The Express. — London, England, 1849-07-27 00:00:00

a aims sr ememet te resew Ohm three lhes from time to doe the sit Ism et yam, without elan lee open wede meeirel; mad vilerees swasdif sue N umb ▪ 2 . lo ,=n i r wesedese, le it thavehre masted , by the ethithrise MT Pleb team then math= lel hold toed ass hese he the tag Wm of yap iwpwiow wow by nth aimed of ray web isse ae to - the hem below deptadent on memos gram of any Uwe 111101•1 tieds%R the mesealty et renew. The BOLICITOII.I2IBNERAL opposed the dente. as not eo sin within the scope and *let at the MU. end, after mew COOT. nation. it was withdraws. Mr. HAMILTON moved tie lenertimi sof Ho Wowing stevas : and be k meseed. that la ere of We band sr mire Semi la „„..gweep, where the weer et the Isms seethe earint.bthe o Z a n giggly.* thelletikos hils de wile% arm b, so War side wan the arm a thirteenths sr heir in awl teem ahrtlurs.or wq ameted thieved be WNW and imidest frees mow Yeses nee eat a simiswel. ea sew ken or valor lore head faet c owry se Ste ems mer i V stall Is Meted err the owner b the thew et rap Mil wile se aster Mea l Is motley seek mieseont R eratrast ae agar le the emit court, by petition, in ow ▪ thaws as awatimodoed subject to the like pro. vldeeamd OMAN that he is mast et the lease se wear kw" in ~,wwwaity Is mewl Mad, derived immediately from gash weendoe, ajamtefre be, eh uld acquire the he at Medusa In each " N em bath, wider the providers et this set, rued.* to such (m --om met or mate as herein pre d; Tai web pea dos shall be bow sod Melt with to like rasar,ari the rent., lace. km, and yaws, deny, and the ise.llwas NM IR Mints be reeerved shall be aneetialeed in like ssarair es berreishelbre prodded, with like power@ Ite ma naiades the st ether paths, sad a like report he meg, with like opera wed eubjeet respemicethos nearly se may es, le the precipices es \menthe.", emetalard, Mating to an opplisstios sada Ms act by the owner eta Wee Is perpetuity. lie HOLICITOR.OENHILAL admitted that lee vers ant, to the biU of last writs, bad wrillitt to err a reciprocal power to the owner es the one Mad, as to the Imre os the other, bat it woo net fband prudes) to carry it fats effect. It would be ashen to hese the t 0... to maven when, pettier", he might not bare the mem el raising the smeary foods. Mr. OROGAN hoped the Solieitor-Cinteral would prorates bring is a bill sent mission to meet the d.fficulty. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL would give his best stun-' clan to the subject, but could cot pledge himself to !Ling in shill. Sir W. SOMERVILLE observed, that though the bill WINS once-sided as against the landlord, the renewal of lease hold tenses sew in Ireland was one-sided se spinet the l a ndlord, who was compelled to renew on the concision' laid dews. C.d. DUNNE supported the clause, and denied that the' renewal of leasehold tenures was eimpulsory as against the laridlord only. Kr. GRATTAN suggested that the Solicitor-Genend should insert words Is the present bill to meet the ease stated. Tile present law of renewal was not one-sided, as the right hoe. gentlemen (Sir W. Ikenereille) improved. Mr. SIIEIL mid it appeared to !dm that there wu no reciprocity in the law of nooses]. What his right hon. friend had stated was perfectly correct ; the tenant could compel the landlord to renew, bet the landlord could not winuiel Kum tenant to renew. • - — Mr. GIUNTAN—You are quite wrong. (" Hear" sod • limik.) Ms. BliElL—That is only aissrtioo, but assertion is net ORATTAN—It is a roe tkst lawyers differ in he ad so well as in England. (A laush.) Et. DICKSON spoke in favour of the elm se. - 111 t A. FEROUiON bo2ed his hon. friend would with .-- - Mr. HAMILTON consented to do to, and the chase wee itbdraws eeceedi^Fh• Se D. NORBEIS mo7ed the following proviso to we 4:— --- Pmviskvi always, that when any owner intermediate between the finer °I the lowest estate in perpetuity nit the owner ot the reser- WM in tee, -ball object t the intermediate rent Wong Increased by the ma Cud on al an equivalent foe royalties, it •baR be lawful Ibr the riser u: nab lowest estate In perpetuity to take a separate fee farm greet of on to purchase Loa the reversioner in tee the right to work the mo w, minerals, and gunnies ot his estate, without requiting the worst ot the Intermediate owner. The SOLICITOR-MINERAL considered the proviso maid masks much complication and difficulty. As the bid Mood each a easel as that suggested might be provided hy mead unsugemont. The armadas/at was than negatived, and the bill was read • third time and passed. The Metropolitan Sewers BM was read a third time and pared. BANKRUPT LAW CONSOLIDATION BILL. Oa eke a ution rorcenaidering theantenillents iOShIa bill, Ms. ROEBUCK observed that by the 266th clause cer tain acts were set down is offences—there were nine of tkem—and if the court—that was, a single judge—should be of opinion that the bankrupt le,d been guilty of any one of *bee. nine off nee% he might refuse :he certifizate, and then all the debts proved under the commission became judgment dem, sod any roe of the creditors might take the bankrupt in execution end incarcerate him in • gaol ler • year, the court having the power to 'cleave him withil that time. had i.o objection to the court saying to bank rupt—. I belie,. you to have be en why of drstr..ying a book, piper, or document fraudulently, and I will order the assignee to institute a prosecution against you in the cri minal courts." They had made a proviso to this effect In mother clause, and he moved that they do the same in elars. 236. The ATTOA.NET•GENERAL orposed the intendment, and mid that with the exception of his hon. and le►rned friend (Mr. Setback) the retention of the clause as it now used had rewire.* the general support of the committee. Mr. BERNAL from lamed that a mitedevous gulaity attended the bi 1. It had come down from the Muss of Lords at the eleventh hour, and ho nourable members were now suddenly called upon to dtti.:e uu one of the m-st important measures connected with the trading Interests of the country which could by possibility he introdueed. In teeth, they were required, within two i r three days of the termination of the session, to consider the provisions of a massive which few of them bad read. (near.) Ili. PEEL mid that at present, upon the refuml of a cer tificate, the onsequences to a bankrupt were two-fold— ikst, with respect to his property, and nest, with respect to hie person His property pass. d at opts into the hands of assif• mete, and his reason was liable to be taken in sucation by any creditor who had chosen not to come into the Barkruptey Court, but who had taken eat emotion at law. AU debtors who came under the bankruptcy set were burnt from proceedings at law, whetter the certificates were or were not granted. The pre sent hill proposed to make every debt under the bankruptcy a judtment debt; and the effect would be, upon the refusal or suspension of the certificate, or withdrawal of protection, to give the power to any creditor, or assignee acting on behalf of the whole body of creditors, to put the bankrupt in prison. The general effect of the clause would ho to limit the dims tile of the commissioners, whereas at present that discretion was without control. The bill enumerated certain acts of misconduct, and it then proceeded to enact that upon satisfactory proof in evidence before the court of that misconduct, the commissioners might refuse or suspend the certificate; and upon that refusal or suspension the' bankrupt would be liable to be put in prison. He believed this alteration to be called for, because considerable dissatis faction was felt with the insufficiency of the percent bask. ropey law to cheek acts of misconduct on the past of fradu. loot bankrupts. He thought the creditor stood in need cf protection in cues of fraudulent bankruptcy, and that a cheek ought to be imposed on the uncer hauled bankrupt who again embarked in wade. These were the principal objects for which the power of imprboament for debt had been fat:educed into the bin, and he believed it to he the method bed spas to objet her'. The leases lo bankruptcy aessuated te 10,000.0001. annually ; and he should therefore support the clause be cause It would afford to the creditor that protection which he required, and which late legislation had tended to take from him. Sir J. GRAHAM followed his hon. friend (Mr. Peel) with plesmure and regret—pleasure that he should have made so perspicuous a speech, and regret that the doe triro he had laid down was open to objection. The clues tint was whether the policy the house had recently adapted in favour of the debtor within due and equitable limits should now be materially changed, and whether they should proceed now to arm creditors with some of the powers which they had reason to believe might be exercised with undue severity. It wee quite true that the offences enumerated in clause 266 were, by the law, now indictable t bat the real queedow was whether jurisdiction should he given to • single Judge with respect to thee- offences, which might now be panished by iadictment ? (Hear, hear.) it was wror proposed to give the credi•or a double power over the debtor—the same power which he now enjoyed crowd his property, end Ikea a summary power affecting his person. Now, he was obliged to say, for truth compelled him to do sk that owing to the limited meant if their telsry the ,Wre of the Bankruptcy Court Kali met be sap pored to ham eceupied the highest position at the her ; and with respect to some of their altwmeteneea bed un fortunately arisen which ought to make the house somewhat *refit in extending such a power to them. He entertaised juat jealousy remitting the confusion of criminal sad civil risdiction, and he was of opinion that it was MO expedient that rote court of bankruptcy should have the double re medy against the person and property of the debtor, and that n single judge, wiltout jury or bar, should mercies au exten sive • power. (Hear.) Mr. HEADLA.M would not take upon himself the reepon sibdi.y of opposing the further progress of the measure, but he was surprised to Sad it making so few alterations in the existing law. He, however, could cot agree in the amend ment of the him. member for Sheffield. Mr. HENLIZY said that the bill involved a principle which, If adapted in themes of bankrupts, must be carried farther, aad be would, therefore, vote for the amendment. Mr. MA:MERMAN supported the clams as a pc e imovieisn againw fraud. If hon. gentlumen know as= of trade and traders as he did, he was sure they would agree with him in that opinion. Mr. SPOONER was fully convinced of the necessity of a reform in the law of bankruptcy ; but admitted himself in• capable of coming to a satisfactory conclusion on the bill be fore them, and should only receive it on the high character of those gentlemen who had devoted so much sttention to it in the committee. Kr. ROEBUCK declined to divide, and the clause was agreed to. On the mehaditle being proposed, Mr. ROEBUCK moved the ommissicn of words which empowered the commiseioner to affix his judgment to the certificate. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL opposed the amendment, arguing that the contmiwioner had already the power to iSin judgment in open court, where it might he reported ; sad it would make the bankrupt more cautious, if that tr 7 ()!,, =t should be made permanent , sad be more utile these with whom he was afterwards to deal. de 3. GRAHAM supported the motion foe the wands b MITCHELL defended the proesedinp of the Dom efifftes, simonise that it had been framed beaus* the evils of the lew - embed at such a point, that the commercial blenels gibe gentry would materially suffer if these evils wen Nee mondied. He denied that the measure was hastily hen* leeward. lk Z. GRAHAM inquired whether it was certain that ea appeal was provided, for it did sot appear to be dada* eleelleesa in terms Tie ATTORNEY-GENERAL said his Minion ow-'I Indy bed hen to give as appeal, and he *ought it erase mipeemed in the bill. However, to rash* it nne mink ke neeteld bent the esprees words. Mr. WORLEY objected to the classifiestlea es amount of lie TIVINSIMIS of the terms in which the dames were ar earred, sad stated that he should vote for the amendment. Mr. SPOONER supported the clause as it stood, and it was ultimately agreed to without • division. The other clauses were also weed to, sad the bill was said a third time and pawed. ADMIRALTY JURISDICTION IN THE COLONIES BILL. This bill, as amended, was considered, read • third time, and passed. CEYLON. Mr. 11. BAILLIE presented the report of the select um skim epos Ceylon. Lord J. RUSSELL inquired whether the committee had determined upon printing the evidence. Mr. BAILLIE said they had determined not to print the evidence. Mr. HUME thought it highly important that the evi dence should be printed and laid before the house. He was of spine" after the disturbances which had taken plat. in that enemy, the proclamation of martial law (under which 18 pewee were tried and shot), and the banishment of name ens persons, that It was absolutely necessary that the er ameseasess should be inquired into bye emeeniesim on the smite Theists. member was nuking some further °burn tins Win he was interrupted by TM SPEAKER, who stated that the hon. member was oat of order. The bringing up of the report was merely a formal proceeding, and no discussion could take place upon it. Mr. HUME gave notice that he should to-morrow move that the evidence taken before the committee be presented le the house. Mr. HAWES could not say ens word upon the debate; bet he must caution the home against receiving the state ments of the hon. member fur &tunings, as representing the real facts of the case, or as being concurred in by the majo rity of the committee. Mr. BAILLIB gave notice that he 'Maki to-moran Oki day) move that an humble address be peeseneed her Majesty, praying her Majesty to appoint • cam aissioa to esquire, upon the spot, into the recent elisturbaues in Ceylon. THE MAURITIUS. Mr. HUME mon an edamss for copies er extracts of all despatches or letters from Sir William Maynard Gcmm, Governor of the Island of Mauritius and its dependencies, wi.h copies of all petiiiens or memorials addrersed to her Majesty or to pertinent, u well by the inhibitions of , Mauritius as by the Mauritius AMCIII6OII in London ; to-'! gather with copies of all recent local laws passed by the Governor and Council of Mauritius, and of the inerutions and despatches to the present governor, Sir George William Anderson, C. 8., and not yet laid before this house. Mr. HAWES slid that he nuld not consent to the motion in its present form. His hon. friend had batter confer with him upon the subject and they might arrange the matter to- getber. If the bun. member would withdraw his motion he would undertake to place a return in hie hub which would be satisfactory to him. Mr. HUME then withdrew his motion. ORANGE PROCESSIONS. Mr. REYNOLDS moved for copies of any correspondence between the government of Ireland and the civil and mili tary authorities of the county of Down. relating to proem nem, pubic meetings, or armed assemblagrs of the people on the 12th day of this instant July. Viscount CASTLEItE.tGH appealed to the hon. gentle men not to press this motion, as it was calculated to foster r.ligious animosities. Sir G. GREY intimeted that the motion was one to which be could not assent, as an inquiry was ccw going on into the whole circumstances of the case. Mr. REYNOLDS could not consent to withdrew his mo tion. Very recently an innocent Roman catholic had been butchered in the county of Down, and the murderer had been shielded by the authorities of the law. The very utmost excitement prevailed in Ireland upon this subject. Mr. Bear, the magietrato, who had been present assisting at the butchery of the 12.11 of July, had since been present at a dinner, presided ova. by the high sheriff of the county, at which he made a speech rejoicing in the triumph they had obtained on that day, which was stained only with " one little blot, if iodeed he could call it a blot," and yet those gentlemen remained in the commission of the peen. Let it be remembered that her Majesty was about to honour his country by a visit, and who could say what might happen it the mass of lice men catholic, believed that the late proceedings bad been a wanton, malicious, sectarian, and party conspiracy to der-rive the people of their lives. Unless the question was now discussed, and a perfect under standing arrived at, that justice would be done, it migh. lead to discord when every good Irishman wished for nothing hut peace. Lord Roden was still a magistrate et the county of Down—ho was still deputy-lieutenant of the eounty ; and Mr. Here, who said that Dallybrae should hereafter be called Kies William's Hill, was still a magis trate. Until sectarian ascendancy was put an end to they never would have peace in Ireland. For • violation of the law Mr. Smith O'Brien had been transported ; fee writing seditious articles John Mitchel and others had been tunsoortel for 10 years ; but he looked upn these Orange murd re as more heinous than their offence. He called upon the right hon. baronet to ascertain whether these magistrates were prevent at an assembly which was illegal. If it was so, these magistrates should be deprived of their reitios, as some atonement to the survivors of those who were murdered. Mr. SCULLY seconded the motion. Sir G. GREY had before stated the reasons why be felt it aeciessary to oppose the production of these paper,. He thought it would be most inexpedient to produce partial, and perhaps not most correct, information. (Hear, hear) He must also deprecate the discussion of this question, se one from which no one good could arise. The Lord Lieutenant had directed a thorough and searching inquiry to be made tote all the circumstances connected with the lamentable M emento. The hon. gentleman called upon the government here and in Ireland to act vigorously ; but if they acted in conformity with his advice, they would he punishing the people without investigation. Ile thought that the Lord Lieutenant had acted with great judgment and moderation, but not the lees &mums, in di recting an inquiry and committing it to a penes fully competent to conduct the inquiry, and of whose etude sad impartiality there could be no doubt. With respect to:a quietism pat to him by the hon. member for Manchester he stated be the morning what he now repeated, that the Lord Leintement gen the report of the dinner in the Dubin autttpeprld Sit it his duty immediately to obtain correct lebnanien e with a view to such ulterior measures se might result been inquiry. The hon. gentleman would not c oedema the noble lord for satisfying himself by inquiries as to the demanntances before betook hi measures. Sir W. VERNIRpve the most unqualified contradiction to every ens of tie statements of the hon. member for Dub -1 lia, is pe.eel tot elyal protestant amociatioes. His user tin that Oeigawea wlshed to alter the sueseesion to the bone wee tee geMemptible to notice. Hi object in mov ies for returns, din to those moved for by lie hon. mese her was to eat lie hens itt co . either die ; that= abut g =its:chime that the enl/ 8". 711 .a s Is tushen of the page In Ireland were tie pea reheats. life modest was in holdings to Yr. Reynolds' male for a copy of any coy between the 'evensongs( Ireland and the civil =r ll enill= authorities of the oeselly of Down, relating to peemelmes, public meetings, or lensed assemblages of the people, an the 12th day of this Instant July; for a similar Mars of say correspondence relating to • procession at 01111 .Pri In all soosty of Down, oe the 17th day of March Yes; ane ales der meeting and preemies which took plies nee the Wen of Ready, en the county of Armagh, in the attenuate( numb the 28th day of June last, or early in the stressing of Fri day, the 29th ; but after what had been stated by the Secretary of State for the Home Departmeut, he did not feel Juni/lee in perseurieg In the modem, ami therefore begged leave to withdraw it. Lord CASTLEREAGH said that the appeal which tad been made to him by his hon. and gallant hand had takes him by surprise. One word as to the totality of thole pro mediae. He asked why, if they were illegal, the fact was tot basovered on the 17th March last, when the Lord Lieutenant, by 'simple proclamation, might have dimmed all the parties concerned He repeated his opinion, that further discussion should be suspended until the results of the judicial investigation were before the house. Mr. SCULLY said that this unfortunate affair had caused great excitement not only in Dublin, but all through the south of Ireland, mad might be the cause of worse disasten hereafter if justice were not fairly dealt out. lie quite agreed with the noble lord opposite that government might have prevented the catastrophe by a proclamation or the same promptitude as had been displayed in the cases of the magistrates dismissed for attending a repeal meeting. (Hear, hear.) He should consent to hie hon. friend's with drawing the motion on conditioa that after the inquiry all correspondence with the civil and military authorities should be laid before the house. Lord CASTLEREAGH explained. Mr. G. A. HAMILTON deprecated further discussion until the results of the inquiry were before the house. Speeches in that,beinse could only add to the exasperation already exiseipseettreland. Mr. H. GEATTAN exculpated Lord Roden from any inclination to produce collisions between different classes o the people. He believed that if his lordship wale have fore seen the late lamentable affair, he would never have con sented to receive:the proemial. (Hear, hear.) Capt. ARCHDALL reminded the house that while hon. numbers talked of bands of armed Orangemen, they forgot that the opposite party were armed also, and wero the attacking party. Mr. REYNOLDS consented to withdraw his motion, believing that the matter was perfectly safe is the hands of Lord Clarendon. He was, however, still of opinion that the magistrates should be d ismissed at once, and that Lord Roden should be written to, and if his assent were not mei factory that he should be at ones superseded. With refe rence is the dinner at Downpatrick baring se ennui= with the affair at Dolly's Bras, he bend to say that at the dinner Mr. Beira pointedly alluded to the transaction. and said that for the future the place should be called Mug William's Brill. (Hear, hear.) Loud NAAS wished to mail, one remark. la 1836, when aTameat wished the orange lodges to be dissolved, Lord Roden took upm himself all the o di um of advising them to separate. (Hear, hear.) Ho (Lord Nam) believed that ii was mainly owing to Lord Rodeo's ens nuns that they war. dissolved at that time. Since then his lordship had done everything to discourage party pros:endow. (Hear.) Mr. M. J. O'CONNELL was not anxious for precipitation in this matter. In his opinion government should act de liberately, co that anything they might do should wear to every one in Ireland the appearance of justice, and not Yin dietivenem—Motion by leave withdrawn. The house adjourned ate quarter to eight o'clook. Cite erpreni. OUTGOING MAILS. Mails far tbritlsh North America mad the United States wM he made up this swain. The West India Nails, including Bermuda, Harass, NMI% dooduns, New Orleans, and Kauko, and excluding those foe Madeira, M. Jasn.do.Nlearagua. New Granada, Lnill„ and Pent, wilt he made up on the lad of August. The sulk for Madeira, the Marla, and Buenos Ayres, willbe made apes the eth of August. TL mails foe Vino, Oporto, Lisbon, Waders, Udla, and will to made up cc the 7th of August. The mails, cis Marseilles, to the Malltarrareen, Egypt, Ceylon. ladle, Bong-Kong, am., will be made up ea the evade( of the 7th August. Ise mails tee Gibraltez, Mall., Grime, the lonian Wanda, Left. Ceylon, ladle, sad Chins. Ms wmthaayton, will be made up an the morning of the Beth of Anima. MOM WiTEk AT LOWDON alltDol. Turn 74,-4/.4.4.6, W. gen 7: 40 NIL. Mt 7 TO NAL•••• /lambs,. • al. poet 4; Aftemosa. ala. poi Ix LONDON, FRIDAY, JULY 27. THERE are two objects which every liberal mind, in extending its views and its anxiety to the events of Europe, mutt consider the first things to be de sired and sought. These are peace and progress. It is impossible not to see how closely they are wedded together, and how much war passions, war ex penses, together with the prevalence of those men and that i,,Ouence which war throws uppermost, tend t retard progress, and prolong a state of irritation, if not of war, of what is as bad, a permanent prepara tion for war. Peace. commerce, economy, under any regime, I which brows a certain amount of freedom to action I and to thought, create a class of men, and of ideas, I and of necessities, which constitute liberal develop- ' meat. If raters have either wisdom or humanity, I they will not run counter to it. If they do, it is impos-ible to prevent, one day or other, an outburst of the minds and wills of men, 1 compressed beyond human tolerance. The mental I energy of man is an element, like water or the air we breathe. And however simple or indiscernible in its 1 natural state, it will 0111 'de and overcome any force ' ignorantly employed to compress it. One nation gets the start of another in its liberal development. And if the nations that are lagging behind in barbarism take their own ignorance to be wisdom, and would make use of the brute force of their passive subjects to repress and keep down the development and the liberty of neighbours more enlightened, more advanced, and more in want of free movement than they, then comes the war of intel. ' ligence against brutality, of the wants and rights of millions of thinking men against the stupid prejudices of one dupe: in command of some thousand mili tary machines. Self-defence of the free and enlightened against ignorance and fore'gn despotitim is the most sacred right of huminity. It was the right of the Athenians at Marathon, of the Swiss at Nforgarten and at Montt, of the, French in the Ardennes, of the Poles at Warsaw. There is no Peace Society in the world that would recommend the citizen to stretch forth his throat and hi. purse to the murderer and the robber. That is nst the creed of any rational partisan of peace. His creed is, on the contrary, that each country should be the judge of its own progress and necessities—that one nation should not consti tute itself the judge of another nation's necessities. The world, even the world of courts, has made adaances. No prince or minister now makes conquest his principle, and avows it. They merely wield the sword to m ake their influence pre dominant, and remove from even their vicinity the danger of parties and doctrines hostile to them. France, republican itself, will not tolerate repub lic inism at Rome. It re sista ultra-demlcracy wish bayonets, instead of allowing ultra-dem Tracy to did of its own impracticability. With precisey the same reasoning Austria will not sae r constitutional go vernment in any contact with it. And Russia, again, sets its face and its armies against administrative re forms, consultative chambers, or even enlightened des potism. A century ago Europe was full of wars, arising from sovereigns seeking tomb each other. Toe pre sent century is full of wars, arising from sovereigns dreading the nature and example of other sovereigns' government. This new mania, the great cause of war at the pre. sent time, it is the great duty and purpose of the Peace ociety, if we rightly understand its aim, to combat. There is no scene, no spot, which it could choose more aptly for the combatting of this principle than Paris. The French have more strenuously and more successfully than any country fought for the great right to manage their own affairs, to make revolutions when they pleased, and counter-revolutions when they pleased. The thing to be desired is that France would set the example of allowing other countries that liberty which it has conquered and exercised itself. It may not approve what is doing in Rome, or in Madrid, or in Vienna. But that it should employ merely moral means to combat bad tendencies and encourage good, that is what the Peace Society will recommend France. It need not preach against the spirit of conquest, for that no longer exists. What tt has to prove is the inutility and injustice of intervention. The way, however, to disprove and discredit inter vention, is not to adopt it oneself, or to go to war to prevent intervention. In that beautiful pamphlet of M. Dc COHMENIN upon Italy, which the Peace Society ought to translate and reprint, the French writer up holds non-intervention as the great principle of modern civilisation. " People ask me," he says, " where is the guarantee of non-intervention, or who is to furnish the means and the power of m aking it be respected? Fear not," adds Da CORMENIN " establish the principle first, and the guarantee will follow ; that guarantee will be in the adhesion and acclamation of every people." , The world may be divided into the warring classes and the non-warring classes. The latter are to the former as twenty to one in fact, as an hundred to one in will. The Peace Society addresses the non-war ring cleans, and demands their voice and support to keep down the instinls and the passions of the war ring classes. It would disprove their theory, show the futility of their aims, and the cruelty and in justice of their means. Who does not see that the great strife of Europe at present is a strife of ideas, and that bad ideas are best discredited by letting them dis prove themselves? What has killed socialism? Certainly not CAVAIONAC Of CHANOARNIEZ, but the socialists. It socialism survive, it will be owing to the military extinguisher which , instead of acting as en extin guisher, will act as a guardian and preserver. By putting down Hungary, Russia shakes her cherished despotic principle more by the effort, than she strengthens it by the conquest. Mr. COBDEN denounces the Russian invasion of ' Hungary as a nefarious act. The old school politicians construe this int* a recommendation to go to war with Russia. It is quite the contrary : it is the use of moral condemnation, as quite sufficient to attain its end without recurring to mortal combat. Mr. COBDEN discredits and disproves that gigantic power of Russia, with which our absolutists would awe the world. Is that a provocation to war P —no, it is advice tone, to preserve equanimity, and neither to crouch to Russia as omnipotent, nor to rush to war with Russia in dread of that omnipotence, bat to regard and to treat her as we do the other European powers, reprobating their evil acts, and applauding their good. War is in general the result of one or two base passions—fear or cupidity. Mr. COBDEN has long em ployed his pen and tongue in combating that undue rm. of Russia, which at one time was near hurrying us into war, and which has now bowed down too many of us into servility. We will not go to war with Russia for Hungary, but merely tell her that she is committing a bus and an imp°- , litic act in extinguishing the old constitution of a free and an orderly people. We wish the Hun , garians success in their "sacred tear of defence." But • the war that is sacred for them to carry on would be - r : (*.* r ;;; • THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 27, 1849. the contrary of sacred for us to join in. Nor, in truth. do the Hungarians want either oar mm or ou money, To argue, therefore, that the moral condemnation of Russian policy is either a levying war upon Russia or a provocation of wet from it, is nonsense. Such arguments would reduce Englishmen to the stale of dormioe, end would forbid any expression of free sentiment amongst them, lest, forsooth, such might provoke a foreign potentate to war. This is not only pusillanimity, but hypocritical pusillanimity : it is affecting cowardice on behalf of a lie. It is possible that our contemporaries take so warmly the part cf Russia and of Austria out of fear of their greatness, and oat of a desire to conciliate their favour fur th's country. This is considerate, but not dignified. Mr. CUBDEN has been all his lire the consistent opponent of England's considering Russia as a foe, to be fought or to be feared. What he said on Mooday of the fragile nature of Russian power is but a rc-assertion of hie old opinions. If such simple ' truths as this estimate of other nations' forces, and this appreciation of their policy, be provocative to war, then all we cm say is , that Rirope, with En gland in cluded, must have chan g ed it s na t ure , an d, instead of bring a land of f:ee and free-spoken men, it must have grown into a society of police-writers, knout wielders, adulators, and serfs. THE comparative value of military and any other public services in the estimation of the British govern ment may bo ascertained to a fraction. The annual list of new pensions granted supplies the necessary data for calculation. The list for the year ending the 20th of June, 1849, contains five pexsions, amounting in all to 1,2001. Oat of this sum an annual pension of 5001. was granted to the wife of a general officer, Sir HENRY SMITH; one of 2001. to Mr. ADAMS for astronomical discoveries and scientific merits; one of 2001. to SIIERIDAY. iketowtes, in consideration of his talents as a dramatic author; one of 2001. to Mr. CARLETON, in consideration of his literary merits; one of 331. fes. Bd. to each of the three sisters of the late Professor M'Cuteemt, in considera tion of his eminent scientific attainments. According to these ratios, one living general officer equals in value one distinguished living cultivator of science, one dead ditto, and one eminent living dramatist. The document, it is true, is susceptible of another in terpretation. The grantors of the pensions appear to have believed that 331. 6e. Bd. per annum will console a sister for the death of a brother; but that 5001. per annum is required to console a wife for the survival of her husbard. There are, however, so few wits in office, that we incline to the first-mentioned and more obvious interpretation of the grants. The high value set upon military services will naturally predispose the ingenious youth of Britain to serve their country in this line rather than in any other. They will consequently be desirous to learn what qualifications are necessary to enable them to enter upon a military carter. We are happy to inform them, on the authority of a document east published by order of the House of Commons, that in no other line of ieductrial occupation can a very, very small intellectual capital be invested with certainty of a profitable return. Cendidates for commissions must, if members of the Church of England, produce a certificate of having been confirmed ; if not members of the church of England they are required to produce certificates from ministers or priests of having been well instructed in the principles of the religion in which they have been brought up. We pause to point out the com pliment indirectly paid in this regulation to the esta blished church ; in it the mere act of cenfirmation by a bishop is assumed to impart as much knowledge as a long course of instruction in any other church. Tee hand of Mr. Fot MAULE mar be clearly traced in this revelation. Having himself a turn for theolo gical controversy he is anxious that every mess-room shall have its complement of theilogians able to I advocate the tenets of every church within the British dominions. The literary qualifications of the candidate for a' commission are as follows :—ln arithmetic ho must be acquainted with the first f our rules, with proportion ' and fractions. lie must also understand the 1184 of logarithms, and have " a competent" knowledge of algebra. In languages he must be an adept in Latin grommet, syntax, and prosody,, and be able to trans late from the French ; or, it Ignorant of Latin, he must be able to write in French and German. In history ho must have read HUME'S History of Eng land with SMOLLETT'S c3ntnuation, a history of Remo and Greece, and a history of modern Europe. The text-book of European history recommended for the u-e of students stops short at 1832 :it may be pre ' earned that our officers are to be kept innocent of the knowledge of subsequent naughty revolutionary pro ceedings. In geography he must posse's "a eompetent" knowledge of ancient geography, of the modern divi sions of the world, and the name of the capital of each nation in Europe ; the principal rivers, sea-ports, and military posts in Great Britain and Ireland; and of her Majesty's dominions in every part of the world. In fortification he must have " read wipe easy work on the subject ;" and he must have received " some instruction in drawing." Let us substitute for having " read some easy work on fortification," an acquaintance with bosk-keeping by single and double entre, and then ask ourselves would this list of accomplishments qualify any young man for a stool in a merchant's counting -house ? The candidate for a commission may be ignorant of the names of Washington, Constantinople, and Pekin ; he is only required to know " the name of the capital of each nation in Europe." If he is master of Latin prosody, (a most useful accomplishment for a soldier) he need only be able to translate from the French to pus muster. The merchant's clerk would require to be master of more than one European lan guage, and to know the principal cities in every part of the globe. A list of " works likely to facilitate the stadies of candidates," is added to the regulations from which we have extracted the above informatioe. They are not of every recondite character; they are, in fact, so common-place, that some of them are scarcely known to general scholars. Indeed, the list has much the appearanceof an advertisement, the publisher's name being carefully prefixed to each work. Ten are pub lished by the home of LONGMAN and Co. Land one by each of the houses, WHITTAKER and CO., SOUTER and LAW, and FRASER. We acquit, however, the distin guished house which has the lion's share of the adver tisement of all complicity; it is palpably a Sandhurst College job. It ha required that the candidate "should be able to read English correctly, and write it from dictation." As an additional test of his knowledge of his mother tongue, we would respectfully suggest that he might be required to tarn the regulations into good English. Expressions like the following do not evince any very great skill in the use of the vernacular :—" If not master of the Latin Grammar, and he should not hare rereired a good classical education, he must," &c. " In arithmetic he should be acquainted with the four first rules (simple and compound), prop3rtion, frac tions, the use of logarithms, with a competent know ledge of algebra." Are the parties who drew up the regulations to conduct the literary examinations of candidates? PCSIiIIMENT or A TRADING CAPTAIN.—At Town-hall, Newport, a day or two since, Robert Travers, master of the Two Friends, an Irish schooner, was charged with bringing over from Kinsale, in Ireland, to Newport, 30 passengers , he not having an abstract of the Ships' Pas senger Act, and also a copy of his Scenes hung up on the deck and in the cabin of the vessel.—Richard Trew, assistant tide-surveyor, proved boerding the vessel on her arrival; *Melte Lad 30 passingers (some children), 20 horses, and 4 mows on board ; that the defendant produced to him his license, bit had not a copy of it hung up on board, nor had he any abated of the act as is required by law.—The magi strates convicted Travers in the penalty of 101 and costs and in de fault of payment to be committed to CA HMS of Correction for two months. The money not being forth coniiii(e, Capt. Travers was removed on Tuesday morning in the prison van to Vile gaol.—Hereford Journal. Ts' ATTEMPTED MURDER AT BEVERLET.—The attempted murder at Meme l near this town , . which it was our painful duty to announce in last week's eition, has ter minated in the death of the victim, Mr. George Young, who expired at two o'clock on Friday morning ' haying survived his injuries three days. An inquest was held on the body on Saturday last, and was further adjourned until Monday. The only additional evidence adduced was the deposition of the deceased (which fully eriminates his brother Robert Young as the murderer) and the medical opinion of Dr. J. Williams, who has been in constant attendance on the de ceased sines the unfortunate event. The prisoner throughout the whole of the proceedings preserved a sullen indifference, and on being asked if he had any questions to put to the different witnesses, replied in the negative. The jury re. turned a verdict of " Wilful murder against Robert Young," and the coroner's warrant for his committal to York Castle was then issued.—Easerms Counties Herald. COLONIAL. SOUTH AUSTRALIA. By way of Singapore we have ;;;;ived Adelaide journals to the 20th of April. A favourable reaction had take* place, and public confidence was restored ; there was still however a lack of capital with a full supple of labourers. The demand for working capital was about to be met in some degree by the establishment of a sew bank. Much dinp point:sent had been felt on a rumour reaching the colony that speculators in England wen lukewarmly disposed to- 1 wards the projected railway for uniting Adelaide City to Port Adelaide. To meet the pecuniary defamations of the colony, it was proposed to courruct a wooden nilway at a net of 31,0001 En the plan was digee-ed, intelligence reached the coloay that the projected railway had been very favourably entertained here at home, and the support of Lord Grey secured for the scheme. The following were the selling rates of mining shares on the 19th of April .—Barra Burn, 1701. cash ; Printer. Boyd', 221. to 2511 • North Kapuntlas, 361. net cash; Wheal Gawlers, 181., no idea. Money scorn at 17i to 20 per mat. NEW ZEALAND. New Zeeland journal. to the beginning of April contain little of interest. Everything was quilt. A college had been established at Nelson, open to all sects and deno minations of Christians. According to the plan for the foundation of the settlement, a portion of the money paid for land was to be set spurt for the college. The sum paid having exceeded 14,0001., the colonists now claim their share for education. VAN DIEMEN'S LAND. Van Diemen'a Land pipers to the 10th of April have been received, rid China and Batavia. Tee Lieutenant- Givernor had drawn the attention of the B.iyal Society at that colony to the great advantage of ascertaining the value of the potash manufacture in connexion with the abundant resources of the settlement. The Lieutenant Governor declared his conviction that Tasmania might make its fortune by potash. By eleariag the heaviest.timbered land, the settlers will at the Name time produce 301. worth of potash per acre. Coal had been discovered at Proctor's Quarry, near Bobarton. The advent of So Charles Fitzroy was locked toss a feeler. PORT PHILLIP. From this colony we have rewired, by the India and Caine overland mail, advice' to April Gth. The gold mania bad ended down to 'ober reflection, although it is confidently believed the determination of the government to appropriate the precious metal has for a time tended to pre the utmost secretly. The fact of the gold discovery is fully confirmed, and the quantity and quality promise to leave the diggings of California in the shade. With refer ence to the gild discovery, we extract the following teem the Cornwall Chronicle. These particulars are not contradicted, hat copied into the Australian papers. The young man the cause of so much excitement on the " gold " question, is living as servant in • public house in Sydney; his name is Thomas Chapman, and the reason he assigns for leaving Melbourne is that be sew threatened by Breutani and Duchene with ctitninal proceedings if he entld not succeed in pointing out to them the place where the ore was found. He went with them (he says) in the cart to the Pyrenees within four miles of the spot, but hav ing changed his mind about revealing the secret, he left them. As to the finding of the ore, his account is, that when he was shepherding, having had some idea of going to England, he had provided himself with specimens of the rock, &c., about the country, and picked up the ore in question one day while passing by the spot, liking the appearance of it; that he kept it by him five months, having • few days after he found it been shifted to another run some miles distant, and never having been back to that particular spot; hut he knows the place precisely, because he for some time shepherded there previously. The distance from Melbourne is about 120 miles. When he got to Melbourne, Chapman showed breatani the ore, and broke off • portion which proved to contain about 24 ounces of gold, and he afterwards handed the remainder to Duchene, consisting of 14 os. Brentani offered Duchene in the pre sence e • third person 401. for his half, but he would not take it. Duchene gave Chapman 81. for his 14 os.; Brentani for hie share (worth 501. or 601) gave him live shirt', a coat, • pair of trousers, and 201. in money. Brentani has since offered Chapman 2001. if he win take him to the spot, but be declines at present. Mr. La Trobe having requested Duchene to retain the ore in his possession until the arrival of Sir Chas. Fitzroy at Melbourne, when the whole business is to be officially brought before him, the matter has remained in abeyance, and that accounts for the nine-dey•wonder aspect the affair has awumed. The above statement is correct. ♦ brother of • celebrated member of the Melbourne Town Council has been guilty of horse steeling. Ile first took a mare btlonging to his employe., and after riding till it could travel no further, he took a second, with which he crossed the South Australian boundary."—lbid. DV-Tat:MITE FIRE NEAR EVESIIAL—On Satur day Isat • fire broke out on the farm premises belonging to Mr. Crane, of liromegrove, at llaselor, in the hamlet of Charlton, near Evesham. Ahout three o'elsek on that day one of the labnurers cbarrved some flames issuing from a rick of straw which be was thee building ; and • great deal of loose straw 'Ting about, the fire immediately communl ented with the h•n, In which was a large quantity of wheat. It was with difficulty the horses could be loosened from the thrashing machine before the flames had reached it; the ma chine was burnt to ashes, and the bora, stables, sheds, and two large hpy,ricks, Ivre also destroyed. The Birmingham Fire Otfice4tngine was soon on the spot, but, unfortunately, no water elute be procured, the parties present being re. duced to the alternative of despatching a wsagOil with two hogshead Casks, to fetch water Irons a distance. Notwith standing this didlculty, the neighbours 'eat their exertions towirds the preservation of the property. We have not heard whether Mr. Crane is insured. The damage ap proaches to nearly 1,0001. It is supp s-d the flee originated from one of the labeurers beating out the mhes of his pipe in the barn.— IVoreestersAire Chronicle. CHARGE OF THREATENED VIOLENCE AGAINST A CLEW; SMAX.—In the Cambridge Borough Pollee Court on Wednesday, the Key. Lionel Buller, late fellow of Kins's College, appeared upon a warrant charging him with having on the previous day threatened to blow out the brains of George Smith, the porter of King's College. It appeared the' since Mr. Buller's deposition from his fellowship, which took place some months ego, a reasonable time has been allowed him to remove his effects from the rooms he lately occupied. Instead of doing this, the reverend gentleman fastened, down the windows of his rooms and put padlocks on the doors. Eventually the college authorities took forcible possession, and removed the defendant's goody, at the some time desiring the officers not to admit Mr. Buller ore the college premises. On Tuesday Mr. Buller made an entry by the front lodge, in a very excited state, and was making his way to his former rooms when its was stopped by Smith, and requested to re tire. He refused, and then the face sufficient to expel him was celled in requisition; in the course of his ejection the reverend defendant used the above threat to Smith, and as saulted the groom. He was then ejected, and Smith pro cured a peace wear int against him, which now came on for hearing. There was an assault warrant against Mr. Buller at the instance of the groom, but this was postponed until the present cue should be decided. Being called on for his answer, the defendant, who was in a very excited state, stated that he only threatened conditionally. His words were, "If you touch me, and if I had a pistol in ray heed, I would blow your brains out." He was advised, that as he was in the college with the object of as serting his right, the bench had no jurisdiction. Mr. Brown, a mages'eate, said that Mr. Buller's threat of per sonal violence gave the bench jurisdiction.—Mr. Buller : Your worship is aware that there is a Court of Queen's Bench. I have witnesses to call, and I trust you will hear them.—Mr. Brown : There is another charge against you, and you can call your witnesses on that. Smith has sworn that he is in fear for his life, and you must find sureties, or be committed until you do.—Mr. Peed, solicitor, who ap peared on behalf of the college authorities, said that the demon-like and malicious conduct of the defendant had ren dered him a dangerous person to be at large.—Mr. Buller (to Mr. Peed): I tat you most deliberately that it's false, dr. (Turning to the reporters) : Have the kindness to report what I say. I have done nothing but in my own defence, and I claim my right to cell witnesses.— Mr. Peed—lf you continue your past conduct towards me, I shall be compelled to exhibit articles of the peace against you in my own behalf. The Mayor then Informed Mr. Bul ln that he mast find sureties for his good behaviour, himself in 1001. and two sureties of 501. each. Mr. Buller said he had only 4e. 6d. in the world, and that had been taken away at the police-station. He trusted that his worship would order that to be returned. He was as anxious to find sure ties as could be; but if the bench knew the whole of the circumstances they would not expect each heavy bail.—The Mayor told Mr. Buller that the ee. 6d. would be returned to him at the gaol, or immediately if he found sureties. The reverend defendant continued tilting for some time la a very excited strain, and at the rising of the court, as BUretieg were not forthcoming, he was conveyed to the Borough b Gaol. DARING BURGLARY.—On Thursday night last, Mr. Thomas Hook, of Major's Kilo, Walford, and his family were alarmed at the appearance of their or five men, who had broken into the house and commenced ransacking the whole premiere, takingoff with them a quantity of bacon and between 81. and 9/. in gold and silver. The men were all masked and armed with pistols, and threatened to shoot the first who shcold attempt to interrupt them in their plunder. As soon as the men had decamped, Mr, Hook gave an alarm, and a diligent search was made by the con stables of the pariah, but no clue to the parties could be obtained A reward of 301. has since been offered to env person who will give such information as shall lead to the apprehension and conviction of the parties concerned.— Hereford Journal. 1 THE FELON PRE4s.—lt would appear, from the re fusal of government to permit Mr. Duffy to revive his Nation,' , and from the following paragraph, taken from the Freeman of this morning, that Lord Clarendon meditates a straggle with the freshman newspaper. Mr. Brennan, it may be recol lected, was for several months confined in teed under the Habeas Corpus Suspension Aet: "Last evening a patty of police, amounting to seven in number, under the command of Inspector Bandon, entered the residence of Mr. Joseph Brennan, editor of the Irishman. They exhibited a search warrant, and Mr. Brennan immediately led them to his sleeping apartment. The search then commenced. His desk was opened—his private letters were read—all his papers were taken, and transferred to the Castle. Mr. Brennan asked if they had a warrant for his arrest, but they answered in the negative. At the same time they declined to permit him to leave the house. We understand thy a Mr. O'Grady, who was a member of the Irish Confederation, was arrested yesterday, near C snick-on-Buie, and committed to prison in that town, we know not on what deep). Mr. O'Grady was confined six months in Clonmel gaol, we be lieve under suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act." vbe Court. OSBORNE, TIIERSDAT.—The Queen nod Pr:ne• •alked early this morning in Osborne Park. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wiles, and the younger members of the Royal family, walked and rode as tunal. His Excellency the Chevalier Bunsen arrived at O.horne yesterday afternoon, and was ineluded in the Royal dinner Party. A Cabinet Council wu held yesterday afternoon at the Foreign•offin. It was attended by Lord J. Ittinell, the L'ird Chancellor, the Marquis of Lizsdowne, the Earl of Minto, Sir George Grey, Viscount Palisprston, Earl Grey, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Fracas Baring, Sir John Hohhonse , the Earl of Culisle, and the Marquis of Clearicerde. The Council sat one hour and a half. A deputation from Liverpool, including the Mayor of Liverpool, Mr. Rushton, and Mr. Ferguson, accompacied Sir Thomas Birch, Bart., M.P., had an interview With Earl Grenville yesterday at the office ot the Bsard of Trade. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners fir England had a general meeting yesterday at their office inVaitehall place. READING ELECTION—Sir Sohn Hare hes gone down to Reading, and announced his intention of starting as a candidate for that borough on the liberal interest. ilia reception was most patisfactery. The following plscard has been put forth, announcing the retirement of Mr. C. Russell, the conservative candidate: "The Requisition to C. Russell, BK.—Ths electors who as promptly and nume rously signed the requisition are respectfully informed that Mr. Russell has announced his intention to decline any par liamentary engagement—Thursday, July 26, 1819." ARCH.EOLOGICAL INSTITUTE. SALISBURY, THURSDAY. Sir S.ephen R. Glynn Bart., presided at the sectional meeting held last evening, at the Couneil-horme. The papers lead consisted of en account of Fountain's Abbey, Yorkshire, by M. R. Hawkins, Beet , and of some extensive explorations now in progress at the ruins of the Abbot's House ; and a paper by J. Heywood Markland, Es et.. on some perforations en the walls of St. Mary, Wary, Devon, which in this and other similar instances the author cot jec tured to have been made for suspending therefrom wax lights on hi4h occasions. Dr. INGHAM, the President of Trinity College, Oxford, presented to Mr. John Britton, the venerable topographer, a large brom medal, hearing a head of Dr. Stukoley, and on the reverse a view of Stonehenge. Dr. Ingram stated that he presented it as a tok-n of private friendship, and in tea timony of the great services Mr. Britton had rer.dered to archer logy.—Mr. Britton raid tLc gift was particularly valuable to him, as he rum seed all tho manuscripts, draw ings, &c., collected and made by Dr. S'ukeley, relative to Stonehenge, more than a century back. Mr. B. also bitted that, ►t no distant period, he might present this collection to the institute._ _ We may elm mention, in connexion with Stonehenee, that it was intimated to some of the members that Sir Ed mund Autrohus had expressed an in• . ention to replace some of the fallen stones. _ _ The stational meetings were resumed this morning at the Council Chamber. A lecture on the monumental effigies and sculptures in Salisbury Cathedral wee delivered by Mr. It. Westenuott. He noticed that these interesting memorials here extend from the 11th to the 17. h century, and include one of the most beautiful early monuments in thin country— that of William Longespee, Earl of Salisbury, early in the 13th century. Professor COCKLUELL followed with a paper nn a similar suhject, in which he explained the mutilstEd remains of statues outside the cathedral (where they had formerly been 160 in number), and also identified them u the work of British artists in the 13th century. l'eufernor WILLA. tr. ea gave a must lucid and complete accourt of the cathedral, in all its details—fixing the exact time when the several parts of the body of the edifice were com;detcd, between 1220 and 124 G ; and also the period of the addition of the tower and spire, between 1330 and 1340. He also pointed out, with the assistance of °earnings, the shameful epoilatinns committed by Wyatt, and his Employer, Bishop Barrington, in the middle of the but century. At the conclusion of this lcc•ure, tho Bishop of SALISBURY expressed, in warm terms, the obligations of Muesli and the meeting, for the valuable and original information Embodied in these lectures. THUNDERSTORM AND LOSS OF LIFE. Yesterday afternoon, shortly before 2 o'clock, the metropolis was visited by one of the most ter, ifie thunder storms which has occurred since August, 1816. During the continuanee of the storm, rain fell in torrents st snort inter vals, completely deluging the sewers, and eifec:ing, it is t 3 be hoped, a thorough purification of them. At ono time a shower of hail occurred, and mony of the hafistoate were of vast dimensions, at the same time the wind blest a perfect hurricane, making it extremely difficult for persons in charge of vehicles to piss along the streets. Much damage we' done to the shipping and small craft lying in the river. In several instances houses were damaged and persons killed. At 7, Duke.strest, Stunforchstreet, Blackfziars-road, occupied by Mr. Tucker, the parapet wall was struck by the electric fluid, and the ceiling on the second titer was much damaged by breakage, the bill wires belts wrenchtd down by the lightning, the fluid running along them entirely throupli the house. Th-re was no tire, but the inmates were much alarmed by the suddeo alma they experienced. The house of Mr. A. filiddleton (private), *Rune in l'uorna , -street, Commercial road But, was also cilia, the roof was in a great measure stripped off, and the chimney puts and side walls damaged. In Rolywellostrett, Strand, at Mr. flariand's, bookbinder, so forcibly did the electric fluid pass down the chimney, that it filled the rooms with soot and escaped through an open window without non% any injury to the parties in the room. Near to the g 0344 station of the Eastern Counties Railway a young man, appa rently about 25 years of age, who had just reached the door to look at the rain, which was then falling in torrents, was struck to the earth dead. His shirt bosom was on fire when he was picked up by a gentleman who was bcfatc standing within a few yards of the spat. Some injury is said to be done to the &scion: building of St. Saviour's Church, in the Borough ; much to several houses in Cheapside • au I it is reported that a man rending in Spicer - street, Spi taltields, is killed. The immense torrents of rain which fell completely over charged the main sewers, and at Charing-cross, where several of the sewers effect a junction, a meat extraordinary scene we. presented. The vast body of water collected, unable to find a passage, rushed up the gullys and sewer graiegs, jets (reale, a height of from ten to twenty feet, inundating the basements of the adjscent houses, more particularly Morley's Hotel, the Branch Post-office, &1., the kstenens and offices of which were completely flooded. On the waters subsiding, the pre miles remained covered with a filthy black mud, five or six cart loads of which were collected. In'West•street, North-street, Whitechapel, severs, houses were dreadfully shattered, and nearly reduced to ruins. One fatal and melancholy case occurred in this street. About a quarter past two o'clock, Thomas Johnson, a cabinet-maker, 21 years of age, was talking at his own door with a /cues man named Callow, when both parties were struck down with the eLctrie fluid; Callow crawled a little away trom the spat, and contrived to gain his feet, but fell again, with a sensation of numbness all over his body, but particularly in his legs. An alarm being immediately given, Johnson's lather hastened down, and bound his son stretched a blackened corpse. The fluid struck him on the right side, tearing open the sleeve of his coat, and cutting his shirt as it with a shears. The inhabitants of the house No. 22, in the same street, had a Rest providential escape ::be lightning struck the western gable, shaking the whole edifice and riving the roof almost in two, at the same time a young woman, named Ellen Wells, who was sitting by the fireplace on the ground-fioor, was dashed with terrible violence into the passage, • dial tanee of about seven yards. The housa was struck in several places, one stream of the fluid tearing in its way the parlour wall, within a foot of the young woman's heed. Another man, who was s'ruck down by the lightning, was cinveyed to the London Hospital in a state of utter blindness, from which, however, he soon recovered, but it was found that the shock had deprived him of reason. In several houses in the Whitechapel, Mile-end, Stepney, and Tower Hamlets districts, the destruction of property was immense. AT THE COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL yesterday Mr. Gilpin gave notice of the following motion, " That this court do present an humble address to her Majesty the qieen, that she will be graciously pleased to direct tee noble lord, the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, to take such steps as may appear to him desirable (without involving an appeal to arms) to effect the peaceable settlement of the question now occasioning so much bloodshed between Austria and Hungary, and to protest, energetically, against the occupation of Hungary by the troops of the Emperor of Russia. (Hear, hear)." ALLEGED CONSPIRACY TO DEFRAUD A LOAN SOCIETY.—On Taesday a case came on for trial in the Gout of Passage, Liverpool, in which John Oldfield and Wilda= Kindard, trustees to a loan society, were the plaintiff., and Mr. James Ward, of the York Hotel, and ono Edward Smith, were the defendants. The action arose sut of a loan granted to a person named Kegan, who was since dead, for which loan it was alleged that the two defendants, and Mrs. Shepherd, formerly of the Vine Hotel, were sureties. It appeared that on the loss to Kegan being applied for, and the names of Smith and Mrs. Shepherd being given in es proposed sureties, the society refused to grant the loom on account of the insuffici-ncy, but on the parties giving in the name of Mr. James Ward, it was agreed to advance the money on his signature. For the plaintiffs a boy was called, who said he went to Mr. Ward's and obtained his signature before the loan was granted. Mr. Jams ad dressed the jury for the defendant, Mr. Ward, dealing alto gether that his client had ever signed the deed. He con demned the proceeding against his client as one partaking of the character of a conspiracy against him, and charged the other parties with collusion to defraud him. He then called witnesses, who swore distinctly that they knew Ward's writing, and that the signature was not his. The assessor said that after such evidence, he did not think the jury would be inclined to say it was Ward's handwriting. A ver dict was at once given for the defendant.— Lieerpoo t Courier. SALE OF TILE ISLAY ESTATES.—A Scottish Asso ciation, under the anapicea of merchants and bankers of Edinburgh and Glasgow, propose to purchase this Highland territory, and to dispose of it by way of tontine ; their plan is to engra f t on the operation (which involves the assurance of 12,000 nominees) the general business of a Life Awuranee Office. A reserve out of the rental is moreover to be made as a premium to ensure the repayment of their shares tio those whose nomineesshall die, and a periodical division of the balance of the rental, which now amounts to 20,0001. a year, is to be made amongst the shareholders whose nomnees survive.