The Express.
London, England, 1864-01-22 00:00:00

THE BOMBAY MAIL

The following telegram has been received at Mr.
Beuter's office, from the Peninsular and Oriental
Steam Navigation Company:

MABBEILLEI3, JAL 2L
The MauiHa, with the above mail, arrived here
at 7.30 p.m. to-day.
The mail leaves for Loudon by the 10.30 p.m.
train.

THE GERMAN CONFEDERATION AND
THE GREAT POWERS.

CARLSRURE, JAL 18.

The semi-official Carlin& Gautte, i ___
n reference
to the proceedings of the German Great Powers,
says :
_ . . . _ •

To cons ly with the demand of the Great Powers, win—
ded the Gernsen Confederation should summoe Denmark
to withdraw the promulgation of November, and in case
of refusal that Sierwig should be occupied, would so clearly
prejudice the whelk legal Merinof theme, and bring about
• mikes we:, that hut a small minority of the Coefeders-
Won gam their meant to this proposal. The proposition of
the other did, (Darmstadt and Sammy) that hostilities
should be genuoseeld (far thentreapistim of Bleswig is no-
thing lees) hid no Miser object then to parry the stroke of
the Great Powers. leadveable as the meseure must ap-
pear, it has at any rate the advantage that it does not give
up the legal OM in a tattooed sense.
The Confederatiou, at is said, is not justified in making
foreign spgresaioe of any kind. 114 w, then, is the intention
of Austria to campy Slestrig in as of a refuel on the
part of Denmark ta withdraw the mastitution ? Was not
that an " aggression ;" was it not a violation of territorial
limits, and at ransom with the defensive chancier which
the German CoMedwation is supposed to maintain f As
European powers Austria and Proton may for any cause have
a right to go to war with Denmark; but sa European powers.
it does not devolve upon diem to represent the intonate of
Germany. As European powers, Austria and Prussia six-
elusively have no slaws to regulate in Sleswig ; as such Rus-
sia, England. Presses, together with Italy and the Sultan,
are aloe entitled to interefees. Will the Euro-
pean powers comsat to Amtria and Pruseis mu-
diluting themselves their Paladin ? No more thou
the German States would submit to their terming,
unasked, a &nobly, and piseing themselves at the head of
Germany ; or, if erebe. it would then be plainly seen in
whose interest the plan bad been formed, and that it was
not the vote of the German Confederation, but the conspi-
racy with fon* stablest' which bad to decide upon the
fate of Skewig-Holdeis.
°midge* the myttery whisk enrrounda the objects the
pest Powers have in view, and the dangers to which
Hoisteta and he claim upon Sleewig are exposed, end,
moreover, the apprehension arising from the provoked
Wearisome of fore*, countries for the security of the
Federal Diet and the Confederation, it is imperative upon
the German States to prepare for all possible erestualstea,
whatever aspect affairs may assume. Under those circuits.
snows our government her considered it expedient, with
the approval of the representatives of the country, to make
all oar military ions, in order to be fa a position
to weer the lof the Diet at the shortest notice.

The RAMO paper says :
We hear t►at the President of the Ministry of the Greed
Duke and of Foreipi Affairs has, owing to the aocumule-
tins a business in the last named ministry, requested the
Grand Duke to relieve him from his temporary pest as
Mthislier of Ciesnmeree, a definitive appointment may there-
for's:sea be expeetwi
The Ambassador of the Grand Duke at the Austrian
Court, Berea von Edelaheim, returned to-day to his post in
Vienna. . -.

—iisibare been informed that o• his josirsey his uill
pass through Stnttg•rd, sad remiss tar • low days is
Manchini.
DRESDEN, JAN. 17.

It is stated that Saxony urges an early sitting of
the Federal Diet. The government intends to pro-
pose tha:. instructions should be given to the Fede-
ral Commissioners in Holstein to obey the orders
of the Federal Diet only, and in the event of the
of Austrian and Prussian troops through the
passage
not to withdraw, unless compelled to do so,
and then under protest. It is believed that those
States of the Confederation which formed the
majority at the sitting of the Diet on the 14th
inst. may safely be expected to agree to this pro-
posal. This measure is but a necessary consequence
of the proceedings of that sitting.

A RAILWAY THILATRIL—The Paris Prime of ye/-
Maw contehns the following ietelligeses, which well sp•
peer to show that the canards still emeptable to certain
readers of French *mowers :—" Intelligence from London
rye that IL lletarthe has snecerefully tried the experiment
of a mailway theatre as the Matasbestar sad liverpool line
Imagine des keg 01111110111 SO arranged as to form me long
mem. The resided roof is fernithed with eheadelies throe/-
in oat • height light. The shim an firmed of sound*
Week Ey than mechanical awing earl wallaby of
mbesel mile Me bassi removed, hedge alms • ream
la which six masielme 'with their eatrenseale we play.
a stage raised mix fest ahem the beer of the earrigt, end
yea Mee • tolerably eeriest ides of this extempore's& rail.
mg theatre. The pier represeeted are so arranged that
• melee Woes at sack station, apd mother commemse on
the my to the mat When them is • stoppage of •
quarter or half an her at any pima the set drop folk. On
the Bth of December, 186 S, li. Smarthe nude the first trial
of this theatre, with his mammy composed of twelve per-
fennees. A piece very popular in England was represented,
sad the programme had been headed to each spectator with
his railway east et the statics. The piece was very sne-
er del. It was the Prase which annoemed, it will be
remembered, some meths since, that an establishmest had
bees opined in Leaden where repentant sinners nightly
indicted corporal punishment upon themselves io the pre-
MOP of Moms& at enthuesetic spectators, each of whom
paid a slates, to see the edify* eight.
Tan WWII= IN ITALY.—Our oorrespondent
writes to m from Pisa, as the 17th. am follows:
" TM cold, throughout Italy. NMI to be this year some-
thise hitherto unparalleled. At Plorsere the temperstam
has bees gradually &dialog hill it has hoopoe is the last
week too cold for pentium is bad health to endure. TM
Arno is deeply froze. all over, and stories ere rife of •
mother sad child found dead in morne:farrnehed of ooid ;
of • driver es his box head stiff when the lady for
whom he waited left her party ; of two men dead at
Perdu, he. In Ems the snow less several inches thick,
aid eve at Naples it is said to emu the ground. At
Turin the thermometer is asserted to be 16 below freez-
ing-point. Here, at Pia, *early the warmest place in
Northern Italy, the cold is internee, and the Arno beneath
my windows is frozen emcee and covered with little
traded heaps. There lass beet so snow here, bat the
mind is bitterly piercing, and the ensidities of the per
peitrimires who have come for warmth from northern
shores is sed 'sank. It Is small seettert that almost
every othet place km Jeeps is sensewhat veneer.*
A lecture was delivered on Wednesday evening
Netrepolltaa DOAN, baton the members of
the 1/ lien% Clefetisa Aseseiation sad a weeded and
eseemablege esseer Wow were his
Erme the Lord Liserameat, the Mopes el Kaden,
Mr. Wlifsids, 1(.P.. wad air Edward Chops. H.P. Titis
isseerer was Lard Wade. author of " Loden hem High
Latemedes," settle selspset, "TM Past eel Present Cce-
im ed Or& The leseme (aye 111 De* lapress) ins
OY egaisile sad debates cempasitiote.
and pave • gmpide earner', of the history of the denstry,
of Its people, aid of tits diernifices which led to the as •
happy ceedlise mad meter wide 41111411 d meek eassa•
tise6vemeezligres hasikauf the Lari-Lisibssame
tie. sad Isms. pesposed vete at thetas
Detteria the rhea. width was sawerbd by
Whiisolde, Z. 7.. was siegted NMI assismaties.

[TWOPENCE

AMERICA.

Our advicee from New York are to the 9th Jan.

There is no important news from General Meade's
army. A detachment of Confederate cavalry drove
in the Federal pickets at Flint Hill, near Fairfax
Courthouse, on the night of the bth inst., but re-
treated after exchanging a few shots with the skir-
mishers sent out to meet then.. Many of the vete-
ran troops are re-enlisting for the war, and the con-
dition of the army is said to be excellent. Confe-
derate deserters report that many of Lee's troops
would gladly avail themselves of &lr. Lincoln's am-
nesty if they had the opportunity. A trade agent
has been appointed to sell to the destitute popula-
tion within the Union lines provisions, clothing,
and other necessaries of life.

Despatches from Cumberland, Maryland, state
that the Confederates in West Virginia are very
active. The garrison at Petersburg was surrounded
on the Bth by the Confederates, who have driven
the Federal out of Burlington. Cumberland,
Maryland, is threatened with immediate attack by
Fitzhugh Lee and Rosser. The passenger trains
on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad have been
stopped, and great excitement prevails. .The Con-
federates are reported to be moving in three columns.
They captured a train of 36 waggons on the Bth.
General Imboden has been attacked at Winchester
and driven back. A heavy mow-storm prevailed.
Coles' Maryland cavalry encountered a large
force of Confederates near Rectortown,
recently, and lost b 7 nut of 76 men.
A despatch, dated Cumberland Gap, Jan. 6,
announces that an overwhelming force of Confe-
derates, estimated at 4,000, under General Sam.
Jones, made a descent upon the Federal troops,
numbering about 300, at Jonesboro', Virginia.
The Federals, who were guarding a region, which
was the main reliance for forage for the Union
troops in that department, made a desperate resis-
tance, but finally surrendered, after losing 80 men
in kiled and wounded.

Latest advises from Chattanooga disclose no im-
portant events in that region. The weather had
been very severe, and several soldiers had been
frozen to death at Bridgeport. Many of the troops
were re-enlisting for the war. The Confederate
lines were 35 miles from Chattanooga. General
Joe Johnson was reported to be making every ex-
ertion for increasing the number and efficiency of
Theops
Confederates are making great efforts to
complete the railroad from Greensboro' to Danville,
Virginia, in order that they may have by spring a
double means of communication between Richmond
and the Gulf States.

Tbere is nothing definite from Knoxville or
Longstreet's army. Latest accounts represent
Longetreet's priition to be " stubborn and strong,"
as he had open communication with Virginia and
North Carolina, and was believed to be receiving
reinforcements.

The Confederate Generals Marmaduke and Price,
with about 6,000 men, mostly cavalry, were near
Arkadelphia, Arkansas, on the 23rdof December.
Union sentiment in Arkansas is said to be rapidly
increasing.
Advice, from Texas disclose no stirring events in
that region. The Confederate General Magrudtr
is said to be very unpopular on account of the
severity of his rule. lie issued an order to burn
the towns of Indianola and Lavacca, lest they
should fall into the hands of the Fedorals ; the in-
habitants not only refused to obey the order, but
are said to have organised to resist it. Refugees
were continually coming into Baronsville. All
citizens who have remained there have bad the
oath of allegiance administered to them. Those
who refuse to take it are sent across the Rio Grande
into Mexico. It is reported that the Confederates
are concentrating all their available forces in West-
ern Texas, at San Antonio and Austin.
It is said that the rebels have a small gunboat in
Lavaca Bay, but nothing has been seen of it yet.
General Banks will probably not move into the
interior of the State until be receives such additions
to his force as will insure success.

Governor Bramlette, of Kentucky, has issued
orders that fire Confederate sympathisers shall be
arrested for every loyal citizen carried off by Con-
federate guerillas.
The Confederates have been for some time past
concentrating near Jackson, Teunestee, under
Generals Forrest, Roddy, and Chalmeis. It is be-
lieved that this force now numbers from 20,000 to
25,000 men, and that they purpose making a
dash upon Paducah, Kentucky, Columbia', or
perhaps Memphis. General Grant is fully in-
formed as to the contemplated movement, and is
amply prepared, it is said, to guard against disaster.
A.dvioes from New Orleans to Jan. 1 have been

received. A mars meeting of loyal citizens was

called for the Bth January, the object being to
consider the formation of a free state government.
Nearly mough have been enrolled to enable the
State to return to the Union under President
Lincoln's proclamation. A secret expedition left
New Orleans, Dec. 30th, the strength and desti-
nation of which had been socceesfully disguised
from the public. It is believed, however, that it is
intended to operate against Mobile. An entrenched
camp will probably be formed at Pascagoula, and
an advance from thence against Mobile made as
soon as the rainy season is over.
A line of signal stations is to be established along
the Mississippi, to assist in preventing the depreda-
flows of the guerillas.
General Kirby Smith now commands the entire
Confederate force west of the Mississippi, and is
said to be • a force of 15,000 for an attack
upon Little Bock, Arkansas.
In the Senate, Wilson of Massachusetts intro-
duced a resolution to expel N. Garrett Davis, of
Kentucky, for alleged treasonable sentiment' con-
tained in his resolution relative to prohibiting mili-
tary officers from interfering with elections. No
vote was taken ou the subject. A petition was
presented by the Society of Friends asking exemp-
tion from the draft. Howe, of Wisconsin,
offered a resolution requesting the President to call
out one mill on of volunteers for 90 days, to termi-
nate the war. This was referred to a military
oommittee. A resolution was offered by Senator
Movill, of Vermont, requesting the President to
notify the British Government of the desire of the
United States to terminate the reciprocity treaty
with Canada. Referred to committee on foreign
relations.
In the House of Representatives the joint resolu-
tion to extend the payment of bounties to volunteers
from the sth of February to the Ist of Marsh was
adopted. After a short executive session in the
Senate both homes adjourned until January 11.
A. M. Palmer' secretary to the collector of the
poet of New York, has been arrested and sent to
Port Lafayette, evidence having been produced of
his participation in the blockade running. He was
a prominent Republican, and secretary of the Union
Central Committee. Several prominent and sup-
posed loyal citizens are implicated with hini.

TALsa F

r.—At the Sheriffs' Court,

lad Lisa-square, yentseisy, domes went assemed in an
adios bmaght in me of the marts by a bricklayer
named Collins, on the part of is wife, against a tellyrem
seated Edgar, far Lobo ispriscasamt. The defendant,
whin had owed judgmeat to go by default, ;sit hie um-
bras, sad cluirpd the wife el Um plaintiff with steeling it.
He ve her into custody, surd she was oaten before, polies
cad the chugs was &mimed. The defendant
,aided is person. sad gam se en:piss/tics of his aoudad.
Mr. Ceder-Sheri, Barbell mid the defendant could only
be herd la eiltigition of dbeara. The jury silted whether
40e. weald may assts. The ander•sheriff told them they
bad maids, to de with the qusetioa of oasts ; their duty
was le serapseente the *Miff for use false charge made
Mang his wile The jury thee amend the damages as
40s.
CITITAL PALACIL ••••• OWN SHILLING DAT.
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2,7410.
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venience. This was inevitable, for the Colonial-'
office was compelled Nome time since to confess its
inability to regulate the relations of the two rams.
The Duke of NewcaarLa wrote to Sir themes
Garr some time before this war began✓ "The ago-
" nits having consistently claimed from the Home
" Government by the different methods in
" which is was possible to make such
" a claim, that it should cease to manage
" native affairs, and (what is still more
" important) having refused to render that
" management possible, which under responsible
" government was at any rate most difficult, the
" Home Government has resigned that function.
" This relinquishment does not require the assent
"of the colonists to make it effeotuaL It is oom-
" pleted by the act of the Home Government,
" which (in conformity with a request which it is
"now too late to recall) no longer requires of
" you to take personal charge of the Native Se-
" &retails department." From the date of that
despatch the Maori subjects of the Qusax
were reir;tted, ell treaties made with
them notwithetanding, to the instil:* and humanity

of their white feliow-nubjects. But next let
it be noticed that while the policy of the
New Zealand Government has a colonial
and, indeed, a National origin, it is one
which would not and could not have been
pursued without Imperial aid. For it is a policy
which, as the English gentlemen who have memo-
' rialind Sir Gwent GREY observe," shuts the door
.. to any posible settlement of the difficulty ex-
" rept by the sword ;" and " would lead to the ex-
, " termination of a people who value their pro-
" pert, in the soil even more than their exist-
" once, and who, despise their faults, are worthy
"of a better fate." There in no surer means of
adding fuel to the dame of war, of extending
the area of disaffection, and of mak;ig the
natives fight with the madness of despair, than
a policy of confiscation. Left to themselves, the
oolonistswouldhave foundsome other way o: deaFsg
with the nativesthan this. But they knew that they
should not be left to themselves. They had
excluded the Qua= from the government and
claimed a real and practical independence, but their
nominal connexion with the Crown left in the".
hands a lever by which they were able to move the
empire. The Quwr has parted with her right to
protect her colonial subjects, bat she has not ac-
quired the right to leave the Europeans to settle
alone with the natives the terms on which both may
live together in peace. The astute colonists have
taken an accurate measure of our weakness, and
in the name of that British supremacy which they
have practically abrogated for themselves, they
will get the land—the first, the constant, and the
only important source of their quarrels with the
natives.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

GERMANY AND DENMARK.

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LONDON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 22.

Tim New Zealand colonists, judging from the
Auckland newspapers, are troubled with the fear
that the policy of their present action with regard to
the Maoris may be misunderstood at home.
Having, as they have often assured us, suffered
great inconvenience for many years from the want
of the land in the hands of the natives, and being now
about to supply themselves with many millions of
acres, by the process of confiscation, with the aid
of ten thousand Imperial soldiers, they fear that
we may fail to perceive that in thus doing they
are merely acting under a sense of duty, and
taking the course beat fitted to maintain the right,
of the QUEEN. They have heard that there are per-
sons in England who take for granted that their
fellow-oeuntrymen in emigrating to New Zea-
land entirely change their natures, end be-
come all at once a set of bloodthirsty men bent
on self-aggrandisement. It is a pity that they
should be made uneasy by an impression so false
and unfounded. For our owa parts we do not
believe that the Englishmeu in New Zealand
differs in any important respect from the
Englishman at home. We have not the least doubt
that the settlers are as genial and warm- hearted
a people as English colonists prove themselves in
other parts of the Quezie's dominions. It is because
we believe them to be so very like ourselves that we
believe the English public quite capable of under-
standing the- acts, which are themselves so
like much that we see at home. We find no
difficulty at all in believing that these good people
are fully persuaded not only that it is politically
necessary, but that, as they see anxious to impress
upon us, it will be for the good of the natives
themselves that their land should be taken from
them. As a body, they are in that stage of moral
advancement in which the mind cannot settle down
at its ease upon the perpetration of what it believes
to be cruel and unjust. We all understand the
need of a theory which will reconcile our conduct
with our conscience. A few years ago three out
of four of our landed proprietor:, exemplezi
citizens and good neighbours, the very pillars of
society, religiously believed that Eagl•nd's great
nein would be gone if they ceased to toll
the labourer's loaf ; and at the present
hour in Alabama one half the population is held
firmly as property by the other half, at a great
sacrifice, and for its own good, lest, unable to pro-
vide for itself, it should come to poverty.
The proposals brought forward in the New
Zealand Legislature for dispossessing the natives of
their land have startled some people here on
account of the vast wale on which they are framed.
The New Zealand Settlement Bill was introduced
into the House of Representatives by Mr. Fox,
one of the new Ministers, a■ " the key-stone of
" the policy of the Government." The area of
the land which it was proposed to confiscate
was 4,000,000 acres, 2,000,000 being in the
Upper Waikato, 550,000 in Lower Waikato,
710,000 in the Thames and Pike, 600,000
at Taranaki, and 620,000 Termed
South—a territory exceeding that of Yorkshire, the
largest of our English counties. In the opinion of
Mr. Fox, nothing could be fairer than Ws mea-
sure, the idea of which is borrowed from the Da-
tives, " who have always been in the habit of con•
" sidering that a conquered people for:eited and
" surrendered their land." As Mr. Werrarsa,
the New Zealand Premier, observed, amidst ap-
plause, "It had been and was a struggle, whether
"the natives should have possession of Auckland,
" or whether the Europeans should have possession
"of Waikato." Of course with 10,000 Quiesx's
troops at their back, the Ministers expect to get
possession of Waikato. After that, Mr. Fox
said—for the goodness of the colonial heart
will break out in the discharge of the sterneot
duties—" the House will be liberal, as it always
" has been, in furnishing funds for the various'
" measures and institutions to be employed in the
" civilization of the natives."

The course which the European colonists are
pursuing in New Zealand conforms so closely to the
conduct of communities in all ages of the world
when placed in contact with communities weaker
than themselves, that we have no disposition to
judge it harshly. But two things in connexion
with it deserve attention. In the first
place, it is a colonial or rather a sec-
tional, as distinguished from ea Imperial policy,
which the Government of New Zealand is now
following. The pile', has its origin with the Euro-
pean settlers, and is shaped according to their con•

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THE =Mine, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 2, IBA.

The continental journals reoeived to-day agree
in the statement that the Danish government has
refused to accept the Anetro-Prussian ultimatum ;
but in another quarter the reply is said to have
been an intimation that it is not in the com-
petence and power of the Danish Ministers
to suspend the constitution, but that they are 1
willing to call together the Rigaread, or na-
tional parliament, and to submit to its decision
the question of the modification of the constitu-
tion. It would take a month, however, to proceed
to, and to effect, the elections, and six weeks at
least would elapse before the matters in question
could be submitted to the Rigaraad ; the parlia-
ment, moreover, would be called together in virtue
of the constitution of November. As to the
abrogation of the constitution by the Rigaraad,
which is its offspring, the seining of the Rigedags,
or local diets, has been much too plainly evinced to
permit one to expect any such measure from it.
The troops of both Austria end Pruegh a-e in
full march for the Dawsli frontier. In ten days
the allied army will be in force on the Ryder. At
that point one lest attempt, it is said, will be made
by the two great powers. They will there renew
their demands, and commence offer,ive operations
only after refuse'.
The Rhenish Gazets: says that when all the orders
of mobilisation given at Berlin shell have been
executed, Prussia will dispose of an effective of
nearly 76,000 men.
It is said, at Preukfoi., that the new Danish
cabinet addressed a note, on the 6th inert, to the
cabinet of Vienna, in which it invoked the prin-
ciples proolainud by the oongze-s of Paris in its
protocol of the 14th of August, 1866, to submit
the difference between Dennis,* end the Germanic
Confederation to the arbitration of one or more of
the great European powers. It is added that the
Copenhagen cabinet has made a communication in
the same sense to all the cabinets whose friendly
intervention would facilitate a paciic avengement.
At the same time there is talk of en overture on
the part of the Swedish government supporting
the plan of mediation proposed by the cabinet of
Copenhagen, and offering its own mediation to the
interested parties.

AUSTRIA AND PRUSSIA AND THE
SMALLER GERMANIC POWERS.

The inellpeadance Beige has a hint that the great
display of forms which Austria and Prussia sro
making against Denmark, amounting, it is said, t
some 110,000 men, may also be intended to keep at
adistance the secondary states of the oonfederation.
Certainly the scb;sin between the two great German
Powers and the other states of the confederation
seems to increase. Already the Wurtemburg Chamber
of Deputies has demanded that the government mo-
bilises the army and puts it at the disposal of the
Diet " for the protection of the duchies ;" and
this example is to be followed by other German
chambers. The official organ of the government of
Weimar says that the Diet, in an early sitting, will
discuss the question of succession, and will, without
doubt, decide in favour of the Duke of Augus-
tenburg.

sus BOARD OP WORK&
(THIS DAY.)

This board held their naual weakly meeting this
merging et their oases. Sp
pri:ge=ras ;11r. J. Timms,
the aea ft el sa the bli
The assacisd stetemsaasowed . toad cash balsam is the
heads el the kn./11111r el 91,9611. 12e. IL, sad govemmeat
sseadties 96,7291. Ss. 7d.

mom= OF WAIT TO TO MADMAN OP THE KURD.
ID panramat Cf tin Mown( munition, a special meet-
leg of the whole bard was bad for in eammidaratioa
. "19th Jaa., 18131.
.

"To the Clerk of the Metropolitaa Boirdol Wicks.
"We the undersigned, membersof the Metropolitan Board
of Worky, being of opinion that the time has arrived when
an addition should be made to the salary of John Thwaitee,
chairmaa of the board, request that you will convene
a special meeting of the board on Friday, the '22nd
at 1 o'clock, for the purpose of considering the propriety of
making such addition and of varying the resolution of the
board of 19th December, 1855 (No. 5), whereby 1,5001. a year
fixed as the amount of @limy to he paid to the chairman
"(Signed) Wm. Tite, T.. 1. Miller, J. S. Phillips, W. H.
Boohoo, P. M. Loßreton, Thomas Q. Fiords.
Itobt. Taylor. Ben j. Loom, Judkins J.
James Pew, Joseph Moreland, J. 0.
Edwd. Shepherd, Downie M'Doneig/, Edw.
Whalen, Wm. Newton, Cyrus Legg, J. J.
Tanner, James Brooker, 0. S. Wallis, Chas

Kr. THWAITZB rose mid mil that, ea the matter to be
demeaned wee presseel to himself, be would beg that the
board would elect some am elm to RI the chair..

Yr. 11:17;;;Tailo7wamthen;;ZialThirmas, sad
Mr. Thwaitis retard

Mr. Tits, la opening the queshoo, eulogised the many
ads of lir. 'Amite* u chairman of the board when he
was appointed in 1856, since which time be bed
been remarkable for his great basins. capabilities,
=tv=s tigs7= sadd staltlb uy
:I r.. ea. kstre of thof
opinion that there should be a oorrespouding increase in the
chairman's alumnae, more particalari sa he had sorrel-
dared the whole of his buds= to undertake those duties.
tlc reoommaided the ineresse of as Mr. Thweites on
.

the ground that w►en the legkkture filed s minimum and
maximum salary far the oheirman of the board, the
minimum sum Azad au was ocatlaned up to the
preeset time. He thought the time had arrived to increase
that Owner* to the tell sum allowed by the sot of par-
liament ; the minimum which it allowed wee 40001. per
seams, whilst the maximum reached 2,0001., ad he would
therefore move that the salary of the chairman be ix-
oresari to 2,0001. per aannm.
Mr. Mazza aad Mr. OOLLINOWOOD spoke in favour of
the motion.
Mr. Damn was speaking when our report left.