The Express. — London, England, 1850-05-24 00:00:00

s g :august libintY• *wind delsitiN it low roll 1r LIU IT weber =DR tin era algams. al& . ...Avails. 14 haamma. aas .1)PON, FAIDAT, NAT N. 'hoe of Cbtoseas was buried last b l / 4 ht : cs , mach sa mops are sometimes predpi. act i je , withint bake in the best prepared wsea this takes slam the remit is csasrolly write. in whioh some captain's sod do l m sys , low c••:rsge end akin, bat from which cs-. c , tce. There is no Ira tile o f -liith 07 figl.t, but a ;oars airmail. ' r ide? and shot. ; n o 'vt cieht's debate, which teas& s w tr.d to adj ere, than to tendiasto „k put the er tire political world has Imes in th:nk, what to coaclade. We bare . 7 eV e t surreputitionsly the dastatterate ~, French Asses* by the Paris And even One centabs 'whin, but •••-r. et ts of she chief point in dispute, the ..,;„"stedr of Btrca Craw's suspension of his Yoter2ry afternoon the lingliah blue book -o the bards of members, who, even those :.r. evidently wanted either time or courage • Fn g could be lamer than toe Mr. Svt THE and Mr. DISIUALI. It *.l.raeroa's bei. prince be oak kept in opp•it1011 as this, be may . sabdits the -.,nt the :east Inward of either let or puha l-owtrer. that ea what we have de r c!,:ef point inapt*, Lord PswtEs :-a•iarr Were 60 seaviteing and *ends. !Ztr :.h little COCAS fur emit. Nothing an ;!: !hat Barra Owe .lid throw up his N:: can any further proof be needycl of the fact, that when Mr. WISE • : ton his last proposals. in the hope rain wonld obriate the necessity o f .?r-,re measures, Baron Gans stated reccumiend their adoption in his pri. Siatly this was adailieg that his .; to was at sr erd. Nam ft admitted • was. that Bar.. Oasis. ia hie private , reconnamd the acceptance of Mr. diii r.s, al hough he did not consider • •: : the honour and glory of France Ti..d their adoption :as the representative of . Can ant thing be plainer than that • in'.. public capacity, recomme7 ded not theniht ju.t and right, but each • t olLiLing of which would redound to his Lezotistor, and to the influence of the "h stutlim? !fed, reves.s the rate feree of the Preach w not undertaken in the interest L:.;lam. bat cf French di -nity. e The .3t, fez% pretended Load= that 4 e.r u-cd ethers in order to mean t, Eogi 11'1 demands, whilst they Greece that they interfered to defend ?CT demands. The very dupli -'• •it err cf mediation was made 7 - .llt , :ie'. i Nit. :4:MI THE ceosared Lord :..N havin; stivrn mistrust of Franca S was it I m::,19 m 9:ow full co:Aldose' in , w:ion it was well sr t. tt, French savoy. had, r..y c:atuelled Leg Onto to sett mut for a French sapp rt :hat mainline, P In feet. 2 -m wage neutralised by M. ernmeanco of the French .ty 'Aft M. Tnorvasiu. the position - lay this part, was the very canes Of 1,0 t.cep t: is 91 GE • bast was evidently that the durst Lot have again re • rased coercive measures. And -tee is that bat that prevented yielding at ail. It was not the 'ten 110 and 180,000 drachmas that Kng 0=0; it was whether any two .:tag powers could not prevent the third :awards him any CCErtiqll. Wan .red of this, it was plain that he might play any pranks he pillaged cle • ere or English trade, perfectly on,. :=•, , ,Lity, bat triumph . The moment that ard Admiral PARKER undeceived King ' from that moment all resistanc e •-ed.fferesoe was at an end. hoar in which the thick volume uletee upon Greece (384 pages) has 'IT hatds, we have not had time v?!.. the attention required for a case in ,N is so mach pettiness and minutia. The rf Biros GROS, however, " That he als• • der.eg that Lis mission has terminated, or • tt . .Lteutarly suspended," is quite sufficient . the principal point of the case. And is we take the declaration of Baron i.e thought it best for the King to yield to forms, and not reeogniess p.e of the British demands, and that such t:s (Baron Gaos's) own condact (page f.:iy in possession of the animus of a :to undertook to go to Athens and make of oar tlsime be respected. • vt,:e, therefore, we cannot bat lay the . .L.l . .t!orturAte breach oa the French, and Frk•ch alohe. We cannot censure . ..vm-io:s for instructions which he ktowt 0 the French government d , ..., , t1ti.td their negotiator. Nor can we •-• WY it for acting up to the spirit of these • ye ttd, aftcr havintr made very large COCOS,. .r rtt.o.itt; to allow hie entire efforts to be nal 4..matic trickery. Ling 0120 and his 13• »e hoseian envoy, and the two French !tt orettery and the extraordinary, were qatit tee quietest and simplest man on L. Mr. WTit : and his straightforward, L.t Eg:itr, determination baffled them. That tt.c u the Doke of WELUNGTON deli ,"'.c3 tclogiam over the Coldstream ~ . -cectesary festival of their officers ost "Ter I any well be gratified Yd flattered at the • • " d'4.• me ia intitieg Mkt to attend year les- E r ittal • ••ls, long b.fore I had .he brawn •t5f.,446 in re reps of Guards lhad every • " *l t`: rorpsoaeay.aetoftbeirduplay of every •• 0.4.4 es er•ry situation is w Vag I Lee Lad the RI .4 bruise to sea Mem Is t. .:•• erear—ia 'Onetime of all=muldlir up: oa every mesh • ' l- • S. n•e•••• air dieting*" sad 1 = 1 7 3 •, &v.:4 be upon,/ hen th• boa r'. Atari tine tits haat distiguished 7 , evreare Guards. (Llud f oal.) sal *Low nordoet I have bie I ••• if ,tee test? vari e ty of cirestuataues—la the t.u. • oplosare„ (Cheers.) Gut"' ••• Illytitall• loes troops earl to ties • L.. 4 at your every-day weer " •',Ol t • What gtlem be ea, shall it • • •"... pv•tple are ' I.aa es searageeus thee is Engash mob u brave ea that of • el:Atter French or German ? (Heer.) • • *t •E.* taadfol A sate Who in this metropolis * ' r " :t A's , 41 England have mlutidaed pear ' r..tb Ash umatahces and com L- pere , • ,r . .ra.oas area*, tomato:l Is WISP GeaUeenes, you have all era 1 4 otl• res lilt elsewhere, esti I used .ce it a Wit plass. Yes see siren t. '''". r•o,leihetut y sa d trying eirseastueses • • " auk she have elessned ;• ten .:see roar; has weer kW II Ames elf ;6 . N.*, slur sta , bs 41 repine sad Wake- V11 ' 41.4 from their dditertien after , ' wera. Ilser Gestlemen, I wa r to 1 .; ;;. ; stet I Wks re it is attribleal le is • Prlarp!.. td Wenn sad goo,. dimeip/iae 4 1 4 1 a Geer; sad Which bail its sun . ` ll /t ell rare el the people. hat e , sera, the Coidstreass hare near .ate ' term, sunneessiy us rnisit 111..iiiMallilkauttietio. gesditwaaly sad' . 'ai,alcamit et spirit. We don't meet. au. atreWiwo, or ini`Ottter or Oh Orli*** ,d rook in thy stew, as we aaaaAlid 1 pail ', ea w Led then we read aspleasent police repine, ia whielt they Scare" and Is .of ptivataa haft • thatimad • oat • at thew yethaeuta, then ,Is Ws doubt that Utak sasses' am ,tagwaviag with. those of the community gewerelly—ee impcovigia4 1 which, in their' case, is the ..owtoi patifying. beasts &avatars of household temps, us as asessisidinL in London, ia, se poem! principlost.milmendy osier Ithed to deinondise and to corrupt soldlem - Sat what we are invited *go farsbar than this , hadation, and to ascribe either the poses et the ' ivtropolit, at the exereptiosts - of the esentry finer revolutionary viokeee either to* Guards, br to dig army generally, EX the Dike of wia.niat4: seekeerathes taproot a domande. ear revenue kw, his authority. He might muse more ream ably' refer our to the new, the provincial, sod the rural us. than toe few handfuls of red coats nattered ever the country i though each a referees. would be wholly useappertable in pact et fact. It is voisewhat difliCilt to docile whether in this plumage the Duke ascribes our freedom from anarchy to the repressive power of the army, or to the exam ple'. of the p i s c is i gi of bravery and good disoip li es" set as by the " whip's," be says, " bee its el fret eaten al dames of the people." Perhaps the Duke attributes oar peaceable endues partly to the manifestatioes of military bayonets, which we sometimes aceidentally vitae's, and partly to the example of military manners, which we hardly ever poise. If so, it is not, we trust, any offence to my, hie Gram is very much mistaken ; and that his mis take involves a very great libel on the character and intelligence of the hagfish people, and has a tendency to pr o lo ng • vwy unnecessary berthen on the Eng lish flouted'. Since the folly and wickedness of continental priteee beenght an the roved/idles of 1818, their an archies, Gan consequent repreasions, on Estop., there has been but ono crisis in the politi cal occurrences of Eaglaud to which the most timid could attach any danger; and now that we can coolly look back on the 10th of ApeiL it is not easy to say whether Mr. Fustian; O'Cottcon or Sir °sown GARY did, 03 that OCORAIOII, most to frighten the metropolis. Bat, u to the value of that day, it certainly lay, not in the military, bat in the civil display it provoked. After Sir Joan Monks had inspeatd Mr. Prres regiment of Kentish Yeomanry, oa the reearrence of war in 1802, Mr. I'm asked that great general where he would place the regiment in cue of invasion "On the heights above'us," he replied, " whilst I Pepel the invaders below." And so, pro bably, the Duke would have done the fighting of the 10th April, had anybeen necessary,with the gourds, and done it effectually. Bat to infer, therefore, that we owed either the peace of London on that day, or our geueral trargaillity at any time, to the army, is manifes:ly and glaringly absurd. It is more—for it is libellous. The people of this country are from tradition, from baits, from occupation, from intelligence, and from still higher and better qualities, peaceably disposed. They have, the poorest amongst them, just as much honor and dislike of violence, of civil disturbance, or of revolutionary movements, as the proudest aristo natio or the naiad manufacturer in the kingdom. They arelong-suffering, enduring, patient. Toey know that in some respects they are not well governed; but they feel sad perceive that on the whole the ten dency of government is to improve their condition. Thouah with the slowness of this tendency they are not sati'fled, they have sufficient power to prevent ' retrogrenion; and they know that when once they base made up their minds on any great and unfal change, that change must be made. Consequently, they have e .nddence and hope in the system of go vernment under which they live; it is only when that' germ shall have bees found to be adve rse t o improvement, that they will be tempted into revolutionary courses; and, when so tempted, neither the bayonets nor the manners of the Cold stream Guards will be of much avail against a popular rising of the English people. Te describe such a people as only, or as chiefly, or as partly, kept in subordination by military force or by military ex ample, is wholly to misunderstand them. When, then, the foremost man of this age is to be found indulging in such misemerrious, they mast not be allowed to pass without remark or prated. Truth is just as necessary at a military festival as at a civic feast. THE COMMISSION OP INQUIET INTO THE SYSTEM OF PLTADING IN THE SUPERIOR LAW COURTS.—We regret to say that the personnel of the commission got up by the Attorney-General for the purpam of en quiry into the system of pleading in the courts at Westminster and on circuit, does not warrant any very sanguine hopes as to the result of its labours. There is not one of the commissioners who can be re garded as a Jurist, in the higher acceptation of the term : as familiar with the principles of pleading adopted in other countries than our own, or those of the aim and civil law, which have exercised so de cided an influence on all existirg systems. Mr. Willis is an able man, but it may be doubted whether any one member of the commission but himself has ever looked into any but an English law book. Mr. Cockburn would have been, in all respects, a much more efficient commissioner than Mr. Martin : and the omission of Mr. L G. Phillimore's name, consider ing the extent and ripeness of his studies, as evinced in his recent publication, and his devotion to the cause of law reform, appears unaccountable. r elVioniq A scrotum, vs. komp. A isito, User. Abort. who boa lobs o a Rio violist la s. w abssa , it drip in 41 1 1:r 4 10 ... ! be long • . *sr tit ' some to ,i; Ott ti: dol :1;11 vi va a t eanuilies c Sit the et- Atoka et Rees Sena be wiled into Se istericet . hese einisee - the seislists. Ail ' the -danssistfit An& i e t p e o rlif ii i tal. sad poisikt,.7Lmsl i 4 Rom a r - iiik a Tim `St Ulf 0111111‘1011611414•41 tits Medias of thia essawy. • Asap said n ew weeds la lifts if Meter flore,-who 'Ws ' la Ids efirside. - :4 1 3 F t b. Leotards aS qtteit to do billow th. attlelee of et Us will be enwpestel lar M. Than .ad BIM" will defend it. To - -ciiiiiiiiPleate de Berme, ei the square in front of thientridlos to tbal Area* Is called, was quit' r4llity,l neither was there there the same show of mi litary prep ion es on the presiding days. Never theless, the greatest arictaess is observed with regard to the of strangers Into the apart, and even the messespis in habitual attendsoms outside the Chamber have to provide themselves with cards of free passes to end fro. The diplomatic tribune of the Chamber was quite empty. It reams that the wears of the Assembly had complained of the presence of persons netted with diplomacy is that box. The diplomatic corps resented this invasion of their right to dispose of the seats in the manner most agreeable to them selves by vacating the box entirely. The complaint of the quistore was more particularly levelled at the crowded attendance of ladies in this region of the As sembly, and was the more astounded as many of those ladies are supposed to be anything but foreign to diplomatic precritiage. In the beginning of the sitting of the Assembly Victor Hugo mounted the tribune to defend himself agaiost the attacks of Jules de Lsateyrie cod Monta lembert. The latter had taunted him with frequent' tergiversations. Those who were disposed to ransackl hie life for errors had this advantage against him, — that they might appeal to works which he had written when a child. Bat he defied them to convict him of self-contradiction sines 1827. M. Montalem bert had said that he bad been a flatterer of all causes acd a renegsle from all. What! had he proved false to Charles X. after oelebriting in verse his coronation and his funeral ? To tit, Duchess of Berry, of whom he had condemned the seller and stigmatised the buyer? (Cheers on the Left.) To Napoleon, for whose family he had demanded relief from proscrip tion; or the Duchess of °rictus, whose regency he had proclaimed in the Place de la /futile, because be had sworn to it as a peer of France? No; when he took an oath he kept it. (Cheer on the Left.) M. Moutalembert had reproached him with his absence. When he was overwhelmed with fatigue, and when the struggle wee to be only between him and M. Montalembert, he would leave him to thunder at hint absent, and repose in peace. M. de Montalembert proceeded to answer, sad after a rejoinder . from the poet, this personal skirmish dropped. The Assembly then decided, by a majority of 462 to 227, that it should proceed to the discussion of the Electoral Bill. The President announced that 37 amendments had been placed in his bands. M..Lsma:tine opposed the first and second article of the bill, and entered into a historical development of the question. The impatience of change for something that was imagined better, was the origin of most national calamities, lie had himself proposed improyements in the law, bat improvements when the legal moment came for charge. M. de Lamartine, having defei.ded the removal of the arms• from Paris under the provisional govern. ment, Gen. Cionrganci reminded the home tnat on the 23'h of February the order had been given to the 62nd to surrender their arms. Genersl Mesa then erp'aineJ, amid the cheers of the majority, that to had in fact signed this order, and that he accepted the responsibility of having done so bteause France was threatened with anarchy, the prisons were going to be emptied, popular agitation stormed, the army was on the point of divaolution, and seas of blood would have been shed if this prudent measure had not been taken. M. de Lamartine then passed in review the two last years, and concluded that Frans had been saved by universal suffrage. He maintained energetically that socialism, in the bad, envious, detestable sense, had not made one convert in that Assembly ; and he reproached the majority with wishing to establish a wliciarite between the bad socialists and the opposition members who wished for an enlightened progress. In this sense he was against touching universal sof frage. But he recommended patience to the people. The people had committed errors and ought to aooept the law ea the moment ary expiation of them. There remained to the people the justice of their canoe and time, and these two elements would Ibe crowned with victory. That was better than the fatal right of insurrection and the refusal of taxes, which would be a domestic insurrection. When he descended the tribune, he received the congratulations of his friends and the Left. M. Baroche succeeded, and was speaking when our report left. I am informed from a good source that an interview took place on Tuesday between Lord Normanby and the President, which lasted between two and three hours. At the conference which I mentioned as having taken place between Lord Norraanby and M. de La bitte, the English Ambassador read a long despatch from Lord Palmerston, tracing the history of the negotiations on the Greek affair, and attributing the present emburssaing result to the precipitation of M. Gm in breaking off negotiations. According to the Pattie, this despatch term:nates with the offer of a clmpronree, which that journal states has not bees accepted by the French govern ment. Bat, if a statement in the Ednement of yes terday evening be correct, the Poen'e could not have received any authentic information as to the view taken by General de La Hitte of the despatch of Lord Palmerston. The Evessement says that the despatch, " which is of a nature to simplify the question," was read yesterday afternoon at a council of ministers. It is not probable that General de La Hitte would express en opinion in such a way that it could get into a journal before be had consulted his colleagues on the subject. The voluminous mass of documents on the Greek affair was distributed yesterday to the members of the Assembly. It forms a quarto of 240 pager, divided into three parts. The Brat, which comprises the were , spondenee of the Minister of Foreign Affairs with M. Drouya de l'Huyr, cone stn of 64 pieces; the second, of 23 pieces, contains the correspondence of the mi nister with M. Gros at Athens; the third part em braces the correspondence of the Minister of Foreign Affairs with M. 'fhouveael. The discovery of two clandestine powder factories near Montpellier has set the authorities on the alert, and extraordinary military precautions have been adapted against a surprise. We read in the Evenernent : "It has been stated that M. Proadhon had obtained permission to return to Pal is on condition of hie ceasing to attack the go vernment. The truth is, that M. Proudhon will be brought from Doulleas to Paris on the 29th instant, to a ppear as a witness in a prosecution against the Voss du Peuple. The responsible editor of the Vois dts People, M. Laugrand, was yesterday condemned by default by the Court of Amiss. to a year's imprisonment, and 3,009 fr. floe, for having on the 14th March published an article asserting that a celebrated Jew banker, of great influent)e in the councils of the government, and very intimate with the President of the Republic, had lost three or four minims by speculations on the Bourse in connection with the election of the 10th of March, and that the President bad shared in such losses. Tnis article was held by the Court to contain the Wilms described in the law as exciting tobatred and contempt of the government of the republic, and insulting the President. The Democrats@ Pueilique copied the art:eleon the 16th March, and for so doing its responsible editor, M. Galileo, was condemned to TILE ff?Misto „1 .. ...,-,•.' e ,, K aw s wohmi li c '‘, • . o. .ci I • ova•i're '-,, 11Fril Sa•V i'• • ~' , 1.;;.;.;,L • , .:^l , osrb I . • "• '• ' "7"..a lseibe tea the liawie•leawgrae4 .. st , r 80 a l A Z S I L' 1 . ! lb:" 1 1 1" ' ' 1 14 3 kg aili a":l 6l OUTk; vi SO MAUL North Aserthl -t h. t VIM . = ll 01110 Oithlalsis ' 'sfrowiswas. . merger 1a it 4 . 7 A 10411 . 4 . 4 •11 'T. tar P lagh ' tet ru sad . 'ea .Alle . *literal leer vs, la .., we I m a. u p tea evielei• , i ii ii , / ' ' -' lii " 4.$ k .. j k 1 •liig • • , I tea - `•tiu I • lam • • r° ii Ow. ID Oho liodisraineut. .141,4 L''''• mi I g mt. mill beanie ep the ••••• Z e afatorl a n, ll 4. ;'. 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'.: ll ‘. whet assay la tom • 1 velliet posin" ',ide 1 .71 . all av • 41411114111 r'' . 4 . a:mew, Mmes. Gm / MIA . :E 414 Itas.ehe Wheat , . lissalwilsw keel ~..-.. i • d so d chisa. vie MS Wesel Awn reshot - • ,e. 0. ie. __,, the wires Glib 6 , • . l i, s wami al Jou N. ' •, • • ~ ,,i , . .. mealy, , sad Whitely asee lowliness le ' I•hell , • .. 11040 .$ likrow WMPOIni . 10 -.• • • ... la kta oh., ..........i..b........0 ..ra-.....- —_....___.__o__ .._. .. .. - Mimes _ . pus AMA I .• lo ........ 00. ‘...1... CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. The journals last received from this colony are of great importance and interest. They indicate a de cided advance on the part of the colonists in the sense of their own power—the necessary consequence of their triumph over Earl Grey in the convict con troversy. They indicate at the same time a truly British feeling—a cordial desire to draw closer and perpetuate the relations between the colony and mother country. Lastly, they show that the question —under what constitution the colony is henceforth to be :governed is about to be grappled with in a practical spirit. In the Cape Town Mail of the 18th of March, is a very full repo r t of a grand dinner of the members of the Anti-Convict Association. The proceedings were in the finest spirit. The speeches were eloqu. nt, judi cious, full of an ardent, yet sober, feeling of freedom. The toasts were Mr. Trenrbario, the distinguished leader of the anti-convict movement ; Mr. Letterstedt, the independent barrister, who had asserted the rights; of the association when] insidiously as saulted by legal . chiothe ; Mr. :Adderley, their parlia mentary champion; the Colonial, the British, and the French newspaper pram; the governor ; the Lou.l don merchants connected with the Cape, die. &c. All was harmony, all was genuine English feeling. Toe journals are busily dimming the constitution I question. They are unanimous in their desire fee a liberal constitution. Trio only possible dissention that Gan arise in local opinion on this subject will re late to the connexion between the eastern and western districts. The Grehaus's Town Journal protests agairst a government for both locally resident in Cape Town. The Cope lbws Mail admits that as Port Phillip has been separated from New South Wales, so mast the ess'ern districts of the Cape co kmy be ultimately separated from the western dis tricts, and recommends a federal government foe South Africa. The question is important, and as Boos as the pressure of parliament on our columns admits we will recur to it. SPAIN. merm We have teethed emir bladted eorteepoatlesse of era 18tb. The Bluer parliament giver *covets mat numb easestainn - The Maw Public, lei bees and apts. San Lorena 11 The ben tti idled. w woundedibe Deke at 6343 ben ho • • • MiaLs 111.—Three per Oafs, Mir at lasaink. Thy deir.. - 1111.111ppmr• sitar Moist; 11116-111 13 auk. rim 4 ise_or: DAN. h "LL 0811 ism. 7 13 vow. /Ark msom4 In ppm; orb. lizsigage :are. sox. • , ITALY. ROMAN STATE& 1 Oar B. eaereepontient, la hie letter of the 16% of May, slit. that soasiderable arteasinens prevailed anmeget thsmishasities with respect to the proposed mode of the Pena stemma laws, sad its re sult+, esmseenimg white phis into iml~ieaerrettel. Fresh diendesehi 274,4 4 7 oa as aziessive Peale, had been decreed ; bat their amends. delayed until something was known. A enelebry of bishops was to be hold on Monday the 20th, sad the harangue of his Rollos= was looked for with mash interest, espselally sloes the Piedomateos dimples. M. Arnie! had been sent from Ancona to compliment the Emperor of Austria, at Trieste, in the Popes name. The minister of homes was still moo pied with his plea of oonvertiag the paper many rote consols, bat all the oath in the Mi n t is ordered to be held at the dispnition of his Holiness. The Conti and Alfieri Railway Company had ecneludi-d a negoti ation for 30,000,000 d olla rs with two backing booms of Paris and Loudon. The Toscana had also made propositions for a junction lice. . . , .. .. • LrilglegNs.-- .i--fik f 44 . 14.4 )1 41 /P4 .Cti-) I . --- -she seat& iißeisirolibl i MIMI!. , h . • '''. —" 3 *J I , •• - •. : • • . -. , cl'. ._ • • ... • ' WU 14 0. i ).,,bra4 . • • ' . . , INA% lift sl4' tom , . . • , .ai 1 : bum COMM dudebleb_ i 7 _.., uespinmeust 4I II pet bulb .c.e.....e. S 1 • g gi pg g ify Osbeint la Ye. s yobbos"... d i OM. Sew lads... • AMON. Ifltsili rs pr .. ........ 4 .... .. , • . .. ,:,. . fr: = 24 , ......r.•••••r••••• .. Inlelednaleditt at dab mil 6,46-4414. 0. 142842, 1414•14 1hr,,11: ....= 11:1 asse . : :ftlimaimag. hair l.ur . sir miry Clout, Ty 1 t 1.. i...„.. or. .wMild db.:. UN I►O A . . Bosh, Ty ci a . , Moldued 5 pidifiud, aas " MIL. 1 1"- - &ark atrewpds 1 sm.i.—Tonsiois Om tow l ar i s ir pa,.. litl i z g at b , LT: Pub NW lorb, lb); Ram mil bd, 2 jimodlo vb.PA ITO ; moms' are aft to V M om a d vr. Prism et Lb* am, um; Odes bid berbudm MI; gong, Eis 9; •pagb moi tbe Daft*. sersolsous. US tes liddiubd B er t , nil loposesss airiftpub limems. wt. . . . . _ GERMANY. ATTEMPT UPON THE LIFE OF THE KING OF PRUSSIA. A telegraphic despatch from our Berlin corre spondent, under date May 22, rates that on that day an attempt was made upon the life of his Majesty the King of Prussia, who was departing for Potsdam. A sergeant of artillery fired a pistol at his Ma jesty, and inflicted a flesh wound in the arm. The man was immediately seized. His name is Seteloge. The Kisg at once returned to L'harlottenburg, and received the congratulations of his family, the minis ters, and the dip lom atic corps, on his seam BBRLIN, MAT 21. -- -.nce of the promisid protocol of the proceedings of the late royil congrese excites con tinned uneasiness, and many persons do not hesitate to affirm that its appearance is delayed that it may andergo the proper degree of " cooking" to suit the present taste of the public. S ma ll as is the interest displayed by the inhabitants generally towards the German question, there are nevertheless many signs abroad that the attempt of Austria to re-establish the old Band will not be tamely suffered. The Cham bers of Bavaria, of Wirtemberg, of Hesse Cassel, and Hesse Darmstadt have already distinctly proved that there is • large party in each much dissatisfied with the resoluton of the princes to depute to the Congress at Frankfort. Their dissatisfaction, if previously not well-founded, must now be considered as prophetic, for, notwithstanding the many denials which have been spoken and pub lished, advioss from Frankfort inform the public that on the 17th inst. the congress at Frankfort had con initiated itself the Plenar Versammluag of thescon federation, and had passed a resolution imposing a term within which the othkr states of Germany were required to appear, otherwise the resolutions of the Congress would be considered binding on them all. UNITED STATES. ANTI SLAVERY IN MASSACHUSETTS. We hinted, when reporting, some weeks back, the alleged triumphant reception of Mr. Webster at Bre ton, that his visit appeared to indicate a conscious ness on his part that the coarse he was pursuing in the senate was such as would likely lead his con stituents to all for an explanation at his hands.. It appears that our suspicion was well-f.unded. Mr. Mason hu introduced a bill into Congress' to modify the law uit now 'tends, for enforcing the delivery of fugitive slaves; and to this bill Mr. Web ster has volunteered his support. The first of a series of letters on this subject, signed "An Old Whig," has appeared in the Boston papers, and created a great sensation. It is from the pen of Mr. Franklin Dexter, a Boston barrister of high standing, and a leading whig. Mr. Horace Mann, who suooseded John Quincy Adams ua repre sentative of Massachusetts in Congress, has also published en address to his constituents on the sub ject of Mr. Webster's support of Mr. Mason' s bill. Mr. Mann is well-known in England as for many years the accomplished secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education— an appointment which he resigned on his election to Congress. He is highly esteemed by his country men on account of his integrity as a private gentle man, and his purity as a public man. It is believed in Boston that Mr.Webstees position will be seriously endangered by two such assailants. A third attack upon him, on the same score, was daily looked for from Mr. Winthrop the whig member of Congress for Boston. NATIONAL TEMPERANCE SOClETY.—Yesterday evening the annual modem of the friends and supporters of this society was held at St. Martin's Hall, Long-sere, Mr. Benjamin Botch in the chair. Afar • Mw preliminary re marks by the adman, the secretary read the report. This document dated that the pest year had been one of the most trying and &Mesh In the history of the society, bat by a »- dudes in the number of ageseses, sad by the striate* see- namy la every i ;mes s ed aditure, they had sasiatolaed thole pukka s * debt. Daring the year a vast saber of lectures had bees delivered by the sodety's I sm ead seissisearies, six eeriness had been leashed is Landes on its tseludf, and 16 addresses had been delivered by rowels Matron to audiences of the same am. Six lugs meet ings bed been held in ilaster-bell. The expenditure attending these neetimie hod exceeded 260 L, but the society had Ma empty resemmemsd hy the mesh of these assemblies. The n o s el beer in tits Greeewich Hoopla' Schools having been dieseatiaask the emmittes had presented • memerlal to the governon of Christ's Hospital, praying them to intro duce the sem reform ia that inairaden. They had also memorialised the Congregational Daiwa and the Wesleyan Conferees, at their late meetings, bet the subject bad not been dimmed by either of those bodies, An e&rt had also been seedy, though without 111001116, to obtain the signature of the jedges to • document expremlag their 'Mina as to the canneries Wiesen dries king and aims*. The two twine of 1901. each, offered by Mr. J. Baton, of Bristol, for the best mays ea juvenile depravity, and on the use sod abuse of alsohol In health, is Meese, had been adjudged—the former to the Rey- S. Wotth7, the latter to Dr. W. B. Carpenter. Prises of smaller aliment had also been offered by the committee for essays by workbag men en the emblem of temperas/se. The balsam.shest showed that the lissome of the society for the year 1849 mouated to 842 L, and the ex penditure to 7601-, imbediog • loss of 1601. whisk bad ben immured by the publiestion of the society's paper. The liabilities emeeded the helmets is hand by epwarde of COL The meet* was he. addsessed by Bev. Dr. Burns, Rev. W. Wows, Mr. J. 8. Beeklegham, Ms. L. slorrortni sad other alergymes sad gentlemen. and resolutious In eccordeass •with the Mises of W. misty were wi rt d i AT BT. GEORGE'S HOSPlTAL.—Yesterday morning the Immo in this establishment were slanged by the outbreak of a gm which wee attended with great damage. It otiginette in whet was called the crying room, when • large quantity of lima had been lett ea Hues, and in one of the ',meats snail* it the dames were 'PrisdinE forneid l 7. Messengers were sent for the firemen ead engines, several of which speedily arrived. when with the whims afforded by the domestic* end pollee, the fire was extinguished, but not until the property of the drying room had been consumed. It was hand necessary to to mom the patients from Oxford ward to another pert of the building. The lire °deeded through placing the linen too near the stove of the drying room. "Me Court. I . 4 lassa and Prince. M•Wtiaaelle : Nail= 13.eysl, 4a le mabems. Bagel Armagh arced at etasigkpieedie awl erosard to dm. Peary &g at yogis. essnmestied bg Lad Bbsslssease r Miglattf flied his Repo • vise simailed dm Ceentess Gaiseboresgb. .weiting. the Sem Mir Cavendisb, Maid ot Majer-Geassei Wyss sad Cabled Sepatear, , st tbo lies. Ors& Sir Jews Miblysed, Msjur-Ge. Swiss, sad Mr. Qom end Prises ask sa qui, walk in the mews .4 sa ga tkisrewalagosaa tits Priam el sad riaespe nacho d the &gal Family stalked side la the Perk. The Pashas, of ;eat sad the Ise a Binge. staradell by 818 Spetb e Alsibasss de ass &apnoea at Gainsay *lp alirlassa. 0;401' m4m••• •- The Dashers egasnlnted Wee Peinmetal Verbal the Dauber et elestintsr ea Tadaradsg es GiessenerAstass. Besieges arias& me aptaded by Lady AIMS Mafia Dowses sad Biraerars "The Dachas if Heat nad the Priam dMen, 1111M61 by Bemoan di Spalli sal dsoliestipl Ostler, Mfl alesaspheme, St. James% et ten tideiflssierds fainds& Mr the Weterlee-bridp isendatmend oarellsd by Ski Yeaffea mad liosth-Wsseirs Railway to Gagers, et rash to Glows, ea a vials at ta• Gime. The Ducbsee of Oloweeter visited t h e Dothan of Cambridge yesterday at Csaahritigtshesse. A cabinet council was held yeetorday afternoon, at the Foreign °Moe. The alatieters present were :—,Lord Jake Besaall, via Keret& of Lansdowne, Biz George Grey, llamas% Palmerston, Bad Gray, the Changan/ of the lashethascr. 81 From* Baring, Sir John Hohhouse, the Bight Mon. B. Laaosehlre sad the Radlit ROs. Fox Meade. The comma set two h iour.. A deputation from the Crown Estate in St. Pan- WM, had as Interview with Lord 13.ywswar yvatarday, at Mr aim of Her Majway's Coaualwroseta it Woods sad NNW& The deputation included Mr. J. G. Hardin, Yr. J. 0. llamiles;and Mr. 0. Gras., hasavary sesseurrt sad wee sememenied by Sir llsajamis Hall. Bart., M.P., sad Lard Dudley Smart, M.P. A deputation from St. Jaime. parish, ineludiag Mr. lobe Gabriel, Mr. George Waugh, Mr. G. F. Urlieg, Mr. T. A'Beckett, sad Mr. Jempb Bran, had as iatarviaw with Lard Seymour at the same UK The dapstatioa was antompanied by Sir Ds Lacy Beans, M.P., and Mr. C. Laeltiagtoo, M.P. lady Fanny Cola sad matte, Sir John H o p e and family, sad Capt. de Laneyi embarked at the St. Nethenne's Wharf yesterday soralag, ea board the Gene ral Steam Navigation Company's stema.ship Soho, for Antwerp. UNIVERSITY COLLEGE HOSPITAL. , Yesterday, the 17th anniversary festival of this Institution took place at the London Tavern Bishopegate - street ; the Duke of CAMBIUM! la the chair. About 100 , gelidness eat down to dinner, and among.* the guests were , Lord Brougham, the Hon. Richard Deanna, Henry War barns, Req., J. L. Prevost, Esq., B. B. Cashel], Req., W. Cubist, Rig , M.P.. James Heywood, Req , G 8. Lefene, Req., Berm Kneesbeck,_W. Prevost, Esq., George Bishop, Reg , Joseph Locke, Esq., M P., the baron de Goldsavid, and many other gentlemen interested in the nue of the charity. The CHAIRMAN, in p roposing " Prosperity to th e Uaivenity College Hospital, ' stated that he had visited the hospital in the course of the morning, and he had the ratis faction of finding that the best order and tlaanlineas pre vailed throughout the establishment. This was the more gratifying to him, inasmuch as he bad thought it advisable to abetain from giving notice of his intention to visit the hospital. He was sorry, how ever, to find that, notwithstanding the praiseworthy manner in winch the affairs of the hospital were coaducted, the funds at the disposal of the society were not nfficieut to meet the current expenses. He therefore begged that *hose who were present on this °minion would make known to their friends the position in which the institution was placed, in order that opportunities might be afforded for increasing its re name. His Royal Highness then drew attention to the re, ort of the society for the past year, from which it ap peared that—" During the past youth* committee, having experienced more than noel di&ultise, received as extn.- ordinary degree of support from the friends of the co:lege and hospital. They now discharge a very grateful duty by returning their hearty thanks to the benefactor, who responded so generously to their appeals—the one at eke eanuotenoement of the year, the other at the pub is dinner at which Sir James Graham presided. The collections on those occasions, together with other dona tions, amounted to 3,1601, and thus enabled the commit toe to maintain the charity efficiently during the year. The committee have the gratification of announcing that a munificent gilt of 1001. from the Queen, and an nasal cited contribution of 201. from the Duke of Cambridge, were among the donations. Oa the 24th Jane the Rev. William Brock preached a sermon in Bloomsbury Chapel on behalf of the hospital. the collection amounted to 671. 16s. Ild. Oa the day appointed for general tLanks• giving for the cessation of cholera, the Rev. Henry Hughes, isenebect of All Saints' Chinch, devoted to the charity the amount of a collection (3.51. 175.) from hie congrega tion, alter a sermon preached by him on the morning of the 23rd September last. A collection, amounting to 81. 165., after a sermon delivered by the Rev. Al fred Jenour, at Regent's square Church, on the tensing cf the nine day, way also kindly bestowed oa the hospital. The expense of the establishment for the year was 6,2'01. The total receipts ware less than that sum by 600 e., and en increase to the debt to this amount was in curred. The committee have the statistic:don of observing that the annual subscriptions now amount to 7601. They would urge that it is en the increase of this source of income that the maintenance of the hospital should greatly depend. The number of poor relieved between the Ist November, 1848, and the lit November. 1849, was 20,683; of whom 1,364 were in-patients, 4,033 out-patieuts, 676 women in childbirth attended at their own habita tions, 601 opthalmic cans, and 14,010 casualties. The hospital, in the present complete state of the building, is capable of coataiaing 200 patients; but after the moat strenuous exertions the oommittes are obliged by the want of means to limit the number to 120. The only permanent investments applicable to the support of patients are 2171. feu. Counts donations (2001.) by W.L.D. in 1834 an d 1833 ; and 3221.19 I. 3d. Console, Reduce of the bequest. of 3601. by the late Dr. Fellowee." The Royal Chairman eon , eluded Ids address by an earnest appeal in behalf of the charity, and the toast having been responded to with great enthusiasm Lord BROUGHAM proposed the health of the Duke of Cambridge, and passed a warm eulogy upon his royal high nen for his amiability as a prima and his munificent conduct towards the charities of this country. The Duke of CAMBRIDGE, in returning thanks, ex pressed the gratification he felt at the honour welch had been conferred upon him, and begged to assure the company that, altar a resi de nce of 39 years abroad, he had taken up his permanent abode in this country, and he new felt it to be his duty, so long as he was blessed with good health, to do the best in his power to serve the cause of charity and benevolence. The Lest toast was that of Lord Brougham, the president of the institution, and his lordship, is returning thank., pointed out the peculiar claims which the institution pa seated upon the sympathies of the public, and concluded by making an urgent appeal to all who ware interested in the welfare of so izallent a charity. Various other touts were proposed and responded to in the course of the evening, and amongst them was " the health of the Rev. Deacon Monett," who had subscribed 1,0001. to the (nada of the institution. The total amount of subscriptions announced was upwards of 2,1001. ROYAL CALEDONIAN ABTlXll.—Yesterday a cps; dal general court of guardians of the asylum was held at the hall of the Scottish Hospital, Crane-court, Fleet-street, to naive the report of the othemittee appointed on the 19th of March last, and to consider, and if approved, adopt the re commendations therein contained with a view to improving the pecuniary condition of the institution. The Duke of Hthelench in the chair. The report which was read by the Chisholm, stated that the committee had ermined the books of the miens, the balance sheets, the auditors' re , ports, and other relative documents, and the following pa muten were disbud. The present number of boys on the establishment was 61, of girls 60, making a total of 111 children. The income during the year 1849 amounted is 1,8261. 12a. 84., and the expendi ture to 3,4291. 3s. 841., being an excess of 1,6031. Ile. over the income. To meet this deficiency the committee found that there bad been a sale of capital stock to the amount of 1,7501., predating 1,6141. Is. 3d. The committee thought it fair to observe that the average number of children upon the establishment during the past year was 130, and that there had been an outlay upon the premises which could not be consitered en annual expense, and that a deficiency arising from the erten of a former secretary may have affected the charts spinet the path year. The committee further dis covered that in each year for the last five :pars there had been an annual excess of expenditure to an extent averaging 1,6341. 2e. 71d. The deficiency had been met by sales of sleek to the amount of 8,6001. Hence their annual Means bad been reduced by, 2631. per annum, and for every year that the present exam of expenditure was condoned, the Memo of the society would be lessened by a farther sass of 611. per annum. Under these diffi culties the committee felt that some reductions must be ideated in order to bring the expenditure within the limit of its ordinary theme. For this purpose they MOM =sided that the salaries of some of the officers of the asylum should be decreased fa amount, that certain offices be altogether abollsbw', end that steps be taken with a view to reducing the number of children in the institu tion. if the rethrtheendations of the committee were adopted by the directors, a considerable saving would be effected in the general expendi•ure of the establishment. After • long discussion the report, upea the motion of the Duke of Montrose, seconded by Lord Kinnaird, was received and &depth& Tao Duu or Yorx's Counni.—Workmen have bees: employed fixing cage-like iron work on the top of the railings which surround the capital. The iron work is light. bet of sufficient strength to primal pawns itine throu,h, and reaches front the uppermost koria iota! bar of the perpendicular rat!. (to whisk it is firmly bolted) to the summit of the pedestal upon which the statue stands. From the appearance of the work it is lapoesible that an ocenmencei similar to that which took place lately can again happen. THZ mertuFAClUßint plenums. „. 1 t rANCRIVILR. *or 23. The gain& rerpool riga Reform Association and the conedl of the Nartabester Pigment sad pargeesimeery *nem Amnesties, I nadustaud. dined "menet et Newhook-Wtilrers, au Saturday, the object of the emetics having be new the pronsonc• of a more ex tended system of ao.opetatioe, both in this sonny mod thsoughout the kingdom generefty. Yr. Wilson, aortae the samitsg, premed oa the Ltverpeek reformen the nesse shy of footslog after the borough reginzatiso mesa closely this they had hitherto done; obsenbi that ft was deaf sable, at all events, that the neaten. r that important tows should be linseeds] Monsen: then is reason to believe that the raggestioe will be acted epee. We have had eery auspicious weather for the races at Meentester both yesterday sad to-day, and the largest atteldeace of pti - pis ever hams. There chid our have been less thaa 30,000 or 40,000 people on the course. The Ides at Cepestheras, on behalf of the Macieleeffeld PaMM Bathe end Wealßosses appease to have mounded beyond all expemathm. Not lees than 10,000 people are sopoosed to have bees admitted to theistic to view the grannie and rPhadift lemons of *n. IL D. navelwort. The after noon's sammenteals enlertnnately were hitt rrupttd by • senile Meador Mena, which lasted three hours, and it is almost ansessesery to say that there was no possibility of Owing shelter for a tithe of the people then. At Popgun the storm wee ets heavy that trees and vegetables and everything in the gardens *ere tom up by the roam sad carried away. IRRT.AND. Drams, . An influential meeting of merchants and othersin terested in the Irish spirit trade was held yesterday for the purpose of taking steps preparatory to the ap proaching oonsideraticm of their cam in parliament. It as. argued on the occasion that the differential duty on rum, in their favour, was considerably more than counterbalanced by t h e heavy losses they were subjected to on spirits in bond. And some went m far as to say that they would willingly give up the promotion of the differential duty to bare the griev ance they complained of removed. It was strongly urged that the question effected the agricultural in terests in Ireland nearly as much se it did those of the spirit merchan's • and it was resolved that a de putation should proce ed to London to represent the sue to government, and confer with members of par liament before the question came on for dicctuieion in the House of Commons. A numerous meeting was held in Cork City Court house, yesterday, to promote the object of tte exhi bition of industry of 18.51. Several statements were made to arm, what is wall known to be the fact, that in many cases Irish fabrics of superior quality are at this moment sold as the manufacture of other cone tries, owicg to the unfounded prejudice against ttem, even in Ireland, and that the producers of those articles must to materially served by being enabled to exhibit them in their true character, and obtaiLing at the exs.ibltion the stamp of merit to which trey are entitled. On the subject of the abolition of the viceroyalty, the Fireman in introducing the article from the Daily News of Monday, makes the following remarks: Some slily folks at both sides of the water imagine that the whit project for the abolition of the Irish viceroyalty wan an economic movement devoid of the usual Mare :lent in most whig pr.wedings—rank jobbing. The asnmarment of the plan in parliament has served to open many E , glish as well as Irish eye s. The Mail tees nothing of good in it, and would not support the movement if it hsd foreseen the end—mire centralisation, and a job to boot. The Daily News, in a very able and unanswerable aracle which we subjoin, denouoces the ministerial project risco better than a cover for "the organisation of a new permanent lob in the shape of a second Home. office," so far as the economic humbug is concerned, and a system for governii g Ireland by "the confidential reporte of mere police ageism," to far as the better administration of the law in Ireland is concerned. The Daily News writes strongly in favour of andishiog the Irish court, and substituting for the aids...dr.:A... i s skilful clerk.. But it %rites as an English journal egainat a system of centrs'iim which must yet ruin England u p never, d in, and denaluds on Eoglish as well as Irish grounds, that if there is to be an Irish minister, Ireland, co. England, should be his location. " li," says the Daily "an Irish minister is a specific necessity, then where toe neces sity is there let the minister be." We subjoin this remark able article in fall. It bids us hope that as is not lost that is in danger. We yet may strike an *fifties blow when we find such opinions abroad amongst the progres lye party in England. Front the report adopted at the half-yearly meeting of the Royal Agricultural Society of Ireland held a few days since, it appears that the receirs of that useful association have amounted, for the year 1849, to 2,768/. 61. GI., while the expenditure during the same period was 2,1711. I3s. 5d., leaving a Velance of 5961. 13e. ld. Toe 24th and 23.1 of July next have been appointed for holding the next annual cattle show and meeting at Cork. The most efficient ma chinery for utility which the society possesses is per haps the system of practical instructors ; nod this has been useful not merely by disseminating agricnitural information among the peasantry, but by developing a spirit zi.f industry among the people in the moat remote and impoverished districts. The reports of all the practical instructors tend to show that even the very poorest of the peasantry are anxious to help themselves, and that all they re quire is to obtain the means and information necessary for the purpose •, and whin we recollect that for generations they have had neither the one nor the other, 'tie surely not wonderful that they should be found in their present utterly destitute condition. The report states that— Although Outnumber of gratuitous instructors was limited at firs: to ten, yet the council having determined not to sup ply any seeds, except in dis•ricts where instructors were lo cated, who would attend to, and direct the proper sowing and subsequent cultivation, as the season advanced, and the funds at their disposal permitting it, they resolved to obtain his Excellency's consent co extend the number, and with his sanction ten additional gratuitous instructors were lent out from the lot of April, thereby establishing an efficient staff of thirty-two in number, for carrying out the objects of the society. A terrific thunder storm visited various parts of the counties of Limerick, Clare, and Tippsrary, on Sunday last. The Limerick Chronicle says: In the country, near Croom, Pallaskenry, and other parts, the thunder and h./hieing wu fearful, while a shower of sleet and hail covered the ground, some of the particles of congealed matter having the form and site of ice lumps. At Castle Connell we regret to learn that the electric conflict caused the utmost consternation, for the church was struck during divine cowls* by a cras h which shattered the spire, and covered the congregation with a selphureous cloud. Our own informant Ilk fis the effect of the shock to that of a bomb-shell or great-gun expimion, with instatraneous blaze of light end then a thick sulphureous smoke. Arthur Lloyd, son of the county high sheriff, who sat in a pew under the spire, fell senseless on the floor, and wu removed to the hens* of John White, Esq., in a state of stupor, the electric fluid hayloft shot down from the spire and slightly scorched his neck. There wu a'oto a burning sensation in the leg, while his feet were cold as marble, and it was near half an hour before he was restored to consciousness. The Limerick Chron i cle says that General de La hitte, the Frcnch Minister of Foreign Affairs, is married to the grand-daughter of a Limerick lady, the incomporably beautiful Jane Harold, the non pareil of her time, who married Mr. Cotter, a Cork gentleman. The present great depreciation in the Irish butter trade is caused (says the Limerick Chronicle) by the very few samples of good brand to be had in the markets. Of 1,390 firkins brought up at Cork weigh house on Thursday, only 17 were found worthy of first quality mark. Tan ROSCOMMON PE RAGE.—It has been stated that this ancient Irish peerage became extinct by the demise of t►e late earl, which was announced is the Doily News a few days ego. The correctness of this etatsmrnt, however, will soon he tested, as Mr. Dillon Browne, M.P.Ator Mayo, is at present actively engaged in asserting his claim to the dormant title,. ------ I)UIHJN UNIVESSITT. - FELLOWSHIP EXAMINA- Tions.—llis annual examination c.mmeneed yesterday morning, and on no former occasion was thcre evidenced leas of that excitemint which nerd to be exhibited within the walls of Alma Mater on the part of the public. There are two vacancies to be tilled up, and twelve candidates presented themselveli„ _ STATE OF TOR CEOPB.—The weather for the post few days has been very favourable to vegetation, and • great change has taken place in the appearance of the growing crop,. In grass lands especially the rain has does much goal; early meadows, however, are still much under the state of forwardness usual at this season. We are gratis CA to learn that the damp done to the potato plant by the frost has been leas etas was generally anticipated, and even in NM where the leaves seemed blighted a rapid recovery is taking place. On the whole, the state of that crop may be. considered as favourable. As to thu 4nality of the seed planted this season, we have co hesi tation in stating that it was very superior to that of the put four years; and 119 a 001361d•r•bi• advance has bees ceiibited in the in •of culture and _preparation of the. soil, we may expect, under Divine Providence, • fall average cr. , p of this valuable article of fo..d. Farman an at length beginning to see the great value of mangold wurtsel—the moat valuable of all bulbous roots for winter feeding—and this season a vary considerable breadth of ground is under its cultivation. The brearda of wheat and oats look strong and healthy; the former, in some unshel tered ground, had experienced a slight damage by the frost, and was partially discoloured, teat it now appears fully re covered, and is considered as very promising.—Basher of i~ \ c4 V