The Express. — London, England, 1849-05-16 00:00:00

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IS such cart, igrati a. • po em' cult sada. 61. rotary for Yore THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 16, 1849. gre, who had dose se meat bar dm helm vela. at of hi. t-n -saal.had rest out pumas ham hie estate trader 41.10 e. a head. TM boas, then divided — Pee the maim tS For the easeadateat -- - - - - - PRISON DISCIPLINE. lir. PEARSON begged the attention of the house, which be regretted was not more numerously Ailed, whilst he breed under its cossidentica the dry, best very important, "ore' of prima di cipline. The prisms of this oniatry cost 400,9001, a year oa the average, irresp etire of the met of ' rantet in the ulks and the oast r Now, l rt a ook to h prove that the ( criminal class in this a wry might be made to maintain itself, without a ge 'billing /spear' .to the nation or to the counties which pow had to bear that enormous sum. He undertook to rove 'hat this should be dons by reformato it ry means, with. eat slam labour, and without interfering With the just rights ghee labour. Ho first dimmed • uniform' system for the a rmee of prisms varied to an extent whin" i was n itself ea era. and which demanded correction. He saw by the report of the inspector of the aortham diarists that one pri ses had been erected at so expense of 1,2001. per prisons r. no (Hr. Pianos) asserted that Minas& prison ms. re prisoner • that Readiag pima, which is the model argon in tammatry, emit 2201. per prisoner. Now, if he Ind asked fee a sawmill'. on these few facts same, he weeks the hone would mat hiss one. It the system of enemata iespriesement were to be carried out in this country es Its fall extent, it would require no lees than 8,000,0001. s e p l e dged himself to prove these facts before • sommittem Such an enormous increase of crime bed taken place in this country es mast startle mg considerate man. He had meefully examisied all dm statistics of this subject, and he wee alone nseonsible foe she Wang of the statement which he was about to make. TM aomber of committals and recommittals in England and Wells from the criminal courts inereesed within the last 40 r ue u pwards of 400 per cent, whilst the popula tion had enly be:reseed 85 per mat. Is the same pieWd. The returns m ob to the Home.: Kos by the imposenes of prisons, and the o stated before commaitteme d that house, gave aen rester increase, bemuse it appeared from yrs documents that the eemmittals in England and led Waits in 1810 w e re 5,10, whereas am were 26,851, being Si ii•••••• of 428 per cent. increase of mime was te be mommted for by causes Wy unco nnected with Marensei inimbeality mthe dispo dissect the people- The sheep from war to peace had Rom a large turbeked Mobilo ea the society ; while eglingeond police system had Mated to leases. the nese blidesnesitaients. Bridals, these were numbers of sets gee siseldiable in 1810 whisk were so now. Thai, while gegsie bed oa the whole improyed there had been an in =tda the number of conamitamta. The commaitmeats in med Wales in 1844 amounted to 28.815, the MUM- Meektions in the same Nee to 66,8((2: making • d it 1,843. Of that somber 75,670 wore sentenced t loathes els months, and above 0,000 for bmiltrirlbeams moan's. One cause of the increase of comm era for pal Mimeo was the Morisse of comforts in e s pi" the penmen bane better fed, clothed, and lodged tbsa the majority at peesene of the class to which they is society. A Mete for luxurious indolence was which out of prison they maid set gratify. An Ron. Moose hers moved that the home be counted gesingen withdrew. But as it was loud that there were 40 members pre._est, Mr. PEARBOI4 resumed :—I• order to ascertain the roper remedy lee mime they must consider whet were its tillcease.. He believed they might all be gemmed up wank, " An indisposition to matinees , labour." TIN prison inspectors had reported that four-fifths of the time isolsimitted were intimately associated with loran'- . Be it so : intemperance iteelf originated Mince. The remedy must be adapted to the disease. Toe present system (catered indoleum. If they desired to arrest the progress of crime they must seek to do so by • reveled of the principles on which they bah hitherto acted. Eighty-one per cent. of the male criminals coedited annually were between the ages of 18 and 4:',--the precise period when, in a free and proper con dition, a man beet 'retained himself and those who were de pendent ups him ( Hear , bear.) Forty-seven per eent. IMO between 20 and 25 great mass of the criminal population consisted of men who could sot only maintain themselves but five other prisoners besides. The foundation of his proposition was, that continuous labour must be the means of perishing the criminal, of reforming him, and of enabling him to evertor% himself and others. TIN principle which he advocated had been acted epos in America and in Belgium with sneers. la Massachusetts the labour of the prisoners bed pool for their diet and their clothing, and peo n fed them with 5 dollars on their receiving their discharee. In France, too, after payment of all the prisoner's 'epees's, a refit was realised from the labour of the prisoners,whielt went largely towards the mi aural pris.n expenditure. He did not, however, propose the adoption of either the American or the continental opium In Ragland, where the circumstances of society were so meentially different, and when the employ. meat of prison labour in the same way as in America end on the Costumed would uequertiomably displace so much honest labour, and thus creates* sissy more thkv. s. Lethim not on this plat omit to protest, at the risk Of affronting his free trade friends, against the introduction, now permitted into En gland, of the prison worked manufactures of Belgium and France, certainly to the disturearice of our own legitimate industry. To ensure reformation you must stimulate the mind of pri omen by the nec:ssity of exertion. Let the duration e their f their imprisoliment, and the quantity and quality of diet, depend upon their conduct and upon their industry, and rely upon it that the same motives of present enjoyment and future isdemndence, which inflames th e e mats of mankind out of prison, would operate upon them prison. From information he bad derived holm a number of very eminent aviculturists, he was prepared to show that the labour of 1,000 prisoners upon 1,000 acres would pro duce enough to maintain the 1,000 prisoners and 200 officers and to leave a considerable surplus ter clothing and salaries., He was prepared to prove before a committee of the house that a thousand acres of lend might be bought, that a Ono might be built upon it with perfect security, and with every consideration for the health of the inmates; a wall might ter built round the thousand ach e aa high and smog as the wall mead liillbank ; t WON be aecoannodation for 1,000 Flamm end 200 offirs • and this might be done for ow-hail the cost of the ce model gad. He was prepared to give up his seat in the house if he could not prove the statement he had made. His system was calculated to produce good colonists. Ninety thousand persons were now emainitted every year, tad 40 per rent, on the average, were recommittals. The prison community should maintain thawed". s end their Mlle. re. The present system rendered the priemen worse than they were whim they entered. They ladlioh diet, warmth, labour when they liked it, and 10 hams' sleep. lir. Field, who described Reading gaol, said, that they had no tre dmill, nor anything approaching to hard labour, except a pump worked by 10 mu, for which two would suffice. They were one hour and a half deem ing. From 12 to 1 p.m. the prisoners had dinner; from 1 to 3, the prisoner, if mashie to read, would receive Manus tics from the schoolmaster ' • he would be visited is his eall by the chaplain twice in the week ; the intervals woad be spent in the work whin' bed been allowed. Flan te 4 pea. he would have some 'urn. e in the open air. From 4 to 6 he was visited by the school/manse be his cell at 8 p.m. sapper. The remaining sloes tare bed-time altowed for mental sad moral insprovemmeat mein. lively. This was the coarse of proesedlso for criminals me myed to Radice gaol. What man who was under loch a mks"' for 18 months would be improved by it? He could give endgame with regard to a pri soner °Defined in Reading gaol, who was now a lunatic is Bethink under circumstances which could leave no doubt that his mind was Yemen down by the system. Then we not, la feet, a peel in the country which had less to show is the way of reformation than that to wbieh ho had alluded, end the seal of that was that the system on which it was miadosted wa re contrary contrary to the laws of God and man. He should like to know why there inn se hard labour in these model pi tons, seeing it was provided for by set of penises' at, mad, not only that, but it was also provided that, even when hard labour was not included in the sateen, the prisoner should labour for his own subsisteses: lie did not know whether he was to get his committee of inquiry, but if he did not get it, it was subject urpose to spezk on every occasion cowhide the of prison discipline could be even in cidentally introduced until he succeeded. It was with re leases that ever he addressed the house, but this was a = sa which he understood, and he never would ones its until he obtained a full and free inquiry. (Hear, beer.) Secondary punishment was, as the noble lord oppo mite had told him. when soliciting his vote, was a problem yet to be solved, and he trusted that the government of the noble lord would allow him (Mr. Pear son) to assist in its solution. He tidy asked them to do that which they bad pledged them selves to de, to deal with every man in a gaol sa if he were our of gaol, and say that if he did not work, neither should IM eat; and he was convinced that that might be done with ered any undue interference with the rights at free labour. (Hear, hear.) He begged permission to alter his resolution, byprzsi2 for • select committee to inquire and report as to said uniform system of prison discipline for all persons salient', fropeboamsat for crime. Mr OSBORNE seconded the motion. Sir 0. GREY gays the has. member even coedit for the attention be had bestowed an this subject. With many of the opinions of the hon. gentlemen he fully speed ; but, on the other hand, there were tansy to which be must express his dive,. With regard to the sontstaittee itself, looking at the t erm w terms it repaid, be limed that the inquiry would not iste d - prosiest session. He believed that any ' to be d std be et a more marrow beds than that proposed by the km. member. dr alteration now would meted' , and the WV* ch a great part of the Imo. iles speak relherlffe and therefore a great padded liseinentatioas hol Weems inapplicable. The hoe. swims lot Sleek ea tfre e hope* ape of labour es smanoslei MIL BefffilOOMlMl. li gobs agreed that penal lemur was el skink amoserfi had that nothing could be worse than the gill at allowing pri sonen to remain in idleness, oithout order or decency. However, he must 1111 *MOS ids grab" the bon member had hardly done POW teem pielMeepiesee. He referred to the laMer jest tfre Se& sew speech, and should neer peened es Mem some of ii• simen menu. First of alk the hearesimbh amemilig eeo. the cost of prisms should le gaiters, Rift resolution stated that there should be ne MOM expense in constmetint ; and farther, that illny &ma be made repulsive, ins fad of attractive, is appanage. Is all that he entirely concurred ; and must add that, if any I seedless expense had been incurred in the misetructien of county prisons, it had arisen from fault is the system of laud control, and not from any desire en the pert of the go meassent. The bon. member alluded to certain extratedi airy statements segarding the cost of the prim of York bet he should recollect that than expenses tad all been in toned 2.1 ys ars since, before the modern impievements is prism management had been adopted. Idr. ransoN all tia be bed quoted the inspector's arse& illy G. OBEY had se wens ef knowiog what the cost VOL Thelma. gentlemas had alluded to the number of eirdmisffithfthts, and especially to the great increase in the no esenmffimmthh, as thewhig the insufficiency of the present melide weem eliehest ais asatilletipliestms in proportion p b ro u po t b r e ti : n ell t e o ved the tt n e u h m o be a r g d en vi tle: semen the sunther of recommitments had increased; and" with must ft the commitments, that was accounted for by the WM adiSt system of detection—the improved polies tibia km the war had been introduced. And, indeed, if map inihrimee could be drawn from the bon. member's speech—he having admitted that an improved state of society had grown up—it was that the present system was more effi cient for the prevention of crime than the one which pre ceded it. But the hon. pastimes, in complaining of the present system, had left the house much in the dark as to the one he would substitute. Mr. C. PEARSON—CIive me the committee, and I will explain it. Sir G. ORGY—Bat the hen. reatlemen. when he talked of the evils of the pressed system, shoal* at Wet hisses them whether the thonmed primmer* be eoeshi amine to f:tia the Gee estabilimmat, sad whim he week t niti.ti. of the themend gems of ground by ill e labour, whether they won te he aeseeiated or tuned together by night and by day. The hon gentleman said that nothing was now thought of but the comforts of the prisoners, end he had refereed to Reading gaol, which he (Sir 0. Grey) believed to be a wall conducted prima, but, as he had not an eppottunity of seeing it, he weld net gm whether the system there pursued was as had been stated,/ act. But, as far as his experience west, he bslievalee system of prison discipline was so good, both with regard to the correction of crime, and the improvement of the minal, as the separate 'yawn. (Hear, hear.) This was the opinion of Howard and of Archdeacon Paley, as referred to in the Wand 4th reports of the inspeetots of prisons, and it was an opinion the comatose of which was proved by ex mimeo. He eioneureed with the hon. eentleetan that la boar ought always, as fez as possible, to be associated with imprhonment ; arid in every well-managed prison labour was associated with separate confinement. But, with re gard to theism. gentleman's plan of attaching to each pri son 1,000 eons of hod for the pumas of employieg the primates is spate labour, be most appal to the county ambers, sad ask whodoer they were prepared to carry oat seek a rheas . The maw alone, he believed, would be a sorioas obstacle, whatever might be the molts of the pro destive labour of the primmen, of which he was not se mm as the hen. gentleman. (Hear, hon.) No dada st Wsksield gaol alai mem others when there was NM gnarl ormassted with the prism, this kind of employment ~..t leo intredsood with advantage ; sad in the government whisk the hem. geutleassa proposed to erases ben UTtmgry,the grimmer. were em —the Mikes be mak( *dila, and the shoemaker in makes ohms, sat only ler tbe inmates of the establiiment, bat fise the criminals who were about to be But there was always • difficulty in Reding peoli trila thr is int t fee primers without interlocks with the descend rlr:ur elsewhere ; and this objection weak apply aka to the cultivation of land by prisoners, the redoes of which mut in somedegree, come law oompetities with the mob* feekbour. This was felt in Belgium, when the pradass of priesakbear em sot permitted to come into eseopedden with the modem of the tree labourer, but was sent out of the counts'. However necessary it might be to insole into the separate system of impriseument, or the system of prison discipline as atkinistertd in the county prisons, he objected to the appointment et a committee in the terms proposed, which in feet wad bows inquire into some sew speculative undefined system. WM* the bon. gentleman said that the present system was as which was distractive of the object itreisted—and the principle the hon. gentleman wished to establish wee one by which the prisoners should be stimulated to labour by the hope of reward—that he apprehended meant the sabstitatka , of Captain Masenoehie's system of labour sultesone he Wee I sentences. That was a elute= which had attracted the anew Lion of the government, and which they would have been disposed to introduce, but having considered it, and es► salmi those who were best able to form an opinion ea the &abject, they found there were v as?obio and grave, eidestkns to it. To establish such tem they maid in the first ph re proceed op the supposition that all the prisoners sentenced were able-bodied. of equal strength, and capable of performing the same amount of labour ; or to nuke the punishment equal, they must a.lapt the labour required to the age, the health, and the physical capabili ties of each individual prisoner. How could the judge be I aware of all these circumstances in passing sentence ? and if he was not, and did not take them into consideration, it was obvious that injustice would be done in many cases (Hear, hear.) Prisoners were now sentenced to time sew 1 tenets; and—he spoke now of these sentenced to transport& tion—by good conduct and tubing such remission might o bi btained as to some extent curried out the view of the hoe. member. With regard to separate confinement, the more it had been inquired into the more it had been ap peased. As to the diet in prisons, be admitted that it should not be beyond what was absolutely necessary to keep the primate in health ; but when a man was shut up in a prison it was well known that he would require be a better diet to sustain him than would necessary were he moving about free in the open air. The dietaries now in force were adopted after consideratios, not by himself, but by his pr./humor, the right hon mem ber for Ripon (Sir James Graham). In certain cases they had been dispensed with where a lower diet was consistent with the great oldest for which that lower diet had been established ; and be quite *greed with the hon. member for Lambeth (Mr. Pearson) that there ought to be no excess of comfort in prisons—nothing that did not conduce to the 1 moral and industrial habits of the prisonerr. The object of sll punishments was to deter others from crime, and to rehat - flnn the con duct of Criminals ; and be was happy to lay t the separate mils= which had been established with this view nuesher amen t its se Sir Samuel Remilly. The lion member he - bed adverted to theme system, as having pominsel fsemelty, but a pauses report of Mr. Peery, roe of the rhea biipeetses for the waters district, showed that that system bed sot produced a single case of d insanity in the whole of that district. True k I was that imponmen; very often caused inessity, bath e be lieved it would be found upon szaminatioa Mat the separate system did not tend to produce that disarm say . mote than any other system of imprisonment adopted is this country. (Ikar, hear.) The honourable inewher would oc casion enormous expense by his plans, aid, in the end, those plans would be found utterly inapplicable to uutried prisoners. He would not object to the appoint ment of a committee to inquire late the plan of building =and into the treatment of prisoners, provided that extended over a limited period, and was confined to • amaperiron of the present with former systems; but to the indefinite motion of the hon. member he could not I eons. nt. Mr. It. PALMER said that the magistrates of Berkshire courted inquiry into the whole monsgement of Readit,g gaol, confident that any investigation of that nature would redound to the honour and credit of the county. In Reading gaol the prisoners were placed in upstate cell*, bat that was very far from being the solitary system, which ne doubt did act prejudicially upon their health and intel lect, for, under the separate system, although separated from their fe ll ow-prisomen, they had frequent visits from those who were capable of instructing and improving them. He was strongly of opinion that the plan pursued at Reeding ma a great improvement upon the old s ) stem, and at the same time he was happy to say that, with the new county discipline, the expenses were so reduced that the county, with all the admistages it gained, was alio not financially a loser. (Cries of 'Divide.") Mr. BROTHERTON said the subject was one of eon siderable importance, and as it was impossible that it could conclude that eve ning, he moved that the debate be ad journed. The debate was then adjcurned accordingly until to morrow (this day), and the house it.elf adjourned at twenty minutes past twelve. the Orprta. OUTGOING MAILS. 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IT is impossible to read the accounts of the Mon treal riots without being struck by their strong family likening to the " no-popery" riots of Lord ClEonos OOiDOie'S fo lowers, and the riots of the Birmingham mob, which plundered and sacked PRIESTLEY'S house. The same promptitude, amid professions of blind loyalty, to outrage the law when it is not to their mind, the same reckless tyranny of a minority of the population made strong by accidental circumstances in one locality, the same aimless destructiveness, characterise the actors on all the three occasions we have named. The triumphant tone of the highly coloured account of the Montreal disturbances, which, at the late hour at which the news reached us, we were obliged to use in part of our i yes'erday's impres sion in the absence of a more candid and dispassionate narrative, can deceive no one, and its unconscious betrayal of the rabid sta te of th;party whoa i feelings it 'peeks, can oily inspire disgust. Toryism is un changeable by U.. or place. so far as thosixounts, necessarily imperfect, which have yet been received, enable ns to judge, this i s th e state of affairs In Caudle. A bill has passed bole date o f the local legialature, by larFe 111 the representative b f o rty legislature it was en , not only by of the whole house, b u sby ta :majority of the members of British race. The home government has carefully abstained from taking any part in the discussion. The seism origi nated with Canadians; two successive local mini stries--one conservative, the other liberal—gave their sanction to its general principle; it was approved by a majority of Canadian representatives. If ever there was a legislative act done in Canada of a spontaceoue, thoroughly native, character, it was this of which we speak. 'l's facts are of themselves sufficient to stamp the outrages which have ensiled on its ramie jog the governor's assent as the lawless acts of a mi nority too ignorant or too self-willed to submit to the decision of the majority for the time being, the only condition upon which free, peaceable, coosti.utional government can exist. The next characteristics of the riots which arrest attention are their aimless destructiveness, and the indications of previous organisation among the rioters. Several thousands of persons were collected at a late bone of the evening in the Champ de Mars. As soon as they there got together they were told that the time for action was acme, and a cry was rais-d " To the Parliament-house." No sooner had the mob reached it than the work of demolition began. The windows were shattered, a band of ruffians occupied' the hall of the Assembly, their leader vociferating " We are all going to hell," and the building was find. The announcement (fortunately false) that the French members were unable to escape from the flames was cheered with driormias joy. The incendiaries then proceeded to destrey in succession the houses of Mi. MINCES, Mr. LA FONTAINE, and other liberal& This was ore political Emetite or insurrection—the actors woo satisfied with plitudeling and destroying, and made no attempt to upset the old government or establish a new. The proofs of pre-concert are to be found in the fact that the authorities ere stated by the opposition leaders to have been fro warned of the certainty that such scenes would be meted, and in the localities to which this and outrages have been confined. Montreal, Toronto, litigation, and Brockville are the places named as having been subjected to each ontrages—all of them notorious as localities where powerful and reckless ascendancy mobs exist. It is obvious that repels dons for violin toe had been making beforehand, and that the rioters at the places named had made ar rangements for speedily communicating news of their respective movements to each other. As wee to be expected in the violent excitement of party spirit at present existing in Canada, imputa tions are freely exchanged between the partisans on either side. The arrests which have been made and the investigation which have been instituted show that the ministerial party are disposed to attribute complicity in these riots—at least to the extent of foreknowir g without attempting to repress or dis courage them—to some of the more violent of their opponents. On the other hand, the opposition inveigh against ministers, as having, by persuUn In carrying an unpopular measure , first p r o voked a *ft of turbulence, and then neglected to tes t ae due precau tion against popular violence and tumult. How far the charge laid at the door of ministers of not having made proper arrangements for securing the public peace, and not having stemma the outbreak of a dissolute rabble of incendiaries with sufficient prompti tude and energy, is well founded, dispassionate inquiry alone can show. That their adversaries have eagerly grasp.d the opportunity to repre sent them as incapable of preserving order ia emergencies, and therefore unfit to evern— have, in other words, lost no time in turning the riots into political capital, is appa rent . And the readiness with which " thistle clubs and " curling clubs " have come forward to make the riots a pretext for demanding the recall of Lord ELGIN as incompe tent, combined with the influence exercised over the @bob by Sir ALLAN M'NAB, and with the reported readiness of the Glengarry men to march in arms to Montreal, is suspiciously symptomatic of the old as cendancy party's foreknowledge of what was coming, and determination to use it recklessly for their own purposes. The speaker's mace, which was carried off by the ruffians who demolished the house of parlia aunt, has somehow or other found its way into the keeping of' Sir ALLAN M'Nan, and Col. Circe was carried home on the shoulders of a body of rio'ers. The hubbub has been got op b y the pend6les of the " family compact," and it is the Sooteh bcdy -guard of the ascendancy and the Orange-lodges that are be stirring themselves to turn it to account. The riots began on the evening of the 26th, and by night-fall of the 27th order had been entirely re stored; and this, notwithatandlng a tardiness in the Imovementsof the military, which, considering the pre 'possessions of the commandant, calls for inquiry. Attempts were made by the ascendancy party throughout the 27th to disturb the public mind—now, by reports that ministers were arming the French population—now, by stories of Montreal's being about to be declared in a state of siege. The government wisely took no notice of these efforts to renew the dis turbances, strengthened the police, urged on the pre liminary examinations of suspected pantie . , and allowed their political adversaries to hold meetings and speak out all their bitterness to their hearts' l i content. It is clear that no political events of importance can arise out of such note. The " respectable" tories,ll while availing themselves of them to the utmost, are compelled to censure and disclaim them. This un- 1 happy faction has placed itself in an eminently false position. Devotedly attached to monarchical trsdi twee, greedily ambitions of the most trifling titles sr honours a crown can bestow , appealing for I support to the timid who shrink from all or any popular demonstrations as linable to distinguish be tween their vivacity and mob violence,and inveterately prejudiced against Yankees and republicans, they have quarrelled with the law and constituted authorities, and totter on the verge of a career in which their only associates and allies must be the crime-class of the larger towns in Canada, and the loafers, hunters' lodges, and sympathieera — the aggregate outcasts of repu table American society, who lounge and brawl along the frontier. Were it possible to imagine them per severing in the course they threaten to begin, they would be the first to be trampled down by their allies. They know i , and will not dare to proceed. But the y have done enough to outrage public opinion to a degree that has for ever closed the doors of office against them. That as destructive a riot as that we have been called on to record might take place in more than one Canadian locality we were prepared to expect. That many such may recur at intervals is highly probable. The past history of the province declares them to be inevitable. 'The conquest of Canada (unavoidable we admit on account of the systematic attempt of the ancien regime of France to encircle and crush the English settlements) entailed upon the British government the most difficult of tasks—the go vernment of a distant d e p endenc y the population of which was of alien origin. The notable scheme al separating French from British Canada effectually 1 pretreated for half a century the fusion of races by a gradual and natural prover. The vesting of all power and patronage exclusively in a family compact news leerily led to misg overnment, and misgovernment ito to 1 1 t u mult and direffection. The clap-trap haste w w hich Lord SvneNiteat hurried on the re-union of the provinces by not the most scrupulous influences, without inquiring too curiously whether public opi nion was ripe for it, neutralised to a considerable extent the immediate benefits of that desirable mea sure. The policy of the British government has from the first, till within theee few 3 .ears, been of a nature t o incapacitate the colony fur se f to per p e tuate and exaggerate the prejudices o rn f race, to encou rage an insolent domineering spirit in the British. The wiser policy of leaving the colonists to manage their own local affairs is already developing a better spirit and the requisite administrative talent. Yet the baneful influences of the old syste th m must long continue to be felt, and they will d have isplay em selves in such aimless a nd revoltin g outrages as just been perpetrated at Montreal. But unless the home government is weak enough to relinquish its late adopted sound system of non-intervention, they will pass away with as little abiding injury as the kindred riots of Lord GEORGE GORDON and the Bir mingham anti-jacobins. This truth pressed a present, be too emphatical l y or too often pressed upon government, parliament, and the home public at large. There are sinister in terests in this country eagerly bent upon using every transient disturbance in Canada as a plea for bringing back the old system of misrule. The protectionist Lon don merchants, the kindred and allies of the ;mallfaily compact, will stick at nothing to attain this end equally unscrupulous are certain jobbers in Utopian emigration schemes for Ireland intimately connected with the sepiran's after office who wear the Lincoln green. THE singular debate of Monday night upon the Parliamentary Oaths Bill is Lkely to produce no or dinary impression upon the thinking sad reflecting mind of the country. The number and variety of the oreelies delivered oar the occasion, their unusual brief sees sad pertinency to the great question at stake, s p a se d: a luredominant tone of practical util it y which nearly the whole of them, are calculated of themselves to awaken more attention than hes hitherto been womanly directed to the evils of the past system of loose and idle swearing at the table of the house, sad to the necessity, policy, and propriety of adopt skg different practice in future. The question of the admissibility of the Jews may be regarded as settled. The House of Commons have ettelded, by a majority over ninety, that there is no jut cause or impediment why loyal men of the seed of ABRAHAM should not be permitted to sit and vote with other men, whom the people, acting in their electoral capacity, delight to honour. It is sufficiently notorious that no indisposition exists on the part of the crown to welcome their introduction to the rile of legislative privilege and offieal eligibility. Nothimr, therefore, remains to complete the tardy enrachise sent of the Jew but the sanction of the House of Lords; and that, as we have recently seen, can always he er thwoj a h n e j a- a hb f : r eo e w rin re p e r trogve g eP l . r o lis i l g y os h eeh r;n al 3 is e s e s indeed, , bfr e ; . t g th l z ik ev au e i t th t l helf-heart likely e a it to t king wi get th the emphasis of sincerity and in the tone ci determination not to be refused, is pretty I certain of winning compliance. If ministers had only faith in themselves, the country would have ' faith in them ; and there is a way of asking in faith, nothing doubting, to which nothing would be re fused them. The bill for the emancipation of the Jews is not merely, however, by any means what it has been sometimes called—the - Jews' bill. Its technical appellation truly expresses its aim and purport. It is in fact, as well es in form, a bill to amend the oaths vehicle are taken by ell the members of the two houses of parliament. There is, indeed, one special and unworthy exception to which we shall advert hereafter; but generally speaking the measure is fsirly designated as a " Parliamentary Oaths ' Bill." It substitutes one oath for three : that in itself is a decided improvement. Those which I in future are to be dispensed with were the 1 1 fruit of the monopolising and exclusive spirit of dif ferent times, and became agglomerated into one male of idle and profane swearing by the lapse of yeses. One hundred and fifty years have missed away since the birth of King James the Second s' dedohe rited son yet up to this day every peer of parliament and repre sentative of the people is compelled to take Almighty GOD to witness that he does not cherish in his heart any love or fealty to that utfortunate outcast, or to his descendants—not one of whom has b.en in exi t once, as is well known, for upwards of forty years In like manner every member of the protestant church of England, of the church of Scotland, and of the church of Ireland, is compelled to swear all manner of repudiation and disavowal of the eccle siastical jurisdiction of Rome, which nobody in his senses believes the swearer to have ever dreamt of acknowledging. In short, the only oath that has any intelligible meaning or arguable applicability to the existing condition of things, senti ments, and persons, at the present day, is that of al legiance and this has been retained by the bill. Instead of being content with shortening and sim plifying this remaining oath, the authors of the pre sent measure most unaccountably borrowed two un meaning and obsolete fragments of two different old oaths, and thrust them into their otherwise simple and unobjectionable form. To these interpolations, as might have been expected, great repugnance was felt. They were justly regarded as unnecessary, and therefore as improper. Ore of them consisted of a s elemn areverat'on not to disturb " the settlement of property as established by law." The other consisted of the equally preposterous protestation against "the temporal or clod authnrity of the Pops within these realms ." As if any human being cou ld b y any ' possibility find any other human being in possession of his senses who does believe anything of the kind. A circumstantial declaration that the moon is not made of green cheese, would not be more ridiculous or re pageant to every proper sense of the dignity and sacredness of a public appeal to Heaven, thau such inane and senseless adjuration,. The smendirent of Mr. VERNON SMITH to strike out both of the se superfluous sentences, elicited very distinctly the prevalent opinion of the house. It was ably and well supported by Mr. BOUVERIE, Mr.' BRIGHT, Mr. WOOD, Mr. Fox , and finally by Sir ' ROBERT PEEL. It was opposed with their usual elo quence, wit, and wied on by Maefe. GOULBURN, S. truster, and Lsw—geutlemen who have invariably the fortune of resisting very cha n g e that is inevitab le and defending every superstition of law or politics after it has ceased to be believed by the residue of mankind. After some hesitation Lord JOHN RCSEJELL announced his readine is to yield to the amendment and to obliterate the obnoxious phrkes. Whereupon, finding themselves outnumbered and discomfited, the tories got up a clamour about being taken by surprise, declared they would Lot be done out of their dear old oaths, and with marvellous effrontery asked for time to consider the question more fully. Then was the voice of Mr. Dieaseut beard for the first time. That voice which was silent when the rights of the Jew were in question on the first and second reading of the bill, was no longer wanting when fictions frustration was to be given to the decent amelioration and revision of the oath to be taken by the great ma jority of the house. On two die' sions demanded by , the advocates of adjournment the friends of l iberatin g conscience succAded by majorities of two to rms. But there appearing no chance of inducing the minority to abandon their unworthy tac tics, and midnight being long passed, the farther consideration of the question was de ferred until a future day. When that day comes we confidently trust that those who have viewed's triumphed will not be wanting to themselves, but Ithat they will secure, by an overwhelming majority, I the good fruit of their previous exertions. Another amendment will ,then claim their equally serious attention: we allude to that of which notice has been given by Mr. NPCULLAGII, to omit the sole sectarian reservation contained in the bill, and to allow the Roman catholic members of both houses to take the same oath as the protestant. Tae principle involved in this amendment was glanced at incidentally by several of the speakers on Monday night. Bit in truth it is a separate and dis tinct question, and ought not to be mixed up with the previous one, if its merits are to be fairly or fully con sidered. The right is as clearly on the side of the hoe. member for Dundalk as on that of the hon. member for Northampton. Bat their battles with antiquated prejudice must be fought separately and in succession, though the combatants in both will probably be the same. REPOIT OF THE COMMITTEE ON ASHY AND ORDNANC I E/PINDITCRE.—Your committee have to report to the house that the investigation into the expenditure en account of the ordnance estimates has occupied theiratten tion to the present time, and is yet to far unfinished that they can hold out no expectation to the house that they shall be enabled to do more than to report upon the expenditure on account of ordnance estimates during the present session. HEALTH OP LONDON DURING THE WEEK.—It is satisfactory to observe that the last return indicates a conti nued tendency in the publics health to improve. The deaths registered in the week were 68 less than the average, the numbers having gradually fsllen during four successive weeks from the middle of April, when they were respectively 1,059, 1,058, 986, and in the last week 905. This moult is ob tained. notwithstanding recent lowness of temperature, which in lmt week was considerably under the average of seven years, though it had been much above it during great part of that immediately preceding. The deaths from cyanotic or epide mic diceases, in the aggregate, were 200, and exceeded the avenge by 8 ; in the two preceding weeks they were 233 sad W. Of the diseases in this close, which some'imes prevail extensively, small-pox and typhus continue to be fatal to a less number of persons than usual; diarrhcca and dysentery en fatal to 13, or 1 less than the average, showing a decrease en the preceding four weeks ; cholera to 3, cr only 2 more then the average ; measles, which increases a little, to 33, or 12 in excess of the average; and scarlatina, which continues So decline, to 40, or 8 in excess. The mortality from bron ebitis and pneumonia falls, and now only exceeds the average to an inconsiderable extent; that from phthisis is in less amount than usual. No death wax recorded from influenza. The deaths of two men, one 68 and the other 71 years of age, an described as the malt of inownp.rance, which produced IS i.e ease typhoid fever, and in the other delirium tremens. •Mr of 38 years died of " arplezy, succeeding great ce , renal excitement." The mean height of the barometer during the week was 29.883 in. ; the mean daily height was above 30 in. on Saturday only. The mean daily tempera ture. which was 60 deg. .7 on Sunday, continuously fell to 42 deg. .2 on Thursday ; on Friday and Saturday it rose to about 47 deg. The mean of the week was 45 deg. 5 min. It was 6 deg. .7 below the average of the corre sponding week doyen years. UNITED STATES. NEW YORK, Mar 2. The administration at Washington has not as yet made any demonstration cf its policy. We presume that non-interference in foreign masters will be pre claimed on all proper occasions, and that as re garde Canada, if matters there should grow wsrlace, bodies of regular troops will be stationed along the frontiers to keep down physical sympathy. The larp appoint ments of the government have not yet been made, bat are daily expected to be, and the applicants are nearly all at Washington in person or by *eh repre sentatives to urge their claims. A gentleman re evilly at the capital informs me that he thinks Gen. Taylor's health has been isomewh..t impaired by a cheese in his mode of life. He looks thin, and stoops a little. Indeed, he could hardly recognise in his attenuated form the hero of 113 many fights, accus tomed to so many hardships, and with a constitution reputed to be of iron. We have a telegraphic despatch front Louisville, Kentucky, as late as the 30th of April. The convention called in the state of Kautucky, for the purpose of considering what course it becomes those to pursue who are opposed to the increase and i perpetuation of slavery, assembled on the 25th ult. at Frankfort. After the organie.tion of the body,l sundry propositions were adopted, among which were the following : I. Believing that hereditary slavery, as it exists by the laws of Kentucky, is injuri Ate to the comm onwealth, incon sistent with the fundamental principles of a free govern ment, and opposed to the rights of mankind, It therefore ought not to be perpetuated. 11. Any scheme of emancipation ought to be prospective, or operative upon such negroie so are born after the adop tion of said Debase ; and for this purpose the annexed points I are recommended to be inserted in the new constitution Ist. An absolute prohibition of the importation of slaves into the state of Kentucky. 2nd. That complete power shall be confined upon the people of Kentucky to perfect, under the new constitution, a system for the gradual prospective emancipation of their By an arrival at New Orleans from Vera Cruz, we have dates from California to the 3rd of March, and from the city of Mexico to the 12th of April. Fifty vessels had arrived at San Francisco within a week previous to the 3rd front various ports in the Pacific, freighted with assorted goods and filled with pas- sengers. The markets were thoroughly glutted. Gold continued as plentiful as ever, and new placers were almost daily discovered. The elections of dole gates, to form a temporary government, had taken place, and there was an universal unopposed determi nation manifested to prevent the admission of slaves. Howland and Aspinwall's e'camer had not returned to Panama. Indeed it is asserted that the whole crew had deserted and made off for the mines. The second steamer, the Oregon, had got up as for as Mazatlan, arriviog there on the 14th of March from Panama, and proceeded north the some day. On the 10th of the same month a Spanish schooner arrived at Mazatlan from San Francisco with 15,000 oz. of gold, purchased at from 11 dole. to 15 dole. per or. A placer had been discovered in Lower California as rich as any on the Sacramento. There were con tinued streams of American emigrants crossing froml Vera Cruz to Mazatlan. There continues to be diffi , ulty at Tampico. It appears that when the country was siren up by our s troops, the American goods which were already in the country were exempt from duty, but the Mexican government required an exhibition of the invoices. These invoices, it is alleg , d, contained not only the goads on hand, but of immense quantities to arrive. A tariff, however, was laid, with such eror mons rates of duty as to " block the game," and trade Is absolutely at a stand. The mer chants are therefore discontented. The government knows it, and watches them with a jealous eye. It also takes good care to collect as mach duty I on imparts and exports as possible. A package of ep. cie of the value of 14,000 dollars, was attempted to be placed on board the Thames steamer in the shape I of boles of cochineal, but the attempt was discovered and the specie was *Cud and forfeited. We have an arrival at Poilatielphia with dates from Puerto Cabello to the 4th of April. The ac counts are gloomy. The Venezuelans are suffering under the despotism of Menages, and propose to elect as his successor the res. nt vice-president, Guzman. Monagas had thrown onto prison a number of French citizens, among them the vice-consul. Another revo lution in Venezuela was looked upon as certain. COLONIAL. AUSTRALIA.—POItT PHILIP. We have received a file of the Melbourne Argus to the 13th of Janusry. There had been an alarm of cholera at Melbourne, and the Argus of the 12th admits that one authenticat , d case had came to their knowledge. These journals contain no other news of general interest. IHE COURT. The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Prince of Walee, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, took an airing yesterday in an open carriage and four. The Equerries in Waiting, General Wemyss and Lieut..colonel the lion. Alexander Gordon, attended on horseback. Her Majesty and Prince Albert honoured Her Majesty's Theatre with their presence yesterday evening. The royal suite consisted of the Count , ws Desart, Hon. Mist+ Murray, lion. Miss Macdonald, tbe Did of Morton, General Wensyss, and Lieut.-colonel the lion. Alexander Gordon. The Prince and Princess Augustus of Saxe-Cobourg took a carriage drive yesterday. The Lord Provost of Glasgow, Bailie Orr, accom panied by Mr. Alexander Hanle, M.P., had an interview with Sir George Orsy rsterday at tht Home-office. The Marchioness of Lansdowne had an evening party yesterday at Lansdowne-house, Berkelepoquare. THE KING OP HaNOVER.—We have great satis faction in being able to contradict the reports insiduously spread in different papers, that troubles had taken place at Hanover, that the King had been obliged to leave his capi tal. Such rumours are utterly false and void of foundation. We have seta letters from Hanover of the 11th, wherein the state of the capital is mentioned as perfectly quiet.--11forning Post of yesterday .—[ Thesereports were first " insiduoualy` given currency to by the Morning Post itself; and capie.l from that paper into the other journals.) HER MAJESTY'S TfIEATRE.—The Queen and hit Royal Highness Prince Albert honoured the performances at Her Majesty's Theatr, rsterday evening with their pre sence. The royal suite in attendance upon ter Majesty and hh Hovel Highness included the Countess of Desart,Mon. Miss Murray, Hon. Flora Bleed - meld, Earl of Morton, thm. Wang's, and Lieut.-Col. the Lion. Alexander Gordon. TIM SALE AT GORE HOUSE.—This sale continues from day to day, and the interest which attaches to the pro perty does cot appear to subside. The sale of yesterday comprised a large collection of pictures, drawings, and en. graving.; and the following were amongst the poets realised by the more valuable specimens. An equestrian portrait of a lady, by Count D'Orsay, 6 guineas. Portrait e Dr. Thomas Ashton, from the sale at Strawberry.hill, by Gains borough, 54 guineas. A whole length portrait of Count D'Orsay, with a dog introduced by the count, by Stevens, 64 guineas. The Earl of Blessington in military costume, by Stroebling„ 6 guineas. View on the Grand Canal, Venice, by Holland, 81 guineas. Portrait Portrait of Lord Lyndhurst, by ¶.oust D'Orsay, 23 of Viscount Canterbury, by Ciunt D'Orsay, 15 guineas. Portrait of Madame de Gratfigny, 8 guineas. lhe Gam blers, said to be by Caravaggio, 16 guineas. A portrait, said to be by Velsaque c, 64 guineas. The Lake of Nemi, painted for Sir Horace Mann, by It. Wilson, 35 guineas. Pope PILLS VII., the original sketch for the large picture, by Sir T. Lawr ence, 25 'guineas. Por trait of General Count D'Orsay, in milt•ary costume, by Count D'Orsay, 31 guineas. he Countess of Bleisinguan contemplating a picture, by Count D'Orsay, 17 guineas. The Duchess de Grammont, holding a fan in her left hand, by Count D'Orsay, 30 guineas. Portrait of a favourite dog, presented to the Countess of Blessington by the King of Naples, by Edwin Landseer, 150 guineas. Samson and Delilah, a small study by Etty, 5 guineas. Lord Nelson sealing tho despatch announcing the battle of Copenhagen, an original sketch by Sir D. Wilkie, 10 guineas. Clarissa Marlowe in Prison, by Dubufe, 24 guineas. Hunting Party of the period of Louis XV., by Alfred de Dru, 36 guineas. The Carrier Pigeon, by Maclise, 25 guineas (bought by Mr. Grundy). The Doves, by Count D'Orsay, 18 guineas. Portrait of the celebrated Mrs. Inchbeld, by Sir T. Lawrence. 46 guneas. Portrait of Henrietta Maria, said to be by Vandyck, 74 guineas. Silence, said to be by Guido, 25 guineas. Por trait of the Emperor Napoleon, in threequarter length, b b y Count D'Orsay, 60 guineas. Portrait of a gentleman, y Sir Joshua Reynolds, 11 guineas. Portrait of the Earl of Blessington, by Sir T. Lawrence, 63 guineas. The Countess of Illessington, by Sir T. Lawrence, 320 guineas, Portrait of Miss Power, with a favourite spaniel, by Count D'Orsay, 14 guineas. Portrait of Miss E. Power, with a bird, by Count D'Orsay, 23 guineas. The Duke of Wellington (from which the engraving was taken), by Count D'Orsay, 180 gui netts. The Marquis of Wellesley, by Count D'Orsay,24 witness. The drawings and miniatures, which were disioged of afterwards, fetched, in the majority of instances, very good prices ; and the procseds of tho day's sale amounted altoge ther to a considerable sum. SOUTH EASTERN RAILWAY. COMMIT TEE OF INVESTIGATION. The tgport of this committee wu iqmed to the pro prietors yse•erday. It is divided under different heads, ac cording to the subjests of investigation. The investrasat &Mount is lint dealt with. This amount commences on the 28th October, 1847, and as made up in the eompa n y' s led g er to the Slat January, 1849, exhibits a balance at its debit of 136,2191. Se. Bd.. and purports to be the amount of the transactions of the board in the purchase and sale of shares in the company's own stock. The coat ordure, remaining on hand on the 31st January, 1849, was 154,8481. ; and reckoning the dividends and inte rest on shares at the rate declared at the last half-yearly meeting, the annual income derivable to the com pany from this investment would b e 7,6811 . 181. 4d., equal to about 4f per cent. per annum. Eighty five No. 1 shares were purchased through Messrs. Pritchard and Dale, of Liverpool, but notwithstanding repeated applications have been made for their delivery, and there is remain to fear, owing to the embarrassed state of the affairs of that firm, the company will not be able to obtain possession of those shares, nor to recover their value. The report then states that " there appears no reason for doubting that the investment was intended by the directors bonafsde for the abject declared in the resolution of October, 1847 ; nevertheless, your committee disapprove of the mea sure itself upon the general pt inapt* of the inexpediency of a public company entering the market as a purchaser of its own stock. But having regard to the actual transactions which took place subsequently to the resolution of May, 1848, under cover of its authority, your committee cannot too strongly condemn the utter di-regard ex hibited of the recorded order of the board of directors. Not only were the shares ordered to be sold not sold, but 'lather large purchmes,to the extent of doubling the amouut of the original investment, were made of the very descrip tion of stock directed to be sold, the acting broker being Mr. Id. L. Pritchard, the deputy-chairman of the company, s mediae' in his separate character, sometimes as a mem ber of the firm of Pritchard and Dale. And while looking at the large amount of commission earned by there parties (1,5601.), the deviation from the usual practice in making , money advice', and the defalcation of the 85 shares, your com puta m ti f ou tte•e of ere hal u n a g bl tak e to eu clunearduellaar:ranPruitgcheaorid hfri:ponaittieonimin the direction, and Tithed the interest of the company, in order to carry out private objects ; nevertheless, they cannot absolve the Board of Directors from the charge of neglect of duty ; for, had a strict and formal system of ma nagement prevailed, no individual member of th‘ir body could have taken the liberties which have involved the company in this un'ortunate transaction. The charge of the RIM of 14,8791. to the debit of the profit and loss account for the half year ending 31st January, 1849, arose from a peculiar mode of keep in g (" cooking ' • would have been tie word applied by the deputy-chairman of another line) the account*. "'The responsibility attaching to the mode adopted in making up the accounts for the hall y,ar, 31st July, 1818, rests with Mr. Pritchard, the then, deputy-chairman, as that geutlemen admits; and he hying, in reply to the requisition made to him by your committee for explanation, stated, in writing, the grounds on which he considered the courts he had taken to be a warrantable and proper one, your committee consider it due to Yr. Pritchard to place his statement on this subject betas sou. It will be found in the appendix. But your committee in no sense concur in the validity of the reasons as•igneei by Mr. Pritchard in justification of the course taken on that fieitiiicee." - The allegation that 3.5,0001. had been paid to the solicitors. of the company without taxation appears to be true; but the charges were made upon the same scale as that established in the taxation of the former solicitors' bills. In re knew tothe payment of 0701. to Mr. R.W. Kennard, a director, it appears that when, on the 30th Novomber, 1946, Mr. IL W. Kennard was ected a director, there ware subsisting between him and the company two contracts for iron chafes, one fur 1,000 tons of which 93 tons remained to be delivered, and a aubsequent one for 350 tous, of which no part had been delivered. On this being brought to the notice of Mr. R. W. Kennard, that gentleman resigned his seat at the baud, assigned his interest in the twu con:rico to his son, Mr. T. W. Kennard, and was thereup.de re-elected a director. Respecting the testimonial to Lord Torrington about which so much has been said, the committee state that, act ing under the authority of a resolution p assed in darch, 1817, the hoard presented to Lord Torrington a secs co of plate, of the value of 24•891. 51 , the cost of which, as well as that of tbo public dinner, at which tee presentation took place, namely, 3421. 125., is properly charged in the accounts as part of the expenses incurred In the promotion of the North Kent line. " Whether a less splendid memorial e zegt,t have been an adequate expression of the gratitude of the proprietors, would be now a vain inquiry ; but it ought not he forgotten that the directors, to whose discretion the execution of the wishes of the proprietors was expressly con fided, were, of necessity, the moot competent judges of the value of the se which that noble lord bad rendered to the company" From the accountants' report, it appears that sums pro perly chargeable to the debit of reveune during the period wader investigation have been charged, and now stand, to the debit of construction, to the extent of 197,93'21. 14s. 11d. The committee deprecate strongly this mode of dealieg with the sums forming this amount in the books and accounts of the company ; it is, in their opinion, at variance with every sate and sound principle of mercantile economy ; they have accordingly felt it their duty to make strict inquiry, in order to ascertain the authority upon which it was resorted to, and to discover the grounds, if any, upon which it could be justified. It farther appears from the accountants' report that had . the accounts beta strictly made up so as to include all the expenditure incurred, as well as that actually paid during the period, end had the probable losses hem bid debts been written off, and had the full amount of stores consumed been charged, the actual available profit would have appeared i surther reduced by the sum of 33,842/. 13s. 9J., to which has to be added tt.e item of 8,2G91. Gs. Id., carried to the credit of revenue instead of capital. The observations of the committee on the position and prospects of the company we must deter abstraw.ing tall another opportunity. FOREIGN Alb SotlETT.—Yesterday afternoon the ninth annual meeting of the friends of this society took place at the Hanover square Booms, the Marquis of Cholmoodeley in the chair. Tile report of the committee stated that although the evanaelisation of Frarce had been much af fected by the tide of revolution which had rolled over the country, and the faith of the converts from the church of Some had been severely tested, yet, upon a review of the events of the year, the cause of the uspel had rather been furthered than retarded, and many formal requests for platen of the reformed church had bton re. ct ie. d from Roman Catholic congregations by the committee at Paris. The republican government had determined to centimes the payment of ministers of religion out of the public tressury, the only difference made between the churches beieg the payment of salaries. The v 416440641 churches were set upon a free towing, and their preachings and prayings in public were under no me s , riaion except that of forwarding notices to the authorities, who attended to preserve order. The estimate fur the ex penses of ministers of the reformed church during the cur rent year was 50,0001., being 1,1001. less than het peer. 1 his sum was for the payment of about teventy minister a, besides numerous agents from the societies of Geneva, Penis, and Lyons. At Muntenoirron, in Veucluse, the catholic, had ex pel,ed their priest and made a formal request to have a pastor gent to them, and this example had been followed is many other places. The report then detailed the proceed ings of the Socielte Evangelique de Geneve, which had risen from the depression of the year preceding, was now in a pros perous state, had been enabled to pay tdf its debt of 20,000 f., and to establish many new stations. The Foreign Aid Society had made a grant if 6501. towards the expense's of the brethren in Geneva. The Sociki Evangelique de , France had taken advantage of the freedom of opinion w h ich 1 tullowed the revolution to establish a s y nod, the fi rst which I had existed in Freest* since the year 1059. That society had now 27 ministers, and eight colporteurs, besides students acid professors. The synod refused to receive the psymeat from the state. The Foreign Aid Society had contributed 552/. towards the support of the synod. The SocA,te Celt. trale Protestaute de France, a newly organised society, had not gone on so well during the past year. It acted as a kind of direction to the mueements of the poeteurs. It was at present encumbered with a debt of 1,1001. The Societe de [ Evangelisation of Lyons was p ro g retain g , as was also the reformed church in Belgium , an d efforts were being made at Lisbon and Gibraltar. In all these cassethe Foreign Aid Society had lent its assistance. The yearly income amounted to 2,8631. lac 7d., the committee not having the pleasure of announcing a donation of 1,0001., as they had last year. On the motion of the Earl of Galloway this report was adopted, and the meeting was then addressed by several clergymen and gentlemen in support of resolutions favourable to the objects of tke society. The meeting separated after a warm I expression of tha• ks to the chairman. 1 R EPRESE NTATION OP S OUT H ESSEX.—The follow ' lop Las re ached us from a correspondent , and rot is ing able i toimpeach or confirm the statement, we publieb it ns we I have received it ...—" We understand, that should it diwoh, 1 ties take place, S r E. N. Buxton will n , t offer Piansel , again, hat that John L Lurie, Eaq , the late e , er i ft of Lon , lon, ' who has purchased the Marshall's estate, near ll...tering, I and will be our constant resident, has b e n r:qt.erted by a large end influential body of electors to succeed our present member, and from his known zeal and intehno nee as a to the magidrate in our county, as well as in Middl.s . ..x, he will be found an active and tht roughly useful member, and of his R herine's success there can be no doubt."—Eseez 'tenth!. ARRIVAL OF FOREIGN SUGAR.—TILE NAVIGA has —The z a ut iki e l rt b s i iipe l . oe cK o ti j av o te ly, [ brought a large cargo of for ign sugar, ecmrriring 1,080 bones from the former, and 1,820 boxes from the latter place. This large cargo of sugar was necessarily entered to he l i Ttr D i ! i° e Xted lts LA t B :o tal et t.s. warehoused and declared to be for exportation only to an.,ther foreign c 'entry, it b. ing inadmissible, in the .xis' log state of the navigation laws, for home use. TUE " GUY MANNERING."—The Livericol papers say this noble ship, which has just made her lust voyage aeries the Atlantic, has been fitted up as a passenger vessel, and whether in the saloon, the second cabin, ,I[ th e steerage, the accommodation appears to be of the very fir s t descri p tion. The Tenth' . ion throughout is excellent, and, In the 'monk cabin, Lieut. Hodder's plan for berth s has bea n t. ~.. ': Some idea of her immense size may be fore* , . . . 4 known that, independently of a large cargo, sie , [..,.. modate upwards of 800 pamengen. t f:::t.-:1:• ..1 w .., - :,.. ; t r i :,. ..-....: vo il rks': 7' ,} mama la a tar Idea keel, r la lariat eirt rali .