The Express.
London, England, 1857-04-24 00:00:00

EMIGRATION IV A U 8 724L14,

The tide of emigration to Aastralia, both from
the ports of London and Liverpool, appears to be rapidly on
the incremo. During the poet year 276 vowels sailed from
the Thames, of a tonnage of 200,012 tone ; tend 125 yea-
sole left the Mersey, of an aggregate tonnage of 140,652
tons. The tonnage of the %easels leaving the Thames
averaged 750 tone tech, and those from the Mer-
sey 1,125 tone. Seventeen vessels, tarrying government
amigrants,wae despot,. lied during the year from the Mersey,
chiefly from the Black Ball and White Star lines of packets,
and 7,000 persons were sent from that port by the Emigra-
tion Commissioner*. The emigrants embarked not for Mel-
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bourne Duly, es large numbers were destined for Sydney,
Geelong, and Adelaide. In the dosing month. of the year
&swell as lathe Mark and June quarter. private emigration
became exceedingly seller, and above 16,000 wren.. left the
Mersey In the ships of James Balms and Co., GIN, Bright,
and Co., Pilkington and Wilson, P. Magee, and E. Thomp-
son. During the year Jame. Baines and Co. seat out in
private remelt' 7,703 passengers, and 3,412 passengers in
government vessel; Messrs. Pilkington and Wilson con-
veyed in private vessel 3,670 emigrants, and in government
ships 1,662 passengers; and Messrs. Gibbs, Bright, and Co.,
sent out in private vessels 1,300 emigrants. The govern-
ment returns of the entire emigration for 18.36 give 22,801
passenger., of which number 11,101 sailod under the " Black
Ban" flag.
In the end three menthe of the present year the same line
of packets has conveyed from these shores--in January,
1,000 passengers ; in February, 2,100 ; and in March, 1,000.
In the present month of April the number will exceed 2,000,
These Plumbers include both government and private
emigninta. A still mere active emigration la likely to
mark the preemie as compared with the peat year. After
June the Victoria portion of it is to he managed in England
by Mr. Childers, a commissioner appointed by the local go-
vernment, and the other portions of the colonies will remain
for the present in the hands of the existing commissioners is
England. Mr. Childers will have, we understand, a salary
of 1,2001. per annum, and he will have power to appoint trim
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sub-commiseionere, fur certain districts in the kingdom, to
assist him in his duties, whose salaries will be fixed at 600 i.
per smaum each.
Of the emigrants, a large number are Irish (although
America is the favourite outlet for enterprising natives of
the attar We)' but by far the larger numbers ere supplied
from England and Scotland, including numerous drafts from
the mining distrists of the north of England.

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ANECDOTES OP TILE SPEAKERSHIP.
Among the many personages distinguished by
probity as well as talents who have filled the exalted pet of
Speaker of the Rows of Commons, there was en exception
(observes a writer in the Times) in a man of rank, stigma-
tised by ono historian se " • hireling prostitute,' by another
as "bold, adroit, and corrupt;' by whom it was disgraced.
This was Sir John Trevor, who in the reign of William 111.
(1695) woe deceased by a resolution of the home guilty of
taking a bribe of 1,000 guineas on peeling a certain bill, for
which he was degraded from the chair and expelled the
house, having to endure the humiliation of putting the quee- A
tion of his own guilt. This was at a period, it must be re-
membered when, as Johnson observes, " the contagion of
avarice tainted every mind," and even ministers of state
dabbled in corruption. A Chancellor of the Exchequer
(Aistabie) wee expelled the house and sent to the Tower for
his connexion with the South Sea bubble.
The most intractable eletoent in the house during the
greater part of Mr. Abbot's reign, as Speaker, was the
notorious Mr. John Fuller—Jack Fuller, as he loved to •
call himself—the member for Suess, whose extravagances,
especially when he visited the house after dinner, were an
opprobrium to it. Filler Was a large, bulky man—Mr.
Wilberforce describes hie person accurately as "rearm and
ponderous"—and, although often vaunting his family, he
affected the man of low life, and was what he affected. A
private friend of Mr. Abbot, he treated him in his official
capacity with contempt. All efforts to restrain his vulgar
insolence by cries ,of order " were futile. He defied the
house, bullying the members, whom he upbraided with
being afraid of "the little follow in the big wig."
His speeches abounded in personalities, and wore not entre-
quality gerniehed with oaths. "Thom who don't like Eng-
land," he once said, "d— 'em, let 'em leave it." Being
celled to order, he denied that ire was anything disorderly
in the raiment, which he said he had hexed given as &toast.
The career of this " barbarian," as he wee properly termed,
reached its climax, when an oeccuresee took place to which,
perAnpe, no American House of Assembly could furnish a
wand. On the '27th February, 1810, while the LOUre was
in committee hearing evidence touching the expedition to the
Scheldt, Fuller entered inebriated, kicked about a chair
placed for bard Chatham, assailed the Chairman ivith brutal
oaths, and produced the utmost confusion. The Chairman
was ordered to report his conduct (the motion being
made by the Spanker), and when the house rceunitd he was
ordered into custody. But he resisted and broke from the
serjeant, who Iras obliged to •=2•111.21 the otorosgm is kW
aid, and the disturber was at length removed by main form.
Mr. Wilbert:woe, in one of his letters, compares him to a
mad bull. 'Never surely such a scene in tfie House of •
Commons," is the entry in his diary. A motion made for
his release was negatived ; but upon a subsequent day he
was brought to the bar, and reprimanded there in the
Speeker's most caustic terms. "When committed to a
custody which ought to have been obligatory upon your
end your honour' " he observed, " you forcibly broke
=hat restraint, and entered these walls with clamour
and outrage unparalleled.' Of this disgraceful scene a very
subdued and mitigated description is, perhaps discreetly,
given by Hansard.
The change which has taken place in the form of address
adopted by Speakers when prownting themselves, after elec-
tion, for the approbation of the sovereign ie worthy of no-
tice. tp to Mr. Abbot's time, the Speaker elect, when
announcing the choice of the Common'', professed ha utter
incompetency, and prayed that they might be "commanded"
to proceed to a new election. This form was at first followed
by Mr. Abbot, but in his later addresses he merely naked that
the house might be "allowed to rescind their choice, end
elect another person." Mr. Manners Sutton went a atop
further, saying that, if it be the pleasure of the Prince Re-
gent to,dintpprove the choirs, the House of Commons maid
Imes no dieficulty in selecting a better qualified pergola."
Mr. Abacromb "humbly submitted himself to his Ma-
jesty's royal wil and pleasure," a form adopted by Lis
sue-
t> moori dr lam Speaker s .
111 MIN" days thi specious modesty was sometimes car-
del Is ea absurd length. There is upon record a disqualify-
allow at Speaker Yelverton to Elizabeth, in which ho
dam& to =Mute particular". "My estate," said he,
"is nothing correspondent for the maintenance of
this dignity; for my father, dying, left me a
younger brother, and nothing to me but my bare II
annuity. Then, growing to man's rotate, and some small
practice of the law, I took • wik, by whom I have had
many children, the keeping of us all being a great im-
poverishing to my eatate, and the daily living of us
all nothing but my daily industry. Neither from my person
nor my natwe doth this choice arise ; for he that supplioth
this Owe ought to be a man big and comely, stately and well
spoken, his 'Moe great, his carriage natjestical, his Mann,
haughty, and his purse plentiful and heavy ; but, contrarily,
the stature of my body M small, n'Yoolf not so well'oPoitone
my voice low, my carriage lawyer-like and of the common
&Mien, my nature rift and bashful, my purse thin, light,
end never yet plentiful." He omitted ens qualification
which to indispensable at the present day—namely, a robust
eonstitution, capable of bearing the severe tax which the
labours of his ethos now impose upon a Speaker oft he House
of Commons.

Sratenranz.--Some weeks ago a curious instance
of the deadly power of that vegetable poison Hex comics, or
etrychnine. took place at Woollaton, near Nottingham. Rats
infested the menses occupied by one of the gamekeeper+ in
the employ of Lord Middleton to such en extent that the
keeper deemed it advisable to have wetrecos o
effthect. e poTheitha
above named, which, of course, the dd
public,
dead bodies of the rats were thrown upon a heap of manure,
and when in a state of decompoeition were partly conthmed
ijace it show. that the dangers incident to its con-
by the keeper's poultry, whith immediately fell a prey to
the power of the poison end died. This instance of he
etrength of the poison remaining in the deed bodice flute
victims for so long s time ought to be a scathing to the
toluenes in the body sitar death should be guarded against
th
wi tho utmost re.
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