The Express. — London, England, 1849-05-26 00:00:00

bsse voted ea amoaat for allowsams on the compassienete 1184. 114 8,6411., pert of a ram of 3.5,0411., of which the balance bag Wes mead On amount for the expense of Kilmainheas mg Mama limpitele. pupa, pan si a mm of 1,024,5631 , of which the hawses bad brew voted cm amoont for the peosionen of Chases = the survivors ef the Efanoverian corps, by this seen doe part of a sena of 38,9001., of which the balance bed beta toted oa amount for enpermaeation snowmen to passes kamerly employed in the military pnblie depart mora ta The Criaartart reported progress, and obtained leave to I:WARIER SESSIONS. plr. BAINES obtained leave to brine in a bill to amend fbe procedure in courts of general and gainer tessi.ns of ots peace in England and Wales, and for the better advance. opt of jus:ice in cases within the jurisdiction of those sauna The other ordas sad notices were pereponed, sad the beam adjourned at a quarter put 9 o'clock, until Thursday. gilt Orproso. OUTGOING MAILS. The mils for Vigo, Opotto, Lisboa, Makin. Cadiz, and Gib:altar, wG be made op ea the minting of the 27th of May. Mans for MOM north Amin of es ane the netted Maim will In =Mt up__oe the miming of the lst Jan& Us WON latla MWe, issieding oersteds. Maranea. Nelms, New Orisons. sad Maim, sad secluding thole tog = l / 0 . Alo64o.oionegila. New Grand% Chili, and Penh wit sleds ap on the morsing of the Ted lone. The malls foe Madeira, the Ensile, and BMWS Ayres, wine made o p ea the 111110116 of theft\ of June The mails, rid Marseilles, to the Metnterniesem, Egypt, Ceylon, lad* liong-haeg, Ma, will hash up on tbs am* of the lUt of Jer. The mils he OftesSar, Slats. 01‘06s, the lodes IP tabas. Bart hatir. Ceylon, ladle, Hoar-Knelt, sad Chins. Ms noMhemyree, he math sp on the 20th of June. ■{OT WATTS AT SMOOT NUM& Mr.. —WaniNA 44 AAA so 4 6 Allimws. II TITA pet I To.TIA•spw—TWEITTOT TWA TAW 1 I ANOTATA IT TOS. WS IL LONDON, SATURDAY, MAY 26, Asetheo Pistol eating his leek beneath the @bedew of Fluellen's cudgel was bet a type of the protectionist party swallowing their defeat on the Navigation Bill. When Lord STANLEY, by the terms of his emend ates, virtually aeknowledged the expediency and Inestioe of:repealing the Navigation Law, the Standard , a mutinous mood, declared" the amendments upon which Lard STANLEY took too long to delibarate to be hasty and ill considered." But now that Lord STAN LEV, by withdrawing his opposition to the Navigation Bill, must of Secs ashy in the estimation of his party underlie the imputation of having " sold the pais ' ', the Stoadard vows that the noble lord " has _- fully done his part." With all this assumption of stoic il Tellignation, however, the Standard is suffi ciently abusive of all who have contributed to the palming of the measure. Pistol " eat/ his leek is gannet of revenge." The crest-fallen appearance of our anti-liberals, in coneequence of the judicious decision of the peers, is richly ludicrous. Three times have they invoked the House of Lords within the last twenty yours to save them from the seven-league strides of liberalism, and three times has their champion (I, clinol the combat. The tory peers, at the suggesties of WILLIAM IV., absented themselves from the third reading of the Reim Bill. The protectionist peers gave their proxies to the Duke of WELLINGTON to carry corn law repeal. The protectionist peers have withdraws their opposition to the Navigation Bill. Will the tory faction ever take heart of grace again to " thank Clod that there is a House of Lords ?" We write in no spirit of triumph over or dis respect for the lords. We believe in their English o pluck," bad they been confident in the goodness of their muse, to have brand, on inch of the three occa sions we have awned, the entsequences of resistance. Web. lieve that on each ef them s dim misgiving of their caste prejudices being at the bottom more selfish than prudent, dulled theirnativecourage. Wewouldcherish , the hope that this thrice- r. peated experience may lead ' them to take more just views of their position. The sentiment of respect for Inc steal wealth and rank is still strong in the breasts of Englishmen. The people never can be roused to resist the power these attri butes confer, un!cor by clear conviction that it is exer cised in opposition to the general good. Upon the etedition that they exercise their influence in a high hearted spirit of patriotism, the peers of England may still enjoy a long lease of it. If ther power has been shaken in concequenee of the three detente alluded to it has bean by their preliminary resistance to equit able measures, not by their ultimate acquiescence in them. Englishmen are sot of so cowardly a strain es to presume on the weakness of the se who cry for carter; bat Eogiishmen have an instinctive love of tonth* that begets aversion to those who rrpeatedly tray a deposition to be just only on compulsion. The true—the only way for the Lords to perpetuate their privileges is frankly and cordially to identify themselves with the general interests of the com munity. The only real enemies of the Lords in England are the greedy monopolists of their own order—men who, like the Earl of lALMICEIBURT, do not blush to enume rate " the enormously productive harvest of 1836 " among their grounds for agricultural complaints—and the mean parasites of inferior rank who seek to ocierliate their protection for monopolies by fulsome and unmanly flattery. These nether and selfish men appe3l to the courage and pugnacity of the lords as a cowardly school-boy does to some fiery companion whom he would "egg on " to thrash or be thrashed by a third schoolfellow, whose fisticuffs:he is himself afraid to enc3unter. The sugar monopoliste'and corn monopolists, and shipping monopolists, and dealers in parliamentary corruption, who have one after another exhorted the Lords to assert their dignity, have never had anything in view bat the saving of their own pocke's. They have with cool and wi:y selfishness laboured to engage the peers in an unequal contest with the people of Eng land, merely to perpetuate their own ill-gotten gem Would the conservative peers know the real charms ters of the men who would at any time petil the existence of the order, by staking it rescreen for their own iniquitous, exclusive privileges, let them only cast a glance over the exposure made in this day's paper by a Sunderland correspondent, who shows how, under the shadow of the navigation laws, a sys tem of gambling has grown up, as bed as any of the railway mal-practices at present to loudly com plained of. Lord STANLEY is, beyond dispute, the worst spec:- men of these mischievous make-bates. He is one of thaw hasty and overweening spirits who provoke contests which they lack cmrage to fight out. He is all valour and defiance so lung as the preliminary in• triples are in play—none so resolute, none so animated in mustering forcer, urging on the hesitating, per suading the doubtful. But it is a common trick of his lordship, when he hes brought kis forces to face the enemy, to march off, as he did on Thursday night, without striking a blow. Lord STANLEY has a first rate genius for getting friends and followers inte l serapes, but he hes not even enough of self-possession, ' in the hour of pe-ii, to get them creditably out of them again. With all his lusty crowing, he is a craven at heart. To borrow a figure of speech from his favourite pursuit, " That cock won't fight.' How much longer will the conservative lends allow him to • lead them into ridiculous positions? Tae differential duties imposed by the Brazilian legislature on the shippivg of all countries with whom Brazil has not exchanged the most favoured nation stipulations, as our readers are aware, have to come into operation on the Ist of January, 1830; and as this country is in the catalogue of those nations which have not exchanged that stipulation with Bra zil, British shipping will, they also know, become subject in Brazilian Isorts to those heavy chargoa after that date. The latest advice. tram Rto enable on ts state that Mr. HUDSON, the British charge d'affante at the imperial court, had laid a formal pro position before the government of Dole PEDRO 11. to c3nclads such a commercial convention, or to enter into such commercial arrangements with Brazil as would exclude British shipping from the effect of three heavy countervailing and re taliatory duties. This proposition, we regret to add, was not deemed satisfactory by the Brazilian govern ment ; and at present there is little prospect of British shipping being exempted from the operation of the impending decree. Whilst regretting the determination of the Rio cabinet, with such an invasion on the rights of an in dependent state as Lord ABERDEEN'S Act con.titutes, there can be little surprises at its rejection of Mr. Hunan:ea proposition . And it is only just to that cabinet that it should be understood that, in coming to this resolution, it was not at all i , flueneed by either the doe.rinta or the practices of a narrow and jealous commercial system. Brazil is emphatically a free trade country ; it seeks for no advantage for its produce in the markets of foreign states ; it has no thing to protect it in our mastermind it is anxious to avoid giving any nation a preference in its ports. But, when attacked in its tenderest point, Bruit naturally turns upon th se who have wounded its dignity and outraged its nationality; and it refuses to conclude with England commercial relations such as ought to exist between two countries 8) mutually advantagecus to each other. We have not seen for years in the oolumns of the press a specimen of such vulgar, low, pe rsonal, and drivelling abase, as was indulged in last night by the of the courtly and exclusive whig aristocracy. 7rs lin have no objection to roughness, and hard words are excusable and telling at times. We understand sporting phrases in a sportsman's mouth, and even a military oath may not be without grace. But for the scribes who frequent Downinrstree, and whs have the privilege of treading even the back stairs of official haunts, to indulge in such language, is really disgraceful even to the livery of snob masters. The Globs undertakes, on the p art of the whigs, to shadow forth what kind of a liberal apposition it would choose to have to deal with, and what kind of members of that opposition it would gladly dispense with. Nothing can equal the modesty with which the relation is made. First of all, the Globe objects to any man, that ever I pretended to gaiety and fashion, or ever donned a gay uniform, enacting the part of champion of ertiooomy or of popular li be rties. Waxes was a rake who lived with lords upon a time. This experience, which certainly fitttd him for knowing and expelling the sires of the aristocracy, ought, in the Globes eyes, to have sealed up his feelings and his tongue. The elder Pert was a oornet of horse ; the Globe would never have allowed him to quit the re giment or to rise in the ranks of the rpular oppositions to be Earl of ent...—arnam. Mr. BERNAL OSBORNE was, it SUMS, SA aid-de-camp of Lord NORMAKBY,SLd according to the Globe ought to have remained so. It would certainly have been much more convenient to Lord NORMANBY'S party and organ, had Mr. OSBORNE remained amongst the Tom Noddies, and had Mr. THOMAS DMICOMBE n e tepped beyond that calculated line of opposition, followed by his friend, Sit JAMES GRAHAM. But as the sapient discerners of talent and wielders of pationa4e, who inspire the Globe and its style, made no effort to secure the Rood will of the °sacra:sea and DUNCOMBES, whilst in the juvenile enjoyment of the aide-de camp's and the man of fashion's life, why should they grudge the people the advantage f their talents? Having thus promulgated its prohibition against the radicals ever enlist ng a man cf fashion, the whig organ proceeds to extend its ban. This liberal journalist " is no admirer of manufacturing mem bers." Bless the mark! The worshipful scribe would sit down with no less than a landed elide*. Religious dissent, too, is vulgar in his errs. The " twang of the meeting-house" disgusts so courtly and elegant a writer, the chosen representative in the press of the opinions of Lord Jon!' Ilussr.m.! Haring thus eliminated with the most refined deli cacy of taste all men of fashion, all officers and aide de-camps, all manufacturing members, all who have the twang of the meetinghouse from the radical p - rty, whom does the Globs, in its generosity, permit to form her Majesty's liberal opposition ? It can (ply find two gent'. men to wham it would pent such a ticket of leave. These are Mr. Itnenvcx and Sir WILLIAM MOLESIVORTH. Theme gentlemen have the Globe's license to practise in opposition. Mr. HOME is objectionable, Mr. COBDEN was a manufac turer, Mr. BRIGHT wears an unorthodox oat, Mr. OSBORNE WU SD aid-de-camp. Bat Mr. Bon et:ex and Sir W. Motesworrit are " educatel" men in the sole sense that the Globe admits edu-ation. And of the some eighty members of the popular party, the whig organ iutilessly but politely strikes off neventy-eight as men of no 'donation. We are sure that Mr. ROEBUCK and Sir W. MOLESWORTH would be the first to repudiate the compliment of being professors of that kind of radi calism which most suits the government and its organs. Mr. ROEBUCK, indeed, in attacking his political foes, is very apt to give a slash or two of his sword to his friends out of mere ;milli de mar. But he is not the less a formidable and most efficient member of the popular party. As to Sir WILLIAM MOLESWORTH, his vigorous exposure of a rotten sys tem is tco crnahirg to entitle him to forbearance from the champions of the status quo in foreign or domestic politic. The Globe makes a mistake altogeth'r. It is not the ROEBUCKS or MoheswoeTas that should form part of its radical opposition. The radicals, to please the Globe, should be such as those who voted for the ballot in 1942, and a list of whose names Mr. GRANTLEY BERKELEY give on Thursday night. Those were Colonel ANSON, Admiral DUNDAS, Sir G. GREY, Lord MARCUS HILL, Mr. Fox MAULE, Mr. REDINGTON, Mr. SHIM, Sir W. SOMERVILLE, Mr. TUFNELL, Mr. WARD, and Mr. GIBSON CRAIG. This is the radical opposition, that the Globe was dream of. THE COURT. OSBORNE, MAY 28.—Him Bathfi Highness Prince Ernest of Leininten arrived yesterday afternoon on a visit to the Queen and Prince. The royal dinner potty yesterday included Mr. Birch, ' preceptor to his Royal Hiehnes. the Prince of Wales. A deputation, consisting of Mr. Cardwell, M.P., Sir Thomas B. Birth, Bart., M.P., Mears. Bennett, Langs dsle, Harbor], J. L. Hodson, and the Town Clerk of Liver pool, and Mr. Rowlands, the Borough Engineer, had an interview yesterday with the Comesiesicaers of the Board of Health at Gwydyr-house, the Earl of Carlisle in the chair, and stated th at the water 'theme foe 'Avert,lot, for which an act bad been obtained, would not be carried out. Mr. Highest, Secretary and Comptroller-General to the emaseimonen for the reduction of the national debt, and Mr. Tidd Pratt, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Eschequer yesterday, at hie official residence in Downing-street. A cabinet council was held yesterday at the Foreign office. It was attended by all the ministers except the Lad Chancellor. The council sat two hours. A deputation, consisting of the Right Hon. Edward Strati, the RUA% Hen. Sir Edward Ryan, the Hon. Richard Housman. Mr. Warburton, Mr. John Wood, Dr. Boolt, and Mr. E. Mid, had an interview with Lord John Russell, yesterday, at his offload residence in Downing-sweet. Colonel Jones had en interview with Earl Grey, yesterday, at the Colonial-office. A deputation from the senate of the University of Laudon, omelettes of the Chancellor, the Earl of Burling ton ; the Vice Chancellor, Mr. J. G. Shaw Lefler' ; Dr. Billies, Dr. Hodgkin, Mr. Kiernan, Mr. Ridont , and Mr. Warburton, had en interview with Sir George Grey, yes. terday, at the Rome-oetes. The Belgian Minister had an interview, yesterday, with Lord John Russell. Despatehe s were sent off, yesterday evening ' from the Colonial-office, for the Governor of Canada, and also fee the governors of the other North American provisoes. A deputation from the Midland Great Western Railway Company of Ireland, 'assisting of Massey. John Innis, 'Joseph Boyce, James Parry, sal James Stirling, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, yester day. The deputation was introduced by Mr. George Moffatt, M.P. Despatches from the Governer of the Gold Coast were TIOSiVed yesemday, at the Cskrisi-edlee. Taz Tarr DRAWING-100N will be held by her majesty ea Thaseday zest, the 31st kat. COLONEL CAULFIELD, ME. LAWLESS, AND MIL Airusesow were accidentally shut oat from voting is favour of 111!. 11. Berkeley's motion on the ballot on Thursday (From last slight's Gautte.) WHITEHALL, May 2s.—The Queen has been pleased to nominate and appoint James Ivory, E.q., one of the Oran Lord. of &pion, to be one of the Lords of Jestlei r erj s t , in the room of John Hey Forbeg, Esq., TER WAS IN TEI PCNJAUB.—The Gazette of last events, contains the despatches which have been received at the East India House from the °meeker-General of India" the most important of which we have already pub• RE APPEARANCE OP TIM POTATO DISEASE.—We have been iwirrated that Mr. Burrell of Worksop Mill, on tethering some Holberry potato plants, grown to a frame, discovered comild era ble appearance of this extraordinary sa d incurable disease, which appeared to be wide nixed's/ amen, them. We are happy to state that we have received ieformatirm from several other quarters where this valuable esculent hie bees dug up, that there has not bees the slight es:ampeorn of this destructive pestilence.—Nottingham J ACCIDENTAL POISONING AT lartsPonL. Five children have been poisoned at the Old Swan near Liverpool, by iseastionsly eating hemlock.heo One died in the greatest agony, and the others el. THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 26, 1849. THE MIDLAND RAILWAY.-LIITFER FROM MR. HUDSON. MANCHESTER MSTRATION AND FINANCIAL REFORM ASSOCIATION. TO 211 =ITO& OP Pll =PRESS. Slit,—As it is currently repotted that my resigna tion of the chairmanship of the Midland Railway was induced by a cognisance of some flagrant mismanage ment in the financial department of the company, and by a prospect of the hue being unable to continue the payment of its usual dividend, with other offen live particulars, I shall feel obliged by your inserting this as a contradiction to such base and malignant as sertions, which could only have emanated from into parties, with a view to depreciate the stock el this company. As regard. my resignation, I have only to state that it was dictated from motives of policy, and far from there being anything wrong in the company', &co conuts, I do not hesitate to say that daring the wised, period of my chairmanship I never detected the slight est discrepancy in any of them. With retard to the position and prospects of the line, I have a higher opinion of its merits than some, and am only eaten ishtd at the present low prio3 of the stock; and I fearlessly assert the, with one exoeption,the Midland Line is without a parallel, and, as to railway invest ment, is unquestionably the Hetet, and will prove the most remunerative of the very many now in ex istence.—l am, &c., Hyde Park Corner, May 25,1849. The first meeting of the Blanchester Registration and Financial Reform Assosiatiae, which wee called for the purpose of sleeting the general council and officers, was held on Thursday main, in the large room of Newall'e 111111ORGE WILSON, who took the chair, said—Gen tle:ems the *sets of this association, end the mode by which we to accomplish those objects, have been emplaned premise which were made before 8.000 people in the Fro-Oa& Hall ; they were expressed In the resolu tions which emanated from that misting ; they are in unison with the °pintos **detained by • number of maciatioas l t Iseedel redeem is various parts of the kingdom, ma, ether sonesdations seeking . mare. (Hoer.) Toe semmi reeshition sabots this principle—" That we believe, ▪ Insmial reform, however soon it may be obtained, can be permanently secured for the people of this country, until they obtain greater toutrol over the House of Commons." (Cheers.) But, gentlemen, the third and charac.eristle re solution of that meeting was this That as we know fives experience how false, how hollow, how delusive are all signs of progress, unless you propose poetical measures, we pro pose to register sad make progress, from day to day, be attacks upon the parliamentary register." (Cheer,.) And I am persuaded, gentlemen, that every other financial or reform association in the country, unless it makes this the chief part of its objects, will never make that progress which its best kinds could desire. (Hear.) If you want to strike with miming precision directly upon the House of Cow moo you most strike through the register. (Hear.) We sent out the resolutions passed at the meeting in the Free' Trade Hall to a number of the hot friends of free trade and reform throughout the country ; we waited for their replies, bemuse we felt quite sure that any association, to be powerful, must have the support, not of the peo- ple in one locality, but of the rook throughout the country. (Hear.) We received their replies ; we acted upon those replies so far as at once, seeing the opinion enter tained throughout the country, to delegate one of oar body (Mr. A. Polities) to visit various pities', to expound our views, to explain the principles of the emaciation, and promote its objects; and we now ask you, therefore, after the steps we have already taken ' to elect the council, and take the field in earnest. (Cheery.) The Isms by which we shall pursue our objects will be left I to to the discretion of the council, whom you will elect this evening; but I shall say, briefly, we propose to sent out esmpateat paws to expound the views of the amen , tioa, that we shall enter into correspondence—cot with %deviations where that correspondence is illegal—but with our friends throughout the country, and ask their ea-operation and support. There are three ways in which parliamentary reform may be obtained. In the Ant place, you can ask all those—and there are a much greater number of them than at first you might suspect— ask all three who possess the qualifications, and who are not already registered, to beecme registered. (Hear , hear.) In the next, you can do that which the Lessee and which worked such a wonderful change in the consti tution of the register, that if it had lasted two years longer it would have taken nearly the whole of the counties in England from the monopolists—you can induce all your Mende, theu gentlemen who join with us in this move ment, to purchase county qualification,. (Hear, hear, and Owen.) But the third, end lot, and greatest, is a new element in these agitationt—an element which is a , which bas no political organhation, and which is to provi e a means by which you shall enable the working classes, not only without pecuniary lose, but to their perwlltal ;bettor, to !promo enfranchised. (Cheers.) To a certain extent, the building societies do this, and no man can look with greeter ple‘sure at every prospectus issued of a beial tag echiety than I do ; because it is an indication of the attention the working and lower classes are paying to bettering their condition by investments. (Hear, hear) But building societies are not formed rvestUilly for poli tical obi. cts. There is now, however, a society formed which enables the working mm to acquire • vote, end that for political objects, at the same time that it benefits him. All honour to our friends in Birmigham for having made this discovery. (Cheers.) It is the discovery of a working man, and we are indebted to working men nearly altogether for the success which has attended it. The Birmingham Land Association, without entering into details as to its constitution,—the Birmingham Land Association in its broad features does this ; it purchase. • certain amount of load, which it resells to the members of the immolation at soot price ; and it is found that the members of the associa lion so far have purchased that land which will give them a freehoM qualification for the ecuaty register at the rate of IW. or 191 les. per qualification. (Chem.) Now at pre sent the Birmingham society numbers some 1,500 members, bolding 2,000 shares. They have already purchased see est .te which will qualify mo•co than 300 voters ' and allotted it. They have purchased another estate, wbkhthey propose to allot immediately, which will qualify 300 more. They ore increasing at the rate of 60 a month, and no man SEE tell the end of such au areciation. Now, gentlemen, if Birmingham alone did this, why, then, It would scarcely be worth our while to give much attention to it ; but already there are upwards of 20 assoiatios formed in the midland counties and in Yorkshire, with the objects of the Birmingham association . I will just show you this at Birmingham they have 1,600 mem here, holding 2,000 shares, increasing at the rate of teo a month. Suppose. throughout the whole of England—which is no great supposition—if instead of 200 or 300 associations ou should have only 100 (and you have 20 at the present time), and sup posing none to be formed in Lancashire, and suppose that, instead of having 1,500 or 2,000 members, as the Birmingham an: elation have, they bad only 500 each, you see 500 members in kindred associations are 60,000 county votes! And the whole of the county constituency' of England is under half a million. Fifty thousand votes put on those counties which are recoverable where the landed interest isnot all.power*l, would expel every man who sits (or three-fourths of the counties of England. (Cheers.) Here then are the elements of the new emaciation we are met tonight to promote. I don't conceal from myself that ' it will depend altogether on its general seeps and action fur its success. JOHN BRIGHT, Esq., M. P., said Our chairman has endeavoured to exp lain why we should attempt to form an association for the objects which be has explained. I don't suppose he will have satisfied some parties who: are accustomed to cavil at everything like a political movement. The question is always asked, " What would you have next ? What is it you are for Why are not you satisfied with things se they are ?" These ROYAL NAVAL SCHOOLS. ineetions are generally asked by people who have been born with silver spoons in their mouths—(laughter)—or who, by Yesterday the annual general meeting of the sup- , ome success of their own, or success of those who were porters of the above institution was held at the Thatched before them, find their position exceedingly comfortable, or Hose Tavern, St. James's-street. Rear-Admiral BOWLES at least so much soot at they don't wish it to be &curbed. in the chair. (Hear, hear.) w, I th.nk that the best answer to these The SECRETARY read the report of the council for the cavillers is to point out what those who have gone before us year 1848 in which they congratulate the subscribers upon or have anted with us on former occasions have accomplished the fact that they bave been enabled to carry 03 the school b movements which have been quite as much complained without mooching on the invested fund", and that by of as this can possibly be. I find that eurythiag that we observing attire economy, the expenditure had been brought have gained for many years past, perhaps in all past time, within the receipts. In the last annual report to the general has been gained by a course of proceedings which these ono meeting, in 1848, it was stated that they bad determined plahiing people, if they had lived in those times would ire not to revive the question of openieg the school to suredly have found fault with. (Hear.) Therein sae thing other classes than the sons of navel and marine officers of or which we must nut forget in turning our attention to above wardroom rank, but, instead thereof, they contemn- these past movements, which is the exceeding tardiness plated increasiag the annual charge for board and tuition with which they passed on from their first corameneessest from the then maximum payment of 251. to 311., being the to their completion and success. There has been an uso. cost price—reservilig to themselves the power of admitting ciation here and another there, and meetings by the dozen into the school at 251. tbe ems of those officers whose mans or by the more, and occasional contributions to a consider might not enable them to pay the increased charge. As this able amount; but the people who had the power knew that latter only came into operation at Christmas last, the there was no firm resolution on the part of the population to were not as yet in a position to offer an opinion combine and to force the Mangos whkh they were thus de. as to whether or not this new regulation would ob- mandieg. (Hear.) Now I hare before expressed an opinion, slate the necessity of revising at a future period which I hold now as fully, perhaps mere fully, than ever, that the question of opening the school. The average there is a sufficient amount of opinion in this country, if it member of pupil, last year was only 174 (of whom 146 was only combined and direded,to maks ems hose of paella were paying 261. per annum, and 26 were on the meet act much mote in accordance with*. directioa of the gratuitous or reduced list), slthough the house, even in its public will, and much more honestly and advaatageostly for presuat imperfect state, iscapabla of eatonusodatinte upwards the country, than it dose at present. (Hear, hear.) We re ef WO. Tha balance at the end of last year was 1901. Bs. 6.1., quire that this opinion should be combined. Last year, for and they express a hope that funds might be placed at their example. there were a great number of meetings held in all disposal for effecting the emplethe of the original designed parts of the country in favour of an improvement in the sys the building at New Cross. At present neither a so *1- tem of representation, and an immense number of petitions room nor • eltarl is built, a room ultimately intended were presented. Bat parliament thought that was only the as a class-room being used as a sebool.room, and the ISe:temente of • moment; that it had merely happened be library and unseen as a chapel. They state also that cause excitements bad taken place on the continent ; that It the school wee steadily advancing in character and would die away i again and that nothing need be done. that they cantinas to receive most satisfactory letters (Hear, hear.) There s in the papers of to day a fast from parents whose sorts had left the who& Several of the stated which it is worth our while to coadder for a moment. pupils of the establishment had distinguished themselves by I allude to the sews brought by nexed to the Indianthe & maiWebl, tattles high boom at the university, and by mous in the that another large kingdom is an miens waits on which they had entered. The total empire. (Hear, hear.) Well, this process of &e -nemas" of annual stibeeriben was 867, and the amount of nexation fa In dia has been going on for a very long time ; iavesend capital wee 8,3401. 45., to which is to be added the and it involves a vastly increased expenditure from the re dessii„ol 2001. f ro . Am m an L uc a, which is payable venues raised from the population el India—raised by • this year. Since the opening of the eMablishasent in Dam- system of taxation, for the most part, I don't hesitate to say, berwell in 1833, 732 pupils bad passed from within its walls. the very wont which any government could possibly main after receiving the benefit of a sound religions and tam, and raised in such • manner, and to such an extent, as education. _They also state that the present to leave nobody in India besides the invading and the lest Lord of the Admiralty has signified his intention to governing sheen, and the vast mass of prostrate and soulless the hau l sad pu p s p ay s lip s granted hob prw penperised cultivators of the soil. (Load cries of " hear.") duessors in office. The marine cadetship was awarded last Now I believe we have outgrown the notion that it is an Midsummer to J. R. Brookes, son o y t h e late Mr. Brookes, great advantage to us that the sun never sets on the Brill* surgeon, R.N., who passed from his examination first in ma- dominions; and we have outgrown the notion that it is any thematic,. The naval cadetships wars last year bestowed great advantage to us that one Indian kingdom or govern or' C. D. Inglis, son of Lieut. P. Inglis, R. 14., and A R. snot after another should be added to this empire. (Hear, Tinkles. son of th e late Capt. R. S. Tinklar, H. K. The hear.) There is no proof whatever that those vast and re- Yerborringh stiMiseship was awarded to A.T. Denham, son mote dominion,, continually added to us, have ever tended of Capt. H. IL Daiwa. B. N. ; this reward will, in future, to strengthen this country or to improve the material wa in conformity whit seraosesente made by the Admiralty, &ion o f the population of the United Kingdom. (Hear, and osermeill is by the - Bari of Yarborough, be given to hear.) But nearer home, there are still more afflicting signs. the hey wen „ hem the ant navel ca d e t s h i p i s b es towed. I had on former occuloas alluded to the condition of Ire- They seeemead, finally, that two of the by-laws, land. (Hear, hear.) And if any man tells me that our Nos, 411 ma 54, the former of shish leaves the government has been • jut and a good and a wise govern semil me of extending the periods of admission and ' ment, that our aristocratic institutions can stand f trth to the el the pupils, and the latter readers compe ) - world and say, " Look around at the results of the wisdom esey the dhiniesal el pupils whose parents are in sneer for with which we have controlled the destinies of a great ea se p ro d u ctive of pire" I would point to Ireland and say, " There is your board and • Wiles, Mould be reminded, incor.venience. condemnation written, not in insurrectionary movements, The CHAIRKAW, having mood the aloptka of the report, for those were idle—but written in the condition of a papule- Lint. Hammitt as an amendment that the portion such as the Milked world has never before seen; written des of the report w related to the resciadiag of the bye in the depopulation of provinces—written in the famine law No. 48 should be omitted. Boys were admissible to the stricken millions over whom you:govern—written, ay, you my institution from the ages of 8 to 14 inclusive, and were not see it in every ship that tracks the ocean, end bears away retained nit after 18. This rule had been adopted after the exiles who fly from your shores ; and you might we it in mature deliberation, and was found to work weal both in the records if you had the records, of the mortality of the this and other schools. He believed that the adm i ssion of population which has been for a long time subject to your boys after the age of 14 was calculated to inflict serious in ' Tale' (Cheers.) The fact is t after all that we have seen in jury on the institution, and be should therefore oppose the the newspapers, and heard in parliament, that none of present alteration as calculated to produce that result, us, I believe, can form an adequate lea of the state of the The amendment having been mended, after a brief sins- population in the south and west of Ireland. (Hear, elusion, was carried by a majority of One. The report, with hear.) I have seen a return from a certain number of thee :option of the words indicated by the amendment, was union workhonies, showing that out of 1,600 persons who then adopted. entered those workhouses within • given period, 600 of them died within two menthe (Hear, bear.) And it is After a vote Of thanks to the chairman, the prceiliainr quite notorious that some men who bare been loudly asking terminated. G. HUDSON. THE LORD MAYOR'S BANQUET TO THE JII DGES. Yesterday the Lord Mayor gave the usual annual banquet to the representatives of the City of London to her Majesty's Judge* and the bar of England. The entertainment was r yes in the Egyptian Hall, to a select rather than a numerous party. " The levees cup—the great and time-honoured feature of all eity_bangnets"—having been given by the toastmaster (Mr. Harker) with stentorian lung and correct enunciation of name awl title from lord to esquire, and esquire to my manure end Indies end gentlemen all, The LORD.MAYOR proposed the usual loyal toast% and their having been honoured In due form ant with all enthu Wm, The LORD MAYOR had now the honour of propesiag the health of a di sti nguished nobleman, for whom he had long entertained—and he was sure every one present enter. tained —the highest respect, and who he had the most sincere gratification at seeing there as his guest that evening ; he need comely say he meant Lord Brougham. They could point back with pleasure to the early of that noble and learned Iced—to the ability and zeal which distinguished him as an advocate at the bar, and to the Mere and large views to which afterwards as a states man he made that energy and ability subservient. If be were to team the early path of Lord Brougham, it would be to describe the active, energetic, anti earnest part he took in carrying out every liberal and great measure which during that weer was brought before the Parliament and the country. This, however, was matter of hiatosy, and con gratulating himself on having the honour of r osiving so distinguished an individual a. his guest he would ask them to join him in drinking to the health of the Right Hon. Lord Brougham. The West being drusk, Lord BROUGHAM returned his hearty thanks for the manner in which his health had been proposed and drunk. He felt a peculiar satisfaction at all times in partaking of the hospitality of the city of London, for he had the high. sad distinguished honour, an honour which he prized above ell others, of being himself a citizen of Loudon—(cheer)—and if anything could add to the gratification he enjoysd from holding that position, it was in the r' &Mien that the honour was conferred upon him at the same time that it was conferred on a noble and learned friend of his, in con sideration of their having zealously, manfully, and suedes fully, God be preiscd, discharged their duty to a distinguished but persecuted client, who wet attempted to be run down and sacrificed by a corrupt and profligate court. (Cheers.) He need this language ad y, but not for the first time ; for he never responded to the mention of his name at any City meeting, nor had his noble end learned friend the Lord Chhf Justice of England ever answered to any toast within the City of London, without making the same avowal. —(hear, hear)—that he gloried in the recollection that he bad obtained the honour of citizenship in London for exposing profligacy and corruption. (Hear, beer.) He was awara that he was speaking these things at a time when public vir tee was at a low ebb, and when courtiership and profligacy was more pendent than true patriotism ; but he did not consider It was his duty to conceal his sentiments at any time or in any place—above all, in the City of London, which had ever been the cradle of civil and religious liber ty—the cradle inubich, in the glorious revolution of 1688, our liber ties were rocked emd nursed. (Hear, hear.) There. fore it was that he gloried, and that kis noble and learned friend (Lord Denman) gloried in belonging to the City of London—end gloried especially in those events which might be said to have begun, or at least to have con. solidated, their connexion with that city. (Cheery) lie must be allowed to add—whet, however, was of far less con sequence—that it gave him groat pleasure to meet there today so many members of the learned pro feetion of which he had se long been a mem ber. Though few of those present he remembered r his cotempusiles, it gave him pure and uomingled satis faction to meet so many of his brethren at the bar on such an occasion. He would conclude by giving the health of the Lord Mayor and the Lady Mayoress. The LORD MAYOR returned thanks. His Lordship next gave " the Attorney-General and the bar of England." The ATTORNEY-GENERAL, in returning thanks, expressed his satisfaction that the conduct of the bar rest with the approbation of the citizens of London. The LORD MAYOR then proposed the health of Mr. W. P. Wood, and the members of the House of Commons. Mr. W. P. WOOD acknowledged the c sulpha:eat. The neat toast was " Mr. S. Gurney, and prosperity to the trade and commerce of the City of London," which Mr. S. Gurney acknowledged. " The Aldermen of London " was the last toast, and Mr. Alderman Thompson having returned thanks, the company separated. the an., OUT cows \ The need national and 3rd. view. IC hi arrived stated wee th for the refer to for the industry, turd dep tura', 7 prop whole, prevail He ti• for emigration from Ireland upon some government system, declare that emigration itself le not necessary, or would not be regarded as a remedy, for the rapid extinction of the population by the mortality which is now in progress does more for thinning the Irish people than the most extended emigration could be expected to do. (Hear, hear.) Now, can our present constitution remedy these evils? Why , if it was only a nation that people would be better off if they had an honest representation, If no good argon .nt could be given against it, even that lotion might be gratified. (Hear, hear.) But I propose this question not upon mere imaginary grounds, and I ask, whether any sane man, knowing what Is the working of our present govern ment system, can show that a remedy can be spplied by our constitution, as it now exists, to the evils which I have so briefly described ? Now, Just look back to any question that ha- been already gained—to the emancipation of the catho lic', for example. Why, people in England asked whether they wen honest grievanees which the catholic* complained of, or whether those who held what they called such dread ful religieus opinions, had any right to a share in the go- vernment ; and they let the thing go on to the verge of a civil war, and then catholic emancipation was granted. , Lord John Russell moved, year after year, for a puns plenary reform; but a parliamentary reform of the most meagre description was not granted till hardly any tory nobleman's carriage could pan through a country town or village without haring its windows and panels broken in by stones. (Hear.) And when the reign of violent public meetings, and almost revolutionary resolutions at these meetings, and the reign of brick-bats—for it was little lemo— ny e, there was no earnest proposition to imp rove repro natation the rep. natation of the people in parliament. There is one man im portant consideration that I am dispensed to lock at for a mo ment or two, which is, the effect of our present system upon OUT population. Mr. Wilson has mentioned the number of electors in the counties. I don't know the number in the boroughs, but altogether, I believe, the electors don't amount to more than one in five, or one in six, of the whole grown-up men in the kingdom. (Hear) I will suppose, for the sake of argument, that it is one in five, but I believe it Duet so many. Now, four-fifths of the English people are not ignorant, are not immoral, are not dishonest, are not idle—(hear, hear)—are not the enemies of order. (Chests.) If there be anything which this country has done in ancient or in modern tione—if there be anything which stands upon the records of its history, which is worthy that it should be proud of, or that other nations should admire, certainly all this has not been the work of one in five of the Briti.h p ,pulation. (Cheers) What have we to say to those other four men ; or, if von like, to those four millions ? Suppose we were of them, and not, as probably the majority of us are, of the one in five class. Is there any thing in our character, in our public or private conduct, which justifies the one in insolently pointing us to the other bide of the barrier, and saying, " Come not near us, for you are less wise, lees fond of order, leas capable than we are of giving an opiaion upon public questions, I aisle to say who is an honest, an intelligent, and useful man in our district to go to parliament ?" Why, what should we sly it this lan guage we* held out to us? We should say this is an in version of the very order of nature. There is no such demar cation in nature as this. One man is not a demi-god anti our, iie n an 1111 industry . might be, snd is - Aeducted cant' as should taro •' disuse, colonies, vivant., national Some 0. in` . rntation. tin. chair. peared churob itivinp total the . seat,. . 38,2331. The e, the other four men brutes, and even your laws can't make them so; and, therefore, this state of things shall not be tolerated. (Great cheering.) I admit that there are great numbers of the working slurs—l speak of the classes who live upon wages—who do not sufficiently consider public questions, and have not sufficient political interest ; but there is a very numerous clue amongst those who work from day to day at their honest, and laborious, and skilled occupations, who understand this just as well as I do, and who feel pre. cisely upon this point as I should feel if I were in their posi tion. It is for this great class that I plead ; and I maintain that the interest's of this country would be more secure, so f a! , l e o- eee worth mewl-- if this erect des. with all it virtues, was celled in within' e pale Of tbe constituting, and that we might all work and act together for the sustentation of all :hat is good in those institutions which our forefathers have lett us. (Cheers.) Look at the sources of disturbance in this country. Trades unions (I speak of those formed upon false economical principles) have lost very much of their influence ; a love of disorder does not exist ; a love of plunder or of the destruction of property is not to bo found to an extent worth mentimiog among our population The only periods when you have disturbances in this country is when men, feeling the political prescription under which they live, combine, and excite each other by the re membrance of the description of their grievances, and then, when there comes a period of great temporary suffering, from vicasitudes in trade, or from the failure of the harvest, all this breaks out and appears upon the surface in the shape of partial insurrectionary movements. (Hear, hear.) Would it not be worth something if we could establish a system of zovernment under which the Newport insurrection in Wales had not taken place ; under which the chartist riots of 1839 had not taken place ; under which that great and evraordi nary outbreak of 1842 had not taken place ; and, r which those insane and deplorable, though very limited attempt* at disorder in the spring of 1848, should not have tak place and under which a few misguided men in Ireland would never have been permitted to involve themselves in the awful sentences which they hive suffered from attempting to create insurrectionary movements in that part of the country t (Cheers.) It bel.e.gs to as to do something to Krieg about the advent of such a system. I understand the object of the association to be this, to combine. as far as possible, all the liberal, Caine,', honest, pclitical opinions of this district, not for objects which the censtitation does not sanction (hear) not for objects upon which the strictest Christian morality will frown • but for objects which I believe to be as tiered and as go od as ever called forth the energies and the resolutions of the citizens of a free state. (Cheers.) We combine for the purpose of bringing these liberal opinions to bear on behalf of every just and good measure which may be submitted to the legislature or discussed by the legislature. We shall be able to bring about a very large amount of petitioning to the House of Commons by organising a mode by which all VT eons agreeing with us in op i nion shell state their opinions at one time to the house, and we intend also to ray particu lar attention, of course, to the reduction of expenditure, and to the improvement of the economy of our government. (Cheers.) But I admit freely that I look to this association with the greatest pleasure on this account, that I believe its ultimate object will be, by the extension of forty. 'billing treeholds, by the attention to the register both in btroughs and counties, gradually but rapidly to give the people increased power in the House of Commons—in their " own house," by the theory of the constitution—and ultimately to enable them to make such changes, with repent to our representation, as, while It excludes none of those who now possess the franchise, shall admit a vest number of those who are now excluded, and shall give —stein, to the length of the resolution which was propped in the House of Commons last year by Mr. Hume—the franchise to a great majority, at soy rate, of those who, from the present system, are ex cluded. (st Hear, hear," and cheers) The proposition that we will make will net be like this ev stem which now exists, by which a large class is excluded ; but it will be one which, whatever be the exclusion proposed, will be an exclusion to all Blares with equal fairness, and :one which will admit, with equal fairness, all claws of the people. (Hear, bar) Before I conclude, there is one point to which we must tura our attention. We ean't go abroad to preach purity of election and patriotism amongst constituencies, and great wisdom in the selection of members,whilet we find the boroughs in our own county in so disgraceful a position with respect to their representation. (Hear, hear.) I beg to announce that a number of gentlemen have sent in their names, and I have in my hand a list of more than 200 names of persons, which it is proposed should be submitted to this meeting, as the general council of the association. It is proposed that Mr. Wilson should be the chairman—(great cheering) ; that Mr. Rawson, who always took care that the league did not improperly run into debt, and that its funds should be most judiciously expended, should be the treasurer of the association—(re. newed cheers) ; and that Mr. Hickin be requested, as be fore, to undertake the duties of secretary. (Applause.) Mr. J. C. DYER, who was received with cheers, aid-1 think the asesociation is one that ought to receive the cordial support of the inhabitants of this town and neighbourhood, and of this county. I conceive that, as it aims to attain the object of giving to the people a more extensive command over their own house of parliament, it ought certainly to en gage the sympathies and the earnest co-oration of the inhabitants of this county, and especially of this town. There is a consistency in all the proceedings of the Qom dative dames, in o pp osing every reduction et taxation, because the full profits and advantages of large tax ation go to be divided among themselves. (Hear, hear.) Well, there seems to be no means of checking this, except that of giving to the people a sufficient influence over the House of Commons—over their own house. Whether this is to be dose by the system which our excellent chairman has so ably explained to v to-night, or by the old.fashioned mode of making it dangerous to carry on a government of mirrepreeentation any longer, I do hope that an system may sueseed ; and I confers I have a much bet tor opinion of its working and propriety sines I came into this room than I had before, in consequence of the lumi. seas explanation of the mode in which it tan be made to work; and if we can, in reality, get the House of Commons reedy to represent the commonalty, let us accept it. Let us nesept it in any way sooner than let it run on with such well-founded and such universal discontent as now exists usin.st the present system of r(presentation--egainst that Haws of Commons which has so shamelessly set its face spinet financial reform, and which has pertinaciously op posed everything which has a tendency to check the power oldie governing clue. (Cheers.) If this association can word mat a real reform of the representation of este country, 1 shall, for one, be satisfied to it work, insteed of the old plea of agitating for a radical reform by making fJI datprous to refuse. Therefore, I beg to second the appointment e' the council—composed, as you have beard, of gentkm eminently qualified to forward and carry into effectlhis gr. movement. (Cheers.) The CHAIRMAN : I will now put the resolution. The only improvement I have to suggest is, that the name Mr. Dyer himseU may be added. (Cheer..) The resolution was carried unanimously, and with great cheering. Mr. Alderman HARVEY moved "That the preliminary proceedings of the provisional council be confirmed." Mr. WM. MORRIS having seconded the resolution, it was carried unanimously. The meting then separated. 20 . iarriak kad amount diocesan legacies, letter n• weir* *stabil, purpose PLYMOUTH FINANCIAL REFORM ASSOCIATION. The first meeting of this body was held on tht evening of Tuesday, the 23rd ixst.int, at the Mechanics' Institute. JOHN BURNELL, 8.q., was celled to the chair on iF motion of C. B. Calmidy, EN., and ef , er some proliminar remarks, in which he stated that evert , mm wh , contriba ., to the public expenditure Imo intorvsted in the=tion before them, be celled upon Mr. Nichols to #. meeting. Mr. Isaac Nicnot. then errom—le , d his addtes. felt it to be an honour to On to ad I , ess the meetiogenpoi I , 1 1 3 t V absorbing to of the der, the financial expenditure of country. He divided the subject into three parts: Ist. need of a governing power; 2nd. The amount of our anal expenditure, and a necessity far a reduction therein ; 3rd. The effect of that reduction in a national point of r. He traced the progress of society step by step until :rived at the stage in which man is drilled, and he • ed that ha proportion to the growth of civilisation the necessity created for a wise and good government P I the purposes of protection. He then trek occasion to r to the movement making by the agricaltural interest, • l i i l the restorati ea of that mis•called protection to native ashy, and he concluded, after r. marking upon the mu- I dependence of the various interests, whether agricul- el, manufacturing, or commercial, that to attempt to p or protect individual interests was to injure the ole, and to allow the laws of fallible man to i veil over the great fundamental law of nature. then entered upon the consideration of the amount of • national expenditure, and the necessity fur its reduction. made a short analysis of the national debt, alto sing that ' annual charge of 30,000.0001, was by it engrafted on the i Autry of this country. Therefore, whatever the revenue tht he, this sum must be provided for out of it, I in every government aniseed statement it would found that this amount was either added the sum total of annual expenditure, or iucted primarily from the amount of revenue. To the itinuance of the present annual government expenditure, ilusive of interese, etc., on the national debt, of 24,000,0301., decidedly objected; and he added their determination a to establish such a system of retrenchment and economy P should secure to the nation certainly no greater expends- ! re than that of 1835, viz , 15,844,6491. He thought saving could be made in the colonial expen- tura, partly by a reduction of the military force in the lonia, and partly by removing causes for revolt in some them. He concluded his lecture by showing the vantages in a national point of view of a reduction in their .tional expenditure. He sat down amid loud applause. 0 use discussion enacted, and at the termioation of the meet- g several other persons present were enrolled with the as- dation. --- - - . i gCORPORATED SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING THE ENLARGEMENT, BUILDING. AND BE- .• • 1 PAIRING OF CHURCHES AND CHAPELS. .1 Yesterday the annual general meeting of the friends I I f this institution was held at the society's offices, St. Mar- I in's-lane; his Grace the Archbishop of Catrrattnurtv in the hair. The report for the last year was read, from which it ap- I! V•• oared that 12,9101. had been granted in aid of 40 new hunches and chapels, the rebuilding or enlarging 11, and lying increased accommodation in 43 others; making a otal of 94. No less than 27.963 seats were thus provided, 4 which 23,071 would be free for the one of all classes. ,2151. was granted towards the erection of churches in 17 tar parishes, containing a population of 63,798 persons. lid had been granted towards the erection of thumb's ! , n 136 districts, which were expected to be endowed by he Eadesiastical Commissioners. These would give 81,206 eats, of which 62,293 would be free. For this purpose 18,23•51. had been contributed from the funds of the society. • The society paid grants to 111 places to the amount of 20,0831. ‘Vith this aid 52 new churches would be built ; 20 parish churches had been rebuilt • and 39 parish churches I hart been eelarged. The donations received during the year • • . • amounted to 2,183/. 20. 62. ; the remittances from the ' ' diocesan and district associations amounted to 2,1391.3,. 10d. ; • legacies, 3691. 19s ; portion of the receipts under the royal letter up to 31st Marc'', 3,3631. 15s. 9d. The state of the moiety's feuds on the 31st of March last exhibited outstand- 4 , hie grants to the amount of 44,8841. ; value of the funds in • ... 4• 1 toe ereiety's lianas, iumvt. ea aye., Maui 4 oluanCo ei 3,571/. 91. 10d. , . • The report having been adopted, The Bishop of LICHFIELD moved, and W. Concur, Esq., seconded, a vote of thanks to the chairman, which his grace i acknowledged, after which the meeting separated. li' 1 I BATHS AND WASHHOUSES FOR THE LABOURING CLASSES. I , II Yesterday a meeting of the promoters of these establishments took place at the London Tavern, for the purpose of receiving the seventeenth report of the committee 'I • , of work* and for other business concerted with the institu- tion in doulston-erpare. The Rev. Sir HENRY DUKINFIELD took the chair, in the absence of the Bishop of London, the • president. , i The report, after relegate the progress of the works from the commencement to the present time, stited that the committee had much satisfaction in reporting that under the I . I • I I act of 1817 similar institutions are progressing in several parts of London, and in towns in the country ; and that the engineer to the company bad gratuitously supplied draw- ings for establishments at Amsterdam, Bru'sels, Liege, and New York, the designs fir all of which were copied from those adopted in Goulston-square. The gross expenditure on the works, including the purchase of the site, has been I • 22,6951. 9e. 4d., and the expenditure for print- ing .. , and other sundries incidental to the establishment • has been 3,9361.15 a. 10d. ; making together 26,6321. es. 2d. . The orreries of working the establishment during the 18 months, from July, 1847, to December, 1848, have been I ! 1,3581. le. 4d., and the receipts 9891.8 e. The sum required, December 31, 1848, to complete the works, may be esti- mated 1 ' at 2,0001, which has still to be raised by subscription, or paid out of the weekly receipts from the baths and wash- I houses, which it is now expected will exceed the expenditure e by 10/. or 201. per wee k. With a view to arrive at a just • * appreciation of the circumstances, a considerable deduction must be made from the gross outlay for expenses incidental to the formation of the first establishment on a large scale. These expenses, and the Cairo. cost of the feundati ns. owing to the peculiar position of the site selected, cannot be esti- raved at lees than 5,0001., which, deducted from .. 1 26,6321. se. 24 , leaves 21,632/. se. 2d. as the cost of the buildings and apparatus, in which there are provided 96 baths and 84 tubs, with the necessary drying closets, and ' ! other conveniences. From this sum another deduction of at least 3,0001., must be made for the cast of experiments, alteration", he. Con- : sidering all these circumstances, and with the knowledge now acquired, the committee are sanguine that similar ac- commodation might be obtained in other establishments in London, for an outlay not exceeding 12,0001, and in the country, where sites are cheap, for a still smaller cum, The • first establishment at Liverpool for 8 baths and 20 tube, cost • 3,1001. The second, in Paul lane, recently erected, for 34 baths and 30 tube, cost above 10,0001. That in St. Mactin's, • for 68 baths and 56 tubs, will cost 16,0001. ; and the expendi- 4 ' tare on the establishment in Goulston-equare has not been so ' • i' . excessive as it would at first appear. • In the first eighteen months, from July, 1847, to Decem- • / ber, 1848, with but few baths in working order, the receipts : were nearly I t oool. From January lot to May 19th, this I • year, the receipts have been 3151. 6e. 7d., from 23,332 bathers; but these receipts in the w inter months afford but little clue to the groom receipts of the year, which your coin- • • mitres estimate at fully 2,0001. The ezpeasa will not ex- i coed 1 , 200!., leaving 8001. to be applied from this depart- ' went to the liquidation of the loan account. In this esti- , mato the receipts from washers were not included. , Various resolutions were parsed, and amongst them it was j agreed that endeavours should be made to obtain, by means • e of subscriptions, the required sum of 2,0001., in order to f complete the works now in progress, 1 The CHAIRMAN then gave the following account of the I 1 success which had attended the baths in St. Martin's. He i thought the statement would be interesting although not 1 D immediately connected with the objects of the present meet- e a ing. In a period of four months, the total number of bathers amounted to 51,752, and of these 4,343 were females. The 1 t• . greatest number of persons who had bathed in one day was 0 , 1,297, and the largest number of bathers on a Sunday morn- I 1 1 ) lag (frem el o'clock until half-pant eight) was 685. _ The f total amount of receipts during the time specified was il 7721. t3s. 2d. l li L, Certain statistics having bees detailed at some length, and ,e various formalities having beet gone Waugh, the meeting d separated. I 1.- Ie THE QUF.EN'e BIRTHDAY.-In honour of this day, l• the troops at Portsmouth, including tappers and miner., Royal "; Artillery, Royal Marine Artillery, Royni Kernel, 77tirsed i I I of 9lstregiasents, and 69th depot, were reviewed on Thursday • 5- on Bentham-common, in presence of 10 er 12,000 persons. ) The ships were decorated with flags and fired royal salutes. l Pt The Excellent's gun-boats were out under practice, and in 15 the evening the Clarence-yard boat brigade pulled out of h Is harbour in review order. The day was fine. : ASCOT Cur.-The rewards of the sueoessful in the o f forthcoming *Ascot end Goodwood rams are to be seen at at Messrs. Garrard's, Haymarket. The principal prise, due to , t , the munificence of the Emperor of Runde, is a large vase, ,t o which might be turned into a candelabra, should it eat the ti - fancy of the lucky acquirer . , by the simple addition of braccie. 1 to At the base is represented the discomfiture of Hippol7tus. ins The mere mention of the name will atones conjure up a richly as • chased and nude gentleman pitched from a chariot, horses I sit snorting and monsters scowling and scaring : the latter are I.' stn entwined in the upper part of the vase. The grouping eatNS of the whole is ably concaved. The two other subjects i are " The Spanish Bull Fight " and " The Sioux Indians." en They are composed and modelled with that delicacy of Genie- i,,`; tuns which silver allows, and do great credit to Mr. Cotterill, irk the chiseller of these as Iso of the pnneipal piece. 1 THE TENANT FARMERS OF SOITTII NOTTS, who lac were permitted to eject Lord Lincoln from the represents.- 1 I pus lion of that division, and return in his place Mr . Hildyard, of are by no means disposed to part with their political power ; t en and the late election, peaceable though it was, has convinced t , , ...at the great landlords that nomination in counties will not be much longer tolerated. Mr. Bromley was returned only by , Die a co mpromise between the landlords and their tenants. Mr. 1 • of Burrell, it is said, was the nominee, and Mr. W. H. Barrow the farmers' candidate. Each party preferred peace to strife; .cal but the battle will come soon. Gams laws , tithe. , a church which costs six millions a year, and tenant-right, will soon • cry be struggled for ; and it requ i re s net much judgment to per- ceive that the party of the people will ultimately, in each I, it case, be the victors, especially when they are aided by a large extension of the suffrage, and the ballot, which the conduct of his Fusco of Newcastle and Lord Exeter Las rendered ! inevitable.-Lincoln ;ternary. INQUEST (YESTERDAY).-FATAL ACCIDENT ON TRE HERBY NIOHT.-Before Mr. Payne, at Guy's Hospits/, the on the body of Hannah Cronin, aged 60 years. It appeare d lice' in evidence that the deemed and a relation proceeded De •-_,_ the night of the D. rby to wi*nets the return of the carriages dr the from Epsom. There were several thousands of persons etrial.. me negated round the Elephant Castle Tavern for the same. Lod 'num*, and whilst the deceased was running across the •:' ton road she was knocked down by an omnibus. the driest , ed the endeavoured to stop the horses, but before he could do v ps 44. 1 tal the o ff forewbeel passed over the deceased's body. She Be I tak-n to the above hospital, whrre she died from the . ' pg pin of the injuries.-Verdiet " Accidental Deatb." 4? :;.; ../...!:: 3, Go • ~., 1 Iv s. ~.t. it. \ A