The Express.
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THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 19, 1848. 3
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tsd boroughs have constituencies of men with dram, hy order of
....r..mAnTiwg, beat for the mustering the commissioners published plain unambiguous elan troops in. Rolste.in received full power a few days since the preservation of peace and tranquillity to be put up in all I was 26,008, and in the other six cities and boroughs the
Fel"— • 'of their own ; the close boroughs of the na •and •
wills and opinions bona guard, in an hour 200,000 citizens' statements of the extent of each forest, the purpose and, if needful, to on churches and chapels on Friday, the 21st inst., and on the l population was 1,344,134 These may be taken as the
ate mot straggling communities, subject to the bayonets bristledalong the line ofboulevardsand quays to which it is applied, the names and offices of the tohiisitco;esocondiroansiextreme of each class.
cosjjnandaof neighbounng magnates. The 18 members from one end of Pans to the other. It mattered not persons employed, the precise items of income and agoototheire rthm"er sire Ofth Eder. ilitesjyryrfon - four following Sundays.
iderations have hitherto compelled him to maintain his po -
Mann la Oman
Boroughs. HOMO. Populatioo,
liattlent of Mr. Heath's analysis who represent that thousands of operatives had got into the ranks
o.fr • ,of . .expenditure, and so forth, the nest of jobbery in the approach of the cavalry.
'Won on the Eider. These depended partly on the tardy
which could not come by the rail- SOCIETY FOR THE PROPAGATION OF THE GOSPEL
la Foams Paan.—Last nieht a meeting of the inhabi-
oonstitnenetes are representatives the people ;of the national guard—nay, that some of them had " Woods and Forests" department could not have re- wey trains, and partly in the delays which took place in the --.
tams of Lambeth was held in the Boys' School Room, Lam- Hansen _ 111 4,297
the other 18 are only representatives o.fcertain members become officers. This, instead of being productive of mained so long undisturbed. It is time that the arrival of the troops expected from Hanover. The !simian bath green, in aid of the establishment of a local association Thetford tee 3,462
of tiouistocr/Cy. It is herein. the anarchical effect hoped for by some, had, on the people should receive some intelligible information of
• consists the virulenceir
division
h id
and as just ordered several battalions of infantry, in that parish in connexion with the parent Society for the Chleertshom........----.... •-• at 5,270
of that tainted majority of the representatives re- contrary, • conaervative result, for it communicated the management of their affairs from each depart- f eav ry,
mounted artillery to proceed to Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. The Arch- Tou'w• ........... ----- ..... RI 2,303
Holstein. MIS 5,413
tamed by about one-fortieth of the adult population :to those national guards of the working class that meet of the government. x..lluntlobogdsurougt,
He
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they represent not even that amount of popular will spirit of order, and that determination to defend pro- The King has accepted the resignation of hia minis- bishop of Canterbury in the chair. The right rev. prelate
addreeeed the meeting in explanation of the objects et the
28,001
ter, Von Rothor, as President of the Chief Adminis- saeoctation, and expatiated on the claims the society had 12 Manahan to ....................^ 1,171
and conviction, but the conflicting interests of an ex- perty, which is the sentiment of the corps. And the
elusive aristocracy. anarchists found antagonists in the very men and GERMANY. to es* out.with inereased vig r the propagati
tretion of the Treasury, as Chief of the Marine, and upon the sympathy snd support of the public to endanbleofthtehme
Chief of the Prussian Bank. Mr. Von Lamprecht,Borussia ltholors la
Dame. Grows
repetition.
The inquiries of election committees have recently the very class, from which they had expected counts- President of the Bank Direction, has been charged gotpel in British India and other fareign possessions under
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thrown some disgusting light upon the means by nonce and aid. PRUSSIA.—We have received our files of Germanthe trol otitis aovernment of this cmintry. The Lord
with the administration of the latter office ad ice- Bishop of Medea+, the Bishop of Oxford, the Rev. C. B. wem'inatee ............
which these representatives of the titled or the monied The events of Sunday give great hopes of the papers. The dates from Berlin are of the 15th. The terun.Tower Hamlets ...... -....-...... 12.331 202,319
returned to parliament. One wealthy future ; not but that we shall hear of conspiracies Journals of the date of the 10th have reached us. The Dalton, and other gentlemen, addressed the meeting in sup- L.„„,,,,04
aristocracy are 12,974 7202 702
commoner, and would-be peer, has becu found tam- and struggles, but the wiser portion of the Pro- following are two letters from our correspondent at the meeting to support, both by their exec- Murylebone
A letter from Aix-la-Cho lie, of April 15, says : port of the association, and resolutions were unani
This evening our city is in the greatest commotion. The adopted. Pledging 11.623 ROM
one and the same time with the consti- visional Government is evidently united and de- .
Berlin : Manchester -.— ll3O 187,022
burgher guard is under arms. The commotion arose in con- ti ms and pecuniary aid, the objects of the society. A vote
perinz at---.
of two small English boroughs and two termined, and able to preserve order until the meet- BERLIN, APRIL 14. sequence of a dispute between some of the reserve corps and of thanks was passed to the Archbishop of Canterbury, who 12 Rimiest° resas 104024
tnencies
In one he. purchased ing of the National Assembly, when they can derive ,_
get e Fously FirlffibUry
small Irish boroughs. The Prussian democrats are not quite satisfied with a number of workmen. The soldiers were disarmed, and briefly replied, and the meeting broke up—a collection being
electoral law but government is not dis dto two of them were killed. The workmen, armed with made at the dean. COUNTIES—SCOTLAND.
limes, allowed his tenants to get into arrears, fresh force from the majority, and from the votes of "'.."
change the system. Ministers, mo eover, attach importance hatcheu, spades, &0., traverring the streets. The military INQUEST, YESTERDAY. —THE .MIIRDER 12.7 WEST- Three counties, having in all 2,192 electors, with an adult
advanced loans of money to s.ll who asked : that body. The assembly, with the principal members to the fact that no protest against moreover,
new electoral law has have been consigned to the barracks, and a promise has been MINSTER. —By Mr. Bedford, at t.e Feathers, Dean- male populating of only 12,338, vend three members to par.
• his object was to make debtor-clients of aof the Provisional Government, can always reckon upon been modern the provinces, officially given that the reserves shall be sent off to-monow. street, Westminster, to inquire into the cause of death liament ; and three other counties, having 9,460 electors,
lation of 171,120 mile adults, send the same num
majority of the constituency. In another, he rid the support of the army, and by pursuing a moderate . The concord between the working class! and their em-
teThitit resents of ttirtetlit entered only on the day before yes- of Maria Edda's,. whe wee found stabbed in the neck and a pou
bored railway appointments with a lavish hand in republican course, can command not only the su p. pitoi;zdirseins strengthened
oniii.eroiis emveLyilaytormeosreanadn and more. The excited ill will by marching in with on Sunday morning, in Wilton-row Westminster. Richard her of representatives to parliament.
other establish- a rblealLaanitdiwalle banner,y
and audaciously tearing off the Bilden, agardener at Kensal-g ,ii, statwd that deceased
order that he might have a preponderance of salaried port of the citizen class, but of the more industrious .No of Make No. of
workmen
have enured their employers that, in return for a dime. black, red, sad gold cockades which were worn by the was 27 years of age, she was a single woman, and that Counties. above Electors in
officials, dependent on himself, among the voters. In and orderly of the artisans themselves. • nution of the hours of labour and an increase of wages, they burghers. The disturbancet were renewed on the 17th, in she had put herself out of his control, The evidence of the ild•P•.° 20 yearn. 1335-40.
',third, he advanced money to keep the dissolute. tthe workmen) will bestow double attention on their various consequence of which a proclamation was issued, exhorting witness!, Dowling, Keene, Wright, L. Carter and Cum- t
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rade, and ignorant among the voters in a state of con- . .. . .. . _ _ occupations, and, by renewed industry and activity, fully in- the inhabitants to be quiet. There was an outward calm af- ming, given the previoui day at the examination of William Baulhhis• ---- .......... --- 1,1, i 20:5416°4
563
demnify the former for their kind concessions. It atforda terwards, and it was hoped that the reserves would be per- Temkin*, the accused party, at the Westminster police court, I.‘'bi
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giant intoxication for weeks previous to the election. WREN all the efforts of public men to reduce the 1,632 612
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iiireytOcoentrrumyunstaieteatemel.nUtiChareunro
intelligence,
undeat.nd to mined to depart in quietness. The burgher guard core- was then repeated; and Mr. G. Pearse, surgeon, 5, Regent- ........ -----
At election time bribes were lavishly distributed. from extravagant expenditure of our government are met pletely shut up the street, but the mob attacked them ; many street, in addition to his former testimony, stated that be had hint 3 1 12,336 2,192
his funds among the voters. At registration times, by assertions that here reduction is impracticable and In consequence of the interruption of steam navigation shots were fired, several persons were kled and others tbat morning made sposr-mortens examination of the body mu., No. of Maim No. of
his agents, at his expense, laboured to get voters of there impossible, people naturally ask why ? But the between the Schleswig-Holatein ports and Copenhagen, wounded. The cavalry was then called Quilled, cleared the of the deceased, in the presence et four other medical erode- Omaha a. „v • above Electors is
. one party dto keep off voters of the other officials whothe •
on the rolhan . . . alleges impossibility of economy arc
monde boats will run four times per week between Trove- streets, and the hated reserve were obliged to quit the city. men. The external appearance prevented a horizontal ''''" '''' .20 years. 163943.
(Lubeck) and the above capital. At the time when the Ai.r.la.Chapelle Gazette was going to wound, three quarters of an inch in length, below the
• When his nominee was rejected, the petition extremely costive in affording the information neces- 1 ! 42,3.81 3,181
it appears by the Berlinische Zeaung of this day, that in press the city was still in commotion. left collar bone. It penetrated the cavity of the chest, be- Aberdeenshire _
„Taint the sitting member was promoted by his sary to test the accuracy of their allegations. fake several parts of the grand duchy of Posen, the Polish armed AUSTRIA.—We have Vienna papers of the 13th. tween the first and second ribs, half an iech from the breast- tedt,nb'strsebue
1 :6,0.12 2,315
3.964
conflicts with the Prussian troops, and that The Emperor had accepted the resignation of Count bone, taking a direction downward, considering the body "
ti stanainry .-met at the time, and a little inwards, wound- Total

ted boroughs have constituencies of men with
wills and opinions of their own; the close boroughs
ire small straggling communities, subject to the
emismande of neighbounng magnates. The 18 members
of rlisinent of Mr. Heste's analysis who represent
teal constituencies are representatives of the pee le ;
the other 18 are only representatives of certain members
of the aristocracy. It is herein consists the virulence
of that tainted majority of the representatives re-
turned by about one-fortieth of the adult population :
they represent not even that amount of popular will
and conviction, but the conflicting interests of an ex-
clusive aristocracy.
The inquiiies of election committees have recently
thrown some disgusting light upon the means by
which these representatives of the titled or the monied
aristocracy are returned to parliament. One wealthy
commoner, and would-be peer, has been found tam-
perint at one and the same time with the consti-
tuencies of two small English boroughs and two
small Irish boroughs. In one he purchased
bows, allowed his tenants to get into arrears,
advanced loans of money to all who asked :
his object was to make debtor-clients of a
majority of the constituency. in another, he distri-
buted railway appointments with a lavish hand in
order that he might have a preponderance of salaried
officials, dependent on himself, umong the voters. In
"third, he advanced money to keep the dissolute,
rade, and ignorant among the voters in a state of con-
stant intoxication for weeks previous to the election.
At election time bribes were lavishly distributed from
his funds among the voters. At registration times,
his agents, at his expense, laboured to get voters of
one party on the rell,and to keep off voters of the other.
When his nominee was rejected, the petition
against the sitting member was promoted by his
agog' at his expense. Great indignation has been
expmeed at the conduct of the mil,'iminaire to whom
we allude: there has been talk of a penal action
against him. But his crime is neither more no leas
than attempting to get a control over the four
boroughs, which members of the aristocracy actually
exercise over both boroughs and counties. His crime is
being a leireess, and attempting to acquire power
which the aristocracy consider their legitimate and
exclusive right.
It is in vain to expect that the House of Commons
will act and legislate with sympathy, or in the
interests of the general public, so long as this system
of election prevails. 'l'be representatives of the inde-
pendent proprietors among the middle chases are an
inconsiderable fraction in that house; the intelligent
and industrious non-proprietary class is not repre-
sented there at all. This above is not to be reme-
died by suspending writs or disfranchising a few
small boroughs. By such means one eristocratio
party, by convicting its rival of corruption, may oc-
casionally diminish that rival's strength and increase
its own, but thete will be no gain f,r the people.
Nothim; short of a large and bold extension of the
electoral franchise and an abolition of all constitu-
encies so small as to render secret voting impossible,
can give the people's voice any chance of being heard
with effect in the House of Commons.
!be struggle to accomplish this inevitable as indis-
pensable reform has begun. Mr. HUME has already
given notice that after F.aster he will make a motion
to have the state i.f the representation taken into con-
sideration. At Birmingham the householders are pre-
paring to submit their plan of reform for the
consideration of their fellow-countrymen. A
somewhat varied measure has been recommended
from Leeds. At Manchester the middle classes
arc inviting the non-electors to co-operate with
them in an effort to popularise the House of
Commons. Everywhere the people, is whose minds
the conviction of the necessity of electoral reform has
grown up without mutual communication and pre-
concert, are bestirring themselves to take counsel to-
gether with a view to agree upon some definite
effective measure to be demanded by their united
voice. It is now the time for all to express their
views frankly, but without passion or exaggeration, in I
order that every one may contribute his saggestion,
and thus not only the efficacy but the general accept-
ableness of the measure that may ultimately be agreed
upon be ensured.
We feel convinced that this movement of 1848 will
be characterised by the same generous mutual sacrifice
of peculiar opinions, by the same majestic control of
passion, as that of 1831. Respect to the deliberate
convictions of every individual, readiness to concede
non-essential points, is the temper which will secure
success. The value of every obstacle must be weighed
beforehand. And, above all, the power of resistance
inherent in that aristocracy which sits its one house of
the legislature, and returns more than one half of the
members in the other, must be accurately estimated.
There are legal checks upon the action of the Crown
—there are legal checks upon the action of the Com-
mons—the Lords alone are without any cheek. While
the constitution is left to work regularly, there is
no constitutional mode of bringing them to acquiesce,
when the othet two branches of the legislature are
against them. All measures which go against the
grain with the peers—such as Reform Bill or
Corn Law Abolition—must be obtained by an effort
so great, and a shock so violent, as almost to neu-
tralise the good effects of the victory. Is this state
of affairs to be allowed to continue 9

SOCIETY FOR THE PROPAGATION OF THE GOSPEL
Foamor4 Passim—Last night a meeting of the inhabi-
tants of Lambeth was held in the Boys' School Room, Lam-
beth-green, in aid of the establishment of a local association
in that parish in connexion with the parent Society for the
Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. The Arch-
bishop of Canterbury in the chair. The right rev. prelate
addreaard the meeting in explanation of the objects of the
association, and expatiated on the claims the society had
upon the sympathy and support of the public to enable them
to carry out with increased vigour the propagation of the
gospel in British India and other foreign possessions under
the control of the aovernment of this mnintry. The Lord
Bishop of Madras, the Bishop of Oxford, the Rev. C. B.
Dalton, and other gentlemen, addressed the meeting in sup-
port of the association, and resolutions were unanimously
adopted, pledging the meeting to support, both by their exer-
tions and pecuniary mkt, the objects of the society. A vote
of thanks was passed to the Archbishop of Canterbury, who
briefly replied, and the meeting broke up—a collection being
made at the door.
INQUEST, YESTERDAY. —THE MURDER IN' WEST-
MINSTER. —By Mr. Bedford, at t:e Feathers, Dean-
street, Westminster. to inquire into the cause of death
of Maria Edda's, who was found stabbed in the neck
on Sunday morning, in Wilton-row, Westminster. Richard
Eddon, a gardener at Kensal-green, stated that deceased
wan t 7 years of age, she was a single woman, and that
she had put herself out of his control. The evidence of the
' witnesses, Dowling, Keene, Wright, L. Carter and Cum-
ming, given the preview day at the examination of Williams
Temkin*, the accused party, at the Westminster police court,
was then repeated; and Mr. G. Penne, surgeon, 5, Regent-
street, in addition to his former testimony, stated that be had
that morning made a post-mortem examination of the body
of the deceased, in the presence of four other medical gentle-
men. The external appearance presented a horizontal
wound, three quarters of an inch in length, below the
left collar bone. It penetrated the cavity of the chest, be-
tween the first and second ribs, half an inch from the breast-
bone, taking a direction downward, conaidering the body
to be standing erect at the time, and a little inwards, wound-
ing the edge of the left bone, perforating the pericardium
and wounding the pulmonary arteries. There were six
ounces of blood effused into the pericardium, sad eight
ounces into the cavity of the chest. These would cause im-
mediate death. The general appearance of the body indi-
cated perfect health. Mr. Penne produced a certificate from
the other medical gentlemen who had witnessed the post
marten; examination, concurring with his account —ln reply
to inquiries from the coroner and jury, Mr. Pearse said that
his impression was, that the female was standing upright,
leaning a little forward, at the time the blew was struck. He
did nut think it possible that she could have done it herself.
It was his impression that the wound was inflicted by a per-
son standing up. The brain had not been examined, the
appearances above stated being by all the medical gentlemen
present deemed conclusive.—Mr. Bedford expressed himself
perfectly satisfied, but thought that the hubn might as well
be examined before interment, to see whether there was any
effusion of bloat there.—The jury returned a verdict of
"Wilful Murder" against William Tomkins.

PRUSSIA. We have received our files of German
papers. The dates from Berlin are of the 15th. The
journals of the date of the 10th have reached us. The
following are two letters from our correspondent at
Berlin :
BERLIN, APRIL 14.
The Prussian democrats are not quite satisfied with
the new electoral law, but government is not disposed to
change the system. Ministers, moreover, attach importance
to the fact that no protest against the new electoral law has
been madein the province,.
The concord between the working classes and their em-
ployers is strengthened every day more and more. The
workmen of numerous manufactories and other establish-
ments have assured their employers that, in return for a dimi-
nution of the hours of labour and an increase of wages, they
tthe workmen) will bestow double attention on their various
occupations, and, by renewed industry and activity, fully in-
demnify the former for their kind concessions. It affords
me much pleasure to communicate such intelligence, and to
assure you that any contrary statements are unfounded.
In consequence of the interruption of steam navigation
between the Schleswig-Holstein ports and Copenhagen,
steamboats will run four times per week between Trave-
munde (Lubeck) and the above capital.
It appears by the Berlinische Zeaung of this day, that in
several parts of the grand duchy of Posen, the Polish armed
corps have had conflicts with the Prussian troop. end that
several persons have been killed on both sides. Seven Poles,
implicated in the former insurrection in Posen, have been
Amsted in Cirandenz, on the charge of high treason. The
game journal states that the royal commissioner, Gen. Von
Willwen, is very unpopular amongst the German inhabit.
ants of Posen, and that he displays every day more and
more a leaning towards the Poles, whose society he almost
exclusively frequents. It is added, in a private communica•
tion from the Bernbaum district, that an immense number
of Germans have already left the duchy, because the Poles
intend to force them to march against Russia. The 6,000
armed Poles assembled in the neighbourhood of Gnesen have

terror.
A letter from Aix-la-Chapelle, of April 15, says:
This evening our city is in the greatest commotion. The
burgher guard is under arms, The commotion arose in con-
sequence of a dispute between some of the reserve corps and
a number of workmen. The soldiers were disarmed, and
two of them were killed. The workmen, armed with
hatchets, spades, &0., are traversing the streets. The military
have been consigned to the barracks, and a promise has been
officially given that the reserves shall be sent off to-monow.
The reserves of the 34th entered only on the day before yes.
terday, and immediately excited ill will by marching in with
• black and white banner, and audaciously tearing off the
black, red, and gold cockades which were worn by the ,
burghers. The disturbance' were renewed on the 17th, in
ctgensieXaTictaenotfs *Whllcehqauirer.wliTtatireonwasw7ninouutedwiiredlchal.mrti
af-
terwards, and it was hoped that the reserves would be per-
mitted to depart in quietness. The burgher guard com-
pletely shut up the street, but the mob attacked them ; many
shots were fired, several persons were killed, and others
wounded. The cavalry was then called out and cleared the
streets, and the bated reserve were obliged to quit the city. I
At the time when the Aix-la-Chapelle Gazette was going to
press the city was still in commotion.
AUSTRIA.—We have Vienna papers of the 13th.
The Emperor had accepted the resignation of Count,
Stadion, Governor of Bohemia. He has also been'
pleased to appoint Leo Count Von Thou to be presi-
dent of the Bohemian Diet.
lIANOVEIL—The if Zeitung of the 9th of
April says that the minister declared, in a closed sit-
ting,that, according to an official declaration, England
will maintain neutrality in the federal war against
Denmark, if the federal army will guarantee the
safety of English subjects and English property.
Upon this the states voted the sum of 500,000 dollars
for the expedition to Schleswig-Holstein.
• FRANKFORT.—The dates from Frankfort are to
the 16th. At the sitting of the Germanic Diet on
the 14th, M. de Wangenheim was admitted as a
deputy in the place of M. de Lenthe. The deputy
from 'Denmark for the duchies of Holstein and 1/e
Lauenbourg had given in his resignation to the ])iet
the day before, in consequence c f the resolution passed
relative to the affairs of Schleswig-holstein. Pro-
fessor Jordan had made official and confidential ex-
planations with regard to the recent events of Cassel.
In consequence of those explanations the Diet did not
see any reason for ulterior interference in the affairs
in question. Order appeared to be completely re-
established by constitutional means.
On the report of the committee of revision all the
governments had been requested to make known,
without delay, the shortest period in which all the
deputies of the national assembly could be convoked.
A proclamation of the committee of fifty has ap-
peared. It is addressed to the inhabitants of the
grand duchy of Baden, of the kingdom of Wurtem-
berg, of the province of Rhenish Bavaria, and of the
grand duchy of Hesse, and exhorts them not to pay
any attention to a proclamation which has been cir-
culated in the circle of the Lake of Constance and in
that of the Upper Rhine, inviting the people to realise
their demands at the point of the sword and to as-
semble for the purpose at Donaueschingen
on the 14th of Ap•tl, provided with ammu-
nition and provisions for a week, as there is an
intention of proceeding to Kehl and there joining the
body of French workmen who have just come from
France. The proclamation of the fifty is expressed
in the most energetic terms against this attempt, and
while it asserts that the troops concentrated on the
frontiers are destined only to oppose an invasion
of this kind, it exhorts the inhabitants of the countries
above mentioned to combat the despotism of a party
which presumes to impose at any price its special
opinion upon all Germany.
The Gazette des Portes says :—" We learn from an
authentic source that the Germania Diet is actively en-
gaged at the suggestion of the committee of the seven-
teen in the project of the establishment of a German
war navy. NI e joyfully received this first indication
of the renewed energyof the Germanic Confederation."
BADEN.—A letter from Carlsruhe, of April 13,
in the Cologne Gazette of the lith, says :—" We have
just received intelligence that Flecker and Struve, ac-
companied by several officers, have arrived at Storkach,
and are preparing for a revolt. The military here
consists of from 9,000 to 11,000 men, and it is confi-
dently hoped they will be able to reduce the anarchists
in a few days."

W111:81 all the efforts of public men to reduce the
extravagant expenditure of our government are met
by assertions that here reduction is impracticable and
there impossible, people naturally ask why ? But the
officials who allege the impossibility of economy are
extremely costive in affording the information neces-
sary to test the accuracy of their allegations. Take
forinstance the Woods and Forests. A Cheshire cor-
respondent, struck probably with some particulars we
lately gave relative to the New Forest, asks us " to
furnish particulars as regards the officers, paid and
unpaid, to whom the management of Delamere-forest,
Cheshire, is intrusied ? " AVe can only reply by sta-
ting that we can give none of the particulars sought.
Turning to the animal reports of the Commissioners of
the Woods and Forests, we find nothing, year after
year, but a lumping sum charged as the " ordinary
expenditure "of all the 15 royal forests and woods,
and another sum given as the income of all the said
forests and woods; and it is only by
means of the return moved for the other
day, by Lord DericAtt, that we learnt that the in-
come of l)elamere Forest is 4,706/. 16s. 2;d., and the
expenditure, 2,652/. 10s. 114 d. How the income
arises, and of what the expenditure consists, the com-
missioners have not thought proper to tell. Possibly
they might say they were not asked, for it seems
that, though Lord DeNeats moved for "the amount,
in detail, applied to each forest," he did not interrogate
them with all the minute particularity with which an
equity draftsman often finds it necessary to " search
the conscience" of a defendant unwilling to make a
clean breast. The result is that nothing but the gross
income and the gross expenditure of each forest has
been disclosed.
The particulars respecting the New Forest we
lately published were furnished by two returns ob-
tained by Mr. TRELAWNY, to sotne very searching in-
quiries, which indicated considerable previously
acquired knowledge on the part of the mover. For
equally full information with respect to the other four-
teen forests and woods we presume the public must
be content to wait until the committee appointed on
Monday night shall have inquired and reported upon
the subject. All that we have as yet been able to learn is
that the annual charge for bread and cheese and beer
to the foresters and other sylvan emplo. ,s, betokens a
comfortable state of health among these functionaries;
and that in, at least, one year there is a charge of
1,2001. for pheasants' eggs—for the public service.
In the meantime, it may not be useless to render
the glimpses the annual reports of the Commissioners
of Woods and Forests afford, available to show the
eadmisap of public property.
These forests and woods form part of the hereditary
property of the crown, which, being practically un-
productive, is graciously made over to the public at
the commencement of each reign, the crown receiving
in return a handsome annual civil list from the na-
tional revenue. The civil list is a thing of substance,
but the forests and woods, as hitherto dealt with, are
but the shadows of property ; they arc mere patro-
nage preserves. Nor is any system of management
of such property likely to make it a desirable invest-
ment for the public. The only proper mode of man-
agement is by out and out sale. Ily such means a
fund would be raised that might be used
to ease the over-taxed industry of the coun-
try. The annual reports of the commissioners
are models of that style of official reporting which
carefully avoids giving information that might prove
inconvenient to the "department:' For instance, in
the 11th annual report for the year ending the sth of
January, 1840, the only part of their subject upon
which the commissioners offer inure than a few bald
sentences is that relating to the " supply of venison
from the royal forests and parks." The recipients of
royal forest venison, it seems, complained, and, as the
complainants in that case consisted of royal duke.,
peers, and right worshipful 'squires, their complaints
met with attention and redress. See how much in
earnest the " Woods and Forests" can be in a matter
of venison-supply reform. The report says :
Various complaints having been made, both as to the
quality and supply of the venison from the royal forests and
parks by the parties who have hitherto, with the sanction of
the Sovereign. been permitted to receive the same, we re
ceived directions from the Lords Commissioners of her Ma
jesty's Treasury to make inquiries into the supply and
distribution of the venison from each of the royal forests and
parks, and to advise their lordships as to the measures which
should appear to us to be best adapted to remedy the evils
complained of. The result of these inquiries was such a. to
induce their lordships to submit to her Majesty the expe-
diency of placing the whole supply, including that for the
royal table, under the supervision and direction of this
board ; that the keepers should not be allowed to receive
the fees and perquisites which heretofore had made
a considerable portion of their income, but that
they should he paid fixed annual salaries ; that they should
be restricted in the keep of cattle its the parks to one or two
cows, and to a sufficient number of horses only for the
proper execution of their duties, to which they would de-
vote their whole time and attention ; and that they should
send to the penis s having her Majesty's v..nison the whole
buck or doe, a xcept the head, skin, and offal.
These recommendations were approved, and directed
to be carried into effect.
For that purpose (say the commissioners) it has been
found necessary to discontinue the services of some of the
old keepers, and to award them superannuation allowances
in proportion to their length of service. I'o Lieut.-Colonel
Cheater, who held the office of clerk of the venison warrants,
their lordships have sanctioned a retired allowance of 1501.
per annum and to the gentleman who acted as his deputy
301. per annum.
And thenceforth a warrant " for her Majesty's
approbation and s.enature" would be prepared at
the commencement of every season, which would in-
clude the whole supply of tha season ; and warrants
would then be issued to the parties mentioned in such
warrant on paying a fee of 1/.65. for a buck, and Ids. for
a doe. The sums so collected are applied in payment
of keepers' salaries and retired allowance. And the
commissioners complacently hope that " this arrange-
ment will not be attended with any eunsidernhle
charge upon the funds of our department."
Thus the only semblance of useful purpose to
which these forests were applied—the supply of
venison to select members of the aristocracy—sous im-
perfectly fulfilled; and it required a sort of genteel
agitation to procure what may be designated the
forest charter of royal venison-eaters of 1840.
But, though doubtless the reformed state of
the royal forest administration has become more
satisfactory to venison-eaters, what say the public ?
The tax-payers who furnish the civil list, the equiva-
lent for them forests, are not exactly represented by
the eaters of royal venison, or entirely satisfied that
such a large amount of public property should be
kept unproductive, that royal favourites may feast on
fat venison.
Our readers will remember that the New Forest has
supplied no timber for the public service ; and the
ether forests seem to have been equally useless in that
particular. On this subject the commissioners in
their 12th report for 1841, say:
la Dean Forest and New Forest, being those of the
greatest extent and value, the enactments a the statutes of
Charles 11. and William 111., renewed and confirmed by an
act of 48 Geo. 111., authorised 11,000 acres to be taken from
to be inclosed, and kept inclosed, at one and toht
of the lest-
thnoemworetes of the former, and 6,000 acres of the litter, ad
Passing er full en.
it was
thnoseot Lair
msamenetitoinmede ; bauctt that
forced. roavniseironsthewere ev y
Such are the results of the management of the
andds Forests; and it would be for the
w
utmost ingenuity to contrive any other system by
which so much land in England could be so unpro-
ductively and unprofitably employed. And it has
been under cover of secrecy and concealment that
this state of things has been so lone sustained. Had

IN IRELAND
Greet inequality in the number of adults and of electors also
exists. Fur example, the eo-inty of Kildare, with 27,62.5
adult moles, of whom only 1,152 are registered electors,
sends two representatives to parliament ; whilst the city of
Cork, having 171,873 mcle adults, of whom no more than
3,926 are electors, sends only the same number of repre-
sentatives to parliament

Number'
Counties. of

dispersed.
The l'osen Gazette of 7esterday hes just come to hand.
It confirms the statement that the German inhabitants are
very hostile to Gen. Von Willisen, and that they publicly
displayed their feelings towards him on the night of the 11th
and the morning of the 12th inst. So that he deemed it ad-
visable to hove the town. It appears that the Germane
liaise Gen. Von Willisen for having displayed too much
indulgence towards the Polish troops.
The German committee in ltogasen has issued a manifest
setting forth that the Poles may thank the Berlin defenders
of the barricades for the prospects they now enjoy, and de-
nouncing the excesses which it is alleged the Poles have com-
mitted. The following extract from the manifest is im-
portant :—" It is not the soil-which determines the
nationality of a country, but the people who inhabit it. In
the circle of Czaroikau there are 56,700 Germans, and y
8,400 Poles ; in Citodziesen 44,500 of the former, and only
3,600 of the latter ; and in Obornik two-thirds of the inhabit-
ants are Germans and one-third are Poles, and soon in all
the districts bordering on Neumark, West Prussia, and
Silesia."
Several papers state that the royal commissioner, General I
Von Willisen, and the Commander-in-Chief Von Colomb,
are at open variance, and that the latter had given orders to
march upon the armed Poles if they had not laid down their
weapons before 9 a.m. on the 11th. It appears that the
German troops entertain the bitterest animosity to the Poles.
The Gazeta Polska, on its side, continues to give accounts
of numerous and frightful excesses committed by the
Prussian troops on unarmed Poles.
The directors of the Upper Silesian Railway have resolved
to Rive free passes to all Poles returning from exile and en-
tering Silesia rid Breelaw. Forty-two Poles, who lett Berlin
the day before yesterday for Cracow, availed themselves of
this iheral offer.
On Monday next 200 more volunteers will leave this city
for Schleswig-Holstein.
General Von Willisen, the royal commissioner for the na-
tional (Polish) reorganisation of the duchy of Posen. arrived
yesterday in Berlin. Ile immediately proceeded to l'etodam,
where a cabinet council was summoned. It is asserted that
it has been resolved to declare the duchy of Posen indepen-
dent of Prussia, with the exception of those parts which are
ail hut exclusively German. The Pelee, however, demand
the restoration of their country in its ancient limits, and con-
tend that they have as much right to claim the so-called
German parts of Posen, as Germany has to demand the so-
called Danish parts of Schleswig.
Gen. Von Willisen has issued•circular, under date April l 2
stating that he shall consider his mission at en end, as soon
as he finds that there is no longer any peaceful way of set-
tling the disturbances which exist in the grand duchy, and
that he shall immediately resign his post when he discovers
that, on the expiration of the second delay of three days (a
delay which expired this day), the armed Poles do not dis-
perse. He state., moreover, that he will not sacrifice any of
the rights of his countrymen—the Germans. Up to the de-
parture of the post no further news of any certainty had
been received from Posen, or rather from Schrods, where
the armed Poles are assembled. They had been summoned
to disperse on the 11th, but at the request of Gen. Von Wil-
lisen a delay was granted till the 14th.
Antic 15.—Further intelligence received in a well-in-
formed quarter enables me to repeat confidently the state-
ment—that Prussia is fully prepared to give up her portion
of Poland, and that she only awaits a favourable opportunity
for so doing. The chief obstacle to the speedy realisation of
the plan was the vehement opposition to it on the part of the
German inhabitants of that pert of the Prussian territory,
but that impediment has been removed—whether finally
depends upon the ultimate acquiescence of the Polee—by
Prussia declaring that the so-called German districts shall
be detached from the duchy and incorporated with the Ger-
manic confederation. The next great obstacle was the ap-
prehension that if Prussian Poland were too rashly or too
quickly declared independent, it might be induced, in the
first flush of success and under the first impulse of regained
liberty, to venture beyond its strength, and by turning upon
Russia bring down upon it, whilst still unprepared for so un-
equal a contest, all the gigantic powers of its inveterate toe. It
was justly feared that if " Prussian" Poland sho Ad be una-
ble to cope with that enemy, its defeat would enly bring
that antagonist closer than ever to Prussia proper
—an approximation not at all desirable However,
Prussia has now to choose between a civil war in the
grand duchy—for the Poles have gone too far to
yield—and the contingency of having the Russians nearer
the national. limits of the kingdom ; and it is now all but
official, that, whilst upholding the rights, at least whilst
attending to the wishes of the German race in the grand
duchy, it has fully resolved to allow the Poles to shift
for themselves and depart in peace. Moreover, Prussia just
now has quite enough to do in Schleswig Holstein, and it
cannot afford to waste its blood and treasure in Posen.
A somewhat serious division has sprung up between the
hoard of aldermen and the common council of this capital,
respecting the diminution of the hours of labour and the in-
crease of wages. Tho masons employed on the national and
civic edifices in the course of conaruction or reparation, de-
manded that the hours of labour be fixed from 6 um. to
6 p.m., and their wages raised from 221 to 25 either
groschen per day (about 2s. 6d.). The Minister of Finance
has declared that if that rate of wages be demanded, the
national works must cease. The board of aldermen having
received a communication to that effect, has resolved not to
sanction the required increase ; on the other hand, the com-
mon council has agreed to it. The masons—as well as their
assistants or labourers, who also demanded a proportionate
increase of wages—persist in their claims which will be, no
doubt, ultimately recognised, both by the Minister of
Finance and the aldermanic board.
During the last few days considerable excitement has pre-
vailed at Stettin and Swinemunde, in consequence of the
appearance of Danish 'resorts off both ports. Preparations
were made or a large scale at the latter place to prevent any
night landing on the part of the enemy. The citizens re-
mained under arms, chains were thrown across the harbour,
and other precautionary measures were taken.
Some surprise has been excited by the appearance of a
circular, addressed oy the directors of the government lottery
offices treprovincial agents, informing the latter that bills of
exchange will no longer be taken in part payment, tepee-
seating the present condition of affairs in the blackest
colours, and stating that even the best and most solid houses
are obliged now-a-days to suspend their payments.
It appears, by the l'osen Gazette of yesterday, that the
German town of Maseritz, in the grand ducky of Posen, has
resolved to place itself under the protection of the civic
.au-
thorities of Frankfort-on-the-Oder, as those of P osen,
it is
alleged, are either, unable or unwilling to support its rights.
The district of Polajewo has likewise pieced itself under the
protection of Bromberg. The fallowing paragraph appears
in the above journal :
Poem, April 13.—We are informed, and as we fully believe Mr.
reedy so, that there are at present from 30,000 to 40,000 Prmnan
troop. in the grand duchy, and still the Germans are he
and
ill-treated, still is the royal pent stopped, and still do the mad carts
exhibit the disfigured Prowess eagle. Aforecieer, the. royal authori-
ties at Sunalhhawo are obliged tone acroas the fronnere and to reek
refuge amongst the RUSK.= d. Underatand those facts
who can:
It is now certain that the Prussian military shot thirteen ,
Poles at Trzemeszno, and wounded many others during the
collision on the 10th inst. On the withdrawal of the Prussian
troops, the Polish inhabitants accused the Jews
and the
German inhabitants with having taken part againthem,
and shot four or five of the former and several of the. latter.
This evening we have no news respecting the Polish army
in and about Salted':
has taken place. Unfortunately the latest accounts from
nor is it known whether any conflict
Posen (up to the evening of the 12th) show that a very
bitter animosity still exists between the two races.
The Prussian StateGazrtte of the 16th, after giving
the resolution of the Diet at F
orankfort respecting
Schleswig-Holstein (published our journal on
Monday), says :
The execution of this resolve is imposed upon Prussia and
the states and the ten federal army corps, which have been
called upon to co-operate by the former decisions of the Diet.
None can doubt that our government is ready and
by the the confederation. A Prussian corps is already stationed
to execute the mandate tmpoeed upon it
mined energetically
Eenideergee,tisealliweey
we
are
eesurt4,
all the endeavours of our gorereiment to effect an on the best authority,
settlement have been fruitless.. The commander of the Pramicable
o-

Wexford
Kerry
Cork
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Total

Having thus stated to you the view I take of the course of
proceeding by which the Complete Suffrage Union would
best promote their object, I shall give efl,ct to that course by
every means in my power, as I consider that much of the
future prosperity and happim m i.f this empire depends on
the att.:aim, of class legislation.-1 remain your obedient
servant, JOSEPH Rom

ANALYSIS OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.
The following letter was addressed by Mr. Hume
to Mr Jensen M. Wilson, the secretory of the National Com-
plete Suffrage Union of Birmingham, in 1844:
LONDON, Fan. 8, 1844.
Sir,—l have received your letter of this date, requesting,
on behalf of the National Complete Suffrage Union Council,
that I would urge the redress of the grievances of the people
before the granting of supplies to her Majesty. In a letter
to Joseph Sturge, Esq., I explained the principle on which
the supplies were in former times stopped, until the griev-
ances of the people were redressed; and I pointed out the
great difference in the situation of the country then and now,
with the view of preventing an attempt being made in the
House of Commons which would be necessarily unsuccessful.
In farmer times, when the supplies were stopped by the
Commons, a majority of the members of the house were for
redressing the grievances of the people, and the crown
sad its ministers refused to do ars. The stopping advances
of money to be expended contrary to the interest, of the
people and to the wish of the majority of their represen-
tatives was therefore the only means which the
House of Commons had of constraining the crown;
but, at present, I believe the sovereign would willingly re-
dress the grievances of the people if the majority of the re
prmentatives in the House of Commons would advise her
so to do. The council will therefore, if I have made my-
self understood, see that any attempt to stop the supplies
at this time, would not only be useless, but utterly imprac-
ticable, until we can alter the composition of the House of
Commons, as the state of the representation, the unequal '
taxation, and all the grievances of which the people justly
complain, are sanctioned and supported by a majority of the
present house. By the constitution of the house, mid, the
Reform Bill of 1832, the middle class electors have the
power of returning a large majority of the House of Cora-
moos, as retormers or free traders, if they will but act
honestly for the public good ; and, therefore, in my opinion,
the whole object and aim of the Complete Suffrage Union
should be to induce the electors in cities and boroughs to act
honestly, and to elect members that will put an end to
class legislation and to all monopolies, political and com-
mercial. In that way the union can do essential good to
the cause they espouse ; they should join the Anti-Corn. Law
League, and the advocates of free trade, in their endea-
vours to convince the existing electors, that it would be
equally for their own advantage and for that of the country
at large to elect reformers and free traders for the next par-
liament. I despair of any effectual relief for the distresses of
the people from the present parliament—l give up all hope
of parliamentary or of any other useful reform from
it and I therefore advise the efforts of all re-
formers to be directed to the return of a good
House of Commons at the next general election. I
think the conduct of the landed aristocracy and the conti-
nued sufferings of the middle and working classes, will
greatly assist the efforts of the Complete Suffrage Union ; and
I will now show bow completely it is in the power of even
the present electors, if they will act honestly, to select a
House of Commons that would redress the existing griev-
ances. There are 3011 cities and boroughs, the Lnited
Kingdom, which return 405 members ; and there are 114
counties that return 253 members ; by which statement it
will be seen how easy the cities and boroughs, in spite of
the counties, could elect a large majority of liberal members.
I take it for grouted that in cities and boroughs the power
of electing is in the middle class electors, and thus they may,
if they please, return a majority of 152 over the county mem-
bets, supposing all these to be elected by the landed unit°.
cracy and opposed to reform and fret-trade ; and the
electors of cities and boroughs must be convinced that it will
be for their advantage so to act. It is impossible for any
reasonable man, who looks st the state of the representation
as it now exists, to believe that it will long be quietly tole-
rated by the unrepresented portion of the people. The
great inequalities in the representation are shown by the
following :
ABSTRACT FROM
P THE REPORT ON ELECTION
EXENSES B3B.

DI sun APRIL 17.

LA PLATA.—There have been later advice's re-
ceived in Liverpool from both Buenos Ayres and Monte
Video. The dates from the latter extend to the 16th Feb. ;
but with the exception of the capture of several vessels by
the French blockading squadron, there is nothing new to
report.

THE star of LAMARTINE is as yet in the ascendant,
and shines every day with greater brilliancy. His
aims and his career could not be hitherto regarded
without some mistrust, but courage and success cannot
fail to rally to him thousands of passive and indif-
ferent people, who have but to believe that he can
save them and the cause of order, in order to change
their attitudes immediately from that i.f timid ob-
servers to the eagerness of warm supporters.
When indeed M. LAMARTIN c first installed himself
at the Hotel de Ville, end was obliged to accept as
colleagues in the Provisional Government the
corps of the R•ifornie journal; when 30,000
of the combatants of Paris enrolled in the garde
nuhi,e, forbad the entrance of the regular soldiers,
sod constituted themselves the sole garrison and the
sole police ; when even the artisan class, abandoning
their labour, crowded either to discuss the organisa-
tion of labour, with Louts BLANC, or gathered
beneath the windows or in the halls of the Hotel de
Ville to awe the Provisi- nal Government, and give
the authority of terror to its more violent members;
when the national guard was disorganised, and the
journals, in fear of an invasion from the mob, uttered
their
.protests in fear and trembling—then, indeed,
one might tremble for the days and the reputation, as
well as for the policy, of LAIARTINE.
He has held on in his career, however, with wonder-
ful constancy and courage ; has harangued, has dis-
suaded, cottended. turned aside violence by gentle
means, and now shows himself prepared to repel it
by force. Nor in those momeutous weeks has
I:AMARTINE condescended to push up his government
and ascendancy by clap-trap promises, or by sacri-
ficing the interests of his country and of Europe to
the maintenance of his personal position. I)unng
the same period we have seen the King of PRUSSIA
tad the King of SARDINIA sacrificing faith, friendship,
alliance, and consistency to the mere selfish aim of
acquiring a little popularity. LAM IRTIN E was more
strongly tempted to appeal to Fi el.el. pasions. Yet
no; in his replies to the Poles, the Germans, the
Irish, the Belgians, his words as a public man have
been as reserved, as disinterested, as noble, as private
and chivalric honour could dictate.
Notwithstanding this nobleness of conduct, fears for
LAMARTINE'S influence were not diminished. The
dictatorial insolence of the provincial delegates of the
government, the wrong move of a piwtion of the na-
tional guards to protest against the abolition of their
tank companies, the prevalence of the more demo-
`lithe portion of the government in their scheme
of reorganising the national guard, and enrolling
it it large numbers of the operative classes,
—all these led one to fear that M. I,AmIRTINE was
nearer the truth in those chapters of his history, where
the pusillanimity and nullity of the bmtry,ois class is
depicted, than when he attempted to restore order
sad conduct government without apparently leaning
on either middle or lower class.
Fortune, however, in this instance, has favoured
the brave. The constancy and courage of LAMARTINZ
have need him. Not oaly have the moderate
of the Provisional Government adhered to him, but
men such as MARRAST, stern republicans, standing
half-way between the bourgeoisie and the people;
they too have rallied to LAMARTINE, and left the anar-
chists to depend upon the clubs and the professional
tevolutionists.
, These, offended in the person of one of their chiefs,
chose to commence an bneute on Sunday. No prepa-
rations were made beforehand to meet it ; no panic
wo. excited—no precautions taken. But at the
very moment when the iinente was gathering? the

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Scutland

8436.263
609,8 n
1,500.107

Groat Britain .
In Ireland.....

10,4480141
LIMAN

17.473.750

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I Boroatts j NV•latiss•

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F~iee . .....

6.754.7 d
196.311
866.00 T

Greet. Britain ...

5,1316, Ii
739.eirt

Number of Males I Number of
above twenty-one filietora in
yearn 1839-40.
43,414 3,587
63,543 1,212
171,873 3,926
73,3141 3,922
27,623 1,152
92,999 3,729
463,042 17,418
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