The Express. — London, England, 1850-01-28 00:00:00

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MONDAY, JANUARY 28. 7w conference at Burghley has broken up with out eo.nieg, it is raid, to say resolution. In the hospit. de semi= of Lord EXETER the chiefs of pro teedon sae gathered together, mutually to condole on the .1 fortune that has of late attended their indi vidue, and in common to take counsel as to their r June in the approaching campaign. After long_ othate the sole determination these wise men could .. - .^rive at, was the very prudent one rot to deg id. on sa , eing, but to give themselves the longest peat tme for " further consideration," and the lest post!.. :hence of " what may turn up." Not until Thursday mornirg next will they omen make ,p thew minds whether there is to be any a• minuet to the address. Rumour generally under km to tell a few inquisitive hours beforehand what .c purport of the Royal Speech will be ; and the , pulists, grown cannons by experience, have with • ';ty:ng pruthmee taken the resolution of wait ing, or.' ii they know what her I%Lairsir may be ad vised s +ay, before they finally determine on the tone they T - il adopt in answer. Ir :atectionist meetings can he at all considered as It fair tr anifestation of the opinion of the several grades of ger iulturista, there is but one inference to be drawl :tem them, which is, that the farmers are caw =lv the power and at the mercy of the land - Things are in England, as they bate bee n heed .1 Ireland, where a large claw, having but the lad t ire on, and knowing no other profession or mode t turning and supporting ttemeelves save the ind, must have it on any terms, and with .ny sacrifice of the only capital they pc. ~• . Hence, if land is to be sold, it brings its pr • : if farms are to be let, tenants are found to offer r c cad price` And English landlords—even sea 1 • ral men as Mr. GlzillOßNE and Lord LYITEL TO2l-- v. rent is an affair of supply and demand. Why • ,uld we take a low rent when a farmer will be fat. Ito give a niightiostrieg squire ten shillings as at- tore ? As t. clue, we cannot bat think the farmers a most injur. am. And indeed let any one who can clot a reties • c: over an agricultural district of thirty feat oink him of what has become of the rich farm ing el-. • when he knew in his Tooth. What has be come r: them, what of their families? Where have the It. ..ands which these men were worth vanished to ? '.es have vanished into the pockets of the Iliadic- .11:and have goes the way . of horseflesh and degte and mortgage and jointure. Under the spite • protection and varying pricer, now high now r. the squirearchy of England, and not the tree trade • . :s Mr. Mt3TZ would represent it, have literally atec • is flesh off the irises of the farmers ; and what they t the rest of the community to do, is to taz them •-•a in order to put enough of flesh on them to allow • .e landlords to continue their meal. Th.:- was a tenant farmer at the Lincoln meeting the ot: er day, who seemed to have an inkling of this , . Ala , • he rose to support a protectionist clause, be co not help making the remark that the capital of the tenant was universally at the mercy of the without any law to protect him. The farm be declared, altogether lacked spirit and ia dept. ; nee, without which they were worth little as m. and still less as farmers. In order to procure them 4.e portion of both, he would propose, as a eon 1.. to protection, tbl ballot. Now there was a fame who saw further than the length of his team. Tr • , '..rmers are, in fact, not in a positi.in to reason with r.dlxds. Amateurs who write in magazines, may he up a fanciful debtor and cr.ditor account, bet . • what a working farmer cannot do. It is aly the end of two or three years that he can tell is wl 1 • situation he is, and then hope comes to cheat, and landlord to browbeat him. And yet we won r.ot accuse the English gentleman of hard heart. em, or a reckless desire to ruin and crash either sae class under him, or the clan over against him. Toe English landlord sins very much through isnot a ea. He goes to the university, he iearns Greek, sad to, and me:matins, a scruple of theology, as mach f political economy (manufactured always for 11-.dord use), and ace politics as are gleaned mall from his fellows. Bst of the science of land rind i 4 ,enductiveneen of the great social laws which shoe. I:rect and modify Lis relations, political and pm • ry, with his dependents—of that, we are warty ..) say, the gentleman knows little. So that 4e now we him defending his right to high rests ...d prices with the same blustering . and sense less I. n race, that Orange and Tory squires support tbsit atical ascendancy. The fact is, that landlords do in • inland, and therefore can neither support e their pro lesion. Hi the pear display the landlords make at their meet. ,r.. Mr. CHAPLIN would not discos rent at Line . • : it was a parade matter, be said, between him i.. his Masts. What was a reduction of 13 per t. on the rent, said Air. BAKER, at Hertford. It w I a flea-bite. They wanted Bs. a quarter, or from .to 325. an am increase from protection. An abate - % -.meat of all the rent would not attain this. What .hey wanted was something large; petty pia.a .d small industry were not worth fighting for. The he* ie, that agricultural prices obtained by pro teetioa am like profits obtained by smuggling or lot terie-, lei largo and exciting, so alternating between • 5m..% (mime and utter ruin, that people accustomed to as h speculations cannot settle down to turn an homit p -any, or be contented with it. la.tead et emeostagiag them in such idly lucrative ways. which have really merely encouraged both lanth >id sad farmer to fling away money, it is for the mem at..ty at large to bring those privileged classes to rehe .n. As to the farmer, he can only be saved I stalling down to an Irish pauper, by &sull ies I ie leadlerd's logic for commercial rules, promises, cad I.! :in seam. And the landlord himself, if he does not it odes the political economy of his ease fie that of world at law, will find himself, first pecuniarily and politically, shelved. r al'y will not do fcr landlords to nay that the plies . f the me of the sail is an affair of supply and deur •4. This might be a fair rule if farmers were an it d pendent class, paying a fair alternative, with fartilit e. Ht fair and provident calculation. Yoe must emer::l ate a otos err you can conclude a fair bargain with it sad make land a much freer commodity than it is ere y i•ti talk of supply and demand. Noe will it do to argue, with the Morning poet, that the owner of land is entitled to moo rent as the interest of so muci sepitel spent in fertilising the soil. The re& a ell interest-bearing eap:tal ought to be : first, its b.• n 4 wisely expended ; secondly, its repaying heat within a certain time. Capital laid out in fu see, or weeks will not bring profit ;its elernumi Neit• • r will capital applied to land. The sum spent fifty c urn ego, whether in cotton mills or land-re elaWi.,g, has little right to demand, at this time of day, en aterest proportioned to the outlay. There are ti•nefaotaring towns in England whose whole co o I :.as perished, been confisated by bad years and ii .011/00011dal trade. Fresh capital and fresh owners have • rived three towns, and refitted the factories. 1.111 0 ..lone cannot be eternally reproductive no mare tin % n.lll ufactures. Both will have their blights, and must sink under them. Landowners, like the owner. ti other property, mast bow to the great law of humanity, winch condemns all things to fade. And eapital is no more exs oz exe mpt from this law of disas ter dicey th an Res% orbowers, or the proudest and gresteet of human elements and materials. .tated some time back our belief that the aris tocracy of this country would not be able to perpetuate its lanaenes and wealth by attaching itself solely to land. And we are more easvmced of that every day. Land is but an element—a raw you every day makes more and more expenditure of labour ima of skill upon it to render it prodoetive. The raw ma terial, that is, the natural fertility of the soil, becomes every day more and more a matter of public interest, and less and less a matter of private gain. If any clam, or any numbers, could monopolise the air or the water necessary for life, what power in law could enable them to mountain it I' Lad is veat e r n from being in the same category. But still it is tly so to render it bopslem to make any ideas or claims of private interest prevail against the powers and the neceesities, which are loon crooftued into the rights, of the great mass of the population. Mn. Lleaaufs silence with regard to his rents at Hogheades, was so portentous and significant, that we should at have deemed it neeeesary to recur to the subject had mot the statement which we made on Friday week engaged the lineation and received the confirmation of a contemporary. A correspondent of the nines, in Buckinbanishireel who has been engaged in inquiries as to the state of agriculture is thit district, makes the following state ment of this interesting cue. He says : We inquired particularly to what exteatredectleas of rent had taken place in this usichboarbood ; bat we could not mesuala that any reduction worth mentioning as such bad esamarel. There are five eases of terms becoming vacant lies muses unconnected with the present premiere on the ambratural interest. Two of then rams beloeged to the ease Want, who gave them up because be saw no prospect of making . anything by taming hereafter. His place we. immediately supplied by °dun, and at a very slight reduction of rent, if any. Of the three morning farms, two are the property of Mr. Die mil. Public attention has already been drawn to the sub< jest of the farm., or we should not perhaps have deemed it proper to refer to it specifically. Having, however, inquired into the circumstances on the spot, we deem it rigid to state the facts at we beard them. Mr. Disraeli's estate Is about 800 acres In extent, and the two farms in question are the rent-yielding portions of it. The family occupying one of these farms had been 32 years in possession ; that owypying the other, 20 The former proprietor, Mr. Norris, is dearribed as a kind indulgent man, who let his land for less than its real value. Mr. Disra eli bought the estate a year mad a half age, on a valuation made after the death of Mr. Norris, which took place four years age—the calms. film being said. during the period of high prices, and with a view to a sate. The tenant whom family had been begot in paseesion succeeded a man who only produced 10 bushels of wheat an sere, and was unable to make anything of the 'land at a rent of 7s. N. an arr. Mr. Norris prodded farm buildings at his own cost, for which be charged an increase d r• rat, to cover the interest of his outlay. Daring • tuners of 32 years, is the course of whisk the original lessee died, testing the farm to he managed by his widow sad young sous, the original average crops have been doubled. The valuation under which Mr. Disraeli par. chased increased the rent, it is said, 25 per cum, and this macaw was paid by the occupiers for two years, in the hops that during that time th ey might ex tract from the soil the capital they had invested in it, and which they mar have lost if they had immediately given up pos. session. Evan if prices had remained as bigh as when the valuation wag mate, the occupier states that he would not have agreed to pay the increased rents charged fur a m ammas*. Thereon, when prie. s tea so I me, he applied to Mr. Disraeli for a reduction of rent to tee amount of 10 p r cent., and his fellow tenant also applied. The rates, it should be mentioned, bad during 'lto last five years increased from 4.. 62. to 8< 6d. The application for a reduction of relit has been refused by Mr. Disraeli, who has let the two rums on terms little, if ar all, ander those which the retiring tenants retitled to pay. The rew tenants are neighbouring Partners. This is the statement of the case by one who wishes to preserve his impartiality, whilst ho has evi dently a friendly . leaning to Mr. DISRAELI. There are one or two minor errors in it, such as that Mr. DISRAELI purchased the estate " a year and a half ago," whereas it was b ought by him in 1846, or early in 1847. It is also an error of words to any that the tenant " applied to Mr. DISRAELI for a reduction of rent." He applied that his rent should not be raised, according to the terms of the notice he had received, and this was an application which Mr. DISRAELI re ferred to entertain. But &peg from these paints of detail here we have, from personal inquiry instituted by a friendly band, a full confirmation of the allegation so stoutly denied by Mr. DISRAELI in the presence of the Buckingham shire farmers, that the rents upon the Hughesdon estate bad recently been raised. We repeat again Mr. DISRAELI'S words : I fled that it is steed 'hat I have raised my rents very considerably very recently, and I am requested to meet Mr. Cobden at Aylesbury to-morrow to explain' the owed of my so doisg. I have occasion now to tres pass very lightly upon your attention with regard to this subject. There is no farm in my umeastion the rent of which I have raised one sixpence.' (Hue, hear.) The whole statement is an unmitigated fabri< cation. I dreamed of doing such a thing at any time --certainly at the present time I am the very last man who would think of such an act ; and I have once more to re peat, in order that there may be no mistska, that the state ment alluded to is an unadulterated invention, and 1 suppose an invention slot up to revs the purposes of the moment. We shall not attempt to reconcile ;this language with the facts. Upon a review of the case, Mr. Dithaecfs own souse of what is right will probably suggest to him how far he was justified in making use of such expressions. The fact of a very considera ble advance of rent upon Mr. DISRAELI'S estate is a clear and even an admitted fact ; and we shall not stop to inquire whether " be" made it, or whether he only took advantage of the notice which had been given by some one before him. The tact is what we have to do with, and that fact is established. There has been very recently a very considerable rime in Mr. DISRAELI'S rents upon the Hughendon estate. Having purchased the property for a political purpose, at almost a fancy price, and upon a valuation made avowedly with a view to sale, Mr. DISRAELI is at this moment receiving for his land nearly one-third more rent than was ever paid for it by any tenant to any former proprietor. This is the great fact " which amerced the farmers at Great Marlow, and which, wham more fatly known, mast, we should think, Wert the farmers everywhere else. What pre tense, bind, is there for talking about agricultural degremisa when we find, as in this case, farmers really sad willing to take land for cultivation at an Imams of no less than 7s. an acre upon the original rent el 110 e. ? The statement of the Times upon this subject lames, in one respect, a light upon It of which it had not previously the benefit. We see in our con temporary's narrative a singular proof of the necessity alliteration in the existing system of tenures. What are we told? The families of the tenants who have been dispossessed under Mr. DISRAELI, held the land fur 32 and 20 years respectively. Prior to their possession it failed to produce a liveli hood to the occupier at a tent of 71. fid an acre. "The lucent longest in possession succeeded a man who only produced ten bushels of wheat an acre, and who was unable to make anything . of the land at a rent of 7s. 6d." This same land, in consequence et I the industry and outlay of the tenant farmer, now gradoese double the quantity of wheat it produced those days. Let us see, however, what rent it pee doom. It was let, 30 years ago, at 7s. 6d. an acre; it is now hued at 27a. an acre. Whilst, therefore, the I seeps have been doubled, the rent has very nearly lima quadrupled ! Mr. DISRAELI himself told the farmers at Great Marlow that " there was no body of men in existence more iejurions to the commonwealth than a body of landlords who wish to enjoy at the same time the ad vantages of high rents sad low pekes." Mr. Dia- RAELI may repudiate the advantages of low prices, but it is evident that he is perfectly esessioas of the advantages of high tents. AUDIT or SAVINGS' BANK..—At a Special general inning of the trustees and managers of the Freon. dent Institution St. Martin's-place, bald on Friday last, it was resolved tha t,i in accordance with the suggestion of his Itoyed Highness Prices Albert (the president of this invita tion), the Governor of the Bank of En gland. Mr.ldestennan, Boron Lionel Rothschild, and Sir Edmund Antrobus, or other three or more gentlemen, be requested to appoint an ememstant, who shall institute such inquiry into, and s ransi • sides of, the system and accounts of the institution as shall be to them satis'actory. ROYAL CialtritAL ANNUITY SOCIETT.—A special general meeting or subscribers to this institution was held en 11,tanlay, at the *Mose in Basinghall-street, for the pur pose of anisidering the expediency of making certain alters tians the ruble; the Um William Lemmas in the chair. T 4 11th rule was so altered, that TOWS polled for ell ensue egiefal candidates should be carried to their credit for " all suceseding" elections instead of for " three" elections. The hallowing resolution tuned by Mr. Jones and seconded by Mr. Taylor, " That any person becoming a subscriber, or paying a new subssription after the balloting papers ate tamed for an election of annuitants, shall be Mbwed the "tics Of giving at that election the whole number of votes to which they would be entitled for that and the suoreesling eleigken, OS relinquishing theit right to vote at such stionediug election, and that this rule come lath operation on sad after the 30th 'enemy, 1860," was, on the intendment of Mr. • Forrest, postponed for farther rionsideration till the 18th of Dearth. THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 28, 1850. FRANCE. PARIS, FIIDLY. A.ll. • The yearly !Aliens of Preach exports and imports "Yu Published in die itosilesor last week. The y astabl e / oa t ant the soinplaints that M.Thiers of the in French mercantile tonnage. This, which showed 918,000 toss of imports in 1847, shows but 840,000 in 1849, whilst foreign tonnage in French pods has increased by 100,000 tons in 1849. What an argument would this be for Mr. George Young, had the French repealed their sanitation laws. The herds of 1849 show the French to hare re formed Mier manufacturing activity. One-third mite at cotton wool has been imported in 1849 than even in 1847, whilst there is a considerable increase in the import of wool We are ashamed, for the sake at French economics, to add that considerably upwards of half a million sterling was levied in duty upon the raw cotton, and 830,0001. upon the wool. If we add about 600,0001. raised in duty on raw silk, iron, oval, oil, and tin, we will find one million and a half out of the five millions, which the French cus toms &lineally produce, raised upon the raw material of manufsedures. Sugar gives them nearly two mil lion sterling, and coffee 830,0001. The import of coffee was much greater than even that of 1847; that of sugar much greater than the import Of 1848, but one-third lees than that of 1847. The French export of wines and brandies has been much greater in 1849 than in 1817. Machines and mechanical exports are but half last year of what they were in 1847. Parisian modes have but half recovered their depres sion. The export of glue has not been greater in 1849 than in 1847. Thensilks, woollen, and linen ma nufacturers exported a little, and but very little in ad vance of 1847. On the whole the French journals are justified in declaring 1849 a year of complete reparation for commercial industry. SATVILDAY, 6 P.M. The journals of to-day and yesterday have eo little in the way of mews, that the Debate is enabled to de vote its first page to extracts from a pamphlet of M. Guizot on the first English revolution. M. Guizot's essay is pretty much on the same theme with M. Tains' recent speeches, declaring that no regime is so suitable for Francs, or capable cf taking root in it, es constitutional monarchy. This M. Gait it illustrates by the example of Cromwell, who was everything that could be desired in a ruler—talented, brave, popular, isuccessful, flattering the pride, and agreeable to the prejudices of the people: and yet even Cromwell took no root. Thus M. Guizot indi rectly addresses Louis Napoleon, and tells him, with mock solemnity, though you had all the qualities of t ' your great uncle, you can take no root in this country. Louis Napoleon might, perhaps reply to M. Guizot by asking what root Charlie the lenth and his dynas.y took, or what M. Guizot's sage administra tion enabled Louis Philippe and the Orleans to hold of the country. if any conclusion is to be drawn from the " no root" argument it is surely that here ditary monarchy is a very iirecure principle of sovereignty in France, and that there is au absolute necessity for recurring at certain times to popular election. Le Napoleon, however, might not choose to adopt this line of argument. To return to the matters of the day. The legislative assembly yesterday read the bill re lating to tho commercial treaty between France and Belgium a second time and discussed that tendirg to authorise tha translation of the pre fecture of the Loire from Moutbrison to Et. Etienne. This is a question which may he compared to that of the transference of the seat of the United States government from Washington to New York. The comparative importance of both places is abort the same. The b.ll was accordingly read a fist time. The discussion of the proposition of General Bars guar d'Hiiliers, to modify the enactments; of the Con stitnent Assembly relative to the gratuitous admission to the Polytechnic and military school., was then commenced, but was after a short time adjourned till I to-day, in consequence of the lateness of the hour. I The debits resumed to-day offered no point of interest. M. Thiers has placed on the table of the chamber his report on public assistance. Dinners and balls in high quarters are the order of the day. The President of the Rep iblic was Present' the day before yesterday at a grand dinner, given by the Minister of Commerce. Among the guests were the President of the National Assembly, the Arch bishop of Paris, the other ministers, the ambassadors, General Changarnier, Messrs. Mole, de Broglie, and de Montalembert, the Prefect of the Seine, the Chan cellor of the University, the Presid nts of the Jury of the Exposition, the Tribune and Chamber of Com merce, of Prud'hommcs, &c. A brilliant s4irle fol lowed the dinner, at which were present the most illustrious names in politics, administration, and science. The Hoiden). states that the Minister of Fi- I nance, in order to avoid the delays caused in the 1 seaports by the inspection of the luggage of travellers, has given orders that examination shall be made at the termini of the railways at Paris on the arrival of the trains. The Courrier des Alpe* publishes the following curious letter from Rome, dated the 15:h :—" A body of Austrian troops is shortly to advance upon Rome under the orders of General Baron d'Aspre. Tne ob ject of this movement is to restore the imperial and royal arms on the Palazzo di Venezia. Since the departure of his Holiness they have not been replaced on the residence of the Austrian ambassador. They are to be heisted at the very moment the Pope will make his entry by the gate of St. John of Lateran. It is believed the Pope will insist on the permanence of these troops in his capital. France, which evacuates Rome, partially at least, will see no harm in letting Baron d'Aspre place Austrian sen tinels at the gates of the Vatican and the Quirinal. Thus will one of the difficulties be removed ; for the Sovereign Pontiff must provisionally have a body of troops at his command, till one of the plans in con templation, viz., the formation of a Spanish legion, or the revival of the order of the Knights of Malta, shall have been put into execution." The Osservatore Romano publishes a brief addressed by the Supreme Pontiff to Father Ventura, who in his letters to a Protestant has undertaken to prove the truth of the tradition concerning the journey of St. Peter to Rome and his subsequent stay in that city :—" Oar paternal heart (says Pius IX. in his brief) has experienced true pleasure in c:nsequence of the public declaration you have printed and spread, announcing that you submitted to the decree of the Holy Congregation of the Index, invested with the right of judging by our supreme authority." BOURSE. PARIS, Jaw. 26. Yoe ,! For Amannt. MeneY. ;Mean. Unrest. awing. 3 per Cents. per Cents. 94 63 94 50 94 115 91 SO 94 80 3 do. Pea !man. . 49 per Cants. 7b23 90 4 gm Cants. .• ftairpon loaders So da 25 45 ;SO days, 33 3 13• V °05, 1 1 6 13 4 Kortey „ De. Treasury 41 „ Do. „ Bank Mures Piedmont spm Costa 43 t 0 „ Boonse.—M. Germain, • YoualUm (right lank), 303 78; do. (Left lank). MS 75 ; Gliams, 63133; rMis and Down, ND 50; Rouen and Mans, 14$ 73 ; Asignaa and Marseilles, 215 ; Strasbourg and Bats, 111 35 ; Centre (Visescal, ; Boulogne and Amiens, —; °dams and Bordeasz, 416 M Marrls, ; 4llb 73; Paris sad Ntssiniissr, WO; Tours sad Nantes, 972 541 ; Gtte and Montpellier, MO. SUNDAY, 11 A.M. The Paris journals contain no news. They are taken up with M. Thiers's report on the poor-law. The Napoleon of to-day contains rather a sharp article against General Lamoriciere. In the Legislative Assembly on Saturday, it was decided, b a large majority, that the proposition of General Baiaguay dMilliere relative to military schools should he read a second time. The Napoleon states that Dr. Achilli has succeeded in escaping from prison, and has arrived in France. The Socialist journal La liberte, having failed to accomplish certain formalities, is obliged to suspend its publication for a few days. At midnight on the 25th the electoral liatreetiflca tion was closed in Paris. The number of registered voters is much leas than at the last elections. The French mails, with oar Paris letter of yester. day evening, did not arrive until immediately before going to pram Our latter contains nothing of preening importance. Tns Eozorre, captain Lott, sailed from Liverpool on satsrur. for Halifax sad New York. ARRIVAL OP TROOPS AT BARBADOES.—On the 10th ult. this Prison@ Royal, transport, arrived at Barbados& with deta sr 12 diens and 260 nen to join the miasma da is the West ladies SPAIN. MADRID, ZAN. 19. In the Chamber of Deputies the discassits aa the authorisation for levying the imposts still goes on. Dim del Rio presented an antendmeat, that the tax on landed p roperty should not exceed 10 per oent., and that an income tax should be established. After a short debate the amendment was withdrawn. Gon zales Bravo then made hia long-expiated speech against the ministry. He said that the government had adopted for system to act illegally, and then ask for w indemnity or an authorisation ; that it had all the incenveniencies of an absolute government with out its conveniencies; and none of the hematite of free diecuseion are obtained. Authorisations to act ille. gally are always dangerous, and the more so at the present epoch, when there is no necessity for them. The orator, who wss once the most famous satirist among periodical writers, then made a kind of anatomical demonstration of the ohmmeter of each of the ministers, amidst universal laughter. Mit was expected tha ti the mystic writer, Donee° Cortes, Marquis of Valdegamas, the Montalembtrt of Spain, would reply, Gonzales Bravo sought to dimi nish beforehand the effects of that gentleman's pecu liar oratory. He said, amongst other things, that the minister would like to be absolute, but that he had not the courage. This brought up Namuz in a towering passion. Gonzalez Bravo made a sneering apology. Mon then made a defence of his adminis tration, after which the house adjourned. _ MADIUD, JAN. 216—Three per (X•ots.. 291 sod. ; Tour per 016 11 4. In paper ; Fire per Crate., 12 4.16 paper • Ceases, 71 paper. Beak of St. Perdlaaad , 83. Szabange oa LuadCal„ 30.33. GERMANY. BERLIN, J. 24. The most important turns which the great ques tion has taken have been certain attempts on the part of Count Schwerin and Itadowita to mediate with the crown, which seem as yet not to have met with much enoesen. Schwerin bears the impress of frankness and sincerity in his whole appearance, and has not belied that appearance by any act of his public life. He is a sanguine man, who would undertake a con ciliatory mesion out of pure good nature, but throw it up at the least rebuff. Oa Monday there was another meeting of the I I leaders of parties, when the President of the Second IChamber took ucnision to unfold a new proposal for negotiation with the crown. lie would establish the First Chamber on the following basis:—Thirty mera lbira should be chosen by the provincial assemblies; 60 by the assemblies of circles ; 30 by the cities ; 00 by the highest taxed landed proprietors, and the re- Imaining places should be filed by the royal princes and the Reielwutamigtelbarcsa. You will p rhape re member that I fur fished a mathematical exposition of the minimum nuinber of hereditary peers proposed in the messsge of the crown, which I made amount to 80, exclusive of the 13 Reichs-unmit- I telbarcta, and the eight royal princes. Now, when you consider that Count Schwerin was chosen president of the chanib sr by the government and the constitutional party, who dropped their candidate Simeon, in order to conciliate the govertmeni: and you find that this government president proposes to treat with the crown on abase which does not admi. one of thole 80 hereditary peers: you may form some idea et' the breach which divides the crown and the parliament. In fact, one can only consider this pro posal of Count Schwerin as a demonstration of cour tesy towards the government ; for the First Chamber having already accepted the King's propcsition on the peerage, with the proviso that control over the supplies should be granted to the Second Chamber, and the crown having abruptly declined such a stipu lation, it was perfectly clear that Count Sehwerin's proposal would never have been entertained for a single moment, nor could any mini-ter have bee.: found who would have dared to present it. On account of the electioes for the Ilithltris.'ioler, who elect the deputies to Erfartn, no sitting has been held te-day. Tac great debate therefore C 35208 on to morrow. No papers having appeared this evening, I am unable to give the general result of the eleciione for the Wohlnabaner to Erfurth. Bat I naderataud that the meeting was attended by 40 or ‘5O persons, none however of the democratic party, and that the elec tors chows belarged to what is called the constitu tional piety. The Vienna pod has failed both yesterday and to day. Yesterday a change in the weather was mini feste I. A slight drizzling rain fell, which froze on the snow, 53 that walking was found more difficult than usual. The police enforced with praiseworthy rigour contributions of ashes and dust from the houses, which alone made the pavements practicable. It was thawing all night, and to-day it snows no more, but, rains: the temperature from 20 degrees Reaumur below zero—an excess of cold rarely it-1: at St. Peters burg—haa suddenly become a Brest -coat and blanket milder. The first private trial of Belle's opera took place last night. I went there, but it is difficult to form an independent judgment about an opera the first time of hearing, nukes it be decidedly bad, which Balfe's opera is not, any more than the Gtadus ad Perna sum, which is put together from scraps of Virgil and Claudiao, is bad poetry. It seemed to me es it I had heard it all a hundred times before in a hundred dif ferent weras. It is a pesticcio, uncoils:Amu., I believe, of all teat tickles the opera-going ear. Bat lam really too unscientific in such matters to pretend to the least judgment. Telegraphic dispatches from Frankfurt announce the opening of the Frankfurt legis'ative assembly on the 22nd. A motion would be without delay brought forward, proposing the incorporation of the free city in theDreikeinigsbund. Tneoentrel federal commission is occupied with the Schleewig-Holstein question. The Deputy of Hesse-Cassel to the Verwaltuog rath having moved in the sitting of that assembly, on the Ilth instant, that the Erfurt Diet should meet on the first of March, and the President having pro posed an amendment stating that the building pre paring for the reception of the deputies would not, accenting to official intimation, be ready till the 15th of that month, the committee on the constitution, in its sitting of the 22nd, voted that the Reichstag should meet at Erfurt on the 20th of March, which I t decision was confirmed by the Assembly. 48 Tne Cola, nc Ga:etle of Saturday publishes the fol lowing telegraphic message from Berlin dated the preceding evening: " Yesterday evening there was another meeting of the high conservative party at Mi. lama's. Schimmel and Vichbahn rc proposed their former amendment slightly modified, and as it was rejected they retired from the meeting, and intend to bring it forward in the Chamber. " The amendment proposed by Count Arnim for the adjournment of the potrie question to 18.52 was made a party question. 'Dm Leppert Bodelschwingh party will vote with Count Arnim on the }mine question, and on the finances and the special court of law questions with Vithbahn. The Riedel fraction will reject Arnica's amendment and abide by the report of the committee. The Second Chamber has to-day approved the ministerial report respecting the incorporation of the Hohenzollern principalities. Minister Manteuffel explained that the royal message of the 7th January was not an indivisible whole; the government would be glad to see ail the pro positions adopted, but only the eighth point respect ing the pane, and the tenth respecting the institution of a special court of law were of principal import ance. He expressed a wish that these two proposi tions, 8 and 10, should be disowned last. The presi dent will put the question to the chamber. The result of the primary elections for the people's house at Erfurt is only partially known as yet. It has been ascertained, however, that out of the number of electors who have been chosen, the majority is de eidedly in favour of the doubtfuls or w *** r e ra, when compared with either thee° in favour of orthose opposed to the adoption of the projects for the German con stitution. [WHOM THE POILEIUN PAVERS.] BERLIN.—Herr von Radowitz had audience 'with the Wog at CharlotMnburg on Monday, Tuesday, end Wednesday last. His Majesty has addressed the followine letter to the members of the Berlin conservative central eteetion com mittee foe the Erfurt parliament " I thank you for the loyalty end devotion with which you hams greeted me on the commencement of the new you. In doing is, I gladly ao knowlcoge the endeavours you mention as being made for the vary's* of giving greater life to the elections to the Gu mmi parliament, and of mussing their importance to be more generally felt. Ton will sot as I should wish if you are go verned by the conviction and can ealeblish it la the minds of the dieters, that the honour and power of Prussia are the best seearities for the glory and greatness of Germany." FRANIETOIT.—The Allgemeine Zeitung says: Oar latest :vans from Frankfort and linnich confirm the report which as" appeared is several journals, to the effect that Austria anti the four kingdoms have agreed toe project of • constitution i.'oe Germany. with a lower house, to be coned avid from members of the chambers in each country. Negzeietioas with Prawn on the subject are going on at the present moment. RustitAN Faorrnsas.—The Emperor of Rama has orderci the erection of a line of forts along the boundary towards Preens. At the present moment Russia has on tits point only the fortress of Zsmosk. The principal object of this measure is said to be the concentration of a considerable force at the western extremity of the imperial dominions, to be reedy in can of any event of Importance occurring in Connell Europe. CaAcow.—A report has been spread here that the Russian officers who have just returned from Hunger, gave 8 millions of Rental's sons to Prince Peskiewitab, in order to have them changed into current coin at Vicuna. It is a fact that the Russian officers have continued to receive these now at their full value, notwithateadlog that they have been put out of circulation by the Austrian government. THE "TIKES" AND KOSSUTIL (has the DailyNnes.): A fortnight or three weeks ago the Times wound I up a long series of misrepresentations and slanders against the Hungarian cause and its chief by certain , circumstantial falsehoods, such as that KOMI:Tit had • brought away large chests of treasure; that he had eired Count ZICHT'S emerald spurs to the Pacha of TDDIN, at a public reception ; and that he was living I in adultery with a noble lady, a young countess, the wife of one of the gallant defenders of Hungarian independence. These slanders, raked up from the reports of police agents,or invented by the correspondent of the Than at Vienna, were met by the declaration of a well-known English gentleman and author, who was present with the Hungarian emigration at Wtddin, who wi tuessed the reception of KossuTH by the Yacht, and accompanied his journey thence. This gentleman declared, in the Daily News of the let of January, "that all these assertions were utter, wilful, and malignant false hoods." ()f'awse no respectable journal, or no gentleman at'ached to such journal, could rest under such a charge. We have no doubt that instant communica tions were made to the correspondent or conceit tn ,.:ents who furnished the fout lies to bring proof of them, or at long some explanation of them. The post takes some time bete/con London and Vienna, between Vienna and Widdin •, and therefore it was only on Friday lust that the Time. re turned to the subject, which it did by stating " the melancholy but indisputable fact that its cur respondence from the disturbed parts of Europe had proved entirely eorrect." The Times, therefore, after coneiderstioa and examination adopts the foul, infa mous, and unmanly calumnies of its correspondents, without attempting to auhatautiate one tact: Of this we leave tot only the pubic to judge, but we leave the redaction and correspondents of the Times to con , eider how far their character, as well as that of the . • journal, is implicated by th i s undo of uttering falss hoods without shame, and braving the consequence without compunction. Tne tone assumed by the Times in its pleading of Friday must be temiliar to all, whom curiosity or prof. ssion has rendered aLquainted with the Old Bailey. Accused of the grossest calumny, of stabbing recklessly at the characters of men in mi-fortune, and women without defenders, it turns round in the dock, I and charges the prosecutor with having " tradtced and vilified" it. It has been attacked, it declares, with " coarseness and injustice." The poor, dear, scrupulous, courteous, considerate plexis in the tone of " injured innocence." Kossut it is at tacked with lying effrontery, and accused of being s thief. With circumstantial falsehood it is pointed oat how and where he had disposed of the stolen good., and the lady leaning on his arm is cherged with adultery. When Kosst Ties friend takes the fellow up, and puts him at the bar of the public police court, he turns round and vows he has been tr , srliteed, that be has had emus language ad- dressed to him, and complains that he hasshee w n some what rudely cullared. We are bound to ee.ty, that there is no: a magistrate on the bench that wuuld not ia stantly answer that well-known and piteous r.ppeal by an immediate sentence of such a culprit to the tread-mill. _ _ _ Not th- least curious characteristic of that foul and personal warfare, which we have ty pitied above, and which has been resorted to by the Times, is that these cruel and overwhelming slanders have not been di rected against democratic revoluticnists, or against really dangerous men. They have been showeiel upon lovers and respecters of not only cLnatitutional liberty. but of aristocratic and monarchic incitation'. M. LAMARTINE has 'written a history of the ever.ts of 1848, in which he recounts how the chief repub licans came to him and prorated that he should aid in continuing the monarchy. LAMARTINE refused, and precipitated France into a republic. Yet LAMARTINE has reoe:ved the homage of the Times ; MARRAST has been the object of its praises. We have never Lnown it to calumniate M. Louis BLeNc, nor pursue LEDUC ROLLIN with inveteracy. None of the ultra-demo crats of Germany have been the object of the invete racy of the Ames. It his done justice to WALDECX, nor has it tradwald the private character of STROVE. No—the especial victim of the calumnies and inveterate hatred of the Times are those who Lught, not for democracy or tese'ialism, but for their old, hereditary, guaranteed, and uristecratia conatitutiots —the patriots of Sicily and of lieu,,ary. Why has the Times passed its rod lightly over the heads of republican and democrat, in order to come down with the full measure of its vengeance on the heads of those who fought for moderate liberty, for constitu tional wisdom? Why deceit spars the ROBESPIERRES and the DANTONS of the present day, in order to fla gellate and denounce the Lae.tverrEs and the Kos stuts ? Simply because my , Lord ABERDEEN has taken the tyraunic courts of Vienna and of Naples under his flattering protection, and fancies that Eu rope is to be saved from revolution, and its balance of power preserved, by resuscitating all the moth eaten and periwigged absurdities of the last century, be they Italian despotisms, or Frackfort diets. If the Times thundered at demccratic freedom, and tot,k its stand for constitutional liberty, we could un derstand it. If it upheld the Lecessity of aristocratic institutions, especially in countries lately emenci eated, that, toe, would be intelligible. But for an English journal of the present day to declare itself the champion of such stupid, vengeful, and unmiti gated despots as the King of NAPLES, or of the confiscations and floggings of the Austrian com manders, that is outrageous and insane, as well as ignorant and malignant. The Times talks of its judgment, and of its Eng lish sources. But what is the 'limes, in its German and Italian intelligence, but the receptacle, the sink of the offscourings of all the pelice offices in E trope The Times prides itself up in its foresight. Why, we remember the Times announcing, day after day, that the Hungarians were crushed and the Austrians victorious in the first campaign, when at the very time the Ilungarians hod driven W IN DISCII GRATZ back to Presburg, and destroyed his army. We recollect a solemn article of the Times sagely opining that the Hungarians might make a suc cessful resistance, and speaking in favour acid respect of ROSSUTII. We could point out, during this host few months, successive articles of the Times, the first of which declared the meeting of the Erfurt parlia ment impossible, the next admitting it inevitable, and the third coming back to consider it doubtful. We know no journal that dodges events with more suppleness and less saeaoity than the Time*, or one lees entitled to assume the countenance of absolute wisdom. But mistakes and errors are inevitable in a record, written day by day. Intemperate judgments and expressions, also, are but incidental to the hurry and worry of diurnal writing. But a systematic per severance in slander, perpetuated in wanton malig nity, and persisted in even after conviction of false hood, this is what no English journal, however ac credited, thirst practise with impunity, or can defend with success. SUICIDE AT BLACKYRIAIM-BRlDOE.—Shortly after 12 o'clock yesterday a female, apparently abmt yeah of age, whcs was very meanly attired, entered the drat recess on the westarn-side of Illackfriers-bridge, and before any puma could reach her, the wok off her bonnet and cap, throwing them down on the stone work, end then deliberately leaped into the river. An alarm was raised, and two waterman rowed to the spot where she had fallen, but the deceased were used fee some time, but t►e deceased could not be found. The bonnet and cap were taken to the police. station in FleeFitroet, where they remain to be identified, Ste Court. this morning W in the slopes andINDSOR, Jew. 26. The Queen walked Windsor Park. Thu royal tinnily took their usual Mange. Hie Royal Highness Prince Alban went out sttotirF starving, attended by Lord Camoys, Colonel Hon. C. Grey, and Colonel F. H. Seymour. The royal dinner party included her Royal Highnest the Duchess of Ktnt, Lady Fanny Howard, and Baronets de Speth. Tha Queen's privets band was in attendance in the Castle after dinner. . _ JAN. 27.—The Queen and Prince Albert walkod thi s saorning on the Eastern terrace and elopes. The rGyal family took walking exercise in the slopes and Wiadsor Park. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Priem Albert, her Royal Highness the Princes,: Royal, the ladies at geese e men cf toe court, and the domestic household, ure a l e d Divine service this morning in the Private Camel of the Castle. The Hon. aced Rev. G. Wellesley otli•act a. Her Royal Highness the Dachme of Kent oleo ottended the service. The Duke of Cambridge atterded at the British Museum on Saturday. Hu Iti.yal Maness r.eited Her fte3 al Highness the 'Sachem of Giou::.ster, of Glo.cester house. A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday afternoon at the Foreign-office. In. moister, pr.sent were lewd John Russell, the Lord C-.ancellor, the Marquis ef Lans downe, the Earl of Minto, Sir Gtero they, Viae lun . Palmerston, Earl Grey, the Chanetr.ir of the Sir Francis Barley, Sir John lluth•Aine, Lard Catep:Kli, the Right floe. Ilenry Labouehere, the E•rl of Csrl...r, ti.e Marquis of Cliennearde, and tae Right 1114. lea Mat;:e. The Council sattbree hours and a half. Mr. Bogle Smith, Prime Warden, Mr. P. N. Johnson, Warden of the Galdamithe Company, attesdec bJ Mr. Rayne and by Mr. John Line, Clerk of the C.topai y, had an interview with the Right lion. H. Lskotie: Eatnrday, at the office of the Board of Trade, The Committee on Education of her Majesty', - cost honourable Privy Council held a meeting en .„. which was attended by the L ted Ptlfi4llllG of the • Lord John Russell, the Earl of lathy), the Earl Sir Gporan Grey, and the Chandelier of the ' The Hon. F. 11. F. Berkeley, M.P., Fisher and William Jord.n, of Bristol ; and :dean .Intl. 7.y Donlop and Alexandss ll.soar, of Lourf,e, a asp,. the subject of the guaranteed bloats Wiest. kat, trst.•,..s; business at the foreign-ollitc on Sa:.utday. Mr. Moulted hid an interview• on Stac! the Rig%t 11.:0 . H. Lshottthere. Despatches were sea off on Saturli the Colonist office for the (}.Werner Despatches were received on ri it' r:a - at n i a t. o th os from the G Al-roots of Ceylo,,, r Aagtada, sad the Caps of Good Rope. COLONIAL APPOINTAIENT.—ThomIi Eeq., is appointed Colonial Secretary and Accounts fur the bland of Triaidad.-1):,...!- A SERIES or SANITARY MEASURE-. bill for Us* prevention of burials in r..,s nc suomlttedtai the luiaiarur• totazedialx:y afrer tr of laarUassoat•—lreek'y Chronaele. rHE BAHL OF ATELIE Will, we uc , !: I the new rcprasentotive r for Scotland. :n • late lord Colville. Th.., writ/ Er elattilr. 1,3 v • booed The Earl of Aulie is a libar.l, !at is moitnie protection. Lolly Cotroif.—Neves aae brug', steamer, wh.ch arrive I .t S~uMcmp the 'what mail, that L.nd GJugh a.111:41 neat pack 2t. THE HO'S. ARTILLITT COWAST JESTT'S GOVERNMENT.—We tv.thr.'and tertsined or a speedy termination basis mi :e Sumac disseruilns which seve prevailed sm of this &patent cape einem the :rue of 11, : reserving to the Crown the app...n•rl , ,ht which have led to a to—,p...rary r.. feeettors a the cemLeni. Certain um bean prop 3<d, and twit they ar:.rettioi •he a. the (bills and (Anr miitaty funoti , l7 a of tun continue. laie arras, by order oi been placed under tie ears of Mr. Ha' iio, pointed as the te.apor.ry quaref-ma. APPROACHING 1IARI:1 tGES IN 1iI.;;i are informed that the E.:I Bearebamo hymeneal attar the Hon. Mn. Hy. ?I•Irr daughter of the Barone,* Braye, and lola , . w „ r Murray, brother of the L.alr,p of elect is niece of General Si: L tinge is Also t t?ke pl tce shortiy in tae I; faintly, tte preliminaries beirg retticd Ltd Robert Montagu, second son of his t C torte, only daughter and heiress of M-. J t%f . Leessore, manly Ante.m, and p5.r.,1,11u,t Passtitii , ltsr. It is said Lat this n.r.ar in the stonee• of next month. CORONER'S INQUESTS. DFATIT OF SIB, FELIX. BorTll, was held at Bri*htam L at . l2 ck nn Saturlfty, c arc n Tr.ursday in,o the a::tn of Sr ii Broth the York Hire), Brig4t.on,. wont to bed is hit %Lau - 1'1)14 : 1th a: La lt-r!.st ter. k • o'clockin the incising be wJe attukea w ing, which u'.s•ur'md air. I..ur.nee, a :rLni ut who slept in the adjoining room. Kr. Lturcncl went to the bedside of - thet':oraf. d , we: di thrPe m anus. Mr. avir Fuccek,aurae w. U hi► being the trual medial . attend►nt of .91 awl expressed ha opinion that Sir Fciix hx,i ease of the hlsat. The jirgrcturacd,a • S Sir Ft:ix w.s a di rtacr, s^d ?er•-,1 • - the;IfIo711;dOn (-I:;tin-.zt. manilla:rm. having presented J un,s R,..s to enable him to ht tiut . 11is Flrr expeditimi. .1 was crest...la baronet, with s:Wctsl remainder, I male Issue, to his brother, BqL th Lodge, Ere:. The leceitezi baronet in sum. 1, nephew, John Walnut Booth, b:ln in ISO 3 DEATH OF A MBER.—On &glint:ly Mr. Mikity held an ittrzest e the Rlse of Normandy. strut, llarylebone, on Sampoc n &arts, aged 6? deceased, who had lived for twenty-three years in the of the Ross of Normandy, was ellow,l by the Royal Oak Cush 3e. 6a. a week. Altkan,:b. 1,8001., in the mails he scrawly ailowed ttims,.ll uries of lite, and his room, its w4ll as his body, • revoltit.g evident* of voluntary starvadon y , • relative gave him two darnel shire, which at zi remained untouched in hi, bez. The coroner ev:res , nia opinion that deceased had starreil —N ere trt " Natural death." TIIE WI ,T LONDON UNION AOAIN.-0a evening Mr. P.Tr.a. the City coroner, he!.: au iny: Wcs: London raioie W.ukhouse, SenitiC,l,l, of Jane Canton, %%Rea 60. From the el.derCe `. mond, of No. 10, Ici-and-lintt-court, West t apre-rcd that the deceased. • widow, had I-, on ier tour months residing with her brother, m NJ. 17 sane court. The celervd's br.ther htd a se:f.• and during that peried, ktirg out family had nothi.:g for their suppot the above workhouse, and two loaves weekly. 1 had bad allowed her a 21b. loaf weekly slid tka., w. all she had to keep her from starvation, but this e. • wee refused to the deceased the weck pre: . death. The de eefed informed witntas that \i ler, the reliving oEccr, toll her she thou: nothing from that house, and to be off age luesineia. This was commucireted to wltn.ee deceased on STurday lass, and witness saw no more o. the following Wednesday, when a little girl, the :an deceased's brother, came to witness to ask fors water for her mother and father, who were del,- which witness went to the attic of 17, c. here e! - . the father (Charles Devlin), his wife, anti ...iv children stretched on the bare boards, and qert.• Me, and, as witness though:, dead, they were s . in the face. Witness no o ff to the workhouse, a she returned with the assistance she had procur, that the deceased was dead and quite cold. Mt (assistant surgeon to Mr. Hutchinson) said, he w... to by the brother of the deceased to visit his ••• family on Woo Saturday prowling death, and, wh.. them, be was shocked at thew emaciated apt , and at once perceive d that the case was or.e iioll. He Uked the wife of Devlin how ph. • she replied, in a feeble tone, " I'm hungry, hung" put the same question to the deceased, and sh. .0 6' I've • pain in the stomach, from hunger. - 1 . wittier tire, bed, nor anything die to hie,' out e the few wretched rags upon their bodies. Wit': direction of Mr. Hutchinson, gave the mar. "t .°.• ling and an order upon Mr Miller, the relevi ; • immediate relief acne whole tinily. The amt' at the Milder wee Is. 6d , which, with the shil.o : wittiest', made a half-crown, and out of that Pet . ... pay 2s. 3.1. rent the same evening. While.. fu AI. the family, as they required nothing more .11...• : ••• ought to have been supplied. From that eve , : •... the family had but three pennyworth of brad b';•64 up to the following Wednettley, when the ..• woman Canton was discovered. They w. re ot pay the rent cut of the haltcrown, or t..') a- I been turned out of doors the same lien.. ii au rr ivv d till the Wednesday he could The jury thought the case a 11204 t inhuman o-e. hoped Mr. Miller was present to explain hi. --, Thompson, master of the workhouse, replied "tit s had left his situation in the Union, and he "ar where he was to be found. Dr. liutchinoon, at I e strut, was of opinion that deceased died of ehrin: of the chest, no doubt hastened by want t l h.on. Devlin and his wife were examined, but it *3. I apparent that their minds had underpin!. 3r.. ti .. t an chge from the privations tn• y had ender"! ; -h roue looks of both caused a shudder amore the 2 - coroner having informed Mu jury that, with the„ opinion, the verdict must bo natural drat!., ' . r .. ever reprehensible the conduct of the otlietr d...-. opinion exculpated him in law, the jury. attic a . , ration, returned the following verdict : " i ost th " , died from chronic affection of the thee , soo •, wee greatly accelerated by want of the euniun i. of ills." L V Tf li. 11