The Express. — London, England, 1849-03-15 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 15, 1849. Theamaspasents which the sovereign meditated w en expressed in be wit, in which he bad occasion female spsciel refermce to St. George's chapel, as the gbm is wh'elt he proposed his rtmans to be intoned. la his will the Xing declared that it was his desire to grant to the Chapter of Wind ier a aew dot itinn—" measures, Madam, tenements god epithet' promotions is the yearly value of six hushed pomades: upon certain conditions. Those editions were to provide for thirteen poor knights. Is pursuance of tlrs will various steps were taken by th, privy Csoncil within& swath alter Leg HISNIVeII d e ath; and on the 4th of Avg**, 047, a deed was executed, undo:l,ll'th the crown °mimed to the chapter of Windsor various estates upon a charitable trest,te convert the proceeds to certain uses to be sub olgusatly declared. Troubled times mimed, but it appears that even in the reign of MART these pro esois were devoted to the purposes for which ebey were intended—for, out of the remove. 13 new bosses and a mess-room were erected for the knights. It was am, however, until public affairs we-0 settled ander Q.IC•11 ELIZABETH that the lIIMIn of the trust were declared by the sovmeign. That Queeo, by an igdgeture dated in 1339, espe&ally declared how, and is what manner, the fees:lees of the estates, then amounting to 6611. Be. Bd. a year, should be app3r dosed. The re was to ha paid to the dean Cr. Bcl., Sid to the canons of Windsor, each of them, 8•.; to tlaety canon., 3a. ; to the cl e rks, 201. ; t o th e .banish-re, 4d., and so on—altogether amounting to abut 30/. a year. 'Den came the provision for the bights. They wersto havesach le. a day, or 191.35. a ye le, and a gown of red, and 13 mum mantles and arms embroidered thereon. The largAt propor tion of the recta was set apart for them. IVoehing was said about the residue, nor is any sen'ion anywh. re made of it, except in a record of doulrful authoril in the Chapter-house of Wcstmin•ter, in which it is stated that it was to go for" the vicars' and serving-priests' wage*, the repara tion of land.," &c. There are means at the command of the dean and canons rf proving the validity of this record, if it b. calla ; hot in the abut nce of such proof its appearance en' it'es it to be regarded with great swepition, especially as it is opposed to the obvious inten ion of the Sovereign, as declared in the deed itself: Whereas divers manors, land,, tenements, end tersdita meats outfaced in a schedule hereunto annexed, being of the clear value of 6001. and nb re, were gives and sited unto the said dean and canons, end their sseesmors, to end for the intent and pnrpo.e that the revenues and pro of the sam e shonid be for e v er resployed and bestowed or the waintenweee of thirteen poor knights within Me aide of Windsor, and (Etter •ise in such manner and form as le oar Dm*, &a., is declared. The estae (the new dota'inn) which was devoted to these pnrptses—to the maintenance, be it remem bered, of an assert al branch of the °tiler of the Garter—is row of the atone anneal value of at least 12,0001. per annum. The chapter, however, contioue to: ray the Knights of Windsor their " twelre pews pr dayAr their mainter.eueee." They do absolarely NOTULm3 mere ! The • hele of the rcadJue, at least 11,800/. • y ar, they carry to titer common fund, dividing it among themselves individually on St. George's Day, subject only to the very plight restric tioas now impose I upon corporations aggregate by the Ecclesiastical Commiarnms ! Is not this monetrous ? Of late years, the chapter have even had the cool audacity to throw up,a the nation the coats of repair ing the knight.' houses, ard the Treasury have abio lute y permitted "my Lords Comatissio:.era of Woad, and Forests" to charge considerable sums for the repairs of those edifices und r tho head of " %Furl:mos Cassias" in the Miscellaneous Minn.( a! The Windsor chapter ought to be made dingarge. Both under the deed of the 4th August, 1647, and under the direction cf Que n ELIZABETH, there is a resulting trust under which the crown has the power at any period to make a sew direction with regard to the appropriation of the profits of tic estate. As sovereign of the Order of the Garter, it is clear tha - . the Qi.cen has the right at any time to make what directions her Majesty thinks tit for tae maintenance of the dignity of that order, and for the preservation of the privilegot of its members. If so, it may be asked, why have sot sovereigns in past times who bare been, as was GEORGE IL, favourable to the mili tary koiAlota of Windsor—why have not they made new directions to meet the circuma:ancoa The answer is tbie. Up to the year 1843 the deed of EDWARD VI., under which the Mates of the new deletion were conveyed to the dean and chapter spas tried, was not produci ble. It had been referred to in various old legal in struments, and its intent was inferred, but the deed it self was nowhere to be found. Now, in the absence of that deed, it was by no means clear how the estates had passed to the chapter, and the law officers of the crown were unable to advise that in equity the chap ter property could be touched. Sir DEDLET RYDER, to whom the case was referred by GEORGE a, laid it (lown that in the absence of the deed of EDWARD VI. there was nothing to show that the dean and canons were feoffees in treat or were bound by the direc tions of ELIZABETH, but he said in care the dean and miaow are bound by tho c Jirtctions, the distribution of the improved revenues among the objects of the donation becomes a very doubtful question. The deed of EDW.CRD VI. having now been discovered in the Public Record Of it is quite clear that the chapter are bound by the directions of ELIZABEIII, and that they bold their estates upon trust to ad minister them for the purposes of the Order of the Cuter, as the sovereign shall please to direct. The cues therefore assumes a very different aspect. The equity is now all spinal the Chapter, and all in favour of a new direction. It is • matter of great importaace to the credit c f the Order of the Garter, that melt • direction should be made. It is • matter also involving enact of justice to the Military Knights and to the service of which they are the representa tives. These Knights are or have been officers in the British army, holding the commission of the Sne reign, old and faithful screen!s of the crown and of their country, at the expense, in Diary instances, of wounds, and suffering, and loss of limb. Inde pendently of the provis;on intended for them by the munificence of former sovereigns, they have generally very slender mesns of support. Is it right that the priests of their order should be permitted any longer to treat these gentlemen u paupers, paying them a shilling a day for their maintenance, and reserving for their own benefit all the residue of an estate of the improved value of 12,0001. a year ? At no distant day it is, we understand, intended to move the House of Commons to address the Sovereign to nuke a new direction, or to take such other step in this matter as may be necessary. It is so obviously just that the chapter ehoul be made to put their military brethren upon a proper footing, that we trust, for the credit of the Older of the Garter, the Lords and Commons of England will pray her Majesty to sec " that right be done." MADRID, Fan. 8. A suspension of the Corte, is much talked of in pilitical circles. It is said that the intervention in Italy, and the wish to remove all obstacles and remonstrance, to it are the principal causes of this measure. Besides the minis ter dreads the discussion of the budget, which has already been mercilessly handled by the public preen. M. d'Hareourt, seers at the French legation in Madrid, has arrived tary . It appms that M. Napoleon Bonaparte is not expected till the end of the month. The eaptain-general of the military district of Bur gos (in Old Castile) has est a price of 2,000 dollars ( 400 0 ea the head of the Fetudiante, a Coxlist Oahe !We. A fresh invasion of the Carbine is much feared in the MAestraego, an extensive district in the pro vince of Aragon, between Cuenca and Valencia. Th• war in Catalonia still continua in the same Mate. The Cortes are still busy discussing the Clergy Bekaa Bill. No definitive line of conduct has as yet been lioPted by the progreeieta minority, though many Programer are on the lapis. NAPLES, Maim 4. In the chamber this week there has been plenty of " tett" and some important business has been done. On the 27th, De Peppe, in the House of Deputies, ttonght in a bill for repressing any abuses of the Intos—a power which has hitherto been despotically exercised by the pilice authorities. Leave given. On the same day, Conforti moved a revision of mili tY punishment, with a view especially to the aboli tion of corporal punishment. On the 28th was happily removed tbeoppos:tion which existed between the two chambers on the question of voting the taxes, the oom- suttee brought up their report, which, instead of adopting the amendment suggested by the Peers, and which was resented as an infringement of the liberties of the lower house, embodies an additional clause, not at all prejudicing the queetion in dispute; it is as follows : " On the 31st March, if the business shall not have been voted and ranctiosed, the government rhall be empowered provisionally to order the collection of the indirect taxes, and to make disbursements up to 30th April, 1849, within the limits prescribed in the preced.ng articles, and within this new interval, and to cue the budget shall not have passed into law, the farther collection of the taxes for another two montheaball be provided forby a special law." This Ma mere temporary =mare to met a premier difficulty, as the question "whether the pars have the right to emoted a seamy bill or Mamas the amount of taxa tion' by common consent was left unprejudiced, the peers strongly claiming the right and tho deputit a as llgliNv 'Oar resisting. The additional clause w as v o t e d is the ties by 96 to 9, and in the Peers unani mously. isanelli afterwards brought up the report of the committee on the address to his Majesty. The discussion on the address came on yesterday, and as the preeentst on of it may be attended with important results, I send you a translation of it in its amended and complete new form: Site,—The Chamber of Degnike within& to pro se to your Majesty, and to the whole essenlay, that it is its constant desire to give to the ezeerselee its frank and loyal sup port, in the silence of the nsiaiMis ß has spontaneously voted the provisiemalsollestien des lams. It now feels the duty and the emetell, of le year Majesty, who first isengeraledeneedtediseel la the Italian peninsula, and with r - ' -- e It awaits voice which will restore Wavy Woe's the constituted antherities, sad prevent • =freely elves, from Mies destroyed by supreme re agents. Sire, dm dspoiss of the nation, per snadsd that the tree neesedise of the prince are identical with the • of the people, of whim he is the head and the supreme avenge', de art Wale to &dare to your Majesty that the mesons mishay las astilheeteidotee elks country, and that, is faisifying the inellniimie et the esuetitu ti on it betrays at OM* the interests of the prises as well as thole of the people. Sea meeeeeithe and faunas are resumed, etre, in the dome nod fall working of the constitutional regrew assented se hy the prince, the legitimate right of the countrr, the first wi th of its representatives. There is no doubt, sire, that the ministry has opposed to it the almost unanimous reproof of the elective chamber—a reproof sufficiently justified by the conduct which it has ob served and still continues to °biome. The ministry has ob stinately concealed from the chamber all that regards the in ternal policy of the government of year Majesty, thus making it appear that it believed it hostile to every reasonable and honourable proposition. It has refused it every information respecting the financial and administrative condition of the country ; it has blameably neglected the initiative of any one law of which there was a supreme necessity at the com mencement of our new state • not content with this, by re peatedly proroguing the ;lumbers, and preventing the arrival of their voice to the throne, it has rendered every Wa tery provision impossible. Nor did it fear, when the cham ben were silent, to substitute its voice for that of the repre sentatives of the nation, usurping the legislative power by sets heavily weighing on the conditioa of the finances and the taxpayers. Emily, it has neglected, and still continua to neglect, to assist an extinguishing the lamentable causes of discord which have dis turbed the affectionate understanding between the mili tary and the ci'rzens—an understanding which never would have been interrupted, and which the chamber will rejoice to see re-established, between the eons of the same country having comma rn neoarnities, glory, misfortunes, and hopes. What more ? The same rights, strongly e-eured to the na tion by the statute, were not for the ministry a sub;ect are ligions observance, but of worn. Your Majesty desired that individual liberty should be guaranteed ; that maniferation of thought should be free ; trial in face of the law should be firm ; that the franchise acquired, sad public tranquillity. should be sustaiurd and defended by the arms of careens ; hound of which, the ministry has not left inviolate one of these sacred wpm And well might the chamber now pre sent to the eyes of your Majesty a grievous picture of un speakable suffering and anguish ; the prisons overflowing with those accused or suspected of political o,inions ; innu merable families deprived of their dearest members, who it real b-en driven into exile ; and this universal sadness still more embittered . by the ministers, who deprive your Majesty of the glories and the joys of pardon. Sire, the chamber can sever hope that • ministry so often o mewed will ever retrace its steps ; nor, on the other side, does it think it suitable to its own dignity and to the interests' of the nation to consume its time in an unprofitable struggle in combating the illegalities and the indolence of the minis err. Against their faults it feels fall well it by severe rights to exercise, but fur the sake of civil moderation it prefers this day to turn to their prince. Placed as your Majesty is in the high sphere of those sublime constitutional attributes, which, while they deprive you of every possibility of doing ill, leave you the onsnipoti nee of doing good, you will not hesitate to proffer that royal word, supreme medicine to the maladies of the state; as on their side the deputies have always been and ever will be prepared to give to the goreinment of your Ma jesty that full and constitutional support wl.ich will acquire for you sot less a substantial strength than the love and re veneers of the people. Such M the address in its new form, which will, I suppose, in s few days, be presented to his Majesty; and from all that I can hear the fall of the ministry is imminent. Filangierl, probably, will be the pre sident of the council and minister for foreign affairs, uhe virtually is at present. The discurrion yester day terminated with 79 voter in favour of the address, and 23 against. The deputation to present it to the King is to be chosen by lot. Tares is a series of questions which Prince Pips tell. gave notice he intended to put to the Minister of the Interior, which shows clearly tho state of the proviccee. They are as follow : 1. Was it truee, as it was communicated to him from the Calabrisi:, that the public force was insufficient in that country to maintain public order and security ? 2. That Gen. Statells, who had made every effort to restore order, is now reduced to fraction from want of clear instruc tions from ministers ? 3. That the authori.ies not knowing the precise intentions of government as re gards the amnesty, a great number of those who took port in the revolution were obliged to live in conceal ment and armed. 4. That, on the contrary, the im punity which is permitted to malefactors obliges well disposed persons to abandon even agriculture and the most useful arts? The prince wir ds up his ques tions by stating that unless the public force is sup ported by a good national guard, formed of men not stained by frequent crimes, order can never be esta blished on a firm basic. Whilst this state of things ffils the provinces with agitation and misery, thousands are daily coming up to the capital to seek for that support they cannot fled elsewhere, and to enter the service of the King " to be shot at" for a few grains a day. Yet even such a source as this seems insufficient for the present de mands of the military service, as it is said that a new levy of 18,000 men has been ordered. And, indeed, with war io Sicily (should it unhappily break out), intervention in Rome, and agitation in the provinces, l a tolerably strong force will be required. In my krA I mentioned that despatches had just been received by Mr. Temple from England—l should have said Rme. They threatened retaliation of the most desperate character on the kingdom of Naples, in case of the large forces concentrating on the frontier pawing into the Roman States. Many letters from the provinces complain, in the strongest terms of the priests, whom they accuse of e . pposing and combating the constitution with shameful and blameworthy arts, unworthy of the sanctity and august mission of the prie s th oo d." In the city the quarrels between the townspeople and the mili tary are incessant ; our prisons become fuller every day, such is the number of arrests, and commerce is at a miserably low ebb. I have little to add to what I communicated in my last letter regarding the Sicilian or paptl question. On the former, expectation is on tiptoe to know what reception the ultimatum will meet with from the Sicilians. There is great reason to fear that it will be rejected. In expectation of the possible rejection of these terms, the most active preparations are being made in the arsenal, not being suspended even on Fridays or Sundays, though it is Lent. The expedi tion of which I 'poke ismy last has not yet sailed ; it is, however, quite wady, and may start at any hour. It is to consist of 14 vessels, seven being steamers. I saw them loading a polacca with shells. There are also shipped SOO hones, with their stalls, and a regiment of lancers, all destined for Messina. Perhaps, however, all the preparations in the interior and for Sicily may not have any other meaning than "Si via porcern pars &liana." Immediately on the termination of the interview of the two admirals with his Majesty, orders were given to the fleet to be in constant readiness for sailing ; and we have been in daily expectation of their leav ing. Palermo was said to be their destination, and it was added that in the event of the ultimatum being rejected, the two fleets were then to sail, and leave the Sicilians to their fate. Day after day, however, has passed away, and the fleets ate still here; so that I have conjectured some otherobstacle must have pre sented itselL The facts are, I believe, as follows : Amongst the conditions agreed upon at the last inter view which the admirals had with his Majesty, was not the one excluding certain individuals from the general amnesty ; and this one condition, it has ap peared to the admirals, is sufficient to render all nego tiations with the Sicilians utterly unless ; first, because the parties with whom negotiations must be entered into are the very parties who are to be ex cluded from the amnesty, and most unlikely would it be that they would condemn themselves. Se condly : equally unlikely is it that the Sici liana would sacrifice such men as Ruggiero, Settee°, and °them, who have stood by them through this noble contest, which has been maintained with so much honour to the nation. Affecting, then, to enter on a path of conciliation, no condition could have been so absurd; and, viewing it in this light, the admirals, I understand, have declared that they will not go to Palermo so long as th a t i s t o b e i n d in the Ultimatum. Aocordingly, orders were yesterday morning given for suspending the sailing of the fleet; and Admiral Parker went on board the Spitfire to Bake, whence, together with Admiral Baudie, he went by a French steamer to Gaeta, to a4They lay thei r j oint viewof thisquestion before his Majesty. On his 'esty's answer it depends wh e n th e fleet sail. returned last night shoat six o'clock. but as yet I have not heard the result of the inter view. That the objectionable condition was inserted posterior to the former interview I cannot assert as absolutely true. The King has been at Gaeta during the whole of this week, where he has been visited by Admirals Parker and Baudin twice, and by Filengieri twice. It was also understood that Bouelli Ruggiero, and two others of the ministers , had als o left Naples for Oa- to on Friday. This circumstance gave rise to mach conjecture, but it was generally understood that the cause of their leaving was the arrival of intelli gence that some skirmishing had taken place on the frontier between the Neapolitan and Roman troops. Indeed, in the present excited state of the Italian mind, I think it impossible that a collision can be avoided. Troops are continually leaving Naples for the frontier, where great numbers are now concen trated; and by letters from Rome last evening, I find that the Romans have 4,000 men at Terracing and that the roads are lined with volunteers hasten ing to the Neapolitan frontier. A letter from the Minister of Foreign Affairs at Rome, to Prises Cariati, I see published in this day's Lampe. It i s t o the following effect : Ezeslionsey,—l am compelled to apprise you that the NNW esateation of the royal Neapolitan troops ea ear frostier ex gible the just distrust of the government of the republic, ukase acts have not been such as in any way to authorisa AM accumulation of force. The proems of Oen. Zuochi, openly heetile to the republic, and the men whom he Is collecting on the very frontier with the manifest in timation of Wading them against us, increase the doabts of this government as to the intentions which that of Naples may entertain towards it. On the 20th of this month occurred a fact which might have given siossien to terrible coasequetoes, if to the love of liberty whisk satiate s the people of the republic was not indissolubly netted the love of Italy. Oa the day to which I allude a body of a hundred Neapolitan soldiers entered our territo ry, asked a variety of suspicious questions as to the state of oar tree's, and then retired beyond those confines which the y never skenld have passed. That fact might have excited Germ reprisals if, as I have observed, the love of Italy dI4 met burn in the hearts of all who dwell upon our soil, and if the thought that they were Italians who had entered had not moderated that sudden indignation which the viola tion of our ten itory had awakened. To prevent such future ellediets, however, as might ensue, te remove the danger of • war which should not be made with any but the enemy of hely, the government of the republic addresses these re. maestrasers to your excellency, and awaits at your hands an Maasdas on of what h occurred, and that just satisfaction hno European government can ever refuse to an out live' people.—Rome, Feb 28, 1849. C. Rescxerr. Thus the affairs of Naples, both north and south, are embroiled, and however confident the King may be in the power of his army, great prudence will be needed just now in the management of affairs. None of the royal or papal guests at Gaeta have as yet visited Naples, nor will they, I think, at present. Fives were 81i on the 3rd. Eichorn°, 583. P.S.—I see no preparation on the part of our fleet for leaving this morning. Indeed her Majesty's ship Powerful has just arrived, with a email steamer, both in quarantine. I regret to say I cannot give you the result of the interview of the Admiral with the King yesterday. More troops (lancers) have passed me en route to the arsenal, to embark for Sicily. Can it be true that there is no serious intention on the part of the Neapolitan government (as it is mur mured) of accommodating Sicilian sifters pacifically, and that events in central Europe are encouraging them to resistance? A few days will show. Public opinion is here rising in favour of British diplomacy, which, it is hoped and believed, will not abandon Italy.—The Sicilian expedition cleared out lest night. The British fleet intended to sail for Palermo con sists of the Hibernia (flag-ship), the Queen, which Genie up from Bake two days since, and the Terrible (steamer). The Odin is already there; the Rosa mond at Messina; the Howe remains here. At Leghorn are stationed the Bellerophon, Vengeance, Thetis, and Porcupine. The Antelope left on Friday for Malta, with the Admiral's family on board. The King of Naples has imitated with regard to the Sicilians, his brother monarchs of Austria and Pleads. The following is the charter which he grants: FERDINAND THI HRCOND, 1T ME 01AC1 OF Ono KING OF TEI KINGDOM OT THE Two SICTLIZO &c. 111•11101111,—If the enors of a few have su ffi ced fo e a moment to Wiese some amongst you to become alienated from the etteshment that your forefathers had to our dynasty, which hes peedded with so much affection over your destinies far men than a Century, we who have pealed our infancy amongst you, and have never ceased love you with the teatkrnees do father, are willing to delay no looser telling yes, that we satisfy the desires of our hearts, and fulfil this dearest duty imposed upon us by our august and hely religion, when we assure you that we have forgotten, and will consider as if they had never happened, the hales and political offences which have brought upon you se muse misfortune from tte beginning of the past year, 1848. Return, therefore, at once to your private oicupa dens, cultivate in peace your fruitful fields, restore to the Lad of Ceres by the force of your constant toil, its former fertility, which Divine Providence always yields to man as a recompense for the labour that it prescribes to him. 041 beak its former activity to your industry, to your traffic, to your mercantele navigation, and shut your ears to the @odder:ions of those who are seekiog to delude you and lead you to sedition, to rebellion, and thence to anarchy, which is their inevitable coneequence. After the most saw tare reflection and accurate examination of your nem** and of those wishes which can with utility and equity prow tinily satisfy them—considering all the acts which have ap pearly in Sicily sines the 12th of January se not baring w eaned, and of no effeet, either in right or in fact—we hence forth grant a statute, the begs of which is the constitution of 1812, with the exception of those modifications demanded by . the change of circumstances and by the law now in existence. This statute, which we reserve to ourselves to put into ample form before the end of June of the present year, shall contain in substance the following disposition :- 1. The religion of the state shall be only and solely exclusively of every other, the catholic, apostolic, and ATMS. 2. Individual liberty is guaranteed, and 3. No one shall be forced to give up his property, except for the sake of public utility, and after indemnity. 4. The Sicilians have the right of printing and publishing their opinion', conforming to the law. 6. 13:c•ly, continuing to make an in part of the united kingdom of the Two Sicilia, shall be governed by a ocautitutional monagthy, with • divining' of powers as OT TUN POWIII. 6. The executive pow er belongs exclusively to the king. 7. The king sakes war and peace, concludes treaties of peace of alliance, and of commerce. 9. He convokes, prorogue', and dissolves the parliament. 10. He commands the army and navy. 16 The solemn act for the regulation of the succession of the crown of the august King Charles 111., dated the 6th of October, 1769, confirmed by the august Sovereign Ferdi nand 1., in the sth article of the &h of December, 1816 ; the sovereign acts of the 7th of April, 1829; of the 12th of March, 1836; and all the acts which relate to the royal family; remain in full force. 17. When the king does not reside in Sicily he shall be represented there by a viceroy, with such attributes and such power as shall be determined by his Majesty. 18. There shall be in Sicily a sufficient number of minim ten, among whom shall be divided the departments of grace and justice, interior. finance, public works, agriculture and commerce, ecclesiastical &taus, public instruction, and police; the constitution reserving to the king the disposition of the army and navy, and the supreme direction of ford= relations ; there shall be only one minister of war and marine, and one minister of foreign affairs, for the whole monarchy, who shall both reside near the king. Military and international questions which present themselves shall be considered by a delegation from the king. either through the viceroy or through one of his ministers. 19. There shall reside, moreover, near the king, a mini► ter for the affairs of Sicily. 26. The judicial order shall be independent, the:collegiate magistrates shall be irremovable after three yews of satisfac tory exercise of their functions, and which shall date from the day of their definitive election. 27. The agents of this _public ministry in the touts and the tribunal are essentially irremovable. 28. The judges which are sleeted for Ulf may be trans lated; the whole of these provisions being in senforni7 with the Organic Laws of hoe 7,1319. 29 . Ever7lW ol,lll M oll . arieregeserat of functions between Naples and Melly having eneed the Wainer, the public fonstioateries, sad all poems who an chr i with any sdrelaberatne drill he @lefts, and public bew ail' gad width from henceforth are *be reviled fershall i tedenwilos Bicilisas slew. 30. 'The budget shall he entirely separated, and the pub lic expense of the Two Sicilian shall be apportioned between the two parts of the kind= in the numerical of their pnulation, aid shell be fixed at the sun of three million of duals ananily (3,000,000 dusts.) 81. Moreover, the, eeftessinery bran of the Treasury of Naples which have beau enniessi by the events of the years 1848 and 1849, which aro nand ma below their real estimates. shall be fixed at Wad 11111•918 (250,0001 sterling). Thb sun, united to time whisk the Treasury of Naples is creditor for, shall fent the ddeef Liily , @Wolin cassolidated by none of es amides of meat % imam' wtik the corresponding risking fend, alma give the Id neces sary te discharge the aisreseid adrenal el the ad ;I*.s. Is the UM serum the debt. of Melly esstraeted I 12th of January, 1848, and than sabiequantiv eanteanted, shah remain la aerie la the Treasury of Sicily Hasa U. The Maims shall have sa oral slime fa the proper dos IS the parabolas ofdipleaatie espioraeat. The shay palls aims whisk are paid tram *a united hada shall be aradhsai bilamatly ea Sicilians and Niigata's. PAILIAMM. 33. The gnag OP TIM owst of Sicily shall be emaposed of two eharal 4l .--ft See epees, the other of OMIZIOnS. 34. The demi lies shall be for four years. 36. If • itelen se diesels** take plea parliament Mall be ites while the year. 37 . . The marmot shall marries. unitedly with the thin, the aguish,* power. It has the right to impose new tame of every kind, sal to alter these whisk am essabliehed. The direct tame shall be mead for the year by the legislative chamber% The indlesst term ma be voted for a longer pe riod, or for may peine. 43. The esers in the eltanthen are public, except when they Wl lk In motet ccmtnittes. 44 Ne the two ehantbsn can be molested or Premoded Witt. at punished ha anything said, dime, dh ows', snatedi in their respective chambers. Or ma mumniti or rzzaa. 45. The P ion shall be named by the Bing, end for life. The number shall be unlimited. 46. No one tan be sleeted a peer if ha has not reached kb 40tbThe year. 47. Chamber of Piers, In amordanos with a royal ordinance, shall constitute itself into a high mart of justice, for the pumas of taking cognisance of the mime of high treason, and of attempts against the coustitution. 07 Till aovaa or 001010111. 49. The Home of Comatose shall be soutreed of the deputies of 24 districts, of deputies sleeted by the oniversi- Cos of Bay, of Palermo, Mrseias, and Cataaia , and of the deputies ef the cominams, aoeordti to the number seta bii.hel by the constitution of 1812. 60. The 00111•11111•11 which. from their Inc:reseed population, have acquired a eight to elect a fermentative, or to elect am this ow, meal these populations wtikk, after 1812, wow meta tun sinuses, and have the number of in tuit:42re alsbablmmi byt e aforesaid oonstitutka, can tasks • del to the cham of the Commons, who will take sVace, Ina legal rammer, of the truth of their expo _ 62. The mode of electing representatives stall be that which was established by the amstitution of 1812, and if the path* offices by which the elections were conducted are abs ked or suppose, the king will reenve to himself the ap pointment of public d functionaries in their place. Or THE ELECTORS. 53. The re hitless of a district in the Chamber of Deputies shall be elected by all those who possess in that dis trict a net rent, for life. of 18 ounces by the year, whether it proceed from freehold or usaf►aet, or from any rent or mortgage, as wall as nay other kind of praperty. The re presentatives of the city of Palermo shall be elected by all those w►o poses in the city or its territory a net teat for life, of at least 50 ounces by the year, whether it arise from freehold or neafract, or from any other rent or mortgage, or any other sort of property. The representatives of every other city or parliamentary territory shall be elected by all those who possess in that city or territory a rent for life of at least 11 ounces annually, w►ether it erten from freehold or usufract, or any rent or mortgage, or any other kind of property. 54 The professors of the Univonities of Palermo, Mee. sins, and Catania ars alone exempted from the possession of the aforesaid rents, and the necessity of proving them, for the election of their own representatives. OF Till PWON TO II ILICTZD. 65. Thom alone can represent a district who have in Sicily a net revenue for life, either from freehold or uaufract, from rent or mortgage, or from any other kind of property amounting to 300 ounces by the year. Those alone can represent Palermo who are in posse/eon in Bien y of a .... us of the above-mentioned kind, of 500 amen by the year. Thom done can represent a city or parliamentary territory who possess a revenue of the above nature of 150 ounces by the year. ROME, Mutest 4. The course of events keeps its onward march, and the prospect of undoing what has been done in Rome becomes every day more dim and distant. Since the unutterably foolish step of refusing to receive a depu tation, headed by Prince Goesini, and composed of his own two chambers of representatives and peers, to arrange an amicable return to his dominion*, the Pontiff has gradually placed a wide barrier indeed between the tiara and the ones submissive and de voted population of these territories which all the powers of Europe can never remove. There may be an abrupt and violent attempt to force a clerical ruler again on these people, but what is to become of his successor, and how many thousand troops and mil lions of dollars will suffice to garrison and keep down the twenty or thirty large towns, which all vie with each other in sustaining the Roman common wealth and its popular assembly P The flippancy with which folks talk of intervention," as if it were a mare foraging excursion of some ten thousand troops, to come and go with a truss, eidi, trici, is mar vellously absurd. The doings of the last three months have created a spirit here which a whole century would not develop in any other circum stances; and to • person on the spo', conversant with the feelings of all classes of sxiety here, nothing is more lamentably ludicrous than the Neapolitan speculations of the Timed correspondent, and the wind-bags of inflated rhetoric put forth as leaders in the Chronicle. A decree of the 25th February, having for pre amble that the late clerical government, improvident of the future, and worked out for the sole benefit of a privileged caste, had fur a series of twenty years wasted the finances of the country in the most shameless and profligate expenditure, proceeds to levy a forced loan on the incomes above 2,000 dollars l on a graduated scale, until thou of 12,000 are reached —on them the taxation is fixed at two-thirds of the revenue of each propriettr. The details of this financial measure are very explicit. On the 24th February an edict of the executive triumvirs was ratified by the National Assembly, to the following effect : " The tribunal of the holy office [inquisition) is for ever abolished in Rome. A pillar commemorative of this act shall be erected on the piazza in front of the building hitherto desecrated to such unholy object, that posterity may not forget this solemn deed. The Minister of public works is charged with the execution thereof." The only pri soners found, when the government officers broke into the concern, were two nuns undergoing incar ceration for misdemeanours which, in the case of a Roman Ves'al, were punished by living burial. There was also found a bishop, or at least a man who had given himself out as one, and had acted in that capa city in Syria and Egypt until detected as an impos tor. He had been rotting in this dungeon for the last 25 years. All records were found burnt and truce of recent incineration were very perceptible. Attu Vannucci, envoy from the Tuscan republic to that of Rome, has arrived and presented his cre dentials. I am told that two French commissioners arrived yesterday, and represented themselve s u sent by their government for the purpose of placing under seal the contents of the Pope's private apartments in the Qai ring Palace. I understand that no objection was offered by the authorities, and that they proceeded to seal up accordingly. Every activity is displayed in the war depart ment; and, come what may, it will be no child's work to put down this revolution. There are a hundred and thirty thousand men here, with mus kets in their hands; there are about 13 thousand more armed men in Tuscany ; and any intervention that takes place must not be under a fora of forty thou sand regular troops to be kept here for an indefinite period. Who's to pay ? All the coach makers in my part of tha town are employed in making artillery waggons. Nothing is heard but the_ . . Clank of hammers dosing risers or, as on the night before Bosworth battle. Concerning Gioberti, three months, three little months, and the Ho el d'Angleterre conceived itself so honoared by havicg him for an inmate, passing as was the glory of his visit, that it placed a guard of honour, in compliment to him, at its door: the next sheet, catching " the soft infection," was delighted to change its name, in consequence of its proximity, from Via Bo nova (which conveyed no other re collection to the psaser-by than that of an atrocious murder, committed in it some few years ago, by a woman of her husband, with the assistance of a priest) to Via Gioberti. But, alas ! for the mutability of human things, already is the name erased : covered with an ominous veil of black paint, and is its placebo written "Gioberk it tradaore crltalia." Vbe Court. The Duchess of Kent arrived in town at half-pest 12 e'cioch yesterday, attended by Bir G. Conper , from her residence, Frogenere-honse, Windsor, and v6ited the Duchess of Gloucester at Gloucester-house. Is the afternoon the Duchess of Kent, accompanied by Prince Ernest of Lei aiwn, left town on her return to Frogmen-tease. The Prince of Hohealohe Weldenbourg has left Mariborou,gh house, the residence of her Majesty the Queen Dowager, for the Continent. The Archbi-hop of Canterbury hsd an interview with lend J. Rena, yesterday, at his *facial residence in Downing-street. The Earl of Carlisle gave a dinner to the csbinet mildews, yesterday evening, at his relidenco in Grosvenor- Despatches from the Governor of the Cape of Good Hops wort evolved yagerd.y at the Colonial-office. De ' @patches woes also received yesterday from the governors of the West India colonies. LadyJahnitneeell gave a *area, yesterday evening, at the odicial read/hoe of Lord John Rusall in D)vraing- Ono'. FINANCIAL REFORM. MEETLNG AT LEEDS. ' Yesterday a numerous pob`io meeting of the Inha bitants of the borough of Leeds was held at the Court House, in pursuits,' of a requisition caned by upwards of 600 init.. bitant householders, "To consider the propriety of petition ing oarliament in favour of a much larger reduction in the estimates of the public expenditure than that proposed by her Majesty's ministers." On the motion of Geo. Ocesdatan, Seq., secoadet by John Chapman, Esq., the Mayor (John Hove Straw, RN.) took the chair. TM MAYOR, is commis" the business, said that if any one acqueinted with Leeds looked at the names attached as the requisition Were him, upon which the meeting had bee.eatied e and seeing amongst them the names of many ointhimon sirdi known and mach distinguished in the borough the mat Weill/ante and acuteness, as well as high respsnibdity, he would feel quite certain that the sub jest oleo which so large a body of r equ isitors had thought desirable to invite their fellow townsmen to express en opinion, was one of considerable importance ; sad when, from the names attached to the requisition, he cams to look at the requisition itself, sad saw what its object was, his saticipations of its importance would not be disap points& Unquestionally, the subject was one et grea r t importance. The government had — •annostassoll intention to make certain reductions is the public expenditure of the year ; and they were invited to consider whether there reductions were or were not adequate to the exigency of the case and of the times. No one ac quainted with the elements of our constitution would doabt that this we. a question whichthe people of this country had a perfect right to consider in public meeting assembled. If there wee no difference of opinion upon that point, there would be as little noon the general proposition that strict economy in the disposal of money obtained from taxation was at all times the duty of the government; and that, if there was any one time when that duty was of greater imports- es than another, it was in a time of public pressure, or at a time when relief from public burdens was peculiarly necnury, in order to afford the people the means of escaping, as he trusted they were doing, from the worst part of that pressure. So far he anticipated no difference of opinion, but the question,what are the necessary limits of the public expenditure in this country, was one of a very different kind, and one upon which very wide and very honest opinions may be expected to be entertained. No one w.thld dispute that the reduction should be carried out as far as was consistent with the honour and the credit of the country ; but the question as to where the limit should be fixed was last that upon which it might be expected that gentlemen may very honestly differ in opinion. The requisition intim a t e d th a t a much larger reduction than that proposed by government was ne cessary and proper ; but their requisit ion did not pledge any one present to th e adoption of that opinion. It was not h is intention to advocate either one view or the other, but to adopt the course which became any gentleman who was placed like himself in a petition in which neutrality became a duty. Be the merits or demerits of the question to be sub mitted to the meeting what they might. it the effect of the meeting should be, as he doubted not the effect of this and similar meetings, would be, to impress upon parlia ment and the government, the conviction that th s eyes of the public were directed steadily towards the public expenditure; and that a jealous vigilance would be exec deed over it, and that the character and conduct of publ:e men would be judged of by their conduct upon this ques tion; and, if the objects of the requisition should be attars:Let, he should hold that they would have proved the means of very considerable benefit to the c)antry, Upon that ground then, at all events, without saying a word upon the propriety of a further redaction, he thought that the gentlemen who had called for this meeting had rendered good service to the public by inviting _him to call this meeting. (Haar.) G. GOODMAN, Esq., said that the views which the Mayor had expressed, were those with which he cordially concurred. Ile expressed his regret that with so numer ously signed a requisition the attendance should have been so limited. Hs attributed it to the hour of assembling being fixed at the busiest hour of the day. The resolution which he had to move was one which se much approached a truism that it scarcely admitted of dispute. Consider ing the length of time that this country had been at peace, when he looked at the large increase in the army, navy, and the ordnance estimates of the country, he thought that the country was not In a condition that it ought to be. This was apparent from the fact that the ex penditure in those departments had increased ten millions within the last fifteen years, and that even last year it was eight millions and • half more than it was fourteen years ago. It was quite true that the dominions of Great Britain were so extensive that the sun t upon them ; yet this increase was almost nesooountable, and ought to be repressed, and he hoped that ere long by the influence of religion, coupled with a better understanding of the rights of nations, the coats of our military and naval armaments would be reduced. He rejoiced in the establishment of peace societies, and in the attempt which one of our minty representatives (Mr. Cobden) was making to enforce the conviction that arbitration between nations was to be preferred to war. Through the operation of the peace and the principles of free trade, the profits of the traders were diminished, and, as this operated pretty generally, it was important that they should neck to reduce the burden of the national taxation ; and especially as at the same time additional burdens were to be borne in respect of the maintenance of the poor and the promotion of sanitary improvement. These things justified him in signing the re quisition, and in proposing for the concurrence of his fellow townsmen. not this tutting menders the expenditure for the support of the civil and military establishments ot the nu loss oppressive and profuse, Inasmuch as, wthin the last 11 years, an expenditure lees by ten milking than that of 1848, and by eight-and-a-half millions less than that of 1849, was found sulneient for purposes of internal Government and the maintenance of the external security, honour, and dignity of the empire. Mr. Alderman CARBUTT seconded the resolution. He congratulated the meeting that the second reading of the Navigation Laws' Repeal Bill had been carried by a majority of 66, a pretty satisfactory intimation that it would pus the House of Commons; that the legislation of ancient days was likely to give place to the enlightened principles which governed the legislation of the present day. He need not tell the meeting that Mr. Cobden had supported the bill, and els° their representatve, Mr. Marshall, though his cofleacue, Mr. Beckett, had voted on the other aide. He felt thankful to Lord John Russell for his conduct with regard to this measure. And with regard to the taxation of this country,the net expenditure of the kingdom last year was 54 millions, exclusive of the cost of collection. The expenees of collection were estimated at about seven millions, so that the total expenditure for imperial purpose' would amount to upwards of 60 million sterling. Yet they a'l knew that this was but a part of the taxation to which the country was sub ject. They had expended during the last year on the relief of the poor about eight malice a sterling ; the county rates were vb int 1,250,0001., the highway rates were upwards of one million ; and in addition to that there were various muni cipal rates and taxes, the amount of which he could not ac curately calculate ; but the sum total of the whole had been estimated by Mr. Cobden to fall little short of 80 millions sterling per annum. Out of the 64 millions expended for imperial purees, 28 millions went to defray the interest of the national debt; and as that was not an item which they could touch, for the honour of the country was bound to pay the interest of the public debt to the last farthing, the oilier portion of the ex penditure only could some under consideration ; and as much of that other expenditure had been sanctioned by acts of parliament, and therefore could not be touched, the navy, army, ordnance, and miscellaneous estimates, amount ing perhaps to 22 millions par annum, were the only parts of the expenditure upon which they could operate. Mr. Carbutt then entered into the history of the increased expenditure in the army and navy since 1835. In that year there were rumours of a Russian invasion, which led to an increase in the army of 6,000 men ; the rebellion in Canada, in 1837-8, led te a further augmentation of 8,000 men ; the rebellion in Wales to 5,000, to 1839; the war in China and aria, the burning of the Caroline, &c., in 1840, to 6,000 soldiers additional ; the dispute about the boundary of the state of Blaine, in 1842, caused an increase of 4,000 @Klan; the {Repute respecting the Oregon territory led te an expense of 1,700,0004. , and the dispute about the apanish marriages and the fears of French invasion , in 1847, caused a farther expenditure of 1,000,000!.; so that in the last ten years the expenditure of the kingdom had been increased by 10 mil lions; and what was very remarkable was, that, though the 1 1 several causes for those increases in the army had ceased, the I hues themselves remained elm et in their hall strength. It I was our foreizn and colonial policy that called for the main tenance of such extensive armaments, and not the necessities of the people of England. Recent experience had shown that the few regiments kept up in England would not have been sufficient to keep the people in check if the people had been unanimous in demanding the changes which some had called for ; bat that peace and order had been maintained by the ser vices of the people in a civil capacity. Another source of expentliture was the mal-administration of the public establishments, the dockyards especially. As an instance, he might state that from 1833 to 1947, indepen timely of the good vessels which were built and launched (some of which were used, and some not used), there were 143 vessels bu it, of tannage varying from 150 tons to 2,600 tons, which were either entirely or comparatively failures, and 44 of these vessels were never sent to sea in consequence of mal-construction. It was therefore to reduce the public expenditure of the nation to the lowest point consistent with the proper maintenance of the dignity and honour of the nation, that he had signed the requisition, and now bad the pleasure to second the resolution. Mr. E. BLUNDELL asked whether if five or ten thousand soldiers were disbanded, there could be found employment for them In the labour market? Mr. CARBU TT said that at first it might happen that the disbanded eoldien would not find work, but that that was no reason why the unemployed should be ast to play at soldiers ; and, he might add, that if the country had fair play they would soon be able to find employment. jibs") The resolution was unanimously adopted.. - - Mr. T. PLINT proposed the licit neolution, which ren so follows : That In the opinion of thts meeting the prepeot scale of expenditure on the =Mary and nasal defences of the nation in either for the security of colonies, or the protection of the United from foreign eareseices, this =Wag het eying that the eolooles rightly pawned. to seltaapprthig, and that non-interferenes the 'Mks of other nations. the removal of UI impediments to com mercial intainans and the substitution of friendly arbitration lot the barbarous resort to the of sword, are the beat guarantees for the safetyvv (Jibe Dalian, and its exemption from the horrors and atrocities Before adverting to the resolutica, he would give another rower to the question which had been put • and he would say, that if all the men who new compo se d the army were disbanded, the mosey which was now expended in pro =thine with maintenance and the muniti ons o f war be applied in a much more beneficod manner, and that these would be no difficulty in finding employment for them eli. As a rate-payer be thought it was important flar them to consider the question of expenditure, for he estimated that one-reventh of what a man earned was expected in taxes. Bat though he was an advocate for economy, he would not object to that being (brie which was reasonable to be done. H. would have the dignity of the empire prorgly maintained. In the year 1688 the estimated income of the country was 42 millions a-year, but the taxation was then only about two millions, or one-twentieth; bat now, when the estimated income of the United Kingdom was, perhaps, 330 or 360 millions a-year, the taxation of the country was about one seventh; audit would at once be seen that there was a vast difference between one-seventh and one-twentieth, espe cially of so large a sum. Mr. Flint entered into an analysis of the vinous* of the dockyards, ordnance, 8a , as compared with the - seals of 1836, end said that there bad been an in crease of wages of seamen to the extent of 4i millions, in their victualling of 3 millions, in the naval stores, timber, &a, of 9 million% in the wages of the dockyards of 3 millions, and in other departments, making a total of 35 millions in crease in 13 years above the scale of 1835. It must, how ever, be borne in mind that the 22 steamotipe of 1833 had been increased in 1848 to 174. Mr. Phut next adverted to oar colonial establishments, showing that their expenditure was disproportlonatly large. He instanced the Governor of Canada, whose salary was 7,000/. a year, whilst that of the President of the United States was only 5,0001. a year. After referring to the state of affairs in India, and to the present system of international policy, he intimated his belief that the tree trade system would become a failure if the system of war was to be continued. He did not believe that free trade would fail from any other cause. W. B. HOLDS WORTH, Esq., briefly seconded the reso lution, end it was unanimously adopted. B. BAINES, Beq., said he fully concurred in the obser vations which had bean made by the previous speakers. but there was another view of the effect of this extravagant ex penditure which he wished to place before them, and that was how far the system touched their own interests and their owa feelings. The resolution which he had to move dialoged : That the extravagant and unneceenuy amount of the national expenditure recreate the removal of many customs and excise duties which impede the operation of agriculture and manufacture, and diminish the funds for the employment of labour, thereby increasing pauperism and crime, thus adding to the oppressiA emcee of unneces mart taxation, the more serious evil of a deinotalised, autfeting and discontented population. _ . _ It was beautifully observed by Sir James Grabens, in a speech which he made in 1835, that public morality and prosperity go together, and tha . . in proportion as the popula tion is depressed there is an increase of crime and pauperism. The amount of taxation actually paid by the ps , ple had of late years increased to an extraordinary extent. Taking peri-rie of five years, so as to give no room for the imputation that any particular year had been selected, it would appear that in the five years, from 1831 to 1835 inclusive, the annual taxation was 46,400,0001. per year, whilst the taxation (not the expenditure) of the last five years, from 1844 to 1848, amounted to 62,923,0001, being an increase of 0,521.0001. a year in each et thus five years beyond the amount that was paid in each of the five years of the period he had previously referred to. It was impossible that this greats r amount could be pail without the public at large feeling the effects of it; for even if it were wholly paid by the upper and middle classes, it would to that extent diminish their means of employing the working classes of the population. Ile hoped that the pe tition which they would send to the House of Commons would effectually promote the object they had in view. - - - ------- - Aid. BOWER seconded the resolution, and expressed a hope that the petition to be adopted would be very nume rously signed by persms of all claret. Mr. FIRTH, an operative, addressed the meeting, not in opposition to the resolution, but to exprem his dissent from the opinions of Mr. Carbutr ond Mr I- it.. "he otce disbanding a large numoer a soldiers upon the labour market. He nontended that such an influx of able-bodied labourers would atiii turther depress the rendition of the poor; end he maintained that free trade would not benefit the working etasees. He wouta tax the lend to the payment of the interest on the national debt, and he would apply to Mother Church the some principle which it was proposed to apply to other branches of the public expenditure. Mr. Pilot had wished the working claises to go with the middle classes for financial reform; he did not believe that the saying of the ten millions yearly would benefit the working classes one lots ; but he now called upon Mr. Flint to join the working classes in demanding the charter. If the whip were in earneft, let them come forward to enfranchise the working claws. With a House of Commons constituted like the present it was not to be wondered at that Mr. Cobden's motion should have been negatived by so large a majority. Yet it would always be so until the electoral body war extended. The resolution paned unanimously. Mr. Councillor BROOK, in proposing the adoption of a petition founded upon the resolution, slid that he appeared in his old character of a friend of retrenchment of expendi ture, whether local or general; and he was in favour of a large retrenchment,—day, of the entire disbanding of the army, and of a large reduction of the navy and tithe ord nanoe.—(Mr. Brook was proceeding with his observations when our report was despatched. a few minutes before four o'clock.) THE MURDER AT BRISTOL.-INQUEST. The inquest on the body of Miss Jetieries WAS resumed yesterday at Bristol, and, judging from the crowds which thronged the streets adjacent to the inn at which the inquest was held, the interest con. segment upon the dreadful event bad in nowise subsided. The girl, Sarah Thomax was again present, in custody, as was also her mother, and they were both attended by a pro lhasional adviser. Mr. Bernard was first recalled, had his evidence raid over to him, and being desired to describe in familiar terms the nature of the injuries, he sated that there were six woundion the top and lett side of the bead, one wound at the back of the head, and a number of bruises about the same parts. The witness, Susan Miller was recalled, and in snows? to questions put to: her, stated that she had been think ing the matter over, and recollected that there was a servant girl who resided with the deceased for a shott time between the day on which Lucy Chad left and that on which Sarah Thomas went to live there. Miss Jefferim told her that such a girl was living with her, and said she was the daughter of a man who lived as waiter at one of the large taverns She also said that the girl had a sister, and that their father had put both of them into business, but they spent the money and ran him into debt. Witness could not remember the name of the girl ; had no recollection of the father's name, or what tavern he was a waiter at. Inspector Bell said the witness did not seem disposed to give information • and had occasioned the police a good deal of trouble when they were endeavouring to trace out Lamy Chad. The Coroner told the witness that she must not attempt to conceal anything. The jury would not be satisfied unless they had satisfied themselves that all the material facts were before them, and therefore she would find it the easiest way to state the truth at once. The witness was then closely interrogated by the coroner and several of the jurors. She said she could not rrmember the girl's name with certainty, but thought it was Rebecca. She had stated to a parson that she was about 20 years of age, and rather taller than Sarah Thomas, but she could not tall her name, nor could she say where she lived or at what tavern her father lived. S lof the jurors said it would be very impztant to discover if possible who this girl was, as her testimony might form a material link in the chain of evidence. . . . The Coroner said he had sent the roliee in search of a witness who might, perhaps, be able to give some in!orma- Son on the subject. Lucy Chad was then recalled, and was questioned by the foreman of the jury as to an allegation th,.t the de ceased had ill-used her. Upon being asked in what way she was IP-used, she said Mies Jefferies would not allow her any fi re in the kitchen, nor allow her to go into the parlour where there was a fire. She only gave her rice for dinner, except once or twice • potato or two boiled in their rinds. She always used to keep the doors fastened, and would answer the persons who came herself. Policeman M'Clemans was recalled, acd stated that one day, on the prisoner's being brought back to the statioo.houss from the inquest-room, she said to him, " I saw the devil's brother to day." Witness asked her who she meant, and she said, "The old woman's brother—he looks like a skinner." On Tuesday, when the witness was deperibing the conservation in which the prisoner spoke of " the devil's brother," the prisoner said with some asperity, " How can you make up inch a story i I never said anything of the kind." Hugh O'Donnell, police-constable 81, deposed that on Sun day evening the pruoaar was under his charge from 4 to 7 o'clock; and upon his going into her cell for the purpose of removing the tea-things out of which she had been taking her tea, she voluntarily oornmenoed a conversation with him. She said, " What in the world do they keep me here for? I never done anything ; it was the servent- maid that lived there before me that done it. I was taking down the window shutters at 7 o'cleck in the morning, when she came out and. said, ' I have lived hers as servant, and rent several after my character, but they could get none, and now I will go and give her her breakfast.' At the same time she had • stone in her hand with her and went upstairs with it. I went up-stairs an hour afterwards, and saw her folded up in the bed clothes. She then got the keys and gave me thirty sove reigns, seven or eight rings, and ever so many brooches. I left the house a little after ten o'clock, leaving the other servant behind me, who said she would lock the door, and that there would never be anything found out up-in me." Mrs. Clark, mistress of the Intelligence proved that Mims Jefferies sent to her respecting • servant, on the sth of February, and she sent her Sarah Thomas on the Bth or 9th of February. M. Carfe, polies-sergeant, No. 2, was then re examined, aad in addition to the articles before stated by him to have been foundin the home, he discovered hung up in the back kitchen a women's skirt, which he produced. (The witness hers exhibited the skirt, and pointed out some spots et blood upon it.) The coroner determined upon examining the mother of the prisoner, and she was called forward, and now she deposed that she was the wife of George Thomas, a labourer, who lived at Hordeld. The prisoner, Sarah I