The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-05-02 00:00:00

FOREIGN .AND COLONIAL. FRANCE. M. Ledru Rollin and his Commissiogers have in every district in the provinces exercised the most odious tyranny to procure if possible the return of those who will be willing to aid him, either as dupes or accomplices, in his schemes for betraying the re, üblic. At Rouen the com munal schoolmasters,•who are all on the pay of the Mi nister of Public Instruction, were convened and com manded to sign collectively an engagement to vote for the government candidates or resign their places. At a little town called Neufchatel a body of two hundred con scripts were stopped by the mayor, put into the Hotel de Ville, and there kept under lock andley.until they had voted. Instances are given of electors'being stopped on their wag, their lists taken from them, and they obliged to return home, by. hired ruffians. The Memorial de .Rouen says it is useless making complaints to the Go vernment Commissioner, -" who is so good a man that he refuses to believe any evil of others." The Journal de Rouen contains accounts of men being beaten, and the lists taken from them, .because they were not democratic. The Gazette de Lyons contains accounts of-similar pro ceedings in its neighbourhood. It says that in the Place des Terreaux they were burning heaps of lists of names which had been violently taken from electors. It is generally believed,however, that all the attempts of the - Leclrn-Rollin faction to carry. the elections of Paris have proved abortive. M. de Lamartine.isat.the head of the poll; and General Cavaignac, the Governor-General of Algiers, second. On Monday night there was a "scene" in - the Cabinet of the Provisional Government between M. Lamartine and M. Ledru Rollin. The latter desired he further postponement of the meeting of the Assembly—the for mer peremptorily opposed it:, the latter threatened a popular demonstration—the 'former treated the •menace with contempt. M. 'Ledru 'Rollin then declared that he would have Paris covered with barricades. M.,Larnartine rose and declared that he set "his colleague at defiance, that the majority of the government were quite. prepared for any measure of that description promoted by the Mi nister of the Interior, and that they would resort to effec tual measures of defence. After this, report says, M. Ledru Rollin lowered his tone. A letter from Marseilles of the .22nd instant, says:— " Last evening, all the democratic clubs assembled about nine o'clock, in number from '3500 to 4000, and paraded the streets with about 200 lighted torches, bellowing out Vive Ledru Rollin!' A bas les aristocrats!" A bas les culottes (clergy)! ' 'ln the foremost ranks were young women, representing the goddess of 4.iberty. A portion of the sans culottes • were headed by the band of the custom-house officers. This is too bad, and too strongly identifies the government with the mob. Notwithstand ing this chaotic state of affairs, I feel certain all will go off quietly here, the National Guard being determined on maintaining order, cattle rti collie. 'I feel also certain that, unless there be foul work, Thiers and Berryer 'will be returned. When ail - this' will .end,, Heaven only knows; in the meantime France is ruined, and it will require many a long year before she again can raise her head." Complaints have been raised both of fraud and the exercise of improper influence at the late elections both in Paris and in tae provinces. To comprehend the fraud, it must be understood that each elector claiming to vote presents himself at the mairie, and receives there a "carte electorate," which entitles him to deposit his vote in the ballot-box. The plan works practically in this manner : The same individual presents himself over and aver again at the same inairie, and receives several " carts," or he may present himself successively at different mairies, and thus obtain multiple " cartes," which it is said have openly been offered for sale at prices varying from five to twenty francs. The Provisional Government have adopted a decree abolishing slavery in all the colonies and possessions of the French republic. The decree is to take effect two months after its publication in the colonies. An indem nity is to be granted to the slave-owners, the amount and form of which will be fined by the national assembly. All introduction by hire or otherwise of negroee into the colo nies is also forbidden. This clause is especially intended to prevent the introduction of neeroes from Senegal by any system similar to that of the Hill Coolies in the Eng lish colonies. The terms on which the Provisional Government have determined to dispossess the railway companies of the finished lines are stated to be as follows :—The shares of the companies will be valued at the average of the prices which they bore, according to the official returns of the Bourse, for the six months preceding the revolution of February; and this price will be paid by the Government, to the Country in five per cent. stock, to be also valued at its average price during the same interval. It was stated on Wednesday, and generally believed, that M. Gamier pages has, after all, determined to aban don his scheme for taking the railways, leaving the national assembly to decide on the matter. From a return published in the Moniteur, it appears that the duties levied on the import and export of differ ent articles during the month of March het, was 5,538,472 f., whilst in the month of March, 1847, it was 12,030,657 f., and in the same month of 1846, 12,355,650 f. The Cour tier du Havre says that a reduction of fifteen francs per 100 kilogrammes on colonial sugar is talked of. The minister of the United States waited on Wednesday on M. de Lamartine, and presented him with a letter from the President of the United States, formally accrediting him as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the French Republic. In presenting the letter, Mr. Rush expressed the anxiety which the President of the United States feels for the prosperity of France, and his desire to cultivate amicable relations with it. M. de Lamartine, in reply, said that, as France had been the first to recognise the independence of the United States, it belonged, by a just return of Providence, to the United States to be the first to make an official recognition of the French republic ; and, so to speak, place its name the first on the certificate of the birth of French democracy in Eu rope. He predicted that the French republic would be come strong and prosperous, and he expressed the warmest sentiments towards the American republic, observing that the French people felt for those of the United States with the " heart of Lafayette." SUCCESS OF THE MODERATE PARTY IN THE ELECTIONS. Though the result of the elections is . not officially an novnced, there is no doubt that the moderate party has been successful in Paris, where the strength of the exotic's mainly lies; and it is certain that men of moderate opi nions will mostly be returned by the departments. It ap pears that 210,000 voted in Paris, and nearly 60,900 in the r mdissements of Ste lux n I St. Dennis, and only 40 lists an hour can be examined in each section. The Na tional, however, contains the following : " According to the estimates which have reached us from a great number of sections, the following is the pro bable result of the Paris elections. The nomination of these 28 candidates appear certain—Larmartine, Dupont (de i'Eure), F. Arago, A. Marrast, Gamier PagZs, Marie, Beranger, Crdmieux, Cornot, Betlanont, General Duvi vier, Lasteyrie, Schmidt, Perdiguier, Pagnerre, Lamen nais, Caussidiere, Cormenin, Ledru Rollin, Albert, Flo con, and Louis Blanc. The candidates who, after these, appear to have the best chance, are—M.M. Bastide, Goudchaux, Pascal, Vellin, Daugny, David (d'Angers), Wolowski, Garnon, Degoussie, General Guinird, the Pastor Coquerel, and Berger." If the National be rightly informed, Ledru Rollin would only come twenty-fourth in order, while Lamartine heads the poll. Lasteyrie and Vavin, who came after General Duvivier, were formerly deputies, Buchez and Recourt are deputy mayors of Paris. Peupin is a watch maker, belonging the original Society of Prud'hommes. Corbon is the editor of the Atelier, the organ of the work ing classes. Schmidt is a sort of a French Cobbett, whose Chatechise des Ouvriers, having first appeared in succes sive numbers of the Constitutionnel, was reprinted, End 30,000 copies brought up in a short time. He it was who made the curious calculation, that allthe money in France, if divided, would only give 31f. as money capital, to each individual, and all the money and land only 63f. His re turn so high on the list is a significant and important fact, as testing the sentiments of the working classes. Perdi guier is a working cabinet maker, whose name appears on a great many lists. Pagnerre is the bookseller who took so active a part in organizing the electoral banquets, and is one of the secretaries of the government. Among those most likely to be returned is Bastide, one of the editors of the National, now considered the conservotive organ of the republic. Goudchaux was the predecessor of Gamier Pages. Pascal is a printer, who fills the the office of lieutenant-colonel in the 11th legion of national guards. Vellin is a young carpenter, who is decidedly opposed to communism. Daugny is a printer who figures on the moderate lists. David (d'Angers) is the famous statuary. Wolowski is the professor of industrial legislation at the Arts et Mailers. He is a moderate man, an excellent speaker, and is brother-in-law of Leon Faucher, the well known ex-deputy. Garnon was formerly a deputy. Degouisse is a civil engineer, and chef de batailion of the 3d legion of national guards. The Pastor Coquerel is a well known protestant minister, and Berger, the last on the list, is an ex-deputy of the centre quache, or Thiers' Section. The Paris papers of Friday confirm our previous report that the eight moderate members of the Provisional Go vernment will be at the top of the list of the 34 deputies elected for Paris, while the four members of a more vio lent tendency will be nearly at the bottom of it. The elections in the departments were, on the whole, of a similar character. These fact' sug e•sted fears that the ultra-Republicans might mak an a ompt to dissolve the Chamber by force, but up to t e m , rnent when our despatch left Paris every thing was ran ail. The G , ern e•flt was, however, fully prepared to meet any dam rth might present itself. The 1 aria papers of Saturday contain the official an nouncei eat of the result of the Paris elections. It may be only necessary to observe here that the first name on the list of the 34 deputies elected to represent Paris in the National Assembly is that of M. Lamartine ; the 24th, that of M. Ledru Rollin ' • the 26th, that of M. Floeon ; and the 27th, that of M . Louis Blanc. These facts speak plainly in confirmation of what we have repeatedly stated, that the Assembly will be Repub lican, but moderate. Among the representatives of Paris are four ex-journalists. The number of voters amounted to 300,000, and Lamartine obtained 259,800 votes, whilst Ledru Rollin had only 131,587. By a decree of the Provisional Government, the Palace of the Louvre is ordered to be completed, and to assume the name of " Palace of the People." It is to be appro priated for the exhibition of the works of art, the produc tions of national industry, and the national library. The Rue de Rivoli is to be continued on the same plan. The works relative to the construction of the Palace of the People are declared works of public utility ; and the " ex propriation" of the houses intervening is to commence forthwith. The National announces on authority that M. Guizot was married in London three years since to the Princess Lieven. It was agreed for political reasons that the mar riage should be kept secret as long as M. Guizot remained in office. • FATAL RIOT AT ROUF.N.-1)n Wednesday evening, much agitation prevailed in Rouen in consequence of a report or an impression that M. Deschamps, the popular candidate, would not have polled the number of votes necessary to inure his election. Groups were formed, who cried °`Down with the National Assembly ! " anti " Down with the Aristocrats ! " They were, however, dispersed by some dragoons. The night passed over without further violence, but the disorder was renewed on Thursday, .and assumed a very serious .character. Several skirmishes took place between the armed force and the people, who threw up several barricades. After nightfall. the rioters became emboldened, and attacked the National Guard and troops with volleys of stones. The troops at length fired upon the rioters and'cbaged them. Ten or twelve persons were killed, of whom two or three were National, Guards. Ultimately the rioters fled, and on *W4 tranquility was re-established. Louis Buonaparte has been denounced in the French Clubs, where he had presented himself as a Republican candidate, for having acted as a special constable in Lon don on the day of the chartist meeting. The Duke de.Montpensier has ordered a Madrid jewel ler to dismount a sword, of which the hilt is set with jewels that are said to he worth £300,000. This sword belonged to Napoleon, and the duke found means to save it when the Tuileries were seized 'by the Parisians. The Paris Massager states that a lady of Geneva has received a letter in which the Duchess of Orleans says— " I deplored at first the unexpected revolution of Febru ary, and wept over the terrible fall of those who were dear to me. I regretted at first for my son the loss of the finest,crown in the world ; but now I had rather see my son dead than hope for him.an early return to France, or dream that he might one day sit upon a throne, which is for ever impossible." During the recent panic in Paris, Bank of England notes were at a premium of two per cent. over full-weight sovereigns, in consequence of the greater facility they afforded for concealment or transport. The French paper that supports the views of M. Ledru Rollin reports at length the debates of the " National Convention," in London, as if they were of authority, and states that the impeachment of Ministers was agreed to by " national acclamation." INDIA AND CHINA- We have received by express from Marseilles our ad vices from India, in anticipation of the overland mail of the Ist of April. The dates so received are from Bombay to the Ist of April, Madras to the 23rd of March, and Calcutta to the 22nd of March. At Calcutta public attention bad been occupied with disclosures connected with the recent pecuniary crisis, chiefly as regarded the affairs of the Union 13ank, and the fact of large defalcations in the funds intrusted to officers of the Supreme Court. The bank, which a few months ago declared its affairs to be in a promising state, is now known, besides having lost its immense capital, to lie :ender a deficiency of at least £70,000, for which the shareholders, as a joint-stock body, are declared liable. The alleged misappropriation of funds by directors con nected with sinking firms had become a theme for angry .clamour and recrimination, fruitless except as a lesson to others. A question had been raised as to the validity of post-bills issued by the bank of great importance, as to the amount for which the shareholders are liable. Con flicting opinions had been given on the point by counsel, and the matter was about to be decided in court. Sir Thomas Turton had resigned the office of Ecclesiastical Registrar, with a deficiency, it was considered, of about £90,000 in the funds of his office. The draught of an act had, consequently, been at length prepared by the judges, to restrain the officers of the Supreme Court at Calcutta from engaging in trade. There is .unfavourable news for the railway prospects of India. The worst effect of the recent monetary shock appears to be in the disastrous consequences it may have, at least for delay, upon the East India Railway Company. With investments of ten per cent. and upwards offering in Calcutta, it had not been found practicable to raise the first sum even of £lOO,OOO, necessary to secure the gua rantee of the Court of Directors, and for which the period of payment had been extended to the end of last month. The greater part of the working staff had already been sent hack from India. The inauspicious circumstances of the last half-year, and the fact of a large government loan having been kept open during the period of the company's probation, rendered it impracticable, as regarded the di rection in India, to comply with the primary returns of the requisition. . . . . . _ [Her - Majesty's 4th regt. had been ordered to England. There are advices from Borneo to the 18th February. It was rumoured that the Sooloo pirates were engaged in fitting out an expedition against Bruni, to revenge the death of the pirates executed by the sultan after the defeat of their squadron last year by the hon. company's steamer Nemesis. The Sooloo marauders were not then aware of the attack that was preparing, calculated to give them enough of fighting nearer home. Details are given from Sincapore of the rising on board the General Wood merchant vessel, bound from that port to Penang with Chine3e emvicts. In this instance, the lives of the captain and three officers appear to have been sacrificed to the cruel practice, common in India, of transporting convicts on board merchant vessels without a sufficient guard. The vessel, when in the hands of the convicts, after twenty days' uncertain sailing, was wrecked among the Malay Islands, whence two officers and a lady, who were passengers, effected their escape in one of the boats, and reached Sincapore. The Gentleman's Gazette of Bombay has pointed out, apparently with correctness, a singular oversight in an act which has just emanated from the Calcutta Council for equalizing Customs' duties on goods imported or ex ported in British and foreign bottoms—in fact, a repeal of the Navigation Laws. so far as India is concerned. The interpostal trade of all parts of the company's territories being by that act declared free, without exception or reservation, the effect will be to enable the entire trade of British India, if conducted vid Sincapore, where no cus toms' duties, either way, are exacted, to be exempt from government duties of every sort. "An act to amend an act" may be expected. The Governor of Bombay and the Commander-in-Chief of that Presidency had gone to the heights of Mahabulesh war. A requisition had been made to the Sheriff of Bom bay, signed by the principal residents and natives, to con vene a public meeting, " for the purpose of expressing the deep regret with which they had heard of the resignation of the Hon. Governor, and the feelings of admiration they entertained of his distinguished Indian career." A public meeting was subsequently held in the Town •hall, with Sir Erskine Perry, Chief Justice of Bombay, in the chair. There are accounts of the serious illness of the Rajah of Sattara, but by the latest advices he was said to be somewhat better. As that Prince leaves no direct heirs (under an agreement not to marry), the state of Sattara will, at his death, escheat to the India Company, who will thereby obtain 15 or 16 lacs of revenue, and its civil service acquire several valuable appointments. Considerable transactions in the import market are re ported from Bombay, after an unprecedentedly long de pression. At Calcutta another firm, Messrs. Haworth, Hardman, and Co., had suspended payment. RUSSIA. Several letters in the Cologne Gazette are filled with apprehensions of an approaching conflict with Russia. The declaration of the Viceroy of Poland, Prince Paske witch, to the Polish noblemen is indeed fraught with the elements of anxiety for all Germany. The prince bids them turn to the emperor, who would soon be able to prove to them that Russia loved them better than Ger many. He asked them to wait in patience for a few weeks and months, and that their children and their children's children would remember the kindness and praise the generosity of the Emperor of all the Sclavoni ans. The scheme of Nicholas is said to be no less than a union of the Sclavonic tribes into one gigantic federative monarchy, and innsequently the attainment of unlimited sway over Europe. DtNMARK AND THE DUCHIES. Intelligence from Hamburgh, under date of the 22nd ultimo, announces that another action had taken place on the previous day, between the Danish troops and the volunteers of Berlin, Cologne, Hamburgh, &c., in which the latter were defeated after a fight of several hours. The engagement took place at a wood on the way from Keil to Eckerneforde. The action resulted from the pre cipitancy of the volunteers. BATTLE IN SCHLESWIG. RENDSBURG, April 23, One o'clock at Night.—The Prussian troops marched out of this place yesterday after noon, at 3 o'clock. They were followed by an almost interminable succession of the other Federal troops, and of our dragoons, who had been quartered in the neigh bourhood of Remmels, to recover after their five days' harassing fatigue at Flensburg. It was not till 6 o'clock to-day that the last party quitted Rendsburg, and at half past 7 several wagons arrived, bringing the wounded and a number of Danish troops prisoners. They brought the intelligence that on the approach of the Prussians the Danes retired from Cropp to Schleswig, and that between 2 and 3 o'clock a fierce combat ensued to the west of Bustorf and close to Schleswig. At the first point the Prussians, who had vowed to conquer or die, without waiting the arrival of the artillery, stormed the newly fortified Dannewirke and the embankments thrown up at Bustorf. This combat cost many lives, but terminated in the taking of Friedricksburg and the so-called Erd beerenberg, while the dykes at Gottorp are still in the hands of the Danes. The Hamburg Bdrsenhalle of the 24th, dated 1 o'clock p.m., says :—" Schleswig was taken by the Prussians yesterday; the fortress of Gottorp was still in the hands of the Danes during the night. Two divisions of the Danes, together with several dragoons, are said to have gone over to the Prussians." By another letter from Rensburgh, dated the evening of the 23rd, the taking of Schleswig is said to be certain. 'I he Danes, pursued to the eastward. saved themselves at Missunde by crossing the Schlei. In the skirmish which took place at the Altenhot yesterday, several of our troops were unfortunately taken prisoners by the Danes, namely ten or twelve of the Cologne free corps, which covered the passage. The Danes in this instance overreached us by a stratagem, by placing in front the corps of Lindburg, wearing green and black blouses simi lar to the Berlin and Colognee free corps, with the Ger man cockade, and displayin , the Germ an b anner. A letter from Rendsburgh 6 of ..kpril23, says :—Last night the report was circulated here, though it is in all probabi lity unfounded, of the death of King Frederick VII. A letter from Hamburgh of April 24, says :—By the train last night we received the intelligence that Ecken ford had been evacuated by the Danes, who retreated to tin head quarters at Danewieke. There is to be a gene ral attack to-day. The Schleswig-llolsteiners form the right wing ; the troops of the 10th army corps the left wing ; the Prussians in the centre. SICILY. The Parliament at Palermo has published a decree that "1. Ferdinand Bourbon and his dynasty are for ever fallen from the throne of Sicily.—Sicily shall govern her self constitutionally, and call to the throne an Italian Prince, as soon as she shall have reformed her slatuto. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. `REVOLT IN MOLDAVlA.—Official intelligence receive un Paris states, that Moldavia was in full revolt, and that Wallachia was about to follow in the same course. _ A decree of the Queen of Spain orders the construction 'of six steamers of 350-horse power. Three are to be built in England. and three in the Peninsula. The Gardeners' Chronicle describes the Paris tree of liberty as a miserable Italian poplar, rootless and sapless when planted, dead in a summer, and then but a rotten stick with a red cap—a fit emblem of the false liberty it represents. . _ _ As soon as the Queen of Spain was informed that her husband bad been thrown from hig horse, and had dislo cated his shoulder, she expressed a wish to mount the same steed, and on that very evening she rode it in the prado. Napoleon Buonaparte, son of the former King of Westphalia, has arrived at Ajaccio, in Corsica. He was received with loud acclamations by the population and the authorities, who escorted him in triumph to his pa ternal home. MISS HIITCHINSON.--" Abby," the modest and fa vourite little sister of the Hutchinsons, we see it stated in a Massachusetts paper, is about to secede from the vocal circle, and be no more heard by her admirers all over the land. She is to marry, on dit, a son of a cler gyman of New York. The Launceston paper, dated the 18th of December, states that Zephaniah Williams, who was transported for life with Frost and Jones, for participating in the chartist riots at Newport, a few years since, has been sentenced to one year's hard work in chains, to the settlement at Port Arthur, for attempting to escape with another con vict from the colony. PosEN.—The Aigemeine Prussiche Zeitung publishes the most shocking accounts of the cruelties which were perpetrated by the Polish insurgents, at Trzemersno, on the 10th inst. They shot every one who seemed to sym pathise with the Prussian military, impriioned a number of Germans and Jews (men and women), and kept them for three days without giving them any food. At Wreshen. they slit open the stomachs and cut off the breasts of young women. ROBBERY AND MURDER IN SMYRNA.—A caravan of twelve persons, carrying 60,000 piastres, coming from Bergame to Smyrna, was stopped by eight armed men, about ten leagues from Smyrna. The robbers fired upon the caravan, killed two and wounded two others. - They plundered it of all the money and got clear off. An armed party was sent after them from Smyrna. with what success is yet unknown. Another party has since been plundered near' Koulah by the Zey - Jecks, who robbed them of nearly two hundred thousand piastres, but did not ill treat them. Trade of all kind is completely at a stand. The widow of Belzoni, the traveller, an aged English woman, is stated by the Observer to be living at No. 2. Glacis de Waterloo hors de la Porte Louise, Brussels, in a state of destitution so great that during the whole of the past inclement winter (in Belgium), she had not the means once to procure herself a meal of animal food, and could scarcely obtain sufficient to sustain life upon the cheapest vegetable diet. Some time since Sir R. Peel, when in power, allowed her a pension of £lOO a-year for three years, which she piously, though perhaps not wisely, devoted to the republication of her beloved husband'3 work ; but that source has long since ceased, and year after year she has been sinking deeper and deeper into distress and despair. POPERY UNCHANGEABLE.—HOW the Apostles would stare at some of the employments of the man who calls himself the Vicar of their Master !—how their souls would be afflicted if they saw him moving in the mummery of a procession in honour of the recovery of a stolen skull! The following is from the Roman correspondent of the Daily News :—" I told you about the robbery of the head of St. Andrew. On its recovery it was resolved to restore it to its old resting-place with great solemnity. Accordingly on the sth, this week, feast of St. Vincent, I the Pope walked the whole way from St. Andrea della Valle's church to St. Peter's, following the venerable object, accompanied by a gorgeous procession. The cu pola of Michel Angelo was illuminated in the evening." INSURRECTION AT FRIBURG IN BADEN.—The town of Friburg has been the scene of great riot and tumult. Under pretext of holding a public meeting, about 2000 peasants, mixed up with the lowest rabble, came to Fri burg on Saturday, the 22nd ult. They were all armed, partly with guns, lances, scythes, bludgeons, &c. After the meeting was over, which passed some resolutions of a re publican and communistical tendency, the whole mass constituted itself into a regular little army ; the leaders were chosen, an attack upon the Yates of the town was suddenly made, and the town taken possession of by the insurgents. Troops were sent for, and after a bombard ment of more than seven hours, the town was retaken by storm. A great many of the insurgents were made prisoners, but the majority have taken flight. Martial lam has been published in various parts of the duchy. Symptoms of mutiny have appeared among the troops. An artilleryman who had deserted was brought to Canis rube on Monday, in order to be shot, when another artil leryman suddenly drew a large 'knife against an officer; but the latter killed him on the spot with his sword, THE WEST INDIAN COLONIES.—The fate of the colo nies is sealed. Theory has triumphed over experience, and facts have given way to falsehood. A more dishonest, a more heartless course was never descended to by minis ter than that which has been pursued by the present go vernment in dealing with the West Indian colonies. And mind what ministers now say. They will not admit that our present ruin is attributable to free trade; but they are pleased to ascribe it to the bungling properties of the act of 1833. Who passed that act ) Are we responsible for its errors ? So far as the unhappy victim is concerned, it is immaterial whether the Act of Emancipation or the Free-Trade Slave-Encouragement Bill of 1846 has been our ruin. But there is a bound to loyalty as to every other passion. Self-preservation is a powerful stimulant. The colonists dwell too near a prosperous continent not, to feel the disparaging contrast between wealth under one government, and beggary and ruin under another. Ministers may persist in their ruinous course—they may still doom our property to sacrifice, and still withhold the fair remuneration that is due to us for its confiscation, but they cannot hold us to our duties as British subjects when every right of a British subject is denied us. — Jamaica Dispatch. COURT AND FASHION. _._ The Court still remains at - tbe Isle of Wight. Sir Robert Peel arrived at Osborne on Thursday, and had the honour of joining the royal circle at dinner. On Wednesday the Duchess of Kent returned to town, from the visit which she had been paying the Queen. The Queen Dowager arrived at Portsmouth on Thurs day, from Madeira, in her Majesty's ship Howe. Prince Albert left Osborne on Thursday, and proceeded in the Fairy steam yacht to pay a visit to the Queen Dow ager on board the Howe. His Royal Highness afterwards returned to Osborne. Viscount Hardinge arrived on a visit to the Duke of Wellington on Monday, at Strathfieldsaye, Hunts, from South Park, near Penhurst. We are authorised to announce that many ladies of rank and fashion have resolved, during the present season of distress, to confine their purchases exclusively to articles of British manufacture. We have reason to believe that the determination has been made with the sanction and approval of her gracious Majesty, and that a formal an nouncement of the fact will shortly be made. In the meanwhile, we would strongly advise the tradesmen of the metropolis and elsewhere not to increase for the present their stock of foreign goods.—John Bull. [ The Lord Chamberlain has issued an order stating that " her Ma jesty, ever desirous of giving encouragement to the arts and industry of the united kingdom, and particularly so at this time of commercial depression, would wish to see the ladies attending the drawing-rooms in dresses of British manufacture."] FASHIONS FOR MAY. (From the " Londonand Paris Ladies' Magazine of Fashion.") Very elegant materials are in use for evening dress, brocarts with large patterns in orange colour, having by candlelight the effect of gold ; others are of black grounds, with wreaths of roses or mixed flowers of showy colours, ondes satins and gauzes sprigged in stars of gold, or silk reps, broches, &c. Sky blue and violet are the prevailing colours ; pale blue for young ladies, and deep violet for the more advanced, which latter colour is also much used for high dresses ane for tnantelets and pelerines, harmo nizing in colour with the dress for these toilettes ; black lace is well suited ; foulards and bareges again constitute the most elegant negliges ; we have also toiles de laine glaces and embroidered, new popelines and checked taffe tas ' • the last are in small checks in which white prevails, and are adapted for young ladies. Many of the spring re dingotes are ornamented with buttons, others with biais, edged with fringe or deep flounces festonnes, pinked or simply hemmed ; corsages less high will be fashionable, but will still have to contend with the Puritan form ; two styles of low bodies are spoken ; those a la Grecque, with guimpe and tassels, are open, showing the chemi sette ; corsages made of lace are spoken of; there is no particular change in the sleeves ; for dinner dresses the trimmings are mostly en tablier. In ball dresses the dou ble and treble skirt are always worn. The mantilles, mantelets, demi-pelisses, little paletots, are all made this season of plain or glace taffetas. the trimmings generally of frills, pinked in two or three rows at the back, two of which terminate at the arm, falling as a sleeve on the hand ; the third is continued round the ends, which are either round or pointed. The newest style is the mantillon, and is small in form, resembling the mantelet in shape without the ends ; the pardessus Milanais is of taffetas d'ltalie glace ' with triple border of lace. The new bonnets are round in form, and jockey crowns continue in favour. Some bonnets are of a more open form, and these require more ornament inside. Some are made entirely of ribbon, others of mohair and straw, and of gimp and straw ; but the Parisian ladies always give the preference to Leghorn!, for which they reserve their ostrich, marabout, and heron feathers. A new tissu de paille is made in bands, which, sewed together, forms a pretty bonnet de fantaisie. The capote castellane of pink satin, covered with black lace, forming fichu on the crown, and voilette at the edge, ornamented inside with roses, is very generally admired. Fancy straws are ornamented by wild flowers, foliage, bunches of the peach and apricot blossom, &c. Various simple and pretty caps ire made for neglige, all of a round form, and many owe much of their beauty to a new kind of foliage ribbon, which forms so pretty a trimming. The fauchon is also admired, richly embroidered and trimmed with Valenciennes or Mechlin lace. Small blond caps with flowers, and dress hats with fea thers, are reserved for evening wear ; nceuds of velours epingle are worn in the hair, and many pretty coiffures are made of bugles in every colour. Bracelets are univer sally in favour, large or small, rich or simple, in every va riety of material, one or more at pleasure. The Chate laine suspended from the waist also varies in value. The gloves continue short, ornamented at the top by ribbon torsades. Beads or narrow blond forming ruches. IRELAND. -*- TRAINING TO Atums.--At Cork, Youghal, &c., a num ber of parties have been committed for trial on charges of training to the use of arms. Mr. Hodges, the government reporter, has been de spatched on an official mission to the south of Ireland, with a view of furnishing a faithful record of the sayings and doings at the " demonstrations of sympathy" which are to come off in that quarter during the present week. MILITARY Pr; EcArrioNs.—Theitiorning Herald states that 15,000 stands of arms, with accoutrements and am munition, have been forwarded from the ordnance store houses to different barracks throughout Ireland, for the purpose of arming the loyal inhabitants in case of need. In the Dublin Court of Queen's Bench on Thursday, the Attorney-General entered a nolle prosequi in the cases of Mr. O'Brien and Mr. Meagher, and filed ex officio informations instead. These traversers, as well as Mr. Mitchel, moved to appear by attorney, but the ap plication was refused. ODD TASTE.—At the Antrim Farmers' Society, Lord Massarene, after commenting upon the destruction of home manufactures, and abusing England, said, " For my part, I would rather stand my chance to be shot at once a week in Ireland, than live among the cold-hearted people of England." THE BUCKINGHAM ESTATES.—The property in the county of Clare was put up for auction on Wednesday, in separate lots, but not sold. After the auction, the entire property, containing over 7,870 acres, was sold by private contract, at a fair rate of purchase, to one gentleman. The Queen's County estates were sold on Thursday EXECUTIONS.—On Saturday week, John and Michael Connolly were hanged in front of Nenagh goal, for the murder of Dillon.—The two men, Shea and Browne. con victed at Kilkenny assizes for having aided and assisted Larkin and Daniel, who since suffered death for the mur der of Mr. Prim, pay-clerk, were also executed the same day. An execution has been laid in the Castlebar workhouse, at the suit of a provision dealer, for a sum of £670. There are no funds of course in hand, and the collection of a rate is fast sinking into an impossibility, while the roar of pauperism swells louder and louder each day. The vice guardians have appealed to the commissioners, but the reply was—" collect the rate !" 'On Thursday, as Mr. Barnatyne, of Limerick, was going in a gig to Clackwater, he was stopped by two armed men, who threatened to shoot him if he did not again take into his employment two men whom he bad .dismissed on suspicion of robbing his mills. He was allowed to proceed on promising to comply with their unreasonable demand. • REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—The proceedings at the meet ing on Monday were extremely stupid, and remarkable for a strict observance of the law. Mr. Reynolds, in the course of a long speech, mentioned that twenty English members of parliament had promised to vote for repeal when the question was brought to a division. At five o'clock the rent amounted to £3O. HORROR AT AN EXECUTION.—Two men were executed at Nenagh on Monday. Owing to the neglect Gf the 'hangman, the face of one of the culprits was not covered. It is impossible to describe the dreadful appearance of the man as he fell through the grating of the gallows ! All the sufferings and pains of strangulation were visible in the contortions of his countenance. His eyes shot out; in a moment the face became blood-red; in another moment it assumed a ghastly livid, hue, whilst again the facial muscles quivered in every fibre. Death was almost instantaneous ; but as it was, nothing could be more revolting. LOYALTY OF ORANGEMEN. The Grand Orange Lodge of the County Armagh met on Tuesday, and adopted resolutions declaratory of their determination to uphold the legislative union, not concealing that they had suffered wrongs, but affirming that no such injuries had shaken their attachment to British connection, which they were ready to maintain at the peril of life and fortune. The resolutions were signed by district masters on behalf of 228 lodges. On the day following, the Grand Orange Lodge of the County Tyrone met at Ballygawley, and adopted similar resolutions, which were subscribed on behalf of 232 lodges. EFFECTS OF SEDITION.—There is no description of en gagement or of business, with the exception of gun-mak ing and pike-making, that is not affected by the rebellion exciters. It has already been stated that even insurance offices have taken the alarm, and as a proof of it we annex a copy of a letter received by the agent of a respectable company :—" London, April•2o, 1848. Dear Sir,—l re gret to inform you that the directors are not disposed to entertain Mr. —'s proposal. The political aspect of Ireland appears to have brought them to the conclusion that for the present they cannot grant policies in your part of the country, any more than in Paris."—Cork Paper. STARTLING COINCIDENCES.—in the year 1795, Mr. Pitt founded the Roman Catholic College of Maynooth, for the purpose of putting an end to the rebellious feelings of the Romish priests and people of this unhappy island. In three years he reaped the fruits of this worldly policy in the rebellion of 1798. Exactly fifty years after (1845), Sir Robert Peel greatly enlarged the annual grant to Maynooth. for the purpose of putting an end to the rebellious feelings of the Romish priests and people, and now In three years time, the people are arming themselves for the rebellion of 1848, to teach the British govern ment, if they will learn by experience, the folly of sacri ficing truth and consistency at the shrine of political ex pediency. HEARTLESS SEDUCTION. The Tyrone Constitution states that Miss —, of Derry, a beautiful and fascinat ing young lady, about 18 years of age, eloped on Friday evening se'nnight, with Lieut. Wemys, of the 48th Regi ment, whose company had left Derry the day before, en route to Dublin. The manner in which the elopement was conducted appears to have been very disgraceful on the part of the heartless seducer. At Ballygawley, the mother of the unfortunate girl found her, with her de stroyer, at the hotel, and, says an Irish contemporary, upbraided the epauletted ruffian with his villany in no measured terms. He took the matter very coolly, how ever—remarked that it was difficult for officers to get rid of the many girls who were laying snares for them—that he had informed the young lady he had no intention to marry her—and that she might return with her mother if she wished, but that he would not urge her to do so, as he would take care of her it she would remain with him ! STATE PROSECUTIONS.—At the Court of Queen's Bench on Wednesday, in the case of the Queen v. John Mitchell, the Attorney-General stated that two several indictments had been found against the traverser for seditious publica tions. Mr. Mitchel, to each of these indictments, has filed dilatory pleas, to the effect that one of the grand jury, Mr. Bowles, was a member of the Town Council, in the city of Dublin, and the traverser made the usual affi davit to verify the pleas. So far as he (the Attorney General) was concerned, he did not think there was any thing serious in the objection, but as the pleading was dilatory, and not going to the merits, he should enter a nolle prosequi on both indictments which had been found by the grand jury, and file an ex officio information against Mr, Mitchel. He, therefore, applied that the nolle prose qui might be recorded. The information was then for mally substituted for an indictment, and the traverser is to plead in four days. AUDACIOUS BURGLARY AND ROBBERY. — On Saturday night last, three men effectel an entrance into the house of the Rev, Richard Martin, of Killaloe ; by means of a long ladder, they smashed a pane of glass in a window on the second flight, and unscrewed the pin. As soon as they entered they covered the heads of two female servants, in order that they would not know them or cause a noise. The Miss Martins, who were in a room adjacent, heard the noise, and immediately ran out ; the first thing they saw was three men, with their faces blackened, and one of them in female attire : one of the ladies ran to the win dow, and screamed aloud for help, for which the ruffians gave her a severe crush on the chest. The other sister had a poker, and gave one of the ruffians two blows on the arm when she saw her sister struck. At this time the Rev. Mr. Martin came up, and the youngest of the Miss Martins rushed between the ruffians and her aged father, and said not to shoot him but to shoot herself. One of them bad a short gun, the other a large hatchet, and the third a piece of iron. They demanded arms and money. Mr. Martin was compelled to give them £3. After they got the money they went off.—Limerick Chronicle. ----- UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS. _+__ The Archbishop of Canterbury will take the chair at the annual meeting of the Church Missionary Association in Exeter-hall. A THANKOFFERING.—The Rev. J. G. Kelly, Bristol Association Secretary of the Pastoral Aid Society, ac knowledges the receipt of a donation of £5, being " a thanlcoffering " from a beneficed clergyman, in conse quence of the late appointment to the see of Canterbury. The Rev. George C. Algar, M.A., fellow of University College, Oxford, and tutor in the family of her Majesty's representative at the Court of Sweden, has conformed to the Roman Catholic Church, having previously resigned his fellowship. WHIG CHURCH PATRONAGE. — The Lord Chancellor has appointed one of his own relations to the living of St. Andrew's, one of the most valuable in the diocese of Llandaff. It is stated that the Bishop has refused to institute the rev. gentleman to this thoroughly Welsh parish, on the proper ground that he does not understand Welsh. The enthronization of his Grace the Archbishop of Can terburytook place at Canterbury Cathedral on Friday. He was attended by the Dean of the province (the Bishop of Lichfield, as proxy for the Bishop of London). the Sub- Dean (the Bishop of Winchester), the Dean and Vice-Dean, and other officers of the Cathedral Church, and about 200 clergymen. The ceremony of the induction was performed by the Archdeacon of Canterbury. VOLUNTARY EASTER OFFERING.—On Easter Tuesday the Mayor of Newcastle, accompanied by Mr. Willium Young, the senior churchwarden of St. Nicholas, and Mr. William Gibson, the treasurer to the fund, waited upon the Rev. R. C. Coxe, A.M. at the Vicarage, and pre sented him with the sum of £450 as a voluntary Easter offering from the inhabitants of the town, thus affording a substantial proof of the estimation in which the worthy vicar is held. A similar offer has been presented for the three previous years, and on each occasion has been sub scribed in a few days. it is deeply to be regretted that the income attached to the vicarage is so small and in adequate. Eio.cATioN.—The committee of council on education have just awprded certificates of merit to the following gentlemen, vho were examined at-the Chester Diocesan Training Col'eg in November last, by two of her Ma jesty's inspectors, and who were all trained in that establishment :—Second class certificate, Mr. E. H. Hey wood, Master of St. Bride's School. Third class, first division, Mr. J. L. Murphy, Master of St. Augustine's. Third class,. third division, Mr. C. Becket and Mr. E. Houghton, of St. Thomas's (Toxteth-park) ar4l St. Luke's Schools. Mr. A. Boardman, of Bebingtoa Na tional School, Cheshire, has also;gaiued a third,closs certificate. NEW CHURCHES IN YORKSHIRE.—On Tuesday last, his Grace the Archbishop of York consecrated the very handsome new church at Goole. On Wednesday, his grace consecrated the church at Ellerton recently rebuilt, and on Thursday the beautiful Norman church at Sowerby, near Bridlington, built and endowed at the sole expense of Yarburgh Greame, Esq., the present High Sheriff. Yesterday, his grace consecrated a church at Carlton, near Pontefract ; and to-day, the new church at Balby, near Doncaster. DR. HAMPDEN.—This now rather celebrated Divine delivered his farewell charge to his parishioners on Sunday afternoon last. in the parish church of Ewelme, fifteen miles from Oxford : a living attached to the Professorship of Divinity immemorially. A thousand parsons crowded the church, and many were placed at the windows. The Right Rev. Prelate exhorted his hearers to persevere in the zealous discharge of those Christian duties in which it had been his study to encourage and as i them during his twelve years' ministry amongst them. It having been stated that the Lord Bi hop of Glouces ter and Bristol has presented £ll,OOO to the fund for providing parsonage-houses for small livings, &c.,' the Rev. Prelate has addressed a letter to the papers stating that the following are the facts :—'• The Ecclesiastical Commissioners have agreed to purchase my interest in the estate of Horfield Manor, except a portion which I have reserved for the eventual augmentation of the vicarage. The sum which 1 am to receive is £11,587 ; of this I have determined to devote immediately one-half to the benefit of small livings in my diocese, and as the most effectual mode of employing the money, I intend to consolidate this sum with another fund remaining unexpended from my yearly donations to similar purposes. The amount of the latter is at present £3,445, and the whole, amounting to £9,238, with its increments, will be appropriated to assist in the erection of parsonage-houses in benefices which do not exceed £2OO a year." THE CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY.—On the 29th March a deputation from this society waited upon the Archbishop, by appointment, at Lambeth Palace. The deputation consisted of the Earl of Chichester, president; the Marquis of Cholmondeley; the Earl of Harrowby ; the Bishop of Oxford ; Sir T. D. Acland, Bart., M.P. • Sir R. H. Inglis, Bart., M.P. ; William Evans, Esq., M.P. ; and George Finch, Esq. • vice-presidents: the secretaries and a numerous body Of the lay and clerical members of the committee. The Archbishop expressed, !n a very feeling manner, his affection for the society, and his entire satisfaction with the principles upon which it is con ducted, and cordially accepted the office of vice-patron ; and added, that if even he had not in years past been a zealous supporter of the society, he should think himself unworthy of the station in the church to which he had been now called, if he hesitated to identify himself with a society which had long been an honoured instrument of promoting the object to which his energies ought to be all devoted—the ,glory of God, and the extension of the Redeemer's kingdom. THE BISHOP OF HEREFORD.—The ceremony of enthro nisation took place on Thursday, by the General Chapter meeting in the cathedral library. The Archdeacon's mandate was read, and the ceremony was proceeded with. It was understood that the Chapter Clerk presented a protest on the part of the Dean, who was absent ; but the Chapter declined receiving it, or allowing it to be en tered on the minutes, and proceeded with the business of the aay. After the first lesson, the Chapter, headed by the Rev. Canon Musgrave, as Hebdomadary proceeded to the west door, and met the Bishop, who approached, attended by his lordship's Chaplain, the Rev. Mr. Hay ward Cox, 8.D., the Rev. Chancellor Corbett, and Thos. Evans, EQq., his lordship's secretary. His lordship then had the usual oaths administered, and was conducted to his throne. The 7'e Deurn was then sung, and the Latin prayers having been offered for the new Bishop by the Hebdomadary, the Bishop rose, andithe Hebdomadary, taking him by the hand, placed him in the seat and induc ted him, in due form, into the full rights of the see of Hereford, according to the royal mandate. The dignita ries present (among whom we recognised the Rev. Lord Saye and Sele, the Rev. Canon Morgan, Prebendaries Webb, Venn, Gretton and many others) were then pre sented to his lordship in succession, and the usual service was proceeded with. The vast and superb edifice was crowded by an attentive and apparently deeply interested congregation, and his lordship was the object of the most respectful recognition of the audience as he entered, passed, and repassed from the episcopal palace to the cathedral. ENGLISH CLERGYMEN IN WALES.—The Rev. J. Griffith, vicar of Aberdare, has addressed a spirited letter to the Lord Chancellor, from which we quote the follow. ing passage The living of St. Andrews, now vacant, and in the gift of your Lordship, is one of the most valuable livings in the diocese of Llandaff. It is also not the least important. By the exercise of that right whi c h no man it will deny, your Lordship has, is said, appointed to St. Andrews one of your own relations. It is also said, that the Bishop of Llandaff has remonstrated against this ap pointment. It is never doubted but that the gentleman appointed by your Lordship is a man of great piety, and great merit. But this is not all that is necess ar y i n th e parish of St. Andrews ; nor is it all that is necessary to render a clergyman useful. One thing above everything is necessary : it is peculiarly necessary that the clergyman should be able to communicate and converse in the com mon language of his parishioners. In this requisite, Mr. Sampson is deficient ; and it is for this deficiency that the Bishop has refused to institute him. His Lordship has felt himself bound to do so—bound not only by his duty and his conscience, but also by the stringent clause of an act of parliament : an act, indeed, which ought to be not the less stringent, because it was introduced, and passed, by the very Government of which your Lordship was, as your Lordship is now, the highest legal authority. But, it is said now, that there is a flaw in that clause; and, acting upon this flaw, it is further said, that your Lordship will compel the Bishop to institute. What foundation there may be for this rumour, I know not ; but I cannot believe it. It is impossible for me to believe it, my Lord, when I call to mind the great stress laid upon the clause duricg its progress through the Upper House." POLITICAL MISCELLANY. _t_ CLOSE OF THE CONTEST IN WICKLOW.—At the close of the poll, on Thursday, the gross numbers were— Howard, 368, Monck, 355 ; majority, 13. The most important intelligence received from Lisbon is that Lord Palmerston has begun to interest himself in the behalf of the Portuguese bondholders, by remonstrat ing against the non-payment of the dividends. CHARTIST DOINGS.—Two Chartists of Burnley were overheard in conversation on Wednesday last to give their real opinion on the petition. " Ha! ha !" said one, " I always thought it would be so. It's no wonder the par liament laughed at our petition. They would not have had it at all if they only knew all about it." " Why," said the other, " I know a fellow wot put his dog's name in the petition, he said it would make one more." RESIGNATION OF MR. MILNER GIBSON.—The Man chester Guardian, (Whig paper,) alluding to this event, says,—" When a man has been hopelessly lingering a long time under the influence of some painful and incurable disease, his friends are quite disposed to say, when death puts an end to his sufferings, that he has had a happy release ;' and we believe that most of those who are aware of the extent of the inflictions under which the right hon. member for Manchester has recently laboured, will be dis posed to congratulate him upon his official demise. It is, indeed, a happy release ;' for no unfortunate toad under a harrow' could have had a more uncomfortable existence than that which the right hon. gentleman has endured for some months past, under the badgerings which he has re ceived through the newspapers, and the alternate coaxings and bullyings to which he has been more privately sub jected, have at length overcome his firmness, and he has resigned his office." REFORMMOVEMENTS.—Various movements, eschewing the name of Chartism, but pressing to substantially the same measures, have been got up in different place. At Birmingham, on Saturday, a declaration, in the form of a monster placard, was appended to the walls, setting forth that the undersigned " earnestly desired, and were deter mined to obtain, by all peaceful and constitutional means, household suffrage, vote by ballot, triennial parliaments, and electoral districts." More than a thousand signatures were appended to this document, among them those of several respectable mercantile houses ; three-fourths of the aldermen and town-councillors, and several magistrates ; the list being headed by two M.P.'s—G. F. Muntz and W. Scholfield. At Leicester, last week, resolutions were agreed to, in favour of universal suffrage, and the principles contained in the national charter ; protest ing against the constitution of the present legislature of Great Britain as partial and unjust, and denouncing the Crown and Government Security Bill as a daring infringe ment of constitutional freedom of speech, and as tending to undermine the civil and religious liberty of the nation. One of the resolutions provided for the opening of the register for the borough, iu which the names, age, resi dence, and occupation of every person who is in favour of the national charter shall be entered. Similar meetings have taken place at Doncaster, Manchester, Bury, Brad ford, and other places. LORD PALMERSTON'S IMPERTINENCE.—The Times, in consequence of Lord Palnierston's dictation to the Spanish Government, adds an anecdote in reference to similar im pertinence in the same quarter towards the Infanta of Spain, who was recently driven to these shores under cir cumstances demanding every mark of consideration and kindness. The editor says—" It is now notorious that the pretensions of Lord Palmerston were such as to in duce the Duchess of Alontpensier and her husband to quit this country and repair to Holland, whilst a Dutch steamer was . prepared to convey the royal exiles to the coast of Spam; and when their royal highnesses called to take leave of Queen Victoria, at Buckingham Palace, on the eve of their departure, they were not admitted, by the ad vice of Lord Palmerston, who was sent for on the oc casion, to the honour of an audience. They left England, therefore, astonished and irritated to no small degree at the usage which the influence of a single minister could cause to be inflicted on their rank and their misfortunes. Thus it was they arrived in Spain ; and it certainly was no very difficult task to persuade Queen Isabella that her sister had been received in England with very little of the consideration to which she was entitled. The effect has been what might be anticipated. But this was not all. Mr. Bulwer was `recommended' to follow up these heroic exploits, directed against fugitive princes, by a diplomatic demonstration against the Cabinet, which had at any rate beaten the mob and the revolution in the streets of Madrid. In short, no means have, as it would appear, been neglected to render the estrangement and hostility of the two courts and governments complete." ANOTHER REFORMER.—An appeal to the middle classes on the " urgent necessity of numerous radical re forms, financial and organic," has been published by Mr. F. W. Newman. No person acquainted with the writer's character could doubt that such a production from such a pen would contain much that was deserving of general attention, though it might perhaps have been anticipated with equal confidence that only a limited assent was re served for its suggestions. The appeal was written be fore the 10th of last month, a circumstance, as will be I hereafter seen, of considerable importance towards a due Nay 2,184!• estimate of its contents. Mr. Newman's propositions may be briefly represented as follow :—That we are suf . : fering under a mortal malady in our enormous debt; that our taxation for the discharge of our liabilities is radical/ unjust ; that our Government is so fettered by routine and precedent that the best disposed Administration eiel never hope to break through the trammels till the national representation has been organically reformed; and that unless the middle classes take this matter into their owe hands by a "league of the franchised," some desperate • convulsion must be inevitably in store. It is with a de sire to uphold " reverence to the Throne, honour to the Peerage, and at all events and at any price to secure su premacy for order, wisdom, and equity," that the writer has communicated to the public his suggestions for trans ferring a disagreeable but unavoidable task of reform into' safer hands than those threatening to assume it. Mr. Newman classes his projected reforms under two 14ads, financial and organic. His chief argument in the former question is based upon the apportionment to be legiti mately made of the liabilities contracted by the last wen He conceives that it was not rightly competent to the• Ministers of the day to charge any but the then existing property of Britain with the charges incurred by the then existing generation. Hereditary property, therefore, ought to be charged with the dead weight of 27 millions , whereas, with reference to this particular obligation, it has scarcely been charged with anything at all. RAILWAY AFFAIRS. -.- The express train on the Great Western Railway per formed the distance from London to Bristol, 1181- miles , on Wednesday, in two hours 25 minutes. A locomotive boiler exploded on Tuesday at the Nor manton station, by which the engine driver was severely scalded, and four other persons more or less injured. A grand dinner is to be given to Mr. Robert Stephen son, by the inhabitants of Conway, on the 17th, to cele- . brate the triumphant completion of his master-piece of engineering —the Conway tube. On Tuesday morning, as the mail train from York ar rived at the Normanton station, and the engine had just been detached, an explosion took place in the fire-box attached to the boiler. Fortunately no lives were lost. The railway between Limerick and Tipperary Wes opened for passengers and traffic on the Ist inst. When the line to Dandrum is finished, it will complete the en tire communication between Limerick and Dublin by steam, excepting nine miles. At the special meeting of the Scottish Central, the bill for leasing the line to the London and North-Western, Lancaster and Carlisle, and Caledonian Companies, has at last been approved of. The new chairman (Lord Duncan) announced that he had traversed the line, and, from the satisfactory condition of the works, the government in spector would be forthwith called upon for his report. A few days since, in the Sheffield Bankruptcy Court, • Dr. Holland applied for his certificate, but the application was opposed on behalf of the directors of the late Sheffield and Retford Bank, whose property he had used in railway speculations ; and in the course of the proceedings it ap peared that Dr. Holland had bought and sold railway shares to such an extent that nearly half a million sterling had been turned over on a capital•of £4,000. From official returns, it appears that the amount of traffic for the last week, on 3,663 miles of railway, was £171,610, thus accounted for:—£Bl,66o for the conveyance'of pas sengeis only, £46,842 for the carriage of goods, and 1 1 - remainder of £43,108 for passengers and goods together, not respectively apportioned ; being an increase of £2,185 over the corresponding week of last year, when the mileage • was 2,845. The average earnings per mile last week were £47, whilst in 1847 they were £5B. FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—On Saturday, as Wm. Yoxall, employed at the Crewe Railway Station in sepa rating the carriages which form various railway trains to' and from that junction, was attending to his duty, he was accidentally struck by the buffers of one of the carriages which he was detaching, and received so severe an injury that he died in half an hour after the occurrence. In re turning from the inquest, Mr. Stanton, engineer of the Chester and Crewe branch, fell on to the line while alight ing from the train, when in motion, near Waverton sta tion. He received such injuries that it was found neces sary to amputate the right leg just below the knee. RACE ON A RAILWAY.—DARING EXPLOIT.—The fol lowing extraordinary circumstance occurred recently on the Manchester and Huddersfield Railway. The porters bad been removing some luggage waggons, and carelessly neglected to put on the brakes after unhooking the horse- The consequence was, that two trucks set off down the incline, scion attaining a speed of nearly twenty miles an hour. The station master, on being informed of this, instantly mounted an engine, and, accompanied by the head porter and driver and stoker, set off at full speed after the runaways. Upon coming up with them the porter most daringly got upon the buffers of the engine, and succeeded in hooking the waggons. The engine was then reversed, and the trucks were brought back without any injury being sustained. Had the waggons gone dorm to the junction, and on to the Manchester and Leeds line, a collision would most likely have taken place, as the ex press train, leaving Leeds at forty-five minutes past one, was just about due at the time. LAW INTELLIGENCE. At the Court of Arches, on Tuesday, Sir H. J. Fust' delidered judgment in the case Geils v. Geils, pro nouncing for a separation, on the ground that the hus band had been guilty of adultery, with full costs against the husband. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. THE TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS STAKES—run for at the Newmarket first spring meeting, on Tuesday, wa s won by Mr. B. Green's Flatcatcher, beating Glendower, Blazer Fern, and Sunnyside. THE STATE OF JAMAICA. [Often as we have called attention to our West Indian possessions, we have never done so at a more critical pe riod than the present. Unless something is done instant er n their complete ruin is inevitably sealed. Let Person who who hesitates to believe this read the following article from the Jamaica Despatch o f th e 23 r d u ltimo, in con nexion with the impo r t an t reso l u ti ons o f t h e Jamaica Chamber of Commerce :—] " The sentiments expressed in the following reso l u ti ons passed by the Chamber of Comme rc e, an d t o w hi c h we cannot assign a too prominent p o siti on i n our co l umns , will, we are convinced, meet w ith th e h earty concurrenc e of every one possessing a genuine interest in the prosperity of Jamaica. The period which we have long anticipated as the ne cessary result of the infamous measure of 1846, has nO 7 arrived. Ruin surrounds us on all sides—property is Valueless—commerce has deserted us, and rapid aban donment of all that remains of cultivation must immedi ately ensue. To maintain in the midst of this fearful condition of things a public expenditure of £400,00 0 Per annum, is palpably impossible. It becomes, therefore, a duty in common fairness, not only to the public, but to the recipients of the public bounty, at once to declare the inability of the colony to maintain its existing institutions. And this notification cannot be made too soon. " In a crisis such as that which the affairs of the colony have now attained, it is most essential that the sense of • the legislature should be taken with as little delay as pos sible upon this subject. The taxes warranted by the laws passed during the late Session cannot be raised. The very crop which a heavy outlay has placed on the ground will not in numerous instances be taken off, because the unrighteous declaration of Ministers has destroyed what little confidence remained, and capital will thus be unat tainable at any sacrifice. " We trust, therefore, that the appeal of the Chamber of Commerce will be responded to throughout the island, and that the promised memorial to the Executive, for an early convening of the Legislature, will be backed by similar applications from every parish in the Island. RESOLUTIONS OF THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. At a meeting of the Chamber, held on Wednesday, the twenty-second of March, 1848, it was proposed by James Porteous, esq., and unanimously "Resolved I.—That the announcement by her Majesty's ministers of their fixed determination to adhere to the sugar duty act of 1846, without modification, has set the seal to the ruin of this colony. "Resolved 2.—That it is the opinion of this chamber, that with a moderate differential duty of 10s. per cwt. for a limited period of ten years, against slave produce, aided during that interval by liberal immigration from Africa, the vigorous suppression of the slave trade being enforced , the energy and enterprise of our planters, assisted - by capital, which confidence would again place at their com mand, would place Jamaica in a position to enter into • unfettered competition with all other sugar producing countries,—for this chamber feels convinced that on properly equal terms the British Jamaica planters fear no competition. "Resolved 3.—That unaccompanied by a fair distinc tive duty, as against slave produce, the palliatives prof' fered by her Majesty's Government are purely delusive , and only calculated to lead on those planters who nisi happen to have any capital left, to exhaust it by continu ing a ruinous and hopeless cultivation. " Resolved 4.—That feeling assured that the abandon ment of sugar estates throughout this colony must now become general, and, as a consequence, the pecuniarY affairs of its inhabit an ts be th r o wn i n t o a condition of fearful embarrassment, accompanied by wide-spread insol vency, this chamber deems it advisable at once to laY S . memorial before the Governor, and recommends to the' different parishes a similar course for adoption, requesting his Excellency to call together the Legislature with the. least possible delay, that the appalling financial condition. of the island may be considered. "Resolved s.—That it is the opinion of this chambe r that in our present situation and prospects, all further progress in the erection of new public Institutions shou t be at once arrested. "Resolved 6.—That the people of this island are nod in a situation to continue to pay existing taxes, and this chamber, therefore, strongly urge upon the Vestries t°__ curtail their estimates of contemplated expenditure for the ensuing year to the lowest possible limits, abandoning entirely the Parochial Institutions. st " Resolved 7.—That it is an admitted maxim among,. all civilized nations, that whenever the state invades ii o r vidual rights for the public good, full indemnity is inval.l7 ably awarded ; if, therefore, the British nation, for W ae I T sake of cheap sugar, destroys her colonies by waging unrighteous crusade against her own subjects, who hav f invested their capital upon the faith and guarnnte e : their Country's laws, they, as British subjects, Will .., their claim for full and ample compensation for thi s de struction struction of their property,—a claim which the justiceel the British nation cannot refuse to recognize. shor t oi "Resolved B.—That the foregoi Resolutions be lished once in each of the city paper; and that the geld, be forwarded for insertion in the Times, Morning ijeraw and Morning Post." 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