The Express. — London, England, 1846-12-10 00:00:00

I • ^... • OTICE. SIR EDWARD BULWE N R YT TON'S KEW WORK. LUCRETIA ; or, The CHILDREN of NIGHT. is n or, . t at au the Libraries. Natuadrra and Miry, Publishers, Conduit -street. §sACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY, Extavat lIALL. —TO-MORROW EVENING, December 11, and WED ' DAY, De amber 23, will be performed HANDEL'S ORATORIO, MESSIAIL Principal Vocal Performers—Madame Caradori Mies M. B. Hawes, Mr. Mauve,. "r 4 Mr. U. pr i mps. The Band and Chorus will consist of alma ZZ: ItlOrnters. Tickets, 3s. each; Reserved Seats, 30., in the aces or gallery, may be bad of the principal ?dusk-sellers; of Mr. Bowie), 33, Chasing aces ; Mr. Mitchell, 39, Charing-cross; and of Mr. Rlm, 1 0 2, Strand. opposite Exeter-boll. THOMAS BREWSS Am. Bee. THRONE ROOM, CROSBY HALL.—Madame ± Adelaide, Maclaine Miami Davie, and Mous. Louis d'Egrilie, have the honour to announce that their REUNION DANSANTE is held at the above room every Thursday evenine.—For particulars apply at 7, Bury-street, Bt. James's, 13, Mount-street. Grosvenor' square, or at Criiiby-hall. WILSON'S SCOTTISH ENTERTAINMENTS. At CROSBV-I[ALL—TO-31ORROlV EVENING (Friday), the 11th, Mr. WILSON'S ENTERTAINMENT wlilconsiSt of AN HOUR Wl' BURNS, in which he will sang a Selection of the most admired Songs of Bums, and recite his celebrated Poem of TAM O'SHANTF.R. The Second l'art will contain a miscellaneous selection of Songs by various Sootch poeta.—Pianolbrte, Mr. Land._ AURENrS CASINO, ROYAL ADELAIDE A_A GALLERY, Strand.—The merry Song and the mazy danoe.— Metropolitan Terpeiehoreans v. Phantom Dancera—liand of Fifty Performers, conducted by M. Laurent, Jun.—Grand Vocal Concert.— Retre4blng beverages supplied at the must reduced tariff. Admin.ion, is. Open at ".eren, commence at 11.1 f-past, and terminate at Eleven. Madame Michaud's new Nmodltan Dance taught by the Masters of the Ceremonies every Tuesday , Thursday. mid Saturday, at Three o'Clock. Terme, 10s. 6d. the Three Lowns. _ TyC EU M THE AT R E.—BAL MASQUE. — _a_4 Mr. ALLCROFT'S NEAPOLI TAN BAL MASQUE will take plass on WEDNESDAY NEXT, Dec. 16, it being Philtivel, the 12, t the geason. A new orchestra will be erected at the extremity of the stage, leaving a spacious area, which will be newly carpeted, the entire theatre will be brilliantly illuminated and ornamented. The orchestra will consist of ONE HUNDRED first-rate ARTISTS. For the comfort of the visitors, twelve masters of the ceremonies hare been appointed. Ladies' Tickets . ss. Gentlemen's llegeba.... Spectators (dress slesie). 4s. upper_bimen b. 6d. P Application for tickets, private taxes, and places to be made at the Boxotflee, and at 62, Ragistwareet, and 15, New Bond-street; and Mr. Simmons, 7, Tavistodt-street, Covent-garden, is appointed costumier. DoJni open at half-past Nine ; dancing toe:minion.* at Ten o'cleck. LYCEUM THEATRE.—PROMENADE CON CERTS.—LAST NIGHT BUT FOUR.—THIS EVENING. Thursday.—Overture, William Tell; Polka, D'Ormy ; Qulntette, Ades lakle, on the Sax-Rorie, by Mr. Distin and his Four tiers; Scotch Quadrille, Macgregor; Ballad, Mrs. W. Bull; Polka, Vittoria-Albert; Trio, Mimes R. and C. Turner on the Harp, and Kim S. Turner on the Violin; Quadritle, Military. Part IL—Selections from Mac beth; Polka, les Viennolies; Fantasia. Violin, Master W. Thirty:di Waltz, the Naiads; Quintetto, the Distin Brothers on the newly invented instrument, the Sax-tubus ; Overture, Crown Diamonds; Polka, Royal Mail; Overture, Fre Diavolo. inductor, IL Negri. —Pit, Promenade, and Upper Boxes, In. • Dress Circle, 2s. 6d.; Private Boxes, 10s. and 21s. Application to be made at the Box-office. N.B.—Tuesday next, Dee. 15, will be for the Benefit of Mr. Alleroft, on which occasion he will deliver a Farewell Address. 7The ortOs. MAILS. The mails for Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Madeira, Cadie, and Gibraltar, will be made up on the morning of the 17th December. The West India malls, excluding those for Mexico, Honduras, and the Hnvannah, will be made up on the morning of the 17th December. Tbl overland mails for Gibraltar. Malta, Greece, th e e KOWA Islands, Egypt, Aden, Ceylon, India, Moog-Kong, and China, Southampton, will be made up on the evening of the 19th December, The overland closed mails. via Marseilles, to the Mediterranean, Egypt, Aden, Ceylon, India, Hong Kong, ha., will be made up on the evening of the 24th December. The mail+ for New South Wales, Van Diemen's Land, and New Zealand will be made up on the evening of the Slat December. The malls for Britbh North America, Bermuda, and the United States, will be made up on the evenixg of the 4th January. The mulls for the Brazils, tbo River Plate, Monte Video, Pernam buco, Bahia, Maleira, and Buenos Ayres, will be dispatched on the evening of the 4th January. TO CORRESPONDENTS. We do not agree with .1. L. of Cockerrnouth. V , Advertisements Wended for The Express, London evening paper, must be at the Mice by Two o'clock on the day of publication. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE. Tog DAL—Morning, 22 min. past 6; Afternoon, 43 rain. put 6 To-Moscow—Morning, 8 win. put 7; littera°On, 36 man. past 7. LONDON, THURSDAY, DEC. 10. MERE is something equally strange in English energy and in English apathy on matters of public con cern. NVe tolerate abuses for centuries. A wrong may bo blazoned in reports, and its correction urged in news papers, without effect, for years. The reformer, who has taken the subject under his special charge, grows disgusted with his idle efforts, and is ready to fling down his pen in despair. Suddenly comes some glaring example of grievous, perhaps fatal, mischief, from the matter of his vain attacks. Universal hor ror is excited. Complaint is bandied to and fro. Master accuses servant: the public accuse both. Animadversion and abuse are wasted on individuals which ought in fairness to rest on the system which public indifference has sanctioned—we say , public mdifffirence, for official neglect is the result of this in nine cases out of ten. But the clamour grows. The press takes up the matter. It is mentioned in par liament. A change is demanded and conceded ; the abuse which well-meaning, clear-headed benevolence had in vain assailed for years, is swept away in a few months before the fitful tide of public opinion. Bene volence rejoices in the change, but is not quite satis fied with the means and manner. Thus went un restrained flogging in the army—thus must go some details of the New Poor-law; thus will go the abominations of the Spinning-house at Cambridge. Out of the last we are now receiving an excellent illustration of our feverish and irregular philan- thropism. ELIZABETH HOWE, a poor Cambridge street walker, taken up whilst simply walking the street, is committed by the proctor to the Spin ning-house, the place of confinement for such persons when found in the town. The cell which she oocu pies with a fellow-prisoner is cold and damp ; with iron shutters, ill-fitting, the glass broken out from their central opening. The cell has no fire : the blankets are saturated with moisture : the night is one of piercing frost. She is already suffering from severe cold. She is releasedon the morning ofthe 7th, after one night spent in this way, and returns to her lodgings, ill and pierced with cold. She gradually sinks from that time, and dies of rheumatic fever on the 17th, ten days after the fatal night in the Spinning-house. An inquest is held ; public indignation excited ; the jury reflect in a verdict, expressing their abhorrence at a system which sanctions the apprehension of women when not offending against the general law of the land, and confining them in a gaol "not fit for the worst of felons . ' The case is made the subject of newspaper comments, and abuse lavished on the proctor who committed the girl. This abuse is unfair and uncalled for. When it ex tends to the University authorities which tolerate the place and system, we admit its justice, and will lend our aid to expose the careless and stubborn inhu manity of these lawgivers of " a seminary of sound lemming and religions education." The law of the case lies, we apprehend, in a nutshell. Even the acuteness of the very intel ligent coroner of Cambridge would not allow him to charge the jury that the committal was illegal. It rests on the authority of the Act of Elizabeth, which inter alia confirms the charter of the third year of her reign, in which a power of punishing lewd women and such persons " coming or assembling " to Cambridge, its suburbs, &c., by bodily imprisonment, banishment, or otherwise, at the will of the chancellor or his deputy. The charter does not require that the persons committed under it shall have been guilty of not or disorderly conduct. Whatever may be thought of the expediency of continuing this power there can be no question, it is now legally exer cised by the university as far as the intention sof the framers of the charter go. As conferred by the charter of 3rd ELIZABETH, it was but the 'affirmation with some extension of powers ready conferred by letters patent of EDWARD al and HENRY VI. Perhaps the peculiar circumstances of Cambridge life may justify the University in demanding and exerting this great and unconstitutional power. Young men are crowded there, who, whatever University sermons may say, are not JOSEPHS in their lives. The influence of decorous married heads of houses and decorous unmarried fellows, is not practically sufficient to keep undergraduates from a more open profligacy than is compatible with the decencies and restraints of home. More than the usual checks on profligacy are indis• potably required at Cambridge and "similar places. The proctor's domiciliary visits to Barnwell may not serve to keep a certain, and not a small class, of un dergraduates away from that scene of vice ; but they do much, probably, to deter those who show a re spect for college authority, which they would pay neither to purity of life or strictness of morals. At the same time, the relegation of prostitutes from Cambridge itself only drives them to its notorious suburb. The foul streams dammed bads from the college walks and quiet streets into more pestilential foulness in Barnwell ar Jericho . You drive your fish into a stew that the ~~ - „ proctor may angle in Hs dirty waters with less loss of time and greater chance of a good take. His duty is a disagreeable one. He is a policeman with gentle manly feelings and without a truncheon. In some in stances, the instinct of hunting, which DITGALD STEWART makes an ultimate iniocade of our nature, may carry him on with a sort of pleasure. Ht lose sight of the strength of the scent, and the foul ness of the game, in the ardour of the chase. But, in by far the majority of cases, the proctor fulfils the functions of his office reluctantly, and only from a sense of duty. We cannot, for our own parts, admit that his one great power of summarily arrest iag prostitutes has any good effect that can com pensate for its harshness and possible oppression. Such laws are more akin to the ordonnanees of France or Prussia, than the jealous spirit of Anglo- Saxon institutions. It may be doubted if the aggra vated indecency of Barnwell is not, in part, at tributable to the enforced decency of Cambridge, with its lanes and alleys scoured by the moral scavengering of the clerical street-keeper and his brace of bull-dogs. But these are points of controversy. There are fea tures in the case which admit of no doubt or discus sion. The state of the spinning-house is shameful and scandalous to the University. We doubt if any prison in England be worse managed than this, in the heart of a University town, under the special and ex clusive surveillance of dignitaries of the Church. They cannot even plead ignorance in excuse of their utter neglect of duty, miserable as such an excuse would be. The disgraceful state of the spinning-house has been laid before them annually, since the first report of the prison inspector in 1833. These grave divines and prudish dons have been deaf to representations which have had weight with every bench and every gaoler in England. The stagnant t renius of the status quo, the " let-bad alone " which disguises itself under respect for the " wisdom of our ancestors," has made itself apparent even here, where it is antagonistic to every prin ciple of Christian charity and common feel ing. Year after year, for ten years, the inspector of prisons has knocked at these hard hearts and called to these deaf ears. He might have a stereotyped phrase for the Cambridge spinning -house, to the effect " same as per last." We append two extracts,' one from the report for the north-eastern district for 1844, which has all the minuteness of a Flemish interior : Upon visiting this establishment, which has so frequently been animadverted von in former reports, at half-past nine in the morning, I found but one female prisoner, Anne 8., aged 22, committed fur ten days. She was half undressed at the time of my visit. The room was redolent of tobacco ; a parcel of the herb, with a pack of playing cards, wire lying in the window, and several tobacco pipes were found about, one of which was still a-light, and had evidently been laid down on my approach. Since my last visit the University have appointed a chap lain, at a stipend of 401., who performs service there on the Sabbath, and attends for religious instruction twice is the week. I find the following entries in the prison books "Jane M., January 7, 1841, discharged February 3, having slept with C., who has the small pox." Surgeon's Book. " Dec. I. . . . . It is requested C. may sleep apart from J." (whose loathsome disease is entered previously). I have on former occasions noticed the gross impropriety of allowing prisoners thus diseased to sleep together, and it is the more unaccountable as there is ample room in the prison, on all occasions, for every prisoner to sleep in a separate cell. The number of prisoners brought in here since the 20th of last November have been 70. I waited upon the Vice-Chancellor, and reported to him the state of the prison, and referred him to suggestions for its improvement, which I had on former occasions laid before the authorities of the University. I regret to report that my ezpectations of improvement in this establishment hare been almost wholly disappointed, and that I found it on the 19th of March, 1842, in nearly the same discreditabk condition as at my first visit in 1835. The keeper states : The number of prisoners depends entirely upon the proc tors. During the last year we had as many as sixteen at one time. The proctors go through the prison, perhaps about two or three times a-year, the Vice-Chancellor Lever. I furnish the prisoners with food : they are supplied with bread, butter, cheese, and potatoes. I generally buy a quan tity of potatoes and sell them to the prisoners at the price asked at the door. Ido not sell tea; I have no license. I now refuse tobacco, ezeept to those to whom it is habitual. The sentencing prisoners to solitary confinement is new to us. Divine service is performed voluntarily by one of the proctors on the Sabbath at three o'clock. • • "The In spector upon the ensuing Sabbath attended at that hour, but after waiting a considerable time, and no minister appearing, the keeper stated it would not take place." Can there be any question that the body which can I thus neglect its duties is unfit to be longer entrusted with the control of any place of confinement what ever ? IT is impossible to have read the statement of Mr. BANKIN'S case without being struck with its hardship. Nor is it possible to avoid the reflection, that a system which admits the occurrence of such cases is one most adverse to the advancement of husbandry. It is notorious that such cases are not rare ; yet, with singular inconsistency, while landowners are most reluctant to abandon the absolute dominion over their farms, they are one and all eagerly preaching improvement to their tenants. They have still to learn that it is impossible to make one-sided bargains. Tenants will not, and cannot, give the full value of property without equivalents. Morally, yet more than legally, a unilateral contract is inoperative. That leases, simple in form, and for long terms of years, will eventually become universal in this coun try, we have no doubt ; but in the meantime, many will be the struggles of the owners of land to retain the inconsistent benefits of a semi-feudal dominion and full commercial rents. Every discussion which has a tendency to shorten the period of such struggles will confer great benefit upon the class of proprietors no less than the community of which they form a small, but, from position, an influential section. In bringing such cases as that of Mr. BANKIN'S before the public, we are doing the landowners ines timable service, for they are more commonly the re sult of ignorance on the part of the landowner, and bad advice on the part of the land-agent, than from anything like a desire to oppress the tenant. Land lords are too apt to regard their land as the only source of the produce they see upon it. They forget that, in most instances, it is the mere machine, often a difficult and unkindly one, which requires all the ..were of the united skill and capital of the tenant to .:..mean effective instrument of , production._ One msequence of such errors is, that landlords a not in general sufficiently careful in ascertainin, that persons offering themselves as tenants, are possessed of the requisite capital and skill. Now, it is well known, that the comparatively few landowners who are themselves good practical farmers, are the most careful in selecting tenants with sufficient capital ; and, having selected them, are most ready to give them security of tenure, and free dom from restriction. The late Lord LEICESTER was an example on this point. His first inquiry of a person proposing to hire one of his farms was, " What capital can you command ?" And, having ascertained the amount, decided on the extent of the land he would let to the applicant. He also set great store by the tenant's intelligence. Having ascertained these two points—the means and the skill of his tenant—he was assured that he might safely grant a lease. The present state of agriculture is, however, somewhat different from its condition when Lord LEICESTER (then Mr. Comm) effected his great im provements. Then the landlord led on his tenants, and partly persuaded and partly compelled them to adopt an improved system he had practically shown is be profitable. Now tenants are generally in ad winice of their landlords. During the last 12 or 14 years especially, farmers have become more and more alive to the necessity of good cultivation, and they have very extensively adopted it without accurately regarding the tenures by which they held their farms. In consequence, so many instances of hard ship and serious loss have occurred, that all our first rate farmers are earnest in demanding a legal recog nition of the tenant's right to be paid for unexhausted Improvements. And in truth; the principle of that right is sufficiently established by law, and admitted by boded proprietors. The custom of the country, twarying as it does in different districts, is a clear recognition of the principle, that the outgoing 1 tenant ought to be paid for certain acts of lasbandry done upon the farm. That the " cos- Aden of the country " is not sufficient to meet the present requirements of agriculture is to be attri belled to the circumstance that these customs have re ference to bygone methods of farming. Then, again, the different agreements for conceding tenant rights, which landlords and their agents are, in many in stances, proposing to farmers as substitutes for lessee, admit that tenants may, and do make outlays during their tenancies, for which they ought to be paid on quitting their farms. Tried by this test then, let us examine Mr. BAN- ~. EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER. 10, 1848. ma's case, shall find that the landlo,-d, rsonally, who had pushed the two countries t o such agent, luis been, in that transaction, not only coin pnt hat it was not the United States, but President FOLIC miffing a grievous wrong to the tenant , but has a extreme. actually compelling a retrograde course of farrtni23., Mr. BASKIN held his farm according to the custom of the country, by which, on quitting. he would have been entitled to be paid, for " all fellows, hay, straw, dung, compost, Bce.' having paid for the same upon his entry. lie might Lave grown good root crops, and farmed well up to the last year of his occupation raider the assurance of being paid, to some extent at all events, for the increased value of such par ticulars. The benefit to the landlord, or, what is the same thing, to the next tenant from this, is obvious. The farm is not materially let down in its condition. The new tenant at once finds keep for his stock, and the land in a state for immediate production. Be avoids the loss of time and great outlay which are necessary to recover a farm allowed to get into bad condition. And we see that, in fact, under such terms, the tenant states that he was steadily improving his farm. One would have thought a wise landlord or prudent agent would have been content to let such a tenant alone. But no, for some reason or other, he is called upon to enter into an agreement by which he is to "consume upon the farm all the hay, straw, helm, stover, turnips, and to leave all the muck arising tLei efrom for the benefit of the landlord or his incoming tenant, without any allowance for so doing." Such a requisition is plainly unjust; but, waiving that point what is its effect? Why, as might have been expected, the hand of improvement is arrested. The whole force of the farmer's teams is no longer employed in bringing manure or lime upon the farm. The object of the tenant is at once inverted. Instead of farming for an indefinite future, he strives how to extract the most produce from the land, in the shortest time, and at the least present cost. The en terprising tenant is suddenly converted into the nig gard farmer. A wholesale act of appropriation by the landlord is the direct and immediate cause of the deterioration of his estate. The very buildings erected by the tenant are paid for grudgingly, and as ' a sort of favour, in the final settlement. And in this particular instance it must be borne in mind that the farm is situated so near to London that it may often be most advantageous to the land to sell oft' great part of the produce, and carry back a quantity of manure far more than an equivalent. Let us contrast this with the means recommended by our more intelligent landowners for inducing tenants to adopt high farming. We pass by, on this occasion, the restrictions and qualifications which render such means comparatively inoperative ; our purpose is to deal with the principle. On Lord Ysanosounies estate, in Lincolnshire, a tenant would be entitled on leaving his farm to an allowance for bone dust used daring the previous three years ; for marl or chalk during the previous seven years; for lime during five years; and the same for claying light land. A proportionate part of the cost of draining executed during the last seven years if done with tiles, or during the last four years if done with thorns, is allowed to the outgoing tenant. Fellows are paid for. Buildings are also allowed for. These are established allowances ; and, of late, an allowance is made for the oil-cake consumed by cattle on the farm during the last two years. Here we see that the system of allowances to the outgoing tenant is extending, not contracting. Additions to the custo mary allowances are assumed, and justly so, to be inducements to good farming, and to be beneficial to the landowner. So again, the Loughborough Agricultural Society resolved, that various allowances ought to be made to the outgoing tenant, some of which are most appro priate contrasts to the agreement enforced by Mr. SHERIDAN on his tenant. For example, the Leicestershire agriculturists say, "an allow ance ought to be made for four years for the cost and carriage of all dung and night soil, which may be spread upon the land." Again, "an allowance ought to be made for turnip fellows ; namely, the working, rent, and taxes to be calculated, and the crop of turnips to be valued, and one-half of the value of the turnips to be given to the outgoing tenant." Such, and other allowances referred to, are given when all the produce, except corn, wool, meat, and dairy produce, is consumed on the land. Yet Mr. SHERIDAN's agent may imagine that he promotes the interest of his employer, by withdrawing all allow ance from the tenant, and insisting that he consume all the produce upon the land " for the benefit of the landlord without any allowance for so doing." That there are too many landlords and agents who act upon such narrow views sufficiently accounts for much of the miserable farming we see in all parts of the country. Intelligence has been received, rid Panama, from Wellington (New Zealand), to the 4th of August. .. I ‘ave received no mere, but among our letters o f the we find the li/owing public news : that dat., A crisis hab arrived. The Governor, with all his avail abe fame, ~, d eavouring to destroy the f‘waswiirms of those natives who ha t e been trooblesome for so long a period —and it is expected hut the preee:t mail will convey news of his Emcees, of which but little apprehension exists. People are beginning to be inspired with fresh coMidence and hope. There is plenty of business doing; the n orkets are well supplied from Sydney, and it creates some tueprise that so few shipments are mado direct from London." The Paris journals of Tuesday present no topic of foreign interest. Although nothing has been communicated to the I public through the organs of the ministry, consider able anxiety is felt respecting the financial crisis which now menaces the commercial interests, and efforts have been made without effect to induce the government to avoid the necessity of drawing out the balance which now stands in favour of the 'treasury. With this view, Count D'Argant, the governor of the Bank of France, had a long conference on Monday with the Minister of Finance, who, however much he desired to afford the means of relief sought for, found himself in a condition to render his refusal imperiously necessary. The thirty-five millions which now stand to the credit of the Treasury on the books of the bank are intended to pay the in terest of the 3 per cents,,which will be doe in January. Our correspondent has been assured that the house of Rothschild has intimated to the bank that it will, before the end of this month, place fifteen millions of specie at their disposal. The result of the negotia tions which have been opened with English and Dutch capitalists for a temporary loan were not known in Paris on Tuesday. The amount of specie in the bank was rather augmented ; it amounted on Tuesday to 103 millions, of which 20 millions were in the chests of the provincial branches. An entertainment was given to the Bey of Tunis on Monday, at Vincennes, by the Duke of Mont- pensier. The Debate contradicts the statements made by some journals that the Turkish Ambassador had de manded his passports on finding that the Bey was received as a sovereign prince. Advices continue to be received of further supplies of corn arriving by the port of Marseilles. At Con stantinople there had been exported in the ten days ending the 16th ult. 37 ships taking 110,000 hecto litres. In the week ending 16th ult. 600,000 hectolitres of grain had been exported from Constantinople, and there had remained in the warehouses 300,000 hects. exclusive of those expected from the Northern pro vinces. At Smyrna quantities of corn were waiting for exportation for want of vessels. Advices from Salonica, of the 11th ult., say that considerable pur chases of grain had been made for Western Europe, and especially for France. On the 6th and 7th inst. 653,783frc5. were paid into the savings bank of Paris. The disbursements for the corresponding week being 1,02.1,837fre5. The Moniteur contains a royal ordonnance, declar ing that though, according to the treaty of Commerce and Navigation concluded in 1826 between France and England, which ordains that the products of Asia, Africa, and America, imported in French ves sels into England, and in English vessels into France, were to be admitted only in bond for re-exportation; yet, ander present circumstances, as it would not be advisable to throw any , obstacle in the way of ob taining additional supplies of corn, the said treaty is I suspended until further orders in what relates to American corn and flour imported from British ports. The Madrid mail, with the journals of that city and private correspondence of the 2nd inst., was re ceived in Paris on Tuesday. Their contents are destitute of interest. It was said that the Infant Don Enrique was to receive a high rank in the Spanish navy, and a marriage be tween him and one of the Princesses of Naples was talked of. The statement that the Queen Mother and Count Bresson had interfered in the late minis terial crisis is contradicted. It was apprehended that that event would operate unfavourably for the ministerial party in the elections. A letter from Madrid of the 2nd gives some further details relative to the late fire in the Govern ment offices in that city : It commenced in the archives of the Minister of War, and, spreading with fearful rapidity, soon destroyed the buildings occupied by those offices, and communicated to the portion of the edifice now used for the sittinits of the Council of State. The archives and valuable furniture have been totally destroyed. The silver inkstands and the cash box of the Minister of War were either melted by the flames or have become the prey of the first persons who entered the place. The loss of the archives of the war department is a truly national calamity. The keeper of the archives left his office as usual between four and five o'clock, after seeing all the stoves put out with which the place was warmed. For tunately, all the papers connected with periods antecedent to the present century have been saved, but various documents relating to the personnel of the army, and military and judi cial affairs, have been destroyed. No cause can be assigned for this calamity. IP we weretobelieve manifestoes and proclamations, military despatches, speeches at patriotic feasts, and comments in public journals, we should say that the Mexicans were determined to make their war with the Anglo-Americans a war "to the knife." But there is sad disunion in the midst of all this exuberant patriotism. And parties in Mexico seem to hate and mistrust each other even more than they do their foreign foes. • The combination which upset PAREDES, (=using him of monarchic tendencies, and which recalled SANTA ANNA to succeed him, was composed of very heterogeneous materials, some of the new Ministers being personally attached to SANTA ANNA, whilst others were of the old Republican and Federalist party, who rallied to his name faute de mieur. Both factions, no doubt, sought to extend their influence at the expense of their colleagues. And there arose the usual struggle between a governmental and a demo cratic party, both of them sitting in the administra tion together. A portion of this struggle is curious as exempli fying the state of opinion in Mexico. Clubs for debate were formed amongst the Federalists, which struck the good Catholics with horror, though we cannot see any political heterodoxy in their notions. The Catolico accordingly denounced to SANTA ANNA the Federalist Societies for preaching such abomina ble doctrines as the necessity of tolerance, the expedi ency of cull registers, the curtailing of ecclesiastical privileges, and a better repartition of church tempo ralities. These symptoms of political heresy . may prove more dangerous from the suspicious circum stance of their being borrowed from the Anglo , Americans. The more influential patriots, however, denied their participation in such doctrines. LISBON, Nov. 26. The delay in the arrival of the Madrid steamer, now due four or five days, prevents me from confirm ing or denying the account of Cazal's achievement at Villarandello, on the 16th. The bulletin (No. 29), published clandestinely by the Das Antes party, admits the correctness of part of the account, but asserts it to have been concocted, as far as regards the main story, in the War-office at Lisbon. Nothing new has transpired from the principal scene of inaction, Santarem and Cartaxo. Col. Wylde left this morning for Saldanha's head-quarters, and is expected to return on Saturday in time to despatch the Cyclops on the 30th. I am enabled to confirm the supposition contained in mine of the 20th, per Royal Tar, as to the remonstrance sent by the Colonel to Saldanha. The answer sent by the latter is not only highly characteristic but also very ludicrous. If I cannot procure copies, which I hope to do, for the packet, I will send you a summary of this correspon dence. An anonymous paper has been widely circu lated this day amongst the courtfparty, wherein it is ar gued that the very fact of Col.Wy 'de's having been sent here at the request or instigation of the Duke of Pal mella, ought to be sufficient to deprive his mission of all value in the estimation of the Queen's friends. The recent decree of the Finance Minister, respecting the Bank of Portugal, is viewed with very great dis trust by the mercantile and financial classes here. General Prim, attended by two other gentlemen, arrived here on Sunday last. On Wednesday the police authorities, accompanied by two soldiers, called at the Peninsular Hotel, where the General had taken up his quarters, and gave him to understand that he must quit Lisbon within twenty-four hours. It would seem that this officer and his companions having landed at Oporto provided with proper pass ports from the Portuguese and Spanish ministers In London, obtained from the Junta of Oporto another passport, which enabled them to traverse the districts between that city and Lisbon in safety. On their arrival at the capital one of the number gave such a flourishing account of the condition and prosperity et Das Antes and his adherents amongst the rural die tricts as to excite much alarm, and some lighter sen timent at the supposed absurdity of these statements. The result, however, was the visit which I have above referred to ' • and notwithstanding an appeal made to Senor Gonzales Bravo, on the part of Prim, the order to quit the kingdom was enforced, and his passport was tised by the Spanish Minister for Cadiz and Madrid. The letters which passed on the occasion are somewhat amusing : copies of them are before me, and I will transmit translation by the packet. The principal members of Saldanha's staff wr The formation and arming of the several battalions of the national guard, placed, or were about to place, arms in the lands of these different political parties. On the threshold of this armament General BALA% the chief of the executive, either took alarm, or affected to do so, and ordered some of the battalions most faithful to him to take a post of defence in order to prevent the city from being sacked by the anarchists. This alarm occurred on the 14th nit. It passed over. It was however renewed on the night of the 18th, some rumours and crowds offering pre text for such fears. General Ssi.ss shut himself up in the citadel, and despatched troops to arrest his colleagues, or ministers, Gosia FARIAS and REJON, chiefs of the democratic party. The soldiers seem to have failed in surprising the ministers in the palace of the Government, and a momentary reconciliation, or at least a cessation of arms, took place, the result of which was the dismissal of REJON, of PACHECO, and of General 'Altus. These emeutes and changes were followed by ban quets given mutually by the democratic battalions of the National Guard to their brethren. Union was, of course, the great toast, and Death to the Anglo- American, the loudest. And the result seems to have been a trace or reconciliation, however short lived, effected by the sacrifice of the more democratic ministers. The projects of SANTA ANNA would be more import ant to fathom than these struggles of parties in the metropolis. His concentration of troops at St. Luis de Potosi, withdrawing even those at Tampico, and his simultaneous seizure of the two millions of dollars, destined for England, evinces a determination to pro tract the war, and wear out the Anglo-Ame ricans. And, certainly, if the Mexican commander governed his tactics by the political position of President Pots in Washington, as well as by that of General TAYLOR at Monterey, he would persevere in prolonging the war. For not only has it become unpopular in the United States, but very much so even at the head-quarters of the army. The throwing down their arms by the Texan volunteers the moment their term of service had expired, is a preg nant proof; and one of AMPUDIA'S despatches states (what he could not well have invented) that all the American officers at Monterey admitted the injustice of the war, avowed their desire of peace, and declared in Lisbon yestirday, viz., his Adjutant and Quarter master-General, and some other officers. Half-past 4, p.m.—Jwit as I am about to close my letter, the Madrid has been signalled as entering the Tagus she has consequently been out rather more than nine days. The boats on this line appear to be quite unequal to the service which they have to per form ; and, as a very heavy subvention is paid to th e company, for the express purpose of carrying the mails , the government or the Post-office ought, in justice to all parties, to insist upon more efficient steamers being put on this duty. ROME, Nov. 28. To the denizens of Rome there is newly opened an abounding source of gentle merriment in the perusal of French and German journals, whenever the affairs . & , of this metropolis are introduced —which is now of constant occurrence, though it would seem that the matrimonial imbroglio of the Spanish peninsula and the subsidence of Cracow from the map of Europe ought fully to engage the energetic spirits engaged in editorial redaction. Paragraphs of hazarded news are ventilated at "Nuremberg,' or take wing from Frankfort and Cologne, birds of good, or : ae it may be, of evil, auomf_7, were never seen from this Vatican hill, 'tut belong rather to what in French newspaper dialect is called canard, anglic, a species of literary wild duck. Fabulous onslaughts on the Jesuits in various small towns throughout the Romagna are favourite game of this description with the press of Paris. Ncrone in Rome is cognisant of aught —save a few vocal manifestations of dislike, never approaching personal violence—of the scenes such as are represented to have occurred in Fano and Perugia. The pamphlet of the witty Giobcrti (severely pro hibited in Naples, Modena, and Lombardy), attacking the society's line of Italian policy, under the title of " Prolegomena," is freely handed about, or, as the poet has it, 2= c to dot dhoti tralanrummlni But any overt act of physical force against the mis taken fathers is universally reprobated.—A paragraph appears in the C'ourrier Franca is, announcing the Pope's wish to contract a fresh loan, and represent ing the Roman finances as irreparably embarrassed. No such loan is dreamt of. There is a present supply in the exchequer, and the future prospects of the treasurer are by no means discouraging. Such ru mours were the constant mode of attack by which the irreligious party in Italy sought to damage the papal throne, while ineffectively filled by its late occupant ; and many poetical squibs, with all the virulence, and some of the fancy of Beranger, held up the approach ing bankruptcy of Rome to the world's scorn. From one, entitled, " II Fallimento del Papa," I recollect a few lines: ,on hasta it talento Del gran lambruachuu, A cento per eento Non trova quattrnu 0 cam inaudito, 11 Papa ,11ullitol__ - . Goal al Pontedor Che per scream i titoli Onel bums Otrgorlo Di Papa e di sovrano Che in brevi venders A b nedie i despoti Dorm 11 ciborlo, Distere 1r sua nano Perche a carnetice Deb : al gran principe Chiede it salmi° Cite ci governs Oh taxa d veadere OH vests Diogene Sin' al breviario. Li sus lanterns! Torlonia, who contracted for the last loan, would feel but too happy to get another chance upon the same terms (which he is not likely to have soon), and the more especially as the family are about to receive back in hard dollars the purchase money of the great Bracciano property, which, near thirty years ago, was bought from the Odeschalchi, and which that princely race are now determined to regain. In the purchase of land here, there is always reserved a right of re demption within a given number of years, and the allotted term being now at hand , notice has been served on the Duke of Bracciano that Prince Odeschalehi intends refunding the cash, and resuming the duchy. As in the case of the old Tagliacotian operation, when a fictitious nose was cut out of a porter's yluteuB maximus, and affixed to a visage where no nasal organ existed, the title of Duke is lapsed, with the loss of the property which conferred it, and the straw berry leaves fall away from the escutcheon of the banker. In the words of Hudibras : Soon as the porter's life was out, Off dropt the sympathetic snout! The Marquis de Custine, who has been here several months, had an interview with his Holiness last week, and some interesting remarks fell from the Pontiff, who professed to have read attentively the Russian revelations of the witty writer. These remarks are not free for publicity.—There died here, on Monday, aged 88, a venerable Scotch gentleman, the Abbe Macpherson, for many years rector of the Scotch College on the Quirinal hill. The most re markable passage in his varied career was when he was selected by the British government, in 1797, as their agent in one of the boldest moves on the Euro pean chessboard ever imagined, and yet scarcely known to the historian of the period. In that year the British Cabinet received a suggestion as to the practicability of rescuing from the gripe of France and placing under the protection of England the person of l'opc Pius VI., then a prisoner in the mari time town of Savona, on the Genoese coast. An English frigate was ordered to cruise off the land, and the Abbe was sent from London with ample funds to accomplish the object. It would have been successful in every arrangement had not a communication been made by parties in the pay of the Directory from the neighbOurhood of Downing-street, disclosing the plan to our friends in Paris. Macpherson was ar rested and plundered on the frontier, and Pius died in the interior of France, whither he was instantly removed. tip to his death the Abbe had a liberal pension from the Papal treasury. Letters from Florence in accounting for the Duke of Devonshire not arriving here, state the alarming condition of our ambassador, Sir George Hamilton, who was not expected to recover. I trust this is an exaggeration, or that, since that crisis, more favour able news has reached England. FRANCE.—BLOIS, DEC. 6.—The serious riots last week at Tours have been attended by similar troubles in seve ralother towns hereabouts, and 192 people are in gaol on this account. The rioters have gone great lengths; but the government is now pretty active, and there is no general unman's:es. In Blois, yesterday, the guards were doubled at all the poets, to protect the corn market, and all passed off quietly. The price of wheat rose from 27f. 6c. the 100 lbs. to 28f. 13c. The price of bread to-day is If. 6c. for 41bs. It was 795. for 411,9. this day last year. This is 11d. and a fraction English for 411bs. English, on the 6th December, 1846, in stead of Bd. for the same quantity of bread on the 6th of Dec., 1846. I see no sign of things being better for the labouring classes; but the government insist. that the price of wheat must fall. SWITZERLAND.—A letter from Basle of Dec. 5, says :—" The ambassadors of Russia, Prussia, Austria, and Bavaria have transferred their residence from Berne to Zurich. In announcing this resolution some time back they declared it was caused by the state of anarchy into which the canton of Berne was thrown. The Zurich journals announce that M. de Bois-le-Comte, the French ambassador, is also to fix his residence in that town. The success which the Con servative party of Basle has just obtained in the elections, leads to the expectation that the revolution of October will only end in moderate constitutional reform. The purchases of arms and ammunition lately made by the government of Lucerne, in consequence of the extraordinary credit voted by the Grand Council, are estimated at 190,000 fr. The elec tions of the Grand Council at Berne are nearly terminated, and show a certain change in public opinion, although the majority is still Radical. Out of 36 nominations, 23 belong to that party. There was lately a Radical congress at Mouthey (Lower Valais). A manifesto was there drawn up and addressed as a circular to the several cantons, protesting against the Catholic alliance of which Valais forms a part. GERMANY.—A letter from Berlin of the 2nd I instant says:—" The pretest sent by Lord Palmerston to the Court of St. Petersbusg is said to be couched in the most moderate language, so as to dispel at once all fears of a rapture. It is still to be seen what steps France will take, who is left to protest by herself. The treaty of commerce and navigation between the Zollverein and the kingdom of the Two Sicllies was on the point of MN( ratified when Bava ria made objections, and the ratification was consequently adjourned to an indefinite date. The Neapolitan govern ment conclude a similar treaty with England and France, which will expire in eight months, and which forbids Naples to make concessions to the Zollverein of ten per cent. entrance duties accorded to France and England, if the Ger man Union, on its side, did not make concessions. All was arranged. A reduction of twenty per cent. was negotia ting n at Naples on the entry of oils, when Bavaria objections. A letter from Frohsdorff, in the Quotidienne, says: " The Archdukes of Austria on the 27th ult., paid visits to the Duke and Duchess de Bordeaux on the occasion of their marriage. Soon afterwards the Duke and Duchess went to Vienna, and dined en familk with the Emperor and Em press. The Countess de Marnes (Duchess de Berry), so Wad by misfortune, is at this moment enjoying all the fedisiby which Providence has just granted to the exile. She semi to find in her new daughter her whom she lately lost, when married to the Prince de Lucca." CHlLE.—Papers from Chile, to the end of Septem ber, state that General Baines, the actual president, had been re-elected for the constitutional term of five years. The republic was in a state of tranquillity and progress. VENEZUELA.—DISTURBANCES.—From the Port of Spain Gazette (Trinidad), received by the Tay, we learn that serious disturbances had broken out in Vene zuela. That journal published on the 27th of October the following extract, addressed by a mercantile firm in Caramels to its Port of Spain correspondent:—" Guzman in ththiatiQ M ktr oj t z ramotlonahocau li fiailo d emienbuee th ethcizuin e aeaneres has escaped from prison. General Zamora defeated the Liberal party in the province of Caraocas, and General lig sam taharawas w kh e itl e ubee r yed e o . a .o n n: bo .an th duk u mnd e t ndge 4oo t l edeh i roa th .sanit ldj o i : L etey e a :l iswje . orai at oei l7 J t dalosecteded is Da ; p , G re C r 7 inn olon ori e! üb b lis y h th ed is on the 30th of October a notification from the Venezuelan Secretary-at-War, intimating that Pam had accepted the supreme command, and Moasgas consented to act as his second in command of a standing army ordered to be organ ised by the supreme government. This notification is dated the nth of September, and appended to it is an address by General Paez to the regular arm _y and national militia, dated the 23rd of September. This latter docu- meat "Is sufficiently vague, but we gath e , armed insurrections had taken place fr the republic to the other, during or to the elections in August. Pats petuation of party feuds, under the oligarchiets ; and complains of the epithet to many who had made gm; He states that thz z.i - uty he has been is already in a condition to enforce r And he compliments hiscompanions tude with which they have responded government. COLONI WEST INDI Summaries of the moat itni leaned from the colonial jourtials JAMAICA.--The House of Amen* prorogued to the 17th of November, ceed to business. The'objeet of the' yelling the House on that day was, ac Morning Journal to pass the sem expresses its hope that not a singly pass until the measures to be prom clueing the public expenditure thou, Jamaica newspapers received by the', of meetings to take into consideration nary to be adopted in consequence se" Duties Act in the parishes of St. J, and St. George. They are curiousl social condition of the colony. meeting, three black labourers the questions of the actual at. the island and the rate of wages. to have participated in the appr, and protested stoutly against an, complained of the delay in the payment of waa th ,,,,, - ; difficulty he experienced in getting justice at the Iffier the magistrates. Two of these speakers w ere respectfully listened to; the third, who had bees oil was silenced, and ordered out of court by 11r. Day, tor, a Baptist minister. Mr. Day, after the re • ;IF drunkard, stated the views which, hail the man hero „„f he might have left to him to express. The pri ac t entm -4 , at most of these meetings, was the necessity of tion of parochial taxation and the free import of At the St. Mary's meeting, Mr. Lindo 14 addremed;;; 74 ,, dons and friendly remarks to the labourers on th e m p l relation of employers and employed. At all t h e the „,,." exertions appear so have been used to ensure the of the black peasantry. Some cant there wan ` rence of slavery, and some narrow views o n th a ,l7.; free trade; but the only positive nonsense uttered , re ,',7 Hosach's rccommendaton (at the St. George's aeptiee 7; a West India League, in imitation of the Ardi4;t: League,to obtain compensation to the planten th et h eetiv ; tion of the sugar duties. GUIANA. Some excitement had bee in the colony by a discovery that the Veurst i t Coolie. been enticing away the recently imported Cools "" e a r cumstance was immediately brought under the not* da, Governor, who with his advisers made it the rety,i; anxious delib'ratiun. It is a difficult question. p e t ite ; the Coolie trepanned to Venezuela must be at bet eth e' tarn; the colonists, who have been at a great etpa ets bring him to Guiana, are losers ; still, being loan Ma th any indentures, the Coolies are under no legal ellips e " remain in the colony and work out their pump The Court of Policy had held one or two sittings A t t i e i e . ; of October and beginning of November, and got th e *, good deal of miscellaneous business. The vac Sin tf Government Secretary had been filled up by th e the motion of the assistant-secretary, Mr. Weisel's', *let conseq uently become an ex officio member CI the Cog of Policy. The weather since the despatch e t t y previous mail had been favourable to the m e of the canes, but materially unfavourable to th manufacture of sugar. There was no improvement th th e e. About 6,000 Coolies were expected, is the coins of abe months, from Madras and Calcutta, but Mynas wis deirans would have been preferred. Two banked twenty-fire of the latter had landed within a fortnight, to a portion of these, followers of Dr. Kelley, were topes* to Trinidad. Two natural visitations to which the caw had been subjected, are thus touched upon by the Galva Times: We are sorry to have to report of a portion of ta Colony, the Arabian coast, that it has been visited by a wits which has done some injury to the young crops and Aid si likely be the cause of great expense and very material ism* ence. It came almost at the same hour as a veryadett rain which put one property under water, th us trR stopped. We trust as the report from eel, ere has reached us, that the damage has been ideal ant saliL This is another hand-writing on the wall to warn then those sent system of drainage will not do upon the cost ; bat that Mid means must be adopted as in Holland to force an raga Ado as obstructicm be a mud-flat or a shell-bank. On the East Cute* a heavy sea has been making fearful encroachments, delis the wit Is wriere of mud and plank erected at enormous expert tassel progress. In many places it has made a sweepof miles GI led mind with bush, the accumulations of half a century. Haraskarelial sh removed in many instances half a mile back from their Wang* and quiet possession yielded up to the sco ot the old rued sadden. to-seeing land. It still threatens in other quarters, mane Mani in breast high against the frail material of a mud wall. Heels* of weather and the alteration in the direction of tbewisd, my* apprehension on this wore in a day or two. We have hal theta for some months almost constantly at north; it is Dowd sonesse; happily the trade wind (roan that quarter may bid the mem beer TRINIDAD.—There had been a good deal of irk. nem among the Madeirana landed in his, Mao. The Trinidad Spectator attacks the local goverment is by its negligence, been the cause. The Port of . Spaia Gazette recommends that, instead of distributing Manama: from Madeira among the sugar plantations, they Modals located, en mane, in the healthy valley of Santa Craxto pick cocoa or rear provisions. the following tenni= the d'art of Spain Gazette shows the present state die immigration question in the Legislative Council. Ties cussion took place at the meeting of the 2nd Decembn. The Attorney-General moved the resolution, of which be hid Po notice at the last meeting, with respect to the discastimicedtli bounties paid on inter-colonial immigration. On this a Ooma ensued, which ended by Mr. Huntley moving a Iranians' to that the board should he put in possession of the manessitaisi induced her Majesty's Government to do away with this trued immigration. tin this division Mr. Burnley's it - ambles ma Ystf a majority of 6to 4. On the original question being pat, *OS Justice opposed the same, and expressed hie opinion at seek* length, that the step now proposed to be taken by the cosselro to be taken by the executive, as the order in council of OS em tie power in this respect out of the hands of the council sal *et solely in the executive. The attorney. General w,talren beton lion. Ills excellency laid before the board a circular 29th August, from the Secretary of State, stating the etaatteai. ll government to facilitate in every possible way imsigratis Da Africa to these colonies, and expressing a hope to be able to east' some early and advantageous improvements in preset 5T ments. WINDWARD ISLANDS.—Considerable dissafigene is expressed in the Berbadoes papers at Sir C. Grey's ion writs for a general election while the registritions Mae progress. It certainly appears at this distance o unman able as his desire to meet a new House of Assembly. st in momentary expectation of bring superseded in the good went. The papers from the other islands of this group a tarn nothing of general interest. NEW SOUTH WALES. After a long interval without arrivals, we hate length a ship in from this colony, bringing dates up to . 22nd of July. Great desire is expressed in the p al journals for the extension of postal communication by o of India, and as an instance of its celerity beyond the I sent system, the Sydney Herald of the ISth Judy quote then latest intelligence from a London been sent to Calcutta, thence travelled to Manilla, finally reached Sydney bp , way of Launceston and Hob Town, and, a ft er all. was later by sixteen days thin' thing received direct from England. It may be Item served, that notwithstanding the present veil* her stripped several that sailed previously tO her quit , * colony, yet even her dates are twenty-one days behiodt received on the lot inst. by way of India. Our comas relations with this colony demand a better system than . prevails. Various addresses, marking the approbation , the colonists felt towards his Excellency, were rese ll " Sir George Giprn, the governor, and although in the was not scrupled to point out, with independence , Yet entially, the subjects on which the colonists thought he erred in administering the .government, yet they p kindly notwithstanding previous dissensions, and the' of the ninth governor of New South Wales closed 11th July by a crowded erne —the colonists for the sat paper, which burying any animosity of a political nature in the to feelings of leave-taking. Matters in the colony were °I whole progressing favourably. Owing to the drongi, cattle were selling at an ads ance in price, and the who had any to bring to market were profiting by tt; cumstance. But provisions were generally ahue en moderate in price, such as it is desirable to see then young country. Beef and mutton by retail sold at. per lb. Mercantile transactions were fairly remanent gbe Court. Her Majesty and Prince Albert took their morning walk yesterday, in the pleasure grounds of O. House, Earl Grey remains at Osborne House, on a vi the Queen. A Deputation, including Mr. Samuel Gurney Robert Forster, and Mr. Dunn, had an interview Witt John Russell yesterday, at his official residence M Dot street. The Earl of Auckland and Lord John Ilay the College of Civil Engineers at Putney yesterday' spect the progress of the experiments for testing the vi the different kinds of coal of Great Britain, as spiffic. , steam purposes, now being carried on at that institutP order of the Lords of the Admiralty, under the direr Sir Henry De la Beche and Dr. Lyon Playfair. Sir George Grey returned to town yesterday R. Spooner had an interview with the right hon. b the Rome-office. The Master-General of the Ordnance had an view with Lord John RuPselLyesterday. The Post General had also an interview with his lordship. Despatches from the Governors of the West colonies were received yesterday at the Colonial-office The Earl of Lucan had an interview yesterds) Lord John Russell. The Earl of Clarendon has arrived at Bo park, Wilts, on a visit to the Marquis of Lansdowne. MALT TAX REPEAL ASSOCIATION A meeting of the central committee of this tion, which has for its object the total repeal of the ta took place yesterday at the York lintel, Bridge Blackfriars. Mr. W. B. LAMB, on taking the chair, announce various communications had been received from Ye/ Hampshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, Oxfordshire , hantskr . e, and other counties, containing most g" we Rath, hit see from one IM I L I , Yr inamedim a t. le nielsaau gg — r taig. , le app:nas4 g , e rr ;rut setetZtal fig teen called aps e h re obedience to ti s one in arms on nded to the s I A L. DIES. important Nik e trwala are sat , j g i imemhly had bee g .her, then to mast the Lieut.-Goseagett according to the (I onual hills. Th e ngle bill for rereni g roposed to the Hong should become In ty the Tay oont a g t leration the meo w , a of the passing of ta James, 11411101ET,81, 'sly illustrative of the y. At the St m spoke in som a *, state and pag ing gen. They do not wihension‘ of the 2y reduction. Oarofgo, payment of Wares ../.7 ''d