The Express. — London, England, 1850-02-07 00:00:00

tox —NI scaors, t. move ter Ism 4 4 „A to ,lairt .Imrelliatlisesse below mulls taseios. „. 0' %a ims. AND iTALLUI Rssreais, to WAA.—LIPI DUMMY STUART, to _ c,. Mei& A olliflopMl4ll6ol restrioes to B..norew.—Mr. WORIBOOR, to , r nsulevalue, lbe p ar bees of Kensington, „• . Eisainsormitn, containing a Impula ter) inti.hi•mtn, voiding On an area not o•nt i.rr 0, sal comprising ale gb.n. 18 . 000 rental of 101. end upward. • sad fur t, •sti m 1r...r• la on other &reit; in Great •• great a an .bar of inhabimata and hoesee , fn :his bossy, it is expedient and • .• • .we, t , y an not of psilitimint, the ravishes of I,r fees. YaP am, and Humwersmith into a , to return two members tne vacancies caused by the -he law b-ruuali of fludbary, M•tatiAnts —Mr. 8. WOUSLEY, to move far , naWI te amend and alter as act . awed in ,s h .nas the reign of Wiliam 1V., ., far „...nages within amain of th. prut.ibitcl de- LAND. —Mr. 8 ADLEI ft, to rail the attention hda, ions oCmtioa of the laws which tod t•nars of land in Ireland. a.-18r 0 B. rEcaELL, to mars for par:• awl e nets to to Adwralt) committing T OW , a tams to the decks and auto or . it., aad o.h.r vessels, with as answen to ix 'Atom. Sir J. PAKINGTON, irr tittaa ‘n at aammaryjarkstiatioa is Vetteatc—Mr. PARKER, b:U to repeal as i etteca aging the capture or dcstruetiot . 114 and TVIII4I. .0 IN CI44NCRILY.—Bataan respecting the ben. rec. • tnc 1ii.1411111 is ehaneeet MOTALII AND IoCINATICS.CII4. PELHAM 1111 m et 4 olden of remora granted ty Ep.ihnd sad Wales fee each of the speedyel the nimbi r of: those who were es pitiful* fetUatfa to their lea he counvries ; • bet of psaipir Wasik* is England and Wales d r anti iLe k t fire year., and toe cot of their • t obi trninlC—Nr. P. IMHOF/I—Various returns • to Or .tote emu. PrntonllZTlT* —Mr. BRIGHT —Copies of all ria Mdtwares, and petitions, stating the number of rei attached In oath, whizh have brow veriv , d at the Mutt of the convict Marfaret Hamilton, • at Olosavw on C. , 31st day of January last : Of all - fildiveses, and peti fans. stater a the number el r • . ta each, wasneeted with or on behalf of l'Aarl-gto H .rriv, who wee sentenced to death sa.s hela at Tauten ; and, of Um verdict of the .!. the slaw, cases. • run THE CONSOLIDATID Frani (Infirm)). • , NSELL. r torus in reference to this Nairn Virtu. VV v 888 AND DiAlnAol LOANS (Tit . 11:NNZ, eario - s returns on these subjects. ratoss (laft.aff.).—C•d. DUNNE, re ... to be ta..t.tial state sad econdition of POO . . : macs. —Mr. ANSTET—BiII far the Te a sec. adaiaat the Ramat Catholic religimt. TIM DAT.— Sufply R•part ; Camay Celts :uctaitta. ; Ceiba, debate ea guidon tar a ervrtos. (''...TtiOING MAILS. . ?lanelibe, to the ►irdtterrsnses, Egypt, .g, irt.l be mute sip this .r Didier: North Anterka sad the United uo to morrow eVcvault, Feb. 8. gji Hs., eac:aoina Bermuda, Havannab, nt , o.le‘na, and Mastro, and including •ru, J uan•de-N , cara.rua, New Granada, ma..v up oa Feb. 17. r %Au, and Gibraltar will be made c, u, Nl,lta. Omen, the lonian Islands, 1 dia. a Al win Bouitiampton, w.l 5. •lir amnia al Feb. 20. • • • 4 rarar.-no Brands, and Bout°. Aytra, will bs st. on ttr coning of Yana 4. et: u•lt • S WNDOX NRIDOL ~I t4l • • A.1,11... SOL +>:M.11..... k. Ss. ror,A; 111TIMb.41; FEBRU4RY 7. ;erste are the protectionist party at the r.ceLt di•u•trous defeat. It is a cur ....wt. to them. They bad given out !i• • be ton . the :onion opened, that if they • ,% t`ce •lould divide 210 strong. Their • -•:e ttan.th, it was, fa:ls fifty short of . .21 Al the votes they were only amounted to 192, of which num .. re eroAvitv Weiss, under the leadership • ILI V BEI:IitLET. btaer Land, tae protectioais's lost the sup ,. the recent division of more than twenty of •-• saloabie tae fibers. The list comprises the ome of the most ecnecientious representa .4-:, • mut constituencies. Tne first name one—thst of Sir Thomas DTKC . i 1 4. e cf toe next we notice is that of Mr. • represen:c iv* of Guildford, who wea l rh plot ctioniat principles, but who, I •• • .od reason in the prentnt state of the' ring tram his party. We observe,' 0 4)Uf cuing; members who, in 1846, in their opposition to the adoption of 'Telt r tiey—vix., Lord DittmLiNitio, the the Marquis of QtrefreantaT I Lord . •t, representative of the property and • /I his father, the Earl of C.iwnoit ; 1:1.1.1 .4 , the member fur Oxfordshire, • t •axwm.t. Una, who WAS elected for .1:11r, a year or two ago, in the place of • r tutu, amid the frantic shoats of the • • at this symptom of "re-action." Where, glad to know, is the symptom of " re - •mr, when this same hon. gentlemen Sete At ...welt in the division in opposition to the returned him expressly to promote their u to one of the protectionist papers a list of v.l 1 .4 aricultural constituencies which in division rots d for free trade. One of the malt CI& II is that of D.vzes, perhaps the meet 4 agricultural town in the west of England. . cousrsvative members for Devisee support 4 1... On this great subject there is no divi r- 'wept the conservatives of that im -.• ' asocaltural constituency. Guildford, another ••• L'if agricultural town, also directs both its s is to support free trade ; and it is noticeable or two tory members for Stafford, a third 7.0-8 d oiastituency, are both reckoned amongst " dhent without pairs," a tolerably satisfactory . , or. of the effect Lad ThlibuT's oratory must 3. t.sd on that electorate. 1. r .Itirsibig Herald, in commenting upon these • rs not hesitate to call in question the honour -tr of the supporters of its potty. It frankly - it their co nd uc t as " disgusting," and desires • 4stituencies " either to call upon their rept*- : v. s to protect their interest' or else to resign inctioos to those who will." But this is not . It proceeds to account for the lad falling !booze the protectionists, and a pretty series ;.• are given for their political tergiversations. 11. La. amber," says tee Morning Herald, " wishes t. I to the Duke of Devonshire's ball—that other • we his led, and daahten commended to her , s , zt mean; a third has a son who wants pronto. ,vy a fourth desires to have his boy aimed an e. l'sre or V i e nna a fifth looks to °lean a plot of • tars,, was, from the w oo d s an d forests; a sixth sow-lieutenancy for his woad cousin • a seventh hiiji„ the D on t. n fli ce an eightlia commis fa is has ; a ninth much desiderata that his re s.si 4th shall le named one of her Majesty's • 1 1 &teeth require* only a grant of 3,000 a MN si • ' 4 4 aeon who has been some yetra on half ' ph), .1..1 sto fea do iv. wood. Thus it is," moans our con !** " dust *tr.. • itbout bargain and sale—without Nr ~/ thew. star. ender der their independence, and suffer ~.e•N be talerd over " A pretty picture of the Protection in the if"t•t• f ratimons And no doubt p ri n ted from r •t l' f c - • We litre not th: c l i z a to these various into- Issers of politi ca l : we are not able to i.azz'e together and distinguish the member 11 _7 a plies in the Post-office for his butler, from ' vi,rsor whose wife wants an invitation to the - women ; but we have no doubt each picture 14.1 y pain'ed, especially in the cases of some 7 , t " been loudest in their hosting, protesta , td attachment to " the cause." , 11evd by suc h li g h ts, " mys the Morwitog Herald, _ rut divi s i on i s not wonderful." Pretty cau lk, •II supporter of c h urc h an d state, salthit•hce el they are, that his came fail solely in sea. :;' ; :::11: of out intense corruption of the system ke I I 1"4! 'Mit of the pro t ectionist dream of reams- Er • . P 1 ,..., 1. of reatonng the2cyon insda of liar 1 „,,,,,, wr :72!_ the, Fl employ themselves timid,' , u 4 'blur hope lies not in the exercise of `lstryv but in continuing to make enough •• THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 7, 1850. Main es the 14th Jali a l=. Vt. do Marna, tam. rly Clwyd d'Affaires es lir. Leloss, ceamil general at Needs Vibe, hoe pused '" is several kernels my violent stialb spiel list Ishetiaseay, who justly =W fullest instiesee at the sod whose have almys 'wen the setinesties to the Miristee ell Perelga Affairs. Wens bee rimed hie mem Os M a es delegate of W Tres* reddest. at Le Plata, a M which cannot to his. litipposiny, what huwever is sot the tam, that helm time Denim ties pester ameba of Idiom wisely keep tbsonnives sled is., any politioal disterrieas, had, with swamis mem* delegated bi. Lams, the smentatent of the semblis meld set have sou , eastetths% &beady belting lie Isselless et esseel.geseral of Mora vii mbe mold les st the erne lims deltgate fees the Preset pedant It would be abseistely Incom patible. 11. Weft beellakinmetil ken that rearm which wee requbed by pedant by pabliely attacking a French diplomatio spat on fans enmeshed with hb public functions. _ _ PARIS, win.:, it A W. No less than four sergens do safe were mortally wounded yesterday in the resented riots of the Quartier St. Martin. I informed you that up to flee o'clock in the afternoon of yesterday no occur rence of a serious character had taken place. Subsequent to that hour, however, the creeds, which had decreased in number, again swelled to formidable proportions. At half-past Eve several men, acting in concert, succeeded in hoisting to the top of the tree of liberty in the Cane St. Martin, the triangular level, which is the symbol of equality. Red ribbands also were placed around in profusion, and none were allowed to wine near the tree without saluting these republicans by word and gesture. These facts bei+ g reported to the competent authorities, the fallowing proclamation was ordered to be made, and *as in stantly acted upon : . _ . To TU$ rEOPLI or FARM—The Minister of the Interior canstd a prod, nation to be made public this motnias 'lmo:mins that if the trees of lib:rty should become objects of disorder they should be taken down. In con/reroute of the dbordcre, which all may have witnessed, and wheel broke forth around the tile of the Rue St. Martin, I batts• l .one have been sent to take them down. This step being decided on was immediately taken. At half-past eight in the evening a formid able body of troops, under the command cf a general, marchea to the Porte and Caere St. blartin,and occu pied those places and the adjacent streets, whilst the trees of I:berty on the boulevard and in the Cam, as also others in the vicinity, were cut down. This pro ceeding appeared to cause profound irritation to the groups that were hinging about; but they were so completely overawed by the display of force that they ventured to utter no cries, and did sot even willingly reply to the simple questions of bystanders. After the trees were cut down, some gamins broke up the branches and cirried them away. A large body of trove stationed for some time near the Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers and others patrolled the adjacent streets. There were also strong bodies of serfens-de rills on the boulevards. In the Rue St. Martin there was a rather large assemblage of the curious, but not sufficient to interrupt the circulation. :Met of the shops in that menet, and on the boulevard near the Porte, were closed. About 200 arrests were made yesterday. The Eognement says that the wound of the man who received the thrust of a sword from a sergent-de villa on Monday during the riot is mortaL Several men in blouses were arrested yesterday in the Faubourg St. Martin for attempting to tear down the proclamation of the Minister of the Interior. The Procureur of the Republic yesterday ordered the seizure of the Vas du Peuple at the Poet-office and at its bureaux. There are two articles incrimi nated. The first is intituled "Vivo PErnpereur !” the second, "Faits de Is journee." The government h.ve received a telegraphic de spatch announcing the election of M. Edgar Ney, the Bonapartist candidate for the department of the Charente. _ _ _ _ The Milan Gazette, of tho let instant, publishes intelligence th►t two English frigates had entered Syra with tno Greek vessels. Our Paris parcel of yesterday evening arrived at so late an hour that we must limit oar extracts from it to the following : PARIS, WEDNESDAY, 510 All was quiet again in Paris to-day, and nothing occurr.d to ruffle the Bourse except a false rumour which made the funds rise, that M. Alolr was about to form a ealiast. The debate on public instruction was resumed in the Assembly, and gave rise to a scene of riot similar to many that I have described. M. Leo de Labarde gave the lie to a Montagnard member, M. Richards', who was making a speech on the revolution of '69, having, d propos de buttes, abandoned for awhile the subject of public instruction then under discussion. The Mountain, whether from preconcert, remained perfectly calm, and enabled M. Seger d'Aguessean to get up and make note of their silence. A duel will probably take place. BOX' RA.. Zbe Court. WINDSOR, Fin. 6. The Queen walked this morning in the slopes and Windsor-park . The royal family took walking end posy WIMIS In the grounds adjacent to the Cud*. Ilia Royal Highness Prince Albert west eat hunting this moraine attended by Little -Colonel Hon. A. Gordon. The Berl of Aberdeen is (vested te arrive at the Cade this evening ea a visit to the Queen sad the Prises. Ti. royal diens: party this strenhig 'alludes her Royal Highness the Delius. of Sent, Lady Fanny Howard, Ramer lips*, the Rarl of Aberdeen, and Colonel the Hon. C. B. and Mrs. Phipps. The Queen's prmste band will attend after dinner. Viscount Bernard, M.P., Colonel Chatterton, M.P., and Mr. W. Pagan, M.P., had ea interview with Lord John Raw= yesterday apes the subject of railway exten sion in 'reload, and the imprev.snant of the harbours and lighthouse et the went= coast of 'reload, and also to present a Illermelal from the county and city of Cork. Mr. &wart, Mr. Borthw.ek, Mr. Ingrain, Mr. Splear, Mr. Francis, Mr. Pratt, Mr. Mliatear, Mr. Pittman, and several other gentleman represennea a large sod influential portion of the Linda' sad provincial press, hid an interview with the Chancellor of the linhcquer =sends, on the subject of the repeal of the advertisement dot/. of the Commimion for the Hai bitim of ISM, esesising of the Right Hon. H. Latou ellen' Berl Grenville ' Mr. Thomas Baring, Mr. T. F. Gibson, Mr. Jones Loyd, the Right Hon. W. B. Glad stone, sad Mr. Alderman Thompson, met at the Board of Grade yesterday. Mr. George Drew and Mr. Francis Fuller, members of the executive committee, conferred with the sub-committee. The Commissioners for inauiring into Smithfield market, and the market. in the City of London for the sale of meat, had a meeting yeeterdey at the Monte-eMee. There were present Mr. George Cornwall Lewis, Sir James Duke, Sir Harry Verney, Professor Richard Owen, and the Mon. Frcd rick Hyatt. A deputation, including Sir Augustus W. Hillary, Bart., Mr. W. J. Ironies, sad Mr. W. Andrews, had an in arls, yesterday w ith the Chanoellor of the 2:chequer. Mr Willwx, M.P., had also an interview yesterday with the right hon. baronet, at his of residence in iwnieg-Itnet LADY JOHN RtIRAELL'a SOIREE.--Lady J. Russell held her third mitte last night, at the private residence of the Premier in Cherham•pleee. MR. BERRA/. OSBORNE. M.P.—We Sr. sorry to leans that a severe rheumatic attack detains Mr. B. The Osborne at his seat in Ireland, and prevented his wing pre sent at the opening and first debates of parliament. of their corn at market to enable them to pay the hr ghost possible amount of rest. Now, looking at the late division—lading a majority of 119 in the Com mom in favour of free trade—chaining that that majority was increased by the defection of 22 members who had been heretofore supporters dproteotion, we ask ' agriculturists and those who take part in prate*. tionist meetings to consider if there is a single rea sonable ground for attempting to perpetuate this miserable delusion? Farther agitation on this sub ject can be nothing more than a miserable trifling wit► the feelings of a largo sad important portion of the people. That this is the way in which the subject is viewed by many of the most tensible amongst the protect non party, there is the best reason to believe. The division list in the House of lards was a remarkable one. On hw other sub jects in that house could the government have got a majority of nine, to say nothing of ferty-nine. But the peers, the body of men most largely interested in the land of England, know that continued agitation, without a prospect of ultimate success, can in no way be of advantage to the cultivation of the soil. They are too largely i nterested in that cultivation to do any act th at will be permanently injurious, and hence they decline to sanction a movement that promotes a party object at the saorilice of so great a national in terest. Tnrn is one aim, one question, in which the agri cultural and manufacturing classis of this country have not only a great and a pressing but a united interest ; and this is the speedy advance in civilisation of the eastern portions of Europe. Free trade once admitted and irrevocable, those countries alone can menace our laadlords and farmers with chap im ports, where serfage predominates and where capital i is as unknown to the powerful as comfort to the I poor. The true danger to our landed magnafes lies in the maintenance of despotism on the banks of ' the Vistula and the Danube. Emancipate the serf in these regions, and he will consume in food and cloth- 1 ing double of what is now torn from him for export, I whilst even for that which he does allow to go I abroad be can claim for himself some of our 111111111• factored produce in return. Our tory classes, then, should be the most strenuous liberals in our eastern policy. It is they who should encourage Poles, Wal 'whims, and Hungarians—it is they who should wage most energetic war against material barbarism, l and servility, which threaten to swamp them in con tinuing itself. lu a word, the cause of rent, even more than that of trade, is the cause of liberty and civilisation; and Distustt and BA-tKKS , in supporting Russian and Atunrian despotism, are combating the best, the truest, and the plainest interests of the party which they pretend to uphold. With regard, however, to the policy which it may please the Russian government to pursue within its own dominion*, we can have no right to interfere. Bat we have a right and a duty to exert an influence to prevent that country and that principle, which is most retrograde in social policy, from stifling or driving back the natural and now mant les: progress of civilisation and freedom east iard.- We do not say that we ought to do this by war, or by blustering, or even by menace. We should equally geoid assuming the character of bully, and demeaning ourselves to the factions and accom plices of absolutsm and military rule. The influence of England is a great moral influence, which should be exerted steadily by our altitude, in appro bation, or outspoken sentiments, without treachery or intrigue, or hidden malice,or personal rivalry. Uufortunately it is • fact beyond dispute that at this moment both Russia and Austria, instead of being contented with the military advantages they have gained, seem rather preparing to push for further advantages of the kind, than inclined to turn their attention to improved kinds of dom.stic admini stration. Though both countries are much in debt, and obliged to have recourse to borrowing in foreign markets, both are increasing their armies. And Austria is augmenting the river, with which it repressed even the expression of opinion. It has just crushed and exiled that smell party in Hun gary which professed loyalty to the House of lisrs- BURG and denounced KOSSUTH. The levies of men and money in Lombardy surpass all former levies of the kind. Whilst Austria is applying even more than lalErreesica's rod of iron at home, Russia is developing strenuously its old policy of inti midation. With a large army on the frontier, of Prussia, it has awed the weak King of that country into further tergiversation with his subjects, disturb ing again the basis of the constitution, of which the mortar was not yet dry, and unsettling it for the mere unsettling's sake. The smaller Kings of Ger many are under the same influence. Even the Pre sident of the French Republic is fascinated and affrighted by the large armies and equally large compliments of the Czar. And England alone is the Athens from which the voice of resistance can be raised against the modern PHILIP of MACEDON. The House of Commons has in this respect a great duty to perform. It has to express an opinion, and to show that opinion to be in conformity with what is universally and strongly felt throughout the coun try. In every part of the kingdom meeting s have been held and opportunities seized of expressing opi nion on the eu'Aect of Austrian atrocities and Russian interference in Hungary. Even in most remote districts, a feeling amounting to political agitation has pervaded. We may in stance Wales, where a great number of meetings have been held for evincing sympathy with the Hungarian cause—meetings marked by all the elo quence, and good sense, and good feeling, of the most advanced, most ducted, and wealthy provincials. On each topics we cannot censure the . language of government for being guarded. It is not an English foreign minister that can come for ward to lecture, or cast reproof at despotic power. This is for the public, and for par liament, in representing the public, although our parliament, elected as it is, acts but too often as the extinguisher to real popular opi nion and enthusiasm, whilst it acts as a bellows to exaggerate and puff out the clamour of a caste or a clique into a mocking echo of the national voice. After all that the country has said and felt about Hungary, for parliament to pooh-pooh and pass over the matter in silence, would be too gross an admission of how unreally parlia ment represents the country, and what little true sympathy there exists between it and the people. For decency and prudence sake, therefore, , if not from honest feeling, members ought to join and animate the debate, which Lord DUDLET STUART is about to open on the subject of Hungary and the Principalities. Letters from Buenos Ayres of the 26th announce that Mr. Southern has received power to sign for mally the convention which he had already con cluded ad referendem. The treaty has arrived in this country. FRANCE. PARIS. TVESDAY, 6 30 P.m. It was during the second reading of the bill on public instruction, that M. Lagrange made his inter pellations on the subject of the disturbances of yes terday. The first article of the bill, worded as follows, was the subject of debate : The superior council of public instruction is composed as follows :—The minister, preakkat ; three archbishops end biihops, chosen by their colleagues ; a minister of one of the two t churches , named by the presidents of the Co t n3e ; a member of the (sand Jewish Retaliatory, named by his colleagoes; three members of the Institute, named at a general meeting et that body ; eight members chosen by the President of the Republik in conneil of ministers among the old member of the souneil of the University, the inspectors-general, the rectos, end the pro tium, of the Welty; these eight members shall font a per manent section ; and lastly, Oro inesaben chosen by the minister among the members of free Instruction. M. Coquerel was the only speaker The debate was then adjourned, and resumed to-da y. M. de Kerdrel was in favour of the first article, which was under discussion at post hour. Thirty-two individuals were arrested last evening at the pkoe of meeting of the " Association doe Mar chands de Vin," Rue Just Robert, and twenty-thaw others at a branch establishment in the Rue de Poitou. The majority of them are said to be amnestied lam , gebta from Me Isle. " Orders hare just beim given," lays the Coe rrisr Francais, "to collect an army of observation on the frontier of Switzerland. It is said that Omura coSchrammm is to be charged with the commandthis The w of Constitaansul °obtains the following with the word " communicated" attached to it : la etesequaes el the Wanks hi the; Nape Mew of ea ozhoot hoot the report handed to Ito Maks', of Fall's PAII.IB, Fab. 6. For For Ameant. Mosey. Opening WOW. Lowest. Closing 3 per Cents. ....... ... 57 SO 57 60 56 0 57 60 56 0 5 per Cents.. 5 do. New teas . 1 . is s. ” • is it pee Cents.— 4 per Cents ..... 7 3" 0 Eugenie on Leadoa: SO 4:WU m 43; 99 dspe, " le 73 SO. 1999 633 , !, 131 0 ..!, Pei Messy, ; N*Pies Rotates .. 93 50 Mow. Les ,1841 Do. 46 is Do. 3 0 n Piedmont 3 per Cent. W 7 00 „ Boors Paris and Orleans, 010; Paris and Boors, 670; Ronan and Mare 232 56; Avignon said Marselllau 210; Stras bourg and Dade ; 113; Centre (Vierson), 627`30; Orleans and Bor. &an; 413; Northam, 407 30; alonteresu and Troyes, ——; Paris and Iltrubonr& 330 75 • Toara end Mutter, 203; Varsallks (right bank). 701 214 caraniliesllatt bank), 107 A. Itszain, Pss. I.—Three per Cents., 294 sooonst. Poor per Cente., 124 piper. Pile per Cents., 121 paper• Coupons, 14 paper ; Beak of Bt. Ferdinsail, H. Elebases on London, 30.5:. GREECE. The Osservatore Triestino, of the 30th ult., ha news from Athens of the 22nd ult. On the 18th the Otho bad left the Pirs3us for Syra with government despatches, and as Admiral Parker had before no tified to the Greek government that he would not allow any Greek vessels to leave that port, a British steamer gave chase to the Otho, and ordered her to return, which she did after having de manded and received the order in writing. On the 19th the British ministe r embarked on board the B ulldog,and on the same day M. Londos, minister of foreign affairs, received a communication from the Queen, stating that in consequenee of the attempt of the Otho to leave the port, Admiral Parker had felt the necessity of or dering her and all other vessels of the Greek govern ment to the port of Salamis. At 9 p.m., in fact, the Otho and a government cutter were taken from the port by a British force and sent to Sa lamis. Two steamers were also despatched to Pares to take the corvette Amalie, but, finding her un armed, they only seised a gun-boat. Another steamer was despatched for the corvette Ludovic. Meantime the Greek government sent orders not to offer any opposition to the measures of the British admiral. On the 20th, at 11 a.m., the Austrian steamer Ma rianne, coming from Syra, arrived at the Parleys with despatches for the Austrian legation. THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.—We have re ceived the Cape num Mail of December ib, one week later than the previous advicee from this colony', and since when nothing of importance had taken place. NORTHERS Disrarratay.—At a meeting of the governess, held yesterday, in the board-room, Bomen'- Oese West, New-road, a report was read, whist:, after allud ing to the continued sidebars of the charity, sad regretting that its benefits should be Limited by the want of adequate funds, stated that the another of patients daring the year mashed 1,269, being an human of, per cent. over them of the press twelve months; 26 cases °sly having tared- Wed Welly out of a totel et more than 1,400, and those I were Welty seem of :palmanary °assumption, or eom pLilnts flew routine heiress having pvsed, the salt at elect a conanking surgeon end a mow, well added is hem of J. Maas, Req., F Ike" kir Umbra* Mowery slaw, and Frederick Davis', ll:the latter. Ammo Expaornoms.—A lecture was deli vered Wel eveaksg, at the Leeks Inliz i le ss. y Mr. Wild, of the loyal heelaty, °Are* " particu larly ea Mei wader the unseal el Jake rreaklia. Bowe iWweilleg leases busks ea the= win reed, sad it was seated Mai had recently 'waived a Neeweeleellea hi t lie MAW States, in which it was ansemeed that a safieselphia had hew set ea fwd. headed by a newt sallissem wide the ems of 6,000 &lbw, for a rivals arpeiblea M sees& tar fiff John Franklin. At the weesheshe of the below a rwswalw balloon, en the plea Moped by the Added*, was alevaind in the theatre, and saillared a quantity of imeges onseg at slips alma assn. the name. EQUALISATION OF THE LAND TAX. DEPUTATION TO TILE GOVERNMENT. Yesterday a deputation of delegates from several metropolitan pariglw, nominated for the purpose of obtain ing an tquali , ation of the land tas, waited upon the Chancellor of the Exchequer, by appointment, at his official naalenee in Duetting street, with the Mew of urging upun the conaiderati A of the so autumns more equable arr►nge ment of the land tax. _ The deputation, eth:th was seoompanied by General Eilr Da L , ey Evans and Mr. ensiles Lushington, members for Westminster, was itompaed of delegates from the following districts :—The Liberty of the Rails; St. Paul, Covent garden ; St. Andrew, lI Aborn ; St. Clement Dana; St. Map-le-Strand; St. Anus's, Soho; Bt. James, Clerken w.II; Christchurch, Newgate street; 8:. Saviour'. South wark ; and St. St. phen's, Walbrook. The Chancellor of the Exchequer was accompanied by Mr. John Wood, the Chairman of the Board at Inland Revenue. The deputation having been introduced. Mr. DANIEL, the hon. secretary to the commit!ee of delegates, explained to the Chancellor that in order to save time it had been arranged that Mr. Miller, of the Chancery bar, who was one of the most active members, and understood the question in all its bearings, should act as the organ of the depute.- , don in addressing the right hon. gentleman. Mr. MILLER stated that the principal objects sought by the deputation were, firs:, to direct the attention of the government to the great advantage which must accrue to he country from a general equalisation of th- lard tux; and secondly, in the eventof no general measure being iwroduced, to show the neee,sity of an immeliate interposition on the part of the government to prtvent the continuance and in crease of the very great injustice which was now daily arising from the operation of existing acts under which the assess ment and collection of the lend tax was made. The amount of the land tax as originaly imposed by Pitt was two millions per annum, but of this amount about one.third bad been redeemed, leaving say in round numbers 1,2000001. per annum to be collects at the present time. t ine anomalous mode in which this tax was assessed had become proverbial, and was no doubt well known to the Chancellor, but fir the purpose of illustrating the remarks he was about to make, he would take liberty to refer to a few i detentes of these almost absurd inequalities. The City of London for instance was weed for land tax at the annual sum of 123,3991., while the important borough of Liverpool paid only the nominal sum of 1991. The City of Westminster paid 63,0931., while the town of Brigh•on escaped with only 1681. In the City of Bath, the property in which chargeable to land tax was of the annual value of 467,450/., nes assemed at 4431., while Wiocbilaaa, where the anneal value of property of a similar character was oul 6,3801., paid 3101. The town of Halifax, the property in which was of the annual value of 91,3351., paid :22/. 161., while Sheffield, the property in which was of the annual value of 213,2661., paid 2121. And, lastly, the parishes of St. Andrew, Holborn, and Si. George, Bloomsbury, the annual value o f property in which was 183,1901., were assessed to the land tax at 9,0181. ; while the parish of St. Mary's bone, the annual value of which was 1,132,3241., paid only 5641. The consequence of this unequal assessment was, that in some places the rate charged for land tax was 2s. and even 3s. in the poand, while in others it was lose than • loathing. Now, it was proposed by those who advo cated • Resent equalisation of this tag, that in stead of the present unjust, and, as it was conceived, unequal mode of assessment, an equal ground. rate on the naredeemed portion of the tax should 1 -• •••••••• 1 mending t. the Ville a the property uses . which it was assesseg ; and that the country might not lose the benefit of the annual increase to the tax which would arise from the increase of property ; that the tax should be assessed annually in the same manner as the house tax, or be subject to periodical revision. A more opportune period than the present for an equitable adjustment of this tax could scarcely be selected, for until lately the land-tax had always been comidered by a large part of the landed interest as one relating exclusively to land, and that any alteration of it would only tend to increase their burdens; but, now that their attention had been properly directed te the subject, they had become satisfied that great public benefit would be produced by an equalisation of the tax, besides affording • certain amount of relief in various astricultural districts. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER in reply said, that as to the general equalisation of the land tax, that was too large • question for hiss to enema an opinion upon, particularly after the manner in which the tax had been dealt with at the time the Redemption Acts were passed, Mr. Pitt having treated the quotas then fixed as perpetsud, because the government wanted money for war purposes. With regard to the partial relief sought, it did not appear to him that the pony who appeared in the Holborn division had exhausted all the remedies given to hiss by the set, and he considered there wan no valid reason for coming to parliament for fresh powers until that had been dose. In Lord Ayleferd's ease referred to in Mr. Wood's evidence before the agricultural committee in 1830, ft was laid down that if the commissions did net meet together and make an equal rate, a power was given to apply to the Court et Exchequer is order to compel them to do so. Mr. I. WOOD also observed that the parties had the power of relieving themselves by following out the case refereed to by the Chancellor. Mr. MILLER referred to Mr. Pitt's observations at the time the Redemption Act wee introduced, for the purpose of showing that the minister did not consider that act pre vented the question of an equal repartitiou from being brought forward, and to the evident* of Mr. Wood, before the Agricultural Committee, in 1836, who expressed an opinion that there was not any substantial reason why the land-tax should not bo subject to the same alteration, as cording to the fluctuation in the valuation of property, as was the house-tax. With regard to the remedy suggested by the Chancellor against the commissioners, the point had been considered by the most eminent counsel, all of whom had advised that the decision of the commie/denies was final, and that the parties ar.pealing were without remedy. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER made no farther obwrwatione on the 'abject, and the deputation, after a fsw monists' hesitation, retired from the minister's preeenee. INDIAN RIVER STEAM NAVIGATION. A number of gentlemen favourable to the establish ment of steam communication on the rivers of India dined together yesterday evening, at the London Coffee-house, Ludgate-WM The chair was taken by Mr. WGlrtgor, M.P. Amongst the company were Mr. 'alma, M.P., Mr. Duncsn, M.P., Col. Dickenson, the Hon. J. Bird, Sir J. Campbell, Capt. Mangles, R.N., Mr. Bainbridge, Mr. Walker, and other gentlemen, either conneeted with India commercially, or anions for the development of its re• Tla usual loyal toasts having been proposed and duly re to Ct i liAlallAN proposed "The Indian Empire." He ebesned that, ninety-Are years age ,_the Anglo-Saxon ran, or the ran eprabiag the English language in India, win iniEnlibent, as compared with the =lndian perdition of the present day. H. they wen yet oaly oa the eve of deve loping the renames of the British empire in the east. Ad to the eyesial object for whin the eompasy bad he mkt be did not despair darning the riven of India by steamboats, and mates of traasit sets• by unmet railways from ens river to another. As ✓egarial ens menalwitures, the object was a ant Important one ; be what was chiefly required for their development was a Nadal seas eal of the raw material, end that ob ject wend barrenly prometed by the establishment detain semsnieseles la the riven of India. He would connect I with the IS the some of a patloaaa who had had groat of IsdLt, namely, the Hon. ;t im la the adesans..-__ Mast WN meet andlatly received. MID, in responding, said it afforded him great M see eo many gentlemen who were exerting them proutote the fasprovement of the internal communi. ark= of India. He was not a shareholder in the under taking, badf opinion that, on account of the paths' "Ida be formerly held in ladle, it would not be bisindes In him to be engaged in • pecuniary speculation Glue; but he would yield tone man In • desire to promote tie prosperity of the Indian empire, and in order to do so be would do all in hie power to advance the object. (Hear, bear.) Of tonne be could not i retend to be a judge ai to the practicability of the scheme ; but when be saw men of the highest *Waster and attainments, men wbo were acquainted with the local peculiarities of India, and therefore well acquainted &WI the obetaeles to be contended with ardently endeavouring to promote it, be could not entertain a doubt of its ultimate success, and even if a doubt existed in his mind, he should not, in the face of such testimony, feel justified in opposing the experi ment. (Hear, hear.) land been objected, that as railroads were about to be constructed in India, there could be no necessity for establishing any other internal communication. It should be remembered, however, that SOZIIO years had already been spent in endeavouring to form railways In India, and whatever exertions might be used, it would be extravagant to suppose that in their own lifetime railway communisation would be established to the extent required. Even It such communication were established, as far es might be prUtic;ble, that would not ren. der river navigation Inexpedient. The CHAIRMAN then proposed " The manufacturers of the British empire," annexing to the toast the name of Mr. Dances, M.P. The tout haviug been duly acknowledged, Mr. DUNCAN replied. The hon. gentleman said he cordially concurred with Mr. Bird, as to the expediency of endeav , mring to conciliate the government. The promotion of the scheme should endeavour to smooth down the executive, sad to show them the necessity for action. lie had never seen the mot, whether tory, Whig, or radical, who could lasi stand out against common sense. (Applause.) The CHAIRMAN then propcsed, " The development of the resources of India, and prosperity to the trade of Central Asia." He observed that far some time pest an apprehension had existed that there would be a deficiency in the supply of the raw material for the cotton manufactures of this country. 114hty.nine years ego the population of the United States did not exceed 2,000,000. It wu now 26,000,000; and, taking into account the facilities in thou states afforded for the feeding of its inhabitants, he thought it was not unreasonable to anticipate that in 1860 the popu lation would be 4.5,000,000. At the increased population would by its own consumption lessen the supply of union for this country, it was important to look t• India as a source of further supply. It ;wu worthy of remark that our first im ports of cotton cam from India. The toast was well received. The CHAIRMAN then proposed the special tout of the evening, " The Indian River Steam Navignuon." He begged to connect with the tout the nuns of lir. Burns and Mr. Penn. _ _ The toast was very cordially responded to. Mr. BOURNE said he thought the best course he could pursue was to state a few plain facts bearing directly on the project ander consideratiou. The depth of the most important rivers of India had been ascertained by mesas of scientific surveys. From those surveys it appeared that the minimum depth of the Ganges between Calcutta and Delhi was about two test. Therefore, by employing vessels drawing less than two feet of water, they might establish uninterrupted communi cation b. teeen those two cities, situated 1,400 miles apart, during all mums of the year. Mr. PENN also briefly acknowledged the tote•, The CHAIRMAN next proposed, "The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company," nutting with it the names of Mr. Allen (the secretary of that company) and Capt. Mangles. The toast having been drunk, the gentlemen named re spectively roturneo Hanka. The health of Mr. MILLER having been proposed and acknowledged, that gentleman narrated the circum stances under which the Rhone had been first navi gated by himself with a steamboat, to the great amazetneut of the people of Lyons and Ar!es, and stated that there were then between thirty and forty steam-boats constantly plying on that river. The next toast was " The Eastern Archipelago and Mr. Wyse." Mr. WYSE returned thanks. Some other toasts followed, and the company broke up, soparenUy much pleased with the harmony of the proceed ings Ella the promising character of the enterprise. METROPOLITAN SANITAItY ASSOCIATION. A numerously attended meeting of the lletroplitan Sanitary Association and others interested in the aanitary improvement of the metropolis, was held yesterday, at two o'clock, at the Freemasons' Tavern, the Bishop of LONDON in the chair. His LORDSHIP, in opening the meeting, said he bud consented without any reluctance to the proposal made to him to take the chair at that meeting, under the firm con viction that the object whirls it was intended to promote was, in the strictest sense of the term, one of charity ; end that in acceding to the proposal to preside at that meeting he should not be out of his place or duty. (Hear, hear.) Of the different ingredients that went to make up that cup of misery, which was drained to the dregs by so many of their poorer brethren, it would be difficult indeed to say which was the most deleterious; but of this he was convinced, that, if they devoted exclusively 1 all the resources of the healing vktue of charity to the evils which afflicted the poorer classes, even under such circum stances they would have a difficult, though he should say not a hopeless task to accomplish. (Hear, hear.) It was admitted on all hands that it they wished to elevate the poerer classes of this country In the scale of social order, utilization, and moral dignity; if they desired to elevate them in some measure becoming the position of rational beings, and servants of God, they should commence by removing the evils that dipped them in the very depths of poverty and degradation. (Hear, hear.) Amid the many evils, dark and discouraging, in which their lives were cast, and which had their origin principally in the present unnatural state of society, arising from the rapid progress of civilisation, and the vast number of persons thrown tomther in this great " " btight an d Leering prom::., light which shot across the 4:4 sky, end which might he traced in the fact that the attention of the public mind was at length energetically directed to the duty of improving the condition of the poorer classes, and lifting them abuse the degradation and misery in which they had been sunk for many yews. (War, hear.) The result of all that would be, it carried out fully, and to the extent which they hoped it would, a lessening of the fearful chasm, in a worellY point of view, which divided the extremely wealthy from the extremely poor of the country, and separated class from class. (Hear, hear.) lie did not think he could give greater weight to his observations than by taking for his tut the inspiriting and comforting words uttered by her Majesty in her late speech from the throne :—" In the summer and autumn of the put year the United Kingdom was again visited by the ravages of cholera, but Almighty God, in his mercy, was pleased to arrest the progress of mortality, and to stay this fearful pestilence. Her Majesty is persuaded that we shall best evince our gratitude by vigi• last precautions against the more obvious causes of sickness, and an enlightened conWeration for those who are more exposed to its attacks." (Hear hear.) He admitted that that paragraph contained the tr ue principle of charity. They had, by the opening portion of the paragraph of her Majesty's speuh, been reminded of the awful lesson which, by the divine dhpensation, they had been taught, and which, he trusted, would not be lost on them. (Hear ,hear.) It was a fearful contemplation that in that metropolis more than sixteen thousand human beings bad fallen victims to the fearful malady ; and if they might judge from the re ports of the medical men, who were engaged in inspecting the different districts, and who furnished mfficient data for the weenies, it was certain that at least half that number might have been saved had timely sanitary precautions been resorted to. (Hear, hear.) The fact of eight thousand souls being hurried into eternity, without time being given them for the least preparation, was a fearful reflection ; when, if that important branch of charity—he alluded to sanitary improvement—had been attended to, those eight thousand persons would have been spared to their families and country. He begged to read for them an extract from a report mime by Mr. (Sotto on the sanitary condition et the district of St. Giles, which was as follows ; "I regret that a personal examination of every house enables me to corroborate this testimony, but while the most fearful degradation of the human character is here exhibited, there apparently exists an universal eons, of their sanitary danger and a sincere desire for relief. Interest and grati tude are expressed on every hand at even the preepeot of being plead under circumstances affording the opportunity of cultivating desalinise, comfort, and privacy, of which they are now wholly deprived." That induced him to touch in a few words on a subject of great importance, namely, the feelings of the poorer vietains of filth and sickness, with regard to the immures undertaken for their amelioration, and which feelings, he would say, were thou of hopefulness and gratitude. (Hear, hear.) The experience of the last few years had abundantly confuted the slanders uttered against the poor, to the effect that their moral sense and notions of decency had been too mach blunted by the *cones which surrounded them to seek to elevate themselves. (Hoar, hear.) He mentioned it with thankfulness and satisfaction that he had the privilege and happiness of being amongst those who had succeeded in establishing public friths and wuhbouses in the metropolis. (" Hear, hear," and applause.) He had been told, previous to that time, that the poor would not take the trouble of washing themselves, and that the area don of these baths would be only a waste of money. Now, the result exceeded the most sanguine expectations of the friends of the poor. (Hoar.) The extent to which diseaes was prevented, even in crowded houses, by affording ample opportunity for washing, was very great; and he hash toted not to say it they were given the means of improving their sanitary condition they would amply avail themeelves of them. (Hear.) That led hies to the last topic he would touch upon. For his own part he believed there was no charitable mea sure they could effect that would not be economical to the public, and that a saving would be effected in • thousand quarters little likely to be thought of The BECUSTkiiIf next react letters of apology from Viscount B•rineton Lord Dudley Stuart, Sir W. Moles worth, Sir W. Playf air. Sir J. Duke, and Col. Bikes, each of whom declared his inability to attend owing to prior meats and the pressure of Important public buainZ l . P fi e s; aext reed letters from the following noblemen and gentle- men, expressing their approval of the ablom' of the alsocia lion: the Duke of Welling:a, the Duke of Buccleach, the Boil of Essex, the Earl of Salisbury, the Lord Bishop of Salisbury, Sir J. Burgoyne, Si r B. all, Hia. Mr. BLUM, Baron R.:thschild, and Mr. CardwellS The Bishop of CHICHBSTRIt proposed the first more resolo don : 125000 inhabitant s , thi s metropolis, witli " That, with the exception of the City of Loade r , con taining only than 2,000,000 of souls, forming a large proportion of the town population of England, is destitute of any adequate provision or effective organisation whereby the comfort. health, and lives of the people can be watched over and pre. served. That although the strenuous efforts made in the metropolitan districts to mentos a sanitary enactment mainly esedributed to the past of the Public Health Act, yet them district, were the only parts excluded from the benefit" of that enactment. This exclusion has led to much misery sad a great sacrifice of life. In the opiniou of this meeting, therefore, it is •xpedi.nt that a comprehensive bill be forth with introduced into parliament, to remedy the grievous evils which afflict and oppress the inhabitants generally, bat more particularly the working classes of this vast metro polis." Lord ASHLEY seconded the resolution. It was a matter of great satisfaction to him to perceive his lordship preeid. Log ever that moat influential meeting, the object of which was the improvement of the sanitary condition of the vast multitude, and thus lending the sanction of ..is high cha meta and sacred office to the advancement of a matter absting as deeply the moral es the temporal wants of thou sands. Those who had laboured so lung in the cause had bad great difficulties to contend with in establishing its truth, though he ought not to say " ester because it was most clear to the hearts emllundentanoitifts of all, though they had had to contend with ignorance, it difference, and groat selfishness. (Haar, hear.) He believed nothing but the late epidemic bad taught the indifferent of former days to think differently now, and adopt a safer course of action. (Hear, hear.) The state in which they were placed in that metropolis was not only perilous to those wh.l resided in it, but was a dirgraoe to the age in which they lived. (Hear, hear.) It was a disgrace to hear high-sounding peoLisions of civilisation and morality, whilst they were surrounded by every noxious and deadly pestilence ; and they ought to be thankful to Al mighty God who had saved them from, what he would colk the just coneequenen of their own neglect and folly. (Hear, hear.) Go where they might, the air they breathed, and the surface they walked on, were tainted and rife with the testis of death. (Hear, hear.) If they doubted the existence of the noxious process that hurried so many thousands to premature graves, he begged to call attention to the deaths that had taken place in toe district of Lambeth, and the complaints of the Bard of Health in reference to the flesh-boiling and bone-crushing carried Oa almost at their very Boon, and which were cakulatcd to make them recoil in terror and disgust. (Hear, hear.) Let them lo A at the wahines of Smithfield market, that grand mart of pestilence and death. (Hear, he.r.) Let them contemplate the various processes by which death is ac complished in such a place, chocking every sense and feel ing. (Hear, hear.) Yet, for:troth, they were told by the apologists for such a nuisance that " they had no ngtet to complain, inasmuch as it entirely pro ceeded from contracted space :" thus admitting the strongest necessity for its abatement and removal. He would state one fact to impress on :hem the dan ger that slimed from the practice of int,tsmural interments, and the necessity for immediately remedying it. In a sur face of ground, not amounting to 250 rcres, there h.d been interred in some thirty years in that meteor( lis more than a million and a half of human beings. Now, who; can be the state of the atrowhere, affected beyond a donut by the ex halations from these graves,in a metropoli so circumstanced? (Hear, hear.) Again, let the condition of the people be considered, crowded as they were in the wretches lanes, alleys, and miserable domiciles of that net at city. (Hear, hear.) Let any person who ever perambulated these places say whether it wee lignin's to breathe untalt.ted tilt air of heaven, or that it was possible to avoid drinking in that which led to a crippled existeice and a rrrmature grave It was no exaggeration to state that in many parts of London the people, though they willed it, eltil4 not be clean for want of water. (Hear, hear.) During the preys -I,nee of the late epidemic, he believed there was a great amunt of suffering caused by reason of water being ties ood the reach of the people. (Hear, hear.) In many places the water, when aupplied, was of a most ',Abut kind. (Hear, heir.) He wished he could describe with the fidelity and ability of Mr. Charles Dickens, who had done mere for the amelioration of the people, in a social point of view, than any writer of the present day. (" Hear, hear," and applause)—the sufferings and privations endured by the lower classes. He believed it would require little argument to prove that at least one-third of the poverty of the country aro e from the sanitary, or rathi r the non-sanis tary condition in which the p.ople were compelled to live. (Hear, hear.) He doubted no*, if proper sanitary regula tions were carried out in all the great towns of England, that before ten years they would have reduced the poor-rates by two millions annually. (Hear, hear.) What was the process of pauperisation ? A young man came up to town to seek employment, and probably found it, at 30s. or 255. per week. He could cot sei^ct his resi dence, and was obliged to be Lear his place of employment. He generally settled down in same It Plley, whero"'tever wu meldom ab ent ; and in the course a i few months, having contracted fiver, he died, and, his wife and family were thrown on the poor's rate. (Hear, hear.) He held in his hard a paper which contained the statistics of the 16,696 o none who had tied in London of cholera, the proportion being 72 per cent. of the peseta class, 16 of the middle clue, sod 3 of the higher class of the community, and the expense of which cases, hospital treatment, funerals, and ail that, amounted to 130,0001. How was it pwsible that in apartments where there resided two and three fami!iss, the laws of decency or morality could be carried out ? (Hear, hear.) Therefore such a state of, things was a great drawback on the exertions of the ministers of religion—(hear, bear)—and it was to no purpose that they got up schools and endonred churches whilst such a &viola lasted. The CHAIRMAN then put the resolution, which was curried. AoENTLEMAN in the body of the hall rose, and called attention to the necessity of abolishing the window tax and water monopoly. Lord R. GROSVENOR moved the second revolution, which was seconded by Mr. WYLDE, and carried: Tnat the reports of the medical superintending inspec tors employed during the late visitation have brought to light evils which fall most heavily on the labouring popu lation, who are least able to sustain and totally unable to remove them—evils calling for the deepest sympathy. and at the tame time uemaniung tile most prompt, energetic, and carefully-devised means of relief." The Rev. Dr. CUMMING proposed the third resolution " That in the metropolis the lets epidemic destroyed 16,000 persons, of which number it is estimated not one-half would have perished had the measures of prevention finally adopted been timely resorted to ; and that more than 13,000 persons annually perish from disease, whose lives might, under the Divine bie:ying, he saved by efficient sanitary pre cautions. That this great agrifice of human life is Accom panied by an amount of physical 4egradation and mental depravity, which act as effective barritrs to the inculcation either of social obligations or of Christian virtues." Mr. CHARLES DICKENS, on rising to second the reso lution, was received with loud and continued applause. He had been requested to second the resolution, and to say a few words. It was a common figure of speech, when anything important was omitted, to say, " it was the play of ' Hamlet with thatcharacter left out." (Hear.) But the existence of a Public Health Act, with London excluded, suggested more to him, which was, the representation of " Hamlet," with all but the gravediggers' scene left out. (" Hear, hear," laughter and cheers.) They had heard that • state of things existed which could not be per mitted to continue. They found every year that 13.000 unfortunate persons died prematurely in London that infancy was stunted, maturity made old age, and old age weak and imbecile ; and, therefore, they claimed for the metropolis of that christian country that such a state of thing should be abolished, and that the legislature, by its patron age, should set an example to the whole empire. (Hear.) Of the sanitary condition of London, he believed it would be impossible to speak with full accuracy. He knew of many places in the metropolis unsurpassed in the accumulated horrors of their neglect by the worst old spots of the worst old towns under the worst old governments in Europe. (Laughter.) Contrast that rank and intelligence in this suite of civilised society to which they had attained, and which every man of sense knew there must be, and he believed that no such contrast as their handsome streets and railroads, and their electric telegraph in the year of the Lord 1850, presented to the mass of dwellings of the poor ever was presented on the earth. (Hear.) No person that bad sap,- nence of the poor could fail to see their virtues and sym pathies, as exhibited at the moment of death, when some ragged Samaritan fiequently came to share his last penny with the departing occupant of some garret or cellar. (Hear. hear.) It was to develop these virtues, and raise them in the social scale, and above the condition they would not allow their beasts to sink to, that they were assembled there that day. (Hear, hear.) He could not lay to his heart the idea that they were there to plume themselves on their cha rity or humanity, but rather to help to set right that which was wrong in the face of God and man. (Applause.) The resolution was then put and carried. Me. BLANEY proposed the next resolution, which being seconded by Mr. POWNALL, was carried :—" That the total want of efficient machinery wherewith to meet the re current ravages of cholera and the constant devastations of typhus and other epidemic diseases induced by the state of the dwellings of the poor and of the grave-yards, by the defective water-supply and drainage, by the overcrowding of houses, by the imperfect paving and cleansing of the streets and the non-removal of refuse, and by the prevalence of nuisances and of offensive and noxious trades and manufac tures imperitavely callsfor legislative interference." This meeting therefore considering the redness of the evils sought to be remedied, the importance of the remedial mea sures contemplated, and the influence which the Improve emmepnitreot, t :no bs l m ves etr th op a o t lis a m w e o m ul o d ri eLe bo rt " th d ro m u tfid ou to t t t h h e e o ß e ri ne t tai sh Board of Health praying for its support and co-operation; and adopts a petition ro parliament. mo t , . RtOhtriastEßSressionictleptne. Itar.roDuro.:ZOwlikTicHhlNZlaisoON adopted:— "That an amociation, termed 'The Metropolitan Sani tary Association,' having been formed for the purpose of obtaining a sanitary act for the metropolis adequate to its requirements, and for the adoption of such other measures as 0517 be deemed advisable to improve the social condition of the labouring classes, the following neblemen and gen tlemen be appointed to act as officers of this association." A petition to the legislature,Joanded on the foregoing resolutions, was then adopted. Thanks were next aooorded to the Bishop of London for his dignified conduct in the chair ; and the meeting adjoarsed at half•past fiTe o'clock.