The Express. — London, England, 1852-11-29 00:00:00

brie Oriprefig4. TO CORMSBPON DENTS. • devise &Wee et " The Yiprho," egattuatag the moo rendre, tee pre. Ureter," la elblishell ..et) Lender sal reels, .41t. u Y ale &armaments latmori ter "TM isprom."Loodra ItyroMr P. Sete e' et the Wl"lty IllemorMarms. trr rim edge& es the lir er pildratitm SIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Too Das—tlendag. $ fie-- ..Mlirressa. WE Po. To.aassow—Lady, la. a5....-....Aftersom. 41. lie. L .ANDON, MONDAY. NOVBMBER 29. Fate. Trade having but 53 votes against it in a house boasting Gal members, we may now consider our Commercial System to be firmly based upon the resolution adopted on Saturday morning:—"That the improved condition of the country, and especially of the industrious classes, is mainly the result of recent legislation, which has established the principle of unrestricted competition, has abolished taxes imposed for the purposes of Protection, and has thereby diminished the coat and increased the abundance of the principal articles of the food of the people. That this pol icy, firmly maintained and prudently extended, will, without inflicting injury on any important interest, best enable the industry of the country to bear its burthens, and will thereby most surely pro mote the welfare and contentment of the people. But although Free Trade is thus placed beyond their reach, the Derbyites threaten to give us, one day this week, some plausible scheme for the revision of Taxation, under cover of which a snug operation may be performed for the exclusive benefit of the Landlord interest. Repudiating Corn-laws and other direct modes of increasing the rent of land by legislative enactment, Mr. DIiIIACLI would still hold out to his feaawers, though in a vague illusive way, hopes that by some shifting of taxes a compensation may be given to the owners of land fur the five millions of yearly rent he alleges they have lost by- Free Trade. Supposing it to be true—which it is sot—that any such loss of rental bits occurred to the owners of agricultural land in this country as a con sequence of Free Trade iu articles of food, the short answer is, that the sum so said to have been lost, was not their own ; that it was something im properly acquired, abstracted, filched from the real owners—the industrious consumers—and that, if it has been taken from the landowners, as their CUANCELLUB, of the EiettEuvea says, their lose is merely the consequence of a restitution. On their own showing. then, taking their own premises, the Protectionist landowners have not a shadow of claim to compensation out 'el fun& derived from other people's industry, even had their loss been as real as it is false. Denying the " justice" of the Free Trade system they voted for—we must bo on the watch for the next new trick which may be confi dently looked for in the Budget, which is now threat ened for Friday next. A very ample compensation for even larger lames of rent, than those erroneously stated to have been sustained by the landed proprietors, has been afforded in the reduced price of nearly every artic'e in which the landlords' incomes ere expended ; and we say, without fear of contradiction, that the position of every owner of a well-managed and unencumbered estate is much better now than it was before the re peal of the Corn-laws. His rental 'a safer, better paid, and lees liable to fluctuation from causes beyond the control of himself and his tenants. His and their cal culations are now founded on natural prices ; they have only to make ordinary business-like estimates of the variations of seasons and other incidents of farming occupations, and they c an enter into rational and permanent contracts, by which both parties will give and receive mutual advantage. It will be said, how ever, that few estates in England are well managed, and that not one landowner in fifty is unencum bered. Both statements are perfectly true; bat then, what grounds do mismanagement and incum breams furnish for calling on other people to com pensate landowners? O n t h e contrary, it is one of the most t evils of our territorial system, that the nomit a ff ra o n wners of estates most improper/ managed are as mischievous to the community ea they are negligent of their own real interests. Poor tenants, ill cultivated farms, and half-employed and demoralised try, are the invariable inci dents of encum ber e d esan landed property; for which the landowners, as a class, are wholly sad directly answerable. But Mr. lltsnant, in his address to the electors of Buckinghamshire, told them that, "practically speaking, in this country, rents have become a re turn fir the capital invested in the improvement of land;" and that " nothing contributes more to the enduring prosperity of • country than the natural deposit of its our*a capital in the improvement of its soil ;" and thempen he amuses that "justice to the laud " &moth that the taxes of the land owners should moos way or other be paid by the rest of the mammity. Now, this is • pro position which deserves to be examined and elucidated, for it oast be doubted that, in their Budget, the Danny whelidotratise will make some Wort to reduce ft Into poetise. And when the landed proprietors ask for motributious from other people, either in a tone of name, or of whine, under the protect of "juries to the had," it barmen as to inquire whether they themeless &junto to their laud ; to what extenetheir weenat min eseetkets the return for any mantel they haw Mead in the improvement of their hada sad how a this have encouraged the investmeet of the sued es mided d the country is whet Mr. astral &pooh—the inspremeset el the sell?" Maar tions et these quosaa—by mid esoplimeetwy to the proprit deessi—he down freer various quasi& Perhaps am nnexceptieseble exponents of the teeth Merman the newer" to web restie t i= cannot be had then the Intelsat who frees timer iM ai take peat la weekly dissweions ef the Foment OM They we ahem to •• mem Pmesearsiers.lley hem been, and ponibly are, Agana; biases is Lied Duet. Many of them Male seseglos of kid, pelted by and Woking up to that seethe of the aid aristoc racy of whale Deka if Ilidamosie way be taken es • type ; and est ra few memo" Man are either now land •sones sad ahem ehreeht willingly be came so. 'Their letereste, aympilhhe, ad their prepomordees, are all in fame of the DEASY Goverment and its adherents. the feeesb7 party. Bat ilyMoe are occupy land or Mee it; they we esestapsed epee the land MK either te sell up es ell ten m on sr to Wait a new see. They her the empleinb ef the tenant-6mm they en the &his ef viola 'sophist in mamma they are empolled ley their asesine to bring the hosted in " leepremeomt tithed," eitlair t e or moat, to the tot ef Awe" Let no then, the oratorical figures of the Cite:Wl et the Tentoratain by the plainer, though we wand Weer 'Albania* Spree of the Femme Club. The tepie fir dimension at met the meetings of this deb hashes • carious ceemet on the imesinative light of the CHANCELLOR 'best the soil formes the newel deposit of the surplus "vital of tbeenentry tin oaths being, " To whet extent can bodies& Ward saledeedal relief to their Maar, he the pee aset sontemy, malt Maws sensilerseile maw egrami r By . the eery tes ted I= a the card for discussion, large to of • we excluded ; and fur the very_-'star rams MeR the member, of the club, hag postal ass, ' eed leek* only at immediate epsratish, knew • well ensugh that large outlays of capital by hand le/do ere, es the rule, out of the qu es ti on . Th e y haw t oo well that the mina mental of the country is attracted diarrhea ad everywhere, rather than to the improvements el band—poetically said by the Ca uniam.o• of the REMlNCit'elt to be ire natural deposit. Their daily experience tells them that the want of capital is the true origin of swat of the difficulties, past and present, of both land lords and tenant s . The object of the speaker who opened the discussion was to show the various methods by which landowners amid Mat their tenants without making such outlays in permanent improvements as were either expressly or impliedly admitted to be required ; and his suggestions may be bricdy stated to consisist of such nu to In the management of the estate by the salad, as would give to his tenants greater freedoms and grata, security to invest their own capital upon hi s The course of treatment pursued may bo galled the soothing system ; the wee being too bad to admit of a complete cure by any means the leo tarsi felt to be sufficiently praWasble and ' immediate, to suit the time. and , i lds andiness. Bat even in such en assembly as we• kb* described protest Wla Ena4o4Plag Jock mott; adequate palliatives, for Mt. WaLioa broadly his belief, " that many landlords who had left their estates in a dilapidated condition, bad positively re ceived as good rents u they sight have expected had the cue been otherwise. He knew many estates on which not a shilling had been laid out for thirty or forty years, and ho was himself on an estat e of that kind. Laidlorfile had received pro:ectime mom without having made any proportionate outlay. He deined that there had been any such lunges of rentals from improvsmsats, as Lord DEADY kad at tributed to lan oda' eatlays• and be asserted that 'not one landlord in fi fty had expended one per cent " on their rentals in improvements, and that by tar the greater part of the burden of improvement, where any had been made, had fallen on the tenants. And he added that nine-tenths of the fiirmsof England were at that moment nearly untenable, owing to the bad condition of the buildings. He also ex pressed an opinion that the tenants would gaily find capital for draining and many other improve meats if they had sufficient security afforded them by I the terms of their contracts with their landlords. .Ind though some demur to the.. out-spoken truths was afterwards made by other speakers; and some I fault was perhaps justly found with the conduct of the tensatry in their dealings with landlords; in the 1 main, the dissentient speakers confirmed ev er y one of Mr. Hat:ma's statements. And with local and occasional limitations we know them to be true. Mr. Stomas' also referred to an estate purchased by Mr. Pero, ILP. for Norwich, and which as long as it remained in the hands of the old owners, was undrained, and there were tumble-down buildings, which were seldom repaired, the rule being when the tenant asked for repairs to offer him a reduction of rent. The estate having passed into Mr. Pero's hands he had, by the ass of money and intelligence, put it into good order, and good returns may be fairly anticipated. Mr. SiDtite enumerated three requisites to successful bus bandry wherein tenants and landlords are at pre- I sent greatly wanting that tenants should know their rights; that they should dare to maintain them; and that landlords should have " snfficient money and intelligence to effect improvements.' Mr. F. Howls stated that there " could be no doubt that the great difficulty is farming in the pre- I sent day was want of capital. In many cases neither I landlord nor tenant had capital at command." And much more to the same effect might be cited from that and other farmers' discussions. Wherefore do we refer to these things, which are as clear as the sun at noonday to all who are not wilfully blind ? Simply to meet the insidious suggestions I on which the Drone Ministers have now to rely for deluding the farmers and others in wrested in land when seeking to impose on the public purse some part of the obligations properly I incident to landed property. Every honest investi- Ration into the circumstances and management of 1 landed estates will prove that rents for the most part i are not the return for capital invested by the pro prietors, but rather the result+ of the competition for farms, and of the efforts of tenant farmers to culti rate farms under conditions by no means favourable ; ; that by tho course of management adopted by the landlords as a clam, capital is practically diverted from, not attracted to, the improvement of the soil. I What is now most wanted for the advancement of agriculture is, that sort of rational and business-like attention to their own interests, on the part of land- ; lords and tenants, which our traders and manufac torero have applied with so much success to their own concerns. All the Legislature can usefully ac- complisk for the landed interests is to reform those remnants of barbarism, the semi-feudal laws, I which fetter and trammel landed property. I For the rest, landowners and their tenants must eschew all notions of ;protection and special aid, but, —proceeding on the sound commercial principle of not holding more land than they respestively can pro• perly improve or cultivate,—they must rely solely on their own exertions for their own mean. Above all, let farmers turn the deaf ear to all tiejoggling mysti- Ai:stir:me of the Derbyites, which as only serve to divert attention from the real difficellise of their posi tion and tie true raseadise foe wok difficulties. Such ogees mut t after all. and in nothing but irritation and disappointment to themselves. and strife and contention with the rest of the emanninity. The farmers do not sued " eampeasetiee • from other people's pockets, bet judos ken their landlords; and this must be bore* in mind all who are look ing out for the crotchets wkleh Mr. DlBlll.llll is likely to turnout of his lug-premised Budget. , e , FRANCE. PARIS, SUNDAY Eviiirno. The Yousiferr eves the following u tho latest knows melt et the vote: To. No. vela Maw ON the 88 depart- MOO 7,432,009 238,861 Army Na 2 347 .4 ,716 SADBBO SAM vy . , Total The only departments in which so far es me be gathered from the returns is the elleleljemmeL the abstentions have amounted to a melees dememstro tion, Sr. the Benches du Rhone, Loire i Gironde, 111. et Vilaine, Stone et Lire, ise. 61. = Vienna. In the two first of them depart ments about one-half, and in the others nearly two thirds of the electors abstained. The iteniteur how ever. metinoes to withhold the number of registered daises ia the Aisne, Haste. Alpes, Ardeche, Am mo. Met, Owass o Cate d'Or, Cates do Nord, Dreiree• Rens 6614, Hemet, hair et-Cher Lot, Lot-et- Gam e% Maks et Loire. Meeelse, darn., Moselle, Mecilden, Nerd, Orne. .Pil i de t - i lkitne Bums Pyrielles. Hawes Prattle* 06•4 driulgalal. Rea Rhin, Hut Rhis, Intase, Sevres, Tama, Vargas% and Vendee. It appears from returns give. in country papers thee more than half the electors of Nimes. Meetpelise. sad Cette abstained. The Me/sitar esseelas a report of the committee presided li str Oca e l Verasselasit, appointed to re ceive and for soldi ers kill e d ar visual during trie lib t l =l Demobs, 1661. The alai et 368,061 fr. 76e bee bee eadidali. The eastatbdatere bays awarded parkas of from Warr. to LOOM. Si the widows ettiellierd ltillea p sails of som Ellik about . each to other mist relatbsa aid use • beep 100 fr. to 1,0006: to soldier, erserded. IQ is said of the civil vied me of the coup lake, and it is unlawful to say that there wore any. A bosh entitled " Victims dee Coupe d'Etar, by Passel Doprat, bucist been arise& It The esters of t amnesty to be /ranted on the °conks of the *stab ishmeut of the Empire appears, from the following paragraph in the government 'jawed: Weave assured that oe the masks of the mealasaMies of the lisapire the largest measures of clemency will be taken with regard to • vary great masher of persona me truest., either by decrees, or by the milted commissions, or by the superior conesissiew of rho first military divi• doe. livery prbasitr or mile who by • formal declaration shall renounce his es Bement with the past, and premiss poses sad 'abolishes for the future, will obtain immediate remissioa of his penisbniant. Thaw Daly will be oacepted from the usessisre who wen authors or sesompliers of steatite as 'Mimes towards porsoes. w the.. who may have satecsdireily Matured judicial condemns tioes. Thews, however, w il l Bet be completely excluded from SWUM of clemency, but their applieatioas meet be 'assisted aceordint to the (armoured in the case of ordiasry pardons. It appears by a letter tram Vienna that the Muni de Chanshoid has been throws est of • carriage at Froltsdorf, near the spot where be broke his leg four years ago. On this occasion he was not hurt. The publication of the Chambord protest and the socialist proclamation. in the Mussiteur was by no means a signal that people were in future to be al lowed to write what they please—as M. de Oirardin steered to understand it. The police are unremit ting in their searches after seditious; writings which, I the government organs inform us, continue to be circulated in large numbers in Parisend the envies's*. A well-dressed man was arrested yesterday while In the act of thrusting political pamphlets wader dm sills. M. Blanchet has been appointed bead et dip des partment of political affairs at the ILhe eF if Police. The Emaeeipateur of Cetnbrai, after having ro eeived two warnings, has been suspended by the pre fect for two months. TheA;i); flraiiihas written to the perm to deny ... 1 )NDAY EV - • - _...,—......._, ~ • Ass • Li ref!t rie d. tb r atam. %fen We 'eonvisyeltys in the Lyonujounisal. that he hed represeetethisnealf es being diggref With a usheien . from the vestment. \ eiles-telegesph ie exisietid to he opened in - throughout the whole line from 'Paris to liNi \ a few day' Marseilles. MO Accounts from various parte of France speak of unusually protracted bad weather. A letter from Bordeaux of the 38th states that • storm had been raging eine* Sunday, and had done I much damage, tearing up old trees by the roots, and carrying away the roots of houses. At ißrest the tempest on the 24th is described as frightful. Several ships of war in the harboarsuibrid The Sated Public of Lyons of the 28th says that the Rhone, which had begun to sink on Wednesday, roes again in the night and overflowed itsbaaka. ThePlae• de la Charlie and many of the low parts o f th e t own were under water. The Mow/ states that on I Nev. 24th a local pilot towed into the port of Saint- Martin a pert of the after-part of a vessel that had gone to pieces near the Perthuia.Breton, with the words "Daphne, London." It was feared that owing to the bad weather which has prevailed for several days the crow could not have been saved. PARIS, SATORDAT lOINIMO. 1 The Mani!~ contains very little additi ona l infor mation relative to the vote. It publishes a table of " definitive results," in which there are a great many blanks, and it affords no means of calculating the number of abstentions, because the number of regis tered electors is omitted in numerous instances. The other government journals seem to be in advance of the official one. The latest returns given by the Patrie up to six o'clock this evening, state that the somplete results of 78 departments are known as well as partial results for 8 others, and of the votes of the army and navy. These give 7,711,440 yes, and there are only 235,881 noes. Thus the majority of December 1851 is already exceeded. The following programme of the coming empire, contained in to-day's Monitessr, is entitled to atten tion, as an exposition from the very best source of the phases of the 'dee Napoliontetine, which are at present desired to be exhibited to the world : France is giving to the world a magnificent spectacle. It is a noble sight to behold the whole of a great people, aid. I mated by the same sentiment, assemble peacefully on every point of the country, and declare its will, with that dignity and that resolution which befit its sovereign independence. Nothing is more admirable than the readiness of these populations, braving the rain, which tell in torrents, to de. posit their vote ; nothing is more touching than the de votedness of thew noble relics of our armies, of these infirm and paralytic men who get themselves carried to the poll. Three times in four years Franco has been coavoked to this imposing solemnity, and each time she has thought fit to give to the head of the state testimonies of a warmer affection and a more entire couldsom. At present she gem to the farthest point by decreeing to him the empire. Num the commencement of the century, the nation had not been called upon to deliberate on its form of government: it now hue decided with full knowledge of what it is doing. Rimbaud by a new and last experiment of the deceitful hopes with which it bad been led away, the people has made use of the very instrument which the republic had placed in its hands to overturn it—universal suffrage has destroyed the republic. It could not be otherwise. Nothing is septet es the good sense of • whole people, nothing is so powerful as it. will. Consulted on its real interests, it can not make a mistake respecting them, and, conscious of its force, it coon sets aside what is contrary to them, in order to substitute what may serve them best. France has soon con viand herislf that a nation of 36 millions of men, with IS. helmets, so numerous and so different, with its habits sod oseessm, with its place in the world, could not endure the agitations, uncertainties, and dangers of the repub li cin government, nd it is for that reason that it has decided, without rooks and without recrimination, but with an via MIA en admirable unanimity, that it will by a sigh man; sad, in order to be protected stansa, it will make that government hereditary. Thee imam will have • monarchial government, and* every pima who without prejudice *ermines her history, even tie meet recent, it is beyond • doubt that she hie never eased Se desire it, because she lies never ceased to eassioshasd Oa essilitiems sommary fee her organisation sad Imo ties. BM why dims the imperial vaemareky ? Why does Nimes desire to rirestehtish the dynasty of Napoleon ? This nation,which is said lia arm such levity. bat awned" Malmsey is its ideas and in its will than they who judge it superficially may FMCS will have the dynasty of the Emperor, Mem the already decided to have it at the licensing of the matory, and became die in that way marked it with a signal character • brooms after having beheld that dynasty a work, she h as been able to convince h. moll that it is the only one which reap .nds abso lutely to her interests and her kelluots, as well as to the legitimate 'Degasses of salons elvilleasion ; because, in fine, as the sow Emperor humid, there odds between the imperial dynasty and the nation a contionalty of sentiment and et glory. Since the fall of the empire, France has tried two ntonershies; and, notwithstanding the whoa tages of the pease which they gave, both fell before the reminiscences of the people. It is In vain that Political men end writers of eminence have 'redeemed to eetablith• pro. Amid affirm* between the MAW aukitioLior branches, and to represent this latter as the armeessellea of the principles of 1711; the pee*, who nadoesessd rseddag of political subtle- ft i ..... fa „.... rehil est oseaprehead them dietigiethas, and persisted in the two beemeher of the Mist foali ng l a a I awes which mosiadod it at the mans time of its cis ertnnes tea of a mile which it will not hove any haw. Is its priaciplephe empire is the reign of equality, see the psalstffss of al interests; it le democracy with elemple In the gmememeet, order In labour, security for wale savings, empeet 1/01 reioa, glory of the past time, =dty at home, and d ignity abroad. At present the is pease ; puce, active arid fruitful, aspiring after glorleas mageors ' but only in the noble career of the edema and of the arts, where each victory is a beuefit to heleellity. • The people, notwithstanding its good sense, hes dinned Itself for an instant to he dazzled by seducing uhiplee• gebemes; but, Amalie to the wisdom of him whom h hall takes t ut crab it me rmovered from its whoaLIM Napless hes Memos low to destroy the dues Memo et midi.= by northing resolutely In the path of s a=aad by mails; what there was aced • is the whim of the real friends of people. and la the interest of all, it was eartstasy te mdse. he se- maims* Limas sad Milikillml% to . mew the mama seam, to put forward eggliell fier relie* as the he, a raise up authority end Ms dlgidtp of the piemiesett ft was necessary to com plies sow nitwit • system,lll lower the rata of interest, to render the of betimes more easy by amen wallow it; it wee emereary S. nine the army mid swore t i t e gNitima 41 1 tallier • it was ormearry that justice be pilled tie rem* et the poor man ; the As W4lllllBOl rilerild be lab le lit, Cheaply', shoal ham a ealabriena lefties, ememay, and bread he his old age ; knee amemery Mt the rand dis hier, eheald have es elletienee et the had tea, and Mtawhisk should peewit egelseleaseM meliorate the ll Pt se he del i t ar ireAlt wie isemary to have an aggregatarel butt the doebee 'demi tap of being sestet le ail, MIMI. tegedag Me interests of say one. Li theses single gee of time seimehles the the elect of the mime hes eel bees. eadmilp essepledi with, and whisk he beedeektred that he midi lath& with that ace =4 talk mid that vleime et demi** which for • 1 ad lifts !tease has mead to hi segnalated with ? Is mei his the pea As to the team, the programme of the empire leased sat bekeeheed in the epee* et 3m deem. les hem samdemed by the message S. the Lees kayo anew nosed by Ms migla and its aemerdeate far mem panes% the men gsvernmeut will know how hil a t ia to ih ma s se, and will be coo • mostly in the great interests which Intel. ligease_gims birth to, whisk peace &velum,. Re, whom Mums MAW memed, sem in his new elevation Me r riam ditty Mowed en him byrov tho people, d stietten mellholl le him by Pidence. T h e a m words Indicate with who religiose dare Louis Napoleon prepares for the p. eilimika of the umpire. Franee, wig* knows all hot It sem =hem the prisms* and postiowt of a she his retetne.hvAl on wish wide es wide an bow le edgiest, by piddle p event whisk is at bow seam tim.. the triumph =term and of he will. TM *snow Raptor, eon pied with the grave dense widish - ere knee...A on his do esbateues by teas marked Imetimeny of the people's alter Ilem. rem amosimisi the mem ia him gen, roes noughts. le It hassillts Is hem of he pose and suffering dames, by sea of ithinleney. the Louie Itaprieue will inaegurate kie rata. me lhaitilir entalme a decree reducing from three some be he dr charge made, pursuant to • law d 1801, by ;ntice paying money, fur the price of a bag to put it is. It has been remarked that numbers of the govern ment placards relative to the vote on the plebiscite have been torn and defaced. In order to remove the impres sion that political feeling his anything to do with this mutilation, the blame is thrown upon the chips- N iers, who, it is said, strip the walls to fill their baskets with waste paper. If this be s o, it i s singu lar that they should - show a predilection for official stationery, and leave private placard, unmolested. However, the Pays says that several chifonniere have been arrested upon this charge. MM. D'Huart and De Psymaigre have written the following letter to the AeseniblAe Nationale : You have reproduced from the Monitore* lo Mulls ea extract from • decree of the prefect of that ilepertm..nt. In that article it is said that we have been suspend, .1 from our functions *mayors for having broken the oath which we swore to Priam I...uie Napoleon. A copy of the manifesto of the Clem de Chambord, received by pus', Is the only impeem paw Ms aim doesielliare vett at each out home ememeded ia dineverleg. A suspicion, without peed eel without lbeedatioe, that we bad distributed ' lettere et the Clemed de Chambord, saffleod to induce the pr. feet to tam ospeesions with regard to us, stalest which sus energetically pro Met. BaaoS PAUL D'HUART COUNT Ds P17T11411011.3. Chains illsglistr w ri. 21, 1161. ; Ws lei the ge l in s the Aleaciers : 1 TM maid* masa lisereffig he meeshmenely de- MO. tblit tem 'Wpm of that silty shall he aimed as a a.- to the Priam Pessidast, au the woad= et the proolamoisia of the mar 4 Tho mayor, who bas jam gee Is Paris to tabs Pm* .. 1: Uo• of the voles, as amber of the Imitative stuamaabiato this Intent to the Priam. It la list tie &WOO was eras to the Emperor Napalms by the sky of Ilimbswg, and remained • part of the dunk of dm mum until 1831, whoa it was gives up ao• mama of eessomy. If the Primo Pessidant essepts shit" Oboes la pews 1 e hap* he will , this moilisiflosat edifies aa will Mars • destination worthy of lei 2 irdonr, and Strasburg will spin poses an imperial Ps. . The day before yesterday the Prince President 'received at Saint Cloud a delegation of the Central Committee of Artists. M. Van Tense, the president of the delegate., addressed the Primes, thanking him for the protection and encouragement that he had given to the arts, and informing him that the Central Committee had desired the delegates to solicit from his Imperial Highness the organisation of a special exhibition of the works of industrial artists, the erection of a museum of the Beaux-Arts Industriels, and the foundation of a central school of the Beaux- Arta, as applied to manufactures. The Prince con versed with the delegates on the different points connected with their application, and M. J. Dieterle having explained to his Imperial Highness the equivocal position in which an artist might find himself—a statuary, for instance, who should make a candelabra—from his work being refused at the Louvre, on the. pretext that it be longed to the class of manufactures, and at the Fah& bition of Industry, on the pretext that it helot s : t o the arts, adding that the artist not being oommunioation with the public, could with dilleally be penetrated with the true feeling of which he should be the representative, the Prince said, " Yee, as in the cue of journalism, which should not sh tempt to create public opinion, but to be its oche M. Van Tenac having alluded to the wish of the central committee to enrich the churches gratuitomte with paintings, sculptures, &c., the Prince inquitell by what means this was to be done, and was answered, "By means of a lottery of from six ID eight millions of fiance His imperial highness NMI that doubts of the propriety of that course might be entertained from what had taken place with pre. ceding lotteries, but M. Van Tense entered into ex planations to show that there could be no abuses in the plan proposed, and presented to the Prince a note which had been drawn up on this subject. The delegates then withdrew. The municipal commission of Paris held an extra ordinary sitting yesterday. By way of commemo rating the imperial plebiscite, the commission voted a sum of 160,000 E, to be distributed in charity as follows; 38,000 f. for redeeming mattresses pledged at the Mont de Piete ; 18,000 f. for redeeming blankets; 66,crikf for paying half of the sum due by poor persons to the Establishment of Nurses for the care of their children • and 40,000 f. for the pur chase of clothes for chil dren frequenting pauper schools. At this sitting it was decided to continue the arcades in the new Rue de Riven as far as the Rue des Poulin. This plan was originally re jected, partly on the score of economy, and part] rciies because many of the inhabitant s th oug ht prejudicial to the business of shops. Economy, however, is no longer the order of the day, an d it was urged that the same reason which exists for desiring a uniform style of architecture opposite to the Tuileries applies with equal force to the whole line of street parallel with the Louvre. Three now houses, just completed, with a profusion of meretri cious ornamentation, at the corner of the Place de Palais Royal, have been found to look so grotesque that orders have been given to pull them down. Credits were voted for several other metropo• titan improvements, and amongst them a sup plemental credit of 650,000 f. for works con nected with the making of the Boulevard Maus and the Rue Bonaparte. The question of the legacy of the Chateau of St. Ouen by the Countess du Cayla was brought forward. This chateau was given to the Countess by Louis XVIII., and was to revert to the Count de Chambord, but as the Bourbons have no right to hold property in France, the city has ac cepted the legacy. A paragraph from the Journal d'Amrera, pub lished by the Patric, stated that M. Cremieux had been arrested at Lierre while travelling with a false passport. M. Cremieux is all tho time practising at the bar in Paris. He has summoned the Patric before the Tribunal of Correctional Police to answer for the publication of the article. At the Bonne to-day publio securities were dealt in as follows :—Four-and-a-Half per Cents. 106 f. 600.1 and closed at 106 f. 50c. for the account; Four per Cents., 98f. ; Three per Cents. 84f. 25c. ; and for the account closed at 84f. Ode. St. Germain., 1,495 E; Orleans Railroad shares, 1,710 f. ; Ditto new, 1,090 f.; Versailles, (left bank) 370 f. ; Paris and Rouen, 1,000 f.; Rouen and Havre, 537 f. 50c.; Strasburg and Bab, 375 E; Northern, 895 f.; Paris and Strasburg, 867 L 50c.; Paris and Lyons, 952 f. 50c.; Lyons and Aviv non, 790 f. ; Western, 750 f.; Caen and Cherboars 637 f. 60c. • Dijon and Besancon, 810 f.; Bordeaux sal Cette, 630 f.; Dieppe and Vecamp, 360 f. ; Boucles= and Testa, 295 E; Montereau and Troyes, 370 f. ' 4 " ;" '` ' N \ NOVEMBER 29, 185 i z'':' SWITZERLAND. The Council of State of the Canton of Ticino Las issued a decree for the suppression of the order of the Capucin monks, and for the expulsion from the canton within three days of all foreign Capucins not 63 years of age. The decree is grounded on the want of concord among the make, and on the fact that the regular clergy sullies for the religious wants of the population. THE PENINSULAR MAILS. The following is the letter of our correspondent, received by the Tagus: LISBON, Nov. 19. An advertisement. has appeared in the Rao lucao, forming the company , for thu section from hence to Santaremt the capital of which is stated to be 3,600,000,000 reds, or 800,00 W., in shares of 90,000 reis, or 20l.; 10,000 shares, the fourth part, being offered to the Portuguese public, agreeably to the 42nd article of the programme. The feature most remarkable in the announeemeut is, that the capital " has the interest of S per oat. guaranteed by the impost established for the amortisation of notes, the estimated amount of which is 600,000,000 reis, and by a fund created in. inscriptions equivalent to the amount of one year's interest;" and " the interest, at the rate of 8 per cent., will be paid upon all the instalments during the program of the works." The government is using every endeavour to obtain a majority at the elections. The Reform Act of the Charter says that of employer onl7 the immovable are eligible as electors; but the minister has published a purtaria saying it is indifferent for this purpose whether employee have terminable or life interests, and they aro directed to claim the franchise. A great reform has been decreed in the Post-office, the principal benefit of which appears confined to the kingdom and islands, the system of stamps being in troduced. The postage overland from beyond the Pyrenees, however, is still excessive. It is—for every letter of a quarter of an ounce, 240 reis ; from a quarter to half au ounce, 480 reis ; from half to three quarters, 720 reis; advancing 240 reis for every quarter of an ounce. .The postage by the pa c k e t t o be as heretofore, one item of which m—to half an ounce, 170 reis. The fact, however, is that no regular system her been adopted, for I have recently paid 293 reis for a letter weighing considerably less than that weight. The government have ordered the necessary sur veys for a railroad to Oporto, branching from the Santarem line, the direction to be from the mouth of the River Zczere above high water-mark of the Tagus, to Coimbra, and thence aooording to eirouni• stances and the nature of the face of the ground. I In consequence of the accounts that were sent home respecting Vie state of the Australian steam vessel, Melbourne, which put in here to repair damages sustained at era, the company to which she belongs sent out an agent to supersede the captain and appoint her chief officer to the charge of her. (In his arrival ho found she had gone into dock, as recom mended by the survey held on her arrival, by which means alone the actual amount of damage she had sustained could be discovered. Upon examination, no further injury was shown than the leak, which had been previously ascertained to be above water. In other respects, the vessel appears to be strong built, but with too narrow a scantling for her length, in consequence of which she strains hard at sea. This circumstance has alarmed the pamengere, sad loosed from 80 to ill) of them to abandon her, i sod go house by this packet. Sanitary surveys have also been held, fA order to ascertain the extent and healthy nature of her accommodation ; and to expe dite her sailing, the Inflexible supplied some carpen ters andriggers,and she is expected to sail to-morrow, the 20th, at the farthest. I lament to add to this unpleasant affair, one yet more serious, namely, a mutiny, evidently arising out of the various pro ceedings affecting the captain, and another rceeed ing from that mutiny, which involves c harge a of murder; two persons, separately a ccuse d of t hese offences, go home by this packet. Exchange, bl. Discount of Bank of Lisbon sows, 21 per cent. ITALY . PIEDMONT. The funeral obsequies of Gioberti were celebrated on the 23rd in the church of Corpus Domini, at Turin. The following inscription was placed over the church door: —" To the priest Vincenzo Gioberti, the ornament and glory of the Civio Council of Turin, the municipality of his native city, judging by its own grief that of all Italy, which now mourns the profound philosopher and eloquent writer who thought and laboured for his country's in' elleet ual and civil greatness, offers up a solemn tribute of prayers and tears." The funeral procession left the church at 11 a.m. It was headed by half a battalion of National Guards; the coffin was borne by 40 National Guards, who had volunteered to perform this office. The municipal council and the staff of the National Guard followed. The pall was held by the Mayor, the Commander-in• Chief of the National Guards, the President of the Chamber of Deputies, and M. Gorresio, of the Academy of Sciences. Deputations of the Senate, the Chamber of Depiaies, the Univer sity, the Academy of Sciences, the working classes, the Italian refugees, and National Guard, brought up the rear. The insignia of the priestly office and of the degree of doctor were laid on the coffin. The streets and windows were crowded with spectators, quantities of flowers were showered all along upon the coffin, and costly bouquets were presented by the students and other bodies. Eighty ecclesiastics awaited the body at the churchyard, where, after due service performed in the chapel, it was entombed in the vault destined to it. Upwards of 20,000 persons were present in the churchyard, but not the slightest disorder occurred. INDIA. THE OVERLAND MAIL. TIIE WAR WITH BURMAH, We have received, in anticipation of the Overland Mail, the following telegraphic despatch, dated " Trieste, Nov. 26" : "The 'Austrian Lloyds' steamer Egitto arrived to day with advice. from Rangoon. " Promo was captured on the 9th of October by the force under the command of Commodore Lam bertand General Godwin. " Very little resistance was made by the Burmese, the British lees only amounting to one man killed and six wounded. " Five thousand Burmese were posted about six miles from Prome, but General Godwin did not wish to attack them until he was reinforced. "The Admiral had died of cholera, but tho troops were particularly healthy. " The campaign was considered virtually at an end, and orders were expected hourly for tho annexation of Pegu." OXFORD UNIVERSITY REFORM. TO TUE. EDITOR OP Till 11•TLT MEWS. 81s,—Ins former letter to yon I mentioned the subject of compulsory &Modena at chapel in the univer sities. I would again advert to it, as it seems to me to be one of the barriers set up by the university system against the admission of any but members of the church of Eng land to participate in her benefits. At present, of course, the subscription to the thirty.nine articles on enteri ng Ox ford makes that university do facto confined to members of the established church. fhe abolition of that test, as I have before said, is recommended by the commissioners ; ' and although we cannot expect to see it carried out under the existing ripime, we may fairly hope that not many years, it months, will pass over our heads without teeing as alteration in that particular. That, however, will not suffice, unless followed up by som e c h ange i n th e present chapel system, which is restrictive in the highest degree. Of course no Roman catholic, no dissenter, would like to put himself under a control which compelled him to attend • divine service which the one esteems heretical, and the other ridiculous. In that way, then, it acts as • bar to the liberalising the university, and tends to encourage an ex clusive clique. Some years since Lord Derby, then a Whig and a liberal, strongly opposed the compulsory attendance at chapel system. Tempos, martaatur, however, and the " strip - 119y Stanley" is become Lord Derby and chancellor ' of the university of Oxford. How the dons and stiff-starched authorities of Ox ford came to forget (it is not in their nature to forgive) this Ssgrant dereliction of principle on Lord Der by's pert,l cannot' magine. Perhaps, however, b e h as changed his mind on this subject as well as on most others. That his mind Is already tainted with Donnish cant, and &consistent and conservative support of the university and university abuses, his measures regarding the commission abundantly prove. He venerates them as something old—oornething opposed to progress—somothlng separated from the common herd—too mysterious for vulgar intelligencre—eomething aristocratic, and to be looked upon in th e same li g h t as that in which Lord John Mariners regards the preservation of the " old nobility," even to the extinction of " the arta and commerce." Perhaps, however when his conduct o n thi s point some years back is recalled to his mind, he may deem it wise to pause ere on this subjeot,as well others, he eats his own words. He may, although lan hardly hope it, pluck up courage enough to be consistent in one instance--sad even, by • great effort, to face the Hebdomadal board its self. I know it is • subject on which much opposition would be raised. Many good and honest men would look on it as imehristiantsing the university. They do no wish to associate with anything so dangerous at • Roman catholic or so unhishionable as a Quaker they my them is Maysoeth (a nice place too) for the Roman Cittholies • then is the London University for all sorts; let them ge ther,we don't want them. We are members of the church of Itsiglaad, we are stembers of the University of Oxford, and we like to, and will have it an our own way Now that is very thing I would wish to see prevented. As long as all admixture M religions is @Windy avoided, so 101 l will narrow mindedness and intolerance reign ; so loug will liberal principles and an Oxford education be antagonistic the one to the other—so long will our young men team to be university men, and not men of the world, viewing everything through a distorted and contracted medians, and regarding all popular measures with haughty and supercilious contempt. The mere fact of spending half an hour Ave times a week dosing in chapel seems no great hardship. Nor is it in itself; but when that same half hour, compulsorily exacted, affords a pretext for ex eluding many from the university, it does then become a matter of consideration. Surely when • young man comes to the sots of 19 or 20 he is old though to judge of the pro priety of 4 oin g to church foe himself. It becomes • matter between him and hie own eonscienin. And, thank Heaven ! in this free snowy, our continues are la our own keep ing. A epilogs tutor is ant a father confessor, although "mays( them would like to be—nor is the Head of • House any more than the bead of • family. To such causes as those I have above mentioned may be attributed the exclu sive character of Oxford ; and it was to remedy that exclu siveness, amongst other things, th a t L or d J o h n R ussell ap pointed commission. Their labour, alas ! has been but in vain. And the more we reflect, tbe more we consider what is, end what will be, an d w h at m i g h t have been the more cause shall we ace to mourn the disastrous day, alike to the university itself and the public at large, which made Lord Derby Chancellor of the University of Os ford. I am, &c., MA., OXON. Temple, Nov. 19. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT A DISTILLERY. —On Sa turday night the neighbourhood of Church.street, Lam beth, was thrown into a painful state of excitement in con sequence of a fire breaking out on the premises belonging to Messes. Hodges and Sons distillers. The flames when fret discovered were raging in the carpenters' workshops, and rushing through the roof, mating re great a glare over the neighbourhood that the lire could be distinctly seen from the several metropolitan bridges. The engines be longing to the firm, together with those of the patent candle work., London Erigade, and West of England office, were early In arriving, when the firemen found an excellent sup ply of water flowing from the pipes of the Lambeth Com pany. Four or five engines were forthwith eel to work, and by half-past nine o'clock the fire was extinguished. The carpenters' workshop, were burned out, the wheelwrights shops destroyed, and some damage done to the smithy. Fortunately, the distill, ry, owing to its distance from the place where the fire commenced, escaped. The firm was insured in five of the principal fire offices. The cause of the disaster is attributed to some defeat in the due belonging to the carpenters' shops. ROBBERY AT TATTERSALLII.--On Saturday in formation was received that a gentleman tran•aet+ng some business at Tatterealle, having entered the Turf Tavern, in Tattersall's-yard for some refreshment, was surrounded by some fellows, who hustled him, and took from his person 41. In gold, a of. Bank of England note, an order for 71. on the Killarney Book, five florins, and the gold ring Of his finger, alter which, rushing out of the house, they got deer away with their plunder. got court. WINDSOR, Nor. v. Her Majesty held a Privy Council at 3 o'clock thi s afternoon at the Castle. It wee attended by Prince Albert, the Lord President, the Lord Chancellor, the Lord Privy Seal, the First Lord of the Treasury, the lim.retatiee et State for the Home, Foreign, and Colonial Deparr eagat . the First Lord of the Admir a lt y , the Premdent •lie Beta of Trade, the Postmaster-General, the Chief Commission* of Works and l'ublic Buildings, the Lord Steward, and the Muter of the Horse. The lion. William Bathoo.t was the Clerk of the Conned ie Waiting. The Queen held a court. The Duke of Hamilton bad an audience of I r M a i*, and delivered to th e Q ueen t h e ens i gns of the Moo Noble • Order of the Garter worn by his father, the tat baked • Hamilton and Brandon. The Earl of Westmoreland had an audience oi t!.. Qu m Ilia lordship was introduced by the Earl of 111...ensbury, Secretary of State fur Foreign Affairs. Her /deject, gave audience to the Earl of LciLy A ed NF L Secretary Walpole. The Queen was attended by Viscount N.O Chamberlain ; Earl Talbot, Lord in Waiting ; Mr. Ormsby Gore. Groom in Waning. The Earl of Derby, the Lord Chancellor, I Kid Lonsdale, the Marquis of Salisbury, the. link. • lontoire • the Earl of Jersej, the Duke of lismilt ~,,, • g m i • Westmoreland, J. Secretary 'Walpole, Si r J o too, thr Earl of Malmeshury, the Earl of li ...ake, the Bight lion. J. W. lienley, Lord John Mann. r,. Vivionat Newport, and the lion. W. Bathurst, travelled 1,.,n, Lou don to attend the court by a special tr a i u ou 71, ur,..,t Western Railway. The whole of the nottlem. n gentle, men returned to London in the same meow I 4lter the council broke up, eaeept the Earl of Weattnto• Who remains on a visit to the Queen. The following had the honour of dining with le r Najoty yesterday :—The Duchess of Keot, the Due de t. . ,ant and the Comte de Flandres, the Prince of L Ise Princess Adelaide of Hohenlohe, the Duke of N ..umber. land, Monsieur and Madame Van de Weyer, t !Ad). Waiting to the Duchess of Kent, Viscount 1111 , 1 Mandeville, Colonel the lion. Charles awl !tl!. fifty, Colonerdc Moerkerke, the Count de Briny, and r Robtli Carswell. The band of the Grenadier Guards attended '.. tie Castle and played during dinner. Her Majesty's private band afterwards pla)' fol lowing selec , ion : Urertury .‘ Oberon" Andante ails Maros. Antigone" Entr'acte, chatur, and mane te Le Prdpbete" The Duke of Northumberland, Monsieur and 'dadaists Van de Weyer, and Lord and Lady Mandeville, it Windsor Castle today for London. The following had the honour of dining er Ma, jetty this day :—The Duchess of Kent, the de Bra bant and the Comte de Flandres the l'rinoe .• the Princeas Adelaide of flohenlohe, the Lad) to the Duchess of Kent, the Earl of Westmorei . Colonel the lion. C. B. and Mrs. Phipps, Colonel de rkerke, and the Count de limy. N, v. fle. The Queen and Prince, the l'rinee of Wa'e., Primes Royal and Princess Alice, the Duchess of K, Prim of Leiningen, and the ss ,Prince Adelaide of II .icelehe s with the ladies and gentlemen of the court, and 1.. domes tic household, attended divine service, au. in the private chapel of the Castle. '1 he Earl of W. •.isioreLsed was also at the service. The lion. and Rev. tf. v. - clink/ officiated' The ptitate chapel at Windsor Castle, which u rued last week for the first time since the ulteratioi... las bull decorated and considerably enlarged, Irons u. •, ;V fur nished by Mr. John Thomas. A deputat 7 on in support of a grant of a roy .1 • - later of incorporation to the London, Liverpool, and Norio Ameri can Screw Steamship Company, hod an iirer,lew, ou Saturday, with the ltight Hon. J. W. Henley ~nd Lord Colchester, at the Board of Trade. The &T0...i0n con sisted of Mr. John Masterman, M.P., Mr. Bolt, M.P., Sir Herbert Maddock, M.P., Alderman Thomp. son, M.P., Mr. John Vance, M.P. ; Mr. 1110. J. His% 51. P., Mr. NVyndham Goold, M.P., Mr. Vine-lit Scully, M.P., Mr. William Hutt, ;M.P., Mr. D. W —Began, M.P., Mr. E. B. Roche, M.P., Mr. Wild.ou Fagan, M.P., Mr. Robert Carter, M.l'., Mr. J. Fran, Magvim 141 P., Mr. J. W. Russell, NI I'., Mr. J. Mac,cree r, M.P., the Hon. F. H. F. Berkeley, M.P., Sir John I.S. V Buller. Mr. Richard Id. Fos, M.l'., Mr. Thu.. A. Andel!, M.P., Sir John M. F. South, M.P., General Si, Gann Berkeley, M.l'., Mr. John U. Heard, M.P., Mr. W. a. Gore Langton, M.P. Mr. Thomas U. Brooking, Robert Gillespie, Mr. W. Hutton Chaytor, Mr. Robert Cater, Colonel Wooldridge, Mr. Henry J. Prinsep, Mr. Robert Gillespie, juur., and Mr. Robert Lamont with :•lr. Salad J. Waleson (Solicitor), and Mr. James Nelson `s , eatery). The Earl and Countess of Derby gave a grout diming. Saturday at the Official residence of the holm. earl is Downing-street, to tho representatives of Fri ore Sea ', reigns and armies deputed to attend the lanced n 1 the late Dula of Wellington, viz: from Portugal—M.4.4.d Due de Terceira, and the Duchesse, and General Genii. de Villa Real. From Spain, Genital Due d'Oeuna. FrOrtsl Ruses, General Prince Gortehakoff and General Comte di llerkendorff. From Prussia, General Comte de Sundt, General de Miaow, and General de Scharnhorg. From the Netherlands, Lieut.-General Baron Von Omphal. From Ilanover, Gen. Sir Hugh lialkett,Col. Poten,l4 , lC tl. Bina de Mahrenolz, and from Brunswick Major.G.ueral de Ehriebeen. The following were invited to meet the distils guished officers:—The French Am ansvador and the Cum teen Walewski, the Prussian Minister aced Madame Bunsen, the Austrian Minister and the Comtes.e de Collo. redo, the Portuguese Minister and the Comte.* Livradio, the Russian Minister, Baron Bruunow ; the Speni-h Minis ter, M. Isturia ; the Netherlands Minister, Baton Bur titack ; Viscount and Viscountess Mandeville, the Earl and Countess of Jersey and Lady Clementina Villiers, the Esti of Malmesbury, Viscount and Viscountess ILir.iinge and Lord Stanley. Despatches were received at the Colonial-efli,..• on Satur day from the Governor of Victoria. The Judicial Committee of her Majesty's most Hon. Privy Council sat on Saturday in the Council Chamber. The Lords present wore Lord Truro, Lord Croeseith. the Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common Plea, Vice- Chancellor Turner, the Judge of the Admiralty Court, Sir J. Pattesoo, and Sir Edward Ryan. The re-I,,,irine etas appeal from Bombay, .• Her Highness Ituckuisuboy e. Lolloobboy Motteechund," was resumed. THE PALNIE.RSTON PERVERTS, Ilrocklehurst, John Miln er , M. Freeman, Col. Hunts, G. F. Ferguson, Sir Robert Harcourt, G. Heaeage, O. H. W. Pinney, W. Heatheote, Sir G. Murataid, C.C. Lemon, Sir C. Palmerston, Lord Mackie, John DEATH or Miss BERRY.—It would hare been strange if Mies Berry, with all her love sad adituratioa Horace Walpole, had escaped the fate of bi ins an as thma :—an authoress else wu,—though one of little note, and not likely to be heard of as such her, atter. list writings, of a very scattered and unimportant character, were collected by herself, in 1844, into two octavo volumes, entitled miscellaneously enough, " England and Frame; II Comparative View of the Social Condition of both cow tries, from the Restoration of Charles the &coed to the pima Time; to which are now first added Remarks tra Lord Orford ' s Letters—the Life of the Marquise ilu Based —the Life of Bashael, Lady Russell ; and • laabioasble Friends,' a Comedy." In these " Miscellanies" (for by that name should they have been called) are to be timid many keen and correct remarks on society, and oa men and manners—with here sad there a dash of old read ing, and every now and than a valuable observation or two en the fashion and minute details of the sge in which Walpole lived. They will wile away an hour agreeably enough, but will certainly not maintain a literary reputa tion. Mile Berry's last Literary undertaking was a vindica tion of Walpole Irons the sarcastic and not always cornet, character of him drawn by Mr. idiscaulay in en article M the Edinburgh Review,. The lady shows her Mu -points well, but she is no match for the dexterous writer of the Edinburgh, and her defence has little to Ti. commend it beyond the motive which andueed her to undertake it. Of far greater malice to ih'slpole and to literature was the publication in 1810, for the first time, of the sixty letters which Waleole hail ad dressed to herself and her sister. la his late years Walpole makes no better appearance than he does in his letters to Mary and Agnes. lie seems to have forgotten the goat and Chatterion, Dr. Rime and the Society of Antiquaries—and to have written like an old man no longer sound by the world, but altogether in love with what was good. Miss Berry was in Ler ninetieth year when she died, and survived her younger sister about eighteen months. She is said to have telt her rider's lose severely. For a time ahe was observed "To muse and take her solitary tea :" but she rallied, and continued to cultivate the living society of our times,—as well as tbst vanished society which she was as it were the last to enjoy, and which hos transmitted in flesh and blood to our own times—the society of Walpole and his hien& 01 Strawberry HiU.—Artiensruat.—[Mir Berry died on the 20th alt.] HOERR'S LETTERS 'TO GEORGE THOUSON.—ThiIi very interesting series of letters which Burns addressed to the late George 'fboneson was sold on Wednesday by Mr. Nisbet, at the close of the sale of the library of the at. Mr. C. B. Tait. The volume was put up at two hundred guineas, and, after a keen competition. was knocked down for two hundred and silty guineas. The purcha-er is an English nobleman, whose name has not yet transpired; but we are able to communicate what our readers, was are as sured, will rejoice to learn, that there is every probability the volume will remain in Scotland.— EdinhureA Courant. lin. ARNOLD ON TORTIMIE.—" One already sees what hard blows the oorrapt and low tory party will riot only stand, but require, and that the le.tr of depressing them too much is chimerical."—Life and Corropowitila, VOL 1, p. 116. ROYAL COLLEGE OP SUROFONR.—The following gentlemen were admitted members of the college, at the • meeting of the court of examiners, on the 20th inst. Meson. John Ross Diamond, London ; Charles Fluder, Lymington, Hants; Thomas Frederick Singer, Alfriston, Ruses ; Philip Charles Hayman, Axminster, Devon; Richard Sevin Hanbuty, Misfield, Yorkshire; Elise Jones Roberts, Bangor,Carnarvonshire; Edmund Shaw, Thatehem, Berkshire; York James Moore, Mountstreet, titisvenor square ; ad David Johnson, Peterborough, Norther:iv: ol P saints sto tee tal as