The Express.
London, England, 1847-08-20 00:00:00

Moe, we believe it will sucoendully resist—we know
it will be most empty justified in resisting—any at- '
tempt to revise it
It might be worth while to say a few words re-
specting these "claims of the public," as against
railways, which made such a figure in the decla-
mation we have been commenting upon. We
may take coossion some day to ascertain the
real state of the amount between the two parties,
to see which owes the moat to the other, and what is
the nature of that indefinite arrest, to which re-
ference is continually and confidently made by
writers of a pertain class. But enough has been said
for the present in exposing the more palpable fictions
in the /fines' article ; pedalos mere, indeed, than the
known character of such articles may be thought to
deserve.

Luce all that tends to greeds dm Marsh of the
industrious slemeo rho sass et seemly emits has
I=are sonsmtal them was anticipated.
gm% sued§ of requelb, and the like,
had net Ms is mg odes with the public,
either tam the elks judges or from
defects inherent is the Neither we the
appointments of judges
miktr the osnayy coma mach as
lad the public to e anjuirm high degree of
et ideney. Bat most silks though NM dis-
thiguishol at the biro wemus smidstabis sped-
elm idlobsd ineingimo Mink' which eamlnat
allominss k tles 1111.0 and ow share of prestige
anent mew
_yeas were likely k afford. l'he set
rewired tibial's to be selected tram barristers of
swear
geearM' 'in but, in Ist, the majority of
the are men of nearer three Ms seven years'
, than the lowest quallibutis allowed by
the set.
TM writer of an article ea lists warts in the
August number of the Law Yee 11111111 MM tile
" policy of restricting the selection et judges to busk
tem of upwards of seven years' slemilefaidask lisks
obvious that very few really eumpOlent
more than seven years' standing Met whose Miss
prospects are not by that time tool/sod toubereA
for ever for no higher salary than the new j
promise, and which in many cases will
to 7001. or 8001. per. annum, when the pleat dose-
=lotion of cases is over." Now we do net think
this a correct test to apply to the new tribunals, or the
tjudges who preside there. It is perfectly true that
thelighest clam of legal ability will not be attracted
to these Sloes, and that the promising men who
are exciting the attention of the miters and prac-
titioners in the superior courts, of seven years' or
even less standing, will not be " willing to abandon
all their professional prospects," for the sake of the
maximum salary of 1,2001. per annum. But all who
have any intimate acquaintance with the history of
the bar know how much " prolsseional prospects"
depend apon connexion, or other sat des, apart
from mere talent, and how frequently prospects, 000111
most promising, have, from came remote front want
of legal knowledge, failed to realise the e
fruit. When it is seen into blew soropsativ27/1 1
hands the great mass of business in our dif-
ferent superior courts falls; how frequently I
the successful advocate fails when transferred
to the bench, where the loquacious energy once useful
to the client becomes a grievous evil to the suitors and
the practitioners ; how often men of no striking emi-
nence at the bar have turned out able judges; and,
above all, how many men there are of steady buai-
ness-like, habits, who have plodded on respectably
with only a moderate share of practice and with
none of that reputation which attracts public atten-
tion, we shall not feel surprise that judges, confessedly
mediocre banisters, have conducted the business of
their courts with advantage and satisfaction to the
public. He who ects that sixty men of first-rate
talent can be drafted from the bar to fill the offices of
travelling judges for 1,2001. a year, must have a
far more romantic notion of the ability of the
English bar than the reality justifies; but let him be
content with just and sensible views of the cases to
oome before the county courts, with average. legal
learning and seamen, and with the training a
considerable period of practice in our courts has
given, and there will be no difficulty in selecting from
the bar three or four times sixty men willing and
able to perform efficiently the duties of judge of a
county court.
These remarks will show that we regard a period
of some duration loused in the superior courts of
more importance than mere talent, aided by less ex-
perience, es the qualification for judges of the county
courts. Doubtless some of the appointments lately
made do not fall within either category, and a few of
the decisions are strangely contradictory ; bat these are
the exceptions, the rule is the other way. In all parts
of the country the best practical effects have been
produced by local and cheap justice. Debts, deemed
by both debtors and creditors irrecoverable, have been
got in, much to the advantage of both parties. A loose]
and ruinous system of credit, extending over many
years, has long been the curse of the provincial dis-
tricts. Persons who, with ordinary care, might have
paid
their way, have thus got into debt in various
directions, until at last they have been overwhelmed
with accumulated law expenses. Many small busi-
ness transactions have been avoided altogether,
because, if credit had been given at all, it would have
been unsupported by any practical method of enforc-
ing payment.
The extent to which these things have operated
to give employment to the new courts, in the popu-
lous districts, may be learned from a parliamentary
return which relates to the Liverpool and Manchester
districts alone. It appears that, from the 15th of
March, when the new courts were opened, to the 18th
of Jane last, there were issued at Liverpool 3,375
summonses, being an average of 259 weekly. During
the same time, at Manchester, 2,748 summonses had
been is Supposing the business to continue at
these rates, there would be in Liverpool 13,500, and
at Manchester 10,984, summonses yearly. Of these
cases no less than 1,532 were heard and disposed of
at Liverpool, and 1,189 at Manchester, in the three
months ; and we learn from a legal periodical, that
" this vast amount of dispute has been disposed of
generally to the satisfaction of the suitors."
And the writer in the " Law Magazine," from
whose able article we have before quoted, though be-
traying some of the prevailing professional jealousy
towards these courts, and intimating that " the public
interest is itself concerned, that improvements in the
facility of justice be not effected at a sacrifice of its
quality," thus accounts for the acknowledged popu-
larity of the new courts : " we have no doubt that s
great number of suitors, who hare recovered their
money without trouble or expense, are highly de-
lighted at the new act, and have little reason to
quarrel with its judges ; nor are those less fortunate
=against whom judgment has been given, any
illipialified to detect the ignorance of law, con-
fusion at its principles, or misapprehension of evi-
=ovoid& may have led the judge into error. The
of the new measure, great as it may be, is
no suns index to its real value." From the last men-
tos wis met beg to diligent. The public approval
the web bare received does form a very sore
index at their real value, though such approval
by no wins excludes the improvements which
axperisses may show to be required either in the
Litof the judges, or the constitution of the courts.
:lower *di that "not only are the judgments
la asesplisated ow very frequently given off-hand,
hi sluts long ass hes been gone into, and several
idiom= examined, Iles expected to sum the
sees sp k his owe without the assistance of
:Pever his Mee really, this seem to
alm pies Miss kr ihs sums law forms,
to whit& he Ms pediably hen amerahmed. It appears
that the suitors seldom require juries, so much so,
vest, during the three months before mentioned, there
we in Li el only six eases in which a jury bad
M a demsed4 and in ilesdowts none at all. Of
what posible vise mold it to for the judge to read
over Ms nobs, sr weeny in sir OMB Ott of ten, to
mks any notes begM Os SIM* memoranda ? Why
Mid there be ores fogair in "giving jadg:
sew off-band' Ilse be the granary cases at Nan
Peke P The Clonestyjulgs sonstantly decide " off-
line ease et tar mere :mberity than any likely to
ems babes the county
I. bulk the nice and dills& points raised in our
semis eosin are mainly attributable to the ingennity
of scenes] ; and the entire absence of such subtleties
from the minty courts will be beneficial rather than
otherwise. Asa proof that the public takes the
common-sense view we have suggested, as to the
judge reading his notes, the reviewer says, '?re have
hard ,

courts, when comparatively few of the eases amount
to anything more than the summons of a reluctant
debtor, bekee a court sitting amoart his neighbours,
to show some reason for not paying his debt. We
have heard of instances is whi& a few pointed
remarks by the judge, on the morality of the excuses
made for non-mment, have had a beneficial effect
beyond the particular cues but, in general, we appre-
hend that the county courts judges will best perform
their duties by conveying their decisions in the
smallest possible compass.

IT is much to be regretted that circumstances com-
pelled Mr. WAXLEY to withdraw his Medical Regis-
tration Bill. No measure of the kind ever gained so
much of the confidence and favour of the medical
profession, and if the petitions in sap port of it did not
show a clew
country
of the ms practitioners
thromgboist the country, this arose frem distrust of the
Howe et Connices—not of the MIL The constant
eat of medical quietism by the legislature
Clip:Toed an iadillbeleseeart of the medi-
cal peollsese,and they have y resigned them-
selves to die most date of , seeing that so
many preview sliemeta have been entirely fruiting.
Many amine ter the paining of this bill were
Arai ea aseoent of the little seems attendant upon
their knew efforts the opposition to it, with the
o;vermof that of the London corporation, was
asest trivial character. The only body that
has vestured oa publicly objecting to it has been
the council st the National Institute, and so little
sympathy have they obtained in this course, from the
great beak of its members, that a very large ,
properties el them presented a protest against the
poetics the council thought right to assume towards
Mr. WAYLET'S bills
We are sorry to observe this : for it sheers
the fate of the National Institute must now be
regarded as sealed ; dissension has broken nut in their
cam", and it is impossible that the council can ever
nun be able to organise themselves as a body,
which will gain the respect and confidence of the
practitioners of the United Kingdom.
,Thet
partakes too mulh of th the e:Candi toe?' of .thaAltolf Else bill
corporations to free them from the suspicion of the
same motives—a desire to obtain power for themselves
—will, we think, be evident from their last manifesto.
They state that the National Amociation and the Na-
tional Institute, "have, at all times, declared the ex-
pediency of legalising, and placing upon an equality
in one institution, all qualified members of the profes-
sion now in general practice." This, with the excep-
tion of forming a new institution, is the object of
Mr. WAKLEY'S bill. It is tree, his bill does
not contemplate any ulterior measures, such as those
of the National Institute ; but, as fa; as it goes, it
only contemplates what the council of the Insti-
tute themselves are desirous of effecting. It is also
deserving of notice that the first step—that which
is contemplated by Mr. WAIMET'S bill—can be easily
earned into effect, and with comparatively little
oppition, whilst the new institution the Council
=
to raise, which is to secure a complete
and surgical education for the general
peastitioner in connexion with themselves, must
essemearily receive the opposition of every other
medical body in the kingdom, and its eventual gue-
sses is altogether problematical. Would the coun-
cil of the institute, then, throw away the substan-
tial advantages of Mr. WAKLEY'S bill, which are
within their grasp, for the sake of an ideal kaki-
tution or castle in the air, whose actual enistanse
will probably never be realised? If they weld, we
do not think the great body of their members will,
and in this position they must clearly see the neces-
sity for the dissolution of their organisation.
The main objection urged by the council of the
National Institute, and by some other objectors to
this bill, is that it will enable a member of
any existing medical institution to practise
department of the medical profession. How is it
that, at the present moment, members of the
Wage of Surgeons are allowed to prescribe in
‘rd sass, and members of this body and of the
OsUrge of Physicians allowed to practise as as-
eauckeurs without interference, but that then is
ecinviction on the part. of the public that the ro-
asted) they have of their ability to wadies is sr&
eked P The public do not need, nor era the seesaw
meat require, that men should heap diploma epee
diploma and icense upon license, in 411411 r Oat they
should prove their competency to prudes tin me-
dical profession. All with which the goeseresset
has to do is to see that a man, whether be calls
himseltapothecary, surgeon, or phyeician,hassofficient
knowledge of his profession to render amistaree in de-
ems without, through ignorance, endangering the lives
of those who are submitted to his treatment. It is
for the medical profession itself to form such com-
binations as shall present to the public further gua-
rantees of skill in particular departments of medicine.
This la rot the time for particular classes of men to
sail out for protection; all that the public can de-
mand of the civil power, all that the government can
do, is, to provide against the destruction of human life
by ignorance and folly ; all further development and
improvement must be left to tl.e organic power of
combination in the profession itself.
It has been again and again asserted that the
" Medical Registration Bill " would allow the che-
mist and druggist to act as a medical practitioner,
because clause 27 secures to him the exercise of his
" trade or business in such manner and as fully and
amplytand to all intents and purposes, ssthe same trade
or business" has been heretofore carried on. Now
we would wish to call attention to the fact, that this
clause is copied from the Apothecaries' Act, the very
aot, by repealing which, it is said this bill will do so
much injury. But no one ever thought of construing
the words " trade or business " to mean acting as a
physician, surgeon, or apothecary ; and clause 14 of
the bill provides, that every person who shall hence-
forth " act as a physician, surgeon, or apothecary in
any. part of Great Bntain or Ireland, without being duly
registered," /Inch person shall, on conviction before
any magistrate, forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding
five pounds ; and clause 20 provides that every un-
registered person who shall pretend to be either phy-
sician, surgeon, or apothecary, or shall take any name
implying that he is registered under this act, may be
convicted before any magistrate in a penalty of ten
pounds. Really these clauses seem sufficiently. definite
to secure both the public and the profession from
every form of pretension and ignorance.
Mr. WAYLLEY is a member of the new parliament.
He pledged himself, if returned, to introduce his bill
early in its first session. The medical profession in
general ought to be immediately on the alert ; for only
by zealous and continued exertion on their part can
the influence of the London corporations, and of the
council of the National Institute, be overcome.
evi-

HEED-WORSHIP is inherent in the human mind.
There is nobody but reveres somebody else. Great
minds bow down to the masters in their respective
crafts,
_great dramatists to SHAHBPRARE, great pain-
ters to RAPHAEL, great sculptorsto MICHAEL ANGELO,
gridto tO ALEXANDER, NAPOLEON, or MARL-
Little men have their little heroes.
=AM isaks Count D'ORSIAT as an embodied
Terdatiso, ed to this planet, to teach its deni-
sees how to dress and drive. Tailors used to have
aatpourings of reverence for GEORGE IV., who wore,
to *lir am a higher royalty than that of the sceptre
--ass arreedgely of the shopbeard. Every cabman
has Roo realised ideal, some king of the ranks,
who Moo sharper round corners, and bullies
a etre siw fiercely than any of his compeers. The
little dad= vagrants of the street, who haunt our
dirty_maerillble rats, range themselves under some
self leader in picking pockets and pitch-and-
toss law. othing, in fact, so low bat finds some-
thing a little higher to rift its eyes and thoughts and
heart np to.
Bat the most extraordinary development of this
universal feeling we have yet seen, was announced
yesterday by the Horsing Herald, in the following
paragraph :
ENCOVILIOILYINT TO Acme AID DIDIPINDINT
OISTALTIB.-)12. AhAffily, Oi DOotoTe-00111111011111 sad Upper
Utopian who died sa tits Sad of Avoid, hos loft • *pay to
Sir Peter Laurie of 8001. as • mork of esteem sad rasped Ike
his important public cervices u • sasoistrats.
Even Sir PETER LAURIE has his worshipper !
There is one man, at least, to whom Sir PETER is •
hero, and whose incense rises in the grateful form of
a thumping legacy!
We should be curious to know for which of Sir
achievements this legacy -- left him. Did

activity la opposing baths and wash-houses ? wash
the testator some honest, though antifpated, admirer
of the old fashion of dealing with crime and crimi-
nals, who mold not endure to see the school martin,
a rivalry with the Ores and who sought to reward,
in Sir ram, the maintainer of the memorable pro-
position that adoration inoressea crime ?
Perhaps he reverenced in the worthy magistrate
the last and cruelest of the Quixote.. Or he may
have been a hamourist, who liked to see an alderman
of the first city of the empire going hopefully and
manfully oat to run a tilt at advertising vans, and
then turning his Rosimante of a theory, and his rotten
lance of dulness, and his shield of conceit, to the
encounter of some great and serious truth, which
took him up and whirled him round, and flung him all
of a heap, as the milt sail served the poor Knight of
La Mancha.
He may hare been one of those wicked wits who like
to see the cap and bells peeping oat under the judge's
wig, the motley under the ermine ; who take a ma-
licious pleasure in seeing folly in high places, and who
relish Sancho's absurdities without Sancho's shrewd-
ness in a Guildhall realisation of the court•house of
Barataria. Or he may have been some secret and
malicious enemy of the corporation, who wished to
spirit on Sir Parma to fresh freaks and new follies,
hoping by his gift to stimulate the process. It is
only on some sash theory that one can explain this
mysterious bequest, which defies the usual laws of
interpretation honestly deduced from the principle of
cause and effect.

We gave a summary of the following in our yes-
terday's issue.
We have received despatches of Wednesday's date
from our Paris correspondent.
L'Egoile, a journal understood to be in the confidence
of the cabinet, says that a report is prevalent that
„Queen Christina and the government have received
intelligence of a disquieting nature from Madrid.
It is said that Queen Isabella has resolved to quit
Spain and repair to Paris." Nothing to give coun-
tenance to this has been discovered in any well-in-
formed quarters.
The Bordeaux mail, which is brought to Paris from
Tours by railway, did not arrive on Wednesday, sad
it was apprehended that the delay was caused by set
accident on that line. The Madrid mail, which is
brought by the same courier, consequently did not
arrive.
The Duke and Duchess d'Aumale and the Prises
and Princess de Joinville are staying at Bt. C 1
where the aceouchement of the Duchess d'Aumais:l
take place. The Prince de Joinville is not so severely
affected by his late illness as was reported. He is
not confined to his apartments, and on the contrary
enjoys promenades on horseback.
The greatest horror was spread through Paris on
Wednesday morning by the report of an sasassination,
attended by circumstances of unusual ferocity, of
which the Duchess de Prahlen, the daughter of Count
Sebastiani, has been the victim. Different versions of
the affair and of the circumstances supposed to have
led to it, were, of course, in circulation. It appears
that the Duchess, who was about forty, and the
mother of several children, arrived in Paris by the
Orleans railway, having come to town to attend some
of the university ceremonies, in which some of her
children were engaged. She proceeded to her hotel,
which is near the British embassy, in the Rue Fan-
bong St. Honore, where she slept. On Wednesday
morning, one of her attendants, on entering her
room, found the body of the duchess in the bed,
dreadfully disfigured by the weapon with which the
murder had been perpetrated. The Procureur du
Roi and the authorities of the police were instantly in
attendance, and a rigid examination took place of all
persons known to have been in the hotel. As
there are no indications of robbery, the act is
ascribed to private vengeance. Several of the per-
m= employed in domestic situations in the establiah-
swat have been placed under arrest, but nothing has
itranspired to fix a distinct charge upon them.
PARIS, WEDNESDAY, 6 o'Cwcx.—The Bordeaux
courier with the Madrid mail (delayed by an acci-
dent on the railway), arrived at the post-office at five
o'clock. The despatches have not yet been delivered.

Letters from Rome of the 7th, according to the
Augsburg Gazette, say that the Pope has extended
the amnesty to the military and ecclesiastical persons
who have been hitherto excluded from it. MM.
Lucca, Averardi, and Vivarelli, who have been im-
prisoned since 1836 at Cometo, have been set at
liberty.
Advice. from Naples of the 3rd, say that general
uneasiness prevails there. The events which have
taken place at Rome produced a serious centre-coup.
The Italians, say these accounts, are not satisfied now
with the ive development of free institutions,
but will ve them at once. Innumerable writings
are everywhere put in circulation having this ten-
dency. The police had arrested a great number of
persons charged with being the authors of such pro-
ductions, but they are represented as being infinitely
too numerous to be suppressed by any means of that
kind. - Nevertheless, the Slug personally is repre-
sented as being popular. During his last tour various
abuses were disclosed to him, and it is expected that
he will suppress them. Troops were ordered to be
sent upon the Roman frontier.
The Augsburg Gazette says, on the authority of a
letter from the Italian frontier, that several Austrian
regiments, one of them the 4th Light Horse, quar-
tered at Radkersburg, in Styria, aro ordered to march
for Italy.

FRANCE.--Cumous CELESTIAL P11ENu55."......„
On Sunday evening • phenomenon was observed in the
heaven, at Paris, resembling in form and splendour a comet
of the large and brilliant class. The duration of the appear
ance did not exceed thirty seconds. It appeared suddenly-
with its maximum lustre, which was sufficiently intense to
throw a faint light on the objects around the observer not
unlike the light sometimes shed by the planet Venus in inter-
tropical latitudes. The object became gradually, but tepidly,
fainter, until it melted away from the vision. Its form was
that of • comet with a small and brilliant head, a
tail with well-defined parallel sides without perceptible
divergence. The total length was from ißaen to
twenty degrees; the breadth a6out fifteen minutes of • de-
Thegree. object was manifested in the Mavens in
• direetion east or nearly so, end at an altitude et about sixty
degrees, the direction of its length being media to the
horizon. The time of its appearance was forty Wean pest
eight p.m. The firmament was b, but free from simds,
and the stars of the second and third magnitudes wane dih-
tinctly.visible, The elements of its position and impilwie
here given are by estimation, the Observer being unprodiloi
with any means of instrumiatei mramsomsat at the mis.
meat. All the appearances bra meatimet were Idiom&
by two observers, from wham this statomost has bola vs.
wired, one of them having base aectutomet to wised., sa.
searches. The place whose**, phenomemen was men was
the grand avenue of the Ohm. Elystes.
Tun BEATPIALLON AND M2OPLIEVILLEY AFFAIR.—
The Cour Age& de Perk ha ellieleasod the.irsellem
of M. Rosemead de VIOL sr Sedum
Perrot do Cliseelke, te Themiee
NCOwitemeelt_emi mitniall2 De
,Mom Toloff, bays given Mir bags the
jay repperteur. Tie With it is said, y 2 be =Li:
ths mead swim of lispesether, maw ths of
M. Clisporbes is Loma. It was repeetel. WOW
de Imola that the eat mom of the assusal eN
sand as loasedise. bat mar* Beuitarva
Thom wee she mash Islk of a osreaszedurit
plass in the mono of this week, at the
the trial, Who maid which was re malimmatila of
elognevilley, maim ma ohm mai or all
going I.)y the name of Mos.
after h a bethalsr. TM pseosaril:=Tbell Mites sal
after the trial lothowed apes Yen aumberles prooh of Ow-
tion and davehinoss. It myelin that the father of M.
d'llegteseilley V tostilled the iisize dealing them married.
In otesersam MOM some he
_has Odom it this
the cereeseg tole iirused Is a lbw days in th=
of the Oessiorgerie.—Ornatiadirsosi.
I/22 MM Mtlarata.—An elderly aseia famed
Dercomlek nod his soala.law Couturier, wire recently
Infested bean the Court of Amiss of the AM, for having
promo* Marguerite Doesembay daughter of the former
primmer. The damsel brig of weak intellect and
unable to work, ma a beam sa the two, pri-
mula and the wife of Certudsr, her sister, all of whom
wore Is a Mee at wet poverty. One dm, in Kook loot,
the two mm
truth to a notary, sad asked him if the de-
mind mall ask tamsfer to them her share in a home sad a 1
small pared of LeM which As
basset in leminiall
bar Mtge. The mew ansysiedths asamtes, nososas
of her stars of mind. Same dam asrwiels, Ms egb of
Couturier prepared a sapper, moshitag of step, he tsar,
and she pothook Mai* serepsayeltithrelnebendondafibm.
She then week away leaving the two NAM Mos la the
room. Sem ass after, the Mew came him tam dumb.
took the sow, sad, 4.ompllemm with Coutraires emussa,
drank rather nos this usweL Ohm* oboe ohs lope es
vomit, bat Osuirador midi ilea dieer Ms drib to sews&
her. lie pm her Mas and am whisk masa her visaed
pains and vemietridist this ems ming be father
came to her aad the drossast -yagorw her anis
round hia auk him to remain, but he n,aed. As
. _ .

was relieved by east her sister Pee hiss. jeliellehe ata'
in great aguay, and on bar boda
_Y besag Aker cm'
tity of arsenic was found, fleas was no desk that dee
had been plumed. In WO= te these facto, it we=
that about a nom* Ware **murder the two
went to • dragsters is bay the arsenic, and when tr
seised It, Deicombes gave it to his SOU-iO-11w, IL said
" Take can of your casusence, and don't make a bad use of
this poises." The jury sequined Desoombes, but declared
Couturier guilty, and the court condemned him to death.
The wrUched man abed tears on hearing the sentence. The
public was much affected, no condemnation to death having
been pronounced for many years by the Court of Amine of
the Ain.
HOLLAND. THE HAGUE, Ay°. 16. —Tug
DUTCH-PRUSSIAN TILNATT.—TRO official bulletin of Prussia,
published on thel3th of August,states:—" The treaty of their
Majesties the King of the Netherlands and the King of
Prude, by which his Majesty of the Netherlands, in his
capacity of Grand Duke of Luxemburg, engaged to pro-
long the treaty of adhesion to the customs-union of Gee.
many,conclitded on the Bth February, 1832. A modification
only has been made relative to the decimal system of weights
and ISIONITIS, as well as relative to French money, which
ecutinues in simulation in the Grand Duchy. The new treaty
was signed at the Hague on the 2nd of April; and the rati-
fication and exchanges of signature took place on the 15th of
July."
PRUSSIA.—The Breelauer Zeitung states that the
Prince of Canino experienced a very friendly reception from
the King at the reviews in Breslau. It is added that the
prince, being a Roman c tiaen, kis Majesty convened with
him for several hours on the reforms undertaken by the
Pope, end expressed a swat sense of personal esteem for his
hulks.,, and admiration of his courageous and generous
policy. The prince is mid to have been astonished by the
enthusiastic attachment expressed by the protestant King
towards the head of the Romish church. It is hoped that
this circumstance will convince the Italians that the hostility
to Italian nationality and program in freedom is not German,
but merely Austria.
WUZZBURG.—LOLA MOSTES AGAIN.—LoIa Montes
has again excited public attention. She was some
days ago at Wurxburg, where her present* made the autho-
rities deem it necessary to take such measures as should pre-
vent any offensive demonstration towards her. The notorious
animate having repaired to the court garden, which is the
public promenade of this town, the sentinel on duty at the
gate wished to prevent her dogs from accompanying her.
Irritated at such impertinence she knocked off his cep with
her parasol. An officer coming up informed Millie. Lola
that the soldier had only obeyed his orders; but he himself
nearly shared the same fate: the haughty Spaniard's sole an-
swer was, that he was but a boor for presuming to speak to
her with his hat on. The crowd, oolleeted by this scene,
followed Lola Monies home, hooting and hissing. Patrol,
were sent through the town in the evening to prevent further
disturbance, but they could not prevent the public disappro
bation being manifested. The fair Spaniard left their lance_
pitable town the next morning.— Constitutionnel.
THE RinNE, AUG. 4.—The Russian government
has ordered a quantity of steam-engines for its navy, at the
foundry of Seraing, and they are now on their way to St.
Petersburg ; it has, at the Fame time, formed engage-
ments with ship-builders of Belgium, Holland, and Ger-
many. This is a most important measure for trade. The
first care of government will be, to have steamers built for
the Wel" which, it is well known, crosses Russia from
north to south; as it falls into the Caspian Sea, and is joined
to Lake Ladoga and the Gulf of Finland by the canal of Tus
the result will be that the navigation on this river will
establish a communication between the two seas, which has
till now been deemed impossible. The productions of the
inland governments of Russia, which till now had no outlets,
will then be brought to market; the corn-warehouses
and the forests cf Russia will open to us the trea-
sures they contain, as it is proposed to extend steam
navigation to other great rivers, such as the Duna,
Den, Dnieper, and the Bug. Henceforward Ukraine,
Tauris, Bessarabia, Great Russia, Western Russia, and the
provinces of the Baltic, will paeans much greater influence
over the torn trade of Europe than America now enjoys.
Had Russia possessed steamers, the scarcity which has this
year afflicted the remainder of Europe would not have been
so severe; corn could have been conveyed to the ports and
exported thence. The clear aightedness of the Emperor soon
descried what was necessary to give new impulse to the com-
mercial industry of the land, and he will certainly show the
same energy in putting this idea into execution as he has
displayed in forming it.—Corutitutionnel.
HANOVER.—Gormotg, Atm. 10.—A beautiful
scene was presented in our fields on Sunday last. In the
midst of the greatest abundance of corn, and other fruits of
the earth, many of our congregations, in the thankfulness of
their hearts for the extraordinary bounty of providence, as.
ambled for the purpose of divine worship under the open
canopy of heaven, to return special thanks to Almighty
God fur the manifest proof of his beneficence
which surrounded them on all sides. Wonderful
indeed is the change which has taken place here
within the last few months. The people who were then
wandering, and in vain seeking for employment, are now
all full of life, health, and activity ; the reopen and threshers
are everywhere at work—the mill going day and night, and
aair of thankful enjoyment pervading every countenance.
Cern, which was 3 dolls. and 20 greschen above the Dermal
oos, has now actually fallen to 1 doll. and al grow-hen
Mow it.
RUSSIA. A correspondent writes on the Bth
teem 81. Petersburg " Passports for abroad have hitherto
east dear in Russia. They are given only for six months,
and if at the end of that time a traveller does not return to
Russia, he most pay the price for a new passport, and thus
repeat the payment for every six months he remains out of
his country; otherwise be forfeits his civil rights, and his
property is confluated. The Emperor, however, has now
come to a decision that passports for abroad shall be de-
livered gratis, and for an unlimited time, to students of the
Imperial Academy of Fine Arts, as well as to all men of
science and literature who shall produce certificates from
the Imperial Academy of Sciences, stating that a journey
into foreign countries will be useful and beneficial to them,
by improving them in the science they cultivate."
POLAND.—A letter fromWareaw, of the 2d, says :
" The new penal cede, which has been adopted by our go-
vernment, and will supersede the French penal code, still in
three in Poland, is nearly a literal transcript of that of
Eatais. It will be brought into force from the let January
salt, and then, in criminal legislation, the people of this
metre will be upon the same footing as the people of
Ilautia."
EGYPT.—CAIRO.—A new regulation, published
*the viceroy, has given rise to a very important ameliora-
tion in this immense city. It consists in the numbering of
the houses, and in the putting up plates indicating the
tames of the streets. According to the census made in order
to attain this result, Cairo contains 55 quarters, 75 gates,
$OO mosque, and about 5,.000 houses. The viceroy, it ap-
pears, Woe great interest in the names of the streets, and
the following facts will enable us to judge of his tendencies.
One of the principal squares of the quarter where are the
bazaars of the Franks, is to be called France-street ; there
will be a Buonaparte-street, Louis Philippe-street, and
Paris-street. There will also be Victoria-street and Londnn-
street. He has also given orders that, in the most im-
portant saguaro of the twelve principal quarters, is to be
placed a small pyramidal monument, in Wok marble, on
which, during the rise of the river, the police are directed to
inscribe, day by day, the level of the waters of the Nile.—
Conslitutionssel.

DEPARTURE OF THE CALEDONIA.—This vessel,
commanded by Capt. Lltt, sailed from Liverpool yesterday
for Halifax sad Boston, with a large cargo and a full comple-
ment of pawners. She Likewise took out 'penis to the
amount of 40,0001.

lax Court. •
Intelligence has been received in lawn of the
death of the infant son of the lion. R. Alseterontby (her
Majesty's Minister at the court of Turin) and Lady M.
Aberatomby.
Despatches were sent off yesterday evening from
the Celonial-office for the Governor of Ceylon.
The Earl of Minto and Viscount and Viscountess
Malgund have arrived at Minto Castle, Roxburghahire.

HER MAJESTY'S VOYAGE.
A correspondent, dating " Rothesay, Wednesday
uterning," describes the anchoring of the squadron in Rothe-
say Day sittilipziovions night es accompanied with one of
the mot sights which had greeted the royal party
slaw Its imam, Clyde. AU round this picturesque
bay rpm lalillMfetlnca illuminated, and the fireworks, of
a variety of kiwEb Wbidi were thrown up at 'fathom, as
well se from ths stanatess Ashland and Viceroy, were truly
isagaiissat. • large Weise yea ales Moiled, and kept
birds' kr • Log& of limp ~ orivaltirliker," continuo
the embed " wit the NNW inamistation, the
bowfin, the fireworks sa eheme mai km the seesaws la the
bay, sombheed with the will* ihasesaMe akesiks Ise
'odium's( the 10101%1= Mciter mast hi le hare bass
auk Mona with** gems' Misplay, asi trill doable*
net sees beget the away peek then preesalled of Moir
Brwelsoke."
inissahar whersistthe royal fleet was threading its
any droasktiss Myhre Bate, and Loch Fyne, towards In-
ventory. A reporter at this plass sends the following account
of the rimations :—At the castle everything is in rendi-
tion to -de bonier and to give a 'Highland welcome to our
psalm sovereign. A battery of *mama is mounted to fire
a royal salute. Oa her Majesty's isstams, skis is to be re.
whist by the Peeves and =gist:ales ef the burgh, who
:illszemat as and it is elm lei{ the
es•iissosa will tender their welallwe sa ths
=it:eseasioa. It is inhaled at mine dm=
a posit his Itokolliglmma Prince
with hosiess of the astiosod in • *sot
bum At the pies whim has is to land, •
assogiod walk hen been eetekit„ of at 158 yards Irrt=
It k esestrakei al Oho y hatossof with seas
greens sad a reef of whits doth
trill Ms% irdillas et sit* Is to le eves=
eeeekit el*. Tram thk wawa plkry to the e
to the Duke of Area% pasitde„ tem hare bees *Mai
ea the side of the sink sac Is the Lash, giving ft
somewhat the apple.= of as alanik A magnificent
triesphal arch, perrefallp helsesai elk flowers and
asi stlikilins law boa aressi Thet
tuts feeiisiriblika at is pike. Sles
alaas at the amp el the chaos cillaS ea atlawa

marque is upwards of 40 feet long by 20 broad, and
is capable of dining one hundred persons. The various arches
u well as this temporary apartment are ornamented with
heather messed and various mountain shrubs. The town
is thronged with gentlemen in tartan costume, and
all are on the qui rive for her Majesty's arrival. On
Tuesday a steamer arrived from Islay, with about one
hundred and sixty stalwart highlanders, in full col.
tutu, armed with Lochaber axes. Campbell of Islay,
their chieftain, came down from the castle, accompanied by
his two WWI, clad in a highland undress of shepherd tartan.
On his approach his clan saluted him with three hearty
highland cheers. The Islaymen bore a flag, bearing the
inscription,' Long lire Queen Victoria,' which was carried
by Mr. Campbell, jun., of Rockside. The procession moved
along the avenue, and passed in front of the castle, when
they were received by her Grace the Duchess of Argyle, who
was standing on the landing stair of the castle. The party
proceded up Glen Any, and halted at the foot of Duna.
guaich, near to the delightful farm of Tombreck'd, where
they underwent a few evolutions, piled their arms, and dis-
persed over the grounds. In the afternoon, the Celtic
Society had a turn-out at the camp in their magnificent nisi.
form, and marched along the lawn and into the town.
Business in Inverary, for the last two days, bar been en-
tirely suspended, and nothing is talked of, or thought of,
but the bighlanden and the Queen's visit. We have not
earnt of any new arrivals at the castle."

BOOKSELLERS' PROTIDENT INSTITUTION AND RE-
IILEAT.—Last evening a meeting of the directors of these in-
stitutions for aged and infirm members was held at the cons.
mittee.rooras, in Paternoster-row. The statement of the
progress the society, has made since its institution in 1836,
wv very encouraging. During the past year relief lad
been afforded to 25 sick and distressed retail booksellers and
assistants, at a cost of 2871. ss. Notwithstanding the
large calls upon the funds of the institution during the put
year, upwards of 7001. has been added to the permanent
fund, which nearly reaches the sum of 16,0001. The " Re-
treat," which is situate at Abbotts Langley, was opened in
July, 1846, the funds for which, from the contributions at
the opening, which amounted to 810/., coupled with a liberal
donation of 6001. Three per Cent. Consols under the will of
the late John Harris, Esq., are in a satisfactory state. Only
two of the houses are at present occupied; but it is expected
that the applications for admission will shortly be far more
numerous than there will be accommodation tor. The
assistance granted to members of the trade sisice 1840
amounted to 1,0301. 13s.

THE UNIVERSAL SALVAGE COMPANT.-Yesterday
the annual general meeting of the directors and shareholders
of this company was held in the board-room of the offices of
the company, 12, Old Jewry Chambers, for the purpose of
receiving the report of the directors on the present position
of the company's affairs, and to elect three directors and one
auditor, in the room of Sir R. Price, Bart., Cal Coffin,
Capt. Price, and Mr. Lund, who ge out by rotation. Lord
Viscount ngestre, Chairman of the Board of Directors, in
the chair. -Mr. Warren, the secretary, then proceeded to
read the report of the directors for the past year, from which
it appeared, that owing to the fallen of the directors in carry-
ing out the objects for which the company was formed, the
great mass of debts that had been incurred, and the inability
of the company to meet the demands upon them, they had
been called upon to have recourse to proceedings against
shareholders is a court of law, to recover the amounts for
which they were liable to the company. Those proceedings'
were still pending. and, on the contrary, a bill in equity had
been filed against the directors to compel them to go into en
account, and praying for a dissolution of the company. The
directors regretted the position in which they had been
placed, owing to the non-payment by the shareholders of
the calla made upon them an respect of their shares, as also
the non-payment of shares subscribed for • but the directors
feeling assured it was the wisest and most bCneiicial course for
them to adopt to endeavour to effect an amicable, equitable,
and just arrangement between themselves and the share-
holders, by the sacrifice of the debts due to them upon
receiving a bond of indemnity from the shareholders
to indemnify them against all suits actions, and
dams whatsoever, were prepared on obtaining that
bentaity to retire from the direction, with a view to a die.
suidatlon of the company. Negociations had commenced to
carry out that object, but up to the present nothing satisfac-
tory result had been attained. In the meantime the di-
vision reported that since the last meeting they had Ina
lark eageged in reducing the expense, and in finding
lark by age ea the shareholders, and by the sale of the
Lee Issmar. eat their stores and damaged apparatus.
This they regesteal bed only been done with partial success ;
the Lee rearisid unsold. The debts and liabilities
et the company must be pail up. and it as the
Merited. wierequence that each shareholder should
enbaarlbse b=11,3 to the amount of his shares.
Alm =sew • n the directors felt that, looking at
the yadtlea a the emptily, and with a view to protect the
dew fide directors and shareholders whose calls had been
phi up from bode" net unfair and unequal liability, that
they should avail thsseseivee of the provisions of the 7 &
Viet., cap. 3, by penis s declaration of the insolvency of the
company, with ths ideation of its being filed ; that had,
however, been delayed, there being two months allowed for
that purpose to see what the result of the present negociations
were for a final settlement of the differences between
the &esteem and the scrip sad shareholders. The direr,
tin finflhar reported that they were willing to retire on
seallella that all tent, bills, and salaries were paid, and
Mal dm druid he iudemnified from all liability
el way paha* ea behalf of the company. Those terms having
boa selected to, the directors were compelled to file the
dissiersuon of insolvency. The financial report was then
red. The receipts between the 26th October, 1816, and 15th
July, 1847, including balance in hand at last account of
3461. 195., amounted to 2,4271. 17s. 10d., the sum of
1.5701. 134.6 d. having been received in respect of the calls on
872 shares; end the expenditure, including debts paid,
1,642!. 18e. 7d., amounted to 2,6321. lls 4d., leaving a
balance due to the secretary of 2041. 13s. 61, the sum of
11. 14s. 104.. only remaining in the hands of the bankers.
The liabilities of the company amount to 3,9671. 9s. Id., sad
the assets (which, it was stated, were not available, and no
chance of their realisation) amounted to 8,577/. 16s. 4d.,
giving a balance exceeding the liabilities, when realised.
of 4,6101. 71. 3d., that item including 4,0001. for the
steamer Lee, and machinery relating to' Austin's patent"
Shares homed, 2,2061. ; capital, 55,150/. ; and deposits,
11,0301.-Mr. Lund, in moving that the report be received
and adopted, said he regretted that the directors required es
large a sum aa 10,0001. for indemnity, but justified the de-
claration of insolvency.-Col. Coffin seconded the motion.-
Mr. Ruck, a shareholder, deprecated the conduct of the
directors. The shareholders were desirous of keeping the
company afloat, but they were frustrated by the conduct of
the directors. A long and angry discusaion thee ensued
between the directors and shereholders, which being of a
personal recriminatory character formed no part of the
proceedings of the meeting.-Lord Ingestre then moved the
re-election of Sir R. Prioe, Bart., Col. Coffin, and Capt
Price, as directors, and Mr. Lund as auditor. -Mr. Ruck
moved an amendment, that the directors be requested to
retire.-Mr. Austin seconded the amendment -The amend-
ment having been put and negatived, the original motioa
was carried.-A vote of thanks baring been passed to the
noble chairman, the meeting broke up.
REPORTED DEATH OP THE KING OF THE FRENCH.
The absurd rumour we mentioned yesterday seems to have
created greater consternation at Leeds, where it arrived on
Wednesday morning, than at any other place on the
northern lines. The account was brought by a railway mad
guard, who stated the electric telegraph at Normanton had
been instructed to forward the intelligence to the Queen in
Scotland. One of the newspapers announced that it would
publish an extraordinary edition on the arrival of the parti-
culars, but was deprived of that distinction in the atternooa,
when the London newspapers came to hand without the
mention of even any rumour on the subject.
FENSIONS.-A return ordered by Mr. T. S. Dea-
-1
cembe, M.P. for Finsbury, exhibits the following names of
persons to whom pensions have been granted since the alal-
ment of the separate fund of 1,2004, viz.:-Lay
110Mey Morgan, a pension of 3001. ; Profesmr
SM. ; Sarah Mean, 401. ; the Gibbons family, 501. ; Mrs.
M'Arthur, 2001. ; Lieutenant-Colonel Durwood, 2001. (fallen
in by death) ,• Mrs. Plunkett, 1001. ; Mary Banns, 401.; 8k
J. Newport, Bart., 1,0001. (fallen in) ; the Aldridge fandl,
251. ; Mary Lander, 1001. ; Dr. Browne, LL.D., 1001
Bev. 11. Bares (her Majesty's German tutor), 1001. ; Weer
G. Guanarosti (her Majesty's Italian master), 511 01/
J. B. Sale (her Majesty's 'tinging master), 1001. ; Mr.
Steward (her Msjesty's writing muter), 1001. ; M.
Grandineare (her Majesty's French master), 1001.; Mfg
Lucy Anderson (her Majesty's music mistress), 1001.;
Madame Sarah Bourdin (her Majesty's dancing mates)
1001. ,• Mr. Williams, 201. (fallen in) Mr. T. Walker, 204
Mr. Morgan, 20!. ; Mr. P. W. Dean, 1001. ; the Mara
Kennedy, 1001.; Mr. George Burgess 1001. ; Mr. T. Web-
ster, 5011 ; Rev. T. Kidd, 1001. ; Mr. B. Thorpe, 402•111 f•
Snow Harris, 300/. • Miss Sophia Wrenn', 01.•. Moe
Catherine Jeremie, '2001.; Dr. Anater, LL.D., 1501. • the
Rev. Francis Cary, 2001. (fallen in); Mrs. Jones, 1001. ;Mee
Clipperton, 501. ; the Bareness Lelnen, 4001. ; the Mina
Kennedy (an additional pension), 2001. ; the poet Iss°
Worlsworth, 3001.; W. Curtis, 1001.; Professor Owes,
2001. ,• Dame Maria Bell, 1001. • Miss Drummond, SOL
Mr. Brown, 2001. • Dame Floretitia Sale, 600!. • ' Sir W. &
Hamilton, Knight.Knight.2ool.; Mr. Tytler, the historian, 2001• i
Mrs. Jane Hood, 1001. • the four Misses Robertson, da owl
the two Mimes Stoddart, 751. each ; Mademoiselle &
D'Este, 5001. ; Clara Maria Susanna Lowe, 501. • Ma A.
dan-
selle Viten (additional pension), 5001. (so that: kir
now enjoys a pennon of 1,0001. from the public); Doi
She*, WOl. ; the poet Alfred Tennyson, W 01.; redu"!_,,
Forbes, 200/. ; Mrs. London, 1001.; the Misses Shea,
the two Miami M'Caakill, 5 each • Catherine Tsyter,
Dr. S. Bluefield, D.D., 2001. ; B. Rarton, 1001. Mr. J.
M'Cullooh 2001.; Mary Haydn, 601.; Mears. Wiestea",
and Lloyd (for Dunne rendered by their ancestors
Charles I.), 2.51. each; Mr. Wildenpin, IDOL ; Mrs.
00
601. ; Mrs. Turnbull, 501. • and Mrs. Garwood -
The pensions to males are generally granted in considers:ice
of literary or scientific services and attainments, en
ds, err
Ow"
to females for the sake of their deceased husbands,
relatives.

OP OCTLAWltY.—Yesterdly *0
following were called upon by the bailiff to the sheriff of
Middlesex to surrender, or to stand severally outlawed
Andrew Henry LArthur Hogue, Philip B. Laois
Stephen Bradley, Pitch, Herbert Cornwall, 1.,"
William Montague, John Hunter, Henry J. Hunter, Bog**
Norman, and Sir Howard Elphinetone, Bert.
BRADFORD NEW CORPORATION.—The go • Taiwinf
body of this new ineorporation wee fully completed on Wow
by the election of 14 aldermen and the mayor. Si
was *boom mayor, and Mr, Jr. A. Cooper,
following copy
cuitom. then,
- the Caw