The Express. — London, England, 1849-02-06 00:00:00

Tut Woods and Forests Committee wan map. plated on Friday. This say be said to be the first est tithe soda., and ia some ewe it would seem a prophetic ens. It is a assure Muted her the hers of the government, as will be every War aim. by the publie may obtain. It is as badly ksiip• lowly submitted to rather than whitey Wawa* se mUI be every other lanstigadea site alleshihatin need and dehleaties It is as examiestioa which au be exuded to pedalo good fruits la the shape' tstreocherial and reformation in publiellepart saute, and of seek sad little man, will be the entire smion of 1849. Lord Dooosir deserves well of the public far the paaptit ode with whisk he has caused this irequiry Is be resumed. Coating the seas* of this able young noblesse with that et the atessavring aid whig member who presided lest jar ewe the luii banstions of the aosamittee ea the Bn deslastioel Cam mission. Lord Dtroeut Main his esonittee at the second night of the mein Mr. ETWS.Tu Demme did not give notice of his taste the third ass= did lot caws it to be sewn& hr until Line aster it was tins it should have presented its report. Otwomithese sad sommisioners are too often made the we Of Writing the is quiries they were intended tepromels de pends upon the good Mike, the amines, sad it is lucky the Woods sad Fonds unties has been taken in bard by seas se hued, so tearless, and so esseaprosaideg an the samba for Bath. He has *nay given proof is this amaterthat within adolery ass mom atbet him in the pahromine of t h4blio duty. The blesses whisk have been to bear upon him—the entreaties to be has been obliged to listen—the eaviderry Mate which kind Muds have bean eseeltif way to euggest,—all these will he satisipated midi` stood by those who la passion have ever lids taken eo forestial. a task es hie. But the shim lord lies been prostsplut all this : he has " taus ten. metal" already, and then is an doubt of his esereney. There is no desdathatlastyearthe ioquiriesofthisem-1 mittee were, in samshaimad way, materially checked l i and impeded. Far a long time no information was to be obtained at all. This important inquiry was, indeed, at one time supeaded; in consequence of the difficulty of obtaining information; and we verily believe it would have fallen to the ground altogether bad it not been for Lord Dolmen's energy and tact. When the required documents could no longer be withheld, they wen presented in each a form as to be almost useless. la some eau the facts were found to be absolutelyl misstated—papers were pat in to mislead and to con-1 tees; a. d even to this hour the mounts presented liars been so fall of error that it has been found impos sible to publish them, as was at one time intended, in the hem of an appendix to the report of the committee. Now, Lord CAILLIng is as honourable, just-dealing, sod .traightforward a peer all any breathing : he is universally esteemed for the integrity at * clique:ter : not a soul alive dares to associate Ws now with pettifogging, trickery, or fraud. Bat these things occur in his department ; he is MB illy n soosaible ; and he will be held snore peculiarly sasponsi hie should such proceedings be repeated. The prints which the committee will probably be invited to uire into are numerous: thoroughly berestiesed, they may indeed occupy the whole se as The state of the Forest of Dean sad other royal domains, of which, as yet, we bare no particu lars; th monument of the parks and palaces; the question of fee-farm rents; the state of the leasehold estates, under Woods sad Formes assaagement ; the mismanagement of property over which the anent has manorial rights; the aegist ot imported mat ters appertainiag to navigable riven; sad a hoot of other quoins, will come sods smideratioa All Nn teas audit mei ben eke - Weld, ores grimaretr the tele. It mil be M. It need seen* be oemiemeded to the public to make known any bob that may be within their cog nisance. Then is no doubt that nearly in every branch of the msnegemiat of this department job bery and painlation hue hese going on for years. The (waits under the management of the board ex tend into almest e = s erata l F24 i nd. They have been fr , quently and belies to the most miserable party o ral purpose& But, of cow... many of them is widen will remain no dete,led, unless noel is brought to bear ; and we c aunt, therefore, toe seresply counsel that thou ho are acquainted with the crown property in each locality should make known the !hots concern ing it, c ther to their own representative in parlia ment, or to some member of the committee in which they can confide. The details of lease transactions will pmb tbly be found peculiarly interesting, and it is impossible to get at the facts connected with in dividuals without local and personal information, It hes afforded se very great pleasure to observe that the importance of this question has been recog nised by the Financial Reform Association of Liver pool, who have devoted one of their tracts, numbered 8, to the question of Woods, Forests, and Land Renames. " No. 8 " is a most interesting paper. There I add scarcely be a better condensation of the evidence taken before Lord lltntc•m's committee of last year ; whilst at the same time the when case is prevnted in a remarkably ruder wad readable shape. The committee now re-applied will doubtless afford abundant materials for rpm In sow lineation, and we shall be glad to me the lire kept up. By the way, might it not be desirable Sr this and:certain other oomaittess to report to some ex tent separately upon each breath of their inquiry, in stead of aservieg their evidence, Sr large sessioaal reports, each embracing a great variety of topics P As the evidence is printed almost from day to day for the see of the members of the mumitteuthen would be lees difficulty in their presenting their reports from time to time to the public; &mil there is no doubt that each an arrangement would !militate their inquiries, by affording, whilst the ammnittee is sitting, an oppor. tufty of imparting eilithmal information . upon the tot i T i le±_m_ai a_ th e subject of invest:T= la the assistance of the Before A;t is dos also to a contemporary toitseieb in this good canes. After seveni monis ef suilleas dine% it ourmailly _ prised us a ibelig ht te AM the nous bard et ag srr eea r, this may, esti iseseiledisg, in a most form, thesatdes we bad the pleasure of submitting to the public spot the subject in the &prat of lest Attest and September. This is commencing the new year well, and we heartily congratulate ourselves upon having bad the rid fortune for ono, to carry conviction into Print ing-houss-sqvare, and to have been able to afford ma terials to sack skilful and apparently willing la bourers. Yes—apperently willing; for, ministerial nit is, the liana appears to feel that this is a matter in which it is impoiable to keep the government in countenance ; and though it doss not venture to sug gest a measure of reformation, it plainly implies that the days of MMy Lard Commatiosen of Woods and Forests' se numbered. HAMBURG, Fn. 2. Two Mims Mao bees pame4 mme. eon. by dm Diot at Rehlo•wiet. &NW to the Ambiake Vicar of the Empire anal) llke phs recassi as a basis to the Sway of Pew', vis dos_ torsidisof dm Moo sad dos to their own joist ismommt, reipmeng them to prepar Wier e with neva fir Se miss war with their implacable Gam. The y aeces•ti hen for swami pans of BiAleserig stabs that the posmatiy same nsligeisil by mamise bons Qs Danish ionimosst sat le poy bast e Miling oat *ma that they malt be owls' pay s isms' lira visa the Dan a were to Man. Tbs 1111611117 posplo, bowsaw, an batter Warms" sow, mid maks the payments without wait. iag the distrait to be Said apes them UNITED STATES, MEXICO, AND CALIFORNIA. The arrival et the America at was as. sauced is tbs wbele of ear s ad a eersiess 7 givee of the to obe t. The _l_t asi , figag Mee of our Now York anseleadowl. wbidi we sAisbe, will be head WM. Gan ts poem h6rast: NNW lOW a hi. IS We ere yew la lbe =Nit et to admeasibsery ealltemeat. Us OE hew bee aimed es the patio. Ile pale, ban INgb, UM be end bleb awn be reglialarl. Many Ibeaseads damns lee pew ad nag MOO IMO pia& SO CAW. boa Ai& own War neelesi bsie~aniq to a. aw isaliaribi• imam of rodeo nob&enipoWle loavag as en et Ilse ant esnesleble elm s den an Iskiso an node es welt as veil la hip seeseala awl .nopses ft stabil* themehes la lea haseuee. le *dr nag lmenew. SIM of Os we wan lag ibenseine take %anew ewer the area billoesees Or gsbilawl ads amen ant apes In er the Cases are lint et nen onion tbst have ben eaiai by Post bet we as au reveraaber say where Sben wen reesenas bibles or Ann e lama Wed le Odra the emu* of their peesemees. We do set see any IBM beget is • geld then is a euel mine. We have ant aver es mesh twig pan hued fa Ms eenu try as you ham ha Itig=and we dal net he acid . we is trust. It my_ that the ten et geld Imo the • States sitM mite • vast newty Bogie eteshetable and hippy, mad list Hs deenidien of fhe - posions mask a swelegeke, Isll N Ups. _mike wish to be aid et war die as ic e d of hem. list thd It it a Mid !di melba Cialidwile a He seed impeded lemituy ear pummise. we eire iswiliag el MR MR& 111 make • ash passage mem the halm; ens Wier isthmian, whisk swam the Aeleatie wadi Wm between Igdeg. an is Z ne meth Wade. I hew aimed II H e subjedie IsWie ; bee mag, wane the shit efropedlim bow the Midget demi with us at premst. Oar mall We of stemma es the rede to the P 'pontos thug We We departs from Neer Tech sad prosees to Chogess: fidielit and pai =Pililful Id thir Of WS Imee la Crams, timme are tramparted ma seeks te tea.T There ringer lan a smarm takes them up to lies Froacisco. The limb of a labia through is about 1110 Whim • Weetiend and merchants of this Off. mho Mk me tie glemident Matrast far die Pacific, Wen ale indult wei Weil Mei Califon* were Si that time segpseed le bale lewiwided m eat of MIT. The era. traders he the Atha* modes eaniebed principally on the meeny they mid make Wiping to Itayasiaah and New Or isons. New Mr whale Ilea is 'bonged. The trade mad amigteitim Ness the entails& of this new territory ere the mei Howland ma Aspinwall are petitlesiog Congress to aid them in esndemalog a railway amuse the Fathoms of Prom . end this. in the shape of exclusive rights and = 1 1:xleuirat sla Wilkes of dinars. It is both ad with seal. the Mee of a gigs** mo m* ,ef the e = the Peelle, weed is a few niereantils is against the spirit Maar *sentry and of the age. It is that it would ham an Wartime effect em Amiga elm. mem as well. add ea des penal will wed with • stud eremitism TM dile of 111111111111111 and Asplawall le la Me int dam_ , en a emesest kr the right of way with the t of New Grew& ; sod somehow it happens that, re ig nr al l:: treaty with that issignifloaat government, ours, essidderatien of the *lit of way, has ensresteed abse. Intel, the ermidarig of ftd : ong the teedesey mum my se th e enedrirlibe of Me pow* way itself. This engsgesamit es ear put had been fargehlek until now. It was the weak eat of a week end has left a door, open for fame wee awl Milanity quite imemistent with our proems& pdiry. the only mans to maps Ws erre , chid 'timbales on oar wi v ik sot t t use die eight of way, and dm, the consideration tAkyr the tonna* falls with it. Beam this, it is apparent that our trim line of transit is Omar meth, by tM Minus of Tehmatepee. This route will he Wm. a pepsine sad • Maltby climate, and ova a country whecie govicramemt is more than ever friudly to our own. Nor is this al The route will be shortened, for travellers and freight, at least 3,000 miles, and the navigatioa will be comparatively safe. I have been con versing with a Mead who has resided fifteen years on the head waters of the Hitasenaltos, emptying into the gulf, and have karma 1 from him enough to convince me that this is the tree route for us. Cortez in his time, celled it " the Saint of the Strait." Humboldt, in most things, prefers it to the other routes; the Mexiaa government and the Span ish have also crasidend it the moat easy, and the best English geographers have or tertained similar opinions. The river I have mentioned is navigable for about fifty miles for steamers of the size plying arm the western riven. There is a pod bride road across the mountains, which are net mare dm 000 feet Is height at the tros-ing place, and are trammed hi Wee Mum Oa the western aide frsm the bar of the ineentala to the city of Tanantepet there le • phi. eeer whsh the gentlest knight of Chanter's time might j u t pellek .tong, and a good waggon road adequate to any primes "of busier's or of the times. Mr. Garay, who, yearns emu right to make the communication by ca nal mess Ws route, is now at Washington , sad be has al ready bees advised that if he weats assistaace he shall have it. A simmer is !may to leave at a moment's notice to ply on the river Hweiceos. I have before me a letter of late data written by a gentle man in Cant who ham jut returned from San Frallean. He says that he retuned that wily, and that it is de, idedly the beet route for cruising There ars thousanda of bones, as well as males, to be had at will, to aid travellers on their gurney acme the mountains. eta effort bas been made to regulite the " dialtielre " by an eat of congress, so as to place in the hands of the govern ment an aeteal control over the workmen and the extent of their exertions. Cal. Benton, la as eloqumt and manly speech, filled with his peculiar views however, which may not snit rives who think restriction and taxation art tie sole *ate of eivilised governments, proposes that the Minn Sinn be IA as free as possible to the people at large, and that may a mall chime lkenses or permits be made by the merri ment. This pray is artainly in the temper of the times, sad Wee mar with u, for the effort appears to be am tine4ly asking to me with bow little restraint the social comput meep pradined. That Ido Dot give this subject toe mesh ieepeflamm, I bay, oil y two things to do. Fast, to repeat the eighths of our Seerstary of the Treasury, Mr. Walker seer emed to a gentleman of this city two months 1 slue, du Om geld min.. in California would in • els.rt time Mho a revolution in the commercial world. And next, to melt yew Mewed the following olicial letters published is the WisAiesplow Union, and received hue yesterday situ nen : IMMO Of • nage boa Maw 0. Larkia.lhi.. ream% and am Envy Mist of the DOM liertes, to the thatatery el IMM dated at Identscey. Wm. 1011, wed eseleM rMr slid es Meg ',suing lost t--. Sabi mid mai, peels maissam to M ama se Ilasemsals pilau se be regneds the worm if pm- A r a 2::=2 . ru bs = T y t tgr am el i l 1:11ty os et s :1 11 12 . tweey.thess eeemis n ank weighing hem ems le Wee peemb. end hwee name mmo4Wharity OM gleme Yoe Imo teml =Vs. inkall I have been et am maim thrtZe gemes. There ere memy men et Os item Mee In MIMI net owe Imbed dim sew he pesse et km See le Wesedge theme. dellersoedielhe wads by diggleggeld Walla with the latimm Illeeted. I hum% Usesmes stare hennas salsa dbl.., sese allow dells% ha bees Wks by an mew gelloelleent lewd M lee ; nod • half to ems awe et mil—eay I te lidel•—ls ram essidwred the prim et • AIM ides item liege le Ise masa Is the price at • IMAM. Owe lignired Mies • dm der sewed der la rammlas was and Is mmidined a gem numerells• ler the labour et • gel4.4llggeg. then* kw work owe a be at a this, m the Nina way lasi% "yam July to Oetiew enwhelf of ths pod howlers hem bum mama either with Me beer ned sus sr Ms Museum um, end M dime eh. sums Om 1110 gime dertng Mese methstmeesseery be Ong. thme dliessim Thies Mee net. Irma; ben mew* Mel ems. The bum Ma, tram the miss& knegkeary Mem in Wm to pluses Mese Feel la weight, as le dean pee troy mom ter the par pew orsessmorse; tams 'hearts oder the vaersity of toiling este te pry amiss be the gesernmant ere ~I le niemt tom 10 to 11 din per mum All the oft la 02114rM Is Ihnly le be Mild hvip ere laths wastembeem as the list Mir et ear *wpm is Is twee k regard te ths reeds of oray. Osubt Mow the mine ot the o.lllbenle *ow es I Mow lt , ye nsmit WM you hod been beinmentel r elesedu a most mionakt par. chess ter sew s asalry. is peas other en en wit s treaty. no piper Is Mews es be two or three hmileed RIM keg. end am dlssemiss sire eseneently big mods. It mu ts lAN In Isegib-dn thee. r, net esnating the Inlerms miles yet mes. pawed. Trim tee to be Whims of psi" be to we smart this end soft yaw. Sewer mem me yews be bet tbSp vlll ma ==m l et mg. Ten A my weft why I spanner ay were. tmeet yea Mein my same Milk set year mery marks of tho Oemeasdera Jews reperfatothe eorrearry of the Navy, that asMogak sand the deplorable state al WWI Is all Upper Callftais, growing eat d the madam*/ slosh of the geld mania. Amway the deserters from gemshisigst me of the but ally alms and swam, but be weft to am, and kw *how du to , ameeralag is the to owa too Sbossind Edam lan is a puF bilmq at NM to Ms ma nogialy k the vie Me bp Wag et the demslm aroma w / et the luedme. . mg enkemesntly to Ms se Ids .aged he a OWN &An; .mare bra leogio,_oolw Ow so ems. pen of lairsa. - thle aft apeasses hawk, slam we saw owl ma le odd aim is were siadiso. Oh. Intsmillmit hamar, Nelda Pal km mod 4 treliggws. ode see shwa dallige of sea sal wasso. sea ex Ss_ must pet warm Mom of ear Mod to mete* Om hum thomummemema saw m huh The semsees st be most army be NMI te be mak* sit ell bp dams do arms as emereltent- MlL a sene i gn ow Meineleet 01114enk di beds hoot her. dhow meets ken lisaterey, art away ell Mu men is asm "F.," ad Aram, have damned. "We Ma," he ftes, " OW Werra, Dale, Leziagtes, eat &namable.* pia; ha *ley dose set awl a awo, se they darn as Men as they ast ass* The gray *tag the ships anal do la rose of ow sedloak wail he 10 an era the tows." The Ciatesi Lsi v is hisk % e t e f 11mehmembelhas irasooted se speak br the die t=p, while it intro. = .4 lte trado . We we owe ad N Y owe* orrewea fist a le ad the Mamba et*, yeagielolhore amuse map the Meet Mal bwee bmin medal am int they bra* deaspwass ef the algae Inlssest 1142. Me wentedmiedlenry thaws ipso do Osie elks wok Credo** they gem elle. trammed 011111■ Ms is 11%sp o sed esserfghsa. ths Mow and ths eons Ow gild we, ie thole memets, uslehly w. perada ea Iheigebs. stetements seepre pewslens sesswits. lot do is at 2U. As these prcepsele et male ming% the dint May hew ea the moral asenewsr et the pesgte babe VW MSnolo& Ihe elm( elm at the government sant be - WY In Wpm. messem. plow Is every way deeply lt mob pestime lila see WM= the mincimek to Ms stelsomm. te the le every ewe Me le alaallsela lettakds am Mom mime he lts most tryky emd " 41• 81 : 11 1; 10 be solved Is, whether a oossatually taw the /epees , station of value yet at present aaaerMre it without much suffering, am be restrained be mom As yet we hams heard of none, beyond the .suite of the " right to labour" hesspeetive of all other rights. It r my °palest that whoa the emigrants aro manaress enough to awapy the "Own" throughout the tu n wig ha aeorsay some regulations each. may he trued k Diglead, wider dad, =CTtato se estrawassoy dussommass. We haw of year samela ad Moss peados views tibia on eta wow songs and Ossatiall, haws buns. AT the Csiihosikaabsow balm to doh to ma i : a palkheowdos those dammed deibok dwisssiod : what the wildcat of it insdissa foe many hundred ran as a onsmiss da.s•kieridyna natural right may be solely proolissil Ths alta lota login of en t:ea la but, in ocassqueee utak illotalawl. is dr almossy la ocagreet. Tit* as it has mhos egg of as a the sew territories, has bees auk egiload slasarad Mier. lir.Culhous.whe is die est yoskipaid iho fano, p iota fhb Ileasa lim 7 m ir g uswami asti t2 posed lo ho Masse to IS.,alsopled to sniped delay i. ads spoilaielk if attune eke, by eallesdoe to raw the onadmi 1011411.1dativie la 01111grose, gc a Isomisosh glans ad utter s wa b a dtm sa wail Led the areas dela to pooh voila the amity de elks aka It may an le imam* to Ikea weir * Mow tint ears, whisk Ina asp old of whips awl dunswais dwoogh the details et la wallops, sot to star beer the disomoda of whet appeal to be a tootle kality or a prat of order may often really affret the twin widow. Tour ',tato sad praaleal parliaments, rienhaasow well what ft h sometimes to lay a resoinhem on the THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 6, 1649. table.whenseltie sow &Ana, apia, and what It le at Wien to gaugnic a moot maii fa lath these wage Kr. Cabs= was sink pet[ The men ins reeessationtl, sat Ur. laser javegessd a embiline. We learn by niemospit hem Vestitgen this , that a debate send in d the pee le SWIM the was goa bp a k ial w i tigh n vetoWiens' veal o whisk pine= et to Isenberg Mr. thilswa's roped was theta amnia by a noggin et nine nese. this natter has been is seethe, M. Calhotta's bash k lee evidsatly given way ; has been wry unwell, and, at the lest emanale, . While Wm senate was Is ementive seven, a few be Mend away, lobe nip shenier dresieshness, that help home. intik setensed. In regding Ohs eerier et en eleigem we may rceive thet whom ar ever Seises% how genkahlysig an, essnaneet pe have been esatrollei to settle the demi quenies. The Arm Ind yet nilrmatend 11r.Gelhown has bort ha ohs* the shell' Oa thorsaista. enur I=4 as geonmesst beanie mere mealy mad to the tureen ertsmeion of slavery, mintsset s t a nst mihilernme rest, where it is an animated to be en* the mentimen whip men late power at the very _time when they Wife onionland ape to unite with Mr. Calhoun, sad they semen te passed an " farther is this buena." and hr Terns whisk es send politicians theyperhetly well undentsmiL Again, the immense emit/radon ten the northern states to the new territory, makes it utterly impessib`e to introduce slavery there ; and if even it were preetbabls to take oar southern nerve's there, modem could prevent their self liberation upon their arrival. Thus, as I bays before stated, the slavery poen is a sapid asorteistes, and nothing else. It is nearly boned oat. We have some late news from Cuba. The Spanish autho rities are represented as being very much alarmed at the ponble sannation of that island to the United States. It is said Am eon newspapers are not allowed to be received, ad onsets on sanfmoa of treason are frequent. I men tioned to yog as mab ton slisf that there had been 1011211 idea of this, proieet at - W , bat I imagine it ma all be explained is tIL way. In *sentry almost every man esteems him self a perm et the nevernment. Anybody who imagines he ham say Mew feepertant to gay, sits dowa and writes a letter to the geseiden or emy member of the =hint, or talus the et dent the same thing in a personal in. terne sPri t li t it is rime, et any banning it is oomidend at re peeper tine, er mat ft is Civilly passed over. Thus oar gonosonest may gees haw the reputation of secret diplo- Malleamaimmiale when thin an none whatever going an. It is Wined nog a very eminent Iv use in this city went es pest gapers and trouble to ascertain whether the Span& sememmeat at home would like to sell Cuba for a Imp es of money. Certain influential parties in Madrid listens le the proposition, and it then became mummy, to see bow Mr. o.it was dial,. lied to regard the matter. Doubtless Mr. Buchanan was in•tructed to see what wa- the chance of such a nevtiation, and a correspondence of some leneth mearrsd;which ;might or mightnotsee the light of day. Thi., I imagine, will be found to be the true state of the ease. The coming in of General Taylor will put an end to this affair, however. We are much en need of good suet, and cafe', eves the poorest nee it here, and many p. eons think if we had Cuba our commercial prosper ty would be unlimited. The troth is, we only want a good treaty with Spain, and we should never dream of purchasing C uba. But as Ion; as that unhappy country is the prey of factions, sod the people remain ignorant an 1 sepentitious, neither trade nor reciprocity is trade eau be expected from their rulers. We Dave a late arrival from Vera Cruz at New Orlear.s, with dates to the Bth of Dismalier tram Mexico. The affairs of Tapia still present embernmesent The Mexican pipers suspect the design is needy ripe, to break off the t r.tter relations of this state with the central government, and General La Vega, who wee trek* cur prisoner during the trte war, has bees ordered to march with a small body of troops epee Tampico. The states of Nuevo Leon and Ban Luis are supposed to be accomplices in the Sierra Madre movement. The gement eondition of Mexico is not very ' good. The general Ceagrem wee to meet, according to law, on the Ist of lantiszy, but groat doubts were expressed se to whether a quorum filth* members would be preeent. Memb ma rept.. sentativee make more money by being dilatory than ours do by b ing prompt. They have often to be paid mometbing extra for their attendance, and probably your English bookers at Mexico can tell how mach it met to get the members together to ratify the late treaty with the United States. _ Be this as it may, this prevent Mexican administration is not so bad off for malty as it was. In a forsor letter I hinted to you how in difficulties would be obviated by an I anticipation of an instillers. at or two due from the United States. We istaooe there has been a small operation on 'oet, for this Kiska of Flames has paid the clamorous heroes all their wage- for December and partly for Januar Before this was doue the disinterested and incorruptibley. press of Mexieo had assumed a " stage and gloomy tone" towards the goverment. The probability is that there was some suspicion of the public fit (Is going into the wrong pashas. Another came of difficulty was the current report that the (*comment intended raising a large body of trop in the United States for its own protection. The news from the different putt of the ooun'ry was not favourable. That o bloody revolution had commenced at Chiapas; several officers had been arrested at Meradao. The troubles in the ffirrra had not been quelled, and the amount of goods smuggled in at Matamoros was beggaring the revenue. The Indians were ravaging the frontiers as usual, and a WIZ of castes like that of Ytratan was much feared. Neverthrless some of the hopeful men of that re , public are endearing to introduce tome new schemes of in. tarsal improvement, on a scale, however, which does not cor respond with the movements of the " most favoured nations." Than a railroad from the cop;tal to Tayasubs, steamers on the lakes in its vicinity, and a line of stage coaches from it to Morelia, are much talked about, and Probably will be atusmpted. Gar news from the sou , h up to the latest moment is not very important. General Taylor and Mr. Clay met at Baton Rouge. The latter said, " General, I did not know you; you have grown out id my ree4lection." The old soldier, with his usual tact, replied, "Sir, you have not grown out se ad..." — Mr. Clay is about to return to the United Steam senate. We never doubted but that he would return there on the first occasion. He is sommustomed to public honours, and to be the object of pubic regard, that retrement is not agree able. It is also rumoured that General Cue will return to the senate trom Michigan. He has met with a violent oppo sition. During the last week 830,000 dole. hare been subscribed to the United States Loan, most on for. ign aconant In Congress there le but little definite action on anything. We ere all looking forward to the 4th of March, and the in augural m t. ddrele of General Taylor. It will be found • nobl e fleessen Our money market is easy. Stocks are not in the least in- Sated, because, under the present state of strain, capita li sts look to larger dividends than these stocks will pay. Mersey can be had on good security for 5 to 8 per cent ea all. The stock market is also somewhat dampened by the general belief that the affairs of the Reading Railroad are in a very bad position. The whole amount nt foreign subscriptions to our government stocks, toads through agents here since September last, is ascertained to be flee millions of dollars. • I forward herewith a circular floes one et our snot re spectable houses, from which you will be able to make some iraportaat extracts : WEST INDIA MAIL. We were enabled by the electric telegraph to announce in all our yesterday's impre s sion the arrival of the Tay, Captain Chapman, at South ampton, and oommainests some of the more prominent items of news received by that vessel. The Tay arrived yesterday at 5 p.m., and her mails were boded under the chirp of Lieut. Dennehy, R.N., admiralty agent. The Isms, schooner, was still doe at St. Theme's a day after her time, and owing to this there are no Venezuelan mails by the Tay. The Tay's dates are :—Savannah, Nov. 28 ; Dec. 29 ; gams Martha, Deo. 21; Carthagena, Cha t i l t 1; Santiago de Cuba, Jan. 8; St. John's, Mosquito, Dec. 28 ; Jaemel, Jan. 10; Jamaica, Jan. 7 ; Porto Rico, Jan. 12 ; St. Thomas, Jan. 15. The freight on board consisted of : silver and gold, valued at 861,9413 dole., 133 Ibu. 6 os. 15 dirt. gold; 163 lbe. 3 ca. 20 dwts. silver; 588/. 10s. British coin ; 40 guilders; one box of pearls, valued at 8001. Then wee a report lam Venezuela that Monger bad tam Venezuela, mai deemed the fleet of Paz. JAMAICA.—The new with indications of Ines party wife. We ea the arrival of the previous .all, that Sir C. Grey ha proensed the legis lature he a few days, in Net tre yet rid of his difficult end &limn questioe of the reamed Import Dade' Bill. Both hewn met again on the 111 k of Desentsse. Is his opening queen the governor adenoid these words to me useably: " Raving learned that ea hag last you had adjourned to the 23rd of Jimmy beim say bills had reenved the governor's anent, and bowleg dud son e of the colonial enactments, on which the maintessess of civil goveensent and social order within this bind immedis yte7 depend. would expire trials Ira days bees your adjournment, I have thought it my &style Invite yea, is the Queen's name, to resume the thepatil of business, I. order that you may avail yourselves of Os dare interval during which it still ramie within rjeracrer rue to lathe due prevision tin the preeenation of the , sad of year fat with the =r editor e et he Ile suggest of year siding social thes the estabFalted church." Is the seven of lbw wash he added Sir Coulee ex pense a "laps lhat Smile Del toed fiesting period at least the real geed of the NSW they straws, in the eyes of all, St preemissese as the paanew object, and may threw Imo the shade the symbol ad demon of party." The eemmil hens its adages : " We thigh year *tooling far the epee with which yea have opened the presentewe "ey proemial to state that they were reedy, " as they have hew at en dam, " to give deliberate atten dee to %slam ; aid thiented a wish as pat " • htharable eameleuetirs" ea the este tithe ether beam. The Amenably felbwei the example of thaaesises ant then by the slew two branches of the h Yx ialwq gel asinded their address thus: agree with your &smarmy that impatience and batty la the transaction el public h a eas might be produe. tire of =Wakes ; It wadi be gememgletes in its le Indulge fa tit, begs that our pet essibe um _be intern* ireat the MINIS beset al[ leap betdmakas. The best test, beimmar, of that matimil raged eft& year laratieasy de ' elm *sold exist betema i etyma teserate Odle legisla ture, would be s seaerees reheat oa all oseadeas te avail timmealves of the advantages to arise from sea mieleitee." The lowiraor la his reply advised the Amembly to " make the method and Fettles of the Wish Rees of CollialeS. lopedolp as se the years of rmmmel Indenter, =kg eteepples, mad the oprepoladess a them, As tar &dr sues " The lasing did ark stsp seal *see Wawa p i " Mei same. Tim erandi. alloorma tdM . Ike ITtli Dessiaber. auk imam eladdmillea aWu f la the Dapsiell assem kea Ks. I,llldoshi, Mamma et** oommilles Ileeess itma Aaron* ea as Import th at Me ea tam Nedra_ possessel bi*s mend la respect of that monism, sal susivelp That ilopodikeliesa If the letter was a Jake annular lad 411 der lour sad dignities erase ememed end a brew\ it lb I'm lab' @squatty resolved that Mr. eller it the Letpwt.A, siamil besught Me km et the beau mod day, Mr. (Hui mu asuediabplesea at the biz is w Mlt. He (.tied a Neapurea% maids was teas& He woo soloedMho had iselless to entennelien t o lean esaanot, mad replied ghee limed MOM to hen velum pasted beam he ups& The mead then n erved shells had Teased as mew aad he wsesiesomdod So eumedy.Theelay bodies er s ce4ne emi keok due inueneil the Huse et y seat up elle esa , Noted Upon stes mil l i k smileprond ether Ws, awl resolved the purser's emu@ le th em% had staeurned all dr lid of le& AsPiketien ks a writ et Wear emu was suds by Mr. G and the sue dams ea bolero Yr. lustier Mao &nal on the lerh ofDes Writ. roe deli vereu ea the fed Jemmy ; vas a mos reared. sad Mr. Geed remended is prison under the M ead sunset el eonaell. These squabbles threaten to throw into the shade the gnat question redly at. bone—the necessity of large redsteions in the Weed ex peadituro, be,tin,ting with the civil list. The governor ea premed dimatishetion at the long adjournment of the Assembly. aed the government organ in the press emplane heavily of it. Stange hints an thrown out in the same paper that the house will be punishel when It meets @gala with a speedy prorogation. TRINIDAD.—ENTIRE ABOLITION OF IMPERIAL Intros: Durum—An order in council was proclaimed in Port of Spain, on the 30th of Deotmber, by which the whole of the imperial duties payable upon the importation of goods into the missy were abolished. The new tariff cams inwailkaab fon erred= it is confined aatiwlto Wand kits% Osseikrable excitement prevailed the new is orkmwess es ram. It had been is by authority that ketsweilens bad bees given to the espervieen to sides di 6k allowswoes for sentraven toes asking from igemowee or misippoliession. On the 2n4 et Jimmy three puneberms were solnet, together with the waggon in which they were sad tsar mules, for being removed he. an estate without a permit. Mr. Leak bad retired km the council of government. The vacant nou• atrial seat woe offered to Mr. Maingot, who declined. The vacin_ey was subsequently filled up by the sppolatment of Mr. William Ernie, manager of the Trinidad branch of the Colonial Bonk. Ilia appointment appear to have given general satimbotice. COLONIAL. NOVA SCOTIA.—The session of the provincial legislature was opened on the 18th of J unary. In his opening speech, Sir J. Haney announced that all toe acts peened in the previous session had received the royal assent. Like Lord Elgin (see Canada), he dwelt at considerable length, and with mach iatanst, on the progress of railway commu nication, particularly . the tonne:ion with Quebec. The most imocrtatt passage! in his speech (exclusive of railways) bearing ea the bemuse of the union, were the following : " The establishment throughout British North America of a wakens low rats of postage, th^ adjustment of a system of inure-colonial trade, as also tie arrangements indispe' sable for the collection of statistics, aid the subdivision of the ex penses et the railway exploration (all incident to the initial= of the last session), having appeared to me to render deputations to the adjoining provinces desirable, some ambers of my council were sent in May last to Canada tad New Brunswick. The reports and documents connected with those missions I shall cause to be laid before you, and you will be gratified to pensive, the c mdial spirit in which the proposals made were met, and which must ulti mately tenu to a final and satisfactory adjustm:itit of those Important questicus. Full powers having been conferred on me by he Majesty's government, I have, acting in the spirit of the waste passed lea session, dire cted • consolidation of the WWII land department, which, I trust, will lead to an impermanent in the management of this branch of the public service, and to an ultimate saving of expense. During the rice's I have endeavoured to carry out the wishes of the legislature relative to the mineral resources of this province. A survey and report of a portion of' ' them have hem made in accordance with the Ad dress of the assembly, and these, together with the cor respondence conducted with the Secretary of State, as de veloping the views of her Majesty's government upon the subject, will he promptly submitted for your co' aideration. The acts which prov id e for the support of education, and for the encouragement of agriculture, will shortly expire • and I shall be gratified if, in the renewed consideration o f very prominent interests, the experience of the past em ducts you to harmonious and summed legislation. It is pleasing to me to be able to inform you that the quantities of Bah tam around our coasts have proven abundant as in ordinary sonames_ and any depression is felt in that highly importantbranch of our industry, it Is owing to general causes that and to lessen the price of this grass staple in the markets abroad." .-- ----- Amendments were made on the address, but were redested by majorities of 20 to 11. etc Court. WINDSOR, MONDAY.—Mr. Mayor, of Liverpool, had the honour of submitting to her Majesty sad Prince Albert the silver cradle made for the Major of Liverpool, and presented to him b 7 his fellow-townsmen, to commemo rate the birth of a child during his mayoralty. Her Majesty, attended by Viscountess Jocelyn, Lady in Waiting, took a drive this forenoon into the Great Park, Lard Alfred Paget, Equerry in Waiting, attending on horse - beak. Y*. ant the Roe. Mn. G. B Anson bad the honour of dining with bar Itsjsety this evening. The Queen's private band was In attendance in th • Castle after dinner. Sir R. A. O'Donel had an interview with Lord J. Russell, yesterday, at his official residence in Downing street. Mr. Alcoa, M.P., had an interview with the Right Hon. H. Labouebere, yesterday, at the oft, of the Board of Trade. _ _ _ _ _ -- Mr. i'remdey had an interview, yesterday, with the Chanoellsr of the Exchequer, at his official residence in Downiag•etreet. Datches were received, yesterday, at the Colo nial.edism, from the gammon of the North Antetieen colo nise, and Glee from the goveraon of the Mauritius and °lbrahim. were sent off, last evening, from the Co= ll -011 teb e . e!for the Goy, reor of the Falkland Islands. THE NEW 00101AIIDIR-IN-CIIIIP IN LNDIA.—A report was current la military circles, yesterday, centradio• tory of the statement of a military paper that Blr Charles Napier had been appointed to this command. It is now raid that 81r Willie Gomm, whoa SUCC4IIIOf to the oteverament of the Mauritius we have already announced, is to be the new commander in-chief in India. PRISON DISCIPLINK Yesterday evening Mr. Chas. Pearson delivered his concluding Ware cm the subject of prima dimiplino, at the 27roostLindon eteal d nstitution, Alretrest. His in y i d s ine of a general lo **speak who possoisd sembined with fade 'missed, in affiniti n es.* Ms sender system of impelemmont, sad in sem of the Industrie' pies W PIABOON= that it wee hien. his intra dos to offer a few each or the resolu tions 'Mast a house meeting led hem impend and se conded, and whisk 111 weal' be heir duty dabor to reject or arm on that might Tim bed swishes 1181601 that the ma im of armissiale sd meimmilments to prison in England sad Iffeiss, he tale', on mfmimsl sharps, had In anent within the lest 40 years upwards of 400 per asst., while papule. ion hid increased only 66 per cent. To show that be had net been guilty usggeratba, when he drew up this ressiation, he emit sleds im meet figures en which this menden was based. The semen eel is, trial in Beg ladd and Wales in 1810 were 6,146; those fa 1846 were 36,861, being an Menses of 428 per cent. The population at Zeeland and Wales in 1810 was 10,407,666, sad in 1618, 17468,809, Wing an names of 66 per mat. The truth of this resolution was too self-midatat to require mo ment to sustain ft, and be would pees to the mooed resolution, the purport of which was that 80 per cent. of all commitments and summary con yjcijoat were for larcencies, vagrant:lm misdemeanors, and other petty delinquencies. piebald by short periods of iss prieonment, varying from seven days to six months. They were very much in the habit of deploring the increase of crime in this country at the present day, al if mankind were nits* depraved now than in the time of their menet:re ; but the feet was, that the exact reverse was true ; and he be- ' hived that at no period of England's history Lad the mo rality of the people attained to so high a state as at pre. mat. limy persona who took the number of commit ments as evidence of the quantity of crime, were led to doubt whether or not the inenased amount of education which had been conferred on the people had benefited them. He asserted that it had for while com mitments had increased, crime had diminished. Let these reedlect how the Sabbath wee spent some fifty or sixty years ago, and that to such brutal and degrading exhibitions as bull-baits and sock-fights, the nobility and gentry of the land were in dso habit of giving their support end counte nance, and they would thick lees unfavourably of their own times. TV theft of meddling legislation however had VailMIS SIMS a number of petty offences, and dso:sel a SMie penidment imprhonmer.t. The number of amiss he whisk indivonsh meld be hapriened kr eked peek& was nay surprising. Not • railway act posed thesagl the home which did not subject individual; to fines kr he meet tYfag fahlsgemont of its provisions, and, fa the meat if map ginsse imPrhonmant. dung them petted '-ace one of bequest ossammos was the offence of oisopkil eat, and another the monism ON of kite dying. In Meth, it was only necessary to leeks* the catalogue of delinquencies of the most petty descriplionothich had grown up of late years, to account for the inereses of the number of commitments, and the inference which he draw from these bete was disclosed in the next rmolu tin, in which it was muted that the origin of • large portion of these mile prohibita were tramable to babas of indolence, improvidence, and self. ind Winne', to the comfort of the present gaols and the sub stitution of short imprisonmenta for graver punisluz int He firmly belkneed *at Ike serried oat In gaols at the prase* preowned this irs of astaring them from keying any lallmasee eat die legamilag admdaal's salad. Is what he WOUllelil the gooa ge* d old time, a pol aMed es =lnmai parveative . E knew then met *Awed it hie altereatarvery eaaa would sink for ever is tin alliMika ei smlNy, sod be avoided the sommkahm af mg stet whisk might lead to his restratat. It Wed as a species of meal polies, desserts( individads Ma one, sod pretesting so ▪ beg the pekoes of tl_es pens* day might oWlemga semcorbaa asthma pel*Kresidemese in the matey, (Ent, bear.) Now. bi admillesd that as long as mime .R es time Laid, they matt has gaols, bat he Goa tended that to give to a gaol a elumaattristie of internal oat- I fort sad edema basal, sad grandma, was a iolation of all propriety, end s memo& se the right holies, which dictated that they should be menstreMed in such a manmer ea to be emblematical of the Ration'. humiliation. It was doubted by a previous speaker that in paint of fact persona did vio late the law is order to get into prison, but he held is his band a letter from a magistrate in the metropolis in which It was shown that in hundreds of instances people had craved a commitment to prison instead of the workhouse on amount of the known super Welty of the food and Looms- awdation. The fourth and fifth resolutions referred to Read lag gaol, but he would rapine his observations on these to the dose of his address, premising that if time did not per mit him to enter oa them he would meet the supporters of the system on their own ground, if they would call s meeting there; mad he treated to be able to show them the beans* of the system pursued there. At present he would refer to the manner in which other gaols on the cellular system wereoondueted In France there were certain attractive bite of romance permitted, which would never occur to people in dull Ragland. The prisoners there in some of the gaols en the separate system were allowed to have their oefies outerear to amuse them—weir romans, and an occasional soiree with the governor and other functionaries of the prison. (Laugh ter.) These indulgences were not calculated, he thought, to add to the repunivenem of them places. In Perth sepa rate gaol—when, too, they were permitted to have labour-- 80 per cent of the prisoners were re-committed prisoners, a fact he believed to be unequalled in any other prison in the world. The Wakefield gaol had been held up as the been ideal of a gaol ea the oellular system, but he had received • letter from the chaplain of the establishment—a very sensible man—from which it appeared that the Penteseville system had by no means answered the expectations which had been raised regarding it. When im provement took pima, it was nearly altogether outward, and arose as much from grief on account of the punishment and privet:on, as from regret for the commission of crime. After a few obeeivaCona on the 6th and 7th resolutions, he passed to the Bth, which was to the effect that 81 pc r cent. of the male criminals annually committed, were between the ages of 16 and 45 (the age when, in a free condition, men could not only maintain themselves, but sup ply the surplus labour by which the non-producing classes of society wen supported), and 47 percent. were be tween the ages of 20 and 35. By the census returns of 1841 it aopethed that the number of labourers above 20 yeses of age in Borland and Wales was one million, of shoe makers, 152,000 ; and of tailors, 62,000 ; and by the same returns it appeared that of 9,968 classified males above 20 years, in prison on the same day, 5,421 were labourers, 397 were shoemakers, and 227 were tenon. Of persons sent temporarily to prism in the metropolitan district in the year 1847 there was a total of 17,893: and of these 1,189 were- shoemakers, and 1,097 were tailors, lie slid not refer to the returns regarding talon and shoemahers, be cause they were more criminal than other tradesmen, for all classes and all professions wen included in these returns, but merely to show the correctness of the views embraced by the resolutions. He proceeded to impress on his solitary the nit cavity which existed for some more efficient means ref repress img crime than had been as yet desired in any reformatory establishment in this country. He asserted that if orime continued to increase to the extent that the esperitnee of the last 10 years would warrant hint in supposing in 30 years hence every fourth nude person in the country would have been in a prison for crime, and it wes, therefore, atoolutely recemary that their prison system rhould be amended, if imprisonment were to be the substitute for all other punish. meat. He next proceeded to show that in some iv the Ame rican primes the criminals supported themselves entirely; and in those of France and Belgium, that they very nearly main tuned themselves, and defray ed the charges of the administra tion of the gaol by their labour, and he adduoed the names of Howard, of Dr. Paley, and Archbishop Whately, as the ael L voce'. s of the maintenance of a constant ant, m of industrial occupation by criminals, and the emulation of the quantity and quality of their food by the amount of labour performed by them. He denounced the absence of labour by which the cellular system was marked as both illegal, irrational, un stlinural, and proceeded to contra , t it with the plan of in lus coercion proposed by himself. His proposition was that 1.000 acres of land should be taken on which to Mild • rison—that it should be walled in, and that 1,000 miming s should be pieced in the establishment. He assured the meeting that 1,600 acres of land, which were at present condemned to sterility, could be procured for the purpose within an hour's drive of the place they were then in; and he entered upon a minute detail of the dietary to which he would restrict the *Pours, for the purpose of showing that the cost et their maintenance and • luperimendance would not arse' the sum derivable from the labour on the land eilmilsed to the prison. He had calculated that the amount to be wrung from the land, by the industry of the criminals ed is its cultivation, was 12,6741., from which was to be ed the emit of seed end the expenses attending the b om b e et huh tout s , amona ti rg t o 4,2811 . , and l eteog baba* of upwards of 8,0001. But the cost of maintaining sad guarding the prisoners would be 6,9121, so that there WY a balance of 1,4781. above what was r nuired for their maintenance. Thesecalaulations were intended to apply to 500 criminals located ere 630 acres of land. He was net for ueedlesely punishing any human being, sad he was opposed to punish mint altogether, unless it had a reformatory tendency; and he had no doubt on his mind that the punitive power of his system would have that effect. In • pri,on conducted on tae prinetples which he advocated, the labour would be severe and continuous—the inmates could have no communi cation with their families—they would be debarred the use of etroeg drinks, and would not be permitted to sleep longer than 6 hours in the 24. In oonclueion, be expressed a hope that he had explained the details of hie plan in a satisfactory manner, and, !avow discharged what he conceived to be his duty, it remained for them is say whether or not they con sidered his propositions worthy of their spproval. The resolutions proposed and discussed at the previous reeetings were then meanintously adopted, and thanks having been gi ven with e question of prison discipline, the meeting separated. THE ANTI-TOLL MOVEMENT. Yesterday evening a meeting was held at the George Tavern, Commareiel-roed, to adopt the means Doss. eery for effectively opposing the bill for a proposed renewal for 31 years, oi the treats of the Commensal-road Eau, Censonuasearoad, du. F. IL White, Esq., wu called to the chair. The Caataieux, having briefly explained the objects of the meeting, said he felt most happy in the opportunity afforded him of expressing his hostility to the proposed bill. These trusts were, in his opinion, extremely unjust. In the Riot place, the act under which these trusts were obtained did not contain the exemption from toll (usual in highway bills) which was granted to those who used roads fer the distance of 100 yards only. The roads were not, in their cam, even kept in proper repair, and there were no less than 30 toUben cm one mile of the road, which necessarily ob structed the tragic, or diverted it to the detriment of the ewerely-taxed inhabitants. Mr. MIT gloved the first resolution, to the effect that the matinuenee of these trams was most unjust. The grounds area which the continuance of these trusts was founded ware naletwatenable. It war sesere , cl by the &des:sates of the bill that the Commercial-road trusts were private property, but the eery peumninge adopted by the trustees in briefing a bill Me perilament, showed that they themselves considered that Ina was not the ems. It was said also that mosey had been ademeed kr the cemstruetion of them reeds, but it must be readieseed that it was done merely as a eommerdal , sad should be subject to all its coam ces sen. eeedart i , ' if it could even be shown that thnwpaetes who had eaastreeted thus roads had not been remunerated, it would be me Yemen flee the continuance of them tolls fee any period larger Ma the term originally stipulated. (Hear.) Mr. WILSON seconded the resolution. He said that it was meet incumbent on them to be preempt in their eppo 'Rion, as the b:II was to be introduced into parliament and reed a lint time to-morrow (this day). Now, if they (the opp sere) did not succeed in organising an effective opt:m erlon, they would virtually subject thsinselme to a taxation to the amount o 300,0001. Mr. liars, as a householder, strongly deprecated the comtbmance of the toile The resolution was then carried unanimously. Mr. MAIMING moved the second resolution, and raid that this question had, on a former occasion, been brought under the (onsidisration of Ltrd John Russell, Sir Wm Clay, and other distinguishid memhen of the Howe of Commons, and that a petition, numerously signed, had been presented to that house in opposition to the bill, and though dm form In which it was presented to them did not require any expres sion of opinion, some of the hon. gentlemen had expressed themselves favourable to the views of the petitioners. Mr. BATH seconded the resolution, and entered into an elaborate statement, showing that the claims of the trustees for the cuitinumos of these tolls were not Landed on meson or equity. The resolution, which invited the support of the number for the Tower Hamlets, was then carried. Mr. BURZITT moved, snit Mr. APPLIFORD seconded a neolation, urgng upon the meeting the necessity of ountri- bating liberally towards the object for which they had m umbled They were all aware that money was essential to the carrying out of their object, as the bill was then before the house, and the parliamentary expenses which they (the meeting) would necessarily incur, must be heavy. The reso lution we. adopted with considerable applause. The SICRITAAT then reds list of contributions received, which amounted to upwards of 2001. Serena contributions were then banded in, and a motion to advertise their resole ions in the Daily News and other influential morning jour nals, baring been agreed to, thanks were voted to the man, and the meeting, which was numerously attended by persons of all grades, separated. Cnountr.—Yesterday the following fresh ewes were reported to the Bond of H alth :—Wbitechapal, 2 ; Stepney, 1 Add; Lambeth, 1 fatal; Wands north, 2 fatal; Oul.sle, 2 ; Baer Reedbant 17, 4 fatal ; "{wiry, 2 fatal West Him, 1; Ostesbead, 8 fetal; Lie-typo - 5, 1 fatal; &sagow (two days) 88, 17 fatal ; Aber !eon, 1 Is al ; Paisley (nom 27th ialt.) 118, 63 fatal ; Newtown, Balk/Ith 5, 1 fetal ; 8 ir ' Hag 6, 2 fatal; Gal/tin, 3 fatal; Boabill 6, 2 fatal; Old Bilpataiok (sine Jan. 17) 3, 2 fatal ; Riccarttm, 6 ; New Monklead, 17 fatal; Greenock 6, 2 fatal; Kirkady, 1 fatal ; Tilllcon'Ary 5, 3 fatal; Selkirk, 2 ; total new cues, 277, 121 deaths. WfifirMidetalt 145701tm SocurrY.—A meeting fi ,/ the mermen of this andely was held _yesterday evening the York-hotel, Welliegtesstreet , Mi. Lebrun, In the chair. The secretary mead a hake whisk he had received from the secretary gift Isloem mel Timadel Ratan doer dation, expentng the dues m of She amodadem to es-operate with the Westminster L&, e flealet se t i alia ermastry read the report ! which elided to the a by the soesety to the attempt on the pest ef a Ve dia reemmeet alrea to increase them and iseenmetex to Oat ter motion of Mr. seoonded by Mr . Some, the lomat was adopted sly. The seermary alto read the report of the stem vitae appointed by the Weetatiastie Reform Society, legyerlatend the registraion of votes far the city, fc r the year 1548-9. Twenty bar claims hod bees made during the pest year, mast of which had bees establiAed, and a gener al improvement had been manifested by pubis officers in their preparation of the lisle of voters. Some duties, however, were not yet completely performed, and it •as well know, that numbers of peruses in Weennixster possessed qualifications for worth they ware not rated. The committee oongrattdated the society on the MOMS which during the past year had attended the efforts of one of their repreeentatives (Sir De Lecy Evans) in ob 4aining an act of parliament by which it was enacted that no pecan be required, in order to entitle bias to have flume in any list of voters in any city, town, or borough in England, to have paid any poor's-rate or assess' 1 taxes except such se should have become payable previously to the 6th of January in the same year. Mr. Calwel moved and Mr. Brown sroonded, the &dormers of the report, which was agreed to. The committee for the next year having been chosen, a vote of thanks was given to the chairman, and the meeting separated. EVRNINO LECTURES AT KING'S COLLEOL—AD ar- Tengement, which will prove beneficial to a large class of young . men who are prevented by their avocations from indulging in literary and scientific punuits during the day time, mom into operation at this college en Friday last. The council have determined on the appointment of pro fessors, whose duty it shell be to give evening lecture,, open not only to regular students of the c Mtge, but to all g. ode men who may .eel disposed to attend. The opening lecture was delivered on Friday evening by the Rev. Dr. Jell, Principal of King's College, and canon of Christ Church, Oxford, "On the Relation which Scientific Pursuits bear to Religion." Last evening the regular course ° commenced, and will be confirmed without in termission every evening, Saturday excepted, until Friday, March 30. The lectures appointed for the present term ars " Manufactures and Mechinery," eight lectures, by Professor Cowper ; " Public Health,' eight lectures, by Professor Guy; "Chemistry," eight lectern, by Priitesor Miller ; " Natural History," eight lectures, by Profe soy I'. Rymer Jonas ; Pay sicial Geography," the lectur, a, by Professor D. T. Ansted. Three evenings are to be devoted to the illustration, by the oxy-hydrogen microscope, of the structure of the lower animals. BArlid AND IVASHIIOt7B4B. —The following eta. Dada of the Committees of two of the metropolitan bathe and washhouses w.ll show that the workng and poorer &asses appreciate the benefits derivalde from such institu tions. The second yearly report of the Committee of the baths and washhousts fur the labouring ensiles in the north west districts of the metropo'is, in George-street, Boston square, showed the bathers to have been 111,788; washers, dryers, etc., 61,630. Individuals washed for, &c., 240,760; making a total of articles of clothing washed, of 2;220,840 making a total since August, 1848, of 281,213 bathers; washers, dryers, &c., 106,814. At the Glasshouse-yard, East Smithfield, during the past year, where all the benefits are gratuitous, the bathers had been 33,656; the washers, 34,843; and 12,610 ironer.. Muth the shove establishment. evidence the fact that, with public support, they will rest on the satisfactory basis of being not only self-support rag, but self-extending. NEW COURT.—ROBBTISO UPitovrinty.llo.—Sir, Your report in Satyr , ay's ns per of the trial of Cheat, r, and the ' two Arments at the Old Bailey is iiieorrect, and calculated to do us injury. As far as we are cokeerned, you say that the goods in question were sold to us through the agency of the Armen% and that we gave lees then one-third of the value for them, instead of which, it appeared in evidence that our buyer Furehnsed them of a Mr. Wall, who had been known is London es a comer reial agent for 26 or 30 rears, an I that we gave 6s. a yard fir goods, short lengths, (represrated as the remain& rot a manufacturer's stock) whi ch had originally been sold by Keith and Co., of W o ed. s t ree t, f o r 7 s . 6d. only, and which, under the eireursesnews, we contend, and mud prove was the full value.—Signed, W. tlontsox and BROTHERS, Tottenham constiroad, Feb 5. Tun SALE OP THE STOWE LIBRARY was continued yesterday. Among the lots were " S bakapers's Comedies, His. toriee,and Tragedies," published sword mg to the 'roe original espies, wth p strsit by hlsrtin Drosthout, 1623. It sold fur 761. " Shalispere's Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies," published according to the true original cline., the third ed , tiou, to which are added the seven plays never before printed, in folio, 1664 The greater part of this althea having been destroyed in the fire of London, it is eons.- quintly almost of as great rarity as the first edition. It wag knocked down for 351. " Shakapenia Dramatic Works," revised by Onrge Stevens. Bordel"s edition, with 100 beau tiful plates, was sold for 321. 10e. to lir. Sweet. Finn AT Pecuriam.—Yeaterdsy morning Artily before four o'clock a fire broke out upon the premises of Mr. T. Piper, e bs ad and birmit baker, carrying on bust nem* at No. 1, Victor:a-row Pomroy- street, near the Old Kent-read, Peckham. The flames wheq P re; discOVMod* were rasing in the lower part pi th e 1 "2:1!ng. The con stable on duty, after some frotarlo, succeeded in making the residents lens ble of the danger t• which they were noosed. They had scarcely effected their t saps when the flames oa tended up the stainse and fired every room io the premises. Several engines were soon on the spot, but unfortunately not a drop of water could be aot from the Kent Water Com pany's! Werks, whose :rains supply the district. The fire thus unrestrained continued to spread moat feurally, and b fore water could be obtained the adjoining house in the tenure of Mr. Juba Oar don, a fishmeal/to', also became ignited. After the lapse of 20 minutes the mains in the neighbourhood yielded an abundance of water, but before the destructive element could be conquered Mr. Piper's premises were totally destroyed, and the stock-in-trade, with furniture and wear ing apparel consumed ; the adjoining property of Mr. Gordon was also parlay destroyed. Mr. Braidwood, in his official report returns the damages done as follows :- 1 The premises of Mr. Piper burned down from the want of water—th• stock-in.trade insured in the West of England Fire Offiee, and the building insured in the Sun. Mr. Gordon (No. 2), first-floor burned out, roof destroyed, and the rest of the house and its contents damaged by water and removal—uninsured. Mr. Reuse (No. 3), painter, roof of premiss destroyed by fire, and contents by water and re- INQUEST, YESTERDAT.-AN INHUMAN MOTHER. —Before Mr. W. Payne, at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, on the body of W. Copelend, aged five, the son of J. Copeland, who was burnt to death. It appeared from the evidence of several respectable females that ever since the deceased's birth the mother had shown the greatest dislike towards her offspring, by unmenifully heating it without any apparent cause, not giving it nearly sufficient food, as its emaciated condition folly testified, and a short time since she was de tected in attempting to suffocate it in a tub of water, but wee prevented by some one entering. The neighbours had frequently remonstrated with her, and informed leer husband of leer conduct towards the deceased, but their complaints were of no avail. Last Saturday week the mother gave an alarm that the deceased had set himself on fire: a lodger ran into the room end found the deceased with his clothes on fire, and the mother in the act of extinguiehiug the flames. The fire was eventu ally extinguished, but not before the deceased was dread fully burnt. Observing not the least vestige of a fire in the grate, or any wood lying about, the mother, who had stated that there had been no candle a light, was asked how it happened ; when she stated that she had only left the deceased alone fir about two minutes, and on her return she found him in flames. The witness, to make sure about the fire In the grate, put her hand in the centre of it without in juring it in the least. The deceased wee conveyed to the hospital, where it died on the following day from the in juries b, the burns. MI the evidence went to show the im possibility of the deceased outing itself on flee. and it was the general impri mica that the mother had wilfully at be to the clothes to destroy it.—Tbe Cor, 'tier, in summing up, remarked that it wee very rarely that direct evidence could be obtained es to the commission of such an inhuman sot. The circumstances attending the deceseed's death ware very suspicions, and he had a very strong opinion on the matter. The jury, after about half an hour's unpul , ation, returned a verdict of " Wilful rowdier " sesinst Maria Copeland, who was committed to Newgate on the coroner's warrant. IRELAND. DUBLIN, FEB. 6. The wens which took place between Chief Baron Pollock and Sir F. Thesiger has attracted much at tention here, as one of oar first law courts has of late years behome obnoxious to the charge of flagrant nepotism. I should not wonder if we had some day here an explosion like that which occurred at West minster-hall last week. The refusal of Sir Colman O'Loghlen to take prse tine in his father's court ought to be copied by those who are tartly heard of except in courts where their near relatives preside. The Tnam banquet to Archbishop Miele took of the most kind re verendo place on a T ue h s u t m: a a s y luta the e T md ho o s catholicism, end was as illiberal in its views as could be desired by the bitterest enemy to educational pro gress. Great pains were evidently taken with its composition. P rr e n h tedv The following curious acknowledgment appears in the So•ithern Reporter of yesterday : Tnawns.—Right Rev. Dr. Delany grats fully acknow ledges the receipt of the following some for the mainten•nos of clergymen in parishes of this dilates, that, through po verty, cannot suf port them ' A Friend,' 61. 'A. B 101. This is enough to show that the reports of the dis tress of the Roman catholic clergy in the dioceses of Cork and Kerry are not exaggerated. Nor is the case of the laity much better, especially in Limerick. While poverty and the dishonesty of tenants are driving some landlords from their estates, the old practice of threats to murder are making other absentees. The following is from the Ballyshannon Herald: A gentleman, who resides in the county Leitrim, on the bwders of Donegal last week g Ht.r at the Post- Office, with throe seals on it ; oa opening it, he found it to