The Express.
London, England, 1849-11-28 00:00:00

WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 28, 1849.

. GERMANY.
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The folLswhig letters are from oar own earth-
'pendants:
BERLIN, Nov. 24.
The upper chamber has at last concluded its delibe-
rations on its own future. The remit of the debate,
whisk lasted several dap, is a perfect testisioniines
posipertatei. The chamber ham decided to retain its
old constitution. The division was really monstrous:
they divided no less than sixteen times, eight of
which were by name. The proposition for
a peerage was rejected by a mejerity of 105
against 40; the various amendments proposing
either direct or indirect elections by the highest au-
thorities were rejected by various majorities; the
amendment of the Second Chamber was else rejcted
as well as the proposition of the central committee.
In addition to the unimportant regulation that the
number of elective members shall in no case exceed
180, the following most cautions proposition was
adopted. It will be seen that it retains the present
rno, and trusts V. rest to the good star of
ust. It runs thus:—" The constitution of the
Upper Chamber is to be fixed by a future
special law, which mast receive the sanction
of both chambers and will then become part and
parcel of the constitution of the country. Until
this law shall be pained, the interim elective law of
the 8•11 December, 1849, is to remain in force."
How difficult then must be the creation of an
Upper Chamber in Prussia, when the intelligence and
experience even of this high and mighty senate is
unequal to the task of discovering the proper basis on
which to form such an institivion. And what will be
the remit if the Second Chamber persists in the mixed
system it has jumbled together with such unheard
of state craft P The hard pangs of labour it suffered
in giving birth to its bantling were too severe fur it
to stand quietly by and see it die inch a death.

THE UNITED STATES.

We yesterday announced in a late edition the
arrival at Liverpool of the packet-ship New World,
Capt. Knight, with three days later news from New
York, which port she left on tea 9th instant.
The first third portion of the passage was made in
7 days 2 hours; next third, in 3 days and 22 hours;
11111 last third, in 6 days 11 hours, from long. 51 deg.
on banks of Newfoundland, to 9 deg. in the Channel :
having run 1,900 miles in less than 7 days.
As far as had been known, the elections had termi-
nated in favour of the whige. Cabinet councils had
been very frequent at Washington ; and the subjectwas
understood to be the annual presidential message. It
would be based on the inaugural address, and would
be very abort.
A letter from Havaena of the 22nd Oct. states that,
in anticipation of the threatened invasion of Cuba, a
French war steamer had appeared off that port, and
the captain tendered hie aans'anoe to the Spanish
authorities, bit," to his regret," his services were not
brought into requisition. There is no commercial
news from the States, the markets generally being
characterised by du.neds.
New Orleans papers of the 31st contain late &deices
from Texas. Generel Houston had recently addressed
a large assemblage, during which he said that be was
determined to consider the Awches Mexicans as tri-
butaries. A large party of Camanches were ravaging
the Mexican DeWitt:ants west of Lsredo. It is re-
ported that large bodies of Indians were collecting
between the head waters of the Brazos and Trinity
rivers. Their object is unknown; but it is supposed
they hare hostile intentions. They embrace all the
tribes on our frontier.

VIENNA, Nov. 23.
Telegraphic despatches daily appear in the official
papers, describing the imperial pastimes at Prague.
His majesty will reach Linz on the evening of the
23rd. On his return to Vienna he is expected, instead
of going to Schonbrunn, to take up his residence at
the Barg, within the city, where a suite of apartments
have been latterly prepared for his reception. The
spirit which presides at court at the present moment
may be judged by an order which, I understand, has
just been issued, forbidding married men to bold
office in the imperial household. This is but one out
of a hundred instances that might be adduced of the
shrewd jealousy which keeps watch about the throre,
and the galling restrictions imposed upon court
femaleness..
The treaty with Prussia relative to telegraphic
etassamthation, private correspondence included, has
at leas* been ratified. But three months will, it is
believedt dirges before it oomes into practice.
The Hemdielediammer has just opened au exhibi-
tive of Russian manufacture., which have been
brae& back by the deputies to the exhibition at St.
Petersburg. These gentlemen, MM. Dambock and
Manner, have executed their commission in a way
which has won general approbation, and published
an exceedingly valuable addition to commercial lite-
rature in the shape of a book, containing some 300
PfZon Russian trade and industry.
merows detachments of Honveds continue to be
escorted over the Styrian frontier of Hungary, south-
wards t• Italy. As Klagenfurt lies in their way, and
Ofirgey is supposed to be no great favourite with the
Hungarian soldiers, sines the insane of the surrender
at Vilagos became more apparent, fresh rumours of
plots for the purpose of abridging that traitor's exist-
ence have latterly been spread, and whenever a com-
pany of Heaved officers pass through the place, ex-
traordinary precautions, it appears, are taken by the
authorities to secure his person against all attack.
The activity of some of the great Hungarian pro-
prietors in selling their estates is an expressive sign
of what aspect the future wears to those men, who
have the best means of forming a overeat opinion. The
Wieselburg county has in particular lost several of
its greatest landlords. The Zichys have sold their
domains to Baron Sins. Count Esterhazy has also
disposed of his property. The Counts Szapary got rid
of their possessions some time beck, and Prince
Esterhazy has let the market-town Rims upon a
long lease.
Among the recent measures of police introduced
into Hungary, one of there which have excited
greatest discontent is the new order for the stricter
observance of the Sabbath. Hungary, until lately,
was the country of all others where the most unli-
mited personal liberty was enjoyed. People could
travel where they liked unquestioned, and without
passports. Ne policeman dared to cross the threshold
of a Curio. To a people who enjoyed an immunity
from police surveillance, meddling, and eUctation,
carried perhaps to the verge of excess, it may be con-
ceived how doubly galling are the vexatious inter-
ferences with their habits and movements. The new
stir commands the closing of all shops but apothe-
earls. and bakers' by nine in the morning. The
tobacconist. and barbers look on themselves
as grievously wronged by this edict, which cots them
out of the moat profitable hears of the week. The
artisans must not work, and are heavily fined for
play. The newly-organised gendarmerie exercise
their functions with the sharpness proverbial to the
new in office, and, taking the law into their own
hands more and more as they recede from the large
towns, are daily incurring more hatred fromlthe coun-
try people: while the little knots of from 6 to 8, with
a corporal, planted at remote stations, are only pre-
served from destruction by the dread of military ven-
geance which would swiftly follow. In Presburg it
has been the fashion from time immemorial to wear a

sort of humstr cap. This has latterly been interdicted,
from its resemblance to some caps worn by the Aus-
trian military, which were no doubt borrowed from
it. The gendarmes have enough to do in the streets
with abolishing this head-gear ; and rows are not un fre-
quent, as the cap is a favourite feature in the national
costume. They are equally active in the destruction
of all badges which they regard as revolutionary ;
and it is not uncommon to me a policeman dartinx at
a passer-by, and making a prize of an objectionable
neckcloth or ribbon. _ _

The suspension-bridge at Pesth was opened on the
20th, with great ceremony, under the auspices of
General Haynau and Baron Gehringer. Among the
select party which marched woes and back again to
the sound of the Volke-hymn, by way of celebrating
the restored communication, the English engineer,
Mr. Clarke, was not forgotten. On the retreat
of the insurgent government from Perth in last July,
Mr. Clarke besought Dembinski to spare his bridge;
and beheld with harrowed feelings the disjointed
links plunge into the stream. His satisfaction at the
restoration of his monument must have made ample
amends for the chagrin of that moment.
In the new organisation of the Berrien woiwode-
ship, the way in which any additional influence given
to the Servians will be used ma be inferred from
the following example, far• by the latest ac-
counts from Temeswar. The Bervian bishop, Pan-
taleimos Zsiveovics, has removed upwards of seventy
Dam-Roman priests from their offim. Meanwhile,
it is worthy of remark that the svoiwode appointed is
not a Semen, but an Austrian, Gen. Mayerhoffer, and
of course the devoted servant of the present ministers.
Letters of the 13th, from Jassy, announce that the
Russian commissioner in the Danubian principalities,
General Duhamel, bad been recalled by his govern-
ment. The latest news from Constantinople states
that M. Titof had received instructions to renew dip-
lomatic intercourse with the Porte.

Parsaasuso, Nov. 16.—The division
of the aim waist the sawasaad of Prises Armadas Ri-
Dolgeraid, has totally diedayed the tows of Tselooh, in the
CIPANISIS, after beadmallog it for several days. The Rus-
sian are said to have het only 60 saes, while the loss of
their enemy is mortal te dash 3,000 killed asd woaaded.
The laselaa Saimaa@ AidedL has mammon' that, fa
*sasses le Ise diessfies et the isafeear, s ameitles hes
bus appelatei le upset ea the pespet el the Free* she.
IBM, Iff. Aram*, for lighting 31. Petenharg with dell&
city. Experhasala are to be sada as a large wale in several
parts of the dig.

Cow =slim—The Yorkshire Ga-
ut!. palikhos w hilowing parlionion of an menden at
York, the fano of whisk bear a remediable eshisidesse with
tits Bermondsey Raider .—" lizoontioa offook.-0a Tow
day, Afell 13, &D. 1649, Now T. WorelogOsit sad Marts
11.:0=ton, him wife, were mended st Ms gallows of St.
'a, Green Dykes, without W Bar, for the
wilful snider et Wrniam .; if sear
York. This armed anoior w Be:,oolifm osualtosi is
at Falba, in the eve, jut bolero dime, as the 91h day
c 4 March. Mr. Box% body was bead by spine ototod Mat
led to hie grave is the kitchen, where they bested hie body
near the iimplace, on the 13th of March, by Thomas Bodge,
constable of the village. Their bodies, after the execution,
were given to the wrong Its tlitooltion."

Wood Buten 'WM and all shingled not otherwise taut cargo has been moved by mall sake es
I and libTes. perat"arYbox. 'Ant;herlie,eugoPerbasl°Dsineeiblartif"veratiWt taaeh.."'--711%;11::
immigrated ea demahed, per M.
„ woad-1 pa M.
daises 111, rod or whit* ook or oak Fir it 114
IrmBsimatoth.w.—ialelfanelsratee.No. 2 and 13 barrels No. 3 hive Nth hh.
Jewellery, perfumery, carriages not used for agricultural s.tier at 72.. per barrel.
purposes, clocks and watches and furniture, for every 1001. Teta. --areal sales hare been insde, each at a
value, 101., subject to 10 per cent. drawback on exports. 60e, tea., and "I. per barrel for num. Psitee3Z,VLee
ties. at sys, The proposed Inmate of duty ham had theeffeet hew -aisle
clothing 50 barrels have been made at t6e.tea --eee
All goods, wares, and merchandise, plantation supplies, New ycgth *ado.. ta 44a. Baltimara. per beraha
clothieg, and elects of every description, not previously Toxours—lriah ples' hsve been sold at 50i. per 1144"
enumerated, 4 per cent. ad val., sad 4 per ant, drawback limn, which are old and "volt!." are tare at mi. sea
on exportation. to_quelity. .""'s ofseenig
Except the following, which shall not be liable to any duty _ En?!. In—orchanee adhave been made at lid. duty. ;Ulm
under this act: coals, ooke, titc., diamonds, hay, straw, ice, u°°°' the intended di"0" to duty. Per tand deMNI.
tam column. --•••t
turtle, beeswax, tortoiseshell, raw hides, and hemp. soar,—Liverpool is held for higher fstpl, but so em.
FACRYT SUMMARY 07 TEI JAMAICA JOURNAL, OCT. 22 000ser000 hire bero made. The steel& 114 nal large, em 11:
Hitherto the political horizon has been dark and lower- V CANDLNI have been taken at Id, for re and 12'
hag ; and the prospects of further or renewed collision. the favourite sizes: 7's and lies see unsaleable.h
between the two breathe" of the legislature have ever and Cams. -American le at ?tel. per lb. ; the stock i
' anon parented themselves. Matters now begin to assume a dent. English Moms" and may be quoted at Is, per ibri°l 4111
more favourable appearance, and it would seem as though Lousee—White pine la takes at We. per M.
the business of the country will be proceeded with. We It.—Proof II has been sold at Sa. per gallon. Tw..
still speak with a certain amount of reservation, because shim before the House of dasembly to Iseres.e the e5d....7,101e.
such is the mercurial temperament of our assembly that a eitmeilddmound;ra-tht peen here kinetr.hemeusderanarneduwtyseton,44(,,,(67-•""blek
very small matter suffices to change the whole aspect of of the former act, there eat having been any renewal of it.—"ilbr
affairs, or to raise a tempest. It may be remarked that there acioou_ordi_twiruni;for22._vtheerb. .y
righhtrkpries2aid.
atainniatiott,;
hules.bep: r
told at lYt.
IsZio;
is decidedly a better feeling prevailing in the assembly, and
that the country party have moderated their demands. The
passing of the Import Duty Bill (the principal revenue act of .-"er'..rza...ltrer been taken at lee to 31e. per 100
lb..
the colony) is evidence of the altered views and determination naa,,,,,,_galee ',aye seen made at tid. to bid.per 14
of the mejority of the donee, and when to this fact is 'Arbil the friser.—A supply for 12 months is on hand, ea*,
other, that the appropriation daises have been so modi- dull. Lane's sells at 73e. per hbd. Pale ale in Dottie a 'or
fled as to remove, in a great measure, the ohkaion to wanted-
them, it will be seen that there has been exhibited, on the Tossoco.—Cavendlsh is worth 714. for 15'z, sad 71d. sa ih
part of the Assembly, a desire to yield all that could be, and 2Cra'
.hor of an entire surrender of the claim which it had set up.
For the information of parties at a distance it may be re-
marked that that claim was two-fold. Ist, To appropriate
the ate in the bill raising it, instead of doing so in a
separate bill ; and, 2nd, To appropriate the whole of the
to the payment of particular chime, or the main-
tenance of particular instantiate, in preference and to the
exclusion of others. By the bill which hen been, passed the ,
fist claim is maintained, and the second modified by ap-
propriating a portion of the revenue to be raised under it to
the payment of certain creditors, and the upholding certain ,
institutions, such as the prisons, hospitals, and police, leav-
ing the balance applicable to the appropriations under exist-
ing laws. It is to endure until the 31st December, 1860.
Upon the vexed question of retrenchment nothing has been
done. A bill to reduce the salaries of public officers, and
to grant compensation (the amount of the proposed reduc-
tions for four years) to them, having been carried through
some of its stages, was thrown out in committee of the whole
house. There le one, however, now on its table to effect
prospective retrenchment, by fixing the salaries of future
holders of office, and a committee has been appointed to as-
certain what reduction of the amount of the fixed charges on
the revenue can be effected. Tnere is every reason to believe
that the first measure will be carried ucanimously, and that
an immediate reduction of the cost of the judicial establish-
ment will take place on conditions that will be satisfactory
to the present holders of office. It Is rumoured that the four
judges of the superior courts—namely, the Chief Justice, the
Vice Chancellor, and the two Assistant Judges of the Com-
'mon law Courts, are willing to submit to an immediate
reduction of one fifth of their present salaries, on condition
that upon retirement from office, upon the completion
of the tenth year of service from their first
appointment, they shall be enticed to a pension for life
of one-fourth of their present 'gluier, the reduced sala-
ries and the pensions to be secured by a permanent revenue
act to be passed for that purpose. IC the pensions in question
are added to the reduced salaries, proposed to be given to the
judges by the bill which has been thrown out, there will be
a saving of 16 per cent. on the present expenditure. The
judges claim the option of retiring after ten years' service
upon receiving two years' present salary, with the pension in
question, in which use an opportunity will be afforded the
legislature of reducing the number of judges, and in that
way *Weedily a further reduction of the expenditure. The
chief justice is the only one who has served ten years, and is
eligible to retire. There exists no desire whatever to part
with him, notwithstanding there is a strong one to reduce his
salary. Arrangements of a similar nature to those men
tioned, we have no doubt, mill be entered into with the
chairmen of quarter sessions; or these will come into
the terms which the superior judges may consent to. Other
reductions are contemplated which Bearded out, will relieve
the island to a considerable extent, 'though not perhaps to an
extent which will satisfy all parties. Now that a treaty of
pears and amity has been entered into between the council
and amicably, measures which have long been required will
be introduced into the latter and perfected. One, the bill
to regards' a police force, has already been taken up and
forwarded a stage, and will, we dare say, be passed this day.
Since the let instant the police have been acting u special
constables without pay, and it is doubtful how long they
could have continued to do so, or to Nihilist upon their cre-
dit. The passing of the Imp irt Duty Bill and of the Police
Bill will ensure to the public the aervicts of that force until
the 31st of December, 1850. The next measure of import-
ance which will cecupv the attention of the house will be the
bill to impose a duty on rum distilled or consumed
in the island. For the first six months this
duty is to be 1.. 6d. per gallon, and afterwards 2s.
per gallon. This Latter is the highest rate of duty that has
ever, within our recollection been imposed in this Island,
and is equal to 100 per cent. on the value or price of the
commodity. In addition to the favourable change in the
feelings and conduct of the Assembly we have to announce
an equally favourable change in the steams. Flee rains
have fallen which, in many districts, were very much re-
quired, and from which considerable benefit will result.
The weather has been so uncertain and variable for some
years past, that parties have begun to congratulate them-
selves upon the return (apparently) of the regular October
season'. With low prices to contend against, the return of
these seasons is a matter of very considerable importance to
the sugar planters. We trust that which has commenced so
favourably may continue and terminate auspiciously. With
reference to trade little can be said. It continuts to lan-
guish, but we still hope is not ytt about to expire. The
island is healthy, and the dread of cholera, which had taken
hold of the minds of many, appears to have passed away.

COMMUNICATION BETWEEN HAVRE Alm
LIVERPOOL.

TO TEI IDITOIL OP THE IMPAIRS.
SIB,—An article having appeared in your putt
Monday, in which it is stated " that the idea of renirieg
steamer between Havre and Liverpool, to convey °lntim,'
goods to America when the navigation laws ere rq M 44
• bindoned, and that arrangements are making for s "er, .1.1
such gr ode from Havre to Southampton in strutter; 'IQ
then sending them to Liverpool by rail," I am in4tamit%
give the most distinct and urquelitled denial to the gm,
statement. The advertisement in your peper of al. d.
will show that the establishment of a regular comma • •-"'
by Sratelus steamers, between Liverpool end Have,
connexion with the British and Norte Amnia. Rieg
Mad Steam Packet Company, has teen finally arriaged,e4
that the steamer " Commodore " will leave Liverp,4l
Havre on the 15th, and Havre for Liverpool on the 214 ti
December. I em, Sir, your obedient servant,
J. B. FOORD.
Agency of the British and North American Royal gag
Steam Ships, 52, Old Broad-street, London, Nov. 25,1549.

Vte Court.

OSBORNE, Nor, n.
The Queen and Prince walked early this won*
in the park and grounds of Osborne.
The Prince of Wales and younger members of the roll
fmnßy walked and rode as unaL
There was no addition to the royal dinner party yq.
terday.
Her Royal Highness the Princess Royal sad Priam
Alfred, attended by Bliss Hildyard and Colonel the Lk A.
Gordon, are expected at Osborne this day.

THE QUEEN DOWAGER.
" The Priory, Nov, 27, UK
" The Queen Dowager slept at intervals is th
maiy pert of the night and towards morning, but digiy
several hours her Majesty suffered conriderably foul Me

TRINIDAD.

Order appears to have been restored. The flank
companies of the 72nd Highlanders, 150 strong, ar-
rived at Port-of Spain on the 12th of October. A
long list is published in the Gazette, of the 10th Oct.,
of the parties who came voluntarily forward to be
sworn in as special constables. A notice appeared in
the Gazette, on the 3rd of October, to the effect that
parties having memorials or petitions to present to
the governor were required, in the first instance, to
forward copies to the colonial secretary. The special
commissioner sent to investigate the circumstances
connected with the burning of Mr. Smith's house at
Orapouche, had reported that the squatters on the
crown lands had nothing to do with the affair. It
appears to have been an act of private malice on the
part of some ejected tenants. The following is an
account of the new gaol regulations which appeared
in the Port of Spain Gazette of the 19th October:

"There is no improvement in her Msjesty's symptorestlis
morning. " DAVID DAviss, M.D."

A cabinet ccuncil was held yesterday 'Eternal g
the Foreign-office. It wee attended by Lord John Balsa,
the Lord Chancellor. the Marquis of Ltn-down•, Sir Gwen
Grey, Viscount P‘lmerston, Earl Grey, the Chandler d
the Exchequer, Sir Francis Baring, Sir John Hohlwese,
Lord Campbell, the Eight Ron. H. Lsbenchere, th Novi;
of Clanticarde, and the Earl of Carlisle. The timbal at
two hours and afielf._ _

The prisoners are divided into six classes, sad the
sixth of these classes is—" Insolvent debtors com-
mitted under the 55th clause of the ordinance for the
relief of Insolvent debtors." As regards this sixth
clue, it is required that they shall wear a prison dress
of Osnaburg, with the words " Royal Gaol " and a
number marked thereon, and a red wonted cap ; and, by
the 11th clause of the general regulations, it appears that it
s contemplated to make them work, and that they may be
worked with felons and prisoners under sentence of trans-
portation—they are to receive no other food than the gaol
allowance, nor any description of spirituous or fermented
liquors, unless specially ordered by the physician, and can-
not be permitted to see their friends, save by an order of
the visiting committee,which indulgence is only to be granted
to those whoee conduct shall appear by the report of the
superintendent to entitle them to favour—and the interview
can only take place in the presence of an officer of the prison,
and in the room appointed for that purpose.

The Margins of Lansdowne arrived in town yes.
terday morning to attend the council, from his seat, Barad
Park, Wilts. Lord John Rumen arrived in town yesterday
morning, from Pembroke Lodge, Richmond Park.
The Belgian Minister transacted bovines' yeeta•
day at the Foreign office.
Mr. John Ellis, M.P., and Mr. Paget, had an in.
terview with the Commissioners of Railways yesterday at
their °aloe in the Baird of Trade.

(From last night's Gazette.)
FOREIGN- OFFICE, Nov. 27.—The Qneen his beet
pleased to appoint John Beecroft, Esq., to be her Majesty's
Consul in the territories on the coastof Africa, Via/ hawses
Cape St. Paul and Cape St. John.
DOWNING-STREET, Nov. 27.—The Queen hu been
pleased to appoint Benjamin Chillsy Campbell Pine, Eq.,
to be Lieutenant-Governor of the district of Natal. is South
Africa; also Robert William Recta, Esq., to be Civil Co*
missiormr and Collector of Taxes for the Seychelles Iska*
dependencies of the Island of Meuritlue.
WHITEHALL, Nov. 26.—The Queen has ben
pleased to direct letter intent to be paved under the (hid
Seal, appointing John Elijah Blunt, Esq.. to be cud*
Muter, in Ordinary of the High Court of Chancery, into
room of William Wingfield, Esq.
WHITEHALL, Nov. 26.—The Queen has beta
pleased to nominate the Reverend Browolow Mashed I
the Ministry of Brunswick Chapel, in the perish of It
Mary-le-bone, in the county of Middlesex, and dimwit d
London, void by the resignation of the Rev. Thomas Soon
Smyth, M.A.

The sixth clue, as defined by the 66th clause, includes
fraudulent debtors, debtors seeking relief from any judgment
in any proceeding for breach of promise of marriage, seduc-
tion, criminal conversation, libel, slander, assault, battery,
malieious arrest, or malicious trespass, insolvents not making
a full discovery of his estate, debts, and credits, or have
fraudulently, with intent of diminishing the sum to be
divided among his creditors or of giving an undue preference
to any of the said creditors, discharged or concealed any
debt due to or from the said insolvent, or made away with,
d, mortgaged, or concealed any part of his property
of what kind soever, either before or after the filing of his
petition or the ocisamencessent of imprisonment or the adjn-
dication of his insolvency, or that the insolvent being a
trader and having debts to the amount of 2001. sterling or
upwards has not kept such books of account as to risible the
official assignee to obtain a fall and correct knowledge of the
itholveat's affairs, then it shall be lawful for the cowl by
such final order to adjudge that such insolvent shall be enti-
tled to such protection of his person se soon as he shall have
been in custody for such period or periods not exceeding two
JUTS in the whole to be computed from the making such
final order as to the court shall seem fit, and the court shall
thereupon snake order for the Immediate committal of such
insolvent to the royal gaoL

WESTERN AUSTRALIA A PENAL COLONL—Ibe
Times, in an article denying that it is the official onise d
the Colonial-office, nevertheless communicates the impeetut
official announcement that government has decided
establishing a penal colony for convicts in Western haulm
We give the article in another column.
THE LATE LIEUTENANT-COLONEL PHILLIPS, C.B.
—Last week this officer died at Great Malvern, at the Oaf
age of 44. He entered the army in 1624, as a cornet Who
4.h Light Dragoons, but the next year became a lientessat
in an infantry regiment. Having, in 1844, obtsined the
Lieut.-Coloneley and command of the 53rd Foot, he mo-
needed with that regiment in the same year to Bead. The
deceased officer commanded the 53rd in the Battles of Bo&
diwal, Aliwal, and Sobraon, early in 1846, and WY On-
wards appointed to the command of a brigade of infantry,
with the army of occupation in the Punjab. la 1847 he
returned to England, and became the commanding•officor of
the 57th raiment, but on the following year retired oc hsll
pay. The late Lieut• Colonel Phillips, for his service' m
the Butlej, had received the medal and the coracesioaship
the Bath.

JAMAICA MARKETS.—Kinerrox, Oor.lo.
(Prom Ds Cordova's Merrootar Irdelligmoom)

PEACE SOCIETY LECTURES.—The first of a course
of lectures under the auspices of the Peace Society was
delivered yesterday evening by Mr. A. B. Stevens, at Crosby
Hall, Bishopoate•street, and was attended by a crowded and
attentive auditory. It consisted of ample, interesting, sad
lucid sketches of the various wars in which Diebold re
engaged from the revolution of 1688, down to a period VIII
to the commencement of the American war ; mieespeten
s r e
with comments on the canoe, circumstances, and ren
middle ananddlo that
wer deuced" ir"St i
nt thi
Al
financial and social, of those contests. Much crew was Ufi
ers trnasttai o
on the facts that in nearly every instance the ostensible sb
feet
e of
rs wethewre war
rin all was
people, and not the government or the aristocracy by when
hostilities were projected. At the close of the lecture hint
announced that the subject would be resumed and contisall
next Tuesday evening.
DOAN'S bEWAGE MANURE PLAN.—A meeting ter
held yesterday evening, at the Literary Insitution, Lei-cede-
square, to bear from Mr. Doan an explanation of his pill
for deputrifying and disposing of the metropolitan mega,
so as not to permit of its contaminating the Thames.—Me.?.
B. Daniel, M.D. having taken the chair, Mr. Doan re
readied to read his lecture. In his preliminary ohs/mina
be called attention to the fact that 120,000 persons died ac'•
sully in this country of consumption, and that, of the lid
who died daily in London, only 9 died of old age. Lookief
at the course of the late epidemic, it might be ressonthif
inferred that a great portion of the ordinary and onset&
nary mortality of the country arose from bad wrap, red
the we of contaminated water. The lecturer victim,-
severely the tardy pp ding. of Cleedpe Hasa
and averred that ritiafiatory experiments m tom.
might have bean made for as many shillings as the bend
of health had spent pounds. Having glanced at the ik
tics of cholera with which the public' are familiar, Mr. DO
proceeded with his experiments with specimens of sew.
water, taken from the Northumberlanitsereet warm 1111
following is an outline of his process. The watts,* tie
amain of about a gallon, is pawed into a glass meek td
on it a small quantity of the disinfect* agent (the ear'
alike of which is kept secret). A. iment soon formed
the bottom of the receiver, while the filtrated water dal
out of a tube near the top of the vessel. It is then rescind
into another Altering apparatus, containing what the
taxer describes as animal charcoal. The water i thss
strained through sea-sand, and is exhibited quite ooloshil4
free from Implement odour, and, as we were told by WS
persons mare curious than oneselres, tolerably pleasant tot
teat.' The matter which bre been precipitated in the
is then collected in a cloth., and becomes what is described.!
British guano. This substance answers to the tests by_sTr
Peruvian guano is proved to be genuine, and of its femur_
ing Proofs are cited from several farmers who tsre
it as a manure. Mr. Doan proposes to apply bii Pr.t
aide to the deputritying of London sewage, by arrange v—
field in its course and collecting it into dams, and diren
uuf
pumping them into a series of tank.' in which the d
ing agent has been previously placed. Here the water
be purified, the guano collected, and the filtrated lit:
allowed to flow into the Thames, which, as the lert,sl,7l
alleges, will not be in the slightest degree contaminant% 2
the ooritacx So far as the purification of the sewage
is concerned the experiment appeared to us to an ,
factory. The water was filtered very perfectly,
is
short space of time ; but, as the disinfecting agent_
secret it would be impossible to decide as to the einem
the process for sanitary purzse..,
I A
SEVERAL VERY FINE EAGLES, a splendid bee,'
lama,
ndy laattsd
lama, and a chinchilla, were yesterday (Mo
rida) %repo "
Portsmouth from the Constance frigate, a c
London for the Xerl of Derby.