The Express.
London, England, 1847-07-27 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 27, 1847.

to make a stand for these priees, as a purchase of about
1,000 kook, or 140 tons, has been made for Ragland or
Ireland, at a price corresponding with the last-named
figure ; or, including shipping charges and commission,
equal to about 81. per ton gross Eighth weight, free
on board here. Wheat, of good quality, is scarce, and for
611*. red, consumers are paying equal to about 78s. 641.
per qr. There is nothing whatever doing for output ship
ment. Barley and Oats without inquiry or offers. Rape-
seed is being cut in these districts at present, and the quality
promises well, as also the quantity. Prices will apparently
epee high, as the German crushers show a great deal of in-
clination to purchase ; and if good Lower Elbe or west coast
can be had at about 261. to 261. 10s., these will, we presume,
be the lowest prices for the present. There continue to be
buyers for new Danish, at about 265. 10s., but no sellers yet ;
eld Danish seed might probably be had at this price. Rape-
oil quiet, at 345. 6d. for immediate shipment, and 366. 3d. fur
October. Clorerseed : There is nothing doing in white, which
is held firm, however, at from 265. to 465. for commonest to
beat new seed. In red some purchases have been made for
France, at 345. 6d. to 337. 61. for fine Bahamian and best
Silesian.

Atexwestr, JULE 23.—A fresh decline in the prices of groin
has occurred in all oar markets. This has been occasioned
by the magnificent appearance of the crops, which in the
south are secured. In the first days of August the harvesting
will be universal, and the result appears to be more
favourable than has been known for many years.
Beurric, JULY 10.—The weather continues favourable
to the harvest. Prices in the Corn market are lower and
firmer: arrivals of Rye considerable, chiifiy sold for home
consumption, the remainder for exportation.
HAMBURO,.JULT 23.—Not much doing in the corn mar-
ket, except in Rye, in which, as might have beenlexpeeted,
there is again a great fall in the price, although many sellers
make a moat determined stand. Our foreign trade is not
very active at present.
KONIGSBERG, JULY 16.—We are quite bare of stock of
all descriptions of grain. Oats could perhaps be got at 20s.
per qr, free on board. Of Wheat we expect, in the course of
next week, about2,ooo lasts from Bohemia, which is said to
be of fine quality ; and it will depend upon foreign account
at what price it can be bought-believed to be about 565. to
, 675. per qr.
LEGHORN, JULY 15.—There is not much doing in Wheat;
for delivery in September there would be sellers of Polish
and Marianopoli fine at 46e. lid.

ODESSA, JULY s.—Quantities of corn are offered at re-
duced prices, but there is no ready sale. Only about 6,000
chetwerts of Wheat have been sold,and 40,000 of Rye within
the lest four days. Our store amount' to about--Wheat,
756,000; Maize, 14,000; Rye, 65,000; Oats, 26,000; Bar-
ley, 5,000; Linseed, 42,000 chetwerts.
PALERMO, Jinx 16.-1.7 p to this moment there is nothing
said uto the opening of the ports in this kingdom. We
have ne alteration to quote in the price of Beans, and until
the article comes down more freely to the shipping places,
I we cannot expect to see a fall in price.
PESTIL JCLY 11.—The harvest is favoured by the finest
weather, and &Rhona the crops are not everywhere equal
in quantity, it is certainly above the general medium, and
the quality of the new corn which hes been brought to mar-
ket is as fine as it can be.

Rosvocx, JULY 19.—1 n some parts the Wheat crops have
been laid by heavy rain, but, in general, we expect a very
abundant harvest. Oats have suffered much from the dry
weather.

SterriN, JULY 19.—0 f Wheat our stocks are very much
reduced, and the estimated quantity left in granary is about
five cargoes.

Sr. irreßanuno, JULY 17.—Notbina doing in Wheat.
Rye has been sold in various parcels at 23r. to 23Sr. Rye
Flour is almost nominal.

HOPS.— BOROUGH MARKET. Two o'Clock.—
Memo. Pattenden and Smith, Hop factors, report that there
is no alteration in the market.

Hid .9 Pam Keats. p.cWt. N. 110.944.0 Tesrllng Kest.— p. evrt.ll. tto It. 5
Weeld pi Lou . 4 4 101 9 Y44411ag yucca..„ 111 to 311
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Woticasrsa, JULY 26.—We cannot report any improve-
ment in our plantation during the week. Opinions and beta
are freely offered against 5,0001. duty for the district. The
planters will not sell, nor even pat a price upon their Hope,
and the high duty estimated for the kingdom intimidates
purchasers, so that we have nothing doing on the market.
- -•

M AIDETONE,JULT 26.—The Hops are going on exceedingly
well, and coming forward fast. There is burr to belfuund
almost everywh,!re.—CßlNPßOOK : The bine here is gene-
rally in a growing state, although we have a considerable
deal of vermin, besides honey-dew at places. It is expected,
if the fine weather continues, that the foul pieces will im-
prove mush.—IGHTH VA AND SEAL : The Hops are gene-
rally looking well, having grown rapidly during the late
warm weather, except in some few low situations, where
the vermin still continue.—GOI:DHURST : A very great
improvement in general has taken place in the bine,
which is now throwing out shoots to a great extent,
The vermin is disappearing. There is a better
prospect for a crop than for some time past.
: We have no hesitation in quoting a great
improvement in our Hops; still some pieces are very foul and
abort of burr. On the whole, we show fair for a good crop.—
CANTERBURY : The Hops in this neighbourhood have made
considerable pragrem during the past week, and those
grounds which have exhibited a deficiency of bine are fast
improving. At present little mischief has been sustained by
vermin in any part of the district. The only drawback on
their prospect of an abundant crop is a shortness of bine.

WOOL.—Ara FAIR.—A few parcels were sold
in retail, as follows Slut-faced, laid, 84. ; black-faced, white,
washed, 10s. 6d.; erased, Leicester, and black-raced, washed,
10.. 6d. per stone of 24Ibs. Generally, the quality of the
Wool was excellent.
MESSIER FAlR.—About hid( the Wool offered was sold
at prices varying from 10s. to 301. per tod.
LEWES FAlL—About seventy Wool buyer, grower, and
persons int,rested in the Wool market, sat down to an ex-
cellent dinner. Up to six o'clock, not a sale had been
effected ; but, before the close of the fair, Mr. John Ellmat
sold hi. Wool at 335. 4d. per tod. and Mr. Hodgson got the
same price. Several other sales were effected at from 325.
to 33.. per tod.
Turrrono FAIR.—ARer several ineffectual attempts at
selling between the farmers and buyers, the following sales
were made :—Mr. Wilson sold his in the lumps for 304. to
Mr. Tyson ; Sir W. Folkes sold at 28s. and 3d.. to Mr. Hud-
son; Mr. Partridge sold to Mr. Tyson at 28s. all round. On
the whole very little business was done, the farmers pre-
ferriog to keep their Wool rather than submit to the terms
offered by the buyers.
HAY:

Tito o'Clock.—Meegre. Cooper
and Davis, Hay and Straw Salesmen, report trade very
bad.
Priebe Ifeadow. 708. to TU. I Now ato a Qn. v .. TU. to 93..
Inferior
Cloy.. sew. a: a

CATTLE, B.:c.—DONCASTER, JULY 24.—We had a
a fair supply of Beasts and Sheep. Cows and Calm from
Si. to 171. A moderate show of Pigs, at last week's prices.

EXETER, JULY 23.—The number ef Lambs was very
large, end prices varied from 21s. to 261. There were net
many fat Sheep ; a small lot of five sold for 385., estimated
at from 1616. to 1816. per qr., or 61d. per lb. There wero
several larger lots, for which full 71d. was asked, but we
believe wo may quote 7d. as the real selling figure. Calves
were a short supply, and Veal kept up to last week's quo-
Wiens.

NORWICH, JULY 24.-OUr market exhibited a tolerable
show of Soots and short-fiorns, with an excellent drove of
Devout, and a few Duteh Cattle. Trade was quite as good,
and on the whole a little better prospect, at lest week's
prices. Fat Bessie a very small show ; trade good at Ba. 6d.
to 9s. per stone of 141b5., end all sold. The pens were well
filled. Lambs were in good demand; prime, 30s. to 325. ;
big and fresh, 26e. to 28. ; poor and ordinary, 20s. to 21e.
per head. Keeping Sheep in good demand, at from 31s. to
40s. per head, and all sold. Ewes of all ages both scarce
and dear. Fat Sheep a fair show ; prices Bs. 6d. to 9s. per
stone of 141bs. Store Pigs, 20a. to 245. per head. Fat Pork,
7e. 6d. to Bs. per atone.
SWINDON, JULY 26.-Tn lean Bouts the trade was (brisk.
Store Herons, Herefords, Short-horns. and other Beset sold
at from 101. to 141. each; small do., 71. to 101. ; a good num-
ber of Cows and Heifers, which fetched very great prices, acme
as high as 171. to 181. Large weaned Calves, from 21 to
4!. ; small do., 295. to 30e. Stock Sheep, best Wether, 609.
to 66e.; Ewe:, from 454. to 645, Lambs, 30e. to 400. Fat
stock, Beast, best, I Is. to lls. 6d. per score; common,
10s. 63. Sheep, best fat Wethers, be. per stone; moderate
quality, 41. 4d. to 4,. Bd. ; inferior, 4e. Lambs, from 6s. 4(1.
to 6s. Calve*, from 101. to 10s. 6d. per score. Fat Hogs
and Pigs, 10s. 6d. to 11,.

For Yetlerday's Markets see Au! page.

SIIIPPING.

Matte ARILIVID.—DubIin, 3; Waterford,2 ; Donaghadee,
1; French, 1; Flanders, 1.
LONDON, July 27. Winn this day at noon, N.W.,
light breeze, and fine clear weather.
PORTSMOUTH. July 26. N.N.E. Arrived: H.M.S. '
Iris, Penang. Sailed: Southampton, Calcutta. Off port:
Roslia Castle, Quebec ; lingo Orotius. New York.
OFF PORTLAND, July 22.—Sanspereil, Havannals ; Anna
Margsreth, Surinam, for Amsterdam.
Ors 11•YLE —Victoria, Quebec.
MUMBLES, July 24.—Arrived: Eagle. Quebec.
MARTPORT, July 26.—Sally, St. John's, N.B. ; Jane,
Reatigouche.
Coats, July 24.—Variable.—Arrived Davenport, New
York. Sailed: Indian, Barbadoes. OR Port: Marmion,
Baltimore, for Limerick. The wreck of the brig Napoleon, i
timber laden, water-logged, and bowsprit only standing, was
passed, 20th lost., about 160 miles W.S.W. of Cape Clear,
by the Logan, arrived here.
DEAL, JD'S, 26.—N.R. by E., fresh.—Arrived Letitia,
Baltimore ; William Forster, Nassau; Resolution, Quebec;
• • ' New York. ancl Acaod fir Antwerp. Arrived
Intletattgatr.,, . - • '" _
froth the river and sailed: Emma Watt, New York ; Nestor,
Calcutta.
0 toucierrest, July 26.—N.W.—Arrived: Alvarado, New
Orleans.
BRIDGEWATER, July 21. Arrived: William Miller,
Quebec.
PORT TALBOT, July 2-I.—S.W.—Arrived Richard Cob-
den, Wallace, N.S.
SWANSEA, July 26.—N.E.—Arrived: Eagle, Quebec.
Orr Doyen, July 26. Ina, Quebec.
Hutt, JULY 26.—W., light —Arrived Douglas, New
York.
DRAL.—Arrived from the river, and Emerald Isle,
Cape and Madras; Arena, St. Thomas'e. Arrived : Thomas,
St. John's, N.B.

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LONDON, TUESDAY, JULY 27.
IF England, in its long history, has a prominent
characteristic, it is the determination of its national
mind at all times to be, in political acts and feelings,
independent of sacerdotal influences. From the days
of the nolumus kges Anglia mutari this has been an
English principle. Nor has it proceeded from any
indifference towards religion, but, on the contrary,
from a conviction that the interests of religion itself
are best consulted and provided for by those who
take a lay view of them. We do not believe that any
religion or any sect ever fell completely under the
guidance of its ministers, without that religion or that
sect immediately declining. The church of Rome is
a striking instance. The self-destruction of the great
nonconformist party in this country, and its inability
to hold power, even after having beaten all rivals out
of the field, is as striking. In the worldly and political
affairs of a church, lay wisdom is indispensable, un-
disturbed by that spiritual zeal which must and ought
to be the attribute of the churchman.

One of the great safeguards of the church of Eng-
land is, that it has a strong lay spirit in its members
to counteract the ultra-ecclesiastical one, and prevent
it from committing blunders and acting under the
mere influence of fanaticism. The great failing of
the dissenters seems to be, that they who have taken
such precautions against being priest-ridden, do,
though they have no bishop to dread, still fall un-
consciously under clerical influence, and act and think,
not like men of the world, but like an ecclesiastical
synod. Their zealots are not so wild as the church
of England zealots in political dictation ; but, on the
other hand, the good sense and moderation of laymen
in tempering each fanaticism are not so evident.
In what a position is their altogether sacerdotal ran-
cour against state education and a Manchester bishopric
hurrying a portion of them! They are literally drawing
a marked line between endowment and non-endow-
ment, and pushing and provoking all those creeds,
however opposite, which unite in desiring a perma-
nent provision for their clergy, to combine against a
common enemy. The "Nonconformist" reckons the
number of members likely to be returned in England
in its interest, and they amount to forty-three. And
it would take its stand on this exclusive little coterie
of forty-three, in order to attack and disendow the
church of England, instead of appealing to the good
sense and friendly feelings of the great liberal party,
which is both determined and able to protect the dis-
senters in all essentials ; provided indeed the dissenters
do not prefer embarking, in a corsair bark by them-
selves, which is to sail about, half mercenary, half
belligerent, selling their aid now to whig, now to tory,
each time for some special favour to their sacerdotal
jealousy or interests.
The religious interests of the empire are divided
into three distinct parties, just as political interests
are. It requires the junction of two of these parties
to give them preponderance and power. If the
nonconformists choose to make war simultaneously
upon the church of England and the church of Rome,
they must take the consequences, which will turn out
to be perilous and strange: In our opinion, the sole
way of combating the influence of Rome is for
protestant churches to have a clear and fair under-
standing of their common interests, to lend a hand to
their mutual efficiency, and to aid each other zealously
and amicably in such tasks as popular education.
They may depend upon it that their antagonism and
quarrels, by neutralising the means which pro-
testantism has of winning the rising generation of the
lower classes, would be but a delivering up of that
citadel, the minds of the people, to an enemy equally
menacing to both, which is augmenting inwisdom,and
in power, and in liberality, whilst protestant churches
are decreasing in all. There are, however, ample signs
throughout the country that the great body of the
dissenters are not carried away by the madness of
high priests, who have set up their pulpit in the
press. We may. appeal to what is passing at the
election of Norwich for a proof, where the rational
liberalism of Mr. PETO is supported by the most
eminent and oldest of the dissenters against the wild
fury of the followers of !MALL and LIAISES.
When we talk of combating catholicism, of course
we mean combating it in the fair field of argument,
by enlightenment, by education, by efficiency iu the
pastoral organisation of protestant churches. We
would not combat it by shedding night over May-
nooth, nor commit the gross blunder of imagining
that we diminished the power and authority of the
Irish priesthood by making them altogether de-
pendent on the poorest and most ignorant of the
populations of Europe. We have but to look to the
addresses of leading candidates of all parties to see
what this has produced. Read what Lord JOHN
RUSSELL has said to the electors of London, what Sir
ROBERT PEEL has said to those of Tamworth, and
what Lord GEORGE BEN TINCK uttersto his constituents
at Lynn. The latter would endow the Irish catholic
priesthood out of Irish land, that land nine-tenths of
which is in the hands of protestants, and given to
them because they were protestants. Of what use is
it agitating a fanatic tail, when every successive head
of the tory party is compelled by the exigency of cir-
cumstances and of the empire to entertain and avow
the same idea ?

In no place in England arc anti-popery feelings
stronger than in Liverpool. In no part of the empire
have candidates been obliged to be so full and so
frank as in Liverpool. Not a question there has been
omitted, not a topic slurred. The currency, the
navigation laws, and thoee many subjects on which
even London candidates have been able to maintain a
discreet silence, have been, in Liverpool, the objects of
interrogatories on the part of electors, of explanation
on the part of candidates. Yet even here Lord
Inns MANNERS and Mr. CARDWELL alike refuse to
take the pledge of anti-catholic endowment. And in
all large and respectable constituencies the anti-en
dowment, anti-education party have been reduced to
take for candidates men very much wanting either in
intellect or in character. They may depend upon it,
that their being reduced to this is owing to some
egregious fault in their own policy and their own
conduct.

There are people, however, who will pers,st in
thinking that a cause may be served by its
rejecting a Lord JOHN RUSSELL, and espousing
a Mr. WHITTLE HARVEY. With such, it would
be quite idle to argue. Bat we trust that
very few so preposterous will be to be found in
London, or even in Marylebone or Middlerex. The
true wisdom is to entrust the cause of religious liberty
to the old defenders of it, in conjunction with civil
liberty. Lord Jolly RUSSELL, Lord D3DLEY SWART,
Lord ROBERT GROSVENOR, are names that guarantee
both. Some object to their being lords. But if their
being such should be no claim, it should certainly be
no bar. The circumstance does not prevent those
from being the most liberal and most influential re-
presentatives that the metropolis and its vicinity
could return.

WE believe few

have tended more

strongly to discourage attempts at reducing the
con-
fused bulk of our laws to system and simplicity than
the practical failure of the Criminal Law Commission
lt stinnosea ,••• - • - •
is. most eminent
lawyers, acting with the authority of government, and
certain of the ready concurrence of parliament, have
allowed many years to pass over without completing
the task of framing a plain and simple code of cri-
minal jurisprudence and procedure, it is hopeless to
attempt to reduce the more difficult heads of law into
system, or to remove the difficulties, contradictions,
and abuses which everywhere beset them. We believe
that this impression is wholly unfounded, and that a
vigorous and determined minister, who could find
time, like NAPOLEON, to share personally in the delibe-
rations of the jurists whom he must employ, would find

that it was possible in a definite time to comprise
within a reasonable spece a new code of laws, which
should contain everything valuable which is now
scattered in fragmentary statutes and in innumerable
judicial decisions. A determined 'will is the great
requisite. A staff of lawyers who understand logic
and grammar might, without difficulty, be obtained
to do the actual work.
Probably the eminence of the members of the
Criminal Law Commission some of whom are now
on the bench, may have been the reason of their in-
efficiency. Lawyers in great practice can give but
casual attention to any business unconnected with the',
daily calls of their profession. If one or two of them
had been instructed, with an adequate fee, to give
opinions successively on all the main points of the
criminal law, as if the questions to be decided had arisen
in practice, we have no doubt that the government
would have been in possession in a few months of the
most valuable part of their lucubration. The com-
mission did, however, after many years of incubation,
produce a statement of the actual criminal law as it
stands ; and this, as we have often said, is the first
and indispensable step to the preparation of an im-
proved code. It was perhaps less important than it
would be in any other department of jurisprudence,
because the criminal law, with all its faults, is the
easiest, simplest, and best administered of all branches
of our legal system. Mr. Greaves's edition of " Rus-
sell on Crimes," together with " Archbold's Criminal
Pleading," contain neatly all that is known or that
can be known on the subject. We think, however,
that the commissioners were right in undertaking the
preliminary labour of ascertaining what the actual
law is. Having done so, we fear they are not likely
to confer any farther service on the community
worthy either of their high character or of the un-
precedented length of their period of gestation.
Yet it seems to us that nothing would be easier than
to clear the criminal law of the absurdities which
partially disfigure it. It is, we have said, the best
part of our law, and it is on the whole well adminis-
tered. Whatever may be the defect of trial by jury
in civil cases, no tribunal is so well adapted to crim-
p nal justice. In nine cases out of ten no point of law
arises on the trial of a prisoner ; and the facts are
such that common sense is better suited than any
professional acuteness to decide on their true bearing.
It is impossible, moreover, not to observe that
jurors are more strictly conscientious, more
attentive to the literal observance of their oaths,
iu deciding criminal than civil issues. Their
errors, arising sometimes from mistaken humanity,
sometimes from individual perverseness, have often

been severely and justly censured by the press; but
we believe that inadequate justice has been done to
the truly admirable patience, attention, and oonscien-
tiousnev, which petty juries apply to the discharge of
their unpaid and laborious duties. Many of the
broad maxims of English criminal law are so tho-
roughly and popularly understood, from repeated in-
culcation by courts and advocates on successive gene-
rations of jurors, that it is almost unnecessary to call
their attention to them in particular canes. The
effect of the office in educating the classes who
fill it has been often remarked ; and it is diffi-
cult to over-estimate the advantage of the universal
confidence which is placed in a verdict, at least when
it is against the criminal. A prisoner who has been
found guilty by a jury is as much precluded in
popular belief as in law from afterwards denying
his guilt.

It is, however, generally, and not unreasonably
thought, that, while our mode of trial secures justice
in favour of the accused, it affords criminals too many
loop-holes for escape. The technicalities of criminal
law, though few compared with those of civil pro-
cLdure, are often revolting to common sense, and mere
impedimenta to justice. It is against these that the
labours of the commissioners might have been

directed with the greatest certainty of success ;
while the more debateable questions connected with
tke laws of evidence, and especially with confessions,
might have been left for matured consideration.
Paradoxical as the statement may appear, we believe
English criminal jurisprudence is much less infested
by technical subtleties than that of almost any other
nation. Those who have read FUEILBACICS 31er1.•-
tViirdigr, or LadyGonnoN's English selections fromthe
book, may remember the marvellous hair-splittings
which German ingenuity has introduced into the law
of evidence, the extraordinary difficulty which con-
sequently attends the legal conviction of a criminal,
and the makeshift cruelty by which, as a compensa-
tion, he may be punished in default of conviction.
With us, the principal
.peg on which legal ingenuity
can hang sophistical impediments to justice is the
indictment; and this peg we simply propose to cut
away.

Indictments are too often attacked and defended
on the erroneous supposition that they are intended to
give information to the accused. It is right, says the
defender of the system, that the prisoner should know
the distinct charge on which he is arraigned. It is
not right, the opponent with equal justice replies,
that he should escape in consequence of a mere verbal
error in the written charge ; and, moreover, it is a
mere legal formula, full of fictions, and which it is
impossible for the prisoner to understand. As a
matter of fact, it is perfectly well known that a pri-
soner never does look at the indictment, and though
his counsel may do so, his object is in no degree to
obtain information, but merely to take advantage
of any flaw on the face of the document, or of
any technical variance is the evidence from the
allegations which it contains. We should be very
unwilling to see a partial alteration, which
would leave the main evils of the system the same as
at present. It would not be difficult to eliminate from
indictments some of the mere forms which are at
present indispensable decorations to them. It might
be rendered unnecessary to allege that a pickpocket
stole a handkerchief, or a swindler deluded he victim
" with farce and arms" or " against the peace of our
lady the Queen;" and it does not seem necessary that
a prisoner should escape with impunity as at pr,ment,
if a clerk should have omitted to insert a certain place
and a certain time in describing the criminal act, al-
though it is in no way necessary that either place or
time should be provedas stated. Baron PARKE the other
day doubted whether he could assume against& prisoner
that 1816 was a sufficiently certain date. If it had
been called 1846 years from the creation, or the
building of Rome, or the establishment of the French
republic, it would have been good ; but counting
from no era, it seemed not to be a certain time.
Eventually, the learned judge was bold enough to
assume that the calculation was referred to the
Christian era ; but he intimates that the prisoner, if
he thought proper, might try the question on a writ
of error.

These amusing freaks and eccentricities of the law
are, however, rather indecorous than dangerous.
Common forms are, practically, the next thing to no
forms at all. Clerks of indictments seldom leave out
the necessary anno donain I, and the " force and arms "
is more certain to be found in the document than the
substantial fact to which it refers. A more frequent
cause of the failure of justice arises from some variance
between the indictment and the evidence. As the
jury can only try the issue raised by the indictment, it
follows that every fact not strictly in conformity with
it is excluded from their consideration. If a prisoner is
charged with having stolen the goods of JOHN, and it
appears that the goods are the joint property of JOHN
and THOMAS, he is at once acquitted. Of late years,
some relaxation has taken place in the law of variance.
Various statutes provide that the greater shall, in par-
ticular cases, include the less, so that, for instance, a
prisoner indicted for a compound or aggravated felony
orassault, may be found guilty of the rumple crime which
forms only a part of the original charge. So, again,
the name of the prisoner is no longer like that of the
prosecutor, a loophole of escape. The acquittal, some
years ago, of a murderer who had cut off the head of
his child, on the groand that his christian name was
improperly alleged, caused a removal of the imme-
diate abuse. If indictments are to be still used, there
can be no doubt that farther relaxations will be intro-
duced, and a power of amendment given to the court
corresponding to that which it exercises over nisi
prin. records. But, as we have already said, we should
regret a nartial imrtmoonuant in the
way of the entire change of abolishing altogether the
indictment and the ground on which the indictment
rests. If indictments are still to be used, they cannot
be altogether nugatory. The laws of criminal plead-
ing and of variance may be relaxed, but there must
be some conditions which the document must satisfy,
and some limits within which it mast still restrict the
evidence. Wherever it fails in either requisite, there
will be so far, as there is in many cases now, a failure
of justice. If the indictment was necessary for the
information of the accused, it might be allowable to
incur the evil of letting him sometimes escape by a
technical accident ; but, as we propose to show in a

future article, the indictment neither gives, nor is it
primarily intended to give, such information. We
shall show that the object of it is essentially technical,
and that in getting rid of it we may at the same time
get rid of what is at best a useless encumbrance ; and
at worst a serious impediment to the administration
of criminal justice.

THAT English agriculture requires the stimulus of
foreign competition no one who understands the sub-
ject will doubt. There is an undeveloped fund of
productiveness in our soil, a latent source of wealth
to owners and occupiers, which demands nothing but
the most ordinary exertion of intelligence on the part
of landlords and farmers to bring it forth. Nor is it
merely by the improvement of the usual routines of
cultivation that our husbandry admits of advancement.
More wheat or more barley may most assuredly be
produced by a better application and more liberal use
of the everyday means and appliances of English hus-
bandry. But for that, more capital is required. The
farmer may know full well that, with additional
manure, he could greatly increase the produce of his
corn-fields, and the difficulty is how to obtain that
manure. From the precarious character of the crops
of Lent corn and pulse, and the high price of oil-cake,
such articles being those on which tho farmer relies
for stock feeding, it is an even chance whether he
gains or loses money by grazing. Yet without
grazing ho has no means of procuring the manure
by which alone his corn crops can be made
profitable. It will, however, be only when the
owners and occupiers of land can be induced to con-
eider whether some departure from routine cultiva-
tion, or the adoption of some new objects of culture,
may not benefit them, that the full capacity of our
soil will be discovered. Now, there is nothing like a
good wholesome competition for sharpening the wits
of the landed interests. So long as they hugged the
notion—delusive as it was—that an act of parliament
price for corn could be secured, they rested helplessly
on protection, and shrunk in affright from the neces-
sity of self-reliance. Protection having been with-
drawn, the once protected owners and occupiers of
land are beginning to find out that there are means
within their own grasp of meeting any competition
they may have to sustain.
There was a meeting of landowners and farmers at
Monmouth, some time since, which affords a striking
illustration of the truth of these remarks. The occa-
sion was to hear an address from Mr. JOHN IVARNES,
of Trimingham, Norfolk, upon the cultivation of flax
and the fattening cattle with the seed, together with
an economical method of managing manure practised
by Mr. WARNES under the designation of box-feeding.
That gentleman, once an active and ardent protec-
tionist, put it strongly to his audience, consisting
apparently of men who, also, had relied on protection,
that farmers must meet foieign competition by activity
and skill; and he showed that the cultivation of flax
would furnish an important mode of doing so.
Now, the culture of flax has got into bad reputation
with landowners, and has long gone altogether out of
sight and out of mind with farmers. It has been said to
be amost exhausting crop, leaving the land on which it
was grown very greatly and permanently deteriorated
in value. In consequence there are probably few
forms of leases used in England which do cot entirely
prohibit the growth of flax. Then, again, the steeping
flax, which is necessary to enable the fibre to be sepa-
rated from the woody part of the stalk, has been
thought to cause considerable stench, and to contaminate
the streams which are used for the purpose of steep-,
ing. These evils are not necessarily incident to
flax culture. They occur only when flax is palled
ant steeped in a green state; and it was once sup-
posed that if it were allowed to ripen, the quality of
the flax would be inferior. But that is not the case.
During the last eight or ten years there have been
considerable efforts made in Norfolk to reintroduce
the culture of flax, and those efforts have been suc-
cessful to the extent of proving, first, that flax when
ripened so as to obtain the perfect seed, will produce
fibre little if at all inferior to green flax ; secondly,
that it may be so grown without injuring the fertility
of the land ; but, on the contrary, that the consump-
tion of the seed (crushed, boiled in six or seven times
its measure of water, and mixed with cut straw)
affords the cheapest and most certain means of in-
creasing
fertility; thirdly, that the dressing the stalk,
called, technically, scutching, affords employment at
all seasons to the weaker members of the labouring
population, old men, women, and boys, who, after a
little instruction and practice, can earn at it better
wages than they have hitherto received ; and, lastly,
that the flax crop is a very profitable one. There is
no one so competent to speak to all these points as
Mr. WARNES, he having grown flax for the last ten
years to a greater extent than any other person in
England ; and he may be fairly deemed the dis-
coverer of the best mode of using the seed to fatten
cattle.

It would be impossible here to attempt to follow
Mr.Wannes in the detailed explanations he addressed
to his Monmouth audience ; but we may mention a
few of the facts stated. He said that ripened flax is
really superior to flax pulled when green, and that he
had himself sold at Leeds the flax produced from one
half of a field on which it was suffered to &same
completely ripe, for a price higher by one-third than
the flax taken before it was ripe from the other half
of the same field. The green flax sold for 53/. per
ton, the ripe for 851. This seems to be decisive. lI
also said that his best wheat was grown on land
which had borne flax the preceding year ; and this
was confirmed by Mr. PURCHASE, the honorary secre-
tary of a farmers' club, who said " he had grown a
small quantity of flax two years ago on part of a
field, the remainder of which he had appropriated to
peas. He had found the wheat which followed the
flax to be superior to that which followed the peas."
Mr. WanNE.s said that since he had introduced flax
culture into his own parish of Trimingham, such had
bees the increase of employment for the labouring
people, that the poor-rates had been reduced from
4s. 3d. in the The
to a single yearly rate of 3d. in
the pound. The population of the parish is 250.
Then, as to the profit to the flax-grower, Mr.
WARNES gave the following figures as the average re-
sult of his own experience : The produce of dressed
flax from an acre of land would be 54 stones of 14Ibs.
per stone, which cost 2s. 6d. per stone to dress, and,
when dressed, would sell at 10s. 6d. per stone. The
money price of en acre of flax would be, therefore,
28/. The quantity of seed grown per acre would be 24
bushels, worth at this time at least 10/. From
this gross sum of 38/. per acre there must be deducted
the rent and taxes, the costs of preparing and manur-
ing the land, the sowing, harvesting, steeping, and so
forth, which, if taken at 15/., would leave a net profit
of upwards of 20/. per acre. Mr. WARNES fairly said
that his own land was very favourable for the culture
of flax, and that for the first few years a new culti-
vator would not be likely to grow either so much flax
or seed as he had stated to be the produce of his own
crops. He thought that a net profit of 101. per acre
would be a safe estimate. In this calculation he was
borne out by Mr. DYKE, who had grown three-
quarters of an acre of flax (the cost and produce of
which he stated in detail) with a net profit of 9!. 4s.
'fne meeting ended in the establishment of a society
to promote the growth of flax, " by the employment
of competent instructors; and for obtaining informa-
tion as to the growth of flax and the use of the seed."
And sitnihir societies have been established in other
districts.

We hail this movement as evidence that the pro-
spect of competition is acting most usefully on land-
lords and tenants. So long as protection was in the
ascendant, Mr. WARNES'S earnest advocacy of flax
culture fell dead upon the " agricultural mind."

Ox Friday last we drew attention to a statement
which had appeared in the Berwick Warder, and
was copied into the Morning Pest, ix which the
writer asserted, of his own knowledge, that the DAILY
News was for sale, and had been offered to be sold
for one-quarter the sum which had been expended on
it. Now, though we are not very thin-skinned in
these matters, and can allow,—have indeed allowed,—
all reasonable license to the suffering both in the way
;.;eertion, and that more cautions course, the
adopting ;II: :=4;?.ne of the Berwick,
and other obscure provincial prints; still, wren
a writer states a thing as of his own positive know-
ledge, the public may be excused if they put faith
in it; for, either it must be true, or he must know-
ingly and wilfully have stated what was untrue. This
was the unhappy position of the Berwick Warder
writer, whom the Morning Post had unfortunately
unearthed. " T, our knowledge," he said, "both the
'Moans° CHRONICLE and the DAILY NEWS are now
in the market. Upwards of 60,0001. hare been spent
on Me latter' and it is note offered fin. a quarter of
that own." There could be no mistake. There is

not one equivocal word in the whole sentence. It is
a good round confident assertion," which, as 13eN
JONSON said, "next to truth does well." Our soli-
citor, therefore, was requested to write to the editor
or proprietor on the subject ; and in answer to his
gentle questionings we have received the following,
to which we trust the Morning Post will give the
benefit of its circulation :

Warder-oelce Berwick, July 24, 1817.
ENTLESISN,-I have received yours of yesterday, request,
ing explanation of a paragraph rt lating to the lhily Sews
which appeared in the Eeriest% Warder of the 17th instant'
The paragraph in question was inserted unfortunately with-
out my attention having been directed to it; and I regret
much that it should have appeared. The writer of it, it
appears, spoke entirely from hearsay, and has no authority
for the statement. A snort " leader" will be inverted itt the
next number of tho Warder, apologising for the errqr, which
I trust will be deemed sufficient reparation.—l act, gentle.
men, your obedient servant, G. M.
—From the Daily -Vews.

each according to the
The Paris journals on Sunday,
views of the party whose sentiments it speaks,gave a
resume of the labours of the legislature. The sole
ministerial organ boasts of the fruit of the session,
giving a Ion; list of laws which have been passed.
The mouthpiece of the young conservatives, the rene.
gades from the ministerial benches, says, that from
the 11th January, on which the chambers met, tuna
the 11th August, on which they will be adjourned,
seven months have been expended in aewmplishing
the following four objects :-1. Concluding the bar-
gain with MM. Herout, Handel, and Co., for the trans.
Atlantic steam mails. 2. Giving the Bank of France
leave to issue 200 franc notes. 3. Obtaining leave to
raise a loan of fourteen millions sterling. And, 4.
Passing the budget with an interminable catalogue of
credits. The journals of the liberal opposition admit
that the session has not been sterile, for it has been
abundantly productive of scandals, national discredit
at home and abroad, and a large increase of the public
debt. Its three great works have been the Spanish
marriages, the railway measures, and the elections.
The marriages (says Le Constitution set) prodosed, at the
opening of the wawa, a garbled report of the diplomatic
correspondence, the supplement of which was supplied and
extorted by England ; the disclosure of the unwoitity
bling with which M. Guizot abused Lord Normanby, the
debasement of the cabinet, feeble powers everywhere sacri-
ficed, Cracow surrendered to the three powers, Switzerland
bullied by France and Austria, France reduced to diplomatic
isolation, M. Guizot boasting of having gained the Medita,
ranean, scandal prevailing at Madrid, the French embus".
dor hunted from Spain, the French alliance c:iegreeed
aeyond the Pyrenees, the seeds of a war of succession sowa
and germinating, and the obedient majority of the chamber
affirming its satisfaction at the disastrous meisisres which
hare sacrificed the interests of the nation, rood the principles
of liberty to the views of a family. The railways and other
public- works are recorded in figures, of which the
chamber can give account. These results are de.
&its, supplementary and extraordinary credits, innumerable
squandering., the systematic breach of all financial rules in
all the departments of the government ; reports demon-
strating fraud in the projects, disorder in the working, errors
of the estimates, confusion in the accounts, irregularity is
the credit., expenses without explanation, and public lime.
tions without need for them; an enormously increasing
budget, deficits hanging over future years, the finances
pledged for twelve years to come, the floating debt over-
charged, the annulment of the sinking fund, a loan rendered
imperative at the moment when Paris, Toulouse, Marseilles,
and Konen are severally in the market seeking roans also,
and when the railway companies are pressing with their
calls ; the public purse exhausted, stock.jobbing at its height,
failures unnumbered, cupidity unbridled, the future com-
promised, and the committees of the chamber straieina every
nerve to extort from ministers a pledge not to add new
deficits to those with which we are overwhelmed. The results
of the general elections have been a majority of 100 votes
ready at the bidding of the ministry to declare their
satisfaction with the situation, innumerable votes in favour
of the cabinet, a relaxation of public morals, the natural
consequence of the abuse of official influence; the universal
opinion that electoral corruption is the key to the minhterisl
system, the di-avowal of corruption by the ministry in the
face of evidence which convinces the whole country, lam
transformed into instruments of intimidation against elec-
tors, a St. Bartholomew massacre of mayors and officials
who have given honest votes, scandalous facts openly
denounced, a minister convicted of selling the patent of a
theatre, M. Emile de Girardin challenging inquiry into
this corruption, to which the minister dares net accede; the
Court of Peers resounding with a deplorable scandal, the
Procureur.General attempting in vain to make a diversion
by adopting an indignant tone, hut not perceiving that the
country is too just and too intelligent to accept even the
guilty as expiatory victims ; numerous scandalous Own
developed before the tribunals, suspicion everywhere awoke,
an odious reput ition spread through foreign countries—be-
hold the fruits of a policy in which no generous principles
have play,and which lives upon the abuse of official influence.
The opposition compares the Guizot cabinet to the
boots which were repaired so often that scarcely s
particle of the original leather remained upon them
except the tops. 'The cabinet consisted originally of
nine members—viz., MM. Guizot, Duchitel, Curtin-
, Gridaine, Martin du Nord, Humann, Soult, Tette,
Villemain, and Duperre. Of these the first three
alone remain, for Marshal Soult has long ceased to ex-
ercise any other function of a minister except thoseof
bearing the name and receiving the salary. M. Catlin-
Gridaine is on the eve of retiring, when the two tops
of the boots, MM. Guizot and Duchitel, alone will
remain. In the course of its official life this cabinet
has had four different Ministers of Marine, three of
Public Works, three Chancellors of the Exchequer, or
Ministers of Finance, and three Ministers of War.
Under it, the national expenditure; has swelled to
double its amount under the empire, and to 50 per
cent. more than under the restoration ; and the national
debt has augmented, and is augmenting still.

The affairs of Switzerland occupy a large portion
of public attention in the states of the east and north
of Europe. The Suablan Mercury of the 23rd has
the following :
The affairs of Switzerland engage, in en especial maser,
the attention of the conservative courts. The ra limas de-
sire to centralise their power in Switzerland, but the Euro-
pean governments look to the cantonal sovereignties for s
guarantee for the happiness of Switzerland and the tran-
quillity of Europe. Austria, Russia, and Prussia are per.
fectly agreed in this, as recent communications have proved;
and Sardinia, which by its geographical position has an
interest in the affairs of Switzerland, shares the same vises.
As to France, it cannot be imagined that that goveromeat
would be disposed to countenance radicalism on its frontier.
In fine, England, which has just supported royalty is
Portugal, cannot protect the radicals without acting against
her principles and sacrificing them to her camellia!
interests.
The Augsburg Ga:ette gives a letter from Lucerne,
of the l'ith July, which says:
This week, 3,000 muskets have arrived in the grin:Mrs
cantons. They are designed for a general arming. To be pre
pared for events, the governments of Schorr and Lug will
immediately distribute munitions to the troops. Sanwa
Sonnenberg ha received eight battalions of the londweir
at Lucerne, and in other cantons redoubts have bees raked.
The report of the proceedings of the Swiss diet
of the 21st has been received. The great event of
[ the day was a speech delivered by M. Lucian, the
[delegate of the canton of Tesaino, which seems to
i have produced quite an explosion of enthusiasm
[ Tessin, being a catholic canton, his testimony apart
the league was considered as the most severe blow
yet given to it, inasmuch as it refuted the objection
that the object of the majorit7 is to put down catholi-
cism in the confederation. fessino is a canton folly
equal in importance to Lucerne, which may be con-
I sidered as the chief of the Sunderbund. Immedialele
after the diet had passed the resolution on
the 20th, in favour of the dissolution of the
league, the delegates of the seven cantons sent
off express couriers to their respective goemm-
ments, to obtain, it was supposed, further
structione. Notwithstanding the great popular ex" „.
citement produced by these proceedings at Berne, to
most perfect order continued to be observed, nor were
any manifestations made against the delegates of the
league.
L'lfeketie says that M. Bois le Comte has sel-
dressed to the Bernese government a menacing Dote,
in which he demands satisfaction, because a terrier
dog, which was, on Friday evening last, on the Eng!"
walking by the aide of M. Janie, editor of Le Cho
earl wore, suspended to its collar, two crosses, ear d
which hepretends was the cross of the "legion d'hon-
neur."
It is said that the terrier's collar war in feet
adorned with something like two pieces of tin, more
or less resembling two crosses.
It will be necessary (no (no doubt, says L'Hefre,'le in
order to undeceive M. Bois le Comte, to im t'
collar and tin crones ; and, perhaps, it will be aeons'
nary for the terrier itself to give in its oa'b.

MADRID, Sc LT
General Pavia issued from Jorra apes the I las
the following circular, which seems to me 1.11,
deserving of attention :—" On the morning of
i w°
ds the mail from Madrid to Barcelona wan at:
ll
tacked by a band of rebels between Castello
and Casa Pla. That such an attempt may Pt
occur again I have thought fit to adopt the fOl.
lowing regulations : All the towns designated in
the margin, and which stand neared right end left d
the road from Linda to Molins-el-rey, or in the read
itself, will establish upon convenient eminences ter,

to keep a look-out whe'A the mail comes by, that
wfry e
they see any rebels they may warn their re-
--Faative towns, which cro immediately to
ring the
weds, which teesin is 'O3 be repeated by all the towns
itsat : also messa'A by wmd of mouth is to he sent
,the Dearest foe.rfied place. 2. The judicial fune-
tpanes, inclii&og the aecretary, and the twelve head
hallstaiw, of ',he town in whose pariah boundary a
be robbed, without the foregoing regulation
hog been observed, shall b 3 held responsible for
the robtary in the mauxer following. 3. A town
hew been guilty lof the omission, its
lamunici-
(ronreya es)secretary, , and the twelve
Cla Tu_paTers,. owners of country-houses and
being Included among them, shall be arrested:
srd or 4th part of the arrested shall be drawn
by kit to proceed to the capital of the province to suf-
ferthe punishment which I shall think fit to inflict in
my capacity as acting for the government. 4. The town
pelt to one in which the tocsin has been rung, and
which does not repeat that signal of alarm, shall be ,
cowdeTed as equally in fault with the foregoing. Its
roarejsies (the members of its ayelatamiento) and 12
d tax payers shall be subject to the preceding die-
maims, 3. The detachments posted upon the road
hem Linda to Molins-el-rey. have orders to repair
to the places where the tocsin is rung to co-operate
with the inhabitants of the towns."
Thus, in default of military resources enough to
prevent mails from being robbed " and burned" upon
the high-road between the two moat important cap-
tab in Spain, the captain-general saddles the people
with the burthensome and dangerous duty of watch-
ing the road themselves, and makes the inhabitants
0/Tillages responsible in the liberty of their persons
for the safe passage of letters with which, in the great
majority, they have nothing whatever to do. Add to
this, that by obliging these villages, which are for the
wet part in a most defenceless condition, to take an
scare part against the Carlists, the government
exposes them to an almost certain severe retaliation
from those vigorous and vindictive enemies. The poor
villages are thus placed between two fires, and, in-
geed of being asoisted and protected by the military
power, then are plagued and oppressed. A circular
of this kind is quite enough to alienate the allegiance
eta whole province like Catalonia, where the mass of
the poor in their hearts favour the Carlist cause, and
stand rather disposed to screen the rebels from the
pursuit of the troops than to join the troops in pur-
suit of the rebels.
The mail doe from Catalonia yesterday had not
arrived op to a late hour of the night. The cause
of its detention is not known. A letter from Bar-
celona, of the 13th, describes that town as in a great
state of alarm in consequence of a rumour that all
the manufactories would be closed on Saturday, the
17th. A notice, however, of such closure ought to
be put eight days beforehand, at the Alcaldia, and
only three such notices had appeared.
A petard had exploded on the 11th, in the Rambla,
which frightened the people and produced a good
deal of confusion. Many bad received threatening
letters from Vilella and other insurgents, as well as
from members of a revolutionary secret club in the
tows, which styles itself by the mysterious designa li
-
tion of the "Froteus of Liberty." All things seemed
in an agitated state, as if on the eve of revolution.
The band of " The Student " was attacked upon the
night of the 17th. Valdivielo, the commander of the
attacking column, and an officer of cavalry, were
wounded. It was re-attacked upon the 18th by the
column of Captain Bobabilla. The rebels had one
killed, and lost eight horses, with their furniture,
various fire-arms, white cloaks, &c.
During the Queen's residence at San Ildefonso, no
one will be allowed to visit, pass through, or reside at
that place, without a corresponding passport.
Senor Benavides did not go to Li Granja on Sun-
day (18th). His visit was to the King-consort at
the Pardo. The Faro reports that the object of this
visit was to prevent the King from residing at the
royal palace during the Queen's absence, or even at
Madrid. The King is said to have demanded •
written order. When Senor Benavides returned to
Madrid, a cabinet council was held late at night, and
shortly after the King received a written order.
which set forth reasons for his not residing at the
royal palace.
The King came to Madrid again yesterday, and
stopped at the palace of San Juan, where he dined
with his brother, the Infante Don Fernando, and his
sisters. At 7 in the evening he returned to the Pardo.

FR A NCE.--SITOCKING PARRICIDE.—The journal
de Lille publishes an account of a double parricide at that
place. On May 20, a tailor, named Lahousse, of the Rae Jean
Jacque. Rousseau, sent his daughter Ilortense, aged lit, is
grater named Pennequin, to purchase some jam foe his
family , which was spread on bread, and eaten by Laheame,
his wife, and one of his daughters. An hour after, these three
person. gave signs of having been poisoned, Hortense alone,
who had not taken anything, not being affected. Three days
after the victims, after having been subjected to different
remedies, recovered their usual health ; but, after eating some
rice soup, they were ail seized in a similar way, and the father
died, after six days of horrible suffering. The mother re-
mained for nearly two months in the hospital, but then,
being paralysed in all her members, insisted on being re-
moved to her own house. She was attended by her daugh-
ter Hortense and a medical man. The latter remarked that
when the poor woman began to recover ahe immediately
had a relapse. This excited his suspicion against the daugh-
ter, but he did not communicate it to the police. The
police, however, had cellected information which induced
them to watch the girl, and she was arrested. The day after
her arrest the mother died. She then made a full confession
of her guilt. It appeared that, after administering the jam,
she made every effort to threw the suspicion of having coin.
witted the poisoning on Pennequin, the grocer. She first
went to the commissary of police, and made a declaration ;
abs then went to Pennequin, accompanied by a neighbour,
and reproached him with negligence, etc. The body of her
father having been opened immediately after his death
poision was discovered in it. On the 20th June. Pennequin
was tried before the Correctional Tribunal for homicide by
imprudence, but acquitted ; the public prosecutor declaring
that even a shadow of suspicion did not rest on him. The
girl Hortense was present at the trial, but nothing in her
feattues or conduct manifested either fear or remorse. When
questioned by the Jugs d'lnstruction after her arrest, her
ILCOUIIt was that she had poisoned her father, mother, end
sister in order to be free from their reproaches, and at liberty
to carry on a disorderly course of life with a young sculptor
named Logeois, living oppo,ite her father's house, with
whom she had intimate relations. She declared that it was
at his instigation, and by means of a false medical prescrip
lion which he had drawn up, that oho had procured and ad-
ministered the poison. Logeo's was, inconsequence, arrested,
sad made, it is said, complete avowals. Toe chemist who
said the poison had not, it appeared, inscribed it in his
books, and he even obstinately denied that be had sold it.
It was, consequently, necessary to take the girl Hortense to
the man *s shop, where she pointed out the bottle from
which the poison had been taken. She was, both in going
and returning, accompanied by an immense crowd. Her
sister, who was also poisoned, lies in a most alarming state,
and her death is expected almost every hour.
BELGIUM.—BRUSSELB, JULY 24.—The Emanci-
.Wtost states that M. Rogier had received from the King a
Letter, inviting him to form a new cabinet. It is said that
M. ft.ostier has acceded to the request, and will proceed to
terry it out immediately.
UfALY.—NAPLES, JUNE 29.—Government has just
taken energetic measures against the Calesrian banditti, the
number of whom, according to the latent news from Cosenza
sod its vicinity, is considerably increased. The gendarmerie
Ltd some battalions of light infantry have been sent from
Itectra to the most important points.

nit Court.
Count Mensdorff arrived at Osborne, Isle of Wight,
yesterday, on a wit to the Queen. Lieut.-Col. the Hon.
C. B. Phipps 5131 arrived.
The Marquis of Lansdowne (Lord President of the
Council) left town on Sunday for his seat, Bowood-park,
Wilu.

iTcspatehes from the Governor of Ceylon were re-
ceived yesterday at the Colonial-office. Despatches from
Portugal were received yesterday at the Admiralty.
Dispatches were sent oil last evening from the Colonial-
office for the Governor of the Mauritius.
The Earl of Shelburne left town yesterday for
Homed-park, Wilts.
His Excellency Count Flahanit, the French Ambas-
sador at the Court of Vienna, arrived in town on Saturday
from Paris. The Counter and her daughter had previously
arrived here on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Shelburne.
Viscount Palmerston left Carlton-gardens yesterday
forenoon for Tiverton, to visit the constituents of that borough,
pFevious to his election. The noble earl returns to town on
k nday or Saturday next.
Viscount Melbourne, yesterday morning, left town
for Melbourne-ball, Derbyshire, where the noble viscount
will shortly entertain Lord and Lady Beauvale, the lion.
iirs. Geo. Lamb, and a select circle of friends.
Lord Granville Somerset left town on Thursday for
Monmouthshire, to enter on his canvass of the elector. The
noble lord is sanguine of his success. Lady Granville Somer-
set and family remain in town.
PRINCESS LIEVEN.—We hear that the Princess
Lieven, whose husband was for many years resident ambas-
sador at the British court from Bursa, was expected to leave
Paris yesterday for London. Col. and Lady Alice Peel have
Placed their mansion in Park-place at the disposal of the
Muer, during her sojourn in this metropolis.
Sir William lion, Bart., arrived in London, yester-
day morning, by the General Steam Navigation Company's
rail steam-ship Princess Boys], from Hamburg.

Among the passengers for Antwerp and the Rhine
who en Sunday last embarked on board the Antwerpen
steamer were Lord Elphintone, Count de la Laing, Belgian
Minister at Madrid, M. Dronet, Belgian Secretary of Legs.
H
tion, Col. Crawford, and the on. Capt. Best (with their
families), and Captain Montgomery.
REPORTED DEATH OP LADY ROLLAND.—There is
not any foundation for the report published in the Times
yeeterday, and copied Lute the evening papers, of the demise
of Lady Holland. The mansion of the noble lord, et Ken-
nington, was literally besieged yesterday afternoon with in-
quiries ; and it is almost needless to nay the numerous friends
of her ladyship were highly pleased to ascertain it was a
mistake. The noble lord and lady received a distinguished
circle at Holland-house on Saturday, when among the guests
were Princess Orasealcovich, the Duke de Broglie, Prince de
Broghe, Count and Countess Flahault and Mdlle. E. Fla-
hault, the Earl ani Countess of Westmoreland, Viscount and
Viscountess Palmerston, Baron and Baroness Neumann,
Chevalier Binder, &c.

THE CLAIMS OF ART ACKNOWLEDGED.—Lord
Lansdowne has appointed a ion of Mr. Severn, the painter,
to a situation in the Collaril-office.