The Express. — London, England, 1850-01-29 00:00:00

gfit rtoo. OIXO MULL TM , West UM 110404 11T00 . 1 1 4= Bermeis, limemsb. 31mea ileuieres. New Moak" ead embekieg Mime M liedein,_o4 leembedilisoregus, New Ommis, 010. me Tom. vs be =imp ea the membes el TA. 2. TM Millb be ibe T. A. imll Seems Apes,wol be me& up ea sbe el TA. 4. TM ne ts lee likbee, mI Ofbreiger will be mile ep es Feb. 7. TM mile ei4 llmeilm, M die MeAtenmeee, Cleyies, Mlle, lieerKee& Ike., will be saie up rLi musk/ et Feb. Tbe seeße kr SAM Medi Ameba asi Me 17a0e4 Sums MI be me& ea the eviabi 01W 11. TM mai Ise , lialm, Cheese, /re Make bleeds, Ceptea, UM, ea Cbiea. eie eabeaples, will ro l l up ea tile meshes et Pub. 20. lOU WATBS AT MIMI TIUDIM Tm —Nlarsisg, 16 Oa.llllA «mea.r.—alswies, 11 5 . I LONDON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 29. Ws are, it some, to have a little electoral reform, little fiamial rotors, and a little more sanitary reform is the spprosching session :—ell very useful to in their way ; but are we to have no kat reform ? Or are the power of the and theme imidity of the whig °AVM! es rl li t=subjrcts ain to postpone melesisWeal ro tas f If the inclination far pestememeat exists, enemies are at hand. The Biabops' Oommimion appointed yeses ago to dales a better territorial arrangement for the episcopal sees ham not yet reported. Lad Ilmutowee's Commission, now more them 12 ohs old, appointed to suggest the means of improvise the vales of church property, has not yet reported. And Iced Asauree emunission for the subdivision of large 'adobes has only emitted • me. liminary report d ao earthly valee. In the Mimes of these ormaimionera ministers can, therefore, find excuses for sitaMing off the greater questions of eccle siastical reform this session; if they are so minded. There is, however. one church subject on which Mr. Hoasues's letter to his constituents de prives them of all exam for further delay; it is the reform of that great moister abuse of episco pacy—the Reel Commission. The bishops on this commission, not content with squandering the feeds of the church entrusted to their keeping, oa palaces, gardens, park. and estates for themselves; have allowed its feeds to be robbed and plundered by their treasurer, and mas tery, and this embezzlement of church property has taken plies after a oommittee of the House of Com mons had warned the bishops of the danger of allow ing the amounts of the commission to go nn-audited for years, and of permitting one person to hold the inconsistent offices of secretary sod treasurer. This warning has been disregarded by the prelates, whereby the church has been defrauded of upwards et 9,0001. And the freed thus perpetrated by a ser vent in whom the bishops - placed their ab solute treat, for whose personal advantage they set at nought the reammendatioes of a mone committee, has hitherto gam unpunished by the hierarchy of the church ; nay, it has actually been rewarded by one of the episcopal guardians of our religion, who—good Christian '.— presented the culprit, on t he coatemion of his aims, with a sum of money. Such a state of things leaves ministers no honour able alternative but to propose a reform of the eccle siastical commission. The property of the chunk meet longer be entreated with any safety to the care of bishops who squander it partly on themselves; and who take so little cam et it as to allow their secretary, treasurer in his torn, to squander 9,0001. on MniselL 8o mach is certain. Some thing most to done with the mclesiestioal eons miasma What, is another question. After months of inactivity, during which they were plundered, the commissioners are now, we see, all activity. are meeting tyke or thrice a week. This Immies T ll for reform. It looks as if ministers were phi to, allow them to prepare the measure of improvement themselves ; and, if so, all hopes of any abysm change may be resigned. Mr. HUDSON entertains as jo,t notions of railway reform as the bishops do et ecclesiastical reform ; for as he cannot me that he bee' done any wrong in railway . mmagement, so an not they that they have °smutted any faults in their administration of church property. What mimes and episcopal gardens are to the bishops, shares and iron contracts were to Mr. HUDSON: to both the temptations of their position have proved to be irresistible. A correspondent inquired the other day what o notion of a " real boat," was' Perhaps, the beat reply that could be given to this inquiry would be, a prelate who has no time to give to the ecclesiastical cocornistioo. For, either a bishop of the church of England in these days must neglect his diocesan and spiritual dish* in attending to those of the sock statical commission, or he must *select his duties as an ecclesiastical commissioner in Milling those of his episcopal office. Now, whether it be the diocese and religion, or the commisica and ecclesiastical tem poralities that staffer, the church is damnified. And, as the office of bishop was erected fur diocesan and spiritual purposes, so it fol lows that they have the primary claim to episcopal time and attention. For their fulfilment it is that bishops are so inordinately paid. Tin most effectual reform, then, that could be made in the ecclesiastical commission would be to withdraw from it the whole bench of bishop, and to place its affairs in the bands of a few lay and paid commissioners, partly nomi nated by the crown, on behalf of the laity, and partly nominated by the bishops, on behalf of the church. By such a change, responsibility and efficiency would be substituted for irresponsibility, inefficiency, squen daring, and malversation. The episcopal supremacy in the commission, it , must never be forgotten, is a whig innovation on its original constitution. For in the commixdoa as launched by Sir Rosm Pm, the lay principle, , was predominant. It was to the predominance of that principle therein, that all the early reforms recommended by the commission were ascribable And it is to the substitution of episcopal for lay su premacy that all the jabbing, the mismanagement, and the plunder of the church, in and by the commie s on, is distinctly to be traced. So lost as it was a lay commission it was a reforming commission; since it became an episcopal commission it has lapsed into &jobbing erupt body. True, in its former capacity, i• had not the sum rt or confidence of the high church party ; but in its present character it has neither the refixct nor the esteem of any party in church or state. A return to Sir ROBERT Pm.'s principle, and the carrying oat of that principle efficiently by the intro deem° of lay, and paid, and responsible commis inmate, is, we repeat, the wily sound principle on which the ecclesiastical commission can he reformed. Na confidence can be given to it so long as episcopacy beers sway thesis; and until the bishops are removed from the commission, the character and matt/bless of the bench of prelates are injured. From the present government so thorough a reform is i ot, however, to be expected; for against it they can oppose the reemuusadatiose of a Commons Com mittee, which mopped far abort ofso completes change. Tre composition of this committee, however, /all accounts for its short comings. For not a single member was placed thereon whom nomination had not best sesetionsel by the late Archbishop of CAN TERBUIRT ; sad there ware an it no fewer than five lay soclesiaatioal commisdosers : besides several Ministers and ex-Ministate of the Crown, who, of course, were responsible for tlmeonflrmatioo given by the sovereign to scams, of the commission. A full masers of reform hose a body so composed is, there fore, utterly hopeless. The utmost that could be ex pected was medisaisal improvement and suggest ive manipulation of internal details. And this is exactly what the etnamittee's recommendations amount to. But, if ministers shelter themselves behind these reemasesadatieas from the duty and the task of thorough refers, they are boated not to allow their measure of impretemeat to fell short of the protective recommesdatises. For the sake of unanimity, the few reformers ia the committee forbore (whether wisely or set is another question) to press their ex treme *plains, sad consented to support the tams qualified views of Sir GIORGI OUT; and they were lest session willing to be bound in legislation by ti me views of the Home Secretary. But he and Lord lowa Items= shrank is the House from what he lied prepaid hi esenseittee and instead of a bill to wavy set the moderate re ef the essemittee, they intro- THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 29, 1850. deco a measure iammeisteat to with the Bane Beentary's 1 111111.1111.1 = obi:hist and quailiscbstore the ierm of gime. M.t@ of which Ms. HOPALIN es bitterly, as yet Co.- ministers Weed to do with ths mat swim ie. et esems, se yet saltairena. 'Sat a miaow is abroad that their pka era atill fall sheet of the committee's memmendatious is the mkt I Weigh to ens partials: their swears will, as spokes et. be as improvement themes. Fee report speak' et a lay prosit of the Beelesiastkal Commiesion, who shell be la the House of Comma Ni eseregy them mash the same patties as the Presi dent d the Poor-4w Board. This, it taut heat owe ninitted, maid be a great impeovemest ; bat it welsh ast of itself be a mespeamation for the omission in the gennislat unseen ef all or aayet the atter moommendations et the solemnities. We mast bare them all. mod as mash more as we can get, bat ser ials): within km. And at all mato we 'street selistemas they mks their obarasters, to avoid next widen dee trifling and the insincerity on this tom tioa whisk no unhappily characterised their sandlot bat sessiss. A TREY importa nt sad cheering manifesto on the satgeet of education has teethed as from lithalsergh. We have re-printed it in essithiessiams, Sad sessIMINIA it to the attention of the Minds of 'animism is the south. It speaks strongly he the Pais' and Usual views taken of that alislera =by the religious riblio of land s ea pospratiss for a concentrated pmelissi gamma Is it by leaden of many valid A. Am the sessilisto is to be kept open he M cease the 31st instant, we moist yet at c ur sr e t i a l inty as to the number and sharactse the names that may be appended to it. Bat theammit tes who peepared it (a committee appoints& at a recent conisamos of the friends of national etintaths in Edinburgh), and upon whom have devolved the charge of receiving signatures, is a remarkable ans. There are upon that committee aders among the ens gelkaldissenters of Scotland, and two of the most ase complishod and earnest leaders ot the free church. Their presence ought to he a sufficient guarantee to men of deep religions oonvictioas, while the names of Mann. WILLIAm CHAMBERS (of Chambers' Journal), J. H. Bona( (author of the "Life of Home*), BLACK (late Provost of Edinburgh), CaattrUan (Sheriff of Perthshire), and WHISTSB (Deputy Commissary Ge neral), show that the iodepadent thinkers = the laity are aim fairly represented. We are that the armatures will not fall short of 600, and that their " universality * is most remarkable. We may add that the parties with whom this movement has originated, and who have by great maims imparted it sufficient organisation to warrant a simmins pectation that it will be waived in, have mash practical experience in the work of educatiour through their conaexion with congrerational, industrial, ragged, and other schools. They are no mere dilettanti theorists. These men proclaim their conviction that "while it might be difficult to describe with a near approach to statistical precision, the exact condition of Scotland at this moment in respect to education, there can be no doubt that es a people we have greatly sunk from our former elevated position among other nations, and that a large proportion of our youth ere left without education to grow op in an ignorance miser able to themselves and dangerous to smutty." This lamentable state of affairs they attribute to the inade quacy of the parish schools of Scotland to the wants of the country ; and this inadequacy they trace to " the smallness of the class invested with the patron age, the limited portion of the community from which the teachers are selected, the general inadequacy of their remuneration, and the system of manage ment applicable to the schools, inferring, an it does, the exeusive control of church smarts. " In other words, the friends of education in Scotland, from whom this manifesto' emanates, have learned from experience that the parochial system of schools, to which Scotland in days owed so much, is no longer applicable to the altered circumstances and relations of the cow menity. The same experience his taught them that issaltory . uncombined efforts to supply the deficiencies of the existing parochial system are u Wog, and that in consequeaoe, the manufacturing and mining districts, on the one hand, and the Highlands sae Islands on the other, are rapidly analog in the seas of intellect and morals. As the only available counter-agent to this daager stts the signers of the manifesto recommend a national system of education. The system which they contemplate, however, is one which the veriest alarmists, on the score of national education among liberals and reformers, can scarcely, we should think, object to. It is really a national, not merely a government system. It has the further recommendation of being amply an adaptation of the existing system to the altered condition of society in Scotland. It is proposed that " the power of selecting the masters, fixing the branches to be taught, and managing the schools, at present vested by law in the }writers of Scotland and the presbyteries of the established church, be trans- I fared to the heads of families" in each parish or school district It is proposed that normal schools for the training of tuckers should be established ; that the possession of a licence or certificate of qualifica tion should be namesary t.) entitle a teacher to be come a candidate for any school under the national system; and care having been thus taken to ensure the competency of the teachers, it is recommended that they "should not be required by law to sub scribe any religions test." It is added, es necessary to the calling into existence of a superior class of teachers, that adequate provision should be made far their remuneration. This disclaimer of a religious test, when regard is had to the names of those who constitute a majority of the committee, is most important. They proclaim their confidence in the national character that among other .. .roue... 01 , educa ti on the important subject of religion will not be neglected. They uaressrvedly give in their adhesion to the suggestion mai by the late Dr. CHALMERS, "That in soy public mum be helping on the edecatim of the people, government should abstain from introducing the element of reli gion at all into their part of the scheme, and this not because thew hold the matter to be insignificant—the contrary might be strongly expressed in the preamble of their act—but oa the ground that, in the present I divided state of the Christian world, they would take no cognisance of, just because they would exert a control over, the religion of applicants for aid." The framers of the manifesto to which we have I called attention, have not rested satisfied with elabo rating sound general principles. They hare the waking details of their national system fully ma ttered. They recommend :—" Ist. That local boards timid be established, the members to be appointed l t a g y eal mlar election, on the principle of giving the to all male beads of families being base- Midas; and with these boards should lie the rake tisa of musters, the general management of the misesis, and the right, without undue interference with the meter, to direct the breeches of education is be taught. 2nd. That there should be a general anprintending authority, so constituted as to secure public confidence, and to be responsible to the public through parliament, which, without supersed ing the local boards, should see their duties are not neglected—prevent abus. • from being perpetrated by carelessness or d. sign—check extra vagant expenditure—protect the interests of all par. tit s—collect and preserve the general statistics of education—and diffuse throughout the country, by communication with the local boards, suet knowledge on the subject of education, and such enlightened views, as their authoritative position end their com mand of aid from the highest intellects in the country may enable them to communicate." The great recommendation of the scheme hem chalked out consists in its catholicity, or its ember sing the whole population of Swaged ; in its pop lar 'gamy, or bang worked by the people themselves; and in the wide latitude of free action, it leaves to the Individual insight and temperament of the hadisre. Ws believe that Scotland is rips for it; and we would his regard the gre.tleinsa who have signed the manifesto as an organised perranent com mittee for urging a meteore based upon their principles on the adoption of the legislature. If they an obtain for their part of the empire the establish ment of such a system as they contemplate, they will have secured for It a boon unequalled minor the first introduction of the Scotch parish schools by the great fathers of the reformation. And this system, once firmly established in Scotland, will room the emula tion of the southern pert of the island. GERMANY. swan. JAIL 11. The reissiime et the fiestied Che:Ses: to have coated meth expctation, he may were said he sad 8 tholes. the debate was heavy in the at ael The pr hr legs* with 'theft at and with's! the treaty he the ton et the p rz scalers ha ,mead -- t was to the et the Aseemithe Osant_henlm. Boyteenburg asseptiagthe Leg% an hereditary cre=poseposiagliniterv= until 1882. et the latotheat es t vourably of Arnisi's amendment. The seed ant speech was that of Betherath, sal i.e argument which he and mi. • shoe; immesh.. Beekerath retailed the debates whisk bad been held ia both thenalses :dative to the artiele of 'bombard salmi- Wien width rehire to the formation of the upper bona Ladd, leader of the Right Castro in the Sess.d Chamber, thee prepaid a mode el mating the wades, which was admitted by the Bused Chamber, but ft! by the First, in eassmiquate which both to retain the famished rule so =to =the preempt lkat Chamber wee Baden& apse that eosin pointedly asked the middles whether the seseptemat et that rale would put thy difiesity in the way of the Ring's salt : the addible easwered that it would not. Thereupon be sad his party agreed to the rah. He now relied WM the ministers to explain how they, as :Tra'Admired the crown, Gould being forward pr i :pnition am that referring to this subject in the royal message, under the pretext that the Xing refaced his oath to • settlement to which they had pledged his oath. The ministers said not a word in answer to this challenge. By their silence they abdi cated all right to be con idered as independent men. The debate was opened by Manteuffel, who went through all the 16 articles of the message, declaring first that the ministers were far hem considering the whole in its integrity as of the same importance throughout; but be stated positively that the crown would not yield one iota upon the two propositions • ooneeraing the peerage and tee high court. He WA followed by Bader, who produced an impression at , the end of his speak by applying the epithet of " in , human "to the goverametet for making such demands on the loyal deputies of the loft. Herr von Roder r warned the chamber against introducing bitterness ' into the debate. Harkoet praised the constitution, and regretted that it should be weighed down by , such heavy conditions. Urliehs, Beckerath, Pratach, Count Dyhon, and others followed. JAN. 26. The Second Chamber having terminated yesterday the general discussion on the royal message, entered to-day upon the partioulsr propositions. The most important, 4,7, 8, and 10, that le, entails, finances, peerage, and high court, were reserved. In the meantime all the rest were pasted with eat alteration, excepting 9 and 13, the first of which relates to the demarcation of electoral districts, and the last to the legality of government ordinances. To both of these amendments were pro posed. That proposed to 13 materially changed its substance. Of the reserved propositions only one was in the morning sitting discussed, namely, the high court. This was passed with an amendment that completely knocked out the teeth and pared the claws of the institution in' its proposed shape. It was settled that a high court should only b, established in the usual legislative way, and that it should be a jury court. The amendment to pro pcsition 13, concerning the legality of government or dinances, was proposed by Diirre, and to this effect : The examination of the legality of such ordmances b. longs not to the authorities, but to the Chambers. This was passed by a majority of 171 votes against 157. Munteuffel declared in the benginning of the de bate, that he was authorised to declare that if the propositions which he had yesterday designated as the cardinal points of the message, namely, the peerage and high court, were accepted, the work of the constiontion might be regarded as completed. On such moments hangs the fate of centuries. The high court was thrown out, and of course the peerage will be also thrown out. The Chamber has done some thing to retrieve its character. Toe minister declared in the sitting of this evening tut the government accepted Arnim's amendment. This is highly important, and makes the division on the peerage doubtful. Twelve speakers were in scribed, six on either side. Arnim led off, intro ducing his amendment in a speech of some length. Mannteuffel: followed, declaring that the government accepted the amendment, which accepts the royal proposition on the peerage, but pro prises to defer the execution thereof until 1852. Dunker followed, speaking against the peerage. The oretically, he said, he was in favour of that institu tion, but practically against. Geppert spoke next in favour. I left Geppert at half-past eight on his legs. fhe debate was expected to last until after midnight. After the peerage there would only remain proposition 4, on the entails and fiefs. The Chamber was in tensely crowded, and the greatest anxiety prevailed to hear the result, which possibly may be com municated in a telegraphic despatch before the morning. [By Electric Telegraph.] BERLIN, Ism. 26, MIDNIGHT. Count Arnim's amendment, deferring the creation of the pairie until 1852, was adopted by a majority of 12. VIENNA. ',ix. 21. There appears in the Grainer Zeitung a very remark able address from the Landtage-oomminion at Gratz to the government on the subject of the newconstitation, whin% has been promulgated for Styria. In this manly composition, which proves that the leading men in some of the Austrian provinces are by no reins wanting in the dignity and firmness which form the best weapons for encountering a tyrannical government, a protest is calmly laid against the lesion of existing rights, which is introduced by the new charter. In one article the right of petition to the Imperial government is mutilated, and the article which formerly guaranteed the invio- lability of members of the Landtag has been omitted from the new constitution. But the address is chiefly valuable for its calm tone of resistance to what is really an inroad upon existing rights instead of a concession of fresh liberties as is pretended. It is this perfidy of making an ostentatious but worth his present with one band, while an old sterling pri vilege is snatched away with the other, that makes these octroyed charters so loathsome to the people. The Slanenski fug, an Altman newspaper, in its number of the 18th lest., contains a correspondence of the 12th from Bukowar in Sven* whereby it ap pears that a battle had taken place between the Auto- Wan military and the people on the 11th inst. The account given of the origin of the affair' is, that several peasants had rendered them salves amenable to the law by extensive depreda tions in the woods about Bukovar, which they exercised under the pretext that ;he Ban had wee* them leave. A military force was sent to enforce the summons of the stanbrichter, or judge in first isstanoe, to these offenders, to appear before his tribunal. The peasantry rose en masse against the suldieis, and drove them book to Bnkovar, where a r egular insurrection now broke out. The tocsin rang I from the tower of the Greek church. All the mill- .. nay detachments posted near Bnkovar immediately marched to the scene of combat. Authentic accounts of the upshot of the affair are wanting. It appears that similar disturbances have taken place at Panscova (pronounced Panshwa) ooeite 8 mlin. The Turkish Berthing having agreed with their discontented brethren under Austrian rule that as soon as the river should be well frozen they would cross over to the left bank with a formidable force lend assail the Austrian military, and then establish a &Irian regency,: and this plan being betrayed to the I Austrians, a considerable militaryiforce, consisting of a division of infantry and a squadron of cavalry, was marched into Pansoova on the 10th inst. The dis turbances reported to have taken place at Pansoova are contradicted by the Agromer Zeitung, which, !.owt ver, admits that a requisition on the part of the military authority to furnish 94 recruit* for the army in Italy excited the greatest discontent, and was felt to be all the more galling as substitutes could not be procured fur a thousand florins. Surrwaacx.—On Tuesday evening lest, the brig Frica.lll.ip, of Cardigaa, Dams, master, lot this port in ballast. The night was very doe and bright, but owing to her lying tat does to the north shore of our bay she ran upon a wit of rooks at Spiddal, whore she now lies with her bottom stove in ; if the wind should blow fresh tress the southward she will beams • total wreek.—Oalway lfsr own. 6111,41: _ Ms ippon of IL Ihiere we ! pabliii eesielesiejs 1 losers in the Neiman elll4ay. ia Mended as am 'Anil* al a plan that is to be out Ia de 1. M.4' & sfUlAs.Slaliseli kr t, Mllete - reports frogs the commaittee. maim napr_vn vowel views thrush the of IL Thmett. The important luensget thee is divided into the mural hub of—Osearel plitellies I otasialfd eta baste eel Melts; mislume I Qs rigid of Lbws I Istsillhiumsts ef sradit I the egrisaltaral in struiatios of wseloosa maws et avoidin imsgsnshm elksbena I AMISS eir haulm; bop ov en mat of Isegkarbossos dmistim at intend succour ; old egos wimp banks oil gussima batiks. Times wined Itemises aro treatel eel asedisrekli isugth, mad am sammed i :V a itt felkinriog ansimisoa With regard to is msesessey tbas babe abash% be resolved sad led when mother abases= thele i lekillier from shame or inewskillity The swam eihe has the ions rage to sad set 'beaus it. mast be sealetel, aad wan Its waited ta nue publio seelles (triodes), ea `asylum Meats! for th e purpose, UAW she gess to east her daily breed. Care mut be tuba Iket sinsgtla of the Slut &said net he ialllsasd telee berry trials ; eadeavoure malt be mode to must Yea what ha &shout, however, sat to emit beams the sures of 'eruption be m l be per. in last, WI be is oubkil to work fee himself. We submit the ups uses* of *me urea. Bat ft mast act be Scavenge that mkt, had ass welted for a reveled= to eater era Wise duties. The lenadUag towers, sane ellen, sad lv*tia hospitals are of aid date. _The iageekas sad beutikft la. teatime el pubilearediss sad asylums he shakos= Sass of the law .:traded to shildran soaks la hefts, or she fall yeses late the Ina jades t sat this is as old as the seam eel of the menorgby. Thu ban of society Imi, *woks% am bees sold sad lassmible to the miseries el US& hoed. Bet &Skies bee ever been Sobbed la this wed, and all that has been imegiaed of this Wad "mein le be finished sad pedants/ Geed motives had led to th a r= erasion of Sosedliog Mines. They must be smuts Cgriala improvesesels west ha made ia lbe wh Zeses Ar youth. These we shall pepsin. The km the abase of cliddrea's snag* I. Marin must be e. early pet Ia fore. The systtai usher which childrea see imprisoned moat he solormed. The lasetien et wreathe. ship meat be Shea lees esesideraties. Oa thft snide* thus new laws are almost reedy he you esmaideraties For middle age mere east be Mk to seem himself, and his own were. It bag bogs said thet the state might be age, by esseafaleg establishments of wait, agive every work• wan fa swum ss well as country amens sad espisl for workless individually awl oellostivsly. Tear committee doss a ft believe la the visibility of sack as eseggersted bookies system. It km little Mit in the aphelian' bask =as mgmhed is essemey, and it obsoletely cosh ens deo of mosey. It formally Alma to mossimilises kilt4 =l =ea (apical adveued by the Sate, sad he rids begin let Wens, because they pre emie me eniesimit melee Ni Miss. It hes bees esill that She sloes was NINO le glee week to whosoever mike der ft. Tear essassiodee, rasing its *aims au good mac eel the umfttation, Meets the ides of sub bat thiab it would be wise so to distribnte the state, ss to diminish this when work is abomisat lunges Wes when work it not It be smelly had. If es esamieation this °plane is confirmed, a new institatka will be proposed to you, which will farther the object is view. After the questiese of better dividing the work. of the state, comes that of egiceisation, fee which Algeria is a wide Bold. This subject has given rise to rash discussion ie the committee, which has taken no decides as yet ia the saner. lteedieity depots (poor-houses) complete the series tows whisk society use offer to men in waat of wink. Tour committee, faithful a the principle that able man should nem for his being, sakes he be ill or Isom ea accident, looks opm the Societies of Mutual Seems: as the som natural mods of embusses ; being at use the most natural, the most tree, and the worthiest of maabood. • law is at sue sabwitted to you to regulate the system of these societies. Ammon the points the worlds' man most neglects is that of lodgings. la this matter your etesmiesiee thinks that society may de sometkieg with effect by a little= A law he. been made spook the 'abject and I aow to you. For old age the bums= of roving.' is mousy. BSI the question arises which is the best =de of ellegell. Is it savings' basks or passim banks? Year sommillese bee progreamed in Leon, of the former, which whilst it creates a capital, always at the disposal of the working sea allows his to rim is kin trade, end to form his children mad thee to prepare Us veal asylum tor his' old age, • grateful sad we& established family. Society in these latter time he left nothing to be deiced is respect of savings books. Your COSlSditite, however, does es reject the idea of pennies beaks, U they are founded with the money of those who are to profit by them. Bat the enemy by which this object is to be at tained mast not be forced, log that would be imprestleabk, and w.sid place the state in the situation of *Wag he every body, and of being depsiton of all the scounicsofa cation ; an attempt of this kind would be absurd sad imposible to execute. It thinks advisees by the state are also Ogee tiousble but les es, perhaps, than obligatory 'simony. Your co mmittee, though it considers that the state thereby leaves its groper sphere of action by occapyieg itself with pensions of others than public functionaries, is not avers to its becoming treasurer of new sisals banks converted late butlers. A law pressed by a special committee, and amended by government, will , give you an opportunity of peonennoing ea this pent. Finally, there remains for old age the n source of hoe. pitsh, which may be rendered of a less painful use to the people by certain modifications, though their moues may possibly not be developed at will. You sett by these conclusions" how elaborately the committee has worked to destroy every vestige of all that the President prop:wee for social reforms. Working corporations, proton banks, pensioners for old ags—all these are rejected without mercy; and there is added: Thatch mach km been dooe much yet remains to be se complished ; but this good in prospect's is not that which has been proposed. In this, as m all thing*, the state, which is but men, isenclosed within the limits of possibility, and to promise that the beaten track shall be avoided is no sign that the provoke will be accomplished ; it will be the mere con tract for an impossible engagement, the mattes at hopes which must become deeeptiose, sad ultimately lead to despair. _ . . Such is the tone and spirit in which this long expected report is written. The committee proposes, after all, very little beyond the statu quo. This re sult of its labours cannot but add to the ire of the chief of the executive, who will see in this another proof of the desire that it has all along manifested to thwart his plans. M Goury de Roslan, who is to leave Paris for La Plata on Tuesday next, will bring as instiuctions to Admiral Lepredonr the request to avoid a conflict by all the honourable means in his power ; further, the first act of the admiral is to be the disarmament of the foreign legion at Montevideo. The Napoleon states that the fleet in Ls Plata is composed of La Constitution, fr., 40, flag of Admiral Lepredour; Ls Trionsphante, 24, eery.; L'Astrolabe, core., 14, and the Alcebiade ' brig, 20. The government is now about to send La Zenebie, fr., as a transport, without guns; La Pomona, fr., 46; Le Prony, ste4m core.; three armed transports; Mereure, brig, 20; Pre voyante, corvette, 14; L'Aloioette, gun brig, 8; Pan thers, gun brig ; Le Flambart, aviso steamer. The Zeoobie carries 400 marines, the Pomone 200, the transports 800. The rest of the ships will carry no troops. The composition of this flotilla is, in the eyes of competent naval judges, most extraordinary, so much so, that doubts have arisen as to the correct ness of the Napoleon's information. MONDAY. 11 It is announced that the legitimist journal 1,14 Mode is to be prosecuted by the Attorney-Geteral for persevering in the statement that a coup d'ltal had been determined on in a Council of Ministers, presided over by . the President. The prosecution' is for an offence against the President, and for exciting' to blared and contempt against the government of the I Republic. M. Declarenil, mayor of Peyrilhoe, in the depart t moot of the Haute Vienne, has been dismissed by a decree of the President of the Republic. PARIS FUNDS, JAN. 28. CLOSING PRIMES : Three per Conte Five per Cents. Bank Shun 58f. Oe. 95f. Mu 2384 The French mails, with our Paris parcel of yester day evening, had not arrived when we went to pew ITALY. ROME, 18. Of the Pope's return no one even thinks at pre sent; the only circumstance at all bearing on the question is the late trip of the little Roman steamer Tiber to Portici. This vessel, only adapted for river navigation, was despatched same time ago to Napier, in order to take on baud the heavy baggage belong. ing te the members of the Sacred College and the papal court. The run was accomplished successfully in spite of the steamer's having DO keel. bat on its re. tun. to Fiumicino the Tiber encountered a gale, and, o w a hard struggle, succeeded in getting shelter under the island of Poems, where it remained for 1 1 4-NM-and-forty hours before it could venture to eras to the r.earevt Roman port, Porto d'Ansl, its arrival proving a welcome surprise, as it bad already been c elup for last with all its ecclesiutical treasures on c Court. PARLIAMENTARY AND FINANCIAL REFORM. WINDSOR, JAM. 2s. • Zti Qum walked dda earning in tin Slopes and Wildeleyerk. • TIN rep* fogy look walking NM ray unties is the weak aillesena Ie th•Oastin Ms Rey& 'Wan raises Albert west oat &loadq this amealea, aseseßalthe Leal Oiseers ant Celawl Tbe ro yal abase party at the Otstie this ereeleri a = ar dis bre M the Dashes. et Kest, Peony Howard,Beseness de Spent, sad Odeon lie/L MR. 0. THOMPSON AND THE ELECIORS OF THE TOWER, HAMLETS. An aggregate ssooting of the electors and other inhabitants of the Tower Hamlets was held yesterday even alavwftWs Chapel , W a reohnibiteotteralthCserserpchre,mitottlionin endeaove mablis ture of Um eswatry, and at the same time to aced to r. Georg* Tbswpose, cow of the membits tot the borough, the *ppm*" of ..blag his annual state meat to his oometitesalewlft Mews@ to the proceedings of the Howes of Chndlldell dedi: the last session, and the (stare rasped. of the sure reform in this country. The hattlleg b whish the rarefleg was held is sad to contain the greatest wasent of etellable upset far a poblie meeting in the botaegh,Mkedieg seseamededea ler about 6,000 per moos, sad was LIM la ewer part. Tim chair was takes, pro kn. by Mr. FRY, Mr. HALL, who bad been announced as the chairman, not haring arrived at the bout named for opening the in• eting, seven ___ M. Vu de :IF the Belgian Minister, had an lasersisw with the Hoe. H. fteWe yesterday at toe elk* or tie_ _ _of Trade. _ __ _ _ Ti. iemaoTrise, Lord President of the Cewask hes tweed isthmian to the cabinet ministers, and Oa MINS of Sat. of the Chasm's Loseshold,=:l 6 wager, ea Swards, ant, the Sed Peirreary. at Now. At the mestiag of tho distinguished party the roil of Media fee thalamus; year will be amused. Lord John Raasall returned to towa yesterday mantis' tram Windsor Carte. Despatches wan received yesterday at the Colonial dies from the gammon of New South Wales sad the Cape of Geed Hops. The Chancellor of the Exchequer and Lady Mary Weed had a &aim party on Saturday, at their reside.., is Dowaing•strest. The Marchioness of Lansdowne and the Earl and comma of Smlburna strived at Lansdowne house yesterday, from &mood Park, Wilts. Mr. HOWE; rose to move the first resolution • "Teat in the deliberate judgment of this meeting a thorough renovation of the representative system of this twountry ht not only justly demanded en the rionstitutioaal right ot the people, but u necessary to the abolition of the politimil, financial, and ecclesiastical abutters so loudly come 'gained of. This meeting, therefore, rejoices in the era. blisement of the Nations' Reform Amociatior, and tender. over wil o o atasits thatP 't whicht t hey (o s pi Befhlire. fe llo ws hip r a il : b i d I t u r e l )mno ai sennei concurred theirt h e ii :n e t m i jp in i eo hc e Y e w husv i — o r e etb r ri e .( et that at i i , od s et odit sust ai n.) hi o — goei teyf i t u e h th t c mdp tie:a:l3°lr reap. lotion, patriotin objects to which they are devoted." e art lotion, especially in so far as it went to tender to him the presided. right lii l hand own n carrying out the objects of the asaocie'ion over which he well of the country, he had brought before them and pro poanded • happy medium which he (Mr. Rows) would bind together in one bond of common union the middle and the working elleselL (Hass, bear.) Mr. HALL here entered the meeting, and bevies/ taken the chair, which was vacated by the chairman pro tem., proceeded to apologise for not having been present attht hour appointed, and explained that he had mist.. ken the place of meeting. He was glad toots that he was supported by Sir Joshua Walenstray end Mr. Thompson ; he regretted that Sir William Clay was not present. (Hisses are proro.s, and a voice—" No, be is one of the whig tail.") Trey had, however, a sufficient substitute in his' old fee. nd, Mr. Wil- Hame, the late member for Coventry, and nothing would give him greater pleasure than to see him returool at the next election for a constituency like that he was now ad dreesiog, end again sitting at the right hand of Mr. Hume and aiding him in his efforts to economies the p u bli c expenditnee. Dr. OXLEY briefly seconded the resolution, Mr. T. DICK spoke in support of it, complaining that though the duty on corn and other articles of faro had been removed, there was still a duty on cheese, butter, h .ma, and which enhanced the price, to the prejudice of the working man, to whom they were necessaries. The resoluton was then put and carried unanim . fusly. Bir J. WALMOLEY, M.P., who, on coming hi t`.e front of the platform, was loudly cheered, next spoke. He said— Ladies and gentlemen, my friend, the cheirman, hos a pent right as a resident among you, and an elector ot the Tower Hamlets, to say what he Items on the seuj e ct, but I dis claim, as the president of the association, any at tempt on the pert of that association to dienne to the electors of the Toter flamlets, or to say to you who shah be year representative, and who shall not. Nut now only, hut at all Swiss, that association will disclaim any interior. uce in the undoubted richt of the people to chose toe their re pus. nth eves in parliament whomsoever they might consiuer most worthy of that position • but ! must co outs torther a d say that 1 consider such observations in the ate nce of Sir W. Clay are not justified as issuing from the their of a sheeting like the present. (A Voice, " Why is he not her., then 2") Aye, that is the question. Has he been asked 2 (Cheers, ant some confusion.) lam not here to throw the apple of discord amongst you, but to do justice as far as I can to all. (Hear, hear.) Aeri I say it is the question, has Sir William Clay been asked to appear here this evening, and if not. I say su, h obeervati inns the chair are uncalled for. (Cheers.) It i. the privilege—it is the right of Englishmen to give a fair hearing to all. (Hear, hear.) And what Sir William Coy wants and is entitled to at your hands is a clear stare and no tin it. (Cheep.) I am not here as the advocate of Sir William Clay; but 1 say give him the opportunity of answerieg for himself, and condemn him not until you have heard him. (Cheers.) There is yet another observation I f. el it my duty to refer to—l must reprobate such remarks in reps eking of the agricultural classes as "sees. less meet's." (Hear, hear.) They are not so. They are men as able, as indeutrions, and as indefatig aile as yourselves. It is true they have been canto.' by it troisted parties- but have you never been misled ? (Hier, near.) How Long is it since you have come to your senses ? (Hear, n sr.) How long is it since y u were on the one site "re, s," and on the other "blues," and were cajoled by those who, when their purpose was served, had no b-tter rase for you than a "stainless rabble 2" (Hear, hear.) I bee, e the agricultural class are awakening rapidly to a true e nee of their condition, and will soon be found reekthg the armada ship of the other classes. They waiet inure than you do assistance to rescue them from the serdons under which they have been so long lao,uriue. (Hear, hear.) Is-t us show kindness to them, goodwill and brotherly feel ing, and not insult them by calling them a senrel.ss mars. (Loud cheers.) I am persuaded that the time is not far distant when you will find the egricuduri.ts t •e greatest retormers of the day. (Hear, hear.) 1 hoe, heard Mr. Hume say in the House ot Commons, seam and spin, that whatw most energetic and de ermined reform re were the acricul turista. (Cheers and laughter.) Dipind upon it tt.ey will soon be so stain. (Hear, hear.) With these obeereationt, I will pass from this suiject to the purposes of the meeting. We are met here, gentlemen, for a two-fold people—to submit to you the principles ut a parliamentary reform association, and to do honour, or rather to liver and exa mine what Mr. Thompson has to say to his constituents. I am proud to bear my testimony, not mile in the Tower Hamlets, but throughout all England and Soolanti, to the honeurabre and patriotic conduct whit.. my hon friend has observed—to the constitutional principl a which he has enunciated, not here only, but throughout a gr. as portion of the kingdom, when staading forward to demand the just rig'uts of the people amongst the n. Dies of she land, and wholly irrespective of what might be the consequences to himself. But this was what was to be expected of him. Look at his antecedents—et his inde fatigable exertions in err king off the "deal. s of the slave, exertions which never ceased until his oleo' was .• tined. Such were his anmeedents ; and now he con:es :orward to travel, without fee or reward, and to eiv his time end his talents, from out. end of the country to snot roe, to abolish the slavery which still exists among the white men—for the millions in this country are stall Ittds bete. r than serfs in the hands of the ol:garcey. (Loud clt.ers.) We have met also to consider the prizecip'es of the association of which I am the chairman, but 1 sill not offend the good tense ot the constituency of the la grit and most influential borough in England—in the world—by supposing that they do not understand everyone of t :em— shopkeepers, artizans, and an classes—as w 11 a I do myself. (Cheers.) (The hon. gentleman retired from he froi.tot the platform amidst long and protracted dm e rt. g ) Mr. GEORGE THOMPSON then cane forward, and after the enthusiastic cheering with whir h . e WA greeted had subsided, spoke nearly as folloessi—l rejoice that this meeting affords me the opportani'n of pr seating myself before so many of those whom I have the honour to represent in the House of Commons. (chef's.) Having given no vote in that house contrary Use. to the prufessoins which I made when I sought to elver i•, or to the die ate. of my conscience, having tie the bee: of my ability endeavoured to discharge my duty fai:htully aeA .i.do pecciently, and having no desire to ceirtione ma that house when I cease to enjoy the confidence of tho-e who cent me there, I am not afraid of coining before %mg.( Rene eed cheers.) I cannot say that it has been my hsppinese and pr.vilege to assist it. carrying through parliament au/ great measure of legislative justice to the people, either kw the enlargement of their rightful political power, or the dtminutiot rod their heavy and intolerable burdens. In the Ice session of par liament the government, and a large majority of the house, have resisted all attempts to reduce 'he publfe eepeedoure, sad all museum in favour of parliamentary refrain. (Cries of" Shame.") As far as any result in tne Howe of Commons is concerned, all the motions on the" subj. roe, however ably brought forward and dimmed, have been is yin One feet, I think, must have been long app 'rent to those whom I address—that leeislati in, in all but its last rages, and as a matter of form, has to be done out ed doors. (Hem, hear.) I mean that legislation which kends in ail degree to a tvance the social or politicol welfare ot the people. (Cheers.) The House of Commons rimy b.? let to vote THE LOSS or THE RICHARD DART TRANS- money, and they will do it—to sanction any aline, and they roar.—Since the announcement of the loin of this unfortu- will do it—to support any job which will increase the nate vessel on the islands of Prince Edward, further in- patronage of the minister, and they will d, it; but that house telltgenee hag arrived confirming the feamul sacrifice of life must not be looked to for any measure of real rat on u til the that took place on the occasion. With the exception of people have settled the au. scion out of cure —(lieu, hew) — three privates, the entire detachment of Sappers and Miners nor then, until they slirAY a determirein not to rest lads was lost. The following list of the sufferers has been tied until their demands are granted. (Cleo. is.) At pro furnished us by the authorities of the garrison at W.olwich, sent the work of initiation, of instruction, of egitaton, and to which most of them belonged prior to their departure in of organisation for g. neral action, has lo be dare, before the Richard Dart :—Lieut. James Liddell ; Dr. Fitton, there is even a disposition in the Howe' of r. pignut , to Mrs. Fitton, and child; Mr. Kelley, and assistant; Mr. look at any question in which the !smile ate interested. Gale, surgeon; Bergt. John Sutton, wife, and child ; Corpo. Why is this ? !lecture, in the vast ni j trity of cum, ral John Mulreaney; Lance-Corporal Noht, Blue and the m e mb ers of the House of Commors, evading ....molter wife; Privates David John, Joseph IttLean, Robert Martin, of the present imperfect, corrupt, and utt.,e a ,'0.4,1'1 at,- John Soon, Charles Quigley, James Barker, William tem of elections, have virtually returned Cie we've", V Welsh, Merlin Nicholson, Samuel Pinch, Alexander Clark, mon. y, by family influence, or by ether . qu o in William Cambrary Green ( w id ower en d three children), able means -and, having done so, sir ire thy .egilature, cot Robert Alexander, Nathaniel Vtcory, Samuel Porter, to promote the wishes or the welfare of the per u. to Richard Holt, James Furguson, William Thomas, Ilia wife, support those abuses by which they anti Mar immediate sad lour children, and William Witcher. In addition to conoexions prat, and through which lore humhers u' them the above, eleven of the crew of the vessel shared the same derive their sole support. Hence the she use sit ceseitv of a fate. The Richard Dart was quite a new ship, with cargo; thorough renovation ot the represent...My...pun (Hear -) the less is raid to be upwards ot 20,0001. But it is some consolation; to know that it lit:le that is COLLISION AND Lose or' LIFE.— Information gond beyond the repeal of the navio..tom lows has been reached Harwich yesterday of a very serious collision, in- done within the walls of •parliament, much ttoet wilt even voleieg the loss of several lives, which occurred early on malty determine the character of our future leitalatt..ll Da! Saturday morning, nearly abreast of Aldborough. About been done out of doors. (Much chetYing ) Mmygreat 5 o'cloc k brig Ann and Maria, of South Shed+, was questions have been mooted and disci'. ',A. end h . 70 beating off the coast on her way to London, when she came taken tiro hold of the minds of tne public. he in contact with the barque Ben Nevis, Mr. Liddel, bound shadows which coming events have cast before, for some northern port. The weather being extremely brie been observed, and we now hear ruarol.rs ministeria l serous, the sancta were immediately gemmed, and the brig intentions and measures during the sea-ion, whet will open foundered at 12 o'clock the next day. With the exception on Thursday next. (Cheers.) The Colonies, say sow:. ' rd . of one seaman, every soul on board perished. The barque, to b e encouraged to hope mad to ask for aeltirover 11 "7 1 1 sus:shred but trifling damage, and proceeded on her voyage. and freedom nom the obstruction, intermidduag , ram REPORTED ADVANCE OP MR. JONES LOYD TO TII6 PIIIRAOL—It ii 111111011 Ted and believed in the City that the honour of the peerage will be conferred on Mr. fiensind Jones Loyd, who, it will be observed, bee just re. tired from badness as a banker LORD JEFFREY. (From the D tily News.) " Napoleon's marshals hard one by one disappeared from the great scene of their reward and renown. Whilst France was great in achievement' of war, England, not backward in them, was still greater in efforts of mind. And our military commanders yield to no foreign contemp orary . But the thinkers and advancers of English intellect, from the cultiva tion of poetry to that of political tcmomy, from the study and illustration of the h. art and of life to that of public affairs and political science, stand unrivalled. No one amongst them can take precedence of FRANCIS JEFFREY. And yet who was he? TLe founder of a periodical, the great dealer in anonymous criticism, the framer of a liberal, and therefore an at first loudly decried party. Two of our eminent authors hare been lately disputing about the respec tability and dew of penmen. Let them contem plate the career of JEFFREY, and see what a good goose-quill can do, when it has got an idea to animate, discretion to guide, and a will to keep it steady. And be it noted, with reference to this same dispute, that the reputation of JEFFREY or of any other man is not prorrtioned so much to what he wrote, but to what he did, not to his superior talents, but to the as be made of them. He is a great man not became of his wit shown in any one article, or before any given company, but because JEFFREY has a real alio sensible idluence upon his age; and that wirlding knowledge and power, he made that power be felt and be fruitful. JEFFREY wu the origin and the leading spirit of a great revolution, not the less a revolution for being an unseen and a slow one. At the be ginning of the present century, England and Englie h men were indued with a coat of tory pr,juaice, so thick and so impenetrable that every liberal missile fell blunted from each a breastplate. There could have been little difference then between the poli tical temperature of London and that of St. Petersburgh. French excesses and successes had rendered them so odious and so formidable, that every liberal idea was scouted, because inevitably tinctured with Gallicanism. Fox and his friends committed fault after fault, the result of headlong and generous feeling. But each year disproved their predictions, and every event belied their phi losophy. The current towards toryism, nay, towards absolutism, was so strong, that dulness floated triumphant on it, and kept the lead without effort. la an age worthy of the Dwwiad, " all the talents" were at a lamentable discount. It was then that in a remote and distant capital, where toryism also had its hereditary spread and far roots, certain spirits communed and clubbed together, to begin what we should now call an agitation. But it was an agitation, which began with the gentlest stir, a quiet ventilation of ideas, that had been lying dusty and in rep me. A periodical was started as the organ. Young and undeveloped intellects poured into it though at first small in experience and power. But the very exer cise ot thinking and writing for the pubic soon swelled their power, improved their minds, and the Edinburgh Renew, what* began with the voice ot a child, filled the empire with its manly tone, its searching and thought riming inquiries, its univer sally-exciting interest. It sought every student in his closet, every intellect in its lair, whether the poet, the philosopher, or the politician : and the mule or the jenny was not a more won derful development of the power of spinning wool, than the new periodical engine became for spinning thought. The history of the Edinburgh Renew is that of a long crust de, gaining annual victories, and advancing step by step, now and then indeed suffering a check on points where it was not prepared--as,for example, in the corn law of 1815, but nevertheless taking greater and greater hold of public opinion, till at last whiggism was re-instated, and was enabled by taking lib .cal ideas at the flood in 1830 to carry out our reform and their own ascendancy. There, indeed, ended the crusade. The whigs from a popular became a governmental party; whilst the great task of agitating and informing the public mind passed to younger parties, to other schools, and to other classes. Into any recount of these we need not stretch, for the active influence of JEFFREY scarcely extended beyond 18.30, although we do but to day record the close of his mortal career. Other pens are better fitted to do justice to the lite rary genius and personal excellence of JEFFREY. As a literary, or even as a political writer, we s ould scarcely have undertaken to write his epitaph or swell the announcement of his decease into an essay. It is as the innoviecie, the awakener, the founder of a school of philosophic and argumentative agitation, that JEFFREY commands our atmn tion and draws forth a tribute of gratitude. His was a happy, a well-filled, and successful life. Foremost amongst foremost spirits, well fitted to be the first, and to take the lead amongst them, he showed them the way through brilliant triumphs to final victory. Nor is it lees conducive to his fame to say that his aim, when completed, died with him; and that tne great ideas of political and commercial freedom, so well and wisely nursed, and tended in a narrow circle for a cer tain time, must henceforth be entrusted, not to a coterie, but to the open and enlightened classes of the popula tion. Toryism is defunct, and has been dissolved to other elements. It is time that whiggism should, with equal grace, submit to a similar fate. It is time that it should abandon the vain endeavour to preserve in a narrow circle of the whig-born, whig-connected, and whig-ordered, that asceudanoy which was won by 6 , popular intellects in the popular field.