The Express. — London, England, 1849-11-06 00:00:00

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Neadwas, New Orions, sad Ilezieo, sad ladediag Owe ter Madeira, Jeaa-MNiestagsa. New °meads, OM wad Pen, will be sae& up oa Nev. 17. Tbe sails far Glreltar, Malta, Greece, the balm Mamie. !opt, Ceylon dada, sad Mina, via bearbaaptea, will Urea& up 'Wats weralag et Nov. M. MOIR WWI= AT 10111110611 111101111. ?An 134•-74•Anieg. lA. ...... la. •a. T....mearg•-1/mWor. Th... Allsesna, I b. Bea LONDON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8. IT is time for all parties, and especially the people themselves, to be stirring, in order to reticence the se- rch of government and parliament in the approach ing esesion. no CHANCELLOR Of the HIM/ AVM is conning his future budget. The Horse Guards, still excited by the rounds of civil war which have so lately died away, plead them as au excuse for keeping up the forces. - However meek Rua* may have been in any question likely to lead to eeriest' quarrels with the maritime powers, the Admiralty will not fail to urge the necessity of keeping up equipments. Sister Mogi O'Futaau, so terrified at a handful of Romans, is no doubt demanding more money for guns, and tz lops, and priest., those conservative kinds d ordnance for which renegade liberals sat:etas each a passion. Marshal WaarLater the esegainary pro chucation and executions, will be of coarse for arm ing Cephalonia as well as Corfu elite fortifications, and earning his Grand Cross of St. Michael. Lord Emirs, who has been in a permanent funk for the last month', will join the cry for more bayonets. And this cry will be echoed by Lord HARRIS, Sir HARRY SMITH, and all our military governors around the globe. It behoves financial reformers to exert themselves against 'he force of these recommendation.. How ever a just and thorough revision of taxation must depend on a large etcetera] body, rendered more in dependent by the ballot, and by a fairer apportion ment of votes, still mu.!ti may be done, even at pre sent, by precise and shrewdly supported demands. Let it be recollected that Mr. OMEN . '" proposal to re does the budget by ten millions, if it tailed of lopping off the whole ten, reverthelese would mu the country from two and a half to three millions. To carry this further now, it will be necessary to emir to close quarters with the foes, prodigality and placemanshipi Another blue book Las made us as well acquainted with the items of ordnance expenees, u former ones have revealed the extravagance of the dock-yards and the navy. Financial reformers have thus mate rial with which to work, and professional men are no doubt to be found amongst them ready to aid in the elucidation of such question., hitherto confined to the clog' , ts and scelunt books of offer rs. It is of great use to propagate and encourage throughout the population those pacific sentiments which will p revent , the public from eapporting any government in war. Tint of war at present there is neither symptom nor likelihood. The only war is that of governments upon public purses, and of the non-productives against the productivee. That is the war which financial reformers are called upon to cry down. By stating the case clearly between Austria and the money-leodint public. a loan from this country for the support of foreign n.ilitary establishments has been quashed. The same moral influence and sgita ticn ought not to be relaxed at haute, if our own mili tary budget is to be kept from creeping up once more to eighteen and twenty millions. Last year, it will be remembered, certain reduc tions in our military forces, which the outcry for re trenchrne,,t compelled ministers to make, were nullified by the Sikh cutbreak. Th destruction, however, of the last powerful and independent state in Hindostan, has left the Indian government no forger in need of such reinforcements. They have no doubt returned. But whether an at tempt may not be made to niaint . .in the army at its present force, without any reduction, not even that contemplated last year , no we is ce rtain. Pretexts aro never wanting. Although causes of uneasiness are no longer to be found on the Indus or the Seidel, the tranquillity of the cut, we shall be told, is coun terbalanced by the frowardness of the west. Ail oar colonies in the new world are agitated at the sight of the cheaper and more paternal errata of government of the United States. All murmur annexation, which instead of combating by cheap and paternal go vernment, or rather by allowing self-government, our ministers will do by kerp , og up the army. Of the three great excuses for keeping up military expenditare—the continent, Ireland, and the colonies —the last is, in our opinion, the most important to be dealt with and to be robed. With respect to the continent, the very war u the organs of expenditure call them, or disturbances, throughout Europe, tub minating in such an unsettle d elite, that every soldier end every anxiety of each gwer assent are employed in the preservation of domestic peace, render the conti nent troublesome to its rulers, not dangerous to us. As to Ireland, at long se the cultivators of the land have interests, not oily different from, but directly hostile to, the owners of the same land, of coarse an army mast be encamped in the country to keep the peace. The peculiar tenure of land, however, which d eman d s such costly guardianship ought de cidedly to be made for it. When landlordism bases itself oa coercion, the land should pay for it. Instead, there fare, of throwing half the burdens of the Irish police upon the English taxpayer, as has been dons, we should follow a diametrically opposite policy. It is, however, flan reform of colonial abuses that the greater and most important reductions are to be achieved in our miliry expenditure. We have an army of 45,000 men in our different colonies, a great proportion of whom are, of course, on the voyage, moving home, moving out, se moving bun one c kw to another. Decimated by slimes of most different extremes, it is dilimaitto esludaSehow many English recruits are destroyed, In coder to tarnish theca 43.000 effective men. The lease if calculated, would frighten our hutnaidtarians. In most of our colonies these men are under the greatest temptation. to run away. And after all the trouble and expensed rearing and drilling the soldier, he passes over theft''' , tier lot o he Unirstfitates, and beimmesavalued and en. laable &tire°. Thiss,soy amelioration lathe of the army, or shortening of its time of service, mimes incompatible with colonial daty. Every tire, therefore, prompts that colonies should for tteir own di fang. furnish Toittlitheir own corps, and thus save ihe mother country-uwexpense of that large rotatory army which is really kept up but for the name. We were in hopes that the Colonial-office would have ere this come forward with some plan of the kind. We may, however, ho in rtirifor any Ira initiation. And we must look to _Sic _Murex MOLESWOBTH to follow up his motion for a com mittee of colonial inquiry, in the bopeithht the ele ments of such a reform may be stricken out, Judah, En Aerials provided. Without .r•wder:ng the colonies self-sufficing far definon, and without our adminis trails( sad legielatiog for them in consmes., we seal =eke no proves either in our owe coommip or is their coLcaliatton. Now too is the tints to stir and ventilate the "Mode% which if the public do not keep alive, Will be but tooglad to let sleep. - WE cannot say that we fully understand: the aim and purport et the speeches delivered at the Lois ga Mechanics' Institute. Mr. Mons not kavin l a been reported at all, we can say nothing in tO i$ dim -ours., except that hie rheum was a one. Mr. ROEBUCK, we think, was eq u ally unfortunate in an ineflicionrepoeter,se was Mr. 'lnnis in having - none, for we fail to comprehend his meaning; and having read the comment in the Mess meant to explain Mr. Bounces speech, we are still more in the dark than ever. Instead of Maisons throwing any light upon Marron.; we dad the commentatae text quite as pagsling as the original. - The hmt is, oar tone of literature and criticism is pitched much too high. And when the weleducated of the day condescend to writs books or make speeches, or indite articles for popular readers or **dimmer', they are too often unintelligible. A Leeds mechanic would find no difficulty in comprehending DZMOSTIKENSS or Matto, it fairly translated. SMAICSPILAIII and Mt LTar, DUOS, ADDISON, FIILDINO, Junius, WILLIAM CODISM were all intelligible by the people of their day. There was a link then between men of genius and the people. Bat in our days the genUe and the talented move in one sphere of ideas and of @spree sions, whilst the people move in another. Our lite rature, oar philosophy, our language, our very logic, have become refined (in no good sense), exclusive, and aristocratic. And when gentlemen speak—even gentle men like Mr. ROEBUCK, who call themselves plain workin; mss, year really working man cannot under stand them. Will any one point um out a single book, or a single periodical, that li at once common to the gentle reader and to the common one ? CHARLES DICKENS MOWS nearest the mark, and he might come nearer. Bat, in general, the upper ranks have their clam of books and journals—the lower theses having their own exclusively. We have heard of two na. clove in Ireland. We most take oars, for there are two nations springing up in England also ; and the worst of it is that we seem not aware of it. . Of old there were a great many things, pursuits, ideas, common to all classes. Lord JOHN MANNERS will tell as bow masters and labourers played rustic dames together, and how gentle and simple mingled in the I dance. At the theatre they mingled too. SHAHS? SARI wrote for all classes. Poetry in very old times was addressed especially to the lower classes, and it was only when it was so, that great geniuses sprang up. Oar literature having become addressed to an educated class, this has done very well for books, but it his killed the drama outright. There are Scorr's novels, one of the greatest monuments ever raised by human genius. But the people do not read Scary. In all his tu-ticity he was a gentleman, steeped to the neck in gentility. Throughout all his beautiful pic tures of low life, amiable and christianlike as be was, there still reigns the de haul en bas spirit, which we scarcely notice, or notice bat to consider graceful. I. is snffiAent, however, to prevent the people from reeding SCOTT. They prefer EUGENE SUE, or ' Miscellany. ft i Rele f he same with oratory. Lord Maims is an amiable and accomplished nobleman. But what could pose- se him to s?eak an article from the Quarterly at a Leeds mechanics' itetitute P What was the moral of h e lordship's speech we cannot well gather, except to warn folks from desultory reading, and to hint that the anecdotes and light traits of his tory were better worth study than the events and heavy f.cts. If Lord MAHON means that all oar his tories, including his own, were written in a style and spirit that no plain working Englishman could under stand, or, if understanding, could sympathies with, there was sense and truth in the remark. With respect to Mr. ROEBUCK, we think he made a great mistake. He thought and he said that his pre sence, and his uttering a speech ate. mechanics' institute in Leeds, in which neither mechanics' voice nor lan guage were beard, were facts of mighty importance, and very democratic symptoms. We beg to say there was nothing in it democratic at all. Mr.ltoanucit is precis ly of the same educated or over-educ sled and fastidious class as Lord MAHON himself. He has just as little of • workman's ideas, ore workmen's langstaze or a workman's simplicity of logic and of expres-ion. Mr. ROEBUCK, indeed, represents id en. of lib. rty and of progrees; but he does so just as Lord MAnoN would, if he hsppened to be in parliament for a popular constituency. Mr. ROEBUCK repre sents the people, but he is not of the people. He has no identity with them. And though he is the talented advocate of many of their claims, he want what the French call the popu lar fibre. And we desire no better proof than th's speech of his. We have considerable respect for Lord MAHON, and great respect and hopes for Mr. ROEBUCK. But what we are tired of is, to hear theee very respectable orators speaking for the people and at the people, in assemblies and associations called and formed to repre sent the ideas, advance the interests, and make kaawnthesentiments of the people. Why nothave some of the people to speak for themselves ? We are most anxious to hear what they think, especially on each topics as literature and eduction, and peculiarly at Leeds. The fine library which was spoken of he■ surely formed and endowed many of those who use it, with the ideas, and the power, and the capacity of speech. We should like to have seen a living, a thinking, a talking sample of what the mechanics' institute has done. And we are confident that one half hour of one really popular orator would have been worth whole columns of that mock popular oratory to which the very rcsrectable speakers at Leeds treated the world on Fridsy. Far from thinking with Mr. ROEBUCK that what passed at this meeting, and what was spoken there by himself, offered the least proof of the advance of liberal ideas, or of the progress of democracy, we see, on the contrary, in that, as in everything else, a proof than an ultra spirit of gentility overshadows the land; that it estranges, rather than instructs, the populsr mind; and that instead of making any advances towards a greater fusion or identity of upper and lower clime., this ago is progressing, or rather retro gressing, in a precisely opposite direction. The people ate educating themselves; but it is not either in the sense of Lord 11Lutote, or in the non-sense of Mr. Rotnocut. "Ir is written—that the shoemaker should meddle with his yard, and the tailor with his last, the fisher with !tie pencil, and the painter with his Leta." In cireposing their Board of Ordnance, mi nisters appear to have acted upon the precepts re hearsed by the worthy servant of old Capulet, who, being unable to read, was furnished with • written note of the persons he was to ask to the feast. Col. the Hon.O. Aztecs, clerk of the Ordnance, the first witness examined by the select committee on army and ordnance estimate', stated that the beard consists of three officer", the Sur veyor-General, the Clerk of the Ordnance, and thePrincepal Storekeeper. On this hint Mr. Huss began to erase-examine him as to the qualifications of the present Muter and Board for the others they held. 'The witness fenced desperately, but ultimately the following revelations were extorted from him. The Master-General of the Ordnance „ is sot an ordnance officer is any other genes :than am Master- Gomel of the Ordnance ; " he "has never bean at teethed to the wWlery, except as Sluter-Gerieral of the °tame* ;" he a cavalry officer. The Sur veyor-General "does not belong to the artille ry; he has never been u engineer Cr artillery officer. The Clerk of the Ordnance " never belonged to the artillery or engineers • " " he has had no experience in the shape of in struction with the artillery foxes." The Principal Storekeeper "is a captain is the navy;" "all his experience as regards the artillery on shore be acquired on board ship." "No member of the beard ever belonged to the artillery or the engineer service". The lelaster-Oereral never belonged to the engineer emir" yet "the Muter-General has the whole dition of the details of the artillery and en gineer schism." "All measures of finance issue from the board, and all military details from the- Master- General.' One mama Is admitted to act at the Board of Ad miralty, but every silicoer who has been 'rained to the departments cf engineering or artillery is oatelblly ez4uded from the Board of Ordnanoe. 'The manage meat of that important arm is entrusted to a dashing, cavalry officer; , a naval °Seer, whom ampul e:see of utillery aaraia• as ohm ham beala acquired on booed ship; a colonel , better known on the = oa skid; aid anotbstiesobriele who the moveumat ofeetillan in the Add" (cpuat Weed wish?). hal has "itevstr acted as. artillery. officer." All paedftl knowledge of oratanft matters *as boa carefolly *Winded from tbi direction. of the Oraittee—ern amateur master sad board have beat preferred. The amatmardirection of the Ordnance conducts its business in a truly dilettante fashion. The Master- General attends tee board "only occasionally." "If one officer is present he forms a board." Captain Dtrncax, when examined le 1837, stated : " We (the board) are collectively responsible fee everything which emanates from the board, acd therefore we are obliged tow and sign every paper of any consequence before it goes to the Master-General." Col. the Ilea. 0. Aesox was asked by Sir Jams GRAHAM, "is that the can now r His answer is a curiosity in its way : " That is the case, swept that every board tifseer &vs not sign every peeper." Which being translated into non-official English means: "That is the ease, except that it is not the carte." Colonel ANSON'S account of the special duties of each member of the board is quite as edifying as his amount of their car-operation. He states that there is assigned to him as Clerk ed the Ordnance, " the finance department entirely, the management and preparation of the estimates, and all questions of finance." The very next question put to him relates to the special duties of the Surveyor-General, ar.d his answer is— " The duties of the Surveyor-General's department are principally to examine all bills which are incurred by the ordnance in every part of the world ; all bills from contractors, all the accounts from store keepers, and every description of charge agairst the department are sent to the Surveyor-General to be examined before they are allowed to be charged and paid for." This reply, taken in con nexion with the assertion that " all questions of finance" were referrel to the Clerk , of the Ordnance, naturally elicited the question " wht tha the duty assigned to the Survey or-General is not one con nected with fi nance ?" At first Colonel ANSON opined that it was not, because " he does not audit the accounts;" bet being reminded that Sir HINNY HAR DISON stated in 1828 that " the bills of a tradesman motivate money mast be audited by the Surveyor- General," Camel Aresoe explained : " It is a kiid of audit, bat not an audit of the expenditure." The committee next directed their attention to the special duties of the Principal Storekeeper, and Colonel ANSON absolutely waxed pathetic on the harsh treatment experienced by that ill-used and usefol officer. "Is the storekeeper," asked Sir JAMES GRAHAM, " responsible fur all the stores P " " Yes, he is responale for the stores at the Tower in • heavy bond for 6,0001, which has always ap peered to me an anomalous circumstance. I myself was principal storekeeper once, and I know it was thought advisable that the storekeeper should be re lieved from that necessity ; that he should have the control of his department, instead of being, as he is now, the principal storekeeper, entering into a bond for the die security of stores which he cannot him self personally superintend." Colonel Awaore is quite alive to the hardship of a man's being bound in a penalty to do what he cannot do; it does not appear to have struck him that there is anything eraser in that mares receiving a salary for what, not being able to do, he of comic deem not do. He would have the sinecure appointment made a sinecure out-and-outSu h is official morality and sentiment. Sir ;AYES GRAHAM, whose official experience bas made him a most troublesome putter tat awkward questions, was anxious to obtain more specific information as to the work really does by the board. He began by asking, with great seeming simplicity, " As to your large correspondence, when it arrives in the morainic, who opens the letters P" Being told the secretary, Sir JAMES proceeded to inquire whether that officer arranged the letters according to the division of business said by Colonel Alsace to obtain among the three members of the board, and sent to each those letters which rela'ed to the matters of which he took cognisance ? The answer is edifying : "No ; there is business connected with the secretary's office princi. Daily ; we have also an office for the commissariat, and also a barrack officer. The senior clerks of these offices attend upon the secretary when the p arrives, and as he open■ the letters he passes them over to them. They take into their respective offices the correapondeoce with respect to barracks, or with respect to the contract branch of the Ordnance, and look the papers over, and make the proper minutes upon them. Further questions elicited that the commissariat "hardly ever" has a decision taken ou it by any board officer individually; that the barrack branch of the office is not attached to any board ' officer individually; that the secretary prepares the minutes upon the general correspondence which comrs to his office for the board. No inspection or control is exercised by the board over the documents relatincr to the commissariat, the bar racks, or the miscellaneous heap taken in charge by the secretary. The board (or the one officer compos ing it fur the time being) merely signs the minutes prepared for it. The Board of Ordnance is a perfect thing in its way. It is composed of men who have no practical experience of the business. They never trouble their heads with a large proportion of the business, leaving it to be eondected by subordinates free from suptrin tendenoe or control. The remainder they divide among themselves after this fashion : -The Clerk of the Ordnance takes "all the financial business;" th• ' Surveyor-General takes the rest of the financial busi ness; the Principal Storekeeper enters into a bond of 5,0001. for " the security of stores," which he himself l i cannot [and of coarse does not] personally saFerin tend ; the Master-Gene.al " attends the board occa doaslly The money annually expended by the Board cf Ordnance amounts, one year with another, to consi derably more than two militias and a half. John Bull! John Ball! this is the way your money goes. VIE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, -NOVEMBER 6, 1849. THE LONDON FARMERS' CLUB. The members of this club resumed their monthly discussion after the anal vocation, yesterday evening. at their rooms, York Hotel, Bridge-street, Blackfriers ; Mr. Paws, of Pelmenhata, weird*. Many of the leading and most ntive members wen peanut, iacludiog Mr. W. Shaw, Mr. R. Baer, Mr. Cheatham, Mr. Mini, the Hoe. Mr. Wilson, Mr. Nesbit, its The 'abject of disowns was the improvement and cult'. nation of begs and pasty soils, introduced by Mr. W. B. WOWS,, of Bonamisum, So u th am p ton . Mr. MINIUM observed that peat-moss in bog was not properly a soil ; bat as aocumulation of deed, d)fag, sad 'Wog pleats, growing to enter. The extent of bog lands in the iamb of Mislead was not very great, although few estates of may extant with retentive 61011416 scald be fossil wi.boat some ponies of low swampy bottoms of a boggy Saws. In the north of England there were large treats of mess Mad; is Ireland them were not Jun than 2,800,000 saes of MOM' beg, not one sees of whin null not be drained. The suatteges of oultintiag this hied of end ware, that it was (Maisel at a low rent, that it could be worked with very little strimelk sad tottke.hoss and simple implements ; that it mold gesisestho ileasteest memo of every daseriptin ; that potatoes were set Babb to Myr, is that sod to the some Genet m ia others ; that the wire worm was an generally fend ; and that clover and artificial grew luminously. The &shame of stub ells was of thi gramsrs ita but many person were seder the t noniron im that drain,' would do all. By no way la which drains timid be pat I. them was it risible to dry some bogs *Mar us 4, ulna they wen broken up after, so as to separate the paclsa of matter, and do away with the fens of capillary attraction, width was proved tout so powerfully in this kind of soil. In meat peat soils it was now found that open main drain steed better if cut rrpradienlar. Ti. wet sad the from did set then Dinnertime& an eifeet apse them Alter the roads had bees teemed and she main drains marked At, the mad dram said be nu moose frees ono silo to the whir, from one to twe roods span, about three fen deep; bat this man depend oa the aware of the soil and subsoil. Another mule which had been found soconsful and cheep was, atter hay log made a proper outlet and male drams, to throw the peat into large beds, two roods sash, wills an open dials between them. Noddyg had buss found better for road making in bogs than mad, at lent for the first formation. Th. n was no ordinary denription of earth whop would an air Muni dilly ea a mom. If the bony material at hand wen only e.ay, lime mast be added. The mode of morn no peas soils ought to be regulated by the demand Si* the mops which paid best. Mr. F. Hobbs, Mr. Biker, the Hon. Kr. Wilsm, Mr. Medd, Mr. Nesbit, Mr. Shaw, Mr. Bassett, and other Rea dmits', spoke upon V,* question, and ultimately the lodes. ins resolution war Adopted That the improvamaat mad rekindles of ban and peaty soils may. in many mese when the amen is congenial, be ben( fieially adopted.' A vote of thanks was euto to Mr. Webster, as the is. trodson of the imbjeet, and to the chairs's. GALS AT LETKlLlPOOL.—Throagliout Sunday night sad ysirarday Liverpool was visited with a trrnsodous bar- Hesse, bat iso are happy to say no &map to 'hippies has bus repotted. • Cit23:7o . RIGA. • .4.. '7ll t, • • t' ' nthneWilli in an extract dl a letter front a ri A damn tillitaccapenlitil Genial Penifor F. Smith ▪ pat le am relent beer le the gold placers sad regions etealiforuia. The IMMT was hastily penned is the emdades and intemptiew a a California hotel, Immo. Manly= the return of the writer from his rapid journey. It will be found, we think, to contain some interesting facts, not the lees valuable for being of • more sober shade than these related in ether saftweate•erbielt have reached tui by the same meg : • San Framisa, Aug. 19. Ima only say about our tour, that th e OISOOSI did not take the route he first told me or, but we vein northwardly from Beside into &deem valley, theses mousing Besse and Cash creeks, owned to the Encramesto River, at the mouth of Feather River, where two towns, Brnsont sad Vernon, are laid oat, and half • dozen houses built ; themes following Feather River to the Yerba, and up that area= to the gold region, which, as I expected, appeared as soon as we reached the Takes, Slane. We took a southeasterly nurse through the gold region, crossing Bear creek and the three forks, ea they are called, of the Asterisms river, end descended the south fork and the main river to Butter's Fort sad Sacramento city, near the mouth of the latter. After welting in this neighbourhood three dais for the man, which missed as, we pushed south-east 'sadly into the ;old region, ea the COMMUN.. and Make. lemma rivers. Hers some of the heroes becoming much exhausted, and mine among the root, we divided, and I returned with one party by crossing the valley and the San 'aqua, holding a course about due west tenth we struck the road from Ban Jose northward, which we followed to braids. The entire distance travelled was about five hunired miles. To give the ranks of my observations fully would require reference, which I cannot now make, to my notes. 1 will only say here, that in my opinion, individual gold digging will soon sad. Four oat of five of those engaged are com pletely tired ote many w sick, and not a few die for want of proper attendance. I ass eatiad d, however, that if the workings were condoned with the requisite care, skill, aid capital, gold could be profitably produced. lbws few per suns have had luck, and occasionally one gets a good haul, but so many have quit in disgust, and so many more will soon abandon the work, that the price of labour must fall considerably, and I doubt not that the next year one may command it readily, and do well even in digging ever the spots already chequered by gold hunters. The position of gold I will endeavour briefly to explain to yon. Imagine an iri egul &fly inclined plane, so to speak, extendieg from the Sierra Nevada to the toot of the hills on the edge of the great valley. Within thirty miles of the Barra I know not its ir.mpoeition—lor at that distant' were we nearest to It—but from that point to within 10 or 20 miles of the valley we have vast formations of talents: slater., coca deadly trap rocks and serpentine, the trap formation most abounding nearest the valley. These talcon slits. contain v- ins of quart, from one-eighth of an Inch to many yard, In thickness, and la then TOMS the gold exists. The powerful currents of water of former eras have produced the present mountainous appearance of the region by cutting deep chasms and ravines, some of which, as at the branches of the American river, are at least two thousand five hundred Get below what appear now as the summits of mountains. Smaller ravines from all directions run into these larger ones. At the early period referred to moat of the gold deposits now found were formed, the gold from its weight being left be hind, while the lighter earthy matters were swept off ; but that a portion is still liberated annually, though in very small quantities, is shown by the feet that the deposits are mostly o nand to some depth, say live or fifteen feet, by boul ders, gravel, tke , on the borders of the streams. The tinders or fists, here called " ban" are mostly very narrow, and are soon scratched over. The "dry diggings " are workings in the dry ravines, and then are plenty of them, but colonel in • hundred pays for working. When regular mining in the veins of quartz Is commenced they may prove profitable, though few have done so in other parts of the world. Our rate of travel was too rapid for close observation, and there were many places where I would have wished more tier.. As it wan, I saw nothing valusb:e but gold, though I believe rich iron cns, as well as chrome, exist in great abundance. Roofing slate of great beauty is found In any quantity ; limestone in but one place west of the " valley." In the " valley " there are only oaks and a few sycamores along the watercourses. Ascending the mountain region, oaks bei,in to appear, dotted sparely over the more fertile hilt., at an elevation of 600 to 700 Int above tide; at 1,000 to 1,200 feet pines appear, with wide spreading branches and seed cones, about the sin and shape of a large pine apple ; and at 2 , 0 00 feet the tall pine Is min reaching a height of 260 ILA, shaped like a Lombardy papier, with cones a foot long aid four incttis in diameter. The large seeds of these pines are eaten by the Indian. We saw not more than a dozen springs in the moun tains, and were often in want of water, nearly all the ravines being dry, except those heading in the Sierra, among the snows. The scarcity of water will for ever pre vent agricultural operations within the range of our travels east et the valley. In the great valley itself a vast area is destitute of water, owing partly te its geological structure below the diluent depodta which form its MAN,- lam sure, however, nom reasons which I cannot here exll,in, that oomph to SUOn I. would attend the sinking of Artesian weds. In my opinion, the 'honors is such as would give perpetual springs, fi mina/ above the anon from sued wella, not axon ding say 100 to 300 feet in &gin. I could fill a ream with details of the extraordinary etate of things in this country; but you will see enough in the pu..lio papers. Towns grow up all around like mushrooms. Lots in some of thesis have been run up by speculators to an enormous price; but pay-day will soon come ' aid there will be a terrible crash before th. pe,ple hare think of it. They are tilling up this town rapidly with framed houses, boarded or covered with canvass only, and as • gale blows very day here, if a fire should occur on the windward side the whole town must be destroyed, and half the inhabi tants rained. While moat articles that can be brought by sea are cheap fresh vegetables, frui,s, butter, eggs, milk, ac , are about sweaty than the ordinary prices of such articles at home. fliers is, therifore, a great opsniog for farmers and gar denim, out fur few otbipi. There are, in fact, vast numbers Mrs seeking employment, but only =tamales, agriculturiits, and Lib Amen ars wanted. THE ARCTIC EXPEDITION. RETURN OF SIR J. ROSS. (From the Morning Herald.) The following extracts from private letters addressed to personal friends, will be found highly interesting : " Her 'Majesty's ship Enterprise, at sea, becalmed about 40 miles to eastwaro of Scarborough, Nov. 4, 1849. " We have been boxing about the North Su these lest seven dap, having made the Orkney Islands on the 28th w October. We got clear of the ice on the 25:h of September. Ina nothing Interesting to communicate to you beyond the fact that we have neither beard nor seen anything of Sir J. Franklin. We wintered in Port Leopold (entrance ol Prince A'gent's Sir James C. HAS and • party of seamen sot out on • journey to the westward, along the lout of North Somerset, and were absent from the ship forty days, during which time they must have travelled somewhere about 200 enilea—a journey un paralleled in the Arctic regi.ins—eaw nothing to lead to a belief that B.r John Franklin had touched on that shore. We are all will and hearty at this present time, but we lost four men daring our stay in Port Leopold, which place we enured on the 11th September, 1848, and got out into OINIS water, Barrow's Straits, on the 29th August, 1849, halm been shut up in our winter harbour 342 de's." " At use, lat. 68 12 N., long. 29 R. ' 0ct. 31, 1849. " We are e f the coast of Great Britain so fee safe and well, having taken our lest look of the forlorn sad lea hound shores of Davis' Straits on the 10th of October. We we all well, and, making allowance for the toils and privation' un avoidably atttedant on similar expo Wens, the voyage has been exceed ugly comfortable, the greatest harmony having existed betweed the odious and crew during its progress. " We have certainly had to grapple with difficulties of no ordinary nature, but thanks to the energy and dauntless courage of our experienced commander, we have trials pk.ently overcome them all. 'The voyage has been replete with incidents, varied end Interesting, which you will see deer-rib:et at some future period by more learned heads than mine ; suffice to say, that we have bad a sufficiency of labour during tte two summers we have been gene, and spent rather a cold winter in pat Leopold (entrance of Prince Regent's Inlet, Barrow's Strait, lat. 73 60 N., lone. 90 12 W.); and I hope the semi rigid political economists (Cobden not excepted), will not begrudge as our double pay. "Whatever ophtioes may be harraßer expressed with regard to the success, or eondeeting, of the expedition, I am ready to maintain that all that man could do has ban done by Sir J. Rom; and I behave than am few but will admit that he Is ea often of no orelleary character, whether as regards nautical skill, or scientific abilltia. Six James seem 1411taire been formed by nature for the arduous eervioe to which through life he bas so animal y devoted himself. To great physical powers, and a anuititwlos equal to every privation and fatigue, he unites every mental guslificatios mi=7 to rusticate the man destined to conduct a great and one enterprise. We have lost fon, men through siekmeas, moistens. surgeon and three A. B.'e, mem whose onosiitutions were thoroughly broken prier to leaving Begland, and la my opinion they could not have lived twelve months lonia' in any climate, however genial. h While I write We, I am ignorant of the fate of Sir Job* Fraeklin's expedition. "I may mink that our contort, the Investigator, Is is company with us, we having sever lost sight of each other during the image. " " Her X jesty s ship Bitruprios, of Scarborough, Nov. 4. " Here we are again. We did not pt out of the ice in Barrow's Strait until this last week in September, which is very late indeed, so that we had a nurow squeak tot another winter in the ice, and goodness knows how many would have lived to return. We found Lo trains of Sir J. Freak lin, although the captain travelled in May and Jane up wards of ZO miles on the W. and N.W. coasts of North Somerset, but could find no traces of them. We wintered at Port Leopold, in lat. about 74 N. and long. 90 W. We were without the tun for about 80 days, and had the t•mperatare 80 degrees &low freesia', by Fehrenheis. I am in a great hurry, and will give you more news in the nest." BIRKENHEAD DOOM—Something like activity begins to show twit oa the other side of the water, when several isrie timber ships are now disehaling their cargoes in the docks, and a lair *ergo of mahogany Lae just been snood there, whist is to be offered fur sale on the 16th ins.. Au abandasee of rod Shropshire sod Welsh coal is now Would down by rail to the ship's side at • very moderate ant, sod ountinvioe salt late are ready in the dock to raptly verde at a essemat's nodow—Livapool Mail. . gbe Court. .Wninitos, Nov. 6.—The Queen nod Prince Albert teak tank mod early morning walls. Hie Royal High sees the Pekin of Wales, the Primer Royal, and the younger imeishon of the royal fampAy, took their accustomed Ms morning in the Biome sad Windaor-park. Hia B RT; I S , aidkesse Prima Albert went out shooting o'6 morn ing, attenesd by Lieutensa•Colonel Hon. Charles Grey, MejorHenetal Bowles, sad Ltentecant-Colored Hon. A. Hack's. The Autrian Minister and the Countess Collortdo, and the Vi'conat and Viscountess Palmerston, an expected to arrive at the Castle this day on a visit to Mr Mejesty sad bie Royal Highness Prince Albert. The royal dinner party this evening will include her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kam (attended by Lady Anna Mari. Dawson and the Baroness de Speth), the Austrian Minister and the Count'''. Collorsde Viscount and Viscount,.. Palmerston , and Sir Goole Cooper. THE QUEEN DOWAGER. " The Priory, Nov. 5, 1819. " The Queen Dowager passed a realess night without stuck sleep, being • good deal oppreteed at in tervals. -- " ker Majesty I, partially relieved this morning. and is Ruh the suss u yesterday. a DAVID DAVISS, M.D." Viscount de Moncorvo, the Portuguese Minister, had sit interview with Lard John Russell yesterday at his official reeidence in llswaintstrest. The Marquis of Lansdowne (Lord President of the Council) arrived in town yesterday from his seat, Bo wood Park, Wilts. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial silica from the Governor of the Gambier. DEATH OF GENERAL SIR GEORGE AlfeoN, 0.C.8. It is with regret we announce the demise of this dial instui.bed general officer, who died on Sunday, at the Roy a l Hospital, Chelsea, of which he was governor. He was seised with sudden illness on Sunday morning at niae o'clock , at his official r.sidence at the Royal Hospital. The medical offi cers were immediately in attendance, and everything that their acknowledged skill and experieacis could suceest wee tried to save him, bat w;thout avail ; the wor'by old g I never rallied, and at a quarter past 3 lathe afternoon breathed his last. He entered the army as a cornet in the 16th Lancers in the year UN. He had served in Hollaad under the Duke of York and Sir Ralph Abercrombie, also in the Peninsuisr from 1809 until 1813, and commanded that regi ment at the battle of Oporto. Subsequently he commanded a brigade of cavalry at the battles of Tal , Bunco, Salamanca, and Vittoria. For his services he was, in 1833. nominated • 0.C.8., end dace 1827 be had enjoyed the eolonelcy of the 4th Dramion Guards. In 1846, Sir George became Lieutenant-o..veri or of Chelsea Hospital, and in May, 1849, he succeeded Sir Elwell Paget as Governor of that institution. The late Sir George Anson eat as a whig member for Lichfield from 1806 until 1841. The lucrative appointments of colonel of the 4tb Dragoon Guards and of the governorship of Chelsea Hospital are vacated by his decease. DEATH Op GENERAL SIR J. 0. VANDELEOR, Q.C.B. —This distinguished general, who died at the end of las , week, in Dublin, aged 88, entered the army as an ensign in December, 1781; to 1794 and 179.5 he served in Flanders, under the Duke of York, and was present in the several battles and minor affairs of these campaigns. Afterwards he served in India, and commanded a brigade of cavalry under L,rd Lake ; was present at the battles of Leswarree, Futty ghur, and Absulgur, ea also at the sieges of Agra and Bhurt pore. In the Peninsular campaigns, from 1811 to 1815 in cisive, Major-General Vandeleur also commanded a brigade of cavalry ; at th e siege of Ciudad Rodrigo he was wounded in leading his division to the breach, and he was present at the battles of Salamanca, Vittoria, Nice, and Waterloo. For his eminent services on these occasions he was nominated a Knight Comreander of the Bavarian order of Maximilian Joseph, and of the Ruadan order of Wlmdimir, in 1815. The same year also, he was appointed colonel of the 19th Dra goons, which regiment was disbanded about five years after. wards. In 1823, hole ever, Sir John became colonel of the 14th Light Dragoons, which colorielcy he held until 1830, in which year he was removed to that of the 16th Lancers. In 1833 Sir John Vandeleur was nominated a G.C.B. The coloneloy of this distinguished regiment of Lancers is thus vacated. THE PRINCE OF SCHLESWIG-IMLSTEIN AND THE GERMAN EMIGRANTS. The beautiful ship Alfred, the property of Messrs. Godeffroy, of Hamburg, stood into Piymouth Roads on Fri day night, and on Saturday morning the young prinoP, with Capt. Stanley Can, embarked in her. They were escorted to the beach by many of the gentlemen of the town and gar rison, and were taken on board by Mr. Fos, in his yacht Om Turk. Capt. Can is well known as the great Anglo-German agricultural reformer, and author of m►ny useful works oat that subject. He recently sold Ms large estates in North Germany, for reasons °herons to all who are acquainted with German rolitics, and is about to devote two or three years to toe settlement of selected G rman emigrants in the South Australian and Port Phillip distracts, under the auspices of the British government. His thorough acquaintance with the Garman character, and the confilance they have in his great energy and practical knowledge, promis e much good for them ; and we may onng atulate thvese.loniee on having German industry, sobriety, and skill in the management of ttte Marino sheep introduced under such auspices. LAMBETH SANITARY ASSOCIATION. ,Last evening a mteting of this newly-formed ea eeeletion took place at the Bt.ip T , Lower Pure street —Mr.*P. P. NEWMAN in the chair. Thi CHAIRMAN read the following letter, which had been received from the Archbishop of Canterbury : " Addington, Oct. 30. " Sir,—l have to thank you for your letter, in which you acquaint me with the steps taken by your committee to carry out the rest.lution of the public meetings and improve the state of Lambeth. In regard to my being named as patron Cl the association, I mug be allowed respecttully to decline the honour, in con‘eqnence of the impossibility, from my other duties, of my attending the meetings of the committee. I trust that my subscririon will show my artroval of the object and the interest which I take in its success. " I have the honour to be, sir, " Your obedient humble servant, " P. P. Newman, It.q." ".1. 8., CANTUAR. The CHAIRMAN said he had received the subscription referred 1001.—(epplause)—and applisd it to the purposes of the association. Mr CHARD moved: " That a public meeting be convened as early as possible for the purpose of explaining to the inhabitants the impor tant and suovereful operatims of the Lan.b,th Anti-Cholera and Dwellings-Improvement Committee, and which have already secured to the parishioners and the pariah generally the following adventages,—The unanimous adoption at a densely crowded Tait.) meeting of a revolution in favour of the speedy erection of baths and washhouses in different peseta of the parish; the introduction of the street-orderly system of cleansing, under the sanction of the surveyors and guardians: the drawing up the draft of a bill for improving the dwellings 01 the labouring climes, new under the con sideration of them. tubers for the borough, and intended to be brought into parliament next erosion; and the awakening in the minds of the parishioners the necemity of an active and vigero•as agitation throughout the pariah, in order that the inhabitants, taper:daily the poorer portion, may enjoy the blaming of a pure, abundant, and cheap ripply of wholesome water." Dr. PERRETT seconded the motion, which was unani mously adopted. In the course of the proceedings it was stated that the committee had commenced to cleanse the streets, court', and alleys of a large portion of the parish inhabited by the poorer classes, and for this purpose were now giving employment to thirteen married and single men as street orderlies, who were formerly living in idleness, and were a burden on the parish rata. As their weakly expenditure was likely to prove am °lldarthis, and the pecuniary responsibilhies of the committee loslamosso, they appealed to the wealthy for aid to their Bads, is order that the needy throughout the whole pod* skight be masted. Toe committee had prepared ilio• &oft of a bill to be suhukted to parliament for JIM • pima of Improving the sanitary condition of flee WWI. Its principal provhiona wore—that the kennel al as/ odium, or vestry,. should be authorised to hire of ososons s . eat of the per ch rates, t roper dwellings tog dm labwirlacpopulation, the profits arising from the same to be applied in relief of the poor rate ; that each duel. Hog should pour an abundant supply of pure water for drinking and wanking, a water closet, and every Other essen tial meoninsodation • end that the following should be the charges: fora sisal; roosa, 12 feet square and 9 fret high, is. 6d. per week; for two rooms of the sane size, 2a. dl. ; f•r a greeter number of rooms, according to the size and the ,or. All lodging haws for nigLtly lodgers to be under the inspection and control of the perish authorities; end the keepers of all such houses to furnish a cornet account of the number and description of their lodgers whenever required by the parish authorities. SUMMOiterit ton Poon-RATES.—The following cages were heard at the Buckingham D.vieion Petty Sete @ion', on the 27th nit.:—On the complaint of the overseers of Lillingstone Dayrell, John Gregory appeared to his sum mons to show canes why he bad neglected to pay poor -rates amounting to 9d. ; Paul Stone, a worn-cut labourer of 90, why he had neglected to pay • similar sum- Henry Henson, why be had neglected payment ; George Henson, why h e had net paid Is. ; Jetta Hieldabottodb, to show cense against a small amount; and Thomas Horst, for 9(1. Tee mate was highly discreditable, and those who talk of " the happy peasantry" Mould witness each exhibitions of " rural wretch ed ness" as thee which an brought forward by unfeeling men in aloe in rural parishes. Gregory said he had a wife and chtldre.n, and be uld not pay ; had been out of work, and that ha had never been called on to pay rates before. The chairman intimated that the megistrates had not the power of excusing, but that they would allow time for payment. The cus against Stone was adjourned sine die. Henry Henson said he could not pay ; he earned but Ss. a week, and he was ill In harvest time. The magistrates, who were evidently unwilling to hens a distr. is warrant, adjourned the eaten George 11•11.ta was allowed 14 days to pay in. Hickinbittons's camp was ad journed. Thes. Hurst said he could not pay, and that he bad a family of six children. The magistrates allowed him time for payment. PARLIAMENTARY AND FINANCIAL REFORM. Sunder. o A f T th S e UN in D hi E b it ita L n fi ta ND o; land, called by advertisement, took place in the Ath in that town, on Friday evening Wt. The • 'LI "' A pnbl M ic E m ß ee li t N iu G g unsung highly respectable one, enthusiastic, and crowded, and not be much under a thousand in number. The deoutau,... — from the coancil were Sir Joshua Ws.Welty an d for; Thompson. George Mr. Councillor JOSHUA WILSON, merchant and do owner, and a member of the Society of Friend s , was p ei oh d - r to the chair, on taking which he addressed the me tin.' the following effect ; My friends, we want • red aatiao taxation. In order to attain that r e d uct i on we want a t,-„.- duction of expenditure— we want financial reform. In t d; to attain fluarcial reform we want government by 4: a y' for the good of the people, instead of ; overnment by iDu' r— r . for the good of a party. (Cheers. In order to attain government by the people, we want the ancient rig ht (1 1 Eiislishmen restored, that they sh ou ld tax them selves through their representatives. (Hear.) Oar consthutitioa profane originally to be based upon that right; we want it• to be so in reality. I conceive that • representative of the people, when called upon to vote for the expenses of th e government, ought to be as careful, nay more careful, of th e people's money than he would of his own, if called enco r e pay money to promote the same end'. Because 1 curies, that in voting the money of the people he no t only 'ensue money contributed by the rich, but also that contributed by the widow and the fatherless. (Applause.) Now, 1 ozh „ rely, that we cannot get this financial relotm brought about until we get Lois ancient principle restored-- that the people of England shall tax themselves through their representatives. If there was no tax but an incest. tax, it would be all right ; in that we, only those p e r eo posseesed of 1501. per annum and upwards, who paid income tax, should have votes ; hut so long as you have hadireos taxes—so long as the poor man is taxed, he ought to ha ve a vote ; for if a man is too poor to have a vete, he is too poor to be taxed. (" Hear, hear," and cheers.) I shall, te em fore, read to you the first resolution. It is as follows ; "That, considering a reauction of expenditure to the extent of several milieus per annum to be perfectly pm. ticable and quite compatible with the efficient discherge el the duties of government; that such reduction would tope], the means of remitting taxes which operate in venous ways to the injury of the community ; and that the principles of the National Parliamentary and Financial Reform Asiccim tion are well calculated to effect these objects, thi. o ts , liag, therefore, resolves to support that auociation to the utmost of its power." Ia order to show we are not out of the way in consider ing that several millions might be taken off, I may refer to t h e year 1835, when it was the interest of the two contend ing pieties bidding for the people's favour to reduce the expenditure. The expenditure was then ten millions less 'hen it is now, end I recollect a curious fact conseeted with that reduction. When we fit out chips here, we deal find many ropeiends to make oakum of, but it is MLetwhe with government 'hips. Up to 183.5 we used often to get several tons , of that article from Chatham, but in that year the waste was stopped—(laughter)--and, as you knew, th e naval e xpenditure was reduced a million; but since this the Chatham oakum has begun again, and the naval ex penditure his increased. The Americans have an apt wort to designate such wises material; they call it t. ehestage." (Laughter.) The chairman then concluded by moving O t e resolution, and introducing Sir Joshua Wslmsley, M.P. Sir JOSHUA WALMSLEY, after the a; please that greeted his rising had anhoited, thanked te e chairman for saying that they wanted to return to the old principle of the constitution, that I agatioa and representation should go hand in hand, Imam, it furnished him a text to comment up - in. Tmi object of their mission was to promote the cause of pariisme nutty re. form, with a view to the attainment of such ameriomems ia our financial, fiscal, ecclesiastical—(" hear, hear," and greet cbeeriug)—colonial, and other systems as should be in am cording with the wishes of the great nujeroy of the people. The extent to which they would libernin the representatinn was this : to give each adult male, the occupier of a tenement, or part of a ie. mutt, who should be rated, or should claim to be rated, tie the re. lief of the poor, a right to be registered so so elector— (cheers)—the protection of the ballot; triennial parliaments; abolition of the property qualification ' • and, what they deemed even more essential than the other four, such • chugs intbe electoral divisions as should give a more equal reproes tation in respect of population. They laid down two pie. positions first, that the House of C 01.1110111., a, C pre-ant constituted, did not represent the property, the population, or the intelligence of this country ; and second, because it did not so re present these, vital errors and abuse had crept into every department of the 'tee, with would never be extirpated without a brood and cam e reheesive extension of the franchise, and something like an equalise lion of the population and representation. Thee , wi re old doctrines. In 1797 the wings demanded such au exteniion of the franchise as nearly amounted to what was i ow asked for—household suffrage, triennial parliaments, and a more equal apportior.ment of members to population. We had gone hack since. In 1792 a minority of 92 voted fur them reforms; now, something like 80 or 82 voted for them. The revenue of that day was 36 millions: now it was 60. (.' Shame.") In the observation of a political write- of some weight, that " the sting of taxation is wastefulni ne," they had the key to most of that discontent now prevailing among the middle-class a of the country, and which w prevail among the productive-el of the country, if only et ey knew the real state of the case. Unfortunately, the burthen till upon tilt latter, in the shape of indirect taxation. Whin the middle classes were finding fault with an income-! x of 7d. in the pound, the poor man was paying 8.,r lOor 12 eulliags in the same, for many of the es, siazies and some of the luxuries of life. They would willingly maintain the dignity of the crown and government, but they grumbled to find millions squandered on profitless armaments, en atubensdon and employers, &e. He found fault, not with the men, but the ej stem. (Hier ) Having these men to keep, ti i y were sent out to the eeloties as governors, bids ips o Sc., and what was the result ? Why they brought the coloni a into insubordination, by taxing them more then they could bear, and yet they made this country pay fouror five millions more to sustain them. But they had more to ionu'ain of. They we-re feeding a host of idlers in high place', with tithe he lonaing to the old feudal system—masters (11 the horse, Waiters of the buckhounds—(laughter)—Brooms of the stole, wo idireng.ra, rold st , cks—(great laughter)—silver sticks, trend falconers, and the Ike. Such idle offices as these it was that made financial reformer,. (Applause.) They whiled to see every office in the state filled, not by idle re, but by men of business. They wished to see • guffaw nt uncen trolled by the oligarchy—one that would have the moral courage to stand between the pi nple and their oppressors. (Lend cheers.) They deoired also to see the state funds applied to purely state purpoa s. They desired further to see the trade, commerce, tied menu futures of the country improved. They bell' veal thot these things were not to be attained hut by a broad extension of the suffrage. Long experience had proved that e. ry miler system was inefficient. A better illustration of this could not be liven than what took place last session of moll meat. Mr. Cobden's proposal to reduce the expenditure by ten millions was negatived by 275 to 78 Mr. Hume's oroPtli' tien to improve the representation was rejected by 268 to 82. That for the ballot was rejected by 136 to 8.5 ; that for the charter by 224 to 16; and Mr. Osborne's motion respecting the Irish church — (cheers) —by 170 to 103. DM they, then, looking at those facts, suppose they would get financial reform by any roller means than a wide extension of the suffrage ? (" No.") Let them not be led away by being told that certain mem bers had not atterded divisions during last session so often as they ought. He asked them to lock, instead, at the questions upon which they did vote, and then to look how their opponents voted upon them, Sir Jos hua then pro- ceeded to show, by figures, how the voices of the large constituencies are neutralised by those of the smaller, in the hands of the triton:racy. He contended that whether they took the property, population, or in•elli genee of the country into consideration, none of these Wee represented by the House of Common. as at present consti tuted. He then appealed to the middle and the working claws to direct their united efforts to the bringing shout of a better state of things. Surely the people well deserved at the hands of the middle classes the right to elect their own representatives. They were taxed tenfold more in propor tion to their means than those, and ought therefore to have a voice in parliament. In conclusion he recommended hoe bold land societies, called upon the meeting to give their personal aid in tarrying out their object by forming en asso ciation, and invited them to send representatives to the con fences to be held in London in January or February next to consult as to the course that ought to be adopted in working out their views. He then sat down amidst hearty applause. Mr. JAS. WILLIAMS then stated that the cards of membership and subscription to the proposed roci ty might be given t o t o Mr. 3 . Hilts, who, he hoped, would act as treasurer,. or to Mews. R. Vint and Carr. Mr. GEO. THOMPSON, M.P., then rose. He was re ceived with a hearty welcome, and spoke nearly two hours. He concluded with a long and glowing peroration ad deemed to all chasm interested in the muenster citing confidence in each other, and renewed efforts towards reaching their common goal. At the conclusion of his address the entire audience rose to their fee*, and gave vent to their enthusiasm by some lusty rounds of applause. The CHAIRMAN then put the motion, which was carried by • show of hands. Mr. Councillor Tnomraow moved that MOMS. Joshua Wilson, B. C. Robson, John Hills, Wm. Mendel, Wm. Tbackeray, and las. Bills be a committee, with power to add to them number, for tie purpose of taking such mea sures as they may deem requiem, to carry out the objects of this meeting. Seconded by Mr. Taos. Roison, end agreed to. Mr. Councillor MOILDST moved a vote of thanks to Sir J. Walnisley, Mr. O. Thompson, and the Council of the Na•innal Reform A...onetime. Seconded by Mr. JOIN HILLS, end mused to. Sir JoewvA and Mr. THOMPSON arkitowb dr:4 the com pliment, and the latter sees d the opportunity to papa a eulcutinsa on Mr. Wilkinson, who had twice offered himself to the borough as its representative, and recommended him to the ;holm of the eleemrs whenever a recency should occur. The hint was acospted with much oppl .use. Mr. THOMPSON, M.P., seconded b► Sir JOIIIII7A, pro posed a vote of thanks to Mr. Wilson for his conduct in the chair, and rid a tribate of praise to his opening address. Agreed to with three cheese. Ms meeting broke up at near 11 o'clock. The Solicitor-General for Ireland had an interview yesterday vith Lord J Russell —Mr. Under sheriff Wirt., Sir E. Cust, and Sir George Hayter, had also inter views yesterday with the noble lord.