The Express.
London, England, 1852-04-09 00:00:00

LONDON, FRIDAY, APRIL 9.

Bennie the nation at large is called upon fur its
verdict on the question of parliamentary reform, it is
right that the actual position of the question should
be distinctly and clearly understood. The advocates
of an extended suffrage rest their cue upon the as-
sumption that the House of Commons, as at present
constituted, does not possess the confidence of the
people; and they appeal to the recorded votes of
parliamenkto show that this is the national convic-
tion. They point to the division lists in proof of
this assertion ; and they boldly claim for the nominal
minority who support reform, that they should be
regarded as the true exponents of the general wish
and will, rather than the nominal majority of mem-
bers, who are neither elected by popular constitm
codes nor affect to be subject to popular control.
Let any one glance at the list of towns which con-
tain great populations and substantial constituencies,
and he cannot fail to be struck with the fact that,
with few exceptions, all of them have pronounced in
favour of representative responsibility, as contrasted
with, and opposed to, the present unreal and ilTe•
spantible system. In the late division on Mr.
lit n's motion, the representatives of Birmingham,
Manchester, Salford, Sheffield, Edinburgh, Glasgow
Cheltenham, Hull, Dundee, Leicester, Oldham, Co:

. .
ventry, Derby. Stockport, Norwich, Blackburn,
Bradford, Stroud, Preston, Macclesfield, and South-
ampton, arc all to be found arrayed on the side of
extended suffrage and independent voting. And
when to these are added the members for Middlesex,
Westminster, Marylebone, Southwark, Lambeth,
Finsbury. and Tower Hamlets, with many towns of
third and fourth rate importance, we have an amount
of population concurring in the momentous claim,
falling little short of Tee MILLIONS
In this calculation we exclude altogether the consti-
tuencies who. hating committed the folly of returning
two men of different opinions at the last election,
are in a certain sense neutralised on great questions
like that which we are now adverting to. Among
these may be enumerated Bristol, -Dublin, Bel-
fast, Brighton, the West Riding, North Lancashire,
Leeds, Chester, and others, the population of which
amounts, in the aggregate, to a million. In
precise figures, if we add the latter 979,087
to the former, which is 9,898,338, we have a
total of 1110477,143. It is true, indeed, as we
have said, that the efficacy of the voting power of
the 'Attr clam is annihilated in the lobbies of the
House of Commons by the balance which their mem-
bers form, and that the tellers might in general
agree to let the cities and counties we have men-
tioned be omitted from their computation on moat
questions. But in • moral point of view the case is
far otherwise. Who doubts that the inhabitants of the
West Hiding, for example, hold strong opinions as a
community in favour of popular right, although they
have consented to allow Mr. Beetarr Destson to
go to parliament along with Mr. COBDEN ?
lk this, however, as it may, the broad and unmis-
takable fact stands out beyond all controversy or
dispute, that the representatives of well nigh eleven
millions of people, possessing among them an amount
of property, inte:hgeoce, and worth scarcely to be
equalled in the civilised world, have deliberately
declared that the present system of representation is
fundamentally unsound, insufficient, and unde-
serving of natiuual confidence. This is • very
serious matter, and calls for the grave
consideration of every man who fears to lose, or
hopes to gain, anything worth having as a citizen
of the empire. ()pinion seldom—perhaps it were
more accurate to say never—goes back. A packed
parliament, a west•end club, or a subservient press,
may applaud such flimsy and t t efforts at
mystification of the truth as those oe Mr. DISRAELI
the other night, when he stole • cheer by. picking
Mr. Hrue's political pocket of certain important
figures, and then with • face of assurance asking him
—how much base von got these ? But in the homes
of the,. eleven minions of thoughtful and earnest
men, these pranks and gambols, to call them by no
harsher name, go for no more than they are worth.
These are in the main the men whose resolution to
pay no longer • tax on bread, converted a powerful
ministry to the theory of free-trade, and compelled
an unconverted parliament to enact that theory in
form of law. And these are they who now have it
manifestly in their power to decide the suffrage
question and the ballot. Were the oligarchs in pos-
session of three times as many dwindled boroughs
and sirf-tilled counties as they are, the result would
be the same. In 1841 the some party that are now
in office obtained by lavish outlay and the reckless
use of every engine of bigotry and intimidation, a
majority which was at the time called overwhelming.
They had piled together all the rottenness and intole-
rance of church and state, and they sat down in its
shadow to divide the prey. But the great towns
and the intelligent counties remained unshaken in
their faith, and unwavering in their resolution to
carry their object—and we know the result. So,
likewise, it will be now. But, inasmuch as we must
all deprecate delay, and wish that the death strug-
gle of corruption may be shortened, it behoves every
man who values the cause of reform, to apply himself
diligently to the increase and strengthening of the
compact phalanx in the new House of Commons,
whose especial mission shall be to enforce, constitu-
tionally, what the mare of the community desire.
For, let it never be forgotten, that if there are already
near eleven millions who are innovated by
men that support • rate-paying franchise,
there are still a far greater number whose sym-
prides are the same, and whose voice, were it legally
capable of making itself heard, would be an echo of
that of their more fortunate brethren. It is true
that the very circumstance of their disfranchisement'
hinders them, to a great extent, from doing ea they
otherwise would. But it cannot, on the other hand,
be denied that, were a common effort made at the
coming elections by electors who have hitherto re-
mained passive, and by non-electors, who collectively
have much in their power, the band of thorough re-
formers in the next House of Common. might be
raised to double its present number. Within twenty-
four hours after the first striking vote of such a body
of real representatives, " rate-paying franchise and
ballot" would be discerned in gold letters elegantly
embroidered on the whig flag; and, whatever party
might hold office, the demands of the people would
be promptly and fully conceded.

I►t'LINO the last year the principal railvrays lead-
ing to the metropolis have brought to London great
quantities of coals from the midland, western, and
even from the northern counties, and some of the
companies have established at their chief stations in
London depots for the sale of cools, and have, in fact,
become coal merchants themselves. We hope and
believe he experiment has proved as advantageous
to the companies as it has certainly been to the I
public. The pies: of this great mammary of life has ,
been much reduced, fluctuation in price has been in a j
great degree prevented, whilet the possibility of raising
the price of the article at periods when fuel is most
needed has 'acen prevented by the active competition
of the various railway companies We take it for
granted the experiment is found to be sufficiently suc-
cessful, and in that e.ua we would ilirect the atten-
tion of the various companies to an extension of the
principle.
Bricks for the purposes of building are in great
and constant demand in and near to London. The
bricks which are made in the immediate neighbour-
hood of London are of inferior quality. The London
clay is of a nature too strong for the purposes of
brick-making, except when combined with chalk or
other substance% nut readily procurable. The beat
bricks are made in the neighbourhood of Cowley and
Drayton, and are brought to London by canal ; but
these bricks are interior to those made in Cambridge-
shire, in Suffolk, and in many other counties at no
very great distance front London. In fact there are
inexhaustible supplies of brick earth neer to
the lines of most of the principal railwaya,
and in much closer proximity to the me-
tropolis than the nearest coal field. The
pries of brieke et the present moment is ex-

f triccelarr dt.nie 14
ndh. or the • a
nearly azhamoted. t'
the suburbs of
to 40 shillings
cent. higher than
was taken off, am
cent higher than
in I..ny parts of
enough to Few
Pandisa it pdoe sufficient margin would be left to
)SS Se sinfige to London of bricks a safe and
Cl=Sysinliation to railway companies, and we
piths' the opening of depots for the sale
itlifiligerivell as eoals, at the principal metro-
Ohms madam would dmelop a considerable in-
grain, ef revenue to the companies, and be at the
sow else • very great culvantage both to the pro-
ducer and the consumer.

BERNE. Apia. 3.
The executive council has convoked the electoral
assemblies for the 18th, to pronounce by " Yes" and
" No" upon the question of the revocation.

D.

SPAIN.

A telegraphic dispatch from Madrid, of the sth,
says: " A decree has been published by the govern-
ment, regulating in a sweeping manner the press.
The fundamental bases are—a guarantee of 2,000
reels of contribution imposed on journals; preven-
tive censorship for articles concerning religion,
foreign countries, and news; a jury composed of tbe
largest tax-payers for the principal preps offences ;
Supreme Court of Justice for offences against the
Queen; and the ordinary tribunals for other of-
fences. The government can suspend and suppress
journals."

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By seasonal et his ezesdleoey the Lord High Commissioner,
J. Fauns,
See. to the Lord High Commissioner.
Oak 17th March, 1862.

PROCLAMATION.
O CANI)IANO ROMA.
By his Highness the Cavalier Candiano, Canal Roma, Pro•
ardent of the Mort Illustrious the Senate, and the Moat
luatzions the Boasters of the United States of the lonian
Islands.

The Lairslairs Assembly of the teeth parliament,
eketiod sok, the most avowable auspices, is prorogued.
TIM prows& of ant reform', announced in the name of
bar Greslsms lbjasity, see Exclusive Sovereign Protrectrese ;
sod of dist nen eateaded liberty which she was pleased to
sat to na, amidst the almost 'sacral wroth of the liberties
of Radom aimi dolma% bat, as ossrignanoe, been deferred.
Thie Beasti, prospect of &happy future,
manifested, from,its analogs desire to to
operate in impstriaks, as far as risible our political system
sad kgislation, by malntainkag that pirfeet harmony with
the other powers of the Rate on which must depend the
gradual &Mope moat lathe try priociplos of constitutional
t.
levensalan
Swim, on being appoiaMsl4 at once made known the
Use of conduct which it inod to penal, and entered
Leto communioationlrith the leighdative Assembly, the

Simita mil,* is On eitoottinna-flis high sad important
inaly to arimasis
ithiorpos which k had given,
la mks that lin new= redoes their ltgitmasto
allseis, Woe ler Majesty, the protect-
ing sonssiga. hag se premiss.
To obtain a win& m Important it was aecomary that
the assata Whoeld maim the bank, loyal, and disin-
terested so-opossdan se year vagessenistives, and it had
the pastor dirge to *ped tkis, looms It had mad* every
effort to attain am sad so desirable, and bemuse them existed
no motive for alienation.

Thu proposals of our gracious sovereign protectress—the
frank and cordial offers of her representative to assist in
advancing and ameliorating our condition—the sincerity
with which the Senate accepted this offer, and promised
its co-operation—and the exultation of the lonian people,
who awaited their realisation, was not met by all your re-
presents fives in such a spirit as it ought to have been.
A minority of the Amenoly, which at every step showed
a disposition to impede the course of legislation in the
Chamber, finished by an attempt, unique in representative
government, to impose its opinions upon a majority, guided
by the dictates of patriotism and honour • and, by absenting
itself from the Assembly to which it had been sent to fulfill
important duties, readered a constitutional silting of the
house impossible.
Matters having arrived at this point, it cannot be con-
cealed that a prorogation of the Home of Representatives
was an inevitable consequence, as well as the sole remaining
means of saving the country from greater evils, and of pre-
serving a prospect of a happier future. The responeibility
of the consequences rests with those who provoked this step.
lonians—The time fur fallacies anddelusions ought to have
passed. The infirmities of o people, if not speedily cured,
are fatal. Experience must have sufficiently proved to you
the daugers to which the violence of reckless demagogues,
rapacious desires, unreasonable and ill-placed ambition may
lead, and what ig have already occasioned.
Until they boxisse irreparable, the remedy is still mire.
It rests with us not to lose the best and most favourable
opportunity of securing an improved future by accepting,
In a fitting spirit, which is • condition, the benefits offered
to us.

Your Senate will continue firmly to pursue the course it
has taken, nor fail to give every attention in order Lusatia,
your desires. lint, aline, it cannot assume the responsi-
bility of those measures which should emanate from the
concurrecce of all the powers of the state, end which are
called fur by the present urgent necessities of the country.
If you are desirous of your own welfare, if you do not
wish to peril your future condition, give evidence, on this
occasion, of that good sense which has generally distin-
guished you. The electoral bodies feel the importance of
their missioo, and in the approaching elections, and by the
instructious which they must give to their representatives,
will prove to all, that the lonian people is worthy of
amelioration, if they would nut lose allhope of attaining it,
and assume the deepest responsibility the country and to
posterity.
Given from the Palace of St. Michael and St. George.
By order of the Senate,
T. J. aIIBUYSZ,
See. to the Senate for the Ueu. Depart.
Corfu, 20th March, lti62.

AUSTRIAN OUTRAGE UPON AN

ENGLISHMAN.

The Court of Tuscany, emboldened by the advent
of a tory cabinet, has peremptorily refused to admit the
claim preferred by Lord Granville for apology and compen-
sation in the ease of Mr. Erskine Mather. A gross outrage
has been committed on an Englishman, and now, doubtless
at the instigation of "our oldest ally," Austria, end relying
probably upon the presumed indifference of Lord Gran-
ville's successor, the Tuscan government refuses to redress
one of the foulest wrongs.
On the 29th of January, Mr. Erskine Mather, walking
arm-in-arm with his brother in one of the narrow streets of
Florence, encumbered at the moment by a crowd following
• military band, felt himself struck from behind with the
flat edge of a Brion,. Turning round to remonstrate, he re-
ceived a blow in the face with a fist from • person in the dress
of an Austrian officer. Mechanical', raising his arm to protect
himself, he was at oncecut down by the officer in command
of the detachment by which the band was accompanied.
The sword of the officer pasaed through a thick felt hat,
I and inflicted a deep wound, two inches in length, on the
apper
part of the forehead. „Mr. Mather, covered with
blood, was assisted by the passengers to a neighbouring
hospital, where he was confined for three weeks, and
where, after the first few days, no ono but his brother was
permitted to see him without an order from the police.
The bone having been seriously injured, the wound, after
Dealing rapidly on the surface, had to be re-opened to ad-
mit of suppuration from within. Inflammation ensuing,
thirty leeches were applied to the forehead, and he war, De-
rides three times bled in the arm, and thee in the hand. I
At length—the shadow of his former self, and with • con-
stitution irreparably weakened for life—tie recovered suffi-
ciently to be period to his lodgings.
For this outrage Lord Granville wrote, with becoming
spirit, to demand redrew, and en inept; was promised
The compensation claimed for Mr. Mather war 1,0001.—a
modest sum, if we compare it with the far larger amount
exacted but the other day from Grimm for the broken fur-
niture of Don Pacifico, on the ground that the honour of
England was involved in the adequate protection of British
subjects. In England, for instance, were an officer of the
Guards to cut down even a crossing sweeper, a British jury
would not hesitate to give much heavier damages than
1,0001., as an emphatic protest against military license.
But, whether much or little, the Tuscan government now
flatly refuses to entertain the question of its liability in any
shape. The British minister la referred to the Austrian
Waster. Mr. Searlett is expected to humiliate himself by
a second application to Prince Lichtenstein, who, in his
letter written the day following the outrage, justified the
assault on Mr. Mather as an act of necessary discipline, and
only lamented Mr. Mather's imprudence in wearing • Ty-
rolean hat.

THE AMAZON AND BIRKENHEAD.—It is a some-
what remarkable circumstance that the Amason and the
equally ill-fated Bitkenhead commenced their voyages on
the same day; the Amason having left Southampton and
the Birkenhead Portsmouth on Friday, the 2nd of January.
Friday is generally regarded by sailors r an unlucky day
on which to begin a voyage.
SUICIDE AT AN HOTEL—Yesterday morning a de-
termined act of suicide was committed by Mr. James Car-
rell, printer and stationer, of No. 282, Strand, at Miller's,
the Surrey, Sussex, and Commercial Hotel, Blackfriars-
road. The deceased had been involved in considerable
pecuniary difficulties, so much so as to reduce him to a
low and desponding state, notwithstanding which his im-
mediate friends never apprehended that he would be Guilty
of the crime of terminating his own existence, although he
had frequently expressed a fear of fairing the difficulties
that surrounded him. It appears that about twelve o'clock
on the night of Wednesday In celled at the hotel, and,
having entered the coffee-room, called for a glass of brandy
and water, and expressed his intention of sleeping there
that night, arid engaged a bed, at the same time making a
special request that the " boots," or porter, should call him
at half-past eight in the morning, ash* had an appointment
to attend. He was shown to his room by the chamber-
maid, who delivered to him his candle, and left him appa-
ready calm. In the morning, as requested, the porter
knocked at his door, which was found to he fastened,
several times without receiving any answer. The fact was
communicated to Mr. Miller, who at once forced open the
door, when, to the horror of the inmates, they sew the
deceased suspended by a rope from the fuot-rail or cornice
of the bedstead, dead. Mr. Miller at once despatched
one of his servants to Mr. Tebbitt's surgery, a few doors
from the hotel. Mr. Tebbitt arrived immediately; find-
ing the deceased still suspended, he at once cut him
down, but all attempts at restoring animation were hope-
ICPP, Mr. Tebbitt being satisfied that the deceased had been
dead several hours. 'f he Iced had not been slept in ;on the
counterpane was a piece of new cord, evidently cut from
that with which deceased had banged himself, the cord being
an ordinary bed-cord, and but little doubt could be enter-
tained that the deceased on closing the door of his room had
at ones proceeded to cony his deadly intention into effect,
he being entirely dressed when found suspended. Infor-
mation was given to the police, arid on the hotly being
searched several bill-heads with his name and business. as
61/14) several letters and memorandums, were found in his
pocket., with a gold pencil-ease, tooth-pick, and about 9 or
10 shillings in silver. Information has been forwarded to
Mr. Carter, the coroner, and the body now awaits the in-
quest, which will be held on Saturday.

N GOLD MINES.

Letters ~.e been received from Syd-
flay dews to diii2oth of December. The following
ip en extract from a letter received by this arrival:
The precious metal arrives in daily increasing nantities,
the estimated export has risen from 1 . to
XX per annum. The,. is no antt to the gold •,
sod, ss tar ax I have been able to aseartala bent personal
issamunication with diggers of valises dopes, the labour
by no means so tremendous as sodas would Rake it ant
tawroaretal affairs are going on easily. The harvest is
airidlkwat. Wages are not extravagantly high, sod Ido
Imo any prospect of famine for some time to come. Ido
-.vs venture to prognosticate the probable state of the mar-
kets. We are comphtely in the dark. 1 have it, however,
lkilmed authority, that in the early part of the year thii
heavy shipments of goods on speculation will have
Elreffect of creating a glut ; and it would be well if a large
degree of caution were exercised in making consignments.
The Sydney Morning Herald, of December 18th
"V have received by the Emma Melbourne papers to the
illth inst. The Melbourne Morning Herald of that date
op :—" Letters were received in town yesevday from the
pa' niertral• at Gipps Land, stating that
del whole di-
, libig ramp bennean Sydney and Victoria, e nown as
Ibe mem Illiereatatas, for 2M miles in extent, is one vast
pli eta Tim was upwards of a ton and a half of gold
ia M. omaimhaser Powlett's tent, waiting for the escort,
ime en Ilsosolay last, and it is expected that today's escort
Ilene alte Swat will ant be able to bring down one half
lan quash offered. It is intended to increase the mili-
tary farm Mrs to 100 men."
Our gold arrivals (says the Empire) arc increasing,
the quantity during the last week amounting in all
to upwards of 12,000 ounces; this large amount is,
however, considerably exceeded at Victoria, accord-
ing to latest advises; prices have slightly advanced.
The following quantities of gold arrived by the
mails on Dec. 6th:
ox. dwt.
From Melbourne
From Goulburn
From Braidwood

ox. 362 0
The following are extracts from the letter of a cor-
respondent, who writes from Launceston, Van Dio-
man's Land. Raving described the hardship, uncer-
tainty, and manifolddieeouragements incidental to the
gold digger's life, he says :
So far from these discouragementa disparaging the value
of the gold discoveries, they enhance it immeasurably to
the community, because they so far lower the amount of
temptation to individuals, as to reader the presence of
boundless treasure in the earth, compatible with the steady
prosecution of other industrial pursuits essential to the best
interests of a people. No amount of military or police force
could guard :he treasures of the Australian bush, nor could
the most stringent regulations coerce the men required
to take the deem from the sheep or the har-
vest from the field were they inclined to dig fur
gold instead. The operation of natural causes on their
minds effects every thing that is required, however, and
men vi+o have a week ago been pickles up gold, return to
their every day work with minds as settled as if they had
never left it. Indeed many of them confess that they never
knew the comforts of good housing, regular and whole-
seine meals, and steady work, until they tried gold dig-
ging. When men return to former employments at mo-
derato wages, it is evident that the pursuit of gold digging
yields to the whole body of persons engaged in it little more
than the average wages of ordinary avocations, or at least
not a return so much exceeding ordinary wages, as to induce
them to encounter the attendant hardships and privations in-
separable from the occupation. Having been in Melbourne
lately, and had ninny opportunities of seeing what was
doing, lam satisfied that such is the fact. The body of
men employed in Victoria should have produced 4,000 to
4,600 ounces of gold per week to have made their work,
after deducting the enhanced price of provisions, equal to
the wages they would have earned at their ordinary labour.
1,200 to 1,500 ounces of gold occasionally arrives by the
escort, but there are no indications of such a quantity as
abovenamed being produced weekly. The failure of the water
in summer will probably lead to the accumulation of aurife-
rous soil in the summer by diggers and quarrymen, which
will be wa,bed in winter when the creeks flow. This mode of
proceeding involves the steady pursuit of gold digging us an
occupation, and I have no doubt but that in this way it
will rank as one of the regular pursuits of the colonies, and
that the capon will become as regular as that of wool or
tallow.

There is occupation for thousands of labourers in this
new field for industry ; all the soil now turned over and
washed will stand washing again, and it is believed that by
the rude processes employed there is as much gold left in
the washed soil as is taken out of it. Experience and in-
dustry will be richly rewarded when brought to bear upon
the pursuit, and the prospect as a whole is truly splendid
for the colonies.

Of the persons now at the mines a large body arc non-
producers ; an immense number of Jews and sharpers of
all dcserivtions resorted to the mines when gold woo selling
at Ma. per ounce, to be afterwards re•sold in Melbourne for
60s or f32s.
-

The gains of the non-producers being made out of the
labours of the productive class, there is to be an allowance
made on the calculation of average return from the actual
workers, but the result is wonderful when it is considered
that it is attained without experience or training.
Mr. Westgarth, of Melbourne, who wu at the mines
during my visit to M., stated that the yield of gold was
10,0001. per diem. This statement being backed by Mr.
Westgarth's reputation as a statist, the local papers have
been repeating it as a very good puff to the diggins, but
from what I have stated it will be seen that the reality is
quite wonderful enough without exaggeration.
I can state with perfect confidence, ea information de-
rived from the meet trustworthy correspilndence, that the
weekly yield of gold in New South Wales and Victoria is
of the value of 40,0001. sterling, and has for some weeks
been at this average. This sum represents the earnings of
some 30,000 people; the rains in winter and the want of
water in summer produce constant changes in the amount
realised, however ; and any calculation of annual proilac•
Lion based on this estimate would be wide of the truth.

Gold has been found in various quarters of this island,
but not in abundance. The presence of the convict popu-
lation represses any active exertions for its discovery.

The Melbourne Aqua of Dec. 20 furnishes the
following resume of recent events :
Several vessels are likely to sail for England within
these few days, and the crack qualities of one of them ren-
der it probable that she may be the first ship that reaches
home with a portion of the golden harvest that is at present II
pouring in upon us.
Late advice, from England have shown the eagerness '
with which authentic intelligcsco with respect to the new
discovery is seised upon, and made to furnish the topic of
the day; and its the astonishing yield of onr own gold
fields as calculated nearly to eclipse all other discoveries of
• similar nature in other parts of the world, we think it an
act of duty, just prior to the sailing of the vessels we Lave
spoken of, to throw together such few facts as are calcu-
lated to enable the good folks at home to form a more accu-
rate impression of the real state of matters here, than they
would be likely to arrive at by more scattered or desultory
notices.

On the 19th of last month we published a statement of
the estimated amount of gold, which had then seen the
light of day, derived from the various diggings of this to-
lony. That statement was as foll)ws : In the banks in
Melbourne, 81,000/. ; in the banks in Geelong, 4.5,0001. ;
in erivate hands in Melbourne, 15,0001. ; in private hands
in Geelong, 9,0001. • in the hands of the diggers at the gold
fields, or on the road, 51,0001. ; total, 201,000!. This esti-
mate was as carefully compiled as circumstances would ad-
mit of The amouut held by the banks was exact to a
few ounces. The quantity estimated to remain in the
hands of private parties in the towns, on the gold fields,
and on the roads towards town, was stated to rest solely on
conjecture, but as carefully estimated as reference to very
well informed and disintetested parties could make it.
The increasing arrivals, weekly, by the government
escort soon showed ns, however, that our desire tobe rather
below than above the mark had led us to estimate the
letter quantities far too low ; and the rush of gold which
has since been poured upon the market quite baffles all
ordinary rules of calculation.
On Wednesday, 19th November, the very day the above
calculation was published, the weekly escort brought down
from Mount Alexander 6,488 ounces ; from Ballarat, 2,117
ounces, 819 ounces for Geelong, and 916 ounces for govern-
ment ; making a total of 10,138 ounces.
On the following Wednesday, 10,428 ounces arrived from
Mount Alexander, 1,500 ounces from Ballarat, and 1781
ounces were left at Geelong; making • total of 12,106
ounces : 1,008 lbs., or rather more than half a ton.
The next Wednesday brought 13,783 ounces from Mount
Alexander, 2,550 ounces from Ballarat, and 336 ounces for
Geelong ; a total of 18,669 ounces or 1,38914 s weight.
But still this astonishing yield went on increasing, and
on the following Wednesday the cart conveying: the enor-
mous treasure fairly broke down with its load, and the
escort did not arrive till the day after its time. That
week's yield was, from Mount Alexander, 23,750 ounces;
from Ballarat, 2,224 ounces; for Geelong, 682 ' • making the
astounding sent of 26,656 ounces, or 1 ton 2201b5. 4 oz.
This was the largest return for any one week by escort,
as this week the diggers are flocking down to town, to
enjoy their Christmas, and are bringing their gold with
them in preference to entrusting it to the escort conveyance.
The amount conveyed by that mean., therefore, is, from
Mount Alexander, 18,191 ounces ; from Ballarat, 1,018
ounces ; 2/43 ounces for Geelong ; total, 19,492 ounces,
1,624 lbs., or a trifle over three-quarters of a ton.
Thus far we speak of facts unchallenged and unchal-
lengable. These quantities have all passed through the
hands of the government escort, and a regular register has,
of course,, been kept of every ounce received and delivered.
But if these reports of tons upon tons of the root of all evil
be still ineutticient for the insatiate maw of any of our
English Mammon worshippers, we beg to tell them that we
have now to quit the beaten path of ascertained fact, and,
in endeavouring to orrice at the whole truth, we must
again resort, in some degree, to conjecture.
There is no means of ascertaining the precise proportion
of the gold found, which is sent to the markets of Mel-
bourne and Geelong by the government escort. That
mode of conveyance is unpopular. The charge is exces-
u
iso. The safety of the gold is not guaranteed. The dis-
tance travelled to only 75 miles, and the diggers think
rightly that a demand of one per cent. for such a service,
and without absolute certainty of safety, is an extravagant
charge. There is a constant and very extensive traffic be-
tween the towns and the mince; the road, in fact, being

almost like an ordinary street, with respect to the number
of ris and vehicles passing backwards and for.
wards accounts agree in stating that very large
mums come down thus by private hands ; but as
to the proportion which such sums bear to those which
pass through the authorised channel, opinions dal most
widely. Many: persons hold, that the escort does nut con.
vey one half, or even one-quarter, of the actual yield.
There Is no want of those who believe that the difference
is still_ greater.
Whilst dealing in matters of conjecture, we wish to err
upon the moderato side, if we err at all; and having corn.
rrrnotes with many gentlemen likely to be well in-
tended, we will venture to put down the sums which hare
arrived by private hand in the course of the few weeks,,cer
which our remarks extend, at one-third of that which has
arrived by the escort.; Many of our friends will laugh tit
the moderation of our estimate, but we have been laughed
at before fur our moderation, and shall doubtless survive it
now. This calculation would give us 28,343 OWICLI arrived
by private band within the last five weeks.
And now for a glance at the quantity probably upon the
ground at this moment, dug up, and ready, as couvenience
offers, to be transmitted to the market. And once again
we would repeat, that any estimate is purely conjectural,
and only so far valuable as careful inquiry, combined with
perfect disinterestedness in the matter, can make it. We
believe that the number of difgers now aaw•mLlcd at
Mount Alexander and Ballarat is not short of 211.000 to
30,000. We will take it at the smaller number. Scarcely
a tent upon the ground is without gold in some qualitity.
In very many it is well known that there are many
pounds. .

A respectable man, better calculated than any one we
know to form an opinion, u having been amoinist the
diggers fur several week*, and being upon confidential
terms with very many of them, estimates the quantity now
held by them at nut less than five ounces per head for every
man, woman, and child; and our last estimate fur a trifle
less than two ounces per head proved to be so much la low
the mark, that we think that we are justified in at least
doubling it, and making our calculations at (our ounces
per head to the 20,000 people on the ground, or a total of
80,000 ounces.
We will now throw these various items together, in a
general summary, again begging oar readers carefully to
mark which portions are founded upon strict fact, awl
which only upon careful conjecture.. The price upon
which our calculations are founded is al. per ounce.
In the banks in Melbourne and Geelong on the
19th Nov., 42,000 ounces £125,000
In private hands in Melbourne and Geelong atthe
same date, 8,000 ounces 24,000
Amount by Escort, 19th Nov., 10,13ri ounces
26th Nov., 12,106 ounces
IP 3rd Dec., 16,669 ounces 50,007
OS 1,9 10th Dee., 26,693 ounces • 79,968
17th Dec.,19,492 ounces
Amount estimated to have een brought in by
private conveyance, 28,3-33 ounces
Amount estimated in the hinds of diggers, on
the gold-field, 80,000 ounces
Total, 243,411 ounces-20,282 10.12 lbs.-202 cwt
82 lbs. 10 oz.-10 tons 2 cwt. 1121bs. 10 oz 730,242
These astonishing results have all been arrived at in less
than three short months. On the 29th September, the an-
nouncement of the first large yield in Victoria was made
known, and since then wonders have daily thickened around
us, and where it is to end Lu human being can guess. The
field is reported to be illimitable, the indications of gold ex-
tending over scores of miles, and each last found diggings
apparently eclipsing all before it. All accounts agree that
the auriferous grounds, which can be profitably worked,
will never be dug over for years to come, by any number of
people that can by possibility reach them.
To the good people of Great Britain we commit the con-
sideration of these statements. We beg to remind them,
that even before this discovery burnt upon us, this was one
of the finest and most prosperous of British colonies. Let
the gold fields cease their yield to-morrow, and we still
retain all the elements of natimal wealth and national
greatness. Those who venture to share our wealth may
venture boldly for boundless plenty smiles side by side with
countless wealth. Our splendid harvests are now whitening
for the sickle, but with nu men to reap them. The same
land which is thus pouring forth its mineral treasures, is
still feeding the finest sheep and cattle that ever were fat-
tened upon natural grasses. Their fate has hitherto been
that shameful waste, the melting pot.
It is a land literally flowing with milk and honey. ft
wants but population to give it a degree of progress un-
equalled in the history of the world. But we regret to add
that it has been trifled with by their shuffling and insincere
Earl Grey, that through his agency its energies are de-
pressed, its very prosperity rendered dangerous, by a
government faithless and incapable to a proverb. Let the
overcrowded of the mother country come freely and fear-
lessly. We can mike room for them by thousands or toss
of thousands ; hut let them bring with them sonic of the
modern, reforming spirit of their Humes, and 13rights, and
Cobden, and come prepared to help us to sweep elf the
cobwebs which at present darken the fair surface of this
splendid country.

COLLISION WITH THE PROPONTIS (CAPE)

SCREW STEAM SHIP.

OILATEAESD, THURSDAY.

The General Steam Screw ship Propontis, Capt.
Glover, commander, which brought the disastrous news
from the Cape of Good Hope of the loss of the Birkenhead,
steam vessel, has just reached here on her way up the
river, and reports being in a serious collision with a Dutch
merchantman, while coming up Channel from Plymouth,
which ended in the foundering of the vessel and the
somewhat narrow escape of the crew. It appears that, after
the Propontis had landed her mails on Tuesday, and had
made the usual stoppage at the above port, she resumed
her voyage up Channel for the Thames. The Start Point
was made between 6 and 7 o'clock, and it would appear
that the steamer hoisted the usual coloured lights, in con-
formity with the Admiralty regulations. About half-put
1 9 o'clock, when some 21 miles from the Start light, the
look-out men reported a vessel ahead on the port bow. At
that time the Propontis could scarcely he going more titan
seven miles an hour, having to contend against a strong
tide and easterly wind. Her helm was forted—the
proper course when two vessels are approaching—
and her speed reduced, and it was anticipated
that the sail in view would have also put her helm
a-port, which would have directed both vessels far away
from each other. From some misunderstanding or other,
however, it was put a-starboard, which brut Ott her to-
wards and under the steamer'e how. A collision appearing
probable, as the vessel was coming down with the tide and
wind, the Propontis was stopped, her screw reversed, and
helm put hard a-port, in the hope of averting the accident.
All failed, however, and they came in fearful contact, al-
most bows on. It was then ascertained that she was the
Ann Rebecca, of Amsterdam, and was bound for some port
in Syria, with a cargo of sugar, and other merchandise.
The force of the collision drove in het bows and spars, and
on getting clear of the Propontis, the crew speulily
ascertained that she was fast filling. Their cries
brought to their aid a boat from the steamer,
and the chief officer, Mr. Hunter, perceiving the
condition of the vessel, at once took off the master and
crew, (8 in all). They had scarcely left her, however, be-
fore she took a tremendous lurch on one aide, and went
down in deep water. The crew were put on hoard the
steamer and she resumed the voyage. The disaster does
not appear to be attributable to any neglect en the part of
the officers of the Propontis. Indeed it would seem that
her lights were mistaken for those at the Start by thew on
the look oat on the Dutch ship. How that could happen,
however, does not very clearly appear, as the steamer's
red light must have been fully exposed at the moment.
The latter does not appear to have sustained the least
injury, which may in a great measure be attributed to
her construction of iron. The shipwrecked crew were
taken on to the East India Docks, at Blackwell, white
they will be landed, and forwarded to their re-
spective homes. Doubtless the loss of the Dutchman
will prove her heavy, and she is stated to be insured.
as

BURFORD'S PANORAMA—SALZEIURG.—The Father
of panoramas, as Mr. Burford may justly he called. trvats
his friends this Easter to a trip to the old arehi. tow op ii
city of Salzburg. Undismayed by the floods that lit'Yllgo,d
that part of Germany last autumn, and despising Aii..tr,ati
surrrillance, our veteran artist contrived to perch
tuopong,otne the g
~of
seriesrim
oftiandraionwisnteof the
drawings,
iiehhilatee;l co,:i.v.til:„„ and
n;y
matured into the striking and effective pieta, now
under consideration. The visitor, beginning at the
tame point of view, will find the old-fashioned
city, huddled up into small 'quires, and narrow, dismal
looking streets, under his feet, and may meditate on the
blight which the leaden rule of Austria liav cast over the
once smiling and wealthy territorof the Prince Archbishop
of Salzburg. The domestic architecture, unlike many of
the old German cities, is mostly in the Italian style, with
staring white fronts to the houses, and flat roofs, while the
cathedral, professedly a copy of St. Peter's, bears not the
remotest resemblance to its original. These eccentricities.
however, servo to make the work all the easier fur the 311.4.
mid consequently it only want the roll of the Austrian drum
to make the visitor of the l'anoratna imagine hims. It iin tar
banks of the Salzach, or the crest of the " Mouchshoir.
picking out in detail the historic places in the old isithr-
rind town. Ile will, of course, not forget the house M
which Mozart was born, and a recent melancholy event will
make him inquire with more than ordinary curiosity for
the beautiful chateau and village of Aigen, at the foot of
the Gainsbtrg, the favourite country residence of the
Schwarzenbergs. The magnificent mountain mumery
Jt
beautifully painted, and there are many little "bits" In
the architecture which will arrest the eye of the counol.-.
sour. We would particularly mention a little mailv of
three arches on the cattle& al side of " Capital Squir, la
which the shadow is so admirably managed as t., aive all
the depth and reality of a real structure. The w hole is a
carefully painted picture, and forming a curious esiare4
with the Nimroud in the adjoining roont, to w
the over-
hich th
spectator may travel without any of the perils of 0
land route.

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...• THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 9, 185.2. oi,
high, owing to ' t • • ' • delllk 'WO , lPgrania dribs
lONIAN ISLAM*.
aid the list y - - lei. I • 3,41/. in fort ►
,i 4,0,. of erlOw
lt ......_.............THR
• • • the of ' MI. , iire . have rasing the following by duo Least i
;ed, ths best st • li .
London are no gat • At the
.. ns the. ger-1111 • eper Cened fell mail:
PolrrYGCHS:Anftrfkot.orgiesWNwAtdD.K
ht o
per thmt, bon. liait• 15e.v.. .at 101. ;, the . • *B4,withay
iall
liars the of b bare the ',hangs at 71.60. Sank of France sharstrace 6. The B his EseelleseillEN, T 1
and these pricer are about 100 per railway market was very animate. but did not Br
of the Most D' tanguish Order 'of St. Bichselrall4 aad
um the price of bricks of better quilt' maintain the opening prces. Most of the lines, sad St. Gimp, her ha.joiy.• Lord High cosinos„ 100
lof England. Surely we have said however, closed with a nee. 1101041 gained 12.60 i itt, and .air, the Unisuil States of the lonian Islands, I :d',
w that even after a very considerable Marseilles, 7.60; Havre, 621 a Natal, 7.60 ;North- Ferp,er• As. •
doe sufficient margin would be left to eras, Loos, Strasbourg, and Tunes and Nantes, th:ett_........__. thiainthe I.9ltastleleist4 ohlighthecotOillliis jorerr of
I Cisolg
riage to London of bricks a safe and 2.50 each. Moutereau lost 20, owing to the rumour 5imed""7,•••••'.......... a_
elation to railway companies, and we which caused the rise of yesterday being contra- psignmene.gjarpelwarlelatillediesset. asoirt,diNe. timent tenth :tag,
that the (=nine of depots for the sale dieted. I _ The atasmaehaft
.Its pllntegl fii Greek and English, and Lt.

'TO I
•
TRH AUBTRAT4I
ttirs and papers lam

RAISING OFMET THE BLOCKADE OF THE
OF BENIN.

(Frost's Doily Nis%)
A notification, inserted elsewhere in this 'morn-
1, el, Ifrit Neies,shows that the blockade of the Bight
of Benin, first established by Commodore Baer% on
stb Deo:oilier last, was partially roiled by
that caner on the 11th of February ;—the fact having
ken notified at Sierra Leone on the 3rd of March,
hist before the steamer left.
The blockade originally established, however, by
fetntoodore Hsrcr.. and notified a few weeks ago to
Fresh and neutral commerce in the London Gareftir,
otendol mil,' from Irb,lllah to Lagos, the favoured
of 11.idagry exceptjil. So far, therefore, as the
kade between there two points was concerned,
Quel s', government was kept duly informed
k the hlockading force of what it had done, and the
ferrigri-othee. iu it. turn, gave the usual and proper
polio. to our own and foreign traders. The Mifflin,
ifulaischicvous to others and hurtful to ourselves;
tot it had the forms of law about it, except, perhaps,
the important one that it was a blockade of the porta
eip,erple nab whom- -Lagoa excepted—we were not

fgritAt.
But our cruisers on the west coast of Africa have
men eneoututred to assume a license and a liberty
sal to take fictitious with their own government—
s ith the ',amerce of their own and tither countries—
sad with public his, which as 3-et they have not
blurs to its o lie re. In the name of slave-trade
safTn...ion thee sit agger and bluster and roam
. •
Oust es this coast much as Nlonties used in
end TOR' to do MI the Spanish main. So, Doi
NCOId With the blockade from Lagos to Whydah
in the ), Commodore Barra subs&
swath extended it from Whydah to Qttittah. But
for istcnsion of a belligerent right, from the cans
syecof whop not only the trade of his owu country
but that .4 France and America, might suffer--and
has largely suffered---the Commodore does
sot Avila to have thought it worth his while to
Itme asics,it the Admiralty of. For to this
sour the rttlmio
n has not been notified •
snit the Q v.. government is now placed
in the nib, u:•.ue position of having to announce the
raking of a blockade between Whydah and Quittah,
edwhwh tin. never notified the establishment. And
that is a ea specimen of the liberties our officers on
the west ,vast of Africa take even with their supe-
ran r of slut sort of freedoms they use to residents
on tin let us also give an example.
Tlie blockade, then, when in full operation, ex-
traded front Quittah—a fort at the very
uotsnity of the (fold Coast, which we
tinnily puniessl from the Danish government.—
L. 141.4 always excepting Badsgry, the
well helm i a distance of probably some 200 miles
of roast. inside of which runs the extraordinary
'soon. that terminates at Benin. From the several
ports of this seaboard are annually exported very
large iptantitics. probably from 3,000 to 4,000 tons
(Oahe oil. north tio,oflot. or 100,0001.; a proof that
&rawly legitimate trade had fairly stimulated inter-
n! industiy. And if any other evidence were
model that fair commerce had nearly expelled il-
Lit trade, we have it in the fact that M. NIARTINS, the
greatest dove dealer of Porto Novo, one of the spots
blockaded. had fur several months previously to our
buntlines been engaged in winding up his affairs,
and in pre paring fur his return to Brazil.
li. fain. our readers will bear in mind that, for
the purpose of capturing slavers or of preventing the
exportation of slaves, no such blockade of the coast
so was lately notified could have been Deeded ; it then
bit:units apparent that the blockade so established
timed at influencing the native powers by interrupting
Ireful commerce with them—by preventing British
and foreign traders exchanging European commodi-
ties aganct their palm oil. So that every day, it
lute' commerce suffered ; and now that it has been
raised it leaves behind it " the 'greatest native dis-
satisfaction with everything English." The practical
consequences to trade from this measure are serious
looses, actual and prospective; for native animosity
and jealousy once roused will not be easily allayed;
and our foreign rivals will be quick to profit by our
disadvantage.
Nor politically has the blockade been more sue
awful. It haii, no doubt, produced a string of
treaties, to which are appended the marks of
may minor and unimportant chiefs on the
coast. But, as yet, in its main objects it has
Lied. OAzo, King of Dahomi, has neither re-
v...aced hostilities against Aticeokuta, nor has he
come to any anti-slave-tiade terms with his British
tormentors. He still rerases to conclude any treaty
fur the suppression of the slave-trade. We, there-
fare, persist in blockading Whydah. And he, in his
tarn, is threatening to destroy the British fort there;
for Whvilah is equally claimed by us and Quo.
Ewald the King of l)anosot put his threat into 'I
elevation, and attack the British factorial at Whydah,
our °Seers will, of course, land a party of sailors
sad taarines ; and, in that event, we may have accounts
of a dons rate battle with his army of Amazons. Per-
haps—for really our cruisers seem prepared for any
t0.4--even a march on Abomi, his capital.
Nothing ought to astonish us from this quarter.
Fur Captain Fututev is still " on particular service"
at .kbeeukuta; hard at work, raising a British party
there, to i9unterweight Lieutenant &MET, said to
be farming a Fretich party at Abomi. Those two
worthies and congenial mischief-makers are respect-
',labouring away under a tropical sun, teachingthe
tutinshowbuthrow up mud fortifications; how to point
cannon, and how to move in compact bodies. As that
terribk old en age Marshal BVGEACD told the Trappists
Algeria —" The sword first and then the Bible"—
so Captain FORIILA and Lieutenant Bete ET are deal-
ing with these Africans ; and probably we shall have
the battle of Waterloo rehearsed somewhere between
Abecokata and Abomi, Captain Fosses representing
the Duke of WELLINortm, and the brave Bounz
firtatuN.

NOrisihe mischief brewing by Captain FOBBF.S at
Atetokuta confined to that place it extends to
badary—a port full of English property, against
which the King of nano's!, in revenge for his no
tine at Abeoukuta, contemplates en attack. And
what sympathy Captain I,w:exit has with British
residents or British property there the following
litter from him to them will best show :
To the British Merchants at Bedagry.
Aka Abissokuta, lite. 28, 1851.
firatkates,-11 the information prove correct that tbe
Ilignoi army oiten,l to advance a division to Badagry, yea
wdl aglitter at your duty at the time you desert year
Itta.tt, in the event of a defeat, if they contain lam&
boss of war, sad particularly muskets and powder, sad you
bate wiehaase of saving this, to lay a train and blow all
aP Imlay dace so, this is your authority that 1 will Min-
ted, 1., remuneration be H.*. government. If yolg foil
I. • 1 Min authority I Asia roassder you 1,41101.118 of
444, A.lrdl4ll, sad qmaseiss year right to be remunerated
w suit for Isom yen may sustain.
I to, itatkostLirette iebeelatat servant.
F. 0. Fosses, Corn. R.N.
Oa Particular Service, Badafgry, te. ,
devir• that mai waseahast reatiar signs, sad takes • copy
of 16. then dlewasd dlcomstara=rf copy, with the :weal
agastsess. F. O. F.
Now what can we think of the temper, the skill,
the understanding, or the fitness for " particular
knit's," in any part, however barbarous, of the
habitable globe, of a man who could address such a
tommunicauen 1111 this to his fellow-countrymen eo-
gaged, in 'pestilential climate, and in an unprotected
• spot. in the lawful pursuits of commerce, and effectually
expelling thence, by its agency, the slave-trade? If
they did nut, at hisUdding destroy their property,
whit It leis pthreedings at Abeeokuta were endanger-
4X. he would "consider them enemies of Great
It:vain!" and of course, hang, draw, and quarter
these his ..overeign's subjects, as he might deem
swot advisable. And if they did humbly, obediently,
11114 cringingly obey his orders, and barn their pro-
late, the great man would condescendingly " inter-
Wde7 for remunenithm from her MAJCSTY'd govern-
rat n

111 in document is not, however, a speeial or excel!.
1'4414i paper; it simply breathes the spirit that 'm-
ull., our cruisers on the mast ; it is in this style
and ni usner they slash, order, and net ; until at fiat
te further fair trade can get from them the eater it
a. And s hat we require, and shall never mem
Ersm requiring until we are successful, is the chate-
au nt of thin spirit ; and the substitution of a policy
and of proceedings and conduct more worthy of a
furunurt in dignity, in commerce, and in
ciput atiun.

The notification referred to above is a follows:
(F.~10015017 NOTII I.
Adverting to a notice anted from this office, by
sok r of the Governor, uo the Bth lleciniber, 18.11. publish-
hie for general information the notice of blockade este-
ko,hed in the Bight of Benin by Commodore Bruce, cam-

easoler-hrehier of the British *quadrat on the west oast
et Atries, the Celsuial fierestemry hes the nouseasts ol the
Gootrase to publish, tor the ialbsuatko of all whoa it
osy eimseent, the followiss sober, ofikielly transmitted to
his Eaceliony by Cenallikell Brio, esatalabes the ISMS
of then poets sail pleas which are win exempt from the
operation of the blockade established by the commodore
is the eat December but.

By exnancaad of Ws Excellency the GovernoviteChief,
J. F. Stumm, Colonial Secretary.
Sonetary'rallee, Freetown, Sierra Leone,
3d March, 1852.

Copy, signed W. Hickman secretary.
Iler Britannic Maeesty's Steam Ship Penelope,
W ydah, k'eli. 11, 1662.
Notice is bemby given that the kings and chiefs of the
pion sited hi the margin [Blockonse, Blaine Chico,
Adage, nohow, Porto Segue°, Gemuluta, Little Popov,
Ashwey, Oreat Popes, Porto Novo, Lagos] having entered
inteengegemento with her Britannic Majesty's government
far the complete abolition of the traffic in slaves, their era
meat sad ports are to be exempt from the operations of the
blockade established by me oa the 6th December last, and
to bs coasidered free as heretofore fur the porpoises of
legitimate trade. (Signed)

B. W. BRUCE, Commodore, and
Commander in Chief of her Britannic Mitioty's Naval
Forces on the west coast of Africa."

VD, COUtl.

WINDSOR, Tavasusr.
The additions to tho royal dinner party Tester-
day were, Prisee Leopold of Sete Coburg, Lady Caroline
Barrington, and Col. lion. C. B. Phipps.
The queen sod Prince Albert walked in the Home lark
sad Slopes this morning.
The Prince of Wales, the Priweese Role!, and younger
memben of the royal family, took welkin,' and puny et•
areas.

Prince Albert rode oat on horseback this forenoon, at-
tended by Col. F. 11. Seymour.
Prince Leopold of Saxe Coburg left Windsor to-thy for
town.
The Duchess of Kent visited her Majesty today.

Earl Somers had an interview with Mr. Secretary Wel-
Clitelerday
also aant tlileirlzwe-owgiliciek.theTilagehDukt • efraßnekkle ritt
tle rasa.

A deputation from the Royal Flan Society of Ireland,
had an interview with the Earl of Derby yesterday, at his
official residence in Downing-street. The deputation con-
sisted of Sir 1. E. Tenneut, M.P., Mr. Teraina, M.P.,
Lord .1. L. Chiehester' M.P., Mr. Hancock, Mr. Campbell,
Mr. Herdman, Mr. Macadam, and Lord Na.,.
The Chancellor or the Exchequer and Mrs. Disraeli left
town yesterday fur their seat, Brailenham, near High
Wycombe.
Mr. Colquhoun had an interview with Mr. ficsettary
Walpole yesterday.
Despatches were sent from the Colonial.olfice to the Lord
High Commissioner of the lonian Islands, the Governor of
Csyleo and the Governor of Malta, yesterday.
Her !Majesty's royal bounties were distributed on Monday
and Tuesday to the usual number of aged and meritorious
poor, and yesterday (Marmite,' Thursday) the royal ehari-
ties were distributed, in Whitehall Chapel, to 33 aged
men and 33 aged women, with the customary
formalities. At two o'clock in the afternoon a
i procession,
consistiug of a Yeoman Usher sad 12
Yeomen of the Guard (one carrying the alms on
I a gold salver); the Rey. Dr. Jeff, Sub-Almoner; Joseph
Hanby, Esq.. Secretary and Yeoman of the Almonry ; the
Assistant, accompanied by ail children (three boy. and
I three ads) from the National Schools in Westminster, who
had been selected for good conduit to participate in this
privilege, proceeded to the chapel. The procession was
joined at the entrance of the chapel by the Lord Bishop of
Oxford, Lord High Almoner ; also by the Sob-Dean, the
Rev. Dr. Wesley, the Priests of the Chapel Royal, the gen-
tlemen, and choristers ; vie., Priests : the Reverends Hall,
Clarke, Haden, Povah, Reptoo, and Belfuur. The gen-
tlemen : MMUS. Hobbs, Barnby, Bradbury, Shobridge,
Chapman, Gray, and Benson. The clergy and officers hav-
ing taken their respective seat., the church service ap-
pointed for the afternoon commenced. Exhortation, con-
fession, absolution, Re. 41st Psalm. (The 3rand Chant.)
First Lesson St. Matthew, 25th chap., from v. 14 to v. 31.
First Anthem. (Itst Psalm.) " Bleared is he that con-
sidereth the poor and needy : the Lord shall deliver him in
the time of trouble." (Nam.) 21. 15s. distributed to each
woman ' • to each man, shoes and stockings. Second
Anthem. (A Prayer.) " Hide not Thou Thy lace from us
O Lord, and cast not off Thy servants in Thy dispka.
sure ; for we confess our sins unto Thee, and hide not our
unrighteousness." "Fur Thy mercy's sake deliver are from
all our sins." (Farrant.) Woollen and linen cloths distri
bated. Third Anthem (61st Psalm, 6:h and 4th verses,
and 18th verse of 132nd Psalm), "0 Lord grant the Queen
• long life." (Mares.) Purees distributed, each red puree
containing 21 10e, and each white purse silver pennies cor-
responding in number with the ago of the Queen. The
Second Lesson (the 25th chapter of St. Matthew, beginning
at the 31st verse). Fourth Anthem (the Island 16th verses
of 63rd of Isaiah, and the 9th verse of 21st of Matthew,
commencing with "Who is this that cometh from Edom,"
and concluding with " llosanuah in the highest! Amen."
(Arnold.) The dispensation concluded with the two fol-
lowing prayers, composed for the occasion :
" 0 lord, the sovereign of the world, we acknowledge
that Thine is the greatness, and the power, and the glory,
and the victory, and the majesty; for all that is in the
heaven and in the earth is Thine. Thine is the Odom, 0
Lord, and Thou art esilted as head above all; loth riches
end:honour come of Thee, and Thou reignest weer all. In
T►y band is power sad Wilt; andin Thy had it is to make
great, and to give strews* unto all. Now, therefore, our
God, we thank They end praise Thy glade= lame, that
Thou host not only butowed greatness and modesty upon
our Sovereign Lady Cress VMeria, but best gives her a
heart also to take egmemoks as them that sea below her,
and show mercy unto the peer tad seedy. Aempt, most
gracious God, of this tribute, which she pays am Thee, the
giver of all good things, arid make her still mere fruitful
and abundant in these and all other good melee, that by
enemy and truth she may be preserved, and Warm up-
holden by mercy. And stir up the hearts of all these who
have been partakers of her bounty to be truly tbenkful
unto Thee for it, and both to Woes and praise Thee
continue'', for setting such a pious Princess over me, and
also pray most earnestly that Thou wouldst reinta her
charity with a long and prosperous reign in this world, and
with a heavenly kingdom in the world to mon, thumb
Jesus Chriet our Lord and only Saviour. Anna."
" Meet blessed God, who art good sad lost good, and Meet
=siin Mee that fear Thee emil imitate Thy gemisees,
dets her Heaves, the trim of Thy glory, ors as,
Thy sensals, hen rarer brim Thee, who trald'elly
..Leer alie that we bane earlog but what stre her re-
solved has Thee, sad thenhuo ana give Thee ..thing but
whet hairs own. Fill filer herb, we harsh Thee, with
a lively mem of Thy fathodygeedases, whirr& berowed
se may benefits upon we flat we re mot all. to mamba
ties. mid likewise gives m Ice milselmad the bemires
el delft peed with them ;• and mist es with the pewee of
Thy hely spirit, that we may be fsithful ernesnis
of Thy 'manifold gilts and graces, following the
steps of ear Lord and Xmrcir Christ, whom Them
best seat has the midi ft be • prom to r
et Wore proses sate whir we pry Thee to riches
us by die aeaaNmmtfia that we an bat Amgen and eo-
-1.41:as all new ashen were, our days on the earth be-
elgesebodow, emi there is no Whin: That so nothing
reny km* ne tan be high minded, mss to trust is 'greeter
Asir bat is They the living Oak who shod are all things
richly to fogey, that we may de geed, sod be risk In good
works, ready- be distribute, tenni imensmemisego„ laying
up in store for ourselves_ agond tenths he the time to
co,at we may lay Mid am ohm' life. AM we meet
beseech Thee hi a ',Mal manner, to bless her
wheel Thee best lot ever us, keep thie err is
the therlite of her boat, to endeavour to do MIA good
with dig raw rash Thee has given her, sod drift
nerdy Thee sessediegly ia the der a all the people of
them ream, and bestow ors bee sash royal a**, es
bath set bra ea lay pares behn her : AU whir we tieg
he the she of Jesus Add or meet blamed Lag owl
thersee, to thus with Thee and the Holy Obese he all
hearse semi glory world wither sod. Amen."

LETTERS POl NORWAY.—A notice, dated General
Post-adhee, March, 1862, ishreas the public that helm-
: forward the mails him the United Kingdom for Nor-
way wM he orreard &oft by ma, between Denmark
and Norway, wed will irentimes to be so forwarded
until Mawr nodes. Tie rata of postage to be takes
on lettere addremed to Norway will be Is. 4d. the
sad on, oneeZji t
io the male in operation in
to i lt.:=llJael ea
ows laiswiloloora. This rate
sempeirm beds Ow Idea Aides pomp en the letters
to dee pima of Omit arensanss, mai It rase In either pall
in *dames or the lettees my be k.rwardeg unpaid, et the
arks of the mdse, enrage, bowever, as regards 'stored
lest., the pestoge span whids, as well as the rsOtratlon
Ise, must be- poidis whims.
A SANCTIMONIOUS TUIF.Y.—On Monday laat a
woman, of very respectable and ladylike appearance, was
arrested at Croydon, upon the charge of rubbing her fur-
nished lodgings, and of stealing severs' Bibles aged l'rayer
Books from the neighbouriag churches. Upon the police
making inquiries into the matter, a wholesale system of
plunder was revealed. It appears that the woman usually
takes apartments at some lodging house, stating that they
are for an old lady names Whitfield, and after stopping
for • few days, decamps with any property she can lay her
hands on. She professes to be a person of very pious habits,
and under some excuse or other obtains an entrance to the
houses of clergymen, and during the absence of the servant
purloins any articles of value althea her reach. A carefully
written list of the residences of • large number of the
clergy was found upon her, and a quantity of pawnbrokers'
duplicates. During the months of February and March
last she mesas to have pledged between GO and 70 Bible*,
Prayer Books, and medical works, shawls, six silver dessert
spoons, several duan tea swans, a silver snuff-box, gold
studs, two silver watches, a Myer pep boat, table spoons,
and numerous other articles, no doubt obtained in the way
described. It is supposed that the woman has for a long
period been carrying on this system of plunder, as the pro-
perty is pledged in almost every district of the metropolis.
Through the exertions of the police several of the owners
have been discovered.

THE ELECTIONS.
*Bzwour.—On Monday morning Bewdley was
aroused from its usual dosing state by the iatehigence that
a candidate had really arrived, and opened Its eyes just in
time to read theaddress, which was immediately idstlta
fres J. Sanders, Es q.. le, Eaton-square, who is the preseat
member for Greet Yarmouth. Ns addresses them as,
"the elector* of Bewdley and Stourport," former dia.
closures perhaps preventing the usual appellation of
" free sad independent." After a short preamble, stating
the numerous °Eon of support which had induced him
to some forward, he proceeds to mate, with " perfect Can.
doer. the principles he had advocated during the time he
had been a member of the legislature, and the course he
intends to pursue for the future." Impressed with the im-
portant.* of the agricultural interest, he will support any
measure hrought forward by the present ministry to lighten
the burdens which press so heavily upon them at the
present. At the same time he conaiders it uuedvisable,
sad he would oppose any attempt to reverse our present
ecininsereMl policy. But he does not anticipate fur a so-
meet any such attempt will be made. With this uuder-
standing he unhesitatingly declares himself " a decided
: supporter of Lord Derhy'a general policy." A member of
the church of England, and sincerely attached to her
doctrines, he felt it his duty to support the Ecclesiastical
Titles Bill, to present a barrier to the pretensions of fureign
ecclesiastics. He would not eonscut to any system of
education which did not e testes° religion with secular
instruction. Willing to reform " all proved abuses,"
he condemns the Reform Bill proposed by Lord John
Russell, as uncalled for by public opinion, erro-
neous in principle, and unjust in its operations. The
same afternoon be commenced a canvass of the borough,
attended by Acton Pardee and H. Chellingworth,
and continued his visits on the following day. The appear-
ance of the how member at this time would seem to be
taking an unifier advantage of Sir Thomas Winnitigton,
who, on account of his biother•in-law's death. cannot with
propriety present himself in public. And it seems strange
that such a "sincere and attached member orate church of
England "as Mr. Sanders should have chosen Passion-
week (a time held so reverently by episcopalians) in which
to commence ouch operations. The friends of Sir Thomas
are, however, gathering round Abu, and arrangements are
being made to forward his interest. On Tuesday morning
his relative, Captain Winningtoa, accompanied by Wat-
son, Esq., Mr. Thomas Baldwin, and other influential gen-
tlemen, commenced a canvass on Sir Thomes's behalf in
Stourport, and they were expected in Bewdley in the after-
noon.— IVoecestershire Chrosisele.
_ _

Cnovrioilaw—hir. Craven Berkeley has nceeded
to the requisition presented to him, and consented again to
come forward at the neat election. The cunservativos
during the past week have been getting up a requisition to
Sir Willoughby Jones, which they state has been signed by
between 700 and 800 electors: whether the hoe. baronet
will consent to stand is not yet known. We cannot help
re
Me itb.2 thatey bad our
n oprevent
permittedeeu t member,
to retain nMr Ida Os
7at.
Ile is a man of conciliatory and gentlemanly deportment,
and fu politics is • consistent liberal and a staunch free-
trader. We have reason to know that the heads of the

conservative party were willing to accept him ou wit • h e";
contest. However, we are now committed to a contest, and
we must make the best of it. —Cdeffen/sons Examiner.
DUBDEE.—Mr. George Duncan it: again smodillate
for the representation of this town, without we balm an
oppositiob—certainly without the chance of any rsslssllal
opposition. The following is the principal part N VIM
address he has just issued : • During the long period Ibsen
been in parliament many important and valuable meanings
have been carried through the legislature, wherehy the
condition of the middle and working dales has bee•
greatly ameliorated and improved ; to all of which I have
cordially lent a helping hand. It is beyond the limits dam
address to recapitulate these measures. I may, lisnmeari,
say, that in 1842, on the motion of Mr. Villiers,
iers, "flag
all duties payable on the importation of corn, grain, meal,
or lour, do now cease and determine," I voted in favour
of the motion, and in a house of 488 I was in the
small minority of Oft. I afterwards steadily supported this
policy, in all its subsequent stages, until it resulted in the
abolition of the taxes on bread and generally on the food of
the people—the amendment of the general tariff—and, in •
word, what is commonly called Free trade." On mari-
time questions I have followed the same line of policy;
and I have endeavoured to procure for our shipping In-
terest the redaction of every burden it now labours under,
and will continue to do so to the utmost of my power.
On political questions I have always supported an exten•
don of the suffrage, vote by ballot, the shortening of
parliaments, and more equal representation of the
people. All these ere, I think, requisite fairly to
carry out and ensure the benefits and privileges to which
we are entitled under our wise and happy constitution.
There is another question in which I am swore many of
you take a deep interest—l refer to the gra tto Maynooth.
This aseesere I have at all times opposed, and am still pre-
pared to oppose on every occasion. From this matmesc,
and many others, supported by Loed Jobe Russell ad the
government, I have felt it my duty to dissent; sad, st
your representative, have acted en indepeathat part
—supporting on all occasions measures, not MS.
There is now every probability of Ea early dismiss-
lion of parliament, with a government professing principles
of protection, and on that occasion I hope I may be per-
mittcd;to solicit your suffrages, that I may again represent
your interests in parliament in the impending struggle
for the maintenance of those principles of free commer-
cial policy which have conferred so many blessings on this
country."
EAST SOkBaSET.—On Monday last, a mooting of
the conservative cause took place at the White Lisa
Sall, when a requisition was presented to Jobs Hippie-
bls Isa., of fitootostaa Home, soliciting Ws as beams a
oandidase for the representation of East eoinamet. Mr.
=Owed himself in the hands of the committee,
Iftt his sole desire was to prostate the interests
of r 111111111ervative same. After considerable discussion.
frimaaw k was donna advisable to withdraw Mr. Hippie.
isv Knatabhall, Fog., of Babington Home, having
bait impoeted to hainase a candidate, promptly consented,
ISIS UR of 2,71184 to defray expenses, was guaranteed
br asolliose-4/111 Gimmick.
• moolase.4lto osoorable Lord Panmnro is
sot imposed to suroloo the protest dangerous attack. lu
the event of his leitaft's decease, and the consequeut du-
ration of Mr. P..lrpls to the peerage, Colonel Lauder.
dais Kaska is whim of as likely to become a candidate for
tea. Ike tories have a candidate ready in Mr.
ai
Bab at laskira.

-The following brief notice is eine-
lanid borough.—" Kr. Peter Rolt will be
ataiiiime ler let suffrages of the electors of Ureenwich.
Is a am personally solicit their votes, and
ht the be will pnblieh an addres, in which he
will stage telly his opinions on the various political and
social with which the interests of the borough are

- The first patio movement in
Greenock in Weems to the sporoorisise general election
was a meeting bid an Saturday of siggsaram, shimmers,
and others, with • Wow to Magma mown lo moon the
barrios of w_ mpsons*Wve " who will mg.* a policy
ep= to
gni lasquitablo stabstoneol row* wr Mif
whisk
Brif in the
ersinon tish
womb firtettibiawith the shipping of Anpteations."
The soothihno hew at Lord Molsoni dogs not mot the
rogninsoint Ibis told down. We ondossiond It is likely
tlett Igo bold* will be in Onemit Oh melt, and no
daubs the aggostenity will be tam of gibs ascertaining
his views on She of ee trade. The soma of several
~geewwtlemoo so pewabie omlidatae for the segmentation of
him tom molostod of lab, all of Om, so far
as we Wow. wan* onilwrity. The =of shipowners
appointed • dogsled= *wait no Or fillaw Stewart
to toe if *would wino forward, bet he doethsed.—Greenock
Advertiser.

GUILDFORD.—Mr. Thurlow has come forward on
amservative principles to eonteet this borough. lie de.
dares, to his address, his determination " te oppose every
grant fee the madowsent of Maynooth."
is rumoured that a eon of
Lad Oar and Bab will be brought forward in conjunction
will M►. Caravirall Lewis as a woad candidate in the 'me-
tro& katereet. The canvass of Mr. Lewis is proceeding very
atesseshilly, sad not a doubt is entertained of his re-elec.
ties, though the contest will certainly be severe. The hon.
Mr. Banbury seems placed by common consent as likely to
attain the fable distinction of the " losing candidate."
SUPPOLIL—Sir Charles Blois has addressed a
Miter to the electors deeliningto come forward. Mr. Long,
of Hunt Hall, has announced his intention of coming for-
ward.

Tug An lineerta.—Mr. Campbell, of Inverawe
has withisawn lambi as a candidate for the repreeenta-
dose de Ayr herghs, so as to have the field, ss far es
the mrasanatiwe merest is cemented, to the possession of
Mr. Dells.
tilt ANGUS &MORI MID JOSEPH ROIL—A cor-
respondent made as the Islowiag:—Mr. Hume bas, in a
helef adios% intimetel bh iateelem ef soliciting, et the
apponsbleg_dhselethe. the selbegas !L prone oon-
stitessoy. T
-he abbe. emedes waft earthy el por-
tholes orb, Mr. numb prledphe and
il
well hem that Ivegtheerd oapheetles eteudkai er•db.baSt:
pother weestemery. la oar Let aro pre extreme from the
two limetrom_papers reopmfilleg as alleged threatened oppo-
sites is Mr. ams's Mart—e ',gabbles having been
trairedated to Dr. James Den" of London, by certain
anti-Mayeestbitos, advalefes Ow the reimposition of the
nevigaties lews% and sham le Metros/. This opposition,
we ham semi grime hr onsirg, will end in smoke—
men talk Dr. BffieSOOMIS if holhardy enough to at-
tempt a mutest, would he a eertainty be defeated.—Soute.

V;rIGATC—Mr. Francis Sharpe Powell has been
very busily employed in canvassing the elector personally
during the put and present week.

THE LATE. WRECK OP THE RANDOLPII.—It will bo
recollected that during the last summer the above vessel,
while proceeding with Indian emigrants, was wrecked off
the Mauritius, fortunately without loss of life chiefly owing
to the exertions of Mr. Sheard, the eecond officer, to whom
the inhabitants of that island have Just presented the fol-
lowing testimonial. It consists of a valuable chronometer, '
manufactured by Ald. Carter, of Crinthill. Upon a silver
entablature, on the exterior of the ease, is the following in-
scription:—"The inhabitants of Mauritius present this
chronometer to Mr. Samuel Bishop Shears!, late second
cofactor of the ship Randolph, wrecked fm this island on the
night of the 2.lth of June, 1851, to mark their admiration
of his gallantry and humanity in repeatedly risking his life,
under circumstances of peril and danger, in order to save
the Indian emigrant passengers, in which he was eminently
eaccirefal."