The Express. — London, England, 1851-08-21 00:00:00

- F Zira)vefsls. TO CORRESPONDENTS. a ;ft....F.! TAlnai of " Th e Express.' catatonic •be arse ecest a te ., - 4.i.artte," la pselbbed every lhroday al Furey In d io. is lime pod. O Pt re. ...WO.blended for "Tie Expects," Loofa Estel o'clock a tie; la paper lox" to at the "d ac e, In, Suoverirstreet, by Too day of pub/ratios. LONDON BRIDGE Allmon*. Sl• 14,* HIGH WATER A' T OI 4 DA —.M.fllllll. ;Y. Sto --,•,•••-114guing, Aftirtaws, LONDON, THCBSDAY, ~4L'GrsT 21. WHILE the Sovereigns of t ' ustria and Pruesvda are ial a b o ut to take council togeer at Ischl, proinc diets arc summoned to meet throughout the dominions of the latter. These assemblies were convoked b fur m inisterial ordinance s ome time since, professedly no other purpose than to distribute locally' the assess ment of the income tax. l'opular suspicion was no di t unn aturally uroused by a proceeding which, rect implication, if nut in terms, manifested a design of superseding the authority of the central parlia ment, and thereby reverting to the absolutest regime which wasswept away in I a-la. A ftcr all that had occur red since the fall of Itanowtra in the autumn of last year, and amidst the reactionary courses to which Yeeurattee WILLIAM had resigned himself since that period, no man of common sense or spirit in Prussia could look with equanimity on a measure which eonfesscellv assumed at the executi , e govern- I \ ment the diserefionary right to call again into active existence, legislative bodies like those we have named. Whatever their past or future utility, whatever the nature of their tonstitution, whatever the limitations asieigned to their power, it Was dear that de jure they had no being in the state, that as institutions they had been absorbed in the national re preen ta t inflated t hat noot he r power es mid const it ution all y attest to resuscitate or restore t hens If the l ice•t of the king could c all again to life what had abolished by solemn and sworn compact between the monarch and the nation—of what value was an plsilise, or statute, or fundamental system of rule/ Om Prussians felt somewhat as ACC should 1111 TO done if, three years after the union with Scotland or with Ireland, a royal proclumation had appeared during the mass of the meted legislature, burnous ing the old provincial parliament to meet for de spatch of local business on a given day. If royal authority might do this priprio ,odor, what, that Jolts, or Ow:Les, or Jams , ever attempted, might not be dune by a similar assumptive of despotic power ? The people of Prussia did not, indeed, do upon the occasion what snow of us may think we slwuld have tarn very much 'liveried to do. Their indiguation was, however, loud and universal; but they resolved almost unanimously to try the effect, at least, in the first instance, of an open refusal to take part in the election of those who were to maistitute the pm-tended Diets, and to protest publicly and formally &against their assembling. There was a pause, and the government took to argu ment in the press and personal intim-nee in pri vate. It was vehemently averred that the mea sure was conceived in no unconstitutiond All thoughts of abrogating the forms and rights a national parliamentary rule were energetically dis claimed. Such thoughts were the wanton calumnies of bad men,—treasous imagined only by traitors and believed by the weak and ignorant. The convocation of the prosowial states was a mere necessity to meet a temporary aid accidental want. A law organising such bushes dr no e" would have been passed by the I gnat council of the nation, had tln-re been time to projsmi,d and debate its provisions. Such a law would no doubt be hereafter eonsidered in dew form. Meanwhile there:climes! no legal machinery to per form the indispensable functions of fiscal apportion nwnt of pulite, burthens, and it was a cruel injustice to impute to the administration of M. MANTEUITEL any intention or wish that, when they assembled. thew Diets should be invited to overstep the bounds of this necessity, or to meddle with miscellaneous subjects of The popular controversialists replied that, in point of principle, their objection still remained, namely, that until the F irliament of the United Kingdom of Prussia bail passed an act authorising their convoca tion, the !bets could not lawfully meet ; and in the adhere-nee sl -n by the whole unfettered and unlit-OKA public opinion of the country to this sound and f lamental maxim, the approval and sviniathy of the liberal preas in France and England wa s heartily aemirdeel. Still there were those both in Germany and elsewhere who hesitated to refuse their belief to the assurances so positively given by the Prussian ministry that the business of the illegal assemblies would fie strictly limited to the single pierisse assigned; and, as an exceptio n a l ex p edient, however objectionable, timeserving politicians were wont to ask whether it was not latter to put up with an encrecaltment that could never be brought into pre cedent hereafter' What will these trimmers say now? our latest information from Berlin Fines the justice of the fear: expressed two months ago —that the de precated measure would prove to be but one of a aeries -another little in the chain of re-action by which it is hoped to bind down once more the emadeiputed mind of Germany. A royal edict has now been isowel. formally notifying to the provincial Diets that they hate cork aindie t4l consi d er and mature laws upon almost any subject they may nspectively think tit, with a vague reservation that such Vilna- IIWIII,I are to be deemed provisional only. But what is the value of this evasive and illusive stipulat ion?—Provisional—t ill what, or till whet' 1f it be tucant until the national legislature shall meet, in under that it may affirm or reject them ' then we emus-ice no wow or more fatal blow aimed at the integrity of the national freedom. The initiative thus coneeded to the local assemblies would speedily and easily grow into an exclusive right. The parliament would thenceforth dwindle into a central chamber of appeal, not a full and free representation of the wilily. Efficient control over the action of the executive it would exercise practically none. It would of necessity become a mere residuum el doubts—a last resort of factions--a shadow of • shade. Let no impostor say that such a system would resemble in any tow essential feature the equipoised power and adjusted force of constitutional federalism. The cardinal virtue of fokralism con sists in its due distribution of functions between col ketive and local power. It is by protecting each is-pirate province, canton, or state, in its com plete and entire sovereignty in its own peculiar affairs, while at the WOW time the few great interests iu common are- dealt with nt all times and absolutely by the contend representatives of the whole people, —that the balance of labour and of right is main taimAl ; not by appealing from the particular know ledge and self-contrulled discretion of eath locality to the indiffertince or ignorance of the aggregate, on whose blunders or baseness there is no voice of self restraint or fear of accountability. And if, on the other hand, the acts of these dreaded and de mated councils are to be eons& dered provisional until they shall themselves receive • supplementary uuthurisation by parliament, thee it is too obvious, that with unlimited range of sub. ! jects fur consideration and enactment. they might be rendered fragmentary substitutes for the only body that Can lawfully delegate to them any privilege or functicts Every day they sit, and every act they pr tend to pass will thus become all excuse fur still further postponing the co nvocation of the true repre sentatives of the realm, c addie furnish to the cabinet of the faithless king au ional motive for such fraudulent postponement. TIIE NEW Ro.tD AND Tor OWNInCs rttOrltlETon.s. —in consequence of the sbcision come to by the Ilsmril of Directors of the parish of St. Tanerse to close the New. road. between the church and King's-cross, prior to laying down the itTaUlle paving, a deputation from the omnibus proprietors waited upon the vestry yesterday with a llleTTlO nisi. praying that the tlsoroughfaic should not be entinMr. ly closed, but that one - half should be paved at a time. Elliot, cower thedeputation, stated that he wan a proprietor tit the lieunington and Camden-town omnibuses, and if the route WWI closed it would involve • daily increase of milt...iv of 2,400 roam besides the extra eapeuse of tolls, which would arnount to 401. per wk. They already paid twenty guineas per week toll tu th e me Waterloo Bridge, which route they were obliged to take in consequence of Blackfnars B r id ge beige closed. There were 200 omnibuses on the road, The chairman stated that although the Bo ad of Di. reeton bad decided that the thoroughfare should be forth with closed, it was not intended to finally close it while the weather remained dry. The spplication should be token into con.iilorathm, and everything done that could be to ob viate toconvonieuee to the public, or unnecessrry loss to the proprietors of public vehicles. The its putatism thanked Or vestry and withdrew. THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 21, 1, FRAN .-. PARlS,inxestisv EVENING. M. Lamartine concludtato-day his letter* of advise' to the Councils -general. . Ile reeommends then - td demand the revision of 3 articles of the Constitution only. First, he says, the method of voting by ballot ing lists, instead of each voter naming simply the candidate of his choice, has created the sovereignty i of cabals and of clubs, instead of the sovereignty 'of the people. Secondly, the question of a second chamber is one that requires to be uttentivelv exa mined, with a view to create, if possible, an elective and popular senate, the duration of whose mandate should be somewhat longer than that of the Presi ' dent and of the Legislative Assembly, in order to provide for the case of a conflict between the two latter powers. and to prevent what in the Roman constitution was ea , led an interregnum. But, third, the Art. 43, a bleb renders the President ineligible to be re-elected, is the one which most urgently re quires revision, because the restriction, though to be respected, under the penalty of a revolution, so long as it remains law, is in itself absurd, and contradic tory to the sovereign rights of the people. M. La inartitie anxiously disclaims the supposition that he advocates this opinion in the interest of Louis Napo leon, whom he blames severely for even allowing the question to be agitated in connexion wiih his name. Ills argument rests entirely upon the right of the l i people to re-elect the same person as often as they I please. Replying to M. l)ufaure , who justified the larticle 43, by alleging the danger that the executive power might unduly influence the elections in its ' own favour, he says that such a reason is an ana chrunisin unworthy of M. l)ufaure. lie maintains that the corrupting power of the executive upon the mass of electors in France would be as imperceptible as the effect of a pinch of salt or sugar—which might flavour a glass of water—would be upon the ocean. lie discusses the career and pretensions of M. Louis Napoleon with a freedom impossible to reconcile with the idea—still frequently mooted—of a Lamartinc ministry. Ile admits the power of his name, and, although when he was first elected he was more struck with the dangers than the advantages of the choice which the people had made, he has since °Bea asked himself whether chance is not more politic than politicians, and whether the presidency of Louis Napoleon has not been upon the whole more useful than prejudicial to the foundation of the republic. Whether, it he were now re-eligible, the people would again choose him. is a question which 11. Laniartine believes it wholly impossible to answer; for he says that petitions prove nothing whatever but the coin pluisunce with which every valet is treated in France who is employed by the municipality to canvass sig natures from door to door. M. latmartine thinks it to he wished that the French people should not be desirous to re-elect Louis Napoleon, but he thinks all the arguments upon the policy of the Art. 43 with regard to him are reducible to this dilemma. Either the people do nut want Louis Napoleon, and in that ease they will not vote for him ; or they do want him, and then no government from which he should be excluded would be a safe one. The French above all other people are impatient of contradiction, and the republic itself might suffer by the constitution appearing to the people in the light of a barrier to their wishes. M. Lamartine foresees that his brother republicans will blame him above all men for ex pressing this opinion, and will excla im " Et to brute." To these objectors he replies, by anticipa tion, as follows: If I do justice to what I can find of good Ma government plared in so difficult a position, between a monarchical Asseinbly and a republican people, 1 can see, 1 con feel,' and t can point out the evil. 1 do not forgive Ronapirte, ' the Presiclentof a Republic, for seeming to blush at being that which he is, for placing his name in the light and his office in the shade. Ido not tbrgive Bonaparte, the sworn ea lotion of a constitution, for alluding in his spec elies loan election by the people which would be an election against the law. Id, not turgive Bonaparte, the elect of universal suffrage, for having signed the 13th Brumaire of the Le -1 gislative Assembly against universal suffrage, and for thus having plated four millions of French citizens out of the ale of the law, as a puni s hme nt for havin g made him what 'he is. Ido not forgive Bonaparte for having pressed with the weight of a republican army upon the liberty of a people—had that people been but a municipality—awl for having pressed with the weight of a liberal nation upon liberty of coiewience, that divine dogma of the new reli gious world. I do not forgive hint natty other things, and above all that affectation of his government of disavowing the republic upon all occasions, as if he were hvgging pardon of his MOM for bearing the name of demo czacy ; a. it he were asking pardon 01 other dynasties that he should for a moment be representing the population. No, all that is not well. But who tells you that the people .themselves will not punish hint fur it, by withholding their 'suffrages from him a second time ? Let the people alone. Do not anticipste their judgment, for, by so doing, you may perhaps destroy the effect of it. M. Lam:mine proceeds to argue that if, in conse quence of a revision of the constitution, the President should be re-elected, it does not follow that his policy will continue to be the same. The spirit of his government would depend upon that of the new Assembly. Elect a republican Assembly, and even a Bonaparte may become a republican president. Ile holds it however to be out of the question that either article 43, or any other article of the constitution should be revised until universal suffrage shall have restored to the republic the . grand national jury. The conclusion of his advice is, therefore, that the councils-general, in asking for the revision of the three articles of the constitution above meutioned, should also ask for the revision of the law of the 31st of May. The Siiele of this morning says : We are informed that the Union Electorate has just dis solved itself. Each of the fractions of that coterie had the ',retention to direct it. The Bonapartists wanted to make it an instrument for propagating their dogma of prolonga tion of powers; the lcuitituists desired to use it to the profit of the Count de Chanihord ; the younger brunch reckoned amongst its members devoted friends. The amalgamation of these heterogeneous elements could only be momentary. The candidature of the Prince de Joinville was the signal of war in the midst of the self-styled union. The partisans of Orleanisin exchanged bitter reeriininations with the members of the society of the Dix Decembre, and we are informed that, at the end of a stormy sitting, the dissolution of the Union Electorate was pronounced. 'I he Itailetia de Paris gives a faint denial to this statement, which was, however; very generally be lieved at the Brame yesterday, and seems not im probable under the circumstances. M. 'Mier» is taking long mountain walks in the Pyrennres, where M. Roger (du Nord) has gone to seek hint to confer on the candidature of the Prince de Joinville. A letter recently received from M. Thieca by a friend in Paris, recommends the must determined opposition to revision. The number of condemnations against the press for infractions of the law of signatures passed a year ago, is now 137. and the fines iucurred amount to the enormous aunt of 753,000 fr Prince Callimaehi, the Turkish ambassador, has returned to Paris. The mint of Paris has coined 200 millions of francs in gold since the lot of January, and it is calculated that before the end of the year as much as 330 mil- i lions in gold will have been coined. 00 millions of bullion have arrived at the mint within the last few days. 11w cooper+ at Narbonne have struck for wages. They have hitherto earned 21. SOc. per day, besides broken wood to the value of about 30e. 'their pre sent demand is 31. in money, which is resisted by the masters. A judicial inquiry has been instituted. The .IVolociat tr.fis says: Same disturbances took place here on the evening of the Vith. The 111,1111,n of the musical society called the Phi listins, basin; announced that they would execute some choruses on that evening under the itutonde, where the brewery is I.tablished, a great number of persons assem bled, and the first piece went •ff with great spirit. lame. diately after, a body of young men, finding that there was nothing political in the words, began to hiss and host, sag then commenced themselves some seditious couplets. IL Dayre, the commissary of police, being informed of whet was taking place, called out the gendarmerie, and hasten's to the spot. lie had some of the ringleaders arrested, and INAS carrying them away, when stones were thrown at the gendarmes, and then an attempt was made to rescue the prisoners. The gendarmes were obliged to draw their swords in order to get rid of their assailants. A fruit attack was made on the gendarmes when they arrived is front of the prison, but the rioters were beaten off. Five p, ruins arc ill custody, anti an investigation baa been com menced. There is no further news front the Ardeehe. It is stated Jealously to-day that the department will be declared in a state of siege. Some of the gen darmes who were wounded at Laurac have already be recommended to the President by the Minister of War as members of the Legion of honour. The 18th session of the Scientific Congress Cl , France will be held this year at Orleans. It will open on the 12th of September, and continue for tie days. The address of the journalists of Great Britain and Ireland to M. ('harks Hugo, on the occasion of his! imprisonment, is published in large type in the Prk of Om morning; together with tie of the VS Sewspapers+—the Daily Nein at their head— whoseeditors have signed the address. A note ez plains that two passers, which it would not he safe to translate in France, are omitted. Circulars have been sent to the commanding I officers of several legions of the national guard of Paris ordering them to return all the cartridges in the possession of their men. The Court of Appeal . at Nimes has been specially convoked to take cognizance of the riot at I.aurac, ' and has appointed several of its members to assi,t the magistrates in their inquiry into the facts. Seve ral more arrests have been effected. The President of the Republic has sent I,ooof. to the Prefect of the Iskre, towards the relief of the sufferers by the inundation at Voreppe. At the Bourse to-day the Five per Cents. closed at 95135, and the Three per Cents. at 31'40, being the closing prices of yesterday. the former island. Upon this state of things the Courrier remarks : Witco it is considered that for a period of 30 years, from 1818 to 1847, 01/AdAIOUpC shipped one-fifth more of sugar not only make up these 4,941 hogsheads at tke least, hot 339 mu st reckon above that the fifth of 26,698, namely 6, hogsheads. than Martinique, it follows that, for the uadal two colon i m es to AffiTe at an equal footing of prosperity, Goupe ust The wholo crop of Martinique for the present year, it is anticipated, will amount to 50,000 casks, while that of Guadeloupe, allowing that she has yet two-fi ft hs of her crop to reap, will not exceed 36,215 casks. The Antigua papers announce the arrival of her Majesty's ship Helena, from Barbadoes. The French war-steamer Castor had also arrived from Gand of a loupe, in charge of t he secretary to the governor the French islands, on a tour of inquiry as to the effects of Portuguese immigration into the British West India islands. Letters from St. Thomas's mention that our co missioners had been appointed in St. Croix f , three imn St. Thomas, and one in St. John's, to form a com mittee of ten members, who were, according to a rescript from the King of Denmark, to assemble at Christianstadt on the 26th ult., to be made ac quainted with the contents of the draught of the new colonial laws for'the Danish West India islands brought out by the governor, and emanating from his Majesty, who is thus about to grant the boon of .^ ---.veroment to his colonial subjects. - - The transport barque Edmonstonc arrived at Port Royal, Jamaica, on the 19th ult., from Corfu and Gibraltar, with a portion of the 19th Regiment on board. She was to leave again in a few days for Halifax, with a detachment of the 97th Regiment. The barque Ceerops was lost on the 26th of June, on Roman Reach, near Roman River. Two lives were lost. The remainder of the crew succeeded in reaching Belize. The Royal Mail steamers Conway and Dement were at St. Thomas's on the 3rd of August ; the Eagle at Barbadoes, the Great Western in the Gulf of Nlexico, and the Dec in the Spanish Main. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. (tram De Curdorn's Merruntde infrlligencer.) J.ttt.tlCA, J eve' 26. GENERAL REMARKS.—The prices of mutt articles hove advanced ranee cur issue of the 11th inst., owing to the paucity of receipts, and a sliahtly unproved I n q uir y from the trade. In roam met inter, import , to' hands hate been enti.ely cleared. and in the absence of further sinful., there is every reason to .inucivate a con tinuance of tbeprevaiir.g rates. With regard to breaddutrs esp, chilly, we may observe. that tbs., bare been helped to their present insproved coedited' an well by the diminished cock of nasive vege. ladies at MO ket as by the scarcity Of the imported art - c'es It is nun upwards of sic weeks since en midi, ion if any c wavier we has tarn es& to our stock of Hour, and we Inhere It would to dttficult jost now to Hod a Urger quantity titan 200 barrels' in the hands of any in dividual holler. There have 0001fTell but moost rivals of h sinceß ince our la, cool as one of them, a cargo of the catch from i d 1-I ii I, did note me in until after an Interval of I 3 days, the holden. oldie previ ms rtork were afforded the opportur lay of dispcding of their supplts at the advance noted in our quolations. Them is Inds either of coil or pickled fish at present on hand. Vint - a.- imnribately :tier our last 1./.le the value of thin sal Ice rase to :albe. for new p which advance has been supported uni a very light stock and rattier tree dem,nd from the trade. Thr opera terns have been col - dined to the disposal of lots of 3i to 100 barrels at the quotation. Ihe sloth of o'd d use isalmost entirely in the hand, of the trade. to held for Ills., but this rate ant the do utilance of &A at m ate restrict the demand. A rale of .50 buret« to the only transacted' th it has reached no. 01,1 sells at Ids. to 124. per Want. 'flee stock of new is very inni - 01. ith the exception of low Madras, Watch is greatly meg lectei, is in ther impro , d inquiry, owing to the : c ocitr of btrs.i. stuffs. We (epode Rengul at I is. and Puma at Ifs. per 100Ibs. 0 Cantina to tierces have ehanisel hands at Ifs. Berms.-New Irish Is being Martel at Lod., but the trade are imp. OW, awl refuse to operate. II lilac lois been sold at lid. to itil. ler lb. list laths of mixed quails Ls were placed at the former rate. 'there is nut any American on hand. Bream —lllllO is not env of Wattson's Pilot at market, and in Ito shame Pert-rat lot• id various brands (including taindfwd's), which had too some time ihre but TOIL in general favour. were taken at I :s. is. per laden I. No operation* In crackers have tr inspired. Watt...anti ale in ample supply. )I•Clif4o.l.- -Enda a rather free demand, importers' hands have heeri nearly cleared of the new catch. No. moving at 21s. per barrel. Priced are tenting upwards. Ilvamsoix- the stock of 'mod No. I Is exceedingly low. and prices ire :Oran ing. All the kite sales were elf.sued at Its. to 13*. per brl. as coding to quality. ALIMI•OA -Are in entire, with an ample stock. We value them at 13'. to i 7s. tar barrel. nr.. -Poe. is nealecud. It may be quoted at !ft. 3d. per rnt. I.van -40 titian*, and subuquently it • kegs Irish changed hands at 7.1. tar lb. American realises Gel. to GO., out slowly. Pitts -The dock has been reduced to sane eaten , . but is yet +Ad iently large to eh ck any oilcan c of price. We quote tee or. ti le or tieing in very 'touted request e st. to 30. al. per sailor, duty paid. Fifty puncheons have been taken for exportati.mut Is. Gal. per gallon. aroma-Is hemming warm -tdpecially the lower grades which are in better demand than the higher. We nose our quotations at Vs. to :Ps for dark to fair. Cosaa.a.-TAyre is not any on off-r. Poiestio -The old crop is all away and none of the mew has yet been brought tontoket. Louweeitn- Is wr rib lie. to ins. per t , n. fiISOKIL—f3I worth 5.1. to bd. per lb. The market Is well sup- FilElt.lll,.—Tormage is now abundant. Freights will he comp ratiYet y ware, atti r the In of Annual. Est omit:,:—on London roloi.ml Hank. 90 Barr. Per Cent• pronium ; 6' I per cent. premium; 90 dor.. 4 per cents r cent. premium. Jorrin‘ua 8,06. rt duo., par; GO darn, premium; 30 .tare. I per cent. premium. Merchants' lulls, Mr dap., to I ccut. dtwoout. -00 Nor York There in, no Inquiry for bd.*. ITALY. ROME, AUGUST 12. Prince Dominique Orsini, Minister at War, has been superseded. He is replaced by Colonel Filippo Farina, who assumes the title of First Minister at I War. GERMANY. --- Advices from Vienna of the 14th inst. announce the expulsion from that city, and from the Austrian dominions generally, of Mr. Warrens, late Consul- General of the United States of America, and for the last few years proprietor and editor of the Lloyd newspaper. It is asserted that the order for his ex pulsion emanated from the Emperor himself, and its cause is to be found in the opposition which Mr. Warrens has shown to some measures of the govern- WEST INDIES. The Royal West India Mail Packet, Medway, Capt. Symons, from the West Indies, arrived at Southampton yesterday, and landed her mails under the charge of Lieutenant John Brown, It N., Adini mlty Agent. Her dates arc as follows : Grey Town, July 18 ; Honduras, 19 ; Havana, 24th ; Chagres and La Guayra, 25th ; Carthagcna, Deme rara, and Trinidad, 27th ; Grenada, lath ; Barba does and Jamaica, 29th ; Antigua and Martinique, 30th ; Porto Rico, Aug. 1 ; St. Thomas, 3rd. 'rho Medway brings on freight 139,789 dollars from the Pacific on account of merchants ; 302,000 dollars in gold, 3141. in P.ritish coin, and silver bars to the value of 511.591 dollars. The general news ; from the West India Islands is that they are healthy and crops abundant. JAMAICA There is little of interest from this colony. The cholera still lingered about Westmoreland, Hanover, and other portions of the island. With respect to the weather and the crops, we find the following paragraphs. The Fa/mouth Post says : Wu understand that there is no want of rain :in the country districts, and that the present crop will amount to 7,1100 hogsheads of sugar, which i,: little more than one half of what it used to he in the most unrcmimerating year of slavery. In future years the return from Trelawny will be much less, unless the planters procure, at the expense of government, au increase of labour, and other advantages to which they arc catitlud. The. Cornwall Chronicle says : The heavy rains with which we have been visited in this parish, though not of lone duration, will lead materially to increase and Establish the general crop. The temporary obstruction to other branches of husbandry is trivial when taken into consideration with the great and powerful stimu lus which these fine rains must effect upon the growth of the cane-plant enerally. At the present moment it would be reason g able to anticipate a fine crop fur next season. BRITISII GUIA.N.A. The Royal Gazelle says: We know not whether the most significant sign of the times in British Guiana which has occurred since we wrote our last review, on the 12. h instant, be not a quiet, uncontested county election for a seat in that most quiet of our legislative chamber., the College of Electors. In consequence of the mercantile difficulties in which, as we stated in that review, Mr. Alexander Duff had become in volved through the failure of a Liverpool hem with which he was closely connected, it was necessary for that gentle man to withdraw from the college His resignation having occasioned a vacancy for Essequibo, an election was held there on the 21st instant, when Mr. Donald Mackintosh, a resident and respected proprietor, was unanimously elected. Since the 12th the Court of Policy bas held four sittings, on the 14th, firth, Ifith, and 18th, and at present stands ad journed to Monday next, the 28th instant. The proceedings of the court have been rather miscellaneous than interest ing. &sides disposing of a number of papers of different kinds lying on the table, the court proceeded with the mea sures introduced several months ago for the inprovement of justice in the rural districts, by rendering it incumbent on the ruisne Judges to preside in the inferior courts of criminal justice. The supreme criminalcourt for the counties of Demerara and Essequibo nas been sitting during the fortnight. The court opened on the I,sth instant, and dispoeci of its work in about a week. The calendar, we are glad to say, was sot very heavy. An unusual incident, however, occurred towards the close of the syssion. A prisoner of the name lof William Harris indicted for the murder of a fe male, I was acquitted of the more heinous charge and I found guilty of manslaughter. The court sentenced him to 114 years' transportation. This result of the trial did not I appear to satisfy the mob, who endeavoured to take the law I into their own hands and execute capital punishment on the prisoner while on his way from the court to the gaol. The van in which he was placed, and the police in charge ' of him, were pelted with missiles, and it was with Wine ' difficulty, and after some injury to some of the policemen, that the van was driven off at a gallop out of the reach of i the assailants. The weather during the fortnight has been flue and favourable, and sugar fualting, no doubt, will soon go on iu all the districts of the colony with unabated activity for months tether. A revo og lution had broken out in New Grenada. The mails and specie intended for the 'Medway hail been detained, and communications from the interior hid been stopped by the revolutionists. DUTCII GUIANA. 1 At Surinam, on the 22nd ult., the yellow fever was lirevailing to an alarming extent, particularly among law shipping and military. The Sitriiiiianiselie 1 Moran:, the official organ of the government, gives I the following return of the progress of the epidemic : From the Ist to the 30th of last month the deaths were , ' 41, while, on the lot and 2nd of July there were no deaths I at all ; but, from the 3rd to the 22u11 of this month no less 1 than 64 deaths had occurred. showing a ratio in the in- I crease of mortality, as compared with June, of more than 1 two to one. TRINIDAD. From this island there is no news of importance. [ The Town Council of the port of Spain had waited lon the governor, in order to submit a project of law for reconstituting the board, and to pray his assist lence as president in promoting the same. The table of produce exported from this colony to the latest date shows an increase in the quantity of sugar shipped, c ompared with the same tune last year, of upwards of 5,G00 hogsheads, and in cocoa there is an increase in this year's shipments of 1,633,9001b5. over those of last year. In rum also there was an, increase of nearly 200 puncheons. Cocoa was brought 1 in very slowly, and for the most part in small quan tities. LEEWARD ISLANDS. At Tobago the administration of government had devolved on President Yeates, in consequence of the decease of Lieutenant-Governor Ross, as reported by the last mail. The Governor-in-Chief had withdrawn his objection to the Supply Bill for 1 850 , and it was accordingly proclaimed on the 28th ult. In Grenada favourable weather had been expe rienced, and it was believed that the increase of sugar over last year's production would be 2,000 hoheads. From Barbadoes we learn that a bill had passed the House of Assemblv for establishing an inland penny post. The weather had been most favourablo fur agriculture. The amount of produce shipped to the 28th of July is as follows:—Sugar, 38,2121 hogsheads; molasses, 6,189 puncheons, 210 hogs-1 heads, and 103 barrels; arrowroot, 291 packages ; ginger, 39 packages; cotton, 288 bales; and aloes, 2,208 gourds. We have received Martinique papers to the 23rd ult. A frightful picture is given of the march of crime in the French West India Islands. Admiral Valliant, the new Governor-General of the French West Indies, had paid a visit to Guadaloupe, and had been well received by all parties. By the custom-house reports it is shown, that in the six months elapsed up to the Ist inst. there had been exported from Martinique 26.691 hogsheads of sugar, and from Guadaloupe 21,747 hogsheads, making a difference of 4,931 hogsheads in favour of Ine Court. PROPOSED ACTION TO DECIDE A POINT IN THE Comm NATION Laws.—A meeting was held at the Railway Inn, Deansgate, Manchester, on Tuesday evening, com posed of di legates front the various trades, to take into consideration what steps should be taken in reference to Mr. Justice Erie's law, as laid down at the recent Stafford Assize:, affecting trades union combinations. The meeting was attended by front 20 to 30 delegates. A workman, named White, presided. A delegate from London, named Burgess, opened the business, and expressed his opinion that the tin-plate workers of Wolverhampton, whose case was tried at Stafford, were greatly wronged by the decision in their case. lie stated that Mr. l'erry, the manufacturer, who brought the prosecution, had been guilty of the must arbitrary conduct, and that what the workmen had done was called for in defence of their rights. Mr. Roberts (called the People's Attorney-General), who has hail the conduct of the eve at Stafford on behalf of the workmen, was the next speaker, and, having been called upon to state what would be the probable expense of an appeal to the superior courts, spoke at sonic length. Ile said they were proposing to go to the Court of Queen's Bench to establish Baron Itolfe's law in contradistinction to Justice Erie's. lie said Baron Rolfe, at Lancaster, in the " Queen v. Feargus O'Connor and others," and again at Liverpool, in the case of " Selsby v. Jones and l'otts," had laid it down that men might combine to persuade others not to work for a particular master; whereas Mr. Justice Eric, at Stafford, had held, on the contrary, that to combine at all for such a purpose was illegal. In the pro ceedings at Stafford about IM/. had been expended in de fending the workmen, the greater part of which money had had to be found by the lawyers themselves, and, if they were to carry the case to the Queen's Bench, he would like to have the best counsel he could procure to argue the ease. Now Sir Alexander Cockburn, the Attorney-General, had declared his own conviction to be with the workmen in this case, and fur that reason he would like to secure that learned gentleman's services. But money would be wanted, and he estimated the cost of further proceedings at 2.0001. lie expressed a strong conviction that the appeal would be successful. A series of resolutions, expressing an opinion that the Wolverhampton workmen 's case ought to be taken up by the trades generally, and in favour of steps to give practical effect to the opinion, by means of subscriptions to raise the required amount of money, were pasted before the meeting separated. THE• ST. ALBANS ABSENTEES.—The return of Skaggs and Birehmore to St. Albans, from which, owing to their visit to Boulogne, they had been absent since April last, when they absconded from the parliamentary commit tee, has excited some little sensation in that locality. It appears ' that after being discharged from the Mansion house, they repaired to the Great Northern Railway, and arrived in St. Albans the same evening, where they took up their quarters at the George lintel . It is said they feign forgetfulness on all matters connected with local and elec tioneering affairs, and appear to prefer answering all ques tions and kind inquiries in French, with their proficiency in which they edify their fellow townsmen. It has been ascertained with considerable certainty, that Waggett has emigrated to New York, one of the local police at Dieppe having infurmed Forester that he saw him embark on board for the purpose. Hayward is still understood to be in France, and Edwards, who it will be remembered was committed to the custody of the Serjeant-at-Arms, on being liberated from Newgate on the day of the prorogation of parliament, returned to his family at St. Albans, after a period of four months confinement. Being committed for a misdemeanour of what, in prison parlance, is called a mis demeanour of the first class, he was allowed in Newgate to have what ho liked, and looked none the worse on the day of his discharge when the formal authority of the Speaker was issued for the purpose. MEETING OF BIRKENHEAD IONDIIOII.= terday a meeting of the bondholders of the Birkenhes Dock Estate was held at the office of the trustees in Bir kenhead. The meeting was convened by circular, and was understood to be public. Long before the hour appointed (one o'clock) a great number of bondholders had assembled, all evidently anxious for the business to commence, and the generality expressing an opinion that it was high time some preparation was made for payment of interest on account of the bonds. Our reporter, on endeavouring to obtain ad mission, was refused by the secretary, certainly in a very courteous manner, until he had an opportunity of consult ing Mr. Bayley, the chairman. After waiting a con siderable time, and the meeting having haul an oppor tunity of fully discussing the question, a note was sent in to the chairman requesting to be informed whether the meeting was intended to be public or private. Upon this the secretary came out, and, although he stated that the meeting was a public one, he added that it was not considered advisable to have reporters present, but that he would cheerfully supply an epitome of the pro ceedings alter the meeting was concluded. It is, of course, unuseessary to say that this offer, however civilly intended, was respectfully declined, and therefore the proceedings, so far as the bondholders at large are concerned, remain shrouded in official mystery. .—Yes- OSBORNE, WEDNEADAY, AUG. 20. Iler Majesty, the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, Princess Helena, and Princess LOaka accompanied by the Earl of Liverpool, Sir Hamilton an Lady Seymour. and attt•ruled by the uguil suite, embarked at 4 p.m., in the Fairy, at Osborn-Pier, and proceeded to Southampton, to meet Prince Albert, on hii return from London. The royal party returned to Osborne at half-past seven o'clock. The Earl of Liverp ool and Sir Hamilton and Lady Sey mour were the only addition to the royal dinner party yLsterduy. ---- The Chancellor of the EaChCqUCT haS returned to scat, Itickleton-hall, near Doncaster, from Drumour. his GENERAL LAND DRAINAGENY. AND IMPROVE MENT COMPA The first ordinary general meeting of this company was held yesterday at the company's offices, No. 52, Puha ment-street, Westminster. The chair wiL4 taken at three o'clock, by Mr. Ker Seymer, M.P., chairman of the com pany. In the report, which was read by the secretary, Mr. W. Clitl4o, it was stated that steady progress had twen made by the directors since the last mcsAing. The capital lived by the act of parliament was 18,1/001., of which 18,900:. hail been subscribed. Numerous applications had been made for assi stanc e. The directors had selected for drainage up wards of 3,000 acres of land, and had determined on the erection of buildings and the carrying out of other agricul tural improvements to a considerable amount, and the tennis and arraugements adopted were such as would atfordample remuneration to the sharehobtrs, and, at the same time, amply repay landowners for the expenditure incurred. The CRAIRMAN said that, is moving the adoption of the first report, he felt that he ought not to be entirely 'Aleut with reference to the powers and prospects of the com p an y. Thu powers obtained were so great that considerable responsibility attached to those who were engaged in carrying them out, and he should he very sorry if they were not able to exercise tlwm for their own benefit and for the public good. In speaking of the public good, he referred particularly to the agricul turd interest—the landlord, the tenant, and the labourer t an interest which he still Imalieved to be the most important r one in this country, and with which the welfare of every other interest was very closely connected. lie did not speak of the general public, because experience showed that if the agriculturists did not produce bread and beef iii sufficient quantities, and at sufficiently low prices, the beef-eating and bread-eating public knew where to go for them; and the competition to which agriculturists were now subjected was one great reason why lie attached great importance to the operations of the company. It could nut be denied that the law of entail had ben, to a certain extent, injurious to the agricultural interest. In travelling about the country, they saw many estates which were being cultivated under great disadvantages; they . saw land Ull drained, and farm buildings either existing where they oaght not to exist, or so inconveniently constructed as to do inure harm than good, especially in reference to the waste of manure. Considering how some of the land of this country seas occupied, it was surprising how the rent had been paid. Certain it was that it could not continue to be paid tinder previa circumstances, and hence the improvement of buildings end drainage, especially in the case of estates under settlement, was an object of national importance. The gentlemen who constituted the subscribers of that company were not persons who were in the habit of taking shares; they had joined the company on public grounds, and with a view to the benefit of the landed interest, feeling that, unless great exertions were made, this nation would not continue to hold the position of the foremost agricultural nation in the world. During the last session of parliament a bill was brought in to extend to the erection of fartu buildings the powers uf the Private Drain age Act. It was thrown out by the House of Lords; but, even if it had passed, he did not think they would, as a compaity, haVC been materially injured by it. Experience bad ithowa that the operations which they wished to pro mote with regard to entailed estates, could not be secured in the ordinary way. (Rear, hear.) It was necessary that a company should be formed to make advances far the necessary operations, and to assist the laudowner. It might he objected, and indeed it had been, that as other companies hail powers for improving the drainage of limits, there was nu necessity for such a com pany us this. It must, however, be obvious to every one that acoumpany for draining alone was not sufficient. If, by improved drainage, were indirectly introduced a better description of cattle, those cattle would require shelter, and therefore powers for the erection of buildings, as well as for draining purposes, were necessary for the complete ine provemeut of agriculturist estates. 1t5,000 , . might appear to be a small sum to be paid up by a company which was to be engaged in such extensive operations. It must be oh-erect', however, in the first place, that in many cases it would out be necessary, Mr the carrying out of the powers of the act, that any money at all should be advanced. lie hoped that before they again met many contracts would have been approvecl by the commissioners, and the company be steadily working in various parts of the kingdom. V. SHELLEY, deputy-chairman, seconded the motion. Ile said it was impossible to travel about the country without seeing that in the agricultural improve nwuts which had been carried oil for many years, a great deal of annuey had been absolutely thrown away on a bad system of drainage. The directors of that company did riot bind themselves exclusively either to deep drainage or to shallow draivage iu every cue they would take tare to • adopt that system which was most likely to be successful, • and which could bring the quickest return. The report was the adopted unanimously. The retiring directors Mr..). V. Shelley, Mr. Cobbold , M.l'., Mr. 11. Currie, MA'., and Mr.S.Nl.reto M.P., were re-elected ; and alter a vote of thanks to the Chairman the meeting separated. WESTMINSTER FREEHOLD LAND SOCIETY The second annual meeting of the members of this society was held last evening at the Parthenium-rooms, St. Martin's , lanr, P. E. BARNES, nig., in the chair. j Mr. O. 11UtJ(EFT (the secretary) read the annual re port of the committee, of which the following is an extract : The committee subntit to the members a report of the society, and in so doing they have much pleasure in being again enabled to present a favourable account of its comb tion. its progress is best marked by the increase of its members. The number of shares now held is 1,319, in clusive of those taken up on the Moulae' estate, and the total receipts of the society since its formation amount to 7,9681. Is. fid. Impressed with the magnitude lof the interests committed to their care the committee have persevered in the course which received the approba tion of themembers at their tint annual meeting, they have accordingly bent their efforts, not to merely numerous and rapid purchases of estates, but to the acquisition of willies tionable good ones, such as should sustain the credit ut the society, by the undoubted value of each of the particular allotments. Of the many offers made, the committee have thought it expedient to accept only one—namely, for the purchase of 24 acres at Reigate (where there arc a large number of members), at the price of 3,0001. This estate will be allotted in the course of the present autumn. Your committee are now in treaty for an estate iu Middlesex, in a locality suited to the requirements of many of their mem bers. As to the estate at East Moulsey, the committee have to report that the division of it has been completed in the most satisfactory manner, and several houses are in course of erection, the restrictions which they introduced into the con veyances have met with entire approbation and have most materially enhanced the value of the property, and the committee have the gratification of pointing to this pur chase as an ample testimony of the correctness of the principles adopted by the society. The land was bought for the sum of 4,7251., and it has been distributed to the allottecs at 5,5821., or about 17 per cent., inclusive of all expenses, while in some other societies the increase on the original cost has been nearly 100 per cent., or at the same rate at which estates of such other societies had been allotted. The Moulsey property would have cost the allot teesl nearly 12,0001., instead of 5,8001. No charge has been made to the mortgaging members fur ia terest on the money advanced to them, except the very trifling amount of interest on any sum tem ' moony borrowed to complete a purchase, while being put into immediate possession of their allotments they are placed iu a position of reaping the earliest advantages of which their freeholds are capable. The committee feel it incumbent to record their deep sense of the invaluable ser vices rendered to the society by the land committee, to whose practical experience may be attributed the advan tageous purchases already made, and their acknowledg ments are specially due to Messrs. Vine and Pemberton, the purchasers on behalf of the socisty, fur the gratuitous superintendence and indefatigable attention given by them to the society ; and through their rid the expense of allotting the aloulscy estate is less by some 2001. than it would other wise have been. With regard to the constitutional and political results of the East Moulsey and Reigate estates, I the somraittee may observe that 140 additional freeholders will have votes for the western division and about 130 for the eastern division. Already the names of 50 new freeholdera appear on the list of voters for the former electoral district, and the Reigate purchase, in addition to its being one of the most eligible building sites in the county, is within the boundary of the borough, which comprises about 200 votes, occupying houses chiefly in the hands of one landlord, while the occupiers of the allotments of the members will be independent of similar influence. The committee re commend the following alteretiun in the rules—' That of the number of allotments in every future purchase, a por tion, not exceeding one-half, shall be offered to members (according to seniority of membership) who shall agree to pay up the whole cost of their allotments, together with a charge of 5 per cent. on the amount of such cost to be ap plied towards the defrayal of the general expenses of this society; and the remaining sillutments shall be exclusively devoted to the other members in ro tation, all parties jointly ballotting for priority of choiee.'— The effect of this alteration will be to enable the society to purchase whenever a desirable opportunity offers, and con sequeutly to expedite the subscribing members obtaining their allotment. In advising this step the committee have sought to avoid what they conceive to be a most objection able clement, namely, the practice of ballotting for allot ments, the tendency of which is to induce reliance upon ' chance and not upon the prudence and forethought of the members. The committee cannot conclude their report without adding their own testimony to that already borne by the members in their re-election of the solicitor and the secretary at the last meeting to the untiring zeal and very great ability with which Mr. G. E. Denims and Mr. O. thwaen who remwetirrly their highly intgort:tot tho Iluggett, the gen have discharged I The report sv,_ the ose r u le' the i uilesng:x•ed„,din gst. to, and ni a vote of c fill UN i. Or olopted, the altt , rali, ll in tli•luks to the ehairmin LOSS OF FORTY-FOUR LIVES IN A CO.\l MINH. NEWCASTLE, TUE-shall: NIGHT.—On Moody,. n fr i e g t i :u t c:ri n t le occ of ur t r h irste P e d it t h " e nt c:n e d l- u Pl irti i i . i . i n ; :k whin ar.. f at Washington w Lich is about two mil, -• Washington station on the York, Newcastle, a n d Railway, and we regret to say that it ha, vaulted in tie premature death of more than 40 persons. Lt. twee n issue and five it'eliwk in the afternoon of Mond a y s t„, u „ it. , torn went down into the pit on the night didt, it' d thing seemed to go on regularly until aimed eleven o'clock, when thu inhabitatata of the a , iab'aiatia ea t were aroused by u loud explosion upon the r. j ur t..,l which large of people rushed to the pit to render all the assistance that lay in tie it r. the head-overman was aroused, and, in p a • few of the miners, he descended the pit, and dead lashes, very much burnt and IlitHilab oh, • rut way. They discovered that the explosion is . the " whole" working% where about forty ployed, and that the other twenty MPH, i•ri w o rking in the " brokings," were uninjunal. No can describe the intense grief and horror in 8pi..., a Loss. the first report being given, rushed to the •por • remained to witne.a the blackened and corpses of their husbands, children and father, 1' . passed away in the moat painful suspense lasi,. • latches were brought to bank. Almost imite the exploaion took place two furnace n, instrumental in saving the lives of tle ir mooned, • w. down to render assistance, but the afterihanp sk• strong that they were brought up again mine..., of these brave men has since died, and little hop, ..r tained of the recovery of the other. At thr.• when only a few of the bodies had been recover. .1, found necessary on account of the atter-damp to pa, the furnau Ireton: anything further could be was effeeted by a water-fall down tile other sh.dt,al put out the furnace by nine ti Antra. Buraig night the crowd hourly increased, and a HUM of viewers from neighbouring eolli.rits and rendered very valuable the day from nine o clock in the months:, ears... : intervals extricated, and up to seven Jic:ock loan had been brought to bank, and identinial Ily ir I tiers. At seven o'clock in the evening tin re 1•• t it was supposed, about 10 bodies in the pit. An generally prevails that the pit iv 'why v . ;; ;.1.• many were heard to say that such an amid.,! 1..•; • . petted for several weeks. A coroner'. jury aa • - for yesterday to investigate the circumatances aa.. , the casualty took place. WASHINGTON, morning at ta coroner, Mr. ravel!, opened the inquest. r n ing of the boditti, he proceede.l to take cvid 10. e. ;,.. witness examined was a man of the nam.: of Dawson, who proved the time tie men went dos, those killed. The names of those killed an, deputy ; Thomas Crwin, deputy ; Robert (it. a. Bewick, Thomas Bewick, Mithael lkov id:, NI Mullen, George Jones, John 11IcLaren, Henry It nano max Crwin, William Crwin, Tll.lllas Whittle, Thomas Elliott, Reiter; 11..1.:in. Itl`Naith, hewers ; Thomas Thompson, 11. u. y John Todd, James Todd, James llawmai. l'lt.orli, V Thomas Wright, Thomas House, Williaon Harrison, putters ; Andrew Hartley, driver; 'them... I fad, John 3lcLaren, and James Stafford, tr tpiars. furnace-man. George IlutchinFon and John Errington, two flail men, who want down below to the furnace. al Pit :an I. after the accident, and who were brought up :r -o[ o'clock yesterday, have died in the night, niakitez deaths. Mr. M. Dunn ' the inspector of loin., don. Information has been sent to tlie. in-p. 41. - t.. George Grey. As I close this parcel, it pet ;tit , evidence that James Bell, the depute siewer. me of parties lett in charge of the colliery (lining tin Mr. Cruiltlace at famelon, was drunk in a pu.3.'.is-boua ten o'clock on Monday night. DESPERATE HIGHWAY ROBBERY AT BRISTOL, AND CAPTURE OF TUE RoBBEIL A man named John Williams has just been :tr. preheniled at Bristol upon a charge of Isialmay robla rv, accompanied by circumstances &Ai:olldd , fable f rarity. It would seem from the tarts which Live transpire d upon an examination byli,re the magistrates, taken at the head& al' the unfortunate gentleman upon whom this outrage was committed, that it was perpetrated in .imai daylight, in a thoroughfare much frequented at this season of the ri and almost beneath the walls of a sentient:ids minisio'n at which a large establishment of servants is kept. Owing ¶0 the suddenness and violence of the attack, the asntleman who was robbed, Mr. Godwin, of Auburn Villa, Gotham New-4.°nd, was unable to give any particular description of the offender, who, but fur the testimony of a young Man named J lines Cull:mat, who is in the service of a boutmaki r at Bristol, would have, in all probability, entirely escapsd detection. Mr. Godwin, who is 73 years of age, could merely state that he was taking a walk ter the benefit of his health, and was in the carriage mad which passes be neath the pleasure-grounds of Bedlam! Court, when he was auddehly attacked from behind by wane powerful man, who grasped him round the fact with his hands, closed his eyes and his mouth, kicked his legs from under him, threw hint down, and then threw himself upon him. When he was on the ground he was kicked in the head and stunned, and upon his, to some extent, re covering he missed his watch and appendages which had been stolen from hint. 'the young man Collamtt stated that he was carrying a pair of boots to Welland Court, the residence of Mr:Edwards, and upon entering the carriage road he saw a man, who observing him approach went to the side of the walk and began looking into the hedge as if !he was trying to find something. The witness passed lieu fur a yard or two, and as he began than to billow lino, Col limott, who had formed some suspicion in his mind that he would try to steal his boots, turned suddenly round and looked him full in the face. The man then again west m wards the hedge, and the witness went to the Court and delivered his parcel. This detained hint for some little time, and upon his again leaving the place he, upon re-entering the carriage -road, heard a groan as of some person in dis tress. lie looked up the road and saw two persons struggling on the ground. As he was approaching them he saw the one who was on the top, awl whom he resioanisaal as tics inan whom he had before seen, get up from the other, kok him heavily and deliberately several times in the head, ' and then make off across the fields. Upon going to see who it was that had been so savagely used, he Wand Mr. Godwin, whom he assisted, and tram whom he subsequently learnt that he had been rubbed. Collacott at once raised an alarm, and sonic carpenter& and others looked for the robber. but they could find within; of him. The old gentleman was removed to his reside:ice much in jured, and medical aid was promptly called in, mil infor mation of the outrage was given to the police, who captured the prisoner under very curious circumstances. AL-unstable of the St. Phillip's division, 1' C 143 WAS nuking inquiries fur evidence against an utterer of base coin, wh:eli pur pose he went to a beer-house in Lamb-street, St. Phillips, called the Doze,' Ilead. As he approached the limier, the prisoner was in the act of leaving it, but seeing an either coming towards him, his conscience alarmed him. and be ran back, got into a yard behind thu home, and elands-rid nn to the roof of some premises in the rear. The police man at once suspected that he had committed some (Memo for which lie expected to be apprehended, and followed him, chasing him across the roots of several 110 Uses, narrowly escaping being knocked off by a heavy pantie which he threw at him. At length the (writhe lintheg that escape in this way was hopeless jumped into a court closely followed by the policeman. lt lu:ppened that the mart did not communicate with the street, and the prisoner was driven to take refuge in a house, where in rushing towards the fireplace to arm himself with a poker stumbled over some article of furniture, fell upon the ground, and was easily secured by the constable. Assistance was then mos cured, and he was taken to the station house, where an ac , count of the robbery and a minute description of the ah fender given by Collacutt had been received, and with which he was found to tally. The witness was sent wr, i and at once identified him n the most positive way, and lic was detained on the charge of highway robbery. The ma' : gistrate, Mr. Lunen, who attended at Mr. Godwin's Weis to take his deposition, having also examined the other wit' WWI, fully committed the prisoner, who has been scat t• gaol to await his trial at the next Gloucester assiree. THE C.ANON or DritHAM AND TUX. EVANGELICAL ALLIANCE. —Yesterday as soon as the Evangelical Alliance, —a union of protestant Christians of all d e nominations — had entered upon its first session, the Chairman (Sir Culling E. Eardlcy, Hart.) introduced the Heir. Hr. it:minced , Canon of Durham, an account of whose self-imposed visit to the Pope, undertaken with a desire to find a basis for the ecclesiastical reconciliation of Christendom, h is I.ltCly been given to the world. The rev. doctor having briefly es plainerl his views on the subject of the union or a ll sects et Christians, expressed his desire that that alliance would se lest five brethren from amongst themselves, of dilferent it` nomination to come to his house and remain for a week or so, to consult together on the question—How far is a oilier' of all Christians possible ? The rev. geutlemali was received with the utmost cordiality, and his proposition will be Os' mediately considered. VISITORS Ti.) lIAMPTON COURT PALACE ASP KEW GAUDENS.— Yesterday a return to parliament ww printed, showing that during last year there were T 2.1, 111 visitors to ilampton Court Palace, and to the Royal Dot:Lei; and Pleasure Grounds at Kew the number was 1i9,62,• The grounds are, by a recent arrangement, open to t l c public every day in the week dur in g four months in tbe year, front the 12th of May to the 12th of September' tween the hours of one and six. F.tT.tl.W ItAIL.VY ACCIDENT. —()n Tuebdav even. log, about a quarter past eight o'clock, as a ope;:ial tr•d! was running over the Lancashire and Yorkshire itm from Liverpool, ria Bolton, into Yorkshire, the gag! Thomas Harker, who was collecting tickets, fell off ol'y the line. Ile Was net missed till the train reached IkAlt when a passenger who had seen him fall, sad suPlus e 4 other persons in charge of the train kn ew of the accolon asked if he was hurt ? A me ssen g er was sent back, saa;bi was found to have been killed b art of the train te,ut, over him. This is nearly the only line on which th e genius practice of collecting tickets whilst the trains an motion is practised. Yf~, I ,;) '