The Express.
London, England, 1850-02-18 00:00:00

THE EXPRS.BB, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 18, 1850.

ma to be vested is a melioration of 'lateen gem.
sem, with authority to elect their memnors„ aed was
to be directed by a meter .unmer _him, a wheel-
master, pelacher, ethers, and paper ellisselfweesto be
appoistivi.• Asd all patronage was Amu to the
governors, who were to menus it In ghee amporate
sot byneidealeapesity. This documest did sot, how-
ever, fix the amber of poor gestlents• to be main-
tained, or of posy boys to be edseMed. That was left
to tail gammon ; bat they were by it directed to
apply the revenues ofthe property, as they inersmed,
to the maintesanos and education of more poor
perms.
Some died in December, 1811, without having
made the statutes he contemplated. Bat is 1627 the
governors he had appointed speed oe a series of
ordinances which are still in force. By them they
fixed the number of poor unmairled peanut' to be
maintained at 40, and the poor aMos et the like
number; directed that the master should also
be unmarriA and without other edam " is obnieh or
commonwealth whereby be may be draws from his
residenceand charge of the said hospital."
The natal of the hospital in 1627, when these
statutes were framed, was about 3,7084 ; and that stun
the statutes so framed exhausted in Amends and in
authorised expenditure; giving to the master 501. a
year. The statutes, SUTTON'S will, the letters patent,
were all confirmed by an act peened is 3 Carlos 1.,
and these still form the laws at the hospital.
The property rapidly increased in value. Ice 1673,
the rental had risen to 5,3911. ; and the governors of
that day proportionably raised the stipends of the
master and officers and founded 29 exhibitions in the
, universities. Since that date the increase has gone
on ; but though the salaried of the statatable Awn
have been greatly augmented, the imbibition' raised
in value, and the framework of a very excellent school
erected, no incomes his been made in the number of
scholars on the foundation. They now remain at the
1 number fixed in 1673.

What the precise value of the Charter House Es-
tates easy now have attained is not positively known.
But the resat of easeful inquiries has brought com-
petent From to the permission that the rental of the
property is not under 60,0001. a year. Against which
40 old men, frequently rich gentlemen, are supported ;
and 40 boys, always of rich parents, are educated.
And these figures, taken by themselves irrespective of
other facts to be hereafter stated, will warrant the
conclusion that, under the present system, justice is
not done to BUTTON'd design at the Clartel,l,9o.
In founding the Clutter-house, Sutton made one
fatal mistake. He sought security for his intentions
in high places, great names, and state functionaries.
Hs conferred on his hierarchy the power of self-elec-
tion ; and, is the corporation of the Charter-house,
there has been an autocratical and episcopal
saccades. It has always been nominally in the
hands of bishops, judges, ministers of state, and
lords. They, however, have been content to divide
amongst themselves individually its patronage ; and
have, substantially, left its management in the hands
of the master, and the registrar, who is also treasurer.
The consequences may be anticipated.
Surron desired to found an hospital for decayed
gentlemeo. The governors of the Charter House
have too frequently made it an asylom for worn-out
servant.. _

Surrort wished to found a free school for (we
quote his own words) " the education and bringing
up of the poor children of parents who were not able
themselves to educate and bring them up." The
governors of the Charter House place on its founda.,
tioa almost invariably the children of persons of
wealth, who can well afford to pay foe their children's

Burros directed the augmented revenues of his
property to be applied in augmenting the number of
scholars. The governess of the Charter Hones have
not increased the number of foundation scholars since
1873 ; though, in the interval, their revenues have
risen from 6,0001. to 60,0001. a year.
The foundation of the Cnarter House requires its
master to be unmarried, resident, and without other
offices "in church or commonwealth." WILLIAM

HALE HALL its present master, is m.rried, does not
reside, and is Archdeacon of London, Canon RA-olden-
nary of St. Paul's, and is, on his own presentation,
incumbent of one of the great City wisher,. So, too,
the head and under muter of the school ; they divide
amongst them the ecclesiastical preferments with
which SUTTON endowed the hospital.
In truth, what the "ever young" Sylvania Urban
justly calls fi the princely St rrorris noble endowment
of the Charter House," is utterly perverted. Under'
the guise of maintaining forty old men, and educating
forty foundation boys, Archdeacon HALE and Dr.
SAUNDERS are keeping a great and aristocratic school
for theprivate emolument of the masters and ushers. In
the precincts of the Charter House, or in houses pro-
vided by its governors, these persons are permitted to
receive and to teach 160 private boarders at high
rates of payment : and on these, the sons of wealthy
persons, the instruction provided by Sorros is
wasted. With funds to educate the poor of half Lon-
don, the Charter-house is aping Eton and Harrow.
So much for the outline of its abuses. Hereafter
the details shall be filled in.

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h= have Inked salute the essay side et the 'imam I they
bus tekas isee elisithea ally the cases whore thesis
pleyse woes issammtal. But bed they teeked at the oases
wharf Imo had hese the retell—when the workless had

Sbesited *la& sod the employee reined ? It ea swedr
teen weaken was W dal ia Its eisess, mite was es beer
du less ? Vtlare else won them Wbs the wages et IM
widows ? (Rear, hear.) The propooldea was alteielber
tawelled. (Haw, bar.) Is plate et visa at capital soda,
tables great works, the design was to substitute workmates
wassiatteas. The result bed set hitherto, so sae Geoid
duly, bola very faranble.
Mamma, unsaid the tribune, bat was prorated
from presselics by lead arks et," Acjeare, aditstre.'
The dassish4, being eoaselwd, adopted the adjournment..

ii Wear* waned," mays the Pattie , "that M. Oros
has been sent to Greece as =extraordinary and pleni-
potentiary commissioner."

- We read in the National—" Us following. ac-
counts, the importance of which no one can moun-
ds• stand, have been forwarded us from Swiezerland
You ere not yet aware of the serious nature of the
threat of a combined action against the Heretic re-
public. Eleven Austrian battalions are concentrated
round Como. Three thousand men are at Luino.
France has consented. England alone still reside.
A note has been sent by the Austrian government
to the cabinet of Turtn, to demand the passage
for a body of troops through the riedmontess ter-
ritory."

A letter from Brest, of the 14th, states that the
Archimede frigate, which is to tarry the government
instructions to La Plata, had not yet sailed. Up to
this time the part of the squadron, which was to
proceed from Brest to the South Seas, has not been
able to sail, from the violent contrary winds. The
vessels now assembled there, in addition to the Archi-
mcde, are the Aube, the Meurthe, the Egerie, and the
Huard.

PARIS, SONDAT, 5 30 P
The debate in the Assembly yesterday, during
which one of the most decided acts of the present
government was discureed, concluded by a vote
considerably in favour of the executive. "Do your
worst now," arid Oeueral d'Hautpool to the members
of the Mountain ; " we are ready for you :" and in
this tone he seemed to express a wish that the demo-
crats might attempt something to enable him to crush
them. The fate which attended these questions have
convinced the Mountain of their total lack of power
in the Assembly ; they have therefore determined to
sign a protest every time that an unconstitutional
question, as they seceder it, passes. Thus the Voile
der Peuple records this morning, that at a conference
of the Mountain held yesterday, it was determined to
*re on the bureau, of the president a protest against
the military organisation of France.
In opening the debate on the subject, M. Passel
Daprat commenced btaayieg that it was no party
question that he now &sit with, but one which waste
such close connection with French institutions, that it
was a vital one for all. He denied the right
of government to pass the decree without referring
so important a matter to the Assembly. He admitted
that under the empire, the restoration, and even the
government of July, the military organisation of the
army had often been changed by decrees and ordi-
nance., and so under the provisional government;
but with regard to the later, he endeavoured to
show that it was the sole governing power at the
time that its decrees were passed. These decrees :of
the empire and successive government. never had
gone so far as those of the present cabinet, and
never before had France been entirely enveloped, as
it was now, by a military system.
The Constituent Assembly, when it changed the
system of great captaincies after the first revolution,
bad nought in view but to destroy the great provin-
cial unities which weighed upon the central power.
This idea was contained in spirit, if not in words, in
the constitution of 1848. It was from these conside-
tins that he (M. Faecal Dupre!) considered the de-
cree of the 12th kat. as illegal, and in direct opposi-
tion to the spirit of the institutions of France.
It was a decree which must bo charac-
terised as highly dangerous, forming as it
did a number of new centres, which might become
threatening at a fu'ure period. He would ask what
were the dangers which the executive meant to guard
against by the present measure. He knew that there
were departments which caused the government some
anxiety, but no one could assert that plots existed all
over France to overthrow the republic. He could
well understand that certain departments should be
placed under the care of a military governor-general
at a time when elections were pending. But why
extend the circle all over the country ? Why were
Rennes and Nantes milted under one head, when
these towns or these departments sent to the Assem-
bly such men as Denjoy, Mold, de Kerdrel, and
Parisis—men who were firm allies of the govern-
ment. What reason, in fact, could there be for treat-
ing France as Russia had done Poland, or Austria
Hungary. It was nit fear of insurrec'ion that was
the cause of this measure, but a desire on the part of
the chief of the state to increase his power, by pleas-
ing end winning over the army to him, whilst by
other means he ruined the authority of the national
representation. Here M. I)oprat made allusion to
the Napoleon, the journal which certainly represents
the Elysde, and of which several articles were
attaeks agai net the Legislative Assembly. Had not that
journal, said he, state that it only depended on the
republicans thatLsuis Napoleon should choose the part
of hie uncle ...

A Voice on the Left.—Sonlonque. (Laughter.)
M. Doprat (continuing).—Or that of Washington.
Great interruption here ensued, after which M.
Daprat conclueed by calling on the majority to de-
fend the institutions of the country.
M. d'Hautpoul, in reply, said that his answer
would be divided into two puts, involving the ques-
tion of legality and that of expediency. With regard
to the first point in consideration, he would say that
the territorial divisions created by law bad not been
disturbed, and that, as for the commands given to the
generals, there were many cases that he could quote
in support of the government measure, when similar
appointments had been made, all of them by decrees
of government
" With regard to the question of sap di ncy," continued
)4. d'Hau.poul, " I will tell yen that it is very natural for
government, which is called on to watch ov.r the
sate and constitution, to take under its own r spon-
,ibility, subject to the approval of the Assemble, all
means which prudence may &state for the purpose of averting
misrortune. Far be it from me to seek to create fear, or
darken a picture which is hut sombre already. Demagogic
factions are rurywhero on the move ; secret societies con-
spire on all tides in the dark, and seek to insinuate subver-
sive doctrines amongst the pomp., hoping that they may
attain a complete catacl7sue. In this situation, Fentlemen,
govetement must place itself ou ifs fraud. It were Inexcusable
not to do so ; and the Assembly would have the full right to
make it accountable fur neglect. What have we done in
irintlog three generals, unless it be to give more unity,
mum Wien, and more raßitly to the movement of troops.
We were desirous that, if it became necessary, theme generals
might immediately centralise their troops, and take all the
necriary &Moe. They are not above the authority of the
-tate, as M. D.iprat hinted ; and these generals, who deserve
all our confidence, and who hays proven by their long
earlier that they were worthy of that of the country, do not
require your notice to know what their duty is; their ps-
Matins, devotion to cur institutions, and love of order will
inspire them in their canduct. I can conceive this measure
being unpleasant to certain us inds,that the men who wish tome
us *shop are not pleased &tour precautione, but be convinced
of this that the government Is on the watch and will not be
surprised. The measure that we have taken is not &germ-
sirs, and does not compromise the interests of any one. It
dos not threaten liberty, but on the contrary, strengthens
it, if any ti-intentioned men should raise their hand
wink It. All good citizens must therefore rejoice. Govern-
ment and the majority of the Assembly desire the same
thinc—the maintenance of law, the constitution, public
order, and security. It is on this ground that the govern-
usenthas taken its stand, and it is certain of finding support
on these bmches where the purest patriotism exists, where
every one understands his duty, and where all are anxious
to justify the confidence rested in them by their fellow
citizens. Fur our part we shall not fail in the duty of which
I have just spoken ; we shall watch always ;_we shall remain
n the breach, and never retire wh clamour we may
b^u.

This peroration excited great laughter from the
M 'lintel!), upon which M. d'Hautpoul turned towards
three members and treed the expressions I hero
quosod at the commencement of my letter, "We shall
always be ready ; commence whenever you please."
An immense uproar followed this outburst. Cries of
order from the Mountain were followed by such a
tumult that it was some time before the president
..oald get a hearing. On doing so he blamed the
nynister far the words he had used, and begeed of
Irm to explain. M. d'Hautpoul did so, by replying
that his words were addressed to those who, on tho
13th of May, had invaded the Assembly, and to those

At Arad on the 18:11 of January 13 Hungarian
officers, formerly belonging to the Austrian service,
were sentenced by court-martial to various terms of
imprisonment, extending from 3 to 16 years.

11APdBU1tG, Fan. 12.
Colonel Hodges has contradicted a report spread
by a Berlin paper, that the three commissioners at
Flensburg are paid by the duchy of Schleswig, and
states that, so far as regards himself, he is paid by
her Britannic Majesty. It is to be regretted that
he cannot equally clear himself from participation in
the harsh and cruel acts of the administration of
which ho forms part.
The patience of the inhabitants of the duchy of
Schleswig scams to be wearing out at last, and we
hear of riots both in the city of Schleswig and in the
country. The Swedish troops who were sent to An-
gela hare returned without accomelishing their pur-
pose. The Angela people persist in refusing to pay
taxes to what they consider an illegal authority. The
Danish diplomatists succeeded much better: they
have led the English and the Prussians by the nose,
putting off the negotiations under all sorts of pretexts,
until the shipping season will have arrived, when
they will wield their famous weapon, the Blockade.
By this spell even Great Britain is bound.
I have to record an act of such munificence as is not
often heard of. Mr. J. H. Schroeder, a merchant of

this city, who has a/so estsbl
Liverpool. is going to spend a million, that is, 'heel
80,0001. for a charitable purpose. A maneion is to Lis
erected for 60 or 60 destitute families to live in, end
an investment to be made besides for their maintszi,
saes daring life.