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As usual in cathedral towns, nonconformity is strong
in Chichester. . .

Tnz German powers are just as much at logger-
heads as they were a twelvemonth ngu. Not one
ttingh step have they made towards the pacification
or organisation of ttw country. Popular resistance
of all kiwis, and for all causes, was put down. The
lower classes goaded in several parts of Germany to
insurreftion, were crushed, decrauded, and executed.
On one or two points the middle classes essayed
constitutional resistance ; and kept within the limits
of the lave. But despotism would tolerate constitu-
tional and legal opposition just as little as 'popular
insurrection. The functionaries and citizens of
Cassel were treated with as little ceremony as the
mob of Dresden. And the Austrians neatened over
the liberties, us over the soil of North Germany.
Austria was, however, not enabled to achieve
this apparently complete conquest by any prowess
or puissance of Its own. It was suppofted
outside of the German Confederation, by the
Emperor of ltrostY, who, at the hand of a
large and well-equippnl army on the frontiers of
Poland, MI iiaeed the territories and paralysed the
courage of Pntssia. Within the confederation Austria
counted upon the support of the four minor kings,
three of them, we might almost say four, of French
eirrat,tm, wit' whom fear of being absorbed or over-
idpad..er,d by Prussia, overcame all other considera-
tion, driving them to league with Austria, to swell
her nrmie, and to enforce her pretensions for re-
storing the old Diet, and with the Diet her own

In ISD9, it appears from our correspondent's letter,l
a congregation of dissenters opened a place of wor-
ship called Providence Chapel. Subsequently a be-1
ormion from it occurred, and found an abiding spot •
in Zion Chapel. There, it seems, the Rev. EDWARD
PARSONS ministered to a large and attached congre-
gation for nearly IS years; the merits of his charac-
ter not being, however, confined to his flock; for he
occupied a respectable position in the general society
of Chichester. Mr. PARsONs died, at the age of 62,
on the 27th of January last, in the parish of St.
Peter the Great, in the burial ground of which his
family had a grave, and there, it was very naturally
and properly proposed, to deposit his remains.
Seven of the ten parishes and churches of
Chichester are in the gilt of its dean and chapter.
The parish of St. I'eter the Great, one of those
seven, contains upwards of .1,000 inhabitants ; it is
consequently by far the most important parish in
the city, and, in reference to the amount of popula-
tion, it is also the most important piece of patronage
the dean and chapter have to bestow. On its %a-
tones- in 1419 they presented to it and to its 3,000
people the 11ev. JARVIS KENRICK, a Truetarkm of
the ultramontane school—inflexible and infallible.
Such un exercise of the capitular patronage has of
course produced its natural fruits—scandal, disorder,
and outrage.
To the Her. JARTIs KENRICK, applications to
open the late Mr. PARSoNs's family grave, in order
that his remains might there lie with the dust of his
forefathers, was made by the chief officers of his
chapel, who, to gratify their respect for their
deceased pastor, had assumed the direction of his
funeral. In reply, the Rev. Joivis KENRICK rc-
fused to have divine service performed over the re-
mains of Mr. Psusoxs, on the ground that the " de-
ceased was a separatist and a teacher amongst sepa-
ratists."

But we do not believe that any wise and
politic statesman would omit to use the
golden opportunity that now presents itself
for satisfying the just and importunate de-
mands that are put forward on a subject such as
that we have named. And we must say, that if
through mere obstinacy Sir Cu Woon shall
persist in refusing so small a pecuniary concession to
so great a pressure of opinion, he must be regarded
as one of those fated men whom neither counsel nor
experience can save from the conscquenees of being
—what they are.
It may be said that of the three taxes on know-
Icsige, the advertisement duty is the least; and that
if any concession were making to the advocates of
general for relief in that direction. government ought to
grapple with the qiiestion of the excise on paper, or the
penny stamp on newspapers. But, on the other hand,
it mast not be pretended that there is any real anta-
gonism of interests between paper manufacturers,
journalists, and advertisers. On the contrary, we
have always contended that the substantial interests
of the three are closely and clearly united; and of
this the advertisement duty is as obvious an example
as either of the others. Sweep away the petti-
fogging exaction on advertisements, and the price
which is charged for them will instantly fall, in the
case of the shorter ones, to somewhere about one-half
what now is of necessity charged. Every public
print of character and standin;r in the kingdom will of
course be benefited thereby incidentally:; not so much
as the advertising class, 'tis true, but still to a certain
extent. and in a permanent manner. But it is utterly
impossible this should be the ease, without immedi-
ate and lusting benefit to the numufacturers of
paper. A public journal cannot increase its adver-
tisements without an increase of circulation, and an
increase of circulation manifestly implies an in-
creased consumption of piper. So that one good
not only begets but absolutely involves the others:
and what is thereby implied? Why, the expansion
of two important branches of industry; the absorp-
tion of more labour, tenth skilled and unskilled, and
the diffusion thereby of the vomforts and blessings
attendant on steady means of subsistence to thou-
sands in ditkrent ports of the realm.
If the CHANCELLOR of the ExatEctrEtt should
make up his mind to devote the bulk of his surplus
to the window tax or the tea duty, or any other
large item of revenue, whatever judgment we should
form of his choice, we should at freest be compelled to
own that he had not left himself margin at present
to attempt the further abandonment just now of so
serious a sum as that tkrived from the duties on
paper. But in that case we should feel all the more
bound to urge upon him the next best thing he could
do to servo that particular interest, namely, to stimu-
late in a legitimate way the demand for the com-
modity he continued to tax. And Sir Cumtetes
Wool) is made of more impressive materials than
wo give him credit for, if he cannot be brought
to comprehend the considerations that ought to sway
a minister occupying the position in which he is
placed with respect to these matters.
And even though the CHANCELLOR of the Ex-
ellEtWEß should resolve, unwisely and unnecessa-
rily, as we are persuaded it would be, not to devote
any portion of the surplus to tho permanent relief
of taxation in this department, he has still the oppor-
tunity of showing, at lent the will, though he may
lack the courage, to do what i.e right, be reducing the
advertisement duty to sixpence. By this it is demon-
strable that the revenue would lase after the first
two months absolutely nothing at aB, while a certain
degree of relief would be afforded to the humbler
classes of advertisers.

The rubric of the church of England containing no
such direction as this, but expressly limiting its
refusal of the office of he church to those " that die
unbaptized, or excommunicate, or have laid violent
hands on themselves," the Bishop was immediately
appealed to on the. subject; and HS promptly replied
that, " assuming the late Mr. PansoNs to gave been
baptized, a fact I have never heard questioned, there
can be no doubt that Mr. KENRICK is mistaken in
his view of his duty." The Bishop added, that he had
expressed this opinion to Mr. KENRI4:k in the hope
of convincing him he was wrong. In vain, however ;
(or two days urtcrwards, the remains of Mr. PAitsoNs
were deposited underneath his own chapel, mar-
rounded by upwards of 1,000 people; having. been
denied interment in the church-yard of the parish in
which he was born, baptised, had lived a pious and',
religious lire in the service of Gott; in which his
family had a common grave, and in which he had
hoped to be buried; and all because the ltev. JARVIN
KENRICK believes separation front the churelt,
though accompanied by all the essentials of religion,
so mortal a sin as to authorise him in denying those
who do separate from it, Christian burial !
Now, either the Ho% hurls Kmocii was in law
justified in this monstrous and awful exercise of a

floWttn4eY•
Tlw skill and nddress which enabled Prince
Beilwaunsiti:i. so Pi work upon the fear of demo-
cracy entertained by the Om, and the jealousy of
Prussia, felt by the minor Kings, as to procure for
Austria un tu.4.-endatwv, that its greatest Howse never
ranch. d, 14.111U4 to have failed the minister in
the very hour of his success. He won
the victory, but be knew nut how to follow up
and moire the tuivantuges. Influencing some by
menace. he allowed the power of intimidation to
evaporate V% ill' his military levees. Promises, of which
he was most Iteish, have 'been all unfultilkd. The
Bavarian court. notwithstanding its close connexion
with that of Vienna, is known to be in dudgeon, and
to affect. though owertiv and timidly, the most li-
berul tentletu ies. The Mug of WeerEvtatim, more
petulant, has ralli.d back to that principle which he
swore and forswore, and now wow% again, of a Ger-
man parlitumitt.
Estimate Itaron M %Nil:erne% humility at its
lowed, still it is impiscsible not to suppose that twine
kind of COIIVI,Nbat was mate and promised to Prussia
at Oltuatz, some equality with Austria. in represent
ing tiennany and managing its atlltirs. It tarot
out, however, that the Austrian minister will make
no Min's-don; that he treats and mushier% Prussia
Sr a dechltil inferior. What SCHWA Ia.EN aritti asks
of Prussia is to be an accomplice in the confiscation of
the liberties of Gcnnany and the independence of its
primes, to be an inferior and subordinate necomplice.
Ender the old omfederation, where the several
states, especially the )(rent ones, preserved au kale.
pendenm and a policy, en army and a diplomacy
apart. it was nut of so much consequence that Aus-
triu should preside in the Diet, and Prince Wm:a-
men lie the normal minister of the confederation.
But with the builds of the federation tightened as
Austria proposes, with full powers given to the
executive ut Frankfiwt to interfere in the internal
cements of other states, to override their constitutions
and dusk their development, N't /nil, at the MUM
time, the foreign policy and diplomacy of this fede-
ration was to be concentrated and wielded by one
lurid. it became a most serious consideration fur
Prussia to allow Austria to take what might well be

priestly power greater than that it was attempted to
exercise over the dead body of SIMARD! at Turin by
the Runtish church, or he was not justified. The
Bishop of CHICHESIER has "no doubt" that Mr.
KENRICK was wrong; but he has, he says, "no
constraining power over Mr. KEXuICK whereby to
ensure that he shall not repeat his refusal to use the
burial service, as in the case of the late Mr.
l'AitsoNs." It is probable he has not; but
if Mr. KENRICK refused in Mr. l'AitsoNs's
case to do that which the rubric and law
of the church imposed on him, he thereby
committed an ecclesi.uitienl offence or irregularity,
for which the Bishop of CHICHESTER is bound to
subject him to all the legal penalties. So, until that
prelate shall have vindicated his authority over, and
Mr. Ex ateK's obedience to, the Prayer-booli, by bring-
ing him wider the surveillance of the Ecclesiastical
Courts, he will not himself have done his duty in his

FRANCE.
PARIS, TII'ADAT
The director of telegraphs stated yesterday to the
committee of initiative that the government was oc-
cupied with a plan for connecting Marseilles with
Paris by telegraph, which is a grand desideratum
for British tontimmication with India. A bill will
he shortly presented on the subject by the Minister
of Public Works.
A cabinet council was held yesterday, at the
Elysie, at which Louis Napoleon presided: The sub-
ject of deliberution was the recent intelligence from
Germany, according to which the arrangements of
M. Manteuffel with Prince Schwarzenherg at Dres•
den have been disavowed by the King of Prussia,
while the report of the beyond committee adopts
the plan of the King of Wurtentberg for a retire-s ewtutive assembly of the German people. It was re-
solved to sent] instructions to the representative of
the French Republic at Vienna, laying down the po-
sition which France II prepared to take in ease of a
conflict between the two great German states. The
simpathv of the government is said to incline to the
side of Prussia.
An animated topic of conversation in political
circles is the resolution taken at the lust sitting of
the Conseil d'Etut. The proposition of M. Pradia,
affecting the responsibility of the ministers and of
the President of the Republic, coming upon the
order of the day, M. Boulay de la Meurthe informed
the council that the government wished that the
proposition should nut be discussed. M. Vie ier moved
that no notice should be token of this wish. But by
the advice of M. Booby, a councillor, M. Rivet, was
sent to M. de Rover, %aster of Justice, to demand
explanations. MI de Boyer said that he could decide
on nothing without consulting the President; in the
meantime he begged the council to adjourn their
deliberations on the subject. The Council of State,
complying with this request, recorded the incident
on their minutes. It was expected that the govern-
ment would be interpellated on the subject in the
Assembly.
Ag in the old suit of beet-root rersris sugar-cane.
No better lesson can be given on the subject of pro-
tection than the history of beet-sugar in France.
This spoiled child, born at a moment when every.
THERE never was a case in which so much of real French heart spurned dept2ndance upon the foreigner,
good might be done at so little expense,—and in has grown into such a wild, clamorous thing, that
which so mane people might be pleased at the risk every rational Frenchman, whose income is not de-
of offending anybody—as that of the aboli- rived from the crimson root, would gladly see it con-
firm of the advertisement duty. No one professes to signed to the doom which awaits it when the barriers
wish itseontinuanee. If thereareanysinisterinflueuees of prohibition against foreign sugar shall have been
at work for the purpose, they are at least unavowed withdrawn. The law which rules on sugar duties
and obscure. The tax is so palpably- a tax upon was enacted in 1843. Up to that year the indigenous
labour seeking for hire, and upon industry seeking a sugar had enjoyed a protr etion, winch might be con-
market, that for very shame no one dares to say— sideml in the light of a retiring pension, bestowed
bar the way, and mulct the unotfending. Ott the by national gratitude for good services during the
contrary, all classes have either a direct interest in, war. Warning was then given to beet-root to pre-
or a direct sympathy with the removal of so universal pare for being placed, by descending four annual
and unjust a ',sunken. It is felt to be cmphati- steps of five francs, on a level with the cane ;so that
cally an impost levied on those who ought not at the end of that period both indigenous and colonial
to •be taxed' in exonerntion of others. The sugars paid a duty of 45fr. on the 100 kilns., or 49.50
opulent and idle pay nothing towards this paltry with the decline. Foreign sugars had to pay an
and pernicious species of revenue; while the house- additional duty of 2011.. (22fr. with the &Time%
hold servant out of place, the care-worn teacher who which amounted to prohibition. It was calculated
wauts pupils, the humble tradesman who wishes to that under this systsm two-thirds of the demand,
be bitter known, the ingenious inventor who has averaging 120 millions of kilos. annually, would he
gone to bed fopperiess many a night to save enough supplied by colonial and the remainder by native
to ply the fees on his patent—all these, among the sugar. Tfnia ample room and verge enough was
most deserving and the least competent classes of given to beet-root, the productive powers of which in
society, are fleeced by this miserable tax. After all, 1844 were measured by 30 millions of kilos. In con-
Tiir narrative sent us by our Chichester come- the million-tilled Exchequer only receives some sequence of slave emancipation the produce of the '
atxmdent of some eceleainatical proceedings in that 140,000/. a year! colonies fell in 1848 to 63 millions of kilos., in 1819
cathedral city, touching the most solemn and awful We believe that this is, in every point of view, an to 57 millions, and in 1450 to 50 millions. Native , •
of all religious rites, the burial of the dead, was instance without parallel in the htston• of iniquitous sugar, on the other hand, stood the revolutionary ; •
appropriately described by him as " extraordinary." taxation, whether we regard the suicidal folly mini- shock pretty well. In 1847 its amount was 60 !!
/Sot. indeed that they ore extraordinary in the sense fest by its results or the richly-merited unpepularity millions of kilos.: 56 millions were manufactured in
of being either solitary or exceptional; for of lute that attaches to it. la-18: and although the production fell in 1819 to
titer: base seseral instances of the same sort. That in a country like this the advertised wants 41 millions, it row in 1850 to 65 millions. King of
But tlutt they are extraordinarr as at once involving of all ranks and degrees should only be made sub- the market, beet-root now raises his piece to an enor-
an outrage on humanity, a vidation of the rights of scrvient to the purpose of raising a MIDI like mous pitch. The first quarter of 1850 compered
nonconformists. a scandal on the church of England ; 140,0001., is in itself an anomaly which nerds hardly with that of 1817 regents an increase in the price of
and u diareoitial by a parish clergyman of his dies to be dwelt upon. But when it is borne in mind 117 fr. per 100 kilos. In consequence of this
reran and ordinary's legitimate authority and judiei- how ill-adjusted this profitless bunion is to the • elevation of price the consumption has fallen from
ous advice, are iu throe respect's calculated to create, capabilities of those who are to sustain it, and when 1133 millions in 1817, t's 98 in 18V., 116 in 1849, and
indignation anti disgust. lit is remembered that its efficacy to hinder and deter 121 in 1830. hence serious loss to the Treasury, to
Chichester is a small agricultural town of 9,000 or from advertising is precisely in inverse ratio of the the ports, and navimition. and great discomfort to
10, 0(N) inhAitants, on the coast of Sussex, between interest which the public at large have in the eircn- the poor. I have before described the government
Brighton and Portsmouth. It is the seat of a Id- lotion of industrial, educational, and miseellancona ' bill, the amendments of the committee, and the last
atomic. with 4,209/. a year, bast a cathedral largely intelligence, onr wonder at the absurdity give. place' proposals of the coblnet, explained yesterday by the
endowed, and served by a dean, four great canons, a, to our indignation at the injustice of maintaining it. • Minister of Commerce. M. Schneider's plah of ad-
precentor. a chancellor, a treasurer, twenty-eight INo intelligible reason has ever been put forward as • journing the reduction of the duty on all sugars is,
prebendaries, and four minor canoes—all holy excuse for doing so. Intrinsic equity. obvious however, not approved by any considerable fraction
• order- : ate, is divided into ten parishes or pnro- I policy, and easy popularity, combine as inducements of the Chamber. fuel unsatisfactory and unpopular,
child districts, having, we gather from the " Clergy, to repeal it; yet, up to the present hour, by some as half-measures usually are. It is a ssrions halt in
Liao" eleven clergymen. So that the cathedral eity.of ' inconceivable fatality or fo.uity, it has not hem dine. ; the policy of "la 4.hom march," psofcso.d by the
Chichester has attached to it a bishop, in theory In a few days we shall have budget No. 2. What government and practised in the department of
at least 39 (+Titular clergy, and 11 parochial minis- it will contain and what it will not contain we do I butchers' meat. Debates of this sort, on =Actin' •
Item. There ought consequently to be no want of not pretend to surmise. The choice between the interests of the country, have also an important poll-
religion, virtue. or piety amongst the 9,000 or 10,000 larger elements whereof it must consist may be open I tiral side. For instance. the protectionist doctrines
hnhadtants et Chichester. In spite, however, of this Ito considerable difference of opinion. We have our professed by the legitimists and set forth in the
array of the church militant in Chietacster--an array I own notions thereupon, and Lave uever concealed works of their publicis:s like M. de Vainly. give the
exceeding that of the officer; of the battalion of them. At the same time we admit that a sagacious , genuine retrograde stamp to that party, and show the,
Foot Guards usually quartered near this spiritual I and discerning Chancellor of the Exchequer might ! counter, which is ,o eager for progreas. so greedy of;
overflow— the city is by no 111C3111/ diatinguislod for its deal with the material( before him for compounding modern refortne, how utterly unfitted to guide the
fidelity to the (lurch so signally provided for thote. a financial statement in more ways than one. destinies of France would be the supsrannuated

high office, under the circumstances of this ifiutrage.
For it is by punishing irregularities mid disorders
when they occur, that their recurrence is prevented.
The polity magistrate has " no constraining power"
whereby to ensure that a pickpocket " shall not re-
peat" his offence ; but his want of such power to
repress future guilt only adds to the weight of his
duty to correct present offence. And so with Bishop
°alma ; it Ls for him to restrain such ebullitions of
Mr. KV..MUCK'S future bigotry by subjecting his past
display to legal correction. And unless he do so the
nonconformists of Chichester will have great reason
to complain of their Bishop.
Fur this Mr. )(mites; seems to have become pos-
sessed by a non-burial mania. A few days after this
ease of 31r. l'AusuNs, he refused to bury the remains
of a poor lunatic who in her madness had committed
suicide. "They might put her into the ground if
they liked"—lie would not read the service over her
body. And into the ground the body was put with-
out a prayer or service.
Now, with such a minister in a parish containing
one•half the whole cathedral city of Chichester,
though the lives of his parishioners may be safe,
their bodies after death are not. Fur, as the bishop
has "no emistruining power" to enforve Christian
burial for their vemains, unless he will punish
Mr. KENKICK, when lw acts illegally, half the bodies
in the parish may he refused that sepulture which is
the common law right of every parishioner. Under
such cireunistances the Town Council of the city
have taken up the subject, to ascertain what the law
exactly is, and how its infractions am to be punished.
But what a scandal, at the time we are engaged in
repelling papal aggression thus to have the very
worst practiiss of that church; its most senseless
higotirr, and its most cruel intolcraee, imitated in
the Church of England!

called the whip-hand.
The proposals of Austria, it is well known, were no
less than to enter the confederation with the entire
of her provinces - inother words,toswamp it. Then the
constitution of the Diet was to be eleven votes. of
which the minor princes emitted but three. This
constitoded the Diet a lriet of Kings. And in
this Diet Austria was to preside, anti, of course,
Austria was to act as its chief and its executive.
Tualwsv proposals, it steals, that although Baron
MAxixerm. acceded, the King of PrtessiA, in one
of those fits of coat-age and of pride which from time
to time illuminate Ins desponding nature, has refused
acquiescence. With what courage this new attitude
of nsistanee will he nmintained remains yet to be
seen. It accords, no doubt, with the senti-
ments of every man of spirit in Berlin,
and every Prussian who still retains a hope
to see his country maintain its position in the
front of protestant and constitutional Germany. lint
to consult the barometer of Prussian firmness, one
must, we fear, look more to Warsaw than Berlin.
Of all those kings, princes, and ministers, who are
protooolling. and finessing, and menacing each other,
there is not one who is sure of the ground on which Inc
stands, or who durst trust his people or the German
ipople in any struggle. They are therefore, one and
all, at the nie.ecy of the cup. if NICIIOLAS persists
in bidding them fall before the feet of SettwAttzEN-
Amu, prostrate themselves no doubt they will.
Should the Czvu. however, which is not impossible.
consider tienw.itett:smitu to be arrogant, and to be
pushing Austrian ascendancy too far—and should his
Imperial Majesty opine that it is better to maintain
two rival and conflicting powers in Germany. than
aid the complete supremacy of one—then the
present resistance to Austria may assume consistency
and attain success.

regime of the elder monarchy. A pamphlet, by the
Duke of Vainly, professing the stiffest-hedged pro-
tection on coat and sugar, is handing about on the
benches of the Right. No; the day will not be
theirs ; and the snubs which they receive from the
itatenal des Delmts arc right well deserved. Mean-
while, Louis Napoleon is playing a dangerous game,
h 1 throwing himself into the hands of the Jesuits.
1 erh9ps he thinks he will he able to pitch over those
cunning allies when he has made use of them us a
bridge to the object of his ambition. But the Je•mits
arc proverbially solid in their masonry, and the
day the President turns to kick `down his
bridge he may chance to lirui,e his own foot,
instead of stirring the cemented institutions of this
wily sect. The bill for the stricter observance of the
Sabbath and saints days is to be brought forward on
an early day.
Report says to-day that M. V,Sran is going to pur-
chase the Pays, MM. Fould and Buroche not having
been able to come to terms with M. dc Bonyille, the

RAILWAY MEETINGS. 1 h.:, is incurred by the respective leases. This will be ne-
&awry under existing creumstanc- e, as the committee will
not now close their report without precise information on
EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY, three points, and, indeed, the only way to deal with them is
to show what the rents and guarantees arc, in order that
ADJOURNED SPECIAL MEETING. . the three companies may settle the question how they ought
An adjourned special meeting of the shareholders . to 1, mete
of the Eastern Counties Itailway was held yesterday :At the' Mr. ELLIS charged the committee (thoune:i it cor.aist I
London Tavern, Mr. desert' GLYNN in the chair. I of men of great business habits, sound jieLurnt nt, and rail-
The CHAIRMAN, in opening the proceedings, stated . way esperience) with net having carried out the instrue-
bons of the shareholder+. They had been requested to settle
etbmiat
inip theyor hadw h twoci, nt
ii,eceyt i:gac
reforot.hnait day—the t
t the terms of the agreement, but they had nut offered a single
adjourned from the 13th of February, fur the purpose of suggestion upon which one could be founded. (Cheers.)
commence,first, hadthe 1 Proiee -tt
receiving the report of the committee then appointe Ito in- Mr. BROADBENT, of Manchester, compliment. il the
quire into the propriety of adopting a working agree- committee's report, and contended that the Eastern
meat with the Eastern Union and Norfolk !Wirra Counties Company could not lose much lees then :10.000,.
Companies. The second meeting wt's the adjourned general i per annum by the carrying out of such an agreement as that
half-yearly meeting. The report of the committee would , which had been pmpreeel.
be presented by Captain Kelly, and he (the chairmln) I Captain KELLY had expected that the chairman would
would afterward. reply to the charges which the re; ort have made out some cher tea against the eorninittete ,it!. r
contained, and which he could not settle to pass unnothe d. of omission or commialon, but this had not he-. a don-.
Mr. C. P. RONEY, the secretary of the company, having (Iliac, hear.) The affair. hall not hitherto been eon., dee .l
stated the order of proceeding adopted at the pre% i.e. ' as they ought, but he trusted that if they w...re not pr—
meeting, unit detailed the eireninstances under which the
committee had been appointed, rand to sacrifice their property altogether, a very differ .1:
course would be pursued in future. 'The letter from Mr.
Captain KELLY, as eh:denim of the committee, Pee" . Cohlsold had not reached the committee until almee. after
seated the report to the meeting. (The report appearel the decision had been rains to. The effect of the props, 1
recently in tile columns of the Express.) lie moved 1 ogreon, oL woo moat liberally to give them (101,011‘•.. rest e+
that the report be received, adopted, and acted on. (e liver, make them pay 70,(11111!. fur it. (Cheers and laughter.) 11 .
hear," and cheer...) The committee had bestowed the I sincerely hoped that it would not be confirmed.
greatest pain. and attention on the subject cut:toted to • Mr. QUI LT ER, not being a ehareltobler, would refrain
their investiption, front entering into th. matti r unless he was in% it dto •'
. .._

manager of that paper.
To-day the Assembly continued the adjourned de-
bate on the Sugar Bill. The general discussion was
brought to a close; the debate on the articles has
been adjourned to to-morrow. The speakers were
MM. Come. Betting de Lancastel. Anthony Thouret,
Fa% reau, Barbarous, and lknoist trAiy. Beugnot,
' the reporter, will answer to-morrow.
The instrument for determining the saccharine in-
tensity of sugar, called racchrimetre, is based on the
phenomenon produced by the polorisation of light.
A tube, containing a dissolution of sugar subjected
to the proof, is placedin a sort of telescope.
a person approaches his eye, he sees a disc divided
into two shades very strongly marked. By turning
a screw placed beneath the instrument, the two
shades become confounded in one ; this screw cor-
responds at the same time to an indicator, which
runs on a graduated scale. When uniformity of
shade is obtained, the indicator is consulted, and if it
has stopped at the 93th degree, such is the portion
subject to the tax, that is to say, the fraction of
pure sugar contained in the specimen experimented
on.

Ihe Bourse to-day was good. A rise of 20 cen-
times took place in the Fives, which closed at 94.23.
The Threes closed at 37.55, with r. rise of 10 mu-
tinies.

so, in whiz a ease hr should most readily make his nat. -
ment. (Cheers)
Mr. NATHAN declared that he could have no conl-
&nee in the chairman and his colleague., fir they h
wanted to sell them to the Eastern Unitm, which was him:e-
rupt. (Chaos.) The director. were not lit to ,it at tar
hoard, and they must have a chancre. (Chet It a..."
impo-s=sible for them to get worae. (Cheers anti !aught-r.)
Mr. CON. charged the hoard with stultifying themtels
In attempting to fume upon the company an agreement
ia-
rolvitue such important consideration but of whichtie y
knew milting themeelv. s. (Chs..era.;
The Cli.alltMAN replied that the weeptance of the
agreement had been left to the shareholders. (blean)
After a I. migthemil and noisy dieeuesion,
The nsolution was then agreed to unaninsonsly.
Capt. KELLY noxt Mantled in a supplentrutcry report,
which stated :
Your committee in t deputations from th . ropy:-
tiro boardo of the Norfolk and Eastern Unite, romp ,-
ati a, and informed them that the terms of the propoosil
agr,..namt were not such a. your committee ennui rininn
mend to you for adoption. The deptttatimn csaprsosed their
conviction, notwithetanding such deeisitia of the etimiiiittae,
that the term, proposed were just and equitable. and would
he found to work ',rustically for the common Mould of the
three companies, :out that they were not prepared to modify
those terms, or to jasmine others. At the same time the
deputations calves-oil their strong "vitae of the importance
of a united action, anti their continued desire to cultivate
friendly relation', with the Eastern Counties Compaity.
the v we of the deputations and those of the cola-
matte, un the substantial questioa at bane being
so diverse, the negotiation with them has not
been comitiuted. With the Newmarket Company your
coot, iittee have been more succasofith and they hare the
nazi:faction of informing y.m that atter frweated Inttrviewo
and disc-11,40ne with a deputation from that company, the y
have come to an uudentanding with that deputation as to
what should constitute the basis of a working agnamten
between the two companies, subject to your approval an-t
confirmation. 'rime, however, has not sufficed to .10.10 W
deputation and your committee to consider all the points
involved and to reduce the had. of the pramacil arrant,-
ment t. .itthape proper for submission to you ; they. there-
fore, suggest that the term of their existent..• a, a et:aroma-
tee should be extended to enable them to complete their
negotiations with the Newmarket Cilantro's., sail to lay
their v....0h before you iu a clear and intelligible 1' inn at a
future smarting, to he specially couvental to remise tin'
same. Your committee have pleasure in stating that time
deputation from the Newmarket board have m t the ad-
vanes made by your committee in the most aide loin!,
and have eriured throughout the discussions "'hid, have
taken place so fair and r .aeonable a tibsposit Milal. t leavo
no doubt in the minds of your committee of their sincere
desire to enter into a triune arrangement win. ti,- noe-
-1 patty, based upon a clue consideration for the connam hue-
, rest of teeth companies."
Capt. 1iE1.1.1 then proposed a resolution, adopting the
report and ordering it to be carried into effect. This was
seconded by Mr. I'M:LING and carried unanimously.
TUX allattelta; En llat.r-%EartLY MattiTtlau
was then resumed, the adoption of the directors' repaire
being put from the chair, was carried by a large majority,
but amidst much uproar, for the meeting for the last two or
three Moira had berm e5...44410y tumultuous.
The forfeiture of 4,369 shares. ou which 9,9101. End been
paid, and un which there were "_,5301. arrears, wits the n
'tethered.
he CII stated that the next busine, was the
election of two directors in the room of Mr. Marmite,. inel
Mr. Sanythe, who retired by rotation, but who tittered
themaives toe re-election ; and till. IN cnanme ut,Ln 101 l Of a
director to the board, in the roan of Mr. Wit.. W;10
had resigned. With reo,att to the course of pros
cc lure which he (th • chairman) would au. pt, he
is t:acil to say that iu consequence of the orgeot
aint•itations of a large number of shareholder., h. *es., tot, .t
for tile pnactit to retain odic, il. tilt that ht• c, old n. t
reliuquirh him post with a clue regard to the interests of the
company. 110 would not by any rash procedure tot
part complicate the affairs of the company, hut as soon et, ...is
could retire without injury to the company, lei woold
so. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. ELLIS stated that he intended to adopt a situbur
course to that which the chairnean had announced be
would pursue.
Mr. KNICIIIT hoped that the chairman anti Mr.
would retain office until their succesows were appointed
Mr. ELLIS--Certainly.
The eindion of two tiir.atorti, in the room of Mr. Msir-
antra and Mr. Smythe, was :hen I.:....eeded with, anti....
tlw mot Hamm:int and boisterowsupro tr.
For the Vacauce w.MaiMlcal by the retirement of Mr.
Mar:sure, Moans. SLargrave and Loyd Wire props-cal ;
the It rater was IttaelarVit to la. re-elected by an overwitelnl-
in?. majority. A pull, however. aus detuatithal on behalf sit
Mr. Boyd.
For the vacancy caused by Mr. Smythe'. retirenwia,
Messrs. Smythe, Watiffliegton, and Neaem were nnminat d.
't he vote W.., taken on Mr. Smythe, awl his eleetion two,
tired by the allow of hands. roil wet. also demanded ifs
his caw.
Mr. WADDINGTON her,ed to andante. that ~,,i.rtuitity
of explaining a cireum....me, in %Melt it had 'wait said he s
inaolved. It had la en renmea.al th it he (Mr. NV:olefin !tot.)
Mid received a thou • out pound. in louncetion with the
WiJk..leil mill St. Ives -bac ••. it ,as quite true Ili:it
lad roc: it, 41 that sum, but he had in the limiter acted itto..r
the direction of Mr. Ilueson, unit at the time ht. hail n -
ceived it he intag;ineti lie was quit.• juetilied in doing sa.
Ile (Mr. Waddington) LA since r erni ti the MOW y,
the time he did no, the hoard i exonerated liitti ui :I,:y
sinister motive ; and hail eta eel, ilia' at the tin; le. hailre-
ceived the money M. he was quite Peddled in the
transaction. (Cheer.)
Attar some imdevant an 1 disorderly discussion the Int. t-
ime !JOWLY:1111 to consider time party who should
mewled to till the V.W.11.1 hy the r‘..jamdiugt ut
Mr. Betts. Two can,b-Ltto. were propwd--nix.. Mr.
Waddington anti Mr. Whall.y., and on a show of hotels
Ming taken there appeared .1 la-a.. majority in favour et
Mr. Waddington. A pat Suns drat end,-.l on behalf of Sir.
Whiffler, which was tivui to t • pace this day, comma.,
ing at ill o'clock and terminating
Scrutineers were appiint d. au d. the meeting, which
lasted from one o'clock till half-pad ...sem and was almost a
continued .ergo of uproar and c .fflusiou, adjourued teed
this day.

Mr. PAULIN° seconded the adoption of the report.
Continent oil his part was unnecesaary; the report spoke fir?
itself. (Cheers.)
The CHAIRMAN said the committee in their re-
port said that " Although they had not been enabled to
carry out to the full extent the object expressed in the
language of the resolue appointing them—viz., that they
should settle the terms of the working agreement between
the three companies—your committee have nevertheless
collected information of a nature calculated to throw cen-
t:likeable light upon the quest' and to aid in protauting
a fair and sound determination upon it." Now he (the
chairman) begged to remark that the resoleition of the
' meeting Merrell to hail placed the committee end the
directors in a false position. The resolution bad empower :d
the committee to " settle the terms " of a working agree-
ment, while was clearly the province of the hoard (hear), awl
if the present hoard hail been unfit for the duty they night to
have appointed another beard. (Hear, hear.) 'I ney could
not appoint a committee to supersede and paraiyse the
board, without inflicting serious injury on the inn A stn of
the company, and he begged that a stop might be put to ail
the disagreeable proceediuga which had Is: some tint, eliie
traded the company. They had all one common inosest. '
(Loud cries of " so, no.") A. proprietors of the Eastern
Counties Railway they had one common interest. (Rear,
hear.) It was. therefore, their ditty, by conciliatory and
proper proceedings, to present the depreciatiou uf their
pmperty as f was they could. The committee went on to say,
" The minute I.f courerenre retains the following inveauniu-
duns, 'A loss of some 2,00II1;may accrue on rent of branches
and canal; hut this, of course, in the allleir of the joiat com-
panies:' of VIA mat no mention occurs in the mime,* of
conference. Relative to this matter your committee entice,
that clause IS of the draft agmetnent, which defines, ca-
tegorically ' the working and other expenses of awl bee-
dent to the said railways and undertakings of the three.
companies hearties hereto and tlw carrying into execution of
this merneuent, and which are to be advanced and paid by
the Eastern Counties Railway Compauy as here:ink:furs
provided,' which clause ineludes the following ale:. le,
' All rents, annual SUMS and eharges reserved and payable
by any or either of the said companies to any other elan.
piny, under and by virtue of any lease, agreeme at, act of
parliament, or otherwise.' floa draft agreement your',
committee are informed was net formally submitted to the
board, but was perused by Mr. Glynn, who took no oltje 0-
then to ant' part of it excepting that which relates to Har-
wich." Now that draft agreement WAS in point of fact no
agreement at all. It had not been drawn up by any of
the solicitors of the companies, and was uo more in
force or effect than a piers of waste paper. (Hen,
hear.) There had ISMS some portions of the agree-
ment to which he did not assent when it was shown to
him, and hail the board gone on with the matter he (the
chairman) would have felt it his duty to object to these
things, and it was not fair to charge the bard with atte:npt-
ing to tarry out all the provisions of an agreement to winch
they had not assented. Ile would have objected to the par
meat of the four-and-a half per cent., and also to the
guarantee of 10,0001. At the meeting which had been held
for adjusting the terms of agreement, Mr. Williamson had
refused to sign the nternorandum because the liabinties of
the Eastern Counties had not been defined. Ile (the chair-
man) had a-cured Mr. Williamson that the liabilitie s of the
Eastern Counties were 240,000/., but that gentleman heel
replied that the Eastern Comities accounts had been HO
tampered with that he could place no reliance on them.
Mr. Caky, the member for Yorkshire, also insisted ou
having the Eastern Counties liabilities debited. The
liabilities of the Eastern tllioll were stated at 72,1.001., but 1
that WAS reduced to 70.0001., the other 2,000/. hying the
loss on the rents of the Stour Valley Railway and the Stow-
markt t and Lark Navigatione, which should have bra
omitted from the working expenstn. It would have been
Ida (Ow chairman's) business, if no committee had been
appointed, to have inquired into all the circumstances before
he had called upon them to put the seal of the cam easy to
the agreement. As it was part of the understanding that this
company should take the Eastern Union and Norfolk rolling
stock, 20,1001. was added to the liabilities of the company,
raising them thus to 210,0001. Ile miterited that no agree-
ment existed at all. There was only a Lure outline ; and
it was for the director', to have endeavoured to revertant
the facts, and fur the company merely to have
given them their sanction to proceed in the matter.
(" Oh, oh.") Ile was convinced, that, if the com-
mittee changed places with the board, they would find it
necessary to enter into an agreenieut as nearly as possible
like the nreient. (Loud cries of " No, no." " It's abomi-
nable.") They certainly might differ as to details, but the
principle would be substantially the same. (Hear, hear.)
lie %mild read them a letter which he bad received from
Mr. Cobleold, elated the 17th iwa. The letter in question
stated that a meeting between the deputations of the
Eastern Counties and Norfolk Companies, and the share-
holders' committee, took place at the desire of the latter,
and at the expense of very considerable personal incon-
venience to several members of the former, ut the Bishops-
;rate station. After son e preliminary polite expressions in
the part of Captain Kelly, the deputations were simply in-
formed that the committee had 1 Ito si 4 -
mint. that their report was in type, and that it would ap-
pear before the public on the day but one following Of
this treatment Mr. Cobladd complained that it was.
"to use the very mildest terms, uncourteous ;" and
the n he concluded a ith the following criticism on the rep .t :
"It as quite. unnecsere for me to make tiny comme ins
mien it, us it has already peen cetimateal at its a Atte by the
puhlie, but I 'nista, if my explanations. had been invited
by the cianmittee at our meeting, have suggested that the
interest of the capital to be invested in the rolling stuck
would have been taken into account in the 4; per cent.
working expenses which the Eastern Counti si were to have
deducted front the gross receipt., and still they would hum
had an ample margin, if the statement and comparison of
the chairman of the shareholders' committee at a late
meeting with reference to the working expenses on the
Brighton line is worth anything, and I might have directed
the attention of the committee to the facts that the earnings
of the Eastern Counties company, stated at 702,4•13/., includes
the receipts for cartage and deliveries on Loth the Norfolk
line mill their own, rued that the earnings of the Ea.-:ern
Union Company, stat .d by the committee at 90,711 e, wen
for the year ending in June last, for the best six tweatles of
which, as they well knew, the extension line was not °Deno;
to Norwich, and that the weekly returns do not include the
cartage and delivery receipts. The committee, how-
ever, thought ht, instead of seeking inform:aka,
to found their opinion on the imperfect data
which they obtained, including the joint report
of the principal officers of the company " offered " as the
officers' " unanbnous opinion iu compliance with a request
made the precedino day only " upon u subject of deep
importance to thousands ot' iudividuals having an invest-
ment of millions of capital. The chairman then referred
to another letter from Mr. Cubbold, which he said he heel
sent to the committee.
Captain KELLY denied that it had ever been received.
The CHAIRMAN replied that it had been sent to them,
and that the would find that it contained nearly all the In-
formation which had been put into the committee's report.
(" No, no.")
Mr. BOX demanded how it bad been sent ?
The CHAIRMAN—Through ;your own officer. (Con-
fusion.)
The SECRETARY indignantly repudiated the idea that
he had kept hack the letter, and offered to send for his
clerk to prove that it had been delivered. (" Oh, oh.") He
was utterly incapable of such an art as that of which it
appeared to be insinuated he had been guilty. (Cheers
and hisses.)
The letter was then read. It was as follow':
"Felixstowe Lodge, near Ipewich, March 3, 1551.
"My dear Sir,—Your letter of the 20th has been for-
warded to me here, where I have nn papers to which I can
refer which will show me precisely the amount of the
Stour Valley Navigation rents and receipts You will
have receive-a• 1 a copy of Mr. Quilter's report on the
Eastern Union account which will Mee you as accurate
information as to the receipts as I could supply, now '.y,
5 per cent. on the debenture debt, and 3 per cent. fill 1..,
share capital of the Stour Valley Railway, amounting to
about 10,0001. a year, from which has to be deducted the
interest or dividend on SOO shams in the Stour Valley
line in the hands of the Eastern Union Company—about
500/. a year. The rent potable of the Stowmarket canal
is a little over I.nool. a year, It4ainst which are to
be set off all bells and profits from the canals,
at present amounting to but a small sum. Should we suc-
ceed in getting these talk increased by the hill now Wore
parliament, there would be no Iffii upan this. The Lark
navigation rent, between Lynn (or Thetford) end Burr St,
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Captain KELLl—That letter was received. (Oh, oh.)
The CHAIRMAN (resuming) sail that the letter just
read was in answer to one he had sent to Mr. Cobhold,
dated on the 4t:e and containing the following paage :
" I skull be alai if von can state what the sent, of the Stour
Valley Railway, thi: Stowmarket Canal, and the Lark Na-
vization actualls are, and how they arise, and also the dif-
f-nmee between the rents and rata:ipta, so as to show what

GERM.LNY.

A correspondent of the Kedge,' Zeitung, of yester-
day, says that Prince SChwarieulxrg has deter-
mined upon another interview with M. Man-
teuffel. The Prenssisahr Zeitaay (late Dredge-he Re-
f,; se) has endeavoured to throw doubt upon the
authenticity of the memorandum of the 11th of Feb-
ruary, by asserting that that document was not
addressed to any of the German governments. This
equivocal denial of its official character the Xeronal
Zeituv, Chnatitotirmal Zeitony, and other jour-
nals, regard as equivalent to an avowal of its
genuineness : for they say it was nut addressed
to the government, but to the plenipotentiaries at
Dresden, and that in all its sentiments it completely
coincides with the notoriously official publication
Frodt Warsaw to Ohneez." A isimplact, :contain-
ing a spoken and unspoken speech of Henry Arnim
has been confiscated by the police authorities. Nearly
the whole of the first edition was sold before it was
seized. This confiscation forms the political topic of
the day at Berlin. It is said that a violent disagree-
ment has broken out between the commissioners,
General Thumen and Count Merushaf, which occa-
sioned the filmier's late yi,it to Berlin. The subject
and the particulars are not yet known.