The Sun. — London, England, 1847-02-15 00:00:00

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In ler 0t.2 is de- Aset ; bat his features are good. his countenance is very fine, Auld his eyes are beautiful, alike from colour, shape, and *xPression ; while there is a striking benevolence in his look, tone of voice, and manner." With these rerni• • !tiseences of a marvellous gt neration the present work 15 crowded. It constitutes 911 agreeable embellishment to the more sober history of the period ; and for the se curauletion and classification of these h.erary frig 'tents we feel indebted to author, editor, and publisher le their relative proportions. THEMARYLEBONE VESTRY. LIE STATE OF IRELAND AND LORD G. BEN TINCK'S RAILWAY MEASURE. .., a o c Saturd a y a ver y f u lly attended meeting of the -!K! ryl e b one Vestry too k place at t h e C ourt -h ouse , Xaryleboo e. Th e Rev. Dr. Spry, the rector, having taken the chair, Mr. G. DANIELL ro,e, and said he hoped the vestry lad t he Rev. Chairman would not consider him out of "der in taking the opinion of that vestry upon a resolu tion be intended to propose, affecting the interests of Millions o f human beings in the United Kingt:om. They eOuld not shy'. their eye 4 to the dreadful state of starva tionwhith existed throughout the si,ter kingdoms of I % rod and in Scotland ; nor were they less alive to a ; 'Was at that time proceeding within the walls of the .gtslatu re upon that most important subject. He tstaought the time had arrived when the constituencies of E ngland should speak out their sentiments against the nefarious measure attempted to be carried in favour of the Irish landlords, and for taking sixteen millions of money out of the pockets of the people of this coun try to be invested in the construction of Irish rail- Wa ys- Th ere never was a gra ver subject either before t - tirliatr aent or the kingdom at large ; and he could only designate the attempt of Lord G. Bentinck and his Party as that of a band of interested and selfish men, ` w ho made the starvation of their fellow-creatures a I t elVing-stone to their own aggrandisement.--(Hear, agar.) So far from such a measure as this railway !cheme being anything like justice to Ireland, it was a further attempt on the part of the landlords to crush the poor, a n d f urt h er to perpetuate th e i r m i se ry.—(Hear, hear.) li e (Mr. G. Daniell) had, within the last few d ays, been f u rnished by the Hon. Member for the blreland, (Sir B. Hall) with a blue book on the state of areltnd, and it was enough to turn the heart sick to re al' of the cold-blooded and heartless tyranny of the Irish landlords towards the poor.—(Shame.) There *as no rule without an exception, and there were some instances of kindness and humanity recorded ; but what could they think of the heartless wretches whose only aid towards the sufferings of the starving poor on their *States was to furnish coffins for them when they bad terminated their miserable existence ?—(Shame shame.) There were such instances on record. The people of England had a right to demand that the Irish landlords should be called on to pay their rates, and that there should be an efficient poor-law established for Ire land.—(Cheers.) What leas the fact? Why in some unions the cost of the poor did not amount to more than 701. or SOL a week, whilst in Marylebone it was nearly I,oool.—(Hear)—therefore, as Englishmen, they had a right to call upon the Irish landlords to support their own poor, and not come and take the money out of the pockets of the English people for such a purpose.—(Ht ar, hear.) Mr. Daniell concluded by moving, "That the proposition of Lord George Bentiack to expend sixteen millions of money on the construction of railways in Ireland is unjust in principle, impolitic, and detrimental to the empire at large, and that this vestry cordially approve the course the Government have adopted in giving their determined opposition to this most nefarious measure." Mr. Davin SALMONS rose with great pleasure to second this resolution. He believed ke understood some little about commercial matters, and he was prepared to say, that the scheme for taking sixteen millions of money for the manufacture of Irish railway s was a scheme for the benefit of Irish landlords, and nothing else.— (Rear, bear.) What would be the effect of such a scheme on the money.market? Why, it would have , t he fft s eect of destroying and depreciating all other se curities and must discourage all the railway enterprises °f this couutry.—(Hear, hear.) No one with his senses *bout him, when he looked to the position of all Europe, end saw that both in France and Germany there was a dearth almost equal with our own and knew that we tad to pay in b ar d cas h f or a ll t h e f oo d imported, could ut view this scheme with the grestes: dread and al arm. —(Hear, hear.) The only remedy, in his opinion, was to compel the landlords of Ireland to do their duty - (Cheers)—and he considered it was the bounden duty of every constituency in the kingdom to meet and sup port the Government in their measure of giving a poor law to Ireland.—(Cheers.) He had no desire that they should do the slightest thing to stop the flow of benevo lence which was going on to aid our starving fellow subjects in 'reined, who were deserving of the warmest a PtipstbY; but, they ought to meet and support the Go „ernment in i'ts exigency. —(Hear, hear.) Sir JAMEi H AMILTON said he was desirous of offering . few Words of vindication on the part of the landed Proprietors of Ireland, with some of whom he was con r: t4l d. A:ithough there might be instances of neglect, thought, as a class, they had done the best they %Um to alleviate the existing poverty.—(Loud cries of 4 • .' 3 , no.") Gentlemen might cry " No, no ;" but in w t. case of a relative of his, he (Sir J. Hamilton) fthought as a landlord, he did not reap much advan tage, when last year, instead of an income of 2,5001. ri-year, he only received 501 He thought the " No, no" Caine from gentlemen who had not travelled on the other aide of the Channel.—(Laughter, and " Oh, oh.") Mr. H. C. WILSON said he could well appreciate the *fleet on the moriey-market by the issue of Exchequer bills by the Government to the amount of sixteen mil lions. There was, however, another way by which the money might be attempted to be raised, and that was by increasing the Income and Property-tax ; and he thought the reckless party in the House of Com mons, headed by Lord George Bentinck, would not be prepared to st•and the shock such a plan would give to the nation.—'Hear.) He considered at this juncture that the Government had nobly done its duty, and that the Noble Lc,rd at the head of it had shown that talent and courage in the emergency which was characteristic of his family. They were in this instance deserving of the warmest support of the people. Sir BENJA MIN HALL, in reply to the call of the ves try, said he - understood from the best information in the City, that sttcn a scheme as Lord George Bentinck's was treated as moonshine—(Laughter) —and he thought he would find it all moonshine in the House of Commons. —(Heat., hear.) For his own part he would give it his most determined opposition. He had taken the trouble to make an estimate of how they would divide upon the motion on Tuesday next, and Lord George Bentinck would find a large majority for Ministers.—(Loud cheers.) As to the Poor Relief Bill for Ireland, it was a subject which required the earnest attention of every constituency in the kingdom —(Hear)—and he (Sir B. Hall) could assure the vestry that he believed the time had arrived when there must be no more quibbling, and when the landlords of Ireland must be compelled to do their duty.—(Loud cheers.) The resolution was then put from the chair, and car ried unanimously, amidst loud cheering. Mr. JOSHPLI then moved that a petition founded on the resolution be forthwith prepared. and be placed in the hands of Sir Benjamin Hall, on Monday, for presentation o the House of Commons on Monday evening. The resolution was seconded. and also carried nem. con, THE REGENT'S CANAL RAILWAY. The CHAIRMAN reported that the deputation from the vestry had accompanied the borough Members to the Commissioners of Woods and Forests, in opposition to the Regent's Canal Railway, and that the Commissioners inform-el them that they had taken the opinion of the law officers of the Crown as to their liability to the Crown tenants, and that they would consider the whole matter as soon as they obtained tl at Opilki The report on the motion of Mr. Daniell having been enter ed (2n the minutes, the vestry separated. DIRECT BOMBAY AND MADRAS RAILWAY. A meeting of the shareholders in this company, called by Captain Bouchette, formerly engineer to th e ra il way , was held on Friday at ie London Tavern, for the purpose of har ing submitted to them some "startling information respect ing the affairs of the company." A counter-advertisement had been issued by the directors, stating that they refused to entertain the exorbitant claim made by Captain Bouchette against the funds of the company. Shortly after the time appointed for the meeting the room was moderately filled ; and Mr. Giles Hull having been called to the chair, Mr. TOW.NSIIRND (Captain Bouchette's solicitor) was pro ce-ding to open his client's case, when several of the gentle nit in the body of the room hay ing risen to order, The CHAIRMAN decided that Captain Bouchette could not be heard by his solicitor. That gentl .aoan then proceeded to address the meeting, but as he was entering upon matters entirely personal, cer tain of the shareholders objected that the " startling com munications" were withheld, and that their time was wasted on subjects which only evidenced pique against absent o stronglymri andge, many ineffectual attempts parties ' to obtain but the impatience o f his auditors h io expressed for him to persevere, and questions length obliged to sit down, after having put a serieeswbot asked had adt been , Chappel, the solicitor of the compa n y, w Mr. CRAI'PSL replied. The fi rs t quest i on as s Who were the board of directors?—The board of directors were Mr. Hutting, Mr. Fuller , Mr. Palmer, Mr. Smith, and Mr. Gerard, all most respectable individuals. Captain Bouchette also referred to the registered proprietory, and stated that the name of Mr. Wormall only ap peared in that instrument. True it was so, and he would mention how that had happened. Mr. Fuller. Mr. Smith, and Mr. Wormall, were in the first instance registered as promoters, but Mr. Wormall, who was a needy man, having in vain endeavoured to extract money from the other gentlemen, went :to the registry-of Ace and gave in another document, can celling the other names, and leaving his own only remaining. So much for the single register pro prietor. With respect to the capital of the company, he could only say that it was so well husbanded that the directors were enabled to pay four per cent. dividend, and they hoped that even if the railway were not con structed they would be enabled to return to the share. holders the amount of their deposits intact. After some further observations. Mr. HUGIES moved, and Mr. MUDIE seconded, a resolu tion, " That, in the opinion of the meeting, the directors of the Direct Bombay and Madras Railway have acted in ac cordance with their duty to the shareholders and the public in dismissing Or. Bouchette from the office of engineer, and resolutely refusing his exorbitant claims." Captain JONES moved. and Mr. LEER seconded, the re maining resolution—" That the shareholders of the Direct Bombay and Madras Railway, present at this meeting, are fully satisfied with the statement submitted to them, as to the present state and future prospects of the company." Thanks to the Chairman having been voted, the meeting broke: up. THE IRISH i AA i e INtiS $ ruttier numerous Meeting of the Irish party on Friday, at the offi , !e, of t'ae Munster Railway Company, in Parliament -street, Lord Monteagle presiding, at which the various clauses of the new Poor-lirff Bill wen considered at Dome look. THE SUN LETTER TO THE RIGHT HON. EARL GREY ON THE EXTENSION OF STEA NAVIGATION FROM SINGAPORE TO PORT JACKSON, AUSTRALIA. My Lord,—On the 20th of May last, I had the honour to address a letter to your Lodahip's predecessor in the Colonial Office, the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone. on the subject inti mated in the title-page, and to which letter I received the following reply i— " Mr. W. E. Gladstone presents his compliments to Lieut. ;aghorn, and returns his best thanks for the pamphlet on the extension of steam navigation from Singapore to Port Jackson, which Lieut. Waghorn has been so good as to trans mit to him. " Mr. W. E. Gladstone begs to assure Lieut. Waghorn that he regards with a lively interest a propoeal, the effect of which would be to diminish by one-half, for many important purposes, the distance between the United Kingdom and the Australian Colonies, and that it will be to him a matter of sincere regret, if, upon examination of the charges attending the execution of such a plan, those departments of the Go vernment which are peculiarly responsible in that respect, shall arrive at the conclusion that the expenses are too heavy to warrant any early attempt to give it effect. " Colonial Office, May 28, 1846." Since the date of the foregoing, the Sub-Committee of th e Association of Merchants, Bankers, Traders, and others, of the city of London, interested in the extension of attain na vigation to Australia, have, as your Lordship is aware, laid before vou an elaborate report descriptive of the various 1 routes for the proposed connexion of our Australian and New Zealand dependencies with this country and India—analysing the respective merits of each, and recommending to your Lordship's notice the one first advocated by me, in conjunc tion with the gentlemen composing the Committee, and whose names ark appended to this letter. In answer to that report, your Lordship directed the annexed communication to be made by the Under-Secretary for the Colonies, B. Hawes, Esq., M P.:— " Downing-street, November 3, 1846. " Gentlemen,—l am directed by Earl Grey to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 19th ultimo, enclosing the report of a committee appointed by merchants, and others, connected with the Australian Colonies, to examine into the merits of the various routes by which a communication by steam-vessels between those colonies and Great Britain might be established ; and I am directed to acquaint you in reply, that Lord Grey attaches the greatest importance to the subject, but that the necessity of communicating with the governors of the Australian Colonies must prevent any definitive arrangement being made at present. " I am, gentlemen, your most obedient servant, " B. HAWES. " Sir George Larpent, Bart ; lion. F. Scott, M.P." My Lord, the incessant pressure on my time in organizing the machinery for the transmission of the Overland Mails, in the face of hitherto unattempted difficulties and with un exampled dispatch, as is not unknown to your Lordship, has prevented me carrying out the intention I first conceived on the perusal of Mr. Hawes' letter—namely, to entreat your Lordship to allow me, with the greatest deference, but at the same time with the utmost earnestness, to urge upon you at once to lend your countenance to the great object of bringing 'sir Australian possessions within the sphere of those blessings which steam enables us to confer upon nearly all our other colonies. Believe me, my Lord, I speak after anxious and careful reflection, when I venture to assure you that this noble project may be advanced a long way towards maturity before you can receive any reply from the Colonial Governors. I well know the disposition that exists in the mercantile body of London, and also in the large commercial and manufac turing towns of Great Britain, to draw Australia and New Zealand into the closest proximity to the mother-country by steam, within the shortest possible period. I know to what extent that disposition may be made available, in seconding whatever assistance the Government might be pleased to ex tend; and I know that, owing to various causes, such dispo sition will be materially damped and will not be easily revived, should delay intervene in setting about the accom plishment of a purpose to whose importance your Lordship bears witness. Whatever may be your sense of that importsnce, it cannot be exaggerated. lam well aware of your Lordship's in timacy with the condition, prospects, and requirements of our colonies in every part of the globe ; but it cannot be supposed that your Lordship should have bestowed on our Australian territories in particular that minute practical observation necessary to possess you of the full commercial and social de sirability, as well as the political value, of extending steam navigation to those remote but important regions. I aria sure, if I could prevail upon your Lordship to examine the data adduced in the pamphlet addressed by me, on this subject, to Mr. Gladstone, and if you would fortify, by inquiry, the accuracy of the cakulations there's' made, and the reason ableness of the inferences drawn from those data, you would be induced forthwith to advise the Crown to allow Australia to participate in those advantages which so many other colo nies now enjoy, through the instrumentality of private steam companies, who are assisted by public grants. It is in vain to wait to know what the colonies wilt do. Be it much or be it little, the most that could be hoped from them would not be equivalent to the gain that would accrue from a prompt decision on your Lordship's part to make a pecu niary grant, and leave the rest to the merchants of London. I ask no more than that your Lordship should make such offer as your own appreciation of the interests affected may dictate, and as the precedent of state donations towards steam communicatios e with the West Indies, China, North America, &c., may seem to you to justify. If that offer be not met in a corresponding spirit by the gentlemen whose Sub-Committee have already reported to you, and in whose name I now speak, I am content to forfeit whatever slight credit I may pretend to, as a promoter of rapid intercommu nication between England and the Eastern hemisphere, arid to be accounted the visionary and the dreamer which so many people were kind enough to pronounce me, when I first undertook to carry the Government dispatches from Bombay to London, through Central Europe, in the depth of a more than Alpine winter, in one calendar month. But my Lord, if you would impart full value to the offer I solicit, let it, f pray you, be made at once. Notwithstand ing the various unusual claims on the national treasury at the present moment, no wise economist can look at the popula tion, wealth, and hourly-increasing capabilities of our vast colonies in the Pacific, without admitting that any reason able amount would be well laid out, that should bring them and us within half, not to say one-third the distance, in point of time, that now separates us, and must continue to separate us, without the adoption of the plan already sub mitted to you. I cannot think of Wing your Lordship's time by a reca pitulation here, however brief, of the pamphlet already alluded to—and in which, I persuade myself, several points tending to enhance the humble estimate of Australia, formed by the general English public, were brought pro minently forward. But I will venture to make an extract, in which a great deal of matter appears to me to be con centrated in a very small compass, strongly illustrative of the merits of the project now being reinforced by me, with all the energy I am master of. The extract consists in a passage from a speech delivered en Friday, the 17th of April, 1846, at the London Tavern meeting, called by me, and at which Sir G. Larpent presided —many leading London merchants interested in the colonies, being present—most ably assisted by J. W. Sutherland, Esq., together with the Hon. Francis Scott, M.P., the agent for the colony of New South Wales—to whose indefatigable labours, solidity of judgment, and unflagging zeal, no praise of mine can do adequate justice, nor can his services to the Australian colonies generally be possibly over-esti mated. The speaker I allude to was Mr. Mark Boyd, of the eminent firm of Boyd, Brothers and Co., whose intimate connexion with Australia,_ and the large possessions of members of whose family at Boyd-Town, Two-fold Bay, and in all parts of New South Wales, are well known to every one acquainted with the colonies. But to those who do not possess such knowledge, it will perhaps be sufficient to say, that the speaker is brother to Mr. Benjamin Boyd, chairman of the Pastoral Association of New South Wales, member of the Legislative Council, &c. ; and a gentleman who is not more esteemed for those private virtues which add lustre to his well-acquired opulence, than for the public spi ritin which he to worthily exercises his great energies and in tellectual accomplishments. After citing many cogent facts, as to the increase of letters and newspapers between Eng land and Australia, Hr. M. Boyd said :—"To attempt to define a limit to the advantages which the introduction of steam would afford Australia is impossible, but there can be no question as to the following. It would facilitate the invest-- ment of capital for the gradual development of the bound less resources of Australia and New Zealand. It would establish much greater confidence in all mercantile trans actions connected with the colony by preventing loss from over-stocked markets, and also obviate the inconvenience arising from the scarcity of supplies of European merchan dise. It would enable the merchants and shippers in the ciliny duly to effect insurance of their ships and merchan dise in England. It would enable East India invalids either to settle or recruit their health in that most congenial climate; the distance to Swan River only occupying fourteen days, to Sydney thirty. It would lead to a large emigration of a highly respectable class of capitalists, with their wives and families, who are at present deterred undertaking the voyage from its tediousness. A steam communication would there fore be of incalculable advantage to the colony, both morally and politically. It would greatly facilitate the pacification oi • New Zealand, by affording the means of promptly introduce ing the requisite precautionary measures sin case of need. It beicofurther encouraging tosAhefe,:rtsier:ert: Australian employmentatho t advantage, introduction o ft he bn o ya f t affordingt vnative wealthyp population. would likewise produce the same effect as in Australia, by t co t in l e i. t r e, Its a for nwd the hht would u a s f t e a i tl a p n r d es t e h n e t c P iv a i c l i t li sa c t t io ra n d o e f ca th r e ri in et a o b n i.t f a ro n i t n s colonies,n saof of the islands in the Pacific Ocean. It would enable promptly to anticipate and frustrate any attempts of foreign aggression, either upon our settlements or trade in those seas, It would accelerate the introduction of numerous necessary reforms in the local governments of the Australian co lony, and permit public opinion in England to exert its salutary influence on the acts of the colonial executives arid aid in preventing the colonists suffering the most grievous wrongs to which they are at present constantly sub jected. In conclusion, by the establishment of an Australian steam communication, the entire link between Great Britain and all the colonies will be complete, as well as those colo nies with each other respectively." These are the heartfelt sentiments of a gentleman whose house has been conspicuously engaged in Australian affairs for many years. They are the result of a diversified experi ence of the wants of nearly all our settlements in the Pacific, and of the important region of the Indian Archipelago, from which such substantial advantages will be derived from our increased propinquity between it and Australia, by the steam communication recommended, and which becomes of even greater importance, when we bear in mind our invaluable new trading station of Labuan, on the west coast of Borneo,—supplying, besides innumer able other advantages, inexhaustible quantities of coal. When that communication shall have been established, as at no di s t ant day it must be, the Australian and New Zealand colonies will owe an inexpiable debt of gratitude to the Messrs. Boyd for thei • r exertions in awakening public opinion at home to our obligations regarding those great tri butaries to the extent and weight of the parent state. It would be unjust to withhold my testimony to the services of the able coadjutor of Messrs.. Boyd—viz., Mr. Samuel Brown ing —Who, as a resident in Australia, and having visited almost every part of the Indian Archipelago, China, lee. &c., has brought to the i discusson in which the committee have been engaged, a personal fan raty with these localities, and a comprehensive knowledge 1' dealing witnret of the most judicious mode of eitose to the i:resent object, teat can not be too warmly c irinteitttea. Sine* the date of Mr. Mark 13 yd's ,speech nothing has occurred to diminish, b u t muc h to s e the value of Australia to us, and to re n d er more and i' r t a i nce, lorA te desirable the means of speedy intercourse w i t h h er. events in India have invested it with fresh importance memorable locale for the restoration of the shattered healthofaosuar troops. Occurrences in New Zealand warn us, that in no way can their repetition be more effectually prevented, than by encouraging steam communication between that colony and Australia, and between the latter and England, so as to admit of the transmission of instructions from the Home Government with the l east l os s of time. The alteration in the laws affeeteio, the importation of food opens the home market, tf, many of the preductioes of Australia he - etolore. inadmissible here ; and the exhaustless supplies of meat, in a pertanie form, awl slam , d to hnbii , h ant. .1.L.413 .:ants; that. be brought hither, ia, alone, a consideration not to be overlooked in seasons like the present, whose recurrence may, unfortunately, at any time_be expected. The changes that are being introduced into the colonial system of administration, according to public report, . under the auspices of your Lordship, must further increase the desirability of learning the eff ect of these changes speedily on such colonies as those more directly alluded to here; and, above all, the new footing on which colonisation is apparently about to be placed, esp ecially as regards emigration Ire land, emphatically demands t hat Australia be no longer sub from Ire joscted to the hardship and injustice of being the only great dependency of the Crown whose geographical remoteness is no* virtually diminished by steam. My Lord, I say that, if it were only on the score of the value of the Australian settlements to England in respect to future emigration, these settlements alone would be entitled to the Government aid now sought at your bands. In my letter to Mr. Gladstone, I said, "If I did not hope that these remarks may co me under general attentio n throu g h the me dium of the press, which has already given an extended pub licity to the question of 'Steam to Australia, I should not attempt to hint to a gentleman whose knowledge of public affairs is as extensive as y ours, any one of the various mome ntous considerations embraced in the single word Colonization,' as affected by Australia being brought one half nearer than it is to England. The distance diminished one-half, and the improvement immediately created by that diminution, Australia would become, as it ought, the focus of all emigration from the United Kingdom. The ungrateful soil and trying climate of our North American possessions would no longer baffle the industry and exhaust the means of our small farmers. The United States would no longer absorb the skill of our mechanics, and leave them to learn that the habits, the comforts, and the independence of an English home, if poor even to poverty, may h unwisely exchanged for affluence where these accessories are wanting. The Cape, the West Indies, Etc., would no longer act as quicksands to the industry that annually flows thither, where it is lost or frustrated, because the locality is altogether unsuited to such of our population as live by labour, for the most part, out of doors. No, sir; emigration would flow to Australia, where soil, and climate, and produce, and the currents of traffic, and, in short, every circumstance an intending emi grant should take into account, invite him to settle, and where nothing repels him, but the distance and the evils this distance alone occasions. I repeat, that emigration, on the largest scale, will find its way to Australia once steam is established, and that the benefits to all parties will be im ltasrat, transpired I pi t r r e u d st t y o ou im w p il a l ir be th o e f ir im mense." If there were any truth in these remarks in May opinion forc e a t n h d a t a n p o p t l l i i c i a n b g i i h t y as .o since r my own part, I am more and more convinced of their correctness the more I ponder upon the subject. I am convinced, that the mere announcement of a monthly steam communication being about to be established with the Australian settlements, would, at once, turn the eyes of the great bulk of intending emigrants in that direction. I do not mean, of course, that emigrants would think of proceeding there by steam. Comparatively few, and only the more wealthy, would be able to do that; but the know • ledge that the intercourse with the mother-country would be doubled and trebled as compared with the existing state of things—that a letter and its answer might be received in London and at Sydney in less time than the letter alone now takes to reach its destination—that, in fact, for all purposes of correspondence and communication, Sydney and London would be almost as near to each other as are London and New York by the sailing packets ;—this knowledge, I say, would remove nine-tenths of the objections new entertained towards the Australian colonies. I abstain from touching on the mercantile bearings of the question ;—that is not my province; though I cannot help reminding you that, but for Australia, all our manufacturers of the west and north of England, who require fine wool, would be totally dependent on the Germans for that commo dity at ruinous prices —not less than 100,000 bales having been received from our southern colonies last year. It must be sufficiently obvious to every one, that an immense impetus would be communicated to the commerce of the settlements by the more increased facilities for the merchants and traders advising their agents of the state of the Australian markets, and being advised in return of the state of the markets of the world suited to the produce of the Pacific; for, it should be remembered, that it is not the English markets only which steam would bring closer to these colonies, but the markets of the whole Chinese and eastern seas,from Bong-Kong,Calcutta, and Ceylon, to the southern extremity of New Guinea. On these points I would take the liberty of referring you to my previous pamphlet, and to the map accompanying it. I take for granted, my Lord , tha t y ou have no hesita tion whatever to admit the easy practicability of the plan therein laid down, confirmed as it has been by the careful and volum nous report of the sub-committee. 'l'be sum and substance of it is—to place adequate st eamers, at Singapore, to proceed with mails, passengers, and valuable goods to Port Essington, through Torres Straits, to Wednesday Island. and so to Sydney—the nature of the navigation, coaling depots, kc., being detailed in the former pamphlet, and ample references given to the authorities from whose official reports my calculations have bean compiled, and especially from the surveys of the Beagle, conducted by that most able navigator, Captain Stokes, RN., to whose exertion and intelligence all connected with this project are deeply indebted. To make this invaluable extension to the ends of the earth as it were —to perfect that system which I have been the humble in strument of carrying so for as Singapore—to belt the world with steam, and consummate the great design of which the Overland Route to India is a part, the sum of 100,0001. per annum only is required,—a sum very much less than one half of what Government now gives towards steam navi gation with our West India Colonies, and a little more than one-halt that already given annually for the same object in connexion with Singapore and China. I have said to Mr. Gladstone, and I now earnestly repeat to your Lordship, that for the Government to work out this great undertaking in a manner worthy of it, and wortby of the objects involved, there should be no niggardly econo mizing attempted at the outset, as that, before long, would prove as bad, or worse, than the most reckless extravagance. Government should make their offer (through me) to the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, and if an exorbitant price be asked, I am perfectly confident that, with a grant from the Crown, a monthly steam communica tion between Sydney and Singapore, and vice versa, may be entered upon by a private company of merchants, which would be forthcoming in the city of London in two or three months, provided your Lordship will at once assure Sir George Larpent and the committee, that the Crown is ready to afford such pecuniary succour as the Australian Colonies are entitled to expect. lam certain that the offer of 100,0001. would in stantly call forth all needful energies in the city ; and for that sum, I repeat, in my former words, you bring into com parative contiguity with England a region far more in want than any other of the harmonizing and moral influences thus to be imparted ;—a region that would repay the generosity and care of the mother country with ten times the good t o be expected elsewhere ;—a region that has long cried aloud against our mismangement and neglect, and which accom panies those cries with the bitter and costly fruits which never fail to spring from the discontent that is produced by a sense of indifference at the bands of England. It would be easy, my Lord, to extend these observations to an almost indefinite length ; and it would not be a little gratifying t 9 me to lay fully before you the results of my experience, in the prosecution of the Overland Route, as to the vast benefits which I clearly foresee are springing up for England in her relationship with Central Europe through our adoption of that channel in reaching the East. It is because steam to Australia is part and parcel of the Over land design that I advocate it. But vain would be my ad vocacy if the merits of the case did not fully sus t a i n the prayer of this my petition to you, that you will not delay an hour in saying to Sir G. Larpent and the Committee,— " Gentlemen, draw on her Majesty's Treasury for 100,000/. a-year, and place Sydney and London as near together as the existing machinery of the Overland Route will permit, availing yourselves of every possible improvement to in crease their proximity." Do this, my Lord, and you will at once effect a most beneficial revolution throughout an im mense extent of our colonian empire, and lay the founda tion of a prosperity in the New World which the future his torian of the present Administration cannot' fail to record to your enduring honour. The cost is as nothing compared with the certain and the la.ting advantages that must immediately spring from it. Knowing what I do from my own observation of the ener gies that France is putting forth—seeing the immense, but at the same time sagacious, expenditure she is incurring in perfecting her steam mails and packets, and accelerating her intercourse in every direction, and by every possible means— labouring, in shert, to become, as it were, the highway of all intercommunication between all other countries; I am quite sure I do not speak extravagantly when I say that she would gladly devote a million per annum, had she such colonies as ours in the Pacific, to secure the benefits which we may now secure by one-tenth of that outlay, which would diminish yearly after a brief time, owing to the increased traffic on the route rendering the Government bounty less and less necessary. Trusting that the deficiencies of this hasty appeal to your Lordship will, in some respects, be found compensated for in my letter to your predecessor in the Colonial-office,—again en treating you to believe that much of the value of the grant applied for will depend on the quickness of its bestowal, and begging that you will on that head take the opinion of the Lords of the Admiralty, upon whose co-operation I am war ranted in fully calculating, I have the honour to remain. my Lord, your Lordship's most obedient servant, 'IIIOMAS,WAGHORN, Lieut. R.N. Cornhill, Feb. 10, 1847. MAILS DUE ON SATURDAY.—The following is a list alphabetically of the mails due on Saturday at the General Post-office, viz.. English, Scotch, and Welsh, 73 :—Aberga venny,Aberystwith ,Amersham, Battle, Bilston, Blackburn, Brecknock, Bishopscastle, Burford, Burney, Bridport, Bridg end, Cardigan, Carmarthen, Cardiff, Coleford, Chepstow, f LH O i r oa d ny w dh e oe s r ra t , de y,,11, lasa n Hereford,eeu all ; 11 ,r 0 L o . r a n in d rio e pn a e b n t re , ri :i i g i L i e g i ,p h h - Loo W i Criekswell, Clitheroe, Cowbridge, Eastbourne, Hay, Haver kan:drol I dobb, High-Wycombe, y i 1 1 a , un Merthyr b g s s P do i c u k t , Tydvil, Milford, Monmouth, Norbeth, Neath, Northleacb, Nuneham, Newtown, Newport(Salop), Newport(Monmouth), Oawestry, Peterstield, Picketing, Pembroke, Presteign, Rhayader, Ross, St. Clears, S':oken Church, St. Lronarda, Swansea, Shiffnall, Shrewsbury, Salisbury, Shaftesbury, Tetsworth, Tenby, Thame, Tairoach, Usk, Uskfield, Whitby, Lime i ric i k ia , ra N b e o w r r g 3, h, marl lig o ' has W a nut t :; r f S Wheatley, Wednesbury,Welshoool, and Wellington (Salop). Irish mails, 9, viz. :—Belfast , D err y, D r ogheda, Galway, o r d arrived,an and makinglirexford a i total addi tionof eighty-three mails due at el eve n o'clock. ABOLITION OF SLAVERY IN TURKEY.—The cor respondent of a French paper es writfrom Constantinople on the 20th ult.:—The S u lt an Y '` eerday presided at a sitting of the Supreme Council of7ustric, all the Ministers and high functionaries being presents pro posed a measure which will produceihe Sultan himself a great sensation in Europe, namely to issue an ordors nn of the slave market. This is not a io c d e ee(i for the suppression slavery altogether, but it is a finstep tt towar ds ar 8 suppression Ir'essil of The Koran, it is true, admits of slay, ry, , but it is one' t. in to lerance, for it at the same time recommends the enfran chisement of slaves as a meritork -, us action ; a n d the rich Mussulmans, at their great famil y festivals, or before set ting out on a long journey, and, indeed, at any important event of their lives, believe they cannot do anything more agreeable to God than to give a : slave his freedom. The ob stacles to general emancipation a rise rather from the customs and manners of the Turks than . from religious prejudices; and from the mement the Sult an sets the example it will meet with ready imitation. TI se Bey of Tunis has already abolished slavery in his Regenc. y, and Ibrahim Pacha, on his return from Europe, gave freed , sta to all his slaves, without either of these acts producing 1.111: least mark of disapproba- 1 tool in the sti,sulmso states. Ali the se• rid koews that in ' these states the slaves orm a pt..rt of the fmnily to which they belong, an d that many reach important stations. Two of the present Ministers of the Sultan, Kosrew Pacha and Hafiz Pacha, are treed slaves, 0 o were the late Gov nor of Trebisond, son-in-law of Sultan Mahmoud, Halil Pacha, Mehemet. Reschid Pacha, Command er-in-Chief of the army of Arabia, and many others. The n tother of the Sultan and all his wives were Circassian or Gs orgi n a slaves who have been enfranchised. The whole qu e. itions turns on this point, ' hat no man can hold a right over the freedom of a fellow creature." Lieutenant-Colonel Ratclif re, K.H., late of the Enniskillen Dragoons and 2d Drag oons, (lied on the nth inst He entered the service 88 Cornet in 1811, was prOmoted to a I,ieutenancy in .1812, to a Cap' tiacy 1 in 1827, a Majority, in 1832, and to a tieutenant-Colt .nelcy in 1837. He ,erved in the Peninso;s with the 2d DTI' VOUS, from acme 1911, to 1 the end of the war, in 1614, incl ,nding the ba4les of Sala i mauca, Vittoria, Pyrenees, and T btlouse. LONDON, MONDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 15, isv, IRELAND. DUBLIN, Fen. 11.—Daily the accounts from Ireland be come more gloomy and alarming. The extreme severity of the weather has aggravated the horrors of destitution, and famine is extending its ravages in the south and west. The very heavy fall of snow throughout the country has caused a general suspension of the public works—almost the sole source of sustenance for at least two millions of human beings, and although the regulation established by the Lord-Lieu tenant entitles the labourers in such a contingency to a moiety of the ordinary wages, yet, where provisions are at a famine price, the poor creatures will not be able to purchase food enough to keep body and soul together. Although arrivals of flour and Indian corn continue at Limerick and other ports, prices continue to advance. Alto gether the prospects are hourly becoming more disheartening. Many more deaths from starvation are reported in the pro vincial journals. The Mayo Constitution contains the parti culars of ten inquests, on all of which the verdicts were "died from starvation." Various presentment sessions have been held, under the Lord-Lieutenant's proclamations, but the votes were limited to sums required fur completing works. At the sessions of Markethill, county of Armagh, on Tuesday, no presentment was passed, because the local gentry and farmers are endea vouring, by employment and voluntary relief, to provide for the destitute. In the King's county and other districts, meetings are in progress to promote the tillage of the land, and the sowing of the spring crops. RuraonucrtvE EMPLOYMENT ComistmEE.—Meetings of this committee were held on Tuesday and yesterday. A petition in favour of Lurd George Bentinck's Irish railway project was unanimously adopted, and a vote of thanks to Lord George was passed. It was recommended that peti tions in favour of the project should be adopted throughout the country, and to be forwarded for presentation in the House of Commons to Lord George Bentinck, and in the Upper House to Earl Fitzwilliam. With respect to the New Poor-law Bill, a petition was adopted by the committee, strongly objecting to any right of relief, and to the system of out-door relief in any shape. The petition requires that the electoral divisions, instead of the unions, should form the area of taxation, and that even a smaller area than the electoral divisions should if possible be adopted, with a view to protect improving landlords from the pauperism of negligent proprietors. But the most remark able feature of the petition is a suggestion for a general pro perty-tax, limited in amount, for the support of the poor. GOVERNMENT SUPPLY OF SEED POTATOES. The Cork Examiner contains the following important letter from Messrs. Keeling and Hunt, who have been commis• sioned by Government to look out in the different grain markets of the world for a supply of seed. The letter is ad dressed to Mr. D. Kenhealy, of Cork : " Monument-yard, London, Feb. 6, 1847. " Dear Sir,—We regret to state, that all our exertions to obtain potatoes for seed have turned out a failure. France' has prohibited the exportation. The `Azores' have like wise stopped the shipment, the drain of Indian corn from that quarter compelling the authorities to fall back upon the crop of potatoes, to prevent a dearth of provisions them selves, in proof of which the shipment of Indian corn is now stopped as well. "We have tried ' Russia,' both by steam and sailing vessel ; both parcels were landed in a bad state, and dis heartened us from another attempt. We have sent out in structions for a supply from 'Bermuda,' which will be our last resource. _ _ "It is very evident that Ireland must fall back upon grain food. We look to the present visitation as a provi dential warning as to the futility of depending upon so pre carious a root as the potato. The reflection, no doubt, will be severe, but it will tend to the regeneration of Ireland, and God grant it so, speedily, with the exercise of his mercy.—Faithfully yours, "KEELING AND HUNT." Mr. Owen, of Mar Weld, county of NS'exford, has pub shed a letter, with a view of dissuading small farmers from sowing potatoes. He states that failures in the early-sown potatoes are occurring, and urges those farmers, who are husbanding the remnant of their sickly store for seed, to consume them at once. SHOCKING MURDER OF A HUSBAND AND WIFE. LimEnrcK, FEB. 10.—A double murder, whi c h cou ld no t be exceeded in atrocity in the most savage country, was per petrated in the town of Askeaton, on Satu r d a y night last. The unhappy w if e , victims were David Fitzgerald an d hi s an industrious and Toff, nding couple. Th e mur d ers were com mitted with Fitzgeralsrs ow hat ht, which was found covered with blood, and we learn from one who visited the awful scene upon Sunday morning, that the spectacle was most revolting and hideous—the gashes upon the faces of the unfortunate victims, their brains protruding, and the floor of the house was literally deluged with blood. The fatal blows must have been rapidly inflicted, and with deadly force, as no alarm was heard, although the house was in the centre of several others, and within ten yards of the police.barraek, and at a very early hour of the night, as Fitzgerald or his wife had not undressed or ret ired to bed. Robbery is sup posed to have been the object that led to this horrifying crime, as Fitzgerald's boxes were found unlocked and appa reritly rifled. A man. named John M'Carthy, who worked as a journeyman weaver with Fitzgerald, and who was at Fitzgerald's house on Saturday night, was suspected, and surrendered himself to the police An inquest is holding the last two days before Dr. Enraght, the coroner, and an intelli gent jury, assisted by Carrol Naish, Esq., one of the local magistrates of the district. The officers of the Royal Horse Artillery, Wool wich, gave, on Thursday last, an entertainment to their ,riends, to which were invited the nobility and gentry of the neighbourhood. The Ethiopian Serenaders, from the St. James's Theatre, were specially engaged on the occasion, and gave a selection from their popular repertory with their accustomed success and effect. A large party assembled to do honour to the hospitality of their gallant hosts. REMARKABLE RECOVERY OF BANK NOTES.—On Thursday a very singular circumstance happened to a man named James Wilkins, a person employed in the London Docks. He was in possession of several bank notes, to the amount of 501., which he kept ill his waistcoat pocket. At a late hour in the evening he went into the Town of Rams gate public-house, Wapping, where he partook of some re freshment in the parlour, after which he departed to his residence. Yesterday morning he missed his bank notes, and hastened to the public house where he had been on the previous night. He made various inquiries, and had given up the property as lost, when, on searching the parlour, he discovered the missing notes under the wood in the fire grate, which had evidently been picked up by the servant in a hurry and placed there at a late hour the previous night, as it was her usual custom to lay the fire before she went to bed. If the owner bad been five minutes later the fire would have been lighted, and the property of course con sumed. HORRIBLE DESTITUTION.—A gentleman, recently from the west coast, assures us that a family in Kishorn, Lochcarron, have subsisted for several weeks this seasons on boiled grass and nettles, without tasting any other spie f of food. He adds, that nothing whatever has been done for the poor by the parish beyond giving of meal, and thinks that, ere summer, Jeantown wi . the paupers a few be be as utterly destitute as Skibbereen, in Ireland.—Ross - sh ire Advertiser. It is mentioned in Westminster Hall that Mrt. Cockburn, Q.C., intends, at the termination of the p r r e eg i n ee session to relinquish his Parliamentary professional in Committees of the House, with a view to his entering Parliament at the next general election. ANOTHER STEAMER LOST. — she Creole, which was long employed between New il o e dea l) : and packet Bordeaux, has been wrecked on the eas tern coast of e the Island of Cuba. She left Bordeaux on the Bth of Nov tu ber, with 135 persons on hoard, including crew and paess en gers. On the 19th December she was driven on remained sub marine rocks off Nuevitas, Canal of Bahama, and ts. in this perilous situation during two days and three ni u gh ers All hopes of getting her eff, notwithstanding the passe g end, added their exertions to those of the crew, being at a rd, and the captain ordered her masts to be cut by the b turned every effort to save the passengers; but before insane could be taken the ship broke up. Out of 155 perso , . 82 reached the shore. Among those who were lost ewlausuttniel captain, M. Jules Cayol, who refused to quit the ;eine saved every other living person had been got off. have been well treated by th e i n habitants, an d were expect ing to leave shortly for New Orleans. ..... A de- TROOPS FOR T HE CAPE OF GOOD i E tachment, consistin of 35 non-commis sioned men of the Royal Sappers and Miners at Woolwic ss bn from their barracks, headed by the excellent liairloarmuga,danodf the corps, to the Royal Arsenal, on Saturdayf r Gravesend, embarked in the Lord Vivian Ordnance sloo p hi for con to be transferred to the Senator hired freight ib s e p p vacancies veyance to the Cape of Good Hope, to l ed it• Miners at that o in the two companies of Royal Sappe rs !% s _ a nd five men sta ion. Two officers of the Royal Ergin; e a r A ans were also of the Royal Sappers and Miners, from Chatham of the Royal Artill ry, consisting of 15 Inenembarked at the to join at 'Gravesend for the same destination. ofAtdheeta4cthhmbeantl talion, and 15 men of the 7th battalion, the com mand of Royal Arsenal at the same time , Lieutenant Drayson, to fill up the two Artillery at the Cape. c om p anies of Royal On Friday, at the THE COST OF FOURPBNCE. -- U nder Kjgsg t e street, Hol- Middlesex County Court of Reques ts, ea a d Barnes, appeared born, a journeyman paper-hangar, I, ? n saimer y, for the sum to sustain a summons against James us laintitrs child went to of fourpence. It appeared that the Pse of obtaining change the shop of the defendant for the pur were given, oas of for a shilling. Three fourpenny-01l . e i ess returned to the de which was bad. Upon the coin beir er, g Is an d expressed his fendant, he denied having giveu it to her It having been d e termination of not substt tilting anot • n d the one prod uced in court sworn that the coin then g iven ammissioner directed the du wasdant to pay the amount the same, the Learned Co claimed—fourpence, a nd t he costs, fen ma king a total of five shillings five shillings and sixpence,unang to nearly twenty times the and tenpence, the costs limo sum sued for. 1 Sir Archibald Maclaine has been Major-Genera Colonels} of the 52d Foot, in the room of appointed to the oneral Sir Edward Gibbs. Sir Archi baldthe late Lieutenant- e s 1794, and was the army in promoted to the entered al in 1841. He is the officer who re ceivedrank of Major-Genanr ko f ighthood for his defence of fort - Ala the honouA-a with only 155 men, against Marshal tagonda for 55 ) e of 8,000 under his command. Soule, who had a forc . IMPROVEMENT IN MAKING WROUGHT-HOSE. NEW Jarman, of Leicester, has announced a new in vention —Mr. Job ~.. t.. ose w for making wrought-hose. h • e understand that it ma kes one-fourth more goods than on the present plan, and in every respect.--Nottingham Re •' . quite equal to them C ' I e le" LAW in- I t -- t RUMOUREDgenerally yesterday was reported in the Four Courts on that Judge Burton has intimated his 1 . ) - intention of vacating the b enc h. Hi s L or d- hyl • " 1 powers, it has been for some time ma n if es t, shiP's i d althouh his are becotning enfeeb e , _ . has mental faculties seem unimpaired. His Lordship reached a very advanced - 'el 96 or 97—and his reti age—it is sal rement, under any an early early event cumstances, must be . The Attorney-General • a s usual, have the first off er o f t h e vacancy ; and this fact —always supposing the repo r t ofJudge Burton's instant resignati on true—must have its effect on Galway po litics.—Dublin Pilot. A serious accident happened to one of the labourers working in the railway tunnel at Ridgeway-bill, on Thurs day. A large stone, falling down a shaft, struck him on the head. and knocked him down senseless. We since hear that the poor fellow is likely to do well.—D orset Ch i tink l e. EXTRAORDINARY I AILWAY ACCIDENT.—OH Mon day merging, as the train from Exeter was comieg to New ton, the engine took in water at Teignmouth, and the engi neer or the attendant forgot to turn the water off, so that when the third class Fssed the hose they were soused, and the carriages were tilled with water. The occurrence caused quite a sensation amongst the travellers. When the party reached Newton, complaint was made to the Superintendent, who expressed his regret at the accident, and premised that the matter should be inquired into.—. Plymouth Journal. We understand a number of the new Queen's Counsel will be made either previous to the circuits or in Easter Term. Amongst these likely to be honoured with silk gowns are mentioned Mr. Bliss and Mr. Granger, of the North- rii Circuit; Mr. Townshend, of the North Wales Cir cuit; Mr. Miller, of the Midland; and a As. , • Vrendt i gag, and Mi'. O'Malley, of the Norfolk Circuit.' 4 "I'tl4 Gress IVss*.erti sts.sita-sili; is to ben s,';;l by auction next month. She is now lying in the fioatitighlTwu r at Bristol. . sult, in the shape oi recommendation to the Cil,Wll, is made known by the Marsh,ti or President of the Di..t. The Ministers, hovvcv..r, who saw the necessity ~f granting the present constitution, will see the necessity of making use of the press in working it. For what is now done will not only prove useless, but turn to poison, unless the administration be carried on in accordance with it. What a change does this at once make in the politics of Europe! How much must our fears of French pre dominance be allayed by seeing Prussia start up as a German and a constitutional power! How much must our alarm at Russian encroachment be dimini s h e d at seeing the Prussian monarch, for the first time, admit the assembled representatives of the people to his Court and councils, knowing, as all do, how universal is the hatred and fear of Russia in every German heart ! How much are British anxieties for the balance of power re moved at seeing its true, and great, and national arbiter, Germany, swelling to its true ditnen-ions, and taking the place that the wishes of all liberal men long since assigned it. We cannot but rejoice that English peers and com moners have held their tongues on foreign policy this session. M. Guizot, M. Thiers, M. Berryer, and the mag nates of the French Parliament, have all and each uttered long speeches. Every one of them is knocked on the head by this act of his Prussian Majesty. M. Guizot and M. Thiers united in representing the despotic East as ready to coalesce in order to dictate to France; whilst England was to join them in the new coalition. The words had been scarcely uttered, when Prussia breaks avowedly with these despotic Courts and their policy; and professes to rival France, not as the auxiliary of despotic, but the representative of liberal ideas. French statesmen and Ministers are thus shown to be as ignorant of German politics as of English. England and Europe may indeed unite against France in the matter of the Spanish marriages, but it will be an union of opinion, of reproval, and of peace. War is not required to punish the French Court for its un worthy acts. Spain alone will suffice to punish Louis Philippe; and the reproving countenance of Europe will teach Philippe; that neither international rights, nor the solemn promises of Sovereigns, are to be broken with impunity. THE NEW PRUSSIAN STATES GENERAL. We subjoin from the Prussian State Gazette of the sth an official and authentic list of the members of whom the new " United Diet" will consist, and the number of votes allowed to each. It is as follows : 1.--IN THE STATE OF THE PRINCES, COUNTS, AND LORDS. No. of Votes. 1. The Princes of the Royal Family who have attained their majority, now 10 in number ... 10 2. Those entitled to a virile, curial, and collective vote in the atate of the Nobles. These are, at present : d. —ln the province of Prussia : a. The Counts of Dohna•Schlobitten, Dohna- Schlodien, Dohna-Lauck, and Dohna Rei chertswalde, as possessors of the fiefs forming the county of Dohna b. The Count of Kaiserling by right of the county of Rautenburg B.—ln the province of Brandenburg:— a. The Chapter of Brandenburg b. The Count of Solms-Barath by right of the barony (herrschaft) of Barath . c. The Count of Solms-Sonnenwalde, by right of the barony Sonnonwalde 1 d. The Count of Hardenberg, by right of Neuhar denberg e. The Count of Arnim, by right of Boytzenburg 1 f. The Count of Lynar, by right of the seigniory Lu'bbenau g. The Prince of Lynar, by right of the seigniory of Drehna 1 h. The Count of Houwald, by right of the seig niory of Straupitz 1 1. The Count of Schulenburg, by right of the seig niory of Lieberose h. The Count of Briihl, by right of the seigniory of Forst and Pforten I. The Prince Carolath, by right of the seigniory of Amtitz C.—ln the province of Pomerania : a. The Prince of Putbus, by right of the county of Putbu• D.—ln the prorince of Silesia:— a. The Duke of Brunswick-Oels, by right of Oels 1 b. The Prince of Lichtenstein, by right of Troppau and Jagerndorf 1 c. The Duchess of Sagan, by right of Sagan d. The Prince of Hatzfeld, by right of Tracken- berg — 1 e. The Prince of Schiineck-Carolath, by right of Carolath 1 f. The Duke of Ratibor, by right of Ratibor g. The Duke of Anhalt COthen, by right of Pless 1 h. The Count Henckel of Donnersmarck, by right of Ober-Benthen i. The Prince Biron of Courland, by right of War- Wartenberg k. The Count of Maltzahn, by right of Militsch... 1 1. The Count of Reichenbach. by right of Goschiitz 1 in. The Prince Frederick of the Netherlands, by right of Muskau n. The Count of Schaffgotsch, by right of Kienast 1 o. The Count of Hochberg, by right of Fiirstenstein 1 p. The Duke of Wiirtemberg, by right of Carlsruhe 1 q. The Prince of Hohenlohe, by right of Koschentin 1 r. The Count of 6tolberg Wernigerode, by right of Peterswaldau 1 s. The Prince of Lichnowski, by right of Kuchelna 1 t. The Count of Sandreczki, by right of Langen bilau u. The Count of Oppersdorf, by right of Ober- Glogau v. The Count of Althan, by right of Mittlewolde 1 w. The Count of Herberstein, by right of Greife nort 1 x. The Count York of Wartenburg, by right of Klein-Oels 1 y. The Count of Dyhrn, by right of Reesewitz 1 z. The Count of Burghaus, by right of Laasan 1 E.—ln the province of Posen : a. The Prince of Thurn and Taxis, by right of Krotoschin 1 b. The Prince of Sulkowski, by right of Reisen 1 c. The Prince Radziwill, by right of Przygadzice 1 d. The Count Raczynski 1 F.—ln the province of Saxony : a. The Chapter of Merseburg 1 b. The Chapter of Naumberg c. The Count of Stolberg-Wernigerode 1 d. The Count of Stolberg-Stolberg 1 e. The Count of Stolberg-Rossia 1 The Duke of Dessau, by right of the seigniory . . of Walterneinburg g. The Count of Asseburg, by right of Illeisdorf G.—ln the province of Westphalia : a. The Duke of Arenberg . b. STATE OF TRADE. FOREIGN WOOL TRADE, LEEDS, FEB. 12.—We have uo change to report in the foreign wool market this week. It is expected prices will range full higher at the approaching London sales, the quantity to be offered being but small. ENGLISH WOOL MARKET, FEB. 12.—This branch of trade has been without any change this week, either in demand or prices. WAKEFIELD WOOL MARKET. FEB. 11.—We cannot vary our report from last week's, the demand still con tinning languid, with prices much about the same. LIVERPOOL WOOL MARKET, FEB. 11.—There were 1,800 bags of foreign and colonial wool offered at auc tion yesterday, scarcely half of which found purchasers. The attendance was numerousus, but there was a want of confidence exhibited, owing no doubt to the high price. of provisions; the biddings, therefore, were lan guid. The small quantity of Australian and Cape realised tull prices, considering the quality and condition, whirl; were very inferior. There was not much United States wool sold at auction, but several parcels were afterwards disposed of by private sale, at prices rather lower than previous sales. There was a good assortment of Buenos ' Ayres, but the prices offered were so very low that it was nearly all withdrawn. LEEDs.—We have not had such dull markets at our cloth-halls for some month: past as on Tuesday and Sa turday. There continue to be considerable deliveries, however, direct to the foreign houses, of goods calculated for the East India and China markets, and from this circumstance, added to the great caution exercised by the manufacturers generally, the stocks in the cloth halls are not large, end prices are firm. There is a little more business doing by some of the foreign houses, but on the whole business has been dull in the ware houses since this day week. BRADFORD MARKET, FEB. 11.—We Can report no amendment in the wool market. Sales are compara tively few, and those of no great extent. The supply of wool corning to the staplers is small, which tends to keep up prices. The yarn market is still dull, and no change in price. The Russian houses are, however, pre paring for (we hope) a brisk trade in yarns for export. Plain Orleans cloths and paramattas are in good demand; for the American market large stocks of pieces are pur chased. Fancy articles, made partly of silk, will, we have no doubt, have a great run during our spring trade. Merinos at present are dead stock. The manu facturers are full of hope as to a brisk spring trade. MANCHESTER, THURSDAY EYENING.—We are in no ways improving, either in our cloth or yarn markets. The depression is extreme, and without any rational prospect of improvement. A decided reduction on the nominal low rates of the day would not induce merchants to buy, except to order. There is no taste for the least speculation. LONDON FEVER HOSPITAL.—On Friday afternoon the annual meeting of the governors of this hospital was held at the Freemasons' Tavern,Great Queen-street; \V. Everett, Esq., he the chair. The report stated that the number of patients treated during the year was 636, of whom 531 were cured, 5 sent to other hospitals, 76 died, and 24 remained under treatment. The total number admitted Once the establishment of the hospital in 1802 was 18,517. The dis tricts where fever now most prevailed were Lambeth, the courts and alleys about Drury-lane, St. Margaret's, West minster, St. George's, Bloomsbury, and St. Giles's. The year's expenditure amounted to 1,5671., the receipts to 2,1071., including, however, a portion of the stock which had been sold out to meet tie expenses. CITY OF WESTMINSTER LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC INSIITCTION.—The veteran comedian, Mr. J. Russell, gave the members of this institution a very agreeable reading of the "Merchant of Venice" on Friday evening. His concep tion of the characters is just, and his general reading kept up an unflagging interest, while the revulsions of feeling in the scene with Tuba!, and the deep, implacable, bigoted vengeance of Shylock, in the trial scene, were delivered with consummate power. The audience evinced, by repeated expressions of applause ant,l the profoundest attention, that they were highly gratified. TESTIMONIAL TO THE REV. G. T. ANDREWES, A.M., CLERK IN ORDERS OF.iST. JAMEB'S, AND CHAPLAIN TO THE HON. THE HOUSE OF COMMONS..—This is a de monstration on the part of the parishioners of St. James's, Westminster, in order to testify the admiration, respect, and eaeem they have long entertained for that Rev. Gentle man, by raising funds sufficient to purchase such a testi monial as would be both acceptable to him, and creditable to the subscribers. The articles selected by the committee for presentation, consisting of several valuable works, in elegant and appropriate bindings, and other articles of splendid workmanship, chiefly connected with the library, together with a valuable gold chronometer, Sac., have been exhibited during the past week, in a spacious gallery in St. James's-street. The address, which accompanies the testi monial, and which is intended to be a lasting record to his family, is a most elaborate and beautiful piece of penman ship, richly embellished, and written on vellum, by Mr. Robertson, of the writing institution, Coventry-street, Haymarket. PARIS.—The Misses Pyne have been singing with immense success at the Marchioness of Normanby's soirée musicale ; also at Les Deux Nouveaux concerts. The Marchioness has again scoured these accomplished young ladies for the 19th inst. FIRE AT BETHNAL-GREEN.—On Friday a fire, nearly attended with the most disastrous results, broke out at No. 2, New-street, Bethnal-green, occupied by Mr. Tay lor, a cabinet-maker. Upon the alarm being given, the inmates in the upper room were so frightened that a man in jumping out of the window was severely injured, and two children had very narrow escapes, being obliged to be handed out of the same window. On the arrival of the engines the fire was quickly extinguished, but not until con siderable damage was done. Unfortunately the occupier was uninsured. FIRE AT CLERKENWELL.—ShortIy after 12 o'clock on Friday night, a fire, that created considerable alarm, broke out upon the premises in the occupation of Mrs. Elizabeth Duperey, cloth cap maker, situate at No. 1, Garnault-place. Clerkenwell. The flames originated from some unknown cause, in the first-floor front, and were discovered by the inmates at the moment they were retiring to bed. By timely assistance the flames were soon extinguished, but not until the whole of the stock in trade was destroyed, and the pre mises severely damaged. Unfortunately the occupier was not insured for a single penny. SERIOUS FIRE.—On Friday, between eight and nine o'clock, a very alarming file broke out in the mansion be longing to Mrs. Mirah Loftus, situate at 82, Witupole-street, Cavendish-square. The flames originated in the second floor back, and were first discovered by one of the women domes tics, who heard a loud crackling noise proceeding from the upper part of the premises. Upon getting to the second floor landing, the flames could be perceived issuing from the apertures of the door. An instant attempt was made to subdue the fire by buckets of water, but the flames had ob tained too firm a hold to be extinguished by that means, and information of the disaster was instantly sent to the engine stations. In the course of a few minutes the parish engine, with numerous others of the London brigade, and the one belonging to the %Vest of England Company, reached the scene. An abundant supply of water was instantly procured from the fire mains in the district, and by leading the hose up the staircase the water was brought to bear upon the right quarter ; but the fire bad previously broken through the back windows, and the flames were rushing out with such impe tuosity as to threaten with destruction the whole of the building. After considerable trouble, and at no little personal risk, the firemen succeeded in entirely extinguishing the flames, but not until damage to a considerable amount had been done; for, besides the destruction of the contents of that portion of the mansion in which the fire began, the floor above and that below were severely damaged by fire and water. The property was insured in the Guardian-office. A spark from a lighted candle, it is supposed, was the cause of the disaster. FIRE IN THE OLD-STREET• ROAD.—On Wednesday night, a few minutes before ten o'clock, a fire broke out on the premises in the occupation of Mr. Berry , known as the Victoria Coffee-house, 57, Old-street-road. From w hat couerds be gleaned on the spot, shortly after the outbreak, , it apr in that while the parties connected with the premiseswere e the lower room, a strong smell of tire filled the room, and in a few minutes the roaring of flames was here ardbursli in the t r u o p u p g e h r fire part of the house, shortly after which the u revaPil, u the chamber windows. Engines wereso( n e nr s ‘ p v ( a )t s , and were set to work. The tire,however , p e n d it quenched before th e building (built chiefly'of wood) was burned through , and it s contents consumwl. The adjoining shop. on the eastern side, was saved, In consequence of a su n tial party-wall being between themd. fac ie.d r e is is sup posed to hare originated through some e n flue. It is said that the occupier is not insured. ANOTHER CAFTURE OF AN ILLICIT DISTILLERY.— From information received, Messrs. Ba y ford and J. Le w i ns . o ffi c ers of Excise, yesterday proceeded to the"house of Mr.' John Hatfield, Trafalgar-street, Whitechapel, where, after I obtaining admission, in a back apartment they found a large copper still, a quantity of fermented wash, molasses, spirits, distilla tion the usual fittings of a distillery. The process of sti tion was not then going on, but it appea re d t o h ave been re cently suspended. They accordingly seized the still, appa ratus, and utensils; but, in consequence of there being no fire under the still, they were not empow ere d t o t a k e th e proprietor into custody, 'although he was on the premises at I the time. PROVISION'S FROM TRE UNITED STATES.--The - Queen of the West, from New York ( which arrived at Li verp.,' on the 11th instant) brings 5,100 barrels of flour, 4,956 barrels of Indian corn meal, 222 bags of Indian corn, 1,454 bags of peas, and 3,000 package* of biscuit. , The Prince of Salm-Salm c. The Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg ... d. The Prince of Sayn- Wittgenstein- Wittgen- stein e. The Prince of Bentheim-Zecklenburg-Rheda f. The Prince of Bentheim-Steinfurt g. The Prince of Salm-Horstmar h. The Duke of Loox i. The Duke of Croy k. The Baron Von Stein (now his heirs) I. The Count of Westphalia in. The Count of Lansberg•Gehmen the Rhenish Province : a. The Prince of Solms-Braunsels b. The Prince of Solms •llohensolms-Lich c. The Prince of Wied d. The Prince of Ilatzfeld c. The Prince of Salm-Reifferscheid-Dyk 1 1 1 I . 1 Total THE STATE OF THE KNIGHTS (RITTERSTAND: Vote;. A. Deputies from the province of Prussia B. PP „ Brandenburg 3l PP C. PP VP VP Pomerania .... D. ff ft VP Silesia 3.5 E. PI VP tI Posen 22 F. VP 11S Saxony G. OP If PP Westphalia H. 77 fll ft Rhine 25 Total 111.. -IN THE STATE OF THE CITIES. Votes A. Deputies from the province of Prussia 2B B. 99 99 ~ Brandanburgh C. ff 91 Pomerania l6 D. 19 99 19 Silesia It E. 99 1 10 Posen l6 F. 99 97k If Saxony .....,.. G. 99 97 99 Westphalia H. f 7 ~ Rhine 25 Total THE STATE OF THE RURAL COMMUNES (LANDGEMEINDEN). Votes. A. Deputies from the pruvince of Prussia B. ~ Brandenburg Pomerania Silesia ... ft 97 79 If /1 7/ •, 33 ~ Posen ... Saxony Westphalia Rhine ... ..• 8 ... 13 ... 20 ... 25 ... 124 If PI It 71 Total ... ... ... ... Gross total n um b er of votes ... 617. THE PRUSSIAN CONSTITUTION (From the Examiner.) The King of Prussia has sent forth an edict, ordaining taohscasehtmitshbel3.. kingdom members shall The g m o a f u matheetm eiin provincial t states or parliaments Berlin,his a and form a national of the public debt is to be under the control and guarantee of is any new loan or tax, except cus t om t distisesnl). se,mtobe. Nr levied o wi T th n o e ut p i r t u s s s s a ia n u ctioi. State Gazette publishes at the same time with this an official commentary, which begs p e ople not aunis d t pa o br bsn absurd rs disaoins i‘thelnje foolishwsto3r., working an t ygs to at consider s tGh t d ne e z r reeue t s h u, i l s t s ao t.the p constitution.res present t rickety d representative system in France, England, sees howSp Greece, and will not fling Prussia into the sameainpredaiena nient. Diplomatists are a little astonished h that Frederic wofn William eFnranb cue epsdhoaenosnupdilotdt areEi despotic principle a ga v l laeinpdt powerful kweenrnfun neutralisetld ; tahnodt resolution hgweohieu atstrhe authoritya time quarrels and governments con stitutedps t o r s e e n d g t t oh Russiaeven in and Austria, negotiations . and Prussia dialrue t ss h s r in not remains braveein s aenxd aanffarovnetrtyhelataenlygesrhoowf shown her openly. Russia by insaistiang already and destruction foree d to ne accept, t t , h a e n d tolerat e the fact.hAustria Two o s Cabinet Ministers of Prussia declared to the Silesian deputation that they had not been con flung all the unpopularity on the King ; and he has This both redeemed the fault with his subjects, and a n t n tnh v e same time practised some kind of retaliation Russia, by giving a constitution. It is the veritable pon germ of a constitution. But Prussia is obliged, in giving it, to ask pardon of the Courts of St. Petersburg and Vienna, and present its own act as of no popular or pa ramount importance. The concession, however, is of this importance, that it satisfies, for a time at least, the progressive party amongst Prussian politicians. The political world in Prussia is peculiar, and consists in a great measure of functionaries. These men have acquired liberal ideas, not because they spring from the people and breathe the atmosphere of the democracy, but because enlighten ment and experience has taught them how intrinsically weak a despotic government is, especially in any great crisis of war or famine. Moreover, the power of despotic Prussia must remain limited to Prussia, and also be infirm in its extreme provinces, especially in Posen and on the Rhine, where the population is Liberal and Catholic, with more affinities for their neighbours beyond the Prussian frontier than for Berlin or its administration. To be truly master even of Prussia, and certainly to extend sway . and influence over Germany, the Ki vi; of Prussia must put himself at the, head of the con stitutional party in that empire, and keep himself at the head of it. It is little matter whether this proceeds from the calcuiations of interest, or the impulse of Li beralism, as long as it is the c ase. And the King of Prussia is imrelled to take this course, not by any de mocratic cry, by any public or civic opinion, strong as may be the latter, but by the counsels and views of his Ministers and functionaries, or of the more enlightened lof them. There are Whigs at Berlin in the Council of State , a s there may be Radicals at Cologne or nigfiberg. The constitution of the provincial states of Prussia is and is to be found in a decree promulgated 1823. and published in alt the cotitil annuals. Theze estates do not eaj ,s. "tuheueellbiltilaikBl::::):)‘t'i debate, nor can the journsAls divulge an) oi p ~. 1 their acts, until the close of their labours, when the re- RELIEF OF DISTRESS (IRELAND). Tao larg, blue books have just been laid before both Houses of Pa.liament, by command of her Majesty, containing correspondence (from July, 1846, to January, 1847) relative to the measures adopted for the relief of the distress in Ireland. One of these ♦olumes includes peculiarly the commissariat series, and the other the fisheries series. The following are extracts from some of the more interesting and important of the numerous documents contained in these volumes. Sir R. Routh, writing to Mr. Trevelyan, from the Castle, Dublin, Jan. 14, gives these particulars with respect to what has been done in relation to remedial measures : In submitting to the Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury a brief statement of .the present duties, it is necessary to make some reference to those of the preceding season. On that occasion it will be recollected that the chief depot was at Cork, which was supplied direct from the United States, and the following depots were dependent for their supplies on that of Cork :—Dundalk, Dublin, Waterford, Limerick, Galway, Sligo, Longford, Banagher. There were, besides, some minor constabulary depots established for some immediate exigency, but which rarely contained more than five to ten tons of meal. In the present season it was thought fit to leave the east, the north, and the south coast, comprising the space between Londonderry and Skibbereen to the exer cise of private enterprise, for which the commissariat arraagements of the preceding year had prepared it, but the Government undertook the supply of the west coast, which is hardly yet accessible to trade in any degree sufficient for its supply. With this object the following depots have been established : County Donegal—Dunfanaghy, Bunbeg, Gweedore Bay, Burton-port, Killibeggs, where there is also a floating depot, and both in connexion with the mills at Mountcharles. County Sligo—Sligo. • County Mayo—Ballina, Belmullet, Achill Island, with two depots, Westport. County Galway—Clifden, Galway. County Clare—Kilrusli, Clare Castle. County Limerick—Tarbert, Madagascar floating depot. County Kerry—Dingle, Cahirceveen. County Cork—Castletown (Berehaven), Long Island, Skibbereen. Dublin—Entrepot for supplying Banagher and Long ford, on the Shannon. It is also intended, before the close of the month, to es tablish a depot at Corg, in the hilly country, on the bor ders of counties Mayo and Galway ; on Lough-corrib and Lough-mask. As the season advances, some temporary constabulary depots may become necessary, but from the increased difficulty of account, occasioned by these minor stations, and for other substantial reasons, it is not contemplated to increase this number more than can be avoided. Our sales have commenced this year in December, which we were enabled to postpone during the last season until the 20th May. The labour and responsibility before me is one of much greater magnitude and importance. The high prices which provisions of all kinds have reached have made it incumbent on me to relieve this ❑navoidable accompaniment of the present distress by encouraging, as much as I am able, the establishment of soup kitchens, which has also the advantage of bringing o our aid the active assistance and benevolence of the other sex. With this view I have caused all the best recipes I could procure to be embodied in a small pamphlet, which I enclose. These soup establishments have been well received throughout the country, and we are using our best ex ertions to extend them. I lay betore you a copy of the instructions to com mittees for the present year, and I have much pleasure in acquainting you that an increased readiness to sub scribe has already become visible, and their Lordships will perceive by my estimate the increased activity which I expect to be given to this source of relief. And now. Sir, I must not conceal from you the great natural difficulties which stand in the way of our ultimate success in this undertaking. The Baltic, the Black Sea, the American canals are closed against us, and it will require all our foresight. and all the co-operation of the public, to secure the pas sage of the people through the winter. I speak of this co-operation with some anxious appre hensions, for we must expect the demands will increase; and I am not without fear that some of the committees may relax their exertions amidst the labour, the ex pense, and, not unfrequently, the disappointments which surround them; nevertheless, it is not to be denied that it is only by the continuance of these exertions, by the liberality of the proprietors, and by the endurance of the peasantry, that this great disaster can be overcome. It would be fortunate if this important truth could be brought home to every man's conviction, for the reliance which is placed in the power of Government to effect everything exercises a most dangerous influence on all private exertion. I know not if any step could be taken to encourage this general co-operation from all classes in this great question, which is one of food and human life ; and there is reason to fear, from their present tendency, that prices may rise until the spring supplies shall be received. I hope to derive much assistance from the inspecting officers, and their communications with the committees, and I attach the more importance to this measure now, as these local bodies have hitherto given their chief at tention to preparations for the employment of the people, which must now be shared by the most active exertions for their subsistence. The committees last season amounted to 648, of which 484 had funds, on which Government grants were given. This includes the whole season up to the end of August, and many of these grants were given at a late period. This season the committees (still in progress) number 930, and will probably reach 1,000, but as yet only 174 have received grants. The price last year of oatmeal ruled from 151. to 17/. 10s. per ton in June and July, and it is now, in January, at 25/. Indian corn was not generally in the market, but one holder, for a short period in April and May, sold at 111. and 121.; the Government price, however, was 10/. per ton ; the price now is 171. 10s. for whole corn, and 191. for the meal, and, in some situations, as high as 221. and 241.; whole wheaten meal 201. The potato failure last year was not so remarkable for unusual deficiency as for the disease which so exten sively affected the plant, and rendered it generally unfit for food ; still the people continued to cat potatoes in some localities until April. This season the early crop was very much diseased, and the late or people's crop never came to maturity. There. were few places where any continued to serve as food beyond November, and in many they were con sumed in October. 'I hus the character of the present calamity is in tini.ely more alarming than the last ; it extends with little or no mitigation over the whole country, and comprises a loss of food equal at least to ten millions sterling. There are parts in Donegal which escaped the di"• ease of last year, where there are no resident gentry, and where their paeans of purchase must be soon ex hausted, and being, for the most part composed of rural districts, not collected into towns or villages, the soup e stablishments are not adapted or applicable to their In the south-western parts of Kerry and Cork the distress is not less imminent, and has indeed com menced first, but the proprietors are more wealthy, and. notwithstanding the sufferings of all kinds by which they have been surrounded, much may be accomplished for their relief by order, economy, and exertion, and I have reason to hope that this improvement is com mencing. I lay before you the last returns of the Commissariat depots, and the present state of the subscriptions, and of the Government donations given in their aid. If is unnecessary for me to enlarge on the advantage of granting these donations in aid only of a local fund, as it obtains for us an interest in the economy of its management, which no other system could be expected to secure. The liberality of her Majesty's Government in offer ing a donation equal to the amount subscribed, that is, pound for pound where the workhouse is full, with a dis cretion even to exceed this sum in cases of great and ac knowledged distress, is making a deep impression on the public as it becomes known, and I receive expressions from all quarters of their sense of this generous consi deration. The annexed general recapitulation of supplies will ho regarded with interest: — General recapitulation of supplies provided by Go vernment in aid of the relief operations in Ireland and Scotland, since the 15th of August, 1846: — Remains in the several depots in Ireland TONS. on the above date Purchases since made through the agency of Mr. Ericksen Meal ground at Malta and other supplies provided by the Commissariat at that 4477 14 station 83 2-3 u h p ia p g lie s s t f o u r r e ia s is a h t e D d Ordnance riscuit delivered from the 558 2-3 r va o l r l s - i ni c toutiatlh efrpotmfortdheanNda Stores in Ireland ....... • ............... Total 43,6541 fi v e quarters to the ton, are equal to 218,2 74 qua rters. Which, calculating MILLBANK PRISON. The report of the Commissioners appointed to inquire into the management of Milbank Prison, and instruc tions and orders issued by the Secretary of State to the prison authorities, in consequence thereof, have just been printed and issued, having been laid before the flou-e of Commoi s. command, in pursuance of their tvicirvsi of Junuarx 20. The Commissioners appointed were the Earl of Chichoster, Lord Sevtuour, and Mr. B. Escott. The latter disagreed with portions of the general report, and, therefore, the Noble Lords alone drew up and signed the document from which the following are ex tracts We, your Majesty's Commissioners, appointed to in quire into the conduct and management of your Ma 3esty's prison and gaol at Milbank, and of the prisoners therein confined, and into certain allegations of Edward Baker, late a warder in that prison, and also into the conduct of the governor, deputy-governor, and other officers of the said prison, humbly beg leave to report, that we directed our attention in the first instance to various allegations contained in two petitions presented to the House of Commons, on the 15th of June and the sth of August, 1846. ThesepeeitiOns seriously impugned the character and conduct of the Governor of Dliilbank Prison ; and co f,.. sequuntly imputed to the inspector, under whose super intendence the government of this prison is placed, s '\ `` ~'.. •