The Express. — London, England, 1850-05-08 00:00:00

IMPERIAL I'ARL LAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS—TUESDAY, MAT 7. Ts. Immo met at aro Velock. Load LAMODAL3 SBA liraker. PETITIONS PRESENTED. ASSISTAVT SUSOZONS NATT.—By ski Dsks of BUCCLEUCH, from • place sot board, prelim for better Sessmisedstion foe ssrmoss in the navy. ZDVCATION.—Abo from Dendrite.. spinal any Situation is lbs system of pass:Mal education in Scotland; Lird WRARNCLIFFE, Mem • ;lam sot beard ; the Bishop of OXFORD. trees B acks, ageism the el etas ut secular alum- AoticrtivaAL Thrtaus.—B7 the Duke et CLEVII LAN 11, Iran s plasm; aim baud. coapl.luiag apiouttorai &strove COLONIZATION ASSURANCE COMPANY BILL• nu WS was road • eeeaad IWO. and ordered to be cos mdttad. INDEMNITY BILL. O. the modes ef Earl GRAN VILLE, this bill was red • third tits* end pesord. PRACTICE AND PROCESS (IRELAND) BILL. Os the imam ef the FAH of CARLISLE, the report is tide hall wee loosen up sad warned. FOREIGN CHAPLAINCIES BILL. Berl NELSON sad returned it sissy Tequests sot to preps ebb hill,as M ires!d pompoms the sound reading until after the Whitsuntide hotidave et Inst. The Mogios 01 LANSDOWNE was glad to hear that the holds awl Yid sot swami t.• press the bill, fur if he had Mew on, be should Wm f k it his duty to oppuse it as as !series er her Majterre prerogative. Their leedships them adjosesed as a ginner before an, satil Friday mu. HOUSE OF COMMONS. 7 Tt:Espsy t MA 7. ..„.. _ The ' took t ,e chair at 4 o'clock. PUBLIC BUSINESS. ADTERTISIMENT Col. TREVOR, from pro prioton of murfirris Jostoral, kr the abAition of this duty. 81LL.—.117 Mr. ELLIS, from Leiter; Mr. CARDWELL, tram Liverpool against this bill. Marnortrurnw IsrsaxttDTsßlLV—By Sir R. INOLIS, Lam the R. Briscoe, posing that this bill be refs-red to a select eviainsittee ; E N BUXTON. from Bethnal wren and Dsl.ters ; Mr. MACKINNON, trim 81. raulk (parish net heard), in levier of this bill. BIORIVAT BILL.-14 Mr. CLAY, from Hall, against this Ferrous. Lenovs.—By Mr. BECKETT, from Leeds; Mr. F. O'CONNOR, from Chester; against the relay and shift system. Citraeis Rana.—Bp Mr. HUME, from Great Tar- IMOSIth ; Sir O. ritcutt.L, trom Brighton ; ter the &Union ed shank rate. ATTORNI ES' AND SOLICITORS* CERTIFICATE DU L Y. . _ . Mr. SIONSELL Inquire! hew it happened that the ant/rain of 'mind sod Scotland had not been included in the bill of the noise In t tne member for Middltsex, for the repeal of the 'mere* out, on attomise cerutiemes ? Lord li fiILOSVENUE arid that the omisai n had been inadvertent, old that an sally ot.portunlty would be taken to repeir it As the 'overawes: had announced their inten tion of opposiag the bid he had bees oblig.Al to postpone it, so that there •uabi be plenty of time to remedy the omission. SUUAK DUTIES. Sir E. F. BUNION Hod that having on the previous evening postponed his melon relative to the sugar duties, he was then able to inform the hens* that the noble lord at the head at the governor. of h given his Friday, the Met, for its distuseiou. (Hear. hear I CAPITAL PUNISHMENTS. Mr. BB Adj . Fo; tpoLetiteliltir3oth hie saotioa relative to capital pueishoients. lONIAN ISLANDS Par. ANSTET gave mattes to move on Thursday welt for copies ot an &odes* which had been presented to t►e Lord High Commits' ror the logien Islands by the Legislative Assembly ; also tor say eourespoodense relative t. recent transact.ous m thins ie.ssda which might have taken play between the British and foreign ft vernments. MALI TAX. Mr. CA.iLEY gay* notice tar the 301 Mg to non tor le,ve to orals la a bill for she repeal of the malt tax. GROWTH OF COTIDN IN INDIA. Mr. 881UNTii..... - ao;;"tST:t.;tisatciay week ha shoutd owns as. koshle address to ha Majesty, praying her Majesty to appoint a conimission t s proceed to loon to ba wds* Into the oleitssles oh:eh provented tho ' mirth cotton in that country, and to report on say circnensteocce that injuriously &elected the industrial and IDGCiaI condition of We listing of the presidencies of B,ssatny and Madras. LIGHT DUES. Mr. FORS TER gave notice that on the 30th May he should move the tullowingre•olutiun:—Tbst it is the opinion of this fume that the mocim levied on merchant shipping for light dues ere ezetative and unjust; and that our man date lights uagait to be maintained by the state, as in other countries Inoue, the management of a board retponsib:e to porliament, eonfurnaity with the resolutions of the eon mines set hist dues in the annuli of 1813. HEALTH OF THE LORD CHANCELLOR. Mr. RAILLIE said be was aware the question he was about to nit was • delicate one, but he trusted that the public inconvenience arising from toe suspension of all business in the Court ;at Caaacery would be his excuse. He wished to know when it was expected that the L•ird Chancellor would be able to resume his attendance in curt. Sir G. GREY believed it was will known that the Loyd Chancellor had been suffering fur the last few weeks under sir. re inaispasition; but the hon. member would be happy to hear that his lordship was now recoviring. (Cheers.) He was &licitly so well as to transact business at his own holm, although not able to resume the business of his court. At toe commencement of last term it was an nounced that his lordship would hear any can which was of an urgent minute at his hot-e. He had done go in one case, and had given a most able judgment, and was now engaged on another case of a 'similar nature. (Hear, Dear.) EXPOSITION OF THS INDUSTRY OF ALL NATIONS. In answer to Mr. AanwatonT Mr. LABODCHERR said be did not anticipate that it would be his duty to ask parliament to interfere in the con duct of the exposidoo, which would depend entirely on voluetary contributions. The only way in which he should ask parlament to interfere would perhaps be is insert a clause in the R•gistry of Designs Act, protecting from piracy all napatested designs that might be exhibited at the expositior. In answer to the second question, he objected to answering quiriont oleo general a nature, but being him self one of the COMIlillii00•11, be ec.uld mew* the hon. 31{41110tr that nothing was further from their intention than to apply to the treasury for an advance—(Mar, hear) —ard U they did, he believed that government would be =et un willing to entertain it. (liem, hear.) The only expense to which the country would be pat would be the trifling ex• pease incidental to the cuyytag on deoenenitsioss. SECURITY FOR ADVANCES (IRELAND) BILL. Lord NAAS asked the themetary for Ireland whether the notice appended to some of the edvertisementa of the locum bored Estates Csineausioners, stating that the Commis sioners w.ll give the purchaser the option of paying, ter the present, halt the purchase money, the remaining moiety not to be required Sir John Romilly's bill shill be dis posed of," had bees limed with the mamas of her Majesty's goverment. Whether a parliamentary title would, under sea eirministenerts, be given by the oomatheitmen to the warn on the payment of the first 'moiety. And, if so, what security the ememiesiosees would require for the pay 'NM of the renteialug ask SirW.SONIERYILLR said that the circuseetaitee alluded to by the noble ltd wee a judicial proceeding of the commie- Moan, and bad of course taken place on their responsibility. With respect to the adage question be had no information to SLAVE TRADE. Mr. 0. BERKELEY suited whether government had re ceived any amens sties suspecting the capture of a lugs MAW. wi-h 1600 slaves oa hoard, 012 the coast of Africa. Hr. HAWES said that a stammer had been captured oa She coast of Brasil, called the Providencia, fitted up is a slaver. She bad no slaves on hoard. PRINTING OF PETITIONS. Mr. H. HERBERT oomplaiaed that burial; recently pre sented a petition, numerously signed, respecting the Simi ray on Advance. Bill, he had been surprised to find it pointed as Um polities of only one person, merely because there was only ems "'paters on the sheet containing the petition, the root being pasted on separate slips of paper. Me wished to know from the chair whether he had an) remedy The SPEAKER said there was as remedy, as it was a mile of the home that signieuree to a petition thous' be st ashed to the sheet on which the prayer was written. • short disenesios ensued, in the coarse of which Lord CanTlMlnaon and others complained of similar treatment. Sir G. GREY remarked that if it were permitted to attach signatures to petitions on separate slips of paper, signets's, might be wit from various parts of the country by ties who had perhaps seen the petition. (Hear, bear.) After some minvenwien the sulieet drormed. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE. Lord D. STUART inquired whether the Metropolitan Interments Bill would be proceeded with in committee on Friday neat, for which day it now stood ? If not, whether it would he hr•utest on before Whitsuntide ) Sir G. GREY replied that the bill referred to could not be brought on tither on Friday or Monday, is misesquesee of the MOWS of other business ; bat be would Si it for the Ynday after Whitsuntide. The bullets* Sit Friday out would be the third reeding of the Irish Franchise Bill. • ADVERTISEMENT DUTY. Mr. M. GIBSON presented a number of petitions, pray ing for the total repeal of this duty. Similar petitions were also presented by Mr. EWART from the proprietors and publisher of several of the London weekly sod a large num ber of the provincial newspapers. Mr. EWART in bringing forward his goalies for the total repeal of this duty c immenced by observing that the large number of petition he bad mewed from so many of the public journals, of different politics, would be taken as a sufficient apology for his introducing this question to tile notice of the house—if, indeed, any apology were memoir, for proposing the abolition of an impost which was one of the most ohjsctiorable that had ever been imposed oaths coun try. This duty stood in the some position as the auction duty wi.h regard to the grounds why it should be removed, only that • ll the reasons which had induced the right Lion. baronet (S.r It. Peel) to repeal the auction duty applisd with far greeor force to the tax on advertisements. (Hear, hear.) HA weal to the fullest silent with his hon. friend the member for Manchester in his hostility to the taus on knowledge, bat still ha was of opinion that this value duty was the most objectionable of them all. It wee en impediment in the way of commercial end ogee. cultural interelmage—it imposed -fetters on Metatarsi, and prevented that free interchange between buyer and seller, the manufacturer and the consumer, the enloyer and as ear played, which was necessary to the full ifevelopmert of die removers ot the ceuntry. Amongst the newspapers Rue which be bad presented petitiouVusyligg for the repeal at this duty, were the organs of the grecultursl intermit, as well as those whose circulation was *maggot =unfeigned,' lad trading communities. They looked upon it as injurious to the agriculturalists, and he hoped, therefore, be should have the benefit of the votes of those hon. mew ben repeessatieg that interest. Mr. M'Culloch had shown that perhaps the greatest pressure on Id henry men was the tax on advertisements. Then it was • tax that was most unequal in its application, preening with ucdue severity on the roor ; the poor needle• woman or Demme requiring employment being compelled to pay for the two or three lines announcing their want, the same .molest of tax as the noblemse who, in a hall-column advertisemeat, described the estate be was desirous of selling. Then sash' the tax was not levied on all advertisements, but only inch as appeared In 'newspapers; advertisements inserted in books or such works as Brad shawls Grids" paid DO tax, neither was thee any tax levied upon the peripatetic advertising vehicle. es cuts, omsi buses, boards carried on men's 'shoulders, and other until vanes which of late years bud been retorted to. Thin the extreme severity with which the revenue atthorities charged the duty was most oppressive. For instance, if two or more things were combined in owe advertisemene, the duty was 'Urged upon each. He would urge on the attention of the house, and especially the agricultural members, the great advantage the American former had over the English farmer from being able to adverthe his troduce freely. He remembered that Mr. Poulett Thomp son when same years ago he proposed various alterations in our fiscal arrangemeats, stated that 10,000,000 advertise smuts were fly in in the American newsmen. ' while only 1,000.0:e0 found their way into the newspapers of this country. Sine* that time the duty had been reduced in this country from 3s. to Is. 61., and • considerable increase in the number of advertisements had followed. Comparing the number of newepapen in this country with those in the United States the result of the comparison would still be found very much against us. The amount pri.duced by this tax to the rev tome was 107,0001., including Inland snit Scotland, while previous to the reduction it was 170,0001. 83 that the increase Ia the number of ad vertisements had been Or great, that the produce at the re duced rate was fast approaching to that point at which it stood when the tax was double its present amount. If the fax was repealed, the increase would go on to a much greater extent, and then could be but little doubt that the us would gain, in the increase of trade which would follow, far more than It did from this soma. ( dear, hear) The hen. gentlemen concluded by denouacing the tax, and moving for he repeal. Mr. Al. GIBSON minded the motion. Mr. TRELAWNY (who was nearly inaudible from the noise in the house and the continued cells for a division) observed, thit as he had • motion on the paper for paying oft the national deb:, he could not consistently agree to forego . any source of revenue, however much he might be of opinion in the abstract that this duty ought to be repealed. The CHANCELLOR of Cie EXCHEQUER thanked his hon. friend (MrArelawny) for the support he had given him in resisting this motion. He hardly knew what more he could say on the subject, than he bad already said on the three or four occasions when be had had to oup .se propositions for reducing or repealing taxes. lie bad stoted what sum be thought it necessary to maintain to meet contingencies, and how he proposed to apply the surplus that would be left, and the house had confirmed him in the coarse he then took ; he could not, therefore consent to any proposition which would interfere with t hat arrangement. He quite agreed that it would be impossible to have an ad ralenn du'y on advertisements. The duty had been reduced :rola 3s. to Is. 6e1., end the bon. gentleman admitted that since the reduction the number of advertisements had almost doubled. This showed that considerable benefit had alr. ady been given in this item of tesetion. Under these circumetarces, he hoped the house would concur with h.m in opposing the melon. (Cries of " Divide.") Mr. HUME mid the address of the right hon. baronet was an aj. peal to the house to this effect " I have made up nay mind. I will cot listen to any change of my plane, and therefore I will not enter into the particulars of this advertisement tax." He (Mr. Hume) objected to ton great a deferent being pa.d to the judg ment of the right hon. baronet in this matter. He knew that the governmeat of the country could not be carried on without m•ney, bat then it was the duty of • Chancellor of the Exchequer to obtain that money at the least possible in conveniuco to the great muses of the community. (Hear, hear.) The question was not whether tte advertisement duty was new or old, but whether it bore on particular in terests, _and whether the amount it produced might not be ehtoined in a manner less burdensome to the people. (Caiers.l The house ought to overrule the Chan cellor on the present occasion, the more particularly if they thought with him (Mr. Hume) that he had made an I unwise distribution of the surplus. (War) What did the advertisement duty do? It prevented the giving of publis city to the various articles required by the community. He believed that half the profit realised from advertisements were obtained from servants who were out of place. and looking for tituations. It no other elms except these were to be benefited by the present onion, the Chancellor of the Exchequer ought to be told at once that the tax must be repealed. (Chem.) j If, indeed, the house were to be told that they must not in , .! tellers in the matter of taxation after the Chancellor of the Exchequer had once issued his fist, then they might as well Ishut up at once. (" Hear" and a laugh.) It was because he wished to see knowledge prevail, and the springs of in , decry relieved, that be should most cordially support the , motion. (Cries of " divide.") Mr. EWART having replied, hoped the house would now divide on the general principle, and vote that the advertisement duty was a moat objectionable tax. (Hear, hear.) r The house divided— For the motion Against it The motion was consequently lust SLAVE LABOUR. 208-169 Mr. G. BERKELEY pos4;;;;diarsMotion Motive to the szclasim from our markets of the produce of slave labour, to Friday, the 3lst inst. JOURNEYMEN BAKERS. Petitions fro;;;;;usl4.rta --- Coi the to ropolie baviog been presented by Lord R. Grosvenor, Mr. B. Gib vise. Lord D. Stuart, Mr. Cowan, and Mr. Duncan praying for a select committee to inquire into the condition of the journey men bskere. Lord R. GROSVENOR moved for a select committee to inquire into the measures that might be adopted to improve the sanitary condition tithe journeymen bakers. That class of industrials aufisred ly from their prolonged confine meat in the hot, tasted, and uncleansed dens in which their work was csrried au, and the bread therein made was trot the same circumstances rendered unwholesome to the Sir G. GREY doubled the probability of any practical benifi: resulting from the vague inquiries of select commit- I teen, who had no substantive plan of reform to direct their in vestigations. Parliament had two years since negatived as imprecti• able a bill presented for a similar object, and he therefore oppased the motion, as calculated to raise hopes which the legislature would be unable to accomplish. Mr. S (AFFORD su d the motion. Mr. BRIGHT f that Lord R. Groseenoes clients were dangerously addicted to socialism, and read same ex tracts Irons an unstamped paper, ealkethe Bakers' Gazette, to show the peculiar notions upon the sunject of sieges and labour which they appeared to entertain. Lord D. &CHART called on the house not to refuse to inquire into the cireuvostanoes that affected the health and morals 0116,000 individuals. Mr. G. THOMPSON repudiated, on behalf of the jour nelsons bakers, any special connexion with the organ quoted by Mr. Bright, or participation in the doctrines it happened to profess. After a few words from Mr. S. Caawroau also in favour of the motion Lord R. GitOSVENOR nplied, and The hoses divided, when there appeared— For %Miamian 44 Against it THE CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY COMPANY AND THE 00YERNELENT. Sir R. BULKELEY moved for a select committee to examine the contracts for the conveyance of mails between Kingptown and Holyhead. The hon. member entered into a detailed statement of the negotiations tarried oa between the Admiralty and various commercial bodies for the Dublin Mail Padget contract, which had resulted in the Chester and Holyhead Railway Company being superseded in the service, to the in - a of that company and disadvantage of the public. Mr. F. FRENCH denied the right of the railway com pany to complain, and believed that the government had acted fairly sad judiciously in throwing the contract open for public competition. Sir F. BARING would have concurred is thinking the committee unnecessary, but for the charge laid against the government relating to the contract for the mail. As the administration of his department wet in question, he joined in requiring a full investigation, at the same time denying that there was the slightest foundation for the stigma which Sir R. Balkeley had east upon it. Mr. S. HERBERT wished to have the inquiries of the committee extended to the future mode and cost of 'Recut lag the mail packet service between the ports in question. Mr. B. OSBORNE apprehended that the hard bargain the government had driven would result in crippling the powers of the Chester and Holyhead Railway Company, who were engaged in a week of national and even imperial importance. Mr. R. MANGLES having given some explanations ,re- Thepe and busbies details, CHA.NCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER submitted that the facts mild be more profitably laid before the com mittee when they came to collect evitonoe. Some farther oonvenation ensued, after which the com mittee was agreed to, The SPEAKER then went through the remainirg notices of motion but none of the hon. members who had notices on the paper being present, the house prootedel to the orders of the day, BENEFICES IN PLURALITY BILL. On the motion that this bill as amended should be con sidered, Mr. FRB WEN moved the insertion of the following pro viio and douse. after elates 6 : Provided always. end be It enacted, that nothing heath:before contained eh U be e netneed to prevent any mart.ual perm, pas. served of nee ur more than one knell. e, on the 14,11 day of Amturt, our Ur:mound r ght hundred anti thirty. fight, and to wham or in triad fur whom the etivewson of, or the neat prearmetian or mmi.mr liun to any otot t benefice ha. born C'lllllnetl, wrank4, to derwe I by any deed or w.ll made beim° the Lyn:My-third , ay of IhreeMbrr, see thousand eight hundred end ttlrtyateveo, fr,en taking the said THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 8, 1850. l ee e, geg eueseg weeks, sad Malan together melt bends* eat n . Lae sash linsuestiesed kudos. gnu be it enacted g le e Imehrbsibre swialusd shalt be sometroed to Wand le SO A TM naked IWO= salled helm& The hon. amber stated that Abe object of this waste anti the ease of those heelnetislus who' lute= espiloa of some liviege at the the WI the passiet of the last net la 1838, and of other Whigs Salt to thus either by will or la trust, whirl were teemed to thew by that set, end were got yet forfeited. The &one wets agreed to, sad the bill as amended was Reported. The isoussittees on Wool used in Shipbuilding, and on the Elections (Ireland) Bill, were posteened , and the house adjoolsod at a quarto. oftor 8. PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEES. THE GREAT CENTRAL GAS CONSUMERS• COM PANY. . Yesterday this question, that has for some time formed a topic of considerable interest among the citizens of London, was opened before the committee i.f the House of Commons to whom the Great Central Gas Consumers' Bill, " for bitter supplying with gas the City of London and the liberties thereof, and places adjimetit," Is referred, consisting of Mr. Cardwell, the chairmae, Mr Glyone Bade Welby, Mr. James Marshall, Mr. Pi kington, and Mr. Melville Portal. The members added to the committee, as basin, constituently an interest In thequestion, are—Mr.Thonspeon, Tower Hamlets; Lord Dudley Btuert. Mart lebone; Sr W. Molesworth, Southwark ; and Sir James Duke, London, of whom the latter only was pees nt. The proceedings wire cmemeneed by calling over the titles of the petitions against the bill, amongst upwards of some twenty of which there ware petitions from the Char tered Gas Light Company, the Coy of London Gas Light Compaq, the Comm reial Gas Company, the British Gas Light Company, the Imperial Got Company, the Inde pendent Gas Light and Coke Company, and from various parishes and ratepayers. Counsel for the promoters of the measure were Mr. Serjesnt Wrentham, Q.C., Mr. Hill, Q.C., Mr. Taylor, and Mr. Wild; for the opponents ..f it, the Cry of London and the London Chaster, d Gas Company, Mr. Talbot, Q C., Mr. Hope, Q.C., Mr. IL Warren, Mr. Conic, and Mr. Burke. Mr. Serjeant Wranglasin,Q.C., in open i ng the proceedings, said that the object of the promoters was to establish their, gas works at Bow Common, and to limit the district they proposed to light to the City of L indun, and to the imme diets district through which their mains passed. The light ing of the intermediate districts arose out of the cireunt. shines of the promoters, upon econemical grounds, deter mining on having their works at a distance from the city, where not only a site could be obtained at a much cheaper rate, but where the establishment of gas works was far has objectionable than within the range of the city, and it would h.ve been absurd to hive curl, d the mains all the way into the city with o ut supplying, as indeed was urged upon them, the inhabitants along the route that they reed. The premed measure had originated in the general, and almost unanimous feeling within the City of London, that a new gas company was indispensably necessary to secure for the citizens an ample supply of good and cheap gas. The learned gentleman proceeded to giro a brie f h story of the various gas coo panics started in L indon, and pointed out some of their snowshoe and detects, and concluded by calling Mr. Charles POITII3II, M.P , who was tiring evidence in farm r ot the ineuere, when th. Speak 4, at 4 o'clock, was announced to he at prayers, and the committee adjourned to this day at 12 o'clock. RAILWAY CoMMIITES,—SoUTu IVALES.--Yeater day the committee paused the preamble of this com pany's bill for securing advantages en the re hue of forfeited or unissued shares, but postponed that decision on that part of the bill which seeks the construction of new works. METROPOLITAN SEWAGE MANURE CA Yesterday the half.yearly general meeting of this company was held at Willis's-rooms, Ss. James'. ; Mr. H. P. Full. r in the choir. The npert stated that since the last meeting the directors had been unable to mike much progress. a. they could do nothing without the sanction of the metropo- litan commissioners of sewers, and this body, being uncer tain as t 4 their own plans, had been caul .us in giving their consent to those of the company. They had, however, sanc tioned the construction of work., whereby the company would receive the contents of the principal sewers of West minster at a tiifiing cost comps ed with the amount of the original estimate. Of the arream of calls reported at the last meeting the directors had recovered upwards of 1,30)1. with out relenting to legal proceedings, and by payments made by them in advance of calls, and by careful financial management the actual cash balance exceeded in sa.ount the liablities of the company. The claim of Mr. Mar:in against the com pany fur dirbursiments made in pramoring its farenedion had been satisfactorily settled. The engineer's report stated that the works were in a satisfactory stem, and that by the recent concession of the Commisiii men of Sswers a consider able increase of sewage water was ciinveyed into the well. lie had ascertained by careful admeasurement that if per mission could he obtained to draw off the contents of the Ranelaglt and King's Scholan Pond Sewers, the company would be enabled to extend their main to Hounslow, and to supply the extensive district in Its vicinity. Owing to this concesiiin of the commissioners, t`.e exp hoe of the necessary works would not exceed 2,0001, instead of 20,5001., as originally estimated. From the thiancial statement it appeared that the total amount received from calls since the formvion of the company was 38,4201., the expenditure was 35,3271. ; the pees. nt liabilities of the company amounted to 2.929 1 . , and the balance in hand to 1741. The chairman having moved the adoption of the report, Mr. Lundie moved as an amendment that a commit- , tee of iimmtigation b.:appointed to inquire into the state of the company's affairs. He contended that the statement of account, was most unsatisfactory, and that nothing could he shown for the large sums which had been expended. The law expenses, amounting to upwards of 11,0001 , were *or • mous in proportion to the capital rsistd. He also charged*, directors with building sewers and other works which ought to have been constructed by the Sewers' Com mission, and with paying en enormous price for a piece of waste land at Fulham. Mr. W. T. Kine, one of the di rectors, defended the conduct of the b .ard, and a long dis alnico, entity of • personal characser, ensued. The amendment was, however, lost by a large msjority, the di revers voting against it, and producing 337 proxies. The report having been adopted, the meeting separated. SOUTHWARK BRIDGE COMPANY.—The ordinary meeting of the shareholders of this commmy was hell yes terday at the Il•idgn House, Queen-street-place, Thames street. Mr. Joshua Walker presided. The secretary read the report, which stated that the directira had very little to communicate from the fact that they were in tre.ty with the corporation of the city of London, for the purehue of the bridge, but as nothing definite Lad at present been settled they f abore from entering into any details. The statement of accounts having been adopted, some routine business was transacted, and the meeting broke up. LIMITATION OF HOURS OF LAIJOUR IN MINES.-A public meeting of the miners of the Potterics and neigh bourhood, was held lately at Safford, for i romoting a peti tion to parliament, praying for the restriction of the hours of labour in mines. Mr. Daniels, an agent of the Miners' Ar mors-ion, was celled to preside. The chairman, in stating the ibject of the meeting, remarked that as the legislature had passed a law restrict log the hours of labour above ground to ten hours per day, it was most consistent with justice to ask that the poor miners who worked in the bowels of the earth should have their day rerrictid to tidal hours. The miners had grievances peculiarly their own, and they were met in a legal and eonstitutioeal way to discuss them. Several resolutions were then passed fur promoting a petition to par liament for an eight hours bill. 0.111 of the speakers was G. Evans, a collier, who in arguing for the legality of the meeting, referred to the events in the Potteries in 1842, re marking that alter that time he hod passed two years in one of her Majesty's colleges," for attending a meeting like the present, which was the only one he had taken part in for pretty near eight years. Mr. Hobert' " the Miners' Atter ney-General, ' was present, and spek ' s at some length in seconding a motion in favour of a more extended system of union among the miners of North Staffordshire. In allud ing to the propriety of the legislature stepping in to abridge the miners' hours of labour, Mr. Roberts asked whether eight hours per day was not in justice sufficient for a man to be working hard in a mine, exclu d ed from the light of the sun, breathing (particularly in badly ventilated mines) a polluted atmosphere, and every moment in peril of coining to an untimely end ? The importance of well Yen tilatiag, cleaning, and propping the mime, could not be too strongly uved upon the attention of employers. He had commenced to practise in the neighbourhood, and trusted that he should effect the same amount of good for the miners of North Staffordshire which he had accomplished for their brethren in the coal districts of Northumberland, Durham, and other places. His mission amongst them was to teach employers (such as did not know i') their duty, and to assist the men in redressing their grievances. The speaker strongly urged upon the meeting the nee salty of forming themselves into a stronger bond of union, contending that by it they would obtain and secure those advantages which they could not gain without. Thanks being voted to the chairman, the meeting broke up. VERDICT OF MANSLAUGIITER AGAINST A RELIEV ING Omens —At an impost which was brought to a con clusion on Saturday, at Manchester, a relittving officer named Joseph Wheeler, is implicated by the jury . in a charge of manslaughter for neglecting to relieve a _woman named Hannan. Thomas Hannan, the husband o f the deceased . . -- woman, stated, that when be applied to Mr. Wheeler for re lief, or a doctor for his sick wife, he was encountered by a threat of being at once removed to Ireland with his family, at which he was iso ;much dismayed that lhe did not renew the application, and his wife, allsr limbering for some days, died. &vend witnesses deposed that the deceased woman and her family were id a most abject state of poverty, and the jury brought in a verdict of "Manslaughter against Joseph Wneeler, for wilfully neglectieg and omitting to relieve deceased." The in quest was adjourned to the White Lion Ina, tient Anent'. street, Manchester, at 9 o'clock on &verde', the 4th day of May inst., to sign the inquisition. When the jury ma'am bled, Mr. Wheeler &nestled to give an ezplanation of his ' conduct. He denied the statement of Hansen, that he had threatened to send them to Irelai.d, and asuirted that, on the contrary, he had desired him to come with his family to the workhouse and they should be admi•ted. lie procer.d the nat. wog orders for their a Imisdun the neat day, but they ddl not pro-sent themselves, end he had thought no more et the cue until told the. a v. ' , list of manslaughter had been ,ivon at.inat him. Notwithet .nding this state ment, the jury .;. tiered their de! mita .n of adhtring to the verdict deltr.rod, and the iuquisioion hIGNED BY THE L 0111) LIY.UTKNANT or FLIWINdIItE. —Sir Edward d.muti Walker, fiat., to be Deputy-Lieutenant. it he ervrefso. OUTGOING MAILS. --- The mails for British North America end the UMW Mates will be made up on the evening of May 10. The mails for Lisbon, lipais, and Gibraltar will be made up on May 17. The West India Malls, excluding Bermuda, Hatannalt, Nll/8111, Iln-duras, Now Orisons, and Mexico, and inel■ding these for Madeir►, Bt. Juan-de-Nita sera, New Granada, Chili, and Peru. will be made up on t►c morning of May 17. The mails for Gibraltar, Malta, Greece, the lonian Islands, I ligypt, Ceylon, India, and China, tin Boathasaptoa, will be made up on Ibe morning of May 20. The mails eid Marseilles, to the Mediterranean, Egypt, lino, ladle, Hoog-Kong, Be., will be made up on the evenisx of 11.7 24 The mails tur tdaderis, the lirssils, and Buenos Ayres, will made up on the evening of June 4. MOM WATill AT LONDON SKIM& rem fha—*.bralm.l1... lb. Afiersoce. lit. f ew LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 8. CONSIDERING the nee which Chancellors of the Exchequer have made from time to time of the savings bank deposits, nothing certainly can be more cool than the proposal of the government to invest in these functionaries, as Commis,ioners for the Reduc tion of the National Debt, the entire management, con trol, charge, and responsibility of all the delimits of the poor throughout the empire. Between 1833 and 1844. as we have satisfactorily demonstrated, the National Debt Commissioners by unwise dealings with the savings bank securities, managed to sacrifice upwards of two millions of the peopl.'a money. The interest I upon the sum so lost, if it had been prop rly invested, a ould have amounted, up to 1849, to no less than 780,0001 ! The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER now com plains of an additional lose on the Savings Bank Fund, which has occurred between 1843 and 1849. And this loss, revs he, is consequent upon the necessity of selling stock to meet the demands of the depositors when the funds were at low prices. The result of these lieges we have already stated:—whilst the balance of savings' bank deposits in the hands of the commissioners amounted, on th, , l 20th of N Nember last, to 30,802,0001., the value of the securities held by them to meet these deposits was, on the same day, only 28,051,0001. ! At the present time the value of the said securities is somewhat en hancal, but still the deficiency amounts to close upon two millions ; or precis, ly the c Tits' sacrificed by dabbling with this money in the public funds. The lops of capital up to 1813 arose from the abuse of the authority reposed in the commissioners. It is not too much to sly that every fraction of loss which has occurred since 1843 might have been prevented had the National Debt Commissioners properly used the powers entrusted to them by the legislature. The Savings Bank Act of 1844 reduced by 1 per cent. the amount col interest payable to the depositors. It re quired no very consummate knowledge of Savings Bank transactions to foresee that that reduction of in- tercet would be followed by a withdrawal of money fram the banks. But a board which has no eyes could not foreeea even that re sult. The commissioners, by their transactions after the passing of the act in question, displayed an entire absence of prescience and judgment, aid an utter want of discretion in the management of the fund whit which they were eetru,ted. On an ave rage they boat 3 per cent. upon all their stock trans actions between 1843 and 1849, and this entirely because they did not foresee what a child might have. told them—that a reduction of interest would b fol lowed by a withdrawal of deposits. Had they regu lated the fund upon this calculation they could have entirely avoided the losses they have since sustained : for the increase of balances in 1814 and 1845 more than covered the decreases which ensued almost imme diately after the payment of the diminished interest at the close of the latter year. And yet it is in the face of all th's grocs misma nagement by which literally fuel/Lois ef mow!' have been sacrifi , ed—that parliament is now asked to give to the national debt commissioners not only additional authority, but absolute power over the Savings Bank Fund. and indeed over the Savings Banks themselves. The bill which the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER has introduced, authorises' these commissioners to appoint a treasurer for every Savings Bank in the United Kingdom, who is to receive and pay all the monies of the bank. It authorises them to appoint in spectors to investigate the concerns of the banks. In tact it entirely takes out of the hands of the trustees and managers of the Savings Banks everything con nected with the financial arrangements of the banks, whilst, at the same time, it imposes upon these trus tees complete liability for every error, defalcation, or deficiency that does not arise by the act of the trea surer. Such is the principle of the bill introduced by Sir CHARLES WOOD. Now, on the part of the present trustees of Sivings Banks, we will only say that it does appear somewhat hard that the responsibility from which they have been exempt, whilst the backs were subject to their direction, should be imposed upon them at the very moment that they toe to be entirely divested of all control over their management. It seems extremely improbable that trustees, under such circumstances, will be disposed to c.trinue to discharge the duties of their trust. Indeed, we do not see why the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER should desire to devolve upon them the performance of duties invested with so little power, and at the same time accompanied with such responsibilities. Either trus tees for Savings Banks are wanted, or they are not. They are wanted if there is any responsibility which the state does not affird ; they are not wanted if the state will take all the liabilities connected with the bank upon itself. Now, what are the liabilities the government pro plea to take upon themselves ? Sir CHARLES WOOD'S plan is, that the state shill appoint a treasurer to every savings bank, and he promises in return that the state shall be responsible for any defalcation by such treasurer. But for all other losses or defalca tions, howsoever incurred, the state is to be irresponsi ble ; and in order that such losses may bi met, the CHANCELLOR coolly tarns to the noblemen and gentlemen acting as trustees, and says, " Oh, you've nothing else left you to do, so for all these losses and defalcations you shall be legally liable in future." Well, but is this sort of divided responsibility satisfactory ? Is the share of it which devolves on the trustees quite the sort of thing they relish ? What they are to get by standing liable to the extent of all their lands and property for all the defalcations which may occur in a savings bank, except the defalcations of the go vernment officer, passes oar comprehension. We should rather prefer, for our own parts, being di vested of the risk. It is noticeable that the bill, by an express clause, imposes liability upon truer:ea. It also, by an ex press clause, confers on ths‘..., CHANCELLOR of the Ex cueuvett (representing the Commissioners of the Debt) the sportier.. National _ at) the sipointment of 580 Treasurer'. of Savings Banks. But there is no clause, express or otherwise, which imposes the promised liability upon the state on account of the defalcations of a treasurer. We gather the intention from the CHANCELLOR of the Excilitclusn's statement—the Savings Banks authori tiee are invited to place, in this respect, full reliance upon the right hon. gentleman's "assurance." Well, it may be worth something or nothing, but in either cue we would prefer the security afforded by a clause. As upon the appointment of the 580 treasurers by the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER appears to hang the entire principle and detail of this Savings Banks Bill, it is necessary to examine a little into the responsibilities and duties which are proposed to be devolved upon these worthies. At present the business of a savings bank, under the con trol of its trustees, is reposed in a manager, the requi. site number of cashie.s, and one or two auditors. These functionaries are respectively paid out of the amount which is allowed by government as interest upon the deposit' in the banks. They all give secu rity for such sum as may be required by the trustees or the commissioners. Wherein consists the dif- ference between the manager u at present appointed and the treasurer as proposed to be appointed ? The treasurer ir to give such security as may be neces sary; the manager does so already. The trea surer is to be bound to account in future; the manager is bound to account as it is. All the difference seems to consist in the patronage ; at present the managers are appointed by the trait. ea; in future the 680 treasurers are to be appointed by the CHANctittoß of the EXCHEQUER, the gnat . " comiiiistiuter for the reduction (?) of the national debt." The treasurers, however, ere not to displace the managers. Their duties, rays Sir C. WOOD, will be qu te distinct. They will only "relieve" them : i. e. take charge of the Gash. But in this case, a very balmy additional burden will be thrown on the Savings Bank Fund: that fund which is already eta discount, and "paying far more than it can possibly afford !" The act leans it to the CHANCELLOR of the Ex- CHEQUER, in his character of Lord High Com missioner for the Reduction, &c., to fix the ',lvies the treasurers are to be paid. Each u•essurs r is to be allowed to appoint a clerk. To secure responsibility by these officials they must. of course, be well paid. To underpay them would only be to give them a premium for defalcation. Well, what will the ewstrecemou afford them ? Say 1.0001. a year for each treasurer ' and 2601. for each clerk. Total fur the 1,160, 725,0001. per annum! Why this charge alone will swallow up more than one half the living to be derived from the proposed abatement of the interest on savings banks deposits from 31 to 3 per cent. per annum. And then there will remain to bas paid the " Inspectors "—also to be appointed by the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER—and a variety of other officers rendered necessary by the bill. Would the treasurer be overFaid ut 1,0004 a year ? Nut a stiver. His ri.sponsibilities are to be great, and so will be his labour. The following clause will show that Sir CHARLES WOOD'S new functionaries are not to hold sinecures: B. it ena..trd, that from and after, &c., the treasurer of savings hark shall tilts r peril:sally, or by his clerk c e *est, attend at the office of the savings be. k during all hours at which the said funk is open, and shall receive and pavan monies, and 'hall affix his siensture to every invest m. et er withdrawal in the bock of every depositor; . . . and if any (Aces of any hank ( slept such treasurer or his desk) shall receive any sum of mosey as • deposit, te:., he shall be guil.y of a misdemeanour. Why, in some of the savings banks there are as many as 40,000 depositors requiring the attendance of at least half-a-tkzen cashiers! This treasurer, who is to have the pay of six cashiers, is at any rate to have their duties also. But, practically, how is the treasurer, or his clerk in his absence, to work a large bank es proposed by this bill? The whole business eta bank may be suspended by an accicbmt, such ac the absence of the treasurer Ir.= hGme, and the ill ness of his clerk : for there is no power to appoint a subAitute. Iu any ease, the business of a bank under such a system is not likely to be better conducted than at present. The mode in which the bill affects depositors we mile take another opportunity of considering. It certainly offers them no boon. The rate of interest is to b., reduced ; additional charges arc to be imp-seed upon them, end it is intended to limit the payment of lutes eat to one-half the total sum on which it is at present paid. Ard all this is to he done to cover the losses wh i ch hive occurred in consequence of the mis management of the Savings Hank Fund, whereby, as we 'said before, miliious of money have been lust to the nation. Tire last number of Btu:brawls Magazine con tains an article, welt worth perusal, on the subject of Greece. It is written by a tory, exceedingly well informed, though wild and hsrum-scirum, like most of his way of tbirking now-a-Drys, when they put up vows and draw conclusions. Greece he depicts in a complete state of decadence, mo-al and material, under the stupid and withering rule of Onto. Its landed proprietors and its peasants are, according to this witness, much more backward and ignorant than they were under the Turks, tencith whose sove reignty they enjoyed a full degree of local liberty, with the sagacity and independence eelt;ch it begot. Un , ter Turkisi rule, and subs:quently iu the struggle with it, the Greek merchants and ship. owners formed the ari,tocrac3 of the nation. They became the chiefs, the financiers, the warriors and the statesmen of the revohation. One of the molts of King Ovito's policy has been to set aside this class altegeth2r, to ignore and to proscribe them. They have no longer honour or irfluetce. 'lnc country equ're or the court official has taken their place, and it you would find a Greek merchant, you must seek hint at Odessa, o: Marseilles, or Manchester, not at Atueos. A small fractim of shipowners remain, hat the schooners that now compose the ristrzantile navy of Greece cannot be compared with the fine sips that Hydra, Spezia, and Ipsara formerly emit out to engage the Turkish fleet. The compara tive increase of the tonnage of the trading vessels of lax to ELI in Greece and Turkey, sines IS4O, shows that the trams of the Levant is extending more rapidly under the Turkish than under the Greek flag. The fault of all title it pleases the writer in Black wood to attribute to the constitution, triremes he mays what Greece wanted was an administration. No doubt, in all countries, especially in rude and infant ones, a great deal must depend on the initiation of an enlightened government. But Low was an enligat.- ened government to be formed or supported in Greece but by a free and national constitution ? Th•o tendency of the young King, bred in Bavaria, was of course to exercise his authority, to keep up an army with one officer to two and a half 6.1 - 2iers, to dream of conquering a new empire and throw away millions in the occult preparations, to spend another million sterling in palaces, to expend the state revenues in paying the landed magnates, to give them in tura full power over their districts, to manage the elections, and pillsge the people. But this is not the working, it is the per version of a constitution—a spectacle which tills Rus sia with deligt,t, and ought to fill Franco and Eng land with shame ; but France far more than Eu4land, for it was MM. GUIZOT and PtscaTuev that patron lied and upheld this system. The tory writer in Mad:wood lears to M. Get. ZOVS view,• that of governing Greece by municipali ties and a senate. But what should prevent the court from nullifying the election of the one, and corrupt ing all independence in the other, with tar greater ease than they have reduced the present constitution to a nonentity? The curse of Greece has been our making a great power of it whilst it was yet but an intent—our giving it a king, when an avoyer or a stadtholder would have sufficed. Then the forcing it without the least necessity into the political balame and struggles of the great powers suggested consequently the expen diture of its revenue by a military, and a naval, and a financial power. Had it been left a republic like Swit zerland, its old municipal institutions would have suited it ; for there would have been no powers interested in corrupting or making use of them. The writer in Blackwood talks of representative govern ment as absurd where there is no middle class. Municipal institutions are quite as absurd where there is no middle class ; municipal institutions, as they are erroneously called, in purely agricultural districts, are merely a form of dominion by the proprietorial families, such as those which exist in the Forest cantons of Switzerland, where there is nominal freedom, but where bigotry and tyranny thrive as rampant as in Turkey. The fact is that Greece, in order to be great, in order to have a destiny, must re-become a commercial people, governed by commercial influence and form of government. If England was to relapse under the rule and the ideas of its squires, it would soon sink to a fhird-rate power; so Greece governed by its court and Capitani, will never be anything but a rural canton, playing at monarchy. But instead of striving to be the Holland of eke Mediterranean, Greece, under Onto, swells itself into a military empire. The Bavarian prince apes the German potentate ; and unfortunately we encourage him in the ides. We could, indeed, keep punishing him for his imper tinecce and injustice, but we regret that our castiga tion had not more of the mastiff character, when applied to such a puppy-dog. As it is, we have put King Onto upon stilts; he fancies himself the rival of Queen Vterroaht. He will not yield. He is not thinking of the wants, the rights, or the interests of Greece ; be thinks merely of the doings of Onto, and puts us very much in mind of the picture of the Pet Prisoner, in .11Ousehold Words, with whom the portentous importance of " I " quite obliterates the consciousness of either feebleness or fault. The last accounts from Athens represent his MAJESTY as determined to set off the loss incurred by the blockade against the indemnities due to FIN LAY and PACIFICO. A defendant, after being condemned to pay, might as well insist on subtracting his costs from the original debt. All this is mere impertinence and chicane, to which the poor king has been unfortu nately spirited by the ltussian court at St. Peters burg, and the Russian agents in our own capital. METROPOLITAN RAILWAY .1 UNCTION.— Water. day the Master in Chancery Kirderaley proceeded with the settlonient el this list of contribltolirs liable to pay cif the outstantlind claims of this concern, the assets an connexion with which are reported to be about 3001. FRANCE. PARIS. Tv rsn T, 7 p The sitting of the Legislative Assembly to-iley t," broken up without the Electoral Bill having been pro. seated. It is confidently announc,tl for in-mwrow, and no attention whatever in to be paid to a ruin," which prevailed at the Bourse that the fell wont t be withdrawn. Its provisions, so far as known, t e e% moderate and reasonable, and such as will not stir tae opposition of the tiers-park. Neither the payment of the taze mq,iliere, nor c, the tare personneite, the first of which is proporti..ned to house rent, and the hitter levied indiscruniocely and i qually upon all but the exiri meiy indigent, ‘ ,4 be made au indispensable emdition fur the ex, rote of the franchise; but the residence in a fixed ciotnicilt for the space of two years (not three) hiu,t be titer proved by the contribution to these taxes, or by e certifica . e, in the case of workmen, of their employer, Toe great difference between the Hu-grows std tt, e tiers-parti is or.e of time. Thiers 9... d cowl a ers insist upon the immediate r+ vision of tho (Milton Hawn and his friends streauLutiy uppu.4. ille A ality and see no necessity foe ante r4tir.K the epoch fixi d by the coristitwion for this task. . . M. de Broglie (not ILroche, as was repoit e d y finis lied yesterday the exposé des motifs of rti.. rid It II ; and at a meeting at the Coned ; l ot eight, the committee of the 17 finally appr.r- t 1 the proji ct. (In Sunday night the meeting at the ConFeil ia !et as., very stormy. M. Mole gave a sort of pri T . t,,, turipte of the origin of the bill. Ile said it w.,u d ie completed at nine on Monday night. M. Leo rt Lt, horde iesisted upon the duty of respecting the tution. Au animated emitest ensued betwein Al. d e I,nrochejacqu• tin and M. Timers, the first in tir !i•ning that the electoral bill proposed was quite to remedy the situation ; while M. There tivir.' , l the leviniist chief with the failure of his prej..i • appeal to the nation, and showed that he wan a'ier.. Toned by his own party. M. Llerrycr G cussion willa a dicllay of oratory. wit' its details was accepted by the taajLe i•y. tie vs-part a. and even the awl.: of modtr4: seut,d by MM. llauchart and Ilix - o, it Is :4.5 well disposed tow ards a reform that limits of the concituion. Odilon llarrot has declared that if lie do, • prove of all the elau,es of the bill, he wd. at : ; •• T .. train front sp,aking against the adopt::,n mi &sure. Tee grand council of commerce, ogricul.u, •,7•1 manufactures', which was lattiy it:unwind... pi,mp at the Luxembiurg, and drew horn k ! ••• the moderate press scornful comparisons agai• st is Blanc and Gig legions of workmen, who ha , c. in lelti the same halls, has just given a san.?:. • : • • barbarous lolly and the uncharitable mist-, p. tins which may characterise the proceed., t gravest assemblies when their members atiow se yes to be blinded by political plso:o;., qutstions scientific. Yesterday (as I told 3 . in a meeting of this Assembly, a resoluti.tc passed making it obligatory on the t achtr, political economy at the echtols of sup , r:4•.r ntructon to oppose the principles of t.ic It w u gravely maintained to be in uff• rshle teach. rs paid by the government should at i• principles or protection and probibi .10,0 wl.t, • : the basis of the French commercial c:de, initiate the dangerous heresy of free trt,de. : of such doctrines were seriously st i t:.c : z : seditious periods stirring up disobsdietee to tht ..r A pamraph was introduced into the prop .-iti ••.. be cre the Assembly, declaring "that 1: • • pat cal economy exAted by their lee uri ti: ••• .•. cis writion, and hatred fining the citize... ; t! ar. tacked the foundations of soc:cty, and provc,k,'. c • .. dience to the laws and resistance to their ext. v. •.• Upon this paragraph. formulated by the of %Lobes (commission 11,4 nrooz), the AriseniSlp ji. to the order of the day. Some profess •irs ;etre g .ti at personally upon ro better ground than column assertions in newspapers which had Lot rtt : :‘ formal contradieti in. M. Benoist d'Asr, ; . for an oracle among the c...r political economy was no science at all L..: yynanastique. The council commenced their discuesion portant question of sugars. After ael r.,.• • Kolb Bernard, the council unanimously c t . it we; right to modify the existing laws or. •a_ ..• also resolved unanimously, less one or two the der,. of 20 fr., which sugars of a.l k sent pay, shau:d be taken off. Diff, recc,i • however, arose in the manner iu 7' should be removed : the government p• o, , • I •.. shou:d be done in four years, at the r e : . year; the committee proposed that it • to tnree years-5 fr. in each of the fir,: ;•A 10 fr. in the third; two members recomm.7 the duty should be abolished in two each year. After an interesting diteus,io...! e these different systems was adjourned. A 1•1 : - f lha Committee on Manufactures to the he professors of political economy pail b should henceforth be required to teach I, 1•.. nnmv, with reference to rx;ring cirzum , : to laws tow in force, instead of, as hereto,ri in favour of ftee-trade principles, was, al' discussion, and in spits of the „pp, sitiou o: Nl.' Chevalier and M. Wolowski, adopted. An puition, directing that professors of p ilitie shauld abstain from attackirg the rispe‘t dl laws, from exciting to hatred and division to: : ferent classes of citizens, and from attack 4 of sociey, was rejected, the council Nes.: • order of the day. This proposition wa.. i is specially directed against M. 13!anqui, In; the mg of that professor was warmly d. .1 Wolowski. M. Benoist d'Azy said he d.,: here in the science of political ecorom3, the theory of free trade had paced evi !yin question during the last two years. this dr... strong marks bo'h of dissent and approba:ior. A letter from Toulouse, of May 4, siTs: turbance which took plane here on Ti...rsd.ly was repeated last night. A crowd of about :" 8. , 118 went through the streets singing , so::.,• shouting " Vtve la Republique Socirlel . ' V.., Rouges!" "A bas lea Blanc The sops %%ion as they approached, and though the pike they could do nothing against so many. tv : at last proceeded to the Place du Chairs don, joining hands round the tree of liberty, dame.. it for sometime, shouting the same Cr,,. as t:,o: ready mentioned. After that they dispersed. - The transported of June, who for some tiq been at Fort Lamalque, at Toulon, have b. c:: on bord the Labrador steamer, tr removal to .t The second volume of the Budget of Expin• distributed yesterday at the Assembly. Tee justice amounts to '16,356,0-K4r., or l;;, , idoir. than before, necessitated by the creation of a of conflicts. The budget of foreign affairs 1:.:• augmented by 133,000 f., amounting to 7,1'2,1.7' ' augmentation results from an increase of the consul at Canton from 40,0001 r. to .50.a. , 0! from the fact of its being necessary, in cores • the dearness of provisions in to sal,. • • lacy of the consul there from i25,000tr. to :nix. ~• consequelice of the events in the states of the the government proposes, owirg to the gnat of business, to re-establish two attaches, supine , -' .. 1 1840; it also proposes to appoint an off., • ••• Hague. The budget of public works is 2.1,927,822 fr., an increase which amounts to •0 1,831,710 fr, , being necessitated by the th's , which establishes an academy in every Public worship is raised to 41483,100'r.. a 430,400 fr. being required to meet the sup, len• income to be given to the clergy *alai as col.] •:•'. The budget of the minister of the interior is t! , e l . :': 122,035,5101 r., being an augmentation of The budget of public works has been dim:natl....s 10,350,277 ff.. a sum of 4,340,000 fr. being taker , e‘f from the amount granted to the Avignen Ras "'`,! and the rest from the credits allowed to eatu.:t. and harbours. But of 29,875,0thtfr. Set aeon t, r rst.: ways, 14 nil:lions are for the Strasbourg Ita:lo.q.,:r millions for that from Tours to liordeaus,s 3 i that from Tours to Nantes. The sitting of the Legislative Ali& tubly taken up with discussing the Mel l o ''tl:" works. Several chapters were voted w allow 4:"rs , rise to any it:cideut of interest. The altogether unimportant. Later iu the lloyamin D.lessert propased the adut Eugene Sue to take his seat for the ec,swe c.. the. Seine. The Assembly pricked their co , , mom at the name so intimately ussoetste I w.t. , litical t ri.ie. The admission was deelart , i. The veil 00 business of' importance WAS the yet a credit 1 7,000 fr. for the complotiou e