The Express. — London, England, 1850-03-16 00:00:00

THE FRPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 18, 1850. tated that disk completi • , st will require 668,0001., I Mine; I ▪ sa, les devote to it 600,0001. out of the million I have ite llt I'4 ad. The met already advanced kw them 'MAW.; thenfort, independently of the funds ti for laad improvements is Ireland, the ram ad -eaeced under ans heed will he 1,400,0004 Now, I said w: mid MICISPOS as additional reason for presents/ MO ai r su rplus ow of Me yen'. review, and it s—that st enable use to make them Monate without uu ll ; t oe any inererr is the public debt. (Hear, hear ) I t ier s e apnea, to tame fiCIIPMP bilk, bet 1 le pi m• 7 tier 1 feel toothiest that I shell oe ebb' to make ail the — est edema's without awaits; any Menne in the funded iota al dig egustg y, (Hear, hose.) I should slso wish to mea'a to the Loom that although my se doing may de ▪ n . — me of the wens eit paying off say portion of the iga led debt it peewit, it will be layiag up the moms for ern tater Chace .110 r of the Exchequer to make eonsiiier gs:, rwta.tiou. Wens. I hold, that this system of makiog wren from the public (inds, although justifiable under ea ., whimsey eireautetances, is not eye that Meta become a prmu mt r atio, !ed therefore 1 tout that my sueasnor, h,.enr Re ggi y s , end pat estop to it as soon as partible, w when :be result .1111 be that the repetitious will is a.see► quirg: e:.er quamer, ...:leaces will accumulate, sad it 1,111 PSOIMS °tinnily tan duty to apply • large sum est of this re, inmate to the reducuon of the funded debt. I fativ.i, am loilneg through the public accounts, that there has cared site the nano with Scotland a charge on the nue. • ,n the shape of an aansity of 10,0001, called the riateeleat fund. and it is provided by the set which 'sta b:Med tint fund, the it might be redeemed at any period p, payst - nt of 250,0901. Now a, according to the meal vv .: et far the extine•i s of debt, *het ram would not ex- Lrcabb more than 7,5001. annually, I flush I shall be aprlytag a Porton of the revenue of the year in the nueen..a of tau 10,0001. myear. (Heir, bear.) I shall 0, , ,c0 • von f.:r this 2.50,0001. It will appear as a vote, 1.. it is really and truly an application of money for the si n: eon of a prion of the public debt. There will remain gererd thin a iamb's of 600,0001 , and I do hops that the • will seaport me in ay intention of retaining that • lvonise Ido not thick it would be safe to go on in say 411111&.PS Wilk • surplus of lea man that amosat. An BON. MEMBER asked across the horn who in • rectimd the 10,0001. a year mentioned by the right hca. tentlomea. The CHANCELLOR if the EXCHEQUER—A cow. = o tot did not sunk the name) computed of the principal is Smiles& I do nut know whether in what I 5...4 I have menaced hon. members connected with the i..•oltural intetest that her llejnq's ministers are not in . 'sole to 111511 551111115011, or to %/menial , they have upon the • rimiest. We feel ourselves bound to resist the claims • . hive pat toward for measures which we do not think .cent with the welfare of the astioa at large ; but, In . . AS relief can be afforded c unison:ly with that coast wean and union to give them all the aid ; end, believing that se outlay of capital on • it. best expedient Oast an be adopted, I have 'ladle forward lo give the moans of obta , ning that capital easily • ..:,e.y. (Hear, Mar.) The supply of cheap food (or oar u ..cg an:lains is the tint coosiagration. Bat this country ~I,s It for muy years, sad, to enable it to contu us to •, . tenoned skid, energy, and isduary of the tanner • wilted by an easy mode or obtaining We capital • ~,ary for his operations. When I call to mind claims that have been made upon me from all . hire for a random Ott:attest to an extent quite inc.:ln :. .e wan the aniototanee of the national establishments, . :I halt f read, not with apprehension, but err , s't.. c - neil table anxiety, to what may be the conduct • • tier at C amazons on this the first occasion when it. 7 • - " ,, e i'e:ide on the disposal of a sur,•lus. That our . SS I could wish, nor at large es it might I.e . .7 had : .e ctremistemen of the country been other t-ty it:,l3 - 1 de hope that on this occasion we shall Ito , a nun dg"trisMation to maintain, with even that sS arch „, sou" untouched and unabiken, the nation,' faith and tbe en of this kingdom. (Cheers.) The first vote win • e;. Exchequer Hills. lit. HUME row to aldress the house, bat the rush of suza.b.rs ...tt-e toe boas* a: Ma terminatian of the Chan ce,' it of the Eultequer's address obliged the hon. member t,.,• • t. , r use minatet. O. order being restored, he MSS Mat the very gratifyiag manner in which the annoueor on' • t eve sash an rerun of relief had been received • . :n tu those who had hitherto been parties :1 it. c.ontsy with increased charges. He believed r•hef goer proposed was a proper relief, but it ee.ce those who had all along been benefited 're toe,: ca. He had, however, expected that tee .t to Ezeh, yen would not have dealt merely 1. /511.106, but would have endeavoured to shy ..ch large ettablishmtnts were kept up, math lager reduction had not been effected. :taw it this was the only re'i:t the country • H ... beer.) The redeems of the duty ea i %It st0...:,41111011 of the stamp any he consiatired • ;0.. ,tia: IlitSSlAtel, but he hot great doubts se to lett • • - .ta.: PPP; to the preprietore of land, ,y ;std. or Scotland. He thought it a bad u; „: cLuts the limn ought aot to sanct ion unless r .: Tat right hon. gentleman had shown ra.sw:•.y. sad 'edited it would be very difficult to a' ..r.j aas could be borrowed at 21 per cent., 1:07 at the present nionieat. He objected to the : e I ~as were to are. Meted. Pert lamest oaght rturtre w.th the money market except on the Ma st .ca 0 Toe right boa. baronet Or E. Peel) had a • e.y, hat he ail so in order to gin a sort 4 ur etas was tupposed to he an ajar y to a a car s . Do: toe the present advance so suffiaest . •: •••'imed, and he hoped It would not saint •te ir:•• Tel of parliament. He objected to the right Z• 55.43•15 is ITU, 7.:0,10M as a margin, in order to u milte as advance. The abolition of the ...is •r & WASH 01 made greater 'importance in • • : pne :if view to the people of this country, and he :t n-pored to Leo even a little deficiency :.: ,ffus that object. The question which : • • t. its', :,-.4 PP, whet wog the amount of revenue ▪ war ton txpeadannt, and sosld they reduce the • si Ai IS PP nee( to Me several suffering Magnets of a I—. He ..sieved they weld redact that expendi• • • ••"/. Be would show how this might be It i;•,e .r i fret a relent of the expenditure in t: .•.• :a anoint ef the effective and comae.- , - 1.4 evil itc.which be had moved for last session, cei nano. is IS4I was In round numbers two cf the tithing debt was 28,663,6171., • .1. The expendstan f.r 1848, exclusive of .net of their civil and military establish. 1'4., which, deducted from the revenue, glow IN salmon of all their civil te.abiiihmenis, exclusive of the debt, • .toy 20,211,0h4t, or 10,154,1911. feu 1 ‘i• . He always imaintaiaed that their NM -0 Lel '•‘• a aterseeed unnaturally. They had risen is tcruyegnee of the cash payments and the c use ea tie cf mosey, when salaries 541 ..15570 had been raised to an Mardi . eine At the very time that the expenditure , ee. • oat - ad., they . were expending 50,000,0001. • a }ear o. bunowid m iney. What he re mi Lore to do, woe to redoes their establish :hi state is "Mitch they wore before _ . .:4 th• r. ty C:..L. • •t. an• I:. f ILI .f.' L.: thieni hadtakea pima, whim Itt•Y in ,rti a iv,:f y. AO , OOOL Re maintained that thetiald •.'.. • ally ems dilically, and without a ff ect the . ,••••: t t w.y way, beams the expenditure,wh ich . 7 • ' ialS4B, was bat 20,273,0281. in 1835. L •ittec ts• sr i 1 there were any reasons existing now ..1 •xist ia 1935, to cause this bacnu• of • ' , eq. He aid sot want the house to p back t. t`• of 1792, but he was warranted ia to 1.5 the proposition of his hoe. friend ! •• IA a return to the standard of 1835. ea a atsputios Wen the hone fur • nduction in .r ah• judges; but he taw no reason why the ••••:. •k : 4.41:4 mot be reduced. Instead of 6,0001. a t• .rtt that 3,0001. would be ensues. He was arsi ease any notion, but he did not thick the to be satufied with the present budget. ....• FIVCAVEN elaplained of the omission of the hop ,-• i‘tai Miriam selected for relief, in which he was r '''" • tI MT. L. Hodges. WILLOUGHLY complained of the complication of the pubic accounts, dec:ariog that lt Liz .c which they were presented to the legististare *•' t . • noel@ pomp." 31 r `. AV AN wade some inquiry u to the intentions of 434,121 'r.! re‘Deetittr savings banks. RUSSELL nide: th:t a bill regulating those es - iv. 1:4 in•r Anted shortly after Euter. E LACY h l '. l \ , wished the threepenny receipt '''. • alyslished, is interfering with the business of • *,u GIf.iNEY dwelt upon the perennial •• r: aof 1.1 , i—a cry which he traced to the of protection to British in . • r phe.keti p.rmatence until that protection . . 1. ws,Le approving of the financitl preposi• • , rwr.m.ent cn the whole, suggekted some addi• • _ ••••:-Alr others cf the advertisement and soap I.4thly expedient to abolish. A 4A ri. quoted' variety of statistical retiras .m?11 • 1 t , • pret of wheat at many continental port, 114a ' a ' 4 :•;..1 at prices w.th which OCT own farmers r•• '2l,6*.auir• Ls from Lard R. Ciaosvierroa and Mr. .•? ;, 1 ," :•i:l:)llfriNii complained that the Choice llor of hao t Isirinti.t• his ideas, and hal proposed as "0:ot the Ohne which he (Mr. Drummond) had Alt see re•eetabliahing credit by paying off #.4 trin.ferri ng to the " champagne drinker " the th• beer drinker had heretofore been forced to - p.rtat:t tke distrrees of the agriculturist, the hon. 'Larrs.l epos hie pitiable condition in being forced The farmer, he lamented, could not •.tii kis wheat as the midst did, nor bone-dust lhe taker did, nor oak bark with his jesuits kol tile did, nor wool with his cotton, not 7 4 LK malt, as wee d one b y the druggist, Dm ..4 Pt. end Um enwer. Thus wee the cultivator of vtri et • disadvantage, and jastly entitled to legion 1;11 mlgnelted some porpoise to which the werwa to Monte ta ': Ireland might be op '' Imre useful/y, end with better chances of repay weeeuvewent and drainage attend. A NN ELS easteoded that agricultural distress ..Litsessily referred to the present low price. of ••• tst the prollaid l e of future advancement in them tether delusive. lie could not accept the r, re 4 • tit government in the abolition of the brick • "::t the newts.* on stamps, as • fair recompense for •entritnial woo/. The 0 stamp duties on / win 4 41 1 s lan ben inland. Yr. KUNTZ soreheaded that the boasted similes In the treasury was net substantial, and hand at I. ahw swathe it would mishit into air. Our rant erten of tax ation was Mashies dews mkt* us. Me redered and would support, a gamine tax Os ._ R an di;iinu• la pekes in reality enhanced the bn=tles Ism Mr. G. BANDAIIB dwelt aNa dielsemeal eons*. queues that mug renew le ths Amish ham Ilesmi of Us. a quarter, sad domed tbs. be masEsented to en large that pries, if net s levee gee, ler a pouted whose hondostion it was impossible to Somme. He resemoonied the enact moot Of a moderate Axed duty on pain. Mr. WILSON having =WO SOWN siatiethol explanatioas, Mr. BANK Ed claimed credit for the pregestionist mew ben because they would not refuse to vote the supplies,' althelgh suffering ander such sumo and law- outdo dhtress.' MACORBOOIL calculated that no great amount of foreign imporiation of wheat could be expected at a less price than 404 or 465. per quarter. The lower rates we had lately experieneed were completely exceptional. The hon. member concluded by some obserratione upon the ember raasesent caused by the damp duty on 'marine insurances. Col. DUNNE said that Ireland had bat six imilliocs end loaner Py the meat of the ea:. mat:. WY Offil , o4 in reimbursement a small share is a trilling dialiantioet opal the price of stamps. Mr. CARNW said that the offered advances for agrical. tarsi improvesstnts wets altogether augatory, as the existing 'audition of farming affairs did not encourage outlay upon the lead. Kr. BLANBY wished to see the 'abutters' condition improved by the application of a proper stimulus to isdabtry. * Corals HARRIS baring made a few observations, Mr. L. HEY WORTH recommended the conversion of all the indirect taxes into an ineme and property tax. Mr. MACKENZIE remonstrated against the hard treat ment shown to Bcetland in limiting her quantum of the new advance for sericulture purposes seeing that she had made the fi rst discovery of the advan tages to be reaped from the measure. Mr. 00131.BUILE spoke an epitaph of eulogy upon the late Mr. Brookbank, whom untimely death had occurred but a few hours premusly, after a highly useful course of °facial service in the treasury department. Colonel SIBTIIORP commented upon the remissices pro mised by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in a speech which afforded comidersble amusement to the bone Mr. REALM dialed that the 'sophism if the brisk and estallutios of the stamp dada, would einstltuts say special Mien to the agriculturists. Mr. HENLEY reiterated that denial, and believed that the proposition wu designed to threw dust in their (the pro test:smuts') eyes. He appured to have much the same per eisadon tow:Sting the proposed advances for agricultural improvements. The vote wu then agreed to. The house then resumed, and went into committee of supply on the effeetnally you must first begin by reducing expendi ture, is daily making new converts. All these signs, however, are loot upon the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER and his col leagues. And accordingly we find the right honour. able centleman in his financial statement parading his little surpluses, actual and anticipated, and re commending his little economies, with an air of im portance that irresistibly reminds one of the picture of Major Ponto in the Book of Snobs, with one roast snipe on an assiette of colossal dimensions, asking his wife whether she chrome to take any game P The surplus of income over expenditure in the current year was stated by Sir CHARLES WOOD to be about two and a quarter millions ; the anticipated surplus of the year, which will commence on the 6th of April, about one and a half million. From this latter surplus alone Sir CHARLES warned the house had they to expect any relief—any mitigation of &maim durioL. the c4' mg y ear . The manner in which be proposed to avail himself of this sum, with a view to reduce the country's burdens is briefly as follows :—He divides it into two rums of 750,0001. each. Taxes are to be remitted to the extent of 730,0001, : the rates of certain stamp duties are to be reduced to an extent that diminishes the receipts from that source by 300,0001.; the duty on bricks Is to be abolished, which will be a sacrifice of 460,0001. The remaining 750,0001. is, to use Sir CHARLES'S own words, "to be retained in hand, either for repayment of the debt, or to meet any eon tingeney that may occur in the course of the year." We hive a few remarks to offer upon this diatribe- , 1 tion of the anticipated l i t million of surplus for 1830-1 —this skinning the bear before it is killed. And first of the reduction of the debt. We are by no means insensible of the import anew of measures being adopted fer bringing within more reasonable limits • mortgage on the national resources and energies of which the capital approaches nearly to 800 millions, and of which the annual charge (about 28 millions) is considerably more than the half of last year's income. But we must plead guilty to considerable scepticism as to the possibility of paying off this enormous sum by yearly instalments of two millions, the receipt of which is problematical. The Tames, indeed, hints at the wonderful (fires of compound interest; but it really requires unbounded command of counte nance gravely to propound such a scheme to a public which has not yet forgotten the ignominious bursting of the soap-babble of the Pirr-JeNefesote or sinking fund. The project for eliminating the natio n al debt by annual sayings of two millions is a palpable plagiarism from Bubadir a plan of extermi nating an at my by the daily slaughter of fifty soldiers by himself and his associates. Ludicrous though such financial dream be, it becomes still more absurd in the modified form under which it is propounded by the CHANCELLOR OF TILE EXCHEQUER. lie eddrtseee himself to the task with a sum of 740,000/. in hand for one year, uncertain whether he is to have any reserve the next. And he couples with this proposal to reduce the funded debt by 730,0001. an announcement that he is to make advances fur drainage to the agricultu rists of England, Scotland, and Ireland, to the amount of three millions ; to raise which sum he indicates no other means than the issue of Exchequer Bills to that amount. To the uninitiated in the mysteries of Sir CHARLES'S peculiar system of finance, it appears rather a queer mode of beginning to pay off the debt by reducing the funded debt three-quarters of a mil lion, and at the same time increasing the unfunded debt by three millions. But Sir CHARLES has settled in his own mind—by what process of ratiocination he did not condescend to explain—that this three millions added to the unfunded debt will become in the hands of " future Chancellors of the Exchequer," a means of largely reducing the funded debt, which they can pay off to that amount as the repayments come in. This is again skinning the bear before it is killed. With regard to the proposed remission of taxes, the repeal of the duties on bricks to the amount of 300,00 W. is unexceptionable. The remission of 450,00 W. in the stamp duties is, from the manner in which it is to be effected, of a more questionable cha racter. Sir CHARLES pre faced his announcement of these reductions by stating that the principle of the present government has been to refuco the burdens on the labouring classes, and to promote a system by which the national income shall be to a greater ex tent raised upon property. Rather Meonsiieently with these premises, he proposes to remove 300,0001. of taxation from bricks, in which the labouring classes have undoubtedly an interest, though only in common with the proprietary class ; and 450,0004 of taxation from those stamps, which press exclusively on the landed irterest—on one section only of the proprietary class. The stamps of which the rates are to be reduced are those on the transfer of proper ties not exceeding 1,0001. in value, and on leases. This is neither more nor less then a small sop in the pan to stay the hungry stomachs of the landlords, who are moreover to be accommodated wi.h a loan of three millions out of the public funds at the imminent risk —the all but certainty, of increasing the debt. INTELLIGENCE hilS at length arrived of the block ade of the l'irceus having ceased, and of the disap vearance of all coercive measures except the retention of some fifty smell vessels, as security for the payment of such debts as the French government may award to be justly due. The entire claims are not more than 6,0001., of which probably 1,0004 will be struck off of Dow PACIFICO'B &Manch Such a sum as this France herself, in her unbounded love to King OTHO, will probably furnish, through the hands of some benevo lent EYNARD; and Lords STANLEY and ABERDEEN, with their ally, NE.SF.LRODE, Will have a convenient grievance to dilate upon. THE "merry spring time" is at hand, and before we "go a Maying" in the fresh air of the bright mornings, we would gladly see something done towards effecting an improvement in that favourite place of resort—the Park of Greenwich. A week or so ago we gave the history of some of the encroach. moots which have been made there under Woods and Forests' sanction. We narrated how it had been managed to enclose a large slice of the moat beauti- [ fully wooded range as a garden to a private resi dence. We gave the history of the abominable tank which has been sunk upon one of the most pleasant lawns, and which stands in all the glory of red brick and iron railings, a monument of the bad taste and of the broken faith of a department. We wish the Ranger's garden and the tank were the only enclo. sures in this park ; but there are several others quite as bad, one or two of which we will endeavour, with out further preface, to describe. Few of the visitors of Greenwich Park are pro bably aware that they are indebted for the shade of its luxuriant obesnut trees to no less a person than the eel basted EVELYN. Under his direction it was that the Park was thus planted in the reign of CHARLES 11. To facilitate his labours, and to afford him ready means of supplying accidental losses among the trees, EVYLTN caus:d a narrow strip of ground under the south-east wall to be railed off as a plantation or nursery for shrubs. This plantation went by the name of the Wilderness. Its use has long since ceased. The forest trees, which SYLVA planted, have attained the maturity of • full century and a half. Bat, still [ the nursery remains, and every year something is [ charged to the public in the Park account for keeping in repair the close paling by which it is surrounded. To enter the Wilderness would be to commit a tres pass, and thereby to incur the penalties of Forest, or rather of Woods and Forests, law. But although this Wilderness is thee forbidden ground to the unprivi leged, its secrets have not proved so impenetrable as its recesses. Should you chance to direct your foot steps towards the part of tile Park is which the ' Wilderness is placed, you will scarcely fail.to observe the rabbits scampering away from before you or timidly glancing at you from among the fern. It will be quite possible also that you may be presently startled by the report of a double-barrel from the recesses of the Wilderness, and in that case, if you watch long enough, you will speedily see no less a person than the keeper himself issue forth, with evident tok[ms of hawing made what Tom Hoop called " a micretesful canvass of the burrow." SYLVA'S Wilderness has, in fact, become of recent years the keeper's warren. It is not long ago that a very considerable piece of the lawn in front of the Wilderness was railed off without any ostensible object. None of those who were employed in the operation could tell the why or wherefore of thin encroachment. At length it was reported that the object was to secure a retreat for the deer on Easter Monday and Tore*, when their modesty was accustomed to be shocked by the peso. ties of Mang in the rim, of which, whilst permitted to be loose, they were too frequently unwilling .wit nesses. Very unsightly are the leavy posts and palings which have boon put up to fans this enclosure. And report now says that the real intention is to make them less so by covering them with the ordinary park paling. By this means a double result will be obtained : a great eyesore will be removed, sad the warren will be enlarged by half-a.doxen acres. The keeper thinks that the advantage must be obvious. When the visitor to Greenwich is in the great cross walk, he will scarcely fail to hit upon a track which is obviously used repeatedly by a broad-wheeled cart. Following it for a few hundred yards, he will arrive ' at another enclosure. It is situated in, perhaps, the ' most charming nook i n a ll t h e Park: &dell, sloping romantically down to one of the pleasantest and I softest lawnikyrotooted by the rising ground from the cold gusto or the eat: wind, but opening out to wards the shores of the Thames, of which a delight ful prospect is presented over the towers and cloisters of the hospital. Above the high park paling of this enclosure blue smoke may be seen occasionally to curl, and, in deed, by taking a point of vantage in the neigh bourhood, the upper part of a dwelling-house may be detected. If the visitor would got inside the enclosure, he could see a very agree able specimen of a forester'. resides°. • farm-house ; item, a timer-garden and bees in it; item, a kitchen-gard en an d cabbages in it; item, a farm- yard with a fierce dog in it, not forgetting a pointer; item, something like an orchard; item,in the garden the largest oak in England hollowed out right curiously, which you may pay sixpence for seeing if you like, but which of coarse you are not bound to see at aIL The whole of thi s demesne, which would have been described by the late Mr. &isms as a sin gularly compact, romantically situated and eligible property, is enclorel from vulgar observation, very much after the fashion of the Chinese junk at Black well, and if opened next Eager Monday, would afford the Cockneys nearly as curious an exhibition. The old plans of Greenwich Park lay down the dwelling which is erected upon this site, but do not at all exhibit the enclosure. The gradual growth of this property, its expansion and trespass upon the public privilege, a ff ords a remarkable i ll ustration of the effects of ba d example. The Ranger appropriates a garden from the Palk : the Keeper claims the same privilege. The Ranger encroaches ; the Keeper thinks himself entitled to do the same. The Ranger gets a park paling erected at the public expense : why should not the Keeper have his privacy preserved at the same cost P There is an annual vintage in Greenwich Park : a season when the authorities are unusually fussy and the police unusually alert. This is at the time when the chesnut-tars drop their fruit, which is en d. /stood to be carefully gathered, thrashed, and gar nered for the use of the deer during the months of winter. Among the youth of Greenwich it has been for a long time a popular custom to get all the chess nuts they can for the personal purpose of cracking them. But the spoliation is strenuously resisted by the Ranger and other Park authorities. At the sea son of the Greenwich vintage "all persons whomso ever" are accordingly warned not to approach the chesnut groves. The police are set to watch the gates, and occisional skirmishes take place between the Keeper's auxiliaries and bodies of sharpshooters front the town, occasionally ending in the capture of a spoil-laden depredator and his consignment to gaol at some cost to his offended country. It may occur to some one that it might, upon the whole, be cheaper to the nation, and more conducive to peace and morals, to permit the ehesnuts to be eaten by the boys, and to buy those which are required by the deer. Certainly there would not be much lost by ' this arrangement. The Greenwich chesnuts seem to be expensive articles. In 1843 a charge was made to the crown for "collecting chesnuts" in Greenwich Park. The item so charged was no lees than 671. 3s. In the Park accounts for 1847 there was a like charge : the amount had increased to 781. le. 6d. Not being learned in chesnuts we leave it to others to cal culate how many bushels full of that indigestible fruit may be purchased for 781. is. 61. in Covent Garden market ; but we should think that the 110 deer pri vileged to range the Park might be tolerably well crammed with cbesnuts for the money. Whilst the fruit of Greenwich is so well preserved, many of the walks are, we regret to say, in a deplor able condition. The renowned " One Tree-hill," sacred to holiday keepers, exhibits neither tree nor blade of grass, but a collection of flints and pebbles which render it quite a geological curiosity. The centre walk up to the Observatory is in a terribly rag, ,led condition ; indeed, throughout the Park the turf bears evidence of complete neglect. Were gush neglect as is found here discoverable in Hyde-park, Kensington-gardens, or any of the resorts of West end fashion, the papers would be overwhelmed with letters of complaint, and we should have a corps of " P.'s " and " Q.'s " writing letters of indignation. The enclosures in Greenwich-park ought to be de molished. The Ranger's garden ought to be restored to the public; such part of the Wilderness as is not required should be laid open ; the Keeper's farmstead ought to be surrendered up, a suitable lodge being provided for him at one of the park entrances. The tank, we fear, is now fixed upon the Park, and cannot, be removed ; bat by a very little outlay it might be rendered ornamental; indeed no people but ourselves would have thought of forming a vast basin of water in a park and absolutely making it an eye-sore. In addition to these improvements, the turf, the trees, and the public seats, all require to be looked to, and a treaty of amity might, we think, be advantageously concluded between the Park authorities and the CifeeDigliCh populace regarding that great cams Belli the vintage of the chesnuts. ARMY ESTIMATES. The sun of 80,000 f. wu granted on account to defray the expenses of the staff both in Enaand and Ireland. CAVALRY SWORDS. - - Mr. BERNAC;riscei 1; aikthgiecre tory at War whe ther there had not been • new issue of swords for the cavalry, and whether the new Invention of the hos. member for Bir mingham, which had been patented, wu not accepted. Mr. F. MAULS said that he wu not aware that there had been a new Woe of swords, bat he had seen a &Adman at the swor2s made according to the plan of the hen mem ber for Birmingham, and he must say that he had never seen a more effective weapon, or a better improvement on the present cavalry sword. (Hear, hear.) After a few wore from Mr. NIWDZOATZ, tlgoitistie of the improvement mad% by the hcn. gentleman the member for Birmingham, The sum of s,ooot. was granted on account to the Royal Military College, as was also the sum of 9,0001. tor the Royal Military Asylum, and Hibernian Military School. The following sums were also granted on aricesat-40,0001. to the volunteer amps, 7,0001. for the secret service, and the meritorious serviece of disc sar,red vldiers ; 29,0001. for the cavalry officers of her Majesty's forces; 27,0001. teethe retired Gfficers ; 190.0001. for the half-pay sad military allowances of her Majesty's land forces ; 21,0001. for the half-pay and reduced allowances to officers of disbanded foreign corps pensions of wounded. o ffi cers, and allowances to widows and children of deceased for. ign officers; 63,0001. to provide meioses for widows of officers in her Majesty's meets* ; 46,0001. for compassionate allowance.'; 17,0001. for Chelsea and Kilmaicham hcepi.als. 60,0001. ea ace suet was' voted fa the out pensioners of Chelsea Hospital ; and 10,0001. for superannuation or re• tied allowances to persons formerly belonging to public de partments. NAVY ESTIMATES • 8:r F. BA.RINCI;.,a i.;;;Ili0;1,ask for two votes that STPIIier, referring the rem iinder until after Beater. 1,322.939. was then voted for the waxes of easmen and marines, sad 621,1791. under the head of victuals for seamen and marinas. In reply to a qaestion from Mr. SPOONER, Lord J. RUSSELL stated that before the adjournment of the house for the Easter recess he wasl4 state abet% the re mainder of tha estimates would be ►rought forward. Toe home then resumed, end the chairman reported pro gress. ESTATES LEASING (IRELAND) BILL. Oa the order of the day for gomg into CONINOttOO on this bill. Col. DUNNE objected to the Sresk-,'e leaving the chair. ea th. gnaw% that the hour was too late (it was haitpast 11) for the considnatios of clauses malty of which were objec tionable. Th• has. cumber moved that the house should go into committee that day three months. The SPEAKER mid that no notice having been given, this motion could mot be revived. (Laughter.) The house then went into committee. Sir K FERGUSON nosed au amendment, the object of which was to irclude in the operation of the measure the church lands of Ireland. T. SOLICITOR-GENERAL expressed a general swat to the proposed amendment, waged was agreed to, u also W clause. The remaining clauses, after elm* discaision, were agreed to, and the bill ordered to be reported. JUDGMENTS (IRELAND) BILL. Thie bill went through committee, sad was ordered to be reported. MALT DUTY. _ _ _ . On the motion of Mr. BASS. the following returns were ordered :—R urn of the number of bushels of malt charged to duty in each year ending 10th October, 1818, to 1849, and to the latest period to which the account ran be made up in 1850, with the rate of duty and the average price of barb• y for each year ending 10th October; return of the number of quarters of foreign barley imported into the United Kingdom in eac► month, for three years, ending 10th October, 1849. DIVORCES BILL. Oa tbe notion otilir.iiiiT)b:tbelollo.ing committee os Divorce Bills war nominated:—Mr. Wood, Sir J. Y. Buller, Mr. Wilson Patten, Mr. Stuart Wortley. Mr. Walpole, Mr. Headlain, Mr. Carter, Mr. Shalt° Adair, and Sr Jolts ?Amnon. FEES IN COURTS OF LAW AND EQUITY. Os this motion of Mr. BOUVERIE, the following COM nitwit wee nominated on this subject :—Mr. Bouverlo, Mr. Solicitor General, Sir F. Thesiger, Sir 1 . Graham, Mr. Wal pole, Mr S. Wortley, Mr. Hume, Mr. Henley. Mr. Clifford, Ur. Headless. Mr. Wood, Mr. Turner, lir. lloandell Pal mer, Mr. J. G. Smyth, and Mr. Peel. The house adjourned at hall-peat one o'clock. Vie erpreni. OUTGOING MAILS. The smalls for Lisbon, Spain. and Gibraltar will be mad* ep on try moraine of the 18th inst. The West India Mails, excluding Bermuda, Havannah, Ifnessu, Honduras, New Orleans, and Mexico, and including *see for Madeira, St. Juan•de-Nieeregua, New Granada, Chili, and Pern,will be made up on the morning of the 18th inst. The mails for Gibraltar, Malta, Greece, the lonian Islands, Egypt, Ceylon, India, and China, via Southampton, will be mad. up on the morning of bffireh 20. The mails for British North America and the United States will be made up on the evening of the 22nd inst. The mails vid Mere/Wee, to the Mediterranean, Egypt, Ceylon, India, Hoof -Kong, &c., will be made up on the evening of the 25th inst. The mails for Maderia, the Brazils, and Buenos Ayres, will he made up on the evening el April 4. 111011 WATZS AT LONDON AWOL Trio Das —Manama. 31.- 41m. • • .• . Se MC To-mmamm—Mentse. 44. Me. Alliar..a. 46. Sla - • LONDON, SATURDAY, MARCH 16. Tnz most important feature in the statement of the CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER is his obstinate determination not to acknowledge that it is possible to make any material reduction in the amount of na tional expenditure. All his calculations, all hie argu ment., were based on the assumption that our annual public expenditure must be permanently kept up to its present level. He discussed the probable effects upon the revenue of remitting or reducing certain taxes ; he made conjectural estimates of the surplus of income over expenditure that might be anticipated in the next and ensuing years; but always upon the assumption th# the actual figure of expenditure was to remain uniPried. There is an almost inconceivable degree of infatua tion in this, a judicial blindness to the signs of the times. From every quarter the CHANCELLOR OF TUB Exceaticea feels the pressure of whit the Lord CASTLEREAGH would have called the " ignorant im patience of taxation." The financial reformers are a growing party out of doors, and even within the walls of parliament. The protectionists would not vote for Mr. COBDEN'S motion, but they got up a demonstration sf their own in the House of Commons against the existing scale of taxation, and made by no means an indifferent muster. Every special in terest has some tax or other it wants to get rid of : agriculturist., commercialists, sanitary reformers, promoters of education. The impatience under actual financial burdens is daily seizing upon some cow clams of the community; and the doctrine peached by Mr. COBDF-Y, that to redone taxation FRANCE. PARIS, FRIDAY, 6.30 p.n. There were several lines of conduct to pursue alter the elections of March. Louis Napoleon might either form • new cabinet in the sense of the Paris majority, or he might choose a cabinet from the par liamentary majority—he might resign and throw himself on the country, or he might coalesce with the chiefs of the majority in order to modify the constitu tion. The latter course is that which the president seems to have chosen, and it is the worst. To that end, as I told you yesterday, M. Barrot has been sacrificed. But M. Barrot deem not make place for a great genius, nor does the change that is about to be made render the cabinet lees a government of nonenti ties than before. It seems that M. Baroche takes the portfolio of the interior. This is the only change that will occur. After all the expectations that had been raised this slight change has disappointed many. The chiefs of the majority u well as the ministry had absented themselves all day yesterday and to-day, and the sit tings of the Chamber were very dreary in conse quence. The laborious workings of the Mountain have produced their time-honoured result, and the country will probably not be more pleased at the re sult than the Chamber. It is to be supposed that M. Baroche's appointment is meant as a protest against socialism, against which he so feebly pleaded lately. But it is more than this ; it will lead to the proposal of such measures as the re-establishment of newspaper stamps, and the doubling of the amount of caution-money required from all journals. It may even lead to modifications in the electoral law, and to the proposal of M. Thieres favourite plan of hunt ing out of Paris all workmen not born there, and who do not yield to certain conditions. Such is the poli tical meaning of the appointment of Baroche, and thus is inaugurated, not in a direct manner, but, as it were, side-long, the policy of resistance which the Debars for two or three days past, and the Petrie ;yesterday, have preached with such perseverance and violence. The two extremes of democracy and reaction will now more than ever be pitted against each other, and the result none can tell. MM. Thies, Mole, and Berryer are no strangers to the ministerial modifications and its probable re sults. They were closeted with the President for several hours lest night. All the democratic journals had warned their ad herents not to go to the Hotel de Ville this morning, 03 be present at the calling off of the names of the succLssful candidates. All went off peaceably, and the ceremony was over at 10 in the morning. After the announcement had been made that MM. Carnet, 'Vidal, and De Flotte were duly elected repre sentatives of the people, some cries of " Vire la Re verl3.lle" arose, after which the crowd quietly dis- The definitive state of the votes was thee PARIS, Ilium 15. I Tor Money. )9 1 - • srso 92 10 —..rest. Closing. 2 par Osials" 87 0 57 15 50 80 117 10 5 pit Opals. .—. O2 20 92 30 91 90 92 15 Sdm Newtons „il IP . o 4 par Ceuta... . ” 4 pu Cents 72 " 30 n n n 0 Exchange on London : SO days, 25 47S ; 90 days, 25 33. Belgian, 5, 1440 Do. 5, 1842 Do. 4i Do. 24 Piedmont 3 per Dents iltl 50 „ Bank Shims ncomar..—Pars sad Orleans, 779 SO ; Avignon and Marseilles, 197 50 ; Straahourg and Basle 113 ; Orleans and Bordeaux, 400 ; Northern, 437 30; Paris and atisslinarg, 243 75; Tours and Nantes, 247 S 0; Paris and Rolm, 540; Bourn and Havre. 237 51; Mon. terms and Troyes, 105; Versailles (left bank,) 157 50; Orleans and Viarzon, 320. proclaimed: Carnot, 192,797; Vidal, 128,439; De Flotte, 128,982; Foy, 125,843; Lahitte, 125,478 ; Bonjean, 124,347. The result of the entire elections in the fifteen de partments has given twenty-one candidates to the de mocrats and nine to the conservatives. It appears from the return of the Bank of France that the metallic reserve again shows an increase of about one million, which :a marked down for Paris alone, the amount in the provinces remaining nearly' as it we. The discount accommodation shows as aug mentation in Paris of about 150,000 fr., and in the pro vinces of about 500,000 fr., the amount of the former being 40,141,896 fr., and of the latter 64,053,885 fr. The amount of protested bills is slightly lower, there being a diminution in Paris of about 60,000 L whilst in the provinces they are nearly what they were ; the amount of the former is 1,480,570 fr., and the latter 1,483,1281 r. On the side of the liabilities, the notes in circulation have increased in Paris about 21 mil lions, and in the provinces 1 million.. The credit account of the treasury has nightly declined, being at present 89,591,790 fr. Private accounts current have diminished in Paris about 1 million, whilst in the branch banks they remain unchanged, the amount of the former being 76,337.3731 r., and of the latter 24,162,9081 r. The whole amount of the metallic reserve is now 4771 millions to 4671 millions of notes in circulation, • The Legislative Asterably yesterday made greater progress with the organic law of public instruction than on the preceding days, having disposed of the various articles down to the 714 inclusively. Today the debate continued, and will probably be concluded. M. de Toequeville is seriously ill. It is said that he has bunt a blood-vessel. SPAIN. MADRID, MARCH 10. The copious rains that have fallen these few days in every part of Spin have caused the fears of fa mine, if not to disappear entirely, at least to diminish. With the exception of the provinces of Valentin and Murcia, where the labourer still contempl.ates his parched fields in despair, and there is every hope that the fruits of the earth will be brought forth ; and the grateful peasantry who, but a week ago, were carry ing forth their village saints in procession and vowing visits to famous shrines, are now thronging in crowds to their churches to offer thanksgivings for the rain they had prayed for. ITALY. SARDINIA. Count Hohenthat hue arrived at Turin as envoy extraordinary, to negocia•e the marriage of the niece of the King of Saxony , %ith the Duke of Genoa. He had an audience of the King of Sardinia on the 9th. TUSCANY. The Tuscan Monitore publishes a decree of the minister of finance, sanctioning the new tariff of duties on merchandise and corn entering the port of Leghorn, and directing that it should come into operation on the 11th of this month. Another decree of the 3rd, of the same minister, orders the extinction of ixortgago bonds, to the amount of two millions of francs, to take place on the 20th inst. NAPLES. We read in a letter from Naples of the 6:h inst. : "A secret consistory was held yesterday at Portici to decide finally the period at which the Pope is to return to Rome. After a long and animated discussion the ma jority decided in favour of the return, and it was defi nitively fixed for April 2. This has been already semi officially intimated to the diplomatic corps, and In some days the official announcement will appear in the Mo niteur. This determination of the sovereign pontiff; so greatly desired, and so long expected, is in great part due to the happy conclusion of the loan lately made with the house of Rothschild, of Paris, which gives the Holy Father the possibility of giving stable bun to order and confidence, and also of effecting in the interest of his people all the ameliorations which his paternal heart suggests. One of the first reforms in tended by the Holy Father will be to establish an equilibrium between the payments made in paper money and the real ones." The King of Naples has directed that the consul tative committee, created for Sicily in 1831, shall cease its functions. GERMANY. SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN. Our Berlin correspondent writes ae follows : General Ranch has proceeded in company with ' Capt. Hartmann, from Kiel, not to Copenhagen, as was reported,:but to Flensburg, where he has had a conference with the three members of the administra tive commission. Von Tilliech is said Ao have set out fer Copenhagen. Ranch returned to Kiel on the 9th. Vollpracht was expected at Kiel on the 11th, and then a conference would take place between Ranch, the staithaltershaft, and General Bonim. That a change will take place without much delay in the govern ment of the duchies appe4ll pretty certain ; but the form of this change is yet a mystery. PRUSSIA. Oar correspondent writes : BERLIN, Blanca 13. The Staats•An:eiyer of lut night communicates the report of Liebe, the plenipotentiary of Brunswick to the Verwaltungs-Rath, upon the Hanoverian note an nouncing the secession of that stay from the League of May. I gave on the same day el which the sitting was held the results of this report, which after a full consideration of the case, pronounces the opinion that the secession of Hanover is a matter falling entirely within the competence of the Erfurt Court of Arbi tration, which was expressly instituted to try MCI like this, arising from the treaty of May 26. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, MARCH 11. Since the execution of Louis Batthyany no sentence has roused public feeling, both here and in the pro vinces, so strongly as that which doomed the catholic bishop of Grosswardein, Ladislaus, Baron of Boner, to death upon the gallows. This doom has been com muted, or, to use the official, phrase, mitigated, in the way of grace, by General Replan, to twenty years of fortress-imprisonment in irons. Even among the motives assigned by the court-martial as the ground of condemnation, nothing more heinous is adduced against this Hungarian prelate than that ho joined in au address of homage to Kossuth, that he took part in a few sittings of the Diet at Debreczin, and administered his diocese in obedience to the de facto Ecovernment of the time. A punishment so disproport►onate to the offence has revolted all minds not lost to the sense of common humanity and justice. But in Hungary, where the bishops are regarded with peculiar veneration, the news that one of their highest church dignitaries is to be laden with fetters, and immured for 2u years in a horrible prison, must fall among the people with a stunning effect. Among other numerous condemna tions, that of Louis Hauk, who, as you know.has just been hanged at And, in despite of the solemn promise from the emperor that no more political offenders should be executed, has naturally drawn a painful share of the public attention, the more so, as Hauk was a Vienna man, and formerly editor of a paper called the anstitutional. BAVARIA. Count Fugger, lieutenant of artillery in the Bava rian service, was shot, by sentence of court-martial, early on the morning of the 9th, at Landau, in the Bavarian Palatinate, for having taken part in the rebellion of last year. I3ADEN. In the Grand Duchy the state of siege has been prolonged for another term of four weeks. An official proclamation, of the 12th inst., an pounces that the di e t o f the kingdom of Wurtemberg is to be opened on the 22nd inst. by the King in per son. Great anxiety is felt respecting the cadent,' of the royal speech. ANHALT-BERNBURG. The constitution established in harmony with the first ordinary land tax, was published on the Bth, together with the new electoral law, as the statute law of the duchy. Vilma, Itasca IL—Pin Der Cent Metalliquea, 9e. Poor per Cent, do, 721. Bank &mak 1096. Enduing, on ninkrort, 1141. TURKEY. Letters from the frontiers of Bosnia in the Oeskrrel'eldeche Correspondent, state that the small fortress of Bihacz has been conquered by the Bosnian insurgents. The garrison of 160 Arnonts capitulat, and was allowed to with.. draw to Bank'lka. The great blrly of the insurgents was, on the Bth instant, preparing to march from Todoro to Bihacz and Banjalka. Cbt Court. The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Prince of We:e., the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, visited the new palace at Westminster yesterday aft‘vnoon. The royal suite consisted of the Viscotuatess Jucelyn, Lord Alfred Paget, and Colonel Benverie. Her Majesty and the Pence, with the royal party, viewed the frescoes, and then proceeded to the Upper Writing Hall. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness also inspected th e new House of Commons, ,the Centre Hall, St. Stephen's Hall, and the Peers' Library. The royal dinner party, yesterday, included the D u chess of Kant, the Duchess of Sutherland, Lady Fanny Howard, Baroness de Speth, Viscount Clifd en , Viscount Jocrlys, and the Right lion. William S. Laseelles. Prince Frederick of Hesse left the residence of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge at Kew yesterday for the Continent. The Duchess of Cambridge, attended by Baron Ruesebeck, left Yew yesterday monsieg for town and pro ceeded by the London and North Western Rad .. - ay on a Tiait to the Duke of Rutland at Belvoir Castle. Sir William Clay had an interview with Lord John Russell yesterday at his offhial residence in Dawning. street. The Etrl of Suffolk had an interview with Earl Grey yesterday. Mr. Discs, M.P., had also an interview with his lerdsLip yesterday at the Colonial-office. The Judiceal Committee of the Privy Coancil sat yesterday sod resumed and cone:tided the nearing of Raw son's. petition for an extension of N)ble's pat. lat. No ex tension granted. The Lords present were L•: rd Brougham, the Muter of the Rolls, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Cornwall, and the Judve of the High Court of Admiralty. (From nzttte.) DOWNING -STREET, M A R CH , 13.—The Queen has been phased to appoint Falkner Hope, E,q., to be Rttsident Magistrate at litc.hroond, in the settlement of the Cape of Good Hope. Also, to appoint George Garcia, Hq., to be her 3lsjt sty's Solicitor-General for the Island of Trinidad. CROWN -OFFICE, MARCH 15.—Member returned to serve in this present Parliament for the County of Sligo:— Sir Robert Gore Booth, Bart., in the room of :lobo Ft. lliote, Es q., who has accepted the office of Steward o frier Majewty Chiltern Hundreds. METROPOLITAN COMMISSIONERS OF SEWERS. THE DRAINAGE OF THE METROPuLIS. Yesterday a special general court of the Commis. 'loners of Sewer, was held at the c ffices of the coreativion, in Greek-street, Soho. Viscount Enainoros. N I'., who presided, in opening the proceedings, said that, pur suant to a rooks:tun passed on the liith of Decem ber, • committee had been appointed to consider the merits of the plans for the drainage of the metropolis. consisting of Sir John Burgeyne, Mr. Stephenson, M.P., Ceram Vetch, Mr. Harness, and Mr. Bendel'. It had been resolved to present their report to a general court, and the present time had been fixed for that purpose. Mr. WOOLRYCH then raid the report of the committee, in which, after defi3ing the various divisions, seven in num ber, among which the plans sent in may be distributed, they proceed to state that "the best cones ived and meet practical scheme subm:ttel to the eionamisioners is, in oar opinion, that 0f,31r. J. B. M'Clean ; and though we do not deem our selves justified in recommending any one of these schemes for adoption, as • whole, we yet think that Mr. ld'Cleata's plan contains many of the main elements of a sound and judicious system of drainage. It is characterised by a well devised system of intercepting sewers, in determining t h e situation and course of which • careful and elaborate study of the levels hag evidently been made. These Ltercepting sewers generally follow the direction of the main thorough fares, and avoid any extensive interference with private pro perty. The chiet of them on the north of the Thames commences near Battle-bridge and after running a co urse of nearly eight miles, termin ates at the river Thames. at soma distance below the river Lea." The commit. tee, however, state that it did not seem that sufficient provision had been made for the drainage of the long narrow tract lying on the north mergin ef the Thames between Coaring.cross and Shadwell, hut they at the sense time notice in terms of high praise the judgment, labour, cue, and skill which have been brought to bear on the preparation of the plan. The committee aso seedy the plans of Messrs. Nasmyth and Statham, ?dr. J. Bayley Denton, Mr. J. Phillips, and Mr. H. Austin, as deserving special notice, and give the details of the most marked fea tures of these plans. In conclusion, they state that in their opinion ali the estimates sent In are totally inadequate, and they remind the commissioners that the object of their ob tions is to present to the minds of the committee the more prominent characteristics of the plans they are called upon to consider, sad not to define the system of drainage which it may hereafter be considered expedient to adopt. To this report are appended an elaborate classification of the plans sent in, according to their outlets. Sir HENRY DE LA BECHE proposed that the report should be adopted and printed for the use of the Commis sioner., and adverted at some length to the labours of the committee appointed to decide upon the most important question of the drainage et the metropolis. Sheriff LAWRENCE said that many of the plans which had been sent in might be said to consist of a series cf plena, all in themselves sufficiently intricate, and requiring great caution and judgment to decide upon ; but he believed that all tle Commissioners mcst fully and fairly appreciated all that the committee had said on the subject. Sir JOHN BURGOYNE bore testimony to the ability with which tke functions of the committee had been dis charged. Although his name stood first on the list of the committee, it was not to be supposed that the whole of the duty devolved upon him. Other gentlemen present had contributed very materially to the decision which had been come to. There appeared to be some mistake in re ference to the functions of the commissioners. They were not bound to find a market far the sewage manure. Their endeaviurs to remove it from amongst the habitations of a crowded population were all they were called upon to see to. It should be left for another body, when called into existence to convey it away and to dispose of it. It was not to be supposed that the commissioners could enter into contracts with market gardeners, who, at present, were not acquainted with the value of the sewage, or who did not use it in farm yards or in market gatdens. He considered that the commissioners discharged their duty when they removed the offensive matter from amongst the habitations of the people. It was better that it should be removed and thrown into the Thames than left in crowded neighbourhoods. The CHAIRMAN put the adoption of the report to the meeting, and it was agreed to. Sir H. DE LA BECHR moved, and Sheriff LAURENCE seconded:—" That it be referred to a committee of the whole body of the commissioners to adopt such =sawn ea might be considered expedient for the drainage of tte differ ent portions of the metropolis." Mr. H. L. TAYLOR quite agreed to what had been stated in reference to the functions of the oommissioners. The former plans had been pressed upon them by • former com mission, but now the commissioners were thinking of the real subject. The question before the commission was of the greatest importance; indeed that which had been referred to the committee might be said to be the principal obi, et of their appointment. He cordially supported the motion. Lord EBRINOTON said it was not like beginning de noro. Tary had been at • great deal of expense to obtain these plans, and mach valuable Information had been gained. The resolution was adopted, and • general court was formed for the despatch of business. The court then adjourned for throe weeks. PROTESTANT DISSENTING DEPOTATION.--Yester day a special general meeting of this body waa held at the King's Read Tavern, Poultry, to take into consideration the subject of church rates, diuenten' grievances, and Mr. Stuart Wortley's marriage bill. Mr. John Remington Mills took the chair. Ile said that, since their last meeting, the deci sion of the Exchequer Chamber in the Braintree church rate case had been given, and the judges had declared that the minority of a vestry had the power to impose a rate on the majority. This judgment, should it be affirmed in the House of Lucia, would sap the foundation of British liberty. A committee of the deputies had hid an interview with Lord John Russell on the subject, but his lordship declared that he had no intention of interfering with the church-rate qua tion,and the Rouse of Lords could deal with the decagon in the Exchequer chamber. A petition to parliament was then agreed to, praying for the abolition of church rates in England, of the annuity tax in Scotland, of ministers' money and church ens in Ireland, and of the ecclesiastical court ; against the renewal of the Regium DJI?Ura, and any payment from the public funds for ecclesiastical purpose., and for the entire removal of the civil disabilities to which dissenters are still subjected. A petition In (avow of Mr. Stuart Wortley's marriage bill was elsi sdopfed, Mr. Griffin stating that though dissenters were not the only parties aggrh.ysil by the present law, the board of minister., and nearly all the dissenting corgregations in the kit.gdosi, had declared in favour of Mr. Wortley's measure. A reso lution was also passed, directing_the secretary to draw up • petition infavo•r of Mr. Pete Wood's affirmation bill. il