The Express. — London, England, 1850-12-14 00:00:00

1 11 i ' 1 f f' ~ .00 1 .1 it t NOIICE.-1411t. THACILERAY'S CHRIS 111A8 M)1. TTIE ItICILLILOCRTS ON THE RHINE, Inn Is peCatiol tausedilety ty WU. Eli, I, MI Qb n . ekiraiLL HEW OIFT 1:003( rgi THE Tol:NO. L her. eM vice bora la 8101 A, rig ILLUSTRA lED TEAR BOOK. Sped emir- flu swam ifflisuosi . Dimmerise 1850. Edged lid Jose Teem Ina wwereee iipeempe ea Weed. Argot esd ON $I debeweleideer. Zlir entrtOlL TO CORRESPONDENTS. Aawiet.mearmistorisi kw The Enema" London Reeving paper. eta. be et the Mee. le. Itcaterk.street, by Two °Week ca the thy a( pebtleeeka. 111011 WATER AT LONDON BRIDOI. P Tuo D.v—Moraing Mu 4 ha. Ahem" lOC IYee. To-rat.auw —Mertung, la s. ita. Ateurasca, Ilb. lha. --- LO.vDON,UTURDAY, DECEMBER 14. TIIE chief point of interest to observers of the Ger man quarrel at present is, whether the great powers of Austria and of Prussia have really come to a better undriszandlog, sad whether this is evinced by a bond fide, hmrover partial disarmament. Disernsament there oertaioly is : the Pessimism government has dismissed its second ban, or forbidden it to be raised. This Pend ban includes the m-n of that age, which en titles them to serve when oiled upon, only in garri son, silowieg the regular troops usually in garrison to take the field. In addition to this, the Prussian Vat-, h ies is to grant furloughs largely. On the other side, the Austrians dismiss to their hour a tl.e fourth battalion of each regiment, which liourth hattalion is a band of landwehr, not so wail organised or diecipliced s the Prussians; and it is alto t grant farlonAhs. But there is no diminution on etthrr side of cavalry or artillery, or indeed ref ofriers. So that we leave people to judge what dtgree c of confidence the coLtending pudes have in each other. What well-informed and official Persians think of the convention at Oisii'a was fully expressed in the o - t which we üblished yesterday, as it at tached to that conventio p n. It was tacked tby Baron Mesrzurrat., when laid before the College of Princes. Oar Frankfort letter, and, indeed, all ac counts from South Germany, represent the Kings of BAVACI I and WERTEMBUILO, as Wall as tbs Austrian rite rose in its eNeseled Frankfort D et, to have been deeply mortill-d by the conclusions of The f rmer declare that they are a direct breach and contrey'.etiott of the agreement of Bregentz. The Preeident of the mock thet,Count TRUN,on reoeiving the despatch emtaihing the treaty of Ghosts, refused to common cite it to the Diet, and talked, instead, of sendi::g in his own resi4nation. The Count re mained f,r eight-and forty hours in this state of anger egad of suspense, after which he did communi cate the mortifying tidings to the Diet, of which the members rose at once in a kind of wordy and choleric 'melds. In the face of all these facts, the Times has the coolnem to assert that the conventions of Olmutz and of Warsaw are virtually the same. Niehirg, bowever, can have been more different. At Warsaw, Coast BRANDENBERG, far exceeding his powers and instruction., laid all Germany at the feet of Austria and Buena, a false step that the poor Covet paid for with his life. The attitude of other Prinsian statesosee, aid the calling out of the Land grebe r. ;tire. d that step; and the convention of o.mutz pl eicly eneueb partitioned Germany intotwo. It tray be that the Austrians have been induced he enesent to the simultaneous existence on the German soil of an Austrian union at the same time with a Prussian one, by having succeeded in high Meg so mail pricces from the side of Prussia, rto have a majority to Austria. The result of the hostile march of federal troops has been, first, to drive the Persians from Bedell, and to make Darmstadt and Near leave the Prussian Bund, as well as to weir. the Inter of Here Cassel in the same power and leanings. If thus, Austria can rumber rimiest tier adherents all the powers of South her mitic , a. well is that of Hanover and Saxony in the north, she may calculate, with some .hew of rea ✓m, that the proposed Prussian union will prove a league so donointed and feeble as to perish of itself ; and we must own that this strikes as as the weak point Lf MANTEUFTEL's policy, which may have irsist.ti era and gained, in the letter and in eseining, that equality mid independence for Prussia as a great dominant power, which be has allowed his cosatry to be chewed out of in reality. Should such prove to be the case, i. will, however, be impossible for NIANTECUEL to meet the Heflin chambers, and sato r his fall and a new spirit to be given to the negilatiose, will be inevitable; or FREDERICK WIL LIAM and his inisieter , mud determine to relapse to restate of lhinge fiftei n yetis back. and reign with out perliument or press. This evald be eventual esicide f er Nuns* and for its dyarty. To any divis on of llerumayletween Austria and Preesis, oi between Austria' and Prussian influence, we should not object, for this very good reason, that it eau it nut Prussia could only exist and ssaiht tin its isfluenee by teetering or permitting the developer at of truly constitutional government, and th-t would ewe produce moral and material moults, which would render absolutism in Germany on to part of any number of Germans still subject to ales:lute princes impossible. Bavarians, Wurtem burgers, the people of linden and Franconia, would no more beer being politically, religiously, and cars mercitilly joined to Austris. The princes themselves and their etatesmen would win perceive this. To re astablith an Austrian empire westward of the Inn, were impossible. 'there is one terrible element of difference, and material for explosion, which as yet has been little apparent in Germany , which, if used, and disco vered to be used, must add immensely to the invete racy of strife. We allude to religious differences. It is Prussian interest, as well as tradition, not to awaken any such cause of discord. But Austria and Bavaria arc, we fest, employing it. The Jesuits, whom SCHWAB/10111ER° has re-established in Austria, have already begun to spread into Germany. It is now unlearnt!, observed that the armies of Austria and Bavaria that have come to eat up the winter provisions and revenues of the inhabitants are quartered exclusively in pro reset regions. They occupy Franconia and Hesse ; and it is already preached throughout the villages, that it is because of their protestantisee, and of Prussla's being unable to uphold them, that they are martyrised and eat up by military requisition. Count Thus, the President of the so-called Frankfort Diet, is one of the most active and bigoted chiefs of this Barn Catholic crusade, which, indeed, we see undertaken simultaneously at present in all countries. Witness Germany, Piedmont, France, and England. In most of these countries such idle and absurd attempts may be peace ably resisted. But in Germany, if such be per 7 elated in, and supported by draryonnades, it may lead to the renewal of the Thirty tears' War. We re commend the partisans in this country of Austrian and Pi.pal despotism to look to it. Their affected arthemas of Cardinal WISEMAN will not nave them from the reproach of having been the organs and the champions of the new Catholic League. SOME progress is beginaiag to be made in the great work of subverting the land monopoly in Ireland. Several huge aggregations of property have already crumh!ed to pieces at the sound of the Commissioners' hemmer. Many more await a similar doom. For large muses of landed property there ars no bidders to be found at any price. The territorial delusion is pa-sing away, and the real risks attendant upon vast possessions in such a country ere coming to be clearly nude, stood. A man with a hundred thousand pounds accumulated in trade or derived from professional toil, shrugs his shoulders at the suggestion of some theoretic friend to invest it ail in Munster acres. As far as 10,0001. or 20,0001. he has no invincible objec tion. But to stake the whole of a hard-earned for tune in one Celtic parish, requires a degree of courage not frequently to be found. The result is that to ob tain anything . like reasonable prices, the Incumbered Estate Court is obliged to sell m moderate sized lots ; and thus an infinite good, apart from all other benefits, is effected. For among the entangled evils of the past system of landed tenures in Ireland, now was greater than the exorbitant dimensions of estates and the come if the proprietory elan is =ay die e not the elongate of *ideal es " My lord " was evelytidei unchecked, anew absent, as mare frecesetly tilled by new hireling at 1! will, to whose cupidity or caprice the whole populs , ties ware consigned. Tee sense of property was lined to the smallest possible numbervf the commul and its security wu in proportion weak and trail. TI were neither thews nor sinews in the social Ire me, in knee its f.Ablentss and helplessness in reify time bud. By the time the five years' experiment of ' ]ushered Estates Commission shall have 1 , this state of things will, to a great extent, be ged. On an average there will be a hundred proprietors in fee where there have heretofore only ten. The monopoly of land will have L broken down, and a new element of order created in its stead. We think it difficult to over-estimate the impor tance of this beneficial change upon the interests im mediately concerned ; and its indirect benefits are equally great, though somewhat perhap s less obvious. Still we must confer that we have long desired to see the present opportunity tuned to account, with a view of establishing something of a better tone in the relation between landlord and tenant. We do not speak unadvisedly when we say that something si this sort might safely and wisely be attempted without injury to either creditor or inheritor, but on the etedrary, with actual advantage to both, which would uplift the improving tenantry of every estate sold under the court to a position of comparative in dependence and content. It is not our purpose to enter into specific details or to decide upon the merits of any particular plan, but we wish to direct attention to the urgent motives that exist for making some attempt to better the condition of the many at a time when circumstances have opened, as it were, a new and uncontested way through the prejudices and pre scriptive privileges of the few. Still more do we desire to point out that a special claim for consideration may be fairly urged on behalf of the tenantry of estatessam marily brought into the market, broken up into lots, and disposed of to • dozen different strangers. A farmer who contracted to pay a certain rest seven years ego, finds it hard—if not impossible—to continue at the rent agreed upon at present priors. If he is only a yearly tenant, or the holder of a short lease, he finds himself completely in the landlord's power; and in too many instances, as we know, that power has been unscrupulously exercised. Neverthe less, it must be owned that, especially of late, a clearer perception of his own permanent interest tempers the landlord's rigour. Abatements have ex ienstvely been made during the last six months in many counties of Ireland, and wherever a proprietor hopes to weather the storm, and to leave his estate to his family, nothing but sordid stupidity or insane per versity can prevent him from coming to a timely un derstanding with the improving and industrious occupiers of the sail. Remission of arrears, allow ances for expenditure, retainable leases, and even valuations for the purpose of adjusting rent, are heard of where nothinr of the sort was ever dreamt of before. The feeling of a continuing interest in the welfare of a man's property, sharpens his wits and curbs the haste of his avarice amazingly. Were such a change of sentiment general, there would be no agitation for tenant-right. But that it is taking place gradually cannot be doubted. Where an estate is likely to pass, however, out of the old proprietor's hands the motives to forbearance or forethought are unhappily wanting. The tenantry are seldom ignorant of the crisis towards which the affairs of the proprietor are drifting. The morality of a crew in a foundering ship is proverbially not the best ; and the carefulness or charity of a landlord who lives in weekly expectation of seeing his name in the Latded Insolvent debtor's list, is probably the mini mum imaginable. The rental is exhibited to the commissioners as heavily in &mar, and the number of existing leases is so small, that it is a common form of advertisement to offer the lands as being wholly at the disposal of the purchaser ; the meaning of which is not that there is no population dwelling thereon, but that there arc no permanent lettings on lease or other wise. The case of a thrifty and honest tenant on a pro perty so circumstanced is ens of peculiar hardship. His manful struggle against bad times, exorbitant rats., and falling prices, goes for nothing with the stranger who purchases the fee simple as an investment. Tenant right exists by mutual consent, but is not eeforceable under any existing law. He is desirous to hold on, and under the old proprietor might pro bably have been suffered to do so : but another has setae to have authority over him " who knows not Joseph." The court has no power to interfere. His firm, like those of his neighbours, is returned in the published rental as vacant, because there is no less =heisting, or se about to become vacant in a tw months, when the existing tenure will expire. Has this man no equitable claim to be protected by the interposition of the law? His original contract was made with one whose character and disposition he knew and estimated at what it was worth. He may not have felt even under the old proprietor secure against oppressive treatment; but still he cherished to some extent a reliance on the kindlier impulses of one who had known him from boyhood, and who would have instinctively interposed to shelter him from injury had another sought to do him wrong. Weak the tie between them as landlord and tenant might be, but still there was • tie of mutual duty and consideration. Under the new state of circumstances there sin be none. The purchaser for investment knows not the faces of the men who once were tenants of the estate. He is told that many or them are insolvent and many dishonest. How can be distinguish or discri minate? lie is told that the simplest way is to make his new purchase a tabula rasa, and turn it into liga ture. The sentence of extirpation goes forth. Hun dreds are added to the already formidable bands of disaffected men whom similar indiscriminate experi ments in the art and mystery of managing landed property in Ireland have created. Ought no endeavour to be made to find a more humane rule of transition —a less perilous method of carrying out a change in other respects so fall of good! THREE hundred mad sixty-four years have elapsed since BAntrioLonaw DiAj sailed from Lisboa in two caravels of fifty ten each, and, rounding the southern promontory of Africa, called it, from the storms he experienced in its vicinity, " Cabo Tormentoeo." His discovery transferred, for a time, the commerce of the east from the Venetians and Genoese to the Portu guese; and for upwards of three centuries the route by the Cape was the high road to India and the re gions beyond it. To-day a voyage commences as pregnant with great changes as that of BARTHOLOMEW in his caravels of fifty tons. To-day the screw steam-ship, Bosphorus, sails with the mail to the Cape of Good Hope. The day marks an era in steam navigation, a step forward in the civilisation of the globe. Twenty years ago the operations of steam vessels were confined to coasting voyages. The giant power was still in swaddling-clothes. Its first display of adult vigour was made when the "Hugh Lindeasy," under the auspices of the East India Company, proved the practicability of re-establishing the ancient route to the Rut by the Red Sea. Its second was when Captain Roams and Captain Hossein, in the " and "Great Western," first " bridged the Atlantic" by stem The spread of abeam navigation over the globe has been clinked by the interference of government, who, inflamed by the old notion that improvements Yawn nse to encourage them , granted to board virtual monopolies of ocean diem melodies. Private enterprise was paralysed by the mail thawed system, and for years no ocean isomers were befit except by companies holding the government mail contracts. 'fires monopolies kept down the inventive genius of our countrymen; for every one was afraid to venture on sew experi ments, lest the favourites of Downing-onset should step in and reap the reward of his enterprise and skill. At last the Americans have girded themselves to the contest, and at their first trial they have equalled CONAZD'a line, indisputably the best we have. It is to the system of threw propulsion, first prac tically introduosd by Esiosox in 1837, that we look for the maintenance of our uoentisecy in ocean stem navigation. This system was Aided for ten years by the great contract companies. For the last three years, however, it has been rapidly extending ; it has, without government seristance, carried goods and wronger, to New York, Alexandria, and Constant inople with oak speed, punctuality, and emomy that the great meargelide are now themselves down saner deems with the vain hope of Mir usabsiiel thappetitors. • The definition of a paddlewheel steamer iaa vessel that makes ma way without wind or seila ; that of a mew steamer, one that sails best with wind and stem aseabined. The fiat defies the elongate at es easiness Nati the other prams then late her est. intercourse of this country with the eutern an extent never dreamt of by its first projectors. The spread of railways, and the wondrous iteration of the eleerio telegraph, must, while peace Lists on the continent, always make what is celled the over laid r.,nte of great commercial and political import ance. Cost what it may, it must be kept up as long as we retain our Eastern Empire. But even were it relieved from the incubus of monopoly, it is only for the more wealthy class of passengers, and for thou to whom the passage of the desert is no pain ful exertion, that it can be available. The extension of steam communication beyond the Cwe . to India will be an inestimable boon to the great majority. The effects of this new era of steam navigation on our colonial possessions will be still more marked. According to Mr. Luittio's evidence before the Com mittee of the Lords on the Slave Trade, it is cheaper to sail a screw steamer than a common sailing chip of the same capacity, on a given voyage. Now, as it is ascertained that the average speed of the common paddle-wheel steamer can be kept up by the screw auxiliary in short voyages, it requires no great amount of nautical experience to prophesy that where the trade winds prevail, a steamer whore best point is a stiff tows-, will make • better voyage than one white element is calm. The voyage of the Boa, phone is the first trial of the trade winds. The Cape is half way to Australia; and there are half a million of people there calling out for steam communication. Will the CHANCELLOR of the EICHEQUEE inquire whether be cannot carry the Australian mail by the way of the Cape for the mere postage of the letters? We fear there are too many M.P.s interested in the matter to allow of bis doing so. Bat the Legislative Council of New South Wales has resolved to award the sum it voted towards the establishment of steam communication to any person or company who shall first establish it by private enterprise. GERMANY. Our Berlin correspondent writes u follows: BERLIN. Dec. 11. The king is understood to have signed the patents appointing Mantc uffel President of the Connell and Minister for Foreign Affair., and Von Reumor Min ister of Public Worship. The free conferences do not meet until the 25th instant. The form of invitation suggested by Austria has arrived, and is approved of with a slight altera tion. It is probable that the College of Princes will re main together until the termination of the free con ferences. General Peucker, appointed Prussian commissary in Hesse Cassel, has already arrived in Wilhelmabad, where be hu presented himself to the Elector. The Minister of Justice has issued a circular, enjoining the Public Prosecutors to greater watchful ness over the press, and to legal proceedings wherever they may be necessary. A Berlin correspondent of the Cologne Gazette, writing on Dec. 11, says Count Alvensleben has, we hear, required instructions in a positive form. In the event of the propositions he will have to make, in &mordant)e with his instructions, not being ac cepted at Dresden, it is the determination of the Count to withdraw front the conferences. The antecedent career of Von Alvensleben has been decidedly cor.servative. Bat he is reputed to be a true Prussian, and to possess that firmness of character with which it is necessary to meet foreign pretensions. The Prussian demands will rest on the basis of a duality—the change of the presidency, and the attribution of the executive force to both powers : these will resume the principal points. The general in command of the second division of the army, Lient -General von Groben, has been sum moned here by telegraph, and has had an aud'ence with the Prince of Prussia. lie has been sent to St. Petersburg on a special mission. CAIILSEURE, Dec. 9. The official journal of to-day announces the pro longation of the war establishment for four weeks. HAMBURG, Deo 11. Simile Edward Banks is to represent Hamburg at the Dresden conferences! and if he hen not already received hie inetractions be will have them shortly. Sum May, 1849, Herr Banks has been constantly the representative of Hamburg at Berlin. EISENACH, D.c. 10. The retreat of the Prussian army from Hesse Du commenced. The 19th and 31st Regiments of In fantry and a cuirassier regiment have already passed through this tows. The Elector's Official Gazelle states that that Prince will not return to Cassel. Fulda will henceforth be the seat of government. VIENNA, Exc. 10. The necessary measures will be taken to-morrow for the reduction of the Austrian army, which is to be simultaneous with that of the Prussian. By this re duction both armies will be brought down to the numerical strength they possessed before the last ar maments took place. The redaction in oar army will amount to 76,000 men. Beaux, Da°. 14.—Voluntary Loan, 101 ; New Loan, Four-And-a-1141f per Cents., 981 ; National Debt, 831 ; Commercial blaring Society's Premium, 1204; Beak Bbsres.93l. VIENNA, Dec.' 11.— Five per Cent. Metalline's, 96; Fouventl-a-Halt per Crate., 83. Bank Shares, 1158. l Exchaoge on London, 12.35. SECRET PACT OF EXTRADITION BETWEEN THE PIEDMONTESE GOVERNMENT AND AUSTRIA. When the Piedmonteee government wished to have its treaty of peace with Austria sanctioned by the Chambers, one of the present ministers declared that it contained no secret clauses. The following letters, written by eye-witnesses, and the cirealar which accompanies and serve, to explain them, give a formal denial to this assertion, and at the same time furnish an insight into the reel state of things : Cattelletto, Sirdinian shore of the Lego Maggiore, December 4, 1860. Five Austrian sliirri have just gone on board our steam boat and have arrested a certain Carsbelli, a sailor, who bad deserted from the Austrian fleet two years egg. From the Frontier of Piedmont, Dec 3, 1860. The conduct of the Piedmonteee government goes really naiad every duty of humanity with regard to the poor Hungarians who fall into their hands An eye witness of the fast wrote me two der ago that last week an unfortunate Hungarian, having run the ru ' k of desertieg fr,na Pairs, had hardly arrived at Gravelloni (a frontier spot of the Pied montese territory) when he was arrested by the carsbiniere • of his Majesty Victor Emmanuel, and hsnded over to the Austrians • few minutes afterwards to be shot If you think at to publish this feet, do so without scruple, fee I an , warrant the sincerity of the person who related it. Branch circular of ministerial orders from the Intendant of Novara to the authorities and police agents of the coofinee: t No. 1866, Novara, Sept. 21, 1850. From the ministerial orders I have just received, I buten to bag V. 8. T. (your illustrious lordship) to take the news 1, eery diepositiosa, so that, whenever as Austrian deserter is ed, whoa* desertion is posterior to the last treaty of ) peace, he may be conducted to the frontier without other • formality, and consigned over to the Austrian authorities - see :rding to the forms agreed upon in the stapaletios estered into for that purpose. Tne aforesaid dispositions will serve to countermand those contained in my eireular of the 11th September last (those orders left the fatuity of emorting de • meters to the Swiss frontier). MANCHESTER, DSc. reigget to annOue..._ the Gibers of the erne fit Mao, Malthus. and Co.. of Glaigow, a firm well knows as extensive iron founders. Tree fallen is attributed to imprudent speculations in the iron basineee. Another failure, that of Rankin, Smith, and Co., of Glasgow and New York, has also taken place, said to be caused by cotton speculations. A public meeting of gentlemen interested in the operation of the potent lawn was held yesterday arteremo, in the Town•hall, presided over by Mr. William Feirbairn, C.E. A memorial to the Board of Trade for a revision of the laws was ndopted. TEE FLAX MOTEMENT.—An association has, 111111 understand, been recently formed at Bromyard, (or the pur pose of promotlag the growth of flat in that @lstria, 14- wards of one hundred of the egriealtural members of ilOl association have expressed their determinatioa to prepare a portion of their land for flax (or the next year. In our re pert of the meeting of the fiocieir of Arts on Wedneelay last, we stated that some sam ple s of cm* velvets, 11114 velveteen., manufactured from ex were exhibited by Mr. Peter Aug. Mohave been requ ested to state tinat In was Mr. noisy, and not Mr. A•ley, who exhibited Os samplee referred to. ANOTHER Mumma lit Essenx.—This county has grain been the scene of a very tragical affair. An inquest was held on the 11th at Cola, Esping, respecting the death of a man named John Hall. The following appears to be the unpin facts attending the lamentable event. On Saturday, the 16th alt., the deceased, with the accused, John Hall, and four men, named Bartholomew, Bridge, Brewer, end Bilis, wen wigged in planting turnips for seed at Earl's Caine. They left off work shoat Ave o'clock. and both the deceased and the prisoner had some words about the coat which the latter had on. They then all went into a neighbouring beershop, and had some beer. in the course of an hour they left, and on reaching another beerrhop, where they had left some boa on the previous day, Clarke said that he would call for It. He went in sad brooght out a cat, which he carried along the road a short way. Demand then pulled it out of his hand and threw it into a pond, when Clarke struck him in the foe a ith his flat. On proceeding alone the road a short distance, the doomed struck Clarke, who replied, " Ton may go on as feet as you like, you shall have it presently." He then struck round at the unfortunate fellow while he was standing with his back to him, who cried out that he had been stabbed in the belly, and that he had felt the knife peas into Dim twist Having placed his hand over the wooed to prevent his boob protruding, his companions laid him down on the ground, and, co vering a eoat over him, they sent for Mr. Taylor, a neighbouring surgeon, who found a large = of the intestines pre milinp Mr. Taylor havug the poor fellow's immediate removal to the usenet 'otter, Clarke, who was promo, was asked how to came to do it. He replied that 110 did it with • flint stone. Mr. Taylor remarked that that was impossible ' when the wounded offerer mid—" No, air, he did it with a knife ; he has the knife In his pocket" Hr. Taylor then asked the rimer, Clarke, if he had a knife, and he then took one from his pocket, bat no blood Gould be °loaned about it. Clarke did net attempt to run away. Mr. Taylor having described the result of the poor maim examination, and that death had resulted from the inkiriee in the abdomen, *Om: returned a verdiet of " Wilful murder Naiad Wdliala Clarke." THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, RIleggl)1111 14. ii psis• vice, and nukes a fair wind QM est der 311 . riMis Aes e fil ll:1 1o! ler the gob. • c AS- on the compare. This is tile resees Of WOW' Off amity, sere* stesmeft tostritig brim.% We war Value ~ ft ere curpstition of cvivon lice with i 40,0001. *Up% is wean to De na tiro ~ allti 114 11121 of ebw.phlilic moneuend splint that of views of Niers - on thin subject. A i me of Peninsular had Oriental with its 220,000 i. If thb Tbe state trials% .oth again Wag% ' The pristmers 1 the 'Bosphorus mak& a faireoiage, the dub of. WOW have now three months allowed them to prepare their been wheel steamer', and of olse ocean mail contracts (at detente. :tent, least in their present form), is sealed. ROMAN STATES. ndred The steam-packet service by way of the Red Sea. - The appointment of the follewbseamong the new been even burdened uit has been by the virtual monopoly onbuoilloririf at is spoken -of:—.oownt Zeehisi, been of one favoured company, has increased the persorial Prinoo Odiesalchi, Pmilessor Orioli, and the Ad- . -,_ :_.--...., thin mootry with the eastern world to rotate Perth d'lmols. FRANCE. PARIS, FIIDAT EVINtaO. A committee of representative wu appointed :o day on the government bill for tbelway of the West. The majority of the committee appear to be favourable to the bill. The National makes the following observations on the bill in question: It Is easy to an why the government is anxious to ter minate this affair. The Versailles (Loft Bank) Railway Company obtained in 1839 • loan from the government of five millions of francs, and the government has sines then never been able to receive back either its capital or interest. The Constituent Assembly gave orders to have the property of the company mired on. Proceedings were commenced, but not urged oo ; and now, la order to save the company, it is determined to concede the Western line to a company which will pay back to the state the ad vance which it could not otherwise obtain. The concemion in question consequently may be summed no (nth, fact of a present of five millions being mad* to the Versailles (Left Bank) company. But the company Welshes the concession ban taken care to gaud itself from loss The state abandons to it for nothing, with the exception of three millions reim bursed for stock and rails on the line between Versailles and Chartres, all the works executed en to the present time with the money of the budget—via , the stations of Paris and Van girard, 5,380,0021 r. • works between Versailles and Chartres, 28.000 Mfr.; works between Chartres and La Loupe, 3,000,6001 x.; works beyond La Loupe, 3,380.0001 r. It en gages, in edition, to finish the works of art and earth works as far as Rennes. The company is to lay down the iron-way between Chartres and Relines, and to furnish the nemesary stock for working the line. It may hewn from the/state ment that the state, in the first place, pays the new company dear enough for the five millions which it gives to the Ver. sallies (Left Bank) company; but, in order not to lavish his favours etelusively on the Left Bank Company, M. Bioeau prepcsee to oast/tract, at the ant of the state, the line which is to join the Right Bank Railway with that to Rennes. We should have imagined that the increase la the circulation produced by that junction would have enabled the financiers of the Place du Hem to construct it at their own eost; but we have not the honour of living, like M. Dineen, in the midst of capitalists, and we no doubt do not understand the full consideration which is due to them. The state is also to construct, at its own expense, the branch hoe to Viruflay, that being an additional trifle of 680,0001 r. felling on the treasury. Ralf a million given to the Right Bank Company is certainly very little, when five millions are given to the Left Bank Company. In the Assembly's sitting of to-day a debate took place upon the third reading of the bill introduced by M. St. Priest for the prevention of usury. The pro position was defended by M. Laboulie, but attacked by the Minister of Justice on the ground that the law of 1807 was enough. After a speech from M. Odilon Barrot against the bill, the first article, which con tained its principle, was rejected by 366 yot.es against 293. The sitting then broke up. A letter from Angoulime states that the Abbe- Gothland, on being taken to the prison of that town, recovered from the profound discouragement into which his condemnation bad thrown him, and on every day since he has smoked his pipe nearly the whole of the day. When arrested, hie pecuniary re sources were very small, and they appear to have been entirely exhausted by his outlay for tobacco. The day after his condemnation he wrote the following letter to M. Beyselance,rerponsible editor of the Republicain de la Charente, who is confined for some offence of the press :—" Sir,—l am absolutely without tobacco. You know that it is a cruel privation—almost a torture— for a smoker. Would you have the kindness to send me enough to fill my pipe ?" The journalist immediately forwarded him a pound of tobacco. Minute precautions have been taken to prevent the culprit from committing suicide. lie con verses freely with the turnkeys. After his condem nation he described to them with great calm his im pressions, his hopes, during the last day of the trial, and his surprise and despair on hearing himself con , damned. Surprise having been expressed at the dir appearance of the letters he had received from Ma dame Allier, he stated that he had torn them up to light his pipe. Jeans Bearne, the servant of Mine. du Sableo, who, it witl be remembered, was arrested ' in the course of the trial for baring given false evi dence, is kept in secret confinement, and was fre quently interrogated by a magistrate. She has, it is said, made important revelations. M. Mon quits Paris to-day to repair to Madrid, where he is expected to take the portfolio of Finance. The provincial journals prosecuted by the Napo leonist organs of Paris for defamation have been acquitted. Monsignor Garibaldi, the new nuncio, is arrived at Marseilles. PAW, Du. 13. Par MOM. Lowest I • low 0i010........... 67 55 r 57 75 57 II 57 5 5710 6pa 01404..... .... .11 SI 93 10 55 30 15 SO 5333 6 do. IloirLors.. ~ . • . 46 pot Coolo.---..... „ . • • 4 prrOnio. . . .651106.. 11 1,4a0s : at 46'4 14 50 r/0 da44714 ;li. " OVA. IMO ..... Yvan Nolo Mgr Mosey 1 1.35 Do. 1150 756 D Do o. — .. Trooloty D0d0... 1 , 6504icat 5p.0.1549 64 70 ~ Doak norm Boonan.—St. 0....1., 400; Vertailles (right beak), 175 ; Ditto Oat bank). 175; Pall and Odeeas, 830; Paris mad Rolm, 0 25 ; /bonen and Havre, 260; Marseilles and Avignon, 192 50; Strasbourg and Bale, 132 60; Coot4o, 401 26 ,• Boulogne and Amiens, 200; Orleans and Bordeaux, 385; North, 472 60; PAM sad Strasbourg, 353 75 ; Tears and Nunes, 242 60; Montanan and TIrOYS.• 90 i Di.PPs and resuar, 172 60 ; Bordeaux sad Tate, 30. ITALY. NAPLES, Dac. 2. The reduction proposed by the mixed commis sion at %mina on British claims amounted to 20 per cent. of the sum demanded. The Preach claims are reduced nearly 76 per cent., and the German 40 per cent Ths trial for a conspiracy to assaminate the King, in 1848,1 e now taking place. Seventeen praaay are implicated, among whom are some of the Royal Gear& Arrests and imprisoemeate for poli tical awes are carried ea as a Ueda, tisamomment fitactionaries bargaiaing for liberstioa.' An army corps of WON Neapolitan' is ready to occupy Ancona, in cam the Austrian 'wimp &Geld be re quired by the mate of Germany. Reseed presents, mosiatiag of a Mosaic table and ether objects of art, ham been immeneedd to the King by the Pope on the anniversary of the Pontiff's reception at Gs Howard ,_ Mann. Okweisasele aad Lily Ben . ily de Ban the Earl of Car liela..Tienrant Canning,. Lord and Lady (Kokos. Bir Jules and Lady Graham, Sir David Hands*, and fla Jam., Clark, Ist the castle to-day. The royal dinner circle this evening will include the Duchem of Kent, Lady Fanny Howard, Baroness de Speth, end the Bari of Liverpool. I Her Majesty's private band will attend in the cut's alter dinner. The Duchess of Cambridge and the Duchess of __burgh Straits visited the Duchess of Gloucester I — sistarday, at Olouctster House. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon at the Foreign-office. The ministers present were Lord John Russell, the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Lens downs, the Earl of Micro, Sir George Grey, Visas's% Palmerston, Sul Grey, the Chancellor of the Bac'smuts . , Sir Francis Baring, Sir John liobhouse, the Earl of Car lisle, the alb% Hon. Henry Labouchere, the Marquis of Clanricarde, and the Right Hon. Fax Mauls. The council sat three hours. The High Sheriff of Bedfordshire had an inter view with Sir George Grey yesterday at the Rome-office, and delivered to the right hon. baronet an address against papal aggression for presentation to the Queen. The Transatlantic Packet Station Commission held a meeting yesterday at the office of the Board of Trade. Present—Earl Granville (chairman), Hon. William Cowper, Sir Jame* Gordon, Sir J. F. Burgoyne, and Captain Ellarby ; and Lord Hobart (secretary). The Earl of Carlisle returned to town yesterday from a visit to the Queen at Windsor Castle. Mr. Bruyeres hail an interview yesterday with Sir Gimp Grey. The Marquis of Clanrieurde returned to town yes terday from• visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial cam from the Governor of the 'West India Colonies. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council eat esterday. Present—the Muter of the Rolla, Mr. Baron Parke, the Judge of the Admiralty Court, and Sir Edward Ryan. An appeal from the Prerogative Court of Canter bury, " Brays and Edwards o. Bather" (part heard), was resumed, and was again adjourned. The French Ambassador returns forthwith to Paris on leave of absence from bis government, and will be absent tram London for probably two months. TIM CREW OF VIII ROYAL YACRT.—Our Ports mouth correspondent says: " The royal yacht Victoria and Albert will be paid off on the 31st instant, her time being then up. A paragraph, copied from a prviessional paper, has been to autogiro circulation daring the put week, to the effect that t►e yacht wee to be paid off, in order to re. constitute the Crew, so as to have a majority belonging to the protestant faith, and implying that at present the ma jority is composed of Roman eatholics. This is incorrect, out of a crew of 118 men there are not more than two or three of the latter perthasion ; therefore, no such intention could have been formed. There are three or four boys of that religion, bat it it absurd to suppose that these will be discharged on that account. It is only from the paragraph in question, implying the trait/nos of • suspicion to the effect Chet • portion of the crew of the yacht (although that portion is so very small) are wanting in loyalty and devoted ness to her Majesty, that it is at all worth correcting." (From last night's Gametic). MEETING OF PARLIAMENT.—BY THE QUEEN. — A PILOCWIATION.—Viataria, R.—Whereas our parliament stands prorogued re Tuesday the 17th day of this instant Decemb we, with the advice of our privy esoluscil, do hereby er publish and declare, that the said parliament shall be further prorogued, oa the said 17th day of December instant, to Tataday the 4th day of February next ; and we ' have given order to oar Chanoellor of that part of our united Kingdom called Great Britain, to prepare a commis sion for proroguing the same acccorotagly : and we do hereby further, with the advice aformatd, declare our royal will and pleasure, that the said parliament shall, on the said Tues day the 4th day of February next, mumble and be holden for the dispatch of divers urgent and important alfatrs • and the lords spiritual and temporal, and the knights, citizens, and burgesses, and the commissioners for shires and burghs of the House of Commons, are hereby required and commanded to give their attendance accord ingly, at Westminster, on the said Tuesday the 4th day of February next. liven at oar court at Windsor, this 12th day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and filly, and in the fourteenth year of oar reign. God_:sam the Queen. FOREION-OFFICII, DEC. 11.—The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Thomas Kneels Groans as Consul at Halifax, Nova Scotia, for his Majesty the King of Prussia; also Mr. Louis von der Pfordten as Consul at Malta for his Majesty the King of Bavaria. TREASURE CHAMBERS, DEC. 13.—The Queen hes been pleased to direct letters patent to he passed under the Great Seal, constituting and appointing Sir John Frederick William Herschel, Bart., to the office of Master and Worker of her Majesty's Mint. THE NEW REGULATIONS OF TILE MASTERS IN CLIANCEta.—A memorial numerously signed by some of the leading members of the legal profession has just been presented to the Lord Chancellor, setting forth the lawn - Venienees attendant upon the new regulations adopted by the Masters in Chancery for the bearing of causes and matters. The Lord Chancellor in acknowledging the receipt of the memorial states that he will give his best attention to the subject, with a view to a remedy that shall be con venient to the profession and beneficial to the suitors of the Court of Chancery. The council of the Incorporated Law Society are also considering the whole subject, to ascertain if possible what will be the best remedy, and the various Masters in Chancery, with whom these regulations mainly Test, are also being conferred with on the question. AT LENGTH THE EARL OF GUILFORD'S RESIGNA TION of the rich living of St. Mary's, Southampton, is in the Muds of the Bishop of Winchester. Dr. Dusautoy, the churchwarden of B'. Mary's bas just received orders from Ike bishop to provide pro tem for the spiritual necessities of the parish. According to the present law, the Bisliop of Winchester must present the living of St. Mary's to some one previous to its being diviled. PATENT LAW REFORM.—The committee appointed bF the Society of Arta held their sixth touting yesterday. The members present were the Right Hon. T. Gibson, 11L.P., in the choir ; Professors H Iward Sally and Wood. wort, George Brace, Esq., Henry Cole, Esq, A. Symonds, Req., IL S. Newell, Esq., of Gateshead, and Richard Prosser Esq ,of Birmingham The following resolutions ware adopted.—That there shall be only one office for the transaction of business connected with the registration of inventions and the payment of fees in respect thereof. That every perms desiring to register en invention should submit two copies of the specification of his claim, accompanied in say case where it is pomible by descriptive drawing,. That the erode and procedure cf the registration be regulated by the Board of Trade, subject to a report to parliament. That say tribunal before which prreemdings are commenced, shall have power to refer any case for report and certificate to the negietrar, satiated by competent and scientific persons. That it should be competent to an inventor to make disclaimers and to rectify errors in his spee'ficstion at any period. APOTHECARIES HALL.—Names of gentlemen who po' their examination in the science and practice of sedieles, and reoeived eartifictres to practice, on Thursday, Dee. 12, 1850 : William Morse Orally Hewitt, Badbury, Swindon, Wilts; Henry Penfold, Brighton; John Chain berlayne Retry, Deuced, Chippenham, Wilts; James Jeken, Dover; Lucius Warrillow, Birmingham; Albert Fleming; Samuel Morris, Colchester; Henry Manley, Creditors, Devon. Thomas Henry Stocker Pullen, Sid month Devon. The registration of the medical students attending the metropolitan schools has been concluded at Apothecaries' Hall. 1,116 students have been registered for the medical semi= 1860.61, the largest number save the session 1842-3. Of these 871 are new students. A POSTAL CONTENTION is in progress betweell Spain and England, to enable letters to be sent from Spun by the English steamers to Peru and the Pacific. CHAMBER or Cointaitos—A special meeting of this body wee held at the Exchange on Tuesday, the Right Has, the Earl of Morley, the chairman of the chamber, is the shah, when it was resolved to memorialise the Lord Chancellor in favour of the permanent establishment in Ply mouth of the /Nettie Court of Bankruptcy, and a resolution was pared to assist the directed.' of the Screw Steam Ship Company in establishing Plymouth as the port of arrival and departure of the Cape mails.—Plsonouth Journals COUNTY EIPESDIIViti MOVEMENT.—At a meeting et the committee Sze canduting this movement, held at the Star Inn, Kanehester, on Tuesday last, the 10th lament, maw* ahem, the following resolutions were passed L Romiired—That this committee, having read the report a ak. interview of their depletion with government, during Ishii Lord John Resell intimated that no measure ei away reform would be introduced by . government until Woe is a more general expression of opinion in favour of en ellarationlin the law, would renew its appeals to others aunties to forwsrd immediately to parliament petitions praying for the adoption of some legislative measure Is, extending the constitutional right of representation te meaty ratepayers, feeling aerated that the great wad using burden of county expenditure edY Lk some such restraint at the Wads of the legislature. aseolved—That along with the oopy of the list raidation the secretary is requested to send a copy or the re port laid before the meeting to day, and oleo Lead John Rusrell's letter, and of the form of petition reed to this day's meeting ' and the secretary is iesvtiotod to request sash bused of reardians to lavaar him with a reply to his imummehmilmt. S. Resolved—That this somenittee beg te beim the veliou hoards of guardians is the kingdom, that So lave already spent the ow of 1,1871. 175. Id., and ea Z r wevement hes • useLlattPlUit oWest to aceolopliels, that all bessiderffines awl other parties in timated In this qwlllolll Ziesimasall=o: th e ties' I wait of the comma/On, Salford, M e lt will be ism them the above rook:dons that Ihe to the .wily Snows down by Dad John behlly ham mid that efforts will be made 119 sl ii =2 l lteglnt at the t ths m yers lictqui v bout the present oppressive system T p 18. Tim Quest Viand fib WAIN' in 41111 ie. slopes. Tin teitli Amy took *a* rebeamati airbags. Primes AlbAs west .at dos keg Ws mashie, smadal by the Bart a Ustosifst, Captain tls RAI. J. Denson, R.N., Onlisnal *olio& Char Norf olk lied Colossal Botvarle. T4O Dubs sad Doshets of sad Lady Mabsa Howard, Lord Rd,ard Asiesnrd 4. sha Ifs/nig and Marchioness of THE EXHIBITION OF 1851. RAILWAY TRAVELLING CLUBS. The following circular has been at nt to the Local Committers by the Uremia'. Cammitta Offles for thr Executive Committee. 1, 0:d Palace-yard, Westminster, Nov. 25, 1850.—Sir,—With reforests t, the copy of the regolutione of certaM railway ampoule' recently tranamitted to yeti, we beg to call your particular at•en•Vu to resolution No. 2, by which you will abeam that the facili ties proposed to be afforded for enabling the working muses to 'ail the Exhibition nest you are cronfined I:elusively to those associated in club'. Tie expediency of pn.naitina the formation of travelling e'ubs hu thus became a subject which, in our opinion, deserves serious coosideration, and we request you will bring this refo'ution before your com mittee with our earnest recomoundatiou that they :could use their weight and itfitience Cr the formation of much associati he u shall be acceptable to the workingClaeses. to towns, however, where such arsociations are airesdy to active operation, we would suggest th.t your committee mi,rht empress their nadir's' to promote the catablinunett of aidi don el clubs, should the wants of the town or any other cir contemns be found t e render them desirable. We would also suggest, that resolution No. 2 should be widtly circa laced in your district. We shall be glad to be advised from time to time of the progress made in these arrancennate.— , We are, Sir, &e., W. hero, ALEX. ELDORA'S." CLARE-MARKET RAGGED SCHOOLS. Last night, the third annual meting of the Carr market Ragged Scho was held is the vra,ry non or St. Clement Dane ; Lord ASHLEY in the chair: The report stated that a girls' school had been formed, and t h at in spite of many dlsadvantsges it sea in a moat prosperous state. There were upwersle of ono hundred girls now in the school, of whom 30 only could be admitted to the needlework, although many more were desirous of learning. Upwards of 200 garments were made by the girls, and sold to them at a lees price than the cost of the materials. With regard to the bo3s' school, although at different periods of the year the mete: darn., had fallen off, yet, on the ge, the school wu well attended. There wu now no vinous behaviour on the part of the who were, generally speaking, desirous of receivit g rue tion. An industrial sistiool was established U r a 'elect aumber of boys. There was every reason to believe that the boys who had emigrated trom the school wee. eoing well, but owing to circumstances over which the corio,iites had no control no emignnta had been sent out durinv the present year. The committee had to complain of •he incon venient sise of the school room, which, however desimis of remedying, they were unable to do from watt of hinds. The receipts during the year amounted to 137 i. Is. V., of which there remeined a balance of 291. Cf. --- The CHAIRMAN said that it was a pleasure to him to preside at the present meeting, which was the third or f.,urth anniversary of the Clue-market Ragged Schools. The oftener they met, however, the more difficult was it to fl•.d sew matter to introdLee. That was of very little Impertanee, however, provided they succeeded in causing eleanlin•ss to take the place of filth, aid morality to exist where vice previously flourished. (Hear, hear.) Let it not be supposed that there existed less necessity for ragged achooli at the present moment than at a former period. Nu doubt they I had done much, but they should endeavour TO ~ o more, because there was a conflict of principles coming en, and a gre►t struggle would take place for the possession of these hitherto neglected maws. (Hear, hear.) There was no doubt evil mixed up in such a conflict; but if it ha -1 the effect of directing public attention to the long neglected duns of their population, sod should contribute to plate &ham, where they ought to be, amongst the prir.ces of the earth, then they might give thanks to 0 , d that Mir lot was cast in a time of public commotion. (Rear, hear.) Far himself, he could never consent to have then chil- dren thrust into the union workhouse. (Heat.) Whe.n he considered the abominable cue of cruelty which occurred at Bideford, and that other cue which occurred in Pump. court, cases which wile disgusting to m aikind, a ti•grsce to the country, and a horror to every man of thinking mind from the north to the south of England, and nfleacd that these abominalons were practised on childr‘u who had bun taken from the union workhouse, he could not ounst nt that one of these children should be sent there, if any merlin of his could contribute to keep them out of it. In conclusion, hit lordship urged them to support these Feb. ohs in a state of efficiency, from the consideration that tiny were all subject to misfortune, and that they should da now for the ragged children of the district what they wou.d h,se wished to have done for themselves if their circumstances Lad born reverted. The meeting war subsequently addrewed by the Ile,. Mr. Ellie, rector of the I.►ruh, Mr. O'Malley, q.c., the Rev. Mr. Hughes, Mr. Payne, and others, and resolutions wsre passed urging the claims of these ragged schools to the con. -aeration of the public. FATAL COLLIERY EXPLOSIONS IN WALES, ABERDARE, TRI:III9PAY. ---- • At about three o'clock this afternoon an explosion occurred in the New Duffryn Pit, the property of J. Powell, Esq. At present all is consternation and confusioe, and people do not know what to do or say. No one esn tell what the extent of the accident may be, but their fears had them to suppose the worst. It is said that then were tifty•four persons down, of whom three only have been brimeht up. They are uninjured. But the winding engine is br ken; and they cannot get down to aid those below, whom a little assistance might rescue from d.ath. The three men who were sowed say that they wale nearly suffocated in coming to the mouth of the pit, and they give but a very poor account of thou, that are behind. Bat, the works being new, I am inclined to think that the walnuts tion of gas could not have been extensive; and, if right, the fears of the people must have exaggerated the consequences which are to be apprehended. The agent of the colliery, Mr. Meredith, had may just gone down before the explosion occurred ; and he is now be low. The only miens of communication with the pit is now by meant of a 'bucket, wound by a crab ; and that occupies half an hour in going to the bottom; and, when down, but very few can be brought up in it. The repine of the explo• Mon were like the discharges tel heavy pieces of ordnance." FRIDAY, TEN A W. A verbal mesasge has just been issued from the pit to this ' effect : " Two have been brought out dead. Three yet missing. " All the rest are brought out of the pit." I Thus, happily, the occurrence has not been sa destruclive to life u was appn handed. On Wednesday morning an explosion occurred near Tab's!), in Messrs. Vivian and So Mork Pie, wherehy thirty persons were injured and two killed. ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETV.—Tke annual meeting of this a.diety.was held this morning, at the society's rOOl9ll, Hanover. square ; his grace the Duke of Richmond in the chair. The report was adopted without opposition. At the close of the basin, sa proceedings, Mr. Williams de clared his intention to resign, on the ground that the council had determined to bold the next general show in Hyde park, and thus indirectly to encourage the exhibition he detested. The noble chairman deprecated Mr. Williams's intention, and requested him to abandon it ; but the mfg• nation was persisted in. EXTENSIVE PLATE ROBBERY. NOTTINGUAM, illlDLY.—This morning, at six o'clock, Mr. d. Bulley, of Albert-street, in this town, discovered, on proceeding down stairs, that his shop had been broken into the night previous, and property removed, consisting of gold and silver watches, gold brooches, gold signet end other rings, Albert gold and silver watch-guards, silver spoons of all descriptions, a great numter of ancient coins, and other valuable articles. The back premise connected with the shop enter into the burial-ground of the Cestle-gate meeting house, and the thieves entered through a window looking into the graveyard. It is not known at precisely what time the robbery occurred. Everything was safe at 12 o'clock, and co noise was heard during the night. The value of the property stolen has been estimated at more than 3001. No thing ha transpired to lead to the apprehension of any of the robbers. ATTEMPTED MURDER IN ST. JAMES'S-PAHL-- Yesterday afternoon a gentleman, named Tuley, pawing along the south aide of the ornamental water in S t . James's park, saw a female lying in one of the plantations sopa neatly asleep, but en going up to her he found that she was senseless and foaming at the mouth. He obtained as distance and conveyed her to the Queen-square lodge, and gave her in charge of one of the gate keepers. On recover ing herself a little, she said that her name was Coe, and that she lived at No. 7, Ciroavenor-crescent; that while walk ing with an acquaintance of hers, a laundress, by the water side, they had a alight quarrel, upon which her companion knocked her down, kicked her in the back, and then stabbed her with a penknife in the arm ; after this, she produced from her pocket a bottle containing some fluid, which the com pelled her to drink. This rendered her insensible, and whilst in this state she was robbed of 41. INI. and her wed ding ring. She wastaken to the Westminster Hospital, where she now lies in a dangerous condition. IGNORANT PRACTITIONERS. The Lincolnshire Hermes , aye: "On Wednesday afternoon Mr. Hitebios held an inquest in Lincoln, on the body of Mr. Robert Pule, of Oxford-street. Six weeks ago Mr. Peale, who was Ikea a line and apparently healthy young men, fancied that ha was troubled with scurvy, and he bought some medium of a quack who keeps Lineoln market, and who calls him pills" Dr. Elston." Pills and a mixture were given. The were a violent drastic, composed of gamboge and colo synth, and the mixture was made of a vegetable containing • strong bitter. A few doses produced violent purging, Te•itiag, prostration, and unapt/. The aid of MOW. Hang, Rill, and Lowe being predated, they treated the ONO edically, bat Mr. Pule gradually wore down to almost • whet skeleton, and died from exhaustion on Monday debt lest. During his innate, he constantly a ttributed it to du quack medicine. as he was comparatively well up to the thou of taking it. The medical testimony es.ablished that the violent medicine was altogether improper for the disease, and that it would amelsrate death. The jury returned that the death was from the awes named, but that it had been accelerated by the medicine given by Elston, In ignorance of the disease' and they expensed their regret that quacks Ignorant of the diseases they pretended to have ability to sure should be permitted to tamper with health and life. In the mese of the 'equity, it was stated that Elston h a d doe- Mod that he did not a parastoilased Holmes for scurvy, ;14876Z.1eat Ite ty of Ha sp • .tmtimonial as from him had, without the authoriof a wonder SIM Ibi a s bai toga up his residence in Lincoln, f and tt OM addled ba remittently took 30 1 . on a market day or ells bi MM . Se was " not st home" on Wedowday. f I ~! 1