The Express. — London, England, 1852-04-27 00:00:00

0. of TI ti me tee I tee that lora the mere as- that that te•! 'bow easy tivta Isomers under conditions end reguladme estmerialeaded tor° the Secretary-at - War, that their cams and ratieeass by to be registered with the deputy lieurmate of " mai hiewenle4 to the Clerked the ream Thar watt—. isrpee.Wee wee to peamilr the seek he ethhh the &ere b ig aties wow to be peld. whether they were as be lueis id ra .t.= . ll as ether they wen to be pail by gawk erwal I all that wee lett to the eseselhe so wiwllloss• Ile hoped that he bad dispossessed the aids at heiweeellia isallserws of the baronies whirl to fie orrearr that the revaewereat a lligg ethrwl to thew the bowels Isle the Mahe of awn mercenaries who weld weellei< wag tMtsmp Bat he thought it eat a ideillea ea the }sigh el Sestearl to 'u proot. that Ike Min twa I teelpt the forme) of 41. es oll for the 'myna of geksi away Si Nee other oniony. (Hero, hem.) la die ISOM a • Weak after the measure had boa breve* thrtemil he bed fe wet a comninniesties ken the adjateet of the Bata Wit* SLAWS Hat 711 voluntrien had drimidy gems kW aied die his 'stye, awl that he believed the regimes's oo k' be tilled in • fertalght, while the mime espeelntises I 1 entertained in SIIMO of the other millawl etwatiee. Ile believed if this bill Maw law, biased of the ballot print adopted, it would not be neecaary to have ressisres 10 it, and even if the number of men was net Sled up I. the sird jeer, a resort to the ballot was not eistrikery, bet • I permissive power was given to the Qom Y Maned to adopt it, and it was not a ormitser= so o n of the bill that it sheet& 1 wive only one other observation (sendnuil On right putkosa.i) to make. It has bees said by the right lea. path-en in, the member fur Mantibrater (Mr. (Jibe*, that this" not the proper time to Wes forward suali a 1011. But what would have been said to we, bad we failed to have introduced • bill like this, sad had say waterloo* ttar ncil to the country,? (Cheers.) Why inn WM been un happily declined, you would have t lla ed us, end_ree woo4l have justly blamed us, and you would hare said, it is not improbable, You, the ministers, deserve limper& ment.' • (Loud cheers.) You have no right, May to 01 us that this is not the time for sash a !.,Ii Hear, hear," and cheers.) 1 will dory yea s remit why this is the best time; and in waking ad ft I must refer to the observances of the how. peeing& the member for Liverpool (Mr. Cardwell). I des nest Mils agree with the hon. gentleman to the full extent to he went in his argument on this point—that immediately, if the Rouge of Ce mimeos refused to pas this law we would of ricceloity have to put the old militia law into operation, under the system of the ballot,with all its rigours. But I say thrt it immediately an emergency arose in which it wee necessary that we should add largely to the 'military forms of the country, why, then, the government of this country, whatever it might be—whether it was ourselves or the noble lord—would be bound, in the esercue of the power which they posse.., to pot aside the suspending set, and to revive the old militia laws of George 111., in order that we might at once obtain a sufficient number of men to defend the country. (Loud cheers.) Well, then, Isey this is not an oppressive law. It is • mitigating law. This lan guage in mitigation runs through it from the section to the last. I will defy you to finds single severe or hash clause. Every clause is a mitigating clause in reference to the acts on which the bill is based. (Loud cheers.) Well, then, if that be so, I now leave this mesons with some degree of confidence to the judgment of the house and to the opinion. of the country. (Unit cheering) I think I have shown that there is a necessity for some increase to your national defences. I believe I have proved to you that the other measures which have been propoud or suggested are nut so good, are not near so good, as that which we have laid before you. And I am confi dent you will find, if you reject this measure, that there would be an occasion on which, in the absence of such is measure, we would have to put the old militia laws in force with all the • rigour and severity of the ballot ; while, it you accept it improve it if you can in eonimittee that you will be mitigating and ameliorating the rigour of your militia system, in stead of enforcing the old system upon the people —because, by your legislation, you are proceeding upon this principle—voluntary enlistments and voluntary ser vice. ins!, - ad of the forced conscription, which, otherwise, in some contingency you would be compelled to have re course to. (Toe right hon. gentleman resumed his seat amid prolonged applause from the miniaterialtste.) Sir D. L. EVANS (who was very indistinctly beard in the contusion of applause and preparation for the division) was understood to say that, in the present temper of the house, he would take another opportunity of explaining I several points upon which there was some misconception in reference to the course he had taken. The house then divided, the galleries being closed for nearly half. au hour. For the government Against 166 Majority for government The announcement of the numbers was hailed with deaf ening cheers by the ministerial party. The Commons Inclosure Act Estonian Bill paned through committee. The Passengers Act Amendment Bill as amended was considered. The Secretory of Bankrupt's Offits Abolition Bill passed through committee. _ " *hi 'IRAN SOCIETIES BILL. This bill was read • third time and passed. HIGHWAY MTV; BILL. This bill was read a seemed time. Et'CLESIASTICAL JURISDICTION RILL This bill was read • second time. COUNTY VOTUE. Sir E. BUXTON moved for leave to bring to a bill t 6 allow candidates to give refreshment to voters at county elections to a limited extent. Mr. THORNELY eyeeeed to theimbedustienafthe bill. Sir J.TYRELLiwlimetebjestbtbmniwi hat be had been informed that tee Immo ware eraveseteg in Ewex for the boa. bertmet open the stalli et this very measure. (Loud lamkter.) He was Me that the hoe. revaltmen emit webs aware of hat Ms thought it right to mention the dreametemee. ADLIERLBY erappertsd the viatica. Mr. AG LIONBY prietsoted against the assamee se lOW tag the door to coOra Hr. CHRISTOPHER recommended hon. geuthwitm to see the bill beGire they objected to it. Sir E. N. BUXTON explained that the object of his bill was to permit candidates at county elections, tlet i the returning officer or ponces appointed by Isis, to ye to each voter • nfrothaseat ticket to the mama of • crown. He believed this would toad to peanut rather than increase bribery sad treating at electimm. The M.tSTER of the ROLLS objected that this would be a means of bribing the keepers of pablic-hesses and beervholo, et whose homes the tickets would be presentable. Lord GALWAY thought if each a bill paused at ell, it ought nut to be °Naked to moaned. Sir B. HALL moved the adjoureaseat of the debate. After a bncf coinreisation, The motion for the adjournment was withdraws, sad the house divided on the motion for bringing in the bill. Ayes l4 Noes l9-39 Mr. MULL' NOS moved that the petition of the Society of Attonnm, Solicitors, Proctors. and others, incorporate d by charters of King William IV. and Queen Victoria (pre sented 23rd April), be printed with the IMAM Mr. THORNBLY objected, intimating that. if sues miry, the committee on public politicos would direct it to be pentad in due coarse. The house divided. Ayes l2 Nam 44-32 Mr. STA/FORD moved for litanp to bring in • bin Ss the better promerraties and regulation of the ports sad karbonn of the United Kingdom, sad Lord NAAS, (or • bill to mead the laws relating le the valuation of rateable property in Winn- Both motions were agreed to. Oa the motion of Mr. Anneal, Mr. Charles Villien and Mr. H dwerde were added to the committee on wine duties. Sir E. BUXTON having beenght up his bill to allow refreshment to county man, Mr. ANSTEY meets that the betas be counted, and only 32 members pNss.t, the lease stood adjourned at hall peat oss PARLUMENTARY COMMITTEES. IitETRUPOLIA WAIF.). SUPPLY COMMITYZIL... , Yesterday, the enmities were engaged is eassidering eie mines cisme pennessi a he heseried la the acivermain waseaure, the promenesef whisk Mee inalket lined base brought Deemed a eamabeenaddielemel elenee se t a t meet with °bleed" gams* kern the roseessisdess of the water companies, sad diaessies bel biees. es day today with • view is ci s e[ ma to the adoption of a measure that hall, a Ise as possible, be satisfactory to balk sides. SUL TH-EA•TSILS, LIED RILADINO, GUILDFORD AND Ruuatt KAILWAY.—The comantne, is repeetleg, the preamble of the bill fee ...lime the Mete t he former company, MO donne ennetittee ennideffied and right that the ethedeies is the shape of to be sins le the diesebeiders is the Guildford, and Reigate, sesda iths pesesdesey et refire:ice shwa la de* thesdfrliesews, ississeletl4 are to be us substitution et se smog stst:e v t i ere by the South-}:astern, sad which nat , a keg as Is • pnor thugs to the psymest et Meseta et ea pre ference shares. looting, THWS?, AND .011113XD SAILWAT.—Tits mounittee, in reportiag the peseethis el tin bill, set forth that the capital to be raised u 400.000 L awl loan 100,0001., that the mouse of shares subscribed it 321,7401. and de posits paid 40,2171., and that the larger proportion of the subscritan ate the Eastern Counties sod Blackwell Railwey Company, who are promoters of the bill, sod of whose lines it is in extension. The length of line is 38 miles, the esti. mated coat 382,2771. That the bill proposed to authorise the lia.tern Counties and Blackwell to purchase and use steamboats between Tilbury and Gravesend, but it appeared to the committee that inasmuch u the efficiency of the rail• way, so feed regarded the Gravesend trifle, would be ne m..Ai-ay dependant on the proper working of the steam communication between that town and the railway ter mini., it ear desirable that such steamboats should be under the management of the railway company. EAU 11.4uxtatt Ramo/ay.—The committee on this coin pail's bill for new lines to Huntingdon, St. ins, Wished', and Lyn, report it to be withdrawn. Du I fir ADMIRALTY AGENTS.— Instructions hart hrrn i.'ueal by the Adaidnitteralering that the Ad• , Kent• on thy linuilinn, Mediterranean, l'eninaular, and " 111,: a *tationa, shell be repeatedly tranaterred tr.in ,tom to another, in order that they all may be ton,, , nw,.a•ctl. acquainted with the pilotage of the routes " 4 Vat-, , ,,m eted with each of those stations. Vie erpreoo. TO CORRIMPONDIINTO. ..iwasbd Mike .1. Ifs Zapies." isstalaing :he Nam sisalres Ohrui," Is Willie' silty twig awl May sail. lb lire kr pm& hid lalsolied for " The Ramie Lades rim*" piper, or e GSM. Deuverlb.dresi, by Tw Velma ai day et ptllrYa NIGH WATER AT LONDON UNIDO,. TAN MIT —Akashi.. S. I 15..........A515maa. 7a. Us. tewommr—liaislas, h. 2a.—...Aftinam. $l. 4;r LONDON, TUESDAY, APRIL 27. Tin greut ea gr which ousted the whip and esesolie the DERBY ministry—the vital bum whether defence of our "sea-girt isle" Aida be entrusted to youthful or to adolescent milidemeet—whether they should be drawn by bal loter be bribed by bounties--whether they shall be a local or a locomotive body—was last night resolved, so far as a question can be resolved upon a first division, by a majority of 150 in favour of the tory militia plan. The Peelites ai.d *some of the liberals conspired to put the late Premier in a minority, and to take the first step for inflicting on the country a new army of 80,000 half-trained soldiers. The division of last night disposes of the amend ment of Sir DE LACY EVANS, but that of Mr. MILNER GIBSON may--and certainly ought to—be urged upon the house when the question is put for going into committee on this Militia Bill. Cmsti tueneses should bestir themselves, and represents lives should be written to upon the subject. All that has—up to this stage—been affirmed is that the ' House of CoMmons are favourable to tho principle of a Militia Bill. Whether such a bill should, or should not, be proceeded with during the present session has yet to be settled. Even with the hot blast of Mr. --.lThEauck's andel pat ions of war and devastation still soundin g in our ears, we are raskenough to foretel that even if the decision of last night should not be hereafter reversed, and if the WALPOLE militia be raised as rapidly as its pro moters suppose, it will be but an inefficient national protection. We shall want realities should real danger arise, and such are not to be had in a raw militia. This fact is too strong to be lost sight of. Nearly every argument made use of by Lord PALMERSTON the other evening in favour of a land force composed of an incompetent soldiery of civilians, has tie advantage of telling much more strongly against the side he espoused upon the question, than in favour of it. Ono instance we poin ted out yesterday. Here is another : " The improvements and application of steam navigation," said his lordship, " have effectually made a bridge across the Channel, and given means of attack of a magnitude that never existed before." But of course these advantages offer no MAWS of defence to our side of the Channel. We possess nothing whatever in the slap of steam-packets crossing from Dover and Folkestone to Calais and Boulogne, and rice rerm, twice withevery tide—nor from Southamptokto Havre, nor from Brighton to Dieppe, and back again, continually, to give such timely notice as would save us from the French darting over a /a capeur from Cherbourg "in a single night," and put ting everybody and everything between Beechy Head and Blackwell to _ fire and sword. C~ Tp,.~ Oh no! We have no ships—at least not above, on an average, a hundred or two a. day—which in leaving any of our eastern imdaiglihesal ports for any part of the world, gagg elglit the French fleet (unless bribed bT the Froni 11.=.. to look another way) and give the meisenny Then, supposing the French fleet fairly afloat, with prows pointed towards our white cliffs we have nail a mail, nor a funnel, nor a gm to oppose its 7Lour regular royal loot ni t s. Pr bl i S Cold Coast, or idle in awes " the improvements and appliatien of chess* navigation " have been taken advantage of solely by our natural enemies. We (such is the enrollary to the PALMEASTON predicate) have done nothing whatever with all the" improvements and applications of gem navigation." M e have only—so a recent parliamen• lacy return tells ne—an aggregate of 1,300 steam ves sels belonging to public trading and conveyance private owners ; with the total power 7,4lMhorses, and total capacity of 300,000 tons. After all, this is but a mere bagatelle of twenty stamen for England to one for France! The steam fleet et the Peninsular and Oriental Navigation Oompas7 alone is no lam than the entire Hopi Navy—steam and sail pat towline—of Denmark. And lot it be asked, firstly, have not these maddeeson stems sapesesded the wad old aresien-walled sa mesh, the pride awl they et tbe aides ?t essondly, of what nee would them page eteassee be for war-purpose? Such quondam 'are easily answered. Pinny, I whethse stamen have lessened the number of swi ll ing roods or not, may be judged of by the fact that one company alone employs from 300 t our coal tenders, and some of these Ma ea as double the Coped Good Hope. Secondly, hyneannent has not stopped at steam; it hoe also been going on steadily in anther important Niece, that of destruction. The pas and gums of to day and the gnat an l d==re w (the hvanalla Mirent ils sour word am as di DMA baps and a mart Tama elioner. Tbaira bl ess: m o rn el the old thee—Sdlb their ahoy mid& lehe a whole atm ph gun to walk-wee so sor s Zaav je &l ed weeps, Ships mil not nye be an pewee to carry raso, but gene ewe en edit ae to be depalis of being ended in, mei of !slag bou, say ososissi slums to sceally are sedan weepse min that the emeeuticm soh eh a mo an. "Long Tem` MS dewith ane eery sods that of which a whole Iseaddie of the daopilmaweapon le capable. In prod of this we an adds* the highest possible satkon:ty—that of Captain Own, of the Excellent. whisk *hip has Una hr years the head-quartos of oh= nass fa j i =ry. On being asked before in 1849, if some of the main mouhael don maga might be saa a de ivmsi d eameing long ln or a hag •be at s : I would have no arasswalt a and I believe th ere in IND *OM Ms t th at mama awry a 32-poomilit of ref imodpdan cc the other. I do not think that thtse b a steamer upon the river, of any kind, tfdwm net tarry . a 32-poendsr." If the " terraiddes navy* of the nver Thames be capable of anyleg an 32-pounder per vessel, what amount at tbstraotive large san Asa ships as the Orinoco, the Bentinck, the Amalie is the Cumbria stimible of in opposing the Chertiemrg on the of its promised e: tics MOMS **channel to the south downs ei P Mr. ANNUS Ateawasont. M.P. he Woary, not ally answered this eproodsa is a recast speech bi the home, but pat the prastleability of employing these ships for defence in a slier light ; hasonn of lbws 400 tip Isle se 1,000 toes, have been elided Is be the W wry the lean immersing or pivot guns la but MOS" ormaters. Now, if time government were to wake enssaments with the owners of 100, 130, or MO a tare yank is as ease test asp lIMPOId base the swage segivieltsr sited kam to swan a heavy war swat. tamale/alp any wee micro se ; oleo that MaaVd bs salsa sa he re immanent required—the ones% alb MO, to be in en for their Wig as aka aid us*. aa re award ototpott ostitooloOotubs amen* applaeld by the =B:t and as maws al rehip—a mans st coast IN as alp us assenied, would bo provided, imaii.lllo meet asp mile attempt at invasion of our chorea The friends of a militia will be curious to know whether the power of misting the foe possessed by our mercantile steam marine as equal to its power of I attack. Upon this head one of the best scientific and practical gunners in the service, Mr. ENGLEDUE, late gunnery lieutenant of the Excellent,explessed him , self to the committee thus: I consider "'early the whole of our tea-going steamers are capable of armament, and that, according to their Macs and scantlings, guns of ■ certain size, weight, and bore may be placed in them. I also consider that all those ships with spur decks, with half a dosen additional beams and a few extra stanchions abets and below, might be made efficient to carry the heaviest gun we have in her Majesty's service. Thirdly, would the most important amonir the officers of the commercial steam navy—its engineers —be willing to serve her MAJESTY as faithfully, and as spiritedly, as they serve their owners in time of need ? The superintendent of the largest steam com pany in existence testified strongly in the affirma tive. Referring to the convulsion of Europe in the year 11418 as "a bit of a disturbance," this Mr. AN- Dlikty LAMB said that— No one knew what the result would be at the time I re. Nivea orders to have so many ships in readiness, as they -•,~! ,THE EXPRESS, TIIESbAY mien be repired. It new stand bats my min& to ask than a twain about IS. I Mid dim Ilia slips Will wanted is pat a itamse• uses% sma um ill set know when. sod they sever WWI as rapperiaa about IL • • • • _ . To ow IV ell, let se reptedie; the reemieseds this el the emedttee : not orramille aisamblps, et an age sad Wrath seenneare the restos et MIKA piasessnis an la t i tte =eai dgeie w oaY e yeee a eesiaanee do al awa nneee soy Madly to eanyfai ed mesh a smosisn. TIM the ramps dermiumisat d dr vide radio nollimo issielise the essatry, la Ike mat eilimplaWasil 1.1111111., is mast &Ninth* as a mar he die josimmilis strew No advise or roomaiontlados as sounder The min pawibility of invading ear bland would be its ruin. la war, ea in awl/antry, essile premier eds. Tim =mat as sassy sub his foot he► en ear afraid, mew if immediately driven all prestige, all credit, all security will vanish from Great Britain. We must not wait to deal with him in our fields, apes our hills, in our streets, or even upon our sea EOM. Our navies can make invasion impossible; a militia never can. Tits decision of tho Tribunal of First Instance of the Department of the Seine on the question of jurisdiction in the action instituted by_ the ORLEANS family against the agents of Louis Niiroteoir, who have seized the domains of Neuilly and Monceau:, is the most cheering event that has occurred in France since the 2nd of December. The great safeguards of civil liberty and personal property and security are the separation of the execu tive, judicial, and legislative functions of govern ment, and their attribution to different and inde pendent officials. In rude and barbarous societies these functions are not distinguished, and are dis charged by the same person or knot of persons. It is consequently in the rwer of the government, when any private individual has incurred its enmity, to crush him, under the pre text that he has violated the law, by affecting to proceed against him judicially, when in fact it is enacting a new special law for the occasion, or by exerting its executive authority without waiting for a preliminary judicial investigation. When kings were at once administrators, legislators, and judges, it was not always easy to discover in which capacity they acted in any particular case; nor was it always safe to remind of their irregularities those who had it in their power to pass an extempore law, decide that the provoking critic of their pro ceedings had violated it, and carry into execution their own decision. Even where the sovereign has retained the legisla tive authority in his own person the establishment of independent judges has been found to afford no con temptible guarantee of tho rights and interests of private individuals. Even without the protection of an elective legislature, the judicial sense of duty, or merely the judicial pride of office, supported by a vague sympathy or acme of interest in the general public, has often inspired judges with courage to arrest tho hands of a despot. The history of the French parliaments is replete with instances of this kind; English courts of law have saved the consti tution ere now, when deserted or trampled under foot by venal parliaments; even in the despotic era of }REDERICK TUE GREAT, a German court of law compelled that monarch to do justice to a miller. Sumo the usurpation of the 2nd of December, the French PRESIDENT has virtually united in his own prison the executive and legislative authorities. lie asserts a right to make the laws that are to control his own actions as well as those of the rest of the community. If he is allowed in like manner to supersede the courts of law and combine in his own person the characters of law maker, judge, and axe-, cutiener, his despotism will be complete. Against this progress of his usurpation, the Tri bunal of First Instance of the Department of the Seine has madco stand. It has declared that the PRZOIDRIT shell sot arbitrarily suspend or subvert the laws which protect private property, under pre text of making a new law and carrying out a mea sliest/executive government. If the other courts to Italie the code allows an appeal from the judgment fl the Tribunal of First Instance are equaßy true to their duties—if public opinion in France is suffiel fatly enlightened and freely expressed to make the PRESIDENT feel that it wild be unsafe for him to tamper with the independence of the courts of law— bis ewer of usurpation may be regarded as virtually eiesked. After the events which have occurred in France within the last few months, it would be rash to speak confidently. But theie are reasons which warrant a hope that the collision with the courts of law which tho PRESIDENT bits provoked by the confisca tion of the ORLEANS property, will ultimately lead to the discomfiture of his tyrannical aims. Looking back to the history of the French law courts—both before and since the first French revolution—it will be' found that the judges of France have, with a fee lamentable exceptions, displayed clear-sightedness and courage in the discharge of their important du ties. The traditional purity of the bench in France is as unquestionable as the traditional honour and bravery of the soldiery. A boas and degrading com pliance with the arbitrary and unjust requirements T tzs of the PRESIDENT i a would expose the j to sense of self-degradation and universal con tempt, that few men can brave. eelleade evinced by . the judges of the Court of Oweeliso, when, sitting as a High Court of Justice, therm , nounced the deeheanee of M. BONAPARTE, is fr augury for the firmness of the whole body. That the judge* will be supported by popular epee pathy seems also pretty evident. Ilia not the fortune of the house of ORLEANS alone that are at stake : it is the property of every private citizen of Frames however humble or poor. If the executive govess meat may arbitrarily withdraw the protection of the laws and courts of justice from the ORLEANS Indy, it may do the same in respect of every man against whom it conceives an enmity. The applausowithwhich the judgment of the Tribunal of the Seine was re ceived shows that Frenchmen mean to their danger. A scene which was witnessed at the Opera on the evening of the day that the Tribunal of the Seine ced its judgment is deeply significant. The rern n ear was present, but renamed hid from sight is the innermost recess of his ham The lid l e eral eho had vended the day in the Tribunal of the Bet= was Me proult, and so great wail the eagerness of the sere illatioggiehril auditors to mark their personal mpg to his, that he dot it prudent to withisw etas serlrbear, leg it provoke bayed power et selfeesteei the us* usurper who sat watching _hies mow The Pas. sionetta mills sin West hatelealt of so cam fortate empienirm If Iss wil& his grass pof the Onus* progeny, he enollotireehoess, and invites relortftecks. I be posit la hie kyle+ will, and 6ms* upon the isisgselleemos aft seeds et law, b. ea" himself feared and hated by every Preach areo who has anything to lose. ilie decision of the Tribeel of the Seine may prove the turning point of the hitherto amain fortunes of the PRESIDENT. The asp = s erial December took Frame sod Pressehass The mutual c eat jeahlosiss iiside lVts, constitutional sad with all their Tarbes edidivideme, pre toted the French people boo rallying resod the eteadard of parliamentary goverment. A Wald reluctance to expose France to the devastodieme if civil war has hitherto kept men acquicsceat is the usurpation. But the independence of the courts of law is still something left them to struggle for; and the universal sense of the vital importance of main taining that independence may re-awaken hope, and suggest means of struggling for the regaining of lost liberty without an appeal to arms. The French army is not entirely debauched. There aid among its officers some of the most highly educated and intelligent men of France—men quite capable of discerning clearly the limits of their duties as citizens. These men possess more OT less the confidence of the soldiers. Their less scrupulous comrades may not be prepared to quarrel with them a routrowe. The members of the National Assembly who recorded their unanimous protest against the coup d'aat have not recoiled from the at titude of passive resistance they then assumed. All that is distinguished in French science and litera ture—all that is most respectable in French society —still stands coldly and proudly aloof from the Ely sec. Even M. me 'Wear has shown that he is not prepared to incur the risk of provoking anarchy, and eivilear, and universal spoliation in France to which implicit compliance with the will of the PRFAIDENT might lead. Tho fears of the wicked, and the illtelli gence and morality of the good, may lead to a coalition sufficiently strong, not only to arrest the usurper V, APRIL 27, 1852. in his seaward path, bat to compel him to retrace— is part. at least —hie stow wkbost the necessity at an appeal to arms. Every soncession made to the will of a people inevitably load, to further; umesesicas. The emserardosenum and dogged pertinesily of the PIIMIDIXT are too well essertained, bat he sonnet set alone. It would be hey to build too confidently on inch considnations I bet after every allowance has been mole. they do appear to warrant some faint revival of hops for France. Paris has long been the centre of continental European thought ; the departments of Pranosbavewitldn thelast thirty years made great =habits of independent judgment and active exertion. It is not to be imagined that so intelligent a people as the French can ultimately abdicate all power to think or sot for themselves In thin country the framework of a constitution which lass survived nearly two centuries, keeps men, even when their notions are vague and con fused, within certain limits ; in France time has not yet been allowed for suck institutions to grow up. Hence wider deviations from the lines of judicious political action, which do not, however, imply the utter want of intelligence and self-respect which alone can render the permanence of free legal government impossible. The fate of rational liberty in France is at this moment the most 'miaow' subject of conjecture' throughout the civilised world. If a nation so ligent, endowed with so many generous and amiable qualitimis to be declared by its own act incapable of regulated freedom and pacific self.vvernment, what hope is there for the future of mankind? • FRANCE. PARIS, MONDAY EVININO. DEATH OF THE GRAND DUKE OF BADEN. Intelligence reached Paris yesterday of the death of the Grand Duke of Baden, which took place on Saturday night. General Dufour, extraordinary . envoy of the Swiss government, has arrived to-day in Paris, to confer with the President of the French Republic on the questions debated between France and Switzerland. The Moniteur contains today a fresh shower of largesses to the army. This is a decree ordaining that the year 1851 shall count as a year of campaign to those troops who were called upon in any part of the French territory to suppress the resistance offered to the usurpation of December 2. An enormous list of companies and battalions follows, which must suggest to the minds of the bourgeoisie, after the threats and abuse bestowed upon them by the ministerial papers, a fearful sum of force professedly hostile to their interests, and indulged with continual gratifications at their expense. It is no wonder that rn the face of such immense profusion rumours of a proximate inevitable loan should be renewed, while for the first time since the conversion, the New Four and-a-Half per Cents. are below par. A second decree decides that, in the course of the month of May, the officers of all arms, and the func tionaries of the war department, are to take the oath of fidelity to the President. The Paris correspondence of the Independence Belye contains the following statement : Some days ego the English ministry was. informed that Koemith was on the point of quitting the United States to return to England. Comprehending how much alarm the presence of the great Hungarian &pinto: would occasion to the Austrian government, tho British cabinet hastened to give, props mote, to h. de Beal Schauenstein fresh pacific assurances, and communicated to him the energetic miasures it intended to take, remaining, however, within the limits of strict legality, in case Kossuth sought to re new his revolutionary plot* upon the Continent. At the Bourse the Four-and-Half per Cents. fell 80c, and closed at 9910; the Threes fell 110, closing at 69.70. This serious fall, following a sucoes , sion of falling markets, is attributed to the belief of the imminence of a loon. Railways fell considerably : Orleans, 45; Rouen, 20; Central and Bordeaux, 15 • each; Lyons, 13.75 Strasbourg, 12.50; Northern, • 10 ; Marseilles, 7.50; Tours and Nantes, 6.25; Havre and Dieppe, 3 each. GERMANY. THE ZOLLVEREDL BERLIN, APRIL 21. The protocol with which the Vienna oonferenc_ concluded, and which I reported yesterday, is to-day into the back-ground by the publication of the Darm stadt resolutions, an authentic copy of which, appears in the rossicke Zeituny. They are embodied ie three separate documents. The first, signed by the ministers of Saxony, Bavaria, Wurtemberg, Hesse Cilme gnsa Rene Darmstadt, Namely and Baden, is to the Mime: The insebsoudy movies it as their own MISS to strive, el the see Imsll, for thi dm st 110 ealstiai idherala Wawa se l = i si: :=lodeperniesa of lb red * lee rope (*oh ot reerriteo leaseeleM gad inti Wei Means et earh et them; ark ea the other hand, tm o eadloavour that the late negotiation, at Thema for a treaty of sommorce and subsequent memo auks between Aus tria sad the Zollverein, and the results OSA was to may eel ''main labour in vain, but that an aellesseselhog be tween Austria and the Zollverein may be oillsotod OW teweleaudy with the renewal of the latter, and Its --'-lien thsemb the accession of the Steuervetein. On thee' giesinie tee andoesigerd, in the same at ink respective goner eosin sontrelly pisep themselves:— Meetly. To modes sad alga as Vines the protocol formes rho seadasiee of the aegetlaUons of the waiver- te a there as the irate et buds. • aad B, reserves the - nitive orelemat at He terldh as °secreted lemma the ocarsiseionere usesabei at Megan Soneedly. At the apses. at the esaference in Berlin, forthwith to de that a aegetbrim with Amnia on the basis of these drafts of tralties is regemied as arressary. Thirdly. To lay the drifts of treaties A mad 3 sonso as possible before the loan conferee's, sad to ante that the Austrian cabinet be Invited to Reptile *mem : 17tom Fourthly.—Ao m thee ''_'Henn lead sot have taken place, net Se 10 • 06;4= i... the negatelloas for renewing aad the The plempotudierp Baden declared that, in ease that other governments hen represented should concert further steps five the attalmnsat of the fore going purpose, be should be hinds , * from becoming to each p =ent, though the same initself, be &dad* ; but that would dun* its cordsdasee at the Batik sonterinee as mach hie to *vases in mordenes with the seweed of the other germinates hen repreoested, sad especially topsoils** with them before delivering sq de si flesiastien. The ratification se the point Vt to be exchanged within *days, through s ill oi l l i at i ion of the respective plenipotentiaries at the Frankfort Diet. (Signed) VON DALWIGIL, VON SCHENCK, VON DER ORITTIN, BEM, VON NEURATII, RtEDT, BAUNBACH, WITTGENSTEIN. The two other documents aro Aligned by the same portion with the exception of Baden. The second document runs us follows : ._ _ . illumine the l'ensdem government has notified the ex *Wes of its simems to the Sollverein and thereby rembeel giseetie the eontinuance of ita ' customs union with ism* ileasay, Warta:ohm, and both Hews. The geresiamats of the said states make the fol lowing • agemsmat : Firstly. The said governments reoognise • the Zollverein's treatise of 1103 and 1841, with the agreements subsequently Wed, to be further existing between and binding on the 11108100 1. Thal hereby pledge themselves to earl ether, Set try wiu est mem his as esswment or twstf ea esemserce or customs dads' with any ether state , mess under their unanimous asseatioa and marl elasest. Theesit it is amiss their visit, Vieee the pre sent asecest is give rise te • wider 'mash in Gemtmay as regards sake of esmeseres sad emessok but will sil rather strive at all doses to preetees the greatest pessible salty in this rasped; meerlhslem. is ems a ewes= mien shall not be effected between the sad see fir more Genus states with unanimous anuent, they seal then put the existing Zullverein's treaties in 'area he the Zoilvercin, which will then consist of Bavaria, Saxony, Wurtemberg, Nassau, and both Hews. Fourthly. In this latter ease, the said governments, in order to make timely arrangements, will cause their pleni potentiaries to assemble in May, 1863, at Munich, or any other plaoo agreed on. The third document is as follows : In place of the proposed secret article to the draft of treaty C (for a customs union between Austria and the Zollverein), prepared at the Vienna conference, now on the point of terminating, the governments of the undersigned plenipotentiaries propose to the Austrian government fur its acceptance the following clauses: Firstly. Further negotiations shall be entered on between Austria and the said six governments for the modification of the said draft of treaty ft, and ^ Utftr.lN settlement of the same shell " "on :.: possible be concerted. pledgee itself to the said six govern ment.Secotnldilyon. " la c de w ith them this said treaty C (either un e.ttered or with such modifications as shall be unanimously agreed on) ; and especially to give them, as stipulated in the said treaty, the guaranty for the receipt of their custom's revenue, in as far as the governments express their wish for such guarantee before the 31st of January, 1803. Thirdly. Oa Pia alma bead, ad I. consideration hereof, the:paid al: geverainsata *die thanaelves to Austria, that they will Olt no MSU semis& Wen the let of January NM a treaty fee the pesisagatina" of the Zollrerein with Freak, valor beery this peelsd aa agrownent between 1= and the whale of the Zallverehs's states, as their reistioas e zally esainawas and customs duties, shall hava hos rwarsldy. Tha ratillsadsa of the present compact shall be entlimnpad, by the lab April at the latest, through the ammilladaa of the respostive plealpsteattaries at the Frank eat Dist. ----- These documents speak for themselves so plainly uto need but little comment. The first is nothing more than what was contained in the Vienna pro tocol, and merely pledges the parties to oppose and upset the programme which M. von Mantenffel laid down for the direction of the Berlin conferences. Tho second, however, forms a new southern Zollverein, ender the protection of Bavaria, and is tantamont to the ejection of Prussia from the Zollverein, in case it shall attempt to resist being dictated to by the abettors of Austria's projects. The third provides for the projected new Bavarian ZoU verein a port of refuge in Austria in case it shall be unable to weather the sea alone. The question is, firstly, whether there is not some portion of sham bluster in these compacts; whether, namely, secret articles have not been appended, enabling the parties to recede in cue they find that they have intemperately pushed matters too far ; se condly, whether the six governments have taken these steps at the instigation of Austria, or rather been misled by Bavaria, which, perhaps, aims at playing a trick both to Prussia and Austria, namely, by separating the southern states from Prussia, and afterwards not letting them join Austria, but keeping them under its own rule. Tho whole affairs is strange in the highest degree. But it has filled the free-traders here with exultation ; they hope and believe that Prussia has now nu alternative whatever, but to east off the factious southern states, and form with Hanover, Oldenburg, Brunswick, Mecklenburg, and the Hansa Towns a thorough-going free-trade union. The next sitting of the conference is said to be fixed for Monday, when I suppose the courteous deportment hitherto observed will be exchanged for open declarations of irreconcileable opposition. The commissioners to the conference were to-day presented by M. von Man teuffel to tho King, and entertained at the royal table. It must have been interesting to watch the countenances of the parties on the occasion. ROMAN STATES. Our correspondent at Rome, says the Cunstitution nel, under date April 20, announces the arrival of Mar quis Spinola,charged by the Piedmontese government with fresh . propositions for the re-establishment of the previous friendly relations between the Holy See and the Sardinian states. The basis of this arrangement will, it is said, be: I. The immediate recall of the Archbishop of Turin ; 2. The abandonment of any bill having for object to make marriage a civil act; and, 3. The presentation of a rigorous measure for the repression of the abuses of the periodical press on subjects of religion and publie morality. FATAL COLLIERY EXPLOSION. An explosion of tire-damp took place in a colliery at Pemberton, near Wigan, on Friday evening last, by which no less than ten thee have been sacrificed, and six other colliers have been pissed on beds of suffering, with scarcely a possibility of reeneery. The colliery is that called Norley-hall, and is worked by the executors of the late Mr. Daglish, of Pemberton. The coal-bed is one of con siderable extent, and Wimp partly to Reece Bevan, Esq., and partly to the aide of the late Duke of Bridgewater ; bet Mr. Daglish had power only to take IM feel Is the boondaries of Mr. Bean's estate. The coal fled h worked by mean' of two shafts at Norley-hall, of about 480 feet deep, the principal workings running north and east. Between 80 and 60 men and boys had descended to work to nifty 'horsing, properly pro vided with Davy lamps, andyseseeded with their work up to about three o'clock la the at berason Part of the colliers then left, the boys and same others employed as drawers being left to get out the lease coal. Upwards of 30 persons thus remained, chiefly boys, and about Wilf red thee' o'sbeek the "opinion of fire damp oc sum& Th. ISMS is set known, the rules of the colllsey being shin diet no one shall unlock their lamps. It I Wined belsweigaited at weeder close to the boun daries Olio eseteen fees of the seed, where the colliers, having ilium their levels up to the coal belonging to the Bridgwabe had tamed beck, leaving the roof to fall in, fuming whsteollkrs cell the goaf. In those places a good deal dips totally collects, and as this coal is of a very bamboos slasastAlf, leas, an underneath, there is usually a enrakirmlis quantity of it. The distance from the bottom st ohs &Ira shaft was about 2,260 feet. The explarioa seek Ow with a loud report, and a cloud of duet wee Wm est at the top of the shaft, which gave node, t• the bekmen. No time was lost in getting out such of the osfortands workmen as wets able to find their way to the bottom of the link and many of these were found to be fearfully burnt. • renslor of the colliers, however, had been killed by the bops: the explosion—one of them, a boy named Thomas Hitelhos. seed 14, having his head nearly severed from the body ; and others had been overpowered by the after-damp or sulphur, so that it was ne cessary to search the workings without delay. Mr. Wm. Twist', ourlooker, and Mr. Moses Cuerton, underlooker, of the mine, were fortunately at the Wilms near the pit, and descended with as little delay as possible. After greet risk and suffering the relief parties sent forward succeeded in , rescuing several Fracas in a state of insensibility, but who were alive, from various parts of the levels. They also re. moved the bodies of the dead. By a late hour in the evening three dead bodies had been removed from the mine of persons who had been killed, six others of the suf ' ferers were dead on Saturday evening, and another died on Sunday morning. The inquest commenced yesterday for the identification of the bodies, but would stand adjourned for the principal ! evidence. PORTSMOUTH, Tusem.r. Arrived the Queen, 116, bearing the flag of Ad miral Parker, from the Mediterranean. EXIITEITION or 1651.—We unaeratend that her Majesty's Commissioners, at their meeting on Saturday, agreed on the report to be presented to the Queen, and or dered it to be delivered to the Secretary of State for the Home Department u soon as posaible ; it having been de cided that the winding up of the butinee in connexion withers late Exhibition was so far advanced that the go verment should be relieved from any further payments ' an aosouat of the secretaries of the commission, and it was ballot agreed that in future, acting under the charter of =don, they would only require the services of ono sizt, to which poet Mr. Edgar A. Bowring was oil or WARWICK.—Sir John Eating Bares, Wilmot, Bart., of the Midland circuit, has been 2tirneseder of the borough of Warwick, In the room Italbse, resigned. LONDON HOCH= FOR THE HLlND.—Yeaterday the annual meeting of the promoters of this charity took place at the Hanover-equate Rooms. Tho Right Rev. Bishop Carr in the chair (the Eon of Shaftesbury Wag obliged to leave the room on public business elsewhere.) It appeared, from a report which was read and adopted, that the income of the society during the past year had ex ceeded that of the previous year by 3001. • hut extraordi nary circumstances had entailed upon the charity additional expenses, and, therefore, the money in hand was reduced to a lower rum than might otherwise have been expected. The receipts for the year had amounted to 1,8151., but owing to the expenses alluded to, the balance remaining in hand was only 811., sad it was, therefore, hoped that the benevolent public would continue their exertions in favour of so charitable a came. FATAL ACCIDENTS ON THE LANCASHIRE AND Yormainal KAILWAY.—On Saturday evening a work ing man was killed at the Middleton station on this line. He had booked for Oldham, but ran, amongst a ' crowd of passengers, to the door of a carriage, before the train bad stopped. The result was that he was pushed down between the footboards of the train and the landing stags and crushed to death. A servant of the company, named Richard Walker, wu also killed the same afternoon at the Miles Platting station. FIRE AT SIR WILLIAM HEATIICOTE'S.—HuraIor House, the residence of Sir William Ileatheote, Bart. hall • narrow escape from destruction by flee on Sat urday. Some rafters in connesion with a chimney had, it appears , become ignited, and gained a considerable ascendancy be fore it was discovered. A mounted express was instantly despatched to Winchester, a distance of come five or fix miles, for the engines, which were promptly deseatehed ; but previous to their arrival the flames were considerably subdued by the domestics and others on the spot. The damage will not, it is said, exceed WO/. to 6001. • but had not extraordinary exertions been used, the whole mansion must have fallen a prey to the flames. The buihfing is • noble structure, and was formerly the reaidence of Richard, son of Oliver romwell. THE TERRACE IN FRONT OF WESTMINSTER PALACE. —The terrace on tho river front of the new palace is being covered with • variegated pavement, and the win dows in the basement story are to be ornamented, and protected with sine railings and gratings. The public will shortly be admitted to this interesting and pleasant pro menade, and have from it an excellent view of the soothers front of the new palace, and a capital view of the river from Westminster-bridge to Vauxhall. bridge. Mtentlitr.—ln the lender on the ads ertisoment duty in Saturday's paper, the number of line. contained in the 200 servants advertisements, mentioned u havin ap peered in the Times, was erroneously printed 186. ItH should have been 143. KOSSUTIeS l'Antti.—A letter front Vienna, dated April 21, states that all Kosauth's relatives have 'wen set at liberty by the Austrieu government, and that they will leave the country on the Ist of May. V* Court. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Print* of Wales, the frineme Royal, Primes Alfred, the Princess Alice, and the Princess He lena, and attesd o r os / the lion. Eleanor Stanley, Lord Colville, Ind tient, F. H. Seymour, went at half-pact nine o'clock yesterday esentieg to the Gallery of Illustration, in Regent-street, and inspected the moving diorama, illustrating the campaigns el the Duke of Wellington. Her Majesty, Prince Albert, and the royal party returned to the paler* at 11 o'clock. Prince Albert rode oat on horseback yesterday morning, attended by Lieut.-Coloi.el F. H. Seymour. The Queen and Prince Albert, attended by the Countess of Desert, Lord Colville, and Lieut.-Colonel F. H. Seymour, went, at three o'clock yesterday afternoon, to Claremont, to pay a visit to the Countess de Neuilly and the French royal family, travelling from the Nine Elms to the Esher station of the London and South-Western Railway, and returning to town by the same route. ller Majesty and Prince Albert, with the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, Prince Alfred, end the Princess Alice, attended by the Countess of Desert, Earl Tajbot, Lord Colville, and Lieut.-Colonel F. 11. Seymour, honoured the Princess's Theatre with their presence last evening. The Duchess of Kent, attended by Baroness du Speth, went to Claremont yesterday, to pay a visit of congratula tion to the Countess de Neudly, on the return of her natal " Ilse Duchess of Rent, attended by Lady Fanny Howard, honoured the performance of the French Play with her presence last evening. A deputation from Burnham, consisting of Mr. Allen and Mr. Poole, (introduced by Mr. W. Miles, 31. P.), had an interview with Lord John Manners, at the office of Publics Works and Buildings, Whitehall•place, yesterday, in refe rence to the provisional order of the Genera: Board of Health, applying the Public Health Act to Burnham. A deputation from the borough of Finsbury, on the sub ject of the proposed park for the northern district of Loudon, bad an interview with the Earl of ILrby yesterday at his official residence in Downing.strect. The deputation consisted of Lord Hobert Grosvenor, M.P. ; Mr. T. S. Duncombe, M.P. ; Mr. Wakley, M.P.; Mr. T. H. Boykett (the returning of fi cer); Mr. Wm. Tyler ; Mr. It. Taylor, PALS. ; Mr. Phillips ; Mr. Heist; Mr. Taaplee ; Mr. Bar nett ; Mr. E. Wilson; Mr. J. It. Lloyd; Mr. 11. Wilson; and Mr. James Lloyd (honorary secretary). The Bishop of Cape Town bad an interview with Sir John Pakington yesterday at the Colonial.olfice. Mr. Whitmore Jones had also an interview with the right hun. baronet. Mr. Spooner, M.P. and Mr. R. H. Wyatt had an inter view with Mr. Secretary Walpole at the Home office yester day. A deputation, consisting of Mr. Bayley, Mr. Lowe. and Mr. Whitley, had an interview with the Right lion. J. W. Henley yesterday at the Board of Trade. Mr. Alexander F. ltidgway, agent Mae Royal Agricul tural and Commercial Society, British Guiana, had an in terview with Sir John Pakington yesterday at the Colonial- The Marquis of Salisbury had an interview with Mr. Secretary Walpole yesterday at the Home-office. Viscount Hardinge had also an interview with the right hon. guide man. Despatches were received at the Coloniel•offiee yesterday from the Governors of the West India Islands and from the Governor of New Zealand. . _ Despatches were sent yesterday to tho Goveroor of Gibraltar. A deputation, consisting of Lord Edward Howard, Mr. Muter, chairman of late commissioners' meeting ; Mr. and large owner and ratepayer; Mr. Demerit, commissioner and owner and ratepayer ; an d Mr. liardlogham, owner and ratepayer, had en interview with Lord John Manners yesterday at the office of Publie Works and Buildings, The Rey. C. B. Dalton (Lambeth hector;), and the Rev. J. B. Jenkioaon (the Vicarage, Battersea), had yesterday an ieterview with Lord John Manners, at his office in Whitehall.phiee. Lord Lansdowne is to lay the first stone of the sarterhouse New School Buildings on Wednesday. THE ELECTIONS. AYLESBURY.—Mr. 1. Temple West, of Eaton square, has announced to the electors his intention of Le mming a candidate. He is attached to her Majesty's pre sent government. CHATHAM.—A meeting of the electors of Chatham, at which there were upwards of 700 present, was held at the White Swan Tavern, last night, to hear the farewell address of Viscount Enfield, on his retirement lions the tatio of that borough. At the conclusion of his ra7ZWlr n Lord Enfield introduced to the meeting Admiral Sir J. Stirling, whom he recommended them to adopt as his successor. RITON.—Mr. William Beckett, M.P.'s address con tains not a single word indicative of the candidate's political principles. Probably Mr. Beckett conceives that, having made all necessary srrangements with Earl de Grey, it would be a work of supererogation were he to give the electors of Ripon . such an exposition of his politics as mighetnable them to Judi{ of his fitness to represent their own views, before his arrival in the borough.—Leeds Mercury. MALMM3IIIIRY.—The Hon. James Howard having espresised his intention to retire from parliament et the nest general election, a requisition signed by 120 electors has been prcsent..d to Mr. Thomas Luce, a residentin the borough, inviting him to come forward. Mr. Lure has consented, and has issued an address. He is opposed to any disturbance of the present commercial policy of England, and also to any re-imposition of a tax upon food. In tho revision of our focal system, and the readjustment of the burdens upon property, he considers it indispensable that the agricultural interest should have that consideration be stowed upon it, and that justice done, which its importance as a great branch of our national strength and industry de serves and demands. In other respects he holds himself unpledged and independent. NORWICH.—Tho Marquis of Douro has issued an address to the electors of Norwich, announcing his inten tion of again seeking their suffreges. Ile declares his de termination of supporting the Derby administration. NEWCASTLE-UNDER-LYNY--Mr.Thomas Have, who unsuccessfully contested the borough at the last election, has issued an address to the electors, offering himself as a candidate at the approaching dissolution of parliament. Mr. Ross is a liberal, in favour of shortening parliaments, the extension of the franchise, and the ballot. • NOTTINGHABt.—The agents of the liberal candi dates arc very active in this town. A meeting of some of the conservative party was held on Monday evening last, when it was agreed to accept Mr. Walter es their candidate. On Friday evening last a crowded meeting was held at the Wellington-room, Nottingham, where Mr. Walter addressed the electors at considerable length. la the course of his address the hon. gentleman stated that he was opposed tonic ballot. He believed it to be un-English ; and that its in troduction would not be any safeguard against bri bery and intimidation; besides, he believed it to be opposed to the national taste end independence. As re garded the question of the Msynooth Endowment Act, he ahould not like to see that law disturbed ; at the same time, it was possible that grant had been abused. With respect to free trade, his opinions had undergone DO change. Ito would not pledge himself to support any administration ; but so long ea Lord Derby's measures benefited the interests of the community, he (Mr. Walter) would not oppose him. He could enure them that be was for the extension of sound religious education. Before he sat down, he must be allowed to express his astonishment at the conduct which had been pursued by some of his former friends belonging to the whig interest, on whose support he had confidently relied, but who were now, singularly enough, opposed to him. STAFFORD.—Two more candidates are in the field for Stafford, vis., Mr. Richard N. Phillipps, who dates from the Temple, and Mr. Arthur Otway, who dates from Hyde-park-gardens. Mr. Phillippe believes that the na tional welfare and prosperity are bound up in the principles of free trade, and considers that any return to a system of import dutiei on the food of the people would be utterly unjustifiable, whether levied for the purposes of revenue oe preteeties. He is envious to sea the permanence sod du-. bility of the existing institutions of the country secured by an enlargement of the basis en which they rest, a more equitable apportionment of the representation, and an ex tension of the suffrage, protected in its exercise by the ballot. Mr. Otway is also a free trader, a friend to the pro gress of reform, the shortening of the duration of parlia ment., the free exercise of the franchise, the removal of every civil and religious disability. Both gentlemen pro mise to pry their respects to the electors on an early day. Sot: flume lot.—Thesecondconsereutive candidate for Southampton is Mr. Augustus Arthur Vansittart, a member of the Bexley family. The liberal candidates, Weirs. Cockburn andlVillcox, and the conservative ones, Messrs. Cochrane and Vansittart, have attended meetings of their friends in Southampton. A conservative banquet will take place at the Archery-rooms, in the above town, on, the 13th proximo. YuaK.—Up to this week the candidates in the field were the present representatives, Mr. Smyth and Mr. Milner, and also Mr. Pa.shley, Q.C., and Mr. Vincent. This week Mr. Aldermn Leeman has offered himself in the free trade and liberal interest, and, after issuing his ad dress, a meeting of his friends (among whom were the Lord Mayor of York, Mr. Alderman Meek, and a large body of the lit,. rel party) was held at the kestival Con cert Boom. Mr. Alderman Mcck presided. Mr. Alder man Leeman delivered a long speech in frvour of the principles of free trade, of extending the franchise, and placing it on a basis similar to that of the municipal fran chise in lairoughs, of a no-property qualification, against a militia bill, in opposition to any . grant to Maynooth, and in favour of the vo:untary principle. A resolution to the fleet that Mr. Alderman Leeman was a fit person to repre sent the city in parliament was carried, and a committee formed, and. Mr. Leeman and Mr Smyth have since com menced their canvass. It is thought that Mr. l'estiley wiU retire, and probably Mr. Vincent. "FIRE QUARTERS" IN MAIL STEAMERS.—Thu crew of the Itipon, which has just left with the overland 11141 i, wets drilled previous to their departure by Captain Austen, the new Adintralty ruperinttnclent of mail packets at Southampton, and went through all the evolutions necea wiry in case of fire en hoard, particularly with reference to managing and lowering the boats, tke. It is expected that ultimately these LACICA , CF will he repeated also on hoard the mail packets while they are at sea, under the superinten dence of the Admiralty agents. MIIIMI I i‘INO.No