The Express.
London, England, 1850-01-04 00:00:00

MANCHESTER, Jan. 3.

Ilvocs-Ixasaxos.—There was a brirker market, sad
prices improve' alightlT. London sad Nerte We.teto thane were
done at 110 1 and ; Nest Maws wars dune at 61 die.; sad Meth
Milford, at 10 1-16 dia.

BIRMINGHAM, Jan. 3.

eroot-Ixozepros.—This market was more asietalsi te.
day, and Oa a were decidedly in adrence. 'Of North RAW, t
Wert quotations were IC
to 14 as 4 Worotatet and Buiftelre
Casale were dose at 431.

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THE EXPRESS FRIDAY El
art', eFPrt%%* right of ekction at that tier ma" vist FRANCE.
a rti.
of Shoreham, anieLerareit
freemen bad th d that a ajo fn t
lss fre
these
esias
Y of
e me into a ofe b, eaffed PARIS, Tuttssoey, 710 px.
—o____ the " Christian Club," aid under the sanction oeffPiotT me government measure. which has.
wheelies
thoeuetesint!
OUTGOING NAILS. and religion, and the cover of occasicnal acts, elsse,t each a stir amongst
. all peruse—the iii
The malls foe Module, the Brazils, arid Buenos artenwill city, had profaned that sacred. name, by making 1 a geteuesprimeiree—was well nigh lost in the Assembly
waxes an St% eveniag, Jas. 4•
quyesontionof
bathe
led to,
eme, meals to Lithely Spain, and Oi veil for catering striae offline votes, and settingt up het evening.
by oaths,first examined. and as
up es Jae. 7. the " Christian Club " were bound to secrecy _ according as at
.brsitar will
I"
taste
their torough to the highest bidder ! The mem ors of and comings
the government had
ne mile via Manatee, to the Mediterranean, Egypt.
yesterday's despatch,
wlhicihnfornithised
Ceylon, Pala, Hoag -Long, se., will be toads up
according to the second eta
mates of Jan. 7. which could strengthen their compact, and they, can- received a check, whilst,
" writings, bonds with lorga penalties, aid all the toes stated in
TM malls for British North Asterism sad the United
rigid on their traffic by means of a select committee,
&um aria be made up se the evening of Jase_ll._
ea who, having sold the borough, ggav
e directions to the foray of one. After analysing the votes, I find that
mination, it was only saved from the blow by a ma-
ne move: Mall, eicludi" B"swida.ells . others how to vote. the chief supporters of the measure were the mode-
Name, lio..daraa, New Orleans, and Meansa. selncludingthe catholic
sham for blades's. Or. Juan.de-Niearsawa, New
with the
Chat sad Peru edit he sada op es Jas. 17. select committee, bat having quarrelled with his 11.0- party, the Bonapartist., of votingcourest,hti..
changes, The ictorning officer himself was a member of this rates and Orleanists and the whole of
i ea the society. On the occasion of an
TM wails leiOihrslear, Malta, Grieve, the Isaias Islands, ciates, he
cie.,l,.
Rapt, Ceylon, India, end C las.etc:ount, this worthy excited reds, and the legitimists. Had the whole of the latter
government. The opponents were the tine pas, the
be made op es die maim of jam. 19."8 B°wiblaPte.' Will an opposition to the
be" "Christian Ct.nbn,"
g ot . the
clo votes Club"
pulsed. As it was, there were several selections.
voted in a body the government would have been re-
MOS WATER AT LONDON terrace. candidateso f
all
Ilmhd°
To, oa-useaes, se. tea Aeormom.
.4! A sle. and
an
id. Berry
so "es ..-ameoes. 7i. lo AlAnwee. . k. no.
votes were illegally amongst thoes who voted for the government are
er abstained as well as M. Thies, but
pgerotiotodntehogatinthsteeethe return of their op-
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such men as Belveze, de Coverville, Chauncey, Com-
- - • d. Then the whole facts came out. The re-
pothenetnuntaerointythte
rtjecte
d ibour ere
bard de LeyvaL Cretan, Camas de la On g ,
LONDON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 4. turning officer excusing his conduct on the groan
whose corruption Casale. Crouseilhe Dam • ere, Hrekereen, Kenai-
that be had rejected only persons of , e, pie
Marquis of Down:mate is sorrowful, for he he had erperanental kort.irledar, and whose
Till
liarq
chic personal dofficial in- thehi
an cag government except M. de Tocqueville, who +b-
land, great pees miens. His posessions are flyan acts had come within his
land and land he and his party declare mast eredely ranee. stained. Amongst the catholic party, and voting
M.
' . We are bound to believe that
go oat of cultivation This infamous combination baring been dins ex- the tier. parti, were to be seen such men as M. de
• h laves what he and his fellows say. It posed, parliament determined on extending the bona- Melun, Generals Faheier and Desmonsseaux de
tiro macros .e
be d Insi•tn but it would be sheck'ng to think it huula include all the
dary.ot this borough so that it I . _
_lyre. M.de G• -• ref Montelembert took the part of the go
may e • •
was deception ; and wanting
proof thereof, it would divisions of the county (or " rape" as it is called in rernitmr.
doubtless be considered seatalaban ni wmattem to in- Sussex), in which blioreham 111 situated. This convictions upon
The opposition founded theirthis,
siansts that there was any want of sincerity in the before, tram- of Bramber, as we said
sorrow, with which all protectionist landlords declare priers one-sixth of the entire county. It debate, and it would be mach better to pass that law
that they regard the future prospects of the agrietd- extends all the way front Horsham to ttc sea, and than a provisional one.
tural interest from the boundary of Brighton to some distacce The question now remains to be tested as to
A sceptical and inquiring public, however, some- beyond Werthine. It comprises a district containing whether the project of M. Psrieu will pass. Some
times ask for a videece in support of the most elo- 11 hundreds, an I 30,000 inhabitants, scattered througn people ray that it will be in a minority, others that
grant and too-Ling statement. As partisans of an 50 or 60 agricultural parishes. And the Reform Act part of the minority of last evening will bo frightened
obsolete system r °body is disposed to be angry at the lett this on reel " a borough," and left the public to b
y the possible result of their first vote, and they • ill
hysteric utterance of complaint. So long as the affair class it es one cf those reformed places in which turn in favour of government. If the legitimists sw-
im simply rhetorical, people are tolerant, becalm they popular Genet' would influence elections! coed in cettirg N. de Parieua law rejected, it i,
are indifferent to the lamentations ever a lost Can anyt. tug be more anomalous than the arrange- highly probable that the °desolate will join the reds
protection. But when grief grows obstreperous, meet which the Boundary lhll inflicted? Here, in to overthrow the great law on education.
sad threatens to intercept the onward progress of in- the ease of Shoreham, we have &district some 25 miles To-day the greatest agitation was visible in the
elute,- in its peaceful and productive vocations, we are long and 12 broad, to constitute a borough, whilst in hall of sitting, and the members anxiously discussed
suturally let to ask whether the importunate mourner Arundel, the very next nearest represented town, the the result of the rectified vote of yesterday.
is really in despair. and whethsr, in the matter-of- electoral district is circumscribed to the narrow limits N. Gillen said that he was mentioned as having
fact relations of life, he manifests that intensity of of the parish. Why these different arrangements ? voted twice, whereas he was certain he bad voted but
affliction which his party protestations testify. It is Those who understand the operation of the election once. General St. Jean cl•Angely, whose vote was
an ungracious task to seem to look into any man's influences in the two boroughs will have little diffi- noted recorded in the Jfeniteur, said that he was sure
private dealings; but, when he volunteers an expo- culty in explaining why. he had voted in favour of the urgency
goon of his affairs and proceedings, we are relieved Shen ham is not the only borough which is motion. M. Bossier declared that he had
hen all scruples of delicacy—nay, it is an act arranged in this way. There are other constitute- voted spinet and net for the urgency. In
en coortely to attend to what the distracted and cies, professedly town constituencies, which consist, in the Babel of members recording the manse
despeedieg individual has to say, and to endeavour to point of fact, of a majority of the tenantry of some ner in which they had Tote d. M. Donut, who had
naderstard tt--ff see can. large landowner in the vicinity. The boundary examined the votes, explained that it had bon done
Lord Dowesnute is in this position. Having of Westbury was arranged so as to include all the as fairly as possible. M. Cordier said that if rectifi-
vetted egaiast ftee trade in all stem having cheered tenantry of the Loen property; Droitwich has a cations were admitted, the result must be to in wall-
every CA4. tsDRA-like vaticination of ill which was boundary which includes nearly the whole estate of date every scrutiny. The dignity of the Aseembiy
to result from the removal of perfection, havinz Sir
June
FAKINOTON, whore own tenants return required, in his opinion, that the vote of yesterday
agreed to every resolution at Old Bond-street and him to tt e Houseof Common.. Eye is still worse. should be maintained. Tie regulations were fo
Drory-lene which pr mounced the inability of farmers The Reform Act may have extinguished one class favour of his opinion. M. Dupin, the president, do-
pa.te mot and live without a ecru law, and finally of rotten boroughs. Gatton and Old Sarum met their flied this. M. Dufougerais, a legitimist, opposed to
having signed Lord OtromeLL's solemn warning to fate under its provisions. But it, undoubtedly, M. de Puieua motion. laid that the errors already
dm QtErev and legislature, that without the vesture- creates another clam not a whit more lure, not a found out were not the oniy ones committed. 31.
ties of a tax en food landowners and occupiers must whit more free from personal tied pecuniary in- Benoit bad brew described as present, and as having
weedily be mistral in one common rule, Lord &once,. Untie we get rid of these boroughs—there voted for the urgency, whilst he really was absent
Doweaente lutes to his numerous tenantry in the are between 50 or 60 of them—the altogether. Under these ciicumstaucee the vote le-
estate is of Antrim and Down, and proceeds to pa of En.-land never can consider themselves came even again, and the urge ncy must be r jected.
ism them 'Tactically how much he feels for their My represented. The battle of the constitution M. Merancier followed M Dutougtreis, saying that
condition and his own. His people are in affliction never cm be fought honourably end legitimately• be had intended to &boats, but hosing voted by
and he comes to sympatise with them ; but th, in Circutuatimma may Pun occasional changes in public mistake for the government he had gone back to
Mona he oiled. their sympathy fur him; for are policy—extreme pressure from without may now and vote spinet, This statement caus. d an explosion of
they not all in the same boat, and going fast to the then force nowillicg governments to acquiesce in the murmurs from the Assembly. M. Nlerancier cue-
bottom together, as it sou prophesied they should popular desires—but a re-arrangement of the borough ammo saying that notwithstanding this he had been
do? system and an extension of the franchise is the riven- deecribed in the Moniteur as voting pro, whilst not at
Now, the marquis is what ens may call a practical sal to enable the publie mind of E ,gland to express word was said of his vote rota.
maw, and as his vocation is landl"vdismt he has iv- itself, as it ought to be able to express itself, is the NI. Dupin here again intervened to Bay that Le
solved upon showing how a practical landlord may Commons louse of Parliament. thought the Assembly was entering into an endless
aid his tenants in bad times.
discusaioc. M. Merancier said that la had put in a
He has made up his mind that for the Downshire
biter ticket. Now mat ticket had sot been found by
estates there can be nothing so geed as drainage, in Tar way iuwhich the purchase of the Danish Forts the
secretaries, and the Assemble could only trust to
which he is probably right, but then upon the " all in Guinea was announced the other day, led ua to sus-
them. Loud and prolonged murmurs followed this
in the same boat" principle that tenants and landlords pect a job, but we have satisfied ourselves that the op-
statement. In the contusion NI. do Lasteorie
should pull together. ho be suggests that there ration so laboriously masked is icnocent and judicious.
amid M. Berand showed up some more mistakes that
should be well-arranged combinations between them The simple fact tarns cut to be, that Denmark posses-
had been committed, and th • matter end d by the
for drainage, and a due distribution of functions. In sed three or four forts, with ill-delloed territorial rights
ordre do four heirg voted. But even this did not
a proclamation from Hind) gouge, dated the 13th De- to the eastward of the British and Dutch forts on the
ember, 1919, his lord-hip offers all firms to be Goli Coast; that the maietenance of these was at her eolve the question, ter M. Dapin asked —" Was it thefirst vote the rectified vote that was to b.:
drained " which are not let cheap;" nay, more, bean- charge, while her commercial flog never went near
maintained on
.
&attic.% in the most gracious manner, to allow all the ports, except to carry thither government stoics;
M. See got
of yeah relay, NI. lapin hid not on!). pus
at said, that in pronouncing
forms upon his property to be drained, " exoepting that their administration was so steak,e that the slav
ans which are let chem." There is a fine sense trade was tot wholly suppressed at points which the vane
clamal the residt, tut he :ad done so under re-
et social equity in this discrimination. The wire and should have been under their influence; that the go- sore; that reserve was explessed in the .31,te0. beneficent landlord wishes all his tenants to be vernmeet at Copenhagen formed the determination
t, sir, but, as there reined to he a difficulty in the
equally prosperous and happy. He, therefore, pro- to have done with them—a everminstien combst, d
poses to concede the burnt* of drainage on them by our government—England having all tho trade cf matter, he moved that the vote be annulled and
who ere now paying too dear for their lands; bet, me the settlementsat no charge ; and that it was only another taken.
NI. Come slid that the voting of the ordre do for those who sit toleraloy easy in their holdings the when the resolution of I)enmark to sell them to some- • •• t par was in his eyes a confirmation ti.e most prebable
PP/ water may remain on their lands to any extent, just bodycould not be longer combated,that ourgovernmeut
to show them the difference. Bat Lord Do of the two votes, naaelv that of 312 against 312
which was first Kites out. A hew vote on the same
thoughtful consideration does not end here. His is the buildings, and military and other stores. Tee motive • be
not meant to be a barren boast of goodness, lacking most potential with the Foreign-office probably was, q •
the sweet fragrance of its after-fruit. As we have the fear of seeing France acquire them, and set up
already slid, his lordship is a practical man. He there the restrictive erstem of trade, and oppressive
uestion would however, an opportunity fur
the s'ti on.
";i.cgSoubre ;ad elle All ' /d or , owing ore re 14 jour
"The Asa mbly, taking into no further
immediately goes on, therefore, tc explain the terms system of government that bureaucracy causes that ,notice •
on which the work is to be executed : ;anent nation to espouse abroad. We do not fear ace mnt the re seen. made by its president, 31. Dupin,
" 1. The drainage will be undertaken and the de- the long continuance of the monstrous colonial system to the
order fthe d "
Paean c ay.
ha:B carried cut by the lacdlord." Nettling can be of France, but it would have been commenced a' M. Base ascended the tribune, ard was followed by
more noble, we thought, as we read this condescend- Accra and Quittoh with the same result of turbulence other craters. Ultimately the Assembly passed to a
n
is commencement But we were premature. The most and trouble which has attended its introduction vote upon the - , . yesterday •
noble and most notable stipulation is that which follows, everywhere else among the Africans. should be annull Questioed or weether the vote of
not. lee vote was going on
wherein :t is distinctly set forth that the tenant is to Better reasons, at least more positive recommen- when the dispatch left.
pay for all that the drainage costs in an increased dations than this prevention of evil, could, however Too Electoral Union will propose the following
rent. "2. The tenant will be charged interest pay- have been stated. The Danish fats give us inc eased candidates as those of the moderate 'tarty for the next
able half-yearly with his rent, at the rate of five per influence over the most promising country in Western Pa-is elections, to fill vacancies left by the trial of
cent. per annum, or one shilling in the paind." Africa, over the most intelligent, industrious, and Versailles :—Generals Duct de la I It otolan,
Talk of Sir ROBERT PEEL as a landlord after this? orderly of the native African races—the only race, d'Arbonville, and le•vaillant; de Rambutrieu and
What is he compared to Lord Dowesunte ? There indeed (on the coast, at least), that can organise Perri), formerly peers ef France; and Thayer, Lu-
is only one further provision which we need notice, a government deserving the name ; and Ashanti nese, Abbe Cognereau, Boujcsa,Marbeau,and l'oehin.
and that is No. 3, which declares, that " Such tenants aan Dahomey deserve the title of states. In the In a cupli' of 3'' a I"
da s Than will, it is said, read
ea may wish may work on their own land, and be adjacent territories, under the influence of England his report on pub.ie Logical:co.
rid weekly," out of their own pockets, uwe have and Holland (the rule of the latter country has been BOUItsE.
1 seen above, under condition No. 2. on the same principles as our own), great and sub- PARIS, JAN. 3. For ,! For Account.
It is difficult to appreciate fully at the first glance stantial progress has been made: trade, production, Money.' tiienuig Iliginot. Loyest Lewis&
the merit of these propositions. They will well re- and population have increased; property and life have
s per Cent. 39 60 AGS SG 93 IS 63 36 ks
pay • more attentive consideration. They form an been as secure as in an English county ; and the 5 per Unto.
exquisite epitomeof the moral and economical philoses natives have entered on a career of imitation of 2, do; ..7iew1444. •J . • . . . .
play of protectionism. The land wants drainage. Even European habits in dress, dwelling, language, and 4' reeo!FZ.:
a protectionist peer had been made at length to under- manners. Education. too. has Mne ...t.,,,i.,i ...a e. - .
. . .

It is difficult to appreciate fully at the first glance
the merit of these propositions. They will well re-
pay a more attentive consideration. They form an
exquisite epitome of the moral and economical philoso-
phy of protectionism. The land wants drainage. Even
a protectionist peer had been made at length to under-
stand that thereby thepermanent value of his properties
may be greatly improved. lie is not unwilling "tohave
the honour to be your thorough draining friend," pro-
vided you do the work yourself, or pay others for doing
it out of your own purse. But you must also, in order
to come within the range of such friendship, be
already a little rack-rented, paying from thirty-five to
fifty shillings an acre, as most of Lord Dowiutmag's
tenants do. For the rogues who hold their farms at
11. au acre—which Mr. HVITABLE declares is the
outside price which any former can afford to give for
land in these times—nothing whatever will
be done. It is the suffering class of tenant
farmers who can no longer afford to pay
the old monopoly rents : it is for them that msr-
quiies and earls shed parliamentary tears, and then
charge so much additional rent as interest of outlay
for drainage. This is the true combination of fine
sentiment and "cutting fine." It shows clearly
enough how consistent and mincers is the demand for
high rents. Under all -possible and impossible
circumstances the protectionist sticks to his
text. Sensibility for the difficulties of the far-
ince is bat a disinterested name tor sensi-
tiveness regarding hie own pecuniary risk of
diminished rental. Appreciation of scientific im-
provement is but a learned epithet for being wide
awake. And as for patriotism, we know not who
would love their country if they did not who sell its
moil in the dearest market, and buy their hereditary
honours and emoluments in the cheapest.
Talk of Sir Emma Pent.'s letter to his tenantry,
what is it compared wish that of Lord Downsittan
The thrifty baronet bas been censured for not dis-
tinctly promising to maim abatements; but the mar-
quis is a cooler hand, and promisee to raise his rents
in general, and more especially on those who do not
already hold their farms cheap. This is what may,
indeed, be called thorough-draining; and it must be
owned that the sportine marquis heads the field like
a genuine thriessgb-bred.

Tux way inwhich the purchase of the Danish Forts
in Guinea was announced the other day, led us to sus-
pect a job, but we have satisfied ourselves that the opt-
' ration so laboriously masked is innocent and judicious.
The simple fact turns out to be, that Denmark posses-
sed
three or four forts, with ill-delked territorial rights
to the eastward of the British and Dutch forts on the
Gold Coast; that the trai,:tenance of these was at her
charge, while her commercial flag never went near
the ports, except to carry thither government stores;
' that their administration was an rveak, that the slave
trade was riot wholly suppressed et points which
should have been under their influence; that the go-
vernment at Copenhagen formed the determination
to have done with them—a evermination combst, d
by cur government—England having all the trade of
the settlements at no charge ; and that it was only
when the resolution of l)rnmark to sell them to some-
body could not be longer combated, that our government
resolved to accept them, and pay Denmark 10,0001. for
the buildings, and military and other stort s. The motive
most potential with the Foreign-office probably was,
the fear of seeing France acquire them, and set up
there the rutrictive system of trade, and oppressive
system of government that bureaucracy causes that
;anent nation to espouse abroad. We do not fear
the long continuance of the mons:rolls colonial system
of France, but it would have been commenced a*
Accra and Quittah with the same result of turbulence
and trouble which has attended its introduction
everywhere else among the Africans.
Better reasons, at least more positive recommen-
dations than this prevention of evil, could, however,
have ta,:en e:attd. The Danish forts give us inci easel
influence over the most promising country in Western
Africa, over the most intelligent, industrious, and
orderly of the native African races—the only race,
indeed (on the coast, at least), that can organise
a government deserving the name ; and Ashanti
and Dahomey deserve tho title of states. In th,.
adjacent territories, under the influence of England
and Holland (the rule of the latter country has been
on the nme principles as our own), great and sub-
stantial progress hu been made: trade, production,
and population have increued; property and life have
been as secure as in an English county; and the
natives have entered on a career of imitation of
European habits in dress, dwelling, language, and
manners. Education, too, has been extended, and is
valued by the natives. Those who know the West
Indies wilt feel the weight of the observation
made to us by residents on the Gold Coast,
that the English learnt there is really
English, and that the jargon spoken by the
companies of West Indian regiments sent to the Gold
Coast has caused them to-be looked on with great con-
tempt by the people of Guinea. It was thu to sob-
stands' service rendered by the existing possessions that
those who advocated the purchase of the Danish forts
could point. Furthermore, Quittah, one of the poste,
is on the Lagoon, the singular inlet of water, frequently
communicating with the sea, that runs along the
whole ocean front of Dahomey, by which the slave
trade is there enabled to defeat our cruising squadron.
'On this Lagoon a considerable trade in palm oil has
lately sprung up. Quittah can, by its situ-
ation, most powerfully assist this corn-
, mace, the only efficient foe of the slave trade.
The country produces a good deal of cotton, manu-
factured by the natives into cloths, which (our Man-
chester readers may be surprised to hear) are ex-
ported in considerable quantities to distant parts of
the coast. And the merchants acquainted with the
country, we understand, propose to make efforts to
promote the growth of cotton for export in the raw
instead of the manufactured state.

II pee Cent.. I 74; 60
5 yet ante. ' 92 90
5 do. New Loan. 1
44 per Orals. 99 i
99 I 191
4 pfir Cent& I 99 i Pt I ~
9*
9 i 99
Exempt on London : 30 days, 25 45 • 10 days, 35 324
144elaa, 5, 1810.1
Do. 5, 1942
Do. 44
_,. 99
Do. 34
Bovers.-91. Germain, 4,0; Vorgoille. 'right hank), 203 73; do. Der
bank), • °linens, 791 30, YArio an.l.ltouen, 561 25; nouenfiod
Morro, 210., Mertellles and Mignon, ...'l5 ; Straobourg and &le, 115;
Orleans and Vlerwa, 3.0 ; Rolgogno and Arnim; 193 50 ; (Menne
MA '3oeunins 409 73 ; North, 435 . Alenterean and Troyes, 110;
Tsai' and Stinelmus, 338 73; lours and /tango% 173; 11ontpcl-
Ler end Cette, 175.

Itarmis, Doc. 22.—Three !per Ceuta., 30i paper; Fourper Ceuta..
12, pap.? ; Flee per Cent,. 13 paper. 6 p.pee. of
r =Assad, Npiper. Itaelssaga as Landon. *SO.

ITALY.

SARDLNIA.—The Champer of Deputies of Turin
has nominated its president. Out or 125 votes, M.
Pineal, ex-minister, obtained 79, and was declared
duly elected.

GI4:RMANY.

We have not received our usual correspondence
from Berlin or Vienna. The German papers that
have come to hand contain nothing of interest.

ELECTIONEERING RUMOUR.—It u aid that the
Barnstaple reformers will bring f ward Sir J. B. P. Chi.
chaster, But., for the borough at the next general election.
The hon. bum, who represented them for many years in par-
liament, is very popular in the neig:lbourhood, aad will no
doubt be earned, as many t• rue hare intimated that they
will vote for him.

PROCLAMATION OF OUTLAWRY.—At the Sheriff's
Comm yesterday, Mr. Hemp, the bailiff, called upon the
isliewis• persons to amender themselves into the custody
of the Sheriff of Middlesex, at the suits of their several ere-
41wrs,r penalty of csrlawry ;—lfelen Hammen, at the
salt of Isaac Halle; Car nce pes, at the
suit of Alfred Robinson; Robert Wyse at thesuit of the
Right Rev. Dr. Nicholas Wiseman; George Gordon, at the
suit of Charles Cheshire ; Rob. et Barber Stevens, at the suit
of Richard Ponder; William Carpenter, at the suit of Wil-
liam Patmore—the we at a fecund suit of the same ; An-
sette Townshend, at the suit of Richard Williams; Thomas
Mostly Bioko at the salt of James Ire Burbidge and an-
other; Reginald Hare, at the suit of W. Kllliogworth
Hedge' and another; Lancelot Russell, at the suit of Fre.
Shriek Dalian; William Wright, at he nit of Henry
Undue ; William Wylie, at the suit of Justinian Adcock ;
Frederick Repairmen, at the suit of John Doe; Robert
Clifton, at the patio( Thomas Purr—the same at the suit of
W. Barrow and another; George William Finch, at the snit
of Richard Kirkman Luse; James Hatton, at the nit of
James Cramp; and Henry Robert Lewis, at the salt of
Cartent Joha Kenyan and another.

Tue election which took place last week at Shore-
ham may afford to parliamentary reformers an
opportnnityof exemplifying the anomallesof oar repro-
mutative system. Ibis " borough," as it is called, is,
in point of fact, no borough at all. It is a small county
within a county; for it includes a sixth part of the
county of Susarx--a county which in extent is one
amongst the largest of the kingdom.
It wee is the year 1771 that a cue was brought
before t►e notice of the House of Common. relative to
Shoreham, which was unparalleled for electioneering
infamy, even in those grossly corrupt days. The

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 4, 1850.

BELGIUM.

BILUIRIBLS, JAW. 1.
Amongst the numerous addressee to their Belgian
Majesties, delivered on the occasion of the New Year,
the one eminating from the Chamber of Representa-
tives, together with his Majesty's reply to it, is the
most worthy of attention. It was observed in the
address in question, that on commencing the year
which will dole the fi at half of the 19th century,
the Belgian nation could discover, with sentiments of
opnriedeoo,
euthpaietd_itsooexfisartenuce
duration
tfiorenewaildeoinndeeerapeednd_aent
more important place in that period then even its
annexation to France or to Holland. Recent politi-
cal events had left Belgium—thanks to the cha-
racter of its institutions--in the most advantage-
ous position. Although not powerful enough to take
part in great international discussion', that country
possessed, beyond its fronters, an influence second to
none, by showing other nations the objects which
should be held in view, as well as the means for at-
taining them. Even in highly cultivated countries,
such as Germany, the Belgian fuedamentsl constitu-
tion had been very often referred to, appreciated, and
turned to account. Belgium, obeying the true laws
of humanity, and understanding the future, had not
ceased to tread judiciously the path of progress, by
extending, for example, the elective franchise as far
as po‘sib!e, abolishing the stamp duty on newspapers,
releasing certain categories of persons from the pay-
ment cif taxes, increasing the moral strength of the
legislature, establishing funds for the aid of the work-
ing classes, and for providing them with re-
tiring pensions in their old age, and by
adopting a great number of administrative
measures which manifest, in other respects, a lively
sympathy for the woiking classes. In conclusion,
the address expressed ardent wishes for tho welfare
of their Majesties and the royal family, thanking
the King for imbuing the princes with constitutional
principles and true patriotism, and the Quten for
showing them the example of all virtues, above
all, of a truly Christian charity.
To this address his Majesty made the following
reply :
Oentlemen,—l am happy to find myself surrounded anew,
on this solemn occasion, by so numerous a deputation from
the Chamber—a Chamber which has eminently distinguished
itself by its wisdom, its high intelligence, and a true under
standing of the iateresta of the country. Belgion nation-.lit
encompassed by so OSLO, Mill, and having to peas threueh
so many diffizulties and !hreatening casualties, has be, n en-
abled to attain to consolidation, thanks to the exemplary I
spirit of its population.
We have a great wad noble future berne us. In eider
that our nationally may be strong and durable, two things
are retaired—it must appeal to the heart and to the mind.
and must be based on feeling and on reason. The hqrmony
and widow of the Chambers may do muck to preserve these
valuable airmen's. In this country a goad understanding
clic' between the rich and tlevatelicla,ses of society and the
working etas eq. The latter only ask for work. Every-
thing must be done, therefore, to allow of the produce al
their labour being adve otageously disposed of. The attain.
ment of that object is the greatest service that could be ren-
dered to the cred•coriducted working ague, so calm and so
dented to order. I recommend this idea in an especial
manner to the chamber—an idea the more worthy t f being
considered, inasmuch as great good may he the result of it.
It is thne we may hope to sea our excellent population mist
the temptations to which their minds and tilde pasaions msy
e sui.j.cted. We shall thereby become enabled to die-
p, in with the ',arm of suet Air by means of subsidies—s
system which destrel• produ• tive wort., .liemiurages person il
initiation, and, in the lung run, exeret-es a lamentable effect
n.allthe population. _ _

It is in. such Mellittiffs, cembined with a wive and pro-'
dent maintenance of our institutions, that we shall dad th•.
stn,ngest guerstitma 16r the honourable preservation of
peace and public tranquillity. The more excellent a peti-
tion, the grease the necessity to ezewitc prudence and c.O
:ion in totalling any past Which may compromise its de-
iamb for andreerf its security. The session just °print may
Five by your effats, rattans., very lavourablo results in
that r-.peat.
I thmk the Pr•sid at of the Chatibtr for what he has
boles pl•atad to s:y to this quota at the princes. Tic
princes, gentleman, are indeed pa•riotie ; and I trust tbst
thk y will every day render themselves more worthy to fill
with honour and with devotadasos the imy.‘rtaut ditties to
watch the future nay call them.
I beg of AI. le Pr.sid:nt and linoleum the Itepresenta.
tives to ft (*ice &loin my sincere thanks I.tr the broils of
afection thi y have givtn m', and for the wishes which th• y
have expressed for all my family.

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