The Express. — London, England, 1859-01-13 00:00:00

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It bee a thoroughly Spanish plot, complicated in the extreme, full of intrigues, mistakes, cror•purposee, sad peepiesitiet ; a pleaasut mixture of the gay and the romantic; sled abashing in that witty, sprightly, satirical dialogue for make Scribe I. pre-eminent among modern drama tists. It gets a little farcical now and then, as in the character of the stolid EngUeli lord, • favourite butt on the French stage. As • musical work it is, among all Auber's comic operas, inferior only to the Liar/tante do la Cburowne, its: musk, we think, being neither so highly wrought nor in so happy a vein. The first act ends feebly with a somewhat insipid duet; but, en revanche, the flask to the second act has not been excelled by Auber himself in animation, brilliancy, and felicity of dramatic effect. The Mrs, those especially of a serious and sentimental cast, are rather languid, and escape being dull and monotonous only through the aever•foiliog charms of Auber's instrumen tation. • " In regard to the performance, the acting was better than the singing, and the singing was better in the cosserted music than in the solos. Madame Faure again diapiand so many fins "nine both as an actress and a einger--shond In both capacities so much intelligence, grace, and Mien talent, thee we more and more regretted ben &doing in thud nose onestial entity, • fine voice. There is not, Indeed, we ere sorry to say, • flnis voice in the company. 11. Berm, the new tenor, has even law voice than M. Towns, le whom, however, he is superior in every other ann. He ts bindeents and gentlemanlike, and acts with file and panes. And of Iddlle. Celina Mathieu, we out only repast what we have laid before, that her youth, beautys sad vivacity are more than enificient to cover her vocal defect*, M. Montreal (we think it was) who permeated the English lord, did so with en atanaing air of stupidity, but he has not the slightest notion of imitating the English accent. In Mart, the merit of het night's perkensanos lay chiefly in its easembl . in the easy, 011117•3 chnneter of the acting, the spirit and Asa given to the concened Pleas, and the °sal ines of no orchestra. NAVAL AND IfiLIZARY. THE NEW "LONG-11NOE - OUR. (From the Netrautk Chreniele.) The " long-range" gun of Mr. Armstrong, as de scribed in the limos, scarcely shows the importance of the hevention of our scientific Mennen. It is not too much to say Met it will revolutionise the whole art of war, and perhaps may ultimately tend to make war impossible by rendering it eampletely destructive of the combating elements. Mr. Arm strong, in one of his experiments. loaded and fired his own gun 100 times in 130 minutes, and every time he fired he sheet a target nine feet square, placed at a distance from him of 1,1100 yards. He deems it quite possible to sink • ship of war, bower powerful, at a distance of three miles from the gun, and his piece of ordnance has already propelled a shot over five miles of ground. It is possible, indeed, with this gun, to bit objects out of common-sight range; and 'distend once calculated by daylight, an object five miles away out be struck with unerring and mathematical proclaim during the darkest night. To obtain the range by daylight is the only twomisity—a thing which can be done, however, with as great certainty so the sun can be fired—end this object once arrived at, the firing of the gun and the destruction of the object becomes a matter of arithmetical calculation. Ooe proof of the gun's accuracy of range may easily be passed over by a casual feeder in the description of our contemporary, but we should suppose it to be a twit such as wee never before applied to a pleas of ordnesoe. The side of the Trusty wee divded into separate targets, each one of which wee consecutively bit by the artilleryman, acoordiog as he was directed to change his aim. Its destructive effect needs no other comment than that given stove, although its facility in firing shell alone places it above any other gun manufactured. The shell of Mr. Arm stroog's, fired by his " long-range" gun, does not explode immediately on concussion, but strikes its object, pluming through it where It is possible, and then explodes. On firing at a target, far instance, behind which was exposed another at the disuses of some garde, the shell passed through the first, and, exploding on reaching the second one. completely shattered It to pieces. Against a ship of war the result obtained by this shell would be most tremendous. Entering the bows or stern, it would likely travel midships, and, exploding there, would rip the vessel to pieces. Mr. Armstrong has been three mouths in London engaged is o xperituentaliaing with his gun, and lass only now returned to Newcastle. ADMIRALTY, JAN. 12.—PROMOTION.—Liratenant W. Rodger, R.N., ham been promoted from the reserved Ilat of lieutenants to the reserved list of commanders under en order in council, in recognition of hie valuable service@ to the royal navy, as well as to the mercantile marine of the country, by improvements which ha bee made in the sinions kind of anchors. APPOINTNINT.—IIarter H. W. C. Wise (I 828), to be additional to the Vesuvius, 6, paddle-wheel steam @Loop, west oaset of &trice station, CHATHAM. TESTIMONIAL—The committee of agars of this dockyard upon civil service enperannuetions have presented Mr. George Cotsetl, master bisclirenith, end the hon. secre tary to the committee, with a handsome diamond ring as an acknowledgment of the amiduity and zeal displayed by him during the past four years m promoting the wishes of the officers employee in the several royal dockyards. Captain A. C. Weir, WA., Assietant.lnepector of Mili tary Schools., has been engaged some time in the inspection of the military schools at this gerriaoa, which are all in • mast efficient state. SOUTHAMPTON, JAN. 12. Lieutenant John Hay, R.N., has been promoted to Ma soak of commander on the reeerved lilt. Lieutenant Hay has bees *Was yang Admiralty asset on this station, and davits that period has eupenntended the fulfilment of the aril contracts in the Peninsula, Mediterranean, West lodide, sad South American Pervion APPALLING AND DISTNEASING OCCURPJLICE.--A most dlotreselag ones of sadden death amerred en Tuesday. Corporal William Miller, of the Royal Hoer Guards Bien, ►avieg died after a painful illn•ee, his remslie were to be Interned in Highgate Cemetery, nod on the above-named day the preemie= started from the barracks of the regiment on its way to the cemetery. Having reached Highgate-hill, the rorteyr was slowly proceeding, when suddenly one of the guard, named Thomas Harris, a corporal-major. a comrade of the deceased, and who had been eingularly affected by his death, wee observed to fall back from the nick, and remove hie tesimat and dash et to the ground; he then tore his gloves from his heath., and riming head foremost across the road to a hedge opposite 26, Grove-terrace, fell waveless to the ground. He was immediately conveyed to the Ball and least Tavern, when every assistance was rendered by Mr. Welch, the landau!, and a medical gentleman, Mr, Bendy., residing at Gerdes-I=e, was instantly sent for. On lee snivel he pronounced life to be quite extinct. The poor fellow wee; much lamented by hue comrade*. The imposing ceremony of a soldier's funeral is at all times most affecting, sad it is needless to sdd that the effect on this 0001111i011 wag heightened considerably by so =drawing an event. There can he little doubt that tov,,, icitemeat, produced by grief for the lees of his old friend, acring probably on a heart already dimmed, was the immediate cause of the unfortunate ocenneace. An inquest will be held on the body. LVCIT ESCA P 6 FROM MI:RPRR.—The following in Saunders' s Arms Letter,—" The brother of a = catholic clergyman was fired at on his way to Newport a abort time piece. He wee riding, when he was suddenly attacked by three arm. d rufflans—one of the party fired at him, fortunately without effect. A severe straggle ensued; but, in a meaner which 'effect. the highest credit on him for bravery end preamos of mind , he ..cared two of the ruffians; the thi Ird the meantime fled. Having proceeded ' but a short distance, they were met by some country people. The Winne,. immediately dropped on their knees sod im- SEercy, static, that they ' mistook their man'—the of a gentlemen in the neighbourhood. They were y allowed to depart, which satrsordinary onnduct ess only be accounted for by the dread from Intimidation Ake sable in the neighbourhood. The informations Were wan bikes the reddest magletrate, and elm lodged, se our feirersrat Winer, is Dublin Castle." TIM Saw DIVORCE. COURT.—There is a great ban . ,4 b gg i.... In this nw,rt. At present there are up- MAI of 700 divans sad Juliana asp ration ans. LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING. JANUARY 13, 1859. LOAD ?AMMAN ON BAUM!. On Monday Lord Namur, wart present at a din ler !IMO to Provost Guthrie, at Brechin and, in acknow ledging the toast of his health , prop osed by the Earl of Souther, he said—l rise to thank you for your too partial reception of the toast which has been so kindly proposed by my noble friend on my left (Lord Souther). During that career to which he has alluded I have certainly endeavoured to do my duty for uow very nearly a quarter of a century ; and I have had the satisfaction of knowing that during the whole of that time my conscience has told me that, with whatever senses that duty has been reformed, it has been performed, at isset, with a conaisteocy which I am thankful I have bean ambled to throw into it. I think that in these times the ended of public men ought to be a matter of grave cond. &walks to all their fellow-citizens. We live in very curious times—ln times when it appears that in politics we are Whims large measures of ootueiltutional reform when scarcely a vox* in the country ie raised in its favour ; but circum stances have so combined that it ft impoesible for my go vernment, whatever au political profesaions may be, to ab stain from entering and embarking in • course of parlia mentary reform. For myself, gentlemen, I have been ac cused of having lost some of that taste for reform which I imbibed in early youth, sad which for many pan I have followed up ; but I can assure you that that representation in not founded on fact. (Applause.) So far as reknit is carried out on the principles of the great tosesnre which wee held et one time to be a second Magna Mama of the liberate of this country—so long am reforms is ocatisuad on the principles of the Reform Bill of 1832, I sin over a steady, progreosive, and determined refenner.it please.) Gentlemen, when I see scheme of re projected which Mrike at the very root of our mixed coneUtution—wtisn I see new organisalloss sketched out before me which ace to do away with some branches of our oneritution ' or to glee to one, at least, the supremacy—then I °ashes I shall pause at that road to reform, blows 1 do not think it is • safe one. A very amiable gentleman, who has lately been down in this cannery ar4ia favour of such a course of reform, has gone back to d and com plained that be did not get that support wh he expected from the gentry and middle classes of the country. And why has he not done so! Became their own good sense assures them that the course he would lead them is not the course they ought to go. (ther, hear.) When Mr. Cobden and Colonel Thompson come to this country as the apostles of free-trade and the juatifiers of a policy which was to rid as of taxation on the food of the people, among the fret of dues who were ready to welcome them on the platformof Glasgow I bad the honour to appear, and I know many in the Mass condition ea myself who rallied round Mr. Cobden on that occasion. (Greet applause.) And what was the result ? In 1846 we received one of the greatest beue4te of the Re form Bill. Worw an end put to taxation on the food of the people. But it has been the policy of some to run down and decry the measure of 1892. Now, if ever there was a measure from which • benefit accrued to the nation and glory accumulated on Its head, it is that measure of reform which was passed in the year 1892. (Applause.) And what has reeulted from it P The very first act after the pairing of the Reform Bill was to blot out from our country the disgrace of participation in the trade of negro slavery. (Cheers.) The next act of reform was the Municipal Act, widen was of great value to the °matey, and none knew its value ea well em the =said* oorpcestione. There are many people who had no vote before, sad who have a voice now, and they may go ea in the mint of that bill, and get • further voles when parliament chows to grant it. But, gentlemen, I assure you that free trade is the result of the Reform Bill of 1832; sad numerous other avenues& you are all well aware—and I need not detain you la enumerating them—flowed from the paring of that measure, sad that suemnre sloes; and I earnestly trust and pray et what ever steps we may take in furthering the career of reform, we may never depart from the measure of 1832 as Its funda mental basis. Gentlemen, it has been said that Mae who live in glass houses should not throw roam (" Hear, hear," and laughter.) Now, I should not have alluded to anything personally relating to myself if what I said at the let county meeting hadnot bean misrepreerted. When Mr. Kisloch got up and made a speech in favour of reform, he took us ell by surprise. (11. laugh.) He made a yen good-hamoured speech, and conanded by a very good pro- pose!, end on• we should be very gled to we carried oat, if that could possibly be accomplished—that In any plan of reform that might be proposed, Forfarshire should have a mound member, and that in any re-distribution of the tome in perliement, every 30,000 individuals in this land should have • member to represent them in parliament. All I said wee, that I deprecated the division of the country into numerical parliamentary division., and I thought Mr. Kinloch would find himself mistaken if he thought that in any redistribution of seats Forfarshire , would come in for • second member. And it turns oat very mash as I rid, for according to the announcement of Mr. Bright himself, if his plan were c tried out, he would not give • 'ingrate to the counties at all, but would nonage them all to burghs end large populous towns; so that, under the cisme:Larose, I thought I was not fairly treated by being held up somewhat se an anti-reformer is giving vent to these opinions at last county meeting. Now, gentlemen, I would have our hue. friend the member for the borghs, instead of canvassing my conduct, to look a little after hie own. (Great applause.) Because, if I am not very much misin formed by a public print ou whose veracity I place very much faith—namely, the Seaman—he Is rather seeking popularity in Arbroath and Montrose by supporting the shipping interest in their demands for protection than adher ing rigidly to the principles of free-trade. (Applause.) And I would give him • friendly warning from twenty-five years' experience, that adhering steadily and honestly . to Cirisr principle' is worth all the temporary populenty departure from them may glee say Gee. Now, gentle- I mo. I would only mats one thing Wilier with regard to my ewe particular principles. Besentially—however unpopular the expression may be--essentWly, I say, they are thole of a whig. The old whig principles I understood from the life, conversation, speeches and character of the man whore name I bear,—Chatries James Fox. The principles of whimsey em tbses,—to maintain the liberties of the people against the encroachments of the aristocracy and of the Crown. These were the principles upon which Mr. Fox acted, and upon these principles I act still. Bat, gentle men. there is a reverse to what I have thus stated. Whig principle' stop at a certain point and then turn ; and whits maintaining the just rights of the people. they are equally prepared if necessary to defend the rights of the Crown and of the arietocraity from undue encroachment on the part , of the people. Tree are what I understood to be whip pnntipler ; they are the principles upon viebnft I have read—the principles which I think maintain this country in the position it hold& and I trust ever will hold among the nations of the world, with its limited monarchy and aristo macy open to the very humblest of the people if they are willing to work themeless cep to it. The middle classes see Imre and true to their principles, and the lower classes busy end industrious. The nation gives refuge to political outcasts of every other country, and will hold up its head firmly and honestly when the lased' of every other nation throughout Europe end the world sr lowered. During the revolutions of 1848, no position was more proud than that held by this country—calm "mid the storms that surrounded her, and ready to be en asylum to all who sought of her a refuge, without asking whether they had been right or wrong in the countries they bad lett. (Cheer.) I have gone, I presume, somewhat beyond my mark—(cries of " No, no," and "Go on')—fu expressing these opinion', but It Is but rarely, gentlemen, that • per son in my position—removed, I am sorry to say, at present from the Commoos' House of Parliament—bas an opportu nity of expressing his opinions. I have taken this oppor tunity of making theme remarks, in order that I may not be inisunderitood ; and I shall conclude by raying that, on the subject of • reform bill, so far as the Intelligence of the peo ple warrant me in going, so far will I go. I would do every thing to forward ano of reform on this basis ; but I would do everything openly, and would bare no secret a traneactions, either in voting or legislating. (ilia lordship concluded amid great applause.) the MR. HORS.WAN, M.P., OMPAILUMENTART zszosm. STROUD, WEDNESDAY. Mr. Homan, M.P., addressed a crowded meeting of the electors and non-electors of this borough last Dighton " the present aepect of political affair." Mr. MARLING pre sided; and at the close of the meeting there was considerable diversity of opinion on the subject of reform as treated by the right hon. member. Mr. 1101i$11AN onmmenoed by shoe one to the India Bill sad Conspiracy Bill of last asseien, sod the much vaunted ethane* with Franc" of which, be said, France had had all the benefit, and England all the shame. He would say—Let us be friends with all the world. but keep our powder dry, and take care to have plenty of it; anti form no intimate alli ances except with the friends of liberty, who had common int/mete and common sympathise with ourselves. Turning then to the subject of the dinori;anization of the literal party, he said it was owing to the perceive and obstinate blindness of those who had been their leaders, who had been living in a fool's paradise of their own creation, shutting their eye. to what all the rest of the world could see. and stopping their oars against what all the rest of the world was listening to. The disunion in the liberal piety had been anteing ever since the old Reform Bill was pared. The fact was that before 1830 the whims were the only leaders of the liberal party, because they ware the only liberals of the governing clean But the Reform Bill made a change In all that. It was a revolution that had introduced a new go verning power which bad been growing every year. The whip intending to stand toward* the liberal party in the cherseter of patrons and protectors, never dreamt of raising them to he their amociates in power. They had not the foreeight to pee that the extinction of the does boroughs Meer be followed by the extinction of clues governments. Since 1830 the liberals bad been advancing in poorer while the whiga had been as rapidly declining, until at lest they bed become an insignificant minority of the liberal party. The old whip had and in a in until all their political simian was gam, end they b ad bean trading on a politkal IlkIL M. IL CULVAIt WELL. Brocbsr and sole Ilyermear be lea laer L J. 041vereelL Lb.. ell fl eet practice le Amool.ulace ee wee =emceed kw 14 ream las lee ire of abet leer be blebeerb deelbl wee Melee We lelemPfelee 4 .l — ue rameeed be 1. 011111 T NAILLIIOIOI7OII.IITIIIII. rime be Abe only le. 041=11 Weed as be esseelteil. Omen. Wooden, hue bepreedll Joe peelleek prim 14..• be perLl3 fewele 11 Meer le. L W WilliTlTl. NASALS' 01111111)111111D. We ON I,IIIII4ATOWIIICIe ; et. TM Or ewe. Olele. ronsorr.TworriAsurnarms. 4•ol4lelearee. To Os 5.4.4 ll9m, Oeniltt. or Area hen the ender. Tu Rln WORKING CLASSES WILY. De. CULVSIII9KLL 9•4 lOC Moeller el tbe Se* Teem 41 flerepaaa. Icaolea, nay be emehaim . 7 . 2lo4 II•99 9WI H. Myr eed Meer', Os TO TML IDTTOR TML OF IMPRESS. THE LATE MR. THOMAS BELSHAW. F address you on behalf of the widow and five fatherless children of the late Mr. Thom.. Beishaw, whew, deetbbed I was .ant fur to visit on the 2lst ultimo. I found him suffering westerly from hemorrhage, quite delirious. and fast sinking. He died at half-past nit pm. on Thursday, the 23rd of December, aged 44. I was deeply grieved to kern that for many montha past they had often been without the common necersarks of life. Ought this to have been eo ° Does not the cmuttry and world at large owes deep debt of gratinstle to him ? For was it not Thome. &Maw who first originated, and practically carried out, szlibitioes of arts and manufactures, first .t Manchester, then at Liverpool, Derby, Sheflirld, Macclesfield, Devonport, Hull, and other places ? Was it not he who so sncceyfully orgaabied the first greet induatriel exhibition at Bingky-house, Birmingham P—and NMI prubsbly it was that which Sr* suggested the idea of the gletous Exhibition of 1831. Be that as it may, no one will deny but that Belshatie admirable arrangements in placing the goods, &c., were largely instrumental to its bril liant results. Than followed the exhibitions of Cork and Dublin, when him energy and talent .o greatly contributed to their MIMI'S. Lsatly, Has Crystal Police at Sydenham ; from whence he was appointsd Deputy Storekeeper to the Army Works Corps ; sad it wee whilst going out to the Crimea in charge of the 3rd Divielon, with which he sailed in the Der wixk teen-port, Dec. 2,1853, that he met with the fearful in jury wbirb, combined with anxiety. disappointments, and neglect, has clamed his untimely death. Having Meted the above tacts se briefly as possible, I one do nothing mere but leave thin painful care in the betide of the public, who having besseted eo much by the work of hie bead and hands, I can not but believe will nobly come forward and administer to the want. of has bereaved widow sad flee fatherly* children. —I am, &n., JOSEPH WHITE. 22, itichroond-sheet, St. Georgewroad, Southwark, S.E. Sobscriptioas will be thankfully received st the Unity Beak, Cannon-street, City; Mr. Alderman Mechi's eata• bliahtesat, Leadanhall-anent; bre Mewirs.Elkington and Co., 22, Reavat-.crest, So. Jseasses; W. Donald, k.lsq , St J times's hill, Itegent-.tree; Mere. Bradbury sad Zeus, 11, Sou veriestrvet ; Charge Grove, Beq., Merstary to the Crystal ?slew Company ; sett Mr. Joseph Whit., 22, Richmond street, Si Ottergesersed, Sauthwark, 8.1. ROTAL COLLEGE OP PIECZTTORS.—The following gentlemen hare been elected messbere of this college It'', A. O. Notify, M.A., bead master of Fattoombsege Grammar &hail, Bernie*; J. N. Langky, Esg., M.A., W,11•••• beeepton ; Lengham Dela, Seg., B. A., Oxon, Ceps Colony R. N. lge, Esq., Atccoter, Warwick; J. S. Stone, Erg., Ye rd. STIt ‘!il .1! SCENE IN LIIVRCII.—The commit tee of St. There o;•• Church, Stogrbridge, considering that, se there were so marriage* nor I:lariats, the office of clerk wee nosecerwary, gave Mr. Dunn notice at Michaelmas, and at Christmas paid him his halt-year's salary end diepeened with hie venter. The new incumbent, the Rev. Beak Itherreed, hod never recognised Mr. Duns as hie clerk, etsd therefore that furiction•ary had not given out any hymns, hie duties being congaed to pitting In the dealt sod salting the moose's. The °nominee 'miring reams to telicre that the clerk doubted their power to dismies Oita, bad take. the procautionary measures of 'thieving the sot and miaowing up the door of the desk. Oa the morning of Sunday week, when Mr. Dunn solved and saw the state of ibises. be obtained a Oral, end, thus exalted, got over Ow. hie 014 eras. The Wee bottom haring been removed, he was obliged to get something to stand upon, and thus make himself visible to the congregation. The coo,e pro owe of admiring ter resorted to in the evening, to the seMwithmest emi seethereett of a fall coninegating. To • pest the ._emu of much scenes, the committee have thee hod Meant removed entire. and the ewe filled up with w free seste."—lfeth CUTTING TI11101:011 711 E (tr.—Mears. C. N. Norwood and Co.'s steamer Bolder,. netted nt Aen cm the 10th, from St. Pcterabarg and Rigs, having loaded at the latter port a complete cargo of sod, heath. end Am. This voted oiled from this port for St. Petersburg. with • general cargo, on the 4th November, or five days biter than esy other roost the pest ermon, and though she managed to enter Cronstadt on the 15th, the frost wee en revere the next day that she wee froaen within the Mote before her cargo mild be discherted. After au nuouncreaful attempt to escape, the weather became lees revere, and on the 11th Dem.etar a final attempt WY ' decided upon, in rvethaeting e ta, the %Trek,' arid Sllubrn tided up cut through the Iry to ores water, and a joint eontract reeds with Mr. Roiinhoff. hie a mum of 3,000 rouble* silver. After the °mutant la of 1,000 men for four days a pomace was acremoiieb"d —a circumitsoco that has occurred hot ones the ovi uhley years at ro late a date. Doting the stn y of lb* 11,1olveria in Croartedt, the frost varied fist 6 to IS degrele n , and she passed through pecked ice abol2 teat thick. re in Inallng bar wimps, two fans of her screw were broken with lotto* piece* of ice, and the Madero wee towed by the Billubro' to Baltic' Pert. when' the spare anew was elulpped, eud after wood days' delay, the proceeded to Riga, where the arrived en Ch.istmeri•day. Captain Moor repirte having queegeed very heavy weather on the homeward pewee, with westerly odes.--/lerteres Cocottes Herald. LOTIDON OINIMAL 011M131011 COMPACT (LIMITE D . --Trak regielete lan Ike week 'Odin Jan. 10040161 capitol not their own. He then mote to the sub dof reform, which parliament would have to deal with in the coarse of • month or six weeks. Lord Derby's mast had been well kept. Lord John Rug well, who had • bill No. 2, had also kept bin mutt ; and Mr. Bright—(loud cheery)—who was the parent of bill No. 3, had communicated his secret to Mr. Mien, who had no anthority to communicate it to anybody else. (Laughter.) Bat whoever proposed • measure of reform would find him self la a difficulty. If Lord Derby proposed a large mea sure of reform he would break up his party, and if he pro posed • mall one he would diked the country, and he would be told that we could not afford a revolution every ten years. Then there was the danger ahead that, unlace the liberal party were united, and pulled well together for • practicable sad attainable object, instead of being disunited sad in favour of what was impossible, the party would be leR in rather a worse portion than they were before. (Hear, bear.) The two great cerium which had hitherto excited the most interest out of doom in connexion with this question were the extension of the franchise and the ballot, On the ballot nothing new could now be said, and the strength of parties in the Home of Commons heal been amerteinsd. In all probability Mr. Berkeley's proposition to have the bd. lot introduced into the government meseure would be de feated. The most important question involved in any DOW reform bill would be the extension of the suffrage. On the eve of • discussion of the new measure he thought it would be unwise to commit himself to any opinion. (Oh oh). But if they asked him what were his principles and views on the extension of the ettffrage be was prepared to give them au answer. (Cheers.) The difficulty as to any plan that had hitherto been proposed for an extension of the franchise wan this. The great detect of the old R.-form Bill wan that it established an uniform franchise, wherea before there -were different modes of attaining it. This uniform franohles wee based on the qualification of property. That be considered wee detective, be cause if they extended It, they could extend it only in one direction—that was, by lewateg the qualification. Well, Lord John Russell in 1830 lowered the franchise, and made the qualification 101. household. Twenty years afterwards he proposed to lower it to 51. ; but the earoe argument which was given for reducing the suffrage from 101. to 61. equally prevailed for lowering it to fire &billings, and the 'ems argu ments would be equally adducible tea years after to rodeos it to fivepance. And then they cams to universal suffrage. That had been the difficulty in every plan for extending the W ings which had hitherto been proposed namely, that they had the inevitable result that it was only • steppiog-stone to universal suffrage, or rating suf frage, which Mr. Bright socepted avowedly ea a compro mise, as taking univereal suffrage at two bites instead clone. (Hear, bear.) Now be would tell them the objection which he had to universal suffrage. He was against all class legis lation—(mar, hear)- and universal suffrage must place the government of the country entirely in the heads of one elms, which were the most numerous due, and the most numerous clam were, from the nature of their occupations, nemesarily the meet unwinoged class. (Cheers, and marks of disappro bation.) Observe the object of representation was that they should have se perfect • legielatire body as possible; that is that their legislators should comprise men of the highest standard of edueation, morality, and independence, end that it should be • fair representation of all chasms end interests in the country. They would, no doubt, all agree with him that there were three great elements to be considered in re- Melon—property, Intelligence or education, and mam as. more perfect the combination of all the three the more perfect must be the House of Commons. If they had • property class, an education clam, and numbers, which were really the operative clean ; and it they found the operative close outnumbered the others ten to one, they en franchised the one end awscoped the others, for they die franchised them as entirely as if they had struck them off the roll. The first feeling and tendency of human nature, if they had power in their hands, was to use it. They would have • thousand voices in Savour of their own body. Before the Reform Bill the electors and the House of Commons were entirely aristocratic. The Reform Bill created an enormous middle-else constituency, and the consequence wee that the lament House of Commons was as to a large section composed of the existncrecy, and as to another large section composed of the middle classes. (Hear, hear.) But if they went • step further, and enfranchised the opera tive cisme& they would swamp the other dames ; and was It too much to say that they would make the same use of the power placed in their kends that others bad done, and elect men either of their own class, or Urea who would go to the house bound to represent theviews and opinious of that class. (" Hear, hear," and fitment.) The remelt would be, not an equal Marthalion of the suffrage, but that the educated class would be swamped, and the property clam disfranchised, while the government of the country would be placed in the hands of the operative class, necessarily the moat uneducated class. Wee that • desirable or safe state of things ? But It was said that theopsrativeders had increased in morality and intelligence since the last Reform Bill. If it was meant that the operative clam had so increased In morality and intelli gence as to have overtaken the dames above them, and that the other classes had been going back, then there was good reason for transferring the government of the country from the rich to the poorer classes. Bat was that so ? They had universal suffrage and the ballot in Frame and America. Was France fun? They had there a military despotism, and when that ceased priestly tyranny stepped m ; they had no personal security, no one could speak or write in safety ; they had police at every door and goes to every household; an enormous war armament in time of peace, to keep up which the people were taxed in both money and teen. Her public men were the meet demoralised and corrupt, and used cabinet secrete to enrich theuaselves on the Stock Ex - change. France was, in • word, in a state of slavery, such se had never been exhibited in any nation in the world in the same state of civilisation and 1 adv a ncement. Then M America their electoral system was notoriously corrupt, as Mr. Buchanan had recently testified; and with immense peeetteafona the spirit of aggrandisement premiled ; above all slavery, that blot on humanity, existed. He did not say that universal suffrage was the cause of all these evils, but that this and the ballot, as was shown is Frame and America, were no guarantees of good govern ment. Mr. Horeman next alluded to the proposition for the payment of member., which he said would make a seat in the Honer of Commons desirable for other moons than the desire to do one's duty. How long would • House of Com mons elected on universal mirage act In unanimity with the HOURS of Lords? [A Voice—We don't want a Howe of Lairds.] (Loud laughter.) That was exactly what he anti cipated, and having got rid of one of their great funda mental institution. would they next depose the Queen ? He ventured to say that if they had each a monarch as they could remember, and not one who adorned ber station with every public and private virtue, the cry would be with the salaried candidates for membership, " We don't want any monarchy." (Cries of "No, no.") In conclumion Mr. Hon said it had been the fashion to call the non-electors slaves that wee absurd. The mere change from • 101. to a 91. homes could not constitute • man • slave, nor • change the other way make him • free man. At the close of the address several people rose to speak, some of them protesting against the treatment of the non electors, whom, they said, he had insulted, and others calling for • more explicit statement of opinion on the suffrage question. Mr. BA RNARD moved • resolution affirming that no reform bill would be satisfactory that did not include household suf frage In town., 101. household in counties, equaleation of district., and the ballot. Mr. WINTERROTHAM, a county magisteste, moved • MOO • lotion of confidence in Mr. Borman. The CHAIRMAN put both DI substantive resolutions, and Teetered both carried. be MR. ILEBIVILII. M.P., ON THE REFORM BILL. Mr. S. T. KEKENVICH, M.P. for South Devon, addressed • meeting of his constituents at noniron, on Saturday, and in the course of his speech he eal4 :—Gentle me, you are well aware that there is • very important swim opening before us. There are many people, whey, who think the erasion will be of greater importance than I do. I think those questions, which we often hear spoken of ea "looming in the distance," when they come before us, will be settled with much wester ease than we are led to ex pect. (Hear, hear.) Among the questions to be intro duced in the Hoye of Commons will, I believe, be one relating to parliamentary reform. (Cheers.) Now, I have looked at all the reports in the papers, whether of meetings of the "Ancient Order of Foresters" or of the "Ancient Druids" (Linehan) —or of other meetings, and I cannot discover, looking carefully at the words of the different speakers. that any penes is aware of any settled plan of reform. (Hear, hear.) We all know that the question of perliementery reform is to be brought forward, and I think you will Agra) with me filet, as the measure has been promised from the throne, there cannot he • more fi tting time to bring it forward, when, if I may to slyera it, there I. a sort of lull in political affairs. (Hear, hear.) I have never known the people so happy and corn. tented ; I have never known commercial prosperity so great, and all intervals in the community so quiet and peaceable as they are at this moment. (Cheers.) I do not, therefore, think there can possibly be a better time chose at which to bring forward a question so exciting as political edam, when there is mildly nothing to call the melons of the people into existence. (Hear, hear.) As you are aware, gentlemen, during the past few weeks a worthy gentleman— Mr. Bright—has been endeavouring to excite the people on the subject of political reform by eloquent speeches. New. I believe that if that gentleman were to some here, we should rush to hear him speak, but I do not believe one of us would entirely agree with him in his opinions on reform. (" Hear," and cheers.) What the plan of reform to be predated Is note of us, I trlieve, know it is entirely confined to the government, and I do not believe the subordinate members even know what the measure will be. If I may be allowed to we • hunting phrase, we know the fox is to the bag, and ere min wind him afar off. (Laughter.) We do not know the complexioa of his coat nor the length of hie brush, but we know that on a wilds day—probably in March—he will be turned out oa the floor of St. Stephen's, when there will be • greet hue and my, and we shall hope to ran into him and [ kill him in the month of May. (Cheers sad laughter.) PARILLUBNTARI REFORM. At a large meeting of the town council of Sheffield u.i yeatteda n.d y, sy .do pstitio p n wi Its l favour was . ourof par i l y ia m men th te a ri th ref e reform wee sse d Norfolk should be requested to present it in the Lords, sad Mr. J. A. Roebuck in the Commons. The following Is an abstract of the petition " That the Privilege of the electoral franchise Id unseees roily restricted to les than one million of persons out of six millions of adult males in the United Kiagdom, and that many towns very inconsiderable in population have the came right of returning members to parliament as large end popu lous cities and boroughs, white many other large towns are entirely without representation. That the evils of the pretient system arise in • great measure from the inequality still exist ing therein in despite of the many reforms totroduced by the act of 18S2. That no measure of parliamentary reform will be satisfactory to the great body of the people which does not extend the franchise. That the borough franchise should he given to every male person of full age and not ' subject to any legal incapacity, who shall reside in a borough, be duly registered, and occupy ea owner and tenant in part or whole any lees which are rated to the poor; that the county frbe given to all persons occupying a tens• meat of the annual value of ten pounds ; and that the fran chise in Scotland and Ireland be assimilated in principle and effect to the franchise in England and Wales. That In order to secure the independence of the voter the votes be taken by way of ballot. That also • great change be made is the electoral districts throughout the country, so that in the re apportionment and distribution of seats there shell be such an approach to an equalisation of constituencies as shall enable a majority of voters to choose • majority of the repre sentatives of the people. That in cedar to insure the respon sibility of the representatives to their constituents, the term for which any representative may be elected shall not exceed three years." THE SOEIL BUILANB SOCIBTY. The eighty-llfth annual general meeting of the members of this society was held yesterday at the office, Trafalcr-square ; Mr. B. B. CABBELL in the chair. Mr. OUNO (the Secretary) read the report, detailing the operations of the committee during the past year,which stated that the total number of cases of rescue, or attempted rescue, from drowning brought trader the notion of the society during the past year wee 169, involving 281 persons. Of these 179 were suossefully treated, and 11 were unfortu nately beyond recovery. 31 cartes of attempted suicide had occurred, and 27 cams had been especially referred to the committee. The number of medals awarded for courageous end devoted conduct in rescuing drowning persons wee 66. Thanks wars also recorded on vellum and presented to seven prices, maim parchment to 14 persons ; while pecuniary rewards had been given to 86 meow. The number of tethers in the Serpentine during the pad season had been 166,200, and it was gratifying to record that in no cue had any fatal casualty occurred. The state ment of Wows and expenditure for the year ended the 81st December last showed that 1821. had bale carried forward from the preceding year; that eubscriptione, dona tions, &c., had amounted to the sum of 1,7181., and legacies to 451., snaking a meal of 1,9461. After deducting the ex penditure a balance remained in bend of 791. The to wee adopted, sad votes of thanks passed to the presi dent and ofilome alas socilety. The following came were among those especially sub mated to the meeting, se deserving of the elver medal of the society —The Hon. T. J. Wynn, for geeing Charles Vernon Hassell, military student, from the Thames, June 3 lest; Mr. C. Pates, for saving Lewis James Knight, ear geon, the Ens, at Exeter. April 18; Moss. M. Jacques FOS'S, for geeing Ponichier, blacksmith, at Beauciers, Aug. d; Mr. French Bison, for having saved Thomas Roes, Sethi" mats of H.M.S. Herald, at sea, off Port Jackson, Jana 4; Vincent Hastings, for saving Henry B. Gough from the river Selz, at Waterford, Aug. 8; Sergeant John Beckley, Royal Limetick Coonty Regiment, for saving Ser geant athew Maracay and Private J. Boston at sea off Hyde( Kent, Sept. 22; Captain Edward Roberts, for Davin; Chaska Batt at Little Hampton, Hartz, Oct. 1 ; Mr. G. J. A.nstruther, midshipman, her Majesty's ship Magician, for saving T. Mills, seaman, at Chine, Aug. 30; Mr. John Sul livan, boatswain, her Majesty's ship Gorgon, for saving John Martin. A. 8., at Halifax, North America, Sept. 6 , Miss Lusty Rowbothant, for saving H. C. Roebotharn from a tank, at Woolwich, Oct. 12; May Stunt Hectorson. for saving the line of two fishermen at Yell. off the Shetland Islands, Sept 9 • Corporal Thomas , G. Warren, for saving John Gee, boy, her Msjeaty'e ship Waterloo, in the era at Shawnees, Sept. 17; Asstatioit Surgeon J. Davis, 67th Regi ment, foe saving Private Powell, 33rd Regiment, at Bom bay, Oct. 13; Joseph Saunders. A. 8., her Majesty's ship Liffey, for saving Frederick Wraith, A. 8., same ship, at Devoopcgt, Sept. 8. A vote of thanks was penned to the chairman, and the maatiag adjourned. EXTRAORDINARY CHAROB AGAINST TWO TRADESMEN TOR HAVING POSSESSION OF STOLEN DEEDS. At the Birmingham Police-court on Tuesday, Isaac Rill, landlord of the Kelt Shovel Inn, Prlncep-street, and Clement Payne, hatcher, Newdegatamdreet, were charged se above. The owner of the lost deeds is Mr. Ed win Barlow, of Hampton-street, metal dealer. Mr. Barlow stated that on the lit day of last November be went to London. At that time he had in his warehouse in Hemp ton-street an iron safe, in which be safely locked up two deeds. One was a counterpart of • lease of a house in Hampton-street from Barlow to Baker, and the other was • n co a nmence of some land in Middlesex from • gentleman Sams to Mr. Barlow. Mr. John Barlow, son to pro secutor, stated that when he got to the warehouse of bin father, in Hampten-street, on the 3rd of November, about eight in the morning, he found that the iron safe, which was built into the wall in the counting-hours upoteire, had been forcibly taken from the wall, carried down into one of the shops, broken almost to pieces with a hammer, and the deeds abstracted. Other napers and documents in the safe wets strewed about the Soot. Nothing was heard of these docu ments until Monday teat, when, in consequence of intima tion which the officers of the detective forte received the two accused were taken into custody on the charge of =connected with the deeds, so for as Hill was specially concerned, he implicating Payne as to the posseesion of the documents. Hardly had the matter been launched when the question of an adjournment was mooted, and after this had been settled some discussion took place ea to whether further evidence should now be taken or otherwise. It was even tually decided that It should. A person named Nathan Joiner Johnson, who said he wee an ac-ountant, stated, about six weeks ago he wrest the ion kept by Hill. The prisoner said," I understand you know something eboutdeeds." To this a reply in the effirmative wee given, and Hill then took witness into the cellar and showed him the two deeds previously described. (Johnsen gave • description of the documents.) Hill added, • Throe deeds were lost, and the person who found them brought them to me." The prisoner further asked what was the value of the parchments, adding, either a reward bad or would be offered for them. He (witness) sow Mr. Barlow's name on one of the deeds, and told Hill Ms opinion about the Talus of the deeds. Hill had Wool him who he thought the do - mounts belonged to. This witness, when he mil the deeds were valueless to him, Hill, wee asked by that prisoner to go end ere Mr. Barlow He (Johnson) went twice to Hampton-etteet, but Mr. Barlow was out of town, And so he (Johnson) did not see it. This witness did not soy if be had given information to the detective fume. —Detective Alexander was then examined. sad Mated that on the preceding day, be in company with Kelly mod Palmer, also detectives, went to Hill's house, to Princep-street, hav ing a search warrant. Finding the primmer at home, he ques tioned him as to the deeds rd'orred to, telling him be should march the house. Hill positively. at that time, denied all knowledge of the deeds, addine. "You may march. and wel come." (He, witness, did not find the deeds.) Submquently Bin "The men who brought them to me took them may again." He, witness, then said, " Who was this per son?" and after some time Hill Added, I'll not get myself into smublo; hod them from • man named Pnyne Whig be, Al...lender, did not know where this prisoner lived, said, I'll go and show you his boom (Newdegate street). If we could see him, I hove no doubt be would say where he had the deeds from, and clear me." Later in the day, detective Kelly having apprehended Payne, Alexander went to the public-house where they were and " confronted" the two pvieoners in the yard of the premiers. When this took place, Hill remarked to Payne. "You we what trouble you bsvegot me in over those deeds. What have you done with them F" To this the accused. remit, replied, " You know that we put them on the fire, in your honor, and burnt them ; and that we wens both together when this was done." To this Hill replied, "That is the truth." This comprised the evidence given in a most extranrdinory cam, and the further beerier was then remanded until Tuesday next.—Biresing- Jam Daily Pol. FATAL ACCIDENT TO MIL TIIOVJTON HERAPATII. Tatelllseatts was received in Bristol on Tur.day of the death, by drowsing, of Mr. Thornton J. Hers path, son of Mr. William Herapatb, the celebrated analytical chemist. The deceased had berm for some time engaged as the chief chemirel officer of the Mexican sod South Ame rican Smelting Company, and IMP on his paA.V.3 from Her ndon', Chili, on a visit home, when in lat. 8 N., 31 W., by some accident he fell overboard, and although a buoy WAS almost immediately thrown to him, and a boat was lowered for the purpose of teeming him, he rank and rose no more. Mr. Thornton Harapath was a gentleman of blab scientific attainment., and Ids oontribettiona to various periodicals in this country, Es well as lectures delivered in his native city and elsewhere, wnn for him • distinguished place liniment the chemists of England. and ultimately obtained ki n , t h e appointment which is retrieved vacant by his death. CZTETAL PALACE.. -- ONE SHILLING DA T.--. WIRONEIDAT, JAN. 12.—Admitoione on payment, 2,399; ditlo by moon *bony 929 ; total. 3,318 r