The Express. — London, England, 1850-04-05 00:00:00

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Sta Cumin WooD's new Stamp Duties Bill has made its appertain. and it fully condi= everything we have said se to the increased duties proposed to be levied under the sew sebum, and ma to the immense number of now items which us about to be brought Into taxation. The CHANCELLOR of the Exam:at:rift's words were admirably chosen. Henceforward it is abundantly clear that "every matter and thing what noever" must be stamped, and that any attempt to maps will only make things tan times worse. Indeed, looking carefully at the wording of the bill, we have begun to doubt how far the CHANCEL- Lott of the EXCHEQURR's alterations can have been, as we bare been glad hitherto to suppose them, the result of carelessnese ' accident, or want of due consi deration. We observe that the remarkable new word!, by which not oily "property" as defined 17 the courts, but every other matter and thing," is sublectcd to camp duty, run throughout the bill, and are introduced as if purposely, to guide the judges In any future interpretation of the statute. Throughout this measure the extent to which the CHANCELLOR has gone in altering the text of the existing Stamp Acts quite surprises us ; and espe cially to. when we remember the legal difficulties which attend the interpretation of these acts at every clause and paragraph. The Stamp Act now in force has existed ever since the 33 Geo. 111., and has be come, by the assistance of the interpretation of the courts, settled law and practice. This meddling measure of Sir CHARLES WOOD'S undoes everything which the wisest legal hands in Great Britain have,' for the last quarter of a century, ben en gaged in arranging. It re-opens the doors of Westminster Hall to a class of suitors who bad nearly disappeared from it. Great joy for Lincoln's lon ! For years past coesultatiors about matters affected by the Stamp Acts have been few and far between. For the next ten years, if Sir CHARLES WOoD's bill we shall have nightly meetings in the neigh of Stone-buildings to consider casts arising out of, the interpretation to be pat upon the new and extensive phrase, " matter or thing whatever, or of whatsoever natu 0." _ _ As a correspondent put it upon Wednesday, the question really is, what description of property it will be hereafter possible to convey or mortgage without the usistanceof an ad ralorena stamp? Everything relating to shipping is at the present time exempted by statute from the operation of the stamp duty : but Who will like to buy or to lend money upon mortgage of a ship hereafter, except all the documents have paid a duty preportloned to their value ? The Caws caxwa eg the ffiCHSCP:ER perhaps may tell us that be does set intend to touch the shipping interest : but we vesture to reply thereto that his bill, if it plane in its present shape, will at least leave the question in a state of greet ancertainty. And in every this, that relates to a legal transaction what can be worse than that? As showing the 'Bird in which the CIIANCYLLOR of the EXCEIVICER'• bill is drawn, we may advert to the 6th clause, which provides the " terms and conditions on which deeds may be stamped after the signing thereof." At the present time certain deeds executed on uns'amped paper may be stamped upon payment of a penalty of 31. and the duty. Henceforward the be penalty is to be 101. in all cams where the stamp to affixed does not exceed that amount in value. In all cases where the stamp is above the vales of 101., then the penalty is to be of precisely the same amount as the stamp. This is carrying out the ad raltirent principle with a vengeance. The eficet it will have upon the small consumer is not immaterial, when we consider that this increased penalty is to be levied even where a two-and-elxpenny stamp is %anted. But the effect upon those who by carelessness, ignorance, or mead- Tert.nce, may esquire a stain upon a heavy consi deration is abso!ntely frightfu l for a conveyeneer to contemplate. The stamp-ofilee have lately been greatly troubled with complaints from the retailers of stamps, who are wroth at the illiberal way in which they have been dealt with by the department. The Stamp-office allow a certain per cestage to the retailers upon the sale of stamps, and one of their acts imposes a penalty of 10/. upon any such retail's who may charge the pur chaser of a stamp, under any colour or pretence, a larger amount than the price marked upon that stamp by the revenue. Very lately the Stamp-office have cut down the commission to such a small amount, that it becomes very little worth the while of any respectable stationer to retail for the de partment. No little embarrassment has been caused thereby. Sir CHAIRLES WOOD proposes in this bill to meet the difficulty. How dues he intend to do it ? Why, by repealing the penalty for over charge, and thereby throwing the payment of the commission upon the consumer! Any purchaser of a common threepenny receipt ramp hereafter will be charged 31d. or 4d. for that commodity, and may be charged a much larger amount in districts whe.e there is no competition but only a single person " licensed to sell stamps." It is bad enough to have to pay for the stamp. Will the public submit to the additional charge of an extortionate stamp dealer who is " duly licensed" to defraud them of any additional amount upon its cost which his elastic conscience (not the law) may warrant his imposing ? NEXT to judicious praise and encouragement there is nothing that persms engaged in undertakinge of great public utility have more to desire than un founded censure. The :loud of witnesses who came forward at the late meeting in Pear-street to bear testimony in behalf of the tfficicy of the raged school in that district for good, in contradiction to the dis paraging sta•ements in the Morning Chronicle, Eco far to corroborate this view. They were reported in our yesterdly's publication, and deserve the moat serious attention. At the meeting referred to, fathers and mothers rose one ate, another to declare how deeply they were indebted to the ragged school, to heap prayers and blessings as the heads of those who originated and supported it, and to express their earnest wishes that their ciroomstanc,s could have ctiahlid them to contribute to its maintenance and ex tonsior. One poor woman told, with a mother's pride, how her boy educated at the school had gone to America and had remitted her "a sovereign—his first savings." Another with a sigh remarked, that "had the ragged school been establilied five years ago she would have one child among Ler number whoa she now bad not. He had gone away [trasepxted]: the school was too late for him." Another expressed her gratiyude fir the good her boy had received at the ragged school: "she could now (se never b t f oro ) go t o b e d at n i ght and rise in the morning, and thank the LORD that her chill was sae." A man who had two Lop at the school in Pear-street, exclaimed "Gem bless you all gentlemen! If I was worth 1001., I would not grudge it for the boys to receive so touch good as they have done." Another " hoped ha should not die till he had assisted the school in some way." The good that is acquired by the children at the schcol is in some instances communicated by them to their parents. Mention was made of a boy who had been educated at the Pear-street *0.0,1, and was teaching his f Aber and mother and two sisters to write. There were many testimonies to the general improvement of the vicinity since the ragged school was opened in Peer street. The neighbourhood is now decent and orderly: arse years ago no respectable young woman could walk there without being insulted; thirty persons might 1r seen gambling in the street, and as much 1115 3L staked at once; in the very room where the et irg was held thieves were wont to meet end teach the secrete of their profession. The statements made at the Peirehrest illustrate admirably not only the effeffin of schools, bat of the mode in wide\ they no In our densely peopled to there has beensa a clam left outside of the elt ica, the reach of its softsaing strengthalso Led Children whose parents are too poor to Had them to school, too moth engrossed in the pursuits by which they urn a Bounty and precarious subsistence to keep see eye spas them, are left exposed to all contaminating inflasliss• The unhappy creatures grow up without having any maxims instilled into times Ise the guidable of their conduct, the natural anises on steeled in the nip ping air of poverty. Ise the seines lei hear the conversation of the duLeemt t sad sassethoss, by the nen instinct of imitatin g tallow their exwmple. Were they to seek for receptis• into any of the semi narks which evicted before ragged schools were in stituted, their squalid and Istimed raiment and equi vocal characters would mere their being refused admittance. These outcasts by the roadside, destitute of " wedding garments," have been invited by the founders of ragged schools to sit down at a table where food is provided both for their intellectual and moral nature. No ooe was rejected, however un couth his appearance, however gross his ignorance, however equivocal his character. They have learned to love instruction; the better principles which re mained dormant within them have been awakened; they have been Wooed to try to become useful minters of society. In some instances the example of the child trying to better itself has shamed demo ' lute and reckless parents into emulating its example. The whole poverty stricken class of a neighbourhood, witnessing the good effects of these schools, have become their warm partizan', and take au honest pride in being so. The schools have become a rally ing point for the good : they are the source and object of a purifying aid ennobling public spirit. They have created bodies of citizens in the highest and best sense of the term. It may be fearlessly admitted that these schools have not been in every it ranee successful. What is said about children being brought into contact with thieves at them may indeed be disregarded. They were brought into such contact before the schools existed, and without their counteracting influence. But we admit that many a pupil may have felt a momentary desire, awakened in the schools, to become an honest and industrious man, subside and die out under the recurrence of bad habits, or the influence of bad cern panions. We can easily imagine young reprobate. availing themselves of the knowledge acquired in the schools to attain to greater dexterity in wickedness. Such exceptional cases, the consequences of naturally weak or perverse characters, are not unknown among the flews of higher seminaries, or even amoug Christian communities that exercise a rigid discipline over their members. A large allowance may ba made for inch relapses, and yet the better spirit breathed into a whole chute the number of individual "brands snatched from the burning " remain sufficient to vin dicate the segscious humani , y of those who pro jected the ragged schools. In %hie, as in everything, " Wisdom is justified of her children." The general tose and tendency of those papers in the Morning Chronicle, of which the disparaging statements regarding ragged schools form a part, c vince us that these statements are m nely the result of inadvertence. The writer has taken too heavy and superficial a view of the class to ba dealt with, and the manner in which the schools deal with them. The main object of the schools has been to awaken the torpid germs of goodees.a which lurk in the breasts of all. They are the first missionaries sent into the field; their work is preliminary ; they are meant to prepare the way for something better. D..ring the brief period for which the *ciboria have been in existence, it would have been as much as could have reasonably been expected had they only inspired the destitute • amoLg whom crime elbows indifference, with • conviction that they might become something better, and, with intermittent desires to realise the es e irstion. Time is necessary to the growth of three habits, which alone can make an orderly and decorous clans But the witnesses at the Pear street meeting (and similar teetimonies might be gathered from any district in which a raised school has been in active operation for a year or two) proved that more has been done than to awaken vague longings after improvement; that many have been reclaimed, many kept from felling. The fella cious nature of the inferences drawn from the report showing an increase in the annual number of pees ens taken into custody within the district of the metropo litan police during the last three years, was expesed by us on Saturday las% The number of committals I for trial his diminished in a much larger ratio than the Lumber of arrests has increased. IlowEven useful our diepet series mey be, the ino tives of their reorders will not always &sr investiga ' don. They are sometimes got op by the friends of a medical man, for the purpose of providirg him with • place as resident medical officer. It not unfrequently happens that a physician or surgeon, wantirg to bring himself before tie public, tekt • the opp-rtunity of doing so by establishing a dispensary. ?deny of our London dispensaries have had their origin in this slum. At the present moment, a large number of young physicians and surgeons, not content with being attached t 3 dispensaries and hospitals, con , vert their own houses into shops where advice may be had gratis from 10 to 12 o'clock, the only difference between their own houses and the dispen sary being that at the latter patients get medicine as well u advice. It happens, however, occasioeelly, that a dispensary has a bowl file fouudatioe, that the benevolent inhabitants of a neighbourhood, feeling the importance of administering relief to the sick poor whiiet residing at their own homes, inetitate a medical establishment for the purpose. But sooner or later the danger threatens even these, when their medi cal officers are not paid, that they ev,ll be converted Into means for advertising physicians and surgeons rather than the healing of the sick. In all our dispensaries, except where fraud is in tended to be practised, the government of the diepen- eery devolves upon a committ e of thu rubecribers. This committee is nominally elected, at an annual meeting of the governors or subecrihnrs; bit to those who know anything of the working of our dispen saries and hospitals, we need not say, that except in the case of some squabble, the governors seldom or never attend. The committees, thee, are self-, lector!. They generally cinsiet of the clergymen, same of the medical men, and two or three of tie princip it trades men or gentry of the district. The meth, al officers of the dispensary are variously alio red either to sit on the committee or not, or when sitting on it to vote or not. This matter frequently depends ore the origin of the dispensary, but in most eases the physicians and surgeons have a Feat on the committee, with a vote, on the ground that, as their services are gratuitous, they ought rot to be regarded as servants of the institutien. Now, as it happens that the physicians and surgeries are generally at tie lowest four or five, sometimes menet more, and as the other members of the commit tee seldom attend regularly, the medical men have things pretty much in their own way, and succeed in the inset in arresting any it quiry into their own conduct. We do no' think that the medi cal men act wrongly here; all the sereiee they per form they give, and however little it m a y b e , it must elways demand iruch more time and a tenrien than any committee-mire ever pest , ode to give to the institution. Ilene., when committees ven tars to find fault, they are met w,th the remark that "If you will pay us C.r our minims, we will allow you to find fault, but whilst we do your I work gratuitously, you must allow us to do it in our own way." This is generally seffiei+ rat to quiet all differences, and the thing ruts on iu the old way. The real fault Lore is, that the eoturnit'Pe ere not to earnest about working their dispensary. if they were, they would take the proper inear, of eith. r increasing their funds or decreasing their expeediture, in such a way that, without diminishing in any manner tie efficiency of their institution, they would secure a eontrol over their moat imp .rtant functionaries. We shall shortly have occasion to show that the i expenditure of our dispensaries in one di rection might be very much diminished, and thus afford the mean, of paying the medical men. I But, ',peening the most judici nes ecuneiny is pre& timed, a would be no very (Mule thing IM the ince ne of every dispensary In Landon to be inner seed were the committee only in earn s. ab or it. There are DO charities to which the public, teed a mere favour able ear than the hospital and disp emery, and in aimed every di-trict direct appo il 'vet p snional influ ence will a+.tu-e 4 contribution towa , ds their ex penses. If in any ce , e, thee, • dispees re is wentirg fends to deftay either one expense or the other, we THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY - rEy * "keperhet ' sae cEssitte• 1 miser in detest believe It will be feud in r., allay 'is which the duties. of to 'are performed. The same evil meets our hospitals, but not to the saini wettest as is dia- Lairls too many esies..hewever, the treasurer ine s ' or three oemmittse-men *ex th e smell amount of authority . that is exeroisekover the medi cal slicers of these institutions. There is one folly at which nearly every committee wanly's, and that is the desire to advertise large numbers of patients as relieved at their dispensary. This leads to several evils. In the first place every remwho applies is seen and prescribed for whether elted, or the charity or not. The numbers tlnesiessessed make so great a demand on the time ells =Alai vim, that he has recourse to very siemalysistheds dimly his patients to shorten his time. We bow rise dimeasary medical Aker who beasts that be limb di sixty patients in an hoer. We knew -_elute who raver allows his patients to sit down ea sanest of the time lost in their sitting down and rising up. Another mere half a dosen patients in his room at the same time in order to spare his waiting whilst each goes in and out. That patients thus seen and treated can derive much benefit from their attendance at the dispensary we think there is reason to doubt. is system arises from the ambi tion of displaying a large amount of cam-. re lieved. If any one will take the trouble to look at the numbers of patients treated at dispensaries and inquire with regard to the time occupied by the medic :I men, they will :see that the kind of attend ance given gratis to the poor is vastly different from that afforded for the payments of the wealthy. We do not contend that this hasty advice may not be better than nothing : we know the glance of the ex perienced eye will detect disease ; but we also know that the researches of the modern pathologist have shown that many states of the system are only to be detected by chemical processes or delicate examina tions with the ear and eye ; and we feel that in the hasty manner in which dispensary practice is conducted, full justice is not done to those who seek it for assistance. If committees, then, instead of encouraging large numbers of patients to come to their dispensaries, would limit them to those who ere really deserving gratuitous aid, they would not give their medical officers more to do than they can pos sibly attend to, and would secure much more efficient medical advice than is done at present. FRANCE. PARIS, THIJRBDAI 6 TA. Nothing is spoken of but the outrage offered by the mob of St. Antoine to the President of the Republic. Changed, icdeed, are the times since Louis Napoleon was the darling of the blouses. At one time, there exists now little doubt, the cept.ew of the emperor might have been au emperor himself. lie had the country with him sgsinet the Constituent Assembly. He hal all parties of the country with him at the moment when the famous letter to Edgar Ney seemed to promise a new liberal policy on . the Roman question. Never has any sovereign magistrate enjoyed so extensive a suppnrt from all classes of citizens against his own feeble ministers, as Louis Napoleon enjoyed when misled and compromised by De Torqueville, Odilon Barrot, and colleagues. But the nick of time for availing himself of that support, either for his own permitl aggran• disement, or for strengthening the cation at home or abroad, was missed. An obscure list of men, without experience or ability were called about his chair at the critics' h.ur, and the government war engaged in a reactionary and wrong road. The Pre sident's popularity among the lower lzelf of the na'ion disappeared nearly es quickly as Ni de Lamar tine's among the upper half; and he is now arrived at a moment when he is betrayed by the highest and hated by the lowest. His presieLney teems psss.ng under threatful clouds to complete eclipse. As t the ides of Louis Napoleon ever b :Mg Emperor, not a soul in the least &mallet with politics entertains such a notion. The sitting of the Assembly yesterday was dis graced by one of the most scandalous tumults that has de graded the parliamentary amide of the re public. It ended by the castigation of M. Miut, an old offender, who was visited by the censure of the Assembly for apolyirg to M. Denjoy the epithet of police agent. M. I)enjoy, in the course of his ex planation of the cause of disorder, referred to the outrage committed against the President of the Re public at the entrance of the Faubourg St. Antoine, on his return from Vincennes. Great agitation fol lowed this allusion, in the midst of which General de IHautpoul rose and protested against the statement of M. Denjoy, adding that be himself was present, and no insult had been addressed to the presideu.. This contradiction of a fact which is well attested by many other spectators, wee received by the Left with jeers. In fact, whatever the ministers choose to say in public about this deplorable affair, I have heard from inconte s ible authority that the sirens in question gre a•ly surpassed in violence what I described in my despatch of yesterday. Several thousand workmen met the cortege at the entrance of the Pantie urg St.Antuine. A yellof " A bee lee tyrans!" was set up. O.e workman mounted the carriage and shook his fist in the Preei dent's face. A footman was so illtreated by the mob that he is laid up with the contusions he received. The escorting cuirassiers either would not act ur were orde►ed not to act At all events they were quite passive. The party in the carriage consisted of Edgar Noy, Heutpoul, and Lahitte. Crangareier was not present. It is considered highly fortunate that the military escort preserved a passive attitude. Had they charged the mob, the probability is that the whole party would have been torn to shreds. Tois affair has made a deeper impression in upper circles than I can (-sprees. The only speech of any value in the sitting of the Assembly was a vi•elent attack by Jules Fate upon the police system of the government. M. J. Fevre took occasion of the chapter of the budget relating to the secret eerv:co money being brought forward, to review the conduct of the minis try ; and, in the midst of the excitement produced, some words took place between M. Duche and M. Chas'a&gne•Goyon, which led to explanations from the tribune. M. Illioche then replied to M. Jules Fevre, and eventually an amendment of this latter gentleman, propoeing a reduction on the chapter, was rejected by 440 votes to 175. M. Fould escended the tribune at one moment of the sitting to pre s-at the budget of receipts for 1851, but the agitation was so great that he postponed his statement to this day. In the sitting of the Assembly to-day, Dupin has been re-elected president by a censiderable m .Fority. The Minister of Finance laid on the table the bill for the budget of 1851, and read the e xposition of the motive,. The Presse of this morning has a singular INA ; its first page resembl , a a posting bill, for it cmtains in large characters the prospectus of the R publican Club, which used to meet at the Pasis National, and of which M. Goodch; ux was president. The obj-ct of the Passe iu this publication is t ) hold up the past of the Minister of the Interior, M. Barocke, who wee one of the rice-pro>idents of this club. The Preese places at the Lot of the propectus of the club some remarks on the apostacy of M. Hareem.. The Moniteur cmtains notices fixing fir April 28 Ihe elections for the departments of the Seine and ;he Mae-et-Loire, of one member f,r the former, in place of M. Vidal, and of six in the latter, in place of those persons whose el, ction was dtc'srtd null and void. The Monikur publishes a d.cree from the President of the Republic for the formation of a consultative committee for Algeria, to be clinpos,d of nine mem bers, with the office of eximining and discussing all the met sures s a ieciully connected with t'-.e colony. This bogy is to be connected with the wir depart ment, and all it. communications are to pies through the minister's hinds. M. Adolphe Barrot,minist.r of the French republic at Lisboa, arrived yesterday in Paris. The Patric of yesterday evening rays "If we ara &meetly informed, the government has res Aved to canoe to be executed the police regulatio: a relative to persons without ostensible means of existence (gene sans area) or without domicile, who tab 'unit in Paris. In the course of yo,terday fiftden I,u aired persona belongirg to this category were expelled.' . _ . - The iiunileur der Suit of yes'erdly evening says: " The creation of a tpecial ministry ot p ;lice appears to be decided on. The chief cf department w ill, it is said, be M. de Persigny, who will arrive frdm Berlin in order to direct the organisation of the near administration which is destined for him." APRIL 5, 1850. 1 Far AINC4IISt. PAW; Assn 4. l'ar Wavy. Ormolu ILlNset. lirmst. Oulu 1 pet Omits, USO 14 SO ItS 134 511 SO 65 43 11 Ore 05a15.....---- 09 GO 811 10 89 70 59 4 811 70 3 do. Nur Tun- „ or ~ . P N per Csals„ ~ „ . .• . 4 par Dials .. - ... 7l 0 FidIPPOII IS Leedom st 11111111 . . 5 1 50 1 " . 41 9 11 . 1 11 . 40 . l e w d ; 4. 180 .., se Nom. lissom 9415144. Skew De. 1, 1842 N „ Lusa Das, ISU 781 „ Do. iiMb; As... 1110 78 „ Ds. 8 „ Tommy Goads - „ „ Mamma 5 per Meta. 111 . Book Shane . 3170 Meow -Psnsud Otissro,7l7 N la dlv. Pans =dilute. 616 K 73• A, sad llsnsOles, IN; thisses sod Vilma, all; Miss= sad US ; Northam NS 76; NAN sod Iltusloorg. U 3 60; Toms sad Motu SU; Nattarsas sad Troy's, 110; Bt. Germain, NS; TersalfissAlolt bulk), 147 N. We learner from Berne, lit inst., that the Federal Council has ordered the explosion from Switzerland of the members of the assadations of German work men eatabliehed at Geneva, Lausanne, Vevey, La Mawr de Fonds, Lode, Flenrier, Friburg, Bale, Zurich, Berne, Ponentrory, St. Imier, Berthoud, Thom, Wintertoner, and Schaffhausen, and has ordered that those of Aarso, Lucerne, Glaris, Caere, and Hainan shell be provisionally placed under the surveillance of the polies. The grand council of Geneva has just deprived General Dufour of a pension of 2,000(r. which bad been awarded to him, for thirty years' service as can tonal engineer. ITALY. ROMAN STATES. We extract the following from our correspondent's letter : ROLE, MARCII 26. The time for the departure of Pio Nono from the Parthenopian shores draws rapidly nigh—uncertain ties and improbabilities vanish away hetere the posi tive assurances we continually receive of his setting out on the 4th April ; and, if what I have heard upon the highest French authority here is to be depended upon, the time for delay is now over, the commander of the French fleet in the Bay of Naples having re ceived instructions to intimate to his majesty of the Two Sicilies that summary measures would be adopted towards his royal navy and palace if he did not allow the Pope to leave his dominions without further let or hindrance. The route which I have often mentioned to you already, is still the favourite one in view, and the Neapolitan troops see to accompany his holiness to Velletri, where General Baraguay d'Hilliers, at the head of his army, will be in readiness to escort him to Rime. (This it will be seen does not quite tally with the statement of our Naples correspondeot, as given below.) It is a certain fact that the triumvirate of cardinals at the Quiriosl is now very mar the term of ire authority, especially in pardoning or restoring to office any of the di missed empinyis, all measures of pardon being reserved for Pio Nono himself, who will lose no time in raising an absolving hand on his arrival amongst his subjects. It is expected that Cardinal Antonelli will not continue in uaie in Rome, the Pope, who is heartily tired of him, destining him for a mission of thanks to the various catholic powers. The police authorities are not yetchanged, but the report remains good that they will be so ere long ; it is surely high time when one of the principal of them can forget himself ID far as to strike a prisoner! This happened a few days ago : the brutal superintendent gave a blow in the face to an advocate, who had jest been arrested, for suggest ing that there must have been some mistake in his case, as he was cunscions of no crime, and there were several other 'Kneen' of his name. NAPLES. Our correspondLnt writes asfollowe: NAPLES, MARCH 25. I have just time to say that the Pope will, I believe, leave Thursday week (April 4), but not for Rome : he will remain at Terracina, whither his Majesty will accumpany him. Something of a very important nature is going on in Naples. On Friday night a Russian courier came in with despatches; his Majesty for several days has held councils; Savarese, formerly one of the constitu tional ministry, has been meld for, though I cannot tell the result. A curious tale is in circulation, that an Englishman, a member of the House of Commons, last Thursday had an interview with th e Ki ng; th a t he told his Majesty that he would have no party:in the house unkss frb opened the prison doors and granted a general amnesty. On coming up from Caserta it is said that he received an intimation from the police to leave Naples immediately. Be it as it may, he left suddenly on Friday morning. Such is the story, which I have on certainly what appeals to be good authori y, but which I canna guarantee at present. There is strange confusion in affairs here; those who have hitherto been the warmest in supporting the reactioa are many of them suspended or imprisoned. What to believe or trust in no one can tell. Exchange, 570. Five per Cents., 431. THE LEVANT. Our Malta orrespondent writes on the 28th ult. that 124 Polish refugees, who served in the Hun garian army, had arrived at Malta on the 27th, by the Turkish steam-frigate 'fair. WEST INDIA MAIL. SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY Moatoso. The Royal Mail steamer Tevio*, Cap , . R. Revett, has just arrived. She brings nearly ORO million dollars from Chegree. Her dates are : Jamaica, March 10; and Demerara, 7. Sne has twenty-nine passengers. The rains throughout the island of Jamaica had ceased. No political news. Mr. Barnard, chairmen of the Quarter Stesions, died on the 3rd of March. Mr. Farquharson succeeds him. Cotton and rice cultivation promise to be successful. An agricultural association, for the cultivation of minor products, has been formed. Jamaica is healthy. The accounts from British Ouiana state the meet ing of the combined court was to take ptace on the 11th of March . The special session was brought to a close on the 4th ult., in order to meet the interest and redemption of the quarter of a million loan. It was proposed to abolish the produce tax and the income tax, and to render permanent the duties on rum, wine, and spirits. Oa the 9th of March the court of policy was to meet to take into consideration the estimates of 1850. The revenue was rep. rted to be in a very satisfactory condiiem, and it was ex pected the income would very soon exceed the ordi nary expenditure of the colony. The value of landed property has been very much depreciated. An estate on the west coast was sold, a few days before the pocket tailed, under executioo, fee. 14,000 dollars, which a few years ago was worth 40,0001. sterling. The weather daring the last fort night has been favourable. l'ho colony was quiet, although an extensive me gam house wee burned to' Hoe ground in Demerara itiver, on the 3rd ult., supposed to be the work of an incendiary. At Nevis St. Kitts, and Montserrat , ver y d ry weather bad been experienced, and tho crops were very much affected by the heavy drought. In lisrbadoes the weather was very dry, the crops being expected to reach only 30,000 hogatitiads, being 5,000 less than last year. Heaping was going on rapidly. In Trinidad, also, the weather was very dry, and the crop will fall short of the quantity produced last year. In Antigua the weather was most unfavourable. The want of rain had jeopardised the crop, and ren dered the prospects of the planter, and inhabitants most gloomy. Thole were no cases of small-pox in the island. The two biomes of legislature were to est on the 7th of March. Her Majesty', ships, Drumm, Trin comalee, !totem, Sappho, Persian, and steamer Vixen were lying at P rt Royal, waiting the court martial OD the command, r of the Sappho. The Wellesl-y, with the admiral on board, was dsile expected. At St. Thomas's were tho I)anish brig of war St. Thomee, the United S:ates brig of war Porpoise, and schooner Scorpion, from the onset of Africa, put in on their way home to refit. JAMAICA MARKETS, MAR= S. Brandy.—We quote Martell's, dark, at 6s. in bond, for small qualities. Freights are very dulL Pimento is now firmly held fur 51. per lb. There is very little at market. Rum: Sales bare been made at 3s. for proof 21, but some holders are now demanding 3s. 3d., duty paid (equal to le. 93. for exportation). Sugar : Prime range from 13e. to l'ja. per 1001 be. Exchange on London—Jamaica Ban 90 der‘ per cent. prem.; 60 days, 1 per cent. prem.; 30 days, per cent. premium ; Colonial Bank, 90 dap, # per cent. prem. ; 60 days, 1 per cent. prem. ; 30 days, 11 per cent prem. BRAZILS. The Pilot Fish, at Liverpool, brings dates from Bahia to the Ist of March. The news is very un important. At Bahia the arrivals of sugar have been consider able. Prices flatter, and at 2,000 reis to 2,100 eels for white, and 1,600 reis to 1,700 eels for brown. Stock of cotton light, and market firm at 5,200 reis per arroba. A fair demand for coffees, at 5,200 reis for washed ; 4,000 reis to 4,600 rein for ordinary. Exchange.-30,0001. have been effected at 29d. Freights.—To London, 32.. 63. to 355. for sugar; Liverpool, 355. for sugar, and id. per lb. for cotton. A letter received in Liverpool this evening confirms the accounts of the wreck of the John It. &kiddy, and also stet( a that the packet-ship Albert Gelatin is ashore on the same coast. AMERICA. The United Stated mail steamer Washington, Capt. G. H. Floyd, from New York, en route to Bremen, arrived at Cowes this morning. Her advice. have been anticipated. SOUTH AMERICA AND THE PACIFIC. We have dates from Valparaiso to the 12th January. The ministerial crisis anticipated in my late despatches had not wentred. Two of the cabinet hid proposed to resign, in consequence of the alleged indecision of their colleagues, but the President had not accepted their resignations, postponing the acceptance till after the passage of the budget. The revenue question was attracting great attention. The ex-minister declared there was a surplus of two mil lions of dollars; the prevent one complained of a defi cit of half a million. The Controller-General decided in favour of the latter statement. The following is the report of the market : Business has been more dull those in the preceding month, prices of the chief articles for consumption barely having been maintained, and for a:me they are lower ; whilst im portations from all quarters of the glob- continue pouring in on a scale entirely out of proportion with our want,. California vessels laid en of privileged flags, get complete cargoes without any difficulty or demur at from 22 dole. to 23 dole. per ton. There had entered at the port of Valparaiso, fr3m October 26 to November 29, 35,292 tans register of chipping, and de parted, chiefly for this port, 30,760 tout. There remain, says the reporter, above 1,500 tons British, and about 500 tons of northern flag► for charter in the harbour. Lumber for home consumption !not easily . di.posed of, as pnrchasen will not psy a rate equal to such as can be ob tained for export, orders for wooden houses for California having run cut. Prices range in bond from 47 dole. to 60 doh., two lots having been realised during the month for California. Flour.—The principal sales during last week have been : 300 bags 4.4 in Conception ; 2,000 do. 4.4 and 4.3 half bags taken from on hoard by the purchaser, which is equal to 5.4 here. Crops are expected to be large, but prices will keop up nevertheless with a limited demand fur California. The mining business of Chats, owing to the discovery of new nicer and copper veins, had much increased. In the district of Cop'aps food for the animals engaged in treas. vrting products was very scarce. The portage is said to be d.tfirult, and the railroad proposed to run from Copiapo to thr coast is lrlieved to ba necessary. The increase of copper fountiriss along the coast are said to be thriving in spite of the v....enlist: laws of England. I) Carlos Lambert heaths m.o•t extensive foundry, situated at Coquimbo. Tne cumber of vessels that arrived at Valparaiso is 1849 was 9GB. Of these 232 were English, 234 American. CUITOX-Ii01:51/6 REVENVII POR j'ALPARAI3U IN 786 TZAR 1849. January 1.1 bruary March 152 847 0 September April May 202 614 7 November Jus Total Instructions comprising the obligations imposed by the custom-house of the republic cf Chile have been published. They consist 36 articles, copies t f vessels arriving from foreign ports. Tte manifesto of vessels must be delivered up before any communica tion ii held with tLe shore. A liberal spirit is extending itself with respect to education and internal improvements. The immigra tion of Germane and S ties is much encouraged. The British steamer, E2uador, Capt. Pearson, ar rived a. Valparaiso r.n the 9th of January, ten days from Callao and the intermediate ports. She had sixty passengers and 56,000 dolt. en specie, consigned to I..steb:.n Miranda, 03 ounces gold ; F. Alvaro z and 'Son, 48 do. ; Tadeo Lavin, 23 do.; Ezquerra and Gil, 22 do.; M. E. Sarratea, 32 do.; Sumo° Brothers, 58 bard dollars; do. do., 166.48 enacts gold dust; H. Elizelde, 300 hard dollars ; T. T. Emith, 2,183 silver in bare; do. do., 172 silver in lumps; Sober caseaux, 1,583 silver in bars. THE lONIAN ATROCITIES. TO THE RIOHT HON. EIRL °HET. Thr Lono,—l owe no ay...logy to your lordship for trespassing on your time when it regards the mal administration of the affairs of the lonian Islands, conducted in a manner as unjust towards the people as derogatory to the honour and dignity of our Save reign, the protector, by treaty, of the septinsular re uublic. The question of good or bid government, my lord, is simply the question whether justice towards the people or not forms the basis of it. Therefore, as re gards the lonian I-lands, your lordship's responsibility lies in the advice that you have been pleased to give your Sovereign; which has lately tended to unhold a system of government altogether opposed to justice, and, consequently, to good government. Your lord ship has been pleased to recommend a continuance of the high police poser in the hands of the Lord High Commissioner, by praising the exercise of it in the late outrageous cruelties committed by Sir Henry Ward in Cephalonia, and byr approving the wanton despotic acts of Sir Henry NI and under it in Corfu, in the persecution of individuals by domiciliary visits, &I.—persons denounced by an adventurer for the reward of thirty pieces of money. Such a fact speaks volumes against Sir Henry Ward. He tot allowing the high police power to remain idle, is, in your lordships opinion, a full justification for Sir Henry Ward's hanging 21, and flogging 61, in Cephalonia, and for the exercise of it in Corfu, under a false statement; the falsehood of the coming of the 7,000 Albanians mint have been apparent to any one who was not dead to truth. The cause of these acts your lordship does not trouble yourself to inquire into ; the affect 'produced by the exercise of the high police power strikes your fancy as a great result in hangings, floggings, banishments, under the single motive of sic rot°, sic, ribri. My load, you 'lwo' it in your power, however, to make the lonian people same redress, by advising that a vial conimistion should be sent out to inquire into the financial arranzeinents of the government from the time that Lord Nugent retired from it, when he left a considerable surplus of revenue in the trea sury: Into the swallowing upof this surplus and other monies, Lod John ItUalrill refused me an inquiry— not the lees wanted, however. As the justification with r. Bard to the accusation of an excessive ens nditurc, I will quote once more Lord Se.iton's remarkable words. Lord Seaton succeeded immediately to Sir lleward Mingles, against whom my com plaint was laid. On the opening of tl e Legislaivo Assembly, Lord Seaton ta:11, allud ing to the i x ersive tixpendhurc, " Amieicnzio "sol 'emote i fad, astenendomi da ogni vageona mend ult.( riori." The force of these words is not weakened by their extreme courtesy. Thu act was admitted. Now, my lord, in the name of the lonian people, I ask for a rJyal commission Mr the above purpose; an I I do it the more streouott.ly from beingeonvineed that, under a has and prejudieed :II stem of government the lonian Islands, in their twesperity (statesou a should look beyond the present moment) would boeoute, as they ought under the pro:eetion of a British Sovereign, a bright example to the neigh bouring nations of the two continents._ I h Lve the honour to be your loriVip'4 obxlient savant, CHARLES FITZROY. Eldoislie, April 3. Vbe Court. WINDSOR, Aram. The Qoeen atd Prince Albert walked this inmate. In th e Slope,. The anal Family took the usual • • The royal dinner party at the Cutle this eveaing will hid the Duehen of Kent, the Duke of Wellington, the L„ 1 , Waiting on the Dude a of Kent, the baronets de Si Lord James Murray, Major-General and Lady i stL Wemyes, Sir George Couper, and 0 Ione! Heil (l i g L ib, ). The band of the Ist Life Guards will at daring dinner; her Majesty's priv a t e b an d will Citrus , attend The Duke of Cambridge honoured the Royal Set of Art• in Juhn.attest, Mei*, with a 'hit yt&tarday. Royal Doke visited her Royal Mahn , iu the Duch; Oloi.weter yesterday at Gloucester House. THE ORPHAN WORKING SCHOOL.—The Queen been pleased to present to the above institution ei in right of her donation of 260 Raines.. Joseph Porrett , of if Vtll children the Rev. C. E. Parrett, indepe' 'Moister of Mevegissy, Cornwall. His wife died of cl last year, and his income wising from all sources is 701. a year. GREAT INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION OF MEETING IN WA MELO° ROAD. Yesterday &preliminary meeting of the reeids., the South London District was held at 12 o'cicm,ae stone Hell, Waterloo-road, for the puppet! of considere hest meats of carrying cut the object of Prince eeletet J. FIELD, EM., being moved to the chair, p re to state that the present was a preliminary miettre, , 'eight observe that the word " preliminary " seemed t , had the effect of thinning the meetirg. However, i t been called for the peeves of ascertaining the fetenee views of the inhabitants of the district of e,„ t e. v ref- rem* to the greet exhibition of works of er nation, e to he held in the sum m e r o f 1861 . Thee , aware that the idea originated with Pricee Athen a tegeth.r with her Majesty, had ezerested a de, . for the success of the project : a n d they, as lop, and Englishmen, should TO-ice that their leloe s e reign ergared in, and gave the unction and et, of her reeked position to a matter ees vitally sfl e..c interers of Englishmen, and limit flea!, in a genera: p t v Ept w ßi doub t s t : iioi hn t h o . c a h d % (a h t e r. b e en al taus, etatre r hs etor expressed, d . f e ß T hi t e: t n a n d t ec n thh . o bjections e a lf mi e n a t owi rl i r e i h t ; F T , effect of the exhibition. Many person' zuppes,l tr. .) that it had nothi ng to gain, but something to lop, ey miles of wharfage exte nding el .rig the Teutas, t* I whole occupations was then about to le reeurnis. d taking alaLnhhr t.i diu:inyb r h . eiitumtant s i s ht m a ni A g ties g i m :fth e f :t et e .I::dia:Limi by ma n ufacturing P nybn s r:u t l li thh ie ce SIDNEY . ahuro ß e' wisdom .u: ir pcidoße s : si e s mod : ° : iPetiiiha district c: ar ;: u :11 i f t r'o t nrr a f t . 1 : 1 1 1 : n a ' t E , tet'dotn:- rtai Highness. (Hear, heat.) l in 1851 that a street building should be erected in park and that within it sisculd he collected the p e e, the ineufttry and skill of the Deems of the weed, w distinction of creed or clime, cr language; th. t e the artisans of all nations, wf etee r e t • hand, would have an opportunity of 'slier - Ice In order that the crllecuon should be wel, seen •‘[.. tively cisplayed, due arrangetneurs would to litate banes. and egress to the budding, •n tna• would the ignorant he enlightened, but the Er , find room for further investigati en and imp. ,t (Hear, hear ) Tee commiedenere to whom to e, out of the pirj-ct had been entrusted had carted -• the programme into four el: ems—tile, the ra, or and produce; second, machinery; third, mire', and fourth, sculpture, mod. and the pitati. would be *Rein subaivided in e eir turn. le' ir the department of minerals a very interesting it..... be presented to the curious in that way, and dot.', discoveri a would be made in valuable pr0,u,.:.1 known heretofore; whilst in the architeetural would be exhibited tome specimens of sperve from that much neglected country—lreland. I 11-er. In the vegetable kirgdem the farmer (rem cyst. par: world would have an opportunity of Iningirs I. • notice of the assembled agriculturist. of all ratio,. tr, table predectims cultivated lust cheat, ar !.• and capable of &Ceding the moat nufrim. et. 'I! India Company, who took a most lively interee ease of the project, had undertaken to exhibit a re -: hle coll•eticia of the woods indiaenous to sit it a• pone ssione. The animal kireelotn werele c a - it thing ; and in the first clefs of which n.,„ articles of food, so very important in the present .:,y hear.) Limper and more uncertain voyages were to present than could be thought of formerly, which ver assisted by late improvements in the preeetvaeon a of food, on which, es doubted not, Sir Jelin his reliant crew—if they still lived—were su - and therefore it was important that their mists ehoull have the opportunity of improsiog t:. in a matter that affected so materially the mere, enterprising spirit of their country. (Hear. her • second division of the animal kingdom would v articles used in textile clothing. (Hear, hear 1 We great national staple commodity, they would have an tunity of comparing with the wools of S sooty, Spre.• sic, and Australia, as also with those of South Amer'. the C toe of G rod Hope. The • followed the various of machinery used in the manufacture of ; which would be exhibited in full operation, so that have the oppertuniey of examining thee. ROT..itt, remote, perfection. (Hear, hear.) As to tireles •,,_ and the plastic deportment, the, e he preened le- ee..: catalogue to describe; and would cone.ude e v:r to the s veral gentlemen who were to follow hies. were far bettor aequainted with, and mere speak to the merits of, the great undertaking tha-. rte Toe Rev. J. BROWN proposed the tint ref at " That this meeting believe that toe prpo•lT Hoye! Higene-s Prince Albert, to lad an works of induery of all nations, in Veil. will t. r. i mote arts, agriculture, manufacturer , . Reel teat the interest of the working cla.ses, by on Ting cx.r. tic:fleece, and encourage peace thr,ugl.eut c. world, sod tLeretore thick it withal to tee: torque" Mr. APSLEY PELLATT seconded the had been sold that idleness was the greereat curse •i aell:ct a nation, and that industry and a ti,ur w ere . • stratum cie which to erect the superstructure of tr. . . facture, good government, and social eat . seer-.. might be added, of virtue sod ral'gien. He considered 'he present measure would be ea , alone with national, but individual hewn'. I witnessed national exhibitions in Diesels an-I Par s seen the rivalry of manufacturing dream, et te 2 most exquisite workmanship, whice, whilst it ea parties who contribseed them. also in a national benefit. d France generally, and more Turkel:a' y •Ife• polis However, he could not fail to remark the sr English manufacture were excluded, as indeed wen' happened not to be native, which selfish limits.. n I dunned, because the world, in his opinion, woo c • for seln,b bat for social purposes, and as this towarcs each other they moult be sure to tine th more than they let by the intercourse. Mr. REID k a metbaniel supported the res . said that a string feeling prevailed amongst na waking classes that the superior clews 'weer movement ostensibly for the good of the loser when they had some ohmic' of ject to ocfmpli.h ever, he did not altogether coincide in that thought the present undertaking would be of tie and therefore be supported the r.solution hear.l Ha also disagreed in epinioe with Moe' w'! . sun el the ore of machinery on the groue ee d that i• , msnuol laheur ; he, on the cfntrery. tel e..: machinery created labour, sail developed the r. the counter. (Hear, hear.) Thu CHAIRMAN then put the rsoolut.co. carried. Mr. WYNDHAM HARDING proposed the . solution. Several objections had been urge.' ar e: erojece a. was the cue in all matters of a p u b.... The late Mr. Canning, whenever he ha a nature r . sentence to submit, was remarkable fur c t ( - h. p d .i man opinion hear," could l and dd thos e find, ug of laughter) h )le theu hf p ri nciple oao ls t, red by Canning as a capital " Foolom, ter • Now, upon the same principle, he might the noble lord (Lard Brougham) had rape.... • • to the present pr..ject, he '2pr...ea the °lee ce es cl. vet men is the country. What did his - to? %Cry, that the project would tend to en:. tion, whir's was a moat extraordinary objeen hear.) How would it cheapen production: r lo cre u s t ee lL ir i u n at trosl apnr uci i : i g n m itiam ore ngt.t a h k ( (1 1 1 1 . 1; That wax the way in which preelection would be c. miouvageorgirirce..: area aloe so fee from such being a unto!e or an he considered it a tribute to the project. He legged to propose the following resolution : ..Ihat a local committee of the inhabitants u! bath he apeoieted to easiest her Melts') 's Comm , marrying out the exhibition of 18.51 to the no , result.' m a rkets h s a i r se Mr. JOiIIUA TILLY seconded the re. • younger rigs he was opposed to snachin,ry. thought it would dirplace manual labour ; t showed him that it Intl the contrary effect. t.. • manu'acturing, but also in agricultural oocup iti Mr. T. E 81dITIL supportrit the re.oluti , ti. a he went netts • gentlasnan'a library he groat it well stocked with (heck and Ronnie works on paetry, oratory, and all that arid nt found a work of real utility, ruch at on manufactures, apiculture, or chemistry. It wet. to see g •ntlemen place altar their name. • " ELLS." which an Irishman once iuterrocl . • " fellow remarkably stupid." m (Laughter, he would tar prefer Aine the " t. • " men' member of society," after an intlustriaii• one oral's name—for the wan that knew nethine t: tied and material coed WOO ignorant, no ma: • r coil ge he belonged. (Hear, hits .1 One of the exhibition would be to educite the btaher . • make them know something ; because W r. a••° I Of row wit , eel in the wadi on two kg.. tn.; r hand of the manufacturer. ( Hear, and leug!a, The CHAIRMAN then put the rasolu ion. carried, awl a eonamittee a ecordingl appointed. Mr. SEARLE moved the thi rd res.lutem - • meeting reonmatende that • public meeting I '. • r. 4 • rpm, Delid. 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