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was attributable to the conduct of the Chancellor of the Exche-
quer, who stated that meat should be sold at the rate of lid. per
pound. The expression had thrown the people of Ireland off
their guard, and meat was now more than double that price.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER denied having
made use of any expression of the kind.
Mr. B. OSBORNE reiterated his assertion. He carried
the speech about with him, as an eternal memento of the reck-
less nature of the expressions made use of by the Members of
the Government.

STATE PAPERS.

vernrnental an-1 to social order. The Empc,ror, while
regretting deeply that there should ue any difference ui
opinion btween the French Cabinet and the three Cour •
on the subject of the point of right in this question, flat-
ters hicasel,,nevertheless, that theirviews will meet in the
common resolution of all the Courts to observe, and
cause to he observed, scrupulously, the treaties in their
true and literal sense, and in their spirit. Your Excel-
lency will be pleased to bring this present dispatch to
the knowledge of M. Guizot, and remit to him a copy
of it. •

M. Guizot laid before the French Chamber of Peers
on Monday two more documents relative to the Spanish
marriages, with the reply of Austria to the protest
against the infraction of the Treaty of Vienna, implied
in the incorporation of Cracow. These papers will be
found below.

Leave was then given to bring in a Bill to suspend the navi-
gation laws, which was read a first time.
Mr. OSBORNE moved for a return of the valuation of each
electoral division in Ireland, with population in 1841, as also
a return of all correspondence between the Board of Works in
Dublin, and the Treasury with Mr. Smith, of Deanston, rela-
tive to his taking charge of a system of " Thorough Drainage"
in Ireland; and, also a return of all correspondence between
Colonel Knox Gore, lieutenant of county Sligo, and her
Majesty's Ministers, relative to the famine in Ireland, dated
August 6th and 7th, 1846, which were agreed to.
Mr. B. ESCOTT wished to ask the Right Honourable
(the Chancellor of the Exchequer) if he understood him cor-
rectly, when he stated in his speech this evening that all the
Indian corn received up to the present time in this country
was the crop of 1845, and that they had as yet received no
portion of the crop of 1846. If so, it was a most consolatory
fact.

COURT OF COMi►3ON COUNCIL.
Yesterday a Court was held for the dispatch of a
great deal., of public business. It was numerously at•
tended.

FARRINGDON WITHOUT WARD.
Mr. EDKINS, one of the gentlemen elected at the ward-
mote, the return of which has been d• Oared null and
void by the Court of Aldermen, appeared at the bar,
and desired to be sworn ; and Mr. Richard Taylor, who
had also been elected a Common Councilman for that
ward, made a similar application.
The LORD MAYOR said he coald not permit the gen-
tlemen to be sworn, as The return had been formally
quashed by the Court of Aldermen.
Both applicants appeared to be much displeased at his
Lordship's refusal, and the latter said the Lord Mayor
must consider that he had rejected the demand upon his
pert.
Alderman H. HUGHES said they had no right to be
dissatisfied at the decision of the Court of Aldermen, as
the return had been quashed in mercy to the candidates,
who would, if such had not been the case, be subject to
pains and penalties for acting under a false return.
THE CONTEST BETWEEN THE COURT OF ALDERMEN
AND THE COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL.
When the clerk of the Court, in reading the minutes
of the last Court, arrived at the passage in which it was
stated that the Lord Mayor had refused to put the ques-
tion as to the third reading of the Common Council Qua-
lifications Bill,
Mr. HALL, a much-respected member of the Court,
rose, and said he begged to call their attention to the
subject of these minutes. It was the opinion of several
cf the members that there was a mistake in the record,
and that it was necessary to correct that mistake, lest
they should forfeit what they considered to be their
right. He was one of those who considered that there
did exist a mis-statement in the minutes of the last
Court ; and he should move that a committee of privi•
leges be appointed to examine and report upon the
subject as the best adopted form of proceeding to pre-
vent the interruption to the public business likely to
arise from the adoption of a different course, especially
as the matters about which the two courts had lately
disagreed might be reformed with advantage, and with
the probability of an unanimous concurrence to such
committee.—(Hear, hear.) It struck many of the
members that a better opportunity could not occur for
submitting the whole question to examination, with a
view to a perfect understanding between the Courts than
the formation of a committee of privileges, in which the
rights and privileges of the two bodies could be fully
discussed and presented. The committee should consist
of all the members of both Courts, and if it were con-
sidered advisable by them to appoint a sub-committee, as
better calculated to discuss the existing differences, they
could easily select from the two bodies persons in whose
judgment they might have perfect reliance.—(Cheers.)
Mr. Hall then proposed the following motion:—" That
a Committee of Privileges, consisting of the whole Court,
be now appointed, and that the alleged error in the
minutes of the last Court, as well as the differences
that have lately arisen between this Court and the Lord
Mayor, and between this Court and the Court of Al-
dermen, on the subject of the " Qualifications' Bill,"
be severally referred to the said Committee to consider
and report.
Deputy CORNET seconded the motion with the utmost
satisfaction. The object of it was to induce the una-
nimity so essential to the well being of the Corporation.
lie had on a previous ocervion expressed a wish that
whatever committee might be appointed should confer
with the Court of Aldermen, but that object was em•
braced in the more compreli( naive motion just pro-
posed.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER—Yes ; he
believed they had yet received no portion of the crop of 1846.
In ordinary years it was not exported, from America, before
the month of December, and he had every reason to believe
that they had yet received no portion of the crop of 1846.
Mr. WARBURTON wished to know if it was the intention
of her Majesty's Government to introduce any Bills this session
for amending and consolidating the Acts relating to the sana-
tory condition of towns, viz., the Acts relating to police,
paving, lighting, and watching ? If so, a knowledge of the ctr-
cumstance would probably supersede the necessity of any pri-
vate individual bringing in a Bill on the subject.
Sir GEORGE GREY was happy to inform the Hon.
Member that measures of the kind referred to were in a for-
ward state of preparation, and he thought that in about ten
days they would be ready to be laid upon the table of the
House.

The House then adjourned at a Quarter• past Ten.

PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS
(From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Comma

WEDNESDAY; JAIN. 20.

The following petitions for Railways were presented, and
the Bills ordered to be brought in by the undernamed Hon.
Members :

Bristol and Exeter (Taunton and Castle Cary Branch)—
Mr. Dickinson, Mr. P. Miles, and Mr. H. Berkeley.
Bristol and Exeter (Branch from Bleedon to Wells, Glas-
tonbury, and Street)—Mr. Dickinson, Mr. P. Miles, and Mr.
H. Berkeley.
South-Eastern (Mid Kent and Direct Tunbridge)—Sir E.
Filmer and Mr. Plumptre.
Lowestoft Railway and Harbour (Alteration near Reed-
ham)—Mr. Burroughs and Mr. Wodehouse.

The motion was accordingly agreed to.
In a subsequent part of the day, Mr. JOHN WOOD,
who, it will be recollected, brought in the Qualifications'
Bill, rose, and said, that if the Court had not agreed to
the proposition of Mr. Hall, he certainly should have at
once called for the third reading of the Bill, in his ca-
pacity of Chairman of the Committee, in which it had
been framed, in compliance with the order of the Court.
The measure adopted that day, however, had rendered
such a step unnecessary, but he felt it to be his duty,
however, to present his protest against the exclusion
from the paper of business of the notice for the third
reading of the Qualifications Bill, and to insist upon his
right to have that notice duly entered upon that docu-
ment.—(Hear, hear.) He here handed a paper con-
taining his protest, and moved that it be entered on the
minutes of the Court.—(Cheers.)
Mr. WIRE seconded the motion. The Court, he said
had at the same time that it had no desire to interfere
with the privileges of the Court of Aldermen, was de-
termined to protect its own, and when a Lord Mayor
assumed the power to strike notices off the paper without
permission of the Court, it was high time to enquire
into the real extent of his authority. He had beard it
asserted by Aldermen, and by others, that it was the
desire of the Court of Common Council to over ride the
privileges of the Aldermen. Such was not the fact, for
the Court of Common Council was a jealous of the pri-
vileges of that body as of its own.
The LORD MAYOR asked whether there was any pre-
cedent for the offer of a protest by an individual?
Mr. WOOD said he was not aware that there was any
necessity for a precedent. He had, by order of the
Court, brought in a Bill, which had been unanimously
agreed to upon the first aad second readings, and if
there existed no precedent for protesting against the
unauthorised exclusion of that Bill from the paper of
business, it was time that a precedent should be made.
(Hear, hear.)
Alderman H. HUGHES said it augured unfavourably
for the peaceful result of the Committee of Privileges,
that such a protest was handed in, and he hoped the
Lord Mayor would not put the question from the chair.
Mr. R. L. JONES—Do you speak for war or for
peace?
Alderman H. HUGHES—War is certainly far from my
heart, whatever my words may indicate.
The RECORDER said that in the House of Commons
such a power as that which the Lord Mayor questioned
did not exist. It was the privilege of the Lords alone to
protest individually, but the paper handed in might be
taken as part of Mr. Wood's speech, and entered upon
the minutes, if suchwerete advicehepleasuorfe
oorflethwehCoowuorut.ldTbhee
Lord Mayotar9wsiigg upon th
suggest would
anythingdoffernooppliokesilty to embarrassiontoamotionthteo
veryth that effect,sorry acting
Court.
Sir PETER LAURIE said that if ever there was a
measure calculated to conciliate the two Courts, that
measure had been adopted that day. The Common
Council had shown that they were determined to defend
the privileges of both bodies.
Alderman HUGHES Huonis said he objected to the
proposition of Mr. Wood merely as a protest. He had
no objection to it as a motion.
The question that the paper handed in by Mr. Wood
was entered in the minutes of the Court was then put,
and carried unanimously.
PERIODICAL ELECTION ALDERMEN,
Mr. ASHURST then gave in a notice of motion, which
caused a sensation in the Court. IxtcwHaAsN,o‘E‘ TchoamtmtihT:.
Re-
membrances be directed to prepa,ETteheafißoialli troespuobrjteocft
the
CommitteeFAlNl3dAlerr.R REPORTe*nttfoo JONES
RNoe periodical:bsuTiblndrEioneugßlgeOhteYhtt uLßnP.oyal Exchange. It con-
tained a most interesting detail of the whole of the pro-
ceedings of the Committee from the commencement to
the termination of their labours. Mr. Jones moved that
the report be printed, and that
o them pa oy, governingwho approbation
e poos wt etf ru s
constituted
ehodef
the Committee be transferred to the Improvement Com-
mittee.
He
edr ctehr c
they
warmest
part of the Committee, and had been unremitting in their
exertions to procure a building in every way deserving
of this great city, and he hoped that full credit would
be given by the community for what had been accom-
plished. gentlemenoefex operes Mercers
Several members intimated that the printing and cir-
culation of the report should be followed by something
more than dry approbation.
The powers of the Committee were accordingly trans
ferred, and the report was ordered to be printed.

THE STARVING IRISH AND SCOTCH.
Mr. HARRISON. after a speech which did great credit
to the Court and the advocate, proposed that the sum of

2,0001. be voted from the funds of the corporation for
the relief of the distressed Irish and Scotch.
The proposition was received with acclamation by
every member of the Court, but there were two or
three who could not let it pass without attempting to
throw a blot upon it by illiberal observations in the
comparison between the Irish and Scotch claimants.
Mr. PEWTRESS, after explaining his complete con-
currence in the proposition to serve our starving fellow
creatures, said it was extraordinary that the means
which the Government had in their hands to alleviate

he existing deplorable evil were never resorted to in
[reland. In Ireland there was a Poor Law, which was

unfortunately confined in its operations to the work-
house. Why was not the strictness of that law relaxed,
and assistance given to outdoor sufferers ? It was
dreadful that the guardians in so frightful an emergency
did not exercise that power. If they exceeded it an in-
demnity would be readily applied.
Mr. WIRE said the guardians would have done all
that could be done, if they had the money to carry their
wishes into execution ; but in many of the districts the
ratepayers themselves were objects of charity, and it
was impossible to abstract from the starving, for the

starving.
The Lone Navou immediately signed a cheque for
the 2,000/, which he said he should hand that evening
to the committee, of which he had the honour to be a

member, and he expressed a fervent hope that the ex•

ample of the city of London would be followed by every
other corporation in England.—(Cheers.)

TIIE ROYAL VISIT TO GEERNSEY.—The subscrip-
tion for the memorial which it is proposed to erect in Guern-
sey, in cilebration of her Majesty's late visit to that island,
is already announced to exceed the sum of 1,260/. A sub-
scriptior has also been set on foot among the inhabitants for
the relief of the distress in Ireland, in furtherance of which
benevolent object nearly 600/. has been contributed.
A SOLDIER POUND DEAD ON GLOSSOP Moons.—
On Thursday morning last, the dead body of a soldier was
found on a part of the moor above Glossop Low. It ap-
pears that his intention was to go to Sheffield to visit
his fr!ends. There is little doubt the unfortunate man
missed his way, and becoming bewildered amid the dark-
ness vas frozen to death. The deceased's name was Samuel
Burgh, of the 69th Regiment, now stationed at Burnley;
he wts a very tine athletic man, about 34 years of age.
The jury returned a verdict of found dead.—Muncitester
Guadiass.

TJEiR SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY MORNING, JANUARY 22, 1847

INDTAN LANGITAGE?.

Ex,r,,tet of a letter troll: Lleatehant Abet t, Cut p, of
Topugraphieal Engineers, dated Bent's Fort, Septerniwr
6, 1846.

"Since I have been here, my time has been closely
eccupied, there are so many curious things to be seen ;
esterday I was busily occupied in making a vocabulary
of the Cheyenne language, and I have also framed quite
a gram tar. Their language ha, no articles. 111:
verbs ale vast, d by prefiy.nig, diffcrent wcr4.=. to :he
different pc Nous, of which there are hut three ;
these answer for both numbers, singular and plural
" Their system of notation is very perfect. The
ordinal numbers are—
Nast,
Nish,
Nab,
Knave,
None,
Nah-so-to,
Ne-so- to,
Nah-no-to,
So-to,
Mah-tote,
Nah-tote-ote-nast, eleven
Mah-tote-ote.nish, twelve
Nah-tote-ote-nah, thirteen
Do. do. to
Ne-so,
Ne-so-ote-nast,
Do. do. to
Nah-vo, thirty
Ne- vo, forty
No-no, fifty
Nsh so- to- to, sixty
Ne-so -to-no, seventy
Nah-no-to-no, eighty
So-to no, ninety
Mah-toto-no, one hundred.
" They express thousands by so many hundreds, as
10, 20, 30, or, hundreds for 1,000, 2,000, 3,000, &c., &c.
" Their name for God, is A-am-ve-home,' which
meaus the white man above,' and is a decided indica-
tion of an acknowledgment, on their part, of the supe-
riority of the white race.
" To all my sketches, I have affixed the Indian names,
spelling them as if they were English words, and I fre-
quently repeat them to all the Indians who see my work,
in order to certify myself of the correctness of the pro-
nunciation.
"These Indians are beginning to turn their attention
to the arts of civilised life. Old ' Yellow Wolf,' whose
likeness I took on my previous visit to this region, of
last year, has been for some time endeavouring to have
a fort built, so that the old man could stay at home, be
in security, and watch their crops, while the young men
were out hunting. He wishes to live like the whites, as
he says the buffalo are diminishing so fast that in a few
years more the Indian will not be able to depend upon
them for food, and he wishes his people to give attention,
without delay, to the raising of cattle, corn, pumpkins,
and everything which would be useful for food. Such a
disposition should be carefully fostered and encouraged.
"Last year he (Yellow Wolf) and all his adherents
offered a mule each to Mr. Smith, a trader, if he would
build for them a fort, like that of the Bents, and get
Spaniards to till the ground. Now, it seems to me but
Just that the United States should do something for these
people, which would aid.them in their efforts to civilise
themselves, and to place themselves beyond their present
entire and precarious dependence upon the chase for
food.

one
two
three
four
five
six
seven
eight
nine
ten

twenty
twenty-one

"It is our people who have caused the scarcity of
buffalo, the Indian staff of life,' by killing them, not
merely for food, but for the profit on their skins, and
often in mere wantonness, and for amusement.
"If at this time the United States would furnish these
people with a farmer, a blacksmith, and a carpenter,
much could be done in the way of civilisation; and now
with great effect, as it would be seconding the plan which
the grea:Cheyentie chief is himself so disposed to befriend.
Other tribes, seeing the gory) (-fleets of the plan, would
readily follow the ex,,imple, as the Cheyennes would
explain everything, and would be ambitious of making
themselves the pioneers of civilisation among these
western tribes of wild Indians.
" These Indiana (the Cheyennes) also deserve much
from the UnitA States, because of their uniformly good
conduct. They have always protected the whites in
their trading excursions."

THE INTENDED NEW LUNATIC
ASYLUM AT BIRMINGHAM.
The asylum is intended for 300 patients, 150 of each
sex ; Leing completely separated. The principal and
most novel feature in the plans for the asylum is ar. in.
spection passage, which, from the entrance, traverses the
whole extent of the main wings, and communicates with
the end of each gallery or ward for patients, so making a
ready complete means of inspection and channel of com-
munication between every part of the building—that ap-
proaches to the patients, the governor and matron's resi-
dences, the kitchen, and washing departrnents,:the chapel,
and, in fact, to every part of the house. From the inspec-
tion of the passage before mentioned, the galleries or
wards (each for one class of patients), branch off at right
angles, each gallery being complete in itself, with its
own day-room, airing courts, sleeping rooms, bath, store,
and attendant's lodging room. Each gallery being for
one class of patients, noisy, expileptic, eze., as the case
may be, and having no communication with any other
gallery except by means of the inspection passages,lhe
disturbances which often occur in asylums, and which is
detrimental to the patients, will be prevented, and those
who may become violent or noisy, may be readily re-
moved to their proper department. Separate sleeping
rooms have been provided in the proportion of one-third
of the total accommodation, and in the associated sleep-
ing rooms the number of beds will vary from three to
nine. The air will be warmed before ainiission into the
different rooms, by means of a steam apparatus, and ar
rangements are made for an effectual method of summer
ventilation. Open fire-places are provided in the rooms
where the patients sit, and this experience has proved
to be very conducive to the comfort of the unfortunate
inmates of an asylum for lunatics. Appropriate resi-
dences for the medical superintendent and the matron
have been provided, together with a room for
convenientlythmagistrates'
pa
tients f
ora meeting,pmpuros
music,
hteh de singing,nf ercoemos
rs necessary
other
stoffice,such amusements
maanl and
s'a ahnadl l
for recreation, in which it is proposed to have meetings of
as seem proper. The chapel is so placed as to be
females' departments. Workshops have also been pro-
vided to permit of the employment, in their own trades,
of such of the patients as may be in a fit state of health,
and many others can be employ ed in the grounds.
Every arrangement has been made to provide for the
constant occupation of the patient, to preventing that
fatal brooding over their painful state, to which many
persons of unsound mind are particularly subject. The
building will be in the Elizabethian style, of plain cha-
racter ; the materials will be brick, with stone dressing
to the door and windows, and quoin stones at the angles
of the entrance buildings, which will be approached by
a drive, and are raised on a terrace. The tout ensemble
will be at once cheerful, neat, and substantial, and. the
building will be an ornament to the town.—Birmingha
Herald.

The Lord Lieutenancy of the county of Brecon has
become vacant by the death of Mr. Henry Williams, of New-
port, who succeeded the late Duke of Beaufort in that office
in 1835.
DISCOVERY OF CURIOUS ASTRONOMICAL MSS.
IN CHETHAM'S LIBRART.—A few weeks ago, Mr. Thomas
Jones, M.A., the librarian of Chatham's Library, in clearing
out some of the less frequented "classes," found a box with
a small piece of parchment on the lid, inscribed "S. Smet-
hurst's Manuscripts." The box, which was open, was
found to contain a thick 4to MS. volume, filled with as-
tronomical papers, calculations, and diagrams; two thinner
4to volumes of MSS., and a number of loose sheets of calcu-
lations; amongst others, one for ascertaining the quadra-
tare of the circle, apparently deduced from the tangent,
of 30 degrees, and another for ascertaining the square
root of twelve. Amongst the more curious calculations
in the larger volume are some as to the moon's longi-
tude, anomaly, and node for every year from 1782
to beyond the year 2000, and similar ones as to
the planets Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and
Saturn —all annually, and extending to a period of 150 or
160 years hence. This volume contains diagrams and types
of a great many solar and lunar eclipses, many of them cal-
culated and constructed before the occurrence of these
phenomenon; transits of Mercury to a period yet distant,
occultations, &c. One of the smaller MS. volumes contains
a treatise on the rise and progress of astronomy, with cal-
culations and types of many solar and lunar eclipses in
ancient times, some of them hundreds of years before Christ.
At the end of this volume is a printed prospectus (of four
pages) of svor ks to be published by subscription by Samuel
Smethurst. From an incidental notice in one of the MSS.
we learn that Samuel Smethurst was born in 1714, and was
living in 1790, at the age of 76 years. But his name ap-
pears to be unknown amongst astronomers, geometricians,
and mathematicians, though living so recently as within
the last 60 years, nor do we find any publication by Samuel
Smethurst in Watt's" Bibliotheca Britannica."—Manchester
Guardian.
THE DUTCH NAVY.—The Dutch Navy consists of
two ships-of-the-line of 84 guns, five of 74 (of which three
are building), two of 60, one of 54, eleven of 44, two of 38
(building), three of 32, nine of 28, four of 20 (of which
two are building), two of 22, two of 20, eleven of 18 (of
which one is building), one of 16, eleven of 14. seven of 12
(of which four are building), two of 8, fire of 6, five of 5,
four of 4, and three of 3 guns; in all 92 vessels, with 2,356
guns of different calibre. Besides, there are ten steam-boats,
carrying 64 guns, two iron steam-boats (and one building),
five transports, ten gun-boats, and one bomb-vessel.
THE DISTRESS IN SCOTLAND.--ISLAND OF LEWIS.
—We have seen a letter from a respectable merchant in
Stornoway, describing the measures which that enlightened
and liberal proprietor, Mr. Mathieson, is adopting for the
relief of the destitute islanders. "He is giving employment,"
says the writer, " to all who apply for it, and is giving them
food in return, at prime cost. He is doing a vast amount of
good in the country, and lam confident will do more. The
attacks made upon him by certain persons are very ungene
rous."—Scottish Guardian.

We read in a letter from E4ribos (Greece), of the
25th tilt. :—" There is in the whole of Greece only one guil-
lotine. Wherever an execution is to take place, therefore,
the guillotine must be taken to the place. For some time past
this instrument had been stationary at Athens, as there were
a great many brigands to decapitate who had been taken in
the environs. Tne guillotine is now making the tour of the
provinces, and is at this moment at Egribos, where it has
just served to cut off the heads of eleven persons, one of them
a priest, who were condemned to death some time ago for
piracy. Although a great portion of our population do not
regard piracy as a crime, and have a profound veneration for
priests in general, whatever their private conduct may be,
there was no manifestation at the place of execution in favour

of the curiosity. The number of persons present to witness
the execution was about 12,000."
We hear the Ministers of Austria, Russia, and
PrUssia did not attend the opening of Parliament with the
rest of the corps diplomatique, in consequence of the formal
protest contained in her Majesty's Speech against the recent
annexation of Cracow. No doubt this step was taken by
their Excellencies as a mark of deference and respect to an
opinion so forcibly entertained and expressed by the Sove-
reign and Parliament of this country, with reference to the
violation of the treaty of Vienna by their respective Courts.
—Times.