The Express.
London, England, 1850-06-25 00:00:00

THB EXPRESS, lITBSDAY EVENING, JUNE 26,

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esemilliallery he he elieraseer whike dein We. Bat it was
net wise to take say step eddels Seem be se strand istO
messes. To send a fleet Se lbe Dendeadiee. before an an-
iver was given to that messege, wan t in the
highest degree. By the ueasy el Qakir Sleeken,
it was provided that the Dealleasiles and the
Buphoras should net, sada any !pretext. be aimed
without a special *man from the Behan. The Mulish
delajtowever, not only proceeded to the mouth of the Dar-
danelles, but Sir Suatford Canning called on the fleet to go
op to Constantinopd• ; and, if he was not mistaken, the
fleet went put of the way ; bat, be that as it may,
it went inside the Dardanelles. When the Emperor
of Rusk heard that this hostile demonstration
bad been made at the mouth of the Derdanelles, he
was naturally very indignant, and an excuse was made by
the British government. (Opposition cheer.) Now, this
wee a querik which touched the honour of the English na-
tion. Was the excuse which was made consistent with the
Mss or not? The excess was that the 11-et was driven
within the Dardanelles by sires of weather. Now there
was • living witness, • member of the House of
Pens, who stated in his place in parliament, that
eo hr from being driven in by stress a! weaker,
Sir William Parker wei3had anchor on • flue
day, and entered the Dardanelles in suntoth wake. (Hear,
hese.) Now, this brought him to the affairs of Greece. Ile
had already said that the tone assumed by the noble lord to
foreign Mialsters was sometime. so offensive that he was
not surprised that hostile feeling. should be generated eves
where it was desirable that the relations should be most
amicable. He held in his bend a letter purporting
to be written by the noble lord to Mr. Daluarchi, deed
October, 1347, and which had appeared in a Greek paper.
Tt• French party was at that time is power at Athens, and
this letter waa.publithed there, and had nit been elutes-
dieted. (The twat ton. baronet then real the letter in
question, which stated that M. D,lstarelti would do well to
abet ,is from unfounded aunt vines spinet Mr Majesty's
est.:tamest, and be ought not to target that these were net
the means by which the rail ins of the British and Grecian
governeautt could be plead on a more satisfactory footing.
Her Majesty's government had heard with great regret
the declaration that H. D4sruchi had resolved on
staining the tame course which bad been pursued by
H. Coletti ; thee system bad been • system of illegality, of
corruption, of violsooe. injuttiee, and tyranny, oppressive
and disgusting to the Greek nation. Her Majesty's govern-
ment had hoped that this iniquitous system would have
wand with the life of a minister who was considered as its
author, bat as M. Delarerchi declared that he meant to con-
tinue the same system it wss evident that he was acting
under an influence equilly hostile to the welfare of Greece
and to this country. Was It not quite natural that there
should be same difficulty in p terersiog amicable arrange-
ments after a letter so addressed ? Tne noble lord took great
credit to himself for furthering free institutions. It so hap-
pened that atter the demise of Mr. Conning, the question of
the independence of Greece was unsettled. It was not until
1829, when the Eirl of Aberdeen wee Secretary for For lgn
Affairs, that the independence of Greeter was established,
end it was not until Its4B, he thought, that there was say
c distillations' government, and it wee whet his right
bon. friend (Sir Robert Peel) was in power, and Lord
Aberdeen was at the head of the foreign deportment, and
very much in cone qualm* of representstions from oar
government, that the constitutional government was esta-
blishes!. Well now, he imagined that, atter all, truth and
plain dealing were the bee. Well now, he bed every res.
son to believe that Greece was not innocent of covert inter-
h rake and fomenting insurrection in the lonian Islands.
Had there been any evidet ee to sustain that chaege. three
era, no length to which we might not have pushed our
hostility. Now Sir 11-my Ward, in a speech addressed to
his stints preferred the charge in direst terms. It was set
indignantly by King Otho ; Sir Henry Ward then retracted i
it, but in the paper. presented to the French Chambers in a '
dispatch dated the 14 h of March, bj H. Dreamt de Lhuye,
tll.m complaint was cgain referred to by the minister of
Foreign Affairs. Now with respect to these Grecian claims. I
the claims of H. Pantie* an i of Mr. Fin- ,1
and sore especially in respite' of an English
boat's crew that had been stir d, much had bran said in
vindication of them, but he must sty these appeared to him
to be the least important part of this matter. TLe bon.
-nsl keened number for Sheffield, who, he hoped, would
excuse him for saying es, had with cleat address taken the
par: of an able advocate, hut passed entirely our the claims I
of the two islands. Sir Henry Ward said that our claim
to them was indisputable. Now, he must say, that
a mom difficult and doubtful ease did not exist.
Amseg the eons of the noble lord was the issuing a peremp-
tory order, in October last, for the anus of the two islets of
Sap cuss and Cervi—a step which involved • coma beth, end
was only averted through the ;prudence of the English ad.
mired Omitting all the details of the enforced Maims upon
Greece, the right hen. 'baronet contended that, although
auident had prevented the arrival of the London convention
in time to prevent the renewal of bostiliies, its conditions
ought at once to ham been accepted, and England saved the
usmtifination of being forced to adopt the treaty after all.
R.:viewing the existing relation. between this c. tinny and
our former allies, he °burred that the Austrian ambassador
had been withdrawn from London ; the French envoy also
readied; Russia was writing diplomatic notes of no fnendly
character; the Prussian Unity entangled in the unsettled
question about Dkmark ; Naivete paramount in Madrid ;
Cabral omnipotent in Lisbon; and • French army
holding occupation of Rome. When such was the aspect of
Europe towards us, he could not in tumour and truth vote
tor a raulution deck, Mg that this foreign policy of the go-
velment was the but calculated to preserve the dignity of
the country and peace with the rest of the world.
Hr. B. OSBORN E moved the adjouroment of the debate-
Oa the motion that it should be adjourned till this dsy,
Mr. CAYLEY reseed tO postpone his moron on the milt
tax, unless the government would give him another day on
which to bring it forward.

le.rd J. RUSSELL was underetcod to fly that the first
convenient day should be given.
The delstite was then adjourned till this day.
The Friendly S mieties Bill went through committee, and
some amendments were introduced.

Ent Pia:lanai 0 Wary (Edinburgh) llill wu read a second

The report of the last committee of supply was brought
up and floured.
The General Board of Health Bill was reed a third time
and passed ; as wee the Court of enaueery Bill.

IRISH FISHERIES.

Mr. ANSTEY nominated t►e following members as the
select commits...a on the Engines for Takii,g Fish (Ireland)
Bill : —Mr. Austey, Sir W. Somerville, Mr. Bellew, Lord
IsLias, The O'Gorman Mahon, Col. Mantle. Mr. O'Flaherty,
Mr. Bold, Mr. Conolly. Mr. Fi,zpatrick. Mr. Scully,
Mr. C. Fortran., Mr. M. O'Connell, Mr. Keogh, and
Mr. Nsnier.
Mr, FREWEN objected to the omission of certain
names.

Alter a few words from Mr. ANSTIT, the committee wee
appointed.
V.* house adjourned at five minutes to one o'clock.

Vie Court.

The Queer, with the Princess Royal and the
Prince's Helens, and attended by the Viscountess Jocelyn,
lady in waiting, took an siring yesterday afternoon in an
open carriage and tour. Tn. «pony in waiting, the Hon.
Colonel Grey, was in attendance on hornbook. 'Choir Riyal
kneoes ninth Moen and the Prince of Prussia rode
oat on horseback at the ease time, attended by Colonel
Boaverie, Count Putkler, and Lieut.-General Lindbeim.
Prince Albert and the Prince of Prussia, attended by
Colocel BOUVOTiII and Count de Golte, visited and inspected
the Ziological Gardens is the Regent's Park patents,
moraine.
The Queen had a dinner party yesterday at Buckingham
Palace. The company included his Royal Rightism the
Prince of Prevail', Senn Intuit:, the Spanish minister, the
Duchess of Suthirland, the Marquis and Muchiontes of
Westminster, the Marquis of Aberooni, the Esrl and
Countess Granville, Count Hermann Pechter, Lieut.-
Oinerat De Lindheim, and Count Charles de Gala. Her
Mainty hid afterwards an evening party. lb. company
present were the Busies Dilatator and Baronets de Bran-
um, the Prussian minister and Madame Basun, the Made
moreelles Bunsen, the Marquis and Marchioness of Breads'.
bane, the Viscount Jooslyn, Lady Dufferin. Lord Daffenn,
Lieut.. Colonel the Hon. C. B. and Mrs. Phipps, Baron von
Kleist, Count Alvensleben, lion. and Rey. C. L. and the
Ludy Caroline Courtenay, and Mr. Birch.

His Royal Highness the Prince of Promiiheiff &Diplo-
matic Levee yesterday at Buckingham Palace. The recep-
tion ineinued the Ottoman Ambassadcr, the Belgian Minis-
ter, and the Chevalier Dronet, the Bavarian Minister, the
Buenos Aian Minister, the Portuguese Minister, the
an Minister,
Russi the Neapolitan Minister, and M. Cam-
lari, the Netherlands Minister, the Swediah and Norwegian
Minister, the Austrian Charge d'Affaires, the French
Chargil d'Affaires, the Sardinian Charge d'Affaires, the
Hpanish Minister? and Mr. J. Davis, Secretary of the United
States Legation, in the &Memos of the Minister who is out of
town. The Prince of Prussia was attended by his Bust-
limey the Chevalier Bunsen, Count Puebla, Lieutenant-
General Lindholm. and Count de Dolts.

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The foreign ocinistere, and many of the nobility,
called at Cambridge Home, yesterday. to make inquiry atm
the health of the Duke of Cambridge. The dinner and
evening party intended to have been given by their Royal
Highness.' the Dube and Dachas. of Cambridge last ',ea-
ilia and the dinner party invited for this evening to Cam-
bridge Hone, have hesa postponed.
The Duchess of Kent, eeomaponied by hie Serene
Highness the Priam of Leininges, and attended by Hareem
de Smith and Lord James Mum, left her ;residence Cla.
ream Home, St. James's, at 'even o'clock yesterday mem-
leg, for ths Brioklayme Arms Station, travelled to Dover by
a special train on the Boat/ Realms Railway, and
embarked in the Vivid otema.psckse at tea mi-
nutes before tan o'eleek in the forenoon for
Ostend, en route to Brasilia Her Royal Highness
took leave of the Clefts and Prime Alfimt ma Sun-
day evening at Buckingham Palms, and also leek leave
of Hes And Rightism the Dashes' of Cambridge on Bea-
day. His Serene Highases the Priam of Leialagen took
leave of the Duchess of Cambridge on Sunday at Cambridge-
house. _

hit; Goldsmith had an interview with Sir George
Grey yesterday to present addresses of eaaa►atelat{an to hut
Mast Gracious Majesty and Prises Albert, on the birth of a
mom, from the mayor, oidariasa, sad Outguess of the
borough of Southampton.

gilt erpreOli.

OUTGOING MAILS.
The malls for Lisbon. Spain, and Gibraltar will be made
up on the meralug clause 27.
nu mails for British North Araeries end the trained
States will be aide up ea the evening of Jose 28.
The West India Mails, including lisreauda, Hammel,
New, Honduran, New Orleans, arid Mexico, and esclodisi
these for Madeira. St. Joan-de-Nitarsgue, New °made,
Chill, sad Peru. will be madesp oe the literately of July 2.
The mills for Maderia, the Brazils. end Buenos Ayres, will
be trade up Co the evening of Jaly 4.
The malls via Marseilles, to the Mediterranean, 'opt,
Isdia, Hoeg-Kong, to., will be nadir up on the
evOling Of hay 8.
The eta* kw Gibraltar, Malta, Greene, the lonian Islands.
iggypt, Gybe, end Chine, via Bouthastptoa, will
be am& op lo the morning of July 20.

Inez ITAT SR AT Latina, inIDI:111.
Tors Dar —Vsions. 2.. Se Anna n. 2'.
Tr wenn ii. LA Artiness:. ia. go.

LONDON, TUESDAY, JUNE 25.

Taints in three classes in this country which
direct their views to foreign politics, and feel excited
and interested in them. The first is the aristocracy,
ever trembling for their supremacy, and deeming
their privileges menaced by an advance of revolution,
and especially of those recent revolutions which have
been accompanied by symptom' of social anarchy
and subversive theories.

The second is the commercial and industrious clam,
dreading alike war and disturbance, who ply not
much attention to the progress or the nature of our
foreign relations, but who demand one quill of
them, that of preserving general atoll and trap.
quality, with a satisfactory state of the funds and of
foreign exchanger.
The third class is the people, who have no selfish
interests to consult, and who entertain no more than
sentiments on that subject. Wherever they see a
people oppressed, they put up their vows for its libe-
ratinn. Wherever they see a cruel and a stupid
tyrant, like the King of NAPLES, they rejoice in his
downfall; and when a nob!e people, like the Hungarians,
ars keen struggling for their rights and independence,
then the sentiments of Englishmen are awskenel,
and were it partible to substantiate their sentiments
in deeds, and in practical aid, they soon would do so.
An English minister cannot afford to disregard the
opinions and the wants of any one of these classes.
But in con•ulting their interests and their aims he is
often forced to take very different ways from what
the parties concerned would desire. Thus the aristo-
cracy would have the government leagued every-
where with foreign kings against their people;
Mamas a statesman would eschew such policy as
leading certainly to national antipathies and war.
Witness the history which Mr. ROEBUCK adduced of
our long war from 1792 to 1813.

On the other hand, the commercial dais say, let us
have nothing to do with foreign states, and let us in
no wise be mingle d up in their politics or revolutions.
The statesmen, thus counselled, merely sets the utter
impossibility of a country's neutralising and secluding
itself. And much as ho must prize such prudence in
the main, he is aware haw impossible it is at all
times to conform to it. He knows, that alliance
with rice power begets jealousy on the part of ano-
ther. And that without a certain display of force,
and of that temper and determination not to suffer
wrung, which is the best guarantee against being
expos: d to it, a country would be more likely to pro-
voki; and bring down injury and quarrel, than per-
manently to avoid it.
If neither the fi an of the aristocracy nor the inte-
rests of the induetrious are to be slighted, so
neither are the sentiments of the prople. They
have, in those matters in general a sure and a
noble instinct ; and if they perceive their government
not to share in this sentiment, but on the cont.ary to
prefer the alliance of despots to sympathies for a free
people, there forthwith springs up a feeling of con-
tempt aed distrust for their own government, which
proves the most dangerous and fertile source of
revolution. Lot IA Puittere of France fell from the
results of no other.

In the present parliamentary struggle, we see the
three classes show themselves. The aristocracy
imagine their privileges and their order menaced by
the progress in Europe of even moderate refwm.
They therefore have passed a vote that the British
government shall rally alongside of despotic Kings,
and abandon every liberal idea fur fraternization with
military rulers.
The popular sentiment, as fares it has been awaken.
ed, strives in the very opposite direction. And the
whigs, menarel by a timid and reactionary noblesse,
ILlve of a sudden recovered much of that popularity,
to which a long and drowsy hold of power
has long made them strangers. The commercial and
industrious clue show more hesitation. They cainot
understand why we should risk our good understand-
ing with great powers for the sake of Sicilians or
Hungarians, who have been unable to defend them-
selves. 'they ought to be more alive to the outrages
committed on fellow subject., such as FINLAY or
PACIFICO. But on this subject they have been so
misinformed and deceived by the press, that small
credit was given to Lord PALMERBTON for the justice
of his reclamation. Thee* who put trust in tee
Tithes were led to believe it a mere private feud be-
tween Lord Pstiter.srost and King Orue.
The full discussion of all these points last night is,
however tedious, calculated to arouse public opinion
to the truth. These details were indeed not discussed
in the Lords at all. Lord STANLEY alone gave his
long and perverted view of each question, Lord LANs-
' DOWNE answering him, eloquently and warmly indeed,
but only on the general bearing of the question. Mr.
ROEBUCK and Mr. PAGE Wain, however, went
deeper into each case, and, we cannot bat think, most
successfully.
Let us take, for example, the treatment of the
lonian, SCMACHI. Lord STANLEY made a mockery
and a laughing-stockof this poor man's wrongs. And
yet it is plain to every unbiassed man that he
was most foully tortured, by heavy stones
placed on his chest, and a cord tightened
round the most sensitive part of his person till
his agonies were unendurable. Most respectable wit-
nesses attested this ; bat, as the official surgeon in the
employ of the government refused to add his testi-
mony, the accusation fell to the ground. We know
it to be the practice in Greece to torture electors in
order to make them vote in favour of government.
As the natives must endure this without redress,
tory lawyers will tell us that British subjects must
endure it too, as they have no right to be treated
better than natives.

Mr. Anonym's was a most eloquent and effective
speech, far above the mere niiiprius vein into which 11
the debate fell after he sat down. His mode of
analysing and characterising the conduct of the French
in these affairs was but too correct. Mr. Hume said,
let us not quarrel with the French ; and we heartily
echo the sentiment. But if the French government
will, unlike its people, be treacherous and illiberal, the
fault of the estrangement lies not with us, but with
them. If French statesmen go to St. Petersburg
for principles and for alliance, are we to
follow them? Mr. ROEBUCK might have spared his
There sneer at the peace party. are many o the peace
part y that support his motion. In the speech that
Mr. ROEBUCK was making, fur him to turn against
Mr. Connor; for his cordial support of the Hunga-
rians was ungenerous, and was a shot into his own
camp.
As to Sir FREDERICK TIIESIGER, we marvel how the
question ever recovered from the smothering of his
prosy stupidity. He took every fact and every date,
threw them down, and went, like a mill-horse, plod-
' ding round and round for boars, and
.grinding every
fact to powder. The candidate Premier, Sir JAMES
GRAMM, of coarse, made a_spesch against ministers.
The statesman who opened MAzzioes letters, in order
to betray the brothers RANDIERA to their Neapolitan
executioners, could not, with any consistency, talk or
vote otherwise.

Atioruda Railway Audit Bill is now in the House
of Commons, far less objeotionsble, it must be ad-
mitted, than Lord MONTEAOLE'S unworkable mea-
sure of last session; very different indeed in hie details
frog the bill prepared in the recess by the railway
delegates, containing all the costly machinery devised
in the bill introduced into the Loeds in the early part
of the present session by Lord ORANVILLZ; but hav-
ing added thereto the framework of a system of
audit to be set in motion by companies themselves,
and to be chiefly worked by auditors of their own
appointment; so that, probably, if parliament
be resolved on insisting that railway oom-
Amnia either cannot audit, or require ambiance

in auditing their own accounts, the present measure,
with some considerable alterations having principally
for their object the redaction of the large expense the
bill, as it now stands, would inflict on these corpora-
tions, is as good a scheme as can be devised, though
most insufficient mast be the best.
But in sayieg this, our objection to its principle is
invincible. To infer from the rogueries of one man,
who unfortunately presided over three or four great
oompac ifs, that these incorporations (in whose
directorates, in whose various executive departments,
and in whose proprietaries there is as much—we
might perhaps say greater—intelligence, as much
activity, as much foresight, and as much honesty, u in
the ap; lication of the joint stock principle and prac-
tice to all other departments of trade and industry put
together) cannot or will not correctly and truthfully
audit their own concerns, seems to us as illogical, as it
certainly appears to be a libellou conclusion. Yet, unless
this conclusion be deemed irrefragable, the present
Audit Bill has just as little foundation in necessity or
expediency Lord l'iloNrEan Lc's, against which every
person connected with railways pronounced.
If, however, the gentlemen who either do or have
mum( d to represent the railway interest in this cau-
tion, wearied out with the pertinacity of the railway
commissioners, have agreed to a compromise, it is not
for us to continue a resistance from which they have
withdrawn. So we proceed to examine and discuss
the bill iffeepective of the principle on which it is
founded.

It proposes, then, that railway companies shall an-
nually elect railway delegates ; that these delegates
shall, in their turn, elect two railway auditors ; that
to thesetwo auditors, supposed to represent the railway
iiitereat, the parliamentary audit board (over which
the executive govermatut hes no control) shall add a
third auditor of their appointment, who will, of
course, be regarded as representing the public ; that
these three auditors shall appoint a secretary and a
departmental staff ; that they shall have no interett:in
any railway property ; that the two auditors selected
by the bird of delegates shall be irremovable with-
out the consent of the parliamentary audit board ;
and that railway companies may at their option have
their accounts audited either by this board of audit
so appointed or by auditors appointed by themselves,
together with an auditor chosen by the parliamentary
audit board.

Now it is, in the first Ogee, to ha observed that
this scheme involves the erection of a great establish-
ment, to be supported at the expense of railway
companies which may. and probably will, have little
or nothing to do. For, as an alternative, almost
approaching to self and independent audit, is given to
railway companies, and as every company has
hitherto resulted all external audit, the option thus
given by the bill will, it is only reasonable to suppose,
be adopted by nine-tenths of these corporations. But
this preference for self audit will not exempt the
companies availing themselves of the option from con-
tributing to the cost of the Lute establishment wLich
the measure contemplates. Far from it ; the exer-
cise of the preference will prove an additional
burden to the companies which adopt the op-
tion. For they will first be charged with a
proportion of the cost of the audit establishment
which they refuse to we ; and will then have to pas
the expense of the auditor whom the parliamentary
audit board is directed to add to their own ap-
pointed.. And, judging from the first pecuniary
requirements of the hill from companies, the contem-
plated cost of the Board of Railway Auditors will be

The bill requires that, immediately after its enast-
meat, railway c( mpanies shall raise and pay to the
Board of Inland Revenue the sum of 10,0001. For
what purpose this large sum has to be thus peremp-
torily extorted with all the mashies of the law from
the companies, is not however stated. Not, however,
to pay the salaries of the auditors, and the expense of
their staff. For that, the very next section enacts
shall be an additiotal charge on the companies ; and
so heavy a charge, that a scheme for auditing its ex-
pendi.nre is actually included in the bill.

Admitting, then, for the sake of argument, that
the bill is otherwise well devised, and is likely to be
successful in operation, it is, on the other hand,
likely to prove very burthensome to railway com-
vanies ; and to insist on companies which reject the
interference of the Board of Auditors paying for
what they refuse to use, is a piece of very flagrant in-
justice, amounting to something approaching to
confiscation o: property. If railway companies are
to have a board of this sort forced on them, let those
who resort to it pay its cost, and not those who k.ep
away from its premises.
Bat the efficiency of any audit by such a board
may be douly ed. Subetantially railway accounts can
only be effectively audited once in a half year; viz.,
after their directions have prepared the balance-sheet
and the scheme of dividend. There may, no doubt,
be a continuous comparison of vouchers with earn-
niture throughout the half-year; but such company n
is only the child's play of auditing:railway affairs—the
real work and effective service are to be done after the
accounts are half yearly grouped, and the balance is
struck preparamry to dividend. Now as dividend
meetings are heid concurrently by all railway
companies in February and August in each year, the
subitantisl work of audit will come eiroultaneouly
in each half year on this board of auditors.
Some halt dozen of the larger companies have their
seats of administration in London ; and it is within
the limits of possibility, though certainly not of pro-
bability, that the three principal auditors may be able
to personally examine into their affairs and accounts.
But it is just far more certain that the half-yearly
audits of nine-tenths of the companies' if they submit
their accounts to the new board, must be handed over
to the clerks of that establishment, who
will, of couree, have to conduct the exami-
nation at the varicus seats of the companies' admi-
nistrations in the provinces. Now them clerks must
necessarily be accountants' clerks ; and it there be a
claw of persons less worthy of confidence than an-
other, it is the hack clerks of accountants' offices : for
bad as hack law clerks notoriously are, accountants'
clerks, unfortunately, have a much worse reputation.
The audit, to be conducted by such persons, cannot,
therefore, prove satisfactory; and it certainly in-
creases rather than diminishes the opportunities for
fraud. But this is a difficulty and a defect of which
the authors of the bill appear to be wholly uncon-
scious.

The measure, it is true, in one of its sectiona,requires
uniform account/ to be kept by companies; and in its
schedules furnishes forma of accounts. But, on examin-
ing these forms they refer not to what is really wanted,
uniformity in the system of book-keeping by railway
companies; but to uniformity of halt-yearly accounts
issued to shareholders, which is a matter of infinitely
less importance ; for the latter are but the results of
the former grouped together under their separate
and respective heads ; whilst it is in the account
books themselves that the accuracy of those details
and the real state of the companies affairs is to be
found and tested.

We cannot, therefore, admit that the question of
efficient audit has been solved bT this bill ; of which,
however, more on another occasion.

LORD HOWDEN, recently appointed Ambiumador to
Spain, has, it is said, sold hie estates in Yorkshire to L Ord
Lesdesborough, for 200,0001. Grinuton Is one of the most
beautiful houses in Hogland, and contains a unique collec-
tion of ancient arms, with many valuable . pictures and
statues, sad furniture of the mom costly description.
THE ARCTIC EXPEDITION.—Amunts from the
west coast of South America mention that her Msjosty's
ships Esterpelse and Investigator had passed through the
Straits of Ilagellan.—Asiserican paper.
SOCIETT FOR PROMOTINO THE AMENDMENT OP
THE LAW.—Leaf 111111111111 aof this society took
pato at the rooms in Regent-street, Vanaittart Neale in
the chair. A paper was read b Mr. Pulling on the subject
of the emission of the js of the county courts.
The argument of the loused gentleman was to the effect
that, although the jurisactios of those courts might be
adnategeessly extended, he thought there were many
objections to the proposition now before the public. The
power allotted to the judges of these inferior courts under
the sew system would give them a control over transactions
of the most loftiest* character, involving very abstruse* end
difficult points of law. The obvious effect would be to
diminish the business of the superior courts, and to sub-
stitute for the declaim of the eminent judges presiding
is those at Westminster the adjudication of men
whom opinions had 'steamily leas weight than
thefts. The prohibition of an appeal leaving such judges ir-
resposeible, nest, he thought, create seeertainty as to the
011110 of the kw Is Wittiest localities. The right of appeal
treelike &doles of the county court jape upon matters of
law wee the proposed remedy for those evils, and to prevent
the abase of this privilege the party appealing shall be com-
pelled to reduce his claims to writing, and it shall be com-
petent for the judge at shashers, upon being satisfied that
his oWootioas were frivolous!, to set them aside, with pods.
Mr. T. F. A'Setkett moved that the Apr read oy Mr. Pal-
ling be printed and circulated - and, atter some discussion,
whish Mr. Junes Stewart, Mr. W. Hawes, Mr. Can, Mr.
C. Webster, and others, took put, the notion was agreed to.