The Express. — London, England, 1850-02-06 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 6, 1850. FRANCE. PARTS. TUMIDLY, 630 P e. After post-bour yesterday, in the Legi-lative As sembly, M. C. Lagrange addressed some questions to the minister relative to the disturbances in the Quarter St. Martin, and the cutting down of the tree of liberty. The Minister If Justice b idly replied that some slight disturbance had taken place, bat that everything was then tranquil. The Mons/ewe publishes a proclamation to the in habitants of Paris, announcing that a certain number of the trees of liberty had been cut down because they impeded the thoroughfares, that the other trees of liberty had been respected, and were to remain standing; bat, if they should become an occasion for disturbances, they would be immediately removed. The government has the highest confidence in the good bens. and patriotism of the population cf Paris. Our Paris despatches of yesterday did not arrive until immediately before going to prem. We make the following extracts from them : Today there her been a continuation ins slight de gree of the rassembleniens in the Quartier St. Martin. At noon numerous group. of men in blouses filled the streets about the Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers and the boulevards. The sedate de rah: hai ta me difficulty in keeping open path through the en eta. General Cuangarnier went out on horse back w ith an escort of dragoons and visited the scene of yesterday's riot. Between two and three o'clock, the crowd became so thick and compact about the Port St. Martin that troops had to be ordered up to keep the streets clear. As I write the crowds are gradually dispersing. No collision of any kind took place. All will pass oft quietly ; but there are not a few, now that the thing is over, who see in ace in the whole affair a mere coop monteoin attempt to git up a demonstration for the purpose of proclaiming the empire. It such was really the case, the expectations formed have not been realised. One thing remains certain, however, and it may serve as a warning, thet the generals of the Cars parti—the Cavignane, Bedeaue, and Lamorcieres—have nothing to hope from the people in case of a really serious disturbance, and there is every chance th'it they would all perish, being specially marked out for popular rvenge. The attack on General Lamoriciere was very near proving fatal to him; for, had lie not es caped as he did, he would probably have been killed. The Notional is the only journal of its party which laments the treatment that so sincere a republican as M. Lamoriciere suffered. 'fhe lands fill to-day in corerpte - ce ofthe con tinuation of reaslemblements. The Five per Cents. closed at 94 80, and the Three per Cents. at 67 30. THE lONIAN ISLANDS. nu that m i gob deed wee to promote the *ritual but unless reformers are el Ss alert, and even with o. t he r .e• h UM. Pati'hel when shm were their utmost watchfuluses. to something wears to „,„ ; wea ken is eonicquenee of several baseless make tnisiders mak feel their tenure of olio totter •,,,l • the am e time by owl individual kg and insecure, they will be dallied with and post r " that be °Vies(' to th e till whir.% the sad u:timately tided over till another year. • • "KEY Blii e li . hc hi but j a. akin, not because be did Peod. A. pt mai law capable of splendours*, tat bet- The thanks of reformers are, however, due to ; ... i .e..; that the bill was a &featly, ono, and did Lord JOHN Resume for his so speedily disabusing . ti re.ht boas. Ha hoped that the bill he WU t h ou , of any towing hopes they may have enter .o; the table was sue • a one as ha could tabled of receiving effective assistance at the hands of 11. had Parat:y hoes woad •erinc the 'abject, and Prd 1.. eounwse i cht i ow w i th t h h b oo. government in their efforts to reform our representa ..e hoo Ihe would nut Dame an early day for the nee system. They have fair warping given them that whatever reform, they achieve most be the work of their hands; that they have nothing but opposition to look for on the part of government. 'lO them selves they must owe the extension of the franchise; the ab Alton of the petty, venal, and nominee boroughs left in existenc : or created by the Reform Bill; and the enfranchief meat of populous, wealthy. and intelli. gent communities which are still 1. ft without their due share in the meional representation. And in tine struggles to attain these objects, government though unwillingly and indirectly, must be aiding to them. If there be any one of the promised government measures which cannot with common decency or safety bs abendof id, it is that for recreating an elec. , torsi body in Ireland. Under the existing law the electors of Inland have dwindled down to a mere nominal number. Ireland mud have a c netituency, and can only obtain it by extending the suffrage to all ratepayers. No measure short of this can prevent the electors of Ireland becoming as ludi crously few in number as were those of Scotland before 1831. But will the EngEeh ratepayers not enfranchised by the 101. qualification remain quiet if they are denied the right of participating in parliamentary elections, while thee. see it cor.ceeltd to Irishmt n similarly eircumeanet'd with themselves! Can minket, prdend that tho English ratepayer, however poor, is less qualified to exercise the electoral franchise is telligently than his Irish countryman? The attempt to withhold from Englishmen and Scetchmen what is granted to Irishmen will raise throughout the island a storm of discontent and in dignation before which even Lord Jodie RusseLL mos: bend mud quail. the inevitable reconstrecion of the Irish conditstency is a guarantee that the day of a new and satisfactory reform bill fir England and Scotland is not tar distant. p,; . t ES astri lit sail that ha would be happy to . ..tht u. mot', attains .• that point, • NM a. oda to sod toad • lint tins. PUBLIC OVFICERS. pllll 11011 P its• • Lotk• that he would MOTO • o toe &meant et salarive. Monies, and allow v.d Feuded to all per,as b•ddiar any public v.rient or eepara • ditties performed by h • al , riet, sannier, or all .waiess ; speriliap the • ic e do y: rad. at the semis of money already E Zitt•rest royal pekes f•r the last three ran, . t iony paid. au 1 tte snout doe at the ate ' ...I worth,' such nine already rated will be i npd• ;elle tear matte. carouse at the period 0%.,l to to seceoary. -e ibtr adjourned at a quarter to 10 till 12 o'cleek IZ-e • OUTGOING MAILS. f r Urban. Ppa . bm, and Cribraltar will br made ta., rang, rett 7 . r;1 Nu-.ills, to the Mediterranean, Eiypt, g, te., will be ai4e up to-mortar us Bestish North Aerates sad the I.7elted up at the circuits of Feb. 8. I . lifts, ezzladsou Bermuda, Rarauttab, .N•lw o , lcetts, and Mastro, and inaludirs . :1. 4.ane.tee:lie rreera. New Ornnsee, br andel* ea Feb. 17. r ti , oral•tr, Melts, Lir eel., obit halm& 1.4109, end Chits. rid Southampton, m 4 ntoratug cf 20. r?:..kris, the Ward. and Buenos Ayres, will th • tsarist of Mus h 4. w •'ATEY 49' LUXUOII . MAMIE. Ig Aura. Mk,. Wa. Altera... 11 o. WEDSLIDdY, FEBRUARY 8 tt • • too strong." Med Lord Bnoucitair, in t. . 0-•uy, when he learned how I..rg• the • ruiui.km ro•nened to the House of c. • al t• v first election wider the IL form Act. 1.. • lie own and his colleagues' be _ • era—their incapacity :0 do what was 1. 40; a. I ;a.; were hackett by a sufficieut force et •• • .1.. taw cs, who would s.ick to them even t• • ) • it abeam '. Minis err ere not quite 1..., •,r they wee in %hut first reform pee -1,. ; are, Cr themselves " too It. 'faat fa'al mainii.y of 49 on the address in t• • I '0 0. atsdoue all Before michrers Rot it tic • I i. I. it w.akneee, and were full of the brat ti•nee they got it ail their good resolu t• , Z:I R out of them, as Nat 63 ever 808 A. •-' o,r "tea d out ut toe palms of his LaGde." and true so3ing, ...evil er In. the amt. a monk won!,;' e; t. e kvilinsmell—tne devil a n.calt w+. he. TLe ti si ,yinptom at Lnrd JOHN Ittrothea at tar, r:i g nir ague fit of apprehension :r, as was t';.- t el , he gentleman .n black whom Dr. J. lIN. N WI urtd with the designation of the first WI ill. ; •.tc avowal of his determination to put cf : • . c.• ;1.4 of penitence and amendment—to go cry •••• •: tr a , least one yoar m Tr. To a question from r. ,1:'%; t.. 1, is 1 •rds`.ip replied on Monday i•ight— thron .:.e tam c gee oat flattering promise in 4.. • . •p • eh, and the estentations butt; of Mr. - , nee -eta of bills—that "it was not the • out AAAAA r.ment to propose any bill foe the .A , • o ILA tuft. age is Edgland this year." N t wita Mating down the Lopes he had t • .71- esei rd in the lvessts of parliamentary ref...nu craculsr p4nes cf the Quir-En's magnificeot twerpretition put upon it 11 6.., er a•ur. s Lord Jou mic.t needs laugh in tlu:r , r. .I.dit. "He would not en:er into the er um. I;?., • r give his flagella tit the present • he no:n.11 thrt some gentleman would •z .• a. c' uuJer ffiscnrs•nn, and he should maintAin t' e op•nice.s he r3W te;ii. " • k. dlI invi•er parl.a.rentar) !cf •rmers to e. ore of reform in order that he may p wish the aid .f the conserca -,:y At his bock, of tv.j.:.f.ns it. lie • a ;lid coaxing • recmaint play . .d rip his castle of cad., that rase the plea sore of blowing the ••tire down. And in a spirit of equally Lard JOHN calls upon reformers to At ~in thcught'e like; " he tells them that i• •,. n sill originate a discussion on the tx•en . I rnc;lt..e, be will be " ready to maintain which he now holds "—whstAver there b th, l.rc i Ll 'a: IA ol:it of economy which no one can el. it P. ttib, d by the whip with laudable perti- Lac r) that is the economy of Rood and liberal Delon, t rev may squander the public money, but err erds are dispensed as charily as their • ~1 with the commodity. Before they • Lp their minds to propose any measure that ✓ n or coaciliate the people, they examine (arr. : 1 svntt..er it is absolutely neersra7 to COD -0.0r., whether the evil day for baying golden c0r.11,4 tmly nut ba put off a little longer. They then tern toe measure round and rotted, view it on i• en weigh it, ask themselves whether a little I. u.i.y no - be enough, pare and nibble at it till ttey 1.7.1. 4 it within a grain of the lowest weight at which it w:2 pas. current. The only kind of extravagance that is cuparduaable in their eyes is the extravagance eni g more gaud than is necessary for their own PARLIAMENT having set the question of a return to protection at re-t, we may resume the cuneideration of how and at wLat rate rent may be rnhintained. And first of all, let us entreat these wha indulge in calculations on the subject, to start alt-nether afresh, and not to commit the palpable unfairness of the Scotch farmers in Blackerovd's Magazine, or Mr. CHRISTO- Plll.ll and Mr. PACK?. in parliament, who set out with the expenses and nric,s of production under the protective regime, whilst the returns of produce are valued according to the reduced scale of free trade. Mr. Cluttsroeiika calculates even his tithes as high when wheat is at 40e. as when it was at Ns, his tradesmen's bills idern, and his capital, whether Boating or fixed, as rigidly . the some. Sine:y all this is gross Imposition on the very face of it. If stock, labour, food, be all dim•nished in value, surly less capital will be needed for land. With lower prices, labour will be also lower. If profits on live stock and the price of corn are reduced one-th'rd, the expense of feeding and paying labour wi:l be re duced more than one-sixth. Then, when a proprietor, like Mr. CHRISTOPHER, comes forward to describe his Lad as aaturally inca pable of producing even one quarter of wheat per a'ne, but as now producing fear quarters by the ap plication of *ems 2!. 10s. an acrein artiLial manures, over and above the manure furnished by two-thirds of the farm employed in feeding stock, how can the coun try be bound to make speculations of this kind good and profitable? That such specr.!ations can be mule w itn SUMO" there can litt no dt-I,bt,hut as to leg.slat.ve enactments ensuring them profit, or !ecurieg a certain rent, it is as idle as guaranteeing by law a certain prcfit on any branch of manufactures. In such eases the landowner way perhaps ,lead, that his rent is but the interest of capital laid out. But how can the legislature guarantee returns, and permaneat returns, to capital ? A landlo:d may ressmab'y expect a curtain annual price fur the Lateral fertility of the soil, and in aiA thin, an annual price on the &nitwit of fertility per manently a'..ded by improver/len*, but even then per manence cannot be calculated in eternmm. Whoa the natural fertility of the soil is only valued at so many years' purchase of rent, how can Mr. CHRISTOPHER expect a full return for capital by-rat double the number of years before? 'there is, however, ample margin both for lmdlir d and for tenant improvements throimboit the sail of England. There Mind', first of all, dr..inage, known frequently to have repaid itself in atingle crop, bee generally to be avenged as producing from 10 to 20 per cent. upon the outlay. Then there is the bet-' ter c.diptstion of firm buildings to the most efßc:ent me.tia of feeding cattle and procuring manure ; the more convenient di , position of fields according to the adaptation of the soil to various courses of crop ping, and better arrangement of feucee and opening of internal roads. Teat there is room f ir a general diminution of the cost of production and marketing by such outlay there can be no doubt. Two years' rectal might well be spent on such, and the result we have heard calculated by most com petent witnesses as 73 per cent. saved on the cost of production, and 10 per cent. gained in the amount of produce. If we take our former instance of a farm of 2501. a year, and that the lendlord's money coats him 6 per cent., we shall in this scheme of economy have 121 per cent. on 5001., or 051., applicable to the sup port of rent. High farmed lands of small natural fertility we leave out of the question. They f irm a class apart, and are, in fact, manufactures. But they by no means constitute so large a portion of the kingdom as the calculations based on them would lead one to bef.rb parliament met, and before the strength of pert:es Wg4 red b- a division on the address, minis tete rad NA misgivings that their antagonists might have a mejurity to the Loreto, a strong minority in Commons, and strength enough in the existing nom., ,u-dionbuted, and corrupt constituencies to reran. n a dissolution of parliament. They, there kre, W. rd up their courage to the sticking-point of throw:. .g themselves on the people by an extension of the suffrage such as would enable them to deal Lglel.en.ledly with the questions of free trade, the Li& crven, lac. The promise disarmed the jealousy of vie a .1n et reformers ; tne threat brought to the ma niAtriel rank, a few of the protectionists,and deterred else reel hem puehing matters to extremity. Unmean ing, mak—bele'e amendments on the address were moved to bath houses, and supported by studied dis claimers of their having any meaning. The moat timid of the protectionists absented themselves or fairly fazed the ministerial ranks. Ministers discovered that there was no reality in the opposition with which they had been so loudly tame - env:l, that their adversaries were if possible ru.ae afraid of the consequences cf a victory c.an themselves. They discavered that in the prussic parliament they may always count in emer geteies upon a majority that will tally round them as the het and most trustworthy instruments of an olr structive policy. Tbay Lave consented to continue to A..* on the disgraceful tenure of impeding all fisciell el re •l reforms, and the first sacrifice by which the, emit to cement their *Nance with conservatism is the abandonment of all their projects fee extending the franchiser in England. Wilt the cowardly game of playing fast and loose Kith prnmises of reform stop here? The phrase with which the Times on the !corning of the meeting of perMentent wound up the anticipatory rehearsal of the (1..“.4.'s speech that had been communicated to It, is ominous: " Where much is announced there wiJ er.r be much disappointment, for the ex perience many sessions proves an imperial lege!ature to possess only limited pallier.. II wtrde have any meaning, it is that ministers are to introduce measures to be &hated, tot passed; that they have in contemplation a set.i.ti lot ' talk, not of work. This is transferring tie et. t. sertion of bills—the massacre of the inno f'-ati as tt ha been called—from the end to the be forfeit g.l the ses s ion. If the government-inspired snite- t hoax-vquare speak moth, the pim ps.: t.i t ,;.neral extension of suffrage through- Iva tenpin is not the only popular hope that has tees t xtittil but to be disappointed. Colonial reform, the It:ltt r. of the Woods and Forests, retresohment °' `r is oditose, an improved registration for Ireland— hi.rl other fair promises may not be disavowed to tivaly as the general tztenaion of the suffrage ; suppose. Let us turn to land and farmers under more i natural circumstances, who figure seldom in statistics. I We allude to those small farms and their occupiers to be found in the western and north-western dairy I districts, and indeed throughout every part of the 4 country, settled on the poorer sorts of clay lands. I Possessed of small capital, and but routine skill, there is no class of farmers ID universally menaced • with extinction as they are in the present period of transition. There is a cry, no doubt, for letting them go to the wall, and replacing them. But that is not so easy. To replace them will require not only more new tenants' capital, but much landlords' capital, to ' furnish and adapt the buildings for large holdings. We deem it therefore indispeasablo to help these smeller fanners over the difficulty, not only in justice to them, but for the preservation of rent to a large class of landlords. Now this can only ba done by the landlord himself bringing improve ment, and examples of improvement, to the very door of the small farmer. He must be taught, not by lectures, but by example—not by theory, but ex periment. And the landlord can alone do this. In Ireland, with so little sympathy between the two clones, this na y have been impossible. But in parts of England it is not only possible, but indispensable. We have here touched upon two instances in which ter t may be kept up by active interference and appli cation of capital on the part of the lardlord. There are other cases where the application of capital is the affair of the tenant, and will be willingly undertaken by him. In that cue he must be secured by a lease, or by some law of tenant-right, or of a tenant's right of compensation for improvements, much more clear aLd incontestable than is at present laid down. We have, however, enumerated instances sufficient, and gone into them enough, for one time. Let us only remark how the efforts to be made, as well by landlord as tenant, necessitate a greater employment of labour, and consequently a greater diminution of local taxation, whether in poor-ra'e or the prosecution of crime. It is by a spirit of improvement pervading the country that the population can beet be saved from weighing upon the rates. For not only is the dear labour of Lancashire cheaper than the underpaid labour of Donetshire by its effectiveness upon the soil ; but it is cheaper by its influence on the material comfort and moral habits of the population. We may be perfectly . convinced, that the extreme poverty of the labouring class is in effect the dearest of all charges upon the income of the rich. rum, Fax. 3. For I! /be Amount. Money. ,1 0panIng Mem& Lowest. Clones. —l $ pee anda............ 37 SO '57 80 37 95 57 36 67 64 6 per Cents. 95 30 93 43 96 83 34 83 93 0 3 do. new Luau. . ~ ~ n n n 4 per Coats. n n n N II 4 per Oman 99 09 0 99 0 Exabange on London : 30 dam 23 421 • 90 days, 26 30 Inlan„ 3, 1810 ne Do. 6, 1812 Do. 4 - „ Treasury Bonds... to. 21 Piedmont 3 per Cents 87 13 „ Borasm—Paris and Orleans, 1520 ; Paris and Rouen, 565; Rouen and Lane, 247 50 ; Avignon and Marseilles, 210; Strasbourg and Wk. 115; Nortb, 466 25:; atou;crenu and Iran,. , 110 ; Faris and s.rnorure. :57 30; Tours andN..ntei, 266 25, Grand Combc, 600; Orleans and Bardeen; 413. GERMANY. The followirg is the lIIIPPBage of the King of Prussia, of the 31st ul'., which ac-olopanied the offi cial pnqiestion of the revised cons•i•Aition We, Frederice &c.—linve seen with eatisfection from the recent decision of the chambers which have jne'. been I.,id 'reform ns, that they has adopted th. greater num ber of our proposidons of the 7th of Jenuary, respecting the revision of the constitution. We regret that proposition respecting entails (fldci comnasse) has not met with a similar adoption. We shall, therefore, reserve the protection of the rights of survivors as proposed by that article, to the law promised in the eoncituti tar on the oul ;, et of entails, upon a •ound it ion correknonding to the constitutionally determined future creation of the Usi.er Chamber. Tha raviden of the cocstitution prwerib , d by the consti tution raw ;p: of the 5 . 1 Dee., 1848, we consider to be coin. plated, and have executed the constitution with all the alterations and additions adopted by both chambers, and have ordered i.r puhlication in the official code of laws. In atvordsnee with the last condition of ..he consti , ution, we shall take the oath prescribed by it in presence of the united chambers, and at the same time receive the osth of our ministry and the members of both chambers. This solemn set we have fixed to take place en Wednesday seat, tke tith February, end ruptire the chambers to aaemble together (Jr the purpose, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon of that day, in our royal residi-ice in Beetle. Given at Charlottenburg, 31st January, 1350, (Signed) FREDERICK. WILLIAM; and eounterbigned II all the ministers. THE BISHOP OF MANCHESTER ON CLERICAL I Dotes.—At • m..eting in aid of tho funds of the Society for 1 the Employment of Additional Curates, the Bishop thus acquainted the mrttic2 how he would act in disposing of the 1 funds of the society : " Where I find a willing and ready peculation I would gladly relieve them ; wl ere I find s ne glected, abandoned, godlces population, still more gladly would I seek to aid them. I will aid on ne principles of party—on no pricciples of private or individual pique or opinion. But if I find incumbents preferring their wretched ceremonial of a put time to the vital essence of Christianity— if I find men dwelling upon a dress in the church instead of the spirit in which the deotrints of that church should be taught, clinging to the surplice of ministration instead of the word and vital truths of God,—and telling me (for unfortunately I am not speaking of imaginary cases) that they must cling to thou antiquated follies, nasanction'd alike by the letter and the spirieof Christ—telling me, I say, that they must cling to those antiquated follies, er that they must become infidels—then, on them I will not bestow your bounty. And if I find, under the affected plea of catholi cism, and the ancient customs of your church, any claiming to themselves the right of withholding baptism and burial from others—seeding children from the church gates whose parents are anxiously craving for them to be received into that church—sending the same child unburied from their church gates in consequence of the want of that baptism which they themselves refuse—on them I will not bestow your bounty." —Manchester Guardian. „_ REPRESENTATION OF uoLCHESTER.—sne Writ for a fresh election for this borough, in the room of Sir Henry Smyth Batt., was received on Ssturday by the mayor, who has fixed Thursday next for the nomination. On Sat urday, at the request of a deputation of the liberal party, Mr. Bowyer, who lately contested the borough of Reading, paid a visit to Colchester, for the purpose of reconnoitering the relative strength of parties in the town ; hut, at a public meeting to which he was invited la the evening, he intimated that, under preoent circumstances, with the strong feeling existing in the town, and with so formidable an opponent's Lard J. Manners, he did not think he ought to engage them fa a ountest with so slight a prospect of a successful is-we. A party of 'irate,' voters has been deputed to wait upon a proposed candidata in London (whose name is not men tioned), to request him to contest the borough. On Mobday evening Lord Manners addressed a meeting of the elec tors, at which Mr. Unwin, a frtmtrader, took up the chal lenges thrown out by several of the speakers, and asserted the hopelessness, as well as the impolicy, of a return to pro tection. Towards the close of the meeting an attempt to pull Lim from the form on which he was standing was seated by those friendly to his views, and a slight collision took place; but, beyond the fracture of a few chain and sundry torn garments, no injury was occasioned. NEW CHURCH IN ST. MARTLEBONE PARISH. — Yesterday a numerous meeting of ladies and gentlemen re siding in the district of Christ Church, Marylebone, WAS held in the National School room, High-street, for the purpose of promoting the erection and endowment of a new church in Carlisle-street, Portman-market, to he devoted chiefly to the use of the poorer inhabitants, 60,000 of whom were stated to be unprovided with church acnommodsti in. The sum required for the purpose in view was etated to be 10,00 W., of which one half is to be expended on the building and the other on the endowment of the church. Resolutions in accordance with the object of the meeting were unanimously adopted. Lord Ashley occupied the chair on the occasion. ALARM OP FIRE AT ST. THOMAS'S HOSPITAL. — Great alarm was caused in the Borough on Monday night, owing to flames being seen issuing apparently through the roof of St. Thomas's Hospital. Messengers imotediati ly started in all directions for the engines, and in the course of a few minor.* a strong body of the London brigade with several engines reached the hospital, when the firemen hap pily found that the cause of so much alarm was owing to one of the chimneys taking fire, the flames from which, as tbay rushed through the pot, being suppoeed by the crowd to Mara through the roof. [Advertisement.)—THE UNFAILING SUCCESS OP VIENNA.—JAN. 27.—A memorial ham been for- Howowayls PILLS ANL OINTIORNT TRI CO's or RINGWORM AND ALL DIALIOMS ON TIM NS IN.—A medical gentkumus residing at LIMB, warded by the Austrian cabinet to tie Central Federal Cora whiter child had been severely afflicted with ringworm OW upwards of mission, as well as to all its ambassadors to the different m el a. It trod e"" knows ot ao In cure this dreadnu j rz German states, for the purpose of paving the way to a sus- h but imself ,: n d other was menti on' , A :: toorter " recur Was per tem, union with Germany. mauled to use Hodoway'. ointment and pills, these medieinse having HAMBURG, JAN. 31, NooN.—The frost of last night t t a : i t ed ppy rn e t e t W o 'e l t rity ilny ellatinWtlOefet7iVhati,imerim' rect i l ini=g at ti g has rendered the ice so firm and solid, that sledges with the Mame from the sy s tem. —NA' by all druggieta, an d Eroteseor goods are passing to and fro. Betablithment, 244, strand, London. TO THE LORD HIGH COMMISSIONER OF Tfiß lONIAN ISLANDS, ON HlB RECENT CONDUCT. Slk—The time has now arrived, with the opening or the parliamentary session, when your conduct, as Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands, already condemned by the public opinion of your countrymen as derogatory to British policy, and unworthy the name of England, must be brought before the great tribunal of British statesmen for their final judgment whether barbarous cruelty and utiatiated despotism are henceforth to form a portion of the instructions to be furnished to English governors abroad by the Colonial Office. Differing, a, we do, in language, anomalous as is our position, and totally whhout a representative in this country, wish a literature silenoed by the shackles of authcnty and a press whose fetters are but just loosened; it might have been expected that the wrongs of the lonians would have been unheard and anredressed, but my presence in this cuun'ry and the accident of long residence which has made me &sharer in the feelings, as well as conversant with the lan gnage of your coubtr, men, have enabled me, aided as I hove been by a nobleman, to whom all lonians must ever feel deeply grateful, to place these matters with out loss of time, and in their true light before the in dignant public, and I now complete my task by this public letter to yoursolf in the full conviction that it will meet the eye of some member of the legislature and induce him to compel en inquiry, which mutt in evitably result in your condemnation and disgrace. A sense of duty, under the urgent circumstances which surround the present position of my native country, wiled alone induce me to conquer the repug nance which I feel in addressing you personally on the late occurrences in Cephalonia and Curio. I would willingly have regarded them as fruits of the syst-m, not of the man, end have found a parallel in the acts of Sir Howard Douglas and Sir Thomas Maitland for thou) of Sir Henry Ward. But it is not so. A short three months of your administration have accumulard crimes and cruelties far exceeding the faults and errors of the thirty years of the pre cedicg commissionere, and a long catalogue of charges is already recorded aeaket you. Would to God that any of them could be contradicted by you, or the bureaucracy of officials in the lonian Islands who have inveigled you within their grasp. You are publicly secured is all the lonian papers, without a single exception, as well as by the Greek and Italian press, 1. Of far exceeding even the arbitrary towers vented is you by the louian constitution. 2. Of cOntiniing martial law throughout Cepha lonia after the trifling riot there Ind been instantly supprrieed by the people themselves. 3. Ofexaggerating into a general rebellion through out Cephalonia what was in reality a mere local out rage in a small district. 4. Of sip tsing men to trial by courts-martial, and thereby depriving them of the protection of the forms of .justice. 3. Of stopping the Cenhalonian press, and (thcugh you yourself, I am told, were once the editor of a newspaper) consignirg the editors to banishment without form or trial, in violation of all the gua rantees of the law of the press. 6. Of shooting and hanging, according to ycur i own account, twenty-one individuals mare or less criminal, and some inrukent, for this merely local &D- I turbarce. 7. Of flogging by cet-o'-nine-tails—a punishment hitherto unknown in the islands or Oteece—no less than three hundred persons in Cephalonia, whereof many are asserted by the public papers to have sub sequently died, and of wh•ch all account was kept back in your public speech to the lonian A , s-mbly. 8. Of burning down houses, uprooting vineystd , and currant p:an`ations, is a punishment upon sus pected or criminated individuals. 9. Ot causing two innocent persons to undergo the feeling and terror of death by a simulated execution, as a means of torture, to obtain testimony from them as to the concealment of arms by their neighbours. 10. Of suborning spits andencouraoing informa tion of conspiracies and sedition which had no exist ence, and then refusing to give up the name of the in former, or even to punish him for the false inf oma tion which had caused such terror and disaffection ' throughout the country. 11. 01 committing outrages on the rights of cirzens and the sanctity ef privite life in Corfu, by invading their dwellings at night, seizing their papers, and mprisoning them ; subsequently exiling seve ral of them without any trial or hearing, such as the Italian Colond Zsmbecari, Rocco Carerini, aid ethers. 12. Of banishing likewise without hearing or tiisl Joseph Menterato and Ella Zone, both editors of newspapers. 13. Of discouraging and preventing public lectures f the instruction of the lonian youth, in reusing permission to Dr. Diomedes Delviniotti to give a 'milk lecture on the history of medicine. This is but an abridgment of the charges already made against you, and it is on this account I am compelled to bring your alleged conduct thus publicly before your countrymen. When I first heard of your appointment as Lord High Commissioner to the lonian Islands, I co..gra- Vitiated myself that my countrymen had at last ob tained the object of their wishes, is having to preside over them a civilian, and one who for some years past had been pointed out to me as likely to hold a distinguished rank among British statesmen. Your avowed opinions, your representation of the liberal constituency of Sheffield during three 'virile meets, and the able manner in which you had administered the duties and carried out the financial reforms in the naval department committed to your charge, were also in my opinion sufficient evidences of your enlightened views, and guarantees of your prudence and competence to execute the office of Lord High Commissioner. I was much fortified in this opinion by the frank ness of your manner at an interview I had with you previous to your departure, in which, at your request, I explained to you briefly the desires and aspirations of the lonians for a revision of their constitution ; and, in which, speaking without local sympathies—of which, though an lonian, I am from long residence in this country totally divested—l impartially set before . you the state of parties progressive and retro grade in that much mismanaged country. Your answer was that the reforms were granted, in a moment of enthusiasm excited by your sympsthy with the just and honest desires of my countrymen. I also took occasion to forewarn you against the clique who were always ready to surround a new Lord High Commiseioner and trammel and retard every onward effort on his part for the good of the people entrusted to his charge. How great, then, was my surprise to hear that, no sooner hsd you arrived in the islands, than it was whispered that you were about to place obstacles in the way of the royal sanction to the modifications of the constitution granted by your predecessor ! How much greater my astonishment to learn the course you have pursued in repressing the trifling cutbreak in Cephalonia—to read your proclamations—the ac counts of shootings, hangings, and floggings in that island—the terror of the people, the stoppage of their trade, the banishment of their public writers, and outrage upon outrage committed by your authority in defiance of all rights and laws! Since the lonian Islands have existed there is no example of such horrors—horrors neither called for by the necessity of the cue, nor justified by the result, outrages which hare caused a stain on the Eng lish name throughout eastern and western Europe, which no future granting of liberal constitution can eft*, no eclat of new honours, no applause of sena tors publicly assenting, bat shuddering in private, can obliterate. By this time yon may have reflected whether it is better to conduct a government by terror than by law ; whether it be wise to deal with a riot u a re bellion, and whether the love of a people is to be won by acts of blood end tyranny, but I should like to ask the designing men who ' have taught y.:u to consider hanging and shooting as the most fit means for governing the lonian Islands, in contradiction to what they have characterised as " the mistaken clemency and lamentable supineness " of your predecessor, Lord Beaton, whether it has never struck them that the feelings, not to say the rights of the lonians were worthy of regard, and that the people governed u well as the governing power have a claim to consideration. 'I hat the lonians have rights is an established fact—by the treaty of Paris, which clone gave England a protecting power over them; • that these rights have been violated and their constitutional prisftes filched from them by Zbe Court. the men sent to govern them is also equally clear and indisputable. We have not hitherto been regarded ass free people or as independent statue, but carefully put down and kept back while all around us our kindred Greece, and even Turkey, have made rapid advances in commerce and cis iliration—the lonian Islands, I my, have been held back, and treated worse than colonies in the Medi:erranean, without any reference to the interests of the people, the improvement of their commence, or the advance- ment of their civilisation. PRIVY COU WINDSOR, Fill. 6. COUNCIL.—The Queen held a privy council atone o'clock thi s a lt er ecion, at the Castle. It w as attended by his Royal Highs'ss Prince Albert, the Muquis of Lans downe, Lord President ; the Earl of Minto, Lord Privy Seal; Lord John Russell, Pint Lord of the Treasury ; Earl Guy, Secretory of State for the Colonies; Lord Campbell, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster; the Marquis of Clacricarde, Post mater-General; the Earl of Carlisle, Chief Commissioner of the Woods and Forests ; the Right Hoe. Henry Labonehers, P res id en t o f the Board of Tra.te; the Right Hen. Fox Mauls, Secretary at War; and the Marquis of Breadalbace, Lord Chamberlain. At the our.- e a her Majesty pricked the list of sheriffs for the different ccnnties of England and Wales during the preecnt year. The Hon. William Bethoret was the clerk of the commit in waiting. At the court the Marquis of Lansdowne had an audience of the Quin. The Right Hon. William Bebrieht Laseelles, Comptroller of her biliesty's Household, had an audience of the Queen, and presented to her Majesty the Address from the House of Comm. me. For the present I will but make allusion to the wholesale hanging and shooting by courts martial of twenty-one persons to repress what at the most was but a petty local riot—almost as many as have been hung and shot by court-martial in Hungary by the Austrians, in quelling the insurrection of eleven mil lions—and seven times as many as have suffered death, after trial by a legal tribunal in the last F.eoch revo lotion, and its many subsequent conflicts; bat I will take up the minor punishment of flogging —as you perhaps consider it—a punishment which will hand your name down with execratioa from generation to generation successively in the island of Cephalonia. To the infamous degradation, to the disgusting de tails of this hitherto unknown political penalty is supsiadded in the east a horrible result—you have murdered ur disabled for life almost every man you bare flogged! The medical evidence which I re col lest was taken at an inquest at Hounslow Barracks, some years since, may lead you to a comprehen sion of the details, which I shudder in writing. Trie people of the north aro different from the people of the east. Ife.ur British sailor or your soldier under& es a flogging, throws his shirt over hie raw back, goes to the hospital icor a week, perhaps returns to his duty and sins again—to go thruu4h the same ordeal. Not so the peopie of the east—with them th , arida on the back is finer and more susceptible ; with them the lash on the back is death!—the raw wand, cut in by the sharp repeated bl Ave of the leather thongs, never heals in the eaA ; it festers and corrup's—to mortification! Too Turk knows this, and bastinadces on the foot, as do all eastern nations. You have therefore, as I before observed, murdered almost every man you flogged, and Moor, and letters loin Cephalenians testify that you have flogged more than three hundred. It would be sufficient to leave you to the indigna tion of your own countrymen of all dosser, when these atrocious outrages against humanity have been suffic'ently made known to them. Bat what can be raid of the disgrace you have brought on the gracious and amiable sower' ign whom you represent in the lonian I-lands? What must be the feelings of those who, like myself, have known the kindness of heart and tender mercies of her Majesty from childhood, when I meet with such passages in the foreign news papers as I lately saw in one from France (far the s ivageners of your government is bruited throughout Europe), nhere it was said The Emperor of Austria is called the r Red Emperor,' from Marshal ilaynau's treatment of the Hungarians ; under what colour shall we range Queen Victoria, in consideration of the double-dyed atrocities of Mr. Ward in Ce phalonia P" Atter pertak;ng of luncheon inthe Castle, Lard 711 in Russell, the Marquis of Lassdowne the hlarquis of Clan ricarde, the H.rl of Moto the darquis of Brend a Plan e, Eon Grey, the Earl of Carfi.le, Lord Campbell. t' e Hight Hon. H. Labouthere, the Right Hon. Pot Houle, the Right lion. W. S. Lucent', and the Hon. W. Bst.luret, took their 09:attune for the station of the Great Western Railway. and returned to town by a special train. The Queen and Prince Albert walked :his morning in the Slopes and Wlndaor Park. no is yal family took their usual airing., The royal dinner p..rty this evening incluelia her Itiyal nighties. the Ceche.. of Kent. his &Irene Highness Prince Kinard of Size Weimar, Lady Faany H'ward, and Baroness de fige,h. Her Majesty's private band island after dinner in the Castle. The Marques of °monde ha.' relieved Lord Carnoys in his Antics as brd•in•wsitiag to the Queen. Col , ncl Hon. A. N. Hood bas relieved Major-G-neml Sir Frederick Stovin in nie duties al groom-in-woitang t her Majerty. Mr. John Wood, Chairman of the Board of Inland Reston., had an interview with Lord John Russell yesterday. The lion. W:lliam A.hl y bad an in'erview with the Chance/for of the Exchequer ymerdsy. Mr. Tidd Pratt had also an interview with the rig 't hon. haron:t rverday at . I.ie official r sidenee in Downing -street. Mr. Power, M.P. (Cork), had an interview with Sir George Grey, yesterday, at the Horne Office. Despatches were received yesterday at the Calonia Office from the o.fvernor sf Gibraltar. I can fully acquit her Majesty's mini3ters of the responsibility of your conduct. It was impossible to suppose you would have had power, will, or occasion f such a display of your untitnnes for authority. M 7 hope, however, is, that after a commi.sion of inquiry, a vote of censure on your conduct will ema nate from the House of Commons, and that justice will teereby be dorc to an injured and outraged country.-1 am, sir, &c. AN lONIAN. Erechtheum Club, St. James's-square, Feb. 2,1830. THE MANUFACTURING DISTRICTS. The sale of the plate, furniture, linen, rare and beautPul par,:elein, and ether effects, belonging to her Ma jesty the late 'aneen Dowager, commenced le.t..r,lay at her Majesty's Vivre' residence, Marlborough-house, Pall Mall, the admission be:ng by ticket. THE NEW SHERIFFS. (From last night's Gazelle.) At the Court at Windsor, the sth day of Ftbruary, 1850, the following Sheriffs were appointed by her 11.jssty in Cr:need for the year 1850: CEDFOI,DSUIRE.—Richurd Thomas Gilpin, Esq., of flock liffe-grange. BEitssuntc.—Robert Alltrey, Esq., of W.ekefield-park. BUCKINGHAMSHIRE.—WiIIiam Selby Lownes, Eiq., of Wbuldon•hall. CAMBRIDOM AND HUNEINODONSHLRE.—John Vipan,Esq., of Bu:ton. CUMBERLAND —Thomas 84keld, Eiq , of Holm-hi:l. Cummins.— Sir Arthur Ingram Aston, G.O 8., of Aston. Dnanyantne.—Rnbert Arkwright, Req., of Sutton. DEToBSEllo.—William Arundel Yeo, Esq., of Fre mimeos. DuRBETBNIIIIL—Henry Ralph Willett, Esq., of Merky house, Winsherne Minster. DURHAX.—Robe:t Hildyara, Esq., of Hnrsley. EINIEX.—Tbonu Burch Western, Esq., of Felix-hall. OLorceavEnsunts. Thomas Gambier Parry, Eeq., of Hiehnam court. HEYEFORDENIZIL—James Cheese,'„E-q., of Huntington. lIERTFORDSIIIREL—FuIke S.Asthwtll Oreville, Esq., of North-fdpins.plaes. KENT. litittßEW 8011, Esq., of Lorne-house, Bishops. bourne. I.EICFATEILSMIRE.—TBOMAS Stoke', E q.. of New-parks. LINCOLNSHIRE.— lie my Fame, E q., of .Fulbeck.hall. Mowarounisurns.—Crawshawßelley,*E q., of Lantheery. court. NOBFOLK.—EI ward Roger Pratt, Esq., of Hylton. NoRTIIAMETONSUIBIL—WiIIiam Bruce Stoplord, Esq., of Drayton-home. IS on-eit'll BERLAND.—S:r Washer Calverley Burt., of Wellington. No:mlss:ls ssisistite —Tno Right Hon. Edward Strutt, of Kingston-Hall. t•••ttp,ii ILE. —Henry Hall, E.g., of Berton. RUTLAND,ULBE.—The Hoa. William Middleton Nast, of Kstton. SBROP‘HIBE.—IIaIph Merrick Lecke, Esq., of Longford. SonzasErsatam.—Langley St. A'byr, Kg., of Alfexten. STAFFORDSEIRE.—Josiah Spode, Esq. of Armitage-park, COUNTY OF StitERAMPLON.—Joseph Martineau, Esq ,pf Buie g.pask. SUFFOLK —Sir Thomas Reek,wode Gag:, Bart., of lien grave-hall. Bunitnx.—Jams William Frashfield, Esq., of Mtcr-place, Betchwor:h. SUBB EL.—George Campton Courthope, Esq., of Whiligh. WNNwicnsusni.—Darwin Gallon, Esq., of Eds•nne. rursHirtn. • -Henry Gaislord Gibbs Ludlow, EN., of 11 ey cod - house. WOHCESTEILSIII32.-10bli Gregory Watkins, Eiq., of ndtisi . YORKSIIIIIE.—WiIIiats Hutson, Esq., of Newby Wiske. WALES. ANOLFBEE.—Rieard Griffith, E q., of Bo.iowyrisref. intEcoNsistits.—Sir Charles Morgan Robinson Morgan, Bart., of I herrw. CARNARvONSHIRE —lsaac Wa'ker, Erg., Rendrigadredd. CARMARTHENSHIRE.—WiIIiam Davis Harries Campbell Dery s, Eq.! , of Neuad !Rut.. CARDIGANSHIRE.—Thontas Davies Lloyd, Esq., of Broc- W. dd. DENBIGHSHIRE.— JURE Barton, Esq., of Miters-hall, Wrexham. FLINTsIDRE.—RudoIph William Basal Viecount Feild ing, of Downing. GLAYOROANSHIRE.—RoCand Fothergill, Esq., of Hen sol Castle. 11loavoomEnvelimE.—John Davies Carrie, Esq., of Dys serth. MERIONEIRSUIRE.—Eiward Griffiths, Esq., Gwastud fryn. PEMBROKESHIRE. Richards, Eq., of Tenby. Raosoustitas.—Edward Morgan Stephens, Esq , of Llananno. OPPOSITION TO A GOVERNMENT RAILWAY AUDIT BILL. MANCHESTER, FElt. 5. This evenicg we had a meeting at the C 1.4 en Hotel, alaucheoter, at the eherehAders in the London and Norb Western litilway Company, to c sadder the propriety of oppusieg a government se stem of audit, and supporting a new and mere independent system by shareholders. The question, I believe, had previously eegsged attention at Liverpool, and a resolution had been paved et a preliminary meeting to the present, of which the following is a copy : That a meeting of the shareholder* in the Condon and North Wes tern Railway Company, retdding at Manchester, and in tile neighbour be called for Tuesday next, at half-pwst three, at the Clarence Hotel Manchester, to cotoider the propriety of appointin g a com mittee; t cooperate with railway ahsreholders in other towns in ob wining a nage titeient and independent system of railway audit— such system being alike free from the influence of boards of directors, and from the control of government. The meeting was very numerone, and exceedingly respect able, including many liege shareholders in the. London and North-Wes ern Company. Mr. BAZLEY, President of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce, was called to the chair, and said—Because do occupied a neutral position in reference to railweo affairs, hoeing no individual interest whatever in them, they wool 1 at least tan from their chairman an impartial and disin terested attention to the interests of the meeting. He re joiced exceedingly that Die proprietors of railways were degrons of giving efficient management to their own ClOn• cons. He really did not know whether thee: systems of management might not ultimately be required in conducting railway affairs. In the first instance it seemed to him that our directors feequently were impelled by the necessities that they thought public conveniecce called for, to expend a larger amount tLan migsr be prudent. Whether directors might not be easily divided into two bodies, I would merely throw out as a hint for their consideration. If one body of directen solely di rected their attention to the necessities of railways, whilet another portion tack it upon themselves to control the ex • penditure directly, the directors themselves would form a check one part upon the other ; and a board of examiner'', selected from the proprietors generally, with any due ad mixture from the public that might be deemed for the in• terests of railways, would, he thought, insure correctness in the account's. He thougnt with such a system the railways of the country would be efficiently and profitably managed. He must say the despatch of the public business of the kingdom with regard to railways did not afford us any very sanguine hope that we should benefit much by applying for the sanction of government to a system of audit cf railway accounts. The great priaciple of " help thyself " was indis pensable, and he called upon every gentleman present to endeavour to apply it to every railway in the kingdom. (Applause.) Mr. ORRIG moved the first resolution, which was: That while a more efficient *peens of auditing railway accounts, with greater powers of control on the part of the shareholders, is im peratively required, it is the decided opinion of this meeting that a system of audit under the centrol of a government department, and effected by government officials, would entail great practical evils, and would be • sotatimof those sound principles of independent management which are the foundation of all private enterprise in this coun. Mr. HITCHCOCK, solicitor, seconded the motion. He said, if the management of railways was bad, mend it, but he was averse to calling in people who had no interest in the line. He was satisfied that government officials could not obtain them better dividends:han those who had most int.- reet in their oroenerity. (Applause.) Mr. BARLOW, solicitor, moved as an amendment : That a government audit of railway accounts Is the only system by which tie ineeresta of iliareholders can be efficiently protected. He expressed in • very few words, (rum his own experi ence of the present system of audit, with the power of direc tors, his epinion that no other system of auditing hut one by government wool I be efficient. Mr. ABSALOM WATKIN said he certainly did not ri•es to support the amendment. The proposer told them the present system of credit was not efficient, but he did not tell them why • government system would be better. (Hear, hear.) Certainly the way in which government had managed its own affairs in the Woods and Forests was not calculated to give confidence in them to may reesonab:e man. (Applause.) Besides they would have nn guarantee that government would appoint the most efficient men as auditors, and not use their power by way of patrousge. (Rear, hear.) The amendment was cot seconded, and the motion was carried with one dissentient. Mr. ROSS moved the second resolution : That to secure to the shareholders an efficient and independent audit of railway accounts and greater control over their affairs gene rally, it is in the opinion of this meeting nee:emery to prepare and introduce in the present session of parliament (so the meaenre of the shareholders themselves, and without the interference cif the three. tots' a bill fur the purpose, containing ample powers and proviaions, and on; the following gentlemen be a committee to confer with the r nits IN It ATLING-tanEET.---Yteterdas afternoon committees appointed at Birmingham, Llv , rpool, and other plc em a fire broke out in the large range cf premises belerging to and with them to take such steps a• ma be tole, rePortiaS rom Messrs. Smith and Sons, the wholesale furriers, No. 10, time to time so the shareholders ; — The ~1. C. Hurter , E N , Watling-erns, City. For nearly a month, workmen have Thomas Ashton, Req., J. P. liltehao sk, 'fat., W. Hata, Alex been employed in the basement, putting down an asphalt° pavement, to protect the place from the ravages of rats and Alex ander Itsq ld, .. J .., ultmetearyt,ltatpqwer, Dre and w . : Robinson, Esq., 0. He wondered that the Tames had advocated the appoint- Ltaull'• During the whole of this pi riod, firemen both o to the chief brigade station have been in attendance , both hteafueduint dsothat t n h ueoyuwere not , so o oe u :t h in e n g ni at e r t n an t,on et d h a o y . t e o v p e ro r, protect the t h h t e a p i ce o m m ise t s hr i::m 6 t i l r ee Lace . a T u es s ter d d l s a y r. chimney melting the asphalt. set some wooden brit ks in the were °pl a t the :reit We theiro e u a n l ground own t h um a n t e a c t a e w e :a t not u a good it u that t e eh ip e le y for h companiesad not ti fi t es - dance in the ability of shareholders to do it. Now he thought on fire, and in a very this was • great mistake. He was sure that many men working into the ground-floor warehouse, w h ere property p e e n str many thousand peur.ds' Talus was deposite d. T quite competent might be found to audit the accounts of attended, g ant from the station in the same street promptly brier space of time dames _ companies quite efiiciently. Mr. BARLOW—In what time ? by Sethi , g the smell portable one t o Mr. ILOSS—In reasonable time, no doubt, with the facili- extinguished speedily, the damage done b tics which this bill proposed to give them. It would he ex- AL.tRMINO S T. JOHN-STREET, (IMMIX FIRE IN treselv disagreeable and unsavoury to have government wail. —Last night, about 10 o'clock , a fire broke oat in thee t w i o nfz ek, eeey the t re eisg wag . officials coming down to interfere with railway accounts. premises belonging to Mr. David Tatton, umbrella and pa- Mr.. 11. RAW6ON and several other gentlemen spoke in rased man ueecturer, Na. 20, Albemarle street, St. John approval of the resolution; and Mr. RUBINSON having ex• plained that the proposed bill contemplated a better system of sti " the C lod ie' g k e e . T on he r tl e a tu ra gin w g ere ho ti m rl e t , d f in otal ele th d e y fr o o n u e t attended; but the fire •erae not put out of railway management, as well u • better audit, it passe d sho. on tire. 'He instantly caused an alarm, and severa l unanimously. meeting, which commenced at half-past three o'clock, A vote of thanks was given to the chairman ; and the ucangtidneitheperwirelpetioyf the valuable stock in to toe was reduced to closed ashes azt ku th o e w p a. remiees with dtmaged, The origiq of the shortly before five o'clock, fire is COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY THE LORD LIEUTENANT OF MIDNLEREX.—Edward DiWeP ' E•q., to be inapt.; Thomas St. Leger A..cezk, El., to be lieutenant colonel in the Royal East Middlesex Regiment of POSTAGE TO BELGIUM.—A treaatny warrant Bp pe:rs in last night's Gazette which cod n that in future a uniform rate of four-peace shall be obargrd on ell letters, not exceeding haltan ounce in weight, and posted in this country tor Belgium, or on sueit letters sent from Belgium to this country, or to any of the British colunier. THE SALE AT MARLBOROUGH HOUSE. Marlborough Howe was yeett rday crowded with fashionable company, assembled to view the effects of her late lomeated Majesty the Queen D 'wager. The invitations were from 10 to 4 o'clock, and flooring the whole of that period the principal saloons of the mansten were tilled with a constant succession of visitors—including many !calling connoisseurs and collectors—all of whom appeared desirous to possess tit mulvesof some relic of the d. carters Queen. The company on entering the mansion pamed into the dining roem,akere an immense d isplay boon of all desoriptions wee exhibited for sale, including some very superior table nap king, bearing the royal arms and cypher, which were eagerly bought, at pric.a ranging from three to four guineas per d:zen. A very handsome dessert service of ruby glass, and some china emir s, were displayed in this room, which also contained full lergth and somewhat antiquoto d portraits of George Il I. and Queen Charlotte, marked at 501. Passing through an anto room, the company emceed the drawing room, which, from the valuable nature of the property it con- Mined, formed the chief point of Attn. non. The demand in this room was so great duriog portisno of the day, that nearly a dozen salesmen w. le kept actively em ployed, sad it was with some ditileultv the property war cleared away, so rapidly were oaks ctlected. The upper ft airs of the mansion were not thr own op. a to the public, it bring int.nded to remove their contents to the lower rooms as the sale pooceede. We believe that a much larger quan tity of property remains to he disposed of than was originally expected. owing to her Majesty the Queen having declined to purchase the . &eta contained in Badly House, on which subject negotiations have been pending. The sale will c• n tient to-morrow and during the euceeee.ing days of the pee -1 sent week. „. r . . :ft ; t ie 1 • dr