The Express. — London, England, 1849-03-08 00:00:00

• The CILAIRSIAN here hammed, and requested that ibis quaker, wriikt "ot enter upon the subject of preactiow. Mr. UM; CALTON would not ague touch upon the Bah. jam II( muse remind the meeting, however, that b a t a um short time would slaps* before they would have an °p reciosity ot watt Meg the conduct of tom gentlemen who motended to be their representatives, whether they were us moot L t them Assam into which lobby they wont ; end a speed:ng an they said " aye " or " no " upon the question Is a few hours to be 'obviated to them, let the tenant &mere of England say " aye " or " so " to them at their s ae appesraum upon the hustings. (Cheers.) He wan sorry as have det.ined the =setae so less • but he Pelt that had been pleading his owe cause, 'that be had been abiding their cause, and above all that he tad been pleading be cause ot the lieslish 'abutter. (Cheers.) With them eboorvatioos he begged to second the resolution. The yanti was then put, and the resolution was agreed Musaaimoaily. gt. a SMITH (Kamp his.) proposed the third neoln gum a pad" to be signed by tbe Admen of thissesethrgen bruit et the seeselsokm be et ease pee oil and preeblut kepi, ' sonweles on Swooning of in,. lOwesll Me weties a std fuller that ate serletim towseesd and Y eamested to prepare me in@ward diem, dam in woodenes sr to Om* seventespewestaltem lie bad always bees a Orem elmeeleCr agL e repeal of lbe malt tax. for it was a ten veLiele be bed long esaaaded as edsezions, cruel, and 'squat—obnoxious is the eras of its - saleeriaa. crud to tie poet toiling sstn, 4;1 u 1 just upon Ile fawn artil the ccennuer when there was a free trade is 6 .4 Lelt_eort. They bad now to consider the beet plan of the repeal of that tea ; and he knew of no plat beitS=ar tut Met of prepsring petitions in every parish to be =BPI to par:iansent either through the assoeistion or rays. sure 11111Mbers. lie was worry to say that in his sleety the npreststatives were vtry lukewarm in their . . . Kr. HILDER (Kent) seconded the resolution, which was then put to the meain4._ and carried unanimously. lb. JEREMIAH SMITH proposed that the petition to he speed to by the strodation should be entrusted to Mr. Ihowto for ir emategien W the Bowe of Commons. and that tea thanks Were doe to that genlitelia he his uniform advocacy of the repeal et the malt ditties. (Cheers ) The preptoOion was carried with aselemation. Mr. FERMIN, M.P. for Beet Busses, then Welly ad dressed the nt-soing. After thimble; them for the eowspli- Meat they had paid him, sad expressing his readiness to pretest it petition, he went on to say that he bad liaised esn!ully to every word which had fallen from Mr. Cobdea spa his modem foe reducing the public stapenditers, sad that there was ealy a way small rallies of that hoe. gantle t ma's speech hem which he dissented. He would not say *at the sp. sob was &IST. ther in accordance with what Mr. o t bl a a might have delivered elsewhere. Of teethe he (Mr. inane) make only of that speech mad* is Ike Howe of Commons. The pieties of the speech with regard to which Its differed from Mr. Cobden was where ha said, " If any glestlestes looks upon free trade es a great experiment Merely, let hi cgo into the lie lobby to me-.4f any m amma eancdees that protection will ever be restored, let hies wee sided my mottos." Now he (Mr. Traria) certainly wits • protectionist. He looked upon free trade as an expo. *neat, sad be entertained no doubt but protection would be mewed. (A laugh) Still. protection or no protection, his eserther a shoed always be directed in oppesitien to the malt tan. (Cheery.) He was not prepared to say whether the engenditure should be reduced to the extent proposed by Mr. Ceiba ; but sere lily he was prepare i to say that ft Meld sad e aid ben dined is a very great extent. If they Wed at the expenditure between the ran 1830 end 1840, they would ti end that taking the avenge et them tea years ft woe about 8,000,0001. a year less than it had been on the *Te mp uses the year 18 1 3—ind really Whig at the question 'shay he did not we any sufficient raison why that peat expenditure wag to bo borne. They should beer a salad also that if the expenditure were to be Mused, sot 10,000,0001., as proposed by Mr. Cobden, but 8,000,0001. only, that would leave plenty of scope for the removal of the malt duty. (Cheers.) It wag quite dear to him that it was neeessery fur the government to adopt one of two sours.. If they wanted - a large revenue, It would be abso lutely neeress3ry to keep up high s prices by the artificial means of increasing the decals medium ;or they moot adept the donative, and having eeided upon contract* the circulating medium, and taking off the duty upon foreign Importations they mut cut down the expenditure. (Cheers.) They could not have a large revenue and low prices —it was mealy oat of the question. Another reason why he voted for Mr. Cobden wee this: when a question affecting vital princi ples came before the House of Commons, he always voted in solordeam with his own opinions ; bet when the question was one of expediency, as he considered that of Mr. Cubden's to have bra. he believed it to be his paramount duty to at. tend to the wishes of his constituents. (Cheers ) And he was happy to say that the vote which be had re seeded upon that occasion had given greet satisfaction to men of all parties in the county which he had the hunter to represent (Cheers.) There was only one other point with regard to which he wished to make an observation. Mr. Lattimore hod spoken of an amendment about to be moved by Mr. Hume to Mr. Dina li's motion. Now, he was sorry that Mr. Hume was going to move that amendment, at least be bad much rather that the hor. gentleman should move it some time hence as a distinct and separate motion, beam, m It was, it would have the effect of diminbhing the amber* in the division which would take plane upon Mr. Diersell's proposition. (Hear, hear.) They dtheld, to a certain extent, always bear in mind what those parliamentary tadice;were. He must also say, that, though he was in meow of reducing the expenditure, and though ft bed been thrown out by Mr. Cobden and Mr. Bright and Mr. Hume that if the government would reduce the expen diture they might take off the melt duty, he was not aware that those cattlemen had over pledged themselves to do so. (A thief "Oh yes, Mr. Cobden hes," cite.) Such might be the case, but he was not aware of it, and he should like to have a distinct pledge from those gentlemen upon the sub- Mr. LATTIMORE.—I am sure they will give it you if yea require it. (Cheers.) Amass Clawruteue.—Mr.Dienseli says nothing shoat it. Mr. FREWEN cootisued. Mr. Disraeli spoke ofthe excise duties, and distinctly pointed out that ono-third of those duties were loakt by the aploalturiats, referring evidently to the malt data+, which produced 4,000,0001. a year out of 12,000,0001. He mast repeat, however, that he should be emseedingly glad to have a pledge from Mr. Hume end these who acted with him that they would advocate the repeal of the malt tax. Be must my that he had his doubts wheels., even amusing the expenditure to be reduced, some ether tax might not be removed, sad the malt tat still left ea. Sue! a thing wee possible, sad he should like to Law • deer and specific ends rtakisc upon the subject. (Hear.) Mr. LATTIMORE said he was sot is a position to answer seasonally for Masers. Cobden, Hams, end Bright, because he had not emsthlted with thongs the point; but he thought that their character for et tforwardbese, honour,' sad integrity was such, both in the owe of Commons and est of it, that it afforded an ample guersatee of their sin- Welty in oporsition to the malt tax. (Hear.) Mr. HOUGHTON begged to date that Mr. Cobdea had held his that he would vote for the repeal of the malt tar. Yr. BACON meld Mr. Cobden had stated to him that if say agriculturist would moth the repeal of the malt end hop duties la the House of Commas., be should be happy to mead the motion, and to do all is kis power to carry It. (Chem.) A vote of thanks was then passed, with acclamation, the Cheirmaa ; and, after a irw observations in ackaowledg- Meat, the nestles broke up. EMPLOYMENT OF THE PEOPLE. Yesterday cassias a Irak& MmiliNg of the trades • Lasko 1119 held at the Hell of Omemmio, 'Why's& issodbutreit, "to take into coasideratlia the dbtromedista• 'hiss of the toadies of the metropolis awl the melting diem prouslly, with a view to paddies peidismint to sae- Boa the establishment of home oblis as this bid mad most aslant mode d p r o, l u ng immediate einglaymmost to the au morose hat c.m of me pagodatima; abo boomider the peopriety of priletig be the le- Milehment of local bowls ottmde." eb illest all was= 110101 by a crowded assembly.—Mr. Lake Jams look the chair in the abeam et Mr. Webby, and stated the Vthe meeting. . of WALTON proposed the bst resolution, to the effect that m Oust Britain sad Indsat sustain satlishist land and capital to employ sal simpagt. =bra Missal i mint and sidital &baths, isimial dams A. armhar n = ▪ populatio• ; tht_ remsmeM,aspgarlid by tits hes blow should ho esned tarn to lam as eat ter the eitablisbassat se aolf.swppartiss bolas adaniss, emir being airdialhead, meauhettelleg. and oduational amusements, he empbytog the promat m=zo i l of the indulging' dam" sad them*, the increase of grim sad pospreism, whisk sow threalias to mertant the whale institudoss of moiety. It was the desire ci the samalatios that thb quediss employment Mould sot be made • question el raw pada, bat that they should main the supplit sad ois-armada Opium, of s 1 mode, who thought it desirabla Mist • MOTS e xtended field of employment should be allarded to the worbing dames. The trades' delegates in Monshider wore tommissioned b ascertain the came asimlitloa of the Modes of that district, and they 11611W011 that It was worse than it had been in baser limas. It wow" that the number of artless and snesheaM Lawton we' 200,000, and one-third was emplayed OS 1, 147.1 i totally inadequate to obtain he themeless sad their Wellies a sufficient supply et the BIKOINIfiIIe Oi lite. Oue-thitd was half employed, sod the remalaing third was obtlitod to eceept relief et the weekhoosa. The milks is to bow the ?se pi a mi g ht be employed might be soloed, the its insmwliato on was at once • the power of the !milldam. All that was required was riot* the combination of the throe primary elemouts of wealth, via., land, skilled labour, and capital. Let Ohs examine bow far they had them valuable elements albumen happiness. bad the authority of Ild'Culloch, Mr Joho Sinclair, skid" and other eminent stadia* that if the lead of Great Britoil; and Ireland was properly 'skivvied, it was capable of sustaining from 120,000,000 to 13 0,000,000 of a population. If that were tree, how came it Pen that such largo manes of the people were in • state of destitution; The cause was that the land was locked up old= the people. They had 22 million acres of wide lands, a tossiderable pontos of which might be made available to give immediate employment. Moreover, they had the statement of the most accredited authorities that 12 the crown lands wee* sold they would fetch upwards of MI millions. They might be made a more pro fi table wino of revenue to the mown by allowing them to be let st • ftk vestal. Then with respect to the second element, the of drilled labour. The tens of thousands who now ear tenths were a infficiest proof of our huh. a abundance of that element. With respect to caphia l :B peer se.l to raise that by way of loan from the her treasury, to p r imary by instslments. By a eombination cf the three elements, the production of width, the great aim and end of all lubosr, mum no meanly be the remit. He would now show how they proposed to combine these elements. Let them, then, suppose, as the bads of a plan, that 1,000 families olive each be taken from 10 of our principal towns, and Ist each individual have one sae ; that would be 50,000 saes; and all practical men agreed that it required 101. per ems to commons their practical operations. That would amount to 600,0001. It would require 750,0001. to meet the neeeisary dwellings and sluioes, and then it would empire, say 120,0001. to purchase the ne. emery mardaram requiiiite to combine manufactures with agrien'ture • and as the men would require to subsist during the time they was employed at the early stage of their priiceediely, ii 10s. per week were allowed to each family fur six month% (and they ought not to have less) there would be a timber sum of 130A01. making, in all, 1,500,0001. Thus, by applying these three tonality nt s it moue of wealth, immediate ent might be given to Legs MINOS Of the Mr. A. BELL sersormled the resolution, which was mania snealmesely. Mr. ILALTHOBP.B Mood the adoption of a petition to the Howes of Hemeasse ft thebe follo he wing seat: Mame mt biribiber ba= ebbe Gab n pal s etem elmes Superb bra See rb tar ebb Ylauri eM Mee ardiedis smmbsref yew rillimeies eriters. ire geeerb gelibless Illtetbevatet gerl d =l isms, while - Me Oar purer bb Ism en drusirs r spat dire bur re serbensl Is pi bow Whim leinerre sr be whine, Wiet Oedema' he Ilmir Webb tbe wise bey robs as Iseembbi deny noes WSW mad ureeleb tuba demises per militansee et shleining the seem el osiellehme. that yew pinhiseem es we se be balm grim garwslasidar memit eerger iert St sealety, lhi se he end suer ~at spidy Is etas limbs et *sir lal= sheed. tr e i: verge anew see tha=7, l eedw ie le l l i heime et at =t rain gelembeire et biter pirerisa = .l 4ier 7 ; year psdilenews /my beassnatis hems in ess gibs s verb be n re ihßr elle =bib peeldares we air rebelled eel web aresstpseuesawlienbairser laseibiblasit ben isemiespesseep albs Ira searisep eft. sem bar pertleme on tellyserbei tire be reemb b able siel sod timallsta eepliseiler rtibir be pewee etperr bes. bar milt e<s wilkinlnd gram of berm goblin. tisk =Wag la dm peepsetimm lea, labour, and eepital, fer agat. masulliMslog, and sammereial peepers ; ebb is be rider Pis derembe et iron ore lbw most eaperiers to their nrereltue beembes. Tsar tbunearr le op the ~er~ tere. been Ida beregre essereslag smlibmsat et burr w esibiset opera, IM by wegefleem beng be le tmmelY beam ear diet mireeft Isst mei men bea bebi imeos - eprent ressiume eungdetell en y et menglimed pepeimitm Ifr. WINTON esessffedi the seethe, widish WS .t. rW unanimously. lir. J. WILSON nenvel the second resolution, that for the just protection of labour sad the fair milts of trade, a labouring protecting board should be established for the par. pow of regulating tram time to time the priors of labour and thereby prevent the ruinous competition among employers, and the demoralising and destructive effects of trades sulkies. Mr. BIRK seconded the resolution. Carried %moni sm/Iy. Mr. COOPER referrod to Sir Robert Peel's statement the other sight Motive to the plantation of Connaught, and moved that the petition be laid before Si, Robert Peel, with a request to present the same to the House of Commons. This was peed to, and on a von of thanks being proposed to the chairman awl carried, Mr. L. HANSARD, in retaining thanks, announced his intention of subscribing 601. for carrying oat the objects of the • - meeting. BRITISH COLONIAL BANK AND LOAN COMPANY. - - - Yesterday the annual meeting of shareholders in the above concern took place at the company's tam, 60, Moorgatestreet. Mr. J. fireWAIIT is the chab. The report of the directors was read by the 811CARTAILT, from which it appeared that slate the last annual meeting debentures to the amount of 1,5001. have been paid off, leaving the sum of 3,0001. only, due by the company. The receipts of rents and istarest were not so large ae in the previous year, and the falling off is attributed to the de pression e aistiogh . Aus relia, in common with meet other parts of the world. In eniseguenea of being obliged to re serve a sum of 1,3121., to meet the event of a Chancery suit being decided against the company, the directors recommend a dividend of 21. per cent. only. The CHAIRMAN expressed regret that the peculiar cir cumstances in which the company wss placed did not justify the directors In recommend a larger dividend. There were sr! 'nit grounds, however, for hoping that their condi. tioa would be much improved during the present year. To render the Australian colonies prosperous, extensive emigra tion and ext inercased demand for the staple commodity of the country were indispensably neoessary, and he was happy to say that in both respects there was a fair prospect of a gram improvement as compared with the last year or two. He was serryato be obliged to mention that there wee last year a falling of in the amount of rents end interest re aped, but the directors were gradually and steadily clearing off liabilities, and he believed that by persevering in the course which they had adopted, the proprietors would even tually receive the money invested by them in the undertak ing. The lawenit—to meet the expanses of which a sum of 1,3121. had been reserved—wee occasioned by an alleged defect is the title of the company to certain lands on which they had lent money. If they succeeded—end an opinion favourable to them bad been gives—the snot reserved would of course be available for distribution; but, if the suit ens decided against them, the company would incur a loss of about 3,5001. including the sum originally advanced. 1 Several Paorairrogs upraised dissatisfection at the high salary (8001. a peer) paid to the manager in Australia. The CHAIRMAN steed that the salary of their had hewn already reduced (rim 1,0001. to 8001. a ye He considered it very desirable that an individual bolding a situation involving so much treat and responsibility should be liberally remunerated. The report wee then received and adopted, and the three retiring directors were reelected. A conversation ensued between the shareholders and the dinettes, in whisk the former strongly advocated the adop tion of measure. calculatod to ensure the speedy winding.up of the ocaspany's affairs, and they were amend that the steps necessary to attain that object would be taken as speedily as was consistent with a due regard to the Mumma of the share holders themselves. A dividend of 21. per cent was then declared, and the meeting separated. APPOINTRIMT OP HARBOUR Man= OP THE PORT OF LONDON —Yesterday the port of London and Navigation Committee of the Common Council met at the Guildhall, for the purpose of electing a principal and super intending harbour master, vacant by the resignation of Com mander Fisher, R.N., who has redred on a pension after 30 years' service. It will be recollected that Captain Caffut, it.N., was nominated by the Lord Mayor, as one of the har bour masters, when Commander Fisher retired, but*thielec don of principal and superintendent harbour master was vested in the navigation committee. Mr. Rowland, of the Greenwich station, who has been harbour master for up wards of 26 years, was nest in rotation to Commander Fisher and, according to the rules and regulations of th e eoerwation, was entitled to the situation of principal and superintending harbour master. An at tempt, beware,', was made to induce the navigation com mittee to deviate from the ordinary practice in favour of Captain Cdfin, and great interest was excited. The com mittee diseased the question with cleaeddoon, and at length name to the determination that the old harbour Rasters should rise in seniority according to the established usage, end Mr. Rowland was appointed principal and superintend ing harbour - master, at a salary of 5001. per annum ; Lieut. Stone, R.N., of Linseltouse, second, at a salary of 4001. ,• Mr. James, of Gravesend, third, 8001.; and Captain Ca hn to eater, ma his co/les/ea had formerly done, at a salary of 2501. By the ] existing act of parliament, all rules orders, and directions, given by the principal and eaperititending larboor-masts, are to be obeyed and followed by the other harbour-masters, and hence the necessity for appointing gentleman accustomed to the duties. Cnourne.—Yeeterday the following fresh cues were repoeted to the Board of Health :—Bethnal-grren Lunatic Asylum, 1; Bhacklewell, 1 • Bhepherd'ellush, 21, fatal ; 1 fatal ; itiecarte'V, 1, Kilbarnie 2, 1 fatal; tueWsleM 6, 3 fatal ,• Charlestown, Dankrialine, fetal ; Dudermline, 3, 1 fetal . — Total , 20 new eases ; 10 death& IRELAND. Dusuy. lIIARcz 7. . • The elearmes system still continues in many parts of this country. In the vicinity of Dungarvon last week twenty-four houses were levelled to the ground, and it is said that the neighbouring farmers were I afraid to give the turned-out inmates any shelter, through fear of their landlords. Thus, we are now undoing in Ireland all the work which the landlords did fifty years ago, in order to increase their political influence by manufacturing forty-shilling voters. At the various military stations the late orders for discharging soldiers have been carried into effect. At Buttevant, last Saturday, 70 men were discharged from 41st Regiment, and neirly 200 more are to be discharged in a few days, but this intention will, pro bably, be at once abandoned. The Cork Constitution says, that the Cameronians would have discharged 270 mon but for the news from India. The tide of emigration proceeds with rapidity. Several general traders and shopkeepers have left Tribe for America. A good many emigrants of social consideration ere leaving Limerick this month, many of them persons of property, who wish to invest their means more profitably than in this crumbling couoti y. The contract for supplying the tarps in the Cork district, for the next seven months, is singularly low, namely, fresh moat at 3d. per lb., and bid. for the 41b. loaf of bread. Such a contract shows the gloomy prospect before the Irish agriculturist. PROVINCIAL. la 114•••••••••••••••• ANOTHER COLLIERY Fanosiszei.—TWELVE LIVES LOST.—On Taesday morning • fatal explosion of firedamp tam plass at The Middle Patzimaft Colliery, situate ma the road treat Wigan to Hindley, aad aboat • mile sad • half frog each place. The usual number of heads, shoat tweaty fire, had descended to their work at or soots after air Vika in the morn ins, sod from the appearance of amid 1111 thw taken out dead, who had the whole of their clothes ms, It THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 8, 1849. would sesta that many of Ikea had sot commenced working when the explosico meowed. The result of the accident, as far as has been loathed ,was the death of twelve persons, and the serious injury of two others. Of the twelve said to be dead, one of them wav miming and supposed to be dead in the mkt, smelter died is a short time after being brought to the su face, and ten were dead when discovered. The accident occurred about ZOO yards from the shaft, In one of the ■pp drifts from a working, tarmid a "di`-brow ;" but how or by whom caused was said to be a mystery. Ellison the underlooker, and the fireman who attends the furnace, had, it is said, previously to the men entering the workings, examined the whole of them, and reported all safe; and se veral of the bands taken out uninjured report also t►at where they were engaged the air was strong and pure, and ih• wine in every respect, as far ea they could judge, in good workable order. Sint aro. ARCHITECTURAL EXHIBITION. The rooms of the gaiety of the New Society of Painter' in Water Colours were opened yesterday :or a private view of a mew exhibition of erchitasuse, being the Mt attempt made by an association of artists in that parti cular branch to form an annual exposition of architectural art. It would not be fair to criticise too severely an enter prise which cannot certainly at first realise all that it may at M • future period attain. A very respectable show of pic tures is made—sours have bean exhibited before, but the greater number are uew. The members of the association say very truly, in their prospectus, that the question remains yet to be practically Sited, as to whether an exhibition exclusively devoted to architectural art will be apj sedated by the public, There is, we Mar 100 limited a range in the subject to attract the mass; ani the supporters of each a society can therefore only be persons interested in the subject, either as artists or auut- Mtn. It is to be hoped that their co-operation will be sail dent to afford the n sustenance, and that an inatitia Item having for its object advancement of architecture as ea art, may become a permaneet establishment. Mr. Allem it the most proteiotot of the exhibitor. H*B ohm of the Mama, showing a design for the improvement Of the bank between London and Bleakfriars-bridges, is of great conception. His deign for a house in New Zis!anil, if carried out, would render that colony, with such an abode, &desirable place of residence. The paupers of Kensinstin are very lucky, it seems, in having such a fine house for their use as Mr. Allots hs built. Werkhouses and prisons seem, indeed, to make great demands on architectural de sign just now, Clubhouses, too, are evidently a subject for competition. Two or three of the projects for the Army and Navy club are here shown, which we are glad to dud were sot adopted ; not because ;he buildings proposed are ugly :4. unsightly, but because they are more fitted by their appear ance for town-halls and churches. _ A clever exposition of massive architecture is 0 4. in Mr. Cullman's view of the new hall and staircase of the Driush Museum. " Northamptonshire Churches," a series of views taken in that county, speak as much in favour of the artist, Mr. J. D. Wyatt, as in that of the district which pastime to snate . y . pretty steeples. Mr. W. W. Deane's street architecture is of a Whitest 1 which has been tse mach evinced in allowing the houses to diverge room the perpendicular; and a design for the MM. son of the late Lord Halybartim would appear better made up, as fares the picturesque is concerned, if there were leer starch in the building, and lest blue in the hills behind. The latter is an objection that may be extended to Mr. T. C. hecklers sketch of the Temple of Antoalans and Famine at Rome, which looks very liken mosaic em a bine poeti— cs deep is the tint of the Italian sky. Amongst the visitors who seemed to talcs mush interest in the exhibition, we noticed Sir B. Peel. EXHIBITION OF SPECIMENS OF RECENT BRI TISH MANUFACTURES AND DECORATIVE ART. The specimens collected ani exhibited yesterday at the house of the Society of Arts are of the greatest interest. The premiums which are held out for the production of articles, not only beautiful as manufacture. but powering other merits of a higher nature, have borne fresh fruit. Of the chief beauties (tithe cxhibi , ion it may be said that they are the most perfect things of their kind, such as the large silver teatiniesials sad richly-chased metal articlt 1, the wonder fally-finlabed medals of Mr. Wyon, and other productions, in which the ultimate pro so seems to have been attained. The present is the third annual exhibition of the society, and is truly set forth as the most perfect that has been made under the society's auspices. There bias never been a mere successful display of manufactures in metals, of paper bang. Wigs, and of wood cutting then the present (gays the address of the council). The most beautiful of the specimens of geld and silver manufacture have been executed as prizes for racing plate. The exhibition of British paperhanging, is as complete a representation of the present state of that manufacture as that of the precious metals, eocouraging the hope that when the schools of design are mode as efficient as they are capaSle of brag made, the English paper-staiser, instead of borrowing front the French, will Ise able rather to furnish him with examples. Such exhi bitions as the present, indeed, will, we think, do more to promote gramme competition and program then all the schools that can be formed. . . . Iseoontsel saiiiiitle;in their address : " It was the suggestion of his Royal Highness the Presi dent that prizes should be offered for wood-carving, executed by artisans who were not professional wood-carvers, with a vMw of encouraging a hme occupation, such as prevails la Switzerland and Germany, secondary to other pursuits. The result has been most sat etactory as a beginning, and all will applaud the wood-caning executed by the an of the gate- 1 keeper at Hyde-Tub-corner, to whom the first prize has been awarded. The council congrattewe the several menu. redwing in glees on having this year made considerable ad venom. For the first time in the career of the exhibitions, ' silks, carpets, lace, and shawls have been shown; and the epsoimans. though not so numerous se they will doubtless bosoms in waft year, are of first-rate quality. The ceun cil props sett year to bestow special attention on woven fabrics generally. Therises awarded to exhibitors of manufactures have been as follows; 1. tied beszney teelbaanil to Mews. Garrard, for the group le breams Mgt. Gawp mad the Dugan, and their chums to Improve art la metals. 2. Ibe kmerery teshaeald to Hews. Hunt and Haskell, for thdr group of Mamma end Ur& shield of Mama. S. The bastirszy Isethesdal to 8. IL and D. Gam, for some of the new dim Wedge =bibbed by them. 1. Themeld We medal to Mr. J. A. Hatfield, for the improved cha racter ef is treasse. especially In respect to colour aa szemplidcd in the dying stagisher. L The geed Ids maid to the Coelbreokdale Iron Oonspany, for the euperlortty of their hen mithegs. 1a 7 1. The diver mademade Mess. TAP, for the novel union of metal, tem and peredels. . Ws FM Ms mod I* Hems. Jewess mad Bettridge, for the @Addis et amemeat ea the top of the papier meld{ UM* end the exienMsa of it la peeeL P. Tie diver medal to Messrs. F. Older and 00. foe their glees 9. TM g; medal to Mews. A. Pellatt and 00. for their &II duet jet. 10. The silver his medal to Weems. H. B. and J. Hieluirdson, their ereebinatioa d mating with Venetian ornament. 11. The silver medal to Kr. Tennent, for his British marbles and ants to women onemental art in this material. IL Th! silver medal to Mr. Bailee, for his specimen ri marqueterie. 13. TM silver medal to Br. John Webb, for the coning in wood of a caret. 14. TM silver modal to Mr. E. Blakely for his shawl Istria. IS. Ms neer moist to limn. Swaineon sad Lennye, ftr Sir speelnesn el Wats printing. IL ilts sold Lk medal to Menses. Walters tad Soo. kr Oro allv brisie artia in iattlal to Wm. Keith, tm moollmso of their taboo:eta, ass, ka. IL The sink medal tolimers. atone sad Kemp, for the Monk of theirl9. Wks. The siker Li medal to Mean. Cope, Ilanimertoo, sal 011. Ix tbeir phoiestreside ribbon. 80. 'no A.* modal to Moen Henry sad bona for Mir Akio of silk sad won 21. The silver lale medal to Meters. Ounpbsil, Brenton, sad Lloyd, for Urn si>t ilatnok 11l The silver Lie model to Memo. Cornell, Lyon, and Webster, kr their elk Meter tL TM silver medal to Mena reline.~ for task Minh Lees. 9L TM Alm Lie medal to Mrs. 3111Asonlas, for her specimens el neediewark ilk The Weal& medal to Kyles Mayhem', for km modem at arellirusek. IL itt - itioid Isis medal to lfr. W.rovement B. flimp sok paperlbr his paper decors. M Son led efikets promote We imp of hangings. 27. Ifs silver to moM to Maws. Tenured. ibr their spormane of el belyWnis. vs. The saver medal to Mama Woollama, far tbair ipsairsons of PirMMUS& Tho efbm Ids medal to Yin. Mae 411,1% tar their oposisiaus slakes prima& M The bassm isa llatimmid to Wars- Bandy and Powell, kr their maim= oldie M. The Itambay belbrobl to Mors. Walters sad Bog br their tea emu 32. Ths honorary taitisonid to for he picture frame in imi- Mtlaa of ample. K. TM babruy Unimak' to M Stanley, and 71. to the chil dren other school for their lass wort. Beferriag to the rewards and encouragements held oat to students by the society, the council ham groat satisfaction in observing that the modified views of ths last two or three years, in respect to the list of subjects for remain= and the tams of artists invited to compete. aro beginning to be ra =ato. This exhibition eonvincbtgly prows that the was mad. in perfect accordance with the changed weft cites ego and the new dam of students rapidly farm ing in all parts of the kingdom in the lately-established schools of amigo. Them students, it should be remora =beloog meetly to a rank of toasty which renders ly necossmy tie Mintuins of such rewards. Art, as to mahatmas, hr made steady program same the cihuge sad swami works which have been thie yew Is ' warded with premiums, show a diligent study of nature, sad at lease are ambition In applying meth study to conanmatol dosoration. A now doss of works has at the same Mae bola added, and the society has oadeavourod (whit comafeseaste) to stimulate the art workman, whose easslisass is his craft in many branches lies batmen and mites ths tbsiptates skill and the maaufesturees osOtal, sad Islam mories sad excel loam have for tooloag a Um. boas asglostal. mins awarded he those classes ham bola so *Bows : mem 1. The ether wide! to r. w Oook, hr his azainties in carved wood of BaleenelPattio of the end ma ridftfamil reward of the silver Lk medal and 21. to Mr. P. Hold. bas his wood entege. S. • reword of 21. to 63r his carving of a garaWnia from astwo. 4. as award of 21. to Kr. liklued Roddrke. for his meal Writ of two bads. arrsores mie s eauesma'e crew 1. A palm el beaTkiiallimllnidasdin7d, 3,r — Menai &swing of the boa as del am Wore. ••• pd•aatbvila Mlle L Davidson, far vs original drawing al a grey steak mg ivy bow L • yibe if boob to Zelda William Lcog, tar as original drawing es peas* sad ivy lima 4. A at Inala (316orga 2011. lx as arliglail &min of 11111 AWL — 2 arlimilla Ms Loans 10afg. for as original drawing and __Asa din Imagookleamil wan timer. 6. • el bpi la limy DMA Dusk *or a ory4 of four Miff. shaded*. hum alio% a~i_~: 7. An award of Sr. to John Emery, it an erigisol design kr a goblet, 'objects emblematical ofjmeine. S. The eaves modal and 11. to Mai Ann Shackleton fbr her swim of origisel drawings of &bias wild flowentromanstere. 9. The silver leis modal and 2/. to Catawba. Mardi, Far her arka of original drawbars of British wild 'were. 10. An award of V. to John 11.1hil, for his design fora dinner plate. 11. An award cf 1/. to Anna .Mary Ilowltt, kg her design for • dinner plats. IL An award of 11. to Walter Edmund Wood, for en original drawing of a design for a stanuall velvet. 13. An award of It. to Winn Alle4 for design for man to be eze. toted in red earthenware, ornamented with designs Ban Yaglnk history. 14. An award of 11. to Edwin Webb, ow., ilor his design Oar a vase, to be minted in red sigthenwam, armament/4 with Mgr from the s• Maur, of Alfred the Oren." 13. An award of ii. to John Orchard, for his drawiag Wan original aompooltion of children, to fill • woken:Wm t. IS. The Mr medal aael:2l. to Mama. fir his arrange ment of the hop as •papw 17. An award of If to Jo b bfi n Ms King, ear him drawing of an ar rarrt af the hoe as • msr lunging. n award cf 14 to 13obset kudos Hawn, for his drawing of an arrangement of Ws hop as a paper 19. An award of 11. to lames B. l r a l m p e s. bar his design for as en. trams gate, to be executed in Woe. " For three years past a prize of 20 guineas has been offered for the best design for a silver cap, of which the de sign should be emblematical of justice. The conned find that an open competition has not pro duced a work worthy to be le:muted. Many designs have been submitted, but none wallas would be deserving of the object, cr the society's unction. At the outset the council feared that the best sr arts, whose abilities already command full eccopation, would not be induced to enter into compe tition; but they thought it right to submit the prize to all who might be disposed to compete for it. Not having suc ceeded in this, the council called in the advice of a dis tinguished artist; whom they believed to be pre-eminently calculated to assist the s,ci ty in the production of a suitable goblet. Mr. D. Mediae, A.A., has *greed to afford his aid, and the council trust that when the distribution of the pelt,. takes place, they will to have to exhibit to the members a g 'Met wel l erttthsof the society's sanction as a work of art." Oa the subjoet of rational exhibition, the address of the council states that " then exhibiting, necessarily limited each year to certain classes of manufactures, are only parts of a aeries of exhibitions which it is proposed shall calmicate everyAfth year in • large national exhibition, embracing all manufactures. The revolution of the first fifth year will arrive in 1861, and the council feel that it will be necessary forthwith to mature these arrangements for giving due effect to this event, which have already been socass fully instituted ani carried to a certain point with the Presi dent of the Road of Trade end the Chief Commissioner of Woods mud Forest,. The Bosrd of Trade has already pro mised cooperation, and the Chief Canyaimioner of Woods • suitable site fur the building, in which the exhibition may be made. It only remains for the government to take the risk of enviable a temporary building, of dimensions sufficiently ample fir the purpose. The Society of Arts havicg practically demonstrated the mesas of media ieg such exhinibonr, tend educated most sucteseully a numerous public of all claws of misty to appreciate them, and crowd to see them—having induced able designers, eminent manufacturers, ingenious mechanics, skilled work moo, and men of scienee, all to assist in these exhibitions, having been sided by the active co-operation and good will of the most distinguished among the nobles and the commons of oar country in lending specimens for exhibition,—enjoy ing the benefit of the personal intent and advice of his Royal Highness Prince Albert, as the head of the society, and having been honoured with the direct and practical assistance of our most gracious eovereign, in promoting the susses of these exhibitions, the council feel that they shall be warranted in its a mutat to her Msjesty's government to do its pert in this great object, and to Rrovide once in every fifth year is suitable building, in which a national exhibition, duly repreeenting the beet pre ductions in all branches of British manufactures, may be formed. The society's arse annual exhibition was visited by about 20,000 person., the second attracted a *titmouse of more than 70,000 persons, and should the popularity of the present more interesting exhibition increase in a propor tionate ratio, the council will he prepared on behalf of the society to present • petition to the House of Commons, and to wait on the prime minister, requesting that arrangements may be made to provide a proper building for the great natimal exhibition in 1831." 4uoic. OPENING OP HER MAIEsTE's THEATRE. —The sight of the opening of llor Majesty's Theatre is et lest pwitieely fixed for Thursday, the 15th March. Alboni, B •lletti, F.Lablaehe, and Gardoni, will appear in the Cene rogola, and Carlotta Orisi Marts Taphoni, and Rosati, with Paul Tatlioni and anis D'Or, in the ballet of the Diable d Quatre. IJNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL CAMBRIDGE, MARCU 7.—At a coaregation golden this day the following degrees were conferred : Hon. L. Neville, Magdalen c ifourth son of Lord Braybrookedi ai l , lon. C. Herbert, IL John's fourth son of th e late Earl fowls .—lncorporate M.A., hmanuel : F. A. Owe hom Magdalen Ozford.— :W. J. Binder, Wm •W. Ncirworthy, John's. The followfrg rate, varied the senate: To appoint the Viee.Chan eellor, the Meer of Jesus, the Mute? of Pasubes, the Matter of It. John's, the Wow of Melly, the Master of Catharine Ball, the Re. aes PlVillelet• of Divinity, law, and Plays* Mr. Batsman, Public Prolessor Blunt. Mr . Stokes, Senior Proctor; the Regiatrary, Mr. Marti of Trinity, Mr. Williamson of Clue Hall, NA Thompson of Trinity, Mr. Head of King's, Mr. Warlord Magdalene. Mr. dykes of Downing, Mr. Allay of It. John's, Mr. Wnttalaw el Given's, and Mr. Power of Emmanuel, a syndicate to revise the statutes of the university, and to report to the mate Infers the end of the Lent Term, 1810. Tue Bcaan num.—The timasanoellor hr this day given notice that the subieet for the Burney prize of 1031. for en Engliah essay, for the present year, la " The divine attribute of messy as deduced from the Old Testament." 'ho candidates for the prise are to be bachelors of arta to their drat of standing, and the essays are to be sad In to the vlaehaooelfor on or before the 12th 30e. nest. 13T. — MART * 9, BuiToWoleo.—Aeirreipondent of th i Westmoreland Cart atm that a person, whose me is net to be publicly divulged, bac prevented to St. Mary's Church, Birthwalte, a sum of 0011. .- _ _ Posvittotaing.—Rev. J. F. Vilma, to St. Nicholu P C., Whltehaven, Cumberland, duo. Ches.; ISM.: patron, the Earl of Lansdale. Bev. A. E. PAIVION4, to Samoa) C., Leisib„ dlo. Pewit. Bev. S. G. 141.14•111. to PliNe1211•01 6, Northampsh., din. Peterb. Bev. W. A. Bemis, to Benefield C., Northanipsh„ din. Peterb. Bev. F. B. Blenkin, to St. Martin's C, Leto., dia. Petah. NAVAL% ADMINALTT, MARCH 2.—APPOlTYMENTe.—Aseistant tarpons : Dr. H.RICIIAIDION. and F. H. IlLaw.t. (acting), to Cale donia. Midshipman : J. PACKWOOD. to Excellent. Naval Cedot : W. A. Ca tome, to Pittard. CHATHAM, Maaca 6.—A Board et Admiralty, ' of L.rd John Hay, the Hen. Capt. Hickok-, sad Mr. Secretary W ard' }LP., arrived at this port to-day. After a brief visit to the dockyard, their lordships proceeded to the "feriae Barracks, where they did not. however, remain Wag. The stiwrintendent of the dockyard Capt. Ste T. Bowthier, has for some time been in • declining of health THZ MZILCHAHT NATT.—{From Tuesday's Casette. )- 11 List e! the Mailers end Mates in the Merchant Sorrier who bow solvated!, pawed an ezandnatien sal obtained certificates of qualilarities kr tits ohm whet oath eadgme4 swim the regulations imatd by the Beard MUM*. gnat 314 les. Inst. irtenats.-0. D. Despeter, Sod clam art, Somereetekire, Loaded ; B. Mancer lad, Chiqw, Lamisa; T. Besierrlsk. tad nab% l o ad s " ; T . Eaglet, T. Blake, as Lain ; C. Hodder, Ind. . Jemee,_2siA load= ; J. Soaihwisk. Ird , Jahn Mona, Loa d.; W. Jane Catherine, lasthis_; J. Abralsamam, I,4c: si dle Locum emeherna. DJBalati. Landes; W. y, (Rook, amorsaiore, L i= t ; • Mederd. ht. Percival, New cootie ; W. irerM. Bad, Garland, Newmatle,• J. Clorahot, 2nd, Dun nwabe, Newcastle ; J. Da Rod, Crown. Nearside; T. B. Sparks, let, Joseph Badaby, ; J. Orden, let, AM Betide, Liver -204 nillrfaitedtrldTs ol : Nay, 2nd, Clyde, ; ty. Themsam Ist, algae; th ; Alba, Bad, Wanderer, Lmcg gobsrmos, Sad, Exporter, Leith; D. R. Kerr, Ind, Norman Borba, Ld3 ; Het. 3!r4 Coeds Lesbian, Landau, A.C.Abeld, Bad, True Bells, South Mid& ; N. Arthur, 3rd, Hannah, eolith Skalds; J. Chaser. tad, Ismiyierd, heath Melds ; J. Pemberton, tad, Mr MOM Nagliat.larka• M. O. Cie& 2nd, Jorderoci, loa ds ;C. A. Iladmaret, tad, Has, Lain H. P. "awed, 2nd, 111,2120/4:607. ; T . m; ,e ,„ nreit am„.•77. =wk. PS, Walker, Newt awls ; eall i. zu r a :6o ll:ll s tergy, Z.C.re4ir. rad i , Boyd lir., Hog J. 11.1mik Pad, dears% ; A.lreteett, Matra, London r. W.) led, Nab. Landes ; J. new Priam George Irmenenth; C. & Bedmsra. tad, liehampuem T. & Ike! th tad, Le is. silltil . Mat . g ritaiti n =e * Z . a T V Ik Sb; I.olgrefid,, Wililaaria.lllllll4 T. Traver then, DA Ann :1. woinonow. WA. Lea den ; Behan, W. mad M. nas. Ludes ; . Ileulls. Lambs ; W. Tram, bd. Ilsm sal Amp& death /Wide ; S. DAN Isk Omar* IMarysal; J. O. Widow, let. Beha •W. . lislgnsa. W. Meth lavermrl ; 0. H. Mum. =LA. D. hownan, let, i t weed Lobs ; A. , mil IL Drown, London; J. Tye, lad.lllemilea. Castle, ; J. War, td, Prmiam, Norma; D. B. Bar let. News MM.& LAW W. F. Lapidus, lit, Cambria, ; J. 0111. BBL Ilelsa Plymouth , W. 011 es, rut, Mame Burl. Mow& ; J. DOA W 4 Shields ; It. Pates, Bad, OM Wide ; J. Roa, Heroine, Dundee ; & O. llteme.-0. Barry, brd, P =ad iar ; Barri. WA toament„ Plymouth . T. r d fed, Persell, Deader; .H. Bader. Waarehlmadea; 1. O. dash*. 3rd, Willies Wilma, Loucks•, w imams. pals ; C. E. Fraser, 3rd, Ma dastaz. lambs; IL Masan, led,Elashaa.l4.llo2; W. A. Greaser, 2nd, Briti* impire, Lords; J. C. Na,ria fird, Zits's Hops, aadam MILITARY. Row. AzanormaYLCapt. --- fic: George's company of from Royal Artillery, 10t6 tettalka, arrived yesterday at head-quarters SAPPIIIB Al MISZRIS —A dotodusont of 10 privates, ander the mmunand of Capt. , Inn embert trnmediately co baud the Sir Edward Parry, ar for South Austral* to join the company employed oar Om rimy at colony. SPORTING. BETTING AT MANCHESTRIA—TrunAT, MANCIIIITER STEIPLI CliAlll.-4 to 1 meet Venom (t), 4 to 1 yet Alfred (t), 4 to 1 apt Prince Geary (t), 8 to 1 mot Borer (t), 6 to 1 opt MD= (t), 6 to 1 yet Itoehater (Lb 10 to 1 opt bir Henry (t.) About II enueled to rem KNYILOPOLITAN HANDICAP. 7 to 1 opt Lugar, 7 to 1 apt Gamma (t freely.) NOMMAXPTON6IIIIII BTAXIII.-11 to 2 apt The Tartar, 6 tot apt Laspearra. 11 to 1 out Veto: (t freely.) Csaaraz Cor.-18 to 1 apt Joe o Sot (1), 18 to 1 aid Kaki (t),» to 1 eget loheritrue, 20 to 1 apt Peep-o'-day-Boy, 40 to 1 apt The Tartar (t to SOL) nen-war-Km _unts.—nwltsaurr, 1849. 'EiATON - =#iii6. - WIDWINDAY.-81;11141TAILIte itl.gyr-olds. A.F. Mies Banner, est ; list Ilb; B. 11, est Ite. Bwzsratasis of 60 lays. each, h R; for 4-yr-oldo, &e. T.T.C. IWO; est SD; Waists. Mt; R. Ala, hi; Fluttelassn, SR tOtb. VIM SPRING 10417R0G, Ifail. WSDNIRGST.--BwisPossiNs Of 60 PIM 1163 a. h ft; for 4-yr-oldsolts. D. Y. Amass, Sot 71b; Sottaloy, Tat 19b; Mans, 7a Mb. MANCHESTER, 1149. Nominations for the Ta►oia' CCP of SOU, added to • handicap of 23 eon. eaoh, 15 ft., aad 5 only if declared on or be a week afar Ct , eater rms.—Lagar, Lady MAW. Mrs. Taft, Shiabizat Alta, Canewea, Clerk of Council, Minto, Grknaton, Per, Peeps'• toz_Boy, Widesireks, Raby, Fuglems, Amazement, WeerieytWe, MO, The Great Waters, Romance, Inheritress, Oeseral Bale, Ma of Motherwell, Clothworker, Brother to Johnny Amerces, J° B - o '- 90 t. Zdk RAT. Reittes mum. bharetes, the Convict, The Alp, Andolools, Jos Coeur. riolond, Thlbsalt, Byleas, Rodney, Trounces., Lady Bylds, Rolle, V sots, lissape, iblerdele. Balliontsd. WNW', Abbot ot Meaux, Be loi . Cirlis Boy, !Balton, Melt ot Lyme, Woo, Them, Camphine, hley, Prinuw, Was Ann, Sae Debar, Pers. Itllkßeeolutles, Crory TRUSSDAT.—Nota.notioso for the WELTER COP. Two Mlles.—DeWitt, Lacy Astilon, Boras* Laurie, Revolt, eaves dbh• B."lggiar ßi blot, ..Vr4°.r2* MARCHESiII EPKING MEETING. MAACK 8.--SW2SPSTAILIia 016 SOTS. each and 40 added. Mils and a dia. Ada Mary, Didsbury, Counted. of Landatekli, Old No. U. Harkover Bator, Beverley, Railway King, Last Ream beano% L. H., Miller's Maid. BELLING STAMM, of 3 aoaa. **eh and 30 added. Heats. Mystery MC), &Atom (301.), :Cinderella (301.), Wiaeaars (301.), Dui (301.), Treasure (300. lab) intelligence. EQUITY COURTB.—YISTIZDAY. helm the lord Chancellor. IN TEX MATTBiI OP DTCII Sonnaa. —lx LUNACY. The arguments on the new petition to npersede the cons mission in this case have occupied the court five den, and are not yet concluded. Three petition for a super soda's had been prevented, without success, in 1844, 1847, and 1848, respectively. The reports cf the medical gentlemen directed by the Lord Chancellor to Climbs the lunatic in 1847 and 1848, were deemed conclusive, their unanimous and uncontradieted orinioa being that he was not of sound mind, but in consequence of their nom =sedation& all restraint on the lunatic, in respect of his liberty and unappropriated income, was removed. The pre sent petition has been presented upon the report and recommendation of six eminent physicians employed by the lunatic and his friends; they formed their opinions of his unity not only upon frequent inters-lows with and examination of himself, but also it; on a review of the re ports made toy the physicians, the referees of the court, in 1847 and 1848,aud of the notes taken by a shorthand writ e r, of th e conversations three latter had with the lunatic in their examination of him, and upon which their report (of 1848) was founded. The prayer of the present petition was " that the commis sion be superseded, or that the petition may stand ov e r and Mr. &mhos have liberty to reside in Londos, or else where., free from the interference 01 his committees; that the committees may be discharged, or their powers suspended, and, it necessary, that new commihees may be appointed in their stead ; that Idi. S =bre may have liberty to attend on the taking of all accounts before the master concern ing the management, care, and application of his mate and dicta, &c." This application was erouuded on the upoit, supported by affidavits, of Drs. Paris, Sir A. ?dor risem Costello, Mayo, Copland, and Ferguson. Their re port, dived Mivart'e lintel, the 24th of Dee., 1848, and , addressed to the Lord Chancellor, stated, among other things, that they were called upon to cumin* the state of Col. Dyes Sombre, with respect to the soundness or un soundness of his mind ; that for that purpose they had re peated interviews with him, and five consultations with each other ; and their decided impression, from those interviews and examillatiolls, was that he did not labour under any unsoundness of mind. The report went on to treat seriatim of the several points on which the four physicians made the report on November, 1848. First, with regard to the cow..- minion which the lunatic fancied he gave, to Lord Ward, in Rome, in 1847, to negotiate with the scut for Tadolini for delivery of the monument of the Begum, for 2001, the opi nion oldiese six was, that a hoar was played on Mr. Sombre, as on arriving in England, and being show n th e rea l L or d Ward, he at once said he was not the person he saw in Rome. Secondly, with respect to his notion that his sister (Ma dame Solaroli) was illegitimate, they found that that notion bad some foundation in face, and they stated the grounds of that opinion. Thirdly, as to the quarrel of Mr. Sombre with Prince Doris, his statement was, that when he was under restraint, in 1844, he was in his carriage in Hyde-pack one day with hie keeper, when a person on horsebock t whom he took to be the prince, treated him with derision ; and for that insult he called the prince to an ac:ount when he went to Rome in 1847, when he was 'soured that the prince was not in London at all in 1844. 7he obvious explanation of Mr. Sombre's mistake was, that some person resembling the prince behaved in the manner complained of; end the doctors employed by the court In their report in 1818 admitted that this was either " a hallucination or a mistake." The report (of the six) went on to state, fourthly, that Col. Dyes Sombre's com plaint that he was watched cons.antly by persons employed by his wife, was not unnatural, as he considered hims. If the object of a conapiracy, and watched for the purpose of detect ing symptoms of unsoundness of mind, o.pecially when he was so informed io a letter from Lord Combermere to Mr. Mahn. And with respect to his suspicions of the hostility of the Ent India Company (of which Sir R. Jenkyns was a director) or the ground of his claims against the company, there wera document s i n hi s possession showing that these suspicions might well be entertained under the circumstances b 7 a person of perfectly sound mind. The filth point in which the adverse report (of 1648) was founded was a charge of indecency cooneeted with Go neral Ventura. The fact was that General Ventura was understood by Mr. Sombre to have used Hindostanee words expressive of contempt and an indecent act. There were some phrases of Aisne slang used but the report of 1848, in translating them too literally, gave undue weight to them against Mr. Sombre. The sixth and last point noticed in the report was the lunatic's jealousy of Mrs. Dyes Sombre, and in treating of that matter it was but just to consider the irfluences of early education, and the peculiar circumstances of Mr. Sombre's position—born in a Harem, and accustomed to its habits up to the 28th year of his age, in a country where it is criminal in a woman even to appear among mea unveiled. Jealousy of women was an overwhelming plosion in the mind of an Oriental; it existed in a high degree in that of Mr. Sombre. The report went on to distinguish errors and mistakes from insane delusions. The proof of insanity consisted of very different materia's, and these did not exist in the mind of Mr. Sombre. Ills aussus picion and jealousies of his wife and her father urine, in his mind, when it was un questionably unsound, and the impressions so formed sur vived the insane state long after recovery, but it would be doing injustice to co:sign a patient to a madhouse on the ground of his continuing under oae morbid impression when the entire context of his character indicated amity. And, in proof of this character , the report referred to the orders of the court, under which Mr. Sombre was allowed full liberty of hi person and the unoontrolled use of his surplus income, an indulgence to him which he never abused. The report further stated that there appeared to be no ground for apprehension of danger to himself or to others from granting Mr. Sambre the fullest libetty. Mr. Role, for Mr. Dyes Sombre, after stating the petition and the above report, and arguing that there were many persona sound in mind yet incapable of managing their affairs, and many persons capable of badness who were of unsound mind, said that Mr. Dyes Sombre was the son of Col. Dyes, by a female in the harem of the Regain Semite. He was born in 1809, was adopted as her heir, and brought up as bar own child. He received some instruction from an Eng lish chaplain at Meerut, yet he was brought up as an Asiatic. The Seguin had adored the Homan catholic faith, and only is that did she differ from the other natives. Her establish. meat was eastern in all its details. With the Asiatics the point of honour was the chastity of the women,- persooal truth and integrity were not so much regarded. The &gem I died in 1836. Her sovereignty lapsed at her death to the East India Company, but, while she lived, Mr. Dyes Sambre had acted the part of an independent prince, and after her death still retained large wealth. He immediately resolved on coming to this country. He came by way of Calcutta, where he met Sir C. Metcalfe, and accompanied him in the voyage in the year 1838. He became acquainted in that year with Lord St. Vincent, whose daughter he afterwards married. Hie position on his arrival was this : be was young and rich, an Eastern on education and blood ; oils sudden introduction, therefore, to the circles of tastiest and rank in this count ry mast have had a powerful effect on his mind. He soon conceived a desire to merry into an English family. Those who knew him in India, warned him that he would not be happy; that his nature, *decades, and habits wen such that he could not accommodete himself to English society, far less to the tastes of an English wife. This was stated to him by General Ventura, who had known him in India, and os meeting him in Paris resolved, from the regard he entertained for him, to act towards him is a father. Mr. Sombre having expressed his desire to form a con flexion with some English family, the general told him that, from his knowledge of his character and opinions, he was confident that such a marriage would prove an un happy one. The only passport Mr. Sombre had to the circles in which he was received was his wealth. He was a gentleman of some education, and possessed of ordinary intellect Serious eonssoluenoes might have been expected to follow his marriage with an English women. The effect of his Asiatic education was to produce jealousy. The marriage took place in 1840. • who had been bred to the customs of entire seclu sion of the women, was stow expected to accommodate himself to the free intercourse and usages of English society. He had married a lady, of whom General Ventura said vie ' was the most beautiful and charming lady he had ever seen. This sprichtly and charming lady was the woman of all others, without imputing to her the slightest impropriety, the most likely to excite the jealousy of a man such as Mr. Bombes, ? From the year 1840 he grew more and more imperious towards her, till, in March, 1843, he was placed under restraiat. A commission was issued, and was executed, neither solicitor nor counsel having been instructed for Mr. Sombre. The commission was issued on the authority of Sir James Clark, who stated that he was of unsound mind, and no other evidence was offered to the jury. That was the history of the cue up to 1844. In August, 1844, Mr. Sombre was before Lord Lyndhurst, on • petuion to ' supersede the commission. Evidence was given E at great len of his conduct at hotels and in the public streets • all • ds of stories were raked up, and the result was that the petition was dismissed. After the dismissal of the petition, that singular order was made in Deoember, 1844, by which a Mr. Warwick was appointed to attend Mr. Sombre daring his residence abroad, to watch his move ments, but net to interfere with him unless required to do so by the authorities of the country in which he might hop pen to take up his abode. It was also directed that be was to have an allowance out of his fortune. Up to this period he had been almost destitute. The committees, who ought to have supported him, conceived it their duty to get him within the jurisdiction, and they took the best means to accomplish that end by keeping kiwi without money. Some persons, however, who had known Wm in Indi a , interfered actively on his behalf, and the result was a pier :sllllWD for payment into Coutts's bank of a sum of 601. a week, to the credit of Mr. Warwick, for the use of the lutketi:. Blotters continued in this state until July. 1846,when, in con sequence of a petition of Mr. S,mbre, an order was made for an examination at Dover by Drs Bright and Southey. In that cismination they reported that they thought Mr. Sombre's state of naiad bow than when he was last in Eng land, but that he still entertained delusions with respect to his wife, and they thought it would be tins .fe to • ithiltaw the commission. That pe ition sass heard in January, 1847, but no order was made on it, In the hollowing July, on another petition, en order was made for the examination of Mr. Sombre, at Brighton, by the same two physicians. In their report' dated the. sth of August, they admitted they could not detect any d e l us i on . la September, 1847, his lordship made an order, founded on the report of August, by which it was directed that Warwick be removed, and Mr. Sombre have the clear surplus of his income after the payment to his wife of 4,008 i. a-year, secured by the marriage settlement. In the course of the last y car another application was made for superseding the commission, and another order wee made for the examination of Mr. Sombre. Drs. Bright and Southey were again namedi by his lorded:lp, with permission for Sir J. Clark, who had attended the lunatic in his first illness, and signed the certificate, to he present on the part of Mrs. Thee Sombre. Mr. Martin had also leave to attend on the part of Mr. Sombre. lie wes examined by these getulesten at !treat length for three days. A short hand writer was present at the request of Mr. Sombre, who had main to be dissatisfied with the previous reports, and • whhed for mesas of testing their accuracy. The physicians seat to the ex amination with pre-conceived opinions, end they appeared to have conducted the examination as if they niched to make out a case, for they throughout exerted themselves to put leading questions, and to examine Mr. Sombre in the same way as a counsel crone-::amines an adverse witness. They extorted his opinions with respect to trans actions with Sir R. Jenkins end Lord Ward, Prince D, ria, and a Mr. Gwyntc, and Madame Solaroli; and on these, together with the delusion on the subject of his wife, they founded their report. (Mr. Bolt read from the slior.-'•and writer's notes portions of the examination of Mr. Sambre wish respect to the iefilelity of his wife, and dwelt o t the repeated declarations made in it that Mr. Sombre now be lieved he laboured under a delusion in that respect, because he wee assured by his friends that there were no grounds for his suspicions.) What could be required beyond that declaration It was said that Mrs. Sombre was in danger of violerce, if the commission was superseded; and it was on that danger that Lord Lyndhurst principally rested his juderni nt when he dismissed the petition in 1844. But whet WAS the real state of the case ? It was an important fact that the wife, so tar from enrehending violence from her husband, had actually insisted on haying an interview with him, and pro posed a reconciliation. There was an account of what took plate at that interview drawn up by Mr. Som bre himself, end it was a moat importaut piece of evidence. lie had refused to see his wife, unless acme persons were present, and it was arranged that the meeting should take place at Mr. Martin's, in the presences of that gentle men and Sir. J. Clark. The narrative of what took place was in evidence. It commenced by stating that on Mr. Sombre entering the room where his wife was wait ing for him, Sir J. Clerk and Mr. Martin proposed to retire, but Mr. Sombre exclaimed, " That will not do ; you can't leave." Mee. Sombre is then stated to have asked him how he was, and to have said, " Come, dear, end sit a little nearer to me," which Mr. Sombre refused, s.ying, he wee " come to put the finishing stroke to this disagreeable affair." Alter some obstrvatious of his wife on the possibility of their living together again, Mr. Sombre side), he thought that six years of experience ought to have disabueed her mind of the probability of that. Some conver sation took place with respect to a cane and other articles which Mrs. S =bre preserved for him, end which be desired her to send him, sad she then is made t say that "she thought it was his duty to mike her comfortable," which observation was met by a reply of Mr. Sombre's, that "he thought that had been already done by the Lord Chancellor's orders.'' The interview ter minated with the expression of an indisposition on the part of Mr. Sombre to renew it, but the remarkable feature of the event was the manner in which Mr. Sombre controlled himself throughout whet must be admitted to have been a very trying scene. Was it not evident that Mr. Sombre have equal power to control himself on other occasions, and that the fears of violence to his wife were wholly groundless? The next point in the report of 1848 was Mr. Sombre's suspicion of Sir it. Jentine That, however, when examined, was not wholly un accountable. When Mr. Sombre was deplived of the sovereignty of the territory held by the Begum he pos sessed a private estate bringing an income of 10,0001. a year. The claim to that estate was now in dispute between him and the East India Company. There wee also a question of military stores of the value of 50,0004, seized by the company when they took the territory. These stores Mr. Sombre, es heir of the Began, thought the company ought to pay for, end on these and other sub ject., being dissatisfied with the company, and thinking they de'aycd or denied him justice he challenged Sir B. Jeekins, who was one of the directors. Me now admits he was mis taken ; but was it extraordinary that on this state of thing', when Lied Combermrre had written, at Brighton, telling him " to be circumspect as he was watched by the units of the adverse party," was it a proof of insanity, that, finding Sir It. Jenkins in the same hotel with him in Brighton, be should suspect that he was one of the persons watching him. With respect to the opinion of Sir C. Trevelyan of Mr. Sombre, it was objected that it was given years ago, and to meet that observation application was made to him, and his answer was given in a letter written by him from his office at the Treasury on Febrauy 20th last. lie says: In reply to your Inquiry as to what recent opportunities I have had of being acquainted with Mr. Sombre's Meta of nand, I beg to inform you that I here not, to the beet of my recollection, seen that gentle. man since his One going abroad after the commis-iron of lutrtry : but 1 hare within the last few weeks had a ourresionntlenoe with him on the alleged illegitimacy of Madame eolsroa, which was conduct, d by him with much good sense and ability. This certainly proved that Sir Charles had not recently seen Mr. Sombre, but it at the same time proved that be re mained of his firmer opinion u to his state of mind ; and of the same opinion were not only Lord Combermere, but also the Earl of Shrewsbury, Lord lldwnshire, Mr. Prinsepp, and the other gentlemen who signed the letter that accom panied the report of the six physicians to the Lord Chancellor. Lord Shrewsbury had expressed to his lord ship and to Lord St. Vincent his regret that he had sub embed his name to the letter, because it contained a passage offensive to Mrs. Dyes Sombre, but that noble lord con tinued to hold the same favourable view of Mr. Sombre's state of mind and of his amiable eenciut. The next ground of insanity referred to in the report of the physicians was the supposed interview of Mr. Sombre with Lord Ward in Rome in 1847, and the cffer of 2001. to his lordship fey negotia Mg with the sculptor Tadelini for delivering up the monument of the Begum Bomroo. The obvious explanation of that mistake on the part of Mr. Sombre woe that some person imposed himself on him u Lord Ward, a mistake into which a stranger to his lordship and to the habits of an English nobleman might easily fall. He had seen Lord Ward at Lord Shrewsbury's, and thought he knew him, but when, after returning to London, and walking with Mr. Chiehes er, nephew of the Marquis of Donegal, the real Lord Ward passed and was pointed out by Mr. Chichester, Mr. Sombre immediately said he was not the some _person he bad the conversa tion with at Rome. The next ground of delusion stated in the report and commented upon am a new delusion was the denial of Madame Sole:oleo legiti macy. The report laid great stress on that ; but it was not without tout:Adieu ; and so for from being a delusion, there was every reason to believe that the matter had be en dis cussed at the court of the Begum. Mr. Sombre said that Madame Solaroli was the daughter of his father, but not by the same mother, and that he entertained that opinion, because he Lai heard it from his father, and Sir Charles, Metcalfe told him so. They had it, however, in the evi dence of • gentleman who had been at the court of the Begum, that the matter was there a subject of conversation. On the last point, that of his quarrel with Prince Doris, the report of the four ph's:clans stated that Mr. Sombre refuse,' to give any information, but he admitted that in consequence of what took place, he received • hint from the authorities that if he did not take care they would send him out of Rome. That was, however, one of those occurrences on which ft was impossible to found any chores of Insanity. The whole case was, that Mr. Sombre, when under the charge of a keeper at an ear period of his insanity, fancied that, in riding round Hy de-park. Prinoe Doris made some antics and insulted him ; and for this act Mr. Sombre, in the year 1847, challenged him at Rome. Mr. Rolt then read the affidavit of the physicians, which was a repetition of the opinions is the report. On coming to this passage, " it entirely fell in with their experience that delusive opinions thus formed and thus etrengthened may survive the insane state; end they were of opinion that they would set with great iquetice if they consigned a patient to a mad-house on the ground of his toe tinning to assert one morbid Impression, when the entire context of his character indicates sanity," The Lord Chancellor said he could not understand or go along with that expression of then gentlemen's opinion. When he knew what was the peculiar delusion of any lu natic, he always kept that delusion in view when he had oc casion to make a personal examination; and the greater or lees extent of thecontinusnce of that delusionmuch influenced him in coming to any conclusion as to the return of sanity. Mr. Rolt having read evidence on collateral points, Mr. Palmer and Mr. Shadwell followed on the same side, but did not introduce any new fact or argument requiring separate notice. Mr. Bothell, o• the part of Mrs. Dye* Sombre, the wife, and committee of the person of the lunatic, opposed the pe tition. The court was bound in some degree by the previous orders mode by Lord Lyndhurst, and ell that bad been done since was on the recommendation of the physicians' rep'rt in 1847, to give the lunatic the enjoyment of the clear residue of his annual income. The recommendation of the medical gentlemen on that point had been acceded to, and his lord ship had made the experiment under the ho p e that it would be productive of beneficial results. His lord ship would now have an opportunity of ascertaining how far these hopes had been realised. In consequence of die covnies lately made, and from a perusal of papers that had been transmitted to the court, he (Mr. Bethel!) would be able to show from what quarter, and through whoa. instigations these frequent petitions arose. He would be able to show that they were not the voluntary sets of a person who felt that his mental health was restored, but the acts of interested and speculative adventurers, into whose hinds the lunatic bad unfortunately fallen, in order that, if successful, they might form the means of eupporting demands on the property of the lunatic, which he made promises to rea lise. His lordship had beard in the course of the present dis cuision, that the whole of Mr. Sombre's delusions were the re sult of his Asiatic birth and education. That was nothing more than a revival of a topic introduced in 1844; but no one attempted to account for it to the same extent es Sir C. Trevelyan, who had addressed a hied of tow on the subject to the But India Company, in the ferns of a letter that had been produced on the present occasion. It appeared, how ever, that after the letter was written and sent, Mr. Martin, the surgeon of Mr. Sombre, prevailed on Sir Charles to visit Mr. Sombre, and he then became so fully convinced of his enor, that he wrote to the East India Compagy, begging 7 • . 7-:-F7ga4l