The Express. — London, England, 1849-02-26 00:00:00

Men. per barrel of 196th., 27e. Od. to 27e. 66. Barley, per UMW if lOW., Irian end Scowl, malting. 41. to 4a. ed. Defog. 3s. to 3s. 9d. Beans, per 2201 b., English, l aridl e rlerlas Od. to 16e. Pees, Matt. maple and grey, wr 111A1be.,114. to 17e. Oats, per Mantel of 451ba., mime m.dW winkles, Ei. 3d. to Os. Bed ; somema, 2s. 6d. to 2s. U.; Provender, 2s. 7d. to 2s. 11d . Oatmeal, per load of Idebe., English, 261.111. to Me. 6d.; Irish, almite tesiteles, 11111. to 265. ; geed gown qualities, 235. 6d. to 24a. ; "Mae to sled , lib IL to Sb. ladies Coen, par qr. of 4111610., 335. Oil se lb. OIL Like Can Meal, per peek of 98)>e ,white, seaubsteiv, 17e. to 17e. 641. ; 111 e. to 18e. 6d. lisea, pipe= el24olte.,Eoglish and WA, lOs to 10s. 6d. RIADIXO, Feb. It -We bad ea examidlasty sheet supply of Wheat today, sad bet lide babes temomard. rate qualities esamesiled the rates of bet week; bat inferior norm Manned la. yew gr. Darby ht yes, Usi•od quantity, bat equal to the Offmad. Prime remain at provionoly gusted. Trade valamelly Sat for ell ether descriptions et rate, bat prime bath= are =altered. Samos WAsissas, Feb. 24.-Wheat, though a heavy asks Eel sash Haase to be noted. Barley continuo the mem Bum musk lower. Pees • little inquiry for. Oats es Ile dell= - - - - - 111mWeannitv, Feb. 2/5.-We hare • small supply of Earley sad Oats at market this day, err d Milo or asiklas ik aimg, at prices about** same as last weak. Wheat, 4da. In par qr. Barley, 26e. to 30a. Oats, 18s. to 28s. WM1041118413, Feb. 2t.-Bells were dull, at last week's OM. The show of Barley was rather bat masters ailed with mutton in their operations! sonsequentle bat little beam was transacted , and ccly t he best samples brought lest week's quotations. Malt sold slowly, with • downward malmsey. Oats but little in request, but brought lad week's prices. Beans and Peas attrscted little more at tention, but nothing beyead ]sit week's prices could be ob tained. Wheat, old, 425. to We.: new, 38e. to 61... Barley 245. to 31e. Oats, 18s. to Tas. Pea., 425. to Os. Beans, 40a. to 445. per qr. Malt, 7s 3d. to 7a. Bd. per bushel. Winonsterait, Feb. 24 -We had an average supply of Wheat and Barley, and a full attendance, yet there was bat little briness transacted in thl former, prices remaining atout the same as last week. There was • somewhat better sale for Barley, which was taken off at previous rates Oats striae under our last entrenciee. Beans and Peas as last quoted. Wheat trcin 81. to 131. 61. per load Barley, As. to 30e. Oats, las. to 20s. Beano, 365. to 465. rem 38,. t . s 48s. per qr. Malt, 7s. 3.1. to 7s. 2d. per bushel. flour, 365. to Ws. per sack. Wisanox, Feb. 24.-We hays a good supply at Wheat, bat mud of spring corn at this day's market. Oaod /manil las' Wheat sells at her wee re pie's, whilst the rufe doe is not quits so ready • sale Oats and Beans ae sat week, without much demand. Wheat, white, 42.. to 475. per qr. ; sates, 495. ; red, 40e. to 45e. ; extra, 47a. Oats, 84d. to 94d. per stone. BOW, old, 32a. to 341. per qr.; new, 295. to 31s. WORCESTER, Feb. 21.-There was :lain a short supply of English Wheat at market to-day, which wild at abut the curreacy of this day seensight, but fo:eign of all kinds was le. to 2s. per qr. lower. Barley unaltered in valise, with little doing therein. On Oat' the Lean was again in favour of the Dieser. Beans sold slowly, at a ruduets:n of la per qr. We had rather more doing in Peas. You., Feb. 24.- We have a full average attendance of brain at our market today. Wheat of floe quality tally supports last week's prices ; secondary quality dull eels, end rather lower. In Barley, Oats, anu Beans no alteration. Wheat, white, Fer imp. qr., 475. to 525. ; red, 435. to 48s. Earley, malting, 28e to 3 1 s ; grinding, 24a to 28s. Malt, 64e. to 68s. Oats, 84d. to 1044. per stone of 141bs. Flour, 34e. per sack of 280.b5. - - - BELFAST, Feb. 22.—We have got into broken weather age, which, fur the pecans*, steps the usual field labours for the sown. It b, however, salisflictory to know that oar been have taken advantage of the fine weather we have had ale the let of the mouth, and are at present in a more Simard state with their spring wirings and pveparations than in any former year. The supplies of pain at market are small, and unequal to the do med, which keeps our pricers relatively high. Wheat is still required to some ilttent for teed. We reduce the top price, however, 2nd, and Inferior petuele 3d. to ed. pee cwt. near It la difficult to give correct gas hati , :ne ia Naar. We reduce le 6J. ler cwt. ; barrels are held at a reduction of BJ. also, hat dealers bold off, not beg disposed to give entree prices. States' Flour, 6d. to 261. ; Canadian, 6d. lees per beef. Barley a slow sale, at about former pliess. Oats : The demand for wed seems to be generally setting in, and gives a high tone to prices; feeding panda, however, barely maintain their value. Oatmeal sells slowly, at a reduction of 2d. on the week. Isaias Can is tenoned quality, and Ia Sew hands ; yet, hem the mall demoted for it, prices are barely main teed; yellow sells at 71. 10e. to 71. 16s. pee Is, and white de. Cons, Feb. 21—The trade is still influenced by confirmed arrivals, and the absence of the large milers from *he mar ket se pareheases; and the consequence is a continued and eves towered decision in the TCriolll markets of the kingdoms. In Lid Coes, especially, we have to report a (either serum depression. The supplies of home grown grain are very meaty, and owing to this we have very little alteration in the value of any article. In pre pared Iri Is Wheat we have no trarsactions to mord. Bat lit•lo business has been dace in foreign abo, which must be quoted ls. per barrel lower, the sel l bsg pries of Merianople today bsing 275. per bun& Malting Barley is ewers and in demand. Prepared Oats are little altered from our last, but the trade in the article is languid. and the market is de. void of intimation. The trade in Flour is very doll, bakers purchasing only in the most retail sinner, and confining theme Ives altogether to the supply of their more immediate wants. The tendency of prices is dornowszdu Indian Corn, 71. to 71. de. per ton. Indian Meal is in slow request, at re dared rates. ---- ----- Lissome, Feb. 24.-The weather for the past week has been broken, and &good deal of rain bas fallen. All our reu trot the country speak of the imams* quantity of land Wilier tillage this epilog ; large tracts of grazing pasture are being turned up to receive Oats, Barley, and Potatoes (of the latter, more seed has been preferred than generally thought). Labour is in good demand, consequently the sup plies of mein for the week have been small ; indeed, the duke are nearly exhausted, except for seed. Prices are flan at our quotations. We have en they large arrival of lodise Cons sad Breadstuff' ; the demand is inactive, and a liberal redoetios is price has bees made ; the reta 1 trade of Meals and ether articles of food has partakes of the depression. Wheat, red, 144. ' • white, 16d. Oats, so. to 9d. Barley, 114. per etoae. delete ladiaa Corn, 71. 17s. 6d. • Ibrall, 71. 16a. ; Spanish and Tuscany, 71. 15s. • yellow Aimless, 71. 12s. 13d. ; white, 71. 10e. ; lodise ideal, 81 Oatmeal, 111. 100. ; Ilyesneal, 81. per ton. Irish Flour, 30a pm bag; American, Nu to 30e. pee band. WiTII7OIID, Feb. !l-Our supplies of fasten' pain this week bare bees mak ray light, and arrivals from abroad seem modesige am of late ; still the trade has re. soloed is sweet depoomml Kate, with a gradual tradesey to lower plea. At this morning's mask* but few samples of esraily mess were exhllited. Wheat mot Wile alba ties, sad was with 4111eolty Takla at a rMmmtima of et pm lewd. whisk media Ike sit toads dose Ms key sessight. Oats as swab be gusted &arm, bet hatless la renal an vrty fink min= ask aa ulnae* of 24. to per barrel. Barley without imp either is googly, de mud, or prim. Flour mast be quoted lower by Is. per sesh, with an exceedingly dull sale. Indian Corn lese bees nook resod ea the market, end though some large puolls have been bright for the interior ; pri es have receded fully le, 34. es the best, and 94. to le. per barrel on inferior qua. ibises dewing the week. The following are the quotatioes :- 11•6124, sew: Wheat, millers', yr 20 at., 23e. Od. to 235. 94.. delgolsg, 10s. Od.to 21.. 64. Barley, malting, per 16 stone, 1111. - tejile. ,• grinding, 111. Od. to 13e. Oats, white, per 14 dem fle. X to 10s. Od. ; black, 9a Of. to 9s. 34. Dried and foreign: Irish Wheat, millers', per 20 stone, 26a. 64. to MO 6L; shipping 211. 04. to 225. 6d. ; Polish Odom, Os. id. to 265. 6d. ;'Fresch, red. 2.55. 9d. to 26e. 6d. Barley, skodiar, per 16 rt., 12s. to 13s. 6d. Oat., white, per 14 Mum, nV 10e. Od. to Ile. ; black , 9s. 9d. to 101. Od. Flour, ite, per sack, 365. to 36e.; seconds, 32.. to 33e. Od.l- 276. to 28e. • fourths, 20s. to 235. Indian Corti; Vitae, per 20 'tali, 18e. to 18.. 94. ; American. yellow sod red, 17e. 6d. to lik. ; Spanish and Portuguese, 171.34. to 17e. Od.; white, 17e. 6d. to 180. • damaged for cattle, 10.. to 13s. Indhut Corn Meal, per etre., Os. to 9s. Oat meal, pee cert., 10s. N. to Us er . Bran, per 6 stone, 3e. 6d. to 3s. 9d. KIRKCALDY, Feb. 24.-The writher amine the week by been rather changeable and baistetons. with occasional very heavy showers, and even o:casheally a sprinkling of mow; nevertheler, the sawing of Wheat and Beans has been proceeded with to some extent. At our country mar. kilts this week, the supplies of all kinds of main have been a good deal less than usual. The sales med. woe chiefly for heal aossureption, at lot week's rates. The bar prime for the counties of Fife and Perth, crop, 1848, were strata at Cepar and Perth on Thursday and Friday th is week. We subjoin note of th em. File Flats, crop 18 48.-What, white, 21. 3s. Ba. per qr. ; red, 21. le. Bd. Beefy, 11 de. 114. Bore, 11.4 a. 1441. Oats, 17e. 31d. Oatmeal, 11, 75.114 d. per 2101bs. Beans end Pees, 11. 2s. 94. per qr. Bye, 11. 5.. 714. Melt, 21. 10s. Old. Perth Piers-Crop, 11148.-lat Wheat, 21. b. 63. per qr.; 2nd, U. 16e.; Ist Barley, 11. 6s. 24. ; 2d. 11.; Ist Oats, 18e. 7d. ; 204, 140. 6d.; Beans and Peas, 11. 3e. ; Oatmeal, 11. 8, . per 2901 b.; Rye, 11. 6.. per qr. Here today we ha d moderate supplies of Wheat and Barley, and rather large of Oats. Barley sold frilly, at fully last week'. nem Wheat and Oats were a slow 'she, and the turn wee in favour of the buyer; very few soli Oats at market Wheat, 40s. to 60.. or qr. ; Barley, 22.. dl. te 294. ; Oats, lik. to 24.. 64 ; Oat loaf, per bog of 2801 b, 261. HOPS.—Bououou XBruurr. lbws. Pstreudes sad Smith mart that there Is a dark sad is tails for all Hops; "*"2•"". K SM . Mr.• ' is. NM 1 4 1: 6 0 8 II Text: ih m a llatitt I • w. =LIM 1 151.3 01111000......... 1 .tot 0 410 0 0 CATTLE, &c.—fhirnarram, Apo o'Clock.—The mg* of Besets is lessys sad us +. exesedi ly dull ; our seizirstions are ghlit difficulty for the best sad sassy TI maid. The pusher of Sheep is mak ; k kisetrever.% As Onuses to the demand : there is sr udsra.e sa kis piss,. Trade Is dell fa r C s ' vet, b ut, t h e umber beiss lllMAffirisse semis about the same sq of We Pi Genray Bellimed we hew 636 Et-ette, 1,070 neap. owl SS Wyss ; Natal& sal %Balk, 1,900 Beak; sad 499ffiem —.-17111 ftg i tM 1 . t 1 3 . 41 1 DOA DlPAlibthili r es. 1 I 1 Da oa 6 llotlamemses......— • 4 4 •••• .... 3 •1. Do, .." . 0 1141 . 1341616014 3 A ; L: 0 • Ise; Efle Wit Orpregio. MAILL The mesh: Vlee. Oporto. Lib" MO" Ws. sad Masan wal be made op teraierrotr 11101Waiii. The was ter Sew Swab Welse. Tea Moss% lead. sad Few Taelaid all he mode ap as the switisi a/ the altle Feb. The Wag ladle Mae, bestedise Beeeds. Mesas% Nur; Wm Odra% awl Nadia. sad maenad those Ilsr Ll "i des.it keorde-Iftwesava. The Orsireds. ad 4 sad Tees. will M rats as swig se ths aed al Mond no fle~ta r the Vat Mot el hates sad Medan will le med. as ea et the Sed ItereL The sea ae biriekti the armee. sed AMU Ara% se le side ep ea the awake this eh Mud The oak eke MilMlllllll, al OW Identssesmes. kept. Ades. °Wm. >• M^_ ha. via be seeds op as the eveniae of the IA Mai The mils tar artlfe e h Mirthbee Asesehn i Zres Oiled OW" will be medal. ea the et the Ith Ile mile tie elleeilee. Mb. GM% Oa Win lOW% Pints Aka, Myles. ladle. Illapiraell sal Mee. ela Sealhaeglea. M seeds sem the arealea el the Sea Mari TO COERIOPONDBNTB. Advoilloollpb Wooled Ox " The inpren, - Under erasing w ia = tire so IM 011111;10, /fronorlo lava, try odock on UNA,' al ZION VAT= AT LONDON 111411101 Tau Dtt U W. paa 4; Atterten.4l ads. pat 4. To-Nrasw SI Pa. pat 4; Aftervia,lo W pia A LONDON, MONDAY, FEB. 26 COULD we exercise fres jedgment, and indulge in unconditional recommendations for that most interest ing of all questions, tte settlement of the affairs of Italy, we should say, let each state and each monarch settle its own Wain, nninterfered with, unmo lested. Much u there is to condemn in the conduct of Romans and of Tuscans, we feel confident that both the Pope and the Grand Dale, had they been assured that foreign aid would never be exerted for them, might very well have compounded matters with their turbulent subjects, and weathered the revolu tionary storm. Pius IX. had, indeed, but to accept Maitiam frankly se his minister, and the latter would have brought him through. It is, however, impossible to expect that either Austria or France will allow the establishment of Roman or of Tuscan republic, especially when the sovereigns of those states are re ady, by demanding in tervenuon, to give a colour and pretext for it. It is from foreseeing the inevitable intervention of these foreign and interested power'', that we recommended the doing away with the necessity by the previous interference of Italian powers. There is, at the present moment, a remarkable pause in the action of great continental powers. Austria is embarrassed and occupied by the Hungarian war; its armies having been engaged for now two months, on or beyond the Theis', without any satisfactory result. It is even thought that they cannot finish the war without the assistanoe of the Russians, an event, the very rumour of which has created a kind of moral revolt in all Germans agairstAnstria, and will probably, and in consequence, fling the imperial crown to Prussia. Its open rivalry with Prussia for this cause, and for the re-organisa tion of Germany, is another curious fact, which makes Austria pause, and incur no fresh risks of difficulty or hostility. The active aims and energies of French policy are in the meantime absorbed in the fortunes of Louls NAPOLEON. He and his govern ment are engaged in the ?reparing for the election of a new assembly, and till it has seen what majo rity it will have therein, and what the spirit of that majority may be, there is no use in its even framing a policy. France and Austria are therefore for adjlurning the affairs of Italy and thus the Italians have an interval during which, if they are wise, they will arrange their own affairs, either singly, or together and ere /caulk. If the four chief Italian potentates could come to an agreement—make such conoeesions, or follow such a line of policy u would content their subjects, even making use of force and salutary coercion to pat down the ex savagance of the mere rabble, each as has been displayed in Genoa and Florence—they might save Italy from becoming, as it is likely to be, the stalking horse or the battle-Held for the selfish ambition of other Unfortunately ower. the monarch who might take the lead in each a policy is mostunfitted for it by charac ter and precedents. If the fete of Italy seemed to be in the hands of CHARLES ALBERT during the better part of 1848, the King of NAPLES might play as emi nent a part in 1849. But unfortunately the King of NAPLES combines theworst qualities and tendencies of the Austrian and the Bourbon families. He has been tyrannical, vindictive, sanguinary; and not all his promises could make liberals trait even the constitu tionalism of FERDINAND._ _ . Then his quarrel with Sicily absorbs all other aims and ideas in his mind. He thinks lees of Italian in dependence or of governing Naples in a fit and liberal spirit, than of turning the people and resource of Naples to the redaction and slaughter of the Sicilians. And until this quarrel between Naples and Sicily is in some way appeased, the south of Italy is lost, and worse than lost, to the great cause of Italian in- dependence. Unfortunately we see no hopes of the quarrel between Naples and Sicily being made up. It has in fact all the bitterness of personal hate, aggravated by international aversion. FERDINAND OP BOURBON himself, though by birth a Sicilian, has been the great persecutor, and oppressor, and decimator, of the Sicilians. It is not the Neapolitan government, bat the king, of his own will and caprice, who mal treated them so many years, and robbed them of their liberties, so that it is not so much for this right, or for that claim, that the Sicilians hold ont,but from the conviction th at, placing themselves Once more in the power of FERDINAND or NAPLES, is neither more nor less than the whole island and its nobkase baring their necks for the exe cutioner. Our tory press could not have undertaken a more unworthy and unneoessFy task than that of upholding the claim,and whitening the character of the modern Mantua There is no people more worthy of English sympathy than the Sicilians. Sicily, hire Eng land, preserves that free constitution that its early barons and citizens and churchmen founded. This old constitution was merely reformed inlBl2 under British auspices, and its continuance was guaranteed under British auspices in 1815. The two FERDINAND( or Kinn were the first sovereigns to suspend and destroy the Sicilian constitution, and to engage in a wholesale persecution against those Sicilians who re mained attached to parliamentary liberties. The destruction of those patriots, who were by no means re bellious, but bore in quiet the yoke of op 'on, was ' undertaken by FIRDINAND and his infamous police I minister, and the Slalom were subjected to indig nities and atrocities Inch as flesh and blood could not bear. It mast be borne in mind that the Sicilian revolu tion and the entire agitation of southern Italy were no effects of the French revolution of February—no spurious insarrection, created by the mare itch for imitation. The Sicilians, in 1847, declared publicly that the tyranny of FERDINAND was beyond bearing, and they war him by public placard that if he did not make some concessions to their just griefs they could not but insurge. FERDINAND replied by the whip and the fetter—and the insurrection of Palermo ex pe lled the Neapolitan general and his luoops. For FERDINAND to recover his lost and abso tepremacy, he must conquer it, and must wade to the neck in the blaod of the Sicilians to accomplish it. He cannot raise, like Austria, 80,000 men, get money from Russia to supply them, and march, like Itznarria, at the head of an overwhelm ing force. The Sicilians have resources, steamers, an army of 20,000 men headed by an experienced and talented French general ; they are in their own country, surrounded by their own resources, supported by the infuriate hatred of the entire rural as well as civic population to the Neapolitans and the Bing. The war will be one to tke knife. We have seen at Mead= what such a war produces. We have the testimony of British officers and of the French count u to the atrocities of that war at Messina, which the exculpatory speech of the chief hatcher himself cannot be talvn to refute. General FILAIMIRRI, who was a bankrupt trader three years ago, and screened from his creditors by the despotic interference of the king, of course supports the des potic power of such a sovereign, and would gladly impose ta upon S its men or icily . . t. But who, w r. o cr d siorod - t wlth iota of credit to the i word of so notorious a meal FlLsitOriiii himself does not say a word In reply to Lord reLYIEUTON's chief accusation, the bombard. meat and battery of Messina for eight hours after it had capitulated ; nee to the other terrible charge of having shut up discloses of the hospital, and set Am to it with the wounded within. Fu.ANCILEgi denies that his soldiers could have committed the atrocities attri bated to them, because they wee* provideog frtrz Bid the general took good care to THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 26, 1849. contingency; for he brought with him ambers e t lamarcei, not for the pumas el fighting, but of plundering and =naming, mho marched in, after and amongst the sadism, and whom weapons wire not muskets or bayensb, but haired. The French oonsul, Ds MARICOURT, testifies this. Hence the cannibalism of the aggressors, which was unfortunately responded to by similar acts on the part of the enraged dehnder& OWL FILANGIZSI pleads that his approach to Mardua was conducted awarding to the regular neceseities of war ; and the Thew of Thursday last upholds his humanity. Bat what says the correspondent of the Times, writing from Mersin', Oot. 13 : The Neapolitan soldien were furnished with a tin con later fall of Indentsaable liquid, and a small brolly, with oaten to daub a little on all the woodwork of the *Cm and windows and as tha last jibs cleared thew., a inciter match was applied, and the whole was le a bless. Every house foe miles outside Messina was burned by FnAnninre order, not to dislodge an enemy, but after the last files had cleared them. The fullest answer to the diplomatic article of February, ex culpating the Neapolitan general. may be found in the Bows of October, containing the letter of its own correspondent on the spot ! Elution= in his mendacious speech represents the troops u occupying 60 parishes, who were con tented with such hosts. The truth is, that the Neapo litans occupy but five parishes, in which the offi cers of the French and English fleets have been fre quently obliged to interfere to prevent atrocities. FILANOIERI represents the occupation as a pasto ral affair, the soldiers lodging with the inhabitants and taking care of the children! This is sufficiently refitted by a proclamation of the Syndic of Molina, which states that the greater part of the houses of Messina being burned or destroyed, he entreats the owners of the rest to be so good as to return, in order to act as hosts to the soldiers; a modest request with which none complied. We cannot better conclude, than by another ex tract from a letter of the same correspondent of the Timer, from Messina. It might be supposed that it was merely the civic population, or the mob, that supported Sicilian resistance. But the writer assures us that there is no extreme party in Sicily, save a , most insignificant one. And as to the agricultural class, he deposes as follows: Neapolitan rule, I understand, wee on all sides execrated in Sicily. The taxes on the rural population were exor bitant in amount, and most oppressive is the form of collec tion. The country is filled with small profession, and when it is knows that eseklied to pay in coin abseil, potent on the estimated produce of his farm, and if per sent. on the vales of the corn sent to the Aorta ma te be ground, end that all were in continued litigation with the valuers and collectore, it may be imagined with what intemsby of hatred the government that authorised these emestiene was re garded. These were the main emus whirl soda the perpis against the Xing; but the 'WM NM= of govern ment was bad, every portion of andalstraima was corrupt, and the execution of the laws was either unneeesearily harsh, or to be averted by a bribe. A roans to such a state of things is impaerible. Tin few who take the trouble to examine the de tails of the estimates for themselves will have ob served the following notondum in the army esti mate of this year: In previous years there have been separate statements of the " gross charge " and the " sums voted " in conse quence of the appropriations in aid having been deducted from the former and the balance only voted by parliament. By treasury minute of 2nd of May, 1848 it was decided that the appropriations in aid should be paid direct into the Exchequer. In the present and all future estimates, there fore, the whole charge few the army will be voted by ptrlia meat, and the " gran sum " and the " mom voted ' will be the same. This new arrangement has also been observed in framing the navy estimate, and the es timate for the post-office packet department. This is a step in the right direction. It is a supplement to the bill which, as we announced on the let inst., ministers have in pen°, directing certain sums which are now paid directly by the receiving departments to certain expenditure departments to be henceforth paid into the Exchequer, whence they will be bailed in due course to their present recipients. This is an instalment, bat, after all, a very small instalment, of a measure of financial reform which was earnestly pressed upon ministers by Dr. Bowanro, and which we are happy to observe Mr. JACKSON has pledged himself to take in hand, should no other member do so. We allude to the proposal that all amounts deducted by the various revenue departments for costs of collection, or other purpose., from their gross receipts, and all amounts received by departments of expenditure from any other source than parliamentary grants or issues from the Facheqner, shall in future be paid into the Exchequer. It is the practice in all the departments of receipt except one—in the custom', excise, stamps, taxes, post-office, and crown lands—to deduct the charges of collection and the contributions of each department to its superannuation fund from the grows receipts. The customs, excise, stamps and taxes, deduct in ad dition all drawbacks, allowances, repayments, &c. And besides, the customs, excise, taxes, post-office, and crown lands, pay considerable sums to various departments of expenditure without the intervention of the Exchequer, deducting these sums from their payments into the Exchequer. The seventh de partment of receipt—the =all branches of rediry revenue, under which designation are embraced all fi nes , fees, and forfeitures—does not appear to pay a single penny of what it collects into the Exchequer. The sum total of the moneys thus left at the disposal of these departments, and with drawn from the; effective control of the Exchequer and Parliament, was, in 1840, 6,904,6901. Again, the various departments of expenditure are yearly in receipt of considerable sums from fees (sometimes arbitrarily imposed by their own autho rity), or sales of stores, or rents of buildings, or sur plus moneys drawn by them, bat not expended, or interest of moneys in their h ands, all of which they have been in the habit of expending as appropria tions in aid, instead of paying them into the Exche quer. The total amount of the sums thus expended, and e3metimes levied, without due parliamentary war rant, amounted, in 1846, to 1,099,7471. It is obvious that while these irregular practices are allowed to continue it is impossible for the Exchequer to institute a prow and searching audit of all the mounts of the various departments, or to prepare suchstatements of the national accounts as will enable parliament dalytto apportion the annual expenditure to the real exigencies of the country. It is under the cloak of this arrangement, which coven more sins than charity itself, that a number of gross and di. graceful jobs have hitherto escaped exposure. Almost the whole expense of the Scotch judicial establishments has hitherto lurked safe from scrutiny among the " other payments" deducted from the gross receipts of the Customs instead of being paid into the Exchequer. Pensions granted to various noble families in the reigns of Ciraitixs IL and WILLIAM lIL out of the receipts of the Excise and Post-office have been hidden under the "other payments" of these departments. Occasional sales of military, ordnance, and naval stogie have frequently, under the cover of this arrangement, enabled ministers to ask smaller votes for these service., and thus to escape from awkward investigations. The offices of the Secretaries of State and of the Courdi of Law have been empowered by the practices we are complaining of to exact arbitrary and oppressive fees from parties transacting . business with the former, and asserting claims of right in the latter. It is palpable to seem that the whole of the 7,004,4871., which are by these practices withheld from the effective control of the Treasury and parlia ment, ought to be paid into the Central Exchequer ; and that no department either of receipt or expendi ture should be allowed to disburse a single penny that has not been issued to it in doe form from the Exehe quer under parliamentary warrant. So long as this re form is not adopted to its full extent, the general public is constantly liable to mystification, respecting the legitimate and n expenses of government, and individuals are expo the most unwarrant able extortion and oppression. Bat the instalments of this reform, to which we have directed attention, fall very far short of the extent to which it ought to be carried. The appropriations in aid scarcely constitute a moiety of the million which the departments of expenditure levy and expend without parliamentary warrant or tiontroL And, in this sum, the fee-funds of the courts of law and equity are not included. In the bill, which ministers have not yet brought in, to direct certain charges hitherto deducted from the gross re ceipts by the departments of revenue to be paid into the exchequer, the charges of collection and manage ment are expressly emorpted from the new arrange ment The provisions of the bill relate only to tour oat of area departments of revenue, the Customs, Ermine, Taxes, and Past-coos; while the Stamps, Crown Lands, and small brandies of the hereditary i nvolve are left entombed by it. Of the 5,904,8901. dedeeted in 1848 from the grow receipts by the revenue departments, instead of being paid into the Exchequer, 0n1y479,4021. would have beenpaid, into the exchequer had the provisions of the bill then been law. How much of the million and upwards levied and disbareed by departments of expenditure in that year without due warrant, either from the trea sury or parliament, would have been paid into the equer if the practice now to be introduced of excluding the appropriations in aid from the gross charges in the estamates had been then adopted, it will not bosomy to say until we have all the estimates of the present year before us ; but we feel convinced that one-half of that sum would be rather above than below the mark. That the charges of collection and management should be paid into the Exchequer se well u the "other payments" is of tho utmost consequence; among other reasons, because it would facilitate that more equitable and efficient organisation of the water-side service of the Customs (and similar reforms in other departments of revenue) which we Reseed up in the attention of our readers on Wednesday, the 14th lust The numerous communications on this subject which hays appeared in every number of our japer since published, from officers of the Customs, wharfingers, importing merchants, and others, sufficiently show how urgently and imperatively the reform we advo cated is called for. Bat as this topic involves conside rations of equity to deserving individuals, and bears upon the re-organisation of the public service in more ways than that of mere economy, it will be expedient to reserve the resumption of its discussion for future articles. PORTUGAL. The Oriental Company's steam-packet Pacha, Capt. Wicks, arrived at Southampton on Saturday, and landed her mails under charge of Lieut. J. Inglis, R.N., Admiralty agent. Her data are Gibraltar, Feb. 16 ; Cadiz, Feb. 17; Lisbon, Feb. 19; Oporto, Feb. 20; Vigo, Feb. 21. The Pacha brings epecie to the amount of 7,000/. _ _ At Gibraltar the fleet were dispersing; the Power- fal to join Sir W. Parker, the Vanguard for England,l St. Vincent to follow ; bat the admiral had written to his friends at Lisbon that he was going there. Two steamers were about to be sent to destroy the boats of the Moorish pirates, from whom the Polyphemus rescued the brig. The emperor having replied that he had no authority over them, Mr. Redmon's claim on the government of Morocco, which Sir C. Napier was sent here to enforce, (17,000 dollars) the emperor left to the arbitration of two merchants of Gibraltar, Messrs. Cowell and Ross, who reduced I it to 10.000 dollars. Sir R. Wilson left Gibraltar on the 12th inst, in the Polyphemus, for Malaga, where he wits meet graciously received by the authorities. The new governor, Sir R. W. Gardner, landed and was sworn into the government on the 14th, 36 hours after the former left. All kinds of government scrip and paper money at Lisbon were merely nominal. No one would purchase, and the dividends were seriously in arrears. The letter of our correspondent is aa follows : LISBON, Fin. 19. In my last I hinted that the elements of which the ministry is composed could not hold long together. Disunion has already taken place among them, and reports affirm there is another crisis, in which the continuance of the great and eveveltanging chief Baldanha at the head of the counsels of his obstinate mistress is muck doubted. It is supposed that Teixeira will be the next actor in a ministerial scene, but at present to form any conjecture as to the persons likely t,) take part In the drama is impossible ; though Count Thomar's name is mixed up in the matter, I do not think the count will again compromise himself with the Duke of Tereeir-II although the money making Count Tojal (John Oliviave may, and is very likely to do so. Public clamour against the directors of the bank has com• palled the Chamber of Deputies to fonts a committee to in quire into the state of the bank. The notes are at a discount of 44 per cent. I mentioned in my lam the nature of the loan made with the bank : the matters are now concluded, ' and the bank lends to the government a loon of 180 contos, and negotiates another of 576 contos, upon the lowing conditions :—Thc bank is to hod the 180 , cantos, as mentioned, at 30 coat°, per month (one tourth being in bank notes) at the interest of 6 per cent. per annum to take immediate effect : and to negotiate the 676 cantos, which are to be 360 coutos in money, a fourth of which is to be in bank notes, and 216 cantos in titules of the pay of servants of the state posterior to July 1848, the money to be paid to the treasury at the rate of 60 cantos per montb, from February to July; and the rest, being in titules, to be opened for payment until December without mentioning in what monthly proportion,. Their repayment to be from the dsclmu and taxes annexed to them due for the last two quarters of 1848. The amount of these decimas and taxes will be reprmonted by treasury b ads or bills of 1,200 refs, 2,400 refs, and so on, to 96,000 nil, which will be held by the bank as a security, and in cam any of the amounts et them bills should not be paid, they will be received ix payment ofduties at the custom-houses; and if, at the end of December, 1849, any of these sums re main unpaid, bills will be given in exchange for them, upon the Lisbon and Oporto custom-houses, to be paid from Janu ary to June, 1860. HAYTL—The Journal du Havre has the following : Correspondence from Hayti, mentions fact. important to commerce. According to the latest news, the government refuses to reesive the thesenty bans in payment tar ca,tom dues ; the tax upon foreign residents has been increased to 25 per amt. We have elready announced that the Heytian government had monopeised the trade in cotton and coffee and had published a tariff filing the maximum at which foreign commodities were to be sold. We have now before us the text of the decree, to this effect. By virtue of the fleet article, the government monopolises, ' for the present, only cotton and coffee.' The contractors for these artkles will take them at the rata of 26 dollars the 100 ate. of ooffse, sad 26 dollars 50 cents the 1001 be. of cotton, in open ports. Government on its part will take these merchandise, allowing to the managers one dollar the 10011*., and will itself resell them to the exporters at • like profit. In closed parts these prices will be sub. jest to a redaction of one dollar. The tariff relative to foreign commodities, includes all articles of absolute neces sity, and fixes a wholesale and a retail . price above which it is forbidden to sell under a penalty of 20 per cent. on the price of the merchandise ; the flee however not to exceed 6 dollars. Oa the let of January the forty-sixth anniversary of the republic was celebrated with much solemnity. Among other laws recently promulgated by the chambers at Ihyti, is one prohibiting the exportation of pinion, metals, whether in specie, bars or ingots:, the Court. OF THE BATH. At an investiture of the order of the Bath, held on Saturday afternoon, at Buckingham Palace, Lieut.-General Sr J. L. Caldwell was invested with ths ham, of Koleht Grand Cross; Mr. Gems Russell Clerk, Mr. Henry Light, Major. General Archibald Galloway, Co',eel Duncan M'Gre gor, and Colonel Charles Rowan, severally with the honour of Knight Commander. Prince Albert, attended by CoL Seymour, in sp.:And, on Saturday, the manufactory of Mediated pave ment, at Messrs. Minton and Co., in Albion-place, Blackfriars. His royal highness was oonducted over the establishment by the members of the firm, and was pleased to express his gratification with the manufacture of encaustic tiles and porcelain. Her Majesty and Prince Albert honoured the per formance at Drury-lane Theatre with their presence on Saturday eveniag. The royal suite consisted of the Hon. Mils Cavendish, Hon. Miss - Macdonald, Lord Cullom ca. the Hen. Charles Grey, and Col. Seymour. The Queen and Prince Albert, the ladies and gen tlemen of the court and domestic household, attended divine meek* yesterday, in the private chapel in Buckineham Palace. The Hon. and Rev. C. Leslin Courfenay officiated. Cabouly Effendi, First Secretary to the Turkish Embassy, Sad& Bey, Second Secretary, and Rise B.y, Attache te the Embassy, had the honour of being presented to the Queen by the Turkish ambassador at her Majesty's lest levee. _ _ _ -- Saturday was the birthday of the Duke of Cam bridge. Bonn of the foreign ministen and many of the nobility called end left their names for his royal highness du ring the day at Cambridge-house, The Duchess of Gloucester received the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary at dinner at Gloucester house. Their Major highnesses were attended by Baron Knembeek and Major Stephens. In the evening the tradesmen of the royal duke illuminated their houses.. The Duke of Cambridge attended divine service yesterday morning is Be . Gloorgs's church. Hie royal WO nem attended &Maisano in Grosvenor chapel In the after- A Cabinet Council wu held on Saturday afternoon at the Foreign-eMee. It was attended by Lord John Rua. sell, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Sir George Grey, Viscount Palmerston, Earl Grey, the Chancellor of tho Exchequer, Bit Francis Baring, Sir John Hobbes's., the Right Hon. H. Labouchere, the Marquis of Clanricarde, and the Earl of Carlisle, trelawny and Mr. Randle had an intervi e w with Sir George Grey, on Saturday, at the Home.ofilee. Mr. John Wood had an interview with the Chan cellor of the Ischeguer, on Satarday. Despatches for the governors of Hoag-Kong and Ceylon were Nat off from the Colostial-offlot, on Saturday evening. Mr. G. H. Cavendish and Mr. Evans had an inter view on Saturday with Sir George Grey. Kr. Blaney also had an interview with the right hoe. baronet. The Duke of Wellington attended the early service in the ChepidMoyal, Bt. James's, yesterday. The prayers were read by the Rev. Dr. Wesley, earl the sermon wee preached by the Bev. Mr. Curston. At the daily service the asnnon was preached by the Bishop of Hanford. FRIENDLY RELATIONS WITH SPAIN.—The negotia tims between Lord Palmlike and M. Mon for a restore tien of good relations between this country and Spain are, we hear, so far advanced as to lead to the expectation of a sa tisfactory concludon in the course of a few days. Ltml Hoe den will, it is stated, be the new representative of the British government at Madrid ; but whether his departure for that capital will be preceded by a special mission from Madrid this court is, we believe, one of the points still awaiting so. lution. The SPEAKER had his third parliamentary din ner, on Saturday evening, at his Wiesel residence in Eaton square. LORD STARLIT entertained a numerous circle of the members of the House of Commons at i.inaer, on Siturday evening, at his private residence in St. James's•ssqquare. The noble lord has minim parliamentary dinner onlVednesday next. SIR ROBERT AND LADY PEEL entertained the Bail of Aberdeen, Viscount and Viseountess Hard- Inge and the Hon. Hite Harding., frad and Lady Ashburton, the Right Hon. Sir Junes and Lady Graham, Sir Henry Lytton and Lady Bul ser, M. Guisot, Mr. and Mts. Cardwell, and a select party to dinner at the family MIIIIIIOII. in Whitehall-gardens, on Saturday. Covers we-re laid for twenty persons. His En:el:amp Count Colleredo was unavoidably prevented from joining the circle. PROPRIETORS AND SHAREHOLDERS OP BANES.— On Saturday a aupplemeut to the Gazette, co:rating of eighty pages, was issued, and containing rata ns of the name and address of the shareholders in every joint-stock, and the partners in every private, bank in the kingdom. nu se returns are made in panne= of the 7 & 8 Vic., cap. 32. .... THE POSTMASTER-GENERAL HAS ISSUED ORDERS To Cournx POSIVAIMIKII that on and after the lit of March no letter posted after the letter box is closed for the purpose of despstching any particular mail, will be sent by such mail unless the postage and late letter fee are prepaid by stamps; that the late letter fee will be an uniform one of one pen y ; that no letters under any circumstances must be sent by any particular mail if they are posted during the ten minutes im mediately preceding the despatch of such mall ; that late let ters must be received by the deputy postmasters et the office window where paid letters are received, or they must be posted in a letter box immediately under the paid office window, according as it suits the convenience of the post. masters. Placards mud be constantly exhibited st the paid-office window and oe the ordinary letter boxes when them tits are making up by th' deputy postmasters, in order that the public may not suffer any inconvenience from these new andimportant resulalions. CHOLERA.—The following fresh eases were re ported to the Board of Health on Saturday :—St. George's in Workhouse, 3; Hexham, 1 fatal; Edinburgh, 1; Giallow, 23, 8 fatal; Kdmarnock, 4, 3 fatal; Riccarton, 4; Large, Ayr, 1; Loudon, from 19th inst., 24, 11 fatal; Lecrolt, by Stirling, 1 fatal ; Nswton, Dalkeith, 1 fats! ; Stow, 3, Vaud; Greenock, 1 ; liamiltov, 2 fatal; Auchin leek, 4 ; Masten, 2 fatal.—Total, 75 new cases ; 31 deaths. FINANCIAL REFORM. MALT-TAX REPEAL MEETING IN DERBYSHIRE. _ ----- ------- On Saturday a meeting of agriculturists was held at Chesterfield, "to take into consideration the condition of the agricultural interest, with a view to the more equitable adjustmeat of the taxation to which they are subjected." J. T. ROWLEY, Esq., of Rowthorue, was voted to t'se chair, and in opening the proceedings said they were called together in consequence of some observations which appeared in the local papers relative to the present condition of the farmer, and the necessity of relieving him from the pressure of the malt-tax. He was glad that the farmers of that neigh bourhood had at length been roused to their duty, and that they had come forward to assist the Anti- Malt-tax Association in relieving themselves from a burden which was not only injurious to the farmer hut to the coun try at large. (Hear.) Some years ago he (the chairmen), in conjunction with some others favourable to the object, assembled in London to commence an agitation for repeal of the malt duties. They received very little support from the farmers at large ; they were, in fact, under a cloud, and they felt that although they themselves were willing tii undergo any labour in arousing farmers to a sense of their duty and their iuterests, they could not proceed effectually in the work without receiving a response. He (the chairman) under took to collect subscriptions, a secretary wee employed, rooms were hired—expenses that had gone on to this day but oompara•ively few persons aA scribed. Hopes were entertained that the Protec tionist Society would come forward and support the sac ciation' but they did not render them the leen aid. He cow learnt, however, from a letter he had received from the Anti Malt-tax Association, that the society in Bond-street was likely to reconsider the matter, and that there was every hope that at the meeting to be held on the 7th March they would decide on promoting repeal of the malt tax. Th- Protectionist Society had funds that had not been appro priated to any purpose whatever ; and he did, ttereftre, hope that those funds would be made available for the car rying out the o b ject which that meeting had more pb i articu larly in view. H o er.) Mr. HOLLA D said the farmers were in a very depressed condition as regarded profits arising from their occupation, and they had a right to look to the legislature for the removal of sonic of those burdens which pressed heavily upon them. They had assembled together to give expression to their feeling., in order that government might know their views. The corn and provision laws having been repealed, what ought the farmers to do? In the first place, he considered that they ought to petition parliament for a repeal of the malt tax and the hop duty, and also to carry out free trade principles in everything. (Hear, hear.) They said nothing now of a fixed duty on corn : it was considered better not to agitate that point, as then was a general desire that free trade should have a fair trial, and therefore they would not climate that point. (Hear.) He concluded by proposing that a committee be appointed to prepare a petition to both houses of parliament in favour of a repeal of the malt tax and the hop duties. (Hear.) The CHAIRMAN—How do you feel, Mr. Heywood, with respect to the malt tax ? Mr. HEYWOOD—I farm more than I malt; and I am decidedly in favour of a repeal. The CHAIRMAN said the =haters in Mansfield were very indifferent on the subject(: and be had heard some farmers say, that se government must have money, they could not do without the malt duties. _ _ _ Mr. MIDDLETON.—I am afraid they cannot do without the tax. HEYWOOD,—They must reduce the expenditure. (Hear, hear.) That will be the last thine they will do if they can help it; but they must reduce. (Hear, hear.) Mr. MIDDLETON would rather have a axed duty of 81. Mr. F. BROWNB, after alluding to the advantage which the foreigner has, contended that corn might be conveyed from America to Liverpool at a less cost than from Liver pool to Derby. But it wag of no use their sighing for a fixed duty. Free trade would be tried, and farmers must submit in patience to it. It might ruin them, or it might not; at any rate let them give it a fair trial ; let them pass another harvest before they kicked up a hubbub, and learn first whether it would bear them down or raise them up. But then if the foreigner wag allowed to send his corn free into this country, surely the farmers ought to be relieved from the tax on malt. (Hear.) Ale was a most health ful beverage, adapted to the constitution of Englishman, and gave stamina to the labourer; and malt was also well adapted for isedlng cattle. Let them then get rid of this most unjust, tax- (Hear, hear.) After some fuller dicussion, a committee was appointed to carry out the objects of the meeting, and the petition will lie open for signature at the fair on Wednesday next. Other meetings are expected to be held in the county. LEICESTERSHIRE FARMERS PETITIONING FOR REFORM. A special genetalineSiiiiiolths Leicestershire Apiculture' Society, to consider tile propriety of petitioning for the repeal of the malt tax, and the other burdens which pries unequally upon agriculture, was held at the Bell Howl, Leicester, on Saturday afternoon. There was a very numer ous attendance of farmers, some of whom had come from dia tent parts of the county to be present. The chair was taken by the Bon. H. W. Wilson, one of the rice-presidents, who announced that their noble presi dent, the Duke of Rutland, would have been present but for ill health, but he had the pleasure of lc:owing that his pain was in favour of the resolutions he had prepared to submit to that meeting, and hoped the measures they were, seeking would become the law of the land. After an ex• tremely long addrew, in which the chairman dwelt upon the malt-tax, the income-tax, the poor-rate, county-rate, and Bir R. Peel's measures of 1848, as very unjust and burdensome to the owners and occupiers of land, he submitted a series of very long resolutions. The first expressed alarm at " the renewed attack upon British industry," in the attempt to repeal the navigation laws. The second de precated in strong terms the attempt to lay fresh burdens on the county rate, as was proposed by the bill recently brought in to parliament in reference to public roads ; and expressed an opinion in favour of a national rate fir the relief of the poor. The third was an exceedingly long one, and partook of the character of a petition more than of a re °into:tn. It designated the present laws of settlement as a grievous burden—unjust and oppressive, and called foe their abolition. It also proposed that every person should be deemed settled wherever he became chargeable, and concluded by declaring that " the malt-tax long since condemned as unequal, impolitic, and unjust, is by free-trade measures rendered still more destructive to agricultural prosperity, when the farmer ha to contend with untaxed corn and settle. While we freely admit that a sufficient revenue must be raised, and distinctly express cur readiness to maintain our natioaal credit unimpaired, and the g reat defences of our country—the army and navy— in all their efficiency, regard being had to the strictest economy in every financial depsrtment, we firmly but respectfully demand that the malt tax may be repealed, and that• substitute, if necessary, may be found in a mode rate duty upon corn and cattle, and that the customs duties may be increased upon tallow, wave grown swr, spirits, silks, luxuries generally, and manufactured goods of every description." Mr. G. KILBY, of Queenibwough, opposed the latter part of this resolution. He would ask for the repeal of the malt tax, but would not suggest any other tax to make up the Aefieleney it might create. Let the government be eve. aosiloal. He saw no probability of a retuia t• protective duties upon corn and pale. The of parliament and of the country generally svere to e fe r VA against them to have any chance of success. If they s a w for this they might at ones he met with t h e reply aim. new system had not been in operatio n a mouth yet, sag lug not had a trial. Let them wait until the manufacturer s eA s ‘ out for protection, and the Duke of Wellington, Sir It. Pea and Eal Howe, altered their opinions on the bubject, then he would join them in asking for the re-imp:shi ft c ,/ those duties. He thought they were entitled to the of the malt tax, as some compen.ation for the lass of the e 4 on eons. Mr. BOYER also opposed suggesting any made ef aid s . inereased lands. He would h ave the fanners be hilly solved to have the malt.tax repealed. end then they now get It, and it would he throwing the government on r t . trenchment. The Her. N. MORGAN, Rector of Rearsby, gobs eat. coned in the opinions of Mr. Boyer. Money was tack a slippery thing that whatever government got hold of it, it Irma down. The only way to get the tax off was by titres*. went. Vest sums of public money wore spent in *way, gene. Look at the colonies, look at the army, an d l ook it the nary. He (the speaker) once belonged to the navy, b a t is those days they were kept more in blue water than harbour. He did net approve of having to 'Nod pogi, money merely for the purpose of finding Ou t . kg Us younger branches of the families of the nobility. After tome further discussion, the nsolutiou, as rep as t by the chairman, was agreed to by a large tosjority. A petition, in accordance with th.t resolutions, was also age* to, and numerously signed. OUR REPRESENTATIVE SYSTEM NORTHALLERTON. Yoho ! yoho! "Over the hills and far mar' Merry was the music in the long, wide street, within Northallerton in the old days of coach-guards and key-bugles. A dozen mails and long stages dashed through daily : nor did they pass without stoppi ng . For their hungry insides and outs gia n t mea l s wee; prepared at the hotels. A holocauet et' beef and mutton, pyramids of tongues and lowly, m em , negue and brandy-and-water, together with a epeeist preparation for the coachman under the peculiar cue of the landlady herself. In the etables of the chief inn in Northallerton in those days, a hundred post. horses waited patiently the oft-repeated cry, et eet , on." In fact, as the half-way town on the read to tween York and Newcastle, Northallerton hedge is. portance now utterly lost to it. It was the halting. place alike of the peer and the cede, r; and it was as prosperous as a town so situated would be. But all this prosperity has flown. The inns are now half closed : the long street mournful and deserted, To-day the railway omnibus is almost the only rebide that wet a down, and as it goes along, nine times out of ten without a passenger, the closed window abetters creak and groan as if deploring the sad chugs that the railway has effected. Those who passed through Northallerton oa th e day fixed for " the nomination of two bargee.s to serve in parliament " in the year 1831, may remeto ber a strange scene that occurred there. The ton had been long in the hands of two families, the Earls of Ilarewood and the Piersea of Bedale. The repre. sentatiyes returned in 1831 were the Hon. W. S. Lascelles on the former interest, and Sir J. P. Btu ford by favour of the latter. But on the morning of this nomination a great excitement had been occasioned. A couple of years previously then had come to live at Otterington, a village some fore miles from Northallerton, a Capt. 800 of the Boyd Navy, a hearty, coarse, good-humoured "jolly ter' of the school of 1790. Capt. Bees coaling iota th town on the day in question, and finding a mob d people hanging about, prom eded to harangue them on the subject of reform. He found a willing ad enthusiastic audience. As it was dry working .peal. ing without wetting one's whistle (co thougk Captain Boss), some barrels of ale were sent for, and tapped at the Cross, in the centre d the street. The usual results follzmed. Its members of the unpopular party in the tows were jeered at and hooted—the boys very speedily took to pelting—acts of retaliation succeeded, and the town before long became the scene of a riot. All Oau was laid to the door of Capt. Bees ; but, as in those days to head a reform riot was lather a popular poi aim than otherwise, Capt. BCB9 in no di gree got re. primanded by the Admiralty, whilst with the people at Northallerton he made himself, beyond doubt, the most popular man of his day. The electors of Northallerton at this time were the holders of the burgage tenures in the town. The burgage tenure was is very curious trembles, and, u Northallerton afforded a peculiar example of it, it not be amiss to explain its meaning. In feudal tune, when towns sought anxiously the protection of some neighbouring baron, many of their tenements were held under the lord upon due performance of path. cuter services. These services usually referred to the equipment of the baron and his followers. Tie armourer or the bowyer, the farrier or the glove. maker, were the usual burgagere : there ere very few, if any, instances, where the service had relation to agriculture or military duty. This tenure, which vu of Norman origin, prevailed greatly in the north of England, where the towns required more than al nary protection from the incursions of border depro deters. In Northallerton the burgage tenures were numerous. The sitet of them are all in the ruin street, intermingled with other dwellings which did not possess the privilege. At the peried of the Ro form Bill many of the tenements held upon thin tenure, and consequently conferring the privilege oft vote, were in a wretchedly decayed cooditia Some were mere cow-houses or stables : others wees underlet by the voter to poor persons upon cm dition of their keeping them in repair : some was wholly uninhabited. Occasionally , the vote was eve rated from the actual possession of the tenement bye grant of a lease of the latter at a pepper-corn rent fir 999 years; in all cues, the right to vote, either. served or made over with the tenement, wan ma. dered as about 1001 in the purchase. The propriets ship of the burgage tenures was nearly equally divided in 1831 between the families of Lascelles and Pin: which accounts at once for the representation of ads town being equally shared by these houses. When the Reform Bill threw open Northalleren in 1832, the feeling of the inhabitants was so ateeg against the old burgage system and the old immixe members, that the latter felt it necessary . to retire from the representation without saying a word upon the subject. The family or Pierse, however, thought that they might succeed in bringing in a member of their own nominate who was not opposed to the principle of recut Mr. Henry Pierse, who, himself sat for the tows some years, was, in some sort, a waig, although be had allowed his tory son-in-law, Sir John P. Bet* his ford, Wrightson, of Cusworth, who - Ld married e afotiti!reth fill form pl T a h ce e' anPiersesa vote accoirdinn th e glyrapuntks of forwardthe grand-niece of Mr. Henry Pierse, and who had sat an a whig for Hull in the parliaments of 1830 and 1831. Mr. Wrightson congratulated himself that he should meet with no opposition from the Laso:lles intereatin Northallerton whose candidate would not have stood a shadow of chance. How often, in this world, do we regard those things as advantages, which stet ill fact, our greatest drawbacks. It was so in this instance. Had Mr. Wrightson not been supported by the toriee he would have come in triumphantly; as it wee be was completely routed. The people, whose excitement about reform had been intense, finding a gentleman in the field epee the old boroughmongering interest, of whom, person' ally or politically, they knew very little, been to suspect a trap. Before whom could they uff their doubts and fears but before their ebempiool Captain Boss ? That worthy tar blew great gal when he heard their story. He " swore by Yee sod nay" that they should not be taken in this pnvateeriug sort of fashion. If no one else would fight for then:, he would clear decks and man the guns himself So hitching up his inexpressible., and turning s gold fiercely, down he came to Nor thallerton and declared e aca e n ni d e id as at to e, niii to hm th e th e greatat of and stehle neighbourhood. The idea of Capt. Boss, who was a mere bluets; hog nobody, beating the united interest of Piers. l ea , Lascelles, Northa ll erton, seemed to the wisdom o f the " respectability of the country" so ezoeedingff til j t o h y e gentryof th e noted, of the the absurd, that even the young ladies tittered at the r: posteroas ides. But the captain was brave, and rty vowed reformation." He fought the borough Net s 114 He proved himself a ?or powerful opponent. on the principle that he would have fought his . and with the same British-sailer-like determiestol not to strike. All the populace were with him, and he got up the excitement to the highest point. At length the Pierse party began reel 7f . . find that they were byno means safe. Thel cordingly put out all their efforts. The count) f . finance was brought to bear : the aristocraut i i pressed their determination " to pat down that L s Boot" tad they let their tradesmen )mow