The Express. — London, England, 1849-01-11 00:00:00

✓ eeeriTh beeds,it is difficult tansy whether the amazing imbue which has taken place in materials of mann facture or in articles of very tedium) comfort, is the mat significant. When we read, for example,c4 the consumption of lilted a production us sugar diminishing in one year by very nearly 30 per cent. smong the people of a country Ilke France, we are at • loss bow to estimate the violates of &crisis which Isis been able to make so desperate an inroad upon the habits of a vast populatioo. The same remark, eameehat relieved of its startling per entage, applies to coffer, and to several other description* of impacts which enter into daily use. Nor is there any im provement of the picture if we extend the compariann to slicks of clothing. Woollen goods werecleared for home use in 1846 to the eras% of 167,000 met. quiste.s. sod in Ib4B they had fallen to cousiderably Tess than a moiety of that amount (72,000). In the sumo wa7 the cassemption of linens fell from 22,000 quintals in 1846, to 7,000 quintals in 1848. But lamentable as is the tenor of all this evidence, it dots not exhibit to en the dilapidation which has befallen France so emphatically, as the beggarly account of imported raw materials. It is the ex tent aid the character of its demand for the rude eleMrn s of produeive labour, upon which, in these modern times, the material prosperity of a country &- pude Men may consume luxuries—they may in dulge themselves with delicious drinks mid sumptuous decoratoes, without b. either richer or more genterful. In truth it is almost certain that en im portation of mere articles of indulgence and subais team as ..n infallible sign of decay and poverty. But wehave so example of • people becoming tit gra, and spludthnfis whose ports have been crowded with Teasels, from every quarter of the compass, laden with worse than melees to men without hands, c er= i t heads, sad destitute of industry. Is 11146 the oonsumptin of cotton wool in France was 607.000 quintal., in 1848 it had &L en to 396.000 quint Is. In 1848 linen yarn was absorbed to the ex tent of 41,000, and in 1848 to the event of only 4,000 quit tals Olive oil has declined from 296,000 q. in 1816 to 190.000 q. in 18181 indigo, from 11,000 q. in 1846 to 8,000 in 1848; and, what is a most im portant alteration, the demand for raw silk, 'dice in 1848 and 1847 took up 13,500 q., was more than sup plied in 1848 with less than one-half of that quantity (0. 620 44) And nithont prolonging the comparison—which with here and there a diversity of degree conducts us to ore uniform result—we may content ourselves with the general fact that, comparing 1848 and 1818, the customs digit son seven articles of raw produce (cotton, linen yea n, olive oil, indigo , nitrate of wash, nitrate of soda, raw silk) have fallen from 23,000,0001. to 15,090,000, and the aggregate quantities from 11,015,000 qs. to 647,000 tr. - . On the other hand, while the volume of the export. from France exhibits no extreme departure from the general result of previous yews, there are none of those marked alterations with reference to particular articles which it was perhaps seasonable to look for. To select, for example, the artic.e of silks, of which it is believed that a very soermons quantity wee pur chased by this country in thoeszly . monthe of the past year, th e figures of th e Maui!~ give no countenance to the prevalent opinion. In 1846 the export of silk fabrics from France wan 14,684 qe ; in 1847 it was 17,188 qs.; and in 1848 it was 14,283 qs. But it must be oberved that while the trade in manu factures of silk appears to have remained without material change, the exportation of the raw materials of that manufacture underwent very impor tant modifications. In 1848 the quantity of silk, raw and prepored, exported from France, was 6,520 tr.: is 1847, it was 5,971 qs. ; bat in 1848 it suddenly became 10,145 go.; and this branch of trade seems to have been as Sail* in the month of November, 1848, as at any previous period of that year. Expens ing en individual opinion, this is not a result which comes upon us by surprise. We have on several oo casions pointed out the importance of that silent re volution which was transferring the trade and the ingenuity of the Loire to the great cotton inetrop tie of our own country. Acid we have been quite aware that even in this ye-r of losses and paralysis in almost every channel of trade, there has been one en terprise which enjoyed success and anticipated eater.- sion, and that that enterprise was the silk trade. With the exception of a slight increase in perfumery, in salt, in wine, in brandy, and a considerable increase in corn, there is no other marked change in the list of exports. From this remark, however, there is one important exception—and an'exoeptii n which fs exceedingly characteristic of the pressure on both aides of the English CnanneL In 1846 that peculiar species of interchange carried on between the chief cities of the two greatest nations of christendom in ar ticles of millinery, frills, and fancy stitching, and called by the French exci.emen, modes, amounted to 3,936,000 f. But in 1848, so deplorable had become the taste, or so straitened the resources of those who live among the luxuries of fashion, that this in teresting branch of commerce and of the fine arts woduced to France only the comparative trifle of 4,545 000 f. Behind th a array of figures from the French enatombouth there are concealed several in ferences which will assist us to explain the extraordi nary circumstances which for the space of nine months have distinguished the currency of France. We have seen—oertainly for the first time— s national bank suspend its payment. in specie, and, in the face of an executive government tottering every hour upon the verge of an awful abyss of bank ruptcy, maintain not merely the sol.dity of its consti tution, but also preserve its paper from the slightest symptom of excess or depreciation. How this has happened—how far it has been aided by a most ez traordinery combination of accidents in the posture of the external commerce of the country—are questions which do not fail to press for a solution upon the minds of reflecting men. A CoRaLsPONDENT, whoaeletter appeared in Satur day's Ezpress, has brought undo, public notice a subject of very cousiderable intend to the two m at northon counties of England. It is, however, one of which very little mute than the name is kr.own oven there; for the wiry simple nations that the means' of obtaining ►nformation are few, and that access to the means has always been difficult. We refer to the Crewe Charities. Beyond en oceseional notice in the local journals that Lord Catwas trustees have sent a donation to this public inetitutiee, or have subscribed to that charity ; have assisted in the building of that church or of this school; or have distribu•ed at Christmas more or lees than the usual quanth irs a coal, blankets, and beef at Bamberoogh and at Blatichland, the great bulk of the inhabitants of Northumberland and Durham, for WlbollB brnefit a former diocesan left such toble estates, brow as little—perhaps lees—of his bequests as they do of Dulwich Hospital or of the Blue-coat School. From the decease of its founder to the present time, the Crewe Trust hem been managed by three or four self-elected Durham prebendaries or other ecclesiastical digni taries of that diocese ; and though there may have been nothing to conceal it their administration of the Che eky, their policy has been to keep its management all SOS/ and comfortable. And it was not without being assured that they had no legal ground of refusal, that they submitted, voluntarily, the trust affairs to the examination of the Charity Commissioners; whose report is, as usual, meagre and unsatisfactory. Let us tenderly raise the veil on this Charity. Its founder was the notorious Bishop Cezwa. who," say. BURNZT—sod be is writing in the pre late/8 life time—" batirg the dignity of being born of a noble, though a puritan family, hes not one quality to recommend him, unless obedience and compliance, could supply all other defects. He has neither learn ing nor good sense ; and "—adds GILBERT of SA RUM, in the pride of his own ability in the pulpit— "heis no preacher." " Mean, v in, and cowardly," are the contemptuous epithets with which MACAU LAY does summary justice on his character. He used to excuse his political profligacy by an anxiety to secure a place in history. Both the con tempornry annalist and the philosophical historian have given him an onenvi .ble niche in the national Walh .11a. And in truth, NATHANIEL Lord Cnewg, who died Bishop of DURHAM, was as worthless an ecclesiastic and as venal a politician as ever disgraced the lay peerage or the ecclesiastical hierarchy. " Ne phew," was the advice he gave in his old sge to one of his MONTAOUR kit amen, " do as I did when I began life et court. Stick fist to some one gnat man there r JAMS, Doke of Trim, was the " greet man" to whom ties prelatical leech stack; and by his favour, masted however by no little pseaniiry bribery of his own, three bishoprics in eneermion, the last Durham, were Canwa's reined— In 'Ames reign, he was, of coarse, a member of the High Commiasion Court; as d, it is sad, was with difficulty prevented from attending. if not *steely performing, High Maas Wore the Court. On his royal patron's flight from his wrathful subjects i and hie avenging Cazwa was au ihe point of following the king, and had actually offered to resign the see of Durham in Bunn av's favour, on being secured 1,0001. a year= tel•euthenarrow divioions on the regency question la th. Convention Parlia ment lurniahed the subservient bishop with an oppor ittotty salting his peace with WILLIAM Sad MAIL And his relation, Earl MO,ITAGUE, eubsequently claimed a dukedom from these illusous monarchs, on the characteristic ground that, by carrying the votes of Came and other two peers, he had placed the mown of Boglard on their heads. After the revolution of 1888 the bishop lived through three reigns, neglected and despised ; the object of reproach amongst the o rgy for his peeling.- MOM kagevity and his profitable episcopate. " He has hod Demme," whinge Hamner, "now more than thirty years I" Bush was Bishop Calms in his public career. He had married a daughter of the Jacobite, General FOR- K/Mt who, for bring " oat In 1715," forfeited his Northumberland estates. Theme Cazwa purchased, and they form the basis of his Charity. Deprived of court favour, there was nothing remarkable in his sub sequent life, except evidence of occasional twinges of conscience. Walking one day with his chaplain, DICK GHAT, before his wife's tomb, the appropriate skull with which the monument was crowned suggested pain ful thoughts of Disown mortality to the aged prelate; he complained to his coogetial dep ndent Dice I quietly remand that the sculptor's art could convert the skull into a bunch of grapes; the bishop assented •, and, for the sake of episcopal peace, into grapes the skull was transformed. As, however, the time of his departure approached, Caswa made a last great temporal effirt to recompense mankind for the bad example he hid set them ; and by his will, dated 24th June, 1720, left his manors of Barn borough and Blanchtand, containing nearly 14,000 acres, to five trustee. fur char:tattle purposes. " No thing in this :its became him as the leaving it.' Large as this area is its value when tints di wised did not reach two shillings an acre. Bamborough. shire, now the pride of Northumbrian farming, was then an unreelsoned swamp ; and Blatchlacd, with integral wealth enough to form a Prince's dowry, or a Bishop/a stipend, a waste. Caewa's rental from these prepetties was but 1,3121. 13s. 5d.; and it =7 to have been far from the bishop's inten have placed much discretionary power in the bands of his trustees : for out of this yearly ir onies he appropriated upwards of 1,1001. annually to sescific trusts. The rest of his estates, however, he lett " to such charitable us. a as the said trustees should direct," other than the augmentation of his specific charities ; these uses being in the first instance applicable to Northumberland, and Darbem. Time ti the growth of socie'y and of wealth have, however, reversed Bishop Cazwe's in tention; and the specific trusts of his will now bear no proportion in imp ertaece to the discretionary trusts. Indeed it is difficult to suppose that the rental of the Clams estates can be now under 10,0001. a year ; and that sum would leave the trustees no less than 8,8001. annually to apply "to such charitable ogee as they shall aired." Au uncontrolled and unvisitable Malt to speed so large an annual sum is of course greative of much power, of great responsibility, andof not a hale temptation. Let us then inquire in whom this right is legally vested, and in what manner it is exercised ; not, however, in any spirit of vulgar curiosity, or of coarse anxiety to discover and magnify abuses; but in that of temperate liberality and of suggestive im plement. Lod Crewa by his will appointed five trustees ; arme oily a trustee es Ifficio. He is the Rector of Loggia College, Oxtotd ; and though that Society will the object of much of the liberality of the bishop's specific trusts, its heads have never had the gratitude Intake any part in the administration of the affairs of the charity. Once, bid. ed, when the other and eating trustees bad unruly differences of opinioa, the late Master of Lincoln (that eminent pluralist, Dr. TATHAM), threatened, it is said, to invade Bain borough Castle, and to do his duty there. But with the threat he finished his trust lahours. The other four trustees have generally been Camas of Durham, Sr Archdeacons of the diocese. This uniformity of ei.aracter in the acting trustees arises from the ri ht of self-election under the founder's will ; the only restriction being that clergy men must be chosen The elected trustees have, indivi dually, always been ecclesiastics of rood, occasionally of distinguished reputation. But they have invariably been of that party in the church which is fond of ec elesiastiaal power; which is intolerant in religious, po litical, and social opinion; which is indisposed to &an ge or improvement; and which is devoidel personal humility. In the city of Durham these gentlemen have been accustomed to live as ecclesiastical princes; aid to Bamborough Castle they have carried the habits, if not of feudal lords, at least of a territo rial aristocracy. At either place they have possessed power over their dependents almost of en arbitrary decriptiou, so far as prosperity and well-doing were concerned. The possession of such power is always dangerous, because of it.. corruptive tendency ; and, as the State has at last deprived the future Canons of Durham of all opportnn.ties for its exerc i se ; the State, it is to be hoped, may yet advance a step furrier, and at least regulate its exerese by Lord Cetzwit's trustees. Though all public knowledge of the affairs of the' trust is confined to the three years to which the- Charity Commi-eioners limi ed their superficial investigations, we are quite willing to accept these threeyears as evi dence that the trustees are tree from any imputation of misappropriating to their own use any part of the large sum they have power to dispose of. But when their office is said to he a " thankless " ens, we deny the assertion, at.d shall show that it is an important, an agreeable—nay, a very desirable post. The manage ment of a property wort,' 10,0001. a year must convey power to its managers, even though aey have no discretion over its proceeds; for, constituted as man is, the possession of power over his fellow-creatures is an object, very often a worthy object, of his ambi tion. But when the managers of such a property can di-pose of three-fourths of its rental to charitable purposes; they have in reality a greater amount of power at their disposal than if the estates were their own private inheritance. And such is the situation of Lord Cazwe's trace's. True it ice, they have neither salary nor fees; and that the only personal charge they make agait.st the estate is four guineas for each journey to and from Bamborough; but, arrived at the castle there—an arrival ano.•unced to the surrounding country by the atom of England being hoisted on the great tower— lnir tame. proud IlimbaveasS. laarled Nor them— Mae WO Cade bay nee moan— Tem its WI rail lota Only *AM amen is. melbas man frees— arrived there the " thanklessness" of the trust at once disappears. Tenants are all cap in band; neighbouring squires hasten by early calls to secure seats at hospitable—at sumptuous entertainments ; the surrounding clergy grow prouder of the wealth and power of their church thus evidenced; and the poor trudge away to prefer their humble petitions. The tenant fishers of North Sun derland furnish the Castle, for well-regulated prices (at which Billingsgate would rise in mutiny), with first courses from the deep; a home farm, that has never been known to return one farthing of ptoflt to the Trust es tate, suppliesbreakfast with dairy produceand luncheon with poultry ; the manor sends in game in abundance ; whilst the adjacent " links" yield rabbits to satiety. In the pleasant village on which the castle I oke down, lodgintr-houses are said to be forbidden. At all events, intrusive strangers or curious visitors are, by some means or other, excluded front one of the must agreeable sea-bathing places in the north. At the extremity of the village—town they sometimes call it still, in proud remembrance that it was once the capital of Northumberland, aed actu ally sent members to parliament in its day—stands a tine handsome well-aired church. Beyond it, in • grove, surrounded by a fertile be and a luxuriant garden, is an excellent parsonage. And in the church offi iates the eon of one of the trustees. In the parson age dwells th daughter of another. At Blanchtand the holy men are equa ly auto er tie. Formerly a laige and liberal permission to sport over its " fells" use' to be given by the trus tees. It brought profit to their village, and conferred good repute on themselves. But now its fine moors are reserved for their sons, their relatives, and their friends. And by this modern monopoly one of its eld inns has been mined. But a handsome shooting 'box h - s been erected for the exclusive sportsmen. In either division of Northumberland the trustees constitute, through their tenantry, tad by m e sas of the annuitants under Lord Caceres will, quite a political p:wer. The strength of this power used to be wed directed against whiggery, as Earl Gary, whoa Lord Howicx, was sornetosed to feel; Its **-;1 Jriu G,ours. WINDWE, WEDNESDAY.—Prince Albert went out shooting this wonting. Prince Lowenstein and the Earl and Countess For. tissue are expected to arrive at the Castle this evening, on a viet to her MO , sty and ski Prince —The royal dinner [tarty at the Castle this evening will iaeluds the Dweller of Kent, the Princess Amelia of Hobertlohe B,:billingsfarst, the Prat ars Elise of Reheolote Schilliogsturst, Prices Loweestein, the Marquis and Marchioness of Douglas, Lady Few y Howard, the Karl and Courtier Portents., the Earl or Car lisle, L-rd Janes Murray, and the Right Hrs. biz Robert and Lady Peel. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon, at the Foreign-office. The ministers present were Lard John Rug Dell, the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Lundo• ne, tee Eal of Minto. Bir G. Orr y, Fiscouct Pahnerron, Rerl Grey, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Lord Campbell, the Ritht Hon. H. Lshouchere, the Marquis of Clanrioude, and the Heel of Carlisle. The council sat three hours. The Marquis of Lansdowne arrived in towniester lisy =eyeing to tweed the meeting, frees his seat, Seemed perk, Wilts; and the Bari of Carlisle arrived from Windsor ----- Mr. Hodges, M.P., had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his Gavial 'wi dens& in Downing street. The Right lion. the Secretary at War, and the Hoe. Mn. Paz Mania arrived In town on Tuesday night from &o•land. Mr. Fox Yank had an interview with Lard I. Ransil yesterday, at hi; walaial 'adduce is Down ing•street. IA NV wawa Il• WM , w. ••• ti t; '4l. • THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 11. 1849. force against liberalism was, however. somewhat mitigated at the last general election. Bat then, Sir (Imams GRIT was the whig candidate; and he was not only a minister known to be consulted by the Premier in the appointment of bishops, bat an owls siudeal cominist loner as well. _ _ Yet has the office of trustee been described as a "thankless" sae. Who these suffering, long-enduring trustees are, and what they are, and how they exercise the " thankless" discretion confided in them, it will, how -1 ever, require other articles to tell. Msaoa-Gattamti. Sts WILLIAM NAPIER, in a letter to a con•ensporary which we reprint, is pleased to rail the Dui y News " a journal which has cor dially abused me and my brother, Sir CHARLES Narita, sines its first appearance." The assertion is untinna. When either of the brothers has merited the Doily News has not hesitated to bestow it. hen the one has sought to appropriate more than Ids fair share of the prime money due to the army be commanded, or when the other to wreak a new grudge oo old friends has violated the secrecy ins to confidential communications, the Daily News hes spoken of their conduct as it deserved. But the Deily News, so far from habitually abusing them, has wry rarely said anything about them, and when it did has sometimes praised and sometimes blamed according as the occasion prompted. Speaking with the same frankness and entire ab sence of any arrier-petssee, which has hitherto characterised our remarks, we must say that Sir WILLIAM seems bent at present upon stowing him self the very Sir Lungs O'Tnyger of controver sialists. The journal to which his first epistle on regimental colonels and clothiers was addressed, aadsavoarad, when it gave splice to Mr. Roue rood OLAOSTONa's reply, to mediate so far between the aisputants as to exhort them to abstain from person alities in the further prosecution of their discussion. But this will not suit Sir Wituag's purpose. It is a personal quarrel he wants; the merits of the ques tion at issue are with him a secondary consideration. A wilful man must have his own way. If Sir WILLIAM is bent upon having a scolding bout we annot help it, but beg to be excused from taking any part in the . equabble. Oar par ticipation in the controversy which has so sadly disturbed the equanimity of the gallant Major- General has been confined to the questions—What emoluments do the clothing colonels receive ? What services do they perform In return for these emulu menta ? atd in what light are men receiving such emoluments and performing such services to he re prded ? It appears from official documents that the annual pay of a clothing eolnnel varies Irom 1,8001. in the household cavalry to 5001. in the infantry of the line. It appears, from the same source:, that his annual emoluments from clothing may vary from 5001. to about 1,5001. The appointment of clothing colonel cannot be lees than 1,0001, and may occasionally rise as high as 3,0001. per annum. Now what services does the clothing colonel yen. der in return for this income ? Sir W. NAPIER has stated in his first letter that the clothing colonel " is never with the regiment ;" that " the interior coo nomy of regiments is exclusively " under the control of the lieutenant-colonel and the captains." The clothing colonel, therefore, does nothing for his pay; be is a useless supernumerary, drawing his pay and doing nothing. With regard to the clothing, Sir WILLIAM states in his first letter that the samples for the year are re ceived by a general board of officers, that their examination is checked by that of the inspecting offi cers of army clothing, and lastly, that the articles supplied are tested by a board of regimental officers, assisted by the master tailor and ehoemakor. From his second letter we learn that the clothing coloaels rely upon the judgment of the clothiers with when they deal. In the event of the clothing being re jected, " the bargains made by colonels with their elo hiers are so string rot, that they in turn throw the clothing upon the latter, who, evally provident, throw it on the manufacturer." What trouble a clothing colonel gives himself in the tran medal we have no means of knowinLf . , but it is evi dent from Sir WILLIAM'S statement that his inter- terence is quite unnecessary. The boards which inspect samples and clothing could deal directly with the clothier, or even with the manufacturer. The employment of the colonel at all is a rank job to afford an excuse for giving him the emoluments. Sir WILLIAM has been rather unfortunate in his selection of an illustration of the manner in which the system works. He says in his second letter: "Three regiments, and it is uncle , stood two others are in the same predicamect, received their clothing some mouths ago. That clothing had passed the board ; had passed the inspectors of clothing; had passed the regimental board of officers ; had been nareived by the men, and worn for several months, when by experience it was discovered that the cloth was not so good as it ought to have been. None but a very skilful manufacturer could, without the test of wear, have disoovered the defect; but it was discovered, and a report was immediately made of di., fact to the Commander-in-Chief, who at once ordered the clothing to be returned to the colonel✓, directing th.m to provide new and better." The re giments received their clothing "some months ago;" the men had " worn it for several months ;" the transaction is evidently quite recent—of yesterday. The noise that has been made about the abuse in re spect to army clothing honest the array authorities on the alert, and the consequence is, that already three clothing colonels have been convicted, and two are strongly suspected (there are 27 et them to all) of supplying an inferior article or allowing it to be supplied. We have proved from official documents that the clothing colonels are in the receipt of large emolu ments; we have proved b• ` the evidence of Sir WILLIAM NAPIER that they do nothing—do not even prevent the soldier from being imposed upon. We leave Sir WILLIAM to choose the epithet which is most accurately descriptive of men who pocket the proceeds of taxes wrung fro.o ill-requited industry lupon such terms. ROME, Dcc. 30. Yesterday evening, at sunset, the caitle of St. Angelo, by the consecutive discharge of one hundred and one great guns, announced to this metropolis and the world in general, that the dynasty which bad reigned over Rome for 1,000 and 48 years has come to a close, and a new government is to be called into bring by the mandate of the whole population assem bled ID a coustituent representative body by universal suffrage;—the rest bell of the Capitol, which only tkAla for the death of a Pope, pealed solemnly. It was exactly on the 24th November (the fatal night of the Bight of Pio Nono) that in the year of our Lord, 800, Charlemagne arrived in Rome to be crowned on Curistmas day of that year by Leo 111., and to iced tate and formally corroborate the donation of Pepin by the erection of the papal sovereignty. That ar rangement, the key stone of the arth of European politics for the following eight centuries, was occa sionally disturbed, and in our own times the papacy has relapsed into its mere spiritual essence twice, under the two popedoms of Pius VL and VII; but these occurrences were from without, by erernal pressure and accidental combinatioc the popedom had a recuperative energy within the Roman states; bet now the disconnecting agency is from within, and for the first time the Romans themselves have declared that no priest shall bold king's authority in Rome. The effects of this extraordinary revolution, by far the greatest that has marked the current year, are not dreamt of by the parties engaged in its accomplish ment, ear rerhaps by the superficial reader of a news piper. Far from being fatal to the great we-tern church called catholic (and by accident Roman), it is the harbinger of a new vitality ; and by the destruc tion of the mere Italian exclusivenesp, which has been a corroding ulcer for ages, that church will really become what it scarcely has been of late, really not versel ; and instead of being under the narrow manage ment of an Italian club, will seek for intellect, virtue, and sagacity throughout the range of Christendom, and recruit its staff no longer from the petty bowl dwits of a very ignorant territory, but from the whole domain of civilized Europe and America, "ri Te r •Attsverrer! There are now sixty cardinals, and out of that whole number of dignitaries, in w hom there is sup posed to reside some undefined and nebulous claim to regulate the church of Gel, only seven belong to Europe and the world; the rest belong to this penin sula, including Sicily and Sardinia. To plane this very important view of the subject in its true light arid to understand holy far the ruling power Is made up of catholic or universal elements, the following ...rays s of the Pope's counsellor and the supreme Areopagus of the church, according to locality of birth, is just now a at subject for the medi tation of catholic Christianity :-6, Ostos: Umbras chini, Fransoni,Spinola, Briguale, FieschL-7, Rome : Rerberisi Mellini, Toeti, Aided, Marini, Simonetti, Naples : Serra, Pignatelli, Ca rta, Riario. —3. Florence: Corsi Siena, Parini, Piecolomini.— I, Milan : Opissoni.-1, Bologna : Missofaute.-22, Other towns In the Roman States : Feretri (2), Macchi, Bernetti, Ousoli, Mattel, Outman., Della (lenge, Orioli, Ciaeohi, Ugolini, Soglia, De Angelis, Paused,' Seratlni, Oise, Muni, Bala!, Boron% Vissudelli, Antoaelli.—l, Sardinia Island : Amt.- 6. The rest of Italy : Bisset!, Vilisdicani, Azevedo, Asquini-49 of strictly Italian origin.— Amen north and south, none; Asia, none; Africa, none • England, with over 80 Roman catholic bishops subject to her sway, not one ; Spain, not one.— 1, Portugal : Carvallo.-4, France: Oirand, De Ronald, De la Tour d'Auvergne, Dupont—l, Austria : Swartsenberg.-1, Belgium: Stench. This state of things can have now no palliation or excuse. The church must be dis-ItaliauSed to re become catholic, and such narrow exclusive decisions' as that lately given on the question of Irish education will no longsr be possible, emanating from a body of prelates consisting of ttee and enlightened Americans with European intellects of a higher calibre than those now in adverse polemics of power to rule. Returning to secular matters : the government keeps its position, and sinless continue to regulate the eaves' departments until the meeting of the con stituent assembly on Feb. 6. Unlike the beggarly governments of Stain and Portugal, the Roman ad ministration have announced their readiness to pay the national creditor in full. The dividends will be met with punctuality in January. Count Mamiani is dying, and can have no object of earthly ambition. The supreme junta bas cashiered Prince Massimo, the famous postmaster, whom I have been putting this three years in vain. Prince Chigi is also turned ea! of office. These vigorous acts have given general stisfaction. NAPLES,Dac 29. As the decilitre niumint draws near in which the affairs of Sicily are to be decided, either by niploamy or army. more copious detail teach us from that island. At Milano, near Messina. all the forts which rendered that port inaccessible to hostile vessels, had been demolished by the Neapolitan troms. On the demolition of So. Elmo, the strongest of all, the emaciation of a mine was so treureendons that the windows of the houses in the neighbeerbeed had been destroyed by it. Ibis operation having occasioned peat divest faction to the !delimit it was deemed prudent to %eyelid it ; on the fol. lowiug day, however, it was resemed, tranquillity having been restored. With the solitary exception of Messina and the neighbourhood, all Sicily still continua ia the hands of the Medians. At Syracuse I Aare heard it said that 15,000 of the people were 'road. General Antonini had arnvol some short time since at Palermo, and was immediately sp rinted Inspecor-General of the Sicilian army. Directly afterwards he left on board the Peloras to visit all the meats of the island, acesonspenled by the officen of emitheers who have recently designed a military plea of the state, in order to provide for the fortification of the cefeesible pAnts if the island. Together with Gen. Antonini it was said that 22 french officers of artillery and engineers had arrived. The preparations for defence and the armaments in Sicily were oristinued with the greatest possible activity, and had become very imposing. Amongst the many reports in air =tenon, it is said that the Sinks= bad arrested for taking into their pay • body of Beim; I mention it merely as a report. In the Chamber of Deputies at Palermo a long discussion took place on a decree proposed by the Minister of Foreign Affairs for the adhesion of Sicily to the I . alian manstithent. Two amendmeets were made, one by the deputy Bertolansi, and the other by the density Raela th ey were, however, both njeceed, and the decree passed,—the se and and third reading Wag diepesed with. Everything, tnerefore, seems to promise a strong resistance in ease of a descent on Palermo by the Kin``, ' should this be decided on, sad, indeed, from what I hese to-day, little flout , el it seems to remain Filangieri was to have left en the night of the 27th for Neely. but I ustlerstend be is gone agate to Gaeta ; he will leave for his destination immediately. On the side of the Pharo three strong camps of observation will be formed—one in the Apulia-, samba it. the Abelian, on the frontiers, end • third in the Calabria,. It is difficult to know what remorse can induce the govern. meat to form theca military comps in places where order and tranquillity are maintained. In Naples little is doing now ; in feet, Gaeta is Naples, and as such is the strong point of interest Before, however, I give yon any reports thence I will mention two rumours that ere afloat in the miry—the one speaks of a new proroga tion of the chambers for four months, whilst the other (eastAt I mentioned yesterday) says that sedan have been already Owed for decreeing the badges of 1849 to be the IMO es that of 1848. It such be the case we may well ask where are the guarantees en solemnly sworn to tor the observance of Oar constitution in all its Inviolability. Visits of surprise end ingaisiti in are made daily to the differeat printing-offices of the city, showing • dispositisu certainly, and perhaps a diterealnauon, on the part of the go vernment to resume its former authority and power. Amongst other ditto:onto arrivals at theta are these of Signor Vsldivieeo, Bray Ertraoriinery for Mexico, and Cavaliero Foreiredo, Minlsterof his Basilian Majesty. The Duke Bonelli was also presented to the Pope, in order to be recognised as a Roman duke, on the death of his father. On Christmas.dsy the diplomatic beefy, incressed by the arrival of Count Creptowicb, Minister of Russia at the court of the Two Sicilies, went to pay their respects to hi. Holiness, when the representative of Spain thus addressed the Pope, in the name of the diplomatic body, " Holy Father, the diplomatic b on this solemn day, oossecrated by religion, fulfils a duty in laying at tne feet of your Holiness its most respectful and sincere homage. %Faeroes of the virtue which your Holi ness has displayed in circumstances too painful ever to be forgotten, we think ourselves happy in exposing at this conjuncture the same sentiments of admiration and devotion —sentiments as unalterattle as are the virtues which awakes them. Is wishing your Holiness the pesos and hop piness of which you are so worthy, we are only the faithful interpreters of the wishes of our governments. They ell take a Itvely interest in the fortunes of the pontiff, greater still, it it be possible, on a foreign .oil than under the root of the Vatican. Your cause is too just, too holy, not to be protected by him who holds in bisomnipotent hand the lot of kings and people." T n this discourse the bely father replied, " The new demonstrations of aft ction, and the in -1 tenet of the diplomatic body towards as, awaken in our bean frith sentiments of gratitude and satisfaction, Vicar, though unworthy, of the God-man whose bath we this day celebrate, it was ail his strength which came to us in the days of oar afil aloe, se it is all his gram which permits us to love our subjects and children is the place in which now foe a time we find ourselves with that love with which we see garded them when residing in our city of Rome. The holiness and justice of oar cause will cause God to inspire, we feel assured of it, salutary councils into the governments you represent, ic onto that it may obtain that triumph which is the triumph of order, and the catholic church, supre may intent upon the liberty and independence of its head." the diplomatic body then proceeded to pay their rt "pots to their majesties, passing thence to the Cardioal Doc teMsechi. A war steamer, Neapolitan, left yesterday for Gaeta. Admiral Boodle left Gaeta on the morning of the 26th, en board the Salunarteer,after having paid his respects to his Holiness. Orders, it is mid, have arrived from his government for M. Rayneval to demand the fullest satisfaction for the insults bilt red to the French by the soldiery u well as the govern meet Tho Frenchman who was so severely injured some time Inner is not dead, bat still continues under medical ors. Inquiries are made daily for his health from the palace, and his medical opuses are paid by government; money ho been moreover offered to him, but, by counsel of his ember cedar, declined. It is to be hoped that we shall shortly beer of our own g overnment also &shinn the strongest notice of the slights sod insults offered to British subjects. Cardinal Ostini, who fell down the hatchway of the Hibernia, is still is great danger A Spanish steam-frigate come fa lest night. This morning oar admiral has been on board the Rodney, to inspect her prevents to her leaving this port on the 2nd of January. Five per emu. left off yesterday at 821. Falangioi arrived here from Gaeta on Wednesday night, and was to have left immediirely for Sicily, but, on Thurs day morning. was recalled by telegraph to Gaeta, together with the Minister of War. This recall wee in ountequ<nat of despatches from Petersburg. Earl Granville arrived in town on Tuesday night, row Albaltem-park, Brideeserth OPENING OF THE NEW COMMISSION OF METROPOLITAN SEWERS. The Queen's commission for carrying into effect the New Hoop.Hien BUM , Act was opened yestardey, at the liewerreflos, Greek-street, Soho-sqnare Among the now Wedmore present were the Eel of Carlisle, Lord B ring toe, lilP , the Very Rey. Dr. Bockland, Dean of West minster, Dr. 8 .athwood Beath, J. Hume, Beq., Id P., and Edwin Chadwick, Esq. The Goneetimiten keying been formally opened, The Earl of CLILISLI rose and spoke as follows have mock eaddaction la opening the new Consolidated Metro= litsn tkurisiminn of &were It has, indeed, bees a subject of repot to me that, in consequence of legal and technical histiraness, thee has not taken plies sooner. We soffit only the more steadily to resolve, by increased diligence and ease 'ion, to make up Cr any time that has Mentably be, n lost. It would be hardly becoming that, among oureelne we should dwell nom the occapoeitios of the commission. I think any one who attentively scrutinises it will perceive that the selection has been guided by • wish to comprise within a manageable number =noes qualified by special experience, by hign acquirements, by snemestal exertions in the general cause of sanitary reform, and over whom unemployed time the government might be puma= Olive some fair claim.. Hoeever the best ise dication of the selection will consist in the ch aracter of the services per armed in he work we urn out. let us reser= bee that we enter upon our labours at no ordinary timexamise I no common circumstances. If this metropolis has as yet bola bet lightly vi Peed by the hateful cholera, we cannot he ears I teat its destructive energies may not be now bound by the strong =sin of winter,sad that in spring they may not awe= upon as with an hundred-fold power. Much may be feared, much may be 1. anted 'rum whet has taken place so near as the villige of Tooting, and the ewe of our workhouses and hospital cannot be too watchlully examined. Viewed thus in eonnexion with the den& re of the time, in connexion with the eulientened e lotions which are be ing made in a variety of quarter, the business and alms of the communion most sesame a different and a higher charac ter than belonged to any of its predecessors. You are aware that the legislature has recently constituted • Board of Heath, whose leboure the government contemplate with us. ceasing anxiety, and I think it will be wise, berth in the commission and in that board, to =atoll= an interchange and reciprocity of assistance and services with each other. For t tie reason, I look upon it a- very desirable, that at least one of the superior officers should have a mutual communi cation with both bodies. Although the number of this com mission, as compared with former =life of the kind, is most materially reduced, I thick it plain that much which re quires minute detail ar.d constant superintendence, can only be efficiently performed' by committees and sub-committees, and it will be one of the met 'modal foundations we can lay this day for our future operations to effect some organiscion of these esumittees. The very extent and variety of the as quiremeats awl reputations • hied are comprised in the list of the commission mum render icy/hake occasional disco paacy of views and conflict of opinions. let me earnestly, most earnestly, enjoin upon all a spirit of candour and modesty—of allowance and forbearance for each other— (hear, hear)—of patient inquiry and searching after truth, with a determination to and out the truth and nothing but the truth. Let me recommend that we sbnuld combine a strict attention to the pecuniary interests of those for whom we aft, with a fair and liberal consideration for the officers, and that, above all, we 'humid hear in mind toot where there is so much matter controverted, unsettled, and still to be isarned and emahli hed, our proceedings are bound to be cautions, tents iv* gradual, taking noiltioe for granted, end =min: , all se we go along (The noble lord resumed bisfmat said loud cheers) Os the re n ion of Mr SULLAP., the rates mode by the late semmiseione were re enacted by this court. Os the mutter& of Lord 811 MN °TOW it WY agreed 'hat the ordinary courts aliculd be held on the lust Thursday in every sseath. The Earl of CABLISLI mid that before they met, it had Mils reeommended that, in consequence of Mr. Stable's ed ema* age, he should not be continued in office as clerk to the Mammon, but that his case should be referred to a Mmlimitles for cousnitstion.—Agreed to —Other formal rou lade= IMO Agreed to in the reappointment of offieers. It was reenmineaded that • book be kept at each office, Ire the pimp as of all complaints being eatered in the same, with a view to their being laid before the court, and such assures taken as the use rtquired.—Mr. Huss hoped dd. book would be open to the public generaVy, and would net be confined to rate payers, to which the Earl of Carlisle monied. The General Purposes Committee was then appointed ; sod it was ordered that notice be given to the Lord Mayer that, es the ondmimion wee issued, the Corporation of Lon don should seed ti sir re p resen t a ti v e montban...,_Agtoon to ; and the court adjourned. CHOLERA AMONG THE PAUPER CHILDREN AT TOOTING. The following is the official return of fresh cases from 2 p m. on Tuesday to 2 p.m. y esterday: Number of deaths, 18 ; curs of diarrheas, 6 ; cholera, 10 ; number under tr. unseat, 119. Total number of cases since oommencement, 294; c nva4teent, 34; gimes another of deaths, 112. Mr. Kite, the surgeon. odds, that one adult young woman died yes terday atter 16 bourn suffering from the epidemic. In answer to inquiries as to whether carbonic acid had been used as a remedy la the cbot ra cases here," I beg to ri ply that in many eases it has been employed combined with opium very bens ficially in all vistiog distressing vomiting; it has • tendency to relieve both that and the diarrhoea, and acts sLo AS • stimulant." Mr Grainger, of the Board of Health, has also loaned the following order with reference to the interment of the dad: Jan. 10, 1849, 4 p.m.—Mr. Clayman, surgeon, of Tooting, having stated to me that he sent a written notice to Mr. Drouet that no so ditinnai bodies from the lefint Pauper Establishment can be interred in Tooting Churchyard, I recommend that immediate steps be dike° to CILIUM the interment of the bodies of all who are now dead OT who may die of this epidemic without delay ; and I further recommend 'II a their interment shall take place under the direction of • medical yractitenter, and that the bodies be not taken through the metropolis, as sack a procedure if known might excite alarm In the public mind. —pitied) R. D. Gussets. ST. PAPSCILLS.— The official report of Mr. Wilkinson, one of the surgeons, ea to the oisease amongst the children in st. Pancras workhouse, states that " the number of cases which occurred on Tuesday bight and yesterday morning, compared with Tuesday's report, shows a diminution of one third also that the character of the complaint is much leas sew, re." lionnuitx UNION —The return furnished by Dr. Menden, of the &iyal Free Hospital,on Tuesday evening, iau follows ; " Boys attacked with 'the Tooting dive 4i5; girls, '26 ; total, 71. Cured : Boys, 10; females 0; boys under treat. menr, ; girls, 21; total, 67. Died, 2 boys and 2 girls. Nine out of every ten have the itch." THE OFFICE OF PRINCIPAL HARBOUR-MASTER or lif a POUT or LONDott has become vacant by the resigna tion of Capt Flatter, RM., who has held this important post for thirty years. The appointment of his successor is vested In •he Lord Mayor. Wiiirrue6VON CLUB.—The first anniversary of the Whittioroa Club sod Meiropolitan Atheneum was celebrated at its institution last night. Great exertions had evidently been made on the part of the managers to render the evening a Omani; one, and their efforts were as evidently successful. The attendance was so great that but for the arrangements which judiciously diffused the company through vinous spelt awns by various attractions, the pressure would have been almost inconvenient. Mr. Douglas Jerold, the president, and founder of the club, was to have been present and to have de livered an address on the occasion, but circumstances im peratively called him to Manchester. The festival commenced with some music, vocal and instrumental, ably executed ; then came a comic seem, a variation of " Box and Cox," enacted by the Messrs. Orresmith with tolerable effect, and large success. Tows was music also in the drawing-rown, and, at nvervals Orouithout the evening, recitations, dis , solving views, ehromatrope, phantasmagoria, magic tricks and delusions, while, from 11 o'closk, the lovers of dancing, that is to say, Eve sixths of the attendants, had ample verge and accompaniment. The arrangements in thu respect were very good. There was sufficient refreshment for the earlier portion of the evening ; and at 11, 124, and 2, supper of a solid and excellent kind was served to successive bodies of banquette's.. We do not think the managers of tbe institution can do better then to give entertainments of this description once a month. his a highly commendable mode of giving reaping gratification to a very large class of per sons who have otherwise no opportunities for similar relaxa tion, except at distant intervals, and under more or less dis w.vantageous circumstances of one kind or another, whereas they have here every facility fey a pleasant evening, without the inconvenience of either obligation or expense, the admission to members being but 2s. 6d. and is 64., and the supper coming within the reasonable limit of Is. 6d. We should imagine that fully 1,500 persons were present. A CHARTIST ?ABET'S° was held last night at the Bluth London Chartist Hall, Blackfriars-road, r. Bennett in the chair. A Mr. Hobden moved, " That this meeting is of opinion that the present existing distress, and the social de nesdation of the people of Bagland, will not be beneli•ed until the people have full political power," which was carried. —Mr. Dixon observed that it they were to have free trade in all chino, 1 t them have free trade in governments. If liberty were worth having it was worth paying for; and if they would only subscribe Id. per week eatiS, they would soon gain their end. Let them adopt Catty" for their motto—let each work for all and all for sacs, and victory must crown their efforts.— Mr. M'Gratb supposed the same means had been taken to prevent that being a good meeting, which had been taken upon the other side of the river. On Sunday night last it was prsposed to bold a meeting at Deadman's Coffee House, Clerkenwoll-green, and bills were distributed announcing the fact. Three or four days previous to the meeting the pllioe employed themselves in calling upon the tradesmen who exhibited the bills, threatening that unless they were removed instantly, pros.cutions would be entered against them. lie rejoiced to see that the good old spirit was not yet extinct in Lambeth, and thsttkey were determined once more to array themselves under the old banner of the charter, and no surrender. The condition of the people of this coun try was one of slavery ; for every batman there were 10 slaves; bat what the chartists contended was, that every man should be free. The thousands of London must unite with the thomands of the north, and the thousands of the north with the ttiou.ande of Scotland. The millions of England must unite with the millions of degraded serfs of Ireland ; for until that was done there wou'd be no hope for the replied this emintry. The soaker concluded by ex pressiog a bops that at least a honored good men present would enrol themselves members of the National Charter Association. A Sew persons only availed themselves of the opportunity of becoming " open and avowed" chartists, and the meeting quietly heoke up, Tat EMU OP THE 8701V1 LIBRARY was oonti mod yesterday by Messrs. Sotheby and Wilkinson. The following oat of the lots sold were worthy notice:—" Cee• Caine Learned and Elegant Work,. In Verso," by Punts lord Brooke. Tail- volume was of scarcely any 'aloe in itself, but on the the-page, in the autograph sr Ben Jan son, wag " Beni Janson tenquam *intorno:v." It was frc= the collection of Garrick, whose bout plate is inside, sad sold for It 18s. "The Bible and Holysticriptures eon:sine& in the Old. and News Testament," first edition of the Genevan version, or " Breech. a Bible." printed at Geneva in 1880, was bought by Mr. Pi keying for 101. 16s. " Tee Fates of Princes and Princesses, with other nobles through ye atutabilitie and change of unbend fest fortune with th'ir most detestable sad wicked niece, translated by 10. Lidgete, Moths of Bone"—Bisch burr printed by Richard Tone: in 1664, 61. The important lot in the day's sale was " Boyelell's Collection of Prints, engraved after the most capital painting s in Ragland, with cescriptions in English and Freack.' This bustard col lection consisted of 640 fine large plate., many of them proob before letters, and formed nine folio volumes. This copy was selected for Mary Boydell ; 781. 15e. EXPERIMENTS WITH THE SUEMAIINE TELEGRAPH. —Borne interesting eaperimente were made yesterday at Folkston', under the auspices of the South Beaters Company, to test the practieability of laying down a wire from Folk ston* to Boulogne, and thus establishing a complete line of electric communication between London and Paris. One of the principal difficulties to be overwrite in establishing sack communication, is to procure perfect insulation of the wire, the fact being, this well known to scientific persons, that the slightest approach of moisture interferes with the continuity of the fluid. This inconvenience is also felt in the tunnel, where the constant humidity frequently causes interruption of the communication. The company, therefore, in promos ing the present experiment*, had a death!: object in view—to complete their inland as wall as to estab lish a submarine, telegraph. The wires used were those recently patented by Mr. Fonts, of Stresthans, being ordinary copper wire, but completely encased in a prepara tion of `utter pinch& and sulphur, the former ingredient being con.idered more impervious to water, and less liable to abrasion from contact widi rocks or sand than Indite rubber, and the latter being a non•coidnotor of electricity, and also an excellent preserver of vegetable matter. The engine' intention was that the coil and batteries should be taken en board one of the company's vessels and carried two or three miles out of the harbour, the experiment then to be tried of getting electrical communication from thence to the metropolis ; but the boisterous state of the wea ther made it newton" that this part of the plan should be abandoned. Under these circumstances, the wire was taken on board the Princess Mary, at her berth, and from thence gradually uneeiled and carried round the harbour, taking a sinuous course to the extent of two milei, the end being attached to the London signal poet. Three batteries of mentytlve pairs each were then put in action, and the needles being set to work, several questions were sent to London, and the immediate return of appropriate sweets indicated that the submarine commu nisation, in so far as the transmission of verbal enrage* was comer,. od, was completed. Subsequently it was attempted to ring the alarm bell, but this was a comparative failure, attributable, as we were informed, to the fact that some portion of the communication between Folkatone and London had been interrupted by an aocidentsl cause. The main principle, however—the perfect insulation of the wire when under water—was completely established, leaving Its extension across Channel merely a question of detail. When we reflect that the distance between Polkstoee and Point Urines ( he part of the French coast contemplated) is only 20 miter, end that the depth of water across Channel varies from 14 to 17 fathoms, with a good bottom all the way, it to hardly too much to expect that at no distant day the tele graphic communication bet vein London and Paris will be completed. The expense of laying down the wires according to Mr. Fonter's method is estimated at 5,0001. TRURO ELECTION. The nomination of a successor to tte late Edmund Tamer, , as a representative of Truro in parliament tack plane en Tuesday at the Market House in that town. At 10 o'clock, Humphrey Willyeme, Esq., with hie friends, snowed at the northern entrance, and Montague Edward Smith, Beg , at t►e southern, accompanied by their severs friends, with banners, Begs, and bards of musk. The M *TOIL requested the usual forms to be gone through, and subs. queatly addressing the electors, said that in °ones. garnet of the death of their late member, and from a pre cept received from the sheriff, which had been read, the electors IMO required to elect a at sad proper person to .epresent their borough in the Commons House of Perlin, meet. He trusted they would, and required them te, conduct the election with good temper, order, sod in strict conformity with the law. . . G. 81w ewes, Eel ,said be had the honour to propose to them Humphrey Willyams, Req., as a fit and proper person to represent the borouith ia parliament. He wits a towns man, and had spent his whole life with the electon—their local in t affected him in common ; he was • magistrate. a banks r, and • miner, and, in abort, eombined in himself a ll those qualifications which should be possessed by their representative. The hon. gentleman who was to be named in opposition was • gentleman. • rising man is his profession, and was clever; but these did not make of theaselvea It fit representative ; further, he was a stranger to them. (Cheers. )—Hr. B. MITCWILL seconded the nomina tion. Dr. CARLYON reee from a sense of duty to propose an op. penent to his friend Mr. Willrina, in the person of Mr. IL E. Smith. The candidate be supported could scarcely be celled a stranger—he was a brother of • worthy fellow townsman, and wee one of the ornaments of the Western Circuit, and chiefly he was a warm end able advocate o conservative principles, end well fitted to represent the borough in parliament. Mr. liulthowe seconded the noesisation. _ _ HUMPIIItET WI , Esq., addressed the elects". lie said : It has often been my lot on similar occasions to the present to appear before you to solicit your suffrages on be half of other candidates ; but on the present occasion I appear in my own proper person soliciting your interest on m own behalf. It is much easier to advocate the cause of others than one's own, and though I feel great entbarraas. meet, yet I have this consolation, I am not a stranger to one of you; I have always lived among you, and hope to die in your locality. My manner of life and professions are my good advocates, and my principles of attach meat to the constitution, and yet liberal ten dencies, have been for thirty years unchanged. The hon. candidate, in continuation, regretted to allude to the influence exercised at this election by clergymen of the Church of Et gland, who came in from their coracles and told the ally tale that it would be dangerous to trust him (Mr. Willyams) with power. By doing so, they said the church would be in danger. Why, the church was in dan ger from her worst enemies—her own ministers, who upheld popish rites, and oerem.aies, and dogmas, which were alike destructive in their tt adeney to the crown and the church. By one voter he bad been told that he could not be sup ported because he was a had employer. He replied that he did get a coat from London ; the voter said, " then you an no friend to your country." Ile would say to the constitu ency, that if they got a representative from London instead of from themselves they were no friends to the.r town. MONTAOUZ EDWARD SMITH, Esq., geld his title to their support depended on his profession, of adherence to consti tutional principle.. The business of the day was not a per sonal question, but one of constitutional principle. He was opposed to free trade. Proper economy and retrenchment he fully approved of—not the cutting up wholesale, but the exercising a proper and rigid economy in administration. He was a sincere advocate of the question of edueatios, and fur the adoption of measures to promote the bettor recreation of the workiag classes. Now, whilst we were enjoying the blessings of peace was the time to consider melt questions. On a show of Lads being taken, the Mayor &eland the majority to be for Mr. Humphrey Willyams. A poll was demanded for Mr . S mith. A very sharp contest is ex- Since the above wig in type we have received the fol. lowipg " TRURO, WEDNESDAY.—The polling c.mnisoced this morning at 8 o'clrek. The numbers stood thee—At 9 o'clock, for Willyamo, 88 ; for fimitb, 103.—At 10 o'clock, for Willyuno, 158; Sur Smith, 173." ARMY CLOTHING. Sir William Napier has returned to the charge M r. Robertson Gladstone•s reply has drawn from the gallant officer the following letter, addressed to the same journal as his first : _ _ _ " Bir,—lt would seem that the Financial Associa tion required time to digest my answer to their tract ; or, it may be, there was difficulty in finding a person bold enough to assume the responsibility ; a numerous body of English men must contain many men who would feel the disgrace attaching to false acensations. Meanwhile, the Association has readily obtained the anonymous aid of the Dairy Now— a journal which has cordially abused me and my brother, Sir Charles Napier, since its first appearance, and will doubtless continue to do so until it goes out ; but very heartily we hope it may do the writer good, as we are sure it does as no harm. The Daily New says that with a soperabundanes of logic I have proved it is not the oclonela, but the captains, who profit from the • perquisites derived from the sale of necessaries. My whole letter proves that there are nie perquisites at all ! Let that pass. " The President Gladstone says the tract No. 4 did not assert that captains had a peeiusiarr interest in such sales, but that the quartermasten had ; and be asks, ' What is this insult ?' 'What is false ?' A reference to the trait will show that the Association expressly charges the ' quarter. muter and Air chief, the clothing colonel,' with having a fraudulent pecuniary intereat. Test is toe hunt t! That is false The colonel, as I have shown, has not even a know ledge of, much less an interest in, such matters ; and the quartermaster ciuld not defraud the men, if he were so inclined. "In another place the Preside says, ' I pronounced it to be false' of the A sociation to aeon rt that' in eases where no profit arises to the colonels because of the superior quality of the clothing, allowances are made to them accordingly. I know of no cases where no profit arises, and I did hot even elude to that part of the subject. The President says that I have proved too much in showing that the clothing board protee's the "oldies, bee ease eleven out of nineteen of that board have regiments! And while he makes this broad in simsatico that the eleven are, therefore, sordid knaves, he takes no notice of the too; that the inspectors of army tiothing none of whom have regiments, form a disliste body established to cheek the clothing board. There are severed other slips of this kind, which for brevity I do not notice, but with these spedosens of congenial rhetoric I may with out inju-tice all the writer in the Doily New and Fresh • dent Gladstone a der-cousins at least. What, incite/1A Gmdstone's lever but a long, angry, wilful miscossalAbin of ay elatelseste and their object / • • 1; would, yeshiva, be difficult to prove that Main • • re,, •