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In its mr - es facts of par4mount utility are brought. together, wholly divested of tne delusions and incon sistencies so largely introduced into certain quasi medical publications given to the world gratis, under the ••illse o f philanthropy, or as "acts of gratitude," by pretended clergy men and others, whose tamperings with the constitution are frequently followed by serious consequences. Free by post for six stamps, A GRICULTURAL PROGRESS AND ITS PATRONS. Published and sold by the Author, JOHN GILES, 8, Cannon-street, London, Patentee and Inventor. PIIRISTY'S MINSTRELS, Polygraphic flail, King William-street, Strand.—Farewell Season in Lon• don.—Every Evening at 8, and every Saturday Morning . at 3 o'clock. Tickets and places may be secured at the Hat. from 11 till 4, and at Mr. Austin's West-end Box-offloe, Tames's Ball, Piceadilly.—Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. J. W. RAYNOR. THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ROOMS, nu m HOLBORN. 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The vast staple resources which lie in embryo in the idle soil of the Colonies. the forests of Africa, and the jungles of India, need only labour to develope them ; idle ships and railroads are waiting to transport them ; capital is waiting a profitable field for investment ; idle factories and artisans are waiting to manufacture them ; and the world's 300 mil- lions of poor and uncivilised are waiting to promote their consumption, and to yield to the influence of inclustry,civilis ation, and the gospel. A Practical Steam Plough is the next step in industrial progress, and the remedy for idle ships, for idle capital, and for idle men, lies not in going back to protection, but on to production. TER MAJESTY'S DRAWING-BOOM. Her Majesty the Queen hold on Saturday her first Drawing-room this season in St. James's Palace. Tho following presentations to the Queen took place : Miss Allhusen, by Lady Knatchbull. Miss Annie Allhusen, by Lady Knatchbull. Lady Gertrude Amherst, by her mother, the Countess Amherst. Miss Adelaide Astley, by her aunt, Viscountess Torring ton. Miss Margaret Bagwell, by her mother, the Hon. Mrs. Bagwell. Miss Mary Beatson, by her mother; Mrs. W. F. Beatson. Lady Diana Beauclerk, by the Duchess of St. Albans. Mrs. de Vero Beauclerk, by the Duchess of St. Albans. Miss Beauclerk, by Mrs. de Vere Beauclerk. Mrs. Beaumont, of Whitley Beaumont, by the Countess of Fife. Miss Belli, by Lady Beaumont. Mrs. Shadwell Boulderson, by Lady Grey. Miss Bertha Boulderson, by her mother, Mrs. Shadwell Bouldersou, Miss Louisa Boulderson, by her mother, Mrs. Shadwell Boulderson. Mrs. Briggs, by Lady Mary Wood. Miss Brooke, by her mother, Mrs. Brooke. Miss Brown, by her mother, Mrs. Alexander Brown. Lady Elma Bruce, by the ountess of Elgin. Mrs. Fordyce Buchan, on her marriage, by her mother, Lady Ross. Hon. Victoria Byng, by Viscountess Enfield. The Hon. Mrs. Henry Campbell, on her marriage, by the Hon. Mrs. George Campbell. 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Miss Agnes Gladstone, by her mother, Mrs. William Gladstone. Miss Lucy Grant, by Lady Frances Baillie. The Viscountess Grey de Wilton, by her mother, the Countess of Craven. Mrs. William Granville Vernon Harcourt, on her mar riage, by Frances Countess of Waldegrave. Mrs. Hargreaves, by Mrs. Alexander Brown. Miss Louisa Hartopp, by her sister, Lady Scott. Lady Alice Will, by the Marchioness of Downshire. Mrs. Hodson, by the 'Lady Mary Wood. Mrs. Cecilia Hook, by the Lady Alfred Paget. Miss Hubbard, by her mother, the Hon. Mrs. Hubbard. Mrs. Clark Kennedy, upon her marriage, by the Coun tess of Home, in the absence of Viscountess Sydney. The Hon. Frances King, by her aunt, the Hon. Mrs. Lefroy. Miss King, by her cousin, the Hon, Mrs. Lefroy. Mrs. Laing, by Mrs. Gladstone. Mrs. William Leigh, of Woodchester, on her marriage, by Mrs. Washington Hibbert. Viscountess Lismore, by the Countess of Bessborough. Lady Lyveden, by Viscountess Palmerston. 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MONEY VALUE OF ART.—The prices paid for specimens of pottery and porcelain afford striking instances of the power of art and opinion to confer value on mean materials. At Mr. Bernal's sale, one of Palissy's small dishes, 12 inches diameter, with a lizard in the centre, was sold for £162. In the Ceramic Court of the Crystal Palace, a most interesting and important collection, there is a Sevres plate for which £BOO, and a dish for which £l,OOO, have been offered. At one of the Government exhibitions at Gore House, two or three years ago, there were two small Sevres vases for which a dealer told me he would give £3,ooo.—Godwin's " Memorials of Workers." Sir,—There is nothing easier, and nothing is more common with a class of men who measurc- , other people by their own standard, than to impute im proper motives, where it is found impossible to con tend by fair argument ; and if it be discovered that the interests of the individual are in harmony with the cause he is advocating, this accidental coinci dence is held to be a sufficient refutation of the ar guments set forth. In stepping forth as the defender of the trade with which I am connected from the unjust and oppressive legislation w ith w hi c h we are th rea t ene d by the unconditional remission of the Customs'duty of ld, per lb. upon paper imported from foreign countries, I anticipated, and was fully prepared for, this ungenerous interpretation of my motives, as will be seen by reference to my first letter, where I say, " (A it will he seiti, this is part of the old rag ; free-trader in everything hut what affects his own in tere: - 3t," Thus prepared, f ara not surprised to find my anticipations realised ; a your space, and if I had no regard for might retort upon my adversaries, by inquiring whether the course of legislation which they so zealously recommend is dictated by pure patriotism, unilloyed by a trace of sellinterest ; or whether it does not partake in some degree of that very COMMGII human frailty—a desire to benefit themselves. Who is this "public" on whose behalf the paper duties have been repealed at a sacrifice of upwards of a million and a quarter of revenue, and on whose behalf an unconditional surrender of the import duty is demanded ? It is no small favour to-the proprietor's of the cheap -newspapits, 'and- the - PubliSkitg-inieffest - t generally, to be relies-6d from a tax equivalent to 20 per cent. on the paper they use, involving the placing of this burden on the broader shoulders of the income-tax payer by an increase of a ld. in the pound; and yet they demand the sacrifice of a whole trading interest to their inordinate cupidity. The struggle now going on is not whether the trade of the English papermaker shall be sacrificed for the benefit of the whole community, but it is whether the paper trade shall be sacrificed for the benefit of the newspaper and publishing trade; and it is no answer to the charge of injustice which I have advanced that in defending the paper trade from the assaults now made upon it, as I think most unfairly, I am thereby defending my own in terests: Notwithstanding the stleerliti , b taunts which are levelled against me, I stand, unabashed, the uncom promising advocate of free trade and the defender of the paper trade at the same time. I do not sue in ,forma pauperis for mercy at the hands of the Government ; 1 do not ask for pro tection. I demand justice, I ask for free trade, in the sense in which it is applied to the great trading interests of this country; las only . to be put upon the same footing as the cotton spinner, the flax spinner, the woolln manufacturer and the silk manufacturer. If I am to be called upon, like them, to meet the world's market in my manufactured article, I want, like them, to have access to a common source for the raw material of manufacture. The English cotton spinner and manufacturer meets his foreign com petitor on equal ground, because they both buy their material from the came markets. and he fears no competition ; and so do the linen, the woollen, and the silk manufacturers, they have all access to the markets of the world for the purchase of their raw material, and they are, therefore, in a position to meet their foreign competitors, let the competition arise where it may. Is there injustice, or any craving for favour, in asking that the papermaker shall be placed in a similar position ? " Oh, no," it is responded, "there is no injustice in your request; it is quite fair and seasonable; and we should be very glad if we could obtain for you the same position which all other trades enjoy ; but, you see, foreign Governments are so obstinate in their refual to allow rags to be exported, that we cannot place you in this desirable and just position; but is this," say they, "any reason why we should not buy foreign paper, and allow it to enter this country free of duty, even though it be, as you say, that their paper can be made at a much cheaper rate than you Gan make it, arising from the great abundance and the arti ficially low price of the material from which it is made ?" I answer, "Unless you are entirely des titute of English sympathies—unless you desire to aid foreign Governments in the selfish policy they have laid down, and to close the door for ever to a more just and equitable state of things—unless you wish to help them to take advantage of their own wrong—unless you are prepared to place this country in a position of dependence on foreign countries for the supply of paper, and to witness, the destruction of an useful and important manu facturing ieterest, giving employment to a large amount of labour—unless," I say, " you have well considered and are prepared for all the consequences, you ought not to admit foreign paper free from countries which maintain an export duty on rags." If the position of the English cotton spinners, the woollen manufacturers, the linen and silk ma nufacturers be only ohe of bare justice and equity, then the position in which the English papermaker will, be placed by the admission of foreign paper without the privilege, enjoy e d by those other great interests, of buying th e i r mater i a l s f rom a com mon source, being totally Efferent, it therefore cannot be a position based on either justice or equality. I will illustrate my meaning by putting a hypo thetical case, and I will take the cotton trade for the purpose. Sapp)se that America, actuated by a desire to monopolise not only the growth, but also the ma nufacture of cotton, were to lay a tax of 50 per cent, upon the export of cotton ; would our Eng lish cotton spinners consider it fair to this great in terest if it were proposed to admit American cloth and yarn freely to this country ? Would they be satisfied to be told that the thing would right it self in the course of a few years, and that in the mean time they must do the best they could? Would they patiently endure to be reminded of the indomitable nature of Engiish skill and enter prise ? Would any Government dare to make a proposal of this nature ? And if not, where is the difference between the position of the English papermaker as it will be if the proposed remission of the import duty is effected, and that which I have drawn of the cotto• trade as it would be under similar circumstances ? The only difference is, that the one is a compara tively small and powerless interest, and the other is all-powerful —an imperiuna ire imperio. I am thankful,:sir, and the trade with which I am connected, and which is so seriously threatened, has reason to be grateful, that you, notwithstand ing that your interests appear to be in an opposite direction, have so generously afforded me the means of, placing our case before the public ; and if you will still afford me the opportunity, it shall not be my fault it' this case is not better understood. I am resolved that no one shall have the excuse of ignorance for taking part in this act of injustice and oppression. I find that much doubt and misconception still exists as to the extent of this prohibitory system on the continent of Europe; and also as to the dif ferential cost at which paper can be made in these protected countries as compared with English manufacture. Portugal and Belgium a prohibi tive law exists. In France the export of rags has been up fo the present time prohibited, and the pro posed export tariff is 81. to 101. per ton. In Holland it is 121. 10s. per ton. In Germany and the Zoll verein 91. per ton. In Russia 6/. per ton ; and these duties, it must be remembered, are from 50 to 100 per cent. upon the value of the rags in the re spective countries. Well, then, it is said that the foreigner labours under many disadvantages in inferior machinery, want of coal, &c. No greater mistake can be com• mitted ; the fact of the foreign paper used abroad not being so good as our own does not arise from their inability to make better, but because the taste and habits of the people make them content with a worse paper at a lower price. They have as good machinery (nearly all E nglish make) ; they have labour at a much less cost, and the want of coal is more than counterbalanced by the abundance and cheapness of their water power ; a n d th e , cum , if they are required, produce as good paper as we can at a much smaller cost. But one fact is worth a whole bundle of theories. A day or two ago I had put into my hand by a most respectable member of our trade a parcel of samples sent over from F rance and Germany, and the gentleman said, in placing the samples in my hand, lam prepared to take orders from you, or any one else, to any extent, at the prices marked." I have since learnt that he has made large sales at these prices. It thus app ears that, notwithstanding the present import duty is 2! - ,-d. per lb., against our Excise duty of , affording a protection to the home maker of ld. per lb., this paper of foreign manufacture can now be brought into successful competition with our own ; and, such being the cage, 1 will leave it, to any rfsonabie man to con ceive the effect of a perfectly free import. It is thought by some that this discrepancy in the price or material will right itself iu time, by equalising the price here with that on the Conti neut. I beli eve under r.O circumstances, short of a free export, could this be sensibly effeeted, on ac count of the immexise area from which the Conti nental supplie° fire drawn ; but that, with an .Ame rican demand eenstantly operating in our market, with a pmer to pAy a much higher price than we can, this is rendered impossible. It How remains only to inquire on what grounds so many well-meaning men seem prepared to pre cipitate us into that unnatural contest, without power to help ourselves. I find no one prepared to deny the extreme hard ship of our case ; no one who would not, if they could, remove the obstacles to a free access to the foreign material; but, strange enough, those who thus profess to sympathise with us, who condemn the injustice of the proceeding—either from party tactics, or from its being, as they think, an infrac tion of a gi-eat; peieeiple—are intending to commit us to this unequal and ruinous contest. IVith as much justice might you throw two men into the river to swim for their lives, the one with every hmb unfettered and the other with an arm and a leg tied up, and call this a fair contest, as commit us to a race of competition with the foreign maker, hampered with an export duty on the material we require, under the pretence that this is free trade. What we ask from the public is that which the public seldom refuses—fair play; we ask to be placed on the same footing of free trade as the cotton, the woollen, the silk, and the linen manu facturers ; and, placed in this position, we will fight our way as best we can ; and only until we can be placed in this position, and only as a means of break-rng down these itelfrah - restrictions, we ask That a compensating import duty of Id. per lb. be al!owed to remain ; and we say, further, that to act other- Wise is to destroy a deserving trading interest, and to perpetuate the state of things on the Continent which is universally condemned.--I am, sir, yours, Cox's Hot e l, lermyn-street, March WRIGLEY. 23. [Advertise ment] TUE CH UR Cii-RA TB ABOLITION BILL. The following petition of the Executive Com mittee of the liberation Society wa s presented to the House of Commons by Mr. Bright, on Wed nesday la 4 : " To the Honourble the Commons of Great Britain and Ireland in Parliament assembled. "The humble Petition of the Executive Committee of the Society for the Liberation of Religion from State Patronage and Control, "Showetl,— " 1. That in the opinion of your petitioners, the association of the Christian religion with compul sory exactions for the purpose of repairing its edifices, or defraying ttie expenses incident to divine worship therein, is contrary to the spirit of the Holy Gospel ; tends to beget misconceptions of its beneficent design; cheeks to a considerable extent the exercise of cheerful self-sacrifice to which it prompts, and renders necessary a resort to ma chinery the working of which inevitably awakens feelings at variance with the genial, kindly, and sacred influences which Christianity brings to bear upon the human heart. "2. That your petitioners have go - olrgibitnaS'fOr believing that church rates originated in the volun tary oblations of parishioners. That otherwise, as your petitioners conceive there must be; or have beeu,.soine proems at common-ft* t o ' enf orce th e making or pay ev e nt - of the.. rate. Thitniittraee of any such process or. writ can be discovered as having at any time existed ; and that in the case of 'Veley v: Burder,' commonly called the Braintree Case; the judges; although of opinion that the repair of the parish church by the parishioners is an obligation at common law, generally admitted that there is no compulsory process at common law, to enforce such obligation. That, accordingly, the Superior Courts at Westminster have uniformly declined to enforce the making or payment of any church rate, except in cases arising under some local or other special act of Parliament. " 3. That, in seeking the abolition of church rates, your petitioners submit that they are aiming to re store the voluntary character (so far as the parish ioners were concerned) of the system whereby originally churches were kept in repair, and the expenses of divine worship therein were defrayed. " 4. That the custom which eventually took the present form of church rate, by which the majority of parishioners in vestry assembled could bind all the ratepayers of the parish to pay their quota towards the objects for which such rate was made, originated at a period when the whole population were of one faith, and could avail themselves of the accommodation thereby provided for their spiritual benefit; but that since the prevalence and legal tolerance of diverse views of both Christian doctrine and discipline, the exaction has become oppressive to the consciences and repugnant to the feelings of a large and increasing number of subjects of the realm, who at their own cost have erected thousands of places of worship, all the religious agencies con nected with which they maintain by means of voluntary contributions. " 5. That while church rates are leviable on the whole rateable population of the country, the ac commodation provided by the churches to the main tenance of which they are applied is utterly inade quate to satisfy th e corre lative rights of the parishioners. " G. That very many churches have been built and are kept in repair by members of the church of England, without any recourse to a parochial rate; and that such persons, in common with Dissenters, feel the injustice of being compelled to pay an ec clesiastical tax from which they derive no corre sponding advantage. " 7, That although such injustice might be re dressed by enabling district parishes to make their own rates, and relieving them from payment to wards the mother church, this extension of the tax to purposes hitherto provided for by voluntary means would not only be in violation of the pledge given to the Legislature at the passing of the act of 1830 and subsequent acts, in virtue of which many district churches hay e been erected, but would necessarily displace a large amount of healthy exertion and contributions now cheerfully devoted to the maintenance of such churches, and would impose a heavier burden on the community at large. " B:That your petitioners, judging from re peated declarations made at vestry meetings, and from the still more decisive evidence of ♦otes, where polls have been taken, have good reason to believe that a considerable number of members of the Church establishment would deprecate an ex tension of the existing compulsory system, even although any grievances of their own might be thereby redressed. 9. That a general opposition to church rates originated shortly after the extinction by act of Parliament of church cess in Ireland in the year 1832; and that, many years before the formation of the society of which your petitioners constitute the executive committee, such opposition was so de cided as to compel the Ministers of the Crown to admit the urgent necessity for an alteration of the law, and, in accordance with such admission, to make a proposal to Parliament, the object of which was that church rates should cease and determine.' " 10. That such opposition has never since abated, but has very greatly increased since the judicial decision of the House of Lords in the Braintree case. " 11. That, so far from it being the fact that only 500 parishes have refused to make rates, it appears, from a return presented to your honour able house in 1856 (No. 319) that, out of the 1,672 places making returns, 1,130 had ceased to make rates. That such return, while altogether omit ting, as your petitioners know, many populous plates where rates have also ceased to - be levied, showed that the parishes where they had ceased contained a population of 6,126,151, against a popu lation of 7,084,249 in the other parishes—the average population of the parishes still making rates being below 1,000, while that of the parishes refusing was more than 5,000. " 11. That a later return, with a supplement thereto, presented in 1859 (No. 4 and No. 4 I.), and embracing 10,165 parishes, respecting which infor mation is given, shows that for seven years no church rates had been levied in 1,60'i parishes ; that in 2,673 parishes the rate was supplemented by voluntary rates of subscriptions, and to a small extent by endowments, and that the whole number of parishes in which the maintenance of the fabrics and of the services is dependent on the church rate exclusively is but 5,4451. " 13. That the general and progressive character of the opposition to this impost is further illus trated by the Parliamentary returns presented from 1827 to 1859 ; inasmuch as it is thereby shown that the sum annually derived from church rates has continuously declined—it having within that period fallen from £519,000 to £260,000. " 14. That, nevertheless, such returns fail to give an adequate idea of the extent of hostile feeling with which this ecclesiastical impost is regarded, inasmue! - , as, besides omitting many parishes in which rates are no longer levied, they take but little cognisance of the strong but unavailing oppo sition of minorities, and give little or no informa tion as to the numerous cases in which the collec tion of a church rate has been found impracticable, either on account of its invalidity, or of the antici pated number of recusants to the demand. " 13. That, notwithstanding the great diminu tion of the amount annually raised by means of church rates, churches have not, in consequence thereof, fallen into decay, nor has divine worship ceased to be performed therein ; on the contrary, as your petitioners are informed, more care has been bestowed, and more money expended, on the repair and decoration of the ancient churches than during any corresponding term in the entire period when church rates formed almost the only available fund for such purposes. " 16. That, from the concurrent testimony of the returns laid before Parliament in 1856 and 1859, it appea rs th a t o f t h e mon ey raised by means of chur c h ra t es a ver y small partiont ally, is requi re d f or th e pur pose of . the churches, there being in fact raised, chiefly from voluntary sub scr ipti o ns, which those returns show increasing, an amou n t to be both permanent and which, if applied solely for that purpose, wo u ld be nearly an adequate provision. " 17. That, in particular, i t appears from the re turns of 1859, that the average sum annually ex_ pended in the repair of the fabric to( l , ui and *ing the sev en that during • years then preceding was .E 310,) the same perio d there was received, of church rates , an average sum of i 2 independently. 69,000, leaving a balance of only £40,000 a year to be otherwise provided for. That it appears by the census of re ligious worship that there are upwards of 5,000,000 sittings belonging to the Church of England ; and 2 (7 ) 1 - 7 ' Y 1-- (4 ' , ~ t petitioners Submit to the tipe -photyr 111 --4 111 W ?./ t's'i ' • • fi re house that, if it be thou". fig S D___+k tend the existing system (4' e' ; ---' . r . i + ....0s - - - -....-- 6d. per quarter on each of " t„ 3,1 o s t a.- Ai raise .E 300,000, and would j/4:-.0,11.**10 laVgii"l number of sitting,4; free . t -tlefitiqlsitPitimiOgi any tea en to MI ppaLie they igiLi7ler-:....." " 18. That your petition 4kilfW' isiiiisktile46 imagine that the abolition or`ukute i i r t4444--the parishes where they• arc still leld. w Ad . ail any degree injure tne poorer pitei.shioners ; that it would give direct relief to many restepeyersill able to pay .... the rate ; and that, assuming, As your petitioners do, as much readiness on the part of the utembers of the Church of England as that displayed by members of other comm un i ons to provide the means of divine worship according to their ability, they do not perceive any respect in which the services of ~ the Chur c h wou ld b e l ess ava il a b le for the poor than they now are. " 19. That f or many years past a general anxiety has prevailed to effect a final settlement of this much controverted question. That your petitioners, sharing this anxiety-, were willing in 186 to acquiesce in arrangements t hen be! ieved to be likely to pass into law, although such arrangements were not in perfect accordance with their own views. yutlio:(ol:indar modification ifcooatni the . ieo t h h no e uh o sa t es ter hand, the supporters of the rating system have never agreed among themselves as to the principles which should govern any modifica nitahwa.t regarded h ' l e ' h b at i i lwe(s)i-te.t with i y i c, lo.proposaldisfavournle nboiyf_ existingib)ueet ....oble.tyrt,soufuoifirrellioTelan;:iih3sytcouoesnke:iilinlocrtiii J ig. h eie e )rsoet;e simple esi v a e m i l ,a i r m li n a i m ed e i n a t t s e abolition of church -rates, has received the approval as your, petitioners submit, that it is a measure in harmony with the views and wishes of the public. " 20. That the persevering, earnest, and costly efforts which have been made of late years for the abolition of church rates haie been made with s view to put an end to a system which is sincerely believed—wheresoever ;. and upon whomsoever it may operate—to be injurious to religion, and not with any intention of claiming exemption for such only as may object to compulsory exactions' for ecclesiastical objects. " 21. That, i n th e op i n i on of your petitioners, the association of_ the public authority of law with a permission to large classes of her Ailajesty's _sub jects to obey it or not, as they may individually prefer, would be an impolitic and even dangerous novelty in the jurisprudence of the country, and would involve the injustice ofcompelling a large °lass of citizens to make personal claims for exemption from a tax to which th ey oug h t not to b e subject. 22. That, in rural parishes especially, the pro posed exemption would fail to give the relief in tended, inasmuch as the undue but irresistible in fluences which now prevent opposition to the mak ing a rate in vestry would operate quite as power fully to deter individual objectors from claiming exemption ; and that, even it' such exemption were largely claimed, it would necessarily increase the mount payable by those who absent themselves front all places of worship, and would probably in crease their indifference or antipathy to religion. " 23. That, for these and other reissons, your peti tioners believe that no laW for the exemption of themselves only would be accepted by the opponents of church rates in the parishes as a final settlement of the question ; and that, therefore, the ill will oc casioned by the exaction wouldstili continue. " 24. That your petitioners cannot discover any reason which is not equally good for all other Christian communions why Protestant Episcopa lians should be enabled to use the machinery of public law for the purpose of defraying the cost of their religious worship; and that the extension of suchipower to churches of every other denomina tion would be perilous as a precedent, and might in the end prove disastrous to the general as well as the religious interests of the country. " 25. That your petitioners, in seeking the aboli tion of church rates, are influenced by no feeling of hostility to Protestant Episcopalians, nor are they desirous of effecting any change in their doctrines, their formularies, or their discipline ; on the contrary they firmly believe that the extinction of this com pulsory ecclesiastical exaction, besides tending to promote the general good of the people and the interests of religion, would stimulate, rather titan check, the prosperity of the Episcopalian body. " 26. That, while your petitioners do not conceal, but, on the contrary, have alWays avowed, their desire to bring about, in a constitutional manner, other changes in the laws affecting the relationship of the State to religious bodies, they declare their unaffected belief' that the abolition of church rates would restore peace to the parishes in which they are now the occasion of lamentable dissensions, and would thus leave the discussion of other and larger measures to be carried on under circumstances far less likely to excite personal animosities and local strifes. " Your petitioners therefore humbly pray your honourable house to satisfy the just expectations of the country by once more passing the bill for the entire abolition of the church rates. And your petitioners will ever pray. " Signed on behalf of the petitioners, " WILLIAM EDWARDS, Chairman." GRANITE DUSTY .ROADS. In some former numbers of the Lancet we no ticed the fact, not generally known, that emana tions from animal and vegetable deposits in our streets, mixed with granite dust—impeding the drainage of our sewers and contaminating the waters of the Thames—are sources of disease, and highly prejudicial to the health of the inhabitants of this metropolis. The injury to the lungs and air-passages by inhaling granite dust, we also ob served, is an additional evil to which the public of London are exposed. We now find, by the evi dence adduced before a committee of the House of of Commons as to the causes of the noxious exhala tions from the Serpentine, that the macadamised roads all round the metropolis, as well as the granite in the streets of London, have contributed, for a series of years past, to the augmentation of these evils. The accumulation of mud in that . i ornamental piece of water have reached certain parts a depth of eight feet; and when this sedi ment becomes exposed to the solar heat in sultry seasons, decomposition and noisome emanations fol low as matters of course. Another important fact, which appears to have been also overlooked, is, that a great obstacle to utilising for agricultural purposes the sewage of the metropolis and other large towns is th© quan tity of mud washed into the common sewers from macadamised roads. This evil can only be effectu tually provided against by the universal adoption of the improved system of road-making, termed the " Composite System," by whick the broken granite is permanently embedded in a bituminous cement, so as to prevent this constant grinding into dust. The blocks are of a larn.e size, and are brought into the streets ready made ; and, being , impervious, they are free from noxious exhalations. The economy of this mode of paving is undeniable. Mr. Gibson, President of the Board of Trade, Mr. M•Kinnon, M.P., and other inhabitants of vde-park-place, have, we understand, in conjunc tioh with Sir James Duke, the Rev. Mr. Beard, and other inhabitants of Portland-place, made various representations to the Vestry of Marylebone to substitute this system for the Afacadam ; but it is us difficult to get some vestrymen to t rave l out of the antiquated rut of routine as it was in days of yore to induce them to admit that gas was superior to oil for street illumination, or to get stage-coach and post-horse proprietors to acknowledge the superio rity of steam power on railways over animal power on common roads. We are glad to find that Lmd Fermoy is taking an active part in removing the evils of the Serpentine, and we should like to see him take the lead in the formation of an association for providing a remedy for these evils, by the adoption of this improved system of covering roads. All the metropolitan members might take a part in such a movement, as the health and comfort of their constituents must always be matters of importance to them ; an d nothing could contribute more to such results than the removal of mud, dust, and deafening noises from our streets. It may be very true, as it always has been, that there are certain vested interests in. the maintenance of abuses, and that contractors and scavengers,wit h dust-carts, m ud-carts,&c.,would something of their enormous profits by the adop tion of a system of cleanliness which would not re quire their aid; but the public is not likely to submit to nuisances, the subject of such gf.'neral com pl a int ; nor can th e ra t epayers be expected to subunit much longer to the far than. faigreater outin'y for i t ) l e ie re ingauiiirietednfaonr ih eeo e f ir su re c i h n evils oval. will Facts are b hen st e u hf br o o r t h n thins, and truth must prevail sooner or h tter.— La nee& ) ----- --- A itt.M.UtKAIILE Pftol'EßTY OF IRON.-1 r t the year 1856, says a contemporary, Mr. March, an ab.lf t che mist connected with the Royal Arsenal, discovered that it was an invariable rule with iron which has remained a con siderable time under water, when reduced to small grains or an impalpable powder, to become red hot, and ignite any substances with which it comes in contact. This h found by scraping some corroded metal from a gun, which ignited the paper containing it, and burnt a hole in his pock et. The knowledge of this fact is of immense importance, as it may account for many spontaneous flies and explosions i . The tendency of moistened particles of iron to ignite •r, dig• covered by the great French chemist, Lonely, as f ag j • back as the year 1670. We learn from the Bert fio'd .Tournal that the Right Hon. Lord Llanover will figure at tho -ont :Louth assizes as defendant in an extraordinary trial for libel , pr*. ferred against him by Mr. Stone, of Llangattock, a g tntls man well known in the fashionable and sporting ell c , es in this part of thu country. The damages reach high w.• R I GS FROM INDIA. TO THE EDITOR OF Tug TIMES. Sir,—l am quite satisfied frinu the facts adduced in the Itines that no raw fore can be produced, at a remunerating price, fit for the manufacture of good paper, and that we must rely on rags alone for this purpose. I theretbre suggest, through you, the most effectual mode that I know for advertising an opinion, that India and China are markets which ought to supply a l arge quant i ty. At least 200 million Indians are clothed almost entirely in cot ton and cottons are also the chief clothing of full double that number of Chinese, the rags of these 600,000,000 of people never being used, that I am aware of, for manufacturinc , 6 paper or any other use ful purpose, th e p aper of the Hindoos being made from cotton, and that of the Chinese from bamboo. That the rags could be had in abundance in both countries cannot, I think, be doubted, and the chief question for consideration is whether so low-priced an article as rags would bear the freight and charges of an Indian voyage. I imagine, however, that they would do so, when we find raw cotton imported, some of which is not more valuable than rags. That cotton is able to bear the cost of voyage rests chiefly on its being compressed by werful engines, which would be necessary also wi rags. In corroboration of the great extent of the con sumption of cotton fabrics in India and China it may be worth while to mention that our own ex• port of them in 1858 exceeded the value of £13,000,000.--I am, sir, your obedient servant, March 22. J. C. TILE NEW METROPOLITAN MEAT .AND POULTRY MARKET. DEPUTATION TO THE HOME SECRETARY. A deputation attended on Saturday, by appoint ' ment, at the Home-office, to explain to Sir G. C. Lewis and the Hon. C. Gore the plan proposed by the corporation for the erection of extensive whole sale markets to ba connected by the Metropolitan Railway with the abattoirs at the Cattle Market and the great provincial railroads by which the metropolis is now chiefly supplied. The deputation consisted of Mr. Henry L. Taylor, chairman ; Mr. Ross and Mr. Gibbons, members of the Markets Improvement Committee; together with the City Remembrancer, the City Solicitor, and the City . Architect. In consequence of the continued indis position of Sir G. C. Lewis, the deputation were received by Mr. Waddin g t on , one o f th e U n d er - Secretaries of State, and by then - on. C. Gore, Chief Commissioner of her Majesty's Woods and Forests. Mr. TAYLOR stated the objects contemplated by the corporation, and the architect explained various maps and models showing the position and charac ter of the proposed structure. The market is to he 600 feet in length by 240 feet in width, and from 20 to 30 feet in height. The site is north of Long lane, and will be surrounded on all sides by a road 60 feet wide. Mr. WADDINGTON observed that since the list interview the committee had had with the Home Secretary he understood that some important changes had been made in the design. He wished to have those alterations explained, in order that he might apprise Sir G. C. Lewis of their character and extent. Mr. TAYLOR said that the site, size, and shape of the market would be precisely the same as he had described them at the last meeting. The Home Sec retary, after that meeting, had signified to the cor poration the general approval by the Government of the principle involved in the plan, but he required further information as to the mode contemplated for the appropriation of that part of the ancient site south of Long -lane which was not to be used for the market or surrounding roads ; that additional information the committee had endeavoured to supply by a letter addressed to the Chief Commis sioner of Woods and Forests, a copy of which had been likewise sent to the Home Secretary. As that letter had stated, the purchase of the land for the market and roads was estimated by the archi tect at so large a sum, and the cost of such an ex tensive building was necessarily so large, as to render the committee anxious, if possible, by con necting the market with the metropolitan railway system, to obtain a rental for the use of the base ment floor, and both expedite and cheapen the con veyance of meat from the country as well as from the abattoirs at the Metropolitan Cattle Market into the new establishment. Unless this could be accomplished, the committee had felt it necessary to pause before they could recommend the Com mon Council to embark in such a great experiment. Mr. GORE remarked that the proposed appropria tion of the site of Smithfield Market was not in conformity with the recommendation of the com missioners who conducted an inquiry upon •the sub ject in 1856; they recommended that it should be retained as an open space. Mr. TAYLOR observed that that recommendation was principally founded upOn the objection to have buildings erected so as to impede the free circulation of air. The present plan was not amenable to that objection. Almost the whole of the ancient site would be uncovered. The market itself would not be so lofty as the houses it would displace. The 60 feet road by which it was intended to surround the buildings would far more than compensate for the small portion of the ancient site on which a part of the market would stand. Unless the small por tion of ground not exceeding one-third of an acre could be obtained for a descending waggon road to the basement floor under the market, as shown in the model, the railway companies would not con nect their lines with the market, for beneficial as it would be to the public and the market that the connection should take place, the profit on carrying , from 60,000 to 80,000 tons of meat a-year would not be sufficient to remunerat e th em f or their great outlay. The return for their outlay must be sought for in the saving of cartage upon City goods which were now taken to and from Camden-town and Paddington in waggons and vans. The CITY SoLicrroft said he had already entered into an arrangement with the railway companies, by which one thousand of the industrious classes would be taken out of town nightly, and brought back daily, at a charge of one shilling eac h person. If her Majesty's Government will allow the rail way companies to employ the unproductive half acre of the ancient site which they require to make it worth their while to bring their railroads into Smithfield, he had not the slightest doubt but that, within two years from that time, they would see a train started from that very spot, upon the terms stated, with a thousand of the warehousemen, por ters, mechanics, and humble classes, who are now compelled, by the force of circumstances, to inhabit the unwholesome dwellings in that densely-popu lated neighbourhood. Assuming the average of five to each family, the first result of this mighty measure of social improvement would be to re lieve the City of fifty thousand of its over-crowded population. Mr. Waddington and Mr. Gore then said that they could not give any answer to the application