The Express.
London, England, 1850-01-01 00:00:00

1:22. t 7
~.;01

Total
The schools ecnnected with the htsdr..s ruiver.ity
been established for the educAtion of Ott
classes of the communi,y. They are maititaibed exc.°.
by Rovernment ; and the fees coll.-c ed it .112
which a portion el the expenses is met, constitute the

come from; other maces. -
PROVINCIAL SCROOLB AT TANJORE, COMBACONI X. ts

K&XNAD.

Expenses—Salaries
locome—Government grant
These schools afford instruction to the natives a Is
and are exclusively maintained by wivernmen.t.
°OVE1:011NT SCHOOL LT NEOAPATAM
EipellsBB,—Salaries

income—Government grant
This school was established fur the educatton and me.,•e•
Dance of children of European descent, and is exclue.ees
maintained by government.
SCHOOL AT NELLORI TOIL PAUPER Stns.
Eapentat—Salaries
income—Government grant
This school was established tor the education ot
children, and is exclusively maintained be goveratnen-
ENOLISH SCH OOLS AT PCLICAT,

E

IncOme--Goveroment grant
The expense, which II exc'sniscly borne by gave nan
charged in the accounts under the bead "
payment."
PROTESTANT ®C=OOL AT MADCRA.

iloi

Incotne--Goverament grant
The expense, which is esclusisi.ly borne by govern' ui • ' •
charged in the acdounts under the head Ecciesissii;,.. 4e
partateat."

CHARITY SCHOOL AT ANSIXOO.
—rpenses—Salariss
Income—Government grant
This school appears to have been established lot the
cation of natives, and the expense, which is :setsce,-1
barite by government, under their orders, dated 'lie
1830, is charged in the amounts audir the heart .•
and charitable allowsnces of a general nature."
TOTAL EXPINSiS (COMPANY'S RUPYMYI .
Salaries 1:36,14t;
I Odwr expenses

Total tg,Sill
TOTLL INCOMI (COMPANY•S licrattel•
Government groat C71.26
34,:kx4
Other wares

Total

Note—The " other expenses " are not, in several
shown separately from the " cutleries " in the st Jaw'
received In this office' and they are therefore ben
under the latter head.
(Errors escaptail. Signed)
T. V. BTOIIIIOVMII, AOCOUntwat
Fort Eit. George, Accountant-General's Office,
October 91, 1843.

A PROTISCTIONIBT MZETINO was held yeatint
at Thorpe-le-Soken, Baez Sir Jams Tuftll, Sat.. m
wu prseent, but Ilvior B;reeforA, M.P., wa unable
attend, on &coolant of serious indiqmtitin. kir. 'Dot
Nunn of lianningtree, was Galledto the chair, and ,
tinti•fiee.trade remolationa were adopted. •
NOT RUINED TNT !—Orders have been Wet'
by the various shipbutdere of Sunderland tturie4 the "
for fifty new meth of a luge tioassege.—OoterAead t*, •

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NEW YORK, Liao. 18.
„et my last commueication, the House of Re re.
oretst.see. at Washington, has been daily *age in
ongrueouriog to elect a speaker. A great num of
Totes his he ri taken, but without success up to the
mom tit of writing this letter. Two circumstances
reihsr intereeting have occurred. Tee one, was the
oupo.ure Of a democratic member, of the name of
prose, who attempted to succeed to the post by a
scent understanding with the free seders, while to
his ~en peculiar political friends he was passing as a
proselsviry candidate. The deception being
ecci-
droully discovered on the floor, he was indignantly
dropped by those whg had at fl et warmly supported
ma, and he retired from the contest with a earns.
tum so damaged that he can never again receive the
favor of ary party in the United States. Such
trhl. ry is nicer forg:ven in this country, and the
ett•rder is now most properly designated by the
Dime of Mr. " Dane Brown." The other
mar the giving the "he direct" by_ Mr.
Peer, • northern member, to Mr. Meade,
a Leathern member, a challenge ffflowed at once, but
explanations were entered into, through mutual
fria.b. which, it is said, have made the meeting at
Bladeraburg unnecessary. For many years the
southern members have been able to drive through
corers many of their Immure% by the process of
intim', Mice. They are generally professed dullists,
the northern members are not so, and the consequence
is, that the shooting gallery has been a very usual
proinsnede with the `• chivalry." Mr. Doer, who is
a men of excellent sense, tine education, and a
deseeid lot of Alexander Doer, better known in our
revoMtionary history as I.lrd 8 irling, berme, on this
occasion, to have departed from the line of " safe pre-
cedent," sad to have resolved not to flinch even from
the arbitration of the du-110.
On Dec. 17, the House of Assembly adjourned
after balloting 51 times far Speaker without any re-
sult. Daring the earlier ballots the whig candidate,
Winthrop, seemed the favourite : he stood long at
101 rote& heyend which, however, he could not get.
The camber of the house being 228, to make an ab-
solute mejority required 114 votes. After the 39th
belot Wiithrop was withdrawn, and at the
40th, Brown, of Indiana, a dement, headed
the list will 109 votes. On the 40th ballot Brown
received 112 votes. Hereupm a stormy discumion
ensued. Moran. Brown and Wilen3t (of the Wilmot
proviso) were called upon to state the terms of their
understanding. After some f nciog they complied,
and immediately several members exclaimed they
bad been deceived. On the subsequent ballots the
members who received most votes never rose above
,t. The appearance of matters at the adjournment,
co the 17tb, gave less promise of a speedy termination
et •he struggle than any of the preceding days.
Nleanwhile the Senate have notified to the Pre-
eideit that they have organised themselves and are
reedy to proceed to the business of the session. A
communication to their house from the President was'
cocs.quence expected on the 18th of December,
V,e day subsequent to the latest dates from Wash-
.ceton.

In my last I pointed out to you t'..e fact that, while
it ma, appear rather unfavourable to the character of
the present Congress, that the organization of the
how* is so long cl•layed and so embarrassing, yet in
miry the republic is receiving no damage by the
deists, as very little basica. is ever done
twit after the holidays. The threats of disunion
made by the southern members do not amount to
mph. We are used to them. The south dare net
di•eolve the Union, they could not keep their slaves
in chi ck for six months together, but would become
the theatre of a bloody servile war. The ultra-aboli
tioniete would send money and arms into these states
at once, and glory in the desolation they created.
The question must finally be determined in Congress
by the vote on the reception of California into the
Lidos with its present constitution, which absolutely
prthibits for ever within eta territories all involuntary
servitude except fur crime. The south, which pro-
claims with such zeal the absolute eov:reigoty of the
states, is es'opped from denying the absolute sove-
reignty of California. It is impossible to get over this
and be consistent. On the other hand, the northern
'twee have allowed the south to pass such laws as
they pked reenlatine tho admission of fee. negroes
into their territory ; they have even submitted to have
the general coastwise commerce of the country
sheckled by restrictions enforced by fines and for-
feitures having relation solely to their own pe:uliar
lustitntior.k.

But the truth is, we have become so strong as to
be able batter to bear small evils than ever we were
before. You mu.t remember one thing, that the
riddle of self-government has been solved here. What
all nations have been puzzled to find cut we have dis-
covered, viz., ttat men m.y live together safely and
happ ly, and yet be without any mutes, but them-
selves; that personal comfort, affluence, and ambition,
may be gratified without blucdy intestine wars or the
retribution of the gallows; and that interests, differ-
ing with climate, sail, and locality. may be after all
fused into one common bond. The perception of th;s
fact, if European eyes cannot attain it, is universal
here; and such have been the advances in education
among us within the last twenty-five years, that even
the commonest people understand its whole bearing.
Since I am on this subject (and it is an interesting
one), let me enlarge upon it for a few moments.
There are now no more marked divisions of races
or religions than there were at the time
of the first confederation. We then had puri-
tans and presbyterians in some colonies ; Dutch,
German, and reformed churches in others; Swedes,
in others, and Roman catholic" in others. The slave-
holding interest, which we owe to the treaty of
Utrecht and our Engh.h mother, was so strong and
was sustained by so many of our good and great
men, that we were compelled to respect it in the for-
mation of our constitutios. By yielding to this one

evil, we have escaped many more.
In these respects, then, we are in no more difficulty
or doubt than we were at first. Bur, besides this
view of the subject, there is another and a much more
striking oar. It is this: We have, on many former
occasiote, passed through far greater difficnkies than
any now before us. No person, who reflects for a
moment on the singular emergencies that have
threatened ns, can reasonably doubt as to what is our
." manifest destiny."
The very first effort to adopt the constitution of
17'.7 led to the most violent contention, among the
people of ibis cauntry. The federalists and anti-fede-
ralists became en hostile as actually to carry their
political opposition into their private affairs. I have
often heard from the lips of the venerable men of those
dais the most thrilling narratives of the dreadful
scenes which took place before the constitution was
finally adopted.
'luring the European wars of Napoleon, as is well
known, our rising commerce became the alternate
prey of England and France. When Jay's treaty,
which more out of these, was promulgated, there was
Apia a mast violent outbreak of party spirit, and ap-
parently the greatest danger of a division in ease-
quente. When the orders in council, and the Berlin
aril Milan decrees began to exclude our *hips from
the ocean, either u fugitives or captives, the retalia-
tory Olelinfill of our government, the embargo and
eon. intercourse acts, which partook of the character of
a mid Chinese remedy, rather than of the bravery of
a bold neat noes, parts* again divided in the mot t
funous manner. Meetings were held every where
by tie ft deralies, denouncing them' acts of their own
government, and tallies epos the people to resist
them at all hazards. la loamy cease, indeed, the laws
were sueteefully resisted.
When at length after years of earring, spoliation,
and insult—when our easimeree wee rained, oar
.esmen were immussed, and our rights as neutrals
• dieregarde sad a war with England seemed
the uely mesas of extricating (wolves from absolute
amlitelfleaate as a mem, a strong party arose among
us called the peace party, not composed of individuals,
abet
of saw, with wealth, power, and talent, which
not only opposed the war, refused eapplies,
lead countenance, bat artily proposed a dissolution
of the Un;os. A public coeuation actually met in
New England, with the most inimical inteatioes to-
wards the Union, and yet we peened happily
that danger. Even the:4:We' of some of
Ncs England states ad resolatioes and enacted
Imes of a treenonahle and yet we were
Peler.e4. Daring the adasinistratioa of Mr. Munroe,
In 10111, the admission of Missouri into the Union
M' ht the question of slavery prominently before
84' people. it ui well known that it wasagitated with
the intensest violence throughout the United States.
much more so than it can ever be again. Threats if
• 611'4111110n of 'be Union came (this tine) from the
math, and assumed an importance and a reality we
aa they never had before. That peril was Impper

peeled ; and by a compromise, wise as it was patrio' io
vansisia brightened and secured the chain which
us together.
Since that eventful moment the United States have
brume stronger and greater in all respects. Many
maw besot interest have been formed g oar population
is batter elevated than it was, and, above all, perhaps
6 thefie besiegessons in its respect for our national
Amsted*: In former years, when we were alter-
tetely lendete d by France and England, it seemed a
ear/ dila& thing fur us to recognise that we had
Maddea character. We were lampooned at home
lei ebased, ridiculed mad spit upon g some of our own
Wing politicians declared that ws could not be
• hided into a war" But what is said now P Why,
that we are.too belligerent, too sensitive, too ready
it eggresmon and violence, and using oar power
Ss %fare and trample upon weaker nations. We
must eat forget another oireurastanos, and it has an
importantbearing on this question. The war with
Mexico has more nailed this people than can well be
understood abroad. There is a roam property in
that conquest sad those victories, of which every
American claims ashen. Men of limited minds (and
there are many weals called statesmen who have
mean capacities) are in the habit of looking at events
by themselves. They insulate a proposition or a fact
and receive for it a solitary spark of light. But men
with the genius of a Pitt and the philosophy of a
Macaulay look at a whole circle of events before they
divide it into segments. Thus the Mexican war (be
the opinions of Englishmen what they may with re-
gard to its character) demonstrated that this country
was able to carry on an offensive war beyond its
own territory, on a new and untried field, and
with the disadvantage of climate and of dis-
tance, against a warlike and populous nation,
always boasting of its rowess and its great-
ness. With but a handful of men our govern.
went overran a large territory, gained every battle,
and dictated piece in the capital of its enemy. To
suppose that such circumstances as these had r o effect,
and can have no effect upon the national character, is
downright stupidity. The acquisitions of that war,
wonderful in their elects, are but another bond to bind
as together. It is tome, therefore, perfectly apparent
that the temper and feeling, aid washes of the Ame-
rican people, were never more adverse to disunion
than at the present moment. Even the threatened
difficulties with your own country, arising out
of the conduct of your agent, Mr. Chatfield, have
lair effect, and a favourable one. And
what after all is the state of things in
Congress ? Parties are so nearly equal that
a hw ultra politicians, free Goiters, hold the balance
of power for a time. There is at this moment but
sae state in the Union (Ohio) that would be likely to
be violent in its opposition to the south. As soon as
any fair proposition for an adjustment of the difficulty
can be made it will be adopted, even if California
should not be received into the Union with its present
constitution. I think it will be, however, by a de-
cided majority.
So them, if I am right, we have no cause for alarm
whatever, and those gentlemen abroad who flatter
themselves that the "Model Republic" is about to
fall to pieces, may (to use a homely phrase) save
their breath to cool their own porridge.
AMERICUS.

COLONIAL.

BRITISH NORTH AMERICA.
CANADA.

Our dates from this colony are to the 15th of Dec.
They contain little of moment. The storm wi:l burst
when the legislature re-assembles. Ministers are
preparing a measure relative to the clergy reserves,
and from all we can learn ire prepared to deal with
that subject in a fitting spirit of boldness.
The otfi,ial gazette of tte %b last. announces that
his Excellency the Guv.rnor-General has been
pleased to disch err the under-mentioned gentlemen
from the commis-ion of the peace fur tt.e district of
Montreal : —Jacob De Witt, of Montreal (a member
of parliament) ; Benjamin Holmes, of ditto (member
of parliament) ; Michael M'Culloch, of ditto (a mer-
chant); Hon. obert Jones (a member of the upper
house) ; William 31.Gienis, of St. Atbanase; John
Molise, of Montreal (an extensive brewer and dis-
tiller); Benjamin Hart, of Montreal (a merchant);
Will:am D. Lindsay, of St. John's; Peter Dunn, of
Montreal ; Jean Bruneau, of ditto • Benjamin
Brewster, of ditto (a wealthy merchant); Jobs
:Mathewson, of ditto (merchant); John Gordon
11•Kenzie, of ditto; Le M. Routh, of ditto; James H.
Lambe, of ditto ; Charles Geddes, of ditto; J. H. De
Witt, of Chateauguay.

Relative to this subject, the Montnal Qasette pub-
lishes the following official letter, addressed to one of
the displaced :

Secretary's Office, Toronto, Dec. 5, 1849.
Sir,—l have the honour, by couinsai.d of the G 111.,T110f-
' Gen. eel, to acknoeel dge the receipt of your letter of the
3rd ult., in which you mimic yourself to be • party to an
address to the people of Canada, which wag lately published
is several of the newspapers of the province, and is which
address separation from the British empire and a lion
to the United States of America, are recommended as a
remedy fur certain evils under which the province is therein
alleged to be labouring. His excellency feels bound by a sense
of duty, es well to his sovereign and the empire at large,
as to the people of Canada themselves, not only to maintain
the connexion of the province with the parent state, by the
fa lest enemies of all the powers cmiterred upon him by her
Majesty, but to discourage by all the means constitutionally
within his control, every attempt calculated to impair it. In
the performance of this duty, there can be no desire to
question any one upon mere abstract speculations regarding
different forms of government. It is fur parties to satisfy
themselves to what extent they may proved with such specu-
lations without the risk of compromising themselves by •
breech of the laws of the land. When, however, an individual
arrives at the deliberate conclusion that what he deems the
evils tinder which his country labour., requires not merely
a reformation of the constitution, but its entire over
throw, and when such person entertains this opinion, not
as • mere speculative theory, possibly to be realised in some
remote and undefined feature, but actually takes measures
directly intended to bring about such revolutionary change,
it appears to his Excellency perfectly obvious that, apart
from ell considerations or inquiry as to consequences ut a
still more serious character, such party should not be per-
mitted to remain in the anomalous and invidious position of
holding a commission during the pleasure of a sovereign
power which he desires to subvert. As by your letter you
have admitted being • party to the docum nt in question,
his excellency commands me to inform you that bar Majesty
has no farther occasion for your services as one of her justices
of the peace for the district of Montreal.
I have the honour to be, your moat obedient servant,
J. Lands, Secretary.
To J.P., Montreal

REMOVAL OF POLICE MAGISTRATIS.—Yesterday
Gilbert i'Betkett, Eag.,the recently appointed magistrate at
Greeawich (in the room of the late Mr. Jeremy), was re-
moved from that court to the Southwark Poke* Court,
when hi has for some time mot assisted Mr. Sacker, who
now will sit at Greenwich. The latter gentleman has latterly
emitted much Ircra ill health, and it is stated that he has
exchanged with Mr. rßeakett by the advice of hie physician.
The genres's' hare damnified to decrease this number of
polies magistrates to twenty in number for the metropolitan
district by sot filling up vacuities as they mem by miens-
tion or death. Mr i'llockstt will thirster* be assisted by
Illagiatrates from all the other polies courts in regular rota-
lions. It is stated that two of the easier magistrates will
Murray mks. _ _

EXPENSES OF PROSECUTIONS AND MAINTENANCE
Or CENIKAL CONVICT= PlidONlNß.—The following re-
c aur a subject of coseiderable interest to the citizens of
has beessieesee-by the Court of Alums, to be
printed : " U °bedlam to an order of the mart of the 2941 t
her lest, to further 'outsider oar report respecting the
ataintesease el criminal cenvieS is the peels of this City, to
report the mews thereof for the last four yet" awl also
the torpesses of pesereetiess, sad whether they should be
paid by the corporation or the consolidated read, and to re-
port est *ales theme, we certify that we directed state-
seats of these merest' to be matte out by the solicitor, cogs-
'mein with the year 1646, the period front which, by a
resoluttss of the Hesse of Commas, these items el=
on the ceesty rates were to be defrayed out of the
dated fork under the Assail Appnpriatioa Act ; and we
do ferthereertlfy that we have revived frogs the solicitor, In
a teholatedi Issm. while we have hereunto saarzed, a state-
meat of dogma et sad sad the wet of the sulfate-
eases of oaners Istr the years 1646,1647, sad 18411, are-
new 4,6641. per isient, The corresponding wesesst few
the year 1649 will he leli before me as owe ea the yew elem.
The Whim repasts •ow kw es be has pagoda wilt the past
newlak be ils" ell Mealy. bot otoloololly, m-
ooed theme's" of lho three piandlos yeses. Awd we do
further ototlfy that the ealielteir repots that the Cerporedea
of Leedom ere sodded ee dein payment b.ll-yeses!) thou
IN= Oinol the none!vevent, the magistrates, ef s=
retitled by law to levy a salty rate for the mewl MI
we do hid= earthy that, having taltis the
whole natter late our oeosideratioe, we resowsised
that ea anew for the shames of prassaibri
and the welotewowle of eoevfota for the half-yew 4e :
6th Oolobw ho male out by the wanton of the
la the Sims papered by the solicitor, sad that
be models the bode of her Majesty's Velma too
of that omosot, afta of the usual gnat weds by the
priatlett Ast for diem parrome.

g POLITICK.

(ham Om Doily Nous.)

At the emfamenosinent of the ent century
Washington was the scene of a *Detestpres attended with
no little peril to the then infant republic. The struggle
was for no less a stake than the President, of the
Union. There having been no election by the peo-
ple, neither candidate having received a majority of
the whole number of votes, the choies of the chief
magistrate devolved, by the ooeseitutioe, upon the
House of Repre•entatives. The conflict of patties
was violent and protracted. The sick were borne la
litters to the hones to vote, and it was not until up-
wards of thirty ballotiogs had been taken, that
StfilfaeON triumphed over his rival. So intense
was the excitement throughout the country, that
Its continuance, for a short time longer, would
have been imminently dangerous to the sta-
bility of the federal system. In contemplating
this event, one of the most celebrated of American
judges, the late Chancellor Rani, adopts the election
of President as the text of the safety of the Union. It
was his opinion that, should the presidential chair be
filled is pesos for 60 years after he wrote, the great
problem of the Union's durability would have been
solved, and it would thenceforth have but minor
dangers to avoid.
A. the century is on the eve of closing its first
jubilee, Washington is again the scene of as ana-
logous struggle. There is :a resemblance, and yet a
difference, between the two cases. In this instance
the cionte-st is not for the executive choir et the
Union, but for the Speakership of the House.
By the advice, just received it appears that a fort-
night has elapsed, since the day on which Congress
was convened, marked by ineffectual struggles to Con-
stitute the Lower House. So nice is the balance of
parties, and so momen one are the issues in prospect,
that the different sectionsef the house have determined,
as it were, in limits* to put forth their whole strength
and develop their tactics for the session. In this
country we are not accustomed to look pp on the poli-
tical views of the Speaker as of any great moment.
What is wanted with us is an imp utial man, well
acquainted with the forms of the house, and with the
intricate and technical channels through which busi-
ness must proceed. But in America, the election of
Speaker is always accepted as a test of party strength
in the house. When either of the great partite is
decidedly in the ascendancy, the matter is disposed of
speedily and without difficulty. But when they are
pretty equally balanced, and the session promises to
be fruitful in questions of great moment, it is otherwise.
Both, then, struggle partly for the 'wartime of carry-
ing the chair, but chiefly for the substantial party
advantages which it confers upon the successful side.
It may not be generally known to English readers
that the first business d-ne in the House of Represen-
tatives, after it is constituted, is the appointment of
standing committees for the session. These com-
mittees are appointed with a view to the different
classes of subjects under which may be ranged all
points raised for discussion in the house. Theis, as
the house may de bate on foreign question., it has its
standing committee on foreign relations, eft
which, with rare exceptions, all questions having
a foreign bearing are referred before they
are acted upon by the house. Again, it has
its standing committees on ways and means,
on military and naval affairs, on the judiciary, on
Indian claims, &c. &c. All these committees exercise
influence, more or less, upon the subjects coming
under the particular class with reference to which
they are respectively appointed, before the house
comes to any decision upon them. It is evident,
therefore, that their pia er is not trifling;
and it is on this account and because the
Speaker has a voice potential in their appoint-
ment, that the Speakers chair is in Washington a
matter of such importance to the parties at lieu.
At present parties assume a variety of aspects in con-
nexion with the different and dissimilar questions
pendirg between them ; but, to illustrate the fore-
going, let us take them in their respective capacities
of free traders and Protectionist. So far as the
standing committees are concerned, that in which
each of these parties is anxious to preponderate is the
committee of ways and means. The executive go.
verement is, in all its departmente, indisputably dis-
poeed towards Protection. The protectionists, as
protectionists, have a small majority in the house.
But they are divided from each other on other ques-
tions in such a way as to have hitherto prevented
them from acting in concert. The free-traders are
also divided, but have, so far, kept better together
than their opponents, the division in whose ranks
gives them a hope that they may succeed in carrying
the chair. It they do so they will also carry the
committee—the result of which would be that, as it
is usual to have the bill affecting the tariff reported
from the committee to the house, a free-trade com-
mittee would refuse to report any bill for raising the
tariff to a house which was really protectionist.
This would not necessarily prevent the house from
taking an independent course upon the subject, but
each an antagonism between the house and its com•
mittee, although accidentally established, would, in
the present balance of parties, almost paralyse the
majority. In 1846, when the pre-ent revenue tariff
was adopted, the free trade majority was so small in
the house that, at one moment, the fate of the bill was
determined by a single vote. The bill in question
had been duly prepared and reported to the house by
the committee of ways and means, :which, fortu-
nately, was chiefly composed of fr. e traders. But
had the contest for Speaker in 1846 terminated inci-
dentally in favour of the whigs, or protectionists,
and the committee in question been composed
chiefly of members of that party, no such bill
would have been reported to the House. Although the
house might itself h eve taken up the question, still
the influence of the administration of the day was so
balanced in it, by the opposite interest, that the adop-
tion of a low revenue tariff that year would have
been out of the question. So much may sometimes
depend upon the complexion of a committee in Wash-
ington, and so much consequently upon the political
bias of the Speaker of the House. This will explain
why it is that so much importance is attached to the
appointment, and why, in the present peculiar junc-
ture of affairs, so protracted and desperate a contest
takes place upon the subject.
It mast be remembered that, although questions of
free trade and protection are likely to occupy a very
prominent place in the &missions of the present
session, there are other questions of a far more por-
tentous character, which, for the moment, cast a
dark shadow before them. If the present con-
test were merely for the Speakership, Wash-
ington might be in convulsions, and the coun-
try tranquil immediately beyond the bounds of the
district. Or if the struggle were only between two
systems of national economy, it might excite the
public mind without jeopardising the internal rela-
tions of the confederacy. But there are questions at
issue, not simply between the manufacturer and the
agriculturist, the capitalist and the labourer, but
Which, in their decision, involve the very exist-
ence of the union. Congress has evidently
met with a determination at last to set-
tle, in one way or other, theme questions
for ever. The spirit in which it is about to approach
their discussion is ominously indicated by the strug-
gle which wu still pending in the capitol when the
list steamer left the American oust, and if the con-
test for the e ip is to be accepted as typifying
the Mow ise, it is difficult to see on what
esmason groan they can possibly meet for the final
agestment of the all-important question of slavery.

ACCIDSNT TO PROTESSOR SIDOWICX.--WO regret
szeredisgly to have to state that an accident of a serious
thareeter marred to Professor B.dswlak on Hooey last.
The probes°, had taken hone mesh., and was as his re•
two to Csaabrido by the Huntingdon road, between 2 and
3 Weis* when, b.tw.M How house and the turnpike, and
on a alt demesne, the withal epos which the professor was
riding apes a rand dose, dipped up, and rolled over.
Tbe peellsesor fell, and the horse fell partially upon hiss. Oa
regain*: his fast the prelenor's Ant impulse was to eat&
Ithe baser end is thole stieseeded ; sad it was net until he
wad thinks the ids es his right ass to lead the missal
Mn. that be diasevered that the bens of the sr em was frac-
tured between th elbow sad the ebeelthr. hems et
the Mose were badly cat, and is thie lessetheble usages
the maims reseed the tomb% hagss his stesd. Oa
his arrival at the pie aAy was ant hr ssi the rehear
was seamed to Harems Mr. Zontasy, mph, ws
ismahte sitealesse, amid reamed width is
a 'lapis en., and we are happy In bs suable(' to that the
latest amenats repreant the patiess a mamas( favourably.
Tie prefereer was ridimg at an easy caster at the tine dills
fa/I.—Canabridge Chr
othelthath He was. ia
ooiok, •
oddities, seriously bruised by the
EXPLOSION AT Gi..ftsoow.—Ott Sunday morning,
about 7 o'clock, an elplasion of pi took plus in Bath-
Istreet, Glaetew, what three saes were as draftily
injured that they are not 'vested to NITWITS.

CORONER'S VERDICr IN THE CASE OF
DR. PARKMAN.

1 (hes the Bodes Peet et 14111 Dee.)
At mix o'clock yealselifiernooo, the jury of in-
quo. ea the maim ef Ile fooad ia th Mu'
Col-
lege, made et !hob eloilikiabithe amber: of the preps,
win Mire WMIN/ la ea rem, were called late the
jog leas le heat the , After they had
lAN their seats at wll=l.th w wooer,
tinseledWm el anew' i
0 Smilinee. Ile eldest el 'arida, yea la here at thb
enema ls 011111•111111111 le pa the eosautios to wbkh the
jury has mired I. relation Is the seatiere whisk have be.
the subject of their itivesslpoliee far several days, sad to
make seseespleas, leas to of the awes whisk Mu bees
decided yea Si to witu.t the "videos, at presses. li b
the advise ow Atterasy-deeere!, mad seek is Ike yob, of

this jury of inquest, thatio parto-flbe tsetimamy shall be de-
veloped until the matter has been laid before the grew d jury.
There has been • large lumber of +Musses examined, bat I
iten not at liberty to state the umber, sad the testimony
I severe S 4 pages closely amigos es Lugs Masa paper. AB
therefore that sea be semaualeated to yea now is the es.-
auks to which the jury brae arriveiL The reedit* will
now he read to you by the secretary-
Mr. Jobe L. Amdrews, the . sow Itrotesdwi to
read la • **lea*. emphatic, sad dL manner, the ver
diet, as follows :
"Suffolk, as. An Inquisitioe taken at the city of Boston,
within the toasty of Suffolk, 13th day of December,
before Jabes Pratt, Beg., one of the coroners of said soya%
upon the view of sundry parts of the body of • dead men,
namely : a thorax, kidneys,. pelvis, two thighs, left lea
and sundry homes, then lying dead, br the oaths iff
Days Brewster, Jobs L. Andrews Purl Martin,
Tbomce kestieaux. Lewis iO6Ol, and Harem Mew
rill, good and lawful men, who In log charged and
sworn to Weal» fir the coeuseawalte, when, how, sad by
what mesas the laid deed ma eases to his death, apes Iheir
oaths do say, that they ell have been demonstrated to be
parg of one sad the same pawn ; that these parts el the
humus frame have been identified ad proved to be tie
remains and parts of the dud body and limbs of Dr. Osage
Palmitin, late • aim of said Boman, aged about sixty
years; that he came to his death by violence at said Boston,
on the 23rd day of November last, or between the hour of
one-ad-a-half of the clock in the aftereoon of that day
(about which time he entered alive and in good bad* foe
the Masteeheartte Medical College buildiag, gamed '
North Grou-street, fa said Basta), sad the hour of Icier of
the clock is the aftersoon of the 30th day of November last
(when a portion of the said remains were found coesseled
in and under the apartments of Dr. John W. Weleime,
of Cambridge, in the catty of Middlesex, in sail
leas building), in which building the residue of said
remain were afterwards discovered ; that he was killed
in said college building by a blow or blows, wound
or wounds, inflicted upon him with some instrument
or weapon to the jurors unknown, and by means not yet
known to said jurors, and that the said blow or blows,
woad or wounds' were inflicted upon him and said means
were used by the hands of said Dr. John W. Wt ban, by
whom be was killed. In witness whereof, the said comer
and jurors to tkiv ii.quirition have set their hands sad nab
the day and roc above said.
Jab.. Pratt, coroner; Ossays Brewster, foremen • Jan
L Andrew., secretary; Pearl Martin, Thomas Re:Means,
Lewis Jones, Hasse Merrill.
Atter the reading of the verdict, the coroner annonneed
the following vote:

" Voted that the thanks of this jury be presented to the
city marshal and the other officers of the polies department,
for the prompt and efficient serve* rendered by them to this
inquest, in procuring evidence and rendering such other
assistance as war in their power, and Um! the coroner be
'eget. sted to oommunleate the same to the city marshal."
It was here ate ed that the city marshal, on the night of
Friday, Nov. 30. b, after the remains had been found, con•
*Had the fact from the press when applied to, and some of
the police even stated that no discovery bad been made.
The interlocutor added that in consequence of this urines.
slot of the facts the public mind was kept in the wildest state
of excitement by most extraordinary rumours up till the en-
sting Monday morning. He, therefore, suggested that the
jury would do well to refer to the matter in the vote of
thanks to the marshal and his assistants.
On behalf of the marshal it was stated that that officer pre-
pared a statement to be sent to the different newspaper offi
ces that night, and had actually placed it into the hands of a
messenger, when the law officer of the county interposed
some objections to the publication, and advised the mars'.al
sot to send the notice as he bad intended. Hence i: was
that the information was not communicated to the press.
After this explanation, which we have reason to I:Liege* is
s'rictly true, the first speaker ceased to press the subject
upon the attention of the jury.
Then were read votes thanking the coroner and secretary
for their laborious and faithful strokes, and also thanking
Mr. Merrill, superintendent of the court house, for his atten-
tion to the wants of the jury, etc. Here the proceedings
closed. Officer E J. Jones made proclamation of the fact,
and the coroner wok possession of the verdict and testimony,
enclosed in • portfolio, with a lock, and the inquest was
dissolved.

The jury was impannelled on Saturday, the lat inst., met
at the Medical College in the afternoon, examined the frig-
ments of the remains found there, appointed a committee of
doctors to examine them more particularly, and adjourned
over till Monday, the 3rd. Oa that day and the following
they made a very maul examination of every pan of the
college building, vaults, passage ways, private and public
entrances, &c. On the 6th, 6th, 7th, Bth, 10th, and 11th,
they were engagid M taking testimony. On account of the
elegance of a witness, they, en the evening of the 11th, ad-
jon-ned over to yesterday, Thursday, morning, 13th, and
at 12 o'clock the taking of tee isaony was cloud. Tb'y then
adjourned t,ll 3, p.m., when they met again, and were occu-
pied till six o'clock in reading the testimony, making the
•erdict up in form, and signing and waling it.
The new grand jury, summoned fur the first Monday in
Jaanary,will take the aim up, 1)r. Webster in the meantime
remaining is gaol.