The Express.
London, England, 1851-07-31 00:00:00

Zbe Court.

Yeeterday a general meeting of the proprietors of
this company was held at the New Zealand House, Broad-
Th?roirdttrtenLt.buutildith'ilsgs, tom take into,;sotnusilettratioinnsthwei preset
measurest con was an unusual throng to hear the parting
address of the sifted Italian, previous to his dap should be adopted company, end
consequenceaa of. 'the witherrawalofte
ture for the cities of the north of England and Scot- government measure. Mr. H. A. AuttoNDY, M.P., pre-
land, which, in compliance with pressing requisitions, sided, and was supported by Sir Henry Webb, Bart.. Mr.
be is about to visit during the recess. Ile began by R. la Mangles. M.P., Mr. John Abel Smith, M.P., Mr.
rilehert,tsants. Iss'ururtie,snanerltuttrslier gentlemen. There was a
adverting to the Peace Congress, in whose proceed-
ings, to which he haul been bidden, he willingly re-
arTheaCHAIRMA:\:, inp opening the proceedings, expressed
cognised a development of the grund principle., that, his regret that after so long a lapse of time, and aftc•r such
public opinion, freely elicited, should regulate the lengtheued negotiations with the government, he had
business of =Picini'. His complaint was that the nothing to suggest to the proprietors towards relieving them
aggrieved, the tepuliuted, and the victitnised members from their difficulties. lie believed the hest course lie
of the human family tem., in thaw gatherings mire_ could pursue on the present occasion would be to answer
m med. France, Prwrin, the American Union,
say questions that might be put to him, and make a clean ai breast of the whole affair, both as regarded the past and
had their delegates; propounding smooth plan- future. (Hear, hear.) The proprietors would naturally
sibilitite ; but plundered Mexico, devastated ask what was their present position. For several months
Algiers, trampled I lungary, hand-cuffisl I ham past endeavour, had been made to come to some arrangement
Cassel, hantinadoed lanuleinly, violated Venice, with the Coloni'kdhce, and several interview' tint token
14suactutliwattiwonseenssEtanril Gorneyfoarn InthleundßOTtetatoers uponh itth,esosittjteet:t.,
tortured Sicily, pigged, matiaelea, and terror-stricken
Horne, had entere 110 appearance at this pacific eon- tedious, imleed impossible, to put the proprietors in posses.
clave. The expense of a standing army, and its sion of all the proposals made and objections offered on
pressure on the pocket, appeured to be the feeling either side during that period. At length they resulted in
uppermost. Look at Switzerland ! —that mountain- something which, though not satisfactory, was agreed to
home of freedom never encroached on its neighbour's 'tWtlij"eittit'lsriadt'sei—ll"wansthe:rio'vtZ Lyilltirrtinnlyerbe-fore parliament.
Secretary
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nationality, nor will it suffer any infringement on its Colonies, an objection was taken by Mr. Gladstone, that
own. Roused front its peaceful industry by an Aus- the British legislature ought not, he did not say could not,
traversal aggression, it started up tie,ooo airung, and interfere without the previous consent of the local legisla-
ejected the foreign elenicat of discord, in detimice of tirethiear.till on that
t ground he opposed the further progress
the three great EUr01);.".111 power, vigorously, man- of
the'lL'ilito wNhichliihrlrwl;laetthountetohawiltoh;al'raccwteetlhaatgrnhO'wn
fully, and unmistakeably. 'fhe result is peace, glory, the proprietors feß back upon their lien of 264,000/. on
act respect and repose. The Helvetic confederacy the colony, bearing interest at a 4 per cent. From
had nu !gentling army ; but in that unsophise what paawd on that occasion, and from the public
fleeted land every freeman carries a ere• papers the proprietors would have learned that notice was
by Mr. Adderley of certain alterations in the Canter-
lock, in virtue of which he continues free. g i
bury"e" Act, providing fur clauses having for their object the
Talk not to me of a truce with tyranny ! I cannot 'borrowing of money on the land sales of that association.
prise the peace. of the sepulchre• or the aequieseence It was proposed that a sum should be borrowed by the
of the bondsnuni. Let the sleek and pampered Canterbury Association, who should pay to the New Zee-
hierarchy that participates in the proceeds of op- ligat"drCompany about 26,00_01. for mone;. advanced by the
pante an:noel:vor h
prelusion, preach up a rwrpcluity of power to plunder and-
w"etreerstilll,
r ii.ltitilh. :oh
B;ntenw tetlitil(aintidi,fi
Is the
and enslave; but, with the blessed Iktptist, lie it the became
Bank of Australia. Those payments had been
mine to confront the I lenebt of the hour, and aloud from time to time postponed. At the time those advances
pmclaim it " unlawful to thee to take %that is not were made, the founders of the Canterbury Settlement were
thine own but belotigeth unto another." To wink at sanguine that the whole of the money would be provided
wickedness beenume worked out on a gigantic scale, up
iCsLo 'ITV. 7::lin'tathethe(teew`h2er:Vd ce°,74edp, thatu
to distinguish a national from an individual wrong, putting its unpaidg capital in no jeopardy. Its, ad-
is a casuistry I seem Be this outstretched arto alined that he had been mistaken. Wear, hear.'
withered, and this tongue cleave paralysed to my The director, of the New Zealand Company were pressed
palate, if ever through the life-long comer that re- not to allow the Canterbury sales to be divulged, and were
minis to me I pause or tinker in nay allotted task— told that
feud tis ifsntulisit7 wivische'iti tth„e l'ili.aluertburoy s:nttti.iment to sue-
the advocacy of Italian right, the enforeement which .1, July 48, 18.30. Tiii.,jaarseamt: NeworzP,,l,V,l7:
of her just demand, the recovery of her rector, in great doubt and nor nanny. Ile (the chairman)
swindled franchise, the rescue of her territory, and had always felt se sanguine of success that he had always
the full recognition of her independence,. ((tters.) been most mistime to promote the colonising oi.erations of
etlittes•eCnatnnte,,rulititiry
tkAsssocsiatiral sutzt.totrdttrh.eretnwouas
hatnotnetetitnallass-
A testimony unsullied and unsolicited, has been just
lhonlv oil our behalf; it calm dispessionate voice has nut tesiralee to continue the
bet% heard in your land, and eunimoned our slan- company, send there was amongst the shareholder so strong
dervra to judgment. If Mr. Gladstone has spoken, a feeling that the director, were mistaken, that means were
if the hoary 'typewrites who would defame and stilt- taken to induce the directora to abandon the undertaking,
andttendtinreenstotrsu fonuutilt that they hand noAother colursetttto pur-
suer nautise the virtue. that resists their foul embrace, and
luuthes their effort at violation, stand abashed and ti slMrelitailersiwa'as ceallCd!galr'ntlmit. was gi':raoep.osira ....11i1;.,Itngti;)e
confounded at the kir of opinion, thanks and bless- directors should go on. A lenethenel discussion took
lugs on this manly linglishniatea interposition. place, and it was determined that the seal should
The seal was fixed on the 4th of July,
While - Young Englund," iii the person of a naafi° be fixed.
unit
Inf,ronmnin.stthantnstmued to
,theed present
coming to
ndiurztoutn.
Cochrane. would act the pander to each dishonourable
attempt. the indignant integrity of a British senator rangement of their anxiously engage!
that time thge Cauterbary
has levelled the blow of a Saxon cudgel on the owed the New Zealand Company 26,000 f., besides a con-
plot tern of our ruin. Ile has dee:hell them before siderable amount from the aale of land. In the meantime,
the tribunal of your upright and ineorruptibk the New t Zealand Company owed about 30,000'., which
cotnniunity ; he arraigns them one and all. From I,l;,::'.tet:',l;e7,tl.`tt;"lntiestiPiZithalLS•d a.eliet.dniirrizntavoef
the pour eltuderdly occupant of a principality '..tustralia for the payment of the money, and if it could not
in Parma, from the wretched eunuch in for- be raised any other way the directors must have recourse to
tittle posnessclun of Tuscany, from llophni and a call. All the clauses of the Canterbury Bill were now
Phineas the sous of Eli the high priest, work- withdrawn, and the government refus dto allow any claws
iii.• their wicked a ill at Rome to the ring-leader theyf buz..,:imitg, lalloons:Ill by
; btohrero w
of the whole guns, the truculent raviither of the two as whist the New Zealand Cumpony was to do in the 'pie:
Siellien, the shrieks of whose victims, remote and sent distress and pressure of circumstance* he (the chide-
unfriended, he has made audible to the car of Eng- man) slid not know. The directors had done everything to
perjured vows promote the interests of the shareholders, and this was the land. Ile tells you of flees monster's
brokenhearted,tnt
and desecrated aunt ;he recounts the awful sacrilege fresurultitof" lawhaaas fa;
mlosiet wdrahaealmaani
of a forestwoni guepel; and you stand aghast at the on fur so reallyuaany mouths, and when disheartening
objecto al's!
herniae's audacity. Alas! you are not familiar peered 00 the eye of accomplishment to find them-
with the fatal facility by which priestly imposture selves SO thrown back, especially at so late a period of
ham made feenible the violation of thee must solemn the session. (Bear, hear.) A suggestion had been made
contracts that bind man to man in our unhappy
of some, eth", Tremocfmtrt morning, l'anwtehircbhu'ryin theitl °liiaTioria.
peninsula. Ferdinand rue Fever. is in strict alliance might get over the objections of the government to their
and confeek.rticy with lice Father of lies; he acts borrowing powers. The suggestion had been before the
under the guidance of a confessor, he has a sacra- directors SO short a time that he did not think it right ele-
mental neource, an auricular appendage of tyranny ther to allude to it. He had hoped to be able to lay before
mute convenient and more serviceable awn the theinee Parekhoultdewtrireanatt4neit tnon7l,rdteT:enntibatrot Prit
horrible " ear" of Gionynius, tyrant of Syracuse. and Le ;as quits) at a loss La know what coarse he ought to
For adhering to their port of the constitutional corn- recommend.
pact. a clear majority of the country's chorea dele- Mr. J. A. SMITH, M.P., thought that under the circum-
guns are in the dungeons of this perjurer. The stances there ought not to be snyconcealment of anything
prime minister of his own appointment, the incur- from the shantbdiders• (Cheers.) With reference to the
ruptible Puerile is deemed in then wantonness of ram- suggestion mentioned by the chairman, he should recom-
mend that the particulars of it should bo given to the
paig iniquity to twenty-five years of a galley slave's meeting.
existence with its plenitude of horrors: the convict The CHAIRMAN said it was not from any wish to
drew of ignominy, the chain round his waist, the keep the shareholders in the dark that he had refraised
irons riveted on his feet, the clanking appendage's of from mentioning the particulars of the suggestion. It bad
infamy dragged at every step in health or sickness, the not been before the directors more than half an hour, sad
torture of his waking hours the incubus of his sleep : lad not, therefore, received due. attention_ from them. It
towa:itas sugrt scion to obviateboreoig
nithnne objection nwonsf tnhnetgreprronusent
and this for a quarter of a century yet unexpired
posal
blind and fatuous, as well as foul and atrocious con- which power
had any right to say was insisted on or desired by
de !median! Shall !tenet outlive thebricf duration just the Canterbury Settlement, except to get quit of Lora
heaven has already decreed for the continuance of a Grey's objection, which was based upon a supposition that
misrule that, outragiug humanity, impugns a super- to increase the and debt of the cot Itoney would be
a mohaltditt intending providence.? How long is he to rot with toxrPitiegensetiipt.ofiateweart" said
btefichialstuogrets?enwwe .
the best manhood of Naples in the foetid vaults. of Company, who would receive their debt out of the in
ney
which Mr. Gladstone %lobules the bars, and bids the borrowed, and beneficial to the C anterbury Associati.on.
rank effluvia reach us ecru at this distance? Shall : who would get • balance in hand. It was further stated
2ti.0011 human beings on the southern coast of Europe that by benefiting the Canterbury Association it would
undergo in these internal baracooos such indiction of; :sfenefit the
ewholeuolfdNiwn Zetsanisn Istbwas suggested
nth=
savage vengeance, when a barbaroasAfrican traffic is bog"rewrummunnetv,wothe Isieww,;.caland t jomatiTant'awwolauta t.
ot
forcibly put down by a special squadron amid the ; increase the burden upon the land• but won!' consent to a
applause of mankind ? Talk of international rights!, very considerable sacrifice. reducing their debt of 268,0001.
recall your frigates from interference with the king to • run not under 200.0001., surrendering the lien epos
of Usage ! %Taste not the life of your gallant sons the sale of land in the colony, and retaining only the pre-
in a pestilent cram& agaieer the Ferdinand, of Fer- sent land sales. Whether that proposition would
by be ace
dines& Po : the Bay of Naples calls more em- ' ZnPrd see ttes4arenuthosindm
he
ath
y howe irt 7w"otlageeaut2
phatienily.than the Bleat of Benin foe your prince- ,by Red Grey. ito could not say whether, if the share-
five esesqrses on behalf of tortured thin:minds made holders cemented to make such a sacrifice, Lord Gm
equally with the negro to the image of Gap would alter his determination. It was very necessary In
Is it became the Roman high peie-st abets and blesses 1
Stull d":entdons," promstate of affairs that everything
his confederate's cruelty that yes refrain from instill, , beldam. if to avert a cat!! heindg iaade Imo; the slur
mesas :,
etant protest / %Then a child was lacerated lust week I which the Canantyarbury Association could borrowymoney, It
at Islington order sacerdotal auspices and sanction, might pay 10,000/. to the New Zealand Company, and the
did that appear nn extenuating ciresunstanee, and did ' necessity for a call would he avoided. If the shareholders
British opinion /teem it a defence? Away with this I thought the proposition was worth entertaining, he would
. go run to the government, notwithstanding the pain he cursed alliance between imposture and uthumanitt I shield • • feel is doing so after Ise many fruitless negotiation.
blessings and blued, the whine of hypocrisy and (Mar, hear.)
hyena yell of ferocious vindictiveness. 1 After mote general remarks had been offered by Kr.
The "(Aker proceeded to characterise the part , Demand, Mr. J.A. Smith, M.P., and ether gentlemen.
Fretnce played ur the sanguinary farce enacting The CHAIRMAN, is rep! to questions put by yalleis
throughout Southern Italy,heaptng his execration on ;he eharebdae"' he really dhl not ksenewhat to deed=
weemstanees. It appeared that the thing bad Mme
the duplicity of its government, and the personal toe dead lack.
game of infamous selfishness which President Mr. DANE suggested that the prieuipal creditors of
Bonaparte was carrying out in the hope of the company should be waited upon with a slew to weer-
propitiatine the eternal foes of freedom, anti taro whether some arrangement could not be come to ter
so prolonging his tenure of an inglorious position. Peal/ming the paymente. He moved a relffintion to that
effect, and &Idea to it that the directors be empowered 00
The French cant about the •• throne of Peter and
admit any measures that might appear to the= desirable
its inviolability, he scornfully flung in their face; h • for raising the .mast of money required.
reference to Avignon and the surrounding district, ' The Creases= and Mr. Cams objected, en/after a
of which they had robbed this imaginary "Peter," 1 =rdisestmeatiree the resolution was withdrawn, upon the
and refused restitution. Let them show summit by I that elm directors should use their beet lair-
! ekes to releming the aorismay from the difficulties fate
restoring the palace of :the impel' with its
I
Whisk it had bees phiajed.
dungeons still extant, apt memorials of l Tlmakswere thee mead to the chairman, and thepromped•
inquisitorial atrocities exertised at their own doors; inp %manatee

OSBORNE, WEDNESDAY, Jr LT 30.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert, with the royal
children, drove out yesterday in the neighbourhood of
Osborne.

The Duchess of Kent took a drive, attended by Lady
Augusta Bruce.
The Earl and Countess of Sandwich, the Countess of Wil-
ton, Colonel and Lady Catherine Harcourt, and Mr. Birch,
had the honour of dining with her Majesty and his Royal
highness.

The Duchess of Kent returned to her residence, Frog-
more, near Windsor, yesterday, from a visit to her Majesty
at Osborne. lier leoyallancet was attended by Lady
Augusta Bruce and Sir George Couper.
Mr. Seymour Tremenheere had an interview with Earl
Grey yesterday, at the Colonial-office.
Despatches were sent off yesterday from the
office to the Governor of New Zealand.
The Duchess of Coburg, and suite, and Major
Dupino, embarked at the St. Katharine's AVharf yesterday
morning on board the General Steam Navigation Company a
steam-ship Triton, for Ostend.

NEW ZEALAND COMPANY.

AT WILLIS'S ROOMS.

LEAGUE OF UNIVERSAL

Yesterday evening, the fourth annual meeting of
this institution took place in the large room of the London
Tavern. There was a numerous attendance.

On the motion of Dr. Oxre;,secunCetl by the Rev.
Japer Drums, Mr. Cu.As GILPIN Wall unaniniumly called
on to prt.ide.
The CHAIRMAN opened the proceeding* by calling on
Mr. Enwrap Far, the secretary, who read the report of
the committee fur the past year.

"The object of the organisation is ' To employ all
legitimate and moral means for the abolition of all
war, and the spirit and manifestations of war, through-
out the world; for the abolition of ell restrictions
upon intonational correspondence and friendly inter.
course, and of whatever else tends to make enemies of
nations, or prevents their fusion into one peaceful
brotherhood; and for tho abolition of all ins;itutions
and customs which do not recognise and respect the
image of God and a human brother in every man,
of whatever clime, colour, or condition of humanity.'
The committee, in closing their fifth year's experience
and labours desire gratefully to acknowledge those indica-
tions of succor and progress which have been permitted to
attend the ciliate of the league in this and other countries.
They have sought to prosecute this enterprise of Christian
duty in dependence upon the power of Him whose benig-
nant policy was expressed in the brief but comprehensive
command, 'lore as brethren;' and the whole scope of their
endeavour has been to institute such measures as appeared
most likely to give practical elfeet, upon the broadest scale,
to this goal code of individual, social, and international po-
lity. Their desire to give the widest possible publication
to the principles, and to facts bearing upon the principles
they advocate, has led to the establishment of the Olive Leaf
Mission, a department upon which a large proportion of the
League effort has been concentrated during the past yosr.
Arrangements have been made with the editors of the most
influential and widely circulated journals in Europe, who
now insert every month an Olive Leaf occupying from two
to three columns of their parser, the matter fur which is
carefully compiled by Elihu Burritt, and is translated by
well qualified correspondents of the League in the respec-
tive countries into French, German, Danish, and Spanish.
In this way the committee have every reason to be-
lieve that they reach at least a million readers upon
the Continent every month, and they receive fre-
quent and most grutitying evidence of the happy influence
produced upon many minds by this silent educational
process. This foreign mission of the Dove has been sus-
tained by the active and zealous co-operation of the Lndiea'
Olive Leaf Circles, sixty of which have now been formed
as auxiliaries to the League of Brotherhood in Edin-
burgh, Glasgow, Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham,
Bnsail, Southampton, and other towns. Another mea-
sure ;originated by the League, and to which the
committee attach much importance as an auxiliary to
the cause of peace and brotherhood, is the movement
for an ocean penny 1, ostage. The proposition has been
most favourably received by all classes of the commu-
nity, and the committee have every reason to believe
that during the present or ensuing session a motion will
he brought helm.: the House of Commons by an influen-
tial member of parliament for the estriblishinent of this
great and important agency for promoting friendly and
commercial international correspondence. The com-
mittee have, miuelit to give expression to the
anti-slavery sympathies and tendencies of the League
of Brotherhood, by promoting as far as lay in their
power the free Labour movement—endeavouring, through
the medium of the Ladies' Olive Leaf Circles, to increase and
extend the demand for articles the produce of free labour in
preference to those stained with the guilt of slave toil."
The cash account showed a gross receipt of 2661., and a
balance of 1011. in hand.

The CHAIRMAN stated that about 1701. of the expen-
diture had taken place in connexion with the fenign move-
ment. _

Mr. T. BEGGS moved, "That the reports of the were-
ary and treasurer he accepted, and that the present offi-
cers of the League of Brotherhood be requested to serve fur
the ensuing year, with power to add to their number."
lie congratulated the meeting on the splendid result of the
recent Peace Congreas, and observed that its proceedings
had had a decidedly practical tendency.
Mr. J. P. BLACK IE, of Ipswich; seconded the resolu-
tion, which was carried unanimously.
The CHAIRMAN said the distinguiahing character of
this league was that it was friendly to all and antagonistic
to none. (Hear.) lie had been inforined, in a note from Mr.
Cole, one of the eataillti ve committee of the G:,:at Exhibition,
that an associ stion of various nations hal been formed for
the establish:nent of a cheap iuternatioual postage; and
amongst its in.aubcrs were Lend Ashburton, Mr. W. Brown,
M.l'., Mr. Villiers, M.l'., and several ennueut foreigners.
(Hear, hear.)
The ltev. 'Dr. BURNS moved, " That this meeting fully
commends to the support of the friends of peace the periodi-
cal and regular insertion of articles on the subject iu the
widely eireudited and intlumtial journal, of the con-
tinent of Europe, and of other coantries, as a very
efficient and economical method of bringing the princi-
ples of peace bef ere a vast number of persons who
could not be reached by any other instrumentality." Ile
observed that the method adopted by the society for pro-
' imitating its principles on the continent was most effective ;
' articles such as those of Mr. Elam Burritt must carry con-
', viction to every one who read them. (Ileac, hear.) Of
the necessity Pie this society no one cou!il doubt, while its
organisation was admirably adapted to secure the end pro-
posed. Already the "olive leaves" had appeared in most
of the languages of Europe.
Mr. S. BOW LEY, of Gloucester, seconded thercsolution

At this stage of the proceedings the deputation of the
working men of Paris, Li in number, now on a visit to
London, entered the meeting and took their places on the
platform, amidst loud demonstrations of applause.
Mr. 110WLEY observed that no morn effective advocacy
of the principles of the society could be addressed to the
audience. lle had the firmest faith in the rapid advance
of peace principles on the continent, especially amongst the
working classes of France. Their attention had tacit but
lately called to those principles, and doubtless they would
be embraced with enthusiaans.

The CHAIRMAN here read a letter from Dr. Charles
Mackay, expressing concurrence in the objects of the
society.
Mr. ELIHU BUERITT was received with loud demon-
strations of applause. Ile moved, " That iu the opinion of
this meeting the establishment of an ocean penny postage
would be a great blessing to all the nations of the earth ;
increasing their commercial and social intercourse, and
uniting them more and more closely in the bonds of peace
and brotherhood ; whilst at the same time it would attach
the colonial subjects of the British crown to the mother
country by new ties of intermit and affection." Ile stated
that the term "ocean penny postage" meant that a letter
weighing half an ounce should be conveyed from any port
where the foreign mails touched fur one penny, in addition
to the inland postage. Should other nations estabdsh a
system of penny postage like ours the entire charge for
letters would be only threepence. (Hear, hear.) The pro-
ject had been five years before the public; it had been well
received by or n of all classes and polities, who expressed
their belief that it would he a great advantage to the world
at large. They only doubted whether it would pay ; this
objection removal, there would be nothing to prevent
its adoption. Ile had shown in a small publication that an
ocean penny postage would certainly pay. (Hear, hear.)
To secure the same amount of revenue front toreign letters
so at present the number going by the route between Dover
and Ostend should be doubled; those between Dover and ,
Calais should be trebled; and those to and from America '
quadrupled. That such an increase in the number of
letters would take place was beyond doubt. At present the
mercantile correspondence from Hamburg was sent by the
steam-packet twice a week, in preference to the daily mail
packets by Ostend, because 7d. was saved in the postage.
AU past experience proved that a reduction of postage
largely increased correspondence; and no ono connected
with the Poet-otfice service would doubt that an ocean
penny postage would double the correspondence between
Dover and Ostend. On the route between Dover
and Calais the letters musi be trebled to keep up
the present amount of revenue ; and looking at the present
exorbitant rate of postage between this country and France,
there was no doubt this would be done. While a man of
2501b5. weight was conveyed to and from Paris fur 245., a
letter weighing only a quarter of an ounce was charged
10d., of which 6jil. was fur the transit from Dover to
Calais; and a letter of half an ounce cost 16d., of which Bd.
was for the transit. The whole charge of a letter from
Liverpool to the most western parts of America, upwards of
7,000 miles, was only Is. Thus the correspondence between
this country and France was more heavily taxed than any
other. (Hear.) Could the British government be induced to
establish an ocean penny postage on the Atlantic, nearly
all the correspondence between the two hemispheres would
pass by that route; hence a very large increase might be
calculated on. The inland postage of the States was now
lid. ; it would soon be reduced to Id. ; and with ocean
penny postage the total charge of an American letter
would be threepence. As the present charge was Is., a
fourfold increase would be required; and, looking at the
continued increase of emigration, this might confidently be
looked for. Last year, the 12%000 inhabitants of California
had received and sent away a million and a half of letters,
the charge on each of which was Is. &1., a proof of how
great a correspondence would take place under certain eir-
camstancen. It could not be doubted that the 400,000,
people annually emigrating to America from this country
would, with proper facilities, write and receive as great a
number of letters. The British post-office now forwarded
books under half a pound weight for 6d., and a book weighing
a pound was conveyed to New York or Hong Kong for Is.,
being charged for the ocean postage. Nothing
coals
more liberal and wise than this arrangement ; it
was to open up a new traffic, by enabling parties
to conietteots direct from publishers in Paternoster-row.
(Hew. hear.)
Chevalier LENCIECL, cominimaire.general to the great
canalise, from Ibrdinia, 'acceded the resolution, amilsrave
some Alois illootsative of the nafwvourable operation of the
• esieedpleesta an the oorrespondence with his country.
tg. 1101,Mr. emeliter with Charles Huge ofire
assseß*Wessel the darting in French. Ho dhslocl to the
impldls t el hie friend, Charles Huge, ger having ad-
vocated the abolition of capital punishments, and expressed
his ellen essays nee lathe objeete of dm waiety, especially
its enheneen le the peeineed Oblai poesy Mame. He re-
joissitemt Fmk wee smeeseeted en diet oreselea by men
of as wham men OM.. ether Or peeigerity of
the meet flependieL The et a amp inter-
natiamol peeftge wad& de emsitepremsberivaeml poese,
for eke betimes of the . weitl would heneelbeth be Mose-
acted someZtlesge noples sod less by the gevenumats.
Mr. M. the resolution.
Mr. JOSEPH STURnatodved—'. That all those per-
sons
who profess to recognise a brother in every man, of
whatever country, colour, or audition, ought to regard the
psor African slave as a ' Weser in bonds,' and the products •