The Express. — London, England, 1849-12-07 00:00:00

~~ erveiso. oirrentrice MAILS. The netts us Mensines, to the MtsUnmans de , t E gy pt , E pt Ceylon, Isdis. Iffeng.Kong, Sc., will to na again, Dee. 7. n o nails tot British North America avi Dn.d the Usitini ads. will be suds ap is t he evening of 14. TM Wat India Ma ils, ' sen a nd isclu ding Barainds, Unsung , Mow Headline, Now Orkin*. end biszico, ding then ler Medan. St. Jnas•ss Niceness. New Oranede, ChM awl Pars, will he dispatched is Dee. 17. The snit wells fn Lisbon. SPaiZe "d ("rata!' will be esedie ap on D.*. 17. The Coy f Gibraltar, Melts, Owes, the lonian Island li g y s, pt, Coyle., a Lula, and Chine. ne &Athenian', will be sada up on the soning at Dec 20. The sails fey Medrirs. the Braila, and Banos Ayres, will be seeds up on Jan. 4. ____------ OW WATZ7 AT LONDOVILITTiIL. _ _ T 0...... . 1..•-••••• ,ff.-11ATAITA• 11/M. • •••• ••• ..,---_ r DAY, DECEMBER 7. LONDON, Tama have been large and frequent meetings of We throughout the empire, some of the civic, some of the agricultural class, each met to consider the burdens tender which they labour, the best mole ot equalising and alleviating them, and of a caring a due measure el &nitro% and eneervieion over the levy and over the employ of our national revenue. Th e first and ueiver sal question is, who is to pay the taxes? In what manner and measure are they to be nista ? And it is euri . itis to observe the different ways in which the different elm= answer these questions.Tbe civic and the mercantile chases, in their meet ing% are unanimous in the opinion that the public ex penditure is too large, and might be »trenched. The mirricultural leaders in the country, wi h the excep t= of a v; y few stray she p, do not allow that there is a soldier or a salary too much. All the leaders at agricultural and tont meeting% in fact, look for place, and would not lessen or dry up . that great source of profit. tr Lone tiro expered,fere is their motto, which the fiumers are fools enough to e oho. Thee are seine of the agriculturists, indeed, who, though reluctant to prune one branch of ministerial prodigality, stilt drop hints that the debt is hes”., and that the payment of its interest might be modi dispensed w ith. So dishonest a proposal would fied or be hooted in any assembly of civic re f ormers . Such being the differences as to the amount and the requirements of expenditure, there arise others as tothe modeof meeting me etings , g for their. The agri culturists at all their and through all their organs, make the cue sweeping declaration that they or their interest should pay none of the taxer. They have no objection, indeed, to pay in the first instance their share of taxa to the collector, but this is only on the *audition of having the same made goodional an rim, to be d returned to them in the shape of an sddit levied by them on all they produce. Their payment of their Aare of taxation they call the burdens on land, and they demand protection to cover and relieve them of these burdens, that is, to render them of the whole population taz-free. Civic politicians, to do them justice, utter no views massunreaeonable a kind. Although the immense of indirect taxetion falls on the cocsumers of their class and of their employ, they demand no sweeping measure to relieve them at the ex taxateonpens of others. They ask merely the reps al of iedire et i or of thst portion of it, which burdens the fleet neces saries, the morals, and comfort and cleanlinets of the poor. And they demand the bu deficiency to be met by peace and retrenchme nt,not b y flinging the rden aril others. Let any impartial observer decide which of these policies is the most moral, the most honest, the m-st disinterested, the most safe, the moat anti-revulut ionary. Yet the worst of the protectionist policy is not so much, perhaps, its injustice, as its ins f uffitheciency t o o attain the end proposed. The aim o tory politicians in this co untry has all along been tc base government upon large masses of property, and then to set the government to legislate so as to exem pt all this mass of property from hurthens. The landowner was to pay a due portion of taxa tion, but be was to get it back by a law enabling him to charge the tax on the consumer. The merchant and manufacturer was asked to do the same, to pay keavy,taxes upon his capital, his industry, his raw material, and to indemnify himself by surcharging all those who were his consumers. The result of this double play, as far as the greet interest interchange of the country is ease.» ed, was for one to centrali-e and nullify the other. The burthens flung by both classes of producers on the consumers were flung back by all of those who were not poor and trodden under foot. Bat in t he final s ttling rater all of accounts non e were really rtlieved. For, there is no paying taxes save out of property ; and when prope:ty shirks them, it is like the flinging of a boomerang, it comes back with redoubled force upon the hand which launched it. The important point, however, of all these fine mani pulations and legerdemain of protectionism must inevitably have been the annihilation of foreign com merce, and the consequent destruction of one of the most fertile sources of accumulation, profit, con sumption, and tax-payment. The property of the country, therefore, by the protectionist scheme of shifting its hatchet», would in reality have doubled these barthens by the diminution of the general ability to meet them. We fear, however, thet we have been much too seriously discus-ing a question which is raised at present mere in a shape to provoke laughter than argu ment. Mr. Disitaltht, at Newport Pape% emulat ing Mr. Commies desire to sive ten millions to the country, has co me forw,ud with a prop to osal add ten or eleven millions to the budget. he member foe Bucks would take bait of the locsl epos ditare, immemoria ll y charged upon the land x , add its amount to the rent of the landlords, and compel the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQVES to pro vide for it eat of the common fund of general taxa tion. To the five or six millions which the CHAN CILLoR of the EXCUTAAULN would have thus to provide for, were to be added about as many more millions to establish a Sinking Fund as a kind of succarsal to California in making money plentiful and cheap, in the present scarcity and dearness of that commodity. Having thus provided increased rental and cheaper emoital LT the agriculturist, Mr. Dtsaseut's gene realty towards him is not exhausted. All these bonuses to land are to be created by a still greater berme, viz., an import tax on corn, and meat, and cotton, being a still further allev'stion and exemp tion of rent, a still further grinding at.d pinching of the industrious and labouring classes. We can conceive these pretensions put forward by Sancho P.inza to the people of Barataria ; or, to be more serious, by some new WILLIAM THE CO:IOCE ion. of Norman extraction, to the Aoglo-Saxons, afters second thrashing of them in Sussex. But we promise the modern Milkier the bard and herald of the feudalist camp, who has blown this defiance from Newport Pagnell, that his friends must buckle on armour, and out lance in rest, to enforce each laws, for the English would take up their old cloth yard shafts to reset them. Tne Corporation of London did itself rest honour yesterday. It gave its t. thank-offtring the best possible shape of a practical benefit to its industrious poor. On the motion of Mr. Alderman 8AL0110145, carried by a majority of 3 to 1, it was resolved that oit be referred to a committee to coeside• the pro pristy of the Corporation erecting baths and wish bones. within the City for the use and convenience of the labouring clews resident therein." We under stead that two sets of baths and wash-houses are • contemplated : cos in the ward of Aldgate, the other in the new street leading from ridgeHolborn-bre to ClerkentrelL A greater advantage could t conferred upon the metropolie. and we heartily con gratulate the citizens that, even although late, their representatives in the Corporation have adopted this rosoltion. In a thus disposing of a portion of the City funds the Court of Common Council are not em . barking in any speculation. It is now es . 4. tablisbad beyond cavil that baths and hun t- ? dries in London are adkapposting institdioss. ~ ..From thd•lit of January to the 27th of Octobsc, in pemmeat yea', them were upwards of 100,000 Whits in the Baths at' Otralston-equare. Ia the liaetbee-in-th&Fields baths there were, during the sine period, nearly 170,000 bathers. The amount ineshred freer the bathers alone, at these establish- mints, was 3,8001. The =penes of supplying the I baths is estimated at between warbalf and tiro-&ieds se the wont *aged for Shay so that a Mallow OT. •d • amount remains applicable the deft! meet Isf?_10, isterest on the capital I xpeOed out tine Wilding" -7 - 1 The Live rpool Baihs and Washhouer s, which were the first erablistod in England, are also financially - iinecemfol.' The original edifice in that town woo • smal building, incoi.veni. nlv situate. Nevertheless It sim l veered. Io coneeque,-t cu of its success, a second and a much handsomer building was constructed. So well has this succeeded, the , a thud set of baths and washbouses are at this time being erected in Liver pool, solely at the charge, as in both the former in stance", of the borough corporation. Liverpool was thus leaving the great nobtrop f olis of Eoglat:d in the rear, as regards the provision o these mos. desirable estelltahments fur the poor. At d yet toere are peculiar reasons why London should be foremost in making this provision. It does so happen that Sir HaNBY DUKITWIELD'a valuable Act is not available to the citir ns of London. That Act is a Parochial Act. It contemplates the erection of blebs and w:shhouses out of moneys to be nisei on the security of parish rates—such baths and waahhenses to be primarily useful to the poor of the parish in which they may be situated. But the parishes of the City of London are, with few exceptions, vety small parishes. Strike an average of their population and they will be found not greatly to exceed 1,500. For the most p art the poor are greatly scattered thruueh them peri s h e s. They may be found in the COWS and alleys and back pat ts or houses in close streets, but there are few places in that pad of London over which the City authorities exercise their jurisdiction in which the poor are to be found collected in large masses. Toe ratepayers of each and almost every C:ty parish, therefore. may justly ray that there is no reason wh y they, peculiarly, should be called on to erect baths and washhowes. .And yet, taking the aggregate population of the City, it has its full share of poverty with other places,—poverty, too, which can advance a very particular claim to be per mitted to share in the advantages which baths and washhonses afford. For, take the world through, and you will find no move densely picked locality than ibis City of Lou don. Here the tall warehouses seem almost to jostle l and nod against each other in the crowded lanes, and to be thronged along the river's brink, as if with a de termination that as little air and light as possible shall penetrate If the poor in suburbs and open spots where 1 green fields and trees are visible find laundries awful and baths conducive to their health, by how much more must they not need them when forced to live and breathe and have their being in oar dark and close and crowded alleys? It is by thus packing the City—it is by thus making use of every square inch of its property, that the corporation of London has amassed its wealth. Surely it is a duty deeply incumbent upon it to provide for those urgent wants which it has thus created. Surely the City ought not to permit its pior to be driven to Whitechapel or to SL Martin's-in-the- Fi. Ids, to supply a remedy for an evil for which the City itself is alone responsible. Another excellent reason which Mr. Alderman SALOYOIIB assigned in favour of City baths and wash. nooses touched very closely on the increasingly im portant question of our metropolitan supply of water. I o lt is the undoubted fun.tion of a corporation," said Ike worthy alderman, " to establish pumps, reservoirs, aced fountains, for the convenience and use of the Ipeople whom they govern. * Where are the pumps, reservoirs, and fountains of London ? They exist alone in the records of the pest. Where is "the fountain in Chepe," that used to run with Rhenish or Bourdeaux, in honour of a coronation or a Lord Mayor's day ? Sacrificed to the genius of monopoly, in the shape of a water company. It is the peculiar duty of those who have allowed this destruction of such ancient ornaments and conveniences to see that at least the poor are not the sufferers " I coaterd," said Mr. Alderman SALOMON 3, " that in providing baths and osehhouses, you ore only providing for the distribution of water in another form." It is in this spirit and on these grounds that the worthy alderman for the ward of Cordwainers asked the Corporation of London to supply baths and laun dries for the London poor. He recommended them as utilitarian,—if you please as philan thropic—institutions. But he was careful to avoid commending them as charities. On the contrary, he urged that one advantage of Whir and ' laundries founded as a corporate institution over baths and laundries established by private contribu tion, consisted in the fact that all appearance of cha rity wasthen got rid of. It is a good sign of the time to find the wealthy and the powerful thus enforciv the true principle upon which the poor ought to ' dealt with, and thus labouring to b.nefit the class whom it is of all others the interest of the c immu nity at large to protect and to encourage—the most active and industrious of our population—the hard working artificer : in a word, the labouriog poor. FRANCE• PARIS. THURSDAY, 5 30 r x The Oasette de Prance of yesterday evening says . " The Minister of Finance presented this morning to the Council of Ministers a bill for the imposition of a stamp duty of four centimes upon the journals. The euncil decided, in conformity with the prescriptions of the constitution, on sending the bill to the Council ' of State foe *zaniest ion, and presenting it at an early period is the Assembl - ,..“ In the Chamber yesterday was discussed the elec toral law — en organic law uit is called here—which hese, with two or three other., the complement of the seeetitution, and gives power to divide into four elee• Ural eircumectiktions any given canton ; there is an exception to the rule in the acme law, which orders that the vote must be given at the chef lieu of every canton. M. Fouquier d'Heronel's proposal is that the exception of the electoral law should become the rule, for it has been shown that the distance is often merest to the chef lieu, that numbers of voters do oat some to the poll. General Cavaignac and General Belleau, who spoke yesterday on the subject—one, tubed, which threatened to produce another of those scenes of which the Assembly is SS often the theatre—ad reposed notchange urge , st y enlarar4td gume nts upon t aga heir ecru inst thetai s lest the constitution should be vio la M. Emile Barrault had already placed the question upon that ground, and though M. Gas lands, reporter of the committee, said that in most instances at present the exception had become the rale in almost all the departments where each canton had been already divided into four, the debate was adjourned amidst great agitation. There can be no doubt that the vote by communes is the best, and General Bedean himself admitted that Ihe thought so. But it must be admitted that the I change that would ensue from M. d'Heronel's plan justifies scruples, for, supposing the 2,846 cantons of Prance divided into four, the ele..4oral districts could not be more than 11,384. Now, every one knows that there are no less than 37,184 communes in France, and, as the Press* truly says, "in the present condition of the electoral law, a little more than a quarter of the communes are chef lieu: de canton. The debate on this 'whine was resumed to-day, and several amendments had been rejected up to post boar. Letters of the 18th nit., from Athens, announce the arrival there of IL. Thouvenel, the French Envoy. DOUME. ►ar Aooollot. Patin, Dee. Par Nancy. Opening IligheeL . Lowest. Clash( 1 --- ---. 9 per Cents. ..... 91 39 0 0 0 0 6 Tor OWL. —..— 111 TO n n 0 0 3 do. lbw 1446& a * r• parChnis.... N * * •4 4 pit CEOs ......-- N n n .. n unclean, as Loortos: 36.1.11, 33 50; 9 0 .leys,ls 33 "law... 5940 .„,_ 97 yaw. Nature Sures .. 91 50 Money [lO. 5. NU Do. Do. t i t Beress..—St Dermal% 393: Tersailin (right bank), 210; Verladll (lea bask), 36 25 ; Were, 750; Boon, NO; Havre, > 35 ; Mar -4 4o le. 102 30; Onstre. 313 ; Boulogne, 130; &edema, 40i 34, Nast% 940 25 ; Iltralloang, 347 30; Tours and !Wales, 377 30; Nanterre% 110. • ‘• _ PRE B, FRIDAY EYENiNG, DECEMBER. 7, isn. SPAIN. A telegraphic despatch was received by the French Government from Madrid in the afternoon of Wednesday, announcing that Her Majesty the Queen of Spain is exceiente. The despatch wee immediately after its receipt communicated to the Duke of Sotomayor, the Spanish Ambassador at Paris. The communication bu been made in an official form by her Majesty's medical attendants at Madrid to the Spanish Government. Kum., Nov. 21.-711 zoo per orb., IN amount. ANNll. l ii Me. Vives, 114. coupes, 7. Pink at BR teritaaad, SO. IMlsaare m Isseas. _a • • . ITAL ' ----, Our correspondent writes: NAPi.V. NOT. 24. A gloom hangs over th. Pope% cswuillr, and des- I 'patches fiom France are looked (or with sanity and tear. His Holiness' gaolers have again changed policy—the prisoner is to remsio at Portici or Gaeta until the political atmosphere assumes a clearer aspect. I en assured, by an authority which has never yet failed, that the Pope rejoiced at the idea of returning to the Eternal City, and had no persoral fears. although Cardinal Antottelli endeavoured to excite apprehension. Since my last c)mmunication his Holiness has again visited churches and convects, which events have been recorded with the usual ecclesiastical flourish in the journals, that nothing but endless prosperity and happiness can possibly attend a people who have received so many blessings from Chris.'s vicegerent on eartb. The state trials are still suspended, and as arrests continue, I suppose so many persons h,ve been de nounced for their constitutional opinions, it is found nemssery to net more game before legal proceedings can begin. Several persons have been shot at Palermo for con cealing arms. I cannot give the names, but I know they belong to the poorer clans. Tee island is des cribed to be in a discontented state. A regiment of Swiss has left Naples on that account. I have already alluded to the general disarming of the population which is now taking place, but haring witnessed lately something of its operation and effects, I think some farther notice of it may be welcome. ' Le the first place, the most remote nooks are subjected to it, and rocks tenanted by birds and mariners and a few native sportsmen who thus gain their livelihood, are 'ought out and disarmed by the lynx-eyed police of Naples. This week General Statells, with a com pany of mounted gendarmes and several companies of infantry, has been enforcing this unnecessary and detested measure on the coast from Naples to Massa. The guns are taken, no receipt given, and are thus lost to the owners. If refused the recusants are marched off to prison, as happened, I am told, to the district judge in one place. At Torre del Greco, an Englishman (Mr. Drinkwater) who has been esta blished in that place for some time, on being applied to for his arms positively refereed to give them up, and referred the general to Mr. Temple as the only person who had any right to interfere. A communi mion was made to Naples of this fact, and instruc tions were received to deliver up his arms to a Frenchman who bad already consigned them. So that from this I infer that the decree does not extend to foreigners. Consistently, too, with the demora lised habits both of pe ople and government, this die armies has offered a fine opportunity for the gratifi cation of malice and vindictiveness. Persons have been denounced as having arms which they did not posses., and the denunciation has, as usual, been sucked in with a ready ear, so that the unfortunates in several cases have been compelled to buy guns at a small price, and present them, in order to escape threatened castigation or imprisonment. Apropos to this is the case of a count, who had a friend whom he treated with great kindness and confidence. As a returo, the friend robbed him, and was immediately dismissed by the count ; but here, so influential is the occupation of the informer, that malice has always a ready mode of gratifying itself. The count was denounced by his quondam friend, as having arms and ammunition in his possession ; his house was searched, and he himself thrown into prison, where he lay for a long time, and was libe rated, I am told, only on condition of exile. At Amalfi, I was told by an Amalfitano, that, to the an noyance of having their arms taken from them was added, in some cases, the superfine us insult of a kic from one of the c,mmission, and an order to have their beards cut off. One case specified to me was that of a Lombard resident in Amalfi. With what rigour this measure has been enforced may easily be 'ma- Rifled from its baying been extended to the little island of Capri, which has been the favourite resort of kings for its game, and, for I don't know how many centuries, hart enjoyed special privileges and exemptions from all acts of rigour affecting other parts. Yet here every gun has been taken. Where will this end ? Another pecuniary loss, too, is that of the purchase money for the sporting license, amounting to they-two carlini, for no license his g been considered as an exemption trom this disarming. be _ GERMANY. BERLIN. Deo. e. Tile excitement consequer-t upon the acquittal of Waldeck, and which pervaded the whole city until late in the evening, resulted in some parts in tumultuous disturbances. In the more dists.nt parts of the city, which are the virtual strong holds of the democratic party, many of the houies were illuminated in honour of the re sult of the trial; but the ciestables forced an entrance into all the honses so illuminated, and extin guished the lights, whereby, of c mere, the most vio len-. struggles occurred, and numerous parti€ a were arrested. In the street, too, in which Waldeck lives crowds of persons, desirous of testifying their respect to the acquitted, though in a somewhat noisy fashion, gradually collected, and several violent scenes oc curred, in which the armed power did not hesitate to use their side arms. Waldeck was presented this morning with a silver civic crown, the parties by whom this present was made are the leaders of the democratic party, of whom • deputation waited upon him for the purpose of pre senting him with it. CONSTANTINOPLE. The Constantinople mails of the 10th ult., about a week overdue, arrived this morning. At that date says your correspondent, matters were as fir as ever from being settled. M. de Titoff had required of the Sultan that the English fleet should leave the Dardanelles, but no step of the kind had been taken as late as the 10th ult. Private letters from C3nstantinople of the 19th ult. announce that the British fie-t has sailed from the Dardanelles and anchored in Besiet Bay. ALGERIA. The Moniteur Algerien, of the 30:h ult., publishes the following from Zutche, to the 21st : Oa the 11th and 12th, two very sharp attacks were made by the Arabs, one against our post., and another against • foraging party which had hit the camp. The latter affair cost the Arabs dear, for they were exposed to the charges of our cavalry. More than 60 of the Arabs were left on the field. In the former affair we had 6 killed and 12 wounded, among whom was Captsia de Tugny, of the Miff, who had a ball throseh his arm; and in the latter 3 killed and 16 wounded. The success obtained by Colonel Daumas, which we bare already mentioned, is confirmed. The loss of the French was 7 killed and 19 wounded. While these attacks were going on, a sharp encounter also took place between the troops who were defending the wcrks of siege. Eke Arabs were driven back with some loss. A convoy, which was marching between Bithna and Beekara, on the 17th, was met by an as.enablage of Arabs, who attempted to stop their passage, but they were repulsed, and the convoy reached the camp in safety. The works of attack are ad vancing on each aide, but they have not yet united. The two heavy guns which arrived on the 12th from Constantine, were employed on the 12th M. opening another breach on the right. It is believed that a number of the Arabs in Z Latch& have not waited for 'IA place to be completely in vested, but have lett it in the night Thor. that remain, how. ever, have lost none of their energy. That of the French soldiers is unabated. We hope to hear from one moment to mother of the termination of this obstinate resistance. Se veral submissions took place aft- r the affair of the 16th ; many of the tribes already compromised have drawn back, and will not further &gums the offensive aira;nst us. The state of affairs will still remain serious until Zaatcha shall have fallen, but it must fall before the perseverance die ' played by our troops, and that event will operate as much in ; our favour as the obstinacy of the resistance has been hither to adverse to us. The cholera, which had •howa itself in the camp, is already on the decline. A letter received this morning stater that &sada had been captured. Da. DICK.—A document has lately reached net which reveals the distressed condition of a worthy man, who has devoted the greater part of his life to the advancement of education and to the diffusiolt of sound information spoil subjects eslculetei to promote the intellectual and moral un pravement of society. Dr. Dick, author of " The Christian Philosopher " "Tbe Sidereal Heavens," &e. &e , la, it ap pears, now in his seventy-amond year, barely able to support existenos in a state of obscure poverty, and with keavy claims upon resources scarcely adequate for his own wants A races mournful ease, and one more deserving of kindly kelp from the authorities, or from the humans and charitably disposed. hue seldom eons Wow kuowledp.—Lekrary gawk, CAPE OF GOOD HO. REPORTED RIOT AT CAPE TOWN. 'il By the Mary Ann, Cap•ain Darke, arrived off Portsmouth yesterday. we have net-eyed iniellgence to the 191 October from the Cape of Good Rope, at w hich date the colony is represented as being en a state of great excitement. It is asserted that a wean io-ary feeling has taken ' place among the laboaring classes, the coolies in par ticular, induced by there being no work for them, as business was at a complete stand, and every bowie and store closed. An airti-convict associaticn mee iog was to have been held on the 18th outside the tlwn hall, but as the feeling of the labouring porn! etion was going spinet it, and are danger wee% appreberded, the Governor forbade the meeting. On the follow ing day (19th) an immense mob attacked, at Geer n Point, Cape Town, the house of Mr. Fairborn (the leader of the anti-convict association), brake into and completely gutted it, nearly killing Mr. Fair born. A shot was fired from a window up,tairs by • servant, a black boy, and took effr et in the shoulder of a coolie. The riot was only suppressed by very t nee ; getie attacks of the police on the rioters, m .ny of whom were very severely wounded, and seven made prisoners. Orders had be?n received from England placing the Dee, steam troop ship, at the disposal of Sir H. Smith, and the Pantaloon, brig, left the Cape on the 17th to recall the Dee from her cruise in the Mozambique. Provisions of every kind were still refused to the go vernment, and on the 17th Sir Harry issuei a stern proclamation pointing out the cruelty of the colony attempting to starve him and his troops, that he should use the force at his disposal with great reluc tance, but he would not starve, and told them that "by one stroke of my pen I ca n p roclaim martial law,' and he trusted such cruel means would no longer be maintained. A gentleman arriving by this ship informed our correspondent that he had taken great sire at the Cape to ascertain the real state of opinion from all chases, and it was generally supposed that, in a very few days, the matter would end by the colonists ac cepting Sir H. Smith's proposal to keep the convic's afloat until further advices from England. The re actionary party were chiefly under the influence of Mr. Salem and Mr. B. Horton. On the 17th of October two whi e men ere brought into Cape Town from the Orange r were brought into Cape Town from the Orange river, where they _had murdered with a crowbar a farmer (cousin to Mr. Melle, chemist at the Cape), and buried the body, which was afterwards scooped up by the dogs, and thus led to the discovery of the murder and offenders, who pleading guilty were condemned to death on the day the Mary Ana sailed. The Castor and Olyser were in Simon's Bay, the Southampton having sailed for Rio. In consequence of the attack above referred to, and another of a similar nature, the governo r issued the following proclamation : Whereas it is reported that the house of Mr. Benjamin Norden, in Cape Town, and the hones of Mr. John Fair bairn, at Green Point, were last night respevively attacked and severely injured by riotous and unruly mobs, and human life imminently endangered ; anti whereas so long as the pre sent excitement is kept up, and more especially so long as the labouring classes are kept in idleness and exposed to privation by the stoppage of trade and business, now sought to be enforced by a dangerous confederacy in this city, all crowds and assemblies congregating in the pubic streets and Ooronghfares are calculated to excite much and welt- founded alarm in the minds of her Majesty's peaceable and loyal subjects, and are therefore by law illegal ana whereas, whilst I desire at all times to respect the rightsof her Majesty's subjects to meet freely at safe and fitting places for all lawful purposes—a right which I myself was lately instrumental in conferring—l cannot in the existing cir cumstances of this city and its vicinity permit the assent-' blind of crowds or large number of persons in the public streets or thoroughfares for the purpose or under the pre tence of discussing public quesuone, or of hooting and ,insulting ihdividuals who happen to be obnoxious to such mobs, or for any other purpose of an exciting nature and unconnected with the ordinary pursuits and avocations of peaceable inhabitants: Now, th. refore, I do hereby peremptorily prohi'.it al such mobs, crowds, or meetings in any public street or thorough fore, and authorise and enjoin the police force, supported, it necessary, by military power, to prevent the formation of all mobs or crowds of persons collecting together for any each purpose as aforesaid, and to disperse any such mob Or crowd which may happen to have forned, se as to set free from the present state of intimidation such of her Majesty's subjects as are deterred, by . fear of violence in per sonal property, from tra•acting their ordinary and lswfal ballots. and so as to preserve, as much as may be, quiet and good order throughout the city, and repress in their origin the excesses to which such irregular and illegal assem blies, in periods of excitement like the present, have a ten dency to lead ; and I most earnestly exhort a ll Majesty's faithful subjec's to resume or pursue their several avocations, and aid ana assist in preserving the peace of this city, so long and so honourably distinguished for its order and tran- quality. A "general order" from head•gaarters at Cape Town, dated the 16th of October, contained an ad dress from the governor to the troops in the colony, congra•ulatiog them upon their forbearance under the trying circumstances surrounding them, espe cially with regard to the case of adequate Bopp' being withheld from them, and enjoining them pursue the same line of conduct as most certain to be the beet they could follow, both for themselves and the preservation of that peace se desirable and indippensable to tee safety and welfare of the com munity at large. DRATRUCTION OF LARKING AND CO.'S LINEN FACTORY By Fitts —CROYDON, FIIDAY, 1 • N.—A fire of a very destructive character broke out between 8 and 9 o'clock last night, in the linen lactory belonging to Mews. Larking and Co., at North End, Croydon. The factory was at the rear of the front warehouse, and was adjoined at one side by the extensive coach factory belonging to Mr. Armfield, and was separated from the lengthy range of car penter, and builders' shops, belonginc to Mr. Kent, by only en exceedingly narrow thorougblar , known as Kent's yard, so that on the discovery being mask a fearful conflagra tion was expected, and the numerous parties living in the houses near the spot at once commenced removing their furniture, &0., to a more distant place, in order to escape the ravages of the flames. From personal inquiries, made on the spot daring the pro gross of the fire, it appears that whilst one of the P division of police was going his rounds in Kent yard he per ceived an unusual body of smoke hovering over Misers. Larkin's' factory, and, whilst looking to find out the cause, an immense body of flame shot through the side window. Mr. Inspector Shaw sent a strong body of police to render assistance, and, at the same time, despatched an express to Lonion for the aid of the engines. The flames, however, in the course of a few minutes, had obtained the complete pos session of the whole of the stock in trade, in the factory as well as the looms, and were rushing forth from the different apertures in the place, and also thraugh the roo f, com ' pletely illuminating the di.trict within a compass of 8 or 10 miles. This caused the enginesol the town, as well as those belonging to the barracks sad the Hoa. East India Company at Addiscombe, to start to the scene of conflagration. The firemen instantly set to work from a well in the police station yard, and with the aid of the police and inhabitants, a emtibued stream of water was kept pouring upiin the Are. The moment the news reached London, Mr. Hender son, the chief of the D section of Brigade, with en eneine and • detachment of fireman, started for the spot ; and Mr. Connorton, with the West of England Brigade and engine. quickly followed. When ttey reached the scene the whole or the factory was destroyed, so that the only assistance they could be was to cool the smoking ruins, and prey, nt any further outbreak. The coach factory of Mr. Armfield has sustained but trifling injury, owing to the exer tions of the police and firemen; bat the greater portion of the windows in Mr. Kent's workshops are ilemolehed, and the side front very severely damaged by fire, &c. The whole of Messrs. Larkinp' front warehouse has escaped any injury. Maas. Ls:kings' lows is partially, if not wholly, protected by insurances in the Guardian Fire office. Respecting the origin of the deluder the r. porter was informed that a boy who was at work in the history was sent to post a letter, and in his hurry he left a candle burn ing, and it is supposed that it must have fallen down or else a spark shot from the same upon some of the linen under ring the process of finishing, and hence the outbreak. JOHN O'GAIINT'S-PALACR, LINCOLN.—The beauti ful oriel window, so well known to antiquaries, and which excited the attention and admiration of the Arcleologic.d Society in 1848, was advertised for sale a short time since (preparatory, it is supposed, to some alterations), when Esrl brnwnlow became the purchaser. His lordship has since very handsomely presented the window to the county magi*. testes, with a view to its being preserved is the castle, which will form an appropriate site, it having been one of the offi cial residence. of the Prince John. The south wall, which contains this window, is the only portion of the palace that has not fallen a prey to the band of time, or the taste of a late proprietor. The front next the street, which was pretty en tire when Back published his view in 1726, with the arms of Emland and France quartered on a large shield, has been entirely pulled down and rebuilt, and deprived of its ancient character and ornament. The window, which has survived the chances of 500 years, covered with senlptare, is still in good preservation. We are indebted to Mr. Pagin fir an elaborate delineation of its form and enrichments, in his work, Specimens of Gothic Archi . ecture." The curious investigator of domestic antiquitits wall not fail to appreciate this iateressing relic, as well as the liberality of the kad• lieutenant, which has preserved it from the desecration of being removed from the city.—Lincoln Mercury. A GLASS BEWZR.—It is proposed to lay down s glass culvert for the main sewers of Rugby. It has been reeoramanded on ommant of its onoothatee sad general sessalp SECOND - EDITION, Roo the GAZETTB of THIS NIGHT. It..ErnCiff.AuldedßlLßlgtior iliieredcwOrtF.FolClmEi,ngDiEnCto. mourning 4 4. --Order s eoris have i Sonday next, the 9th inst., for her late Majesty the Queen DJarager ; Iz.: The ladies to wear and black bombazine', plain ms-lie or Pug lawn linen, crape hoods. shomoy shoes gloves, and crepe fans. The gentlemen to wear black cloth, without buttons on the sleeves and pockets, plain mwslin Or long lawn cray..ts and weepers, shamoy shoes and sieves, cr spa hotheads, and black swords and buckles. COLLEGE OF ARMS, DEC. 4.—THE EARL MAR ORAL'S GEIGER FOR A GENERAL MOURNING FOIL NEIL LATE MAJESTY IRE QUEEN DOWAGER.—In pursuance o her Majeity's commands, these are to give public no ice that,f nyna the present melancholy occasion of the death of her Majesty the Queen D iwager, all persons do put themselves into deep mourning.—Nourotm, E M. [GENERAL ORDER.] EOR3E GUARDS, DEC. C.—Orders for the MEM. i g for the army her late Majesty the Queen Thwager. —Her Majesty does not require that the officers of the army should wear auy other mourning, with their uniforms, on the present melancholy occasion, than black crepe over the ornamental part of the cap or hat, the sword knot, and on the left arm, with the following exceptions, Officers on duty are to wear black gloves, black crepe over the ornamental part of the cap or hat, the "word knot, and on the left arm; the sash to be covered with black crape, and a black crape scarf over the rght sh.,ulier. The drums to be covered with black ; and black crape is to be hung from the pike of the colour staff el in fantry, and fr m the standard staff of cavalry. When officers appear at curt in their uniforms, they are to wear black crap • over the ornamental part of the cap or hat, the sword knot, and on the left arm, with a black crape scarf over the right ghoul ier. By command of Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington. Commander-in-Chief, JOHN MACDONALD, Adjutant-General. ADMIRALTY, DEc. 6.—Her Majesty does not re quire teat the Officers of the Fleet should wear any other mourning, on the present melancholy occasion, of the death of her Majesty the Queen Down arm, h their sword I uniforms, than black crape on the left hat, and sword knot : nor with their dress uniforms , than black gloves, and black cra..e upon the left arm, het, and sword knot ; nor that the OflLers of Royal Marines should wear any erher mourning with their uniforms than black craps on the lett arm, hat, and sword-knot; except on duty, when they are to wear also black gloves, and the sash covered with black, and a black crape scarf over the right shoulder; and except at Court, when they are to wear black crape on the left arm, hat, and sword-knot, and a black crape scarf over the right shouldet. The drums of the Roy al Ma- rines are to he covered with black, aid a black crape i• to be hung from the plate of the divisional colour-staff. JOUN PARKER. FOREIGN-OFFICE, DEC. 7.—The Queen has been pleased to appoint (Wore Charles Miller, Esq to be her Majesty's Consul in the Georgian or Winward Islands in the Pacific. WarrffitaLL, DEC. S.—The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be pissed under the Great Seal appointing the Rev. W. Cureton, MA., to the place and dignity of a winnow of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westwinster. with the rectory of the parish church of St. Margaret, Westminster. hartunto annexed and united, void by the cession of the t Henry Hart Milman, M A. OFFICE OF ORDNANCE. Dee. 4. Ordnance Medical Department.—Bar. J. E. WILLIAMS to be senior surg., vice %MOM', dee.; Andel...mg. J. 8. LIT= LOU Mfg.,. vice Williams; Temporary Assist-sari. W. Pamir to be a M ssist.- surf., vice Litle. OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, Dec. S. Corps of Royal Engineers.—First Lieut. Hon. 11. F. Koawi to be sec. rapt., vice Stanley, dee.; Bee. Lieut. E. Baursmoria to be first lieut., vice Keane. BANKRUPTS. WILLIAM SHIWARD, Norwich, pawnbroker. JOHN WALD, Wahopsgate-street Within, City, chemist. nine ADDELSON, West Dereham, Norfolk, butcher. Sviritx HIPLINE, Princes•end, Staffordshire, grocer. Jams Btatitntr, Smithwick, Staffordshire, iron and steel mandaetirer. WILLIAM CONOREVC, Spalding, Lincolnshire, corn and flour merchant. RICHARD THOMAS, St. C ilamb, Cornwall, draper. SAMOIL SHEPH►RD, Cullompfon, Devonshire, merchant. SAMVEL COLVILLZ, Liverpool, commission agent. JOHN rEncan, Manchester, cotton spinner. DROKOE DAVII3O4, Alowitk,NorthOlMhottlld, carpenter . SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. ROBERT STUART, Couper-Angus, Perthshire, writer, deceased. PETER WLAREN, Glasgow, linendreper. ROBERT LAwSON and ARCHIBALD DOUGLAS, Glasgow, furniture broken. JAMIE HAMILTON, Glasgow, Chemist. ALEXANDER Rosa, 11.1chraggan, Rossohire, builder, JAMES fl'lsams GREEN, Coldstream; ADAM THOMPSON, Haenck, and G Kokos LAW SON no:moose, ktiteham, Sauey, (Free Bible Press Compaay), Coldstream, Berwick, printers. DANK OF KNOLAND.—Aocoow tort pap It to the Week ending Dee. 1, 1849. .A11,T111117. Oovereme tt Debt.— Z/1. 0 18.14,9000 Other &mitts 2,980 Gold Cole end llttillott 18,443318 Whet Dunlop . Z 9.720,195 get/ Nolte loud 530,720.196 likeicatio D !reedslots' Oaphel ....A14.553. 0 0 0 Beet ...... . 3,106,6'a Public Deposits dueled. B:settee., Sae. Cornelis. of I s l t a i l et Debt, sea Ult. Amts.) 8,462,655 Other Deposits ........ 9,39 ),(414 Scree -day and other BM' 1,082,427 £16,594,711 to i Dec. 6. 1849. tARTM/lAT. Goveromeat Peewitla dud. Dead Weight Annuity) . . ....... .33 140,N3 Other Socarttla Notes ....... ...... 11.693.3`:0 00Id and tuber Coin 792,:1i 1.34.5144.711 bIAIISBALL. Chef SIICIAR.—The average price of Sugar, the produce of the British poreessions in America, computed from the returns made in the week ending the 4th day of Dec., 1449, ts gse. Oi d per cwt. Sugar the produce of the Mauritius is 245. 20. per cwt. Sugar the produce of the East Indies is 29e. Md. per cwt. Tile average price of the three foregMagdaseriptions, jointly, is 274.01 d per cwt.—Gazette. SHEERNESS.—The Board of Health contemplate extensive operations at this place, which has so long been notorious for its agues, arising chiefly from the want of drainage. It is rumoured that they intend to expend 10,0001. in sanitary measures. A correspondent says: " Ito not im probable, however, that government will beat a portion of this expense, as the population consists almost entirely of the military artistica employed in the dockyard, and others in government employ." DEATH OF MR. JAMES SCOTT, OF THE "GREENOCK ADVraTISEII "—This gentleman died at Greenock on the Ist inst. Be hat been connected with the Advertiser since 1831, and from that time the editorial duties chiefly devolved upon him till about four years ago, when heavy affiiction laid him totally wide. Mr. Scott possessed a large amount of information on the history, civil and ecclesiastical, of his native country, and was deeply imbued with Whig princi ples. Mr. Scott's first connezion with the press was with the Gla.gow Chronicle. Re subsequently joined the Montreal Herald, which under tie charge gained much of the high character it now possesses —Greenock Advertiser. THE CHOLERA still lingers in Arbroath, several eases, most of them fatal, having occurred last week. SUICIDE IN EDINBUIGH.—Mr. George !iutherland, reinter, or High-street, en Tuesday precipitated himself over the parapet wall of the North Bridge. He was observed by two or three individuals who were posing, first to lean owe r the wall, and then to throw himself head foremost into the Vegetable Market below—a hei,lit of about eighty feet. In his descent he was noticed to turn completely round, so that he alighted on his feet instead of his head. He fell, how ever, with such violence that both his legs were broken, while his body was otherwise dreadfully mangled, and lice quite extinct. The melancholy event is ascribed, by those who knew him most intimately, to the grief in which he has been silently indulging ever since the death of his wife, about 18 months ago. He was an elder in South College-street United Presbyterian Church, and for some years held the office of police commissioner. lie was about 48 years of age. —Scotsman. AFFRAY WITH POACHEEL—Late on Saturday night, the Earl of Lauderdale's gamekeepers having heard several shots fired, apparently about a quarter of a mile east ward of the castle, and suspecting that a party of poachers might bs abroad, proceeded in search of the depredators, each armed with a strong stick. On reaching the part of the roadway called the "high cross," they were immediately oonfronted by three poachers, viz Redpath and Lillico, from Cadres mill, and Lindsay, from Ozton, who levelled thell guns at the keepers, and threatened them with instant death if they dared to interfere with them. The upper keeper, Barlow Scott, nothing daunted by such menacing language and attitude, west boldly up to Redpath, who is a tall and powerful man, and telling him " that none but cowardly rascals w.,uld have presented their guns to an unarmed fellow-creature," dealt him a blow across his forehead with his stick that brought him instantly to the ground. The other keeper, Richard Purees, closed with Lindsay, and Lillie° took the advantage to run away. The three offen ders have been safely lodged in Greenlaw. THE FLOODS which during the last two or three days so imminently threatened great portions of the railways :in the Midland Counties with destruction, are fast subsiding, and all cause for tear is now past. A DEAD CHILD SENT BT RAILWAY.—TheOphiIaS Burton, of North Leverton, Notts, blacksmith, on Friday last, received by post an anonymous letter, steting that there was a box for him at Retford, and requesting him to fetch it as soon as possible. Fetching the box from the White Hart Inn, Retford, it was opened, and in it was found a dead child, a boy, apparently about two years old. On examination by Mr. BS lagg, surgeon, it appeared to have been Wrangled an 4 beaten on the head, having a braise on the left side of the forehead, and a ma:k round the threat, such as would be produced by a ligature. Toe box was enclosed in a wrapper and corded and locked, and directed to "Mr. Theophilus Burton, North Leverton, near Retford." It arrived at Newark by railway at 20 minutes past 4 p.m. on Thursday,and was thence conveyed by coach to Raif on e flloing day, and left at the White Hart lan. An ord Inquest on w the body was commenced on Monday last, several witnesses were examined, and the in quiry wee adjourned. Int Court OSBOR.Ie The Queen and Prince Albert to k an this morning in Osborne Perk. Si. fiord Highness the Prince of Weelie an memben of the P. ,yel family walked and rode There was no addition to the Royal dimity day. Sir William Winniatt had an intervic Grey yesterday. Mr. Richard West Nash h terview Traterday with the noble earl, in the Sir Edward Blakeney had an inters (hoop Grey yesterday, at the Home-offic Cocasllaa had also an interview with thi baronet. Lord John Russell left Pembroke mood Park, yesterday morning, for Osborne, Mr. John Wood, chairman of the Bc Revenue, had an interview with the Chance chequer yesterday. Mr. Pr , ssly, Mr. T Trevor had also an interview with the Biel at his official residence in Downing•street. The Judicial Committee of the Pri yesterday. An appeal from Bengal, "The 1 pany v. Ooditchuru Paul," wag conclude from Belfast was commenced, " Muttylole thunder Sandie." THE LATE QUEEN DOW: The funeral of her lamented Majesty Dowager is definitively fixed to take place in St. George's Chapel. It has been already stated that the cerea in state " is to be altogether dispensed wi now to add that, contrary to all former prec will take place at mid-day instead of, as usu and by torchlight. The procession will leave Nutley Pri, , ry on Tuesday morning, sad proceed by we bridge, and Slouch, to Windsor. At 6 will be joined by the Prince Consort and the royal family, who will accompany it till Chapel. The distance to be traversed from Beale sof is abut twenty miles, and the interm place at one o'clock. The onto' coffin, which is sot yet comp bited at Messrs. Beating's, is St. Jame.' (Saturday). PENINSULAR AND ORIEN NAVIGATION COMPA Yesterday the ninth annual meet pany took plan at the offices, 122, Lead' hiLTHIISON, Eeq M.P., in the chair. The SECRETARY having read the vening the meeting and the minutes o assembly of the proprietors, Tne CHAIRMAN opened the poem meeting by congratulating the proprieh degree of prosperity by which the compel and called on the secretary to read the rt director., of which the following h the si In meeting you to present their pint directors trust that von will find in it a expectation which tiny held oat in the c of their last half-yearly repxt, namely, of accounts which it would be their au at this meeting would Je such as to me deuce in the soundness of the undertai ciency of its management." In conformity with the third mishit annual goseral meeting, a statement with supplemental explanatory docnme the board-room table, during the last tion of such proprietors as might cho same. It exhibit, the following satistal A balance of net profit for the year ending tember, 1019, atter providing oat of the ear usual reserves for wear and tear, Insurarm sea-risk, and depreciation, also for coatis pelves in replacing the Hindostan on her India, and bringing the Bentinck from repair', of To which is added the helium of undivi i from the previous year, as per statement 13th December, ISO total. Out of which the threctots hare appropriate( inentation of the reserve insurance hunt fa extraordinia7 cssualties Leaving disposable for diridenda, Deducting !rum which the half-year's divide Marsh last, paid Tien remain. Prom wind', deducting the half-year'e divi per eon., now about to be recommended, to amount to There will remain to meet coatingeneies, carried to neat wets mecum The state of the company's inc ) for the last financial year has enabli pears by the balance-sheet, to appropri sum of 21,3601. 10s. fid. to thin fund now amounts to l 50,0001.—• reser adequate to meet extraordinary cases] state of the company's property. They have also the satisfaction to of importance has occurred to the co.l last eighteen months. That fortune e circumstance, toga tinuance of effecting insurances wit such a balance of premium for the cu as the directors consider will warrant mert of ab tut one pound per share account of their risk as underwriters year, provided no extraordinary case meantime. An advertisement has recently bee ment, again inviting tenders for esta communication with Australia; and lieve that this important measure, u earnestly, called tor by the numerou merchants and others connected wit ing colonies, cannot be longer p .stpt Tne position which this company its already established lines of come its ample capital, and readily avails enables it to undertake this service presenting greater advantages to India, and the intermediate del* economy to the public exchequer, t obtained otherwise. The directors a e prepared to sub plan and proposal for nudermkin these principles, which they confide this company the preference for ex Should the company be charge of this contract, it will in all j extensions of their operatio..s in although the available means ne directors are adequate for such place the financial condition of doubt or difficulty, the directors duty, in the event contemplated, prietary the issuing of shares for half-miilion of capital (or as much authorised to he rinsed by the Tor and the official sanction of the Lo Uajestj's Treasury. And, with a view to the protect present proprietary, they deem it intimation which they made iu mode of issuing these shares—nau that the new shares shall be offs stance, to the then holders of she of the company, in the proport every two of the present shame, • first instalment, of Al. per sin may be required to be called tie amounts, and after due notice ben The directors have much seders the deputation which. in the pets sent to the present Paella, imp been effected, and are in progress for facilitating the transit of pa. from India, &c., through Buy' have been introduced throughout means of these and by tne 'rapt end attendants, the land journey distance of 84 miles) can now hours, in comfortable carriages. Other improvements, introdue don, are—The erection of an env with sheds and warehouses for I baggage. Ti. numbering of landing pamcnuers, end the tits charge, which is painted in each offices and war/Mama and stahl' duction of carts Mete ad of camel and baggage between the lan addition of tour new omnibu' from the landinu place to the Cs The erection of an enclosed wl and landing-place at the A dition of a steamer to t also, two new trails boats, each, thirty-five to forty persons to ten horse suet .ns between A addition to the Nile fleet of a n dation for thirty-five to forty pe stabling and OMllik.l/1 houses at sire and commtedious premises i and carrier s, &c. The enlarge (fifteen in number) between Cs provetnent of the system of to the newly.ma .e carriages. Tt wharf at S -ez, and the Alexandria and Bootee. T mishit( the sandy portion The completion of • reams barge for Sirs harbrair, which, As two cooinr.dintis canal re shipped f .r Alexandria, and a I for the Nile, which will be read weeks. These vessels have be nese, under the Oirection of this When the wholo of these im pleted, the amount expendee government will not be lap the I