The Express.
London, England, 1848-03-31 00:00:00

'ERIAL PARLIAMENT.

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HOUSE OF LORDS.—TBURBDAY, MeICS .
The LOAD CILAWCIILLOIL took his seat at 6 o'clock.
PRIVATE ellatsaten.
aLCOND ItEaDlleo.—Lenarda theme
PUBLIC BUSINESS.
SECOND READINCL—Borough Pollee Seperannuation lend Bill.
PAPERS PBESENTED.—By the liarquiet of La/meows.; re-
vert relative to the espedieney altering the boundaries of
Fax-
law unions and electoral diviners. in Ireland; also a list peat
arms and ammunition surrendered, and of those seized under the set
el 11 Via
INCREASE OF OFFICERS IN PUBLIC
DEPARTMENTS.
The Earl of ELLENBOROUG rose 'mistiest to notice
to call the attention of the house to the abstract of the an-
nual account of increase and diminution in the number of
persons employed, and in salaries, emoluments, &Sommer
and experts in all public departments. The increased
charge exhibited on the annual return was
some so very larncage,
that it appeared to him necessary that explana
should be offered on the subject by her Majesta's ministers.
art be rt-
No doubt such explanation could b.: given, but it mu
membered that the veer 1847 was one of great national
,0110
dike
trees—a year in which it was necessare to borrow 8,000
of mony—and one in which there was a deficient reven. I
While, e
therefore, it Wn the duty of the government at all
times to practise every economy, it was more imperatively
neeetsery at such a period. lie could recollect when it was
considered a great point to obtain a reduction of the charge
for one of the Lords of the Admiralty—namely, for the
of 1,0001.,:but in the last year thei.net increase was as much as
the salaries of 110 Lords of the Admiralty, viz., 110,0001.
Twenty-four years ago the whole of the charges in the
public departments were placed under the supervis
ot thin
of the Lords of the Treasury, and an explanation
enormous increase could no doubt be given hj the noble
lord opposite. There had been in 1817 a net tnerease
1,1090 f
persons employed to the number of 1,250, of whom
were in the Post-office • and deducting that number, 141
persons had been added to the various offices of the state,
and the increase of charge connected with the officss which
those persons filled was not less than 70,0001. The total in-
crease of salaries alone was 66,0001 J the increase of emolu-
ments, 14,5001.: of expenses, 31,0001. ; and retired allow-
ances, 7,5671. That was the net amount; and after deduct-
ing all diminutions and all the retired allowances there
wee an increase of about 101,0001. In not less than 20 offices
of departments in the list there was an incieue of salaries
without au increase of the number of persons employed, and
where there was a diminution of six in the numb, rot per-
seas employed there had been an increase of charge to the
amount of 6,0001. Inasmuch a. all these offices had been
placed 24
.years ago under the superintendence of the Tres-
shuj, it
eerhgohlribecresseupveg. 1111 Iteetiatutridentltsathlt the there-
ries had been augmented to the amount of 1,3001. without
any increase in the number of persons employed. In the
Colonial-office there was a small charge of 2221. fur increase
of salaries, but there was a large amount for retired allow-
ances, no less a sum than 4,3231.; and it certainly did appear
very strange that so many gentlemen should have been ren-
dered incompetent, by age or otherwise, in one year. It
was a peculiarity which also applied to the Customs, where
the retired allowances in 1847 amo Anted to 5,6161. In the
Royal Military Asylum there bad been an increase of
them, but he understood from the noble duke (Wellington)
that it had arisen from an excellent arrangement by which
instruction was given to the children of soldiers. There had
also been a great increase in the Admiralty, a part of which
pas for wore after office hours. Whet' he was in that de-
artment he suggested that the clerks might do a little more
work, and he never heard complaints of the work which
they had done in office hours or out of them, whilst the
gentlemen who aniseed him had often worked until one
or two in the morning without elm pay. But there had been
a material change in the class of persons employed
in public offices. No one could look through the lists of
clerks in public offices without seeing among them the
names of individuals highly connected, many of whom
would, no doubt, make excellent officers in the army ; but
he doubted whether they performed their duty u clerks, r
that duty had been fulfilled by perms equally gentle-
men, in the proper meaning of the term, but, at the same
time, who had not been accustomed to so much amusement
as the class now so much employed. (Hear, hear.) la the
Admiralty he found there had been an increase of 16 persons,
whilst tluir increase of salaries amounted to 5,0001. In the
naval and victualling yards at home, although the number
of persons had been diminished, the salaries were increased
by 3,0001. There bad also been a considerable increase in
the naval and victualling yards abroad, although only five
additinal rer bad been employed; mad altogether,
undero thesepu heads, the increase had been about 10,0001.
The increased charge in the customs was not less than
49,0001., whilst the number of persons employed had been aug-
mented by 62. The itemsehowing the increase were Salaries,
1,8571.; emoluments, 16,5001. ; retired allowances, 5,646 i.
and espenses, 26,0731. In the Excise there had been a re-
duction amounting to 6,6%/. In the stamps and taxes
there had been a diminution of purr employed, but an
increase of expenses to the amount of 4,1171. In the Post.
office there had been an increase of persona employed to the
extant of 1,109, and of exmoditure to he amount oi 38,3904 -
.he retired allowances being about 5t,0001. This great i
case in the number of persons employed ;bad taken place
imust be borne in mind, in the year of a general election!
rhe Post-office revenue, taking into consideration the enor-
mous deficit in the traesmarine postage, which anything
millian sterling, could merely bee sad
to produce
and it was necessary that the greatest possible economy
should be observed in that department as well as others. In
the convict establishments there had been an increase of sa-
laries to the amount of 3,3001 , without any increase in the
number ofpersons emplayed. lathe exchequer be found there
was a diminution. Now this, altogether, was surely a state
of things which, especially at a time of unexampled distress,
required some explanation. (Hear, hear.) He hail not
given a definite notice, and he was not, therefore, going to
propose any motion which would excite opposition. that
be lsired at present was a return of the salaries and emote- I
aunts allowed to each person in every department; also a I
return of the increased salaries and emoluments allowed in I
1847, end the number of persons in each establishment at I
the commencement of that year. If that return was not
satisfactory, he should then move that a select committee be
appointed to consider these various charges ; or perhaps,
without a committee, he might move fur a copy of the tor-
respondence between the Treasury and the different depart-
menu respecting such increased charges. (Hear, hear.)
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE had no disposition to
withhold any information on the subject. He concurred
with the noble earl, that there had been a great increase In
the expenditure of the year 1847, and that it was •
ecerebels-
when the meat rigid economy was necessary. No unn
sary appointments, however, had been made, and the great
addition would be found in the Post-office, which hie noble
friend near him would explain. There had been a great
addition to the staff in consequence of the multiplication of
communications with every part of the country. The great
demand had been for persons at very low salaries, and
old ha
had himself only asked his noble friend to appoint an
woman in Wiltshire to the office of a letter wrier with
the
a
eatery of 101. a year. (A laugh.) With respect to
customs, he had a very detailed account of the increased ex-
he
penditure which was too minute for him to detail, but
should not object to its being placed before their lordships.
One great increase in the customs department had arisen
from the appoilitment of officers to examine steamers
arriving at Southampton ; another cause had been the pest
importation of bread stuffs, which had required an addi-
tional number of persons to be employed. There was a coma
mittee at Use moment sitting in the House of Commons to
examine into all this expenditure, and any reform which
that committee could suggest, he was authorised to
state, it would be
out.
(H anxious desire of the
government to carry out. (Hear.) The noble earl had not
adverted to the Inatome in the educational department in
England and Ireland, because he supposed he was satisfied
that it had been necessarily incurred. He could only, in
conclusion, say that every information on the subject should
be furnished ID the most satisfactory shape. (Hear, hear.)
Earl GREY had not received notice of the noble lord's in-
tention to make any specific allusions to the colonial depart-
ment, and he was therefore, prepared to go into figures,
but with relerence to theum charged foe retired allowances,
it was evidently an error, for in the year 1847 there had not
been a single retirine officer tom the Colonlal-office. Mr.
Stephen, whose loss all must deplore, bail retired in the
early. part of this year, but that could not be taken into the
previous year's account. There had been a very large in-
crease in the expenses of the Colonial-office last year, over
which he had no control, it being almost entirely owing
to the incenses in the Poroffice department. la eery
branch of the public service the salaries of the clerks
Nose progressively at the rate of 51. or 101. a year, and there-
fore a nominal return of the thorned' of persona employed
with their increased salaries at the time named, in the form
suggested by the noble lord,oord not conveniently be made;
bat the government was quite ready to give the information
which he w sated in the most convenient way, and there
would be no difficulty in devising the form of ation re-
return
wkich would furnish substantially all the informa
quired. (Hear, hear.)
The Earl of AUCKLAND complained of not haying re-
in-
rived proper notice that the noble earl (Ellenborough)
waded to allude to his department, so as to requite him to
go into an explanation of figures or he should have been
prepared te dose ; but he could say that no incresse hail
taken place in the Admiralty department which had not
been imperatively called for. (Hear, hear.) At Somerset-
house, last year, almost every book was found to be greatly
in arrest, and it wan necessary to employ persons over-time
and extra hands to bring up the arrears ; but every possible
reduction had been made in the number of persons em-
ployed. With regard to the hour during which the clerks
worked, he had often gone from that hour to the Admiralty
at seven o'clock in the evening, and found the clerks then at
work, and the same observations' would apply to Somerset
House. (Hear, hear.) lie should be quite ready to grant
any returns oa the subject of expenditure which the noble
earl might require (Hear, hear.)
The Marquis of CLANRICARDE did not find fault with
the noble earl for calling attention to the increased expendi-
ture of the Post-office • but when he referred to the err fa
which, as he said, the election bad taken place, it would
lure been but fair to refer to former years, to which such an
observation would not apply. (Hear, heoareliewhilet he
did set agree with him that the Post-offir to be in-
stituted toe the purpose of revenue, he well that it
formed a put of the revenue of tin; emery ; aad it would
be well, perhaps, that he should call the attention of the
noble earl le what had been the nett ansaant el the revenue
cif the Pon-office for the leek these In
OA met amounting tor the it had
been 7498421. • bt 1848, SATZ end. la 1847,
104.4951, (Hear, hear.) Armes*, tiny bead that the
dileseses between the year 1844, r mewed with 1846,
wrath of manna of 75,2181.; bat the ingress is
1847, or compitted with 1846, wet 149,3841. (Hear,
11::2
If, therefore, he were tele take the whit earl's tot, hip
brie had right is 1847 Irfoolirtlio, amber of appoint-

meats made in the previous year ;:but how stood the feet ?
In 1846 the additional number of persona employed in the
Poet-office was 1,241, whilst in 1847 the indrawn had bean
only 1,109. Therefore, when the whole net inseam had been
nearly doubled, there were not quite es many persons em-
pWyed as there had been in the previous year. (Hear, Ister.l
He did sot =MD to cut the lout blame ea his predeemeor,
but he merely auctioned the feet to exonerate hiSsall.
The great increase in the number of letters began in 1839-4 h
is
In the latter leer, oonspered with the former, the 'a-
-1 muse in the number of letters bad been 109,000,000, and in
1841 the increase over the previous year was 196,000,000.
Mr. K. Hill the retired freest the office which he held, and it
wen remarkable that the increase lathe number of letters wag
thee set so great, for it fell to 16 per cent., at which net-
nu it continued duriag 1843. Since Mr. Hill's return, the
number of letters had again increseed. In 1844 they had
risen in the ratio of 28 per cent. more than before the radon-
don of the postage; in 1846, 37 per cent., and last year the
proportion had been about 30 per cent. It was right that he
should mention that 400 of the additional persons engened
were employed at receiving-houses, and CO of the number
were messengers. He might also state that 1,300 villages
bad bed deliveries established in them where no such
accommodation carted before. (Hess, hear.) waxedeeply impressed with the necessity of economy in the dted
e-
partment over which he presided, and he might be permit
to say that a great deal might be done in avoiding expense
which it would be difficult to bring before the public. (Hear,
hear.) Whilst the increase in the money .order department
had been at the rata of 12 per cent., the additional expendi-
tare had only been at the rate of 6 per cent. General
economy bad been practisd, considerable saving having been
Idected.in the stationery and other departmens ; and it was
I needless for him to say that the Treasury exercised a strict
seperintendence Over the rost.othce expenditwe. lie had
omitted to mention that a very great increase of newspapers
passing through the Post-office had rendered additional as-
sistance necessary. The noble marquis, in conclusion, ob-
served that he was quite prepared to give any returns whizh
might be rerired on the subject of the expenaiture of the
Post-office. Hear, hear.)
Lord STA LEY said that while it was desirable at all
times that strict guard should be kept over the expenditure
of the public money, there never was a period when it was
so necessary. as in 1847, in which year it appeared that there
had been an Increase in the net expenditure of the public de-
partments amounting to 110,0001. The ezplanations which
had been given might be very satisfactory to the noble lords
who had made them, but it did not follow the country would
be as well pleased as the noble lords seemed to be. They had
each stated that they were wholly unprepared to explain the
figures in the abetract which had been refenotice rred tcoo ; buhave
t he
could not conceive that a more ample uld
been given than that which his noble friend had put on the
paper, and the noble lords ought to have been prepared to
discuss every item. Instead of which, the noble marquis,
with the exception of two items and the appointment of an
old woman—(A laugh)—did not go into any particular,
being content generally to state that be was raddled no
charge had been made which could be r
v avoided con
satisfactosistent
with public economy. That be ey ry
to the noble marquis, but it was no reason why
the public should be content with such a declaration.
His noble friend the Secretary for the Colonies showed by
his explanation that he knew as little as his colleagues.
What he stated amounted to this, that the 4,3231. alluded to
by his noble friend (Lord Ellenborough) was for retired
allowances, and not an increased charge for postage—the fact
being that only one person had retired, whole allowance b
longed to the accounts of 1848 and net to 1847. He believed
also that considerable alteration had been made in the emi-
gration-office, which was included in the colonial returns.
Then came the noble lord at the head of the Admiralty, who
accounted for the increased expenditure by saying that owing
to peat negligence on the part of the clerks the department
had got into such a state of disorganisation and confusion
that it became necessary to brine up the arreetr by making
those clerks work extra hours, for which they received extra
pay. Respecting the customs he (Lord Stanley) had net
heard a word of explanation, although one would suppose
that the removal of duties from such a number of articles
as had recently taken place would have materially diminish-
ed the expenditure on that head. But he found, on the con-
trary, that in the year 1847 there had been an ircreasb of
sixty-two persons ; an increase in the salaries of 1,8.571. ; in
the emoluments of 16,5001.; in retired allowances of 5,6161. ,
of 25,0001. in "expense'." whatever that meant; and 49,0771. I
in the expense of collection. (Hear, hear.) He did not
think the explanation of the noble marquis respecting the
Pest•office satisfactory. Last year there was an increase of
1,200 persons, and this year he said it was only 1,100; but
he seemed to forget that the total increase was 23,000 over the
numberemployedtwo yearsago. (The Marquis of Clanricanie
made s remark which did not reach us.) Oh, if the noble mar-
quis assured term that that would be accompanied by a corm*
pending increase in the revenue of the post-office and like-
wise in the accommodation afforded to the public, certainly
no objection could be taken to the exercise of so valuable an
amount of patronage. (Hear, and a laugh.) lie would sug-
gest to his noble friend not to ask their lordships to vordsh ote
upon his motion in its present form but as their lipal
and the public were entitled to the fullest intormation on the I
subject, he hoped his noble friend would demand the fullest
return that could be made, by a motion to the form of which
no objection could be made, in order that they might have a
full and satisfactory statement of the case, and the causes
of this increased expenditure to the country.
lAA AUCKLAND having said a few words in explana-
tion,
Lord ELLENBOROUGH withdrew his motion, stating
that he would confer with the noble marquis (Lansdowne)
on the subject of it, in compliance with the suggestion of his
noble friend.
Their lordships then adjourned at a quarter before 7
o'clock.
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depriving it of facilities of . approach. to the har-
bou of Lymingtou and Christchurch,' and he adds,
"whyhy at this time it should be allowed to exist is
inexplicable.'Certainly the existence of the New Forest would
be inexplicable upon any rational estimate of the uses
and value of landed property ; but when we see
gentlemen sacrificing thew own property
we
to the
puerile purpose of preserving game, perhap the
s
ought not to be surprised to see the property of
public devoted to a preserve for aristocratic rangers
and gamekeepers.
A few facts from the returns will explain why this
property is retained in its present useless and unpro-
ductive state. There is no great quantity of game in
the New Forest, for game cannot be reared in large
numbers on uncultivated land ; and the stock of deer
' is only 3,552, of which, in 1846, there were killed 102
bucks, and 857 does. And here let us note that if
cornorest were brought into cltivation, besides the
and pulse, there should begat least 30,000 sheep
fed on the land now devoted to the maintenance of
less than lour thousand deer. And to look after them
11 deer we find there is first a Lord \%arden, the Duke
11 of CAMBRIDGE, whose " fees, emoluments, and per-
lquisites," are twelve fat bucks annually. Whether
his royal highness should he called upon to surrender
his fat bucks, or should receive a compensation,would
obviously be a matter of little importance either
to himself or the public. Next, there are 13Simaster-
keepers, namely, B. MORANT GATE, Esq.,
ROSE, Lord PALMERSTON, Lieut.-General ROBBINS,
M. MUNRO, Eel, the Earl of MALMENBURY, WM.
HANS SLOANE TANLEY, Esq., KP. BUCKLEY, Eeq.,
G. E. BYRE, Esq., Capt. AITCHESON, Prince GEORGE
of CAMBRIDGE, Got. BERKELEY DRUMMOND, and H.
C. COMPTON, jun., Esq. 'these officers are appointed by
the Lord Warden, and their " perquisites" are two fat
bucks per annum. Of course these offices are merely I
honorary, conferring, we presume, certain rights of 1
sporting, the compensations for which could neither
be onerous to the public no: important to the
1" master-keepers." No one can suppose that the in-
terests of the master-keepers would present any
ob-
stacle to the improvement of the New Forest. There
are four verderere appointed by the freeholders of the
county ; two rangers, A. It. DRUMMOND, Eeq., and
Viscount CANNING, with salaries of 21. 13s. 4d. and a
fat buck per annum ; and a " bow-bearer," BUGLE
Ross, Esq., with 2/. yearly and a fat buck, appointed
by the Lord Warden.
Next we come to the salaried officers, the staff of
the forest, to whom is intrusted the important duty
of watching the three thousand five hundred deer.
First, there is the Lord Warden's steward, Mr.
TUOMAS WHITE, who occupies the QUEEN'S house,
Lyndhurst, and seven acres of land, and re-
ceives, as salary and prrquisites, a year
and a fat buck. Next a deputy surveyor— who
is the surveyor does not appear—Lieut.-Colonel
THORNHILL, whose residence is New Park, Lynd-
hurst, who receives the salary of 3501. per annum,
and has as perquisites " keep for three horses and
two cows and a fat buck yearly." There is an
assistant deputy surveyor, who has a salary of
2001. a year. What the deputy sill veyor and the
assistant deputy surveyor could find to do officially,
seeing that there is no timber to be felled and no
farms to be surveyed, somewhat puzzled us. But on I
looking at another return we find that from the year,
1837 to 1846, both inclusive, there have been 108
acres, 1 r00d,14 perches of the forest land sold for
sums amounting altogether to 2,0321. I la. 2d., and
the preparation and arrangement of these sales have
doubtless formed the sum total of the onerous duties
of these well paid surveyors. As a matter of arithme-
tical curiosity, we may mention that their salaries for
the ten years during which they have been oc-
cupied in these arduous services have amounted to'
5,5001. The purchase money received for these lands
has been applied in part " in discharging the expenses
of maintaining the forest." These surveyors are
appointed by the Commissioners of the Woods and
k orests.
There are some minor offices, whose emolu-
ments are trifling. Now, here we have a valuable
property so applied ea to be absolutely uselesi
and unproductive : a large number of persons em-
ployed to watch a scanty herd of deer; a vast wil-
derness perpetuated in one of the best climates and
situations on the south coast of England. A compa-
ratively few acres, when sold, would furnish the
means of compensating all the persons now officially
employed in the New Forest, and a large balance re-
main for public purposes. And this is a sample of
what is now made and what might be done with the
other woods and forests.

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Tue Provisional Government of France encounters
the difficulties of most or of all governments. It has
not only horrified the Louis-Philippists and frightened
the bourgeoisie, but discontented the clubs. The latter
is a good sign. The gentlemen of the clubs were de-
termined not to put up with neglect, and they
therefore have prepared a " demonstration," which
common rumour has dignified into a conspiracy, for
the purpose of ejecting from the government its more
moderate members.
Those threatened, fortunately got wind of the pro-
ceedings, and the entire of the Provisional Govern-
ment have unanimously determined on the mode of
meeting it and of obviating such movements in future.
Their first determination, and a most salutary one,
is the establishment of a civic guard. It is only to
consist of 1,500 men. But it is important, when we
know, that such an establishment had hitherto been
opposed by the mare democratic members of the
government, who preferred trusting to the support of
the people. Now, however, all feel the expediency of a
civic police. Some one hundred desperate men might
at a chosen moment effect a coup de main, and
stifle the Provisional Government and the republic

GERMANY.
PRINCE METTERNICH.
SAXONY.—The statement taken from the Ger-
man journals, to the effect that Prince Metternich
had arrived at the chateau of Rheineck on the Rhine,
a short distance from his own residence of Jot:tenni:
berg, turns out to have been unfounded. The Prince
jindfledin the very opposite direction. The Leipsig
'Deutsche Allgememe /eitung of the 28th, under the
date of Dresden, the 26th, says that Prince Metter.
nick, with his princess, had arrived in the Saxon
capital during the previous night, and started in the
first train to Leipzig that morning. He would aot,
however, touch at Leipzig, but leave the station
nearest to it, and go from thence to Schkeuditz, then
by the next train to Magdeburg and llamburg, taro
finally to England. He inscribed himself in the
fremde bitch (strangers' book) under the name of Harr
N. Meyer and lady and suite, merchant, from Grits.
The resignation of the Prince, his departure from
Vienna, and subsequent journey, are thus danalid
in the Courier von and fir Deutschland:
Prince Mettersich, who arrived on the morning sr cgs
14th inst. at the station of the Gloggnits Railway under fig
e,c,rt of 60 hussars, went by rail to Wiener Neustadt, ad
from that to Frohldorf, where, apparently, he hoped to gm
a refuge. His expectations were not realised, however, and
he then fled tc,,Feldsperg, one of the seats of Prince ugh.
tensteio, on the frontiers of Moravia, and subsequently's
his own property Kopstein. The ex-Chancellor of State
stuck to the last moment to his old system. As the demo,
tion of citizens on the evening of the 13th &mead
at the court' they passed through a suite of room
into a spacious hall, where Archduke John re
mired them. As the speaker of the deputation depicts;
the unfortunate state of affairs, and urged the necessity of a
speedy decision on the part of the government, As
duke John quieted them, by ailing that the first measles
would be the resignation of Prince Metternich. AA
these words Prince Metternich came out of the adjoin.
room,in which all the archdukes and ministersha &sandhi
to deliberate, and leaving the door open he said in a load
tone, " I will not resign, gentlemen. No, I will not resign:.
Archduke John, upon this, without answering the prince,
repeated what he had said, and cried in en earnesttone, "As
At
Itimehavewardsad tyhetoplrdinyceoue,xdParitseed Minetateniich r
tone
ofes greaienst..".dis.
scent, " What ! Is this the return I now get fee my 50 vow
*avian?" At these words all the men forming the hag,
, eouncil broke out into a loud laugh, which seemed to
annihilate the unfortunate statesman. It was • laugh
rising directly from those democratic elements and moral power
which he had obstinately refused to acknowledge, and which
baked coerced, and which had now throw n hire from the height
which he had attained. The generosity evinced by the
people towards the hated minister may be judged from the
fact, that neither the palace of the State Chancery on the
Ballplats, where he resided, nor the new palace on the
Rennweg were destroyed. Not even a single window was
broken in the Chancery, because it is the property of the state,
nor in the palace on the Rennweg, because it had been bathe
the princess. The only place belonging to the ex-chanotfilor
which was attacked was the celebrated Metternich villa 011
the Rennweg, which was furnished with the splendour of a
Lucullus, and in the park cf which the celebrated diplo-
matic fife w as given, and then only the doors and a few of
the apartments were laid waste.
AUSTRIA.—The Vienna Gazette of the 23th

says:
An address of the English residents at Vienna to the
Austrians has excited the deepest emotion among all claims
of our capital, and has confirmed the lively sympathy um
prevailing among the educated classes of our country for the
noble Britons, those first-bora eons of liberty among the
great nations of Europe. The universal joy which thk
warm and honourable acknowledgment of our service
during the events of the late momentous week has earned
has greatly increased by the fact, which we cannot comal
from ourselves, that the English constitution, with itemize
servative fundamental pillars, its inviolable attachment
to the royal dynasty, and the gradual silent development of
public affairs in a legitimate manner, ought to be our model
, and shall be kept in view as worthy of our imitation in the
new constitutional arrangement of our empire. Therefin,
we cordially grasp the hand of friendship which has bun
held out by you, ye brave strangers of the mighty sea get
empire, and return our heartfelt thanks that you haveled
the way to help us to enter upon the hitherto untrodda
path of our newly achieved liberty, and to encouno le
, with your profound experience asburghers of a glorioushad,
which in these stormy times has stood firm and unshakenand
, deem us worthy of your all. important approbation. We
cnot at the same time refrain from expressing
zeal of them
our Lasers.
tanion at the political a isdom and indefatigable z
men who now sit in the council of her Britannic blejlety,
and wield the destiny of that great empire with such erns.
ordinary prudence and skill. Once more our cordial dunks
are due to you, ye noble sons of England, who Were the
first to break silence, and t
am hold out the right hand of E.
lowship. May these first of the untettered pews d
Austria penetrate to your blessed island, t
ourtec phee
of legitimate liberty, and may it bring to y fellow-ou-
trymen the happy intelligence that millions of men (*.welling*
the banks of the Danube, who for ages had been condemned
to silence, had their tongues unloosened, and were seamed
to new life on the 13th of March.
A letter from Presburg, March 24, says : " Yeti
day the Prince Count Ludwig Bathyany made known
the names of the new ministers antalon Szerone,
Interior; Prince Charles Esterhazy, Foreign Main;
Louis Kossuth, Finance; Meszaros, War; Coed
Stephen Tzechenyii, Communication; Baron Joseph
Eotvos, Religion ; Gabriel Klanzal, Trade and Mast-
facture; Franz Drak, Justice.
The law relative to the Jews was liberal, yet on.
derate in the fundamental principle ; equal rights are
expressed, without which the welfare of the country
cannot be consolidated, but the practical working of
these bases cannot be carried out till the Christians
are emancipated from their civic prejudioes
and the Jews, on the other hand, shall hare
rendered themselves worthy of their equalisation by
their moral improvement. The debased excesses d
several persons here cannot be contemplated witbosit
the greatest indignation.
The burgher guard of Presburg has been obliged
to issue a proclamation, stating that in order to pe.
vent further excitement the admission of the lead.
Res into the national guard is suspended until the
laws on this point shall have changed. A Wig
proclamation stated that the Jews had of their own
accord quitted the ranks of the national guard.
The Presburg Gazette of the 22nd containe adobe
ration of the assembled Diet, stating that the F.!
Diet was not convoked for the purpose of a dais
execution of those projects of law, which amble.
pensable to the national welfare. That on theses
teary, the Chamber of Representeives was persesid
that after it should have legally declared the •
ciples in conformity with which the reproach*,
system is to be founded, it should refer to the Mile
be held at Peath in the course of a few walk
the creation of all those loans which relate espial!
to the guarantees of internal peace and national SOP
dom, and which do not call for immediate mesons
That the present Diet decrees the following points a
demanding prompt attention.
1. The legal determination and consolidation of the sal
government system of the responsible ministry. 2. !YI
manner and procedure of the co-ordination of the Diet tela
I shortly held at Beath, according to the fundamental. Pie
ciples of the popular representative system 3. The MVP
duction of general taxation and the equalisation of pa*
1 burdens upon the inhabitants of the kingdom. 4. 111
abolition of claims of private landowners for indemnifies.'
Iby the state. 5. The immediate constitution of the se
tional guard for the maintenance of internal pesos tin
liberty. G. The guarantee for the liberty of the pees
with abolition of the censorship, and the introductio ol
trial br jury.
TYROL.—At Insprack, a manifestation ageing
the Jesuits took place. A shower of stones, am&
most horrible imprecations, broke the windows d
the convent. Benjanimo Siegwart Moller, the hir
leader of the Sonderbund, having fallen under chi
hands, was severely beaten.
PRUSSIA.—We have received the journals of*
28th. The magistrates have issued a proclamatea
stating that, in order to prevent any misunderstasS
log, they have been commanded to make known del
admission into the mounted burgher's gaard involve
the condition of the poeseasion of a horse, as well 0
the equipment and the maintenance of the horse a
the expense of the individual.
WURTEMBERG.—The town of M'artemhal
ha
ys been thrown into consternation and moversidi
b the bruited approach of a band of democrats beS
Franoe. A letter from Tubingen, of the 24th, ofk,
mates them at 20,000 ; one from Ulm, of the 256,1
40,000. These exaggerated statements have ma.
all Wnrtemberg to arms, and spread t gold
alarm. The alarm is completely unfoundehe
d, however
and an official order, dated Carleruhe the 26th lasts
makes a statement to that effect.
BAVARlA.—Letters from Munich state, that Dr,
Willich goes as Bavarian envoy to the Diet. Bring.
Wallerstein was not to take office, but to go to I
fcoieeT minion. The Augsburg Garotte discoeses.ol.
expediency of electing a German emperor, but tom'
I ea the pretensions of the King of Prussia.
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I DIVONPOST ELECTION.—Mr. Romilly, the 2111
elidbx-Oenartl, has tamed an address to the votem, p 1
eggattion lie his roamed= is anticipated. The rioano"
ie exposed to take glue on Monday.
CMAIIMMT NAMDMILL CONVIXTIOII.—At I 13110
ing Mins Ins italli sarket-pleow in Leeds, on W
day ma* ilk flamM
_O'Conncsr, 24. P., and Mr. a!!!
BI it Leeds weee eppointed deleget_sq;
Leeds *MINK lb, Char4at Convention to be btu&
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