The Express. — London, England, 1849-05-23 00:00:00

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LONDON,WEDNESDAY MA Y 23 We have the happiness and honour of being ruled by two legislative chambers differingifrom each other, to all appearance. in temper, tone, and tendency, se sub as Is eerily conceivable. Between a body selected ostensibly fur their proven carte ity and knuw!t die, and a body selected by the blind chance of bitch irrespective of all fitness or nefitness derivable from individual qualities or attain meats, there would appear to be little in com mon. Between the interfusion of varied exponents of commercial, manufacturing, and protessimal industry, end the exclusive monotosy of had owning idleness, there would seem to be nothing is noirain. Between active and laborious habits, such *. all the ihasekcia 1110111 of tho en... Ana and the listless and fastidious inaptitude for business which characterises the greet majority of the bat& tory lords, the intelleetuld discrepancy is not wider thee the social and the motel. Yet is there an influence whose potential sway is able, wheeever it is brought efficiently to bear, to assimilate the working o. these two most strangely its machines, and net merely to avert their daimon, but to guide them in one and the same tr ek. Left to themselves it is hard to conjess f tare whether either of them would run. Checked sad controlled by the irresistible power of pnblis op sin.• neither of them darts to swerve very lot g or very far from the right way. It is tine that the re po sentative body better and more pliantly obeys the wand •ti sof that sovereign authority in whose name it pr feces to act and move, and have its organic bet g. To a certain ex'ent it ie direct y and really reap •tibible to popular scrutineers, yolept large condi tuercies, who axe apt to take to task particular mem bers when they ere caught s• raying from the tight pith of their duty. Bat looking to the members who in the lower chamher of legielaion are to all practical bite: is aid purposes irrespousible in a direct err se to the mo, k constituencies by whom they aro nominally electee, it is manifest that something besides moat in fluence tteir inclinations and their votes. And when we raise our eyes to the fretted a: d gilded portals of the Oh. r chamber—generally so empty—and recol lect that upwards of four hundred hereditary oligarchs have a right by law to congregate therein whenever they 1,1 ate with closed doors to decree what they please, or at all events to veto whatsoever does not find favour in their eyes—when we know what =sneer of men these four hundred are, and what sort cf role the great majority of them would like to see e hid:abed in the land—and when we find never theirs that not one in ten of them formidably privi leged p, is cages ever 'Were the ball where he has this presumptive power, except on some rare cession, and that then t.e does not even pretend to free agency or to the • xercise of deliberative functiuns,--we may well tn-rvel et the might and magnitude of that all ?eremites, all-subduing 'power which [caverns alike tree poradsle lords and commons, partly by the hope of its leve"oatirg smile, partly by the terror of its withering frown. The events which are passing before us at the pre sent hour amply attest this truth. Twice curing the last fortnight has the rushress and folly cf Lord STANLEY di monstrated to the marvelling world how helpleeti ',treeless, and soul-less is that vain and Timm d power on whose reactionsty tendency and resolution he and his followers had heti' high and embithins i opts. Twice have the House cf Lords, when interrogated rashly as to their opinion ou free trade in s eppiog, declared that they had no other opines to Kivu save that which the House cf Common- bat already given. On the first (merino, Lord STANLEY knew that the votes of " his order" would be. iolkcted and remrded irrespective of the fact that m ny of the voters would be *bunt, and consequently could not hear a syllable of the reasons urgt•ri on either side. It was a curious and r otahle fart the . up in that occasion a majority of those who did attend, end had the oppalunity of being correctly hemmed on the merits of the question, voted wrong, while a more than caun - ervailiog majority of those who o' ey. d merely the voice of public opinion out of doors, and did not (son at[ et to hear or judge for theneelv, s, voted right. On the second occasion, that of last Monday night, the headlong seal cf Lord STANLEY appealed from PHILIP deaf to PHILIP listening from a di cision won by help of proxies, to one in which none but those who were actually plesent could take part. Arad the result has morn betrayed the over-ruling mere e f t, ar which, like an instinct to the week and mitten r members of creation, seems to have been giv.n them lor the purpose of self-pr. servation. A larger majority, though in a far smaller home, re ar,. o d 'et the latter occie ion the resolution of the former night. The House of Lords mid nrt be brought to face public opinion on the subject of the navigation laws; and without provoking one angry or ir dig oast expression of that growing and e heady irresistible power, they who most devoutly detest its yoke, and who, if they safely could, would rid the world of its sway, meekly and quietly reconcile them gejt,i, In the duty of solemnly recording its decrees le a quit. erexceptionable manner. Truly this is regrets. Let the people take pride is it as the evideoes of great way made. Let their leaders take heart from it as a convincing proof of • what m.y set be wen if they have but the wisdom and the will. To faith all things are possible. When ever the pe ple of these kingdoms believe in their own righ• ne to be ma d only and solely as they please, and beli ve thoroughly in the certain truth that there is no power whatever apish'', of withholding the benefit sad enjoyment of such rule firm them for a eingl- ear, the shams of usurped authority will vanish away. end the shadows of privilege will disappear as Its substance has already done. rr is imp:visible to contemplate a right more noble than Illy g try at the present moment, teed by the Imhof t its of its sons tom invading armies—of Aust., i .11 . on one side, of Russians on another, of I Croats a+ .d Selavonians on a third—its glorious suc cesses put having wrun?, admiration or con ession from is hereditary sovereigns; bat, on the con•rart , having awakened fre-h inveteracy in tbeir h atts, and made them prefer humblirg the 'm o t . a • tt e root of the Tartar, to imparting their jut arc) pre-cririve share of independence and free dom to i s rational races. The Hungarian leaders, KosseTu himself, the noblis and the general., who take part in the wur of resistance, would gladly have left ' the que.ticn of sovereignty . in abeyance, and ruling de .fsetn, have carried on the war without eiscu-sirg the rights or wrongs of the Home of ivshurg. The Hungarian peasant, however, maid n , t wield his arm with zeal unless the cause for V•ich he fought was more clearly dellneil. Ao custorre,l to take and revere an oath of allegiance . to his Inrereiot and to his colours, the Ranh= Homed &Aimed thus invoking the name of a King, who was making war upon his ri;hts end his liberties, and who had called I,i Russians to waste and slaughter the Thus frvir and t. , chtvomiau rscFe. The objections to a continu, d recognition of the Emperor thus came from tar r roles and the recruits of the army, not from the c .uncil chamber or the general's tent. Roan= was c-m , ell, dto obviate objections emanating from such a source and such scruples ; and the result has been a decree of forfeiture passed against the Howe of Hapsburg, more by the general aeclam +tins of the Hungarian peop'e, than by any caprice ot choler of politicians. On a former coca won, in a similar war of independence, Jolly HUM y.thrs e-i-umed the rule of Hungary for a =march, incapable of reigning by himself, and his title was that f U , INrcor-President by the choice of the Hun pavan rayon. Such is the title now assumed by Kosuuzn, and deferred to him by the Hungarian Diet. declesirg that he reigns supreme during the tempaary forfeitwe or abeyance of the royal race. The title, however, is of lea imFor tante than the acts of the Hungarian government, all of which have been marked by evinon, firmness, and skill. When the armies of Hungary, turning Presburg, and ad vancing upon Vienne, we re arrested by the news that large Rosman armies had pound into Cracow, and were ready to be drafted wherever the Austrian empire wan most menaced, it was memory to adopt new military plans, adapted to each altered circumstances. Instead of &dame fog beyond Presburg, the Hungarians fell back, wed as.umed the defensive on both hanks of the Daintbe, whilst the greater portion of their army under 011011011 Y, mastering nearly 100,000 seen, took post ca the keen Carpathian", from Gudiug to Jahlunks, and thereby menaced Moravia, Silesia, and Cracow. IC the Russians advance upon Vienna, as was their first intention, °COHORT'S army could penetrate into Moravia behind them, and not only cut off their communications, but raise the s andard of insurrection in Bohemia. Or were Galicia left unoccupied by the Runians, it was equal) y open to Hungarian invasion which, on the side of Poland, was even more to be feared. This consideration, arising out of the yreition of °EMMET'S army, haveparnlysed the Russians, who seem occupied more with defensive and precautionary . measures. than boldly asauwing the offensive, as might be expected from the number and vaunting tone of their intervention. A division of the army however, said to have reached Goding, and would seem to menace peering behind the Wang, one of the principal lines of Hue gatian defence. GEOICHIT will allow no such move ment tabs made without an agreement, or a counter- Moravia. Heriilierefous Oa the or' Carpathians, lies the chief interest cf the campaign. Hers will probably take place the most serious con flict between Rumens and Havgarianr, the latter have all the advantage of concentration and position. As to the country on the Danube, from which we get most frequent bulletins, the island of San t and the villages near it, the struggle there is nut serious. The Hungarians do not muster above 30,000, and the Austrian', though more numerous, are so completely demoralised, as nut to deserve the name of an army. The young . emperor bee bees amongst them, but speedily withdrew, disappointed and ashamed at such a wreck of the oree flourishing army that WIN DISCHGRATZ led to Path. While Orion EY keeps the Russians in check on the lesser Carpathian", and remains at almost equal dis tance from Olmutz, Cracow, and Vienna, DEMBINSKI is advancing with a corps by Eperics to the pubis of the north-east of Hungary. Ou whatever side of the mountains he may meet the Russians ' he hopes to give good account of them. His army has been swelled by almost the entire of the Ciallielan youth, who have withdrawn from Russian fraternisation. Food and arms, indeed, are all that the Hungarians can require; as to men, the Sclavonic race furnishes them a superabundance to whatsoever region they advance. Ham has Fecund Transylvania and its pastes so securely that there is good reason to credit the report of the Russians having been wonted in an attempt to pass them. Pan- ZEL co-opers'es with him in the south, and both are engaged in the reduction of the fortresaes which still held out. These are Carls berg, Peterwaradin. Temesver, and Arad. There was a report that Carlsberg bad surrendered. Buda, too, is also beleaguered ; and it is considered that the capture of these tertiaries would release 20,000 Hungarians, and so much increase the force of their active armies. The Huogarian government has issued an order for the free admission of all munitions and articles of war, as well es fur the levying of very slight duties on all woollen and cotton goody. Count Wescu was despatched to signify this decree to the British consul et Bucharest. But, captured by the Cossacks, he was turned from his route, and could not make known Ws instructions where it was most metal for them to have been promulgated. Such is the position, such the prospects of Iluoga rian defence. There is no denying the odds against them. Their limited territory and population are at this moment attacked by three or four puiesent empires; fur the troops of the prine'palities, Wal lachia and Binh', were turned against them, and the resources of those principalities made moot to support Russian armies. Prussia bus formed a corps in Silesia, as a d.fecce against any incursion of °EMMET ; whilst Austria and Russia =leer all their disposable force to penetrate into Hungary. In &struggle against such old tending and gigantic sank', it will be no disgrace to the Hungarians to succumb. Their suc cessful resistance would be, perhaps, the most glorious feat of modern Watery. The eyes cf the world are upon them, the sympathies of all good men with them, and what mat not be hoped from men, Provi dence, in sapped of a just and righteous cause, may supply. The Hungarians fight for national, for religious, for social, and fir political liberty. ANY sagacious man, corsulted as to the fitness of the present moment for agitating end advancing the great question of electoral reform, would probably shake his bead, and say it was by no means a fit mo ment. The wh;gs are in office, and thus the party, which is the old hereditary and traditional leader of all movements, has got a retaining fee to be quiet. Then the industrious masers, which must be the soul of such a movement, are, however pressed by taxa tion and mortified at the stand-still in all kinds of political progress, nevertheless painfully moved by the fears which pervade the spending and epeculatirg classes, and the obstruction which foreign disturbance has raised to trade. . . Many of the middle clue are thus but too apt to echo in timidity the cry which the conservatives raise in design. They forget altogether that moments of political panic like the present are the meet dangerous of all for the public liberties and the public purse ; fear paralyses the de Unders of both, whilst those who prey upon both, wise every pretext to be rigorous, retrog,a3e, and lavish. It has, indeed, been always by plums got up on the score of danger and infection from abroad that the tories have established their rule, and that aristocratic parties have con tired to cheat the people into false enthusiasm and idle expense. The present, therefore, is the epoch of all otte-s when it most behoves the industrious clues' to open their eyes to politics and their ears to information—to associate, to keep watch upon the tendencies and doings of their ruler!, and to pursue, ardently, those rightful reforms which will give them and their tumbler fellows more influence, a greater and more direct voice in the control of public expenditure and in the management awl distribution of the sums which are raised. A glence at the politics of the day will show that the aristocratic classes are alarmed at events and at things that nowise threaten or concern the people of this country. What is it to us that the French pro claim a republic. or that the Pore and his subjects cannot agree? Why should this be made the pretext of expenditure with us—should make us keep up armies, fleets, and officers ? But of this the parties who form the majority in parliament will not be convinced. And the only way to drive these, if not from power, at least from that old political track which has dragged us into the rut of an 800 millions debt, is to make a great electoral change, and at the same time a sage one, such as that comprised in household suffrage, the ballot, triennial parliaments, and a fairer apportionment of members to coneitueneier. Such is the programme of the association which had its first public meeting yesterday, a report of the proceedings of which will be found in our columns. And a most successful public meeting it was, in every sense—successful by its numbers, enthusiasm, concord and order. After the chairman had fully opened the meeting, Mr. R. OSBORNE made one of those rattling and telling speeches of which he treats the House of Cmmous to too few. We may not agree with him in thinking the popular party eo null in the house, be cause so divided. They are divided because the members of this popular patty are not looking for place or in hopes of forcing open the doors of the cabinet. For this it is which gives discipline and compactness to a party. But eighty or a hundred liberal members constitute a very efficient and formidable popular party, ready to rally and vote together on all essential questions, even although they have no whipper in, and indulge in the various caprices of political inde pendence. There is a right good nucleus, if political and financial reformers would bestir themselves to gather more 'tumid it. The ea-member for Coventry, more and more missed in the house mince the illcees of Mr. HrME and of so many metropolitan member., humorously IMINUIPIMEMMOM THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 23, 1849. ►xemplifled the prevailing equality of taxation. Mr. CLAIMS'S objections to a property qualification for inrush rs were highly joe•. And it is no doubt only because such an amendment mast follow the other more important reforms, that it was tot thought necessary to place it specially amongst the demands of the association. It is to be regretted that more of the intelligent English do not visit the United States. Why do not the well born, independent, and well-bred nobles and commoners, acme to this country init.ad of visiting the continent? There is much, very mneh, to be seen here, and something to be learned. Some of your not;bilitiss would nave a continued scene of triumphs in the United States. Mr. Cobden or Lord John Russell would make a sensation, and be re ceived with all the honours. We should like to see some of your moat distinguished females here. They would find a new theatre in which to appear with applause. Much as we are disposed to quarrel with John Bull, evea fire the nin'h part of a hair, no Englishmen of merit ever visited the United States without receiving the greatest attention. Emigration is again pouring its full tide upon us. Three thousand paupers were landed in this city in twodays of last week. The Irish prelomirnic. How long is Ireland to pour tooth these wretched crowds? Is her population lsr.er than that of continental Europe ? It would stem so. The moment these people arrive they commence begging. The e'retts swarm with them. Looking around, and finding they ere not followed by any police, they begin to swagger; they tell you what fine farms and houses they occupied at home. They offer to work if you will pay them 4s. or Ss. sterling a day, but they soon get tired. They rush to the almshouse, or the duper series, or the emigration offices, to get relief, and in a few days become ready to dispute with you the pos session of the soil. The several resolutions, however, developed u they I were by different speakers, would each reqnirioae rate consideration. Bat it was certainly a sin g ular coincidence, that on the same evening with the Brat public meeting of the assaciation, one of its leading questions should bare been actually carried in the House of Cumuli*. Mr. TENNYSON D'EYNCOMIT may, indeed, have owed his victory more to the idling exciter ent of the Derby, than to any growing wish of the members of the house to curtail their tenure of representation. In deed, triennial parliaments is one of those very fair and necessary laws for putting en end to political trading, which the pressure from without must strongly urge on parliament, ere it can be finally carried. Really they are in many respects the cane of our land, and we all know it. What remedy is to be provided we know not. Very few live to old age : an old Irishman is a very rare sight in this country. Ureful in some respects Ivawo en riaormAal that Amereans will no longer perform the work which they are willing to do. This Irish emigration is the American Sphinx. The snivel of a large quantity of specie by the steamer hu made some noise here. It is but a drop in the bucket, and is, after all, bat the private specu lation of some capitalists, who prefer a trifling per ccntage cf profit to a risk with a large one ; the venture ef men not over liberal or sagacious In their general operations. It is really a pity that the values of proper ties aad of labour in this country and Great Britain should continually fluctuate with the possession or departure of so small a representation of Onto values, as gold and silver. Is it possible for Francs, Eng land and the United States to combine together and guarantee mutually a certain amount of government notes which should pass in their countries respec tively at a declared value in payment of public and private debts? 1 sly is this pxs.ble ? If it were, it would do more to equalise trade, labour, and c on merce, than all the efforts hitherto made by the best intentioned statesmen. I have an idea of the manner in which this might be carried out practically for a time, and all time, if it would answer the purpose. The Washington from Southampton came up to day from the lower bay. The amount of epee° entered at the Custom-house yesterday was 902,540 dole, in cluding a small lot of gold dust. The Sophia Walker has just arrived at Boston with 80,000 doles in Californian gold. The Lexington is expcct.d here daily with a very large amount. The American gold dollar will be leaned from the Mint in a few days. AMERICA AND CANADA. [We gave yesterday the intelligence brought by the Cambria from Canada and tie United States.] We now present the letter of our corespondent. NEW YORK, MAT S. We have late news from Mexico of an interesting character. The Indians in the vicinity of the Rio Grande have been committing so many depredations upon the Mexican settlements, and have des roved so msny lives, that the American troops stationed at Fort Brown, opposite Metamoras, hare been obliged ilVal motives of humanity to turn out for the defence of the people. Some of the Californian emigrants, who happened to be near the scene of these murders, volunteered their aksittance, and we have an amount of one party of eight having defeated and nearly ex terminated a band of thirty Indians, themselves escaping unharmed. I must say my countrymbn are a race by themselves. We also learn that Paredes is in actual revolt anaii.st the government, that on the 17th of April his followers captured San Luis Potosi, and then marched on Queretaro. _ _ _ Tie trove sent against him fraternised with the insurgents, end now there is no telling what may happen. The Mexican government does not deserve the name, and it is a fact that the most respectable people in Mexico wish most sincerely that they were under our government. Ws have a late arrival from Rio Janeiro. Our dates are to the 29th of March. It appears that the Chambers dissolved on the 19th of February without adopting any miaeures which the commerce of Brazil is believed to ri qule. The Emperor, however, issued an edict to met the emergency, and it contains the provisions that ad valorem duties shell apply to : All merchandise, the duty on which is not declared specifically by the existing tariff. Passengers' effects other than new, not at present free of duty. Damaged merchandise, if ID appearing on survey. Samples of merchandise, of value not over 1001. Merchandise transhipped, or reshipped, or re-ex ported. The edict declare., that merchandise shall be sub ject to 1) per cent. clearance duty, that every entry must set forth quantity, quality, weight, and market value (less the duty) of each article. Merchandise undervalued may be detained. The British man-of-war Spider had return( d from the Plate River, bringing news from Monte Video to the 10th of March. The French admiral was mo mentarily expected. The French charge to Brussels, M. Guillemot, had returned from a visit to the river in the Spider. A letter, dated the 9th of March, has been received in this city, which states that the affairs of the Plate are in train of re ttlement, and that Rotas has signed a cmvention with the English and French ogee's there, subject to the approval of their respective go vernments, which will end the blockade and interven tion to the sati-fiction of all parties. I need not re peat to you that the sympathies of the Americats have all along been with Rona, and it will turn out, ou the settlement of a vexed question, that we shall gain by the expression of them. Business was very dull, American products were not bringing cost, and the greater number el vessels was leavirg in ballast. Frt m Yucatan we hear that the American volun teers left the service of that country in perfect disgust. life remain, of the American regiment, with their colonel, have arrived at New Orleans, rather regret i that they had n)t been the comrades of San Ja ciuto Pat, whe', after all, is but seeking to avenge the wrongs of his countrymen upon their bigoted and ruthless oppressors. received a letter this day from a mercantile friend atChsgres, who gives a most deplorable accannt of the emigrants at the Isthmus. A large number is s..eleirg to return to the United States, as there is no probability of the it ever reaching California. No ' vessels of any kind have returned to Panama from Sea Feancisco, and very few are going up. In this state of things, it is useless for them to remain upon the Isthmus: 400 yersons were there without any money or Employment. We have accounts from the Sandwich Islands as late as November 28, and as these " hal-way" houses of the Pacific begin to appear important, it may be well to glance at the intelligence we have received from them. 'I he mortality to which I alluded in my lag continues, particularly among the native!. A day of public humiliation and prayer had been appointed, 'rider a sense of the displec sore of the Almighty. Some missionaries had gone to San Francisco, and were well received. Large salaries were given them, and a disposition was apparent among the Americans to maintain their accustomed reverence for religion. From Hayti we have an arrival, with dates to the 20th of April. It is now believed that the President will succeed in subjugating the Spanish part of the island. He bad taken Azua, and was ex ecting to r ear of the fall of St. Jago and St. Domingo. Ar Port an Prince a very hostile feeling was showing its: If against the northern whites, and lacewing every day, and principally because they would not sell their goods at the prices fixed by government, whose mcnerly of coffee still continues. It is a subject of remark here that our ports are crowded with foreign shipping. A majority of the vessels, and they were numerous, that came into New York, the day before yesterday, saes British. This is equally true nearly all the Sae, as respects Charleston and Savannah. The fact is attributed to the greater cheapness with which British vessels are worked, aid in those came, where the profit of a voyage does nut depend on speed, it would seem as if they came into full competition here with our own bottoms. With regard to our steamers, it is a curious fact, the. the new line about to commence between New York and Havre, receives but little encouragement. Oce of the houses which made the arrangement with the Bremen line, to take a portion of the mail con tract, originally given to that company, is obliged to go to France, in order to make up the capital. No one here seems willing to touch it. Collins, Liver pool line is the only one that has not met the greatest difficulties in its organisation. And yet the g reatest trade is a favourite one here. The Washington, hourly expected, brings an immense freight. The truth in, French manufactures are in high favour here. Their great elegance, the novelty of their design, their exquisite finish, commend them to the American taste. V&A quantities of their bronze, chins, plated and silver articles are disposed of in this country. French wines have a decided preference over all others. Great num bers of exquisite copies of paintings find a mart here, and our men and women of fortune are constantly re ceiving articles of taste from Paris. It is really singular that our Anglo-Saxon feelings are so com pletely overpowered by our regard for French norms:cad& One furniture, with the exception of our carpets, is all in the French style. Our bats and boots and gloves are after the Rause fashion. It is enough to make the fortune of a tradesman if be can put the words "from Paris" on his sign. And yet we cannot get up • line of steamers to Havre. So of our travellers. They prefer Paris to any other Munro., city; the reason for this is more obvious. Their money goes further there than in London, and society is more accessible. Mannerless, and want of good breeding are less per ceptible when translated than when they are seen in the vernacular. Yet we cannot get up steam for France. And, by the way, let me say that an im mense crowd of Americans will visit Europe this eummer. It is beginning to be considered here quite indispenseMe to fashionable notoriety that some mem ber of every respectable family should make a visit to Europe. WEST INDIA MAIL. The Royal West India mail packet Conway. Capt. Clarke, arrived at Southampton yesterday, end landed her mail., under tie charge of Lieut. It. Percival, It N., Admiralty agent. The dates by this arrival ire : La Gus3rs, 6:11. Api.l; Tampico ' 13th Apt ; Vera Cruz, 15th April ; Havannah, 26th April ; Hon duras' 12th ; Jamaica, 23rd April; Demerara, 18th April; Trinidail, 20th April; Ilarbadoes, 28th April; Antigua, 29th Antil; Porto Rico, 29th April; St. Thomas" 2nd May ; Bermuda, Bth May. Among the passengers (eighty in all) by the Conway are Nlljor Grasme, Governor of Tobago, his lady and infant, and Mist Graeme. The Conway's freight consists of 320,874 donate from Mexico, on account of merchants ; 315 oz. gold dust; 1,5221. British coin; 6001. French c ; 149 boles cochineal; 2 barrels coffee; 27 cases cigars ; 6 burets arrowroot ; 3 cases inixades ; 45 live turtle ; 3 cases Vanilla. The Conway has been out from England two years performing the mail service between the different West lab& Islands, and is now ordered h9me to have some trifling defects made good. On her home voyage she had hard gales from south-west !or several days after leaving Bermuda, with a wry heavy sea, and proved herself a first-ratemes boat. The Mexican news less been anticipated by the in telligence from the United States. JAMAICA. The Dfen•ning Journal of April 23 has the follow ing summery of news : Siuee the departure of the last mail not a circumstance has occurred of interest to parties abroad, or which demands particular rot ce at our hands. A pubic meeting h4d at the town of la:month on the lath inst. is hardly an excep tion to the remark. That meeting had for its object an ap pFeatinn to the government and parliament of the mother country for the remodelling of the council; the necessity for enforcing the WITS trade treaties with foreign nations was added to the resolutions having the former ob ject in view. There exists a difference of opinion with respect to the change which ought to be effected in the upper branch of the leg;elatiree. Same are in favour of enlarging the council, by the addition of non-official members, and others of a more complete and effectual reform in the mode of conducting the ledialative businers of the country. The demand for re sponsibie government has alarmed a good m toy who fancy that whatever originates in Canada, or assimilates to Canadian forms, must be revolutionary and ffijectionable. The Falmouth meeting determined in fa ' your of remodelling the council, but lett the mode by which that was to oe accomplished to the home government and parliament. The prop wed alteration in that board, or in. crease of the number of its members, will not be eutEcient. We should prefer that an executive council should be formed at the same time ; bui, if there are any objections to this ,e -position, it ean remain for future eoasiderati•n. That such a council is needed, no one who has paid ordinary attention to the proceedings of our assembly for the last three or for years can doubt. Speculation is rife as to the instruc tions which the executive may receive from the govern ment relative to our affairs, and the prffinhility of the legis lature beieg main called to meet and proceed tabueinese previous to a dissolution. One or the other course must be adopted by or Were the 15th October. when the Import Duty Bal will sew to operate. The island remains tranquil and peaceful, and all panics are hoping that the improve ment which has taken placer in the produce market may continue, and be progressive. The best and most effectual sedative for this, and other equally excited and exciteable sugar and coffee producing dependencies, is good prices in the British markets. GUIANA. From this colony the intelligence is of a painful character. The labourers on one estate (plantation " Zorg") 011 the Arabian coast have evinced such insubordination as to require the interfer.-zce of the police, aided by the rural constables, to defeat them, they having gone so far as to tarn out, armed with cut lasses, to seize the estate's provisions. Five of them have been committed to gaol. Climes and casual ties were of almost daily recurrence. In Georgetown three meetings of the "Combined ' Court " had taken place, at which the financial mem bers had carri.d the principle of retrenchment to such length as, is saiti, had taken even their own supporters by surprise. Ttey commenced with the church, and instead of confining themselves to a redaction of 23 per cent, on incomes exceeding 700 dollars per annum, they have, in the majority of items, struck off 50 per sent. "at one fell swoop"; and in some instances have wholly expunged from the estimate salaries and allowances which were held on the guarantee of solemn contracts, and which it was expressly set forth should be paid during the incumbency of the present possessors. This information has, however, reached us through a partisan channel, and we must reserve our judgment till we have heard bath sides of the question. TRINIDAD. In Trinidad an ordinance hes; been pused by the council "to provide for the holding, in certain cues, of the Supreme Civil Court, and of Lbe Supreme Crimi nal Court, before two judzes," and in the Board of Town Council • proposition has been agreed to— " That the board pray her Majesty to make Port of Spain • free port." BARBADOES. The Leeward Distriot Agricultural Society's report for tte month of March is as follows : In direct opposition to the old adage, " March comes in like a lamb," but, we are sorry to add, " went not out like a lion." The month has been characterised throughout by light winds and calms, in consequence of which, together with a great scarcity of fuel, the reaping of the crop has been much retarded. We hive to remark an unusual visitation at this period of the year—a heavy tall of water, which took place on the night of the 23rd, and which occasioned much injury to the land. The blight, which has for ems years attacked certain portions of the district, we regret to observe, is extending its ravage. We conaretulafe the agricultural interest of the two imitates, in taring loaded 13 Speights' Bay, with their own replace, the barque, Mary Queen of Soots. We bail this undertaking as an eveut like . ) , to be beneficial to all, and which we howe will hereafter be pr se need with increued energy. The quantity of edn whilb f-lt during the =oath i, by the ram rugs at Husband's, 4.12 inches. GENERAL NEWS. At St. Vinceni.meml;rsoitheirouse of Ats-mbly have declared their intention of making a reduction of 20 per cent. on all salaries. Her Majesty's government have consented that the Wend of St. Kitts should employ its portion • f the half million loan for the purpose of establishing a sugar refinery. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. JAMAICA, Ktnosrox, —(Frew De Cordova's Cfrewier.)—The business of the put forteight bas been very dull. The only articles for which any thing like a demand has existed, ere Cie mica sorts of pickled lab. The stock of flour is large, and we leers that lose quantities have been received at Falmouth. (North. side). The bland notes still stand very much in the way of businera, and 'featly retard the operations of commerce. We cannot too Men impress epee shippers the injustice and i:cpo Ivyof sending oa barrels of hh which are of short weight. Such unfair prom+ dings not ally cause loss to the retailer. but make him wary and suspicious. We have not let been visited by "the reneons," though we have been repeatedly threatened with their approach by heavy c'outls. They are very mach reepdred for all breaches of agriculture. Tonnage is wantad for sugar and cffee, ready V go home. Ftera.-200 barrels Baltimore have been taken at 30a. per barrel. The market has a downward tendency. Maas. ma be quoted at Ifs. to 17a. per berets!. The dealers are fully s with del receipts, which have Interfered with the sales of 1. LA exceedingly dull at 13s. to ISt. 1001ba Another cargo of Carolina has arrived. and still 1,111.1i111 intact, re- Wren being unwilling to accept Ifs. to 175., 'which is the extent of the offers hom the trade. Btu,—Pittha; been sold at 16s. to Ws. per barrel, and Crackers at Ik. to las. Id. -- Canahas farther declined, and sales of Irish to a large ex tent ham Inez made mad. to Ind. per lb. There are, however, some bolder, who 'till demand ltd. The lowyrico ot Isiah baa rmadeefti Lan.—lrlah has been mold at 6d. par C A lot Amet lean (diem. loured) has been [sham at M. . . — di:ilium are dull, eve; at 7d. per lb. The stock is very heavy, end if shipments are not withheld foe a time no improvement can poe:sibly take place. The only sale we have heard of is of I,Ute kixes Amerf. can at 7d. per MACKAML. —The stock Is moderate, particularly of No. 2, which are wanted, and would command 26a per barrel. The recent arriya's No. 3 brought 24a, but ft ht heavy at this price. Courum.—The consumption of dry fish appears to have considerably Men off. The trade are well stocked, and can only be induced to purchase at present high rates, as • means of obtiuning i,lckled fish and oil. The following caroms have hen dealt with as under ; Ammo (265 tierces) parceled out at 15s. Gd. per 1001bs. in earl.. and 17a. per box; • cargo p oreelled out at 15s. ad. per lOothe. in casks and 17s. per box; • cargo (30 tierces and 390 boxes) sold at 15s. 6d. per 100Iba. In ra sa and 16e. per knit a cargo now being parcelled at 13e. per 10011 M. In asks and 17s. per box. Haaanees.—lee have been meld at 17s. to Its. per bdrrel, and split at 14s. A lot roe, short weight, has been sold at auction at Ifie. SAUK/54-12 barrels have changed hands at 60s. for No. 3 and 648. for No. 2, owing to their being taken with a desirable lot of pickled Ash ; 30a. would be accepted for a lot of No. 3. Fose.—The arrivals have been ItIMICMC Steele's 45lbs has been said at Ile., his 36105. at rid., his crown 561ba at 15s. 6d., and his crows 601ba at If*. Obien's GOlte. has been taken at I:a. per box. The sales of Irish mused of 425 boxes Olden'. 3011) , .. (sewn) quality) at 1 Is., 370 boxes ittorntou's Sulks. at I Is., anti YOU hoses Thornton'. 43Ibs. at 10e. 6d. . . . iora.lltestock is beery and the article dull ; met. at 4Se. to 52Lt per Farrel in bond, and wane at 42e. to 44.. in bone. HAVl—Good American are wanted. Lanewhire hemp 10,d. to I Id. Crane.-0. 0. hes been diepused of at lUd. per Ile. Mat r. -I.nne's Cork stout Las been sold at 55a, per hhd., and Keith's ale at ;2e. per hbd , and 44.. per half bbd. Lettuce.— Shi ng l es are at 186.te roe. pe!N. Rra.--2s 3d. to 2.. Gd. per gall•m, prLuf 21. Mama—May be quottd at Its. to 16s. per 100 Ms. Some my fair has remised 17s. per led lbs. PINIXTO-111 .me... and worth 2pl. per lb. ramosint.—Tiro erst-clasa yearels have been taken up for London, me at 3/. Ss., and the other at IU.. fur sugar. Earn %MGM oa Lonuce/.—Colotnal Hank,9o days per cent, prem.; Ditto, be dap. 1 per cent. prem.; Jamaica Bank, nu days,fee prem.; Commilearlat Billy 1 per cent. pr, THE COURT. Her Royal I lightsess the Duchess of Kent visited her Majery the Queen DAragcr yeettrday at Marlborough Hauer. --• Hie Royal Highneca Prince Henry of the Nether land, paid a visit to her Ulm' Highness the Duchess of Kent yesterday. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge also visited her royal highness yesterday et Clarence House, St. James's. Diem Royal Highnesses the Doehees of Cambridge and the Princeu Mary, eat , her linallitalinere thelleredttat y (Juni Ducnera of hlreklenbure Strehtz, arendetl by Mr. Edmond Mildakey, honoured her Male.%) 'a Theatre with their presence yosterdsy evening. FINANCIAL AND PARLIAMENTARY REFORM. METROPOLITAN FINANCIAL AND PARMA- MENTARY ASSOCIATION. Yesterday the fire , !Nubile mt din: of th, ittplibere of thi: ;rowing, and already num. roes association, was held in the spacious, hall of the L ndon Tavern. Sir J. WALMSLEY, having taken the chair, Gentlemen, this meeting is convened, in order—l am rearing the placard convening the meeting—in ord. r to give extended publicity to the principles and obj. et , of she Imo. elation, and to promote an effectual reform of our represen tative system; that reform to consist of—l. Such an tete n. lion of the suffrage as will confer the rieht to be register d as an • lector upon every man of full age, not subject to see legal disability, whr for twelve months shall have oecupie d any tenement or portion of a tenement for which he shall he rated, or shall have claimed to be rated, to the relief of the poor. 2. The adoption of the system of voting by ball it. 3. The limitation of the duration of parliaments to three years. And. 4. Such a change in the arrangement of the electoral districts as shall produce a more equal apportionment of re preseutatives to constituents. G. ntlemen, in taking the chair on this occasion on behalf of the aesocia.inn, I have to so quest a fair and impartial hearing for e very man who may choose to address you on the subject which we aro met here together to c insider. Mr. 1. ATKINSON, the honorary secretary, then read the report as follows : 't The council have the gratification to state that the steps taken to establish a metropolitan financial and par liamentary reform association upon a firm, endurir g, and comprehensive brie, have been attended by staking, un equivocal, and continuous success. The council be lieve that success to he mainly owing to the conviction which is betide forcing limit upon even re lucent sled unwilling mind% that the present undue prenuic upon the industry and cepitel of the country has its origin in the evis which spring out of elan I.gielatinn. The council are strengthened in that be lief by the fact that the aneciation, in existence so tretely three months, is daily receiving large accersions to its num bers, and a!ready comprises the names of many of the oldest, ablest, and ny et distinguished advocates of the extension of civil rights. Funds have been contributed amply sufficient to meet the demands of the present. Numerous di.trict societies, springing out of the central association, are in active and vigorous operation in different parts of the metro eomprisieg al thousands of zealous and ardent reformer', all engaged in aid of the c moron object. And London, which, in the early part of the year, was 'rebind the provinces in the growing agitation for financial and plr liamentary reform, now occupies that leading position to which it is entitl ed, not more from its population and its wealth Akan from its publicspirit and its peeved ie. g intelligence. Deeply impressed with the conviction that no effectual nor lasting relief from the present unequally imposed and heavy burden of taxation can or will take place until the taxpayers I have a mere direct influence in the election of the represen tatives who have to deal with the na.ional resources, the council, after much anxious solicitude and careful delibera tics, came to the conclusion that the agitation for parliamen tary reform should precede that for financial ameliorations. (Much cheering.) In re opting this policy, the council were folly aware that the great difficulty to be met and overcome lay in the difference of opieion which prevailed among their fellow-reformers upon the subject of widening the suffrage. The council, upon mature consideration, have decided upon advocating such an extension of the franchise as will give to every male occupier of a tenement, or any portion of a tene ment, the right to he registered as an elector—the only con dition coupled with that right being, not the payment of rates, but the fact of being rate I, or having claimed to be rated, for the relief of the poor in respect of the qualifying premises. The eff e ct of such a measure in strengthening the popular voice In the Reuse of Commons may be inferred (rem the fact that the present constituency of the United Kiegdom would be increased by the &Mei= of upwards of 3,500.000 voters. (Cheers.) The council seek to invest thin extended right of voting with the shelter of the ballot ; and, in order to keep actively alive that sense of responsibility which, in the public business of the nation as in the private affairs of life, secures the faithful exercise of a power held in trust, they advocate the return to the old con stitutional system of triennial parliaments; while another and not less urportant change sought for in cur representa tive system will be that which will give a more equal appet tionment of members to constituent". The council believe that such an extension of cavil privileges is due not more to the increased intelligence of the people than it is called for by the peculiar exigencies of the times ; they believe that that legislation is fraught with wisdom which concedes during a period of comparative trinouillity rights which have been too long withheld ; and that no policy is more pregnant with danger than that which yields only to force what is stubbornly denied to a sense of justice. (Renewed cheering.) Looking to the history of the past, the council believe that neither of the two great parties in the state will concede to the popular voice the reforms dem.nded, until the appeal acquires consistency and force through the medium of a powe:ful and numerous combination of all classes of reformers. Under this impression the council enter into a well-considered system of vigorous, extensive, but strictly legal agitation. They will endeavour to enlist 4 the cause they have embraced all the available elements of moral power. District and periodical aggregate public meetings will be held, tract. will be dis tributed, aid will be imparted to the various metropolitan registration societies now iii existence for watching over the interests of liberal voters, and important facilities will be offered for the acquisition of freehold qualifications in the surrounding counties. The council have now briefly stated some of the mere important objects to be accomplished, and the means by which it is proposed to attain them. They ap • peal, in conclusion, to the two great bodies of the commu nity, the middle and productive classes, for zealot.. cc operation and active and energetic support. They appeal eqaeciil!y to the unenfranohised masses, for whcse social and polit eat elevation the inundation has been called into exist• mice. And, deeply interested in the oirence of order. the pees nation 01 public credit, and the inviolability of the rm.,ta of property, the cluncl believe that no greater calamity can betel a nation than a protracted and obs•inate reastatee en the part of the goeernment to temperate end moderate demands for the extesaion of civil rights'. - The CHAIRMAN then said—Gentlemen, I look upon this numerous and highly influential meeting as an adc qua's answer to the taunt which has been thrown out by our oepthents—that the middle classes of the City of Lon don do not sympathise with the unenfranehised muses in their desire for the extension of the suffrithe. We (the council) have issued our declaration of pricaples, and we have also issued several other documents ; but, to avoid all doubts and misconceptions as to the objects we have in view or as to the measures we propose for the attainment of those objects, the council have thought it desirable to prepare and to promulgate the report which has just been read to you. (Heir, hear.) Teat report has the fuel concurrence of every member of the council, and I tru..t will have the earnest and seelous support of every mai .nel reformer in the country. We must Lot shut our eyes to the danger which must inevitab'y follow a continuance of those evils which are fast destroying all confidence Letween the governors and the governed. (Cheers.) There are few amongst us who do not feel the extreme pressure of taxation ; there ore equally few amongst us who are not alive to those abuses which are constantly before cur eyes; there are few amongst us who do not look with alarm en the widespread and deep seat d disaffection which pervades the gnat body of the unentranchised MUM. (Loud cheers.) Gen tlemen, whichever way we look at it, the political and financial rate o' the country is most unsatisfactory. We see a rapid and continuous increase in our expenditure—we see the grossest abuse of patronage—we see the maintenance in our navy and army of forces totally disproportioned to our wants—we see a system of colonial government which has as many lines as the chameleon, and which has neither nference to the requirements of the colonies nor to the interests of the mother couLtre— and we see at the same tine. - ' " L. watt:n=llMM on rue part of the row e rs that to withstand every de mend on ti""",:r . e. of the great be 4 3, of the people for admiteden within the ponds of the constitu tion. (Rear, hear.) Unlit such circumstances I believe It to be the duty of evert good citizen to take measures for ob , . loin; that control over the public puree and the public affeirs of the country which meson and com mon sense stow to be the basis of good government— to enforce economy and retrenchment in every department— to see that property be made to bear its just share of the !martens of the state—(cheers)—that education be placed within the reach of all—that the House of Commons be male the true reflex of the public mind—(hear, hear) — and thi t public self relisnezt and public economy take the place of discontent and extravagance. (Cheers.) We seek those change', by none other than the most loyal and peaceful means—sod strong in the justice of our cause, we call for the support of the rational of every clan, creed, and party. It is our intention to Issue reports trout time to time of our proceedings, and to 'Diktats& the people, as we can, by giving them all the informs ti sr eve can, and future opportunities will be afforded of die curling the subject in still larger meetings—l hope larger and evening meeting,. (A voice, Yes, at Covent-garden.") I am sure we shall be ea.used, under ex'sting circumstances, far Pot having a larger building on the present occasion. Oa the ne xt—(A voice, "\Ve will have the House of Com mons.") Some gentleman whys we shall have the Howe of Comm,dis, and so we shill, wh n, as 1 trust will be the cats ore lung, it shall become equally useful to all classes—when it is mane, as when our principles are carried out it will be mad;—the permit's house. (Much cheering.) Mr. R. TAYLOR moved— " That, is the present cot test between the advocates of a searching reform in the national fin-nces and the parlia mentaly rep resenatlon, on the one hand, and the upholders of a stinem which favours the few at the expense of the millions, ou the other, it is important to strengthen and give fh et to public opinioa through the medium of an assumed body, muting reformers of ell grades; and that the establish ment of the Metropolitan Financial and Parliamentary Re form Association is, therefore, a matter not only of expcdi eney but like a ise of paramount necessity." (Cheers.) The resolution did not go into the coeetion en detail of the objects of this association, but only mated on the meeting to agree in the establishment of the mess. for giving effect to those opinions. Ho would not detain the meeting further than to impress upon the ne the necessity of such a mode of art' .n us was now, proposed. W. J. HALL (one of the executive committee) eto con if d the r.soluti .r. From a care:ul watching of the Rt . - torso B it ho was satialied that in a great measure it had been altogether inoperative for its object. When he saw the wasteful extravagance in the public departments—in the Exch. qu , r—in the Trinity corporation—when 400,6001. or 400,0. ad. war collected to meet a legitimate exp, n.. here of acme 60,000/. or 100,0001., the rem inder being spent in eating and drinking—when he saw them abuses in almost et ery public department, he could come to no other condo ..iara than that the Reform Bill had failed. And when he saw a fellow-coun•ryman incarcerated in a gaud by the prosecution of a Ca r:stian bishop—(hear, hear, and cheers)—he could, not but ark the question how long would a really reformed parlieruent sanction such a course t (" Not a day.") He did n .t blame the bishop tor carrying out what appeared to be the law —(" we do"); but what he said was that if the • propl, were properly represented, laws so totally opposed to 'be popular feelings could not exist. It appeared to him the' th• time Ltd srri•;:: • „;.;;;; ---!Ay as th;!ahould , La .7.;•gen!sed, and, they fore, he cordially seconded the ta• ' I solution Tee CHAIRMAN then put the resolution, adding that an amendment had been placed in his Lamle, to which a e valvular' was anxious to speak. the amendment was in he followieg terms:—" Whereas the association is celled the Metropolitan Fie:mein' and Parliamentary Reform As sociatien, it bo now called the Metropolitan Parliainentrup and Fin ineial Reform Aseociatioc." (A laugh.) A gentleman, named ELLIOTT, was then put for ward by the chairman, and Legged to propose the amend inert which be had paced in tLe chairman'e hands. (Hear.) Mr. OSBORNE, member fur Middlesex spoke nearly as fol fmrs t—lt was originally proposed, I believe, by the council of selection, that I should speak to the first resolution which you have had hroueht before you by Mr. Taylor, and an ably beclouded by Mr. Hell. But, air, since the gentleman has move.' this amendment, an amendment b..twern which, and the reso'ution I can pa“ibly see to difference except in the trim"l*^*i'i"tt of Swot'', I can have no hesitation In seconding each amendment, because I think we may well inquire-- whee l -II differeme there si,o+liti be Tuba tweetthdum and twoedkdee. I cannot but call to mind, having read of it this very morning, a period 70 years alio, when there was a crest cry tor financial re form in this country. A' that period, in 1779, Mr. Burke, prior to his becoming a ronscryatirc, or being frirhtened by the French revolution, in bringing forward his motion for economical reform in the House of Commons, complained that while the people of that day, eat of doors, were animated as one mall ler the ref , tin of the financial system, the House of Commons was operated on by no such feelinge ; and it.. members were alone sluggish, while the whole peoolc were roused to action. I csnnut help feeling, though 70 veers have since elapsed, that the same feelings pervade that house now ; for while you have all met here with one heart and hand to aid the .ommit.ee and council in carrying out this useful, this neces sary reform, I grieve to say that there is a lamentable want of feeling en this subject in that house, of which lam a humble individual and retires, ntative. While there are many men holding and representing . popular opiniens in that house, I grieve to say, that at this minute (and it would hardly be believed in the 19th century, in the year of our Lord 1849), there is no such thing as a popular party existing in the Howie of Commons. (Hear, hear.) There are true end enod men there; bat I grieve to say that sickness and docile have been busy smongatthem. The great patriarch of all reform, if I may so call him, my predecessor in this county, is, I regret to inform you, grievously ill. The two members for Finsbury—those honest and independent representatives—are not able, from the Name e .use, to take their seats; and Sir B. Hall, one of the members for Maryle bane is also, I believe, ill. But, gentlemen, there M apathy in that house—(hear)—there is eistryst amongst the re formers themselves, and I repeat what I set out with, that there is at this moment no popular party, no leader, no popular principles well expounded is the House of Com mons. I throw it out for the comideration of this meeting and the country in general, whether it is quite fair, when that government which obtained office by a popular cry, and mounted into Buckingham Palace as it were .n the thisulders of Mr. Cobden and Mr. Bight—(loud cheers)—whether it is fair that they should have thrown cold water upon those men and their party, and have made the cabinet the perquisite of their friends and of the oligarchy which rules this country. (Cheers.) Now, I have as great respect for men in a high station who deserve that respect for their talent and honesty as any man can have ; but I do think it is owing a little to you, the middle classes, who can see no wisdom except in a lord—(cheers)—no probity except in an estated gentleman ; and I think the tendency ie, to make the House of Commons a great barrow for titled rabbits to ledge in. I find that in 1830—the year when the Duke of Wellington's government was turned out, mark you, on the score of economy, when the whips canvassed the consti tuencies and got a majority in parliament on the very princi ples of financial reform—the public expenditure amounted to 54,000,0001. and upwards; but there was a surplus of income m ant ar o k un t t h ed at, t a o ettr ove v r i e u x . pen i di a tug 4 i s is th th a e t pytteharheofele,p7eluldrault.e -58,000,0001., and there was an excess of expenditure over in come of 3,000,0001. (C.ies of "Shame.") Not only that; but the interest of the debt has been reduced in the meantime—and what else have you got ? An in come tax of five and a half malletu laid on upon false pretences. (Cheers.) Yee, false pretences, for you were told that it was imposed for three years. Introduced in a time of peace, it was opposed by the present government ; but when they came into office they coolly turned round, and I.st year proposed to increase it—and if you had not put your hands into your packets and rather found a deficit there, and commissioned your members to speak out on the subject, you would have had the income tax increased by the present government. (Cheers.) But that is not all. I find that in 1830 the estimates for the army, navy, oldnance, and miscellaneous service—in which latter there are lots of , things unexplained which nobody can make out, including a gate for Buckingham Palace, since pulled down, 80,0001. — (shame)-6001. for a bishop making a tour of tie island of Jamaica, and such like matters, which we who sit there and are called the controllers of the public purse cannot understand —I find, I say, that the estimates for army, navy, ordnance, and miscellaneous in 1830, amounted to 17,500,0001. Well, when they get into office upon our reform f rincipl necessary to do something—they must givt something—se, i mething—se, actually in 1835 the m esti • ars .. faie. fleeced upward,. of 3,000,0001., and became 14. • 4 they bad since increased 9,000,0001. find! 1834 dad . at 1#104 , , .- sent actually amounted to 23,315,80'2 1 . (Leetd•lteert, stiff, ': voices " shame" and "horrible,") Compare that with 181. 4t 'I • • e it a it 1- I Le .1