The Express. — London, England, 1846-11-12 00:00:00

1 I • 1 1 1 1 1111, 1 , 1!1 it it I 1 F.. 1 .4 Y. • II 411 1 h 1 si . 11 t. FRENCH PLAYS.—ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. FIRST NIGHT OP THE SEASON.—TO-MOREOW (Friday), or. IS, the Entertainments will commellee at Half-pad Sean o'clock, with the Samarlte Comedic , of LA I EUNESSE DR HENRI V. Henry V., M. Magnin Itethester. M. Leeweesl; Ceigiethe Col*, M. thrtimay ; LAy Clara, ablJe. labia ' P,_kltllle. Celine Valk•e. Alter wtdeb, Heimann, Play of LIB Mths AMOVREINES. Albert, IL Cudahy ; Lisette, lUDs. Dreier ere Ssubeette du Wets, Treace* her am . asiosimm). Mee Ewtheth the 1 Nthowd Althea, "GOD San MS WNW. wm be wwg. Me conclude with Pipult Le Brum% Petite °WWI@ et LEA NUM D'EUX HEXER Deriak IL Ithmeril ; Vo/lerille, M. Landerall Hwang. IL Dummy; Auwe Dorval, Mdth. Cellar Witte; Li" Mae. Dream. A &salvo prospectus at the general arrengerwsts, mad of the soes whack will be prods: ad daring the maw" way be had at kitchells Royal Library, SS, Oki iSomdatnet ; and at the Boa.eflioe el the Theatre, whieb is oven deny frogs Eines till Firs. _,tkTRE---E,OYAL COVENT iiARDEN. — JULLIBVS ANNUAL BERMS of ODNCERTIL — Ided M, tor me mouth only.—M. Jollies tosthe honour sneounce Alat his New grand deecriptlve Military Quartile, TUB BRITISH ABUT, will be performed, Br the Teeth Time, TIUN EVIOUNO (Thursday), November 11. TROOB.AIDOL PART I. Overture Smarr mide, Roodni ; Quadrille, from the Ballet of the Marble ;Leiden, Jake ; Solo, Chrionet, Mr. Lazarus, Imams ; Symphony, from the Pastoral Symphony, Beethoven ; Valise, the Pm de imps, at danced by the Moscow Viennoiees, NuldreS SIAM/. Wes Tbe Soma from the opera of Der Trerehuts. " softly webs, Weber ; the German Yolks, Sack; Quadrille, the British Army, J PAM' U. Opera, I Lombardi, Verdi Air and Variation, Rode's Oelebrated sad Variations, yew by lan Bib, Rode ; Value, the Original Value, dean teem .10n • Mabel Mater, Rossini; New Conde Polka, the Lubeck= Polka, Jalliem Commence at Right, terminate before Eleven. The last Concert will take place on Saturdsy, November 2s, and the Mem be terminated on Monday, November 30, by A GRAND BAL MASQUE. Y CE 10 -7 1 THEATRE.—Mr. lili ati; one mon t., .. . A TR:E.—Mr. A I — .l - T, ROFT'S PRO MENADE CONCERTS will commence on MONDAY next, nth only. The Band will consist of eighty first-rate artists. The celebrated mealbit, Mr. Henry Rumen, is engaged twelve for Maids; ; the eminent Diann Parody, and Mr. Sinclair. C on ductor, M. Negri Leaders, Messrs. Thirlwad and Thomas. Pd, Promenade end Upper Boxes, Is. ; Drees Circle, Ss. 6d.; Private Boxe; One Guinea. puss and Private hoses may be had at the Box-ofticr, and at Mr. Aileron Paanaliehmenta, IS, New Bond-street, and 62 , Regent -greet. Jl:ht eptorts. MAILS. The Neat India Malls, including those for 'Attica, Ilondurat, and Dawson, will be made up on the morning of the 17th November. The mails for Coruons, Vigo, Oporto, 1.44 , m, Madeira, Cadiz, and Gibraltar, will be made up on the mowing of the lith November. The math for British North Athimill4 Bermuda, and the United /Botta, will be made up on the erisig et Os lath November. Tbo overien4 mails for Of IMO/ 116010.41tesee, the lonise birds. Aden, Ceylon, India, eel China, via Souliempism. M i l . , 4 e made up on the moralist:ldr 70th November. The overland closed math. fie Akirseilks, to the Mediterranean, Egypt, Aden, Ceylon. India. Beeepaeser, ate., will be made up on the evening of the 21th November The mails for New South Wake. Van Diemen's Land, and New Zealand wdl be made up on the evselm of the antis November. TO CORRESPONDENTS. Weano cannot notice , in any way, any communication tint Is sent to no nymously ; but those dame to addles. min confidence will End their confidence respected. NEMIER CAN WE UNDERTAKE Ye RETURN ANY MA. UECRIPTS WHATEVER. If " An Actuary" will read the act M 1819 with attention, he will see that he is wrong. •.• Advertisements Intended for The Repress, lundon evening paper, mum be at the Once by Two o'clock on the day of publication. 111011 WATER AT lAINDON-BRID 6 E. Tao DST.—Moraine, 2 VOL pa 8; ARentoon, 38 rata. pest 8. TO4IOII/3W.—Mocant, 14 min. past 9; Afternoon, .50 min. prat 9. LONDON, THURSDAY, NOV. 12. "ONOLAND is gradually conceiving a new theory of aa ' economy. The old plan of our Reformers was t o s th, ek the Estimates in a Committee of Supply. Whil e i Ministers were virtually irresponsible, party claims at 'disputed, public appointments reckless l y made, theit • duties imperfectly fulfilled, their scale of sa l ar i es i n at . inverse ratio with the capacities of the recipients, sue. 't a course was a useful one. Despite the weighty i tat autation of penny wisdom and pound foolishness, then. was sound sense and patriotism in these periodical at,`acks on the Budget. Matters are altered. The same energy which assailed a richly salaried sinecure or an undeserved pension, maynow find worthier employment in advocating some social reform, or indicating some domestic improvement which the government occasionally shows a praiseworthy alac rity in carrying out. The economic spirit, which would once have cut down an item, may now employ itself in helping to redeem a district from crime and ignorance. The age has discovered that an expense in schools may be more than saved in prisons. Phi lanthropy and self-interest have shaken hands : the truth is beginnint , to be perceived, that they are near relations. 'ro redeem the lowest class from filth, vice, and brutality, is to relieve the class above them from poor-rates and prison-rates. On a clear perception of this result rest our hopes of a strenuous co-opera tion for educationist sanatory improvements. me charity which is suggesting and guiding these to their result in itself and its agents innocent of any un holy alliance with the breeches-pocket. But it has succeeded in proving, what has never been seen till now. that there need be no hostility between the two ; that there is, on the contrary, every reason for vigorous anu nearty union. Such a society as " the Health of Towns Associa tion" has the great merit of being eminently practical. It points out visible mischiefs and possible remedies. A cesspool breeds pestilence. The cesspool must be got rid of. This is the way to get rid of it. To be healthy, houses must be well ventilated, well drained, well supplied with water. Ay; but the expense? The expense is so and so, and may be defrayed by such and such an addition to the rent. The additional rent, it is found by experience, is paid by the tenant with gratitude, where any sense of decency is yet to be found ; it ought to be imposed for the good of the inmates, if against their will, where it is not. Opinions differ -widely on education, its advantages, its method, its ends. The methods involve sectarian opinions ; its advantages are not always tangible ; its ends more or less remote. But the removal of filth brings increased health; increased health greater regularity in work : the disappearance of epidemics is accompanied with a diminution of parochial expenses. These are advan tages which all rate-payers can appreciate. Rate payers are voters, and may urge their will on govern ments. They are not inarticulate like the class which it is proposed to be benefit primarily, that all may be benefited in the long run. For these and similar reasons we have more faith in the speedy success of the sanatory movement than of the educational. The former being the preliminary to the latter, we are not discouraged by this belief. The movement, too, is in the hands of men who know its true import and value. There are no creeds in dispute on the matter. No one asks about the sect of the scavenger. Dunghills may be carted off by a Dissenter, without stinking more than usual in the nostrils of the orthodox. The Health of Towns Association is eminently Catholic. Dr. SETE! and Lord ASHLEY are cordially harmonious in St. James's-square, what ever they might be in Exeter-hall. Be sides these reformers do not vent their energy in petitions or provoke opposition by moveable agitation. They disseminate knowledge in reports and criticise acts of parliament. This last is a new and most useful function. Their emancipation of and report on Lord LINCOLN'S Sanatory Bill is some thing unprecedented. It is doing, and doing in a better manner, the work of innumerable committees of the house. We have no doubt that their criticism will have its influence, and their suggestions be adopted, simply because they have on their side an overwhelming weight of sound knowledge, right opinion, and positive experience. The merits of Lord LtseoLx's measure, which will, in all probability, become law during the next session of parliament, they have thus briefly summed up: The most important provisions of this bill appear to your core. rake to be the following, vie.: That the supply of water, the sewerage. the (trainage, the cleansing, and the paving of towns should all be under one and the same autho rity. That tin whole of a town, including the suburbs, and the whole of the 4rainage area, shouldalso be under one and the same authority. That the interests of the community should be protected by the super vision of a competent, impartial, and responsible retblic officer, named an inspector. That before new works arc undertaken, full and com prehensive surveys should be made by competent cold:leers. That Tams of complete works should be prepared by responsible public °Merin, or Ily examined by them with the estismarit. That expo sitory reports should be drawn up for local publication, in order that the advantages of new works may be thoroughly canvassed by all parties interested in them. That the whole of the works should be ;maintained as well as exceutittl by contract. That the performance of the contract should be grerwiten be a competent, paid, and respon sible local officer. That certain nuisances which at present poison the atmosphere of towns and deteriorate the physical condition of the population, should be suppretsed. That to -mute the suppression of these nuisances there should be appointed a public offi armed with sufficient powers to Worm obedience to the tn. M e an Inspector of nuisances; and that the true ruses of disease aad death should be ascertained, and the spread of diseases. and more especiailly of epi demic diseases, should be checked, by the appointment in districts of a skilled ind responsible medical officer, called an officer of health. • While thus hearty in their approval they point out grievous objections. In the first place the act is THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY • EVENING, NOVEMBER . 12, 1846. Boll* deot is beAdto 111 1 4 Fartbres Yenrol l tuul , there fore) Wotenanti quitting In tbis'aprifqr of 4846, Would ollowed•iiWthftdOof thy, cost' bone , -dest applied by him to his tsinip erblin the spring of 1846. If he quitted in the folleviinnehr, be wotki one-third only of such cost. In the same way, the cost of marl or chalk is spread .over seven years; lime over five years ; clay varies from four to seven ' years on different • estates. Draining, where the tenant finds the stones or tiles, is extended over seven years ; but where the landlord finds the tiles the tenant has no allowance for making the drains, which, if properly done, is by far the largest part of the ex pense. ()Ruske, given to cattle, is assumed to benefit the farm for two years, and the tenant is allowed upon that footing. Cake , given to sheep is net allowed for, "on the ground that the benefit to the sheep is sufficient to make it worth while to give cake with out regard to the manure, and partly from the greater difficulties of getting a correct account, and the in creased liability to fraud." Why there should be more difficulty in getting a correct account of the oil cake given to sheep than of the same article given to cattle, passes our comprehension. We believe the true explanation to be, that a minute scrutiny of the farmer's accounts shows that some profit is derived from feeding sheep, while this is not always the case with cattle fed on oilcake. There is no pretence for saying that oilcake used in feeding sheep does not benefit the land as much when used for cattle ; or for claiming that in the one case the land lord shall have all the benefit, any more than in the other. Whether the tenant receives these allowances on Lord YARBOROUGH'S estate when he gives notice to quit, does not very clearly appear. But in a form of agreement for such a tenant right, given as a sort of model in the seventh volume of the Journal, we find that the allowancer are only made in the event of the death or incapacity of the tenant, or "of his having received notice to quit ;" and it is clogged with the express stipulation "that the tenant is to give an account each year of such outlay as he pro poses to make in matters of durable improvement, in order to obtain the owner's sanction to the proposed expense, such sanction being necessary in order to claim or be entitled to any such allowance ;" and the ac count of the disbursements within each year is to be examined and signed by the landlord or his agent Now these are the most improved tenant-right agreements given by some of the most liberal land lords, and what do they amount to ? They arc mere traps for tenants. As additions to leases they are worthy of consideration, but as substitutes they are mere illusions. A tenant may be at any time turned out ; and if he has been farming at all highly, it would be a very safe speculation for his landlord to give a notice to quit, and pay him the uttermost farthing of these boasted allowances. It is by the combination of such outlays with careful tillage, and the em ployment of much manual labour in clearing the land, continued through a long term of years, from which the farmer must expect to reap any substantial profit. He enters upon his farm ; he not merely invests his capital in the soil, but he expends from five to seven of the best years of his life in bringing it into good cultivation ; and he is entitled to expect after that time to receive, year by year, an increased and increasing return for a given yearly expenditure. To say nothing of the value of local associations, a good farmer is always improving ; and unless he has a defined and long term of years, he is running hazards which no prudent man would choose to incur. A lease, then, and a long lease, is indispen sable for giving security and independence to the farmer. It is, however, precisely this independence which many landlords are averse to giving; and, there fore, the farmers must make a stand on leases, and dis countenance the make-shift of a tenant right agree ment Aud the leases now insisted on by farmers must be rational leases : not the obsolete and impracti cable forms that are usually adopted, but one which combines security for both landlord and tenant, with free liberty for the latter to avail himself of all the gif loaul f peuamotion. the *acute of absessala- He ists:niut 01 buldrisil4a to all who tehniied tiot ace sew °rifle Belgian ainbasadar front tW which Wits contradicted, 443* lel the organs, Jr now neliertbiSess ailmatted4 bat is to be explained by the statement that the•Belgtan minister was afterwards received at a private audience. Ibis, however, is denied ; and; talcen with the de of King Leopold on the eve of the arrival of =ice of Montpensier, still forms the subject of comment. It is said that King Leopold left a letter of congratulation for his brother-in-law, and that he wishes to preserve an appearance of impartiality in the quarrel. • The Courrier Francais states thatthe Chambers will meet on the 15th December. The probable effect of the extensive calls contem plated by the railway companies, begins to excite un easiness, and the opposition papers throw blame upon the F overnment for not having interfered to prevent the injurious effecta which must ensue from the arbi trary power of the companies to press upon the mar ket, and insinuate that such power is the more liable to abuse, considering the preponderating influence which a few large capitalists exercise in them. The Northern Company, of which M. Rothschild is the autocrat, lately decided on a call of 43 millions in January. Upon this signal the Lyons Company an nounced a cal! of 30 millions, commencing from December. In the four first months of the next year, the amount of the expected calls will produce a dis placement of little less than 150 millions of francs, which must produce, it is feared, serious prejudice to many branches of industry, and injurious disturbances in commerce, especially as it will coincide with the general stagnation of business, the disadvantages of the winter season, and an insu ffi cient harvest. Count Rossi bits departed for Rome to resume his place as ambassador there. M. Bastiat continues to show all the activity in his new mission which characterised the career of his prototype, Mr. Cobden; but, instead of making speeches at public meetings, which is not so conso nant with the habits and usages in France as it is in England, he diffuses his doctrines by letters which appear in the journals, and which excite extensive comments pfo and con in the press. In fact, al though the formation of societies, both for and against free trade is countenanced by the government, it is plain that the battle will really be fought through the instrumentality of the press. The habit of public meetings has not yet been formed in France, while the functions of the press have hitherto supplied, and will continue to supply, its place. The receipts of the savings bank for the last three months, published in the llfonitertr, have amounted to ~605,760 francs, and the disbursements to 8,247,601 francs. ,sr Dissension continues to be developed in the Swiss Confederation, and it becomes more and more diffi cult to foresee the final result of the present move ment. This difficulty arises from the very constitution of the Confederation itself. The Vorort, which is the executive body of the Confederacy,. is held alter nately in the three cantons of Zurich, Berne, and Lucerne, and consequently the council of state, or executive power of each of these cantons, becomes alternately that of the Confederation. Hence arises an instability, consequent upon the different prevail ing policies of the three cantons. Lucerne supports the Jesuits, Berne the radicals, and Zurich wavers between. Even the powers of the Diet itself, the legislative body of the Confederacy, are not understood, or agreed upon, by the cantons. Lucerne lately, in the exercise of its assumed cantonal sovereignty, invited the Jesuits, and retained them, in the teeth of a contrary decision of the Diet. On the other hand, Lucerne now refuses to acknowledge the new government of Geneva, although the revolution by which it has been established is an exercise of the same cantonal sovereignty .as that which Lucerne claims for itself in the question of the Jesuits. The present revolutionary government of Geneva has been constituted by the majority of the popu lation, and confirmed by a vote of more than two thirds of the citizens of the canton. This govern ment has retaliated upon that of Lucerne by sub mitting, for the sanction of the council of state, the following measures respecting the concordat of Pius VII.:— _ . • - "The Grand Council, considning that the affiance of the seven cantons of Lucerne, Uri, Schwytz, Unterwablen, Zug, Friburg, and Valais, is cantrary to Articles 1,4, 8, and 14, of the federal pact ; that, consequently, it is a league for bidden by Article 6, and that on this ground, as well as on the interest of the peace of Switzerland, and the preservation of the federal league, it ought to be dissolved; decrees, that the resolution taken by the Grand Council of the 3rd of October, 1846, is revoked. That the canton of Genera adhere to the proposition of Zurich in the session of the 4th of September, and that the provisional government is directed to transmit this decree to the federal directory." There appears to be no doubt that this decree will be adopted, and thence will ensue a collision between the federal legislature and the seven cantons of the league. The revision of the constitution of Basle city is in rapid progress, and the anti-Jesuit opposition, although still a minority in the smaller cantons, is increasing. If, as appears probable, a decree for the expulsion of the Jesuits should be passed by the Diet, the cantons of the league will find it difficult to oppose to it any effectual resistance. The Madrid journals of the 4th, which were re ceived in Paris late on Monday afternoon, contain lit'lc intelligence of interest, the news from Portugal not being of a date more recent than those already received by the last steamer. Multitudes of contra dictory rumours respecting the instability of the Spanish ministry continue to be in circulation. El Expand, of the 4th, states, that the exile of a certain influential member of the royal family (mean ing the Queen-Mother) was resolved on, and that her husband would be sent to a fortress in Galicia. This rumour was succeeded by another directly contrary to it, to the effect, that the same royal personage had demanded the immediate expulsion of several general officers and public men, whose influence she feared. It was added, that this measure had been proposed to the authorities, who declined acting on it without the sanction of a responsible minister. Aceording to other reports, the resignations of M. Mon, General Sanz, and that of M. Istuiitz had been tendered. The cause of these ministerial disturbances was said to originate in the struggle which has commenced be tween two branches of the royal family. Since the above was written we have received the Madrid journals of the sth inst The I feraldo contains a report that a modification was to take place in the cabinet, and it is impossible for us, says that journal, to insert the different rumours which are circulating at Madrid. The repeated announcement, says El Espanol, of changes of greater or lesser importance in the cabinet, first as a modification of the present ministry, and then of a total revision, still procure food tbr the organs of the press, and the th , nopeement of the drama or comedy which is now going on, cannot much i longer remain a secret from the public. BELGIUM.-OPENINO OF THE CHAMBERS. SPEECH OF THE KING. The following, which arrived by extraordinary despatch, appeared in a second edition of yesterday's Express. On Tuesday afternoon, the two Chambers of the Belgian legislature were opened by the King in person, with the usual solemnities. The following is the translation of his Majesty's speech : Cissirtmanx,—ln opening this session, I can congratulate myself on the pacideaf and friendly nature of my rela tions with foreign powers. The treaties concluded with the United States, France, and the Netherlands, have had in view the consolidation and extension of our commercial intercourse. The discussion of those trea ties, and of the laws relating to general finance, to the entrepots, and to sugar, formed the main topics of discussion during the last session. The sugar trade and commerce are resuming their former im portance, and the treasury is "realidog the profits which you thought fit to make over to it. Amongst the pro positions remaining for discussion, I shall point, in an especial manner, to the law relating to secon dary instruction. This plan, which has been further deve loped, will complete our system of public instruction. My government recommends this grand moral question to your enlightened solicitude, and confidently looks forward for a solution of it, during the present 5C5131011. The prosperity of the principal branches of com mercial and manufacturing inatistry has been gene rally maintained and extended. T'ne forthcoming national exhibition will attard the oppoetunity of appreciating the success of the trading portion of our e.onmunity. Unfortu nately, whilst on one side ther e are proofs of progress, anti hopes for the future, there are otter interests in some parts of tho country, wist.ch are undergoing a crisis, too serious to be overlooked. To those interests, I have devoted all my sympathy. The condition of those who are engaged in linen manufactures requires the adoption exclwion of limited to England and Wales, to the __ Ireland, Seotlazwl, and London itself. Considering that most of the evils pointed out in one of the reports on which the act is founded exist peculiarly, and in their most inten se forms, is the -metropolis, this ex clusion of London from the operation of the act is to be lamented and altere d. The y recommended, there fore, that means be taken for bringing the Great Babylon under the operation of the measure. What would be thought of a physician who, in dealing with a diseased organisation, were to over look the heart, when the presence of functional de rangement in it had been pointed out and remedies 'suggested ? Again, the superintendence of the act is given not to a distinct and peculiarly qualified board, but, of all men, to the Secretary of State for the Home Depart ment. Now, as is well observed in the report : Of all Ile fficers under the Crwn, or in ssy sisswrissaa st the Odle sibs o there Is peters o so seas !lor weep ammost of whose thee there le se beweeet emilesembeembea_ gewarear . " most morwhimpi erft brimet That be Amid be al g erf=ami e sew edged wisdegai orbs, eised dellyntemvieThi lingu a loeliod dug MY ub wow task up= We tart leseeserlip be meletilibiri via die s ingolry—which of hia graced claim eas be Mieweite yeeebled tor, or whieb - le it mat to toniiiitt He le a tide miebter ef the Crown. Can he give up his art Y the Cabbet, or woe le time the repose billy of its councils? B t h e the babe of • NOV• 1 tidy in Par liament Can he obrliW dee or isms the eliarsika at present to tie • the nem pmt Be le the :traa.,,A4..nwirendisrtr bad of He melnevdlles sad the essiCy Oise ; of the and the moll= emi llia l r ar r nses ; nem me et present be shrivel Vermentry Otillerfir. 'ln a pew _reently owl Mire the Mattetiset Basietyt y the Rev. Whitworth ism" meet the prim begeelore, blerhows. that eibisegh the tarts spirt the pills seem are yet that ermaul sad miss' dames vi ease am and bersebs, rod that thie tr e = . HIM a youthful ormalaties lbw Spring be he immut the and the scadad, this ebb of crimp so t emirlieberribb lb r o ethis *Awl ma be related He b eiregeil sift the regulation ntrol of plume. la what moor ties et apt are the 111111.111110 SO emegletc that he eria hope for an assures from the primes beembee that be need give blmedf na further atemes on thb NEW , t Hob the peeteetar of the children and yerse‘ perms emploped end tbe ibis of thebetury impestate me soder his emebeerames De the mennbotnnes or de He hemp Impectoraiarmbiat Het the gitylmt theobrearbmel, amigo emealesif ccmittion wd ag the asdpmeg is so irk* oblehetory that be liegesse on of the Poor web all about Mon? Be his Wen WM limeelt the segembk I. 4l W.alwd hos Weeillwally soled Ihrtimas dams past as the ultimmeyedge al an this dosidlial and-dlowled meet that wire oat of it. Doei not edielediee Wein la ilks public each perfect oonfidasee the simisse dam el sigma ta ell► the counties so sesa ar deirmalsg; awl la eye euedeme inriziellitand labourers in me good caries 121091.& SO IS it potable that no comm cator be tegebeglietemsbletamithe Poor Law Commissioners? Hel. cher= will *WM, ed mawristeDdleg the affKin of lrcland, and the pis Mew *it he dom greedielly give attention to them. Are those saleslady soon to be to so sist and wife • state as to need no farther ems on the pert of a chief of the Crown ? Hein a Judge dapped is the last resort in all ewes in which the mercy of the C'OUS 00 01012. and ft is his duty to swamis I n every instal:we whether that mew ought to to eamulvd- Is the state of the businew ts lds cake seeloms mss port of it which must always neonsairily coma soder he era penilind and special Is each, ea to allow him to Wag to the perihrmance of this solemn duty • mind unembarrassed. saki, eagelle of patient deliberation, and of arriving, through °outlasting at a coneliction in conformity with truth and justice, and bur with legal decisions Here are two formidable objections to the Bill, which present themselves at the threshold. There are others, not so serious, only because not so funda mental, which yet remain to be disposed of. THE high prices of corn, and the slight re-action which has taken place, are both due to temporary causes. The high range in the price of live stock is, on the contrary, occasioned by the general feeling amongst farmers, that to an increase of stock-keeping they must look fur permanent re muneration. There is nothing which requires steady and long-continued attention more than the improvement of stock ; the outlay of capital, too, must be considerable; and success in this direction can scarcely be expected without complete security of tenure. It is to this point that we would especially call the attention of all persons connected with land, especially the tenant farmers. Upon the farmers rests the burden of working out their own security. Landowners have been accustomed to a kind of semi feudal deference from tenants, which is quite incon sistent with the position an enterprising farmer should occupy. " Mutual confidence," " kindly feeling," " considerate liberality, " and other terms of equally vague import, have been used by the owners of land in reference to the relations be tween themselves and their tenants; and hitherto the demand of a lease by a tenant has been deemed an offence towards the landlord, too deep to be easily forgotten or forgiven. Siam puerilities are however drawing to a close. The teachings of the Free Tra ders, and the counter-agitation of the protectionist landowners, who have loudly called upon the farmers to act for themselves, have unquestionably aroused the farming body to examine their own position. The agricultural mind has been set a-thinking ; and its cogitations have not contributed to contentment with the present state of the affairs of husbandry, or the actual condition of husbandmen. The result is much activity and some restlessness among farmers. It will be well that such feelings should be directed to business-like ends. It is of no use for a farmer to drain and to improve, to buy high-priced stock, and expend large sums in artificial manures, upon a farm which he and his forefathers may have held for a cen tury, unless he first gets the security of a lease. We shall presently show that no tenant-right, which has been proposed as the substitute for a lease, can be properly accepted as such by any prudent farmer. A striking instance of the case with which landowners snap the ties of hereditary tenant ship, when they interfere with their own love of domination, is offered by the conduct of the Duke of BELUFORT towards certain of his Mon mouthshire tenantry. The reader will prob thly recollect the pathos with which the Duke, during the debate in the House of Lords on the late Corn law Bill, described its untcipatcd effects upon his Monmouthshire tenants. They and their forefathers were described by his Grace as having occupied their farms fur 130 or '2OO years; and his heart seemed to bleed, while his tongue, in accents of unwonted eloquence, told of the inexorable necessity by which, under a free trade in corn, they would be compelled to abandon their holdings. Possibly the house under stood the real value of this touch of the pathetic too well, to be much influenced by it; but certainly the public did not r xpect to find the Duke of BEAUFORT disregarding al; his own assertions, forgetting the feudal ties of two centuries, and turning these very tenants out of their farms, for canvassing in support of his own brother, Lord GRANVILLE SOMERSET, as a member of the government which proposed and can•ied the measures asserted to be so ruinous to the Duke's tenants. Yet such is the fact. Pro bably these tenants have improved their farms; for it is a rule, almost without exception, that the farmer who exhibits political activity and in dependence is a man of comparative skill and enter prise. But what of that ? The Duke found that the change in the law, from which he predicted their ruin, had not accomplished it ; and he therefore realised his own prediction by his own act. The truth is thatthe ruin anticipated by such landlords as the Duke of BEAL - FORT, was that of their own sini ster influence; and the tenants' interest was made the stalking-horse for advancing the landlords' political ob jects. but all landlords are not of this class; and accord ingly we find a growing opinion amongst them, that tenants must have greater security for reaping where they have sown, than has heretofore been usual. Still there is a reluctance to grant leases ; and all sugges tions of substitutes find favour wherever landlord in fluence pre rails. Thus land agents are very generally suggesting certain allowances for " unexhausted im provements," should tenants have notice from their landlords to quit their farms; and papers of the same kind are welcomed in the journal of the Royal Agricul tural Society, where once any reference to the relation of landlord and tenant was regarded with prudish horror. A brief reference to the details of some of these substitutes for leases is necessary, in order to show their utter inefficiency for the farmer's protec tion. Lincolnshire is the county in which most im provement has taken place without the security of leases ; and the " tenant's right to unexhausted im pmvements" on Lord YeanottouGu's property, is one of the best specimens of this makeshift we can select. This is fully detailed by hie lordship's agent in a paper in the sixth volume of the society's journal. THE DUKE'S STATUE. THE question of the Tnxseit-WvArr statue was settled, even before its erection, in the conviction of every man of experience and taste. Its erection corroborated their sentence. The public jury did not need the delay of consultation to return the verdict of non eonstat. And the SOVEREIGN summed up, and sentenced, in accordance with the evidence and with the verdict. The Time; however, wanting the sagacity of its earlier day, chose to cry acquitted, on the very morning that the judge condemned ; and the blind people who follow it have been running their heads against the post ever since. A stray correspondent in the Times talks of the Royal Academicians being appointed sheriffs ad liar, to sign the execution of the statue. We have no ob jection. The Globe, who borrows our intelligence one day to repudiate it the next, standing all the time in too great fear or too great love of the " grand high-priced newspaper combination" to mention the name of the Daily News, flounders around the statue. It knows nothing about it,—cannot contradict the rumour, but, alas ! cannot believe it. And then it invents another rumour of her MAJESTY being unwilling ,to make exit and entrance from and to the Park under the hoof of a subject's horse ! The lacquey that uttered such a sentiment deserves to be immortalised in the Globe, and elsewhere. But, without being a court journal, we can contradict, from authority, that any such sentiment ever germed in the carriage of the QUEEN. What may have germed behind it, the authors of the rumour best know. The public will find, in the upshot, that we were right, that the limes was wrong, and that the Globe was in the dark. The Combination-Press scorn to quote us, but they must follow us. They must repeat and record as news, many days after us, what we said about the Wellington Statue, a full day after us what we published of the disaster at the MN-mirth, and may copy this morning from our Express of last night, the King of Belgium's speech.—Daily News. The suspension of the friendly relations with Eng land continues to be the prevaihng topic in the salons of Paris, and the interest with which it is regarded has received a fresh stimulus from the absence of the British ambassador from the diplomatic reception at the Tuileries on Saturday. This circumstance, how , ever, ought not to raise any further grounds of widen ing the breach already produced between the governments. Lord Normanby, it is now known, excused himself for his absence on this occasion in a letter to the master of the ceremonies, and also addressed a note to M. Goizot, explaining the im possibility, after what had occurred, of his attending any official congratulatory ceremony in honour of the marriage, and at the same time requesting a private audience of those members of the royal family, who were absent from Paris ou the occasion of his presentation at Paris in August last. By this step, says the editor of Galignanis Messenger, who seems to speak from authority, his Excellency has marked distinctly his perfect adhesion to the views of his own government, while, as might be expected from a man of his known polished habits, he has thus ably conciliated with existing circumstances his personal desire not to omit any occasion, consistent with his duty, of showing his respects to the Royal family of France. Lord Normanby was received yesterday by the Prince de Joinville and their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Montpensier, in their pri vate apartment at the Tuileries. Some of the ministerial journals pretend to discover a counterpoise for the absence of the British minister ' in the attendance of the representatives of all other powers, great and small; but this fallacy is too trans parent. The presence of the members of the diplo matic corps at such a ceremony, was a formal obser vance of etiquette which signified nothing ; but in proportion as it was a mere ceremonial the marked omission of it by the British minister became the more striking and significant. Lord Normanby did not adopt the course of Mr. Bulwer, by presenting in thtbe F t res of his character, addressed her in they ....-/". a n e a t i d ld b nta in an g d t t e rn a ne w as ith wh h ie e h e Co .ari 11—.--Institute thPn'tll e e t t he of p Ilsnow: . your tha su nk te G:d f f o or r h th a e vi r n a g it gi h v o en f jto.asus Christ 4 - ._,,, 7 ,0 fmof weage ar ea' e fu th l7y e w o f . his . grace are more neeessarithan ever "6. 7 1 awaiwith'irela view te ' relitite;;;inetesi‘;'seee i lwo in u d rag ustr e y, an i d n to 3 , on. oar all to remain faithful to His law, He t o „ - *T_ improve of imen edial labour f e u x eh tend a th w e ay expo u rt to trad mik e, e m i t w to pirlioa o beu rg e a ti n unp is r:posed harmonise o w bj it ela th o e f neeemi the ttsttenotifoneomofmercem; :overn- • of it in the sufferings you have so ii e ejy, e tlie meat. The means for effecting an active coe.:l 4 era - . ty and weakness to confound the e ---`" Power end • the country, the numerous works of public utility which have mice of His church. Let us glorify lion n e arrangements the em pe e et ats o to f th pr e oe S u ta re te i sufficient supply of food ke the Lund l'n6., been undortaken, and the sums arising from public and pri- seal play that He may deign to accord us the r " Tate. contributionshavegreatlyassintedtheneedy clamesdunng the eccomplishmein of our mission.' iln . pm the privations resulting from the failure of the potato Cheers.' replied the Abbess, ' for allowing m e to i r JI crop in 1845. The potato crops . this year are satisfac- the mouih of His vicar words of life and hope, ]t ie T, tory ; but the high puce of provisions, and, above all, greet , St. John Cantz, that lam incleht e te7 the failure of the rye harvest claim the serious attention a ." We thought of him,' responded the H o l y l ey of the chamber, and of the government. The reuewal , and vs resolved to pay this visit under the uae e...' '' of the law relating to provisions and pecuniary protector of Poland. Ood bah given us in y ee e o ,' - '• , grants for carrying on public works, and affording relief in the model of sacerdotal virtue. It is our an ises special special cases will, no doubt, produce happy results. that in Poland and throughout the world the c lerg y The canalisation of the Campine is very successfully imitate his example.' he Mother Abbess then p i s progressing. The, formation of roads, and the employ- the Pope Ablat Jolowicky,who had witnessed her 0 67 mein of certain measures which will be laid before The Holy Father spoke to him most graciously* seal -, b an ee s n at p ial m o r. th .se er a d orte:ii. retired, promising to pay the convent another v j A i t. ,....' you, will enable ue, iu a few years, to reclaim that part of our Moiled him respecting the wounds of the Slotber ea; territory. Tbe projecta of law relating to agricultural and The Weer then knelt, .and the Holy Father, a i r veterinary instruction will be shortly submitted to your her in a z pr N ay E e T r tHoEthietLVAirNgiDresg.a-veThHezr hi H s A be ct n . edie 4 1i e....." . " discussion. ]sat, between the Netherlands and Russia, were or e -e. " . teh te The census continues to be conducted with regularity. -The &mit Courant announces that the ratis,6„:„; I k e:117:1 u , a e th in ou th gh e_ st po il ua l p i u n nu e g o ti m uou p ,: lece A , p sm ro t.h v ie e , .. commercial treaties concluded on the l3th e t ,..., -- " on the 30th of October, at St. Petersbur T th h a c t d th eta ere ils is ab s •e ma ad political aspect of the coun ia aProjrelative to the construction of a sea-port at Set, .. -7 a t th e pre s e n t yfto m :r ei o ot moment , e oth e ) t ah. em , . i. obcni announce ispiritn.or:ol a. i nge that constitution, beam a journal of this town , the 1 "we 'eel the number of the have been laid before the admin" t ' • '' e tril m wi e l l m l n b b ira n iai fo o rm f d th be it e for revising certain portions of the laws continue to form . is a ffi rmed that the questiOn has is ration of the Ils ee the subject of examination. Bills relating to the t ribunals the town of Hague will contribute to the ' e ' commerce, to personal arrest, and to cases of bankruptcy, expel l e e ,h ick • • i construction of this port will require .- We have been submitted to the opinion of the jud icia l mentioned the heroic conduct of seine Dutch hav e corps, and of the universities. I trust that occasion of the shipwreck of the English ves 'ai l e te; i they will be laid before you during the present Ca t. Orison We are now inform. d, tha tse „,, le . -- -d session. The projected modifications of the criminal Cap t. sterling granted by Lloyds, the town 1 ---- y_ code as well as the new law of discipline for the merchant has sent, through the English Consul of - """' navy will be placed before you without delay , at hotter the sum of 501. sterling, which has been distributed um . The government has devoted its attention to the manage four Dutch sailors, who saved the whole crew t el merit of establishments for the insane ; to pawnbroking -According to a letter from Batavia , of the of institutions (Moats-de -pieta) and to the formationthen in the - - of agricultural colonies. Propositions for realizing the Au ust all the Dutch ships g , road, whi c h, still disengaged, had been freighted by the 1 ton d amelioration]; which humanity and the state of so- Netherlands Commercial Company f.r the - purposei 4—, ciety demand will also be submitted to you. I request laden with sugar for Cowes, Isle of Wight - - that you will, as soon as possible , d i sc uss the bill relating to the penitentiary system. NOVEMBER 6.-The Deputies of th e P 2l l The traffic on the national railway during the year 1846 concerned in the fisheries have lately present e e at 4 has been again remarkably increased. The completion of the of thanks to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, of N I double lines already commenced, and of new railways, the and Colonies, for the serious interest which iss dem i works of which have been begun on various points, will odd says) was manifested by those gentlemen on Menai!, to the existing prosperity. Belgium, respecting the national fisheries. The d ee The adoption of a body of laws for the management a ffi rm that the changes made in the treaty, in the'. of the above grand national enterprise is now practicable, respecting the fisheries, have already had a favuurablis You will have to discuss various propositions for fixing the and promise to be yet more advantageous in future tariff of prices and determining the general management of ni. e r A ESTRICHT, Nov. 5.-Reports have been f o s . the railway. time in circulation here respecting the station of the ' In order to increase the resources of the working classes, from Maastricht to Aix-la-Chapelle, which prese te ' e my government will greatly encourage the formation of the intended site as very disadvantageous to the ge n' • lets roads already devised, and seize every opportunity to hasten of trade. In consequence, several inhabitan ts -wllu . the execution of the numerous works already guaranteed. hue s an address to his Majesty, in which they petition liin - i The army, one of the firmest supports of the independence so . good as to refuse his assent to the plan alreasy Is i s of the country, and of its institutions, continues to render to him for the erection of the said station, and to be ii i itself worthy of all my confidence, and of the interest to order that, instead of placing this ststiun * which you display for it. The efforts of my government will it it may be erected within the walls. ' always tend to maintain a useful spirit of emulation in its e 7, ranks and the feeling of its duty to the country. GERMANY.-VIENNA, Nov. 3. - The an I All the measures which may direct it in the way of progress, just received from Ofen respecting the Archduke Pia and ensure its welfare, will, no doubt, meet with are again unfavourable. Archduke John has gametal your kind co-operation. The modifications of the militia Part of the attendants of the Archduke Stephen, alit law, and of the system of fines, as well of the one already arrived here, have returned to Okn. This too relating to the public health will powerfully contribute to his highness the reigning Duke of Nassau left the e attain that object. Notwithstanding the effect pro- The arrival of M. Rothschild, which is expected toward duced on certain sources of public revenue by end of the present month, gives rise to much tit a extraordinary circumstances the equilibrium of the financial world of Vienna. The report of a new I expenditure and receipt of the state may be maintained forty million florins, a report which usually accommai without imposing new sacrifices on taxpayers. The majority great banker, does not seem likely to be confirmed; In of the budgets for 1847 have already been laid before a remedy will be found by turning the 3 per note i you. In the course of the session you will have to National Bank into 4 per cents., which would greatl! examine the budges of the ways and means for 1818 . the marke . . T he state of the Donne is exceedingly In Oentlemen,-In the midst of peace, IN Igium has de- railway shares have fallen again. veloped the germs of a fertile activity. Whilst looking AN INCIDENT FOR A 1) ,,,,, A.-We reed back with satisfaction to the results already obtained, we Berlin letter of the 4th :-" The journey from which may also regard the future with confidence. The harmony Bodelschwing, the Minister, of the Interior his just re existiug among the great powers of the state,and the support had for its object, as he declares, the accomplish= which you have given, and which I trust you will continue to sacred duty. The municipality of Breslaw had just d give, to my government will enable us to preserve and con- to an artisan, named Heller, letters constitut rig 1 solidate our institutions. The ardent desire, which during honorary burgess of the town, on the occasion of the I many centuries was expressed by our country for the enjoy- anniversary of his being established at Bres;aw. M. de ment of a national existence, and for the employment of its schwieg, c lothed in a plain palctot, presented hared numerous resources, has been realised in our thy. The re- Heller's, 'and inquired if he remembered in dell flcction that my efforts have contributed to secure the Ines- lodged and fed for a fortnight a pour student, the e timable advantages of a free and independent existence locksmith. M. Heller replied, that he had I for Belgium will always be a source of great happiness to me. fused remembrance of the fact-Do yon r At the conclusion of this speech his Majesty was greeted her the name of the student.-. -Are y with loud cries of " Five k Rol." norant what is become of him i-Completely.-1 e you, sir ; that young man, whom you r, ceiyed so gear was myself. (Here M. de Bodelschwingh °pew:dais - -- and Phowed his minister's unicorm, adorned with i orders.) I worked hard, and I have had mews however high-placed I may be at present, 1 shall no get those who were my benefactors during my hunt I congratulate you on the distinction whivn the Mail of Breslaw has accorded you, and you may count ee all matters where you or your children need pectin support. -After having said these words, 31. B sklel shook M.Hellcr cordially by the hand and withdriee, his card, on which were marked his name, hi' title,, I high dignity with which be was invested. Some m after, M. Heller received a case contaiaiug nth prea himself and his children." FRANKFORT, Nov. 3.-Although the sittil the States have closed, the President, contrary tot custom of spending the vacations at Vienna, is sill hi is greatly occupied. The Prussian ambassador is still The King of Bavaria has just issued a i suspending for two years the payment of the arrears a in order that the tax-payers may be able to cos funds for the supply of breal to the peer at ade liii Majesty has also subscribed from his own pun florins towards relieving the poor, and ha. ordend tl from the government stores shall be supplied at a /fa On the 4th instant, died at Bonn, in Pro Reis, the oldest musical composer in Germany, and I the celebrated Ferdinand Reis, who died nee yr The doctor was in his 91st year, and was for a la master of the chapel of the Elector Maximilian Fn Cologne, which has reckoned amongits members Ile Reicha, the two Romberg', and many ober artists seendent merit. Dr. Rein was not only the writer a rous vocal and instrumental compositions, bat also the of many recondite works on the history sod theory o He was made a doctor by the Vaiv.' f Bean, inauguration of the monument raised to the Beethoven, whose intimate friend he was. DENMARK.-The states of the Badly of wig have sent a lengthened address to the King of T in which they maintain the right of succession of I line to the sovereignty of that duchy , and i ts in]l i from the Duchy of - Holstein. The States say that with astonishment in the letter patent, and in the i tion of the 18th September, an opinion exprened a direct contradiction to the fundamental law of the tion of the duchies, and in violation of their inde The States deny that the law of succession of Dr applicable to the duchies, and proceed in their , the refutation, one by one, of the *waren:tante of I patent. The address concludes by directing the at the King to the intense sensation that bin been lin this subject, and which it is intimated mai a turbulent manner, iple if the print put forth in patent be persisted in. POLAND.-CRAcow, Ocr. 30. -The Cracow is still under martial law, and has a areal garrison. After ten o'clock, no one is allowed to the streets without a lantern or a permit. If li , reply to the third challenge of the sentinel, he id] shut. No one is allowed to keep arms in his ho pain of death. Any person lodging a stranger Ii night, without special permission from the polls 100 dollars. What has become of Dembowski no a is all probability, he fell at Podgorze. After the dead were thrown into pits dug on the spot, and hi been amongst the slain. There is no repiesentatie now at Cracow. GALICIA.—The newly-organised gendall soon be on duty. The men arc picked, and receiv Special bureaux of police are to be established iv i with this body of troops. FRANCE.—DIPLOMATIC CHANCES.—The follow ing diplomatic changes are announced by a royal onlonnance, dated the 29th ult., but published only in the Moniteur of this day : Baron de Bois-le-Comte, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary in Holland, is appointed ambassador in Switzerland, in place of the Count de Pontois. Baron de Bussierre, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary in Seamy, is appointed in the same capacity in Holland. The Marquis d'Eyragucs, minister plenipotentiary in Baden, is appointed envoy extraordinary and minister plenipoten tiary in Saxony. Baron de Langsdorff, envoy extra ordinary and =mister plenipotentiary in Brazil, is ap. pointed in the name quality in Baden. M. His de Butenval, firs' secretary of embassy at Constantinople, is appointed envoy extraordinary and minister plenipoten tiary in Brazil. M. de la Itosii:re, minister plenipoten tiary, is named envoy extraordinary and minister pleni potentiary in Mexico, in place of Baron Alleys de Cyprey. By a royal ordonnance, dated' the let inst., the Count de Pontois is created a peer of France. It appears that M. do Pontois will shortly cease to be the representative of the King of the French at the Confederation, and retire from a career in which he has rendered such eminent services. CIVIL REGISTRATION OF TIIE NIONTPENSIER NIAR RIAOE.—On Monday the insertion of the act of marriage of the Duke and Duchess of Montpensier on the civil registers of the royal family, took place at St. Cloud. The ceremony was attended by the different members of the royal family, all the high dignitaries of the state, the Spanish Ambas sador, and suite. At a quarter-past five the King entered the 'Wilk. He gave his arm to the Duchesse de Montpen (der ; the Duke de Montpensier led in his august mother. A circular table, covered with a velvet cloth, was placed under the I:ortrait of Louis XIS - . The King and the royal family seated themselv , a on the right side of the table, in a semi-circle. In front and on the left side of the table sat the ministers of the King. On his let, the Spanish Ambassador, Marshal Molitor, Count Mole, the Duke of Broglie, and the first President Seguier. Behind, were the members of the bureau of the Chamber of Peers, the President of the Chamber of Deputies, M. Sauzet, the Procureur-Generals Dupin, Hebert, Lieutenant-General Jacqueminot, the Prcfeta of the Seine and Police.. On a sign of the King, Duke Pasquier read the act of mar riage, as celebrated in the palace of Madrid, on the 10th October last. The King then rose and affixed his signa ture, which was successively done by the Duke and Duchess of Montpensier, the princes, minister* the Spanish ambas sador, and the other witnesses. At half-past six all the per sons who were present at the ceremony sat down to dinner with the royal family, coven having been laid for one hun dred and forty. , I FUNERAL OF ADMIRAL DUPERRE.—The funeral of Admiral Duperre took place on Monday at the Invalides. The pall was borne by Vice-Admiral Baron de Ifackau, Minister of the Marine, the Duke Decazes, Grand Iteferendary of the Chamber of Peen, Marshal Count Molitor, and M. Sauzet, President of the Chamber of Deputies. The chief mourners were the son of the deceased, a midshipman, and M. de Montigny, his son-in law. The solemnity was attended by a deputation of about twenty five peers, joined by many others who came spontaneously. PRINCE LOUIS NAPOLEON.—A letter from London to the Constitutionnel states, as an authentic piece of in formation, that Prince Louis Napoleon is about to lead Miss ilurdett•Coutts to the hymeneal altar. NEW OPERA BY i3ERLIOZ.—M. Berlioz has just completed a grand musical composition, entitled 'La Damnation de F'aust," opera in four parts. This compo sition, which excites great interest in the musical world, is to be performed at the Opera Comique, at Pans, on the 29th instant, under the direction of the composer. COAL MINES IN TIIE PYRENEES. Count Castel lane has caused different points in the Pyrenees to be examined in the hope of discovering veins of coal. After considerable expense his efforts have at length been crowned with success, and a vein has been discovered by him in the commune of Orignac, in the district of Bsomeres, which gives great hopes. The depth of the layer ° discovered is about ten feet hnglish, and runs in a horizontal line in every direction without it being able to ascertain to what extent. M. de Castellane has purchased part of the ground in which the mineral is embodied, and has demanded the cmeession of the mine. The matter has been laid before the adminis tration of the department of the Hautes-Pyrenees. - - Ott court. WINDSOR, WEDNEsn.tY.—The Queen panied by the Duchess of Cambridge, the Prii and the Hereditary Grand Duke and Grand Mecklenburg Strelitx, walked on the eastern te Castle this morning. His Itoyal Highness P 6 accompanied by his Serene Highness Prince Ede Weimar Lord Portman, and Colonel Hall.• I, by the Equerry in Waiting, the Hon. Captain.' joyed the sport of shooting. The Royal Pawl accustomed exercise this morning on the terraces' around the C..stle. Iler Royal Highness the Duchess of K her Majesty and Prince Albert this morning, a , to luncheon. Her ltoyal Highness, acennal= Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge, kJ for a carriage drive. The Queen and Prince Albert, the Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Meeklenln the Princess Mary, and Prince Edward of Si walked out from the Castle in the afternoon. The Queen will hold a Privy Council Castle, on Saturday next, the 14th inst., at o'clock in the afternoon. Although the precise period has not yet mined upon by her Majesty for the Court to le Castle for Osborne•house, it is supposed that tl , the Prince Consort will take their departure f , in the early part of next week. Several men , royal establishment, connected with the dela Lord Steward, have received orders to he on Saturday next, for the purpose of making arrangements for the reception of the Court. ITALY.—ROMP, Orr. 29.—The question of rail ways will soon be decided. It is thought that towards the end of next year the definite result will be made public. Cardinal Wen has been absent, but is returned to Rome. The publication of the new code will take place early next year. The Unirers publishes a letter from Rome of the 27th ult., containing an account of the visit paid by the Pope to the superioress of tne Basilian nuns of Minsk, Macrina Mieczyslaska :—" On the day of the feast of the Polish Saint John Ceuta. his Holine's repaired in procession to the Con vent of the Trinity on the Mount, where, since her arrival in the Eternal City, the abbess of .Minsk has resided. After the adoration of the holy sacrament the Pope remce.ed to one of the halls, in which the nuns of the Sacred Heart and the pupils committed to their care were permitted to kiss his ring. The Pope afterwards ascended to the first floor, where the mother abbess awaited him at the entrance of the corridor leading to her cell, accompanied by the Rev. Father Ilyllo and the Abbe Jolowicky. The Holy Father, on perceiving her, paused, and pointing to her with his right hand, said to the Superioress, Madr.me de Coriolis, ' Is that the venerable martyr y ou . have bad the happiness to harbour in your convent: lie had scarcely spoken those words when the Mother Abbess cast herself at his feet, and remained in that pJeition until the l'upe raised her, saying, Poor infirm woman, sbe has suffered so cruelly ! • Then steadily regarding her, he added, ' What strength of mind in so feeble a body'.' The Pope afterwards gave audience to the Mother Abbess in her reception cell. the Abbess cast herself agaiu at the fat of the Holy Father, kiss- The Marquis of Breadalbane had a with Sir George Grey yesterday, at the Ilom Granger had also ans . interyiew with the lt..ght esterday. The Conuairsioners of Metropolitan In had a meeting yesterday, at the office of U' Forest, in NV nitehall-place. There Were pro, Morpeth, Lord Lyttelton, the Rigt.t llon. J. Lord M•syor, Mr. Alderman Johnson, Mr. Alti