The Express. — London, England, 1850-02-18 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. PARLIAMENTARY B NIN USINESS FOR THIS EVEO. HOUSE OF LORDS. NOTICE Or MOTION. Lord STANLBY to neve, that time he Mid besee the Mow soneepeadonso hawses the .hid maelmasse el Armagh sad the earteative paterwires4 fa Ow menthe ef Jane sad July, MO; slan asides of Infavadese se SIN esairakokay is tekrease se lay *vested to tete pleas ea the 11th of My kat, sad el listraisisee W the who WNW w atered airs to 0. 7sa ll atria . ..Y.. s IMPOISII- Wisdoms boa the Wftwaliery ssagletestes sad ossetelndery Misers es to the prestellage el the Itik of Ja_ly, 1 849 , !al -I pert of Ulster ; sba, espy of lattnietioas to w. Berwick, , seeses=t e the sonbeies of Toly, IMO ; et Jae realise sad John Porter, =m.o.. Qiiesab Bassi fa Mary ters lase, sad of the melt sonesed se the &Sir& ci John Porter, sad wribed thereby ; sad she, espy of say elleiel report to the Lord Lirstsaaat er the Lord Chanceller .1 Ireland, of et the petty asaideas held at Castlewellaa IS the rta t f lage fleptuaber sad the 9th of October, 1649. HOUSE OF COMMONS. PUBLIC BUISINIIIL—ORDERS OF THE DAY. SICOND R/tADIMOS Goviramest ; Parliamentery Voter, Le. (Ireland): Elections (Inland) Bills. Rarour.---Distremad tiaras Advance and Repaymeat of Admires (Ireland). Coloirrrass.—Party Procrioas (Ireland) ; Pinta (llsedresey) Repeal Rills. NOTICE OF QUESTION. DIIIMANI AND RUSSIA.-111r, SANDARS, to oak the noble ler the Secretary for Faro _Affairs, if It be true that the Danish goverment trio rehrea to renew the armi stice of the 10th of July last; arid, if so, whether the noble lord considers as a natural coasequecom the renewal of the blockade of the Premise parte of the B sltic and the Elbe. NOTICE OF MO nos ON ORDER OF THE DAY. Oo question of soma reeding of Australian Colonies Governorat Bill, Mr. SCOTT, t• snore that that stage of the bill be postponed until further papers on the 'rubric be laid on the table of the house. INDEPENDENT NOTICES OF MOTION. Bremer or viz Horr—Lord JOHN RUSSELL, That upon Thursday, the llth day of April art, lad every alternate Thursday following, orders of the day have prece dence of Retires of motions.—Mr. MACKENZIE, to move, r an renamed, that spa Thursday, the 11th day of April near, and every Thar day followlag, onion of the day have precedres of notion of motions ; bat that the right shall sot - Ise reserved to her Majesty's mintsters of government eras at the bead of the list. LANDIARD AND TINANT (lIIRLAND) BILL—Sir W. SOMERVILLE, to ask for leave to bring in a bill to pro vide esupeasation to tenants foe improvemenli effected by them la sorsa arse, and to mead the law of kindles d and kart in Ireland. firmness' Lumens, Ac.—Lord DUDLEY STUART, to move for tetras of toe amber of licences granted for hawking for the yew ending the 6th day of October, 1849, distinguish*/ garni Irma* aid *sal for gold and silver. Of the amount paid for lierseer, distinguishing the amour of general Borer sad those for gold and silver, for the said year ending the feth day of October, 1849. Of the number of parsons committed to prison for kawkinz without Wear or licences for the said year ending the nth day of October, 1849. Oi the time served to prison by such venom committed to prison ke the said year ending the sth asy of October, 1849. Aed of the lost incurred for the support and keep of each penes committed to prison flr hawking with out Ileenee or licences, for the said year ending the btb day_ of October. 1849, and the general rawest thus incurred. klautorinrux Woannottas.—Mr. WYLD, that the report el Dr. Farr and Mr. Grainer. to the General Board of Health, ea thirty-iipht metatrobtan workhouses, dated , the 26th sky of March, 1849, be upon the table of the ' boner, and Ward. ?ruin Llneuter—Mr. BWART, to nominate the Beset Committee ea ?obits Libraries Ewart, Lord Seymour, Mr. Disraeli, Sir Harry Verney, Mr. Charter* Mr. Banbury Mr. George Ham Hamilton, Mr. Ikorerain, lie. Mires. Mr. Creswell Lewis, Sr John Weir, lie. Tklabaseme, Mr. Mariason, Mr. Kershaw, and Mr. WyM, hectare-a or LANDS Btu. Mr. CORNIWALL LEWIS, bill I. authorise the reknit, of certain lands, in permases of the Fifth Aerial General Report of the In skean Quadrants for England and Wake, and t• ea- Ina the proseediage la the matter of the Comma Wood berme. CotIITT ALLOWANCI TO Pooa PAISONIIIII.—Mr. CLIF FORD, stan d the rams paid sannally by each esunty, under re Aet 63 Geo. 3, e. 113, for the maintenance it pose primmer la the Queen's Beer sad Fleet Prison; to whom W mewl is paid, and the umber of poor prisosere at pm geniis receipt et it. GA. CONIPANTIII.—Mr. HUME, rotors et statement, km eery gam asempaay established by eat of parliament to the United Kingdom, stain/re s naval acts et parliament gain whir essabUshed, the Mee per 1,000 cable feet at whisk ear amormy so ceepseades have snored gee in each of the three years sire 1846 to 1649, and the avenge pries of the soak lased by the crimpy la each year for the saw period; aka, stria; the assort of lied capital Jarred by ezh o c gin eempeay, and the rats per rat. of dividendto the ee proprietor on their stares in each year sire tint date Oa ratiasation of Parliameatary Papa, No. 734, of San, 1847). gfte erinvos. OUTOODICI NAILS. TM nails fir Gibraltar, Malta, Greene, the lonian Lianas, kW. Ceylon, India, and China, via Sonthamptonorii , bs marls ap an the satralreg el Feb. 20. The nails for British ,girth America and the United States will be made up en the evening of Feb. 22. TM sails vid Mermalles, to the Mediterranean, Mcm, Cl..,ey left, Mose Mons, tte., will be ad. .p oa - Ae ovening of Feb. 2.5. The nails for Lisbon, Spain, and Gibraltar will be made sp on Feb. 27. TM West India Mails, inelodieg Berland., Havanna, 1f...., Honduraa, New Orleans, and Mexico, and excluding Oise ime Madeira, St. Joan•de-Nlenseinta, New Granada, CMS, end Pernowill be made up on lamb 2. The nails far bladosia. the Brasile, sad Buenos Ayres, will be node up ea the a Kush 4. MOM IrATITI AT WM= WOOL Ti.. thi—floes. Au lin AAsnesa. SI. to. T,lNAA•e—liendili. Si. TI.A ateassaa. Si. Os. LONDON, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 18. Tnn summary which we gave on Saturday of Loral PAtmeerrox's despatch and counsel to the Bing of DENMARE, showed that his lordship very justly attributes to the obstinate and reactionary policy of the cabinet of Copenhagen the delay in the settlement of the Schleswig question. The letter of our corres pondent which contained the sammal., also described the plans of the absolutist party in the north for over throwing the Danish constitution, n-consigning the Danish peasant to see vitude, tearing Holstein from Germany, and giving Russia a firm and formidable footing in that kingdom which commands the en trance to the Baltic. Our Berlin correspondent at the same time for- , warded to us the report that the King of DINMARK had actually refused to renew the armistice which 'spina on the 10th of March. The report, however, seems to have had its rise in the fact that the King of DENMARK, in concert with his allies of Austria and Russia, has rejected thou term+ and that mode of accommodation, which was formally proposed by Eng land and accepted by Germany and Prussia. The chief of those conditions was, what might be supposed most favourable to Denmark, and which certainly was very distasteful to the Duchies ; viz.: the seThstusufigkeit or establishment of Schleswig as an in dependent duchy. Lord PALMILRBTON, in proposing this, must have considered that he laid down a principle most welcome to Denmark, and most calcu lated to reduce Denmark to grasp at and accept it. That Prumia and Germany also accepted the condi tiow is a proof that neither were opposed to peace and to a speedy settlement. This fair prospect has been destroyed, and these terms of peace rejected, by the concert of Den mark, Russia, and Austria; whilst these powers, with the audacious determination to prolong strife and keep the chances of war open, have literally turned round, and adopted those demands which Prussia and Germany originally made. Thesa three powers now require that Schleswig and Holstein shall not be separated, but shall form cos body. And this, which, when put forw ar d by th e Duchies, was treated u the most arrogant and unhea r d of preVnsion, and was, of course, set aside by Lord Reurristow, is now come round to and revived by Austria and Denmark with the most unblushing effrontery and the most perfidious faith. The Powers opposed the anion of the duchies, when it was evi dent that Holstein must remain German. Eat now that there is a chance of breaking u p the pro j ect of German nationality, those same Powers, re-demand the cline union of Schleswig and Holstein under the rule of Denmark, in ceder that Holstein may be dragged away, politically and commercially, from Germany. Those acquainted with the north i.f Europe, and who know what it would be to sever the relations between Hamburg and Altona, and give one side of the Elbe to a Duo-Russian and anti-Ger man power, may judge bow likely such a scheme is to succeed or to lead to a pacification. Prost* of course, resists. Pruseis very consis tently adheres to the proposals made by England, u the rational basis for accommodation. And the nines, Is sossaleg the Premien tCI raising de , hp, sad preheating . and ng war. is tamely masking itself 'rpm of the aselatiat powers, Melilla dlsir tliskssie sad sliPessibll their 31Cmai ImeisM pelley. tie noes ismosloyed by this abseitlat pima le bully the Forefp:edlos in laglood. ind ite** is no lees Wives. the beaked Urns Vitale. The Emperor of Roam - has as army el 230,000 saes in Pohlad, foe the impeding of whis k oven in a Onward search, he has already entered Ms mired& no Haden loan raised here has enalika bit te gd the to mesary credit and to make the atoireil 04.1 'mom it has. however, become se sateeisos to whet me this loam has been tuned. that we see it already into is the market from 41 to 11 prelim' Yet we are not of those who bakes in Rambo ilairilp to make war. Like a certain duke, who bo om ambarreassd from his nieoutrullable desire to have a great mass of ready money before him at soy Gest, the Czar loves to have great military resources at kis call and his disposal. It is to negotiate and intimidate, however, more than to fight. And such, no doubt, is the aim and the tactics of the Russian army in Poland. The Prussian cabinet has responded in the same spirit and with similar aims. It has asked of the Chambers fall power and credit to keep the army on a war-footing if necessary. The demand was granted, and so fully understood, that it was incited less by vote than by acclimation. If the Hones, therefore, wishes to consult the interests of British trade, by preventing the recurrence of war and blockade at the mouth of the lille, it will apply its advice and censure to the Danes, Austrians, and Russians, who prevent the acceptance of the terms of asoonimodation offered by England, in order the,t they may Danify Holstein, and Ramianies both Derma and the Dnehies. We have praised the attitude assumed by the Premien government in this affair. And we are glad to use this, feeling itself to need support, it seeks that moppet where it can best be found, in consulting the interests of its labouring and industrious dames. One of the first acts of the Prussiai idolatry after the royal oath to the Constitatise bee been, we see, to renew their proposal he abolishing the tax on slaughtering cattle sad P4O core, as well as the class tax , which heavily on the lower clams This is to be by a graduated income tax, those with imam only 0 thalers being exempt, those up to 1,200 paying about 21 per cent., and so on. If the Presidia essatitation be too favourable to wealth, it ale be admitted that such principles as these make the eight compensation, by oompelliog that class, which mpg, meet political influence, to enjoy the least final exemption. Need we point out what an honourable contrast the Prussian fiscal system will present to the English in this. In addition to these projects of domestic improve ments!, the aim of German unity is pursued with firm nese. In this object, and the means of attaining it, the Berlin cabinet has come to a complete accord with the OAGERN party, which ensures it * somplete majority in the Reichstag. As NM as the German parliament meets, the pro ps* of constitution, as laid down in the Three Zings' Bund, will be laid before it as s whole ; and instead of discussing or altering the articles, it will be accepted and ratified altogether by the Assembly. flue the constitution, such as the Kings of Sixon ley Hatrovsa at first accepted, will remain open kit *sir adhesion, and will receive it as soon es they see the utter powerlessness of Russia and Austria to omen toast the efforts at establishing a new German sys tem Cl unity, replacing the old Diet, or confederacy et Lap, by the new parliament, or confederation at m etar interests on the principle of general represent- THE EXPRS.BB, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 18, 1850. ma to be vested is a melioration of 'lat een g em. sem, with authority to elect their memnors„ aed was to be directed by a meter .unmer _him, a wheel master, pelacher, ethers, and paper ellisselfweesto be appoistivi.• Asd all patronage was Amu to the governors, who were to menus it In ghee amporate so t byneidealeapesity. This documest did sot, how ever, fix the amber of poor gestlents• to be main tained, or of posy boys to be edseMed. That was left to tail gammon ; bat they were by it directed to apply the revenues of the property, as they inersmed, to the maintesanos and education of more poor perms. Some died in December, 1811, without having made the statutes he contemplated. Bat is 1627 the governors he had appointed speed oe a series of ordinances which are still in force. By them they fixed the number of poor unmairled peanut' to be maintained at 40, and the poor aMos et the like number; directed that the master should also be unmarriA and without other edam " is obnieh or commonwealth whereby be may be draws from his residenceand charge of the said hospital." The natal of the hospital in 1627, when these statutes were framed, was about 3,7084 ; and that stun the statutes so framed exhausted in Amends and in authorised expenditure; giving to the master 501. a year. The statutes, SUTTON'S will, the letters patent, were all confirmed by an act peened is 3 Carlos 1., and these still form the laws at the hospital. The property rapidly increased in value. Ice 1673, the rental had risen to 5,3911. ; and the governors of that day proportionably raised the stipends of the master and officers and founded 29 exhibitions in the , universities. Sinc e that date the increase has gone on ; but though the salaried of the statatable Awn have been greatly augmented, the imbibition' raised in value, and the framework of a very excellent school erected, no incomes his been made in the number of scholars on the foundation. They now remain at the 1 number fixed in 1673. What the precise value of the Charter House Es tates easy now have attained is not positively known. But the resat of easeful inquiries has brought com petent From to the permission that the rental of the property is not under 60,0001. a year. Against which 40 old men, frequently rich gentlemen, are supported ; and 40 boys, always of rich parents, are educated. And these figures, taken by themselves irrespective of other facts to be hereafter stated, will warrant the conclusion that, under the present system, justice is not done to BUTTON'd design at the Clartel , l,9o. In founding the Clutter-house, Sutton made one fatal mistake. He sought security for his intentions in high places, great names, and state functionaries. Hs conferred on his hierarchy the power of self-elec tion ; and, is the corporation of the Charter-house, there has been an autocratical and episcopal saccades. It has always been nominally in the hands of bishops, judges, ministers of state, and lords. They, however, have been content to divide amongst themselves individually its patronage ; and have, substantially, left its management in the hands of the master, and the registrar, who is also treasurer. The consequences may be anticipated. Surron desired to found an hospital for decayed gentlemeo. The governors of the Charter House have too frequently made it an asylom for worn-out servant.. _ Surrort wished to found a free school for (we quote his own words) " the education and bringing up of the poor children of parents who were not able themselves to educate and bring them up." The governors of the Charter House place on its founda., tioa almost invariably the children of persons of wealth, who can well afford to pay foe their children's Burros directed the augmented revenues of his property to be applied in augmenting the number of scholars. The governess of the Charter Hones have not increased the number of foundation scholars since 1873 ; though, in the interval, their revenues have risen from 6,0001. to 60,0001. a year. The foundation of the Cnarter House requires its master to be unmarried, resident, and without other offices "in church or commonwealth." WILLIAM HALE HALL its present master, is m.rried, does not reside, and is Archdeacon of London, Canon RA-olden nary of St. Paul's, and is, on his own presentation, incumbent of one of the great City wisher,. So, too, the head and under muter of the school ; they divide amongst them the ecclesiastical preferments with which SUTTON endowed the hospital. In truth, what the "ever young " Sylvania Urban justly calls fi the princely St rrorris noble endowment of the Charter House," is utterly perverted. Under' the guise of maintaining forty old men, and educating forty foundation boys, Archdeacon HALE and Dr. SAUNDERS are keeping a great and aristocratic school for theprivate emolument of the masters and ushers. In the precincts of the Charter House, or in houses pro vided by its governors, these persons are permitted to receive and to teach 160 private boarders at high rates of payment : and on these, the sons of wealthy persons, the instruction provided by Sorros is wasted. With funds to educate the poor of half Lon don, the Charter-house is aping Eton and Harrow. So much for the outline of its abuses. Hereafter the details shall be filled in. vitae maid be Ifs esastaraasse t eaparemeiss et us. PUTNI*IO II B--edetehy—cemee. (Idevaateat.) A Taw ea ths let.—W.have me deist strayer ado asp, Lao s the sapleyees. IL leveass—lat you trial te sabehats tlr thaws eresidims at nes who ere met seaseated t. stem bud• ass et imdistrist essipatices Yes west a stiair•headed espioyie—yea treat amenityl Year estableallis Is based ea tamale's. (lie-.eat) The amass et She wrat h= have Inked salute the essay side et the 'imam I they bus tekas isee elisithea ally the cases whore thesis pleyse woes issammtal. But bed they teeked at the oases wharf Imo had hese the retell—when the workless had Sbesited *la& sod the employee reined ? It ea swedr teen weaken was W dal ia Its eisess, mite was es beer du less ? Vtlare else won them Wbs the wages et IM widows ? (Rear, hear.) The propooldea was alteielber tawelled. (Haw, bar.) Is plate et visa at capital soda , tables great works, the design was to substitute workmates wassiatteas. The result bed set hitherto, so sae Geoid duly, bola very faranble. Mamma, unsaid the tribune, bat was prorated from presselics by lead arks et," Acjeare, aditstre.' The dassish4, being eoaselwd, adopted the adjournment. . ii Wear* waned," mays the Pattie , "that M. Oros has been sent to Greece as =extraordinary and pleni potentiary commissioner." - We read in the National—" Us following . ac counts, the importance of which no one can moun ds• stand, have been forwarded us from Swiezerland You ere not yet aware of the serious nature of the threat of a combined action against the Heretic re public. Eleven Austrian battalions are concentrated round Como. Three thousand men are at Luino. France has consented. England alone still reside. A note has been sent by the Austrian government to the cabinet of Turtn, to demand the passage for a body of troops through the riedmontess ter ritory." A letter from Brest, of the 14th, states that the Archimede frigate, which is to tarry the government instructions to La Plata, had not yet sailed. Up to this time the part of the squadron, which was to proceed from Brest to the South Seas, has not been able to sail, from the violent contrary winds. The vessels now assembled there, in addition to the Archi mcde, are the Aube, the Meurthe, the Egerie, and the Huard. PARIS, SONDAT, 5 30 P The debate in the Assembly yesterday, during which one of the most decided acts of the present government was discureed, concluded by a vote considerably in favour of the executive. "Do your worst now," arid Oeueral d'Hautpool to the members of the Mountain ; " we are ready for you :" and in this tone he seemed to express a wish that the demo crats might attempt something to enable him to crush them. The fate which attended these questions have convinced the Mountain of their total lack of power in the Assembly ; they have therefore determined to sign a protest every time that an unconstitutional question, as they seceder it, passes. Thus the Voile der Peuple records this morning, that at a conference of the Mountain held yesterday, it was determined to *re on the bureau, of the president a protest against the military organisation of France. In opening the debate on the subject, M. Passel Daprat commenced btaayieg that it was no party question that he now &sit with, but one which waste such close connection with French institutions, that it was a vital one for all. He denied the right of government to pass the decree without referring so important a matter to the Assembly. He admitted that under the empire, the restoration, and even the government of July, the military organisation of the army had often been changed by decrees and ordi nance., and so under the provisional government; but with regard to the later, he endeavoured to show that it was the sole governing power at the time that its decrees were passed. These decrees :of the empire and successive government. never had gone so far as those of the present cabinet, and never before had France been entirely enveloped, as it was now, by a military system. The Constituent Assembly, when it changed the system of great captaincies after the first revolution, bad nought in view but to destroy the great provin cial unities which weighed upon the central power. This idea was contained in spirit, if not in words, in the constitution of 1848. It was from these conside tins that he (M. Faecal Dupre!) considered the de cree of the 12th kat. as illegal, and in direct opposi tion to the spirit of the institutions of France. It was a decree which must bo charac terised as highly dangerous, forming as it did a number of new centres, which might become threatening at a fu'ure period. He would ask what were the dangers which the executive meant to guard against by the present measure. He knew that there were departments which caused the government some anxiety, but no one could assert that plots existed all over France to overthrow the republic. He could well understand that certain departments should be placed under the care of a military governor-general at a time when elections were pending. But why extend the circle all over the country ? Why were Rennes and Nantes milted under one head, when these towns or these departments sent to the Assem bly such men as Denjoy, Mold, de Kerdrel, and Parisis—men who were firm allies of the govern ment. What reason, in fact, could there be for treat ing France as Russia had done Poland, or Austria Hungary. It was nit fear of insurrec'ion that was the cause of this measure, but a desire on the part of the chief of the state to increase his power, by pleas ing end winning over the army to him, whilst by other means he ruined the authority of the national representation. Here M. I)oprat made allusion to the Napoleon, the journal which certainly represents the Elysde, and of which several articles were attaeks agai net the Legislative Assembly. Had not that journal, said he, state that it only depended on the republicans thatLsuis Napoleon should choose the part of hie uncle ... A Voice on the Left.—Sonlonque. (Laughter.) M. Doprat (continuing).—Or that of Washington. Great interruption here ensued, after which M. Daprat conclueed by calling on the majority to de fend the institutions of the country. M. d'Hautpoul, in reply, said that his answer would be divided into two puts, involving the ques tion of legality and that of expediency. With regard to the first point in consideration, he would say that the territorial divisions created by law bad not been disturbed, and that, as for the commands given to the generals, there were many cases that he could quote in support of the government measure, when similar appointments had been made, all of them by decrees of government " With regard to the question of sap di ncy," continued )4. d'Hau.poul, " I will tell yen that it is very natural for government, which is called on to watch ov.r the sate and constitution, to take under its own r spon ,ibility, subject to the approval of the Assemble, all means which prudence may &state for the purpose of averting misrortune. Far be it from me to seek to create fear, or darken a picture which is hut sombre already. Demagogic factions are rurywhero on the move ; secret societies con spire on all tides in the dark, and seek to insinuate subver- sive doctrines amongst the pomp., hoping that they may attain a complete catacl7sue. In this situation, Fentlemen, govetement must place itself ou ifs fraud. It were Inexcusable not to do so ; and the Assembly would have the full right to make it accountable fur neglect. What have we done in irintlog three generals, unless it be to give more unity, mum Wien, and more raßitly to the movement of troops. We were desirous that, if it became necessary, theme generals might immediately centralise their troops, and take all the necriary &Moe. They are not above the authority of the -tate, as M. D.iprat hinted ; and these generals, who deserve all our confidence, and who hays proven by their long earlier that they were worthy of that of the country, do not require your notice to know what their duty is; their ps- Matins, devotion to cur institutions, and love of order will inspire them in their canduct. I can conceive this measure being unpleasant to certain us inds,that the men who wish tome us *shop are not pleased &tour precautione, but be convinced of this that the government Is on the watch and will not be surprised. The measure that we have taken is not &germ sirs, and does not compromise the interests of any one. It dos not threaten liberty, but on the contrary, strengthens it, if any ti-intentioned men should raise their hand wink It. All good citizens must therefore rejoice. Govern ment and the majority of the Assembly desire the same thinc—the maintenance of law, the constitution, public order, and security. It is on this ground that the govern usenthas taken its stand, and it is certain of finding support on these bmches where the purest patriotism exists, where every one understands his duty, and where all are anxious to justify the confidence rested in them by their fellow citizens. Fur our part we shall not fail in the duty of which I have just spoken ; we shall watch always ;_we shall remain n the breach, and never retire wh clamour we may b^u. This peroration excited great laughter from the M 'lintel!), upon which M. d'Hautpoul turned towards three members and treed the expressions I hero quosod at the commencement of my letter, "We shall always be ready ; commence whenever you please." An immense uproar followed this outburst. Cries of order from the Mountain were followed by such a tumult that it was some time before the president ..oald get a hearing. On doing so he blamed the nynister far the words he had used, and begeed of Irm to explain. M. d'Hautpoul did so, by replying that his words were addressed to those who, on tho 13th of May, had invaded the Assembly, and to those At Arad on the 18:11 of January 13 Hungarian officers, formerly belonging to the Austrian service, were sentenced by court-martial to various terms of imprisonment, extending from 3 to 16 years. 11APdBU1tG, Fan. 12. Colonel Hodges has contradicted a report spread by a Berlin paper, that the three commissioners at Flensburg are paid by the duchy of Schleswig, and states that, so far as regards himself, he is paid by her Britannic Majesty. It is to be regretted that he cannot equally clear himself from participation in the harsh and cruel acts of the administration of which ho forms part. The patience of the inhabitants of the duchy of Schleswig scams to be wearing out at last, and we hear of riots both in the city of Schleswig and in the country. The Swedish troops who were sent to An gela hare returned without accomelishing their pur pose. The Angela people persist in refusing to pay taxes to what they consider an illegal authority. The Danish diplomatists succeeded much better: they have led the English and the Prussians by the nose, putting off the negotiations under all sorts of pretexts, until the shipping season will have arrived, when they will wield their famous weapon, the Blockade. By this spell even Great Britain is bound. I have to record an act of such munificence as is not often heard of. Mr. J. H. Schroeder, a merchant of this city, who has a/so estsbl Liverpool. is going to spend a million, that is, 'heel 80,0001. for a charitable purpose. A maneion is to L is erected for 60 or 60 destitute families to live in, e n d an investment to be made besides for their maintszi, saes daring life. Ts the charitable institutions and educational endowments of this country, there have been, and still are, various orders of abuses. There is the abuse of downright and deliberate misappropriation, so finely exhibited in the lstrocioary practices of the episcopal . PRETTIIANS and the prelatical GUIL FORDS, in Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, and Hampshire, whose misdeeds are now under investi gation by the Court of Chancery. There is the abuse of affecting to fulfil the bounded obligation of sworn statutes by ostensibly following their directions, whilst, imbdantially and virtually, disregarding their true intent and meaning ; an abuse of which the Dean and Chapter of Rochester have recently afforded so notable an example as to have drawn upon themselves the attention of the Queen's Bench. There is the abuse of concealing from those interested in the application of the charitable funds all knowledge of their amount, their objects, and their distribution—of which the Crewe Trust Is so decidedly the richest instance, as to have at once called for the interference of the new Charity Commission. And there is the abuse of the growth in the value of the endowment hating brought with it no corresponding augmentation of the founder's generous designs and avowed willies. Of this last order of abuse the Charter-house appears to be so flagrant a specimen as to render any efforts to extend its usefulness, by exposing its present insuffi ciency, certainly a matter of metropolitan and almost of national interest. Few, scattered, and difficult of access are, however, the materials for the task. Fortified and protected against popular assaults and parliamentary inroads, by the aristocratical, prelatical, and judicial charac ter of its, so-called, governors, but real dispensers of its patronage, the Charter-house has hitherto escaped all inquiry. From the investigations of the old Charity Commission it was excepted by name in the statute which conferred legal powers on that body ; though, unlike the other excepted endowments, it has neither an ecclesiastical origin nor special visitors. And from the operations of the new Charity. Commis sion (instituted to apply the better spirit of the present day to the shortcomings of the former com mission, which was controlled by the spasmodic death struggles of toryism), the Charter-house is, by the very terms of that commission's royal appointment, equally withdrawn. It is, therefore, left for the press to on whether the Charter-house will not open its portals to the battery of public opinion. So, en esuraged by the case of St. Cross, we propose to make the attempt : not, indeed, to show that any of Lord GUILTORDs selfish meal-practices can be imputed to the noble, grave, and reverend signiors, who are sup posed to dispense the bounty of THOMAS Burrow, but to prove that with means to instruct aid inform the poor of one-half of London, they only maintain forty poor men and educate se many rich boys. Though occupying the site of the old Carthusian monastery, the Charter-House, as it now exist., is, comparatively, a modern foundation. It dates only from the early part of the seventeenth century, and is of private origin. In Mr. THOMAS Burrow, merchant and banker, of London, the illustrious ELIZABETH had a subject equal in merit and in success to Sit THOMAS GRESHAM. The world had used him nobly; and, worthily did he resolve to dis pose of the world's gear. Having, very much in the public service of his country, accumulated a large for tune, which he invested in land, he determined to devote it to what had, in his long experience, pained him most throughout life, viz, the relief of un fortunate gentlemen, and the removal of ignorance in poor but promising lads. The design Burrow thus formed he proceeded de liberately and carefully to place on solid foundation. It was not left to the uncertain and doubtful execu tion of a testamentary disposition, but occupied the anxious labours of the closing years of his useful life. Having, as he thought, found a proper site for his in tended foundation at Hallingbury, in Essex, he sought for it the approbation of his sovereign and the sanction of parliament ; and these he received in a statute passed in the sixth of James I. By that act SUTTON was empowered to found and endow an hospital at Hallingbury, to constitute sixteen go vernors into a corporation, and to vest in such corpo- ration his manors, lordships, and estates in Essex, Lincolnshire, Wiltshire, Cambridgeshire, and in Hackney and Tottenham. The di sign of the hospital was therein stated to be the support of decayed gen tlemen and the education of poor elikben ; and power was given by it to SUTTON to make statutes for car rying out its objects, and, failing its exercise by him, this power was transmitted to the governors. Within two years, however, after its enactment, SUTTON found, on the its of the dissolved Carthusian monastery, a better position for his hospital, and, having bought it from Lord SUFFOLK, he procured in 1611 letters patent from JAMES I. to enable him to change its locality and to give him further powers to carry oat his design. By this time, too, SUTTON'S plans had become more matured ; and in these letters patent his scheme is better developed. The hospital FRANCE. PARIS, SATCILDAT, MILT PAST 5, rid. The opinion of the democratic party on the new military organization of France which has been com pleted today by a decree in the Moniteur, and the causes to which they refer this proceeding of the exe cutive, are ably expounded this morning in the National. This journal remarks that the concentra tion of all military power into the hands of four or five generals is a resuscitation of the system of the great captaincies which the revolution of 'B9 had ' abolished. This system is clearly unconstitutional, inasmuch as the charter of last year says in its 103rd clause that the constitution of the army will be regu lated by a law. Now uno law has yet been passed on the subject, the course now adopted is unconstitn tionaL The legislation at present in vigour has constituted seventeen military divisions, and it ought not to be in the power of the executive alone to create a change. The results of the measure are most serious because a force which was formerly divided into many fraotions—say 17— is now eentralised into the hands of four or five, a number mach more easy to wield from the centre than the larger one. "In oae word," says the National, "it might not be easy to find seventeen chiefs lof divisions ready to stake their heads at the ministerial beck ; b2t these game officers, being placed under the orders of four or five devoted generals, might be pliant, and forget their paramount duty. Such is the danger created by the decree of the 12th of January." A decree already referred to completed the frame of great commands into which France is low divided. It is dated the 13th ine., and appoints General Marey Menge to the command of the 13th military division (Clermont-Ferrand), be being replaced in the 9 h division (Perpignan) by General Hecquet. who already commands the 12th division. General Thierry, who commanded the 13th division, is, by this decree, placed en thiponibiliti. Whilst the executive are taking theme decidel measures against disaffection, they continue their rigour against the democratic rem The nix dm Pimple is seized almost every day, but it computes that with all these seizures it may live yet three weeks. "Yesterday," says the National, adopting the same tone, "a seizure, today a conviction, but to-morrow . . . Do the seizures and convictions of the press guarantee any liberticide government against a terrible morrow?" What this language conceals beneath must be left to be surmised. But a crisis must be near, when we see threats on one side and preparations for &feace on the other. Up to the last moment the qucetions that had b:•en fixed for debate relative to the military ao-,.nra , de had not been put, the attention of the thamber having been confined to a motion of MM. Nadetd Morellet, sad others relative to the formation of aver elation for public works. This question had born debated after post hour yesterday, and led to a speech from M. Fincher, in which that kentleman --- Maintained that the associations propneed were not lilts those religious anal of former times, which had effcc-cd such wonders in Europe by their efforts to tmward the pro gress of science. The workmen's associations had commenced amine, but had Moony failed. (Denial on the let) Bone rare instances of partial success had been wit hsssed, but they were eaceptioaa. It was most difficult to IlriZ3 the rerise object of the present propoetion. The authors of It had stated In the tribune that they desired to seplreas Alt inset.- mediate parties between workmen and employers. But they had not stated the precise means of effecting that end. Th. employer, be it borne in mind, was capital, inti lligesos, production. (Murmurs on the left.) Suppress all that, and who is AWN 1848, had redbird the draft of Paris with Wood. _ _ 0109111 Fabvier followed, and deo blamed the sys tem pursued by the government M. C. Leger ge also spoke in the same sense, and altrately the Arembly pared to the order of the day by 437 against 133. In support of the argument of M. d'Hautpoul, the Popolfaeof this inormog says: "The government, having received from the preps advice that disturb ances might break out in the rovinces, hen thought Inecessary to send lieutenants-general to the seat, the centre, end the south, in order that pease may be the better sutured." The Biitle says to-day to the President, u Well, now that you have ensured safety in the country, what are you about to do." The Blida and many others want to know when the action of which so much was said in the late message of the republic is to be shown. The Napoleon replies by anticipation to the remarks of the Sleek saying: " A year ago the finances of the state, which are the public fortunes, were seriously compromised. There was a deficit of 300,000,000 of franca. Now we have without a loan kbudget which haleness itself. A year ago work and trade had ceased everywhere. Now the manufactures are in full operation. The customs have returned as much as in the most prosperous times, the real increase in the indirect revenue has been 77 millions in 1848. A year ago the city of Paris fed near 100,000 poor. That number is now reduced to 10,900. A year ago the entrance duties into Paris had considerably diminished ; workmen drew their savings from the banks, and pawned their property. Now the oelroi bee brought six millions more than las: year. The deposits in the savings banb has increased by 27,888,000 francs, and according to official accounts the number of things pawned is now far less than that of things taken out. A year ago the fonds were 66. They are now at 96. Is this nothing ? " The Beinlrnene gives, as positive, a change of mi nistry here, publishing the names of the new cabinet, bat this morning dote not give any confirmation of the report. The following paragraph, relative to Swiss affairs, appears in to-day's Napoleon : " Whatever the papers may say, the independence of Switzerland is not threatened, and France will cause it to be respected, if necessary, so long as the Confederation on its part respects the rights of nations and the obligations it has towards its neighbours.* SWITZERLAND. Letters from Berne. of the 15th lest., state that an engineer officer, CuL Siegfried, had gone to Geneva with formal instructions on the subject of the fottill cations. Mazzini has left Switzerland. SPAIN. MADRID, FEB. 12. Each of the Chambers bed a sitting yesterday to vote the Public Accounts Bill, pursuant to the report of the mixed committee. The parliamentary session may be considered as over, and the two Chambers will probably assemble but once more, and then to hear the decree of prorogation read. It is not, how ever, determined when this shall take place. The dissolution is no longer talked of; it will be probably put off till the queen's pregnancy shall not admit of a shadow of doubt. The members of the senate were directed to assemble to-day, but the order was coun termanded. About 100 men have been ordered to proceed forthwith to the Portuguese frontier. This military measure is to be for the purpose of watching the movements of the four Portuguese regiments that have revolted on account of their not receiving their arrears of pay. We have beautiful weather for the Carnival—as warm as in spring. The streets of Madrid present a magnificent panerams, being filled from morning to night with masks of all sorts, bands of students pro menading with their guitars, enveloped in their old clocks, which they have a picturesque mode of throw ing over their shabby attire. Her :Majesty drives out frequently to witness the festivities. Manans, Fes. 12.—Three per Cents., 291; Four per Cents., 12/ paper ; Four per Cents., 13 paper; Coupons, 7i paper. Bank of St. Ferdinand, St. Exchange en London, 30.33. ITALY. ROMAN STATES.—Letters from R,me, of the 9th inst., s'ate that at 11 o'clock on that day a grand demmstration took place on the Corso, by all the republican, which terminated in a peaceable prome nade, and without disturbance. Tne demonetrati'n would probably confirm the Pope in his dehrmination not as yet to return. NAPLES.—Letters from nor correspondent, to February 9, state that the advices from Sicily were anything but satisfactory. Six young meu had been shot on the morning following an outbreak which took place there a day or two before our cores pondent wrote. At Naples the Five per Cents. closed on the Bth at 934. Exchange on London was lower than it had been for many years. GERMANY. BERLIN, FEB. 14. The Vaal* Armeiger of this evening contains two ordinances on subjects of importance, one concerning the Rersonal liberty of the citizen, and the other con cerning subjection to the surve illance of the police. The fleet is introduced to replace the law of Sept. 24, 1818. _ _ _ Last night, in the second chamber, a debate took place on the report of the committee with respect to the province of Posen. The committee moved that the part of the dn:hy of Posen lying outside the Germanic confederation should be incorporated therein, under the condition that first the province of Posen as a whole should be dissolved and annexed to the three conterminous provinces of Prussia, Bran denburg, and Silesia. The ministerial proposition that Posen should be ineerporated with the Germanic confederation was passed. Manteuffel said that the object was to remove the obstacle which that article of the German constitution of '26th May, excluding from the German empire all countries not German, set in the way of annexing Posen to the Bundes-steat. Yet it is not easy to see how • Pole can become a German by teing adopted into the Germanic confede ration, supposing even the Prussian parliament had the power of effecting such an adoption, which they have not, as a decree of the central federal commis sion will be necessary. Prussia has already succeeded in destroying the preponderance of Austria in the confederation by promring the admission of her Prussian provinces, and the German part of Posen. This is another step in the same direction. Austria might, with equal justice, demand the admission of Bohemia into the Germanic confederation. VIENNA, FEB. 11. Ti.e Austrian telegraphs will be opened to the public on the 15th inst. Hawlick has not been allowed to set up his Slav°. nian paper at Vienna. Two Hungarians have been banged at Rasohau by court-martial sentence. One was accused of assassins- tioo. AMERICA. Ameri can enin g f r t f e rah in~ to NtaißasensnwthoßeeirsboeNriwrissrke7'hg.67:4":ti!f hinsel;ti.,:xlaihvy.aettPil)aethiolhinetesokwfamiBrtal'elotlacittht°,dberatsle.BbraNati3imipettnenni.lranweetyloPt N gri, e sp : er; ac htties ti rgdp o ro ns i g toisi tak onath e veery n ofH pla(f iurg: m eso Co ty, n re g f re zee,rea. pee : tinl - ss.4 rodo te d of e afomrnisicabinletoanathenAgmemerienctsonfuthnieond,ifsreep -wets ; t h e f ree tied slave states into the senate. admission o wtthk is li n ni n th its e e . fi e: l e n t las re th ' i w e on l 2 u o n t r i d o i n n reso t iE rod a l i :u ti tai c on tio n n s it th o i f s e y f provided that er. ✓ e x t o t • a r ith. e hiso i nnu t, e dtet rhi63et the 6th hddeg assert v a 4:n r e u e ets mt consent hoh e t governments resolutions ot t s ylt ufcof: osit i s bc h ht,eo ohtnu o .vinnrst:g l should that Congress .ia b ,noswspnuipt.ti iyehot arrangement urtrameifrnobaradrfbs:t been i ll : , stt e d e,vbi n tliduab f b aea ot question 44_,nd at in the territories ttiohtneo acquired q el atei s tv i oirh i nem red etma ntreraot say f dad r te o eesf met, in nuoti eiNfanal4eNrityci.otcoirbepte certain b trSg,tai ,tuts ns into n :- imposition ed t s d t s ular he thei of any condition Courierot. n wo d .snt heybo i ien t byfofe i e.e o ntfnmdthasti special t ee.rhearboa people , enruy n be h eatiirNinyttai .s e i, cry,: s s:w: u :ti . 1 . he t ti ou:npi f r. shin, p i e u s,: izip a r er fro n m b° i: l a n m da o r u y th of to T t e h ß e as m be out fi h x ere York ti rer eoa a just compensation to the owners of the 'et a ,.. — a n t : e d s r e p i n t u hl t a n i t t a u n t ditione,should be abolished within th e e g i e eft " rel eat r i„, e th h e ou t l w d o b fi e n m al a d: e h l s .a ;b vai te p o r s e e s t; e e Tr a i t nt os o n t of other state or territory ; and that Curets ha s cided, aocording to the principles of the eents°''ctitNbe'vil'ft.culOe.ti.-'ll'. i the uninonnmitiosnuvaisretignheirstarigt:t to 7:: y n the Senre ; they dwcealb'erraetll.rro:ea:.tuiy:lT,ltt6.,,_l - o deTGl IT:f mo e m t npresifennw l a h e:htru n drgt,,,go e ey. :e t medct evn i pi P ro n iironat i e !iserweaeacoeoutitpnr Cone Ti n. m -] tht themselves,—that C , ngrets pass no illasahSobietatasfrataliedi:rowlrit:e . lish yt sl .e a e r p er e v ee i h n e, t , h;ft th i t te t rri the prera gerhnnimeeeenett t:ta.tetehtlelessen:day. rec to of el se e n n a o to un " ce fr M ora r. t C ha la t y l i ct re i" sol d :t7 l' b re 'l t e h td e e Son ; a t e :, t T h h ey e tones, as part of an: a g ree : co re Northw: trey donot will contain ohe s c u t c t o o cannot resist the conviction, e,lflocrfceldheucpordaicu.srh.eetecd,.. „1,pf.101. i r every quarter , that public sentiment at the N o rt h dercards the prohibition of slavery as a positive pest at try :tw • Congress may pate for the government of the um'. a l ; far as we can trust any 'ration as to the temper and ter der cy of the p tr. e$ this opinion seems to be fixed, on the part of the we greatly doubt whether it will yield to any inn:at:it to arise even in the present critical condition et The North, therefore, will hardly n net-nt the C should establish government for the territorits • making express provisian for the exclusion of 'harem The debate would, it was expected, eons- tt! ss• sth of February, but it was not expected t'.e would be successrul. The Weekly Herald has the following : THE RELATIONS OF THE UNITED STATE. HMI ft —Our correspondents at Washington bar,: inf rte.: Mr. Bodine, formerly Russian miciater at b.' a• • been positively recalled —or, rather Ise he is not 7.cr stopped. We also bear from other quarter, that the Emperor of Russia may recall al: his envoys' where on missions to the United States. Sim are current in relation to the Austrian embas not improbable but that Prussia, were she not pre, considerations of commercial advantage, wati:d t,. out of the same book of diplomacy. The boiler of Taylor's machine shop en:-2, the 4th of February, by which 30 puma wv.e and 60 wounded. The Weekly Herald in its account males the fee. ing extraordinary statement "As soon as the ex lion took place, we are informed by persons who named the catastrophe, the whole builditz. was six stories in height, was actually lifted . foundation to a height of six feet, and when it r that elevation, it tumbled down, crushing in a vast number." It then goes on, "So great was •te force of the explosion, that fragments of the ba..e.:; were scattered in every direction ; the wiadow, the neighbourhood wet e broken •, and a large per:. - : of the front wall of the fated building thr; a with tremendous power into the houses oppoii%. is fact, the building was completely wreaks', one brick being left standing on smother, xi:h exception of a solitary piece of wal, Sig. or ten feet high, as if to indicate what tied hea. So dreadful was the explosion that the windows several houses in Pearl-street were br.::.3. Ere: the sashes of 331 were smashed. A gntal.mia ¶ALJ was looking on at the time, informed us trat the ex plosion was like the repor s of two cannon, tre: quick succession one alter the other. Doub;:e - :a second report was the crash of the falling rui:.s. mediately after the explosion, fire burst promiscuous heap of bricks and beams, and bodies were seen with legs and arms erickir; .:7 — some of them dead, some Briers The fire ,:arc the district was first given, and then a geteral which brought the firemen from al! parts m to the scene of desolation." Depletes were beicg held on the bodies a. ao:: ar they were identified. Three more journals in Canada West an: Canada East hive declared in favour of art:, xa.. In Quebec the annexationist candid...es : defeated. A despatch from Esri they, Downing-street, Jan. 9, appears in the iv; r.. E proves the dismissal from service of Ile's.. signed the annexation document, and eirc .s. " liar Majesty confidentiy relies oa the 7 • great majority of her Canadian stOjectr, , therefore determined to exert a,l the .y belongs to her for the purpose ut r; contexien of Canada with this gorereue•e, persuaded that the permanence of th.t s highly advantageous to both. Ycar .• therefore, understand that you are comma nded y Majesty to resist, to the utmost of ye , p iaa r, attempt which may be made to brick! ah:u• , ce ration of Canada from British domicioe, as i ti c known in the strongest manner bet ty, pleasure with all those who may Aire. tl) tar in,l:r„ encourage such a design ; and if any teeeni,e at • 4 kind should take such a Lem the' t ~"c guilty of it may, according to such .11% . . , ... may receive from your law advisees. he le • sible for their conduct in a court at not fail to take the necessary measu t t. , r them to account. ment to I,berate the slaves in ease • t % . •k r • , ) , 2 insurrection. The Iludson'a Bay . the British minister, have renew.ai e , r;r Ge T n h er e a . l l; o7 ' C F u ti b o. a f C hiM uu b n ee r n ee i sa os y t s ru th ct a i t ii . l :y i made during the administration of the United States Governess:li', Is possessory rights in Oregon south of I 1,000,000 dollars. This proposAo.l ; nicated to the Senate in exeeutice sale:' t. asked is the same as before:' : i lla om eo l n .e fi n n e e z m ile et. l:wone in'offi that eow v learn between the Haytien and D o m.nie.: , of the the foreign merchants had refuted • , all the requirements of the menopol . I • t d t t il i r : . 51 1: .. . 1 still ‘'. Another engagement was said to the sale of foreign produce. T 1 e • z coffee was taken off by a royal decree on the 10th of last month.. Accounts from Belize, Honduras. to no. state that a courier had arrived, 11 7 .n0 .1 1. interior of Guatemala was again in ee v o .i.. particulars. and demanded the protection of t. E Her Maj.sty's superintendent has le. ,u': Bay of Ascension, and held conte tt to ' et f eh h ne e at l ia n x et d hm i o a r n ai a nt id o c s f t hhe u er c ey a . t ut e oe n aht h e 0 e 61 ;a v r e e t a u t d n . t • ,t 1 mn.... . anlyusr: any omi) result as yet—the Spanish inh , .ba " • n smat:n ram ~. 0 ;