The Express.
London, England, 1847-05-12 00:00:00

ROYAL ASSENT.

Sir A. Clifford appeared at the table, and summoned the
louse to the House of Ler& to hear the royal assent given
by commission to several bills. The Speaker, accompanied by
several members, left the hoax, and, on his return, informed
them that the royal assent bad b en given to the bills (for
the titles of which see Lirds' Report).

WHITSUNHOLJDAYS AND PUBLIC BUSINESS.

Lord J. RUSSELL gyre notice that, on Friday, the 21st
of May, he would morn that the house, at its rising, do
adjourn to Friday, the 2.8.12; also, that ho would mere en
the same day that, after the Whitsun holidays, orders of the
day should take precedeaoe of notices of motions on
Thursdays.
SUSPENSION OF Tdß NAVIGATION LAWS.
Ia reply to a question from Mr. MITCRILL,
Lord J. RUSSELL stated that he meant to propose the
suspension of the narigsti.n laws, but the precise mode of
the suspension remained to be considered.

HEALTH OF TOWNS BILL.
Mr. AOLIONBY whhed to ask the noble Led at the head
of the Woods and Forest., whether he meant to proceed
with any portion of this bill during the present cession ?
Lord MORPETH •e lid that he intendid to proceed
with the bill so far as related to all corporate towns in Eng-
land and Wales, and to all towns to which a maturity of the
rated inhabitants petitioned that it might be applied.

TENANT RIGHT /JILL.
In reply to a questioa from an hon. member,
Mr. E DENISON mid that in the absence of his hon.
friend the promoter of this bill (Mr. Posey), he would state
that he believed it was his intention to withdraw it on the
following day.
Lord J. RUSSELL hoped that those hen. members who
had motions standing on the paper for that evening would
withdraw them, in order that the home might proceed to
the report on the Loan (Discount and Inmalmenta) resolu-
tions.
Mr. EWART consented to withdraw his modal ia refer-
m°, to direct taxation, on the understanding that he could
bring it forward previous to the home again going iato gem
mimeo of supp.q.
Mr. HUME, Mr. MONTATr, and other hon. member also
withdrew their motions in favour of the government order
of the day.
POOR REMOVAL.

Mr. BANKES said that having understood that there
would be no opposition on the part of the government to his
introducing a bill to repeal the first clause of the Poor Re-
moval Act, he would *imply move the introduction of the
bill, and appoint as early • day u possible for the second
reading.
Sir G. GREY would earnest to the first reading of the
hill, but with the distinetaadentanding that her Majesty's
gererament were not oa that among to be considered as in
any way pledged le IM prWelple. (Near, hear.) Their ob-
*dam te the IC sees fa Ai Ikeas and he would on
the refer uelaelem__ bring them Were the house.
Mr. T. Dl7lolol3lllllmid he behoved that the fact of the
government's having meeented to the introduction of the
bill would tend to imeettle and disturb the relief of the poor
in many parse X the eountry. (Hier, hear.) The govern_
mane would sedate have the host gentleman's bill, it ap-
peared, them Ids spent. (Laughter.)
Sir J. elliailLJE mil that nothing but • desire to
°militate tee peegeum el polite business could induce him to
refrain ham wring lee luiredasliala al the bill. (Hear,
hear.) He wee he to bast tbat her Majesty's govern-
ment were datremidW to glee it cm the next stage their
decided opposition.
Mr. K. DENISON mid there was in the country, at that
moment, greasiest* mid digitally with regard to that bill,
sad he hoped fiat. I. seder to alter that state of things, an
early day would be lead be the second reading.
Ss G. GREY said them oeght to be no mistake mto the
opinion of the =at. That opinion was fixed, and
he had what it was.
Mr. V. SMITH thought the bill introduced lent year very
prejudicial to the interests of the poor, and believed that even
the government would he obliged to propose some alteration
in the existing law, if no one else took that coulee.
Mr. HAMMES said he had always declared that if the
government would iatreduce a bill, he would give way.
Mr. C. HULLER laid that he was chairman of the com-
mittee in which this difficult 'object was being invatad.
There were in the committee not merely two conflicting
opinions, but a great variety of opinions. When it was pro-
posed to repeal the law, the committee were very mucha
posed to stub a coarse. When amendment was
the necessity for amendment was unanimously =tied
but when the queatits arose, in what sena. the law should
be amended, it was immediately found that all the members
of the committee were Arr amending it in different ways.
(Hear, hear.) That was the pit scot state of things in the
committee. There wee, in fact, the greatest potable
diversity of opinion. He thought the course taken by the
bon. member for Donetshire was the best that weld be pur•
sued, as it would bring the question distinctly before the
house, and not leave it in the midst of vague declaration
that something must be done. (Hear and cheers.)
Leave was thin given to introduce • " Bill to repeal the
first clause of the act 8 and 9 Vic., c. 68," the Poor Removal
Act.

LOAN (DISCOUNT ON INSTALMENTS.)
The report on the resolutions was agreed to, and a bill
founded on them ordered to be brought M.
The reception of the report, without any discussion,
WY followed ►y a general and ludicrous shout of laughter,
se it was expected that a debate would arise on the question,
and all the motions on the paper had been withdrawn ex-
premly on that aooount.
The home adjourned at six o'clock.

GARY PAPERS.

BALE or INCUNDERED ESTATES IN IRILAXO.—The bill to
facilitate the sale of incumbered estates in Ireland was
Feinted lam week. In the preamble is set forth the
important definition of the word " ineninbrance,"
namely ,--any legal or equitable mortgage in fee, or
for any leas estate, and also any money secured by a trust on
land, or by judgment, decree or order, and also any legacy,
portion, lea or other charge upon land, whereby a gross
sum of money is secured to be paid on an event, or at a time
certain, and also any annual charge which by the instrument
creating the same, or by any other instrument, is made re-
purchasable on payment of a gross sum of money ; and the
word " loonsibrancer" shall mean any person entitled to such
inenalbeense." Where any land is so %cumbered the owner
may, with leap of the Court of Chassery, sell it, provided
the sus agreed to be paid by the ganinew shall exceed the
almost ef Ineurabranes it bears. Manse 2.)—The owner
or the " inewsbrenese" ha ' eintrailei for sub sale may
soaredly apple to the Lord et Ireland by peti-
tion to mina Me eealnet. The psalm to be referred to
• wiebir in chancery, either on en ea poste order
to en webs to such parties es it may be eon.
adored ought to have notice ; and ha will enquire
into the validity of the ownership sad of the %cumbrances,
and as% the meant and priority of the later. Should the
waster apytwe of the sale, he is te tern spirt what pr. I
sone, imete•beig tenants in tail, nomor masa, and ether 1
having settrerea whatsoever, the SIDNEEIME et the hod
to be sea weld to be valid (e. 3 aad 11). The EAR seey
order emir arks to be invested in bad be the emelt ef
Parlor ealMielle the ram (a. 8). itlanetayellthia fat sale
at
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without the Uwe* of reembrissetoiltost • sale, an-
ima (Isar* impel to es errata of the hisurbeenes, and
the estertel rim of the lead se selretebe rid)irerart
AA werkir the rakes to be sodisived to no=
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pay ke soe torrebers, wel all serene ef Ai draft sad
oleo the edch sad ogress of the ismareewsr, aid so,
oast ausa and ovum abash he shall ark eight to be
defrayed oat of the pomarreerey ; rdi he the psalm et
facilitating each sal, it WWI be lawild ter the mom to
torpor re mem up to each fawn day ribs obi Ilia
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tesembeemee, and thus brine leis iserehemeer O. 80.
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'the resent oldie set, es purr to the of the emir
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to seers rho Ihr_galmse in law reaserposseruset
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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 12.

IN the House of Lords, yesterday, the royal assent
was given by commission to various bills. The Earl
of HARDWICKE, in a speech expressive of his appea-
-1 hensions of a deficiency in the supply of corn fee
home consumption, stated that if it were true that at
the end of the last harvest there was a sufficient
supply of corn for the following year, then, as two-
thirds of that period had elapsed, there ought to be
one-third remaining ; whereas it appeared that in
England and Scotland, no county had one-fifth
remaining, and only one county bad one-third ;
whilst in Wales the deficiency was still more
serious, and this with a quantity of foreign
buyers in the market. As there was little prebeldka
' of any further supply from the European jae,
but a small additional quantity expected lent Amer
rice, he was ructions to put the cowgirls sosid
so that the quantity of food might be He
would suggest that brown bread, eanleinine all
the particles of the grain, might be eseenered,
and that the use of starch should ber sus-
pended. He hoped also the landed gentry would
adopt means in their own counties, in order to prevent
the remaining supply of corn from leaving them.
He begged to ask whether the government was aware
that there was a deficiency of food, and, if so, whe-
ther there was a prospect of its being supplied by
foreign countries.—The Marquis of LANSDOWNE, in
reply, observed that every individual had the same
means the government pmmwd ofascertaining the pre-
sent stock of cora in the country, and while he could
not subscribe to the statement that at the end of the
harvest of last year there was a twelvemonth's supply
of food in the country, he could say that a very large
quantity of corn had been imported in the present
year, which was still on the increase, and if it was as
great for the remaining portion of it as it bad been
during the last four months, the whole quantity would
not be less than 9,000,000 quarters. The United
States had exported 2,170,000 quarters, of which
amount not more than 300,000 quarters had found
their way to the rest of the world, leaving
England in possession of four times the amount, as
compared with that which bad been exported to other
parts of Europe. He entirely concurred, however, in
the opinion that the state of the markets was such as
to make it the imperative duty of all persons to main-
tain in their families, as a matter of feeling as well as
of economy, the most stringent regulations as to
the consumption of food. Lord ASHBURTON
doubted the ability of the American market
to afford a sufficient supply, and feared that
the anticipations of the government in that
respect would not be realised. The result of his
inquiries in his own neighbourhood led him to concur
in the opinion that there was at present an insufficient
supply of corn in the country.—Lord BROUGHAM
thought nothing could be worse for the public than
to conceal the fact of a scarcity, and nothing could
more tend to prevent dearth from becoming famine
than by giving sufficient notice of it. He strongly
recommended economy with respect to the consump-
tion of the staff of life in the upper and middle
classes, but deprecated interfering in any manner
with the export trade, because if such were the
ease, it would necessarily tend to limit imports.
Under the existing. system so less than 4,000,000 qrs.
of grain had been imported into this country within
the last five weeks, being about one-fifth of the amount
annually consnmed.—A discussion ensued on Lord
MONTEAGLE'S presentation of a petition from Dr.
Thorpe, the minister of the Proprietary Chapel in
Belgrave-square, on the subject of the Bishop of
LoNnoe's declining to sanction the appointment of a
curate, on the ground of his being an Irishman'
unless he had already been licensed to officiate in an
English diocese—The Bishop of LONDON,in reply,
stated the reasons which had induced him to act on
the regulation alluded to, entering fully into the sub-
ject, concluding by paying a high compliment to the
Irish clergy, upon whom it was furthest from his in-
tention to cast the slightest possible disrespect.—On
the report of the Landed Property (Ireland) Bill,
amendments were introduced empowering the erec-
tion of grist mills, andstores in aid of drainage works,
the insurance of the mills against fire to be com-
pulsory.
In the House of Commons, Lord I. RUSSELL gave
notice that, on Friday, the 21st, he should move the
adjournment of the house for the 'Whitsuntide holi-
days, until Friday, the 28th inst—Mr. HOESMAN
gave notice that, on Thursday next, he should ask the
government whether it was intended to take advan-
tage of the favourable circumstances now existing to
endeavour to establish diplomatic relations with
the court of Rome ? Lord Morten!' inti-
mated, with reference to the Health of Towns
Bill, that he intended to proceed with the mea-
sure so far as related to corporate towns in Eng-
land and Wales—not including the City of London—
and to all other towns to which a majority of the
rated inhabitants petitioned that it might be applied ;
and as regarded the constructing of, or contracting
for, gas and waterworks, it would be proposed that
their value should be estimated as land was estimated
under the Land Consolidation Clauses Act, and the
clauses would be of a compulsory character.—
Lord JOHN RUSSELL, in answer to Mr. MITCHELL,
stated that he intended to propose a further
suspension of the navigation laws, but the pre-
cise mode of doing so was not yet determined on.
—Mr. BANKES moved for leave to bring in a bill to
repeal the first clause of the Poor Removal Act—
Sir G. GREY consented to the bill being brought in,
bat with the distinct understanding that the objec-
tions of the government as to its principle remained
in full force—Sir J. GRAHAM was glad to hear that
her =artrearministers were determined to give the
bill eppesition.—Mr. C. BULLER, as
eludrasa of ensaittes for investigating this diffi-
cult !abject, sista% that while the committee were
of million that the law should be
amunaneadilned,max, ad" the %nation arose as to how
that objet should be seelled. it was found that each
mealier of the eamemillee had a plea of his own for
Shas rman. lie thistellaw. uglrond of the course
tag* by Mr. Busies, as osismistss to put an end to
this state of &aid and tumertainty.—Several hoa.
saseaters who had notices of motion on the paper
having postponed them, after strong protestations
' that they only did so in order that the important
debate on the loan resolution might be resumed ; the
SPEAKER put the question that the report be brought
up, which was brought up. accordingly and received,
when, no hon. member rising, the SPEAKER then put
the farther question of adjournment, and left the
chair. This sudden and unexpected termination of
the business of the evening excited great laughter
among hon. members as they quitted the house.

Tux application to Ireland by England of certain
processes, especially of taxation, which are only pos-
sible in a country where civilisation and prosperity
have penetrated to the lower or labouring classes, has
been one of the most productive causes of discontent
and misrule. In the infancy of taxation the feudal I
lord and the wealthy merchant can alone be asked to
pay. No me would think of taxing the serf; for
even when capitation taxes have been established, of
course it is not the slave, but his owner, who pays.
The lower class of • backward state have in fact no
money. They sell their labour for land—truck food
for food. They live in a state of barter. To send
the tax-gatherer amongst them to ask for coin world
be • monstrous anachronism.

Yet this is what Lord STAN LET proposed, and what
the exclusively English peers, who judge of Irish by
English farmers, were about to vote. A light, how-
ever, was let in upon the Lords at the eleventh hour.

They were reminded that Ireland, as a country, in so
behind England, that the Irish farmer's sight and
use of coin are rare. Although he can make a great
effort twice a year to muster the given sum which he
pays as rent, to practise the same foresight with re-
spect to small items of taxation is impossible—the
pounds would slip through his fingers. And if he
were to pay poor-rate at all, he must pay it in
kind. This will be the great difficulty in
the way of the Irish tenants paying even one
half of the poor's-rate. To have asked him to pay
the whole, would have doubled the difficulty, which,
remaining even as it is, or as the new law will make it,
will be found impracticable in a great many of the
poor districts.
How httle, however, such considerations weighed
with the house and the class of legislators, sufficiently
appears_ from the previous proposal of the Duke of
WELLINGTON to compel the Irish farmer to pay, not
only the poor-rate, bat even the wages of labour, in
I coin. In fact, it is the same question : if he can do
the one, he can do the other. But certain pre-
liminaries would be requisite to both. For example, it
would be advisable to establish and people a number
of towns in Ireland, and till them with a rub-
' stantial middle class, so as to afford to the farmer
every week a market with ready money for his pro-
duce. In order to having market and ready money,
the townsfolk should have manufactures and thriving
occupations. In short, Ireland should be England—
a
very desirable consummation, but somewhat diffi-
cult and tedious. It is possible, however—with time.
But what is impossible, is to decree for Ireland
tome of the collateral fruits of the prosperity,
without the solid stem or its pith to bear them.
The lords who require the peasantry to have coin in
abundance for merely fiscal purposes, whilst there
is no mercantile use ordemand for it, display one of the
forms of that vital and universal mistake with regard
to Ireland.

We doubt, however, that the proven fallacy of such
views ned much effect upon the already mustered
majority. Neither had the declared and altered
opinion of the PEEL lords such atpreponderous influence.
But it was felt to be unwise to precipitate a dissolu-
tion, and send contending political parties at once to
the country, on the ground that the Upper House had
refused to vote a practicable Irish poor-law.

Os the principle that * half a loaf is better than no
bread," the country may congratulate itself on Lord
Monerries announcement last night of the govern-
ment intention" as to the Health of Towns Bill.
It is not to be abandoned entirely for the present
session. For this we have reason to be glad and
grateful. It is to be what some will call modified,
others, mutilated. Its application is to be confined to
corporate towns, except in case of application being
made to the Privy Council, from non-corporate
places, by a majority of the rated iuhabitants.
The crows abandons the proposed appointment by
it of one-third of the commissioners in this latter
class of cases. The metropolis is to be exempted from
the general act, and to be the subject of a separate
measure, promised for next session.
We need not say that we regret these alterations,
in common, probably, with all who have considered
the question of sanitary law. But the eoentry will
win a great advantage from what is left at the mea-
sure. Its prinsiple is not touched. The weak and
narrow objections of the Marylebone or pariah inte-
rest have had no other effect than to exempt the
metropolis from the present bill There is,we are thank-
ful to find, ne evidence in the alterations announced,
that the wisdom of Dr. SPRY or Mr. DANIELL has
had peculiar weight in the eyes of Lord MORPETH.
Thanks to these gentlemen, London stands oat
of the pale of a measure rife with improvements.
They have succeeded for the present in their pro-
testation that they won't be washed, and don't want
to be cleaned. The government, hampered with the
crowding business of a closing session, has listened to
their earnest prayer to be thrown overboard.
Of course the metropolis consents to this, or it
would not have happened. The districts which have
allowed themselves to be represented by the opposing
vestry have no right to complain, if the vestry suc-
ceeds in its opposition. But it is rather hard on such
districts as St. James's and Whitechapel, whose
managing bodies have passed resolutions favourable
to the measure, that they mast suffer from the preju-
dices and stupidity of Marylebone and St. George's.
That the country at large is favourable to the measure,
we believe is indisputable. That the modified bill will
work well, we have no doubt. Its effects in evaporate
towns will, probably, be such that we shall soon have
non-corporate places petitioning generally for its =-
tension to themselves. But the metropolis, it eheeld
not be forgotten by those who feel thumb's
aggrieved by the parochial triumph, is only
from the present act. Its turn is to come neat
We trust there will be no departure, in the manives
then meted out to it, from the principle of the menet
bill. Above all things we hope there will be iao con-
cession to the unmeaning cry of " self nt,"
which, though it is, when rightly understood, the
most useful of national habits, and the most pre-
cious of all national possessions, becomes in
the hands of such men as Sir PETER LAURIE
and the Marylebone magnates, nothing more than
a hags hollow obstacle to improvement. Cnr-
wns will, from the time this bill becomes
rws ,tle towns
really self-governing bodies. Stich irrespon-
sible rule as that of commissioners of sewers, under
the present system, will be done away with. Con-
flicting and clashing authorities will be merged in the
eaministration of the - A body

municipal _ Ay.
Party spirit will no longer determine the composition
of the town counciL Co rations, furnished with
powers which must deprive laziness of all excuse, will
have the aid and superintendence of the central board
of health and public works in whatever they take in
hand far the improvement of their respective towns. We
shall no longer have the fate of every district dependent
entirely on the accidental presenceor absence of &certain
amount of intelligence and zeal. Where that is, it
will supersede the operation of a central body; where
it is not, the central body will do its best to supply
the deficiency. The first year's working of the mea-
sure will rout the bugbears of Bumbledom. It will
soon be found out that sine it came into operation
the streets are sweeter, and the inhabitants not a bit
more slavish ; that sickness is diminished ; and Mr.
dotoo, late of the select vestry, but now of the com-
a= council, is still a great man, with plenty of =cu-
pids= and the benefit of other heads besides the
411111itment that has been wont to wag assent to him
at the weekly board.
Never was there a more monstrous absurdity than
to fancy thaLthis measure will do away with local
activity, or supersede the necessity of load sat=
Town councils will find out that under it Say bays
more to do than ever. Notions will be suggested to
them from without, which would never have ori-
ginated from within. The light of publicity will be
let into haunts and houses upon which the parochial
eye never lighted. The borough of Bullocksmithy
will Ind its sonoeptions of comfort imperceptibly
enlarged, and the town of Little Pedlington win feel
dissatisfied with good old long-standing nuisances,
where age had made them venerable, despite the
" pestilent congregation of vapours " which they
ente:trove all, the operation of sanitary preoaWoms
will no longer be bounded by the parochial
There was a point beyond which Bumble newt
ventured. It must "draw the line somewhere." Un-
fortunately, it generally drew the line so as to ex-
clude from the adtVillifilt and sewer-sinker the very
places which most needed both. The rich had air,
light, water, eno gg sad to awe. Nothing could be
sweeter than the But as for the fluid
alley, the back court, mod the tortuous mews, they
were left to Eight ===olvee, and to water them-
selves, and drain tissombse, as gamwbeisit weld.
All parochial bits been
marked with the ihel:d. el:m& Ills any NM-
eented the resloseleheity of the parish, and legislated
accordingly. Tb•poor it relined. Bat as to doing any-
thing more than sageve, it aster limit of that. It
no more contemplated el tie fever than
=2 the crime in IthirtL It regulated Its
and prisons admirably, but wog saw
Aimed whether both *OA set be
11de even& lead geeteemeet litstiUdist
beer mils lie sew est. The eseteet demand trbiek
it MIMI= will correct the amass= of all
local mem While it ham stiftgeounment ft=
Plattgovernment will is weiimet by it
th of Towns Ausiedsandea shown their
Pei two is euggesdeg to Ltd Kamm these
wrollisadons of the -simma, VII pais*,
enable it to pan hie !wllle oesicet.
has every rend be ,clad of the
Moreover, the gatvelm lave manifeatedrlo

superiority of intelligence to the metropolis by
agitating as strongly for the bill as London apitut,
it. The opposing metropolitan vestries fall into the
tail with 'the BENTINCXS and SIBTHORPS ; and la
that procession to the shrine of " Statu quo," Mary.
lebone is worthily represented by Sir Peres Legit

WE are delighted to learn that notwithstgti
Secretary Sir GEORGE GREY has hesitated to
to the requisition presented to him from a large pro.
portion of the electors of North Northumberland, his
friends and relatives there have commenced, and are
now engaged in an active canvass on his behalf. Sir
°soma GREY'S hesitation was perfectly natural ; and
its effect on the requisitionists is highly creditable to
them. The Home Secretary at present represents a
constituency by whom he is highly esteemed, and as
whose hands his re-election is quite certain. So fur,
therefore, there is every reason for a continuance
of those honourable relations that have so
long existed between him and Devonport. No
borough constituency can, however, be enrprised
that the representation of any man's native county
should have superior attractions, and should be
higher object of ambition ; and, as the return of two
liberals for Devonport is not doubtful, the election of
Sir GEORGE GREY for North Northumberland would
increase the ministerial strength in the House of
Commons ; and that result would, in some degree,
recompense Devonport for the loss involved by the
change. Still it was not to be expected that Sir
GEORGE GREY would rashly sever a connexion pro.
perly so dear to him, and plunge into an expensive
contest, the result of which was not a matter of more
certainty than any electioneering prospect can be,
When, therefore, a requisition bearing only 1,100
signatures out of a constituency numbering about
3,000 was presented, it could not be a matter of cur.
prise, still less of offence, that he hesitated and
declined to commit himself.

The requisitionists are not, however, it seems, to be
turned from their purpose. They feel that North
Northumberland with two Conservative members is
misrepresented ; they are convinced that with zeal
and exertion the influence which has imposed this
misrepresentation on them may be defeated ; and they
arc resolved to test the question whether the franchise
in that division of one of the most intelligent and
liberal counties in England is to continue an
appanage of the PERCY family. This determination
is, we repeat, most creditable to them ; and it is im-
possible that they could have a worthier midi-
date than Sir GEORGE GREY— man in every rela.
tion of life equally able and excellent. They might,
indeed, have searched through the whig party for
a candidate to whom higher praise eoald be given,
and against whom fewer objections could be urged.
One of the most active, he is also one of the most
popular members of the present cabinet. Rivalling
in administrative talents Sir JAMES GRAHAM, he is
quite as great a favourite with the house as his
predecessor in the home-office was the reverse;
and though a firm and unbending liberal, his
excellence and moral worth have secured him
the entire confidence of the church. The member of
a family whose public services have conferred renown
on Northumberland, Sir GEORGE GREY is precisely
the member the constituency require. Amongst the
farmers he is very popular; to the squirearchy, could
it free itself from a slavish subserviency to Alniriek
Castle, he would be agreeable; and already many of
the clergy—Dr. GILLS', of Norham, for instance—are
overcoming their prejudices against liberal opinions
in his favour.

And by whom is his election opposed ? By the new
Duke of NORTHUMBERLAND, who, irritated, it is pre-
sumed, that the Crown has not made the Lord Lieuten-
ancy of Northumberland a Percy heirloom, has started
—not a county gentleman, not a squire resident
amongst or known to the electors ; not a conservative
politician of high repute, but a young lord who now
for the first time has visited the county, in which
neither his father nor he has an acre, who is as
wholly unknown to the electors as 800 MAZA,
and who has no earthly claim to their support,
but that he is in the direct line of succession to the
duchy. And to this nominee of family pride and
irritation, Lord OSSCL3TON, who for fourteen years
has only saved North Northumberland from shame
by never opening his lips in the House of Commons,
is tagged, and both are presented by the agents
of the Duke of NORTHUMBERLAND to his tenantry and
dependents for their undivided support. No choice was
to be allowed; no thought tolerated ' • no independence
permitted : they are "die duke's candidates for them
the duke's tenantry and retainers aro frankly told
they. must vote ; and, unluckily for freedom of eke-
tion in this district, the system of management on the
PERCY estates has created a poor, helpless, unin-
formed, and dependent race of farmers, who, having
no lessee, and being only yearly tenants, are alto-
gether at the mercy of their powerful landlord.
Fortunately, however, all estates in North Northam-
, berland are not similarly managed. On large districts,
unconnected with Alnwick Castle, are long leases, high
farming, agricultural improvement, and an independent
and a solvent tenantry : there thorough draining and
subsoil ploughing are appreciated and practised : there
protection is estimated at its real value ; there poli-
tical intelligence I. united with agricultural science;
and there it is that a determination exists to rescue
the county from such intolerant dictation. And the
determination will, from all we can learn, be success-
ful, if there be unity, concord, and energy ; if the local
agents pull together with earnestness and zeal ; if
proper means be taken to secure the support of non-
resident electors—if, in short, the liberal party there
be only tree to itself.

The excitement which prevailed in Paris on Sun-
day, in consequence of the ministerial crisis, was iu
some measure allayed by the appearance, on Monday
morning, of royal ordonnances in the Musiteur
naming the successors of the three ministers, so un-
ceremoniously ejected. The circumstances stated in
the'postscript of our correspondence of yesterday were
strictly correct. During the forenoon M. Cluizoes
offers were met with nothing but refusal. In despair
of finding suitable individuals in the capital who
would consent to accept the vacant seats in the cabi-
net, the telegraph was set to work, and messages
were sent to the provinces offering the ministerial
favours to more distant and less fastidious
Before sunset answers were received favourable to
wishes of the virtual head of the cabinet. In the
course of the evening, ordonnancee were accordingly
signed, nominating M. Dumon, Minister of Finance,
M. Jar, a peer of France, and prefect of the
Rhone, Minister of Public Works, the Duke de
Montebello, ambassador at Naples, Minister of Ma.
rine ; and General Trezel, also a peer, and com-
mander of the 12th military division, Minister of
War. M. Ginza takes the Marine ad interim, until
the return of the Duke de Montebello from Italy.
So little faith is reposed in the certainty or sta-
bility of any ministerial assuagement at present, that,
in order to create the necessary assurance among the
public in the serious import of these ordounancea, the
ministerial journal formally states that the acceptance
of MM. Jayr and Tread of the offices to which they
neraniectively nominated was received by telegraph.
Trizel is a very able officer.
The above appointments were not known to the
journalists of Perla until their appearance in the
Dloniteur on Monday morning ; and consequently no
opinion on the part of the press had yet been elicited ;
but the press is already passably indignant at the
dismissal of the three now ex-ministers. It is an-
nounced by the Journal des Debate, that although
some of the members of the cabinet are changed,
its policy will remain unaltered.
General Cubitres underwent his first examination
before the committee of the court of Peers on Satur-
day, and the examining judge proceeded to his home
to take possession of such of his papers as related to
the subject of the prosecution.
Queen Christina left Paris on Monday for Naples,
where it was expected she would remain but a abort
time. She will return directly to Paris.
Postage reform is about to be brought before the
Chamber of Deputies. M. Glais-Bizouin will propose
a uniform rate of postage, and M. Glepari,o will er°'
pose that all letters not prepaid shall be subject
to doable postage.
The Proeureur du Roi has issued a warrant against
the Duke of Vicenza, and his second, who lately
wounded M. Pommies= in a dueL

The Madrid mails have been received, with the
lour:tale and correspondence of the Mh. The Cortes
had 'ma Menne without any day being named
few its reassembling. It was supposed, however, that
it would continue prorogued during the Queen's 11'°',
to Arena The Queen left for Arankse at fear
in thernoon, where she will probably remain tea

the commencement of summer. El Herald. says
Mat the King has determined not to accompany her
molmty, but to remain at Madrid during her absence.
Ibis, however, was not considered as certain. M.
Pacheco had also departed for Aranjues. The Queen
hod appointed Field Marshal Chriatobal Linares de
Boccoo governor of Madrid. El Espanol übscrves
met M. Castro y Orozco, whose sudden death we
ssationed yesterday, has died poor, although be had
held the highest offices.
When the ordonnancee for proroguing the cham
Mrs were read, meek surprise was expressed among
the deputies at this unexpected measure immediately
mhoinng the presentation of the budget. It was be-
hoved by many that the prorogation would extend to
October, and by some, that the present Cortes would
not again assemble.
The domestic dimensions which have been mani-
meted between the queen and her husband have be-
aten st length, the subject of undisguised animad-
version by the press. The Etc. del Cosetereio, of the
em, denounces the odious intrigues which foster them.
are the work, says that journal, of occult and
weehiavelic agents ; the infernal plan has not been
esocived by Spaniards, but Spaniards have consented
io be its instruments, and to become subservient to
beige projects. " Illustrious Isabella," continues that
permit us, whose fidelity. you cannot
toobt, to inform you that an infernal foreign hand
attempts to deprive you of the love of the Spanish
people, and to rob you of the prestige of your youth
ma your goodness. Thu Spanish people have seen
with pleasure an illustrious prince become the spouse
of their sovereign. Know, then, that the same
infernal hand attempts to sow distrust in his heart
Let him reflect that the hand which urges him aims
tint at his destruction, next at yours, to prepare the
throne for another person."
j3lllrroldu is almost exclusively occupied with the
documents connected with the budget, which present
ao interest to the English public.

yggiCE.—PARIS,MAT 10.— FRENCH CHAMBERS.
• ossibrir of Deputies began its laboursueday by dividing
perfect also. relative to the supplementary and extre-
mism:7 credits of the budgets of 1846 and 1847, which was
• by a large majority. M. Cunha-Oridaine' Minister
4riraltare arid Commerce, presented a project of law for
=la force, until 31st October, 1847, the law which
the minimum rate of duty on the importation of
pen is ia France Tke development of M. effithelli'l propo-
sition fee excluding directors of railway and other companies
tem fitting in the chamber, came under discussion. M.
Noises stated that he felt some embarrassment in ad-
draehig the chamber, as the sudden change I. the ministry
had ease upon him unawares, and some of the ministers
• myet but telegraphic, and not parliamentary minis-
i.e. The chamber was aware that his chief opponent in
the former ministry was the Minister of Public Works, but
that minister was now Minister of Finances. As minister
of public works he favoured the railway sprawls' as much
es was in his power, and now, as minister of finances, he
mast make good those advantages tether's. " I must request
the chamber," said M. Cramer, " to support my motion
sad, before I sit down, can but add, that I hops that the;
great transformation of the ministry will be its death-blow.
The present changes in the ministry are an additional etas=
for me to request you to give due attention to my propoei-
tion." At this moment M. Lacamelaplegue entered and
leek his seat on the elevated benches -eithe centre. M.
Clientele then attacked the ministry on the late mode of
dismissing the ministers, and ensiling le the system of
eor-
ruption pursued, said, "Pmeholie the ihmetimmiso ef
way companies, otherwise yea will bosom esbiletry which
from its position is usearible of riei gelds latensts."
Y. Demon, Minister of Finances, to the attasho of
Y. Crimieux. As Minister of P Weeks he advocated
a system which he should still adverb • Misister of
Finance. He was left speaking whoa one cup ter left.
Mg. O'CoNNELL.—Mr. O'Conaell embarked oa
Wednesday at Marseilles in the Lombardo sionmepasket, for
Civita Vecchia, accompanied by his yonagoot hie ehoP-
lain, his own physician, and Dr. Lemur, a~phyaieian of
Lyons, who will continue to attend his to Florae's. Mr.
O'Connell's present intention is said to be to go Immediately
oa to Rome; but after having been presented to the Pops,
and reposed himself for a few days, to proceed to Florema,
where Le will make a lengthened stay. His health is said to
be much improved, u the day before his embarked= he
was able to go in a carriage to the Botanical Gardais at
Marseilles, and walk about there.
GERNIANY.—I'aussis.—BERUN, MAY B.—Pma-
LIIIIN A RIC DEBATE ON THE DECLARATION Or TRB 137
LIBERAL DEPUTIEB.—The proceedings in the meetinfiLr
the three estates en the 4th inst. are reported in the A
swiss l'reussische Zeittuw of this day. The order of the y
was the further consideration of the separate paragraphs of
the reprt on the proposed law for excluding improper cha-
racters from the diet ; and in fact the first and second parr
graphs were definitively adopted, and some progress made
with the third. But the chief interest of the -melon centred
in the disposal of the diclaretion of the liberal deputies.
The marshal of the diet proposed that this document, which
was presented as a motion of M. Vincke, cm the ground of
'its relating to a subject diseased is a meeting of
all the estates, must be referred to the marshal
of the first estate, in order to its being made a sub-
ject of joint deliberation. This proposal was objected to by
N. Vincke on the ground that it was not competent for the
marshal iso to dispose of it. The subjects foe which the law
prescribed joint deliberation related either to the contraction
of state loans, or to the introduction of now or increase of old
taxes All other matters were to be discussed apart by the
two chambers (kurien). The marshal signed that the de-
bate on the declaration would be a mere prolongation of the
debate on the address, and as that took place in the
combined chambers, so ought this. M. von Avecswald
suggested that this was a mistaken view of the case.
The combined chambers had agreed to exclude the
consideration of special quaticsis of rights. This decla-
ration of rights, therefore, was a sae*: upon which they
bad positively not entered, The Wag M. von Mantendel
combatted this view. M. von Beektragh, Count Schwerin,
and M. von Saveken, after proulaing that they hid set
signed the declaration, contended,'in COMM with Y. vim
Vincke, that it ought to be discerned in the chanther ef the
three estates, not in the combiaed chants's. The rawer
von Manteuffel contended that the doeimistism was Meow
*Anti/mai, and proposed that it should be returned to the
member who had embodied it in a modes. Neat Yes
Oreisenan reminded the meeting that be was one of these
who had opposed the framing of the video's in the
combined chambers: only the novelty of their position had
prevented his tendering a protest against that mode of pro-
ceeding. M. Van Beckerath repelled the imputation that
it was unconstitutional to bring the decimation ender the
notice of the chamber by quoting the second clause of the
regulations for their proceedings, which specially enumerates
"declarations" among the subjects ofdiscuesion. M. Mayhem
indicated the source of the ohjections to a joint debate on the
declaration. The law of the 3rd of February limits
the number of notes allowed to the First Estates in
joint deliberations on financial questions. In the diseassion
en the address each member of the First Estate voted,
and thus the limited number of votes allowed them was ex-
ceeded. A fear was entertained that this would be done in
the debate on the declaration, and that thus a minority of
the three estates might be made to appear a majority by the
supplementary votes of the first estate. The marshal, after
listening patiently and fairly to every member who wished
to speak, adhered to his original resolution, and gave M.
Viacke hie choice either to have his motion ransmitted to
the marshal of the first estate for joint deliberation,
Of to have it returned to him. M. Von Vincke de-
clared hie intention to protest against this decision.
The law under which they were assembled made it impera-
tive to refer every regularly-male motion to a com-
mittee, whatever its subject matter might be. As, however,
be could only protest, of the alternative offers made to him
1)3 the marshal he preferred the first—he begged to have his
motion transmitted to the Marshal of the First Estate. He
could only speak for himself, however, not for the other 136
members. A number of thou gentlemen rose, however, to
express their coincidence in his choice, and here the matter
ended for the time. It appears frost this discussion that a
number of members who declined to Bhp the declaration ap-
prove of its substance ; that another modes stand half-way
between those libendo and the miesiMine; that the ministers
are net prepaeod te board the liberal members in the rash
mode proposed by the Toe Mananalie ; and that they dare
not emanater a vote el the repressmattess of the lilmes
Estate' on a question of sonatitational petwasge easupperied
by the votes of the high melsilkwhio,lce fis4 sws right,
constitute the chamber of the PIM MOM A Wiry sea
skilful game is playing in doe esamisatissal hem beswesa
the liberals and the court party ; and the latter erefisessas
too much—they gain by. fe
it at present, but betray asionloss
weakness by A curious episode in the day's
aCetedbllP
was a perfect storm of complamta from MI Aida t the Im.
eeetwory of the short-hand reports.
FOOD DISTURBANCES.— DISVILINS 111
Riots have taken place in several priest Behomit et
Titl
and at Leitmeritz. At the latter plass the mob eat ci rem
the ears of a corm dealer. Diotombaneee were oleo tamed In
Aussig. In the dint:lel of Trombones IhmegAmit wee
openly Pen" pr posed.
Sassed
sleom
an
Thee was
again a slight bosh set at Wm on the Sod of May, het it
wasloollput down, the rioters Mos Malastly ormeled.
Food riots have taken plane at OstmHmgsA nal Blanbaszon;
on the 3rd inst. a number of chimes momalded tumults-
owl,' before the town-house in the latter piece, crying eat
for corn. Further disturbance waa, however, prevented by
the head magistrate promising that a diatribation of Nem
should be made. In several towns of the duchy of Peel.,
the prevailing distress has also given rise to excesses; mewl
the rest, at Onesen and Ragmen. Bodies of military have
been sent to restore and preserve order.
The Car:melte Gazette of the 4th inst. rintaidbea
several resolutions of the Grand Duke, by which it is orassed
that corn, potatoes, and flour, are only to be sold at otooloot,
and the sale of the mope in the ground is forbidden.
BAVARIA.—MUNICH, MAY 4.—M. d'Abel, who
sees appointed some time since ambassador to the Sardinian
court, has left his seat of Stansmied on kis way to Turin. He
will not pus through Munich.
The king has appointed a commission to revise and
modify the edist of July 10, 1813, coneernimg the Jews.
The commission under M. Maurer, minister of justice.
appointed to draw up a new penal code, has adopted the
principle of oral and public pleadings, and of a mixed jury,
that is to my of a jury composed of onehalf 'simple citizens,
the other half of men of the law.

linen Dannaranr.—The Second Chamber of
Dereamdt he decided that olullren under nine years of ego
shall not bit allowed to work in the manufactories ; children
fathom nine to twelve say be authorised by the police to
week Ike a pekoe not inomediag sight hours each day, and
these between twelve lad sister may work ten hours. In
dm coons oldie dolmas en the censors, It was mated that
them we min thea eldhireo empiled in the
flieleelei la the Greed Deelly.—Golianene.
DENMARB.—Cotattnanart, MAY I.—The Kith
lie plated at the disposal of the municipal council a**
en** 111611 redeem of the duty cm grin ; and he has she
aligned a sega et nom Seam to the empled sad able
tens% he the pigpen et ievim bend to the pm* et a
thew nte ef permate Una Om mem is destined to Cops*.

. ALPAItAIBO.—H M.B. Frolic, 18, sailed from
Valparaiso on the 10th Feb. for England, with specie on
board to the amount 012,100,000 dollars.

gbt noun.
The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the
Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal, and the Prince
of Leiningen, arrived at Buckingham Palace at ten minutes
before six o'clock yesterday afternoon from Osborne, Isle of
Wight. The august party left Osborne at two o'clock yes-
terday afternoon, crowed in the Fairy to Gosport, and tra-
velled to town by a special train on the South-Western
Railway, proove&ng from the terminus at Nine Elms in
three carriages and four, escorted by a party of Lancers.
Her Majesty and 'Prince Albert, accompanied by
the Prince of Leiningen, honoured the Royal Italian Opera
House with their pressen yesterday evening. The royal
suite ermined of the Counting of Desert, Hon. Miss Stanley,
Lord Waterperk, Lieut.-Col. the Hon. C. B. Phipps, and
Capt. the Hon. A. H. Gordon.
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, H.R.H. the
Duchess of Kent, and H.R H. the Duchess of Cambridge,
honoured her Mejesty's Theatre with their presence yester-
day evening. The Queen Dowager wu attended by Vie-
counters Barrington and Earl Howe. The Duchess of K.nt wu
attended by Lady A. Bruce, baroness de Speth, and Sir G.
Couper ; and the Duchess of Cambridge was attended by
Mr. E. Mildntay and Sir Wm. Davison.
H.R.H. the Duchess of Bent, visited the Duchess
of Gloucester yuterday at Gloucester-house.

A deputation respecting the Scotch Poor-law had
an interview with Sir G. Grey yesterday at the Home-office.
A deputation from the St. Marylebone Protection Associa-
tion bad en interview with Viscount Morpeth yesterday at
the office of her Majesty's Commissioners of Woods and
Forests in Whitehall- Lace.—Mr. Morrison, M.P., bail en
interview with the Right Hon. E. Stratt yesterday at the
office of the Commissioners of Railway*, in Great George-
street. The Archbishop of Canterbury had an interview
with Earl Grey yesterday, at the Colonial-office. Dr. Paris
had an interview with Sir George Grey yesterday. Mr.
Bracebridge had also an interview with the Right Hon. Ba-
ronet at the Home-office. The Right Hon. E. Strutt had
an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yester-
day. A deputation from the United Kingdom Artesian
Water Company had as interview with Viscount Morpeth
yeaterd&
Sir one
Grey, her Majesty's principal Secretary
of State for l e Home Department, has issued invitatisns for
• grand dinner in honour of the Que., n's birthday, on
Thursday, the 27th Hay, at the Clarendon Hotel. The
company will include the whole of the Queen's judges ; the
lord mayor and the principal civic funetiosaries. The guests
will appear in full dress.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer will give a full-
dress dinner to • numerous party ,on Thursday, the 27th
May, in celebration of her Majesty's birthday, at his official
residence in Downing-street.
Despatches for the Governor of the Mauritius were
sent off last evening from the Colonial-office.

(From last night's Gazette.)
Dovriento-irrescr, MAT B.—The Queen has ap-
pointed F. C. Siagliston, Esq., to be auditor-general of
accounts for the province of South Australia; atm, W. Mor-
rison, Fag., to be the colonial surgeon for the island of Hong
Kong.
OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, Mac 6.
Royal Reg. of Artillery.—Oent. Cadets to be We. Lieute--H. P.
Tates, vim Amon, prom.; M. F. Ferrero, rice Gairdon, prom. ; H. A.
Tbrupp, vice Stubbs, prom.; C. E. Main wariog, vice Booteby, prom.;
A. Gordon. vice Lovell, prom.; W. J. Willisras, vice J. F. E. Travers,
pram.; C. F. Tome, epee Oase, Dom.; S. Fretting, vice Brolly.
vont.; 0. R. Stnireh vies Barstow, prom. • J. F. Pennyctilek. vice
Leslie, peons, : W. J. Orimn, rim prom.; W. D. Oullie,
rice Wright, prom.; C. E. Waehaw, vice l'hring, prom.; N. O.
d. Turner, vice W. M. King, prom.
Royal Inegineers.—Oreet. Wets to be i.e. Ileuta —R. H. &other*
vim Tilly, prom.; W. H. Noble, vice prom. ; H. *Me, rice
Chesney, prom. ; K. N. Hamm, vise De prom. ; O. H.
Gordon, vice Ann& ran. tA. J. Chem, nee wart, Prom.; CA.
Rice, vice Nugent, prom. • C. J. Powder, vice Belßdd, prom.
Alibilft&LTT, Mae 4.
Royal Marines.—phut Limits. H. C.Tate k G. O. Langley, babe opts.
MAI. 6. —Royal Mariam—Flrst Lieut. W. IL Sliove&sr to be mpt.,
vice H. Bremer, ret. on ; See. Lieut. J. & Doorman, to be Shot
WAAL, rice Shoveller, prom-

THE LAW Aesociarros.—Yesterday afternoon the
=oral court of the members of the Law Association
ed for the benefit of widows and families of pro-
fessional men is the metropolis and its vicinity—was held at
the hall of the incorporated Law Society, Chancery-lane.
Mr. T. J. Burgoyne, a director, in the chair. The secretary
reed the report, which stated that since the establishment of
the emaciation in 1817, above 16,0001. had been appropriated
to the families of members of the profession, and the fund
assented to 20,0001. A donation of 1001. had been received
from Mr. Wm. Tidd, the author of " Tidd's l'ractice."
There had been received 1,4281. Dis. 3d., in which were in-
cluded 6891. Is. annual subscriptions, and 1211. 16s. life
sabeeriptions. After paying all expenses, there was a balance
in hand of 1801. 13s. The report was received, and eight
directors were elected in the room of three going out by ro-
tation, and u there had been only five new members, a
resolution was agreed to, authorisiag the directors to adopt
some steps to make the benefits of the society better known
among the profession.
CIIURCH PASTORAL AID SOCIETY.—The twelfth
annual meeting of this society was held yesterday at Exeter-
hall. Lord Ashley presided. The secretary read the report
—a volume of some 60 double-columned printed pages—
which
which stated, that during the part year the Earl of Denbigh,
Earl Waldegrave, and the Bishop of Melbourne, had
accepted the office of vice-patrons ; and Lord Teignmouth
that of vice-president. The total receipts of the year have
been 29,9411. 6s. 10d., exhibiting an increase of 7,4351. 9..3d.
over dram of the preceding. Of this large increase,
however, 7,3211. arose from the munificent legacy of the late
John Scott, Esq. Of this sum the committee had this year
appropriated only 2,0001., investing the remainder in Long
Annuities, terminating in 1860, and producing 5181. per
annum • the available income may, therefore, be reckoned
at 24,6401. 6s. 10d., while the expenditure has been 24,8001.
No fewer than 119 new grants had been made in the year,
four of which were for chaplains over labourers on rail-
roads. Eight grants,
_amounting to 6601., have been made
to clergymen appointed to new districts, who are ultimately
to be endowed by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners • and 11
amounting to 1,0201., are for curates to have especiil charge
of districts intended eventually to be formed into district
parishes. Seven grants, amounting to 1571., have been made
towards fitting up school-rooms, which are to be licensed for
the celebration of divine service in populous and poor dis-
tricts. The remaining grants were for 62 curates and 37
lay.assistnnts, to assist incumbents in populous and widely
extended parishes. The incumbents thus aided by the
society, in number 114, have under their care an
charge
population of 627,207, or each, on the average, has of
6,600 • while the average amount of the incomes of these
iocumbsntsi is only 1741. per annum, and no fewer then 79
of them have no parsonage houses. The society now aids in
all 314 incumbents, having under their charge a population
of 2,193,560, or each, on an average, 6,977 ; and 173 are
without personae houses. The committee have now before
them 52 applications, requiring an annual expenditure of
3,4701. The report, under the head of results, then went
into a long statement of eases in which the benefits conferred
on the clergymen and their parishes by these grants of the
society were shown. The Wight Rev. Bishop of Winchester
moved the adoption of the report, and urged upon the meet-
ing that it was their duty to make strenuous efforts to sup-
port the society. They must remember that although there
seemed to be a lupe increase in the income, it was only
owing to the gift of a tingle friend, and that actually the
expenditure had exceeded the income by nearly 2001. The
Right Rev. the Bishop of Oxford seconded the resolution ;
with the adoption of which, and others of a routine nature,
the sasethes eisesd.
PRAYER BOOR AND HOMILY SOCIETY.—An an-
nual us
.Lseft wiss.held en Manday,_at Exeter-hall, the Mar-
quis 911 '9llo9eisiey, preabling. The committee, in their
report, eanammeed by isagnstulating the society upon the
primperons earlitisa of their hinds ; the receipts during the
ta==idaseirended to 2,9455 4.. 62., out of which
of upwards of 2001., which was remark-
able, as theme bed been a deficiency during the preceding
year. Thilummt proceeded at great length to detail the
the misty had made in the trans-
=net this Prayer Book into the Chinese and
orbit bragsageo, and their sale and diffusion in
different parts of the world. The report of the
Lbws of the visiting secretary among seamen and
others on board ships in the river, stated that from
April, 1949, to the 31st of Barak, 1846, 37 copies of a setae-
ties of were sold ; and from April, 1844, to the 31st
of 847, 302 copies. In the former period there was
• toed 01 1,082 Prayer Books sold In English and German,
sag ia the laser period, 2,677, making an increase on the
eels et nearly 1,090 books. The number of ships and other
mesh visited or revisited in the London river and docks
during the yes: amounted to 3,443. In 426 of those
ureg air abbe was regularly held, and 696 of
the ermanistilam ected that: duty. During the same
peeled
FporFßooltsiyo2 ia German, and
4 bests et bi 2of ;Prayers, sepia
of a ssisellem of ilO of the eases la
Duk/s, MA beta= asse=ard ships. 619 books
of sliest bseslieek linilik sad la Owssaa, had bum gra-
taloa* disidlutel tsr the me et theme . The emu-
easy asoullest. whit plaman, dist gab creesioas had
the Nederra agentamet with marball firstraty or ems& oppo-
shies hi *Mr aspamtve work et visiting the dupe.
After Wag ma Imelausa et the wasemitel working
of the seeisty et hose,, Its essusitles preaseded to state
that some of the isuartst Moe hod bum visited daring
the past year, and the engem segsdatendent supplied with
books for the use of the prinuma, the result of which had
been especially gratifying. The eselely bad also prosecuted
its laborite in the emigrant trim nod bad established an
agency to :ruir enrol) 11,4tery's TIN& at Chatham and
Sheerness The report was adopted, together
with appropriate reselatiene,in support of which the Dean
of Bangor, the Rev. Dr. Marsh, the Rev. J. W. Week's,