Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-03-22 00:00:00

THE L4TEST TELEGRAM' GERMANY. DRESDEN, March 21. The Dresden Journal, of to-day, states that the Prospect of peace is now more reasonable, and that Austria has, under certain conditions, accepted the proposal of France to convoke a Congress in some neutral Power, for the purpose of discussing Italian ifrairs. THE FRENCH FUNDS. P Altis, Monday, 11.50 a.m. The more peaceful 48 . P ee t of political affairs has produced' a. further Improvement in Rentes, which have been done at a r i se of per cent. since Saturday's closing. 1 .30 pan. The Bourse opens very firm with a Con siderabl e i mprovement with all securities. ' Re ntes are 68.65, being a further rise of -1 ; per Cent. 2.16 pan. It is asserted that the European Con ‘sl-ess will be held at Genoa. Rentes continue firm at 68,6 5. .2' 3 ° P.m. Th e B ourse c l oses fi rm. R entes uo nearly 85 fo for both M one y an d A ccoun t, w hi c h i s a r i se pdr cent. since Saturday. Cl osing : There has been no confirmation as yet respecting the proposed Congress. • After the Bourse, Re ntes were done at 68.75. POREIGN INTELLIGENCE. FRANCE. at The Memorial Diplomatique, a journal published r "• 6 t'aris, in the interest of Austria, says, that at the d P',..,onference at Vienna between Count Buol and Lord it was agreed that one great assurance of l e a,ee would be the cessation of armament by Sar it,n'a, and a change in policy of the Cabinet of Turin. R ' "' 1 e Cabinet of St. James's and Berlin have placed the t - n ar d t inian Cabinet in a position to giye explanations " ae nin'' the .positive grievances it may have against Austri a b datee co rrespondence from Vienna and Turin, under whi c h r iday, i s an t e d ecen t to t h e new p h ase i n ha,:„-- the Italian or European question is believed to tow d f he n ntered, and was still warlike. acteli°euritB ar 8 of the state of trade in . ... France, th close of last week, a nd show are still dispiriting, tennn er .- 1 a t great uneasiness prevailed, both in in th e Thsadna financial circles, and that confidence , until sh aken. w -°nl of Government was completely c ' s tPon d Co n 1 transactions are generally Niffere n e Th e it is officially announced that all c _;_; wi , t h Austria have been arranged. enns D i r era'd reports the discovery of a vast • piracy ,cY in the Italian Duchies, the object of th e Inon v t a : to Promote a general rising at the end of ' Numerous arrests have taken place. THE I VILITARY REVIEW pA„,„ IN PARIS. of , Nonday. —The Moniteur publishes a report Ch a ,: r eview held yesterday by the Emperor on the p as cPs des Mars. After the troops had defiled gav e the Emperor, he repaired to Poute de Jena and ap orders to the sentinels to allow the crowd to hy Pr n °a L ll . His Majesty was immediately surrounded Per e a e - 'uthense concourse of people who rushed with .hoatip,stible haste almost under the feet of the horses ug with the greatest enthusiasm, Vive_ raor is P t ere S• No accidents happened from this de- Part r f a "en, which was quite spontaneous on the °'• the public. WEST INDIA AND PACIFIC MAILS. litteThaedv—lficara, lena has arriv e d a t S ou th am pt on w ith e ac i ne, 47from the West Indies and the South S PeCie. Passengers, and 567,816 dollars in .r press has dvicesA r WEST INDIES. iiniNTation The . rem Jamaica are to the 26th u . ltimo f . been chiefly occupied on the subject o , especially that of encouraging the Cat.lllgration of coloured and black people from th: a c c , l4 " and the cultivation of cotton in the island, enC lice ess of which, it is contended, depends 0 ,. Irel y u __ Pon the question of labour. A spirit f tllenisubordination and lawlessness on the part o of te easa ntrY has manifested itself in some parts i%,. e islan The people met in large bodies at ev t' e ', in the district of Westmoreland, and destroyed I t 7 turnpike gate and toll house in the parish. f both l . B stated that upwards of 5,000 people o ! /I, t) ts sexes were engaged in the outrage. d t,,, 411(1 West India Regiment was prepare De merara st art for the scene of tumult. From brio there is no news of importance. At Bar- Feb es the House of Assembly met on the 22nd of wasr,,larY, when a report from the Auditor-General e x 'eati, accompanying the abstract of revenue and t belencliture of the island for the quarter ending 3 s vi,heeitaber last o r ° te Year. , and also a general abstract for the Whilst the latter exhibited an increase crews al items of revenue, and a permanent in yea:e. 9„f expenditure as compared with the previous hand s t " former showed the public in credit the ' e loc sum of £30,383. re } e l e Y i , th e SOUTH PACIFIC. arrival of the Pacific Mail at Panama . we a an \ e dates, per Magdalena, from Valparaiso to rev o rY 31 , and Callao, February 12. In Chile the Co uti"arY movement progresses. In the south, C o „te'vinee of Talca, and in the north Huascovanld par''aisPo, a . re in arms against the Government. d a . - Istr at i ° still continues under the power of the A nun oler ee °ll, but great excitement exists there, and coin- Atiothsuffers severely from the unsettled state of affairs. Rai ns er correspondent says : The revolution daily tr o ops g ' r° ' lll d. Copiapo still holds out, and more be en a ri e to be sent to sustain the Government uee rl ; The rails of a portion of the railroad have . th e Po' a rt " l.l up, so as to stop the communication with tected .0:4 Caldera. In Valparaiso it is daily ex p.ettt" ,; . ` at the revolution will break out, and great -ces4stel entertained that the mob will commit many INDIA. Th e ~. THE BOMBAY MAIL. has recei ve d a d es p a t c h from Malta, The tu aY news t o F e b. 25. Th e / nail left M alta on Frida. e have bee n dispersed by Brigadier `'Lle forts were captured without a blow. th e There antis Topee i s st ill at large ; he is believed to be nei.ghbourhood of D ecca . All 18 110 news of moment from Oude or Nepaul. I st pc' loan of five crores is announced from the tece 9 , ma K next, at 51 per cent. Subscription Bomb in cash and half in 5 per cent. paper. Driep e 13°111baY import market dull, with a decline in 2s. i d s : Ihsiness in exports very limited. Exchange to 2s. 21d. for credits. • The p o cvThe 6e announces the death of the Earl of Devon. irecie Archbishop of Canterbury has appointed to-morrow NfZ es v daY) to: deliver his decision on Mr. Poole's appeal. the It - ''S. —The Nepaul, with mails from Bombay and (su auritius, arrived at Marseilles at 3 p.m. yesterday and p The mails for London left at 10 p.m. The Suezfr: n ers are placed in two days' quarantine. .No dates %Lt. Portio A of A given, and no mention of Australian mail, the on 4rcl y Th e a- ° I most enthusiastic kind • reception was of the Ne n l'tan exiles landed at Bristol . went et Is r y Langton, M.P., and other city dignitaries, Th e ' y " et , the vesel, and gave em a hear i ty welcome. e ° ll tl P4sed throucrli the streets amid the acc amations of k tt esa th b 1,...,14, ousands. ''Y est by the Plio DisArr Ens.—According to advices , , f India Mail , Britishmerchant vessel Ithuriei c ftulder ed • the th e k In the Gulf Stream. The Cygnet was lost off „t ill osquito shore. The Peruvian at Belize, and the 'fess:l 3 Taylor at Demerara. The captains of all those z uji s have come home in the Magdalena. The barque b eeo Y , ef. London, was cvn shore at Belize, and likely to ite a total wreck. IRISH - CHURCH MISSIONS.- - The annual meeting of the above society was held last evening in the "Collegiate Institution. The Rev. Dr. 3PNeile in the chair. There Was, a numerous attendance. The Rev. Mr. Moore, secretary of the Liverpool Auxiliary, opened the meeting with prayer. After which The Chairman (who was received with applause) said— My Christian Friends, the Society for Irish Church Missions, on whose behalf we are assembled this evening, did not originate in any abstract theory of Christian duty towards Ireland, or in any systematic attempt to stimulate Christian beneiolence in that particular direction ; it was called into existence and operation by a series of facts over which man had no control. A movement of no ordinary , kind had taken place among the Roman Catholic popula tion of many parts- of Ireland. The famine - and the cholera—the:4e sore judgments of the Almighty—had thinned their numbers exceedingly ; the churchyards in some parishes were filled to repletion, and adjoining fields had been extemporised as burial places, without con secration, to receive multitudes who had died without the rites of the Church. A profound impression was very naturally produced upon the minds of the survivors, and a special direction was given to it by the remembrance of the kindness, the disinterestedness, the liberality, and the personal activity of the clergy of the Established Church, and their wives and families, during the deep distress, compared with the unfeeling selfishness of many (I am unable to say how many) of the Roman Catholic priests. A disposition to hear what the clergy of the Established Church had to say and a willingness to receive and read and hear the Holy Scrip tures were manifested to an extent unprecedented for many generations. The crisis was hailed as a seasonable one by those, or some of those, who truly valued the Protestant reformation, who had long grieved over its suspension in Ireland, and who were encouraged to hope that the time was come when it might be materially advanced. It may perhaps be said with truth that whenever and wheresoever it is the will of our Heavenly Father to accomplish any important object among men, he secretly stirs up some few individuals, or some one individual, to feel such an interest in the object that he throws himself into it with a zeal and earnestness which those around him call' enthusiasm and excess. What Paul was to gentile conversion, what on a smaller scale Luther was to German reformation, what Wilberforce was to negro emancipation, that Alexander Dallas is to this movement in Ireland. To Paul it was said that he was mad ; to Luther it was said " All Europe is against you, and you will be crushed by the Emperor at the bidding of the Pope ;" to Wilberforce it was said " How utopian is your scheme, and sure to be overborne by the weight of the West India interest ;" and 'to Dallas it was said " Absurd ! ridiculous ! how can you be so silly as to expect to produce any impression by your handful of missionaries, and your tracts and bibles,- in defiance of all the power and authority of the Papal hierarchy ?" I shall not attempt to recite the steps by which our gloriously enthusiastic brother was led, nor to describe the coincidences in Divine Providence by which he was sustained and encouraged. Under his auspices this society was established, step after step, from the winter of 1846 till the spring of 1849, when it assumed its present ' aspect. Its object is single, and no combination of any second purpose is ever admitted. All the means employed involve these three principles-1. An open, plain, faithful and affectionate declaration of the gospel of the Holy Scrip tures, especially shown in contrast with the teaching of Rome. 2. A distinct understanding that the object in view is exclusively religious and spiritual, and is in nowise mixed with political matters of any kind. 3. The funds of the society are devoted wholly to spiritual work, and are never expended in temporal relief. The agency employed . in the direct missions of the society at the commencement of 1859 amounted to 689, consisting of 35 ordained mis sionaries 162 lay agents and scripture readers, 67 school masters, 64 schoolmistresses, and 240 Irish teachers, and 21 agents employed in connection with the local committees for missions. Controversial sermons and lectures are conti nually delivered by the missionaries and others, and classes for the discussion of the subjects of controversy are held four times each week in Dublin, and at least once a week in many other mission stations. More than 10,000 visits are paid monthly among the Roman Catholics by the readers, and on each occasion the truths of the gospel are explained and made the subject of earnest conversation. In Dublin alone, 18,000 scriptural and controversional hand bills are distributed weekly ; and throughout the whole of the missions during the past year upwards of 1,000,000 of these messengers of truth were circulated. Since the foundation of the society in 1849, up to the end of 1858, ,about 70,000 Bibles, Testaments, and portions of scripture, in English and Irish, have been distributed. For the accommodation of converts, 15 new churches have been built, and 32 school-houses licensed for worship. In the district of West Galway alone twenty congregations of Protestants have been . gathered, where before there were only two churches, in which fewer persons were accustomed to assemble than now form the smallest of these more recent congregations ; and the Bishop of Tuam has found it necessary to appeal for contributions to a fund for the endowment of some of these churches. The need of such an endowment fund is proof in itself of the substantial success of the mission in that part of the country. In reply to the Bishop of Tuam's application, the Lord Primate of Ireland, that prince of pastors, has written the following letter : "Armagh, Nov. 16, 1857. " My dear Bishop of Tuam,—The effort which you are about, to 'make for the, purpose of collecting _funds per manently to endow the new churches which were built for the accommodation of the numerc us converts from Roraanism in your diocese, has my hearty approval. Not only have the persons who were converted proved their steadiness by continuing to attend the means of grace in the churches built for them, but their children are now to be trained up as a generation either born in our communion, or from their earliest childhood following the guidance of their parents in regard to the religion which they profess ; and it would be a deep reproach to the friends of the re formed church if the supply for the spiritual wants of these parishioners were to be of a precarious kind, depending on annual subscriptions, which fluctuate from year to year. This youthful generation, from whom, I conceive, much is to be hoped, have, in my opinion, a peculiar claim on our sympathies ; and we ought, to the utmost of our power, to provide against their being left without pastoral care as they advance in years. To assist you in making a begin ning, I will send £5OO in a few days to the aecount of the Irish Church Mission West Galway Endowment Fund. —I remain yours faithfully, (Signed) "JOHN G. AIUMIGH." (Applause.) Now, you will have the opportunity of hear ing from the gentlemen who have kindly undertaken to move and second the resolutions of this evening, something of the detail of the operations of this society ; and I hope you will permit me to express my earnest wish that you will not only more than defray the expense of this meeting by the collection to be made this evening, but that many of you will enrol your names as annual contributors to this society. I hope, my friends, that none of you will be kept aloof from this work by the rash language—not to charac terise it with any more severity—the rash language used occasionally by some of our public writers against the Irish clergy. We are called bigotted and intolerant ; but I am not aware of any acts or words of any of us betraying so much intolerance as the language to which I refer to does, and the tone in which we are sometimes written of. (Applause.) The Rev. Mr. Moore read the annual report, which stated generally the good prospects of the society, and the success which attended its operations. The statement of accounts showed that the receipts during the past year were £448. Mr Moore explained that the decrease was accountable in this way, that a sum of £250 was paid over to the Irish society. He concluded by moving the adoption of the report, and at the same time recording their thanks to the Almighty God, for so far blessing the labours of the society, and that the spirit of enquiry continued to increase among the people. The Rev. Mr. Earle, an Irish missionary, seconded the resolution. The rev. gentleman made an interesting statement of the proceedings of the Scripture readers and the missionaries of the society, during the time Cardinal Wiseman was in Ireland, and the reception which he met with in Ballinasloe, and he then related a number of interesting incidents that occurred in their missionary work. He was warmly applauded during his remarks. The motion was put and-carried by a show of hands. A collection was then taken up, during which a hymn was sung. The Rev. Dr. Baylee proposed the next resolution, which was " That encouraged by the progress hitherto made, this meeting is sensible that increased funds will be obsolutely necessary to maintain the enlarged operations of the missionary work among the Roman Catholics, and therefore greatly desires the extension of the resources of the society." He said if they meant to second that resolu tion, they should remember that it was not by merely putting up their hands. The reverend gentleman then proceeded at length to address the meeting, after which The Rev. Dr. Taylor seconded the resolution. After some remarks, a vote of thanks was passed to the Chairman, and the meeting was dismissed with the usual devotional exercises. A DISASTROUS STRIKE.—The glass-blowers strike has come to an end, and the men (defeated in their require. runts) resume work on Monday next. In England the strike began about t wo mont h s ago, and work has b een stopped in Scotland for about six weeks. In that time a fkind of £ll,OOO, laid aside to support the strike, has isappettred. • MARKETS! COMMITTEE. _ E A special meeting of the markets' committee _Was held yesterday in the Town Hall, for the purpose of considering a number of the resolutions proposed by Mr. Robertson Gladstone, of which he had given notice previously ; Mr. Johnson occupied the chair. The other members present were, Messrs. Sheil, Corbally, Shimmin, Ridley, Bowring, Ha dock, Woodruff, Chilton, and Gladstone. The Chairman said, it was time to proceed to business. Mr. Gladstone then said, he was anxious that his reasons should be understood for venturing to bring before them the resolutions which lie was about to propose. They were all indebted to the gentlemen who had formed the sub committee, who had given much attention to the subject committed to their charge, and who had furnished the committee with a report on the subject. They were entitled to their best thanks. He, for one, entirely approved of the report. While it contained all that was necessary, he regretted that it was not fuller on one or two points. He was of opinion, that if the sub-committee had gone a little more into detail in their report, they should have convinced not only the general committee - for they were satisfied—but the other members , of the council. Whatever it had pleased the council to say on the subject, he would not mention, as some of them were absent. He had been impressed with the idea that they wanted a head superintendent over all the markets. He would submit to them the first resolution, and he hoped they would see the propriety of passing it. He then moved the following resolution : " That this committee, strengthened in its conviction by subsequent reflection, can see no reason to' deviate from the opinion already expressed, in favour of the appointment of a head superintendent over all the markets, as the simplest and most effectual remedy for every existing evil connected with the general ; management, and with an especial regard to an increase of the revenue arising even therefrom." He was of opinion that, on reflection, any who were in doubt on the subject would be satisfied with the resolution. A mere question of figures would show that it would be more beneficial to deal with one person than to deal with three. Taking into account that they were at present erecting a new building in Dale-street, in which they could have an office for the superintendent, and it had occurred to him that the most conve nient way would be to have an office for the head superintendent in that building. It could not be expected that he would give as much attention to the Hay-market as he would give to St. John's market, but when there, at his office, he could go wherever his presence was required. He concluded by moving the resolution Which he had read. Mr. Beckwith seconded the resolution. Mr. Bowring said, ,he , was glad that it had been mentioned that -the report of- the sub committee had not, in their report to the general committee, gone enough into detail. This would have been done had the members of the sub-committee not thought that the subject was well enough known to the entire members of the council to justify them in giving but a resume of the matter, and that was the only reason why they did not go more into detail. Mr. Beckwith was of opinion that the decision came to by the council was like 'a vote of censure on- the committee. He regretted that the report had not gone .into the minutes of the matter. The character of Luya should have been gone into, for it was oh that all rested. and he thought as they were in duty bound, as a committee, to give to the Council what they knew to be the whole facts. His conviction was that St. John's Market was not in a good state, and he thought it was not fair that any imputation should be cast on the officers that were doing their duty. There was great dissatisfaction amongst the officers, as they were under the conviction that they would all be discharged for keeping the conduct of Luya from coming before the committee. He knew of one officer who was under that conviction, and was about to tender his resignation in consequence. Such being the case,' he thought it „ was high time that they should have a proper inquiry made with regard to Mr. Luya's conduct. He did think that the committee should make full enquiry into the case, and they would have evidence enough to satisfy the council that the committee had come to a right conclusion, and he thought the council would see that they had come to a wrong con clusion. He did not think that anything would satisfy the council, unless the committee would go into that man's conduct. He had heard that the lower officers and constables did not value this man, for they had set him at defiance, because he dare not bring them up before the committee, because they would inform on him. These things should be looked into, and brought before the council. Mr. Woodruff could not sit there and permit the resolu tion to pass without making one or two remarks. He did not, however, suppose that any remarks of his would have any effect on their minds with regard to the question. In the first place he would say that with some of themselves he had formed one of the sub-committee. He believed that in all matters connected with the management of the markets that -he had -shown himself as much inte rested as any of them. It did not follow that because the thanks of the committee had been returned that he agreed with them. - He looked upon the resolutions before them as nothing more nor less than a vote of censure on themselves. If Mr. Gladstone choose to bring a resolution or resolutions before the committee which went to censure them ; if he thought to do so with impunity, he might if he liked, but he (Mr. Woodruff) would beg to stand out. He could not agree 'with the resolution, as he did not believe in its necessity. - He would be very sorry to say that the officers were free from blame, but he would much rather that one man should be brought before the committee on a charge of misconduct, than that all should be dismissed. He was there to see that every man done his duty ; and he would not for a moment sanction any man's conduct that was not consistent with his duty. If Luya did not do his duty without paying another man to see that he did it, it was but wanting the public money to pay him. Why should the public be called upon to pay X3OO a year to superintend one man who was paid money to do his duty. He would say the first step that should have been taken taken was to see how far he was capable of holding his office. Passing from St. John's to the north and South markets, the inspectors there had done their duty, and it was censure to them to have another man put over their heads. It was a gross injustice to bring a man that knew nothing more than they did, and place him above them at a higher rate of wages. If one did not perform his duty, or was not fit for it, dismiss him, and appoint another in his place. In the advertisement for a head inspector, the age was fixed, so as to exclude the present officers. A Member : Who told you that ? Mr. Woodruff : I asked the question why it was fixed at 35 years, and it was to exclude the officers. It was after wards extended to 40 years, and what was that ? Simply to exclude every man above that age, whether in the service or out of it. Mr. Tyer, one of the best men that could be for the situation, sent a letter of application, and what was the answer he received ? A Member : There was no answer given. Mr. Woodruff : No, there was no answer given ; for he was above forty years, and was not eligible. Mr. Bowling said the object in having the age mentioned was not to exclude the officers, but to keep men above that age that were outside from becoming chargeable on the corporation. The Chairman gave it as his opinion that none were eligible, according to the resolution, above forty, whether officer or not. Mr. Gladstone hoped they had a higher motive than advocating the cause of the officers. Mr. Woodruff said he was not an advocate for either one officer or another. He had heard it mentioned outside that the reason that Luya was kept in office was, because he was a political agent for parties on that committee. Mr. Beckwith : Now, that you have gone so far, I am here to bring him to justice. Mr. Woodruff said he could not be interrupted in the manner in which he had been. Mr. Gladstone had charged him with being an advocate for the officers, and he was not. He would say again, that Luya was said to be a political agent for parties on the committee. Mr. Beckwith : I deny it. Mr. Woodruff : Yon may deny it, but you cannot deny the public from thinking it. Mr. Beckwith : You have no occasion to get out of tem per about the matter. Mr. Woodruff : I have not got out of temper ; but it yet remains to be shown to me, that every existing evil con nected with the general management of the markets would be remedied. He could not see how, by appointing a man at £3OO a year, they could get a man to pay more for a stall or shop. By the frequent changing of the committee and their arrangements, the officers did not know what to do. The fact was, that by appointing a superintendent at £3OO a year, they were paying a man to do what they had not the moral courage to do themselves. Mr. Beckwith : Oh, Oh Mr. Gladstone : Let him go on. Mr. Woodruff : I will go on till I have finished my remarks. Mr. Beckwith : Well, don't get out of temper ; I am in very good temper. Mr. Woodruff : You may think it very good temper to have five or six interrupting me at mice every few words. He denied all the grounds that Mr. Gladstone had put forward in support of his resolution, as entirely unnecessary. After a few more remarks Mr. 'Woodruff sat down. Mr. Sheil hoped that there would be no more interruption as it was very annoying to be subjected to it as Mr. Wood ruff had been. Mr. Corbally said, after the remarks that had fallen from Mr. Woodruff, he thought it necessary to say a few words. Mr. Woodruff had thought proper to charge the committee with employing Mr, Luya as a political agent. He denied THE NORTHERN TIMES, TUESDAY, MARCH 22, 1859 the charge. It was thought - necessary to have a head superintendent for the' - markets', and the whole of the members of the committee were unanimous on that point. With regard to the resolution now before them, it was never concocted at a meeting. Another member said, the difficulty seemed to be the fixing of the age of the head superintendent at not over 40 years of age, and he was of opinion that the officers were never thought of at all. Mr. Bowriug said, he could not allow the remarks that had been made Tby Mr. Woodruff to pass without asking him who Mr. Luya was a political agent for. He dis claimed all intention of having wilfully excluded the officers by fixing the age at 40 years. Mr. Chilton said, in the Dock Board, such a resolution was understood not to exclude the servants or officers. The Chairman said, that was not the case with them, as it had been said that they wanted to get rid of the officers. ......,....... Mr. Shimmin said, after what had been said he had little to say. There had been a charge brought against Mr. Luya. He did not think that it was the intention of the cgmmittee to dispense with the services of Mr Luya altogether. He had heard that he was an tur t' ent, but he could not tell to which party he belonged. This he had heard 'outside, and had also heard that Mr. Gladstone had a person cut and ready for this new situation at £3OO a year. He mentioned that to give him an opportunity of a public denial. Mr. Woodruff said he had mentioned that it was talked of out of doors that Mr. Luya was an agent for a member of the committee. He had no hesitation in naming the person, and he knew that Mr. Luya had been a busy poli tician, and nobody could deny that he had been a very busy man in election matters, and it was Mr. Gladstone that the remark was applied to. Mr. Shiel was sorry that Mr. Woodruff was not at the last council meeting to have made his speech, because it appeared to him that it was altogether in support of the resolution to which the committee had come. He had told them of many faults of which Luya had not been charged. There was no superior officer to get at these matters. To say that the committee would. (search out these matters, or can do it, was perfectly impos sible. Then Mr. Woodruff had told them that they would not be justified in making any charge unless it would remedy all evils. Why it was not in human nature to do such a thing. Several members spoke after this, and on the motion being put, the resolution was carried by 8' to 3. The following resolutions were then proposed by Mr. Gladstone, each of which were supported in a speech : " That, in order to prevent any misunderstanding as to the intention of the committee prospectively, they desire to record that, on any vacancy occurring, the appointment of superintendent to each market might have been restricted with efficiency to the following reduced scale of salary : St. John's, £150; 'St. James's, £l3O ; St. Martin's, £l2O ; total, £4OO. The present remuneration being : St. John's, £275 ; St. James's £225 ; St. Martin's, £2OO ; total, £7OO per annum. Thus clearly showing that, with the addition of the appointment of a head superintendent at £3OO per annum, the cost of the establishment would still be the the same to the corporation. " Regarding the change proposed, however, as essentially vital to the future well-doing of the markets, this committee are of opinion that, if the circumstances had even been otherwise, and that the expenses of the establishment had been in excess of the former amount, the extra cost would have been much more than compensated by an improved management, and corresponding additional pecuniary advan tages arising from enhanced rents. " That the present defects of management are, in the estimation of the committee, in some measure to be attri buted to the want of energy and determination on the part of the Corporation, in neglecting to correct errors, and to introduce improvements as opportunity occurred, until at last the period has arrived when mismanagement has assumed an authority, and the character awl form of a custom and principle of daily action. " That, bearing this circumstance in mind, whatever the merits or demerits of the present superintendents may be, in reference to the means they possess in their own persons for the discharge of duty, this committee does not feel that they would be justified in discharging . the present superin dents, one of whom has held his appointment for a period of nearly twenty years, because the ability to introduce and carry out successfuly any new scheme of reform is distrusted, seeing that the corporation itself has been more or less a party to such disqualification by permitting error to go by default. " That it would have been unnecessary and undesirable for such head superintendent to be stationary at any one of the markets ; but that he should have visited the three principal markets daily, and the others as often as occasion might require ; and that an office should have been pro vided for him in the new building in Dale-street, where the committee meetings and business of the department might have been conducted." On these resolutions being put as they were proposed, they were carried by 8 to 3. This was the entire business. THE FIRE AND LOSS OF LIFE IN MARYLEBONE. On Friday afternoon Mr. Brent, the deputy coroner, and the jury empanelled as to the deaths of Sarah Jones, James Partis, and Robert Moon, the three persons des troyed by the dreadful fire which broke out at the Horse and Groom, Great Portland-street, Marylebone, on the morning of Sunday, the 6th inst., resumed the inquiry at the Buffalo's Head, New-road, Marylebone. The investigation was adjourned for the attendance, if possible, of the persons who are still in the hospital, to speak, if possible, to the origin of the fire, and for a post mortem examination of the bodies. Mr. H. T. Smith, resident surgeon of Marylebone work house infirmary, said he had made a post mortem examine of the bodies, and the evidence was that they had died of suffocation. There was nothing to indicate that either of the deceased had been intoxicated prior to death. Mrs. Jane Price, the landlady of the Horse and groom, prior to the occurrence, deposed that at the time of the fire there were nine persons in the house - Mr. Price, herself, two children, Samuel (the barman), Sarah Jones (the servant), the potman, Moon, and Partis and Cooper (lodgers). Witness, Mr. Price, and the family slept in the second floor front. There were two rooms in front. Samuel slept on the same floor ; and Jones, Partis, Cooper, and the potman slept on the floor above. Witness and Mr. Price were the last to go up to bed, about one o'clock oh Sunday morning. Partis and Cooper had gone up before, and they were not sober. Sarah Jones, after the gas was put out went down to the cellar to turn the gas off at the meter • and she came up and said she had done it. Mr. Price had previously turned the gas off up stairs. Was first awoke by a sense of suffocation, and the room seemed full of smoke. Mr. Price being very deaf, she shook him violently, and called out, "Oh dear me, the house is on fire !" He replied, " Oh, you are dreaming !" She the heard a crackling noise of wood. burning, and opening the room door, the staircase was in flames. He saw it, and cried out, "For God's sake put something on you, and get to the window with the children." She then opened them and screamed out, " Fire, fire !" They were almost suffocated with smoke, but could hear the springing of rattles and shouts of the people below. The escape appeared a long time coming, but it did come, and the children were first taken, and then witness and Mr. Jones were saved. _ _ Mr. Charles Nicholls and Mr. Masson, neighbours, spoke to what they saw of the fire, and the operations of the escape which caught fire. Mr. Price was recalled, and Mr. C. Freeth, of Wigmore street, and it transpired that, on the and March, Mr. Price had effected an insurance in the Sun fire-office for 4300, a previous insurance existing in the Royal Exchange. Mr. Boyls, the summoning officer, having stated that the two men in the hospital were unable to attend to give evidence, The jury returned a verdict :—" That the deceased per sons were suffocated during the late fire at No.. 128, Great Portland-street; bnt how such fire originated there was no evidence. The jury, however, had no reason to believe that the fire was the result of any criminal act." They de sired to express their high appreciation of the promptitude and courage displayed by Henry Mitchlin, the fire-escape conductor, the fire brigade, and the police on the sad occa sion. No SHIP SHOULD GO TO SEA without one of Saunders and Co.'s Patent Self-cleansing Charcoal Filters, cased and fitted-up expressly for use on board ship. Note the address, SAUNDERS & CO., 16, Parker-street, Liverpool. BALLOT MEETING AT HARWICH.-011 Thursday even ing, Mr. Whitehurst, on behalf of the Ballot Society, addressed a large meeting of the electors of this borough on the question of the ballot. A strong impression was produced by the speaker's address, in the course of which he explained, by means of a diagram, the system of ballot in use in Australia, and put to the meeting the question whether they would prefer to vote at their election to morrow in the Australian way. An universal cry of "Yes," proceeded from the meeting. Mr. Campbell afterwards addressed the meeting. SERIOUS ACCIDENT WHILST HUNTING.—OR Tuesday last Colonel Vigors met with a very severe accident whilst following the Carlow and Island Hounds, at Ashfield, in the Queen's County. It appears that the gallant colonel's horse, having stumbled, threw its rider, and then rolled over him, breaking several of his ribs, and severely injuring his chest. He was instantly conveyed home in a car, and medical assistance immediately procured. He is progressing as favourably as can be expected. Colonel Vigors is only a short time home from India, where he distinguished himself as a bravo and gallant soldier, particularly at the taking of Delhi. AMERICAN AFFAIRS. FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT. END OF . THE SESSION OF CONGRESS—ITS FRIVOLOUS CAREER ; HURRY AND CONFUSION ; VOTE FOR ISSUE OF TWENTY MILLIONS OF TREASURY NOTES ; CORRESPONDENCE OF AN ENGLISH Ex- MINISTER WITH A NEW YORK JOURNALIST ; VETOING BY THE PRESIDENT; INEFFICIENCY OF HIS ATTEMPTS TO SUPPRESS THE CORRUPTIONS OF THE LOBBY SYSTEM : - THEIR APPARENT NECESSITY, IN THE PRESENT STATE OF PARTIES. DECLINE OF IMMIGRATION : ITS COMPLEXION LAST YEAR.' THE SPANISH SQUADRON AT CUBA : THE SPA NIARDS. READY FOR RESISTANCE. GAIETIES AT WASHINGTON. THE SICKLES ASSASSINATION : MORBID SYMPATHY WITH THE ASSASSIN. Congress has closed a most unsatisfactory Session. The labour of it has been mainly engrossed with fighting such shadows as the Cuba annexation question, and squabbling about the financial resources which are being wasted by such a variety of corrupt jobs as have lately been exposed. Well may the New York Herald call it a " miserable career of folly and faction." Those important practical measures, the Post Office Bills, which involved the appropria tion of some twenty millions of dollars, had to be abandoned for want of time—of that time which had been frittered away so thoughtlessly before. But what do the members care ! They pocket their $250 a month, and of course are quite content. It is probable that an extra session may be indispensable ; and in that case, so much the better for them, as there will be so much more pay. Great has been the hurry and confusion at the winding up of the Session, in which some of-the most important of the Appropriation Bills, or Votes of Supply, had to be pushed through, and some of them not without great difficulty, while others were either pared down or lost. Among the latter was the Ocean Mail Steamer Bill. In the vote for the Mis cellaneous Appropriation Bill, the opportunity was taken to persist in an amendment for an issue of twenty millions of Treasury Notes, in place of revising the Tariff, thus accommodating, for the present, the difficulty of the revenue question. Your statesmen are apt, it seems, to be misled by the plausible pretences of certain American notabili ties—or rather, perhaps, notorieties—that get access 1 -to them, and impress them with false ideas, appa rently, of their respectable .and influential position at home ; whereas, all the while, they are mere political adventurers,—it may be mere charlatans. A case of this kind occurred some four or five years ago, when a well-known General,:—but one who now wields the pen, not the sword—and in what fields he won his military, renown I really cannot tell, or how he came to be so dubbed— actually succeeded in penetrating so far into the recesses of the ministry of the day, as to dine with members of the Cabinet, and then retailed out their after-dinner conversation in letters home, through the columns of his news paper. It does not, 1 assure you, give Americans a very exalted notion of English abinet ministers, to find theni on free-and-easy terms with such a one, as they were in those his communi cations represented to be. Another display of a similar kind has recently taken place through the General's editorial columns, but this time his friend is only an ex-Miuister—though .he is, or it is insinuated he is, the same noble lord as before. The present appearance is in the form of " an extract of a letter from a prominent English statesman to his correspondent in this city," and the Harald has no hesitation in saying, that " from the . tone and drift of the letter, and from the circumstance of the General having dined once or twice with Lord Clarendon, we must , conclude that this prominent English statesman' is none other than my Lord Clarendon himself." The following is the letter in question : You will perceive lby the Queen's speech that our govern ment have found it expedient to interfere in Mexican affairs so far as to demand and enforce Justice to British subjects. This, after Lord Malniesbury's declaration to your Minister, may at first excite surprise; but upon reflection your .fair minded people will acknowledge it was rendered necessary by the course of your President. When Lord Malmesbury made the declaration he did, it was based upon your Minister's declaration of forbearance by your guy erniueu!. I That declaration was met in the spirit which it appeared to demand. And yet no sooner did your President receive that declaration from Lord Malmesbury than he deliberately proceeded to violate the implied faith upon which it was made, by asking of your Congress the right to seize the two northern provinces of Mexico, and garrison them with American troops. This justly excited the indignation of Ministers, and they showed their appreciation of your Pre sident's conduct, by ordering our naval commander to act, and added force to the proceeding by the paragraph in the speech from the throne. Of course, France agreed with our government that further forbearance, after what appeared in your President's message, was impossible. Both Powers, after the interview between Mr. Dallas and Lord Malmes bury, were justly indignant at the action of your Executive, and would have been sustained by the country in adopting a still more decided course. They contented themselves, however, by treating his act with contempt, and by changing their policy, and calling the attention of the world to their proceeding. I have frequently said to you, and to others, that if this country and the United States should ever again become involved in hostilities, it will be the result of some act of folly by your President for the time being, and not the con sequence of any ill will between the people of the two countries. The recent conduct of your Executive, although it will le'ad to no such disastrous results, proves the correct s of my nosition. nes: yp. It is remarked of this, by the journalist afore . - said, in criticising it, that it would appear from it the redoubtable General, "in an outside capa city, is still retained in the volunteer diplo matic service of England,"--though adding that "if there be any official vitality in the views expressed in this letter, it is worthy the attention of our own government,"---and then going on to say, that " unquestionably while touching the recent proceedings of England And France in Mexican and Central American affairs, this letter gives a very plausible explanation, yet the late special message of the President to Congress does not disclose, on his part, any im pression of this sort of Anglo-French retaliation against the recommedations of his annual message of December, from which we would infer that the British government is playing a somewhat treacherous game of fair promises and foul acts." I will not go further into it. Your readers will here see sufficient to understand its drift. But I cannot help saying, that if it really be Lord Clarendon who is there confidingly corresponding with one of the plausiblest and wiliest of our public journalists, he had better be careful what he says to him. The vetoing by the President of the Bill granting lands to the several States for the support of Agricultural Colleges, is held up as an instance of his determination, thatunderhis administration there shall be no more wasteful lobby land grants, in which, it is said, as in other things, the good sense of the American people will sustain him. His reasons, it seems, were, first—that at a time when the treasury is reduced to the greatest straits, this bill, in public lands, would draw from the public financial resources seven and a half millions of dollars ; and secondly, that the framers of the constitution never intended that the public lands should be thus squandered. These may be very good reasons in themselves ; but as to there being " no more lobby land grants," it is quite another affair. The . l o bby system,—that is, the working of jobs through the influence of those who swarm about the lobbies of the Senate and the House, as requitals for political services, is indispensable as things are managed at present. Mr. Buchanan himself would probably never have been elected President but fo r the services rendered to his cause, for which pensation was to be obtained through this lobby system. Take, a recent case exposed by the Committee of the House of Representatives gross abuses perpetrated in the nbavealawdeaprdarietdsemh°teonen°ttitililiolef the public service. The contracts for live oak for qu thi ire s d r b u y le la i w t to o has been detected was the connivance of Mr. anwditthhe contract was bestowed on ed Bslt lowest c c e h n e s s a at s u v f , a y u u l la are bidde r m r s e; evaded el; active in the election of a person who had been very 1856,--of course all arranged influence to that of the gl through similar corrupt lobby-system. Again,---a recent contract for th e machinery -of a war-sloop had to be entered into, and the law required that it should be awarded to the lowest responsible bidder. But one of Mr. Buchanan's electioneering friend wrote .hinla letter, setting .forth the advantages or bestowing the contract on a particular house, on the ground that it employed more artisans than an other, and that if it were e nabled to keep its full number of hands at work for a week before the eke ion, it would, no doubt, be enabled to bring in th, administration candidate in that district. Ting letter 'Mr. Buchanan actually forwarded to the Secretary of the Navy, calling his attention to a 13y an endorsement, with his own initials at the foot. is the way in which the Presidential machine is managed, its wheels must be greased with corrup tion, or they would not move —that is in the desired direction.- Some statistics lately made public concei:nid. , immigration are interesting, as showing the nature and extent of the ,accessions that are being made to the population. It appears that the total number of immigrants last y6 ar 144,352, of whom ,89,648 were males and 54,704 females. Out of this aggregate, 140,511 are set down as settlers in the United States, leaving only 3,741 for other destinations. Of the nations which furnish the largest proportions of immigrants, Germany figures for 23,901, and Ireland for 14,299. China, strange to say, comes next after Great Britain —the number of immigrants from that count - 47 being set down at 4,808, of whom 320 are females. In the occupations, we find 10,217 merchants for 255) elerkA, and 20,406 'fanners for 23,317 labourers, as unusual disproportion of heads to hands. There is shown to be a majority of comparatively young persons, nearly 30,000 of the whole number being between 20 and 25 years old. But the account show a.great falling OF in numbers, from those of 'pre vious years, the aggregate of the arrivals for 1858 amounting to a little more than one-half of the gration for each of the previous three years, and to only about a third Of 1851, ' 52, '53, '54. I dare say you have little idea of the extent of the Spanish squadron in the Cuban waters just now. The ships of the line, and various brigs, frigates, and steamers, number in all 402 guns, and the steamers reckon altogether 3,750 horse power. "If to this bril liant array,"says the Havana Mare delta Marino, " - sfe add the reinforeelnent that the station will receive with the ship of the line Francisco de Asis, the screw steamer Princesa de Asturias, and the aid , - wheel steam frigate Isabel 11., we shall see a squa dron such as has not for many years sailed in these seas, with the notable fact that nearly all the vessels have been - recently constructed, and that all are equipped and armed in a style equal to that of the richest and best organised navies'.' Thus it is evident that Spain is not unprepared to resist any attempt that the United States government may at any time make to compel annexation. The recent shocking tragedy at Washington does not appear to have interfered with the gaeities of the season there. It appears that at no period Within the recollection of its lobitues has the capital been gayer or more thronged than it was during the last two or three weeks, The 'hotels were all filled to overflowing, and strangers continually pouring in contributed to increase the difficulties of accommo dation. The Session being ended, of course there has now been a general dispersal. The " Washington Tragedy," as they delight to call it,—that is the murder of Mr. Kay by Mr.. Sickles, in the streets of the Federal Capital,--c on tinues to be a subject of exciting interest. The num ! derer is the object of a most mischievously morbid sympathy. The effect of it can only be to convey the idea that he has done. not only an a noble deed ; and nothing can be well conceived of more dangerous to the American mind. That there was great provocation, cannot be denied. But this can never justify a preconcerted, deliberate murder. He had doubtless sustained gross injury and cruel wrong. But this could never warrant so fearful and fatal an act of revenge. " Vengeance is mine, I will repay, saith the Lord." It certainly was not Mr. Sickles's, either by the la w o f G o d or man. Besides, according to all accounts he was not himself blameless. And it was evidently a care it which he that was without sin, and only he—if any one at all—should have presumed to cast the faro stone. The wretched man is in gaol awaiting his trial. But it will only be as a farce after the tragedy. THE REFORM BILL. The following additional notices of amendments appear in the parliamentary papers : Mr. Crook, —(Amendments to Lord John Russell's motion on the Government Reform Bill) : —l. That this house is of opinion that the present state of the law which permits tits rich man to have a vote in every county in England, whilst such privilege s a rc ou t o f th e reac h o f t h e operative, is a viola tion of the principles of a full, fair, and free representation of the people, and requires amendment, so that no man shall vete in more than one constituency. 2. That this house having decided that a man need not have a property qualification to be a member of Parliament, is of opinion that a man rrsay be an elector who has not a property qualification and this house is prepared to give its sanction to registered resi dential manhood suffrage. 3. That this house is of opinion that every male person of full age, and not subject to aaj legal incapacity, who is rated to the rates for the relief of the poor in any county or borough in the United Kingdom, ought.to be by law entitled to vote for members of Parlia ment. Mr. Rich,—On going into committee on the Representa tion of the People Bill, to move, that, in fixinr , b the dis franchisement of the smaller boroughs, it is expedic-nt that the mere amount of population within each borough should not alone he taken us the test of electoral competency, that the amount of direct taxation paid by each swat borough should also be considered.. Mr. Stuart Wortley, As an amendment to the question for the second reading 'of Representation of the Peeps Bill,. or on the resolution given notice of by Lord John Russell, in case of that resolution becoming the main ques tion :—That this house having, at the opening of tisa present session of parliament, in answer to her Majesty's most gracious speech from the throne, assured hen- Majesty that they should give to the great sin ject of the state of the laws which regulate the representation of , the people in parliament that degree of calm and impartial consideration which is proportionate to the magnitude of the interests invoiced in the result of their discussions, this house will with delay proceed to the consideration of the measures laid before them by her Majesty's responsible advisers ; but this o in d aVt n afrkieg house is of opinion that no settlement of this qtlesti?ss will he acceptable to the people, or ondari7 tds p ch re a se ra n c t ter b , i w n hir n h d co o i e n s ni n i o tt t e p e ro o v r idt o ., th e e ter s by fo n i r the constitutional distinction between the county a s e b i o u r s o e u s g h h it sr er t t .a o g e e x s, er f e o i r s e t d h i p p res ervation e t s h e r e tio /I counties ?f the ot. freeholdEn gian fr dam an- Wales, and for a more extensive right of voting therein as well as for a re-adjustment of the su ffrage, and its wi:kr extension, in cities and boroughs, than is contemplated in the present bill. LORD ERNEST VANE TEMPEST COMPLETELY OUTLAW :IL —At a Sheriff's County Court, specially holden at tree County-hall, at Lewes, on Thursday, Lord Ernest Vane Tempest was proclaimed, on a writ of outlawry, to answer our Lady the Queen for a certain misdemeanour whereof l is impeached. This is the fifth and last proclamation, tk e nowabeingas brought c o il e before e' the M a l mes b rury ou A tlaN r vr ev y esolptrioncgcsse w magistrates a few days ago, in which a charge w as ag ainst a hitherto-respected dissenting mg ITm • brow,* seduced his servant girl, and then seeking to of haring charge another person with he r se a to induce her ses minister denied the facts upon his sedu ct i on. The di s sent him was established to the satisfaction oath . ; b u t th e case agaiast —Devizes Gazette, of the magistra.tm EARL DE GREY'S OP News reports a s INION OF CRINOLINE.—The BuiMag eonversazione of s p eech of Earl de Grey, in presiding at flee Tuesday, , In which the Architectural Exhibition he, his lordship, after thanking ale ladies or coming to the meeting, said that the ladies some times might than address —( a m ake e mistakes. It might be rather in dress ress—(a laugh)—it was more in the point of tb-e petticoat than of propriety ; he did not at all dispute the.lr conduct, but ho did not approve of their crinoliam (Loud laughter.) He candidly confessed that he thought, the creature was better than the crinoline ; and, old 1-iam as he was, he thought the woman was a great dr-s1 better than " the whalebone. (Applause and a laug h-) He was talking of the matter as an architect as an arkti (Hear, hear.) He was as much attached to good figurda tions as any of the architects present—(cheers) —he knew what builders called good footings, and he did not like large feet. (Laughter.) But he did not think Lpyra_iifiii was a graceful shape. (Roars of laughter.) ThOrefoiva, he thought that sometimes a little consideration m ight p re ., d been n Utz duce a little advantage in that respect. in . He ha eepg 600 men to i " al- habit for many years of annually k tention " for a long time, and then he found that he norm uttered words which gave more satisfaction than those which he would now use, hoping the ladies would pucka or an) thing tr h e said respeers.) ecting them—" Sit at ease. f (L ch • an him d talk !' • o the t it ieiC i 4 s. tbe i g rot loll°