The Express.
London, England, 1848-01-19 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 19, 1848.

for the plaintiff, and by that sanction it deprived itself I
of all moral right of claiming, under any subsequent
circumstance', his assistance. But no : for three years
it allows Sir Frrzaor KELLY to advise the plaintiff
in every stop which it we endeavouring to repel—it
meets Sir FITZROY KELLY in the Court of Exchequer
on a point of law in which the verdict is involved;
and then, after Sir FITZROY KELLY had settled for
the plaintiff the pleadings which the court directed or
allowed the amendment of—after he advised the send-
ing of commissions to take evidence in Cuba and
Madrid--after he had fall knowledge of all the evi-
dence on which the plaintiff relied, the Admiralty in-
terposes and demands the transference of Sir
FITZROY Ktua's services, of his knowledge
thus acquired, and of kis getting up the
cue thus paid for. Now, it is to bo recollected
that, between the date of Sir Frrzeoy BELLY'S ori-
ginal retainer for the plaintiff and this transference to
the defendant, there had been four attorney-generals
before Sir Joie; JERvIs succeeded to that high office;
and we are fairly entitled to inquire how was it that
Sir FREDERICK POLLOCK, Sit WILLIAM FOLLETT,
and Sir THOMAS WILDE abstained from exercising
this right on the part of the crown ?
The course now pursued by the Admiralty raises
the question—can it be for the public good that the
crown should pewees the right of monopolising the
chief men of the bar in actions in which it chooses to
interest itself ?
As, however, the trial at bar is now postponed until
the 14th of February, there will be time for parlia-
ment to take Mr. HAY'S rake into consideration.

urinal profession of a common religion by the members
of various sects. The greater his attachment to his own
church, the less weight ho attaches to the comparative
proximity of different sects to that body. His views
would be unpopular if they were generally known ;
but they will probably be read by few but those to
whom they are especially addressed ; by zealous
churchmen, who have generally disliked the intrusion
of the Jews, without perhaps having deeply cowl-
dered the bearing of the proposed measure on their
own favourite views. Apologetic arguments, if they
are unimpressive to the public, have the advan-
tage sometimes of securing converts. An argument on
ad ortiodozuni, from an orthodox pen, will sometimes
t a heari
prevail when general reasoning cannot ge ng.
It seems to us that if we preferred the interest of the
church to all secular considerations we should arm
with Mn GLADSTONE, that the Jews will do tbe
church o harm. Further than this hypothetical
adhesion we feel little interest in his arguments,
except in the hope that they may have weight with
some of the individuals who will have to decide the
ution in parliament. We cannot consent to meths
the interest of the church, or of any or all religion
bodies, the test of a great political measure. Theme
which has been long established, that poli
franchises are not to depend on religious belief, is too
important to be tampered with, for the sake of an
incidental sectarian advantage which may be o
by infringing it in a particular case.
Neither are we prepared to adopt another sonar
tion of Mr. GLADSTONE'S, to the effect that the churns
having list the exclusive sympathy of thu pear
meet, should receive in compensation some power d
internal regulation by her own authority.
ard The de-
mand has, as is well known, been put forwwith
increasing frequency in many quarters. It is curious
that an individual, who, we have no doubt, regards
Mr, GLADSTONE with the most cordial antipathy, has
just urged a similar proposition with views diametri-
cally opposed to Anglo-Catholicism. Archbishop
seSfr
WiIATELY thinks that some of the lisernatt
dais would have been avoided if the church had pea.
sewed a government of clergy and laity, rosemblieg
that under which the episcopal church in America
BottriSho6. It is carious that the elaborately calm
member of parliament and the vehement arch-
bishop should hit upon the same remedy for
their nearly opposite grievances. Perhaps the
church of England is governed too little ; bat al-
most all other churches are governed too much. The
tendency of ecclesiastical synods and courts
courage is to adda
bitterness to internal quarrels, and to en
preference of sectarian to secular interests. If
fora
union of church and state was now to be arranged
the first time, it is evident that mut& a system as that
which exists would appear wholly untenable. Lay
patronage, crown patronage, the control often exer-
cised over church matters by those who do not belong
to the communion of the church, would form ano-
malies too startling for the boldest legislator.
But time and circumstance aro legslators who
can turn even anomalies to a puripose. The
weeds which grow round the structure fix it
firmer than the hand of the builder. With some dis-
poeition to mutual conciliation, and the tact to avoid
difficult questions, the church and state may continue
to hang together for many years. It is one of the
marked tendencies of the HAMPDEN disturbance, that
it has produced a dispisition on the part of some ultra
amertors of ecclesiastical rights to attempt to obtain
an independence which would be highly inconvenient
to the state, and utterly'destructive of the peculiar and
distinctive character of the church. We know nothing
more likely to accelerate this collision than the
establishment of any such system as either Mr.
GLADSTONE or Archbishop WuATELY recommends.
Church synods and tribunals will be constantly ex-
oseding their functions if they aro narrowly limited,
and will be too active if a wide range is allowed for
their activity. We could not answer all the argu-
ments in their favour without having recourse to a
mode of reasoning as elaborate as Mr. GLADSTONE'S.
It is, for the present enough to say that things here
gone on tolerably well under secular influence, ann
that it might be dangerous to try the effects of a poli-
tical repudiation of Ersatianism.

attributed to the increase of population. Upon this
latter feature he will expatiate, as showing that the
tax is not one of those fluctuating sources of income
which are apt to leave luckless finauciers in the lurch
an emergencies. And he will wind up his discourse
with a panegyric on the low per centage at which the
impost is collec ressure of ted.
To all these common plates the unequal p
the tax ought to be a sufficient reply. The total re-
ceipts from the window-tax amounted, in the year
ending April 5, 1845, to 1,647,3051. The total amount
of window duty remitted under the exemptions
above enumerated, was 82,6991. Of this, 31,7811. went
to the agricultural classes. The remissions on account
ofshopsforming part of dwelling-houses amounted
to 44,1571. ; tbose on account of counting-houses
and warehouses only to 6,7601.—far short it mast be
apparent to every person acquainted with England of
what these classes could have claimed, had not the
urgency of their rights been likely to entail upon
them a greater loss in time and money than they
could gain by it. The statutory exemptions m
window-tax are mere confessions, not rectifications, of
its inequality. The total receipts from the window
tax amounted in the year ending sth January, 1846,
to 1,603,7851. Of this fully one-half (831,9641.) was
levied upon houses having 20 windows or fewer; the
class of houses occupied by the less wealthy of the
middle clines and by the poor in large towns, who
oecupy.portions of large tenements. Of the remain-
ing moiety fully two-thirds was contributed by our
extensive manufacturers, while the landlord majorities
of the House of Commons and the Peers escaped with
comparative impunity. This is a distribution of the
burden of taxation which no minister can hope to
perpetuate under the dynasty of the ten-pounders.
On another occasion we may touch upon the sani-
tary merits of this controversy ; at present it will be
enough to remind the reader that windowemdoes not
ption of
all houses having fewer than eight s
benefit the poorer classes in our large tower and
cities, all of whom occupy portions of houses having a
much greater number.
A well-regulated and moderate house-tax would
probably be the best suceeduneum for the window-
protax ; but upon this point of the question we do
not at present feel ourselves called to enter.
It is for statesmen, for financiers, to devise the
means by which the gap that would be left in
be
can the
national revenue, were this tax to be repealed,
supplied. That is their business—the service to
office
the
publio for which they are paid. In accepting
they knew, or ought to have known, that such teaks
would be imposed upon them. The trouble is of their
• own seeking. But they may rest assured that the
anxiety to get rid of the window tax, which has been
• expressed with increasing vehemence and loudness
every year since 1833, and which is now making
itself hoard more impressively than ever from all ruts
of the kingdom, can only be appeased by the sacrifice,
sooner or later, of an impost which spares the pockets
of the wealthy to empty those of the poor and Indus-
trious, and which encourages (almost compels) habits
of uncleanliness destructive to the patio health.

PoLItICAL excitement, which hes been in a state
of suspended animation at Berlin ever sines the ses-
sion of the General Diet closed. is rekindled with the
advent of the new year. The return of the court to
the capital contributes no doubt to this phenomenon;
but the near approach of the day fixed for the meet-
ing of the ooninsitteee of the Diet (they were to meet
on Monday last), has perhaps had still more influence.
The constitution of 3rd February, 1847, called into
existence three combinations of the Prussian estates
—the General Diet, the committees, and the deputa-
tion of the estates for the consideration of the national
debt. The Diet was naturally jealous of the pro-
sal to remit business, which of right ought to have
been submitted to its aggregate members, to mere
standing committees; and on this account introduced
into the petition for certain modifications of the con-
stitution of Feb. 3, arequest that the Diet should at least
be alio wed exclusively to nominate the committees. This
request wee refused,and in consequence some members
of what may be called " the extreme left" declined to
take any pert in the election of the committees; others
took part in them bat under protest; and the king
having declared the pretest a nullityy, several who
had been placed on the committees refused to act.
In these circumstances the committees necessarily
lose much of the weight that might otherwise have
attached to their deliberations. And the government
has shown its souse of this by narrowing the range of
subjects it had been proposed to submit to them. It
was to be expected that the financial questions to
which their attention was to have been directed
should be withdrawn, for a discussion on the com-
petency of the committees to entertain them would
certainly have been raised. But it also appears that
even the report of the Convention at Leipzig on the
project of one uniform German law, relative to bills of
exchange, is to be whhheld, and that the proposed
alterations in the criminal code of Prussia are alone
to be laid before the committees.
It is likely to admit of smooth sailing, this question ]
of penal law reform. The alterations contemplated
by the government were discussed by the different
] provincial diets in 1843, and the pripiet de loi has since
] been revised so as to meet meet of the objections then
] raised. It is therefore anticipated that the commit-
tees will proceed to business without demur, and
sanction in the main the new penal code—not, how- I
ever, without some attempt to restrain the extended
application of the penaly of death which government
aims at, as also the rather lavish use of the punish-
manta of whipping and confiscation.
The diminished amount of business to be laid before
the committees has given rise to many conjectures
respecting the chances as to their being again sum-
moned to meet. People remind each other that the
committees of the provincial diets never met bat once.
There can be little doubt that the refusal of VINCKE,
HANSEMANN, and others to take part even in the
election of the committees, and the refusal of VON
SANDELEBEN, VON BECIERATII, and (after much
hesitation) CAMPUAUSEN to act on them, mast prevent
their decisions from being received by the nation
with the same confidence and respect aa those of the
General Diet.
It is of the greatest consequence, in the present tem-
per of the public mind in Germany, that the utmost
possible harmony should exist between the govern-
ment and the people of Prussia. And the selection of
president, secretary, and royal commissary, for the
approaching session of the committees, seems to in-
dicate that the Prussian cabinet is suite aware of this.
Count Aitsix, the president originally named, but
who is unfortunately prevented from acting by sick-
ness, possesses a rare talent for conducting public
debates, combined with a conciliatory disposition and
deportment. His substitute, the Count of SCHWERIN
PeTzt&a, is less known beyond the limits of his own
country; but the secretary, M. NAUMANN (of Posen)
is a member of the more moderate section of the
opposition in the General Diet. The royal commis-
sary, M. BISCHOFF, having had the charge of con-
ducting the proposed code through all its preliminary
stages, cannot fail to have acquired considerable ex-
penenee in the mode of dealing with popular
assemblies.

Iv the course pursued by Sir FITZROY KELLY in
the action of " Baron v. Denman " be in sword-
ee with the prevaiung practice of the bar, the last
tw
sixty years must have witnessed a very melancholy
decline of that high sense of personal honour and of
prefessional independence which distinguished and
adorned it in times when something eldest han briefs
and fees were in danger. How rent was
Essense's conduct under circumstances not very dis-
similar—involving at least the same principle. On
TOM PAINE'S prosecution by the ATTORNEY-UENERAL
in 1792, for the publication of the second part of the
" Rights of Man," Raskin E was, and not a little to
his own annoyance, retained for the defence. " Ha-
mmett," said Lord LOVOR BOROUGH to him, "you
must not Hike PAINE'S brief." " I have been retained,
and I will take it, by God !" was his noble reply. It
was in vain that his friends remonstrated—
that a venal press questioned his loyalty—that it was
intimated to him, on behalf of the Prince of WALES,
that if he did appear for Prase, he must cease
to be the Prince's Attorney-General—that he was at ,
last threatened by the old King's displeasure. " I
THE objection which we yesterday urged against took," writes ERSKINE to Howell., " the liberty of
excise duties in general does not apply to the window claiming from his Majesty the unquestionable right
tax. This tax, like the rest of the assessed taxes, and of the subject to
chore his defence by any counsel of
the property and income tax, is collected at a lower hie own free not previously retained, or en-
per centage than any other of our imposts, the stamps gaged by office from the crown." With a spirit the
alone excepted. The stamps (collected at the rate of very reverse ef Sir Frrzeoe KELLY'S, ERSKINE braved
21.15. 81d. per cent.) and the taxes (collected by the and suffered the threatened consequences. "I was
same officials at the rate of 31. 6s. 41d. per cent.) are told in plain terms that I must not defend PAINS. I
the most economically levied of the various denomina- did defend him, an dabd toes my office."
lions of tribute exacted by government from the peo- Can any man what ERSKINX'S conduct
pie of this country. would have been if he bad been placed in Sir
A simple and economical mode of collection is a FITZROY KELLY'S situation in " Baron v. Denman" ? I
great recommendation of any tax ; not, however, True, us Attorney-General would have asked him to ,
sufficient in itself to outweigh couatervailing disad- desert the plaintiff, and to betray his confidence as
vantaes. A tax that costs little to levy may be un- Sir FITZROY KELLY has been asked—and not in
equal in its pressure, may disturb the natural course vain. But suppose the crown had presented ERSKINE
of industry, may promote bad habits among the with • retainer—had proposed to him to abandon a
people. client who for five years had acted on his advice -
In this last point of view the window tax is as bad whose pleadings he had settled—whose cause be had
* tax as can well be conceived. It is a discourage- argued against the crown on demurrer—whose evi-
meet to proper ventilation, a means of concealing deuce he had advised on—whose fees he had been
filth and all untidiness—in short, it operates as a deluged. Wit' suppose, W 8 repeat, the Admiralty of
bonus cm auti-sanitary habits. Dr. SoCTIIWOOD the last ury to have reminded ERSKINE of a
&MIL it was stated at the late meeting held in doubtful oath of office, and to have claimed his see-
Cockspur-street to devise measures for obtaining the vices, what would have been that great advocate's
abolition of the window tax, has told government reply ? Rather than have complied with such a de-
that without its repeal other sanitary reforms will not mend, he would have torn the silk gown from his
be worth a button. back, and have donned with pleasure the stuff again
On the score of unequal pressure the window-tax is he would have renounced the poet of Queen's counsel,
equally exceptiocable. It is curious to note the tacit and have been content to have sat, admired and
recognitions of this feature of the impost. which respected, in the outer bar for the remainder
have from time to time been recorded in the of his career. And such, too, we are persuaded,
statute book in the form of exeptions. First, the would have been the mode in which more than one
67th of GEORGE 111., c. 25, exempted from the payment of the present batch of Queen's counsel, vastly infe- CONSTANTINOPLE, Dec. 26.
of window-tax all dwelling-houses which had come to rior though they all may be in sensibility and chival- The arrival of Signor Farrieri, the Pope's Nuncio,
be used as warehouses, shops, or counting-houses, in coos feeling to ERSKINE, would have escaped from at Constantinople has produced a considerable sensation
which nobody remained over-night. The same the dilemma, into which Sir FITZROY KELLY'S ex- amongst the members of the diplomatic body. The general
statute allowed one glazed window free of impost, missive tenderness of conscience, and regard for his feeling amongst the roof the of the foreign psowers is
tO the dairy or cheese-room of every farm-house. The " oath of office," have precipitated him. We claim owl of satisfaction ; but a satisfaction proceeding from
sources ss different as is the policy of each ambassador or
principle on which these exemp.tions were granted for Sir FREDERICK TIIESIGER'S more manly coic- minister. Those who wish that the religion of Christen.
was, that windows, only used for Industrial purpses hension of professional honour, conduct more robust dom should be respected in the East, and its spirit preserved
could not be placed on the same footing as windows and becoming. We utterly disbelieve that the from contamination by olitical are naturally
d thet Pine who. is the
_spiritual head of_ the rts•
ministering to comfort or luxury. The former were leaders of any one of our circuits would, without a vigor- tsesi
necessary auxiliaries in the making of money—part of ono resistance, have responded to the Admiralty's re- thou,t "Tort It c:ptit "op:Zgrli:tilmare, rholvg=
the it of production; the latter were objects on tanner. For the credit of the bar, there is, we are under his protection that portion-of hes jealous
which owws
which it was voluntarily spent--indhs et indications convinced, but one man to whom under such circum- the dominion ef the Sultan. The indignation excited
of the amount of a man's property. The actof 4 Ow. stances a retainer would have been offered and a brief from time to time by the bad MN to which the
IV., c.ll, extended the exemption in favour of shops, sent ;to him it has been offered—by him it has been Emperor of itut
otorlo
ftheth influence which be
denteto
terra sothoerr
Euerehead of their ch 1
&c., to all shops forming part of dwelling-houses, and accepted. ought to be zr peen powers to mil
having not more than three windows onthe basement or First, then, we are entitled to assert that even if aiilar °sum,. scandalous struggles hose often taken ph.
wound floor in front of the house. The act 5 Ozo. his oath of Queen's couneel left Sir FITZROY KELLY between France iind Austria to obtain • preponderating es.
IV., o 44, took care to explain that the exemption no alternative but acceptance of the Admiralty's re- tendency over the minds of the catholic rayahs of rkey. • I
did not extend to lawyers' chambers in the inns of to
or resignation of the honour of being one of kind
.of. uthely pact tos.en.Onel into between Tu
naFrs sea 1
court, or Chancery, though these were shops after a her Majesty's counsel, the acceptance involved a prise- tler'r tii:n.:_t=r,rouatit: ivtrie ;T::.Tl.wr& tbe
sort ; nor to chambers in the halls and colleges of ciple so destructive of personal morality and of pro- interests of the c.atifolics of the eastern pair ofrthet=
Cambridge and Oxford. The act 5 Geo. IV. allowed fessioual confidence, that resignation became a dutv
, were confided to France. The horrors of which the C
farmers to have two untaxed windows instead of one from which no honourable man at the bar ought to of Bcodra were thevictimssome two yearesince, and the mama-
in each dairy or cheese-room, and exempted from the have shrunk. The oath which he pleads did not bind eras and burning, of which the Lebanon and Kurdistan have
window tax the whole or part of ca
farmhouse him to a lifelong service of the crown; and when- b,Xosen thtetandelatresa„thatreit,
fituiol oaf rpm—l tree :TA'
occupied bong fide by the farmer's labourers or domes- ever service in silk becomes incompatible with honour unfortunateypeople. England had no excuse for interfering
tics--mtimating that this class of human beings were and it ought to be abandoned for integrity in the politico-religious policy of the two great catholic
regarded by our legislators as bearing the same re- and independenceindepen in stuff. powers, but she was determined. to create one. Amongst all
lation to cattle that tiothouse plants do to hard/ out- But next we assert that, again assuming that the the nyah subjects of the Sultan, from the Adriatic to the
of-door shrubs. The act 4 and 5 WILL. IV., c. $3, ex- crown had such absolute dominion over Sir FITZROY oCnasepsians,lefrorthroe
protestant And toll: Peartsitegt.o4l.l;ntherles tunno-t
empted from the window tax all farmhouses KELLY'S conscience and morality, there never was a dated' !with American methodistymirionaries,taom Eng-
attached to bums of less annual rent than 2001. case in which stronger reasons could be given for sib- land has taken under her proteetion. Wherever the catholic
Some of these exemptions show, like our whole staining from the exercise of that dominion than in missionaries moved they were followed by the methodists.
statute-book, rho leaning of landlord legislators to fa- s Boron v. Denman." For the action is not, it will Into remote districts, where peace and contentment had
wear the agricultural portion of the community, be observed from its very title, brought against the pthertotactishtel,.they
fawned discord and death. The un-
but all of them, as well as the limitation of the wm- crown ; it is not even directed'
against a person Turkey were delighted to find that
threynkillad souls to sell°. Their salvation was put up to auction,
dow tax to houses with eight windows and upwards, representing the crown, or crown interests. and knocked down to the highest bidder. Severalspiritual lota
are tacit confessions that it presses with undue weight The plaintiff in the suit does not pretend are still constantly put up more than once and the man who
on the industrious and less wealthy classes of the to claim any damage frem the crown—from any sells high as a protestant one day sells for 'double the amount
asr: catht,ollc ttlatnaexctimuiTheei!dmeauhts. aloe.sein been. srnessfully
community. It is indeed obviously a tax which must department of the executive government, or from
be unequal in its assessment, for large houses (such as any crown officer as such. He sues Capt. DENMAN Lange of nationality. Imongst the rayahs, Eng=
are occupied by the wealthy nobility and gentry) do in his private capacity ; he was content with his and protestant are synonymous, as are also very wake
not require the same number of windows in propor- chances of damages against him, and him only ;by Frenchman and catholic. A myth, bought up for protatoat
Pion to rents as small and middle-sized houses (inha- his form of action he desired to now no one else in Purposes, appeals to the British ambassador for protect
(
inrd • call:l:Lien. he same wa ary.r. veraepresettive of
bited by people of limited means) ; and the shop- the defence. The action is commenced in 1842, and
keeper requires a disproportionately large number of Sir FITZROY KELLY is at once retained for the plain- but in the interiorp
they onlyl
exasperate "the Tuziglii
windows for the display of his goods, the mill-owner tiff. The crown then—the action being began,
_and authorities. Acts of intoleranee are much more be.
for light to his workers and for Purposes of ventilation. Sir Frrzitoi KELLY being retained—step in volun- quent in the interior since this trade in poser
On the score of disturbing the natural course of foray, without the least compulsion, without any cob-
- lytism has become so extensive, and the great tragedies
industry and employment, there can be no doubt that ligation, and assumes the defence, or rather, the cost minor scale Tat, _tbe .eban.on, "d ,/"Tdare rePeated on 5
fault may be found with the window-tax. It restricts and conduct of the defence. Now, surely, if the triglearplictr. inI
rirsatohe"po"gic7.7 le sufficiently
cothremoear rteeu from
the employment of glass-manufacturers, joiners who crown deemed Sir FITZROY KELLY'S services indict- intrigues which is so displeasing to the Turks; for th!rie is
make frames, painters and glaziers. But this feature pensable to the success of the defence it had thus not e
state whole world a government where the church and
being common to every impost except the property spontaneously undertaken—then, at this stage of the the re represented in the person of the monarch more
tolerant than that of Turkey. Every re.cognised Christian
and income tax, we lay less stress upon it, though it proceedings,before the plaintiff h.ad declared, before sect has its chief, who administers the civil as well as the »-
cannot be altogether left out of account. the defendant had pleaded, when Sir FITZROY ligious affairs of community. He fills in some sort the
The objections which a Chancellor of the Exchequer KELLY was as yet uninstructed in the details of the position of an ambusador. He is the representative el
is sure to offer to petitions for the repeal of this tax case, when he was as yet unpoesessed of the his sect, their guardian and their judge. We feel
lie on the surface. Re will, especially at a time like plaintiff's confidence and of his fees, then, we convinced that the establishment of relations between
the present, reply that the window-tax contributed in say, was the time for the crown to have inksted con
Christian ope and tho Sultan, for the protection at
ahs
l
1846 upwarde of a million and a half (1,626,0590 to on its arbitrary right. By not claiming Sir FITZROY
. honouralersaYnd high-miontded t4litevle3 satisfaction
re tiltunrqrieneyan,
the aggregate revenue ; that the returns of this tax KELLY'S services at that period, the crown gave ey who will thus be relieved from the unpleasant duty et inter-
ior the years 1813 to 1846, inclusive, shows steady implication to Sir FITZROY KELLY, in the character feting in the eternal squabble' of missionarin and their
aontiznow increaie, just about as much as may be of one of her Majesty's counsel, liberty to act as counsel ProwYtes

FRANCE.—A MAN LOST FOR EIGHTS HOLM IN
• Q17•1111/.1%—The inhabitants of LMe lave been foe some
days throws into commotion by a eirendstanee which has
weaned in the oommune of Leedom. A. restaurateur,
named Puy, had for some years rented a part of some vast
abandoned quarries which exist in that parish, and had es-
tablished there a number of mushroom beds. Re lately ex-
pressed en intention to rent some farther portion of the
quarries, and on Monday he set out to examine what parts
would best suit hie purpow Several hours having elapsed
without anything being seen of him, uneasiness began to be
felt, and at last fl
ex of the inhabitants furnished with lights
entered the ceisations to habi
search for him. As
these persons in their turn were several hours ab-
sent, the greatest consternation was exalted ; but the next
morning they made their appearance separately, having
owed their safety to the precaution of dropping bits of
straw as they went along. They all, it appeared, had lost
their way in the vault, and would have perished but for the
precaution which they had thought of. They were, how-
ever, taken so szosedingly ill on their return as to be obliged
to go to bed, and we of them did not recover for two days
after. Nothing having been discovered of Id. Puy, two com-
panies of the 634 regiment, a number of quarrymen, and
other persons, divided themselves into different parties, each
party going to esplore a distinct section of the quarries.
Wilder the direction of some mioiog engineers, the quarries
were worked out by ropes into certain great divisions, and
amassment, were made for minutely exploring every work
and corner of each division. Bach party carried blazing
torches, and made as much noise as possible, in the hope of
being seen or heard by the' missing man. Throughout the
night of the llth, however, not the slightest trace of him
could be disoovered. On the 12th the search was kept up
with renewed vigour, but without mead All the night on
the 12th then kiod-hearted bands were occupied in their task,
but disappointment again awaited them. 'The whole of the
13th WY spent in the like manner, unfortunately with the
likeill-enceees. This night too wore away, end, in spite of
all the charitable efforts of the makers, they could din:wail
nothing of the lost man. By die time their and=
that of the public bad become wrought up to the
pitch - On the morning of the 14th the search wee con-
tinued ;at half-peat five on the evening of that day one of
the bands, directed by M. Valtier, came to the spot where
M. Puy was. As soon es he saw them hew bold of the pelle r-
son nearest to him, and cried joyfully, " Saved ! saved !"
then clas*tlse man in his areas, end thinking It was his own
served, Mooed him passionately. exclaiming, "Is it you,
Louis ? Is It you 1" M. Puy was immediately condund
to the entrance to the quarrisa Ile was in good health, bd
suffered dreadfully from thirst. A little soap havi boss
given Whim he soon recovered, and walked to Meows
honsa
M. Puy states t bond ost himself when he had advadd Io
about 30 pied' y his own patch of ground, and did
the farther he went the greeter his embarrassment beds&
to walked about for a long time, until he saw that bin
he
tern was about to go out, wad, knowild that hi the desk
could not advance ten steps without egbilneolfs boaltoss
an open place and sat down. Though Ism boa glissag.
Puy poisons great moral courage, and lianfineei abed an
invalid, he thought that he could do wished he some
time, and that at the worst he would be fend loseare the
lapse of three days. This belief gave him wedge. On the
morning of the 12th he found some limiter asaishas in his
I pocket', but the damp having spoiled them, he placed them
next to his skin, and when they were sufficiently dry, he
nod one from time to time to get a glimpse of light, which
vas a relief to the terrible monotony and darkness. Ile tried
pto sleep, but could not succeed. It appears, however,
fiat be most have dreamed or had hallucinations, for he
sop Sat he had frequently heard a bell ring, and that
lad be mid out it immediately ceased. On the morning
d the 14th he used his last match, and burnt up the re-
mains of the wick in his lantern. Thinking that all hope
was now at an end, he prayed fervently to God and continued
on his knees soliciting mercy and parden until he heard the
"keg of his deliverers. At first his emotion was so post
that he could net speak, but he soon recovered himself and
accosted them in the manner described. It is certain that
his deliverers had not followed the same path as he had, for
they had in several places to force their way through almost
impassable spots, whilst he had pissed along large galleries.
The total number of hours during which he was lost was 80.
DENMARK.—COPENIIAGEN, JAN. 10.—The na-
tires on the mato( 0 cies& attacked the Dutch garrison in Fort
Prendsenstien. After a French brig had rendered the gar-
rison some esalutance, and left the coast, the Danish brig,
under Capt. Erninger, came up, and fired so effectually upon
the blacks that they were obliged to draw back, and the
garrison of the fort was thus set at liberty.
GERMANY.—THP: OVERLAND MAIL TITROUGH
Glamcour.—By the treaty concluded between the Austrian
Lloyds and this government of Belgium, respecting the com-
munication of England and the East through Belgium and
Germany, Belgium is bound to keep in readiness, at all
times, a steamer and an extra train for furthering the de-
spatches between Dover, Ostend, and Cologne. Night trains
have been granted at Cologne, and these are to be used not
only for this special service, but at as early a date as possible
for the conveyance of despatches between England, Bel-
gium, and Germany. It is the intention of the Belgian
government to appropriate the not wall pecuniary ad-
vantages which shall accrue to it by the trassit of the India
mail, and the consequent conveyance of passeasen in the
first instance, upon the increases of its steamers for the ser-
vice between Ostend and Dover.
RUSSIA.—ST. PETEnaBURO.—The emperor has
deposed the Governor-General of Koetrocw, in Great Russia,
M. Von Grigisrioff, because he had been guilty of imprison-
ing several noble Polish families, who were perfectly inno-
cent, and who have of course been set at liberty.
PRODUCTION OP CORN IN RUSSIA.--A very. Cu-
rious document has just been communicated to us relasve to
the productions of Russia in corn, itc. The population of
European Russia at the present moment amounts to 66 mil-
lions of inhabitants, about 16 millions of whom are em-
ployed in agricultural labour.
Winter grain-15,750,000 hectares, pro-
ducing at least 9 hectols. per hectare, or 138,730,000
Deduct for rowing at the rate of 3 hared&
per hectare 37,500,000
Remains a clear produce of 131,250,000
Spring 'grain-15,730.000 hectares, pro
tea east Inhectola per hectare, or 333,125,000
Deducwing at the rate of 3 hectols.
per hectare .
hawing • clew produce of 196,875,000
==7

Total

Ilectobi. Rectal..

921,123,000

The total consumption of the 65,000,000 of
Inhabitants is emanated at .
To which mud be added hr breverits and
dladltertem
Poe lame and cattle, evaluated at 25 Wi-
lkes of heeds
Tor the faring of poultry 7,000,000
Total consumption- of the interior of the
empire -- V 7,000,000
Remains average for export 51,125,000
In the years when foreign countries do not stand in need of
the corn of Russia a part of this 61,126.000 hectolitres is
employed, without any attention being paid te economy, in
fattening cattle, in order to increase the production of taßow.
A quantity of corn is entirely lost; another part
he food o remains,
without being put into the granary, and becomes tf
birds. But Rasa* can at all times export • mass of 20,000,000
of hectolitres of corn of different aorta.
HAVANA.—Dates to the 20th of December,
later by ten days than those previously received, bring the
intelligence that General Figura, pvernor of the province
of Santiago de Cuba, who had conducted himself so ill
towards the French population, had been diamissed from his
post. Ile had been called to Havana to answer for his
conduct, and it wan said he would be sent to Spain to be
tried. Amongst the subjects of complaint against General
Piquero are, the mown of the soldiers of &wawa, and the
affair of the domiciliary cards. Having imposed these cards
on all strangers residing in his jurisdiction, he had made
them pay a heavy sum for their delivery, and he is accused
of not having given an account to the treasury of the money
thus obtained.

ebt Court.
WINDSOR, TUESDAY The Earl of Liverpool is ex-
pected to arrive at the Castle this evening, on a wait to her
IdWeety.
The royal dinner party at the Cutts this evening
will include the Duchess of Kent, the Lady in walung_of the
Duchess of Kent, the Baroness de Spetb, and the Earl of
Liverpool. The band of the Royal Regiment of Horse
Guards will attend during dinner. The Queen's private band
will attend the remainder of the evening in the Castle.
A deputation from Paisley, consisting of Mr.
Hutto, Mr. Hankey, Provost Murray, and Philips,
bad an interview with Sir George Grey, yesterday, at the
Rome-office.
The Attorney-General had an interview with the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, yesterday, at his official resi-
dence in Downing-Street.
Despatches from the Cape of Good Hope were re-
ceived yesterday at the Colonial-office.
Lord Blayney had an interview on Monday, at the
, Home-office, with Sir George Grey.

THE QITEEN AND DR SIMPSON.—We have autho-
rity to state, that there is not the slightest foundation for the
report published in the Witness of Saturday, that Dr.
Simpson had been summoned to leave Edinburgh to attend
upon her Majesty at her approaching accouchemsnt.—Cale-
donian Mercury.

COURT OF ALDERMEN.
Yesterday a court was held for the despatch of pub-
lic business, and to receive the return of the election of
alderman for the ward of Tower, in the room of Matthias
Prime Lucas, Esq., deceased. Alderman }lnnis was intro-
duced by Mr. Simpson and Mr. Clark and a number of e
moat respectable inhabitants of the ward, and was sworn that
the table.
Stare OP THE DEBTORS' PRISON.—The Sheriffs pre-
sented the following report of the debtors' prison :
Males. Females.
Middlesex aide
Prison Ludgate 5
Poultry Ward l9
0
Total 170
The governor reported that the new regulations recom-
mended by the Secretary. of State, and ordered to be carried
out in the debtors' prison by the court of Aldermen, will in
time produce much benefit, inasmuch as that the certainty of
fraud being now marked and punished may have a salutary
effect in checking it. and will show that the law makes a
distinction between the fraudulent debtor and one who from
misfortune is obliged_ to seek protection in the Insolvent
Debtors' Court.