The Express.
London, England, 1847-12-23 00:00:00

Mid .01l lay larder words, there
lithe within whith sash cop holds wills:3Ear
mike the Volealary lititanokismut Ast.
eltrue; hat meamiminers, in g
thlldistinctitea wises
_the blame on ***nor
Instead of the primipal offenders, when they
sty, " the canes' of this feet me to be
Sold partly in the lees andieThed indomme of
the elswerds—en Woke ray Variany "Mg to
saftesobiesmeed—mad . pertly klp.. expesietimi of
both lards sad tweets that same loather steps will be
taken byy the *hills. tare to sateen.oessmutation
enfran At all mots, the lords of minces
exhibit " a general iadispositiea to move." And why
should:l=s active to entombing P They are in
the of an injustice, often the source of great
pro t, sad they mean to keep it as lug as the pabfte
shall burly permit them to do so. But though the
commissioners whip the stewards—and bad enough-
they are, every copyholder knows—tho real delin-
quents are the lords, as we shall presently show from
the report itself. There is appended to the roped a
tabular statement of the enfranchisement. made does
the last report They are chiefly made by embalm-
tical lords of manors, and seem to consist of Wats&
tenements, for neither the extent of the lands ashen-
chimed, nor the names of the copyhold tenants, are
given. Where the fines were arbitrary, frent five to
six years' annual value was the general pefea sa•
franchisement ; and where the fine was ass
year's value was paid. The quit elder mak 'ead
i old rents seem to have bank "beapht it from
28 to 32 years' purchase. Not bad terms flume for
the lords. The ecclesiastical lords who enfran-
chise voluntarily, if less obdurate than their lay
brethren, at least know how to make a good bargain
with their tenants. So much for what has been
done. Let us now see what the commissioners hope
to do.
They my "if the hopes of the committee of 1838 are
te be fulfilled at all, the time seems come when some
more efficient measures should be adopted to accele-
rate the extinction, if not of the copyhold tenure, yet
at least of those social and economical evil' which
are the moat distinctly identified with it." Here the
reader will almost hope that the commissioners are
taking heart of grace to speak out boldly to lords of
manors; but, alas ! their courage soon evaporates when
they come to details. They say the maim-este betaken
will be either a complete general compulsory enfran-
chisement, or a more limited and gradual commute-
lion, getting rid of the " uncertain and mischievous"
incidents, but leaving the tenure so amended. They
think it impracticable to pan a measure for compel-
eory enfranchisement, because lords do not like it, and
therefore they dwell not upon it. They therefore
recommend a "limited system of compulsory com-
mutation." They begin by mentioning a measure
even more limited than that they mean ulti-
mately te propose—a little minimum, of which
the landocracy will doubtless avail itself. This
consists in enabling each oopyhold tenant to
obtain compulsorily a commutation of the heriota for
a fixed payment. They say " those vexatious inci-
, dents create a very general feeling of irritation,
much greater than their average pressure warrants ;
and that a bill "to effect this object alone would not
meet with any opposition." Talk of the "average
pressure" from henots not warranting the irritation
they occasion! Let the reader imagine the seizure of ,
'his finest horse, hie prize ox, or his last new agricul-
' tural implement out of doors, or hie moot cherished I
work of art within, as the best beast or chattel " in
the name of a heriot"—the penalty of holding pro.
party by feudal tenure—and would he not be nri-
tated ? Possibly this incident may be commuted.
Even lords of manors understand that when English- '
men are justly irritated, the cause of irritation is in :
some peril. But, says the report, this would "only
remove a vexation—the substantial economical evils i
would remain untouched." These are " uncertain I
OM, which drive capital from improvements
on land, and in rights to timber, and control
aver buildings." These evils the commissioners
say might be got rid of, by changing the
uassetain fine to a fixed one, by setting a value on the I
:fl to timber and so forth, and compelling the lord
to swept a fall eqqivalent for the abandonment of I
them rights. This principle being adopted, " each
inflkidual tenant may be empowered to call on the
to commute his uncertain payments, and I
ated."lllll"aitalord a consideration." This plan, says the I
report will be met by " one very serious objection ;"
it is that " the lore will complain that when their
solvent and merebble tenants have commuted, they I
will be 1911 milk a had remnant, constituting a much
lees deskable tam bey on their manors." Now just
me Ikea what the brae of this objection is derived,
and the real nature of lords' objections to commute or •
seftemellbe will be apparent. The lord has a right
to levy ea uncertain fine, which must, however, bear
sem *dim to the value of the copyhold property
that elks will depend upon the amount of capital
the tenant is able- or willing to lay out in its
%mparrement ; end therehey rich and improving
boob are kir tilt* lark seek to catch in
tied see of 4spikilil tisane, And as rich
eel iseprevieP 1101411111,11 these who would commute
ar enfranchise, therommeat the law gave them power
NG to do, the lordesmadd object to individual commu-
tation, because, after one dip had been made into the
pockets of the rich tenants, the lord could dip no more,
and the empty pockets of the poorer tenants, copy-
holders unable to improve their lends, would alone
remain open to the lordly fingers. Is not this a plain
proof that what lords of manors lie in wait for is the
capital their copyhold tenants, forgetting that they
must die, or may be compelled to sell or mortgage,
expend in improvement? The way in which- the
Icommiaeioners would remove the objection is, that
whenever two-thirds in value of the copyholds in any
manor have been commuted, the lords may be entitled
to call upon the commissioners for a compulsory com-
mutation of the remainder. Whether even this mild
measure could be carried, remains to be seen. There
are some other points in this division of the report, to
which on another occasion we shall refer. Lastly,
the commissioners have no hope the lords of manors
will comment to a compulsory commutation of their
right la minerals. "It is guarded," says the repeat,
" with great jealousy by the lords, and should be left
as it mw is" Indeed ! what will the espyhtdders at
etellideldre, and othirmining &Mobs, say to that P
Why limeediould be sap mese Mb* in pueg °a
vales ea what is bias fit the beim of the
in the ma* 0017holdilkan. Ow in the ease deka
lands, omilekkg Hi owldi an daily oldest. of
valsallase sad woes. ip ant profess to comprehend.
AM the Gemininims see squally hopeless of owl
minutia' where es kils/p improved value will per ,1
bahly be attaissill as an exertion or outlay as
the past of timeoln as likely to esquire mks
am balk. er hoar lissere lade at
mane " 110111101MOda that a oceirdsery I
tilli made at ease will deprive them of their dime of 1
this reopestivs value.' We do not sammalser
whether the Highland chiefs reoeived wasperatioa
for their loss of black mail when the &Wake of
law put a stop to cattle lifting in the lowleade, but if
they did, that would unquestionably form a resident
for the claim here asserted by lords of manors.

A CASE, important in itself, and still more so on ac-
count of the state of public feeling which it indicates,
was tried before the Circuit oourt of Uitenhage
(Cape oolony) on the 28th of September last. The
incident out of which the trial arose appears to
have been as follows. In the month of May, a colo-
nist of the name of Satire was serving along with
others as a waggon-driver attached to the detach-
ment of troops stationed at Fort Peddle. The fort
was close premed by the swarms of marauding Bat-
firs in the neighbourhood, and the garrison was small.
The waggon-drivers were in consequence called upon
to cut wood. They appear to have kad an impression,
in the first place, that their services were ilimited to
the waggon duty; and in the second place,
that sufficient care was not taken to protect them
from the Baffirs while cutting wood. Under this
impremion, several of them, and among others SMITH,
when ordered out by Cumnino, a non-commissioned
officer, to cut wood on the 9th of May, expressed un-
willingness to comply. CUMMING reported this to
Colonel LINDSAY. When the colonel spoke to the
drivers, some of them refused at first to go for wood,
11 but ultimately consented. He, however, declared that
one of them must be flogged for an example to the

condition garrison
reamed • sharp usdbeittilsyle* 101 l
liable to the safeties eft the
colony: We do not dispute DEM%
tO Calk SMITH after a abarspree& IMSII.TOIII7
prudence in podding Iff eeimilm in the way be
did—and still more, the jsmffsead humanity of the
general deportment of LiT and the mili-
tary towardsthe "non drivorti•ff aim civilians
engaged or pressed into thetransport mike—is more
open to doubt. These men do not' understand either
the punctilious rigidity of military discipline or the
advantages to be derived from it. Admissions
which escaped the military witnesses spew
that no pains had been taken by the officers
to explain to the waggon-drivers what was
front them or why, and that the private
Biers had kept aloof from them as from an inferior
mate. In the same regardless manner it appears to
have been assumed that these men mast understand
military matters sufficiently to appreciate the protection
afforded them while foraging. In consequence of
this neglect, it is obvious that an impression prevailed
among the waggon drivers of their being looked
down upon, oppressed, and exposed unnecessarily to
danger. In this temper, to use the words of the
witness Cireausio, they began, when ordered out to
cut wood, " to grumble, appeared diseathelled, and did
not wish to go. Even of SMITH, CUMMING does net
say that he positively refused. " Barra grumbled,
but witness does not recollect the words he
used; could not recollect his words—it scented
to be denial." Upon the strength of this " seem-
ing denial," Crams° went and told Colonel
LINDSAY "that the waggon-drivers refused to go and
cut wood; and that he could not carry on hie duties
unless an example was made of some of them."
Col. LINDSAY asked CUMMINO to point out the ring-
leader ; he pointed out Ssurn,who waa,without further '
inquiry, ordered to go to the rear. The colonel then
desireddesiredthose who refused to go, to place themselves
beside SMITH, which a few of them did. After some
words of remonstrance, however, they all consented
to go, and SMITH was going with the rest, when,
without being allowed a hearing, he was, by Colonel
LINDSAY'S orders, seized, tied up, and flogged.
We have told the story as it was told at the trial
by the military witnesses, principally by CUM-
MING himself ; and without questioning Colonel
LINDSAY'S right to exercise sharp and severe disci-
pline, we must say that the treatment of SMITH was
harsh and unjust in the extreme, and calculated
rather to make all the civilians pressed into the ser-
vice mutinous and disaffected, than to establish dis-
cipline. Whatever his faults as a statesman, Sir
ANDRIES STOCKENSTROM had the merit, se a military
leader, of inspiriting the class to whom SMITH be-
longs to be always prompt and enterprising in
danger, and to bear the hardships and restraints of a
campaign without murmuring. Colonel LINDSAY
and his brother officers might have done as much had
they condescended to rememberihat waggon-drivers
could not be expected to understand the minutia of
military law ; and that waggon-drivers, as free citizens,
are sensitively alive to the appearance of neglect when
placed in unaccustomed circumstances of danger.
But our officers, it seems, accustomed to command
men drilled to act with machine-like submission and
regularity, could not condescend to win the confidence
and attachment of undrilled men. And, having left
their camp-followers uninformed of what was ex-
pected from them till the hour of extreme peril ar-
rived, they punished one of them cruelly for the
consequences of their own neglect.
The worst part of the story remains to be told.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL refused to prosecute Colonel
LINDSAY, and, another counsel having been em-
ployed for the prosecution, the ATTORNEY-GENERAL
accepted a brief for the defendant. This was all
right and proper. But the ATTORNEY-GENERAL. had
no right, with a view to influence the con-
duct of the jury, to make statements unsup-
ported by evidence. He told them that" the defendant
was placed on hie trial at the volition of • party ;"
that " a Dr. TANCRED had been collecting subscrip-
tions from the humane to carry on this case ;" and
that Dr. TANCRED'S " character was unworthy of
respect" Neither in the examinations nor in the
eroweexaminations of the witnesses, do we find any
trace of what was here asserted by the ATTORNEY-
GENERAL as matter of fact. From the tone
el many, letters (both of civilians and soldiers)
from the Cape, which we have seen during
the last twelve months, we have reason to fear that a
considerable degree .of ill-will exists between the
military and the majority of the settlers. It is ex-
tremely likely that party spirit has been in-
voked to aid in the prosecution, bat the
irregular statements of the ATTORNEY-GENERAL
convict him of being as decided a partisan as
any on the opposite side out of doors. It is but too
obvious, from many symptoms which transpired in
the course of the trial, that the civil officials through-
out the colony are making the case of CoIoneI:LINDSAY
and the military their own, and, by their keen par-
tisanship, making it a party question with many of
the most respectable settlers, who might otherwise
have remained neutral. .

This is a matter that will crave wary handling on
the part of the home government. It was neither
GEORGE GRENVILLE'S Stamp Act, nor the tea duty,
that occasioned the revolution in our North American
colonies. That movement was the result of a long
series of vexatious and contumelious acts by military
and civil functionaries from the mother country, exas-
perating the colonists. The same silly conduct may
pave the way to the same results at the Cape of
Good Hope, and we fear in other colonies too.

A summary of the following appeared in part of
our lut evening's issue.
We have received our Paris despatches of Tuesday.
The ldng and the royal family took up their resi-
dence in the Tuileries for the winter on Monday.
Lord Normanby was at the reception et St. Cloud on
Sunday evening
Marshall Soult arrived in Paris on Sunday.
A letter, dated the 14th inst., from Malta, is given
by the Journal •ies Debate, which affirms that the
insurrection at Patras was not so serious as the re.

in the Cbsirrier de Mamales represented
irregular troops are mid to have mutinied age Last
their colonel. Some shots ware tired, and two men
were killed. The bank was pillaged, and about
4,0001. taken from it. None of the inhabitants, ac-
cording to this letter, took part in the affair which,
as to the rest, had no political character. The ver-
sion of the Debats mist, however, be taken with cau-
tion.

The Madrid mails of the 16th have arrived. The
reduction of the insurrection in Catalonia was making
rapid progress. Two cabecillas bad voluntarily
surrendered, and a third had retired to France. The
Faro says, that an order has been actually signed to
make a payment to all classes of public creditors.

The evacuation of Ferrara by the Austrians, which
we have already so often announced as an approaching
event, is now really about to take place, or rather, 1
according to the latest advioes, has probably already I
taken place. By letters from Rome of the 10th,
we learn that despatches had been received at the
Austrian embassy in that city, informing the
ambassador that all was finally arranged. The
official notes on the subject were to have
been interchanged between the pontifical court
and the Austrian minister on the 10th. The
evacuation of the city only will be effected ; the
citadel and the barracks near it will continue to be
occupied by Austrian troops, as they always have
been since the general peace of 1815.
Notwithstanding the contradictions given in the
ministerial journals of Paris, reports are still received
a general insurrection in Sicily.
The Neapolitan government stops, as far as it an,
the transmission of political information of every kind
between its territories and the rest of the world, and
the difficulties attending the acquisition of correct and
authentic information, give rise to a multitude of
spurious and exaggerated reports. The Tuscan jour-
nals last received say that the steamers which arrived
in their ports on the 11th, instead of contradicting,
, have confirmed the previous reports of the Sicilian in-
, earreetion.
Letters of still more recent date from Naples are,

grPexcitemenip.. These .. represent
:ostple stidionaly abstaining from affording any
ground to the government for the exercise of arbitrary
measures, but at the same time rendering it manifest
that they are only waitingto see whether the indispen-
treble reforms can be obtained by pacific means. If
they be obstinately resisted, no one doubts that
serious troubles will ensue
Reports have arrived of collieions between the
Modeneee troops and the people in Massa, in which
the former were worsted and pat to flight. Toe
Turin paper mentions a rumour that Massa and Car-
rara are to be annexed to Tuscany. Ibrahim Pacha
arrived at Lucca on the 12th.
We have advices from Rome to the 11th. The
Pope had confided to Count Pietro Ferretti an im-
portant financial mission. On the 9th his holiness re-
ceived Lord Minto in private audience, who commu-
nicated to his holiness despatches which he had re-
ceived from London. Lord Minto was to have left
immediately for Naples. A letter from our own cor-
respondent will be found below.

Affairs in Switzerland proceed without any new in-
cident of importance. Oar advice* from Berne are to
the 1 i th. It is understood that no step will be taken
in relation to the revision of the federal pact before
February. Meanwhile the most constitutional means
of attaining that end will be considered by the go-
vernment. It has been ascertained at Lucerne that
the Austrian government had lent the Sonderbund
300,000 florins, without interest, and had supplied
3,000 muskets for its troops. The Austrian minister,
M. Kayaerfeld, had arrived at Bile, accompanied by
his secretary of embassy. Dr. Steiger was elected
president of the grand council of Lucerne, by a
majority of 66 votes out of 96.
M. Krudener, the Russian minister to the Swiss
confederation, had resolved to suspend any measures
with regard to the proposed conferences until he
should receive further instructions from his govern-
ment. This resolution was the consequence of the
events which have occurred in Switzerland since
the instructions he has received were despatched.
The funds, amounting to 40,000 francs, which were
taken from M. Siegwart Muller by the Piedmontese
authorities at Domodossola have been restored to him,
he having proved that they formed part of a sum
sent by the Austrian government in aid of the Son-
derband, and that he was about to restore them to
that government. M. S. Muller denied having ab-
stracted anything from the federal chest. He declared
that the members of the government of the Sonder-
bund had taken the chest to Altorf in the expectation
of being enabled to coatinue a resistance on the part
lof the lesser cantons, but that having seen this to be
impracticable, he sent the keys of the chest to the
authorities of Lucerne, and afterwards the chest itself.
On the 16th Sir S. Canning had a long conference
with President Ochaenbein.

ROME, Inic. It.
Along with Sir W. Parker, our admiral in the Me-
diterranean, arrived, yesterday, Mr. Abercrombie, our
ambassador at Turin, and General Sir Frederick
Adams, of Waterloo celebrity. All are guests of Lord
Miuto.

Cicemacchio has this morning placarded the
town with the following singular document, which
gives insight into the state of society here, and de-
serves to be " placed on the minutes" of Conciliation-
hall for more than one reason: . . .

PROTESTATION.—I, Angelo Brunetti, better known as
Ciceroacchio, find it necessary to announce that I have no
connexion with place beggars, and cannot procure situations
for needy persons. lam a simple man, earning my bread
for my family by honest industry. I do not frequent ante
chambers or the halls of great people. It is made known to
me that people are going about collecting money, by way of
tribute to me, as a man who ought to be supported at the
public expense. These men are impostors and traffic on
public credulity. My only. wish is to do my duty as a citi-
zen, and to forward the interests of the dwellers in the
noblest land the run ever shone upon--the land of Pio None
The hour of noon is now announced in Rome by
the discharge of a 24-pounder from the Castle of Bt.
Angelo.
Monsignor Morichini, pro-treasurer, has lately sus-
pended from office an employe of the Camera who
was detected in concealing articles to the amount of
1,000 acudi (thus depriving the Camera of 100 scadi
of duties), and had obtained a fascia passare in return-
ing to Rome by Civita Vecchia.

GERMANY.—PRIISSIS.—IXTERNATIONAL COPE-
ntous.—The Berlin Official Gazette contains a notice
issued by the criminal court of Magdeburg, to the effeet that
two translations of Dulwer's " Lucretia" (one by T. Oelker,
the other by A. Bretschmann) have been declared piracies
by that tribunal, and intimation given that all parties bellies
them may be prosecuted and punished, at the =tam* of
Duncker and Humblot, of Berlin, the copartnery exclusively
entitled to publish a German translation of that work.
11ESSE DARMSTADT, Dec. 18.—The Grand
Duke opened the Diet on the 17th by a speech, from which
we extract the following : "In order to discuss a right of
uniform exchange in Germany, a congress has been opened,
to which almost all the German governments have sent
delegates. lam happy to be able to state that this first at-
tempt to establish a general law throughout Germany has
been successful. The project for a right of exchange for
Germany, resulting from the deliberations of the congress,
will be submitted to your sanction as soon as the neoemary
preparatioas have been made."
BA VARIA.—M CHICK, DEC. 16,—The Rteateat joy
prevails in Munich in consequence of the pa • of a
decree on the censorship d the of which the
ere the chief points: Pace the of Jesewry".2l. ,
the cessorship will ea low apply trierekies erierealey the
affairs of the coinatey, lad previews sasehtiams ea this
head, which existed from UM Se 11111; tea again
come in force. Oa and after the above dowsers but
the following will be subject to a previiiseel emeaerhip (*or-
tawsigen census): Subjects naiades telbrelogepelitios; midis
transgreesing any existing rad law; and etierhs
the honour of private penteee, This dimmed hepieel
" Louis," and eenntenainsa by the ministers. elpai
GREECE. THeeenl.3. Lneles.e, Dec. 1.
Generale Veleatees, PaySitalateo, Dimind, Dar-
gadjild, ited Mat
el• =win Wilda, bees illameaced
as in a Wee ef the cruiser Tetvellsa,
hare quitted the Grecian with 170 Mown% and
preemie' *mobsa to the retbedlire of Larissa, demand.
tug to le allowed to serve is the Ohm= army, desiring
'that they had bean, and whited te soak beenek ealposto of
the Behliae Porte. The Goveleer-Geeend ef Thmely,
rseidbas ie. Lathes, Mahar Ifelmee Praha, resived throe
kindly, wad provided theawith sphered realweee, meths
Timid& govaremat dosaidlieve aemasa upon their news&

COLONIAL.
CEYLON.—By the Indian mail we have dates
from Ceylon to the 15th of November. At Colombo a =a
siderable degree of excitement had been created in come.
quince of three ordinances which had already reached a
second reading in the Legislative Council, These swilnamses
are : one to repeal so mu of the charter aa gives provoke.*
to the judges of the Supreme Court. One for the " more
convenient and speedy trial of eases in which the crown is
interested," :by virtue of which the Queen's Advocate, or
any of hie deputies may institute any civil or criminal cue in
any district court he pleases, although net properly
within its jurisdiction, or at any tame to change
the venue from one district court to another.
And by the third it is to be enacted that the principal person
in charge of every estate cultivated with coffee to an extent
of live acne shall transmit to the government agent of the
province, or one of his assistants, a true and correct return
of the number of acres of every suck estate which shall on
the first day of such month have been under coffee culti-
vation. Another ordinance of greater importance, however,
is one for effecting changes in the tariff, the chief of which
are the abolishing of all expert duties except that on cinna-
mon, which is to be reduced from Is. to 4d. per lb. The
Auditor-Oeneral, in seconding the first reading of the
ordinance in the legislative council, said on the subject of the
results to follow from it, and the remedy proposed to make up
the deficiency to be created, that the probable loos to the re-
venue
from the abolition of the export duties on all other
articles might be stated at 10,0001. per annum from let Sept.
next. The reduction of the duty on cinnamon would probably
produce a further loss of 10,0001. so that there would be a
deficiency of 20,0001. to be provided for. This the govern.
meet proposed to effect by the imposition of • tax or license '
for arms, which was estimated by his hon. friend the Colo-
nial Secretary,i in his report as likely to produce 7,6001. per
annum. They further proposed to introduce a tax on car-
riages and horses, estimated by the same authority at
2,5001. per annum. The renaming 10,0001. per annum it
wail intended to make up by the imposition of various
stamp duties. The ordinance had been read a second time,
and would no doubt pea.—From a comparative statement of
the imports and exports at the pert of Colombo for the
quarters ending Oct. 10. 1848 and 1847, it appears that the
total imports for thisland last year were isomparstively thus :
1848, 200,4831.; 1847 248,8211. ' • increase, 48,1381. ; and the
total exports thus : 1848, 87,1231. ; 1847, 02,4621.: increase,
26,3291.
l'h• following on the subject of the coffee crops is from the
Coleasegampreer, of Nov. 16,andshowa that the yield will be
plaulg an _ : The crop this year will not, we think,
• • of 1848 by any considerable amount. The old
with aim inceptions, show light crops, and
the would Wipes, bai far the amber of neap

int Court.
WINDSOR, WEDNESDAY.--The royal .dinner
at the Coatis this evening included the Ditcher of party
the Ledy in Waiting on the Duchess of Kent, the Baroness
de Booth, Lsdr Augusta Bruce, and Sir G. Couper. The
band of the ()rowdier Guards was in attendance during
dinner. Her Majesty's private band afterwards attended at
the Cutle.

The Duke of Cambridge (President) visited the
German Hospital, Deleon, yesterday, to preside at the
board of the house committee.
The Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary
visited the Duchess of Gloucester yesterday, at Gloucester-
house.
The Archbishop of York had an interview with Sir
G. Grey, yesterday, at the Home-office. The Earl of Devoo
had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer,
yesterday. Lord Montaagle had also an interview yesterday
with the right hon. baronet, at his official residence in

ELECTION OF COMMON COUNCILMEN.
The polling in the four contested wards was con-
tinued yesterday, with the following results. The new can-
didates are distinguished thus • :
BILLINGSGATE (B).—CarlinflDep.), 63; R. M.
Philippe, 66 ;B. B mar, 66 ;J. • 85 ;W. Williams,
65 ; Barnes, 64 ; J. Roberts, , ; •J. Cannon, 43;
H. H. Piper, 31. The poll re-opens at three o'clock this
afternoon, and will finally close at four.
COLEMAN-STREET (8).—At four o'clock the state of
the poll was declared to be: Allan, 83 ; Hall, 84 ; Hale,
84 ; Davies, 81 ; Johnson, 52 ; Bracher, 73 ; Perkins, 69 ;
•Webater, 88; •Vallance, 60. The poll will be open to-day
from twelve to two o'clock, when the election will terminate.
PORTSOICEN (B).—The result of the polling for this
ward up to last night wee Wright (deputy), 80; Christie,
75 ; Porker, 75 ; Juteum, 79 ; Hayward, 65 ; Danford, 51 ;
Killby, 79; Thomson' 67 ; •Vile, 52. The poll opens to-
morrow (this day) at three, and finally closes at five.

• THZ EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 23, 1847.
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deimmere. Bat the assubst afforded by the Marna a elmget of gi• ritiee were in a constat state of .prehension, but DO rain for the last few weeks they are 'offering great imam-
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Ism sod groW mewed with that offered to the doubt that the verdict is erroneous. Martial law was at the general excitement, had applied to the military liii,:.lii ter_!":
_a_ m11,.1 fr2,_ 7, r_e. t. 3 of_e!!_l_rh„ich. ha, fel:-
seats GI lay lords. in force in the district at the time, and Siam, in et . Syracuse for a remforomnent, but the intuu7oriar Trwo'pertore.,:z twelaiirm—pa•ing Ett=
The eomdeemeeere say, nit is different with copy- virtue of his contract, was • camp kalower. Inds- that he had 1:10t Mere. thin otlfflood to eitiliteletout 1,600 and 2,000 feet above the sea letel hire
ohb =Ow train& r in other words, there is no pendently of thew eircumetanose, the beleaguered maintain the tranquillity of the province where the been picking for the kit &LT weeks or two month*, and •
rah movholds will disappear condition of the fort and the emallneseof the.garrtson Freatest excitement prevailed. Than letters represent considerable quantiv of coffee in the parchment akin has
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