The Express.
London, England, 1848-04-17 00:00:00

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510.] LONDON, MONDAT, APRIL 17, IS4B. [THREEPENCE.

MADRID, Aram 10.
We are doomed, it seems, to have a regular fright
every Sunday. Yesterday, • smart shower coming on
at nightfall, the folks who were out in the streets
began to run here and there for shelter. The doltish senti-
nels in the Puerta del Sol thought of course there was an-
other row. They gave the alarm. The guard of the Car
de Correos turned out and forthwith began to fire upon the
people. Four of the inoffensive and unarmed citizens were
wounded. This was succeeded by immense military bustle,
concentration of troops in the Puerta del Sol, posting of
sentries at all the street corners, sending about of patrols,
&c., &e., just as if the capital were in the full awing of in-
surrection. The sentinel at the bottom of the Calle de Car-
eers was as lively with his '• Quien sive ?" as on the dismal
night of the 26th, and fired into a party, who fortunately
turned out to be the ebirri of the ronda, one of whom It*
wounded severely.
Tte government of Nevem is obliged, at last, to resort
to the financial decrees of Salamenca, which it condemned
and abrogated. In the Gazette of the Bth is published a
decree ordering the sale of national property. This sale is
to include "all the property, shares, dues, and rents proceed-
ing from the vacant encomiendas of the four military orders,
maentrazgos, convents, and charges of all aorta which are at
present the property of the nation."
The sum hitherto realised by the sale of national property
hes been 40 millioas sterling, There remains property
worth 20 millions sterling to be disposed of. The motive
assigns d for having recourse to this large resource is that the
government may be enabled to establish its new system of
financial reform with the coming year. The example of the
Pontifical government, which has issued • decree permitting
the redemption of charges on property in favour of pious
establishments with government stock, is pleaded in favour
of this measure.
The decree which orders the sale of the encomiendas of
the military orders, and those of the hermitages, &c., is re
girded as one of the most important measures yet adopted
by the government. The sale of the first description of pro-
perty will be arranged in conformity with the royal decree
of Feb. 19, 1836, for the alienation of the possessives of the
regular clergy ; and the sale of the other description of pro-
perty will follow the provisions of the law of Sept. 2, 1841,
by which the possessions of the secular clergy were declued
national. According to the decree of Feb. 19, the purchased
eneomiendas may be paid for in metallic money or in bonds
of the debt already consolidated or to consolidate of the
Four and Five per Cents. I f the payment is made to !
specie the term of 16 years is allowed fur its
completion, one-sixteenth being paid each year ;1
and if the price is satisfied in paper one-half
the preceding term is allowed. The possessious of con-
fraternities follow in their alienation the rules applied to
those of the secular clergy. The landed hereditaments of
I this sort, by the law of Sept. 2, 1841, are divided into two
classes, divisible and indivisible. The purchase money of the
divisible will have to be paid necessarily in specie within the
term of 20 years. The indivisible are to be paid for in five
instalments, and according to the following form:-10 per
cent. in specie; 30 per cent. in Four and Five per Cent.
bonds, and if in the former at 120 for every 100; 30 per cent
in overdue coupons of the tame debt, or in coupons of the
capitalisation of the Three per Cents.; 30 per cent. in
passive debt, values not consolidated, or debt negotiable
under the establi-hed types. The payment is to be made
within the term of five years, the firth part having to be de-
livered in the act of granting the deed of sale, and the re-
maining instalments one each year, counting from the date
of the deed. The malt monopoly is to be abolished.
The Infanta and Duke of Montpensier have left the palace
for Vista•Alegre, whither they had been preceded by some of
the !Wheedler guards and other troops, which aro to form
the guard of their new residence.

wire-worm was fonder of the root of the rye-gram than of
that of any other plant; and he had always understood that
the great drawback in the cultivation of ape-grass was the
harbouring it furnished to those infesting insects. Ile con-
sidered, therefore, that this would prove art import cot dig-
coy, ry of Mr. Dickenson, should the game result be uniformly
obtained.—Sir John Johnstone thought it desirable to mar-
tam whether the remedy would be equally effective in other
cases ; fur instance, in that of a clover-lay turned up for
wheat.—Prof. Way had no doubt that the clover disease
was the ravage of an insect.—Mr. Lawns conceived that it
was in all cases owing to the unhealthiness of a plan, and
an excess of organic matter, that worms and insects infested
different crops.
Viticites.—Mr Bury, of Ilanslope Park, in Sucking-
hamshire, reported to the council the fatal effects of a single
teed of meal from Vetches, purchased at Liverpool, on nine
of his pigs. The meal was made into porrioge and given
to the pigs the same evening; they. were all found cold
and dead on the following morning.—Prof. Way re-
marked that this poisonous effect was produced
either from mineral poison mixed with the meal, or in come-
quence of some poisonous quality chemically engendered in
the meal itself. Ile was inclined to think, from such a
result in many vegetable substances, that the latter was the
cage.—This view was corroborated by Mr. H. Wilson,
of Stowlangtoft-ball, who informed the council that two of
his fat porkers were destroyed by having been fed
for a week on meal ground from damaged rice, pur-
chased at a cheap rate, and its feeding qualities tried
as an experiment upon the pigs in question.—Mr. Hobbs
had found vetches unfavourable, unless given with other
food, and he conceived that no crop exhausted the land so
much as tares.—Mr. Bennett regarded tares as an injudi-
cious food for any animal. He spoke from his own experi-
ence, having used them extensively at one time for his sheep.
The tares he had used were the cheap foreign tares of
the market.
DIDULZII.—Mr. Hodgkins, of Chipping-Norton, trans-
mitted a statement of the peculiar advantages of We hand-
seed dibbler, for which attentlaci the QIAU at the council
were ordered.
Pattaxscra.—Thanks were ordered to Mr. Nicholls for a
copy of the new edition of his " Flax Grower ;" to Mr.
Hume fur a copy of the last Report of the Guernsey Agri-
cultural Society • to Mr. Bullock Webster for his present
of trug-baskets (cheap, light, and durable, as he described
them, for farm or garden use); and to the donors of other
presents to the Society.
The council then adjourned, over the Easter recess, to
the 26th of April.

were received after the

The following communicsioe....
council had broken up:
PLEURO PNEUSIONIA.—Mr. Milward, a member of the
council, residiag at Thurgarton Priory, Nottinghamshire,
enclosed for the information of the members the following
statement of treatment of tattle in cases of pleura-pneumo-
nia, which he stated had not been known to fail in a single
instance in effecting a recovery of the animal suffering
wide its attacks. The statement was copied from a letter
received from Mr. Clater, of East Retford, a name well
known and appreciated as connected with a popular work
on the diseases and treatment of cattle, which has already
passed:through nine tditions
"On the ' first appearance' of the disease, bleed freely:
then give 1 lb. of Epsom salts, 4 oz. of sulphur, 1 oz. of
nitre, and 2 drachms of can tic tartar, in 3 pints of grail.
Keep the animal warm and clean. Should the symptoms
not appear to abate in 12 hours, give the following drink ;
I oa. of nitre, I drachm of camphor, 1 drachm of emetic
tartar, and 2 draehms of powdered ginger in a pint of gruel ;
and repeat this drink every ti hour. until the oppression in
breathing has nearly subsided. If the bowel. do not act
properly, repeat the grit drink in 3 pints of gruel, omitting
the emetic tartar. Feed sparingly on bran-mashes, grains,
and gruel, with crushed linseed ; but with no roots, if there
be any inflammation."
HOVE IN CATTLE, AND COLIC IN Hoeses.—Professor
Sewell, of the Royal Veterinary College, begged to observe,
in reference to the cases of dc,th arising from the meal ot
vetches, that as animals fr. quently die soon after eating any
particular kind of food, or even their ordinary kind of the
best quality, it must no: be inferred that such meal of
vetches cent tined poisonous; matter. The result more com-
monly ensued from too much ordinary food bring given at
feeding time, or from voracious feeding on Irish succulent
food obtained by the animals out ot dome, or on that which
is brought to the homestead and given immediately in its
fresh state. He had known it occur from want of a suffi-
ciency of water to moisten and dilute t►e aliment, and is
some instances from offensive water which the animals re-
fused. From either causes death often supervenes in a few
hours ;in some cases immediately. The evolution of pate
is very rapid, distending the stomach, which, pressing
forward on the lungs, impedes respiration and the
action of the heart, an obstruction to these important
vital functions, which, combined with excessive irrita-
tion in the stomach, soon leads to a fatal termination.
Meal acts differently, according to its weight and glutinous
quality. He had seen it product.) severe symptoms of
acute indigestion in stalled bullocks, from not having been
mixed with a sufficient quantity of cut chaff, which,
requiring mastication, emoted a more gradual process
of I eding, and promoted digestion. Very few farmers
or owners of any kind of stock, he apprehended, had
not at some period suffered knees from the foregoing
causes, called hove in ruminants, and colic in horses.
The first, he stated was readily relieved by intro-
ducing a hollow probang through the mouth into the
stomach of the animal, or by piercing the animal on
its left side with the German trocar. This practice,
he remarked, did not avail in the horse, but medi-
cines well known to most scientific practitioners might
be supplied and kept in resdiness to administer, and
which usually were found to succeed ; but if a case
became protracted, inflammation commenced, which re-
quired the practitioner's judgment to combat. Mis-
management and irregular feeding sometimes led to
fatal results without the cause being suspected. He
had himself observed this in the public service as well
as in private stables. He was called upon on one occasion to
examiae two horses of a team of four that had arrived off a
journey at midnight, and were supplied with an undue quan-
tity of good Oats, but neglected to be watered. Distention
and irritation of the stomach ensued in both cases, and ter-
minated fatally in less than six hours. An Essex farmer, in
the neighbourhood of London, who sent produce of various
kinds to the markets, requested Professor Sewell to investi.
gate the cause of his leases, and gave him a list of the names
of ninety horses which had died within two years. Ile
found, upon inquiry, simil.sr mismanagement, namely, too
long fasting between the feeding times, and the frequent
return of provender allowed, and sent to be given in
feeding-bags at noon while from home, with similar
consequences. Upon a change of hands, and instituting
a careful superintendence, the losses ceased. He could
quote many other instances of disease and death which
might have been averted by system and good manage.
mert. Professor Sewell presented to the society, along
with this communication, one of the trecars, or punc-
turing apparatus, to which he had referred. It con-
sisted of a sharp stiletto eliding through a cylindrical
ease or sheath, on the sides of which were several
openings for the escape of the gas. This instrument
was intended to be thrust (stiletto and sheath together)
through the animal's hide, into its rumen, or arse
stomach, and the stiletto then withdrawn, when the dis-
tending gas would rush through the litteral apertures of
the sheath (left perforated in the skin and stomach), and
thus rapidly made its escape. The trocar presented by
Professor; Sewell was made of German silver, at a price of
125., but it would answer equally well made of brass, and,
in that case, would cost only ss. Professor Sewell re-
marked that it we* adapted for neat cattle and sheep, and
ought to be in the peeeemion of every farmer.

ATHENS, MARCY 30.
I informed you on the 20th of the fall of the
Tzavellas ministry, and that M. Condouriotti had taken
upon himself to form a new one. The saint evening an or-
donnance appeared, appointing hi. Condouriotti President of
the Council and Minister of the Marine ; M. Dr:solos Man-
soles, Minister for Foreign Affairs; M. B. Christacoupolos,
Minister of Fii ante ; Gen. fthodius, Minister at War;
(ien. Anastacius Mavromichalis, Minister of Warship and
Public Instruction ; and M. Diutnedes Kyriecos, Minister of
Justice. These two last have refused their appointments;
the former because he had been promised the War-ottice, and
did not get it ; the latter because his conscience would not
permit him to join a ministry which had to demand
the support of an illegally-formed House of Assembly.
This rare relic of antique Spartan virtue has been rewarded
with a good dinner by all the members of the Athens bar.
Crowds of people collected under the windows of his house,
calling Inc the patriotic and honest citizen to show himself,
and receive the only reward in their power to bestow and he
to receive—a few uproarious shouts of " Long live the inde-
pendent citizen," " Long live the constitution." A few of
the throng whispered something about subscribing a penny
a peace, cY l'Anglaise, to raise a piece of plate. But
this was negatived, instantly, as a bad precedent, for if a
start of this kind was once made, there would be no end
to the patriots who would start up and enter the
race. These two snug berths have since gone a-begging ;
bat nobody will have them. One member said, that as there
was no justice in Oreece be could not see what need there
was of a minister; unless, indeed, he would work for no-
thing, a thing never heard of in that country : and that as
to religion and public instruction, the former might well be
left to the priests, and the latter to the schoolmasters. Until
some members can be found to take these onerous tasks upon
their shoulders, the minister for foreign affairs supports the
burden. After the cabinet was thus partly constituted they
held a council, and then published the following proclama-
tion, in which they say :
as constitutional ministers we dents it our duty to exlain, loyally,
the system which we intend to follow in our governmental career.
It is this—a religious application of the constitution and the
laws now is force; an impartial distribution of justice in all that
concerns the tribunals and the admimatration ; the strictest eco-
nomy in all things ; a preference in public employments will be given
to men of ability and irrepro ,ehable conduct, and to those who have
served their country sad made sacrifices during the struggle for Mile.
pendenoe; those who serve this state faithfully and loyally will be
recompensed, and those who violate and abuse the duties of their
°Sees will be removed.
All these promises look well, but the people of Greece
have been so long fed with promises of this nature, that they
are nearly surfeited, and long for another course. This,
from what I can hear and see, they will shortly obtain, for
they feel very much inclined to do as other people are now
doing—take the management of affairs into their own
bands. Don't be surprised some day to bear that Otho her
run away. The news of the resignation of Metternich, of the
popular movement of the Ihth at Vienna, and of the promises
of the Emperor Ferdinand to grant a liberal constitution,
was received here with rapturous applause. The next
Austrian Lloyd's steamer from Trieste is looked for with in-
tense interest. Three hundred students of the University
gave a dinner a few days ago in honour of the French revo-
lution. Otho was not invited.

CROW:V" AND GOVERNMENT BILL.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE "EXPRERS."

Stu,—Will you kindly allow me to state, through the
channel of your paper, that I was accidentally too late tojoin
in the division on the third clause of the Crown and Mon-
archy- Pr, kervatiun Bill, otherwise I should, unquestionably,
have voted with the minority.-1 am, sir, your most obedient
servant, C. LUSIIINGTON.
Palace Gardens, Bayswater, April 15, 1818.

SliAleArEAßS'fi Hot'SE.—A special meeting of '
lie committee for the purchase and preservation of Shakes.
peace's house at Stratford-upon-Avon, was convened on
Friday afternoon, at Vie rooms of the Royal Society of
Literature, in St. Martin',-place, fur the purpose of receiving
and considering a proposal from Mr. Charles Dickens, and
the other amateurs who have usually acted with him, to
pert:um for the benefit of the fund. Lord Morpeth and
various other member& of the committee were present. The
committee had previously expressed their earnest wish to
Mr. Dickens and his friends that they would lend their aid
in this manner, and the assent on their part was given most
willingly, tke offer being to perform " The Merry Wives of
Windsor," as well as ' livery Man in his Rumour," in
London • the receipts to be added to the sum now in the
hands of treasurer. The committee, of course, thank-
fully accepted the boon ; and it is supposed that by this and
the other means contemplated, not only the sum necessary
for the purchase aid preservation of Shakespeare's house
may be raised, but an additional amount obtained to be
handed over to the government in part of an endow-
ment for some worthy dramatist, whose means may not be
equal to his merits. and to whom the care and custody of
the property at Stratford (thus become public property)
may be confided. It is generally understood that the
government will come forward with what other money may
be necessary in the shape of an ad equate pension ; and Lord
Morpeth and the committee, as well indeed as the amateurs,
have expressed a strong opinion on the claims of a par-
ticular individual, whose claims will probably be ad-
mitted by the parties who have the ultimate decision
of the question. It is also said that it is intended that''
the two plays by Shakespeare and his illustrious rival
and contemporary shall be performed also at Birmingham
and Stratford, the only towns, we believe, in the native'
county of our great dramatist in which a theatre exists.
These perforneanceswill take place in the middle of next month.
Sunday next is the anniversary of what has been considered
the birthday of Shakespeare, but it is to be celebrated at
Stratford on the nest day, the 24th inst., when a dinner will
be given at which Lord Brooke will preside.