The Express. — London, England, 1849-02-03 00:00:00

bagel is maks that reputation ; yet, I 'moat go the wok elite Imo. gastlessan he min that es sued to have declared war with Spain. (Bear, User.) lam seensel ogees, what may lent to war. Bat the wog party now eft eggente. (Laughter.) Hail all the ppm sf dot tome aide before the house lost per, and what deo hen. mow bat wants now rendre for him to ouplain. The boa member tor Coekeroieuth etomplains that the lteaeadla~ of tha Foreign , eace remain in such mystery end runty so to maceity his curiosity. (Laughter.) I eertaisly bid meolft or the inquisitive disappointment of my bee bind, sod ma man him that when I was out of oaks ft would haw ises neatly gratify log to ma to have bad do run of the .... papers, not of al/ hut the pick of the intending do. (Wielder.) I can isms Ida it woad be mots& 1. 11 :lots sting and amusing for the members of this hood &glow, with the vuesseack day a lido( the dapatehea nobble sod received by us, but I very mad dotal if it weal oen. dune to the giantesses.) of pesos fir do mid Ise tenets of the country. Ia tho diet pitdts it 'spree nut to he part of the eonstinatlen idieli mom in the crown, and not in the House ol Comolliek the under of foreign negonations. las mum him, that ' toe method more than another would embroil the ennatry is &Mimeos, and IN hire them incurable, and lead to !optima e unavoidable, it is that popular assemblies should take romession of diplomatic transactions. Stich peblieity would be tstal to an accommodation in ninety-nine out of a hundred instances. How exposed, for instance, wool.' • gsvernment be who had made a proposal if it afterwards desired to rr2aet it, and render negotiation impossible. By publicity in seek a ewe you nail this to that prerasl. Ia a questien hetween France and the United Steve the chambers and the congress bume pledged to &Bement opinisns, sad the two muntrias wow to that state tkut without intervention they could net hossoss• ably come to an understanding. We inttribeed, dud paw was powered ; bat nothing tenni have been uses fatal to the interests of peace in that ease than publicity Webs which were otherwise brought to s hapey ternain= lat t stand here charged with the grave offence of halms keel • good uade.ntending with the republic of Fiesnee, and thereby contributed to the maiettnance of the peace of Europe. Wo en charged al o with having put an end to hostilities in Denmark and Schleswig which might have led to a toropeen war—of having in duced Attends and Sardieia to lay down their arms whoa t h e i r diff e rences might also have involved all the great powers in war; of having prevented great calamities in Sicily, mi of Maurine now to restore amity between the Xing of Disples and bin &alien subject,. We stand hors ea the ministers of pace — es a party who have laboured gosidsouely, and latour cell, to prevent sur if we sac, to r arrow its range, to put an end to it se soon es possible. We are charged by the advocat-e of war with these offsnees. I leave it to the house to timid between us, and I cote dently look to the verdict which the house will pronounce. (Loud chin rt.) o'oo Marquis et UItANBY moved the adjournment 01 the debate. Lord J. RUSSELL would divide upon that question. (11u ar, he or.) Ho really must put it to the house whether. if they adjourned the debate another night, it would not bs setting is bid example to the country. He submitted that it would Du better to d cid, the question now, in order to begin next week with the practical tiseustion of the questions in layed in her Maps' ye speech. (Cheers.) Mr. BERRIES defended the course of the noble lord, and advocated the adjournment oh the debate. At least. if the debate were now terminated thus leper. featly, tho noble lord who had last spoken must sot be surprised if some of the ststemenui he had now male were afterwards brought under the eossideration of the house. (Laughter, sod cries of Divide.") Lord J. RUSSELL said he shauld certainly INSMIT tots- Ada if the t epics comprised in the address were hereafter brought, es they must be, under diseutaion. Ile thought the noble lord tpitoeite mu.; see thst the general wish was that the debate should now terminate. (Cheers, and counter cheers.) The :eft:ryes of GRANBY slid he should press his motion for ad:oerneneet. Thi maroon the gdley wee cleared for a &violin on the question of aell.urornent. The numbers was For the wljouraineat so Araks: it Mr. DISRAELI rated that, , after this division, leo would net press his amendment to a viders. It was assomidogly withdrawn, and the adder* woe elm ad to. CONSOLIDATION OF THE HOARDS OF EXCISE AND TAXES. caANcßuoit at tee EXCRECII;EIi said that he rose to move far leave to bring in a hill to consolidate the boards of cadge and taa:s into one board of commi•sionen ot island revenue, and teacake provision far the collection of such revenue. This had already been partly done by the Treasury, and his object now was to carry Mtn complete effezt what had already lasew partially deem lie proposed ate alts Tlliio4l with a view to public ecosmay. By the con solidation ot the boards of scrim and stamps and tales, be estiarded that be would effect a saving of beoreen 70.000 i. and let.(oo'. to the public, withtut at all diminishing the efficiency of these branche of the public revenue. The aides having been put, 31". BERRIES mid that be sbould be glad that a saving ofbetwan7o,olol. sad 80,0001. woe elfeete I; sod he should be heartily glad indeed if so large an mount was mud withemt diminishing the security in the collection of these branches of the resume which the resent system sEceded. Bet if that escurity was at all dlmiaiebed, he thisacht It would he dearly reechoed by a saving et 70,0001. or 110,0u0f where so large an amount of revenue, namely, from 30,000,000/. to 30,000,0001.,was Inv lved. (Rear, hear.) As the rivht hon. fe• nt., however, tick it for mated that the sew system would work as efficiently as the eid, he would not oppose, the motion. Leave was then gives to bring in the Lill, which was nail • first time. WOODS AND FORESTS. Viscount DUNCAN mowed for a select committee, to in quire into the expenditure and management of the woods, forests, and land ties of the crown, and to report to the buss whether any nauctioas, alterations, or improvements. may he math in that brands of the public avenue and ex. nuiture ; and that the cemmi t m be instructed to include intheir inquiry the manacentent of the department of the creeks ant buildings, and of an other department over which the Commissioners of her Majesty's Woods, Forests, Lent Revenues, Werke. and Buildings. exercise coats& The gun of LINCOLN said that utile noble lord whore presented the woods and forests department was now re moved M the other house of pailiament and as tied noble lord, who, from his po.itiun, could best sift the subjects which were likely to come before the committee, could not sit ea it, he wished to know whether the government would appoint an 'diciest member uf the government to represent them OW the committee. Lord J. RUSSELL said he was aware of the disadvantage which the absence of Lord Carlisle would occasion. He would, therefore, communicate with his noble friend and some one of his right hon. friends would take the place of his noble friend. Although they would find it difficult to find too efficient a member as his noble friend, they would elides your to supply his place in the best manner they conliL The motion was then weed to. GENERAL COMMITTEE ON ELECTIONS. The Rdlowleg ameba= were appointed the members of tW esessitiett :—Mr. Fos lisle Bic 0. Clerk. Mr. J. W. Palma, Le Faegunota. Mr. Tlmanely, and Bir J. Y. The hove thou, at we Wank, sipping till Monday. ghe Orpn MAILS. The mene her Maim the Bruns, moll Sow AMIN Mil be fain rig en the Wits 6th Feb. TM nein lee Tim. ORq 1.1.b0n, Wedeln'. Cesar. mid Ctheslter ME be node epee the of the 7th Feb. TM neA . ele Mareellion to the Mrditernmen. Talk Mee. IleeW4Long. U., MU be Nude up on the evening :7177.th Feb. The mile the Attu Perth Arnim. led the WSW thane, wid be then vg ea the means of the 9th Feb. The wile fee the neat Com W grim sad Melaka ME Is nage up ea the ninny el the 12th Feb. Th. Wen Mir KIN ezeiodieg lenneda, Menu. Banneen, gledwrie. Few Oriente. mil Illettiee, ithe %dynes them fee Weleira, St. Jwie.M.Wkerages, New Onende. COW, sad Fere, will he meg ay es the .der of the Mk Feb.TM the. tre thersltar, Math'. Green. the Teethe I.isade Egypt, Ades, Ceylon. Tidie s lithig-Kaur, as.l Mee, vhs liouthmaglen, will be Berle ap: e the eturebig et the 20th Feb. The null.. for New South Wan, on MEW+ /AA mad Itow lailiad will be made up en the erring of the SW Feb. Milli WATTS AT LONDON MUM Tin 11, —l4umiAg.4d•sla Alocom.lsloll Welk —llortuag, Amok. pan It; Annuals.* aft. /alt 11. LONDON, SATURDAY, FEB. 3. THERE are four great objects at present to be kept in view by every liberal English statesmen. The first, and though we put it first it is that which least occupies the minis of men, is the maints. Rance of a liberal domestic policy, emancipating and rendering fit for emancipation by increased comforts, independence, and education, the lower classes of the empire, so as not merely to produce a greater MIN of liberty, but of security alto, with the elements and results of a genuine and free representative system. The second aim is to give throe and constancy to the government to persevere in a liberal commercial eystem, and thus to endow the industrious with means of subsistence and scope fcr exertion, rendering the English arm as free u the English mind. These two are but the development of principles lag admitted and acted upon, and which are almost able to make their own way and 'sustain their own mum by the daily experience of the good molts already obtained from them. The third is something more novel,and requiringfar greater and more sustained efforts to expound, to far ther, and to make it triumphant. It is no ieee than a complete revolution in our system of foreign and colo nial policy. And as upon the accomplishment of this revolution depends a fourth and all important aim, the introduction of a new, more equable, and more economical financial system, quite impossible, if our foreign and colonial po. boy continues to follow its old course, the most important part of any debate that can arise, is decidedly the nature of this foreign and colonial Policy, the mode of regarding which is henceforward likely to evened, the antiquated divisions of whig and tt ly ad Se 'divide stalemate into two schools, dosMinalsrl the old and the new. Teas *mine at the middle of the war, until very Wally at Indira policy, and from the very eom monnsmnit. oat edosial and Irish policy, have been feuded es the principle of Caney, that is, of dosimulng sad of the strong arts. Oar Eoverasente have known no argument bat might, their language has summed the invariable ten* el the powerful a iming the weak, our counsels to grewunente have bean Milady% ardour almost undisguised motives were what we ired likely to promote the pride, power, and wealth of Britons, at the expense of rivals or de ',lndents. We have, in fact, enacted the part of beasts of prey —magnanimously, no doubt, at times, and lion-like. So is uch so, that we shall infallibly make a very heroic figure in history, especially if history be written byEnglishmen, and of the mother country. We did this, however, and maintained this ascendancy by superiority of intelligence, of freedom, of wealth. Bat we have ceased to monopolise any of these things. Oar own colonists, as well as other countries, some of them formed oat of our own colonies, are as intelli gent as we, to question our pretensions, and wealthy and powerful to resist them. We must give up ascen dancy, we must give up intimidation. Indeed, we have given up intimidetion. We can no longer in terfere efficiently to put down by force or raise up by physical support, any party in any foreign country. And the question is whether, having abandoned inter ference or intervention for any great purpose or any great cause, we had not batter abandon it also in small, and instruct our foreign secretaries to let the conti nent alone, and our Colonial Secretary to allow the colonies in as far as possible to manage their own affairs. In the course of the debate on the Address the co'onial question, however important, was but slightly touched upon with the exception of some remarks from Mr. HUME and Mr. HORSMAN. The foreign and the financial questions in conjunction were discussed. And we have Lord Joao Ru-sett's de termination to tread pretty much in the some path as hitherto, more softly and cautiously, perhaps, by which means we arc to have all the expenditure and anxiety of the old system, without its dignity and power. We are to maintain a military force, as of old, to govern Ireland and Coxed* with permanent armies, and keep war alive on the Indus and at the Cape. And we are to have a navy, at seven or eight millions a year, lest the four millions of the French naval esti mates should enable the pacific ministers of that country to quarrel with us, on what ground and with what arms it is impossible to state. Lord JOHN Rossett pleaded that we could not go back to the military force of 1835, because we had since acquired a new colony that required 1,800 men. But if we are to acquire new colonies, without paci qiug old ones, where is our progress—where our state manship? Has not Canada been quieted since then? In our improved relations with the United States, what need have we of such armies? Why has Ireland not been quieted since ? And why does it require 40,000 men ? Because the party of ascendancy in land and creed will not part with any essential poi tion of its monopoly in tither. A more unsatisfactory speech than that of the Prime Minister we have seldom read. It is that of a statesman seeking to stave off difficulties—not meet them; of a man desirous to conciliate personal enmity, but without the courage to yield to rationel demands; of a minister seeking to yore au jour le jour, and resigning himself to dream of effort, with the reflection " that enough for the day is the evil thereof." The somnolent weight of Lord JOHN'S policy and speech renders him and his party in truth a kind of night-mare upon the House of Com mons, which lies suffering, and uneasy, and dissatis fied beneath it, but which is too benumbed and helplets to make any effort to shake off. If Lord done Russem. mesmerised the house, Mr. Disaaau exerted his usual powers of counter-excite ment Like most clever people who speak a great deal, Mr. DisitAztt uttered some sense at.d much nonsense. His nonsense was by far the most success ful with the house. What could be more just than his reproach to ministers, that they had no plan or policy . for Ireland, and that they merely came to hide their ignorance and irresolution in a pal:amen tary committee? What more conclusive than his denouncement of mock mediation, and his exposure of the nullities of our diplomacy ? The fair conclusion from Mr. DISRAELI'S arguments was, why maintain diplomatists? Why continue to meddle? Why keep up a military force to intimidate ? He fully proved that we wanted none of these things, yet he would keep them up. For what? For show, apparently. Mr. DISRAELI could not tell us to what profitable use he would put an overgrown army and a multitudinous diplomacy. It was not, however, the arguments of the able orator that captivated the house, but his epigrams. His " republic without re publicans," and •• empire without an emperor," were received as wondrous specimens of wit and sense, though we must own we can discover neither. It is to us a painful sight to behold a man of genius and cultivated mind, foremost amongst a party of Englishmen—to see him get up in parliament, take a review of Europe and its throes throughout 1848, and find not one cause or object worthy of either respect or sympathy, save the acts of WISDISCHCIRATZ and RADETsKI. The IMMO taste must prefer the age of Manila: to that of CICERO, or the reign of a Persian Satrap to the heroism of TIIMILAOCLES, or the wisdom of SoLoe. Whilst Mr. DISRAELI sus thus straining every ab solutist principle and exerting every nerve to keep at the head of the protectionists, who after all rt paid him by a far more niggardly meed of adhesion and applause, than even the generality of the house, Lord STANLEY indulged in a trick of very questionable fairness. Alter virtually abandoning the mein points of his spoken amendment, those of foreign policy included, on which he had most expatiated, he divided on a minor point. He had the got rid of a number of his opponents, and they were mustered with diffi culty to save the ministry from defeat. Lord STARLIT'S is a good and well known sporting trick—to lose two heats and win the third—but one scarcely expected to find it resorted to in the House of Lords. and seamen depend foe their daily bread; and it is risking an amount of Britielt capital invested in Brasil of not less than five million. sterling. No wonder, then, that L3ropoo . l is uneasy—that Manchester is impede". Their anxiety is most natural. And it will be only a simple act of the commonest daty to their eonstitaents for one of the t epreenta does of th me towns to seek the interference of parlia-1 lint to avert impending dangers. To assist, them, in the appeal that must be made to the legislature, we propose to state, on competent authority, the steps by which discord, instead of amity, has become the mbar racterntic of our relations with BraziL Before, however, proceeding to do so, it will net be unprofitable to observe that of all the American states, Brazil is the only monarchy in that quarter of the globe—a fleet entitling it to some favour in Euro pean estimation; that its population have preserved this form of government in spite of surrounding example and the temptations of a long imperial minority, and of a weak regency, and that ISCRISTChy in its tarn bast preserved =OW tilated territories and homogeneous provioses to the Brazilians—facto entiting it to ear sympathy and !expect; and that the public faith of Brazil stands unimpeachable in the money market of London—a fact entitling it to our confidence. Nor ought it to be forgotten that for nearly twenty years Brazil gave free admission to the fabrics of this coun try whilst we rigorously and insultingly excluded its produce from our ports ; and that now, when pro. yoked by an attack on its independence, it still hesi tates to pick up the weapons we have thrown away finis entitling it to no small consideration at ear hands. The great difficulty in the way of a new treaty of commerce with Brazil was, it will be recollected, the West Indian cigar monopoly. Before it Sir HENRY ELLIS retreated, daring the Pen. administration, from a fruitless mission to Rio. Scarcely, how ever, had that monopoly beca abandoned, and all commercial obstructions to a treaty been thereby removed, when a new difficulty, quite as insuper able, was created. The slave-trade stipulations be tween the two countries had, in the haste of the British negotiators for their completion in 1826, been so unskilfully drawn and were so unscrupulously acted, on by our squadron as to have become a constant sonmel of irritation and altercation. Possessing imperfect powers, our foreign ministers were constantly de manding further concessions from Brazil, and as con tinually jastifying the most patent infractions of existing stipulations. Of the occurrences (to use a neutral word) that kept public opinion in Brazil ie constant excitement against the suppreeion system, none were more irritating, and therefore more pre judicial to the success of our efforts, than the searches, the seizures, and the consequent collisions between Brazilian and British forces which took place in and about the Brazilian coast; and which our readers will possibly have some, though an inadequate, idea of from calling to mind the hot blood always on the simmer on our own coasts by the in vasion of French fishermen ; or by supposing that we chimed a right to follow or search for French smug glers in French pone. Altercations respecting Bra zilian slavers seized under Brazilian batteries ; Bra zilian rural mayors persisting in committing as pirates English officers caught in Brazilian rivers ; a Bra-' Titian gentleman killed by a musket shot fired in the very harbour of Rio from an English vessel in the suppression service ; such things as these wero perpetually in the atmosphere. Till, at last, Brazil finding reclamation. uselesa, and determined not to submit to condemnations on grounds she had not authorised and to seizures in her own territorial waters—in 1845 put an end to the right of search, as it was granted she bad the right to do. Caron unately, Lord Aceenees misconstruing (we write the word on the highest authority on subjects , of international law at the English bar, whose opi uion on the question lies before us) the first article of the treaty of 1826, induced parliament to pass en act (8 & 9 Vie., cap. 122), authonsing British cruisers to capture, and British Vice Admiralty Courts to condemn, Brazilian vessels engaged in or equipped for the slave trade. And it is this statute which now forms the insuperable obstacle to a new treaty of com merce with Broil. Against it the Imperial Government protested in the most solemn way as an infraction of the treaty of 1826, and as au outrage on its rights as an indepen dent sovereign state ; transmitted copies of its pro test to the courts of its allies ; and formally announced to our government its determination not to conclude any commercial relations whilst the enactment was in existence. Notwithstanding this pnnest the act has been carried out in the most stringent manner ; and for every vessel seized under its authority Brazil claims for its subjects pecuniary compensation from this country. It must not, however, be for a moment supposed that in terminating the right of search Brazil desired for its subjects the power or opportunity of running riot in the slave trade. Scarcely had she terminated the stipulations end. r which that right had been exer clad and abused by this country, than the Minister who has so long and so worthily represented Brazil at the court of London, laid before Lord ABERDEEN the project of a new slave trade convention, which would have restored the right of search ander proper guaran tees against the invasion in its exercise of the terri torial waters of the empire. This project was (we entreat attention to the fact, for it cannot be denied) declared by Lord ABERDEEN to be in the main satis factory; and his lordship undertook to procure, on its being signed, the repeal of the offensive statute. Ere, however, it could be reduced into a formal shape, Lord ABERDEEN had ceased to be Foreign tiecretary. But he had, we repeat, given the assent of the British government to the principles of the project presented to him byßrazil. Lord Panmititsroo, in succeeding to the Foreign office, not merely approved of the act of 1845 • he announced his regret that its penal provisions had not been extended to the persons of Brazilian subjects, as well as to their property. It will, therefore, create no surprise, when it is added that he summarily rejected as perfectly inadmissible the Brazilian project which Lord ABERDEEN had approved ; and determined on sending Lord Howimai on a special minion to Rio with a counter-project. Lord HowDEN is, as every one knows, a fine dashing, hands-me, and, in every sense of the 'MERE is, we are not at all surprised to hear, a word, a gallant man ; accomplished in the world growing feeling of impatience in Manchester, Liver of fashion, but having no diplomatic experience ; pool, and Glen° cat the state of our commercial rela- fitted perhaps to adorn a court, but little Lions with a country in whose friendship and goodwill calculated to negotiate successfully a treaty of com those towns have sodeep an interest se in Brazil. And metal'. He had, however, claims of a personal nature the now acknowledged and notorious failure of Lord on the whip, and they were liquidated by detch- Howneres mission to the court of Rio de Janeiro, ing him in a frigate to Rio on this minion. Though together with the prospect of heavy differential duties warned that he most fail, Lord HOWDEN appears to on the admission of British manufactures into that have resolved on carrying things with a high hand. On empire after January, 1850, render it probable that it reaching Rio he remained two days in that port with win become the duty of one of the members for Man - out condescending to take any notice of the Monarch Auger to bring the subject under the early . considei a- to whom he was accredited , and passed on to the o f the kgislatttre. This course is, indeed, Plate without an effort even to interchange the cote the more imperative, because it is apparent lion tesies of social life with, much more topay the respect due to, Royalty. Nor was his personal conduct at Rio from the character of the recent negotiations during his subsequent residenceat all calculated to "- between England and Brazil, and from the nut hu pohtical mission. Of that mission saffies it to position in which their termination has left the executive governments of the two countries, that say, that it consisted in presenting to the Brazilian go vernment, not the heads of a slave-trade treaty for nothing but a strong expression of parliamentary discussion and ne g otiation ; but a convention opinion will lead to the arrangement of relationsfor signature : in which, about which there never ought to have been any all aeadY PrePared serious discussion, still less any prolonged delay. s o ran Lord HOWDEM3 instructions, not a comma Here are two monarchies, between which political had to be altered. It was, of course, contemptuously rivalry is geographically impossible ; between which rejected; and the rejection accompanied by a refusal there exist traditions of old friendship, and has been to entertain any proposals for a treaty of commerce ; an interchange of modern good o ffi ces ; between wk. se notwithstanding hints were given that it might be in subjects thew are the most extended trading con- the power of British diplomacy to protect the pro ne:loam countries mutually useful and beneficial to vince of Rio Grande fiom the ambitious designs as each other; having no tariff disputes or differences; crises to Rms. having no interests, political or commercial, hostile to T ed treatment roused the national resentment of each other ; but, on the contrary, having every motive the Brazilian legislature ; it conferred on the execu that can urge nations to permanent concord and to Live government power to place a differeatial duty of settled amity ; both having constitutional govern. no less than 33 per cent. on the goods of those meats of kindred form. Yet these two kingdoms, countries which had not interchanged with Brazil thus situated, thus formed for commercial intercourse, the most favoured nation privilege. And this power have for the last eight years been in vain endeavour- the Brazilian government has decided on exercising ing to conclude a treaty of commerce ; and this, al- from the Ist January, 18 5 0. though for the last four years there has been no dispute Such is a faithful outline of the existing relations, as to its terms and conditions. Nay, worse still ; the or rather non•relations, between England and Brazil. chances now seem to be that, instead of such a treaty, On which country they inflict the most discredit we retaliating duties will be imposed on the trade of one ; are ashamed to say. Bat after this statement it will and that by the state which, in so doing, will pro- be in vain to urge ft at it is the pro slave-trade obstinacy claim its unwillingness to resort to each a means of of Brazil with prevents the conclusion of a treaty asserting its own dignity and independence. which would give stability to our commerce with that No one can regard this as a satisfactory state of empire, and some protection to the immense amount things. In truth it is most discreditable to the go- of British property there. For the want of such a vernment of whichever monarchy its mules are treaty neither free-trade exaggerations nor slave-trade attributable to. It is alienating from each other two cupidity are at all responsible. It is entirely owing to countries having every inducement underheaven tube that principle of diplomatic interference in the internal friendly; it is endangering a trade of vast importance affairs of other countries in support of which huge to our manufacturers, and a demand for labour on armies are maintained and immense fleets in every which at least a hundred thousand of our artisans ocean are excused. THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 3, 1849, SWITZERLAND. Dieurhanses took place on the 24th ult. at UriPori canton of Beres, in Switzerland, owing to people having opposed the expulsion of the nuns of a convent of Ursulines, whieh had been re solved on by the Grand ConnoiL The prefect was ill-treated, and a military force of 1,000 men had to be sent to restore order. _ _ _ _ F. Farina, at his p the 1;1 - w Sardinian minister, had arrived ost. GERMANY. FRANKFORT.—Onr advioes from this city reach to the 30th Jan. On that day the National Assembly voted the following articles and sections of the project of law intitokd " Theguaranteeing of the constitution of the empire" : Art. I.—Se:. I. At every changeof government the Diet, if not unembled at the time, shall Best without convo cation, according to the mode in which it was the lest time composed. The Emperor, on his accession to the govern ment, shall take the following oath to the constitution, in I presence of the members of the two houses of the Diet as sembled in one ',Mktg " I swear to protect the empire and the rights of the German people • to uphold the constitution of the empire and conscientio usly to carry it out ; so help me Ged." Only after taking the oath shall the emperor be entitled to enter upon the business of government. S.c. 2. The public functionaries of the empire shall take the oath to the constitution on entering upon their duties. Further ref ulations will be given in the regulations for the employes of the empire. Sec. 3. In the single states the obligation to obey the con stitution of the empue shall be bound up with and shall pre eede the engagement to adhere to the local oonatitutions. Art. 2. Sect 4. No regulation in the constitution or laws of any single elate shall be in opposition with those of the coaehtution of the empire. Sect. 3. No alteration shall be made in the form of govern ment of a single stet* without the genetics of the central plower. That saneion must be given according to the form prescribed (in sec. 6) for alterations of the constitution of the empire. The debate on the remaining articles was ad journed. It was understood that a congress of the plehi potentiaries of the various German states would assemble in Frankfort in the beginning of February, to set forth the views of their respective govern ments with regard to the constitution for Germany, previously to the second reading of the bill in the national assembly. The Vicar of the Empire, who had been suffering from indisposition during several days, war better. The central executive hen refused to comply with the request of the Thuringian states for a reduction of ' their army contingents. The second chamber of Hesse-Darmstadt has de- Glared by a majority of 3(1 to 5, that it would be glad to see Prussia at the head of Germany. This decision gave rise to such hostile demonstrations in the pub lic tribunes that the president was obliged to order the military to clear them, which was done amidst great uproar. PIaTSSIA.—The ministers have expressed their intention to bring forward, at the next session, the project of law of the Hanemann cabinet respecting Rho imposing a daty on landed property. This an nouncement has given great offence to the landed pre prietors, who had indulged in the hope that the pre sent ad ministration would quietly allow the project to fall to the ground. The elections for the Wahlmanner of the deputies to the first chamber in Berlin ter minated, as was expected, in favour of the "con servatives," some of wbcm, however, plume them selves on being " moderate liberals." It is rumoured , that the Russian and Austrian ambassadors in Berlin will demand their passports in ease the King of Prussia accepts the throne of Germany, it offered to Lim. HESSE CASSEL.—According to the latest so- ; counts from this state, the differences which existed , between the ministry and the Prince Elector have I been amicably removed, his highness having so ceded to the &wands of his cabinet. SCHLESWIG-HOLSTELN.--Three proposals for peace, or, rather, three plans which are to serve u the Useefor carrying on negotiations for peace, are, it is I stated, under consideration in London. The first is by Denmark. This assigns to Schleswig a nominal independence, the more surely to constitute it a Danish province, and effect its separation from Holstein. The second emanates from Prussia ; according to this, Schleswig-Holstein and the entire Duchies are to be constituted into the Grand Duchy of North Abingia, the Grand Duke of Oldenburg is to be adopted by the King of Denmark, and to succeed him in Denmark and North Abingia ; the latter, of course, to remain a German state, and the Augutenbarg lire to be in. demaitied by Oldenburg. The third plan is that pro , posed by Frankfort, namely, the partition of SAies. wig according to the natio nalities. ROME, JAN. 24. It is now ascertained that about 23,000 to 25,000 electors have registered their votes for the twelve Roman members of the Constituent Assembly, and almost all the ministers have been returned by overwhelming majorities in this city. The poll-books are not yet finally sifted, but it is rumoured that Canino has crept in at the bottom of the list. The scene at the various booths on Sunday and Monday was rather exciting ; the middle classes were prin cipally those who iercised the franchise. Very few I of the beneficed clergy made their appearance, but the Capuchins, and other independent freeholders, who depend on the people for support, came up in force. It is true that not a few tickets in the electoral urn contained the names of the twelve apostles. I asked the man who brings me charcoal, had he voted? He said it was too much trouble to wash his face for that purpose ; but "Ce ne song altri (carbonari) eh bastanza ;" an unconscious epigram. Estafettes have corns in from all quarters reporting the progress of the elections in the provinces : the en thusiasm of the country towns has surpassed that of the metropolis. The bishops led the van at Terra cing, itieti, and other important localities. At Civita Vecchia near 3,000 out of 4,000 electors voted for the government candidates. It is supposed that 150 of the 200 members have already been constitutionally returned without any symptom of riot or ill-humour. Since the last ridiculous attempt at a military coup de main the troops have shown the most determined spirit in unison with popular feeling. Baskets of champagne and net a few dollars have rewarded the young dragoons who quelled the incipient reaction. I told of the instant capture of 17 soldiers by these horsemen, but 25 others had fled towards the Apen nines, with a view to get into Naples. Thirty civic guards pursued them in several hackney-coaches, and the commander of this bold expedition was a Roman attorney. " The pursuit he led" (though his name was not Norval, but De Angelis) until he o'crtook the toil-encumbered foe at a spot called Vico Vero. He brought them prisoners to Rome. It being ascertained that the King o Naples is forming a cordon of troops on the Roman frontier, yesterday the legionaries of Vicenza marched out of this town to keep garrison at Termini. The object of Ferdinand is, I fancy, not so much to invade this land, as to prevent his new conscripts from flying over the border, which they are doing in great num bers, to escape service. Vt e Court. WINDSOR, FRIDAY.—Then was no addition to the royal enamor circle at the Castle to-day. Her Majesty's pivots band was la Womanise, aad performed in the Castle daring the maim. The Duke of Cambridge visited the Duchess of Gloucester yesterday at Gloucester Howe. The royal duke returned to his resident* at Kew in the afternoon. Mr. Gillespie and Mr. Bischoff had an interview with Heel Grey yesterday at the Colonial-office. The Earl Fortemue, Lord Steward of her Majesty's Household, left town yesterday morning for Windsor Castle. Mr. R. Harris and Mr. J. Ellis had an interview with the Right Hon. Henry Laboneher• yesterday at the off ee of the Board ef Trade. . The Rev. Mr. GeII acd Mr. G. W. Anderson had interriewsyesterday, at the:Colonial•oftlee, with Earl Grey. KEEPING ALoor.—lt has been remarked that the Peel party had no dinner meeting,. or other meeting, prepa ratory to the opening of the season, and none of the more prominent memb-ri of that party took any part in the &bate to either house. From tit; it is inferred that the Peelites are waiting to join the ministry at the first coxrenient optortsaity.—Standard. BISHOP OP VICTORIA, HONG so\O.—Though it has not yet been officially announced, we hear, on goof authority, that her Me jeat y has been anciently pleased to approve of the no mivation of the Ito,. George Smith (formerly incumbent of Herr and resident at Adwick Hall) as first bishop of the new see of Victoria, in Hong Kong.— Doncaster Gazette. - - - - --• THE WINDSOR THEATRIC&LS.—Her Majesty has resented is Mr. Chailts Kean, through the hands of the Hon. C4l, PLippe, a splendid diamond ring, and hu ex pressed to him in person her approbation of his prokstional exertions, as well to of the complete success that hu attendea his direction of the late Windor Castle theatricals. MARRIAGE IN Rion LIFE. —On Tuesday,'iby special Beene', in St. Stephen's Church, D iblin, the Earl of Devon to Elisabeth Ruth, daeghter of the late &v. John Middleton tlecet, of Bally on, comity Wicklow, and niece to the Berl of Meath. Immediately after the ceremony the hippy pair started fir Hilruddery, the; seat of the_Esrl of Meath, in the county Wicklow.: -- - _ (Fran last nisht's Gazette. BUCKINGHAM PALACE, JAN. 31.—Her Majesty having ap, ()luta the Most lion. 11. W. Marquii of Anglesey, K.G., to be Lint Lieutenant and Costes Rotulorum of the county of Stafford, his lordship this day took the oaths ap point d to be taken thereupon, insteadj of the oaths of allegiance and supremacy. FOREIGN-OFFICE, Fes. 2.—The Queen has been pleased to appoint C. Cumberlege, Req., to be her Majesty's Consul at Tampico. TUE CITY GAS BlLL.—Yesterday, at a meeting of the Commissioners of Sewers at Guildhall, respecting the proposed bat to enable the dna , ns of London to procure gas at a moderate prior, it was resolved, " That no further pro • ceeding be taken in prosecuting this bill, and that it be re fi rred to the Bard of Health, to prepare a rep wt to be pre anted to the Court of Common Csuncil, explaining the grounds upon which such resolution bail been come to ; and that the general purpom committee be instructed to in quire and report as to the best means of effecting a reduction us the price of gas to the citizens of Londcn." TIM MIDDLESEX 110SPITAL.—On Thursday, the an nual court of the governors of the Middlesex Hospital, was held in the board-room of the inatituri , is. to receive the report for the post ) ear, ending the 31st December, 1848. Mr. T. Ilunt in the chair. Tne report stated that the income &Tao:Anted t 3 24,3281. 2.. 11d. ' which included annual subscriptions, 1,7541. 6s. ; dividends, 3,5371. Os. 4d. ' • balance at bankere,&c , 1,3921. 19s. 7d.; donations, 2,1141 .95. 31. ; legacies, 1,0641. 14s. 63. ; charity sermons, 1491. 7s. 3d. ; loan from Messrs. Coleus', &c.(which was repaid), 2,5001. ;seta of stock, 10,5001, die. After discharging the necessary claims, there remained a Wilma due to the hospital of 2651. 6s. lid. The ordinary receipts amounted to 5,3061. 16s. 4c1., and the ordinary expenditure to 9,0061. 14e. 11d., which left a deficiency of 3,6991 18a. 7d. The ordinary income the previous year was 5.9401. 141. 74., being an excess over that of the present year of 6331. 18s 3d. A donation of 5001. was contributed to the hospital by the Rev. Deacon Morrell, and another sum of 5001. was tub scribed by Mr. C. Dixon, of &instead Park, for flu Samari tan Fund, which the commit a had invested in the 3 pr,. cent. console. A legacy of 1001., bequeathed 40 year. :ago by Mr. Appleton, had emu into potaestion of the institu tion. The collector's report, the report of the co'.antittce in reference to the additions to the moo turn, the apothecary's report. &c., were presented, and it was r a t k a t h at t h ere , were 207 patients in tho hospital. Mr. W. R ime , ttelet t e g that the accounts were drawn up in a v ray that afforded no I explanation of what was the avail mr.ount of receipts and exrealiture. They were inaccurate, and did not convoy a true statement of their affairs. There was an expenditure 9,0061.14 e. 11d., but it appearsdthat they had paid 2,5000 to Mesas. Cants, which was a loan that had been borrowed from them. Mr. Goldsmid raid that it was the intention of the committee to engage an accountant, in order that the expenditure might be ',vont ,ined. Mr. Tooke, the trea surer, stated that the aceonnts had been made up as had been the practice ter the last tort), yearn. There was no mystification in their financial statement, and he heard no complaints atom the accounts except in that room. He moved that the account of the receipts and expenditure he printed and circulated among the governors and suhseri• ben.—Mr. M. Smith, seconded the p solution, and said that during the last year the committee had taken into cor sideration the propriety of adopting a different mode of revising the accounts.—hlr W. Hawes moved, and the It-v. Mr. Dodd seconded, an amendment, that they he referred back to the committee. After a lengthened discussion the amendment was withdrawn, and the resolution carried unanimously. It was then resolved 'hat the salary of the apothecary should be increased to 2001., and the anis . tent ditto to 701., when the court broke up. THE SALE OP THE STOWE LIBRARY was continued yeaterday. The (entrees of the day's sale were, first : a copy of " Prynne's liecords; or as exact Chronological Vindica tion and Historical Demonstration of our British, Roman, Saxon, Danish, Norman, English Kings' supreme EtUudas tical Jurisdiction over all Spiritual as well as Temporal Affairs within England, Scotism], Ireland, 5f....c.," in 3 vas. These three volumes were published between the years 166-5 and 1670. la page 1 of the first volume the author states that he intends to preface it with "a large intraductiou not yet completed, swelling to an entire tome." This intro:Ela tion, until the discovery of a copy in this library, was never known to exist, the three volumes always being looked upon as complete, and the prices they have fetched at var lout tales show their 7 xcemive rarity. The one sold yesterday fetched 1401.: and, second, the 4th volume, or the " Intro duction," as alluded to above. It has uo date or title-page, but on the first page is the fol lowing description of the work "An exact Chrono*.ogioal History and Full Display of Pope's Intolerable 17surpat:ens upon the Ancient Just Eights, Liberties of the Kings, Kingdoms, Clergy, Nobility, Commons, of England and Ireland." The other portions of the book, by the paging, &c., clearly chow that it was in. tended to precede the three volumes. Au autograph note of the late Eight Hon. Thomas Grenville is inserted in the book to the following effect:—" This remarkable volume may be considered unique. I have never seen it elsewhere, nor have I found it anywhere described. It is evidently that introduction described by Prynne ," as previously noticed. The competition for this rare volume was very . great; the first offer for it was 50 guineas, which was soon increased to 2001. It was eventually bought for 3351., and is now in the library of Li coin's-inn, where are Prynne's own copies of his works. Drums, Fri: 2. 3 - proper atteatiote. He thoutht the evidence ought to be nos Wu& with some istutioa. The inquiry wu adjourned till Tuesday next. MEETING ON THE TEN HOURS BILL AT MANCHESTER. The recent decision of the Manchester borough magistrates, and also that of other benches in the neighbour h:od, span the legality of the relay system, Las centrally mooted considerable speculation amongst the operative elan in this district, and as it is considered calculated entirely to frustrate the objects sought to be gained t y the Ten Hours Bill, a wide-spread agitation has been raised against such an infraction of the original spirit of the law. A meeting of the factory workers in Manchester was held on That Re'ny even ing in the Corn Exchange, Hanging Ditch, to take into con sideration " the best means to be adopted to suppress the present system of working by relays: oho to device the best means ofan universal working of ten hours for adult factory workers." Shortly after 7 o'clock, the chair was taken by Me. Thomas Mawchley. There was a twine eons attendance, chiefly of operatives. The CHAIRMAN, in opening the proceedings, said, it would be always a source of pleasure to him t 3 assist his fellow-operatives in the hest way he could, in t h e attainment of laudable objects. But he regretted that it was still nee , nary to asxmble publicly in order to ado et means by which the Ten Hours Bill could he kept invvelate. If it had a fair trial it would afford remunerative annloyment to factory operatives, and enable them to keep their wives at home, and there perhaps raise up a much improved class of workpeople. But the Ten Hours Act was completely neutralized if relays of women were allowed ; and he, there fore, trusted that the magistrates' deeisloss would be set aside, end the Ten Hours Bill have a fair trial, and if so, he had no doubt all their expectations with regard to it would be realised. (Hear, hear.) The chairman then read the notice ccnvening the meeting, and said ho thought the best minus of preserving the law from violation was to estah'ish a uniform time of work for ell ndults, male and female. He charged Messrs. Clarke, of Pollard-street, with repeated vilation of the law, which however it wu very difficult to prove, and always would be so ' until one uniform tune of wonting was app tinted. PETER CLARKE, a working man, moved the first re solution That the factory operatives wimposing this mectinsr, after matins de Memnon, and Fame experience In the working of short Yours, affirm their determination to maintain inviolate the provisions of the Ten Hours Act, as it now Weals the working et ASZlalet and young pervious in factories, as hy law establisticiL Mr. JOHN BRAISSON 'avided the motion. The Rev. J. IL STEPHENS raid that the violations of the (sooty act in hie own district, A-Itton.unde '- Lyn., were most notorious in every quarter. No use mode could he conceived of this violation which was nut un blushingly perpetrated by mill-owners, who were also ma gistrates on the bench. The working men there ttsemblcd did not ask for the repeal of any statute. They found a Law cn the statute bcok, and they merely :.eked that it should he properly enforced. Mr. G. LU BTH proposed the second resolution : That we deeply term the nementy of r;vivffig the agitation for Me most Important and longoeught for !immure, but es the previa gaud the Ten lbws Act have been grossly siolated by many masters, and as these violations of the big hove been sanctioned by magistrates, who had aolimaly declared upon their oath their deter initiation to achnitio.ter justice without affection or favour to Amy one, we we resolved to waist by every mesas in out re to maintain in all its integrity the present factory law, and we plc re a•:,r,okra to give imr most hearty support to the officers of the government net t ll 'l.ll`trithillFttirffinseßeltdtd°%:tretuett. Mr. RICHARD OASTLEII. next addreszed the meeting, and was received will great cheerirg. Before commencing his observations, he asked the people a stmbled whether or not they were met in favour of the Ten Hours Bill [A unanimonsaffirrnative was given.] That, said, Mr. °ostler, fe a sufficient tearer to the government, the Home Secre tary, or, the Queen herself. His (the speaker's) work had endea with the passing of the bill, but he would still addrea himself to the parties intrusted in tae short word " law " parties who, if that word had as signification, had no posserions nor rights themselves. It, had mentii ued the Queen, and he was convinecei ot bee approval of the Foamy Bill. Many would ree4llett the pledge ho had lormerlv given in Brown-street, to agitate for the Ten limns Bill as long as he lived until it 'was ohtaineil. That vow he bail kept. And it in defiance of the o . iinioa of the tc.terney.Generat. the Soli citor.Gew:ral, and the stipenliary magiatrat.s, there infrac timis corstinued, then let the people demand, not petition, the exclus'.ou ot every one in any way c :named with Intones Iron: the judicial teat when the...! qu slums were lrought b'rward. (Loud cheers.) lie had heart that to a recent trial the brother-in-law of the defendant sat upon the bench. (Shame.) He hoped that gentleman would, on his knees, implore forgiveness of his tied. The factory operatives demanded justice alone, and that the sacredness of that law should be preserved, which they had received as an act of mercy, and which was looked upon as the birthright ot the factory labour:T. The speaker cited the opinions of Mr. Cobden ' Mr. Rohl. Hyde Gregg, and H . B.H. Prince Albert, in favo..e of tie views which ho had a Ivanerd. Ile advised the people to be t.er. 1 featly quiet; when they stood by the law they were nom suitable ; but, sui soon as a movement was made in paha went by the masters to repro the Ten Hours Bill, then let the people buckle on their armour, a, the did in the old campaign, and demand an eight hours bill. Atter contending that the winking of long hours had an in jurious effect upon the employen as well as the workpeople, Mr. °ostler concluded his speech amidst great applause. The third resolution, moved by Mr. T. HARGREAVES, was as follows : Thu the (eatery operatives of this city, who have experienced the adviustage of working ten hours a day since the let May last, are tally convinced of the advantages that must result tu thew, Lutl. in is mural and physical point of view, from Its uniform adoktion ; and firmly resolve to nee their beat endeavours to ensure the uniting of that period per day; ant that, re- the legislature the wen laws I to regulate Walt labour, we now take our affairs into our ineti bands. 1 and endeavour to effect by combination an abridgment et °Le time 41 ten hours a day; and that, therefore, all adult factory up-naives bo invited to join the association now formed for that purpoee. The resolution was seconded by Mr. H. GREEN, tup• ported by Mr. W. I'. ROBERTS, and carted. The ,ucceeding resolution was: That the best thanks a this meeting arc due and hereby riven to Lent Aailey, Y.P., J. Illitkil, Eq., J. itrothcrton, Ems., M.P., C. Wadley, Eq., M.P., the Lion. WV Cowper, M.P., W. It. Fernald, Esq., the Karl of klkaniere, Lord Pever.ham, the Hight lice. the Bench of Bishops, J. Wood, You.. J. Welker, Erg., the ltiv. J. S. hiA the Rev. C. D. Wray, And all other friends who iwei,etil tie in uning the Ten flours Act. It was carried by acclamation; and thanks having been voted to Mr. Fields, and the Cbairmao, the pratTedings terminated. IRELAND. Yesterday, Mr. liemmis gave notice to this solicitor for the state prisoners that on this day the writs of error would came from the Court of Chancery. The profession here think that the only arguable point is the question of the ten days' notice according to Eng lish practice. Four gentlemen have been raised to the rank of Queen's counsel—Messrs. Francis Fitzgerald, Hutton, Andrews, and Waller. The omission of some other names has caused much surprise at the Four Courts, and the Lord Chancellor's selection in two of the above instances has not met with much approbation, Mr. Francis Fitzgerald abovenamed is brother of the Professor of Moral Philosophy in the university. lie is a distinguished lawyer, and was one of Mr. Smith O'Brien's counsel. Mr. John Waller is also justly popular with the bar. The Queen's Speech arrived this morning at half put five o'clock. It seems that the &nu/mitten/of the Newtonbredn romance has not yet been developed. Fresh in quiries have strengthened Miss M•Veagh's claims to be considered a heroine. The story of her having purchased blood, as Rudolph pricked his nose with spear gra-e, to simulate evidences of a sanguinary fray, and of her having bought a cap of an old clothes man and riddled it with shot, le, according to the Belfast Chronicle, nothing less than the result of a catholic plot against the veracity of the damsel be cause she and her family are protestants. These un handsome mystification, have occurred, says the same journal, chiefly in consequence of the various exami nations before the local magistrates having been con ducted in private. Fates.—ln Wit.wourn, a fire broke oat in the cabinet and techt nd manufactory belonging to Messrs. Fussell and Son, Trafalgar-street, Walworth. The flames began in the worksbons, a range of premiees upwards of GO feet long and 30 wide. Th 'y were filled with goods of a vastly description, and owing to their inflammable charact-r but few minutes elapsed ere the entire property was wrapped in one sheet of flame. Sev , rol engines were speedily set to work, but in spits of the utmost exertions of the tire me* the fire continued to spread, and it was not until the lapse of two hours that the damn could be extinguished, and not until the whole of the workshops, warehouses, and their contents were levelled with the ground. 2d.ssrs. Fussell were insured for only 3001. INQUEST, VESTEELIAT.—ALLEGED NEGLECT GE AN IDIOT IN ST. °LAVE'S WOILICIIOI.IIII.—BrIOIS Mr. W. Payne, in the Vestry-hall of St. John's, lionleydown, re specting the death of Ann Gardner, aged 34, an idiot, who died In the workhouse of St. °hives Union.—Mary Ann Ede said that she was an inmate of the St. Olive's workhouse. Deceased was taken ill about eight weeks ago, and was placed in the sick ward. Mr. Pettigrew, the • NAPLES, JAN. 24. surgeon, attended her. Oa the 12th ult. witness was in the As the opening of the chambers approaches rumour sick w ard, when she saw the surgeon examine the decc ..-ed, is active as to the design of government in calling and witness believed from his manner that he wr.e at bees long ditrithyotr to her re bed d as w it if . fever, Decess d h them together, and as to the length of their duration. disgusted No one appears to me to consider ministers as sincere , e ,;:ig. seer prls ee ented themselves on her hips. I l Po r r in the Performance of their promise. To-day there is laces were ordered, but instead of their being regularly a report that four of the ministers have tendered their changed at certain intervals, they were allowed to re ruignatioas. I should not be surprised at it, though mein on for three or four days together, until the stench it is a report that needs confirmation. That there became quite offensive. Since her attack deceasel had been has been adi • fference in the o pinions of the ministers unable to get in or out of bid • Me therefore required cost ae to what was to be done in the present conjuncture stout attention —Rebecca Ru ssell, an inmate of the work house, confirmed the evidence of the previous witness, and is, I believe, not to be denied, and perhaps now that it said that deceased, had been greatly neglected. She bad EDIN:It Ruti. is decided to open the chambers, a regular split may known the pooltioes to be kept en lOr days, which made tie In Kelso the cholera, after declining so far as to be sores get larger. About three weeks ago she was left in the one day without a single case, broke out again with have taken place.ie de told Jant u lio , d i. 2 . - ts:i ald an w i tness Despatches were received yesterday by Admiral bed three o o a r feeceleidaydee toget h er, ti more violence than ever, and has since been going on Bandies from Marseilles, in consequence of which the laud reftvde and the stench , in the ward at length became i ma t at the rate of a dozen casts a day,which, in a population admiral went to Gaeta. This afternoon the Penguin oppressive. The mistress of the workhouse, whenever she of some four thousand, is a high average. A remark came in from Gaeta. The Vengeance has not entered came to the ward and inquired if the deceased had able instance of the eccentricity of the malady is, that our port yet ; it is supposed that it is becalmed out- been attended to, was always answered in the stfirma- whilst extending its ravages in eastern, westerr, and side the bay. tive. There were thirteen sick persons confined in sou thern directions, it hu not yet gone northward, Yesterday morning a court-martial was held on themwerd ary iiV e t partiese o re n:ge re sa re w e er,sai :Ver"beriwlsniugnrinese: I scarcely a single case having occurred north of the board the Howe, to try Lieut. Maynard for alleged diately opposite that of deceased, who rema'ned in bed for Frith of Forth, notwithstanding the constant inter. disobedience of Orders. It seems that the lieutenant nearly a week without being taken out or washed. Mr. course between both sides of the estuary. was indulging in same remarks in the gun-room to Howard, the surgeon, came every day to the ward, and Mr. The great rise in poor rates has set invention on the disparagement of the vice, when ho was ordered Pettigrew onee • week. The sta . n e ch n T h es e v d e r y ta i l , , ,, but way edge, and one method of keeping down the cost of the by the commander to desist—on his continuing, how- taken Howar o d ff to ti c i r e k no n te o a tir t of e rt. W h p aint non off the iron work, poor has recently been received with some favour. It ever, he was told to consider himself under arrest, and aid the steam arose as it would from a copper. is proposed that paupers, instead of being immured in this prosecution was promoted. The malt is, that Mr. Pettigrew, surgeon to the workhouse, said that be a building in Edinburgh, where they are totally on- Lieut. Maynard is placed at the bottom of the list of never heard of any complaint being made against any of the productive, should be loc,ated in the neighbourhood lieutenants, and dismissed his ship (Bellerophon). nurses in the ward. The immediate came of death was waste grounds, and be made to labour at their i hatution from the bed sores. He had known of similar • The admiral started this morning for Paestum. (e r in the la h s 'tali. Suppaing that every word the mation. Another employment that has been 1 .. The Antelope, therefore, leaves fax Malta to-morrow Born 110:1 stated were true , they would convey to his geeted for them is the supplying of pests or to . 1 . .N, . or the next day. Five per Cents., 131! on the 23rd Jan. mind a notion that t he death was hastened by the neglect of from some of the numerous mosses in th e Tic . - ( • tatik,.l2 DEATH Ow Lttyr.-Cototsms, VAUGHAN JACKSON.—The Limerick Chronicle of Wednesday contains the following:— " With profound regret we have to announce the death of Lieutenant-Colonel George V. Jackson, D.L.,:of Carramore, Mayo, Inspector of Ennis union, at Carmody's Hotel, in that town, where he yesterday evening fe'l a victim to typhus fever, after a short illness. Captain Cronyn, his predecessor in office, died also offerer last October. Colonel Jackson, of the Carabir.earr, came down to attend the sick bed of his nephew, Lieutenant-Colonel Jackson. The flub/ n Even ing Post adds :—" Colonel Jackson had been tit+ chairman of the Swint ford Beard of Guardian., and during the terrible famine in Mayo had been distinguished for his active bene volence or. b:half of the poor." SCOTLAND. 47- 1- +Ol .;;;~►