The Press.
London, England, 1858-04-03 00:00:00

Valittral.

A CLB INET COUNCTL met on Saturday at the officio,
residence of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in
Downing-street. The Ministers present were :
The Earl of Derby, the Lord Chancellor, Marquis
of Salisbury, Earl of Hardwicke, Right Hon. B.
Disraeli, Mr. Secretary Walpole, Earl of Malmes-
bury, Lord Stanley, General Peel, Sir John Peking-
ton, Earl of Ellenborough, Right Hon..). W. Henley,
and Lord John Manners.

A DESPATCH has been received by the Earl of
Malmesbury, her Majesty's Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs, from Earl Cowley, her Majesty's
Ambassador at Paris, stating that the competent
authorities will be authorised, for the future as here-
tofore, to furnish to British subjects resident in France
passports to travel in the interior of the French
territories ; and also in cases of urgent necessity to
grant passports to British subjects to return to
England.

A DEPUTATION FROM THE ROYAL INSTITUTION OF
ARCHITECTS on Monday last waited up >n Lord John
Manners and General Peel, at the office of the
Board of Works, Whitehall-place, in order to urge
upon them a mernurial which had been adopter' with
reference to the late Government having entirely
thrown over 'he recent competitions for model bar-
racks and public offices—having settled to intrust
the work to an official architect. Mr. B. Hope,
M.P., explained that the architects had been hardly
treated by the late Government, and he particularly
instanced the erection of some new barracks at
Nottingham, where the competitive prizemen's
plans bad been put aside. Lord John Manners,
with respect to the Public Works, warned the depu-
tation that the question of expenditure upon Public
Works rested entirely with the House of Commons,
but that the question raised should receive his best
attention. General Peel disclaimed any responsi-
bility for the acts of the late Government. With

3'22

respect to the trifling sum which was about to be
spent at Nottingham, he saw no reason why the
prizemen, if they could Adapt their plans to the
circumstances of the ease, should not. superintend
its outlay, if they thought fit to undertake so small
an affair. This proposal was apparently considered
to be satisfactory, admitting, as it did, the principle
contended for; and the deputation withdrew, after
thanking the noble lord and the gallant general for
the courtesy with which they had been received.

HENRY WATT, the engineer of the Cagliari, on his
arrival in London last Thursday was placed under
the care of Dr. Forbes Winslow. It is the opinion
of Dr. Winslow, who has visited him several times,
that he may be ultimately restored to the full and
undisturbed possession of his faculties, but that a
careful avoidance of everything that may excite him
is necessary for the present. Watt converses freely
enough on all topics, except his recent sufferings,
which he exhibits a marked disinclination to refer
to. He manifests a professional interest in the
progress of the Leviathan, and has expressed a
wish to see that vessel. This, however, has not been
granted, as the consequences of a public recognition
of him might be very injurious.
Mr. Rama lately received a memorial frost
the unemployed at Birmingham in favour of
the State undertaking some large scheme of free
emigration. Mr. Bright, in reply, observes that the
state of the American markets is accountable for
some of the distress, but he can sea n remedy for
a large portion of the mischief S 3 laog as taxes
increase and national expenditure continues aug
menting at home :
We are now epending 20,000,00,)1. a year more than we
were spending only a few years back, and our military ex-
penses have doubled since the year l$:1:), when the Duke
of iVellington and Sir Robert Peel were ig power. This
year, I suppose, we shall raise iu taxes at least 50,0041,0011.
sterling mote than will require to be raised by an equal
population, living, not in England, bat in she United
States of America. Surely this will account for much of
the evils which you and the memorialists and the working
classes generally suffer, and I am not surprised that sen-
sible men should wish to quit a country where the burdens
are so heavy and the political privileges of three fourths cf
them ere so few. Every man who is not prepared to corn•
pel a better and more economical Government at home
should emigrate, or the pauperism of his day will be deeper
and more without remedy in the days of his children. I
wish I was able to coins to Birmingham and talk to you
about these great questions.—Yours,

J. BRTGIIT.
THE BISHOP OF EXETER has given notice of his
intention to move, on Fnday, the 23rd of April, that
a select committee of the Lords be appointed to in-
quire into the deficiency of places of spiritual
instruction and of divine worship in the metropolis,
and in other populous districts in England and
Wales, especially in the mining and manufacturing
districts.

Slit J. Taut..twxy has fixed the 21st of April for
the second reading of his Chnrch•raie Abolition 8.11.

THE INHABITANTS OF THE PARISH OF ST. JAMES'S,
WESTMINSTER, have resolved upon taking active steps
to prevent the vestry from enlarging the pavement in
Regent street. They are about to petition Parliament
for a special amendment of the Metropolis Local
Management Act, to er.able the St. James's rate.
payers to assess themselves for paving, &c., and arc
preparing a case for counsel to submit to the Vice-
Chancellor to restrain the vestry.

THE GERMAN SERVICES at the German Church,
St. James's, will take place as usual at half-past
eleven.

MR. MOWATT, the secretary of the Great Northern
Railway Company, has been dismissed from his
position in that establishment. The circumstawes
connected with this step are likely, it is said, to be
fully laid before the public by Mr. Mowatt, who was
recently designated by Mr. DeniQon, the chairman,
as one of the most able officers of the company, but
towards whom a sudden change of feeling seems to
have occurred.

THE MARYLEBONE " CENTRAL PAROCHIAL Asso-
cumori " met on Monday to consider the conduct
of Sir Benjamin Hall, M.P., as the representative of
Marylebone. Mr. Nicliolay, in moving a resolution
to the effect that Marylebone should not be repre
stinted "by a placeman," charged Sir Benjamin
Hall with having " deceived the people;' with " in-
sincerity" on the Sunday question in voting against
the opening of the Crystal Palace and museums, in
having left the House when Mr. Locke King's motion
was "on," with insulting the Metropolitan Board of
Works, and finally with having voted in favour of
Lord Palmerston's Conspiracy Bill. An amendment,
which gave rise to a lively discussion, was moved, to
the effect that the " Central Association" had better
attend to its own affairs, and turn its attention to the
best means of reducing parochial taxation, &e. The
discussion was ultimately adjourned till Mondk next.

- -
TRF. ROCHDALE LIBERAL ELECTORS' ASSOCI►TION,
at their last meeting, have decided in favour of re-
commending Mr. Cobden to the electors as the most
tit and proper person to unite the Liberal interests at
tae nest eiectoa.