The Express. — London, England, 1849-12-20 00:00:00

CHINA AND TIIE INDIAN l'.:i n gW, ARCHIPELAGO. er,..ot robbed i -- The HONG-KONG. off .rd i g m 30.—Our domestic neelligeoce is of a melon. of the . sinlY nature: death has carried off several of our Taunts b et la China. 'Lem -Kong itself is healthy. men g we rviog of first mention iu toe obituary of the al e is Hie Excellency Sir Fraueis A. Collier Nov sto CB e KAIH't naval cemmander-it-chiet in th e Europe Fasters sus. In my lest I selviwel you that the ad- in the w i r e was rot expected to survive many days. Due- Capt.t the Fury's "biota alter the pirates, and waitinf the ee int i c e her return that be might proceed to 8 aughal, John 1 de admiral became the guest of Judge Hulme and claims dto be doing well. On Oct. 23rd a fresh at- eatly s t r o l l ? puslysis came, which his enfeebled frame chievo sir enable to survive. On the night of tbe 27th he out 51. mewed fatal symptoms, and after a few hours Le be kill His remains were interred on the prison gig& Commodore Plumridge is shortly expected here is the command-in-chief, and in the meantime Gl e n Masts, of the Cleopatra, becomes senior naval Om agar. Our obi'uaty elle contains the death of the Sept. Bev. John Lowder, episcopal chaplain at Shanghai, to get who was drowned %heist bathing in the sea ; the Hey. mend . totehwell, at Shanghai, missionary L. M. S., also or d er . Mr. Thomas Nl•Knight, naval store-keeper at Hong- Made l o ng. Several other deaths, chiefly at Shanghai. 21st Strictly political news we have none to record. The arrest Canton rabble are quiet, and Sea is complacent. But ter ec this state of qu crude cannot continue for any length Meca d up, The procee dings of the pirates, our inter- withi fie , and the e steamer slaughter c. mmitted by the the g gets et our ships-of.war, are the topics of general pr at t averns• ion amongst the Caine's. As noted in my been ye. ;Lew pirates have assumed an air of superiority sums M a i to ncuce the Ceinese government to confer honours ing a spt them, in the hope of immuring the favour from 100117 attack, aid to encourage the supprestion of pirates cape ef lees DOW. The &spores% of Chins is Rag ' ,O EN . ; the government either cannot or sum will not venture on the surprestion of pir-ey. can They ceuntenseee piracy on foreigners from the be- nial pa that they will drive as away. Her Majesty'. imp ship. Fury and ColuxuSine have had an Wier with It a tags fleet. Jest prior to the departure of the last Sini mail w Europe the Columbine was sent after some to et pirates who were reported to have landed sod de- by t stioyed the town of Treanii. We fleet e3osiated of Meg mireee ;two of the largest juaks kept up a rapid fire den with the Calumbios during the nigh'. la the morn- Bee bg th- chase was continued, and the ;ant. s ma's Wig weards shore, but were cut off oy the steamer teat Canto, tie esptaiu of which vessel was in search hay after the Cosposee, and seeing the manceuvre of the a m joke, be immediately steamed leatween them and the desse. The Cantos took the Columbine in tow, emeging her near Pat largest of the junks: during the j elms the Colombice gut oa share, and the junk inn serdweed sear two small forts. The CAumblee's boa's Zt . urn lowered sad manned, fur the purpose of cutting h et the joshes', the beats being under the command of iw , 1 Liestesant Bridges. After having exhausted then teal ammo:Aden, it was resolved to bard the l e d jetk, ill which operation several of the pirates to were drimn uvetbmard. Mr. Midshipman GA- es . t dard owerving a man going down the hold with pee a ligleed match in his hand, followed , but b-fore this ;, I 6 gallant rang officer could overtake the man en ex- „I, plosion took piece. Ou the first appearance of the 41 C smoke Lieut. Br dices jumped ove:huari, dragging a e d t • seaman with him, by which means both escaped un- et L hart. Two marines and one seamen were kilted, end to • 4 sight wounded. Mr. Goddard was mortally wounded, g a and died 03 his way to Hong Kong. Of ti e crew ol w the ju ak (about 90 ) it is said chit wily ore esuped. 7 a a The Csntuie witn the wounded, was dtspeeched to e , Hoeg Kong, see =ponied bye re quest ler almittance to d I. 4 pursue the main body of the fleet, which was much n as too strung for the Columbine. In two hours wilier I J. the Fury was und.r *teem, and proceeded to the Is mistimes of the C dumbine to a place called o Mire Bay, ab rot 70 mile s dimtant from Hong K ng. p IA „ ii The piratical fleet was observed at archer, with flags ° Ire flying at their mist heads and the mews dressed far ; ea the occasion. The Coiumbine keeping t- , seaward, ree the Fury proceeded towards the jubloesnal,appruach t l'• log the latter, they opened a dewily fire, e htch was i sr onLeeded and not a eIDgl a shot returned (tom the i le Fury, which vessel ste amed at 12 knots through :lie i i 5. entire fleet uttil she gut between the pirates std the , shore, when, having cut off all shone of escape, the a In Fury at dewed. Tree Fury's hulwart's were thrown down, and the guns open ed o p ° . the j erks, d p i. threwieg shells with such p• ecisioa that scarcely one ea failed iu its objet t. By noon 14 of tae lar g est j unks iris est were burnir g. As the junks were fired, the ere ws WO were seen to land and estape over the Melees, earrj - ale tag the wounded with them. Parties of matinee rut from the Fury succeeded in shooting a few of these ad D WI. runaways, A wounaled man was tact out of the water; he said the shell wnich took away his leg struck 10 other pirates, including their chief, Chin ells Eel Apno; the latter was wounded in the back, but ma . titled to escape on shore. Of the pregeess of our era Al& "'ration.. against thew pirates some idea may be NM- gathered from the following oflleal &aura : 40. • .. Hants ii." et Hong lifowr, Oct. 8, 1840. fir :Ur- Litt of Chiac:ii Piratical V owls captor..! mad destroyed by per Her 811jtey's Ships between the mantes el May arid o.:toba 1819. Ein __._2._.__------------ ------- ru.if 4 .1 busker. mf Outer. • Ital r to rracl• Das. Ohs l i lii I 1 I „a. -- _------- 43 Mb 143 a. liee ... Ars ...1 Pest ..-....-. ..... ....—.... le IV eV PI. ae 2 3 1 lel/ ... 5441.......ita11y km Amme4014444 is. Ceske rcpt. VAIL . 4 1 Sli testtest..- lumina:lna Try. anTray I trees leinenee . --. 111 NO —..1.410 IMO --! all. 31 OH 21011.644 son F. A. CO.Lisa, Row- kheival and C.manander-in-Chief. ... fit. ri. Not The Fury, Medea, and Phlegethon, have proceeded to the we after the piratical fleet of Shap'ng-lee, who haslroved to be so pose ful in the teighb tar hood of Hainse. Up to this moment the ex kiedition has tot rcurned. In the meantime the bu-y torque tf rumour has it that the Phlegethon has been taken by the pi.st a, and Mr. Caldwell, the interpry tee, murdered. In elnflrmaion of this, it is said some nukes have arrived overland t 3 Canton; but at pee vet all is mere rum..nr. Steers' other Listens** of piracy have been brolutit to notice, and it was disco vered that COOSSUfeII ha 4 been taken to capture every vaasel proceeding through Cunning-Motu to or from H sag R erg. Cori-Aire°, the chief of the fleet de stroyed by the Fury, is the same on whom is affixed the mu dine( Certain Da Costa and Lit ut. Dwyer. By the way, some fuet'.er clue hat been °stained to this murder. A deserter from the Ceylon Rifles has been captured. This worthy deserted about two years ail ce, and enlisted under the banner of Chu:- Apea t hie busioesebeiog to teach the pirate- I.erwora exercise. It is, rum,ured that a fleet of pirates was about to attack Amoy. Nothin4 has been eacited respecting the miming v. owls Sylp t and Cociuttte, to whop we regret to add the names of the Greyhound, ch left flings pore for this, on Aug. 23rd, and the Anna F.lza. which bane a [rum shanghai, on Sept ssta. The Sara. a tutnar, from Sosaighai to Cork, with a cargo (item, was wrecked on the Pescadores; crew saved and taken into Amoy by the Dart. Fears are enter tained for other vesails, as ty the middle of Oct ., sad about tie 24th or 23th. Macao still otustionis quiet. The head and hand of the late Governor Amaral have not yet been given up. The Chi•.es: Ganmissioner Sea has adored a ditreaceful 000dition, which is reeee•ed by the Macao Senate in Lard 'sortie, predicative perhaps of blowe. The foliowirg is as e xtract from one of the despecbes which have passed on the subject : This council west positively declares to your Brener', tkat If you Abik of waking *ha head and band of the mar emir $OllOlllOl &II übje e. of barter or eachtnge, V) procure flefe by the release o. the tares Chisels detained here now imp, Word, 10T the purples of e.rrying on liquifier, and who, when. thee, are c oncluded, will be s et at liberty, Partners and all subs, civilised eclair lu tee world lank upon such an attempt r an iniquitous/4 neteriuwe WIN which devrastntes at the least the cowracency felt byL 'war i Ea ellency at the awassw at i o n of the Claverner of Monwee the r, as of her mast faithful -ajesty ; and , there fore, as a fresh trait to her mail Majesty, this council pro test a g ainst your Excellency for the right appertaining to .fewily tbe reared; ia so much as tr.. head and al" biluldpng to the body of the dectassd, mud that to his Ulm MIL 1 tam 0 401 I Cat AIM I CO Cel • • • w+ se Wil 0 M 0 Mr!° • • • 1 • MI " I No n• • or. II or. I Pr. 1.6 0 • • FoloWiri asf• Pr _ S I g or lth 100 THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING. DECEMBER 20, 1849. eithia the poet tow day/ money has teen growing easier, shkh gives as moan to hope Chit next will convey tatter aoreunts of this mar kt*. Our whites lona blainghat see to the 17th ism., mad ma • ilLit rico wear eclining r.pidle. Minims had baprosed about 13 tents par Pare, out the at et was tull. About 53.000 pat Mges tee hero to.. had ars, eared In tnarket, of which 3,' 00 pelts ea had teen settled toe E .g 15 0 ... and 25,000 f. r America. [ Davos -The sales al lionit,sy hate teen 7 500 b Ica, at a dreine of abrht 3 mace to our tat quo: stuns. Peng& (good to arse), 7.5 to 0.1, and no as es ; Madra , , 7.6 to a.), also nominal Conon Yeast 1. held firmly, hut a nth of MO t=4.32 woul.l *prom to canine the following quotations 'bowing a decline on previous rates : -No. 16.24, 24 dula to 23 doh.; No. 24.42, 24 dol.. to 23 dots. ; No. 34-4% 241 doh. to 24 dots ; Am. iiceo, No. 16.26, 201 doh. to 111 doh. AVILIUCAN Chyme Ooons-Dtrills, 10 yard', 1.93 dol. to 1.97 dot ; 4 0 3 arda, 230 dots to 2 SS d. 40., with trig ng sales. datarmos.-TM transmakes la prey Mittinp amount to 300.0 Ones, at • decline GI 3 mots cm our last agues. In white shirtings, 4,000 pirates at about previous rates. Woounits ass agoaereps.-tipanish finipes.-63 e. to 1050., with sales of 1,500 01001.1. Habit mid Lady aoot-1. dol. to 1 doL ISo., nominally ; Wm 140 Mess.. Lang Gas. -mworted 7.10 to 7.30; sales 5,000. Ditto gasekb-gates 1,6011 pieoeo, at ft doh. 10e. to 11 doh. 30e. Can lots-300 pros, at 16 del., to 21 doh. for D.d. and Sri. Imatisp.-Nw, 14 doh. to 9 doh.; wide, and of good quality, 14 doh. to arr 13 0 1 (lola Botsbamthis.-No tramaetions. Mersu.-Iron, n.,11 rod, 3 del. 10e. to 3 dots. 50e., awarding to assortment of sizes; hoop, 3 dots. 90e. to 4doh. 1 0 0. ; bar, 2 doh. 205. to 1 doh. 70e. AlllBl4OllO lead, idols. 40e. to 6 dots. Me.; sales, 1,000 parcels. English lead, 73e. Ws • piker, 3 data 10e. to 56.0.. 20c. thesano.-40 dots. to 70 dole. for crude; clarified, 110 doh. to 130 dots. balls, IWO to WO tioula. Cochineal, 110 dots. to 120 dols; Mennen ditto, 123 dole. to 135 dots. ; Cassia Live*, 14 doh. to IS dots Tom.- Omlfom : 53 chops have been settled this mouth Ml 4 to IS for Monlog, IS to 19 for lialtlydr, and 13 to 17 tails for Ito Dog sod SiselmokL There are left about 60 to 90 chops I* Ms market. Bamboos : 5,000 packages at 14 to 10 tar common to fair, aid 21 to 32 lac good, leaving about %OW packages. About 0,000 packages Nina Tonga and 001.43611 have been When for America as Lust as they arrived, at 20 to 22 for the log Toms, sad gar Wimp from 211 to 23 ap to 30 to 70 for the finest. Other tranimetioss were 300 packages Pekoe, at 211 to 43 ; 700 packages MOP Pekoe, at 16 to 17 ; 1,300 .noted O. Pekoe, at 17 to 42; Caper, 1000 packages, at 17 to IM ; aoudad Caper, 3,000 packages, at IS to 29. Trananittons 1 in green teas: SOO package. Canton young llysoos, at 9 to 13 ; and 2,18)0 Canton gunpowders, at 1 3 to - 24 tact.. Of the sew crop of green teas about 14100 packages Lace arrived, but nods are yet settled. V1030111"..-To Landow, 37. 10s. ; to Liverpool,lL 10a.; to New York, lb dots. for tem. hicitesoss.- On London, 6 months, 4s. 3d. to 4s. 31d.; Hon. Ent India Company's accepted, 216 per 103 doh.; Spice, fur duties, ei per cent pron.: Csrolus dollar,, 7 per cent. pram.; Gold, 100 touch, 24.70 doh. per tart (Prom the Friend of Cliwo.) Sltwl•enat, 016.unau 18 0... loot mg/Lasky report was brought down to the 13th of September. The market for Britieh Im p:uo has improved AMC the cad,' part of October. Grey shirting* are quoted 15 maw pee plow higher than the extremely low rates ad vised in September at a/bleb advance some importers appear willing to keep the market stiptliad ; untleachid goons are nut much in quired for. The rice crop has been gathered, and although far bek.w an aver..ge, It ghee a temporary relief, and foreign rice has deelined; irr..ean will not sell 4 , r more than I del. 70 c. c.eb, Forman com mando 10 cent'. per pieul more. In the interior the mop has suffered severely, and as the season advances toreign doe will be me in re quoit to aupply tbe short-condo( in the usual supp ly ef local gnowth. In exports there have been heave purchases of tea; of town about 10.000 che.ta, madly ter Eigland; of Fern teas 30110 packages, chirdy tor America. The purchases of silk aggregate .00 talon; the broke. a maims, to sob stiff prime. Exam:mg.—On England: clean credits., 4s. dd.; bile with docu ments, la. lid. rtilliill6. To Great Britain : tea, W. 10e. ; silk, if. fondly, got! Elf:Ale/fey, by retaining to order to tr. file with tn.m, C tunas a rubber*, thus par frivoling in tn. arms of toe orgasm, who alter inardertng Governor Amaral robbed bin, of Lis haul and hood. Tee American at d French ievele coatinue to alf rd R rots‘tion to Mac o. To meet the exigeaeits of the btatr, the hilabiteuta of the city dart paid a voluntary sum of 50,0110 dollars. SINGAPORE. Nov. 7.—Oa the day the mill left last month for Europe, Sir Christopher Rawßoson gave a certifies , e in the matter of the claim to he .d money preferred by Capt.Farquhv, of the Albatross ; the sum awarded in the certificate II 20,7001., which is to atm- , out of John Ball's pocket, which, with abant 30,0001. to be claimed by ships of war in Chins, will make a suffici ently round sum to draw public attention to the mis chievous working of the existing system, which holds out 51. per head for men saved, and 201. if they should be killed. Under such circummann s, the taking of prisoners in deference to humanity is discouraged. LABUAN. Our latest accounts from this settlement extend to Sept. 17. Lieutenant-Goventor Napier has managed to get himself into bad odour with the military cum• mandant Captain M'Caskell, who, having been ordered to Singapore by the command. r—n-chief at Madras, to attend a court-martial on en officer of the 21st Madras Native Infantry, has been placed in arrest by the Lieutenant-Governor for what tie lat ter conc eives to be a breach of etiquette in Captain M'Caskili's not calling to obtain leave of abeeace, not withstanding notice in wilting had been given by the gallant captain. By the way it is somewhat ear pr sing that the military expenses of Labuan have not been brought to the n-.tice of parliament. We pre sume the accounts will be submitted in the appro th ing session, when it will probably surprise many to learn that in addition to 10,0001. annually tr the civil expenses of this yet ant:win-4 settlement, the people of England will be e 511.4 upon to pay the edtli•temil sum of about 5,0001. for military charges, which charge has been intentioaaliy conceal' d by the C lo nial Minister, in order to render the Labuan job less unpalatable to the public. By the lion. Comp.'s steamer Nemesis, arrived at Singapore, advice. have been received from Labuan to Oetubr 29. Captain M'Caskill had hien role psi by the Lieutenant-Gavernor. Other causes of internal Otsquittude were operating to the injury it the set tlement 'there was no expectation of Sir James Brooke's return to Labuan, his medical advper having insisted on kis continuing . to reside at Sarawak, an tact the infect colony is ua no degree becellkd by having a governor, aiace the latter has not resided a month on the island since his appointment. BORNEO PROPER.—SARAWAK. Rtjah Brodie has been indulging in di •tribes spinet the Daily News, couched in his own elegrut vocabulary. Like louse Cnozzlewit, however, be hes had " balm applied to his wounded feeliugs." Soros mmths ago t:.e employes of the rajah presented him with a •reord, which testimonial was duly acknow ledged, and his dependents pay augmented from 1001. to 2001. per annum and mess—for the rajah's del end eats are all messed by their employer. It would ap pear that a somewhat similar rem has been attempted oy the Sarawak employes on the present occasion, possibly in the hope of a further addition to their salaries. The Singapore Free Press, (at one time edited by the mew Lieutenant-Oovercor of L .buan, under whom ita columns were then, as now, e wldoye d to purr the rajah) coatai^• an address tl Sir Junes Brooke, intended to counteract the exist:sun a by the Daily News, which we find copied to thu Times of Oe:ober 30, with the addi.ion of the rank and standing of the subscribers. That the public to this country may fully appreciate the indepentent position or Sir Jamess eulogists, we give the address a plac-t in our colonies. On the Sid Oct. cure. at, a emetics was held at Swawak of every Europ a' r..v.d. at, to take into cowiiieratiou the proptioy of t trees i publicly the eel se they entertained of the attacks made upon the character at Sir James ]mete The K.,.1". T. lleDuaieU was ansnimoubly voted into the chair. The Chairman then addreyeed those asassibleol, o splaining the romp as for which the meeting was convened, and 11- preasing the sense that he, as well as those • r amid ham, entertained of the character and conduct of 8X Jamas Br:oke The d gentleman, after deliv.rene heel sentiments in a neat and apprapriate man: et, 00. c ot:eo at ealEng upon the meeting to determine which they considered the best usettettul extereesiog their feetings towards Sir James 8r.:4 sit .Me, ~,... , tie, posed r written a 'Arm as the most fit under al. the earcutini Lana; this was 'wowed by kir. Bap pelt. and carried unionists. uoly. Mr. Hexing thou rose and roan ...• adobes., which, with a few slight a m e ndment-, eat as follows: .Str,—Wv, the unit. reigned, constitati „the entire Eu ropean community of &eminent • a err It icily, yet alum .ted by the feelings of En.e.now....e. car aoL pence" %i . e. ut 'l tems dt i. • ii.ru, toe r located •Ltaeks was bath en your pun le and private charneun ono amain i mend:, in Lies. land and elsewhere, and we have therefore this day assembled to express to you, our fee logs and sentiments on the subject. From the lung knowede and . xperienee most of us nave had of your charact l er g end conduct, we cannot but feel greetly surprised that any omega of Wastes or inhumanity 'nun dbe brought known you;_ . we, who live ur.der your redo e-ery day perceive the effects of your government, in raising the tone of the native mind, end in graduaily bring ing it to an approximation with European civiiisat.on, by the cumin of the put. st principles of 4 quity, and by teaching them to look for ju-tice, humanity, and moderation from the sway of en English yoke. We are well aware that in this dense we arc but giving utterance to the feelings of ail thou who have known Sou, or who have utientivo ly an your career • and we, who have lived in Sa rawak and tare carefully observed your polity, are fully convinced of the justice of the coition you Pave pursued in endeavoutiog to suppress the pirat. s of Serene and Saharan, and that throughout your who:, proceedings you have di-played the greatest moderaltion at d humanity. Had we thouant other wise, we should hay tamen the lion to condemn yuu • conduct for, although removed Irons our native land, we still have the independent •eeniegs and the strict sense of justice that have or. r distinguished our countrymen. Roo ive Sir James Brooke, this Ustimtny of the regard , admiration, bud et re ,.. ep.. we enteral,' for you, and may you lis• by the Mensing irs on Almighty Gad, enceessiully to carry through your meta sores for civilg the nvive, alai tor rendeeing the beg/ of the Eastern Arcnipelago no longer • &eel to the peaceful 17- trader. —. (Signed) F. T. McDorom.t., Ch Almon La chaplain in the pay of Rajah Broke; Ruler. HINTIO (Receiver gene ral of monopolised antimony ore—a 3. P. of the Rs ai creation — judge of the Rajah's court) ; estaatas T. C. Owe (aids -dc-Camp t i Rajah Brooke—pay, MOW.) ; Gannon IL (ltejah Bro. he's book-lx tapir); Cm•shus A. CRVICILII (Rajah re Boke's uTerwor); AUTEUIL C. Clusuusuana (Rajah Brooke's polies neagisorate--pay, 2001) ; W. W. B RRRRR ON (iLdsm Brooke's relative and dependent) • A. iloSveht. Lao (unemployed); HERUINGION W. loan (cendadate for employment) ; E. 8. Seams (ftslt Brooke's school master) ;BMMa MM ft ST. Joss (Ra u h Brooks's private secretary); W; H CMANSION (Ra uh Br-eke's private servant) ; AUGUSTS'S STALE; Inherit MIDDLETON (Rajah Brooks's storekeeper). It was then dwells ned that the meeting, heads I by the chairman sboula wait upon Sir Bronke, and pr e sent him with the address. After it James had been read to Elm, he replied as toffees: Gentlemen —I have heard with shatters stratification the c ndial addre4 you have jest read. The good opinion and support o' the few who live around me, and who have daily th . means of information, and grounds for pronouncing a j aligns• nt, are of more value than the once of a distant, Wooten? or ill-informed imentirude. I do not Viet, how ever, unit any number of Our countrymen believe tbe state ments set forth. They 'emanate from • few, I think • very few, persons only, actuated by motives. Food or bad, of whaina lem ignorant, sad do not pretend to judge. Gentle men, no statements Can alter the truth, right cannot be per verted into wrong—jusies into injustice. I thank you for the adder a you have presented, and we may alike rest in the hill confidence of a Rood cause, and in the consciousness of rectitude. I can trust to truth, and appeal to time. Gen tlemen, I thank you. JAVA. BATAVIA, OCT. 30.—Such has been the fright ful mortality, that I scarcely expectei to have survived and to have addressed you on the present occasion. Sickness is general—the fever has taken deep hold on the population, and our hcapitals are , crowded with the rick, numbering nearly 1,000 pa sons. The heat preceding the breaking out of fever was very great, more so than experienced for many ' years; our only hope is the speedy &eying in of the wee: monsoon. Tom progress cf the Governor- General, during his tour, has been very satisfactory, and believed an important report will be made to the Netherlaur's government on the state and pan pe to of their empire in the east. We bare no other political news of interest. Our market f.r Brit sh goods is very dull, with abundant stocks, part of which will be sent on to Singapore. H.114.M S. Marauder arrived here October stb, and sailed on the 18th for New Holland. CHINA hIARKETS. Cewrox, Ocr. 27. On the 26th ult. we reported • !light advance in the prin articles of import, and that there were indications of further - amongiusmt; but we hare now to advise dud a tight money market amo the Chinese has operated to check any advance, and cams • ail A rtl d nominal recession from our last q•Med rates. The holders of tanaitheetutes are dim in their demands ice better prime, and EAST INDIA HOUSE After the pm needing's of the monthly geherel court, reported in e weeds. 'e Express. Captain DICKINSON brought fee ward his mod n iu respect lo the Ames,. of SU. de. Hu regretted the length of time the Wiest had been neglected by the court, at. r the minus assureacee of the chairman that the question recap. d the serious attention of the direct - us. Whenever this tout had been moved to consider the subject, no one of the direc tors ever esme forward to express a wish to set rightly towards these unfortunate people in exile. Much rather would they dwell under • tree in their active land than occupy palaces elsewhere. (Hear, hear.) He hoped the court would second hint in eppeaing the =satiable desire of the Indian government for territorial aggrandisement, as was exemplified in the case of the unfortunate Amen of Sande. W tth • view to maintain the dignity of this country ,and • love for eveneanded justice, he hoped the directors would not re fuse to place at the disposal of the court every sort of docu mentary evidence calculated to remove this foul charge of injustice on the part et the goverment of India. He was prepared to show that they had acted against the independ ens of &inde without foundation, and also the extent to which the suppreuio nri had been carried by the govern- ' meet thereof. All the testimony brought forward would oon vinee any upright may that there was nothing to justify the seizure of those territories. Th. y had given to the Rajah of Sattera and others the right of defending thems.lees, and why not the same privilege to the Ameers of &icicle ? He hoped, after what he had stated, that the hon. proprietors then ',resent would give their support in his endeavour to olearn tome hustles for !hoe unfortunate princes. Mr. MAYN , the clerk, then read the resolution as follows • " That this court, dee,.ly lamenting the prolonged exile of the Faeces of Seinde, and the failure of these endeavours from time to time mode fo: the termination of their un merited sufferings, most tly recommend to the Court of D.ree:on that an opportunity be afforded suck of them as survive to be heard in their defence before some =nip/tent and impartial trittunal to be nominated by the government of India ; and, if innocent, that they be reinserted in their private rights ; also, that a like consideration, win re the same may appear equitable, be extended to the heirs of sumo of the Ameers as have died in captivity. " That the following pipers be laid before the court of pro prietors Copy of the y entered into by Captain S ton, in be half of the Southey government, with the Hydraba4 state in the year 1808. " Copy of the instructions furnished the envoy who was deputed to litdrabad to annul the above treaty. Copies of the returned fella ra to h e 1 rte Nur Mehomed, chief Ametr of Hydreb: d, alluded to in the G vernor -0 theral's despatch to the Sem t Committee, under date 21st February, lbU. " Copies of ...thee unpublished lett: rs from Nur Mehomed about the same time, explanatory of his unwillingness to accede to the GovernorGenerat's proposals. " Cepy of the unpublished portion of the Secretary to the Governor General's letter to the Resident of Seinth, under date Bth Septemler, 1833. " Stetement of the respective portions of territory which were guaranteed by separate treaties to the Hydrebad Ameers by the treaty 01 the 11. h March, 1839. " Li•t of the limiters who Lave been consigned to exile, ehoeing the stipends which they hare from time to time received." Mr. SULLIVAN seconded the mntioo, which, after some further remarks, was put, and was negatived by a tonsieler able =gorily. Mr SULLIVAN then moved that the dccumenu re lating to the treaty with the late Emperor of Delhi be jointed for the ' , se of the proprietors He contended that the object cf the Governer-General an to annit ilate the (m e tre of Delhi in the same way as had been done with the territory of the Rajah of Sawa, with a view to absorb leg it under British rule. The terms made by the Marquis of Wellesley for the reigning 'atnily were now being broken, much to the dishonour of the British government. After qu diet; the various treaties with trio dynu'y of Delhi, and ibetarces of infringe meet on the part of the compauy, the bon. proprietor coucluded by a hope .hat the court would rot refute the übj. et of his t (solution, M”jor-G entre' BRIGGS seconded the motion in a very energetic seech, iu which he g. rurally coumeed the go vernm p ent policy towards the native eriuces de of India, and promised his ceestant opposition to any attempt to alienate ;he elates of the smiles rulers of the Delhi territoty, eiloe'ed to by Mr. Sullivan. The CHAIRMAN sail that one reason which would render the supplying of the papers required by this reeolu tion useless was th , t, if the Board of Control, with whom the metier wee under eonsiderati n, scut out any itetruc. tioes, this court would not have the power to =teeters in • contrary direction. (Hear.) The motion wits negativi d, but a division was demanded, which also gave a large majority to the directors. The court then adjutant-el. RAILWAY MEETINGS. OUR REPRESENTATIVE SYSTEM SOUTH WALES. An adjourned mooting from the half-ye - 0y meet ing of August of this company was hild osterday at the Peesi , gum terminus, to further consider the report of the direct .re which was :hen roc reed, and to receive and adopt the rip ,rt of the deputation of sidoreholders which was then nominated by the propri :tors. C.R. it.Te.thor, Rig , M.P., having taken the chair. The SECRETARY was called en to red the report of the deputa•ion or committee, a mummery of which appeared in eloeday's Express. It beteg moved that the repent be received and adopted, lfaj-ir ACOURT said he thought they ought to ter .w out of consideration alto g ether the line from Semmes to Fish guard, and take into their own hands the South Wales Railway, and act didepeudentle of the Great Westeen. Ile should like to know some bine more •kan the committee in formed them on the S racial ware of the concern. air. CHAPMAN land other proiorietuts) expressed them selves in favour of stopping at Seed-sea until tee line was flushed to that pl ce. It would, he thought, be iglu, h better to coecentrete their resources uu that part of the line, and liniab it before they expanded +mother ohilling on the rest. He maintained they were in • p sidon to exact their oan. Toey had the semi' in tho it own hands and could resist any inflame° of the Great Western Railway. Is it them &nth their work to Swansea, and thee say to the 0, eat Western, We will finish it to Fisguard, or you must cume to terms." Mr. NASII would move as a rider to the report, or as an amendment it it could not be as a rider : " That the accounts and reports 0' the directors and the committee, and those of the 3 W's Cumpaey and of their eedeolieec be referred to a committee u. ibvestigation, tape- Melly with reference to the estimates for the lam-, the gauge. the lane, and other tran-ections of the Great Wo eteru Rail way Compeny end their directors, the neeeseity for oppodne the bill and proposals of the 3 W's watt, and toe liability of their company thereunder, and to carry out the suggestioes sal said c immitter. and that t o sanction b - r given by the directors' f this company on the 3 W'is hoard u the Ind or proposal of that company. and that the Saut to Wales directors on that booed do vote and en . accordingly." The amendment having been seconded, it was put from the chair and negatived, there not being one Mud raised in its favour. Ide. BURKE said he had acted as counsel for the Great We-torn Hanway Ware wheezer t, but out of pailisment be had no count:ion whatever with that company, and be appeared there as a large end independent shareholder in the South \Vales Rs:tear. (Hear, hear.) He thought .t most unjust that the share twitters aboull be deprived of their interest. But, apart from that, he held it to be not legal to adopt such a reanlutisa at that meetiee, which was an adjourned meeting of a termer one, at which the subject had not been mooted a. all. The only legal way of doin4 it was by silent epeeist notice to the seareholders of its Ming intended to submit to them such.. prepcseion. At the :Ist met ing they decided that the report alt all be printed and circulated, aid roe' p -fled tor consideration to • future meeting. Treat was the only course they could take now res e ectiog the report of the connate-, uskieg the met meeting vette!, for the par use of aeop.iug it. The CHAIRMAN thouabt they hed b tier act upon Mr. Bethel sssss Ewen, and only receive the report at pr , sent. Mr. DUNCAN then moved that the report of the commit tee be received, and hat they is quest the directors to brine forward its rt commerel et ions at the nest haltevearly meetieg, to be made spiciel ter the purpose; and that in the mean time the cirectors proceed with their Legutia , ions with the dinettes , of the Greet Western Co mpany as they might deem expedient for the ieterests of the Siuth Wales Rail way. (Hear.) Ties resolution was immediat ly agreed to, Instead of that for adopting she report of the committee. The edotitioe of the rep .rt of the diroctors which was re erivtd at the belflearly meeting in August. was then movod, and, after some objections un the part of Mr. NASH, was • agreed to. ins thanks of the meeting were then moved by Mr. Nadu, and seconded by the CHAIRMAN, to the committee of investigation, which was toil .w..d by a similar vote to the ehaitmai . , terminating the pror edirqs. THE HUNGARIAN REFUGEES IN SCOTLAND.—Tbe Moun!ttnart E:phinsmne, with a number of the Hungitesa refugees on omit., .eft Glasgow hatbeur on Monday alter• noon at 1 u'elcek. There was a b,rs. tee of epectators exiles ta u lonrn tzprts- , cl I.3‘np.thy with the u the veteei got undo way.—Grasgote Datig Mail LIBIGUTION OF CIIARTIST CONVICTS FROM HORSE YONOIII LANS GAOL —Y,l.eiday afternoon three of the chartist prooners, coe.v.cted at tt.e 0:d Bailey in 1848, were Aberated, by order of the Secretar lau y of OS. l, Sate k whorer the 8 00r s s Dopartmenr, trout Horse monger-a u e been incarcerated fourteen m da-bs. Their camel are Wil liens Poole, Themes 1T041.. ant 'nom., Herbert. They were apprehended by Mr. Superin'endent 'tut*, L divis.OD, 1 , I and a body of police, in a publicehouee iu Webb... street Blacklrisrs-road, armed with various weapons. For hik*, offence they were treed at the Ott B hey S asions In Oe mbar, 1818, end sentenced to .ight.,n m impriaon merit in lioreento. gee lane. Geol. ard a , the esperalen of that period to find good bail fur their fumes epaduc: during. five years. W,t .ia these lase months , hive, E*-. pressed such contrition as to their . R. cce,V#l. the Beccetar c i of Sate commuted their sentence to eurtgen enoutpa' imprison. meet, which expired yesterday It" ,the yri turud sureties brii,g approved of by the alie arcialnt, they were - br: dered to b. liberated Y'F? AgrT: r Mete bnueht to the S nith w ark Poetajhryf I ,P,Y • X i , rn", the governor of the gaol, and the necessity Turinelities being gone through befure the magistrate, they were immediately liberated, and were juiced by their families and a number of anxious friends. KIDDERMINSTER. In the series of ar ides whicle have appeared uneer this til le, it has fallen to our lot to describe borupges which have oc-upied a very lex position in the k.lec to.al and social scale. Few boroughs, we thougta, could be mach wise than Ripen, a town whet..; no one dares open his mouth under any circumstances, or on any occasion. Great Merluw is debased, Ponte fract teoroughly and to the core corrupter!. Bast if you would have .he worst prints of all of them c m lit.ed, with but a very fee, if any, redeeming goalie I ties, you will and patection in the town of &eddies miester. Morally, sweetly, and locally, this is a bad Awe. I lu all E gland it would be difficult to find a mere I thoroughly disagreeable town.. It is close, confined, dirty, and dingy. Its sheets are irregular, biddy paved, and indifferently lightel. Judging from the offensive nuisances which meet your eye and nosee.at every corner, there is neither drainage nor decescfy. And the character of the town is only a reflex of the character of its people. Kidderminster contains 22,000 inhabitant.. , Oat of this population you may select two gentlemen. Those whose a. quaintanee with the place is of some standing declare that they should have some difficulty in pricking out a third. And let it be undersea. d w hut we mean by gentlemen. We do et reler to '• gents" in white hate, Albert ties, and patent leather beots —rich in pocket and empty in head—of whden a score c r so may be found every night in the euretiog room cf the Lion, flirting with tee pretty bar-meett, atter a C 311,80 Kidderminster fashion, Omer sleety disgusting to those who know better. Neither do we class as gentlemen p•rsons who hold, weheut knowing how to exerces e the commission of the peace, and who have been pet' into it because there happen to be so few qualilledemesons in the neighbeurboud, and because they have influence with the lord-lieutenant of the county. In speaking of gentlemen, we refer, as Mrs. amp would' say, "to those who act as sick," and a very lit le expel:envy of Kidderminster will show treat the s eat of people .who I are to be met with there are people carefullya to be avoided. In very email towns, such as Totnem cr Walling ford, where party spirit rune deep and eireug, them is always to be found some rancour and ill-feeling. But in towns which are higher up in the scale of population, this sort of perms - Al hostility is usually less prevalent. Met are swayed by better twelves, and mom gene rally set upon public grounds or off considerations of commercial desirability. At any rate they can give reae ins for their epee me,—reasons based upon the result of their own experience; or culled from the les sens which thinkers have inculcated. Bet Kidder minster, in all these respects, ie an exception to other large towns. There is no class of reflecting or of illieking men : there is no section influent d by the nobler or better motives: even " party," in the more generous meaning of the wore, is unknown : for '• party," in Kidderminster, does not mean °pint-a ; it sign:ties simply the array of man against man, of one carpet weaver neatest a rival carpet weaver, of a tradesman on one ride the way agait et a tradesman at the corner of the street—it means nothing more than envy, hatred, malice, private fend, pervnal discord, unchatitebe - noes, or ieelouey. Ask a man in Kiddermin-ter why h e i s a tory and he will reply to you with some ell' se oath, Why e lon't yousce that Se - and - sov nt e su p nn the other side r And •e it has been ever since this plece was entrusted with the exercise of p eblic rights, and, unfortunately, te ere have been found men to cherish, fewer, and promote these intender', to excite three feelings for their own advantages, and to make Kid derminster what it has been now for 18 years—a very hell upon earth to every class of its inhabitants. The frarchee wee given to Kidderminster unit. r the Reform 811. It was supposed teat tie • boron eh would under that bill have been annex. d to Bee elley, which is only three miles off, and which at ti at time was a close berme') in the hands of a body of twelve bure=au. This arrangement would have been ac e' ptahle to Kiddermineter, and would not have been disedvantigeous to the independence of Bewdley. But it. was decreed otherwise without Kid derminster having any concern in the ar rangement. In fact the great whit; it tomato' then prevailing in the neighbourhood and by certain of which Bewdhey was controlled, prefet red to keep that borough as sum; as could cons stently he managed, and not. to merge it in a large (owl. by which they supposed it would be swamp. d. Accordingly, Stomped, which bee no connexion with liewdley, was added to that town, and en K eerminster was conferred the right to return one member to the House of Commnns, itelependently of any extraneous influence. From the character of the population it was supp •sed that the town would in variably return a member of extreme liberal politics. Probable fleet consideration had ils weight wi'h tie goveeement which mode the arrangement in favour of this borough. For et the time Kiderrmin ster was enfraieheed the Political Union of Bite mirechem lied a strong hold unon this piece. And the circumstance s which gave them addi tional influence in Kiddermineter were t! eec. In the winter of 1830 there had been a dis pute—no uncommon thing in Kidderminster—b twe en the carpet manufacturers and their workm. n. The workmet struck. They formed a combination, and would not allow a machine to be put in motion. The mas*ers, or. their side, c mhit ed against the men to refuse the increased wages and to fence the m back to work. This strike eentieued many menthe. It c aused the greatest injury to Kiddermineter, as well to masters as to men. Carpet manufacturing is a trade which may be carried on anywhere es well are at Kidderminster, and it is one which no large amount of capital is needed to commence. The consequence was teat a very great amount of the Kidderminster trade was carried to menufnctnries in other per's of England. Once th- re, it could to' be removed ; and Kidderminster toner quently re ceived a blow from which to this day it has not nee ve red. As the old win`er of 18:10 set in, the wants of the carpet makers bezame greeter, and their urgeocy was of ceur e increased by the period during which they bad been out of work. All efforts at accomm t detton failed. Ti;e all reeling between the masters and the men increased ; and at length, driven to dee per& ion, the latter began a riot. This was what the masters wanted. They celled in the military, aeia d a large number of the rioters, committed then to earl to take their trial , and hoisted of the " arm and determined mr Reeves by e hich they had put down a most formidable and dangerous disturbance." The poor Kiederminster weavers lay in gaol all through the winter, their families starving out of doors, their treaters relentless, and they themselves helpless and almost hopeless. As the ass zee+ ap proached, however, their friends and comrade% mus tered money enough to employ an attorney to defend them. It was not mulch they could raise ; so, when the attorney went to the assize tows, it was re cet sary for him to get the beet remise' he could at tee smallest price. No silk gownsman could he afford to pay, and most of the best stuffs" were engaged for the crown. But the attorney found one man whom he thought fitted for his work, and he accordiegly sent him a retainer. The counsel we refer to was Mr. Richard Godson, then of the Inner Temple Hall Staircase. He wee the son of an attorney at Tenbory in Worcestershire, and was a well-known, though not at that time at all an eminent, member of the Oxlord circuit. A few years previously he had married a lady of good I family in Lancashire, who afterwards succeeded tol very considerable property both in that county and In the Weet Indies. But at this time Mr. Godson was rather glad to get businete, and he took the attern• y's brief wehout remonsteriting at the small ' nee of tee fee. • . . Mr. Godson was a blustering, rude, bellying sort of conteiel : nen berdeheentor a Worcestersetre com met jury,, such as was empeonered to try there prisoners. tic sucrmedt d in getting many of them lefts the offence's(' Aare he mitigated so much that the Jentges, coweideribg hew long they had been. in gale, itipomeds[ll:oo2 theen'iref light eereenees. Tae general result Was re . gned..d, by to .tiefret. weevers of K'delermineter, u*.' rosaph Ayer Pelt masters ; and the whole tem magma Mr. God. oars praises. ' • •e. • The sobs which' wag lerentid is Kieder- Minstir at the Period of the dirifation ef erreform hart, amongst its legeling 1 4en:Ctezai ulauY.of th.be who had been most deeply interested in the result of the trials for rioting. 'Whatever else may be said or thought of these men, it must be admitted that they had gra.satil 1 warts. Nr tomer was is tie:. smi , isd the Ki , 141 , r s`lou'Al be ref. anthis.d ti.an they sent Of to M-. xl Le.ggi ig tint to 1.-t them e! , oS him. r:s t mirk or the.r reakesat and gnv.ll.,d: for his n.. I I th! short puliamcnt of 16;;, M . Gods ma had arained aatat br borough <S. An :T.'s. it.:w Le managtd it we explain d in giviog ac account of •hat mat not ,, ritus of towns. But a m who sits once fir St. Albino usually has quite emagh of it. Mr. God.= was coosequently only too glad to ec2kpt the invlation o' the men a r ; a a ingat whom he appeared to be so great a favourite. It was natural, however, that Mr G ids in should not be by any means so metier with the masters of Kid derminster as with their moo. The masters were all combined agaiast him. They procueei a candidate of their own, Mr. (now Sir) G. B. Phillips, who had represented the dis!ranchiveii borough of Steyning in preceding parliaments, and who had been a consistent whig and a friend of the Reform Bill. Mr. Phillips as the sou of a manufacturer, was thought in many respects a proper man for Kidderminster. But those who sent hint down did not know the town. Kidderminster did not want a man of quiet, gentlemanly demeanour—it could not appreckte such a person. Mr. Godson, with his bu'ly and bluster, was much more to the tart, d the population. Whilst Mr. Phillips's cin TUS was being quietly conducted, his opponent w..• haranguing crowds of tee popu'..ace, and atterwaids repairing to public hnuses to dares, sing, shout, and driuk with the rabble to whom these houses were thrown open. From a very early period of the contest there was no question which was the poplar candidate. Mr. G eleou carried every thirg b..fore him, except the votes. For it could searmly bo expected in a town where every employer was arrayed on ooe side, that the c sndidete opposed to the empl.yers could secure the large share of electoral support. Besides, the Kidderminster masters us.d the screw urimar ingly. They had always been accustomed to treat their men like dogs, and it was not to be supposed that they would be specially considerate et their meting in the matter of a vete. Mr. Phillips, t siere fore, stood upon the canvassing books as the maudi date to he elected, and there is no doubt that he wauld have got in but for unexpected eircuin , stances. The canvass was a lot g : ne. So long as tic members of Mr. Phillips's committee wcte actively engaged in it, so long they were kept out of mischief anal dispute. But it was no sooner Over than bickeringe and squab- Wings in the committee evidenced to experietice d eyes thtt it was composed of very hetereg• neous and di escorted materials. At length, only a day or two he ' fora the nomination, the 'nitrate hatreds, tr e ill-will, jealousies, strifes, and discords of these pemle were exhibited in all their hateful varieties. Af et a scene of enfesion, wising out a f some very trivial matter, a number of th• m declared they amid not act with "such fellows as these," pointing to sums , other people about as nape. table as thenise:eer. I Some said they would not vote at all ; others avowed that they would go over to tire other candi date, in order to keep out the man supootted by their rives. No tact, no managem •nt, cool! keep these misetable minded animals mettle r. And on the thy of nomination Mr. Phillips, in conerqutrce of these defections, instead of finding it "a hollow thing," found his elation quite in jeopardy. Still those who stuck to him acre sanguine, and believed he would get in. There was one thing. I ow e'. r, which they bad forgotten. It. was ant Mr. Godson had taken a lesson in electioneering in the borough of S - . Albans. The value of that Ilsioa he made evident on the morning of the poll. By the purchase of some twenty votes at no nonuser able prices (for Kidderminster is pier and the people then did not kaiow th, is value), his election was secured bye majority of 13, the numbers being for aidion 172, Pnillip 159. There were at this time 390 registered elearere, of whom 331 vu'td. 1 Toe election cost Mr. Godson 3,0001., and Sir Richard i Paillips not much less. THE CHANCELLORSHIP OF B kNGOR CATHEDRAL TO TUE IMMO OP THE EXPEIGES._ Sin,-1 rerevt yatt will ootr..ct en error in your p of the I,th et., relative to the oflt-e 11.14 by late Ker. H. Wr.ne lone". That dire was r , .t the ship of the dinee.e, but lb.. thaneellorst ip of tae ea.h dral, which, like many other d;ttni , ies or s•al:s in that chu eh, produeid no r venue WI at. vit. Your actor, theu.l, evi dently uninten.innal, had the effect of %indult ma.hiling :he emoluments this highly.res - eetcd e repot..: re• ceived ferns the ebtuch.—T , see, ll.e. 18. T. WYNNE JONES. THE BRITANNIA BRIDUR —The operation of rei§low by the hydrani• =shiners the to coed mminer tube, of I,SOO tons, to its intended classed snot 100 lee' ahoy,. ?ea-niArk, wo Itotainenc.d by the es•gieeers eu Tuesday, 14 days nth rav ine. elepud since ths• day on which it was 1L:CC4.1.1. lilly ft :at: d. The action of the hydraulic presets, from tht it rwr penticelar height in the towers, was found to tie most re r'eet gad intent, as in their tint play on the sin pend: u. :ova ounmuseesting with the closing, it we work. al steadily 6 fist upwards. lmmediate:y alter the bricklat tr- an d etas no entend the recesses the towers, and built it up firmly beneath. The itorent the my: ns left is, an. nine 0 fee: lift swat taken, and is this m ear the I Terw iqu is being carne I tin without ill' ie.s day -n l bl a hs, t:uraig the latter period anti the assettaece of large lights and fir a that illuminate this I.erttiselsr es Keen of the straits. Wits abut fifteen mole of t'.e.e m i ghty rifts, s'entid no unferiesm c i •hry cur, the tube will have artsi.:ed its permanent level, end be j don to the g•est twin tube in cl e Brit • 114ve:tortar. Every precaution hen been ttken, in the way ui dup . :este sets iJ 'machinery, by Mews. Clerk, the in < ineirs of the works, who are in sup theeuelenee day and resent. 'f he reatest energy is being displayed in every deputy' nt, and the majhrity tit the works', n ins the reley system have 'teen engsg. il ler loose moatbe past from night to night. The first carries train is 'tweeted to pass through before the seid,.le of March. DMeltien AND ANNROATIE AND DUNDEE AND PEREW RAILWAYS.—The tetnimitteeappeihted at the ;tenet tocet. ing of the former eotopesty lut ',tenth to inveatig.t • the solidi y of the agreem . n• of 1846 have just tuned ti sir report. It states that on consultation by oho chmmittee, eminent c :awn I are of opinem that the agreement. is • tltd std obligatory on both companies, aid that st is to the pacer of the Dunedte and Arbroath to comp 1 the I)andee and Perth to entsr iutt a formal lure. The nounittee state that the Dundee and Arbroath paid sic per cent. prior to its lease, and attribute its not tontinuito to pay that sum to the minimally meet of the Dundee and Ps rth and they reelmmersd, tp• a coraidsration of the vattutts bvatit.gs iil the ease, that with the view of &reining th e er.diees laieation th at would be necusary to enforce ills lie. ihg agreement, they hal butter cu.car with the Duadee ted Perdi in nbtaihing trout parliament powers to enter into a moitfieati not the terse, reflect to clauses anti, ing payment of the es .ranteed eivid-nd, and security fur the ma ettenance of the Dundee and Arbroath Tue CHANNEL ISLANDS MAIL.—In etneeqtrenoe of the tempestuous weather in the Cnannel, the mail contemn steamer Baprese was unable to leave J..tigy and utraiey with the Channel Isla.d mails on Honda,. In consetqoence of this detention the mailer (which shoal hay," r ached Southemptnn on Monday night) did not arrive at that poet before Tu. May right. The weather has beer. temp.:it:MlNl ht. f,nor.nt: :or seTera..lai P. 'Vwu vessels were wrecked 'lf Guernsey an Aiderceoom Pride- last, and itwas ...red that some disasters to skipping will be heard of from the hur ricane which blew on Id .nday. EXPLOSION OF A POWDER MILL AT HOUNSLOW. — On Tuesday evening, h.twi en six and seven o'clock, an rots ploei .n took place at *sere Curtis and Harvey • powder Hounslow Heath, which was heard as tar nistant. as Rethurcend. From 'Ler ifies made it appeared that the explesion was confined to a drying hones, in which a quan tity of gurp ...mer in an unfinished state eell.d a " sir •en el.argt" had by some unknown cause Ignited, and 61. ms she roof of the building off, thus causing the lurid appearance of the sky. The amount of damage has not theft stated. INDICES TO THE PUBLIC RECORDS.—We hive hi and with much satin action that a proposal on the p .rt of the keeps r of the s , tve pope' it to print a aeries of co!i rates or ind'ors of We valuable bietorical documents in his custody has been agreed to by the government, aid that this good work is to be commencesi immediately. It is stated, mun e,. r, that the several Lila:use win be produced in a n •.t and comparatively inexpensive form, which will rend. r them sec %bible to all classes of hist - lied inquirers They will thus be enabltd, at a !torte, to omit' n pert ivrly how far the various aeries of utptomatie cernspondierce an' other documents in the manuscript &pertinent of the British Museum fled tnrlr comp'esien or cerreeponding vatting 1111191 g the starer of man reels far our nation d hist -ry a hick ar.• send. r the ear , of th. per cf the state papers. An IS thriant deduc too which we hype may be drawn fie ne this peoceedieg is that it ma-ifeas an intention on toe p rt of th e authorites to afford lities tor the cousul•atiori o; the papers at th i t departm:ht utrler regulations strin geot as possible, enisietently with their safe cnto.ty —re in sheet, &miler to those which obtain it the thee ge a' repository of" mate-Ulu for the history of Or. a Bri tain,"—the British Museum.—Atheneum. SPORT FOR LADIES.—The Dachas of A. 1- :*; the Caient.se of B that sh.• w :1 strive to thirty dlr . •••: shop., patchase fifty differsne etc tw, uty a-Teral ps• at too lees and s jeili m ate r ' d rt trig 4.11 e, and Fick up a awry at etch, taws, , and go t o toe t.);orn ie. settee horns fl' - .y-nine mi. utes • -;ee:e's toe to LonaG:4.--.b v.'s. Punch's Ahnagem4 ter 100. a Irte Court, 03BORNE, DEC 19. The Queen and Prince walked thie morning in the Park and pruunds i-f o.b llis Ruyid Nielsen fa ire Prinee of Wales and the yi.unger m.mbets of the H. it al family waked and rude as usual. Her Enid Highness the Duchess of K•at, erten& d by Leity Fanny Elowsid end Sir Ororge Caliper, IrL• Osbores at 12 u'clurk ibis tor.aouu on return to Fri galore. Tture was no addation, psterday, to the Rnal dinner party The Canmirs'onera fir impiring into the applica tion ul iron in railway strustassh.d a sat% tii.g yesterday at the ..thee of the Board ot Trade. Tare were pre , ent Lml Wrottral. y, Peotesid.r Willis, Mr. Gorge ILusie, and Mr. William Cubist. Mee. \V. C. Le Breton hid an in•erview with Sir Gaolers Grey, yestred.y, at th. Home othee . Sir Willi sm %tiniet had an interview with Eail G. ey, yesterday, et the Colonial-OWe. 'I he e immirbioners tor hula:ring into Smithfield Market, and tee markets in tto. City of L•inoon fir the sale a meat, hod a m•e;ii:g, )tn. nay, at. the Home•utliee. llesls this from tie govo.nora of the Norh Ame ricau peurfneas Mere r.ceivad, yevtirlay, at the Colonial- :ificr.. Dvapatches were rent off, last evening, from the Ceteui.l-61fIze fur be 0 •rern , .r. of Ce; ion Hoeg Su g. Captain Denham has lett town fur Newcastle-on- Tyne, to miter.: bate the a cod um in steamboats. Mr. itobertao3, agent for the Mexican bondholders, transacted batintar, pat Nay, at the F...retga-ottieet POTTERS' JOINT STOCK EMIGRATION BOCIEIY. A r blie meeting was convey...4i yeetete at evtning,M the balkiest Hall, Holborn, In the Potters' Joint Stock Emi gration encitty, at •bieh esplaaativry adder-nee were de 'leered tc a crowded smembly, elheising of both settee. The cosir wee tak:n by Mr. Tee-dale, who :Veined that Vie a witty was noteitbstonding he name, open to pawns I. ..l urn salving tra this country ata , and the didn medes eneard by It In nularcais MCI, as claiming for ihe moiety the atten tion of the working closets. Mr. Event, from fford-hire, ad rimed the mete lit at conricitrable length in reference to the society's origin, a, and plans. The society cart viand with a few working men in the Potteries, who loud that emthinatione for wink a wire not likely to lust cree their condition, and hat it wu im;sviible for labour to struggle succi s-fully aainstThey then turned their atten'ion to g the sub ject of emigra tion, and instead of engaging in veriest rrikea, to-a ver tug suyerabuod .nt artisina in Hovland into compara tively thriving gricul•uri•ts in the United &mem A . • estate of 1,600 eerie had been actually purchued, and 60,000 acres mere had been retured. This land was situated on the P.m River, soh ch would shortly be c nneoied by canal with the Wisconsin RtVer, and thus commuoications w..uid be op lid to the markets cut, wilt, limb. tad soutn. Three atuie. l.a -b• en already erect, d, at al Mr. Trigg, au saint of the society, t ad coma to Enrlaioi partly for the purpose et ranang the means of budding a grist mill. Toe society hail t. en in txistcnce five }ears. Its principal operati hs had take.) place within the last year, I and within the put six months 360 indivt usia had been [ located on the lard. F. rty acres was the quantity 01 of land wiped to each subecrib,r. The payment 1 11. ls. lid. entitled the party paying it to take I part in the ballet for stating in the privileges of the society. II the ballot we re in his favour, he migh[ at once emigrate, with all his children under 18 liars ot age. Oa arriving 130011 the rate he received poscenion of 40 earn of land, sad acquired the UM of um lenient,, on the condition of paying for thou advantages in grain or cash within ten year-. Mr. Twigs, from Amulet. craved into some details, derived from personal observation, with retard to the position of the settlement. From this state ment it appeared that the settlers bad not escaped buDle of the evils incident to the manage meht of committees, and to the went of adequate mit el; but a hope was exhreued by the s,iesk.- - r that ell oitiiculties would b.: anomaly our mounted, as the r e sult of patient and persevering ulductry. The utmost interest was manifested throughout by the as semb.y. DISSOLVTIO24 OF P•III.I•MILItTa—MEETII:O OF PROIIC110:4111Ta AT ClLAXBROoll.—Y.atetday aft nice,n • mein, g wos held under • large marquee, erected in the &mhos Green, Craubrooli, lot the purpose of petitioning her blajw•ty to dissolve her present parliament. Preis of matter prevents us from reporting the procsedings at length. Earl S - aindope praei.!ed, and crucludtd a long speech by ailing upon the inerti , g to address the Qmeenosith • view to a dissolution of parliament, and if that did not sunned in getting them protection, he would then take upon h.sic lf the Ts sponstbility of the coon* which he was sure would be successful. (Uric.) The Rev. Wit. Smith Marriott moved,—" That all those who - aro cm, aged in any branch of British Industry have an imioai tcd right to &mend that it shall be fully and . Bet tina), protected against foreign competition in the marke's of this country, and that is such protection should not be restored, it would be i u dispeosebli nee rary to reduce ill public and rt. ate menet,: in propped n to the fall prices." Mr. J. 0-borne m•v d the next rseolution,—" That it is expedient rtquhetiors be made to the high sheriff, re ganging him to convene on an culy opportunity a comity meeting, for the purpose of addressing her jesty on tbe pressnt alarming condition of the county, and of entreats mg her blkj-sty to dissolve orthwith the pre.n at p .rlismant, which no longer deseeers or enjoys the eonfideoce or the cmutry." These resilueions having been carried, as well as s 31130 others of • routine charactsr. it was stated by al members e.kers that they were determined to eall upon :he to resign who would not assist them to regain pro• tection. TUE FREEHOLD LAND SOCIETY.—Tbe p.llitmente on the f terbsstete purchatid by the Birmingham Freth , ld Land Society were balland I,r last we. k, the estate Irn• tains ahcu thini acrzs, sod has c"st the society 9,0001 , It is sitna•ed in en imp-ming locali . .y, in the iusmtdite suburbs of the town, hits g statist cne wile and a b'elt ir a ,us is centre. Tote total number of ullotnietes di/A:ea am..ort the m enshcri in this estate is 398, each of which wi.l be Were enough to erect a reepeetelne house. and solow tor a Nests:ate els d garden. ria, in toe MOOOO t btam C in ti.. • ti r.s• as.d will virta-ay place 'he in utuse ts • s b. nth Warwick in the heads ot the v uotrions artisans o' Birraisithano. THE GREAT EIHIDITION OF THE INDUSTRY OF' ALL NATIONe..-We tltldtlirgild that a royal e..ussossigoo for inquiring into the best mode at earning out the Extut)i:ioa of Indus t ) of all NnliOnS in 1851 will tit rtl,) be issued, end is littly ts consist tot heeds of parties. and interests, ass alba. of the prmert sC.te adminbtrations, representetiv,s of agry culture, art, science, mechanic., and nee , ufecturet. It is proposed, in addition, to nominate any number of 1 , 011 COOl. InifillOnere (IEI:TA'S to rcr.sent all intertets both at home and abroad. I