A remarkable instance of the latter has just been evinced, in the gift, by Miss Jane Cooke, of a valuable piece of land, whereon to erect the buildings, 1 . r which de signs have just been sent in. The ground presented is See acres in extent, and is situated between St. Paul's-street North and Lady Ricketts' residence, " The Elms," which it immediately adjoins. IMPROVEMENT OF POOR PASTURE LANDS.—At the last monthly meeting of the Botley and South Hants Farmers' Club, after a lengthened diseussion on the best method of improving poor pasture lands, the following reso lutions were unanimously agreed to:— I. That in all poor, wet pastures draining most be considered as the Arm step towards improvement.-2. That in the improvement of pastures regard should be had to regulating the basis of mini, pre lions to the appbestion of manure., by canto clay upon sand :tad riassiGisocantak tat aka% when _ _ *dog geed Yaw earth with chalk, upon clay folk—S. That we Goulds( guano and superphosphate of lime, with a liberal admixture of mob or other mhos, cottage cc ether earthy manures, one of the beet mai binalicas of manures for pastures:—that such applications abodes* =rby harrowing, and applied carry in the spring. -4 That is ot gestures mdeh cows would depredate them, but that fatting animals would Comae them, particularly when fed with an allowance of celeste. MURDER BY A WOI2.I.;EAR EXETER. —For some days past the coroner has been engaged in investig►ting a charge of murder brought against a woman named Mary Hooper, aged 58 years, who, it was alleged, had caused the death of her brother in-law, James Harris. From the era. dence which was adduced it appeared that the prisoner and her husband, who is a small farmer, resided at Stockham, ■car Exeter, and that the deceased, who was the prisoner's brother-in-law, used to work for th, tn. On Saturday last the deceased and the prisoner went to Honiton market foe the purpose of disposinc of a load of hay, which they did. Upon their return home the prisoner and the deceased went into a public-house, for the purpose of obtaining refresh. meat. Whilst there the deceased drank rather freely. Hav ing proceeded some distant_ on their way home the de ceased, who appeared to be quite over; owered from the ef fects of drinking, sat down by the rood-side, and refused to go any further, upon which the prisoner, who had on a pair of very thick boots with iron clips in front, commenced kicking the deceased about the head and face. The prisoner being observed by some persona at a di.tance, they imme diately hastened to t!.c spot. Upon lilting up the deceased, it was found that the whole of his froot teeth had been kicked out, his nose had been nearly all kicked off, es were also large pieces of flesh from his forehead and cheeks. He was immediately conveyed to a neighbouring surgeon, but died before his arrival. Verdict of wilful murder, and the prisoner was fully committed for trial at the ensuing assns.. UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL. CAMBRIDGE.—BELL SCHOLARSIIIPS.—There will be ea election of two scholars upon this foundation 011 Friday, Aped 7. Ma members of any college (except King's College and Trinity Hall), loos or orphans of clergymen, who were admitted between the commence ments of 184 G and 1847, may be candidates. The candidates are re. quired to Mandy their intention of offering themselves on or before the 13th of March, to a Latin epistle, to be presented to each of the else. tors, who are—The Vice-Chancellor; Dr. Odivant, Regina Professor of Divinity; Dr. Maine, Regina Pro:ewer of the Civil Law; Dr. Kings Lueasiun Ptoleaor; Mr. Fird Lep. Public Orator. The examloation Rill 0:1011116CCOn Monday, the 20th Mooch. THE Bt!RNEY PKIZE.—The late Mr. Richard Barney, M.A., of Christ's, twin, Minified his intention of founding an an. nual prize, net exceeding 110.57., for the beet English teeny "en some moral or metaphysical subject, on the exigence, nature, and alai. buts of God, or on the truth and evideeor of the Christian religion," the Vice-Chancellor ghee notice th the subject for the present year is " Tice doctrine of • Divine Providence is inoperable from the belief in thee:Went, of an ateolutely perfect creator." The candidates fat the prise are to be 13.1t.'s in their 11E4 year of intending; and the trams are to be rent in to the Vice-chancellor on or before Nov. 19, DIM, with the 11101C8 of the re.pective authors mated up. The author of the Navy best approved is to print it at hie own to es, and to de liver &copy of it to the university library, the li of Christ's College, to the university libraries of ()steed, Dublin, Edinburgh, and to each of the adjudicators of the rof fee. THE CONSECKATION ur SAINT MARK'S CHURCH, OM smear, took piece ye,derday. The 11 bole of toe sittings are tree, and afford ample neomumodation for about I,MM persons. PREPARMENT.—Re•. 1. S. Trotmati, vicar of Dellington, to be rarol dean of the deanery of Northampton, dia. Peterborough. The Ahem max or or CANIEitHCI,T has been pleated to appoint Knyeett, Ext., of the city of Chester, his secretary. We undmatand Mr. finyrett ti led the of of streetary to his grace at (linter for the last ten years. NAVAL. DEVONPOUT, MAW l I.—Petrel, 6, Lient.-CoM. CFO rer, arrived from I , .lmouni, mad e.dne into harbour yesterday to refit —Wellesley, 72, C.ipL G. Goldsmith, haulist off from the South Jetty this morning to inoorings in the harbour; and the Caledonia, 120. Copt. Carter, has been brought alongside the North Jetty to be doeked.—Healed, Cum. Stony penny, remains in Use Sound, wind. bound. --- WoOLWICH, MARCH 2.—Pluto, et. Y., is ordered to lee etenmistioned, end to have a crew of tiO men.—Dwastigator, slater ship to the Enterprme, fitting for the Arctic seas, to be dapatebed to search of She John Franklin, is to be onnim'eskuwel, with a com plement of flO men.—l'hfenie, Rattler, and Driver, et. sloops, will be ready to leave this port in the course of the present week, and will. it is supposed, form part of the advanced mord of steam sloops for the various ports.—Tbe workmen have commuted paying one the hull of the Carmine with Mr. Iley's composition. ADMIRALTY, MARCII 2.—Arrov.moutse.—Lieutensitt and Commander: E. E. Tumour, to Shcarwuter.—Citeoloin : It. B. Howe, to Ganges.—Naval Invirtutor K. Pt. Knapp. to fitemash.— Clerk U. M. Moore, to Victory.—Firsbclasi - litsineer : T. T. Murray, to Fiagard.—Acting Gunner: E. Johnpn, to Excellent. W. E. Seccombe to be inspector of shipwrights, broke-yard. MILITARY. We announced yesterday the arrival off Spitbead of the Resistance tmop.ehip, with either the 12th er 35th Rept. on board. We have Mom learnt thnt its the let battalion of the former corps, which, after having served at the Mauritius Pine 1b37, arrived on the let inst, in this .caret. The treerve battalion will remain there probably Ave or fix rues longer. The 33th Regt., after the mune period of service as t h e let battalion of the 12th Foot, is oleo on p.m.. sage from the Mauritius, and may soon be expected to arrive in the troopuhip, at Portsmouth. SPORTING. LIVERPOOL STEEPLE CHASES (coocianran).—Wkaralnke. THZ LIVIRPOOL SPRING CCP, added to a haadicap sweeps. 0(15 NOW. cads, 10 ft. One mile and a half. (12 subs.) Mr. id. Blake's Ball/o.ns 4 yrs, 7st 71b ....... (Murphy) l Lord Chesterfield's Lady Lurewell, 4 yrs, Tat Ilb .. (0. Oates) 2 The following also started, but were not placed : Brown Fly, Dip. thong, Liston, Sir Martin, Spectator, and King Faber. Betting: 2to 1 es& mat Lady Lurewell and Liston, and sto 1 web agst Bal. linatad and King Fisher. Won by bah a [moth ; Lady Lai ewell beating King rusher by a bead; Liston and Spectator &nab and fifth, well up. The other' were batten nff. After the race, 40 sad 6010 1. was taken about Bailin/gad fur the Chester Cup. :B.—'l'wevanar. Business Was confined to the following bets;-70 to 10 apt Flatesteber for the 2,000 Guineas Stales; 2,000 to 80 apt Glen teaddel for tbeehester Coy ; and 400 to 10 ant lieverlee, 500 to 10 ends ere Keratin and Flab:etcher, and 200 even between itasiult and Flat catcher, for the Derby. Thirteen' was very thinly attended. gab) inittlistna. HOUSE OF LORDS. DRUMMOND AND ANOTHER O. TER ATTORNIY-GENERAL FOR IitZLAND.—CHARITY-TRUST FOR PROTESTANT Dts- RENTERS IX 1710; WERR UNITARIANS INCLUDED?—This is an appeal from a decree of Sir Edward Sugden when he was Lord Chancellor of Ireland. The decree was pronounced in January, 1842, upon the hearing of an information filed by the Attorney-General of Inland at tie relation of the Rev. Robert Quin, George Mathews and others, against the Rev. W. H. Drummond and nineteen oti.er , , including fire unitarian ministers. The information filed in 1840 stated, among other things, that in and previous to the year 1665, presbyterian clergymen of the church of Scotland professing trinitarian doctrines were placed in pastoral charge with be- • nefices in Ireland ,• that on the passing of the Act of Uni formity (17 &18 Car. II.) several ministers having parochial benefices in Dublin and elsewhere in Ireland withdrew from their cures, and with some of their parishioners formed five noneniforming protestant congregations according to the presbyterian forms, and erected five meet ing houses in Dublin, and being all agreed in the doctrine of the trinity as an emential article of faith they united in one ecclesiastical Association, known by the name of " The Dublin Association or Presbytery," that these congregations enjoyed much harmony, their pastors teaching the doctrine of the trinity, until the year 1702, when one of them, the Rev. Thos. Emlyn, having avowed unitarian opinions, was removed by the presbytery of Dublin, and was subsequently prosecuted, found guilty, and sentenced to fine and impri eonment for having promulgated unitarian doctrines in • book entitled "An humble inquiry into the scripture ac count of Jesus Christ, &c. ; " that the protestant dissenters of Ireland from 1665 to 1735, and subsequently, were all (ex cept' Mr. Emlyn) agreed among themselves and with the established church on articles of faith, and dissented from the church only on questions of church government. The information then stated that Sir Arthur Longford, with other memben of the mid five congregations, believers in the trinity, subscribed large sums of money for the charitable purposes stated in • deed of trust exe cuted in the year 1710, for securing the fund, which deed re cited that the founders, '• from • pious disposition and concern for the interest of our Lord Jesus Christ and the welfare of precious souls, had designed, &c., to set on foot a fund for the support of religion in Dublin and the south of Ireland, by Gestating protestant dissenting ministers against unreasonable prosecutions, and for the education of youth for the ministry among prot estant dissenters, and for assisting poor protestant dissenting congregations," Cte The deed set forth rules for the management of the fund, and in one of them trustees thereof were named, being the ministers and two members of each of the said five congregations and other perons, in cluding the Rev. Joseph Boyse by name. The information stated that all thine trustee, believed in the doctrine of the trinity, and that, up to a recent period, the charitable fund was applied for the benefit of trinitarian protestant dis senters, but that lately two of the congregations, in Strand street and Eunice street, and their rebutters, abandoning their ancient faith, adopted and taught unitarian doctrines, while the other congregations of Mary's Abbey and Usher's quay and their ministers still maintained their ancient faith. The information further stated that it was incon sistent with the trust deed and with the intention of the founders of the charity to apply any part of the fund in support of preachers of doctrines at variance with belief in Jesus Christ and with the doctrine of the trinity ; yet that the present trustees, the majority of whim are unitarians, applied the greater part of the fund in support of unitarian doctrines at variance with the Trinity as held by the estab lished church, and by the said original five congregations. The information prayed that the charity might be established and administered according to the true meaning of the trust deed and the intention of the f .unders as therein expressed; ift and that it might be declared thus , milifstegsN ot hers teaching or holding what is cornmerllp celled ' ' be rattter lief and doctrine wen not fit obieitt of _aha - ' a!a4 that such of the present trustees all hag' a. at variance with those of the founders might be ' The defendants severed in their enterers to the inf those of them who were unitarians , and Idioms rre t ppresenta s in this appeal by the two reverend appellants, to the effect that all protestant iiiTnete in Ireland at did for several years before and after e,ilaus at the trust were not agreed among theleselve mouliraktba a tablieh ed church upon articles; of faith, and ' . disannal principle recognised: by the protestant emociated in Dublin in 1710 on- - ' - " - , and io, 1 in Ditt.lin in in° wis 'the rejection of tests all human authority in metiers of religion, and the admiaion of the holy scriptures u the rule of faith. The insisted that by the true construction of the .‘ •.g to the in tention of the founders oft 14. •• Y s tt' • .In their aP - r, ,ri plicationof it,were not •• . 40 • , ....Ur aee. tcl'P ra ' uum.nt d i mmer . , .4.01, m - ' ~. ... . na scent with wweant dia.• the trust to apply partifoi the ' ~.„;‘ .x ci . ---:-- uriaa dos seuten who preached Oat is •••• . . • ' uines. They adinitteai • • - • charity fund among Atut - • t . • . an es- that,vot- ., 1. 4 4' , . ....ation of the g •,.'it the d Lord -- -ata cree which is the fah 6 • 14 1:4 , declared acocintizi to Ow . Oil 414 .: r' a .1...›.-'