The Express. — London, England, 1850-02-20 00:00:00

iie 'nprPxigs• wt'he N uttily relievel by the proposition of the a m . g.entlenian. It is not, then, a question between land d the towns, bat it is a question between the (Mans of who have something, end the peat masses, " the 104 *tubing. " as they are called, and who, if suds Emu ggofrtas are perst•ted is, will be " Laycnothings " to the end time. (Hear, hear.) That is the prinsiple upon which I ' gag owes the proposition of the hoes. mew. b er : but I ask hen. gentlemen opposite, and tuy being the form•r's friend, I have a right to ask the custms, in what way do yes sagest by this proposition to ,;testy the vast clamour pm excited oe participated in during the now ? (Hear, lumr.) lam not the torment' triend— aa, gh," from the protectionists)—l never made any cam t, that chamfer ; bat in this house as out of it there i n sn ort proration whieh the fanners out mike, and no intentp the appliestion whisk will submerse their which I will toot advocate and vote far ,• bat I w ill sot cue to this house after eseithig a damn, throogh the cousin, that I am about to relieve the fanner, end then ma k e s proposition that a child of Ave years old could al. COW bad no referent* to the interne of the oceupier, but is ▪ directed to the interests of the landlord. The right ben. bertitet has shown that 45 per cent. of the poor Iran h all o a t ($ paid by the land, and that is not all paid by nth natural land. Will, then, if all the relief he pa now to give landed property be 4S per cent., th at Lall the intend the land can have in his proposition. And if 15 per cent. is all this great intend of ' , milord, ten ant, and tamer, together can get, I ehonkl like to have it d o med loses much of this 45 per cent. will return to the po ckets of the occupying tenant. (Hear, bear.) The hoc Feldman proposes that this 45 per cent. should be the tont of the relief, so far se the landed intent b concerned b u t then be aspects that to give them this, the Chancellor of the Exchequer is to continue the other taxes which the funs sow partly pay, as the tux upon tee, the tax on coffee, the us t • tobacco, the taus on wises and spirit,:aad the us on malt. (Hear, heat.) All these taxes moat he continued, if the propotlion he now threatens us w ith were to he nmessful, and the great hardest of the rates were transferred from the property to the industry and labour of the general body of the people. j ute?, hew.) But h do gentlemen opposite act when real miestme foe the relief of the tenant farmer are under dim elegem ? There us a proposition the other day for a county rates bill which met with no very favourab'e reception from the othersida, end it will be my duty by-and-by to ask if hos. gentionses appetite will agree to a modtfieation or Medi um of the law foe encouragiog the preservation of game. i" W," and a lanes.) We shag find then whether the km. geofismen are willing to apply those great sad jut Fria. ricks M while we haveleard so meek tonight to a peactieal grievance whisk is much greater en the farmer than anything that son arise rue the cost of the establishments of poor tow Woes. Them is elm the gulden of the Tenant Caw ;swathe 1341. I shell be delighted to find that those pew own sheathed forward so the taint farmers' Muth e.g run that. (" Hees," end einem) If the landlords ware gse. they meld Who enether Neu from that they ere s.trpt:ne, I u 'oily, far are num than one, that lum on a Aided proprietor. (Ironical cheers and lersgleter from :Pe protectionists) las especially sorry for me renew, stub is, that l am net able toepeak to my brother ' sort 'rah that weight which I should do were I our of them. Lax: ;ter. I Were I a landed proprietor, I should say is my trotter proprietors, if trade continues presperons, sortutact_res and commerce increase, if employment is sae permanent and the wages of labour see aleedir sad c. re remunerating than heretofore—if you list of missiasle atimaphing year by year, end you poomlaw titans Low that thousands and thousands of hitlssrtellelplele nee, waste. sad chi:dreo, an LIMA from the mire of peg esdi. , t which they have been so long sunk, to an independent ail comfortable position,—l should my to them, 1 rah treats should follow, as I believe they woll, from the adoption of the free trade policy which he gsailaise 0 7pokte deride so much, then the position of the landed pro • toter is the most fortunate and happy in this present gram of say—fehtersl—tor, as prosperity inerosses, be cast efroist a ream increase of wealth; there will be more tupetitiou for laid for awl• ultural porpoug, for hancLe purpose,. and ke manufacturing pompom— f or purpose' o f onager. end 's ante whin, that is wing en, ant with will you obtain a larger suant of wealth. fu pester security for those wiensions with which Tragil ace has Reseed you. (Cheers.) But to tome tee sad ask far the abolition of the poor rate, and for the umbering tows from los to o herewrs of the canwea city, is what pis would never do if y. u considered your own peemaseat fauriests. (Hear, hew.) There are other in tires, in the tunny who could came to this house and mak of lose sust•ined by them from the depreciation of invested and e.rstire earital, bat they have not demand , d twinpf mho:. as son have done. Yoe have ruled in put times is the howse ...la at. undisputed sway. (Hear, hear.) Toe tan h:et. is the Le , it on the hustings of teaching the people tar yo ease hen to pmmete agricultural prosperity sad to meints'o a high price for corn. (" Hear," and "oh.") As comb, men, I end,' say to you, get rid of this habit as WO as poesibte. Chien and laughter.) Well would it be fgr you if all 'he v.,laran of Honied for the last ten years could be barn:. I rosiest timers from protectionists ) For theta your elithlren en I randehiklren coot! s? If/laity of re nteg the speeches you lave made in this house. (Cheers.) I ems convinced that the proposition of the hon. st , alma contains within it so element of benefit, impure= et, or restitution, to the tenant know 1 of this conc.?, and that being my opinion, I will he no party to a •ritim, the objet of which is to transfer I tans from rem properly and lay them on the industry of the matey. t Hear. hese.) To do so would oe to reveres the polity of ti.e last i yesn—a policy which has been pursued with advertise to the population, and which is tending to the pe assent security :of every valuable institution in the Union. 11.nd edam ) Mr. H. DRUMMOND said !bat the farmer had been WSWa of not knowing his businyt. Wore the learned sea cf Manchester much wiser ? Did they know the seien tint qualities of tie pigments sad drugs they used? Wr lot a scho:l of design provided in pity for their *COMO' ? FM trade had pesmoted some manufactures, but destroyed others. It had annihilated the tinning trade, cut down hit tte vale* of timber and bark, and reduced the produce of al: the ;sad in England from AN. to 40e. an acre. its destruction of pro?erty on one side had surpassed its iceman on another. and the whale system was one cf tau :urination. This was the fiat skirmish of the buts. The sums of free trade and protection wens the watchwords of the struggle between capital can isfraur, between w, sith and hfe. H. should vote for the pewee:doe of Mr. Ditraci, but would vote also for placing Um birdies upon the property of the rich leaving the pow mar. fns to drink untaxed beer, to build with untaxed bricks, end pow hops, tobacco, or anything else he liked in kis mien. Cart. D. PELHAM anode some observatiom, after whiett tke dame was adjourned to Thunday. S 3 W. VERNER moved ems verbal amendments to the Part, Pa-musics* elrelanc) Ball. Lml J. RUSSELL objected that the amendments would five it. mullions at the bill an unnecessary stringency. Mr GRWAN supp•rted the amendment, which was, however, wathdraern, sad the report brought up. The hum MN at halt-put 12. OUTGOING MAILS. The mails hr British North America and the United Sates erul be mole up en the evening of Feb. 22. Its mails ri.i Marieillrs, to the Mediterranean, Egypt, C.) ion, ledie, Wing• Kong, Ate., will be made up on the 0!1eb.2.i. The twat., Lisboa, Spain, and Gibraltar will be made a; ea he). 27. The West India Mail., ineludiag Bermuda, Havanaah, Roma, ll4 , dxras, New Orleans, and Mexico, and excluding these far Madeira, St. Juaixcle-Niearacua, New Granada, CLL. Lad Pero.will be made up on March 2. Tee mails kr Modena, the Brazils, and Buenos Ayres, will mak up en the evening of March 4. AMY VAT= AT LAINDOII WDCa lA.,—moruic ..... ANAm airowassa. 1.11.1 M 1 4 • l 4l , W—lfisslag. om. MA M.YDON, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20. lite Suffering Rich have presented their petition for relief out of the taxes paid by tee whole commit rily, not excepting the industrious poor. By the swath of their sturdiest upkeep= they have impor- Dated the representatives of the people to give them so moth money. They no longer ask for an extra Pere for their maul; and they do not demand better terms foe the i r 'salt. But in one shape or other, !nutty they world fain exact from their fellow.aub- Cq nut because these can afford to be so fleeced, bat se they have always been used to the practice and ineesere of exe c :i on and are very uncomfortable Meat. at helot deprived of th at species of hereditary enjoy btAitut did not attempt, in his somewhat in effective speech lest night, to disguise the sordid oa ten- a the claim he had been instructed on behalf of tbr ' 4 lm/rune claws to prefer. On the part of the ilium:thy of Envland he appeielecl to the first :Lttiater (lithe crone, and begged him not to refuse , their supplication. Recent legislation had injored the agricultural interest, by cheapening the price of food. bat was a grievance which they knew would 10 1 be remedied by parliament, but for which F t"rtiary compensation onit ht be "' thirty yea-s th e alma -:. skew had had the ti tteEt ot a tax on the necessaries and e;Dm bN * of the labourer's life; and now that they ,rrd &Plead of it, they expected to be OM eta lOW Not a word was eaid by the sideeit rho tor.ties to show that the farmer or the farm-labourer 10 7 share is th e new specu l at i on. " Never riellft the distribution we shall make of the pleader we once get it: only give to us in the Wile of er•eral Ludy, who depend for subsistelbe Ira the t' , :%ration of land, and we shall @Mitten mine qua- L 'n" of "ewe and rent among ourselves." lit the cues tracing sad usonetrovertible fads which I J•rneil the , stapl e of Sir Ozonot One's repl7, none Hi inure striking than that regarding the diminution of the burthen of poor rates, with the vast bus= it the property rateable sad rated thereto. doss I$1& At that - period the total amount assessed sal ladd ter the Newport of the poor in England was 8,848,8411. ekes in 1849 it did not exceed 7,674,1464 But Sawing the same interval the value of mashie pse pa 'abject to this weight had 'mural 111M1,4231. to 83,802,7301.; so that, notwllkelming the vast increase of population, the actual poi= was diminished in a still more msrvellows lion. Nor is this all. The Home Secretary = very clearly that, so far from its beiog true that the incidence of poor-law taxation was =ohs vively, or mainiy, or even peculiarly, upan land—the proportion paid by other kinds of property was more than forty-reohe per cent., while that contributed by land was lam than fifty-two. Yet, in the Lice of facts like these, of diminished burden and practically equalisedpressure as between the agricultural and e interest, • small and selfish section of the Brim have the effrontery to come formed and ask that two or three millions • year shall be remitted to them in future as a first instalment of their claims upon the national exchequer. For Mr. DISRAELI frankly avowed that the three reaulatious he was prepared to move, should the Hesse of Commons agree to go into c immittee on the question—were but chapter the first of the new polisy of financial re-adjustment. He demanded that what are termed the 4-mounent charges, the swat, - the - rates, and the oust for maintaining cuual poor, should all be placed forthwith and permanently on the Consolidated Fund. The two former he ales land at about two millions Verling per annum; the last he did not very distinctly esti mate. But apprehensive, apparently, lest his followers should think he had asked too little for them, he characterised these as extremely mode rate demands, and plainly intimated that as soon as they were conceded he had as many more to make on behalf of the same patties. No better reason could be found for refusing to parley with such extortion, than this candid warning of its insatiability. There is not even the affectation of shame about the impor tunity of these hereditary impostors. They do not rretend any longer that a tax on corn was a rightful source to them of private income. But admitting ealkily the impossibility of getting it 'gain, they sully call on parliament to make op the loss of it to them in other ways. They are ready to throw off their own shoulders any kind or amount of fiscal liability, in order twat somebody else may hear it in their stead. The p3or deluded farmers whom all last autumn they bewildered and cajoled into paying one more year's exc- salve rent, by assurances of re stored protection,--lhey have neither part nor lot in this new matter. They wed know, that the lose rate, the more rent they will have to pay. It is a bare faced and unblushing question of rent, and rent alone, in which the tenant manifests no interest, for he feels, no are. It is purely, or rather impurely, a landlord's question, and nothing elm or more. Some highly useful statements were made by Sir ()wane Otter, illustrative of the improvement which is steadily tilting place in the condition of the mass of the population during the past year, as com pared with that which precede d it. The diminution of criminal offences in both urban and rural districts is highly indicative of a gradually augmented diffu sion of the blessings of cheap sustenance and clothing. The analytical statements regarding poor relief fully corroborate the impressions these statements respect ing crime are calculated to produce, and the least part of their value is the dir ct tendency they have to weaken the pretentious, rather than plausible case, put forward by Mr. DistuELl on behalf of the Suf fering Rich. THE mercantile interests which are concerned in the maintenance of peace between Denmark and the duchies of Sales% ig and Holstein will hare ga thered little certitude from the answer of Lord PAL MERSTON to Mr. SANDALS OR Monday night. The question was, Have the Danes eousen:ed to renew the armistice ? Now the truth is, that they have, and they hare not. The Danish government, to the de mand of Englaz.d, replied, that it was ready to renew the armistice, but not upon the old conditions. The old conditions were, that the northern or Danish part of the Duchy of Schleswig should be occupied by Swe troops, end the southern portion by a Prussian contingent. The Danish government was that since the Prussian troops will not coerce the in habitants to do all that the Commission wishes, the Prussians must evacuate Szbleswig altogether, that the Swedes shall take their places in the southern portion of the duchy, end that the Danish troops shall take the place of the Swedes in the northern. We need not say that this is a complete and total change of the conditions of the armistice, and that in substi tuting their own conditions, the Danes, if they insist on them, do in fact refuse to renew the armistice, and determine to recommence the war. What the Dant I demand is, in fact, impossible for Prussia to concede ; first of all, because it would be dishotourable for the Prtssian cabinet to abandon Schleswig until its rights are assured; secondly, because if the Danish soldieis occupied the posts now held by the Swedes, some of which are in the very country of the Angles, collision and resistance would inevitably be the result ; in that resistance the entire of the Schltswigers and liolateiners would join, and the civil war would thus be rtnewtd. We have all along said that it would be more desirable, and much more facile, to conclude a defini tive arrangement between Denmark and the Duchies, than to prolong an armed trice. The longer this provisional system lasts, the greater will be the diffi culties in the way of a final settlement ; and as Eng land proposed, and Prussia and Germany accepted, an arrangement on the basis or the independence of Schleswig, it is noble to prelude to a definitive arrangement by a Danish re-occupation. Denmark, however, in cotoert with its counsellors and allies of Russia and of Austria, bides its time. Its hope was placed in the Latino of the King of PRUSSIA'S plan for organising, first, his own king- I dom, and thee a larger portion of Germany, under a constitutional e stem. All the effirts of Austria and of Russia have been directed to defeat such project.. And although it is now too late to en tertain such hope., still Denmark holds perti naciously aloof, aid incurs the risk of renewing a state of war in Northern Europe, rather than recon cile herself to constitutional government and its con sequence', in Copenhagen, in Berlin, and in central Germany. It is of the highest importance that the British public should form a just idea of the struggle that is going on, a struggle in which Prussia, holding up the banner of constitutional freedom ar d German unity, is opposed most strenuously by Austria and by Russia, and by the Dani.h court, as their coadjutor. Austria has done her utmost, and with no slight success, to detach every ally from Prussia. She has spirited away Hanover arid Sazony, sustains Denmark in its resistance, and has renewed an old scheme for con quering Baden and dividing it between Bavaria and herself, which dates as far back as 1816, but which was then defeated by England and by other powers. This scheme is revealed in a letter pub- limbed in last night's Globe, for the correctness of which we can vouch, and the important portion of which we reprint in a note below.° This audacious scheme for partitioning an indepen dent country, and dispossessing a protestant princely family, in order to make way for the bigot rule of two Catholic powers, of Austria and Bavaria, is, indeed, but a part of that Austrian scheme of despotising Germany, which it has veiled and revealed, recoiled from aid put forward, as fears prompted or ambition permitted. In January, 1849, Austria, we know, made the formal proposal of dividing Oermary into six circle., with a King at the head of 'with—Austria one, Prussia two, Hanover,with Brunswick , Mecklenberg, and the no rth western Mates, as well as liaise, mak ing the third; Saxony, swallowine bee Thuringian kindred, was to make the feetth; Bavaria, with the •There Weis a ammi Ina* listsrets Austria owl Bavaria, of NM Ark, ISM IMO home, MIS auct MNlf, ilik by arbiali Austria Is order to t moo. of mad to Dam& to Ilepolatutitium paggrogigooo to /'iris lis maw. um ti Ma Bohol. Polegisalg illembelia, Ombrubli 11111, bo.), ia ere at mrtiosties of the S h eet tails Ism of the Wm Omni balm The immtitot department M Way called the aYid the IMM sad Tauber, is to tadmaally at ail mils Daunt ler met haulm abilmed not oomeguity wlth the Maka Seta 'bleb 'bleb Ausirta, hi ow busty of Wed, In 1053 , hail yes istiwzi Weed via that am sad Army which abe alma' Ims mg is of Derma _lmatlA, AM two ws. Till ibis =o h Austria is mumps to key to emarte ...sully ammo. of 0.0101. ttolisp. liesimmi raw at the time the :WAROM et emb s led soii wee and by • truly R_ ISM samilmied et Phultillet with Am Prussia, lloods. amine Omid Tahoe: Dailm, admewlidged the Ovoid Duke of IMO% hie balm MA tang Om over, is the Islam at the state at peeemMa is Alb he set ally was. sod is up to thie 11101 ION— . itl/M. Me owl liiii, IT. 11-4.1, 411. 1. IL) PARIS, Fas.l9. Far Mossy. THE EXPRESS. WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 20, 1810. North Palatinate, was to be the fifth ; whist Wnr tetabarg was to annex Baden, is order to fore the sixth. This annexation, or swallowing up of minor states sad primes, was avowed by Austria to be but the first step, the true end and aim being the division of Ger many into north and south: the meth to become one, under catholic and despotic Austria; the other portion, northward of the Main to be Prussian, sad make despotic, and protestant if she could make it so. To the completion of this plan, for which there exists the authority of Prince Wrrroareergur, and a despatch of his dated last July, it is evident that Austria was prepared to amities both Saxony and Hanover to Prussia:—the two Lingo, whom she had enticed from Prussian militate and from the three kings' league, merely to sacrillee them in a final bargain. In the face of these well-known and publicly proffered whinies t those organs which are the dopes of Austria represent her as seeking to restore the autho rity of the old Diet, and the status quo of Germany before 1848 ; whereas no greedy and unscrupulous government, whether despotic or revolutionary, ever made so light of the rights of either nations or pro vinces, or was ever so ready to sacrifice or swallow up, as it might be, to gratify its appetite or ambition. We are no thick and thin admirers of Prussia or its comfit:rims. But her constitution for Germany stipulates at least for the preservation both of the rights of :the several princes who join the league and of the people themselves in the diffe rent states. It guarantees their constitutions, their liberties, such as they are, and puts them under the protection of the federal and national power. Whatever it dose with Germany, it at least doss not make a Poland of it, and out it up. likes ir cereals, to be measured and weighed, and distributed l amongst its purchasers or its butchers. oPosial 37 95 57 0 SO 95 ^ For Aseaunt. 8 per Omen Of 96 'sr 931 57 96 97 65 97 63 6 pry Ont.. 9991 93 SO 95 65 19523 9575 S do. New Lost. .. :I o N 44 per Otota. o ~ ir ri •• 4 o per Cents. , : 1 le II Bor. 3 Elbr:4l Ca g lairda . ye k 23 47=day5,....7 9 1:/p ! I 1342 Do. 4 „ 13ank— MO „ Piedmont 5 per OW. IS 40 „ 80011 M—Paris sad Orimms. 765; Park and Ira" 969 i Seem and Han% 350 ; Arileman ds ro Maneillea, ISO ; Illinibmg led Dale, 115; Orkone and 110. OM; primer nod Ileedenisa. 11011 73 ; North. 438 75 ; Maims awl Troyes. IN 111 i Paris milltniblero, 55759 ; lams AM Nat" NS le; Tema= Wed Math 190; Do. (left tank), 16739. A. Zbe Court. The Doke of Cambridge visited the Queen Tester. der at Buckingham Poises. The Denham of Kent visited her Majesty yesterday, after bar arrival In town from Frogmen, and lunched with the Queen and rrinee Albert. 'Prise7.ifbert rod — e enon horseback yesterde a forenoon, attended by Ltent-Colesiol the Hon. Alexander zks The Doke of Mamma had an midtown oldie damn molg oss efternoos, sad presented to her Majesty addresses parts of Cho country complaining of above, sad pro _yin( relief. Some of the address,* suggested en early Insolat(on of parliament; many prayed for a restoration of protection to egrizeltare. They emanated from Petwortb, Dasinptoke, Westmeath, Tickenhall, Hotywall, Burford, South INvon, Dalham. Teinwords, Bort ughbridge, But Grinsted, Wexford Kilkenny, Tendring Headrest, Orms kisk, Lang Sutton, East Ham. Bridgenorth, R Brentwood, Dagenham and other places in Item:, epton, Denby, sad Hentingdon. His Grace also presented to the Queen memorials fa favour of the Ten Hours Act, and praying that it may not be evaded by the shift or relay system :—Frem the factory workers and other inhabitants of Manohmter, Stockport, Salford, Tod morden, Rochdale, Bolton, Ashton-under-Lyne, Ashton's Newton Moor, Cheshire ; from the clergymen of the Church of Ragland, end other ministers et Stalybridge, end from the heartiest following mills at Scaly bridge ; from factory workers (being w•aven), from factory workers (being winders), of New Mill ; from (Wog workers et Old Mill; from factory workers in employ of Bailey Brothers ; from factory workers In employ of Hems. Johnson ; from factory workers, being weavers ; from factory workers(being spinners); from factory workers in employ of E. Sidebottom ; from lector, workers In employ of W. Harrison, Brothers ; from factory workers in employ of W. Waining end Co. ; from factory workers In em *y of Robert Platt ; from factory workers to employ of J. Wagstaff ; from factory workers in employ of Albert Hall; fromworkers in employ of J. Bailey. From the dale gates frene workers, Manchester, Balton, Oldham, StV 4 Regy, Heewood, Handley , Tyldaley, Warrington, Bac Tansehin, Ashton•under-L:ne, Stalybridge, Blackburn, and Handel& sighed by the skairma ala t i f=itailta Of Blackburn, signed by the rev„shatrznen. _ _ _ -- The Queen and Prince Albert, with the Princess Boyd and the Princess Alice, and attended by Colonel Buckley and Dentenant-Colonel the Hon. Alelander Gordon, honoured the Duchess of Sutherland with a visit yesteldly afternoon, at Stafford House. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness afterwards took a drive in an open carrie,ge and four. The Queen had a dinner party yesterday evening at Buckingham' Palms. The company incluleo her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, his Excellency the Chevalier Bunsen, the Duke of Wellington, Lady Fanny Howard, the Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury, the Marquis and Marchiouess of Clanricarde, the Harl ot Clarendon, Lard and Lady Foley, Lord and Lady Charles Wellesley, and Sir G. Cooper. The Prints of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princes Helena, and the Princess Lenin took their usual exercise yesterday. Lord Byron has relieved the Marquis 01 Ormende in his duties es lord in waiting to the Queen, and Captain the Hon. Joseph Denman has rellevtd Lieut.-Colonel the Hon. Alex ander Nelson Hood in his duties as groom in waiting to her Majesty. The Dachas of Kent arrived at her residence, Clarence house. Bt. James's, at a quarter past 12 o'clock yesterday, from Frosmore, attended by Lady Fanny Howard and Sir George Caupm. Her Royal Highness visited the Duchess of Gloneester at Gloucester-house in the afternoon. The commissioners for inquiring into Smithfield Market and the markets in the City of London for the sale of meat, met yesterday at the Home-office. There were present Mr. George Cornewall Lewie, Sir Harry Verney, Mr. William Miles, M.P , Profes•or Richard Owen, PALS., the His. Fred. Byng, anu Mr. John Wood. The commissioners received a di putation from the City to communicate plkns for the improvement of Smith. field and Newgate markets. The deputation consisted of Mr. H. L. Taylor, Mr. Thomas H. Hale, Mr. Deputy Hicks, Mr. Low. Mr. Del n, Mr. Serjeant Merewetber (town clerk), the City Rentembrancer, the City Comptroller, and the architect. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council eat yesterday. An appeal from the High C•,urt of Admiralty, " Hammond v. Roger.," the ship Christiana (part heard), was resumed and concluded. An avtaal from Bengal, Grant v. The Chief Ins ice of Bengal" (part heard), was resumed; the case was adjourned. (From last night'. Gazette.) FOREIGN -OFFICE, FF.n. 16.—The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Edward AUbtan, u Consul in New Brunswick, and of Mr. Frederic Charman, as Cmmul in Nova Scotia, for her Majesty the Queen of Portugal. DOWNING-STRELT, FEB. 19.—The Queen has been pleased to appoint Aror. b vnren , E.q., to be Puisus Jus tice for the Island of Bt. Ctiristc pher. • PRINCE OF WALES CoUNCII, CRANIBF.R9, SOMER. err House, FZB. 18 —Wild= Daubuz, KiWow. in the county of Cornwell, EFq , hes been appointed sheriff of the county of Cornwall. COMMISSION SIGNED BY THE LORD LIEUTENANT OF NOKTEIUMBLILLAND.—W. M. Bigge, Eeq., to be deputy Lieutenant. COM3IIBBION SIGNED BY TIIE LORD LIEUTENANT OF BUTHSZIANDSHIKE.—The Moat Hon. G. G. W. B. L. Gower, commonly called the Marquis of Stafford and Lord Strathniver, be be vic--lieutenant. COMMISSION SIGNED HY THE LORD LIZUTENANT or Doneirenutz.—L. G. St. Lo. pent., to be cornet In the Queen's Own Regiment of Yeomanry Catralry. GREAT EXHIBITION OF 1851.—We are authorised to state that it is the intention of the Lord Mayor, in the course of next month, to give a grand bal.quet in oommemo- ration of the establnitment of — this great institution. His lordship bee reason to hope that the Mansion House on this occasion may be honoured by the presence of Princii Albert and other members of the royal family, the officers of state, the foreign ministers, and the chief magistrates of the cor porate towns of the United Kingdom. THE TEN HOURS' FACTORY AGITATION. (TROY OUR lIILNCRESTER C)RRRISUONDINT.) rates the interests and renders antagonistic the feelf.'gn of employers and employed. The Times talks of the decision of the Exchequer Chamber rendering the operatives liable to fifteen hours' work a day, or of "little children of either sex, whose unhappy fate it is to labour in the stifling atmosphere and stunning din of a factory for so many hours a day." " Surely," says the same writer, "for them, ten hours of con tinuous liability are enough. It is needless to say that it profits but little to remove a child of tender years for an occasional hour from the scene of hie toils, if afterwards he is to be thrown beck upon the ' tainted air and unwholesome influences of the factory. If from the time he risys, at fire o'clock in the morn ing, until he is sent to bed at ten or eleven o'clock at night, the din of the factory bell, and the clatter and hum of the machinery are never to he out of his ears, what can be done to rrengthen a child's frame or to open and enlarge his mind?" Now, all this is pure imagination, intended to hood wink instead of enlighten the public mind. With less imagination and a great deal more candour than is evinced in these short extracts, it would be easy to make the public down here believe that the people who work the whole of every night in the Times office itself are the veries: slaves that were t ver condemned to the galleys. I'hcre are no such horrors involved in the question opened by the decision of the Court of Exchequer as are here pretended. The factory system unquestionably wee once a crying evil, and the interference of the legislature was necessary not only to restrain the employer of factory children, but the still greater inhumanity of the parents of those children and of their workhouse guardians, in rural districts, wto were only too anxious to re lieve themselves of the burthon. But those days are long past. Government inspectors roam through our factories at all hours of the day—are at liberty to put any questions they choose to the children and workpeople—and can inspect the books. It is their duty to see that the children of tender years, spoken of by the nmes, do not work more than six hours per day, and that a scnoolmsster is provided "to open and enlarge their mind." It is the fault of the in spector if the factory bell rings from half-pest five in the morning to ten or eleven o'clock at night in the ears of these children ; but every one ac quainted with the truth knows that such lan guage is all pure invention, and that the factory owners have carried out the intention of the ori ginal factory acts with scrupulous ex mtness. The Ten Hours Act was not intended to interfere with children ; they had received protection under former statutes ; and it was now sought to limit the hours of young persons up to 18 years of age, and of females cf all ages, not provided for under previous statutes. But the diffi culty of legislation in all such cases as these is, whilst doing a service to ore class of persons, not to injure another. The late Mr. John Fielder:, the promoter of the Ten Hours Bill, knew that it would: be difficult to induce the legislature to interfere in direct terms to put a restraint on the personal liberty of male adults, and the contrivonce aimed at by has bill was to induce them to do that by indirect means which they would refute to do otherwise upon principle. He argued that without the "young per. , ns," under 18 years of age, the adults could not work, and in this he was correct, but, his clumsy piece of legislition has been formed only to letter the hands of the factory owner, without absolutely accomplishing its pur pose. The Ten Hours Factory agitation is renewed. The decision of the Court of Exchequer, that although women and young persons cannot be allowed to re main in the factory more than ten hours, yet that it is legal to run the machinery a longer period by re lays, or by double seta of workpeople, has evoked the spirit of agitation from the unnatural resting place in which it had been laid by the present imperfect act of the legislature. The decision of the Barons of the Exchequer hu not, certainly, created a sensation here. If any one imagines that because the Ten Hours Act " has been abrogated; and that because (to use the language of an arldrees issued to the ope ratives), " the judges of England have decided that the millowners have a right to extend the time of working your children, wives, and sisters over a period of 15 hours a day," the whole of these districts are in a state of ferment, and are running to the public squares and to the inarket-places, shouting " Dow', with the factory tyrants," there never was a greater mistake com mitted. But few events, affecting so large a body of the public, were ever heard of with so much of apathy and uncoacern. Looking at the surface of society here, you cannot perceiv; a ripple—you would not imagine, from its smoothness, that anything had oc curred to disturb the calm which has so long reigned over it. Whether the committee of masters on the one hand, or the short-time committee of workmen on the other, will be able to brew a storm, remains to be seen. The masters, who are said to have achieved a victory over their workpeople in this decision of the superior courts, do not api car to be exultant ; but, on the other hand, are said to be anxious to conciliate and bring about a reasonable compromise of differ ences with their hands by means of what is called an "Eleven Hours Bill," but which in fact means a bill to enable them to run their mills ten hours and a half per day, or 63 hours per week. With that view, a meeting of masters has been sum moned for Tuesday, Feb. 29, and I am told there is not the least doubt that such a proposition will be acceded to by seven-eighths of them. The short time committee of the operative., however, or leaders of the ten-hour movement are by no mean!' disposed to recommend the acceptance of these terms. If the masters are not exultant at the decision given in the Court of Exchequer, the short time committee, who, as I stated in a previous number of the Daily News, had fully anticipated the judgment of the mart, look upon it as coming, to say eta least, at a very auspi cious moment, It was said that when the House of Commons voted the present bill, a feeling of pique at the triumph of the free traders induced a portico of the votes which swelled the majority ; and now, when the protectionists are smarting under a repulse which has opened anew their old sores, it is mad dandy anticipated that even in " the first amiably of gentlemen in the world " there may still be found other feelings than those of pure patriotism to in fluence • decision. All unprejudiced persons must hope there is no ground for such a supposition, how ever the sympathy, real or affected, manifested by a portion of the aristocracy in this ease may contrast with their obstinacy in refusing to these same work ing classes their freedom as citizens, and relief from taxes. The question now is, in what way will the present legislature seek to amend the act or 1817? The re sult of that measure has been to ter the ingenuity of the millowner to make the restriction upon his hands fall as lightly as possible upon himself; unfortunately not always wi•lti the same succees, or the legislature might piss an act to amend the defects of the present cm without opposition. The Mtn of millowner. has been, since the passing of the Ten Hours Act, to quicken the speed of their machinery so as to turn off twelve hours' work in the ten ; and s , me have accom plished this end, whilst others canm.t e ffect it in less than ten hours and a half or eleven hours. This narrows the irievion at i‘,.ue very materially. So far as I cao kern thtre are many of the factory owntrs who think that eleven hours is about the extent t 3 wh eh they can ruu their mills so as to ensure that steady, vigorous attention on the part of the workpeople which is necessary to a pro fitable working. What is the proposition of these people ? By the present Factory Act, where relays are not used, the millowner runs his mill from six in the morning till six in the evening, for five dap in the week, giving two hours for meals ; and on Satur days from six till four. The compromise sought by the millowners, or which, I believe, they would agree to, is that the factories should be allowed to run from six o'cicck in the morning until half-past six in the evening each of the six day', or 63 hours per week ; or, that if a short day on Saturday is still requisite, that the mills shall run from six to seven from Mondays till Fridays, and from a x till four on Saturdays—which is only another way of dividing the 63 hours into working dap. With such an arrangement lam told the majority of factory owners will be oniy too happy to give up relays and all other contention upon this long agitated question. Such an arrangement would be a great blessing both to the masters and operatives. With the latter, who work in mills where relays are adopted, though, after all, these are proportionally few, the household system is deranged, different members of the same family have to rise in the morn ings at different times, and to set their meals at dif ferent hours. So with the mthowner it is felt to be a vicious system, and only to be tolerated on compul sion, for it causes great derangement in the factory, necessitating eztrs book-keeping and extra at tention in various matters, and after all fails to insure tbat necessary discipline from two sets of hands succeeding each other which could be ensured from one set. And then it is mitt that several ad vantages might be conferred on the workpeople in this spit it of compromise, which might go far towards rendering the proposed uniform working of mills ten and-a-half hours without relays, equivalent to ten hours under the present system. For instance, all the hands might be permitted to wash and dress in the mill within the ten-and-a-half hours, so that all the time beyond that period might really be available to them for recreation or instruction—whichever they may be dispos d to prefer. It is said that in some of the mills, now running eleven hours by relays, this system is adopted ; and that they also pay their workpeople before the market-day and within the hours of work ; so that these workpeople have nearly as much available time after the hours of work on ordinary evenings as those who adopt the ten-hours' system, and on Saturdays as those who work only eight hours but are kept loitering about for wages two or three hours subsequently. What the workp, oile themselves will say to this it is difficult to ascertain. Many et the employers say that they have soui,ihd their bands, and that four., fifths of them would prefer eleven hours to tea with the extra wages it ensures. Members of the Snort Time Committee, who are the leader .; of the movement for ten hours, say that th' , e is not true. Which are to be believes' , ? The sentiments of the work-people themselves • are difficult to be reached. There wss a meeting of th e short-time committee on Saturday evening, at ,d a long meeting of delegates from various parts of th e factory district on Sunday, whom the short-tints com mittee had called together; but both these bosh , es met with closed doors. They say that to admit tb e pre ss would be to subject their proceedings to espio• aage on the part of their employers, and render them liable to persecution in the mills; to they admit on).y a paid reporter, who submits his reports to the coo rection of the short-time committee. We shall. no doubt, ere long, have some public meetings ; and these will be better hats, if the question is left to be discussed by the hands themse:vcs, freely and dispassionately, without the excitement and in terference of agitators paid to mislead them by in flated 1 such as that quoted above from the nmes. an g u er would, no doubt, prefer ten hours' work with eleven hours' pay; but tho question is whether, if they have it burly put to them to choose between ten hours' work %lilt ten hours' pay, Ind eleven hours' work with eleven hours' Pay, which they will prefer ? The proba bility is that they would be divided en such a question, just as workmen in any other trade would be divided on such a question, according to disposition to industry and thrift. Where, then, the legislature steps in, and, from feelings of humanity, assumes a right to protect the workman front his employer, it should be careful not to place itself between the labourer and his right to do as he likes with his labour, or it exercises a restraint upon the personal liberty of the servant as well as the master, and per forms a double act of tyranny. -- Every sympathy is due to the working classes; but it should be taken care that this sympathy work/ for their dee advantage, which it will not do if it sopa- _ d i be N osily relieved by the propotitios of 0 , - ;. - b n n. gentleman. It is not, then, a question between land an d the towns, bat it is a question between the OWOefS of , nre ty. who have something, and the great masses, e, the have anteing. " as they ars called, and who, if sued sus- • nee per:tasted in, will be Lavonothings "to he end o•—f time. Near . hear.) That is the priest* apes which I owl oppose the proposition of the hoe. mug. b et; fast 1 ask hen. gentlemen opposite, and t hqt,e3l; the former's friend, I have a rlgkt to ask the intim in what way do you aspen by this proposition to ,dusty the vast clamour you incited oe participated in during the noes ' (Hoar, beard lam not the [erases anod— e, n a, oh," from the protectionists)—l never made say C L m 'hat et:orate/ ; bat in this house as out of it then ti 0 jot p r op °Woo whieh the [amen can make, and no i • pram:Tie the appliestioa whisk will esteem their inwterest which I will not advocate sad vote far ,• bat I w ill sot ease to thi s ho use after exciting a diatom Unearth the notary, that I am about to relieve the farmer, and then m o te $ prnpontiou that a child of Ave yeses old could die. rover bad no reference to the interne of the croupier, bat is ▪ fries al.rected to the interests of the landlord. The right boa. berniset has shown that 4,5 per cent. of the poor an is all thatP A id by the land, and that is not all paid by girl. A i w a land. Will, then, if all the relief he pro to iive landed property be 4.5 per cent., that Lall the interest the land out have in his proposition. And it 15 per cent. is all this great interest of beadlord, ten- ant , end tanner. together can get, I shoakl like to have it d o med bow much of this 45 per cent. will return to the pokes of the occupying tenant. (Hear, bear.) The boa, Feldman proposes that this 45 per cent. should be the tont of the relief, so far as the landed interest banana& but then be tippets that to Rive them this, the Chancellor of the Eieseipirr is to continue the other taxes which the brawn sow partly mu the tax upon tee, the tax on coffee, the tam a • tobacco, the tans on wises and spirit,:aad the as on malt. (Hear, beer.) All these taxes mart be continued, if the proposition he sow thrsatena as oa th were to be nanesstul, and the great bardsa of the rates were transferted from the property to the industry and labour of the general body of the people. a hest.) But h ow do gentlemen opposite act when real aneseeis for the relief of the tenant farmer are under die Mein ? Then wts a proposition the other day for a county Mal bill which met with no ven favouralOs reception from the otherside, sad it will be my duty by-and-by to ask if hoe. matinees opposite will agree to • modulation or abolio tan of the law for encouraciog the preservation of game. Oh," sad a tangle.) We shag find teen whether the be.. gsatimant are willing to apply those great sad jut prin- ciples M which we hanheard so mask tonight to a prectioal grimaces wWk ie mach greater ea the farmer than aortas( that ma arise hem the cost of the establishments of poor toe using. Thom is elan the quoting of the Tenant Cam. ;rtaratite 1341. I shell be dehgesed to find that those goo crests who staid forward as the teems farmers' friends sap Tort that. (" Hear," ead ahem.) If the toadied. were • they would take mother emir from that they are ..!nptang , lam may, Sar more mass, than cos, that lem on a Aided proprietor. (hooks' chairs and leraglstar hem :to protectionists) lam especially sony for see nalem, which is, that 1 am see able toepeak to my brother pespe w ' sot with that weight which I should do were I me of them. Lrtalter. I Wen I a landed proprietor, I should say to my tro'ber proprietors, if trade conduits prosperous, som,u'act_res and commerce increase, if employment is sae permanent and the wages of labour are steadier and s. re remunerating than heretofore—if your list Megisaiash d t a.m.bang year by year, and year poor-law returns Lae that thousands and thousands of hitherto leapleire mom, lamer, and chi ,Ireo, an 11°4 from the mire of peaperlem ,o wh:ch they hove been so long mak, to ea iipseteleat eta comfortable position,—l should say be them, 1 rah Ivesu should follow, as I believe they wall, Iron the adoption of the free trade policy which hem. gemtlemes nnokte deride so much, then the position of the beaded pro- • rear is the most fortunate and happy in this provost gimp of any —achterel—for, as prosperity increaser, be nut tb•oin a recur increase of wealth; there will he sore cespetinou for land for Refl. ulniral purposes, for haa.atle purpose +• sad Ike manufmturing r oe vino " of pleasure mad enjoyment—and while that is going os, ant osly will you obtain a larger *meant of wealth. hut for greater security for those prieralloss with which Travii• see hes blessed you. (Cheers.) Bat to come ten ard rk Cy the shalt** of the poor rate, aid for the °inferring taus from los to o her ewes of the cuants- thy, it what you would never do ii y. u considered your own ?fewest antrrests. (Hear, hear.) There are ether in- Men in the meow who could came to this boom and rusk of loss sust..ined by them from the depredation of invested sad r.yoirr coital, bat they have not demand , d comp. nastier. so sen have done. Toe have ruled in put titan is the house ...loan undisputed sway. (Hear, hoard Yall tave Mei. in we [shit on the hautbois of teaching the people tar yo ease hen to musette agricultural prosperity sad to mints's: a Web price for corn. (" Hear," and "oh.") As anstb., men, I ',mild say to you, get rid of this habit se won as paste:at. Chien and laughter.) Wall would it be he you if al: the v.,lttenn of Hansard for the last ten yeses nod be born:. I rosin' titters from protectionists ) For then your thAren ants rtandchildren could C? ertlrity o' wanting the sperebes you have made in this lime. (Cheers.l lam convinced that the proposition el the hon. r climes contains within it so element of benefit, imprteetot on at restitution, to the tenant farmer of this mato?, and that being my opinion. I will be so party to a titian, the objet of which is to transfer wee On res. properly sad lay them on the industry of the °wavy. albs,. hear.) To do so would oe to reveres the polity of tie last 7 years—a policy which has been pursued with adwatage to the popaistion, and which is tending to eke pe assent snotty :of every valuable institution in the Maples. Loud cheers ) Mr. H. DRUMMOND said that the farmer had been seema of not konriag his business. Wore the learned , an of Mancheiter much wiser ? Dad they know the mien. tint qualities of tie pigments and drugs they used? Was sot a echoel of design provided in pity for their *COMO' f Pm trade bad promoted some manufacturer, but destroyed others. It had annihilated the farming trade, cut down hit the vale* of timber and bark, and reduced the produce of alt the ;sad in England from SOs. to 4de. an acre. The destruction of pro?erty on one side had surpassed iacreue on another. sad the whale system was one cf eau tseislation. This was the fi st skirmish of the buts. The terms of free trade and protection wen the watchwords of the struggle between capital eau labour, between W. elth and life. He should vote for the petyminoa of Mr. Darned, but would vote also for placing Ms Modem upon the property of the rich leaving the pow am. free to drink untaxed beer, to build with untaxed bricks, and grow hope, tobacco, or anything else he liked in hie men, Capt. D. PELHAM made some observation, after which the debate was adjourned to Thursday. So W. VERNER wowed rase verbal amendments to the Part) Prommicas (Irelann) Ball. RUSSELL objected that the amendments would WWI tie provisions of the bill an unnecessary stringency. M r GROiIAN mayo . -rad the amendment, which was, to., ITC., withdrawn, sad the report brought up. The home OM at half-put 12. Tit e):VreOgi• OUTGOING MAILS. _ . The mails for British North America sad the United komos wi,l be made up en the evening of Feb. 22. IPA mail ri.i MiltoPill,9 to the Mediterranean Clion, Hong.h.'ou . g, Itc•i will be made cep on the e! b ib. Ibe .halls tor Lisboa, Spain, and Gibraltar will be made a; on 27. The West ladle Mails, including Bermuda, Havanaah, x wan, liodoras, New Orleans, and Mexico, and excluding CL andfor Madeira, S t. be t. Juan•clioNaearagua, New Granada, made up on March 2. Taa taa ,l6. kw Medoria, the Brazils and Buenos Ayres, will Lade se on the mane of Mardi 4. _ MOM VAT= AT LONDOIII 11/11DOI. t. o~aa.w—atermee, Law.— ..... assmassi sale Arealsesern MYDON, 'WEDNESDAY, 171BRUARY 20. I its Suffering Rich have presented their petition for relief out of the taxes paid by the whole comma. not excepting the industrious poor. By the se :h of their sturdiest spike they have • emu mirror- toted the representatives of the people to give them es. much money. no longer ask for an e x t ra Pre , for their meal ; T a h :l they do not demand better terns for their ma l t. But in one shape or othe r, amity they would fain exact from their fello tin sheesuse these can afford to be so fleece d , d "l bd lout+x%if have always been used t o the practice amore of exac . ion at• , ati d are very uncomfortable meat. 6 d eprived of that species of hereditary enjoy- Mr. btleAgli did not attempt, in his somewhat in- list • night, to disguise the sordid us- ut of the claim had been instructed on behalf of arti to prefer. On the part of the ::, i , rer_tie z _ . v .neland he appe%lell to the fi rst Of Mt fte .;crown, and begged him not to refuse 91 'Ascalon. Itecent legislation had in j ured the 111 r• n ! al tufal interest, by cheapening the price of food. was a grievance which they knew would pet ""▪ ' it as iary filatdcanii)cciaedby parliament, but for which Wan ought to In given. _ ll.. ' z ' e lbirly years the alms-makers had had the _ ?‘ a !az on the necessaries and of the labourer's life; and now that they •n " d •Petred of it, tke e gut y scted to be 03. "11 kaa a word w a s said by the adesit rho- Z i reek to show that the farmer or the farm-labourer urcil ail j e da,itrihiree is . the new speculation. "Never ulxl, anion we shall make of the pleader . . „. w_ c e once .. _get it: only give to as to the name of iudy, who depend for subsistence Tapes the Luz. tf w of fund, and we s h a ll sett l e all ulna' it the w ar and rent acting ourseives." I . „ 70,1 lifting and incontrovertible fade which tiltes . s ni t ; ,, shiple o f Sir 020.t02 Games reply, none striking than that regarding the damnation FRANCE. PARIS. TUESDAY, 6 30 r w. The vote of yesterday upon the 17th clause of the Education Bill is likely to lead to parliamentary an noyances against the government. The clause, as put by M. raneu, and its being voted with the assistance of the Mountain and the tiers-parti, was well de scribed by M. Dupin as "kick in an ant-hill." I ventured to say before the debate commenced on this bill that many incidents likely to be fatal to it might occur, and this vote shows that I was not deceived. In order to understand the cause of the vote, I think it right to give you the 17th clause as it was peeped : The inspectors of academy shall be chosen by the minister from smog old inspectors, professors of faculty, censors, and principals of colleges, the heads of free institutions, the profaners of the upper claims of the different kinds of eats. 1 Mkkassate, and the inspeetwe of pr mart' schools, under the common condition of their having had five years' expo. nesse. The intpastore.general shall be chosen by the mi. Dieter either from the abom.named categories, or amongst the old iaspeetors.general, the restore and: investors of academy. No nominstion of inspector-g I can be made without the previous advice of the superior council. The clause, se moved by the committee, left the choioe to the minister, bat limited him to that of three candidates, proposed by the superior council. M. de Parien, wishing to keep for his patronage the place of inspector-general, freed himself, by his amendment, from the control of the council. It was this that irritated the ooneerratives. M. Thiers was most strenuous in his endeavours, and so was M. Bare, the reporter of the committee, but the Mountain and tiers-parti, seeing a fine opportunity for a blow, turned the scale in favour of M. de Parien, in order to spite the Right. M. Vatiemenil, in his anger and annoyance at the vote, went up to . M. de Parieu and said, " You have done this, and now the most implacable hatred exists between us." " How implacable ?" asked the mi nister. M. de Vatismenil and the Abbe Leblanc—Yee, an implacable war. Never rely on us again for any thing. A Representative—Take a note of th•ae words, Monsieur le Ministre; these gentlemen tell you that you that you must no longer rely on them for any thing, not even fur the maintenance of order. The Minister, to M. de Vatismenil —I shall be carious to receive a more official notification of this declaration. M. de Vatismenil—Besid , s you only obtained the triumph by the aid of the Mountain. The Representative above alluded to then said— Do not pay any attention to them, Monsieur le Min'stre. Act still in the same way, and if these gentlemen abandon you, you will not only have with yon something besides the Mountain, but you will convert a part of that bldy. M. de Vatismenil —Do not again rely on us for anything. The Minister of Justice—This was neither a capital nor a political question. But if it suits you to place it on that ground, the government will not flinch from it. The report of the committee on the budget, which wee presented by M. Berryer on Saturday to the Na tional Assembly, states that the committee proposes a reduction of 40,284,897 f. on the ordinary budget, for which the bill demands a credit of 1,408,776,384 f., and reduction of 44,704,50 W. on the extraordinary budget, for which a credit is demanded by the go vernment of 103,184,000 L _ _ The Preaident'of the Republic, accompanied by the Minister of War, and Generals Neamayer, Sanboul, and Julien, yesterday visited the troops in barracks at the Luxembourg, the camp Morlard, the camerae du Foie, and caserne de l'Oursinc. He wu every where received with great enthueium. ITALY. News from Rome of the 10th inst., notices an oc currence that has happened in the Corso. A bouquet, containing a hand greFade, wu thrown into the car riage of the son of Prince Canino, and wounded him and his sisters in several places. The wounds are not serious however. The consternation caused in the Corso by the explosion ill said to have been tortilla. SPAIN. Accounts from Madrid, to the 14th inst., announce that on the preceding day, Dr. Castello, the first physician to the Queen, officially announced to the major-domo of the palace, the Duke de Hijar, both in his name and that of hie colleagues, the pregnancy of Queen Labelle. Kama F. 14.-7 tree per Caste.. 29 11.18 paper; Pour per Cents., 12 paper: Five per Crete., 121 paper ; Cou pons, 71. Beak Ba. aaacl. 64. Zzalsange Laa, 00.83. MALTA, Pas. 13. The merchants of Malta are under just and very reasonable fears that the Archipelago will be swarm lag with Greek pirates, in revenge for the blockade of their ports by the English squadron. Many Greek merchants have expressed the same opinion, and, knowing well of what their countrymen are capable, have added " And who can blame them r H.M. steamer Triton, with th mails from Corfu sad Patios, came in lest night, and the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Indus this morning, from Alexandria. Lord and Lady irlh and Colonel Gough and Captain Gough arrived in the Indus. She brought upwards of a hundred passengers. The Rosamond, steamer, and Frolic, 16-gun sloop, had taken possession of two Greek men-of-war Khmers at Pabse, and sent them to Corfu, under :m eof Lieutenant' Dent and Bing. The Rom steamer had taken five Greek vessels in tow far Corfa, but coming on to blow strong they were east off, and sailed ap in charge of the officers and men of the steamer. Her Majesty's brigs Frolic and Raver are at Patras. Her Majesty's steamer Tartarus left butte on the 10th, after coaling, for Petra'. It was reported at Pairs that the embargo was taken off and the question decided, bat the English consul bad no intimation to that effect AFFAIRt3 OF GREECE. An .10/Yeseviitory deatt• of Coda, at the 6th of Febreary, esmhdos a letter fires Sir H. G. Ward to the 84 •610. saki, 0, a statism/4 4 W by Mr. Wyse, * Ai* we Sir Henry, the course adopted by him, sad the =Aare the matters in dispute in Greece, in the eleareat peettible light." Oa bard Moe sais Umty's Skip Qom, Bay, Jan. 28, 1860. 814 —yak= tossoneS 111111191111.11 bave =so prepogatod with wontect to the pseeseiisgs age.Sed by Vies Admiral Sir William Parker, Osemem6se is Obid ease esty's naval ' hems is the Modieuesomme, aced me, he es the iessnosdoes of her It gmma. he an wpm Wham tho Greek geasumone to setae the Mg data' fur loam and maim MIMI la Orem :on= ad Isaias aseisets. It hairdos, liasessary to hula yen • with a coma amount of them sp Se Ihs moat IMONltents and you will Sad this is the assompenylog pour, which • you are at liberty te sake gems* knows tooth', with the esteem of this lam You will be careful le make it demi, =MAW, that the chime of whisk we demand the sosimessis, WPM emiestvel ' the risk's sad home= diadividesiste who= km e Itej=e govereammt is of no died pre y'. I the ' sad firlerimee of her Majeety's oevaramsnc ling so many yam him lad no othselislepsa ths Greek government shoo to ems it to treat with negloot and ' 'saltiness the metes& sod resmosiessses sad wensiap addressed se the of Ye Meiesty's govrness= do ace in she silaisest degree arms the lade peados= of Gress, of wide\ Mr Majesty's govennsont is and over will be the efestivo protector; but that , a the contrary they aro samively limited to the ashrams% of ales %hotfoot and proper troataust which is du by ems oat. sate to the subjects of another. No governmant has a grater interest is the tranquillity and prosperity of Grease than that of her Britannic Majesty's., and by so one more than by Via-Admiral Sir William Parker and me will any evil be lanwsta which may Mat W the wormy, h.... We locsolatarie• of lY sv vernmest in refusing to rams Ik. wrongs sad inherit., for tho reparation of which her Majesty's government has for so many years ineffsmally spplied. Ne stronger proof of this can be 'iv= than the extreme care which was taken by me to avoid, to th• lost moment, giving any publicity to the instructions I bad received. You will point out ths opportunity thus afforded to the Greek go vernment foe settling the questions, without its ever becoming public, that oosraa moesurts had been is coatiamplation. The very mild natant of the ma ntra at first resorted to, the slow degrees by which we have proceeded, aced tho ammo reluctance with which we have, at last, resorted to mama affecting Greek oconmorce. It will onus u the greatest pain to be compelled to have MOWN to still more stringent measures; but it must be evident to every one that the Greek government is alone responsible for consequences which it is in its power at once to obviate, by complying with • just and simple demand. Oar paint demands do not include the treaty engagements relative to the regular payment of lb. interest on the allied loan of sixty millions or francs, nor do they refer , in any way, to** islands of Coral and Sapiensa.—l have, &a, (Signed) TM. WYSE. Timms Wood, lin., her Majesty's Consul, Patron. The Goats then continues thus: The following is a summary of proceedings adopted to indigos the Greek government to comply with the demands of her Majesty's government for redress for wrongs and losses inflicted in Greece on British and lonian subjects : " On the 26th December, 1849, Mr. Wyse, in reply to Mr. Londe.' announcement of the change of minis try, and his re-appointment as minister of foreign affairs, earnestly called his atten - ion to Sir E. Lyon's note of 6th December, 1848, addressed to the Greek government, when Mr. Londoa was minister of the isterior, and quoted the warning which was given in May, 1847, and several times repeated since, both by Sir E. Lyons and Mr. Wyse, ' That the Greek go vernment would act unwisely for its own interests if it misunderstood the forbearanoe which bad been shown by her Majesty's government, and if it were to infer from that forbearance that the British go vernment was not determined to compel the Greek government to accede to those demands, if it should lot be induced to do so by its own sense of justice Ind of right.' "No notice whatever was taken of this note. Three weeks after (on the 16th January, 1850), Mr. Wyse and Vice Admiral Sir William Parker had an inter view, by appointment, with Mr. London, Greek minister for foreign affairs. They stated to him, that the vice-admiral had been ordered to come here to assist Mr. Wys , r in obtaining a settlement of the long pending claims for looses and outrages inflicted in Greece on British and lonian subjec's s ; and that in order to avoid any . inconvenience to the Greek government, and to g ive it the opportunity of wlttling the claims, as set forth in Sir E. Lyon's note of 6th December, 1848, spontaneously from its own sense of justice and of right, these instructions had been kept so secret that they were absolutely unknown to any one in Greece excepting to the immediate members of her Majesty's mission ; and they requested a categorical reply to this private and friendly communication within twenty-tour hours, beyond which time it would be impossible for Mr. Wyse to delay presenting a formal demand. "On the following day Mr. Loud= called upon Mr. Wyse and Vice-Admiral Sir William Parker, and read to them a note verbale, which amounted to a categorical refusal, and left Mr. Wyse no other alternative than to address to Mr. Loodos a formal demand for the settlement, within twenty-four hours, of the claims set forth in Sir Edmund Lyons' note to Colocotroni, of the 6th December, 1848, with the exemption of the loan engagements. This note of Sir E. Lyons contains no allusion whatever to the islands of Cervi and Sapienza, nor was the slightest mention of them made, either verbally or otherwise, by Mr. Wyse or Sir W. Parker. "On the 18th, at the expiration of the twenty-four hours, Mr. Wyse received a note from Mr. Londos, containing a direct reheat, and appealing to the arbi tration of France and Russia. On receiving this note, Mr. Wyse wrote to Mr. London, saying, that under present circumstances it was impossible to allow any Greek government vessel to put to sea, and request ing the Greek government to give orders to sus pend any movement that might be in contem plation amongst its vessels in the Piraeus. On the following morning, the 19th January, Mr. IVyse and the other members of this mignon embarked on board Vios-Admiral Sir W. Parker's flag-ship, having previously sent her Majesty 's Secretary of Legation to inform Mr. Londos of hie intention to do so, and to request him to continue to send his communications to the mission at Athena. " Oa the 19th instant, twenty-four hours after the above note was written, Mr. Wyse addressed a second note to Mr. Londos, to state that, u his previous note had produced no effect, and as, notwithstanding his request that no Greek government vessels might be ordered to put to sea, the steamer Otho had left the Pirteus, Vice-Admiral Sir W. Parker had been compelled to cause her to be brought back by one of her Majesty's steam-vessels, and was now obliged to order that steamer and other Greek government yawls to be detained at Salamis. " On the 20th instant, Mr. Wyse received a note from M. Lando°, dated the 19th instant, protesting against these measures, and repeating the refusal to comply with the demsnd of her Majesty's govern ment. These measures having produced no effect upon the Greek government, Vice-Admiral Sir Wm. Parker, with great reluctance, was obliged, on the 24th inst., to extend to Greek merchant vessels the prohibition to leave Greek ports which had already boss enforced against Greek government vessels." CITY COURT OF SEWERS. TIM SALLEY OP 111111 KIIDICAL OPPICEB. Yesterday the commissioners smembled in consider able numbers for the purpose of discus nog the motion for increasing the salary of Mr. Sim nt . the medical Meer of health of the City of London. Mr. Deputy PEACOCK, in the char._ __ Mr. HARRISON moved that the saki/ of the medical officer of health be 8001. a year. Mr. Deputy RAOLETON mat warmly seconded the motion, and said the court could not give to a man in whose skill and Munster the public had the utmost reliance, and epee whom it wan evident the eye of the government was Said, a salary less than that which had been just proposed. (Bear, hear.) Sir PETER LAURIE hoped the question would net be embarrassed by vague declamation shout 'snit cry improve. amt. He rescinded by moving an amendment thrt the salary of the &Soar of health be 6001. a year instead of 8001. a year. Alderman LAWRENCE seconded the amendment; and after a prolonged &evasion, the amendment Szieg the salary of the medical ofiloer at 5001, a year was aimed to by s majority of 27 to 20. A SNUG BIRTH IN TIIEMD NEU.—The following tempting ear, addressed to clergymen of the Established Church, aNeva in the form of an advertisement in the misinms stewarnmporary : "Neat premonition to a sins. sea pessiNisl reeter4 producing 2624. per annum, to be mid. ?remit isemabsin spot 72. Nu pauper puoulation; me poor S rates, ao eltareh, no globe, nu duty. For terms, 41,4." Be. lapin ANNE'S BOunTY.—The total amount re oeivect by be governors of Queen Anne's Bounty, during the year males on the Slat of December, 1848, was 188,9741.45. Id. The diaburraments wttbin the same period were 178,7671.14+. . rt w