The Express. — London, England, 1849-12-26 00:00:00

isi. if rho no. ;his Pro -111. . be _......---- ----TBE lONIAN ISLANDS. 1 1 w roosiTa e a 0 rfs Gaunt? of the 12th. A „„ e gebeg a meow from the lord high oreaseie. I 7,ges to the lowan Assembly, in which several ' ..ireselatiog to the modification of the constitution Wseratioeed not bring in accordance with the ave a the h om e government. The chief point i retro versy Ithaca to the nomination of the 00,tors, which the government wishes to be g owned to its previous form. while the assembly bit re posed that it should be effected by the Loed hi s s sommissioner from among the members of tho ...entire assemblies. The government approves of ;pa electo , Aloe modifications ral,gat's& and secret vo sash as the extensionting. of , a better is m paper con tains two supplementary mss 11s ~, the first revoking the act of the A membl y , ~, Tie'xk radars the military contribution to one-fitth l o g yearly M o ose, and fixing the said contribut ion • WOOL; the second fixing the minimum of the IA kith messeissioner's civil list at 13,0001. termination of the war at present. The legislature has proposed to the general government to be relieved from paying in its contingent to the national treasury for one year, and on the contrary, that it shall receive from the general government 25,000 dollars per month until the war is over. We received by the Crescent City some miscella neous news from South America. At Lima, on the 12th of November, British goods bad fallen in the face of a limited stock. importations of wines and liquors had been excessive in the month of November, and the articles did not bring their first cost. There -were some arrivals of quicksilver, which ranged from 105 to 110 dollars ; 7,000 quintals of India rice had been imported, and remained without bolters. All articles of food of domestic production were in demand for exportation to California. Chili appeared to enjoy unusual tranquillity, General Belzer having proclaimed a general amnesty. M. Arago, the blind traveller, who sailed some months sr from Havre, with a patty of French. men for ben Francisco. had left them at Valparaiso, and declared his intention of remaining to write a history of Chili. Tee Valparaiso Mercury gives the fallowing in relation to the Southern Pacific line of British steamers : A committee of merchants, composed of Messrs. D. J,se Tomas Ramos. D. Carlos L intertt. D. Francisco Salvador Alvarez, D. i s Sonieo, D Asia' Castillo, D. Jorje tiobacus, D Fella Volute D. Alfredo Ward. D. Jorjs Feria. man. D. Josue Wadinaton y D. lose Augustin Viva. have adopted the following re oolutions' on th e 'abject of pro. roguing the privilege conceded to the P. 8. N. C. :—Art. 1. ahe privilege should be continued. For five years least. Art. 3. Said company binding itself to 'Mend the line to Chace, with a monthly vessel Art. 4 The govern. meat reserving the right of contracting with other compa nies tor the navigation of the straits of Msgollan, and con versing' of the mails to tke United &atm, Europe and West ladies Art. 5. The committee would ro cm:send to the government to see that the treaty be duly and faithfully carried hats expend.% by the company. The following sub• cematittee was appointed to draft and report upon the above : Meters. D J T. Ramos, 1). J. Wad ugton, D. Geo. Robson, • NEW YORK, Dac. 12. gores is in session, the whigs beiug, u I have It o d owili eeticipatal, in a practical miurity. Up to y evening the Hones of Repeeseatatives hart l abels able to choose a speaker, and were of course ellestorguisition. The free soil whigs . and dems no boll the balance of power, and neither of the h' parties an yet able to effect any dorm ant im enn power of the coer.toy is so far for l ee presest. leis is not by any means, he mover, a l owly inseam; it has many precedents, which I repeat, were it worth while. At first sight e we( the enemies of the " Model Republic " might area as in a ling. roue condition, because so many den ban elapsed since congress was first in tension beton the busmen of the ecuntry . has really begun. Fit from it. The only really imprietant gover motel business (so far as its duration is concerned), ge ntly, the approprlation and supplies, are never r ested until the lest moment of the session, and this sometimes in midsummer. Universally no bueineas el cossequence is transacted until after the holidays, ell therefore we tray set it down as a "fixed fact," that' *bag is really lost to the country by a few days of d e lay is choosing • speaker. On the contrary, if demise Taylor's cabinet and friends in congress knew bs is avail themselves of even the difficulty placed is his way. they could sully appeal to the people for so tiptoe on of their indices' eon at the course takes by a faction of abolitionists and ultra-southern men to Orels the action of the government. The probibil;ty iliac the pinion of the southern whigs, who refused reset with the northern whip, f ave another object view —namely, to coerce General Taylor into getting Mel SAN of his present constitutiotal advisers. Tee of them southern whir were the petrel* ad deers in its formation, but they bare become dissatis fled with the Soctetary of War, if not two other modem% of the cabinet, and when they cin precute ueiv resignatiors or dismissal they will unite with their northern frier de. The two steamers, Ohio and Crescent City, ball mowed at this port, with news from California to the lets( Nen.mber. My friend and correspondent at las Francisco came back in the Crescent City. I salad not bat smile as I saw him first, standing pithe wheel-home of the steamer, u she ap palled the wharf, with a sort o ar s 'huhu his weather-beaten c eintenance, a long Mexican blackest aroued his shoulders, and with his bath in his pockets, as if they were his first cars. He brought with him one hundred thousand Sellars, in rid dust, consigned to various par ties in the Culled States, lead at kart Sty thoesand &liars of his own, accumulated within the last nine months. The specimens whirl he had wi'h him of the preelucts of the ruins mines were er ouch lo make ores eyes water, and would be worth a large am to any museum. Ile had also specimens of various pekoe stones, with which California abounds, and be equally interested us with his adventures. To sum Iv the whole of his communications, I have only to my that California is full of gold ; that the products oil the mines, so fir as they are to be estimated by the amounts constantly sent to Europe, South America, sad the Culled States, are largely on the increase, and that industry is surer now of its reward in California than it has ever been before. S 3 far as his personal moron was concerned, he declared he could live as happily in San Francisco as anywhere else. He is ab at to return there, and a lady of beauty and good family c arexions will return with him, there to share his fortunes. The people of California have agreed upon the form of the esestitution with which they desire to enter the confederacy. It was the work of both Americans sad Mexicans, and is the most radically republican of any yet adopted on this continent. The declaration of rights begins will re-asserting that all men by nature are free and independent, posse's inalienable rights, such as those of life and liberty, the acquisition o f property, and the enjoy ment of safety and happiness ; that all political power is inherent in the people ; that the trial by jury s inviolate ; that the free exercise of religious opinions shall be for ever allowed, except when they are sought to *sense acts of licentiousness or practises inconsistent with the safety of the state. (This is supposed to be a caution to the Mona as.) The writ of habeas corpus is established, excessive bail sad excessive fines are prohibited, the liberty of speech and of the press is proclaimed, and even libels, it p..blished from good aid justifiable motives, shall In excused. Representation is to be apportioned to population. Foreigners who are or shall hereafter become bowl fide citizens of California, shall enjoy the same privileges as Americans born. " Neit her slavery nor involuntary servitude, unless for the punishment of crime, shall ever be tolerated in the state." Every white male citizen of the United States or of Mexico (the latter, under very trifling restrictions, tacit g relation to their own desire for citizenship), is untied to the elective franchise, and the legislature by a two-third vote may extend this to Indians, or the deer endants of Indians. Most of the general articles derlare how the gcv ele ment is to be organized, and how it is to be carried on in its various departments. Among the miscellaneous matters is one excluding duelliets, whether guilty in the state or out of the state, or parties carrying chiller gee, from enjoying any office of honour or pro fit, or even the right of suffrage. The credit of the watt stall not be loaned to any person or peruse, 'Leiner. Parties having claims against it, sr* allowed to sue it as if it wore a private person. The separate property of a wife " owned or claimed before marriage," and that acquired afterwards by " gift, devise, or decent," shall be ander her own control absolutely. The legislature is required to exempt to every head of a family, a " sufficient " amount of land sad personal effects, from all judgments and exe esti n, by !seed proem of law. The public debt is now allowed to be created bey and 300,000 dols., ex cept is ems of war and invasion, unless the means are at the same time provided for the fltyment of the principal and the interest. Paper money of all kinds is ab., lately forbidden. We consider the constitution a very practical and relined one, and one which will be beneficial to the Calicortians. We are great constitution makers, it is the easiest thing with us to form one, and it is sur • prisieg to notice the facility with which the Califor nians have burst their shell, and come out with fee- I woo t,cb pnt to their aott is not D. Alfred Ward. In connexiou with these sulej. eta it may be as well to allude to the present condition and prospects of Panama and its isthmus. Toe throng of travellers is greater than ever. An intelligent young man, whom I sent cut to Pa nama to close some business of my own in that quar ter, has just returned atter an absence of about six weeks. I avail myself of many of his statements. The transportation across the isthmus is at present almost impracticable. The rainy season is not over, l , and the roads are bad beyond description. The prices of canoes and mules have nearly doublee, and the I otter are almost all monopolised by Zeebrieson and Nelson, who also own all the grazing lands in the vicinity of Panama. They re ceive two dollars com mission on every package that paean through their hands, beside the full charges of transportation. Tae steamers of Howland and Aspinwall are so loaded down with passengers, that they make but about seven or eight miles per hour, and the voyage is tedious and disagreeable. The little steame r Herren having broke n down many times, is again running up the river, but is so inefficient that another is to be built by her owners, and seat out there as a substitute. A great many improvements are taking place in Panama, and the intelligent natives b .gin to antici pate a great career of prosperity. Many of the old stone dwellings are undergoing extensive repairs, and are being modernised so as to be useful and profitable. The island of Toboga, opposite the town, is assuming I a very lively appearance, being the stopping place of the steamers. Small steamers to ply in the bay are also in a state of forwardness. The Panama railway will now be commenced with vigour. Mr. Stevens, the celebrated traveller, one of the directors of the company, has departed far the scene of operations, and will be followed on the 13tn inst. by a full corps of engineers and operatives. A large quantity of wheelbarrows has already been sent on to Chagrin. Every thing necessary for the c in strustion of the road except the cross ties and sun ports of the rails will be made ready in New Y ork. As fast as the g rade is completed the rails will be laid, and the road need for its own construction. The Messrs. Howland and Aspinwall havejust boo 4 ht another steamer to pl between this an j Chagres in connection with the Cherokee. It is supposed that they intend to extend their operations to the East Indies. Some persons are so sanguine cf the success of these new arrangements as to insist that a voyago will yet be made from Liverpool to Canton, via Panama, in 45 days. While I am writing this pert of my letter news of the most important character has reached us from Honduras. It is of a very serious nature, and bids fair to disturb our relations with your country unless immediate attention is given to it. We have been conciliated snnewhat by the tone of the lest article in the Tones, on the Mosquito question, and inferred from it that even the hot-headed conductors of that journal had at last learned the necessity of imitating the moderation and fair dealing ot the Daily News. But now a "screw is loose," and there is no know ing what may happen. We received yesterday a letter from St. Lean de Nicaragua, dated the 6:h of November, stating that Mr. Chatfield, the British agent in that vicinity, PrOceeded with au armed force, on the 16th of Octo ber, to the island of Tigre, in the Ba y of Fromm, and took violent possession of it in the name of her Majesty—a gracious name which, on this occasion, has been most unhappily put forward. The Hondu ras flag was pulled down by his orders, and the Bei- Cali flag hoisted in its place. A superint endent was a ppointed and a new system of government esta i blished. , As soon as this was made known to our minister, Mr. Squiers, he dispatched a messenger to I Mr. Chatfield, informing him that the island now I l belooged to the Unid States by treaty of cession, 1 and that he expecte te d he would immediately eva- Mate it. Mr. Chatfield replied, acknowledging the receipt of des letter, but declared that Honduras had no right whatever to cede any portion of her territory, as she had no national existence. Ile also insisted she had so right to dispose of the island, because he had inti mated that he had a lien upon it. It is rumoured that Mr. Chatfield, on „ her second thought." suspected the ground bad taken was net altogether tenable, and then wrote a eseond despatch, in which he offered to submit the question to her Majesty's government. Mr. Squiers again promptly demanded the evocation of the island In six days. If the matter had rested here, it is evident it might be settled by negotiation ; but it did not. The British vice-consul has with equal baldness seized on all the islands of the gulf, and even San Salvador and the ports of Truxillo and Moro. Tte former received a summons requiring due submission to certain demands within 94 hours, which bring de clined, all the coast was taken possession of. In con sequence of this, the Guatemalan states have risen in anndesr ins t " o o f le l prepar ingmen to attack Tigre Island : and another 1,000, under Barreiras and Cabirias, are on the way to re lieve San Salvador. The people are said to be in the greatest state of excitement, and all English interests are for the present prostrated in that quarter. I am unable to learn who was the commander tha assisted Mr. Chatfield in this (buc canering) exc t ursion. Commander Paynter has been off Realejo in the Gorgon, but did not enter that port. In that part of the world it is believed that the English government has desired to possess itself of the Nicaragua route. Certain it is, that the arrange manta with which Manning was entreated in Eng land will never be carried out. It now remains to be seen, whether the Chatfield policy is to be sustained by Lord Palmerston. It has rowed the hatred of all central America, it has begun to excite the suspicion and dislike of the North Americans. It is narrow, bigoted, and unjust. It interposes obstacles to tl-e advancement of the commerce of the world, and actually retards the progress of the human rece. Look at this whole question in a liberal light from your own side of the Atlantic. Europe is op pressed with a population which it cannot retain, happily, or restrain without bloody wars. The sited States has received with open arms all those unhappy wanderers who have sought to escape poli tical aid physical suffering. As this tide of emigra tion has overran all the immediate points of destina tion, and thrown a vast wave of pauperism on our lions, Providence acting upon the desires and even the espidity of men, has offered a new and vast ter ritory filled with gold, where the down trodden men I who can work have at last the opportunity of accu mulating property, in preference to those more gifted of die human race whose muscles and sinews are all lodged in the brain—a singular revereal of the l ong - es t a blished eider of things. It else PO happens en ale nein resod! 'eat d ♦ermer ill not ee)eff liaß to rit that e etire to farad: ,nt. wel them Byirg. There is one circumstance I must not pass oval, Large numbers of Chinese labourers are now brought to San Francisco, on English account, and they are told for their time to the Americans. It appears they agree to act u servants of all work, for a consi deration given them in their own country, and the eoneiguors sell their services to the highest bidder. They are purchased with great eager; eel, for no Americans will do any menial labour if he can avoid it, aed their appearance in San Frauds - 0 is hailed , with joy. These Chinese are to be what the Helots were ; ie Sparta, and what the lower classes of Irish emigrants now are in our Atlantic states A promising trade was opening with the East Indies, and that with the Sandwich Islands had already commenced. The Crescent City left at Chngres the British steamer Avon, the captain of which reported that there had been some disturbances in Costa Rica, the character of which he did not know. It is surmised that they had arisen out of the conduct of the Clover aor, Jose M. De Castro, who had placed himself under !he protection of the English government, and that this step had given offence to a large number of the people. Yucatan advice' to the 18th ult. have reached us by our Dhagres steamers. They are melancholy The government forces have recently been dtfeated by the Indians, and there is no hope of THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 26, 1849. that the Americans have the chief interest in open um a passage for the transit of their careworn tra velem, and an enterprising company of New Yorkers propose to do immediately that which European enter prise has dreamed about, but never dared attempt. The whole world is to be benefited by the project. At this moment a puerile claim, which even the Times cannot defend, is set up—the right of protec torship to a tribe ot barbarians, for whom the English government has done nothing, and can 4o nothing, and this right is set up for the purpose of preventing the successful accomplishment of a work, which will not only humanise and benefit those Indians, bat assist the commercial world. Certainly, this is no ground for " 0:c1 England," enlightened, Christian, politic, fair " Old England" to bike!. Nor can she sanction such violent acts as those committed by M. Chatfield. If she does, if she is so far lost to her own true interests, then, indeed, there are breakers ahead. It is proper to add that the information I have communicated, came to this city with the Nicaragua ter sty only yesterday, and was at r nce forwarded to Washington. I have no doubt but Mr. killers is the author ot the letter which gave us the intelligence. We have news from Hayti by a schooner just ar rived from Port an Prince, and another which left Cape Haytien on the let of December. The Emperor of the Republic of Hayti, had issued an edict, to take effect on the sth inst., that no foesiri merchant should do business unless he paid a license el 1,800 dole. &apish per year, in place of 900 dole., as heretofore, or any foreign clerk, unless Le paid 1,000 dole. No vessel w. s allowed to take cargo unless she had discharged her cargo at that port. The export duty on coffee and logwood was 50 dela, Hayden money, per 1,000 pounds, instead of 5 dole., as hereto fore, and in the same ratio on all mercbandite. He has fixed a price on all goods imported and exported, and was raising an as my to march against the Spanish part of the island. Busine-s was very dull. The government has lust paid up to the Fre: - .ch a portion of the interest of the indemnity due. A meeting was to be held, to take into eonsidera tion the better mode of equalising the distribution of the coffee. Export duties are to be increased on coffee an•i logwood. American provisions are getting scarce. Articles of British manufacture of first necessity, each as Checks, Osnaburges, Iv., are on the decrease, and scarce. The flay ti• n squadron 1. ft frr a cruise, off Jacmel as supposed, where the Di =laicals had already be-n cruising. We have jive received the message of the Governor of Indiana, delivered to the legislature on the 3rd inst. I extract one paragraph, which may be inter esting to English readers. The adupti in of low rate of tariff duiau in 1846, at home, and a corresponiii.g fe.llS4tioll of the stringent restrictions upon commerce abroad, have not only had the effect to bring into the tres ury of the United Sta.'s a greater amount of fcTellltle, but also to ii.crease greatly the profits of the girl. cultural, manutactur ng, and comae mid classes of the com• munity. Should this bus..fleent ',stem, by which the mil. lions engaged in aariculture are enabled to procure a wider and more fevouranle market ler the surplus products of their labour be suffer. d to continue, it is c ailideutly believed that the permanent pr .serity of the toidog millions of our mu lti= will be pleas d ap e a durable basis. AMERICUS. Ine Court. WINDSOR, Die. 25. The Queen and Prince Albert walked this morning in the Slopes end Windsor-park. The Royal Family took their arcustoined airings. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prime Albert, her Royal Richness the Pelts:ma Royal, the ladies and gentle men of the court, and the domestic household, attended divine service this morning in the private chapel The Hon. and Rev. G. Wellealey . olficiated. Tao royal dinner party, this events& included her Rvyal Highness the Duchess of Kent. attended by her Royal High ness's Ladies In Waiting, the Demmer Lady and Mee. Miss Lyttaltos, Colonel Ron. C. B. and Mn. Plapps, and Colonel Hon. Charles and Mrs. Orgy. Lord Rlohinetone has relieved the Earl of Morl in his duty as bird in Waiting to the Queen, and Colonel Berkeley Drummond has relieved Mr. Ormsby Gore in his duty as Groom to Waiting to her Majesty. 21. ired the eek tbl A llot 0 etsigt 11. we. Hee" i"1 " THE CHRISTMAS RAILWAY TRAFFIC. The recurrence of Christman-day brought with it an extraordinary amount of railway traffic, teeming in aid out of the chief metropolitan termini. Yesterday the Eaten station of the London and North Western Railway was the scene of the same Incessant occupation that it has been either more or less gins Saturday. Special arrange. merits were made by Captain Heigh, the general manager. and Mr. Brooke, the traffic superintendent, in conjunction with the delivery agents Messrs. Chaplin and Horne, whereby the greatest expedition la delivery was obtained, and as the means by which it was accomplished are not ge luridly known,. it may be interesting to describe the arrangements adopted, so that no one consignmeat of the immense mass was allowed, if possible, to be lost or miscarry. On the arrival side of the sta tion was a large terrponry tent, supplied with halls dogro fires, its dimensions 20 feet high by 00 wide, being lit up with gas laid on for the purpose, and into which, as the various mail and merchandigs trains hove up along side, their contents were bided out and temporarily stowed. Here during yesterday morning, andsiace Saturday, between fifty and sixty of the railway porters were engaged day and eight hauling the hampers, &c., out of the goods vans, and naudeg them across the rails to a numb :r of men employed by the company's carrying apeuts in the tent, who, with the "sorters," arranged them into their particular comp art names in feint of the station well, on which was written the different districts or destinations, 'spaniel compartments fog assigned for " the City, Strand, the squares, over the water, I s lington, East-end , Finsbury, West-and, Hingsland, Clukenweil, ' &c., at each of which poiets, between two and three omnibuses and vans steed in the process of being leaded, and the various c.asignmenm were checked by the company's clerks at their desks; and this haviog been doue, as non as filled the 30 or 40 conveyances drove off without delay with their deliveries, consisting of barrels of oysters, baskets of fish, fruit, game, and ether Christmas presents. The immense contents of the mail and other mins arriving yesterday and on Monday at half past 4 a.m., were dispcsed of in this =sneer by 10 o'clock, at which time the station was cleared. On Sunday morning the men re mained at work, and the conveyance vans were in all parts of town by 9 u'elo.ik. Every care was taken to prevent t • labels falling off. The various omnibuses and vans, as they erect out, attracted no small attention, some of them being so piled with packages as to rem & up to the second floor windows of the homes. On some there were 200 packages. Great ears was required in building them up securely, sad mie was effected, not only by laying the packages acres, bat , by suspending tuskeys and pigs outside, which enabled an enormous number to be token. Police were about to prevent pilfering. On the departure side of the station elan auks I sonso wen employed day and night with the maim's by the trains te the various menufasturing towns, and it is calculated that the number of packages and con signments of all descripti amounte d " down the lire could out for the four days have to leas than 20,000, and those coming in to less than 15,000. There were also several hued: ed waggons of live and dead stock, and a great influx of passengers to and fro sou occasioned, the company having issued double you.ney tickets, available Irom Saturday to Wednesday. On t e Great Western, Eastern C. unties, and South Weaken the same expeditious wrens of delivery was adopted, Vie carrying agents being the same. The number of con. tignmeau over the Great Western during tho four days is computed at 18,000 " down" and some 8,000 " up." On S iturday the using on this line are said to have been tree mendous with people going in and out of town—the luggage such as had never Men seen before, and as though the stay of the parties was intended till next Christmas. Extra ear riages had to be put on to the express and ordinary trains,the arrangemehts of which were under the superintendence of Mr. S,ymcur Clark-, the manager, and Mr. Palmer, the traffic superintendent. On the Eastern C Antics an i mmense tent was consructed for the purpose the arrangements ands taff, under Mr. t Snow beieg of a similar perfect description with these at Euston, square, with this addition, that on the arrival aide of the hoe the shoals of packages wire backed out of the trains into the tent by means of a huge sliding platform; while upon the " down" side was a sort of dock, into which the railway . carriages were run, and conveniently loaded on the line with their cargoes. The consignments by this line, taking in as it does the great game and agricultural districts, were immense, more porlioulaely in Lire and dead stock, which, during the preceding week, were enormous. The South. Western, South-Eastern and Brighton, each had their proportionate amount of truffle, more particularly in passengers, owing to the facilities given for extending the return journey to Wednesday, which was the cam on many of the provincial railways. EXCLUSIVE AUDIENCE TO THE BAR—It wee stated in the Eapreas • few days since that Mr. Serjeant Dowling, the judge of the York County Court, had :pros el his intention of submitting to the Attorney- General the question whether, in insolvency cases, the bar should have exclusive audience in County C sorts, and that attorneys should not plead before them? On Friday last the learned judge informed the bar that he intended to have the pont argued before him, and fixed the 26th of January for the discussion. Mr. 'Renaud will appear for the barristers practising in the district, and an intimation has been given that • barrister would appear for the attorneys on the " special oecasi , m." The decision will settle the question in other county courts. TUE LAST OF TUE PALACE COURT. —Friday next is the hut regular confide, of the Palace Court. Probably it will sit by adjournment on Monday, according to the terms of the 12 and 13 Vie., cap. 101, and then It will cease and determine. Connected with this court is the Idershalsea Court; and both will pass away in the same day. A cor respondent says: " This Court of the Marshabesi at one time held a high place in rank and dignity, and, as the old writers declare, ' there was no court superior to it.' It was coeval with the common law, and followed the King's per son. Even in the reign of Edward VI. it was de scribed as one of the • ancientast courts within the realm.' The court was established to administer tie - tice between persons belonging to the royal household ; and the Esrl Marshal was the officer to execute the rocess when notice was performed by the lord steward of the Palace. In modern days very little brininess was trans acted in the court. With the Palace Court, created by letters patent of the 16 Charles 11., it was very different. The juriadictiou of the Palace Court extended to all persons not of the household, and abiding or coming within 12 miles of the palace at Westminster. This court was designated ' the court of the king of the of the king at Westminster.' According to the re s t i t i e c r e s patent the lord steward had power to nominate and admit ' four counsellors to be counsel, and six persons so be attorneys in the court for the term of the life of each person, to prosecute and defend the actions,The places were obtained bhp urchase, and the last barrister ad mitted was Kr. Best, the present Member of Parliament for Kidderminster, who has made his claim for compensation, as well as the attorneys and other officers belonging to the court. Compensation was granted to the officers when arrest on mane process was abolished, and further compeneation has now been claimed, which claims an at the present time under the consideration of the Lords of the Treasury. No writs have been issued since the Ist of August last, but a good deal of business has been transacted under the Small Debts Act. There is not one person connected with the court paid by salary—all, including the judge himself, are remunerated by fees. Singe the County Courts Act was passed, the busi ness of the court greatly increased, and in estimating the coaneusation to be awarded, the Lords of the Treasury are nut to consider the increased emoluments. Such is a brief outline of the rise and fall of the Palace Court. Events have hastened its dissolution. It will soon become one of the things that were, and its records transferred to the custody of the Master of the Bola as Record Keeper, probably to be buried in some compartment of the New Houses of Parliament. TUE BRIOUTON PAVILION.—A vestry meeting was held at Brightoo on Thursday for the purpose of having submitted to it the draught bill conferring powers on the commissioners to complete the purchase. The Rev. H. M. Wagner (vicar), presided on the occasion, and the meeting, which lasted seven hours, was of a boisterous character. A motion approvirg of the bill was proposed by Mr. Georg. Faithitill, who once represented Brighton is parliament. This was met by three amendments, one of which, moved by Mr. A H. Cox, one of the minority et the vestry committee, was, " that the bill now presented is disapproved of. and that a memorial be presented to the Commissioners of Woods and Forests, expressing the desire of the vestry that no thither step be taken in the matter." This amendment, on a show of hands, was carried by about four to three, I and a poll was then demanded by Mr. James , Curdy, ono of the churchwardens. On Friday, the vows stood as follows:—For the bill, 408- for Mr. Cox's a mendment, 656. The excitement was nearly equal to that w hich generally prevails during a coatest for the repreethte tion of the borough; and this was increased on Saturday, when the poll wee resumed. During Saturday morning it seas discovered that at the time Mr. Faithfull proposed his motion he Ind not paid his poor rates (which was probably the case with hall the persons present), and Mr. Cos there upon heeded to the chairman a protest against the reception of more votes for the motiou, on the ground that, under the circumstances, it was illegal. The chairman having con 501'ed the vestry clerk, decided on receiving the votes, sub pet to the protest. The polling continued till Saturday night, when the final esult was declared to be as follows : For the bill, 1,313; for the amendment, 1,307. Majority fur the bill for completing the purchase, 36. The chair, amidst the rimes: confusion, declared the motion ed, subsequent g to the protest of Mr. Cox.. So the matter scarritands. COLONIAL NEPOTISM. Family elmrets in this province, says the Halifax San, have been pre-ty well used up by the ass of worm, tud E is in the istwir of tne pat; le to prevent, it they will, such combiu tions atisibet their best interests tor the future. Some of the sister colonies, however, are still cursed with Malty compacts; and, among the number, New Bruns wick, es the f .lioniog extract from a recent letter, in the St. Joint transom, mid show : Chief Justice Chipman. His Wolter in-lew, Mr. Wright, advocate general. His nephew, Hr. Has m Judge of the Court of Vic e Admiralty, leeearder of St. Len and an Executive CAin. ci.lor. His cousin, Mr E. B. Chandler, ehrk of the peace, our. roger., 'knee of meoriagit licenses for Westm aloud, judge of the Common Pleu in Albert, and estimative councillor. tu nes ocusin, Mr t W. Chandler, surrogate of Kent , a nd Tis nephew, A i r. Le Baron Drury, sheriff of Kings. His nephew, Mr. Chalos Drury, registrar of deeds and wills in St. John. His nephew, Mr. Blisaßourford, supervisor of great roads. His nephew, Mr. Blair B 'Word, sheriff of Westmoreland. His nephew, Mr. 0 orge Botsford, clerk, of the :egisla ti re council. His nephew, Mr. Bdwin lartaturd, member of the legislative o oatiell. His nephew, Mr. Coipman 13atsford, surrogate of Resti gonehe. Beside s many miiior j , into of the tail, who claim no re lationship with the heal, but who never.heless are put and parcel of the compact SOUTHAMPTON PO M RT O N OF THE INDIA AIL The heavy portion of the India Mail arrived at Southampton yesteriay morning, in the Peninsular and Oriental St L ieutenant eam Navition 0 trioany's ship Indus, Caatain J. Soy, in cbarge of Lieutenant Tancock, R.N., Admiralty agent. Indian dates h . v., as usual, brill anticipated. H N. stlineam-r Ormler was at Alt xsairia, an with four Egyptian e-of-battle ships, three irigites, d two tor vette,. At Malta.-11 N. ship Ceylon, the Prince Regent. tho Hercules store-ship, the Antelope, the Tunisian steam frigate Woos, and Frenel , steamer Egyp'uh. At Gibraltar on the 19th itst.—H M.S Janus. On the 19th, at 1.39 p.m., the Indus exchanged signals with H.M. strew steamship La Hogae, working thtotieh the Straits of Gibraltar, with the Arrogant and the Encoun ter in steht. On the 9:h, at 8 a m., exchanged colours with H.M. steam-packet Merlin, in lit. 32 N., long. 27 46 E. Dec. 14, spoke H.M. steamer Medina, four miles off the north west end of the Wand of Gov). Dec. 20, ark- the bargue Ann, of Bristol, eight miles north of Cape St. Vincent. The Indus brings hates from Lisbon to the 15th inst., six days later than hose received by the Montrose. HAI. frigate Leander, with the steamers &quire and Con flict and the Russinn frigate Pallas, was at anchor in the Two. The petition of the opposition party fee the dismissal of the Count de Thomar had been presented to the queen through the Home ottce, and published in the Portuguese journals. The government ; rem *Milberg the petition to a renewal of the plans of 1846 for eliciting the people to a revolution; wt,iht the opposition declare that they alone seek the dig ' missal of the Count de Thonsar, std not the rest of the ministers. It would seem that all idea of 'soy other change in the cabinet before the meet ' Jog of he COM/. had been abandoned, and that the free quent councils of ministers which hod been held related to sew projects of law upon finance, army recruitment, liberty of the peas, dm., which were to be submitted to the Cores, and upon which it was ,aid the different members of the cabinet had come to an understanding, as also that the Count de Ehomar should justify Women in the House of Peal against the allegations in the petition primate .1 to the Queen. It was said tout the ministry had agreed to the nomina tion 01 a new botch et peers, end that the matter was in con sideration at. a council of state which the Queen was holding when the accounts left, end that there was little doubt of the following nominations to the peerage, viz., Counts Can! and Anadis, Viscounts Moncorvo, C enspanhsa, and Fonts Nova, Baron Monte Pedral, a. d M. Alburgatia Freire, a deputy and Loge landholder in t e A:emtejo. On the night of the 14M-16th an attempt had been made to assassinate Mr. Munoel Brown, is the corridor+ of the Liubon Theatre of Bun Carla. He is a son of Mr. M. C. Brown, ot Oporto, a prison of the Bemtembriste, and was little injured, the dagger Laying taken elect in his arm in stead of his si.Ns. Ihe Jupiter steamer, with the English mails of the 7th instant, had only reached Li-bon on the 16th, parly in c 41- sequence of her delay in a iruitlew attempt to take an abaft • dooed ship into Vigo; the vessel had been met with tff Cape Finisterre, and was supposed to be Ameri , an. The Jupiter had also been delayed upon the coast of Portugal by etense fogs, which had prevented vessels entering Me Tagus for two Gays. aiThd s ere was no alteration in the Lisbon quotations of stocks ham. Discount on benk-notes 39 per tent. GALLANT CONDUCT Or A BOTe—Dnrifig the dense fog which prevailed in the as ne i g hb ou rhood of arminghtm on the afternoon and evening of Tuesday week, a lad, ose name we have unfortunately been unable to certain, wh dis played, under very perrous circumstances, an amommen unt of manly courage and c oolnes s worthy of the highest co datiun. It appears, from the facts we have collected, that on the evening in question a little irk, named Broughton, residing in the locality of Dartmouth-street, whilst on her w ay home, from the density of the atmoephere completely lost herself, and although ignorant how to proceed, walked blindly on. At this point, near the bridge, where it is con jectured she first missed the road, the street is unconamony rugged and ill-lighted, and the aroaches to the caoal, which runs cree by, are quite ope ns end unguarded. It is supposed. therefore, that the girl wandered near the water, I and, unable to distinguish it, fell into one of the locks, n almost empty. She would inevitably have perished bad not her serethss attracted the attention of the youth alluded to, who, having soon ascertained her imminent danger, de scended the lock gates, holding on by the projection on its surfers until he reached the water, when he succeeded ie catching hold of the clothes of the terror-stricken cbild. He held her firmly and above water until their united tries brought some men to their amistonce, when they bobnlanded.—Birminghans Journal. AGRICULTURAL SIGNS OF THE TINiEs. Notwithstar.ding the attempts the landlord politi cians are making to turn the discontent of the farmers to the account of the class interest of hindlordirm, the tendency of the agricultural mind is towards prac tical questions. The old cliques are at work. The Doke of Richmond gathered about him his body guard of sham farmers at the Bond-street Protection Society, and some of hie followers spouted protection ism at the London Farmers' Club. In Devonshire too, in the far-west, notorious for incumbered proprietors and inferior farmers, the protectionists have tried the experiment of a county meeting to petition the Queen to dissolve parliament. Some efforts, too, have been made to reconcile two sections into which the retro !moist politicians have split; while rumours of falter ing' and backelidings on the part of a few whig peers, are confidently propagated. At the annual meeting of the Farmers Club, Mr. Shaw, the editor of the monopolist Mark Lane Express, myste riously alluded to some communications, which certain of the Duke of Richmond's adherents had had with a ministerial peer, who was assumed to speak by au thority, because his wife is one of the ornamental members of the Queen's household ; and in the columns of the Express of last Monday, Lord Portman is stated to be the peer who is coquetting with the protectionists on the subject of imposing a fixed duty on foreign corn. Doubtless there are many whigs who never were hearty free-traders, perhaps never were free traders at all, and who being thoroughly imbued with the spirit of landlordism, might not hesitate to conspire with the protectionists to reimpose a duty on corn. Possibly, too, these magnates may not like the sort of tone and temper in which the farmers are looking into the relations of landlord and tenant, any more than protectionist fellow-landlords. But do they suppose all the other industrious classes they propose to pillage will submit patiently ? Are they even blind enough to imagine that the farmers themselves are as unanimous as formerly for the food monopoly ? If so, they most egregiously mistaken. The past year h as been one of great diffi"ulty to no inconsiderable number of farmer., but that difficulty has led them to see that there are other and better modes of providing a remedy for the evils they endure than a return to protection. One of these is a reduction of rents, and that is the thing under which landowners wince. Reduced rents, however, are only uecessary where estates have been mismanaged—as the vast majority have been—aid the tenants hold upon terms which preclude profit able farming. Mr. Shaw admitted that farmers do not answer the protectionist whip, for he said, " it had been his misfortune to be always complaining of the want of unanimity amongst farmers ; and he much feared that notwithstanding the suffering which ex isted there was a considerable degree of spatby. Com munications had been made to him within the last week, in which the writers expressed their astonish ment that their brother farmers said so little respect ing the position in which they were placed. He could only account for this by supposing that they were suffering under a feeling of desperation." We believe the apathy is caused by a " desperate" deter mination to apply themselves to the very obvious and practical means of improvement which lie within their reach, provided the landowners will deal with them fairly and honestly. And inasmuch as the landowners are now somewhat alarmed for their in comes, they are more than half inclined to be honest and fair towards their tenants, a change of which the shrewder farmers are quietly availing themselves. Amongst other signs of the progress of English husbandry are the a„ricultural exhibitions. Exposi tions of objects of industry are just now in fashion, and the rural industry of this country may claim to have taken the lead in such spectacles. Cattle shows and exhibitions of agriculture have for some years been increasing in interest and attractiveness, as the crowds which flock to the annual country meetings of the Royal Agricultural Society and the Smithfield fat stock shows at Baker-street testify. This season a similar exhibition has been commenc•d at Birmingham, and has proved completely successful. Now the most bigoted prophet of rural ruin will admit that these shows indicate, not only a great improvement in the character of the stock 1 s hown, but also a considerable extension of good I stock. The animals at the Smithfield show came' from all parts of the country, and not a few of the penman who obtained prizes are new men, not hitherto known as breeders and feeders of good stock, whilst most of the old names are there also. And these things are not supported by landowners so much as by farmers. At the Smithfield Club dinner the Duke of Richmond " regretted that their annual dinner was not better supported by the landowners ;" and Mr. Deuce (a farmer) said " he felt that now, more than ever, was the crisis at which the farmers of England should vigorously put their shoulders to the wheel. Above all things, they must look for good blocd for their stock, and thus obtain for the people the greatest quantity of food at the least expense." And that is the spirit in which the great body of our intelligent farmers regard the pre-ent state of farming business. At the Farmers' Club dinner, before referred to, Mr. Baker, of Essex, an earnest protectionist, thus ex plained one of the causes why capital was often de ficient in the farming business. Ile said : They were often taunted with not having developed the resources of the soil, and with not having employed sufficient capital for that purpose. Why, was capital to he talked of as if it were a portion of tha soil itself, as if it could be dug up like chalk or marl, and spread over the land ? Was not capital a thing of slow growth ? Had not the cipital which was n ow employed in the cultivation of ageleultuas arisen gradually out of its improvement? instead of capital berg in the tenant's pocket, avail able to him at any moment, it was paa rally incorporated with his occupation, and if he left that occupation he frequently rts:gned his capital to his successor. I being himself almost a ruined man. The out-going tenant left his capital in the soil, land the in-coming tenant, who' was so an in times of competition to obtain a farm, anticipated the opportunity of absorb ing that which his' predecessor had left in the land. That wu one of the train causes of the competition which was taking place for farms. Can there be a more flagitious system than that ben described? Yet it is that the political landlords would move heaven and earth to maintain, to support which they now seek to re-tax the nation's food. Sounder and better views have been put forth by some landowners, amongst whom Mr. Edward Hol land deserves honourable mention. At the Gloucester agricultural meeting his speech contained the boldest and best exposure of the wants and weakness of English husbandry. Two of the speakers, farmers, had observed that the landlord must carry the tenant farmers through the difficulties of the times. Now this habit of relying on anything or anybody rather than their own foresight and energy is the besetting defect of English farmers, and it was very well re buked and exposed by Mr. Holland, who said, " his duty as a landlord was very simple and plain ; it was to make the most of the raw material which belonged to him. He maintained that if a man had the dis position of any raw material, whether it be capital, manufactured goods, or land, his duty was plain ; it was to do what everybody else would do, in as fair a way as he could, to make the m ost of that raw material." This is just and reasonable. Fairly and frankly to get as much for his land as it is worth is the landlord's legitimate object. But then as Mr. Holland said, he must not insist on reserving that with which the tenant could not interfere, nor must he require to influence his tenants' votes, and so forth; that h t th th e e s te n ti ch al thi . ” np it h h a e d w n e o e t e h e i , ng eb t aa do onraewabniusea begets the other. If tenants will make such impra vident engagement*, that with every depression in business—to which all industrious occupations are alike subject—they must run to the landlord, and appeal to his forbearance, not to enforce his full demand, the y _ can not expect to be free from t he vexatious and humiliating semi-feudal hardens which form the objects of complaint at three-fourths of the market tables of England. On the other hand, if the landlord will insist on game and votes, as well as rent, he must not be surprised that when prices fall, he may still retain his sports and his political in ' dunce, but finds some shortcomings with respect to rent. In fact, both parties are interested in getting rid of the present vicious system ; and until it is got rid of husbandry, will never be in a sound and healthy condition. And landowners should re member, with Mr. Holland, that " the landlord could not take a large estate into his own hands, and culti vate it ; the landlord, in truth, was more dependent on the tenant than the tenant on the landlord, be cause the tenant could always get another landlord. while the landlord would not like to lose a good tenant. Now, it was the interest of the landlord to throw away all care for game or politics, and to get the best price he could for his land." And, by the best price, he did not mean that the landlord should accept the highest rent any reckless or ignorant man would offer him, as has been but too often the case. " Bat if the landlor: was determined to take as his tenant only a man of capital, then he was sure that competition would not raise the price of land unduly high; because men of capital would not give more for the rent of the land than would allow a fairrstura for their capital. Then the requirements of the tenant of capital would be security,and the means of reaping where he had sown. "If the tenant was a man of capital he knew what to do in farming. He would never invest his property in the cultivation of the soil until he had security in the shape of a good long lease." And the present crisis must be got over by the adoption of sound commercial principle'. There must be no more child's bargains in farming than in other businesses. " This was to be done," said Mr. Holland, " not by the sacrifice et! the tenant nor by the sacrifice of the landlord. He would make much sacrifice to keep tenants who did their duty to the land, cultivated it properly, spent their capital, and were moved by the spirit of improvement. But at the same time, he felt it his duty to get rid of a man who pat his hands in his pocket■ and did nothing but cry out against the timer, determined to have a reducion of rent from his landlord—not that it was in his bargain, but simply on account of the hardness of the times. A bat gain was a bargain. He gave a tenant a lease, good or bad times ; he never made a redac tion ; he had not been asked for it ; and, if he had, he should have laughed at the application. The tenants never gave him a higher rent than he bar pined for in good times, and he did not take lower in bad timer. Now, if agriculturists would take care to have such bargains, their future position would be different ; and the landlords, if they bad tenants who had the means of farming well, by ade quate capital, would be very foolish if they did not give the tenants an ample tenure and full play to their ekill and energy." When such views are gent rally acted on by owners or occupiers of farms, we shall hear no more of agricultural distress or eleemoeynary reductions of rent, or clamorous demands for taxing the rest of the community to enable the farmers to farm badly and still to pay high rents. PEASANTS AND PHEASANTS. (From the WeetfytAronn is.) We have before um a return moved for by Mr. Bright, and ordered by the Rouse of Ccmmons to be printed on the ..9th of 3 uile last. It extends over 118 pages, printed with small type in close columns, and gives the details of 165 convictions at the assists, 10.613 at quarter and petty sessions, and of 50 coroners' inquests, returning 37 verdicts of wilful murder, 2 of manslaughter, 3 of justifiable homi cide, and Bof accidental death. The return is for England and Wales, anti it extends from tke 6th of May, 1846, to the let of August, 1849, and so embraces a period of scarcely 27 months. It gives an account of pains and penalties, varying tram fiats to 16 years' transportation ietheted upon 10,779 persons, and of the violent deaths of 50; ani every county of England and Wales has contributed its quota to the columns of this return. It may well be asked in what way these 60 persons met their deaths ? Were they beset by housebreakers, er defend ing life, liberty, or property ? Nothing of the sort. They did in battle for pheasants, hares, and partridges, and. the 10,778 persona variously punished by fi as, imprisonment, and transportation, were simply bird catchers. This return deserves a close perusal. It might fairly enough be designated the report of our normal schools of dime. It is a document the possibility of the existence of which is a national infamy. These tine 3, imprisoned, and tramp raid people, were not criminals—they wire off. riders atta not the gamelaws ; laws set everywhere throughout the country like traps l'aited:with pheasants, hares, and part ridges, enticing the people to a course leading to persecution, fines, imprisonment, association with criminals, degradation, and so on by such aids finally to crime. It won't to de assert that these wild birds and heave are private property, and that this return of pains and penalties is an account of punishments for theft. Things by nature wild, filing, raagirtg, and feeding where they please, and that must be searched out and hunted to be caught, are, on the face of it, the property of no other man than who ever can catch them. I Tamed birds and beasts are distinguishable from each other. A man can tell his own—the very variety of form and colour is an evidence of domesticiti in and prupriet.ry. The owner is at the cost of their keep himself. If they stray into any one else's grounds he must pay for the damage they do there. But no man can safely swear to every parl.cular hare, phruant, or partridge having been bred and led upon his ground only. They are all alike. It is not alone the corn of the owner of the preserve upon which they fatten : they feed where they please. Laws may declare them pro perty, may enact it theft in any but the duly licented law made owners to kill them; but still they are tot property, arid to take them is riot theft. The exacters of such laws are makers of crimes. No man's conscience+ will condemn him for making a snug meal of pheasant, hare, or partridge, r.otwithatanding all the game laws ; nor will a poacher, in common consideration, be held a thief, nor in any way • wrongttoer, even though the gamekeepers be after him, or he be lacked up in jail. But the mischief of such laws is that they lead t t crime. To smoke a pheasant, or sn ere a hare, or take a lel shot at a partridge, is no wrong. The young peasant has as good a right to them as his landlord. But there is need fur c tution, for concealment, for being out prying about all night ; there I are gamek epees on the watch, and there's the jail in pres peet, and the ill will of the parsons and the squires, snd the certain persecution of the whole family if the posching be found out, for the landlords care more fir their pheasants than their peasants; and in the jail there are real criminal", men ready to tempt others on to crime, and for whom Some present indignation sue despair often provides ready pupils. This return of eame-law offences has more in it than meets the eye. We cannot trace down step after step, to de+truction, its long list of beginners in crime. We have the battles with gamekeeper", the murders and i manslaughters, as a direct result upon the spot; but we have nut the history of the thousands ruined by tines, tarred lout of work, refused relief, driven into the towns—unfit for labour there, meeting again those they had stood beside is jail, and so being worried, tempted,—starved into lives of trims. We find in the lit of convictors under these game laws more than one rev. gentleman, but not one have we ever heard of denouncing these laws fr;,ui the pulpit. The pea sant may be lectured upon the crime et poaching, but the landlord re ewes no rebuke for the maintenance of laws con trary to real right, and which, for sake of his sport, create crimes, " The bold peasantry, the country's pride," is the tout and talk i.t agricultural dinners, and in parliament, and at protectionist meetings, and in this game law return we have the practical working of this deep-seated love for the pea santry. They ere toasted and talked of, whilst they toil and half starve, and ask no relief; but let them dare touch a pheasant—dare even be sten with a wire in their heeds, or in a field where a wire has been hound set—the mere pre sumptive suspicion is enough, your game preservers want no 1001 proof", they do not let themselves down to the level of such common justice. The boasted peasant is fined, impri soned, his character destroyed, his family starved, for the lore the landlord tears the pleasant. STRANGE CASE OP CHILD STEALING.— A Teel strange ease of this nature was detailed by Mr. Ileswick, chief superintendent of police, to the magistrates at the Man chester Borough Court, on Wednesday morning last. Mr. Keswick stated that about a fortnight since a woman named Ellen Shiel, residing at 12, Back Style-street, was delivered of a female child. She was attended by a midwife named Thomas, residing in St. George's.road, who, a few days be fore the birth, stated to Dirs. Shiel that an application had been made to her on behalf of the wife of Mr. Belli, of Wt thington, by a woman who stated that Mrs. Rini wished to adopt a child, in consequence of being without child' en of bar own, and that it would be taken very great care of, and treated as one of the family. Mrs. Shiel did not feel dis posed to promise to part with her child, and said she must consult with her husband. The woman again call , d upon Mn. Thomas, and the result was that an interview took place between her 'Atha pretended servant) and Mrs. Shildhiel, bat' the latter still would not agree to part with her c. On. Monday week the woman again called upon Mn. Male', and after urging her to give up the child, pro duced 41. 61., which she said Mrs. Belli hwl sent in order that she (Mrs. Shiel) might get something nourishing. She also urged that, if the mother wished to see her child occa sionally, she would be allowed to do so; and ultimately the mother yielded, and the woman departed with th child. A week or ten days having el..peed without Mrs. h e hearing anything further, she applied to him (Mr. Keswick), at the detective office. After hearing her statement he sent officers to make some inquiries, but no person named Rath could be found in Withington or its neighbourhood. When Mrs. Thomas was called upon to give an explanation as to who the woman was who called upon her on the subject, she re plied that she knew nothing of her except that she repro , anted herself to be a servant in Mrs. Ralli's employ. He I (Mr. Beewick) believed that the child was seen on the after noon of the day on which it was removed, in an omnibus in Chorlton-road, Rulme. The mother was greatly dietremed about the loss ot the child ; and he (Mr. Beswick) hoped that the noticing of the affair in the papers might assist in the recovery of the child. The police are still engaged in endeavouring to trace the child, or the woman to whom it was given up.-3lanchester Guardian. THE NIAGARA.—Thie flue vessel, upon which Mr. Napier's men have been employed for the last few weeks, both day and night, in executing the necessary repairs, was towed down the river yesterday under the direction of Cap tain Mein, by two of the Castle Steam Company's tugs. The departure was witnessed by a large number of individuals who had assembled to tike a final look at this magnificent specimen et marine architecture. During her temporary stay at Laneefield quay, Ole was ble citizens. v i s ited by a number of our moot respecta who were all highly gratified with the beauty and com pleteness of her interior urangements, and the ample provision for the comfort of passengers. As we fermerly mentioned, the Eimer', during the short time she has been here, has undergoes a thorough repair; and we may confidently venture the opinion that her machinery is now in a state of meter efficiency than ever. We observe that she resumes her place in the line of packets on the 29th inst., when she will sail fr om Liverpool with the mails, — .North British Mail. ■ it;;;.a vritb- Lower R