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

rient ig thie• bore, yes ey side aid Ware puke evarks. lir • soverament, en an importer trier will not eir Asie lend with the home, but reels bre Masi wishibirarseireseire, se mesh ae earner bar Ines Prey writ dry sommeersi to Irelesd—uhaa. e ar oreartive hewn pen ms be ear of the prey they will mom bore to preemmend. I arse reesem my hes Mir net to divide the bow, bat nese I will hope that ben. goademen on both sides will take ih i r trig eforneelog their spieler on this keratoid sia (Reer. bor.) Lesd S. RUIMILL —I own I meet that the hes. redo mem who has jest sat down sherd bail a ere of ens bloc ellestiag the eziater• of a great potties of the r la • matter it party wader. (Hear, beer.) The a & ratleme• mot knew fell tae l that when a ✓ats lete be ~sed. the iseeser wad time ef it is 11 the amor of the whole beer ; that anil segohilliss of this bones de sot allow eny pr epsilon to be premed is the here; that if I pow were to perms IMI series Irish I love Dr en the Brie pore, I sherd lo tameiltbiy reppl b It Brehm end lsla that it ins istisopeteet ihr me to propos it, end *SR he newt Mew, es I err net peeper It be the here, it was but natural that I shield wish is recoopeny the Metwith the reasons whisk I thought soreary. er. .) Had I been aerie be ip Lr ia s eampeseat ter the ben. mamba he the Uoirmity of or now err how ratisman lobar shown Wain we nailer or ea the serene wield parole seek that the here sera net to rept it. That loser Mr been isbief a his erste to tab with riper le the yawner, be yea Weeper is tide siege be soy shot will lot go ire sem mew ad nit do ft se the groasd that the hes. pandints• says that delay is required, that bag deliberation is oesseery. He talks of war ailing with our re patriate ; I must my that he is trilling with the yeah's of the eammuaity. (Rear, Sir, what do the parr in the boor tell you with retard to assn few of these union ? With regard to &aril, t t the Wilt rigid sorely into eircemetazor, if nerserry, we. rode, end sot en applicant was relieved whose claim was not irresistible— mho wee not really destitute—whilst the workhouse test we. Crred to cheek imposition ; that the want was such, that • were mere skeletons of met . I. another union, Stri, It was said that the anion was disunion in the ex treme ; that the small laadireds were becoming exhausted, and applying to England and Scotland, and She min", and leaving their wives and *Siren to starvation ; that few was prevalent, and the destitution of the people wee utterly indescribable. It is la such circumstances se these that the hen. member ells for delay—that be sells upon us to go minutely Into wiry question sonaected with the administration of the poor law in Ireland—and to investigate every nicety of area and of valuation befo:e we apply a temporary remedy to a tern but most appalling .s trews. (Cheers.) The hon. and learned member for the University of Dellis doses to say that I have In omen forward this resolution r • single mea sure unaccompanied by any peas al prminition for the amendment of the poor law. But the boa. and learned member must know full wall that in the Irish poor law com mittee I 'wed several peopedtioos which I thought it would be the duty of goveremso to submit to parliament, and if I were permitted to go into Committee, I should be prepared lo te re ti rtl i t t itri: . 6 `."noosteveP,""tri'ti the iron. and learned member, after having himself beard some of them discussed in committee, to come dean to the house and say that this was the single proposition of the government. (Hear.) But, sir, the hen. sad learned member goes on to say—and this is a toes which I hear has been taken by per. sons of weight and authority—that urlesa we lay before the house, and settle, in csajanstion with parliament, a plan with regard to the area of taxation, it will he impossible to agree to any rate in aid. Now, what we have done is this : we have appointed • somaimas, consisting of persona highly competent to the talk ; but, although they have given many mentbs to the labour, they have not as yet got beyond a prop) @Bien for ward additional unions and electoral divisions fur those union'. Theypropow a scheme for diminishing the area of taxation, eo that persons liable to the to may be able to reach sad communicate with each other In the working of the anon, hot they have not thought peeper to say that every small property shall hem a separate area of testion. If it be meant, then, that talon we agree that every smell property shall form an area of Stades, these gentlemen will sot consider the propesition of a rate% mid, I swot say that it fa not at all likely we gall to able to submit that propo sition. I Lave a letter my pocket from a gentleman who was some time sins employed by the poor law commission, bet who is not at present se employed—one in whose ability and experience we have great ondielence, and that gentleman says, "While it is desirable to diminish the area of taxatios, yet, if every property were made a separate area, you would see evictions greatly increased, and that no distress whisk has yet been witnessed in Ireland would be equal to the misery that must ensue if that plan of area were adopted.' (Hear, hear.) Mr. 011 BORNE.—Is that Mr. &air ? Lord J. RUSSELL.—No, it is not Mr. Same laugh.) The hr. baronet the member tot nzei be Girded, although not very dearly, the plan that he tmeslaLr . opose, and coupled with it another the . I do not think it proper to adopt 07Zrce; baronet. I think that if you were to melt your whsle plan consistent with his two proposition., nineleg the sea to the property of each individual Indian% se that he wield have it in his power, by driving away every small basal to clear himself from obligation to pay rates, while at the sees. time you adopted a largo scheme of e yeamenld, is the first instance, create great manly Ise- lei, eel soomilly, you would be the means of driving thou oasis of the neeruntate people to a distant shore without say previden being made he their reception or subsistence. (Hear, her) Therefore being ready as I should be to pro pose the resolution in committee, and to tapir' the general alterations I contemplate in the poor-law. I men I'M that they would not . agree with the plait of the hon. buret, which, in my opinion , would have ally the effect of beady Increasing the amount of misery at resent rhapp,:y pre vailing In bard. (Hear, hear.) Kr. U. illellißT said that the noble toed had accused the hon. membr he Becks of party violins. He( Mr. Herbert) although oraire~n ray word that had been awned by tin be ere , e all _entire of that de- He b e reberned to that hour without • seers% and had seismal it determined to give goveinment air sod irepereet support, bet he had sow arms le the oinsinsioa that the =lssues of in tit hed we imemprible with the rinser of her cry's Wren tighter.) Its an 1716 "swa g 's.' dr= who never asked • shier of the pa mo or, bet who had dose his best to rometly the distress of kis anotey I and, therefore, he tiered that the hoer would *irks bed seer claim to Great bearing. (HT= Be held in his band • memenal whisk had bre to the Pear-law Cootraimiessee hem the Iditowel board of geardleas, sad whisk err that, tees fell captriere of the per law sad the red err Sen ere, they had mese to the eimeluieo that the test sir seeemstry to the proper werkiog el the measure we a Moses of the area of tares The sumerial Anther sogrobil that the comsksionses bed thrives the pore, to • rest extent, to MOWN the dfleralty. The reamimissen seemed this resemble re =amen= I= to tree attenticra of the bear to the which it was made. The anon of Literrel Wan ens of 9,984 wet, K 911,687 mos, Mho 20,678 seer while the average of pperish.. was .sly Wh, shown. that the Ira of the mire wee twain them Ileb of (Zoos that the Wen , Nbe seed leg- gestismen wee Se eh, was ) this ow, reemen junto ? (fleas, bear.) The cerminionete had merry the power is remsly this state of think bet they bad re to de OD, nod by *tit marl err - hoses ppeeasr mw to the week beer Amnion to &mho. ami leneri. le aboolete Mo. (Ms, bur.) Tho semmimisoen might allege that they hod net widest methesey, U they had not it was their dry le spry to kw riditirel hese. Now, when Lersj , wei away Am the !reek el Ireland, the. that be hod write& a crude r& Mot hod that tommias dose t They ked gene to the meth, awl be an dermas meet tell them that then us ellseatien was required. Why bad they net gene to the set. (User, berar.) Tire the area et tertian was era raof, there • diminstion we. abort* mammy to w:eking et the law. The Real of Oberdes had been seed • dictator, bet then was • worse dionloothAp in the trismeocate. The peer-law ormaimissme had bad Ike Wee of die people me the prozZ ed o i f the leadlore at their disposal, end be tem with having Mei with bell. IM tikes remember that may of the - whom it wee s a r i t ute w-aspesed to fez fat the relief the pont of aims were themegre asiesely • we seer yr them wren If the }thirds of the mess sew wen roe atimer ear earned out, he did se= what we to prod their carrying oat rimy spurt it relesty. Meer, heat.) He would tell the arse this if are err in the poor law each as he hid soggirei wore net seedie—if something were not less beyond lie sem= sep poi tz te : vicious system wide bad sod in, would bring down other dere of the country to that state of pauperism whisk it woo sought to relieve—he for or would return to the tee the noble led would thus impose upon him. He weer set think is.. bit duty as an Irish bet he should oe bask with the calmness of P l ai mprir ; and Niteassesd by hope at all—by the hope only that the isseintere would by sore msesere rid him of y, the pea of whir, when it could no longer be he l d with =is to the resistor or the tenant, would become in (Hear, hear.) flit W. BARRON impaired for Ireland when the only nerdy that could be eraggestod for her many wee ad ditional tram Pr - Mit pert if this issesnr" rimed he shored go hen and age every man is kis employe mos In ere it Wig able to work any good for his slaty ter thentioni for all his exertions In carrying out =tle the purpose of giving employment wee rim eat them not supper eat thi use Y eld woad be esnAmed to Bd. ia the pound in emount ea to Sr rine in anties The creequenese of Mier a see would seroney be, to raise up a fe = of and nosier, appellees in Ireland, • at Womb the marbem ef that how; and to in crease the mode of bearer rims by twenty or thirty. Lord CAATLIZZILGII whited to say a few wore, leareuk se be was memested with the meth of Ireland, a pert of the errantry that would be Nlseriously nested by the present rearre. regretted very musk the sort of Irish ten the debate had taken ; he aleergred that the noble lord TA the head at the government hol net been permitted to P a troclus his resolus, hems if be bad hoc. member, would have been very milt relieved hem the ember e a d warn which metierlabored under at preest. He obje. iti d to the were Oa tummies SI Nam pro , , Gee d. There up= that tsosmtteo I Uri* imeabe• te . 6 f rom w et t e r, 6 frog liaester __ hem Hants, ai d 1 f rom erns& Be believed that ride we * sad already bees gins Wire that 011111111tts, to the effect that the rate la ail weld not be Gerrie& late Watt ia the dater eastatay ;and he deeply emitted le thia that*. moat pre paid's wee dienetrica4 append toes et Mimes eak42ertiellW, is whidt Ibe miss betwesa awl see beiniel 1e be euselei eat He urea the getemmeat w latish's, empliteesive abeeeent mei aft N *aim themeless haled the seggettisee et etemillese up del% sal le mewed than that it wale east as Nadi se Whet She ates la mid es the rats itesii, evea U it were eel lamed. mid peetiblyreelise. Af s brimeedmfrost Mr. P. Pam, Mt. J. (YOONNELL said that nothing pmetitable could arise oat of tot resent diseesakm, es it only stead in the way of the statement of the goventmeat pien, until he heard which he MOM not give moralism (Rear hoar.) Mr. CLIKIRITS was aim of opinion that they should hear the etaleneent of die noble lord before they reseeded to disgust the eabjact. Col. DIINNE opposed the motion. Although the propo sition wee net before them officially, he was sure as one in that ham was ignorant of it. (Hear, hear.) H. thought they were teas good a position to discuss the question as it the sable kid had made as hoar's speech upon it. (" Oh.") At host is as goad a polities to resist the reposition. (Laughter.) Mr. KERR maid that so strong a feeling existed against the proposal of a rate in aid in the part of Ireland he repre sented (Downpatziek), that if the government succeeded fa earryieg it, every gentleman in the meaty holding the can mission of the pram would throw it up. Mr. OROOAN said the offset of going into committee now wadi be to sassed= only a part of what ought to be the plan of relieving the Irish salomwhich was not only to vote a rate in aid, bet to Hs a maximum rate. • • Mr. REYNOLDS, referring to • statement on the other side, that this rate in aid would shako the loyalty of Ulster to its foundation, said if this were true, the loyalty of that provines might be called sizmiony loyalty. (Laughter.) He had always understood Ulster was a very religious province, and was still more remarkable for its loyalty and love of British connexion. It had always opposed the other three provinces in their demand for Catholic emancipation and repeal of the union ; but now it was said the rate in aid would convert these ultra-religious and loyal subjects into something link short of rebels. (Hear.) Thair loyalty was nothing but conditional loyalty, if it was to be destroyed by the proposal to relieve their starving fellow-countrymen. In the name of his constituency he protested against this being tree. The highest rate ever laid in Ulster was 3s. in the pound, so that they could sever be injured by this rata in aid. He had voted for it in committee, and should de so mow; but only because it was absolutely necessary. He was told that no more imperial votes for Irish distress would be granted ; sad knowing that the rates collected in Ireland last year amounted to 1,600,0001., and that twenty on. unions were in a state of distress, he would ask the gentlemen opposing this vote if they were prepared to let the people die in the midst of plenty, with food at a drug prime (Hear, hear.) Another reason for voting for this rate in aid, he wag tired alluring his country men celled beggar , . (Hear, bear.) Ireland was perfectly capable el supporting her own pauperism, but to do so she must be fairly treated. When repeal was asked for, it was said Ireland was as much part of this country u Yorkshire, and So be treated the tame; but now they were told that, h coonected with this country, the were y separated from it. He would vote for this rate in aid, on condition of its being spread over a large mu tate of property, including funded property, annuities, and other kinds of property. This country received nearly nine mililons per annum from absentee rents; and it should be remembered that that amount paid the income-tax to this toiletry. (Hear. hear.) Sir W. VERNER reminled the house that the loyalists of Ulster had twice received the thar ks of parliament for their loyalty in times of disturbance. Sir L. O'BRIEN said that though he voted for this reso lution in the committee, circumstances to re so changed that he must now withdraw that support. He voted fort in the committee as • part of a series of masseur's; but he must now decline doing to till he heard what other mourn it was to be coupled with. Sir T. D. ACLAND said they could not at that hour of the night come to a vote on • resolution fraught with so much consequence. (Wier, hear.) He would rota for going into committee because he was milieus to hear the statement of the noble lord; but he wished that his vote should not be considered es indicating any opinion with re gard to the resolution itself. He thought it better to take that course, than discus • subject of such importance in the rambling way that it had been dimumed for the last five hours.. The house then divided: For going into committee Against The house than went into committee on the proposition for imposing a 6d. rate in aid. Lord J. RUSSELL said that he would t )-morrow (this day) move a Tot, of 200,0001. on account of the naval esti mates, after which be would make a statement in com mittee oa the 'abject on which they bad jest now divided. Mr. HERRIES wished to knew whether the question of the navigation laws would be brought on on Monday, 'op posing tkat the debate on the Irish poor-law was adjourned ? lewd J. RUSSELL hoped the debate would be concluded to-marrow eight. If nut, he would bring on the question of the navigation laws as at first advised. CA. 811THORP objected to the mode of voting mosey on ...oast. TM bows adjesreed at bolt -pod sac Zia OrpreM TM sidle Orr the West ame et Atria and Wedeln will be sesto se to ~big of the the Nom& I&ttere to be add:med. "B 7 FULL listAlse." The meth ter /Ise. lathes. IWO% dd4, awl Gtbnlter will be saes tq cat the tittle 7th Peed. ne MAIIIO Nareallka, as tbe easerrairms. Bap. Mos, IberlArrel, 80. will M be made up es the assize =fib Ilan& TM mils tare Pettish Here Swart/ o r ** the Vella State% will be made t* es Os malog if tin Ilth ne Wfla kas aulseles Ihseeme. Mere, New Oeteess era Mdse. eel these Per Jems.dearlerages. NSW Oreseak CBI. Pr" will M mode up es the numbs d the 17th al Mara. no Olbr•neh MX% anew tbe ekes Wee" Mk" Oeyles. Ind* Bespiess, eat Mr. etheoptes,w i t M aide up es Me veenies et the e. leth Minh. Tbe hr New Ileeth Wait Tee Diesses's Lead. awl New Isehed will be mat up as the mars( of the Met )lareh. MOW NAT= AT LONDON 311001. Tow Dee —NonhlA,t, I ola. .or 7. Atemuom./ mlo. past 7. TA-101100.-1 1 .. 11, 11. 4 WA. riot 13, Albsomma.lll pa S. LONDON, FRIDAY, MARCH 2. 17 we have not contributed towards delivering the Protectionists of their great financial scheme, we may at least claim the merit of having divined it. A new manipulation of our local taxes, a committee, sad some dealing with the malt tax--such were the traits we hazarded on supposition l and true they tent out to be. Bat seriously, who could have imagined that • numerous and weighty party could have come few ward with a proposal so null, so hypocritical, se merely wordy, so utterly devoid of bone and mom* so completely miscalculated to afford to fanners one grain of relief, being a mere mouthful of moonshine to thrust down their throats, filling their imaginations not their bellies ? Here is the mighty scheme TIM the whole of the local taxation of the country for molioal puma ilk mainly, if not exelasively, ea real laysad bens with undue severity ea the moupien of a nonage injurious to the sarsealcaral Mumma of tie may, end otherwise highly impolitic sad unjust. Vat the leathip of this apportsonment is greatly er tagengid by the hot, that nom thus ere-third et the whole swam derived ken the Iseise is levied apes agricultural by the recent changes ia law, to direct mia the untaxed produce of gonna °pantries, 11 . 7=p_odusr being thus sahjected to • harness of teasties. earn. by penny enhancing the price, the Mead ter Baia produce; and to emu:same which Win sisedy imeises with the seaduct of his trade and industry. That thk Imes will mire itself into a committee of the whets been, to take late its wins consideration such IMMIIIIINO es may MINNS OM grievances of which the owners eel eserapkre of reel peeperty thus justly complain, end whisk may establish s men equitable apportionment of the make berthens. The ilksedard claiming this • calm and dispassion ate eseeidsration.” The Dietwierd need not be ahead. It will destroy no calm, save that of the Aide muscles, and awake no puska, unless the farmer's sense of being humbegged should produce any thing worthy of the name. The hornet agricul turists went to Old Bond-street for egret in ob taining the repeal of the malt tax. They were bidden to wait, and what have they waited for P A motion of the protectionist leader, delicately alluding to the malt tax, blushing even to name it, and bringing . it forward as a mere secondary masker, a trifle, not weighty in itself, but aggravating another evil—viz., local taxation.l One would think the farmers themselves knew beat where the shoe pinched. It is not of poor's rata they ask to be delivered. They took their farms, well knowing what poor's rates were and were likely to be. But the malt tax certainly never entered into their eakuletious, nor could they subtract it from rent. The malt tax weighs upon the knees enterprise and the labourer's comfort, and troubles not the landlord in the least. But the pw's rate comes to him. And now the landlord itaaWor ward to preserve the malt tax, or to use it merely as a standing and irremovable grievance, whilst be pro- poses that the burden of local taxation should be re moved from off himself, as owner of the land. It is difficult to conceive more unblushing selfishness, or more transparent trickery. The question of local taxation is one which we have no objection to see reconsidered. We have no objec tion that each clam should bear ite proper burdens, and THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 2, 1849. support the poor which it creates. But what benefit Mr. DIRIABLeII proposal could bring, even to the land lords of agricultiral districts, much less to the farmer, is what we can in nowise conceive, unless a national rate be part of his scheme. And eves then, we are not certain that purely agricultural districts would be pins's. At all events, the examining, metering, die- easing, and arranging the reform of local taxation mast be an affair of years, and the bringing it for ward is simply a tick for shelving the repeal of the malt tax, and putting the farmers off the scent of practical relief, to pat them in pursuit of visionary and unattainable aims. Mr. Disissi.fs motion is, in truth, a Aegis in poll tioal;seceicoy and in the science of taxation, fitter, in its present she, for a professor's chair or a statis tician's closet, than for the bulimia of parliament. It, however, serves the protectionist purpose, which is to sow enmity between town and country, to set rustic against civic class, to prevent the aggrieved of the one from trusting to the reformers of the other, and thus keeping the great middle and industrious class divided, so that farmer and citizen may not make common cause against the prodigality and jobbery and eternal trickery of those, who monopolise the government of the country and tarn it to profit. But however we may pity the farmers and compas sionate them u the most egregious dupes that ever followed blind or interested leaders, we still rejoice in the diecumion. Sorry as we are to see the repeal of the malt tax barked, and that by the farmers' friends, still there may be light thrown and good elicited by a discussion of the question of local ' taxation. Too much cannot be said or debated at the present time on the subject of taxes. The more the public probes them, knows them, feels them, and inquires into them, the better. Let all know and say how much they are burthened, and we will be bound that it will not be long possible to continue our present burdens. The prr tectionists are not prepared to lighten the mass of that weight. They would merely change it from their own shoulders to others' ; to shirk their own share,not alleviate the share of all, is their motto. They would not spare an admiral, nor a regiment, nor a colonial governor —no, not to save the backs of every English farmer and English citizen from breaking. Bat it matters little what they wish. All we ask of them is to stir, to discuss, to debate, to agitate these taxing questions. Public opinion will advance, and do the rest. Tin House of Commons goes into committee this evening on the navy estimates. Previous to being called upon to discuss the estimates of any one branch of the defensive service in detail, the House of Commons ought to have been allowed an opportunity of comparing its whole force and cost for the year with what the aspect of our foreign relations renders it probable may be required, and with what the state of the general finances shows the public can afford. The Secretaries of State (or one of them delegated to per form this duty) ought to have explained why so many soldiers, artillerymen, engineers, ships, and sailors WO required; the CHANCELLOR OP THE EXCHEQUER ought to have explained upon what grounds he thinks the nation can afford to support so many of them. Possessed of such information the Hone of Commons would be able to decide in general what strength of defensive armament was likely to be ade quate to the year's exigencies; and in particular whether, with to many soldiers, we might not dis pense with some of the ships asked by ministers; or, with so many ships, dispense with some of the soldiers and artillerymen. Of the 126,303 effective rank and tile in the pay of Great Britain (and the East India Company) on the let of January 1849, there were 60,360 at home; 27,775 in the Company's service; and 37,178 in the colonies or military dependencies. It is possible that of the 64,963 soldiers serving abroad, sad of the ships crews on the seven foreign stations, some may be in reality two sets of men doing the duty of one. This can only be ascertained by a preliminary exposition of the whole amount of our defensive requirements for the year : but such a general state ment ministers will not submit to the House of Commons; which is required to discusi the navy,army, and ordnance estimates apart, without the power to in quire how far one establishment may be made supple mentary to, or a substitute for, the other. This is not very business-like, but it is only in keeping with the refusal to put the house in possession of a general approximate view of the means of the year, before it is called to vote the annual expenditure. Mr. Harts and the rest of the financial reformers, must therefore, for this year at least, fight the battle of economy as best they can. All are aware that the first vote on the navy estimate will de facto determine the amount of ell the other votes. It deckles how many seamen and marines government is to be authorised to keep in pay during the year. The num ber of these determine how many ships government can keep in commission, what must be the strength of the central administrative staff, the cost of the various establishments at home and abroad, the outlay for victuals, stores, medicines, repairs, and works—in fact what is to be the whole expenditure. Mr. Hume, aware of this, has given notice of a mo tion that the number of seamen and marines for the service of the year (39,130 is what the government ask) be reduced to 36,000. This is no very outrageous re quest. The committee of laid elision on the navy estimates declined to give an opinion as to whether the naval force maintained of late years has been in excess, on the ground that its amount and distribution mast be re gulated by considerations of general policy, into which they did not consider themselves authorised to cater. Yet they could not refrain from delicately hinting that they thought the number of ships in commission greater than was required. It does appear, hem • cursory view et Lord Auckland's eleteseents. that whatever cause may have led to the ineresms ef famee s z=etiettler stake, what case the force ham lama there is too frequently some unfortmoda blames te fle sabsegesat redeMea. Thee it is ee that the disturbing". fa New Zeeland, piracy in the Mala ee yan Beam Wens' in italrlaad, all lead to an imam of tares sa the stadees eonnoeted with thaw lambda ; bat yet whea the sang her been detested and lastilities ere et en end, ether dudes ere Mad kr the ships, and the hem lam woe required to the eastlaganey of a war remains es the ressenent enahlinment is time of peen. Tann an weenies. whoa sash a demmeastrellea s nub power may be a wise ammeeety, bat it le le be howl that tams ereasend fog Medias may bo relneeent to with ahem sacs placed m dish impend ; and ft maims, t part herein*, • Jan diserami made. sad a Ira enemies ef aut. es tits pert of the home peerammat to replan the ads. Odin Geed Is sea a ram/ me shall nem the karate deer ammo* mad pant the distant bssisims of the mown without wi ping ea enaseessary bodes ea the finances of this country. The political view of the question, apoa which the committee banned to enter, is precisely that which the Rome el Commons ought to take. Our repre sentatives ought to take care that not one ship or man is employed men than is required. In 1838 ten ships were domed efficient for the China and India sta tion, throe of them at the least being parmanantl a g e o r a the Indian coast, and one shifting nately between India and China. At pre sent we have 'l3 at 14 ship. constantly en the China station. Yet the Dutch, whose pcamesions in these seas are more extensive thiamin, and who have a numerous constinx trade to protect from pintas, whereas oar commerce is exclusively oartied on in square-rigged vowels which thin pirates never attack, contrive to do with one or two liigatos and a few steamers. The Americans, who are getting all the coasting trade of China into their bands, contrive to do with two or three men-of-war. The Bpa6ings, who have recently given a genre check to Ilhe %oleo pirates, have no more. And be it remem bered that war force of 13 or 14 ships of war la increased by a strong and efficient daticluant of war-steamers belonging to the Sant India Company. The naval force maintained by Great Britain in them seas is wantonly in excess; and the some might be shown of every one of the seven stations. In 1996 had 18 ships in the Pacific and on the south-intone of America; in 1837, we bad 7 in the Pacifist, and 11 on the south-east coast of America. In 1848, we had 12 in the Pacific, and 14 on the south-east coin of America; and to them must be added 3 at New Zea land,",which are now to be permanently employed among the Australian colonies. A much larger re duction than Mr. Hums contemplates might immut ably be asked. The Americans have only a small fleet, but wherever they want a ship, we vs ere to see one; we have a large fleet, bat wherever a slip is wanted we may almost be certain beforehand that there will be none there at the timed is required. Ih is not the size of a fleet, but the manna in which it is kept in hand, that determines its iffitelency. Another motion, of which Mr. licit hoe gives notice, is that, agreeably to the refeemmundation of the select committee on the navy eetJawe at last etudes, the number of admirals trial ', be reduced to 100. lib. Holz to right in tine *Ain the sinourity of terial prfessiOns of economy, by asking so smell a OODONIDOII, and recommended by so cautious an authority. But the truth is, that people are beginning to ask themselves whether the Ame rican "stem might not be adopted with advan tage in oar navy, which is to have DO permanent officers of a higher rank than captain, and when an admiral or • commodore is wanted, to appoint one of their captains to hold the rank pro hoc cies? Our 0301Phle scram the Atlantic contrive to get their business well done in this way, and escape the nuisance of adhere who vegetate into admirals without ever seeing service. We have in our eye at this moment a most respectable country gentleman who was included in the batch of admi rals made at the last promotion, and who, to oar know ledge, has not been at sea since 1809—unless he may have occasionally performed the voyage from Leith to London in a steamer. Lastly, Mr. Hums prepares to reduce the dockyard battalions. If we may rely upon a statement made by Sir HENRY WILLOtIOIII3Y, the Admiralty in 1847 expended 72,3391. uon the formation of them bat talions when the Hoax of Commons only voted 20,0001. for the purpose. These battalions are merely a clandestine ad i tiou to the number of soldiers allowed by parliament; like the 8,000 marines to serve on shore in the navy estimate of this year; and like the (so-called) Irish police, which is a well-armed and disciplined corps of infantry, numbering on the lit of January, 1847, no less than 11,011 men, and costing the nation 492,8811. The number, and consequently the cost, of this force has since been increased. GERMANY. OPENING OF THE PRUSSIAN CHAMBERS. THE KING'S SPEECH. Beaus, FEB. 26.—This morning the space in front of the palace was crowded with people, carious 0 see the deputies on their way to the " Weissen-Saal." A few of the more popular, as Unruh, Temme, Waldeck, &c., who came on foot, were greeted with vociferous cheers, and could, with great difficulty, stem the besieging throng of their admirers. At a little after 12 the King, preceded by the Court'Marshal, and attended by the princes and a nuateroui suite, entered Ihe hall, and was greeted with three cheers. He took his seat on the throne, the princes standing on the right, and the ministers on the left. The President of the Council, Graf Brandenburg, then handed the King the speech, which the latter receiving, seated and with his hat on, then read : Gentlemen Deputies of the First and Second Chambers, — Events, which are fresh in the temsnamne• of all of you, obliged me, in December of lost year, to dissolve the W mm 17 called to frame the constitution. Immediately after. wards, convinced of the indispensable necessity of the final re-establishment of a firm public legal situation, I bestowed upon the country a constitution, through the revisions of which my promises, made in March of last year, have Wen faithfully fulfilled. Since then Us excitement, which pre vailed only • few months before through a great portion of the country, has given way to a more quiet tons. Public contlienoe, before so deeply shakes, ti by degrees returning. Commerce and industry are beginning to recover from the erippledi state which thrmtened to terminate in their utter ruin. Penetrated with the solemnity of this hour, I behold the members of both chambers, elected upon the base of the new constitution, amembled for the first time around my throne. You know, gentlemen, that I have pre. rented to you a svision of the constitution. At present it lies with you to come to an understanding thereupon among yourselves and with my government. To my regret it has been necessary to subject to the state of siege the eap:tal and its immediate vicinity, in order to re establish the dominion of the law and public security. Re presentations relative to this matter will, gentlemen, reach you without delay. Besides the urgent ordonnances announced In my patent of December 5 of the foregoing year, have been promul gated upon the bass of Art. ios or the cow titution charter provisional oedemata's' upon some other subjects which he the public interest needed a speedy regulation. In partisan through the manifold urgent propo , itions for the imme diate reform of the relations affecting the state of the west ing classes, I have found myself obliged to inns two perri sena ordonnances for this purpose. All these ordonneness will be presented for your approval without delay. You will have innate to occupy yourselves with the dis onie.ion of several laws, partly those necessary for the GSM pletion of the constitution, the projects of which will mask you by and by. I recommend especistly to your most we ful deliberation the projects of the new ordering of cun mune', of the new circle, district, and province arrangement of the law of instruction, of the law upon church patronage, of the Somme tax law, of the land tax law, as well as of the law on the remission of crown dun ' and the abolition of cer tain of these without compensation, and on the erection of savings beam. In order to realise the independence of the several religious communities declared by the constitution charter, the re quisite preliminaries have:looen entered upon, sad the progress therewith will be as speedy as the weightin ess of the subject allows. The estimates of the states revenue and expenditure for 1849, which, according to the constitution charter, are made public before the entry of the account year, will, together with the requisite elucidations, be laid before you for your approval. Your will thereupon observe, that notwithstand img.the diminution to be expected in the income tax in com paresoa with the foregoing year, the requisite increase for several branches of expenditure for public works namely, will be covered without fresh Impositions, and without using anew the credit of the state. Of the expenditure of the voluntary loan of fifteen mane= of Stales raised by authori sation of the united diet, an account will be rendered to you. ' ' I have to acknowledge thankfully and with satisfaction that the readiness with which the inhabitants poisoned of means, frees all parts of the country, and all classes of the people, amid the pressing circumstances of the time, inte rested the moelves in this loan, has rendered unn re course to other nom costly measures. Also upon the et Tremor, bends by enact-nation of the united diet, and awn some vaessaree in connexion therewith for the of depressed Industry, will closer information s e lai d before you. By these means it has been 'sowing to prevent many heavy dilutes, which would have had a ruinous 11110- tion upon larger districts and whole provinces, and to hold ' up the manufacturing industry throughout the country. The budget for the year 1850 will be submitted to you together with the bin necessary for its establishment, as soon as your deliberations upon the taxation bills before you ' mepts. advanced so far as to afford a base for estimating the re cei The completion of the country's mans Gide/ewe has bees uninterrupted notwithstanding the heavy calls upon Me public purse for other objects, and Prussia may look with confidence upon her army, whose organisation, warlikemem sad devotion have been maintained under the sever est trials. The intimate union of the German states into a federal state continues to be the subject of my liveliest wishes. My government has with sincere real worked for the attainment of this great object, for which Prussia will not decline even sacrifices The way for all the Games princes to come to an under standing with the German National Assembly at Frankfort is entered upon. My government will continue its labours in a likes/nee. I seed not, gentlemen, remind you how you eau ee-spente for the attainment of this great aim. The resent Mae of the negotiations for peace pending be tween ihe previdesal antral government of Germany and the aim el Denmark justifies the hope that the differences by whin in the foregoing year peace, and with peace trade and estlestioa were antarrupted,will soon be settled in a con 'Maw maser. The peaceful and friendly relations of my movenment with the remaining foreign elites have suffered no dinmitemse. Painfully I bemoan the loss at a prints of my royal house, who a few days see, in the bloom of life, was withdrawn from the gnaws calling of devoting his strength to his emery. °unleash rine flat and mead chambern—The father land sellesieneW with enflames, from the working together of its represselethes with my government, the emanation of the rembeliabed lawful order, that it may enjoy esessitia laismi libertine and their quiet development. The pressen= {dame Oinks sad of lawful order, the twe 'mammal mains= simian welfare, will ever be the edam of nay eserineGase are. I mutt in this task upon your nimport. M 4 year suavity, with the help of God serve to elevate the hewn GM ging of Prussia, whom people, in intimate union with ash pdaen have happily overcome many a heavy ' time r sad to wpm for the narrower as well as the broader htliehmed, a peseatal and blessed future. hike the lag had coneledea, Count Branden burg odd : " I &dere herewith the Chambers to be emu% and I invite the same to amiable in their several assigned losalities under the presidency their minor members." He added that it had net been possible to get the buildings ready against this I day ; but that they would be ready by ten to-morrow morning: a strategical against being assembled in the' palace. The sitting closed a little after 12. The next is fixed for to-morrow morning. Meantime the de puties who have seen the localities 'signed to their deliberations protest against their uninhabitable state, which no power of stoves can fbe the monied remedy. The extreme left smell a plot to kill them with theme. It is possible, that on this account some de lay may take place. Three cheers were given for the king at the break 'tug up of the sitting, which he acknowledged with salutations m he retired with his retinue. The point of the speech which drew most attention was the paragraph Which related to the German union, to offset wille d Truths would make sacrifices. ,On the 'Whole the speech would have been more ea *ummto'i, y if the Ying's word were better worth , or h i s 4°Cuoter lees known. As it is, four of his former apaches are, I understand, at this moment being printed, together with significant comments as to the way in which the pledges therein given have been redeemed. Meanwhile everything is very quiet. The ministers are all honey and sugar, fishing copper opinions from all molts of men; and the opposition has greatly abated of stiffness, sourness, and fierceness. SAXONY.—Accounts from Dresden of the 26th nit. announce the formation of a new ministry conse quent on the resignatioa of the previous one. The new ministers are: Dr. J. Held, Minister President and Interim Minister of Education and Worship; Von Beast, Saxon ambassador at Berlin, Minister for Foreign Affairs; Wernlig, Interior; Von Ehrenstein, Fleenor. The retiring ministry have published an address, giving as reasons for resigninf. when votes of confidence in them had been transmitted to them from all parts of the country, that they did not pewees a majority in the chamber—a sufficiently:good reason for their resigning, and one that it would seem rather useless to publish. In the sitting of the first chamber on the 26th, Dr. Held gave out the programme of the new ministry. BAVARIA.—At the close of the sitting of the Chamber of Deputies at Munich on the 25th ult., M. Von Heisler announced that the King had resolved to adj turn the Diet for some days. His Majesty's reasons were that the ministers having di termined to request his Majesty to discharge them from their offices, the King had taken steps to form a new cabi net, bat they had not yet produced any definite re sult. That it was desired to give the new ministry time to prepare projects of law to lay before the Diet, and because his Majesty did not wish to binder the deputies of the Bavarian Diet who are at the same time members of the National Assembly at Frank fort from taking part in the important resolutions which are being prepared there; and lastly, because the relations of Bavaria to the Central German power will be better defined after the adoption of those reso lotions. The speaker went on to say : The Diet will, however, remain united for some time longer, because a project of law will be submitted to it on the subject of the contingent to be delivered to the Central Power on the subject of the German fleet ; so soon as this project shall have been discussed, and the consequent restriction passed, the Diet will be dissolved. AMERICA. By the Washington Irving, Captain Upton, which arrived at Liverpool early yesterday morning, we have received two' days later dates from Boston. There is, however, no news in the papers worth tran scribing in addition to that brought by the Canada. Zbe Court. PRIVY COUNCIL The Queen held • privy council yesterday after noon at Buckingham Palace. It was attended by Prince Albert; the Marquis of Lansdowne Lord President of the Council ; Lord Job* Russell, First Lord of the Treasury ; Sir George 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 ; tlir John Hobhoueet, President of tee Board of Control for the Affairs of India; the Marquis of Clanricarda. Patmuter- General ; the Earl Fortescue, Lord Steward of the House hold; the Marquis of Breadalbane, Lord Chamberlain ; the Duke of Norfolk, Muter of the Horse; and the Marquis of kberoorn, Groom of the Stole to the Prince. At the Domicil an alteration was made in the appointment of sheriff for the county of Suffolk for the present year. Mr. C. Gre ville was the Clerk of the Council in Waiting. Her Majesty gave audiences to Lord John Russell, the Marquis of Lansdowne, and Viscount Palmerston. The court was attended by the Marquis of Anglesey, Gold Stick in Wait ing ; Lord Camoys, Lord in Waiting; the Treasurer of the Household ; the Via-Chamberlain; the Comptroller of the Household ; and Mr. R. Ormsby Gore, Groom in Waiting. The Duchess of Kent arrived in town at twelve o'clock yesterday from her residence, Frogmore House, at tended by Sir Oeoiv Couper. Her Royal Highness went to Buckingham Patios in the afternoon, and partook of luncheon with the Queen and Prince Albert. The royal duchess left her residence, Clarence House, St. James's, soon after three o'clock, and returned to Frogmore House. The Marquis of Breadalbane and Cu!. the Hon. C. B. Phipps had the honour of dining with the Queen, yester day evening, at Buckingham Palace. Prince Albert, attended by the Marquis of Abet tors, Viscount Chides, and Colonel Bouvene, honoured the Sacred Harmoaio Society with his presence at their second performance of Handel 's Oratorio " lsracl in Egypt," at Exeter-Hall, last evening. The Duke of Wellington occu pied a seat in the gallery with his Royal Highness. The Prinoen Amelia of Hohenlohe Behillingsfurst arrived at the Priory, Staamore, ea a visit to her Majesty the Queen Dowager, yesterday, from Fr-gmort.houss, Windsor. Mr. G. Ryland (from Quebec) had an interview with Lord John Raven on Wednesday, at his official real deuce in Downing-street. Bir John Pelly had an interview with Earl Grey on Wednesday at the Coloniai-office. Mr. Higham and Mr. Tidd Pratt had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday at his official residence in Downing-street. Lord Lyttelton and Mr. Wood had an interview yesterday with Lord John Russell. Lord Ashley had also an interview with the noble lord yesterday. Despatches were sent off yesterday evening from the Colonial-office for the Governors of the West India Colo nies, and also for the Governor of Van Diemen's Land. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yesterday and heard an appeal from the Curt of Arches, " Craig ta. Yarnell." The lords pretest were the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, the Bishop of London, Lord Brougham, sad the Judge of the Admiralty Court. The case wee adjourned. THE NEW COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF IN INDIA.—A short time ago the command of the army in India was offered to Sir George Napier, but he was compelled to decline this distinguished poet on account of the precarious state of his health. We are now able to state that Sir William G mum has been ordered to proceed to India, to mums the command-in-chief, in the place of Lord Gough, whose period of service hes expire d. —Globe.—[We were " enabled to date" that this appointment would in all pro. bability take place nearly a month ago, ea reference to the Express of the 6th of February will show.) COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL. CoxTINVANCI or THE SXMITIELD NVIOAXCII. A special court was held on Tuesday and yesterday on the subject of the removal of Smithfield-market. The following contain' all the arguments used : Mr. I. T. NORRIS, on introducing his motion, gm an historical sketch of Smithfield. Smithfield, he said, was chosen u a market because it was away from the busy haunt of men, in the fields, near the inner and outer moor, soon siWe on three sides from the country, and well watered, and yet people are found defending its ointinuance, surrounded uit is by habitations, on account of to antiquity. If &n -eatest wisdom is to be admired, let us have the ancient principle—a market in the suburbs of London. (Cheerio.) As a trading speculation, it would be impossible to make a worse use of your money, your time, or your lend. The net average annual income for the lest ten years has been only 4,6571. 4s. 746., whilst o n have spent in seven years 42,0351; 16s. 7d. to add about one-fifth more space, or as a gentleman trading in the vicinity aptly ex presses it, to extend a little further that which ought not to exist at all, and the pretence for all this is, that it encou rages trade. How then is it, may I ask, ta ut all the large traders in and about this market have put a petition into my heads praying for its removal ? They net only deny that it confers advantages, but treat its continuance as a great evil. It is a fallacy to suppose that it does good to trade—a mere flimsy excuse maintained with unblushing effrontery. (Hear.) I proves to canvass this point a little. On market days until 12 o'clock vehicles cannot psis through Smithfield because of the presence of the bu‘locks An accurate account has been taken of all vehicles through on other days; the daily average is nearly 2„ so that en market days it is fair to 'appose about that number have to go by some cir cuitous route. (Bear.) In consequence, waggons laden with valuable merchandise are detained, passengers from the east and north suffer ' and often record their dis content in the public jouroals; and to relieve the traffic thus forced into Cheapside and the Poultry, we have eapmded, or shall expend, upward!' of a million of money. hen a boast is made that the market sustains the trade of the district, it is right to see whether the con dugout consequences of a market in the midst of the city, are such as would justify the sacrifice its continuance en tails; the Royal xchaage has Its attendant satellites, dealers in bullies and changers of money; the avenues to the Bank sad the Stock Exchang e . are crowded with elegant shops filled with the most tempting articles of 1 , the most beautiful and gorgeous apparel • but what of trade gram up and is encouraged by th i s market 1 I find gin -shops, miters of butcher's costume, and dealers in the ireliments they use. The thieving lieu flourishes here. I see by the return that the number of pusses taken into custody for picking pockets and misdemeanors of every kind amounted in 1846 to 309 three times as many as were found on the same s in any of other part of the metropolis. The 8 eld plan sloes peeking of the entails together prevents the Poe* tiniof keeping the diseased and Waged from the l and healthy, and so contagious diseases are spread amongst the cattle. This is a most important fea ture, more especially as to sheep ; and since we have had large arrivals of foreign stock, it is indispensable that a p , rtiotionenaseisymtialepescaoivitadtw4tfonoruthrathiser fidowerftpectzs.:l4hhwessehriy.m)lonesTle cou l d men , disease brought from Smithfield. Is this the trade that ought to be protected by continuing this as a market ? /3.1 t, le r thera Te d :y y. genorhetvireailigpend.youtzness, sir,be doofyo.thueknooowurtthtot amount of of money which Omura hands in Smithfield ? I replied with an estimate of the sum; and be expatiated on its incal culable advantages to the nay. Why, that advantage can be est forth in a few words, and I will not omit a fraction of the gain accruing. Thera are about 160 or 170 salesmen, chiefly residents out of town,. who have the profit of their com munes' • there are five or am banken, who get a very small percentage for transmitting the cash to the local bankers and graziers m the distant parts of the kingdom ; and there are the drovers, who expend • small sum for gin, baked potatoce, bludgeoas, and dogs' moat To talk of advantage, from the mere fact that money " changes hands," is ridiculous. Vast rums of money daily champ hands in the rotunda of the Bank of England ; but I see no evidence that any por tion of it finds its way into the pockets of the neighbour ing citizens. Money changes hands at the gambling houses, but I never heard of any advantage conferred on the dis trict where hells are situate. (Cheers.) I propose, there fore, now to take, in conclusion. some notice of a Blue Book, the evidence before a committee of the House of Commons gentlemenin 1817 . The hors . they TiuiamirToT the voluminous evidence against, and of Mr. Deputy Hicks's evidence in favour of, a continuance of Smithfield, which ha analysed and criticised minutely. He then entered into the sanitary branch of the question, and quoted the opinion of their own medical officer, the gentleman appointed by the City Commissioners of Sewers, and also that of Mr. Childs, surgeon to the police force, both of whom declare that epi demics will inevitably continue while the cattle market re mains in Smithfield. Mr. Norris also proved, from hospital returns, that the drovers and others em ployed in Smithfield are the least healthy and the shortest lived when compared with men following other occupations. Some gentlemen, he continued, when they can no longer resist the weight and reason of testimony against the continuance of this market in the heart of the city, talk of a remedy by same further extensive enlarge ments. Why, at the rate the last acre has cost, you must lay out somewhere about 280,0001. to give the space the Board of Trade decided was necessary, and then However, only get rid of one out of many difficulties. (Cheers.) However, this is impracticable, for parliament would not grant us new powers, and without the ,auction of the legislature we could not 'Worts tolls on any new extension. As it is, we cannot collect the tolls. One firm are indebted largely for tolls and penege on the new part of the market, and they defy our power to compel payment. In addition to all this, we have also a fruitful source of difficulty in the divided police autho rity, the extension being generally made out of the city. (Cheers.) Thieves and low persona of both sexes escape the vigilance of sue set of men by running away into the jurisdiction of the other. Taking it merely as a legal doubt—merely as a question difficult to solve—and when attempted to get parliament to settle and define our questioned rights, what are our chances of sumse ? Loak at oar treatment when before parliament on this question ! In every attempt we have been foiled. In 1803. 1805, 18(6, 1807, 1808,1809, 1810, and in 1813 and in 1827, we were re fusel the help we needed ; and in 1837, in spite of our oppo sition and the expenditure of 7,0001. to oppose it, au act was obtained to establish a rival cattle market in the suburbs. A committee is appointed, whose unfinished labours will be again renewed unless we proceed to a remedy. This is the history of the question in the put. What are our prospects for the future ? Has parliament changed its well-known opinion since the appointment of this committee of the louts in 1837? No, certainly not; every step taken by that home in relation to questions of familia import, and In all matters affecting this question, have been in the same direction, and go to confirm the impression that " Smithfield must go!" But from this court we have hardly a single supporter. With four alder mni and two officers in the house, we are voiceless and unde fended ; but out of this court I defy you to find one who says that its continuance can be longer tolerated. Look, too, at the press, that great safeguard of public liberty—that mirror of the public mind—and see the opinions issuing doily from this " fourth estate." It demands of us, in the nsme of humanity, morality, and decency, to provide • remedy. Then, I ask, to what must all this lead ? Is it to be be lieved that. friendless as we are in the House of Commons, where the issue must be tried ; with such a multitude of an tagonists without—everywhere undefended, indeed defence less—and with all the talent of the press against us, that we can maintain our position, and continue to foster aid encou rage the vices and cruelties inseparable from a large market in • small apace, and that space in the midst of a city bout inicatself as the centre of civilisation ? I say, No ! Mr. Norris then moved, amiilstloud applause, in the terms of his motion, for a committee to provide • more convenient market place. Mr. T. WHITE seconded Mr. Norris's motion. Mr. Deputy HICKS did not stand there to deny a truth, and doubtless the driving of cattle through the straits was an inconvenience to the public; but then he had to counter balance that inconvenience by great public advantages. (Hear, hear.) Surely the trade of Smithfield, amounting in his judgment to eight millions sterling, =alive) rota benefit not only the immediate neighbourhood, but the whole of the City o f London. He was not aware what inconvenience merchants, bankers and others suffered from entering the City. Formerly they came in their carriages, and 'nob ibly might then have complained, but now all came in omnibuses or calif. But in discussing the question the court ought to be informed what was really at issue. llu hon. friend had not told the court what be meant b the removal of Smithfield, because he boldly told the court that by removing the market without establishing compulsory abattoirs, the public inconvenience would be greatly increased. Let it he removed to lalington or to Battle-bridge, and for that distance, be it what it might, the driving of cattle through the streets was doubled. He was quite sure that abattoir establishments would com pel the trading butchers of the metropolis to keep at least 1,400 more men, horses, and carts, and cans* to each three or four journeys daily backwards and forwards. Change, as regarded the public convenience, would be manifestly for the worse. As to the health and safety of the inhabitants be re ferred to the evidence of Dr. Boroughs, Mr. Lawrence, Mr. Paget, and Dr. Lynch, and also to that of many of the inha bitants themselves, all of which, he said, showed that Smith field was one of the most healthy sytate in the whale me tropolis, and that, when the cholera raged in the City in 1832, not one case occurred in Smithfield. (Hear, heir.) Mr. Gomm having seconded the amendment, Mr. ANDERTON was decidedly opposed to Mr. Nor ris's motion. He thought it would be impos•ible to find a situation for a market at all comparable to the site of Smith -Bel4. He had got up early on that (Tuesday) morning, and having heard that it was market.day at Islington, he had the curiosity to go thither, in the expectation of seeing large droves of cattle, but, to his astonishment, the only animal to be found there wan himself. (Laughter.) It had been said in favour of the motion that two-thirds of the cattle walked over Blackhiar's.bridge. What benefit would it be then, either to the animal or the dealer, to be obliged to go two miles farther? (Hear, hear.) But, after all, the buyers and sellers were the 'but judges; and were they (the corporation) to drive away the trade of the City of London, after the evidence given by those best qualified to decide as to situation? No,—it was their duty to preserve the great trade of finsithfiedd. Mr. Bartmocx and Mr. Beam' having spoken in favour I of Mr. Norria's motion, the court adjourned. Yesterday the debate was resumed by Mr. W. JONES who said that the objections which had been made against the market, on account of the public incon venience which it was supposed to occasion, were exaggerated. Mr. Deputy DIXON (Cripplegate) repeated that, as the father of a family residing in the vicinity of the market, he could bear witness that the statement of its inju rious effects upon the public health were either greatly ex aggerated or wholly untrue. (Hear, hear.) Mr. WYLIZ and Mr. ELLIOTT supported the resolution. Mr. R. TAYLOR said it was a gross misrepresentation to say that the corporation were interested in perpetuating abuses injurious tti the public ; but who were the public whose cause interested individuals were so prompt to advo cate ? If public opinion might be gathered from what took place in the House of Commons last year, it was wholly in favour of the continuance of the market in its present situa tion. Mr. Deputy HARRISON said it had been stated that the beset markets for the supply of the population of Paris were several miles from the centre of that city. That was true, and, as a necessary consequence, the markets were combined with abattoir* for slaughtering the animals on the spot. The effect of this system was to drive the small butchers out of the market, and to throw the trade into the hand, of the monopolists. (Hear, hear.) He trusted the trade •and corn. mares of Paris, and the mode of conductin& it :^ branches, would never be made the eubjees imitation in our commercial arrangemeats is this countey. (Cheers.) Mr. Deputy STACEY supported the amendment. Mr. R. LAMBRRT JONSIS said that, while the aorpo reaion had been engaged during the last tea years in p er tu n ew nV i y ng ng off a :ered a a nd eni , h th e arrAg e w de si nsan u S tiai d ai ed f th or as a i l i cto w E a r moll ial e a t ti w o f n u ba rth ht b a c e s cz op n7d i ez , by the operation of the railroads and the steam nt.mgatten. which now supplied the dead meat markets with • large portion of the supply required for the population. Mr. Pastime and Mr. 11. L. TATUM spoke in favour of flu amendment. The court, however, became hapatient,, in consequence of the praised= of the debate. to so late an hour.—Mr. Nonni' replied, and his motion MI Negatived without a division. THE MIDDLESEX MAGISTRATES. A meeting of the magistrates ca[ the county of Middlesex. took place yesterday at tha Sessions-house, on Clerkenwell-green, for the transaction of the financial and other butanes@ of the county. There was as unusually full attendance of magistrates. The chairman, Mr. Pownall, took the chair at 12 o'clock. The minutes of the last court, haring been read, the Deputy Clerk of the Pesos laid b.,fere the court several bills end other papers presented toroliament which might affect the interest of ,the county . lvs having been done, the court Proceede d to execute a m ortgage 01 the coun ty rate fot the sum of 23,5001. for ems additional asylum at Colney Batch, pursuant to a ref Anion of the court in the month of July lest. The money was ordered to be invested in Exche quer Bills. _sae couirry P 1160115. _ - Mr. MAUDE, the deputy clerk of the peace, then ore 'anted the report of the visiting justices of the House of Cor rection, at Cold Balk-fields. The report stated that from the Ist of January, in theloresent year, the daily average number of proionershad been 1,264, but on the 9th of last month there were, includir4 25 children,l,4o2 prisoners in cuslhdy, of whom 196 r.raTee and 66 females were committed for en the T p l Erfri', that ece cont a i n ed bur tke great st at one time. ( f ) 3 f o P gr ri ::: an enoess over Pa. number of poisoners the prison is capable of properly frcommodating, crested considerable inconvenience and oto".:n difficulty in finding sleeping room for them, which Wee only accomplished by . placing beds on Ike door and on the work boards in the tailors' shops. This day there are, exclusive of 22 children, 1,237 prisoners Ti. , 975 males and 262 females 243 of whom are employed in various handi crafts, &c. 'The report gave a satmfactory account of the general health of the prisoners,