The Express. — London, England, 1849-05-24 00:00:00

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May 23.—Ws him bad a Oa trade is Wheat MAIM or to frost also Ismer hod to labor lo dorm so lets rim rodt. No motsbis sip ts the mks wefts KIM MI" ad, Mr. to ths.; Mite, ths. Ors, Mao Ms Sari. Ma. so tts Cstesmess, Kr/ 23,—Ws Lass so sew testiest Is Mks ladle was tnY Is ; the rap* rodents, with a thop • mirk is rho prior oiler workekolop. Wheat, no. to Ids. NW Ilaters. O&M 1 per sack. 76. to Mr. limm, Ms. to Mo. Pots, lIL Is Maw, RAW LSD'S Harm. May 23.—A fair supply at inset was thaws at Ws aretlat today, • per porno of Midi wri wry Wirer, lo mks ssim Is. per or. fee moor was , taliso ; this aro soth sold at re week's prism OM lo deall Pam rd Pas MIL Mom whits, SI. ft In. ItolLl al o VIL daelay, 130. to tr. OM, 16.. to Mt Mom Ms. to rm. Ilia to to Ilay 23.—At this day'. aselltat we had a red ▪ of Wrist rolonle of Dostay, and Imhof for (MN sad Mom Jr dr ohm of the del sus sitindia ia the valet at say grab, sod ipordirs ramaird the mow is ire soak. i 11117015, May 21.—We bad Sooty say mai dam st ordinal Most as. prom so log week. %Mr, Nato le i or NM to NM; grabs, Ma SIM ; Oar, ITo. ISM; Dom to $3; Por, Us. tons.; Bps, Mk to SOO. SIPALDIPO. May 72.—Tlis show of Wheats at what this der Ms bas is mai, Ott barn wore omplUsd b him dr ha Oriel lest motet day . Bo sass nom this • ibilklasay 1 • sew *wool enio Ole rosplimse Mat the Owswee • demod‘ is dm selarda from *alphas do sot *Wyk. lb. Ma Imo rho Pam Ys & Moat airy amerisily tin kiseleisksl Iffeets, as UM with a ems Mae time ortw rip mow. mail nub ea awns& Mk Is arse spills. Ammies et ilia Wake imps Main Pm ma. Mo. Irmo wan omit stew whh so - worse dodge to bop ardborty MO proitia. wawa Mimes mar • spowertim wass of is. pe qr. Ors mar •Mg mils. It ma Mt rad •Me aerearta go Wes kar apaid. Yon ara. WORZUNOTON. May 13.—Thus was as, Mile main is. awl kr solo la Cis wriest wary sad as the Masan vas toisrobly kolr 116 viii. as Isis &Lanai par Witt. ILL to Isishr, Ha. Is I/6 Ckit. Is b. Dist /kw, 16 M. per star. MMus,. May 22.—Tbs wombs" sestinas* the stile Obis. sad ear musket this day was gotwally Wavy. Tar 001 a vs IBM satin • reirdes of Id. 6 Id. pat land. WM= Oars err WI at maim 6=4 his Wpm arasitt s abatemmd of id. put ~ fume ass wraardul 16 Is Tsar Ude was prin. Cer *bp an Ma me sasses. Tito tirowbor or the mnovoy What, Milo, Mo. ta fs. IL ; wed, lb. r Na. p. 11/166 Oats, Ita to lb. ad. pi Ma k. Itestsy, 145. ts lb. Mks. Indio& Om. s s. Ss Vs. M. per IN Carmel, par is Ma per eat. Mart, In mds. tan IL to 116 OIL par ; Milos; *l6 s Us. yr Writ. BSUMIT, Mt, 21—The weadwar I n a satiable aid mssiesia. m old Imam arm lass bed Tide. The sap. r him a t, t pi Is Mita bass bai• and ireultheaged. Id. is 1•• 6L Derity. 41* M. is h. id. Ossa. is. to In M. Ostamal, to Its. issr evt. Mika Cens gas Seedily late essomplissot Ma mil. Mid. kr yellow, sad Se. per Pia 3e ks win EAT --Ibirrastata—Mmar. Diaper sad Davis report tails my beam at UN Lambe quoisens WiskatAlle. M I M M om. . 411.. to ilk 2Ti. Ueer .. Oft to Ns. I CAME. M. ancassma, flay 42.—A wry tall Lawb A CA Week this., ; prim wear ler INK Mass, ant Inn in ererkst. MIK it aul prink i• to el. ; Wirier war, fe. kle IA MAI" bee pit% Is. II& to te. ; Inferior Lk IL to el. Tea; V. 4E. m te. Perk. AL ed. f lit & awe plook•el. lir. is NA Pit Were • very ow! slew, Si. to 3o let, pia rims 410 s. by the seam Ovelikei Cayes. ie pat brei. LlThe. MAT 2L—Thare WWI a mei sawn of settle eteettle eye umbel Ole mersim .web et keel's Ark atoll tee emir we Isegsdeet meep et ern IMO of • ewer*. lira awe wiled le the wake Om tie Wier. The supply et Salmis ken the al elk ea mbar teralph awl Wee tare odd it whim.lthstar st Yet millet. The drew et imp limo at het Yr. sin art yin se o•W Is is& My. yet Wm WM drawl Wok Mini Wein pins. Lwow" Kay 28.-11 s Mw W es sbesisst 'apply of Ilsib Mow rad Mow Ow w. psi sonsmos sf Wpm ma • tekk demmed ter the liiihrt diblels. Me prim WS be Brea me Sheep rawer MC Is Ss W. pr dem Mottos. Rim be.; Weller, SAL per lb. Unrolls, If sy MA a Mrs .stably of tree Meek at mutat. 'bilk AM alma ha yeah prim ; Ad • siert tat mock. whisk am theft IL ger Oboes Whew lei week's Bret. te. le Se. Id.; mum% sr. IL is &Ai ; La" Os is Er Von. Is. ed. w 46. ; rea, UM. is UK Barnum., May 23.—Osr Mien &wt. pekes Mei Meat lb. arm am lest meek. V l A:i s e hem le. Wile er..4d. s. es. re 41. MIL Leak la to VW. I• elle 4A IL Pork, le b. lA. per One et lON eishieg Ike hI. al,, Orono. will aid in sustaining the good came. Whatever the I immediate result be, it is of peal consequence to show the country how many there are to the present House of Commons who can be relied on in this matter. The greater their strength is demonstrated to be, the nearer plainly we are to eventual victory ; and in all constitutional struggles, let ns remember that the cause which does not stand reiterated repulses and defeats with undaunted spirit and daily augmenting force of resistance, dces not deserve to win. On this account we would press upon every man who values safe and steady progreeNto bear his aid in the pending conflic., and to give his vote in femur of Mr. BEIXELILY . B motion. OUTGOING KULL The oak via Illauselnob le tie liedillansess.Z" Adis, s.,vtlbeim& hp hit Mt anal Math Amara eel the them w.. .m be node op dr VIM age! wast the lea Ile alai fro agate% Lishas i t i rleatim dais, Garaltar, ma be mit up as the wag a the Ma of lay. The Wirt Waal@ lanerle. g,' arari Memo, Saw Casa% eat Sleds% sal esebellag awe for 1 .111. Jtemtleattoregee. hew Onradle. Clatt, art Item all' M orb se ea the usartias St the Whoa The orb tat Ihrldre. the lintat. eat Imo ram. wane nee epee the eette el the dui et hes. Me mho he Washer, Ibiasi es . the team UMW% Matti Orylea. Isar. fleardeag. Oak thadieseatea, will 11 state se ea the rah atom. 111011 warn AT WIDOW 1110011. Two —3llwelm, $ mg £I S. L wr. No 1 T,11444•44-113•134,M min 4•44 3 Allosson. Ella no 4. LONDON, THURSDAY, MAY 24. Tax "count out " system of tactics does not always do. It frequently saccade, no doubt, in stifling in quiry and smothering investigation ; but sometimes it suddenly fails, and leaves the contemned but poss. wring claimant of justice in unexpected p3mesaion of all that he demanded. Two questions of great constitutional important. ' have been recently carried through the primary stage of legislation in this manner. In a house containing leas than 90 members, leave was obtained by a small majority, on Tuesday evening last, to bring in a bill to shorten the duration of parliaments. More than a century has elapsed since, by a stretch of usurping power as scandalous as any which history record-, a parliament which had been elec'ed only for a term of three years, resolved, without any appeal to their constituents, that they would sit foe seven ; and that all future parliaments should do as likewise. Fcr many years the practice was acquiesced in without resistance on the part of the defrauded people ; we say defrauded, because if ever fraud was clear, it was this, of accepting a trait, limited specifically as to time, and then coolly turn ing the power so obtained to the defeat of the limita tions stipulated. But from the day when parliamea. tary reform was first propounded, to the present hoer, the recovery of the lost right of triennial election has incessantly and unremittingly been called for. It was amongst the omitted pointy, end they were many, in the Reform Bill of 1832 ; but it has frequently been urged, both separately and in conjunction with other minor points of elec toral amendment on the consideration of the legisla ture, since that period ; and now, at lest, its expe diency and atom has been formally admitted by the House of Commons. Considering the paucity of votes given for and against Mr. D'Ersconar's motion, it must be con fessed that little beyond the fact we have stated can be supposed to be gained. It is well unders'ood that the government, who opposed the proposition, were only beaten by their own sanguine reliance on the anti-popular tendencies of a large majority of the house of elective irrespon•ibles. We doubt if any eloqurnce or authority would induces majority of the existing representative body to pass a ball by which the term of their senatorial life would be brought to a elc se in the month of July, 1830. Such a measure would wholly upset too many grave and solid calcu lations. It would amount in a vast number of cease to sheer political siecide. The men who would seriously recommend it at the Carlton would not be answered ; he would simply be avoided us a danger ous lunatic, whom it might be imprudent to irritate by contradiction, and whose personal friends ought to look after him more carefully. Voluntarily or of their own free will, no parliament, we imagine, as at pre sent constituted, will ever give their sanction delibe ntely to a bill far shortening the duration of roller masts. A like misgiving, though by no means to the ass r extent, haunts us with regard to every slim pip - aition for parliamentary reform, which is soseersull with subordinate details, and leaves the one needful untouched. With an adequate and eq families all the rest would follow nearly as sesame, of come. Without each a franchise we pones me effective means whereby to accomplish even tbs.& The most etriliag cue of this is the position in irbisb the question of the ballot stands. In the NM* of lest tendon the resolatioa of Mr. Hussy BitilLiT in favour of taking votes by ballot was carried, in a house act 'iambs, 170 members, by a small majority. The hon. member for Bristol moves to. sight to leave to being in a bill to carry that immola tion into sleet. We have little doubt that all the friends of poplar right who supported his proposal lest year will be at their poste, and that Reny Ain Inside Amongst all the free constitutions that the lut twelvemonths have seen nailed into being, it is a re markable het that not one has omitted to affirm the right of secret voting. They have differed from one another in almost every other point, but in this they are agreed, that wherever the elective franchise is con ferred, there its exercise ought to be free, free alike from the influence of open corruption, and from the menace of illegitimate interference. We are no abject imitators of treign experimentalism in poli ties. We love and treat what is indigenous in our nailer, liberties as fervently as it is possible to do. But we bold it to be the merest cant of national ' pride to disregard the unanimous verdict of the civilised world on a question like that now at issue,. The United States have for half a 'eatery tried the ballot as a sides, and have not found it seating. la France sad Belgium it has long prevailed. Will any body illy that the ballot has not been a means of safety in the trying circumstances through which the turner country has lately passed? Without it, what paraatai could there have been that so many mode rate and peace-loving men would have found their way into the conetituot Numbly within two months after such a revoluti: n se that of February 1848? Or, taking the last and most perilous expreasion of the popular wi I—that whose reunite we hardly as yet fully comprehend—will any rational or thinking man deny that for Frame, for Europe, and for man kind, it is more fortunate that through the interven tion of a system of free and naperverted voting, the true condition of French feeling and opinion has been so clearly and seasonably expressed ? Surely, above all thing., it is expedient as well as right that the truth should be spoken, even when it is bitter. Tim news from India is comprised in one simple yet one mighty fact—we have acted the boa cos stricter, and swallowed the PunjaulL After the spe cimens which we published last week of Lord DAL 110C81E'S policy and appetite, this was to be expected. The Governor-General es vs pas par quail.' Maness, se the French ray—that is, does nothing by halves, and takes little account of obstacles or emu gessoes. And for such a man India is certainly a fine field. There an B-glish lord may_act BoNA PARTE in Europe, end sweep away empires with a stroke of his pen. Nor does any °motion appear to the sovereign will. NAPOLEON made feature, • int fecture, Proms and Austria subsidiary states. Cen tral Germany he gave to his brother. The coefede ration of the Rh'ne was his plaything. But what coetaisteney did he give to this extension of empire ? Or what real taros did he derive from it? The Prus sians beet him at Leirzig. The Bavarians intercepted him at Hutu. Bach was the result of his annexing Germany. The great cause of the extension of empires is, that they cm t Aerate no rival, and conciliate no enemy. It was the cue with Greece, whea its victorious armies spread over Asia—of Rome when it mitered the world. Aggrandisement sraa the profit and policy of lieutenants whom the central power had not either the authority or information required to elastics,. The empire swelled still, however, by the might and prestige of arras, and lived in its augured provinces by the two great principles of fear and of extortion. Its powerful baud menaced death to resistance, and ravished every means of in dependence, and every source of wealth. We are in India what the Romans were in Western Asia, with all the aid of modern political science to enforce our military rule. That we are neither more equitable, more merciful, or more beseficett, the testimony of many witnesses Infonaut India committees is there to show. _ _ _ We forget who has said, that no virtues are to be found amongst the native races of India,exoept military virtues; and that by annihilating from amoagst then, as we do, the soldier and the gentleman, we leave but the wird more:non of a race, of which the spirit, worth, and even industry have evaporated. By mili tary virtue we suppose is here meant the sense of independence, never to be enjoyed in uncivilized e-untrits, excep t e by those who wear a sword. But nothing can more true than that the lowest class or any nation can only be influenced and elevated by those immediately above them. Where this link is wanting, where there is no example, no influence from above, the lower class rot upon the stalk, as it were. Now we fear that the result of our aristocratic system of government and our modal organisation, at home and in our colonies, is precisely that of destroy ing intermediate classes. This is the history of Ire land, and it is the history of India. There are some fearful pilots of similitude between them, on which, perhaps, it were not wise to dwell. The annexation of the I'uojaub completes our ab sorption of the Hindoo race. This circumstance alone was, no doubt, a temptaion to terminate what had been so long begun, and which seems the work of fate as much as of design. Our Indian officials were Resolved to deal no longer with anything like an empire, or with powers that could muster armies of 50,000 men, and of 100 guas. The question remains, however,whether we might not have split the nation into principalities, for which their almost feudal system offered great facilities; and whether so many valiant chiefs and sturdy soldiers might not have been turned to account in the permanent de fence of a frontier, which the most rash and enter prising Englishman durst no longer think of passing. This large military population turned loose, deprived of all employ, and forbidden all hope, must prove as difficult to watch, and as expensive to guard against, as if the %halm regiments and military re public still existed. We hear of 70,000 soldiers, as required to guard this new annexation of empire. This is a war establishment which even the Ponyaub could not pay. And the civilians seem resolved not to undertake its administration without being armed to the teeth and flanked in their every movement by cannon. Whether annexation under such circumstances wee the wisest resolve is a fact seriously to be mooted. Arid at any rate it may be asked Au wholesale annexation requisite? Wu it necessary to pass the Jhelum and the Chenaub? Are we to keep and defend the re gion beyond the Indus ? Is our old rivalry with the Aff.lans to be revived; and ire we again to be inte r. sted in the difficulties and dangers of the Khyber Pass? If we could call India a permanent empire, if our race could be perpetuated there, or if we could meta morphose the native race into any degree of affinity with ourselves, there would be room for hope. But whilst we reap and they sow—whilst we form all the upper, and functiorary, and proprietorial, and educated class—whilst we are their governors, maters, soldiers, judges, tax-gatherers, landlords, police—to hope that we can solidly found an empire on such an unmitigated helotry is =dues. And if so, with what warrant and what prospects do we labour to extend the wartace, and the cares, and the difficulties of that empire P Tax eight days' siege, bombardment, and destruction of Bologriaby etetk saasuoneofe of the most gross and infamous outrages span humanity and jus tice that ever took pinup, even in an uncivilised age. What have the waftetunate inhabitants of Bologna does to deserve so terrible a chastisement? They did not expel the Pope ; they merely ac opted and submitted to the state of things established in the capital. The Bolognese never attacked Austria or the Auerian dominions in Lombardy, and not even the relatives of the Austrian dynasty in Modena. Bols, indeed, drove from its gates a marauding expedition of Austrian soldiers under WILDEN wbo came to rob, and merely asked for money and con tributions. Is it this act of self-defence, that the Austrian Ciblahas now returned to avenge, merely because i ld do it in more security, the Romans having at the same time on their hands a Neapolitan and a French army? The Bolognese have faught to a Man— nay, every woman and boy must have oostnbuted to a defame that rivals that of fieregosso. How can an enemy pretend, that they came to dislodge a faction from a city, whose whole population offers such a reelitance ? Or is it in the name of the Pope and his reakeatiee, that these wholesale murderers have been THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 24, 1849. let loose on the Roman states P Heaven ! what a restorrion for a Cruistian pontiff! To be brought back wading in the blood of thousands of his subjects! No oriental massacre has been more wholesale than that of Bologna. Tueoun or Bauer, or any Turkish offerer of human heads, never did a work of butchery more atrocious. And this is done in honour of St. Peter's successor, forsooth, in whose name a holocaust is made of the population reared u subjects of a Christian prelate. If the catholic world, laity and clergy, do not rise to protest and clear themselves from all complicity in this work of infamy and bleed, we amuse them of more than Mabcmedan ferccity and hard-heartedness: , We have heard the Pope called hard names, and laughed at them, but no appellation can at all reach what the Pope deserves, if such massacres in the nineteenth century are to be committed in his name. We will do the French the justice to say that, with all their folly, they have shrunk from the task of de ("ruction and murder. Genpral flu.....ninoT has as yet preferred the ridicule of apparent discomfiture to the crime of military massacre. And wears happy to see, from the best absolutist authority, the correspondence of the Vines, quo' ed elsewhere, that the French officers and soldiers scorn to act as Janissaries to the Pope, or to march to the slaughter of the Remus merely to set up the Papal tiara. The Croats may do this: the French soldier scorns it; and we honour the French soldier for his reluctance, even though it threatens to dissolve the bonds of discipline. We trait, however, that the French commander will be spared the disgrace d eny harsh measure, and his absurd intervention may be made to serve some other purposes than those d tyranny and bloodshed. Al! who have meddled in the Roman interference have rasped disgrace. The French have bad to swallow a nauseous potion. The Neapolitans sad their king, so brave at butchering their own have sneaked aside, like genuine cowards, event? e' : re the undisciplined bends of GARIBALDI. They have hidden and entrenched themselves in the mountains cf Albano, waiting for reinforcements—that is, wait ing for the French to do the fighting work for them, in order that they, the Larisroni soldiers, might come to do the dirty complement of robbery and murder. The vain-glorious ruffians' had their letters even di rected to them to Rome, where they thought to ins'al themselves at once as victors. But the heroes of Sicilian and of Neapolitan massacre have shown themselves what they were, when they bad even the most nudist *lined bands, composed of men, to fight. ere must own that we look with more interest to the change of ministry in Paris, for its probable Beet on the Roman expedition, than for any results it may have on France. The Roma* expedition evi dently went out with two faces and two seta of in struction', the one to extinguish liberty and Rome, the other to save Rome and keep for it • fair portion of freedom and lay govern ment. The triumph of the latter is most desirable. Since the French have had the folly to undertake this expedition, it is to be hoped they may save the old capital of Christendom from the fate of Bologna or the fate of Palermo. Poor Italy ! Who would have thought a year since, that your aspirations for freedom, and struggle to attain it, should end in the destruction of your palaces by cannon—of year people by the sword, and of all year enlightened deem by proscription, by exile, or the executioner? THE DERBY DAY. The Wednesday of the Epsom race week Mr. C. Antsy tellies is a great eatholle holiday. ILafertunately the state of the weather, up to ten o'clock this naming, pre vented its being this timer eaholio as usual ; massy hun dreds of those who go merely to see the raw, sad to make a holiday of it, prefering London smoke and the shalt r of a tiled roof to the barmy breezes of the Surrey downs with the shame of a thorough wetting in prospective. Oa this hypo thesis done can the very thin attendance at the sane of action be accounted for, for with sour favourite' in the field there was no lack of sporting interest. The gathering in front of the Bogle, on the non*: of the race, has fallen into disuse, the betting men, to avoid the clamour and crush which have invariably made the trams don of butlers at this time-honoured bet most pentads* inconvenient spot, so diflicalt, reserving their operations for the inelosure on the course. No on. will deny th at thee changes are improvements, when it is borne ia due whereas, In bygone times, in order to avoid the emit at Ewell, and sense a good berth on the Doses, It wee mew Nary to be stirring with the lark : one CIITI now devote a eft siderable portion of the more* to business la town, sad reach the scene of mien keg bakes the commencenteat of the news, at one fourth of the expense which the trip would cost by the road. The changes on the Downs are not lees important. The ring on the hill is one of the " has bens " of the ancient regime, and pedestrians sen now move about with Uttle danger of being trodden under foot; the bores are saddled ia front of the stand, without interruption Irma the mob ; are started without those vexatious failures that have so often gives the victory to animals which, on their merits, could not have won • EAU. plate ; the race is in view from the commencement to the final struggle ,• sad the grand stand hes becoree what it always ought to have been, the centre alike of Miasma and pleasure. To suns up, Bum, from being one of the wont endured IBeetless is the kingdom, is now nearly everything whisk messy, Liter, and experience can make it. And now for the Derby, the only event eallieg fee any settee beyond the official return. As will be palmed hem what we have already said, little or nothing was dose la the town ; but, from the " offers," it was set difficult to make out that Nuanykirk was on the goo" This was more &Mous on the come ' and k will be seen that he closed at nearly double the odds at which be left off on Tuesday ; this decline was partly attri butable to a belief that be was abort of work, and partly to a mionaderstanding in the stable as to the jockeys. Cat tree ass went out of favour ; on the other hand Tadmor and the Flying Dutchman were in imams, force, and left off at 2to 1 each. The rase was filed for haltpast two, and b, • few minutes after that time the hones, twensysix in number, including no lees than eh from Joba floeu's stable, weri conducted to the poet sad started without • mis take. The result of the race will he a heavy blow to the "de; scarcely a man, we should say, escapee. Lord, ' lON= end his blends' end the " public" win all the mom. The Carew Stakes ease off about four o'clock, and the luta being run in quick time, the nose were brought to • eanclusion at en early hoar. Tie Denise Strums of 60 son. sub, h ft, for 3-yr olds; eats, fat 71b; fillies, Bst 21b; the Hound horse to receive 10D eota out of the stakes, and the wiener to pay 100 MM. to wards the police regulations. Mile and a bed. (237 subs.) Lard Eglinton's Mrs Plying Dutchman (Mitriow) Mr. Godwin's Hotspur (Wtutebonse Gil. Peel's Tatham Lnrd Clildser's Honeyounb Mr. Bone's The Kowa kr. Battu Lind Bateman Goodin:ad Mr. Burgess's The Crowner U. Mrs Lord enenry's Urfa. (Hamm 64 C. Monk's Vanguard Mr. Penance's The Old Pox Sir C. Coekerill's Thitault Lad Egtinton's Mir es . , ...... •..... .... (J. Mai Mr. 0. Nichall's Nonnykisii (J. Mama Lord E x eter's Groan= Mr. Campbell's Robert de Rm.... ... H. Bell) Mr. H. Hill's Henry alarm OW. Dine Mr. Watt's Chatterer im g it tez Mr. It Green's Waster ........ ........ ......... (W Mr J. Hawley's Team (s. lumen eir O. Ihrattioote's Oempreden (Ralph Sherwood) Mr. Finley's Old Dan Teaser (Tempiesian) Mr. Dieney's Monneps (W. Arial Ur. Gratwicke's Ini ner dgrave (Kitche Mr. Jaques' Channel ( Simpson Mr. Nickoll's Woolwich Duke of Rutland's c by Charles XL. out of Flambeau's dam (Pearl) Betting : 2 to 1 apt Tadmor, 2 to 1 apt Flying Dutchman, 6 to 1 egst Nuanykirk, 10 to 1 agst Chatterer, 20 to 1 eget Vatican, 25 to 1 apt Hon-ycomb, 25 to 1 apt Elthiroo, 30 to 1 agst the Knout, SO to 1 apt Uriel, 40 to 1 apt Old Dan Tucker, 411 to 1 apt Robert de Bras, 50 to 1 opt Hotspur, 50 to 1 apt Montague. Lord Eglinton declared to win with the Flying Dutchman. Wastes went in frost immediately after startisg, and made play at a moderate pear, followed by Cbsntrey, Tadmor, Vatican, iilthiron, Unit, Henry 04 Exeter, and Nunny kirk, the Datchman, end Old Dee Tucker lying close up. This order was maintained for rather more than a quarter of a mile. Wastes then dropped into the ruck, and Vatican susumed the command, pad, I Vihanti, Hotspar, Tadmor, and Noose kirk lying with him, inwards in their wake coming Old Den Tucker, the Duke of Rutland's colt, add the Flying Dutchman. On reaching the turn, the front rank was thinned by the defeat of Elthiron and Nuenykirk, the leading hors s from this point to the caner bane Vatican, Uriel, Hot spur, and the two favourites. Vatican and Uriel were beat. n before they got to the road, and the race was left to the Flying Dutelman, Hotspur, and Tadmor, the former be Int, the half-bred hors at his side, and Tadmor third. Cal. Peel's horse was in difficulty half-way up the distance, but Hotspur made a gallant fight of it, and was so nearly level with his opponent opposite the stand, that the issue appeared very doubtful. The Dutch man, however, ran the stoutest, and won by half a length. Tadmor struggled on to the end, and was net beaten more than • length from the wines r. Honeycomb laid off in the I early part of the race, but passed his bow • one by one in the straight running, and obtained a bad fourth place. Uriel was fifth, and the Duke of Rutland's cult sixth. Chatterer never showed in front. The race was run in three minutes twelve seconds ;—slower than last year. CAREW STARR/ of 5 love. each, with 30 ad ; three pa, Tat 10lb ; four, Bst 111 b ; five, 94 21b; six and aged, net 61b ; mares and geldings allowed 3:b. The wiener to be NM for 150 son. if demanded, &a. Threes-queen of a mile. Mr. C. flornehlsEollhara, Med (Hornsb7. Jun.) P OaL eels Darrell, 4 yrs Masan; Ns. Maker's Resolution, 3 yrs As Rogers Mr. Weller's Pottlagsr, 3 rs Mr. Penaby's br In by Mussy Maio* oat of Oussn's due 4 yrs (W. Planner) Mr. Carew's Phikeopher S yre J. Marne) Mr. Dawson's St. 3 yes _ Mirtirrillbt) Mr. Bull's Ilogadnr, S yrs c iLl . S . ;E y Mr. Death's Plebeia, 3 yrs Mr. 8. L. roe's Paha, 4 yrs (3 l7i Betting: 7 to 4 ages Philoepher sad Taffrail, sto 1 agst Resolution, and 7to 1 apt Bokhan. Bokhara ma's all the running, and after a severe reel at the finish, won by a bead; Pottinger • good third.—Run in 1 re. 22 sec. The Burma SrAnna of 5 son. each, 30 added, 3 yr-olds, Bst 21b ; tour, Bst 111 b; five, 9st ; six and aged, 94 41b ; mares and geldings allowed 31b. The winner to be sold for 80 sovs. if demanded, die.. beets half • mile. Mr. Burger's Hind of the Pored. 4 Sharp I 1 Mr. J. Try's Coke as. 4 yrs ..... ------Wakedeld 7 2 Captain Richard's lLasdrall,, 4ye Sly 2 3 Mr C. Cockerell's Kennett. 3no Brooks 6 4 Mr. Price's Dabbler, 3 yes W. Oates 5 Mr. Greville's Paquita, 3 yrs. Dockeray 3 dr Mr. Miner's Grief, 3 yrs Rodney 4 dr Fist best: 2 to 1 each age, Grief and Landrail ; won by half • length—Psqui'a • bad third. Second heat : 7 to 4 apt Toe Hind, won by two lengths-- the winner wee thirsted. BETTING ON THE COURSE. THE OAKS. 11 to 2 apt Neter to Arkwright il2 to 1 spit Imperatrix (t) 11 2 Clarissa 12 1 Dear& 6 1 Glean l 4 1 Lady nuperior 6 1 IYoodierk ET. L GER. 2 tot aesttl;e7yUreftutchman. An accident, occasioned apparently from want of due caution on the part of the driver, occurred to one of the spe cial up-trains on the Epsom line after the race. The train, running as they were every ten minutes were comparatively but a short dieanoe apart, sad a little below Croydon—one of the trains being detained near that station—the one which followed ran into it, damaging one of the carriages, and brubing, by the ooncamion, several of the parengers— some of them rather seriously. The alarm was congderable, and to the occupants of the train which had been the cause of the disaster by no n.eans lessened when, after resuming their seats (mast of them having left the carriages when the aceilent occurred), a cry of "jump out for your live*" was raised—the next train, which by this time we. due, being close upon them. Many obeyed the call, and did jump out. One gentleman, in harlequin fashion, we observed leaping out of the window of a first clam ciartisge ; and several others, in their hurry to escape, fined themselves over shoes in a ditch at the foot of the embankment. The driver of the third engine, however, perceiving the danger signal, speedily brought up his me* and no farther mischief occurred. SALE OF THE EYFECrd OF THE PRESIDENT OF ' FRANCIL-0a Timidity the sale by acetic. of the effects of Prince Louis Napoleon INN concluded by Messrs. Christie and Manson, on the premises, No. 3, Ling•stnet, Bt. James's. square. The property consisted of a quantity of valuable Gobelin tapestry, of choice pictures, engravings, furniture, etc. the. Thera were 208 lots. The following ware among those which fetched the highest prime :—The " Death of Attala," by Guaira% 60 guineas ; an " Italian Landscape," try Terslick, 30 guineas; " The Entombment, with Joseph el Armethra, the Marys, and two Assets," epagsoletti, 100 opium ; The Virgin and Chill, with two Saints," Early Florentine, 60 guineas ; Dada% and Icarus," by David, 100 guineas, " Manger and Atalanta," Venetian, 1001. ; a fine piece of Othello tapestry, with a Sacrifice, %%- resided by the imperial crown sad cypher, and eagles at the erthles (this was the property of the Emperor Napoleon), 200 guineas ; a magniflosnt eldeneey 5 2;s al rare Egyptian g ranite, sculptured with a him of , 300 guineas. ACCIDENT ON THE RITES— 0 Livzs LOST.— Yesterday afternoon, shortly after one o'clock, an %%lent oceurred on the river, neer the St. Hatharine's steam packet wharf, by which two man were drowned. It appears that two fishermen were navigating a small Peter-boat down the river, and on reaching ate Tower, they made towards the New tlaity steam tug, which was about proceeding to Gravesend, to tow a vessel up into the docks. One of the men In the Peter•boat, made feet his boat to the stern of the Unity, for the purpose of beteg towed dews the rim. The Unity started shortly aftwews, and the two men sat in the stern of their boat. Oa yewidag St. Irealborlaa's steam packet wharf, the Peemalisit wee swidonly upset by the swell from the seam tie,sal a•ese imeedrately sunk. Several boats wens pet of from the denee, but before any whine. Isedd Wreaks* the mos diropearod and were we seea alleweraoda. The walnuts doemod the river, but woe er mile is fat 114 Wish __ THE COURT. OSBORNE, MAY 23.—The Queen and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, accompanied by their Royal High nesses the Prince of Wales, the , Price. es:fioyal, Prince Alfred, and the Print' ems Alice, Helena and Louiss, and attended by the Viscountess Canning, lady in waiting, Miss Hildyard, Mr. G. B. Anson, Majocgoneral Wemym, and Cnosel the Hon. A. Gordon, equerries in waiting, Mr. Birch, preceptor to his Royal Highness th e Prince of Wales, sad Major-general Blobs, Master of the Household, crossed from Guapore in the Fairy steam yacht, commander Crispin, yesterday after noon, and reached Osborne a little before two o'clock, p.m. There was no addition to the loyal dinner party yesterday. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent is expected to attire at Osborne this afternoon. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Augusta Bruce, Baroness de Speth sad Sir George Couper, left her residence, Clarence Boom, St. Junes's, soon after ten o'clock yesterday morning, for the Waterloo Bridge terminus, and proceeded by the London and South Western Railway, es rod. to her Ilsjesty's marine residence, Osborne, Isle of AViglat, en a visit to the Queen. Mr. Cringss bad en interview with Eirl Grey yesterday, at the C I finial Office. The Earl of Devon had an interview with Sir George Grey yesterday, at the Hoene Office. Dispatches wars model d yesterday at the Colonial Officio from the governors of the West India colonies. TOE LORD CHANCELLOR.—The answer given yesterday to Joyrides after the health or the noble lord was, His lordship is much bettor sad has pawed a good night." FINANCIAL AND lAMENTARY REFORM. ST. ANNE'S, WESTMINSTER. Yesterday evening, a meet . ng of the St. Anne's (Westminster) Financial and fferliernentary Reform Also elation was held at the Albert T , Upper St. Martin's lane. Mr. GEORGE, one of the churchwardens of the parish, took the chair, and said he congratulated the meeting . on the great public display h had taken place the previous day at the London Tavern, Bishopegate street. Mr. G. RUGOETT proposed the following resolution: " That there should be such an extension of the suffrage as wi.l touter the right to be registered as an elector upon every man of hill age not subject to any legal disability, who for twelve months shall have occupied any tenement or portion of • tenement, for which he shall be rated, or shall have claimed to be rated, to the relief of the poor." The resolution having been seconded, Mr. RANDALL proposed an al:media - id, supporting inch an extension of the suffrage as is advoca ed in the people's charter. After some discussion, the meeting was adjourned. MEETINGS IN WALES. On Thursday afternoon last Mr. Prentice, accom panied by Mr. W. H. Darby of Brymbn Hall, Mr. Hughes of Wrexham, and Mr. R. C. Rawlins of Hope Mills, p ro . ceeded from Wrexham to Denbigh, stopping a short time at Rutbin, when Mr. Prentice addressed, • meeting in the Town Hall, got up at • short notice. There was a good I meeting in the Assembly Rooms, Denbigh, whisk was ad dressed by Mr. Prentice, Mr. Darby, and Mr. Hughes. O. Friday the same party, with the addition of Mr. C. E. Raw lins, sen., of Liverpool, proceeded to the picturesque vale of Llangollen, whore a meeting was held In the Baptist chapel. It was addreswd Ice 'amide's by Mr. Prentice, Mr. Derby, Mr. R. C. Rawlins, Mr. Huges, and Mr. Rawlins, sea. ' and Mr. Cooper, the chairman, delivered an effective speech in the Welsh language. The object of the speakers was to tog e the rescuing of the county of Denbigh fr om landlord dona BRTHNALOREEN NEW CHURCHES. The first dome of the tenth of the Bethnal-gret. new churches was laid yesterda by the Right Hun. the Bul of Harrowby, assisted by t b. Bishop of London and others. The business of the die commenced by the hem minim attending at St. Peter's Church, the first cemented (A.D. 1841) of the ten new churches. Here • sermon war preached by the Right Rev. prelate the Bishop of London. At the onucluaion of Div'ne service the right rev. prelates met at St. Tboutes's School Room, at the east end of the intended new church, and from theme, accompanied by the Earl of Harrowby, the Earl of Carlisle, the committer, and a large number of clergymen of the district, proceeded to lay the first stone. The Mobs of the different schools were assembled ow the ground, and met the procanion, with the chant of the 118th pulca. The Earl of HARROWBY having been presented with the trowel by the architsct, said, it we no slight work that one simple thins of London--* mat not distinguished amongst the high ones of the earth, except by the serneetaras of his mil, end the sim plicity of kis purpose, should came Stewart and show that sell in a comity and age like ems, as eembled in 'thieving works of which this was the eemissies; he look. d wound his for one spot more diselaguilmai than another for the mown of its destitution, sod, fa Ow ardour of Christian faith, planted his bad ma that spot and said, I ham confidence that in a 6w ten shomehes will arise is the wilderness. He however, not merely Muslim% bat parsonage beam and mhos& He (the Hui of Hanewhy) therefore WWI the ampielles of this gnat week, and was hapff jaw is wren to Almighty Gad who had the Meths et am Se ee=t r ! in hems uwdertskiwg et ennerdag this send sees into a wadies. His Loneli e r passed the skim repeating, she the " We this beaded= Moms la Mk awl hope le the 'bey God, th ro ugh Jesus Christ ear Lori , men." At the emmismiest et the sperthseay, the Morin vhbon, Sudsy oohed bath" the leasers sd saistresen of the wheels, the swipture readers, sad the die= of the schools I. all the Anises, te the asmlser of 4,000, Mth 1,600 of the wrests sad Meads, imemilded is • large bwildisg &ppm -6=4lr the purpose by the inters Conaties' HaUway , awl partook of tea ad cake, the Bart et Her rowlay mid kW party who Whiled them belaj mok fillehli. 111 their ordeal sad departure, with vociferous NATIONAL BANK OF IRELAND. Yesterday, the at noel general meeting of this ear ps . sy took plus , • at th. Bank, Jo Old Broad-street, City. T. L. MURRAY, Bag , having taken the chef-, Mr. KING, the seeritary, read the following report " The directors bath the satisfaction of placing before the proprietor the usual stateauts of account for the put year. In so doing, they deem it useful to direct attention M a few of the leading arcurestances which have intimated the pro of the establishment daring that period, and which have Mika d the directors to exercise extreme minim in the eurplejniont of the resources of the bank. The crops were, for the most part under the usual average ; th e power a were amain seriously affected, while the prices of produse, including those of cattle and ether live stock, bad fallen below those realised in years of mach greeter abundances. The pecuniary pressure caused by these c restatementse on all clung has been one of unusual severity. Contemporary with this state of things u regards the agricultural resources of Ireland, commerce and credit have been seriously effected owing to the disturbances and consequent excitement which !prevailed during a part of lut year. unsettling public con fidence, and interfericg injuriously with the usual operations of trade. Under these diffiettl ire and disadvantages, it is not to be expected that large profits could be realised from prudent basking operations. The directors are, however, gratified in being enabled to state that, after paying the usual half-yearly dividends, amounting to 22,5001., and writing off ell ascertained bad debts, there will remain a sur plus of 3,9901. 1241. 10i to he carried to the credit of the profit and thee account for the year 1949, viz : The undivided profits at Danaher, 1847, MN _ _ . £ 61,105 4 4 Net t: rats fise dui law swi ft Desember, 1 87,595 17 2 Deduct lialtyaar's dividend to Midsummer, 1849 £11,250 0 0 Ditto to Christina', 1848 11,250 0 0 Bonus of 10•. per share on 20,000 shame Amount paid T. Laurie Mur ray, Ent according to the manila/ et the deed of net dement l,OOO 0 0 Salaam of profit and lois earri.d to that amount for 1849 3,990 12 10 37,490 12 10 Leaving amount of unelvided profits to the credit of &serve Find, at December, 1848 t:80,105 4 4 " Since the last annual general meeting, the Court of Di rectors have appointed Anthony O'Flaherty, E q., M P., as a director, to fill a vacancy in the direction occasioned by the retirement of Charles Bianeoui, Esq., and which appoint meat will require the confirmation of this meeting. Since the last annual general meeting, a vacancy has occurrt d in the direction by ibe retrentent of F. C. Brown, Esq., who, bad he continued in office to the present time, would have gone out of office by rotation at the meeting ; the vacancy thus occasioned it has not been deemed expedient to fill up. There are now to be el..cted four directors, vie , one director in the room of F. C. Brown, Esq., and three direc tors in the room of John Joseph Keene, Esq., Christopher Fitssimor, Evq , and Col. the Hon. Leicester Stanhope, who retire by rotation, all of whom are candidates for the office, at.d eligible to be re-eleettd. Rowand Ronald, Esq. having signified his int stion of becoming a candidate for the ((lice of director, his name is submitted to you aceerdingly.—Ap proved by the court (signed), F. B. HINSHAW, chairman." The Rev. Mr. MADGE asked a question in relation to the NWT,. fund. The CHAIRMAN replied that the 3,9001. of surplus pro fits would be caned to this year's profit and loss account, so that the reserve rued would remain the same as last year. Some other nu...bons having been replied to, The CHAIRMAN moved that the report be adopted, printed, and ci culftted amongst the proprietors. (Applause ) A PROPRIETOR seconded the mo'ion, which was passed unanimously. The directors wive* names are mentioned in the report were then el. elect unanimously. Sir B. MACNAMARA moved a vote of thanks to the chairman and directors. Dr. MAGEE seconded it. The resolution was passed unanimously. A vote of thanks was also paned to the secretary and agreed to unanimously. SUNDAY TRADING IN THE METROPOLIS. Last night a public meeting was held at the Mary leboue Litersry and Scientific Institution, Edward-street, Portman equate, for the purpose of aiding the effort new being made for putting an end to Sunday trading in the me tropolis. The chair was recnpied by Mr. NICHOLAY, of Morel street, who said the object was neither a party nor a religious one, and that the great design of this and similar met tinge waste support Mr. Hiodley. M P.. who was about to intro duce a .bill into the House of Commons to promote the proper observance of the Sabbath. Ile was sorry to say that Sande tradieg was increasing in London, while it was re trograding in the provincial towns, and even in Paris; and, theretore, he thought that same vigorous legislative enact ment should be passed, to put an end to the trades which ware carried on, more particularly at the west and of the metro lie. Dr. THORNE proposed the first resolution, which enne cisted the principle that one dip in seven was necessary for the moral, intellectual, and physical improvement of man, and for the movr discharge of his higher obligations. Mr. LIYESAY seconded the resolution, and in doing so contended, iu oppuition to the chairman and the prop4ser, that the question was more especially a religious one. Mr. HAYMAN moved that the present laws Li the ob servance of the Sabbath were wholly inoperative, and that the meeting highly approved of the principle of the bill of Mr. Hindley, M l'., and pledged themselves to give it their hearty support. The prom. edings terminated with the usual vote of thanks to the chairmen. THE STANFIELD HALL MURDERS.-DISCO VERY OF THE WEAPON. MONDHA M, WEDN t SDAT.—The discovery of the weapon by which Retail perpetrated the murders at S an field 11011 has created considerable interest in the county. The locality in which it was found certainly tend' to show that the presumed search made by the county police wes at least carried out in the most slovenly manner. For several weeks they, with 60 or 70 hired labourers, under the personal direction of C.d. Oakes, the chief officer of the force, at a very great expense to the county, were engaged in almost the complete demolition of Potash, the turning up of land, and the emptying of the numerous pita of water which abound in the district. In fact, to such an extent was the search said to have been made, that, to use the words of one of the officials, had so small a thing as a pencil-case been secreted, it would have been turned up. It may be stated that the weapon had been so placed after the search br some person, for the purpose of obtaining a large reward, but a general opinion prevails that that portion of the farm where the discovery was meet, had not been examined at ell. Although the process of ejectment has been served on Mr. James Ruth, son o f the deceased murderer, and the furniture disposed of by public auction, yet he continua to Add possession of the farm. It appears that in the course of last Saturday one or two of the labourers were engaged in clearing away ROMS muck which stood near a shed at the east ern extremity of the barn, scarcely 30 paces from the back door of Potash, when a double-barrelled abort gun or blun derbuss was turned up in the soil. The feet was instantly communicated to Mr. Rush, who took possession of the weapon. I. had evidently been concealed a considerable period—several months, as it was corroded. To more pro perly describe it, it is a small double-barrelled carbine, about three-quarters of a yard in length, something similar to the arms carried in former days by mail-coach guards. It has a spring dagger or bayonet rtsched to it, which seems to have been added since its oonstractinn. The maker's name, it is said, does not present itself. Being without a ramrod, the one found in the ball of Stanfield-hall on the night of the mur ders was fitted to the weapon, and was found to correspond in size and make in every particular. That it Deluged to the instrument was proved beyond a doubt. The finding of the ramrod in the hall favours the impression that he used it while there. Ilia reloading would account for the four shots fired. It i, somewhat surprising that the police did not, after hearing the selm'ssions of Rash that be had buried the clothes he had amen on the night of the murders near the pigsty of the farm, insti u•e some search in the locality men tioned by the murderer, if only_ to satisfy themselves as to the truth of the statement. Had they done so, the proba bility is, owing to the close proximity of the pigsty to the plus where the weapon was found, that it would have then come to light. THE CAPTURED SIitiGGLERS.—OR Tuesday, at the Portsmouth petty mesions, before a full bench of magistrates, the captain, engineer, and stoker, captured on board the Royal Cha rter, steam tug, as related in the &press last week, were put on their trial for emupg'ing Mr. Beverley, from the Custom's, London, attended for the crown. The 'MOWS proved the facts formerly reported in thin journal, and left no doubt on the minds of the magis trates, and the three men were each convicted in the penalty of 1001. each, and, in default, son month"' imprisonment. Yesterday one of the men found in the boat towed into the harbour by the tug, was put on his trial, and convicted. The sentence on this last defendant was the same as in the other cases. The remaining prisoners, nine in number, were then charged with the offence, and severally convicted in a penalty of 1001., or six months' imprisonment. Five or six of these last are old offenders. FATAL RAILWAY COLLIBION.—On Tuesday after noon a collision, attended with fatal comequeness, took plate on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, near to the Clifton Junction, between Bolton and Manchester. It appears that the two trains between which the collision w aned consisted of waggons laden with coal and coke, and that one of them was passing at a speed of between twenty and thirty =flee an hour along the main line of rails, at the time that the other was easing on to the mote line from a siding, the man in charge of the points haring, we under stand, signalled to the speeded train that the line was clear. The malt was that the cm train ran with an awful crash Into the other, killing one of the stokers, breaking the legs of an engineer, and mailing • tender and some of the waive as pieta. TM amen ecefusion aided for ease Mau i tM pastampw train wain( tip was g delayed for a langliamai aledrallehliuns Saniferel. * J 1, LAMB AND FLAG RAGGED SCHOOLS, CLERKEN WELL. The fourth annual to et.ng of these schools took plsee last evening, at the Parochial School-rooms, Arnwell - There was a very crowned attendance, including a a [great rumber of ladies. The Earl of HA ISHOWBY occupied the chair, and said the scene presented before the au dience must impress them with the importance of ragged schools, whereby so many destitute creatures were disciplined TO virtue and piety. A short time ego the institution was rev, and had to be explained and defended ; now its results were known, and generally admitted to be bene ficial, and the most approptiate means of meeting a great necessity of the age. It was a peculi.rity of the preheat day no longer to deny existing facts; and it being obvious that our safety and our duty alike demanded tie spread ed instruction to the destitute, the call was no longer dime girded. Every new and improved street opened increased the mischief of the crowded back throughtiree, whose exist ence was scarcely known a short time ago. This knowledge was owing, not to the great, wise, or learned, but to de voted young men and women themselves labouring in the haunts of industry during the day. who having f,lt the necessity of instruction, were determined to apply a remedy to the existing evils, and devoted their leisure on Sabbaths and in the evening to visiting the abodes of merry and guilt. At first, this was doc.e as it were by stealth; then the public approbation stamped the work as a goad one. He. C. WHITE, the honorary secretary, then read the re port. After referring to the increased cost within the last twelve years of prisons and convicts, the com mittee urged the importance of diffusing education by means of ragged schools. Since the last report, the Queen and Prince Albert had become muniti eat subscribers to the cause, having presented 100 gutsiest to the Nagged &hoc I Union. (Applause.) The number of children on the books of the day school was 574, and the average stamp dance wee upwards of 200. 01 these 167 could read well, 283 could read by single words and leaven, 20 could write very well, 182 could writ* on elates, 30 understood arith metic, and 46 of the girls could sew well. In the evening school for adults there were 104, and the average attene sues was 60, of from 15 to 60 years of age, meat of whom could read a little. The success of the adult schools was much crippled for want of teachers. On the books of the Sunray reboot there were 250, the average attendance being 160. In all, the number on the ho les in the pest year had been 028, and** average attendance 410. The progress of all was most satisfactory. The annual subscriptions had amounted to 901., but the expense of carrying on the 4 schools would not be less then 2001. per annum. There had been several donations including 10 guineas hors the Tellow-chandlen' Company. Out of eo large a number, only two instances had marred where the pupils had rendered themselves amenable to the law: one boy was sentenced to two months' imprisonment, for a petty theft, and afterwards returned to the school ; the other was the child of very vicious parents. The Bishop of NORWICH, in moving the first resole don, observed that the cause of ragged sell' oh had made vast proves in the last three years. Within a few dap Lord Ashley had presided at a meting in Exeter-hall, in support of tills cause, which wu crowded to excese—a proof that the public mind went along with his lordship in favour of these schools. He doubted whether the church of Eng land could ever have of jected to schools on this principle ; he had not had a moment's hesitation as to whether he ought to patronise them. (Hear, hear.) He rejoiced that the finances of the Ragged School Union were rapidly improving. He concluded by moving the adoption of the re.art. Mr. H. BELLENDEN then seconded the resolution, and straggly urged on the meeting the importance of increasing their contributions to the institution. The Bishop of ST. ASAPH moved the next resolution, imploring the divine blueing on the cause of ragged schools. The Rev. H. HUGHES seconded the resolution. Ho avowed himself favourable to a democratic education, as the best means of strengthening the pillars of the constitution, and securing our national liberties. (Applause.) He hoped that ragged school instruction would pregress, and that the Musing of God would rest on the work. Mr. G. THOMPSON; M.P., eulogised the self-denial of those who took an active part in the management of ragged schools, and observed that they were humbly but assiduously Willing the last command of their Saviour. The resolution be bad to move recommended ragged schools to their sop pert, et the ground of the bull's they had already pro duced. Mr D. W. WIRE seconded the resolution. Looking at the enormous increase in the annual coe: of gaols—Rom 19,0001. to 84,0001., and remembering that crime in general coat the country no leas than eight millions annually, a etroneer argument could not be conceived in favour of insti tutions whose object was to prevent rather than punish crime. (Hear.) Juvenile crime hod recently increased up wards of 45 pi r cent., but since the institution of ragged schools this increase had been sensibly abated wherever such schools were established. Some other routine resolutions followed, and the proceed ings terminated with a vote of thanks to the chairman. AMENDMENT OF THE BANKRUPTCY LAWS. MEETING AT MANCHESTER. Yesterday a meeting of the merchants and traders of Manchester was held at the Albion Hotel, Manchester, to coosiner the propriety of supporting the bill now before par liament for the amendment of the bankruptcy laws. There was a respectable and highly influential attendance, and Mr. JAMES t.l•ou,root, merchant, Maley-street, was called to preside. The CHAIRMAN said the committee of the Manchester As sociation for the protection of the intercom of the wholesale warehousemen and manufacturers having had it brought under their notice that a bill was brought into the House of Lords by Lord Brougham for the cootiolidation and amendment of the bankruptcy laws, were desirous of examining the bill and supporting its enactments as fir as was consistent with justice, end they bad I retained the bill for that purpose, but finding that they wore not possessed of suffii ient level know ledge to dissect the hill thoroughly, they had engaged for that purpose Mr. Sale (of the tiros of Sale, Worthing ton, and Shipman), a gentleman learned in the law, who would give them more minute particulars as to what had been done and was desirable to be done than he (the chairman) could do. Mr. Sale would ex plain what proceedings had been taken in London ; for the committee upon the bankruptcy laws is London had exerted themselves very energetically and with great span., and to them they were principally indebted for the amendments which were likely to be effi - cted. Mr. Sale bad been in London, and would inform the meeting hew the bill had proceeded, end what steps had been token there. (Applause.) Mr. SALE then rose,and made the following report to the meeting " Your committee have long felt the evils of the present bankrupt laws, and have taken step. from time to time to procure some improvement; but it is only during the pre sent session of parliament they have had reason to hope that, mainly through the unceasing exertions of the London com mittee, with whose labours the members of this asiociation are not unacquainted, there is ev.ry prospect of securing a moot Repor ant and beneficial change. Your committee have been in communication with the London committee, and have sent a deputation to London on the subject, and are glut to report that the proposed bill, as finally approved by the House of Lords on Friday last, contains many altera tions which your committee consider to be decided improve ments, the most important of which they now preceed to explain ; and, in doom this, your committee pass over many very useful minor improvements: "The payments of 201. and 101., now payable out of all eetates, whether large or small, are given up, and a small per centage on the gross produce of each estate is substituted. A secret transfer of property is made an act of bankniptcy,under regulations well calculated to prevent fraud. Seizure under execution, in any action to recover money or debts, is made en act of bankruptcy, provided bankruptcy take place within a month ; but the execution creditor is to be paid bit costa, unless in case of a judgment, or ,cosnovit, or warrant of at torney. A trader debtor must, if sammoned to the court, either file an affidavit of merits, or pay, or ;compound within seven days—the prevent time being fourteen dap, and no affidavit of merits being now required : but the debtor's own affidavit, that he has a good defence, bring sufficient. Pro ceedings will commence in the district courts, instead of by application to the Lord Chancellor, in London, for a fiat, as at present. No trader is to be allowed to make himself bank rupt, unless he can pay five shillings in the pound and costa. The district commissioner con arrest a trader who is about to leave the country, or remove, or conceal his goods. If a debtor toe bankrupt estate admit his debt, the commis akmer can order and enforce payment, without any neets.ity for an action as at present. All payments, and all d- liveries er tranoten of goods within two months of baokruptcy will be fraudulent preferences, unless made in the ordinary mune of business ; and all deeds and securities are placed on the same footing, as also are wan ants of attorney and cogno vit.. Interest at 4 per cent is allowed on all debts overdue at the time of the bankruptcy, which is now confined to deb's on Dills and other securities only. The commissioner may deprive bankrupt, under special circumstances, of pro perty after acquired, except by his own personal earning; and such after acquired property will be divided amongst creditors. Zither creditors or bankrupt may appeal against the commissioner's deci-ion respecting certificate, but a bankrupt must give security for meta. A debtor may make • private arrangement with his creditors under superintend ence of court, and with the consent of thr -e-fifths of his cre ditors ; but under special regulations fixed by the bill, and subjrct to bankruptcy if his conduct should prove fraudulent. Deeds of arrangement, whether by assignment, inspection, or composition, will be binding on all creditors, if vented to by nine tenths in number and value of creditors whose debts amount to 101. and upward', but not until the expira tion of three months. The court may order the prosecution of bankrupts at the cost of the estate ; and if no estate, out of the general fund for working the court. Bankrupt will not be entitled to his certificate or protection, if guilty of any of the following offences : " 1. If the bankrupt shall at any time after hie bank ruptcy, or within two months next preceding his bankruptcy, with intent to conceal the state of his &Mks, or to defeat the object' of the law of bankruptcy, have destroyed any book, paper, deed, writing, or other document, relating to his trade, dealings, or estate. —2. If the bankrupt shell, with the like intent, have kept or caused to be kept false books, er have made false entries in, or withheld entries from, or wilfully altered or falsified, any book, paper, deed, writing, Of other document relating to his trade, dealings, or estate. —3. If the bankrupt shall have contracted any of his debts by say manner of fraud, er by means of film pretences, or shall by any _manner of fraud, or by means of false pretences, have oWdned the forbearance of any of his debts by any of his ezeditees.-4. U the benbupt shall at any time within two swaths aszt_posesdiaa his benkraptsy fraudulently, in eandsmplatkm_ . tat beskruptsj, and not under preassa kid es, it eadliers, tit latent of dintiais MI Is lie &villa smog his creditors, or of ea mike jasksease Se any of his creditors, have e" • or added - NI suet medlar, wholly re is peri.. t er.4 • • • . • . i 7.er ievyi