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London, England, 1847-06-23 00:00:00

Ilr X TY IST LO DONS

TAW LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY,
/.41 Fleet-street, Loudon, June 3, 1547.
Notice is hereby given, that in conformity with the PrONISIOIIR of
the Deed of Settlement, a GENERAL MEETING of the PROPRIE-
TORS will be held at the Society's Office, Fleet-street, on THURSDAY.
the 24th day of June instant, at Half-past Eleven o'clock, when the
six Directors and two Auditors, who go out of office by rotation, will
be proposed for Re-Election.
By order of the Directors,
WILLI.OI S.A.3IITEL DOWNES, Actuary.
Business will commence at Vwelve o'clock precisely.
The DIVIDEND for the year 1546, has been in the eottrse of pay-
ment since April:ast.

HE WEATHER.—SUOFFICE, Jr.r.rie 23.
TtIERMOMETXR, Lowest, 47; Mghest. 67 ; Noon, 61.
BAROMETER, 29.72.—Wnrn S.S.W.• showery.

HI( 11 WA.TES AT LONDOBUIDOL TLIIS DY.
31 ruing .. 25 iniantes after 9. I Evening .. 54 minntes 4fleY 9.

half of the rental of that country is taken from the
landlords by mortgagees and other claimants. They
are, therefore, without the means of improving their
properties, however beneficial the consequences would
be to themselves and to the people in general. But this is
not all, the inducement to doso is also withheld. By far
the greater portion of these properties are secured in
strict settlement and by binding entails. The needy
owner, 'who may have a large family of yolnger
children, comparatively portionless, will not seek
still further to enrich his eldest son at the
expense of the remainder of his family. He
cannot charge the inheritance of the lands
with the sums expended on their improvements, not-
withstanding that inheritance may be thereby ren-
dered far more valuable. He cannot alienate the
useless acres to others, who would be ready and
willing to convert them into rich arable and pasture,
he cannot even grant a long lease, being tied down
in the strictest manner by powers, apparently framed
under the supposition that he would, if possible, rob
his successor in the most barefaced manner. By
these means he is rendered utterly helpless, and unable
to take any efficient steps for the introduction of
a better system. Of course there are many who
form striking exceptions to this class, who well and
efficiently discharge the duties incidental to their po-
sition. But, unfortunately, the great majority are
such as we have described, and improvements
in such cases are wholly impracticable. But
even had the owner the absolute property in
his lands, there is a great, although not an insuper-
able, difficulty interposed, by reason of the compli-
cated character of the law of real property. Should
he desire to borrow money, in order himself to take
i the necessary steps, or to lease the land to others for
that purpose, it will be necessary for him to make
out his title thereto, in the first instance, and any one
who is at all acquainted with the delays, difficulties,
.and expenses of such a proceeding in the Green
Island, will not be surprised at hearing that it
operates as an effectual bar to any step being taken
in the great majority of instances.

We have thus stated the causes of this singular
neglect and apathy—they are not merely the want
of capital, but also the want of means, by which the
(persons effecting the improvements may be
made certain of enjoying the fruits thereof,
or at least of being recompensed for the
amount of their outlay, if deprived of the
lands themselves. Extensive leasing powers should
:be granted to every person possessing even a life
interest with respect to lands of less than a certain
value. A compulsory law should be introduced
.by which every man, unable or unwilling to bring
his lands into cultivation, should be obliged to dis-
pose of them at the fair value to those who would
do so. The Government are fully alive to the ne-
cessity of introducing a just and comprehensive mea-
sure ; the extraordinary pressure of business, during
the present sitting, compelled them to postpone that
intention, but we have no doubt that due advantage
will be taken of the recess, and that we shall be pre-
sented with a Bill well matured, and fully equal to
meet the difficulties it is desirable to overcome.

The Swiss Catholic Gazette contains the following,
under date Lucerne, 14th instant :
" The Committee charged with preparing the instruc-
tions to be given to the Diet agreed yesterday to pro-
pose the following resolution to the Grand Council:—
` rhe deputation will declare to the Diet that the Can-
ton of Lucerne is opposed to all intervention on the part
of a majority of twelve cantons in the affair of the Ca-
tholic League and the Jesuits, and will resist with arms
all attempts to enforce the execution of any decree the
may issue on the subject',"
lOW
In its sitting of the 16th the three states of the
Prussian Diet adopted, by 220 votes against 115, the
Bill for the admission of Jews to all places, except
such as are connected with the exercise of other
forms of worship, or with religious instruction. The
Government communicated on the 16th an order for
prolonging the session of the States until the orders
of the day shall have been got through. The session
is expected to terminate at the end of the present
month. The Committee of the first Order has voted
by seven votes against three in favour of the periodi-
cal meetings of the Diet, and it was stated that it had
also voted by the same majority against quadrennial
eommittees, and against the deputation. It was even
added, that the KING had renounced the right of nomi-
nating such committees. It was stated that his MA-
JESTY would close the session by a speech, in which he
will reply to all the representations that have been
made to him relative to the constitution of the States.
In the sitting of the 17th, the Diet voted by 254
votes against 212 the admission of Jews to political
and municipal offices, by 222 against 183 for their
admission as professors of mathematical, medical, and
natural sciences in the Universities, by 223 to 156
votes for the creation of a Jewish theological chair in
one of the Universities; but the Diet determined, by
260 votes against 180, that Jews should be excluded
from employments connected with elementary in-
struction, and by 220 votes to 219 against their being
allowed to be elected Deputies of the general or pro-
vincial Diets.

The Observateur'of nrusiels states that orders have
been given that the Prussian State Gazette shall not
be allowed to enter Austria.
The High Court of Justice of Vienna lately pro-
nounced judgment in a case of 33 soldiers, accused of
high treason, for participation in the Polish conspi-
racy of 1835. It acquitted 17, reserving, however,
the right to prosecute them again if circumstances
should render it advisable. The other 16 were de-
clared guilty, and condemned to death. The EM-
PEROR, however, remitted the penalty of death, and
ordered the Aulic Council of War to fix other degrees
of punishment. This it has just done, by condemn-
ing the prisoners to hard labour in fortresses for 18,
15, 12, and 10 years.

The Madrid mail had not arrived in Paris when
the post left on Monday.

We have received the Paris papers of Monday.
The Court of Peers met on Monday to hear the
report of the Committee on the CUBIERES affair
After hearing the report read, the Peers, of whom
202 were present, proceeded to consider whether
there was sufficient ground to place MM.
CUBIERES, TESTE, PAR3IENTIER, and PALLE-
PRAT on their trial. The proceedings are
to remain secret until the Court shall have decided
on this point. It is said that in the case of M. Ening
DE GIRARDIN a different sort of justice will be dealt
out, and that, although General CUBIERES has been
permitted to expose the corruption alleged to have
been practised by M. TzsTi,-M. EMILE ph GIRARDIN
will not be permitted to expose the corruption alleged
to have been practised by MM. GuIZOT and Do-
CHATEL. We can scarcely credit this assertion,
which is made by the Union Monarehigzie. On this
subject the Courrier Francais says—
"If the disclosures of MM. de Girardin and M. Thi-
baudeau do not produce for MM. Guizot and Duchatel a
situation exactly similar to that which the disclosures of
General Cubitlres have produced for M. Teste, we do not
know what logic is—we cannot comprehend what ho-
nour is! M. Duchatel protests with force, cries out
calumny, and meets all these grievances with the
strongest denials. But what matter the denial of M.
Duchatel ? Has not M. Teste also thrown back the
accusation from the first moment that it was brought
forward? Has he not strongly defended himself in the
tribune? Is he the less obliged to appear at the bar of
the Court of Peers? We do not say. that M. Duchatel
Ss culpable; we merely wish to see him establishing
hia innocence as clearly as possible. Do you
suppose that M. Teste has allowed himself to
be guilty ? Do you suppose that at the pre-
sent moment he is not endeavouring to justify himself
completely? And is M. Teste on that account less
obliged to appear at the bar of the Court of Peers ? Once
more, we repeat, we do not say that M. Duchatel and
M. uizot are guilty; it is sufficient for us now to declare
that they are accused! And of what offences? Our pen
hesitates to state them, so difficult is it for us to restrain
our disgust. They are accused of having wanted to sell
promises of peerages! of having wanted to sell laws! of
having sold a theatrical privilege for 100,000 f.! If the
accusers are to be credited, nothing is sacred for our
Ministers, neither the fortune of the citizens nor the
public revenue! nothing, not even the law! nothing, not
even the character of the legislator! And you suppose,
gentlemen, you shall get off for the vague denials which you
have uttered in the tribune of Palais-Bourbon! You are
innocent, you say. So much the better; we shall be
happy if such infamies did not take place under our con-
stitutional regime. But let your innocence be shown
clearly in the open day! It ntryotir interest above all
that it should be so! It is your interest that a minute
inquiry should remove from your foreheads even the
shadow of a stain, th,appearance of a suspicion."
An active -intrigue is going on in PaTis to bring,
about tle:,downfal of the Pacheco Ministry. in Spin '-
Pacheco
and to'raise General NA.RWLEZ to the post of Prime.
Minister, _. The Generakit is said,, is hourly
expectation of a telegraphic dispatch, requiring hia

presence\ at Madrid. The Semaine says that a few
days agcy M. PtTNANT, an Attache of the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs, left for Madrid with dispatches.
Three days afterwards N. DECLERCQ, Consul at
Corunna, returning to his post, was charged with a
private mission for M. DE GLUCKSEERO, and yester-
day (Saturday) a Cabinet courier started from the
Foreign-office for Madrid."
The boiler of a locomotive employed on the Amiens
and Abbeville Railway burst on Sunday last, and
killed the engineer and the stoker.
The Presse publishes the following letter from
Arles, detailing the prospects of the harvest, and the
success of the experiment of growing rice in the
south of France. It is dated June 16th :
" The growing wheat in our neighbourhood has a
most magnificent appearance, but there is another crop
still Saler, namely, that of rice—a new grain, which has
been sown in the salt marshes watered by the Rhone,
and which has succeeded beyond the most sanguine
expectations. The Italian farmers, who came here last
winter to superintend the cultivation, state that they
never witnessed such a magnificent crop. They believe
that the produce of rice this year will not be less than
4,000 pounds weight the hectare (2f acres), and that it
will be increased according as the cultivation shall be
improved. In Lombardy rice, which is a grain the least
liable to injury from a variation of the:temperature, yields
25 for 1, or 7,000 pounds weight per hectare. But it is
not necessary for us to carry our pretensions so high, as
the annual expense of cultivation, including the interest
of the capital employed, is not more than 300 f. (121.
sterling) the hectare (2i acres), whilst, calculating the
produce at 4,000 pounds weight, at a rate of 301. for 200
pounds weight, the net profit would amount to 3,000 f.
(1201. sterling) the hectare."
It is decided, says the Constitutionnel, that there
shall be a camp formed this year at Compiegne, and
contracts have been made with the farmers for the
use of such parts of their fields as will be required for
its site. Orders relating to the encampment were
sent off on Saturday to the Palace of Compiegne.
The ilfoniteur de e Armee announces the following
appointments :—General SEBASTIANI to be Inspector
of the Fire Brigade at Paris; Lieutenant-General
' MorANE DE SAINT YON to be Inspector of the Poly.-
' technic School, and of the special military school of
the Royal Military College; and Lieutenant-General
THOLOSE to be Inspector-General of the Staff School,
of the staff officers employed in the Map-office, and of
the Department of Works in the office of the Minister
of War.

The Duke DE BROGLIE, Ambassador of France at
London, is, says the Debats, to leave for his destina-
tion at the end of the munth.

The Three per Cents, closed at 77f. 70c.•, the Five per
Cents., at 118 f. 15c. ; the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,276 f.
25c.; Rouen, 970 E ; Havre, 660 f.; Great Northern, 585 f.;
Avignon, 715 f. ; Vierzon, 615 f. ; Bordeaux, 510 f. ; Bou-
logne, 407 f. 50c. ; Basle, 187 f. 50c. ; Dieppe, 315 f. • Paris
and Strasburg, 428 f. 75c. ; Paris and Lyons, 447 i. 50c.;
Lyons and Avignon, 448 f. 75c. ; Bordeaux and Cette, 455 f. ;
Spanish Three per Cents., 344 ; ditto, Domestic Debt, 29i ;
'ditto, Passives, 46..
"

MARSEILLES, JUNE 17.—Marseilles and Avignon, 727 f.
50e. ; Northern, 595 f.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE

LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, JUNE 22.

Ceylon, N—LouvainJt la Sambre, I—Luxembourg, Ph
—Namur and Liege, 3--. Northern of France, 11 1/4,—Sambre
and Meuse, ZIA.

CHANCERY-(THIS DAY.)
The LORD CHANCELLOR sat in the Old Hall, Lincoln's
Inn, to-day, and took appeals.
THE CORPORATION OF LIVERPOOL V. NORRIS.

This part-heard appeal motion stood in the paper to-day
to be further argued, but upon the case being called ou
lits further consideration was postponed, Counsel suggest-
tha propriety of doing so, in order to give the parties
lan opportunity of seeing if they could not compromise
the matter.

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