The Express.
London, England, 1847-04-20 00:00:00

power of the parish authorities and local boards to
i job, and blunder, and squander ; to begin work
which, when completed, will be useless, to leave other
work uncommenced, because they want the knowledge
which can see ita necessity, and the intelligence which
can comprehend its economy in the long ran, then only
on this interpretation this bill ii an interference with
self-government.
But if it be desirable that the ratepayers should '
have the advice and co-operation of more extensive
knowledge than the parish can furnish, of a control
which shall accommodate their special arrangements
to those of surrounding districts, so as to conduce to
one great end, then will this bill furnish a means for
this and similar advantages, which does not now exist,
and cannot exist under the present system.
The machinery of this measure, it cannot be too often
repeated, will supply the place, not of self-govern-
ment, but of Bed-misgovernment, or of no
government. Where there is self-government—
meaning wise and good self-government—
it enlarges instead of narrowing its powers
and facilities, by transferring to one jurisdic-
tion matters now scattered among many,and bringing
under the control of the representatives of the rate-
payers concerns now altogether out of their dominion.
It may be as well to remind the public at large
of what is really staked on this measure. It is the
first effective interference of the state with a question
involving the very foundations of public prosperity.
It is the result of investigations unequalled for
patience, extent, and scientific skill in the conduct of
them. It is the embodiments of the deliberat, con-
victions of men different in station, various in pur-
-1 suits, antagonists in political opinion, only united in
good-will to their fellow-men. It has taken the
charitable experience of clergymen, the sick-bed labours
of doctors, the gaol revelations of prison governors
and chaplains, the analytic power of science, and the
sustaining energy of christian philosophy—all
at once, and working long—to brimg together the re-
sults which are garnered in this measure.
The real interests of the public ere staked upon its
success. The supposed dignity of the parish is in-
terested in its overthrow. The public has the dice in
its hand. As it throws, the game will go.
As the parishes are speaking, let the public speak
also. Let petitions go up from every place and every
class interested in the success of such a measure.
The Health of Towne Association has prepared drafts
of such petitions. There is the landowners' petition,
for the measure will increase fertility ; the house-
holders' petition, for the measure will increase the
efficiency of parochial control ; the medical men's
petition, for the measure will diminish sick-
ness ; the clergymen's petition, for the measure
will remove the most formidable barriers to
the instruction and improvement of the poor ;
the working men's petition, for the measure will give
them means of increased cleanliness, health, decency
and order; and the general petition—the prayer of
every trade, rank, age, sex—for that measure will
help all to advantages which all will feel, and remove
mischiefs from which all must suffer. Against the
gathered thunder of those voices, the small shrill note
of the parish, vestry, contractor, sexton, scavenger,
and all, may rise and welcome !

The Paris journals of Sunday are occupied with
the debate in the Chamber of Deputies of the
previous day. The Journal des Mbats vainly
endeavours to slur over the matter as one of those
parliamentary pucrilities which do not deserve even a
passing notice. The truth is, the matter has proved
vexatious in the extreme, and a serious check to the
cabinet of M. Guizot. A petition was preferred to
the chamber by an individual, praying fur certain
measures to be taken having reference to the memory
of Napoleon : first, to relieve his family from the
operation of the law which prohibits their return to
France; secondly, to substitute his effigy upon the
cross of the Legion of Honour for that of Henry IV.
now used ; and thirdly, to restore to the town now
called Bourbon-Vendee its original appellation of Napo-
leon-Vendee. The cabinet spared no exertion to
secure an entire rejection of the petition, by
getting the chamber to pass to the order of the day,
but in this it signally failed, and however unim-
portant in a practical point of view three
questions may be regarded, the check is the most
serious one which the ministry have sustained during
the present session. The cabinet, by pleading state
necessity, obtained a bare majority to pass to
the order of the day on that part of the petition
which demanded the recall of the imperial
family. But on the other parts they failed, the
chamber voting almost unanimously to refer the ques-
tions of the change in the effigy of the decoration and
the name of Bourbon-Vendee to the president of the
council. The reporter of the petition, M. le Baron
Lecoulteux, brought himself, by some indiscreet lan-
guage, unaer the lash of M. Odillon Hermit, and re-
ceived a severe castigation. M. Hebert, the Keeper
of the Seals, who on this occasion was the mouth-piece
of the cabinet, received some bitter rebukes. MM..
Guizot and Duchitel did not think proper to break
silence. Nothing could exceed the excitement on the
announcement of the result of the division. The
satisfaction of the chamber and the disappointment of
the ministers were equally undissemble&

The journals and correspondence of Madrid of the
13th inst. have brought the intelligence of certain
popular manifestations directed towards the Queen in
her promenades, which, whatever be their origin,
'have been attended with much inconvenience. It
appears that on the afternoon of Sunday the 11th,
the Queen, accompanied by the Infanta Josephine,
proceeded, as is her custom, on a promenade in an
open carriage driven by herself. Another royal car-
riage followed, in which was the Infant Don Fran-
cisco de Paulo, her father in-law. Numerous crowds
of persons had previously collected along her in-
tended route. On arriving at the fountain of Cybele,
her Majesty was saluted by the acclamations of an
immense crowd which waited for her. A number of
persons were ready to present to her a crown of
flowers, and various poetical compositions printed on
silk. One individual approached her carriage, the
progress of which was stopped by the great num-1
bm of persons which blocked up the road, and
addressed her Majesty in the following terms :
" Madam,—The liberal people, the friends of their
constitutional Queen, of liberty, and of national inde-
pendence, offers this feeble testimony of its respect for
your royal person, which your Majesty will deign to
accept, and not forget your people, who have received
you with such enthasisam." The Queen answered,
" Yes ; I am a Spaniard :" and accepted the garland.
At the same time a number of white doves were Übe-
lrated, bearing various inscriptions, one of which was
iltaken by the Queen and given to the Infant Don
Francisco ; and another was confided to her chief
' equerry. Her Majesty, according to the report of the
Eco del Comercio, appeared to be gratified with these
Imarks of enthusiasm. Other journals represent the
I scene as being most inoonvenient and disrespectful to
the royal person. When the people shouted " Long
live the Queen ! and liberty for ever!" her Majesty
replied, "Yes: liberty for ever! and to prove your
devotion to it, leave me at liberty to continue ray
drive."
Private letters represent the scene as being an
exphrion of popular enthusiasm which had at first
no seditious character, the manifestations being con-
fined to cicala in honour of the constitutional queen,
liberty, and the constitution. Later, however, on the
return of the Queen from her drive, the vacifiratione,
of the people are represented to have assumed a
more grave and significant character. Such exclama-
tions as "Death to the moderados ?' " Death to the
King !" " Long live the natioaal guard!" were heard.
The crowd at last became so dense as completely to
stop the progress of the royal party, and the civic
guard were compelled to open a passage for the
carriages. At this moment a shot was fired ftom
the crowd which wounded one of the police. the
Queen appeared slightly intimidated at one par-
ticular mosant,. wham the crowd closed round -her
ctrrisgo said garoartoodasd her person. On Monday
it was famed that Shags: Scenes would bb repeated,
but pleat of reprise* were *plied; sad 'the
Qom* WantiMfoitthiditainetiude; she lied
Is? me Mort, a poach whisk she had die-
(hi Monday, tba:Miniider of the Interior being
quest:broad in tbelthamber respecting -them circum-
stances., declared that they were altogether Unforeseen
and unexpected, but that strict measures would be
takep:tbr the maintenance of order and the I,enriv-at
the royal person. It was believed, however, thiM the
tr,inisters had obtained a clue to the discovery of
the authors of the disorders, and that it in feat
originated with the agents of the party re-
curtly expelled from the government and the
palace. On the evening of Su.iday two individuals

beet been arrested, M. Avareleta, who was sent under
an escort to a prison in Alioant, and Chico, late
minister of police, who was sent to a prison in Almeria.
A proclamation was issued by the Minister of Grace
and Justice, on the evening of Sunday, announcing
regulations for the repression of similar proceedings.
M. Olozaga arrived at Madrid on the evening of the
Ilth. The proceedings el Sunday appeared to give
the Queen no alarm oe messiness on her own account,
as she continued to appear at the theatres and bull-
fights as before, and was every where received with
the same enthusiasm.

CONSTANTINOPLE, MARCH 31.
The three or four British merchants who reside in this
capital, set on foot a few weeks since asuisseription for the Irish.
In performing this act of christiau charity, there worthy men
determined that none ahould parielpate in it but true and
loyal protestants. In obeying obis of the dictates of heaven
by contributing to the relief of their starring countrymen,
they were at least resolved to do so sit respectable company.
There has existed here for some time past a charitable so-
ciety, called the Conti remyeesi St. Vincent de Paul. The
members of this socirtj wishing to assist in what they consi-
dered a benevolent object, prop .eed to contribute to the sub-
scription; but to their great sea prise their offer was rejected,
on the ground that these worth, British merchants could not
associate themselves with papists, even in t:.e performance of
an act of charity. As, howess r, the members of the society
of St. Vioeeut de Paul did not exactly see the justice of this
reasoning, they applied for advice to Mr. Wtilesley, the
English minister, who at one • cons rated to assist them in
every way in their charitsli'e uhilertsking. When this
reached the ears of the ~00d protests cats of Galata,
they immediately changed th,ir intention of giving
the money they bad s 'fleeted for the relief of
the starving lrmh, and devoted it to the relief
of the poor of Great Britain. The subscription,
however, undertaken by the Conference of St. Vincent de
Paul, has had an immense succeed. People of every nation
and of every creed have joined in it ; and it has united, in a
sentiment of common charity, the Manumm, den, the Chris-
tian. the Jew, and the Pagsn. It has created throughout
the Ottoman empire • sympathy for the sufferiuge at the
unhappy Irish which, in • East, had never before existed
for any Christian people. The Sultan himself, the head of
the Mahommeelem world, tree suttee:our of the prophet, in
sending to Mr. Wellesley t e sum of 1,0001. for tee relief of
the Irish, accompanied the gift by exprtseions roneeive.l in
the noblest spirit of philan• :ropy and umversal benevolence.
Each of the ministers am: high leuctienaries of the empire
are preparing to follow the sample of his Majesty, and there
is every reason to believe t ,at the money, which has already
been deposited in the has of tile. Wellesley, will, in a len
days, be increased to several thousand pounds. No
people in the world er• morn keenly alive be acts
of injustice than the Turks, and amongst perhaps
no other people are the orinciples of • benevolence
more strongly impresse,. Charitable foundations ore
more numerous in Turk. y than in any part of the world,
and acts of private bounty are here, scrimps, more frequent
and more general than in the Ctirciuso ',shoos of Europe.
The example of exclusive intolerance, given by the mess
chants of Galata, produce:l a general feeling of indignation,
the more so, as it con; dined strangely with the *nobl,
charities of the society of St. Vincent de l'seul. In their
establishment at (Salem, co .h day may be seen crowds of the
unfortunate of eve ry nation and of every creed, who receive
medicine, food, or clothe-, as their wants :may require.
Suffering is the only title eecessary. There is no question
of country or of religion ; that one is wretched is enough.
The other duties of the ne sobers of the conference are to
seek out those who bide their borrows in their miaerable
homes, or who are imps :oned there by disease. It is a
charity like this, which in tenderstood in a country, where
only that is understood which speaks to the senses;
it is a charity like this, which had done more to
humanise the people of this empire than could
have been effected by thousands of battidekeriffs.
The news of the expected arrival of a British squadron in the
Piraeus, the concentration of troops on the frontiers of
Greece, and the increased wrtivity in the war department,
excited much attention at Constantinople. The French
ambassador observing to his colleagues the critical condition
of the question at imu • between the two cabins,
proposed a rethement by the athitristion of a European
sovereign. The Austrian and Prua,ian ministers were
ready to accede to thin au. ;cation, bat the ansbame4ors of
England and Russia declit, d such a proceeding without
lurther instructions from tit it government. All diploma-
, tic relations were to have ome•ed on the Ist of April.

MALTA, Arun, s.—The affairs of Turkey and her
dependencies are at present the chief topics which interest
the politicians of this place. The Locust steamer left this
on the 2nd inst., with imports it despatches from the British
cabinet for Sir Edward Lyoi.e, and for the senior naval
caner in the Levant. Cap. tin Collier. We anxiously
await intelligence from Tunia ; French intrigue will, no doubt.,
ultimately embroil that regency with the Sultan. The
evected appearance of Prince De Juinville in these waters,
with • squadron of four line of battle ships and
two steam-frigates on Ids way to Athens, adds • some
significance to what is p "log is Greece. The
Ripon is still here, the dell ctive state of her engines
preventing her from proceedin; to Alegsndria. On her
arrival the Arid got up her steam and proceeded with the
mails and passengers to Alegniii:ria. It was fortanetp that
there were but few passengers, or some must had Waited at
Malta to be taken on by the direct French boat of the 7th,
aid have run every risk of missing the mail for Sues.
MOROCCO.—Tyxts.—A letter in the Toid,nnais
from Gerbi, in the regency of Tunis, states that M.
Reggio, the British consular rgent there, had been ill-
treated publicly in the market place, alter • dispute with
some of the dealers. On arriving at his residence, M.
Reggio was waited upon by the civil and military authorities,
who were greatly astonished to find that the aggressors
belonged to the Bey's troops. An English draconian was
sent to the Where in command, who replied that if any
attempt was made to arrest the offenders, the ether troops
(geneses), would rise against the authorities. A courier was
immediately despatched to Sir Thomas Heade, British Con-
sul-central at Tunis, to inform him of the circumstance.
Sir homes Reade waited upon the Bey and desnansion that
the should be arrested, and the goueses recalled
from erbi. The Bey complied with the first demand,
and sant threesuperior officers to carry out his ceders..

ebt (5,0K1L
H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent visited the Queen
yesterday at Buckingham Palace, end remained to lnetheon
with her Majesty and Prinee Albert.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert honoured the per-
formance of the French plays with their presence yesterday
evening. The royal suite consisted of the Countess of Mount
Edgecumbe, Hon. Mir Cavendish, Lord Byron, MsjoikOen.
Wimple. and Captain the Hon. A. K. tiordon.

Mr. Bancroft, the American Minister, returned to
town, on Saturday. from PitiS,
The Earl of Denbigh had an interview with Sir
George Grey —Sir .1. Id Neill had else en interview with
the Right Run. Baronet yemerday at the Rome Office,—Mr.
Citifies Butler haul an interview oith the Chantsllor of the
Exchequer at his official residence in llowningotreet.—Mr.
Marshall and a deputation had an interview with the Right
lion. Edward Strutt at the office of the Commissioners of
Railways, in Great George-street.
Fliac.bffi
The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for 'Anil had
a committee meeting at their office in Whitehall- •
Despatches were sent off from the Colonial ce
for the Governor of Ceylon, We Cape of Good Hope, agd the
North AllleriOLll provinces.

GENERAL CONFERENCE OF DE,LEGATES
IN OPPOSITION TO THE HEALTH OF TOWNS
BILL. _

Yesterday a general conference of the delegates of
the metropolitan parishes, of Brighton, end other proadecial
towns, in oppwitioa to • he Health of Towns Bill, was held at
the Court-house, Marylebone. The Rev. Dr. Spry toirk the
chair. Sir B. Hall, But . M.P., Sir J. Hamilton, Bart. end
a large number of the vestry of !dm 'these wire pri:sent.
The rev. attire:lan, in opeelog the basiasse, declared kis
opinion to be that the propeeedlbill was most obeesioas to
the feelingeof all who desired to maintain the bleeder of
local freedom ; it was not to the object, Mato the machinery
of the bill he objected. The Mil win bleed on the principle
of centralization, and not upon mpreeentation, end was, in
fact, a bill for the increase of government patronage.
Sir B. Hell concurred in whet had bent said by Dn'llipry
be had already intimated to Lord J. Reseal the determine,-
'Coo of every part in the metropolis to mist the bill. If
it should be attempted to pee it into a law this eseden, be
felt confident the attempt would be defeated. Mr. 0. Daniell
said a more hamfeeeet stommote-them. the proposing of this
bill had never been eimiejaas
.the total repeal of every
locally-elected repreireathin by any ministry what-
ever. Mx. C. Davis, of St. Lcooard, Shoreditch, said the
trustees of that parish were determined to give lASI. all
the oppolition to their power. Mr. Barnet, of St 'a-
hathe-Bast concurred with the other speakers and the
determination of the peril t by which he was delegated to op-
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MUM*. A. 'umber to resolution., in accordance with the
views of the meeting, were then carried, and a vote of thanks
having been pared to me *airman. theiseeting separated.
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