The Express. — London, England, 1846-11-25 00:00:00

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Mill continues to give lemons on the PIANO and in SINGING, and Signor P. in the ITALIAN and FRENCH hmsruages.—Signor P. also intends opening an Italian clams tor ladies. fiLASSICAL SUBSCRIPTION CONCERTS. — k) Lecture Hall, Greeriwkb.—Tbe Bret Omelet of this WWI TO-MORROW, Thursday, Nov. 26, when will be performed ILAN DEL'S MASQUE of ACI3 and GALAT.P.A, ander the direction of Mr. Sterndale Bennett; leader, Mr. Willy; Pianalbele, Mr. ssary Ilimart. The Chores selected by Mr. Green. To commence at past .Seven Seven precisely. Cards, Is. each, of Mews. Cramer and Beale, Begent.street ; Messrs. Keith and Dover, City; or of the Secretary, Mr. John Bennett, 65, (bee-—A special train, at Is. each , after the concert . —' Lie subscription list will be closed in a day or two. LYCEUM THEATRE. MR. ALLCROFT'S PROMENADE OONCERTB.—LAST FOUR NIGH Soo . W RY RUSSELL-7HW EVENING (Wednesday), 26, P e ons-core:—Part L Overture, "Predate." Polka, " Gnome." Operatic Selection from "Lucia di I ammertnoor," Drac by Mr. Diann and lus four Sous, on the silver Saxe-horns. Quadrille, "henfells." Ballad. Mr. Sinclair. Polka, " Victoria-Albert." Solo, Oboe, Mr. Grattan Cook. Distin's New Military Quadrille. In the course of the evening Mr. Henry Russell will sing several popular Songs. Part 11. O pera tic Selection from " Don Quixote." Fantasia, Trum pet, Mr. Mdn. Waltz, " The Naiads." Solo, Concertina Mr. lEllagrove. Overture, Era Diavolo.—Conductor, Negri Leaders, Messrs. Thirlwall and Tbomas.—Pit, Promenade, and Upper Boxes, Is.; Dress Circle, is. &L ; Private Boxes, 10s. 641. and 21e. Appli cation to be made at the Box-o Moe. 'CAME ROYAL COVENT GA RDEN.— POSITIVELT THE LAST NIGHT BUT THREE O F M. 317 ''S CONCERTS. PROWIAMME for TILLS EVENING (Wednesday), Nov. 25. NIT I.—Overture, Anacreon, CberubinL—New Folks, , Camelia, Julien. — New Song . Mini Birch. entitled " The First Lesson poetry by F. W. N. Bayley, Esq. • music by Balfe.—Venetian Serenade, Miss Birch. "Come o'er the S e a, Hoch Albert.—Valse, Hyacinth, Kcenig.— Sacred Mimic, Grand Selection from Stabat Mater, with Solos by M. Proepere and Herr Komi , Rossini.—Solo, Violin, Mr. Collins, Le Car naval de Venisc, .—Quadrille, " The British Army," assisted by the four Military Bands, Jullien. PART 11. —Opera. Robert le Diable, Meyerbeer.—Duo Coneertante, Herr Kumig and Mim Birch, for Voice and Cornet, Roch Albert. — New Comic Polka, The Antetican, Jullien.—Solo, Flute, Mr. Richard son.— lialop, La Cloehette, Hernia. The Concerts commence at Eight, and are over at Pleven. The Season will terminate on next MONDAY, November 30, with A GRAND BAL MASQUE. Vie cv 1 presig. MAILS. The mail for Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Madeira, Cadiz, and Gibraltar, will be made up on the morning of the 27th November. The mad. for New douth Wales, Van Diemen's Land, and New Zealand will be made up on the evening of the 30th November. 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HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE. TIM Mr.—Morning, 1 min. past 6; Afternoon, 27 min. putt 6. TJ.mossow.—Morrung, 58 min. post 56; Afternoon, 31 min. past 7. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, NOY. 25. WE commented yesterday on the resolve of the French Court to recall Count ST. AULAIRE. Upon an order to that effect the Count had already acted. His friends publicly announced in Paris that his Excel '. any was to return to London merely to take leave; et d the preparations at the French embassy were i ace ordance with it. In fact, the recall of his Ambas sack i• was the reply, which Louts PHILIPPE was about m , dre to Lord PALMERSTON'S notes. A circular, however, was yesterday sent round to the pr. Pers. contradicting the circumstance. The Herald, although the confidential organ of the I French - rovernment, acknowledges that it bore the seal of e French embassy, but " being without sig mam.e, cot fdered it in the light of an anonymous paragrap h. It then adds — That althougi it is poesible the decision of the Northern Courts on the ,übject of Ct bow may have produced a more friendly feeling be tween the Coarn, of England and France, and therefore caused the French Govern:urn (to send over the Covnt St. Aulaire to resume his furetion4 amisea *dor, it sees no reason to question the truth of the original statement. The fact seen is to be, that the French Court has thought fit to abandon its purpose of immediate and striking rev. en tee upon Lord PALMERSTON; to this it has .bc en compelled by the ab sorption of Cracow, anti by the terrible effervescence created thereby throujh every rank of French society. Without going' the length of supposing, with the Times, that LOL'IS PHILIPPE sold Cracow to Austria as the price of .support or tolerance in the matter of the Spanish marriages, it is indubitable that the coolness occasioned between France and England by these marriages, and the mutual re proaches on the score' of breach of treaties, have offered the Eastern powers too tempting an oppor tunity for abrogating the Treaty of Vienna with re gard to Cracow. So untoward a result of Count IlaEssus's "sharp practice" at Madrid, could not but he visited heavily upon M. GUIZOT at the opening of the Chambers; and the only way of facing the storm thus rising, was to make every apparent effort to resist and redeem, in concert with England, the sacrifice of Cracow. The King of the FRENCH, therefore, who had already raised his hand to strike a very offensive blow at the Court and government of En land, has, in the very act of striking, seen reason to recall his anger, and actually to alter the gesture of dealing a blow to that of craving for succour. The uplifted arm may serve for both expressions ; but it requires uncommon dexterity to perform such sudden changes of attitude without being discovered and derided. As to the independence of Cracow, the French government cares as much for it, as it does for the freedom of the Hesperides. But the French nation, as well as the English, entertain a strong and in extinguishable sympathy for Poland, which the French will allow no minister to trifle with, at least without a great deal of address, and professions, and oratory. And one of the obligate measures imposed on a French government in such instances, is a drawing close, with more or less sincerity, to the government of England. It is really consoling and instructive, as well as a little amusing, to observe French or English minis ters, the moment after they have started on a course divergent from the alliance of the two countries, brought back by an opposing whirlwind, which it was vain to resist, to the necessity of joint movements and political harmony. What kappened to the English troy:anima in 1840 and 1811, happens to the French in 1846. Either may break the yoke of common alliance, and fly in wild caprice to curvet and career alone. But a very short time brings back the run away steed to its old harness again. One cannot but be rejoiced at these lessons read to grave statesmen, as one must be at every circum stance which necessitates and redeems the good understanding between French and English. It would, however, be much preferable to avoid misun derstandings than to remove them, however success fully. For it always happens, that some important power falls a victim to these misunderstandings. In 1840, MEHEMET Au, encouraged by one power, was absolutely crushed by the other. In 1846, Spain loses permanently her liberties, and Cracow its existence, because France and England could not agree. Even now, although the menaced slur of ST. AULAIRE'S recall may be suspended, we do not see how far M. Ouizor and Lord PALMERSTON can agree in mending the tear, either in the Treaty of Utrecht, or in the Treaty of Vienna. Both appear to be past darning. Lord PALMERSTON cannot unmarry the Duke of NIONTPENaIER, whilst to tell him to renounce the right of succession is shutting the door in the face of all possible reconciliation. How can M. GUIZOT, with any conceivable quantity of asseveration, persuade any English minister to trust him ? The reality of a cordial alliance is impos sible ; and even could f}ic semblance be effected, how is it to impose upon others ? The Anglo-French alliance was six weeks ago a bar of iron against any audacious attempts of the despots of Europe. The king of the FRENCH has wantonly broken t h at bar for his own private gratification and interest. Can he now undertake to hammer together in one day, and a frail, these for ever severed fragments ? No— for even if he got them to hold together in appear ance, Russia would mock the false affecting of unions. Alliances may be broken in an hour, but are not mended in years. For every effect that can be produced on the three powers of the east, England and France are two, and being two, the Eastern Powers make light of their resentment. We shall enter into no learned examination of the treaty of Vienna, or its clauses, no more than we did the other day of the treaty of Utrecht. Treaties, in our days, arc old women's talk. Diplomatists live by expounding and note-writing about them, as lawyers do by refinements of law ; but however we are bound by the mashes of latter, we may at least sweep away the nonsense of treaties, which it seems to have become the common practice of Europe to break through and to mock. The question is not one of right. We have abundance of right, in the absorption of Cracow, to declare war ten times over. But is there any advantage? We may menace a power that threatens Constantinople, or Syria, or Portugal, because we have fleets whose guns could be brought to bear upon those places, and upon the roads to them. Diplomacy, with a fleet at its back, is something ; but a diplomacy of notes and protocols about what is beyond our reach, is merely a throwing of sand, not even at one's enemy, but in the eyes of our own people. Therefore the less that is said of Cracow, the better—the less that treaties are invoked, the less shame there is to be en dured. Lord PALMERSTON and M. GUIZOT may make speeches and write notes for Cracow—both must know that they are mere waste paper—and really, whether they write their notes separately or conjointly is a matter of no appreciable importance. M. GUIZOT and Lord PALMERSTON together cannot pluck the double eagle from over the, gates of Cracow. They ma y protest, indeed, and go severally through the old humbug of diplo macy, until the frothy effervescence of the Parisians shall have evaporated. That desirable point once arrived at, and private excuse being made both to NES.ELRODE and METTERNICH for the more public impertinence, England and France will aid in laying an ornamented gravestone over the tomb of the last relic of Poland. THE last two sessions of parliament have been re markable for the number of private bills, having for their professed object the sanatory improvement of large towns. These bills following closely the report of the Health of Towns Commission, appeared as an acknowledgment of the evils elicited during that in quiry, and indicated a desire on the part of many towns to apply a more prompt remedy than could be obtained by a general measure, which had been post poned from one session to another to suit political convenience. The powers demanded in the private bills were frequently so opposed to the principles upon which sanatory reform should proceed, that it could not be doubted that their projectors were more anxious to perpetuate powers and privileges already existing than to cede them for the general good. In every largetown separate and conflicting jurisdictions had been created in past times for civic improve ments, and prevented, by their cumbrous machinery and distinct interests, that unity of design, and corn ' plcteness of execution, which alone could preserve in their proper channel the various conditions affect ing the salubrity of large towns. These varied bodies saw a termination to their existence in the general measure of the government, and presented themselves to parliament with a new-born zeal for public improvement, trusting that the administration of the new measures might still be left with them. There were indeed, several honourable exceptions. Thus Liverpool, which had no less than eight sepa rate and distinct authorities, endeavoured with suc cess to obtain a consolidation of their conflicting powers. The evils attending this sudden demand for local acts were keenly felt by the government, which endeavoured to obtain some uniformity in legislation, by certain model clauses framed by the Board of Trade, the introduction of which, not being impera tive, was often omitted. At last it became so apparent that local bills were thoroughly cramping . the good effects of any general measure for public improvement, by creating private interests, and perpetuating fallacious systems, that it became absolutely necessary to devise some means of arresting the progress of private legislation, until a general act, embracing the objects of the local measures, could be brought into operation. This was the origin of Mr. H ume s Comi.nittee on Private Bills, to which we alluded some days since. A short act, embodying the principal recommendations of the committee, passed at the close of the last session. This act provides, that all bills relating to" public improvement must deposit at the Office of Woods, and those relating to ports or rivers, at the Office of the Admiralty, on or before the 30th of the present month, such notices, plans, and sections, as hitherto have been deposited in other public offices, according to the standing orders. Inspectors are then to be sent down to the localities referred to in the bills, few the purpose of oxamining in open court the merits and objections to the pro posed measures, and of reporting to government how tar they are conducive to the public good. This is a great innovation upon the system of private bills, and we have drawn attention to it because its provisions are most important to the supporters of bills intended to be introduced during the next session. The exciting topics of last session prevented due attention to this act, and we are sure our readers interested in private bills will thank us for reminding them that a com pliance with its provisions is necessary before they can pass through the standing orders. We reserve for further consideration the singular character of the act itself, which, in spite of grave faults, is calculated to produce much good in the local legislation of next session, and may, by judicious alterations, be made far more effective than it is at present. IT is not astonishing that exclusively English politicians, wearied by the continuance, hopelessness, and incomprehensibility of Irish distress, should fly to the resolve of at once getting rid of the difficulty and stopping the mouth of all complainants by a sweep ing poor-law. It is a ready, an authoritative, a final remedy, cutting the Gordian knot which has baffled all cunning and patience to unravel. It is taking all the suffering and contending classes of Irish, rich and poor, Saxon and Celt, Protestant and Catholic, and throwing them pell-mell into a circus or arena, to fight it out and devour each other, with the charitable prospect of finding the survivors, whoever they may be, more easy to be dealt with afterwards. 'the great principle, indeed, of every Poor-law, viz., that the property of the country must feed its population, is becoming too irrefragable to be denied. The grand question is, how this is to be done ? Is it by coercion, confiscation, by a general decree, which in some regions would prove an impossibility to execute? Is it by throwing a new element into the war that has long been waged in Ireland between rich and poor, arming the one with greater powers of oppression, the other with greater claims of support? Or is a wise moderation to be observed in the avoidance of all extreme and abstract theories, and that provident statesmanship exerted, which finds for each class what each most requires, wisdom and general superintendence, and . loan of capital for the landlord; permanent sustenance and a return for laborious industry to the peasant ? It is said, that a Poor-law will do this. But the word Poor-law has a hundred significations. Lord STU \ET DE DECIES, the other day, at Dungarvan, denounced the conacre system as the true source of Irish degradation, over-population and want. And yet what is the Irish conacre system, but one form and application of the old English Poor-law. It is a mode of providing for that part of the population which cannot find wages for continuous labour. The stock, from which wages or employment comes, being insufficient, the paupers are indulged with the outdoor relief of a field of pota toes, in addition to some scant fraction of wages. And as it is calculated that the conacre will suffice for existence, wages are nominally given, rather counted, so as to meet the rent. This system, unfor tunately, brings most rent to the landlord or occupier, and most security of subsistence to the labourer. And the consequence is, that all other systems of hiring labour are absorbed in, and assimilatedto it, just as the English labourers paid under the old English poor-law, half by the farmer, half by the rates, soon superseded every more independent kind of labour. The Irish system of eking wages out by conacre, like the Eng lish one of eking them from the rates, afforded fresh incitement and facilities for marriage ; and the con acres thus became as surcharged as the parish. Mr. Ntcnou.s, in his poor-law report, plainly shows that this conacre dependence, and the small holdings analogous to it, arc the true sources of Irish disturbance in fact, it is at the bottom of all Irish Pl. The failure of the potato crop has, however, swept away the system, to the destruction of the peasant's means of subsistence, of the farmer's hopes and stock, and of course of the landlord's rent. The wisdom of the empire is loudly called upon to dis cover and apply a remedy. The answer of some, of Mr. ScROPE, and of the Times, is a poor-law. But the readiest way of administering a poor-law with out-door relief, or, which is the same thing, of ob viating its pressure, is precisely the extension of the conacre system. Farmers in England avoid the pressure of poor-rates by employing more hands than they otherwise would, or thanthey can employ profitably. Farmers in Ireland will keep their labourers from parish or union work, by giving them conacre, by which they can extract most work and most rent from them. Such a poor law may enforce the feeding of a greater number of ~ N.nt paupers and their preservation from actual beggary and destitution. But it will strengthen and extend that established semi-pauperized existence, out of which spring the crime and distress, and the self-perpetuating poverty of Ireland. Lord DECIES proposes to replace the conacre and the poor-law by the cultivation of the waste lands. It is possible that waste lands may not be found in every county, the reclamation of which would be a certain and profitable return for capital. But that such is the case in the county of Waterford there is no doubt. And we do think, that when the chief pro prietors of a county, with the Lord Lieutenant at their head, do come forward to recommend such a plan, it deserves to be considered seriously, and not sneered at. Lord DECIES, no doubt, asks too much, when he expects Government to do every thing, and to turn farmer of waste lands. The landlord and the farmers, the capital and the experience of the county, must apply themselves. But they must have aid, guidance, ready money, and authority all found them by the State. Far better would it be to mortgage estates for enterprises that would employ and locate perma nently the surplus population, than raise the same capital and impose the same debt for improve ments, which, after the winter's outlay in wages, will merely go to swell the rents of the landlord, allowing the labourer to fall back upon the conacre or the poor house. Another effect of a poor law, carried out to that extent which Mr. SCROPE desires, would be to fix more and more to their districts the Irish labouring population. They are, in ordinary years, in the habit of wandering forth in summer to places, where there is the greatest demand and the best market for labour. A hundred thousand flock yearly to Eng land. The reports of the poor-law commissioners net only communicate the fact of London's being stocked with labourers from Ireland, but tell the reason. It is, that the poor-law kept the labouring Englishman in his parish. And that the Irish, having no poor-law at home, filled the numbers of rough-work labourers for the metropolis. But this year no Irish have emigrated. Since wholesale cha rity and employ—in other words, since an ample poor-law has been in activity, or even in prospect, the poor Irishman has stayed in his home. It is a singular fact that there has been not only no emigration from Ireland this year, but no recruiting. There is a fatuitous attachment and attraction for the Irish peasant to the spot, where his superiors meet to take upon their hands the regulation of his fate and the supply of his food. There is delight and interest in anything like public agitation and public care, that infallibly diverts the Irish peasant even from the most pressing tasks of supply and primal want. There was a shoal of fish off Dungarvan on the day of the riots ; but the fishermen preferred joining the row and starving, to casting their nets and fillin g them and their stomachs with fish. All these oddities and anomalies of the Irish cha meter and condition ought to be taken into account by those who deem the magic words " poor-law " of itself sufficient to solve every difficulty and danger. That a poor-law may eventually be fully established in Ire land with good results, is very possible. But there must be many other preliminary steps. The condi tion of the labouring class must be raised. But in their present irritated, ignorant, and susceptible state, nothing, that comes in the form of coercion, will have a permanently beneficial effect. Charity and em ploy will attract them, but harsh conditions attached to these, will irritate and disgust. And a Rockite war with overseers and guardians, may succeed to the old Rockite war with landlords and magistrates. Let landlords or commissioners give the Irish waste lands to dig and drain on any pecuniary terms, and the Irish peasant will set himself to the task with an energy not excelled by the backwoodsman. Enjoin him the same work as a task set him by orders from the poor-house, and he will neither work, nor obey, nor respect law or authority. Let Mr. SCROPE reflect on the advisability of introducing a system of poor-law amongst the aborigines of New Zealand, who are neverthelenc in industrious race. The obvious difficulties may sug gest a few of those likely to be found in Ireland. The excitement is unabated in Paris. The journals of all shades on Sunday continue to be engrossed by the Cracow question, if question that can be called, which excites but one unmitigated sense of indigna tion. In twelve political journals there are no less than forty-eight leading columns on the Polish spolia tion measure. The more immediate organs of the Cabinet remon strate against this international iniquity being per mitted by the disunion of' France and England, and protest against the articles in the ministerial jour nals of London, which incriminate the French Cabinet more than they reproach the spolia tors. " This," say they, " is a miserable dispute held shamefully over the body of a dying state, but when the English press shall have seen and appreciated the effect produced in France upon all shades of public opinion by the affair of Cracow, we are sure that it will return at once to more just and generous senti ments. It will resume those feelings of which, some time ago, it was so justly proud. It will remember that, for the honour of the two countries, there is but one political combination possible, namely, that which will unite all the free people of Europe. 4 The Epoque adopts the same strain as the Daces, but is more unmeasured in its vehemence against the northern courts. La Prow, as usual, disavows all alliance with England, but is not less sparing than its semi-official colleagues in its invectives . against the coup-d'etat which engrosses all minds. The Constitietionne/ contains an article written with great ability, and in which it is not difficult to trace the sentiments if not the language of M. 'l'hiers, in which the entire question of the treaties of Vienna is examined ; and although it is affirmed that an alliance between France and England is not un attended with difficulty, it is at the same time demonstrated to be indispensable to the political equilibrium of Europe and to the progress of consti tutional governments. Admitting the rivalry which does and must exist between France and England, it sees nothing in that to forbid a firm and useful alliance. On many leading questions of European policy the two nations have common interests, such for example as the free passage of the Sound, which commands the navigation of the North, and that of the Dardanelles, inseparable from the narigation of the Mediterranean. No rivalry between France and England could prevent these countries co operating at a future day to protect Constantinople from an act of unprincipled usurpation such as that now perpetrated against Cracow. The alliance of France and England, says the writer in the Constautionnet, is not, therefore, impossible, though it may have its difficulties. It may be (Florious for the two countries to struggle together against the encroach ments of absolutism, but are there not between France and England points of contact other than those of mere interest ? The two nations are united by a com munity of principles. Both have assumed, as the basis of their social condition, that there is in the world a right altogether different from the so-called divine right of dynasties. They have set this example to all countries, and facilitated by it the emancipation of Europe. Each of tht tn has purchased liberty by two revolutions. We have fol lowed England later, but more rapidly, and have exhibited in France an abridgment of her history. Is it not a noble part for these nations to defend with a common accord, the cause of freedom and civilisation? Generous sentiments have great influence in both countries ; the nationality of Poland is certainly not less worthy of exciting elevated souls, than the emancipation of the negroes. When a nation perishes under the oppression of a coalition of absolute kings, nil free and proud peoples must feel stricken to the heart. If France and England had not been disunited, it is cortain that their alliince would have paralysed the project of the absolutist courts. It is evident that the common will of the two most powerful notions of Europe, supported by treaties and backed by an unanimous public opinion, would ►ava been invincible. At present it is very difficult to recall what has been accomplished. The misunderstanding of the two governments seems to continue, and their prAestation‘ would appear to remain isolated. We wish, nevertheless, that the two nations, laying aside their quarrels,would unite in an alliance which, directed to something greut and useful,would efface all resentment and silence all objections. France must not forget that every conflict she has with England gives new chances to counterrevolution; and England, on her put, should as little forget that each of her ruptures with France advances Russia one step nearer to Constantinople. Such language and sentiments proceeding from the leading organ of a party which has always hitherto opposed itself to the measures by which the British THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING-, NOVEMBER 25, 1846. alliance with France was cemented, indicates very unequivocally the direction which p ublic opinion is taking in France. The journals of the more extreme Left and the anti-dynastic onescontinue to reiterate their reproaches against the government for leaving itself in a state of isolation for the sake of an interest which concerns nobody in France except the Orleans family. They also persist in taxing M. Guizot with allowing things to come to the present crisis with his eyes open, inas much as he must have bad full notice of what was con templated, not only through the press of Germany, but directly . from his diplomatic agents. The invitation of Count Mole to the Tuileries, men tioned in our correspondence of yesterday, is repro duced in the journals of Monday. We are, it seems, says Le Courier Francais, in the height of a ministerial crisis. On obverting in the Portefeitille of Sunday the announcement that Count Mole had an interview with the King, we went to seek informa tion, and learnt that the pacific M. Guizot in reply to the accusations of Lord Palmerston, desired to take Landau to fortify Huningue, to pass the bridge of Kehl, &c. It was then that Count Mole was tent fir. M. Guizot was no longer possible either in the north or in the west, and it was thought convenient to maintain the system of changing the minister. But M. Mole, will he incline towards England or towards the northern courts ? It is said that the visit of Lord Normanby at Cbamplatreux may have changed the dis positions of M. Mole in regard to England. What will be come of Poland between Lord Palmerston and M. Mole. Cabinet Councils continue to be held daily. The Bey of Tunis arrived, by the Orleans railway, in Paris at one o'clock on Sunday, and proceeded im mediately with his suite, in six royal carriages, to the Palace of Elysee Bourb on, which had been prepared for his reception. He has been every where received as a sovereign prince. The Madrid mails were received on Monday in Paris, bringing journals and correspondence of the 17th, but they only contain accounts from Portugal of an earlier date than those which have already been made public in these columns. FRANCE.—STATE OP SCIENTIFIC INSTRUCTION. — The Minister of Public Instruction has charged the Faculty of Sciences of Paris to send in to him a report on the state of scientific instruction in France. The report is to refer par ticularly to the manner in which it is conducted in the col- ' leges and superior primary schools ; it is to declare how far this instruction responds to the wants of society, and to sug gest whatever may seem to be wanting. The faculty has appointed a committee to inquire into the matter. It consists of M. Dumas, the senior member, and four of the professors, Messrs. Pouillet, Poncelet, Edwards, and Leverrier. THE LATE INUNDATIONS.—The Central Committee for receiving and distributing the subscriptions for the suffer ers from the inundations of the Loire, held its fourth meet ing on Saturday. The total amount of the receipts was 811,000 francs, besides 90,000 francs from special donatiens. Nearly the whole of the money was derived from contribu tions in Paris. The sums paid in from the different legions of the National Guards amount to 198,000 francs. The com mittee decided upon remitting 16,000 fr. to each of the de partments of the Allier, Loire, Haute Loire, and Loiret. This is independent of the sums received by receivers-gene• ml of the departments not yet paid in to the committee, and the articles in clothing, furniture, and other necessaries sent to the Hotel de Ville, as we have already mentioned. BELGIUNT.—IMPROVEMENTS IN G.ts AND SPIN NING MACHINERY.—M. Jobard, director of the Belgian museum, who is now making a tour through some of the de partments of France , and inspecting the progress of indus trial and agricultural arts and science there, reports having visited a manufacturing establishment at Mulhausen, which is lighted with gas, the produce of a combustible, from which may be drawn 256 litres of gas per kilogramme. In observ ing upon this announcement the Belgian papers remark that the process is not new, but has been employed for more than two yearn in the works of M. Gustave Scribe, an en gineer of Ghent, who has already fitted up a good number of works in Belgium with the same apparatus. As it is generally understood that, owing to the greater abundance and cheapness of fuel, the manufactories of Lancashire and Yorkshire are not worked with the same exact attention to economy, and care against waste, as works of the same kind are in France and Belium, both in respect of the gas light ing and the engine-room for the generation of steam power, the intimation of this improved economical process, in the one respect, may be deserving of notice. But a more important improvement still in mechanics is referred to in the Belgian papers, and concerns more nearly the interests of the spin neries of the north. The same ingenious engineer, M. Scribe, is stated to hare invented a new self-acting spinning machine, commonly called " self-acting mule." The "self acting English mule, it is observed, is very costly in price, and of • mechanism so complicated as to require in the overseers of the factory, a deep acquaintance with mechani cal science. M. Scribe has so simplified the machine, that at an expense not exceeding one-third the price of a self acting mule (English), he has been able to obtain the same results, the same economy of workmanship, and avoiding all defects. The system of M. Scribe is (moreover), ap plicable to all machines on the common plan, whatever thi ir dimensions. There are already in the city of Ghent, 18,000 spindles worked upon the new sys tem, which has also been introduced in the spinning fac tory of St. Denys, near Mons, and into the establishment of Messrs. Deny and Duchaine, at Braine-le-Comte." The costly nature of the English self-acting mule is the necessary consequence of that prolongation of the expiring patent for the inventien„so impolitically and unjustly accorded to the patentees by Lord Brougham, when presiding in Privy Council some time ago, with a want of reflection and incon sistency then remarked upon, and this, with other conse quences, pointed out. The invention was a combination of two patents, if we are rightly informed, each embodying a principle of action indispensable to the other, and without which neither could fulfil the working conditions sought to be obtained. The patents came to centre eventually in the same hands. One of them expired by flux of the fourteen years some time before the other. By the decree of Lord Brougham another term of seven years was conceded for one or both of them ; and manufacturing industry was condemned to pay the extra charge of additional monopoly for all that lengthened period. Why should not patent law be as clearly defined, and patent terms determined with as much exactitude as any other legal obligations ? At the end of a fourteen years' monopoly the inventor has still the prestige and preference is his favour for years to come. Sir Richard Arkwright, and many others might be cited, was much more prosperous alter his patents were annulled than ever before. 1 hese unreasonable exten sions of patent right*, besides, stand in the way of ingenuity and improvement. The patentee. satisfied with monopoly sod high prices, has no motive to stimulate his exertions further. But there are always ingenious and aspiring minds ready to labour in the work of improvement and in vention, who are stopped at the threshold by • patent-mo nopoly of some piece of mechanism involving something of a principle necessary to work upon. What, for the great ad vancement of scheme and industry,.might have been effected at home, is thus abandoned to foreign and unfettered inge nuity, not slow to reap the fruits et it. GERMANY.—BERLIN, Nov. 16.—News has been received at Berlin from St. Petersburg that the Emperor of Russia has given his consent to the marriage of the Grand Duke Constantine with Princess Alexendra of Saxe Coburg, but that the marriage is not to take place for two years. The Princess has not yea been confirmed, and is to be received into the Greek church. TU It 1( E Y.—A letter from. Constantinople, of the sth, says: "Two days ago a loud detonation was head to proceed from the house inhabited by M. de Chabert, Consul- Ci , neral of Austria at Smyrna. On going to his room he was found lying on the bed with his skull fractured, and the pistol, with which he had effected this rash act, by his side. For a fortnight before the unfortunate gentleman had suffered much from severe pains in the head, and it is supposed that it was in a moment of dreadful agony that he thus committed suicide. lie has left a large family." Nafi-Effendi, recently ambassador from the Sublime Porte at Vienna, where he is to he replaced by Chekib- Effendi, ex-Minister for Foreign Affairs in Turkey, has been appointed by the Sultan member of the Grand Council of Justice. GREECE—The Greek government has just founded at the University of Athens a professorship of con stitutional law, and the law of nations. Paris was the only city which peuessed a chair of constitutional law, and Greece has now followed its example, and founded one. M. Sari polls, doctor-in-law, of the faculty of Paris, has been ap pointed to the newly established chair, and opened his course of lectures on the 26th ult. to a numerous auditory. INCORPORATION OF CRACOW. The following decree has been published at Cracow: We, Ferdinand d'Este, by the grace of God Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary and Bohemia, &c. After that the peace of Vienna of the 14th October, 1809, had separated from our empire the city and territory of Cracow, adjoin ing it to the Grand Duchy of Warsaw, but as owing to the events of the war of 1812, it was recognised by the Russian troops, our father, the late Emperor Francis 1., concluded with the allied courts of 1i111 , 4111 and Prussia, on the 21st April and 3rd May, 1815, a treaty to the following effect: " Cracow and its territory is to form in future a free and inde pendent city, u der the protection of the three powers." How evcr,the express condition necessarily supposed by this arrange ment was the strict neutrality of the independent city, which was not to give shelter to, or harbour, refugees, subjects of the protective powers; hut, on the contrary, to give them up to the competent authorities. An unhappy experience of 16 years has proved that Cracow has broken the conditions of its independent existence, and that, since 1830, it has been the hot-bed of intrigues hostile to the three powers. This continued tiil the month of February of the present year, when it became the theatre of scenes more violent and dangerous than ever. After the abolishment of the govern ment and the constitution, and the fate of the town was in the hand of a ley of conspirators, who assumed the title of revolutionary government of Poland, and i excited to armed revolt against the government all the ancient provinces of Poland, an armed band from Cracow made an inroad into our states. It was then requisite to place Cracow anew under a provisi•mal government, subject to oar military authorities, and to occupy it by the troops of the protective powers. Those e.,ents having made it impos sible for us to re-: stablish the 1- ,asis of the liberty and inde prndence of Cracow destroy..d by the enemies of the order, peace, and tranquillity of T;;lrrope, and feeling it our duty to —_—=------. place our faithful subjects of Galicia and the peace of the tranquil inhabitance of the city of Cracow in safety from th d e attacks of the revolutionary patty, we have, in Accor with his Mojesty the King of Prussia and his Majesty the Empercr of Aussie, submitted to serious con sideration the future few of Cracow. To this end deli berations were held with special plenipotentiaries of the Courts of Berlin and St. Petersburg ; these deliberations had for result a convention agreed on the 6th November of the present year, at Vienna, according to which the three pro tective powers of the city of Cracow revoke and suppress the treaties of May 3, 1815, and, in consequence, that town and its territory return to our sceptre such es was the case before the peace of Vienna, of Oct. 14, 18011. Wherefore, we take possession of the said city and territory of Cracow. We ad join them for ever to our crown, and declare that it forms an inseparable part of our empire to wh i c h we in corporate it. We appoint Count Maurice de Deyme our chamberlain, councillor of the regency and governor of Prague, our aulic commissary for this act of taking paws sion, and we seriously call upon the inhabitants of the town of Cracow and its former territory, in their own interest, to obey that aulic commissary. sent by us, as also the authori ties maintained and confirmed by us. We call upon them likewise to obey punctually orders present or to come. On the other hand, we promise them the maintenance and protection of our holy religion, impartial justice, and equal taxation, with full guarantee of favour and protection to all who prove themselves worthy of such by submitting imuiediately to the present measure, taken in their interest; and by showing fidelity and devotion to our house, we shall always prove ourselves a mild prince and gracious sovereign, and will use every effort to insure them those blessings which their union to a great and power ful monarchy is of nature to guarantee fo the inhabitants of Cracow.—Given in our imperial palace at Vienna, this 11th of November, 1846, in the twelfth year of our reign. FERDINAND (L. S.) (Signed) HIGH-CHANCELLOR FRANCOIS BARON DE PILLERSDORYF." Lieut. Field-Marshal Count Castiglione, appointed head of the provisional government of Cracow by the three pro tective powers makes known in their name that on the 6 th roar. they agreed and signed the following conventions : "Whereas the conspiracy,which, in the month of February, 1846, led to the events well known in the Duchy of Posen, in Galicia, and in Cracow, was a matured project, and aided by numerous accomplices in the country: Whereas that criminal faction rose in arms at the appointed hour, com menced hostilities, mid issued proclamations exciting the people to a general revolt: Whereas Cracow became the seat of a central directory which assumed the name of revo lutionary government, and that government took measures to direct the movements of the insurrection. Whereas all those circumstances placed the city of Cracow in a miserable state of warfare, which would have authorised the three courts of Austria, Prussia, and Russia to adopt all the measures sanctioned by war. Whereas, from that sole reason, it was in the power of the three courts to dispose of a territory which had taken up arms against them ; but where as, it is not the intention of the three powers to subject the city of Cracow to the right of the strongest —as, where strength is so unequally balanced, such a right could not be applicable : whereas, further, it is not question of an act of chastisement on the city ; but that the high protective powers wish to re-establish order and pence in the territory of Cracow ; and have no other intentions than to preserve their people from events which so greatly disturbed their tranquillity ; whereas, by a treaty concluded between them the 21st April (3rd May), 1815, the city and territory of Cracow was declared a free and independent city, strictly neuter, under the protection of the three high contracting parties, and that the three courts hare wished to enforce by that convention the clauses concerning Cracow in their respective treaties of 21st April (3rd May), 1815, one of which was concluded with H.M. the Emperor of Austria and lI.M. the Emperor of Russia, and another of the same date between the Emperor of Russia and the King of Prussia. But whereas the existence of the free city of Cracow, far from answering their expectations, has been a source of trouble and disorder, which for twenty years have not only threatened the peace and prosperity of that free city and of the neighbounng countries, but moreover aimed at the overthrow of the order of things as esta• blished by the treaties of 1815. Whereas numerous facts of this nature, too well known to be repeated here, have essentially changed the system of existence in the city of Cracow, and that by steps contrary to treaties, Cracow at various intervals broke through the duties imposed by a strict neutrality ' • that those steps called for the armed intervention of the three powers, and that all the changes made in its constitution were unavailing in hindering a renewal of those deplorable events. Whereas, the patience manifested by the mild decrees of the three powers only served to give new strength to the determined enemies of order, and that the free city of Cracow became the hot-bed of a new and vast conspiracy, extending its ramifications to all the pros inces of Poland. Whereas, to that culpable and disloyal enterprise was added an armed attack on the part of Cracow which formed the nucleus of the revolt. Whereas, accordingly Cracow as a political body was evidently too weak to resist the continual machinations of the Polish emigrants, who keep the said town in a state of moral subjection, so as to offer to the powers no guarantee against a renewal of those reiterated attempts at revolution. And whereas attempts of such nature are an open violation of the treaty of 21st April (3rd May) 1815, as also of Art. 11. of the constitutional statutes of the free city of Cracow of the 30th May, 1833. Whereas the conventions above named concerning Craeow between the three powers were repeated in Arts. VI., VII., VIII., IX., and X., of the general - act of the Congress of Vienna on the 9th June, 1815, so that said act might embrace the different results of the arrangement concluded in the private negotiations between the cabinets ; whereas in consequence, if the three courts change to-day, as regards Cracow, an order of things to which they volun tarily agreed in 1815, they only put into execution an incon testable right. In consideration of the above, and having taken into seri ous consideration the security of their states so often en dangered by the free city of Cracow, the three courts of Austria, l'russia, and Russia have come to the following resolutions 1. The said three courts of Austria, Prussia, and Russia revoke the articles of the treaties concerning the city of Cracow, concluded between H. M. the Emperor of Russia and H. M. the Emperor of Austria on the one hand, and the Emperor of Russia and King of Prussia on the other, signed 21st April (3rd May), 1815. In like manner the additional treaty between Austria, Prussia, and Russia of the same date, is revoked and annulled. 2. In consequence, the town of Cracow and its territory are restituted to Austria, and reunited to the Austrian monarchy, to be possessed by his Imperial, Royal, and Apostolic Majesty as previous to 1889.• (Signed) CASTIGLIONE." Cracow, 16th Nov., 1848. COLONIAL CA-NADA S. EXTENSIVE DESERTIONS FROM THE 71sT REOIMENT.—The Afontrea/ Courier furnishes us with some details as to these desertions that will be read with interest. We shall be doing our military a service by show ing them what they may expect in the American army, if they should be base enough to betray their allegiance to the ttag of Britain. The Courier says : The reserve battalion of the 71st rest. was stationed at Kingston, Canada West, until recently, when it was relieved by the 4tth rest., and is now stationed at Laprairie, with a detachment at St. Helen's. During the time this regiment was in Kingston, we are Informed that up to mime time in the month of July last, it had loft, by desertion, about seventy men; but from that month until its recent arrival in Montreal, the crime hail ceased to a great extent, eels-three men hav ing since that deserted. Nye are told that two men of the TIM, having purchased their discharges, —or having become entitled to them by length of service, had found their way to Sackett's Harbour, at which place a recruiting party of the regular army of the united States was stationed.—They then enlisted themselves in the service of the republic, and, furnished with civilian clothes, returned to Kingston, where they hung about the barracks, and, there is no doubt, persuaded the other men to desert. It was not known to the officers of the regiment that these men had entered the American service or they would not, of course, have been permitted t o rema i n about the innacks. There is no positive proof that these fellows were sent pur posely to seduce their former comrades Rein their coloars, but there in every probahilig that such was the case, and the mere fact of their having been permitted to revisit the Canadian side of the lake after enlistment in the American service, goes far to prove that Ruch wan the fact. It is supposed that the soldiers were tempted by the offer of large booties and better pay, with other prospects of advantage; but, however that may be, it is certain that desertion to a very great extent took place. We are told that an officer of the 71st went over to Sackett's harbour, and meeting with one of the American MSc es stationed there, asked him if they ever took deserters from the British service into their army to which he replied that they did not; upon which the English officer took. him to the American mainguard, and there showed him three men of his own company. The men very coolly saluted their former captain, and the American officer shrugged up his shoulders, and said that he could not be supposed to know who had been soldiers, out of the numbers of old countrymen who applied to enter their service. This was a falsehood, for we deny the fact, that any man who kas ever been drilled can escape without being at once discovered by tan' eye of a man who is himself a soldier. The English captain saw several more men of his regiment about the lawman., most of whom tried to get out of his way, evidently ashamed of themselves; while others whom he encountered unexpectedly, could not forget their old habits, drew up as he passed, and saluted him. Some two or three of the men, disgusted at their treatment by the American, deserted from them in return and surrendered themselves It wan then found that the poor deluded fellows had been regularly victimised ; that, although their seducers had premised them a large bounty, he., yet they were made to pay for so many articles in the shape of necessanen and at such extravagant rates, that their great bounties soon vanished into the pockets of the swindling Yankees quarter-masters. They stated also that they were severely treataf being confined to barracks after no o'clock in the evening, and gev .r d mounted at the gates by American volunteers, in order thal . h e , should not escape after the discovery of their rictimisatkm. ' Thes e men, it is supposed, have all been sent to Mexico ' • and if c h,, tru t h could be known, we believe it wouid be ascertained that se Ra ., coup l e of thousand of the army under General Taylor am Esiglis'a and that the American* have a regularly laid and elelibe,s4 plan for recruiting their ragamuffins by enticing away English ' se'.diers under false pretences. We are not sorry for the nemesis wb o desert—no treatment is bad enough for them, and we sale haPe V'eylor will take them where they will be half-starved and well-pepr „red but what are we to think of a geserrunent that tacitly enemerem crimes of t h e West kind in the army of a friendly power, if does not actually authorise it, which one would almost suppose to e, e the —• PRINCE EDWARD'S ISLAN7O. SUBSTITUTE Fort TRE POTATO.—Some months avp, we extracted from the journals of this colony a not'ae of some roots pro posed by Dr. Omer as substituter, for the potato. Half a bushel of one of them (sna-gtla-Law) was obtained at Squaw Bay, • short time since, dating the examination of the shore by that gentleman. The plant, at that place, grows upon a small W i and, in dry '.o am y u pl an d, and n a natural opening among the svi dfaP.v of the forest. From the favour able nature of the soil, t u b ers are muc h largerin size than those obtained from the sandhills at the entrance of Rich mond Bay, and from Bin to ten of them, of the size of pigeons' eggs, are often fonoi strung together like knots in a rope. The amount of root, or tuber, compared with the bulk of the slender N ine, in th'.: best samples, nearly equals in proportion that of the common potato. " We have also seen the starch ex tracted from the sactlon-ban,b7 the above gentleman(says an island journal) ; it is very white, and when separated from the gluten, it resembles arraY-root. this root, with another varipv , sailed ntuaqua-rote, t., Great Britain and the vinces. Every tact connected wt.'' , the favourable to the grand object in Tit w. teed in haring them tried in different be no doubt; and the learned doctor feels he may, that they will supplant the corer now seems doomed to • fatal disease. very eifferent from the pig -nut,' the the ' Indian turnip.'—Th e old Indian* on: with their abodes, and by their aid the obtained in all those colonies, where they c submitted to experiments by cultivation." Int OW. The Queen and Prince Albert took Osbo earlyrne walk H ouse. yesterday in the gar d ens and Mr. Majoribanka, Mr. W. Ewart, of the 'College of Preceptors, had ea in John Russell, yesterday, at his of f icial real street. Mr. Arthur Crooke, from Liverpoo •PIT with the Chancellor of the Exche his official residence in Downing-street, memorial respecting sugar. Mr. Gregory had an interview S yesterday, at the Colonial-office. The Bishop of London had an bite with Lord John Russell. Mr. Warburton had an interview, the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The Rev. W. A. Soarnes, vicar; vestry clerk ,• and two other inhabitant Greenwich, had an interview a ith Sir day, at the Home-o ffi ce. "The Chancellor of the Exchequer Wood had a dinner party yesterday a Eaton-square. Lady John Russell had an eveaim at her residence in Chesham-place. The Duke of Wellington left tov his seat, Strathtieldsaye, Hants. Despatches were sent off yesterd the Colonial-office for the Governor of e, VISCOUNT CLIFDEN.—ACCIDENT ' ESQ.—The accident mentioned in 0v occurred to Claude Lame E sq ., n i p Harewood, and not, as was then stated, t The mistake arose from Mr. Lascellei Lady Dover, and from his having been re after the accident took place. Mr. Lai first surgical assistance; hut his injurii no opinion can be given as to his recovx. RAGGED SCHOOI MILE-END NEW TOWN.—Anothc added to the rapidly-increasing number the metropolis, and in a neighbourhood tution is perhaps more needed than in as metropolis, viz., in King Edward-shy Town. A school of this class was forme ago, but, after a very short time, the bull held was found to be too small for the number of children attending. Aceo:dit were obtained and fitted up fur the yap, of them was celebrated last evening I v a auspices of Lord Ashley, who presded several of the clergymen of the a• ion party assembled was numerous and resp, number of whom were females. Wised prayer was offered up by the Rev. Mr. C Lord ASHLEY then addressed the mee they were assembled there for the ivirpo! opening of the schools which had bee; district to meet the great spiritual nem body of our fellow-creatures. He nu s in which they then were was a mo,t net was heartily rejoiced to see SU large ant he believed it to be an indication of the the efforts of those were here received hard and had spent much time and mon lish there a school that might save the vie the miseries and sins into which their k plunged. These schools, of which he were now many extended over various polls, were essentially necessary to the which we now were, and they had been "ragged schools;" but it was to be while they bore that appellatior, ii thereby to say that the serer:age schools would always be confine.. t the ragged ; it merely meant to say that of society, there were many hundrtels large towns who found themselves in ss and physical destitution that they conk the means of educating and clothing meet this necessity these schools had la they were intended only for a tempera long as the present state of ignorance s tinned among the lower classes so long a main, and all those present were bourdi support of these schools, in order that th children of their fellow-men from the del they had fallen. A• long as that cl,;.r. long as there were children of the .5 must these schools maintain their po had the honour of being the chairman o and had had considerable experitoo schools, and he was able to say s their efforts had been succearfd parts of England, the children hod bt I that they had been passed into a class description. One school he knew se , :l last two years, had sent not less than 50 c who had been brought from the mot filthy, and most neglected part of (Hear, hear.) It was ter these reasons the institution of such schools, the nets very great. He had had put into his Mr. Tyler, a statement of the district were. It stated that in 370 houses. whi, 813 families, there were 1,327 children; tants, 142 only were able to read; 1, worship ; and only 106 children atlend , and to the whole of this mass of person, 140 Bibles. So fir from weakening t these facts ought to be the greaser. me exertions, and he trusted that all mot duty bound, would do their utmost to a '1 he meeting was then addressed by tb men :—Mr. De Thoyt, Ite.vds. Misers. C C. D. Watt, and Mr. Gammon. Seven announced, including one of 51. from 31. from Lady Ashley. Resolutions ap; blishment of ragged schools, and appo the president, and the other officers of I passed, as was also a vote of thanks tc was acknowledged in suitable terms separated. UNIVERSAL BENEFIT BUILDING ASSOCIATION.—An adjourned meeting held last evening at the London Tavern Robert Steers, Esq., in the chair, fur the members. A number of shares were is! ing been disposed of at the first meetin when 5001. was advanced to a home shares are 1001. each, the subscription I; payable monthly, with an entrance fee non will terminate in twelve and ab. holders who do not borrow money w for the 651. per share which they wi whilst it is calculated that those to made for purchasing houses will, with become the owners of the property annually than the rent of the tages of this society over others of a that the law charges are fixed at four redemption fee ; and there arc no th withdrawals. TUE TIMES BUILDING AND I! PANT.—The second monthly meeting a held last night, at the Guildhall Coil street, Mr. Cronin in the chair. The in the purpose of balloting fur 8001., of re and enrolling sb rreholders. The chs meeting that th , re were 39 applicants, whose applica'..ians was 16,0001. (A 1 the question r,f a shareholder, the chi directAn lB hat'. nu resources at present cants. Tha 1 , were empowered to advat cent• to ap ilk:ants, till they were sue and if fir e y could obtain funds they woe where a small sum of money was wante was ur gent, they would lend it. The of pri.ceeding to ballot were then go Rig wants proceeded to draw for the Bar . Alexander Fraser and Mr. Wm, baying applied for 6001. and the latter I 'then proceeded to receive subscriptioi bers, after which the meeting separate , THE RAJAH OF SATTARA.—A held last evening in the lecture-room racy and Scientific Institution, Leiceate parliament on the subject of the &pa of Sattara. In the absence (through ill Briggs, F.R.S., who had promised to t. Thompson, Esq., was unanimously That gentleman, in introducing the be sketch of the leading events in the the prosecutions to which he had been that the gravamen of the charge agal home and in India, was that the act been allowed to be heard, either by hin defence of his own rights. If any tip East India Company was present, that him, if he chose to make any atateme subject.—ltungoo Bapojee, the aces of the deposed rajah, was present, to addreis the meeting in English, hr statement, in writing, of the whole MI tart, which was read to the meeting b 3 platform. The leading facts of this in this journal; and most of peered that the rajah was dethro ago, in consequence, it was alleged, of to the Bombay government, and the allowed even to see the evidence prnal!“ less to make his own defence. Mr. le. solution declaratory of the indigaauon way in which the rajah had been trc , the meeting, which lasted till a late 1