The Express. — London, England, 1846-09-29 00:00:00

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India, llong-Kung, &c., will be made up on the evening of the 7th October. TO CORRESPONDENTS. We cannot notice, in any way, soy conununkation that is sent to us anonymously; but those who choose to addrewi us in confidence will Snd tocireoutidence raspected. NEITHER CAN WE UNDERTAKE TO RETURN ANY MA NUSCRI WIT:ATM - FR. we Advertisements intended fur The Erpress must be at the &Booby Two o'clock on the day of publication. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE. Toe DAT.—Morniag, 19 mm. posit 7; Afternoon, 57 min. pad 7. To-noatow.—lllorning, 40 mie. past 8; Afternoon, 25 min. pica 9. LONDON, TUESDAY, SEPT. 29. „ WHEN you have done wrong stick to it,” should be the motto of St. Pancras. The directors and poor guardians in that parish have been actively illustrating this comprehensive rule of life. They began by neg lectingtheir inspectorial duties. The workhouse master, of course, abused his uncontrolled power; and a sys tem of lawless coercion was established. The terror of returning to this, drove an unhappy female pauper, out of place, to suicide. Such was the first result of the directors' culpable neglect. An investigation ensued, which brought to light practices at valiance no less with law than with humanity. But the directors hardened their hearts, and still stood by the master. Complaints were made of the workhouse rations. The allowances of the dietary were admitted by medical authority to be sufficient, if the quantities and qualities of food prescribed by them were actually served out. To see that they were, was the duty of the visiting directors. The parish surgeon declared they were not. A hasty inspection was made while the inviry was going on, and everything was found satisfactory. Of course this farce of inspection was worthless for purposes of evidence. But it ena bled the visiting directors to report themselves perfectly delighted with the state of things in the workhouse kitchen. Two of them, who made them selves conspicuous in brazening out a rotten case, drew the most pleasing picture of the dietetic arrangements. The soup was so good they positively cat it ! They, substantial men, a physician and a barrister, eat the soup meant for paupers, when etiquette only required them to taste it! Elated by their glimpse into the St. Pancras kitchen, Dr. lifttatiNctum, one of the soup-eating directors, ordered ordinary rations of bead, meat, potatoes, soup, porridge, cheese, and beer, to be placed before the board. They were brought ; and struck conviction into the doubters. Nothing could be better. Beef, very superior round, worthy of WILLIAMS of Old Bailey notoriety ; potatoes, innocent of blight; soup, that might have tempted a second Es.tu ; porridge, enough to draw half Scotland southwards ; cheese, bread, and beer, all most sound, solid, and unworkhouse-like. The paupers were called in to verify this tempting array. Alas, for the daring directors who instituted the experiment! The rations were not recognised. " The meat we get is more like Sharp's-alley meat than this," remarked an insolent inmate. " That's more potatoes than we get," said another. " This ain't our soup—it's better by half," sighed a third, sniffing the odours hungrily. At this point we thought the chain of misdoing must snap. A HOWARTH might bear up against proud cruelty, ille gal punishments, insolence to a medical officer, under ground day-rooms, over-crowded dormitories, and exhaling cess-pools. All these, a first-class barrister's elasticity of conscience might lump under " classifica tion." But at this glaring proof of rascality, it seemed as if even a HOWARTH must give up his defence of the desperate case; and cease to stick to the wrong, as a thing that had become too hot and too heavy even for his Atlas-like shoulders to support. There was nothing to be said. Mr. LEE was not called on for explanation. Nothing was thrown out to shake the evidence of the paupers. True, they were paupers; and, as such, in a HOWARTII'S apprehension, hardly entitled to credit. But the case against the master remained, on the evidence, as conclusive a case of guilt as was ever followed by condign punish ment Investigation was barked. A report was pro cured, after an hour and a half's discussion with closed doors. That report, while it proposed some unimportant changes in the workhouse dis cipline, left untouched every point in which LEE, the master, had been proved guilty during the investigation. The transaction of the unfair al lowances was not even alluded to. A few more peas, it was suggested, should be put into the broth ; and a little more milk into the porridge ; but no word appeared of the trick which at once pro claims the Master unfit for his situation, and the omission of which in the report compels us, in our own minds, to grace the committee of directors with epithets it would be unsafe to print. But they have carried out their principle. They have done wrong, and stuck to it; through thicker shame and thinner evasion than we ever remember in any similar attempt to escape the charge of personal neglect by a deter mined ignoring of official misconduct. A meeting of the vestry was held on Saturday to re ceive this precious report: the triumph of Mr. How- Alai', and the disgrace of St Pancras. We should have expected the parish to rise en ;Hasse to protest against the document. They have, however, sanctioned it, by a majority of 18; and, by so doing, have appropriated the discredit it throws on all connected with it. No pariah but St. Pancras, we would fain hope, has such directors of its board of guardians; and no such directors but these, such a parish. Mr. HOWARTH presented the report in a speech Worthy of himself and his conduct throughout the inquiry. It exhibits the purse-proud :arrogance of a BUMBLE; and the same }fit, well-fed contempt for pauper humanity, which marks that functionary in the novel. But its inhu manity is as nothing compared with its impudence. We quote from a report for which we are indebted to the Times : Mr. Howarth read the report at lenth, and then proeeetled to ob serve "that the directors had gone very fully-indeed much more fully than he thought ot all necessary-into an investigation of the com plaints which bad been made as to the treatment of toe tampers. A number of the inteateo, who were taken indiscriminately from the hall, were examined before the board, and were requested to give their opinion as to the quality of the food t h ey rt coked in tle hoar. The result was what miyht have heen antwapated. A gratt number of the inmates were no doubt dissatisfied with their diet, and if the food provided them teas ten times us abundant, and ten times as good -if that were possilee-as that note supplied, they waled not be satisfied. If the directors or the veotry were to attempt to feed and lodge awl ci Ake paupers to their entire stakfactiou, he did not think they would be satirist with a palace, or that they would thkg any luxury too good for them." There is something that makes the blood (even of those who shrink from all parade of humanitarianism) boil when reading this language. This IlowanTH is one of the men whose respectability " keeps a gig," and whose respect is confined to those who keep gigs likewise. The image of GOD becomes invisible to his horny eyes, when clad in rags. A pauper, quoin] pauper, is to him a lying, discontented, wicked being : and that without respect to previous life or character. Poverty is to him disgrace, not the disorder or crimes which sometimes lead to it. There is no such thing to his wretched apprehension as good pauper, or bad pauper. The word has no degrees of comparison. It carries all its adjectives implicitly along with it. As to Mr. HOWARTH'S paltry quibble about the share he had in sanctioning the incivility of LEE to Mr. COOPER, we pass it over. It is entirely unim portant whether he ur another was chairman on the disreputable occasion ; or whether it was in full board room or no, that the master was allowed to insult the surgeon with impunity. If he were not the offending party, he only lacked the opportunity to be so. An amendment was proposed by Mr. MANN, " that a committee of ten or more vestrymen be appointed to inquire into the whole management of the workhouse, and the duties of the various officers employed therein." The mover of this amendment spoke to the dis honesty of the ration-trick : " Mr. Cooper had stated that if the quality of the food provided for the paupers was good, a sufficient quantity was allowed. Now he (Mr. Siesta ) was present at the inquiry before the board on Tuesday last, when specimens of the meat were produced, and be naked a per son who was acquainted with ouch matters to examine it. That person maid that the meat produced before the board was decidedly good. Ile and his friend afterwards went into the various wards where the in mates were at dinner, and examined the meat served out to them; and the quality of the mod exhibited in the hoard-room was, to a, the words of h is companion, as different from that the paupers were rereiring as a white coot is from a Vail sack." usat Mr. HALTON confirms this, if confirmation were required " The dialler ration produced by Mr. Lee coasisted of two rery nice diets of beef and wren potatoes; but a WAS whirls had been street, out to one of the paupers, and which was brouyht in by one of the directors, contained only three potatoes, and (shout half the quantity of meat produced by Mr. Lee." And Mr. SMITH had illustrated the difference prac tically : " Ile considered that the proper course the directors should have adopted in order to have obtained a fair sample of the food on 'faiesclity last, would have been to visit the house in the morning, to select a portion of the provisions, and to have put them under lock and key and seal until the meeting of the board. Ile was satisfied that the food produced before the directors was not a fair specimen of the diet. Ile considered also that the cook, and the servants in the kitchen, ought to have bees examined before the board. Ile had taken a plate of meat on Tuesday, while the dinner was being served out, from the first person he met in the passage, and he compared it with the speci men on the directors' table. The ration produced to the board con sisted of a benatiful piers of n round of beef and green notate, a ; the ration which had been served out was about six ounces of what was called 'clods and stickings,' and three potatoes." The same gentleman mentioned the dismissal of a pauper who gave evidence as to the rations ; and fur nished several illustrations of the quality of the St. Pancras diet, so much relished by 1)r. Iltilottsc- HAM and the high-minded and humane llowAtatt. His hints of a mal-practice, wider than has yet fully appeared, will be of service to the Poor-law Commissioners. Yet, after all this, the amendment was rejected by 23 to 5! Enough has transpired to show the necessity of interference in this cast by the Somerset House autho rities. It was mainly for the HOWARTHS and the LEES that the Poor Law Commissioners were invested with their superintending authority. As the parish has de clined to act,we trust they will not be slow to usurp their proper function; and show to the direct ors of St. Pancras, that if they are safe from their fellow-parishioners, there is a higher power to which they are amenable, and before which all Mr. HOWARTH'S contempt for paupers and pauperism will not protect him from a severe lesson. We only wish it was likely to be more adequate to his offence ; or that it could reach the radical cause of his behaviour in this inquiry,—his wicked and ignorant despisal of those of his fellow creatures whom poverty has consigned to the tender mercies of a St. Pancras work-house, and the superin tending providence of a board of guardians which admits a HOWARTH to its councils. TILE Irish landlords complain that the English press is " preaching a crusade against them." The English press has done nothing of the kind. It de nounced the attempts of the Irish landlords to relieve themselves from any contribution towards the relief of the peasantry, and it interposed to check their attempts to convert the relief extended from this country into a source of profitable jobbing for them selves. But the greater part of the Irish landlords having shown themselves amenable to good counsel, and backed out of shabby proposals (or, as Mr. RALrit OSBORNE delicately calls them, " eccen tric opinions"), the English press has shown every disposition to let bygones be bygones, and to encou rage the Irish landlords to persevere in the better course they have entered on. Such encouragement is much needed, and so may an occasional reprimand be. The Irish landlords do their work; but they do it grudgingly. They have not yet abandoned all hope of inducing Government to allow them to convert the advances intended to relieve the immediate distress of the peasantry, into' means of permanently improving their private estates without any cost to themselves. To this end they endeavour to create a prejudice against the Govern ment plan of relief, with a view to raise such a popu lar outcry as may compel Ministers to abandon it. " Are you aware," asks Mr. OSBORNE, in that letter to Lord JonN RUSSELL wherein the selfish callousness of an Irish landlord is daintily designated an eccentric opinion," that the entire of the sums of money pre sented will be laid out in works of public inutility? —that we are literally endeavouring to make moun tains of mole-hills, laying out roads which lead nowhere, and planning works which will benefit no one but the country surveyors; creating, in fact, a gigantic system of ' unproductive labour, to be repaid by borrowed money introducing habits of laborious indolence, in the shape of breaking stones, amongst an agricultural population, whilst the land which is to pay for all will derive no benefit from the labour about to be wasted on the roads ?" If the Irish landlords are doing all these things, they certainly are acting very foolishly; but they do it of their own choice, and not by compulsion of the ministerial plan of relief. They are not entitled to make it odious by fathering their own folly upon it. Ministers neither oblige them to make roads where net wanted, nor to lay out money on " works of inutility." Ministers only re quire that the works shall be of public, not of private utility ; and such works have been devised in various parts of Ireland, though Mr. OSBORNE and his immediate circle have not had the wit to hit upon them. In Timoleague, 4001. has been voted towards the erection of a Bridewell, and 300!. towards repair ing the parish chapel. In Knockane, 231. has been voted to enclose the churchyard, and 30!. to erect a wall round the parish chapel. In Ros common, something has been allowed to enclose the cemetery of Clonfinla. The present is exactly the time when works such as the Bridewell should be commenced ; works of undeniable utility, but from the expense of which ratepayers shrink when they have no stronger motive than simple utility to urge them on. The repairs of Catholic chapels, too, are most useful. The church of the majority in Ire land is supported by the emtributions of the poor: its chapels are too often so small that they cannot contain the whole congregations, or so ruinous that they cannot keep out the winter storm. The erection of roomier chapels, the repairing of the dilapidated, will prevent a whole host of coughs, ca tarrhs, and consumptions; permanently improving the health and increasing the longevity of the Irish pea santry. Again, with respect to the inclosure of churchyards; it is not very creditable to the landlords of Ireland that we receive by the same post accounts of two presentment sessions, one in Kerry and one in ltoscommon, in which grants to enclose parish burial grounds are advocated on the ground that for want of fences to them the pigs may habitually be seen disturb ing the remains of the dead. A general inclosure of burial-grounds throughout Ireland would go tar to teach habits of neatness and order, and to heighten the reverence for humanity dead or alive. These arc works of public utility; and towards their completion, Eng'ishmen will gladly see ad vances made by Government, even upon such indiffe rent security as Irish landlords can give. But they will not hear of advances for the mere purpose of making improvements in private estates, for which each owner ought to pay out of his own pocket. Scorrisn Poon LAW ECONOMICI.--On the 16th September last the Scottish Poor-law Board of Super vision issued a circular, calling on such parochial boards as required "to make extraordinary allow ances to paupers" in consequence of the failure of the potato crop, to make such allowances " in food rather than money ;" and recommending that "stores of pro visions should im:nediatcly be made at convenient places," so that the poor might have "food of good quality," and in order that the boards might " purchase larger quantities of provisions at a cheaper rate than paupers could buy them in retail, and the difference thereby be saved to the parish." This proposed institu tion of parochial Josephs has been met in a becoming manner by the parochial board of North Leith, who met on the 24th instant and passed a series of spirited resolutions, evincing much mom knowledge of the pritriples of political economy than their superiors of the upper board. The local board admits, 1. That the potato crop has failed, but considers that the de rangement of the food market consequent thereon has been somewhat exaggerated, and that " prices will be regulated truly according to the supply and demand." 2. It holds that the idea of famine is un tenable, and that the freedom of trade, capital, enter prise, and "the accumulative ambition of our mer chants," will be found sufficient to procure supplies from the cheapest markets fur supply of the dearest markets, "and that supply will continue as long ns the co:sinning prices yield a commission profit." 3. That were the different parochial boards to step into the market, prices would rise; and thus, while the pauper would have his bread secured to him, the prices would be raised on the industrious labouring pour. 4. That the retailer's profits are at all times small, and if withdrawn would affect their ability to defray the expense of rent, taxes, and living, and so add to, in stead of mitigating, the general distress. S. That the board, therefore, resolve that it is inexpedient to law up stores of provisions. We trust their example will be universally followed, as they have clearly common sense and science on their side. Adam Smith wrote his Wi , alth of Nations at Kirk aldy, opposite to Leith ; and his doctrines appear to have been wafted across the Firth of Forth, and to have taken root to Same purpose amongst the denizens of North Leith. The Board of Supervision was thecreation of Sir Robert Peel's government ; and as the latter foundered in the act of establishing free-trade principles, it were de sirable that all subordinate institutions should keep in mind what is now the settled order of the day; and give up the Gothic notion of doing evil that good • may come. We have received the Paris journals of Sunday. They are still occupied with the inexhaustible subject of the Spanish marriage. The National, after some prefatory observations on the article in the Debars of Saturday, has the follow ing remarks upon the attitude of the English Cabinet : The long silence of the Whig Cabinet is sasily explained. Arrived at power through a happy chance, with but a bor rowed majority in the House of Commons, it feared meeting adversaries who would cast in its teeth the it showed in 1810. The question of the marriage of the Queen and Infanta was discussed at Eu by Lord Aberdeen and M. Guizot, in presence of Queen Victoria and the King of the French. The Whigs wanted to know precisely what passed, and only spoke out, after having receivel the assurance of Lord Aberdeen and Sir Robert Peel, that they might rely upon their support in opposing the accomplishment of an act which these two ministers regarded as trickery. It was then only that Lord Palmerston sent his diplomatic note to M. Guizot, which, as we previously remarked, is worded in a most polite sod moderate manner. He lava stress on the stipulated conventions of the treats , of Utrecht; hut, besides that there is another. which, though verbal, ought to be the more respected by the ministers, as it had for witnesses and guarantees, the Queen of England and Louis Philippe. Lord Palmerston insists on the fact ; he calls to mind that about two months since M. Guizot sent a diplomatic note on this question, to which no reply was returned by the British Government, as it was first requislte to asecetain what had pa.-ed at Eu. It was whilst awaiting this reply that the affair of the marriage was concluded, without the knowledge either of the British Mi nister at Madrid, or of the Ministry, which had at various periods professed its friendly intentions. Af'er exposing the facts, the note enters into the objections, and, however mea sured may be its tone, the words remonstrance' and 'protest' must have been plainly uuderstood by M. Guizot." Ws have also on the same theme the comments of the Canstitutiannel : " The marriage of the Duke of Montpensicr, suitable in itself and agreeable to the two &millss concerned, is likely to become a cause of rupture between France and England. It has given rise to all those diplomatic difficulties which the marriage of a French Prince with Queen Isabella would have originated, as the Infanta is heiress to the throne. It will never realise the same advantages, and we may add, that the difficulties have been increased, instead of being re moved, by a three years' negotiation. The dispositions of the two government► seem to be as follows. Our's, resolved on the success of this family affair, is determined to carry it out at all risks. After having for six years demanded innu merable sacrifices from the nation, in the name of the English ' alliance, it now breaks up that alliance for the sake of a marriage which does not promise any great political results, an alliance so highly boasted, amt to be so dearly paid for. The Duke of Montpensi , r i. to leave on Monday, and the marriage is fixed fur the 10th. The English Govern• meat seems equally decided and tirm, sad as yet no judg ment can be formed as to hose far its opposition will extend. There are but two possible issues to the struggle ; either war, which a single spark would suffice to kindle at the present moment; or, if the English Ministry contents itself with a simple protestation, p'r,a inent political hostility be tween the two governments, until England sucei eels in re- taliating severely upon us in Morocco or elsewhere; until our ministers have paid a high p•ice, at the expense of the nation; for the entente cordiale which they have just destroyed with their own hands." The Duke of Montpensicr is expected in Madrid on the 4th of October. The refugees continue to be the subject of vigilant watchfulness on the part of the authorities. The Marquess of Labrador and M. de Villafranca are amongst the Spanish refugees whose houses have been searched by the Paris police. Their papers have been submitted to a severe investigation. On the morn ing of the 24th, the Spanish Carlist refugees who had been confined in the municipal prison of Bordeaux, the Colonels Manzano and Noguerucla, and the Canon G. Caballero, were conveyed in the steamer to the citadel of Blaye, as a measure of precaution, and in order that these chiefs may not give any aid to any fresh outbreak. Colonel Manzano has been ill since his detention, and a doctor was sent to him; but the authorities, acting in conformity with their instructions from Paris, would not permit the Colonel to remain at his own residence. Preparations arc making at Compiegne to receive the Royal family, who propose passing a few days there. The Ministers of Finance and Commerce have re cently received the grand cross of the order of Leopold. Several subordinate members of the ad ministration in the departments of trade and customs have been also nominated grand officers, commanders, and officers of the same order. Rear-Admiral Bruat will leave Tahiti before the arrival of Captain Lavaud, his successor. Ile is ex pected in France in the course of next month. Up to the time of our regular express of Sunday being closed, neither the English nor the Belgian mails had arrived in Paris. It was feared the delay was occasioned by some accident on the Great Northern Railway. We learn by our letters from Madrid of the 22nd inst., that on Sunday, the 20th inst., the Duke of Valencia went to the Palace to have the honor of THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 29, 1846. kissing the Queen's hand. He was received (says his constant ally, El Hera:do) by her Majesty as one of the men who has rendered the greatest services to the constitutional throne. The Duke subsequently received the visits of a crowd of eminent persons of all shades of opinions. The Due de Glucksberg left Madrid on the 22nd with all the papers relative to the contract of marriage of the Infanta. On the 21st, at 5 o'clock, P.M., Mr. Bulwer, the English Ambassador, was received by the Queen in a private audience, the object of which, solicited by the Ambassador (says our correspondent) was to congratulate the Queen Mother. Mr. Bulwer did not see the Infanta, because (as it was said) that Princess has been slightly indisposed during the last three days. The same correspondent assures us that Mr. Bulwer had not officially protested against the 11Iontpensier alliance, but had merely addressed another note to Senor leturitz, requesting explanation as to some words which fell from that Minister in the Senate on the 19th ir.st., which implied that the English government had opposed the marriage of the Queen even more than that of the Infanta. - In the Chamber of Deputies Senor Gonzales Romero continued to support his amendment as to the collection of taxes, to which the Minister of the Interior replied, and the discussion was again ad journed. By a special courier, who left M drid on the 23rd, we learn that the former was accorded to the Ministers on a division by 13-1 to 13. The Lisbon mail brings accounts to the 20th. The journals of the capital continue to assert that the Mi guelite movement was completely put down, and that the governor-general employed in crushing it, was received everywhere with enthusiasm. Although little credit is due to these reports, it is certain that the Miguelite insurrection, though not put down, makes no progress, and merely exists as passive dis content, a feeling common to the Cabralists and Mi guelites. The peers were discussing at great length the most irrelevant subjects. The country and its parties were preparing for the elections, the Cabral nits affecting to remain tranquil, but in reality put ting more faith in the Miguelite movement and the Court, and in the hope to influence one by the other, than at all daring or venturing to appeal fairly to the electors. The Court would restore tile Cabrals if it could, and the knowledge of this is quite sufficient to throw every popular and independent vote into the party of the Septembrists and ultra-Liberals. Meantime, the credit oozes from the Bank of Lis bon, which is no bad thermometer of that of the go vernment itself. STUTTGART, Seer. 23. Drums are beating, trumpets braying, banners waving, dust flying in every direction, and all the loyalty of the little kingdom of Wurtembcrg is afoot in honour of the arrival of the Imperial bride, the Grand Duchess Olga, with her husband the Prince Royal; an event anxiously looked for, fur some days past, and to-day happily ace nnplished. The royal party slept last night at Heilbronn on the Neckar, and early this morning set out for the capital, passing through Luthvigsburg, and reaching their destination about one o'clock amidst the acclamations and greetings of as great a multitude as, perhaps, ever thronged through the gates of Stuttgart. A long procession of upwards of two hundred white-robed mainens, selected between the ages of 17 and 19 from the families of the citizens, went out to meet the Princess as fax as Canstadt, three miles off, followed by all the authorities, civil and military, and by thousands of the inhabitants of the city an 1 its enviroas. Several regiments of infantry, and two or three of cavalry, furnished the escort, and in the midst of the motley Cr iwd came the royal carriage, bearing the Grand Duchess Olga, who, like the immem heroines in the Arabi:vs Nights, has the reputation of being " the most beautiful princess iu the world." To judge by the busts which are to he seen to-day in many • niche in Stuttgart, this compliment has not been rashly paid, for the features which they exhibit present an air of sweetness and majesty which has its type only in the purest models of classical beauty; neither d d the casual glimpse which I obtsiued of her charms falsify the expectations which had been raised. My host of the Hotel de Russie, one of the nimblest and most energetic of Germans whom it has been my lot to encounter, says, in the English ho is so proud of and of which ho makes such great use, that she is " a rrincees of great spirits," whereby he intends to intimate that she is, he understands, tKa spirituelle ,• the distinction between the two characteristics his knowledge of tongues has not yet imparted to him. The appearance of the city is strikingly gay, that is to say, the Konig-stramie and its immediate vicinity ; every house being decorated in greater or lees profusion with tapestried windows, floating banners, crimson and gold draperies, wreaths of Hewers real and artificial, inscriptions of " Wel come and long life," anal prayers for happiness, and the magical letters " K " and " 0" (Karl and Olga) intertwined anal united in every variety of form and colour. At the hotel of the Count von Sontheim, " Grim-visaged war has sznootli'd his wrinkled front," and the swords and bayonets of his department ere turned into trophies of' tenderness and em blems of everlasting love; the eagl..t of Russia fraternises with the lion of Wurtembcrg, garlands of roses and lilies bring "the links that bind them." All the public buildings, the towers of the churches, and even the scaffolding me ctcd in front of the rising palace of the Prince Repil, exhibit the same signs of " Willkommen " to the daughter of the Czar. The column in the great equate, erected in 1811 by the country to the King, in token of its gratitude for a bene ficent and paternal reign of five-and twenty years, is covered around with evergreens and shields of arms of the old Suabian lineage, and on each side of the pedestal hang flags inscribed with the names of the fields where Wiliam- Frederick distinguished himself' against the French in the last campaigns of Napoleon. But the palace itself is the cynosure of every eye—at least to the strangers in the town —for of course every citizen looks upon the external decora tion of his own house as the hnepicst achievement of the day. Here the eta amen of rod sad black, and white and saffron (the national colours), the gold-bordered crimson velvet draperies, the statues that crown the balustrades and the golden emblem of sovereignty which " arches user all," at tract myriads, not only of the gaping peasantry who have never saen them before, but of fat tut-contented citizens, who on a day of holiday swat ow the old and the new with equal avidity. I had been told on the way to Stuttgart, to pre pare for great variety of costume, as well as great beauty in the women. Amongst the crowds collected to-day there were certainly a great many pretty faces, but except the special young ladies in white muslin and garnet necklaces, there was nothing very striking in female costume. The men carried the day hollow,—not so much for grace or picturesque effect, as for quaintness and oddity , of attire. The "stage countryman " so well described by a Beckett, found a frequent representative, and the eye was often rivetted on a stalwart gentleman, or a spindle-shanked youth, attired in bright yellow buckskin breeches, jack-boots or wellingtons adorning . the untrowsered leg, • fierce cocked hat, and ekirtless jacket covered with tin battens, as profusely as any London page. Butif I were to pursue this theme, I should fill a column ; for dress is a subject on which the dullest can show fire from Brummall up or down to Moses. Let it suffice that, whether brilliant or homely, all Stuttgart, all Wurtemberg indeed, through her representatives, were assembled to do honour to their future Queen. Since her arrival, the fair lady has not again mad. her appearance. Consideration for the pockets of his people has induced the King to dispense with the illu minations which their loyalty would to-night have displayed; but to-morrow the sight-seen are to have their eyes glutted with a show of fireworks, the like, "mein guter Herr," says mine host a; aforesaid, " as was never before seen, no never, so splendid !" You cannot express in type the effect he gave to the last word. It may serve as the climax to this great day in toe estimation of the honest Wurtembergers. ITALY.—A letter from Rome states that the Roman journals are not allowed to enter the kingdom of Naples. SWITZERLAND. Geneva has thrown a new torch of discord into the confederation by making a protesta tion which greatly offends the canton of Berne, namely, de manding the establishment of federal commissaries to the Vorurt. The Swiss journals are greatly occupied with the affair. GERMANY.—AUSTRIA.—VIENNA, SEPT. 18. Her Imperial Highness the Grand Duchess Helen is suffer ing from a slight attack of illness, and was not able to attend the files at Sehoenbrunn. Baron Krieg, President of the Regeneyln Galicia, has b :en dangerously wounded by the horns of a stag. and his life is despaired of. PRVSSIA.--BERLIN, SEPT. 20.—The marriage of the Prince Royal of Sweden with the daughter of Prince Charles of Prussia is still talked of A marriage is also said to be oil the tapis between Prince Frederick of Hesse, widower of the Gram' Duchess Alexandra, and Princess Louisa of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. It isrumoured at the Court of Berlin that the presence of the Grand Duke Michael and of the Grand-Duchess Helen at Vienna is owing to a pro jected union, which has met with some difficulties. The affairs of the Grand-Dachy of Posen are not seemingly in a nourishing condition, as great sympathy is shown for Russia, which the Poles seem to think more capable of help ing them than Germany.—M. Rarge, the wonder of the German Catholic Sect, was some time since condemned to one month's imprisonment for having preached in public at Latin, though prohibited from doing so by the authorities. He has just received a full pardon from the King of Prussia, M. Ronge continues preaching in the different towns of Silesia, and attracts large audiences.—The winter was begin ning to be felt in Silcsia, and the tops of the mountains are covered with ice. BIVARIA.—A letter from Munich, of the 20th inst., states that the small town of Falkenstein, in the district of Roscnbeim, has been completely destroyed by fire. .THE HANS TOWNS.—BREMEN, SEPT. 19.—The assembly of citizens, or Dwyer-convent, have demanded the senate to take the necessary steps with the diet for the main tenance of the privileges of those parts of the confederation menaced by the letter-patent of the King of Denmark. The senate replied that it would not lose eight of the honour and interests of Germany. DENMARK.—KIEL, SEPT. 20.—An order has been issued to all the courts of justice, and probably to all the police officers, that they shall in future give a weekly report to the government of their district, not only in ge nera l but of individual cues. IlotsTEts.—The congress of naturalists and Ger man physiri ins was opened at Kiel on the 18th instant, in the new edifice erected by the nobles of Holstein for scienti fic congresses, The different members of the congress were to proceed to Gravenstein on the 21st, on an invitation from the Duko of Augustenburg. PLON, SEPT. 17.—After a short visit to the estate of Pankir, his Majesty the King has returned home. The Queen also returned, and was escorted by torchlight by a guard of honour. Their Majesties will probably remain hero till about the 20th. COLONIAL. NEW SOUTH WALES.—Our despatches from this colony are to the 3rd of June. Lsmistarivit Picot:gem'Nos.—On the 19th of May the Legislative Council, in consequence of Mr. M'Leaj's re signation, proceeded to the election of a new speaker. Mr. Cowper moved that Dr. Nicholson be elected. The motion was seconded by Mr. Murray, and carried unanimoudy. Arta. Dr. Nicholson had taken the chair, the usual pro formes motion was made that the mover and seconder du signify the choice of the house to the governor; but the colonial secretary said that, " although the formsof the house required such a proceeding, that his excellency the Governor, foreseeing such a determination, had authorised him to inform the house that he would be prepared to receive the speaker at half-past three that day, after which the house might pro ceed to the business on the paper." This broad hint that Sir George Gipps wished to have no intercourse with members of the council which he could avoid, was taken, and the house adjourned. On the 2let of June a bill fur preventing the desertion of foreign seamen, moved by the colonial secretary, and seconded by Mr. Wentworth, was read a first time. The secretary said that a great increase had taken place in the number of foreign vessels frequenting Sydney since the port charges had been abolished. There had been numerous eases of desertion from those vessels, and the magistrates had declined to act, entertaining a doubt whether they had jurisdiction over foreign seamen. By the bill no magistrate could interfere except upon application from the consul of the nation to which the vessel belonged. The French consul concurred in the expediency of the measure. The Colonial Secretary at the close of his speech alluded to tne advantages which had accrued to the colony by allowing foreign vessels to enter the port without paying harbour dues, and stated that from the sth April, 1545, to the mime day iu the present year, no fewer than thirty-two vessels, whose aggregate burthens amounted to 11,1)33 tons, had put into this port. On the 28th of May, a committee was appointed, on the motion of the Attorney-General, to whom the Jury Laws Consolidation Bill should be referred. The committee was instructed to report in a month. The Attorney-General said, "he was nut wedded to the measure in the shape he bad prepared it ,• it was founded on Sir Robert Feel's Act, but he had heard it expressed, that the object of the bill would be better attained by three separate measures, and if the committee should recommend such a course, he should net offer any opposition. His bill certainly trenched somewhat on theone recently passed by the council relative to juries in civil causes ; and he bad omitted that clause altogether, which , provided that alter six hours' deliberation a verdict of three- ' fourths of a jury should be taken, and which gave to the judges the power of discharging the jury, if they came to no decision at the expiration of twelve hours." A great deal more of important business was transacted, and as usual is the New South Wales legislature in a business-like and judi cial spirit ; but it was of more exclusively local interest than the transactions we have specified. Two important motions were about to be discussed. Mr. Grant had given notice that on the sth of June he should move the following resolution : "That the monopoly of coal so long enjoyed by the Australian Avicuitural Company, is highly prejudicial to the interests of the colony, and is distillate oppmml to all rceugni,ml pins:Mks of good government and political Faience. That as now, owing to rations circumstances, the monopoly ha+ almost ceased to be profitable even to the company themselves, a select committee be appointed to take this subject into consideration, and that they be directed to lumen tin, as far an pas-ible, the present profits of the company Morn this source, and the probahle rate of the rapidly descending wale of the with a view to a proposal upon equitable terms for the surrender of the obnoxious privilege during the unexpired term of the company's charter." But the great debate of the session was to take place on the 3rd of June, for whic't day Mr. Wentworth had moved a call of the bou , e. The subject on which the debate would arise was, " Consideration of the (inventor's Message, with the Crown Land's Occupation and Border Police Act Con tinuation Bill." In respect of these contested subjects, we believe the following extract from the Sydney Morning Herald expresses the sense of ninety-nine in a hundred of the most judicious and substantial colonists : •• This measure divides itself into two distinct branches, one of which the Council will do well to reject, and the other they will per haps feel bound to entertain, an bring eswntial to the protection of life and priperty in the squatting districts. That branch or the sub ' jest which relates exclusively to the occupatim of land, anal which in confessedly intended to enable the government to enforce more etreetually the allegtsl rights of the Crown, cannot be entertained without compromising a futabttnentd principle. For althouih the bill prow., nothing more than to renew the art for one year, since it will expire on the oth ot next month, it vet asks too much, seeing that to proliatt voluntarily, even for a single day, a measure which has been solemnly condemned, not only by the (boned, but by the nearly Ullllllillloll4 vOiel• ofthe Colllllllllllly, as a itingeroon itirgrensiOn on the rights and interests of Clef:01011y. Ulll/11164, to stoke t lie Cf 0111101 a party to their own defeat, and to the drfvt of choir fc .3..u.siAS at large. Thin surely, to n.r Lord stoney's language, in en ' hablecoatingenry.' The governor am brie.ted, crc now, titat he eon enforce the clainte of the Crown without the act, though not I•Xlie ditiounly. Let him he left to do bin bast with the arbitrary power', he set+ up; but let not the representative,. of the people be found aiding and abetting in any such .ireer of nes ptotism. lie last, appealtsl to the Lowning-street tlesar ; to Cmtar let Imo go. The other dirition of the subject in of a totally different character. In MI far on the expiring Lw provides, by mean. of a bawler police, for the protection of the spatters:, it chinas (ruin the Comical their most willing attention. Nit ill renewing the usptsinent on stuck. let them babe good rare to define the purpose for which alone the tax is imposed, and to regulate the precise mode of its appropriation." SOUTH AUSTRALIA.—GoLn 111iNE.—We have private letters and journals from this colony to the Bth May. they confirm the reports of the discovery of mild veins which had previously reached us. The mine in which the gold has been found is the pr. party of the Victoria Mining Company. The shares of this concern a short time previous had been selling from two to three pounds; they have since risen to upwards of twenty pounds. Fears arc entertained that the Crown, on the same plea on which it claims a reserved royalty on all mi.ierals, may claim an exclusive right to the precious metals. This apprehension alone has prevented the company's shares fro:n rising still higher. We wish we could say with confidence that the Crown will not exert an oppressive right derived from the feudal ages, which must necessarily check mining enterprise; but its conduct in respect to the reserved right ov.r minerals is no good augury of its wisdom awl justice. On the other hand, we would fain hope that the succe , sive discoveries of mineral treasure which hove been made in South Australia may not re-inspire the colonists with that spirit of speculation and jobbing from which the colony sufferol so much at the outset; or withhold their attention from the leu alluring hut more healthy and more steadily prosperous pursuits of agriculture and the fisheries. The accounts of the discovery in the South Ant tratian aindle and is the AdJaide Obserrer vary slightly in some particulars. We therefore give a place to both, as the right to the honour of the discovery appears to be in volved in the discrepancies. The Gazette says : " On the 7th of February het Mr. lVicksteed paid into the colonial treasury seven hundred and nicety-nine pounds sterling for a section of land in the county of .Idelaide, numbered 5,697, tunbiining one hundred and forty-seven acres purchased by him from the govern ment at public auction, and meleed the team] grant. ,retion so punhascal was officially advertise l ns containing valuable minerals; and this very large sum w s paid fur it because of the belief that Mr. Wicksteed and his partners in the transaction had in the correctness of the description which the Government had given of the land. Nor have they been deceived. On Saturday last nue of the nun employed in sialdng a shalt on what was supposed lobe a copper hale, when at the depth tu six fathoms suddenly brio:in intua small wino( metal of a totally different character from any before sen in the mine. surrounded and imbedded in dark chocolate-coloured earth or were thickish layers of a bright yellow metal, pliable to the touch, and evidently unconnected with the neighbouring copper. The vein was about two inches wide —giving metal in the proportion perhaps of u quarter of an ounce to an Melt, and showing a tendency to enlarge in size. The person who made this discovery —a miner tinned Tyrrell —gathered up a few pieces; and in the course of the evening arrived In Adelaide with them. On Monday last, we had the gratinaut ion to (Dunne these specimens, and we haw since wen a much larger number from the same spot. They have been also examined by Canlain Frome, Captain Sturt, Mr. Iturr !deputy surveyor-general), Dr. Davy, and others, whore seient ate and practical knowledge of mineralogy leaves the fact without a shadow of doubt, that a most valuable mine of gold has been din overed. Dr. Davy has furnished us with the assay made by him on Thunalay, which we subjoin : Analysis of a specimen of native gold ,eparated from the matrix by the lingers, but not washed or otherwise purified : Gold Silver 2.8 or under . Oxide of iron, accidentally adherent particlesof earthy matter, Ike. The version of the Observer is as follows : " To Captain Tyrrell, of the North Montacute Mine, belongs the honour of thin discovery, which was brought to light bv him out of a shaft undertaken for the discovery of topper ore under his directions, fur "The Victoria Mining Company," in section No, 5597, not far from the celebrated Montacute (tipper }liar. The auriferous vein, which in described an " about two inches big," is composed of a rich ochreous gossuo, more or Icon intermingled with native gold, in vari ous forms, and of the utmcat imaginable purity, some specimens hav ing the appearance of what in rolled dead gold," and many portions posseming a high degree of brilliancy. An may well he supposed this "crowning" discovery has been the engraining topic of the week— and the Directors of the Victoria Mining Company as elsewhere named, after haring instituted the necessary measures to pro tect the property, and " guard the approaches,. seem to have betaken themselves to the study of that part of the royal siitute entitled 5 William and Mary, c. 6, see. 2 in nnpect of which, interpretation. , unfavorable to the undisturbed possession of this treasure by the associated proprietors have rather authoritatively gone forth. ,hares in the mine hare been greatly in request, and really as well as nominally at very high premium, but until the relative position of the proprietors with respect to thin newly discovered as well a unexpected wealth be ascertained, no rational quotation for our mining shin e-market cruk be propounded." Ine Conti, WINDSOR, Mosimv:—At the Privy Council held at the Castle by her Majesty on Saturday, a Form of Prayer was ordered for the rehcf of the distress and scarcity now existing in parts of the United Kingdom. The Archbishop of Car.terbury was directed to prepare a Form of Prayer. His Grace had an audience of the Queen. His Royal Highness Prince George left the Castle to-day and returned to town. The Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Robert Grosvenor took their departure from the Castle this morning. His Excellency, Baron Brunnow, Viscount Mor peth, Sir Robert and Lady Peel, and Sir Henry Wheatley are expected to arrive at the Castle this evening, on a visit to her Majesty. Her Majesty will give a grand dinner this evening in the Waterloo Chamber. The illustrious party is expected to inelude her Majesty the Queen Dowager, her Royal Highness the Princess of Prussia, her Royal Highness the 711 f S D a u x e c h - e %ti ei o m f " K ; e t n h t l l ' aclyn isS i re" iiigitrineewaiting to the qu ee Ed h : t h e l a d y i n wa i ting to th , ! Du e hers of Kent; Haack, Baroness de Speth, hi s Excellency &um Be i hia Excellency the Ch se evalier Bunn, th e !M emel of Norfolk arid Lady Mary Howard, the D e Marchioness of Down,hire , the Dowager -Lady eed th Mitt Lyttelton, Lord Juhn Russell, Earl %m et v, Morpetn, Viscount Clitden, Lord and Lidy gee Robert and Lai), Peel, General and Lady 1444 Sir Henry Wheatley, lion. Mr. and Mrs. lift." W. Mr. 0. E. and the Hon. Mr . Anwn, Coloie lion. H. and Miss Cavendish, Captain and 4 hoed, C oun t r oc ki er, Co..nt Witzlehth, Couper, Colonel Ha ll (I s t Lif e Guards), Colonel W Iharon Langen. The during dinn band of the Scots Fusilier Guarde er, and perform the followin g Jut, pie": tra l Overture .. . .................. Selection from straneus .................. mot et. — " 6 Catliarinen Walt .zer. ................ Selectioro from knout ............ ..... Veral. Memoir Polka .......... ........ Lamer. Her Nljesty's private band will alterwardr in the Castle. Their Royal Highnesses the Prin ce o f Prince Alfred, the Pri,,eces Royal, and the of took airings on ponies this morning in the g eoweit t the Castle. Her Basal Iliglinras the pease, itek taken an airing at thC same time. --- The Solicitor-General had an interview Int George Grey yesterday at the Ileine-offica. R. had also an interview with the Hight Ilos. Bu t . e „, 4 Viscount Falkland, C a pt a i n o f I lex Ihje;te-, Guard of the Yeomen of her Guard, h as t a ,,•, appoint Mr. llertho (the Adjutant his Lordship's E Private rp Secretory. of th J)espatches were received vesterday at the Co: office from the Governors of hong K a " . ct . olo. South Wales, New Zealand, the Mauritius, Czi e of Hope, and Malta. Despatches were sent off last eveni ng f rom Colonial-office for the Gover nor o f t h e Gold Cant. The Chancellor of the Exchequer left le Saturday evening for llieklet on Hall, thh eater. The Earl of Clarendon has arrived at w o Abbey, the seat of the Duke of Bedford. TILE REGISTRATIONS. WEsTMISSTER.—In the revision of the lip St. John and St. Margaret, which occupied the akt ing a great part of the day, Mr. 'Trott euraplaitai tyt overseers had omitted from the register a pena l right to be placed on it was clear ; and conterthe t4 ease was a proper one for a fine. Mr. Muk. a ground that the omi.sion was not likely to hato s a , lul, declined to inflict a fine.—A person named objected to, by the Liberal agents, on theffreehly, had no longer dominion ever the house. The 4. been let furnishyd to another party ; but the (12 44 taiued for himself one room as a sort of etore-rea a, , st he still had the right of access. Mr. Moylau vote, because, under the circumstances stated, the w , had not given up his occupation.—ln {he ease of which was postponed on Friday and Saturday. thet4, disallowed. An appeal case 1V34 granted. The t it journed until Friday next. The following ass thsa the revision up to the rising of the court on Sat.-ay Liberal claims, allowed 41, disallowed 6 ; Liberal 0 . . f5 , sustained 151, withdrawn 7, failed 7; Tory 2, disallowed 3. As before stated, there wen .1 objections. ' liAbT SURREV.—Yesterday the revision du g of voters for the Kingston district of East Sourness menc,d at the Courxhouse, Kingston, before * it S. Fishe, harri-ter. Mr. Russell attended tor the LiS t a:,, free traders, and Mr. Meymott for the Consereatist district includes the parishes of Long Dittos, Has, L Kew, Maldon, Petersham, and ltichmentl. Ilea* riches were disposed of yesterday, but very few ohiesr either side (two Conservative and sane Liberal) um sa Lanett ; most of them being mere objections of beak sake of corrections and amendments. lit several eiss persons objected to applied fur their expenses, but tkik tug Barrister refused to grant them, as it did not an,: the objections were frivolous or vexatious. The lie is parish of Kingston will be taken at the sitting this di!. COURT OF ALDERMEN. TIIE MAYORALTY AND ALDERMAN WOOD.-! terday, after the swearing in of Alderman Challis nil • Kennard as sheriff of Loudon and sheriff of Riddle: special Court of Aldermen was held upon the Applicata Alderman Thomas Wood. The Luau Mayon stated he had received ortain on Cie subject or the Talacre mine from Ild,onan and among them a voluminous report of the judamcal Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench in Ireland, purponi: be the judgment upon the reversal of re rdicts sgaing Wood Ile had been supplied with the copy by the an who, it appeared; had sent to each of the mewbeno' court a copy of extracts, which with the letter dud etc them were read. Altic.m.so WOIPIP then entered into a long detie circumstances attending the difficalty in which bele. involved by his connexion with the TUlacre Comm. particulars differed iu no respect from those which hat peered already before the public. He sulemaly deed' remotest participation in fraud. Sir P. LAVILIE said it was necessary, not met that Court of Aldermen should be pure, but that, litters wife, they should he tree from the imputat of ape lie holt& feel the utmost gratification in t Wood by the hand up ni the remus al of the ground imputations against him ; but he could not set that the pi just presented to the court were calculated to atcor: that ohject. Alderman FAREBROTHER had wished Atelertau to go to the Livery and state to them his ,:uxiety to up everything—to show t h at the charges and asp: which had been accumulated against him acre tease and to assure them that until there was not the di;c apparent foundation far accusation he would not t. their suffrages. (Hear, bear.) By such a morsel& pi - sympathy would be most powerfully engaged, sad spa proof of the groundlessness of the chore s, the Map the accused would be indisputable. It was not too lat. adopt that course at the present moment. The paw of the papers which had been laid before the Court as in his opinion , __ an answer to the charge. Alderman HUGIIE3 lire:us:a could not help sayirt the evidence produced by Alderman Wood did sot al slightest degree affect the serious charges c attained a simple enumeration of the different offices held by kis the company. lie would most willingly devote any pc of time to an investigation, with a view of relllaing fn brother alderman the heavy imputations Against hi* b was quite impossible to give a vote in opp sitioa tether of the committee without rational grounds. Thee* other things, too, which it would be neeeaaty to der It was necessary for a Lord Mayor to have a loyAlluit It was necessary, too, to have an explanation as to a e sum of money which Alderman Wood, in connexion others, was in honour bound to pay to the pro .eat chit gistrate.—Alderman Wood: Mat money ? Hughea said, report stated that the press nt Loci Miy: been obliged to pay a large sum of money a orb in have been defrayed by several persons, of whom Alk Wood was one.—Alderman Wood: It is paid.—Tis: Mayor: I have nut received it. Alderman Wool, paid that some delay had ta`sea plx consequence of the want of punctuality in tithe is, bat L certainly paid the amount for which he was 10:Alged t last fartuing. (Here some persona in the court, si • below the bar, stated that the money had been ov . ol that • Alderman COPELAND implored Alderman s', f' sake of his own character, for the sake of his family, st the sake of his brother aldermen, to pause lief. ore be t mined to make another experiment, until he should. used every effort to wipe away the stain which at pr attached to him. _ Alderman Woon declined to adopt the succeitios expressed his determination to come forward the next d. the hustings to ascertain whether the public w..uld nt: pathise with a man who had been most grossly wrossill No motion b ing before the court, Alderman 11. lick moved and carried an adjournment. THE POOR LN ST. I'ANCRAS PARISE On Saturday, a meeting of the St. Pancras u was held in the vestry-room, Gordon-street. In coast* h yest wo r3 rk .n h u o ‘n use w , a u 4 o fa u r ld m be ore pr u :e m a c ted iv : of a n . announcement that the report of the director guardians of the poor, with regard to the treatment c TymehretrYtesit'ttetohnfedtlacs proceedings excited mere than usual iatt on ordinary occasions, and several ratepayers of the were preseat. The reporter was informed that mon half the vestrymen present were directors awl guardis: the poor. The chair having been taken by Mr. C. E. l staff, churchwarden, Mr. Howarth rose to present sr of the committee of the board of directors of the poor d parish of St. Pancras, appointed to consider and Tern' the verdict returned by the coroner's jury which sat apt body of Mary Anne Jones, lite an inmate in St. fie workhouse, whose body was found in the It.gent's Mr. Howarth read the report at length, and then pru!'t to observe that the directors had gone very fully--1 , . much more fully than he thought at all nee. ssary—iat investigation of the complaints which had been made the treatment of the paupers. A number of the int. who were taken indiscriminately from the hall, a'er amined before the board, and were requested to got opinion as to the quality of the food they received p house. The result was what might have been wimp( A great number of the inmates were no doubt dissae with their diet, and if the to id provided for them w. times as abundant, and ten times as good—if that were Bible—as that now supplied, they would not be satisfied the directors or the vestry were to attempt to teed, and y and clothe paupers to their entire satisfaction, he did think they would be satisfied with a palace, or that would think any luxury too good for them. All the public were bound to do, and all that they ( be expected to do, in maintaining the poor, was to food, and to provide them with comfortable lodg il l ply them with a sufficiency of good a nd whole this had always been the object of the directors of St. eras. If any of the regulations of the house had irt properly carried out, it was not the fault of the dot He could state, that since he had been a member° . board, any complaints made by the officers, or other pe• had been fully investigated, and any improvements stiFt. had been promptly carried out. lie must say h `w as • surprised at the reasons alleged by Mr. Cooper,heist officer, for not having communicated to the board los the complaints which he (Mr. Cooper) had made die , ' recent inquiry. Mr, Cooper exprtis.;tl himself dtee iro by hu H b