The Express. — London, England, 1850-04-10 00:00:00

tilt exert s. OVTOOI . NO MAILS. n . rilllt for British North Amodio sad tits United be itadospot the am* el April 12. pre es'..„ld s Wads. aaoladiy Bensada, Harms* ▪ 11. awes. N•lr (Melo% sod Ileziarkerid looludiss yatigs fit. Joiwas-Nissrapea. Raw Oritaisa i . 1 1,▪ o _,. pll will be Pasaitop ea April 17. 1.; o ral, for lab" Illphy sal litbraltar will be rude 17. ar v A Gibraltar, Malta, Orme, tbt• Isadaa !shads, iCprilolas. loam, sad Claisa. via Mastbanaptes, I.. il lar ri ;r op oe Ile =online 01 Aped 20 . sabo rol to LW 11•Cterrassomi, Br's. lybo. ilesar-Koup, uribt up es do ar ,a,ap of Apnl 24. De orb I r ll•drris. Um Brings, sad Emote Ares, will s V S. op ce the 4th of 'lay. OWN MOSS LOA= 111111D01. Allmiree. , uo—Nara. M Adliminak 16.41 e. p ox WEDNESDA r, APRIL 10. Ti, most uedieching partisans of ministers will ,e venture to call their list might's majority kw Larti s motio for the repeal of the m a a lt victory. A majority of so to 77—a of three in a himse of 161 members—is what ",-;';a ten t con commend at any time and on any lb" a moderate whip of the members who are scrh them. Lord Durcals Was over , ts rem cot by arguments; for, with the exeep • • o It .e cii icELLO of the ESCHEWER, not one • • f t , o piesni nte trusted himself to assign reasons for ps er.... That the l'etlites who were peeennt, oe that q.. I:vox should, on such an mouton, come j.., n.. ue ,4 ministers, was to be expected ; but it regret and surprise that we find the - ▪ of m i . Mit:or...Lt. Mr. W. Baowx, and Mr. f, e ,apiv in the list cf the majority. It te not easy to find a more indefensible tax than -.:,w duty. The only excuse for taxing a man :.:A to his expenditure is that it is the only L:s fo.-tuue accessible to the fiscal authority. 1 ,„. • make it available for this purpose a man's „:. , ,spenditure ought to be taken as the basis of ....,.• :nee : or if any part of it is left out of account to be that wbi:h is incurred for absolute Now what a man spends upon windows ▪ dse.iisg is but a part of his aggregate outlay ad..• i• spin: sot upon laxuries but on a necessary :c . I.:ght online are pie-requisites of cleanliness Tue sum expended by wealthy men :10 . : • • •n dows is M a much smaller ratio to their total • tux thin what the poor man must spend. LI • a n wisdoms is a 1 )<MPI8 upon darkens, dirt, c . :ens ventilation, especially with the poor, • .ess 414 than rte rich to know how much . .ens tadarge.r their health, and also, even pm/sure of the tax, lees able to be at r e coiled to Moore them. . as to the anti-aanitary influer. ce of the is complete and irreinstible. A petition i:. presoteil t. the limas of Commons, which rat .mid to express the universal opinion of the ✓ mec•Eione re of the metropolis. It was signed . • -,.INT short space of time by 86 of our most „:"7 viewed medical men, and nothing bat 11 : . praTtntel the number of signatures g Le:lied or trebled. In th s petition the • • et the wiadow tax is tiaphaticslly :'.• !,.• a !roi..rul sores of disease. A cloud of • •.1 fro= . I quarters of the country corroborate • . L • i xpresod by the metropolitan peso r.. .1 committee of inquiry sent to examine e• • eonditioaof Sunderland unanimously ".; • : lb , ' blocking up o! windows to meat* tax had otetsioned much sickness and . Ntxt to bad and defective sewers, the ▪ •sx has timothy meet tlll:ieLt ally of cholera nfetere to retest in eliaging to toe window themselves in a manner that no .c.r did before. They claim credit as pro -. .enitary reform, and yet they maintain a n dooms three-fourths of the population to . tr...srs. lhey upend hundreds of thou • .:?,t sanitary comm priors, and they raise Lcy they Tend for this purpose by imposing a ?,. L.:Al.:test and ventilatioa, by making these •:e.c_:e conditions of health luxuries too • e•ained by a majority of the people. His •• • ..:o conceive a more monstrous humbug than n.r et r. million ore minim and a half of • c.,sesing sewers and improving the air of • ....et the same amount of money ts raised by th acts :14 a bar to the admission of fresh • : e::::g-hr . cl - seiy the window-tax, and the mode in ..•ie caliec:ed, are looked into, the more lode op.dessive it will be found to be. It is •necutlly ard unfairly levied. In the smaller • f streets .ilea Baker-street it emaciate to 30 :h- rr ate!, while on housea in the fashion :•mid equates it does not exceed 21 per 1.. e het or exemptions from the tax is long ci Irelat.i wipes the window tax alto tr.verament offices are exempted ; farm h•re tte rent of the farm is under 2001. a are eserapted ; counting-h ruses are exempted ; tories are exempted; churches are exempted. r, the list et exemptions is endless; and every • Am is an additional confession that the non ., Ire eabject to a galling and jadeites- • • e Injustice to the noa•exempts does not stop 1..(y are made Wiley for th..e who escape u • tiPmselves. To make up for the money t at irg left in the pockets of tLe exempted, the Len applied most esteilearly to those who • to p'y. Every hale in a wall that ingenuity of a tax-surveror be tortured A scr.dow is charged. ?du-plates perforated '..e passage of atr have been celled windows; t./ pavement through which coals an shot has been celled a window; we verily be :.et a ho'e in the wall of a house occasioned by .).:;:trirtg of a brick would have to be paid for S ill with all this screwing the tax been cusidend productive enough, and a !..rey Las been resorted to, through which, by :L:Lg very like a breach of faith with the tax tot tax Lea Len increnaed by nearly one- 34 : tees makers salt r in consequence of this teL 'arm in consequence of this tax. Its en, view it L' what light we will, is partial ryprtseive to the last degree. tu way could the CHANCELLOR of the Exam - • surplus be made more usefully available than A.rg used as a subre'itule for the revenue derived 'l2,e window tax. Mr. Hums showed that even .t treuehieg on the surplus, setae might be for diapensing with the proceeds of the window it is only necessary t) withdraw the squadron ae coast cf Africa. And we believe that, reduction cf expenditure or the surplus alto :- cut of the questioe, the improvement of the Leaith and capacity for productive labour, .L.• fresh impetus Riven directly to the glass aetory and the building trade, and indirectly to rraukrioes, would so increase the national r ea ere long to supply the ion occasioned by of the window taws by the inerew i° r'etrtt and other taxes. Junk Mr. Hrms for associating the ministerial "%tre to the repeal of the window tar with the ':••!ial refusal to coansat to the withdrawal of squadron. For ministers to go oa exact -. mad Ivr to: on the strength of such a majority lsa.. night would be to chow themselves s •Sade lee madly self-willed than they did ".'y (stored a ortjority on the African qui.- - " t t•tif Mumbling supporta@ by the threat - -, ttara. If they are wise they well look opoa r majority as a minority, sad take nes t- '':':La to get rid of this most oboe:Mai tax. pbraaeogy is notqrionaly eon " I am free to state," was interpreted by "" to impiy a mental noervation. "Her government will lastinge inquiry," has ' 4 4 inderetn.d to ladioate a foregone easels .! !Lai noth;ng was intended. A promise "to esatir possible opportunity of pro:ceding is now as invariable iodisation of ,i't:i.e;p ostponement; and as fora government 4., three who heye had dealioge with Down " 0" Enri g the last live years too wail know ,e ninth that sow is inscribed. ••••• tot on-ornmon in parliamentary r p^rta pr 4 Jw-na. Those who have studied if . Latin std among apothecarier, know that " 6 . 1 4;arigeo are sometimes not very sweetly construed in the world of physic. In the world of poiltkiu however, the interpretation I. still less vow eine. Per instance, pre Armed ia the House of COlRRienn always mean something ieformal, so that whenever you we those words in a report you may conelude withzet goiag farther, that then isdeoidedly a strew loose—that something has gone wrong is the govern:ant necklet', and that it is ceeeneasy to set the state meehaaiso at week in order to pat it into peesentabie shape. Shortly before no o'clock on Tuohy imientim up rase hem hie place ea the beaver, bent& the fight Has. WlLman HATTER, Seeretery to the TreetterYo to request permission to reed the N ew St amp D u ti es Bill a second time, is order that they sight go into committee pro Arms "to listrodare emendownate." A. hoe. /amber asked what the amsedneate were to be : bet Mr. Hams, Nat that hour in the wane ing," could eat explain them. We should have been glad to have heard at what pettioular hour in the margin the right hon. gentleman would have bees osompetent to that somewhat delicate and difficult 41 . 1. Hon. members were rather disposed to ask ques tions, and Mr. HATTER apparently Wen not quite in trim to answer them. One asked "if it was true that all agraruseads for leases wore to be stamped," and " Mr. lieu.= was understood to reply in the affirma tive." Some ens else wanted to know if " all agree ments for team were woe to be stamped," and Mr. HATTER was aoderstood to reply in the affirmative to that also. Mr. Home, who was particularly lively of er seven or eight hours' discussion on the estimates, made some pertinent observations, to which Mr. HATTER replied " :hat the geceral principle of the bill was that it did not sift ct property not now affected by the Stamp Act " a statement which, if he applied it to the bill as it is, proved that Mr. HATTER did COT know what he was talking about, whiter, if he ap plied it to the bill as it is to be, justifies the strongest comments on the worse pursued by government. Fur the bill, as it at present stood', does, in the most injurious way, " strict property not now affected by the Stamp Act." Upon this fact there is not the slightest don' t. Seery conveyancer in Lon don will tell Mr. HATTER that the words of the new bill would extend the ad ealurem duty on coo.veyances to " matters and things" never aintemplated by the existing 11w. Let us quote on this point a passage from en article in the Juriat of last Saturday, a paper which is no small authority on points of practice. Our legal contemporary writes: The words imposing it'. ad ra/omie duty on conveyances would include all arrangements between partners dissolving partnenhip, by which on. takes a rum of money in lien of his *hue, compositissu with creditors. arrangements and compromsses of family eaten, and disputed claims, &e. And the extension of the duty to conrider.nons by way of annuity is expressed la terms which prumise to be prolific of doubt and co➢truwey. A different objection must be made to the charge of this ad ea/orem d➢ty on considerations con sisting of debts. Nothing eau be more absurd and ➢njust than to treat a had debt as a consideration of the same value as a good debt of the samiteom.nal Amount. The old stamp act ns-rs ly eliatpd the dal on debts charred on the pro. p►rty sold ; and, even /0 limbed, •perated with peat hard ship in can.. of deficits' security. But the whole of the alterations under the head " Conveyer co," in this bill, appear to have been very little or very ill considered. L the earns way, with regard to the words of the schedule effecting mortgage stamps. The Jurist entirely adopts our view that no advances by bankers on the seventy of deposits can hereafter bo securely made, eze:pt the writing accompanying the same bears an ad valorem stamp, The ! ruiporttry loans ow securities by aeposit of deeds d. , ek we-ruse, &e., by whirlt the merear.ti's transaction. 0 ISO 01U0 , ry OZO •ow 03 math ficilitsted, wilt be entire y stopped, if the pr loosed exAsisioa of the tax ea atortgar s suninitted to. Molting/ am hem •rc in. apediect and onjuit than a tan on esortitapts, w►kh •lmest always either fetters the ea• as capital, or is • tarthen upon a poor mad or his creditors. 83 sUo with regard to the new words effecting " all companies a d corporations ;" hnd so also with re geld to the monstrous cleave under which en ad valorem duty is imposed i n all sums authorised to be raised tit der maritime settlements in respect of por tions for unborn children. If Mr. ll.trrza means that the bill as it now stands does not in this way touch property not at present aff tied by the Stamp Act, why be is either grossly misleading the boost cr is speaking in complete igmrancs of tree subject. If be is t. be thus interpr.ted, perhaps he will condo. scend tj tell as why the language of the Stamp Act was altered at all ? If no new taxation was in tended, why not rely upon the old worts ? As a correspondent showed y , sterd iy, the slights-4 variation of a phrase under these acts is productive of an inconceivable amount of litigation, and the public are saddled with enormous costs to obtain an inter pretation of what the legislature contemplated. By altering the text of the Stamp Acts, the CHANCELLOR of the EXCURQVER would unsettle the decisions of al! the courts of law and equity for flve-and- twenty years part. As one of the legal pipers of last Satur day observed, his new Stump Duties Bill was evi dently intended as " a real blessing to lawyers." But, perhaps, Mr. Herren will tell us that be spoke, not of the bill as it is, but of the bill as it is intended to be after it has undergone the ordeal of the cm:emitter pro forma." He wishes, it seems, "to ask for leave to go ii to committee pro furmd, in order to introduce some amendments that have been siggered." "Some amendments ! " What are they ti be ? To give proper consistency and cha racter to the measure, almost every clause and pat &graph of Schedule B will require altera tion. Mr. HATTER evidently knows nothing of the extent of the mischief this bill would effect. Why, it has come out that under one of its clause', as at present drawn, every solicitor in Eng land will be personally liable for any infection of the Stamp Acts. The 6th clause enacts that "if any person shall have avoided, neglected, or omitted to pay any stamp duty, or shall write, or make orpre pare, or cause to be written, made or prepared, or to b e signed or executed, any deed or instrument not duly stamped, EVERT BVCU PERSON shall be accountable for the amount of the duty." The effect of this clause would be to reader every solicitor cm:merited in the execution of a deed personally responsible for the due stamping of it! We should like to proclaim 'in Westminster Hall the name of " the gent" who dr, w this bill, and to whom the profession are indebted for his kind consideration. What are the amendments to be? Are the amend ments to be "pro forma'," like the committee, or are they to be real, substantial, comprehensible amend ments? Who are they prepared to satisfy? Are they to satisfy the bankers, whose interests are to seriously prejudiced ? Are they to satisfy the com mercial and trading community, who will have to pay a fifty pound duty licre.fter on a bond which at meant costs them 121. ? Are they to satisfy the landed interest who are now for the first Jima to be charged as ad valorem duty on the settle ment of lands oat of which any portions are to be raird for younger children—no matter whether those children are ever born or not ? Are they to satisfy the conveyancers, who are now made personally respassible for all flaws and errors of omission and orommusion against the Stamp Act? Are they to satisfy the law stationers, who we are glad to find alive to the subject, and who ate circulating papers calling attention to its importance? Or are they intended to satisfy the public—that public upon which the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER would impose the burden of additional tuition under the false and fraudulent pretence of saving them 300,0 :0 pounds a year ? At the conclusion of its article oa this important subject, the Jurist admirably says : The amendments effected by this bill, with respect to small transactions, will .it, we hope, be enespted by ;hi oesutry as a bribe to permit the isuatinaanes of those rude, absurd, sad vexatious reenietious on the us and transfer of =, which ought to be abolished without delay, sad by an eqalvaleut addition to the impose tax, or fen OMNI ether Isms objectionable source. But if the stoup laws are le be endured far a few years longer, the lust that eaglet to be required its a thorough revision and owstalida Aloes of Ma urh p4 OokiV of Mom, and o astaissont of the assay perplexing dories wAith hare arises eve n tAams. In every word of that sentence we commr, and we slncertly trust that members of the House of Commons will not be blind enough to allow this bill to go a single stage further (pro forma, or otherwise) until a satisfactory arrangement is arrived at. If ei pro formJ" in parliamentary language meats in formal, it also means, we have no doubt, a trick and a seam and it must be rememb red that this is one d these measares which the House of Commons awe esa deal with, and with regard to which their respeseibility to the meetly is roost quietly doubled. COMMISSION •tONED BT TIIE LORD LIEUTENANT or 2•SJII. —Hoary Joka t3elwin, E y., to he depul lieu tenant. FRANCE. PARIS, Ttrnenay, U 141 t. I have little to add to my report of yesterday with reps& to the siWng of the Legislative Assembly. The abate was otwaed to tois day, ape° tlsi media of M. de lantartiae, who is to speak in favour of the bill. At the dose of the sitting the President a that M. Isles de Laster& bad been Fourth Via-President of the Amsmbly by se isamemn majority. M. Vatimmenil, the legitimist candidueolitiketlealy 40 Votes but of Md. The Puked the Seine his isnot it wiles rela tive to the elution et Pah. sederiag the cm of to le ia sash minfide t stee l = the of 1880, and esespehbe Aare in ezesutioa of the ellhomilkellif the elletenl law. This table is to he pamisheel oa thalami By other deems will be rift kasha the days Ift which the cards will be dist:listed, the localides fee voting, and the days and duzatien of the ballot. The committee milts Mayor's Bill has heard the Minister of the Interior, who declared that he could not accept the modifications proposed by the commit tee. M. de Lebaulie was appointed reporter. The Jroi du Peuple was seized yesterday for three articles in its weekly supplement. The committee on clubs and electoral meetings has deferred, in accordance with the ministry, the pre sentation of its report until after the Paris election. A rumour wee yesterday current in the lobbies of the National Assembly that information had reached Paris that the Pope bad been poisoned on his journey to Rome. The rumour, however, was soon own dieted by M. Gustave de Beaumont, who had jut come from the ministry of foreign affair., and declared that it was absolutely void of foundation. The aseette de France affirms that this news has been sent to Paris by members of the Bonaparte family. Neither of the letters from oar Roman and Naples correspondents mention, any such rumour. The president and vice-president of the central committee of the Electoral Union had yesterday, at their own request, an interview with the committee (1 the moderate press. After a dimension as to the adoption of M. Fernand Foy as the only candidate of the union, the moderate press, while regretting the sapprestion of the preparatory ballot, admitted that it would be too late to make an appeal to the electors. The Council-General of Agriculture and Manufac tures met yesterday, under the presidency of the Minister of Commerce, to form its bureau. It decided that it would divide itself into three committees, one for manufacture., another for agriculture, and the th;rd for commerce. M. Dupin, lien. M. Paley, and M. Tourret were elected vice-presidents. The Con gress then adjourned till Wednesday. The French, Belgian, and Prussian governments in October, 1818, appointed a commission to draw up the bases of an arrangement on internationl rail way communication between the three coun tries. The commission has already had aural meetings; and it is now about to meet at Paris to continue its labours. The Northern, Rouen, and Havre railway compaties are to be permitted to send delegates to the commission. The questions to be settled by the corareissiou are relative to the con veyance of goods, the fixing of the hours of departure &Lel arrival of trains, ti :e duration of each journey, the exp-nee of taking care of goods in the station, &-. Toe Mundeur contains a degree appointing an in spectorship-general of the administrative service of Algeria, and naming General Itambead to this post. The great prise of the lottery of artists has been gained by an Abbe Martel. Our Paris parcel of yesterday evening did not arrive until immediately before going to prem. We extract the following from it. FARM, TuzsDAY, 7 ♦ X. To-day the Assembly has thrown the amendment of Nf. Grevy, on the bill of the Avignon Railway, prcposing that the construction of the railway should be ucdertaken by the ll:ate, by a majority of 443 over 20.5. - - The Voir du Peuple hal an article deducing the onfltnees of M. Oirardin as the democratic candidate at the el ction of April 28, from the mutability of principle exhibited in hie career. The National makes a strong appeal to the demo. cratic socialists to earn thenhelves at the election f.r Paris, which is fixed for the 28th inst. This journal pretends that there is a design to attempt to put down the principle of universal suffrage, &IA teat the people mu•t pretest ugainst tho design by returning a de. moeratio socialist candidbte. Aran 9. BOURSE. rat _ Mossy. °peon'sWilmot. use 89 GO St Fur VistounL Loma. I %Assn. 3 per Cent 'use 'ss II 13 30 OSO Spa Oats. SO 1111 SO 111 89 U 119 SO 5 do. New • i Lam. . . • 11 pre Oats. la . IN a • I par Osnta. • • • • • Rattans. as UMW t 33 521 • 90 dam 25 11. 801f1a 0 . 3 , 150 ll. q Hain. spins Biota. 93 30 Yana Do. 5, 1843 lll,l . Inman loon 1849 74 .. Do. 41 ---...„ 99 . Do. 1114,1 Do. 14 — . Tre.asury Bonds_ 5 Piedmont 3 pee Oats 84 0 Rank shares Bocasa. Paris and Orl e ans, 713 ; Paris and Boom 51 250; *liana end Kaadllea, 175 ; Strasbourg and Bale, 108 23 ; Dawns and Varna, 318 75; Orleans and Bordeaux, 302 30; North, 420 ; Paris and franshorwrr, 330; Tours and 143ntes, 238 73; Yontereau and Troyes, 100; Terrains (left bank), 143 73. Kansas Aran. 4. —Three par Cents., 29 4 cash. Pour per Cent... 13peps. Fire per Cents., I3j paper. Paean., 4 paper. Coupons, 7j paps. Bank of St. renlutand al. Exchange on London. 30.23 ITALY. ROMAN STATES. In a letter of the let instant your correspondent at Rome says that splendid preparations were made at Frosinone. Some of the triumphal arches had been burned. The Pope is to halt two days at Frosinone, and to ♦isit Alatri. The preparatior.s for illumination in Rome, at the Monte atorio and Madams palaces, excited some distrust. The Patri• says positively that the Pope is not going to Rome. The cause smigned for the Pope's not going to Rome, is the flight of M. (Mazola from the Castle of St. Angelo. The Pope was to spend the first night of his jour ney at Saes, and the next at Gaeta. Apartments, as if for residence, have been fitted up at the latter place. At Palermo the troops have orders to remain under arms in barracks. NAPLES. Oar Naples correspondent says in hie letter of the lit, that several important cabinet councils had been held, at which Filang:eri assisted. The questions disclaimed were whether it would be advisable to do away with the constitution de jure at the present moment; aLd, secondly, what should be the disposition of the army in case of a collision between Austria and France. A majority decided the first question in the negative. The King of the Belgians has recently authorised the minister of war to have cut at the government founderits at Liege, on account of the consul-general of the Two Shame, 90,000 balls of different calibres, and 60,000 kilogramme slew shot. GERMANY. PRUSSIA. Intelligence has been received from Berlin, under date the 7th inst. It was said that Austria and Prussia were on the point of a reconciliation, and that some new project is in embryo, the existence of which has been divulged by M. de Prokesch in cer tain diplomatic conversations. The resolutions adored by the sub-committee of the Constitution Committee of the Slaatenhusta, at Erfurt, were carried by the Constitution Committee in its evening sitting of the oth inst., by 29 votes against 16. Theo resolutions are similar to those proposed by Cansphausen in the committee of the Volkshaus. The question on the right of pesos and war has found a satisfactory solution by the house accepting • motion which was brought in by Baron Carlowitz. There was a cabinet council held at Berlin on the 6th instant. It was arranged that Manteuffel should go down to Erfurt next day. It is said that MM. von Rsdowitz and Carlowitz have gone further in the question of right to make peace or war than they were warranted la doing, and it said that they will be disavowed. Siam!, AtIUL Vohunary Loan, la; National Debt, ; nank Mara; R. BELGIUM.—The Belgian government ham just taken a eto.nmeioial mosusure of high importance. A royal decree permit' the entry of linen thread of every mime on condition of its being re-exported when made up into cloth. THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 10, 1860. Lt:::: ; riiirtt ßKEr .•.t . _ Thin Wimp " cZtagarli - murex Minh. Omni wits among the Poles on bed of tho ship the* married ammo SO Polish rein* to WM, would , not abandon his friends in efillim bet Mak Mips /sr imams, from whams he went of ewe bee will to joie Kossuth and his ?Moods he nalhatans who ham been mat into the interior. Them wars still 800 Polish refugees at Schumla. They had boon divided into chess., sea prg emverall those who have commuted to servo in the Christian battalions about to be fantod in Turkey, thaw who are willing to aim in the civil administration, and those who desire to stay in Tur key amt t themselves. The latter wall receive pumpertm whatever place they may wish to go to. Alma* bad gone to occupy his post is the Fi ll a lraltilme, Takla, and Count Betlilms, who had sucesoded in leaking their escape from Arad, had passed through Constantinople. The official arTaticos of Austria with Turkey had not been reacted. _ . • , GREECE. BNaLISII CLAIMS. Letters from Athens of the 28th alt. have oome to hand. We are glad to find that the adjustment of claim■ have proceeded so as to warrant the conclu sion that the affair will soon be settled. All the claims will, it seems, be reoftniaed, with tba excep tion of that pal forward by M. Paoi&ro, which the French plenipotentiary does not coosider valid. It was stated in the latest previous accounts from Athens that Baron Oros had had an inter View with Mr. Wyss on board the French steamer, La Vedette. M. Oros objected from the first it seems to M. Pacifico'. claims. These raise typiste and jewels alleged to have been lost on the day that a mob entered his (M. Pacifico's) home. But it is known that this gentleman had borrowed money from the Athena Bank on the security of certain articles of silver, and has never stem redeemed his pledge. Then as to certain Portuguese bonds alleged to have been burned, it was ascertained that recovery might easily be obtained at Lisbon. Mr. Wyse did not, it seems, deny the exorbitance of M. Pacifico's claims,:and if any indemnity is granted in this case, it mast be a small one. Another meeting between M. Gros and Mr. Wyse was to have taken place on the 29th, whin a definite settlement was to take place. However that may be, it was rumoured in Paris, on Monday, that the details of the arrangement had already been received there. DANISH AFFAIRS. The following is a copy of a Danish memoir to Prussia, dated the 17th of March: lat. Denmark can never maintain her place as an European power, or its union with Schleswig, if it renounced the unit of armed force of both Lind and ma. This is for Denmark a condition of existence, and it cannot therefore co- sent, in the matter of the Schleswig forces, to conditions that might weaken or annihilate that unity. For instance, it could not .:low the Schisswiger to be exempt from serving in time of war out of the duchy, or that Danish troops should be de barred from being emp . .ovcd in Schleswig, or to establish a separate funi , for the military service of the duchy. 2nd. Denmark, in requiring that the system and adminiso tration of the customs should remain common to the king dom and the duchy, consents to ex:end that cemmunion to the revenues of the Sound dues, on condition that a similar communion should be allowed with regard to Szkleswig's share in the return of the canal dues. _ _ 3rd. The Doily of Schleswig will participate with the kingdom in the auvantages and revenues proceeding from the Danish colonies. 4th. The vitality of political union can only be ensured by the maintenance of Ur a farile ties between the kingdom and the duchy; and this object, under a contain:lona system, can only be attained by a common representation. tiohles wig will be allowed a representation larger by half than that of the kingdom, population in both being taken as a heels. Denmark cumeuts to take proposal* ad teferendam, for the purpose of taxing on any other Danish town than C..pen hagen for the place of meeting of the common represents.. ti and also as to the period of convocation. sth. The mainteuancs (Athol right of nativity, as it exiles at present, in conformity with a fundamental law, is a eon sequence of the comenanion of objects which ie comprised in the political union. 6th. It is not necessary that the treaty of peace should expressly confirm the isdiesoluhilay of union, but it must contain nothing Itkely to prejudge the question In a con trary sense. To this memoir the following answer Las beets re turned by the Prussian government : Dent's, hts.ami 23.—Jt is the intimate conviction of the Prussian cabtnet that a peace based upon the Interpretation given to the preliminaries by the Danish plenipotentiaries would fail in its application, and produce results totally op posed to pacification, and that it could only be maintained by force of arms. It would neither ensure peace in the Duchies, in Denmark, sr in Germany ; since, by deeriving the Duchies of the cherished privileges of 'union (ono with another), it deprives them of the compensation winch might re'ul: in independence. Indeed, it is a matter of question whether the C 0003901111 made by Prude in thin present communication do not risk the renewal of hostilities in the Duchies. Art. 1. There is no objection t, tke unity of the army In 90 far am regards the command and general dispesiticn being laid down es a principle. At the same time, without dero- gating from this principle, a separation is required as to some points. It seems more easy to make concessions in favour of • separation between the Danish and Schleswig troop., as half the population does not entertain hostile feelings to Denmark; and therefore the fidelity of the Sehleewigers might be relied on (!) were they separately organised. Al though Prussia may consider a separation of the troops to be nteeesary, she is ready nevertheless, to admit 1. That during a year alter the conclusion of peace, within which period the reorganisation of the Schleswig troops would be completed, a corps of 1,600 Swedish or Danish troops may do duty in the duchy. 2. That the promotion of officers shall be general in the higher and separate in the subaltern ranks, so that all all cen to the rank of commanders of battalions isolative, should selected from the Schleswig ranks. Art. 2,3, 4, and 5, of Prowlers mem. and Danish reply. As regards the community of Customs, Public Debt, and (diplomatic) representation, Prussia cannot renounce her convictions that then objects must be regarded u separate. Everything, except the colonies, evidently appertain to the legislature ; its separate administration accorded by the preliminaries. . . _ But, as the main point at issue relates to the internal interests of the country in regard to Denmark, theeo iuteres:. may probably be better judged by the country itself than by the Prussian government. Therefore these objects might be abandoned to a free and mutual arrangement between the Sovereign and the representatives of Schleswig, composed in virtue of the electoral law now in vigour in the Duchies, or sandbag to the law of May 18, 1834, callel the 9th article of the Pruritus counter-project. The northern por tion of Schleswig appears to be in rayon of Denmark ; according to the opioion of the plenipotentiaries, were the southern portion to pronounce its electoral opinions at 're sent, it would ba found to be more in accord with the views of Denmark. If that be the ease, the expedient is the Ins objectionable. Similar considerations are applicable to the question of indigenacy and qualification of being Schleswigers required for all functionaries. If the government of the Kies be, in its favour half the country, it would seem that the public functionaries might be selected in the country itself. This conasesion will contribute mote than any other to the pacifi catica of the country. METROPOLITAN FREE 1108PITAL.—Yesterday the annivenary festival of this institution took place at the Lon• don T , Bishopegatrstreet ; John Gurney Hoare, Esq., (In the absence of Lord Dudley eoutts Stuart,) in the chair. In proposing the toast of the evening, " Prosperity to the Metropolitan Free Hospital," the chairman observed that he regretted that the noble lord who had bean expected w pre side on the occanon had been p tad from being present by public duties of an urgent and important nature. He then went on to state that although the institution had only been in existence fourteen years, it had been the means of relieving 120,000 persons ; and he hoped that so valuable an establishment would continue to re ceive the support of all who were charitably disposed. It appeared from the report read by the secretary that the committee bad thought it necessary to erect a building in Devonshire-agnate, tlishopigate-street, for the purposes of the charity. The benefit which the poor derived Irons the regulations of the hospital was made manifest by the num bers that docked to it for relief. Since its establishment in the year 1835 upwards of 120,000 persons had been admitted al patents, and the annual average of this number was greatly on the increase. It was this fact, in conjunction with other circumstances, which had induced the committee to extend their operations, and they trusted that they had acted wisely in selecting for this purpose • locality contiguous to the poor and densely•populated districts of the metropalis. These districts had hitherto been somewhat inadequately supplied with the means of affording gratuitous medical relief. The annual expenditure, it appeared, lluctuatei between 60W. and 7001. a year, to meet which the annual subscriptions were at present insufficient, and the eon. mitts* called upon all those who took au interest in the charity to exert thenseclvee towards incressing Its toads. About 100 gJotlemea eat down to dinner, and la the coon. of the evening subscriptions were announced, amounting to upwards of 9001. Flu AND Lois or LITE.—A tire, attended with law of life, occurred last night at an early hour, in the neighbourhood of Park street, Backside, Scuthwark, in the premises belouging to a person named Carpenter. The fire took place in the first-11 ior front room, and the fleetness, alter great exertion, succeeded in subduleg it, when they found that Hrs. Car p enter, the wife of the ranter, had been burned to death. The origin of the ealtmity remains wax plaia44. OUR PEACE Batlike' isitliketplies up M a pBeM autablialumat, aed whered t Tryt t . Hone in All=ea llesday sight: II Oho estabmr aed demeription of troops supplied with P rid& ea lmaeery tee dertrtmese, distingolshing floss depart nests envy. I halm aid damoriptloa of troop supplied by the Ordnance newsagent. No. of Men. Demetrios of Troop. 5,296 Ressler Cavalry. 675 Royal Rotas Artillery. 13,600 Yeomanry Cavalry. 98,019 Regale Infantry. 11,347 Royal Artillery (Foot). 1,670 Royal Sappy!' sad Maws. 73 Royal Invalid Artillery (master geasers). 200 Gentlemes Calotil, Woolwich. 200 Gentlemen Cadets, lisisdhurst. 6,993 Colonial Regiments. 16,124 Enrolled Pendoners. About 10,000 Militia, Home, Channel Islands, and Colonial 11,621 Royal Matinee. 8,873 Royal Dockyard Brigades. 186,891 Total. The royal navy is supplied by the Ordnance Department. Number of H.R.'s ships and pukes now in commission, about 221), and 40,000 men. N.B. Rome gad foreign stations cannot be distinguished. (By order of the Muter General and board) Office of Ordnance, July 10, 1848. R. Secretary. We copy this return' from the Appendix No. 24 and 25 to the Report of the Select Committee on the Ordnance Department; and when we look to the number of 185,891 troops for whom the ordnaccedeput ment have to furnish supplies, the expense and trouble may be guessed at more easily than we can suggest any other remedy than that proposed by Mr. Hume viz., to redone the n um b er o f th ese armed bodies,. It should be 'recollected that the large est►blish ment of police to Inland and England is not included in this return ; and it becomes a sad reproach to out government to know that in proportion as education and civilization have been introduced into the country the number of military to keep the pesos have been inmzewed. What, we ask, are the Financial Reform Associa tions in the country about, and, we ask, will they allow their representatives to absent themselves, as is now generally done, from the house, when the voting of public money goes on ? Mr. Hums remarked that during the time Col. Anson was making his statement and asking for 2,434,0001. for the ordnance estimates, the house was nearly empty. We can vouch for the statement by Mr. Hume that for a long time there were not 40 members in the house, and on the opposition benches two members only appeared--Colonel Sibthorp, in his usual station on the 3rd bench, and another mem ber in front, sitting very quietly in fall enjoyment of the whole bench. Can such scenes endure lung it corn continues at its present prices? Will the county members continue their neglect of the expenditure of the country ? Will the farmers allow it ? STATE OF CHURCH AND DISSENT IN WALES In the early part of this session a printed return was issued by the House of Commons, showing the number of churches and chapels attached to the established church in each of the four Welsh dioceses, and the number of services performed in each, dis tinguishing the Welsh from the English. In the last two numbers of the weekly papers published in the principality, this return is copied. Commencing with the dicceso of Llendaff, eleven parishes are taken alphabetically, and the following is the result : Number of churches, 21 ; total number of services in the above churches, 31 ; eight of which only are performed in Welsh, twenty in English, and three alternately once a fortnight in Wehh and English. Annexed to the parliamentary return of the churches and services of each parish, is an accoaut of the spiritual provis'on (traded by the dissenting community far the native, of the country, by which it appears that in these same eleven parishes there are no less than 57 places of worship, 111 Sunday services (of which 99 are performed in Welsh), and 110 weekly services in these same parishes (of which 98 are per formed is Welsh). These tab,es are to be continued weekly, and they afford • sulking contrast between the conduct of the church and that of dissenter', in affording spiritual instruction to the natives of the principality, who, because they choose to worship God in their own tongue, are excluded from a participation in the benefits of that church which they help to sup port, but which they have been compelled t, aban don by the narrow-minded policy which has turned the Welsh church preferment into a means for main taining those who cannot, or will not, directly or in directly, minister to the Welsh, and neither supply their spiritual wants nor conciliate theiraffectione. The conecquences cannot now be concealed—the natives of Wales have left the church and have provided for themselves, independent of bishops and deans, who refused their legitimate demands, and of the govern ment, who refused native bishops, and they now form a formidable body in opposition to that church to which they once belonged. NATIONAL REFORM ASSOCIATION. A pnbiic meeting of the friends of parliamentary end Boanrtel reform wee held lut evening at the Educational Institute, Stockwellgreen. Dr. DvAxa, of Stockwell Park Honse,inshe chair. The CHAIRMAN, in opening the business of the meeting, said that aithough this was the first time he had appeared in public for the purpose of expressing opinions favorable to the cause of reform, yet he always had been and always would be its sqennens advocate. He had family reasons for being a conservative, but neverthelen he was an old consistent re foraier, and he was in a position to say that there never was an agitation in which be took a part that had not townie extent succeeded in obtaining its object. He was sorry to say that Mr. Cook, who was to have taken the chair, was compelled to be absent, but that gentleman had written a letter of apology wishing the cause success, and enclosing towards carrying it out. (Cheers.) Mr. J. BLACK proposed the first resolution " That in the opinion of this meeting ell governments were intended for the good of the entire community, but that such was not the case in this country, where the taxation was urjust, the expenditure excessive, and the representation grievously im• perfect." He said that the meeting should recollect that they lived in a Chris ian country, and that in demanding of them to carry this resolution, he was only wishing them to adopt a Christian principle. The government in this country did not owns up to the proper mark, for they per mitted many to wallow in riches while they allowed millions to pins in misery. Hs concluded by expreeuing his belief that the cause would progress until tie whole world would hear witness to the tact that England enjoyed perfect liberty. Mr. 0. J. COCK KRELL then seconded the resolution, which was unanimously carried. Mr. REALM( then proposed the following resolution : " That this' meeting highly approves of the exertions made by the National Reform Association, and pledges itself to co-operate with it." It was seconded by Mr. B. D Swint. Mr. H. ROBERTS, one of the council of the National Parliamentary and Financial Reform Association, then addressed the meeting in favour of the resolution which had been jest proposed. At present there existed a very unsound notion about taxation in this country, and he felt assured that Sir Robert Peel was the man who, when he felt that the country was unanimous in favour of a reform, would be the foremost to step forward to gratify the wishes of the commu nity at large. He could say the same of Lord John Russ 11. Mr. H. J. BLACK was appointed as delegate to represent this district at the forthcoming conference of the association, and a vote of %backs having been pullet to the chairman, the meeting separated. WATERLOO-ROAD RAOORD AND INDUSTRIAL SCHOOUL—The first annual meeting in support of thole I schools was hi Id at ilawkston•-hall, Waterloo•road, oa Mon- day, Mr. 1). Wire in the chair. The chairman having addressed the meeting is advocacy of the system adoptid by the promoters and supporters of the ragged schools, fur refereeing the juvenile population of the metropolis, called upon the secretary to read the annual report. It appeered that the schwls hair been opened about eighteen mouths ago, and since that period between three and four hundred children of lath sexes had entered, and many of them turned out most useful and creditable members of society. The receipts of the past year amounted to 1021. 10e. 1114., and the expeadhure to 1041. 24. 3141., leaving a debt to the treasure of 11. Idr. Josiah Order at d several other gen ilexes addressed the meeting. At the dome of the evening a liberal subscription was made; and a vote of thanks having been pared to the chairman, the assemblage separat, d. GitRENWICG HOSPITAL SOROOLS.—Yesterday the official report of her Majesty's Inspector of Schools, resprot lug the Greenwich Itapital Schools, was printed by order of the House of Commons. There are 800 boys in the schools, and, according to a new dietary table, the we. kly cost of the whole 800 boys was 1211. as. 81d., or a little more than bd. per boy daily. A saving of some hundreds annually has ben effsetrd by leaving off beer. The Inepeutur adds: ` The saving of beer has moreover en important Initial/ on the morals of the limitation; although the allowance to each boy was not enough to bur him, yet cereal alloweness clubbed together afforded the means LI intoxication, and any raw s of intoxication which have occurred in the institution have been supposed to have arias in this way." The report extends to 19 folio pegs gbe Court. The Qeeen and Prince Albert, with Prince Alfred sad the Nieces Helm, visited the Zoologiaal Garde na to the liagtat'e•palk yesterday atternoce. Lord Charlie Fitzroy and Limn: Colonel F. H. Seymour, the equerries is wilting, attended her Majesty and his royal hiehnem. Lord Seymour bad an audienee of the Qom° yesterday afternoon at Buekinghun Palma, and had the honour to kin bands on Wbeing eppointes, Len d Ch Commissioner of her Maes's oede, Worm ief Revenue. Werke, and Buildings, Her Mejoeti wu attended by Lord Elphinstone, lord in widths& The Queen and Prince Albert honoured her bis jetty's Theatre with their presence yesterday evening. The royal suite eonshted of the Viseccustme Csanine, Hon. Mir Murray Lord Elphinstess, Lord Charles Ft sre7, sod Lleat..CoL F. U. Seymour. The Vimounutes Cumuli has relieved the Counter of Charlemont in her duees as the lady la waiting to her Majesty. Mr. Jones, R.A., had an interview with Lord John Bussell yesterday, at his o ffi cial residence in Downing str ee t. Mr. Cardwell, M.P., had an interview with Earl Grey, y day, at the Colonial-office. Mr. John Wood, chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Ex chequer yesterday. Mr Tidd Pratt had also an interview yesterday with the right hon. ba-net, at his official residence, in Dowsing -street. The building committee of the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 18 il, met yesterday in the New Palace of Westminster There were present Mr. Cnbitt (chair , ass), Messrs. Barry, B. Stephenson, C. Cockerel!. Brunel, and Donaldson. Mr. Scott Russell secretary of the com mission, was in attendance. ..olonel Reid (chairman), Mama. Cole, Dilke, and Fuller, attended by the secretary, Mr. Digby Wyatt, were present on the part of the executive counsittee. The committee entrained the plans which have been submitted for the building. The committee on sculp ture met yesterday. There were present Viecount Canning, Lord Ashburton, Sir Richard Weatmacott, Mr. Baring. Wall, Mr. William Wyon Mr. D. Mackie., and Mr. twins. Messrs. Cole and Delius attended on the part of the executive committee. The committee on the mineral kingdom met yesterday in the New Palace of Westminster. The members present were : Sir Charles Lyall, Sir Roderick Murchison, Dr. Lyon Playlair, and Mr. Richard Phillips. Mews. Cole and Dike were present on the part of the Executive Committee. Mr. Scott, secretary to the Cmamission, was in attendance. Mr. Adair had an interview with Sir George Grey yesterday at the Home Office. The Earl and Countess Grey arrived in town on Monday night from Howick- ball, Northumberland. Lord John Russell has issued invitations fur a parliamentary dinner on Saturday next, at hie residence in Chemin= place. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial Office from the Governor of the Mauritius. CITY COURT OF SEWERS. Yesterday, the commissioners assembled in the Guildhall, Mr. Deputy Precocx in the chair. THE REPORT OP THE COMMITtEE OP HEALTH. The Court pr:eeeded to the conaider.etion of the re port of the Committee of Health, ou the report of the medical officer of health of the City of London. The report of the committee was published a few days ags, and gene rally approved of the 'Ragan ions of Mr. B.ccon on the sat jest of century arrangements for the city. The Court con-ilered the various sections in the ceder introduced by the committee. They agreed without com ment to the section u respects the question of house drainage, upon the propriety of inter:opting the contents of the public sewers be forethey reach the Thames, and of acting upon Mr. Simon', suggestion that, while the ver!ous plans for eff.cting that great object were under consideratior, the existing nuisance caused by the eve :flow of the .traisage OR the batiks of the river at low water shou:d bo got rid of by the construction of culverts, sou to cmvey the sewer water to beyond low water muk. The court also agreed, without discussion, to the statement in reference to the public docks, Puddle Dock, White:rises Dock, and Dowgate Deck, retommcndisg that a vigiant control should be exercimd over them, so as to pr-veat them from being made a nisi inc. and injury • and that the court elt-,uld suggest to the corporation to obtain authority to fill them up. it was likewise agreed to that the court should communicate with the City Lends Committee upon the subject. With respect to the ventilation of the sewer, the court without hesitation ctacurreil in the opinion that a more per fect sj stem is highly to I:. desired. WATER SUPPLY. On the question of wat.r supply, forming the subject of the second section of Mr. Simoes report, some coeveristion took place. The following resolutions, forwarded to Mr. Idyllic, the engineer of We N.w River Company, by the committee, led to it " That the quantity of water daily supplied to the City being upon an avenge, for all purposes of consumption, Si gallons, and for domestic supply 21 j gall. ns!per heed par diem, is sufficient with the presort usages of water, if ptoperly to :co mised, hut that the water companies should be bound to sup ply 30 gallms per ptr diem, should the anticipated proposition for an increase of consumption take place." That it is desirable that a supply, at a pressure sufficient to deliver water at the tops c f all the lvus.s, shutt.d be given uniformly throughout the city of Lond.n." Mr. T. U. HALL suggested an alteration in the first res 3. I hided to the effect that the q uantity of water was averged I upon th e au th or i t y o f Mr. Milne, the surveyor to the New River. Ile believed that a great deal of the water everage a to each inhabitant went to the , upply of the manufactories. The attention sugrested, together with another alters ion merely effecting the form of the resolution, woe then, adopted. frarerierence to the third section of Dlr. Sinton's report, which treats of offensive and irjurious treatise, are the fol. lowing words:—" And we beg to report, that after con aiderirg all these various points, wa think it very cl , sfrable that means should bs taken to remove the sanitary evils which belong to intramural slaughtering, and other offen sive tredve, and to point out to you the n eessity when the question of renewing your act shall come into co :bider*, tion of procuring aeld.tional powers, which may en.:blo you effectually to remedy the': evils." Mr. W. S. HALE said th t medical men of high unto n nee entertained diffvent opiniot.s as to the injuriousness of some trades, and certainly 'shut was offensive to some p ople was often not at nll offer.sive to others. He thought that the werd " offensive" was not auffioiont:y definite to be used on a question tf,ctirg the means of living pecuYar to A large class of people. lie thought the pesters of invading a men's home in such a manner as to prevent it from being any longer called hie castle, had been somewhat liberally bestowed upon the er inialeeioners of sewers. The Court agreed unanimously with the committee as to intramural interments wilin graveyards end vault.. Some observations were made upon the Sit section of Mr. Simon's report. Mr. Doputy LOTT objected to the epithet of " filthy. " u applied to some of the peer inhaNtants of the City. Mr. Deputy PEACOCK said it the worthy deputy would but step into Sev.n.cep Alley, and some other alleys in that neighbourhood, he would find the poor people third in finitely surpassing in filth the description given of them. (Hear, hear ) Mr. T. H. HALL apprehended that the establishment of model houses would be an unsuccesuul esp.:Unseat in the C tr. GODSON hoped that whether the poor shooid be able to pay for the arcoromodati , n afforded by neodel houses or not, the corporation would uut of its ecortnous kind supply the means or diacharging the tapers. of build ing them. , - 7. . . . . A chrism tack place upon the sse:ion recommending that Mr. Simon should tu empowered to obtain in formatim from medical practitioners, at an bggregate annual capzure sot to timed 2501 , and the continuanee of the dauso was negatived by a majority of 1. Alderman MOON then gave the foll3wing notice of motion for next Tuesday :—" That Mr. Simon be allowed 5001. per annum for the purpose of procuring the informa tion on unitary matters he deism ne:essary." The consideration of the remainder of the report was, on the adieu of Mr. N. L. Taylor, adjourned. PRINTERS' F1N31021 SoCIRTY.—A special general meeting was he:d en Monday, at the Lindon l'zsern, I.l.anopsgate.etreei, of the governors, donors, and suhserwers of this society, wl IA way first instituted in the ye .r 1 , 27, for the purpose of affording re.i,t, by pens..ln and otherwise , to ago d ard infirm printers and their widows, the prir clod object of the meeting being to elect a secretary and col lector. Richard Taylor, Rq , the president of the institution, in tte chair. lc appears that at the last annual general meeting, Mr. James I)arkin was proposed and seconded to till the attic, of secretary, in the room of Mr. Hodson, upon which the latter gentle. man demanded a poll of the whole subscribers. It was opened at one o'clock and finally cluee,l at four, when the chairinsa announced the following to be the mists:— For Mr. James Darkin, 917; for Mr. 11.als As, 2,197. (kind and cowiuued cheering ) Mej trite for Mr. Bodeen, 1,280 votes. The chairman then declared Mr. Hodson duly t teeter'. Mr. Hodson returned thanks. Mr. Darkin said although a detested candidate he returned thanks for the supp.rt he bad received. The chairman then announced that Mr. Charles rope had been duly elected collector, the nun:bets being for Mr. Pepe, 1,728; for Kr Francis Hollan 692 : for Benjamin Butler, 694 ; and John Fercuson, 66. A•ta r some discussion a vote of thanks was pissed to the enainnun, and the mteting separated. Tll6 TACT Mmes.—Yesterday the dirce.ors ,f these mines entertained the shareholders and their (lien.* at a elinni rat the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street. Mr. Henry Gibson petal& d, mid, on proposing the tout of the evening, sta.ed that the object of the prevnt meeting was to celebrate the re opening of the Peter Tavy and Mart Tory copper mines, near Tavistock, Devon. He went on to ob• serve that the ceremony took place on the 6th lost , red he ietailid a variety of facts to prove that the prospect, of the ehareholdi es were of a very promising character, wad that large profits were likely to be derived from the mines, provided they were worked in a legitimate manner. Amongst the company were several iciluentisl merchants, one of whom (Mr. F. Healing) gave an intemstint narra tive of the intorinathyn he bad gained by a Twat inspection of the mines in qursti in. In the course of the evening allusion was made to the practice of pursuing operations on the "cost hook system,' and the general impresidou up• peered to be that the tennis of the contributions should be expended in the legitimate working or the mines. The aunts on the occasion were about 60 in mstier, _six; the result of the ente r t a i nmen t was suc h as to lead to the belief that the promoter!. of the undertaking have every roman to be confident in the ultimate success of their operations.