The Express. — London, England, 1846-11-13 00:00:00

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II . ) : # illi6lllll. \ %I\ PARLIAMENTARY PAPER. government evcro:cmLz psisoN.—T Commissioner, for the of this prison, soh he ich has bun appropriated for the reception of male convicts between the ages of 18 and 35, under sentence of transportation for periods not exceeding 16 years, announce, in aisle Fourth Report (for be ear 1845), that a most important and be change the disposal of the prisoners has come into operation within the last year ; namely, the recognition on the pert of the government of a class, to be termed " Exiles" as contra distinguished from convicts, men who appeared to have pro ited by the penal and reformatory discipline of the prison. sd who, on being landed in ohs or other of the settlements kustralia, were to receive a " conditional parkin ;" the condition being, that they should not return to this countay during the term of their original sentence. In parsuance of this arrangement, 255 prisoners, who had their period of probationer/ discipline and redlrriens indestrial dim training, were selected by the comairimasteod three eat periods, between Jul - y, 1844 and 1846. and mat to Port Philip, instead of to Van Diemen's Lend, as Daman had and been previously received of the existin g financial di depression in the price of labour in that colony, which accounts led to the reconsid eration of the subject, and same to the recommen d a tion of the " condition al pardo." Tho vessels conveyed to Van Diemen's Lend 126 second elms prisoners, having " tickets of leave," which confer third • the advantages of freedom in the colony, and 92 Ansa prisoners, termed " Probationary Paisholders " who are enabled, under certain restrictions, to work for themselves. .2e commissioners state that they have received very satisfee .ory accounts of the conduct of the prisoners generally, both during the voyage and after their arrival in the colonies, , t more particularly as those who were landed at • Philip, the raperinter= of which, in a dispatch to i Stanley, obeerves, " it will be gratifying to your 10rd ....p to learn that not the slightest difficulty has arisen in the sway of the Exile' finding immediate of emploumyment. Before the general landing took place, their number (their nnmber being on the occasion alluded to 170) 'd been engaged at rates of wages varying from 181. to per annum, and in 7 days after I am informed that there re only 19 of the entire body awaiting engagements." The is committee of the Geelong E mi g ration Society, (Geelong ', the district of Port Philip,) in considering the conduct of ae Pentonville men formally declare that " they have been genera lly unexceptionable in their conduct and respectful in their demeanour ; have been found useful and efficient wor kmen, and that the trades they had been taught end in the prison are of decided advantage to their employers, source of profit to themselves." The committee further observe : With reference to the questions, whether the majority of the respectable settlers are dimmest to rendes favourably, sod to encou rage further impodatkes of the Pentonville oats, did what number would anounly find employment ; it is stated, these questions must be wondered with reference to two moot important cootingeneles— vis., the damsel far labour winos from the flow of capita to this colony, and Ow Mar ouggly of fres immigrants. The imPowion that 1,200 edditiand wonkl find remunerative employment annua ly. lly inter distrhit seireent to and westward of Geelong (mail and poi( Ws ressamtion of free emigration on a scale ode , to the d e men at the whole colony, that this number of Penton , exiles wend be reashed to the general rati-faction and benefit of .e diatrist; bet the Oemmtnee would wish it to be distinctly under stood, that Ws d ie benly for a clam of men equally reformed and respectable as die somber already sent, and that under no &cum stanoeo, whinier arising from the supply of free immigrants, or a re duction in the dome for labour from any cause, is it expedient to mood hither Pentonvillt exiles at a time that the labour market is ade quately supplied from other sources. The Committee would betwe en ▪ ectly suggest, that the disproportion at present existing the exec in Port Php, forms a material subject for consideration, and that whatever number of male exiles the borne government may consider it expedient to send to the colony ! their wives and families, ' • suitable proportion of females, should be sent out to count...rLes this great and Increasing evil. A account given of the prisoners whe wefe landed atoners Van Diemen's Land is not so satisfactory, the commissi stating, with regret. "that they were placed on their arrival in circumstances so unfavourable to a continuance of good conduct that there is yea. on to fear that the benefits they unquestionably derived from the discipline and instruc ...on at Pentonville Prison have in a gr. at majority of cases bran nearly effaced. The want of employment for ticket-of leave and probation-pus hol.'ers in that colony, the social degradation and contaminating influence% to which they were exposed, and the disheartening difficulties with which they had to contend in Van Diemen's Land, sufficiently account for the unfavourable results to which we refer, especially when contrasted with the advantageous settlement and ex emplary conduct of the ' Exiles' in Port Phillip. These ircumstances have induced the commissioners to recommend the government that no mere Pentonville prisoner may Jr the present be sent to Van Diemen's Land. A further number of 200 have nearly completed their probationary terms ; and the result of the discipline is such as to justify our recommending to the Secretary of State that almost the Attire number shall receive' conditional pardons.'" The report speaks very favourably of the general conduct of the inmates of the prison, amongst whom, it says, there is ob servable a spirit of contented and grateful obedience and of cheerful industry. During the past year, upon a population of 616 prisoners, 468 were nev er punished at all ; and of the remainder, 99 were punished but once, 28 twice, and 21 oftener: there having been no occasion in any of these in stances, nor indeed since the prison has been opened, to resort to corporal punishment. Of the discipline of the prison the commissioners give the following description : On the admission of a prisoner, and after he hanbeen examined and pained by the medical officer, he is placed in a cell, when the roles relating to Risco uluct and treatment are fully explained to him. lie is strictly sentirated from bin fellow prisoners, but he is supplied with imitable books, both of a religious and generally useful thwarter, and is instructed In a trade. Ilia cell is fitted with all necessary conve niences. He is frequently and regularly visited by the superior and other officers of the prism, has always the means of communicating with the officer of his ward, and on making a npecial application. he never fails to see a commissioner, the governor, chaplains , or medical officers, at other than their prescribed visits, to any of whom he may communicate any complaint or request be may have to make. He "as sufficient diet, clothing, and bedding, in allowed to attend school a days in each week, and is at other timeavialted and taetruc'ed by ate chaplains and schoolmasters. He daily attends prayers in the chapel, and divine service on the iiunday. He has daily exerckoe in the en air when the weather permit, It is allowed to lee his friends., ad to write and receive letters from them once in each quarter. 4y all theme arrangements separate confinement, although still retain ing its penal and deterring character, is divested of undue 'severity. or injurious influences, and produces the most beneficial effects upon the mind, feelings, and character of the prisoner. The commissioners conclude their report by reiterating the opinion, that the adoption of separate confinement, so estab lished at Pentonville prison, promises to effect a most salu tary change in the treatment of criminals; that it is well calculated to deter, correct, and reclaim the offender ; that it is safe and efficient ; and that it is capable of general ap plication. The chaplain of the prison, in his report upon the Meet, says. I hew conversed on this subject with a great many intelligent pri soners under my care; men who, from previous character, were en titled to no amail credit, and from what I have heard from them. I have cone to the conclusion that prisons, as they are throughout the country, generally speaking, arc *chi ohs in which everythirg wicked, deceitful, impious, and abominable is practised. taught, and propa gated. at the great expense of public money and public morals. Its a remark constantly made to me by men who have been several times in confinement "If the first hod been like this I should never have been here; I learned more wickedness in one month there, than I did all my life before.. A boy commits a trespass, steals some fruit, runs away from his minter, or ken prime mischief he in committed to pri son, be forms acquaintance., learns generally some art in thieving, and get, the impression that the life of a thief is better than that afire honest, hardworking labourer, and, if clever and succennfol, one of distinction. He comes out of prison in a few yreeks with his in structors, or at least new acquaintances; they invite him to their haunts and amusements; he is seen in their company, and suspected ; Inds a difficulty in getting hack to the factory, or farm, or shop, if he make the effort at all, and often hart no bane to goo ; he commences the tour of the vagrant, or the trade of the Pilferer,r both. The total expenses of the prison for the year 1845 amounted ..4) 19,4331., deducting f:om which 2,8501., the receipts of the prisoner:' earnings, and 161. for the sale of old stores, leaves the nett expenses for the year, 16,5671. JOINT STOCK COMPANIES.—A return, to an order of the AOUNS of Commons, made up to the Ist of June, 1846, of the Joint Stock Companies, which have been registered in conformity with the provisions of 7 and 8 Vic.. c. 110, com prises, under distinct heads, a list of existing, of provisionally registered, and of completely registered companies. The first is a return of companies registered, as having been in existence previous to sth September, 1844. It merely gives the title and the cl ate of the registration of these companies, of which there are 994. The second is a return of 1,833 pro misionally registers 1 companies, the formation of which was begun siiequently to September 5,1844. In 1,112 of these there has been no registry of directors. The names of the directors of the remaining number form the subject of a separate branch of the return. In 883 out of the 1,633 protects no capital hes been declared, and in the 770 in which there is a return of the amount of capital, it reaches the enormous figure of 634,127,55 01 ., of which 40,000,0001. was re q uired for ' Cooke's National Railway," and 35,000,0001. for the " British and Irish Granary Corn-mill Company and Pro vident Institution." The third part of the return contains a list of the companies which have been completely regis tered since September, 1844. They number 115, and their joint capital (excepting one, e " New Protecting Society." which does not propose to raise any), amounts to 29,774,220/. Of these 24 are gas, 16 railway, 14 insur ance, 7 steam-packet, 7 building, 7 loan or investment, 6 mining, 5 glass, 3 mill, 3 cemetery, 2 coal, 2 salvage, 2 iron, 2 brewery, 2 market-house, 1 bonding-warehonse, 1 smelt ing, 1 tontine, 1 bath, 1 emigration, 1 cork-cutting, 1 screw ship, 1 baking, 1 Deoca sugar, 1 commercial, 1 railroad carriage, and 1 oyster computes. The names of the direc tors of thole several companies are set forth in a separate branch of the return. FATRA atzE'rTE.—Another extra Gazette was published last evening. The majority of notices it contains relate to railways, though several refer to various other public works, such as docks, canals, improvements in towns, water works, piers, and harbours. The number of these notifica tions portends a busy session in the select committee, and private bill branches of parliament. SMALL COINAGE.—A correspondent of the Athen eum having suggested that postage stamps might be con veniently substituted for our cumbrous penny-rieees in small payments, another observes, that it would be liable to the serious objections of the stamps being easily lost and srJrn out, and of introducing, in fact, a penny paper cur rency. lie conceives a much better plan would be to call in the whole of our present stopper coinage--which, from its weight, is such a nuisance to every one , bu t especially to the poor, rho have often, in the case of their selling small ll wares, to lug home pounds of it for mile s—and to replace by a coinage of penny and half-penny pieces of the size and weight of the coins of the same value which every continental traveller must have found so convenient in Germany. The penny. pieces should be rather larger than sixpences, and the half-pennies than fourpences; but each thinner, and with darken that would not admit of their being confounded with each other, or with the Over coins if electrotyped. The 7 should be fabricated, not of the co ntinental bilks (which is merely copper worked with silver), bet of bronze, or some other metallic compound (which surely our chemists are competent to suggest) at once herd, handsome, and coating so nearly the cireulating value of th? coins as to preclude falsifying. BENCH PLAYS.-ST. JAMES'S THEATRE., E. FIRST NIGHT OF THE SISSON.—THIS EVENING (Friday), ,I, the Enkerikhwiests willeteunence at Half-past Sewn o'clock, with the laleuriee Onaddis et Lk JEUNESSE DE HENRI V. Hero T., M. Use& ; co.Ow M. Canines' ; Betty. Mae. Celine S. Mer i lea at LES POLIES t r .= REUSS. Leeds. Mae. (IteeNre loweretta eta Franceis, bee Int sowserseset tee Emig, the Natiorl Anthem, "000 FM TEE L W Ira le swav_lle etwiewis with Le Emil Mee Oteatells et LW EIVALUX DWI =HES. • Masi ureesesell et tir 4 s Ahr esiewsweewm" sad et e =ge ;Ale preere& tbe ewe" way be th e d Berg Lafity, SE ; Oldi ; and at the Bon.odlos et the Theatre, white is epos edly bee Mena till The. THEATRE ROYAL COVENT GARDEN.— M. JULLIVCS ANNUAL BHRI of OONCERTS. — IIeat positively for sera mooth only.—M. Jaime Was bomb: to asommos that his New grand deeeriptive swim ARMY Ossilda (leitibi by Poor Military Bands) will le perisrmd, kw thi MIMS Time. i TIIIB EVENING (Friday), November lg. PROGRAMME. Pot? L Overture, La Oaraa Lars, Roodal ; ir e ~ la Diable k Qualm, Jullkm ; Solo, Cornm.-I-P=ry limmM4yte ce lebrated air from Patted, es sung by lam p e rm C minor, the Allegro. Fugue, Isd Thayer jibs* ; Wm% the Hyacinth. limn* ; greet and Carolina, trail Emig, Mice Birch, Verdi ; Polka, the original. MINI; Quadrille, British Army, hillien. PART U. Opera, Robert le Diable, Meye r beer ; Soto, Violin, M. gaintoo, 11. Tremolo, Beethoven ; Air and Variatiom. lodes lib' bested Air and Variations, sung by Mien Birch, Bodo; Mazurka. the Original Xasurta, Jullien ; Polka, the Comic American P. Janina. Commence at Eight, terminate before Mom. The Wet Concert will take place on Saturday, November 24 and tal season be terminated on Mooday B , November 30, by A GRAND AL MASQUE. YCEUM THE A TRE.-Mr. ALLCROFT'S PROMENADE CONCERTS will commence on MONDAY next, T month only. The Band will oondst of eighty first-rate artists. The celebrated vocalist, Mr. Henry Russell, is engaged for twelve MOM; the eminent Distln Pantile, and Mr. Sinclair. Conductor, M. need; Leaders, M. Thirlwail sad Thomas. Pit, Promenade end vp,rer Boxes, Is. • Drees Circle , 2s. 6d .: Private Boxes, One Guinea. r...ces and Print/. Boxes may be had at the Box-ofllor 62 Regen, and astreet.t Mr. enemies Establi s hments, IS, New Bood.street, and , t- 'Jr Kr ; reliO• MAILS. The West India mails, including those for Mexico, Honduras, and Havana, will be made up on the morning of the 17th November.. and The made for Carmine. Vigo, Oporto. Lisbon. Madeira , Cadiz Gibraltar, will be made up on the morning of the 17th November. The mails for Britigh North America. Bermuda, and the United States, will be made up on the evening of the lath November. overland mails Ow Gibraltar. Malta, Graeae, the lonian Islands, Egypt, Aden, Ceylon, India, Hong-Kong, and China, eta Southampton, will be made up on the morning of the 20th November. The overland closed mails, rio Marseilles, to the Mediterranean, Egypt. Aden . Ceylon , India, Hong-Kong, he., will be made up on the evening of the 24th November The math for New South Wales, C a n Tiiemen's Land. and New Zealand will be made up on the evening of the 30th November. TO CORRESPONDENTS. We cannot sell= in any way, any communication that is sent to no anonymously ; but tho e who ChOO6C to adders min oonfidcnoe will find their confidence respected. NEITHERCAN WE UNDERTAKE TO RETURN ANT MA. U:=CRIPTS WHATEVER. V Advertisements intended for The Repress. London evening paper, must be at the Olike by Two o'clock= the day of publication. 111011 WATER AT LONDON-BRIDOR. Tim DAT.— Morning, 14 min. pot 9; Afternoon, 50 min. pad 9. TOMORROW.—Morning, 23 min. past 10; Afternoon, 67 mm. put 10. LONDON, FRIDAY, NOV. 13. IT were foolish, even if it were possible, to remain blind to the force and tendency of that movement, which presses for the physical, the moral, and intel lectual improvement and elevation of the working classes. Those classes have taken the matter very much themselves in hand, and when they do so, their wishes and determination are not to be slighted. Urged on by men of warm temperament, who become their spokesmen ; countenanced by a respectable portion of their employers, who, witnesses of the depression of the lower classes and of the state of crime which follows, are full of alarm and anxious for remedy ; abetted by their clergy, who righteously desire more influence and time for instructing the young and reclaiming or encouraging the old; and driven by the general current, which, to the credit of the manufacturing towns and districts, sets towards knowledge and mental cultivation, the English operatives demand loudly and almost impera tively more leisure and less labour. We call this a money -seeking and material age. And true this may be of the middle classes, of the men of capital, of profession, of wherewithal to begin the world, aryl carve out prizes in it. The class below them, the artizans, shared in this excite ment, this ambition for a time, when high wages left r oom for saving, and when a little frugality often sufficed to lift the ope rative, step by step, to the highest rank of the manufacturing hierarchy. But those days are gone by. The great prizes have been all drawn ; the upper ranks of the industrial world filled from a more edu cated class than the original operative. He, poor man, begins to despair of pecuniarily bettering himself. He no longer hopes to climb the steps of Fortune's ladder by frugality or industry. He has bethought him, therefore, to try by another path, if not after ambition, at least after happiness. He thirsts for instruction, and for that preliminary to instruction, leisure. If such be the state of the case, such the na ture of his craving, can he be refused ? We think not. We are well aware of all the respectable, the grave, the immense objections, so strong, that poli tical ecomony scouts the idea of curtailing the hours of labour, and a Minister must deprecate legislation, which enhances the cost, limits the power of produc tion, and which, should it check foreign trade, might be visited back on the poor operative by a further curtailment of wages, and by the cruel gift of leisure without food. Bat the arguments for this view of results, however good in theory, are not borne out in practice. The laws for regulat ing and curtailing labour have been proposed and carried during a period of increasing prosperity, swelling exports and augmenting trade. Sinister prognostics have always hitherto failed of fulfilment ; it may be fairly reasoned, they will still do so. And some, Mr. FIELDEN for example, carry this so far, as to argue, that because our manufactures have never yet been ruined, they never can decline. We are far from adopting such optimist opinions. Great staples of industry, like the sources o f human health, often go on flourishing in despite of repeated obstructions, and yet stop, decline slowly, or perish rapidly from small and hidden causes. Look at our woollen trade, and mark what has befallen, what is be falling it, in foreign markets. Is our superiority in the other staples so secure? Two hours' curtailment of the day, we are told, will make the difference of but a halfpenny a shirt, and a penny a gown. But there are neck-and-neck races for competition in industry. And, though we may not perceive the advance of other nations to an equality with us, their strides are no less real. Should the successful champions of the Ten Hours' Bill strike from the manufacturer those advantages which just enable him to undersell continental competitors, to what will have tended their efforts? If their restric tion of the free use of capital frighten its owner and his experience to foreign countries, which he is less restricted, where is the gain ? The speakers at Huddersfield may rejoice at the several laws which limit the hours of labour, especially that which prohibiting night-work to the young, extinguished night-work in English factories. Let the philanthro pist who so rejoices but cross the Channel, and on his first setting foot on shore at Bou logne, he will perceive a vast and splendid factory, where the light is never quenched, where the mill never stops, and where children and women toil through the hour of darkness. And on inquiry he will find that the capital is English, the directors English, and the operatives, down to the red-headed urchin, are English too. Are such the results that Mr. OASTLER and Parson BULL contemplate ? Our maritime laws and rate of recompense have given nearly 100,000 British seamen to the United States. 'Take care we do not establish a law for the factories, that will send capitalists and operatives to France, to Austria, and to America. But however serious these objections, these motives of caution and of fear, it is impossible not to perceive, that the ground for opposing the ten hours' agitation is much diminished and weakened since last year. The great Whig economical writers, in combating the plan for curtailing the hours of work, ridiculed it as partial legislation,and foretold that the opening of the markets and free trade would give such an impulse to labour, that it could command its own terms and its own ease. These predictions have not yet been fulfilled. Sir JAMES GR tTIAM, last session, opposed Mr. ~.. • V N Nimes arguments. If the . - fined its efforts to parry' the measure by teppo vary excuses, and adjourn rather than oppnee it, how can we expect the Whigs, or such of the Whigs as deprecate further change, ' make, with success, any prolonged resistance ? The Ten Hours Bill will no doubt be an open ques tion. The Cabinet will not carry, the Cabinet will not oppose it. But with so much genuine philan thropy engaged in its service, joined by such formi dable aid from mischief, the manufacturers must swallow the medicine -draught, however bitter. As to its subsequent effects upon the body politic, that is a point on which all sensible men mast continue to entertain doubts and fears. THE English Lancastrian schools are celebrated throughout Europe ; our universities maintain their ancient reputation ; but between these two ex tremes " there is a great gulph fixed ;" provision has bees made for the highest and the lowest, but the masses between the two extremes are left to the chapter of accidents ; a chapter in which the history of Squeers shows that there are some very perilous sections. But it is in these neglected ;names that the strength of the nation rests, and it is on the instruction that follows merely rudimental education that the basis of individual happiness and national prosperity mainly rests. It should be enough to say in condemnation of the " no system " existing in England that no one can explain its nature or its extent, and that there exist no means for acquiring information on the subject. That schools exist for the middle class we all know ; but we do not know how many they are, by what number they are attended, what is the nature of the subjects professed to be taught, and what is the amount of competency possessed by the teachers. Some attempts are made to ensure the competency of masters employed in teaching the children of the poor; normal schools and training schools are in the course of being established. Professorships and tutorships in the universities can only be obtained by decisive proofs of competency ; but there is no guarantee for the efficiency of those who have to dis charge the most important of all national functions — the training of the coming electoral body, and vir tually the future rulers of the empire. At the late Athenaeum meeting in Manchester, the Archbishop of Dublin dwelt on the importance of this subject with his usual energy, and nearly at the same time a practical comment on his speech was offered by the opening of a new session of the Superior Commercial School, established about three years ago in Paris. Our readers are probably aware that NAPOLEON laboured to bring all forms of education in France under one grand system, denominated the University. His plan in all its essential features is still maintained ; no one can open a school for males or females who has not undergone an examination and received a certifi cate of competency ; no one can be employed as tutor, governor, or assistant, who has notgone through a simi lar ordeal. Correct registries are kept in every establish ment, and every school is subject to inspection by per sons appointed for the purpose, the inspection of female boarding schools being always entrusted to ladies. The complete organisation of this system is but of recent date, and the establishment of it led to the detection of many flagrant abuses and enormities, particularly in boarding schools. Thus far the inter ference of the government was beneficial; but another question soon rose, as to the duty of the university to prescribe courses of instruction. In the colleges and royal schools this was of course an easy task, for the powers that conferred degrees and diplomas fixed the amount of knowledge necessary fur graduation. So far the system worked well ; but it was soon felt that such a system made superabundant provision for professional education, and none whatever for mer cantile or commercial life. To remedy this defect secondary courses were established in some of the colleges, and students after the second year were allowed the option of pursuing the regular collegiate or some more practical course of instruction. In 1839 the municipality of Paris, following the example of that of Lyons, founded a school of supe rior instruction in the Rue Neuve St. Laurent, for the instruction of pupils in their own and other modern languages, history, geography, chemistry, mathema tics, physics, natural history, and the arts of design. The sum paid by each pupil is eight francs per month ; but there are eighty places reserved for pupils who have distinguished themselves at the primary or Lancastrian schools, and the vacancies are annually filled by a public examination (euneours) in the Hotel de Ville. No pupils are admitted into this school until they have passed an examination proving them capable of profiting by the superior course of instruction on which they are about to enter, and this examination has revealed some sin gular results. It is found that three-fourths of the children educated in private schools are in the know ledge of orthography, grammar, arithmetic, &c., be low the average of the children educated in the charity schools. It had been at starting the general belief that the test for entrance was fixed too low, when it was taken at complete acquaintance with the rudi ments taught in the primary schools ; but experience has shown that it was rated too high ; and it has been found necessary to establish a preparatory class for those whose elementary knowledge had not fitted them to enter on the course of the first year. As the municipal schools are, like all others, under the superintendence of the government inspectors, the attention of the Minister of Public Instruction was painfully directed to the fact, that the gratuitous teaching of the poor was superior in quantity and quality to that for which the more wealthy paid ; and steps have been taken to render the system of exam ination, registration, and inspection, more efficient. If we are to have a national system of education, the most important part of the nation—the middle classes—must not be neglected. Lamentable as is the waste of time and money, at many of our English schools, the irremediable injury wrought to indi viduals, and through them, to the society of which they must hereafter be the constituents, is still more deeply to be deplored. We do not oppose the prin ciple of free trade in education ; superinten dence does not exclude competition, it only provides for the competency of those who are to compete. The compulsory examination of apothe caries does not bind us to buy our drugs at a par ticular shop, but it greatly lessens our chance of pur chasing poison. If, however, such interference be resisted, let us at all events establish the system which all good schoolmasters ardently desire ; let a court of examiners be constituted for schoolmasters, to which they may present themselves if they please, and leave it then to the common Sense of parents to ask to see the certificates of competency before en trusting their children to teachers. We have entered on a race of competition with all mankind, and the nations around us are girding themselves for the struggle. In France, especially, the extension of what we may call industrial educe tion has become a primary object of national atten tion. Not only are the elementary principles of draw ing taught in all the primary schools, but in most the pupils are practised in drawing from models of machinery and from casts, provided for their use by the municipality, aided, when occasion requires, by the government. In the schools of superior instruction, each as that of St. Laurent and Francis I. at Paris, and la Martiniere at Lyons, e.c pupils are not only grounded in the elements of the practical sciences, but also taught there most useful applications to the arts. Little laboratories, for example, are pro vided for all the students in chemistry, placed along the walls of a common room, where they conduct T at; r• practical education. lished by unaided and isolated exertions of individuals; the State must give its superintendence, municipalities or localities must lend their aid; there must be publi city and responsibility to prevent jobbing and abuse. But the educational system must extend further ; it must be a recognised principle in administrative appointments; certificates of school proficiency must be required as qualifications for every place to which civic or public authorities have the right of no mination. It is not, of course, to be required that candidates should be educated at the official school ; let them be educated where they or their parents please, but let them be required to submit their com petency to the test of a public examination, and show that they have acquired sufficient knowledge to fulfil the duties of the station to which they are about to be appointed. The necessity for such a rule may be estimated by the fact, that when it was desired some time ago to leara the amount of education possessed by criminals in our prisons, a large proportion of bridewells and minor places of detention sent no re turns, simply because the persons appointed to these offices by the worshipful justices at quarter sessions were unable to read or write themselves. THE patrons of the WELLINGTON Statue are cer tainly put to very hard shifts and very strange pleas in its behalf. The Times of yesterday argues, that " if the statue have any defects to which connoisseurs might object," it would be unadvi , atble to take the figure down and place it nearer to the eye. This is certainly one of the beat excuses on record, and is tantamount to the undeniable principle, that a bed work of art ought to be placed as much out of sight as possible. Then we are told that the "defective statue," though, perhaps, bad in itself, still improves the " defective arch." And as two negatives make an affirmative, two frights constitute a beauty. We cannot admit this. We may allow, that an ugly person may have her ugliness diminished by juxtaposition with some thing uglier. And this may possibly be the case with the arch. But it is a bad reason for leaving arch and statue in the most conspicuous place of the whole metropolis. Then there is the awful expense of taking down. The eye-sore is nothing. The brazen slur upon the national taste, that would make every foreigner indulge in a "broad grin," as he turned in the Park-ride from the beautiful in Nature to the hideous in Art — this is nothing ; or it is something not worth paying to remove. The thing is up, and the thing will do. Just as if it was so many square feet of masonry done by the task. The argument is certainly worthy of the statue, as a specimen of national taste. The statue, not being likely to be allowed to main tain its place, inform' pauperis, for fear of the ex pense of removal, clings lastly to the Duke's mantle, and beseeches his Grace's protection. " Your Grace sate for me, your Grace saluted me with a friendly nod; as your brazen effigy, your Grace should not allow me to be pulled about." This piteous appeal of the poor statue to the Duke, puts us in mind of a similar appeal made to the same illustrious personage, when he commanded in the Peninsula. A poor devil of a commissary, in a very great fright, ran into the Duke's tent, and besought his protection ; " for," said the Commissary, " General SHERBROOKE has threatened to horsewhip me." "Did he so threaten you?" exclaimed the Duke, with a tone of apparent compassion that awakened the commissary's hope. " He did, my lord, as sure as I am a living man." "Then, my good fellow," rejoined the Duke, " you'd better get off as fast as you can, for SIIER BROOKE is just the man to do it." The brazen statue is like the poor commissary, and the Duke of WELLINGTON shows for it, we are certain, precisely the same degree and kind of com passion. He knew the commissary deserved the licking, and he knows thatthe statue deserves cashier ing, having got promoted upon altogether false pre tences. No—the Times may labour as it pleases, it will not get the WYATT statue included in the brevet. FRANCE.—THE MARRIAGE OF PRINCE Louts NAPOLEON.—SeveraI of the French papers are endeavouring to discover a set-off in England to the marriage of the Duc de Montpensier with the infanta, in that which they allege is about to take place bet 'teen Prince Louis Napoleon and Miss Coutts Burdett. We published a short paragraph yes terday from the C'onottlutionnel, making this announce ment. The Esprit Public of the 10th quotes from the Journal de la Somme further particulars of this imaginary alliance. The last-named paper says: "A letter which we have received from London announces as positive the ap proaching marriage of Prince Louis lluonapute with Miss Collat. Burdett, one of the richest heiresses in England. Miss Coutts Burdett. grand-daughter of Sir Francis Burdett, was adopted by the Duchess of St. AlM.ns, who died five years ago, leaving her husbaed 10,0001. a year, and her adopted daughter a fortune of thirty millions ! In point of money the marriage of Prince Louis will be a pendant to that of the Duc de Montpensier. There is in it sufficient to ex cite at the Tuileries much jealousy and regret that there was left no marriageable prince of the * House of Orleans for whom might have been asked the hand and the thirty millions of i Miss Coutts Burdett." ITALY.—THE MARRIAGE OF TILE DUKE DE BORDEAUX.—We find the following in the Esprit Public : "The marriage of the Duke de Bordeaux contains incidents which it is well for the public to he acquainted with ; it is a consequence only of the Madrid nuptials, but our profound diplomatista were far from expecting to reap this fruit of their skill. We have already said that M. de Metternich on all occasions systematically opposed every project of mar riage proposed "for the young prince. He had some ante to overcome on the part of the Imperial family : but he succeeded in removing it by demonstrating that Austria was obliged to act with great prudence towards France, who had the power to excite dangerous disturbances in Italy, and that the concessions of the French government in this lattsr country depended upon the proceedings of Austria, above all with regard to the celibacy of the legitimist pretender, of which the cabinet of Paris would make a national question. But as soon as the Spa..ish complications were known, the Empress of Austria a woman of strong character, and. sister of the Duchess-Dowager of Modena, thought that the danger was no longer so great in presence of the rupture of the entente cordiale. She thought herself able, therefore, to negotiate with her sister, in perfect safety, the union of her niece with the Duke de Bordeaux. The affair was conducted with the greatest secresy, without pass ing through the Austrian chancery, and the letters of the two sisters thus escaping the imperial censorship. All was agreed upon and executed with the most perfect understand ing. Dispensations from Rome were necessary, and were immediately obtained from the head of the Church in the same manner as M. Rossi had obtained them for the Duke dc Montpensier without making the subject a question of diplomacy; and when the intelligence of their having been granted reached M. de Broglie, the French Chargi , d'Affaires, it was too late. The marriage was on the eve of being ac complished by procuration at Modena without the possibility of obtaining redress for a fait accompli. NETHERLANDS.—TUE HAGUE, Nov. 10.—We are informed of the death of one of the superior officers of the Netherlands army, who acquired a great reputation by his conduct in the East Indies, and in his owu country, in the most trying circumstances. Lieut.-General Van Geen died at his country seat of Rysovick. After the battle of Water-1 100 he was appointed to the importantgoveniment of Namur, where he acquired general confidence. His thorough know ledge of the organisation of an army appeared in the com posing of the battalion of infantry with which he was charged in 181 d at Louvain, and afterwards in India, where he arrived in 1820. In 1824 and 182-3 he was placed at the bead of the expedition against Celebes, the success of which greatly contributed to confirm our power in the East Indies. In the war of Java, Lieut.-General Van Gem equally dis tinguished himself, and when he returned to the Nether lands, he was call d in 1830 to new dangers, under the most critical circumstances. POLAND.—In the small town of Konin, near Posen, says the Breslau Gazette, a little Christian girl having disappeared, the people pretended that she had been stolen and killed by the Jews of the place. The burgo- master, upon this, called the Jews together, and ordered them to restore the victim and designate the malefactor. In the meantime the populace armed themselves with scythes, clubs, tic., and threatened to massacre all the Jews. Such would probably have been the result if a retired officer had not gathered together about thirty invalided soldiers, who resided in the town, ani armed them so as to keep the crowd in check. But this armed intervention would probably have gbt court. WINDSOR, TRURSDAIN—The Queen and Prince Albert took their accustomed early morning walk. His Royal Highness Prince Albert, accompanied by his Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar and Lord Byron, and attended by Major-General Bowies and Captain the Hon. A. Gordon, enjoyed the sport of shooting this morn ing. The Royal Family took their usual exercise this morning on the Eastern Terrace and grounds around the Castle. Lord Portman left the Castle to-day. Her Royal Highness the Princess Caroline of Hesse, attended by Baroness de Scheel and Baron Meysenbuch, left Cashiobury Park, Herta, the residence of her Majesty the Queen Dowager, yesterday afternoon, for Windsor Castle. The Duchess of Cambridge, the Princess Mary, the Hereditary Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Meck lenburg Strelitz, and Prince Frederic of Hesse, returned to Kew yesterday from Windsor Castle. • - —• with Sir The Duke of Norfolk had an interview George Grey yesterday at the Home Office. Mr. Laurie had also an interview with the Right Hon. Baronet. Viscount Palmerston arrived in town yesterday from Windsor Castle. The Right Hon. Fox Maule, Secre tary-at-War, visited his lordship at the Foreign Office in the afternoon. The noble Viscount returned to Windsor Castle in the evening. Mr. J. C. La and had an interview with Earl Grey yesterday at the Colonial Office. Lord John Russell had a Dinner party yesterday, at his residence in Cheshaleoplace. Mr. Charles Buller had an interview yesterday with Sir George Grey. Earl Grey had a Dinner party yesterday, at his residence in Belgrave-square. The Nomination of the Sheriffs for the ensuing year took place yesterday (the morrow of St. Martin), in the Court of Exchequer, at 'Westminster, before the Lords of her Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council. Before the pro- ceedings commenced, the Right Hon. Charles Wood entered the Court, in his Gold Robe of office, as Chancellor of the Exchequer, and was sworn before the Lord Chief Baron and the Barone of the Exchequer. The Lords of the Privy Coun cil present at the nomination were—the Chancellor of the Ex chequer, the Lord President, the Lord Chancellor, the Lord Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench, the Chancellor of the Ducny of Lancaster, the Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, the Secretary of State for the Home Department, and Mr. Baron Parke. Seven of the Puisne !Judges also assisted at the nomination. Mr. C. Greville was the Clerk of the Council in waiting. Their Lordships and the Judges having been sworn, the nomination proceeded in the usual form, the English Counties and afterwards the Welsh Counties being called over, together with the names of the three gentlemen nominated for each county last year. The Judges who had been on the respective circuits, supplied a name in lieu of that of the present Sheriff, and in cases where their lord ships allowed gentlemen (nominated last year), to be cx. cused from serving the office, and their names to be taken off the roll ; the judges further submitted other names to supply the vacancies; three gentlemen being nominated for each county. The following is the list : ENGLAND.— BEDFORD:MIRE : R. Newland, of Kempeton, Esq.; T. A. Green, of Parrnham, Faq.; R. Gilpin, of Hockliffe Grange, Esq. —Brartsmitt: W. 11. Stone, of Streatley House, Esq.; J. Hopkins, of Tidmaesb, rag.; R. Alfrey, of Woketleld Park, Esq.—Bums; The Baron M. A. De Rothschild, of Mentmore; W. Lowndes, of The Bury, in ChCahaln, Esq.—Cursamos ANTI/OM/MOON J. Kay, of Fulmer, 1•:sq. • It. F. Pate, of Wisbeach, Fag.; J. Vipon , of Sutton, Esq. • W. Whiting,' of Manes and Thorn Abbey, 1:04.--CMIMERLAND: d. W. Hartley, of Rose HID, Esq. • 11. D. Maclean, of Lazenby, Esq.; A. F. Iludlefione, of Hutton, Eq.—Cm - moat : R. G. Leicester, of Talk Hall, Esq.; 11. Brooke, of Grange, Esq.; T. W. Tattoo, of With's- Maw, :.1. B. Crompton, of Milford, Faq.; Sir Burdett, of Foremark, Bart.; J. Strutt, of helper, Fsq —DEW /N.110M: Sir J. P. B. Chichester, of Arlington Court, Bart. •, H. Champ/d -i:mane, of Darlington, Faq.; H. R. Roe, of Guaton House, Feq.— Doruirrsurtz : T. B. Bower, of Iwerne Minster. Esq. ; Henry John Reuben Earl of Portarlington, of Milton Abbas; J. Gooden, of Over Compton, Eq.—Meuse: J. Fawcett, of South Bayley, Esq. ; Sir W. Eden, of Winlcston Hall, Bart.; H. J. Spear man, of Newton Hall. Esq.—ERBM : W. C. Marsh, of Park Hall, Thoydon Canton, Epping, EN' lg.; B. B. Colvin, of Maugham's Hall, Waltham Holy Cross, Esq.; C. Preston, of Luthers, near Seward stone, EN.--01.01'Clarralltallaa.—W. E. Lawrence, of Grcenway House, Badirworth, Esq. • C. Greenaway, of Little Barrington, Esq.; T. B. L. Baker, of Hardiriek Court, Esq.—HLREFORDSIIIRS : T. 11M, of Felton, Esq.; Sir V. Cornwall, of Moms, Bart.; R. M. Lingwood, of Lyston, Esq.—HESTVOIDIMMZ : H. H. Burehell, of Bushy Grange, Faq.; W. Parker, of Ware Park, Ertl.; F. S. Greville, of North Miun Park, Eaq.—Kase: J. P. Atkina, of Halstead. Esq„; I. A. Warre, of Remelt*, Faq. • W. J. Evelyn, of St. Clair, Pan, —Lacs monies W. W. Abney, of Swepstone, Esq • H. F. Coleman, ef Evington Hall, Esq.; J. Goodacre, of Lutterwm : th, Esq.—Ltscout- MITRE : T. F. Johnson, of Spalding, Faq ; R. Ellison, of Sudtws Holme, Esq.; J. W. York, of Wfiniesgate, F.sq.—Moirmorritsuraz : C. J. K. Tyxte, of Cefirnally, Faq. •, W. M. Wood, of Romney, Eq. ; J. Jones, jun., of Ctanwelh Court, Esq.—Notrour : W. Birch, of Wee. them, Esq.; Sir J. li. Preston, of Belstone st. Laurence, Bart. ; W. Mason, of Keeton, EPCI.—NORTHAMOTONSIIIRE: T. Tryon, of Bulmake park, Em.; J. Monkton, of Fineahade Abbey, Eng.; H0n.11.11. Hutchin son, of toes Weecion.—.ownedmsnzsyn : J. li. 11. Atkinson, of Angerton, Esq.: 0. garden, of Ileddon House, Esq.; W. H.Cadogan, of Brinkburn Priory, Elk ) .--NOTTINOHAM,HIII6 : J. Were, Of Cafiton npon-Trent, Esq.; J. IA betham, of Kirklington, Faq.; J. 11. M. Sutton, of Kelham, Faq. —Ozroansittaz : S. W. Gardner, of Combe Lodge, Whitchurch, Esq.; M. P. W. Bolton, of Great Tew, Esq.; 11. Baskerville, of Crawley Park, Esq.—ltc - risso : I. Taylor, of Preston, Esq. ; J. Walker, of Wardley, Esq.; Viscount Campden, of klisteres Park.—ffilßOPSNlftt : J. V. Lovett, of Belmont, Etc.; Sir E. Blount, of Hawley Hall, Bart.; .1. Solway, of the Moor, Esq.— So3ll , llSrlsrlf ICZ : J. M. Quantoch, of Norton-sub-Herndon, Esq. • E. A. Semford, of Nynehead Court, Esq. • Sir C. A. Elton, of Clcve d on, Bart. Sir E. D. Solet, of Great Barr, Bart.; the Hon. V. Gough, of Perry Barr; C. Arkwright , of Dstall, Esq.— Corz-cv or somuserms : L. A. Burton, of Woodlands, Emsworth, Req.; J. Wood, of Theddoa Orange, Alton , Esq. • W. Garniere, of Itooksbury, Wickham, Esq.- Scsrout: 11. J. oaks, of Nowton Quart, Esq. •, T. J. Ireland, of Ousden Halt, Esq. ; Lord C. A. Hunt ingfield, of Ilevingham Hall. - Steam' : J. Horror, of Polesdon, Er.q. F. B. S. Wilder, of Buabridge 11.11, Esq. • ' L. Steele, of Jayes, Dork ing, Esq.--Smism W. G. K. Gratwicke, of 11am. Esq. • Sir S. It. P. Micklethwaite, Bart.; Sir 11. Shiftier, of Coombe, Barl.—Wea- WICKAIIIIM W. C. Russel, of Leamington Prints, Esq. • G. Whig don, of Springfield House, Esq. • T. Dilke, of Martoke Grine, Esq.— WlLT:swum : W. Locke, of Ashlon Gifford House, Eq.; Sir F. D. Astley, of Everley, Bart.; J. B. Fuller, of Heston House, Esq.—Was eriTEIMICILE : E. Greeley, of Chambers Court, Req.; J. F. Llama, of Northfield, Esq.; J. Moilliet, of Selby Hall, Esq.—Yemen= : L. Fox, of Bramham Park, Esq. ; J. Dent, of Moron Park, Esq.; T. Cirsanae, of Sowerby, Esq. WALES.—ANotrikr.y Right Hon. S. B. Lord Newborough, of Treiddon ; Sir H. D. Goring, of Trystiwyn, Bart.; R. Griffith, at . Bodowyer loaf, Esq.—Bastrussulat: It. D. Dowel, of Graig y Doti Esq. • P. W illiams , of tern pare, Esq.; W. Pearce, of Ffrwdgreeh, }1.41.2-C AE N A RVONNWIRS : T. Wright, of Derwen taus, ; 0. A. Iluthlart, of Brynker, Eaq.; W. H. Foley, of Bryn Fry!' Esq.— CSIMARTUESMIRK : S. P. Allen, of FenCerd, Fin,.; T. MOM*, of Greencastle, Esq.; Sir J. Cockburn, of Idol pent, Bart.--Csacit- OSSPHIRS.—A. T. Davies, of Tyglyn, Esq.; A. O. 11. Itattersby, of PCierWeil, Esq.—Darafoinnuts : It. L. Edwards, of Bronhanlog Abergele, Eq.; R. Jones, of Bellam-place, Ithuabort, Eq.; C. Ley land, of Nautelwyd.hall, Ruthinc, Esq.—Fmarsunts • L. P. Lloyd, of Nannerch, Esq. • Sir W. ID. Clerke, of Merlyn, Bari ; J. W. Dod, of Cloverlev, Esq. l Gtratotosssantr.: T. W. Booker, of Vcltndra, Esq. •N.V. E. 'Vaughan, of Rheola, Esq. •IL Fothergi ll , of Ilensfil Castle, E. —MowroomEavintax G atacre, of Nautmeichied, Faq.; C. Bailin, of Bryntlyareb, Fag. ; J. Vaughan, of Penmen Hovey, Esq.-11nummiesautz: J. G. Griffith, of Falhenddin, Esq.; H. Jones, of Gwernddelwd, F.sq.; R. D. Jones, of Cyfwnydd, Esq.— PIMBELOXEMIRE : T. D. Lloyd, of Kilchcw, in the county of Pem broke (residing at Brovrwydd, In the county of Cardigan), Esq.; W. H. Lewis, of Clynfiew, Lsq.; o.9wen. of C.lll Gloyn, Esq.—Roo. satsinat : J. A. Whittaker, of Newcastle-court, Erg.; J. Williams, of The Skreen, Esq.; /I. Miles, of Downlield, Esq. The ceremony concluded soon after three o'clock. *'...' .'' .i''..• I • • N. s TAT EURESS - FRIDAN Ct.. NOVEMBEN. 1$: 184 d. ;:eyr h. bthe a r n y; t re arri nv.:p ed t , „ . ... .. ::::::::::: h !ding the child by the hand, which he had found Wee in . , . VI • - plea tiiiiiii t t Iranfejir 1 . , their ' yeirtinents =Klee the' auperietendeace of a :7 :: cadje n; : o w n oine a re zier : al er e i a t r b n uee a u e t ; 01 ' Pantitio- 1/4prefeer„itad we have tbl i agtherity ol d an eminent lam b siViillissitaaan.cdfiestid • dear Ismeid..., tut silk mativirecturer in Ly ns for asserting that the the old Corn-lave bee one, am earned isitli•it the .seperior dyes of the Lytinitie As is mainly owing to nand whicisediss i e l i vre ee !nai e r e y :s e : ;t o e :t e ithoraof this agitation, very strength and marrow of Sir JAMES GRA- the skill obtained at L'Ecole Martiniere. Y oke d by clandestine in- trigues. All this has passed within the last fifteen days. ilex's arguments. If the PEEL Ministry - thus -ton- Here is an entirely new field of educational enter- fined its efforts to pariy the measure by tempo- prise hitderto neglected id England, which we estmot AMERICAN INTELLIGENCE. rary excuses, and adjourn rather than oppase leave uncultivated synth safety. Special schools of LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY Arm/loos. £t, how can we expect the Whigs, or such design, special colleges of chemistry, occasional The steam-ship Caledonia is expected to arrive here of the Whigs as deprecate further change, to courses of lectures, and libraries of useful knowledge, on Saturday. Her intelligence Is looked for with make, with success, any prolonged resistance ? will not supply the place of an ef fi cient system of great interest, and it is thought she will bring news of -- _ ~:ii ...ai -,,, &mut be an men awe- practical education. Such a system cannot be estab- an increased number of vessels being on their way to . , • ,_—_, ......-6mlividuals: this country with provisions NORFOLK ESTUARY COMPANY. The first annual meeting of the shareholders was held yesterday at the British Notel, Cockspur-stteet. The chair was taken by Lord G. Bentinck, M.P. The company was originated in 1837, the object then proposed being to reclaim, by means of a cut and embankments, 200,000 acres of land covered by "the Wash," though in the act of parliament obtained last session, the amount has been reduced to 32,000. The capital required is about half a million.—The Chairman opened the proceedings by an elaborate financial and enginecriag address, which occupied about two hours in delivery. After tracing at length the history of the proceedings in parliament, down to the passing of the act, he gave • sketch of the finances. The amount subscribed by the original shareholders was 2,2161.; the actual disbursements in connexion with the act amounted to 4,9381. 4s. 11d.; the ascertained liabilities amounted to ' 10,3271. 145., and the unascertained to 7,5001 ; making a total of 24,9801. 18s. 11d. In this sum, however, was not in cluded 4,0001. which the company would have to pay twelve months hence to Mr. Cooper, and 3001. to Mr. Lestrange to prevent opposition. lie now came to the most serious part of his address. The report of the directors had not, he was sorry to say, been agreed to unanimously, and some of those who constituted the majority in its favour had rather de ferred to his (the chairman's) opinion than put forward their own views. The fault which was found with the report was, that it gave too gloomy a character to their prospects. He felt deeply the responsibility which devolved upon him, and he could never have held up his head for shame if he had not honestly and truly stated his convictions. Though he recommended the shareholders to go on, he could not hold out to them any golden visions of great gains as the result of their doing so. The points upon which some of his col leagues and himself differed from the engineer, related to the period at which the several intakes might be made, and espe cially the expense of the second and third intakes. Sir John Rennie, the engineer of the company, had estimated that the cost of the new cut would be 13-5,6311., and that that of enclosing 30,000 acres, would be 363,970/., making together 499,6011., or within 3991. of the estimated capital. From an estimate, however, of Messrs. Cubitt and Randall, it appeared that after paying 4 per cent. interest for three years, the expenses of obtaining the Act of Parliament, the new cut, with the purchase of land, would cost 2.50,0001. Sir John Rennie estimated that the first ten thousand acres might be embanked at a cost of 151. per acre, which would give for the whole 150,0001. Deducting 30,0001. for the ex penses of the act, and 15.000/. more for interest for three years at four per cent., the absolute cost of the works, which , must be completed before the embankment could be com menced, would be 205,0001. ; 150,0001. for the embankment of the first ten thousand acres, added to 205,0001. for the works, made 355,00e1. ; and there would thus only be • residue of 144,6011., or 71. 4s. per acts t o t ,,, -- 7 - 7 - ''"-s.. emt last parcels of about ten thousand acres imen_ ti Lthe t which would be most exposed to the action of th reclaimed land would have neither roads, bridereC an e ,,,' nor tanks, and was not likel to sell for mote we. He thought that in th e year 1860 they reckon on selling the first ten thousand acre m+th , for -O,G' holden. leaving a clear balance of 28,150/. u a bonus for - 0 .' s ' 3 holders. The noble lord th en spo k e of the ak:,,zo Which had been made in a similar effort in the m e ,' 'eight years had elapsed since its c ommencement -;" Wadedres would be ready by Lady -day next rt'' that there was no reason to anticipat e as t progress in their own case. As regarded the queation 072 it appeared that for the first 10,000 acres there won; r, Smiles and a quarter of sea bank, an d that there n in , L 19 feet 6 inches of water at sta r ti ng. In the cue- second 10,000, however, there would h e 161 depthcoiteadteo: and the depth of water was abo u t 21 f eet. The c 6 second embanking, therefore, he could not can. * than 251. per acre. The length of th e sea bank reead!' the third and last parcel would be 181 miles, aa c tli e 7 of water at the present moment was no left tly e j whilst in this last case there was no sand to tw ea k lence of the German ocean. The resu l t of an t h e lord's calculations was, that supposing the cut or be made in three years, and the sk ari t receive four per cent. for all the maep.-7, by them, the utmost which could be expo ete ,l the way of profit, was the following: -for 100 x, reclaimed by 1860, a bonus of 28,1501 ;• fora se; thousand by 1870, a bonus of 214,0001 .; an d ke 7. parcel reclaimed by 1880, abonus of 83,200/. -NZ' he said, had agreed to make over one or two thein ae 7 to parties who would otherwise have opp ose i t .e liament. In conclusion, he remarked th a t there j' no doubt that the town of Lynn, and the navig ated - vicinity, would be greatly benefited by th e this project ; and in proceeding with it the y the satisfaction of thinking that their names st: handed down to posterity side by side with than,: Duke of Bedford and other great benefactors of Un a ,: The Rev. GALE TOWNLEY, a director, said, 4, - ;"' inclined to rely on the opinion of Sir John Reoni ed h e k neer, than on that expressed by the Chairman, °och e that if he consulted a lawyer or a physician he in*, low the advice given. (Hear, hear.) It awes* that the chairman himself ought to have been the —he was not in his proper position in the chair. % lord was too apt to take a gloomy view ; but in sat he felt bound to congratulate him. So alaneed s ak noble lord at one time, on account of the measures vernment, that he thought it would be useless to pe an l i e the land reclaimed would not be worth 401, anus, a.„ delighted to find that in that respect, at least, his had undergone a change. (Laughter.) Mr. RAXENDALE, another director, expressed h t ._ concurrence in the views of the chairman, and , t ,„:"„ ez credit to him as an amateur engineer, remedia l , engineers generally would imitate him, the publie, ku be so often misled. Sir J. RENNIE briefly addressed the meeting iada nd his own estimates. The idea of making an malma n d 70 feet would be madness; he had never drensidea, thing. He relied greatly on the assistance of oft, * positing alluvial matter, and thus raising the had, fi et h e making of the channel. It was the strength od e* which now prevented sedim ent . from being nepane i t n ory T d h i e ffe o re u t f id ro e m e tli xp e en c w hurm no s t z i a t s ir c t o s t n li d e ii, co in t d tat meat, would he 15/. an acre fur the fiat intake,! ' ' second, and 201. for the third. Supposing there m kt , * be alluvial matter enough for the whole 3001.0sent el would not then think of embanking for that ancut five or six years after commencing the works, he acres would have been reclaimed. He did an MEN iota of what be had before stated. The Earl of ORFORD and Mr. PRYMEmaie a fern* in which they both declared their readiness to raeuti eit the project. The CHAIRMAN then moved the adoption of the ie% which was not read to the meeting bemuse wilimaa identical with the chairman's speech.—The anew leg been seconded by Sir W. Fowkes ' the ReV. C.C. I. Pownall moved, and Mr. Baxendale seconded, us e relent for printing the report, and adjourning the Ma to a future day.—On a division there were Si ha motion, and 18 for the amendment. The neon, accordingly adopted, by which the company wen pics to proceed. In reply to a question, 'the Citaiginis end by the act of parliament the company wen bor.' complete the cut within five years, but it TS to themselves to determine then whether or not tier c: proceed any further. A gentleman proposed that the rs palsy be dissolved, but the motion fell to fin growl re e. of a seconder. The old directors were re-ekted, end of thanks having been given to the directon saa to t chairman, the meeting separated. UNITED HILLS MINING COMPANY. The prietors of the United Hills mine, in Cornwall se Rea day at their offices, in Adam's-court, Old &eagle pursuant to a call of the directors, to consider the act of proceeding with the working of the abates copper mine. Robert Clarke, Esq., on utile the tia stated the object of the meeting to be to to 'teal the prospects of the company were such as to Jar d directors in calling for a certain sum of money by to at Lion of new shares to pay the debts which the taps! t already incurred. The Proprietors would be esoled4 hearing the report of the directors, as well a the oft mining agents, to arrive at a proper reedlike al ed matter. The secretary, on being called apes, mid report of the mining agents, at whose hod ire fed Richards, which intimated to the meeting that tbsee income of the company had not for some time marmot the expenditure, from the result of the works fatless months, which was the production of sufficieut xrd to quality to realise as much as paid the expense of erri they expected in a few months to be ab le to pleveo Pony in a solvent state. The debts of the csm?rl present amounted to 4,7001. The report of IV tots stated that they recommended that the les: should be further prosecuted, which oould not S without a diminution of their debts and a further ore capital, for which purpose they laid before the lea tors for their adoption or rejection, resolutions to tht,S. that for the purpose of raising further tapas], l .d> additional shares be created, at 51. earls &ad tle proprietor, on taking four shares, shall be a ll o w...ion: dition, and that for that purpose a sum of 21. 'Cepa shall be deposited with the secretary of the amps!' before the 12th of next December; that the shin" sot up before that day be offered on the same term' others of the holders of the present scrip 'barna or the 2,5 th day of next December, and that after the the directors be empowered to sell the remain* 41 any, at any price they may think fit , no t less than "2/ Mr. Taylor expressed his decided intention to oppe further outlay on a concern which had already peoe'd productive, and which had disappointed all the a hopes held out to them by the directors at their fermi ings. He had for a long time been a shareholda cern, and had not as yet seen a sixpence of I its expected profita.—Mr. Herron said dist he hundred shares, and would be sorry to give up whose prospects were at present so cheering. Mr. C also assented to the continuation of the works, an mended the raising of a suf f icient su m to pay theit, Capt. W. Richards, the manager of the Mines, gal had an interest in their working to the amount number of shares, and from hi s knowledge of I pledged himself that if they were worked fir a f e w longer, the scales would be turned, and a probe would follow.—Mr. J. M. Williams said that he partners held shares amounting to more than a roue whole number, and that their opinion was that it , advisable to continue the working of the mines. AI further conversation, the report of the working also that of the directors, with the resolutions, we mouely adopted, whereupon the meeting separate the entire of the directors and proprietors present lu down their names for the nmount of shares which e shareholder to one in addition. MEDICAL SOCIETY Op KING'S COLLEGE, —The first meeting of this society for the mesa was held 1 st night in the medical library of the co: R. B. Todd, F.R.S., acting as president on the There was a very large attendance of members an d vni objects of the society are the cultivation of median auxiliary sciences, the promotion of good fellowship the members, and more especially the habituating to composition and discussion. For this purpose, w papers are sent in by the members, upon which d arise, and in order to stimulate the member essays, two prizes of 5/. each are awarded to th essays are considered best. To the member * 1 guishes himself most in discussion, a silver medal, t Dr. Rayner, is presented. After the president he the business of the evening in a short address, in complimented the officers of the society on the which it had made, and the increasing interest take the members, an oration was delivered by A. Se F.R.S , in which he dilated upon the great which tke society was calculated to afford to tb student in future life. The thanks of the son been given to the speaker for his excellent addle the president—who expressed his readiness to pre their future meetings if necessarv—for his kindness the chair, the members and visitors proceeded te refreshments which were provided for them, winch feature of attraction in the society. The preset meeting of rather a formal character, no essays we INLAND NAVIGATION AND RAILWAY —Yesterday evening a public meeting was In Frazer's Chapel, Regent-street, Lambeth. was taken by the Rev. Mr. Branch. The report great length the evidence adduced before the Lords and Commons, on the depraved moral condi boatmen and canalway rivermen, and rail wa y Is' whom there were shout 100,000 deprived o f moral( instruction, which the society provides for by d visits, scripture reading, distribution of bibles and tracts. The clergy of the Church of England, denominations have assisted the society with then A library has also been formed for the distributioi works tracts,Revds. J. Layeock, Dalis Smith, Dennison, Cuffe, and others, addressed r tb The report further stated the beneficial effects ar the society, on a variety of the railway lints du n o kingdom. The business of the meeting bein g thanks of the meeting were, voted to the chainna meeting separated. GOVERNESSES' BENEVOLENT INSTITCTI half-yearly meeting of the subscriber s and other of this institution took plasm yesterd et for square Rooms, for the purpose of electing three, from 77 candidates. Lord Ashley presided oat supported by the Hon. NV. Ashley, Dr. Forbe, the Rev. Mr. wa Le.ing, hon. secretary ; the Rev. )11 &c. No business a s transacted beyond the cle4