The Express. — London, England, 1849-01-01 00:00:00

I▪ • • gbe Court. jisat the fifth (in Siebenbergen), 20,000, with twenty-four nieces of cannon ; the sixth (in th e upper Hungar mallets, in the direc tion or Galicia sad ian Moravia), 10,000, with 12 mom of artillery, an 4 the seventh or Arad one, 10,000 strong, with 12 canapes. The Magyars, more eel& have three steamers on the Danube, as well as weed pontoon& It appears by some soments that the commandant of the fortress of Canons refused to allow the Magyar troops to enter it, and threatened to fire on them if they made the attempt. It is stated that the Austrian Ormeral &Mick has advanced as far as Miskolc. According to the Colfigne (lassos, of Der. 30, the committee of the Diet of Carinthia has declared molest the merging of Austria into Germany, and indirectly, in favour of the oetroi of a constitution by the Emperor. BAVARIA. —According to amount& from Munich, up to the 27th, the ministerial crisis continues. The Baron von Sehrenk having declined to take any post Professor Edel, of Wareham, has been summooed to the royal presence. Like his friend, Von Abel, the professor is a conservati , e in politica, and an ultra montanist in religion, consequently just the man for the king, Worst for the nation or the legislature. FHANKFORT.—Dates from this city, to Dec. 28, state that one of the anti-ministerial fractions of the National Assembly has proposed that the head of Germany be a so-called " German Vicar of the Em pire," to be elected every foneth year by the reigning pram s and the four free cities. This proposition most be added to the ten or eleven others enumerated in a recent number of this journaL Herr von Sehtnerling has been nominated Austrian plenipotentiary in Frankfurt. HOME, Dec. 20. YesterdaT, after post hour, the gathering of the guards, which had begun when I closed, continued throughout the city, and at 5 o'clock there mustered in the square of Piazza Catania& 2,000 negotiate, in the Piazza Venezia 1,000, with 600 dragoons ; in Piazza Santi Apostoli, 4,000, while the avenues of the Quirinal showed 1,600 troops of the line, making a disposable force of over 9,000 mcn to overawe any attempt as disturbance, and support the regular search of the government. The Irish sculptor, Hogan, showed me in his eartostche-box 24 rounds of ball cartridge, and assured me every civic firelock could show the same. While under army, the Romans having Feld counsel and agreed on an ad dress to the executive, that body was called on to re move instantly from the city the few hundred vaga bonds what were known to be mixed op with every public demonstration, and &rine the night numbers of them were arrested and sent off ; among the rest, Oaribakh and Gavazzi were expelled the city. In the course of the evening it was generally known that the new triumvirs had accepted office, and at 9 o'clock the Corso was simultaneously lit up, and the whole b..* of 9,000 armed men marched through the sine, and quietly dispersed to their seve ral quarters. The triemsitate onnsists of its two original members, the Keaton of Rome and Ancona (Prince Coreini and Cements), with the addition of O.lletti in room of the senator of Bologna. 6alletti is a Bolognese. Their first proclamation in that capacity is this morning all over Rome, and despatched through the state generally. There is no doubt of the new govern ment being universally accept , d a d maintained by the population, who are now called on to elect a constituent assembly for its formal acceptance and ratification. Toe oeogenaruin Corsini has dons ranch to pre serve social order in this country, by coming forward at his age ( N 2) in the time of peril; and, an he can boast n 4 only of popes but a canonised saint (Andrea Cipriani) is hts 'ovally annals, no one am call the tri lunvi-ate a mere offshoot of &moans,. Tbe Circuit Pupa 'are has closed its ions by com mon consent. FRANFFORT,Dzu. 26. No : you are mistaken if you believe thit our poor Germany exis.• no longer, and must be left out of account in political cantle ions. He who should do so would soon be obliged to begin his reckoning anew. The first Fraakfort parliament has stopped after finishing only a quarter of the work it had on hand, but the German nation will not give up the ghost fur all that. On the contrary, it will soon raise Its Iliad again, to }, • who has left it out of his cal culations will I. 4 • ,a/sts to regret the omisshn. After all is said and you may rest amain d that in its parliament the German nation has found a centre of action, of which it will not let go its hold. All the I peopirs belonging to the old Germanic confederation still continue to be represented in this centre of German popalar opinion! and I am much mistaken if all of them, Austrians as well as Prussians, do not cling to it, whatevir the dynasties of either may do with a view to withdraw them. The great misfortune of the Frankfort parliami tit is, that it represented too faith fully the national mood at the moment when the re volution of M ireh was completed. At that time two elements of public opinion had a powerful influence and could not fail to make themselves felt in the par liament—the professors of our universities and the copyists of France. Tie imitators of the French revolution mode a great noise at the . opening of par- Fament and frightened our gcod citizen; and this enabled the professors, of whom there are 80 in that assemble to take the lead in it, and manage affairs a . ^Cording to their thrones. These two coteries are now " used up," and Nat alone is *material gain for G 4 rmany. Our little Robespierre, and Dantons of the extreme left are no longer listened to, and our great doctors hang their heads and begin to dis cover that they are of no practical on in political dis casein. The Austrian guevtion more than anything else has cared the self-conceit of this latter party. It was our professors who, on theoretical grounds, assured the public that Austria was sure to resolve into its ele ments—that its various nationalities could not keep together—and that then the Gelman part of its popu lation would be glad to creep back into the German system on the arrangement of a federal state. All Germany now sees the bad coruieguenoes of acting upon this assumption, and is exerting itself to repair them. lire committee appointed by parliament to report on Gagern's programme—that corollary to the theorem of oar wiseprofeseors—oonsists of tune of the left and sir of the right, and they are almost without ramp- tion partisans of the political incorporation of Austria irto C.rroany. This committee will propose to vote the c.,;:er of the day on Gagern's programme, and then to lay down as the bass of a negotiation with Maria—let. That imperial comm i ssioners shall be appointed to arrange an indissoluble, incorporating anion between German Austria and the rest of Ger many ; 2nd, that ambassach,rs shall be appointed to negotiate a permanent and c:ose alliance between Germany and non-German Austria. There is Rood reason to hope that this proposal will be supported by a majority in parliament. On the ore hand Austria does not wish to be separated from Germany ; the German Austrians begin to see what kind of a future awaits them in the event of their being separated from their countrymen and de livered over to the tender mercies of the Sclavorians. The risk we have run of being subjected to a parti tion has also opened the eyes of not a few to the evils which dynastic and diplomatic policy were about to te l Oi e upon us . Fur assuredly it i s no t th e G erman F who wish for a partition i n or d er th a t th e Ki ng of tugs may become emperor of the west and the twang Friona, Joseph of the east d Germany. - people of Germany desire the unity of Germany ; none bat the drawl's entertain bars of ; not finding . places is a united Ger nay. The prepossession against a republic with which the follies of republicans have inspired public "idea, has been materially weakened by the anti- Rational spirit which the princes have displayed in their recent intrigues. The Kings of Hanover and Bavaria have refused within these few days to receive and pehlish the fundamental laws of the :empire : these laws are very likral, and parliament will not lose is public opinion by the hostility which the iltevince to its enactments. sliort and the long of all this is that Germany Weed dangerously ill, but she is not yet dead. llcearquieu somewhere remarks that Germany has sever Lien nearer a victory than when she appeared en the eve of being annihilated. History records various incident,' corroborative of this opinion, and believe me that those who reckon on the death of poor %many will find the same thing happen again. ------ Iroommt.-.A lady who had a steamboat full of IVate, Issas es muse Er it hy ,aying, " She was ping ts 11 " 1 °. I ' 4 wealds't fee the w o r 4 withott the Tuirty alas wt. Astiths."—Pviech's Alniaitack. WIND6OI, SaTuiroaY.--Horida jetty, th. Priam and ladies and gentleman of the royal bowed& attended divine terries I. tbe private eltapel. Than was no addition to t k . royal Mauer party this day. Earl sad Constar Choy loft tows on Saturday, for Hoed* Hall, Northumberland. Lord J. Hassell returned to his roaidesoto is Rich mosd•pak ou Saturday from Windsor Castle. ELBCTIOX Vol Ht u,.-.4a ea ddr to his con stants. s loaf issued by Mr. Bakes, hi annecaess his= am as President cf the Poor-kw Beard, sad oft e n a eandidate for re-e eMiea_ THE CONSOLIDATED BOARD OF EXCISE, STAMPS, AXD Taxis. it to consist of the following members:—Chair. num, Jolla Wood, Bet ; Deputy Chairman. Joke Thanatos Req. ; Commissiesets, Hart Darin, Req., Thomas Harrison, Req., Henry T. Stembeason, Rag , Charles Jolts Hattie. ' t l a Charke P. Rashworth, Req., Charles Primly, E.g. Mositgornery. 114.—Obsereer. THE HEY. Dz. DALE her (says a ooneepoadent) re signed one of his appointments, known as the " Golden Lec tureship," a post, the emoluments of which are about 6001 a year, and the duties one sermon • week, delivered en Tin a. days at one of the thatches near the Royal Exchange. There 'are already the.. candidates for the appointment— Arm, the Rev. Mr. Molyneux, of Woolwich; seeded, the Rev. Mr. Gurney, who will, of goatee, have the influence of his relatives, the Mears. Hawes, they being swab. re of the court of the Haberdashers' Company, in whom gift the lee tureship is ; mad third, the Rev. Mr. Melville—a gentle man who is already chaplain of the Tower, and principal of the Rost India College, with a ealarLof 2,0001. a year. THE HEALTH OP THE EARL TALBOT is reported in the StalfordsAire Advertiser to he extremely precarious. His lord.hip has recently had a Maple of a disease under which he has been for some time suffetieg. DEATH OF SIR SAMUEL CROMPTON, BART.—This baronet expired on Wednesday last at Wood Red, the family seat in Yorkshire. The deceased was born in July 1785, aid married Nov. 3, 1829, Isabella (Sophia, daughter of the Hon. end Rev. Archibald H. Cathcart, by whom he leaves issue some& daughters, bat se son. The late baronet was a great patron of agriculture, aid had expended large suns in the improvement of his estates and tenantry. He repre sented East Redford in the House of Commons Item 1818 till 1828, the year before that borough was dieted chised, and then was elected member for Derby, which be sat for up to 1830. In 1634 he was the successful candidate for Think, which be continued to sit for up to 1841, when he retired from parliament. Failing male issue, the baronetcy (created in 1838) becomes extinct. DEATH OF ALDERMAN JOHNSON. Early on Saturday morning Mr. Alderman John Johnson expired at his residence, !Milbank, after an illness of same months' duration. The deceased, at the last general election, was • candidate for the representation of the City of London in parliament, in the conservative interest, but was defeated. lie, in conjunction with his brother, who still survives, was in early life extensively engaged as a parlour, and both in herited a large f• dues from - heir father, who made .11 most fortunate spedilation is a stone quarry in Devon shire, since known es the " Heyter Granite," and who undertook the contract for the celebrated breakwater at Plymouth; this and other fortunate speculations tended to plasm the deceased alderman at the bead of the stone trade, and in the year 1830 he was called upon to till the alflca of Sheriff of London. In 1839 he succeeded to the &Wert:mile gown of Downed* ward. In 1343 he was elected, after a poll, to Ail the civic chair, and among the many tuests w ho m he entertained at the civic table was Ibrahim Pasha. During that period he presid. d at meetings of a rut number of the Ear ropolitan charities, to each of which ha was • liberal contributor. Several candidates for the al dermanie gown are already in the A Id, amongst whom may be named Jeremiah Filcher and John Laurie, Eve. (late elteril6). Mr. Modem. IL.P.hr, and alderman of, York, has also been mentioned. _ REVENUE UT TIIE rit6BllT QUMITER.—There is still • week to run before the tabular manna the quarter's revenue eats b. puhlished. A who.. week's receipts have yet to be added to the valeta quarter—to be pwbl.shel on Satur day next—before • etrictly accurate estimate tan be made of the computes* of the protest quarter and year with the cor responding periods ceding the sth January, 1818. Thera is enough known. however, to allow us to make a close approx filiation to the probable result, and to institute • comparison, which, we are happy to ray, will be a favourable one. It is satisfectory in the highest degree to find that the falling off in the revenue rf the country, which was observable at the close of 1847 and the commencement of 1848, has at length receivt d • wholesome check, and that our ordinary resources hi gin again to chow a buoyant and upward tendency. The Customs us is expected to exhibit an increase over the correspondieg quarter of last year little short of half-a-mil lion. We are sorry to edit that the othrr most important I ndlcation of the rate of trade and of employment, the excise, will not owlet r so favourably to the wish. s of the public. In this important item the receipts will vary little from tams of the last January quarter. The only other item from which en increase is expected is that elamcii under the head of " Miscellaneous," which is expected to yield' more than 200,001 id this quartet' 80,0001. of which, hew- ever, is the lest payment en account of the Chinese ransom, which was referred to in the Chancellor of the Eachequer's estimate last cession. The other item', stamp*, teem, pro perty-tar, Ike., will be scarcely as good as last year. The mint considerable falling off aptirehentlrd in the stamp:, which is expected to be about 200,0001., a great part of which is ac counted for by the transfer of the carriage duties from the stamps to the excise. In noticing the excise ue as one of the great teats of the condition of the people, we may re mark that the dotes on malt—the largest in amount as well as the most important in marking the ability to purchase on the part of the labouring population—are in • much more favourable rate than they were at this time last year. The Postiiifice shows little difference. The amount of falling off in the property tax in the quarter is not much of a crite ria', since that impost is collected with more or lees un certainty in the different quarters of the year, by much the larger portions being received in the April and October quarters. The gross revenue for the year will also show favourabl in comparison with the corresponding period, ending s th Jaauuy, 1848. But a still more correct criterion of returning prosperity is to be found in the fact that the nine mood s, oouatir.g from the 6th of April, 1818, to the present time, exhibit a considerable advance over the stereo vondiog nine months, counted from sth April, 1847, to sth January, 1848. From this, and from the activity of trade, still so happily observable, It is fairly assumed that the con clusion of the financial year on the sth April next will find us in • much in re satisfactory and prosperous condition than we were on the sth April last, and will fully bear out the an ticipations of the Chaucellor of the Exchequer at the close of the anion, on which, with the knowledge he then had, he was justified in the calcalatiens which he made for the year that was to ante. These calculations, it is now found, will be completely borne out, sad upon a review of our entire financial sad commercial prospects, we are able to congra tulate the country upon a steady and progressive improve ment —Observer. TRI:110 ELECTION.—The canvass of Mr. Hnmphry Willysina has progressed well daring the week. The har mony saisting among the liberals of Truro has surpassed expectation, and the apathy which for many years appeared to have overtaken them has been completely dispelled. In scarcely a single instance in which Mr. Vf illyams had ground to expect support has he met with a refusal, and according Ito all present appearances his return may be regarded as 'certain —Devonport Telegraph. CHOLERA.—On Saturday, the Board of Health re ceived reports of the following fresh cases. It will be seen that sot one occurred I. the metropolis or its vicinity. Berwick-upon-Tweed. 1 fatal; New Monklsnd (from Dec. 9), 44, 26 fatal ; Edinburgh 7, 2 fatal ; Strum: 1 ffirmaciek, 1 fatal ; Old Monkland 13. 10 fatal ; Batbgate, 1 fatal ; Head on 4 ; Olugow 162, 70 fatal ; Cumbernauld by Glasgow, 1 fatal ; Maxwelitown, 1 fatal ; Dumfries 3. Total new mem, 238; 113 deaths. THE AEXT.—According to the last official returns the army le eempesed of 7,093 regimental officers on full pay, vie ,06 anienals, 266 lieutenant colonels, 260 majors, 1,827 captains, 2,663 lieutenants, 1,227 second lieutenants, ensigns, sad essmete, 490 regimental staff officers, 185 surgeons. 249 assisientspargeons, and 30 veterinary surgiros, and 162,148 non minsmetiosed officers and rank and Ale. This number incited*, 12,663 cavalry, 6,042 guards, 19,867 artillery and yippee@ sad =bun, 163,033 infantry of the line, 11,621 royal marines and marine artillery,and 8,582 to be the strength of the sehmial regiments, with the exemption of the Cops Mounted Rifles, which is iacladed in the cavalry retain. Tan PALACE Couiy.—Sir,—l have no doubt that the correspondent who recently addressed you on thie subject is correct in his observations that the validity of a plea to the jurisdiction of the Palace Court entertaining actions between parties, other than the kiss's domestics, has never yet been determined ; nevertheless a far more im portent point hes been decided, vie., Out the court is alto gether an usurpation of power, and contrary to the laws of the country. The case was "Firer v. Wagstaff," upon a judgment given in the court of the Marshals's, by virtue of the new patent. The matter is very carious, as the king wrote to the judges en the subject, anti they returned an answer; hat must not trouble you upon this point. The ease was aroused in Trinity Term, 1633, the error assigned being that in the style of the court it was stated " that the mart is holden by virtue oldie king's letters patent, before de., to hold plea of all personal actions whatsoever within ' twelve miles of the pelages, itc." It was held that a patent for the termination of all causes could not be, but it ought to be only of criminal matters, and for that Yuma the judgment was reversed. It this decision has not been im pugned, the means are at hand to settle the question of juris diction. Bat why should this court be allowed to exist, if its erection is unconstitutional ? Its practice is certainly most oppressive, and hoe at length become intolerable; and I trust that whatever glows, or false interpretations, the ingenuity of interested persona may put upon the charters, Sr the ease before cited, that the court will shortly be declared to be and the people Our by relieved from its ruinous pro andiage.—A Lawvita's Cisco:.—Sujeante-inn. INCREASED VALUE OF GROUND IN THE METROPOLIS. —There ars many estates In the metropolis which fifty years back were worth 31. an sere, as cow pasture and dairy ground, sow realising from 1,f)001. to 2,0001. per acre per annum! Many within thirty years, which were brickfield roughs,sow returnhalf that rental, and in another generation these same setae's on which the property of thousands has been outlaid, wi 1 in some inahuuses yield tithe colonel pro prietors from 100,0001. to 600,00 W. per annum !—The Builder. "LOVE LAUGHS AT LOCKSETTRB."—A little ro mance of real life is reported in the Journal des Dibais of Thursday. A physician, who was passiog or. Sunday the Rue d'l.llm, it.w the body of P young female stretched on the pavement. 13 li.vtne, at first, that she had been ama•si nated, he conveyed her in a coach to the Hospice Cochin, THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 1, 184 . bat them, is bat rmovariag from dui state of inonsibility • inwidilithe wee head. it we. weertaised that sics had etly mashed a di& aoataeles. The hied physiaiaa moreover resarkadi that ore agened her eyes sow and then, toast doneicada• "bow mead, as if to eve what was pawing around her. flopposieg she was sa impostor, he left her. The nut morelag than was a groat esminoties la this bum "(the Drama re &. Medea, when are resulted young Win who ham neisoondectel tbamealvas. The sisters die severed thee ea. of chair boardoo—Ydlla. Ilemeniere P.— hod asaped, despite the many ohatados whisk bad boon pet ia the way of sued as mbarpdos. She bed bola pined Ma hart *Akar, ia orsorpume of a strati passim she bed aimd *a a yov_rg ass, et whoa bar puma die. sugssieL bad indeed pas so dr as to abandon km dinft to nide wi th her loves. After some time bee retreat was dissommi. and bar father, pad Ir ritated, immedi at ely 'bead bar In the convent of Bt. hi . This seclusion we. so little sober taste, that she determined to seeps hom it at Ohs earliest opportunity. Her cell window looked upon the IRue I'l7l-. It was a narrow one, and was strongly soared W igew bars ; bat nothing daunted, she broke off a portion' of bat free bed, and using it m a lever, wrenched off one of the hen of tho window, squeezed herself through the aper ture, and dropped Leto the street, where she was found in a state of insensibility by the benevolent doctor. She was eventually restored to her father, who, softened by lee ad. venture, mad to avoid more serious scandals, e.oaseated to her marriage with her lover. THE ROYAL GENERAL PENSION FUND SOCIETY. —Sir,—Yoe were go:d enough to insert in your valuable Journal of 16th Nov. a letter I addressed to you upon the subject of the Royal General Pension Society of Chapel- place, Cavendish-square, and 1 regret to have to state that notwithstanding your publication of that letter the poor an nuitants still continue no! only unpaid, but without any in timation whatever •s to whether or not the pensions due for the past six months are to be paid, or as to the continuance or otherwise of the society. Asia months have now elapsed since any payments have been made to the annuitants, it is to be hoped the committee will be prepared to give a satis factory account as to the " why and wherefore." It may be as well to observe that a secretary is maintained out of the , funds in a large house, so that although the poor pensioners have been left in distress sad suspense the " officials " are provided for. Be so kindse once agela to lend your power• ful aid in the hope of drawing the attention of the executive, who ought long ere this to have given satisfactory explana tion u to the mews of the delay ,• and until they do it it is to be hoped the philanthropic will withhold any tanker sub scriptions. I could add some harrowing cases of sorrow and deprivation 'akin from " the hope deterred " which some of the poor creatures have endured, but I trust 1 have said safficionc wa•errea. A BURGLARY was committed yesterdsy morning sit the hoes. of lir. Josephs, a jeweller sad watchmaker, near Zion Chapel, Waterloo-road. The Gutuly were aroused by some neighbours, who sew the shop loot *pen, end it was found thAt the whole of the stock lhal been stolen. INGENIOUS ROBBERY BY A PRETENDED CLERGY- ItaN.—On Wednesday evening lest, between 5 and 6 o'clock, a person, having all the appearance of a clergyman, entered the shop of Mesas. Lambert and Rawlings, jewellers, in Coventry-street, and stated that he wished to make scene wedding j resents at the Bishop of Winchester's, 19, St. Jannothesquare. He required some ladies' watches, chains, and bracelets. Articles of this kind were shown hiss, and he selected several of considerable value. He also gave an order for a dinner service of plate, and said he should call on Monday and pay for it by cheque. He said his name was tiao Rey. John Coulson. Having made all his 'eh:Mi.:ins, and desired the dinner service to be laid by for him, he said " Will you have the kindnirs to send a shopman with me to the Bisnep of Winchester's with the ornaments for the ladies ?" His request was acceded to, and a shopman putting the artieies into a bag accompanied him in a cab to No. 19, St. James's-square. He got out and knocked at the door with easy assurance, and when it was opened he asked the servant " Has the Rev. Mr. Flint arrived ?" [A cl.rgyenaa of that name residing at Morden, Surrey, is in the habit of visiting the B shop of tVinchrster at his man sion, St. James'esemsre.] the servant said he had not. " Oh, don't mind," said the false eergyman ; "Is Mr. Sumner (the Bishop's son) in ?" The servant an swered in the affirmative, hot added that Mr. Sumner was at dinner. " Never mind; do not disturb him. 1 will take wine with him by and by. I want in the meantime to write a note to him." Ile was then shown into the waiting-room, the shopman tutoring with him. He immediately com menced writiag a note, but suddenly stopping and itemising the shopman, be said, " ity the by, I want some signet-rings ; I forgot to order them. Go hick, and bring me some Moms of that sort." The shopman, completely off his guard, went, leaving the bag and its coals contents. The outer lfni•bed the note to Mr. Sumner, which he left with directions to the servant to deliver it, and then quietly walked away. He did not hike the hag, bat abstracted its contente. In the me-n time the shopman came back, saying to the a nun, " I have brought these rings for the gentleman " " Why, the gentleman is gone," said the servant. " Where is my bag ?" exclaimed the shopman. " Here it is," said the servant, bringing it to him. It was empty! Informa tion of the robbery was, without delay, communicated to the police, and a detective sergeant took the afLir in hand. He waited en Mr. Sumner in St. James's.tquare, who said he knew no such person as the Rev. John Coulson. The delinquent was telegraphed to all the Londas railway stations, and notice• were cant to all the pawnbre ken and police stations of the several au tropoliten district. However the sharper was too quick in his movements, for he had already pawned the three bracelets and three of the watchgutoris fur 701. at the shop of Mr. Vaughan, pawn broker, 39, Strand. The seven watches he aid not pawn. Oo Friday morning the Messrs. lambert and Rawlings re. calved a letter from him dated Bath, and bearing the post meek of that city. In it he expressed his deep contrition for what he had done—declared that he was the unfortunate dupe of more designing parties than himself—entreated the Messrs. Lambert and Rawlings to preserve the greatest se cresy, asseverating that if they did they should be paid in full when the writer came back to England. He wrote that of his own knowledge he knew nothing of any of the persons in St. James's-square, but that he had derived information respecting them trom certain parties living in the parishes of St. Luke and Be. Geerge'e in the Bast. Mr. Lambert, though convinced that the letter was • roue, proceeded to Bath, but of courts without hitting off any traces of the che . roller d'indouirte. As yet he is lying In some undiscovered locality—very likely in the heart of London. A reward of 501. is offered for Lis apprehension. THE GOLD DISCOVERIES IN CALIFORNIA. We have been favoured with the following extract from • private letter, dated New York, Dec. 12, 1848: " There is sufficient information in this city to warrant the conjecture that, by the lit of March, we shall receive three millions, and after that time at least one million a month. You will understand that the surface only of the pound in the valley of Sseramento has been explored; it is possible, therefore, that large mines of mineral wealth may be found in the mountains. This would be to be deplored, as it would turn the whole country of California to the mines instead of pursuing the peaceful occupation of agriculture and com merce. The effect of all this gold coming into our market will be to turn the exchanges in oar favour, and we should keep them so, unless the Americans, not profiting by the experience of '35 and '36, should again import more goods than they can pay tor. If this turn out to be the El Dorado, what effect is it going to have on the monetary affairs of England ? That is the qcntion which every one now asks his neighbour." It would appear from various facie that have some to our knowledge that the goki.finding mania has extended itself to this aide of the Atlantic, and emigrants are eagerly looking towards the land of promise. Front one such correspondent we have received the following pithy query :—" Mr. Editor, —Please to give your readers an idea of the cheapest and hest way to California.—A CoNliTarr Rea an." In reply to this inquiry we believe we may state that the speediest way of getting to California from this country is by the West India mail steamers, which are in monthly com moo ication with Chattel, on the Isthmus of Darien, thence across to Panama. The United States have established a line of while between Panama and San Fraseirco, the fns of which is advertised to start from the former place this day (Jan. 1). It is reckoned that this voyap along the Foci& meet of the Americas will occupy 60 days. From the United States there are four routes That from New Orleans to Panama, as above. 2nd. That taken by the emigrant column to Oreiroe, namely, teem 81. loss* in Missouri, along the Platte Rim " bottom," across the south pass of the Rocky Mountains, and over the Salt Plain that it between the western aide of this peat range sad the Colorado river, is California Alta. Ms journey is under taken in caravans of forty or _My mom, and occupies about four months. 3rd. Fran Leudelawa to Mexico, through Texas ; but that is a road reamed very mode, as it is used chiefly by hone oepere—halt.heed Mezieans—and slave dealers. 4th. Along the seaward of the entire continent of America—north and oath, east and west—that is from New York to Cape Horn, and from Cape Horn to the Bay of San Francisco. a voyage of 16,000 miles, and which it would take Ave months to perform. THE PRESS AND FINANCIAL REFORM. We give the following extracts in continuation of those which appeared on Saturday, to give some idea of the rex ption given to the national budget by the liberal provin cial press : YOBILIriIIitIMAN.—If we are to estimate the value of Mr. Cobden's manifesto, and the practicability of its suggestions, by the extraordinary rage in which it has put the writers for the tory press, we should say that it wee one of the most im portant political documents produced in these modern time. The Standard, Post, Morning Herald, Tines, and their minor fry, seem perfectly delirious on the subject. Old pre judices are revived, old cries furbished up, and nothing snort of " ruin," " confiscation," and " destruction to the state," is predicted as, the result of listening to the economical views of the hon. member for the West Riding. From the vehemence of tory indignation, one would have supposed that Mr. Cobden had thrown upon the world something new—some financial theory unknown to pout ial economist', which embraced revolatioeary principle, and covertly sought to extinguish our institution in church and state: Instead of this, however, Mr. Cobden's views have not even Om merit of originality. In one shape or another they have been before the world for a quarter of a century. In the writings of Mr. M'Colloeh, in the pamphlets of Mr. IL'Oregor, and in the essays of Mr. Jeremy Bentham, the same principles and the same suggestions in the abstract are to be found. We candidly ecallme, whoa we read Mr. Cob den's letter, we thought that, notwithstanding his admirable reasoning and more admirable suggestions, his proposed financial reform was, after ell, but an extremely moderate instalment of that fiical reduction which all climes in this country are beginning to demand. Nourx Devoe; JOVIINAL — There are very few, be they free-trAthrs or protectionists, who have not made up their minds to the desirabl,ncu—indeed, to the necessity—of a asarallag ramisita of our Goal system, sot ouly with a view et armadas that taudoary to advance which oursa timid szpsuditare has for many yams gradually betrayed, but of Wadies acme very material roduatkur is its arsolat. Dlll3lllllllll Comm.—This letter, whisk begins with Proposing a rear:tier in the nations! expesaftsas of tea sat ires, it a at first very easy to set aside with the Uri r eply,' Don't you wish yes may get it ?" but u that preposed dmire would be seithee MOM me lees than a eirsna to the exposititure et Ur Duke d Welliagtes and Sr Robot Peal in 1836, ttwi nis 7iLlea bleu all the air of impearisatillity, which the el the sera at first U miak with ; sad it &admire If so direetly to the weak side el the country, that we anticipate freak a meek greater iallsence, within the walls of perilaireat, than toad have winded say statements of the essetiallem unattended by suit a war my, as--" Return to the ospesalter le sad (ad mires of 1836 ! Let the our whisk sing the tallexible Duke and the Lersuseive Baronet, esattrilill,, BILIOTITON MOWIIIIII. soon meet. We shell see if, in the commencement etas susion, E the Chancellor of the xchequer will make terother motion to increase tomtits. If ke do, we do net Mink the present ministry will ham a very strong hold 46 dim We do not expect he will. Sir Charles Wood will not test the patience of the marry again in that way. Bat is he y rowed to in troduce a better system of taxation ? Will he lend his sup- port in parliament to any well digested plan of iloanci.il reform which Richard Cobden or others may produce ? Sir C. Wood takes matters, we know, very easily and comforta bly ; but these are not times for Moisten to treat national affairs as bagatelles, and if he so treats them, the nation will not --- --- PRESTON CRIONICLE —Mr. Cohden's letter will be of peat value ;if it does Lot influence the government, or pens ' ;rate the power of the Horse Guards, it will " tell" with the people. It will be discussed with the pamphlets and speeches of the Liverpool economists, it will afford material for thought amongst the constituencies of England, and help to create a public opinion that shall demand in irresistible tones for retrenchment in high places. Enema Witavattx Tutee.—To the great body of the nation, the idea of a ten niiilions' of annual reduction of taxation, is a pleasurable thing to contemplate. Mr. Cobden has spread his proposed items of relief over to many classes, that he has' dexterously combined a large ferns in favour of his proketia the very eel of launching it. BERWICK ADTRITISZR.—The extreme tories WE already eonsumeA with urnsr and rage; the moderate tories are critical, bat afraid to be contemptuous ; and the liberals of all shades are more or les favourable. There can be no ;pea tioa that Mr. Cobden has again hit the right nail, and that, however objectionable his proposal may be in' some :of its details, it expresses the universal and deep determination of the country to have economical governmet.L PRESTON GULIDIAN.—" Wilt you Tote for Mr. Rouse's motion 1" has been ens question put to aspirants for iegie. lative honours, and " Will you vote for Mr. Cobden's , budget must n^w become another, the answer te which must be exp:icit. Electors in future cannot de with vague promises (such as even conservatives make), to support economy " wherever practicable or expedient," for in two casts out of three it turns out that members when sleeted can never discover any retrenchment that is practical or ex pedient. Mr. Cobden's budget will prevent uncertainty and equivocation on this head, and in this respect wul be useful to the electoral body. Bums Ariveaviesa.—Mr. Cobden is right: eleven millions of tnei national outlay can easily be cut off. The press and the people think he is right—the army and the aristocracy think he is wrong. The army dies not want its horns clipped ; and the aristocracy has no intention of being so vulgar as to pay probate duty. Nevertheless, Mr. Coiden has get toe right end of the rope, and the right people to pull it. Sooner or later the saving will be made. It is in good hands. Polities bare nothing to do with it ; it is a puree movement entirely ; therefore, great is the purse, and it must prevail. Ays AnYUKTISER.—The financial reform movement took its cue and its mode of action from the late Anti•oorn Law League. Like its powerful prototype, it had begun its labours by addressing the reason and judgment of the multi tude by means of printed arguments, prcofe, and appeals, scattered in profusion gratuitously wh intelligence enough existed to let such addresses be understood. Deal tog with the subject of state economy—less a party question than hoe trade—La early prngre.s promised to be smoother than that of the League. It had indeed almost at once arrived at the important stage of becoming " a great tact," without any drawback, for unanimity exists as to the pro priety of economy, and no schiim had been provoked by de tailed proposals, when, like a spark among powder, out comes Richard Cobden's budge', startling the most ruthless revenue pruner by its suddenness, ..nd creating great noise and bustle among men and things likely to be disturbed, if not annihilated, by such sweeping &tinges. BATH JOULNAL.-11bothing more could be ple&ded in favour oldies/ reductions than the necessity of relieving the people of some portion of their heavy bonbon of taxation, it ought to have weight with the government sufficient to in duce them to effect ouch reductions to the fullest intent prat- heeds. We have come to such a slate now that further in crease of revenue is impossible. This was demonstrated at the commencement of the last sessi,ns. There is no means, therefore, of obtaining an avail .ble surplus of revenue but by reduction of expenditure. Never was the expenditure of a country completely exhaustive of its resources without great distress among the people—commercial calamity, increase of pauperism and beggary, and general discontent—a state of things that his no remedy but economy and retrenchment. OUR REPRESENTATIVE SYSTEM. COLC I I ESTE R. A large and handsome town is Colchester, and a busy one, too, on Saturdays, when all the Essex farmers come from miles round to its extensive mar ket. It is the ehief, though not the county, town of Essex, and a thriving trade is carried on in every thing that farmer, want to buy or that they have to sell. Colchester is consequently well to do in the world, and is rather increasing than otherwise. Its sixteen parishes embrace nearly 12,000 acres, and contain a population approaching 20,000 souls. Electorally, Colchester is sacred to the memory of Daniel Whittle Harvey. That gentleman, before the Reform Bill, struggled for a length of time to obtain and to secure a seat in parliament for Colchester. It seems now-a-days a bold thing to have been at tempted at such a time, by a man with neither rank, nor purse, nor public fame. But the position and circumstances of Colchester were singular. Mr. Harvey had acquired there a local reputation, in con sequence of conflicts with the then existing powers. He was the idol of the mob : they, however, could not have carried him. But the constituency of Col chester, before the Reform Bill, consisted of the burgesses free of the town, resident or non-resi dent. Essex people, from their vicinity to London, have a strong predilection for the metropolis, and crowds of them, as Whitechapel, Shoreditch, and other parishes can testify, come up and settle here. Of the 1,500 freemen of Colcheeter at that time, two-thirds were non-resident ; and we all know what men gain in liberality of sentiment by a removal from a country town to the wide sphere of a metropolis. The out voters in those days used to be brought down in shoals; and though this body was frequently found excessively corrupt, it was the out-voters of Colches ter who used to carry Whittle Harvey. Not unattended with expense were the contests at Colchester between Mr. Harvey and his various opponents. Occasionally a candidate or two was ruined by a protracted contest, or a quick succession of elections; bat that was nothing. When the Re form B l T ere r, Mr. Harvey and Mr. Mayhew, a wine ant d in Fenchurch-street, were the mem bers for the borough. The latter had got in in 1830, in consequence of Mr. Spottiswoode, the King's printer (who was returned upon the poll), being obliged, as a government contractor, to resign his seat. Mr. Mayhew had a struggle at the general election with Mr. Spottiswoode, and another at the single election which followed the resignation, and a third when the parliament was dissolved in 1831. Three hard contests in two years in Colchester, could scarce be called a joke, especially when, as at the last, there was opposition by so inch a candidate as Mr. Sanderson, the London bill-broker. The first Reform Bill proposed to disfranchise alto- gether the class of voters known as the non-resident freemen. And it is a pity that the measure was cot carried out. But people in those days were foolishly jealous about existing privileges ; so the second Re form Bill left the franchise in the hands of all the i freemen residing within seven miles of the town for Iwhich they claimed to vote. By this measure the political position of Colchester was altogether changed. The borough was thrown into the hands of an agricultural population living beyond the town, who had influence enough to turn the scale between the tolerably equally divided parties forming the new electorate within its boundaries. The constituency was reduced to 1,150, of whom 700 may be said to have been tones. At the first election after the Reform Bill, the Tory candidate, Mr. Sanderson, who was beaten the year previous, came in by a large majority at the had of the poll, the numbers being, for San- I derson 847; Harvey, 408; Mayhew, 272. In 1835 the feeling of the nistrict was more con servative than ever, and it was doubtful whether even Mr. Harvey would have succeeded. That gentleman found a plum of refuge in Southwark, and Mr. Tuf nell, who is Essex born and bred, contested the town upon the liberal influence with Sir Geo. Henry Smyth, a resident tory, who was one of the represen tatives in 1826. Mr. Sanderson polled 635; Sir George Smyth, 567; Mr. Tufnell, 505. The sitting members stood again in 1837, and were opposed by Mr. Rundle Todd, a London solicitor, who re ceived bat faint support. In 1841 Mr. Sanderson and Sir G. H. Smyth were so fully established in the favour of the town that it was deemed useless to I oppose them, and they both walked quietly over the The influence of Sir George Smyth in Colchester is that of association and connezion. He is &resident landlord sad a popular one. Be is regarded se a good practical sgneultarist, and in all that appertains to farming Colchester delights. Personally - he is re spected and esteemed. Publicly he has done all his supporters have wished of him by voting true blue of the deepest possible tory shade on every available occasion. This is just the man for a thoroughgoing tory agricultural town. Such a constituency does not I desire genius or talent. On the contrary, they are rather suspicions of those qualifications. " They were so deceived in Peel." They regard even Mr. Ben jamin Disraeli as doubtful, and would rather be ex cused having him than otherwise. Your old topboot and pigtail member, without a word to my except at the agricultural show, is the sort of man for the tones &inch a town as Colchester. Mr. Sanderson's popularity in Colchester was maintained in a different way and at a higher price. He was the " moneyed member." Colchester boasts of numerous charities, great or small, and to all of these, miscellaneous though they were, Mr. Sander son was • most liberal contributor. His extensive bounty was dispensed without reference to details. He knew neither high church nor low church, nor any other class distinction—he only knew " the town." Hundred pound donations, and ten guinea annual subscriptions were forthcoming from his purse whenever they were required. At the last election there was published by an ardent admirer a list of some of Mr. Sanderson's good deeds in Colchester. There are five-and-twenty local ob jects to which he is therein stated to have subsoribed : ICOL for blankets in the winter ; 31. 3e. to the chil dren's annual dinner ; 3001. to the new town-hall, and W. to the Wesleyan chapel ; 21. 2s. a year to the Quakers' charity for widows, and 41. 4s. annually to the botanic garden. We regret for Me. Sandersou's sake that we cannot g o through the list. It is a long one, and conclude*, significantly, thus, "bender HIRABLE sums on PRIVATE applicAtione In addition to these charitable bequests, Mr. San derson's puree was open at all times for other local purposes. Tne tory members were allowed to get in far Colchester undisturbed in 1841 ; but political feeling found its vent in the municipal elections which followed. It always happens that a party who have long enjoyed power in a municipality, and have had to impose and levy rates on the inhabitant., become in course of time unpopular. The tories of Colchester bad several valid complaints brought against them for their administration of local affairs, and it was de termined to try and oust them from the town council. The liberals, however, soon discovered that this was by no means so easily accomplished. Not only were the tory party prepared to fight, but it was apparent that they had an extraordinary amount of powder and shot. A system of treating was com menced at these annual elections, which has since been carried to a disgraceful extent. " Who pays for it all ?" was the question asked by the liberals. " Shouldn't you like to know?" replied the tories. 01 course the rejoinder to this was "Oh, we do know— it's Sanderson." So, whether justly or unjustly, all the people in Colchester laid at Mr. Sanderson's door the perpetuation of the tory majority in the town council, and perhaps this very thing contributed more than anything else to occasion his being turned out of the borough. Fur the tory council grew more sad more unpopu lar. Every succeeding contest created a more vio lent animosity against them. It was tried to beet them with their iwn weapons, but this cost money and only added to the vexation. At last some people began to ray, " We must put a stop to this : we will have in our councillors, and, in order to get them in, we will go to the root of the evil. At the next general election we will have a shy at the' beef and blanket interest,' " as Mr. Sanderson's party bad come to be contemptuously designated. Down a little side street in Colchester, known as George-lane, there is a small tavern kept by a Mr. Wire, • name which has attained some celebrity in a larger sphere than Colchester. This inn is called the " Fencers," and for many y ears past there has been accustomed to assemble at it a knot of liberals, who fur a long time had little else to do than deplore the position of their town. This little committee now be . came the head and front of the opposition to the sit ting members for Colchester. They were not a very influential body, and consequently they were looked downupon with indifference by the all-powerful tories. But they knew their own strength and where it lay. The first thing necessary for them to accomplish was to get a man. This was not so ca.y a matter. I fe served's- or not, Colchester hes a bad name. Amongst the liberals in town it was also regarded as quite • forlorn hope ; besides that, the weight of Mr. Simder son's purse was understood and dreaded. At last the liberal party hit upon a gentleman in the county who seemed calculated to suit them —a Mr. Hardcastle. Mr. Hardcastle is a member of a family much respected in Essex, and is married to the only daughter of one of the weal thiest commoners in the county. His name is especially good amongst the dissenters, for although a churchman himself he stands connected with dis seating families, and one of his relatives professed and served dissent in days when it was much less popular than now. Mr. Hardcastle came and tried the feeling of the borough quietly, and was rather afraid of it. Hews pre csed strongly to fight the battle. The most confident assurances were given him of the sincerity of those by whom he was solicited, and of their firm belief that he could win. At length he consented, and a canvass was commenced. The effect of the municipal contests upon the liberal party be came immediately apparent. It was evident that those battles had organised! and well combined them. Their canvass was conducted systematically— their arrangements were all complete and certain. Oa the other hand, the tories were not only at sixes and sevens, but were so confident of winning easy that they took no trouble. By degrees, as the polling day approached, the batteries of their opponents were opened on them unexpectedly. It became evident that if Mr. Sanderson had money, so had Mr. Hard castle. The tap flowed freely at the liberal houses : Mr. Sanderson'* friends could not conceive that any thing of the Fort was necessary. Their confidence continued unshaken to the last. Mr. Sanderson went to sleep on the night of the nomination without a gleam of apprehension. He awoke late the next morning, and found the poll had opened and that he was at the bottom of it. There was no recovering the lost position, and at two o'clock he left the town, routed thoroughly, and desperately chapfallen. Let as look at the moral of all this. Here is a large constituency, the majority of which entertain, no doubt, strong tory predilections. They are repre sented by two members with whom they have no fault to find—who do their work for them effectually, let that work be what it may. They are wrapped in blankets and flannel, filled with Christmas beef, and warmed with winter coals, at the cost of one of their representa tives, to whom they profess the most devoted adhe rent* in consequence. " Innumerable sums" are given to them, " upon private application," from the same quarter. Yet the moment the bung is knocked in and the spiggot pulled oat, these " true blue" gen tlemen, forgetful of the beef and blankets, and candles and coals, and " innumerable sums upon pri vate application," throw overboard their " much es teemed and truly charitable member " in a manner the most contemptuous and unceremonious. Is not this a strong proof of the utter hollowness of " our representative system" ? Here, in Colchester, beef and blankets kept the seat for 16 year., until beer put them utterly to the rout. The one sys tem appears in almost every point of view as bad as the other. Thinking and reflecting men are powerless among constitavicies operated upon by such base influences : principles are trampled in the mireb to elecrates whose votes are thus to be ,scared. Will not all England say that it is high time " our representative system" should undergo improvement ? A petition was presented against Mr. Hardeastle's return, alleging bribery, treating, and corruption ge nerally. But a contest had also taken place in South Essex, i n which treating by the tories, in the shape of ref reshment tickets, was carried on openly to a very great extent. A petition was also presented against this return. Messrs. Tyrell and Beresford looked particularly blue at that attack. It was clear if the petition was presented, their seats were gene. " How could it be compromised?" " Why, there was Colchester ; let Mr. Hardeastle alone, and no thing will be said to you." With • bad gram and a rueful countenance, Mr. Round, the banker, who acted for the tories ' was fain to accept these terms. It wee a bitter pill fur the Colchester tories to swallow was the withdrawal of that petition. However, they gulped it down, and glossed over their defeats by getting up " an address of condolence to their late esteemed representative," Mr. Sanderson. These petition compromises are another bad feature of " our representative system." To present a peti den has now become almost a matter of course, and in more than a moiety of instances its object is widely different from that of bringing the facts under parlia mentary cognisance. But parliament ought in all eases to take some cognisanoe of those facts, and a wiry simple enactment would prevent frivolous peti tione being presented on the one hand, or negotiations being opened for their " arrangement" on the other. And in a measure of this sort all parties would bo likely to caner. IRELAND. Drente, Deo. 30. We are at a stand still here, and in the provinces they seem to be no better. Politics would appear to be at en end; they are unheard of, forming neither the topics of declamation nor the basis of contentious disputation. Tue politics of the repeal joarnals are confined to attacks upon Lord Clarendon and the whigs—attacks almost all personal ; those of the conservative press alternate between attacks upon the whigs and the poor-law. Meantime, there is among men of business a universal concurrence of opinion that we have seen the worst. Indeed, there is no longer any doubt of the gratifying fact that business of all kinds has received an impulse for the I better. The appointment to the Clerkship of the Peace for Dublin city is another proof of the economical policy of Lord Clarendon—an economy which his excellency is enforcing in every department here with an untir ing energy. Mr. Dickenson, now sole clerk of the peace, was for many years joint occupant of the office and sole discharger of the duties, as Mr. Archer was long unable to do any duty, owing to ill health. The appointment, therefore, although conferred on a politics/ opponent, is worthily bestowed, and will cause a saving of the several hundreds retiring allow ance to which Mr. Dickenson would be entitled. Of course scores of expectant. are disappointed, and the appointment is made the foundation of an attack upon Lord Clarendon by the morning repeal journal. The facts connected with it are these, and assuredly are honourable to the government. Hitherto the emoluments of the clerks of the peace—there have always been two—arose front fees, with a small grant from other funds. The fees amounted on an average to 1,8001. to 2,0001. a year, which were equally divided between Messrs. Archer and Di.kenson. Now Lord Clarendon, while re membering the long experience and service of Mr. Dickenson, did not torget the public. While, there fore, his Excellency did not proceed to the harsh measure of ousting an occupant from office because he might have done it, he stipulated directly that Mr. Dickenson shall submit to whatever arrangemect respecting salary parliament shall adopt. It is un derstood that the offfe will be paid in future by salary, and that it still not exceed 8001. per annum. Thus the fees remaining the same, a saving of 1,000/. per annum will be effected, in addition to one of two salaries formerly paid. The vacant office of Clerk of the Crown will, it is expected, be conlirrcd on Mr. Curry Connellan, pri vate secretary to Lord Clarendon. The Duffy cause drags its slow length along. The Attorney-General was heard to-day in support of his indictnveit, and against Mr. Daffy's demurrer. He is considered to have mule a very able argument. When the learned gentleman had concluded, the court, in cons! !erection of the importance of the question to be decided, adiJurned until Tuesday next, when judgment will be delivered. The public, of all par ties, regard the proceedings as a burlesque, but one utterly devoid of interest. Tun Ilr.v. Tito , t‘- Sr. GE"IIUE, incumbent of Ntw market.o.,-Feritus, Clare, dropped eadenly down to ddy while wi.ll..ing in Nas.au,treet, and expired. PROVINCIAL. _ The Ctleltee fIY Altetre AT LIVERPOOL.—On Wednesday and Fridey the examination of Mr. W. C. lemaine we+ continued before the magistrate, Mr. Rush ton, and on Saturday the accused was ordered to be eroueht up the' the depeetions might be read over prepara tory to his committal for the!. The additional evidence ad duced was as follows : Mr. erGew an proved cautioning the witness absut an accumulation of paper shavings he had wit reseed, and said he saw a hole which had been boren in the floor fora hell wire. Julius Fogg, one of the prisoner's ap prentices, stated that shortly after the fire, the prisoner told him to go home, and not to go near the shop, as the pe would be asking him about the fire. The following day the prisoner paid him his wages, and asked him if he hail Peen the fire, to which he replied that he had. J. Blundell, unother apprentice, stated that when Fogg found a roll of wire lying near theshavings, the prisoner said it had fallen out of his coat pocket, and he knew all about it ; and then he sent the ap prentices to the farthest end of the workshop. Subsequently, the prisoner threw a hsndtu! of shavings nearthe stove, and put a light to them. Witneu ran to put them out, but the prisoner said—" never mind—l was seeing what they would do." Ile then put them out by stamping his foot on them, observing at the game ti me t h a t if the place were to cetch fire it would flare up. Thomas Powell, the prisoner's errand boy, proved that there west no bell attached to the wire. N. G. Webster stated that as he went out on the evating of the fire, he had a difficulty in shutting the deer, in consequence, he believed, of the wire • from the Vi0:012C0 he used, it was his impression that he hid broken it. The witness stated that our the fire, the prisouer told him " to go home—that he should be paid his wages—that he mast say nothing about the origin of the fire to anybody—and that be should either work as a journeyman or be set up in busi ness for himself, which, ver he pleased." Witness said he would consider about the off:r made, but that he believed the place had been set on fire by the wale for that be had traced it up stairs to the shop. The prisoner promised to pay him 151. in three instalments for holding his tongue. The wit neas set up business in Slater -court, was promised a large Lt of pens by the prisoner if he behaved himself and held his noise, and flintily revealed all ho knew to the Yorkshire In surance Office. After the examination of three other imma terial witnesses, the case was remanded till Friday. On that day, at the adjourned examination, Mr. Groom, agent for tne Yorkshire Fire and Life Insurance Company, deposed to a policy of insurance issuing to the prisoner for 6001., upon property insured in the building in Swift's-court. Subse quent to the tire, the prisoner brought him a written claim upon the company, which amounted to 6761. 6,. 7al.—Mr. Williams, who had been employed by Mr. Groom to estimate the value of the property destroyed, stated it at 2261. its. 4d., but was of opinion that the salvage did net show one-balk of what had been consumed. Mr. Smithery, surveyor of the Yorkshire Fire Insurance Company, deposed that he visited Liverpool by the instructions of the directors of the com pany, to investegate into the circumstances of the fire. Upon visiting Bwift's-court, on the day after the fire, he met with Tomlinson and Webster, but neither of them stated anything relative to the cri,,in of the fire. In the course of the day, he met the prisoner at Mr. Groom's shop, and in answer to inquiries, he said he could not conceive how the fire had oc curred, unless it originated in consequence of a cigar which he had been smoking in the shop falling into the shavings if it had not happeari thee, there was but one other way—that the stove fire had been left on during the night. On the Ist inst., the priamer called upon him at his hotel, in Clayton-square. He (witness) 'eked prisoner if he had taken stock, aid he replied he had; that he had done so in consequence of the fire at Mr. Howell's, but t...at he had not added the items up. Witness aske d him how it was that in hi. bill of charges to the company, he valued the paging machine at 651., when he bad offered previously to sell it at 301. ? The prisoner appeared to be surprised that the witness should be ac quainted with this, and, in explanation, said the machine had been recently repaired. The prisoner then, without witness referring to the subject of the wire, made a voluntary statement to the effect that on leaving the shop one night, he and others came in contact with a wire, and on the following morning he discovered that the slates were partly pulled over the lights, as though some one had been on the pre mises; that he traced the wire along the joist to a nail, and the other end of it terminated amongst the shavings ; that he had pulled the wire away on Friday night before tee fire, and had not seen it afterwards. Witness asked the pri soner why he had told him anything about the wire ? and be reviled that he thought it might have been put up and oonn - ected with the stove. Witness asked him why he had not mentioned this at the time of the converse tion relative tv the cigar, and he said he did not think of it. Upea the 2-id ult. the prisoner again coiled upon hinge and witness asked him if he had any suspicion who placed the wire up. The prisoner said he had not. He (witness) asked him why he had not instituted an inquiry relative to it, and the prisoner said he bad been curious to know to where the wire led, and had been several times in the loft for that purpose.—L. Kehee, of the detective force, deposed to apprehending the prisoner in Grove-street on the 22nd ult. The prisoner showed to him some wire, of which he was constructing a riddle. This wire exactly resembled that taken from the shop of the prisoner. Witness waited while the prisoner changed his dress, and whilst doing so, he pointed to a wire running up the wail of the room, and said he had placed it there for the pur pose el ringing a bell to call up his servant. That when he put it there, he borrowed a gimlet from Mr. Hard ing's, and had sent the boy with it back, but he had ne. glected to take it; that it had been left its the shop, and be (the prisoner) had no doubt that this gimlet had been used for the purpose of fitting nri_the wire found in the shrp. The prisoner tusked him, " What is it—transportation or imprisonment for setting fire ? " Witness said he did n ot know, and the prisoner replied, " O, yes yen do, w e l l." Witness then said, " I think it is transportation for a dwell' ing-house," sad prisoner said, " Ye., or for anytlffog ew t / but I never did it—the boys threatened me before.' . .se e ee . e police office the prisoner was told the charge apnrilsonheer, under replied, ' an I hestvir. of hii attorney,e n nothingtoseeee ein ryea L i itTh i: defence.