The Express.
London, England, 1847-06-02 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 2, 1847.

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&pence our bewith so few ideas. '
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is not requrred. Hatred is taken to be
grog ing, and spite to be vigour.
Since the Irish poor have been perishing of starve-
Opt tad the Irish proprietors affected from the same
awe In
'Lb universal bankruptcy, it is astonishing the
alacrity there bas .been to curse them. All the Ori•
ginil sun of the human race are proved to centre in
the evanescent skeleton of the Irishman. Though
the choice spirits of the educated race have adorned
a guided the bar, and the senate, and the general's
unit; though the more robust and humbler masses
!lice swelled our armies, filled our factories,
a augmented the number of millions which give
us a respectable population in the eyes of Europe—
all this at the cheapest and most effective rate—still,
all the good is forgotten, the valve derived or
equeezed out of, nt the inferior but the hes forth,
uleely located race, is thrown into, oblivion ; and the
rising odour of the perishing Celt is declared too
offensive to be borne. Alas ! the proverb is true,
politically as well as socially,:' Poverty is crime."
There was one long parliamentary debate upon
Ireland and Irish measures on Monday night.
ova compbiut ran through the whole of it.
Asa this was that there was no middle class,
and none of the wealth, capacity, and character-
istics which can only belong to the middle class.
The consequence is, that gentry and peasantry are
what gentry and peasantry always are and have
ever been in countries, where nothing exists save them-
selves—feudal tyrants, with infinite poverty and
pride; rind peasants alternating between the most
abject servitude and privation, and the wildest license
and indulgence.
of course, in such a state ofsociety, the aim is to crush
and mulct and do all the injury possible to the small
town class. The are thrust upon them.
They are outnumberedb andrs outvoted in boards of
guallaas, and in all other meetings. For this reason
aie townspeople congregate in delight at repeal meet-
ings. where they in turn predominate. Mr. Slum
would remedy this by giving the towns more mem-
bers, and parliamentary power. But representation
ought to be in proportion to property, numbers, and
real influence. Al ith seven millions of agriculturists, I
and but one million of people living by anything else,
bow can towns expect, or why should they have, pre-
dominance ? Let them begin by acquiring wealth
and influence at home, and then let them have corre-
sponding influence in parliament.
We will venture to say, that all the terrible, and
mooed to be indigenous, vices, observable in the
Iriah, and declared to be radically and exclusively
Celt by our diurnal philosophers, may. be traced to
this one cause—the total absence of a civic class, of
civic wealth, civic habits and enterprise, civic ideas.
Sir BENJAMIN HALL cannot conceive how it is that
the Irish poor, who require a million a month to keep
them from starving in this year of famine,
do not get this million from the landed
property of Ireland, amounting to some
twelve sr fourteen millions a year—equal in
the amount certainly to the necessary supply of
famine,had the land produced,andthe rents been paid,
this year, and were the landlords to take the place of
the starving. The member for isfaryleboue asks,
why Ireland does not pay the assessed taxes? It-were
easy to answer, there is no middle class to pay them.
Ireland and England are different as the nineteenth
from the sixteenth century. Sir BENJAMIN HALL
would assimilate them in burthens and duties, with
out assimilating them in produce, capabilities, classes,
or habits.
The ministry, to do it justice, has done its beet
to defend and protect the germs that exist of an
Irish civic class, in a legislature where prejudices so
coutrary to it prevail. But these efforts have been to ,
a great degree, and almost unavoidably, inefficient.
The working of the New Poor-law has been com-
mitted to the landed proprietors. And we do not say,
that it could or should be committed to any others.
Still, as improvement is admitted to be synonymous
with clearance of land, and as there is to be
DO means allotted for emigration or reclamation
of land, the surplus population must come first
on the towns, and then upon the unions. This ie
apparently the same as what was aimed at in the ori-
ginal bill. But the original bill was more effective,
inasmuch as it relieved the poor electoral district
without necessarily displacing the indigent : whereas,
there is now an incentive and a necessity for the
poor district shaking off its indigent population. The
result of this forced migration in many parts of
Ireland will be most disastrous.
The statement made by Mr. LABOUCHERE, as
well as the accounts from Ireland, are satisfac-
tory in all respects, save one, and that is
the progress of fever. The relief committees are
multiplying and suctreding ; further resistance to
them will be useless. The expenditure for the next
four months is estimated at 600,0001. a month, form-
ing a serious liability. When the Irish landlord shall
have repaid it, as well as the outlay upon productive
works undertaken for the employment of the poor,
and when he shall have met the difficulty of pro-
'riding, through the future poor-law, for the surplus
population of the country, he will have performed a
task and fulfilled a duty, that ought to satisfy even
Sir BENJAMIN HALL, one quite severe enough to war-
rant grumbling, and we fear sufficiently heavy to
crush numbers of nominal possessors of property.
In this portion of the debate Lord JOHN Russzu
made a very happy reply to the gentlemen who insist
that he ought to have left Ireland alone, to work her
own way oat of the famine as she might. The result
of this humane and enlightened policy would probably
have been the election of the American commander,
we forget his name, who brought them a man-of-war
laden with grain, to be their sovereign and ruler.
Had England left Ireland to starve, as Mr. ROEBUCK
recommends, and had America saved her, such a re-
sult, as that we have pointed out, would neither have
been unnatural nor unexpected.

The select committee on Mr. WAILLEVB Me-
dical Registration Bill is appointed; and we
make no doubt that these gentlemen will do
justice to the question before them. The conduct
of her ministers on this occasion will
undoubtedly be influenced by the report of
the select committee ; and should that report be
favourable—and we have no reason to fear that it will
not—we may congratulate the ministry and the
country on the settlement, for a time at least, of the
difficult question of medical reform. Certainly
never, at any previous period in the history of
attempts at reforming our medical institutions, has
there been so great a chance of success : at
the same time the medical profession gene-
rally ought not to allow the government or the
select committee to think that they are indifferent to
the opposition that is being made to prevent the
passing of this bill. No unworthy jealousy or per-
sonal feeling towards the proposer of this bill ought
for one moment to stand in the way either ef peti-
tioning parliament in favour of the measure, or of
earnest remonstrance with those who are opposed

to it.
From the beginning we advocated Mr. WAKLEY'fi
bill on the ground of its justice, and long before a
whisper of opposition had been offered by the London
corporations or the National Institute. We have
examined the arguments that have been brought
against it, and have shown their puerility and selfish-
UM. There is, in fact, no opposition to this
bill worthy of the name, except that which is
offered privately by the medical institutions of Lon-
don. We are aware of the influence which these
corporations can bring to bear en members of the
government and of the House of Commons. It is
against this back-stairs influence that we think mem-
bers of the House of Commons and of the profession
need to be warned. The one, that they ought not to
be influenced by individual members of the profes-
sion; the other, that they do not sleep over their
cause because it has gone on thus far successfully.
We are glad, however, to find that in many parts of
the country the medical men are active. The medi-
cal practitioners of Liverpool have set a good
example in calling a public meeting, and passing a
series of resolutions in favour of Mr. WAKLCY'S bill,
which has been followed by the practitioners of
Shropshire. The Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons
of Edinburgh, and the College of Physicians of
Glasgow have also petitioned for the passing of the
bill, and amongst individual petitioners for the mea-
sure we find the names of the most influential and
respectable teachers and practitioners in the provinces.
should be glad to see the public generally
taking an interest in this measure, for their interests
are as much involved in it as that of the profession to
which it relates. It is of the first importance to the
public that they should not only have some means of
distinguishing between qualified and unqualified
medical men, but that they should be protected from

the impositions and the injuries of the ignorant pre-
tender to medical knowledge. Under-existing circum-
stances they have neither one nor the other; any one
may stick " doctor" or " surgeon" on his door with-
out his pretension to the name being discovered, and
may wnte prescriptions without molestation from the
professed protectors of the public against illegal prac-
tice. It is absolute nonsense to talk of the Apothe-
caries' Company being a protection to the medical
profession. On turning to a list of unqualified prac-
titioners in London alone, we find that there arc
above three hundred persons practising physic and
surgery, besides the chemists and druggists, who
have no medical license or diploma whatever, and
yet we are told that Mr. WAKLEY'S bill
will do away with the protection of the
Apothecaries' Act of 1815. Away, we say, with such
a sham, such a beggarly apology for the protection
the public ought to have. Undoubtedly the apothe-
caries might say we have not had the means to prose-
cute, or we should have been very happy. We can
only say that an institution founded on an act of par-
liament without means to act, is a mere scarecrow,
and the sooner the genuine policeman of Mr. Wakley's
bill is at work the better. At present it is most diffi-
cult to ascertain whether a man has undergone any
medical education at all, and not unfrcquently the
ends of justice are perilled by men, ignorant of medi-
cine, giving evidence upon which the reputation and
lives of individuals are concerned, before our juries
and in our courts of law. If the Medical Registration
Bill did nothing more than supply our coroners and
the legal profession with a list of qualified medical
men, it would be a boon to the community.
There is another point in Mr. WAKLEY'S bill to
which we have not previously drawn attention, which,
although one of its minor provisions, will relieve the ,
rising generation of the profession from what is now
justly regarded as a hardship. That is, the require-
ment of a five years' apprenticeship before examina-
tion at the Apothecaries' Hall. This system, however
well it may work in business, is certainly injurious
in the medical profession. A young man is either
taken away from school too early in order to
get through his apprenticeship, or he is occu-1
pied with the duties of compounding and dispensing
medicines, when his time might be much more pro-
fitably employed. So impressed have the directors of
Queen's College at Birmingham been with the degra-
dation and vexation to which the medical student is'
thus exposed, that they have established a fund for
the purpose of relieving young men from the neces-
sity of an apprenticeship. To this fund we see that
Miss BURDEIT Cocrrs has just subscribed 1001., and
Dr. TateLweLt, Bishop of St. David's, 201. When
disinterested
.persons come forward in this way to
diminish a grievance, it shows that its pressure must
be severe.
The good effect of this bill, in relation to the various
forms of quackery, is very obvious; and the whole
brood of quacks are now lending their assistance to
the London colleges, and the National Institute, in
opposition to this measure. We could hardly have a
more powerful recommendation of this bill, than the
hostility evinced by those who live upon that portion
of the public who are gulled by the pretensions that
the present state of medical law enables the empiric
so unblushingly to put forth.
We axe sorry to observe the continued opposition of
the National Institute, as we are convinced they are
inflicting on themselves more injury than they are
doing Mr. Wmu.ey's bill. Their only hope of being
called into active existence is the confidence and good
feeling of the whole body of general practitioners in
the kingdom; and their persisting to misrepresent
Mr. WAKLEY'S bill cannot materially interfere with
its progress through parliament, and will only dimi-
nish that confidence which they can ill afford to lose.

The Chamber, the ministry, and the governor of
Algiers are embroiled on the policy on which that
colony should be ruled. The Paris journals of Mon-
day make public the report of the committee of the
Clamber of Deputies on this question. We have
already noticed the contempt with which Marshal
Bursa treats the chamber. The present report,
written by M. de T. neville, fully confirms every
thing we have advan, on this subject. According
to the report, the committee learned with surprise
and regret that an expedition into the country of the
Kabyles was in preparation, and entertained a strong
opinion that such a proceeding was inexpedient, and
should be abandoned. The committee called before
it the Minister of War, who read to them
a despatch of Marshal Bugeaud declaring
that the expedition contemplated was alto-
gether pacific, but regretting that he was
not at liberty to make the natives " smell powder."
After this explanation the committee was still op-
' posed to the expedition, passed a resolution to that
effect, and communicated this to the government.
The government expressed its astonishment that the
committee should think of adopting such a resolution
on a point so vitally connected with the prerogatives
of the crown, and refused to receive it; and finally
the expedition, or "pacific promenade," as the minis-
terial journal calls it, took place in spite of the
chamber, and mutual slaughter ensued, towns were
burned, and the object of the Governor of Algeria
was attained.
This report will be brought ander debate in the
course of a few days in the chamber.

The correspondence and journals of Madrid of the
26th, have been received. The Queen continued as
usual to appear on the Fraclo and the other public
promenades, accompanied by the Infante Don Fran-
cisco, and the Infanta Josefa, the father and the
sister of the king consort. The affability of her Ma-
jesty towards the public who saluted her in her walks
and rides, was much and approvingly remarked. The
Infante Don Francisco and his family have fixed their
residence with her Mejesty in the palace, an arrange-
ment which is mentioned as baying given much satis-
faction to the public. The king consort was still
at the Pardo. His father, Don Francisco, had visited
him there, for the purpose, it was said, of inducing
him to remove from about his person certain indi-
viduals who were regarded as displeasing to the
Queen, and hostile to the government. The con-
ference of the father and son was protracted to consi-
derable length, but was not as yet attended with any
apparent results.
The review of the troops of the garrison by her
majesty in person, was appointed for the 27th. M.
Brugnelli, the papal nuncio, was expected in Madrid
on the 29th.
The cabinet had a meeting, at which the protocol
signed in London, for intervention in Portugal, was
ratified. The command of the army of intervention
had been given to General Don Manuel de la Concha,
who had already left for the frontier. This force
consisted of fifteen battalions of infantry, 1,000
cavalry, with the usual complement of sappers and
artillery. It had already crossed the frontier.

Letters from Berne of the 27th ult., bring intelli-
gence that the differences so long prevailing among
the Swiss cantons, are likely soon to be brought to a
crisis. The grand council of Berne have passed a
resolution with only three dissentient voices, toin-
struct the deputies to the approaching diet to propose
the appointment of a constituent assembly, invested
with powers to effect a complete reform and recon-
stitution of the federal pact. The object of this pro-
,' ceeding is to put an end by peaceable and legal
means, to the ultramontane league. After a
long and animated debate, a division took place in the
grand council on the following resolutions: " That
the Bernese deputation to the federal diet be
instructed to propose :—l. That the separate alliance
concluded between the cantons of Lucerne, Uri,
Schwyz, Unterwald, Zug, Fribourg, and the Valais, be
dissolved as incompatible with the federal pact. 2.
That the federal authority proceed to the immediate
execution of this proposition by such legal means as
may be at its disposition.
The questions of the convents of Argovie and the
expulsion of the Jesuits were expected next to come
betbre the grand council. It was expected that the
acceptance of the reformed constitution of Geneva
and the result of the elections in St. Gall, would
ensure a majority of the liberal party in the next
diet.

NAPLES, MA: 18.
Her Majesty, Maria Christina, Queen Motherst
Spain, arrived here this morning, May 18, on board
a-French war steamer. The Spanish ambassador was
in attendance, and the usual honours offered to
royalty were given on the occasion. Her Majesty
appeared to be in remarkably good health. The
King and Queen of Naples were both absent, having
left last Saturday, in order to make a trip hr 7
Apulia. Indeed, this is but one of a series tofe
which the royal Ferdinand has been lately making in

different parts of his dominions, with a view to in-
spect the social condition of his subjects, A short
time before he left, the Hereditary Prince of Bavaria
arrived from Greece on board the Greek war-steamer
Othoue. The dresses of the officers are extremely
elegant, and attract much attention. Thus, for the
present, we are blessed, or otherwise, to our hearts
content by Royalty.

FRANCE.—PARIS, MAY 3l.—The Qnai Rive
Neuve, at Marseilles, presented a somewhat remarkable
spectacle on Wednesday morning. A band of Bedouins,
about eighty in number, were scattered about in groups, and
lying at full length in the auto ; they were clothed in their
picturesque costumes, appeared absorbed in the pleasure of
the chiboswt, and manifested the most complete indifference
to the curiosity of the spectators. They were a troop of
pilgrims who, having embarked at Beyrouth on their return
from Mecca, kad been driven by stress of weather into
Corsica, from whence they were conveyed to Marseilles to
obtain • packet-boat for their own country.
MALTA, MAY 24.—The French steamer Osiris,
direct from Marseilles to Alexandria, arrived here on the
17th, having on board the body of Hussein Bry, the son of
Mehemed Ali, who died lately at Paris. The steamer en-
tered the harbour with her flag half-mast, and her yards
topped. She left the same evening for Alexandria. The
rummer, Sir Patrick Stuart, is slowly recovering from his
dlneos ; it is reported that he will take a trip to the conti-
nent, or to England, early in next month. If so, Colonel
Fane, commandiest filth regiment, will be governor pro
fem. The new chief secretary, Mr. Lushington, has not
yet arrived ; he is expected by the boat of the 31st.
TURKEY.—CoNSTANTINoPLE, MAY 16. The
last French packet from Athens brought us nothinv new
respecting the Turkish Hellenic question. The death of
Lord Cowley has put Mr. Wellesley, the British ambassador
here, into mourning. He will succeed to the title. A leading
article in the Doily News of the oth April, on the state of
affairs in Greece, was read here with great satisfaction. The
government journal, the Journal de Constantinople, tran-
slated and inserted it, describing it as an article full of nerve
and spirit. The Sultan has presented a handsome snuff-box,
set in diamonds, to Commander Simmer, of H.M. steamer
Hecla, for the service performed by the Heels in carrying
700 troops for the army of Anatolia to Samsoon. By amounts
received to-day, by an extraordinary courier, sent by the
commander-in-chief of the army of Anatolia, it appears that
the report of Bederhan Bay's submission was premature, and
that Osman Pacha was on the march for Djezire, which
he expected to enter about the middle of May. Osman
Pacha adds, that in all probability Bederhan. Bey will
not make a serious resistance, but, on the approach of the
imperial troops, flee into Persia.
VENEZUELA.—We have dates from Caraccas, the
capital, to the 20th April. The band of men who have dis-
turbed the peace of the country for the last six months have
been completely put down. Moat of the government troops
have been disbanded, and the country is now tranquil.
There seems no danger of further immediate disturbances.
The joint committee if the Senate and House of Represen-
tatives of the National Congress have unanimously reported
in favour of a new grant to V. Ellis, Esq., of-the exclusive
navigation of the Orinoco and Apure Rivers, with important
additional privileges beyond those granted to Mr. Ellis last
year by the local authorities of Guayana and Apure. This
last will supersede the former grants, the terms having been
sanctioned by the agent of Mr. Ellis at Caraceas. The
steamers are to be run under the Venezuelan flag, and to be
exempt from provincial and national imposts, and all other
burdens, making the grant unexceptionable. There is no
further news of importance. Guzman was not executed at
the last dates.
BRAZIL—By the Runnymede, which has arrived
at Liverpool, we have received 'deices from Bahia to the
18th April. Exchange was at 291, with a downward ten-
! dency. There are also 'deices from Maranham to the lfith
April, and from Rio Grande to the 4th March, but no news
r of moment from either province.

Zbe court.
WINDSOR, TUESDAV.—Her Majesty, Prince Albert,
and the Court went to, Ascot Races to-day. The royal
coy-lige left the Castle at a quarter past 12 o'clock. H.R.H.
Prince Albert, H.S.H. the Prince of Leiningen, the Duke
of Wellington, and the gentlemen of the royal household,
wore the Windsor uniform. The Lord Steward, the Lord
Chamberlain, and the Master of the Household, preceded the
Queen to the race-course, and received her Majesty on her
arrival. The august party returned to the Castle at twenty
minutes past 5 o'clock.
The Duke of Wellington arrived at the Castle this
morning on a visit to the Queen.
Her Majesty gave a banquet in the evening in St.
George's Hall. The service of gold plate was used. The
magnificent " St. George candelabrum " was placed in the
centre of the table, which was brilliantly illuminated with
candelabra of large sine and richly sculptured in gold. Rows
of gold dishes were ranged the entire length of the table,
the larger sort reining on eagles of silver gilt, and on the
plateau among the different centrepiece; were arranged
several beautiful plants in flower inserted in vases of silver
gilt. A buffet of gold plate was erected at each end of the
ball, that at the eastern extremity containing a number of
racing cups, including the " Lincoln Cup," and two Good-
wood Cups, won by Fleur-de-Lis, the property of his Majesty
George the Fourth. Among the remarkable articles on the
buffet was the brilliant hums, composed of pure plates of gold
closely inlaid with precious stones, having pearls for its
eves, end having suspended from its beak a large and valu-
able ruby. The company included H.R.H. the Duchessof
Kent, 11.1. H. the Grand Duke Constantine of Russia, their
RR.IIH. the Hereditary Grand Duke and Grand Duchess
of Saxe Weimar, H.R.H. the Prince of Lucca, H.R.H.
Prince George, 11.5. H. the Prince of Leiningen, H.B.H.
Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, his Excellency Baron de
Brunnow, Count Revel, the Duchess of Sutherland, and
Lady Caroline Leveson Gower, the Duke of Wellington,
the Duke of Norfolk, the Duke and Duchess of Bedford,
the Marquis of Abercern, the Marquis and Marchioness
of Normanby, Lady Augusta Bruce, Baroness de Speth,
liarl Fortescue, Earl Spencer, Viscount and Vie-
ennuis Palmerston, Lord George Lennox, Lord and
Lady Blantyre, Mr. G. E. and the Hon. Mrs. Anson,
Lady Harriet Anson, Lieut.-Colonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps,
Ties-Admiral Lutke, Le Conseiller d' Etat Haurowiz, Baron
Ftesiseielkas, Lieut.-Colonel the Hon. Charles Grey,
Oisallus Arenburg, Count de Beast, Baron Zigesar, and
lbe amp& Provensali. The band of the let Regt. of Life
11 %Ws IMO in attendance during dinner.—The Queen had
afterwards an evening party The following had the honour
of receivinginvitations The Earl and Counter of Shelburn,
the Earl and Countess Cowper, Lady Georgians Fullerton,
Viscount and Viscountess Sydney, Lord and Lady Rokeby,
Hon. Mies Montagu, Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Barrington, Mrs
Barrington, and Captain Francis Seymour.
The Bishop of St. David's had an interview with
the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official
residence, in Downing-street. Mr. Morris, M.P., had also
an interview with the right hon. gentlemen. A deputation,
consisting of the Right ifon. Lord Sondes, the Right Hon.
S. R. Luahington, Mr. J. Wildman, Mr. N. J. Knatchbull,
the Mayor of Faversham, Alderman Cooper, of Canterbury,
Alderman Neame, Mr. E. D. Hilton, the Deputy of Mar-
gate, and the Mayor of Rochester, had anlinterview with the
Commissioners of Railways yesterday. Mr. Riddell had an
interview with Earl Grey yesterday, at the Colonial-office.
Mr. Fitistephen French transacted business yesterday at the
office of the Board of Trade. Mr. Hammel De Castro, director
of the Australian Mining Company, and Mr. Thos. Hanson
Peile, solicitor, had an interview with Mr. Milner Gibson
yesterday, at the office of the Board of Trade. Mr. Napier
had an interview with Earl Grey at the Colonial-office yes-
terday. A deputation from the Windsor Railway had an
interview with Lord Morpeth on Monday, at the office of the
Woods and Forests. A deputation from the Kent Water-
works Company had an interview on Monday with Lord
Mometh, at the office of the Woods and Forests.
His Imperial Highness' the Grand Duke Constan-
tine of Runia, accompanied by Admiral Lutke and his suite,
visited the Museum of Practical Geology on Monday. His
Imperial Highness was conducted over the establishment by
its officers.

Tat DUKE OF BuclinsonAm.—A correspondent of
the Globe writes : " Painful rumours are afloat u to matters
at Stowe House, the residence of the Duke of Buckingham.
The result of the circumstances is said to be a determination
on the part of his grace and the duchess to leave England
fora few years. It is said that Stowe House will be shut
up, and the gamekeepers, &e., dismissed. We understand
the M of Chandos will forthwith form an establish-
ment, and take up his readapt* at Winton Rouse."

(From last night's Gszetts.)
BUCKINGHAM-PALACE, MAT 25.—This day had
audience of her Malady, on his arrival in this country,
His 'nimbi] Highness the Grand Duke Constantine of
Russia, ►ttended by his Excellency the Baron di Brunnow,
the Russian Minister• His Imperial Highness was intro-
duced by Viscount Palmenton, and conducted by Col. the
Hon. Bir E. Oat.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, MAY 31.—The Queen has ap-
pointed E. St. John Neale, Eeq. now British Vice-Consul at
Alexandretta, to be her Majesty's Consul at Varna.
DUCHY OF CORNWALL, SOMERSET-HOUSE, MAY
28.—The moat 'noble Algernon Duke and Earl of Northum-
berland, has been appointed Constable of the Castle of
Lanaceston, in the county of Cornwall.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN SCHOOL SOCIETY.
THE GOVERNMENT EDUCATION GRANT.—Yester-
day a special general madly, of the subscribers to this in-
stitution was held in the admasivemsa, Borough-road. The
occasion excited great intermit @muscat ail claws interested
in the education question, inasseads es it was understood
that at this meeting it would be avoided whether the society
intended to avail itself of the government grant. Among
the life governors (of whom upwards of thirty were present)
were the Earl of Burlington, Earl Waldegrave, Earl Fits-'
william, and Lord Monteagle ; several of the established
clergy, with the Bisho? of Nonrich,lalso attended, besides a
largo number of the dissenting clergy, and the Society of
Friends. Numbers of gentlemen came from different parts
of the country to attend the meeting. In all, there were
upwards of 300 life governors present, including several
ladies. Samuel Gurney, EN., took the chair. Mr. Dunn,
the secretary, having explained that the meeting was tolled
in consequence of the committee receiving a requisition
signed by 24 subscribers, for the purpose of submitting a
resolution, and ascertaining the feelings of the subscribers
with regard to the government grant for education, the
chairman called upon some of the requisitionists to explain
their views to the meeting, upon which the
Rev. J. BVIL7IIT mono the lint resolution:
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G. W. AimiShillln. bomber. =I the moil,
tioo. He thought tart thojosal not resolve goo ey awn
the government widow& compromising the independence of ,
the society. He
governmentthagelin[Mr. Alexander then theaf reined re°ea
nitglarthesif
letter, which he had received from subscribers to the
against receiving any government aid.) He bad re=
those letters in reply to a circular which he bad sent out.—
Mr. JOHN LABOUCHIRR: How many circular, did you send
out ?—Mr. ALEXANDER: About 2,300.—Mr. LAnot DEERE :
How many persons replied to your letter?—Mr. ALEX.
ANDER : Twenty-two in favour of-receiving government aid,
and seventy-nine against. Some of the letters were signed
by five or six persons.—Mr. LABOICHERE thought
u only so few had answered out of 2,500,
that those who had not answered were against Mr.
Alexander's views.—Mr. DuNN : Although the c.rnmittee
did not send out any circular,, they have received en im-
mense number of letters from subseriben is favour of receiv-
, ing the government grant.
fhe Right Hon. Dr. Leen motors thought it woo deeply
to be regretted that there was such a difference of opinion
among the supporters of the society. lie should ho the last
man to dictate to any one the opinion he ought to bold.
It was open to everyone to examine with calmness the mea-
sure' proposed. He had been told that the tiutes were
altered with regard to education, and that, if they received
the government aid, they would compromise themselves ;
that all their friends would leave them ; and that the build-
ing would soon be pulled down. It was madness to talk iu
that way. They were as free as air to carry out the prin-
ciples upon which the society was originally eaablished.
lie did not uaderstand why there should he this
difference of opinion now. They had received the
government aid, and did government ever interfere ?
Led it ever find fault? Was there one instance
of the government ever interfering with any other institu-
tion? He thought that was convincing proof that there was
not any danger to be apprehended, but they had stronger
convictions—their own hearts. What government dared to
interfere ? However powerful any government might be,
such an attempt would shake them to the ground. The
people would rite en muse, from John o' Groat's to Lands-
end, at the first intimation of such interference. He was
surprised that the parties who now opposed the re-
ception of the government aid, had not discovered before that
it was wrong to take it, as they had been receiving it since
1833. The right hon. doctor then moved as an aniendment :
That the meeting, approving the course hitherto adopted by the
committee, in reference to Goverameut aid, and relyiag on their ex-
pressed determination to maintain the principles and independence
of the society unimpaired, deems it beet for the interests of the insti-
tution to confide to the dissenter, of the committee the acceptance
or rejection of any further aid which the State may be willing to
Geer.
Lord MoNresoLE seconded the amendment. He never
rose to perform a duty more impressed with the conviction
that he was doing right, than on the present ocsuioa. If
there was one characteristic more than another in the BrUsh
and Foreign School Society which he had admired during the
quarter of a century that he had belonged to it, it was the
cordial good feeling which had always prevailed, and he was
therefore sorry to see the difference of opinion on the present
occasion. In the year 1833 the government first tendered
assistance to the society, and now it became a question
whether that assistance was right. From 1833 till 18.39 he
(Lord Monteagle) was the individual who had the disburse-
ment of the government fonds, and he challenged any
person to name the slightest act of interference
or his part or of any individual connected with the
government. He regretted one thing connected with the
measure, and that was that the grant had not been
larger—that the amount of money was so small—for when
he saw the large aunts voted for the purpose of keeping up
our army and naval establishments, for prisons, and nume•
roue other thinge, he certainly thought that the sum voted
for education was inadequate. The objections which some
gentlemen had raised against receiving the government
grant, amounted to nothing unless it could be shown that
those objections arose from some existing interference on the
part of the government:with their consciences, but it bad not
been proved that there had been any, and as for apprehend-
ing, it was quite time to do that when it occurred.
_When
the society was first established, they designated their
schools " schools for all," and he therefore thought their ar-
guments were very illogical in refusing contributions from
those who represented all the government. Ho was
not going into the details of the minutes of
education, but he would merely remark that they
had been hewn up by some of the earliest supporters of the
society ; for who had more strenuously supported them than
Lord John Russell and the Marquis of Lansdowne. He be
lieved they were two of the greatest advocates of civil and re-
ligious liberty he should, therefore, second the resolution.
The Lord Bishop of NORWICH was one of the oldest
friends of the society, having been connected with its estab-
lishment, and contributed to its support ever since. He re-
joiced in it, because he considered that it was founded on
the pr.nciples of civil and religious liberty. He should
be sorry to find that the rock that it was founded on
was mouldering away. If the resolution were pasted,
it would materially shake the foundation of the society. It
they refused the government grant (he was speaking against
his own interest in advising them to receive it), the church
would then have the lion's share. It had been said, that if
they refused the grant, they would be enabled to pay off
their debt, and do without it; but he thought six months
would show a very different remit. He would support the
Roman catholic, or any other religion, in obtaining the
grant ; not because he was a Roman catholic, but because
education would enlarge the mind, which was an approxi-
mation to the truth enlarge the mind of the Roman
catholic, and he would perhaps see the error of his way.
The resolution and amendment were severally put, and
the latter—affirming the principle of receiving the grant—
was adopted by an overwhelming majority. A vote of thanks
to the chairman closed the proceedings, which lasted for up-
wards of five hours.

THE GRAND iingc-noN CANAL COMPANY:•;YeA•
terday, the half-yearly general meeting of the Grand Junc-
tion Canal Company was held at the Crown and Anchor
Tavern, Strand, to receive the report ending 31st Dec. last.
Lord Lifford was voted into the chair. The report showed
that the revenue for the last half year amounted to
67,7791. 91. Bd.. which included the sum of 40,0301. h. 6d.,
the net tonnage, this being 7,1091. 12e. Id. lees than the
corresponding six month' of the preceding year. The ex-
penditure reached 19,0441. 17s. 1301., which left a balance on
account of 38,7341. 12e. Among the expenses was a sum of
6,7221. 3s. 4d. for repairs of canal free Brantford to Braun-
non, a distance of- 13.5 miles. A dividend was agreed to
of 21. 10s. per share, amounting to 28,6371. 10s. The report
was received, and thanks voted to the noble chairman, after
which the meeting separated.
THE POISONING AT KENSALL-GREEN:FIVII an
early hour yesterday morning until late last evening erowds
of persons continued to assemble in front of the tette.
lately tenanted by the unfortunate parties, all of whom
appeared to exhibit the greatest regret for what had Was
piece. Caroline Boneny, who was the immediate* dike
calamity, states that the was perfectly ignorant el sneak
or anything of a poisonous nature being kept in the
home. It may appear most extraordinary that so large
a quantity of arsenic should be kept in any house ; bat
Hickman was formerly in business, a glace-blower, and in
his trade he used not only arsenic, but nitrate of silver.
When at his former ream had the poison placed
in a bottle and concealed in the wsahhouoe, but ox
I removing to the present house the bottle got broken,
and the poison was then placed in the floor dig, and
to say the least was carelessly deposited in the cnOosrd.
Yesterday forenoon, Mr. T. Within, M.P., and, a jury, met
at the Portobello Arms, Howell road, for the pumas, of
inqesingAt the circumstance, ceanetned with tile aloha
of Thos. and his Ave childran.imewspreroodsd to
the cottage to view the bodies; a more sews hss
rarely been witnessed. In the front was the eider
doesemd, and by his side the five ether bodies were lying.
The jury having returned to the inquesbroom, the excess
was fißamed that two only of the bodies had besa opened,
that the sister of Mrs. Hickman and the bey wars rapidly
immering, and possibly Mrs. Hickman kerseif night got the
better of the poison in a few days. The meow they in-
brined the panel that he should not at that period go into
the ease, but should adjourn the inquest to a fauns day,
sad in the moan time the bodies of the other children would
be opened, and possibly by that time the two weir& would
hey
be in aAt state to give evidence. The inquest woo award-
sdhunmed.
INWITESTO, YESTERDAY.—FATAL AOCIDILITT WHILE
00ING 110 THE RACES.—At Guy's Hospital, Misr* Mr. W.
Payne on the body of Mr. H. Sparrow, val 40, coffee-
house-km, of St. John-sheet. It app smei that en the
19th ult., diseased appointed to meet some Mends at the
Croydon statism, Leadon-bridge, to go by ream te Rpm.
The crowd then was very great, and in order that be might
the more molly hewer his Minds, he rood ape. the welL
He had not stood there teeny minutes when either from gid-
diness or from the pushing of the crowd, he fell down tote
Tacky-Maid, a depth of more than 30 feet. He was takes
to the hospital with several bones fractured, and died thine
en Sunday moaning. Verdict, "Accidental death."—
FATAL OHMS= ROCIDENT.—At Guy's Hospital, on the
body of Mr. Theme William Duna, aged 50, a twist of
music sad Musing. On Friday mane the deemed was
seated by the aide of the driver of owe of BeWe omnibuses
wi°l2free. Brides to London. As the aminMer was net
0 omnibus, the driver had to look eat hr
and while balling a hilly is Streathessitime, nal=
of the omnibus ageing a pest by*, resibbis. The embus
was overturned, ant the hard end the haver thrown We
the road. The latter was net mmelt km, but the Ammar
hod his left leg brain in two Ahem, mil died on lietwier.,
Verdict, " Accidental death.'