The Express. — London, England, 1848-01-06 00:00:00

, . ght opprog. MAILS mails for Vigo, Oporto, Li.bon, Madeira, Cadiz, and Mrs.ltal will be made up on the morning of the 7th January. The overlend closed mills, rim Marseille., to the Merlittrranden Fgypt, Aden, Colon, India, liens Kong, he., will be maile up on Um evening of the 7th January. The mail, for linttnh North Animist, Berard., and the Unites States, will be made up on the evening of the 14th January. The West India Mail., excluding Bermuda, Nadeau, Ravenaa, Honduras, New Orleans, Very Crux, Tampico, and Porto Rico, and Including thaw for Madeira, Jacniel, Cwthagena. sante Martha, Chafe., Pattern., West Cosa of South Amcor.. and 0 1. Joan-d•- Nicaragua, will be mods up on the evening of the 17th January. The overland uvula taw Malta, Oreece, the I.lcoi Wands rgept, Aden, Ceylon. India,' lung-Kong, and China, via Southampton, will be made up on the mornine of the 20th January. The mails foe New South Wale', Van Diemen'. Land, and New Zealand will be made up on the evening of the 314 January. The mail, for the Rodeo, the River Plate, Monte View, Pernam• bum, Bahia, Madeira. and !Plena, Ayres, will be made up on Us ming onku 4th February. r ii . •ta TO CORIIISPONDKOTI. 1.41•41 F.tpook . Lesion ...slut papor. mast .I•••arls.osea.l., Toe lifelorl. Ole day of publisation. DIEM WATER AT LONDON 1111 JON. N.e—Eio•Ylf. ire Is After..o, it =IA P. 4 I . TANIoaas•—IANoNNLO pea ADA•easA asi• peat I. LONDON, THURSDAY, JAN. G. THE revenue returns for the financial year and quarter which terminated yesterday, though not more unfavourable than was anticipated, afford matter for grave reflection, and to public men a motive for active and intelligent consideration. The decrease on the year as compared with 1846 is 2,217,4341. ; the decrease on the corresponding quarter, 1,133,3131. This is the result when China money, imprest and other monies, and repayments of advances, are taken into account. The decrease for the year on the items of ordinary revenue is 1,261,2531.; for the quarter, 937,8741. These figures show that, as near as may be, one half of the falling off in the revenue of the whole year has taken place during the last quarter. Of the total decrease in the ordinary revenue of the year, considerably more than one-half (790,50-1/.), has oc curred in the excise collections. And of the total decrease shown by the excise returns, nearly one-hal: (:361,272/.) is attributable to the last quarter. These figures show that the privations which the recent great derangemeets in trade could not fail to occasion are now being felt to a greater extent than they have formerly been. They tell a tale of severe suffering among the lower classes, and the less wealthy of the middle classes; for it must be remem bered that the slight increase in the income-tax re turns must have been obtained by inertias , d strin gency in levying that impost, which falls most se verely on the last mentioned portion of the com munity. The falling off in the customs returns is less than might have been expected on the whole year: only 283,367/. This is about one-sixtieth of the total re ceipts from customs in the year 18111, whereas the decrease in the excise is little less than one-sixteenth of the total receipts from that source in the same year. In one respect there is a pretty exact parity in the returns of the customs and excise. In both, the returns for the two first quarters of the year 1847 are in excess of the returns for the eerresp:tn•'.ing quar ters of 18-16 ; in both, the decrease in the third quarter of 1847 as compared with the corresponding quarter of the preceding year is greater than that in the last quarter. The variation in the returns of 1816 from those of 1813 was scarcely perceptible. This indicates that, as was to be expected, the full permute of our embarrassments has only come to be felt considerably later than their existence was known or apprehended ; and (what is more consoling) that the slight revival of the last quarter gives room to hope that the worst hour has passed. The inconsiderable decrease in the customs for the year—it might almost be called an intr. atm when we reflect that last year the duties on grain yielded upwards of 600,0001, and that this year it has been imported fre: , cf duty— and the diminished decrease in the last fouler, would seem further to indicate that panic had no inconsi derable share in creating these suspensions of em ployment shown by the large decrease in the excise receipts, the best index of the diminution of consump tion. It is warrantable to infer from this that, notwith standing the great trials we have had to pass through, our real wealth—oar memo; of prosecuting industrial and speculative enterprise—have not been dimin ished to the extent that was at one time appre• hended. This conclusion is strengthened by the state of other items of the ordinary revenue. In stamps there is, with a falling-off in the last quarter, a slight increase in the year ; in taxes, the property-tax, and the post office, a alight increase, both in the year and the quarter. Severely though many individuals have felt the pressure of the times, the national energy and enterprise are hale and undiminished. The two main suggestions of these returns we are anxious to impress deeply on the minds of our readers. Their general aspect indicates undiminished elasticity in the national resources, and an apparent abatement of the pressure. The great reduction in the excise receipts for the two last quarters, and in the stamps, indicates diminished activity in some employments, and great privation among the less wealthy classes, extending upwards considerably be yond the mere working classes. The present is a time for the exercise of a judicious charity, in the confident reliance that our country will weather this storm as it has so many others, but with a prudent avoidance of too sanguine expectations that its end is immedi ately at hand. There is one other lesson that ought to be laid to heart. The year's revenue, which in 1810 was rather more than fifty millions, is this year little more than forty eight millions. The annual charge for the na tional debt amounts to about twenty-eight millions. The decrease of twomillions in this year's receipts, therefore, in so far as the portion of the revenue free to be disposed of for the purposes of administrative government is concerned, goes to reduce an income of twenty-two mil lions to twenty millions. This consideration points to a revision of taxation as preferable to mere reduc tion ; but it is conclusive against the throwing away of money on new fortifications and augmented armies in a time of profound peace, to soothe hypochondriac alarmist+, or allow military enthusiasts to ride their professional hobby. BAD laws and vicious customs operate injuriorsly on the morals of the classes they affect, yet individuals so affected are often unconscious of the evil. Now it is agreed, almost universally, that the laws which govern the relations of landlord and tenant in Eng land are bad, and that the customs by which hus bandry is incumbered are extremely vicious; vet not a few landowners who have been converted by the cys t( in into petty tyrants are altogether unconscious of the light in which they stand before the world. Men who are ready to claim the character of kind and con siderate landlords do, yet without knowing it, and of course altogether unwittingly, occasi , nally perpetrate the most grievous acts of injustice. The movement recently made by the English tenant farmers for some legislative enactment of tenant-right, as our readers well know, finds but small favour in the eyes of the landed proprietors, and no little irrita tion has on various occasions been expressed by them at the progress of tint movement. Doubts, too, have been expressed whether the particular form of relief sought by the farmers would afford them that measure of security without which agri culture cannot be profitably, or indeed, safely carried on. But of the fact that husbandry, as now actually practised by the better classes of tenant farmers in England under yearly holdings, is a business of un certainty and peril, there is no doubt. The possible opening for injustice, where landlords have the abso lute and legal power to confiscate a large portion of their tenants' capitals, has now been made too widely and plainly manifest to the farming classes for them again to become content under the existing state of things. It is creditable to the English landowners that the instances of actual exercise of this harsh legal power are comparatively rare ; but still they occur with sufficient frequency to show to the , farming capitalists the perilous insecurity of their position. We lately quoted from a speech made at the East Kent Farmers' Club, a rose of the sort, in which the tenant of a farm in Hertfordshire, belonging to Col. BIETHORP, was stated to have been compelled to leave his farm under circumstances of some oppression. That quotation, and the remarks we founded upon it, appear to have been shown to Col. Stianoltr —for lie says in his letter that iizt never looks into this journal—who, thereupon, addressed a letter to a morning contem porary, in which he says, "that the paragraph, as far as the calumny is kvelled against myself, is a tissue of gross falsehoods, evidently gm; up or fabri cated for purpose, that I consider will be sufficiently apparent to all well-thinking men without the necessity of any comment on my own part" The vehemence of the imputation of " falsehood" and " fabrication" against another, contrasts rather un pleasantly with the self-satisfied abstinence from all explanation of the why and the wherefore the op pugned statement is false, on the part of the writer of this letter. Colonel Siternoar must, however, be one of those landlords who are unconscious of acting un justly towards their tenants, for he says " I sever let a farm in my life ; all matters relating to the manage ment of estates have been carried on hitherto ' by . prac.ical, and I hope honourable and liberal minded persons, themselves farmers and tenants; and I am not aware that at the present time, and I may say for years, amongst a pretty numerous tenantry, 'early or tenant at will, I have had one between whom and myself the best feeling and understanding has not existed, with the single exception of the individual alluded to in this venomous attack en myself, with regard to whom I have been entirely guided, and shall continue so to be in my conduct, by the advice and assistance of those in whom, from their experience and proper feeling, I place every confidence." Now all this vague profession of " the best feeling and un derstanding" with tenants, is not inconsistent with great practical harshness produced by the exercise of the landlord's strictly legal rights. Col. SIDSHOIir'S intentions may be kind, but the law must be bad which has so much misinterpreted his intentions as exemplified in the case of Mr. Griihtnos. As this case has been the subject of much remark in Hertfordshire, and, notwithsianding the gallant colonel's general imputation of falsehood, will pro bably be often cited as an instanse of the hazard of yearly tenancies, and as a fresh illustration of the old distich, that Ile %rho hareem may sit ; Ile wth improves must tilt ; it may not be amiss to state some of the facts about which there is no dispute. Mr. (limns:Gs, of South Minims, Berta, occupied previously to Michaelmas last, for many years, a con siderable farm, of which a Mr. Casanayou was tenant for life. The farm consists of heavy land, of which a large part is in permanent pasture, from whence much hay has always been sent to the London market. Most of the land in the same district is used for hay farming, the tenants depending for manure solely upon that brought back from Lon don. Not so Mr. GinniNris ; he made and sold, it is true, much hay, but lie also kept great numbers of cattle, sheep, and pigs, and thus he not only had the manure brought back as a hey farmer from London, but also an immense quantity made by his stock upon the farm. In a word, he iv notorious in the district as one of its very best farmers. His farm has been in a constant state of progressive improvement ever since he has occupied it. Ile has drained extensively, and the abundance of his crops of both grass and grain , show that he has not dealt as a niggard with his land. Within the last two years, GiihiiNhs, noticing the failing health of his landlord, and aware that he had by his iinprovements created a beneficial interest in the farm, which might legally be taken from him by the succeeding landlord, applied to the future landlord, Colonel Snafu - me, for a lease. This was refused, and some indignation expressed at the request, as being a sort of imputation on the Colonel's honour. lie never tnrued out a tenant, and his own coachnym was appealed to to testify to the truth of that assertion. Could Mr. GIDDINGS he otherwise than satisfied ? Early in 1847 Mr. CisasasYtia died, and Colone SIBTIIONP breams landlord in his stead. Before Lady-day a notice to quit at Michaelmas was served upon GIDDINGS; ho sought—probably from those by whose advice the Colonel was guided—the reason, and was told there was no iutention to turn him out of the farm. He was again satisfied. Abont the middle of August last, however, he was informed that if he intended to con tinue to hold his farm after the then following Michaelmas, he must pay an addition to his rent of about 20 per cent., brink up forthwith a large portion of the pasture ground, and be restricted from selling hay or straw from the farm upon any terms. This wits such a complete and sudden change of system, and was conceived by Mr. atinfirccs to be so onerous, that he determined to give up the farm, though he would thereby sacrifice and lose a large amount of capital which had been invested in the laud. The sacrifice has now been made, the loss sustained, of which Col. Siwritofir ani his new tenant enjoy the benefit. This is obviously such a case as would have been mitigated by a legal tenant. right. What rendered this sudden change of systarn, apart from its intrinsic advantages or disadvantages, about which some difference of opinion exists, so oppressive in Mr. Gririasri's case, was the fact that lie had by him three or four years' stock of hay, for which he had brought upon the farm year by year the equivalent of manure, according to the course of good husbandry in the district. Yet all this he was coolly required to consume upon the farm. Now, if this narrative is true—and it is that of the tenant, a man of respectability and integrity—though possibly the landlord, as well as the tenant, may be the vic tims of a vicious system, it assuredly affords no war rant for the vituperation of the irate landlord, and certainly offers no tangible ground for his complacent self-laudations. The King and Queen, wit'i several members of the royal family and their suite, left Paris at one in the afternoon of Wednesday for Dreux, where the funeral solemnities over the remains of Madame Adelaide were to have been celebrated at noon yesterday (Wednesday). 'the royal mourners arrived at Dreux at seven in the evening. At four o'clock yesterday morning the hearse, bearing the remains, attended by the Dukes of Nemours and Montpensii r, and the Prince de Joinville, and a name roue suite, left the Tuileries for Dreux. The Princess de Joinville and the Duchess de Moutpensier remained at the Tuileries, and attended u funeral service performed in the chapel of the chateau. The Queen of the Ilel4ians arrived in Paris on Tuesday evening, and left for Dreux immediately. The King and royal family were expected at the Tuileries last evening. The business of the Chambers was suspended on Tuesday. The committee of the Chamber of Deputies on the address have required the attendance of the ministers to supply such explanations on the topics of the royal speech as may be desired. The quarrel between M. de Gerardin, editor of La Presse, and M. do Morny, which gave occasion to a challenge from the latter, has been satisfactorily arranged by the seconds. _ The arrangement under which the surrender of Abd-el-Kader has been accepted by the Duke d'Au male is the subject of animated attacks in all the op position organs. The despatch of the duke announc ing his surrender, declares that, after being defeated by the army of Morocco, he endeavoured to gain the south by the country of Iteri-Snassen, but found himself so surrounded by the troops of General Lamorieh7Te, that escapo being impossible he was compelled to surrender. But, it is immediately added, that on arriving in France he is to be sent by the government either to St. Jean d'Acre or Alexandria. If this be a condition granted as the terms of the surrender of the emir, why, asks the opposition, was it granted, seeing that the chief had no means of escape? Why was any condition granted in such circumstances? or, if a condition were given from a generous impulse, why a condition so infinitely obji ctionable and dangerous as this? The opposition then affirms that in Egypt or Syria the chief will be infinitely more dangerous than he was before his passage of the Moulonia.:But if this has not been a condition of the surrender, how has it come that the young Governor-General, in his proclamation, has taken upon him to dictate to the government what they are to do with the captive chief These questions, and the development of the views and arguments which arise from them, occupy a large space in the journals of Wednesday. It is hinted, however, that govt rnment intends to disavow this condition of promise of the Duke d'Aumale. M. Guizot being asked in the first bureau, of which he is a member, whether it is the intention ' of the government to send Abd-el-Kader to Alex andria or St. Jean d'Acre, answered that the inser tion of the report of the Duke d'Aumale did not imply any approbation of the arrangement concluded by the prince with Abd-el-Kader. "On the prin ciple of the question," said M. Guizot, I reserve my opinion. The government has not yet made up its mind upon it." The opposition insists that if the government refutes to ratify the engagement given mr•i•Niwitwim..wwig.- ,N ~T - whieh they wore about their persons. One Adrian() Ferreira called upon General Cazal, who was present, to put an end to such shameful conduct, but Cazal allowed the people to do as they wished, and Ferreira retired. Whilst this was taking place In the pit, several caceteiros and soldiers of the municipal guard ran through the passages to the boxes with bayonets and daggers drawn, in pursuit of oue Vasco Guedes. This gentleman, seeing himself pursued, took refuge in the private box of his friend, Geronimo Carueiro Giraldes, who being unable to defend him, he was again obliged to seek another refuge. He then entered a second private box which was occupied by strangers, where his pursuers again attacked him, and he would have been kill d had not the blow aimed at him been warded off by one of the persona in the box. All this happened in the public theatre, before the face of several of the authorities, who allowed it to take place, and pretended that they were unable to prevent it. • .'a ippmegamomm.mmemeN s • • V • 7' • 5 . • . ** i qI• • s"s • • THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 6,184 g. by the Duke 6:Aumale, that prince must necessarily resign. The Omstitutionnel gives the following letter rela ' ting to the circumstances which preceded the surren der of Abdel-Kader. OMAN, Dec. 26.—The Morocco troop', to the number of 3,000, closely surrounded the Deire, which effected the passage of the Monlouia under a most murderous fire, and protected by the wrecks of the regular troops of A.bdel- Kader, cavalry and infantry. The old troops fought bravely under the conduct of the Emir, who saw the greater part of his officers fall at his side. The half of his cavalry and one-third of his infantry perished in these different engagements, or rather in this uninterrupted battle. Uur troops were watching the defiles, and it was a detach ment of the Spahis, commanded by an officer, who met l Abd-el-Kader, separated from from his deira, after having conducted it to a place of safety. The Emir was among the Beni-Snassen, a tribe which had always been devoted to him, when, by the intervention of the Spahi officer, he en tered into a pourporler with Lieut.-Gen. De Lamericiere. The reply of the general having appeared satisfactory to the Emir, the latter repaired on the '23rd, in the morning, to the Marabout of Sidi-Brehins, a place rendered remarkable by the affeir which a feeble French colony there sustained in 1815. The aga of the regulars arrived at the head of 160 horse, in very good order, before Nemours (Djermna- Ohenout). This troop was at first disarmed, but, after a short address of General De Lamoriciiire, ending by thine words, " I have admired the bravery displayed by you in defending the deira, and then muskets, which you have made such good use of, shall be restored to you," they took up their arms. The greater part of these soldiers, who have thug been in the service of Abd-el Kader, had tears in their eyes. The dein arrived on our territory collected, and without having been broken into by the enemy, notwith standing the endeavours which must have been made to this effect. It still comprises 6,000 souls. The Due d'Aumale, who arrived on the spat time enough to receive Abel el- Kader and hie suite, returned in the Solon with his new guests, Ins here presided over their removal to the Aamerlie, which has conveyed them to Toulon. From this time Alge ria enters into a new phase; we shall now see if govern ment really intends to make something of thin country. The Conaerratear, a semi-official journal of the government says : We are ...sun d government intends immediately to make known to Mehemet Ali the desire expensed by Abel-el- Karl. r to be conveyed to Alexandria. Till it be ascertained whether the vice roy will consent to receive the ea-Emir into his territory, the fort Lamalgue, near l'oulon, is to be assigned to the latter far his residence. Dispositions are about to he taken for Abd-el-Kaler to he immediately coo vet ed thithe ron his leaving the lsnerettn, and for him to be treated there in a manner cunfornaable to the sentiments of generosity which France has always made it her glory to show to those eaemies who have been compelled to acknowledge her power. M. Guizot being considerably embarrassed by the questions put to him in the bureau, respecting the occupation of the independent Italian states by the Austrians, replied by di elating hie official ignorance of the fact. It was admitted, however, on Tuesday, by the friends of the minister, that the entry of the Austrians into Modena and l'arma had been officially announced. Ilereupon, says Mmtarchique, the following details are stated : At the commencement of the negotiations opened last summer between M. de Metternich and the French cabi net, relativa to the attain of Itiey, Austria appears to have expressed, from the first, the firm desire that France should interfere iu n.,thiog which could concern in any way the attain of the two states of Modena and farm', which are more especially placed under the direct influence of the cabi net of Vienna. It appears that to this first overture a re ply was made, that the French cabinet was will ing to uceept those conditions, but solely for this I double motive, that, on one hand, Modena had not acknowledged the dynasty of Or:eans, and that, on the other hand, the principality of Parma was to fall by inherit,' Mee to a family willow inter. sts make it the natural enemy to this same dynasty. The French government then took the engagement not to interfere in the affairs of 310- den& used of Farina, rvaerving to itself, however, every right of meiliivion, and, if necessary, of intervention, in whatever might concern the affairs of Tuscany and of the Roman A letter from Marseilles states that an English squa dron, which was within the last few days in the Gulf of Spizzia, has received orders to proceed to Malta, without appearing on the coasts of Rumania or Na ples. The Industrie, which left the Amazon river on the 18th Nov., bus just arrived at Ifavre with M.de Saint- Cricq, who accompanied the expedition of Count de Castelnau to make designs. A collection of plants, maps, plans, and designs have been brought by M. de Saint Cricq, who preserved it at the risk of his life. It is the more precious from the fact, that the death of the Viscount d'Orery, and the disappearance of M. Wed.! in Bolivia have deprived the expedition, which was sent by the French goverment into the interior of America, of great part of the results which were expected. M. de Saint Oleg is so seriously ill that he will have to remain at I lavre sonic days, before setting out for Paris. The Reo del Comerein a,uuuucew that 200 rebels had made their appearance mar Lerida, and levied contributions on several tillages. The Herald, states from Teruel that General Mayalde had put to the rout a bind of rebels in Lower Arragon, after killing six men and making seven prisoners. The En o inlorms us that M. laturita, the Spanish Andasaldor to Lon don, who has arrived at Madrid, and had an audience of the Queen, has tendered his resignation, but that it I has not been accepted. A letter from Palencia, in the Ern del Oonereio, gives an account of a serious dis turbance, on the occasion or the election for that place. It states that the partisans of the government candidates, armed with poniards, endeavoured to prevent the liberals from voting, and inflicted serious wounds on several. At the hour of the departure of the post from Madrid, M. Orense was putting some questions to the ministry in the Chamber of Deputies on this subject The King of Sardinia, if he stared on the way of reform after Pius IX., must be admitted to have pro eteded on his course with even greater celerity, and to have already, in a great degree, thrown into the shade the reforming pontiff. It is now evident that Cnarb•s Albert intends to become, that which be is said to have often lamented not to have been—a con stitutional king. Not a post arrives that does not bring tidings, not of individual rc forms effected by that sovereign, but of entire classes of reforms. 'rhe Gatette of Florence, of the 2sth, just received, an nounces the following group of reforms as immediately to he realised : Advices from Turin, says the Gaceele, in which we place confidence, announce the following reforms: Diminution in the price of salt; amnesty general; deliberative voice granted the council of mate in certain matters, and the intro doction of some of the municipalities among its mcm ben; a voluntary civic guard, armed by government, and charged to provide itself (or the expenses of the uniform; ministers to the number of seven in place of live; sup pression of the ministry of the island of Sardinia, and iden tification of the government of Stitt island with that of the terra firma; great reform in the municipalities, in a tense nearly demoeratical ; finally, a , olition of the body of the deettrions, over which no one had ventured till now to at tempt the snialleAmoditication, The Roman journals of the 24th give in detail the addressed delivered by the Pope to the consistory on the 17th. In this document his Holiness, after referring briefly to the affairs of Spain, mentions the negotiations which were commenced with Russia, which he declares have hitherto been attend. d with no result.. The contrary has been pretended, he says ; but, as to him, all that he can announce is, that he trusts in the mercy of God towards the children of the church. His Holiness then disavows the charge made against him of a false and indiscriminate tolerance. Such he declares is not the motive which prompted the late amnesty. With respect to the affairs of Switzerland, his Holi ness bitterly deplores the demonstrations made upon the taking of Lucerne; civil war is a lamentable event; he deplores it with an affliction so much the more lively as it proved of im mense injury to catholicism, which it menaces with still greater evil, and that it leads to sacrileges, which must be regarded with horror. The address terminates with exhortations to all the patriarchs, archbishops, and bishops, to disseminate the seeds of union, peace, and concord. OPORTO, Dec. 25. The elections for deputies took place, as I antici pated. Whilst the electors were assembled in the municipal council, a mob of caceteiros (fellows armed with bludgeons) had gathered in the Prove Nuova (new &rare), and severely maltreated Geronimo de Moraes nicknamed " the dry rat," captain of the third sec tion, and one of the returned exiles from Angola, in the presence of many soldiers and officers, who, so far from interfering, only laughed and rather joined in the affair. This was at tour o'clock in the after noon, and not one of the perpetrators of the cruelties practised on this unfortunate man was apprehended, nor even rebuked ; neither did the authorities seem to possess the least power to punish them. In the even ing a still greater outrage occurred in the theatre, where a band of these same cacctciros had assembled, and vociferously called for the national hymn, accom panying their demand with vivas and indecent lan guage, such as to frighten away most of the ladies present, who retired for fear of being violently de prived of the ear-rings and other gold ornaments TOTAL LOSS OF HER MAJESTY'S STEAMER -- AVENGER. [By Electric Telegraph from Southampton.] The Pacha, which took out the Indian mail instead of the Eriu has returned from Malta. She brings news of the total loss of her Majesty's steam frigate Avenger, on the Cerilla rocks, on the 20th of Dec. Three officers, a surgeon, and five of the crew only are saved. The Avenger is a steamer of the first class, of 1,144 tons and 630 horse-power. She was builtby Sir W.Symons at Devonpott in 1843, and was put into commission for the Mediteranneare station on the 20th of last November. We subjoin a list of her officers: Capt. C. E. Napier (son of the admiral); Lieuts. Hugh M. Kinsman, Frederick Marryat (eon of Captain Marryat), Francis ltooke ; Master William Archer; Second Lieut. of Marine Artillery H. S. Haynes; Surgeon James 11. Steele; Paymaster and Purser Valentine A. Hailo ; Assirt.-Surgeon Ber nard Delany; Second Master William Betts; Clerk Henry J. S. Walker. FURTHER FA HT ICULARS.—The Pacha, Captain Olive, has just arrived. She left Southampton on the 9th with the Indian mail in lieu of the Erin, which received damage during the late dreadful gale, and was obliged to return. The Pacha reached Gibraltar on the 17th Ike-, and left again the same evening fur Malta. H.M.'s steam frigate Avenger left Gibraltar five hours before her. On the 20th the Avenger was seen from the mast head of the niche. this was at 2 p.m. The Paella arrived at Malta on the 22nd, and left on the 24th for England. On the eve ning of the 23th she was sig nalled by a French man-of-war named the Lavnisier, and Capt. Olive was informed by the French captain that the Avenger seas wrecked on the evening of the 20th, on some sunken rocks known as the Cecelia Rocks, about thirteen miles from the Island of Galeta, and which must have happened within a few hours after she had been seen from the masthead of the Pacha. The l'acha immediately accompanied the French man-of-war to the scene of the wreck, and picked up portions of it, which she now has on board. It appears all on board the Avenger perished, except three officers, the surgeon, and five of the crew, who escaped in a bast to Tunis. It was at Tunis that the French man-of-war heard of tke wreck, and from whence she immediately went out to render assistance, and while attempting it met with the Paella. _ lt is probable that more particulars of this disaster will reach by the Overland Marseilles. WALLACHIA.—The following letter, dated Bu charest, Dec. 10, 1847, is published is the Morning Chroni cle. It narrates a case of cruelty inflicted by a capricious t) rant, whose conduct would only be tolerated in a barbarous land :—" A circumstance has just h..pper.ed here which is so serious in itself, as a caw of individual oppression, that I am inclined to send you the details, and to request that you will lay them before the public. The history of the marriage of the Hospodarof Wallachia is sire illy pretty generally known, and it would at all events be of little interest t e your readers to enter into the details of the stormy menage of the royal couple, or of the violent scrod produced by the little prin ces., whose caprice, and absurdities ere here the theme of so much eenndtl. Both the prince and princess were previously married, and each had a numerous family, when it pleased Providence (fur reasons which, though inscrutable, are no doubt good) to bring the couple together. To give these children a suitable education, governesses have been brought from France and Germsay, and it is to relate an creed° in the existence of one of these unlucky persons that I now trouble you with the letter. In the month of &refute r last, a young lady from Hanover, of the age of 25 years, was engaged as under governess to instruct the limp , der's family at the very mod. et solar yof 201. a year. For some time after she was installed in her authority and appointment all went well; bat three days ago (on the 7th of the rawest month) keying observed her with tears in her eyes, mid evidently digressed, the princess inquired the reason. The young lady said that she was annoyed by the nurse in attendance on the youngest infant, who was immrdiately called and asks d to explain. The nurse at once decried the accusation, and told the prin. ce-ss, toot &moment, that the young laity lied. A disgrace ful scene of violence ensued, in which the princess declared that she did not believe one word said by the unhappy governess, but gave full credit to the nurse. The young lady wu eve rwhelmed with the turn the affair was biking, and the princess observing that she was pale and trembling., exclaimed, " You are guilty, for you tremnl.." Upon which the governess ciliary replied, " I tremble only before trod." This pi sun sentiment was too much fur the patience of a princess who has the honour of partaking the throne of the Hosipodar of Wallachia. She vowed that she wee insulted and would he avenged. Indeed, she not only pronounced judgment on the lady, end declared she should Ise punished, but was on the eve of executing the sentence with her own fair hands, when the 'lmpeder entered. The /iuspodar received the version of the story which the princess chose to give him, and without further inquiry or delay he called one of• his aides-dc-camp, to whom he gave orders that he should at once see twenty th e lashes (ditto title) administered to the young lady. The governess was consequently seized and dra led into a neighbouring room, where she received from the hands of a rniet de Monthly, in presence of the aide.de-camp, the full amount of the punishment ordered. The unfor• tunate lady in vain implored the pity of the c Meer. The only reply she received was a peremptory order to the lacquey to proceed. At length she fainted under the torture, and was carried in a deplorable state to an hotel, where sue was abandoned, alone, degraded, and ruined. It SO happened th►t in the hotel to which this unhappy young woman was carried, a French traveller was residing, who, he aring the moans and min of distress which proceeded from the neighbouring room, entered and discovered her in a state of frightful agitation and despair. She requested to be brought to the catholic archbishop, who was her only acquaintance in Bucharest, at whose recommendation she applied for protection to the consular authorities. She was acenrdingly conducted to the residence of the British consul gerietal ; but that functionary being no longer, as formerly, the protector of the subjects of the kingdom of Hanover (his lelaicety King Ernest having chosen to place them under the protection of a power which acts upon principles more in accordance with his own than those of Englishmen,) could do nothing but send a statement of the ease to the Austrian consul, who acts as Hanoverian consul also, accompanied by a strong recommendation of his own in her favour. The fallowing day the head of the police (a Frenchman, by the bye, whom I remember at the Tuile ries, and who had been pres-nted to the Hosr,dar by H. Guizoti, for what purpose you uriy gue.4, came to the Eng lish Consul-General (Mr. Culquhoun) and demanded that the lady should be forthwith sent out of the province, his highneas, however, offering to pay her expen►es as far as Vienna. Ihe French Aga of the Walisehian janisse e ries., who had expected to have a difficult affair to manage, was delighted to find that it was out of the hands of the &Wish consul, who in such a case would not be easily pacified. He went to the Austrian consul, who though riot anxious to push matters very far, and who promised to arrange the affair, nevertheless could not help point ing out the gross ill-usage to which the young lady had been subjected, and the insult offered to a Hanoverian subject contrary to the faith of treaties, etc. The short and the long of the affair is, that it has been arranged that the young governess shall leave Bucharest in a few days from this time, and as reparation for his gross conduct, the Hoepodar has deigned to express his regret that his aide.de-ramp should have been so maladroit as to execute his orders to the letter. He further, on learning from the Austrian agent that an indemnity of 100 ducats (551.) would be required, promised that that sum should be paid to the lady on her snivel at Vienna. It appear. from this that the Austrian official in question estimates the blows inflicted upon this unfortunate and friendless female at the rate of four ducats per lash. It is well, however, for the young lady that the matter is not even worse. Had the Hospodsr's Aga been aware in the first instance that Hanoverian sub jects were no longer under the protection of the British consul, she would probably have received nothing. It is to the British consul's interference that she owes even the small weed of justice that has been accorded to her, and it is to be regretted that he could not do more. W hat will the King of Hanover say to the protection bestowed on his subjects by the representative of Prince Mettenfich ? Here the affair has created universal indignation, and not among foreigner alone, but among the Wallschians themselves. TAXES ON KNOWLEDGE.—Sir,—Your persevering labours for the removal of all taxes on knowledge are worthy of the utmostpraise and assistance. Why is there not an asso ciation of men of all parties, and especially of literary men, to endeavour to convince government of the impolicy of all taxes whatever which directly affect the distribution of know ledge ? Let Lord Ellesmere, Mr. Monckten Milne's, Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, Carlyle, Dickens, &c., unite and pray government to remove altogether the tax on news papers; commuting it for a postage where newspapers go by dm post. To reduce considerably the tax on advertise ments, and to repeal altogether the paper duties. The ministry that should do these things would deserve well of the whole country.—F. B. got gaunt, WINDSOR, WEDNEsosv.—The Earl of Aberdeen and the Earl of Auckland are expected to arrive at the Castle, this evening, on a visit to her Majesty. The royal dinner party at the Castle this evening will include the Duchess of Kent, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince Heorge and the Princess Mary, Prince Frederick of Hesse, the Earl of Aberdeen, the Earl and Countess Delftware, the Earl of Auckland, the Lady in Waiting on the Duchies of Kent, the Lady in Waiting on the Duchess of Cambridge, the Baroness de Speth, the Right lion. W. B. and Lady Caroline Lascelles, and Mr. Edmond hiildmay. The Duchess of Kent arrived at her residence, Clarence House, St. James's, at 12 o'clock yesterday, attended by Sir 0. Cooper, from Froginure House, near Windsor Her Royal llmtin, es loft town at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, un her return to Frogmore House. Lady John Russell has been indisposed at Woburn Abbey, but is better. ARTIFICIAL INCUBATlON.—Mr.Cantelo,the inventor of a system of incub,tion, by top contact, had the honour, yesterday, of submitting his invention to the Queen, Prince Albert, and some of the younger branches of the royal family. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness were pleased to express their approbation of Mr. Cantelo's invention. THE NATIONAL ALLIANCE. This association, for promoting the people's charter, hell a soiree last tYCOMII, in the gnat school-house ' in Ta bernacle-row. Covers (i. c. cups and saucers) were laid for 400 and upwards, of which number barely half were present. At seveno'clock _ . Mr. MIALL took the chair, and after some preliminary observations, stated that he had a most important fact to communicate to his auditory ; namely, that the principles on which the present association was bounded had made their way into the very highest circles—(hear)—and had mani fested themselves in quart, re where he little expected to meet them. The doctrines of universal suffrage had worked their way even into the m nd of a cabinet minister: Lord John Russell him,: It was the convert to whom he alluded. They all, no doubt, recollected his speech on introducing the Jewish Emancipation Bill. The argument used by the prime minister, in order to induce the House of Commons to permit hint to bring in the bill was that, inasmuch as the Jews paid their share of the taxes, obeyed the law, and bore their share of the burtheas imposed upon the people at large, they were entitled to a shore of political power, and to a fair participation in public affairs. He (Mr. Miall) wondered where Lord John had picked up this doctrine—(hear) — which certainly was to be found in some of the publications of the National. Alliance. (Hear, and a laugh.) The same doctrines and reaeonintts were exactly applicable to the vast masses of the people who at present had no voice in the en actment of the laws which they ebep el, or in the eleettne of the men who taxed them. If the conduct of those who o posed the extension ul the franchise was examined, it would be found that, however re:at:tent they might he to give the power of voting to the uneece, they did not shrink from making an appeal to them, ts to the no tion at large, upon any question of a political bearing ; nor did they hesitate to detend, at public meetings where the majority of the listeners were non-electors, these acts over which their auditors had no control. (Hear.) Lord John (tassel', whig as be was, feared tocarry out his princi ples to the full extent, hut it was to be hoped, from the strenuous exertions of the people, that ultimately he or some statesman who shout t succeed him would grant the fair and legitimate demands of the people. Mr. Inex, the aeretury, read some letters of apology from gentlemen excusing themselves on various pleas from attending. Amongst them was one from Mr. Joseph Sturgo, in which the writer inveighed stront,ly against the agitatioa in progress respecting an increase in the army, character ising it as a movement on the rat of the aristocracy to pro vide remunerative places fur their idle worthless younger scions. _ _ _ Mr. C. J. Buxtixu moved the first re,olation, to the following eIL at: 'that, in the opinion of this meeting, no government has a right to la: the people without their own eunwnt. That as till taxes levied on the unrepresented ore unjuA and tyrahnic.ll, the princip.es of represent:llion, pro. °tabled by the Alliteit.A . , arc strictly just in them selves, and are ittooduiely nis.e•sary nut only for . the oecunty of indi vklual fib rty, but 41.0 tor the auvancimont of national happiness; we therefore plrelite our-elves, both by pinion:it and ',trunk. y aid, to promote their prop notion, and to .uWain Vie non emer4 till the prin ciples tit the peopb 's cltarwr 5c..11 become the law of the Land. Kr. Lowlier seconded the resolution. In reference to the chances that had occurred in political feeling on the subject of reform, the ep,..eker stand that during a recent visit to Stirling, he lied, by permissi.m of the magistnicy of that botough, stood in the very elair in which the judge who sentenced the reformers of 1794 to be hanged for tree-on, had addressed a large body of men in favour et the very prin ciples for advocating which these 'laicise were sacrificed. The re soluti ,n then unanimously agreed to. The SECRETARY theta c led the attention of the meeting to the subscription p.apeMi which had been circulated amongst them, and grated that the sum of V. 2s. had already found is way to the tahle. Mr. Oftener rose to propose the second and last resolu tion, as follows : That: the best thanks of this meeting are justly due to Col. T. P. Thumiown, M.P.; W. J. Fut, NI.P.; Jo.uph Storer, J. 11. Furry, 11. Vbieebt, Ur. Eppu, and K. 311111, for the noble stand male by them at Uir maid ekvtuoti, bo lich.lf of the peop:e's rights. The speaker sanitised great reluctance to move a vote of thanks to any person as in hit own case he always avoided such testimonials whenever he could. If, however, the reso- lution merely meant to convey an adhesion to the principles of the National Alliance, it had his hearty and unreserved approbation. The movement in which they were engaged was calculated to do good, !tar a more profuse sprinkling of • democracy in the 'louse of Commons would be highly bene ficial. Dr. Hahn', on being called on to second the resolution, said he did so *al the same reluctance that the proposer had manifested—(a lough)—for he disliked all such exhibi tions. (A latyh.) He was a radical, and had always been so—radical in religion, radical in politics. He only wishe people would give over smoking, snu ff ing, and drinking. Hod had given mankind 2,00 d articles of loud, and only one of drink. (A laugh.) Why, therefore, should men pros. trate their strength and reason by resorting to strong liquors. The resolution was carried by acclamation. Mr. Geoitoe THOMPSON M.P., rose to r, turn thanks; he could not, however, let that opportunity pass without de- Oaring his deep attachmatt to the objects of the National Alliance, and, at the same time, to pledge himself to irre vocable adhesion to the prineiplesof the Alliance, and he re. ferred all who heard hint to his future actions in proof of his sincerity. (Hear.) Mr. J. H. PARHY having also returned thank., Dr. Errs, in his turn, also offered his thanks for the honour that had been done him, and enlarged upon the pro posed extension of the army. When the people had some thing to defend, then was the timo to call upon them to spend millions in national defences. At present, what they were called upon to pay and to tight for were the bench of bishops, the House of Peers, the burthen of the national debt, and the unjust system of taxation which prevailed. Let the poor man have his voice in the election of his rulers and lawmaker. ; give him an interest in the state, and a stake in the country, ani he would then be ready to put his sword through an invading Frenchman ; though, to say the truth, he (Dr. Epps) did not believe that the people of France—the domestic people, that was to say—had any de• sire to go to war, hut only the noisy loungers in coffee-houses and other idlers, who wished to live by plunder and. blood- , shed. Mr. MIALL lastly returned thanks, and declared that in his d, sire to become a public man he had been actuated by an insuperable lore of religious freedom; for this cause he was willing to endure all the reproaches that had been made against him of being a forward, vain, and assuming man— (hear, hear)—and if he could in the end obtain the recogni tion of his principles, he should detm himsel f amply rewarded, even if he did not reach the object for which he had struggled. The speaker then proceeded to touch on the subject of the outcry for the national defence, and attributed it to the fears entertained that Louis Philippe, who had filched their liberties from the people that trusted ►im, was about to die, and ther:by the keystone to the continental union of states being taken away, revolution, it was feared, would ensue in France, bringing in its train the seine consequences that had followed in the movement of 1830, by rousing the people of England to demand their political rights with energy, and, as then, with success. Fur this cause the aristocracy of England insidiously sought to get an addition made to the internal army, in order that when the dem ,nd for their rights should be made by the people, they might answer such by pointing the steel or the musket to each man's breast. Such was the view which he took of the question, and such, in his opinion, was the whole secret of the outcry respecting national defences. Atter some further observations, the Chairman announced that the business of the meeting was over. SOVEREIGN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY. The second ordinary general meeting of this com pany was held yesterday at the Thatched-house Tavern. Lord ARTHUR LENNOX, M.P., on taking the chair, said that the directors felt great pleasure in meeting the proprie tors on this occasion, as he was sure they would find the affairs of the company in every way satisfactory. Although nominally twenty-one months in existence, they were vir tually only twelse, and the report which would be submitted to them had reference, therefore, to the period of one year oily. The amount of business which had been offered with in that period was very considerable, and the income might have been made much grsater; but the directors looking to the future and permanent good of the company, rather than to immediate profit from improper risks, bad endeavoured to treat every proposal in the way, as it were, of a claim after death ;to look upon it, in fact, as if the pa rty enuring bad actually died, and to determine, before accepting any premiums, whether the facts stated in the proposals tendered to them were such as would justify the payment of the claim without dispute or litigation. By this means they placed the Validity of the policy beyond question, and rendered it more valuable. (Hear, hear.) out of 409 proposals only 229 were accepted, and the pro prietors would no doubt be gratified to learn that the com pany had commenced its second year with an income of 4,0001. per annum from life premiums alone, less the amount of lapsed policies. Considering the state of the money market, and the commercial distress that prevailed during the put year, he could not but regard that fact as highly gratifying. (Hear, hear.) There was one other circumstance upon which he felt it his duty to congratulate the proprietors, as showing the utmost diligence on the part of the directors, and the greatest judg ment and care on the part of its medical officers, namely, that there bad not been, within the twelve months ending the 9th of October, 1847, nor since the commencement of the company, a single death amongst the assured. Under the deed of settlement us divi- . 11, sion of profits could take place until IMO, but e-17-7 eeOMe " ..... "'` e recommended a dividend for the year out of the Waver earned by capital of four per cent. A larger mam a a t dividend might have been recommended, but mandolin e ie. state of the money market, and the uncertainty of t h e tinued absence of casualties, they deemed it morn not to propose a higher rate. The proprietors were ev e ,. that such of them as introduced business to the ooep b were entitled to the same commission thereon is allowed g agents, and he might mention, as an inducernem to Sillies. that some proprietors would this year, by this memo. tsswh a dividend upon their capital nearly equal to 20/. p er 0 „, ' The lincitrra KY then read the report, which stated had reference only to the operations M the company der, he the twelve months coding Oct. 9, 1817, w hi c h may genii d as the first year of the company's beelines, inmate, as tie previous nine months were, in a great measure, ne, • pied in perfecting the various forms and other mach,,, necessary far tne establishment of the company. The co pursued, of declining many proposals where the most eon. rate information as to the state of health of the life p ropeui could not be obtained, although calculated at first t 4, 41 away business from a new office, is now Justly app • and has, the directors hope, obtained for the policies of this cornpeny a character for security that has materially er in tributa d to the succers which has so far attended tae operation.. In the course of the business of th e past year, out of 409 proposals which have been mode to the company, 229 only have been accepted, making, wick the 84 issued in the first nine months, a total of 311 pon e , granted by the company, which have produced from life pre. miums alone 3,9311.19... 3d. Independent of renewed pre. miunas and those derived from new policies issued hint* the 9th of October last, the aura of 1,6191. 14s. 4d. has be, received fur annuity premiums during the year. This em u , of business hu been obtained during one of the most nide. vourable veers ever known for the establishment of a new office, and has been, fur the most part, derived from tke s ees tropulie, or its immediate neighbourhood, the directom not having as yet extended the business of the eiompany to th e provinces, except in a few instances, where they have bete able to select agent. on whose judgment they cou:il rely. The directors are glad to have it in their power to state that the rare which they have taken in the selection of the lives proposed for assurance, aided by the skill of the medicsl ore. cera, has been so tar attended with the most sanstactory re. sults; no claim having arisen upon the funds of the com m r ez ce in cansequen of any death amongst th e The subscribed capital has been constantly and nrofitably employed. The working expenses of the office have been re. duced to the lowest scale, and with a very slight additional owl sy the present establishment will be found equal to the transacting of a airy large increase of business. The pro. prictors will be aware that, by the deed of settlement, so division of profits can take place until the year 1n39 ; th e direetois, however,have it iii their power to snake &dividend nut of the interest earned by the substrib,d apitil , and re. commend 'hat such a dividend shell be diclar.d after the rate of If. per cent. far the year ending the 9th of October last. The directors would especially incite the attention of the proprietors to a means of promutiog the interests of the company, by making known the plan, peculiar to this office, of granting immediate an: deferred annuities, which, when considered in reference to the other part. of the company's eperatione, will he found to be an important brisech id ban. ness, whilst at the same time it affords great ad autsges to the pialr:ic. S .verr.l questions were thin asked iu reference to the accounts, and, ui on their I eing sa.istactorily answered by the director.; the retort was uniinimomly adopted. The CRAW: tals Loiap , in reply to a qutt.tion, Mated that it wee not ihteoded to pay the dividend up m its share* upon which ad the culls had not been p•id, and a onverms tion arising on the subject, it was terminated by the adop. lion of a res dution emanating from the prtierictor-, la the effect tt That the shares of such proprietors es than omit to pay the instalments due upon their shares on or before the I.ith of July, 1848, shall be declared forfeited to the company." A PROPRIETOR then moved: flat inasmuch shares taken up at any ti•ne Pew, the yeas Is, a In to the current rate in dteid.n I. Le enotka to participote in any diciaion of profit, which may be ihon deth re d equally with those held by ariginal proptictont a i 4 the Opinion of the meeting that the directors nhouto le recoininenital to 111 a hunt to the Inane of further Awes in the capital of the mop any at par. Ile thought it unfair that those who ran no ri-k in establish. irg she comp,ny should, now that it was pluc, ii u;ion a firm bass, be admitted to the same advantages an original pro- prietors. lie had no objection that all p‘not.s taking new slier. s at once should be enti led to [Lima advantages, bet certainly rot after. Mr. Mthat, and several other proprietors, concurred in the ju - tics or excluding persons who came in at the eleventh I hour from a participation of profits, but were of opinion at the same time, that as the company was only in it: it migat be w we II not to come to any resolution of that kind I this year, but to leave the matter open, a , an ioducement to pens-.tie to join the company, and thus s o end their Capital. It w is their interest to enl - st as large a number of the public as it ut., possible, and, therefore, he not inter:. ring at pre sent, they might indirectly benefit the company as much as if they chromed this provision, howev:r just. A Volt suggested that the difficult , might M met he issuing th, new shares at a premium; but the chair man thought such a course would be inadvisable, as d♦ steeling the inducement just alluded to; and haying under. takes that the subject should be renewed at their seat me. ticg, the motion was withdrawn. The usual officer* were then appointed, and cordial thanks baying been voted to the directors the meeting .ipar...ted COMMERCIAL TRAVELLER.; SCROOLS.—We yester day had an opportunity of inspecting this establishment, ea the occasion of the rec. pion of the 20 children elected at tbe genet Al quarter:y meeting of governing held on ea. 28 - 11 ult., and reported in the Ex, , reas of the 29th. The nsansgers, with a praiseworthy regard to economy, iustead of pin chasing ground aid incurring the expense of erecting new buildings, have secured for the purpeses of these schools a line old ta•hioned roomy mansian, with extensive grounds, at Wan stead, on the borders of Epping Forest, capable, with the imptsternients and additions contemplated, of acrommo dating 500 children. The number in children, male and female, who arc at present the recipients of the benefits of the inditution is 35, there being room in the present build. ing for an addition, foe several year to come, of 20 every half-year, e hich numb, r, the funds permitting, it is proposed to elect. The management, as conducted by the house com mittee, leaves little to be desired : the children (who, as has a.realy been stated, are the orphans of membisi of the comtni reitsl body, or the progeny of such of that class as are reduced by age and misfortune to destitution) are pro vi 'ed with an education fitting them fur au, p 4ition to which they may be hereafter called, together with board, lodging, and clothing —care being taken that, while a peeper regard to the obligations due to their benefact les is into,- ceted, the degrading influence of dependence upon charity shall be, as far as it is possible, avoided. The elothieg is in no way distinctive from that worn by children in more fortunate circumstances, end the arrange ments, except in regard to a more efficient superintendence, differ in no respect from those of a find-chi:a b- arding schol. Of the children introduced yesterday upon the foundation, consisting of 14 boys and 6 girls, a portion heal been for some months at the institution exiting for election. The rest were brought down accompani.d by their friends (to whom the rites of he•pitality were extended! in two om nibuses engaged for the purpose. In the evening the com mittee and several of the patrons of the establishment met together in the board-room, wheu several toasts were given, includieg, "Prosperity to the Commercial Travellers' Schools," "The Treasurer" (G. Moire, Esq.), "The Secretary " (Mr. Lawrence), " The Cnairmau," " The Press, and success to the Daily News especially, whose exertions as a vehicle of commercial information and in furtherance of the cause of charity could not be too highly commended." 'lnc treasurer, took occa sion, in acknowledging the compliment paid to him, to observe that amongst the children admitted that day were three or four whose fathers had been cotemporaries with him, and hid entered life with prospects qoite equal to his own, but had tailed to seize the tido of prosperity, and had sled, leaving their families destitute. WREAL CURTIS COPPER MINING COMPANY.—The ordinary general meeting of the above company took place yesterday at the Guildhall Coffee-house. At half-past two o'clock, Mr. Stapley, the deputy chairman of directors, took the choir, and Mr. Bull, the company 'a solicit a, proceeded to read the report. From this document and the balance sheet annexed it appeared that the operations of the com pany had, in the first instance, been much reta-ded by mis management at the mines, bat that recently a change of officers had taken place, everything was going en prospe rously, and there was a fair prospect of ultimate success. With rc ference to monetary affairs, the direct..rs had re ceived, by advances from individual directors and payment of call+, 7,4051 10s. 6d.; out of which they had paid for the Wheal Curtis mine, 3881.; for plant, &c., 3,6761. 10s.; with other small items, amounting in the whole to 4,2211. 45. 7d. ; outlay on the mane to 3,1841 . 15s. 7d. The liabilities of the company's acceptances, Sc., are 2,7591. 10s. 10d., to meet which there ken amount due on the call+ which, when paid, will leave a clear balance in favour of the company of 9991. 17s. Letters were read from the captain and purser of the mine, giving most flattering ac counts of their progreu, and holding out the strong hope of an exceedingly rich vein of copper ore.—Mr. Thoroghgood, a shareholder and ex-director, moved the adoption of the report, and begged to confirm its gercral veracity from his own experience. —Mr. George seconded the motion, which was carried without opposition, as was also a supplemental reeolutien ordering the report to be printed and circulated among the directore.—Mr. Bull, solicitor to the company, was elected a director in the room of Mr. Thorogbgood, re signed ; the other directors were re-elected, and auditors appointed. Resolutions recommending prompt payment of the calls were then passed,the buppl.munal deed was signed, and the meeting separated. Sourn SEA COMPANY.—The half-yearly general court of the South Sea Company was held yesterday. The deputy-governor, Mr. C. Franks, presided, and about a dozen proprietors were present. As is customary, two tabular statements were laid before the court, each made up to the day of meeting. One was a general statement of the company's affairs, under the old act 6 George 11., and the other an account of the clear revenue and profits for tke half-year ending on the day of meeting, after the current payments for interest and other outgoings, charges, and en posses, had been allowed and deducted. The first account, after enumerating the public securities and other property held by the company, and the claims against them, showed a balance in the company's favour of 20,4741. 12., Ild.—the assets being 813,9231. 2s. 3d., and the engagements 776,3531. 7s. 4d. The second, or revenue account, showed that the half-year's income was 156,3381. 12s. 9d., and the outgoings and general charges 91,8151. 10s. 7d. ; the half year's dividend on 3,662,7841. 8.. 6d. South Sea Stock, at 11 per cent., would absorb 64,0981. 14s. 64., consequently there remained a surplus of 6211. 7s. 81. The accounts having been received, a dividend of 11 per cent. on the whole stock was declared, and the court separated. ' - Paz. Prop root- QOR Nia. l Chin , impr PRP. COAt Sun Fin Tam Proi Post CrOV MY.