The Express. — London, England, 1860-12-06 00:00:00

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W. law, Ilersoes. irl Yeasitat Maim Neat\ said Bon lailkssir b a &MMUS EXCURSIONISTS. MOM TEM Imo% • • LOA N N O. • WWIL—A IMAM MI • WC& II &Ma Mir a Rims. dr idelnisil anima Dow rem ftallwesse bun el hissigsg-11103111131171 JAMB. Itr. A-Wlen.-.AM WIRT ISCOlL—Ommase si MIL ma T. samanau. TED 1.11016 POLL AND MT PAWN= /OIL NW CIopDa—ILLT MONSOON. Dissma and D.Onedspi . Via 1 Tamil sod loats.-- Dod s Assbe.—Asa TO rum= nova—o nmanla wawa P. WOE WATER AT SAINDON MOM Toe MT —$ Ili 11111■.....Aneses. Th. Ma TORN—xesey, lA. SABA ....Ahmook SOL ea ----- LONDON, 11WIDIDAY, DDC. 6. THI Freehold Land Societies of Birmingham have had a general meeting for the purpose of congratulating one another on their successful progress, and for the purpose of conferring to gether on the beet mode of further developing the great principle on which they are formed. The excellent speech of Mr. Scuoutetzto, who pre sided on the occasion, summed up the chief results of the movement, which, beginning less than fifteen years ago, has gradually made its unobtrusive way until its friends are now enabled to boast that in the one locality in question there are compre hended within the sphere of its fraternity many thouaand members. Lend being locked up by law in large manses, and participation in its owner ship in portions ever so small being mulcted by the excessive costs of transfer, the in dustrious majority of the community despaired of being able to compass the privilege and enjoy ment which the ownership of land infers. For their die qualification wee not merely social ; it was, and was felt to be, likewise political. Par liament, consisting mainly of the landed clam, persisted in maintaining in the counties the dis tinction between freehold and chattel property as the basis of the franchise ; and while it refused to render the purchase of land practically possible by persona of moderate or humble means, it likewise persisted in declaring that a freehold of forty shillinos • year was • good title to vote, while the annual payment of forty-nine pownds rent was not. And to this preposterous doctrine and prac tice the law of Parliament still adheres. A oer tain amount of loose talk there has been by men of opposite parties about their willingness to re duce the occupation franchise in counties from forty-nine pounds to ten ; but even this has not been done, and were it doss the theory of law would then stand this— either you must pay a 101. rent or you must possess • 21. freehold : so great is the difference held to be between the dignity and trustworthi ness of ownership and of mere occupation. One would suppose that if our mien really coutem plated the change adverted to (which the experi ence of hut swim has caused many to doubt), they would ass the importance of giving new faci lities for the acquisition of freeholds : for if some thing of the kind be not done, it is clear enough that the tenant occupiers in counties must non• aiderably outnumber the fee-fanners—a consum mation which our Conservative wiseacres can hardly contemplate with satisfaction. Be that as it may, however, we know that in both Houses of Legislature there exists a deeply rooted repug nance to any and every immure that tends to promote the acquisition of land by small inde pendent people. Among the governing body there is a fixed superstition that the exclusive possession of the soil, like the exclusive direction of the State, properly belongs to the hereditary few ; and their mode of defending their monopoly of both is curiously identical. No absolutely insuperable wall of privilege excludes the man of moderate thrift and plebeian intelligence from either ; and whenever the question of monopoly is raised one is always met with the plausible answer—ls not the gate open f why do you not come in 1 But substantially, as we all know, this is • mere cheat. In the use of land, the laws of title and trausfer form a species of sunk fence that few single indi viduals have the moral courage or strength of puree to go at. It was to bridge this antiquated tome that Freehold Land Societies were first formed ; and experience has proved that their organization enables men to get over the difficulty together who se isolated individuals could never have thought of attempting it. By purchasing estates with the common fund and then distributing them in lots, men come to be possessed of building sites, or of small portions of pleasure sad garden ground, which they may not only call their own, but feel to be as much their own as the domain of the premier peer of Eng land. From this sacred foothold of the soil he can neither he driven by coercion nor beguiled by chicane on account of any lawful act he may do or lawful word he may utter. He is a free assd independent man as far as his homestead is con cerned ; sod inasmuch as the price of his modest acquisition has been the result of years of frugality and gradual investment, he is likely to bring to his fee-simple home those habits of industry and thrift which may enable him to retain it for his life and bequeath it to his family. In • word, the action of Freehold Land Societies tends to resuscitate an independent yeomanry—s clam which, during the last hundred and tifty years, the ambitious expansion of great estates has slowly but steadily been obliterating from the fine of our country. This is their true claim to national respect and gratitude, in comparison with which the additional strength they may ha%e given here awl there to one political party above another, is ..nworthy of serious consideration. Mr. Bawer, in one of his telling and trenchant le ',elms, enlarged considerably the field of view. Vb.!. dwelling with much force of illustration on C.A.; bear-fits the system aas likely to confer upon THE ZIP: its members, he proceeded to urge tles expediency of renewed amanita upon the. waging. law o intestacy with regartb to land. The sped effect of the law which hands over the whole of a man's real estate to his eldest son should he happen to die without a will, or should his will happen to be in any particular informal, is to limit the supply of land in the market, and by consequencie to render its purchase in joint stock oftentimes impractica ble. Where a man, having an estate of 5,0001. a year, dies, bequeathing his property eqs•Dy be tween his four eons, after payment of certain lega cies to his daughters, the probability is that the executors will direct that the land should be sold, as the only means of enabling them to discharge their trust. Even though the eldest son should seek to retaia the family residence and a portion of the property, and borrow money to enable him to buy in somewhat more than his own distribu tive share, there will still be a certain portion brought to public sale. And were every such property similarly dealt with in use of intestacy, there would soon be a healthful current of circula tion established throughout our social system, anslesous to that which takes place with regard to the continual transfer of all other kinds of pro perty in the realm. And though in the first instance it may be true that the increased supply of the article now monopolised would tend to lower the bidding* for its purchase, it is most cer tain that in a very short time this exceptional con sequence would be more than countervailed by great and permanent enhancement of value. We nese not be at the pains to theorise on the subject. The experiment has been fully and fairly tried out before our eyes and on • vast scale in Ireland. Ten years ago the transfer of real property there was as tedious and costly as it still is here. To meet a great emergency Parliament consented to give unpreoedented facilities of purchase, and to create • new tribunal for the purpose of compel ling sales. At first there wee • depreciation of value, and many cheap bargains were obtained, especially et the larger and less saleable proper- ties. But in a very short time the supply created the demand ; competition raised the biddings ; and while the supply continued, and still continues, to be greater than ever, it is an incontestable fact that the selling price of land in the sister country never was so high, while the owners in fee-simple never were so numerous. Cm court. WINDSOR cAsna, Dso. & Her Majesty's dinner party yesterday comprised Prince Alfred, Prisms Alice, the Duke cd Cambridp, Prime Louie of Rams, the Prisons ci Leiningen, the Priem of Leininsea, the Ditcher of Sutherland, the Duke of Ne Tamils, Viecount Palmervica, Lady Caroline Bar 'Mem, the Hos. lira (key, Cokoal Seymour (Scots Fusilier wink), Baron you WeelenraCer, Colonel Tyrwhitt, Major Cowell, U.K. and Major Iflpidnakme, R.& The bead of the Royal Rene Suede played daring diaper. Her Majesty's private band aftewenwele performed in the drawing-ram The Lure,, eseesepsnied by Primers Arta, drove out in en open arriy►emd-fosr this moreiag, attended by Lord Clarks Fitsßoy. Prime Alfred, the Duke of Cambridge, Prince Louis of Here, and Priam Leisingen, went out shooting, attended by Major Du Plat sad Colonel Tyrwhitt. Primer Helena aed Primes Louise rode in the riding here. The Judge Advocate-Osumi had en aadience of her Ma *Ay, to submit the proceedings of some court. martial. The Duke of Cambridge took leave of the Queen, and re turned to London in the afternoon, attended by Colonel Tyrwhitt. The Duke at Newcastle, Viscount Palmerston, and Colonel Seymour, C. 8., Saute Fusilier Guards, have left the Castle. The Duchess of Sutherland remains on a visit. Viscount Pahnersioe ',Wised to London yesterday from Windsor Castle. The !lake of Newcastle also arrived in tan yesterday. TIM Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yester day. An appeal from Bengal, " Doorppereand Boy Chow dry v. Tarapermad Roy Mondry," was heard. Judgment wee pulpiest The Lae preset were, Lord Chelmsford. Lord Ilmarsiorrn, Dr. Leshingkerdlir E. Ryan, Sir 1.. Peel, mei fkr J. Colvils. 07 - imaiteltes were received at the Colonial-Mice yesterday from the Governor of Yalta. Despatches were sent to the Governors of Natal, the Cape of Good Hope, St. Helena, and Canada. The Duke of Newcastle has returned toidaurigy's Hotel Irv= vititiag bee Majesty at Window Oastle. The Countess of Jersey Will leave Berkeley-square is a few days for Middleton Park. (h ,o. . - Frances Countess WaMegrave and Mr. Harcourt, left Strawberry Hill yesterday for Nuasham Park, Oxfordshire. Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston are expected to lotwoitows this week for Broadlands. Ed ward Fitzal an Howard, M. P., !passed t=igb town yesterday from Derbyshire, on his way to Arundel Csetie to attest.' the funeral of the late Duke of Norfolk. Mrs. Gladstone leaves town to-day for Hawarden Castle, Cheshire. The Chancellor of the Exchequer re• mains is tows. Captain Sir F. Leopold M'Clintock will be succeeded in the command of the Bulldog by Commander H. F. WlCillop, who distinguished himself highly while in eariataad of the Viper in the Block Sea and Sea of ADO'. The present senior lieutenant of the Bulldog, C. Parry, will Join the flero, 91, mew, at Devonport, and will be sus seeded in the Bulldog by Lieut. E. D. A&low. No more imbiomiu;esstinge, we (Chronic le) have rea son to believe, will be held until about the middle of January. It u understood that the question of parliamentary reform, with reference to nit nano, Ins not yet been under dis cern-t in the cabinet. Parliament will, according to me ant arrsogetnents, be summoned to meet for despatch of businne as the sth of February. Mr. Sims Reeves will ma - ume hi. professional duties at her Majesty's Theatre os Tessa* seat. The sudden death of his father is the cause of Mr. Reeves's non appearance. .. Mr. David Dale Owen, the geologist, died at New Harmony, Indiana, es the 13th ult. He was a eon al the celebrated Robert Owen, of New Lanark. Scotland, and • brother of the Row Robert Dale Owen, late Antedate Ruiner at Navies. The suspensiaa has been Announced of Kr. WiAir Moue, imply interested in contrasts far public works. It is understood he is at present sawed upon one 90,0001. (or the farthlestiess u Doss, and another of upwards of 100,0081. as the awt► level sewer In Lesdoe. The resmon of the north of England have just lased an impernant seism to their leveler mariners, elvbegtheir MOMS for impresting the Admiralty *theme of fanning nand morn. The Propersiser of Lino announces that the earnp d Chalons win be opened best year is ♦pril, and will be again valor th• orders at MaMal Mac Mahe& It is there that the pupil at tate OINK whn are now being or wised, will man their AM &Out in Inns. This corps is to be famed at sash ',Yaws de troupe a a bare attained the Ns of saiteee. "The Varitftece," nays a Paris letter, "has nothiug remarkable this year. Le (Aside nrtranger Pans &peals greatly for its popularity upon am joke • rniiiiile.agod lover, in enumerating his years, refuses to count two which ho pared en Anglaterre.* DS.ATtI or Is )1/ IP RORSIIORE. —The FfetIROR'S Amnia/ sOISSLIKSS the death of the Right Hon. Hew. third Heron Kainniore, which took place at his residence, itommere.park, county Mutiaihiui, on :Saturday mama leek is the presence of Lrly Hosoinwre and other iameabers of the family. ills loniehip had hero on invalid fur some years. He is siscosalled by his rhie-,t sun , the Hon. Beery Wrier Wedeln, seed We yearn CRYSTAL PAULY. —ON E SHILLING DAT. —WYO. treHuaT, 11W. Aotio.inlioo* oar pow.nt , 414; ditto by 'swum tickets, COL—Total mut." 944. RESIST, INTi itENCE. TO TAN . INCOriX IN INDIA. The Bombay journals of the 10th ult. report facts of a somewhat alarming character, relative to an organised resistance on the part of the natives to the collection of the income tax. The Bombay Gazette says : We have a budget of bad news to send home this feet night. From all parts of the country the most gloomy accounts continue to be received of the state of public feeling in reference to the looms tax. Since the forms of Mares to be seat into government have been issued, the spirit of opposition to the tax hr been revived In an intensified form, and from one and of lodic to the other there is universal dienatest. In Bombay the old trick of " shutting up shop" hie been tried spin, but this time it is likely to be more successful than before. Noformalcoattecthasbeeneatered ioto, butthersisa general initialised* that business shall be suspended altogether till the bona tax is abolished. The movement began In the wonky, from which hardly a single order for goods has been received for some time past. Now the native bathers of Bombay have joined in it, and for the hat week it hes been utterly impossible for wholesale dealers to sell a piece of cloth in the bazaar. The resolution of the native marehents is, to get rid of the stocks in hand, and then close their shops. It ia even reported that the grain reer cheats have given direction, to their Motumil agents to send no more grain into Bombay. The natives, too, are making very large perehans of bar silver, sa If they feared there ' would be some new civil commotion, and were anxious to have their property in a convenient form for hoarding. The great Hindoo festival of the Dawdles mess off next week, and both in Bombay and room it is given out that the customary illuminations will not take piece, while not a few persona apprehend that there will be some disturbances in the bazaars. Not much tionfidenee, metortemately, is felt in the government, which commiteedi the fatal We take of issuing papers so complicated and vexatious Health, natives could not possibly comprehend them, and were driven almost to henry by the number and character of the questions they were required to answer. This has been remedied now by the lime of simpler papen, which are intelligible to every one, and oak for no more than a stele meat of the amount of aggregate profits. But the mischief caused by the original blonder cannot be recalled ; and the government does its best to make matters wane, by dis regarding in a spirit of apathy or fatal security signs which remind every one of what preceded the mutinies of 1867. The Bombay Times states that "all trade in Bombay is at an absolute stead-still, the auctions have to be closed, and nothing is talked but of secret meetings of the castes to take measures in concert for getting the tax abandoned." The forms have been openly torn up in the bazaar by parties upon whom they have been served, while "the most successful efforts are being made by the designing to aggravate the alarm with which the tax is viewed. The minutely inquisitorial nature of the information demanded in these returns, affords but too ample scope for the wildest misrepresentations of governmental intentions in issuing them, and the deepest indig nation exists in the native community of Bombay in consequence." The Tckg►aph and Courier reports that a combi nation has been entered into between the bazaar dealers of Bombay and thous of the Mofumil, and Bombay is menaced with • famine, owing to the stoppage of supplies from the interior : Should the government, however, interfere and lend en ociuregement to European enterprise, the evil might, we think, be nipped in the bud. It is stated that the bazaar trader' are not going to observe the festival of the Dowel**; a resolution which, if carried out, may possibly seriously affect the interest, of the British crown, although at present it minis most improbable ; but se it within the first instance,greatly tend to a reduction is the pries of cocoanut oil, we regard the matter with cemplacesey, if not with indifference. The festival of the Dewallas we a pleasing spectacle, greatly enjoyed by the Lebo :ogee; but was not, that we ere aware of, particularly popular ►mongst Europeans. Indeed, we have heard serious complaints regarding the reckless expen diture of fireworks which was permitted in the open streets, so that we cannot help thinking our Hindu° friends will punish themselves, rather than alarm the government. We harem little regard for the Mown' tax soother people, but we have no sympathy with the sullen disposition which is meal. fasting itself in the bazaar. In the meantime, the stopping of trade with the interior is doing a great deal of injury to the commercial Mete of the country. There being no market fur manufactured goods, our mercantile warehouses are filled with them, and unison some change takes place, serious con sequences may be apprehended. This is • sad state of affairs in a variety of ways ; it not only locks up capital, and rape the foundations of commerce, but it compels coneumen, in the interior, either to pay what holders of stock demand for their commodities, or go without them altogether. The best plan to be adopted in an emergency like the present, would be for importers and consignees to employ /defused &genie ; to descend, for a time, to retail business, and, by this means, the bazaar merchants would soon recover their some., Government, we are certain, would render any adet•nce to facilitate intercourse ►nd promote trade between the people of the various cities and villages and the oom mercial agents of the Bombay traders, so that —to use • very homely exprenion—our hamar dealers would, in time, find out that to cut off their noses to spite their faces was as destitute of wisdom as it was full of folly. The income tax in its present form is doubtless • mistake ; but it appears. to be • necessity which must be accepted; unless the home government discover some more popular method of making up the deficit in the Indian tree. sury. The present position of India is bad enough, but if the native merchant, and traders persist in the course they are said to have adopted, they will only precipitate a revolt, which may be the means of placing the whole of the empire under martial law, extinguishing the liberty of the press, and destroying, for a century, many free institutions in the land. The government are, we be lieve, perfectly determined in the matter of the income tax ; and we would, therefore, warn all, if they value liberty or even its semblance, to acquiesce first, and protest afterward*, in the legitimate manner observed by all con. *citations! nations. The commercial report is as follows : Our import market Mill remains much depressed, the timmactions is piece goods being very limited. The favourable intelligence, received during the past two mails, from finglend lam tamed a great deal of activity in oar export market, wit► every hope of • still further the is the price of cotton. We now quote Millers); at Lai to UR rupees; Breath, 123 to 12 raps's; sad Oomar•waties, 106 to 110 rupees. A slight increase has taken plate is the miss for freights: Landon and Liverpool, 2f. 12s. 6d. ; and Chins, 20 raper par sandy. The mosey market is easy. Se billowing are prossat quotatioas :—London, and* 6 smooths' sight, 11. Old.; ditto, documents, 6 months' sight, 2s. Old.; ditto, teak rates, 6 months' sight, 2a. Old.; Cakrotte,3 days' doe, 1004 per moot. pram ; Madras, JO days' sight, 99 per eant. prem.; China, 00 ire sight, 226 to 227 rs. per 100 dn. DISTURBANCES IN HUNGARY. The following telegram ham been received by Mr. Reuter : PEBTH, Die. 4. News from Szegedin, Nagykoriis Ketskemet, Arad, and Csougrad state that demonstrations against the government officials had taken place. In consequence of disturbances at Waitzeu, a serious oonifict had taken place between the mili tary and the people, in which numbers were wounded ou both sides. The following is from the Austrian Galette All the letters from Hungary now before us prove that mob us taking a very different course in that country hoot that 'pleaded by the diploma of 20th October. The sterreemeee is spreedieg oe all sides. The int paid emblems are torn down and insulted. lu many lo• calitles deplorable scenes have occurred. The disturbances at Debeersin are merely symptoms of the increasing fernieu taloa. They are not isolated teas. The restoration of the laws of 1847 is everywhere agitated. Foe the moment the electoral law alone is put forward, but that glltitiOli conceals many others. People ask whether DECEM BEI pawl the laws of the year Vir g = d their ometiliatioual value. Both is the pees al polio spike that several well-klown sensersatlyeS,lOL temesch, Peaky, and Karolyi, Alma it advisable to go with the stream. When the government °anomalous are accepted it is solely with • view of using them am • means of °Melakag something else. The imen -110‘0•11 of the ecenitate are being transformed into memakilies of • kind which did not exist, even bakes VAL The Pesilt commission seta the example. Inked of a eommimice, all the Nobles, and numerous re presentatives of other demon of the population, will meet. It is not easy to understand how the tribunals and final ad. ministration can hold their ground in *imitate so organised. May the men who have Just been placed at the head of the administration in Hungary woo succeed in mastering this movement, otherwise they will be borne down by it. The Pesti-Naplo recurs to the disturbances at Debreciin, and adds : The town is quiet for the moment, but the population is greatly axcited and exasperated by continual collisions with the troops. The communal council has resigned. Similar wanes, happily without serious consequences, have occurred at Nagy-Kano. The Hirnock declares that the military acted without being called out by the communal autho rities, and adds : The exasperation has become so great that if the clan• 011ilOr does not take proper precautions, Debrecrin will be the scene of a cetutrephe. Lastly, the Magyar Safi° relates the following scene, which took place at Nagy-Karoly : The Hilltop of li•oihmar ' Isr.lfichael Haas, has been treated with a grand chariva ci by the people. The incensed crowd broke his window, and saluted him with titles which • prince of the church never ought to hear. ITALY. TURIN, DllO. 6. It is expected that King Victor Emmanuel has already /taken this departure afromPalermerrr Naples. The Sicilians have made extraordinary manifes tations of their sympathy! for the iking, win, was very well satisfied with his reception.. law TURIN, Die. 5. The Count, of Syracuse died yesterday at Pisa, from a sudden stroke of apoplexy. - . _ The Marquis Pepoli has arrived at Turin. NAPLEIEL, WEDNESDAY EVENING. The General Lieutenancy Council revoked the measures directed by General Pinelli, in his pro clamation of a state of siege in the Abruzzi, imme diately upon receiving information of the same. TURIN, WIDNIIIIDAY. It is said that the government of Victor Emma nuel has deliberated on the question of the gua rantee of the interest of the Roman railways, the concession for which was granted to Messrs. hfix•is. FRANCE. PARIS, Tioastur. The Monifeur publishes a :circular addressed by the Count de Peiwigny to the prefects on entering upon his functions as Minister of the Interior. In this circular he draws attention to the generosity of the act of the 24th November, which, he says, pre. paros the country for the peaceful exercise of liber ties whose development the popular throne of the Napoleons is bound to protect. Count Persigny recommends the prefect' to neglect nothing to com plete the work of reconciling parties. BRUSSELS, Die. 6. The negotiations at Paris for a commercial treaty between France and Belgium ars progresaing favourably. When terminated, negotiations for a commercial treaty between the Zollverein and France will be opened at Berlin. HESSE CASSEL. CARREL, WZDNXIDAY. The committee of the Second Chamber, appointed to discuss the question of the constitution of the country, has unanimously made the following pro posals to the Chamber : 1. That the Legislative Assembly does not con sider itself the legitimate representative of the country, and cannot therefore transact auy public business. 2. That representations should be made to the Elector, frankly exposing the ideas and wishes of the country, and that the Elector should be requested to re-establish at an early period the constitutional rights of electoral Hesse, which until 1880 had been recognised as valid. Should any changes be found necessary the Elector should agree upon the same conjointly with a representa tive assemby, to be convoked on the basis of the electoral law of 1849. THE EAST. CONBTAN7'INOPLII, Nov. N. The Marquis de Lavalette insists on the exten sion of the French occupation of Syria. The Porte refuses to accede to this demand. The other ambassadors maintain an apparently neutral attitude. Fuatl Puha will remain in Syria during the winter. The Galata bankers expreee a deeire to have a share in the new French loans on contractors' terms. News from Syris to the 19th inst. has been received. A Christian Sheikh bad been appointed the new Caimacan of the Lebanon. ' UNITED STATES AND CANADA. LONDONDERRY, THUINDAT. The Montreal Ocean Company's steamer North American, Captain Aiton, from Quebec on the 24th ultimo, has arrived, and landed all mails, except thee., for Liverpool. She brings 59 passengers. The telegraphic communication with Father Point was interrupted when the North American sailed ; consequently the New York advice' are no later than those received by the Prince Albert. SOUTHAMPTON, THIMADAT. The North German Lloyds' steamer Bremen, Captain Weasels, from New York ou the 24th ultimo, has arrived. She brings in all 90 passen gers ; 5,000 dols. in specie fur France ; and 2,000 dols. for Bremen. The Africa arrived out on the 23rd ultimo. QUEEMITOWN, THURSDAY. The Liverpool, New York, awl Philadelphia Company's steamer Kangaroo, Captain Brooks, from New York on the 24th ult., has arrived here. The steamships Africa and Palestine had arrived out. The state of political affairs had not changed. The banks of Philadelphia, Washington, Balti more, Trenton, and Pittsburg had suspended specie payments. COMMERCIAL NEW YORK, Nov. A Rvionza. The hunks discounted to-day 6,000,000 dole, to 8,000,000 dole., or double the amount of maturing. Money was consequently easy, and the pressure mitigated. 820,000 dole. in specie is ell route from California. Exchange is dull. Bankers ask 103 to 105 for sterling bills. Stocks are higher. New York Centrals, 271 to 1 ; Erie, 311 to ; Illinois Onkel, 591 to 60. The flour market is buoyant and quotations firm. Stock 16,000 barrels. Wheat and corn firm ; oats better. Cotton steadier, and in better demand. Sales, 3,000 bales ; middling uplands, 101. An average 'good demand for provisions. Sugar nominal ; coffee quiet. Freights dull, and loser for Eng,land. 6 i AUSTRALIA. PLTIWOUTH, The ship Suffolk, of London, Captain Martin, bakagfeg lo Money Wipe*, P.., pissed up Channel early *blossoming off this port. She landed nineteen of her pas. asdkpla here by a pilot boat. She left Port Philip Sept. 27, sad brings about 65,000 ounces of gold, with 100 steerage sad sight cabin passengers. She had very favourable winds to the Western Islands, sad baffling winds since. On the 10th d October, when running under angle reefed top wioa,she last a seaman overboard, from furling the main ail. She spoke the American ship Manners Sutton, from Chibcha Islands, for London, off Cape Horn ; the British ships Tenant, in about 35N. 33 W., and Louisa Maria, for Sidney, 48 days out, this side of the Horn. 1 4.ti , •:-. - , A 14,,. e EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (FROM 01111 OWN PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING. Count de Persiguy—who only arrived late last night from London—has taken possession of the Ministry of the Interior, and " assisted " this morn ing at a 'ministerial council, presided over by the Emperor. The three talking ministers (without portfolios)—MM. Billanit, Magne, and Baroche —were present. I don't know whether any importance is to be attached to the terms in which the "Latest News " of the Pays announces the advent of the new Minister of the Interior. This journal says : Every one knows in what an eminent degree the Count de Peraigny has always represented the fundamental prin ciple of imperial institutions and his chivalrous devotion to the Emperor's person. He has never been wanting to the splendid motto, which the King of Bohemia, killed at Crony, chose for the House of Peers, "I serve." in Eng land the Count de Persigny represents an idea not less im• portent—pesos based upon the English alliance. These sentiments, which, it will be remembered, were expressed in X de Parsley's last speeches in England, will "facilitate and render efficacious" (sic) his return to that ministry in which he left mach happy traditions. Upon the question lately much discussed whether there is to be a dissolution of the Corps Legislatif as a consequence of the decree of Nov. 24, the Independence says that Persigny is for the measure and Morny against it. It is remarked that the Conetitutionnel, in a second article, is some what less positive in its contradiction of the rumour of a dissolution. It now merely says, what is very true, that the decree does not " neceaaitate "an appeal to the country. But apropos of this argument, it is reminded by the Presae that only a few days ago it congratulated the Emperor on having gone before public opinion, and therefore it cannot expect him to wait upon "necessity." M. Gueroult,in the Opinion Nationals, very well observes that, in the present state of un certainty as to what may be the real import of the decree of November 24, a dissolution is not to be desired by the liberal party ; it is better to wait to see how the new inatitutions work. A funny canard is published by the Sport. Ac cording to this sporting authority, the Emperor, as soon as he shall have completed his history of Julius Caner. intends to present himself as a can didate for the French Academy upon the strength of it. By way of rendering this news feasible it is remarked that the first Emperor, when General Bonaparte, was elected to the Institute. But the pretendei precedent is nothing worth. Between a general and an Emperor there is an abyss. More over, it is well known that there does not exist in France a body of men more hostile to the Emperor and his policy than the Academie Francaise. His expression of a wish to be a member of the envied forty could only mean their extinction. The Bourse to-day was excessively dull, and towards the close the Rente, without any particular reason, experienced • considerable fall. The last Iprices were 70fr. 40c. and 70tr. 130 c., being a decline of 20c. and 10c. Mobilier fell 10fr. The Orleans Railway fell Mr., but the other lines were only a shade lower. The Empress is not expected in Paris till the 10th ; it is said that she will return by way of the Hague. I hear that the representation of a new drama by M. Mocquard, Lea Massacres de Syrie, has been stayed at the last moment, out of courtesy to the Ottoman government, it being considered that the allusions to certain Turkish functionaries were too transparent GARIBALDI AND MN. MANON JONES. —Mr. Mason Jones, the Irish orator in delivering en 'Aldred., on Gari baldi at Leamington last (Wednesday) evening, said he had the honour of bearing to the English public • message from the hero himself. Garibaldi, in bidding him adieu at Caserta, said :—" I should take it as au eepecial favour if, in all your communications with your fellow-countrymen, you would express the deep and eternal gratitude I feel to Englishmen for the morel aid and material support they have given myself and Italy in the great struggles in which we have been engaged,fand should Italy become united and independent, England may always reckon upon her alliance—an alliance which frill not he so ex_pensive as those of some other lands." AN ENOLINH SINGItIt IN ITALY.—The following is one of many notices of the sneer= of our fair country woman, Miss Whitty, at the Opera in Milan, which have appeared in the Milan L.mtordia and the Wan Gazetta:— .• Yesterday was given the Barber of Seri& with a perfec tion of execution seldom beard on the stage of our groskat theatre. This could not be otherwise, whoa the parts were confided to the artistic intelligence and prodigious throats of n Witty (Whitty), a Steixhi Bottardi, and a RonooaL They did not sing the smallest branch of that divine music without being two and three times recalled ; in fact the liar/lime was yesterday evening one applause, one ovation. Steochi sustained his well-mented reputation : Roneoni be trayed • talent superior to every eulogiuin,. and played the part of Figaro, both in singing and acting, to make it appear a novelty—a creation whose origi nality was all and entirely his own. The Witty, who appeared in the Cenerratole, the humble, mortified, and ill-treated child of the ashes, became in the Barbiert this brilliant and astute Rosins. She adapted so well every expression of her face, every smile and every gesture to all the different and difficult points of her position, that it would be hard to decide whether she is more charming se a singer than abe is au intelligent and accurate actress. Doe Bartok. (Parodi), Don Aiello) (Kilo), and even Berta (Nebuloai), had applause> in their airs that they sang in a way that rendered them worthy of standing by . the aide of 1 companions of such reputation. At the Santa Radegonda the fienerestrok has ceased for the present, at least to I triumph ; the Witty in the last representation was regaled with a beautiful bouquet of flowers, that put a perfumed seal to the glory she has acquired this season, a glory of which she can be all the prouder, for it has been gained in a city that, In the art of singing, stands the first in Italy, which for so long has dictated the laws to every other country." . _ . REPORMITORY, REDHILL.—A general court of the L C :i ' v v e e t i re rl eof rrs esta was bltr d ien y t ea tir t v he at ref t zi o natil ion of ' Tavern, Kir. William ;ladatone, treasurer of the institu. Mon, in the chair. The minutes of the proceedings at the lest general court, and of the committee meetings, having ' been read and confirmed, the secretary proceeded to read the auditors' report of the receipts and expenditure for the quarter ending September 30, from which it appeared that the total receipts (including a balance of 751 f. 45. from the previous quarter) were ss. 10d.• and the expendi ture 2,128/. ss. Ild. ' leaving a cash balance in favour of the institution of 9521. lfis. 11d. The report of the auditors was adopted and thanks voted to them for their services. The Rev. Charles Walters, M.A., resident chaplain, then real a statement of the admisslous and discharges for the quarter ended November 30. Prom this it appeared that 2t boys had been received, via.—one from Bath ; three from Brighton; two from the Kent Refermator7 Associa tion ; two from the metropolitan police courts ; one from the borough of Nottingham, and one from the county; three from SumersetAire ; three from Sussex; nine from Surrey ; and four readmitted who had previously been discharged. The number discharged had been 20, of whom six bad emigrated—viz., two to New &silent), two to Sydney, and two to Melbourne ; 10 had been returned to their friends at the end of their several terms of detentiou ; one had been transferred tothe Roman Catholic Refonnittory, two were on trial, and one bad deserted, sod WAS now in prison. The balance of admissions over discharges was six. The total number now in the ,a.lbool la 969 a g a i ns t 262 for the three month. ending August al. The a aa tt, of the president of the institution, Ins Grace the late Duke of Richmond, was eeported to the court, but the appointment at his successor was 41s6ered tall a future occasion. Some general business was then disposed uf, and the prozeed:ogi terminated. LAW INTELLIGENCE (THIS DAY.) EQUITY COURT. (Balm Vim-Chancellor Sir J. Stuart.) 00UNITZNAY V. wetter. The Vice-Chancellor this morning debvered judgment in tbis case, which was argued last terra. The fade will suf. flediently appear from the judgment. Mr. Beecu, Q.C., sad Mr. Williams appeared far the plaintiff ; and Mr. Malin, Q.C., and Mr. T. H. Terrell for the defendant. The Vice-Chancellor—This is a suit for the redemption of a life annuity, and the only question is as to the right of the defendant to retain for his own benefit after the re demption of the policy of assurance on the life of the grantor of the annuity. The bill prays that, upon payment of what shall be found due for redemption, the defendant may be ordered to assign the annuity, securities, and policy of assurance to the plaintiff. It appears that the payment of the annuity was secured on leasehold property of which the plaintiff was tenant for life, and was also secured by warrant of attorney toenter up judgment against the plaintiff and her husband and another person as surety. There is also; covenant in a usual form, that the plaintiff shouklappearat an insurance office and provide proper vouchers " in order that Charles Wright, the grantee of the annuity, his executors, administrators, or assigns if he or theyshoukl think fit, ought insure her life for any sum not evwting 1,000/., and thatishe would not leave the kingdom without notice, and for the payment of any additional premium." The proviso for redemption and repurchase binds the grantee upon payment of the redemption money, to enter satisfaction on the judgment, and there is a covenant by the grantee to release, amigo,. or otherwise dispose of the annuity an d a ll securities for the same to the person redeeming, sod to do all acts necessary for avoiding, releasing, assigning, vacating, and discharging the said annuity, dm., so to be repurchased by the said several securities given for securing the repay. ment thereof as aforesaid. In the defendant's an. swer it is stated that there was no contract what ever as to the policy of assurance except what ap pears by the deed, and that the grantee was to be at liberty entirely at his own discretion, and out of his own resources, to insure the plaintiff's life if he thought th, the plaintiff covenanting to do what was necessary to enable him toeffect and preserve any policy on her life which he might think proper to effect. kor the plaintiff there is some evi dence to prove an averment in the amended bill to the effect that before the execution of the deed the plaintiff objected that there was no express provision in the deed that the policy of assurance would be delivered up at the redemption of the annuity, but that the plaintiff was then assured that the introduction of such a clause would invalidate the deed, but she was expressly assured and told that it was quits understood that the policy would be delivered up to her if she redeemed the &snaky. This part of the plaintiff's case has been materially weak ened by the circumstance that the original bill, which was filed in the lifetime of the grantee, did not contain this averment, and it was introduced by amendment only after the death of the grantee. The defendants . (who are the executors of the grantee) rely on the authority of the case of " Gottlieb v. Crouch" (4 De G. M. and G. 440), as decided by the Lords Justices on appeal. In th at case it was decided that the grantee of en annuity who had in sured the life of the mentor was not bound to deliver up the policy of ass/arsine to the grantor on the redemption of the annuity. But there are two subsequent decisions of the Lords Justices in oases where the right of a creditor to a policy of assurance effected voluntu f il+ by him to secure his debt has been more considered. In'the case of " Lim v. Hinton" (5 De G. . and G.) the insurance by the creditor was entirely optional, and not on any contract, and the premiums were, in the first instance, paid by the creditor out of his own monies. On the evidence of the transaction it was considered by the court, or rather presumed, that the insurance was effected as an indemnity to the creditor. One of the Lords Justices mid—" The facts before the court render inevitable the conclusion that Mr. Hinton effected it for the purpose of protecting and in demnifying himself as a surety or creditor, or as a surety and creditor, of Mr. Lee, in whose life Mr. Hinton does not appear to have had any interest in any other sense. Sior can he be heard to say that he received the money which he did receive for any utherpurpose, deny ing as he does that he effected the policy on the account or for the benefit of Mr. Lea." Therefore, on the ground that substantially the policy of aseurance was effected by the creditor to secure payment of the debt, the Court of Ap p ea l held that the policy of assurance did not belong absolutely to creditor, and that he was not entitled to it and also to the payment of his debt he having charged the debtor in account with expense of premiums of assurance. In that case the premiums and expenses of as surance were paid primarily by the creditor out of his own monies, and there was • voluntary appropriation of his own venues for his own benefit. In the cue of "Drysdale v. Piggott " (22 Bra.), where the creditor effected an insu rance in his name, and had paid all the premiums except the first out of his own mums, and the debtor on being ap plied to expressly refused to pay the premiums, and was not bound by any covenant or legal obligation to pay them. the Master of the Rolls held that the debtor by refusing to pay the premiums had abandoned and last all right to the policy. But this decision was reversed by the Lords Jus tices. In each of these cages the payment of the premium by the creditor was optional, and was made primarily with his own monies paid for a purpose primarily beneficial to himself. Nevertheless, as the nature of the transaction showed that the substantial purpose of effecting the policy was to secure the debt, the Court of Appeal held that where the creditor was paid he was not entitled to the double benefit of the policy of assurance and the payment of his debt as well. In the present case Mr. ' Mahn", for the defendants, premed by these decisions of the Court of Appeal, endeavoured to distinguish them as cases between debtor and creditor, and not applicable to the case of a policy of assurance effected by the grantee of an annuity. But it seems impossible to say that the relation of debtor and creditor doom not subsist between the grantor and grantee of a life annuity. The grantee is a creditor of the grantor on the covenant for payment of the annuity and on the judgment entered up under the warrant of attorney for the money advanced to purchase the annuity. In what respect does the redemption of an annuity differ from the payment of a debt:" The transaction on the redemption of the annuity is a payment and extinction by the grantor of the debt which he owes on the covenant to judgment for nu a a n ni d ou rbi n : , ;:i f f debt the which he m o ctes y. the t h is e Impossible to disconnect the policy of assurance from the debts due on the judgment and the covenant. The money sufficient to enable the grantee (if be chose) to effect the policy was included in the debt on the covenant The argument that the grantee was not bound to apply towards the insurance the proportion of the annuity, which was fixed with a view to that purpose, and that therefore the insurance, being en tirely in the option of the grantee, it must be considered as paid for out of his own monies, should have greater force in such cases as " Lea v. Hinton," and " Drysdale v. Pit gott." In those easel' the insurance was entirely optional ; the creditor was not, as in the case of the annuity, sup• plied beforehand with money from the debtor sufficient to defray the continuing expenses and premiums on the user ease. Indeed, the right of the grantor of the an nuity to have the policy of assurance delivered up as nee of the securities for the debt obtained at his expense seems much stronger when due consideration is given to the effect of the covenant for payment of the additional premium on going abroad. There is nothing optional in that obligation. It provides absolutely rod imperatively that the grantor shall pay the sum necessary to keep the policy in force. Such a stipulation places the right of the greeter of the annuity when he comes to pay and extinguish the debt much higher than the right of the debtor in the oases of "Len v. Hinton" end "Diyedide v. Piggott." It therefore seem.. to me that I am bound to follow the doctrine established by those two cases, the most meet, but, nevertheless, the most matured decisions of the Court of Appeal. Th e principle to be extracted from these two cases seems to be this. Where the relation of debtor and creditor subsista by the true °oast/m.4.We of the instruments, and the evidence of the real nature of the transactions shows that the policy of assurance was effected by the creditor as a security or indemnity, if the debtor substantially beam the expense of that security, he le, on a principle of equity, entitled to have the security delivered up to him when he pays his debt, which it was dimetly or indirectly at his expense effected to scaire. This is an application of the maxim, " qui malt onus .entire de bet et commodum." The same principle is recognised by the civil law, as appears by the following pump in the "Digest" (50.17,10) :—" Secundum naturam eat commode cujusque rei cum sequl quern sequuntur in commode." it is wcoutrovertibly edablislied in this case that in the face of these instrument, it was contemplated that the grantee of this annuity should have the meatus of effecting this policy of easuranoe, and stipulated fur pay ment by the grantor of a sum sufficieut to effect it ; that he bound the creator by covenant to pay money which might become necessary to keep the policy in force ; that the purpose of effecting the policy was to indetnnify and secure to the grantee the money which he had advanced to the grantor ; that the rensyment on redemption is a payment and satisfaction of tlie debts on the judgment and the cove nant. If there were any doubt as to the right of the Amnia the language of the deed seems to put it beyond all enc.- tion. The words of the covenant which bind the grants as to the securities which he ie to deliver up on rederuptica are these :—" The said several securities given for *Kann the repayment thereof as aforesaid, it seems impossible on any true construction of the deed to say that the lotto, of BiI+LITACCO which the deed coutemplates, if the grantee chose to effect it, is not • security fur repayment within the words of this covenant.' It appears, therefore, that the case of the plaintiff is established, and that theme mast be a decree for the delivery up to her of the policy of maw sue. As this is the only question in the cause the plaintiff ie entitled to the costs of the suit, but must pay all other costs usual on redemption. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Btfore Mr. Commissioner Holmp].) RE LAurtraier., m..wrrmottr, AND NCHRADER.—THE GUI? VII LUNEN IN THE LLATIITR TRADE, This inquire ass resumed this worming. The teat:, was again crow.led. Mr. Karalake again appeared for the ns.::nees ; Mr. Watkin William, for the appealing tie:liters; SI:. Lit.l.l.,tor