The Express. — London, England, 1846-11-10 00:00:00

_ ----. _ WHITTINBTON CLUI ) & lIETROPOL esa Ie ATHlLY.EoL—Oombiella *nibs loa kelli of a club with the advantages of a Literary X and 114141.0 L Annual Subscription : °Minoru, One Meets; A= 'Ganes ; Entrance Yee (for (teatimes said. a peemal„. Mena. no 4IIU Gaines. The names and seams fees el perms .41 , becoming member will wbe teoe ired by any may sher.: mince, between the hours of Ten and FM. by otteehelds sa nt OS gentl e men, from whom pcospectuses can also ees • Illinhay, Est., Tress urer, pro tem., Hell of Caimans, gieeldeeedle. street: Hobert liellin,Esq., es. °woken; ele dik = l eery -Mee ; Marra Miller and I I= Eyitelboech, am., 3, ilsomason Mil et the temporary O fEse of the Clu al (West Ms r , Lined* Pr order of the b, Commhtee, oas t new ow. tem (Meter, 1546. G RAND HARMONIC HALL, Southwark bridge-rod, midway between Bouthwack-bridge end t Elephant and Castle. —Proprietor, Mr. RICHARD PREECE—Ra tional and intellectual- strioseenents ; increasing attraction. Open every night. Gnuad and company of vocallats and musiciene—Splendid decdrations and appointntents—The elegant and at m ic chtl performance the Lurie Family—Every style of singing— home feat by artetes of gre at celebrity. The whole of the arrangements of abs estabtiahment are carried oat mraedlem of ex pense, and have been pronounced unequalled in the annals of publis *sob of amusement. Non open at Seven; Cowart cbcontenaes at halt-past.—Man gang Director. Mr. W. Wavle. TC' fIa.NICI'S CLASSES for the CORNET-A rtsroN.—IIERR K(ENIG du the honour to o en nounce that ITRinter Chose, for the cornet-I-piston will commnce at Jullien's Royal emeerratory Mune, on TUFADAY, December 2nd. and °en thuse every Tuesday and F. Way during the months of December and .lannaruienhotzwo: practice from Two to Four o'clock. Julien's s.wei of Music. 214. toi,nt•tr,"et• THEATRE ROYAL COVENT GARDEN.— Y. JULLIEN'S ANNUAL SERIES of CONCERTS. —Most ticelyfor one month only.-11l.Jullien tuts thc honour to announce that his New grand descriptive Military Quadrille, THE BRITLSH ARMY, will be performed. fur the Eighth Time, THIS EVENING (Tuesday), November 10. Is brae( to render complete the grand and novel effects introduced in thia piece of music, M. Jullien has (by the kind condescension of the Military Authorities) autrxeled in engaging (entirell in 4 "tiOn to DL own complete and numerous Orchestra), FOUR DISTLNCT murrAny BANDS, which will, during the progrem of the Quadrille, be combined with • the Concert Orchestra, and form a musical eneemble at once novel and extraordinary. The whole conducted by M. Julhen. The reiWwgwaw, (which will be changed everY evening) will to-night include a Duet for Violin and Violoncello, performed by Mr. Collins and Mr. G. Collins: a Solo on the Sespentrieide, by H. Prospere ; a Combas from Ls Niobe, sung by Minillirch; the Conde American polka, Po. Re. Commence at Eight, terminate belbre Eleven. The last Concert will take piece on Saturday, November 2a, and the arcs be terminated Monday. Novesabrr M. by AGRANDBAL MASQUE. FRENCH PLAYS.—ST. JAMES'S T E ATRE.— Subecriben to the French Plays of last Seaton are respertfully solicited to communicate their intentions as to the RENBWAL of their SUBSCRIPTIONS for the claming Serum bebre the opening night, on FRIDAY NEI T, Nov. I3.—SoldLibrary, 33, Old street, Roe. Row. 7. IA YCEU II THE A THE. — Mr. ALLCROFT' S PROMENADE CONCERTS will 00111111e000 on MONDAY nut, one month only. The Band will condst of nighty first-mite aril t& The celebrated vocallAt, Mr. henry %Ewell, te engaged . Ibr twelve nights; the eminent TIMM Amity, and Mr. Bueelair. ( b adoctar, M. Negri ; Leaders, Mn.eow Thirtwel and Thanes. Pit, Promenade and tplicr Bones, la. ; Drees (Aron, 2a. 6d. ; Private Bones, Oun Guinea. Places and Private Bones may be had at the Bon-otlee, and at Mr. Alleroft'a Eatabliehmenta, IS, New Bond-etreet, and 62, Regent-street. u -. ll}t MAILS. The West India mails, including those for Mexico, Gondar's, and n&V$1111. will be am,do up on the morning of the 17th November. The matt for Coruna, Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Madeira, Cadiz, and . Gibraltar, will he made up on the morning of the 17th November. The Emil* for British North America, Bermuda, and the United ' States, will be Made up on the evening of the 18th November. The snorland malls for Gibraltar, Malta, Greece, the lonian Islands, XAden,Anyloti, India. Hong-Kong, and China, rio Southampton, P : . made-gip on the morning of the 10th November. • The overland , closed malts, rin Moroni/es, to the Mediterranean, Egypt, Aden, Ceylon. India, liong-Kong, &c., will be made up on the evening of the 21th November The mails for New -South Wales, Van Dimeen's Land, and New Zealand will bo made up on the evening otabelidtla November. . . TO CORRESPONDENTS. Wi eastaot ...c a la any way, any oommonicatioe that Is sent to us anonymously •b ut thole who *home to iuldrees us in oonfidence will End their am efte respected. NEITHER CAN WE UNDERTAKE TO RETUILY ANY MANUSCRIPTS WHATEVER. intended for The Rrpreet, London ermine paper, by Two o'doek ea the day al publication. 'nwiii:ctii. - : • • • MOIL TIATFUL AT LONDON-BiLIDOR. Zeeel,-11laming, $ Law. put 6; Afternoon, 30 min. put 6. .-21otning, 38 nib. put 6; Afternoon, 2$ min. pug 7. LONDON, , TUESDAY, NOV. 10. stimulate the desire for know) cipally to thisaection of the woi active, persevering spirit of coral inquiry and action, is confined. among the unskilled labour clam, intermittent There is great skilled labourers. The old smiths, &c., complete profesaions within differ from the mechanics, touters, dressers, spin ners, &c., all of whose services are combined in the great organisation of factory labour. This sub division again differs, perhaps, still more from the workmen engaged in the various branches of the iron manufacture ; who work apart, although their com bined labour is generally required for one result. The miner differs widely from the collier. Many of these subdivisions have, in fact, little community of interest, little knowledge of each other's affairs; some times their interests are in direct opposition. Thus, in the case of a factory, a strike on the part of any one class of workmen employed in it may stop the whole con cern. We have known a factory stopped, and hundreds of "hands" who had, and had made, no complaint, thrown idle, on account of the dissatisfaction of the few workmen whose business it was to prepare and dress the weft. The aristocracy of the working classes, with many admirable qualities, is no more to be implicitly trusted than any other aristocracy. Their combinations do not contemplate defensive operations against the exac tions of masters alone ; they contemplate defensive operations against the intrusive competition of indivi duals from the unskilled labour class. They have established apprenticeships, not to the employers, but to themselves ; they have succeeded in many cases, and attempted in many more, to make such apprenticeships a condition of employment in their department. Yet such is the power of superior intelligence, and such the magic of a. common desig nation, that those very men, even when striving to keep down the unskilled labourers, contrived to enlist the latter in their came. It is not by laws against combinations or corre sponding societies that this state of affairs is to be rectified. That method has been tried and has failed. It has been productive of some occasional oppression ; of a much greater amount of exasperation and dis affection ; but of no useful results whatever. On the other hand, the restrictive legislation advocated by the leaders of the skilled labour class, is not to be conceded either. They believe that it v e them an advantage over the masters; and, were capital tied down to one place, or could capitalists be compelled to go on working with inadequate profits or at a positive loss, it would give them such an advantage; unless the impediments they have contrived to place in the way of recruiting the ranks of skilled labourers with the more intel ligent of the unskilled labourers, are removed. If this is done, the short-time bill operatives will find competition increased, and their earnings dimi nished ; if this is not done, they will drive capital out of business, and destroy their trade altogether. Our trust is in the firmness of the legislature to resist all temptations and all pressure to regulate industry by act of parliament, and in the progress of sounder views among the class we have been describing. They have been longer studying the theory of the production and distribution of property, and its practical application, than Young England or Lord GEORGE BENTINCK, in the school of political science, and political economy. They are pupils of a higher form. They have had literary men of their own class, and a literature of their own, Tor many years; and the study of this literature will amply repay to any curious enquirer, the time spent upon it. In London there has been a succession 'of publications, such as the Pioneer, and others ; in the manufacturing districts there have been many periodicals, written and edited by men sprung them selves from the working classes, and connected only with them. We do not speak of papers conducted by professional men, and others who have lost caste, affecting to identify themselves with the working classes, but by men who actually belong to those classes. Going heck, for some twenty years, through the files of these successive publications, we can ace many fallacies adopted as the political and social creed of the working classes, and rejected for now ones. They have fairly worked their way, for example, from the fallacies of Owes; to the sounder doctrines of Cosine. And Young England is taking up not a few of the cast-off opinions of the hard handed working men. ' Experience and reflection have taught not a few of the skilled labourers that the combination which demands the sacrifice of individuals to a class b injurious to both. They begin to see that there are means, even in a state of society in which the workman's and capitalist employer's classes are so permanently separated, for securing their own independence without such a disproportionate sacri fice. The steady and skilful workman is as necessary to the employer as the employer is to him. While health and strength lasts such a man will always be sought after ;. can always command adequate reins acetifies If he cannot, as formerly, set up as an independent master, he can still invest his savings against the day of age and sickness. It is by multi plying means Of investment for small savings, means in which the working classes have confidence, thst they are to he convinced of this truth. Savings blinks and Life Assurance Soeicties, all sorts of joint-steak companies with transferable shares of moderate, amount, are powerful instruments to this end. They will become more so in proportion as.their principb is better understood, and their management in coned quence improved. A sheep and simple system of land conveyance, by facilitating small investmentain , land, would be perhaps a still more efficacious means. livery - thing that developee in this important class the sentiment of self-reliance, by rendering them siperiOr to mere gregarious, unreflecting, aimless atrulajah 'contributes to their well-being and to. the stability of national institutions. . • THE most characteristic peculiarity of the present ago is the sharpness with which the line of demarca tion is drawn between the capitalist and the labouring classes. The intermediate class of small capitalists who were obliged to eke out their income by laying . hand to work, of those who combined the labourer and the employer in their own person, is fast be-. coming a small minority. Ewen where the hand loom keeps its ground, it is rare to find the weaver ' purchasing materials, working them up, and die . posing of his own web when done : he takes in work at so mach per yard, from some one who in this man ner employs, it may be, hundreds, like himself. The capitalist, as Cobbett used to call him, the " bull-frog • farmer" has, in' Many counties, entirely superseded the small farmers who guided their own ploughs. The farmer is se great corn-manufacturer, employ ' ing operatives just as a mill-owner. Even among' the shop-keeping world a similar change is °in progress. In all our great cities and even down to our country and smaller manufacturing towns, the great ready-money establishments, with their . regiments of salesmen, are pushing the old-fashioned shops out of the field. Formerly the bulk of society consisted of those who began life as mere workmen, with an almost cer tain prospect, if they were steady, of becoming mas ters in their turn, Many hybrid half-capitalists half labourers, while they continued to work themselves, employed other labourers to assist them, either as journeymen or apprentices. The three gradations of master, journeyman, mid apprentice, marked stages in life rather than separate classes. The aggregate capital of the country was more diffused. Few had enough to enable them to dispense with mechanical toil—with being in some things their own servants; but few were without some portion of realised capital, or the hopes of obtaining it. Now capital is concen trated in great mosses in the hands of a few. The small capitalists, unable to compete with the great, are falling back into the waged or salaried. classes. Those who commence life with nothing but their own industry may loOls forward to accumulate some small savings, as steady servants have been known to do in good families but rarely do they aspire to become employers in their turn. One consequence of this altered -ebbe of affairs is that both capital mid labour haVe 'bedtime more pro dactive. Fifty thousand poufs& in the hands of one skilful and enterprising man, can be turned to better account than the tiara Cain distributed among fifty , men. On the other hod, the parties employed—bs they beolr.keepors or hand labourers—not having to trouble their heads With financial combinations ; not requiring to enter into abstruse calculations than ."If I work so much,' will earn so much, and if I spend so mach.' will have so much left;" can devote themselves more entirely to their task, and thus become more expirt atit. What those mere slaves of words, the Socialists of England, and the St. Simo- Mans or Fourrierists of France, would obtain by arbitrary divisions of men into classes, is actually being accomplished, though they cannot see it, by the centralisation of capital. The independeiee, the variety of condition and character, among the great mass of society, is noways eompromised by this new arrangement. The diversity within the capitalist class is palpable to all. The landowner and the fandholder, the merchant, the broker, and the manufacturer, , are all strongly marked stsb-genera. And with weal ,new branch of industry and enterprise, that is ffeveloPeitt their num ber increases. To thoseWlso have lived among the working classes withan.obeervent spirit, the variety of Nub-classes within it is even greater. Without insist ing upon the distinction between the labourers in agricultural and manufacturing districts, we may enu merate by way of example, the building trades, the various el . presl t V labourers, tho harness-loom weavers (thi' -loom weavers not waging a hopeless contest with machinery), and the workmen of the iron districts. Those skilled labourers differ widely from the more =skilled' labourers; hodmen, barrow men, &c.; wha pee often associated with them in the same toils. They are the aristocracy of the working classes. They arc better paid thei the unskilled laboorers ; their occupations not only demlope -more ingenuity, but bring them into contact with scientific researches, and , ONE might, it is to be hoped, without a crime, adopt, in matters of art and taste, a principle, deservedly exploded in taste and morals, viz., do evil that good may come. This is the resolve of 'pertains on a for lorn hope, in extreme and irremediable cases, such as demand fearful, extravagant. and radical remedy. Ia the utter extinction of every good and worthy poli tical and social principle in Franco before the great revolution, people looked to that revolution with hope and delight. And when these same sensible people found themselves in the midst of the horrors sad the errors of that revolution, they often lent a hand to exaggerate them, in order that the extravagance of the ill might care itself. We must own that we entertain somewhat similar feelings towards art in this country, and especially towards those specimens and productions of art, which are displayed abroad in palaces, and arches and triumphal statues. Each month brings forth its abor tion, which, hideous in itself, is hoisted to the very position in which its hideosity can be most improved. The people exclaim, the critics thunder, the authori ties charged with such works take it for granted that there is no public in matters of taste. And they think it as cowardly to recoil as if they bore the stan dard of a regiment in action. The case is hopeless. It has become amusing fiorn its absurdity : and really we know none who can or ought to deal directly with it except Punch. The national resource of public taste, thus outraged, and driven talliespair, is to swell the evil that good may come. Aid the Timm, with its usual tact, has divined, and made itself the organ of this feeling. Let the Duke's statue stand. What matter the pro portion of the arch ; what matter the harmony be tween it and the horse, or between the horse and its rider, or between the tail and the head of the steed. It will do very well for the public,who regard it. And it will serve for what it was intended, a warning THE EXPRESS, TUESDAILZVENING, NOVEMBER 10, 1846. more inoongruoualy placed, the better. .. flagrant the examples of reigning absurdity, the sooner will the public and the authorities become alive to that absurdity; and the nearer we' approach that revolution, which is to do for us in the polite arts what similar cataclysms have done for as in political science and practice. As to critics taking their stand on the principle of art, we know how vain that is in the face of autho rities where object is merely, like prudent housewives, to make the best use of the cupboards and fixtures which the metropolis affords. To attack the statue, its builder, or its board, were vain. Aristocratic ignorance and prejudice are there entrenched, and art has no COBDEN to storm them. We all know how Lord NELSON was hoisted on his nondescript column. The Duke of WELLINGTON re viewed the models for the monument, and pausing before the cast of the column, let fall the remark of " This will do." Of course, after such a fiat it was made to do. And now "brave NeLson" has his I revenge on the Duke, a similar picktooth de cision having hoisted his Grace into a position quite as ridiculous as that of NELSON. It is strange how the gravest people in the world do worship Monitis, and do come and set up even the idol of their hero-worship after his fashion. We, however, perfectly agree with the Times in thinking that the shortest way to a care is to allow for the present the TaEycUS and the RVILANDS, and their compeers, to exercise the full swing of their tastelessness, and to inflict on the capital as many monstrosities as they please. The result will at least be, " the more the merrier." But out of all this good may come. Excellence, either in arts or in morals, may be achieved by the force of bad, as by the force of good example. The Spartans exhibited a drunken slave to their youth to teach them sobriety. Tummies monumental efforts may be equally useful to our young artists. And, indeed, it might be better to begin with them than to startle the uninstructed by the perfect and the principled beauty of PRIDIAS or PALLADIO. - . Thus far had we indulged in the dream of correct ing the taste of the public, and its art-administration, by applauding the exhibition of its pwn perversity; but the mature taste and decisive will of her MAJESTY has ordered it otherwise. She could not tolerate the monstrosity over her own door, has ordered the statue of the Commandatere -to find another g'ite, and routed Sir FREDERICK TRENCH and his committee horse and foot. MR. BAINES has published, in the Leeds Mercury, a reply to the article on popular education in the British Quarterly .Recietc, some of the conclusions of which we recently quoted and commented on. Mr. BAINES refers the authorship of this article to Dr. VACCHAN, who has already come forward as his opponent on the question. Mr. B tis ei believes that Dr. VAEGIIAN'S conclusions are against statistical evidence. He denies the existence of any such alarm ing exigency as the article contends for ; considers that the means of education do not fall very far short of what might be expected in the social con dition of the population; and thinks he can prove an actual progress by voluntary sad independent effort since 1816, which leaves no doubt that the people can supply their own wants. All this Mr. BAINES believes, and would make others believe, on the strength of statistics. We envy him his faith. It is not in figures to prove his conclusions, while sorry, stubborn facts stare us in the face, asserting 'the reverse. Let us say at ones statistics ire out of place in this question, as it stands. We will give Mr. BAINES all his own tables, and maintain our ground against him notwithstanding. It is net the number of schools that is important. There may be school accommodation for every child in England below fifteen. Does this prove there is education to the same extent? Mr. BAIN es mast be aware that, even taking the lowest view of education—confining it to the mere communication of the means of instruc tion, reading, writing, and arithmetic—this is not the case. Ia the bulk of our existing elementary schools nothing whatever is learnt that ens benefit the scholar. To stammer through a verse of the New Testament, without attention to stops or knowledge of the mean ing of words, to say nothing of comprehension of the passage and its connexion with the rest of the chapter, is not reading, if reading be aA acoom pliahment of stay measurable value. To scrawl ft few large-text pot-hooks on a slate, in painful, but most unsuccessful, imitation of a " copy head" is net srritiny, if writing is to be of any use in the business of life. But even taking our schools as they are, figures are fallacious guides, to the number of scholars actually under tuition. The returns are often made from the amount of scholars that can lie, not those who are, accommodated in the school-room. Now, the average of oar elementary schools, we should conclude from the evidence of the inspectors, are only half full. On every ground we distrust figures in educational discussion. The expediency of erecting new schools depends very much on the efficiency of those which already exist. This is the point to be looked to in estimating the proportion of the means of education to our wants. It is less to supply school build ings than schoolmasters that we ask for a Board of Education and a central supervision. •bier is it only an improved race of school masters that is required. The proportion of masters to pupils must be Increased. The •scanty number of adult teachers can never be madcap fot by the employment of monitors only one degree re moved from the ignorance of , their pupils. It is in these points, especially, that individual exertions can never make up for the want of state aid. Setting apart theological instruction for paretts and religious ministers, we have for the function of the master, the communication of secular knowledge. This he must not only possess himself, but have the far rarer power of communicating to others. The art of this communi. cation: is not intuitive. There are heaven-born school nesters, as there have been heaven-born ministers,but the species iluncommon. As a general rule, the school master must be qualified for his work by special training. Every county should have its normal school for education, with its practising school at tached. But the present system of isolated effort, which perpetuates the union of secular and religions instruction, renders any fusion of parties for the maintenance of such schools impossible. Those which exist are confined to the Church in connexion with the national system, or to the British and Foreign School Society. It is true that the-training schools of the latter profess to prepare masters of all denomina tions. Bat in practice it is too often the case that both Roman Catholics and Unitarians are excluded. And even where normal schools do exist, the want of any controlling power (except the indirect influence of the inspectors, upon tb,e national schools) is only too obvious, both in their systems and results. This is the point to which educational efforts must be directed. We must educate our educators; we must have no educators who have not been educated for their work, or given ample evidence of qualification attained by their own efforts. The expenses of normal schools are too great to be borne by individual charity. This is absorbed in its own neighbourhood, in the national or dissenting school, as the case may be. Only, when a great effort is made, as by the Church on a recent occasion, and stall more recently by the Independent hod f , can a large fend be raised to be appropriated the direction of a central auth*:.‘ But these intendlttnet. It , tbe possible Justaadiasel . byt *nob ineans, for ..,xl4ln gnat .10dies r of 41Bweater 9 , but denombeittiena wed, been thus, be left i admit institution& by so inv. of supply', Vould, we fear, be impossible. prepared to advocate an educational tax for to ort of normal schools. But this could only be imposed on all for the benefit of all. It could not be levied for schools confined to any reli gious sect or creed. This subject of normal scholgs Mr. BAINES passes over "eicce pede.' l He may fill the Leeds Mercury with figures—he may prove that school-rooms exist for twice as many children as can possibly be at school at one time ; but until he can prove that schools r are what they ought to be; in other words, that toasters are up to their work; he proves nothing for education. We hold it to be a sad truth, which requires no proof for those who have devoted practical attention to educational matters in England, and which no proof can make apparent to those who have not, that the present race of masters are unqualified for their gnat work. We can see no prospect of quali fying their successors, the mea who must elbow them from their stools, unless by a system of normal school training, much more complete and general than exists at present. To this point we wish to see government attention directed, while local activity disposes of and finds work for the masters thus supplied. But while attention is directed mainly to school statistics, the vitally important question, " What is the efficiency of the schools which do exist ?" is in danger of being overlooked, as we cannot but think it has been overlooked by Mr. BAINES, in his recent polemic. WE little expected to find in the harmless civic ceremonies of a Lord Mayor's day occasion for wore than the wonted annual tribute of admiration. But Baran PARKE, representing the Chief Baron, evidently attended with very serious feelings, and his mind bursting with more than ordinary serious thoughts. He began by declaring the City procession no bile pageant. Why the Baron so considered it, appeared in a later part of his discourse. After echoing the learned Recorder's panegyric, Baron PARKE ominously hinted that the world was in the enjoyment of the blessings of peace. Still more ominously he went on to say, that the bulk of her MAJESTY'S subjects had no recollection of the horrors of war. If by bulk the learned judge made any allusion to the corporation, he must have made a mis take, since any slim gentleman of forty may boast of having heard the Tower guns. True or false, however, these moral sentiments naturally prepared the audience for something, start ling. Nor was it disappointed, when Baron PARKE assured the LORD MAYOR, that evidently possessing the qualities requisite to carry him " with ease" through a pacific mayoralty, he had no" doubt also all the courage and determination which the exigencies of the times might require." The exordium evi dently showed that hie lordship meant nothing less than a French invasion. And his imagination de picted Sir ()URGE CARROLL at the head of the valiant " men-at-arms" of the City procession—no pageant at all—marching to rout the Prince de JOINVILLE with all the courage of a City magistrate. What bee could have stung the learned judge? Had he no mercy on the funds, thus to sound the trumpet of war from the justice seat? Had a chief judge in Paris addressed such words to the mayor, they would have run like an electric shock through all Young France. Fortunately, Young England, that " bulk of the nation " does not frequent the City; and Baron PARKE'S words fell upon dispositions more given to devour turtle than Frenchmen. And it is only in print that they look inflammatory. Happily, the more pacific post-prandial orators at the feast afforded no support to the Baron's bellicose announce ment. Hence we may hope that the City dames slept in peace last night, and that the funds have not fallen this morning The disputes upon the merits of the Spanish ques tion in the political circles and journals of Paris have merged into the more practical and important ques tion of the ultimate result of the present embroilment of the two Cabinets. Who was right or who was wrong in the manoeuvres conducted between London, Paris, and Madrid, is now little regarded. NL Guizot in the Chambers, and Lord Palmerston in par liament, will each, no doubt, establish a plausible ease ; but what the public and the press in Paris now begin to look at is the position which France must assume as the consequence of what has occurred. That the entente cordiale is broken, and that the anger of England is roused, every day offers fresh proofs. An event occurred on Saturday, in Paris, which attracted much attention and excited much con versation. A formal reception of the diplomatic corps was held at the Tuileries, to afford the representatives of foreign states an opportunity of presenting their felicitations to the King, on the occasion of the marriage of the Duke of Mont pender with the heiress-presumptive of the Spanish crown. There were present at this, the Ambassadors of Spain, Naples, and Turkey ; the Austrian Ambas sador (absent from Paris), was represented by his son ; there were also present, the Charge d'Affaires of Russia, and tbe ministers of Saxony, Wurtemberg, and Bavaria, and the Charges d'Affaires of the United States, Tuscany, Mecklenburg, &c. The Prus sian Miniiter and the Ambassador of Sardinia, being absent from Paris, did not appear. The Marquis of Normanby, Ambassador for England, was in Paris, and remained at home. His absenoe produced a great sensation amongst the diplomatic corps. The Belgian Ambassador was also absent from the reception, but in Paris. This last fact, put in juxtaposition with the departure of King Leopold from Neuilly, immediately before the expected arrival of the Duke of Montpen sier and his bride, in spite of the most pressing solici tations of his family to wait, was considered as five. up to the latest moment M. Guizot' el aignact. ti l ng . toth t is asA that hepe. that lard Normanby would have attended- the reception. These circumstances are regarded in Paris as constituting the moat public and official manifestation of the hopeless rupture of the entente , cordiale, that England has yet exhibited. The official evening paper of Saturday, the Mee sager, and the Mansteur of Sunday morning, both preserve an absolute silence as to this reception. The Journal . des Dibats, and the Eptte, mention the reception, and the absence of Lord Normanby, without comment. La Presse says all the Ambassa dors and Ministers Plenipotentiary present at Paris attended in full uniform. "His Excellency the British Ambassador shone by his absence. Behold, then, the sincerity and cordiality of that alliance which we have never for a single instant ceased to warn the country to etudiust." The absence of Lord Normanby from the reception , produced a sensation which extended to the Bourse, where the fall of the public funds was ascribed to it. The fast is thus related by the Commerce is not' done by diplomatic notes, but by public and official manifestation, that the discontent of England and there of fbientenfe berialaie are shown. Yesterday took pima ati *4' Tailries the reception of the diplomatic corps, w 4044rtl#ii congratulations on the marriage o f the withthe Infanta of Spain. Two very absences were remarked on this occa sion t let of the Marquis of Normanby, ambassador of England, and that of the Ambassador of Belgium. The diplomatle corps, with these exceptions, nearly, were in fall number, except, however, M. Arnim, the minister plenipotentiary of Prussia, M. D'Appony, and the Ambassador of S ard inia—all three at present absent from Paris. There appeared at court on this occasion, the Pope's Nuncio; the ambassador' of Spain, Naples, and Turkey ; the son of M. dAppony (who replaces his father during his absence); the Chargé d'Affaires of Ruasia • the minisurs plenipotentiary of Saxony, Brayaria, and War temburg ; the Charges d'Affaires of Tuscany, the United States, Mecklenburg, fie. The absence of Lord Nor banby produced a very marked sensation amongst the diplomatic corps. The absence of the Ambassador of Belgium is not less important, when the departure of King Leopold is borne in mind, that monarch having quitted the Tuileries within the last two days, notwith standing the strong solicitations made to retain hI n. The Coburg blood carried the day in this matter over th • family connection, which ought, it was thought, to 1, 'site this prince completely to our dynasty. Last evening hs Message+ kept &prudent and significant silence on the event of the day. It appears, besides, diet up to the last moment If. Guizot indulged in the hope of seeirg Lord Normanby pressent at this solemn reception. His journals and reviews affirmed that England protested against the Spanish car riage on the single point of view of remote eventualities ' • at present it is perfectly manifest that Lord Palmerston is far more positive in his rancour and his hostile feeling. We await the explanations of the Journal des Debate, which no doubt will be more communicative than the offici al even ing journal." The unusual amount of credits opened since the close of the session by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, for secret purposes, has attracted the censure of the Op position press. By an ordonnance of the 10th July a credit for 280,000 francs was opened for the expense of voyages and couriers; and 830,000 f. -for extraordi nary missions: making a total of 1,110,000 L, inde pendent of 750,000 f. already granted in the Budget. Amidst prodigalities like thPPIP, says Le National, "We observe that a part of France has been the prey of fire, another part has just been ravaged by inundations ; throughout the entire country the price of bread and the dearness of other provisions adds to the general distress, credit declines, a progressive fall upon all species of indus trial property indicates the exhaustion of capital. In the Budget there is still a deficiency, and the recent visitations impose on the country new and extensive sacrifices. Is such l an occasion judiciously chosen by M. Guizot to give himself up to such lavish expenditure ? These largessea have pro cured for M. de Montpensier a dower of thirty millions ; but is that a reason why k ranee should pay the discount ?" The Sleek has the following remarks on the extra ordinary amount of the sums granted to M. Guizot, Minister for Foreign Affairs, for the travelling expenses of persons attached to his department ; " By a Royal ordinance, dated July 10, M. Guizot was allowed 280,000 f. for extraordinary couriers and travelling expenses; and for extraordinary missions, 250,000 E and 590,000 t—altogether 1,120,000/. This wu tolerably well, if we consider that 750,000 f. had already been voted by the Chamber of Deputies for a similar service, and it might have been expected that M. Guizot would have been satis fied. But, no ; by a royal ordinance dated the 10th of October, he was granted 200,0001. ; and by another royal or dinance, dated the 25th of October, 300,000 f ; and again, on the 7th of November, for unexpected expenses, 320,000 E Thus, within four months, M. Guizot has been allowed 1,900,000 f., independent of 650,000 f., 160,000 f, and 600,000 f. , granted by the budget. That a grand line of politics re quires a great expenditure was one of the maxims and the constant practice of Cardinal Richelieu. M. Guizot may cer tainly be compared to him in the point of view of expense." The delivery of the London mail in Paris presents an example of official abuse for which it would be difficult to find a parallel in any other place, great or small, where commercial interests claim regard or consideration. On Saturday the London mail arrived in Paris soon after 9 a.m., being two hours late, in consequence, it is presumed, of the state of the weather. It might be supposed that this would pro duce more than usual alacrity in the delivery of the despatches; on the contrary, the commercial houses did not receive their correspondence till a late hour in the afternoon. Bankers did not receive them till the approach of the hour for closing their bureaux, and some not till after closing. Brokers did not receive their letters in time for 'Change, and we have the authority of more than one broker for saying that the orders received in their London letters came to hand too late to be executed, and were thus neces sarily delayed two days, the Bourse being closed on Sundays. Our Paris correspondent did not receive his letters till after 3 o'clock, and this is no unusual case. This official abuse is as insufferable as it is inexplicable, and is one in the abatement of which the commerce of London is at least as much interested as that of Paris. The canton of Luaus has refined, in formal terms, to recognise the new government of Geneva, assigning its reasons in a circular addressed to the Vorort and to the other confederate states. This un expected resolution has, of course, provoked a hostile spirit in the Geneva* Couneil. M. Viridet, a mem ber of the Grand Council, had proposed to withdraw the decree of the 3rd Oct., respecting the league of the seven cantons, and to replace it by another. Some members observed that the Vorort, in the absence of the Diet, could only register this decree, which would be without efttet, since the deputies from Geneva would arrive with other instructions. M. James Fray, Pre- sident of the Provisional Government, support ing the proposition of M. Viridet, maintained that Geneva should not wait for the opening of the new diet, but should act confoi-mably to the spirit of her revolution. Such a manifestation was so much the more urgent in consequence of the refusal of Lucerne to recognise the Genevese government. Such a refusal is unprecedented in Switzerland, but, con cluded M. Fazy, since Lucerne, which has effected the counter-revolution of the Valais and many others, throws down the glove, we will not hesitate to take it up. The Madrid mail of the 3rd had not been deliver when our Paris correspondent closed his letter. FRANCE AND THE SLAVE-TRADE. The following extracts from a Debats from the west coast of Africa, will give oar readers an idea of the preparations made by the French Government for the suppression of the slave trade : to the " But few months have passed since the stationon the west coast of Africa attained its proper complement of twenty seven ships, and already the servioe of repression is organised with a regularity which leaves nothing to be desired. By well-conceived arrangement for the obtaining of provisions, and from the immediate neighbourhood of the two great centres of refreshment, Gores and Gabon, It seems impos sible that the points traversed by vessels, will ever be de prived of more than oneship,which guarantees the most active surveillance in all quarters. The skips of the English division, on the contrary, forced to gain at groat risk Ascension or St. Helena, for the purpose of revictualling never arrive at their post but with their stock of provisions almost already consumed, and arc obliged to economise them carefully to ensure their return. " Depota of coal established everywhere (by the French) where their presence is necessary, a great regularity in the arrival of supplies—lastly, the establishment of floating hos pitals, assure the perfect execution of the treaty of the 29th May, and the maintenance of health throughout the squad ron. Gabon, the centre of revietualling for the sub-divisions of the south,is a point happily chosen. The comptoirof Gahm& is situated on the right side of a river of the same name, and at a little distance from the mouth. The blacks, who live in the neighbourhood, and on the points where our autho rity is officially recognised, have been, from time im memorial, in possession of the greatest part of the commerce. Principally slave-traders, they have also be come dealers with the merehant-ships, and serve them as negotiators with the Bulous, a people of the high land, who sell them ivory, wax, copal gam, &c., in exchange for coarse European merchandise. Interested in preserving a monopoly so lucrative, they use all their efforts to prevent communica tions between the ships and the blacks. With time and patience, Gabon might be made the centre of an extensive trade, towards which the predicts of the interior would flow, and be etchanged with advantage for that oflfarope. The best guarantee of the property of the settlement would be to plane it under the authority of the (}.teener of Gorse, witty though independent of the government of St. Louis of Souegol, might be under the order( of the *laird on the station. la fine. theresinee,of a Ammetoul squadron on , the western coast o Atria will have' many . ggads. It will open nets . channels' for trenth trade and far ll igrias the trailers with a hale whichime beam hitherto so amok neglected." FRANCE. -1,41:18 yHILIPPE'S ADTOCATE.—It was stated, on good authmity, in Paris, that M. Guizot, at the request of the King, had furnished rd Brougham with copies of all the correspondence which had passed between Lord Palmerston and the French government on the subject of the Spanish marriages, in order that his lordship might be enabled, at a fitting opportunity, to vindicate the count. pur. sued by the French Cabinet.— TiMed. ITALY.—MARRIAGE OP THE DUKE DE BORDEAUX. —The news of the marriage of the Duke de Bordeaux with a sister of the Duke of Modena is confirmed. The marriage contract was, it is said, signed by procuration at Modena ea the 30th Oct., sad published oa the 31st at Vienna, by order of the Emperor, of whom the Princess is cousin-german. The future Elucher of Bordeaux is thirty years of age ; her fortune is estimated at 4,000,0001. The Duke de Bordeaux is twen/-six_years of age. BELGiUM. GREAT FIRES IN BRUSSELS. (From the Brussels Gazette, Nov. I).—On lest Wednesday, about one a.m., an alarming fire broke out on the Place fiaint-Gi:ry (the oldest part of Brussels), in a cabinet maker's workshop. The engines arrived in about half an hour after the alarm had been given. Unfortunately the river Senne, which is close to the Place Saint-Gery, was almost dry, in consequence of the sluices having been stopped, in order to allow of the bed being cleaned, so that the engines could only get a supply of thick, muddy water. The sluices were opened as soon as possible, and engines commenced in earnest about two o'clock. From the Brat moment of the discovery of the fire, it was found impossible to save the premises in which • it originated. All the efforts of the fire brigade were, therefore, directed to arrest the progress of the flames towards the adjacent houses; but the attempt was unsuc cessful. In less than an hour and a half, some six or seven houses were on fire, and the scene then became ago nising in the extreme. Women and children were seen standing at the windows, imploring succour, whilst the male portions of the families were throwing their furniture into the river. About half-put four e.n., the fire was got under, but the engines continued playing on the ruins during several hours. The military were called out, and the gendarmerie were actively employed in keeping order and preventing pillage. It was noticed that a great number of the working classes who were present refused to lend any assistance, and actually went away, when they were solicited to lend their aid. The Moniteur of yesterday passes • well-merited censure knowledge. It is prin. ..eike. for Mare generations. , Surely the )tecler the direction o .411. r working classes that. the ( Wog i iii i i ir it , , leo aftrAO'l upoe his efforts axe anti combination and political • • • m . .Itrise who fp U d norisi s sl in fined. Such movemen Ao , oug tole/Pim . ' ; and. the ate mailmen ands•thi class, are rude, fierce, an 4., ,lef,A4lll liptat .. • „1/ 1 , ' • have the 'more the poorer denotio lo , eat variety among the tAt -to es . ..ftetral. aireelk-iff;at • z t4ll-6pOtiiik aeprovided to ilePpor tailors, hleck. monuments,andevinceitstaste,byastittiaryrevolution. gular a mea ns of su m a trades ; iaiowi within themselv es ;In these views, the more statues - we have, and -the - - We-should be pre • ---. ;...neeruotuilv placed, the better. 'The more tax for the support o kg - on such dastardly conduct The fire originated WAS insured for 04Agg) fa ,ehc persona were wound e d, one of wilZa A grenadier was arrested in t h e ger of silver watch. This fire has thrown about 100 fift , ll4l of employment. In one of the houses, 40,1tiir beer were destroyed. Whilst th e fire was nigft7 I warehouse of M. Darth, that gentleman ite " cities that several hundreds of ball cartridges m over in a piece of furniture in his h ouse. Threfi fire brigade immediately threw the piece is,"7„._ the Senne, and thus prevented a fatal ex r pl fte destructive fire broke out ea r ly this morns ix , barracks in the rue des Petits Carton, f i f ifi damage was done. STATUE OP GODFREY DE Bot ILLON.—Tbe of the Interior has notified to the town cou r o o , that the Place Royale will be the b est site Godefroid de Bouillon. The ce remony of • 4 will take place in September, 1847, GERMANY.— IlimßußG, :Col% remains of Prince Henry of Prussia who from fifil which were brought by the Prussian corvetk t 4 Clean Vecchia to the Elbe, were on board the Prussian steamer, the rui s t d 72 l Brockdorf, which immediately proceeded to 13 f ift7 DENMARK.—AFFAIRS OP SCR LEelelG.figt RAMBLKO, Nov. 3.—We have just received Schleswig, dated this day, cont a i n i ng the „kr; Assembly of the States to the King, which was Sk. majority of 3.5 to 5. The Duke of Augurnahrifiri igung. M. Hansen's motion for the 'cassias ask the German Confederation was refused by to 7.- SCIILESWIG, Nov. 3.—The reported im atai Assembly of the States to invite the nine Peeg esi dinner is not confirmed ; on the other hug Lion s caused by a report which was ge tese gr e , yesterday, that it has been proposed to dismiss the e able men who have expressed their conviction se ep , rights and privileges of the country, and that* contradicted by the Danish ministers in the segic with regard to what has been done by Dui*. The address of the States of Schleswig and llolne; lished at great length in the journals; the e „,„ xiii, to 'tic founded on the following propositions ; Th e Schleswig, like the Duchy of Holstein, nape, pendent duchy. The Duchies of Schleswig eg g 4 constitutionally, and therefore ineeparalAs The male line governs the duchies. Thew se e mental principles of the public right* of sei s es stein ; these are the foundation of the constigg i country, and of the public welfare. Nov. 3 (IN THE EVENING).—We have jag from an authentic source, that the Commiewsyg vernment has returned the address to the Pelag e , Commissary, in his letter to the President, Aw e , the second sitting of the Assembly of the Lennie wig, he took the liberty of observing to the sesealit address to his Majesty the King, according to t h e N , tions of the 15th of May, 1834, must be dismounts mined upon, according to those directions, sod tV directions not having teen observed by the Met therefore obliged, in consideration of this inn without regarding the contents of the madras, t back to the President,according to his Mejesty's u s with the declaration that he cannot recites it° to his Majesty. COLONIAL NEW SOUTH WALES. From a Correspondent. CONDITION AND PROsPECTS OF THE () , I By late accounts from Sydney, we learn from a pr respondent that considerable drought had bra prevailed, but fortunately rain bad fallen. T. price of butchers' meat in Sydney on the let d. to Id. per pound, cheap enough in all canna population of the colony is about 181,500 pro*, .ess 1,348,022 cattle, 6,202,031 sheep, 82,303 bore other stock. 40,0001. had been expended by the the Hon. East India Comrainy for horse, to a rndian services. Sir George Gipps, who had bets of the colony for seven years, and a ‘ery although not popular, was suffering from ill h bad taken his passage to England by the Pi sail early in July. Dr. Lang, the well-knoita the colony was also coming to England. Gee labourers, for shepherds, still prevailed, but fraTall to permit the resumption of bounty emigrantu ports of wool for the season had nearly ceased, th amount in all to close upon 60,000 bales, valved million sterling. Sheep and cattle were to be had i former, in flocks, with • stations," at from 81. u head ; but unless buyers from England in the chap settlers came out, they would go lower in price,' bably such has been the fact, owing to thefaUintt wool at home—all the better for thr.se recent/y no and we observe advertisements for the sale of Mr flocks of sheep, which will give an idea of the sheep-farminfr in the colony .-2,798 mixed wen at the Nunn River; 5,000 ewes and wethen, vid on the Clarence River; 4,306 ewes and young as station, at Bova, Liverpool Plains. The abase, ■ were sales of surplus stock. Sheep.farniag p, return on a moderate capital, and what is writs thousands in England, gave ample food and evert nuisite to all connected with it,under one of Owing on the surface of the globe. The mode of life much to be pleased with, but people Iris es without evening parties need not seek to bareftei gratified byy a residence in the bush—it is sot nt toils and hardships, as well as its &dreamt whole, the colony is in a very thriving coiritiat the worse that pecple, now, do not think aegis tunes, but rather are content with nuking aes living, which is the better because more resuesti take. SCPERSTITION AND MURDER.—The Mai" of Oct. 28 quotes the following singular story foe derool Althbar, of the 14th August : " BAREILLY.—A very singular escumitaace in June last, similar to which has seldom bees Lala Doorgaparakad, • kayut. inhabitant of Ba Mined a decree in his favour against one of his own • few hundred rupees. The debtor, to get rid of employed some necromancers to cause the death of by means of the occult art, but the attempt failed o he then had recourse to a Brahmin, accomplished form of incantation used to gain a certain and who made a living by it. The Brat mised that, by means of Jap, he would r Labs to die within a week ; the week, paned by, and the Leda was yet living. ceased Bucktanah Singh (the man who had the Brahmin), and be demanded back the mom given the Brahmin for his incantations. The Bral said, if he desired he would cause the death of I) shad in such • manner as no one would know thi it ; and, after taking more money. the Brah min, of visiting some other country, left his house; back after a fortnight, in the character and h Fuqueer (a religious mendicant), and straightfor to the house of Doorgapurshad, and having looi palm of his hand, drew out a horoscope, 'Luddism? several matters concerning the family that ban occurred, not forgetting to mention the lawsuit] likewise. By this means he gained over the of the Leda; and, finding him credulous, further upon his belief, and said, that be was with the Lala's regular and virtuous life, the determined to do something to secure bin peace and felicity. This gave great delight to the he began already to bless himself. The Brehm sundry things to be brought for the perform' ceremony of Home (a burnt-offering, accompi invocations and incantations to Attain a tens sayiog that he would reveal to the Lala a m would give him complete power over every articles ordered were brought, and, at eight devil of a Brahmin commenced his pranks , fully immersed in the ceremony of the MI voitatioas and in incantations. A cup of ,hi the result of all these diabolical proceeds atinidnight was offered to the infatuated Lela, him not to be frightened, as a god would aleper hours after he had drank the shied:et. The lAA -joining, drank the imp to the very dregs; cad Unwise nampisimi of giddiness, the Brahmin '0 •SyWi. be 110111t1 am Miele him of it; be we after 'sad* in a few men of the house, eb awake, he decamped. The fatal sup had its full' hour, and the people-discovered the treachery a min, as the ehurbtet he had given was ran' l" poor Lala died at the early age of 25, lesvb g to bemoan his premature death. Both the Brew man who had employed him have been spree the ease is under trial. Mt Court. WINDSOR, MONDAY.—This day was the wry of the birth-day of his Royal llighllClll Wales. In the morning the Queen and Prim accompanied by the Prince of Wales, and ale Alfred, the Princess Royal and the Princess present at the grand entrance of the quadrangl the Long Walk) and inspected the First Regina' Guards, and the Scots' Fusilier Guards, who m in front of the eastern terrace of the Castle.. named regiment was dismounted, and both slv attended by their bands. The troops fired a Jet honour of the day. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Ka in the forenoon at the Castle to pay a visit of con to her august relatives, and remained to innate Majesty and her Royal Consort. His Royal Highness Prince Albert, act by his Serene Highness Prince Lowenstein, low Lord Byron, and the Hon. Capt. Gordon, enjoye of shooting this morning. Mr. J. Kay Shuttleworth left the Castle t The commissioners for Eni a committee meeting yesterday. There were I Bishop of London, the Bishop of Ely, the Secret: (Sir George Grey), and the Chancellor of the Eye Despatches were received yesterday at the office from the Governor of the Mauritius. The Marquis and Marchioness of Ely ai arrived at Farrance's Hotel, Upper Bel,grave - An day from Germany. REMOVAL OF THE WELLINGTON STATI THE ARCH.—During the visit of the Queen 31 Albert to town on Saturday last, her Majesti coin her decision to the Commissioners of WoUds an that the Wellington statue shall be removed fortl its present unsightly elevation.