The Express. — London, England, 1850-02-12 00:00:00

5...... "-- ifirete sled member foe:Oxford iatrodueed a imams axis) 'abject; aro it likewise fell to his (sr. lot, about two years slam, to bstrodwas • mo re armed en the evid ence submitted to the in q uir y 1.. Lord B lereboreugh's committee. (Hear, beer.) For re m i n s* sons all these efforts had peeved ineffectual, lor theerti Ndl remelted in all its (-comity, and every year added s e is dangers and iliMeahles. (Hear, hear.) - lam Mpemaseed ia • former session, founded Olt the fer .lbi e a Lord Ell , lloo , o ll et ' s COMllisisaio6, went upon the tg ...mt.. et emeolectrung the monsgent nt of this fond, is inter te pet rid of the cimplication and went of economy au.s.t.st ea its distribution by meaning h oe prebe t b ro agn the comity. It proposed, too, that it ld • J under the unnogement of the Trinity House, they tee; already le therm of a fund to the mount of 25.0004 t o rer smitten It also propo ed that, ader five years, no , %etc! venoms should be granted to widows and orphans, u.ept a those who had been killed or drowsed, as formerly the case. It proposed to raise the mut by • tax of lc a ton oa ship. • FP= these recommendations of Lord Ellenborossk's ereasuose be did set feel himself juatitied in departing, bat o r, r ising linen" so loudly protested spinet the proposed me. • .th he wee °Weed to give in, and übsatica the measure —..terminiag le try of steam. He believed it would be m uusise—imiesd be might say dangeroue—to leave the no I ss it was, oily to go iron worse to w, ne. He bold ' $l.l dm hose. sad tree country were responsible to tt •I wen lot the proper sate of the laud. He ti., rehire. proposed that they should entrust the gitainel 0 ,, at of the toad to the Trinity House, they having .41 a sand at their disposal of 23,0001., with which they ✓ analesmate it. He, however did net thick it was e. •:Ta.lo teat them body a. mild exer cise this power aloe* or 1 ..•..0ut footled. la the bill he before submitted to the t , wee it wee proposed that a the marine &pertinent of the t rd el Trade then should be two officers of the merchant 11•111 D, and he now proposed that inch should be ~es ebb the Trinity II use in the administratioa of this fm.d. and should prepare tor parliament regular sensate of i:, an . that ad their proceedings should be comiaeted by the st- bet toles. He proposed that every sailer who contri d to at should not receive 1,110 than 6d. a day, so soon as • -• ern e a persivner. Hr torque dto raise the sum now a sht the sailor, of Is. • mush, to Is. 6d. a month out of .ees a dimmed. Arch be w.. istured, by pent.= vit st badly to be wellinformed on the subject, would be r, te.poaded to if it could be looked upon as • security a -AA -.eat pentitu in old age. The prerent system of grattiise p.. sigma to et sloes sad children it diseruninately, MILS 101ILD to airs rb to marl. of to et fund, that he proposed to es vett to the originfil rule of the seri. iy in that respect— ( ',lining it within teas -liable grounds. To apply the cbabirs to the widows and children at present rimming the peados, or indeed saving a strong prospect of eeteivino at, would be bush said unjust. He therefore pro p...al Inlet the /03111011 MIS should not take effect for five 31 are, wOAm which period all parsons whose tames might I r u tie list would he 'added to the pension as at present. IlAt Isena I' It ibis Linea*, from the seamen's wages, there * u snll be • deficiency ut 30 0001. a year, the whole of ~-eh recommenoed should be is .ntributed, not be sl .p o we.e,., bat by the state. He believed it would be a ae. polity to do so—to e:iehle them to grant pensions of ..:ay to mestere, and 61. a day ei the common sailer. ts , .ere the ..utlines of has plan, which be undid the ore w. old omsida satistactury. The right hon. gentle kat. - too moved a resolution, on which to foiled • bill for it. better m autgement of the meeebent seamen's fund. Mr. M EMB did not object to the principle et centralize. hut qu. unshed tt.e propriety of taking anything more eu e -town. Ilad die right hon. gentleman taken the • e ,,..mmeaded by the committee up stairs, he would 'seer waradersi the propriety of abolishing the lighthruee aid laying • tax of Is. a ton, and the tonnage hi powered occe •• ye r. GEORGE CLERK said that he was perfectly aware ol iti yof %Lie subject, as he had had the honour Ishii se Freer eat ot the B aid of Trade to introduce a to.. TtTecting it. As to the centralisation of the manage ment s a,d,psalisatiun of the puska', dr» would be some & N.:• on trom some of the ustperts. Some of them were .en .urishing. but others were in • state of utter insol e. tcj ma..l of these ports had had their foods arom liberal eind the hostile were to be confined to the poet,. hesatriss to :he pent. He doubted the societal of the when it wee proposed to do more than government tied .t p mer 01 doing 11) small weakly Of monthly sub eenpti...... A . man was very fortunate if he was employed re the ay. (Mir ten months i the year. 131. was the only tun...stributeal • mania , and out of that fund it was e.=l teat there um to be • pension of 671 to provide a o r a or ...low Mid children. Mr. LABOITHERE oheetved that the hon. ba r .1:0: s mr. so Cook' is pointing out difficulties the. in m i tg.surie a eenteary plan. He (Mr. Labou cto r I c alt rave no fear that this bill, if explained to ise sailor, would be toot popular with him. As to the Mu,. do's, • 0 oboe allusion had been made by tee hon. member kr Mown..., be wee not satisfied with the present e o.itioa of :Le ma• tensest of the light dues, but •Ei arringements of ;he dues ea the coasting trade of tin. e own, gest snJ substantial relief had been Ott.ineil &Andres bad been made which were no leis than Ulf the ammat formerly paid em the west k.tfrAN approved of the bill in the main, but ob jected ter entealinatt tendencies. He thoueht that equal i(1."1 m get be seeded with is.. iajury to local interests. H. CLAY eisp,s-r.ed the principle of the bill. .Liter . words tom Mr. LA1011:010111, Mr CARDWELL objected to the centralizing character of Me W.I. •-• IiIiADLANI tendered the government hie thanks, on the pen ue elee shipowners, for to .ny of the Provisions oi the b.:. lie approved of the pri. elide of central control, ►et thought it Meant be based un tn• responsibility of a govern- Brat leJard, sod not left to the Trinity limpet. There were some of tag details al the me. ere open to objection, he themeht, but generally be lo.ke l on the bill ae a great Ma provemeut a the present r stem. The SIAM! was then agreed to. Mr LkIiOUCH ERE said the next measure he had to call attentka to with retard to our mercantile marine bad for its erect the ratahrshmi,nt t.f an improved system for the mess seremort of tcoroage. This was a subject which involved it co: cideratiot', and r.iii.ired au amount of scientific iih,e;ioss r chic' ii.ts which be had no dales to. He h sweet?, state ginerally that the hill emanated from a essamtecori which tad teen appointed during the last If.st , ll parliament, at the Road of which was his noble and reliant trued Lord John Hay, who bad been assisted in the twin:catkin of the subject ny the Chairman of Lloyd's, erument shipowner'', and several scientific gentlemen. I . oiler the old system, it would be rememberei, the tschage was estimated by 'mirk and breadth of tte towel, vitalist reference to the depth. The system of isarement it was now proposed to substitute was founded on the real power of the 'steel tor carrying cargo, and the aire:atioll would proceed upon the actual cubical die pweseet owasioned by the vessel, which he be lurid was the only true principle to p upon, the measurement to be made In the builder's yard or in dry d ce. The exemption which steam-vemeds now enjoyed, by which the engine room was not calculated is the morato ria ht. would, however, be continued. (Hear.) In . reply to a coital:at from Sir G. CIARK, the rif . ht boa. 1 - 11147 d. wr "'ta c t :a t :ls t bi:s report Iti:e b ra'e s 7111: was also aimed to—and the Mau havist monad, .. Mr BERN - AL reported the reeolatione, sad obtained have to anae is tM time bills. VOTERS AND ELECTIONS (IRELAND) Sit W. somaaviLts, Tulin to move (Sr leave to bnag ma bill to amend the laws for regulatiag the qualiSca- Um sad wgistratian of parliamentary rotes in Dolma. sald t would 5 , 4 be SOCINAII for him toenterlateanylengthened tml•, inrush ea he had twice before obtained Isms of the home to ley this bill (in substance) on the table, bat which, for unavoidable reasons, it was !hued impessible to permed with beyood a second readin6. mi,Mt, ha ls i ewever, say, that Ins necessity of some such mews kereseed since the matter was last ma de, consideration. The But alwrstioa which ho proprorito mak's ii tla bill win to do sway with the holly of tenure, sad give the franchise to all ;vire so Si, rate. Is the five lovas—Dublin, Cook, %morbid, Limerick, sad Bethel—the immediate lessor was made saswerable ; foe the payment of the rate be pro- posed that this should be esteaded to all Ireland. He pro posed also that bunts for lift of he simple, of the value of 61., should lave votes. The pretreat mate of thin/pin Ireland, arising from tie tenure of had, was of a most disastrous character, and he believed that if the fran chise were disconnected from it, it would have • most beneficial effect. Having Leen permitted to iatraduce the bull on a former occasion, ce should not trouble the house with any further statement at present, but would simply not, for leave to introduce it, Mr. STAFFORD did not intend to oppose the introduce tioa of the bill, bat would reserve to himself the right of Llyosise both the piaci, le aid the details of the measure on a hems oceuien ; but he did think that the unsettled state of ',Le franchise was nos reason why the bill should not bt advanced soy tardier. Ater a few womb in support of the bill from Si: Denham Mr. Ilk ItBERT thought that any taxation founded on the reseal purr law valuation must fail. Mr. bl. O'CONNELL said the house ought to be mode aware that there was a se-valuation made In Ireland every eighth year, sad that, as the eight year would shortly tiptoe, the goardisas in every locality would then have the Cypert watt of having a proper and hit volution made. The only objection he had to the bill was, that he thought the PI rating too high, and that a 61. rating ought to be made. Mr. FRENCH complained, that the bill commenced a a system, never hitherto pursued with reference to the hm.chise in Inland, In as much as it proposed to meddle will the rights of the voters already upon the resistor, who, it was always understood, should boy the exercise of their privileges for eight years from the Gate they were registered. He a: Wended that, amongst the other objects of Se bill, it was designed to facilitate** Collection of the poor rates. Mr. GROOAN mid that hitherto no real opposition had Leen started to the measure. lie thought, on the subject of the valuation, that either the bill had been introduced at an unsuitable moment, when there was no fixed valuation in Ireland, or that the right hon. mover of it would find a mom suitable valuation than had been proposed is the ewe pre pared by Mr. Griffin. 1 . • reply to • guestioa from Mr. 01001111, ir W. IiOMERVILLII said that a party mug have paid kis rates Won his same was placed on the righter. Mr. SCULLY upland the gratilleatioa he felt at finding the right hoes geatiemen, the Beentary foe Ire aad. was of opium that the time had arrived he improving the rarnsiatative opt= it the U. THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 12, 1850. Vie Erproo. OUTGOING MAILS. TM West Indisjare,e:eracriai Baia ads, Havannab, Kaman, Honduras, New Orleans, an Meakes, aid including &me far Madeira, Bt. Juan.de-Nisarevaa, New Granada, W Panorill be nude up on Feb. 17. The sails for Lisboa, Spain, and Gibraltar will be made ap on Feb. 17. The moils for Gibraltar, Malta, Orem, the lonian Islands, Egypt, Ceylea, India, sad Chian, fill Southampton, wd. be made up on the morning of Feb. 90. The mails for British North Amities sad the United States will be made up ea the 'mules of Feb. 22. The malls nig Marseilles, to the Mediterranean, Egypt, C•ylon, Hoag-Koog, dts., will be made up on the evening of Feb. 25. The mails for blades* the Brazils, and Buenos Ayres, will be made lap on the meals( of March 4. HIGH WAY= AT lantlil Tam IM-16.abst, 27m..........AAAm0e5. Ik. 43a. T —IMMO& IP, Ta. Aftinees. 3 17a. there has never been a period when the poet ODA don were altogether in so eisfiishsewty a condition se at the present time. The velum of the savings banks show it; the returns of the provident societies show it; the workhouse accounts illustrate it; nearly every clergyman in every district in London will bear his willing testimony to it. Take the case of Bethnal Green. This district, as every one knows, is the abode of the poorest of the poor, and has suffered more then any other in England from protection. For 130 years it bad the advantage (I) as it was then thought, not only of a prohibitive system, but of a regulated scale of wages. Not only were foreign silks effectually prohibited to favour this manufacture, but the wages of the filpital field weavers were regulated by act of parliament, ▪ the masters were prohibited under heavy penal ties from employing any work people at a rate of wages below a certain fixed scale. What was the n=,x, uen , , elistress of the BoitalffiWis weaver into a proverb. He endured - under protection more privations than any artisan in Europe. The system, it is not too much to say, irretrievably con demned him to comparative penury, for it prevented his keeping pace with the improvements introduced in his manufacture elsewhere; ft obliged him to com pete by hand labour against the restless and untiring machine. The Spitelfielde weaver must even get less wages in proportion to his work than any other workman in his trade. But despite this circumstance what is the condition of the Bpitalfields artisan at this time P Now mark this : we state it upon indisputable authority. Tnere is notin Bethnal-green or Spitalfields a single skilled weever who may not at this time have full employ ment at good wages. There was one large silk hours in Bpitalfields which stated a few weeks back that it would willingly give LW. to be able to get 50 more hands ; and although we have spoken solely of skilled labour, we do not mean to confine ourselves to that. Thenr.skilled artiflier of Bpitalfields must always work at great disadvantage and consequently at com paratively low prices. But at this moment there is not even • partially-skilled silk wormer that may not have ample employment. the whom district, in fact, is at work—a circumstance scarcely remembered even by the ' 4 oldest inhabitant." Tile dock labourers have been talked about. A protectionist will tell you, with a sigh, that this must be indeed a miserable claw. Mr. GEORGE FREON.. RICK YOUNG says "our shipping trade is ruined;" and ttotieh he admits that more ships are building in the Wear than ever were known to have been building there before, he will make you believe that there is nothing doing in London, and that every soul connected with the shipping interest is in a state of starvation, from the WIGRAMB down to the la bourer waiting at the dock-gate. Now, what are the facts connected with dock labour ? We have been favoured with the following interns *towing the employment afforded to dock labourers during the past month as contrasted with preceding years: - ------- Labourers employed during the last week of January in emu year 1846 1847 1848 1849 1850 ST. KATHERINICS DOCKS _ ..... .. Lsbourara empioYeicusil;l;;.atieehinding 20th Janu ary in each year : 1847 6Bl 1848 1,(169 1849 1,326 1850 1,220 Lebouren employed daily in the week commencing sth of January sash year: 1846 1,718 1847 1848 2,811 1849 1,387 1860 2,920 So that here we have an average of several thousand more labourers employed in the docks this year than during corresponding periods of any former year, and it will be observed, this applies not to one day or one week only, but to the whole qf the past month, as we have purposely, taken the accounts at the different docks for the early part, middle, and ecd of January respectively. Such is the satisfactory condition of the poorer population at the oast of London: now let us take the districts in the west We select purposely the poorest parishes at our own end sr the town : we take the parts of Westminster behind the Abbey. Now, here is a comparative account of the expendi ture upon the poor of the parishes of St. Margaret and St. John, Westminster, for the quarters ending Christmas, 1849 and 1848: Christmas Quarter. 1849. 1848. la-door relief £2,411 -- 15 7.. £3,210 17 2 Out-door relict £3,41 5 7 £4,384 6 2 showing a saving of 9921. 17s. 7d. upon the quarter, or of nearly 4,0001. upon the payments of the year ! The valuable return from which we quote these figures gives an account of the contract prices for provisions during the lut quarter of the year 1849 u contrasted with the same period of 1848. Here it is; and it shows very satisfactorily the advantage which the poor man is reaping from the reduction in the present prices of the first necessaries of life: ' ' - - Peas af the Senie Arti. Contract Prices of the Principal Articles. des Oss the tarre d 1849. £a d. TV a. d. Meat Bread ll ii per cwt. Flour l5 per sack. .......„ ... Butter Cheese neer ...... (UMW ll per ewt. 1 Peas Susar ...... Tea 3 per lb. ....... .... Rice l5 per cwt. ...... ..... 1 Soap Soft ditto Milk Potatoes lO 0 per ton. 1 0 So that it appears from this account that 1: re is • saving of full 16 per cent. upon the price of the first articles of human subsistence as compared only with the corresponding period of last winter. Bat is this satisfactory state of things confined to Lancashire or London ? We trove not. It has been remarked that the protectionist meetings are never attended by agricultural labourers, or that if the labourers do attend, it is rather to exclaim against any continuance of protection. Now there is very good cause for this in the fact that the agricultural la bourer is affected by the reduction in prices not as a la bourer but as a consumer. His 10s. or 12s. a week goes much further than it did in 1848. He can give him self now en extra inch a night of farthing rushlight, and an extra piece of cheese to his larger loaf of bread. And wherever be is affected by manufactures, he and his family can add pretty considerably to their earning.. We had an account the other day from Halstead, in North Essex, a district well known to Sir JOHN TYRELL. We were informed, by an excel lent authority, wholly unconnected with politics is that district, that the state of the poorer population about Halstead was never better than at the present time : There is a considerable straw-plait trade in the neighbour hood, and the wives and families of agricultural labourers and others are very extensively employed in it. At the present time, and tar some time past, one straw-plait dealer at Castle lledingham . a Mr. Clatwood, has been paying as much as 1001. a week for plait, end other dealers have been paying in proportion. Even the children of nine and tea years old have been earning their weekly wages. The poor's rates have diminished, and the number of paupers in the house is considerably less than in preceding years. The landlords of the district, however, with a single exception, have maintained their rents to the full amount. In the early part of last week we were favoured with a letter on the state of the poor in the agricul tural districts of Bucks. The following was the report made to us upon the state of Mr. Dleaanair own locality—Chipping Wycombe : The trade of this place, which is chiefly that of the cow mon beech chair-making, has not been so brisk for years as it is now. Scarcely a man can be found out of work. Two years ago I should think ne-half of the ehalemakers were unemployed. The lace trade of But kinghamshire has also received an Impetus, prices having advanced about 25 per cent. There is ..nother trade also carried on here, which almost died a natural death a few years ago—via., the trade in rabbit fur, which now sells for nearly double the price it fetched some time back, and Is a trade greatly on the in crease. I have not alluded to the paper trade. There are, as you are aware, several mills on this stream. They are now, with one exception, in full employ, and that exoeption is not owing to any want of trade. What is the remelt of all this? It is that in the Agricultural Union of Chipping Wyeombe, the expenditure upon the poor has been very materially reduced. We have before us an account of the re ceipts and expenditure of the Wycombe Union, com prising thirty sgrioultarallariabse, for the half year ending Michaelmas, 1849. As compared with the corresponding period of 1848 the decrease of expen diture was as !Wows : Is =sine/nesse £344 Oat relief 1,178 Lunatics Foes, dtr. Common charges . £3,067 The total expenditure et the half-year being 7,6821., it follows that there had been a saving of nearly 60 per cent. upon the expenditure of the corresponding period of 1848. And in this swing Mr. DISRAELI'S two agricultu ral parishes of Bradenham and Hughendon had, uwe find by the return, both participated. In oonstquenos of the prosperity of the times, the hon. (pro tem.) leader of the protectionists is in fact bene fiting remarkably in the saving in the shape of poor rates payable tor his own estates I Such facts as these speak trumpet-tongued to the united empire. In the face of them we may leave Lord Snimore and Mr. Yousro to rail against free trade as they please. They proclaim, let what may be said to the contrary, the triumph and the perma nence of the system of free trade. FRANCE. PARIS, MONDAY, 11 ♦.Y. A letter from Marseille* of the 7th statestbat great agitatioa had b•en telt in that city for the last twa or three days. The troop. had been all confined to their barracks, and ammunition had been distributed to the national :guard% The accounts from other parts of the department were also rather alarming. It was said to be the intention of the reds to seize on the arsenal and the prefecture. All the posts in Mar seilles had been doubled. The shareholders of the Marseilles and Avignon Railway Company met last week at Marseilles, and decided on raising a loan of 30,000,000 fr. in bonds of I,ooofr. escb, paying 5 per cent, interest, to be paid off progressively. The report of the committee on the bill relative to the. Paris and Avignon Railway has been prevented to the National Assembly. The report recommends the ooncession to one or two companies, but in the latter case it imposts a joint responsibility. The final number of votes given at the election of the Charente has now come to hand. Lieut.-Col. Edgar Nev obtained 58,750 votes, and M. Babaud- Laribiere 24,297. M. Leoutre, ex-reeponsible editor of the IVforine, was on Saturday condemned by the Court of Av:zes to four months' imprisonment and 3,000 fr.:fine for an article published in that journal on the 13th August last, tending , to excite civil war, and excusing acts declared crimes and misdemeanours by the law. At the Passage def Opera, yesterday, a consider able number of speculators assembled, and the Five per Cents, were in good request. Tee last price was 97 francs. _ Letters from Rome, of the let inst., state that fresh difficulties had arisen in the matter of the Pope's re turn to Rome. It seems that the ambassadors of Austria and Russia have protested against the Pope's intentions. At the hour of going to press our Paris parcel of yesterday evening bad not arrived. TURKEY. The Wanderer contains the following letter from CONSTANTINOPLE, J. 23. . _ Up to the present time no renewal of diplomatic intercourse between Austria and the Porte has token place ; and the Turkish commissioner, Achmet E:'- fendi, appointed to repair to Shumla, is still here waiting for the order set out on his jaurney. It is in cessant fall possible that be may be detained by the fall of snow during the last two days, which has been so heavy that all the shops are shut, passage through the streets impracticable, and the travelling of couriers impeded. If Count Stunner should, however, receive no instructions from Vienna in the course of to-morrow, Achmet Effendi, will, weather permitting, take his departure. Respecting the Italian retugees, it seems that Baron Tecco expects by the next packet authorisation from hie government to have them transported to the island of Sardinia, where they will form a colony. It wnu:d seem that the question of the refugees is at least in so far settled that no war is likely to arise out of it ; for the fleets are sailed away, and 35,000 redife, collected in Constantinople, have been dismissed. Oa the other hand, the qu,a lion is far from having attained a satisfactory conclu sion, from the want of distinctness in the demands, which, were they unobjectionable in point of justice, ought to have been clearly and precisely expressed, if there was any real intention of settling the point once for all. Meantime the procrastination upon one pretext or the other of a definitive under• standing leaves room to suppose that the object is to diplomatise " against time. Hence continued alarm in social,. stagnation in business, and paralysis in the admimstration. The last is a calamity impossible to contemplate without deep regret when it is eansidered how many urgent reforms are suspended in this vast empire by the present dispute. 'the fault of the protection lies, however, not on the side of the Turkish government, but of the Austrian and Russian whose demands become daily higher. In fact, Count Stunner's list has been by no means closed with the 48 names which he set down, but he has reserved to himself the space of two months for the completion of his proscriptive roll. M. Titoff has demanded the expulsion of 14 persons, and to-day it is reported that he will still further insist on the expu'sion of all who are born Russians. Thus, when one list is finished another is brought forward, and so the affair becomes interminable. Count Strirmer is about to send M. Jsamagyi as commissioner to Shumla, in order to superintend the strict execution of the wipulations in the question of the refugees, a selection the more to be regretted, as M. Jasmagyi enjoys in Constantinople a reputation by no means spotless. Some time ago he was an accountant in the Lloyd's Steam Company office at Constantinople, and is said to have lost his post for the omission of some important entries of receipts. Count Stunner interested himself in order to snatch this peculator from the jaws of justice, and procured him a place in the Vienna police. M. Jasmagyi next accompanied (loners! Hauslab on his mission to \Vid din, from which employment he was promoted to a confidential poet near his benevolent patron, Count Stunner, who employs him on the despatch servic between Shumla and Constantinople. Like muter, like man ! THE WESLETAN CONFERENCE EXPELLING A NIWOP•PER EDITOIL—The IVeskyan Tomes, of Monday, says: " Our columns to-day contain a fresh instance of ecclesiastical despotism on the part of the dominant faction of the Wesleyan conference. The editor of this journal has been expelle d, by one of the chief actors in the Manchester in quisition, for the erlme of editorship. Our professional brethren, both in the metropolis and the provinces, will doubtless be surprised to learn that editing a public journal is a crime of such magnitude as to merit the extnmest penalty a modern ecclesiastical conclave can inflict—that of excommunication." The same paper gives a long account of the proceedings of the court at which this decision was arrived at. TELE CASE OF SUSPECTED POISONING IN lIACb:NET. —Yesterday morning the adjourned inquiry was resumed for the fourth time and concluded before Mr. Bak , r, et the Fountain Tavern, Upper Clayton, Hackney, as to the death of James Merritt, aged 34 years, • tumor) k in the employ of the Hut London Water Company, who i.ied from the effects of a deadly poison, called arsenic," alleged to have been administered by his wife Ann Merritt, who wet fur ther examined at the Worship-street Police Court on Satur day, charged on suspicion with having caused her husband's death, and remanded by the magistrate until Friday next. The particulate of the investiation before the coro ner and jury, and the examination at the polite court, have appeared at different times in our _journal. The jury returned the following open verdict : " That the deceased died Irons the deleterious effects of a mortal poison called white arsenic, but how, or by whom, or in what man ner the same has been administered, there is no satisfactory evidence to prove." The foreman then handed the coroner the following recommendation "The jury, before they separate, wish to record their opinion respecting burial clubs, as they are at present constituted. They view them with fear, in consequence of their holding out • premium for the frightful crime of secret murder, and the facility with which the burial money is obtained. Several cues have recently come to light, the facts of which are start li ng , and on whim their fears are founded ; besides the many we may presume bare escaped discovery. We, the jury, in thus noticing the evil tendency of the burial societies, from which money is ob tainable, upon the death of a :member, are desirou that they should be differently constituted, either by the act of the storeroom or through some legislative measure which should be made either to control or guide them."—The proceedings *ea teralastod. t prol er eosatryprism s MIL and hoped he meat to persevere fa og the Lava C. HAMILTON observed that Irish sassabere op posite had Set year lid peat strew on nineties. He re pealed ad*. as hes. gestlemsa bad sot amorapaaied the fatredmilms el hie asomme with some statements sod poetises ea that sable& At t the valuation was mucely in a peeper mate Mbe the basis of the franchise. MS a (VW win lima Sir w. Sositsvma, Have was gives to bring Is tbe Sir W. SOMERVILLE then moved for leave to bring in • bill to shorten the duration of elections in Ireland, and for establish's, additional places for taking the poll thereat. Tee right boa. baronet said the bill was precisely similar to that whisk he had introduced last year. Coload DUNN' it:premed a hope that mote polling places would be provided, and that every man would he enabled to give his vote and return home on the same day. (Hear, hear.) The mod= was then agreed to. Oa the motion of Mr. HUMS, rehires were ordered of the smasher of editors of the public press that have beta expelled, duricg the year 1849, from the lonian Islands, stating the names of public writers and of the editors so banished, the titles of the papers they edited, the offence for whisk banished, and whether tried end mistimed by any court, sr banished by the Lord High Commissioner's autho rity ; of the number of person, tried by °aorta martial daring the existence of military law is Cephaloaia, sou the sentences awarded, stating how Jassy of thins sentesees Dare been carried out ; also the num ber of person. flogged in Cephalonia, in the year 1849, end by what tribunal sen teased stating the greatest Salt the smallest number of Labia inikted, end the total number of lashes inflicted. PRISON DISCIPLINE. Sir G. GREY then moved for a sleet commlttoe to in gone into the rules and discipline cstablish,d with regud to the treatment of prisoners In gaols and houses of correction in England and Wales. He hoped that Lo objection would he offend to the motion. _ Mr C. IHARSON amid that if It was to be understood that the object of this motion was to take out of his bands the proposal which he had made last ',salon, he should take the seams of the house on the question. In that twee he would not be compromised. He would on an early day submit to this house a specific motion, tallies in the mean time the right hon. baronet consented to mould the terms of the in quiry so uto embrace his object, That there might be no satsteke, he would repeat his former statement, that under a sound sestets of piton discipline the criminal class, which now coat the nation 450,0001. a veer, might be made to maintain itself by its own iadustsy, without inflicting injury on any class of the community. Give him a fairly selected committee, and he was prepared to pledge himself that if that committee did not r,port that his object wee practicable he should no longer desire to reties' • seat in that house, being there whel:y and solely for the porpoise of endeavour ing to et/Wince the house that the result which he had stated would flow from the application of the principles on which he had taken his stand. If the right hon. baronet would enlarge the motion and give him en opportunity cf concurring with him in the nomination of • few numbers of the committee, he should be eatiiticd but if the right hon. baronet folded himself in the dignity of his office and chose to put down an independent member, which he might do, he would look forward to a future day when he should ;become stronger in the house and struggle with him more niceiessfully an the question. Mr. MONSELL thought the tribunal a very good one, and suggested that the inquiry should extend to Ireland, the gaol' in which were in a deplorable state. Si; 0. GREY thought the holt. gentleman opposite (Mr. Pearson) had been rather hard upon him, because he did not take the motion cut of his hands at all. He thought he was acting now u the exponent of a large majority of the house at the close of last session who thought that an inquiry into the *IN With which the hon. centleman had in view was expedient. With regard to the terms of the inquiry, he thought they were large enough to admit if the committee thought fit of an inquiry into an improv2d system of discipline, but he should inject to any terms which should specifically direct the attention of the committee; he should object to any terms which should commit them to any putieular system. Lord NAAS expressed his disappointment that the inquiry did not extend to Ireland, where the state of the prisons was becoming worse every day. He would move that the words, " and Ireland," be added to the rerolutien. After a short discussion the house divided, when there appeared For the amendment lB Against it The amendment was consequently lost, and the motion agreed to. The other orders were then disposed of, and the house ad journed at twenty minutes to two o'clock. PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS FOR THIS EVENING. HOUSE OF LORDS. ORDER OF THE DAY.—SECOND READING. CortaTT Cass (bizLAD) HILL. HOUSE OF COMMONS. NOTICES OF QUESTIONS ENTRANCHIS OP,COPTHOLDS.—Mr. AGLIONIIY, to ask the Secretary of State foe the Home Departmrnt Murtha her Majesty's government will introduce a manure for the COM pulmory entranehleement of o-pybold. AUSTRALIAN COLONIES BILL.—Me. SCOTT to ask her Majesty's government, whether there is anc objection to lay or. the table of the Rouse of Commons copies of all oar" and correspondence relative to the Australian Colonies Government Bill, since the 31st day of July, 1847, including petitions and memorials on the subject. DEPTFORD EMIGRATION DEPOT, &c.—Mr. SCOTT, to ask her Mejisty's government whether any end what reduc tion has been made since February, 1849, in the ofßicial establishment of the emieration depot at Deptford, or in the establishment of the emigration agents for the port of Lon don ; also, whether the bedding, the requisites for cooking, and other articles for emigrants, are still provided by private contract with the (migration commissioners, or whether they are supplied by public tender. ENIORATION SHIP VICTORIA.—Mr. SCOTT, to ask ha Diejesty's government whether any report or informa tion haa been received from New Sesta Wales relative to the treatment of emigrants on board the ship Victoria, more particularly as to the issue of provisions ; and it there will be any objection to produce the copies of any documents re lating thereto. Samoa or THE Horan.—Lord J. RUSSELL, to move that the house at its rising do adjoen till two o'clock to morrow. PUBLIC BUSINESS. NOTICES OF MOTIONS. Panrces or INDIA.—Sir E. COLEBROOK, to move fees • infect committee to inquire into the rights of succession of the allied and dependent princes of India. Tux CoLostzs.—Sir W. MOLESWORTH. to submit 111.0111110 ES on the subject of colonial government. TAXES UPON THE MEANS OP DISSEMINATING KNOW LEDGE AND INTOEMATION.—MT. M. GIPSON, to submit a wad to the house as to the policy of abolishing all texts which directly impede the diffusion of knowledge among the veal body et the people, with a view to the repeal of the stamp on newspapers, the excise tax upon paper, the tax upon advertisements, and tie duty on foreign books. Cannot Roru.—Mr. TBXLAWNY, to submit a motion cm the subject of church rates. CASE or CALLANAN T. CAMITION.—Kr. BADLKIK, to snore for • soled committee to inquire into the facts °u nested with the striking of the special jury in the cue of Cadman against Cameron. LAND IS IHELAND.—IIr. SADLEIR, to call the atten tion of the house to the injurious operation of the laws which regulate the tressehr and tenure of land in Ireland. Mr. HUME, to move for valuations. return relative to the trigonometrical survey of India ; also for returns and statements respecting maritime surveys undertaken by the Eva India Company, de., etc. ; sad further, for a list of all lighthouies, established by the East India Company or ether parties on any parts of the Indian Ocean, he., ho. ; statement of the measures taken with the view of surveying the coasts of India, and reports from the Commolore.super 'Mended of the Indian navy Motive to rendering the chars for those seas generally available for the Indian navy ; and, lastly, what esublisaments of officers and mu, and what sized deeds, he., are necemary to resurvey doubtful posi tions, witk • view to the emend= of existing errors, he. Wunar.—Mr. WODEROUSE, to move be several re turns relative to the bounty paid on the import and export of wheat into and from England at stated periods, he., he. &tumors (laanann).—Mr. FRENCH, copies of any contract. entered into by or on behalf of the Midland Great Western Railway Company of Ireland, with aey person or persons fur the construction of their railway from Mullingar to Athlone, and from Athlone to °awe/ respectively. POOII-LAW UNION LLABILITIES (lasxagri—Sir R. FERGUSON, t move for return on this su bject nader several t. eads.—Col. DUNNE, to move for retard show* the financial st.te of each union where paid psalms were appointed, he, EDUCATION (111LAND).—MT. SCULLY, to move for VW rious returns on 'hie subject. Stoaa, Correa, AND TzA.—Kr. HASTIE, tomer* for • noon of the quantity of sugar imported from British pm. sissies' into the United Kingdom during each of the poll three years, ending the 6th day of January, 1860, shaper session from whence Imported, with the quantity dared kr home eassuniption, and the amount of duty phi awed, distinguishing the gouda's, and amount reesioni miler each rats of duty: Similar return for foreign sugar: Sham Mara for coffee : And, similar return for tea. ARMY AND OIDNANCE EIPENDITUSE.-If. SECRE TARY at WAR, to move Ike appointment of the select committee on this subject: Lord Seymour, Mr. Secretary M War Mr. llama Marquis of Oraaby, Mr. Welter, Sir WLI , MoleswOrth, Lord Charles Wellesley, Sir James Ordeals, Mr. William Miles, Mr. Cobden. Mr. &duty Her bert, Mr. John Greens, Mr. Edward Ellice, Mr. Vernon Smith, and Mr. Bask's. Nnw 13017 TX WALES, VAN DIEMEN'S LAND, SOUTH Andaoma.—Mr. SCOTT, to move diddle for copies of returns of the populatioa, reams., expenditure, and e x ports and inspects of these coloode since hot papers presets ORDERS OF THE DAY. elscoaro READINGIL—Prosses sad Practice (Inload); Cannot Chancery (baud); Registrar's Moo Raokruptcy A GROSS IMPOBITION.—Mr. Disraeli, in his speech oa tits address, declared that " What the land now wants is simple justice." We are no agriculturists, hut we should may that the land was ia went of something besides justice I just sew—we you better cultivation. If this were carried out to a large utast, the land would not have reason to oomplain, even though it should be a good deal put upon.— Plash. LONDON TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12. MERE is nothing in which our political system is so lamentably deficient as in the bringing of official delinquents to justice. One peculiarity of oar aristo cratic government is, that ministers naturally nomi nate their relatives and connexions to imp:rtant posts. These relatives and oonnexioun are in general ap pointed because they are gifted with rank and visited by poverty. The education and habits of rank have rendered them unfit to perform official duties. They commit blunders, peculation, or atroci ties, as it may be. Bat, instead of ministers giving them up to trial—as would be the case were there no family or party ties—government is forced bye kind of honour to stick up, through thick and thin, for their nominees; and thus not only do faults and crimes occur in the course of administration, bat the country is disgraced by ministers adopting and defending those very faults and crime., instead of government and the country both shakieg off complicity with these bad and foolish men. Let us only consider how deeply the character of England is at this moment muttering by the acts of Lord TORRINGTON, Of Mr. MORE O'FERRALL, and Sir HENRY WARD. The people of this country have cast a fierce and powerful anathema against Marshal HAYNAD. But this anathema, so just and so useful, ia rendered almost null by a member of the House of Commons getting up, and saying that Lord TORRIKO TON has been guilty of conduct quite as bad in Ceylon. What government ought to do, if its own honour or that of the country were its first consideration, would be to dismiss such governors as Lord TORRING ton and MORE O'FERRALL. But no, unless a governor should commit parricide, we do not think a ministsr would give him up to justice. And hence members of the house are either induced to slur over the guilt of governors, in order not to offend or oust the minister, or they conduct such accusations as a party maneeuvre, and the accused is acquitted or condemned, not according to his demerits, but to the strength and connexion of his party. This is one of the greatest blots and defects in our colonial system. We select the most unfit gover nors, make the most unfit appointments, and we secure to such authorities complete impunity for what they do. No wonder that under such a system the colonies complain; no wonder they clamour for self-government ; no wonder they demand consti tutional rights and local independence, not only with the natural and noble desire of all men to have and to wield a legitimate share of power, but from the im perious necessity of protecting themselves against the incapacity and arrogance of those proconsuls whom a minister selects from his kin or his adherents. It is impossible to tell how many cues of mal administration and abase, which the local press or local witnesses durst not denounce, escape altogether either notice or animadversion : It is only wht n a governor's folly has produced some signal outburst, some alarming insurrection, that we hear of au h things at all. And we hear of it then be cause troops are required to put down the insurrec tion, and because the motions, and the transports, and the military operations of these troops require large and extraordinary supplies of money. By these circumstances public and parliamentary attention was drawn to the case of Ceylon. An insur rection produced there by novel, unjust, ignorant, and irritating changes in taxation, was put down by the most gross cruelties. Petitions signed by crowds of respectable per-ons in Ceylon have come over, alleging the most disgraceful and appalling facts, bets calculated to rouse the indignation of any one, mach less of Englishmen, whose country stands charged, and remains responsible for such crimes. A most natural cry of indignation is raised in parliament, and is followed by a most le2i timate demand for inquiry. In the way of that in quiry every obstacle is thrown, and matters are so managed that a police magistrate and the colonial se cretary were the only witnesses forthcoming. This provokes more indignation; and we wi,l be bound to soy that it such obstructions were thrown in the way of justice in any of our coons, the judge presiding, whoever be was, would soon make an example of the prevaricators. But for political delinquency there is no tribunal, and for their accusers neither facility nor fair play. Nay, it is a thing so understood, that such personages are ex officio entitled to escape and be acquitted of their crimes, with the mere shadow of a trial, that a lawyer, and a member of parliament, who calls him 'self a liberal, and who represents a popular consti tuency, can have the audacity to stand up and de nounce those who plead the cause of humanity, and who seek to vindicate the right of the poor people of Ceylon not to be shot and hanged, ad libitum, without trial or even identification. We can understand a minister or an under-secretary striving to shuffle off such responsibility, and seeking to save the colonial functionary by official dexterity and parliamentary brazenness; but for an independent member of par- Bement, and a man affecting to profess the principles and maintain the position that Mr. ROEBUCK does, to get up, and seek to excuse the atrocities of the summary execution of prisoners not even identified, by arguing that such is the law of Ceylon, or such the law of a conquered country, we must say that this pandering to bloodshed by the quibbles of the lawyer strikes us IV more disgraceful than any proclamation that even HAINAU issued. We have heard of an Attorney-Ge neral of the Guillotine, in the person of HEBERT, but we must own we never thought to find the at torney-general of drum-head courts martial and military executions in the honourable member for Sheffield. Sheffitld sent Sir HENRY WARD to par liament, and, by consequence, to Cephalonia. Shef field has since sent Mr. ROEBUCK to parliament, to make his speech of last night against the poor natives of Ceylon. Sheffield is, to say the least of it, un fortunate. It was Mr. ROEBUCK'S choice or chance last night to come forward as the enemy of all that is liberal, generous, or humane. He dared not make a speech for heed-money; but he spoke all he claret for it, viz., an insinuation. We have not a military chief, or bel ligerent governor in the east, who may not quote Mr. ROEBUCK'S recommendation to push their conquests on behalf of what he calls civilization. Mr. Roxnucx is, in fact, a new apostle of war. And while Mr. CARLYLE preaches the beauties of despotism, Mr. ROEBUCK ha taken for his theme the sanctity of conquest. Public men, such as Mr. Hula and Mr. COBDEN, who set their facts and voices against such policy at home, are denounced by Mr. ROEBUCK u merely seeking a pitiful popularity. Whilst Englishmen abroad, who object to the same military regime, are alike the object of Mr. Roznucies animadversions. The member for Sheffield denounces the entire class of English lawyers as incapable of patiently tolerat ing tyranny in our despotically governed colonies of the east. Even the very judges, it seems, rebel against our colonial regime. Mr. Rozsucx says it is because lawyers are not statesmen but, to their honour be it said, they know how to distinguish law from politics and justice from expediency. English lawyers are not statesmen of that mongrel breed ' which joins the pliancy of the advocate to the solem nity of the politician, and who can plead for or against liberty and popular rights according to the brief, or the fee, or the caprice of the hour. Mucn has been said lately of the state of the poor in London. Dramatic tales have been told about the hardships endured by certain classes living by un certain occupations, and these well-painted have been held si protectionist thrum as proof of general on in trade labour. Now, from a variety o r sources of informatics, we are enabled positively to affirm that fra the but ten years THE UNITED STATES. By the Queen of the West, which arrived at Liverpool New aftern oon , we h ave rece i ve d dates from New York to January 25, one day later than those brought by the Canada. There is no news. Trade was good, with little alteration of prices. We quote the following from the New York Churier and Enquirer in reference to cotton : The salsa reported on 'Change amounted to 1,800 balm The market livery irregular, but the erica paying 8 11 fully In, below last week's rates. We omit quotations un til a more general demand enables us to quote correctly. We consider the value of middling fair 8 h to-day 13e., and fair 131 e., although it would be difficult to flnd sellers fa except a limited quantity at those twee. A slight im provemtmt has taken place in freights to Li ver p oo l, 3.16 d. but bring to to day paid. To H a v re t h e ra t e i s nomina ll y ie., d .Zije WINDSOR, Fan. 11. The unfavourable state of the wettilirr this morning prevented her Majesty and Prince Albert taking their usual walk. The same cause prevented the Royal Family taking their accustomed airinge. . . The Royal dinner party at the Castle this evening incl u des her Royal Highn.ea the Duchess of Kent, Lady Fanny Howard, and Baronets de Booth. Her Majesty's private band attend after (linter in the Castle. Sit J. Emerson Tencent had an interview with Lord John Russell yesterday, at his official r‘eitleoce in Downing-street. Dr. Turner had an interview with Sir George Grey yesterday. Mr. S. Fielden had also an in erview yes terday with the right hon. baronet at the Home dike. Lady John Rumen party, fixed for Wedneaday, 13th, is postponed until Thursday, 14. h. Despatches from the Governor of New South Wales, and also from the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope, were receivsel at the Colunia , -tince a Sund►y. The Judicial Committee of the, Privy Council sat yesterday, and heard an application fur an extensi•m of the term of Pettit Smith's patent screw proptllor. The lord. present were the Master of the RAF, Lord Brougham, Lord Campbell, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Cornwell, ,nd th. Judge of the Admiralty Court. THE REDUCIION OF THE ARMY. With reference to the intimation in the Express yesterday as respects Me pr , p >l-d reduction in thearmy, ft may now be stated that the fiiilowing reg =tuts are p,sitively to be diminished in number, viz.:-6th Foot, from 1.200 to 750 rank and file. 20th, 36th, 42nd, 44tn, 45th, 56 h 67th, 69th, and 76th regiments, and 2i.d Li:it:al:on Rifle brigade, having two battalions each of 1,200 rank and fi , e, ere, in future, to Lave but one battalion of 1,000 rank and file. The depots of about sixteen regimen's (the service companies being lathe colonits) are also to be reduced by 20 rank and file each depot. The 11th, :59th and 66th regiments, • g in New South Wales and New Z,ltland, and which now consist of 1,000 rank and file each, are to be reduced to 750 rank and tile. The total of mcn to be reduced amoun•a thus to 3,520 rank and file. The officers not required will here after be provided tar as vacancies may uccur, and ad interim will be on the retired or halt-pay let. DEPUTATION TO THE BOARD OF TRADE RESPECTING PILOTAGE. A deputation from the Steam-ship Owners' Ass,- elation bad an interview with the Right lion. H. Labou chere, on Friday last, at the Board of Trade. The deputation writ intr hinted by Mr. ANDERSON, X P., chairman of the association, who stated their o. j set was to request Mr. Labouchere's interposition for the purpose of inducing those pilot boards whim:: had not) et complied with the intentions of the legislature, as contaiced in the Pilotage Act of last session, to grant certificates (exempting them from compulsory employment of and payment fur pibAsi)efno ,t , masters and mates of steamers who should have fouad, upon examination, qualified to pilot their own vessels. The asseciation, Mr. Anderson stated, had hitherto abstained from urging the government to introduce a tem iyulsory bill, under the impreasian that the example of the Trinity House of London in carrying out the objects of the measure of last session would hose been uniformly fol lowed. H regretted, however, to be obliged to stat • that although several local pilot boards had emptied with the provisions of that Oct. the pilot cornettist: e of Lin rui.ol Lad declined, and that of Dublin had no: consented, to follow their example. lie was followed by Mr. Waveost, director of the City of Dubli.t Steen Packet Company, who detailed the communications that had taken place between the ream-packet companies conneired with Liverpool and the pilot committee cf the port, and which resulted in the refusal, on the part of that bcdy, to grant certificates as proposed. Having shown how oppressively the pilotage system operated un the coasting sum trade, he exprescd a hope that the Bard of Trade would use its iilluence with the pilot committees of Liverpool std 1./Wi lls, to induce them to affad to the owners of coasting ream-vessels, the relief contemplated under the act of last session. It was intimated by Sir DENIS La Maurits:4r, that is consequence of the re; rcsentations which had been made to the Hoard of Trade, a circular had been addressed to the several pilot committees, and that he had that morning re ceived a letter in reply from the Liverpool Pilot Committee, offering, if desired to do so, to exempt all Irish coasting steamers, not applying for a pilot, from payment of pilotage. Mr. ANDERSON stated, in reply to a question from Mr. Labonchere, that as the deputation represented the interests of steam shipping generally, the propos:l mode of ex-mp tion in order to be satisfactory should be general in its ope ration, end Lot confined to a particular branch of the steam coasting trade. After further conversation, in which several members of the deputed= joined, the interview terminated by Mr. Labouchere admitting the justice of t. e claims advan . ied on the part of the Steam shipowners Association to the beeefita intended by 'he Pilotage Act of last session, and ty his sag gelling that a letter should be addressed to the B "aro cf Trade, embodying the statements which had teen submitted to aim by the deputation. IRELA NI). Dcnns,_FEn,ll. The gales which have prevailed with little inter mission for several days past have at length passed away, but have caused great irregularity in the arrival of the English mails. The accounts of losses on the coast are numerous. The Diana, screw steamer, of Waterford, went on shore at the Great Burbo on Wednesd‘y last ; and on the following day the J. P. Whitney, American liner, from Philadelphia, struck on the rocks at the same place, and went to pieces, the crew having, however, been saved. Oa the western coast the effects of the tempest of Tuesday last are described as having been terrific, huge rocks on the shore having been moved by the waves to a considerable dis tance ; and numbers of houses having been levelled or unroofed along the coast. At Omagh the church spire was struck by lightning and much injured. Several cattle were killed in the same neighbourhood by the electric fluid, and trees uprooted by the force of the storm. _ _ The Cork Examiner states that Dr. Sleigh, of London, a member of the council of the National Reform Association, has arrived in Cork, on a tour through Ireland, for the purpose of organising in this country associations to co-operate with the body in England in carrying out the returns policy of the present movement. A meeting of paper manufacturers wss held in Dublin cn Fr:day, to petition for a repeal of the excise duties on paper. The four new measures for law reform of Ireland have already met with general approbation, and are likely to become very popular if, on being more in timately known, they are found to realise present anticipations. The Evening Nail announces on authority the gradual improvement of the health of the L rd Pri mate, who was supposed last week t 3 be attacked by a fatal Wafts. The Freeman's Journal, in its weekly commercial article, thus describes the state of business here dur ing the lot eight days: Busiueu both in produce and shares has bern still worse this week than last. A less amount has been done, and nr:ces for the principal articles have given way more or less. Shares have also been neglected. One or two minor failures have taken place, but credit is generally well supported, sad money is very abundant on good w euritics. = • EQUALIeATION OF Tllll LAND T.tx.—Yesterday It a meeting of the Commissioners of the Land Tax acting for the Holborn division, specially convened to consider an application made by a pi ntleman named May' a, for the re hearing of an appeal made by him against his assessment for land tax, which was heard a few weeks aii.ce and decided adversely to the appellant, it was resoived, in accordance with the 7th section of the act 33 Cleo. 111., cap. " That the appeal having been once decided could not be re-opened:" but the following important resolution, moved by Mr. Coppock, seconded by. Mr. Itamaden. was carried with only one dissentient, " That this board recommend that a pseud meeting of the Commissioners of Land 'Tax acting in and for the county of Middlesex be held on or ba l.:ire the 30th day of April next, for the parpme of ascer taining and minting down, in writing, the several proportions which aught to bo charged upon every hundred, lathe, wapsatake, rape, ward, or other division within the said c ounty, for and towards the raising and making up the whole amount of land tax charged upon the eaid county of Middle sex by the act of Geo. 111., c. 5." A committee of live members of the coast was the* appointed to carry oat the object in view. n MS it 7 \ E es bl LiP' a* liiiii the ITC tad