The Express.
London, England, 1847-05-08 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 8, 1847.

gible, unless seeempealed by tlee projei de ki, almost
equally long, which it is s criticism. The 'dandle cif
the subject ham hula Interest for foreicatn. The re-
poet concludes with ems words: " The law is wall timed,
fiat up apple cemiggidatioa, and will remove many doubts.
A modem emalmesle In reject the law by M. Bruit, who
commeneed le reminding the manntaly that the prqjet was
introduced with spaniel reference to his ease. HA had, bees
prosecuted by Ohs stet* foe emery, and honourably acquitted.
Yet b 7 the law he might, nothwithstanding his sequined, be
excluded. Ile enlarged upon the extent to wheel such
law might be made a means of oppression and casabas of
popular righto. This eoatesierry of the diet admitted that
the proposed law had actuated in the ease of K. Brost, but
deprecated discussing its merits on so narrow a basis. lc
however, the assembly wished a full explanation of the ease,
he would deposit the papers with the secretary. A general
wish was excreted that this should he done. In the dis-
mission which ensued, the leading liberals expressed their
entire disapprobation of the law, on the ground that it sub-
jected to exclusion all persons who had been sentenced to a
degrading (entralrersds)
.punishment, and that such punish-
ments indicted for political offence., or by the decision of
military courts, might be made a pretext for excluding
the most useful and generally respected citizens. Atter •
prolonged debate, which at times became rather hot, and
bordered on personalty, it was declared (without taking a
vote) that the majority wire of opinion that such a law wee
necessary. The debate on the general question being closed,
it was intimated that the discussion of the law, paragraph by
paragraph, should be began next day.
THE GERMAN Pans.—The Nuremberg Corers-
Mtstates, on the credit of • correspondence from the
ei, dated April 28, that it is beyond doubt that a pro-
penal on the subject of the press will be made on the part of
Austsia, in the assembly of the confederation. By this pro-
' pool the press would be freed from the restrictions which
have hitherto weighed upon it, but the discussion of the
external affairs of e confederacy would be still kept under
censure. Internal questions may be discussed without re-
' serve, if the respective governments permit it. The proposal
of Austria, to which Prussia willingly leaves the initiative
in this matter, will be followed in the latter country by a
new law on the press, 'flu question then will be, whether
any other states will follow Prunia. It may safely be in-
(erred that Hammer will not do so ; and it is also doubtful
whether Electoral Hanka will follow.

GALICIA.—CRACOW, APRIL 26.—The fabrication
of tobacco for private use, or for sale, has been formally pro-
Libited in the territory of Cracow. Persona who have stores
of tobacco on hand are allowed to sell the same up to the end
of April, after which time the government tea well be levied
upon them. Salt and tobacco are the two great monopolies
of the Austrian government,
SAXF.:WEIMAR, MAY I.—The municipal authori-
ties of Weimar have interdicted the baker, of the town from
selling bread which has not been at least twenty-four hours
out of the oven, undo. the penalty of one dollar fine for each
loaf mold contrary to this decree. A similar measure was
adopted in England in 1799, during the great scarcity of that
year. The economy on stale bread is estimated at one quarter.

9,9981. 11s. 3d. stook, and that the balance in the hands of
the bankers was 1,96111.
Pintas YOU Friars.—MT. Pea'r submitted to the
council the schedule of onus for next year, the Essays com-
peting for them (agreeably with conditions to be he
us the next part of the Journal of the Society), to he sent to
the secretary on or before the let of March, 1848. This eche.
dule having been taken into consideration, the :olio wing sub-
jects and amounts of the respective prises were iiiially agreed
to: Farming of Yorkshire, North Riding, 60/. ; do Kest Rid-
ing, 50/. ; West Riding, 101. ; farming of Gloucestershire,
601.; farming of Devonshire, 501.; management of cattle,
301. ; use of lime as a manure, 201. ; 'management of steals
lend, 301.; hops, 201. ; management of farm berees, 201
hemp, 201. ; deuro-pneursonie, 501. The commit deeidled
that 1001. of the 4501. placed by the Yorkshire Agricultural
Society at the disposal of the Society, in GM, shoed be ap-
propriated as two-thirds of the amount of prizes proposed an
the foregoing schedule for reports of the Liming in the
several ruling( of that county.
COUXTUY MaI:TING OF 1848.—The report of Mr. Kinder,
Mr. Brandreth Gibbs, and Mr. Browne, of their peewee!
inspection of the localities proposed in the Yorkshire district,
for the purposes of the country meeting of the Society in
1848, having been read, several gentlemen forming deputa-
tions from different parts of the Yorkshire district, commu-
nicated such detailed local information respecting throe pats
of the Yorkshire district with which, from their immediate
raddence, they were more particularly connected. as !tar-
nished the coma with evidence of the respective capabi-
lake of the proposed localities to afford accommedatieo for
the members, and best promote the objects of the society.
These deputations having retired, the council proceeded to de-
liberate, and finally resolved, that the city of York should be
the place of the country meeting of the society fur the year
1848. Mr. !Judicial, M.l'. (the lord mayor), And the other
members of the deputation from York (on theta return to
the council) were informed by the noble chairman of the de-
cision the council had just made ; when they expressed, on
the port of that ancient city, their gratification at the result
then communicated to them, and the unanimous and cordial
feeling with which every effort would be made by the citi-
zens of York to give the society a hearty welcome, and pro
mots, to the urinal of their power, the success of the meet-
ing and the national objects of the society.
Dlevatcr eon 1851.—The council then proceeded to de-
termini, the district within which the euuntry meeting of
the society should be bold in the year 1851 ; a,d decided, on
the motion of Lord Portman, that such district shoal/ com-
prise the counties of Kent, Surrey, and Suss. x, and be deoig-
noted " The South Eastern District."

Other business hewing been usissactsd, t►e council ad-
journed to Wednesday next, th. 12th inst.

RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY. The forty-third
anniversary of this society was held last night in the large
room, Exeter-hall. J. G. Here, EN , took the chair, and
said the good this society had done could hisruly be estimated,
for during the put year they had issue I upwards of
18,000,000 copies of new publicotxons, wince had been circu-
lated so every pert of the world, and, although the receipts
of the society only amounted to 0,0001., the business was
conducted in so admirable a manner, that they were enabled
to pay all their expenses, and place 2,0011. at the disposal of
their benevolent fund. The report then referred
to the death of Samuel Hoer, the late treasurer of
the society, and also George Collinson, E-q., one of the first
presidents art the society, kith of whom have died since the
last meeting of the society, and whose deaths would be a
great li es to the society. Jelin Gurney Fiore had been ap-
pointed to the office of demurer. Several gentlemen ad-
dress-4 the meeting, and a vote of thanks to the chair closed
the proceedings.
LONDON SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIANITY
AMONORT THI Jaws.—YestardAy, the 39. h annual meeting
of the above society was held at Exeter-hall, Lnrd Ashley in
the chair. The noble chairman read a letter from Chevalier
Bunsen, the Prussian minister, expresaive of his regret at not
being able to attend the meeting, and express to them in
person 'he deep interest his Majesty the King of Prussia felt in
the welfare of the society. The sulneriptions for the year, in
addition to a sum of 983/. 12a. to the temp aril relief fund,
amounted to 29,0461. Os. 6d., being an increase of
3,2641. 9s. 10d. over the preceding year. T. e report having
been atkitcd, and the meeting addressed in numerous
speeches in support of the proposed resolutions, thanks were
voted to Lord Ashley for his presidency, and the mecing
separated.
ORPHAN WORKING SCHOOL—We were yesterday
invited to a private view of the arrangements for the fancy
sale to be held this day, and on the 10th, 11th. and 12th lint
at the new schoolhouse, Reverse ick-hill. The house is •
handsome building, in the Italian style, very mations, and
well situate on the brow of the hill, surrounded by extensive
grounds. The fancy sale, which is under the immediate
patronage of her Majesty and the highest of the female
aristocracy, is to theist of articles worked by ladies through-
out the country, together with numerous articles of British
and foreign maautacture. Among the first class mentioned,
we particularly noticed many very elegant eieces of needle-
work by the Counter of Sheffield.
ROYAL ASYLUM OF THE ST. ANNE'S SOCIETY.—
A special general court was held yesterday at the society's
office, in Charlotte-row, Mansion-house, Captain Lamont,
R.N., in the chair; when the minutes of tee previous
court were confirmed, and the half-yearly election of children
into the aselum altered to the second Friday in the August
and February of each year. The remainder of the business
consisted in the election of the Hon. William Ashley, a vice-
president, to be one of the trustees of the satiety.
REFORM IN PAELthMENT.—NATIONAL ALLIANCE.
—A public meeting was held last evening at Farringdon
Hall, Kireg's Arms-yard. Snow-hill, to take measures in sup-
port of the principles of the National Alliance. There was a
very large attendance. Mr. Robertson presided. Mr.
Clarke, of Walthamstow, proposed the first resolotion, to
the effect that the House of Commons was not • fair repre-
sentation of the people ; and that the majority of its mem-
bers had forfeited all claims to the confidence of the earnest
friend. ef civil and religious liberty. Dr. Epps seconded
the resolution, which, having been carried with
acelarnetion, • second was proposed by Mr. Henry Vincent,
expressing the confidence of the meeting in the National Al-
liance, which they considered to be worthy r f the support
of all classes. This resolution was also carried. The pro.
mediae concluded with • vote of thanks to the chairman.
A PRETTY LITTLE GAME FOR PRETTY LITTLE
LORDS OF Till ADMISALTT.—An amusing game is that ef
building ships, and seeing whether they wall float. You
must first get some oak timber and knock it into shape any-
how, till at begins to look something like • tub. Then take
I your ship to the seaside and see if it will Boat ; but if it will
not, you must take it out of the water and pul it to pieces
again, end begin making a fresh ship. Do this until it does
not sink. When this is the ere, you can begin putting in
your guns ; but, if it &cold roll over, which is very pro-
bable, you had better carry away your ship before it goes to
the bottom, and pull it to pieces again, and patch it and con-
struct it on quite • new plan; but if, after all, it does
nothing but roll over, you had better put it aside for fire-
wood, and lose no more time about getting some more
oak timber, and begin building another ship. The most
amusing game, however, is to build some four or five ships
at the same time, as like one another as two eggs, and to
launch them all together. It is great fun to watch them in
the water. One wall pitch, the other will toss; one will roll,
and another will do nothing at all but show • strong desire,
like a stone, to go to the bottom. This sport is very divert-
ing, and never tires, no matter how often you may repeat it.
You may play at this game as often as you like, (or you an
come to no harm in trying the erpenments, as you do not
go in the ships yourselves, and hare nothing to pay for the
amusement. It is the stupid English nation which pays fur
all.—Punch.
INQUEST, YESTERDAY.—CHARGE OF CHILD MURe
DIM IN A RAILWAY CARRlAoll.—Before Mr. Waklcy, at
the Elephant and Castle, King's-road, Camden-town, on the
body of Hannah Causley, aged three months, alleged to have
met its death from the improper treatment of her Lather,
Lawrence Canary, now in custody, and remanded on the
charge by Mr. Rawlineon, the Morylebone police magistrate.
Henry West, a porter in the employ of the Loudon and
North Western Railway Company, said the accused arrived
at the Euston terminus in a third-class carriage, on Tuesday
evening, from LiverpooL He bad a pack, which witness
assisted on to his beck, and in doing so he observed that he
had a bundle in his arm. He asked what it was, nud the man
said it was a child, but that it had died about 17 miles down
the line. Witness sent for Mr. Barker, the superintendent
of police, who felt It his duty to give the man in custody.
The brother-in-law of the accused, named Nolan, produced
• letter he had wetter, stating that his wife and child were
in the Fever Hospital in Liverpool, and that he was coming
to Learn. Mr. T. H. Cooper, Pro on to St. Pancras
w enid, having elm:mined the body, which he said
*Mk
wee emaciated, and covered with ulcers in the
aide. was esereetion of the lungs and water on the
Ink to seem{ hr death. The coroner, having
serreibad that He sensed was remanded till Monday, ex-
pired his censeisdea did Hs taking the man into custody
was a very tarter, pieurling, and said the poor fellow
eight to be aerated Immediately. Verdict, " Natural
death from disease of the lungs and water on the brain."