The Express. — London, England, 1848-08-17 00:00:00

Lord 0. BENT . INC* . asked whether he was to under stand th at the ioreto mutate!. of the Emperor of .I.ustri h a • bed be , a aut horised by the Emperor, our all to treat wit s n ood U. this matter, or had he been treating on some other authority' Also, whether the reason why the mediation sosght by Austria from England had not been agr eed was that England made it a sine qua non that Austria should resign a lrge portion of those territories w hi c h, by the treaty of PATIS, she was entitled to claim? Viscount I'ALMERSTON said that the communication m ode from Baron tyessenberg was in his capacity of Minis ter of Foreign Affairs for the Emperor of Austria, and not w ti e g wader the authority of the Vicar of the German em pi r e. As the second question, the house must see that - wou ld be hitridy improper for him to enter into detail., of • the commit. i, -mons stitch bad taken pluce between himself and the repre,eutaures of other governments. Th, vote via. tben agreed to, as were, after some diseus 'ion, the toliowing : 17,461/..for the talmies and expenses of the colonial &- pryer* 19.000/. for the salaries and expames of the department of be Beard et lisle. 1, 6001. es the probable eat crises in the office of the Lord' Nil ...4,11.111. ,1 13,000 e lir ttos office of Paymaster-General, including the salaries out expewas of the Exchequer-bill-office. The nest vote was 7,3001. for salaries and expenses in the run , nt el C o mptroller-G eneral of the Exchequer. BO* RI NO stud that in another session he should 11101 D the sh,lition of the exchequer altogether ; for in the way in wkicn the Moines% wes cone' ueted the exchequerenstead I of e „ re ,,ing any control, was nothing but an incumbrance. The exchequer alertly widened what the treasury recom mended, and then drew on the Brink of England for what . re geinal. :his was no security whatever to the revenue. On the other head, when money had to be paid into the Meek t , tin credit of the revenue the exchequer required so Melly doconn nts to be prepared and so many step. to he • taken tket it .31 rendered a most complex matter. This ap • plied to the eve of tees. the receiver of which stated that he Lid the grain st difficulty in getting the money into the Baal. Unfortunately the salary3of the comptroller of the exchequer, 2.ileti*, was not voted by the house, but was paid out of the eonrolelated fund. i mplo re d ir an anomaly which oug h t l a b e put an end to. Ile the government to take thee , matters into consideration during the recess. Mr. G01:1.1:1.3iN said he I, tired that three months ex perience on the emimatea cenuoittec had given some of its members very little insight into the offices into which they had inquired. The practice woo this,: orders for payment ' were male by tee treasury, and it wan the duty of the ex : acquir to ere that those ord. rs were in a perfectly legal form, la sex rah inetances while he woo in Mike irregisla- fines had be... detected. He thought it absurd to suppose that these deties might be discharged by the Bank of England. • The vote was then agreed to. Oa the Inc of 2,001. for salaries and expenses of the State Perevettiee. Mr. OSBORNE milted what the committee meant by rreemuundir e t• a fusion" of this office with the Record- Office. Did th. e meal, the office should he burnt!?, (Laughter.) Dr. 110 W RING said ha was not responsible kr the lite rary beauties -I the report ; hat the committee thought that the onlaa inieht advantageously be brought together. Sir U. tilehY thought it irupottant that a distinction should he keet up between the petters of the state-paper office AU I Pnee of the public record office, however advan gaseous it might be to place them under the same manage- Mt. . Col. SIB I'HORP _suggested that the office should be Ogled l.' tie waste - pa per office." (Laughter.) The vote was then agreed to, as also that of 3,5401. for the expenses ot the ecclesiastical commission. Oa the nes; vote, 23.hteide for the administration of the For laws. Cal. SIBTHORP complained that this was an increase of 26,000/ on last year. Mr. 11UNIE thought that 236,000/. was an enormous sum for the nvre administration of the poor law, and that it ought to be reduced. (Rear.) Mr. OSBORNE said the vote showed that the system of centralisation was more expensive than that of local manage ment. (Heir.) The expense for the administration of the Scotch poor Om only amounted to 3,5601. lie should like to know whetle r the Scotch poor were well looked after ? Mr. ELLIOT said they were nut so well looked atter as they ought to be. (Hear.) Lord J. RUSSELL said that the expenses of the auditor, 1 echoolerester-, schoolmistresses, and medical officers had no- ' ' thing to do with the general administration of the poor law, l though they were included in the vote. It was very unfai r to suppose thet the increase hal been caused by the centrali sation. After a few words from Capt. PECIIELL and Mr. elr eaz, Lord Eli it INGTOI4 said that it had been nreee matter of complaint th..t the medical officers were underpaid; now as . only half of that expense WWI paid by the state, any increase of it must involve a corresponding increase on the part of the guardians. The number of schoolmasters and school- mistremes were inadequate to the demand, and con-equently it was necessary to pay higher salaries. Mr. BRIGHT esouiplaiued of the special expenses of inspector'. Mr. C. II le LLED. said the salary of inspectors was 7001., • and they were paid a guinea a day for expenses. That was on the supposition that they resided in London. It had been found, bootees., coneidering the labour the inspectors were put to, that a salary of 1,0001. was not too large. It appeared to him to be necessary to have two reales of salary. The - new irspectore were appointed at the reduced scale of 3001. a year, besides their expenses. Tile great use of central au thority was to keep up a system of inspection over the admi nistration of the law, and establish a focus from which in t formation could be derived with respect to the iaw. Mr. BRIGHT said that there were 11 inspectors with &arks which amounted to 11,0001. But it appeared that 7,515/. was a t in additien for travelling and incidental ex-1 ruses. That was • great deal more than a guinea a day. Mr. BULLER said that the usage of the office was to allow a guinea a day for personal expenses, and the expenses of locomotion besides. Si. thought that the system which kid been hitherto adopted a bad one, and all he could do was to estahliee. a new one for the future. After a few words from Mr. OAMORNE, Mr. GLADSTONE said that the right hon. gentleman had appointed three new inspectors, and he should like to know whether he allowed them the guinea a day ? Mr. C. BULLER did not wish to propose any alteration, bat he considered that there would be a difficulty in come queeee of the arrangements which he had made being too ecoeomical. (Leughter.) lie had proposed that the new inspectors should take office at 300/. a year instead of 7001., and with no allowance of a guinea a day. lie was afraid that next year he must propose a more liberal arrangement. Mr. GLADSTONE said be had done the hon. member an inettice; he was not aware that the hon. member had taken off the gain. a a day. After a few crud, from Mr. KEILRIIAPI and Mr. HENLEY, Mr. OSBORNE thought that if 5001. a year was consi. defied 'efficient for the new inspectors, it was also sufficient for the old ones. After a few words from Capt. HARRIS, Capt. PECIIELL wished to know the rule under which the poor law circulars were ieseed 4 Unless the hon. member (Mr. Buller) answered his question he should divide the house on the aabject of the vote. Atter • few words from Col. StBTIIOIIP. Mr. C. BULLER, in reply to the question of thus hon. member, stated that the circulars which were issued by the poor-law commissioners, in older to spread a certain amount of information, were entrusted to Mr. Knight alone, because several booksellers could not be employed for the purpose; hat he deeded that there was any monopoly practised ; they could be easily obtained upon application. Capt. PECRELL had heart it said that Mr. Knight did not distribute the circulars with impartiality to the trade. Lied G. BENTINCK did not think the estimate an ex cessive ono when the heavy duties of the inspectors were con sidered. Ue knew a case of one gentleman who, in 9 yearn, had travelled 99,007 miles; out of that 9 years 36 were clearly 'pent on the read ; and this at an expense to himself of more than 7,7001. Mr. WYLD begged to call attention to the expense of schoolmasters and schuolmistee,es, and the system of educa tion as connected with poor law union houses, which he con sidered to he very imperfect. lie hoped that the chief coot BliSbi :WM was lit pay some attention to the subject. After a few words from 31r. GItOG.IN and Sir W. Sostnit• vim. e. the vote was agreed to. On the question being put that 30,2681. be voted te com plete the sum required for the expenses of the Mint, Dr. BOWRING begged to ask his hon. friend the Master of the Mint what was the present state of the decimal coinage ? (Laughter.) Mr. SHELL said that a commission was now pending, the result of whose inquiries would he, he had no doubt, a saving of 10,0001. per of nuns. He anticipated that the re port of the commission would be rendered within five weeks. Mr. GLADSTONE conceived that the commission might have been spared, for that the, right hon. the mener might, in tee leisure which his office Weeded him, have prosecuted with equal effect all the necessary inquiries. Mr. MUNIZ thoueht, on the contrary, that the appoint meat of the commission had become a very necessary thing, the Mkt establishment being notorious as the grossest job in existence. Sir J. TYRRELL pointed out that there already was in Print an enormous 13:..e.te, ,k containing the result of the in• pines of a select committee .-f the house into the subject. He doubted much whether the expensive inquiries of the commissioners would old materially to the information sl iced) witein the resell. of the house. As to the moneyers, their original appointment dated SO far back that their Secure of office lay beyond the reach of the crown, or, at all reties, the compensation to which they would be entitled for • the less of office would he enormous. Mr. LABOUCIIEItE expressed his testimony to the high personal cheracter of the oils , re of the Mint. Mr. BRIGHT said that mere personal character was no mune on se ieh people should receive thousands a year of the public money for doing next to nothing. The Vice. Pre , Indent of the Board of Trade and the blaster of the Mint had at preeent nothing to do, or next to nothing ; and he thought that it would be well if these offices were consoli fted so that the very little to des of each office might, united, ferm a little more to do, and the public be saved a full 4,0001 . Lord J. °mi.., vindicated the utility o the two offiere re !erred to. Mr. SIIEIL said that it .r.in proposed by the committee that the • tfiee of Muter of tae Mint should be much more getter .ry efficient than it was at present. iThe vote was then agreed to. Tlt" DT of 10,6701., to defray the expenses of the railway tewsnioien, wee the next vote protosed. itr. WADDINGTON rose, sod entered into some details, 4th' purpose of showing that the managers of railway tempanies were much b. tter qualified to judge of the mea sure reciwary to ensure the safety of passengers than any =err ruent smwrintende nt br railway commission. He oh. eu ei the emus of government control over railways as aro swotted. Mr. BANKER moved that the vote be reduced by the sum of 4,0261. Mr. LABOUCHERE said he had done his beet, in con. jum don with his colleagues, to reduce the expense of the railway board as much as peasible and that not in eons° quence of any speeches made by the hon. members opposite. The actual reductidn effected was 3,0001. ; the ultimate re duction would be upwards of 5,0001. Mr. GLADSTONE had heard that the Great Western railway company had raised their charges for goods and passengers enormously above thr maximum of the net of par liament ; and he wished to know whethcr government had taken any steps to see the law and the public rights prop( rly observed. Mr. LABOUCHERE said that the advance of fares by the Great Western Company had not escaped his notice. Ile had referred the matter to the law officers of the crown, and they had reported that the company were in the wrong; but, on the Mtn r hand, the company had consulted Sir F. Kelly, and his opinion was in direct opposition to that of the crown law pls. He had not es yet resorted to the extreme measure of clopping the company's bills now in progress through parliament, but had referred the whole matter to the Solicitor for the Treasury. • That gentleman had only sent in his report that morning, and as soon as he (Mr. Labouchere) had read it he would not hesi tate to exercise those passers with which the law bad en trusted him to compel the Great Western Company to comply with the provisions of the act of parliament. Col. 61111'110RP wished to know what was to be done repecting the tint commissioner's salary. Mr. LABOUCHERE explained that the office had been abolishi 1, that the duty would be henceforth performed by the board of trade • and that consequently the 2,0001. a yet.: would no longer figure in the esti m..tes. After a few observations trout Capt. HAILLUS and Mr. WADDINGTON. The vote was agreed to. 14,01:11. ISs. expenses of the public records. 12,511/. 12s. inspectors of factories. 1,7551. 63. 4.1. ndsries of officers (Scotland). The above vo•ee were agreed to without discussion. 6,4111. 17s. •id. officers of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland's housa hold. . Dr. 110 WRING objected to the sum of 1,674 f. IGs. 2d, for Queen's flares. Mr. OSBORNE defended the vo•e, as calculated to encourage the breed of horses in Ireland. Dr. BOWRING objected to the grants for horse racing included in this vote. He thought the public money might be much better employed. Mr. BRIGHT thought it better to encourage the breed of Irishmen than Irish horses. Col. DuNies and Sled. Tynueht. supported the grant. The vote was ultimately agreed te, as were the following : 22,C,00/., for salaries of Chief Secretary fur Ireland, and officers in the Lord Lieutenant's °thee. 2,3001 for Paymaster of Civil Service , in Ireland. 26,8001, to complete the vote for the Board of Public Works in Ireland. On the grant of 31.0001. to complete the vote for foreign and other secret services, Col. SIBTHORP objected to mooting 39,0001. a year for secret service , m •ney without investication. believing, as he did, that a i =lion of it was expended in axe:sine government supporters to obtain their positions in parliament. fjosern meet might say it was necessary to have spies in (Arian countries, but setting aside the policy of em pluyii.4 such di,reputabie persons, how wai it that the same BUM Nu necessary every year? lie thought the Chancellor of the Exchequer should be required to make oath that no part of this money was employed for sinister purposie. (A laugh.) The vote was agreed to. 152,3021. to complete tho vote fur stationety, printing, and binding. Mr. OSBOItNE thought a great saving might be made in the printing. He understood Mr. Hansard was making 30 per cent. by the printing of the house, while other printers would do the work for a profit of 10 per cent. lie also thought the printing of reports was carried to too great au extent. There were many documents of which a much larger number was printed than was required. lie thought the government might make a selection of what should oe printed. Mr. J. PARKER said it would be difficult to make such a selection. lie hoped, however, to have the assistance of the printing committee to effect a reduction in the expense if tensible. Mr. BRIO HT believed the expense was added to by the one house requiring documents printed by order of the other. lie thought it might be well to have such a number of documents printed in the first instance as would be sufficient for the members of both houses. The vote, after a :bort conversation, was agreed to, the chairman reported progress, and obtained leave to sit again to-morrow (this day), a: 12 o'clock. The house adjourned at 23 minutes past 1. ELECTION COMMITTEES—YESTERDAY. Dt•lDAN.—Legal arguments respecting Mr. Rey nolds's qualification occupied the sitting. CIIELTENILAM.—Evidence was heard respecting the bribery and treating alleged against Mr. Berkeley. HolisßAm.—Similar evidence to that in the Chel tenham case occupied the committee during the day. the Wpm's. MAILS; The for BritiA North America, and the United States, ! will be male up this evening of the Isth Aug. The overland moil+, for Gibraltar, Malta, Greece, the lonian islarals, Egypt, Aden, Ceylon, India, Hong-Kone, and China, via Southern'. ton, will be male upon the evening 04 the lUth August. The overland cloned mails, rio Marseilles to the Mediterranean, Egypt, Aden, Ceylon, India, Hong-long, 414 C., will be made up on the evening of the 2ith Aug. The mails for Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Madeira, Cadiz, and Gibraltar will be made up on the . morning of the 27th Aug. The marls for New South Walee, Van Dieman'e Land, end New Zealand will be made op on the evening of the 31,t August. The maid for the Went Coast of Atria and 1144161 . 4 will be made up on the evening of the .lint August. The Went India Mails, including Bermuda, leeway, Havana, Honduras, New Orleans, Vera Crux, Tampico, and Port Rico, and escluding those for Madeira, Jacinel, Carthegen Santa Martha, Clogren, 1 . :4113,11111, West Coast of South America, and St. Juun-de. Nicaragua, will be made up on the morning of the gal Sept. The moue for the Brazils, the !Liver Plate, Monte Video, Pernam buco, Bahia, Medi ira, and Buenos Ayres, will be mate up on the evening of the 4th September. NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS. The number of STAMPS issued by the authorities of the Stamp-office, during 1847, to the DAILY NEWS was 3.447,009 This, we believe, is within eight per cent, of the number issued to the Morning Herald, Morning Chronicle, ant Morning Post, ALL POT TOOLTHIR. In addition to the above, issued to the DAILY NEWS, Merniny Paper, there were issued for the Erma*? Edition, THR EXPRESS 778.714 Wh:ch was more, we believe, than were jawed either to the Glebe ur Standard. Evening Papers. 11108 WATIR AT LOKI):4 BRIVOIL 143-31oreitm, Z 3113. past 3, Aftentomt:n 3113. past 3. To r res noir --Ilormez ed. PSI 41 Attitn44444. r 444 4.. LONDON, THURSDAY, AUG.I7. - - TUE history of the last eighteen years has esta blished at least one fact, that may be considered an axiom in political affaiie. It is, that on whatever aim England and France are agreed, the aim being consonant to the rights of nations, the interests of liberty and of peace, TAO power or collection of powers can gainsay or r, slat it. We do not say that England and France can commit any flagrant act of injustice or invasion; or that they have arms long enough to pluck Poland from out the grasp of Russia, for exam ple. But they at least have the power to protect the western and maritime states of Europe from the dic tation and oppression of the eastern, and they can thus maintain, nay advance, the constitutional prin ciple in Europe, which is for the advantage and de velopment of trade and of humanity, as well as a fresh security to peace. Whenever France and England have entered conjointly on such a task, it has never prcduced war, or symptoms or seeds of war, but has totally crushed and destroyed them. We need appeal but to Ancona and to Antwerp. The great and the first desire there fore of every European liberal and every friend of constitutional government is to see France and Eng land united, flinging aside the petty differences and jealousies between them, and combining their efforts and their diplomacy, which preclude any, the least ne cessity for fleets or armies, in maintaining the rights of independent states to develop their liberties and reform their government. The right rule is not to interfere at all, except so far as to prevent or counterbalance the in terference of others. This England and France ef fected in Spain ; this their united word can effect in Italy. Against this, however, the protectionists raise their voices. They will have no alliance with France, at least as long as it is republican. Mr. DuinBELI last night imagined himself for a mo ment sitting in Downin c ,• , -street, and dictating as foreign minister of England his instructions to his ambassador in Paris. He began by saying that he could sanction no connexion with a Jscobin party which means nothing, or means that we should live in open or covert hostility with France, and with America, until both nations should think proper to be ruled by monarchy. Mr. DisAett, however, would admit the presence of an English ambassador in Eerie, but this ambassador should be charged to avoid all amity or alliance, unless ones "abstractedly con sidered." His duties should be confined to lecturing the French on their feebl , ness as a military power, their utter incapacity of aggression, their certainty of being deft ated, if they crossed Alps or Rhine, and the absurziity of their attempting war with a divided country and an exhausted exchequer. Now it so hap pens that England did po,sess a minhter precisely atter Mr. DieltaLl.re own heart, one who held THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 17, 1848. these opinion' of France, who daily avowed them, and yearly acted upon them ; who scouted all alliance with the Jacobins, and who preferred leaguing with the despotic sovereigns of Germany to war upon and resist this feeble and devoted France. That minister was WILLIAM Pirr. And his policy and his preach ing, completely in the vein of Mr. DISRAELI, cost this country six hundred millions sterling ! A republic may be something exceedingly vulgar and unpicturesque. We are not of its partisans, much preferring the quiet of our own old monarchy; but when we find the French republic promoting to emi nence and power statesmen the first principles of whose policy are peace and amity to England, whilst the ministers of the French monarchy placid their policy in outnumbering our fleet, excluding our com merce, and overreaching our diplomacy, we cannot but think the French republic much more neighbourly and more agree-able than the monarchy. With respect to the affairs and fortunes of the French have during all time had much more to do with that country than England can have had. Italy touches the frontier of France, and its fate intimately toue'les her interests. No hall century has elapsed in which French armies have not traversed, or held. or disputed, the Italian soil. Of old it was a contest of family, and perhaps of race, between the house of Aus tria and the house of Bourbon. The French and the Germans struggled for predominance on that chosen field. For the first time there now appears a third party, the most rightful and the most interested — that is an Italian party. The French and the Ger mans may be now more inclined than they ever were to admit the rights of this national party. And they show this by their readiness to bring England into the negotiation and settlement of differences, know ing that England is neither for the German, nor the French, but for the Italian. England is called to perform a sacred duty there—not to interfere with ' arms, or to menace or to bully, but to raise a respected and disinterested voice for Italian independence, which we marvel to see a man of genius, like DisitAzu, be so party-blinded and ungenerous as to f overlook. . . We would not, however, listen to sentiment in the matter. It is a dangerous motive of political action. But if the reign of despotism and the spirit of war, contention, and conquest arc to be put an end to, this fatal bone of contention, fair Italy, must be taken front both French and German, and constituted on the strength of its own nationality. We do not say that this can be done at once, or that we are to make war. to construct it. But we must preserve what we can of its precious fragments, an! use English influence to the utmost to keep intact and together the elements of Italian freedom and Bali An independence. ON the borders of Dorsetehire and Hampshire, in a 1 part of the country little known, for no high road passes through it, nor has it hitherto been remarkable for bright intelligences, there is a little market town delighting in the sylvan appellation of " Ringwood." It is some compliment to our department of corre spondence that we were enabled to print—not many days back—a letter from this secluded town, giving some account of what was going on in the New Forest. The occurrence must indeed be astonishing to the peaceable inhabitants. The great men who have ruled it over the forest so long hare been. all dis missed, and some of them degraded; half a dozen or so of the " jolly foresters " have been walked off to Winchester gaol for acts which every' body about the forest has seen them doing without let ' or hindrance all their lives ; and a government commis sioner on the spot has been asking (save the mark') for accounts—talking about " irregularities in the felling, lotting selling, and delivering of timber prevailing to a very actions extent,"—threatening reports:to the go vernment, and even hinting at measures stronger and less agreeable, unless the whole facts are fairly told. The " Jaques" of the New Forest grows melancholy under this infliction. He can no longer satisfae totily respond to the inquiry, " Are not these weals More free from peril than the envious court ?" The very word "court" causes him to shudder. The only court he has been used to has been that of the verderer, the chief business of which was a venison dinner. To be turned over to an assize court, which is more likely to end in the hulks or Botany Bay, is a " peril" of which he is by no means envious. He feels that "the icy fang" has indeed come upon him in the shape of the constable, and he at once declares that when he thought of " Counsellor, I et feelin;,ly persuade me what I am," the idea of the ATTORNEY-GENERAL Or Mr. COCK BURN never entered hie imagination. The New Forest has hitherto been the great card of the department of Woods. When the CHANCELLoIt OF THE EXCHE.IVER and hie friends were pooh poohing Lord Des eIN at the commencement of this session for even hinting at abuses concreted with crown property, this forest was absolutely held en by the commiseioners as a model of perfection. "We challenge you to find an abuse in the New Forest," said the responsible commissioner for self and col leagues. "We shall see," replied Lord Dexesst ; and the public will soon be in a position to judge who had most reason to be confident. The rights and privileges of the crown in the New Forest appear to be limited, as far as we can learn, to planting young trees, which seldom arrive at matu rity, and stocking the forest with deer, for the keepess to kill at the fitting season. The property of the crown in the soil is subject to the rights of the com moners, who may turn in quantities of cattle, and the rights of the encroachers, who are the only parties making anything of the land. The crown deer and the commoners' cattle struggle for the herbage, and the young trees get destroyed, which is all for the benefit of those who have the planting of them. The crown managers pay over and over again for the costs of such plantation ; and they also pay all the expenses of the keepers, who are not, however, officers either of their appointment or in any way subject to their control. Thus the crown incurs enor mous costs without deriving any corresponding benefit. On the borders of the forest there is, of course, a population, but, as the ground is !unfilled, the popula tion hare little or no employment. Clown land, moreover, being extra-parochial, little or nothing is done for the education of this people, and they conse quently grow up, generation atter generation, a rude, ill-informed class, with little moral or religions train ing. A vast amount of crime is the consequence. In fact, the very nature of the property, the way the deer and timber are exposed, and the loose adminis tration of forest law when it clashes with the interests of the more wealthy, seem to have induced a feeling among this population that depredations on the pro perty of the crown constitute no offence. The social evils of these parts of the kingdom are consequently almost unparalle'ed. This is a mere sketch—the roughest possible out line—of the state to which the crown property has come under the management of the Commismoners of Woods and Forests. The particulars and details, when the public come to know them, will present a scene which will be startling indeed. What will be thought, for instance, of such facts as these—that in Waltham Forest, consisting of 12,000 acresof land,the commissioners have absolutely allowed the crown to be practically dispossessed ! Many years ago there was a large stock of red deer in this forest feeding on the herbage which the crown claimed. These have been entirely destroyed ; and the lords of the manors hate set up a claim to the soil and timber, and have absolutely made grants to private indi ' vidnals of very considerable portions of the waste of the forest, both for sites for building and for purposes of agriculture. The verderers, who ought to protect the crown, have taken part against it, and the con sequence is that the crown is driven to proceed in the courts of law against the parties in possession, with the prospect before them of a very doubtful issue ! In the cases of two estates, thus established in Waltham forest, the commissioners of woods have confessed to parliament that " in consequence of the length of adverse possession" they can take no pro ceedings whatever. The crown is, in fact, defied, and its property, we may almost say, is lost. The blame attachingto the commissioners for all this cannot be shifted or evaded. The department of forests may be said to have been under one adminis tration since the year 1802, when Mr. Nltts a, the present senior permanent commissioner, was first ap pointed secretary to the surveyor-general. But, as this gentleman is said to have declared, the system of the office has never " given occasion to considir what improvements were necessary in the general "ement of forest prvorty." THE Miscellaneous Estimates, No. 5, consisting . of the cost of our " Colonial, Consular, and other Foreign Services," some immediately Mt coosideratica the House of Commons. Their amount is not absolutely very large, being 426,3671. only ; but the spirit in which they have been made oat is that of the extravagance which characterises our expenditure generally. Here also, as in the larger departments of finance, it is marked by' l increase. Gradually during the last three years these estimates have been creeping up iu amount. From .107,7851. in 1848, they ruse in 1817 to 419,4481.: and in spite of the present being a year of great pecuniary pressure, a yeir when private per sons have been compelled to practise the most severe economy—many, perhaps most, to suffer privations— they are in 1848 augmented to .126,3671. So that the inference fairly derivable from these accounts is, that come what may, under the present system the public expenditure entitled "miscellaneous" will not be reduced. And no wonder reductions cannot be effected—no wonder these estimates are increasing, when we find that the government of the newly acquired and uninhabited island of Labuan, in the Indian Archipelago, has, in the first year of its acquisition, to cost this country nearly 10,000/. Well might the poet sing " dieter co lends enchantment to the view." Why, for a similar amount we will undertake to say the Dutch govern the great island of Java, and the Spaniards the valuable colony of Manilla. Labuan is at best an exp. riment ; and what reasonable being ever thought of sending out a governor with 2,000/. a year (when the Dutch had Cc) lon they gave its governor 400/. a year), a lieutenant-governor with 1,373/. a year, a "master attendant" (on God knows what except the two governors!) with eOOl. a year, and a police magis trate costing 4201. les. tkl. a year, all to test the value of a military settlement amongst the Malay pirates or dept for coals! This item of Labuan (9,821/. 10s.), is really the very worst that has appeared in this year's estimates. And the truth we strongly suspect to be, that the whole affair of Labuan is a very gross job hatched out of popular enthusiasm. Suppress piracy in the Archipelago by ull means; but this suppression does not require the expenditure of 10,000/. a-year on a desert island ; what it wants is a good stout frigate cr a couple of armed steamers, like the Phle getlion, to cruise about the coasts of Borneo, and ke. p the Malays in order. Yet in addition to ships of war for that purpose (lor which we have to pay smartly), we are now burthened with governors and lieutenant-governors, harbour-masters and chap lains, surveyors and po lice magistrates, and a long range of public buildings to contain them and their baggage, as if Labuan were in the temperate zone, and afforded facilities of colonisation equal—nay, judging by the fine year's estimates, far superior— to New Zealand or Port 'Phillip. Heaven protect us from the returns of other Rajah Belem:es, if he, test of Maims Sarawak, have to in flict on us such a yearly expenditure. Little did we suppose that all our fetes to, and our flourishing about, this eastern hero would saddle the uation with 10,0001. a year ; not forgetting his friend Capt. KEPPELL'S pleasant cruise in the Alenander, also at our expense. The Falkland Islands, too, are put down for up wards of 1,0001. a year, with not a soul on them save those we thus send there to pay for, with not a tree to cut down for ships use when vessels are driven in, with no stores save those imported, with no colo niets, with nothing in nature to l,ok after but seals and storms. There, also, as if for the mere purpose of asserting our worthless right against Buenos Ayrce, we have a governor costing 8001. a year, and, to pre serve his excellency from ennui, and to make up a whist table, a magistrate with 4001,a chaplain, 4007.; a surgeon, 3001.; with clerks, schoolmaster, surveyor; with everything and everybody, in short, but those which make a colonial dependency valuable, or money worth spending—eopuheiou and produce. Lest people ' here should be insane er.cugh to emigrate to these inaccessible, inhospitable, and valueless rocks, we keep nn a machinery of colonial government costing 5,0e0/. a year. And yet we can look each other calmly in the face and call ourselves the most pet°. tits' people on the face of the earth. Far better, in our judgment, give the ruthless lkis.ts 1,0001. a year to take the islands off our hands • we should, at all events, in so doing save the other 4,0001. we now I throw away. In like manner, and in the same spirit of extra vagance, St. Helena will this ytar cost us 11,5001. for its civil government only; the governor of this tradeless rock having ne less than 2,0001. a year, and all subordinate functionaries' salaries being propor tionably large. Western Australia is down for 7,5381.; Port Essington, fur 2,721/. los.; and New Zealand, with its wars and constitutions, its mission aries and its companie s, its Iltinsoxs and its FITZROYS, for the good round sum of 20,04)01., though the governor of this really important colony has only 2,3001. a-year. The maladminis tration of our \Vest African settlements can only be accomplished at the annual expense of 14,0001.; and in the estimate which discloses this fact there is an item deserving of passing comment. Our forts on the Gold Coast are put down at 4,0001. a-year. Now for this sum the merchants, when the coast was left to their care ' not only governed, they also pro tected our forts there ; hut no sooner does the Colo nial office retake them under its superintendence than 4,0001. a-year becomes the bare cost of their civil I government, and their military defence is converted into an additional burthen on patient Mrs. Mother Country. But certainly one of the most objectionable in principle of all the items in these, estimates is " No. 14, Clergy, North America,' for by it we fiud this country is paying no less than 11,578/. Bs. Gd. for the religious instruction, in various faiths, of the inhabitants of our North Ame rican possessions. At home no minister dare propose to make any such charge on us, yet; for the various churches of these colonies we are called on to pay nearly 12,04)0/. a year, 4,300/. of which are grasped by bishops, protestants, and Roman c.atho tics. The next item is equally indefensible ; for by it no less than 14,0001. a year are thrown away—lite rally thrown away—on the Indian department of ' Canada, the price of puny sentimentalism there. The Colonial Land and Emigration Board will this year cost no less than 13,451/. Os. 23., of which amount the salaries paid to the commissioners, 3,200/. a year, might assuredly be saved, were the Colonial-office to leave off teasing the colonies, and attend to what ought to be its foremost duty—colonisation. But is office Earl GRLY, who out of office censured hie pre decessors for their neglect of the " art," has other things to attend to, and leaves colonisation to Lord ASHLEY, the sentimentalists, and their anti-climax, Irish landowners. The sugar colonies cost us 41,150/. for their " slips," as the magistracy . are therein irreverently styled ; but this sum is a reduction from last years estimate of 450/., " arising from the abolition of one magistracy in the Mauritius;" where, curiously enough, the evi dence of Lord G.B ENTINelee committee informs us the staff of magistrates and police is quite inadequate to keep under the great evil of the island —vagrancy. So that where we have reductions they are made in the weong direction. The slave trade figures off in these estimates to the tune of 53,0001.; of which 30,000/. are required for the:support in idleness, at Sierra Leone, of captured negroes, who ought to be taken to our West Indian islands, where, without costing us a penny (not even the expense of their passage), they would at once be come valuable and well paid labourers. The remainder of this sum, 23,0001., is required to pay the expenses of our Courts of Mixed Commission()) at Sierra Leone, Havana, Cape of Good Hope, Jamaica, Cape Verde, and Loaada., Now, if any of our economi-es in the House of Commons will take the trouble of looking into the annual slave ' trade papers, Class A, laid before parliament, he will ' there find the commissioners of these cants reporting half-yearly, for the last two years, to the Foreign ' office, that they have nothing to do. And, in point of fact, from the manner in which the slave trade , is now carried on, these courts can have no legitimate occupation. For, tither it is conducted under the Brazilian flag, and, ea we have no right of search I treaty with Brazil, we cannot bring ships captured ' under that flag before s court of mixed commis ion; I or the trade is carried on in vessels which do not I mount any flag, and in that case when taken they must be brought before Vice-Adniiralty courts. Yet have we to pay 23,0001. a year for seven] courts of mixed commission, not one of which has, we understand, coecleinned slaver daring the last twice months. "In the year I ust concluded," write these sinecurists at Sierr a ne, under date Jan. 27, 1847, " no case came be fore the British and Netherland, British and Spanish, British and Argentine, British and Chilian, British and Bolivian, or the British and Uruguayan mixed courts of justice." Nothwithstanding which absence of all business these courts at Sierra Leone cost Eng land in that year upwards of 6,0004 fin s also, On the 31st Dec., 1847, they also report "no case" adjudi cated, and "no slaves" emancipated by their agency. From Havana under date of Jan. 1, 1848, the com missary-judge writes " that there was no case of any slave vessel brought for adjudication before the mixed court of justice at this place during the last six months." From the Cape and Jamaica and Cape Verds the like reports of "no case" come to the Fo reign-office. And for this mockery of judicature we are paying 23,000/. a year. The estimate for consular services is well worthy of lattention. For example, at Constantinople, where we have au ambassador of the highest class, we have also a consul-general, with the highest class salary, 1,6001. a year; and, as if that were not sufficient, be has (for the purpose of throb-hand cribbage, we suppose), a vice-consul and physician. At Tunis, Tripoli, and Algiers, our consuls have equally large salaries, although at each of these places our trade is quite unimportant ; and the politics, when any arise, are, of course, conducted either in Loudon, Paris, or Constantinople. It is however but fair to , our consuls to remark, that the largest salaries in this e,timate ought strictly to be transferred to the diplo matic estimate, for our consuls-general throughout South America are in reality diplomatic agents. But the latter estimate is already large enough, and its excess is conecaled in the consular service. Hong-Kong costs us 25,000/. a year; without being of the least service to our Chinese trade; and the consular establishments of the five open ports in China, 32,4f10/.—together, nearly 60,000/. ; a sum which can only be made up of enormous salaries; as, for instance, 6,000/. a year to the governor of Wng- Kong, or 1,0004 more than we pay the prime minister at home. And, as if the salary was not large enough, we give Mr. BONIL4II, the newly-appointed governor, "an outfit !" On this worthless ruck we appear to be nearly as deep in bricks and mortar as we are in Buckingham l'alace; fur the " public works are set down at 20,000/. FRANC Z. PARIS, WEDN ZSPAT, 11. 30., There is no domestic news of the slightest interest this mornin;.. Yesterday being a holiday all public affairs were suspended, but it was re markable that notwithstanding beautiful weather, the promenades and the environs were almost deserted. This circumstance is ascribed no doubt with truth, to the state of general agitation which prevails among all classes and all parties. The abuse sof con fidence is not limited merely to commercial ahairs, it extends to the government itself in a still more strik ing degree. The reaction is assuming serious dimensions, both in Paris and in the pro vinces. Pasties who have hitherto brooded over their convictions individually, ate beginning to coalesce. An organization is in contemplation; a central body will probably within a brief space of time be established in l'aris corresponding with similar bodies in the de partments. This once accomplished, they will be so many " weld" round which isolated opinion will collect, and the results will become apparent imme• dia'ely. The republicans of the eve are alive to this state of things, and they vehemently fear the explo sion which will be produced in the assembly in the approaching debate on the monster report and evi dence of the insurrection committee. To-day the project of postal reform came on in the assembly. It is understood that it will be sanctioned by that body, but not to be brought into operation until January, 1650, so as not to strike the Treasury with the loss of revenue, which it is supposedmust, at least in the first instance, attend it until the present shock to credit shall have passed. The project of the Lyons Railway Company is also expected to come on to-day. ITALY. The Opinione of Turin quotes letters from Bologna of the Bth, saying that on that day an obstinate en gagement took place between the Bolognese and the Austrians; that the latter, driven from the city, fell back on Montagnola, which the Bolognese carried by assault. The next day the Ans. trines seemed disposed to attack Bologna and bom bard it. The same day the diplomatic corps at Flo rence sent a protest to Gen. Welden. The issue of the altar was not known at Turin. IVe learn that Charles Albert declared to the depu ties of Genoa that he had demanded the intervention of France, but that England showed herself little disposed to favour this intervention. A b legraphic despatch was received at Turin, an nouncing the arrival of Charles Albert at Alessandria. GERMANY. AUSTRIA.—We have received the Vienna journals of the 11th inst. On the 9th and 10th the principal business in the Diet was the discussion arising out of M. Kudlisch's motion for the abolition of all feudal burdens which originate in relations of subjection to feudal superiors. The number of amendments is so great, that unless tho mover's request to have their number re duced by incorporating those which approximate most closely in their tenor into one, be com plied with, the debate must be interminable. It appears, from the official report of the pro ceedings of the 9th, that several questions had been addressed to ministers respecting the military opera tions in Italy. With regard to the alleged burning of Sermide, and destruction of all the inhabitants, with the exception of twenty-two men and two women, Count Latour said that an inquiry into the facts of the case had been instituted. To M. Turko's question, whether ministers still adhered to the declaration in the speech from the throne, that the sole object of the military opera tions in Italy was to conquer peace, M. Dobblhoff replied : " Ministers have made all arrangements in their power to give effect to the declaration alluded to; and not on our side only, but from another quarter also, strenuous efforts are making to bring about a peace. At this moment I can make no further disclosures."— An extract of a private letter from Vienna, dated the 10th of August, appears in the Berlinieche Nadi niehten, of the 13th. It is therein stated : A German propaganda for the Austrian democracy appears on the eve of being instituted ; for it is announced that a number of students arc about to repair to Munich and the north of Germany. The democratic club here enjoys the especial protection of M. Dobblhoff, president of the cabinet. The city was alarmed today with a report that a new attempt would be made to prevent the Emperor's return. The working men entered the town with a petition to M. Dobblhoff; the national guard and troops of the line were about to be called out ; but Professor Faster, with several of his colleagues, repaired to the malcontents, and induced them to desist from their intentions. The Emperor has issued a farewell address to his beloved Tyrolese and the inhabitants of the Vor-Arlberg. News to the 12th, received since the above was written, state that the entry of the Emperor was to take place on the artermon of that day. From Trieste, under date Aug. 7, we learn that the German flag was posted by the side of the Austrian on the castle. Early that morning divine service was celebrated for the military in the open air, in honour of the renewed union of Germany. PRUSSIA.—Our Berlin dates are to the 14th inst. inclusive. The news from the capital is of little mo ment. The papers are criticising the conduct of M. Harkort, a member of the national assembly and a conservative. It appears that the honourable member bad treated some ministerial proposition somewhat after the fashion that Disraeli used to deal with Sir Robert evai before the breaking up of the party ; and this is denounced as subversive of all party discipline. The political clubs meet frequently and discuss the 'proceedings in the national miserably. All the Prue- Wall journals are full of details relating to the king's depa. tune from Berlin to attend the festival of the Cologne Cathedral; his reception on his progress I through Magdeburg and other towns; and his arrival lat Colo.me. Respecting the festivities in that geod old city our correspondent there writes as follows : TEE COLOGNE FESTIVAL COLOGNE. Aro. 14. The following is a translation of the address with which Privy.councilPir Steintwrrer, the head haymaker of dill city. greeted his imperial highness the Vicar of the Empire. on his arrival last night. •" In homely, honest, and sincere language, as has ever been the custom on the German Rhine, the old Rhenish city gives a molt respectful, a most cordial welcome to your lingerie? highness the illustrious Vicar of the Empire. And that welemat of veneration and affection is uttered by us here, in presence of tit.• lofty dome, the symbol of the future arestuebs and unity f..f Germany. And like renovated tier. MY% to Dobai gat %%loam alio, is Ns noned itzasph, magnificence, and dignity. and in the now certain hope of its completion, festively adorned and prepared fir the great an niversary which in its venerable and sacred aisles will collect and unite from far and near thousands and thousands of noble Germans, headed, hand in hand, by the illustrious Vicar of the Empire, and the illustrious royal pro tector, and accompanied by the chosen of the Ger man people, they to whom is intrusted the founda tion, as well as the construction of the moat sublime and most magnificent edifice of our times and of our country—the cathedral of German power and G:rman unity. And as, according to the plan of the architect, under skihd guidance, and with the cheerful co operation of the true-hearted assisointe in the work, we hope that stone to stone will be happily and harmoniously joined until the noble and God-dedicated temple be cqmplctetl, so we trust German races will Power:ally and bermoniousli work together at the glorious edifice of German nationality and unity. key both edifices, under the Almighty protec tion, endure in their strength and besot% until remote times and generations of men; and when 600 years mare shall bare expired may another double secular festival be held hero—a festiyalof German sentimentr,Grrman power, and - - . German unity." The conclusion of this approiriate and pithy address was ail 4:led with enthusiastic cheers. The reply of his imperial highness was to the following effect ; My warmest thanks for this cordial recept i on. y on :b arn well called the Cologne cathedral the symbol of German. unity. It is so, and it *hall be so. The work which, foe Germany's, for our fatheriand'a, wtlfare, we hare to erect, is a great, a gigantic one—even like your own cathedral. A firm determination aal skilful workmen aro required, in order that each atone may conduce to the harmony of the great whole. We will supplicate God to givens the strecgth that will enable all of so to co-operate with equal zeal end perseverance in the construetioa of a united, a great, and a happy Germany—one as fierily rooted as ycur cathedral. I renew my warmest thanks, and give three cheers for the city of Culoony." The Vicar's example was followed by the countless spec tators. As orated yssterday, his imperial highness proceeded on tout, amidst every demonstration of rispeet, esteem, ' and attachment, to tie house of the governor of Cologne (Herr Von Wittgenstein), Who i 3 also the com mander-inchief of the civic guard. On his arrival at the . . governor's house, be was ie&ived by Prince lrederick of Dusselde.rf (surrounded by a brilliant staff, whore uniforms strongly contrasted with the plain private dress of the arch duke) and by the archbishop, who was accompanied by several prelates. This day, the first one of the festival, was Relined in by the ringing of all the church bells, amidst which the deep tor.ed ones of the venerable cathedral were easily distinguish able. About nine o'clock the View of the Empire, accom panied by General Von Rauch (who has been appointed by the King of Prussia to wait on his imperial highness during his stay in Cologne), and the present architect of the cathe dral, Herr Zwimer, inspected the entire edifice, aud fre quently expressed his satisfaction with the new punkas, During the forenoon the Vicar of the Empire drove through the principal street' of the city in a plain carriage and pair and without ary escort. Ile was everywhere erected in the; most respectful manner. Shortly after eleven o'clock the 'principal singing societies of this city assembled in the large and handsome ball-roam of the Casino (a private club-house erected in the year 1f131), and give a vocal concert, which Fumed off with great suc cea. At one p.m. all the delegates from the various "cathe dral building fund societies " in Germany (and their name is legion), assembled, under the presidency of the head of the central society, in the so-called Rathham (town.hall), end entered into interesting accounts of the progress of the clubs, the amount of their respective subscriptions, Ike. A few words respecting the Rathhaus may not appear out of plate here. That building, which dates from the 13th century, contains the celebi stet] Hann-hall, in which are found a number of iarge stone statues, ripresent ing the members of the Hanseatic league. It will be zemem ben d that Cologne was also at one time a free city. In the Rathhaus there are also good collectio.is of drawines and copper engravings, a well-assorted library, and handsome Gehelins. Over the marble porch area number of has reliefs, containing inscriptions in honour of Julius Cesar, Augustus; Agrippa, Constantine, and the German emperor Maximi lian, the founder of the Imperial Chamber and Aulic Council. Another tan-relief represents Hermann Gryu (the heron burgomaster of Cologne under Erigelbeet the Second) killing a lion to which he had, it is said, been thrown in conse quence of his strenuous defence of the liberties or privileges of the city. Connected with the Rathhaus is a very old church, called the Rathkapelle, which, during more than 400 years, was employed as a Jewish synagogue. It we. consecrated for the Christian worship in I t2O, by order of the senate of Cologne. The great attraction of the day was the grand procession from the Neumarkt to the cathedral. Between two and three the procession, after having stopped at the archbishop's palace, in order to invite him by deputation to joinit, moved through the principal streets in the following order :—The mounted band of the civic guard ; a division of the mounted civic guard; infantry band of ditto ; the choirs of the three gyrumaia and of the burgher sch:ol ; the chief singing club ; a number of other siegtag societies; the male and ferule oreltan schools ; a second bend of the civic guard ; the va rious trades employed in the cathedral ; the general banner of the cathedral clubs; the directors of the central building fund club ; the Bishops of Ermeland, Ilddesheina, Mat trice, Munster, themburgh, Ituremonde, Spires, and 'reeves, and the Archbishop of Cologne, all in pontiftalibus, and at. tended by a numerous body of clergymen. Next came the member- of the central cathedral Club ; the tat others of the ether clubs ; two more bands of music, and a mounttel da methaent of the civic guard. An immense crowd was esteem ble 1 in the atm to in the line of procession, and the windows of the houses (all of which were gaily bedecked with ban ner., flowers, or branches of trees), were filled with ladies. The greatest order and decorum prevailed. As soon as the procession, with its hest of banners, reached the lilosterplatz, opposite the great entreuer of the cathedral, the northern and southern doors of that edifie* were thrown open to the public, an.l several thousands immediately entered, but all the good places had been reserved for those who were fortunate enough to ebtain tickets. Detachments of the civic Guard were stationed all round the choir. and a portion of 'the southern nave. The Vicar of the Empire, who bad been conducted by the I recession, from the house of the provost of the cathedral, entered that edifice by the door bete cee the tower already standing, and the foundation of the second one, which, in all probability, will not be finished for the next thirty I ears. The procession stopped at the west entrance of the cathe dral, the various choirs and singing societies chaunting the psalm of David, Latatus sum in his quer dicta sent mini: in donitan Domini ibinius. Atler a few words from the archbishop, the procession entered the church ; the architect made over to the archbishop the new portions ot the build ing, and the splendid window, given by the ex.king of Bavaria was uncovered. Another psalm: ()meat ailecia tabernacula too! was chaunted, and t4e procession then advanced to the choir, velure a Td Deigns and the episcopal benediction concluded that part of the ceremonies of the day. About half past six the King of Prussia arrived at the D:utz station of the Berlin Railway, amidst the ringing of all the church bells and the discharge of cannon from both Bides of the river. His Majesty crossed over in the Schiller steamer to the Cologne side of the Rhine, and proceeded on foot amidst the cheers of the assembled crowds, and in com pany of the Archduke John (who had gone to Deem to meet his Prussian Majesty), to the house of the governor of Cologne. After a short stay, the King and the Vicar of the Empire proceeded to the palace. at Bruhl, in which Queen Victoria stayed one night on her visit to Germany. The King of Prussia is accompanied by Prince Frederick, Prince Charles, the President of the Council, eitei the Minister of the Interior. Ail has pseud off happily and well to-day; but to-morrow will be the " great" one of t:te festival. There will be a splendid royal banquet and a geerral ieirmination, including that of the cathedral andrthe bridge of boats. HANOVER, AUG. 12.—Ministers have availed themselves of the opportunity afforded by t!:.) presen tation of the memorial adopted at public meetings in Hanover, Itildeshtim, and Celle to explain away the most offensive passages in the unlucky manifesto of the 7th of July. M. Bennigsen, in the name of his colleagues and bin royal master, assures the memo rialists, in a written answer, dated the 11th inst , that hie Majesty is most anxious to promote the real union and liberty of Germany. The rescript then proceeds as follows: His Majesty observes with regret that his conduct in rela tion to those matters was rot at first rightly understood. Bat he confieeetly anticipates that when hereafter it is re viewed as a whole, every good and loyal Hanoverian will admit that his Majesty has sincerely had at tweet the unity and rights ot Germany. The memorialists a;lio.t. to posoble colbsioas between the Hanoverian. government and the central authority, which would be much to he regretted. It is suffi tient for the vindication of the government to state that there is no ground for such apprehensions ; that, on the contrary, the most amicable relations exist between the two high parties; end that, in particular, the relation on which our mope are henceforth to stand to the central au thority has been formally ictimeted to them by a petered order of the Gth of this month. In addition to this his Ma and this will be jesty has resolved that the Hanoverian troops shall ad. pt. the left at every on e 12th ; and a i h n o l ' u Ta in t in e t d ed ca i t l o un o c u th n oo e pvi a:r ar m th b j , : ef w i f r o i the t em re ho mi u k t a ans d cl e : da s la w an y e : r public meeting was to be held in a few days to de cide what steps ought next to be taken. 11ANIBURG.— Dtsvunneices.--Oar correspond ent, writing under dote of Hamburg, August 12, sera: Luc night the peace of the city was disturbed by a letter i.uhlished in one of the local papers called the Reform, el treed to have been written by a pro- in the as lam, signed Brakewaasen, who pretended that he had been kept there these five years, though of sound mind, and giviag as a resent for such cruelty that he is a °tined to property to the amount of fifty thousand MUM Improbable as this sorry is, it was believed, and plots formed to liberate the man, Crowds assembled at the pig market, near the gate through which they had to pan, hut where they would have been obliged to pay the ton ; they began to form hatricadee, but were disturbed by the Burgher guards, who assembled in large numbers u soon as the drums gave the alarm, and assisted the police in destroying the harrimuks and in arresting the Titters: it took them from about 11 to 1 o'clock. Three of the speakers at the Tea-halle on Monday were arrested yesterday, and will be brought to trial for 'editions behaviour. These are Drs. Trines and Gabon and Mr. !deer. Some people are afraid that attempts will be made to-night to rescue them, groups heavies; been sees in the neighbourhood who look suspicious; but, with the exers.lent organisation and the spirit of our burette re, I do cot think there to reason to tear that their &elect will be attained. It leas the as it ail Stasis Wits us issil taus as 1 i 1 • ' l i - ; I' •.. I 1 I b . ,1* i , • , . ), I-, . it J ` i ": 1 1 C, • " 1 I 1 . i 1 . 'l .. I , 1 1 I h I k i • iff it M