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LONDON, THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 1847.

The House of Commons met at Twelve o'clock.
The Army Service Bill passed through Com.
mittee, and
The House adjourned to Monday, April 12.

We are in receipt of further intelligence from India
via Marseilles, the overland dispatches having, as
usual, anticipated the ordinary mail, which quitted
Bombay on the 2d ult. The general tenor of the
news is happily of the same pacific tendency that has
of late been received from the East. Sinde is now
thoroughly tranquil, the marauding tribes not having
shown any disposition to renew their infamous incur-
sions since the salutary check which they got from
the cavalry under the command of Captain JAcon;
The military reduction has been completed in this
province ; and a corresponding diminution in the
ranks of the army is satisfactorily progressing in the
other chief military divisions of the peninsula. The
total reduction will amount to little short of 40,000
men. The force which will then be kept on foot
will exceed by 30,000 men the number we
maintained
before we crossed the Indus in
1838. The
in lessening the military Governor-General
justify. The acquisitiorls
strength as prudence would
whave recently made,
and the nature of the engagementsaituto which we
have entered with the different
atauthorities,
upon the termination of the hostilities that have been
respectively carried on, fully accounts for the
neces-
sity of having 30,000 soldiers beyond what we
.re-
tained before we entered upon the campaign inA
ghanistan. In the Punjaub some excitement has
been created by the discovery of a conspiracy to as-
sassinate Sirdar TEJ SteiGu, lately the Commander-in-
Chief of the Seikh forces. The plot has heen defeated.
It originated, apparently, in the umbrage he had
given by the fidelity with which he has adhered to
the British alliance. DIIULEEP SINGH and the
Ranee have been prohibited by our representative
from making any pilgrimages without his express
sanction, IVe have no doubt that this step has been
dictated by sound policy. The duplicity, abominable
intrigues, and treachery which have stamped every
proceeding of the Court of Lahore, requires the
greatest vigilance on the part of the British autho-
rities; and it is more than probable that, under
the mask of devotion, they would endeavour to
make their wanderings to shrines subservient to
schemes of disaffection and revolt. The insurrection-
ary spirit in the Hazzareh districts has been quelled,

In other parts, the salutary influence which is known
to follow the establishment of British domination, is
already animating the people with the desire of enjoy-
ing the same advantages. The population of Cash-
mere and Moulton, severely oppressed by their
native rulers, are already impressed with a
sense of the rapid improvement which is being
effected in favour of their southern country-
men in the Punjaub, by virtue of the
revolution we have wrought since the triumphal entry
of our troops into Lahore. The Goomsoor districts
form a painful exception to the peaceable condition of
India. More barb,rous tribes do not exist through-
out the vast Oriental Peninsula. Their savage delight
in human sacrifices is horrifying in the extreme;
every civilized mind will rejoice that our rulers have
determined to adopt, if necessary, the most stringent
means for putting an end to this ruthless practice. In
no other part of the world, perhaps, is fanaticism so
diabolically predominant as among the Goomsoors.
The news from China presents nothing of interest.

Parliament is adjourned until Monday, the 12th of
April. Although we have repeatedly, of late, made
anticipatory allusions to this vacation, we are tempted
to return to its consideration, now that it has actually
commenced. Some breathing-time, however short,
is absolutely essential for the healthy conduct of
legislation ; the arrivals of Easter and Whitsuntide
afford a salutary pause, during which the Ministry,
the Peers, and the representatives may become more
circumspect in their deliberations upon public busi-
ness. During those intervals, for example, they may
take a retrospective survey of their Parliamentary
commissions and omissions; they may consider how
far they have fulfilled the expectations of the people,
how far they have accomplished their own in-
tentions, and how far the necessities for some
alteration or modification of existing statutes
have been consulted. We have already enume-
rated the boons conferred upon Ireland during the
first portion of this important session, the benefactions
that have been showered upon the tenantry, the re-
sources that have been provided for the destitute, and
the munificence evinced towards that unfortunate
island in the days of her utmost tribulation. We
have already scanned the measures introduced, and
the motions brought forward; it only remains for us,
therefore, to consider the questions which have been
either entirely overlooked or superficially considered.
With reference to the subject of National Education,
we must observe that the fl-ocrastination of the
Government is rather judicious than reprehensible.
It would be insanity—not to say cruelty—to
introduce a matter of such vital importance in
the midst of so many exigencies as those arising
from the starvation in Ireland. To slur over
a question in which are implicated the morality,
the intelligence, and the general happiness of
the empire, would be unbecoming a wise
and provident Legislature, and must have in-
evitably produced the most disastrous conse-
quences. There are so many evils to root out, so
many prejudices to overcome, so much speciousness
to expose, and such virulent and copious acrimony to
counteract, that the settlement of the single question
of national education would afford ample labour for
an entire session. Whether it be to establish normal
schools in districts where the light of knowledge has
but feebly penetrated, or to build seminaries where
ignorance has hitherto reigned predominant, there is an
alarming amount of work to do before the arrange-
ments of the Legislature can be carried into effect,
even when they have been inscribed upon
the statute-book. Even then it will be hope-
less to anticipate any suppression of the Dr. B limber es-
tablishments, with all the prestige of their butlers,
capable of pouring the table-beer out so superbly as
to impart to it " quite a winy flavour." To the
cruelties of Do-the-Boys Halls the Government
schemes may afford a permanent preventive, and to
the brutalities and blunderings of the Charitable
Grinders—where the children are " huffed and
cuffed, and flogged and hedged, and taught, as par-
rots are, by a brute jobbed into his place as school-
master with as much fitness for it as a hound "—the
provisions of the Legislature may act as an effectual
antidote. Much, indeed, may be accomplished
in the way of intellectual improvement by
the interposition of the Executive, but it
would be folly to anticipate that all tine-ceeeet-eaeol
mental wants of the community can be satisfied by
the arrangements of the Administration and the Im-
perial Parliament. We might, with as much reason,
expect the Government to organize a body of Feeders
to convey the separate spoonfuls of soup to the
mouths of the famishing Irish, after having efficiently
founded the Commissariat Department and en-
throned M. SOTER upon the dresser of the Dublin
cuisine. Too little has hitherto been done by the Legis-
lature for the dissemination of enlightenment among
the multitude, and this just because the majority have
expected too much. The Government can only be ex-
pected to guide the poorer and more neglected classes
in the best way to obtain knowledge ; they can only
be expected to afford a sound education to those who
have heretofore allowed the tablets of their intellects
to become miserably warped by an erroneous tuition,
or irreparably bleared into idiotism by a total aban-
donment. The Government can only be expected to
put those upon the right tack who have previously
been upon the wrong tack, to afford crutches to the
cripples, and spectacles to the short-sighted. It
is absurd to look from the hands of the
Executive for new limbs for the lame, or new eyes
for the blind. To this generation of the uneducated,
and even to the rising generation, the aid of State
schoolmasters could only be comparatively advan-
tageous. It is to the after generations that a good
system of national education would descend as a
priceless benefit, and that only be it observed to the
classes below the middle ranks of society—to classes
who are pecuniarily as well as intellectually incompe-
tent to aid towards the development of their own
minds. Upon the evils of the fashionable academies
the Government could no more be expected to pos-
sess any influence than upon the more aristo-
cratic evils of the Universities. It is only,
as we have already observed, upon the
Do-the-Boys Halls, and upon the Charitable
Grinders, and upon the localities which are without
even those pestilential nesfs of the more vicious tuition,
that the Legislature can be expected to exercise a
beneficent sway. Here, however, in this restricted
ground the labour is enormous and bewildering; and
considering the extent of that labour, and the emi-
nence of the question itself, we conceive that it has
been deferred at this time with very considerable
reason.

The sanatory measures we commented upon yes-

terday, as having been ably explained by the Chief
Commissioner of her Majesty's Woods and Forests.
To the other procrastinated schemes of the Adminis-
tration we must make allusion upon some more fitting
opportunity.

Intelligence from Athens to the 20th of March
has been received.

COLETTI had requested the SULTAN to recal M.
Mussuats, and to nominate another Minister, after
which the King of GREECE would give every reason-
able satisfaction that the SULTAN might demand.
This, which would be tantamount to inflicting a
punishment on M. MUSSURUS for doing his duty,
was very properly refused by the SULTAN, who re-
ferred COLETTI to the first note addressed by the
Porte to the Court of Greece on the subject. The
Parliamentary inquiry into the conduct of the Greek
Ministry was concluded, and very grave charges are
made in the documents published by order of the
C3mmittee against the Minister of Finance. The
following incident is calculated to confirm the truth
of these charges, and is at the same time
illustrative of the manner in
of the,. country : _ O the employes in
—One of which the tool
of France, M. COLETTI, manages the Government
the finance Department, named KROKIDAS,
1
had given some important evidence before the Com-
mittee of Inquiry. Shortly afterwards the Minister
of Finance, POUIROPOULO, summoned KROKIDAS to
his Cabinet, where be found Partisst' Ministerial
Deputy, Mindst ' 1
rs
Deputy, and the notorious CLEomEos, who was
suspected of having murdered the brother of Kno-
KIDAS. A few hours after this interview KROKIDAS
was taken suddenly ill, and shortly afterwards died.
It was rumoured in Athens that he had been poisoned,
but no inquiry into the circumstances of his death
was permitted to be instituted, and he was buried
without the cause of his (loath having been ascertained.

The Swabian Mercury states that the Austrian

Government has doubled the export duty on corn
from the frontiers of Silesia and Moldavia.
The Augsburg Gazette states that the Government
of Saxony is negotiating with the house of ROTHS.
CHILD for a loan, to be applied in completing the
railroads of that kingdom.

Madrid journals of the 25th have arrived.
The debate on the Address is at last concluded, and
the discussion with which it closed will be read
with interest by the foreign creditors of Spain. M.
MENDIZABAL complained that the foreign creditors
had been deprived of their security by the suspension
of the sale of the property of the monks, and by the
return to the clergy of that which had belonged to
them. M. MoN defended both these measures, and the
Minister of Finance expressed a hope that the day
was not far distant on which the foreign creditors
would be paid, and said, that without such payment,
it was impossible that the credit of Spain could exist.

The Ministerial crisis still continues, and the
Heraldo, the Afrancesado organ, calls upon the
Cabinet to take measures to strengthen itself, and to
obtain from the QUEEN unequivocal proofs of her
confidence. This article of the Heraldo contrasts
somewhat strangely with the article in the French
Journal des Debals, which asserts that there
is no crisis, and that the QUERN is free. Really
M. GUIZOT should see to this. The Duke
of GLUCKSBURGH hardly as yet understands
his business. Count BRESSON would not have
committed such a blunder. The same journal states
that both NARVAEZ and GONZALES BRAVO have re-
fused to support any Ministry which should adopt a
policy different from that of the present one.
The Clamor Publico contains accounts of various
Carlist movements in different parts of Spain.
The Bourse was closed.

We have received the Paris papers of Tuesday.
The Journal des Debuts is excessively wroth with
the English journals for the manner in which they
write on Spanish affairs. It denies that any Minis-
terial crisis exists at Madrid, although it was itself
the first to announce that such was the case. It
denies that the Queen of SPAIN is tyrannised over
by the Afrancesado faction, although the fact that the
QUEEN had called upon the Duke of SOTOMATOR and
his colleagues to resign, but that they refused to do
so, and held office in direct opposition to the clearly
expressed commands of their SOVEREIGN, was ac-
knowledged by themselves in the Cortes. The con-
clusion of the article is really laughable for the bare-
faced audacity of its falsehoods. Like the lies of
Falstaff, they are " gross as a mountain, oper,
palpable"—in short, regular Guizots. " The Queen
of SPAIN," says the Dgbats, " is free—the Cortes are
free. Let every one respect their independence as
much as France does ; we ask no more."
The alarmist article in the Debats of the preceding
day on the prospects of the next harvest, is the sub-
ject of indignant comment in many of the journals.
On this subject the Union Manarchique says—
' "A great agitation, we might say a great panic,
existed yesterday on the Bourse. The cause of the
trouble was an article quite alarmist, published in the
morning by the Debats, and in which the question of
subsistence in France, at present so important, is pre-
sented under the blackest and most sinister aspect. It is
strange that an organ of the Cabinet, that a journal
whose words are justly considered more or less official,
should have come all at once to utter this cry of dread,
and in some sort to join its sinister prophecies to the
universal blame which the Administration has incurred
during several months. We will not endeavour to pene-
trate this mystery. We cannot, however, dissimulate
the painful sentiment which this imprudent andslangerous
manifesto of the Debats has caused us. Ought we to
consider it as the faithful expression of the views of the
Government? Or ought we only to see in it an isolated
mani:estation of the Ministerial newspaper? This is a
grave point, on which we hope the Debuts, or more
official journals, will be pleased to furnish us prompt
explanations. Until now, as is known, the Ministerial
tactics have been to tranquillise the country as much as
possible, to give us at least words of consolation with
respect to the immediate prospects of our subsistence.
The Debats has often associated itself with this Govern-
ment optimism, in which, to speak the truth, we have
never had an entire confidence. How is it, then, that
this same journal becomes in a moment more pessimist
than we are—that, after having sung to every tune the
material security of the country, it suddenly throws be-
fore it words of despair?"
The Prince DE POLIGNAC, the last Minister of
CHARLES X., and the author of the famous ordon-
nance which caused the revolution of 1830, died on
the 29th at St. Germains. He had been suffering
from gout for the last two years.
The Presse contains the following :

" On Friday the King was at Neuilly, and visited on
foot the little farm situated in front of one of the lateral
gates of the château. He was accompanied by the
Queen, by GeneraPGourgaud, Count de Strada, M. La-
borde, and M. Gudin, officers of ordonnance, and by an
architect. The farmer asked permission to put up a
shed against a house occupied by old servants of the
château, who have retired from service. The King re-
marked that if he consented to the application, the inha-
bitants of the house would be deprived of light and air.
The farmer, however, insisted, whereupon the King
entered the house, examined it in every part, and found
that what he had said would inevitably occur. These
good people,' remarked his Majesty, have the same
need of sun and air as we have; why, then deprive them
of them ?' and he peremptorily refused the farmer's
application."
, The National says—
" We are assured that M. de Barante is to replace the
Count de St. Aulaire in London, and is to have for suc-
cessor at St. Petersburgh Count Brisson, who has long
desired the appointment of Ambassador to Russia."
The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on
Tuesday at 78f. 95c.; the Five per Cents., 116 f. 95c.;
the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,276 f. 25c. ; Rouen, 870 f.
Havre, 672 f. 50c., Great Northern, 628 f. 75c. ; Avignon,
1310 f ; Vierzon, 563 f. 75c. ; Bordeaux, 517 f. 50c. ;
Boulogne, 415 f. ; Troyes and Montereau, 2851. ; Basle,
205 f.; Dieppe, 323 f. 75c. ; Paris and Strasburg, 426 f. 25c.;
Tours and Nantes, 4181. 75c. ; Paris and Lyons, 433 f. 75c. ;
Lyons and Avignon, 4551. Cette, 447 f. 50c.; Spanish
Domestic Debt, 294.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT TIM
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, liAsca 31.

Boulogne and Amiens, 163( —Luxembourg, 1% —Namur and
Liege, 434—Northern of France, 13—Paris and Lyons, 55(—Rouen
and Havre, 2614—Sambre and Meuse, 6 —West Flanders, 4%,

MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL.

ELECTION OF A PRESIDENT.—(TIES DAY.)
A special general court of the governors of this
charity was held to-day, at the boardroom of the
hospital, pursuant to the following resolution, agreed to
at a board held on the 2d ultimo:—

" That on occasion of the vacancy in the office of Pre-
sident of this char.ty, by the lamented decease of the
late Duke of Northumberland, and influenced by a deep
sense of the obligations this establishment is under to the
illustrious house of Percy from the first foundation of
the hospital to this time, and from the assurance that the
governors feel that it will experience in his Grace the
present Duke a powerful and zealous patron as low? as
the conduct of it shall continue to merit his protection
and support, it be recommended by a special general
court, to be convened for that purpose, to elect the pre-
sent Duke of Northumberland to succeed to the office of
President, vacant by the death of his much-lamented
brother." _ _

The meeting was merely formal, and his Grace the
Duke of Northumberland was elected without opposition.
The court then separated.

MARKET NEWS.-(T HIS DAY.)
_ HAT MARKETS , _ _ _

Sma-urnit.D.—Meadow Hay, 21 5s to 31 ICs ; Clover ditto,
31 8s to 41 15a ; and Straw, 1/ lOs to 1/ 14s per load.
Trade dull, at the above quotations.
CUMBERLAND.—Meadow Hay, 218 s to 3/18s; Clover ditto,
31 5s to 41 145; and Straw, 11 12s to 11 16s per load.
Supply tolerably good, and trade rather dull.
WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow Hay, 21 55 to 31 15s; Clover
ditto, 31 5s to 51; and Straw, 11 108 to 1114 s per load.
A full average supply, and a heavy demand.

DIEZ.A.T DIELIMET S.
SOUTHALL, Maactt 31.—We had a very steady trade
here to-day, at improved currencies.—Beef, from 3s 6d to
4s 6d ; Mutton, 4s to 5a 4d • Lamb, 5s 2d to 6s 2d ; Veal,
4a to 53 ; and Pork, 4a to 4s gd per Sibs., to sink the offal.
ROMFORD, MARCH W.—Higher prices were paid this
morning for all kinds of stock, with a: ready demand.—Beef,
from 3s to 4s 6d; Mutton, 45 to 5s 4d; Lamb, 5a 4d to
6s 4d ; Veal, 4s to 45 10d ; and Pork, 4s to 5s per Sibs.
Suckling Calves, 18s to 28s; Quarter-old Store Pigs, 16s to
18s ; and Mitch Cows, with their small Calf, 161 to 191 each.
MARCH 31.—Beef, from 35 6d to 4a 6d ; Mut-
ton, 43 4d to 53 6d ; Lamb, 5s to 5s 10d • Veal, 4s to 4s 8d ;
and Pork, 43 to 4s 8d per Sibs. A moderate supply, and a
ready demand.
ARUNDEL, MARCH 30.—Beef, from 3s 4d to 4s 4d; Mutton,
41 to 5s 4d ; Lamb, 5s to 53 10d; Veal, 4s to 4s 8d; and
Pork, 4s to 4s 8d per 8114,
CHICHESTER, MARCIE 31.—The trade was firm this morn-
ing, as follows :—Beef, from 33 6d to 4s 4d ; Mutton, 4s 6d to
5s 6d; Lamb, 5s 4d to 6s; Veal, 4s 6d to 4. 10d; and Pork,
4s to 4s B{l per 81bg. Suckling Calves, 18s to 28s; Quarter-
old Store Pigs, 163 to 18s; and Milch Cows, 161 to 18/103 each.
NEWOATE AND ILEADSNEUXI6I..
The supplies of each kind of Meat on sale were small, while
the general demand was firm, as follows :—Beef, from 33 to
33 8d ; Mutton, 3s 6d to 4s 8d; Lamb, 5s to 6s; Veal, 4s to
ss; and Pork, 33 10d to 55 per Blb3 by the carcase.

CORN AVERAGES.
GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN
For the Week ended April I, 1547, made up from the Returns of the
Inspectors in the different Cities and Towu3 in Eagland and Waits
per Imperial Quarter.
STREAT. I RAILLET.I OATS. I RTE. 1 BISA:14. I PEAS.
PRICEI773 Od la 4,1 3ls 61 f Od I sls Ind 36s 9d
The Duties on Foreign Grant are new suspended.

CALEDONIAN CANAL.—We understand the Caledo-
nian Canal is now open from Inverness to Gairlochy, nryi
wi,lt in a tew day
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