The Express. — London, England, 1846-12-21 00:00:00

THEATRE -ROYAL ADELPHI. - MONDAY, TUESDAY, and WED :ESDAY.—WooderrniSeenie Effects in Fairy Speetade of THE iIIANTOSt DANCERS; or. The Will.' Bride. Giallo. Madame CM...M.—With THE MAID WITH THE MIIWING PAIL Milly, Ni . Manilli.m.—And POWDER AND BAO L SATURDAY NEXT wi - be maimed a New Grand Romantic Drama, allied COLUMBA, 'a HE CORSICAN SISTER; or, The Twelfth of August. DOYAL OLYMPIt JTHEATRE. For the BENEFIT or Mr. WALDRON. THIS EVENING (Monday, . II), Shalapere's Tragedy ..f MACIIF.TII, the port of Macbeth by Mr. Gregory. After which, SS :NESTER DAGGERWOOD, in which Mr. Ramsey will gin= his ode' :lied Imitations. A ..vue from Mau. ringer's "Roman Actor ;" Par :, the Roman Actor, Mr. Waldron. To oanclude with TIIE RENT I) \Y. StAilS, 35.; Boxes, 2:4.; Pit, Is; Gallery, Cd. Tickets may be hsh and Private Boxes taken, of Mr. Waldron, 16, New-street, Co Att-gurden, and I, ralisbury-street, Strand. Nitt C/P4OO. D: AILS. The overland closed malls, '46 Marscillft% to the 3laliterranean, Egypt, Aden, Ceytn, India, Ilea r Kong, 54c.., will be made un on ino evening of the 2 Ith December. The mail-, fur Vigo, Oporto, Llsbon, Madeira, Cadiz, and Gibraltar, will be made up on the mornlnv of th , ith December. The mail.. for New South Waaw, Van Diemen 'a Land, and New Zealand will be made up on the e enin,g of the 3lst December. The. West India maibi, Mehl '!ng thew for M Honduras, and the Havannih, will be made To. on the morning of the 2nd January, The overbill mails for Malta, Greece, thr! lonian ',lands, Aden, Ceylon, India, Boa 4 -Kong, and Mina, via Soutnampton, Egypt,r made up on the evening the 2d January. The malls fur Britßh North \ Meric.4 Beraiuda, and the Unltod State, will be made up on the ,eniag of the 4th .imuary. The mall. nn• the Brazil., 0.. River l'iate, Moate %deo, Pernam buco, Bahia, Maleira, Ayres, will be dispatched on the evening of the 4th January. TO CORR :SPONDENTS, •,,* Advertisement; intended 1J evening pap: r, count be at the Odle, by Two lock on the day of publication. Wc cunnut notice, in any way, y communication taut sent to ti anonymoteily ; but thou who 1 JUL." u; in confidence will And their oonfidence reepectei! ;I.:MUER CAN WE UNDERTAKE TO REV.. RN ANY MANUS( .IPTS WILATEVER. MGR WATER LONDON-BRIDGE. TM% PAT. —slorning, :24 min. mot 3; After. wn, 51 min. pfd 3. To-Moitinw—Yorninir, 15 min. p.m 4; Afternoon. 59 min. isnot 4. LONDON, MONDAY, DEC. 21. IT is difficult to recall this go-a-head age to a serious retrospect of the laolitical personages and ideas which preceded it. Our r - aam progress has left histm y very far behind. And did not one or two names in our obituary almost forcibly compel a that to the last century, one might almost forget that there had been a political past. Where are the PITT clubs? Where the celebration :f Fox's anniversary ? The "Man of the People" and "the Pilot who weathered the storm " have gone arn-in-arm to Ilades, clean out of our every-day recolleclions. There was one GRENVILLF: left, who held on with the family tenacity for life and power; and his disap paarance reminds one of the age to which he ',clanged. Nor are the (iRENVILLIIS, the bye gone ones, bad samples of that age, and of the mode in which fortunes ant eminence were achieved, and a family raised to the highest pitch of power. With that quantum of birth and fortune still necessary, and then still more ir), fur any superstructure of poli tical greatness to be built upon, the GRENVILLES made such chosen seed to trerminata an hundred-fold. The absorption of heiress after heiress filled the coffer'', the acquirement of parliamentary influence and official place augmented the importance, of the family. When its chief might mt aspire to first place himself, he was sure to become closely allied to him that did ; and though the highest throne of office could seldom be filled by a OREN VIL! E, there were always three or four of the name upon the steps. With never any of them of first-rate talent, all of them had improved the average quantity which all possessed, by the utmost c iltivation, assiduity, by skillfulness of conduct and gravity f demeanor. The most frantic and foolish of political measures, the American Stamp Act, may be traced to GEORGE. GRENVILLE. Yet he contrived to shirt the odium to other shoulders, and, from JuNtirs to BURKE, cvery orator and writer, who had a tribute of applause worth bestowing, did bestow it at his shrine. This statesman becreathed political eminence, and his care political ii traction and capacity to his sons, the late Lord ( RENVILLE, and the Honourable THOMAS GRENVILLE, just deceased at the age of 91. Lord GRENVILLE, notwithstanding the higher honours bestowed ap ni his uncle, continued the poli tical head of the fam ; and ho gaidcel it in a juste milieu course, veering to the right or left, just as the vane of, not popular, but public opinion, varied and pointed. At first all liberel with Fox, ho soon became half liberal and anti-libe al with BURKE, continuing with PITT, until misfortui,e and infatuation seemed to mark that statesman's car-er. Warned by such example, Lord GRENVILLE withdrew, and threw once more the mantle of the Liberal patriot round his shoulders, pro claiming with pre,.hetic eloquence those truths and principles especialli relative to Catholic Emancipation and toe Corn-laws, destined to triumph a quarter of a century later. This noble decline shed more lustre on the GRENVILLE name than all its records of office and of title, or then the apparently more buccessful tacking of an aristocratic family policy. It is idle to rail at the present day against aristo cratic influence, that influence being now just so much as, and no more that, the English democracy pleases to leave to it. Nor it .his influence likely to be less lust ing, because founds .1 upon voluntaryhomage. There is, however, one part of aristocratic influence not merely on the wane, but i lean perished. This is the influence of such potent i'amilies as flourished in the last century, and whic't forms, indeed, the peculiar feature of English politics in that century. Parties no longer hold together by the tics of blood, nor can ministries be formed to f10..t, like rafts, tied together by such frail ligaments el the branches of the trunks them selves. Office and connexion will not alone achieve great ness in our day. And yet political eminence has not been found more attainable by the politician who springs from the crowd, than it was in the days of the RI:REES and GRENVILLES. We still see the gentry and the aristocracy fill as great a proportion of influential wits, no longer indeed from the privi leges of birth, but from the monopoly of political education, of family traditions and oral know ledge which is scarcely attainable, except in very rare instances, by cue new man, or in one generation. Independent of the arcane of politics, immense and important in all countries, and especially in England. the mere study of politics has grown into a field and a study so minim:lse, that few can divide themselves be tween the tasks of amassing a fair private fortune and attaining a high public character, so that those wha in herit the one have just as great advantage over the poorer competitor, as birth in the last generation gave over the low-born. If we glance at the private histories and public fortunes of men who from the middle ranks of life have arrived at political eminence, we cannot boast that the Reform Bill has afforded more Eseilities for popular talent. Look at the very first of the popular political geniuses of the age, Mr. COBDEN. The probabi lity is, that his genie prunesautier would have rendered him as eminent in the last age as in this. Ills labours in attaining that eminence would in the last century 'have been far less ' • and his self-sacrifices far less pre cious and c:atly. In this time ItICiIARD COBDEN has sacrificed health and fortune to the greatest of popular causes. And a public subscription, which will do little more than pay the debts which he generously in curred in that cause, lingers and awaits, like NELsoN's column, at hilst the votaries of his greatness grudge and withhold tho shillings necessary to complete the miserable and unworthy monument. But in expatiating upon COBDEN, we have lost sight of the GRENVILLES. 1n this too we may lay a fair claim to fulfil the great newspaper function of repre senting the feeling of the public. THE dinner given by Mr. HUDSON, at York on the commencement of his mayoralty was, as became the occasion, a railway dinner. The London guests, as stat a by Lord GEORGE BENTINCK, after having break( wted in London by daylight, were whirled to York by daylight " for a less sum of money than years ago it would have cost to pay the post boys and the ti xnpike tolls on the road." And after dinner the festii 2 part) of the Mayor of York had their healths drunk by au equally festive party of the Mayor of Newnistle, receiving an intimation of the honor done them by the electric telegraph, and returned the com pliment, despatching a message to that effect by ano thei ministering " streak of lightning." It was natural that an entertainment given by Mr. HUDSON, and at which, owing to the presence of gentlemen of all shades of politics, political questions were kept in the background, these marvels of modern inventiveness should supply their place. The promi nent and influential part taken by that gentleman in the development of our railway finance was enough to give a railway tone to the proceedings. And on this occasion he was supported by GFA3ROE STEPIIEN SON, whose genius gave our first passenger railway its first lecorcotivi 8, and by his son, whose inventive and persevering energy has done so much to per fect the system of r ail way construction and locomo tion. . _ . The effect of this triumph of railways was different upon different minds. Combined with the late more than railway rapidity of political changes, it appears to have altogether dislocated the ideas of Mr. It. P. MILK E. "Ho had given up politics," he said, "or rather politics had given up him. During the last twelve months kis political senses had all been knocked out of him. When asked what he thought of things, his answer was, he could not tell--ho would leave them to guess for themselves—he might as well prog nosticate the seasons as speculate upon politics, inca pacitated as he felt himself." The constitution of Lord GEORGE BENTINCK, on the contrary, toughened it may be by athletic exer cises, stowd better the dizzying influence of the rapid transit from London, and the yet more vertiginous effect of the confidential whispers between York and Newcastle. Nay, if we may take so great a liberty with one who Fmbraced the opportunity to pro claim himself " leader of the House of Com mons," the vibration seems to have stimulated unwonted powers of thought in his brain. At least, we cannot recall any occasion, upon which his lordship uttared consecutively so many sen tences of unquestionable good sense. lie dwelt with emphasis on the fact that the citizens of York, " where they once paid 16s. 6d. per ton for their coals, now pay Gs. 6d. ;" that the farmer has his " corn carried to market fir him at 4s. to ss. per quarter less than before ;" that " profit is the aliment, the vu-y breath of enterprise and commerce ;" and that " deny to commerce her just profit, and few years will elapse befiire the enterprise of England will subside, and instead of being at the head, we shall be at the tail of all the nations of the world." Spoke like a leaguer, my lord. Yon have pointed out reductions in the expenditure of the rural districts fur fuel, and diminished cost in bringing agricultural produce to market, that may, of themselves, enable our farmers to face any competition ; and you have proclaimed the great truth, that the might of England will be paralysed, unless we leave our merchants free to make just profits. When Lord dialiN Ilussett, in his letter to the electors of London, pointed out the subjects of educa tion, sanitary regulation, and the penal system, as the most important matters of future government action, he was propounding substantially a new theory of government. Under these three heads may be classed all forms of state intervention which affect the character of a people, as distinct from and lying at the bottom of all social and political action. Hitherto the executive has confined itself rather to the regulation and control of the effects, than to the shaping of the cause; to the trimming, and pruning, and restraining of the branches and their burden, than to the nurture and preparation of the root. We have official assurance that in one of these three subjects, sanatory regulation, it is the intention of government to act at once and cirectuelly. The materials for the work are prepared. Since 1838 the subject has been investigated more completely and by more competent persons, than generally fall to the lot of parliamentary inquiries. The evils are obvious, their causes pater.t, their remedies within our reach, at the expense of combatting, satisfying, or setting aside certain not unimportant private interests. In education, the government has a work to do as urgent, but not so easy. The country has already, with partial aid from the Legislature, exerted itself to educate. The imperfect machinery which religious zeal, or intelligent philanthropy, has already set in motion, cannot be suddenly or rudely stopped. It re quires more caution and thought to accommodate to the present rude apparatus the improvements of a wider and wiser invention, than it would to construct an entirely new engine, and set it to work promptly by an exercise of central power, as was done in France and Prussia. There can be little question that exist ing means must be incorporated in any scheme of government educational action. There are opposing forces to be considered and conciliated, narrow views to be extended, animosities to be softened, fears to be soothed away if possible, or, if that may not be, to be firmly and quietly disregarded. It would be premature to ask front the executive any expression of their intentions a:: to education at present. Any intima tion of more than an earnest attention to the subject, and a determination to deal with it, would do more harm than good. It is certain that asmuch has been done by the inspectors of the committee of council, sufficient information of what has been done, is doing, and should be done, is not yet in the hands of the government. The third head of the programme, our penal system, is the necessary complement of the other two. It involves, for the most abandoned and most neglected class, the same sort of action as education and sanitary law together will exert on the poor and honest. The gaol, or whatever answers to it, may, and should, be the school and home of the criminal as well as his workshop and place of punishment. In this department, as in all others, all our pre vious appliances have been directed to effects, not causes. We have taken the crime per petrated, to visit it with the vengeance of society, rather than the evil germ, to purify and turn it to good for society's future benefit. By our neglect of education and sanitary restraint, with a commerce unrivalled for extent, a fertile and highly cultivated soil, great practical energy, and enormous political power, we have a population suffering under the worst effects of ignorance, and towns whose squa lor and festering uncleanness cannot be exceeded in the lowest community of the lowest beings who wear human form. So with a vigilant, well-admi nistered, and long-standing legal system, the penal part of which finds in society a ready agency in aid of law, we exhibit an appalling annual list of crimes, and a miserably small offset of reformations. Not one in a hundred of those who start with crime amongst us, end other than they began. The nurture of the streets is aggravated in the prison, and matured in the hulks, or exhibits itself in forms of demoniacal horror in the penal settlement. This is the mischief, for the remedy of which govern ment is pledged to do something. The first-fruita of their intention are already given to the public in. the alteration of our system of convict transportation. This reform directs itself, however, to the •adult offender. We may by it avert some of the more monstrous evils of our previous arrangements, I jut we cannot hope that it will materially dimiuish the amou nt of crime, or induce ang but a partial improv ementin the condition and habits of the criminal c sass. To effect these larger objects we must begin 10' ser. We must deal with the spawn of vice• ands dlany on a principle wholly diferent from any hither to acted on. The most effectual change in the penal system, for society, both morally and economical.) y, will be one which takes the culprit in his fast stage. In the juvenile offender the penal reforme r recognises the fairest subject for his experiment& This matter has been brought before the public last week, by Mr. M. D. lima., the Reevrder of Birmingham, at a meeting of the Law Amendment Society. His theory rests on the fact, that in the long ran it is less expensive to reform than to pro secute. It is a great thing, in this country, to enlist interest measured by money, on the side of sense and humanity. Once convince people that this is really so, and it becomes a duty to spare tax-payers and rate-payers the expense of prisons by the establishment of reforma tories. It is trite that as Christiana this is a duty almost too obvious for enforcement. But prove that it lies upon us, as men of business, and you are likely to win a hearing and effect a change. A plan has been tried for five years past, at Bir mingham, of binding young offenders to masters, when these can be found to receive apprentices from the dock, instead of committing them to prison. The I I number of such apprentices, up to last Michaelmas, was' 113. Of these, 40 had returned tolled courses; 29 were, doubtful; and 41 had been entirely reformed ; " their reform baying stood the test of time." Mr. Hr:a., without going into detail, declares his object to F, e th e establishment of the principle, " that a pers• - m , once rightfully imprisoned, should not be suffere' e to go at large again till he shall have become thoroughly reformed." We doubt the feasibility eif this, and the possibility of testing it; nor do stie consider the state bound to find that morality for the condemned, which it certainly cannot hope to secure to those who never enter a court of justice. But the thing should be tried. We do not at all agree with Mr. Ilitt in thinking that refr;rm of the culprit should be even the THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 21;'1841 first object of prison discipline. But it is certainly the second, and is well worthy, in both a moral and a financial point of view, that pains, and expense, and intelligence should be bestowed upon it. WE were fortunate enough to be able to publish on Saturday an outline of the important Itiv^‘".tr::s to b e umeduced into parliament, as remedies, and amendments of temtdics, for Irish distress. Govern ment, it seems, lost no time in making known its principal intentions. They were conveyed in an official letter front the Treasury, tlated the 15th inst., and addressed to the Commissioners of Public Works. This important document will be found in another column, taken from the Dublin ministerial journal, and it completely corroborates the information already conveyed to our readers. It communicates the intention of the government to comply with the request made by so many Irish gentlemen, by Mr. MORE O'FEaR.tLL, and by Mr. SMITH O'BRIEN, in his letter of December 1, to allow permanent improvements to be undertaken by the proprietors and tenants for life of estates on the prin ciples of the Drainage Act. The nature of the born is fully explained in Mr. TREVELTAN'S letter. Its pro bable result cannot be better conveyed than in the words of Mr. SMITH O'BRIEN. If duo facilities were to be afforded for the practical adop tion of these enactments, there can be no doubt that a very large amount of capital woul I be borrowed for the reclama tion of land. A corresponding impulse would be given to the employment of reproductive labour, there would be no officious interference on the pare of the state with the exc., cutien of the details of work , the T.rmanent interests o' tenants as well as of landlords would be promoted, the future supply of feud would be augmented, taxation for the relief of Use pour would be diminished, the labouring popu lation would not be demoralised by a system of pauper work, the general wealth of the country would be increased, and, s onimucntly, the revenue of the state would receive a COrre spending increase." The comrolilation of the Drainage Acts, which we already stated as about to take place, lowers the in terest to be levied on loans for such purposes from five to four per cent. In return fir these boons, government claims, and will give itset.' by enactment, the power to sell such estates as shall be two instalments in arrear ; and at the same tioe breaks the bJnds which tie up entailed property, and prevent its sale. How fully these must ok •erate, not only for the security of the moneys advt, need, but for the reformation of landed property and landed proprietorship in that country, it is needless t, a attempt to demonstrate. so that the union of the party of constitutional Monarchists may be completed ; and, provided this party be faithful to its principles, a strong and re spected government will be formed, which will correct existing abuses, maintain the public tran quillity, and develop° the institutions. El Clamor Public° annsunces a horrible attempt of the Cabralists in Poitagal, such as, if proved authentic, is a disgrace to the age in which we lire. It is said thit tLis party, net being able to quell the insurrection by arms, rcsol:ed todo so by the perr petration of a frightful crim ". Secret agynts wee se nt to the head quarters of ;)as Antos, with the mission to fire the magazine s, and poison the troops. Happily, Das Antas discovered the Proi(ct in suf ficient time to save h i s unha ppy soh;iers, to Ay:tom 5,000 rations of poisoned b r ea d had alreat:v been dis tributed. mAinuo, Dsc.ll.—Three per Cents., 311 ; Four per Centa 21 ; Five per Cents., 211; l'asbivm, 61; Coup.sis, 11.11.—Ezeban:te 00 Loudon, 361. ITALY.—The demonstrations which have taken place in the early pert of the present month at Leghorn, at Florer,ee, at Sienna, at Ma, and throughout all Tu.,cany, prove that the national spirit is daily developing itself. Too celebration of the hundredth anniversary of the expulsion of the Austrians from Genoa, wets the cause of these demon strations. Fires were lit on the different heights of the Apennines, balloons with the national colours ascended from the different villas, young men paraded the streets, crying, " Long live national independence!" " Death to the Austrians." A proclamation, clandestinely printed, was posted upon the walk. After reminding the itallane that it was on the sth l)ee. 1746, that the people of Genoa gave the signal for rising against the Austrian troops, which devas tated the country and insulted Italian liberty and indepen dence, and after saying "that for a hundred years l•aly has been eagerly awaiting the hour to extend the triumph of the Genoese to the plains of Lombardy, to drive their foreign deminaton beyond the Alps," the proclamation ends as !allows: " Itahans ! a vietery similar to that carried Ly the valorous Genoese may be renewed. But to-day let us weep to gether—let us weep, old and young, people and nobles of every faction, of every province ! Let us weep that we are obliged with suppressed voice, and arms weighed down with chain', to celebrate the hundredth anniversary of FO noble an act. Iday our pious tears engender in every heart the sacred germs of hope, and a courage equal to the sacred duty of regaining our independence." The Tuscan anthuriths were on the alert the whole night of the 6th and 6th; the police tore down the proclamation from the walls, and sevent, en persons were arrested. The greater number were, however, set at lib:rty oar the following day, us it was feared that the public exeitement might give rise to some serious disorder. In the Romagna the enthusiasm was equally greet. At Forli, at Rimini, at Ravenna, fireworks were let off, the houses illuminated, and " death to the strangers " shouted through the streets. DENMARK, DEC. 12.—The abolition or reduction of the import duty on earn, groats, and flour, which we lately communicated as a project of law nreseuted to the Estates of Jutland, has been proclaimed by a royal ordi nance of the 9th of this and extended also to the duch:es. On Friday and Sttards, v last the Cracow affair continued to engross almost a s much of the attention of the public and the press in . Paris as if that subject I had not been long since exhaust ed. Tile text of the discussion at present is the rtrti,t. .! which recently ap peared in the A aSeri ., lll Obsereer, and which must be regarded as an official apology for the proceeding of the three powers. It is said that the French Ambas sador. at Vienna, Count Flahault, is to. be immediately recalled and sent to London, and M. Wesson to be transferred from Madrid to Vienna. '1 be object of this manceuvre being at once to offer aat rt of satis faction to England for the trick of the mar. -loges, and to put forth a semblance of disr4casure at 1 .ot being forewarned of the approaching confiscation of CI3.COW. We give this report as it is current wii !tout at 'Y Ps rantee for its authenticity. The Epoque, of Saturday, fully confirms th filet announced in the Paris correspondence of the Er press relative to the recall of M. Barbet de St. 'llY, French consul at the Mauritius. The article which appeared in the E.rprcas of 1 the 14th on the rupture between France and Englant 1 is quoted at length, and commented on by several of 1 1 the Paris journals. 1 JANIAICA. Considerable disturbances continue to take place Sir C. Grey had not arrived when the packet sailed, among the working classes in different parts of at at was not expected to leave Barbadnes before the end of France, on account of the dearness of provisi ons . the • present year. 'The House of A . '9Clll bly met on the 17th For the last ten days at Lyons all business has been o f a N i t i ve s tlbc , r t J e er dispatch . o f f oe b r u n s o irs o s t , o 'l i elle ,,, clorts o I S pro- I suspended. The silk-dyers deserted their workshops, part ce ` 01 5 th3 pr,ceedings ithe 19th. A committ ee nuts give and their example was speedily followed by tanners, ippej; ated to consider the petition from St. Ann's parish re carpenters, and other trades. The ostensitle cause of lative to the sugar duties and the general state of the Wand. the strike is the dearness of provisions. The combina- It was understood that all the petitions from the agricultural tion demands shorter time, a minimum of four frantic distriet t. i , would ee wos be tetrerdeftlo to eon t s h b i l s cr e th m e mi p t e ! r - i f sPec t i V a day of wages, the limitation of the number is co s m re n f i s l ac , is of Kingston . al The reasons ' for . this step lu we 7 re l'l thus e of apprentices to one for every . ten journeymen, and dated by Mr. Sanguinetti: to prevent employers front giving a preference to uit ssc: v true what he had heard from very good euthorite. that a some workmen over others. - ..ealthy Sp int.:rd had arrived in Kingston with ten thocieued pomade in gold, for • the purpose of purchasing good, for a foreign ruerhet, A serious disorder broke out on the 15th amor.g and he cote d Only procure four thousand rounds worth, consequ ants the workmen employed to repair the ravages of the 112 to earn : . ,, i waY sitxuramu-tyir to lit necessit...lhet,:teee to Pereheee ti teerm ah , flood. A body of 1,000 struck, in consequence of reatrietione upon imports e4 meet he obsloue. liii6 a t l . tc- in ra l 7171g i nE t li; being paid by task-work, instead of by day-worlf. the depot fr. r the whole of the trade in three seas. Thee uncle was They assembled armed with their tools, cut off tl e now gone. " 3 a l i l Wa' n"c'esuY• i f P°'" ibl e' t"-.'M'abli'k it' tor. nei to the agneultaral interests of duo country, her crenumenal communications, broke the waggons, trucks, and interests suer e the meet important. other machineries, and finally destroyed the tools Several r aentbee, however, reminded the house that no themselves. It was only by the intervention . if final action mould be resolved on till the British Possessions' i the troops that this entente was quelled. Bill was bef sea the house. Mr. Porteous said : Bread-riots, in which attempts were made to forte .rlat,t.h.:WltwverstlarcistOtitil:Ltate all, :aars'lno`alesrsidtsiin°,t'Vao„iras'ili the bakers to sell at a rate lower than the market Kasston to Von , of St. That: Ida. floweN•er /hirable such a mea price have taken place at Blois and elsewhere. sure might lx .4 wreell be bar useable for them to do so raw; halides, he was eatise ad slat on the r arival of tit: new governor the house The National was ',seized by the police on Friday. would receive a .coneetuniem. ion re-Teethe , the Brinell Pone/eons The editor professes to be ignorant of the cause of th:s aili , br whle.e r the eall , renl: al dulie B I , g; 4 ow`hed. Kiugmin will in a great nwasure 1 memo ed. At pa w s all the Swiss, Gorman, measure. an'lnthee foreign goods are ! ricked up in the bonded warehouses, and The visit of Rothschild to London continues to be the mercies' cyst ARIA . cannot POO them; theerthe those who reported as having a political object. Some of the 't 4,7 to .!!.! ,, r, ease Wafer St. Thomas's, wilkh re u fre. port, :mile/here ri Jana to Pat' o c to not exist. That evil Kingston will be journals say that he is officially commissioned to corn- relieved of. manic:ate with Lord Palmerston on the rupture of On the motion of 'NI r. Barclay, a message was sent to the the entente cordiale. This statement folds believers in Lieut. Go serner„ re qi Jesting him to communicate to the Paris. Home Gosernms.at I ,hi at the house is no longer in a condition Long conferences took place daily lust week at the to w, taLfo i r Good s irr.ce m i g ration . Some difference of opinion Tuileries between Louis Philippe, the tiling of seemed P arce ,l ;ta, . '.o. s 'n t e h e e t - e al e u i e de u e f ti C on oa . li f e t ' i l t a e bo st u t r ; lagar dtutialesl the Belgians, and M. Guizot, at which copies of'all the expease of fir _porting free immigrants from India could the despatches connected with the Spanish marriages not be tome. M. :. Barclay stated that " the Asiatic labourers were communicated to the King of the Belgians, and i•ost 15/. each P .: bring them here, and it would cost 71., at it is understood that the latter has been pat in l a e b a L t l " a l . to tal': them back ; whereas the Africans only cost , possession of all the information aectmsaty to enable take them ba e k.' t ug them here, and there was no expense to The house went into committee on the him to act the part of a mediator between the Courts state of the ' Aland on the 10th. A genes of resolutions were of the Tuileries and St. James's. moral by' It. Barclay. They are not reported, but their M. Mendizabol and Olaaaga Laft Paris for Madrid tenor MP: i be inferred from the remarks of Mr. Edward on Saturday, the latter having been returned for fou r Thum n, with whose speech the report breaks off. That gentle ,ps 0 P an spoke strongly against the Sugar Duties Act, and places. agate ... the West Indians who supported it, but confessed The weather in France continues. to he severe. that !" 1' ts policy could not be reversed : The navigation of the Loire is stopped by ice. 1 mu :d procure labour , and were allowed the full benefit oil The Northern Railway Company have introduced ft, 1.. r tra he le c , ° th l e ' er ruin May he ileettellr If the British government heaters. of hot water into the first-clias carriages. "ally desired to sup d ress the slave trade, that object might be mum pliehed, and a benefit and set of justice at the same time done to the OR. Friday and Saturday ale tin were seen on the • . colonies. If, instead of keeping large fleets on the meet of Afnca, Boulevards and Champs Elyaees at Paris. they were to employ those vessels at a much lees expense in La Web iug free labourers to the colonies, they would take a most effectual pears, Dee. 19.—Three per Cents. 81; Five per Cents., 11l I mo an Five r Cern,. 1;&40, 101 , ' Rom. y z ,.., 1,/ ; T ees , 0; step to enable us to compete with slave countries, and to check 8 .,e,. el ; Bank sh wa , kw. E. , !. ... A .,,, - .Th n d ffii, 3 , , wry the slave trade. Again, if they got an additional supply . of Jam free labour, and they should also demand the free admis ra 43; ditto, 90 days. :5 as. sion of colonial sugar and molasses in the breweries and menu. Peas, Dec. 19.--Paris and Orlesine, 1267 50; Paris and . factories of Great Britain, and an equalisation of the duties on 913 73; Rouen and Havre, 670; Avignon &nu Marseille% '''"`"' British and t',lonial spit • ' ota, it was well known that at present the Strasburg and Bide, 218 75; Centre Vierem, 61d; Are 891 25 ; duty on colonial spirits • high as to amount almost to a is so Boulogne, 410; Bonleaux, 565; North, 653 75; Paris ague and prohibition, and the consequence 'et that there is scarcely any rum burg, 488 75 ; Toure and Nantes, 497 a 0 ; Paris and Lye Btu ' consumed in Scotland, and none in IreleruL Then, again, if sugar Dieppe and Reamp, 3eo. A 6. "' " , was freely admitted into the manufactories, not only would it be used in the breweries, but it would be applied to other purposes in other manufactories, and the increased demand sud consumption would keep up the price. Ile thought if this were &tic, we would yet be able to keep up onr cultivation. Ile be lieved that yet there would be a further reduction of the dory ney allow— ler helium that reduction win be made upon colonial Pagers alone, time will show; but he considered that the unanimous voice of the country ought to be raised to urge upon the government the absolute justice of the demand. They must Crow the government and the people of England that they have heavy burthens on them, and that untrue they give us that aid which we are justly entitled to, it will be impossible for us to continue to exist ass produc ing colony. It is by the carrying out of the principles of free-trade to their full extent, as he had pointed out, that they could alone expect relief. They must go with the current—it was of no usc to hope that the government would retrace their steps—it is utterly impassible for them to re-ertalcslt the differential duties on sugar ; but still we must not nit down in apathy. The parish meetings continued, hut their importance has diminished since the session of the legislature commenced. The House of Assembly must now be looked to as the organ of public opinion in Jamaica. The ship Indus arrived at Port Royal on the 17th Nov., from St. Helms, with 310 emancipated Africans captured be H.M.'s brig Water Witch, on the coast of Africa. The Indies was chartered, on behalf of this colony (Jamaica), to bring the Africans hither as free emigrants. Capt. G. S. Reddon, of the schooner Joseph Howe, was apprehended at Jamaica, on a charge of murdering the mate of his vessel, between St. Domingo and Jamaica. A singular disease has existed amongst the Jamaica cocom for two years past. The leaves appear green and healthy to the eye, but on opening the cocoa it proves rotten and unsound. This disease prevails, and is extending in St. George's and Portland. The paucity of arrivals has bettered the position of our market, by cousin,; a proportionate advance in the crier of most articles, arcriel ing to their scarcity. The stock of flour, meal, hams, breed., Ameri can candles, cheese, lard, butter, cod oil, and alewives, is bemusing light, whilst the de:nand eminence active. Expour4.Sugar has brought from Ills. 6d. to 28s. per 1001bs. Rum is looking up; 50 puncheons have been parted with at is. ii. per gallon. Small parcels command 4a. 3d. for ordinary description=, and is. Gd. for best sorls.—De C,ondona'al .1/email/its Lc fetieencer. Nov. 20. WEST INDIA MAIL. SOUTUAMPTON, DEC. 20. The West India steamer Forth, Captain Chapman, arrived this morning. Her dates are—Demerara, November 19; Tobago, 20th ; Grenada, 26th; St. Vin cent, 26th; St. Lucia, 27th; Martinique, 27th; Gua deloupe, 27th ; Antigua, 28th; Montserrat, 28th; Nevis, 28th ; St. Kitts, 28th; Tortola, 29th ; St. 'Thomas, 30th; St. Jago de Cuba, 19th; humica, 23rd ; Jaemel, 2,ith ; Porto Rico ' 27th. Hcr cargo conisted of drugs, tobacco, and 12 boxes of specie. The Forth was unable to communicate with Fayal on account of the weather. She was at St. Domingo at the time of the hurrictue at Ilavanna, and exp.: rienced calm and beautiful weather on that day. She touched at Havanna three weeks afterwards, and found the harbour very dangerous on account of the sunken vessels. Buoye arc being laid down to warn vessels from the wrecks. The Madrid mails of the 10th were received in Paris on Friday. The elections were p toceeding. An extraordinary evpipie:i brought the returns to the 12th inclusive, by which it apr i that 103 returns were known, of which ,8 we re reported to be cinder being corn- favourable to the ministry, tli rem with a sprinkling posed principally of Progresststtp , lartinez de la Rosa, of Puritans and Absolutists. . As who had failed at Madrid, w elected by a large majority at, Grenada. MM. Arrazola and Galiano, former ministers, were reLa' lied, as were also MM. . President of Congress, Castro y Orozeo, the last Olozaga and Pacheco. save given above are those l i wa Th ign e 4 ro b po y rt th io e ns min 7t e l serial organ; but it seems pro bable that, from th r , statements of the opposition papers, the results it :e much more favourable to the I opposition. An r .pproaching ministerial crisis is so strongly and Tiar simonsly asserted b - the opposition, and so very hue .1y denied by the ministerial organs, that there is every reason to believe a change will take place. " Zile King Consort and the Infant Enrique are unders' .00d to be hostile to several members of the,Prese„ ll ` c cabinet. im 1 " tow of Saturday states in unqualified terms that fir ,vernment had received on Friday a telegraphic des?. A c h from Bayonne, announcing that Das Antas had been abandoned by his troops, and that Oporto he A submitted. No such despatch, however, is men %toned by the immediate organs of the government. i The Madrid mails of the 11th, 12th, and 13th, were still due in Paris when our correspondent closed his despatches. Since the above was written, and at the moment before closing his despatches, our Paris correspondent received the Madrid mails of the 11th. The elections were still in progress. The Absolut ists, or a large portion, gave their votes to M. Memli zabal, and the I'aritans to M. Cortina. The resignation of M. Pacheco was finally accepted, and officially announced. The Minister of Marine had been recon ciled to the Infant 1)on Enrique. El Espanol says that in the new Cortes parties will take a new attitude. The Cabinet must be changed, - - - DESTRUCTIVE 111.• RR] CA N E AT GRAND CATMAN.—A dreadful hurricane burst upon this islet on the 9th of Octo ber. '1 he sea having risen above the iron-bound coast about midway the island (Savannah), flowed through " Newlands" into the s, a on the other side, forming a kind of rapid entirely impassable in the usual course. The road is upwards of four hundred yards from the sea, notwithstanding which any of our island vessels would have floated in it ! Persons on horseback, with the greatest imaginable risk, swam their horses across the shallowest part of tht stream, while others attempting it on foot, later in the day, were obliged to con tent themselves with passing the night in the insecure refuge of trees, while the angry waters flowed beneath them, threatening at each successive wave, to uproot their frail and temporary temporary shelter. Vessels on the eels wer stocks were we lost. ashed off and carried above the ho uses. Many ye, The cattle suffer from the e ffects of the storm, being destitute of water and grass ; and in a few weeks tune the people must experience a famine. The plantations, considered with tho other loves, will not fall far short of thirty thousand pounds. The subjoined is an extract of a letter addressed to a mercantile house in Kingston , Jamaica, giving a description of the same catastrophe : w I beg to forward you the following account of one of the most awful, drt Lulful, and clisn'e:sing h u rricanes that has ever hamaned at this !shied since the memory of mail. On the itth October last, a tremendous sea set in, with a light breeze from E.N.1.., arwl con tinued till about ten ticeoch, p.m., of the night of tielOtb, when the wind increased, and at 0 o'clock the following morning it blewthe a hurricane. At 2, p.m., same day, the wind suddenly veered to south, and soon utter mere arose one of tae mast tremendous hurri canes that has ever Ix-ea vitae rd by the oldest settlers of tills island. The sca r.rose mountains high, and made one continual break from the troubled ocean to my resilience. The only scene I could witness was completely engulfed and pent up; the public roads each side of me were inundate , ' oral Mica M illi sea s t o nes. My only refuge from danger Was to flee to the top of a muggy cliff, above a quarks of a mile attack my house, that we could not at any other t ime have v entured on. There the sea tidy:fuse:l w ithin twenty fathoms of u s . previous to leaving my house with my (amity, the sea wa s h ed over Its I door, which stood four feet high, bU nut we were obliged to await an opportunity for the sea to subside a little, before we could get out; then we were half in water. Just after WC t wo the cliff the sea ran to its edge, where a va ses of taw tidy tows ld have floated; in !hat dreadful situatimi we were expavd to all weathers, with but a st , , all sail over us. Two of nth children were sick with a severe cold, t h„ caused one of them to be convulsed. There we remained the whole of the night cooped up iu the smoothest spot we could select. The iff..`lt morniug, when the weather abated, I came out to my h., u ,y, _h,:w dreadful was the scene of devaatatiouf The floor h uf ,:t e d oft; ~ a 4 a great many of my effects floated away ; my small s h o p , s -,h c d t ,lstrn with -.chat it contained; my yard filled with sea stones ; every tress as do as I eould see, torn up by their roots; roads 1 n il s l,,p i , e d A ne iv rese ,l I had on the stocks was washed off her Clocks; soother one i n th e h.'rbour, off Spott's island, parted her anchors, drove on shore, mid an. nt to pieces. tosrehooses helcoging to )Ir. Eden, about a mile from ilk '. were destroyed, with their prin cipal contents. Five or sit dwelling 110 . 41, es near the place were lost to the poor families, with their conten. s, also a new vessel buildine, betengir7 to Mr. Tdotuas S. Walter, Mk 'ted off her blocks, and was mire . n.en.. Nine vessels lying in h a rbour of Gccrgetown were lost, cline with rargoeo—three c•f them sank at their anchors, the rest were driven on shore anal broken to pieces; two. however, were bored up, but much injured—one of them w di, a cargo. (shy two survived the hurricane without injury, which ap e cars to be tic: wonderful inter pwition of God in 1 saving us GM or two t i make known our distress ful situation. The loss of property is immense; an the growing provisions are destroyed. The whole island has been thoroughly soaked in &sit voter, the comwquenee of the inundation. May Gni in his infinite mercy send us speedy relief, to prevent us from *gag famished ! hu provisions eau be obtaincsl in the isiaii.l ; numbers of poor families arc wit destitute of houses., food, out rei.neut ; the wells me mule salt, the gram all destroyed. What :na.r or beast will do, God only knows. COLONIAL CANADA.—CorpEtt MINES.—The letter of our Montreal correspondent, which we published on Friday last, alludes to mining companies of Canada. The opening of this new field of enterprise in the colony is opportune, both for it anti the mother country. A new article of export is provided just as Canada is about to encounter competition in our markets oath diminished and diminishing protection ; and an impetus is given to the settlement of its waste lands, just as government is anxiously looking round in search of eligible locations for large bodies cf Irish emigrants. The simultaneousi eceeery of rich deposits of copper in Australia, the United States, and Canada, warns to caution in mining speculations. But caution only is required : the rapid growth of population and msnufacturing industry is a get- rantee of seciety's power to use advantageously largely in creased quantities of that metal. The history and present position of the infant mining enterprise of Canada is bridly as follows. When attention was drawn about a year ago to the rich mineral deposits on the Canadian shores of Lakes Huron and Superior, licenses to explore were in the course of December, 1845, issued by the local authorities. Now regulations were promulgated on the 9th of Iduy, 1846, to the effect that no more should be granted. In the early part of the prescet year Mr. Logan, the provinciel geologist, was despatched to Lake Superior, to make surveys and locations for lieense-holders. Parties, zoo, who had been lucky or favoured enough to get licenses, were early on the spot with a view to select locations. Com panies had been firmed to ex. raise the privileges conferred upon the license-holders, of which the most prominent are the Quebec and Montreal Mining Companies. In reply to an application from the latter, the Colonial Secretary inti mated by letter cn the Bth of October last that the com missioner of crown lands had been instructed to acquaint the license-holders that they will be permitted to work mines under their Helmets, with the option at any time within two years to purchase the location of ten square miles in which they are situated, at the rate of 4s. per acre, payable one-filth part in hand, and the balance in five yearly payments, with interest. Wheu the licenses are all located, the lands on Lakes Superior and Huron are to be thrown open for sale at the minimum price of 4s. per acre, in blocks of ten square miles, on the same terms. On the 7th of November last, a public notice was issued from the crown lands department, , einbodying the substance of a minute in council, adopted on the 2nd, confirming the minute of ith October, with the addition that "each license-hold: r, whose location shall be' designated by the provincial geologist, shall be entitled to a certificate of location from the commissioner of crown lands, upon the payment to that officer of the sum of 1.301. to cover the cost of survey and other contingent expenses." All other applicants for licenses shall be entitled to them on the SalllC conditions as soon as the deputy provincial surveyor I shall have reported the boundaries of tie locations to the', commissioner of crown lands. The suns of 150/. is to be ploeed to the credit of the license-holder as part of his first instalment, and to be forfeited to government, and the land again offered for sale, if payment of the whole instalment is not made good within the two years. All grants are to be made subject to such regulations us may heseniter be enacted by the provincial parliament to ensure the worliing of the mines. it is also intimated in the public notiee that no further reply can he given to applicants on Lake Superior until the receipt of Mr. Logan's report and Mr. Mc Naughtenes return of survey, and that a surveyor will be appointed to lay out the mining lauds on Lake Huron whenever the applicants have complied with the above reauirements. The progress known to hare been made by the Quebec Minieg Company in this state of affairs, is as follows : The exploring expedition left Soult Ste. Marie in the beginning of May, and in the course of a week explored and took possession in terms of the license of a location at Mailuouse, 45 miles north of the falls. The subee• quest discoveries of this body have not been published, but from another of its locations an expe rimental shipment of two cargoes of copper ore has been made. In July hest the discoveries of the company were confirmed to its agents by Mr. Logan, at Fort William. On the 17th or ISth of May the exploring expedition of the Montreal Company left Soult Ste. Marie, under Mr. Forrest Shepherd. The locations explored and acquired on behalf of this body appear to bo principally on the north shores of Lake Superior. The richest is said to be at Nipigen. Sur veys have been made, and interim titles obtained to eighteen' locations, embracing numerous harbour and mill sites, with extensive woods, of spruce, birch, cedar, firs, and pines. Ground has been cleared for gardens and brick-fields; wharves for boats and schooners ; and thirty cabins, houses, and blacksmiths' shops have been erected, with a view to commence operations next spring. Specimens of the ores on the cempany's locations have been analysed by Professor Silliman. Along with the ores, specimens of native copper and native silver, both remarkably fine, were exhibited to the professor. The ores submitted to him were chiefly what are called " grey sulpharets" which are, in fact, the vitreous sulphurct of copper. They are mostly in trap or basalt rocks. The foreign admixtures are iron, iron-lime, silica, and sulphur. The ores yield from 40 to G 3 per cent. of metallic copper, and Professor Silliman thinks they may probably be depended on to work in the large way from 30 to 50. The amount of silver in its metallic state, and amalgamated with the copper, appears to be considerable. A meeting of the company was held at Montreal, on the 16th of November, at which Sir George Simpson presided. The Hon. Mr. Moffat stated in the course of the proceedings : " The trustees had resolved to be no parties directly or indirectly to any influencing of the price of shares. They have never desired to sec the shares rise in price. If the explorations were to turn out unsuccess ful it was right that the original parties to them should bear the loss." tube Court. - - Wininsou, Sum) ay.—The Queen held a Court and Privy Council at three o'clock yesterday afternoon, at the Castle. At the Court Count Schimmelpenninck had an audience of the Queen to present his credentials as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from his Ma jesty the King of the Netherlands. Mr. Mosquera had an audience of the Queen. and presented his credentials as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the Republic of New Granada to this Court. Their Excellencies were respectively introducedbyViscount Palmerston, G.C.8., her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign ' Affairs. The Right Rev. Dr. Short (Bishop of Soder and Man) had an audience of her Majesty in the Royal Closet, and did homage on being translated to the See of St. Asaph. The Right Ron. Sir G. Grey, her Majesty's Principal Secre tary of State for the Home Department, and the Bishop of Norwich, Clerk of the Closet, assisted at the ceremony. The C,ounc • , Privy Council was attended by H.R.H. Prince Albert, the I Marquis of Lansdowne, Lord President; the Earl of Minto, Lord Privy Seal ; Lor.lJ. Russell, First Lord of the Trea sury ; Sir G. Grey, Secretary of State for the Home Depart ment ; Viscount Palmerston, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; Earl Grey, Secretary of State for the Colonies; the Earl of Auckland, First Lord of the Admiralty; Lord Campbell, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster ; and the I Duke of Norfolk, Master of the Horse. At the Council Parliament was ordered to be fur therl prorogued from Tuesday, the 12th January, unto Tuesday, the 19th January, and a proclamation was ordered that Parliament shall on the said 19th January be held and I sit for the de‘patch of business. Mr. C. Greville was the Clerk of the Council in waiting. The Queen gave audience to the Marquis of Lansdowne and Lord J. Russell. Their Excellencies the Netherlands and New Granada Ministers, Lord J. Russell, the Marquis of Lana- downe, Earls Minto, Grey, and Auckland, Viscount Pal merston, Lord Campbell, Sir Geo. Grey, the Bishops of Norwich and St. Asaph, and Mr. C. Greville, arrived at half-past two o'clock at the Castle, from the Slough station, having travelled from town by a special train on the Great Western Railway. A dejeune was served at the Castle to the distinguished circle. After the Privy Council the same illustrious party (with the exception of Viscount Palmerston) left the Castle at ten minutes before live o'clock, for Slough, on their return (by a special train) to town. Vise. Palmerston remained on a visit to her Majesty, and Lad tho honour of joining the royal circle at dinner. Tho unfavourable state of the weather yesterday ra° iily prevented leaving th e Castle. ayn herlt aj a esty e. and Prince tht ht ll° F .a h l i nk s g . amily, morning the Queen and Prince Albe r t t ooi their accustomed early walk. The lion. Cot Anson and Sir J. Burgoyne had interview with the Char.cellor of the Exchequer o situ day at his official residence in Downing -street. Mr. Rue bold had also an interview with the_ right hen. gentleman, The Right Ron. F. Maule had an interview i.4* the ltifht llon. E. Strut on Saturday at the oMee o! Commissioners of Railwa y s in Great George-street. tlu H. F. Berkeley, on M.P. Sat , urday. had also an interview w i t h the rik hon. gentleman TOE MlNlsTßY.—Lord with Lady John Ft wito leaves town this day on a visit to the Queen. Oa Wed nem .: the node Premier and his lady pr teed to Woburn Abbot ' there to pass the Christmas. The Lord Chancellor lean; Park-lane to-morrow or Wedmiday, to juin Lady Cott ea k t i z at Brighton. Viscount Morpeth haves Carlisle R owe. Grosvenor-place, this day, for Castle Howard. Earl s z t Countess Grey proceed on 'Wednesday to Bowood, the seat of the Marquis of Lansdowne. THE RIGHT HON. THOMAS GR&NVILLD We have been favoured from an authentic sew,. with the following biographic details of this muc h term ,— diplomatist. They will be found to correct many lo e , k ,„'" ties which have appeared in a memoir published elsewh e " . Mr. Thos. Grenville, son of the Bight lion. G eorge Ge vine, and second brother to G•erge first Marquis f 0But; , ingharn, received his baptismal name after that of his use. Capt. Thomas Grenville, a gallant seaman, who fen care mending the Defiance, GO, in a distinguished action saaiar • very superior force which he was detached fronale r i Anson% fleet to intercept. Mr. Grenrillo wa3 cleated together with his elder brother, and biz youbger, the late l , Lord Grenville; et Eton, and afterwards at Christ Chan For a few years after leaving college, he wa s i n 0 1 , 1 ; army, having received his first commission, in the flemb in 1774, which he re:igned soon after the death of his o w,' Lord Temple, and entered parliament atout 17ho, the meanwhile, he witnessed two celebrated reehm , titan insurrections. During that of 1779, young f l 6. Grenville, warmly siding with the popillsee, ente re d the Admiralty yard, at the head of Lori Keppee, to besiege the building, in which, twenty-seeen yon after, he sat as first lord. In that of 1760, h e guard as a volunteer to protect the Houses of Perlis. ment against the mob of Lard George Gordon. 8,,, in two years from thence his talents and good quabti, of every sort had gained him so much reputation atl th e political party to which he had attached himself parliament, that see find him selected by y r. F or for the government of India, and, in the ictif, to conduct the negotiations at Paris, match e d •-• diplomatists 110 lam renowned than Franklin es e•„„ part of the United States, and M. de Vermi n , e „, that of France. This conflict of diplomatic sluir not broken off (as erroneously stated in the Times), by e d " unexpected death of M. de Vergennes ; " for Le, ao enip one acquainted with modern histury is IlTare, did not dr till just before the assembly of the :Votes4ks was convened, in 1787. On the contrary—the negotiation was carnet on for several months with that distinguished 'tattle= 17 Mr. Grenville, who returned to England to support th e India Bill and prepare for his more distant destinatim. Tee bill was defeated, and his departure frustrate?, by the di e . missal of the government. In 1791 the great disruption 0 ( the Whig party on the question of French recolutocary politics found Mr. Grenville agreeing iu ciadon with is friends Earl Fitswilliara, Mr. Burke, and air. Windlua, and, with them, upon this Lew q :es' oar. (not theagineha politics, as has been misreprrrenteilj lilt !spouted has self fro a Ms ancient leader, Fox, and prised in ras port of the government of Mr. Pitt and of his broad, Lord Grenville. Upon this reconciliation of political imins with his family, he vacated the Whigborough of Aldborten and was elected for the family borough of Bueltiorelne ; His personal affection for Mr. Fox, and his private Moans with him, remained the same ; and having gone, wi:k lef Grenville, into opposition to Mr. Pin's last ailministrein ou the question of public faith pledged at the Irish Cain is the emancipation of the Roman Catholimbe was nail nand to Mr. Fox in the government of 1805. Oa the dew floe of Nye late E irl Grey to the Fereien (Kee, Mr. Grenville was placed at the head of the Admiralty. Denial his short adminiatration there ho obtained so much rep. tation as to have been afterwards duseribed by no less a en than Lord Vilicent as hawing " carried with him to th Admiralty every quality of a thorough sea-lord, except pre tiality and prejudice.' • We ought to have mentioned Mr. Germ ille's brief its bossy to Berlin, out in 1795, as stated in the Times, bit in 1793. In his voyage the frigate which took him oat was wrecked on the ice at the month of the Elba. He was obliged, with the crew, to save his life by a march of 11 hours up the frozen river, in which no article of property ma saved but the despatches ; whilst many of the crew prided under the hardships of the escape. ills arrivol at Beek we delayed for about 10 days, during which time the obj.eetz of his nuseion were anficijaied and defeated hr the arrival at Berlin of the Abbe Sieyes, despatched thither on the pant, France. Mr. Grenville quitted parliament and public life is 1810, since which time his valuable and industrious khan has hen devoted to literature, benevolence, aid the ele gancies of social retirement, abating nahilic, hoverer, of warm and lively interest in every public qinstion as it arose —forming his opinions upon each, and maintaining them front the judgment-seat of his easy chair with as much clearness of decision, as much warmth of feeling, and soundness and • shrewdness of argument, as when engaged in the debates of a parliament of half a century ago.—Thus dill vt;A verse:- , able and remarkable man, last Thursday, within tourism day same d , uncleo party a t r h t y i hs atn Lord elb:Tt bowls p i I w l I y ' I.t with seat anyhyear. s f a t her ait t h t Georgehol th e n p : a n y a d r h 04 : 2 a t di s h s d s brother-ia-law, the great Lord Chatham. He ors the last surviving member of the fawns " Literary Club," in which he had sat with Burke, with Wisp" with Garrick, and with Reynolds, and to which he was pra• , posed for election by Dr. Johnson, and seconded by Oess: ; Goldsmith. ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF Lill roost Finz.—An inspection of the men arA ladders ing to this very useful society took place on Sawa; as Finshury-circus, by the manager and inspector, Mr. h,s, when the whole appeared to be in a most efficient suite. Indeed, such was the facility with which the ladders were worked by the men iu the lowering with perfect safety of persons from the topmost part of the houses, that it would seem impossible that lam of life could occur where they were, with a man constantly in attendance oa each , into proper operation. There arc twen ty-two of those ladders, stationed in various parts of the metropolis, and so thoroughly acquainted is this man with the full management of the machine, that he can instantly instruct any one present is assist in working it. Many lives have been retied by then men since the establishment of the society, end rewards m given to persons who assist, or give the laddcrmen the ohm THE WAR IN THE CITY PARLIAMENT.—On Sant' day, in the Court of Aldermen, upon the clerk of the Cow: of Common Council attending at the bar, and reading th minutes of the court which was held on Thursday, Kt Alderman Copeland (with some excitement) said, that he had been a member of the Court of Aldermen for 18 yeast and such a course as had been adopted in another place wa unprecedented. He wished that the city would apply to Parlie meat, when it would he proved, that instead of the Court of Aldermen being a degraded body, it was pure; d would be shown that they had not put their bands into the pockets of the city. and ta':en thecity cash.—Mr. Al !emus Wilson : If the Court of Common Council is dissatisfied, lei it apply to the Court of Queen'aßenell for a mandamus. The Court of Aldermen was a Court of Record, and it was the judgmeut seat of the corporation. In 1710 it assumed its ancient rights, and in 1716 the Court of Common Coined confirmed that authority. He begged of the court to recollect, that not only did the government mac all the proceedings that took place during the Commonwealth , but even the proceedings of the Court of Commos Council. They therefore had a precedent to act upon, and he should move, That the Chamber'ain be directed to lay before the sent e " m" return for the last seven years of all sums of money drawn for sie , o court, either for tavern expeires, matauttem madams, and all other amount' not strictly municipal, ands e 5 6 1 . 7, return of all sums drawn upon the Chambsr by order of the Pan s Common Council. Monday is St. Thomas's day, and, if he were Lord. ir% he would not call together another Court of Com m , Council, he would not issue a precept for their election he would let them go to parliament and get a bill mesa?' the Lord Mayor to elect. That would be the only Irlf try who bad the power.—The Recorder trusted that Lord Mayor would not act on such advice. Such a cane would be not only injudicious, but illegal.—Mr. Aldenno Copeland deolared it to be his firm determination to brig the whole matter before parliament, and obtain a legull• five enactment to put an end to the present rebellios, especially from a body which was virtually defunct. motion of Mr. Ald. «ilson was carried uusnmously. of the —Atir Challis and Sidney having defended the procertlisgs Court of Common Council, the court adjourned. TRANSPORTATION.—LETTER FROM CAPTAIN ILI - have seen in the Gardeners Chronie:e of this morning an article said to be quoted from P l a r f paper, in which, when giving an recount of the intentions the government regarding transportation, it is alleged that system of discipline that I propose is to be meddled, beacie it works only by hope and discards the use of fear. 1 ha" not the least odes what may be the intentions of her Majesty's government ou this important subject, nor by wr.r. reasons these intentions nay ba iailuenced.! IBut if you than speak of my suggestions from your own impresslons reed' ing them, I assure you that you entirely misconceive dug tenor. My specific plan is to substitute for sentences meS' mired by time only, sentences to bo measured by tasks, marks representing thesis. Ido not thus wish to work thec by, hope or fear, but by certainty only I desire to say to criminal, " Perform the task allotted law to your officer! and you shall he released as certainly as the debtor is rel. Wei by paying his creditor, or the petty offender by discharging his fine.' And by introducing this new feature into ire management of graver criminals, I feel assured that nothOg will be lost in the warning against offence, while everything, will be gained in thereformation of the gailty. Theeuelesai paper will more fully explain my meaning, and the vao_ell paints of view in which the subject may be regarded. um, sir, yours, &c., A. aLtcoreceente. NOVEL MODE OF REDUCING THE MALT The A professional gentleman, Mr. Leonard, surgeon, of tln . bt • Kent-road, suggests that the burthen of the m alt tax ;nig . be considerably lightened, in as far as private bretrare.. concerned, by substituting the raw barley for th e grain ja st malted state. Mr. Leonard has made several exPrth nell • and has produced a very fair household robeer, by brewing 10 ' , the following proportions : Barley, two and a half bus4eli; lel dii 3 P: U' I `:1 a grt Dal cruil , I of a' s", 6CYC: