The Express. — London, England, 1850-03-05 00:00:00

• tog at home and abroad. Net aitshligilliffle of desk- eight millionsof population would give 21.10 a a-head. . i sos ail tir the repair and faPooTooto , of doting'?" Butthen again itmast °court° every one,that Ireland a ioodo iahioi the anomie at home sad abroad, under then d oe . not expenses be , and that eoesrqueatly l b w bra. Is. to each 'car store 1829, sad stating the attire- the IvP:7O own 10. rip n.e of tech r .ta x atio n moat apportioned out to the - A meloormarrox or JrATICI (SCOTLAND); SANITANT. 011eltPCO or twenty millions of Britain, which, if Mr. ace, commas' or Tomas ro iIeoTLAAD; ruNLIC NORMAN wlI calculate, shows something mart mere listrto (etymon)._ The LORD ADVOCATE, to brag lik e 44 a head, as the rate of English taxation, than is thr.r twist= thew sellects. U. 17s. E AAAAA W AND CIINICIA, WALL% —Mr J. WILLIAMS, ▪ tar wars hem the genial Welsh &mews et Et. To calculate, moreover, the comparative weight p„n„,.r, er. Davies. L midair, with an alphabetical 'hat is 'mpoord upon the Englishmen and upon the get a the several pariah,* sad them diatrieta labials each Frenchman. we should also take into account how it disease, ,how.ei the suiting' value paid to the ineembest u burn, Of the M millions of which the French a t o mit eakh or diatrie , the names of oath iscombests, in 1847, one_ hay' _was ofraised by l oomer warms %Olin the pariah or district to winch th • A T l rec m t u t l iz e: or ^ i ' s f" l . an wood al. or non-resident ; the soma* a IPTOT) , Metal am p Mattes on the transfer property. - artad .. withis tech pule' or district, the stiprad paid t o Therefore the French owner co. property, and elope eech estee. and the population of the perish or die- cialty of landed property, does certainly pay more to o r ke eremite' to the last ammo, the Mom to be the state that the English lat.dlord or capitalist. Ro w tip w the 29 b day of ffernabirt 1849 ; But, on the other hand, the indn.strious and awning AO, • r. tura, Rinse the lama Of en estates who &lel mete •• lain Me Chitral es thapl. the bastes or such churches "litshinsa pays t hree and Lair times Mgt, eves so wea *ls, nia sane ef the pariah is whish oath shlreh or cu ingal to his means, than the industrious and earn. c ieepet i s rusted, the aeon of •tte several imesaabeste from inc v Freachman. wire t'e curate receive. my ripped, aural ipped, the aural amount of all Mr. NORMAN draw from these premises the si..“dls" bT each of lanalma"; sack cheese bi be conclusion that our commercial and industrionsclasees I l e' "'P*" I ; 9' D . NORREYS Law , returns of the might to be reconciled by the example of France to Nor .•at sut - .ies of England and Wales , shown', the area the resent amount and the present system of taxa • ealuati roar of get+ • and also the 'saber of part-bra tics ? r amhiard is melt salsa ; Mr. BAINES, bill to make better pnirialini kir the coi.tribetiese of unions sod pariahts, in ark ,i 1 distrss, to the commas fiti.da of the reapeetive ZElte el:ortgifS• Tuner was a time when the bar was a stage, upon the personages and character, the talents and pro mises o' which the whole country looked with interest and attention. It was the great and almost the sole avenue to public life for all men, except the few who represented acres, or the fewer wh united capacity and narrow means to birth. Eloquence could be essayed, and stateemanship learned exclusively in the forensic school. And not only did the euccession of great law to ds give their profession the first place in public interest and respect, but the ranks of the bar itself were reviewed, its rising talent marked and ap preciated, and its names were as familiar to the pub lic, aye, as the favourite heroes, or actors, or race horses of the ray. The appointment of a new Lord Chief Justice was then an imp-rtant affair. The fate of parties hung on it, and public interest was absorbed thereby. The court, the ministers, the bar, the public, had each and all their views, and were each and all to be consulted. Prominent political partisanship woe of course a chief element of success, but with it a portion of sturdy independence wee eon ' sidered a necessary quality for the bench. It is l the singular peculiarity of the present veterans of the legel profession in the House of Lords, that they all rose by being most liberal and violent on the popular side. Any barrister who would now Att( mpt to otter the pleadings and expressions that Cort.er, and Bnourmeat, and DENMAN did not shriuk from, would be scouted as a republican, a s.icialist, or by the newest and coarsest name in to.y Billingsgate. Yet all these men receive promotion, and neither the monarchy nor the aristocracy have been undermined by them. With their promotion terminated the liberal and popular tendencies of the bar. Scarcely has a lawyer 111111011 since, who has looked beyrnd the precincts and the prejudices of his court, or who seemed to have an idea that there was acy peculiar or traditional sympathy between the bar and the people. The country and the bar have, in tact, gone different ways : the one has grown certainly more demo cratic, rationally democratic ; whilst the bar, eschewing the popular current as vulzar, or as ' leading from honour and promotion, has narrowed ' its sympathies and scope, and produced a generation of, we have no douly, able men and sound law yers, bat not public men cr politicians. The legal 1 , profession begins, in fact, to be ignored in the coon- try, of which even the intelligent mass know and care as little for Westminster-hall as they do for Covent-garden. A chief justice has resigned; and two names of eminence in ministerial and metropoli tan circles were put forward for the succession. Who eared, or thought, or interested hims if for the suc cess of one more than the other? Even the press had not au opinion on the subject. The appointment of a Chief Justice has been followed, or is to be followed, by a large promotion of gentle men to be wearers of silk gowue. The newspapers have published a list of their Darnell, all well known and esteemed at the bar. Bet whoever heard of them in the country ? These are symptoms well worthy of the attention of those concerned. There is no pert of the great machinery of our system that Englishmen natu rally take so much interest in as in judicial pro ceedings. No doubt there is less of dramatic in terest in them than there used to be. A struggle there for life or fortune is not so frequent. Great and intricate crimes are rare. Whilst political parties more and more avoid the forensic field, treason and sedition have disappeared from the calendar, or are left to miserable pretenders. S 4 that perhaps the legal profession may want its old facilities for dis playir g is aptness for public or political life. There is a subject connected somewhat with this dearth of professional eminence which strongly interests reformers and reform. Tnis is the paucity of fi.ting candidates for popular constituencies. The Reform Bill has sent forward into parliamentary life a few able men ; but, whilst it has, in a degree, dried up and discouraged that old source of political promotion, young barristers, for example, coming into paths ' meat under aristocratic patronage—the aristocracy now keep this pretty much for themselves—the popular class and cause have not thrown up candi dates and representatives of their own sufficient in number, or efficient in the requisite qualities. This argument was not, indeed, brought forward in debate in the House of Commons, but it is felt, strongly felt ; and there is no one that militates more against the proposal for extending the franchise, and throwing small constituencies into large. It was to be hoped that a greater extension of municipal liberties, together with popu ar agitation on a great many subjects, might have elicited and preferred from out the ranks of middle life, numbers capable of representing that class, its ideas, and its wants in parliament. But unfortunately there is no medium between embracing politics ass profession, and the having a fortune ample enough to permit the pursuit of them as objects of gratuitous duty and honouraboi ambition. The bar is the only prof- ssiim which allows the co-ordinate pursuit of private gain and public honours. And it is for this cause especially that we the more regret the sterility of toe bar in the production of political actors and candidate statesmen. Ws are strongly of opinicn that there is great nerd of taking steps to supply a too manliest deficiency. The people want politicians, and the popular cause wants advocates. There exists at preseut a kind of :aloe and mistaken feeling in too many of the edu cated class. They shrink from addressing the people, or mingling with them, learning their ideas, and embracing their cause. They have not only ahr !Toe of being thought vulgar —a feu which need not to actuate superior and liberal men—bat they have also ahorror of bsing thought revolutionist. Fn In this false shame, false delicacy, and false ca' c ulat ion, the educated class are abandoning that influence which they ought to have over the class beneath them. And instead of community of interest and ideas growing up, there is perhaps a still wider separation. This is dangerous. If the educated classes, above all if the middle classes shrink from the people, the people will shrink from them, and consequences similar to what have taken place in France from this very cause may arise. In stead of the whip and the educated liberals of the house turning their backs and setting their faces against financial and eleztoral reform emaciation, they ought to join in them and encourage them. There are no anarchies or subversive ideas afloat A fair extension of the franchise, and a fairer repartition of taxation, are the topics everywhere suggested. There is nothing to prevent different classes of townsfolk, nay, and of country folk, from discussing such things together, not merely foe agitation sake, bat for the sake of blending and improving the di fferent elements of the great liberal party, developing its talents and its leaders. But we repeat it, if the several classes below the aristocracy, and now some what subject to them, will keep apart—if °as keeps despising the other chartist, the latter returning contempt by hatred, one of two lery bad results will ensue. Either the power of the country will relapse into the hands of the bigoted terries, or poison and venom, and idea born of igno rano., irritation, and presumption, will become gene rated in the breasts of the operatives ; and the really industrious middle class of Eugland will, like the middle class in other countries, bee ems the victim and the shuttlecock of the strife and the play of ex treme parties. In the present state of the world, or at least of England, public affairs are the business of every one ; and the care and ventilation of them can be no or Ce effl Ent T Ns. Chi] T Sp Ti Ma IS4 ere' fQ Eat poi hot tee 19: the n vt pe , 0 : a up, lik Pt fa ea do Er Du tic na Cu PP ni ec for de , to tr he so any etc th. ki r. Ti WI La aI NI P 3! en C. , nc 151 f. DI ti.: rd No ma au pi P" if Pro At eV ii Pi P' eft ti is dl ri et fr 11 7 b. lii II II Is j tI, .01:7001NO NAILS. The mails kr Lisbon, Spats, sad Gibraltar will be made er en the morning of Muth 7. 1 mail* yid Marseilles, to the Mediterranean, Ever. Ce . n. Ite., will be mad* up on tint mg. of Merely, 7. . . . . The made tor British North Movies and the United Sun-. will be made up as the evening of March 8. Tee Meet Inihs Mails. excluding B•reauda, Havasaah, Nimes, iln dares, New o.lmine, Gad Mexico, and including them !or Madeira, St. Jaaa.cle-Nitaramia, New Grenade, Chili, sad Pers.veill be mail's, on the 17th Met. Tee mails tor Gibraltar, Malta, Orrery, the lonian Wendt 1470, Ceylon, India, wed Chian, is. Southampton, wilt De o Ade op es thei morning ie. March 90. Tee lovas for Maderia, the Brasil., sad Guam Aj'm, will be awl. ay ow the evening es April 4. MOM WATIIIt AT LONDON MUM& T.. Dal —Wm.& lA. Oa Moms.. Oa Na 7. 7. OS. LONDON, TUESDAY, ZdRCII WE may sot be contented with all the results of tete aid 849. still less with the part played in the meats t these years by men and by monarchs; we .y tlespiL regret that the large and important port.= of Europe, which some " fortuitous congre- 1 Rams of atoms" has collected under the Austri in sceptre, has not acquired from these events s.me hope a, least of political and social amelioration; we ma, deplare that Italy, haring awakened to the meets:tits the freedom, ar.d the independer ce cf the 19:h ref tury, has been durg back to the rjy:nte of the 1501. W. stay somewhat console ourselves, however, by ntle r.in4, that if the events of these years have not reerywhere secured liberty, they at leapt guarantee pe,ce. If a war of any meg:made did not spring oat o: tb- raturroOte acd danger of 1848 and 1849, such a mu% we caw safely conclude, will never spring up. ThLse years have had no one more striking re cta tt.n to tame down and eringuish every fiery i. le in 'he breast of the nation must prone to war like impulse, sod wet able to gratify it. We always apposed that the eld-r BOURBONS and Loris- Pliturrt- held the war-spirit of Frsoce like a lion is cage. The revolution destroyed the bars of that sag be lien waked forth, and ha. proved a surly, itrituble. eta grit-tormenting animal, but one that MSS all its rage or, bin s. If. To other powers he is as dude and as little provoking as the tamest of domestic acmes. Even French rivalry towards En,rlsnd has disappeared. Secure of continental alliance. and desirous of spreading the root of Boca nor iftluecce, France was seriously developing her sae:: strength, and co:oniel rivalry with us. But 1848 bas pa: an eringu'sber upon France's ravel ambi tion. tips her colonial aspirations, and upon her dy na•ti^ r ..I.erirays with absolutism. I! Fr u:e has thus ceased to be formidable or qui tc a me, Russia has proved little less so. In 1.17 ate was overflowing with gold and martial pp BSA -how, her to be poor and mendicant as ever. whilst the Hungarian campaign, the result of sore intrigue than tigh . ing, shows her to be anything bns i iinc.ble. Russia, indeed, may have grown more formidable to Turkey; but whatever foie* her deyotic power may have gained by the absorp tion of toe Priespalitie. ' and by reducing Au.- trit to be her servitor, has been fully counter- 1 burred by . the creation of an independent, free. and constitutional kingdom in the north, willing and shit to counteract Russian influences and ideas, not so much by war, but by attitude, by freedom, and by e:.-pie. A good understanding b.tween the three re , t desees:ve sad constitutional powers cf Europe —F..gland, Frasoe, and Prussia—must henceforth, sad withuut any set or written alliance. imperatively secure and enforce the peace of Europe. the Er.risses amongst us of high war expenditure rd parries seem fully convinced that such are th. et. ,Its of the last two years, and consequently key admit that we are not threatened with any rreeao rivalry, any patent or foreseen cause of war. They sake this up, however, by the theory, that war is a product of chance, not arlculation ; that it is Lah e to yricg up from an accident, or collision, and that alther.ich our prudence may avert any serious, or open approach to hostility, yet a spark or a brawl may precipitate the country into a war that policy would never have provoked or contemplated. sw, we must deny altogether this view of quirrels.or their probability. When inch sen , ments existed as peat national rivalries, kept aloe by mutual ignorance, in times when there was vie tad a press to correct, nor commercial nor atlkot ietercoures to counteract such feelings, it irss then easy fora kirg, or a minister, or a royal airrees, either to hied's war of itself, or take ad aahtvge of some trifling incident to precipitate hose IP. Such people were not arrested then by eon /aeratins of either humanity, expenditure, or risk. Now, h owever, t h ere i s a public opinion every where, as w.li is public control. War is a thousand times mwr costly, and a thousand times more open to 'P ., ' remelts. More crowns are staked thereon, than martial staffs are won. We defy any Princes or Peel, to play capriciously at such a game. And yet plvers are each day abundantly occurring for war, If %.r was desired. Each week and mouth comas francht with accident, collision, misunderstanding. And what do they all end in ?—the smoke, not of carisms, but diplomacy. A oontemporary tells us that it 'Le Emperor PAUL reigned in Rgasia at present, we rnind have bad war. We beg to say the Emperor F , "l , would not be allowed to reign in Roast'. Des - p us sorweientional countries have their re. 'ews, smash perhaps different ones, against insane monares sad suicidal policy. Mr. eturtive, therefore, will feel no qualms Voteesting his measures for reduction of 'mien attam If it be admitted that we need no longer !pm , ' eighteen or twenty millions to meet the three's,, and the designs of war from a cologne' rival, "ta"i be surained that we ere still to a I P ad the-, twenty millions in order to protect es 7 .4 0 the clingers arising from accident or collides. In that state of pliersl politics in which war b by rfre power and on every side so reluctantly cos !e:raip'at. d, there is not the least fear of trifles or it. ▪ accidents producing it. thus t the diurnal argument of the for hP, ping up the present high pressure of loaf let us confirm our refutation of another t7r;. who his risen in the same care. a bi lity - IN hans. After pleading our increased o il tax tion, comparewith former times, Mr. " 'Mt% seeks to show bo w much lighter our fiscal 0.1111 Ir e than those of the French. This is but p .. 4. r ' - nesul.tion, even if prove d . B ut i t i s far from m Mr. NoItUAN calculates that the French paid about it Pr head in 1816 and 1817, and that they paid i:1•• ever ; prtyjou t o their hitarevolution. Whilst we, Ifert fie in expenditure of flfty-t wo millions for twenty e4f.f millions of p eo pl e , pay b ut 11. 17s. a-head. )11f ,do. e-notafre our exp en di ture w i t h the French, ! a., u!d add our poor rate, county rate, with our al' [ln. , ' 41 raining the revenue; nay, wo should add 41 00.5 of our church, and universities, and tithes, %'.fell %it came out of the French budget. We 1,13 'I orn,t these last ; b u t , adding local taxation, xio f,“ i‘n collecing revenue — we raise our millions to seventy. This upon twenty. THE FIPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 5, 1850. more abandoned with impunity than private affiii ■ can be. And the elms amongst us that does not make full ass of its intelligence and p3wer wilt in fallibly be robbed of the legitimate influence attached to it. A COLUMN or so of oar paper is every other day devoted to some account of the " State of Tiede." Therein the reader may discover what was the price of corn in Mark-lane on the day previous, and how cotton had been selling at Liverpool all through the week preceding. The selling rates of Wasend coals and crushed sugars are diurnally recorded : the prices of cloths at Leeds and Huddersfield are hebdomadal's! marked ; sad the quarterly trade of the Staff wdshire iron-master forms a subject of interesting information. We have had °coastal once or twice to exam ne, under this head, what has been the effect of recant alterations in British and foreign tariff' upon the state of our home produce, tortoni nral and mauutac tnrirg, and we have invariably found the result favourable to what is called " the great experi ment." A contemporary parer, of old worshipped by the whip under the title of the Morning Chronicle, but now in the LINCOLN and tiLADSTONIAN interest, at d " waiting for a wind" accordingly, has, since the re cent secession of one of its leaders, gone far beyond us in those inquiries into the "state of trade," and with results which are by some considered as of a contra dictory character. Statistical information, and some acquaintance with the facts, had led us to believe that trade thn ughout England was never so good as at th s moment : the Morning Chronicle has found out. however, that there are particular articles of com merce in which it never was so bad. The commercial records of our contemporary do not, indeed, reliant to items of commerce which are usually considered of the first consequence. His accounts of the exchanges, of the produce markets, of the progress of the cotton or linen manufactures, are brief. But to compensate for this, no paper is so great upon mat ters relating to the coffee-stalls and baked potato trade. 01 the operations of the Bank of Englacd be I does not rums much knowledge; but, on the other hand, he has the advantage of constant access' to the back parlour of the cat's-meat man, and upon the subject of the mutton pie trade, he boas.. of being possessed of " the best possible information." Indeed, upon the latter topic we do I not know whether Mr. Samuel Weller himself may cot be the Morning Chronicle's contributor. That gentleman is stated to have obtained from an I intelligent London pie merchant all the information upon the subject, which is to be found in the columns of the Morning Chronicle. And he certainly had the merit of conveying to the public in ten striking lines all the information which we find upon the subject in two closely-printed pages of our con temporary : " What a number oats you keep, Mr. T4'oolloo 'Sy. I Ah," says hi, " I do—a good many," says he. " You must be very fond of eats," saps I. " °Jur people is." says he, a winking et me; "they au% in season till the wing r though," says he. " Not in season !" says I. " No," save be, " unit• is in, eats is oat." " Why, what do you mean ?" says I. "Mean?" sass he, "why, that I'll never be a party to the combination o' the butchers to keep up the prier* o' meat," sass he. " Mr. Weller," says he, squeezes of my hand very hard, and viaperen in my ear weiy low, " doe's you mention this here again, bat it's the ee.ionin e as does it. They 're all made o' them noble animala," says be, • rointitig to a very nice little tabby kitten, "and I seamons 'em for beat steaks, weal or kidney. 'cordin to the demand; and more than tl.at," says be, " I an maks a weal a beet-steak. or a beef-steak a kidney, or any one et them • mutton at • minute's notice, jun as the market changes and the appetites wary." The last accounts of our contemporary with regard to the comm-rcial affairs of the metropolis bad refe rence more especially to those valuable branches of employment, the " dolls' eye and dolls' heads com position trades," to the "toy drum and tsmbosri• e manufactures," and " the detonating cracker busi ness." It seems that several of these important branches are suffering from foreign competition under the new tariff, and we regret to say, on our concern parary'a authority - , that, in the general rage for cheap ness, art Is declining in these manufactures. A description of cheap wooden dolls (says the Morning Chrome:e) are now made that used to have their noes cared. Through the demand for cheapness of price, the now is now but little elevated on the countenance—nothing to call a eon. The tariff has had the fatal effect of putting out of joint the noses of the dolls, as well as of the farmers. fhe free traders have as much to answer for as poor Miss Nancy Lake's brother, celebrated by the Smiths in the new Theatrum Poetarum : Jack's in the pouts, and this it is, lie 'Molts tune came to more than his, So to my (bower he goes, Takes oat my doll , and, oh my stars, Se pokes her head between the bus, And melts off half her now. Sir ROBERT PEEL, according to the Chronicle, hu melted off half the nose of every doll iu London. Dolls' noses now are " scaroely elevated above the countenanoe,"—an elegant way, we presume, of ex pressing that they don't turn up at all. his gratify ing, however, to find that " the rage for cheapness has not affected the doll's calves:" We don't go in for symmetry in the commoner aorta of dolls' lege, slur indeed for calve' at an to them. Be: the better ones have nice calves, and Snh•coloured calves too. The fashionable world will be gratified at this. In ordif,ary life we sometimes find Prime Ministers with spindle shank., whilst their stable men have what are called " the b eet of legs." But in doll humanity, according to the Chronicle, the best calves are very appropriately confined to the upper circles. The in ferior and working classes of the dolly world, "the commoner sorts," have no " calves" among them. " There is," says the Morning Chronicle, " a great falling off in the annual average consumption of British made dolls." This is not attributable to the fitness of their noses, but is entirely laid to the score of the " Tariff." In the " Dolls' eye trade," also. there is, it seems, a great decline. Eyes are anything but bright; and bavn't looked op for a long time past. Common eyes were 12e. the twelve dozen pair, 2 years ego : now they are only foe. This is owing to competition in the home trade : in which, it seems, two worthy and highly-respected friends of the metropolitan commission are the sole parties employed. These gentlemen have a monopoly of the trade, and one of them complains of the trick, of the other, and causes his grievances to be laid before the publio through the columns of our con temporary ! He ;is always forcing his business by underselling us. Immediately the demand ceases at all, he off, n his eye et • lower price than in the regular season, and so the prime ham been falling every year. Thus it M that the dolls' eye trade is ruined. The toy, drum, and tambourine makers' misfortunes are dwelt upon athetieally: - • - others, are, in the estimation of our contemporary, utterly unimportant and inconsequential compared with its own mays upon the toy gun and trumpet teals and the detonating cracker basiners. Sir Itonekr Piles declarations fade into in•ignifcanc before th r revelations concerting the meat piemen ; the state of Europe is as nothing compared with the condition of the lollipop and gingerbread nut trades, as discumed, very spicily, by "our Metropolitan Commissioner." " 7o daily much with xableets mesa and low, Primo that the mind 111 weak—or makes it to." We make very few tin drum new: the foreign toys have affected as se ; and tambourins have oaly a limited sale . The war time was the time (or drums. I have heard one maker say that he employed eleven men in the war time. --- We tram we shall not find that the present state of the " toy gun and detonaing cracker trades," has so strong an effect upon our contemporary as it appears to have upon the mind of some of his patrons, nor that he is about to blow his "toy trumpet" in favour of protection. The toy gun and trumpet trade" suffer, likewise, from the pew and foreign competition : I do not make half so many guns as I did before the Wolff, aid the trumpet trade is quite blown away from me. War time was the time for my bminror ; them was a demand for puns then. But the grand thing for the trade was the °pa gan' report that Buonaparte was coming ; there was to be an invasion, and then ever y c hild was &moldier. Anything in the shape of a gun foucd • customer in those days. Peace and the diminished price of the first neces saries of life are no advantages to the "toy gun and trumpet trades," and therefore the sooner we go to war and restore the corn law the better fqr the people. This is the argument the protectionists deduce from what they nil the "remarkable rcvda lions of the Morning Chronicle oonsmissioners." It is not a bad exemplification of the whole prams tion system. To put an additional 10 per cent. into the pockets of the two d o ll s ' e y e ma k ers th e y wo uld desire that every toy in England should be tazAl. To secure their own exorbitant rents, the landlords of the country would require that every Ergliehmen ii.oad eat dear bread. Whether the Morning Chronicle itself purposes • return to the old system of taxation in the cue of dolls' eyes and penny trumpets, we do not distinctly discover. Three days a week, however, since the Ist of February, our contemporary has invoked in its lamest type the sympathy and condolence of its readers and the public at its inability regularly to continue its revelations concerning the trades in , ginger pop and oranges. The debates in parliament have not, it is true, unimportant. A new colo nial system hai been diseaved, a new franchise for Inland has been proposed, in the short month which has elapsed since the QuEmee commissioners opened the two houses. Political parties elate have undergone new combinations, and have &incased new positions both in and out of doors. But all these matters, interesting as they may appear to FRANCE. PARIS, MONDAY, 6.30 r.m. The Patric of yesterday evening says We have announced that M. de Brunow had received in London the order of the Russian government to act in the Greek question in concert with the French embus'. dor. Tee note in which these instructions were given arrived in Paris yesterday, and was read by M. de Kisseleff to the minister of foreign affAirs. We are assured that it expresses great dissatisfaction at the proceeding of Lord Palmerston towards Greece. The note commence • with these words:—'The emperor, my master, has learned with a surprise mingltd with indignation, etc.,' and ending with the following : ' You will ask Lord Palmerston to what event be pro poses to employ force in suppvt of his demands, in order that the allies of King Otho may occupy them selves with the means of guaranteeing his independ ence and that of his people." There is no news to send this afternoon. There is only a rumour on town that the government will allow Rome to be garrisoned by Austrian and Neapo litan troops, and that, the four powers having a force in the capital, there will be no obstacle to the Pope's return. _ In the Chamber to-day the Paris and Avignon bill wu stall under debate, M. Cremieux being at the tribune. The Conaligutionnef, in its weeklj summary of the movement of the Bourse, says: The week has been one full of apprehensions of different kinds to speculators, and the fluctuations have been nume rous. In adcbtion to the monthly settlement, tendered diffi cult from the amount of the time-bargain,, alarm was created every day by reports more or lees serious with regard to our foreign relatioty. If we add to these causes fur a fall, the large delivery of securities which took place at the settling. we may rather be utonished that the fall has not been greater, and it has only been prevented by the large orders for purchases which arrived from the provinces. There is no doubt but that the anearteinty which still exists on the subject of the Lyons and Avignon railway contributes much to prevent an improvement in 'sates. When once speculators are assured that the state will not have to procure the means of executing this great fins on its own account, they will resume their action on the public fucde, but until then they will hold back. Bank of France shares, which had suddenly improved, have again fallen, as the late return, do not show anything very favour able to the shareholders. Railway 'hares have been generally looking down. Northern have fallen 16 fr. 25c., and been constantly offered. It appears decided on that the directors will propose to the shareholders, at the gene , ral meeting, a call for the supplementary 100 fr., io order to effect sooner the reimbursement of the sums due to the state, and to provide the funds necessary for the execution of the line to tdanbeuge. It is true that the company, in exchange for these new charges, is to obtain an extension of their concession from 38 to 99 yeses, but the necessity of paying 100 fr., which the company had officially renounced, has produced an unfavourable effect among the stareholdets, who are not all provided with the mesas of meeting this new dernacd. It is, however, said that if the arrangement in question is definitively adopted by the Cnamber, the coot 'may will be able to pay a good dividend for 1849, the amount of which will gib to lighten the first call made on the 100 fr. BOURSE. Foe Amount. PARIS, Moue 4. For Stoney. Opening Highest. Lowest. Mang 3 pee Contr. ....... 37 75 515 0 30 0 87 05 53 0 S per Cents- S do. Nov Ices. ~ e e e e to per Cents. . S pre Ones 73 I e r.mtange 011 LASINtOU: 30 days, U 43 .19 1 days,23 821. '. llegiaz, I, 1410 9B Maser. I Rapiea Beale .. 91 SO Money Ds. S. 1643 Lb. q Do. 3 .... Piedmont 11 per Cents 97 93 „ dank Mares 2230 „ Borah.—Versallles (left beak). 170; Paris and Orleans, 760 23; Parts and Rouen, 317 30 ; Roues sad liana 26.1; Avignon and Marseille/00 ; Strasburg sad Sale, 113 73; Mesas and Vierran, 313; Minus. and Inordeaua, 493 ; North, 430 ; Parts and Strasbourg, 347 50 ; Tian and :i.dstso 231 23; Roatereau and Troyes, 103. Mame. Fes. 21. —1111 f• par Ceuta.. 24 are. ; Four per Cents., 14 paper; Fire per Calla., 121 paper; Coupon, 74 ; tank of St. Ferdisead, 82. Exelaange on Loudon. 30.20. SWITZERLAND. The Patrie says that the King of Prussia bas referred the Neufchatel question to arbitration at Frankfurt. ITALY. ROMAN STATES. The Constitution's.' pub lishes the fullt.wing letter from Rome, 26:h ult.: The Prince de klus;gnano has completely recovered from his wound, but his sister is still suffering. The police are still actively employed in investigating the affair ; they have discovered that the surgeon Del F ri tt s , who had been ar rested as the principal author of the attack, had net taken such a direct part as was at first believed. A report is ' current that the celebrated Angelo Brunetti. alias Clap nacchio, has just been arrested scar Mont* Fehr* by an Austrian column, but the news requires confirma tion. The verdict of acquittal pronounced in favour of the famous president of the committee of barricades, Henri Cerouschi has bees quashed by the council of revision on the plea of informality, and in a fortnight the trial will recommeace before the court-martial. and it is said that documents will be produced which will throw fresh light on the qu stion. The criminal procedure in this country, particularly as regards tne publicity of the exami nation of witnesses, will always render the task of our tri bunals very difLult. Witnesses will dare to speak all the truth publicly; the fear of private revenge will deter them, and this has been the case of the majority of acquittals which have go much scandatised the Romans. They do not uaderstscd that moral certainty is not sufficient to declare a person guilty, but that the judge must also have legal ries , tainty in the ease. TUSCANY.—Letters from Leghorn of the 23rd ult. state that the fortress of Portolerraio is to receive an Austrian garrison. The Austrians are fortifying the fort of Purtamurata, at Leghorn, on the land side. A battalion of imperial cavalry arrived at Leghorn on the 22nd. Arrests are still the order of the day. M. Antoine Bonaparte has arrived from Marseilles, and proceeded to Florence. SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN. BERLIN, Maim 2. The Prussian government has answered Lord Pal merston's note of the 20th, proposing a prolongation of the Danish armistice for six months. This answer is in perfect conformity with the resolutions of the cabinet, as I have explained them in previous letters. The sum and substance is this,—Prussia will not use her soldiers to coerce the Bchleswigers. She takes her stand upon the II ih article of the convention of armis tice, which says that the soldiers ar e t o ma i n t a i n tran quillity and order. They have done so. In the only cue when the public peace was threatened, they inter vsned, and put an end to the disturbance. But they are not obliged to violate tranquillity in order to force the Bchleiwigers to pay the taxes. GREECE. The Al'genuine Zeitung (Augsburg) has a tele graphic message from Vienna of the 27th ult., which states that intelligence had just reached that capital from Athens of the 20th February. The coercive measures of England were to awes immediately. The blockade is said to have been r emove d on th e 20th. TURKEY.—Our dates from Constantinople are to the 13th. Count Btiirmer persists in his demand that the refugees should be detained in the interior during five years, and the Porte is equally firm in its refusal to comply with a condition so derogatory to its dig nity. For the present the interested refugees will be transported to Bronson, from whence, when the season grows milder, they will proceed to Kintayeh. The usually well-informed correspondent of the Wanderer states, that the Russians are to occupy Transylvania in order to leave Austria free handed to deal with Italy, and show head against Prussia in Germany. ODESSA, JAN. 24.—1 n n on c e of the thaw which set in, the ice to the e e e l l broke yesterday, end wee curled out to see by a stiff brew free the south. THE UNITED STATES. We yesterday gave a summary of the news brought , by the Europa. The proceedings in Coogres4, during the time that had elapsed from the despatch of oar previous mail, are fairly stated in the following regume of the New York Tribune : The attention of Compels for the last fortnight has been principally occupied with the subject of slavery. Mr. Clay's speech, in support of his compromise resolstibns, was an elaborate and powerful performance, distinguished for is conciliatory and temperate spirit, and exhibiting the earnest, vigorous, and impressive eloquence, for which that eminent statesmen is justly celehrated. Aeiong the opponents of Mr. Clay on the question of compromise, Mr. Davies, of Mississippi, has been conspicuous. His speech on the subject took the strongest ground in /scour of slavery ; contended that it was a wise sari nee'ul institu. lion ; sanctioned by the Drity,:and not repugnant to humanity ; that it not only belongs to the respective states is which it exist., but to the whole United States; and that it is necessarily involved in the constitution of the Union. He assumed * the legal existence of slavery in Cali forols and Mexico, and that the Mexican laws for its aboli ion were destitute of validity. Mr. Butler, of South Caro line, has maintained similar views, in a vehement speech, declaring that the interests of his constituents were of more importance than the preservation of the Union, end warmly oppAing the ►dmiation of California with her present con stitution and bour.daries. Mr. Horses Mann, of Mama chusette, has spoken with great ability in the House of Ite preeentativ. s as the other .ids of the qu stion, deseribiug the effect on Southern interests of a dissolution of the Cot in, and deel.riwg that no motives could compel the acquiescence of the north, in the further extension of slavery. The last important speech in opposition to 'Mr. Clay, was made in the Senate on Monday, by Mr. Downs, of La. He con - ended that the prohibition of slavery in the California constitution was owing to the interference of the executive. In the house a nuJtion has been made to instruct the isoormittee on territo ties to r-port a bill for the admission ~f California with the boutidariee described In her constitution. An effort was mode by the southern members to lay this on the table, but without suco•se. The whole question labours under compli cations of a difficult charazter ; no exertions are spared by the champion aof slavery to p t the admission of Cali fornia; but it can scarcely be doubted that they will prove ineffectual, anti that California will be received, without much further daisy, as a free state. The telegraphic correspondence of the New York journals brings down the proceedings in the legisla ture to the 19th ult. The debate in the Senate on Mr. Clay's motion had been again adjourned. The House of Representatives had gone into committee of the whole house on the President's mess ige, and adjourned after hearing Mr. Venable, Mr. Campbell (of Ohio), and Mr. Mitinehan. The New York If eekly Herald states that rumours of a dissolution of the cabinet were gaining ground rapidly; and that Messrs. Webster, John Davies, Car win, and Evans were named as likely to ce invited to fill vacancies. The Senate had negatived the appointment of Mr. James Watson Webb, as minister to Austria. The Senate had confirmed the following appointments:— Mr. Niel J. Brown (of l'enneseee), minister to Russia ; Mr. Walker Foreward (of Pennsylvania), chargi2 d'Affaires to Denmark ; Mr. Francis Schroeber (of Rhode Island), chargé d'affaires to Sweden; Mr. Wells, Consul at B..tavis. Thetwo senators from San Francisco, Dr. Givin and Mr. J. C. Freeman, bad arrived at Wsshington. The legislature of the state of New York has ex pressed itself decidedly against the extension • f slavery in the Union. A series of resolutions to this effect were passed in the senate and transmitted to the assembly for its adhesion. Votes were taken in the latter house on tte resolations seriatim on the 14th of February, with the following result : A mo tion of " the previous question" was negatived by a majority of 71 to 23. A motion to agree with the committee of the whole in reporting the resolutions was carried by a majority of 69 to 21. The first re solution to instruct the New York senators in Con gress to vote for the abolition of slavery in the district of Columbia was carried by a majority of 74 to 17. A resolution to oppose the extension of slavery into free territory in the soil lately acquired from Mexico was carried by 71 to 22. A resolution to instruct the senators for New York in Congress to support this view wit carried by 65 to 24. Resolutions congratulating the people of Calif , rnia for having refused to admit slavery under their constitution ; declaring the adhesion of New York to the union under all circumstance., and order ing copies of the resolutions to be transmitted to the representatives and senators of New York in Con gress, were carried against one dissentirg vote. An affray occurred in Arequipa, Peru, oa the 25th of November, on the occasion of electioneering for the presidency. An altercation having taken place be tween two candidates, the partisans of each had re course to arms. A combat ensued in which six per sons were killed, six more mortally wounded, and over fifty more or less injured. Great sensation was produced by this affair in Lima. In Bolivia the peo ple were in a state of profound peace. A proposition hes been submitted to the Srcretary of the Navy, by Henry Grinnell, Esq., a merchant of this city, to equip and furnish two suitable vessels for the prosecution of the search after Sir John Franklin, provided the government still countenance the expe dition by appointing naval officers to take command of it. The suggestion will probably be adopted. A number of the most accomplished officers are ready to volunteer for the service, and among them spoken of in connexion with the command is Lieut. Lynch. PHILADELPHIA, FEB. 13, 1850.—Yesterday in the lower house of our state legislature a bill was intro. duced entitled "An act to consolidate the loans of the commonwealth, and to provide for the renewal of each as are past due," which authorises a new loan to be made bearing five per cent. interest per annum, reimbursable at any time after the year 1875. This loan is to provide for the payment of some three mil lions of the state loan now due, and which will fall due during the present year. The competition for this loan will make a narrow margin for profits. JENNY LIND.—Mr. Barnum has addressed a letter to the New York Tribune, in which he states that he has ratified his engagement with Mathis. Lind, and for a less sum than that lady has been in the habit of receiving. He says : " My agent saw an offer to her of 6,0001. or 30,000 dole. to sing 12 nights in England, which she declined; also an enormous offer for the grand concerts at the imperial court of Ruth', an offer nearly double that of my own, which she, for reasons, also declined. She was offered 1,2001., or 6.000 dols., to sing in one concert to be given at the Great World'. Convention of Arts and Manufactures in Hyde park, Lonuon, in 1961. It was further intimated to ner from Queen Victoria, that her services would be desired about the same period in a contemplated rend sacred testi vat, at Westminster Abbey, where the tickets will be held from 2S dole. to 100 dole. each. Bath of these last offers she was induced to decline, in consequence of her desire to visit America, as profaned by my agent. In her engagement with me (which engagement includes Havannab aa well as the United States,) she expressly reserve. the right to give charitable concerts whenever she may think proper. Dur ing the last eight months she has been singing entirely an tuitously for charitable purposes; and she is now founding a benevolent institution in Stockholm, her native city, at a cost of 350,000 gob." Russia.—The St. Petersburg journals of the 10th Feb. state that the export trade of 0 letaa in 1849 ansiunted to 13,177,626 silver rubies, the imp Tt trade to 10,373,360 S.R., being a total of 29,560,986 BR. exchanged with foreign markets. This is far less than in former veers ; in 184611 amounted to 30,608,462 13 R. ; in 1847 to 4.5,87.5,560 B.R. ' • and in 1848 to 30,061,881 S.R. It is, howev i r, more than in 1844 and 1845, in the form.r of which it arnounnd to 24.070,177 S.R , and in the latter to 26,190,102 S.R. The two years previous to 1846 wens the most lucrative since the foundation of Odeon. The Si. Petersburg Jownat accounts for the decrease in the foreign trade last y oir by the com mercial crisis which prevailed in the west of Europe, the complete destrecion of mercantile credit, and by thy total failure of the crops in South Russia, which camp. 11, dt suppling ctteeuegrotanmar would have surp . .ies w hich, been Ripped for abroad. Th. chief export trade constals in corn. A total quantity of 1,642,1391 ehetwerts was tzported for the sum of 13,168,937 B.A. Sr. PETERSBURG, FEB. 22.—The St. Petersburg Zeiturig of this day announces that the Stu'amide, of Tiflis hasissued orders that preparations shall be made for a grand I exhibition of the materi.l productions and works of srt of Transoorcasia in the course of this summer. The same journal goo on to state that only four years ego there was not a single artist at Tiflis, and that a ayry extraordinary improvement has taken place in the arta since that time. FUNERAL or SIR WEI. ALLAN.—The remains of this distinguished Aran were conveyed on Prioay to their resting. place. The funeral was, as much as possible, a private one. The academicians and associates of the Rlyai Scotti-h Aca demy, of which Sir William was the president, ..seemhlrd in the Royal Institution, and proceeded Irma thence in mourn ing coaches to the residence of the doomed in Great Ktag street, when they joined the other friends. The plea) of sepulture wee the Dean Cemetery. DETERIIMILD SUlClDE.—Yesterday, a person named Vincent, who lodged in the house of Mrs. Well', • tobacconist, who carries on business at 35, Regentditreet, Westminster, committed suicide by shooting him., If through the head with a pistol. The barrels of the weapon burst upon the discharge taking place, and indicted frightful in juries upon the upper portion of his pogo. His death was almost instantaneous ; and it is stated that the condition of mind which led him to commit the rash act, was produced by loatoontinued taming from dimes. COLONIAL. BRITISH NORTH AMERICA.—CANADA. The following letter from our Montreal correspon dent will be perused with interest : MAL, FEB 16. The chief topic o f discussionO i n t h is province, for some days past, has been the publication at two despatches by our government, from Etrl Grey : one on the sub ject of ann exat i on , an d the (Alt , ron the removal o f the seat of government from thi, city. That on tor exaticn expresses, in no courteous termer, the disapprobation of the E.,glish ministry, of the proposition; and the other, Earl Grey's approval of the removal of the seat of government. Vito regard to the popular feeling on the furtntr, I had, perhaps, better, in the first place, give you a manifesto which rite " Annexation Association of Montreal" has issued on the subject. TO TH■ PIMPLE OP CANADA. The A a ties Association of Montreal feel it incumbent oo them to address you ;n reference to the foilowing despatch of Earl Grey, purporting to contain the views of her Mast Gemini's Majesty .41 the question of the peaceable separation of Canada from Great &Mitt and its annexation to the United States: I/melee-street, Jan. 9, 18.50. My Lord,—l have to acknowledge your despatch of the dives and numbers quoted in the margin No. 114. Nov. 19, 1849; 127, Dee. 3, 1849; 129, Dee. 3, 1849; 134. Doc. 4, 1849. I have laid these despatches before her Majesty, mid also the address of the w.rien and councillors of the Muni cipal Council of the Gore District, the lieutenant colenel aid officers militia a the Regiment of Dorchester, of the Ai. ems of the 4th battalion of the Regiment of Yamasks, and of the inhabitants of the parish of St. Anne de la 'rocs tire, end of the efficen of militia and lieuienin•-cotonal commanding battalion of the Regiment of Quebec, in closed in the two first of these despatches which her Majesty has been pleased to receive very graciously, and have if irded her Majesty great satisfaction to receive these expressions of that loyalty and attachment to the British crown, which atm trusts is generally Alt by her Canadian cut junta. With re gard to the address to the people of Canada in favour of severing the provioee (rota the British dominions for the purpose of annexing it to the United States, which forms the subject of the third of these despatches, I have to inform you Nat her Majesty approves of your having dismissed from her service that who have slatted the document, which is mainly short of treasonable Ls its character. !ler Majesty confidently relies on the loyally of the great majority or her Canadian subjects, and she is therefore determined to exert all the authority which belongs to her, for the purpose of maintaining the connexion of Canada with this country ; being persuaded that the permanence of the connexim is highly advantageous to both. Your !Gremlin will therefore understand that you are commanded by her Majesty to resist to the utmost of your power any attempt which may he made, to bring about the separation of Canada from the British dominions, and to m.rk in the strongest who may directly or indirectly encourage each a design. If any attempt of this kind should take such a form that those whit are guilty of it may, according to such advice as you may receive from your taw adviser', be made responsible tor their conduct in a court of justice, you will rot fail to take the necessary measures for bringing them to account. I am, my lord, your most obedient servant, rse Right lion. Esrl of Elgin. Gnat. The association have carefully reconeldered their two addresses, and they do not find in them the language of menace or sedition ; but a calm dispassionate statement of social evils under which Canada suffers', and a remedy, by constitutional means, suggested for consideration. I' is to the people of Canada that these statements have been made, and it is for you to decide whether the remedy proposed, is one that is advantageous or worthy of being rsfmred to tuts British nation fen their assent. It is impoa sib'', for this aesociatlen to reaard toe expression 01 Earl Grey's opinion as conveying the & eisim of the British nation. Even should the British parliament support his lendable,, we conceive that their action will be premature until the question has been constitutionally brought b ;ore them, as approved by a majority of the repr e sent a ti ves o f th e Canadian people. The association deny the right of the Colonial Secretary to offer, by anticipation, the decision of the British government on a question that is not constitu tionally before them; and they further desire to point out the danger that may hereafter arise, if the principle be once admitted that the Queen's name and authority can be introduced to suppress the lawful discussion of any nalitical question in the colony. The British people have a proper and constitutional opportunity of sxpreasing their assent or dissent to any colonial measures, and it is a subject of painful surprise to this associa tion, that Earl Grey should have encroached on the rights of her Majesty's Canadian subjects in vet.turing to decide that Roy question was unfit to be brought by them before their representatives. The association are necessarily ignorant of the terms in which the GovernAoGeneral brought their ad dress under the notice of the Colonial Secretary, and how lac those terms justify his lordship in giving a character to their proceedings which they have distinctly denied from the out set. The association now reiterate that they seek the at tainment of their object only with the free and willing con sent of Great Britain; that they never will urge the subject by other than calm appeals to the reason and intelligence of their fellow-subjects, first in Canada, afterwards in England ; and that they have no sympathy with any who bold other sentiments than these. While re-asserting the position the usociation have u turned, they feel that the language of the C tloniel Secretary requires from' them the discharge of a further and a higher duty, in denying all right, en his part, to attempt to punish men for the assertion of opinion. The free discussion of all subjects is a right inherent in every man under a free form of government, and the power to advocate, by constitutional means ad moderate counsels, changes of any deacriptian, is the great safeguard against violence and rettellitoa. The moment an attempt is made to coerce the free expression of ttublic opinion, the most sacred right of the people is attacked, and the ground-work lei.] for any and every stretch of despotic power. The asso ciation ask their fellow•ettizens whether, in all they have suggested or done, they have not mom carefully avoided advocating aught that could in the slightest degree infringe the laws or warrant the interference of ex - cutive authority? And, feeling that their course has been temperate and legal, they deny the right of Earl Grey to use towards them the language of his derpstch, or to interfere in their discussion of any subject affecting the interests of Canada. Tile associ ation, therefore, entreat their fellow-flu ...jean not to allow any feeling of hostility to the policy of those who now ad dress them to blind them to the cossequencis of admitting the position assumed by Lord Grey, but to look only at the great principle involved. Let the people of Canada, to whom this association ad dressed themselves, decide whether the course of Earl Grey is in accordance with the epostitution granted to them, and whether his approval or disapproval ought to affect the legal discussion of any subject intended to be brought before the legislature of this country. Lot them say whether responsible government is only a name, or is intend, d to enure that freedom of (pinion. dear to every British subject. To you, then, the people of Canada, we appeal: and we ask whether we shall be compel ed to brood in silence over the evils this country lablure under, or whether we have the right temperately to discuss those evils and their cure, free from the threat of punishment, and independent alike of the interference and con trol of any other than those who are consti tutionally responeible to you. In conclusion, the As sociation would remark, that the subject of discussion hu been obscured by the mode adopted for checking the ex pression of the public opinion, and this association, in the broad assertion of an undeniable right, maintain that they will not be diverted from the legal and constitutional course which they have adopted, in lull reliance, that whenever the question is brought before Great Britain by our responsi ble ministers, their application will be treated with that respect and consideration which its magnitude and import. anco demand. In the deliberate adoption of this amuse, the association conceive that they are defending one of the greatest bulwarks of this country's liberties, and they claim the support of all true friends of Canada, whatever be their views of the policy the emaciation 'Pelt to promote. JOHN ReDPATH, President. R. IdAelt•T, ) Secretaries. 11. A. DOIIIOK. I miy observe. with reference to this document that it has called down upon the association much severe attack from the coon. ctionist organs, both ministerial and tory. The principal ground of this attack is, that the association has given but a treache rous interpretation of its first promi.e, thit annexa tion was " neither practicable nor desirable," without the e nteeet of England ; end that it is a rather hard stretch to say that England has no right to express her dissent until the whole country be revolutionised before her assent be asked. The next grout(' of at tack is, that the document cannot be said to contain the opinions of the signer, of the first manifesto, be cause no meeting was called to concoct it. Although this seems somewhat puerile, it is made with consi derable bitteiness. These signers form the aseocia tion and have expressed no dissent from the action token by their executive council, which they have duly elected to conduct their affairs. The effect of Earl Grey's despatch has been to give a palpable check to the annexationist movement. All have paused, and the more timid have entirely re treated. The tone of the annexationist organs has also much changed. Those in favour of British connexion are well pleas d that the English goverment has spoken ; but I have seen but one opinion from both ref , rm and tory journals of the tone of Earl Grey's despatch, ex cept from the two or three journals under the name diate c tntrol of the government. It is well th'tt the c im English o government n that This made many annexationiets. But there. was no use in writing so uncourteous a despatch as Earl gl an d has was spoke n , d esiroei f s or of th g e ivtg e aref was u p. Grey's; and which besides showed sufficiently crude information on the part of his lordship on Canadian a ff a irs ; it is nut the kit dof thing to inspire affationi . , it only inspires resentment. -4t.76:0.'APP...ii Baron de 13,)ldavaid, Mr. B tiley, and Mr, ltiada— had an intrraiew with ftue poomissioaers of her i'Mafeltra Woods and Vona; on India. %~t; figRUdX76 4 .. • I t