The Express.
London, England, 1847-10-07 00:00:00

I, THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOB:

to the ministry of the interior and that-4 foreign
affairs, from which the former retrograde opiate
were dismissed. Nothing could ethos
enthu-
siasm with which the annennoement of these change!
was receirect The characters of the two new mi-
nisters nit not only known in Tuscany, but through-,
heir ti
out the entire Italian ppeninsula.and t
merit to power was expected to peados moat *por-
tant political effects from the Alps to drawn of
Calabria. Colonel Sproul was appointed Gooner
of
Leghorn. Nothing was wanting to fill the measure
of popular content save the return of the Marquis
Corsica.
The letters from Naples are to the 27th ult., and as
usual belie the official reports of the government of
that unhappy country. A note of Lord Palmerston to
the cabinet of Naples, requiring the execution of the
convention of 1816, by which the Sicilian parliament
was to have been convoked to sanction every augmen-
tation of taxes, is mentioned, to which it is said the
King replied, after consulting Austria, that the
demand was inadmissible, seeing that the parliament
was dissolved by royal ordonnance and with all the
legelfarmalities. The insurrection in Calabria is te-
Ltas having gained strength ; and it was said
ea
ral Nunziante had received two serious wounds
in a conflict with the insurgents. It is also reported
that a corps of artillery sent to Mangiana had joined
the insurgents. The insurgents under M. Antonio
Longobucco had seized on the town of Cotrone, on
the shores of the Gulf of Tarentum. The royalist
troops hearing them shouting " Viva Feidinando II."
and " Down with the ministers !" refused to fire on
them.
Rome continues perfectly quiet The people seem
to have received this news with a dignified tranquillity
which indicates conscious rectitude and strength.
The election of the officers of the national guard was
proceeding without any extraordinary excitement
Happily the fears of the retirement of Cardinal
Ferretti were unfounded. That minister, on the 28th,
inspected the garrison of the Castle of St. Angelo,
where be delivered to the troops collected in a square
around him the following remarkable address :
I have visited you by the express command of our well
beloved sovereign to testify to you in his name his perfect
satisfaction. This really extraordinary trait of bens-
veteaa cannot but be highly gratifying to you,
tome I do not think it customary for sovereigns
to employ their prime minister, as his Holiness does to
day, to bear words which generally have their place
in the orders of the day. I avail myself of this opportunity
to exhort you to remain faithful observers of duty and dis-
cipline, not that I have any particular reason to engage you
to do so. Thanks to God, we are tranquil and peaceable,
perhaps more so than any other people. However, should
any danger present itself (which certainly is not the case at
present) I am convinced that pious as you are, and grateful
to your sovereign, who is also your father, you would give
proofs of your fidelity and courage, and you would cot be
alone. I shall be your companion. Though wearing
the garb of a priest, and though I cannot show the courage
of a soldier, I can affirm to you I have enough of the courage
of a citizen not to be behindhand should the occasion require
my aid; but, I repeat, danger will not come. Soldiers, I
recommend three things unto you,—religion, fidelity, dis-
cipline. Lang live Pius IX.
The chief of the insurgents, the well known
Romeo, demanded an interview with Gen. Stratella, '
in which he proposed a cessation of hostilities if the
King would consent to an amnesty and a change of
ministers. The aides-de-camp of Generals Stratella
and Nansiante were sent to Naples with these propo-
sitions sad with despatches informing the King of the
Wtissailb of excitement which prevailed in the
The result had not transpired at the
Vlof these letters.
24th and succeeding evening, large assess-
binges of people took place in Naples on the Pia
Beale, the Largo della Carita, and the Piazza Santa
Croce. Tel-coloured banners appeared, and cries of
"Viva NI 1X.," "Italian independence," and "The
Constitution" were heard. After these had been dis-
posal, the town exhibited all the appearances of a
plays in a state of siege, the streets being constantly
patrolled by squadrons of cavalry and detachments of
infantry, and overrun by the agents of the police.
The guards were everywhere doubled, and extraordi-
nary measures of precaution adopted.
Letters from Rome say that the Pope bad ad-
dressed a letter to the King of Naples, which was
brought by Count Ferretti, the brother of the Car-
dinal, in which his Holiness expresses his regret that
the useful reforms which he judged it necessary to
adopt in his own dominions should be taken as a pre-
text of revolt in neighbouring states; but at the same
time be impressed on the King the expediency of a
timely concession of wise reforms. According to some
letters, his Holiness adjures King Ferdinand, as a
Christian, to spare the blood of his brethren, and re-
minds him, as a sovereign, that concessions have
never weakened monarchs, except when they have
been so late as to have the appearance of being ex-
torted.

the present political chiefs, and theie functions will be
nearly i.dentscal; only they will be in itomediate sub-
to the governor-general inst•ad of the
Homo-o. Their pay will vary from 1'2,000 to
16,000 reels. There will be 42. One very important
article reddens these officers independent of all con-
trol but that of the governor-general and the cedtral
government Therefore there is an end to that part
of the tyranny of captains-general which used the
political chief as an engine, or persecuted him as an
I obstacle.
Of the sub-delegates there will be three orders,
numbering in all 119. They will be named by the
crown. Their pay will vary from 14,000 to 20,000
reale.
The intendentes are to continue till the Ministers of
Finance and Interior can agree upon a measure for
merging the functions of three officers in the autho-
rity of the governors-general. The commissioners of
public security and the commissioners of mountains
are to be suppressed, except in some special instances.
The decree is to come into operation upon Oct. 15.
The new governors-general, gazetted to-day, are
those of which I sent you a list yesterday, with two
more—Burgos: Lorena° Flores Calderon; and Can-
tabria : Juan Martin Carramolino.
Another decree makes some alterations in the
Royal Council, suppressing 10 oat of 30 seats, and
some of the subordinate offices. The councillors are
divided into three classes: pay of first, 20,000 reals;
second, 12,000 ; and third, 8,000.
A letter in the Clamor, from Gibraltar, announces
the departure of the Cabecilla Calvente, who was
trepted, three months since, as killed in the moun-
of Toledo, on board a steamer for England.
A new progresista paper, entitled the Campana,
has just come out. Its rst number contained a
caricature representing Reporter° as a winged hero
thrusting his sword into the throat of a person
accoutred as a general, upon whose breast he is set-
ting his foot. This absurd design has drawn grave
censures from the moderado papers. Caricatures are
forbidden by law.

The Paris journals of Tuesday are devoid of domestic
intelligence. All eyes in France are turned towards
Italy. The struggle of which that country is the
theatre commands the solicitude of the French public
so much the more as the double-faced polies, of their
government in relation to it is kept constantly before
the eyes of the people by all the organs of the press,
and by none more conspicuously, or in more odious
colours, than by the organs of the government itself.
Marshal-General Soult has arrived in Paris. The
King and royal family have returned from La Ferte
Vidame to St. Cloud. The obsequies of the late
Marshal Oudinot, Duke of Reggio, were solemnised
with great pomp on Tuesday, in the church of the
Involtes.

The Madrid mails of the 30th have arrived. The
royal ordonnance for the re-organisation of the civil
government appeared in the Gazette of that day. It
was expected that M. Ventura de la Vega, the late
private secretary of the queen, would be nominated
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. It was said that
General Gallego had been appointed private secretary
of the queen. In consequence of the result of his late
conference with the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ge-
neral Narvaez had, it was said, sent in his resignation
as ambassador to France. This resignation was re-
turned to him, with an intimation that her majesty
would not accept it. Such was the position of affairs
on the 30th.
Correspondents of tho French ministerial journals
affirm that, in consequence of the apprehensions
entertained of M. Salamanca concluding a treaty of
commerce with England, several of the manufac-
turers of Catalonia had already dismissed their men
and suspended their works.

L'Helretie, a Swiss journal, gives, on October 2,
the following, respecting Lord Minto's movements in
that country :
Previous to his departure from Switzerland for
Italy, Lord Minto had a conference at Lucerne with
the representatives of France, Austria, Russia, and
Prussia. The English diplomatist was willing to see
with his own eyes the men and the things of a
country which M. Mossier and Mr. Peel have repre-
sented to their government under colours diametri-
cally opposite. We are assured he did not long
remain in suspense, and that his judgment is entirely
favourable to the cause of the federal majority. An
official despatch from the Minister of Foreign Affairs
acquainted the directory with the mission entrusted
to Lord Miato. In this document, Lord Palmerston
expresses himself in terms the most benevolent for
the federal authority, and especially in the most
honourable manner for M. Ochsenbein, its president.
His language is very unlike that of M. Bois Le
Comte. We may be certain England will oppose all
foreign intervention in the affairs of Switzerland and

MADRID, SEPT. 30.
The late appearance of the Gazette has left scarcely
time to give you the most meagre analysis of the
great administrative measure published in it by the
Minister of the Interior.
The mother-idea is, to lift the civil department of
the government from the state of insignificance and
degradation to which it is st present condemned, and
to raise its privileges and extend its functions so that
it may stand on a fair level with the military.
Another intention is, to fuse and combine many
offices and branches of administration which are now
exercised independently, and under separate catego-
ries. According to the new system the classes of civil
officials are to be : 1, Governors-general ; 2, Gover-
nors of provinces ; 3, Sub-delegates of districts ; and,
4, Alcaldes. The governor-generalships will corre-
spond in territorial division as nearly as possible with
the captaincies-general. There are to be eleven. The
pay of these high functionaries will vary from 70,000
to 100,000 reab. The qualifications requisite to be
appointed governor-general are noted in the decree.
Their title is to be " Excellency." Their secretaries
are to get from 20,000 to 30,000 reels salary.
The governors of provinces are to take the place of

hearing for three days, on the ground of t;:v ihdhPoeition or
his client, undertaking that he should ths'n apnear
plead, whatever might be the data of his health. The cone
however, refused to grant the delay, and the libel eras read
I. the following effect:—" Much at this moment is being
said about a certain annuity of 1,000 Civics glee b;
Baron de R. (Rothschild) to M. H. (Rocket), a member 'a
the Council of State, on the day of his marriage with th -
daughter of the Minister D. (Demon.) This present W Milk in acknowledgment for the concession of the Northern
Railroad." After bearing it Chain d'Estange on the pus a
the =fainter and M. Ballet, and M. Thongny, the Ade
General, ?if . Demme not appearing, the court delivered is
judgment, condemning tie editor of the Courrier Frames
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CHERBOURG, Ocr. 4.—The French trans-Atlantic
steamer, New York, arrived on the 3d bast. at Cherbourg
from cants
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day as the Caledonia
and Ireland, eatholios and protestant', publicly testify the
most lively sympathy for the illustrious pontiff who now fills
the see of Rome—while Italy salutes him as its liberow,
as the man who will restore its independence and nation-
ality, Belgium chooses precisely this very moment for tn.
mutating every diplomatic relation with. the pontifical rm.
vemment. Constitutional governments, conceive it to he
the interest of the principles upon which they are hunt
to give at least their support and moral agreement Ito Pins
IX. in the strife he sustains with intrigues
violence of absolutism the Belgian government, not ran.
tent with not offering either this support, or this agreement,
to a liberal Pope, intends that Belgium shall in future be no
longer represented at Rome, and all this because it will net
avow that M. d'Hoffschmidt is a stranger to the affairs of his
department. Various are the reports respecting the breath
between the Pope and M. Leclerc, and the assertion that
that gentleman was dismissed by his holiness appear to
be incorrect, from the following letter which ap-
pears in the Lie'yeois. " The rtsigaau.
of his functions as ambassador was given by m,
Leclerq; it is official. This surprising 11,1.11 is the
subject of every conversation, and gives rise to the most on.
undictory report!. Some assert that the Hon. ld Leclerc,
alma accepted this moron at the urgent request of them-
misery, and for the sole purpose of serving his government,
was compelled to retire, in consequence of the ill-will eta.
cabin( t, and its faitifestneu at the court of Rome. It is raid
I that M. Leclerq intends to publish a letter cop!anatoey of
I his conduct, in order to enlighten the public on the pangs
in which he was placed in this affair. Every obstacle, it
said, is put in the way to hinder the publication of thisletter.
The friends of M. Leclerq say that he haa taken this
resolution not without mature deliberation, and that
he is not the man to yield, whatever be the means employed.
Other persons, on the contrary, say that the refusal oldie
Court of Rome to receive M. Leclerc as ambassador, is tin
result of an intrigue concocted at Brussel, between tier
Cainarilla and the papal nuncio. Several high names sit
brought forward, especially that of the en anilausselor et
Rome, &c."
HOLLAND. THE HAGUE, OCT. 3. Prince
Alexander of the Netherlands is dangerously ill, and is
visited several times each day by his royal father. Ao
press his been forwarded to the Queen, who is at present ia
Switzerland.
AUSTRIA.—The Emperor of Austria has recently
issued a decree convoking the Diet of Hungary for the ith
' of November next, in order to effect the election of a new
Palatine and other important business.
PRUSSlA.—PosErr.—During a recent theatrical
representation at Posen, the national Polish soeg, " Poland
is not yet lost," and two other popular Kegs, were called for
between the acts, and enthusiastically applauded.
MAGDEBURG, SEPT. 29.—Seven persons were killed
ToHnwerrthel:F.2Bl.eacththb:rseinawntehdime Cieaotteri. ,
ornbnioilienijnue
injured.
HESSE sisoungaorf mna
steam-boils.
HESSE CASSEL.—CABSEL.—The criminal senate
of the supreme tribunal of appeal has declared that the can
which some ten year. and a half ago condemned the Baron Von
B— (formerly an officer in the British army) to 11 yam
imprisonment, for incendiarism with intent to defraud an ire
stream society, was not a competent one ; and has mind
I the baron to be set at liberty.
DENMARK.—COPENHAGEN, SEPT. 27.—llestacc•
TION Or A VALCABLO LIBILAILT.—The rich and vols.
able library of the Royal Society of Icelandic Lite
rature in Copenhagen war destroyed by fire on the
morning of the Nth. The loss is distressing, We
much as this library contained more than 2,000 me
published hISS., and a numerous collection of siege copie
of ancient Icelandic works. The destruction of this library
real to mind that of the Arna-Magnman Institution, esw
weed of more than 40,000 Icelandic manuscripts, which wee
burnt during the famous bombardment of Copenhagen
the English in 1807.
TURKEY.—A letter from Constantinople, in the
Courrier de Marseilles, of the same date, however, ea the
accounts last received, states that the representatives of thi
aw.
tin= had
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tDuinansall,
but withouP.

ROME, Sun'. 28.
All is calm here. And if it be in human nature,
according to Lucretius, to enjoy the security of the
shore more keenly from the sight of a storm in the
back distance, the Two Sicilia' seem resolved to fur-
nish that spectacle. News has come that the dis-
turbances are advancing upwards through the Abruzzi,
as tar as Aquila. The mountains behind Salerno are
in open revolt, and the country extending thence
towards Manfredonia has hoisted the new flag on
every town-hall and village steeple. The Swiss
troops, in attempting a mountain pass leading to-
wards Campo Basso, have been driven back by the
peasantry, with a lees (as stated in a letter I saw
yesterday) of 400 men: that of the insurgents not
stated.
It is a dull mistake to fancy that the population of
these wild districts is on a level with the heartless,
shoeless, and shirtless lazzaroni of the capital. Naples,
Capus, and the Campanian district exhibit a distinct
race of craven-hearted poltroons, traceable in a long
lineage to the Owl and Sybarites : not so with the
mountainous and remoter territories of the kingdom.
The head or metropolitan district may be feeble and
flaccid, but the thews and sinews of the provinces are
large and undecrepit. Here lived (and left their off-
spring behind them) the most robust, resolute,
and hardy tribes of old Italy, the Samnite, the
Daunian, the Bruttian, the Apalian, in whom was
inborn and inherent manly strength, whose propen-
sities were warlike and turbulent rather than passive
and timorous. Nor was intellect wanting in these
parts of old, for within the frontiers of the modern
kingdom were born Ennius, Cicero, Maria's, Satinet,
Vitruvius, Ovid, and Horace, not to claim the glories
of Pythagorean philosophy and the school of Zeno,
which were not, properly speaking, indigenous and
" racy of the soil.
At this giant development of insurrection in the
south the Lazzaroni King is as much frightened as
the wicked usurper in Walpele's " Castle of Otranto,"
at the famous monster helmet which grew larger, and
larger still, on his terrified vision. He is bewildered
between thoughts of concession and paroxysms of
blind obstinacy. Last week he applied to the Pope
for a bull against the rebels, such as the Czar obtained
through Lambruschini from Gregory, in his dotage,
against the noble children of Poland when they rose
for freedom. Bat the Vatican no longer panders to
brutal tyranny, and Pins IX. immediately sent his
cousin Pietro Ferretti with a letter to stipu-
late for amnesty and constitutional concessions
as the glorious price of his interference, if
he interfered at all. Baffled in that quarter,
he looked to Austria ; but the Pope has point blank
refused plumage through Roman territory to the
troops of his (Ferdinand's) father-in-law, the Kaiser.
His first wife, by the way, was a daughter of Sar-
dinia, and, besides the fact of having ill-treated her
notoriously, there is no common cause now between
Turin and. Naples. He may, perhaps, try the Czar,
who still performs the functions ascribed to him
twenty years ago by Beranger, in his Chant du

°nape:— -
are beleaguered on their throne' by their own vassal crew;
And in their den quake noblemen and priests are bearded, too :
And loud they yelp for the Cassano's help, to keep their bondsmen

EXTORTION AT CETLON.—Sir,—The inhabitattsci
Colombo are called open by their local government w
comply with, as appears to me, one of the most unjustillatis
and extraordinary demands that was ever made by arbitrary
authority. Pray what would you imagine were I to calls
you to-morrow and say, " Sir, I must thank you to hand as
lOW., or I shall take the liberty of pulling down your ofice,
which I find stands on my ground ?" Of course yaw
prompt reply to such a demand would be: " My oboe
is my property •, I have bad uninterrupted possession thereof
I for a considerable time. lam not aware that you noshes,
or ever had, any. claim upon it. If you entertain a conger!
opinion, let me inform you that you allowed me undistuM
possession thereof for such a time as would entitle me ts
plead my prescriptive right against your demand." laiwt
• similar predicament are the inhabitants of Coke*
at this moment. The houses of that town appear to poem
what are called verandahs, a sort of piazza, and these hood
the generality of them 80 or 90 years old, are of such a pm
liar structure, and so situated in respect to the streets, MS
if they be deprived of these verandahs they musters
tually become good for nothing. It seems that the local 1e
vernment has put forth a claim to the 'mend I
which these verandahs stand as being public FF
pert), and has called upon the inhabitants S
pay a proportionate sum of money for the quantum d
ground taken up by each verandah. If this request ing
complied with, the ill.fated verandahs, forsooth, are to
rooted out of the ground. There does not seem tobe &Drams
sit for widening the streets, for the inhabitants car
s to
left in undisturbed possession of their veranda if tkl
choose to pay for them. Such being the state of theca,
the only conclusion I can arrive at is, that the gemmed
wants the cash, and the threat of polling down the vandal
is only a more effectual way of attaining their object—saw
of pulling out the teeth till the money is paid.—As Isms

And they think It meet to lick hie feet, so they year a tyrant's mown .
The dogged and sulky temperament of the king has
shown itself in his bearing towards his ministers,
whose integrity he distrusts, and whose ability he
doubts. Yet he might recollect how wretchedly he
got out of the sulphur question a few years back by
adopting his own guidance in preference to theirs:
we recollect how he one day trampled (not in meta-
phor) on the despatches of our own Foreign-office,
and the next day was forced to sign a most humiliating
document acknowledging a royal swindle, and grant-
ing indemnification to British merchants. This mi-
raculous change was simply wrought by Admiral
Stopford's dropping anchor within range of his three
palaces in the bay.
Military men are ever telling you that peasants, un-
disciplined, cannot hold a country against regiments.
All depends on the excitement, and what Napoleon
called the morale of the insurgents. These vary ban-
ditti of Apulia, in Nelson's time, fought like t=
and swept the French detachments before
under the generalship of Cardinal Hallo, as cose-.1
pletely as Johnny Cope was demolish( cl by the High-
Linden.
Prince Lucien Canino, whose exploits I de-
tailed last week, and whose conduct called forth •
public proclamation of censure, on arriving here
would have been forgiven, at the intercession of the
ladies, as his two companions, Galetti and the Eng-
lishman,were, on a alight reprimand, but he has shown
new symptoms of refractory mulishness. He had scarce
shaken off the dust of Piazza St. Marco from his shoes,
when he went up to the Quirinal to ask for an audience
of the sovereign. In the ante-room the edict was
on the walls, and he had the audacity to call for
writing materials, and scrawled a running commen-
tary along the margin—a tissue of buffoonery. The
maestro di camera ordered him out of the palace
instantly to Casa Buonaperte, there to remain under
arrest; but meeting in the street a band of nationals
going to drill he joined them. An orderly was soon
sent after him, with a peremptory warrant for his
capture, and on the parade In villa Borgheae, crowded
with spectators, he was put into a hackney-coach and
carried off amid loud laughter and ironical cheers. There
is now a double guard at the house-door of the late
Letitia, mother of Napoleon, besides the guard at the
Austrian embassy right opposite.
The Cotemporaneo of the 25th has a leading article
of the utmost import. It is entitled " Partito Ca-
tholico," or a catholic party in politics. It indigH
neatly scouts the notion of any such subdivision of I
politicians in any civilised state. Catholicity is, in
the very meaning of the Greek word, universal in its
adaptation to all sorts of political combinations. The
writer goes on to apply his principles to Switzerland
and Belgium, and stoutly urges that any excrescence
of catholicity (such as the Jesuits) ought to be given
up if the general feeling is against their continuance,
rather than peril the grand framework of religion,
which is independent of all such novelties. This
article, which is attributed to a distinguished prelate,
is highly valuable in the present state of angry
polemics, and is important as a " Voice from Rome."
Itossi is ;going away on leave. A more heartless,
hollow, and pedantic representative never appeared in
Rome on the part of the ' Most Christian King."

int court.
WINDSOR, WEDNESDAY.—The royal dinner rag
at the Castle this evening will include the Duchess of "n,
the lady in waiting of the Duchess of Kent, and the Bums
de Sped'. The band of the Grenadier Guards will sued
during dinner. Her Majesty's private band afterwards song
I in the Castle.
The Duchess Ida of Saxe Weimar, accompanied
the Princesses of Saxe Weimar, took an airing yesterhy
en open barouche and four.
Mr. Bancroft, the American minister, had an ion!.
view with the Right Hon. H. Labouchere yebterday si
office of the Board of Trade.
The Right Hon. F. T. Baring has arrived in test

The Duke of Victory (General Espartero)
Abbey-lodge, Regent's-park, to visit Mancfiester and 10*
pool, whence the Duchess and hidlle. Espartere hos t
turned to town.
The Duc de Sleewic Holstein Glucksboorif
Prince William, on teaviog the Duke of Devonshire s
the
at Chatsworth, proceeded direct to Edinburgh, with
tuition of making a rapid visit to Glasgow, and thee**
pair to Liverpool and Manchester. Their Serene Highs/
were to arrive at Mivart's this week.

THE REGISTRATIONS.
CITY OF LONDON.—The vestry clerk of St. Allo
Wood-street, attended the court this morning. for *le
pose of statrg the reason why neither he nor say adore
rochial official had attended on the previoiup day es sr s
the revision of the list, as stated in the Erpress of SA elt
tag. He said that his wife had been suddenly damm
died on Tueeday, and it was this painful eircu
had prevented him from attending the court The ma
volved entirely upon himself.—Mr. M.Christle thaser:
under the circumstance, the overseen theories Wel
have been present ; but as the total steers of thens."
ties bad been accounted for he should not inflict a Isse
Thomism Whitehead claimed to be entered on the
.1_,,„41014
for the occupation of a house, No. 39, Als__,A
bury.—Mr. Brown opposed the claim, on the
lill'i
that claimant's wife had received paroclual,, 7.
the husband having, at different periods, repaid ..d
advanced on her account.—Mr. Smith conterei ...-
although the patty might not be qualified to vet!,lo
still to be inserted on the register—Mr. Di'Chrults
that evidence ought to be given to ahow that the sol.
who had repaired relief from the parish was in actO ."
of the claimant —The overseer said be had frequentlY
to Mr. Whitehead for repayment of the money
her, and he never denied that he was her hushes.
M'Cbristie thought that that circumstance countatei
dent evidence of the fact, and on that ground
name.—Moses Toms, living at 21, Milton-Wee"
St. Giles Cripplegate, claimed to be registers&
opposed by Mr. Brown. The case was importer Is
ence to the remit of the decision as regards other
It appeared that the claimant occupied two tenets•
first floor, for which he paid ss. 6,1. per week, sad that
were several other lodgers in the same hose.
landlord himself occupied two rooms on the
floor. The outer door was abut at Wit' 91
each of the lodgers, as well as the landlord, had a SY .....i
FRANCE.—PARTB, OCT. S.—LIBEL—The trial of inner door was a swing door, and had no luck. TO n
Y. Devisee, responsible editor of the Courrier Francais, had to pus through the outer door into the paSe.,,
apes the prosecution by M. Damon, the minister of finance, thence to his shop and parlour.—On behalf of the e 5.,,-
eolleiseen-in-law,ll. Rootlet, for a libel upon them, repro- Mr. Smith argued that the circumstance of the is;
Les/ AIM the Independent of Brussels, was brought on having a key did not vitiate the possession of the is
an Xasisy befeas the Court of Anises. The advocate for all equally possessed a right to vote if the arnanto;
IL Demme mei an application for a postponement of the paid were sufflaient. It had been held by Mr. AO.

Cason that there must be &echoic, possession, as well as oe-
eepation, by the landlord.=lir, M'Christi• : What ! you
NOM to say that all the parties with keys have exclusive
perasesion ?—Mr. Smith: Yes.—Mr. M'Cluistis : Then both
the landlord and the tenant have exclusive possession.
—Mr. Smith ; Yea ; where the landlord does not
reside on the premises. The point whieb I want
to establish is, that each occupant who hat •
separate key of • common door mtot be held to
hof an exclusive occupation. After some further converse.
lion the decision of the coact was postponed, and it is pro-
beds that it ease will he drawn up for appeal to the Court of '
Common Pleas.—Henry—HenryFendt, 16, Bridgwater gardens,
was objected to by Mr. Brew°, on the ground that he was
an alien. He was objected to on the same ground last year,
and the oppoeition broke down, because he would not ass-
urer the question put to dim—whether or not he was an
alias, Mr. Arnold intimating his displeasure at the refusal,
butoonfesang that he had nopower to commit tor contempt,—
Mr. Brown made several fruitless attempt& to extract from
the claimant admissions of alienage, asking hint where
be was born, how long be had fired in London, where
be bad spent the several periods of his life, Ike.,
all of which questions were met with a stolid expression of
face. and the most amusing assumption of forgetfulness.—
Mr. WClfrietie himself endeavoured to gain some informa-
tion, but with no better success, and, as he was of the same
opinion as Mr. Arnold with reference to the absence of
power to commit, the claimant's vote was necessarily
allowed.—Before leaving the court, Mr. Fendt applied fur
costs. hut the revising barrister rejected the application,
and Mr. Brown, instead of handing over costa, promised that
he would contrive to work the secret out of him before next
year.--The result of the revision was as follows:—Liberal
claims allowed, 5 ; disallowed, 40. Conservative, allowed,
0; disallowed, 1. Liberal objections sustained, 7; failed,
9. Conservative, sustained, di ; failed, 65. Objections by
both parties. sustained, ; failed. 0. The court then ad-
journed until Tuesday next, at 10 o'clock.
KARILEBON E.—The barrister was occupied yester-
day with the Pancras list. The sitting was held in Gordon-
square, but the parishioners having expected that it would
take place at the workhouse, there were only two applicants
in attendance. Mr. 1.1 'Getty, the vestry-clerk, applied for
an adjournment to the new vestry•room on a future day.
The revising barrister said he would correct the list, and
hear any claimant who might attend, and then decide as to
the propriety of adjournment. The list of claimants con-
sisted of—East division, 6 south division, 7; north division,
27. The objections, which are all conservative, amount to
269. The claims are made principally by the overseers.
Mr. Charles Le Blanc claimed as occupant of the house, 60,
Tavistock.speire, he having in February last married the
occupant. Mr. Greenwood objected, that Mrs. Le Blanc
having herself no vote, could not transfer it to the applicant.
After a short discussion, the learned barrister disallowed the
claim as not coming within the province of the ant. The
overseers' lists were then revised, and some claims, on which
no question was raised, having been disposed of, the bar-
rister decided on adjourning the sitting to the new vestry-
room, Old St. Pancras-road, at eleven o'clock this day.
MIDDLESEX.—The revision court was held yester-
day at White Conduit House, Islington, where the lists for
the Islington and King's Cross polling districts were taken.
—Mr. L. Chafey, A.M., claimed on account of property en-
joyed by him in virtue of his office of second master and
usher in the foundation school of Dulwich College, and as
one of the fellows of the school. The stipend of 101. a year for
each office was charted on certain freehold houses belonging
to the college in Playhouse-yard, Whitecroustreet.—The
barrister inquired if such • qualification had been recognised
at previous registrations.—Mr. Payne Frequently; but as
this was a new claim, he wished to amend the description by
inserting the numbers of the heuses.—Mr. James did
not oppose the claim, but objected to the descrip-
tion being altered in the absence of the party, or any
N7authorised to appear for him—the more so as Mr.
a: had intimated that the next would be a lengthened
revision—for it was possible this might be one of the cues
which he relied upon for his promised opposition.—The '
Barrister decided in favour of the claim as it stood, without
amending the description.—Edmund Charles Luard, A.M.,
of Jesus College, Cambridge, claimed to be registered in re-
spect of one-sixteenth share of the rents and profits of eleven
acres of freehold land situated in White Conduit Fields.—
Mr. Payne objected that the description was too vague.
White Conduit Fields were no longer fields—they were
covered with streets and squares, therefore, it became neces-
sary to describe the property more particularly.—Mr. James
contended that, according to • previous decision of the
Barrister's, much a description in the case of a claimant was
sufficient. The claim was allowed.—The: court sits to-day
at the Sussex Hotel, Bouverie-street, for the revision of the
lists of the City parishes.

DEPARTURE OF JENNY LIND. —The Swedish
Nightingale has migrated. She embarked with her aunt
and servant from the Custom-house-quay on Tuesday even-
ing, on board the General Steam Navigation Company's
mail steam-ship John Bull, for Hamburg, en route to
Sweden.
TItELEIGII CONSOLIDATED MINING COMPANY.—
The annual meeting of the shareholders in this company
was held yesterday at 57, Broad-street, Mr. 0. 8. Carr in
the chair. It appeared from the ?rpm and financial state.
meet that the amount of the receipt,. for the past year had
been 19,2481.5 e. 4d., and the payments 15,4151. tm. 6d., leav-
ing a balance of 3.8321. 19s. 10d in hand, to which sum is to
be added 9251. 6s. 6d. for ore sold on the 30th September
last, making the total amount of assets to be 4,7581. fo. 4d.
It further appeared that the present liabilities of the com-
pany amount to 1,6091_, leavusg a surplus of 3,100/. on the
credit aide of the account. A dividend of 61 per share, or
51. per cent. on the paid-up capital, was then declared, being
the third dividend of the same amount since the month of
May last.
SCOTTISII liosrrrai..—A quarterly meeting of the
corporation of the Scottish Hospital was held at the insti-
tution yesterday—The Chisholm in the chair.—The Chair-
man read a note from the Dake of Richmond, resigning the
presidency of the society.—Mr. Noble suggested that The
Chisholm should nominate a committee to select a president,
a recommendation in which the Rev. Dr. Cumming con-
curred.—The Chisholm then nominated himself, Mr. Do.
naldson, Dr. Cumming, Dr. Dickson Capt. T. Forbes, and
Capt. Lamont, as a committee for this purpose.—The Seers:
tary was then authorised to solicit the Earl of Dandonald to
take the chair on the occasion of the feast of St. Andrew's
Day.—This being the business of the day, a vote of thanks to
The Chisholm for his conduct in the chair was passed, and
the meeting separated.
BRITISH PENITENT FEMALE REFUGE.—Yesterday
evening, the 18th annual meeting of the friends and sub-
scribers to this charity was held at the Asylum, Cambridge-
heath, Hackney, Mr. D. W. Wire in the chair. The re-
port stated that at the last anniversary meeting the balance
amounted to only 111. 41. 5d., but in the present year it
amounted to 801. There was no increase in the annual sub-
scriptions. These were not sufficient to defray one-fourth
of the ordinary expenses, which had to be met by casual
supplies. Since the opening of the charity, in 1829, there
were 896 females admitted. At the time of the tut report
there were 38 persons in the asylum ; since then,
28 hod been received, making a total of 66, who I
participated in its advantages during the year. Of
these 18 had been sent to respectable situations, 9 bad
been reconciled and restored to their friends, 6 bad remained
in the asylum at their own request, and 2 had been dls-
mined for bad conduct, leaving 31 in the receipt of
the advantages of the charity at the present time.
Several persons bad applied for adrnia;on, but, from want of
means, they could not be received. The expenditure for the
year was 1,5191. 19e. 9d. The report, on the whole, was cal-
culated to give encouragement to the friends of the institu-
tion, and was unanimously adopted. The chairman, the
Revs. Mr. Kennedy, Talbot, Viney, and others addressed
the meeting, warmly approving the object of the charity. and
reoommending it to the support of the meeting and the
public generally.
TAKING THE VEIL—The ceremony of taking the
veil was performed yesterday, at noon, in the Roman
catholic church attached to the Convent of Mercy. Parker's.
row, Bermondsey. The novice is Miss Fox, a niece of Dr.
Fox, of New Broad-street, City. As the convent bell was
tolling the hour of 12, several distinguished members of the
catholic clergy entered the sanctuary. Upon a given
signal the choir struckup " 0 Gloriosa Virgsnuors,"
when the sisters advanced two by two, preceded by a
cross-beam, next the postulants, after them the novice,
in her secular dram. After the usual preliminaries,
a very Impressive sermon was preached by the Rev.
Dr. Wiseman, at the close of which Miss Fox was con-
ducted to the grate where, kneeling, she was interrogated in
the usual form. She then retired, and on her return wore
the habit (without a cincture), the gauge veil, &c. Dr.
Wiseman having made the siva the cress over Mies Fox, said
May the Lord put oa thee the new man," &c. The as-
sistant having taken the veil from Miss Fox, Dr. Wiseman,
holding it over her head placed it over her. Finally, Miss
Fox was sprinkled with bely water, end, after another
hymn, the procession retired in the same order it entered.
CORN HARVEST.—Sir,—The gaunt spirit of failure
and distress stalks gloomily and with monster strides through
our city, se evinced in the repeated failures which it is your
melancholy duty almost daily to record. We have seen with
wonderment and sorrow some of the wealthiest dour houses
brought to desolation and distress, with scarce a moment's
In/D/og, to enable them to meet in any degree their ill-
timed fate ; and the question naturally recurs to every one :
" What and where is to be the end of all this ?" I have
myself heard the question put, as the several late lamentable
fauns came to light ; but nobody could answer, or, if they
did, it was couched in such terms as conveyed but little com-
fort to those who might have large sums in the mercantile
speculations of the day. At that time, sir, neither had I the
power of answering the question in any more consoling
terms : but for the last three weeks, during which time I
have been down in the country, I could not bUt prescribe,
what is not, I feel convinced, usually allowed in the City to
be the we—vie.: that the seheat crop of this year is not by
any means ass average yield. I have my authority from the
cultivators of the ground themselves, than which, I believe
you will readily great, there can scarce be one stronger. And
although the markets of our provincial town' have been for
the last three weeks somewhat crowded with sellers (from
the necessity the small farmer is under of doing so to enable
him to meet his Michaelmas rent), yet, from my owspersonal
earriersce, I feel convinced that we shall, erelong, be unde-
ceived as to the quantity oldie corn in the country.—H. J.
BRICKS FOR ROAD PAYEMENT.—lngenuity, says
a " Projector," is nearly exhausted in devising improve-
ments in paving. Almost everything, even India-rubber,
his been put in requisition. Bricks remain, however, to be
tried for public roads. They might be laid on ond, end need
not be more than six inches long. As they would all be
exactly alike, the pariours would proceed with wonderful
rapidity. Where the road is sufficiently wide, they could do
one-half first, while carriages passed on the other, by which
the very injurious interruptions to basins:se in our principal
streets would be obviated. Probably the Commisatoners of

Excise would grant permission, without waiting for • special
act of parliament, to make bricks of any size and form, when
confined exclusively to paving —The Builder.
THE MOST LUCKS MAN IN TIIE WORLD.—The
luckiest man in the world is certainly Abd-el-Hader. His
great luck consists in being constantly unlucky. He Is not
unlike one of those tradesmen who make their fortune
by a mice of "enormous failures." He is always " re-
tiring bom busions " and yet you find him in thesame
in.: oe years afterwards, doing a better trade than ever with
Wu M ruinous sacrifices." Whose name, too, has been oftener
in the „90,:ftte, and who has thriven more prosperously upon
It? Who Imo been oftener put completely under, like a
jack-in-the-box, az4 kept down with a force of 50,000 men,
and yet hascome upl6,sin stronger than before ? Like the
old giant, he seems to h.vo derived fresh strength from
each fall. Who, also, has bush more repeatedly killed ?
Talk of the at; why, it is nothing, to the lives of Abd-el-
Kader, or to his facility of array, falling upon his feet. He
comes out all the fresher each time of his dyisg, Jut like a
piece of double-milled crimson cloth. He has been taken
and re-taken more frequently than a Chevalier d'frdsisfrie,
and yet he is at liberty again you see, drawing more Mi-
llen, than ever out of the pockets of the French. How often
has he been left without a follower, without a horse! and
yet, somehow, he is never so firm as when he has not a leg to
stand upon. Da his troops spring out of the earth, from the
blood sown by Frenchmen ? Has he only to stamp upon
the ground, like Neptune, when he want, a horse, and, lo!
• whole troop of them appear ! It is very strange ;—for
directly he enters into service with Bugeaud, or any ether
Scipio Africanus, direct from Paris, the cry ie instantly "No
followers allowed," and yet no servant ever had so many
people to run after him. He is
he is poor, never so well supplied as when he is most desti-
tute. It was only yesterday that he was without arms, or
an Arab who would hold up a hand for him, and yet to-day
he is busy with 2,000 men and no end of arms, in giving
Morocco a good leathering, previous to rubbing up Aumsie,
and scouring the whole of Algeria so so to get every bit of
the French polish off the surface. We should not be sur-
prised if next week he was killed again ; if so, make up your
mind that he is the Emperor of Morocco, at ;set ; but if he
is taken prisoner and on his way in • large bird.cage to
Paris, do not be astonished to hear that he in quietly at
Algiers, with Aumale for an easy-chair, and Pelissier for a
footstool. Never was there a man so invariably fortunate in
his ill-luck as Abd-el.Kader. Who knows, if Louis Philippe
completely annihilates him, bat what we may shortly me
him on the throne of France, smoking his ehibouk at the
Tuileries !—.Punch. _ _ .

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THE CRICKET EXPLOSION.—Upon inquiry yester-
day at the Judges' Chambers, it was ascertained that the en-
gineer, Heiman, against whom a verdict of manslaughter
was returned in reference to his conduct on the Cricket
steamer, had attended on Friday last before Mr. Justice
Williams,; at his chambers in Serjeante-inn, and put in bail,
himself in 2001., and four sureties in 1501. each, to appear at
the next scission of the Central Criminal Court. Re had
given notice of his application, and, therefore, no habeas cor-
pus was necessary, as he was not considered in custody.
FIRE NEAR FINSEURT-EQUARE.—Yesterday Morn-
ing, shortly before 5 o'clock, the police on duty in Chi,.
well-street discovered a dense body of smoke issuing over
the roofs of the houses near Finsbury-square, and after
some time they found that the disaster had occurred in the
cabinet-makers' workshops belonging to Mr. W. Atkins,
situate at No. 1, Finsbury-etreet. How the fire originated
is unknown, but it must have been smouldering for some
considerable perixl before penTeived, for ins few minutes after
its existence was known the entire building was completely
covered with Hamm. Several engines soon arrived, and no
time was lost in setting them to work, but they were unable
to get the fire under until the workshops were burnt our,
and the whole of the stock in trade consumed. Mr. W.
Atkins was insured in the Sun Fire-office.

INQUEST YESTERDAY.—STEAM-BOAT ACCIDENT.—
Before Mr. Carter, the coroner for Surrey, at the Royal Oak
public-house, Lower-road, Rotherbithe, on the death of John
Henry Boff, aged 15, who lost his life by being run down by
the Eclipse, a Margate steamer, whilst on the river in a
pkuure-boat with four other persons.—W. Boff stated that
the deceased was his brother. On Saturday week, witness,
the deceased, another brother, and two companions, named
Goech and Strong, hired a skiff from Lower Shadwell-stairs.
When the boat bad reached the centre of the stream, which
was running down, one of the persons in the aft part
of the skiff said there was • steamer ahead. Witness
looked round, but the next moment the steamer was
upon them. Witness lost all command of himself
until he found that he was under the boat in the
water. Could not see the others; but the persons on
board the steam-vessel threw out a rope and pulled him
on deck. The steamer was coming down very fast
Gooch, of No. 19, Mulberry-street, Commercial-road East,
&posed that he was in the skiff; and when they were
off the Shadwell entrance of the London Docks, wit-
' nem heard • shout, and upon looking round found that a
steam-boat was coming right on to them at a very rapid rate.
Witness could not recollect anything more until he found
himself clinging to the paddle-box of the steamer. The skiff
was then keel upwards, and had been struck on the larboard
bow by the paddle-wheel of the steamer. Would swear
the paddle-wheels were moving, but could not say
which way ; they might have been reversed at the time.
Had every reason to believe that the captain of the steamer
had plenty of room to clear the boat, as there were no other
vessels in the way.—J. E. Strong, one of the party, saw the
steamer coming towards them, and could see the captain
waving his hand to them to keep to the left. The course of
the skiff was altered in that direction, but immediately after-
wards he directed them to the right, and the next moment
the steamer was upon them. Deceased never rose to
the surface of the water. Could net say whether the paddle.
wheels were in motion, nor could he state at what speed
the steamer was travelling when the collision took place, but
she was going at a great rate —The Coroner here said, that
in consequence of a very important witness being absent from
illness be should adjourn the inquiry for a few days.