The Express.
London, England, 1849-03-03 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 3, 1849.

is gam dietromef Min imetesat o
agleam ? (Hear, bear.)
Oat, teabeam she gm to teradame tw e. Now, the 'vi-
a.. teksa the Pour-law Osnim hod boos hides
sad therein he presumed ha itseisetlied la al-
- le it, sad is that ultimo, Ewald he bald slated
I[e. Power, the amistaat peer.law eammfeedeseps Hit is
go make Mere were sissydietriot la wWL K mae idle to
the distress would be Mimed her may pen wide-
ns atreseess makaraes. (Hews, leer.) Melbea plat
woe apes in that induce wee the samba of valuaticet.
xr. mow modaimed the exlaqme valsalkee to be most
ogle, lignastiag to the emus of 10s. per awe
ablest dig:Acta He asked, dam, would the
60.-grogli Egli* members mama to so sou-
aim an boogies as a rate is aid fluaded is that
valuating ? He seem now to the eel y messiest widak in Ida
..ajoa had any lbws mit buss ii
the government mope-
Woo. It was seemled dial Irelaad paid as income tax, and
it wit admitted gra a hemihhtlim if Ireland paid that tax
gore woad IPS alle WON% IA tazisi it enerally for
ess selisf of &Mk.* the.thegn wo•W be
Teekshke es laillesez for the eras purpose. Ho
tgaipreposities, sad be asked the house was it fair
Chet the
_Sao( halms* should pay time which the
Inmess in did mil pay, is is wee wall luau that
gem. had es Issemie tky great majority ad
do going use ken its opmaliss. The only valid
meserst ta kvisez of the rate wee Me sheens agesesity, but
M Misled that the maxim, sem, eueemsters mode sees,
egad never be urged es • nem for levying ea
*al am He was snits, to accept for Ireland
noel tesatCs, but he mast explain what he meant by
the Wm whoa applying it to Ireland. He did not mesa the
,seemed taus, became he believed that their ealleetios
meld NM anti than they were wank. (Hear' het.) To
Ago as spirit duty to the English level wield, Is Ida
=he stijust and impolitic, because k woad resseallato
evils of illicit distilinioa Thesauri might be said of
ess map day ; and, therefore, all that remised foe mei.
amnion was Use Monts us. He wished dies to state the
gems upon which, as representing sa Irish speastitnency, he
ges willing to accept that tax. It would Ips is the rendlew
Wm of many ban. members, that 'rhea dills was prepaid
lm iselsed, her Majesty's aiaistae gave m a rum for an
Imeseleig It es Ireland, that in the ties &premed state of
the eermstry.ke Imposition would be egaushe. He welt
men *e law that Inland wee siew ii a wares Mate Piss
ekes that eggeptios woe made be her iheemr. IE4 theseheo,
when as Mit member sampled the beam tes, It amid be
moomlai to hie that it. premeds Shill le apalled to sada-
evely Meal purposes. Hi believed it weld have this great
avatar •. it would provide ler the kageolitt• dis-
uses, ead thus math the gensisemea to proceed
is the masideraties of sae pummel sad comm.
Wave remedies. At that late hews he would aot
sessmpt to yoke out than remedies la detail, but would
manly point oat what had already bees dose by • sable
god, • dktioguinted mixable of the goverment (Lord
Ihimmiles) apes_ his properM, situated, se it wee, la a
diggistiske ea seimile4 m abut whisk they
W bawd se mush. net selie lord had devoted all his
=t• the task of raising the oesdidoa of the district,
house weld be 'Masi to leers that his lordship's
Mrbad been estlrely mesmeraL (Hear, hear.) How
sable lied soeseead t Not by attemptiag to feed
*I else the ease pepoletioe , but, pandas the only
111111011 aeon, he esobled Awaked* of them to go to
rnetMr esstOry, whirs they were doing well, sad
Led lees molded to eel mazy bens to their friends. He
steed tile ups the beet wit* eulkeelty. (Rear, hear.)
ge might seals tin whit lei bees dose by another mem-
ber alas goverane*-4he Heal el Carib's. That noldtmen
Levine fiend the es • preps*/ Is Ireland balsas eg to the
wows ao rent bad bees- veil he elms pan, sad that the
manta and emayien ware awl mid knee to the whole
"'MIT someformed,wishthe tends at Me **owl,
mesa *Es ft mimes; sad tb assessesee bed bees
the wokisee essevatios tt the whole *Ma (Rear,
low.) He Weal *et greessest wants at hes* pay
awe demi* to the eespetteoe el
di
gewlems, sad
weld sit wows assns"Web, bailee helm ado* was
seeibilly Wash* hr *spoor* bends* (lieer.)

CIANCILLOII4 the =MU= odd that
Ws gin* el dm hoa umber who kai Jaw sot dorm r•-
boor hit of the asemeity Ise wag arab that be &mad
Aerate, have lad lo tog ia mown to Ida swam dio.
*kolas any daft on the port of Waal baethosed
ihs Whit of smut illioulets wield* hor own es& Ile
err happy to bier at least or • Web =mbar say that it
melt he unfair to tar Great Brads be a purpose which
&Jul is exeluively

Mt. MONSILL bad said it would he hopeless to expect it.
TM CHANCELLOR is the HICHEQUER.—WeII,
this, tapeless to npeet it. He bed perhaps pm is. sr in
essertiog that any Irish member had admitted that it maid
be ,tabu. TM question, as far at Meet ea the bon. member
wee eseassued, was merely as to the mode in Midi the
enemy hale was to be tubed he belied. The bon.
member admllisi that the security was great—indeed that
misiden mat be made by any one is the slightest degree
sequinsi with the mete of Ireland. Even the hoes. miser
be. he Demstelin bad said that, to meet the em
tbe Maim motet brie ; and he (the Chancellor
lithiqat) art that as one wild have read We
popes Mich had lien laid on the table
shalhig *Ws a eceihesble portion of the west
dishes sad stansties were inevitable, antes
emeasem Mame were anis& He was glad diked
Met, that was Wasitted, because maim said Maw
nest w Me them to hear has. numbess wails dhomieg
Foment, essmilse sad parameat memo whoa a po-
em
and met ibig namely wee Matte diem la the
Lee. (Ha& Marl la *air anxiety to have ages
parlies-
mtat sash eitentiii as they thought inerieny In the
poet Mir, 1= slianed to &net the amides of a starving
from a deprive*" of *At Mane foW
Mr: somesmtive yam. He ma far from mendeg that
be. Wei lateaden to perpetrate sash inliummity, but he
did Oak lint MOW, many chest pest-taw legi•letlea they
esedesieed the prime Ingest useseity. TM hon. mea-
l* t
vissisDess:dre bed onwhisi et the govrnment ter
Mparliamest Imatimi mike; but the boa.
maw have remisslsil that •the autumnal
poen there wee no nesseity Ibr within my Wessels.
TM eiseiselly did set arise until Felinity, etW he mild
mini the hese that four days after the sling of
M4iso bad stated the SSW a the
and had mind the bens ler emit a
ins m would earn them up to the paled what
lb sink Mead would introduce hie preset
Is, Wei that a matimance of the distress mustlertmleas.:
Mad upen, at km, discm Mama. There would be
nen et eppertmlw, forng the meths of his noble
Mein pesposilisa la its sevetal Mrs. All he would say at
eat lea lam weld be a few womb as to that nerds of tab-
Who= renestieg Midi the has. member opposite
M a rinvidiem Na meet No that he
amid net minima Mimes is the oldeolleis width
bid bon urged to a mind nts,avit2seithat be bad had
beta mains nolo of that a
Ms, to sumo sins se MM was use of the bast media that
wed peal* be minted In risible the
_mostinery hada.
Oas toggesties thiithe thew WEneeMellabonshatild
as Mtn tram tinemeadated lami, mei the
malty, wd that ea onevaisit em M pasted In
aid of smigroden ; bat fl nen be beese Mid that the
Immo
eerie
the to
to be anglegni did not
In di of me of the to a -nedissal rate.
no 'Mine= stated net to days elms, that
to a aalleeel We for the purposed penmen megretice
be mill ost *M. (Hear, hear.) If le, WM bosom of
Me ehjoilin m which so tow* Mw *A hem bid dim*
the peewit Mate, that it would be truly unjust SWIM pro-
Ineele of fraud should be ogled or to pay Stlistraan
sMrethellopw*Dubapi%riem ? (C/ris a( " No.
But the bras. am-
mimes* (Mr. r bad. eartelnly on the
mdse. emedeg alluded to this, the religious point, and he
ismeleil ft, twit introduced a pthotal element into the di*
nuke. (Hear, hair and arise of " OM") He (tin
bliatis the lialineer) wee, however, may that
illpenahteil say relleream to it to
boa bin Ils eimilled it wee • mei welt
i=telle:4l.=
mire la that honse—Oiser, bem)—mei he allowed
!!nislea We hod of tio memo* Is some him
11• eel rasp MAW nnessemy Mahn of • snare
utak ha WNW to be the last man to to, be meat
(Her, Mr.) It hewing, been
=ltinsiteditineses W the north be toned upon
pp he the sold et keeplag the pane an tam mem
sieste Inure is limy, end k Oneaugli„ ban stern-
llia. The Ma. nallemem (Mr. 1) might *make that
Migratim wm the beet made el thaect, bod the
:t=talses an the previous evendig weet thatobj the people
win moo Mit Minas Medi be ailed urea to
uateibute t the Mid d the starvlag perk smother pat
tf *Med with whist they were mismerisd. Woe sm-
nMg, however, denimshoa :mesa,mme wm pod ismerd
by ltia maly§ and by tholes. gentle-
ma Moat net to Op inso, Ws props& of a Mimi
este Me memos of andeting la We raid of the exhlng
ditrus by sumo of that midst=
*soli Wish tint a pospedlies he a Mike
at he earl* relief la artrawr hour would set
sitsgethw ea unpalatable to bib nimbus as it append
*be aur es *me and impaetitabie as the bat. maim
.61 had that Wight desidired ft ? (Haar,
was peollmtly ready to admit OW to mist in
endwatisa was • mod used Wisdoms, m
peed thelmlbseie. Noalag geoid he men Wean-
= Rea mans se bad bees adsnsi by his mile
use Iliad PADEN* Ina 01lodei outs&
Me their owe Mate to Irelteor, bess)'
—ad the hem goallumen should Mew that his
shit bind (Lori Jobs lbemell) did net perm
le snide& Ws eggileatien of a garden of die money ha
sd seem eialma tom* and that abj.d. (Her.
Mr.) Ist to say hip is MINIM a GM.
mien at by the 1.11"1" hit sup
vim
180/M end Indulay la the bet pima, it
matermaty_ es was new
eat mit moulnuses in a baths warliwilsTrongol
"1111 do I. Smandb, ft wield im and
heemesh as it meld isim des inerliem al pitgligkimatsi"
and Mirkiip imam Wit what wee am Wan be a
mote ties e, sails a men ademigione
Ind it waddle orinhineus also by isawlag len mot
PlEbi_ei the esuatry that labour whisk me nommen fw lb
weineellia usl v
et y
ear.prevammt. Meer. b la same
Pei el el holm& alread
&lid thethe Emits to whisk it meld safely be Duda.
no Imo was sot aware of the nasal to whin
Mlissue suried. He bad la Ms bada stets-
mnahm a/ anigrents who had hit these Mar
fme ia the maths of Jima, fa nets ri thise
mit flood t. This nem bale&j pens. if
uwell as Imbed, bat it wee well ham that Ile
Of tke neigrante ware Ina the hint matey. la amain
1417- the number was U. I is jemmy 1148, it wee
4'"6 10His hymn athe t year, it wee 10,142.
Zit.) eplisu was, tbat ,eWea an-
t cm what Ili be aEn to mil
he varsity mien, me meet Ikepliky osd ors

that au that sedd take pitta—(beer)—beessie
s t 'signals wno ended ea invitation at their
friendis who had gime owl lehmt, sod who preglied he then
a shelter and a readwpisee ea their ining la a tonna
b enatiy. AM whoa le stead the sums et noway that had
est remitted emigra ie Amain to amid Meads
to join then, by
the house te
woad be animined. sad at once
admit how little assemity there was he the govenuont to
interim. The new= pad he this muss, it should be
nneiabseed„ mes lei* hi pommel Ow pelage and partly
is mum mg emelleeL eel of men thew em he bed gave Oat a
sena pepediem et the pees seem= enelleated ter this pr-
igs= The rots= beledebtaiatid lownerthowed that ao less
a ram Shea 409,5101. hod ban remitted last year by parties
who had emigrated to aunt these they bed left behind to
tallow diem bs the ienntry of their whigtioa. (Hear, hear.)
He semi esandy my Isere is dew OM it wee useacenary
to Ins aay nest stimehes to nem= sniped= Bat as
to die me es nimbi the money saw domed. As he had
add it had bees seopeted by Disk menhirs themtelves,
sad the panel elfsenes, at whisk he was not m-
ho bandy sympathised with then Irish =mo-
ron...Z.), =in dreemenmere at extraordinary difficulty
dung the has dues pen had felfWed the ditties inn
dent to their perillem. s.d to when, met tidy he, but every
lumber of the genenned wee swifts to afford all the
esitlenee in their pewee—he had heard so annum%
(arit (Hear.) But he believed with lis noble hind
i. boil) that it was only he a Wormy purpose
that this ale mim, and he need never have dreamt
el impaig a ea ..iis bed he supposed that it would be
peesime= Whms, hawse= a tannerary mane was to
be peowank it was a net= he sealikleransa how it could
be meet reedffy raised, sad at the leimengemse. Now, in the
=gee, the plaa pegged would met oshedeesse Aro ing
exittameene Dew numbiasey was seq.=
wow weed be sellested hy the same poetise who
lbtrZmmdwureares, sail the ealy =saes would be the
peamdege ea the eallestion. Hs could
bmtft Ulm Irbil ambers were neon whoa they talked
of Judninie her this aid rate in mid equality of taxation.
(Hen.) That wee se Medd= an offer to a Chancellor of
the Ilselmspar, that. if it were made in serieuseass, he could
hardly be expend to nine it. (" Bear," sad • laugh.)
Hot when he vollestull en the suggestion mate by the bee.
member for Liershis sad *these who took the ease ,•view
win the expades nentaery which must be established
l/m de suit-."-.. et 0112111 which mow did not exist
thin, mei the emened et those taxes the tax on
Man on windows, the land tax, which in itself
wee net lass I. this asualry than le. ia the 'man—
dato& mild act he less than 2.. to 3s. In the posed lusted
et the =rpm peopesed ; he could not suppose that their
oiler was made la pod faith, sad the only InGnaa he could
drew wee, that sot bang willing to pay at all they made an
offer whisk no cos would believe Ina euriouly meant.
( Hearken.) He believed that the mode proposed for rais-
lag this relief, suggested se it had bees by Irish imentUrs
themselves, end being at the sans time the cheapest and
readiest that could be devised, was, upon the whole, the best
adulated to meet the The inaisar-
able 'sullen= opposite hod s ea at the inequali-
ties of rating is different parts et Inland ; but
there wen inequalitk sin the entatry, as& they were not
considered so =portrait as to be Wet to any rate which it
might be found astaistay to raise. Ciee hen. gentleman
bad stated that evening that property had fallen in value in
some of the disturbed dittritts, wad it would be unfair to
impose this additiosal rate on the old valuation bat be be-
lieved in mat of those districts the property hid been re-
valued, and the rating, of coarse, would be as the new
saluatiets ; but when that wee set the case, he add not on-
detstand why, when the salted= was not .**d to for
as. general rate, it should Is obleotorl Ss biome.( the ad.
ditional =peen which woo sow proposed to to MOW.
Nobody could pretend to ea of ay too wile sense into
the exchequer that it was perhedy Just with Menses to
all up= wham it was =gee= ; het wham the lees on-
sidesed the stlveateps to be pima a calkiritzzal
of mu, by aa whim , wins= sew
expense, that weeld sewn say which might arise
from an unequal pressure of When that principle
was applied with referents to a pew rate of ed. In the
pound, the house would see that the piped the peen-
mint had made was infinitely man boisSeki then an of
the saggestioas offered by the Irish mashies wee Rely to
be. (Applause, and cries of " divide " and a adjours.")
- - -

Mr: otiBORME moved that the &Alma report pro-
pels, sad wk Woe to sit maks. . .

Lard J. RUSSELL saiithat, comddering the debate bad
sot made smelt progress as ho expected, and as many bun.
members still wished to express their opinion., he would
not object to the proposition of the boa. member for ltid.
dimes (Mr. Oaberair). He wished to state, however, that
ea be was exceedingly soxions to go on with the debate, he
would hive np Monday for the purpose of monads, and con-
tinuing it. He tippet on Monday to make some smangmaent
by which he would bring on the adjourned debate on the
navigation lama on Tuesday, bosanse, although there were
several measures of considerable importance before the
bones, yet none of then were of sufficient importance to
stand in the way of a modification of the navigation laws.
(Hear, bear.)
- -

The CHAIRMAN then reported program, and asked leave
to it soda to Meeday.
The house rammed, and short' y after went into committee
an the

PETTY SESSIONS BILL.

Sir J. DUClCVl3ltilfstronglyobjected to the holding of
petty namins in public-houses.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL mid that if it were the
wish of the house that petty see dons should not be held in
publie.honses he would insert a clause to that effect in the
bill. At present be left a discretionary power with the ma-
gistrates on that subject.
Capt. PBC HELL contended that it was mat improper to
snake ow of inns sad publie•housee he such purposes. The
practice, however. was very general. There were 724 petty
nosiest held in Ragland, and 336 of these were heN in
terms. The publicans charged nothing for the am
of the moms, biretta they received • sufil-
'jest peat apes the wise led grog drank upts
the premises by the parties liftaat. There were 36 places
where petty amnions were bald la magistrates' clerks' offices,
and to nom few leadidee the workhouse the gaol, and the
home of torreeties wore all vied for theipose. It sow
times happened that the meghlrelse prefer sitting in the
inn rather than the town-hall, and that they dined at the
plate where that provided. Re weeld sot permit Makin-
moms to be resorted to by the Justine except is men of
amenity, and be was happy to dad the right Isom
gestle-
w the Ationey.framal willing to meet the views of the
boon en this impeotest seigeet. The boa. gentlemen eon-
eluded by movies ihe hilowing 411111189 :
W is it meted stew the mesh' at this met, it *ell not be
WIN sen OWeoleue et the pore la litesbiel le laid sey petty at
swig norm ef the nate la my here limed fir the sale et
esehrlie et, eller essolia been OM hone bees
enerthisgleme bervialisibro orainne. abowleve Ewe r=
NNW =NO la m tot Mot stmeteity, the ems et width
AA le Is the slaiiesos elpeesellep.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said the bill wee framed
with the express bileatica of waft the orleatioa to held-
tog the petty endow is pellirkeussa. It gave the angle.
tastes the authority of end Wing dimmed
to leave it to ask diseres"MtM not MINN is the
clause of the hem aid gallant member.
eel Sir R. P
hem their uikes Ilk W. lonia% Ms. Peek" Kr. Ho
other swilibussen to
hold petty egoism Meleun-
and as the bin
Mewed the practice, bagel the pota. end pliant mem-
ber would withdraw it.
PECRELL tali Were was as ow to wheat he
tenW ta
asere willingly daft Om the hes. member for Rent,'
bat be lima that in that masts est of 17,11 petty sonioas
won held in publialicream and 2 fa the mailman's Mks,
whilst was still worse, as mon likely to malude the public.
He would, however, withdraw the dame at the regent
of as asay has. gentlemen.
The einem win withdrawn, and the bill passed through
committee.
DU3TmAINING FOR RATES BILL.
The house thee went into committee on this bat.
_

o;;;In710,-iioo;dii 3U7.lssipisTitOno of tho
doom, yea avoid IL
This bill pared through oornadttoo, sad du home nostafeel.

pleaßat, hewer
open ill-digested may be the ministerhd
, however grave objecti ft is ,
like the isiaistryitielfto, impossible to seton, aside,still and
for the same ream—where is abetter to be feud P A
bead-roll of unites amend the west coast of Ireland
are in a date of destitution. The population tail not,
neither do they spin. And from the no-prodece
follow no sestesanes and no rent. Of what illiEne-
dial. an would be Mr. 81.11170111 A RIMINI& for such
anions, and reduce the area of tuatara P The area
is barren. A part is what the whole is, nor is there
more use in dividing than in multiplying nought.
It is euy to object to the rate in aid; such as it
is proposed in Ireland; it is no doubt contrary to the
principle of poor-law which lays down that thus
only shall be . applied to for rates_ who by
vicinity, experience and egrets, inter-
fere to prevent siseth rates being needed. Bat
what can the north of Ireland do to prevent or
obviate the poverty of the west? It must trust for all
to government, end government tells pretty. plaitqy
that it can do nothing with the money save give it in
alas. No wonder the north rebels ; no wonder such
counties u those of Fermanagh, with scarcely their
own heads above water, should protest against addi-
tional loads. Nor are the aarrgguments employed by
the minister either ooueelatory or conclusive.
He enumerated several districts throughout Ireland,
especially in the north, where the -rate had been
Is. Bd. or Is. Bd., and he inured that sorely they
can bear sixpence more. But he forgot to take into
anment the efforts and sacrifices made by men of pro-
mty in these unions to keep down their rata, the
lownem of whish is made an argument against them.
Convinced, as we are, of the necessity of a national
and exclusively Irish rate, after all that
Ragland has done during the Let three
still it is not a pleasant theme. For wo feely thats
every argument that tells for it tells also for that
exclusive nationality of Ireland, and for the claim to
manage their own affairs, which with them amounts
to moral rebellion. We said, indeed, at the first, that
the rate in aid was a repeal of the union, from the
force which it gives to all arguments for that measure
--such force, indeed, that wo wish it had bean pos-
sible to graduate the Me in aid according to distinct,
from the centre of destitution, so that England might
have its share. But though the law may not do this,
fact dace it. Liverpool and Manchester, and all our
manufacturing and popuhas towns, pay a rate in aid
to the Irish poor as it is, and in somewhat greater
proportion thus sixpence.
If Irishmen were wise they would gr:,,z the boon,
if offered to them, of local taxation. 1 - taxation

means money relied in the country and spent in the
country, almost always for useful and neoeseary
purposes, and neosmiarily requiring local control.
Local taxation, such as that of the poor-rate, is the
most efficient of absentee taxes, sad that most cer-
tain to be economically levied and applied, especially
when reload on those empowered as well as
interested in preventing either its abuse or
its over-requirement. Mr. DIME' hu a plan,
with which we are to be honoured next week,
for doing away with all this, and for making
the poor-rate a property tax, for ell to skulk from,
and which none can control or preleat. Mr. ISTuroan's
legislative efforts for Ireland are in the same mate
with Mr. Dissum'a for England. The endowment
of the landlord with all authority, and his coemptien
from all borders, form the key-stone of Protectionist
policy in both countries.
One of the pried* point' of the ministerial mea-
sure developed last night was the rendering the lite
charges on property bible to poor-rates. Mortgagees
aro exempted- from them, on the plea that they would
withdraw their money if the rate of interest was ding-
aided by a rate. Indeed any permanent tax on the
interest of money is impossible. Settlements inflator°
are also to be exempt from the rate. Exemption from
pool-rate for tln years is promised to all improve-
ments. If improvements, however, mean the re-colti-
ration of the land that has been suffered to go
waste, it will be a long time ere anything like a rate
of five shillings be raised, however it may be struck, in
the West. These indeed, united with what was pro-
posed of a remission of arrears, would act as a
premium upon sloth and resistance to the law.

VAaious circumstances have recently transpired by ,
no means calculated to improve, in public estima-
tion, the cherubic of privatesolkers in the British I
army. It has Laea long time been a fact rather
tacitly admitted than openly expressed, that there are
mean places in and about the Green Park and its ,
environs, "where soldiers most do congregate," which
are felt peculiarly unsafe, and are, therefore, seldom
frequented after aightfall by gentlemen of a nervous
temperament., who have a dislike to be exposed to the
altresatiew al 'being dragged off to the guardroom
Aria • Weed at their breast, unless, in
the ms e 1 they consent to part with
witatever,bese change or trinkets may gams to be
in their pememiss : in short, that the localities to
which we allude are enoompused by dangers of an
aspect so saline, that few but those who have a
strong reliance en their °enrage, determination, and
physical pours, ems to encounter theta. Those perils
which beset the imidtight path of the wanderer in
the streets of Rome, so felicitously described by
'intim., fade into insignificance when compared
with those of our own time.
The trial of the soldier. COOPER, has brought all
these things to light; and his sentence stamps them,
as true. Disclosures have been made, and facts have
come to light, of • character so extraordinary and so
startling, as to leave little doubt that he some years
pest them has been in active operation, in the very
heart of this metropolis, a mins of via and flagrant '
pleader, carried on in a male so etlietive, and under
the raver of an accusation so appalling, that very few
this amuled, especially those of sensitive feeling,
have hitherto had the moral courage to Nat. In the
few instances where resistance has been attempted, it
has led to a publicity often attended with residts,
which, although innocence has been vindicated, pre-
date too frequently en impression which cannot always
be effaced.
If the evidence of the comrades of the Nome of
the Rev. CHARLES BALMS be true, it has for some
time been well known, at all events, generally, is hie
own regiment, that Comte, when occupying the post
el sentinel, bad been in the habit of extorting money
sad other valeshies hos such passers by u chance
threw in his way, by threatening them with the
eremitism* of an canoe which we need not name.
The het of his having been eminently his
in
the Mead preens is proved by his own at/We-
i M tha morgeast of his company, coupled with
the dusemchmes his having bees men upon
urine amine in the possession of coma of sawn
which he this asieuied for. Had there been any
dealt apes this *bet it has been set at rest by the
subbase of the same cam, who stated that they
Mee idled to remove him from a leadity (in the
)dance-yard) the oechnion of which afforded to
Ms Sersand bonnie; for the cony's; on of his as-
helms placoss.
Tide we tin
matter of notceiety to his regimes!, list
crafted d being disgracefully bilied M.
be
was aely phased upon another pest —satin and
whose the meow of a second mufti wadi lssoesa
a °beck upon the predatory pectinate, lay which be
was disoingdshed. • •
On the careunutanoes of this disgusting cam we
seed no further dilate. Coupled with that dthe mesa
robbery committed en the French Bathed peed by
one of the same corps, and with that of themes's, of
Annwers Mums, it strongly suggests the impro-
priety eaddengerafbiepingregimests celled theemeds
Pailthestly qoarbred in the metropolis. The inlaid'
et the guards um men of the lower or labouring ohm,.
poorly paid, yet kept in comparative lasses wed is
dated with the luxuries and emimelitim of a
great metropolis. Their ardour he mum and
ter vice is excited, and they have nothing to comb:-
id it in the usual movement or ezeitement of the
witiikery profession. We never hem of these=
ammaget the troops
.of the line, els me not
to the some temptation, who she moved sheet to take
their there of all climes ad videdimises end who are
the Wier for it.
The dicers of the guards would perhaps make a
streiger cane against kesplar any regiment per-
m:wetly in the capital. Bet that is another theme.

TEE COOT or Commas' Iscarirrs.—lt
from Wield nouns wade to the Finaselel sad
pose Committee of the Middlesex Beath, that, front the Ist
of Jaa. ;to the 6th of Feb. in the present year, Mr. Wakley,
the sorosw held 128 haptisitions upon dead bodies, the
shows lise fees, sad ilebarommate on which
amosafti is 1901. 131f.V. From the let el Jan. to the
10th of Feb. Mr. Baker held 144 inquisitive', the like
charges oa widish were 48W. is 4d. la the month of Jen.
Mr. C. Bt. Clare Balked, the mow for Westminster, held
• isonhadens, the sharps. as whitit were 761. Os. 10d.
Told 299 ; oasts, 964.. lfiL

GERMANY.

PRUSSIA.,--We have received the following letter
from oar Berlin ocerespondent, dated Fob. 27 :
"Th. two ebantben niet today at 'lO. In the first,
Von Amamild was chosen president by 93 oat of 121
vette. In the snood, the senior member,
aged 65, baying taken the chair, made a speech
praise of the constitution odroyie, white met with
frequent interruptions from the left. Two motions
were then otdn
o, one by.Vielishn. on the part of the
rigdiseai rrg
lump other by Un-
ruh, proposing the division of the chamber into
secdons, and the appointment of a committee
for the mrificetion of the. elections and an-
other to draw ap regulations which should ease-
' gamey bodkin/nod by the Chamber. Neither of these
having been accepted, Inereermams, of the Centre
Left, moved that the emulations of Viebaba, and
the motion of Unruh, be demand to-moerow, and that
to-day the Chamber should be formed into seven sec-
tions for the trial of the elections. This motion was, on
thepreposition of Unruh, separated into two parts, by
a majority of 161 against 183, which produced some
sensation as a idgis of the strength of the constite-
ticeal liberals. The lint part was voted by.a majo-
rity of the Right; the second carried unaiumly.
Then the chamber, having been divided by lot into
seven sections, adjourned at half-past one."
FHANRFORT.—Our dates from this city are to
Feb. 27. The National Assembly was occupied on
that day with the discussion of the 13th and 14th
sections of the law of elections, bat no vote was
arrived at. The house adjourned till March the let.
Tbe sitting ,of the 26th was a very stormy one, in
consequencesof one of the members (Herr &nut-
brecht) having charged the Austrian government
with the murder of a member of the Frankfort
National Aseemhly, with metalling in foreign coun-
tries against ,t.O German constitution, and with
having bed mourn to the Russians as active allies.
An Austrian member mowed a vote of censure on the
President of the National Assembly for not having
called Herr Grumbrecht to order. The motion was
referred to &B raid committee.
The official journal of Frankfort publishes in its
number of the 26th inst. a collective note to the cen-
tral executive, signed by the plenipotentiaries of
Prussia, the two Hews, Brunswick, Luxemburg,
Saxe-Meiningen, Saxe Coburg Gotha. Schleswig-
Hols:ein Mecklenburg, Oldenburg, Name, Baden.
Lubeck, Hamburg, and five or six other
states of minor ;sink. This note is the result of the
deliberations of the representatives of 26 German
states respecting the proposed constitution foe Ger-
many, and is as follows:

Inthe dismiss which has ameba ha the following ob.
eireatioes resgeitiag the reeetalisas mime to by*, National
Armed, teeiblag the immthatioa, we have not deputed
from the esaddiesitha of the basis of those rembitioes,
timely, the bash of a *dents Mate, whom genteel authority
will be samatidedi by a repreesatation pretending hem the
eludes tithe maim people . Imbed of
pant
dotal!
ea& of elearsa, It will Mies to_ pante sot la a
general seesaw the points of dew hem whirl we have set
out. They may be samosa up se omatiteting • single aim,
namely_ that of diminishing the difikalties which present
theemalses to a salon of sovereign states in • fede-
rate state reprimand by • antral authority ; difficulties
regultieg le the lint place, from the necessary renounce-
ment of the rights of sovereignty on the part of particular
states in favour of the emassenity ; and secondly, from the
fear lest the central power should gradually limit those
fights-
Military subordination to a central power affects a right
of sovereignty, which right, eer clan, in times of peace, all
would be unwilling to ms muchdiminished. By mean of the
proposed modifications to the articles 12, 13, 14, 16, and
18, those attributes which appertain to the central power in
its quality of executive powernre placed in relations which
protect the independence of particular states ; on the other
band, the right of making, with the concerns*" of the
wire national representation, general laws rattly, to the
army, may be regarded as • means of mousing unity and
strength.
With a view of faeilitatiag the relations of affairs, we
claim for each state the right of having itseU represented at
the seat of the central power by a plenipotentiary, and this
both sea coasequenee and symbol of the maintenanos of po-
litical existence.

We shall favour the independence of particular data by
limiting the attributes of the central power, and more espe-
cially by giving to it the general power of legislation, and by
withholding from it the execution of the laws. We would
conduce to the maintenance of the independent existence of
particular dates, by confiding to them the car-
rying Out of measures and works ordered by and fur
the community, by not contracting their sphere of
activity, by not preventing the canted of a general and par-
ticular administration ; and by avoiding what might necessi-
tate an extended central administration, and a large number
of functionaries of the central power. The principle that
the central power should cause its own decrees to be executed
by its own ovens, but that, on the other baud, it will not
exercise an inspection over what falls within the jurisdiction
of particular dales. will tend, it cannot be denied, to draw a
more defined line of demarcation between the autho-
rity of the astral power and that of the separate
states. But it cannot be made compatible with nio-
nerckleal Institutions and with the situation of Our-
the result et ancient political coo..
The goverment. would lose consideration iinnteg own
opinion aid in that of the people under their authority, if,
in their own territory, the °Acids of the central should hold
factions side by side with those of the state Itself ; thence
would resell miasma' or at least ill-will, and comb maid
would probably end in the extension of the authority of the
central power. These considerations acquire a special im-
portance, if we regard the central power as delegated to a
powerful sovereign. It is different with morel to the com-
petence of the eental power to nuke generel Wm. A lavi
which concerns all the elates in mama is resolved
more favourably by a particular state by mesa cif ha gess-
talky. Of all the incouvenietices of the Wised* of Way,
the dAmlty of making legislative ordisanses he the whets
of Oeratsay, is what the nation he peskape fait the meat
deeply, and bas require should be the most pump* Tio.
ro*isd ; bat in Ivislatien ft is set the eassalin timer
which is exclude* or even priatipally active; it el2l only a secondary place, while the first place is oecapbs;
the legislative wesmblies, inning from Use mass of the peo-
ple, sad to whom would seerae, as it were, only the rights
oebbb liskag, or whisk should beim , the
repreasatetice of the peopleoath to
state.
It omit be denied that all are tempted to soaks
an isuamierate we efleghistims, when they have the facility
of meld., sal faimmiesies _general laws; it is, therefore,
iiesioalle * draw well4elasd and slowly resegaimble
Iknlin.
The *opal useadaisate to the Whim 14, 21, 27,
Ilk se, RI, 11, 40, 42, 46, sod 47, el the shaper entitled "of
ma gegmel power; wow* to these &wads teadiag to
limb emil tales* the admiabillidea sad leghlatise.
Whoa a peat eseambly b hassled with the power to vote
supplies hit essidlembie umbeMblep, tt will rarely resist
the . sheen WNW to time. power ; it will relit it so
iamb the kes he that *see e6i always be
fie el a ametitar et *Me sway wile=
' Wel lissisfis, sr time ell mho tea may tithe will
*meth* *vote ear impose midi is es be divided
smog the efierresity. t This wili Mead ta dirsommede the
set mirely:of the Ibilesie Mates, bat (aid
ems man y) of tie partied., slabs.
It weld mein advisable, tkerehrth to limit as area as
Twelfth the detail vellsg greats he the pee lendertelthoos
at the osemaieft,
_To Wee mesh Weer sway altogether
world be iniiimilis and mastery ens *lime prostate*
at the easiset hiked massitalise. whish resegehee, velem
the 19* snide of the gooiest, the mem* of essabZ
' Mod baleseres Per dew wpm ~ Midair the
Wily et passim; tits melt le a Newt *Miaow •
mho she with regard to el thisivarea h wean he seat
to impatellie to setati:rtet=p et the iliffilmmrstatew the
miliimallike, Ind et meow= *sew mosose,
which poodato am ressight Oa time** head we might
gimp the power et math* sedieersseds me railroails49
to mat it impraso amiped fri Mirw g
ragerdalgtvasee,
whys ea* edisslime hove hem 111111 be emegmbee,
se he se It nabs@ the ogee* rills The ado-
sel waited* mast haw lb) pow he dispose bogy the
asessemy mom, without being Mailed to he ewe share. Bat,
it must, oa the ether bead, alba that the eral right to
establish impois, *aid *lima it lioesla *sea by a
opssial ergmieella, will be bat imeseited by ll*
tritipossumsals; sad as whisk they mph*
pareagreler ph 36, re if the MIS= sad
gamma hopetes, mina to pew ef fie, awed,
we should thew munives the •- &wood to mamas,
the direct right of ultedie ImMllgilimess the bodges of
the make, to has been ismessa, wlll isset only a small
pan dlllO mem led Ism& lapis.
Thee Allows olotsrvatimi.sa the dimes it is pro-
posed dna he made is the reesintiene taken by the
Nation' hassibly, relative to the mestitation, and
whisk to
_rbd on the grounds above stated.
BAY_ We hale news from Munich to Feb.
gg, Oonbery to expeoleideeh the wocidng menu'
banquet on the mammy Cl the French revolution
passed off without any disturbance. The government
pro fern, have propped to forward to the central
executive, se the contribution of Bavaria, the sum of
1,621,976 &eine. The regerten for Bemis. paper,
and the Meath essesegandenta ot foreign journals,
have resolved net be take down or forward any ao-
count of. the_gmeseelbes of the fired chamber, ustil
they are Awigetl milk I suitable room for amembhag
in, preview* to their admission to the chamber. In
oollegninee et this determination, the important
sitting et the 26th ult. has nob been reported in any
German Pena
WURTEMBERG.—The position et this state with
=to the future oceatitation of Germany is ea
: It chime the right of deciding whether that
coustitution be a thane for the above kingdom ; ob•

Garman
to the pia:ling of the supreme power of the
German empire in the hands of me puma ; attaches
the utmost importance to the continuance of Austria
in the German confederate state, and declares that the
exclusion of Austria would be the self-mutilation of
the German fatherland.

FRANKFORT, Frs. 27.
Than was a preliminary. skirmish yesteroay, if I
may ass the expression, in the church of St. Paul,
between the parties which divide the Assembly on
the question of the executive authority for united
Germany:, Ton are aware that opposed to the Pros.
utara, which aims at a hereditary emperor of the
lern family, are the Austrian party end the
1 party of the left. The Austrians, backed by the Bs-
varians, and the Tramontenee of almost the whole of
Germany, wish to see placed at the head of German
asks a directory of seven persona nominated by
Prune, Austria, and five c roles embracing the rest
of Germany. The left, who see no hope for the future
unity of Germany except in a powerful and energetic
parliament, and who re-unite and retain the
whole of Germany (especially German Austria),
in the empire which the Assembly in St.
Paul's was elected to organise, would prefer
a directory to a hereditary emperor. It miOt
seem then that on this ground a kind of coalition be-
tween the Austrians and the Left might take place,
with a view to oppose the appointment of a heredi-
tary emperor and the partition of Germany, the inevi-
table consequence of choosing the King of Prussia for
emperor. An attempt at a coalition of these two par-
ties has accordingly been made. The Austrians,
Bavarians, and l'ramontanes appointed a committee
to prepare the draft of a constitution on the basis of a
directory ; this draft was communicated to the Left,
who had on their aide nominated a committee to con-
sider and suggest such modifications of it as might
enable them to give it their support. Thus stood
matters when the prel!minary skirmish of yesterday,
to which I have alluded, took place.
Von Gagern, the presiding minster, presented yes-
terday to parliament and the committee on the con-
stitution (which is a committee of the whole) all the
notes in which the different governments of Germany
have communicated their remarks on the preieg of the
constitution in the form in which it wee read a first
time in the Assembly. The Prussians embraced the
opportunity to insist that the emend reading of the
constitution should come on immediately after the
first reading of the electoral law, the debate on which
is at present in progress. The coalition—if it deserve
the name—called for a longer adjournment of the
second reading of the constitution. The Austrians
supported this postponement because they have sent
three of their number 0 Olmiitz to submit their
draft of a constitution is the Austrian ministers,
and did not wish the second reading to come on be-
fore their envoys returned. The Left was for ad-
journing tie mead reading of the constitution till
after the second reading of the electoral law, because
they look upon a flood electoral law as the only pa-
rasites for the efficiency of future parliaments, because
they think they have a better chance of getting a good
electoral law before them after the second reading of
the constitution. It had been previously agreed be-
tween the two parties to the coalition that the Left
should demand the postponement of the second read-
ing of the constitution till after the law of
elections had been read a second time.
In making this demand the Left acted in
perfect good faith: they consented to an adjournment
that would enable the Austrians to receive their go-
vernment's decision as to the project of a directory ;
but they did not wish for an indefinite postponement.
On the contrary, M. Venedey's motion was in effect
that the second reading of the meditation should
come on immedia€e4 after the second reading of the
electoral law. In this way a delay of a fortnight
would have been gained, but the time of the second
reading of the constitution would have been defini-
tively fixed. This, however, did not suit the game
of the Austrian party. The intriguing members of this
party—the successors of Mette-mehand friends of Bus-
ies— seek no better than to prevent any resalte whatever
ensuing from the deliberations in St. Paul's. A con-
siderable number of them voted yesterday against M.
Venedey's motion, and the consequence was, that once
more there was not a sufficient majority for any of
the counter-motions under discussion.

Yesterday—the first day on which the coalition was
to come into play—the Left saw themselves deserted
by the " black and red" Austrians—that is, the Aus-
trian diplomatists of the Metternich school. I fear
that this will lead to untoward consequences for the
constitution and the coalition of Austria and Ger-
many. Of late every step taken by Austria and the
representatives of its government, as well at Frank-
fort, as at Olmiltz, have told against that power.
Excesaivefinesae never effects anything. The choice of
Schmerling to repreeont the government of Austria,
after ti,e parliament had compelled him to resign his
ministerial appointment—the alliance between Muni&
and Austria—the scarcely concealed tame of prevent-
ing any German constitution from being adopted—all
these tricks may be very clever and cunning, but they
will probably have no other effect than to pave the
way of Prussia to the imperial throne of regenerated
Germany—or, perhaps, to provoke another revolution,
a war to the knife, in the spirit of the red republican.
Meanwhile everything is going wrong. The only
good news is that Russia is advancing towards Ger-
many. The expulion may surprise you ; but I sin-
eetely believe that nothing but a great war, or a new
revolution, can save Germany.

THE ItrPITER MAIL PACKET AND THE LATE
STORIL—DARSHODTH, MARCH 1.--Tbs Palumbo.
and Oriental Company's steam ship Jupiter is safe in
this port. On Wednesday she encountered, off the
Start Point, a perfect hurricane. A heavy sea struck
her, and she shipped about 30 tons of water, severely
injuring the second officer, boatswain, and a man.
Mee several ineffectual attempts she wsagot in hers,
and will remain till the gale moderates. no injured
men are all doing well, bat it is feared the cargo is
much damaged. The Sultan posed the Jupiter on
the 27th off St. Alban's Head.—The Jupiter started
on Tuesday from Southampton with the Portuguese,
Spanish, and Gibraltar mails.