The Express.
London, England, 1848-05-10 00:00:00

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present year, it should be recollected that in consequence of
recent political events that stock was very much depreciated,
and consequently a great quantity bad been brought lover by
speculators. Ile protested ageing anything being done on
the part of the government to create a bad feeling between
this and any other country, or to raise hopes in the workieg
classes which must inevitably be disappoiwa.
Sir D. L. EVANS took that opportunity to .
seek the noble
lord the Secretary for Foreign Affairs, whether he had com-
mucated recently with the Proonal Government of
Francs respecting the claims of the 100 engineers whose case
he (Sir 1). L. Evans) had brought uuder the noble lord's
notioe /
Lord PALMERSTON said he bad brought the ease under
the coneieration of te French governme t and nothing
could bed more handsome than the manner in which his ap•
plicatioo had been received. (Mear, hear.) lie could not
at that moment state the progress that had been made in the
matter, but the hon. and gallaat member might rely on his
best esertione to bring it to a successful
the termin
oratder ion.
Mr. BANKES cordially approved of whichohis noble friend had alluded, and if any hon. member chose
to move an address of thanks to her
Majesty he should be
most happy to second it.
Mr. HUME thought the suggestion the most mischievous
that possibly could be made.
After a few words from Mr. NaWDEGATE, approving the
restriction to British manufactures,
Colonel THOMPSON said that his constituents at Brad-
ford made a great many waistcoat and pantaloon patterns for
foreign consumption, and coatsc that these were
fairly trucked for ladies' petti from France. (Laughter.)
Surely .the order which had been the eubject of so much
discussion bad not issued from a quarter which was eatitled
to all respect. Surely it had come front some court Polo-
nius who was not entitled to much attention. ("
Hear,"
and a louh. lie had no confidence in lorden ds, but he felt
sure that the) ladies had more sense than to att to such an
order. Why, there was not a girl in England who wore a
pair of French gloves, who did not know that they were im-
ported in exchange for British manufactures. Ile trusted
that the node lord and his colleagues on the opposite
beech, would at length see the folly of making one ralf of
a coesmmunity beggars under the pretence
other.
Mr. CIIRISTOPIIER thought that the bon. and gallant
member for Bradford should be informed that even hie con-
stitueots were injured by recent importations from abroad.
Haring the last three mouths woellens to he value of
nearly 70,0001. had been imported, representing the em-
ployment of 9,200 of the hon. and gallant member's consti-
tuents. lie (Mr. Christopher) remiced at the command
which had Bien issued by the sovereign, but trusted that it
would not create any 19 feeling is a neighbouring country.
Lord J. RUSSELL—Perhaps alter 10 much having been
said, he might be permitted to add that he did not eonsider
the order alluded to by the noble lord as one of very great
imperial importance. It certainly was never intended as a
retaliation for the driving of Englishmen out of France. It
appeared to him to be an order i
vendedn for thelte ulterior

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IMI'ERIAL PARLIAMENT.
HOUSE OF LORDS TUESDAY, MAT 9.
The LoaD CiinscaLtion took his seat at 5 o'clock.
PUBLIC BUSINESS.
SECOND ILEADVo.—Provident Asemistion Fraud Prevention
Bill.
REPORT.—lncumbered FAMMe (Ireland) Bill.
TIDED READINO..-Indemnity Bill.
'PETITIONS. —By the Varlet l'Orrrinceit, troniTorrinledk end ether
places in Devonshire; lord Banconsii, from • place la ilamtahlre,
the Lord Proveet and town Donnell a Edinburgh, 'Menses, mad msny
other places ,• Lord Csarau.s., Itom Greenock and Wintechapri; Lord
Kunisino, final Coventry, liionston-urmTlinin TollWVirn the
Cuedcathic* of Oxford, Acton, Ealing, end other PEnfeel liatS,'"l. of
e ZiCAIWIN from Drogheda; Earl of be. Demesn, frOM I.loblond,
Pennine% MI other places in Cornwall; Lord Lesoncear, from a
place in Kent and other p Seen in favour of the lowish Disabilities
Bill.—Farl EtAII,,CI: it, Lord lisovuose, Lard nialn.iv, Lord Lein,.
Warr, Earl of Forneros, Lord Basileoni, the Duke of Eh eel in-cii,
and the Marquis of Wascutensa, from various lodges, in favour of
the bill for I,wilisins Odd Fellow soeielisa—Lianneas from
Dr. Potts, pra)ing their
fiordship', to insUtu so bigotry into the
merits of his inveillial driVing On by MeSiol of VieWilaUo
preesure.”
DR. POTTS'S INVENTION.
L,rd LYNDHURST having Fated the object of this peti-
tion for n inquiry into the merits of the invention for pile
driving, a
by pneumatic permute, in connesion with public
erorks4and the construction of national defences, thc Duke
teeth
Wellington and Lids Auckland and Brougham, bore
mony to its useful chareeter.—To lie on the table.
PROVIDENT ASSOCioNIATIONBIL S FRAUD PREVEN-
TL.
Lord BEAUMONT, in moving the second reading of this
etie
bill,s
better known as a Wit for legalising Odd Fellows' Soci-
after stating the history of Odd Fellows, Foresters,
and 'similar societies, which had been decided to be illegal,
as coming within the 39 Oeo. 3, c. 76, argued at some
length that as these associations were purely of a charitable
character, they. ought tu be brought within the provisions of
the Benefit Societies Act. At present the surplus funds of Odd
Fellows' societies were invested in the names of individuals as
trustees, the societies not being able to make investments in
their own names. These were evils which the bill proposed
to remedy, and he trusted their for
would consent to
its second reading.
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE could not assent to the
bill in i.s present torm, as it would enable societies with
secret signs to be established both in England and Ireland,
and applied to mischievous purposes. He, ho er, w
ould
give give his anent to the second reading, beenase
the societies intended to be benefited by the bill had some
claim on their lordships, and ho hoped the measure would
be referred to a select committee to see if it could bo so
shaped as to give the Ond Fellows' societies the advantages
of the Benefit Societies Act.
Lord BEAUMONT was quite satisfied, and would endea-
vour to shape the bill in accordance with the wishes of the
noble marquis.
CHURCH BENEFICES.
The Bishop of ILAN DAFT postponed his motion on this
subject until Tuesday nest.
Their lordships adjourned at half-past six o'clock.
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HOUSE OF COMMoNS.—TVESDIY, MAT D.
The Sv BASIS tk PRIVATEair at 4 o'clock.
BUSINESS.
REPORT CONSIDEILED.-Uunenaferry PUMP Bill, and ordered
to be recommitted.
101 READINGS. -Derby Waterworks; Lambeth Waterworks ;
Ilanchester General Cemetery ; Patent Galvanised Iron Company
(incorporation of company, with powers to hold %AMIN to raise money
by loan, itn.l to purchase letter' patent); Bills.
PUBLIC BUSINESS.
PETITIONS.-By Capt. lusts, from Londonderry : Col. Mum,
from Greenock: Mr. Boogie, from Liverpool; Mr. Di su AN, from
Dundee ; Mr. V. MOVIA, (tool Perthshire and other places; Sir It.
Pmt., from a Scotch presbytery: Mr. Ew sac, from Dumfries; all in
favour of granting sites for flue churches airscotd.-Col.Cosoul.v,
several petitions from plaoes in Ireland, agt the national system of
education for that country.- Mr. Feiss, from Derby, against the
legicy duty. .Sir 0. ClSint, front Doter, against the Ileelth of
Towns Bill; and by Lord :Omni, from Bath, in (AVOW. of that mess-
sure.-Lord Bsusias, from Warwick, againn the sale of spirituous
liquor. on Sundays.-Sir J. T. Busies, from places in Devonshire,
against the dui,. on attorneys' cerhttoites.-Mr. Musts, from Odd
Fellows' societies of Birmingliam, to favour of friendly societies
Trinket*
NOTIC. ES OF MOTION.- it,GOILIt Drsaserrc.orthd e
state /onus'',
on the nth of Daze, to bring under the notice of the house of
the juvenile popuiation of the metropolis.
Mat ItSS ORDERED.-Oa the motion of Mr. Ilamitros, relative
to the crown Dralsot Ballykilchre, arid of the parish of Killtiass, is, the
county of Itoecommon.-th, the motion of Mr. t mut tsar, copies of
ceders of instructions issued by the commissioners of sesers of the
metropolis relative to experimints made with respect to tluunfecung
Ards.
LONGFORD ELECTION PETITION.
The following memben were sworn at the table to try the
merits of the petition against the sitting member for Long-
ford:-The Bon. E. P. llonverie (chairman), Messrs. It. I.
Tennant, W. H. P. Carew, Lord Unity Bentinck, and Mr.
Blaney.

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as it was at first issued, and believe that we can intrinsic worth, a distrust so easily aroused may er.
• tly congratulate ourselves on having obtained pear to be rather absurd than pendent. Without Wiitj;,
jug
some of its material amendments; but we can- to determiue so nice a point, we are content to I;
not lend ourselves to the senseless cry welch assured of the fact, and this fact we are diepoesa to
endeavours to draw benevolent men from the true consider as the cause of the recent drain. 'fee din
object of their sympatbies. Such men as the wise once set in, it received an important addition fromths
&Broome who view themselves as reprysentatives events in Ireland, and the demands upon
_ the sae*
of the human race, and cannot extend their intellects banks in some parts of that country. It was inc
beyond the limited sphere of their own comforts or in the third place, by that particularly obnoxious pre.
annoyances, cannot be expected to open their ears vision of the recent banking laws which plus,
to the groans of the dying or to the wailinge of the proviucial circulation under the fetters of i
the bereaved orphans and widowe. But that men, minimum ; for this is one of the junctures in tno
who can understand what has already been exposed course of the twelvemonth, when the tempmets
of the horrible sufferings and intense wretchedness increase of businees in the country banks calls do
caused by the delay in the passing of sanitary measures, use a greater volume of circulating medium. num;
and who can see unmoved the duration of human life there has been the exportation of the precious meta,
cut down from the scriptural ago of threescore years which has taken place to France and to the countess
1 and ten to the fearfully low standard of eighteen and between Ostend and the Elbe. This is the last
twenty years in most of our large towns—that such species of demand upon which any uniess would
men can dare to point to the history of the past as be founded, and in point of feet we believer'
it to have
1 justifying uncontrolled civic management for the been among the least extensive of the four
future, displays an iguorance or a heartlessness which which have produced a decline in the Bank reserve.
itlbecomes men entrusted with legislative functions. The tempnnuor hassledderesion in the elite ot the French
tis easy, like Mr. Ilituttmomi, to characteriee the exchange which
exposures of heavy evils such as these by the I realth has been brought about by circumstances altogetus
II of 'I owns Commission as poetic fictions; it is still peculiar. The events of February brought into the mar.
I easier to make a deliberative assembly laugh bY a man as sellers
theynearlevery Frenchmen:tient andtrades.
speech which has delayed the bill for a single night, ho had good fortune to possess a vendable
'during which more than a hundred people have been commodity; andthe pressure of the same events tooku
I, swept to an untimely grave; but it is a solemn and completely out of the market nearly eve Frenchman
' a serious matter to lon me that these jeers are answered who, under other circumstances, would have appeared
'throughout the land by the sighs of the dying there as a buyer. 'the result, therefore, Wail very
1 and the lamentations of the bereaved. And natural. The quantity of bills on England to be sou
yet it is true that every day's delay in
sanitary legis- was greater than could be disposed of without aa
ration renders the country responsible for a large abatement in their price ; and hence, in spite of the
amount of preventible disease and death, measured conversion of the notes of the Bank of France into a
not by units, but by hundreds. compulsory paper money, we have seen the quote.
It is no true argument to say, that our country pos- tions in the Bourse descend to a point ahnoo aelow es
' sews a lower rate of mortelity than that of the eon- they, ever reached undera perfectly convertible state of
lacerate' states, whre central snitary arragements the French currency. On our side of the channel
veil if theses were efficientlya carriedn eut, the the price of French bills has been also dear, from die
Pr° ..
comparison might be just, but we know that this is operation of the same causes, greatly aidut
I the very reverse of the fact. The small attention to however, by the prevalence of a very natural dielzut
sewerage, to the ventilation of streets', to the supply of in the stability of a large portion of the drawl ,
water, all the very main springs of public health, and of the bills on the other side. These phew:sue
1 the neglect of all which characterises continental towns, are now disappearing, and the state of the exch
ss
I render wholly useless the police arrangements for the beginning to be a tue index of the balance atm&
II üblic health. No one can now assert t
hetween the two countrriea—a balance mainly in fawn
Protection of p
I that the state of our towns under local management is of England. The same narrative, with less of ea-
such as it ought to be, nor can it for a moment be phasis, will apply to the recent shipments of coin is
averred, that the rate of mortality is not infinitely Belgium and Holland. sae
' greater than it should be in a civilised country. The In our own money market the difficulty has been
system of local management has been fairly tried, and for some time not for the merchant of good credit to
Ufound wanting. it cent inquiries have shown obtain money, but to procure a merchant of good
that the causes of local failure s are local jobbery and credit to take it. For short terms, and in exchange
mismanagement on the one hand, and ignorance of for sound securities, the value of money has fallen
what should be done on the other. A board of super- very nearly.ae low as in the redundant season of 1843.
vision is to be appointed to remedy these defects, and But there is this important difference between that
the opponents ot the bill refuse to allow it a fair time and the present the prospect of an increred
trial. We are not surprised that the cottage owners demand for capital was then so hopeless that people
in their prejudices should jeiu this opposition, although of wealth were becoming desperate, and were mei.
unwisely in our opinion, as we shall shew in another sible to any extravagance of proposal. A description
article that they would be gainers by its adoption. of this kind will not apply to the present moment
But we are much astonished at the ignorance of sani- It is true that the rate of interest has fallen to 2
tary law, the perversion of palpable facts, betrayed by per cent. on three months' paper ; but by to bonen
the exponents of this opposition in the houve. In money for 12 months on the strenh of a cargo se
Mr. Ditemetoee's speech on Friday, in a tone and coffee, sugar, indigo, or silk, and you will presently
with a levity wholly unbecoming the subject-matter find that the middle of the stream cannot be judged
of debate, the possibility of disease and filth acting by the placidity of the margin. One man will tell
detrimentally on the progress of religion and educe- you that under present eireunastunees the time is too
!ion, and favouring the growth of crime, was long—the next, that under the same cirenmstarees
the security is liable to great hazards ; &ird, that be
treated as a langhter-exciting absurdity. Apo- will accept you at once if you will admitth a liberty of
lily more fully and satisfactorily determined. real in the event of bad intelligence from Freres;
Lord Astit.Ev broughethat matter home to every one's and a fourth, that be will lend yen the money,bet
convictions. It requires little medical knowledge
to understand that the depressing iufluence of foul only at seven per cent. and a wide margin.
These, it seems to us, are the difficulties of tie
emanations, the causes of dieease, produces a future, which, if sentiments of precaution are to be
craving for stimulants of all kinds. It is this, in a cherished at all, must be d
be ex the basiceedingly upon
hickwhthey
modified degree, which incites the female sex in all are to pr oceed. It wouli they
to
filthy localities to sacrifice every personal comfort and place them out of view. It would be peculiar le in.
luxury, rather than forego the purchase of tea and expedient in our own case to omit all fothauOt u
coffee ; and it is this, in a greater degree, which makes to the effect of a sudden demand fortld um
the gin-bottle an appendage rarely absent from the the Bank of England, exciresence ofted by aFa
Ratio
rench is.
houses of the poar. The filth of these houses, arising vasion of Italy,
or the p
mainly from the want of facilities for cleanliness, contingent in Schleswig. There cannot be a moon*
lzaces fur them little of the enjoyment and comforts of doubt that any extensive warfare in Europe won
a home, and their occupants look to the tavern and gin
fortinsantly produce an impression on the Bank coffers
palace for the forgetfulness of their domestic miseries. the supply of military chests ; and the inure so It
The wife living always in undrained and filthy loca- the present Juncture, because the tendency of all re.
lilies, bowed down by disease and suffering, cannot
long retain that equanimity of temper which is cent events, from Vienna to Paris, and from the Baltic
to Piedmont, has been to provoke the hoardine or the
essential to the happiness of the poor man's home, exportation of the precious metals. A demand 15
and his enjoyment is rarely there. Freed from do- gold and silver arising out of such causes must be
mestic restraints, and under the iufiuence of stimu- carefully istinguished from an ordinary adverse
lents and bad associate!, it is not wonderful that crime balance of payments. When a king or a con.
often becomes a secondare result of those causes queror wants hard dollars to protract a defensive
which primarily acted prejudicially on his health. or complete a victorious campaign, he higgis
Statisticians are fully agreed that crime and disease do about the price, and as ROTHSCIIILD told the charter
often go hand in hand, and the reason of their doing committee of 1832, if five per cent. premium will not
so is not so occult 83 to justify the sneers of even a do it, ten per cent. will be given. Of this we have
eection of the house. The map of any large town, had plenty of examples. Most of the foreign poetise,
marked separately by the police, the scavenger, and for examele, of the great drain of seven raw
the registrar of deaths, unitormly shows that crime, which took place between June, 1830, and FebrnerT.
death, and filth, co-exteud over the same areas. 1832, was exported to countries for the purposed
war reserver, at an immense sacrifice upon every
ground of commercial calculation. And in the teat
of the same calamities again occurring we matte
prepared for the same contingency, carried out in the
same spirit of defiance to every economical maxim.

GERMANY.

PRUSSIA.—We have received our usual files of
German papers. 'those from Berlin reach to the lti
of May. the magistrates there have published
notice stating that in consequence of the great distils
among the inhabitants, the municipal authorities law
been anxious to provide employment in the executio
of public works, bat they are Impeded by the sk
looked for demands upon the savings bank (spite
arse), which amount to 500,000 rix-dollars, while*
available funds to meet it amount to only 30,000. AS
there are no public sources of income to meet thew
extraordinary demands, an income tax has bees de.
cided upon with the sanction of the 'Ministers of the
Interior and Finance. 1. One per cent, shall is
raised upon net income as an extraor Unary tax.
All substantial inhabitants of our city within the ple•
cincts shall be subject to this tax ; but every indi•
vidual enjoying. a net income of 300 rix-dollars, sod
families consisting of only two persons, with a tet
income of 400 rig dollars, are exempt. 3. It will Is
left to every person liable to be taxed to estimate
hs
own income, and to give the amount which be MID
consider to be the Just proportion. They are rt.
quested to do so in order that the government taithoti-
ties may be enabled to provide work, and repay flit
savings bank.
M. il'Usedom, Envoy Extraordinary and VoidsM.
Plenipotentiary at the Court of Rome, arrived hes
on the sth inst.
The Prussian Political Indicator of Berlin was
tions a report that the Danish government has re
posed an armistice of three weeks, during which ths
confederated German troops should confine thew
to the continent of Schleswig. The General-M4ii
is stated to have replied, that he could not cosset,
an armistice, except on condition of the eve..
by the Dales of the island of Alsen, and taking
the embargo laid on German vessels. The missal
the Danish government was hourly expected.
The following letter is from a correspondent, we
relates to the affairs of Posen:
BEanix, May 3.—According to the provisions @IWO
vention entered into between the Prussian geversailq
presented by General Wiftizen, and the
that o
l
eos s of
assay
of Posen, it was distinctly stipulated i
latter who wished to be incorporated into the antelw•
be allowed to remain in the camps at Pleshen, Nor,.
Xionz, and Ravikew, and employ their time in Mr'.
themselves tor the regular military service. As see% Mt
ever, as General Willisen left Posen, General Coloak *
tuated with feelings of hatred and ji alousy towar':
former, chose to disregard the treaty and attaeltef
Polish camps. The Poles, seeing themselves betrefeol
anyroi
termined to seal ther lives dearly, and although
by overwhelming forces and almost entirely deprived
have resolved to defend to the last the liberties 10,
concessions made to them by the King's commie*:
have already described to you the bloody coaflir*,,::
Odolany and at Raszkow. Near the latter place the Fr
with General Willisen's special permission, establaross
military school, as a nucleus for the future annl.o
young men, all belonging to the best families otitis
and all drafted from that legion which was formed at
immediately after the revolutionand received their srr,
the President Istinutoli, were quietly pursuing their seit,' t
when all of a sudden a Prussian regiment coadetlf,
Silesia entered the place, and carried them away as
to Krotoszyn, where they have been treated 111 Ow
;
malefactors, and it is said the/ will be kept as hoetallsZo
Xionz the Poles were about iOO in number. Oil
the 29th ult., this handful of men were attacked bk../
PrlllsilLllL The stnigFle was terrible. It lasted foes
Three times the PrIIIILIII hussars and cuirainal
palled, with a great loss. At length the Prosily
masked their artillery, and a fearful cartage 2..„11,
hundred Poles remained on the field, the rem;
towards Nowe Waste,. The town of Xionz Li is
a heap of ashes. Major Dombrowski, who