The Express. — London, England, 1850-03-15 00:00:00

ry b :t. A e: L Ml CO'• t L Cr' aY I. 1:41 . . ite r C. r I.7, rEt If:.: L d is r 1•`• . tr; 0 , 11 Ott in i rim ore the it!, \ix t:a. C'4o P the 1. 10 fir. t . frt. or! • f tr. r P.• 1; r. 5 . 7 , I , Colossi 81 BTUORP showoht an hiaassodiate mammies • the t lett; he wield sae • Woe" word, and say, nh• place." (Lewiphessr.) Not 'sly the Lord Chief j„ 0 ,0, hat ell the jeeps, seen to be riders d ; they were ea tette I ton week. IN 1.11 wos thee reed • seessd time, end the committee was itte4 .ofildneday. PIZOOESS AND PRACTICE (IRELAND) RILL. Tre n•mse the. *eat tem committee ofb,ll, *hes W ry eieuree ...resume d to, so me objoetaor.a being reserved WWI roe re pert was brought up alter Easter. The house then reamed. THE CONSOLIDATED (8,000,0002.1 BILL. 1 , 01 passed thr,•tqtrt ounsittem; and the weer orden of Or ly helm( disposed of, the house adjourned at • quarter to 1 „l .h• z.; 41r erveoo. OUTGOING MAILS. lb • mails (se Lisbm, Spain, and Gibraltar will be made is; ea tee 17m inst. The We lnd.a Ida* excluding 13ermada, liavansab, e es ae, N •w 0:1111•111., and Mewed, and ineleding so s• r Ma'.iire. St. Jetn•de-Nicsracua, New Granada, periswill be made lip en the 17th lone. Ine wails int Gibvelter, Malta, Gr. tee, the lonian 'alma*, • C s ylnn, India, anti China. cia o Southampton, will be e Atte •p one the ourniap 07 Much 20. ILe mile toe Unties Nunn Amuses and tile United I dl be made up ea the evening of the 22nd inst. t wails ei.l Marseilles, to the diterrn-esn, Egypt, Hot.g-Kong, Mc., will be made up on the vet• s• a if the 24ta aut. 1 se usnils for Mederia, the Brasile, and Bassos Ayres, will te ...see up en the evening et April 4. HUM WATNy AT UIIITON.2III.Or. TVs. Pal— smog. . M. flos. I ...we —Mama& at. itak.......... .111Mmai. 1.. Ma. LONDON, FRIDAY, MARCH 15. Wiiste the majority of a groat country or a great repeal has come to eutertaiu r rtain political opinions aced to zealously support them, there is no use in me.. ly anathematising 0~ opinions; there is no t o pe of re rating theca by abtoe, or of extinguishing tIrM by the eloquence of scolding. 'the serious fact, which has jest been consummated it. Poi., is that 130,000 elemors have just recorded (mime or a republic to a mosaichy, of eyes it time:lot to reaction, and of the most turbulent & rect ory to a geeernment of soldiers and policemen. We n t only do not bell. ve, but we perfectly well know dust such men as Ile FLoTTE and VIDAL do nut retereeet the op niers of the majority of the Parisians. T., Pl' j..rity of the Parisians are not admirers of the ama i t/. of June. Still 1 , se are they socialists, t,ie o r , oeh M. Loris BLANC, that the payment of Wore upon (spit& is illegitimate and wrong. The elect n of Paris do nut entertain these ex treme end trantio opinions. But they have found it necessary to recur to them, or at L ee so the mea holding them, as the most energetic edia . ent protest agonst the tendencies pursued by t h e ;; r.rntnet t. aid agaitist the doctriees avowed by th• t o . more party in the Assemb!y. Na debate r . .:et in that house co any great question, he Tutees does not take the opportunity ot e, now .,ina the republic, and regretting the mo utons.. To Wool: the revolution and toe popular rani , tie regular elapitrep of every orator ; and et en su b provocative* reuse th•Nlountaini ere, as they se e•lied, to p•Oil le, they are instantly Cll. .1 to order. and muleted of their pay by dor Paestorxe. ' The republicans are not elloweo in of speech or fairness of reply in the Assem bn. T is take their revenge in the electoral urn. A 4 c t . ttey alone, but the moderate and the pe..sebl,, liar/ad at the pro: pact of military govern :. t. - dna monarchic reaction, p-efer voting for the 11l Ile,. • title t .ey do not trust, to supporting the to wbom they despise and dread. wii: be band to s.y that bad the great no es- of the Frt.:eh:pc:ideal world, the post and ants .t.re accepted tnu revolution and the republic, riatormed their conduct and their language to h .. sr state of [Air p, whieb, whether desirable or .is And was ev:tatle, socialism would not have oe: as i: has dory, nor woul'i ultra-democracy ir .axed at o.lee in poser and in rancour. It is etempt and the fear sown of the people ; it is of cercioa and military rule, °pint,- C: and g:oried in ; it has been the trio:ls e...tr. without trial; the under Lining and destroy ;ci popu:ar aid local liberties ; the re •. tei a of the Jesuits ; the re - inst allation of end above all, the perseverance in levying most onerous taxes and those most weighing upon e • the.. measures, adopted and persisted • I: gniy eonservaive, have proved most seriously le slually der motive. Tney have produced the ▪ wi tit and last warning given to bad govern !.•s. their desertion by she neutral and the mod!- . and the coeseqiient turning of the majority e. them. • our pert, we were never admirers of the Paris :tier' of February, which was uncalled for, had a wooed neater here taken place but fur hk. 4cor.ret aid blunders of mute very persons, tow farm ma deed the conservative party. seen tee deed was done, there was evidently it: let bat ti ateept the accomplished fact, and d',• •r. .e to els r' line before which the upper rd.d4l! chaises bleed their heads. Instead that class which constituted what teed god seciety, have been in a kind of r.. It AU shorn of its gains, its its Infleeece, is pleasures, its political and predominance. We cannot but think that it ..a tare recovered sit in remaining true to the . ..al.!. It las pre - erred seeking that recovery by tee against the r. public, conspiring just as iny as M. 1)L FL' ITe or any of his friends. r see the reside Le a.m.:trent and educated class had, we think. I i•• poser and at its e.mmand, ample means and haluitlt fee winning hack the popular mind, for reel e tbut the interests of different null err oeuosed; that the theorists wt ich preached 'nog erlim were as erroneous as they were rums,. 'hits are a hushed ways of speaking to peope—by act 111 by argument, by general policy al. se by par . C.l:iit reasoning. But the upper I.e • in Frairt disdained to adopt that necessary - Ltoiserct of Ir edam, their directly addressing the p.sr They shrunk away from each a task .ay fastidiousness ; and placed their re '•r`, not in to u-e of reason and of :, of exciliatios and generosity, but in employ of brute knee, Dracocian legit's '. Illitery aid police government. is this that , 'defied the breee - .—this that has flung all the 14': on Oat aide, and slut is called good society , t,e other. It i s a mistake to coesider at as pro :: a' f tird against no property ; it is the fastidious rice of au uppter e.ass egotist the intelligent and mind of s lone sloe. which are ne.ibee in f tat t uneduated, and who having acquired the of forgoer, will not be gov. reed as orates. I •• entire internal po:izy of France in 1849 has re., t, to aeknow'edge in the French people the of the iuhabitents of the United States, and, •iteirrpose upon thiswidest extension of human .• government of soldiers, priests, ardpoiice • • ss NAroL Eoe and CHAILes the TENTII, C. or their imperialist and legitimist council s i.e. Is it a wonder that the bora attempt ohina should produce discontent, Inc.r, d war ? 'er iar, we ronsiler this Freneb as the most .h a aro oneness of people, if treated with 't' err- of faire el and wisdom. And this is ..(•• Pe the French people have acquired, by give? ase . r.ta, and the valour uf their , • ...so, • ir!te . eom ard a degr ee of power _w e !trinery politician can depr.ve them of. watt 0 , 404 in by an iron work of titre h lave soothe a•d see, they have filed and r : 1 :' ' 6 Tire bus vehicle ro.flned them ; and th e "'"si'at with the mob, that they gendarmes!, 4 2 . the ono vote, int o the ens, arid fi.neitg fu teal chapb to to the deceased heroes eat re ttht,...e a u re fa; f:i f e dt l aih il i e sses? ca ire nse to rva k t , te s : t a h li a d t oieso of superiority which one must desire k . .aP—ir Were are to be reereted, and an hwite invite they Inns* adopt towards ,„'plc l rt . some whir language then th a t of military emu other legic than th a t of i nsu l t an d ratite. The defenders of government muse net 4 •' 't'd to do th it work by hiding in cabinet ' • 1 , 4 * •ved c mho, ur military guard "• two' descend i n t o th e f orum, and le.:rr ' tut enter end sutler the inconvseirnie ei eu freedom. A republic is not, perhaps, that kind of society in wtich we should, the most of an, like to live. Bat once a republic is establishad—we do not mean by mere proclamation. but by the distribuion of pro perty, interests, influence, and ideas--all that is left is to submit to it, sad mete the beet of it. By kick ing, and sare.ssming, and conspiring against it, like M. Timis and M. Omer:, we may sow the whirl wind, not with the hope of allaying it, but with the certitude of reaping the storm. WE an GO anxious ma Lord AsnLuT or any of his friend. can be to see the comforts of the labouring rimers increased, their herd lot alleviated, their m•wail and intellectual character raised by oppor tunities of instruction. Bat we are mare end more convinced that Lord ARILLST end his friends are a eking to attain these desirable ends by means which can never lead to them. Did we want additional proof of this position, we would find it in Lord ASHLEY'S spreeh. He enlarged at the Witt urn the extent to which the condition of the factory lab..nrers hes been improved since the passing of the Ten Hours Bill. He made no allow ance for the gecersl improvement in trade, in the good effects of which the operatives must rf necessity have te-n participators; nor do we, in the first place, insist opm this topic. Their comparatively prosperous ()tradition we take to be admitted. Lord ASHLEY next proceeded to expatiate on alleged evasions and mi•constructiona of the Ten Hours Act. Nuw, if the beneficial r. sults of that stiitute to which he had pre viously adver:ed were oorrectly statsd by him, arm of two range must be true; either the evissions of which he cumpkine must be great:) , exaggerated, supposing them to sxiet at all, or the improved con dliton of the operaives most have proceeded from other cam 1. Tee truth is, that Lord ASHLEY looks only to hi. Ten Hours Bill; he leaves out of view every other circumstance that during the last two years hu affected the condition of the operative,. He over looks the redact d prices of the necinarles of life and their slender luxuries; the gro iLg habits of prudent foreeeight, the re.ult of savings bake and similar in stitution.; the increased intelligence attributable to nr.re differ-ed education, tardy though its progress has been. All the combined effee's of thee* many in fluences he at:ributes s le ly and eAirely to hid sling bill. "The bill has done it all." Men, however, t..king a wider range of °beet Teflon, are forced to very d•fferent c3nelusione. Lord Aatatfa bill has as yet only been tried in a maws of prJaperity. A re-awakening demand for our menu (actor's, accompanied by more remunerative prices, lass hitherto rendered it comparatively an easy matter fir the mar usetniers to comply with its restrictions. But how will it work when we come to be viei•ed by une of thee', adverse aciaons which have hitherto, and in all human likelihood ewer will, alternate with sea sons of pr , sper:ty ? Will the manufacturers, during some period of stagnation, when to enable them to keep abave water, they must curtail every superfluous expenditure and tax their energies to the utmost, be able to c imply as now with the attiticial restric lone of the Ten Hours 811 ? Because his frail b.rk has flawed safey on a summer sea, Lord AMILCY fondly deems it C4ll breJat the storms of winter. But favourable thomch the times Lave been to Lord &MUST'S hazard •us experiment, the mum he has involuntarily pursued shows that he himself has no idea whither the path upon which he hes er tered is to lead him. He bedsit by asking h-gislative inter ference to protect children fiom bait g overworked; be has gout, on to ask similar protection tor women. Ile askei at first for an eleven hours, and next for a ten hours bilL He has got his a cold request, and already he has come back to the legislature to lea fur new and more stringent regulations to en force those he tome ny persuaded them to make. He cannot stop here. If his pres. nt dim-end is grant: d, be will have to retu-n next year with a new one. The moment e fatal principle was adop•ed of at tempi: g to present): to manufacturers how and by what m-ans they were to condurt them operations, no alternative was left but either to back out of the mistake or to go on till it was carried to an extreme. 'fliers is no alternatim between lereing men free to cotdemt their operati according to thee:lte-netts of the circumstances of the moment, and leaving them no °when but prescribing their every movement. Wnat Lord ASHLEY wishes th , lie e ;ielen-e to do now does cot clearly appear, but the legislature, to judge by lest night s proceedings, rams well die posed to grant lim whatever he may aim. We may therefore 10. k to have our manuf-eturing enterprise elackled by fresh restriction.. T e manufociver must conduct his business not as h s common sense I and experience dictate's, but, as in Caine, according to the leVer of a lew enacted by three who have nu prettiest converserce with its detail,. Tne result for the manufacturer it is not difficult to cmjecture ; and if tLe manutacturer go s to the ground, what is to beccmi of those who are dependent upon Lim fir emol iyme..t? Thus it is when a dreamy sentimentality is silo veld to usurp the authority due to memo alone. The rela tions between mil Ter and employed are infinitely more satisfantory now than they were about this period of last century. We speak not of fac•ory labout ere and employers alone, but of all. And how has this been brourt.t about? The working classes have risen in inn lligr nc; ; they know better what is due to them, and how to assert it. Their einpl jets, too, Lave grown wire:, and learned tr.st justice to their servants is the bed policy. More humane sen timents, a deeper reverence for what is worthy in humanity,animates all clasan. To this the improved and improving cond.tion of the labouring classes is mainly attributable ; and this may be safely relied upoa to carry on the good work of social improvement. To rely upon the tireless letter of a law for such • consummation is to trust what cannot help us. To fetter the inven tive genius of anterp. lee by prescribing rules to which it must c inform in all circumstances is not cnly to perslyss improvement but to turn back its tide. inie honourable members of the Horse of Com mons were nettled last n'et to Lear themselves charged with communistic teudeticier. Before indig nantly rebutting the charge they would have done well to ask themselves how far it might be trur. A fate principle is as dangerous, when associated with mild and plausible manners, as when allied to frantic excess. A mieconoeption may be as fatal in its consequences when it 'ekes possession of decorous lords and clergymen as e hen it instigates red republicans. The principle of the socialist and that upon which Lord ASHLEY proceeds, are at bottom the sane. That principle is to rely upon formal laws, to the exclusion cf the moral principle in man ; to sat i.ute machine-like drilled creatures of positive enactment forfree men acting upon retired and enlightened convictions. There is no safety, there is no ht.pe, in such a system. Loan CMITLZBEAGII has given notice of his inten tion to move u an amendment on the Irish Franc Ase Bill, that the rating test of qusliti. stioa for county electors be rai-ed from eight p,nds to :melee. What the ;wails re o natuf the motives msy be, which kites induced the aob'e re pm -ntivive for the con ty of Meth to make such a prtposition, we do not pretend to know or to it qu're. From Vie time and re :or of his observations daring tho discussions thst t.ve ncently mikeu place on vlritius p art ions of the bill, we h•od almost hoped that Lad CASTLE- S/MAI was inclined to adopt more lib,ral views of Irish policy than those entertained iu general by his party. On one c r two occasions he Amorally refused to rote with them is their blunt and bigoted attempts to waist tke vtry qualifi• d and guaroed concessions proposed by the ministerial measure. Tne LinuLual spectacle if an Irish tory recalcitrant, taboo ordered by his commanding officer of the Calton to give tno rights and claims of Ifs countrymen no quartor—excit• d mingled litlitsgs of pleasure and seep ise. There was a r ont , ar piq.rrncy , more vt r, in this partieul tr instanc- ; for tarokLo rd I.O,IIXiNDERRT tau et nti• g his mint noble age agaitot thvyrriihyterian farmers and eler t ry of Ulster, to this Upplr 11. e, Lis ann was Giving Ott...AMC, iu the Lower to bland word.. wt o h Old erred to depree an a isoutinuanct of that t it.l system of legis- Istiv, &Larne, so long ciliaraeterTsiog =lied 1 legis ia inn with relfct to Ireland. _ _ Bet it would appiar that either the natural grind disp widows of the noble viscount have been over borne by the evil c‘inioela of othe.v, cr t Al he alto has rel 'peed bee the ioveterrts habit. of jesloqsy and tear whe ewith his d 111., se a clam, have alw, i ye ie . warded the m •ra of the Irish peoplo. Ills idea of trestint bona fide a toaribtu“iicy in Ireland which ex Its in Evglll. d, hl!. even Lead CASTLZREAUII with apprehension. If owes THE FXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 15, 1850. a body of county voters exist, numerous enough to express in any degree the wishes and wants of the occupying tenant class, might they not, some fine day take it into their heads to say at the hastier what they already say everywhere else, and to vote as they themselves think fit P The bare con ception of a mate of things so dangerous to the main tenance of social and political domination fills the territorial oligarchy with dismay. The end of all things, in the despotic muse, stems at hand when the dreaded vision of an enfranchised tenantry rises up before them. Had the occupiers of land a right by law to choose representatives in parliament, they might take it into their heads to exercise it. At present they have for the most part no such right, nor even the semblance of it. Hence, no doubt, much of the impulsive and excited ebullition of social discontent, at whose distant echoes noble absentee proprietors start in horror and wax wrath. The tan talised and Injured many have no constitutional mode whereby to vent their dissatisfaction at the manner in which their dearest interests are dealt with by their hereditary lords ; and as the only alternative left them, they have nc-ntly resorted to associations and leagues, under various forme, in defence of tenant-right and the security of industry. Nor can such combinations cease to be re sorted to until either the great social gua rantees they week to obtain be ooneeded, or until a full and free reoeseetation of the agricultural ' middle class be sstebliehed as part and par cel the ground-law of the realm. In parliament or out of parliament the long smothered voice of agri. cultural industry, as contra-distinguished from agri cultural indolence, and of agricultural thrift, self denial, and privation, as controdistinguished from agricultural prodigality, self-indulgence, and luxury— somewhere and somehow this voice wily ere long mskeiteelf heard. In Ireland, where suffering has been most acute and least alleviated—whi re land ladle n, in all its pride of power, has revelled with least check—the people, driven welluigh to des ' peratioc, have been the first to tarn upon their tormentors, and to associate together for purposes of self-defence. We are not at all surprised that the landed class should feel alarmed. They know better than arty one can tell of them, the countless and ceaseless provocations to popular resentment they and their fathers have given. They tremble for the quiet resession of their rack rents, acid the fruit of the tenant,' labour, which they hoped to appropriate to their own us, and benefit. Panic is already amongst them, and its contagious influence unhappily affects even persona like Lord Cairrtenesnit, who eve individually guiltless of the eine of their order. This, perhaps, is natural and inevitable ; but surely it behoves such men to beware how they internoso in such a quarrel. To mediate and recoaeile, to admonish and advise, may at the fitting WHIM be their privilege and duty. But to do so with any prospect of auccese, they must retain some charac er for impartiality, as between the hostile patties. Once mingled in the intrigues and cabals of the bland and infatuated caste which claims them as its own, their only chance of usefulness is at an end. The instant they suffer themselves to be drawn into the counsels of monopoly and aosondency, they most prepare to be viewed as partisans of the cause whose practices they palliate, though they shrink from vindicating its principles. The ministerial bill fur the recore'r:ction of the county constituency in Ireland upon the basis of an 81. rating is the filet step that hes Set been taken towattis the social emancipation of the agricul tural clacste in that country from the thraldom in which they have hitherto lain. It proposes virtually to listen constitutionally for the futuie to what the occupiers of the soil have to say, and to give them the constitutional means of expressing their desires and demand'. It does this confessedly in a very guarded and limited way. It may even be doubted whe:her, after making all reasonable deductions from the gross number, who presumabV are to obtain the suffrage or de ran 8/. rating, thee onstitnencie s will be sufficiently numerous to be prat icelly independent. Tte bill can hardly be looked upon as more than an experi ment ; its success must depend on the principle being fairly trio], and carried out in practice fearlosly. To raise the qualification by one-half, or from 81. to 121., would ensure its failure as a general measure. The people would feel as much as ever that they were the objects of legislative mistrust and suspicion. Tney could receive the uugraiuus concession without gra titude, and use it only es another means of expressing their unappeased discontent. General Corbin has been appointed to the command of the brigade of La Rochelle. In the Legislative Assembly yesterday the bill re lating to the two additional twelfths applied for by the minister of ficanze atd the other MIL demandicg a credit of 10,160 b 004. to defray the expenses of the colonies, were adopted. The discussion on the third reading of the organic law on public instruction was then resumed, and the articles, down to the 36th inclusively, disposed of, without any modification of moment. The &omission we. again adjourned to this day. The education bill is still going cm in the Chamber to-day. The panic which bad seized on speculators in the Passage de l'Opera on Tuesday evetung, was followed by • farther decline at the Bourse yeeteeday morning, and Fives were at one time as low an 90fr. 10c., and Threes 661 r. 60e.; toward, the close, however, a little rally took place, and prices somewhat improved. As compared with ' the last prices of the parquet on Tuesday, Fives. for the account have declined 2tr. 10c., Threes lfr. 700., the former closing at 90ft. 90c., and the lath r at 66fr.; for cub, Fives have fallen 2fr. 160.; Threes ' lfr. Stio. ; the prices being 90fr. 85 0 ., a n d 66f r . 80o.; Bank of France Shares have declined 36fr.; Belgian Fives, i; Old Roman, 1 ; New ditto, There bas been lade or nothing dose in railway shares, bat where any trans actions have taken place prices have been lower. Northern have declined I Ur. 260.; andeaux and Strasbourg, 71r. 60c. each ; Nantes. 43fr. 260.; Orleans, Oft. ; Marseilles, 21r. 60;.; and Bile, lfr. A letter from Havre states that M. Porter de la Pelletrie, a distinguished member of the legitimist party, has been arrested is that city by a superior officer of the Paris police establishment. Several important documents were seized in his house. reale, mums 14. Pa, ' it Amount. Money. Opening Menem Lowest. Chine 3pa Ona. ....... 67 13 NI IL 37 33 513 IS 47 20 3 per Canto. 3 do. New Loaa • v. .0 Ili per Coats.... 4 per theta 3 7 .13 • • „ Exteange on [wawa: an dap.. 4 60; 13 ,1 day; 23 171. " baled; I, 1410 Do. S, 1842 Do. 4 Do. 8 Piedmont 3 per Crate 97 0 " Sank Mores 227730 Bomma.—Vemiadlos (eight hank), 187 00; Varseillee (left bail), —; Paris mid Orleans, 773; Pork aad Bora, 647 So • &men and liana 287 30; Arline. and 193 73; Inman:re and Bale, 113; Orleans and Ileum, 320; and Bordeaux 402 SO ; North, 440; Parla sad dipatboary, 343 73; Tours and Nantes, 242 30. NApare, Yearn P.—Three pie Cents., 29 7.16 sesoast. Tour per Csabi., ppm Mee per Crate., 121 paper. Coopiall. ;1 piper. beak it. yffeased. bl mosey. Eacbauge oa Loado. &LW. ITALY. NAPLES. The following is the letter of our correspondent : NAPLES. Fin. 6. ' Petitions are circulating at this moment in the city of Napier, of a smiler character to those which have already circulated in the provinces, begging the king to nullify the constitution. They are first taken to government employ=s for signature, and in some in statoes, when such men have refused to subscribe, on the ground that such petitions do not m..nifestly emanate from government, and that they, by sub scribing, would subject. themselves to the charge of high treason, they have been already suspended. It is currently reported that his Majesty will, alter this last public cot, oblitera a the word consti tu'ion, after which act, as a despotic monarch, he will be in a position to sign the executim of s)me 24 leaders of the constitutional party now in prison. I have heard, from p• non, about the Pope, that there is an intention of his returning to Rome for the holy week ; but the very same persons add that, in their opinion, there is great doubt on the subject. In my next I hope to be at4e to place before you some interesting tinacc'al inforzca'ion touching a loan which government is about to create for the supply of the deficit in the Sicilian budget. Five per Cents., 3/. FRANCE. PARIS, TIEUR DAY, 5.30 P.M. The Iffoniteur du Salr gives the fo!lawing as the result of the elections in 12 departments : Moderate Candidates. —Arriege : General Pelet. here: M. BerraL Haute. Pyrenees: M. Goulard. Var : MM. Clapier and Simeon. Ardeche: M. de la Tourette. Allier: M. Dufour. Cher: MM. Des granges and Vogue. Sec alist Candidatea.—Bas Rhin : MM. Girard, Vidal, Valentin, L:kulaye, Huchtulh. Cher :M. d'Etchegoyen. Nievre :M. Charles Gain bon. Haute Vienne : M. Ducoux. Saone-et-Loire : MM. Raga:roe, Muter de Montjau, sea., Charassin, Buvignier, Hennequin, Lain. The Gazette de France says that M. Vidal being elected for the Bas-Rhin and having pledged himself to take his seat for that d. partment, there will be another election for Paris. Iu that ease there will 'inevitably be a Socialist returned by a large majority. Louis Napoleon is overjoyed at the result of the Paris election, because he thinks that the majority in all its fractions, must fall back upon him for support. Whilst he thus argues with his most intimate friends, he profe.ses aloud to be much grieved at the triumph of the dem crate, and says that he will give up hie , sword (rendre mon epee) to the Assembly, and form a coalition ministry. M. More is the only man who as yet seems ready to fall in with this view of things, but he perhaps does not sufficiently bear in mind that he failed in his endeavour when celled upon by Louis Philippe to form a cabinet. M. Mole possesses less supporters now perhaps than then. The legitimists will probably reply to advances by saying that they might consent to what they call a nunistire repara teur ; but the President should then sacrifice all his ideas of personal aggrandizement. It seems almost impossible, however, that any remnant of hope can remain to him of the possibility of a coup d'ettat. The votes of the army, given u they have b en, in a large majority, to the democrats, must CND plcely extinguish all expectations of support from that quarter. Be there suppos!tione as they may, the president believes in the necessity—which the conservatives must feel—that they must reunite in order to regain strength, and join him also, in order to form a com pact majority against the democratic party. To that end ho is ready to sacrifice M. Barrot at once ; and I may inform you, almost positively, that that minister is on the point of resigning, if, indeed, he has not done so already. It is said that M. Leon Faucher succeeds him. I hive not been able to ascertain the foundation of this; but the mere rumour made the Bourse rise to-day considerab y. While each is the state of things it is painful to see the organs of the Oeleanist and conservative parties give way to the expressions of resentment which have appeared in them yesterday and to-they. If sanguinary thourits are in the mind of any party in Paris they are surely at this moment in that of the men who, in spite of intrigue of every kind, have b. en powerless to bring in their candidates for elections in Paris. Revenge ie at hard, they ray, for the lesson which the opponents thought to give will fell b.ck upon the Bret prom qtrs. All this, and much more, do the Debate and Constitationnet give way to in their annoyance at the oleo oral resat'. But really there is no necessity for all the wailing and grief that is shown. Society is not en ser'ously m mc.ul as Ihe organs of reac:ion would make people believe, kit the election of three democrats is a prote4 against the weaknesses of a go vernment which the Dibita and its supporters would, it it could, render weaker still. , The Presse is not far wrot,g whoa it says "It ii not true that the cause of order hu received a cheek. We sty aloud, and with a firm voice, that the cause of order hos just triumphed, for by the an ti one of Match 10th, the p. oilo have shown what could be d Joe by twilit at d mud. ration." M. Quin has terminated his report on the budget of receipts!. He is to read it to the committee at an early sitting. The minister c. f commerce has appointed a epecial o,mmis iuo to word.° the arrangements xecessary In the intere4 of such manufacturers us May wish to trik.t part in the general exhibition in London in 1861. PIEDMONT. Letters from Turin of the 10. h inat. state that the seven articles of the law for the abolition of the eccle siastical privileges were voted in the Cumber of Deputies on the previous day. GERMANY. PRUSSIA. Our correspotdent writes as followa BERLIN, Mahal 12. The Stoats-Anziegir °Wain, a full report of the list sitting of the Vertcallungs ra , h, the results of which I have already described. The fivo commis sioners were chosen for the Erfurt parliament ; and then it was agreLd to refer the breach of federative alliance by Hanover to the Erfurt Court of Arbitra tion (Bunderschitlagerieht). There is hope of bringiog over Wurtemberg to the Erfurt Bond ; at !mist the negotiations with Prussia for that end are carried on brit.kly. Beningren is returned from Vienna to Hanover. AUSTRIA. The Wiener Zeitung of the 10th publishes a state ment of the Austrian Minister f f Finance on the new land-tax for Hurgary, Transylvania, the Vo:vodina, Croatia, and Dilmatia. The taxes will be levied 1. On the produce of the soil. 2. On the profits of the buildings. The land-tax on the above-mentionsd crown lands are exnected to amount to 12,000,000 twine, which will, in the opinion of the Finance Micieter, enable government to abolish the transit dales between the diffirent Austrian crown lands. lineup Wanes 13.—Voluntar 7 Loan, 1081 ; National Debt. 871 ; Commercial Marine Soceetes Premium, 1031. Bank Share; 95. GREECE. The Oesterreichische Correspondent has the fol lowing telegraphic despatch from Trieste of the 10th instant: " PIRMUS, ?dAacn 6. " The severity of the blockade has abated. Eog land has resolved to consider and wait. The vessels which have, up to the present time, been pat under embargo, are to be retained as pledges." WORKING MANN HOLIDAY IN 1851.—The follow ing, whieh has already been issued in Bradford, is a curious illustration of the forethoueiht of the working dunes: " The public are respectfully informed that a money club will be established ou Wednesday, March 13, at the Hope and Anchor lan, Market-street, f a the purpose of accumu lating the funds for enabling the memb n to visit the Eeni blti•,n of the Works of Industry of .11 Netione, in Si. shoes, to be paid by monthly antectiptions; members to take one cr more shares. Partite desirous to become Umbers are requested to attend at the above place at 8 o'clock in the evining, when suit a and other requisite information will be provided. &milsr clubs will be commenced at various inns in the town and neighbourhood, of which further partisulus may be had of the printer. The promoters of these clubs 'nista* entreat all artisans toe others who can make it tonvenfint to become members, which will be conducted on the moat economical principles, as that they may secure necessary funds to enable them to vi-it the great exhibition to be held in Lond.in in May, 1851, which is so well cal culated to Improve the morel and intellectual condition of all closets.—Bradfoid, March 11, 1850." THE RELAY ST STEM.—PUBLIC MEETING AT HUDDINSFIBLD —A public meeting, convened by the con• sable, in sompliance with a r. quisition resented to bins, was sold at Hudder,fi.!d on Wednesday evening, for the purpose of adopting petitions to path:wag to pail such a declaratory act as will effectually prevent the carrying out 01 the relay sytem. Although the meeting wu officially convened by the constable (William Wiliam, H.q.), that gentleman destined to pfebida over it ; and, in his ab.ence, Joseph Shaw, Hoq., gentleman, was called to the chair. Tiers was a good attendance of orrativce, and re mindens precisely to the same effect as those adopted at the Leeds meeting, on Tuesday evening, +sac araeimoudp agreed It. The Vicar of Huddersfield MA one of the orio- Mut ape akin, and in the course of tii4 remarks he stat.el that Messrs. Joseph Starkey and Co., large usanufac:urers in that locality, had supplied hem with wine statistics, showing the off. et which the adoption of limited hours of labour in factories had produced both open the profits of the master and the wages of the workmen. In Hewn Starkey andCo.'s esta blishment It ammo that the redutrion of the noire of labour from 12 toll hours, had sot resul:e 1 in lots either to m wises or men ; but the iurth.r reduction to 10 hours per day had been attended with an average reduction of 44 per cent. on the profits, and of 31 per cent. on the wages of 'lubber's, spinner., and finisher. engaged in the manufacture of woollen cloth. The meeting was also addressed by Rev. Charles Parker, Rev. N. Glendenoing, Mr. K B:oek, bookseller • Mr. William Moons, postmaster ; Mr. Samuel Glendenning, merchant; and two or three we mem ; but tlie speeches contained very little that was new. - , Tea WILTIIIB.—The weather daring titling week has been delightful. and farming operations haveoeclnadqu,,, c e. proereseed rapidly. Wo may here observe that a vent 'arne quanti, of p Amass are b int planted is this musty —Newry Era/miner. of Court. The Queen walked yesterday in the garden of Bethinking Pelee', sad Um royal family took their usual airiage. Priam Albert presided yesterday at a meeting of the Royal Commission foe the Promotion of the Exhibition of the Winks of Indutry of all Nation to be held in the year 1861. His Royal Highness strived at the new Palen of Westminster at three o'clock, attended by Col. &untie. The imannissioneve present were the Berl Granville, Lord Stanley. Lord Ornstein, the Right Roo. Sir Robert Peed, the Right Hos. H. Labintediere, Sir Archibald Galloway, Sir Rickard Westmacott, Mr. Cobden, M.P., Mr. William Cabin, Mr. P. Posey, M.P., and Mr. Alderman Thompson. M.P. The secretaries of the entintiesioa, Mr. Stott Russell and Mr. Stafford Nertheete, were in attendance. Colonel Reid, RR., attended as chairman of the executive °onl ooker*. The meeting broke up at six o'clock. Her *deny had a dinner party yesterday at Buckingham Palace. The company included the Duchess of Kent, the Bavarian Meister and Baronets de Cello. the Danish Mi nister and Camels de Raventlow, the Locher of Marl hew ugh, the Duke and Duchess of Argyll Lady Fanny Howard, Baroness de Smith, Lord and Lady Willoughby de Eresby, Lord Marcus Hill, and Colonel the Right Hon. George L. Dawson Dauer. Mr. Ellis, M.P., had an interview with Sir George Grey yesterday at the liimesoflice to convey to him an anti slavery petition to her Majesty. signed by 69,686 women of the United Kingdom, praying her Majesty to promote the use of free labour produce. A deputation on the sub-division of parishes had as interview with Lord John Russell yesterday. The depu tation consisted of Mr. A.ddarley, M.P., Lord Roh.rt Gros- Tenor, M.P., Ile Greene!, II P., Mr. Jackson, M.P., Mr. Christo, M.P., Mr. Frewen, M.P., Lord Lswisham, M.P., Rev. Frederick Wade, and the Rey. Francis Kitchin. Mr. Crawford had an interview with Earl Grey yesterday at the Colonial•cflics. ' The Earl of Stradbroke had an interview yesterday with Sir George Grey. The Ecclesiastical emrniasioners for England had a general meeting yesterday. Sir Edward Buxton had an interview yesterday with Lord John Russell, at his °Ririe: residence in Downing- street. The Committee for Agricultural Implements of the Commission for the Exhibition of 18,11 met yesterday, in the new Palace of Westminster. There were present Mr. P. Posey (chairman), Men. Cstrain A. Pelham, M.P., Mr. W. Mike, M.P., Mr. Lxke, M.P., and Mr. Brandreth Gibbs. Mr. 1.1,1ke attendtd oa the part of the Executive Commit tee. Tne Building Committee had a morn yesterday. Lord Robert Grosvenor, Sir James Duke, Mr. Ma►tarman, M.P , and a deputation of ►ilty gentlemen, had an interview with Lord Jobn Itossell yesterday, on the sub ject of the water sup; ly of the metro , solio. The Judicial Commiree of the Privy CJuleil sat yesterday, and resumed the hearing of Itswson's petition for an 'item ion of Noble's patent. Toe awe we adjourned. METROPOLI TAN PAROCHIAL WA ER SUPPLY ASSOCIATION. DEPUTATION TO LORD JOHN RUSSELL Yesterday, a deputation, consistiog of members of the Metropolitan Parochial Weer Supply Association, and other gentlemen, representing metropolitan parishes, had an interview with Lord John Mussed, at his of residence in Downing -street. The deputation was headed by the follow ing members of parliament fir the metropolitan dietrive : John Muternsan, Esq., M.P., Lord R. Grosvenor, M.P., R li Osborne, Req., ALP., C. Lushineton, Esti , Sr James Duke, Bart., M.P., General DI Licy Evans, M P., Sir 'William Illoleswortb, M.P., and James Wyld, 1M P. The deputation was unusually numerous, conaia•.ing of about seventy gentlemen. Lord R. Grosvenor, M.P., introduced the deputation. Mr. WYLD, stated that the object of the depute• lion was to obtain a constant supply of water upon the Pigh pressure principle for the metrapolie, and of the best quaky, and to retain that supply in tteir own hands. Mr. WILLIAMS explained the importarce of having the control exclusively in the hands of the parochial autho rities. _ _ Dr. CHALLICE stated that he bad very considerable professional practice among the humbler chases of the com munity durine the prevalence of the late epidemic, tad that he was strongly of opinion that the want of an abundant supp y of pure water ministered very considerably to the spread of disease and death. Mr. W. J. HALL adverted to the heavy expense of ob taising water in London l'r manafecturiog purposes. J. B. RYDER. supported the views put forward by Dr. Chilli« with reference to the alarmirg amount of morality which prevailed in those districts where an impure and insufficient supply of water was obtained. The Rev. J. E. GIBSO:sr 2atailed the sufferings of the poorer classes in B renondsey, «taloned by the imperfect supply of pure water in that losality. He said be knew of families who bad been compelled in that distnct to make use for domestic purees , ' of water from a stagnant ditch. Mr. J. THWAI rES said the deputation were the repre sentatives of some of the laraest and most populous par.shcs in and 'bent London, and that they had been deputed by • pub.ic vestry to watch the water gut-echo. The metropolis and its suburbs required a much larger supply than they at present possessed, because every month was adding to the mortality amongst the inhabitants. There were several water hills at present before parliamint, but in the o',inlon of the deputation, every one of terse would, if paw d, only increase sliming evils. The parishioners wanted the sitsply of water, and he might say of gas also, to be under the con trol of the ra'epsysn, and that such an article of vital ne cessity as water should not be us,cle a mercantile and prefita ble speculation of by any parties. They thought it ought to be brought to the bows t f the recipient,, at the timeliest possible cost, and that it the supply were placed in the hands cif a government commission, the control of the ratepayers would be virtually gone. Their sacient trial• legee would be infringed u pen, if government placed the sui , ply, es it was rumoured they intended to do, in the hands either of an existing or of any future commission. L rd J. RUSSELL said that no decision bad been come to by the government about taking this important subject int., their owe hands. The Beard of Health had been con .iiiering it, but the government had not dtcid• d upon it in any way. lie could only assure the deputation that all they bad stated should receive the consideration of himself and his colleagues. Toe deputation, who were most courteously rec. ived and to whine stetements the noble lord listened arida great patience and attention, thou withdrew. COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL. Yesterday a court was held for the dispatch of twines.. FCHTIIIIII CITY OP LONDON SCHOOL INDOWSIBNTB DT YR. DEAVFOT. Mt. Deputy HALE brought up the report for sealing a deed of trust respecting the endowment of a fourth scholar slip of the value of 501. per annum, by H. B. H. Beauroy, F.E.S. Upon the motion of Mr. HALE, a report from the library oommittee was also read. It stated that they had been taroured through the medium of Mr. Hobler, with a present from H. B. 11. Beateey, E.g., of a beautiful cabinet of ' London imams' and tavern tokens, which would prove a very valuable numismatic record of the currency of the City of London which preceded the copper coinage of Charles II They had directed the Towr-clerk to communicate their special thanks to Mr. Braufoy, which bad been one, but they deemed the present worthy of particular report to the wart. (Cheers.) Mr. IiALS moved, and Mr BLADES seconded, in speeches warmly ene . misstic of the character end liberality of the donor, that the reports be 'pried to. . . . The motion wa; •arced cj ►midst acclamations; and it was r.,►olred that application be made to Mr. Ileaufcy, to allow Lis hint to be taken in marble, for the purpcs‘ of being fixed is the council chamber. Tug OKIAT CIUMIAL OAP CONSUMIRS' BILL. In onswir to a question tram Mr. ANDERSON, a tdamazit stated that the new gas bill had been read a second time in the House of Comnross, and was appoint. d to be considered in committee atter the recess, and that the Reincmbrancer had received instructions to watch its progress. THZ OFFICE OP OOMMON eZRJILNT. ----- - -----.-------.. The LOUD MAYOR Bpi/mated Thursday next for the el etion of a commas serjeant, on which duy no other bust , Cu will be trunsucted in the court. ALDERMAN SIDNRY . II BILL IN PARLIAMENT. Mr. Deputy HARRISON report of the ' piouee..ings in parhamtnt on Aldtrutan Sidney's motion for leave to briog to a bill to abolish , he payment of tkos and stamp dolts on the admi•sion of freely' n into corporations of att.es and boroughs in England and Wales. Mr. Deputy klartism, in intrc during the report, accused Alderman Sid sey of having mode in the House of Commons several stem mata, which were without foundation. Alderman SIDNEY usurect the court that he had stated nothing but facts In the House of Commune, and he was 'nattily utiitied that in proportion to the increase of the fut.& of the corrreinn the municspal beep was diminished. Alderman LAWRENCE contended that the whole of the statements of Alderman SiJney were without foundation. The public accommodation had been in the highist degree increatied by the construction of ,ewers and the ethic advan tages &raw. d horn the improvement of the City property, at d :he rating had sustain.d a dimientiou prorstioned to the Rigthids of the improvements. Alderman SIDNEY detied that in his speech in the House or Commons he had maligned the corporation, or that he had said a word about the taxation of hie follow.citisana. His object in bringing f:rward the bill was to MIMe an evil which he considered the court wire perpetuating, which was a severe injustice upon the poorer class, of Cis fellow citossos, and which Ito knew would be successfully oppcsed out of ,'oars. (Hen- ) Mr. NORRIS said the court hod got into a discussion in consist. set with their duties, hut h. could not blip saying plat Alderman Sidtey'n Chirp: had been a comitlite foilure, without rendering the 'lightest service in any way to any body. (Laughter, and crime of " Hear, hear.") he report was theu ordered to be entered upon the minutes of the court. Adjourned. LIGHT Dols ASSOCIATION.—At a meeting of this ~Matt n • nsolution ha, been passed expressive of the gre..t ditappointment of the inembcrs at the announcement made in the House of Commons by Mr. Labouchere, in wawa r to Mr. Font. r, that he could not pledge himself to bring inward dir prom;se I bill for the ret,rm of the light hones system during the present soden. THE POWDER MILL EXPLOSION AT HOUNBLOW.—CORONBIre INQUEST. A brief report of the inquest on the bodies of the sufferers by this explosion appeared in yesterday's Express. The following is a (idler report: The first wither celled wu Mr. J. Lambastes'. He said—l am • clerk. I knew thei deceased. I did not know their ages. Goodhall was a coiner, Perty was a glazier, and Bookmsster was a ca ning man. I was on the premiers on Moniay afternoon lute The body of Goodhael was found on the border, edits meadow called the Cylinder-field, about 12 yards from where he had been working. Bookansiter was also found about 12 yards from the mitt They were all dead except Goodhall; he lived for about ace hour and a half ; he was 'mild'. I did not ask him any questions, nor did be say sorbing to me. Immediately alter the a cc id ent medical aid wss sent for. The explosion took place at half-put 3 o'clock. I had not seen the sea employed in the houses in which the expl• sion took plain. The mend explosion took plate • few wend, after the first. I can't say exactly bow soon, Cperhaps 7or 8 esconds. The second occ urre d i n t h e neatest ocas the find that exploded. By the Coroner—Can you account for the accident? Witness: No, sir.—Coroner: Glazier and Strange were employed in the first house that exploded ? Witness: Yes. —Coroner: Had they been long employed? Witness: Strange had been employed ebout twelve months, Glazier 17 or 18 years.—Corener : Have you forward -ty opinion as to the cense of the explosion? Witness: Well, I have. The man Robert Glazier came to me on the afternoon fa question for • piece of cloth. I told him to go end help himself. He went to the store-room and slid so Be ease tech, and having hung up the seinen, be showed tie cloth to me. I said, "All right, Bob (we always called hien Bob), shut the doer," and he shut the doer, and in about two minutes and • half afterwards lin house blew up.— ' Coroner. How far were you off from his house 2—Witness: About 150 or 160 yards.—Coroner : Did he say what he wanted the cloth for ?—Wit ness • For lining cloth— . Coroner: Well, and what do you apprehend or curried?—Witness: It struck me that he might have reel tentally taken • piece of grit lath the h ruse.—Corner: Wu the powder on the floor? Witness: I cannot say.— Coroner : Did he change his boots? Witness: Yen but It might have stuck to hi+ trounne—Coroner : Have his feet been found? Witness: I don't know; the only portion I have seen of him is his finger. The surgeon here intimated to the coroner that it was a most extraordinary circumstance that every single hone in the bodies of the persons who had been blown to pieces was br 'ken, with the exception of the 08 sacrum, which was who!. in each ease. COMM f Do you know what Glazier ranted the cloth for ?—Witness; Ye,. In the casks in which the powder is dtpwited there is a lane hung hole, and it is usual to fix it fa with a piece of eleth, in oi der that it may cern. oat easily.—Coroner: Have you heard any opioi-ei expressed by any of the men es to the cause of the explosion nese : No.—Coroner: Have any of them expressed dinette faction or complaint at any time ? —Witness : No.—Coroner: What are your regulations for security against expleeons 1— Witness : The workmen wear sheet and ape es • which are provided by 11 , sir. Curtis. The slippers which they wear hays no new in them.—Coroner : Nut of any sort? Wie r ea,: No. Coroner : Those I saw had upper nails in. Wi near: Those are not used in the boines.—Cosocer : Do you believe that the first explosion seal partly accidental. and that the others were the ceceequence of •be first? When.',: I do —Coroner: Who had the superintendence of the men in the house where the explosion took place? Witness: Henry Clifford —C ironer Will be come Peron the jury ? Witness: Na. Ile is on the premises, bet he is too tato be examined. A Juror—Was it ever known that • spark from the rail way canto near the house ? Witness : Such a thing was never known. Coroner—What distance is the railway from the place? Witness—About 700 yards. J. Archer—l am employed in these mills. I Wasforemanof the dne:ing house, which was the first that exploded. I e.nnot say Low much powder it contained at the time, When I was in it at halt pest ten in the taornieg, there were nine or tea barrel., eut it was usually taken awey to the packing house every hour. Ginner—That is the lest house where it is finished cif. Withise : Yes—Coroner: Ie the parking.liouee co•eidered more dangerous than any other? Wanes.: Nu; not so dangerous.—Coroner: Was there any powder on tile floor in the dusting house? Witness: Yes; six or s.veu pounds altogether—Ceroner : How often is the fir r bruited to keep it clean. Rheas : Every ten minutes or so.— Corr : What is the weight of a terrel of powder? Witaess About one hundred p Coroner: What An you consider the safest way of moving them? Witness: 'telling the barrel on the floor.—Coroner: What are tbehoops made of? Wanes.: Weed; tied the deer is covered with leather.—Conner: 1) n't you think it would be safer if you were to base some ant euecance to move the barrels on, such as vulcanized india-rubber ? Witness: The house is nearly covered with leather, which is consideted aufficient.—Coro,.ei : Have ores formed an opinion as to the cease of the exelie ion ? Witoess: I think that it occurred by reeling a b are]. I can attrieute it to , no o: her ceue.—Corrner 11 eve you ever tried weether pen sure would ignite i; , —Witteas I have tried, bat it will sot,—Coroner: Hew del you try it l—Witnem : By pees sin; between two pier • of wood.—Coroner. Have you ever tried it in • cone?—Witness: No.—Coronfr: Les yea know any person who has 2—Witame Ne.—Coroner : Is it your °OM in that there was grit on the barrel, and that ' the dust exploded in rolling ever ?—Witness Yes, it is: Coroner : Archer, you do no not believe that the explosion ' was caused wilfula ?—Witnets : I de nee—Coroner: No thing bas occurred to induce you to think to ?—Witnese, No hies whatever. Wil ism Goddard, ealed end swore, raid: I n, Ter heard my brother in law. George Goddard. complaM thot he was not treated properly at the mills, or that he wee fearful of an danger. James Archer, recalled, said: I have worked in the mills for 26 years, and c.e. lateer Teethed there for 52 years. I nevi r knew a dustirg Lan e " go" bee, re. Carer et: Do you comic!, r every preciutim was used in that aid every otter him. to prevent explosion ?—Wi OM: I am sure there was. Mr. Trocou Curtis swoen, said—l am a partner in the firm of Cur:is and Co. I bent wit tried any (eerie:lents as to the strength of our powder; we know it to wed. Coroner: Yes; we have had several lamentable tee's of its streneth. (To elm. s.): Is the dry pueedir ve-y dan gerous. Witness: Very dry pea der will not e xpeide so aeon as damp, because ne sulphur Lees its etc, ngth.— . Coroner : Well. sir. what do you soy about thud of powder ? Witness : I consider i: mest clan g( roue. Without volunteering evidence, I may say that the effect uf the explosion had been tuned by dust.— ' Con.ner: Tee cause of the explosion? %fumes: No, the effect. The buildings were very old, and the dust, which it is impossible to preveneh.4l accemuisted for moue years.— C toner : What do ye u apprehend the cause cf the explosion to have been, have you termed ary opinion ? Witeess: The only thing I can suppose he, that atter Gluier had got the cloth he returned without putting on his slippers, and took in scene gravel. —Coexist : In considering the effect of this very 1 em.rentla accident, has et oc curred to you, that in reconstructing the buildings some plan may be adopted f's rendering them mere secure? Wiener : We have cue—Coroner : Does it occur to you to No. sums: any thing to prevent a similar accident ? Witness : Mr. Robert Ashby, suprrietendent of the works, ca:led and examined by the Coroner : He odd I am the general manager of the works here. I superintend the making of powder in all the buildings. I was n.e here when the ex plosion to k place. I had been here in the mornioe. lam well ecqueinted with the duties of the men who were em ployed in the dust house where the explosion took place. Some formal evidence to the identity of the bodies having been given, The Coroner summed up. He said—From the evidence of Mr. Frogley it was gatte cleat that they could not exa mine Clifford, and that, is they wee. anxious to hear what he had to say, it would be necessary to adjourn (or that pur pose. AU that Clifford kettle of the matter had been cora mun'etted by other witn(se , e. It was very unsatisfactory to conclude an inquiry of that sort without some more successful termination; but he feared they would not arrive at it by adjournhog. After going Oyer the chief portions of the evidence, the honourable gentleman said if he were a juryman he would return • verdict which would leave the case open far further iequiry, and he would suggest that the verdiet should be, that the deaths were caused by the exel nien of powder, but by what DMUS there was no evidence to show. At the ems time, it the jury believed that the expli seen was caused by either of the causes stated, they would return a verdict erf accidental death. The jury, seer • sheet censultatirn, returned the folio,- ing verdict :—" That the deceased received mortal injuries on various puts of their bodies from the explosion of a certain quantity of gunron der, and then and the re died, bat that there was co evieence before the jury to show by what means the s.iel gunpowder exploded." A NEW SUB-TITVTE POE GUNPOWDER.—A Mr. Napiir, of Somata, has announced to the Scieatifi.: institu tion of that town that lie hie discovered a new tip! .ire suMtance, which be designates "white powler," having ton times the force of common gunpowder. It is cam posed of the following ingredients : One put yellow prus- Mao of witash, wi7ll dried ; etc part sugar, well dried ; two pare chloride of punish; Huse materials are finely Ecru! minuet Ir, and then intiwataly suited. WHOLESALE ILLICIT DISTILLATION.—Yesterday, at the Court of Inland kevenue Joseph Oitoon, No. 64, listli,ll , 4friet, Lambeth, was charged ott seversl informa tions with hiving utilLeniol stills in his pcssenion, sad with cm) ing on the woe of illicit distillation. TN, otfici re siited that the utensils found on the premises were capable of prodtring 26.000 gallons of spirits lly, the du yon which wou:d amount to 10,0001. The d fendsat we. anvired in the full poualty of 1,2001., and the seizure was condemned. A POACIIEK KILLED DT A POLICEMAN.-011 Tuesday last Mr. Hostage, the coroner far Chester, wa. oe cupi.il for a coned time in inscs.litating the circum stances of a fatal po ,chirg affray whi lately °craned in the neughb.strhoed. It appeared that t b .ut 11 o'clock on Wed. n e atly a t ,'ismaht the deetassd, whom name was Win. Jon s, was seen by Pol co Coestahla linghet in the sot of having Curs nt-pirk, which is in the out-skins of the city, wilt • gun is his band. The constable recognising him es a person of bad chariot. r arrested him, when two other men rushed out of plawation and attempted to rescue him. The com•ta ,, !e ko ' ...ids which he carri lion house, where J. Woo' of (aware of deceased had come witq a Pick given b they, sad ialtis ow' itu‘siiird ell arse down with a, heavy riet!, end they were COUVP)Cd to the Sta- Jonee died the next nt.rning Win the d the risen. The jery found that the tby hiede►th in eonwqueneo of a blow • by John thews in the (inhere of his us &loco. • I I II