The Express. — London, England, 1849-12-24 00:00:00

THE FXPRESS. MONDAY BY • Undone. The day is at hand when the English farmer must use, that he bas been misled and betrayed by his very champion ; and that he can never recover, until he leans to trust himself, and unlearns to trust the mountebanks of protection. Hence, we agree with most people in inking ward with with much anxiety to the par au and popular events of the coming year. the objects dour anxiety are not, however, the semi as those generally entertained. It is not ao much the triumph of the protectionists that we look to, as the utter disruption and annihilation of the agricultu ral party, and the breaking off of the farmer to some other party standard and political worship, from that' which has ruined and beirocked him. A great and idle cry tag been raised during last year against those Parliamentary and Financial Reform Associations which have been making such progress througheat the kingdom. We published a very able reporthom the chief of them associations on Saturday, temperate toe as it was able, and a more calm and emignehensive expression of civic wants and molests aim nal& not be found. " Oir ale didlealties," aye the author of the report, "enthral, int. In Imam to demenstrate to the assess of the people that the safkege we pespesid wee the rely attain able msesare of reform to be weeded he the mast ; sad, saoadly, in producing a the minds of the middle claw the i=1"19•10". iLllllft OringTai that it is lactenbent ea them to strive for timely limees user we may kereater aware order, prnmee peprty, end avoid national octave slam la neither ragesi, so far as we hem pose, have we Idled ; and that the woks he retire action, whisk has bee. effiond a i r s% of society apes the lois which we km sot been fruitier, may be pr emised in the and salve roar:maim which animates me. sad the meow ankrasise now mutating the other aime" Wait till the farmers take up the question of re form, with the agricultural labourers at their back, and neither their ideas nor their vocabulary will be found so moderate as this. It cannot be long ere the farmers find out the humbug of protection—above all, the humbug of what the protectionists promise them. Of what use to them, for example, would be a five shilling duty P How would such a pinching of the bellies of the whole nation set their accoents right P With the old system of rents, and yearly tenancy,and cultivation, and taxation, five shillings a quarter wield do nothing for them ; no, nor eight shillings. And yet is there a protectionist in the wide world of England that dart for a wont extend his sanguine hopes further P Well might Lord Finwmum ask at Huntingdon what the farmers would substitute for the present law, and yet receive no answer. We have read his lordship's speech with much pleasure, and only regret that he is so @gnomish as to moat the championship of what he chooses to call class llid he expect the corn laws to be repealed by an impartial weighing of arguments on either aide P Or does he hope free trade to be defended by flatter ing the farmers? Is it not better for all and each to speak the truth from their own point of view P His lordship is in the happy position of a landlord who SW hope for the fanner without surtaxing the mercantile interest. The present exigencies of the asejority of the landed interest render it impossible for their opponents to take the same position towards them If we consider humbug number two—the taking ce the half of local rates i—who does not know that to throw poor and county expendiore on the Consoli dated Fund would merely swamp the revenue, compel a sweeping income tax, and leave at the same time the half of than rates left to local taxation, to swell by lax management to the amount that the whole has been P A jealous feeling of the foreign producer may for the moment blind the farmer to the empty-headed ness of the party that promises these things. But his confidence cannot last. And when he does awaken, we shall have a movement for financial and parlia mentary reform, compared with which all such move ments hitherto have been child's play. We there fore do not wonder at the eagerness and ac tivity of the protectionists at present. They are like men playing their lam stake ; and threatened not merely with the loss of what they stake, but of the power of gambling any users in the political thimble-rig of party patronage and plow The more, indeed, we see of these etrugglesbetween the landlords and their defenders en cue side and the industrious classes on the other, the mere we foresee that it will become, not a mere combat of politico economic principles, but an electoral struggle— s collision of popular and of aristocratic interests — of which the latter are as favoured by the present working of the constitution as the former are power- ful in numbers. integrity, and right. We cannot, therefore, but look upon the Parliamentary and Finan cial Reform Association as amongst the foremost strongholds for defending the popular interests of the country, not only against public corruption and ex penditure, but also against landlord protection. Ma. COBDIN has jest told the manufacturers at Bedford some tales about floancial and economical reform. " You want," be says, " a reduction in the public expenditure; you want to remove the duties I wpm tea and upon soap, and that most odious tax on imowledge—the Excise duty upon paper." We propels • Seim to-day, and hereafter, what is the operation of ti st most odious tax ;" a t a x so odious that in pro- Crto its &menet there is none equal to it. It is a r a hich amounts to 50 per mat upon the sewage 4 rise of the article on which it is levied :—but the unseat is nothing. 'his infamy of this tax consists in the multitude of posse who are injuriously affected by it. Authors, pabildmes, artists, newspaper proprietors, printers, mistimes, type-founders, copperplate and litho . printers, card.makers, paper-stainers, paper- U., are al t directly injured by this duty. OW it idiots in s item, po Woo- sidthehle, elle& The pa mood t e manatti r eni . errata& maddaiste, smiths, carlisat"l, 4'6 7 • 40,1 . wire-wagions, wool • , ~I . and Gaudin the em awe • , ''' , al r •• ear these are hr fre i l:21 1 11 " .. late which the Wes& itself. With the rs per t ' P kerP' ma hes extensive dealiep :it will haps ear geime thessrporessee to Isere that with thtt-itaa thesis" manallesterer his !e w e= are ne tax arly s ad se- i eztataihe. Formerly th e of . „ . they wife abed op, were of no raise except we moats.. ghe e nines Win thee ' discovered =1 sloth and whit*, they the available tor the aisaufsotore of a paper, whisk *the the eh.apases of the raw material, as he sold at ea ezesediegly low price. Teak of the golden drains of the Alchemists, what were they to this process of paper making, by which the vibetesed Hest waddles materials ore converted into such as =Lapatasesee as paper,—the mansfectare to . world is indebted fur its informable, the itutrumeat ythlek may be said to be to the mind of alma that whisk the mashies is to his mother web? Up te 1886 the duty upon pacer was taken accord fag to geality. It voted on different dew iptices, from 23 at 60 per cent upon the finest to 160 or 200 per that. upon the coarsest I A duty so oppressive led to frauds which no vigilance was able to check, and which no penalties, however heavy, could prevent. At this time t he re was an Excise restriction on the paper-trade so extraordinary that perhaps it was un equalled. The Excise insisted that all third class or wrapping paper should be made of a particular mate rial, and that material, of all other., was tarred rope If this third clam paper was made of oey other mate rial whatever, it was subjected to an additional duty of 14e. per owl. What in the world, it will be asked, could be the object of so absurd and monstrous a restriction? Its inten tion was to force upon the manufacturer the old stores of the government dockyards, and especially their worn-out cable* ! But inasmuch as, after the war, rope cables were in a great measure superseded by chain gables, the real effect was to force the public to pay au increased price for an inferior article, with out patting a single fraction into the pockets of the government Nor was this the only effect of this astounding re gulation. In sorting rag for the manufacture of the time papers a large quantity is necessarily thrown aside in consequence of its inferior quality. This de scription of rag makes the best coarse wrapping paper. Bat, u its use was not permitted in the manufacture, it was necessarily lost altogether, and, in proportion to the quantity so lost, the value of the superior rag was enhanced. Thus, the restriction to tarred rope had the effect of increasing the price of the finer papers as well as of the coarser, without, as we observed before, adding a sliver to the revenue. But at length this restriction was removed. The price of " tarred rope" having become excessive whilst the riper-makers were resTicted to its use, they naturally exerted themselves to torn it to more profitable account. By new appliances they were able to produce from this coarse material a quality of paper equal to that which fell under the higher rate of duty. By this application of skill and science the differential duty became nugatory, fur the higher qualities of paper were only paying the lowest rate of duty. Then, and not till then, the Excise opened their eyes. The injury previously inflicted on the paper-maker had been nothing, but now that he had outwitted them, they discovered that be was very mach oppressed by beiug restricted to manufacture from" tarred rope,' so they came down to Parliament with a measure fur his benefit, for which the Chair man of Inland Revenue sus now that the paper maker ought to be extremely gratefaL Under the new regulations passed by Parliament in 1836, the tarred rope restriction, and some others equally absurd, were removed, and the duty upon paper was equalised without reference to quality. The manufacturer thenceforward was permitted to use any materials he pleased, and as the same rate of duty was levied upon all descrip tions of paper, one great and fertile source of fraud upon the revenue was removed. As it is with all other Excise duties, so with the duty upon paper, — it falls upon those least able to bear its pre . The duty is now a uniform duty of three halfpence per lb., levied entirely by weight, without any reference to quality. Tea duty, there fore, fare upon the coarser paper, which is the heaviest in weight and at the same time the lowest in price. IThis . paper is principally used in commerce for I packing pupate,. its consumption is relatively far pester than is the consumption of paper used for writing purposes. Or late years also, in conse quence of the new postal arrangementsof Great Britain the thinner writing papers have oats into very greatly increased consumrioo. On these the duty is so small as to be scarcely appreciable ; whilst on the coarse brown papers used in trade it is so con siderable as to amount to 75 per tent upon their vales. The duties are estimated to fall in the follow ing unequal proportions : 1 Oa thin foreign correspondence paper .... i per met. On printing paper Oa vaillbawd, as. 6 61 OP Oa brown wrapping paper 74 „ Thus this tax presses heavily where it can least be borne, and touches lightly where it might well be rested. This is injury the second ; and one of great importance. The mode of levying this tax, al though improved, is still most obnoxious. It is levied with a multiplicity of detail known only in the department of the Excise. The duty is taken upon every single ream : and every single ream has to be weighed and stamped, I it=and made up, and labelled, and endorsed, and , and entered, in a particular and special man- Ma; and if there is the slightest infraction of the Ex etas regulations as to any one of these particulars and details, the board is immediately down upon the manu facturer for a penalty. In all the departments of machinery there is per haps no implement more beautiful, more wonderfut, or mere perfect, than the machine into which a creamy bid pulp flows at one end with unerring precis' on, Imolai from it at the other in the shape of en endless gado pest 7—dried, polished, cut round all the edges, sal vened completely fit for use. Yet even in this maim combining as it does all that intelligence and shill sea seemingly apply to such a purpose, there the a thousand minutia which afford scope for those sanddiary improvements and corrections which the modem eye and brain of man is for ever suggesting la all that is material and mundane. It is not long ego that Mr. DICIUKBON, of Hertfordshire, one of our meat inte lligen t mechanists and most extensive paper maims, appiMi air-pumps to the paper machine, by the maim of which he produced a partial vacuum aahr a pardon of the wire gauze on width the peer pap ensolidates. By this contrivance the speagy I ealistease is prepared instantaneously for its first falbalkal pressure, and a serious difficulty is obviated in the working of the machine. An odise improvement, made by the same person, was the laying together of two webs of paper, each made by a separate process, in such a way as to render them . This paper is used in coppm , plate ' re i ra l ; l4 , l and its introduction has put ato stop to the importation of a species cf French paper, which was formerly used in considerable quantities by copper-plate engravers. A third invention of Mr. DICLISSON was to embody coloured threads in the fabric of paper, such as those which are to be met with in postage envelopes and Exehequer bills. Now, all these and other ingenious improve-' meats necessarily re qu're some degree et secrecy experimenting, with a view to bring them to perfection, and to ensure to the inventor the reward of his ingenuity. Bat the Excise system opposes a hindrance to this. The Excise offline and surveyor are entitled to enter and inspect every part of every mill, under any chime stances and at any time that they think right. They are able to watch every proceeding and to call every manufacturer to account. The slightest attempt at mystery only excites their suspicions and makes them more obnoxiously inquisitive. The result is evident. No attempt at secresy can be successful. The Itheisemsa may report at one paper-mill everything that be sees at another, detailing the progress d every tell, the difficulties encountered and overcome, sad the (Imre, of perfection which has been WAN& The =Moaner feels that he has a spy on his every' ant; that he is under an "evil eye ;" and that his every action is watched by the Ewa*, cot, which Bee ready to pounce upon and gess him. It is only men with the perseverance and fortitude of Mr. Dwane= who oould succeed in the fun of such biehause. Ninety-nine manufacturers out of every bridged may be—es they are--daunted by snob ties.... I ildr ui4odtherric:7'anteTsci"l7lre 441.2fipi1: a psculi ,suite Ole motive the ions nestioas . Talbotyge. The 'pemlactiort or4eraoh al rittptirsahe a pee* extent la neve' room. =Lathe Deese at the piper mill when the hooking at tte &at."( the room in which this Meadaetwma was -411110.11-111 his_ex= meats, found Abe key teramlogt diloo within is eontedea a ndpeetosidisa la she of 'distswaryot .2MIO-Insirrilallft-WArrera essOureble isipse:sielegilshstass home is his Castle l'r 1 1 nod ilmWnelsoiht . &the free Brim ! Enter the dogmas sad test its value and veracity ! CTOIS4CLAMite the " Free Britqa " uto all that he is doing : stop his mill : impede his mann failure : threaten " a @mare" of his premises and " a report far penties: s talk oftheArroarne-Glinsaa.: wind np ' wi th an allusion to the Star Chamber Court of "Exchequer; " sad then p forth and report to the nearest ri val in the trade all that you have heard and seen in the mill which y ou have 1,1_,r and receive from him, if he is equally dishwww 4 with yourself, your reward for informing him of all that his competitors are doing! FRANCE. PAUL% aUKDAT. 6,20 Y.Y. TM Notsileur this morning coataine the long labeller decrees, naming wend new ambassadors. TYs asses are as follows—the same that I have simeneeed as having those tithe conferred on them : Gemmel Castel Bsjao is named envoy extraordinary and plenipotentiary at Bt. Petersburg, vice General Lamericiere ; M. de la Cour to the same post at the meet of Vienne, in the room of M. de Beaumont M. de Persigny is appointed to the same post at Berlin:; but, being a member of the Assembly, is described as such on an extraordinary mission. M. de Bunsen, hitherto ambassador of Baden, is appointed to the embassy of Wurtemberi. M. Bernardo d'Haroourt, secretary of legation at Madrid, is appointed ambassador at the court of Baden. M. Maremokbi is appointed first secretary of lega tion in London, and M. Montherot secretary on lega tion at Madrid. There is no news in Paris to-day. The details of the debate relative to the dissolution of the mobile guard, a debate which was adjourned till to-morrow, would not interest the English reader. It may be sufficient to state that government refuses to indemnify V.e men of these six battalions of mobile guard, but offers to give them rank in a foreign legion to be formed in Algeria. It is hardly fair to make such an offer to Frenchmen, who, from the mere fact of having accepted it, mast be considered as foreigners, and, becoming mercenaries, could not fight again as sol diers in France. As the mobile grinds are republicans of rather a Mountain colour, that is, more in favour of Cavaignac than Louis Napoleon, there is no doubt a deep policy in removing them from France; but inch a policy savours more of Madrid than of one which a great country should pursue. There are more rumours afloat of ministerial changes, which I give as they fly, without vouching for or against their truth. M. d'Hautpool, still smarting under his rebuff respecting the circular to the gendarmerie, is said to be anxious to resign. F. Barro', who cannot find any more prefeta such as are wanted, is said also to be on the point of leaving office; nay it is eves said that the post of minister of the interior has been offered to M. Faucher, who declined. It appears that the committee on the new postage project are spinet M. Fould'e plan. That honourable minister reckoned that a forced prepostage of letters (the floe for not prepaying being double charge, when letters reach their destination) would bring Bor 10 millions to the budget. But the committee are on the point of rejecting the plan, and propos another — namely, the old one of dividing the country into zones. There would be two mei in France, of which one would be Fable to 4 sous postage, and the other to 8 sons. M. Fould very properly opposes this plan. 11ump, Dec. 17.—Three per Casts, 1013-18 we. Four per Cents., 12 paper. Five per Cents., 122. Coupons, paper. Bank of St. Ferdinand, 81 paper. Exchange on Leaden, O.U. ITALY. Letters from our correspondent at Naples bring little additional news. The letters are dated the 14th inst., and they confirm the failure of M. Baraguay d'Hilliers' mission. Letters from our correspondent at Rome, of the same date, are more explicit. They contain in substance the news that Cardinal Auto- Dern had informed the French plenipotentiary that the Pope would be ready to return to Rome as soon as the loan of 8,000,000 of francs could be ob tained. This loan has not yet been obtained, although negotiations are in activity for the purpose. Neapolitan Fives, 971. The official Turin journal contains the appointment of Baron Sicondi to be minister of grace and justice. GERMANY. INSURRECTION IN SERVIA. [By Electric Telegraph.) Our Vienna correspondent sends us the following highly important information : The long•expected insurrection in S ' has at last broken out. The Austrian regiments of the mi litary frontiers have joined the insurrection. The cordon against Turkey has been removed. We have no ta , ther details on the subject, but expect that our correspondent's letters, which arrive in the course of the day, will bring mere detailed information. Our correspondents at Berlin, Vienna, and Ham burg write u follows : BERLIN, Digo 19. The Second Chamber adjourned to-day until the 4th of January, 1850. The Upper Chamber has adopted, by a large majority, the law for the regula tion of the parishes. Dac. 20. The Upper Chamber adjourned to-day to the 4th January, after rewiring at the last moment, in ac cordance with its usual character, not to liberate from prison the well-known democrat, Temme,who has been elected a member of the Upper Chamber. Herr Temme has been confined some months for partici pating in the resolutions of the German National Assembly at Stiittgardt. The ministerial memorial respecting the rep letion of the affairs of the Grand Duchy of Posen has appeared. It endeavours to show that the re-organization of the province is impolitic; that the maintenance of the line of demarcation resolved upon by the German National Assembly, and approved of at the time by the Prussian government, is unten able. The incorporation of Posen into the Prussian monarchy had been most specifically promised, and the assurances which had been given to the Poles offered no impediment. Tree Poles had no right to demand the maintenance of the present line of demarcation, or the placing of their province in a peculiar position within the Prussian dominions. In or de r to remove the unexceptionable and untenable position in which the inhabitants of the districts on the line of demarcation have been placed with regard to the population of the rest of the monarchy, no other expedient offered itself but incorporation into the German confederation. By this step all those delusions wotiki be removed which had often in former times given rise to revolutionary movements. On these grounds the government demanded the consent of the chambers to the incor poration of Posen into the German confederation ; but it reserved to itself the power of fixing the period at which the incorporation should take place. Dr. Rieger, of Prague, has been ordered to leave Berlin by the police authorities, it is reported on the requisition of the Austrian ambassador. The rumoured ministerial crisis in Btuttgardt is contradicted to-day ; the taxes have been granted for the next two months. The laindtag in Anhalt was re-opened yesterday. The Constitutional announces that the Hanoverian Landtag has been adjourned. VIENNA, Esc. 18. If we are to believe the ministerial papers, the crisis which prevailed in the cabinet has blown over. The organ of Bchwarsenbarg (Oesterreichische Cor respondent) is authorised to declare that there exists not the least foundation for the rumours on this sub ject spread throughout the press, and that the motley coalition of successors to the t ministers, who have be armed—to wit, d u o,Haztig, Bohan. gilt erprtoo. OUTGOING NAILS. The Slab wig Norse'llse, so the Nediseressess. Ogles, Wis. Neer Zoom as. will be mak *lnt swabs Des SS The seat malls ilw Liebe% ilsela, es& Olbnl will be sole up as Dee. 27. Ths muds km Jidda North Muria mai the Ualled Osge s Se ing es: vs ei t oom he rilDts.lll.. . - _.-- ledis Bersemis. llesmemem. News% Wk. KW" sod emasess theme ler Ifeeirs, 'mole. New Gnosis, . --011111,smiiNserels b lll. ehesiespos leit-11 TM mob Or Astila.seil Deems Alresorill be web mil ea VW. 4. The swab ke Greta, the limbs last ogia. Clans, gidi Gesthereples, lah t be mese up es tie sweelesolf Jam If. T u ispow w p m writ : k........... _manags. a. LONDON; MONDAY; DRUMM 21. " Ix is set to be wondered at that the landlord party lose mowed tits stems: s a d agitation ter protec t. Ihm. That distress exists amongst the funds. class Om ems be so denying, a disuses mainly preload Om high prices of 1847, and by the breadth Omni mews, and the extent of contracts catered into Woad, whisk these high prices and the presumed break up of the old sumer sly inevitably led to. In the moral earring of this transition state, this mail hem famine to abundant prices, the farmer's ire is worked op to rage, whilst hu beclouded reason repress" parent prime as the result, not of past protection but of meat keeled's. Whirs deep feelings pervade a midtitcde there will be always leaders to take advantaged it. And never were leaders more filrelbly compelled to bead an agitation, then the arotestioist chiefs are to stand forward at pelmet. For, in feet, they have not merely Protection to contend for--scarcely worth while, U sate a forlorn hops were all—but they have eir social position and political influence to dg a t for. As yet the farmers evidently pia their faith to their feudal Napalms. Constant in their attachments, however misled sad misinformed, they cannot even in a few years' time learn to discredit the assertions and distrust the power of those in whose dependence they have been wont to live. But a day of reckosiog and of clearing up is at hand, and cannot now be much longer delayed—a day in which the mansgingand working agriculturistelass most come folly to petzetve that their landlords want the power and influence to preserve their old iniquitous privileges, want the dominance of intellect to defend them, or yet the wisdom to yield and make terms for the soldiers who gallantly combatted for them. There (*soot be a doubt the farmers might have been let down mare sally had the landlord party shown tact, moderation, or say one statesmanlike quality. But the abreptness and extort of tenant lose are solely doe to landlord :NG. DECEMBER 24, . 1849. ars rl , Andriani—is a pure chimers. ~., s* of system in canteen tion. Tio eye the V 'ahem cabinet to profess the M s roustile• ion, sad to violate, at tie, wbat ereto pledges of that charter are (egad incomnient, we may, aerstore, conclude that the go /serpent is sot yet peepartd to throw off the mask, and will contlase to govern upon purely . arbi trary principles, while their banner of -244 is nanakieg tbe sir in idle state. By " indeed ! Wbat advance bas been node ince the coselesioa of the Hungarian and Italian wars towards imatiarralkleities of iimiiituaraby.lowaria the sway of the law, towards Biting the credit of the atatel Mier 'easy period prevailed discontent Is universal, restrictions so ealliag, commercial and a warded embarrassment to hopeless. Prom all points eller empire darker tidings are received daily. The &avian, and Croats are fraternising with those Magyars late their hated fom : the Italian states are rile with mutiny : Bohemia mends in her Csech papers daily moans up to the capital for her imprisoned edi tors, her unchaired professors, her states of siege and elysed menicipelities: in Transylvania the oldies billy desert: the military boundaries are exasperated st the defeat of their hopes to be included in the Walwodina: in Oallicia the Moue and Authorise ley aside their mutual enmity to combine in Worsen ✓esistance to the government ; in Silesia and Moravia the peasants bury their money and arms; Brunie, the heart of Austrian commerce, is opprerel by the stag nation of the money market; Tyrol detests the new listitions charter, and is ready to unfurl her pees banner in defence of her ancient franchises. Ot Milan, Venioe, Hungary, what need to speak. HAMBURG. Dsc. 19. [ The senate laid before the corporations of the ancients and the sixty (Oberalten rind Sechzicer Col- I legium) a project of law respecting_ the election of two members for this state to the Diet, which is to assemble at Erfurt. It was agreed to by bath, and Thursday, the 27th inst., is appointed for a meeting of the legiriature (Rath nut Burger Convent) to sanc tion the law, the draft of which is said to be very volu minous. In the meantime it will be printed and pub lished. The corporation of sixty have appointed Wednes day, the 2nd January, for discaseng the new consti- TURKEY.—CoNaraNnwom, Dac. B.—M. Titoff has presented a note from M. de Nesselrode to Ali Pash I, in answer to the Porte's application to the cabinet of Si. Petetsburgh for the reduction of the Russian troops to the number of 10,000, stipulated by the treaty of Balta-Liman. This communication begins by regretting that the Tartish government should have so precipitately withdrawn its troopr, and left so small a force as 10,000 men in the DaLu bian principalities. Russia, it continues, would be glad to reduce her force in Moldavia and Wallachia to the amount stipulated in the treaty of Balta-Liman, of 10,003. But she could not possibly leave her frontier on this aide unprotected, while the elements of revolution, fostered by the Hungarian r. fugees, remained at band. Therefore, Russia will not withdraw the excess of her troops above 10,000 from the principalities until the question of the fugitives shall have bees fully settled. THE GERMAN QUESTION. RETIREMENT OF ARCHDUKE JOHN OF AIJS• TENTITI AND ARIES OF AUST INSTALLA TI R O IA AND PRUSSIA. N OF THB PLENIPO- On the 20th inst. the Archduke John, the Reich'. verweser, ceased to control the affairs of the German central power, for at two o'clock in the afternoon of that day he transferred the German central power into the hands of the Austrian and Prussian plenipotentiaries, in accordance with the treaty of the 30th Sept. His Highness the Archduke Reicheverweser was attend. d by his minieten—Prince Sayn-Wittgenstein ; Berleburg, President of the Ministry and Minister of War; Herr Jochmus, Foreign Affsin and Marine; Herr Detwold, Justice, Trade, end Interior; and Herr Merck, Finance, and the r ommiseioners being present, he delivered the following address: Gentlemen, it is well known to you that I have for some time sn'ertained a wish to resign the office confided to me. But the federal assem bly having ceased its vacation on my assuming office, end the subsequent national assembly having been dissolved without accomplishing the German constitution, the fulfilment of my wish would have destroyed the further maintenance of the bond which unites the states of Germany, and Germane would again bare been exposed to tholes dangers from which in our recollection it so materially suffered. The duties which I had undertaken required, therefore, that I should continue to discharge them until another organ had been established for the management of the common affairs of our " Vaterlend." That moment has now arrived. The two agents of the power confided to me were the totality of the German governments and the German National Assembly. The co-operation and assistance which ' he* @lorded to the Central Power require that I should poshUely thank them. The latter inatituticn, however, no longer exists. It so slesPlished its own end by proceeding beyond the limits smAgned to it by the law, and by departing from the same in the most 'narked manner, just at the time when events were mewing which necessarily rendered every departure from its legal sphere destructive to itself. The history of the national assembly, its decline and fall, offers to the German people the experience that the German otionitution cannot be developed by any other course of pro ceeding than that of peaceful and continued progress, with the conscientious retention of all that has bees rendered sacred by the right and law. After the dissolution of the national assembly, the power confided to me could only be returned to the German go vernment as a body. In order to provide for the temporary direction of the common affairs of our country, Austria and Prussia with my co-operation agreed, on the 30th Sep timber, to a proposition, the purpose to be submitted to the other members of the confederation. The latter have agreed to the proposition. In accordance with the foment already t z; ,wan on the ate Oot. 1848, and in order to carry into effect paragraph 7 of the agreement, I hereby resign my office as iteichaver weser, and place the rights and duties confided to me in the hands of their Msjseties the Emperor of Austria and the King of Prussia. I carry with me the consciousness of baying faithfully en. deavoured to execute the power confided to me to the glory awl prosperity of our " Vaterland." As yet it has cot been fund possible to encircle our cone try with a new constitutional band, which shall secure and strengthen the rights of the people and the greatness and power of our country. That the common bond of union has bees preserved and peace maintained. I shall only then look back with content to the period of my ofile al mew patios, when the future of our country shall be firmly secured by a lasting union. But my apprehensions are lessened because their pro:sedan is now confided to the on operation of those two governments in Germany who are mainly to be relied on for the purpose. With then two governments firmly united, and holding fast by the law, their progress may with safety be followed by the other governments, and success will not be mantles. May Germany recollect its many bitter experience,, and may its tate, , ith the aid of the All-powerful, be confided to the union and love of their country, of the German prince', and the good sense of the nation. The address was replied to by the Austrian commlasiener in the name of his colleagues, and the protocol was then signed by all parties present. SUSPECTED WIRD= IN PEELIZOKESHIRE.— A charge of murder of a most extraordinary character has re cently occupied the attention of the Earl Cawdor and other magistrates of this pert of Wake several days in investi gating. Mr. Powell, a farmer, of Lamphary-part, was charged wits feloniously making away with the illegitimate male child of Mary Orifiiths, a single woman. A mass of evidence was brought leeward, the substance of which was as follows: Tie tamale named had been in Powell's service, and the child was the Iseult of their illicit oonnexion. She was delivered on the 6th of last month, on the afternoon of which day he saw her, and intimated sending a nurse for the infant, with whom he had made arrange ments to take care of it. A day or two after words a woman named Hicks came for the child, and it was given her ; end, according to her evidence, she subsequently handed it over to Powell. This took place late in the evening, and Powell met her in the main road, some distance from his own house, but what he did with it she was unconscious. The mother (Griffith.). on recovering from her confinement, sought Powell to see bet infant, but he refused to tell her where it was, and, in consequence of several suspicious circumstances tending to impute Powell as having destroyed it, Ins police were directed by the irides to take him into custody, and a iesrth we made of his house end throughout his farm, but no trace of either the child or its clothes could be found. The prisoner, on being called upon for his defence, made a statement to the following effect :—He admitted receiving the child from the woman Hicks. and on his way home met with two beggar women. Considering it a [avowable opportunity to get rid of it, he questioned them as to what rem they would require to bring the child up. They laid 71., but eventually he gave them 61., which they accepted, together w.th the child. He was uneonscious of their names, or where they were going to. The one who took the child was an Irish. woman with a black straw bonnet and red shawl, and about 40 years of ace. The other was much younger, app featly not 18. The superintendent of the p lice said every exertion had been made by them to discover the women, but without avail. In the absence of all other evidence, the prisoner was discharged. The crowd collected, hearing the magistrates' decision, became furious against the accused, end but for the inte rference of the police he would have sustained personal injury. The police still rito the inquisy. The Emma impression aatottaiaed ll: the child's his has boa aide away with. WEST. INDIA MAIL. The ROyal West India mail packet Dee, Captain Allen, front the West Indies, &e., arrived at South ampton this moriting, and landed her mails under the charge of Liegt South, R.N., Admiralty agent. Her dotes are: Vera Crue, November 17 ; Tampico, 13; Havannab, 27 ; Honduras, 11 ; Jamaica, 21; St. Jno de CAI, 19; . Ltemorara, 18 ; Trinidad, 20; Barbaoes 22 ; Antigua, 29; Martinique , 28 ; Gre nada, 22; 'Porto Woo, 25; St. Thomas, 30; Bermuda, December 6. She brings one million nine hundred, Mid six thetitiand nine hundred and twenty-one dollars from Tampico and Vera Crus, sixty-four thousand of which are on acoonat of Mexican dividends. From Jamaica, the reception of another retrench ment bill, sent up by the House of Assembly to the council, forms the main item of news. It proposed an immediate redactioa of 10 per cent. on all salar.es from 2001. to 1,0001., and 20 p.:r cent on all above 1,0001. Her Majesty's ships Alarm, T , incomalee , an d Sappho, left Port Royal for Belize on the 18th Nov. A report was current in Jamaica that those ships were about to rendezvous at Greytowo. The admiral was at Halifax, but was expwcted at Jamaica in about a month. Dates from Havanna to the '-7th. At Havanna the government regulations were becoming very strict. The Dee was not allowed to enter the harbour in the night. If three persons are found together in the streets after 11 at night they are arrested. No Euro pean allowed to carry arms. At Barbados., Trinidad, Demerara, and all the windward islands, the anger crops present a very favourable appearance. At Antigua the yellow fever was raging amongst the troops ; Depute Commiesary General Price hid been carried off by it. The Kingston Mwning Journal of November 21, says: —Toe American steamer Crescent City, Captain Stoddard, arrived at Port-Royal early yeiterday morning, from New York, in sex days, and after laudirg a mail for this island, pro ceeded on her passage to Chagres with three hundred and twelve passenger?, the greater portion of whom are bound for the e hcrea of the Sa cramento. The Crescent City has brought us papers from the follow lug places : London and Liverpool to the 27th October; New York, 13th Nov.; Baltimore, 7th ; Boston, 7th. At Mexico everything was quiet. The excite ment of the war with the Americans having sub sided, Tampico and Vera Cruz were again in com mercial activity; yet it was plain to see that the Mex icans at Tampico and Vera Cruz entertain the most deadly hatred to the Americans. COMMERCIAL. ;Unless specifically stated to the contrary, long or duty paid prices are even, and are to be oonddered as wholesale prices.] KINGSTOWN. Nov. 21.-ALzwtone are dull, the ems proration being limited; 225. may be combiered the extreme value. lisar.-" Family," in hat-barrels, has been sold at 465. to 48s. Bal timore bas been disposed of at 425. per half barreL EitaanT.- Bowe parcels subject to the old duty have been disposed of at 12s. to 12a. Gd. per gallon. Holders of lots which come under the new tariff are asking 143. duty paid. Barton.-We report sacs of 100 barrels Baltimore pilot bread, at 21a; and 400 barrels " Watson's" at the same rate. 70 barrels crackers have been moved at 13s. Boma.-New Irish has advanced to 100. and lid. for prime qua lities. Is Halifax and American the only transaction/ have been sales of 20 tabs of the former at 71d., and 50 kegs of the latter at Bd. Cantess.-Bizes and twelves continue to be the favourite siare. They are moved, with small proportions of other sine at Id. per lb. Cuszaa.-Aaterican la abundant, and dull, at 7d. English is in -e -mend, and scarce, at 12d. Courtin.-There were three entire engine on band at the date of our led tout, of which the last recede, d was the first moved. Nearly one-half was parcelled at 13a, the balance was taken at 125., and for the boat. 17% was obtained. Part of another cargo changed bands at lb., and about one-half of the third at I la. The receipts since have been two cargoes, which come down from Windwa•d; but, as the quality done had deteriorated, being much "sweated," 9s. was ac. 'opted for it. The other, in which there was a large quantity of had. dock, was sold fur an outport, at 12s. per 10010 a. tor cod, and 6s. for haddock. C0121.-The market was bare, when in arrival of 100 bags occurred. Small lots have been taken at 4a. 6d per bushel. FLOVIU-1 be foliowing have been the transactions since our last, repotted in the order in which they occurred. 300 barrels Baltimore, in small lots, at 325. ; .00 barrels New Orleans, at Its. ; and 100 barrels at 32a. ; 250 barrels Baltimore, at 325. ; 300 barrels Phila. delphe, and 100 toffee Baltimore, at 32a. ; 230 barrels Baltimore, in lots at lb. Gd.; and 2 0 barrels Baltimore, in lots, at 3 is. The re. mining parcels of Baltimore and Philadelphia are now held for 345. Hons.-Lancashire rule at 81d. to Had. ; American, sd. to 74d. Iltaarsos.-In consideration of the moderate stock, 20s. boa been obtained in parcels. Lea.-The stock is ample. Prices range at from sd. to 6cL for prime qualities. 100 kegs bare been taken at sd. per lb. LUMIIIIII..-The demand is so inactive for white pine, that notwith standing that the stock is moderate, only 80s. can to obtained for it White cedar shingles come under the same observations;; they are not worth more than lb. to 165. for the best, and 10s. to 12s. for the commonest descriptions. MACKAILKL-The arrivals having been moderate, only 245. bas been obtained tor small pa" eels. Maw. has advanced since our eat report, but the operations have been ecalbsed to small sales, at tea. and Holders are new making 19s. to 20s. Ott.-God b scarce, and would be taken at 2s. 6d. tier gallon. Purawro.-Buyers are endeavouring to effect a decline to 3d. per lb. • 34d. cannot now be obtained. Prem.-Mem is looking up; 68s. has been refused for SOO barrels. There Is not men t report of other descrictions. Poramas.- market Is glutted, and aimed any figure would be aoeped. o Recs.-East India is inactive, and remains at our late rates-viz.. 13a. to 13a. ad. per 1001 W. for ordinary Bengal, and 14s. for the best sorts, and Ils. 6d. to 12s. Gel. for Marina. We have not anything to report of Carolina, which is scarce. Sew is cold at 2s. 9d. for proof 21, but the demand is very limited, on 'mount*: the uncertainty which exists regarding the Runt Duty SOAV.—We have no transactions to report. The sal& is very inactive, and the mock is exceedingly heavy. StUAk.—Pfleell range at from Vs. to 16s. for dark, 17s. to 16s. 6d. for middling, and las. to 21e. for fair sample.. TONACoo.—Sides of a few balm leaf have been made at 625. Manu factured has been moved at 64. Tosousa—American pigs' tongues are unealeable. Irish are mune. Os tongues are much wanted. LICTIANORS.—On London: Jamalist Bank, 90 days, 4 per cent. premium • 60 days, 1 ter coo-. Colonial Bank, 90 dap, I per cent. CAPE OF GOOD HOPE We have received Cape journals to Nov. 3. The Cape Town Mail has the following : - . At the meeting o f the association on Tuesday (Oct. 30), numerous communications wereread from different parts of the country. They bore upon various subjects connected with the question now agitatlrg the colony, and they showed the strength and permanence of the feeling with which that question was regarded. The chief points of interest, how ever, were Mr. Fairbairn's visit to Stellenbosch and Mr. Ebden's sale of wheat to the government. It is scarcely necessary to state with what feelings every illusion to this last extraordinary transaction was received by a meeting of honourable men. Less surprise was expressed thaw might have been expected- but the expression of indig nation at a betrayal marked by so th.ny 'granting circumstances, was deep and unmistakable. A great deal of surprise, however, was expressed that the directors of the Cape of Good Hive B ink should, ne was re ported, have been satisfied with Mr. Ebden's explana tion, and have approved of his proceedings. The share holders of the bank, as they have not moved in the matter, may be supposed to be also approving parties. It is most gratifying, therefore, to know that their customers are not,—and that zany of them have withdrawn from an institution "that cannot protect ifs own honour." The explanation which hu proved so satisfactory to the di rectors of the Cape of Good Hope Bank hu, we believe, been submitted to the directors of the Equitable Assurance and Trust Company,—but with very different results. A meet ing of the shareholders of that company has now been called for the 26th instant, to determine whether Mr. Ebden shall continue in, or be removed from, its direction. VEBSZLII IN Stmoree Bs:.—H.M. ships Seringspstam, Castor, Athol; Geyser (et.), and Apollo (troop-ship). Nep tune, with convicts. THE COAST OF AFRICA.—By the arrival of her Majesty's brig Britomart, at Devonport, on Saturday, we have intelligence from the coast of Africa to the 29 hof November. She had a remark ably fine and quick passage of twenty-biz days from Sierra Leone; and brought a large mail from Ascen sion and Sierra Leone, and from the following ships: The Kiegfisber, Tortoise, Phenix, Alert, Rattler, Cygnet, Sealark, Star, Flying Fish, Wroine, Cyclops, Heels, Teaser, Bonnetta, Spy, Centaur, and Firefly. All persona in the service abroad and all their friends at home are deeply interested. While the vJyage to or from the coast of Africa is accom plished in a month, it may not be too much to expect that some means should be used to ensure the deli very of letters to the several ships on the station in another month alter the arrival of the vessel which brought them from England. NAVAL PROMOTIONS AND PENSIONS.—The ap pointment of commander in-chief of the India and China squadrons, vacant by the death of Bear-Admiral Sir Francis Collier, it is said will be conferred upon Rear-Admiral the Hon. Sir Fleetwood Broughton Reynolds Pe , lew, C. 8., K.C.H. By the death et Rear-Admiral Sir Francis Collier, C. 8., the following promotions take place: Rear• Admiral of the Blue, Manley Hall Dixon, to be Re=-Admiral of the White; Captain Fairfax Moresby, C. 8., to be Rear-Ad miral of the Blue. Captain Sir H. M. Blackwood attains the half-pay of 14e. 6d. per diem, and Captain H. D. Trotter the half-pay of 12s. 6d. prr diem. A. good service pension becomes vacant on the promotion of Captain (now B,ear•Admiral) Moresby ; as well as a Companionship of the Bath, by the demise of Sir Francis Collier. The two Cap tains' Good Service Pensions vacant by the promotions of Rear-Admirals Sir David Dunn and Fairfax Moresby, C. 8., have been conferred on Captain John Hindominh, (1881), and Captain 81x Jam... Cloak nom (1834). Vbe eourt. REMOVAL OF THE COURT TO WINDso t The Queen and Prince Albert, wi t h the Palace Wales, Prince Allred, the Primes th e p,_ ArAe, the Priaeces Ra leas. and the p ile ", /00. :7111 Osborne at men mutates before 10 cm. on Bawd; f li t Windsor Castle. _ WINDSOR, fistxtabsr, Dec. H i e Majesty and his Roy al Highner4 theP.itee with the royal family, and attended by the Me rv ic,,,,_ of Douro, the Hon. Him Lennox, Lord A. Pert Hounds, sad General Bowles, strived at Witedwe c •-• Si. Osborne at 26 minutes past 1 o'clock. Ink Th e royal party travelled by a special train oa the g a y western MiXlws_y to Basing s toke, and from theists by a s Great Women Railway to Windsor. A guard of be am the Grenadier Guards received the royal way gi t h e 41 way terminus at Windsor. The guard was so mauselea 4 Lient.-Colonel Hamilton. Her Serene Highness the Dulness of San Weima r, their Serene Htgbnessee the Princeeses Anne mts Baxe Weimar, and their 8 ens Highnesse s th e Edward end Prince Gustavus of Saxe Weintar . ,seri ve dii Castle this day on a visit to the Queen and Noce. H e r Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent Nees Royal Party at dinn. r tbi e even i ng . SUNDAY, Dec. 23.—The Queen and P. ince Albin whet this morning in the Slopes and Winds it Park. The Royal Family took walking 'senile. The Queen and Prince Albert with her Royal Zo nis the Princess Royal, her Serene Highness the Duchess ors,. Weimar, their Serene Highnesses the Princesses /tans tbi Amalie of Saxe Weimar, and Prince Edward find p re , Gustav of Saxe Weimar, the Ladies and Gentlemts of ti e Court and the Domestic Househdd attended Dmine 8,„ 6 , in the Private Cha pel this morning. The H on . sad G. Wellesley cfficiated. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent left Cluenee-house, St. JUDOS* at hill past 10 o'clad Saturday morning for Frogmore-house, Their Serene Highneeste the Dwzheto of s o , Weimar, the Prineemes Anne and Amelia of Ss:ew e s., and the Princes Edward and Gustavus or S.xe %Cu; left Marlborough-house on Sater,lay afternoon for %g ig , Costly. . _ The Earl and Countess Grey left town on S i t tu a, for 'Latchford, Surrey, on a visit to the Earl of Elam, Despatches for the Governor of the Mauritius wen sent cif on Saturday everdog from the C losielothee. ROYAL CHARITIEB.—Her Majesty's royal duet* to above 700 aged and 'slim poor, will be distributed sei, day at the Almonry, Whitehall, by the Lord ILO AL an (the Bishop of Osford), the Sub elm wee and the Y etay of the Almonry. Each indigent penes will receive k. Royal Oats-alma will be et the same time awarded to sloon 150 poor persons, many of whom are blind, and coffer lade bodily affliction. The annual distribution of the Quee e ,, A l 1 his Royal Highness Prince Albert's I ounties to the s et t poor and needy families of the royal borough of Wick% will taue place, at the It syal Mew., on blonds,. Etat (Set Year's eve.) Blankets, as well u a bountiful supply of et . cellent provisions and coals, will be given away to a lure number of the poor resid.nt in that locality. Tits ROYAL CONTRIBUTION TO Ma. SIDKEI HERIMMT'II EMIGRATION FUND.—Her Majesty the Quer and his Rout Highness the Prince Albert have beet cloudy pleased to emtributa a donation of 5.101, to the feed for the ;Promotion of Female Emigration. In fortvwhee this contribution, her Majesty was we naderstatd. Slew to express her approval of Mr. Sidney Heel:hes " racial measure for the assistance of the w.eking risme MEETING OF PARLIAMENT.—We believe we sty with some confidence announce that ornament will act for the despatch of business on Thutsday, the 75A al January. It is not yet known whether the seen., lel be opened by her Majesty or by royal COMllil4loll.—Weekly Chronicle, . LORD DENMAN'S RE°IGNATION of the Chiefiestitte ship of the Queen's Bench, tendered some days eke, ism sequence of continued IL health, to the Premi-r, hes bsmn luctantly accepted by the Cabinet, and Lord Cup bl, Chancellor of the Grand Duchy of Lancaster, hss wed* the important appointment. The noble and lurked lad will, it is understood, take hie seat on the first day of eta MU. No arrangi went has yet been come to with felted a the vacancy in the Cabinet created by Lord Campbell's pee motion, but rumour attributes to ministers an iaten•im d reummending to the Royal 8 svereien that the Basked the Mint (the Right Hon. Richard Lahr Shell) than is called to het Majest) 'a councils. — Weekly Chronick. THE GOVERNMENT AND CHRISTMAS GRATUMIL— Tbe Lords of the Treasury, as will be perceived how th subjoined circular, have determined to abolish all grattai* generally termed " Corium's boxes," after the plum far, es the sum annually given by the different pubic cite Arms in the gross a very large amount. The iolloviss is cular hu been delivered at the several public ilk.. sad commissioner' Audit Office, Somerset HOWN,Doe.,IB6 —Sir,—A pr sctiee has hitherto prevailed of chargiod is ewe of the public accounts at Christinas, to postmen sad oic parties, and the attention of the Lords Commissioners of He Majesty's Treasury having been called thereto, they het been pleased to direct that the Commissioners for &Lau the Public Accounts should make known to those pal= accountants in whose accounts such charges have Whims appeared, that no allowances of this description Ire a a paid by them on behalf of the public after the whaled the present year, and that notice should be accordiaglynter to the persons who have been in the habit of rectivissak. I am therefore directed to communicate to you this dux of their lordships for your future guidance.—l se, sa, Wu. BROMLEY, Secretory." TILE LATE MAJOR GENERAL TONSON, Wednesday this distinguished general officer died,teed He entered the army as an ensign in the year 1791, rt. needed to the West Indies, served at the capture of Mud. pique in 1794, and in the following year was wonodni, ui token prisoner at St. Vincent's. Is 1798 Captain loom served in the Irish rebellion, and in 1799 proceeded 0 Hollend ; in 1809 he served at Walcheren; is RI served in the Peninsular war, and was engaged in Mimi of the Nice, as a captain in the 84th Foot. For hinnies on this last occasion he revered the brevet rank or a linto nant•malonol, and subsequently the gold medal. In 1831 M was nominated a Compasion of the Beth; in 1841 he beam a majer-gentral, and in 1845 was placed on the hetet wen: officers receiving the reward for distinguished WOWS& THE NAVAL PRISONERS IN THE QUE BENCH. Lieut. Graham and Mr. Elliott, who, it waiter collected, were found guilty on their own conflaim of de sorting from the Childere, and who immediately the/taps Proved, after a lengthened investigati n, the conduct dee commander to be tyrannical. and unbearable—these s •iiele • • • Men, atter having men orought from Exeter gaol u tL Queen's Poison and placed by the governor in the Wiwi of the prison where they could have the compstrimthip the most respectable inmates, and enjoy a statical? , for exercise and recreation, were on Thursday lout, under Ili orders of the Secretary of Sate of the Home Dogma; placed in the misdemeanants' ward, where compsaim4 space for exercise, and every comfort which they Ere hitherto been permitted to enjoy, are forcibly Mktg hos them. FORGERY ON THE DARLINGTON BANIL- 0 : Thursday William Murray, of Kelloe, Will Chried the borough maaistrates w.th having uttered, 00 Sunda! the 24th of November, notes which had been dimmed t be forgeries.—The Ant witness examined was Rowland Ise bert, who stated that he was foreman in the shop of 8 .13, Brother., in the city of Durham. On Saturday, N0v.213 about 8 o'clock in the evening, a person came into the 'l4 and purchased goods to the amount of ls. oi tendered payment with a 51. note of the bank of Noe% Backhouse and Co. He handed the note to yowls * White, who looked at it, and afterwards said he hsf; give the change. He closely observed the yerioa gave him the note, and the reason why he did was because he did not like his appearance. 'Hs of time he saw the man was on Saturday lot, in ro. room adjoining the court, amongst twenty °there're* Immediately on seeing him he pointed him out. The pule was the man. He had no doubt in his mind that km 's the person who gave him the note. No other note id bid house's bank was offered to him on that day, Be wonting home on the fallowing Monday, and on has ratios 3: White told him the note was a torgerv.—Joseph Whites.' corroborated the evidence of Lambert, end furthers that on Monday morning he went to the bank to eet 3 note changed, but it was refused.—Joseph Mister. 8 00 in the shop of Mr. Hall, grocer, in Claypath, remembeetll3 prisoner coming into their chop between 7 and 8 o'clocit4 the evening of November 24. He purchased goods amount of 3s. 64d. for which he tendered a S. to in payment. Not ha ving change, he went into Mr. lismc shop, and got the note changed Oa Friday last he ters saw the prisoner at Kelloe, and in consequence eue_e s Elation to the polise.—Horaby Hamilton, publican. 11.: knew the prisoner very well 'by sight. On &hods! , 24th of November, he saw snd spoke to him la . Ctsfr -There-There leas quarrel in a publiclouee, and he (grimtt• e it, was pretty blackguard work, to which the prim* r plied that they knew very well where they mid eel tt , such work , and afterwards walked up Claypeth. Sil.ll°*; swear pookively that it was the prisoner, but to the fat his knowledge he was the man.—Superintendiuit of the county constabulary, said in owe of information he received he consi dered it I t : oes!azy to send the witness Pallister to Kit** a etght of the prisoner. On his return, end io cooe r q s of what he stated, he (witness) apprehended the prietett* the house of his dater in New K Hoe, end ~ charged him with having uttered toiled Detest tbet°4 of Mr. Hall, of this city, but be denied the chary% asked repeatedly how witness knew that he wit l' i r'r that night at the house of his sister, but he did not • b W ee h n en in h D e uwrhaaamaa rged , he w co ith ul tbe d offence, entering Durham, the prisoner expressed a wish thtl should leave the gig and enter Durham by s to: He said he would rather walk five and twenty toles pass a certain shop. The prisoner was committed to' his trial at the anises. ri prove it. Jost es they 7, EXTINCTION OP THE WOLVERHAMPTON ..,TEItA w dor CONBERVATIVII ASBOCIATION.— Within the last e ((says a Birmingham paper) this institution has becol,,, hunt. The books , newspapers, end fixtures of the rein rooms are advertised for sale, and the circum.tanct r. 7„ the significant inference that conservatism in Wolilfl27. ton is fast waning into deca y, and making way for the enlightened sentiment s of he said be Itetl_;t ■t --r- ~-