The Express. — London, England, 1847-02-26 00:00:00

. . THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 26, 1847. support el* constitutional thrones of the Spanish and • Portuguese dynasties, absolutely refuses to employ its force, its influence and treasure, in behalf of thrones or systems which are destined, like the Peninsula, to be absorbed in Bourbon domination. It is impossible to separate view. and cares with respect to Spanish freedom and independence, from views respecting the succession to the Spanish throne. On this latter point, England is now in perfect accord with Prussia, and in more accord with Austria and with Russia than with France. Who brought this change about? Who flung England from its old identity of feeling with France, into a community of feelings and interests with the German powers? LOUIS PHILIPPE, and M. Guizor, and Count BRF.8110:1, have achieved this; nay, are very proud of it. They now, however, are beginning to have a glimpse of some of the consequences. The profit that will accrue from them, and the honour they will do to M. Guizor's and Louis PHILIPPE'S sagacity, will be more apparent in a few years. OF late years the " private bill business" has been the plague spot of the legislature. What with rail way bills, gas, water, public undertakings, and other varieties of the genus " private bills," the time of both houses was threatened to be engrossed to an extent that precluded all hope of sufficient leisure being left to attend to the business of the empire. The houses of parliament seemed on the eve of being transformed from senates dealing with the interests of a nation to peddling judges in a petty court deciding on the squabbles of rival traders. Nut only was the intellectual tone of their discussions in danger of being lowered by this narrowing of the range of thew deliberations ; the moral tone was ex to at least equal peril. The loose and vague ex po Turns by which the reception of evidence, and, in deed, the transaction of all business relative to private bills, was regulated, gave ample scope for paltry chi cane and " jockeying, both on the part of promoters and opposers. " Private bills" were regarded as involving no general principle; the course pursued upon them by any individual member could not com promise him with the political party whose principles he professed; they were domestic affairs of his own, and a large latitude was allowed to favoritism and gratitude. The parties, the agents, and the judges . (for a committee on a private bill is in some sort • judi cial committee) reciprocally corrupted each other. It is not necessary for our present purpose, and there fore we spare ourselves the disagreeable task of re calling the abominations of the "private bill business" in detail. The gross and palpable nature of the evil has forced the legislature to attempt a cure, and already, we may say, symptoms of its progress begin to be apparent. One of the first important steps taken with a view to amendment was the passing of the Companies' Clauses, the Lands Clauses, and the Rail ways ClausessCoasolidation Acts. These acts have saved parliament from the necessity of wasting time, gravely repeating the self-same process with every private bill that goes through its hands. The success of this experiment has led to the introduction this session of similar "chase consolidation" acts for water-works, gas-works, markets and fairs, and public under takings. These enactments, with those which have preceded them, will constitute b. code of the general principles of private bill legislation, by adhering to which parliament will be able to cut short many per plexing and profitless discussions. Another step in the right direction was the autho rising of local commissions of inquiry into certain matters connected with private bills under the autho rity of the Admiralty and the Woods and Forests department. The conferring a similar power of issuing commissions for local inquiry upon the Rail way Board, will further extend the benefits of this arrangement for ezonomising time and money. Next in importance is the introduction of the Court of Examiners on private bills appointed by the SPEAKER. Under the scrutiny of this tribunal the preliminary examinations as to compliance with . standing orders have been much more expeditiously despatched ; witnesses have not been kept hanging on to the same unwarrantable extent ; and much unne cessary and improper outlay has thus been pre vented. The weightiest fault found with the work ing of this court may be traced either to its want of power to dispense with certain formal standing orders, or to the legislature's insisting upou com pliance with these orders at all. In many eases, where the Examiners have, in conformity with their prescribed duty, reported a formidable array of non-compliances with the standing orders, the Standing Orders Committee of the Commons has decided that in none of the instances was compliance essential. If a dispensing power is necessary to en sure substantial justice, might it not as well be en trusted to the original judges? Or, if compliance with the orders is not a matter of any moment, why is it asked at all' Can there be anything more unworthy the dignity , of a legislative body than to hamper appli cants for its sanction to their enterprises with forma lities which it almost uniformly decides to be nimious, and consequently vexations)? When the members of the legislature look back upon the measures for imparting dispatch and regularity to their " private bill " business, which we have enumerated, they can scarcely fail to recognise that the benefit derived from them is commensurate with the extent to which they have delegated the transaction of that business to other bands. In pass ing enactments containing general principles respecting the compulsory alienation of lands, the powers and duties of incorporated companies, Ac., they exercised the legitimate functions of a legislature. In delegat ing to the commissions of local inquiry and a Court of Examiners the enforcement of compliance with great part of those acts, they have created courts of distributive justice for administering the laws they have made. They have been separating the incom patible functions of legislator and judge, hitherto combined in themselves, in their " private bill " business. The complete cure of the rank jobbing and wasteful expenditure which has had its rise from the private bill business, can only be effected by completing this separation of the judge from the legislator. Let parliament confine itself to creating tribunals for the despatch of " private bill " business, to the framing of general regulations to be observed and enforced by these tribunals, and to watch ing in its capacity of grand inquest of the nation over their conduct. It is easy to foresee what would be the argument opposed to such a proposal in parliament. To delegate the transaction of the " private bill " business to another tribunal would be to de nude parliament of one of its prescriptive privileges or prerogatives, and thereby to diminish its dignity. Can the legislature lose dignity by dele gating its least important functions is less im portant functionaries? Among primitive tribes the chief or his squaws manufacture the family moeas sins. Were such a family to reject the offered merlon of a shoemaker on the ground that by so doing they would relinquish the prescriptive preroga tive of making the coverings for their own feet, and thereby lessen their power and importance in the tribe, they would be apt types of the British Parliament asserting its right to investigate the pre tensions of every private and local incorporation, however unimportant, instead of imposing the task on subordinate officials. THE accounts from Ireland, especially from the south, are still harrowing. We have lost no oppor tunity of placing these before our readers, and have not been wanting in energy of appeal to the manly and brotherly feelings of the English people. We published the other day Captain CAFFIN'I3 awful description of Schell ; and did not shrink from expres sing at once the feelings which the perusal of such horrors naturally excited. The Cork Examiner is amazed that Engli shmen should pay attention to such a letter, w hen far greater horrors were daily reported in the columns of every Irish newspaper. We grieve much to inform our contemporary, that accounts merely derived from Irish newspapers have unfortunately very little weight; and that if we snatched at Captain CAFIVIN'EI letter, it was for the sake of holding up so striking a picture of Irish suffering, drawn by an officer who was a stranger to the locality, and who could not be infected by the general excitement, or biassed by habits of exaggeration. One o f the great diffimlties, found to obstruct the efforts of thou who undertook to rouse English sym pathies towards Irish distress, was precisely the tone and character of the Irish press, not indeed in its pre sent descriptions, but in tho tone which the arguments and the wordy warfare of years had led it to sasume. Almost all the arguments of that press, and even the facts adduced in support of them, have been marked, and as tar as argument is oonc:rned, are still marked, by such an extent and perversity of exaggeration, that everything which emanates from the Irish press has ceased to have any weight or effect in England. Irishmen may be amazed that a great English organ, like the Times, durst, amidst a humane and christen population, take the inhuman and unekiris tiall view of Irish suffering, visiting the starving Irish with reprobation in lieu of pity, refuatng to countenance the smallest charitable effort foe tMie relief, end indulging each day in gibes, and sareaam. and diatribes, against millions of its fellow country men, overwhelmed by the agonies of want. So monstrous a phenomenon as this, cer tainly one of the most disgusting symptoms of the age, is at once accounted for by the tone of thought and reasoning adopted, and even at the pre sent moment persevered in, by many Irish writers. Their language and feelings, evinced and addressed to Englaml and Englishmen, are those of demons, not men. Never was seed of untruth sown with the I purpose and prospect of each a crop of hatred. Irish men may see through all this, comprehend, aid make allowance for the exaggeration ; but here, such effu sions strike, as the perversity and insanity of heart and judgment. e can assure the Cork Examiner that we meet persons frequently, men of humanity as well as judg ment, who though perusing all that has been printed on the subject, entertain strong doubts as to the exist ence of Irish destitution and of those numerous deaths by famine so strongly attested. They recall what oc curred in the time of cholera, when all Ireland was represented as perishing, but the upshot of which was, that there were net many more deaths that year than in ordinary years in Ireland. We state this merely as a sample of what these men, who love Ireland, and who believe and sympa thise in her sufferings, have to contend with. These are prejudices of the English mind, if you will; but they are prejudices begotten by Irish exaggeration, Irish rancour, Irish irrationalism, and more especially developed by the Irish press, and by the public men in Ireland, who, like the press, address themselves to flatter insular prejudices and passions. SEVERAL of our contemporaries, both metropolitan and provincial, eagerly give publicity to the opinions of correspondents upon what is commonly called the Bank Restriction Act. If the general discussion of the subject be an index of a pressure felt by the trader, and result ing from the operation of that act, the unanimity of the opinions hitherto proffered leads to the inference that a powerful move will at no distant time be made with a view to its abrogation. No one has hitherto taken up the pen to defend a system which dictates to mer cantile men the extent to which their transactions shall be carried, and which measures out their power of competing with rivals abroad. The act is quite in the spirit of the Ten Hours Labour Bill. It substitutes the authority of parliament fur that vigorous exertion of intellect which created trade before parliaments were thought of, and which has raised the commerce of this country to its present flourishing state, in defi ance of the absurd mass of legislation which has been overthrown within the last five years. In this, as in every other case, we must protest against the inter ference of authority to restrict the exercise of one of the undoubted rights of the citizen—which is, to make the use of his credit that he is now allowed to do of his skill and his industry, to carry it to the best market, whether for buying or for selling. In all rude countries there is a disposition to impose a government certificate of genuineness upon pro ductions of all kinds. As trade advances, and its principles begin to be understood, it is discovered that such precautions are worse than useless. In many cases they allow persons able to secure the marks by surreptitious means, to exclude a fairer dealer from the market, and it is to the discovery of such practices that the abolition of this unnecessary interference is usually owing. The existence of this custom may serve as an index of the state of 'intelli gence amongst the class preserving it. We want no inspection of cotton cloths similar to that to which linen has long been subjected. The butter of Devon shire and of Buckinghamshire comes up to London without the brand, which is, perhaps, no libel on the Irish farmer. The efficacy of a private mark on printed goods, or on cutlery, depends upon its serving as a check upon the firm that issues such a mark. Their whole success in trade depends upon the confidence which it inspires, and which a single bad article sold through its recommendation often suffices to destroy. The stamp gives a security to the dealer that goes beyond a certificate of genuineness for the single piece of goods that bears it. The buyer reads, in the impression, that he is dealing with men whose characters deserve the trust which he reposes. He buys the goods and sells them unseen upon this trust. To this mode of conducting business, the foundation of which would be sought in vain in any act of parliament, is England indebted for the extent of her commerce. In a case like this, where the national prosperity is so clearly , and inseparably interwoven with the rights of the citizen, it is reasonable to expect that some I arguments which will bear the test of logical analysis should be offered to justify an infringement of those rights. By this test no argument that has been advanced by the advocates of a restricted use of credit can bear to be tried. Notes, it is said, must all be con vertible into gold. But why must they be so con vertible ? Is gold all that any body wishes to obtain? Would Europe be the richer if the sixty millions of pounds sterling now circulating in the shape of notes in Great Britain, France, Prus sia, Austria, and Russia, could be replaced by so much gold? Assuredly not ; fur gold, in that case, would become a drug upon the market, as an article of use, while all the inconvenience of metallic ore, its liability to deteriorate from friction, the expense and risk of carrying it about, the incentive it offers to robbers and defrauders to purloin or to debase it, would take from it all value as money, in the proper sense of the word. That sense, as its Latin original implies, is the nominal value of the circulating me dium, whatever it may be ; and this value is clearly cal maintained in the case of notes convertible into , as long as gold will purchase land, houses, cattle, , meat, and clothing, at the relative price which these objects bear towards one another. That gold may be ale to purchase these things, when offered as payment, let us take care not to have too much of it. When gold becomes a drug, it will no more purchase them than will copper, iron, or waste paper. Why, then, will notes purchase these objects of our desires? We reply that notes will purchase them under all changes of markets, as long as those notes represent a created value existing some where. But whether that value consists in any or all of the objects we have named, and especially whether it exists at all, is the business of the person taking a note to ascertain. This responsibility can neither be taken from him by an act of parliament, nor, as we have seen, by the substitution of gold for credit. Were there as much gold in the world as there is now currency of all kinds, gold would have little intrinsic value, and can therefore offer no guarantee. A small portion of the sandy plain at the foot of the Ural mountains furnished last year, under imperfect ma nagement, thirty tons of gold to trade. From this experiment it is easy to calculate what application of capital and time would rake to produce enough to reduce the price of gold to half its present value. The same calculation shows creditors the kind of security which gold affords. The fluctuating value of metals has given rise to the practice adopted in all large trading communities of reckoning by money of account. The sum found in English pounds, in French francs, in Hamburg marks, or in Spanish dollars, is afterwards reckoned in any medium parties trading agree upon. It may be turned into gold or silver in Mexico and Peru, as it would in China be turned into tee, silk, or sycee ingots, at the market price. In large foreign tran sactions all coins are but ingots, of which the current exchange indicates the market price. Indeed that what are called the precious metals have their present high value is mainly owing to the necessity imposed by the nations of Europe upon themselves to use them as coin. But since the value of these metals, the quality which really makes them precious, depends upon their expressing the ratio which the great objects of consumption and production in all countries bear to each other, it is clear that if we can express this ratio without their intervention, they occasion more trouble than is necessary in trade. This discovery has long since been made by merchants, and was acted upon in England at the tune the bill for restrict ing the use of notes was proposed to the extent (as Mr. TOOKE has told us) of rune-tenths of all trading transactions. The use of credit, amongst those who then chanced to exert it, was not diminished, and may be supposed to be still at least equally extensive. But we have since then obtained leave to trade as may best suit the interests of the adventurer. We have, moreover, obtained a power of locomotion that did not exist ten years ago. With these stimulants trade ought both to increase and to grow more profitable than before, without subjecting the new tradesman, or the old merchant who extends his business, to the penalty of having to use a metallic currency. For, we repeat, that it is a penalty to hamper a man, who has devoted his time and capital to the production of corn or of cotton goods, with the results of the labour of Russian serfs or of Brazilian negroes. No one has a right to fetter the power he' possesses of exchanging his wares to the presence or absence of a metal over which he has no control. If inch a right be maintained on the part of the legisla ture, we contend that it ought to be supported by at least logical argument _ _ 1 I The reducho ad absurdum of the problem respecting the value of bank notes was worked out during the course of the last war. Great Britain had but a cur • reacy of notes at home, and yet triumphed over the whole power of continental Europe, that at one time • was leagued against her, and where a metallic cur rency alone could circulate. The true nature of a note was at that time made evident, and, at the same time, the impotency of parliament in currency matters. The famous act of 1791 which released the Bank of England from the obligation to pay cash for its notes, was a dead letter until the meeting held by a I number of patriotic merchants and bankers ensured those notes circulation. If an act of parliament could have given credit to notes, a decree of the French Directory, or of the Senate of Hamburg, could have j done the same, and England would have had no ad vantage over her rivals. It was the confidence placed by ourigreat merchants in the respectability of the Bank management, and in the integrity of ministers, that obtained circulation for notes, and showed that for internal traffic gold is superfluous. For foreign trade gold was required, because the state of credit abroad was so bad, that only a metallic currency was tolerated. We trust that we shall not soon have to show the world once more that England is well aware of her moral and intellectual superiority in this respect, and that she can afford to see other nations accumulating gold while she trusts to the resources in the credit of her citizens. Her ascendancy at sea secures her at least the trade with her own colonies. This trade she has only to set free, in order to be more than indem nified for the loin of the trade of the world besides. It would, however, be too abetted to maintain that what is so efficacious in time of war may not be used for the purpose of accumulating wealth in time of peace. And yet to this conclusion the advocates for restricting the use of private credit come. Instead of preparing the way for an accidental crisis of the kind by the exercise of this intellectual source of power, and for a gradual spreading of sound views of credit and of currency from the mother country to the colo nies, thus preparing an alliance of so powerful a kind that it must strike oar enemies with awe and with admiration, we find persons desirous of striking home at the root of all our moral strength and commercial preponderance. The credit of a man is like a woman's chastity. Both are in the safe keeping only of the persons who possess them. Neither can be effectually preserved from insidious attack or from self-debasement by other defences than by moral exertion. The sooner, therefore, all parties are taught to rely upon themselves alone, the better will it be for them and for the community. The Paris journals of Wednesday are devoid of in telligence of general interest. The ministerial organs maintain a silence on the subject of the anomalous position in which the British embassy has been placed, and the evident embarassment which the circum stance has occasioned to the government The fol lowing paragraph from the Sic'ele of Wednesday expresses sentiments which are generally entertained on the present situation : If the ministry meant to face boldly the exigencies of the British cabinet, it should declare so openly, and not disei mutate. But it is so fully aware of its own weakness, that it deceives its party by way of encouraging it. As regards ourselves, what we wish to do above all things is to apprize the public of the true state of things, and to dissipate the illusions which M. Guizot conjures up in the minds of his friends to engage them in his quarrel, though he will after wards compromise them by some shameful capitulation. They were first of all promised Lord Pal eterston's fall. Nothing seems to justify that hope. 'l6e English journals loudly declare " that there is not the shadow of an appearance of a change of ministry in England." It was then said that Sir R. Peel would oppose the head of the Foreign-other.. Sir Robert, on the contrary, has supported him not only with words, bet with his vote on a ministerial question, " taking into eon. sideration the events which might arise from the rresent state of the relation, between France and England." It was said that Lord Palmerston's colleagues did not share his opinions respecting the Spanish marriages. Different members expressed their opinions before the parliament and hold the same language as the Minister of Foreign Affairs. Obliged to put up with the ministry, they flattered them selves to get rid of the ambassador, but the Morning Chroniek dissipates this hope by stating that Lord Nor manby will not be recalled. The Madrid mail, with advices to Feb. 18,.wu re ceived in Paris on Wednesday. The session of the Chamber of Deputies held on that day excited the highest interest, and was attended by a large number of persons. The discussion u..n the address was commenced; the speakers inacri ... in opposition were the Marquis de loreorgaz Lugan, Madoz, Cortina, and Sagasti ; in support of it, MM. Sartorius and Pidal. Numerous amendments were to be proposed ; at the time of the departure or the mail the Marquis de Toreorgas had commenced his speech. The Minister of the Interior had despatched a cir cular to the provincial authorities, demanding infor mation respecting the state of subsistence, with a view to guard against the possible consequences of a scarcity. A royal commission had been appointed, to inquire into the question of railways, and particularly as to the policy of executing them at the charge of the state. An ordonnance had also been published, permitting the importation of machinery for lighting the city of Malaga with gas at an ad ralorem duty of 5 per cent. ROME, FEB. 18. The Carnival, thank heaven, is over at last, and ten days of this uproarious tomfoolery, which has forcibly superseded every rational sort of occupation, have come to a close. You will not expect me to describe the nondescript varieties of folly thus exhibited, though it would be easy to transcribe for that pur pose several pages of Alexander Dumas' " Count of Monte Christo, in which rhodomontizing romance the whole scene is graphically pourtrayed. To that work refer such of your readers as desire it; the frivolous to the flimsy. Among all kinds of outlandish costumes repro ducing the semblance of every foreign garb and ga berdine, people took no notice of something really striking and strange, viz., the entrance into Rome of the new Turkish ambassador and his suite of genuine oriental,. Most spectators took the solemn pageant for part of the general farce, and applauded the Sul tan's envoy as a well got up buffoonery, to the utter amazement of the grave Ottoman. His Highness Shekib Effendi, amidst showers of confectionery and groups of dancing harlequins, proceeded with diplo matic gravity to his appointed residence, and there having spread his carpet and performed his ablutions, lit his pipe . and duly pondered on his reception in this holy city. What his musings were may be left to the imagination. The day after his arrival being Shrove Tuesday, was the culminating point of the previous day's fun ; and rumour having acquainted the Romans with the real nature of the distinguished infidel's visit, crowds of maskers and gaily-filled chariots thronged under the windows of the turbaned plenipotentiary . There sat Shekib Effendi, plying his chibonk with imper turbable composure, having learnt from his attendants that the Christians were celebrating their " ramazan," and having sufficiently imbibed principles of tolera tion to look calmly on the devotional exercises of the Giaours. Reports were rife as to the costly presents which he was commissioned to offer the Pope on his reception, though different versions prevailed as to the precise nature of the gifts; some maintaining the value of a splendid jewelled pipe, others holding out for a priceless blade from Damascus, while the learned ad vocated an illuminated MS. of the Karen: shawls ruled highest with the fair Romans. Meantime, in endless succession, carriage after car riage rolled under the balconies of the envoy . ; each brilliant equipage of gay masquers vieing with the other in polite manifestations ; flinging flowers and saccharine projectiles in token of recognition ; to all which the Sublime Porte's representative " made no sign." It is related in Homer that, seated on the walls of Troy, old Priam got Helen to point out the dis tinguished Greeks as they fought in the distance round the beleaguered town. Had some devil on two sticks" been at tie Turk's elbow on the present occasion he might have performed a similar office in respect of some remarkable characters. " Yonder respectable middle-aged gentleman, with a party of English ladies, 0 Shekib, is the Saib Robert el Gordon, brother of Aberdeen Effendi, both of which personages thou hest heard of in diplomacy. Seib Robert has been British Envoy in Germany, whither thou guest ; but he now disports him self with the rest after the manner of the Romans. In the next chariot seest thou a young nobleman of flash appearance with a black eye, got by a blow from an orange? That is one of the hereditary legislators of England, Ward Bey. Following him, driveth past in a dashing vehicle, the Prince of Syracuse, brother to the King of Naples, to Christina Munoz of Spain, to Caroline Lucchese Palli, and to Penelope Capita Smith. He appeareth to be, what I fear he is, a very snob of royalty. Next, in a hackney conveyance, sitteth a tall gaunt personage, alone, with a quid of tobacco inside his cheek ; that, 0 Shekib, is Ben l'olk of Naples, brother of " Jeames,” the great sultana of the Yan-kees. He always leaves his embassy and the laxsaroni for Rome during Itamaxan. Not very gifted is he in diplomatic accomplishments, but a true con noisseur in the famous transatlantic sherbet, sherry cobbler. Anon, cometh a striking figure, rather short, but manly, with a bushy beard and square forehead: 'tis the only clever remnant of the Buonaparte race, the intelligent Prince of Canino : profouni as a sage, sportive as a boy. Dost thou notice the splendid equipage, with ruuning footmen and tricolor cockades? "his Count Rossi, envoy of the Feriogees, the only na tion ably represented here. Yonder carriage, with the royal arms of Portagal, carries a masked person age. He would fain pass for Don Miguel, f irmerly King of Lisbon : he is only the Don's valet, but very like his master. He can't impose on the public here, for we know that the real Miguel secretly left Rome on his way to Oporto, ten days ago." Stich would be the indications furnished to the inquiring Ottoman by a dispassionate eye-witness, who might also enter into details of many less known, but not lees curiously interesting, private individuals ; but as none but avowedly public characters --appear ing as such in public—are legitimate subjects of com ment, non ragionam di torn, ma guards e passe. The proceeds of the Irish relief ball, given on Mon day last, eliminated, after all expenses, to 3001. The attendance was most brilliant—over 800. The last news is the interview of the senior cap tain (Cacciari) of the Roman Civic Guard with the Pope, on the occasion of electing a new colonel of that corps. After some discussion his holiness asked whether there would be any objection to his becoming a candidate for that office? Of course none; and consequently, to the great delight of the Romans, Pius IX. is gazetted to-day Colonel of La Guardia MOSUL, JAN. 9. That Tayar Pecha, whose death I mentioned and com mented on in my last, did not interpote effectually to prevent the late massacre of the Nestorians arose not, I am per suaded, from any want of good-will upon hie part (for he was by no means a bigot), but from sheer inability to work with the wretched tools about Lim. With regard to that horrible business, I have learned some details which I shall proceed to give you. Some of the fugitives are employed in the excavations at Nimrond, twenty miles lower down on the left bank of the river ; and it was from the months of these that I obtained yesterday the following account of the massacre. The deputation which the people of Tchoma sent to Tayar Pasha, desiring his intervention against the declared design of Bederhan Bey to invade their territory, and destroy them, returned with promises of protection. Meantime Nurulleh, Bey of Hakiori (the district which, According to the adminis trative arrangements of tie Porte, should include Tehoma), sent to them, offering to take care of their families and flocks if they would come and - place themselves under his guard. But, understanding from the emissaries of the Bey that his real intention woe to murder and plunder them, they de clined accepting his invitation. Soon after, they received a message from Sheikh Taker, whom Tayar Pasha had sent to mediate in their behalf with Bederhan Bey, and who was then at Tchal, warning them of their approaching fate, but offering to avert it if they would only send 700 sheep to bribe the Pasha and. the English consul. Such were hie words. The 700 sheep were sent, and of course kept by Sheikh Tayar . Two days after, Bederhan Bey came. The melleks, or chiefs of the tribe, were assembled at Tahoma-serai, the principal village, when news came that Bederhan Bey and his Kurds, were entering their ter ritory. Presently a message came from the Bey, promising to spare their lives if they would yield up their arms, provi sions, and pay down 25 piastres a head. Having experienced already the treachery of Bederhan Bey, in ha former at tack upon the Christians, they rejected at once a proposal which would place them entirely at hie mercy. Meantime, some Kurds of Pinianshi came in with offers of assistance front their tribe. But the Kurds drove off many of their sheep during the night. Bederhan Bey hearing of this, pursued the Pinianshi men, took the sheep from them, and plundered them. The Kurds of Tchal also sent a strong escort to bring away their women, children, and flocks to a safe place of refuge in the Tchal district. Many took ad s vantage of this occasion to send away their families and ' flocks. But Bederhan Bey being informed of the way they took, through the treachery of the guides, sent Zeinar Bey, governor of Digesia under him, against them to cut them off. Zeinar Bey enure up with them in • pass of the mountain., fell upon them with his Kurd I, and slew 300 women. Many others were wounded in their flight. Two girls alone swiped. At length the Kurds appeared at either end of the valley of Tchoma, inclosing the doomed inhabitants. The latter, however, prepared themselves for battle. The fight lasted two hours. The Christians were slain or put to flight. Two days Meer, on a Friday, their own Sabbath, the Kurds plundered all the villages, burned the houses, cut down the trees, and destroyed the cultivation. As Zeinar Bey and Tshyar Agha were sitting together at Tchoma soon after the fight, 3.5 women, 12 children under seven years of age, and 16 girls, were brought captive before them. Then Tahysr Agha said, " We want no slaves; we will take no captives for the Bohm (Consul) to release. Thereupon the captives were ell murdered, with the exception of three girls, who were saved on account of their remarkable beauty. It is not known whether these three girls have been shire killed, or whether they remain as slaves in the hands of Bederhan Bey. Some of the fugitive* returned to Tchoma after Seder ben-bey had retired. Then Nurallehbey came and fell upon them, killing some and putting others to divers tortures, to force them to confess where they had concealed their pro perty. After this, all that could tied into Persia ; and now there is scarcely a christien soul left in the district. 99 bodies were found at Gaza, 20 at BirigM, and 260 at Tchoma serai, not including those slain in fight. The Kurds plun dered all the furniture of the churches, destroyed the build ings, and murdered the priests. Three priests were killed at Mardi, among whom was Kraho Bodeka, a man of eminent piety, and greatly reverenced among the people. Such is the relation of the fugitives of Tchoma, and it has the simple air of truth about it. The total number massa cred ie not knows, but it is estimated et 2,000. Bederhan bey is collecting all his strength against the threatened ex pedition of the Porte. I have heard his force stated at 100,000 flints (to use the Kurdish phrase.) This estimate was given at Bagdad, whither he has been called by the intrigues of Nijib Pasha, by the celebrated eluik of the Shimmer, Moog, who has been sheltered some yeses past with Bederhan-bey. But there is reason to think that this statement is an exaggeration, and that 13ederhan bey's force does not amount to more than 40,000. I have, in a preceding letter, estimated his amount of territory at about 5,000 square miles. A population of 25 per square mile, which is a large one for Asia, would give 125,000f10r the number of his subjects ; and perhaps 20,000 for those capa ble of bearing arms. Kurdish refugees and allies might, perhaps, double this amount. Whatever be their number, which cannot be known accurately, for the present remains a mere matter of speculation, he has had them all sum moned through their various petty chiefs to his castle at ' Derghileh, there to swear as oath of allegiance to him, to light with him against the Turks nnto the death ; and never to abandon him or his family. The married man swears by the Koran and by the heads of their wives, and the unmar ried by the Koran only. On the other hand, the Porte is not idle in making pre parations. Two regiment+, under the command of Numik i Pasha, and forming part of the army of Syria have received orders to march to Mosel. At Mosul there are already 1400 soldiers of the same army, and 400 artillery. There are 12,000 in the camp at Erserourn ; and the rest of the main force of the army of Anatolia will be concentrated at IC has ; pont. Of these combined forces Ismail Pasha, a young man of great vigour and promise, is to have the chief command. , Omar Pasha will be at his elbow to supply his want, , of experience. The command in chief would, en fact, in all probability have been given to Omar Pasha, who is by far ! the ablest officer in the service of the Porte, but for the feet • of his being a renegade. Omar Pasha was a captain in the ; Austrian army. He has done the Turks excellent service in Albania and Syria; and when the late rebellion broke out in Adjora, was the man immediately selected to quell it. Notwithstanding such an imposing show of force, it is by no mesas necessary to believe that the Porte is tho- I roughly in earnest as to undertaking war wind Bederban hey. It is not even certain whether Bederhan-bey was very , far mistaken when he asserted that the massacre of the Nestorian would be a popular measure among good Mus eulmans ; and that a considerable party at the Porte would espouse his muse. Be this as it may, a phenomenon • has appeared at Mond, which gives rise to very strange coa -1 Effendi, A Turkish gentleman, of the name of Nazim Effendi, appointed four month back on a mission to the Kurds, is just COON to Mosul, after paying a visit of some weeks to Bederhan Bey at Derghileh. Not only does this emissary of the Porte speak in very high terms of the Kurd ! ish chief; but with the coolest and most incredible as surance he undertakes to defend and justify the massacre. I All Christians he affects to regard with the most ineffabl , disdain; and hie deportment towards the French and Eng lish consuls has been so extremely insolent, that no doubt a I would have drawn upon him communications beyond those ' of a diplomatic nature, had he been anything but a Turk. Synie ascribe this midi-Christian tone, and applause of the mummy of the (Thiamin, to a profound dissimulation, intended ma • trap for Bederhaa-bey, whom he would fain have in his hands, end send to Stambol. This, I confess, appears to me rather a foroed solution of the extraordinary and indecent conduct of the envoy in question. At all events, any diehimulation of which openly abusing and contemning living Christians, and applauding the murderers of dead, forms an essential part, calls for suppression I, therefore, trust that the Christian powers will lose no time in demanding an explanation, and insist, not only on the recall, but aloe on the punishment of Harem Effendi ; the perpetrator of this scandal. Others, whose opinion I consider more probable, regard this offensive style as an indication of the awimus of the Porte, and a bad omen for the stability of Reshid Paella's tenure of office. BELGIUM.—BRussELR, FEB. 23.—1 n the year , 1345 • number of commercial house' in the Rhenish pro vinces entertained the idea of forming a company for carry ing on trade with the provinces tyljacent to the mouths of the Danube. Having no convenient seaport' of their own, the heads of those firms turned their thoughts towards Ant werp, between which city end Cologne an unbroken line of railway exists ; and laid their plan before the leading mer chants of the former place, as well as before the Chamber of Comtneree. The idea was judged an excellent one by the citizeias of Antwerp, and the German company received as surance* of active co-operation. The next step was to secure, if possible, the support and encouragement of the Prussian government, but, for some cause or other hitherto unex plained, or at least unpublished, that aid and that counte nance were not obtained. The idea, however, was not abandoned on that account. The leading originator of the plan set to work more actively than ever, and the result is, that they have succeeded in bringing the project to maturity. In a short time, several vessels will commence sailing between Antwerp and Gelds, touching at Smyrna. It will be seen, therefore, that if the plan be fully and spiritedly carried out it will raise no contemptible commer cial rivals in a quarter where England has had almost • monopoly of trade.—A remarkable trial will take place in a few days at Mons. A young widow is charged with having poisoned her husband, who was nearly an octoge narian, and her paramour, her father, and her medical at tendant are amused of being her aosomplices.—The bill for reclaiming waste lands has pawed the Chamber of Re presentatives. ITALT.—Rome.—Pope Pius IX. presided at a cabinet council for the first time on the 30th ult. On the 2nd February he also presided at a congregation of cardinals, Cardinals Giinti, Lambraschini, Polidori, and Corboli-Buffi bring present. On the 10th inst. a banquet was given to Mr. Cobden in the Chamber of Commerce, at which the Marquis Pontensiani presided. The Pope is taking the most efficient and prompt measures for the advancement of the agricultural interests of his states. Besides the activity which is now manifeetcd is draining the Pontine marshes, Pius IX. has ordered the culture of rice to be commenced immediately, and a number of engineers are alreadyoccupied with carrying out his plans. His Holiness has also ordered all the convents and religious establishments to send in an exact return of their receipts and expenses. In cases where the receipts are greater than the expenses the surplus is to be applied to paying off the public debt to the profit of the state. Many of there religious houses possess great wealth. His Holiness, on his part, engages to provide for these esta blishments in all extraordinary eases of emergency. A correspondent of the Semaphore de Marseille has addressed the following letter to that journal from Rome, which contains a fact most significant for those who take an interest in the progress of French policy in the Roman states : " Owing to an ancient custom, the Austrian and French Ambassadors have the exclusive privilege, during the files of the carnival, and on a day appointed for each, to traverse the Corso in grand gala after the cannon has sounded, which is a sigma] lor the carriages to disperse. On the 11th inst. Count Rossi, wishing to keep up this ancient I privilege, made the promenade in question, accompanied by a brilliant cortige of carriages and persons attached to the • embassy. As soon as the carriage of the French Ambassador 1 made its appearance on the Corso.which was crowded with all • the population of Rome, it was hailed with bursts of applause from one end of the Corso to the other. Count R oss i , touched by so honourable a demonstration for the nation which be represents thanked the people as well as he could by bowing from his carriage. This fact has become the topic of con versatioa in all the salons of Rome. People were curious to sea if the Austrain ambassador would make use of his privi lege. The affair of Cracow, the late disturbances at Ferrara and at Cesenatico, and above all, the bad will shown by Austria towards the reforms of the present Pope, have so excited the public mind against that power which seeks to dominate in Italy, that it was not thought likely that the Austrian ambassador would provide the people of Rome with an occasion for manifesting their sentiments. GERNIANY.—TIII: PRUSSIAN CONSTITUTION, — The plan of the United Diet, which is regarded by some in England as having little or no meaning, is considered in • very different point of view by many of the German jivers. In some places it is said to have been received with surprise, in others with applause. The German papers regard it as a measure that must have serious consequences an a country hitherto remarkable for the extreme contrast of an almost absolute form of government, and a population in which libe ral and even revolutionary theories have been widely spread. A letter from Vienna says the news that the King of Prussia had granted a constitution to his people caused • great sen sation in that city. Although the state of things founded by Frederick William differs widely from the representative system as it is understood in other countries, vet it is • step in advance, and no one can foretell how far the liberal tendencies once awakened may not pro ceed. It is not denied that the concession made to the prayers of the people is based on the wants of the country. In some quarters it is feared that the purely monarchical system of Prussia may be dragged into strange results. Austria would not regret what has taken place at Berlin if it had the certitude that the move ment of the public mind would settle down. Nothing, however, is more difficult than to keep a just equilibrium between two elements diametrically opposed. No one misinterprets the good intentions and the enlightened views of the Pruden monarch, who, whilst he gives liberally with one hand, knows how with the other to keep in check the radical and communist ideas of his people. THE PRUSSIAN CABINET AND THE SPANISH Qc EBTION.—The Cologne Gazette of the 22nd inst. contains a Berlin correspondence under date Feb. 17, in which con siderable doubt is expressed with regard to the statement made by the Persia and Onutitutionnel, to the effect that the Prussian cabinet had acceded to the wishes of England, and bad protested against the eventual inheritance of the throne of Spain by the Duchess of Montpensier or her chil dren. It is positively asserted also, in the name article, that Austria and Russia have refused to take any part in the quarrel; and it is contended that Prussia ought also to re main neutral, inasmuch as she still entertains the same opinions with regard to the present state of the Spanish monarchy that are expressed by the two Rowers just named. It is asserted, however, that the true Interests of Prussia would lead that kingdom to acknowledge Queen Isabella, a step (it is urged) which could not well be preceded, or ae• companied, by • protestation against the hereditary rights of her sister. - - —• VIENNA.—The phrase inserted in the address of the French Chamber of Deputies, and which says, " that no power can put aside the obligations of treaties, with out at the same time enfranchising all the others," caused a great impression at Vienna. The commentaries of M. Guiset were looked upon as so?hi•ms. It is probable that categorical explanations will be demanded by the cabinets of the three powers on this important and delicate point. TELEGRAPHS IN A lISTRIA.—The Austrian Observer, of the 12th inst., announces that the Emperor, taking into consideration the importance of telegraphic communications for the public administration, has ordained, by a cabinet letter, dated 16th Jan. last, that no private individual or society whatsoever may for the future establish a line of telegraphs without a previous sancion from the govern ment. In case of contra., ntion, the works are to be de stroyed by the government at the expense of the proprietors nab et they prefer destroying them themselves. RUSSIA and POLAND.—The movement of troops in the kingdom of Poland is stated by some German papers to be a simple measure of precaution, and not to be regarded as having a hostile tendency against Germany, Austria, or Prussia. On the other hand, a letter from Breslau, of the 13th instant, in the Frankfort Gazette, says: "The report that the 2nd and sth divisions of the army are to be imme diately placed on a war footing is all but confirmed. The high staff officers of both divisions are at Berlin, where it is said the greatest activity prevails at the ministry of war. The working companies of both divisions are constantly em ployed, and to this must be added that the diet has been convoked for the 11th of April next to contract a new loan. The rumours, repeated in different journals, of the advance of large bodies of Russian troops towards the Russian-Prus sian frontier, and the passage of considerable detachments through Warsaw, seem correct. A traveller recently arrived from that city states that he saw one detachment at least 18,000 strong. It is rumoured that Russia intends carrying out her views on Moldavia, and to indemnify Prussia by some Polish districts." Letters from Vienna and Berlin say that Cracow and Breslau are to be fortified. COLONIAL. SINGAPORE.—We are in reeett of files of the Prey Pre and Straits Timm, from toe 4th of December, 1846, to the 9th of January, 1617 (inclusive). There is no. thing of stirring interest in them ; and what of interest there is, relates rather to other settlement* than to Singapore it- This is natural, considering how favourably it is situ ated for becoming a central depot of intelligence. The second session of oyer and terminer was opened at Singapore on the 10th of December. The Free Press gives the Recorder's charge to the grand jury; but neither in that paper nor its competitor is any amount of the trials to be found. Yet one of them, at least, must have powinsed inte rest. It was an indictment for slave-dealing. The Recorder stated: " It was not necessary, to constitute the crime, that the woman should have been offered for sale in Singapore it was sufficient if, from the evidence, it appeared that shit I had been brought there with the purpose of being treated so a slave." The Free Press of 24th December contains an interesting account of the Examinations of the Singe pore Institution Free Schools. It is noticed inciden. tally that the junior clames contain Kling*, Malays, and Chinese, as well as Indo-Britains; but the names of all I the boys who received prizes indicate them to he of Enro- I pees race. Admiral Sir J. T. Cochrane arrived at Singe pore on the 19th of December ; Mr. Brooke, of !Immesh, on the 20th. Mr. Brooke accompanied Sir J. T. Cochrane to Penang on the 22nd, where the admiral intended to await li the arrival of his sucmeor. . _ . - 117enTi;teame31;Ibeen rather irregular in December. Up to the morning of the 9th of Januery neither the steamer from Galls nor that from China had arrived. H.M.S. Replogle had brought the mail/ from Hong Rom, the Lady Mary Wood not having arrived share the` of December, when the Eapiegle sailed. At !logo HMCo there had been few urivaLi fr om rft coast during the month of December. Complaint s or e eeftde about the high rate of duty levied on soiree earthenwar e ft Assay contrary to the promise of Keying. The querns has been that all the mane earthen... from that port is shipped by amagglers at s e outer anchorage : and the British gaffes by ha v i ny resident oonsul, as he must of mune discourage arauggi fty. Sir John Davis's unpopularity Walls to increase. A trium p h has been achieved over him in the reversal of the sentence- Mr. Compton by the Chief Justine. The remarlu of the Chief tlnstice are couched in a manly sad independent se a lie pronounces the sentence to be unjust: " Mr. Common, received sentence under one ordinance, and was heed unde r another, which is contrary to all principles of }:nglieh j ut . tire." Besides considering the question in its It gal beari ng , the Chief Justice entered into an examination of it in ; general point of view es regards the charges preferred by Keying against Mr. Compton and the English mereharna and apparently credited by the English plenipotentiary. TS Chief J malice considers that the English had a perfect rio t to rept 1 the Chinese from the factorize--" there is a ey distinction to be made between a person acting in defences' his person, in which case he ought to withdraw, and one de. fending his property, who ha. a right to pursue the assailants until they are driven away. Throughout the transaen ft nothing appears more natural or more proper than th e course followed by the English." In reference to the attempt which was made both by the Chimes and English authuri. ties to connect the riot, which took place on the 891 Juli, with Mr. Compton's conduct on the 4th, and on tthich a. semed connection the necessity for fining Mr. Compton is based—the Chief Justice declares that the ear nection assumed without the slightest evidence. It would hoe, berg a most extraordinary circumstance if Mr. Compton or any other Englishman, on being struck, had not returned the blow—l should have been astonished if he had not." Our Singapore files also contain relent information from the Australian colonies. Regarding New EBIALAND they sup. ply some details of Cook's Straits, again omitted so the Auckland papers last received. Rangihaeata was understood to be building a strong pah near Otaki ; and antieinatine a renewal of aggressions from that quarter, E Puni's peopl e were constructing a strong pah at Petoni. The convened natives, between Weikanee and Rangitiki, express a Inns fur perms ; the unconverted, looking upon Rangihaeat a as the last and almost the only stay of their ancient customs and usages, have decided on taking the field to ask his. A meeting of natives was held at Ponnta in the beginning of September to discuss the events arising out of the war. They showed an inclination to petition for the release of Rauperaha. The ligatiewa tribe and the European settles are strongly opposed to such • step. That chief has lon caste, but his craft and cruelty would enable his to do much mischief. A body of hostile natives had appeared in the Wairampa district ; the genic -s sought refuge with the nations of the district, who them t mid the intruders with death if they meddled with the Europeans, or their docks or herds. _ From VAN filLICE11 ; 8 LAND it ia intimated that Mr. Latzabe has been formally inducted as " administrator of the government." A communication is rid to have been made to Sir Eardley Wilmot, from Mr. Gladstone, through Sir Charles Fitzroy, to the effect that until certain report are cleared up, it will be impossible to confer any appoint ment upon him. Sir Eardley, it woe added, was about to call a committee of inquiry, imposed of the members of the late executive council. . _ _ From SOUTH AUSTRALIA, journals had been received at Singapore to the 29th of October. The extracts given add little to the intelligence we published yesterday. The U• bourers at Port Adelaide; had struck for higher Mages,—bad secured 6s. a day,—and even at that rate it was difficult to get hands to load and discharge ships. The only items of intelligence from New SOCITU WOLF), relate to a report at Sydney that some '<puttee, had traced the Boyne river to where it crosses the 26th degree of latitude. It is described as being there a navigable stream of fresh water, joined by a river from the northward, supposed to be the From BATAVIA, it is reported that a measure will pro bably be announced, in the course:of the *arrant year, for the total abolition of the domestic slavery which still prevails in Java. INDIA AND CHINA. By the regular mail, which wu delivered yester day, we have received oar files and correspondence. From the latter we now give the following extracts, some portion of our correspondent.' letters having been anticipated by what appeared in our paper yesterday : . _ _ BOMBAY, Jnv. 15. The recent ill-succore of our troops on the frontier of Seinde has given great offence to the general. though apparently to have attac ke d the Booghtiss in the position they had taken up on a hill would have been productive of nothing but defeat. But Sir Charles Napier knows not what it is to 'urn his back on an enemy himself, probably from placed in the predicament in which Col. Stack found himself, and therefore can make no allowances for such a manceuvre. Sukkur was rather unhealthy—but at the best of times rhea was it otherwise ? Kurrachee and Elydrabad were healthy. The harvest is Scinde is this season most abundant; sad the traffic by the Indus rapidly increasing. It is time it should, if the saying of Lord Ellenborough is to be realised—that ships of all nations will float on its waters. The Niyana's dominions, for • short while thought to be in a promising condition, have again commenced to relapse into their former state of anarchy and oonfaaion. The Prince would seem to bear his new minister no good will ; on the contrary, he looks on him with diagnatus the creature of the British government, and endeavours to annoy him in every poes ado manner. Added to this, the Vuxeer has not realised the expectations entertained of him on his brat esiuming office. Some recent proceedings at Hydralad have come to light, which throw anything bat credit on his notions of justice. Our government must eventually inter fere in the affairs of this state more energetically than it has hitherto done if it wishes to see it either contented or pros perous, and the sooner such interference commence-, th► goofier will the desired result be brought about. The Ameer Mohamed Khan and his two sons, the instiga tors and leaders of the late rebellion in dm province of lihe pal, have been sent prisoners for life to the hill fortress of Aeseerghur, in the Bombay presidency. The new governor of our presidency, Mr. G. R. Clerk,vin probably be with us by the 24th. If he radians the expecta tions formed of him, Bombay will be happy under his rule. Death, with equal band, has again been dealing in high quarters. Titarrawadie, the lad ex-king of Ihirmah, boo been gathered to " his fathers." He warped the OMB in 1838 having deposed his elder brother. Some sammtbs ago, aft er exhibiting much violence and oonfirmed looser. he was in turn deposed by his eldest sea. What effect his death may have on the policy of the country, internal and external, we are not prepared to give an opinion ; but think an attempt might be made to place • resident again at the court of Ann, as it is possible the views of the son may differ somewhat from those of the father. CHINA. The internal affairs of the Celestial Empire, Is long concealed from the ken of " outride barbarians," are gradually being revealed. Extracts from the Pekin Oinette. published from time to time in the Canton and Hong- Kong English papers, make us acquainted with the mom important proceedings of the Emperor and of his court, besides giving here and there a few scraps of informatioa respecting the state of the country. THE Esranoti.—The "Son of the San" appears to have been in a similar predicament to her Majesty Queen Victoria—his palace has required additions and repairs, especially the harem. We read that a certain person—the Mr. Blore of China—" has given a very full account of what will be required for outlay, labour, and supervision, with all the other particulars." This es tension of this harem is partly accounted for by another paragraph. .‘ Lan-kwang has been pleased to raise one of his concubines to the rank of imperial partner. The name of the lady does not appear, for to pronounce it would be sacri lege." Under a later date we read, "The Emperor appears to be in excellent spirits since he rais,d the lady of the harem to lie his consort.—The surplus revenue from the southern trade of Teen-trio, which is expected this year to amount to 12,300 Cada, has been assigned in advance to meet the household ex of the princess." e ry ' s i ntun.—The Emperor has been graciously pleased to remit or rather postpone the collection of the land-tax in those parts of lionan which have angered much from drought; and at the same time ordered that his love and consideration for the sufferers should be printed on yellow paper, and circulated throughout the empire. Revenue memorials both from Keang-soo and Ck•-keang, show that the peasantry is various districts are totally unable to pay up their arrears. As the defalcation matinee. to extend, the prospect become. more gloomy every day. The it.. c r rl i ee rums by the bankruptcy of salt - merchants has routed as fun the ire of the officer. entrusted with the public disburse ments. The mandarins who were charged with the general management have been put upon trial, and if they are pa pered of any property, will likely be compelled to yield up the whole. Circumstances haying rendered • deficit of 104,000 tech in the receipt of comma' duties unavoidable, the emperor has graciously remitted the whole sum to the defaulters. The salt.merchants who proved defaulters have been examined by torture, and their confessions rewit d. not in the recovery of the money, bat in the implication of certain mandarins. A censor proposed a total altera tion in the gubelle, which may probably lead to satis factory results, and be productive of other reforms. The word " reforms" must have been • very liberal trans lation from the Chinese of the Pekin Gesette. A country which has remained stationery for 8,000 years can hardly have such a word in its language. A now light has, how ever, manifestly broken in on the Chinese 'tree the war, and subsequent intercourse with this country. A itaNneone DOUCEUR will be given to any lady or gentleman who will procure for the advertiser a permanent situation. Addrea, D. W., Arch, Bt. Jaraes's Park, corner of Grosvenor•plea, Piccadilly.—Pena. STAG-HUNT ON THE SOUTH WEEMS( RAILWAY. — On Tuesday last, the Surrey stag-hounds met at Sutton, at mid-day, end a noble buck wan uneartsel. After some hard running the stag came to what wee to the gentlemen of the hunt a poser, viz., the South Western railway. Not so, however, was it to the Maly ; he leapt the hem, bounded down the bank, and in an meant was making Aremendoes pace along the line towards London, closely followed by the hounds. At this moment the express ap.traM was coming uP at a speed of forty mile* or more per hoar; three of the dogs that were on the up-rail were cut to pieties, and two others bad their legs smashed. The stag •11011 p uninjured, and altar paying the town'e-folk of Wandsworth a brief Till', Wu finally run down at Barna. 'lli