The Express. — London, England, 1850-04-15 00:00:00

Vie erpre*S. OUTGOING NAIUS. The Wen India id;dre, - eieradirag - Bermada, Hawasab, liana. lio,deras, New Orissa', awl Id. .ad faeboding sw i pe kw Madeira, Bt. Baas-de-Nieersinw, Now Granada, IMM wed Pam will be awdeup ea April 17. Toi hr ape* awl WIWIIIMIC will be made eea hpril 17. The ash kr , Ofbralier, Malta, Green, the Inaba bhads, Mink Copies. lad* end China, eh fleathampina, will he node up ea the manias of Awe M. The mans lamellas, to the Mediterranean, Bap; Orylea, leas, HertaMeng, to., will be made up ea the midst et April 24. The mane hor Mader* the Brazils, sad Basses Apra, will he wads up ea the 4th of May. MOIR WILT= AT LOMBOK 1111113111 L fele zw,t—ismire. ir.• iks. &Raw. 4%. is. Irwamarir—illoniag, 4a. 5hi5.......... Alliiiiiii. ii.iin• LONDON, MONDAY, .APRIL 15. Tna Camicm.Loa of the Facwacirmi has soe euiebed. Oa Thursday eight be was quite rampant about the stamp duties. He had received, be said, "600 letters of remonstrance sad 480 of thea were founded span n;isooseepticars."bn Friday night his tone had altogether He had introduced, he said, an amended sta m p bill. "It had been the re salt orrery general commanication and nine-tenths of the objections to the measure would be remedied." So then, there were objectives to the measure ? It was only l ast week that Mr. HATTER and the CIIMS CILLOR both assured the house that there was of the sort' But it stems that this idea was on " a misconception " like the 480 letters addressed to Sir CHARLES WOOD. The new bill introdued Sir CHARLES WOOD and Mr. HATTER is a volu= of contradiction to Mr. HATTER and Sir CHARLES Worm. Widely does it differ from the measure of which those respectable statesmen induced the house to express approval on the second reading. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER is determined that it shall maintain its character as a measure of false preemies. Under the false pretence of introducing ameadments pro forma, the government have pre seated parliament with an amended bill in which they have almost wholly abandoned the insidious at tempt to introduce new dams of taxation. The Hew bill was only printed on Friday afternoon. It is to be forced upon the House of Commons fee dis comics this evening. It is important therefor* that we should lose no time in explaining what sr* tbe deviations now proposed from the measure approved by resolution, sad confirmed at the instance of the government on second reading. The public will see that these deviations are exceedingly important. The first concession of the CHANCELLOR is to the banking sod mercantile body. Oa the 2nd of April the Express called agouties to the important fact that under the new Stamp Duties Bill all writings secompauyieg deposit of deeds, &e., with bankers, by way of security, must, if that bill became law, be inspriesed with a stamp in order to be valid. A night or two ago, the CHANCELLOR of the Exactor:an declared that he had received 600 let ters upon the subject, and that 480 of them were founded on "an entire rob coaceptioe." But the I banking c;tamunity were not to be 'saki. Thar sr ambled on Thursday ival appointed a general meet ing fur Monday (this day), in order to protest against this new taxation. Sir CHARLES WOOD saw that there would be no " misconception" there. He ac cordingly anticipated the bankers' convocation. His new bill abandons We objectionable clause. The words affecting bankers are struck ont. In order to 'hew what he contemplated, and what we have re dueled him to, we print the orginal clause of the first bill, and the amended clause of the second bill in juxtap - sition, marking by italic characters the words abandoned. ORIGINAL CLAVAR. AIIICNDRD CLAIMS. Ales any agreemeat, era- Alm say agreameat, con tract, boas, or other seri iny tract, or bead, acemenpaniesi wastsoerer, accompanied with a depeait of any title with a doodah of dtle deed or deed or title deeds for making title daltrai or sow other in. a mortgage, wadeet, or any themenet or India, rotating such other security or canna)- to WIN property, soarer, or awe as aforesaid, of any land. Misty, tos makings mortgage. estate, or pronerty, comprised wades*, or any each other ie. in ouch title deeds, or to curtly or eineeyance as afore- pledging or charging the said, et any loads, estate, or mate as a security. property, eseaprised in such tato deed co deeds, instru ment or at.rigag, or Icr p!ettg ing or ehaeginc s .ch deed, asstrwaitht, or teretoiss, Mods, estate, or property, matter, or Mina, in laic or equity, as asecurity, or eeke re by any /*eh deed, nestrument, or writing, loads, estate,ro petty, matter, or thing, s4aU dew,,!. or .4(11 be of becomes anrced or ejected as a stew ra ,, in law or ovary. It will be seen that all the words affecting bankers in the original clause are cow omitted. Sa also in the &Wale a Conveyances," the new words which imposed a duty upon the conveyance of " any other matter, and thing whatsoever, or of whatever nature" besides landed property, are omitted from the new bill; a sacrifice to the press and to public opinion which must have wrung the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER'S heart, but upon which we think we are enti.led greatly to congratulate ourselves and the commercial public generally. The second important alteration in the bill is a concession to the landed interest. It will be recol lec'ed that under the head " Settlement" the CHAN CELLOR of the EXCHEQUER proposed a new item of taxation, in the shape of an ad valorem stamp upon all portions, to be provided for the benefit of younger children, born or unborn. The Express con demned this clause as a most unjust and wicaed at tempt to introduce a new and oppressive tax. From the bill as reprinted the clause is entirely omitted! And yet on the very night before the omission, all the communications Sir CHARLES WOOD had re c'ived upon the subject were " founded on entire mis conception !" There was a new clause, it will be 'recollected, wllich provided that any deed stamped after execu tion should only take effect from the day on which it was so stamped. The Express pointed out that this clause would have the effect of preventing the recovery of any,unts which might be due upon many descriptions of mortgage deeds and other documents. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER received 500 communications on the subject of this bill, and con demned 4130 of them as worthless. He has, however, entirely sacrificed this clause, and in the amended bill it is nowhere to be found ! -- The conveyancers have also • concession made to them. By the 6th clause of the original bill they were ma de personally accountable to the Exchequer for all stamp duties unpaid upon deeds which they might draw or have caused to be drawn. By the amended bill they are mil ; to be responsible in the event of their having " received the money and mia !pprnpriated the same." The CHANCELLOR of the ExcnECIUZI evidentlyhas no very favourable opinion e the conveyancers. But u they have secured ex emption from the original liability, that may be of comparatively little consequence. There are some other alterations in the amended bill, but they are not sufficiently important to be noticed here. The lease question the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER has not touched. Under the new law every one who takes a building we repairing lease will undoubtedly have to pay an ad valorem 'tamp duty, not only proportioned to the amount of his rent, but proportioned to the implied con sideration to lay out a certain sum of money in buildings or repairs. We believe this clause is retained as it stands, mainly because those interested have in to way concerned themselves to get it altered. Whilst the brokers and others have been alive to the way in which their interests have been affected by Sir Citaatate Woon's bill, the balder., and those who represent them have, so far as we know, ben quiesc , mt. Well, one consolation is, that we have dine all in our power to relieve them from the liability. But heaven helps those who help t riernselves. Such being the alterations in the details of the bill, there n-mains to be considered the principle upon which this EOPISIIINI has been based. We have said througheu., that for our own parts we regard the prineque of an ad valorem stamp duty as an use. ceptiorable principle. The amount of that duty, the point at which it should commence, is another ques tion. 'lli-se are mints to which the attention of the house shoold be directed. There is also another most Important ennsirteration. It must always bn borne in mind that Sir CHARLER WOOD professed to give the country tilemeasure aa a measure of relief. We have —.- ahead/ &Tiro meet co.npletelj that it will be nothing •of the wt. Upon bowls, mortgages, and Bettie ', alma; q Oti 1,0004 there will be a small—ten 2~t"' . R.s almost pitiful — reduction ; but upon every transaction ex 1,0001., the lacrosse of duty will be epee meas.' authors of this bill are making, we know, every possible attempt to blink this fast, and to blind the country to it. But let the how and the peolge keep it stedfestly before their eyes. It is a feet which financial reformers and emotes:asks cannot too steadily impress. For if this bill was to remit taxation to the ' extent of 300,0001., and if, instead thereof, it is likely to produce a considerable additional revenue to the Exchequer, what is to be done with the 300,0001. of whiob people were promised all the benefit? Another consideration for the house this evening is' how far this measure ought to be received as a mea sure of reform. We have already expressed our own deliberate opinion that the stamp . duties ought to be treated as a whole, and not piecemeal after this fashion. Fourteen years ago, or more, a large mea sure was proposed to parliament for thare-assessment of the stamp duties upon an improved and equitable system. Why should we be dealing with those duties now upon a pitiful and peddling prin ciple? Why not propose a large plan for the better apportionment of these duties—for their equi table re-distribut on, and for the relief of the nuns:es say burdens which occasionally they impose P As the bill now stands, however, by far the most objectionable portions of it concern others infinitely more than they concern the Express. To the mercantile, the commercial, and the banking com munities represented in these columns, we have done our duty by protesting, and successfully protesting, against the imposition of new items of taxation. The vastly increased duties which will henceforward be imposed, will fall infinitely less upon those bodies than upon the landed interests represented by other publi cations. Those publications appear to acquiesce in ' the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER'S measure. A protectionist contemporary stet. d la,t Friday, and we implicitly rely upon the truth of its assertion, that it really was utterly uninformed upon the subject. Whether those who are represented by that paper in the House of Commons, may be equally ignorant and uninformed, we shall have au opportunity of discover ing to-night. The population of Leeds has descended, or is de scending, into the forum, to discuss, not the material questions of food or wages, or the transcendental ideas of political or social theory, but the urgent, the prac tical, and philanthropic inquiry of how the poor are to be educated. Much as we differ from some of the parties agitating, we cannot but admire as • whole the movement, and the seal and activity displayed in the pursuit of a great intellec tual object. What is peculiarly gratifying is to behold the working class itself take pert in con sidering measures which mainly concern its interests. Indeed, almost the only bo, e of rescuing education from being made a mere ins*rutnent for sectarian ad vancement and strif., and later perhaps for political manipulation, is for the working class to acquire opinions on the subject and to express them. Instead of interested parties speaking for them, let them speak for themselves, and parliament will not resist their prayer. In fact, it is the great amount of ignorance, and in tellectaal as well as physical destitution in this coun try, that constitutes the obstacle to efforts for its re moval. For different churches and persuasions look upon this MU of ignorance, as the great and rival Pow,rs of Europe once regarded the new continent when discovered. Each saw in it an indefinite scope for extension of empire and conquest. Noce thought of the continent itself, or its native races. The King of SPAIN seized all the coasts and regions which he deemed worth holding, and obtained the: POPE'S sanction of his claim for the exclusive establishment of Catholicism. But inter lopers came in, took, peopled, and cultivated stray tracts, and lucky it was they did so; for Spain, though its arm was upheld and its head directed by the in fallible Pontiff, did but debase and degrade its own and its subject race, so as to unfit them for civiliza tion and incapacitate them for progress. A c'rtain portion of the English church and icier tain portion of the dissenting body look upon the great continent of ignorance here, much as Spain and as England did upon America. Each claims the ex clusive right, not only of present but future conquest. Acd al hough there are vast regions and prairies impossible tor their means to occupy or cultivate, they would prefer seeing them remain as rude and ravage hunting grounds to the end of time, than b hold them inhabited or ploughed even by Christians of less zeal or different denominations from themselves. Such selfishness is surely unwarrantable and cuisine. The educationary monopolists have, however, not been wholly successful. The attention of government being forced to the subject of education by the great efforts and institutions made and established in other countries for the parpue —institutions which threat ened to leave the English population behind in all the arts and all the progress of life, it was found that the religious bodies, which had undertaken the task of popular education in their own interests, could not be disturbed. Tne state, however, stooped to conquer, and cautiously apprenticed or infeodated itself to the two great religions bodies, in order to be allowed to interfere, and to acquire consistency and influence as an educating power. That power it has become; and a great portion of the waifs which the rival churches looked to appropriate one day or other, have fallen into the hands of government education. The juvenile population of the destitute poor, for ex ample, is at their dispasel. So is the young of the criminal population. The rearing of instructors, - the future patronage, and of course the guidance of and influence over them, hays been silently acquired by the state; and Mr. Fox's bill will give them the remaining waifs in rural, poor, and remote districts, which are beyond the activity or reach of the reli gious bodies. We rejoice at this last, although we have oar objec tions to state education ; but it is better to have any responsible power undertake to educate, than that oese should. But we would merely point oat the folly of each of the classes opposed to state education. For the ultra-Anglican or the zealous voluntary to have resisted the advance of state education with success, they should have invoked the principle of general organisation bat local management. Had the clergy, instead of making it a clerical contest, de manded local power for themsflves and the laity com bined, they would have remained educational lords of the rural districts. In the same way had those who insist on the voluntary principle not narrowed it M assii s but have demanded a local system, they, too, I weld have maintained their influence and averted the progressive power of the centralised administration. Bat the high church, by the impracticable resolve to exclude the laity, and Mr. BAINES, by his repu diation of all system, even under local control, have literally secured to state education a triumph. Our readmit will find in our report of the first Leeds gusting, which took place on Thursday night, the speech lof Dr. Bmit.r.e, which is the ablest expoeition of the arguments of those who pray for the passing of Mr. Fox's education extension bill. We recommend at tention strongly to it. Mr. BAINES, on his part, has taken up the cudgel on the other side in the Leeds Mercury, and at the close of his article he marshals • series of " facts," to show what great exertions have been made in the way of voluntary education. But he does not meet Dr. BottLes's figures, even with regard to Leeds, where out of 18,000 children that ought to have been at school in 1841, there were but 6,000 receiving in struction. If inch were the case at Leeds, the very centre, the metropolis of voluntary education, what is likely t 1 be the cue elsewhere P Mr. BAINES objects to Mr. Fox's bill that it would eupereede existing schools, which would disappear before the free and gratuitous ones, and that it would cost four or five millions to the country. These, with the usual false and strained assumption, that what is called secular education must necewearil be anti-religious, constitute Mr. BAINES'S 0 They do not appear to be of a nature to stand the test of contradictory argument and examination. We are far from thinking Mr. Fox's bill unobjectionable, and far from thinking it unac companied with danger, that the state should have 'he power of impressing the views and doctrines of the ruling powers of the day either upon the rising generation directly, or indirectly siva it through state reared preceptors. Bat 1111 Mr. BAYER BTANSPELD said at Leeds, every scheme is welcome, and to be supported, that Increases the juantity and BE proves the quality of popular education. CAPTAIN DOPGLAB W. P. LABALMONDIERE ii ap pointed Chief Superintendent of the Metropolitan Police, in the plane of Captain Hay, who has auceeeded Sir Charles Rowan as jA . onnaingoaer with ILL hiaine.-06aerten THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVribTING, APRIL 15, 1850. , It is intended that the Plies de la Concorde shall he * theatre of a vast architectural decoration, and that a grand illumination shall take place th oe at' night, to be continued throughout the whole avenue of the Champs ElTebes. The city of Paris will con cur in the oelebratton, and contribute a portion of the " triers from Marseilles, of the 10th inst., announce the arrival at that port of another detachment of Frerch troops from the Roman states. The Napoleon gives the following account of the meeting at Angers : " The account given in the news papers of the insubordination of a battalion of the 47th is not quite correct. The disorders alluded to broke out in • battalion of the 11th light infantry which was marching through Angers on the way to Algeria." It is said that government will close this evening the electoral clubs of the Rue Martel and of the Ban lieu. The club of the Ras Richlien has organised its bureau. The following is the result of the election : MM. Bourvilliers, by 61 votes; Bauchart, 54 ; Lamm, 53; Chadeast, 62; Grouchy, 49; Dariste, 47 ; Garcon, 43; Admiral Cecile, 28; Fercaux, 19. Some political qufstions will come under discussion, and will be the object of a large meeting next week. The Council-general of Agriculture and Commerce has named committees of commerce for silks, on the laws of navigation, and a committee for general con sultation. SWITZERLAND. The federal council has, according to the Swiee papery, appointed M. Theophile Frederio Walti con sul at Leghorn. SPAIN. Private letters from Madrid, of the 9th,state that an official reply, which will terminate the differenees be tween Spain and England, is expected to be received there from the 16th to the 20th, that Lord Howden is expected at Madrid, and that M. Isturitx will go to St. James's, as ambassadors. MADRID, APRIL P.—Three per Cents., 291 meant; after 11q1.8, 9911 cash, cinema grin. Four per Cents., 131 paper. Five per Cents., 131 ; alter Balsa, 13$ each. PIIMVPB. 4 paper ; after Boise, 4 ease. Coupons, si paper ; eta Balsa, 71 aut. Bank of St. Ferdinand, St. ktenanga =London, SO 25 paper. Treasury Mlle, 95 paper. FRANCE. • • 7711.18. Pavanix. 7.16 a. There jai* remours-tb* the *blast will be inodi• bed by the expulsion of Fogad sad Masan. The Gault@ talks of a long interview between Gulled altd Duple, * tbe bouts of the latter. M. Buvignier, the 'et-member of the Cidstititemt Assembly, and who was returned on the election Of the 10th oh, to the Legislative Assembly for the Saone-et•lsire, but who had his election invalida•ed, l and the other defendants in the affair of the Solids rite Republiealne, were yesterday found guilty by the jury. MM. Buvignier and Hitcy, the only two de fendants who appeared in person, were senteneed— the:former to one year"' imprisonment, and Ave years' interdiction of civil rights ; the latter to six months' imprisonment and interdiction of civil rights. The other defendants were condemned by default to two years' imprisonment. In consequence of this verdict M. Buvignier cannot take his seat in the National Assembly, if he should be returned for the Saone-et- Loire at the election of the 28th inst. Their Excellencies the Marquis and Marchioness of Normsnby gave a grand ball and supper last night. Among the guests were the President of the Republic, the Grand Duchess of Baden, the Marquis and MU. chioness of Douglas, the President of the National Assembly, the ministers, the Duke of Botomayor, and the corps diplomatique, General Changarnier, MM. Mole, Berryer, and other eminent members of the National Assembly, &c. The supper was of the choicest description, and the whole arrangements of the evening were such as to leave a very favourable impression on the minds of the distinguished guests of the attentions of the noble marquis and mar chioness. The Patr i c says :—" We are assured that the go vernment has decided, in a council of ministers, to withdraw the bill on the press. There will no longer, we hope, be any pretext for the msmbers of the extreme right to reject or modify the measures of order and of public ea'ety presented by the ministry, with the co-operation of a considerable portion of the majority." essrs. Gate, Beaumont (Somme), Loyer, and de IlDoebet, have presented an amendment to the Paris and Avignon Railway Bill, according to which the Minister of Finance is to be authorised to issue Treasury Bonds at indeterminate dates, to the extent of 236 millions, either altogether or by parts, as he may think advisable, at a rate of interest which he shall tie, with a sinking fund calculattd in a manner to bo able to pay them off by means of drawings, and until they are all extinct; the capital thus raised to serve for the completion of the railway from Pads to Avignon. M. Charamaule has proposed to the Assembly to add the following defuse to the amendment of M. Combarel de Leyval, adopted on Thursday : " The companies of the Northern, Centre, and Western Railways shall not be allowed either directly or indirectly to tender for the Paris and Lyons, and Lyons and Avignon 'tail waya." SUNDAY, 6 Yesterday an important interpellation was made in the Assembly relative to the energetic measures of M. Carlier in the suppression of several dem critic assemblies, which, under the name of electoral meet ings, were in fact socialist clubs. By passing to the order of the day, a result which I was enabled to send you at the latest hour, the Assembly sanctioned the arbitrary use which the government had made of its power, a vote the more important, as it will be cer tainly followed up by the suppression of several other meetincs, perhaps of a lees Illegal character. The interpellation was made by M. Baune, and answered by the Minister of the Interior, who rested the case of the government upon the law of Jane, 1819, against clubs. This law, he maintained, was equally appli cable to meetings called electoral, but which were really clubs. The facts cited by M. Baroche, to prove that the suppressed meetings were clubs of an illegal charac ter, were sc - ,rcely deserving of the solemn gravity with which they were delivered. Om of the speakers at the meeting of Montmartre bad worn a red cravat; and at the meeting of the 10th arroudi Bement the honour of being chosen delegate was refused to a ce lebrated sculptor, because ho was a proprietor. Then, in the 11th arrondissement, the notorious Abbil Cha tel had preached the swinish doctrines of sensual gra tification. M. Jules Favre combatted, with his usual power and talent, the ponderous statements of the Minister of the Interior. If the law of June were ap plicable to electoral meetings, why had the govern meat brought forward a bill to give it the powers which it had just been tieing. And who was the minister who pursued this course? Ti.e former vice president of the anti-reactiocary club of the second arrondissement. M. Baroche had just time to express his disdain for this attack upon his consistency, when the house called impatiently for a decision; and M. Dapin hav ing announced that the Assembly voted to pass to the order of the day, the Itight rose in • bxly and bolted out of the chamber. The Mountain will protest on Monday against this surprise. With regard to the alleged affront offered to the President on Friday, the Napoleon says ' that one of the horses fell, and that some bystanders helped to get the animal on his legs again, but that no manifestation of any kind took place. Far the rest, the Sunday organ of the Elysee is full of the Emperor, of Austerlitz, Marengo, &c. The socialist meetings or clubs, under the guise of electoral reur.ions, are in full activity. At that of the Salon de Mara the secret of the popular manifesta tions when the President of the Repuhlio appears in public has escaped—a body of patriot+ are commis sioned to follow and stun him with shouts. They fulfilled their mission on the road to Vincennes a few days since, and again at the review of Friday were they found representing the people. An orator at the club declared that he had righteously fulfilled his duty during the entire day. Contemptuous expres sions addressed to the elect of the 10th December, insults proffered to the constituted authorities, all the powers of socialist rhetoric, adorned the speech of this citizen. The orator stated that he had stuck close to Louis Napoleon, shouting in his ears " Vive la lte publique democratique et social,e" and added, that a captain of the staff had forced him aside with his horse. " This captain is a coward," vo ciferated the speaker, " and I desire the re actionary journals will convey a challenge to him from me." Another orator took great credit to him self for having given a good lesson " to the person who wore the uniform of a general." Citizen Male pert then ascended the tribune, and spoke with an expression of benevolence of " Pere " Cabet and that good Pierre Lorenz, " who could not injure a fly." In the Salle Valentino he had seen very gentlemanly men, extremely well dressed, and charming women, ' with white hands, adorned with manehettee. A representative of the people, Citizen Cambier, followed him in the tribune; but, being somewhat rational, met with little attention. The same fate attended a former editor of the lb:forme, who spoke of Muffles and Scipio. But all the enthusiasm of the club was called into action when the Abbe Chatel addressed it in language conformable with the tastes and principles of his auditory. The primate of the Gauls excelled himself. He reminded his hearers that, spite of Joshua and the Inqxisition, the sun turns on its axis in twenty-five days and a half, neither more nor lees. That Christianity had committed a grave error in declaring war against the flesh. The flesh should not be neglected, shouted the Abbe Castel. It should be attended to as much as the spirit, and even more; "physical comfort, be lieve me, is a good thing. It is the will of the God of reason, who is not an idol, as the God of the catho lic.. Let us first satisfy, fully and without reserva tion, the wants of the body. Glory and honour to matter. Matter is the standard of liberty." The Abbe Chatel preached to converts, as was demonstrated by the warm and long continued bravos which hailed has address. Another sitting of the club of Mont martre was held on Friday in the Salle of the Her mitage. It was at the conclusion of this seance. that the authorities decreed its being closed. At this meeting were assembled about 1,500 citileu and 40 citoyennes. The President announced that at the end of the sitting a collection would be made for the who had been displaced.. The auditors did not appear to relish this, prefer ring, it would seem, to listed to speechifying rather than to port with money. M. Bus has presented an additional article to the Avignon Railway Bill, that " the first concession or adjudication of one of the two railways shall not be definitive until the second concession or adjudication shall be made. A credit of 200,000 francs hu been demanded by the Minister of the Interior for the celebration of the anniversary of the 4th of May. PORTUGAL. By Electric Telegraph.) (peon ouk coaaasrounswr.) SOUTHAMPTON, Mosnav Moamar). The Montrose nu just arrived from Lisbon. Government had dissolved the committee of noble ladies which supported Miguel. In consequence of government measures, d'scount on Lisbon Bank notes have declined to twelve. New proposals of Leos again occupy the attention of the government. There was very general excitement throughout the country. Exchange on London Mi. ITALY. ROMAN STATES. The Monitenr tlu Soir publishes the following tele graphic despatch : Naple+, April 9.—The Pope arrived at Terracioa on the Gth, in the evening, aid left early on the following morning for Froeinone." SARDINIA. TURIN, Aram 9. A signal victory hat jest been gamed here in favour of the liberal cause, not only in Piedmont and in Italy, but alio, though indirectly, in Europe. An assembly, composed of elements essentially conserva tive (the senate of Turin), has nobly broken ter )ugh the trammels of superstitious illiberality, and Las boldly proclaimed as it has candidlT admitted i.e abandonment of an odious system of privilege hitherto in use. The senate, in its sitting of yesterday, adapted by a majority of 22 votes (51 against 29) the law pro posed by ministers, and already voted by the Chamhrr of Deputies by an immense majority, that of the abolition of exc-ptional and special tribunals f the clergy, ar d on the right of asylum in places of I efuge, where the guilty were screened from pun;s' meet under cover of an inviolable shelter in certain religious establishments, churches, convents, and the like. Yesterday evening, some persons were desirous of . making a flittering demonstration of their joy on the occasion and in honour of the Minister of Justice, Con it Siccardi, who had brought forward the law, but the latter had declared, on a recent occasion, that h. would not allow of public order being in any way dis turbed, and lilt all public demonstrati ms would he prevented, uo matter in what sense they might he made; and in ace-Hance with this resolution, the armed force dispersed immediately the groups from which proceeded any cries, which, however, fortu nately, was not attended with any consequences of a deplorable nature. The crowds formed on diff. rent points dispersed at the approach of the troops, and all was over in a short time. The Marquis d'Az:glio, the President of the Coun cil of Ministers, thought it Lis duty to put on his unifmm as a colonel of horse, and place himself at the head of a patrol of cavalry, going many rounds through the streets. GERMANY. PRUSSIA. Telegraphic intelligence from Erfart, of the 13th Met., hae come to hand. The Volk shall% in its sitting of that day, adopted Von Patow's proposition by 123 votes avairst 89. Von Patow's proposals are-1. Unconditional adop tion of the constitution ; 2 Ditto of the additional act; 3. Anthor;sation of particular negotiations with Old enburg and the Hansa Towns for the provisional set ' tlement of their commercial relations to the Union ; 4. Eventual revision, proposals to be decided by one division only, and not a division upon each. FRANKFORT. The Frankfort senate has communicated to the central government its resell:dim to main tain newrality upon the question of popular rights and peculiar privileges to be enjoyed by the city as the seat of the central administration. The claim of the senate to be consulted in the matter of the interior excited much discussion in the govern ment council, some of the members of which saw in it an attempt to prejudice the rights of the csllective body of the citizens. This matter, as well as the former, was referred to a committee. Beaux, APRIL 12.—Voluntary Loan, 1031 ; National Mkt, 8411; Bank &urea 93 1. VICIISA, APRIL 11.—Flea per Cent. Metalliques, 931; Four-and. Half per Mat. Metalliquaa, SII; Bank Share% 1072. GREECE. We have letters from Athens of the 2nd instant published in the German papers, stating that the king had de•ermined not to c .tor into any nogotiationa, until the English fleet had left Salamis. A change of ministry was impending. M. Lond at had, it wee said, resigned, and it was supposed that a new 'Mull fry formed from what is called the French party, would take office. DEATII OF MADAME DULCKEN. —Madame Writes, the pianist., died me Friday, at her residence, 80, Harley street, or erysipelasia the head. THE GoTERNIIENT PLAN FOR TUE BURIAL OF TIM DaaD.—Under the authority of the preposed bill " To make better provision for the interment of the dead in and near the metripolis," it is intended to create a new burial din triet, to inoNide all London, Westminster, and the borough of Southwark. It is also intended to give powers to purchase certsin cemeteries, to be named in one of the schedule, of the act, Pooh as" The General Cemetery for the Interment of the Dead in the Neighbourhood of the Me. imp dill " (Kemal-green), " The tbuth Metropolitan" (Norwood), "The London Cemetery Cornpaay,'"' The Wed of Lundoa and Westminster" (Brompton " Stepney," " Tietorla-pvk," and "Abney-paik" C.. meter's*. These and the grounds to be purchase( for extramural interments are to be plowed under the direc tion of the Board of Health. The staff of the board to be slightly increased for the purposes of this act, which will require an additional member of the bawd, an assistant. secretary. and a treasurer, toe the special purposes mentirned. View officio rap. cutely to be limited In like manner, and for the same term as the board is at present instituted. They are to purchase and lay out grounds, and to appoint ohap lalm, stitijeet to the approval of the Bishop of Linitin. A per ion of each burial ground is to be left uneonsecrated and a chapel built thereon, whets persons are to be buried at the request of their surviving relatives.—(beaver. PtTag Etorrozi—iten tab t t ta stsALARIES COMMITTEE. _ _ :of genies are always norm male. This I to be I teeth old as Prometheus, the first pales Perla record And this granted, Mr. Disraeli is course obnoxious to the charge of waywardness. • Sewing his laurelled head, he may consider himself reprimanded for his amendment of Friday. With the ecoenteicity of his gifted and ex travagant class, be required too much of the Prime Minister ; and he unblushingly sought to impose upon the legendary good nature of a whig statesman. Lord John Russell, with a self-denying modesty that astounded even Mr. Hudson—naturally in his seat upon every money question—moves for a committee to reconsider the salaries of civil, Judicial and diplo matic officers, with a view towards equitable reduc tion. This is not enough for Mr. Disraeli. No :he requires the Minister himself to name the amount of iaczifice. Antonio is coolly desired to out off his own There is a place—it is not lotria, and certainly not Belgravia—where pigs, though roasted, have the faculty of !speech and power of locomotion. These porkers of the blest—on oldest authority—with a knits+ and fork in either flank, present their fragrant pigs' flesh to the noses of wayfarers, and with hospit able, but most distinct grunt, exclaim, " Tarry, traveller, and carve and eat me." Is it possible even in fairy land for swinish multitude to be more kindly, more pol►te P And yet, judging Mr. Disraeli by the exacting spirit of his amendment, Mr. Disraeli, even thus pig -invited, would refuse to help himself. The pork must be carved for him; and that, too, by the hog itself, or the member for Bucks disdains to touch a morsel of the whole animal. Lord John Russell is this fabulous pig. With a sweet, a touching iogenuousnew, he stands upon the floor of the house, a knife and fork in either side for a committee to carve where they will. There is a true modesty in this, akin to true wisdom. Had brutes a llouse of Commons—with another )!iop to report them—the moral bearing of the minister would be worthy of the representative espitnce of a Toby. Nevertheless, Mr. Disraeli is obdurate to the invitation :he will not help himself. No: Benjamin's mess must be served out for him. This is harsh, un kind; but Mr. Disraeli claims a hearing for his reasons: they are these; he does not believe in the knife and fork. They are shadowy, air -drawn, moonshine weapons ; by no mens tangible things to be clutched by a committee for a carving purpose. The ministerial pig—it is the belief of Mr. Disraeli— will go up stairs and CM(' down again without any porcine diminution. In the vocabulary of the sages of the Commons, "committee" is synonimous with "gammon." Sir, I cannot believe this. Having a voice, as I have, in the making of the laws—just, Mr. Editor, as a single grain of gunpowder has its own small voice in the awful roar of a cannon cartridge—l cannot believe that the motion of the Primo Minister, like schoolboy's soap-bubble, was made only to amuse and —burst. No, sir. The honourable men—those pillars of chrystad that support and glorify the legielative character of the Commons—are now profoundly touched with a sense of shillings. Yoa will see, sir, that they will cut down the salaries of ministers, judges, and ambassadors with a hand, str ng yet wise and tender, as the hand of surgery. My only fear is, they may go too f.r. I love rico ' nomy, sir—as I frequently observe to fie. Oakapple ; but true wisdom studies true comfort. l)iogenes is not a bit more of the true philosopher to me, becalm like a yard-dog he lived in a tub ; and unlike that vigilant and useful animal, never took water. There fore, I hero the committee, when they have the civil, judicial, and diplomatic officers at their mercy; when they have ell the government roast pigs bekre them, wilt help the country with moderation, not cutting too deep into the willing porkers. I am afraid there are men who would rejoice, as at the adv, nt of true political liberty, were they to have a prime minister reduced to the decee.cy of a hired cab on his visits to the Commons, and a second•class retern ticket when summoned to Windsor. In the eyes of some men, I fear, justice herself would look all the batter if made so cheep that she was elm polled to don rabbit ieste id of ermine ; and our foreign relations be deemed all the more amicable if enter tained by our ambassadors on ears eiterj and water b4cuits. I earnestly trust, sir, that the committee moved for by Lord John will have in it no such par simonious level!ere. Nevertheless, when we consider .he new-born spirit that has arisen among certain parties—all of them heretofore so lavish, so gaily liberal of the public purse—the extreme of meanness may succeed the extreme of waste. Great are human contrasts. Who knows? Had he only been spared to us a Geo7ge the Fourth might have been a Juhn Elwes the Second. Nothing more droll than the prodigal turned miser! Very whimsical to make the spend thrift tory pause in his pa'rio:ic rage to pick up a pin ! Lori' John Russell very cautiously reminded the hou9e of the wisd im of Lord Althorn, that type of dull and decent statesmanship, in 18;10; wt.° warned parliament 11,4 to make the salaries of the superior officers of sate so low, that men of large private me in% could done, with fitting splendour, rill them. I think, sir, nay ant confident, that whatever the com mittee may ultimately determine, high office will still be doubly gilt. Indeed, what is there of office that is not sufficiently recommended by extraneous money? There is, simple whi'e stick; the wand— enrol( es as angel's feather—of Lord Steward. About that wand plays there not a halo made of two thou sand yearly scvereigrs ; a continual glory from the mint ? Tne kind of persons ordained, begetten and burn, for English statesmanship may be a glad assurance to the timid that office will ever be a sufficient prize to the whig or tory of moderate fortune and large genius. I have no fear, ler, that the premiership, or home or foreign secretaryship, will ever be taken se a thing of honour—with little extrinsic value, like garter or blue riband—by the magnificence of here ditary weskit; the office at once too poor and too onerous for genius with a shallow pocket. I repeat it, sir; the sort of people vouchsafed to our otturivise forlorn condition to govern, comfort, elevate and protect us,—is a sustaining certainty that the salary will never be below the minister. For, with such pecuniary unfitness in high places, farewell to the glory of England. Who knew. how much of our real greatness, as a people, may be attributable to the pension of an ex-chancellor? Certain families grow statesmen for the country, just as certain Battersea gardeners grow sirup:es. It is at once their pleasure and their business. The game of English statesmanship, like the game of chess, is made up of two parties; in form and purpose alike, and only differing in colour. Sometimes, too, they take one side of the hoard; sometimes the other. But the men are all of the same substance, of the same mould; moved with the like end, and for the same winnings. And whilst the pieces are of this sort, good Lord Althorp may—even with the pending committee upstairs—sleep undisturbed ; the salaries of ministers—the state chessmen; now whig ivory, now tory ebony—will, even in the olive days of peace, be at little below gunpowder prices. And then, Mr. Editor, consider the costly stuff whereof we mike ambassadors. The nobility of the blood, sir, will always keep up the nobility of the pay. We grow our aristocracy alike for export as for home wisdom; and we must pay the utmost fur the advantage. It is very , true that an ambassador at Paris might enjoy something more than the " inevi table decencies" of diplomatic life even upon 6,0001. per annum; but the vital question is—would the half salary be worth the acceptance of a most noble mar quis pleasant hospttals,with fortunes; therefore is it only a debt of gratitude to most salubrious Beiide6 change emba sai o air, for weak or shattered es f are noblemen of invalid pockets that John Bull should have his Guy's at Paris, his St. Thomas's at Vienna, and even his St. Luke's at St. Petersburg. However, the committee will be empowered to ex amine; and John Bull will of course have to swallow another blue pill: with, as =nal, great credit to the parties concocting it, and great benefit to himself, re ceiving and digesting it. Still, Mr. E litor, the mo- tion of the prime minister does not go far enough. Wherefore stop at the civil, diplomatic, and judiois. bodies? I am aware that Mr. lioreman—who is, somehow, as restless at a bishop's purple as any turkey at a scarlet cloak—Mr. Horsmiut d .sired to dignify the inquiry by making it embraceo the this, a be ir ra bees ol use bi w sh it o h ps. a h I ope a ru m iny that I confer, it, constitutional w ith me, do expect on re r is, the part of the right reverend bane'', spontaneous movement in the direction of the growing enthusiasm foe. nos ,nom is it to be ex pected that men, in the unwdi t aenchment. With ling possession of wealth —wealth forced upon them by the corruption of pri. mitive Christianity —will not gladly anticipate any profane motion to undraw their purse-strings? Wh et , men are resolved to relieve themselves of cumbroua and remorseful profits, no consideration (the old specious plea of bigot thrift) of their successors ca n arrest them. Hence was it unseemly in Mr. Hon. man to touch upon the average 50,0001. left by 29 bishops in evidence of Christian moderation : 50,000 pounds • and every pound e ven as a pound of epis copal fr ankincense to purify the selfishness of a mam mon-loving world ! But a new spirit is awake upon the bench, and Doctors'-Common, will never again b e startled by such ominous thousands! Again, and in conclusion, to speak to Lord John's motion. It is too limited—too smalL Wherefore does it not include the places of high folks who, for doubtful honour only, vail their greatness by conde scending to menial o ffi ce ? Why no t make the ser vice one of pure glory, unmixed with baser con siderations of quarter-day ? A week kr, I read a letter signed " O ne o f her Majesty's Servants ; " an enthusiastic, glowing thing, in which even the maids of honour weie made to glisten like spiritual presences. Court duties were gloriously burnished into " a series of duties leading one to another, down to the humblest, and thence upw ird to the highest, like the ladder of 'he patriarch's dream." Imagine white wicks, gold sticks, and silver sticks, ascending and desceccln g the back stairs, and in the goodly show c,,nc- ire a Jacob's dream. Truly, a marvellous vision of—the court newsman. With respect to the prem7cr's motion, the pig-- with knife cud fork—will soon be ready for tie com mittee. How much will the committee e:rve Yours, &c., Ivy Tod. JOHN OM .11'I'LE. vbe Court. The Queen and Prince Albert, with the younger members of the royal family, inspected on Friday morning, at Buckingham Palace, the presents sent to her Majesty by the Emperor of Morocco, ezinsisting of ni::e barbs Ore stallions ant four mares) with the dreg' paddies of the country and horse furniture complet, . These presents were delivered to the Queen at.d Prince by lladj Abdulah La marty, Kaid Abdtkrim, and flass-n tioa-cheeti. The Duke of Norfolk, Master of the Horse, and tie trlemen of the royal household in waiting attinded on ti.e occision. Gar Saturday morning three of th.. horses res.... Ltd by the Emperer et Morocco were inspected in the fladi.,,t School, ani Hadj Abdallah Laraarty, and Kalil Ablekrint, together with a groom (IS .jmar), eio.ibited h a's of h.rsemanthip, w i t h w hi,h th e Queen and Princ, at.il the loonier mem bers of the royal family were much gratified. fladj Abdidall Lai:natty, Kaid Abd..krim, and Hassan Boocheeta, with the attendant (Booin-ar), are under the charge of the cflle.rs of the Master of the Horse, by whom they are shown the differ ent obj-eta of interest In the metropolis. The Du:: 'ees of GI fet nester visited the Queen on Saturday at it., k.r.kaans Pa:ace. The royal dinner party at Buckingham P•14 , 11` on Saturday included the Duke aid Duchess of Norfo:k, L rd and 1.1 , :f Jobe Rus ell , Viscount Canning, and C Wylde. The Queen and Prince Ahem the ladies and g •ritlenten of the court, and the domestic hotui-h:11, attended divine service yesterday in the tartrate chapel of Buckingham Palace : the II in. and fi,v. Gerald W. tfficiatsd. The royal family took their usual etereise yealerd y in the garden of Buckingham Palace. Her Itlal Highness the Duchess of Kent visit-el the Queen vesteril y, Prices Edward of Sene Weimar visited her Royal Hathness the Duchess of Kent en Saturday, at Cuenca Home, :r. James's. A cabinet council was held on Sn'tirdsy afternoon at Lansdowne ii , YIFO. The ministers pres•nt were Leirl Jahn Runell. the Marquis of Lana Towne, tb. Etrl et Mitao, Sir George Or.iy. Vise tune Palmer% Enl Grey, the Chat:m.ll4w of the Eseheguer, S.r Francis B ante, Sir Lim Hohhonee, the Right Hon. H. Labouehere, thn Earl of Car li•iles the Marquis of Cianrietrde, and the Right Hon. F.E Mettle. The conceit sat two hours and a hal . A deputation from Ro:Male, consisting of Mr. I. Chadwick, Mr. J. Schk,fiet.t..Ve. Fenton, and J ac k„,, , had an interview with the Chanc.ilm of the Eseher,aer on Saturday, at hie rSki.l residence in Uawr.iug•.troet, on the subject of the Road& Savings Bonk. The dermtatiu was accompanied by Mr. Brotherson, M.l' , Mr. I.:rowa. M.P., Mr. Peto. M.P., Mr. Bright, M.P., and Mr Sh..rinsn Craw ford. M.P. The committee for the building of the royal commis sion for tie exhibition of lftsl met on Saturday in the new pr omisee of WelltMillEvt. TY re wer •pr M r. Cvhitt , Mr. ft Stephenson, Mr. C.O mks rrll, Mr. Bread, Mr T. 1) cold 800, and Mr. Barry. Mr. Scott Russell, secren.r, tr the commission, attended. C.deael Reid (chairman) Ind Mr. R. Cole were present on the part of the Caere ice enemit ter. together with the eeerettry. Mr. Diwlty Wy .at. Mr. Elliott, M.P., and a &put .tion from Ilawick, consisting of Messrs. R :bert M ller, Jaw s Scot•, and J tines Dalgleisb, had an interview with S,r George Grey, on Satur day, at the Home-ndire. The Duke of Wellington attended the ea-ly service yesterday, in the Chapel Royal, Ja:tles'r. The Rev. Dr. Wesley officiated and preached the sermon. At thv early service the prayers were read by the REV. Dr. it: a p, and the lemons by the v. Mr. Remote. br sermon was preached by the Rev. Dr. W, s!ey. The anthem, "Gei is our hope and strength" (Greene) was sung by Me , crs. L Caen Bradbury, and Duchy. Sir George bin ...et presided a: ti . .s organ. OFFICIAL CIIANGES.—The anticipated retirement of Sir Auguati.s Godny from the secrelarysh.p of the Fac otfice in Ireland, en full superannuation all .wance, and the probable avoirtmcnt of Mr. G. C. Cornwall, private secre tary to the Marquis of Clanricarde, p .stmaster-general, to the vacancy, were announced in this paper aline weeks sinm... We are now enabled to state that Sir Anaus.us ha formally sent in his resignati,on. and that it only awaits the sanction of the Lords of the Treasury. Mr. Cornwall will he succeeded in the private secretaryship to the Marquis cf Cianricarde by Mr. Anthony Blake. of Forbore', in the county of Galway. There is reason to 1011, ye that vacancies will exist almost immediefe.y in the (dikes of Qiein's Ad vocate of Ceylon and S.,l:citor Gtmeral ..f the Weed of Tobago. The latter appointwnt was r• crn ly nl.el up uy a selection from the Irish bar.— Weekly Ch, THE IRISH TENANT-RIGHT QrESTION.—A depu tation from the Tenant right Association in Ulster (Men tioned b 7 our Dublin comspoodent) has arrived in town, for the purpose of opp sing Sir W;lliam &meallle's bi::, and of urgani,ing measures for the advancement of tta tenant•rigbt cause. EDUCATION MEETING S. MEETING AT LEEDS. The Mayor of Leeds was summoned by thr, ferent artier to hold a meeting on the subje.t et Mr. 1 bid for education. First the working Intn and °Our. F" mended • meeting in favour of con-seetarien edue...on. (Ht, n demanded& meeting in favour of • schome to ie:cal and improve education on a basis of impariality toner lal sere. Dr. Houk signed this. Finally, Mr. 13,:n.< the voluntaries demanded a meting in part to stab' a their objections to any *chew; of state cdue+ mayor, to pious all parties, called three mceti. g, n. The of which to k place`on Thursday lest, and th r t re,sor: which follows. The others are convened f. r Ira Tuesday, in the White C10 . .h-hill-yard and the Cloth-hall-yard. After the Mayor had opened the meeting, he reei;n:d•ho ehair to Me Haieutt STANIWELII, who said, in the chair at your request. and giving my humble rub to the object of the mee+ing, which is to COOVIi , r propriety of petitioning in CVJUI. of Mr. Fos . * now before parliament, I do it on mush the same ground that I supported en a former sion the scheme of education propounded in the miru:a of council—nut become I am perfectly sati•fihd with crier. hut that I consider them eters in the right direction: sni have taken u my rule on this question to support lii 51:4 every scheme that is likely in sky opinion to inerciie the quantity or improve the quality of the mew for edee:ing Le people. (" Hear, bra." and chests.) I cue •. r . nothii.g for the statistics which the oppnants of nat education so profusily treat us with, to prove that tb • tr.. •• are already adequate. When I see figures piled up.a thou's, lam fercibly reminded of the wir.murr , a fish called the cattle fish, which, when closely pursed WitsToes,iiiscbargea iin irriliortoillui:l, which ..: 1- dies the water, and enables it to escape. (Land 1111 ; 7o:the and applause.) Granted—that their statistics are P . - fectly correct—that so many actu illy do attend se`. What then ? It only shows that if the quantity be gr , ‘'s the quality is so much 'Doris deficient ; tor let this figures be what they may, I still Pelisse in the fact th.l a deplorable and dangerous state of i t rn.irance exists lit the country. They should teach their pupils to think, and I) be able to give a reason for the faith that is in there (" near, bear," and applause.) Tuinking it the ri - 1 essence of education. (near, hear.) Teo. I soy. i , ' ' working classes do prefer the purely secular plan. lee o, •'ln have it. Educate them upon tit ir own terms—educe , '" at their own price—educate, educate, iducate—lsin 4 ...' ... and rest soured that, if once an educated people. o '7 will be all the more likely to be a religious people. 1 1. '" cheering.) Dr. 8. SMILES %aid—About one-half of our poor con neither ,read nor write. About eight millions a year ~ s , expended on poor rates; one person in invry iii.rt \ is a recipient of poor relief. Ab , ut throe naiiiiii car are expended on crime anti i's punishment. W of ounelvcs as a Christian people, and yet a '- , 0 portion of our poor beiges to so church, their charen sia olucated at no school, they are allowed to grow up to aur• hood without any knowledge of the duties of tnoi.i.i7. or religion, without any higher tasies than the- . J . the mere animal, and they am allowed to perish in their 4:.--. ranee as if they belonged to some utterly heathen cote r`' (lieu, hear.) It is a disgraceful fact, which the lit•eol?L'f; i General's reports of marriage yearly displays to us, .s• I. about one half of all the men and wain , n in this i •. ' who are married do not write their wines at neirrisite: - ' sign with marks. This may he an imperfect test Of ''''''',. I tie; I admit ; still it is a teat of unquesti on ahle eau-