The Express. — London, England, 1850-12-21 00:00:00

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The priociple of prat/otiose is bt- Las eannoiated with bated breath, and, as it wee% parenthetically. Haw else could it be set forth under the arcansstances ? A majority is claimed by the defeedere of the existing tariff in Congress. As overwhelming preponderance of the citizens of the mublic is notational, on the side of free tied.. What possible inducement then could a man in Mr. Fit Loonies position have to do more than party bower seems to require in the direction we have mused P The whirr, by *bow suffrages he has berm raised to pre-eminent station and 'total. nal, if not real, power—the whirs of the Union chaff to the traditions of protection. If the men of foresight and ex,erience amongst them did not halo.* this to be worth adhering to, if they believed their revival in smie shape or other possible, the world would hear no more about them. Tne formal reiteration of such a belief by their chiefs in office would otherwise be wholly unaccountable. Bat the naked avowal of their aims and hopes by a whig pre sident would be still more so. _ _ Where a system firmly compacted exists, and the object of its assailants generally is to effect a small breach in its entirety—the best wedge is that whose point is most carefully attenuated. The blunt end is of no use whatever, and nobody think, of trylog it. But how profound must that stupidity be which con soles itself with observing on the fineness of the edge of the insinuating implement! Pretty much of this sort are the ingenious criticisms upon the reactionary inaendoes of Mr. Plumose, wherewith certain of our contemporaries indulge. Custom duties sat not recommended primarily for the sake of the iron masters of Pennsylvania, or the cotton weevers of LowelL The wants of the federal exchequer are professedly the cause of increased duties being pro posed,the advantage which would accrue to the said saanufsctarers being only " incidental.* But where fore the suggestion of a consequence which the quick sagacity of three-fourths of the community will at once translate into an intimation of an incidental dis advantsge to themselves? And wherefore the sug gestion of such an essential change in the mode of raising the duties as is plainly calculated to eked the greatest amount of protection to the particular branches of each kind of manuracture which in Ame rica has always sought for an extra profit by mesas of a differential tariff? _ If the proposal were an augmentation of so much per cent. on the value of all imports for a given time, is order to provide a food for the redemption of the; debt cootracted on account of the Mexican W.; the amount of protection thus incidentally gives would be hardly worth notice, so far as the manofecturing interest a coccerned. The sum of national disadvan tage would be equably diffused, as in all cams of just taxation it ought to be, over the whole community: and the means of wealth thus curtailed would not be rwoceotrated by a refinement of the principle of monopoly in the hands of a few. The idea of invidi one preference would not be suggested. Toe notion of particular gain equivalent to the general logs would not be rainvested with a seeming sanotioe. Toe delusion would not be conjured up anew that enterprise can build safely on fiscal fonadations. A perfectly fair ad referent customs duty is in every sense equivalent to a fair income tax, perhaps we should rather say to a fair expenditure tax. All pay according to their outlay upon the necessaries and comforts of life. A sense of public equity se between man and man is called into being. Koh and poor, thrifty and prodigal, pay according to their own mea sure of enjoyment. The state is felt to be no respecter of wrens. Is affairs of taxation justice to all is But the scheme of the American wbigs is based oe far different principles. Their aim is not only to make the rich richer by operation of law, bat to do so by making the poor poorer by the operation of the mate law. Instead of ad valorem duties on imports of general consumption, what are termed " amine duties," or those which impose the same amount of tax on quantities of equal weight wholly regardless of the otter dissimilarity of their respective values, are recommended. The palpable consequent* of this most be to tax the coarse fabrics which the working man n quires for sae as mach as the finer Gees which the opulent and lux urious covet. The New England and Pennsylvanian 0'14'4144 es yet attempt to vie with Lancaeliire and &afraid shire chiefly in those branches which require the least am mot of skilled labour. Wages are high and land is cheap, beyond the ocean, and sa yet capital is lees abundantly applicable to mines, foundries, or mills. In the natural growth of society these elements might possibly cheap their relative propos.- dons. But the whip are d ttrinairea. They watt to force a wealthy dam into existence. They sigh for an aristocracy of wealth ; and they would hamper the *award progress of their country in its hitherto un rivalled development, for the sake of realising this their political dream. How futile all efforts of the kind are likely to prove, we may, perhaps, infer, from the &dare that has attended every attempt which has been made for the purpose in question, since the formation of the Union. Tilers has never been wanting a party anxiously bent upon schemes of the sort we have indicated. At vil lons times they have temporarily gained an apparent estenassey in the legislature and the edmiotstration; and they have seldom forborne to set about experiments like that now launched by President Ptht.dols. In variably, however, resistance and defeat have eat short their schemes, sad the instinctive policy of the nation bee is the main prevailed. Nevertheless, we freely own oar disbelief in the wisdom or prudence of affecting to treat the renewal of each attempts at the present day sa mere unmeaning bagger menaces. It is not true to say that the alteration in the tariff suggested merely by the desire to pay off the war debt. Nor is it safe or honest to accustom men's minds in this country to the notion that whenever there is a deficiency in the exchequer (so matter bow caused) an lamas° of import duties is a just and equitable way of meeting it. Wears mach 'Bielsko if tile be not the very doctrine which oar own plotting protectionists are preparing to urge daring the coming melon se so moms for going back in the commercial poliny of Great Britain. They are ready to vote sway say existing tax that will leave the Treasury enacts, and, having einem plished that feat, they are quite prepared to resist all reductions ofexpenditore to a eommensarateasoent, and to oppose the levy of any other impost than one on imports. For this new dodge we mart be pre-1 pored. It is not for notbieg that the open talk of getting back a corn law has been abandoned. Under , the plea of duties for revenue, whit Mr. FILLMOIII calls " the ineitental advantage of protection to no mastic industry" will be sought for; gad to make a case for the remedy the wound will, if permitted, be deliberately caused. °Ns of the most distressing tumefies@ ever pr. vented to the public of this country oases to us in recent &dries, from the island of Jamaica. Pro vidence has been pleased in a most awful manner to visit that Weed with the fearful pestilence which, in a very mitigated degree, we endured in Englaad is the &Mum of Let yew. Human efforts have bran unable to stay it. The emerge bad literally ewer the scathes gam el the Wang of its population. Death in the towns Dos visited the victim have boos so have owed to tell ot thou of dm yew by the gram Us Aid dimes first Poet Boyd. We have r titers. All we bear is ' weather was elresdiegly nice stoned to have black aloe& bum like . district. Meat probably was misdeed to Port anemias from the authorities. we view it is England r its name ocean meet @hippie( movammts teem small, miserable, dirty. wet, spit of sand which runs from the main . disable distance into the sea. Poet Royal has always been • most unhealthy spot. Its positing Ms contii hated to this; still more the soaked chamstse of its lanes and the flyby mods eflife of its lentsbeee meals tioo. By water Port Riyal is distant from Kinvieswa about three miles : by land it cannot loireselnd ender ten or twelve. But the oommanieatton with FJEgolows is, neverthelese, Ineneast, and it is not to be wondered at that the pestilence sacs introdaoed into Part Royal soon found its way to the waterside streets of King stown, and took ;on among tLe black inhabitants. It might have been expected that in Kingstown the havoc would be frightful. In the lower parts of that town the streets are not only mast cinfloed, but they are all absolutely devoid of every provision ter drainage, and of nearly every provision for cleansing. The natural indolence of the population had prevented their taking the slightebt precaution, and the moment the prevalence of cholera became known among them they become pnic-stricken, and fancied it was too late to do any thing .fftctual.The town soatained 'boat 40,000 inhabitants, nine-tenths of the population being coloured. Unaceustomed generally to seek medical assistance, these poor people, when attacked, knew se, better r, source than to lay themselves down sad sub. mit to the fate awaiting them. After ems the a board of health was formed, and memos woes taken to stay the spread of the disease, but it was rest until it was too late. By the period that preventive measures began to be ta ken, the town of Port Royal had lost one fuss ra of its entire population, and the deaths among the people of Kingstown had risen te 100 and 160 a day. The amount of the state of Kingstown during the Ipestilenee 'sends in gloom and misery any thing that has of late years come under our notice. Entire families had been cut off. The living of a household commonly proved inset- Sliest to bury its dead. Coffins could not be melded. The bodies were collected and carried in Owlet° the graveyardinnd there they were accumulated Ida such numbers that it was found impossible to bury them. In one churchyoud no less than seventy bedles were lying at one time without a prospect of interment. At length the governor nosed an order that the painful work should be performed by the convicts of the district prison, promising that those who engaged in it should have their sentences com muted. In another case it was found necessary to engage the troops in the awful task. Trenches were dug and the bodies of the dead thrown into them by wholesale, bat still the deaths continued to exceed the means at command of disposing of the deed. From Kingstown the pestilence spread to Spanish Town, the east of go_vernment. One of the earliest victims the was MT. JOHN GALE VIDAL, Clerk of the Assembly. From Spanish Town it spread to se veral estates in the adjacent parishes of St. Dorothy and St. Thomas in th e Vale. At the miserable little I village of Old Harbour Bay there were no lees than' 102 cams reported in one day. At the Bushy Park estate,where we should think therecannot be above 300 people, there were so It.. than 60 deaths. Bot this seems to have been nothing compared to the ravages of the disease in Kingstown and Spanish Town, In the Penitentiary at Kingstown the deaths were as one to every four of the inmates. On one day the num ber of interments reoorded reached 203: and this is supposed by no means to have represented the num ber of deaths; for not only were the majority of patients unattended and %tinctured, but the authori ties thought it accessary to refrain even from stippl deg informatics as to the deaths, in order to m e po-sible, the public mind. The horrors of this pestilence have been fearfully increased by the absence of medical men, and the threatening of an evil still more dreadful—the es hanstion of the supply of the most requisite medi aloes ! Upon the lacer feet becoming known, a man of-war steamer was dispatched to Con, and a supply of drugs was obtained. But the absence of medical men hes all along been fearfully felt. There is said to be but otos medical man to every 6,000 of the island population ! We observe in the Jamaica papers, ad vertisements from different parts of the country for medical assistance. We copy one of them : Leal Board of Health, fit. Mary, Port Marts, Oat. 29, 1860. lIRDICAL 01JITLIX11111 ISQUI/MID. Three Medical Gestlean en required to he etetkeed In different districts within this tsarist. to whom a liberal salary will be pins daring the prevalence of the existing epidemic. Every facility for temporary resides*. will be afforded by gentlemen to the Miran% diarists. The rwidest member of the perish offers accommodation totes gentleman regain .6 in hie distrin lamellate spplicatios to be made ea above. —By ardor Ono Board, Theodore A. Geogliogsa, Joseph A. Illpyer. Boners" Secretaries to the Baud. The Armies Hominy Journal says : The diens odour =mina ems have ben ie this calamity beyond all praise: but their energies are nearly exhausted ; you an see this la the 11•101 , 01111 liantilliliaes that betoken no went el stoop sad net, and die trans of deep, latices anxiety, that show but too plainly bow deeply they are is snood with th e solemaitv of the limn It Is utterly Im possible that, unaided, they en hold out sea loses Think of bat on medical sae to every Aire thousand of the populants I What could they do foe their own immediate friends and patients were the disease saintunately to spread rapidly and nasally sesoupt us ? It is physioallv imps sib's that they amid sops is such unequal tonal with the true destroyer of human life—: ay, it is men thee probable that, exhausted. dispirited, sad were down with the excep tive fatigue, both of body sad mind, they these Ives would (all victims to no tissue, and this our population would fell by themes& The position of Jamaica with regard to medical men is this. During the period when slavery existed in the colony there were a limited number of medical men settled is each pariah who contracted with proprietors to attend the people on their estates at so mach per bead per enema. Virtually, the medical attendance of each district was monopolised by some Gee medico who kept under him an assistant to do all the fagging at a small fixed stipend. When slavery was abolished the coat of menioal attesdence was one of the items which the proprietors tiseght proper to reduce. The consequence was that Unsold apothecary system was broken op without soy eiherbeieg subitt. toted for it. The doctors, mast of when hat made ample fortunes under the old system of peachiest left the country altogether. The proprietors of estates deleted from ordering out from &gland eves the deader ripply of drugs they had bees atoastomed annually to procure. Taking the einistry districts generally, no such thing as a chemist's shop is t, be found, and be coneequently eves the mat ordinary remedies may be said to now entirely usprocurable. Surgeors are still 1110111 swat, sad osasigneatly the state of Jemmies der og this calamity has, for waist of proper medial attendance, been meet awful. The cholera has been thus raging in Jamaica from the beginning of October. The accounts last meeteived from the island amok to the 14th of November, and the pestilence at that time appeared scarcely to have abated. We really take some shame to ourselves that we have not called attention to this state of things before, but if we may not entirely stand excused, at least the blame which fall. spoa the press recoils upon a still higher authority. It eonsirts wilt our knowledge that several weeks since the attention of the Colonial-office was direeted to the dreadful rate of the island of 'enlace. We know an instance is which at least one gentleman, to whom this country is most largely indebted for his able ex ertions during the period of cholera a* home, solicited an interview with Mr. Hawes, is order to lay before him information as to the state of the Island, and to offer his services to proceed there at once for the purpose of organising measures of relief. This gentleman waited in the " sighing rooms" of Downing-etteet —not until hi, patience was ex hausted, for that is inexhanstible—bst until the late hoar at which the Under-Secretary came to bushier. And when Kr. Hewn did some he received, not an omitr to go to Jamaica, but a sort of rebuke administered by the porter, by Mr. HAWES'S authority, for his presumption in coming there, and a cold intimation Vast " an answer would be sent." Wass the inseam was sent, the long fo.lsosp ex pressed, meet tersely, that the Colonial-office saw no occasion foe any interference. " I am, Sir, &0., B. HAWED.. GERMANY. PRUSSIA. Our correspondent write, as follows : BERLIN, Die. IL The difference respecting the osessaisearies for Hesse Cassel, which was mentioned in my letter yes terday u having arisen between Austria and Prussia WIMP not of very recent origin, and was on the point of being, if it was not then a lready, actually settled. Count Leiningen has at last been appointed joint commissary for Hesse, in addition to the office of civil commissary to the allied army in the electorate. lem told that his appointment is signed by Austria, in the urns of the governments easembled at Frankfort as the Bundestag. He has arrived in Camel with General Pucker, sod has, in conjunction with him, given the inhabitants of the town to understand that, unless the ordinances of Hochberg and his employers be obeyed within 48 hours, the execution will proceed unhindered. This period expires to-morrow (Thursday). Prussia bee again given way to the interpretation pat by Austria on the Olusit , s articles; the sovereign authority of the Elector (as you are already aware) is to be I restored, his guilt and the greater crimes of his minister are to be ignored, the people are to submit, and, having submitted, are to come before the repre sentatives of the two great powers with their com plaint.. The result is plain. With thousands of (.:reign troops eating up the wealth of the land, with trade and industry prostrate, it is hardly to be expected, even from the Hessians, that they will venture to state their case in all its fall colours. They will be convicted of passive resolution and re sistance to the just ceders of their sovereign, the con stitution will be declared dangerous, and will undergo those lopping, which Austria and Fronds may see fit to make. The cons'itstion in Herne is doomed. The agents of Manteuffel in HMSO are perhaps doing good in retarding the return of the Elector to Camel until his evil opuccillor, Hassenpfitse, has let him for Dresden. The presence of the originator of all their calamities would naturally decrease the pliancy of the Carolers, and might reader still more obnoxious measures neesseary. I understand that the Eieotor will not return to Cassel until Hassenpflag is on his road to Dresden. _ _ _ Count Alveasleben is to be accompanied to Dresden by Count Flemming. The Austrian representative, Count Beol, is still in S.. Petersburg, where he is Austrian ambessadra. He will hardly be able to get to Dresden in time fee the opening. It is not ex pected, however, that the opening will be delayed in oonergeence, more particularly se Prince Schwar senberg, accompanied by Councillor Werner, will be urgent. The Austrian ambassador here will also be present at the opening sittings. Herr von Man teuffel will leave Berlin on Saturday night or Sunday morning. Baron von Rudt, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, will represent Baden. The Deutsch* Reform defends the expenditure of the millions consequent on the mobilisation, on the ground that they have been spent in the country, and calls on the public to rejoice that it has not been necessary to spread any part of these abroad. The tax-paying public would have been better ples.ed to have kept their quota+ in their pockets, and rejoiced their children with presents or a better dinner than usual on Christmas day. The king came to Berlin this morning, to attend a cabinet council and to review a regiment of the guards. The German papers received this morning bring no news of importance. The Prince of Prussia, after a review of the regiment of guards, declared to the officers whom he assembled around him that the question of pesos or war was by no means yet de termined. The piooeediegs of the commissioners and of the " execution force" in Hew, is exciting the strongest feelings of popular indignation throughout Germany. WURTZ BURG, Deo 14. The society for the support of the Hessian officers who hare recently retired, from constitutional mo tives, from the service, is abolished by the following magisterial edict :—" By command of the govern ment, it is hereby announced that the society for the support of the so-called constitutional o cern and officials is, by the 19th article on the law of association, abolished." Art. 19 is as follows: " Every police authority is required to hinder the assamblinir of any society by which the subversion of the religious, moral, and social principles of the state is threatened." Santur, Doc IL—Voluntary Low 104 j ; Now Loan, Pour-and-a- Halt par Coals , 08j ; National NU, 84} ; Communist Marine Society's Premium, 190; Besk Slum 93j. $ pit ! Pot Daa. 18.—Fire per Cent. Metalligate, 934; Four. ead-aaelf par Craft., 81k. Beak Ohara, 1140. Easaaagv a Laa, 12.38. INTRODUCTION OF THE AUSTRIAN TOBACCO MONOPOLY INTO HUNGARY. The Vienna Gomel*, of the 14ih, contains it me social, Mined by the ministers, recommendiu; the mammies of the goveroment snoupoly of minus into iiongary, DSO sylvania, Creeds, liclavonia, Sonia, mid the Bust; end else • royal dune in which Mt /taperer gives ti this mesa inesiaties the force of Isw. Tim main ground alleged lot this innovation, which follows elate upon • similar estimates of t he salt monopoly, is tb nseasity of giviog unity to the decal systems of the empire. The abolition of the enstomafrentkr, shish oath lately orperated the kingdoms avid mows Made above mimatioud hem the ether ponies oldie 'lapin, has far ther made the operation of the lobes.° euespoly unfruitful and thable is those proviso.. In which it him long It thus legally sr well se politically usessery either to eased the mooepoly to the whole empire, or to abolish it altegether. The ministerial inommial takes um of the many varies. whish have bees mimed for the total entation of the tobeose mosopoty, sad, indeed, easeedes that awt from the s im e taithe of the state, sad epos simple pollteeeso ale moods, it were better to ;leave the eanution of an objets so intimate' to agricaltaral end sommereial industry as tobacco to open sompatition. Two airountanme, how ever, decide the miotetry to wend* these reelamatiou ; the diet, the fact that the mosepoly yields at remit maw than 13,000,000 nodes to the state treasury ; the meeml, that the politieei •sod sommunial elteation ot the empire demands that monstbing may be due at coos to feeniude free intercourse Milne= all the provisoes of the Aostirlein sacciaisky, and attribute the prosure of imam equally over all the oatiesaaties. These fasts made It hopoile to pompon* a decision, while the soodidea of the state tear ray towboat all tratesttala esperimeetiag ea the national revenges. flesh experiment Milt be reserved flat a Weise when the balsam betimes the isoome tad expenditure of the realm shall have bees restated, and whim all the other *mom of revenue shell be gield. lag pleateimaly. Until that period an meet eine that a Attest ablest 44 indirect Walks In sot tit he fossil tom tabus, is the various forms is which is is ellalphOled This greeted, the matins of the article by MOWN of a moupoly of ill eels, has the decided Mummy@ that the impost only aff. me the rummer of the object es which it is laid, an esly exactly io the properties is whisk he seasunos it ; that the revesue le railed - is the smallest meals anumenta, the amber et which le is the power et blot who has to pay It; sad that It is left to the Is.. chaise at sae to withdraw ken dm paymmit of the tag by thaw of the artists. I. lamaseries the Debra, mosopoly law lieagvy sad the Assist WOW% lanes, the govern. meat will strums the right of appointing its estate to whoa alma theesltivstonsttsbescomay legally ell 084 predate". It will oleo nominate the establishment., aid the tomato sad en which the suusufacranre of tobacco leaf may be serried en; end, further, will regulate the expo:maim of the raw and sarmiafeaqtml ankh, to foreign yowls. limy of the ioluibitenta of Hangary now minute tobacco for tlitir ewe 0011161711liti0111. To these We right will be outiaueel wader certain reotrietions ; for future, it eta only be emir• eisrd by ikon who cultivate their own freehold; the piste of land devoted to tob.ceo cultivation mut be 'aides ground, and near to the dwelling of the eallvator, w oe be seder his own rs potable pardisaahip ; its testae mom bear a proper proportioa to the n aireamate of the ae sal smoking mombeis of the it. Tido tobacco eo cul tivated must only be used fur smokieg la pipes, sod it meet not be permitted to rind it late muff, roll it into titan, or twist it into pigtaiL As it would sot be jut to em, tons the prisons to privileged Item a tobacco tar, a studard of ewers .nt, based upon the when cultivated, Is proposed. The mosopoly In the abov.-mestioned proviso's 5. proposed to date from /Limit I, 1851. Is the Interval government will save to provide warehouses. managers, sad lb. si•www, Oaten for cooduatiog the sow busiesse of the stem. Blade I a large ostabot of penes. saw nag god is the manufacture or sale of tobacco will lad thasadre pradsded hoot fol. ECEMBER 21. 1850. 111 Sib of sapid* IS 4 4 ladeaal• your rrgulation Too prin . -• of part A in llhi maser to be siiiiited tree of duty into Algeria; mad that lardy artiefes sisal be admitted into the oolooy on payment of the tame duty as they are subjected to is the metier-country. Tee ob ject of the bill, twassipwady, is to pleas Frames sad Algeria on terms of perfect commercial reelprooity. The first speaker was M. Deefobert, who at ones length criticised the measures adopted for the last few yeers in the colony, and declared them to he of stab a character as to reader the creates' sue else of the colony exceedingly problematical. The hon. gentleman declared himself opposed to the plan .(general colonisation now in emerge of trial in Alge ria, and quoted 'me pansy" from a pamphlet, pub lished by General Cavaignao in 1839, as i n favour of his opinion. General Cavaignao being thus referred to, rose in his place, and assured the hoe. gentleman that he bad quite misunderstood the views put for ward in the pamphlet spoken of, as be (the General) bad always been in favour of a prudent system of co lonisation. After further some discussion, the debate was adjourned, at the request of M. C. Depth, the reporter. On the resumption of the debate to-day, M. Woloweki made a speech, which occupied two hour', in which he opposed both the principles and details of the measure, but there was so much conversation and noise in the home that very few of his remarks reached the gallery. The mesture was strongly sop , ported by M. Nagy, who declared that, although he bad been personally long opposed to the complete oc cupation of Algeria, he thought that in the present state of matters, the bill, amended as it had been by the committee, would be useful, and was even indis pensable. M. Darblay then rose to oppose the mea sure, after which M. Defame said that he thought that at all events a bill so intereetiog to Algeria and France should be allowed a second read ing. The discussion was then closed, and it was canned by a large majority that the house should pass to a second reeding. It was then resolved that some iuterpellations with respect to the mode in which cloth was supplied to the army should be postponed till to-morrow, after which the Aesemb!y adjourned. The first meeting of the new club formed under the auspices of Count Mole, was held yesterday evening. It was thought that Count Mold himself would have taken the chair as senior, but M. Ferdinand AVM who was present, having clearly proved that he was the senior by some months, he was called to the place of honour. The business done was very - limited. An attempt to bring on a discus sion on the dotation question, was checked by Count Mole, who declared that the question should not be discussed until the bill was introduced by the government in the Assembly. It mu accord iugly resolved unaoireously that the further con sideration of the subject should be adjourned. The meeting also determined onsoimously to oppose the proposition of M. Victor Lefraico, relative to the new electoral law. All the members who addressed the meeting on the subject expressed their opinion that the new electoral law applied equally to the elm- Lion of the President of the Republic and that of the representatives of the people. Out of the 47 members of which the club is composed 37 were present. The Union, in alluding to the new Legitimist Committee, says, " We repeat on this subject that our political friends do not constitute either a directing committee, nor a ministry, and that the bonds of mutual esteem and of a great cooformity of principles aloes form these meetings in which their line of con duct is deliberated upon, but ism rvieg to all a perfect independence of judgment sad action. The metallic reserve of the Bank of Franco has in creased both in Paris sad in the branch-banks, the augmentation in the former being 21 millions, and in the latter 11 millions. The dimouut accommodation has increased in Paris 1 of a million, and in the latter f of a million, the Amount of the former being 63,068,6121 r. and of the latter 87,6134,5841 r. The protested bi lls have declined to 167,000 tr. On the side of the liabilities. the notesin circulation hive declined I in Paris 31 millions, and increased in the departments of a million. TIN amount-current of the treasury has increased 101 sullies', the present amount being 83,588,048 fr. Private aceommentrrent in Paris have fallen off 48 millions, aid increased in the provisoes about 1 million, the amount of the former being 74,403,370(r., and of the latter 27,288,0713 fr. The whole amount of the metallic reserve is now 468; millions to 4873 millions of notes is circulation. *amt. , inebittie , on t, 24 Ileigm.l, IND Roman Una 11140 744 Do. 44 5O . 1650 Do. •11 Memor deeds Piedmont Sp.CL 1640 64 40 . Neat Me y _ru Oll7 40 Borman.-Bt. Oennain, 495; Vanilla (right bank). 166; Ditto (lett bank). 168 75 ; Park sad Orleans, 860; Paris sad &mien, 662 60; Rouen and Harr., 267 60; Id 'lles and Brims, 193; Strasbourg and Bale, 137 60• Centre, 410 ; Orkin' and Bordeaux, 400; North. 478 76; Paris and Strasbourg, 367 60 ; Tears aad Ramos. 247 60 ; liontines and Troves, 05; Dieppe and feesap, 184; Bordeaux and Torte, 36. THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 21, 1 wised nearly limy household ; "Dowsioretreet" heaspeksi thaw Row has "New r i a i tt n tVala hoshwom by the *ow lotlviottoo. the Iso malty that the authorities York" spoken I , The saber wee has Wed gold _ _ ~~~~~ t! th•ra. am salat°. ma. n , thew in detail, antillnerely sad wail : t the f i tevezlisa go watlio7-Zio rose sad by the haltined, 1 ie. ew 41*, ee as wed ' sad Qfter, to grata ea isideweidedies lig appeared In the &Immo at of 'i to terhil - to Ss wets prods 7as hare lived entirely by the air or eDo distinct soogaiatillOkonikiii of It hap wiled 1, to send' retire of 10011 = 1 ". gag Iva ho owl=la ;that at the time Ni a s e prized taw . ra m no b la t o . goverituene wa ts se he set up. Seth I. ~ pro bilh) ; . i t A .. N0 . 16m Resew. Is (*be in the ewer, else &tenuity. linty opplipivill. that tba ceased entirely, though 'beery M ' an °Meese' offeriag to Janke he funeral palls, over the whole is ber distress. What bee Dowsing -strat west f- FRANCE bald) the dimmer, whilst it Probably a deeps* . Autbilg iii, t Oh yea-it vo l t -_ PARIS, FILIDAT > hnttno• Woks of this measure an that the productions of Port Royal, obtained little wnt wan time ago • Illeihroar, sad of roster a De ileir d way authorities. Port Royal, though "GUT.' We, who beset of sue hater i s the Legislative m om * yesterday di st y our ties en important place, beam, nity-who let etely4bitetwww of ow eitarby 'smarter-left, the debate on the bill for the regulation frequently in the wooents of -we are sever ire is ow heoevolenee"-eao• by of the oommeroiel ultimo was continued. Toe /mis- treat the island, is in reality a "Downing-street alone I It is, indeed, soother eon- ty. waterside town, bailt on a villein Proof, if proof were weotiog , that We Worn Algeria are to be adsaitted free of duty in every part rasa from the wain a cowed- e ither give a p Downing-street-or give .i. .of Ek. French territory ; that French articles Sr. in - .... • ._ .._ _.l-:••...I 2..... .1 , .1.0. hors •loorin 1 Yee Mama. For Yawl Opeolagal/gbaL Lows& Codas. 57 70 1 57 SO 57 90 57 30 117 10 93 33 1 93 23 93 70 93 2i 93 70 • • • w • 0 . • L4OOO : at jib; 24 VC 10 dap« 14 .3 * mew ri !Apra HELP WANTED FOR JAMAICA. TO TIM Roma or TIES DAILY MM. BM—Allow ms, tbroush your oolamws, to urge Olt the gownsman; the aseemity of Kadin/ a stsa-etwar steamer with 'tactician sad servos' to Jamaica 'Wheat delay. The seadhlea of that aeforsaato island is truly deplorable, sad as age eta tell what the sad will tot. Barely Jimmie* boo mere skim for relief as old Zealand taw as tle ll.ited Stator, the goo* of whoa are, to their Immortal honour, as I sot by the Doily Nan. about to seed meatuses te this aalseppy Juaideeas. It wee stated is the Timor that setae and amelstaaasargeous were seat oat to Jamaica is the West Witt mall pocket Medway, w►it► lett Ragland as the 17th. I regret to dad that that stateliest is ao sash porroaawant out by the packet. laude', Dos. 20. Town, itt, L T. THE CUOLEP4 IN JAYAICA.—The folletring is tilt woo from a lour to eserehaste to Leaden; dated atop. levitate,. 12 : " The lash mesa point from Boditras woad on take freight or possogen hem here. They were refused. mishit was desposhed without 'o li o' eons loon helm bee time Is order to illabk bar to so to the Ha rms* tree from otareatlse. Chaos hilts most malignant tam has oohed ow shores, sad is weedier throughout the lasad. Bakoaeately oar popolatim is 'quits =pre pared p e so most it, and they hoe raised eves until now to ellaw the aosseary mesas to be adepOod to shame *Or ' n (111401. We fear the &moieties will be dreadfuL On one estate sear Lwow& 70 woe awried off eat of 100. They refer to doom th• 'dishes ef the diseased, sans ulna by isms, sal online te keep up their wakes over the deed holies-o maim whisk to =say eases has brought the patinae* fate our allomes. Is this sty sad the Otbet *otos poverty sad treated the seat seesaw, essiorte bare greatly iamosed the disoseb although the greatest exer tion have bees suds to finely food, blaskete,te " BEIBNAIINII AND Panama TlllollAPllii.—Ar reogesteats are sow bass leads (says a correspondent) for proseelisp with the woks N the sabieerine telegraph bowies Zaino' sad Biesise. light different lieu. of eeststesiestioa are to be ledd. dews, at a gnat exposes ' , sad the satire works will be eemplood, it is *spewed, before the 'adonis' Exeibitioa is May next. The iastrusteat adopted will be dm* of ildoesse. Brett, of Hanover mum. 1101114 interesting eadleaseemeal experiment have jest bon bfood with this Ostrom"), es the wins el the Admiral, v twos London and Pertmewth. Madly granted for that purpose by their louldilw_ _Time @swim - ate more wit. mead by several of *dr isslatips. and by a deputation ea I the part of the eld'elsetriet tiespaph Company, emnistivp of Wesel Wyld, the seglesur, searetury, ate. On Thursday the ereseassiceffsell ewe wiled ea toesalbeediess at White bait to Pommes* sad b. k (sew ewe Modred 'also ; and yesterday. sure efatwpy WINS the sapabilities tits lastrussent, cos pinsod *free end of Oa wires. To. messages cunt frees the hammer in plain capital letters 1 (with A. sees sad points when ), diepeesinr with the trouble sod lose of time in tsunami , sad the errors ineldestal thereto. Tba supseltelty al tide sods over the system of does end strokes, litibistebtar estr it s tatift• vs* mobs*. The Zero's= and Amnion' Wipe" Coesposy purpose aasg Ibis bortnakent elm is Qtourt• WINDSOR, Duo. 20. The Qom valiant this naming in the !Monett. — TN Repel Family took *Aim mad pony exereist.—Prineo Albert went oht doming. thil-aeoreleg, accompanied by Berl Granville, the Marquis Moresby, and Lord Seymour ; Last. Colonel Son. 0. B. Phipps end Colonel Mesmeric erre le E•torsdastoe upon his - Royal Highness—Mr. Water MOW, oa j.weller, of Dah li a, had the bontr of submitting to her MMeaty the Queen, and his Royal Highness the Pdasa Albert, a endow enelebt Irish brooch celled the Tars Beeetb.—Tbe Dake and Mateo of Bedford, the Marquis and Ilarchlonor of Westminster end Ludy Oetavia Gros venor, this Melon sad Mat &looms of Owner and Lady M. Cecil, the fibrosis of Granby, the Bad sad Conches Spen cer and Lady G. 8 tionoer, the Out sad Ceaeteeo Granville, Lord and Leaky Seymour end the Hrs. Mir Bt. Meer, Lord Geer , " Lennox, and Sir William Gibson Craig lift the Cads r, Cesorg. tadq. The Dachas of Cambridge the Hereditary Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Jiwilembarg 8 relit.. sad the Princess Mary, arrived in tows peierday from Kew, and visited her Royal Highness the Dashes of Glomoseter. at Gloucester Homo. Their Royal Highnesses retuned to Kew is the afternoon. Mr. Glyn, M.P., attended at the Home-aloe, yes- wrday to dearer to 11:r George Grey an addreu to the Queen from the Mayor, Corporation ' and Inhabitants of Kendal on the resent sots of papal aggression, and also an address to the Quoit from the inhabitants of Crewe to the same effect. Oulocel W. L. Fronton, M.P., waited upon Sir George Grey yesterday at the Hosaeoffte with an address ' for presentatien to ber Majesty, lisped by upwards of 1,000 of the label/assail of Weymouth and Malcomthe Regis, on the Intim of the late papa wreathe. The Tromsatlantie Packet Station Commission held a meeting yesterday at the Board of Trade. Pr.sent : Hon. Williams Cowper (thairman). Sir Jams* Gordis K.O 8., Sir Joke F. Haffiolui, !C.C.S., Captain James Ellerby, and Lord Hebert (merman) Lord Montsegle, Lord John Cbiobreter, Mr. Fits stashes Freseb, M.P., Mr. M'Callagh,M P., Sir de Lacy Evan', Rey. P. Daly P.P., Mr. 071therty, and a numerous deputation, had es i nterview with the Transatlehtio Packet Station Co mmission. Lord and Lady John Russell left Pembroke Lodge, Richmond Perk, peterday ienroing, for Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire, on a visit to the Deka of BAltord. E.ri Granville returned to town yesterday, from a visit to the Queen at Windsor Castle Despitones were sent off yesterday evening from the Colonial 08the for the Gourmets of the North American Colonies. MR. BARON PARILE, LORD AMPTRILL.-It is rumoured lo the losol circles that Bum Perks will be called to ON Roam of Pears by the till. of Bayou Ampthlll, of Ampthill Fmk. is the county of Bedford. (?v he Mites Gesnife.) Dowstsc-rraarr, Bac. 20.—The Queen hen been pleased to appoint inset, Cart.r, En., one of the Pointe Jed4ire of the province of New Brunswick, to be Chief incites for that province. WurrEHAtt., Dec. 19.—The Queen has been pleased to appoint dir John Hominy. Knight, her Majesty's Attorney-G. G e h l; George 3.111101 Turner, En, OBS of her Idlesty's Counsel; Richard Bothell, Eq , one of her Malecy's Counsel ; James Parker, E.q., one of her klejesty'e Coensel ; William Page Wo 41, B q., oae of her Majesty's, Cannel; Chas. Crompton, Esq, buriater et-law; and Wm. allilhourne Jssa. E.q , barrister-at-la er,to be her Nejealy's onmetissioners for inquiring into the promo, practice, and spinal of plesdnie in the Court of Chancery. I CROWN-OFFICE, DEC. 19.—Member returned to serve in this present parliament for the °aunty of Limerick : Wyndham Cingel, Esq., in the room of Samuel Dickson, Esq., cetimed. THE EXHIBITION OF 1851. THE CATSLOOns.—The preparations for printing the catalogs. are now progressing rapidly. The commis simian have issurd very mined. instructions as to the mode in which exhibitors are to dearth* their articles for insertion in th. catalogue. Those Intended to contain tbe descriptions of "raw materials end produce" Sr. printed in black ; manufactures in red; machinery is blue ; and the floe arts is yellow. These instructions, in company with the followiog circular, hem been also sent to foreign countries: "Otto. for the Bseentive Committee, 1, Old Palace yard, Westminster, Dec. 7,1850 " bebalt of the Executive Committee, I have the honour to enclose to you, for the information of the exhibitors of your country, °optes of the rules for regulattg the revptien of articles to h. exhibited; and I have to request that you will have the kind.. MI to make them known to the exhibitors, and use your influence to ems* them to be followed. I oval myself of this opportunity to wend hkewis• copies of the forms for making out the catalogue which have been moored for the use of British exhibitors. Alter making any modifleanons which may be asosseary in the ease of the exhibitors of your country, I have to my that it is most desirable these forms should be adopted for the compilation of the cataloguo by the exhibitors of all nations, and to express a hope that you will see region to cense similar forms to be prepared, filled up, collected together, and transmitted altogether by your commission to the Executive Committee. on or before the 31st of January, 1861. Accept the assurance. of my high coninderation, and allow me to have the honour to subscribe toyed:, sir, '' Year most obedient servant R 1111) Chairman of the Eaeinnive Committee. These forms direct every exhibitor shall, in distinct writing, give his samaine, Christian name, country, address stating the nearest post town, capacity is which the exhibitor appears, 'Molter as producer, importer, manufacturer, designer, inventor, or proprietor ; the name end description of every allele of importance or class of articles exhibited the commereial name of each article In Saglish, and, if known, in French and German; the actientille some; the plies where obtained ; the place when exported and imported ; the eonstumption ; the principal noes ; whether patented; when price is the element of competition; the price at which Me exhibitor can sell wholesale; in invention the Boesky ; superiority of 11114011d011; new use of known materials ; new combinations of materials. The following reguletkut in important: " Her Meiesty's commissionen have consented to snow inspirations of the articles exhibited to be !mitred in the lugs catalogue, at the ri quest and at the expense of the ex hibitors, after approval by the executive committee. Eshit tiitsce desirous so avail themeless of this privil.ge must 001111Mingelt• their wishes Immediately. Communications are to be addressed to K. Digby Wyatt, Esq., secretary of the executive committee, at the building fur the exhibition, Hyde park, Ltsisdon, marked au the outside ' Catalogue.' " This clause hue given rise to warm disputes, and, coupled with the declaration which the catalogue contractors hsve just issued, is likely to lead to a controversy. The declxra ;ion in question is to this effect:—" That drawings of articles to be exhibited given to others than the oontsuctors, will not appear la the official illustrated catal teas. Announcements of various illustrated and other catalogues of the exhibition of 1861 having been made, the contractors who are entrusted by her idhilsnies occentiosionen with the preparation eau printing of the official catalogues hereby give notice that other works than these lamed by them, professing to be cotalogues ' mast be unofficial and unauthorised." Oa this point the .Eapsositor of yestirday has this comment: " We are left, thenfors, to War that the advertisement is i istended as a threat that, if drawings are given to others than the contactors, the articles will be omitted from the ofLial Illustrated catalogue. We are not inclined to believe that the commiedonen would tend their sanction to any each atniasorment ; they surely mold have founded that the contract to Masan. Spicier and Clones to sell the °Saba catalogue at the doors of the Behibition should include a prohibition of the entire public press trout giving illustrated or unillustrated lists of the ends exhioite& The sommierionere could never have oontemtlated an order against drawing or writing In the Paste et Indwatry, ow the passibility of the elettfetOri essumiag the power to pat into the eatitlogne or leave out whatever may salt their purpeee. The manufacturers have a right to do lust In they Penn with the goods intended for exhibition • they any first exhibit them in the los lily, may give draw ings to the press, or have them lithogrsphied for private or publie distributims, out as they think will beet atm their own interest: the of the sontractoire is simply to print la the catalogue every Betide of exhibition." GERMANY. " &spay will be represented at the Exhibition by about 240 .shibitors. and the eentributioes from there will oseuPY rather ISOM than 6,000 square feet el Sur pees, end about 9,000 square fast of wall space. The coatributions are sub. divides thus Raw Materials: Flex prepared in the Foppish sinner, and probably lose pip fine wool.-2. Ma chinery ; It was exported that this diSsion would be very toll, but all the annonneenenta of larger articles from Cassnite have been palled, and then will only be loss smaller ones, mug them 8 oluse's electric Miegraph.— 3. Muniaceured Articles Tub division will be of the greatest importune, as everything saaufactured ie Saucy will he represented in it, except perhaps piensfortee, of whiel none have is yet been aanonseed. As the details of this division are too interesting to be sorely glanced at, and we have net epees to eater into unread ire to-day, we will refer to it at more lee mb on • future on setae.— 4. Art :In this division Pressor Reimehers splendid growls,' Maria on the Coepse of Chris,' and a large model of the Golesehthal bridge-works, are particularly note. worthy Saxony being a inannisotarieg assetry, as we bore before &Wady had osessinn to remark. the third division will be the most Papists and elaborate, sad preparatioos is it have bees going on for use time already, and, es Saxony is now the lest agitated of the larger German stets, the ersahufeeturess have been able to Slow their peaceful ocenpadoes more uninterruptedly. We ore obliged to the kimonos of Mr. Straus of Planets, tied of Professor Weinlig is Dresden, the heed of the flexon commission f r the Exhi bition, sad director of the lest Industrial Exhibique of LAW", foe the minstrel part of this valuable istlorsaation." —Ezpoeitor. Hauovia.—The Hanover R.:present has commiesloned Direeter Esnnanh, and Professors KS slam sad Henn, on visit our ladastrial Basibition in 111 next, and after wards to travel in such parts of England, Scotland, and Ire lead, as are distinguished for mss facturiog industry. THE RIOT AT BIRKENHEAD. EXAMINATION OF THE PR lS o l ll huer , tri,‘ After the despatch of our parcel on Th a w. Superintendent Ride, of the Liverpool police form, --- ", 7 0 I remember the 27th of November. On thet d a d ; sent to Birkeshead with thirty men. I arrived h:7 past elevens, and was marched up and into the T I found a crowd collected about the Towa from t a ' r e acleared4 acted (ll upon, p o a 6 : ( 7 In or "f the th. 'e ft 'wu i ng e aefita Hall, m w th l tihatit%"446:4l4E single file to clear the space in front of the centred it the Town Hall. We sane oat from the pollee-8E -- d o : our object was to clear a space immediately in frou ce e r' building, to give aeons *co rgola who wire Kole etre- the meeting. At first the crowd gave way. but up • b.; called to by the performs who were standing in the ' roe. ' steadfast, they refused to move, and endeavour e d ro re m theme. Ives of the spun trom which they had reti4;" preemie' closely on the polka. Whilst 1 was *teas e d emt b & endeavouriog to persuade those immediately is trout With. way, I heard a soles behind me of p en ali se. I tweed rne and I 6116 the officers tiring their st i c k s. I meld tqbow It commenced. The officers dispersed The co•!b, sadf It! lowed them into the street. The mob afterwards refaced with re . te r f0:::: threeleld or more. They came up Muketat erv. Th. about belt - pot 12 . They yys `. were armed din bludgeons, and I saw two or three police, and the sub seemed to be in an infuriated sa te se for a reinforcement of • hund re d additional m' ee Shortly a ft er thin the Rev. Mr. Brown arrived. I him address the people. He celled upon the people to e s quiet, not to commit a breech of the peace , and to deli up the bludgeons they had at his feet. They no m p di s vee w i t h his r , quest. Mr. Brown then went into the 't o n Hall. Immediately alter he went into the Town Ball, th er e" was a rub made to gain admittan ce b y t h e door that lash to the police-o ffi ce, by men of the same chareetr bad before removed. They were siting in a Hoot:awe , way. The police et the sr trance p d them ',No g llso mob appeared to consist of dock labourers and cur tore. I saw very few persons respectably drersed amorggii Mem. On the police reacting their adtaksion they wary obliged to as their sticks. This appeared to bate km by the men on the road, wro formed • dense crowd, for the began to throw "tones and brick ends ; thou f a ll s " on t o mob as well as the police. I dispersed the mob, cad they retired into the general body on the road. Toe rows eon. tinned to be thrown, and I formed the men, some 4 or lt, outside, and directed them to charge the mob. We hie• needed in clearing the space in front, and called upon the officers inside to come out, From the confesioe wt eb p uiled they did not. Saw handy di of stones thrown ; the windows and sashes were demolished. 1 Will assaulted myself. From my experience as a superintendent Os emergency was such u justified ths poli ce the wsticks. I have been able to identity Fonda and fleemy. I sew them at the !nineteen in Bi!keshead. Atter the matt bed been removed the first time, Pude came and paraded is front of the Town Hell, and said It was brutal work?! Hagerty was In the road with other.. I did not ate Iliad. anything; but I law him in conversation. This washer the first riot had been dispersed, and about the time attar mappearance. Cross examined—My orders were to Tr port myself to lir. Superintended kl'Hargh at Birkenhead. When I marched into the Town Hall, M'Hargh re quests me to take me see round to the other aide, and go in by the door of eke nperietendenbregistrar's cffice or the magistrate's p r i ma door. I filed the men in, and I suggested to him the de. arability of removing the men that were occupying the whole ores, and in front of the doen. lam • pike °filar in Bit. kenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire. All the police are 116 66 in in the same way. In this cue it was my suagution; and it W6B left entirely to my dieeretien, becatme I sou the niny officer who commended the party who did so. I remised no iorructions of any kind from the magiatratee, except making the !application for additional force. The crowd had occupied the space and were shindig in front of the dote at half-past 11. Toe persons at the rear were not wres t forward at this time. They were +Mediae quiitly sea peacefully at that time. The area within the pouttem not as full es it could hold. I thick 600 or 600 punt might stand in the area. Ns spot was perfectly mew; they were standing in such groups. I placed no man in me rest of the market. The crowd could have very easily Mind without getting over the well et either end. By doing m's they would , have lost their placer, union the crowd in the street was removed. The In! ring VFW called for 1 o'clock. I didn't see the crowd armed when I first arrived; had they been generally I most have noticed it. I .0 self Birnie several times during the day. I recollect seeing Bina about half-past eleven o'clock. I can't ay how he war employed. He was in the eastern end of the buildieg. I saw him in front of the area before twelve o'clock engaged with the other officers in removing the cud. I don't know whether he had a staff or not; my imprrsioa is that he had a stick, and that be was assisting is disputing the crowd. The men did not retire as quickly as I could wish. Mr. Superintendent firliergh was the chief officer in command. The epees before the Town hall wet clewed fiat at a quarter before twelve o'clock. Then were no policemen I mint no polio. a r i a n v e e tod it t oon t n h rnt ar Cio n w t a n d e to re gr ine " ou ile i i:a la t b l i e i b ng u n t e r i e th g . h oc. e b lp m C i ed to an "a l on tr op d il l t ifs o mt i nte r to e: th : h l e irrin at ir ::: tho t ie w en d. d t is r o eN l ps w i a"o rse e : : ::: : :: t i t emd co thi en , : i o n l i w d c f a eo s hp : e e e ep l e r a e :a n oc i t t rt h i h t n: :: .4 m :dil l :ca l t' iro P twei nm uthe :o emiLso ware nt y l ua t utr this t ad'MPuit t h im ely2 e. ow'ale M ree :. k W ar. m i Th il e ia de rn .y Jnlldieldnalnwl°,:sP:s:t:thhetbldoortitll3, sad one or two ether gentlemen • bat I don't know whether they were magistrates . This was :nee the melee' of the crowd. When the crowd came in front of the Town-hall they eider e bl o w :tuf o wila to . co si m gpoe.. e raisi ove d r edir th or e inth w yk al ea l, etpu b in u mg t ptu fo ke ur twoo or fie .kdee r pbo o cth l i ke lie rro ir n row the wall. Some persons of respectability were adeei•ted into the area for the purposes of being admitted to the meeting. I should distinguish in this way : there was a bill pond op at the Town-hall, stating the meeting was to be attended by ratepayers. lam enabled, by my knowledge, to dituaguith between a navigator and a decently dressed pence, thouth L cannot distinguish between a decently drewd person and a ratepayer. There were not, to my knowledge, pumas appointed to distinguish between ratepayers and others. The bill only specified ratepayers." I deal know by whom the bill was signed. I does know the nue her of ratepayers is Birkenhead. I don't k..ow whatnot. ber the hall will contain ; but I think 400 or 500 perms would fill it. I understood the doers were open to the public when perwa. were going in. The centre door wet pened that day, bat I don't know tact it b is existence. I mad* a report ; and, in conneiiiin with s sop plementary report which wee afterwards made. I took the statement of the men. The Rev. Mr. Brown arrived beton dee second attack. I wt, quit* near to him. 1 bead the Rev. Mr. Brown speak. Mr. Bretbereon and another eetholio clergyman wee with him. Mr. Bretherton bad a up on, aced a brown overcoat. I don't recollect ulnae Mr. Boothe:ten to go into the moving. I law him titer, addle's ing the magistrates in the room. A copy of my report was promoted to the council; the original is an the bob of the poliewoffice. I cannot say by whom the first bloc was struck. The court then adjourned until next morning. Yesterday the examination of the prisoners was resumed. The Brat witness examined was Mr. Riceard Brown, boot and shoemaker, residing opposte the Town Hall is Birkenhead. He we. an eyewitoess from a room window over his shop of the whole of the riot, from it, commence' runt to its close ; and, in answer to (pastime from the counsel for the promeutioe, he described it in detail. Hr twice eight end nine o'clock of the morning of the 17th of November (the day of the riot) he saw a great number of ;anon' in front of the Town !flail. and consulted neigh. hour as to doting his premises. He &wed shout 11 o'clock. and about 20 minutes alter it he saw the police strikisg the mob. Some of whom retaliated. Before he locked he door end west up stain 40 or 50 men pawed he shop, after the first row was over, and be heard some of them say that the would go to the docks and get weapons. One of them mid, 1 e I'll go and get a stick sod knock their brains out." About 20 minutia to one he observed a large camber of men cornice toward' the Town-hall, flourishing weapons in the air. Oas of them had a poleaxe. After describing the g I facts connected wick the riot, the wittier deposed to seeing the primer Brown after the riot, standing by in an excited state. Ile sew the prisoner Pollan holding a weep= and menacing the police. He sew Pollee-constable Kelly lyieg opposite be door, epperently deed. In a few minutes Kelly got up and struggled towards the Town hall. As Kelly was endeavour ing to get into she Town hall wither sew • man whom be knew strike kith with a poker. Mr. Conway—Never mind naming him. He B not here. In contieuation, the witness deposed to seeing the wiadows of the Town-hall broken after the polies had got loside the hall; and to the Rey. Mr. Browne and Mr. Brettorton addreedug the mob. The wittier underwent a lengthy George Stephen. lames Kelly, of the Liverpool polies force, who was mat dangerously wounded by the mob, wt, wet examined. lie identified the prisoner ream as taking an actinism' is the riot. Poliewoffirser Fallon, of the Birkenhead police, ideetifird the pdsonen Ilsuarty and Griffin. Haggsrty attempted to go into the ineedng sad witness entrap:el to Pub biro back, whew Haggerty raised his hand and struck Dim. tom lolol 4 l l ll . bead to defend himself. That was about eke deeleleageame the disturbance, when the bricks and MOM Mime theorem. Pathan was in the first mob. The pieces Griffin Ind Haggerty were concerned in the owed .in. Wham had known Griffin four years. Griffin hod Webb bin .hand, and wee fighting polio:eaten No. 41 01 re Mbaband force. Ia cane urination by Sir George Stephen, the wit" a midi he had no general knowledge as to who were aid who am erione tel o l o w t h re eth tepe er ye th re e p in im ß r ir d ke w nh as ead ri . t uTphbeyplaciird did not Specify what class of ratepayer would be admitted. Could eeusld.ered himself bound to obey it, and ascutatbd"uitponY' but 141 • kept. at the door of the Town hall, IMO ea begs and other people who wen going to end =ate: epeeulation. Kept out all those w h o m be teas were not ratepayers. Was not aware that it we n gellerted to the magistrates that the mob, after having bee diegoseed, were avaseesabling armed. Notwithstanding that ha taw ea armed mob reassembling, did oot report it mwskillalea. The pass-word was mot to the ouperintendea br edam N 0.23, of the Birkenhead force. Doing the .. t terbate the prisoner Haggerty seised witness's stick, end _ hreettempt to recover his stick the prisoner fell. 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