The Express. — London, England, 1848-01-31 00:00:00

•points extraordinary Donn c of the heads of de city, according as the ' other place. declares Count D'Acquila, Lieutenant-General of rr him composed as follows: ince of Campo-Franco; 'oreign Affairs, Agriculture, IVorks, the Duke de Mon esinstical Affairs, Goiseppe Justice, Giovanni Cassisi. (the 19th) another royal establishing the liberty of inditions as have been in rining states of Italy. All ntersigned by the Marquis -known representative of the 22nd say that an order From Vienna to arrest about hom belong to the higher 'flowing were arrested esident of tie Union Club; the young Marquis Cawar ome others. Rosales was if Santa Margarita ; Batta rA away from Milan under L was a mystery. In the were those of the Marquis formerly well known in and Count Ercule Durini, he Austrian army. Caner •ell known in France, and also to have been arrested, tee of the police, and passed Val mi went to the viceroy, n of her husband. It was ut to the director of police, 'se the marquis, observing *lnd his own business. 22nd and 23rd have arrived, s again occupied the whole ber of Deputies on the pre ratulatory addressee to Eo ns are published in the Ece says that the general had .no. The Queen, it is said, asked and other balls during AN ENGLISH SHIP.—Ac e that au English c,wel of three of Jan. 17-8, on she Calibre Tremblade. Of the crew, e able to gain the shore. The torte. hotted from Landon for Is, which, with the ve•scl, were 1, John Kieth, is one of the UGAL. ed in a second edition of the iy steam-packet Madrid, rrived at Southampton, on mails under the charge of 3, R.N., Admiralty agent. ar, Jan. 13 ; Cadiz, 16 ; 'or full intelligence we refer pondent : LISBON, Jax. 19. Et informed you of the formal se Cortes, and of the opening of at the some time of the impoe ag to public business from the the requisite number of deputies e. Since then affairs have but ed steamers from the north were a the 10th instant the earnestly nominees invoiced and consigned Mindella, came into the Tagus, "Reid cargoes " may he repre goodd and sound condition. The Ter, brought but some fourteen or min been despatched to Oporto to oment the number of deputies in number required to pruceed to tending this, parliament meets .1 the president (the notorious confessor), the members have Ives into committees to try the ns. As there happens to be no way in which their decisions are le unanimity prevailing, is quite level way by which Padre Marcos difficulty of an insufficiency of yes to be recorded. The elacedo destruction of the Gordian ie for ever east into the rgested, that although seventy present us required by law, .resent had been elected for more ay counting heads upon the prin- Wog half-a-dozen constituencies, i presented ; thus, Mr. A. for in and for Guimaraes, counted for lee, returned for four or five dis h, r for example), should be con- I' four or five individuals. This doubtlesshad its conveniencies, ependeut assembly met the pro -1 formal adoption, there being For the present this must suffice It had been gummed that be have been some modification ire so as it is known teat the iominal head of the Cabinet, is assy, but with the exception of Snot of a Brigadier Salla, the hold troops, to be minister of his time by the Duke of Saldanha, In fact, the solitary feature of me few worth may be said, is a 1, attributed to the new finance mees by certain economies to re the country to a par with its in enere being discussed, and causes . Faleao's project is a simple to be as follows: A fair t @sluiced every public employe, 'nage, commencing trim her Ma al household, the deputies of the in the army and the humblest use Quay. This it steed to be the ;cr., and he is moreover refire. crated irnest. Shedd such a plan be pros 1 be seen how the propes l will be i['col deputies will consent to vote own daily six crowns. Both littera! give their staunchest suppert to moister will be a bold mate to pro rtes composed of the hungry ad- I much tear me M. Faluno will . his plan of financial reform. inst , of 11. M. Steamer, Terrible, orlon, recently appointed unpaid given rise to much specul etion ; 'tight important despatch. s fur Sir Ic went out the following day. The rus al-o a few days back, with airs! llornby, C. 11., on board. mange, and had sprung her main s refitted, and proceeeded on het e is small novelty. Sir Charles Le the navy here peel service gene old year the Admiral caused to be irnals an advertisement, submitting ) hog the Tagus fleet with fresh beef I.e consumption on board such a Save here is immense. and its supply a sort of monopoly, where private mblic service, hot priority. By op. r. contract, the Admiral has old system on the head. With folks this move is far from to have grown rich by supply § considered themselv as having riptive right to dip their bands into Yet, deemed it en invasion of vested this judicious step, n o t wily secures est quality of beef for his crews, but a, any stay, be the means of a very dish government. Au Euglishman, icessful competitor for the contract. :-eablietiment on shore, and may be hout the town. I of any kind doing; in fact, con mck it will be long ere it recovers; ' affairs is anything but ragsencong. don i 3 at thirty days, 631 ; dy are 4,500 ; dollars, 920; and the dis by a p Alto fiction caliad bank' notes, nl something over 40 per cent. ag the official returns from Opor to, port wines, during the yea r endin g 817, to be as follows: To England. of Europe, 1,264 ;ports of Portugal uited States, 2,1111; Bradd, 2,7 62 ; -Total, 30,622. And of brandy and e 393 pipes; other countr i es , 161 ; l colonies, 11; United States, 267; malt we learn that the law suit, so rtugue'e courts, between the Count Joaquin Pimentel, has been finally eme tribunal of that city. The im a the immense arßountat iisue,clasied debres. The question had its origiU co, many years f a rmed by either been defeated; and the interest itt equals in amount 1,2110 mita of UNITED STATES. MEXICO. On Saturday we gave the substance of the news received bye e Caledonia, Captain Lott, arrived at Liverpeol, h dates froai New York to the 14th, Boston 15th, and Halifax, 18th inst. The congremional preceedings of the fortnight, which has elapsed between these and the last dates, contain much that is interesting. In t h e senate, on the 4th, the resolutions submitted by Mr. Calhoun, came under discussion. are to the effect that— To it tier Mexico and to bold . it, either as a province or to UMW. m i t o .man, would be mconsutent won the avowed allied fpr which the war had bees proeecutel, a et:mature from the eettisd po li c y of the government, in conflict with Ito character and genies, sad m the end rubref aye of the free and popul it IrtilatUtio2ll of America: and that no line of policy,. in the further prosecution 54 the war, ahould be adopted, which might lend to consequences so Mr.. Mr. Calhoun addressed the senate for somewhat more than an hour, justifying and explaining his original opposition to the war, and asserting that, from the outset, he bad foreseen the evils it must of necessity inflict on American institutions. Un less the defensive line which he suggested should be adopted, these evils could not bo avoided. There would then be left no alternative but to fall in with the recommeudation of the President, and carry on the war to its termination. lie protested against the subjugation of Mexico, to be held as a province, or the annexation of her as territory to be admitted into the States of the Union. As experience had taught, it would require the constaut presence of a standing army of 40,000 men to keep her in tranquillity and submission; and as States of the Union, they could never admit an Indian and mixed-blood population to an equality and association with the free white citizens. There was, in Mr. C.'s opinion, net the smallest chance for America to disentangle itself from the difficulty it was in, except to take a defensive line—to take iudemnity into its own hands. He would now propose to la back upon a line—he would nut say what one. He would withdraw the American troops from the centre of Mexico. Ile warned gentlemen that, if they went on in this career of war and debt, they would seal the death warrant of the constitution. tree trade would become but a mere uame. High taxation of every kind would be inevitable. All the cardinal principles of the administration would be reversed, and they should have debt, high tariffs, and paper money. He appealed to his friends of the administration side —for he considered them his friends—to retrace their steps. Retractation would confer on them the highest honour. He appealed to gentlemen on the other side, who were responsible for this war in some measure—not by voting . to relieve luylor, but by voting money to get territory which they did not in tend to accept—to take a diffisent course, and to agree to a defensive line. lie would remind gentlemen of that side that the public sense—the general voice of the country—called for some territorial indemnity; and it was idle to resist it. lie should not now pro pose anything; but if he found that he would be sup ported, lie would propose to construct a committee to consider what would be the best defensive line, and who would avail themselves of the opportunity, for tunately presented, of consulting officers of the army now in this city. The resolutions were then, on motion of Mr. Sevier, laid on the table, with the assent of Mr. Calhoun ; and the senate proceeded to the consideration of executive business. On the .sth the senate proceeded to consider the Ten Regiments' Bill to increase the regular army.— Mr. Crittenden moved to amend the bill, but his amendment was rejmted.—'flit: bill was then ordered to be engrossed.—On motion of Mr. Cass, the 'fen Regiments' Bill was taken up on the 6th, and read a third time.—On the 10th Mr. Hanuegan submitted his resolutions ' declating that no treaty of peace can be made with Mexico.—On the 12th, in senate, on motion of Mr. Sevier, the resolutions recently sub mitted by Mr. Dickinson were taken up. Mr. Dick inson made a Belies of remarks on the necessity of annexing the whole of the territory occupied in Mexico, in order to prevent the establishment of Eu ropean monarchical power in that territory.—Mr. Yulee offered a substitute for the resolutions, as fol lows : Resolved, That the territory belonging to, or which may be ac quired by the United Metre, a the common property of the Union, and the iovereiguty over the same is vented in the penple of the several states composing this Union.—That the Wend government has no delegated authority nor the territorial community any inhe rent right, to exercise any l egislative powers waain the said territo ries, by which the equal right of all the citizens of 611 c United States to acquire and enjoy every part of the common property may be impaired or embarrassed. Mr. Hale gave notice that he should move to sub stitute the following : Resolved, That it should be one of the fundamental rules and con ditions of all territory hereafter to be squired by purchase, conquest, or othe. wise, that slavery and involuntary servitude, except tor the punishment of crime, whereof the party shall be duly convicted, shall be for ever prohibited in mud lei moo.. COLONIAL CANADA.—The journals are occupied with the exciting subject of the elections, to tha exclusion of all other matter. According to the last return on the 6th of January (the latest date), there had been returned to serve in the new parliament, 21 ministerial members, 19 oppasitian, and one doubtful. Mr. Pupineau had been returned for St. Maurice. and Mr. Turcottec had lost hi • eleetion by a majority of up. wards of 300 votes. At Three ltiveis on Jan. 4, a poll having been commenced, the proceedings were stopped by a row. At 4-30, p.m.. the poll etood so follows : Dumoulin, 174; Polette, 170. The polling booth was then forcibly entered by Mr. Duntoulin's supporters, and several of Mr. Polette's voters acre driven back, and nut allowed to record their votes; whereupon the returning officer declared the poll closed, as he cold net any longer continue it accord ing to law. No member was consequently returned ; and it was rumoured that the returning officer would make a special return to that effect. Messrs. La Fontaine and Holmes have been elected far Montreal. NEW BRUNSWICK.—Our files from St. John's are to the Bth of January. A despatch had been received from Earl Grey, in answer to the resolutions pass .1 by the common cowed of this city, relative to the influx of pauper emigrants the past season. The Colonial Se cretary ngrets the additional burdens to which the province leas beau subjected, and expresses his willingness to bring the subject beiore the imperial parliament, in order that this colony may be reimbursed for the expenses incurred is sueporting so many destitute people. The resolutions were prepared and laid before the common council by his worship the mayor, who has thus brought the matter directly udder the notice of her Majesty's government, snit relieved the local legislature (torn any dis cussion on the subject. JANIAICA.—We glean the following from our files of Kingston papers : Oa the 9th of Dl:Ginter, in the House' of Assembly lea. tabled in committee on the state of the island, it wan moved that the report trout the committee to which was r'fe'red the governor's second message on the Rum Duties Bill should be taken up and read. Upon this an amendment was proposed by Dr. Spalding to the effect : Thu the boon how learned with surprise that it bas pleased her Majesty to disallow two acts of the bag swains of the Jamaica legisla ture—th- one emitted •` An act to tramcar certain parochial expendi ture to the public of this inland, and to relieve parochial taxation and for other purls., ;' the falser en , Wed t' An act to regulate the fees of the clerks al the peace and the clerks of the magistrates of this island, and for other purposes." This amendment was negatived, as well as another pro posed by Mr. Parquitarson to the same purport, and recom mending that an additional duty of 6d. be imposed on rum, and a vote was carried for agreeing to the report, as amended in the committee, that i- to say, with the recommendation as proposed be Mr. Jonlm, Chit the house will introduce a bill to provide for tl.e parochial officers to September, 1848, out of the so neral re venue. A meceng of V e lion. Commissioners of Public Accounts took place in the Assembly Room, Spanish Town, en the 9th Dec. An appleation on 110,81. ui the home government was made fur the pa) intent of 20 0001., being one of the instal. meats due on the loan. T..c matter wan referred to the house. Three circulars OIL the subject of education from Lord Grey were loot befor. the House of Assembly on Dec. 3. On the Vith, iii the House of Assembly, a bill was brought before the limee for reducing the s daries of certain judicial officers, when it was proposed to fix the chief justice's salary at 2,000/ ; but o.i the mutest. of Mr. Carr, it wu carried, 12 to ii, that it he ri due, .1 to 1,3001. Tee assistant judges' salaries ti be 1,2.431 ; vice-chancellor, 1,200/. ; and chairmen of quarter mei as, 8001. On the 16th a long debate took plea on the question to opp dniment of an beand agent in Great Briteate A bill to that effect proposed by Mr. Barclay was cciaf etel be a majority of two. On the subject the Jame lea Deapaft A Lass: The Ilnune is taw.* may be said to have crowned the work of mat-legislation by it. wowf to appoint an agent. lf ever there was a period when it was peeuliar.y neve:earn that Joontea should be represertnl to I...milun by an able advocate, well instructed and in. formed in the ne ensities of the colony, WA( time Is the orenent. We never agreed in the uswine economy of abolishing the °thee of inland agent ; but had we been ever ao strong an advocate for the suspen sion of the .. monument last ...ion, we Phalli feel that the present COCA India question abKll44llO, jus'alled its revival. The committee aepotnted by the House of Assembly to inquire into the deer. wed state of agriculture in this island, the cause of such deptetsion, the extent of abandonment of cultivation and breaking up of sugar and coffee factories, which has taken phee since the passing of the British Emancientiort Act in 1832, had rep trted to the house: That niece the passing of the British Slave EmuncipaCon Act, of the 6,3 sugar estates then in cultivation in the inland, 140 had teen eh.', , ewed, and the works broken up, containing 165,632 wren of land, and employed in the cultivation of 22,553 puncheons of rum. That theme preemie , now extinct, produced, in the year 1512, 14,175 hogsheads of auger, and 5,903 puncheons of rum. That during the same Dere° I, 40 coffee plantations have been atondoneil, an l their works broken up, containing 109,400 acres of land, and having employed in their cultivation, in , the year 1032, 26,e,10 labourers. That of 134 sulfurgl'en en evidence, the eeePo made in 1532, were-25.928 labda of sugar, and 10,009 puncheons of rum. In 1547, 17,339 lihds. super, and 833 phns. rum, showing a decrease of 5,369 hada. sugar, and 1,677 phns. rum. That upon certain estates shown to have had attached to them, and engaged in their cultivation in the year 1832, 41,820 labourers, there now remain resident on those properties only 13,973, the others, amounting to 27,817, having generally become indepeadent eettlere. That the sum of 1,405,1971. les. 11d. was expended in the culti vation and manufacture of 37,006 hogsheads of sag a, and 26,711 puncheons of rum, giving the result that, after de duties proceeds of the rum, avenged at 141. per pan theon, the actinil met of sugar averagid 11. 2.. 7,d. per cwt., con sequently, that is its value te now, by slave competition, reduced in the British market to about 13., exclusive of charges, it is self evident sager cultivation cannot be continued; that there le an actual loss on every ewt. of is. 710., witbout biking Into account interest on capital, and on mosey expendsd, equally, at the least, to is. 64. more per cwt.; while, aa regards ma., the evidence M conclusive that it is, if possible, even in a worm condition. That it is shown by the evidence, that up to the present )car, funds have been regu larly at command to pay labour. That the plough and other implements of husbandry have been used in all cases where practicable. That except it might be about the factories, machinery cannot,be mode more available as a substitute tor labour. That in re spect to immigration, the Asiatic labourers have not been found to answer the purpoaea or the country ; while, on the other hand, the Africa= hate proved eminently u-eful, as shown especially in St. Thomus in tue haat, where, from their numbers, the estates on which they are located have lath able to keep their factories at work don lug Saturdays ; and to have their general labour better performed. That from the now independent condition of the mass of the people, the command of labour has become exceeduagly precarious, often not to he had at all when most wanted; that hardly In any case will the people work on estates for more than five days in the week; that in severe! districts they refuse to work more than four data in the week ; that the average time of field labour Is from floe to six hours a day; that the Labour given for the wages in not only inadequate u, quantity, but generally ill performed; that on the anniieroary of freedom, oral at Christmas, the entire agricultural population spend from one to two weeks is idleness; that in thine districts this is ph. the case at Easter; that et all these periods, even Lf the canes are rotting on the ground, and the coffee falling from the trees, no rots of stages will induce the people to work, and that labour continues to become more totem every year by the people withdrawing from the plantations. That the queetion now left for the nraish government to decide is, whether, putting the ruin of the colonists altogether out of view, the national interests will be promoted by annihilating sugar too roffee cultivation in Its own (Monies, the inevitable effect of which must be, and that serenity, to trawler to fureiguers u high-priced monopoly of those in the BeltiM menet. Mourning that such canine be the wi-b of the government, or people of Englthd, it is matter of drop interest how the Belau the calamity is to be averted. It has been shown that, even with motection, many of the properties have been ruined by the emancipation tee +sure, and that all have been meet seriously Injured; that rugrir cannot be pro duced in Jamaica under 270. per cwt. to give common intere,t on capeal, while in Cebu your committee are well informed that 123. per cot. is it remunerative price In this state of things it so self-evi dent that whatever palliatives may be applied, nothing but protection in the home market can avert the immediate abbindcounent of Lugar and coffee cultivation in the British robe:ties. Ina ratio as the means of labour are provided. the &meant of protection may be safely with drawn, until nt no di-taut period these valuable possession , ' dab again ountribute, as they formerly did, to the national width and pro:canny. la the ineautime the only alternatives are, protection or destruction. The committee recommended that the eatntance of this report be enaliodled in a memorial to her Majesty. 'rRINIDAD.—A meeting of the shareholders of the West India bank resident in this island took place on the 17th Dec. It was then decided that a committee (to consiet of Messrs. Fuller, L wh, and Fat) should be app doted to investigate the affairs of this branch of tho bank, and that two of their number should proceed as a deputation to Barbados, to be present at the general meeting of the directors to no held there on the sth of Jan. We (Pot of Spain Gazette) know that we are only giving utterance to the feelings of the whole community when we express our hope that the result of this approaching conference will be the speedy resumption of business by an institution that has been of such extensive service to this bland, and in the prosperity of which we are all of us more or leis interested. The same paper says : We omitted to notice in our last the arrival of her Majesty's steamer Growler, 22 days from Sierra Leone, with 341 cap tured Africans and 14 delegate.. Ws regret to say that there had been no less than 45 deaths from dysentery, and that the captain also died on the voyage hither. The people seemed cheerful, but still suffering somewhat from the debi lity consequent on their treatment on board the slaver. We believe they have all, or nearly all, been distributed to appli cants for their services. BAItBADOES.—Mr. Robertson, the secretary of the West India Bank, has published a letter, in which he states this strong tact in support of the liabilities of the con cera, that by the Lot montnly balence-sheet there was in cash on hand and due to the bade, a surplus of 101,604 deb.l 63 cents. It, yond the amount due by the hank on deposits! and notes in circulation in the island. A metting of the shareholders of this bank took pia e on the 23rd of Weember. The report was read, and the reasons assigned for the suspension of payment by the beak are given thus by Cm manager, who raid: In the first place I think it attributable to the failure of Prima. Ward, and Co., New York, vetch caused an interruption to buoimee with that agency. &meetly, an advance Wok place in ex change In America, which occasioned a corresponding the here. At the oatue time the Commissariat was urgetiating government paper here at a lower exchange than the hooka. In the third place lawas acting in accordance with direction in a letter from the secretary—Mr. Robertson, datei the 23rd Ode. ber, 1847, desiring caution ill the negotiutiun of bills of exchange." The mere*. y stales—" that when he discovered that there would Mt a deficiency of specie, from the proceeding+ of the cornmiseariet, issued circulars to the managers of the branch banks (this branch included) to prepare by remittance to protect the credit of the institution, in London; and thereby have the means on which at all times he could raise specie, by gelling at St. Thomas or otherwise, where thecae could be procured on the most advantageous terms. ilia iustructions in - friniciad were, to a certain extent, Hot curried out, from necesaity ; and in liarbadoes, no attention wee paid to them, that he could perceive. The murmeer's utter disregard of his instructions and recommendations, and his neglecting to answer letters addressed to him by order of the directors, canoed him at hat to abstain from advising him, ant I be saw the maid approaching, when he stated to the manager that We comminsary.general hod informed him that he was prepared Cu receive trailers for a very large amount ; and thelised that he (the manager) should look to the names of the parties having th- means of drawing upon him, that he might prevent their tendering for bill, and thereby prevent disappointment to depositors. That at that time the manager 11411indispoeed as to health, but his duties were still carried on. That at that time there I were no funds in the banker's hands that he could attempt to draw fur, the capital and deposits of this island having been atatobred in oral advance." The committee found that undue accommodation to a large amount had been given to ludic - M.ls, whose accounts show them heavily in debted to the book. They also find that each credits to • very large amount have been granted from time to time by the directors; and which in many instanced have not been operated upon benencially to the bank. The manager has also incautiously suffered one of them to be drawn upon before the necem.ry security bond wart completed; and imprudently allowed many—including some current or run- Theeta, to he oyerdnewn to • very considerable amount. committee have examined the aeoounts and document.) sub mitted to their inspection to the 27th of November last; and they think that after all engigemente are token into consideration, and estima ting a very liberal allowance fur i.e, there will he a large ourplua of the paid. up capital remaining, and by collecting the debts firmly, but with discretion, considerably reducing the cash credits by closing some of them altogether, and by lessening the amount of others; by tee delimitate granting a few months de. (maniac under an allowance of full interest; by adopting • different system of management, and placing the oitablishmeut under an active supervision by a commission—the committee see no reason why the bank may not at a given time resume operation. A resolution was ultimately adopted that the report brought up be referred to the directors for their considera tion, and for any obervations they may think fit to make on it—and that this he expected from them at their next general meeting, on the sth January. The legislature was opened by the governor with the usual form on the 30th of Dec. THE SOUTHAMPTON PORTION OF THE INDIA MAIL. —The Indus, with the second portion of the .set overland India mail, arrive dat Southampton on Saturday. She ex perienced dreadful weather in the Mediterranean; both topmasts splintered by lightning. VW Court. WINDFOR, SUNDAT.—Yesterday, the Duke of Norfolk, Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston, and Sir R. and Lady Gardiner took their departure from the Castle. The King and Queen of the Belgians visited the Duchess of Kent, yesterday afternoon, at her residence, Frogmore-house. The royal dinner party at the Castle yesterday evening included the King and Queen of the Belgians, the Duchess of Kent, MAIL and Madame Van de Weyer, La Marquise de Trarlynies, Ludy I , 4uny Howard, Baroness de Speth, and Major de Meerkerke. The Queen and Prince Albert, the King of the Belgians, the ladies and gentlemen of the court, and the domestic household attended divine service, this morning, in the private chapel of the Castle ; the Ron. and Rev. C. L. Courtenay officiated. The Queen of the Belgians attended divine service at the Roman catholic chapel, Spital. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, accompanied by Prince Fredtrii k of IL sae, and attended by Lady Augusta C ...Innen and Baron Knescbeck, 'mired at their residence at Kew on Saturday, trom honouring the Duke of Rutland with a visit, at Belvoir Castle. Viscount Palmerston arrived in town on Saturday afternoon, from Windsor C vele SURVEYOR OF TILE NAVY.—CaptaiP Sir Baldwin Wake Walks, K.C.8., to whom is offered the appointment of surveyor of the navy, is expected in England, from the Pacific, vui Panama, by the neat West India mail steam packet. Mr. Edvc, the deputy surveyor, has been granted the salary of surveyor, namely, at the rate of 1,0001. per an num, since the retirement of Sir William Symonds.— United Service Gazette. MR. PENDARVES, M.P.—The rumours respecting the decease of the hon member for West Cornwall (E. W. W. Pendarves, E-q.) are invorect ; the worst fears were enter tained by hi. friends of his recovery, but happily accounts have bscn rev. iced which warrant a belief that the health of the hon. go:lle:inn has rallied, if not pronounced out of im mediate danger. THE WEST INDIA ASSOCIATION. —On faraday, the 27th instant, a deputation of the West India Association, Brook-street. consisting of the following gentlemen, were in troduced to Earl Gres-, by Mr. Pattison, the member for the City of London : Dr. Hodgkin, chairman ; Dr. Norton Shaw, hon. sec.; Mr. Mai., Mr. Geddes, Mr. Land, Mr. Cargill, Dr. Fergusson, and Mr. H. li. Cohen, of Jamaica; Colonel Warren, of Demerara; Captain Sughrue, of Trinidad ; Mr. Jahn Hodgkin, Mr. Cornelius llandbury, and Mr. Robert Alsop.—Mr. Pattison, in introducing the deputation, stated that among those introduced to his lordship were several determined free traders; that he (Mr. Pattison) did not wish to identify himself with the question advocated by the deputation, and that he would leave them therefore to speak for themselves.— An address was then read by Dr. Norton Shaw, stating that the deputation represented some anti slavery gentlemen, as well as some West Indians, and that there were same free traders among them. It recommended a permanent differen t tial duty on slave-grown sugar. His lordship listened to the address with much apparent interest, and acknowledged the great importance of the subject, which he stated was occupy ing the serious consideration of her Majesty's government, and the result of their deliberation would very shortly be made known in parliament. —Dr. Hodgkin then stated to hie THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 31. 1848. lordship the reason why many of the friends of the anti• slavery cause had thought it their duty to join the colonists at the present momentous crisis.—Mr. Meis briefly but forci bly represented to bin lordship the present position of the colonies, and the necessity for speedy and immediate relief. —Mr. Geddes brought to the notice of his lordship the falling off of the revenue of the colonies, upon which the support of the civil, relleious, end educational institutions of the country depended.—A discussion then ensued en the internal taxa tion of the colonies, which his lordship thought woo con. ducted on unsound principle. and suggested a considerable alteration in the mode by whi ch the revenue wen raised his lordship pointed out the importance of shifting . the in direct taxation upon articles of consumption imported into the colonies to a direct and fair taxation on land ------__ _ in the shape of a quit-rent. He was opposed to the present system of taxing stock, which tended to diminish their num ber, and consequently the quantity of manure, so indispowser blotto high farming.—Mr. John Hodgkin, in a clear sad lucid manner, pointed out to his lordship the criminality of any encouragement of slave labour and the slave trade. The very fact that British capital was being transferred to slave countries must be considered as immoral so long as Great Britain considers the slave trade illegal, unchristian, and inhuman, and by treaties with foreign powers has declared it to be piracy. The question of colonial free ports having been suggested, his lordship replied that that depended entirely epee the colonial legislatures themselves ; for since the differential duties had been removed, there existed no objection on the part of the government to the measure : the adoption of it would be left entirely to the colonial Irgishie tures. His lordship instanced the colony of South Australia as one in which the principle of taxation which he recom mended had proved emiuently tuccestful. During the lengthened and interesting interview which the deputation had with his lordship they experienced the utmost attention end courtesy. CALLS TO THE BAR. - MIDDLE TEMPLE.—A further call to the bar of students of this society was made on Satur dee, evening. They comprise the after-mentioned gentlemen: W. H. Iliggin, Esq., E. It. Sutton, Esq., R. B. Miller, Esq., and D. C. Majoribauks, Esq. THE SUPPLY OF GAS TO MARYLEBONE.—On Saturday, at the meeting of the Marylebone vestry, the third amended report of the gas committee appointed to consider the terms upon which the Western Gas Company shall be admitted into Marylebone, was brought up for consideration. The terms of the report are exceedingly favourable to the Western Comp iny, reducing the security from 15,0001. to 10,0001. ; granting them permission to lay down their mains on the completion of such security, to be completed within three years, with power to enter into a contract, six months previon to the present contract with the Imperial Company expiring, to light the public lamps of Mari lebone with gas, or some other equivalent, until their pipes are IaSI ; with the proviso, that it they enter into any arrangement or corn bantion with any other company the vestry shall have the power of cutting off their supply. The report was strenu ously opposed. and carried at last by a majority of only one —34 voteg to 33. THE NAVIGATION LAWS.—REFUSAL OF THE LORD MAYOR TO ALLOW A PROCESSION TO PASS THROUGH THE CITY OP LONDON.—On Saturday a meeting of the delegates of the shipping interests at the ports in England was he'd fur the purpose of adopting measures and making the needs ' eery arrangements for 20,000 sailors, with the masters and mates of all the vessels at present in the port of London, to proceed in procession to Buckingham Palace, for the pur pose of presenting a memorial to her Majesty praying that she would be graciously pleased ni t to give her consent to the repeal of the navigation laws. It wee agreed that the pro cession should Mite place on Wednesday next, if that day was approved of by the Queen. At five o'clock Mr. Heather and a deputation had an interview with the Lord Mayor, who, after ascertaining the object in view, expressed his opi nion that so great a body passing through the City would put • stop to business, and aright tend to much tumult. lie could not, therefore, traction the intended procession, but recommended that, if the tailors should be determined upon going to the palace in procession, they should go as far as Westminster by water. THE ARCTIC EXPEDITION.—Another expedition, to proceed by B hring's traits in search of Sir John Frank lin and his gallant officers and men, is to be immediately fitted out, under the conduct and command of Capt. Sir James Clark ROAD. This expedition is to consist of two ships, which have been purchased of Messrs. Green and Wigram, of Blackwell. They are entirely new, and are to he appropriately named. the one built b Mr.Wigratte of 470 tons, after Co I's first ship, the En deavour; and the other, of 420 tons, built by Mr. Green, after the above dis tinguished circumnavigator's third discovery ship, the Reso lution. They are to be fitted at Blackwell by the lot of April, and will be commissioned in a few days. They will follow up Sir John Franklin's track to Baffia's Bay. THE Fas Non INVASION.—A correspondent of the Economist states that, in 1840, Admiral Lalonde gravely made the following proposal : I hare here at Tenedos, near the Dardanelles, 10 of our largest, best manned ships, and near me arc anchored B smaller Engli.th ones of 12 guns and under. I will undertake suldenly to burned capture them; then sail to Alexandria and fit out the II Egyptian and 9 Turkish men of.war lying in that harbour ; will proceed thence to Toulon, where 30,000 soldiers can easily he aese-ebled as if for Algiers; and with an united 33 or 40 dill of the line will take the Engli.2l unprepared, and di-ernbark the army on the coasts of either Britain or Ireland. Two dicidons of my fleet shall neat be sent off to seize the British colonies in the Paint and West Indic, The WRECK OF TIIE AvENont.—A letter dated Malta. Jan. 8, contains the following passage : " Some ,curiosity has been excited and hopes raised by a Hal' ate brig which passed the Island of Gaeta on the night of the 2nd instant, reporting having seen a light on the island."—A letter from the British consul at Palermo, says the Observer, announces that a portion of the wreck of the lost ship has been washed on chore at the west coast of Sicily. Amongst other matters there have been found the body of an officer in uniform lashed to a spar, a boat, and • carronade gun, marked Avenger, 181 b. Some surprise is felt, not only at the distance from the wreck where those pertions have turned up, but else at the state of the current', which would make the place appear • most unlikely one from whence to expect any tidings or anything to elucidate the melancholy catastrophe. —This admits a faint hope that some of the wrecked crew may have got upon the island—A. correspondent of our own, who came over in the Montrose states that there were at Gibraltar no further accounts of the sad loss of the Avenger and her crew, but Lieut Redo, who was the only officer saved, had written to some one there. Mr. Speed, of Gibraltar. merchant, had a brother on board as captain's clerk, and showed me a portion of the door-frame and lock of the master's cabin, and marked on the bran lock " lar board aft." We learn frost Portsmouth that the officers and crew of her Majesty's ship Excellent, at that port, have subscribed a ilay's pay for the widows and orphans of the seamen end marines lost in the Avenger, steamer; an ex ample which will &lob lees be followed by most ot the ves sels in commission. The allotments to tee men's wives and relations have this week been stopped. Loss or LIFE ON THE RIVER.—About 8 o'clock on Saturday evening a lighter, named the Charles, laden with send, belonging to Mr. Reading, of Bankside, sunk under the centre arch of London-bridge, by which accident this passage has been stopped. The hands neglected to lower the mast in time; it struck against the arch, and canted the vessel over. There were five hands ea hoard, two of whom were drowned, James Duggen, the captain, and Miehail Harris. ATTEMPTED SUICIDE AT SLACKPRIARB•BRIDGE. On Saturday afternoon, between three end four o'clock, a young man, named Charles Bettie, a clerk to Mr. Watson, the solicitor, of 12, Bouverie-street, Fleet-street, made a desperate attempt to destroy hie life by leaping (rem the centre of Blackfriam-bridge into the river. Several persons who were passing noticed the party suddenly mounting the bridge, but before they had time to get up to him, he plunged headforemost into the water. A steamer passing at the moment nearly went over him. Mr. R. War., the pier master, sent off a boat, and the man was picked up ap parently lifeless. He was immediately taken to the Glaziers' Arms, Water-lane, where he was placed in a warm bath, and the usual remedies having been resorted to, recovered reffi ciensly re. elite that he had a wife and two children, and that they resided in the Muscovy-road, Bayswater. He said he was sorry for having attempted to destroy his life, and could give no reason for so doing. FIRES. —IN HOLBORN. Yesterday morning, shortly before one o'clock, a fire broke out upon the pre mises belonging to Mr. James Voile, auctioneer, situate at No. 288, High Holborn. The discovery was made by some of the neighbours in the opposite houses, who saw smoke pouring from the upper windows. All the inmates, with the exception of a child in bed asleep, were able to get out without much ditticuley, but their attempts to rescue the child were frustrated by the smoke and heat. Several engines were shortly on the spot, and one of the Bremen, named Stagg, upon learning that a child was in the premises, succeeded at no little personal risk in tercing his way through the smoke and heat, and sure. eded in bringing the child out in safety. The fl toles shortly spr, ad to the whole of the second and third 11 sirs, which, together with the staircase, were blazing away with such impetuosity as to threaten destruction to the surrounding prelates". The fire men, however, succeeded in getting the conflagration extinguished by two o'clock, by which time the upper fleas were destroyed, and the lower part seriously injured. The building and its contents were insured — Ix FARRINGDON-BTREET, on Saturday morning, about nine o'clock, smoke was observed issuing Irons the premises et Mrs. Slade, in Besmalley, Farringdon-street. The et gines of the Linden brigade, from Farringdon-stree . , quickly at tended, and upon the firemen entering, they found Mrs blade M • general blaze on the floor, near the fire-place. After con siderable trouble, the tire was extinguished, but not till she was burned almost as black as cote The unertunnte woman was removed to Bartholomew's Hospital, where she remains, without the least chance of recovery. How the disaster occurred is unknown ; but it is believed that the poor crea ture had been seized with a fit, and fell into the tire. INQUEST-', SATURDAY.—DEATH BY FlRE.—Before Mr. W. Carter, at the Prince of Wales Tavern, Brixton-hill, relative to the death cf Mary Ann Spicer, aged 52.—Mr. J. Mathews, of No. 9, Church-row, Brixton-hill, • merchant, deposed t hat the deceased was his cook. On Wednesday night lest, whilst witness and his family were in the dining room, they were alarmed by the shrii les of females, and on witness hastening into the kitchen, he found the deceased enveloped in a mass of flames. Witness and the housemaid brought her to the back-room, and endeavoured to put out the tire, bet she broke away from them, and ran into the yard, where they again seized her, and rolled her on the grass, but the deceased, in her agonies, a second time got away, and ran across the garden to a water butt, where she turned on the tap, but there was no water. Witness seized a mat, and, with great trouble, succeeded in extinguishing the burning clothes. Deceased was carried into the house. and promptly seen by Mr. Wray, a surgeon, who dressed the buns which almost covered the body. She died in a few hours afterwards. She said she was reaching from the menteLpiece, when her apron taught, and be fore she detected it her gown also became limited.— The Jury returned a verdict of " Accidental Death."— A CHILD SCALDED TO DEATH BY A CUP OF TEL.—Be fore Mr. Carter, at the White Horse, Waterside, Wands worth, upon the body of R. J. Fennel, aged 2 years. On Tuesday afternoon the mother of the deceased, who is wife of a gentlemen's coachm►n, was sitting at tea, when the de ceased caught hold of a cup full of scalding tea, and upset it. Part was spilt on his neck and shoulders, and some entered his ear. The poor child linicred two or three days, when death ended its sufferings.—Verdict, " Accidental Death." REPORT OF THE ACTING COMMITTEE TO - —.-- THE STANDING COMMITTEE OF WEST INDIA PLANTERS AND MERCHANTS. This document was presented to the West India body on the 26th instant. The most important passages are here subjoined. The following. is the view taken by the acting committee of the operations of the Sugar Dutirs Act. It will be observed that no allowance is mad, for the late commercial crisis. The West India interest have suffered like every other; but all their sufferings are attribute l to • cause special to them selves. This is not very logical. Since the last half-yearly meeting the apprehensions which the committee expensed in their remonstrance to her blajesty'e govern ment, previous to the passing of the existing Sugar Duties Act, have unfortunately been realised to • large extent -as all who Mawr any in terest In West loins property know by their own painful expel icooe. The depreasinn under which they now suffer must be chiefly a, ribed to the operation of that measure. It in true that the supplies of sugar from the llntish porecoiona and those foreign countries which are called free, have at the s one time been considerable, and the decline in the average price of West India eager ha. been coincident with ■ I great reduction is the value of many other articles ot general con , gumption. The ardent advocates ol equal duties, who feel no concern to penetrate beyond the surface of the subject, have hence inferred that the Materna can only be temporary, and that norm wilt partici pate in the advance of prices waich they assume will shortly take _ _ place. Without denying that simper mist be favourably influenced by say general improvement —ire weiervaltaing the competition of the eastern enintriee —the committee regret that they cannot concur in the ebeer ful views thus prevented to them. The coincideece of reduction in the value of other articles cannot alter the facts which peculmrly affect srer. Ihe greet decline in the Gaterefe average began pr.. cinely at the time when the that large supplies of *lave-labour produce tensed, and continued until the price became so low as to fume ex portation. low as the price now te, however, it is nut lower than the eaten nt which dam mpg has been sold in this market fur peal, pus!, ae will he erne by the following statement of the prices of ordinary yellow Minute, the description which affords the must cotrect comparison that ma be made with the average quality of the whole West India import. Porto Rion sugar was also sold in band during the five years preceding 1446 at priees varying from 17s. to 215. An, the price quoted in letters received by the last picket is 2i to 3 dollars per quintal free on board, being equal to Ills. to Its. per cwt, to which may be added to. for freight sod charges, making together 16. to Ins. tercet. here. The uveram prices of ordinary yellow Havana sugar, as nearly as they can oe ascertained from the piece current, have been to follows : In 1841 1842 1843 1814 1443 1818 1817 If the differential duty had not existed daring the last year the importers might have cold this seem at 6s. to Le lees. These tact, leave no room to doubt that the slave countries carrying on the , lase trade will oontioue to increase their production of auger at the price which ha+ hitherto afforded them, not merely profit, but eufficient encouragement to exteud their cultivation. It is never. thelem alleged that a differential duty upon rJave taw could no, prove beneficial to the West hells, beesuee they would 'eat bare to compete with India and Meuritioa, and eventually oleo with Jaen, Siam, Manilla, and China 'I he competition of these countries would certainly sonars ample supplies at moderate prices, but it must depend upon various considerations, for their circumstances are extremely different. It in unneffigeary to enter into any examination of the met of pro duction in Mauntma or Inane— or, though recent experience h furnished correct informauen fn the place of the conjectural state ments which were formerly set forth re-pecting the capabilities of these posessione, the it...tinhorn , conne , ON with them have severally made representations to her Majesty's government within the last two months, which may be quoted as the best authority to which reference can be made. The Mewing , Association declare—" they can but come to one oonclueion —that unless an alteration in the duties, be made, conformable to the principle* suggested in their memorial dated 28th October (which prayed for a reduction on British planteti in imp, togs. 4d. per cwt., leaving foreign at 208.), and also the relief from reatrictions and inappropriate taxes upon the industry of the colony, be carried out fully and without delay, the once active, enter prising, and flourishing colony nt Mauritius will dwindle down and become a mere barren military lost." In like mariner the feet India Association state to her Mapsly's government, in their memorial dated 30th November— . et itheut an adequate differential duly be tween pagan the produce of India end those of outentrie. where *pave labour exerts British India most sink in the unequal compe tition." With respect to Java, it is perhaps ant generally known, that the eulUvation of exportable produce. in that Wend ia earred on by compulsory labour, under the immediate direction of government officers. They undertake to cultivate a suitable extent of I .nd upon defined terms for each sugar lector, who not only receives a loan to erect hie works but has also a contract with the government to take payment for their charge for eultiva ion in sugar, at apr the which affords him a certain profit. The government again are bound to amigo thi• Fuger to a privileged mercantile company far Pale in Hot. lend. Thus the greater part of the white production must be ma. veyed to that country, and cannot of mune come to this market, ma les, the company, winch comprise the meet influential interests In Holland, eheuld 'abandon Is. privileges—which ha hiehly improbable. Not only are the shareholders of the company and the greet ship owner, concerned in maintaining it, but likewise the proprietor. of the warehouses and docks, and the great mass of the merchants, brokers, and tradesmen of the principal ports. Under this peculiar system the production of Java has been artificially stimulated for the lest seventeen years, and it has been carried to n ooneidereble amount it appear+, however, to have attained its maximum in 1 815 , and to have succewirely declined in 1816 and 1147. The statements to this effect received by the committee ere confirmed by an intelligent writer, who has recently visited Java under circumstances favourable for proem ing correct information. He remarks, "neither sugar cane, nor any other produce, mil now be meth unframed in Java, tbe population being fully employed, and production of any kind can only be augmented in the rains ratio with the increase of population. The great inereare of late years in the production of sugar sal may be attributed to the cultivation of three article. being found more profitable than that of rice. Hence the rice-fields have been used for the planting of imager and indigo, until the present crop of rice is barely sufficient to supply the native consumption." Of China it it perhaps enough to observe, that a country which Im ports sugar for its own consumption, Is not likely to prove a formi. debt veal. Some importation. base been made hom Chins, but it is doubted whether the result hes been mtisfectory to the importers. The shipment. from Siam end Manilla, which are now ioconsidevable, may gradually increase. These countries do not, however, present much attraction fur capital, and then is no espectstion that they will advance rapidly. From this brief review it appears that, though the quantity of auger which may come from the eastern countries may be rao considerable no to keep the price here very moderate, they do not, as many knit !One, poems the power which the slave trade gives to the western ceuntries of indefinite or emblem extension. It in also too readily a tumid that the effect of a differential duty amine! Jam -emote would he raimear Wall the f ree countries. In Mauri tius and Indialthe plantations and factories would bemstaint d, but it is very improbable that such a duty would induce the formation of any new eatabluhmenta Throughout mot of the West India colonies, the sugar works are capable of mantifacillring nearly double their present production. The culueatioh them would consequently be ex tended, as soon as labour could be obtained, with great advantage, became the meths of manufacture actua.ly evet, and the fixed charges of every kind being di-tributed over a greater quantity, the net of production would be materially diminished. The Dutch go vernment and the Maatechappy Company are evidently little influ enced by our legielation. 7 heir permanent investment , in Jae., even if greater production were practicable, wou d be regulated as they have been exclusively with a view to the direct trade with Holland. Whatever may be alleged meatiest this policy, there duce not appear to be the leant probability that it will be abandoned. The memorial a dressed to Earl Grey in October last is next quoted at length : with this our readers are already acquainted. What follows relates to one of the many diplo. maic negotiations hetween the committee and the Colonial. office, which have studiously been kept secret—apparintly lest any expression of the public in favour of the West In dian.' claims might have induced the office to yield to it. The committee bare no desire to unit, rvalae any conception, hov erer paella', of their just claims—but they cannot regard the modified permasien, thus tardily granted, to convey emigrants at the espenne of the eolonies from certa.n parts of Africa as a measure calculated to yield any immediate relief, or to turnieh them epee dile with the means of maintaining an effective competition. It newt, even if sue cevallue be gradual in its newration—anal though it may eventually move very beneficial, it ia the least likely of all the measures that have been proposed with respect to emigratinn from Atria, to afford early ask. lance to the colonise The committee cannot better com pare the views they entertain on this eubjeet with that propounded I in Earl Grey's deemed] than by here to the suggestions which I they have on several ow adon, submitted to he lordship, though they apprehend that they have never commaneed much attention. e•CiiiiisrioNd opus Psiuoun,oo Thin Aran v In, list West INDIA COLONIvid.-1. All captured Flame who may be liberated at Sierra Leone, to be conveyed to and settled in the West India colonies, In stead of being left in the miserable state described by Gaiter - nor ger. guenn in his &seat b, d tied July 9. 1814, in the following terms:— . There persons who hare refused to emigrate, and have been so readily picked up by the ' , anted liberated Africans, are employed by them altogether as toweid eternise-they are fed —scantily, if at all clothed—sod have no pecuniary allowance whatever." Although the aloe-ships are curried to Sierra Lemne for adjudication, in compli ance with treaties • it appears by the not 5 tic, IV., e. 112, that the people who ere liberated may be tented wherever her Majesty's govern ment May, a^ their official atemrdane, determiue. In the West Indies they could oP sourer cern the means of comfortable pubsestenoe by ordnaury iieliptry, and in doing so contribute indirectly to the sup preasion of the slave trade of which they had been victims. 2. Three steamers to he employed as regular transports for the con veyance of em.feant from the welt c mutt of Africa to the three cob,- nied of Guian t, Trinidad, and Jamaica respectively, end of delegates from tees . colonies woo may desire to revisit Africa. Three steamers to be fitted and uatigattvl :as transports, and all the officers to be volunteers who have no reluctance to the service. The instruction to the commindere ought to enjoin them not •to interfere with the agents, but to afford them every possible facility and the most cor dial co-opirition in collectine and embarking entice - ode, and also that the people shall be allowed during the voyage all the indulgence that may be consistent with good order, and nut regaired to take any part m working the vessel. The inetruct he. to the suretom ouebt to explain that a strict exa mination of intending emigrate,ts is unneeewary, and that they are only required to be ratieffed of their being fit for work according to their appearance. The Africans have a great peel odic wronst such an examination no recruits undergo, because it is adopted by the slave traders before embarking their Ames, and it seems to be quite supertlu us is regard to emigrants for agricultural labour. 3. Licensee to granted by the Secretary of State to all suitable vessels for which they may be required, authorising them to proceed, properly fitted mid prepared to receive paikAelliicri according to the Act, to any of the British nett temente, or the Krowsountry, on the west coast ef Africa—and there embark emigrants for any of the Brinell iolotees in the West Indira Every ship so 'armed to have a surgeon on board, Vigo shall be appointed to act as the govern ment agent. 4. A proclamation (which shall be prepared here) to be teemed in the name of her Majesty, and extensively distributed along the mast of Africa—where Engiish is eery genteelly undereetund —eetting teeth the great advantages chick emigrants would enjoy in ploceedine to her Majesty's free colonies in the West India as —and intimating that for the good or the people of Africa her Majesty has dettrmir.ed that license,. shell be granted and errangemenu• male for providing suit able ships In wtoeh all persons desiring to emigrate accordingly may take passage without any charge., and be under the protection of her Majesty's government. That in the Briush Wen lodge they will be assured& the most perfect freedom. and good treatment, sa well at • employment at good wept. That they ma there find thou- Panda of Airicans and descendants of Africans all enjoying perfect freedom, metection, rebel°us iestructioe, beneticiel employment, comfortable houses, camel nt grounds for proclaim., and plenty of Uve stock. 5. As NIOn Man understanding can be effected with the govern- Men. of France, the United states, sc., to ensure exemption for licensed emigrant ships emu tee operation of the equipmtut clause, the chute west coast of Africa to be open to them—and proclamation made that all who desire to enigrate to the British colonies will be assured of freedom and protection from the moment they can come within • British settlement or embark under the British flag. Thus emigrant ships might afford opportunities fee escape to rem tees from Oporedaiioll even in the very haunts of the slave trader, and directly inter fore with his succeee—end, according to the apemen of the late Goveroor Maclean, it is probable that great numbers would flee to Ceps OassiCesZio. Some fair enough hits at the inadequacy of the emigra•ion contemplated by government follow. An argument is than raised to show that the committee bays a right to agitate for the repeal of the existing Sugar Duties Act. The argument is not very conclusive, but the right is beyond dispute. The committee have been secured of asserting claims that are In consistent with the solemn decision of parliament. But they deny that the existing sugar law can be regarded as a deliberate act of the parliament—much lees of the country. It wee proposed at the dose of •the seselon, when all parties were exhausted by the virulent debates on the ears laws—and when five hundred metatera of the Howe of Commons and a greet majority of the Bowe of Lords wens absent. Every one felt that whatever bee &Weedy'. new ministers proposed at that peculiar juncture must he adopted. No thing could prove the influence of this meting more clearly than the speech of Sir Robert Feel, in which he strongly dimpprored of the immure, and yet confined the necessity of voting for it, merely to maintain them in office. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, nod other members of the government, m proposing and supporting it, ell mourned very confidently that the of the experiment to Ise. made would prove summed. Sir Charles Wood expressly called the measure en experiment, for in quoting a petition trout the Anti—Slavery Society of Liverpool, in which they referred to their expectation of that mimeos a the most effectual means of suppressing the elate trade and slavery, he declared that he looked forward meet sanguinely to the saccessfal result of this experi ment, about to be tried in the Went Indies." He further entered into an elaborate statement to foreshow the effect of the mt. He first alleged that, In order to caws a large consumption of sugar, it was necessary to to arrange the duties that the average gross price should he 435, which would leave the Casette average net mice of British plantation sugar 31. ; and he then said, " I believe that the effect of the duty we have fixed upon will be to bring down the price tom much and no more so will bring sugar into general consumption." • ;similar statement was repeated in the House of Lords by the Earl of Clarendon. In the einirse of his speech his lordship also expressed his confidence that the measure would he beneficial to the West India colonies, and that it would not afford any encouragement W the dare trade. On this last point he was particularly earnest, and even in sisted that it would tend to euppreee that traffic. Can there be any donut as to the total failure 'of all these expecta tions The decline in the peter of sugar, instead of Ss., as Contvra plated by the ministers, had ben las. The net Gn.tette t versge for British plantation slaw, which they predicted would be 31s, vaies from 21e. to 210. The slave trade, which had previously been severely checked by the discouragement of slave-grown sugar, has revived and indented, and is as vigorous, as erer. The "experiment" has, more over, proved disastrous to the colonies. There ran, therefore, be no inconsistency in revising a law which has so signally failed to accom plish the protessed purposes of those who proporsd it--at .11 events it is a very fit subject fur the consideration of a new parliament. • • The only hint contained in the report of what the com mittee are actually driving at is contained in the folluaing brief paragraph : Ii fa now evident that, If the policy which was adopted by parlia ment, at the hutance oldie Hobert Peel, in 1448—t0 exclude shire sugar, and to admit the produce of all foreign free countries, at a dif- ference cf Ins.— had been faithfully pursued, the suppheeof frees•-laboar sugar would have been most ample at very moderate prices. From the British preseamons alone the quantity imported during the rear appear. to hare been about 280,000 tuns, and the contribution from India, as well an nom other eastern emantnes, would hare been greater but fur the check given to their predate by the Sugar Duties Act o[lBl6. IRELAND. DVALTS, JAN. 29. In the Erpnsi on Saturday we announced a terri ble catastrophe in Roscommon, fatal to an old gentle man and a magistrate, named Waldron. The follow ing extract from a private letter contains further par ticulars : Nolan, one of the bailiffs, was standing by, together with the police officer and the police, when unfortunately a gun in his hand exploded in the air. All the parties witnessed and saw that itoccurred accidentally. Mrs. Waldron mode some remark. The police and the officer went for ward and explained how it occurred, and Mr. Wal dron appeared a tiafied ; but said that he had but one life to lose. Mr. Church (the plaintiff in the execu. tion) called on the coroner to do his duty ; that there were the goods inside the gate. The bailiffs then commenced to force the gate, and in a few minutes Mr. Waldron come forward, took deliberate aim, and fired on the bailiffs and police, who returned the fire, and Mr. Waldron fell instantly dead. The police afterwards captured a number of guns, yistole, &c., and five of the men that appeared in arms. Having got into the yard, the coroner m..de a seizure, and brought what was available to Elphin. One bailiff was severely wounded in the face, and a policeman in the breast, but I hope not mortally. There was a claim on the goods when seized, that they belonged to another person after Mr. Waldron's death. The valuable property had to be left behind, though seized, for want of a force to protect it, but with Mr. Church's consent. An inquest will be held by the magistrates. An unexpected event has just occurred in the Irish representation: Mr. Shaw, member for the Univer sity, is about to resign an honour so highly prized, and lately won after a most determined struggle. Yesterday he communicated his intention to his friends in the University, which created some surprise. 11l health, some disappointment, and a just desire to pay more attention to his judicial duties than was compatible with parliamentary attendance, form the combination of causes which produced this result. The political organ of the learned gentleman will pro bably communicate the fact this evening to his rural supporters, or with more probability it will, it pos sible, be restrained until steps are taken to ensure the success of a member less hostile than Mr. Napier. He will certainly be in the field, and not without many chances in his favour. The following is Mr. Shaw's retiring address : - - • - - - Kimmage Howe, Ratbfarnham, Jan. 27, 1819.—My dear sir, I feel that I ought not longer to delay the .nouneement of my intention to retire rom the representation of the university of Dublin. I was prevented by ill health from attending the early part of the present mein= ; and I am advised that I could not, without serums-risk, now, or within any reasonable time, strain undertake the laborious duties which I have endeavoured to fulfil for the bust eighteen yearn During that period, I have not been a dayaboent from the House of Commons while It was nitting—exoept for the purpose of attending my court at Dublin. I entered purlomeant unfettered by any pledge—l uniformly declared that I must consider the claims of my Judicial ofnee pars ' mount to all other; but I elated my determination to devote the re. moulder of my time to the parliamentary interests of my *mini ' menu, I believe that I have acted in the full spirit of that determi nation—less could not sit:sfy my own sense of duty in any times— above all in the., when the concerns of the ehtireb, the university, and the gentry of Ireland so peculiarly demand the unremitting and vigorous exertions of their repr, sentglis es. I ahall, therefore, upon the reassembling of parliament, like the proper measures tormenting my sea. Pray accept this further acknowledgment of your land support at the last el ction ; and believe me to be, my dear Mr, your obliged and faithful servant, Faxneatek S saw. The drawing-room, last night, was brilliantly at tended. 'f he fashionable throng had scarcely room to move with ordinary freedom through the extensive apartments. The Clare Journal states that the search for arms instituted by the police in that county has not been attended with success, and this on the heels of the special commission, which should have taught a sterner and more memorable lesson. The petition against the return of Sir William Somerville has been withdrawn. PRIVY COUNCIL.—Mr. Wilson Fitzpatrick, M.P for the Queen's o.unt7, and the represen'ative of the extensive ' Ussery estates in that county, is about to be nominated a member of the Privy Council in Ireland. Tice LATE REV. YATHEIL THOMAS MAGUIRE.—An even ing paper contains the following paragraph respecting the brother of this rev. gentleman, and his wile, which also creates painful surmises respecting his own death:—" Dr. Brady, of Gardiner-street, to whom the stomach of the brother of the late Rev. T. Maguire, as well as the stomach of his brother's wife, have been sent up for analysation, swore on this day, before the magistrates of the head•office of police, that the stomachs of both Mr. and Mrs. Maguire contained a large quantity of arsenic. They bad been in Dublin fur the purpose of administering to the will of the late Rev. T. Maguire, and had only returned to the country three days 60144 their dissolution. The parties supposed to be implicated in the transaction have fled." SPECIAL COMMISSION. CLONMEL, JAN. 27. The Chief Justice took bie seat on the bench this msrning at 10 o'clock, and about 11 was joined by the Chief Baron, who was aevented by illness from sitting yesterday. Dl into F. a or LOUD ORMOND'S UNDER STEWARD.—Merry and Philip Cody, the former about 35, and the latter about 18 or 19 years of age, were placed at the bar, charged with ' the wilful murder of E lmond Madden, at Killerney, on the 9th of July last. The indictment charged that the shot which :awed the death of the deceased was fired by Henry Cody, the ether prisoner having been present aiding and &misting. The prisoners, who were brothers, had not em ployed an attorney er counsel. Mr. Rolleston was assigned to the prisoners to defend them, which he had to do with outte the intervention of an attorney. After the lapse of some time, during which Mr. Rslleston wag occupied in ri riding the inturtuations of the several witnesses, the case was pro ceeded with. The Attorney. General stated the facts of the case, which were d.tehed by the witnesses, the first of whom was:— John Kelly : I live at Ballyknackin, and am a steward in the employment of the Marquis of Ormond, at the wood of Killerney. The deceased Elmond Madden was employed there as an LAil'allt steward over the women tuesged in barking the timber. I know the prisoners. On the 9th of July I left my own place to go to the wood. A. I was pass ; log through it I heard a shot, and heard Madden bawl. I knew h's voice. I looked alter I heard the shot, and saw the smoke, and observed a man, and then another, who ' bounced out close to where the first man was, and fired a eeeood shot. I afterwards heard a third shot, and saw the men who fired it. I heard Madden bawl immediately I after the fir*t shot, and before the second. After the ' Ifirst shot was fired he began to move away, and then the , two others were fired after him. Madden ran out at I the gap, and the three men followed him; the three shots were tired at him before he reached the gap. There were heaps of brushwood collected on the sides of the path along which the deceased was passing, and it was from behind that brushwood the men who fired the shots come. The persons who were pr sent did not pursue the murderers. 1 did not attempt to follow them myself for they were out of night in a minute. I turned back from the place and sat the people to work. The list of workmen was called over, but they did not all answer. There were 160 mea altogether. Henry Cody did not attend that day at all, but Phil. Cody came at one o'clock and made a half day. They were both at the work on the following day. They worked there all that day, but never after. Cross-examined by Mr. Rolleston : Elfin M'Grath was in the work, but I do not know whether she was there that 1 day.—To the Chief Baron : I was about thirty perches from the three men when they came after Madden.—Mr. Holies* ton read the informstiona of the witnes., in which he swore that b e saw Madden eery plainly, and knew him br his rain.—To Mr. &Wok*: Ikaow kis alasitas.—Dr. Cliarim Sloane pr.med that Madden died from the effects of a gun shot. . _ Mr. M. Ryan, resident magistrate : I went to see Madden after be was shot, on the same day, and found him ly' is an out-house. The first word he said was, Ah, sir, *ay have done my job at lest." He also said he did not expect to recover, that he wee almost off. He was perfectly in hie senses at the time. He told me the priest had been with him. I reduced to writing the statement he then made. lie said, " I hope you'll have an eye to my bit of ground, and have it settled on my eldest son." I took the statement from his own lips. He wrote the document now produced as his dying declaration, in presence of constable Herne; and Sir Charles O'Donnell, who accompanied the troops there. Sir Charles O'Donnell deposed that he was in command of the troops in the district, and that he heard the declara tion read to the deceased by Mr. Ryan. The deceased assented to the statement as it wan read, especially to that part of it that related to Henry Cody having tired the shot that inflicted the wound. The clerk of the crown then read the " dying declara tion" of the deceased. After stating that he had settled his affairs and received the rites of his church to prepare hies for appearing before his God, where he soon expected to be, the document set ;forth that Henry Cody was the person who fired the shot that wounded him, and that two other shots were fired at him, by Philip Cody, of Bober more, and a strange man whom he took to be Ned Kelly, of Kdeash. In his cross-examination by Mr. R 'Heston, Mr. Ryan stated that deceased had been once accused rat stealing a gun, but was not prosecuted because he gave information against those who had been concerned with him iu the offence. Sub-constable Flanagan deposed that he arrested the prisoner, Henry Cody, on the 11th of September. Witness saw him running from the wood with a gun in his hand, and, when witness came up near him, he snapped a gun at him (witness), and was raising the cock again when witness knocked him down. The} both fell together, and Cody got up and ran off again. Witness caught him going over a ditch, and, in the course of the struggle they had there, the prisoner wrested a pistol out of his hand and fired at him. Witness pushed up the pistol, and the shot pseud over his ►ead. After that witness mom the pistol from him and knocked him down, and kept him until the other policeman came up. It was a rifle the prisoner carried, and it was losdled with powder only. There were a powder horn and shot bag sod nine balls found on his person. Alter be was arrested he said the only thing he was sorry for was that he had not shot witness. Constable Nash deposed that the second prisoner, Philip Cody, was arrested in a corn field near his own house, where he was reaping, on the 24th August. The case for the prosecution closed here; and Mr. Rolle*. ton, in addressing the jury for the defence, pointed out how dangerous it would he to convict men upon the evidence supplied by a dying declaration. The Solicitor-General having replied, the Chief Baron charged the jury, who retired, and in about twenty minutes 'Cued the prisoners Guilty—Henry Cody of the murder, and Philip Cody of having aided and 'aided in it. The younger man received the dreadful announcement with much firm ness ; but it seemed to have considerable effect on the other prisoner, whose countenance and manner exhibited the an guish he felt at the moment. Sentence was deferred. ROBBERY.—LOADED Fine ARMS IN COl:RT.—Timothy Hogan, Michael Whelan, and Pat Coonan, all young men, were indicted for having entered the house of William Hackett, at Derrinvoldn, on the 26th of November, and rotrbed it of to veral articles of wearing apparel.—The prose cutor and his mother dep sod to the fact of the robbery by three armed men, but could not identify the prisotier.—Sub constable Sullivan swore that he arrested the prieenere on the night in question, three miles from the prosecutor's house, Hogan in a stable, where some of the articles stolen, with a gun and three pistols, were found. A man named Keane was also arrested on the occasion.—ln reply to the court, the witness said that the arms were loaded when he get them, and that people said the gun was taken from Mr. Little on the night he was shot.—Mr. Scott: Are the arms loaded now I—Witness : They arc sir.— Mr. Scott: Well, take care, sir; you ought not to be throwing them about in that way. (Laughter.)—Mr. Relies ton: Take care, you might shoot the law officers. (Laugh ter.)—Chief Justice : It is very improper to bring the arms loaded into court. What is the use of that I—Martin Keane (an approver) deposed that he was one of the warty who went to the prosecutor's house. Tins Hagan told him that he knew where there was a case of pistols, and asked witness to go with himself and the other prieoners to the prosecutor's. Witness had the large pistol produced. Hogan had a single . and a double-barrelled pistol, and Whelan a gun. When they went to the house Hogan demanded a case of pistols, but they dd not get them. They then took the clothes. — To Mr. Rolleeton : I was at the robbery of Wart, the pay chat, and got 71. of the money. I was also engaged in the robbery of arms, but I never fired at a man.—The prisoners were found Guilty.—The prisoners were sentenced to seven years' transportation. SCOTLAND. EDINBUROII, JAN. 20. The local agitation regarding the new police and sanitary bills for Edinburgh is still going on. 'lle oratory against the measures is characteristic. At a meeting of proprietors, one speaker summed up his speech by comparing them (the bills) to a mod dog, and proposing that the meeting should send the skin of one of these animals to adorn the walls of the council chamber, and to form a characteristic memento to warn the collective wisdom therein assembled, that they ought not to adopt such important measures without in the first place fully ascertaining the senti ments of t',eir constituents. After this rhetorical nwrreatt another party followed in a speech of great length, in which he ridiculed many of the provisions in the bills, and concluded by valiantly imploring the meeting to adopt as their motto, "No surrender of privileges to any man." The anniversary of Burns' birth-day took place on the 25th inst., and although it had wont to be a great day in Scotland, it is now little attended to except in Irvine, Ayr, and Dumfries. Lately a useless centre versy took place as to the morality of the poet, which was excited by some depreciatory remarks advanced in some periodical by the Rev. George Gilfillan, and after the shedding of no little apologetic irk has again been set at rest. In their heat the combatants ap peared to have lost sight of the real question at issue. Granting the existence of questionable matter in Burns, it wants that persistency of tone which characterises similar passages in Byron and others of a similar cast. As for Mr. Gilfillan—the defender of Shelley was surely inconsistent in assailing the ploughman poet. It is supposed that there are upwards of 12,000 unemployed persons in Glasgow at present, and serious considerations are beginning to obtrude them selves as to the means which ought to be employed for the relief of so much destitution, which has farther the appearance of increasing rather than diminishing. WALES. A HUSBAND POISONED BY lIIS WIFE AND DER PARAMOVD.—The following appears in the London Sunday papers of yesterday :—W. Howell., a fernier in the pat iott of Lenwellen, died on the 10th of Nov. last, but at that period no suspicion was en'ertained that he mm t his death other wise than from natural causes. Subsequently to his burial his wife and man-servant conducted themselves in a manner which excited suspicions. and variousperions living in the lo cality, knowing that the deceased cried without being attended by any medical person, were not slow in charging thew ife and her male servant with having murderii the di ceased. These charges came at length to the knowledge of Mr. Csroner Hughes, and assumed such • shape that that gentleman considered it necessary to hold an inquest. Aecordiogly, the husband's grave was re-opened for the purpose of making • post mortem examination of the re mains, and on Friday, the 7th icor., a reap. etable jury met the coroner at the Ilanbury Arms, Llanellan. The inquiry was ad journed, and the court was re-opened on the 14th, when, and upon several subeequent adjournments, the Mowing evidence was adduced : Jane Morg .n, a servant to ti canard, said that her muter enjoyed good health up to the oth of November last. Ile had some apple dumplings for supper that night, and shortly afterwards went to bed. The lest dumpling he ate his wife helped him to, which she &alit up the and put what she thought was sugar and milk upon it. The deceased, about ten o'clock, was seized with vomiting and purging, with excruciating pain, and he continued in that state till twelve o'clock the following night, when he died. , After the death, her mistress slept is the same nom with the man servant, named James Price. Witness and her mis ters; occupied one bed, and the man the other. She heard hi r mistress one night whilst in bed t.ll Price to" coin; and warm her bock," and she had frequently known of their 1,, lug in the bedroom together for 2 or 3 hours after witness got up. Shortly before deceased died, her mistress said it was no odds if she gave him • fatal dose. Atter the body was ex humed, she Raid, "it will be better for me to stand my ground, and then I shall not be suspected an much." She ' also said to witness, " If anything is found in his stomach you will be hung, secause you made the dumplings."--Mr. Steele, surgeua, who had made a post ;Norton examination of the body, proved that deceased hod died from the «treats of arsenic. He found a large quantity of that poison in a very limited portion of the stomach.—Edward Evans, a druggist, identified the wife as having purchased a penny worth of arsenic at his shop about the time deceased expired. —Mary Howells, the wife, having been duly cautioned by the woozier, denied having purchased arsenic. Davis, the registrar of the district for births, &c , said that J. Price applied to him for a certifi cate of burial. Review described the manor r he died witness refused to grant the order, and be advised him to apply to the coroner, as it would prevent ulterior pre ' etedings.—Themas Davies, &labourer, said he bad been in ' the service of Mary Howells about seven weeks. On Tues. l day last he went up stein to change his trouser& Price ac ' eompanied him to th 3 room, lehen he told wit„." to ;tyke theng tell whi which w he n d o i f d th ,t:. e r fiis isfhmo t grrr w tothli i d l ih.u h i ea e?gb s d:js , eoot u:ptdone He lookedrp ddp o T er in eer yed b . juni coroner, docrte suspicious ; di i out. Price then told him to put his hand into t he • ' e gown t she ..ecve, to i t him s Pricefto pen h s s poison—thatnb etu called b e d having summed up, left the CAW in the hands of the jury, who re turned • verdict of " Wilful murder against Mary Howells, the widow of deceased, and 3autha Price, nei :!r , "t;" !P ee I i whidt they were both cosateittod I trial at the Mat • t 1