The Express. — London, England, 1849-01-03 00:00:00

dm. Mats, I. Is 701.61. i yIIS WAAL to We Sera peas, raw, Oa OIL se Ns. ham lieel, pc Mies., Us. dl. es Us. W. Arrivals ithe Leaped nth Mums froth the Nth ek le the lot lath l ; Os Whet 1111411: 4 7 7c i.e.,, &al I Mak 1,794; Osk 3,997; 3,499 ; Plum LIU; laths Con, 17,667: Liana Can NO aslrds; 091=4 12,136 leeks; Flak 3,173 meth. OS meek T. 11.—A his emir et Whoa sad lierlyi ke tl a z =lihat Ike haw le. be per v. lower. is 41s. I. Us. ; hie ebbe. liOs. liesfey, bat sus, ST• ; Sae, Ws. per v. te the q. us lIWITOMPTIA /SS. 2.—Tbe weather bee sok biome it B seatiass we my leek he sappihe fate the easing Isr • time, is whisk ase the lamb nay be espeeted a sagas ems lowness. Lt ear .aka this mew rs 7 bed a nedessle ohm et Wheel fres the pews; lavas Ode Is Ikea Ma tha seat, ales wen own suited it listavdept saes ; whilst bonded maples ask a .4.gsky, et sa of is. al. ;.e v. Pail awe wee a hipelleed &mad, but ear spatellees wale aessisilr the balms dews; WW I may slum let that balm were 1.. priming this ow. sleabdess, Is the amp is the weather. Pew. er other sallies, we base Mae ark lift le with PLTIIOI7TII. Jaw 2.-Baps of Wheat at iona froes amen was NM nosh less fto the hop of anises and wailliwo Ni.swim assail of hos on swan, sad prism well soposia at Ili sessologi wu of brigs loft brag gad, raw ass Is. es Sis. per qr. Por. BALISSIIRT, Jew I.—Our assist this swami woe very Isopy i k a ppliod with Wiest, sad, tram the lissAveq wee *, Ms het taw days, it woos to ha a d auk WOW of lab; bat the trade wss del, thus being bu• t law bow" than the prisms of hot week, eases is premed oaks, were maintained. Barley suopiss ow was wen saweediosly largo—mash based tie damned, feria feet it was Mush W oawt with pwws eves nt as ..01 Oa the Main sf frees is. to b. per qr. Tie sass aims railed Is We Oat tra d d i s e i=or simples lose& Iset wash's prima but star were lower. But Ms Wanda prinolled is the t trade, but pikes Pees. W h eel, sane remark will apply to bib B il = lb. to 644. Earley, beet amilig, II& to 31. ; gritribas,llle. to 265. Oats, lb. to 214. Saw Us. to 40s. Pea, Mis. to 4214. Rye, Ws. to 344. par gr. Floor, 375. to Ma pot task. Malt. 7s. 94. to 34. per lead. MANUFACTURZEL—HuDonerinD, Jaa. 2. Our maw peer MO= wee. tar there bee bees a oust = 11/ psi sell ID A.; Weld may mere seedshree hob Oil dip dm Us hose is op use sow menthe pot. The elosead ter opriag seeds is ohms hes bees frost. fur Oh tine of tbe seem Plaids of all kinds Wm gese OrEeiekly, aad drab ash brews stiztares hest • pad Ina. at reauseratOr priers. Norwoo—We (Dory Pad) hoe auk pleasure is dear onerel et the largest rossheludeg memo le Oh lee esoloylas a large embers' hods ea auperier kind peek ands toile le likely es he rahhool is esker soda Oahe best afteripdas, labia will sopkty we *Mod artisass. Paveeta.—A War from Deesehierf map • "Poe ems - led • pest weft by is al die wider lido et weft psi Witilin die eadet. sal pistil:Wady la d die *dee Orevesheeek, Giesbask, Eseepea, Cbalii, asd IllbeelbiL The Seism ea& eager Misers is es Ode of Dekker, ere eke w fed soak" WOOL.-M laa. oar Lot repast, we ars happy te say dad Ism %Mem Yes ban 410•11 tam to say aaa west for siz aseathe wisdoms. TIM Wool tads is is a healthy sooditisa. Colesla at Is. Id. to Is. id. per Itt, arenas men slew, aM ths 'sadist is seedy/ very thin of these Wads ot Wools. Osman Wools, at Is Id. to Is. 9& per lb., have ism vary freely Main ; sad apes the whole es say say milk saddens that, tar ths is at the year, dim wet Was MOD dame. CATTLK—Newoants, Jae. 2.—The market Me day resweed £ mewled =pest. awl leek the Cattle is* Sheep were am eolp etwerkerr, but ateelleat i N. wasl4 4 The do wsed was she geed. awl l ay" hattler Si radioed two SL Id. te la IL pee ewe. Sheep. Si. hi pet lb. The Pipe were n T w ounieew, eel yaw hle Lads, at priest hew 66. 6d. to be. Man ~ d l l it very palate washed a. pet One. Air Teskovises markets see leg pp. gig, erpreo. 'Oa aft Iv naleka Os BMW% Mil BMW Am% we Is • sods up as Os oohs oills Oh ha 11s mato Ilssb ONO% Uha. Cedis, Olbrolhe lend. spas - ah vauslast the Ilh Jo& The midi. ohs 1111ffellist. se the lishurrowin. ihrypt, Ae" iselass, be, be sale up en the wish. of the 711 iss. _ _ ?Wilds kr Walk Nark A/m*4 NA tiro Carl km% will kr sok rip MI Os weft of dr Mk J. lb. rho Mk Mk. rorkillog Irriarra. Seism Nam." =La.kw Orkorb ma Mai" sea Welk* Orre kr 1 gm imair o 0111. NM to% mkt le orb ip raft rhe 1711 As. Ifs mirk kr albrikr. Orem OD kola 1.1 Ada. Corks. Wk. lisrelfas& NM ar, sir routimarker b. oaths *es Os sirske rt Smell* kik ill Ike sift fir Pow Illmk Worm Via air 1404. sal Mr risks MI be Nob w ea kr waft et thr Mg Jar. PION Wall{ AT LONDON tub bar pes ; Albessona. a Ma& PIA & tobsamm—ilabas. I INA pm II Akinws =la pm. b LONDON, WEDNESDAY. JAN. 3. IP me was embed to assign the cause of th strange sad limitable failures of popular parties in this mushy to manes upon its government theebeervance anatomy sod of principles ealesdated to alleviate the promo em the le is and struggling sheet% the mom could to pehtsd oat umbers ems is the *Aim of the psgaWperty itself, and is the whims secasioned by Wielded vanity or seek width have distracted east: . and sheaths, and led Dinh to sin views, and n theorise, atm of the most metaphysisel indeed at aiming at practical ends tar, daylight of common seem which skims for all sod was intended to keep all from straying. Let m only look at the Birmingham sehool—what Went" it has absorbed, what energies beamebsti, what power asstrafised. It has withdrawn from or roodwed stalkless,. and indifferent amidst the no current of opium one of the greatest towas of the kingdom, and ?creed its Ohm mew to give up to a entree' what was meant for otheldnd ; it hes, at least in the past, thorn them of their doe influent), sad weight both in parliareat and oat of it, and Mord still detracts from their power, and mass their assfulness. It is theakulable what the gory and the red-teps sobool hes owed to these theorise and halluchatioes, to these mare quarrels between the colour of leeks,* is the awes, whisk bas distracted popular &Wro th/a from true, vital, and palpable lots. rests. Symptoms of a similar kind, and movements that betoken similar schisms arta evident in many inmert and local centres of the nerd party. nos mss published a letter yesterday, an able me, frost the Secretary of the Liverpool N. aniseed= for the adjasbnent of taxation, in which the writer forbids gs to stir one peg until we have grit settled the esratroven, between threat and indirect taxation— nay, net soly settled it to oar own doggish's. bat brought round the world to oar °putties. Me. OM= even falls under the wsight of this gentle man% dispassion, boomers be does not go forth to hotfoot the people. He probably thinks that the people Sr. sufficiently alive to the hordes& which gall them and are sufficiently instructed to make an immediate effort for retrenchment—that rem effort, which, without metaphysim or political sconeney. would, on the instant. Wag prandall NAM' to their senses, and fora than peastacally into aim very path which the Secretary of the Liverpool Onefederation would prefer taking two years. lay, to prove by syllogisms and advance by preschtm, with est being me atom mare advanced to the desired oat elision than be is at present No maxim could be more true, than that a gauntry ought not to be taxed more than it could pay on a fair and emu scheme of direct taxation ; and had such a scheme been originally and permanently a national me, we amid never have expended, or been burdened as we hays tom BM the Wise has been allowed to gather, and were it now all distributed in direct taxa; %ice at case, the become of realised property would net Naos. And we am much mistakee, if eying ea paged in iadestry would sot thereby be leaded with last se heava burden as that whale sow remise it th rough the aireuit of indirect taxation. As it is, this great mutual wealth of the comb, is distributed is the shape of profits and of iadeedial incase. And we doubt altogether the feasibility el any scheme, sock as that of Mr. *demos's, for example, which sets oat with their exemption. And lhor,o.r=lises, one of the gladdest abserdi tii,;: f i r or w ould vemogreds philo os=ima who oboe industrial sa pogrom An the moment that m enu maw the seemat the eimelietty of mode°. tioq wow , fr Ipl M wousollyoopoti Wake, Ms oily toot Meek remiss from whams to draw revamp of the state is tbe moans from recerluiCrtv, which at the very in sight wool I be sad confiscated by it. incept- Mli:y to meet tech a dimand. That an adjustment should take place between the digermat kinds of income warmed is too obvious not to be in every one's Wad. AU pectins allow it and W diSsehy at pianist lies rather in the isles of the ' mode, then is the denial of the !abuses of the de mand. Bat it would be a sad mistlinetioa of the public marries to concentrate them ups& this cue point, and by so dela( separate and hitter the great =Wrests whisk might be tecteght to bear for a more anti= sesesurs The writer d the letter in ear hapremien of yestes• day map rely it, that to make the re-adjustment of die the great besinem of 1849, is anti oat of patilaammt, woad be simply throwing away the year with the public' and the seek= with the padiamset. The pastime' dillioultien of the ad jnotaisst nee, in the first insanme, peat. The Mails would give rise to a thawed MIMS. The mein would come forward se the eirogisea of dm purer holden of realised property, and the =dads= woad haw appoitimity of weighing the arguments of seallang parties, and drawing from both a for=reams for raiding questioae at economy sr, and deferaaf asa thaw respecting the equali sation of the pans But there k sae one eq, in which all can join, biome all andimetned, aid that is retresehment. Confine adaiders within the illemeitie chola of forty million of expeditors, and they will soon squibs and reform. Indira= and direst taxation are two shores of an napetnons river, of whisk the current now sets with violence spinet the indirect bank. Of this every flood sweeps away a flake, which, if not car ried away by the stream, is silently delimited upon the direct taxation shore. The washing away from the one are forming the sew bounder" of the other. And this natural phenomenon is taking plea of itselL without argument or agitation, by neemity, sad by the silent conviction= of the public, of podia mint, and of statesmen. Let the Liverpool Confede ration then avoid the =elm effort of adding Oxen to what is already programing. The vessel floats of it. self towards port, the wind is for it as well es the tide with it—why add or apply the steam-tug ? But whilst the theory sad expediency of direct taxation makes rack= ws of itself, and bide fair to bees realisable as the came of retrench ment, which in at the root of this and ail other finan cial reforms, requires all the combination, the efforts, and the energy, that liberal men can devise. Let them concentrate their ids= and their power upon this, which, if realised, mast have the widest results, sot merely on finance, but on the piece of the world, and on the predominance of parties in this country. Ws are always. es is suggested by a oornepo ode at who.. letter in explanation of the stare on Caddewits Palace will be found elsewhere, ready " to do the tallest justice" toot on the bishops. But in too mazy inehmese this doing full justice on them involves an eyesore of their own iajustice to the church. lUis t fir sample, we are very desirous of doing the " Mestjesties "to Dr. SUMNER, the Primate ; to his pirsomel piety, to his just moderation, and to his earnest devotion to those views of Christian doc trine whisk be holds to be the troth. But, notwith standing title desire, we entertain not the smallest doubt that the enormous income assignoeed by law, 16,0001. a year, besides a brace of palaces, to the primacy, M a pima of the rankest injustice to the church and to the people of Eogland. And if it be the fact, as we infer from the evidence given Ware a parliamentary committee of last session, that the pre sent primate receives 3,0001. a year, in addition to his legal stipend of 16,0001., cot of the Episcopal Fend, to pay the interest of the sum borrowed on security of the spoof Canterbury for the repair of Lambeth Palms and Addington House, the doing full jostles to that fad very materially diminishes the respect we desire to feel for Dr. Bunn= personally. Thus, again, we are most inpous to do the "fullest justice" to Dr. llavree, the Bishop of Durham; we acknowledge the orthodoxy of his whiggery and the soundness of his Omsk. Bat we think that the bar gain he made with the Ecclesiastical Commission on his translation to Durham, Whereby he has alien ated from the cause of church extension to his own see and behest sword them es& a yew—that the jobs (for they are sethiegleitjahs) he has sanctioned at Hoegblesda-liedeg asa Bids= Wearmouth—that his lova allemes bt Loados be his see—ors most un just to the ohm& And = it is with Dr. WlLexesoics, the Bishop of Oxford, in whole defence the letter which provokes these observations is written. We wish to do " the fe a Lest rimed maise "to his as smallest qualities ;to his eiheissibip, to his reedy eloquence, to heisfeel tests @obis refined sociability, and to his ele hespitality. But to do the "fullest jostle@ " hile seeded is digress, to Caddeeden Pales*, W edges grave censure, not praise er satisfaction. For the efrimeo est u r b 7 . Ow ae Ms EMT,/ gals Dio s* to Oxford is an avoidance of, and not an waver to, the charge against Dr. Waiter:tam That prelate obtained from the Ecclesiastical Com nisei= 3,8001. wherewith to repair the poises, on condition that all expenditure thereon beyond that ma should be defrayed by himself, " his exertion, or administrators." When it was spent, Dr. WIL -51131011C1 disregarded the imodition, which had been laid before parliament, and indoced the odentisidon to grant hen 1,3001, Caere. And that ems being also laid oat. he made a third application for more money—be asked for the further sum of 1,7004: but the eocamissies had no farther funds at the time to indulge him with. The Bishop of OXFORD, there upon, turned his application for a grant into a re quest to be permitted to. charge his we to that ex tent. And at a board. meetieg, whoa there were sixteen ecclesiastical commiseioners and only two lay commissioners present. this request was acceded to. Now, to do the " fulled justice " to these fade we are coopelld to mai, that they display an utter disregard by Dr. WILDWORCS of the conditions into whisk be voluntarily entered ; and that bare justice to the Church on kis part sight to lead him, or " his emeders sr administrators," to pay to the Eccleeiestical Commission the sum of 2,0001. That reinnded, we will he bold enough to add that, both himself and the twenty candidates for orders fur whom he has, aecording to our correspondents pro vided beds at Cuddeeden, will sleep all the better for the fulfilment by him of the terms on which be bad the original 3,94.101. to spend. ' Leaving Da.,WILDIPZOICZ, in the hqe that be will nesse or !este do " justice" to himself in this peed osier, we proceed to "do justice" to some others of W Weans on the episcopal bench. &fare, however, giving further instances of the sulkies@ way in which the Ecclesiastical Commission Ise waded, for the bent fit of bishops, the property of ehoweb, entrusted by the legislature to them for its administration, we must repeat our sense of the imperfect manner in which Mr. EVELYN DIMON'S IWO bete ineeetigated and reported= the =b eamed to it. Had indeed that gentleman been and paid by the Ecclesiastical Commission to do its work on the committee, he could not have mere efficiently sad zealously misted that body. The composition of the committee, the times at which it at, the order of witnesses chiefly examined. the delays that wen practised, the important quo te= that were shirked and cushioned, and the pre deiniesese that wee given in the inquiry to a mere leselquedion in which Mr. Dasisosi was pecuniarily iStemesei, lave not the slightest doubt that the what !abject . . of the policy and conduit of the iellldelesis Commission las been mod imper fectly essliesd into; and that had it not been for the interlunar eel energy of Mr. Holmium, something very like sews between the committee and the eons mild= info* have bees the result of the reference. ?be emednes vas first moved for by Mr. Dawn `the min of 1141. Lord JOHN Rueens. sweet= to the meekk es esaditioa that the names of the tombs= to ammo the committee should previously to its nomination receive the approval of the Primate, and that every ecclesiastical commissioner in the Mouse of Commons should be placed thereon. The committee, as is usual, consisted of fifteen members; and when to the five cocleriutical commissioners we add Mr. EVaLTX trar4lB73 - Y. Mr. Gismo@ E, Lord MAYON, Lord ASHLEY, Sir JOHN YEOL- Lorz, and Sir JOHN Y. Boutelt, we have thus a majority of eleven members from whom little that was useful was to be expected. In 1847 the committee did not commesee ite labours until the session was on the point of expiring, and it or mired no witnesses unconnected with the commission. The followi^g semi= commenced in November, 1847, bat it was not until May,lBlB, that Mr. Damao@ get the committee re-appointed ; it was nut until Ivor that is sittings began again : and it was not until August (when the attendoust on the committee was reduced toile) that the report was agreed on. The consequence is the unworthiness of that document ; ev, n thou4h it is • document condemnatory of the commission. Porthato Bis hea - - • Linsehi 11 19,406 Alleredeit et house ter inia Purchase of setae sad been for the Bishop of Beelesdoe Ahlitillel of residesee of B' Worcester 2 4 7,000 Altered= et resiilenot of of thchrd 6,100 'Of this sem, is be aur a, 27,0001. came out of theopiness! fund,tiso halsice(being raised either from tie silo of episcopal estates, or by leans on security et them. But in every ease of sale the church has been Idea* injured by the commission. For example, at Rosheater they meld the old Palace for 1,000!.; and Mr. 1102emsi peodused to the,eommittes a witting. who staid he would gladly have given 2,0001. far it, had the epplatinity hem sailed him. And in mg ease of purism the commission bas bought an sod dlisitheitagessis terms. For instance, the Mailbags estate mmeimbed of about 1,600 acres; it was offered wag simuniesion for 82,0004 who refused it at that prise; ea their refusal, it was bought by the very serenity they employed; and by those servants one third alit was re-sad to the commission fir 40,0001. Nor was this wute of sadisey aIL The order in esissil authorising the purchase by the commission of ems-third of the estate at this ex'ravagant price, stated that in the opinion of the commission the pur chase would be beneficial to the see, because there were on the property house, dikes. and outbuildings, which would afford aft and convenient residence for the Bishop of Lincoln and his succeuors.' Yet no sooner had the purchase money been paid, than the Eoclesi satirist Commission found out that " the house, offices, and outbuildings" were unfit for a bishop ! Nay more, they actually spent 13,3021. on them, of which they pied 6,000!. out of the episcopal land ! First, they paid 40,0001. for the estate, be cause it had a fit house on it ; then they spent 13.0001. because it bad sot a fit house!' And all this selling and buying of rotates, pulling down and bedd ing up, was notwithstanding the fact that there was in the city of Lincoln a bishop's palace, a Awning lease of which might have been bad for 1,5001. aad that a small expenditure on it would have made it an expel lent residence even for a bishop. But,according to the new doctrine invented by 11r. CHALK for episcopal use, bishops ought not tasesida in their episcopal cities; they require (delicate creatures !) country arr. So also at Stapleton ; they bought that property fee thew of Gloucester and Bristol for 11,0001. because it had a house on it, and all the expenditure which even the episcopal occupant, Dr. Mors, asked to put it into complete repair was 3,0001. Yet, what be tween the bishop's country architect and the commis @loners' town architect, and the Woods and Forests' arbitrating architect v . ho was called in to reconcile town and country differences. the Ecclesiastical Com mission by degrees spent 11,0001. on a new episcopal residence for the see of Gloucester and Bristol. At Danbury, it is true, the eommissioa bought an estate for the nee of Rochester, which had a house good enoufb even for a bishop, but then, again, to be consistent in episcopal waste, they gave 26,0001. for a property not worth more th an 18,0001., or 18,0001. at the very outside. First they injure the see of I Rochester by selling moth beneath its value property Ito raise the 26,0001, and then they lay oat the 26,0001. in an estate not worth 18,0001. At Ripon, in a fit of stern economy, they resolved the episcopal residence should be built for .0,0004, but in their weaker moments they went on exceeding the estimates until they open" nearly 14,0001. At this time the communion has to provide a "pales" for the new Bishop of MANcHarru; and at the rate at which they have been providing residences elsewhere, it can hardly be supposed that at Man chester, where of course the value of property is high, any swat under 20,0001. will be spent, unless, indeed, parliament should arrest their extravagance before the" palm, " is bought or built. We again give the comae/NM n the benefit of the fact that mach of this wasteful outlay has been pro iided for by the pmperty of the various sees, and not paid out of the episso fund. But the effect of their extravagant expenditure on the church is the same, regardless of the Douro* whence it proceeded : for by the waste that has been committed the means of the church hays been lessened. Howavas we may think Sir Pares LAURIN wrong, and very wrong, even in some of the very axioms and principal propositions of his theory of prison dlaciphne, we still must admit that he has mode oat a very good ease against the construction of the new City prison oa the Pentonville system. The extreme oath of the greater number of these committed in London, and the trivial nature of their offences, subjecting them to each short terms of im prisonment, alone rendes their consignment to sepa rate cells a waste of severity, care, and discipline. Sash &detentes of the silent system as Sir Parson LAMS have certainly tuoended in damaging much of the joresCipe that hitherto surrounded its groat rival—the separate plan Bet Sir Perna at the Mae time *revocably damages and condemn, his own favourite system, when ha establishes it as a manias, "'flat no reasonable expectation of Mersa lion of prisoners geDerslly can be entertained from any system of prison discipline." We cannot but consider this as at once an Minim and melancholy membeiss es the pad as ex perienced magistrate, the atogististe too eta dis•ziet to which three-fourths of the sokamittals area youth for trivial °Sans. If penal legielation has no ' , sandy or reform for each mobyects, truly it 'designee to be keeled from the council boards. But all than titreivels and oontrowersies, in which each ohampies so essapietely extinguishes his rival without setting up or exculpating - himself, only prove the utter de ' Ilciency of every plan or pracuee, be it separate or be it silent, and the consequent necessity of introducing some new element, some new power, to effect that which the presestmcde of more or lees breaking the, spirit of the coaviot, and crashing his evil propeas ties, without repining them by any. good. or ren ing motive., at, least of an active has by the avowal of its. eery partisans utterly failed in pro ducieg. We cannot. therefore, but recommend a mew fall and fair trial at home of Capt. Mecottocates srsheine of prison discipline and reform. Bari Oa* kicked parliament of giving it a trial, but we do not see any active step taken tar that purpose. We are not pre pared to asswer for its complete mons. But we do think, that so phileathropin, or haw of a new social idea, has such strong claims Ike being allowed a trial as Catania Kacoaocula. The great distinctive feature of his system is this. It substitutes labour the time as a punishment Instead of having • man arntesold to ten or fourteen years' imprisonment, he would have him sentenced to a certain quantity of work—which marks aga i n shall represent labour—to be worked a by the Jouster Wore !moan vegan hie liberty. Nor is this notion Captain Maoottoonth's own. It has long been tamiliar to penal writers and philosophic jurists. BECCARIA agreed with it.. PALLY advised it in very altar terms. In the chapter on crimes and punishments he says, "I would measure the confine• meat, not by the duration of time, but by quantity of work, in order beta to excite industi y and render it mere volontar/.* The ides, in fact, bad become a common axiosa in penal philosophy long being, any one attempted to apply it. Man/ other adopted it in turn. Archbishop Ill'aevaux eg • pounded the notion at large, and from him Captain Mecommenta conftsese that he acquired it. But the gallant sailor btu mastered, oahvged, real ised, and made the idea his owo. Before he took it up it was a mere theory—he posed in practiesighty. With the publicists, it mu simply. A- Ingestion of resson—the organisation of which mu at least doubt ful. lie made it a reality—gave it term, character and system. Whatever boaour sad profit the inven tion of the mark system may briag to its author, Cap taro Meconocirta deserves them all. His Ina loses the labour—Lis ought to be the reward—if th i ne be amt. fa those persona who are even slightly acquainted with the working of the gaol system, the advan tages of labour over time sentences must be ob vious. The labour-punishment p ces the criminal's fate in his own power to soma extent. It gives him the feeling of personal responsibility—which the or dinary punishment robs him of. The man reeving out seven years has no object but to murder the time. So far as his individual will and power is con:enied, the interval is a dead waste which he wishes to pare in a dream. He would be glad to sleep it ont—to fuel hie eimlere existence suspended—and therefore o ft en courts th e i t filetion which confines him to his Not the bed MOW& snub of our Itiesitiline spleen is the almoines diiregud for the value of time which it engweille. Time brumes associated only with the idea olf siMbrinp_and sensttsint. The man learns to regard it as a ke, end not as a friend. • Time was made for slaves —aye, and for prisoners too, he thinks. Its flight—eo swift to such as know bow to us it well—is to him intolerably slow ; he hates it, and this hatred becomes a dhutrons habil. And how can time be murdered ? Can it be mar doted innocently f This is a fearful gateau. Let =think of his own expedients. Let any one bow he limner killed a day, an hour, whisk Warmed between one sat and another. Captein Ktoonocsis mays truly that an aimless, d life, is a corrupt one in slaw any eireurastanees re rl a useless, worthlem, and enfeebling one to boot. AM yet weakness is the great came of crime. To do any thing to weaken the criminal still more, by way of strengthening his virtues resolutions, is irredeem ably abated. One might es reasonably lower the Met of the poor, and heap op filth in their dwelling, by way of security against dialers. The labour-sentence would call out the more manly and hardy virtues. There would be, under its dispel:- adios, so skulking—no miserable subterfuges to get pit et days and weeks. Time needs only to be OW dnred—work mud be done. The one appeals only to the passive &cultist of the mind and body—tbe Ater to the active. One inevitably breeds idleness, sloth, NM apathy—the other u certainly calls forth at dent e@ the habit of industry, self-confidence, and he Asenhas no:power over the progress of time, but he has swarths progress of wort. Ile reek as he puts forthbis that he is wagoning his own freedos--esd the time is developing the virtues whisk will deseretr ft If the hope of gain sweeten labour, the desire of freedom will be Wind to sanctify it. The end wig hollow the means. The continuity of the so cial life will remain unbroken—the work which won the mane liberty will afterward@ preserve it. The state of probetion will become an integral part of life—a brrph4 and sot a dark spot upon it, as it is now. Such a disdpiine must be he an eminent degree healthy and invigorating. The Individual is: measure cut upon his own resources. He is required under it to sot fie himself; and, if he ham not yet ac quired, will soon liners, the art of controlling himself. Under the present system everything is done fur the criminal. All responsibility is taken from him. He is unmanned, put ittes swaddling bands again, and ordered for, like an infield. He is rendered incapable of taking care of himself—with what results our gaol returns sad tablerof re-commitments only prove too fatally. This system merely demands a fair and fall trial. It is consonant to reamen,- end is authorised by the greatest writers on penal edam. It has been already tried—under obvious and fatal disadvantages—but with nth an amount of mesas as juetifirs a more careful experiment. The amoral sphere for such a trial is the deckyardla The hulks, ae sow administered, are a national esgrace- Any change almost must be for the better. These are the fitting elements for a fair trial—the dregs of cri•nina lity, plenty of bard labour, and vicinity to the head quarters of autho ri ty. We should certainly be skid to see Sir (konot GREY undertake to melte an ex periment at Woolwich, and allow Capt. MACONOCHIZ to conduct it under proper, and not improper, regula tions and restrictioas. Even•if it leafed, which we dr not believe, it would do no harm ; sad the trial would be burs to yield results and suggestions of value. " ROME, Dee. 24 1 . The utmost tranquillity continue► to prevali The supreme junta is in full exercise of the executive authority, and parliament carries on the business of the eeantrp. The Wane of Count Teremzo Mamiani isa slight impediment to the working of the ministry, but the scansion of Armellini and others to the cabinet compensate► fee this accident. The War Minister Coimbra°• is eery active in eeganising an efficient force, and his circular of to-day offers- a premium of ten dollars I. whoever shall enroll ten soldiers; the lucky fellow who can bring in twenty is epee forte corposel, thirty constitute the enlister a sergeant, and • sub-lieutenancy bethe reward of the youth who can muster 1.400 followers. " Primes Canino is furious at hie conga, the Presi dent of France, having disavowed for election pur poses "all connexion with the fins next door." The said President'. letter to-the Paris Nuncio is rather a droll document, when weveeollsot that Louis Napo leon Bred his first shot against the temporal power of the Pope in the insurrection which oast the life of his brother, both lade having run away from the house of their father, the old Kisg of Holland, Utake pert in a foray spinet Gregory. "The convocation of a Constituent Assembly le de termine the ultimate destiny of this territory, VW in a state of mature deliberation. The men at the helm here are not in. any particular hurry to precipitate matters ; neither does the Pontiff exhibit any very urgent anzlistp to bring things to a crisis. Ilk still exercises, in its full plenitude, the spiritual power which no one in Rome ever dreamt of infringing. Hs has ordered the midnight mess, usually performed at Christmas, hi be celebrated: at day-break; and it will be so held accordingly. "Thereis not the slightest symptom of a reaction. in r ublioiegin g . Those who speculated it. that eon tiagencybnow little of Rome or of the Romans. A vast deal of valuable indignation is vented in the Spanish newspapers and the Midi press. but the Romans beg to be a ll owed to govern their temporal affairs aftee dm& even faehion. They have found, ly the expel• ease of °Fishwife, that the sacerdotal kings, far hem detiving independesse in the exercise el their spirt-teal parer ftem the admixture of temporal sovereigalp, einettatty compelled to make that spirituel b erme nanidiary to the preservation of their crows, and te regulate the oracles of the Tatican according u it best suited the maintenance ef the fatal gift of Charlemagne, or Constantine, or whoever else is sup posed to have given them "the patrimon; of St. Peter." NAPLES,. Diu. 24. A few days aims there appeared to be every proba bility of • speedy expedition to Sicily. Such at.least was the general opinion. But the num received haft within the East i 4 hours Is of so startling • character, to menacing to. those who are wedded to the old state of things. and so tall ilzati, those who are panning after the new, that it is W- M say what turn mums may take—Louis Hardiest, elisebsd Purdah la Fun" and Globoid has sueasedul is Amin a ministry. Pupae are here mad excited by the intellgpme, and the libeled& are indulge' hopes of ltadaa nefem sad liberty. It A highly probe lle that the kite& page hem without rep modity cemaiderably the tamale of the Heapelitaa mellow for conecat tee as they may. **het lnimmilenbeed that theepeeition of the Ling of He lea A mock lam than it wee unto few weeks slue. I dineht lia =ttini affairs here one in a state of oscillation meestaferty Mite can only be determined by some ex ~lerodimgnise. liidnwhile, as. if constitutions were no better then they should be, end. sot worth • thought, our struts to day au mowed with eager faces looking at all I the wooden of confection , ry ; military patrols are parading in ell directiona to keep order here and there you see a 1^ 1141 1:* 14, • , Wen with chains and attended by a metier, @dishing dm he himself sad his companions in misery ; hundreds sad thousands oi beggars entreat you, by all the suits in paradise, for sq. rano ;" whilst hundreds are plunging, themselves into beggary in order to enjoy the hung eating " capitate" on Chriatinai-d ay. The ling I not hue ; he, with la the royal family, are at Outs, where he remakes foe the !Militia of Christmas week. Dazing his absence from eseta the Prises Hereditary, the Could of Aquila, cad Prince Sebastian were amnia deiced to perform the honours which would have been ren doted by his Majesty to his Holiness, and to follow hie, in all his walks. 'Phan is some talk here of the probability of mother forced han being required, but how it can be enforced, or where the money A to come from, it is difficult te know. If a few months sti ce such immense difficulty was experienced in procuring any portion of the loan, how an it be expected to enforce it with any chance of MCC. as, now that commerce is at a lower ebb .han ever, and that the vales of property of el kinds has so mach deteriorated ? On Friday eight a serious accident betel Cardinal Ostiai. He had been on board the Hibernia to pay • visit to cur admiral, when on leaving he fell down the hatchway, and Atli , " upon his temple received most serious and alarming Injury. His Beninoace has been insensible ever sines. On the night of the 20th other ammunitions of war left Naples' for Memelaa on board ships of war. The fort dei Cavalieri at Messina has been destroyed. An Engielt family, on returning to their house within the last few days, found the upper pert ruined, and 41 bombs and shells awaiting them. On lighting a fire in one of the rooms the smoke •weeld not mend, and on having the chimney examined, a shell was found in it which had not exploded. Amongst I other instances of general detestation to tho royal tro ,, p , , I m g mention that some little time sine-, on some soldiers having gone into • eel,, the proprietor went to Fil ugh ri, snit rated that if i , were to amain.* he would be either resaseinated or Obliged to shut up his as* Weis the Grunt • THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING UNITA-WI '3 " 1849. dilL . glWat mislay,* slow. , ' s 4 1 4 1 . i f. - : ' , ' la bil arh . aa'Wo lava aft am . who 11•1‘4,:. : . if.4.__. .4;. ! L e'ilejdlSAlNO . ingeons :to with ba c :ll;tt bresd a. t 4 0ata ya ri ffor da ro Tz , in ra dark thar " P It taorasil balsa tie iflosiot mak tr out Abrades of Mar for kin . llo° than go to school, or mind their work, or minis from " Poolas. 4 walls a" Neu l° ' Sill "! 44 • • talking. ___ ...._ ' I I .l f_ 1 ...111 .__.: • . • • ••• 1:-.. .~ amid ads' SS ISM to deal Ali eitbable raid. The attempt et the Wieti to suitqier will set he a man tiight la Minis there are a • 11#111 eil wheat are en sad Sily. here alma bansesdally Jima- Wid th : the seat Palermo being invested; and bow mar spapsads will it tan to do dun ? Besides lie, the Cala are set too quiet, nor is Haase dapped to lase chardwith such ea Spain Sae of isetilsadose it, Naples ma nes& be quiet. Ti bow if, this, soak • saber of trap as will be required to reds* will to weaken the anima ate spas it to awe NmYY ; sag ash is it to be &dad the eves at the last starred the Lag Gould be Wend en even bialtpartise a adept ash aunt& a woad spare the ihrtber et bleed. At Palermo, blades nutty Frau& and Leh It dais I tabs stood a eolosel a the British easier hes been patierearly active, sad has tads s tour of impales mad the Wad with the Wainer of War. Five per Cane. left off yesterday at I told yet is ay bet that our admired sad Kr. Tampa west last Saturday to pay their respeetato she Pops. They' returned t h e isms moist. The object of their visit was to tier his Holiness as asylum at Malta, should he be disposed to seek refuge on British ground. The Pope, to acknowledg ing the 'Uinta, declared it to be his decantation for the present to remain at Gaeta. BELGIUM.—We have dates from Braman to Jan' let Tb• Monitor of that day pionnelptes the law adopted by the Chamber, and autetioned by the King, by whim* the budget of the expenditure for 1849 is fined at 11,820,0001. in the department of tlasaas. By another law, provisional credits are opened in the budget for 1849 as follows:—In the department of justice, 1,000,000 f. ; department of ft. interior, 990,000 f. ; •public works, 2,776,000 E ; war, 5,000,0001. ; Anew, 2,200,400 f. To the sane department for divers services comprised in the budget, 160,0001 By another law, the governreent permits the entry of corn grain, whether by Belgian or foreign ships, at 60 eentintes per 100 kilognmass. Considerable' radiations are also made on the entrance dues on potatoes and other veritable., an horned cattle, and dried meats, Ilk. Cbt froum WINDsoe, TnEaDAT.--Prinee Albert, attended by Major-General Bowl.. and Captain the Hon. A. Gordon, Me the Cantle at ten o'clock, and arrived at Buckingham Palace at eleven. His Royal Highness left London, on his return to Windsor Cutis, about one o'clock. The Belgian Minister mil Madame Van de Weyer leh town yestarttsy for Windsor Cottle. THE GLOBE Newerarm—We warn the Globe, that until it addresses us by name, and mentions the journal that it attacks in wait column, and arias from in another, we Butt not notice it. (From last night's Gaisekto.) FOMIISN-OFFICE, DEC. 29.—The Queen has been pleased to approve of ISr Spencer N. Dickson, as Consul in Lawton few the republic of Chili. WHITEHALL, JAN. L—The Queen Das been pleated to direct Imams patent to ko paned under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom, for aominat:nir, sonstitating, and appointing Matthew Talbot Moines, Bug., to be a Poor-law Commissioner is, England, be the room of Charles Buller, I La...., deosaaed. WHITEHALL. JAN. 1. The Queen has been pleased to present the Rev. Gemini Gibb to the church and pariah of Gimlets, in the presbytery of /deighe and county of Forfar, want by the transportation of the Rev. James Watt, late Minima , thereof, to the church and united parkhes of Cortselly and Clove. OFFICE OP ORDNANCE, Jan. 1. Royal Rest. of artillery.--Otot. Cadets to be Elwood Linde—P. Milky, vies Govan, prom.; H. W. Hato& vies Ingilbr, ; C. H. °wen, We Oabb. tt, prom. ; O. A. Mamma, rice Tat., prom. ; R. Boyle, vier Ferrero. ea ; C. B. Pier‘ Woe Timmy, prom. • E. Lure, Woe lialawaring, geom.; 1.. M. Dunn, Woe A. OorZion, wm. • 3. IL Raley, Ws W. J. Waists., prom.; P. W. L'ih.triami, vise Young prom.; C. B. Mart, vice fretting, prom. ; O. F. L'Eatrsugw, vies moms, prom. ; C. L. H. Drrarnan, woe Peresywdok, prom ; IL knee, via Grimace, prom.; C. Q. W. Law lieu Wee Dale, prom.; 8. N. Orylles Woe °Writhe.% prom. • Hon. O. T. A. Ellie, Wm W. O. 8. Turatir;. a H. Champles, We; L. D. Wright, promoted. Corps of Royal Dort , seta—E. P. Do Ciao, rim Werra, prom. ; W. Cremona, vice Williams, prom. Royal Rey- of Artfflot7.--ttae. Lieut P. Willer, to be Init Brat, vice Janacek, geom. • Ilec. Lieut. It. W. Haim to be Bret lieut., Woe Cootie& pram.; Ike. Liimt. C. H. Ogee, Soho Out Wit, lift Wens, promoted. ADMIRALTY, Dec. to. • Corps of Royal Mariam.—Oistlmara Cadets Who Sec. Lleuta,—T. G. & Yeesaa, Y. H. oraimm.. W. T. B ararY. Or Oilk 0. Orlar" THE LONDON DOCK& Yesterday • hall-yearly general meeting of th• proprietars of stork is this company was held at the Doak koase, Primes-street, Bank; John Catley, leg., in dm tiL sir: The Secretary read the report of the director& for the half. yea:rending the 30th Dee. The number of loaded Adis which entered the dock* from *broad during the Lot hall-pear ' was 983, and their tonnes*, 238,428 tons. In the oew responding period of 1847, the numbers were 988, of 2f01792 tone • showing a decrease of be ships sad 28,388 Win. be only in proportion to that en perienced at the other docka The earnings of the desks during the 'is months ending the 30th of November last were 234,3001.45. la.; and is the like period of 1847. 229;1441. do. 4d. The expenditure of the six months wee 132;9071. 11. 94.; mid in 18411, was 132,8711. 16.. bd. Them amounts Maude the- income tea. The balance carried to prof t and lose was 228,4341. 124. 94. ; out of which the directors resonismaged that a dividend mlinald be paid of 2j per Gent. for the half year, requiring 90,9511. 12e. 44 , and leaving 137,4221. de. es the balance in tsvour or the company. There were 198,8624 11. 2d. of outstanding charges due to die oempany on goods in the warehowins The stock of gretkifa the warehenses on the 30th November last was 1 MUM r tens; and at the corresponding period of 2847, 1141110 tem No new works here been undertaken, the winalbeaue of the company are well occupied, and the so commodation afforded continue, to give setiefaction. Ike Crates* then observed that the dimanitioa of tonnage did not affect the earnings in the degree that it might appear to des UMW decrees* was to a great extent is mean and provision skips from the United Stain and Canada. There wee, indeed, nothing totes uneasy about on that amount. Ceseidemble seconunodmion was required, and the directors songratulated themeless that by their Im provements and finlargemsate they wee* enabled tenant' it. It was probable irewever, that farther accommodation would be needed. its wool trade required more warehouse room, 80 per mat et that branch of business haveno been dose at the Loader Docks. In was probable, therefore, that • farther extension of the watehoumas would be made, an the trade Rust be amend on in one plass, and the London Docks seemed to be best adapted he the inhale. He (the *lmitates) wosid sow more that the report be seceise.l, and that a dividend of 2. per mot. be peed on the imenspeay's stock for the bat year ending Dee. 31, and that the income tax be paid by the company., .... - Mr. Cunt would be glut tahave it more eap - lnity sat whether the directors had ao intention et in:amain' the warehouses and entericg inhunew works The CILUJIMIAN said thief had. Pleas and estimates had been codified from the company's surveya sad engineer, but the cost woad not erased 20,0001. Not a smiling more would be laid out than wan absolutely afteeseary. Some of the warehouses would he raised.—The question of the dividend, and adoption, of the repots having been earned, the chairman announced akar the dividend warrants would be ready on Tues day the 9th January. The ballot was then taken In favour of Daniel Meimmaliegen, Esq,„ as a member of the board of dilution. A vote et thmks was gamed to the chairman, depaynhairman, and directors. Kr. Colley returned thanks, sad the meeting atiPmened. COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS' SOCIETY. This institution, which was established ill the year 1600 for the pupae of providing, by annual subaeriptions, a feed for greasing annuities to aged and disabled :commercial travellers beim. sontributon teethe fund, eel/busted its 49th anninnary yesterday by a dime, at thallium Lovegrove.% the Loadoa Collsehouse, liodgete-hill. The Lord Mayor wm in theiduir, supported loy Cheriff Goodhert, Alderman Sir Chapman Mandell, the president of the society ; Mr Bevan, elle banker ; and about 40 of the friends and sup. marten of the institution, including the representatives of several et the principal marlin firms of the 'metropolis. The cloth having been removed. The Loan MAYON, in proposing the fi rst tout—the health of her most gracious Majesty—said that at the committe emen of a new year it wee scarcely necessary for him to lents their attendee to the happy state in which the advent of the year found this country es compared with others. Ilmpily, we lived under a comautud n which gave to all equal laws and equal liberty, and happily also we had • son reign Ws ly seated on the throne of her anemone, protected and sup ported by the &fictions and loyalty of her people, We had seen curing the pest year surrounding nations shaken to their fouadaticas, and civil moiety left in them without a chart or compass to steer by, while all we had experienced was the warning which the state of society In those countries gave as the consequence of setting clue against dun end the uprooting of settled institutions by violent metes. The loyalty sad peaceful demeanour of the people of this court. try during the past year, and especially ea one or two me morable occasions, proved that they were Handed with the free constitution under which they lied—end, in returning thanks for the blessings they enjoyed. he was sure they would never forget to pay a tribute of loyalty and affeetioa to that sovereign who was as distinguished for her love of constitutional liberty as for her private virtues, and whose greatest happiness was the welfare of her people —The Want was drunk with the usual , honours, as were those which immediately fAlowed —the Queen Dowager, Prince Albert, the Prince of Wal s and tne rest of the Royal Fundy, and the Army and Navy. The health of the Lord Mayor was then proposed by Alderman Sir C. MAIIIAZALL, end having Woad:oak with honours and acknowledged by his lordship, The Loan MACTOS gave the health of the president of the society, Sir C. Manhall, sad prosperity to the Com mercial Travellers' Institution. By the aceouate pro seated to him, he fogad • list of recipients of the fund, including 66 member., 83 widows, and 3eeildren, the aLow ances to whom amounted in the gen. to 1,6231. • year. Since its witablisuseat the society had distributed upwards of 80,0001. amongst its decayed members and their families. With such limited means, he believed no society h.d done men good. Nadas' of men were more valuable or amid in • community like this than the nautili nisi traveller.; and he hoped the de oi, who, whitenr the misfortu lee of late years, were Yew entering upon better times—would not forget the claims elf a body so useful to themselves. He • - • SA gamey ca s eided at . h ager wb e of tko c ow memdal Tram , ' filet this. a s that ln providing fir the yang they would sot forget t o — r e. w on twig old to the eid, sues were past labour, and v o w s to support themselves. He might add, in conclusion, o tio .: nroosmasmiladen to the sootily, that betas* of seas th r wareiedusaWl with lOW ore aad eosaosay. Aid. Sir C. Misaawars., in returning chalks, 'qu oi t k regret that the mule of the society would am alto. th aw to give the amount of relief orightelly Intended. [ lose lied kw decoyed embus woe originally, we were in. faemod, SOL a yearE:: week ;it is now reduced to 1114 a year. It is but tto say !bat toast of the *W awa are comparatively te.] While be rejoiced at the m u , purity of the school, he hoped tho pareat institutive "sold not be allowed to die._ _ _ The bealth of the Sherif of London sad Mic:ffinsx test thes gists and acknowledged by Mr. Shen, Goodson, sh e of spologised for the absence of his colleague, Alderson aid finenifFinale, who , he said was in avow ana l on t h e j at the Central Criminal C , ourt. The usual west/ ot stewards and the officers of Institution thawed ; a i d after the announcement by this honorary secretary that glot had bee. collemed in the room, the Lord Mayor seated, CHOLERA.—Yesterday, the following frail meg Wen reported to the Board of Health :—Walworth, I. fatal; Cbeleea Workhouse, 1 &anon, near Bury S t . la; mum's, 1; Carlisle, 2, 1 fat al; Ediaburgh, 11, 6 s a w . Gleam, _177, 76 fatal ; New lionkland, 22, 7 fatal; oij Kookiest. 16, 9 fatal; Bones, 3 fatal; Greenock, 1 tam. illazwelitown and Dumf ri es, 3 fatal. Thal new cas e s, 234; 107 deaths. THE CITY OAS QUBSTlON.—Yesterday a deptter Lion from the• inhabitants et Parringdon-Ward Without, waited upon the Lord Mayor with a requisition signed by upwards of 60D of the inhabitants, praying that his lordship would convene a wardmote for the coosideration of the qua,. Gen of the enormous price of gee in the City of London. HA lordship appointed the wardmote to take place on Friday. the 12th inst., at the Court-house is the Old Bailey, at $ o.'clairk in the evening. THE ARCHBISHOP OE CANTERBURY AND THE Ne.:• ri TIONAL SuCisTY.—it will be remembered that a few wesen • since certain neg .tintions were penning between the Na tional Society and the Committee of Privy Council, win* failed. Hence, by numerous members of the Nstio na l S e . testy, it was deemed expedient that an address should be drawn up for presentation to the archbishop, and Sgned pm.by as many as kit the necessity of requesting his grace, ma sident, 'to convene a publie meeting, ter the pa pose of considering whet measures it will be expedient to adopt..' This aurae having been decided on, a requisition, with the eigoutures of upwards of 400 members of the National So ciety, was forwarded to his ince, to which h e mi d, O w Rama reply annexed :—" Adefingten Park, Dec 27,1848, —Reverend Sir,-1 beg to acknowledge the receipt of an add,. es, which you have forwarded to me gaud by fora hundred and Sty-seven members of tie National Society, ant requesting me, as its presid-nt, is convene a public meeting, for the purpose of considering whin m.slurs it will be advisable to adopt in consequence of the failure of the late negotiations with the committee of council tor edu cation. l am sorry to disappoint the wi-hea of so many of the society's friends by declining to made to their desire. The requisition is grounded on an assumption which 1 Mad admit, that Me recent neastiations have failed. But, rode. pendently at skis objection, the ineonveniesces of say ninth discussion cedes terms of a @if& .11 and delicate negotiate* are teeming ad obvious to be encountered without a roved of some propertionate advantage attainable hs ao other way. The only advantage of the proposed meeting would be the or portunity it might afford of &equalities the committee whom the "management and government" of the society le vested by charter with the sentiments of the members then assembled. This object may be secured by other mesas use open to exception, by such written etaten.ente, for initeaco, u the committee way deliberately consult upon. They afif already in possession of letters from =icy individual mein. be,,, and have received communications from several dio- cesan boards, which they have taken, and will continue to take, into unous an/ patient consideration. Wi h all due respect, therefore, to the names appended to the requisition, I must decline to sanction a measure which has un preos. dent in the practice of the society, and trona which I cra foresee no advantage at all commensurate with the incoove. minces and dangers.—l remain, rev. air, your faithful servant, J. B. CannLea." THE FARMERS AND REFORM OF THE TAEEB.-11* SIOUX Advertiser of yesterday says :—" We tear we shall hardly gain credence with our readers when we state the we have received the following from a correspoudent at Pet worth. After alluding to the market held there on the Saturday, the writer observes :—' The farmers are regularly in the "dump." ' We asked several what they thought of Cobden's proposition ? The reply was, 'lt was quite time that some one should move, in cutting down the enormous expenditure of the country, so as to relieve tte nation from such a burden of taxation as it groans under.' What will the protectionists in Petworth say to this ? We kcow what our readers will say—' The straw moves."_. BISHOP OF OTFORD.—Bir —A leading article ap peered in the Express of Tuesday in last week on the "object of the ecclesiastical commission. Permit me to cor rect one or two mistake. iato which you have inadver tently fallen. With the general question at issue Ido not here concern myself, but with one of the per" onal illustra dons which you employ. I am persuaded that on a matter not of them y but of fact, Mitering individual character, you will be glad to do the fullest justice in your respectable paper. I write solely on my own responsibility, but as well acquainted with the facts of the case, and I send you my name for your private satisfection. The article in your paper represeats that Bishop Wilberforce, with 4,500 i. a year found the peke*year, at Cuddeeden uninhabitable. This Dr. Begot, with 2,000 L, was " compelled to live in unrepaired." That after expending 3,5001., Bishop Wilberforce ob•ained 1.300 i. more for "beautifying the epirsooptil gardens," and was afterwards permitted to ' charge his see with 1,70 W. to pay the balance of unauthorised expenditure due in respect of the adornment of Cuddesden Palace. Now,the facts are these: 1. The see hose, at Cuddesden had net for many years been the regular residence of the bishop, for which indeed in its unaltered stall it was unfit. Better pieces of preferment were always held with the bishopric to make up the income, and accordingly Bishop Begot resided much at hie deanery at Canterbury and at his rectory at Blithfield. And thus. too, Bishop Lloyd at Christ's Church, Oxford; Bishop Legge. at All Souls, ltc. One of the reforms specially contemplated by the constitution of the ecclesiastical commission was to prevent translations, by providing se* houses and incomes sufficient for the poorer sees. With this view the act which enabled bishops to borrow money for building on their sees was repealed, and this new mode substituted. Before Bishop Wdberforcee appointment the commissioners were pledged to provide a see house for the bishopric of Oxford, and inquiries were actually en foot for the purchase of • house and place. Tie the expense which would have thus arisen Bishop Wilber force objected, and proposed to make Cuddesden available metes& The plans for this purpose w.r• approved, and • sum granted. This sum was intended-1. To remove a public-house and three tenures from the bishop's garden, Sc. 2. To make the house suffieiltlz huge and commodious for its purpose. 3. To build cba The plans first approved of in sextersso were never alto or inereased. But when it was found that from the difficulty ef meddling with en old building more expense than was expected arose, the commissioners being satisfied that se needless wet keel been incurred in carrying out the plans they had approved of, allowed the bishop to borrow • tardier sum, as any parochial clergyman might on his own living, for which he pays annually the full interest. And after all, as I happen toknow, be has been left to pay a large sum him self towards the repairs. I have seen the alterations at Cad deed's, where there is nothing, I can wore you, of finery or decoration. The alteration' are such as to enable the bishop to receive the candidates for orders, who now. sometimes to the number of twenty or more, sleep under his root (,wenty more lodering near), and spend with him the days of exami nation. 111 tkus, too, can receive his rural deans and other clergy. who resort to him continually. In short, the house is constructed and used, as they who know it will tell you, not for display or for the bishop's personal comfort, but as the see house of • diciesse.—Ora or THU CLEIROT or raa Dicers' or °upon.") —Dee. 28. OUR FOREST Srantm.—A correspondent of the Gloucester Journal, who subscribes himself " A Forester," records the following startling facts respecting the Forest of Dean. He says, have now before me a list of nearly a Needled persons who have been proceeded against, in the Forest of Dean, for deermtealing alone. Stine of them par ties have since been convicted of other crimes, and sentenced to imprisonment and transportation, and their first entrance upon a mares of idleness and crime was In the peonies of poaching and deer-stealing in the forest. In atdition to Mese deer-steeling prosecutions, we have a multitude of aim* offeseea against the game-laws • and the casualties and acci dental sacrifice of human life liave been most appalling. Not long ego, one of our foresters out at night in pursuit of game or deer, stumbled into a coa l-pit, and was killed; another was accidentally shot and killed, on a Sunday, by his com panion ; another accidentally shot himself, and died after suffering amputation of the arm. In each case the widow and children were left burdensome to the rats payers." NUISANCRE IN ST. PANCRAB.—A correspondent of the Journal of Public Health says ; " I would wish to point to the neglected and disgraceful condition of some portioned the parish of St. Pancras. There is a main thoroughfare (Cambridge-streat, north of Hing's-tuorn), which is unpaved and nosewsted—a very sty of filth and impurity, bounded on one aide by manunrwharb, where swine revel in putre faction; on another by a gas manufactory ; on a third, in the centre of human dwellings, by a large church-yard. Such is the eondrion of the chief street—you can easily infer the state of the by-streets of the district. Your space will not permit me to enter into further particulars , but I may be al lowed to mention that there are ether streets and alleys in the pariah which, though not in as primitive a state es Agar town, are full of disease, misery, and wretchedness, brought on by reateveable causes." INQUESTS YESTERDAY.—TWO CHILDREN BURNT ro Deara.—Baton Mr. W. Payne, at St. Bartholomew Hospital, on ens bodies of Jane Irons, aged six years, and Shadrach Fulsrd, sand five. In the case of the first it was shown that on Saturday last her fatter left her.in a rooinwith a younger sister ; and attempting in his absence to reach a picture from the mantel-piece, her frock caught light, and in an instant she was in flames. Her head and face were frightfully Murat from her earl papers having caught firs. The flumes were speedily entiaianed by a man who threw his coat over the child , but the burns wire so Nevem that she 'died the same day, hall an hour after her admission to the biepital. Toe deemed in the second case had been left alone, while his events weat to work, and was attempting to take the teakettle off the fire, when his clothes ignited. He was removed tothe hospital, and died from the effects of the burns on Sunday last The coroner remarked that grist many of these fright'ul accidents might be pro/mud if per iv, wn, Were oblioed to go out to work would send their Children to achotel, instead of leaving them at home locked is r 1 .... MI 0 1 ig •0 on Ose ihl .1