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. ful country, he also receives a retiring pension as a
Cabinet Minister, President of the Board of Control.
But the charge will pass away with this Noble Lord,
and after his death it will no longer be remembered
that such things have been. We need not now allude
to the Six Clerks' Compensation Bill, under which
four gentlemen receive no less than 30,0001. per
annum, with reversions to the surviving members of
their families for seven years after their deaths.
However rank these jobs, there is at least
some time when they will be brought to
a termination. But the Ecclesiastical Courts
have hitherto escaped all notice. The Reformer's
besom has not yet penetrated into their snug recesses,
and there are extravagant salaries and enormous
sinecures still existing that exceed in iniquity any-
thing that prevailed in our legal or equitable tri-
bunals before an attempt was made to cleanse these
Augean stables. Ex uno disce omnes—from one
example learn the nature and character of some of
these well paid offices.
There is, then, it appears, a situation denominated
the Registrarship of the Canterbury Prerogative
Court, the income of which, derived from
fees and emoluments of various kinds,
amount to the insignificant sum of 12,0001.
sterling per annum. We have not been enabled to
learn much of the duties required of the fortunate
official. They cannot, however, be very arduous or
irksome, as the present registrar (Mr. ROBERT
MOORE) is enabled to hold a plurality of Church pre-
ferments therewith, and to be at the same time a
prebendary of the Cathedral Church of Canterbury !
Rector of Latchington ! ! Rector of Henton ! ! !
both in the same diocese of Canterbury—and Regis-
trar of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury ! ! ! !
From these various institutions this excellent
gentleman receives no less than 14,9631. per
annum, or 9621. more than the emoluments received
by the Lord Chancellor of England, includ-
ing his salary as Speaker of the House of
Lords, and 4631. per annum more than the aggre-
gate of the salaries received by the First Lord of the
Treasury, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Pre-
sident of the Board of Trade, and the Postmaster-
General, and within 371. of the salaries of the three
principal Secretaries of State for the Home Depart-
ment, for Foreign Affairs, and for the Colonies. Or,
to go to another country ifor an illustration, rather
more than the amount paid by the American Re-
public to its President, Vice-President, Secretary of
State, Secretary at War, Secretary of the Navy,
Postmaster-General, Attorney-General, sad Pay-
master-General! ! A case so extraordinary
may well excite the public curiosity, and
occasion a desire to know how it was that this
Reverend Gentleman obtained such exceedingly,
comfortable situations ; and whether there is a pros-
pect of any other or others succeeding to similar per-
quisites.
We find, then, that the Archbishop of CANTERBURY
for the time being has the power, whenever vacancies
occur, of nominating one person to the office, and two
others in succession to the reversion. When Arch-
bishop MOORE filled the archiepiscopal see of Canter
bury, two vacancies occurred in the reversions, and,
as it was too good a thing to be sent out of his own

family, ha appointed his two sons, Messrs. JOHN and Ro

BERT MOORE to the vacancies. The elder brotherJoux
came into the enjoyment of the emoluments of the
office by the death of the then holder ; when Dr.
MANNERS SUTTON was Primate of all England, who
nominated his grandson, the present LordCANTEßnuar,
then a youth of 10 or 12 years of age, to the vacant
reversion. In 1845 JOHN MOORE died, and ROBERT
his brother became Registrar, and Dr. HOWLEY
became entitled to present in accordance with former
precedents. That pious and amiable Prelate, how-

ever, with a disinteredness that reflects the higbes

credit on his memory, refused to avail himself of the
privilege. He felt that he could not con-

sistently with his high position act in a manner
that would ba so derogatory to the interests
of the Establishment. He accordingly made a
communication to the then Premier, and, snbse-

quently it appears, to Lord JoHN RUSSELL, to the
effect that he could not, in the conscientious discharge
of his duty, fill up the vacant sinecure. His state-
ment waS, however, disregarded, and no step was
taken either for the abolition of the office or the re-

duction of the emoluments to something that migh

be considered a reasonable remuneration for the ser

vices required from the bolder. Matters remained
in this state until the death of that amiable prelate,
when Dr. SUMNER, the then Bishop of Chester, was
translated to the vacant see. The new Archbishop
did not, however, consider himself bound to follow the
bright example of his respected predecessor. It

might easily have been stipulated that he should
also forbear to fill up the office until Parliament

should deal with the matter, but no such condition

was mad?, and his son, a student at the Temple, was

appointed to the reversion, which would eventually

yield him an income higher than any which the
greatest success in his future profession could pos-
sibly bestow.

There is however " many a slip twist the cup and
ip." The glittering prize, although almost within
,he young gentleman's grasp, may yet be beyond at-

tainment, and his most reverend father may have
brought discredit on his own high office, with but
little advantage to the object of his favour. By a for-
tunate accident it was provided by the 9 and 10 Vic.,

c. 98, sec. 9, that any person who should after
the passing of that Act be appointed to the
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office of " Judge Registrar, or other officer of any
ecclesiastical court in England, should hold the same
subject to all regulations and alterations that
should be made by authority of Parliament ; nor
should any person by his appointment to any such
office acquire any claim or title to compensation, in
case the same should be thereafter altered or abo-
lished by Act of Parliament."

After the exposure made by Sir BENJAMIN HALL
and the blushing confession of the First Lord of the
Treasury, who with shame acknowledged the ladies
of his Ministry, it h certain that some legislative
enactment will speedily take place on the subject, by
which not only the Registrarship of the Canterbury
Prerogative Court, but all similar situations
throughout the entire kingdom will be placed on a
new foundation. Who, after perusing the above state-

ment, will say that the " careful revision of the salaries

and wages paid in every public department, with a

view to a just and adequate reduction thereof," is not

required, and that it is not sufficient to leave such
questions in the hands of the present Government ?

An oration of extraordinary ability, and replete
with the most perspicuous argument, has recently
been delivered in the House of Assembly, Nova
Scotia, by the Honourable JOSEPH HowE, the Pro-
vincial Secretary. Aware that however brilliant such
a speech may have been, it cannot by possibility in-
fluence the opinions of the population of the mother
country without obtaining some special reference
from English journalism, and cognizant of the re-
markable value of the truths embodied in the
harangue alluded to, we are eager at the earliest op-
portunity to direct the attention of the British mul-
titude to those admirable remarks with which
Mr. HowE refuted the statements made not

lug since, in the shape of certain Resolu

tions introduced to the House of Assembly
' at ii- •
—alifax, by the Hon. J. W. JOHNSTON, the leader
of the Opposition. Our solicitude, in this respect, to
, obtain a hearing for the Hon. Provincial Secretary is
materially
enhanced
by him
the reflection that the argu-
mentshim
[ advanced a
ad
r e illustrativeopted in
theof
direction
systemetion
of Government aty present
of
of our w
the affairs North American possessions—a
system of
government
vihich, of all others existing
or obsolete, has been
abuse, the ninst subjected to the most inter-
minablethe most rancorous m detestable calumny, and
ing that it was agisreainsptresetnht.ations. Know-
Policy that
the whole of the recent movement
the Canadians was directed, ever
y
recognise the importance of a matter
. ione will
ntimately
connected with the maintenance of our authority in
that portion of our trans-oceanic dominions.
All
these riotous proceedings, which have reflected so
much disgrace upon a large and hitherto estimable
portion of our colonial fellow-subjects, all these burn-
ings of official documents, pillaging of Parliamentary
libraries, and destruction of the abodes of the Legis-
lature, all these miserable insults levelled against the
representative of our august SOVEREIGN—owe their
origin to the misapprehension of the system of go-
vernment now in operation throughout the
Canadian part of our North Americo') territories.

It must, consequently, be with no small degree of
curiosity that the relied ;lye politician in England
turns to an oration like .that of the Hon. Provincial
Secretary at Halifax—an oration in which the mis-
representations of so t zany factious antagonists are
categorically exposed, a rid in which the character of
the policy pursued towa Ms the two Canadas by the
local administrators, and, by the supreme authority in
Downing-street, is very earnestly, and, to a certain
extent also, very successfully vindicated.
In refuting the specious and sophistical ac-
cusations condensed into the " Resolutions" of the
honourable leader of the Opposition, the Pro -
vincial Secretary, on the 20th of March, displayed to
the derision of his colleagues, and of the majority of
the Canadian representatives, the inconsistency with
which, in the preamble of his " Resolutions," Mr.
JOHNSTON described the Executive power as at pre-
sent constituted to be one altogether uncontrolled,
having asserted almost :simultaneously, in so many
words, that " a Govvernor might arrive who
would obstruct the party obtaining power,
holding opinions oontrary to his own.'
Well might the Provincial Secretary inquire
how two statements so diametrically opposed to each
other could by any possibility be reconciled. Well
did he, in the exordium of his very masterly oration,
cast ridicule upon this factious and contradictory
mode of forcing embarrassments at once upon the local
and the supreme Governor ents. Recogniziog the strange
and perverse ignorance displayed.in tbis manner by Mr.
JOHNSTON, as to the structure of the British Colonial
Constitution, the Membe rs of the House of Assembly
might reasonably ask the mselves if a man like this—a
man as ill-informed as hi) is glaringly disingenuous
—could be reasonably er itrusted with all the serious
and heavy responsibilities devolving upon the prin.
cipal leader of the Opposition. But the Provincial
Secretary had anything but done with this redoubt-
able assailant of himself and • his Ministerial col-
leagues. A little further on, referring to the miser-
ably erroneous and whiny ig remonstrance incorporated
among the " Resolutions " against the notion that
" a Minister of the Crow n may hold himself free to
disallow what a predecessor in the exercise of his
official functions had established," Mr. HOWE could no
longer conceal his mingled sentiments of scorn and
indignation. His comments upon the paragraph are
altogether so felicitous that we must gratify ourselves
and our readers by transcribing a few sentences ver-
batim. He exclaims, therefore, in 'regard to this
particular—
" What arrant want of all constitutional knowledge
the learned (1) leader of tb e Opposition displays, if he
really penned this passage in a spirit of querulous com-
plaint. Why, Sir, what ar 3 Ministers of the Crown for,
under our admirable syst,gu, but to advance with the
spirit of the age, and to change, in accordance with that
spirit, what their predecessors had established? Are
not Ministries changed, anet Cabinets reconstructed, for
this especial end? If what was once established could
❑ever be changed—if extravagance could never be re-
trenched—or a man once in office removed, we should be
living uader a despotism, and not under a constitutions
mararchy."

Upon the second recital, to the effect that " the
Lieutenant-Governor has been denuded of all power,"
Mr. HowE observes that the accusation is wholly in-
exact ; and upon the continuation of that recital,
that "so long as the Lieutenant-Governor is to be
viewed as the head of the Provincial Administration,
be must either sink into insignificance or become the
instrument of Executive obstruction," he gainsays
the truth of the declaration that in any respect
whatever the Noble Lord in question can be re-

garded as the head of the Administration. " Lord
ELGIN," he observes, with a sententious and decisive
brevity, "is Governor of Canada, and Mr. LA-
FONTAINE is the leader of the Administration. As
to the amount and nature of the authority exercised
over the affairs of the Canadian Government by the
Noble Earl, her Britannic AIAJESTY'S Principal Co-
lonial Secretary, the Honourable Canadian Adminis-

trator insists that that supreme power is not only
judiciously apportioned, but also, and in an especial
manner, judiciously exercised. " I admit," says he,
" that Lord GREY, havingfrankly yielded the principles
of Responsible Government, has left them here, as in
Canada, to their natural and appropriate development;
giving us good counsel when he thinks us wrong,
and husbanding his great powers for great occasions ;
he does not control our free action in questions purely
provincial, or irritate and obstruct by needless inter-

ference." The admirable and argumentative harangue
from which we have made the foregoing extracts

proved altogether as successful in its v influence

upon the judgment of the House of Assembly
as it was eminently successful as an oratori•

cal display : the Resolutions introduced by way
of amendment by Mr. Hows being carried
by a majority of twenty-six over fourteen. Those

resolutions declared, among other things, the implicit
confidence reposed in the integrity and ability of the
Noble Lord the Governor of Canada, by the House
of Assembly of Nova Scotia, and the entire

satisfaction with which the same provincial Cham
ber viewed the character of the political, admi,

nistrative,

and legislative institutions of the

province. From what has already been observed
by ourselves, it will be seen that the speech of the
Hon. Provincial Secretary at Halifax, to which we

have here directed public attention, is one sufficiently
remarkable to deserve a very careful and serious ex-

amination.

The Ministers of the French Republic, MM. BA..
ROCHE and CARLIER, are bold men ; they have ven-
tured to do that which even CrreaLEs S, shrunk
from attempting in his most bigotted moments,—he
contented himself with establishing a censorship of
the press ; they have ventured to prohibit the sale of
every newspaper that is not opposed to the con-

snuance of that Republic of which they are the
sworn servants. Taking advantage of a doubtful
decision of the Court of Cessation, which relates solely
to the sale of books by persons not booksellers, they
have at once jumped to the conclusion that this de-
cision will also apply to the sale of newspapers, and
accordingly have prohibited newsvenders from sell-
ing any but Royalist journals, and, to make assurance
doubly sure, they send police to all the shops to seize
any journal which is not Monarchical. There can
be no excuse made for this conduct on the ground of
the necessity of stopping a Socialist propaganda (not
that we admit for the moment the validity of such
an excuse) ; the laws are already sufficiently strin-
gent —they empower the Minister to seize and prose-
cute any journal which may contain an article offen-
sive to the powers that be ; and Ithe journal to which
this stringent measure was first applied, the Evene-
ment,
has always been opposed to Socialism. It is
the property of M. VICTOR HuGo, whose name is a suffi-
cient guarantee that nothing subversive of society will
be found in its columns. It was the first journal that
advocated the claim of LOUIS NAPOLEON BONAPARTE,
to the Presidency of the Republic, and on every oc-
casion in which he has acted independently, as, for
example, on the occasion of his letter to M. EDGAR
NET, it has strenuously supported him, but, unfortu-
nately, M. LOUIS NAPOLEON BONAPARTE has of late
chosen to govern by and for the parti-pretre, and the
clerical party hate VICTOR 'loco as theologians alone
can hate ; hence all former friendships and services
rendered by him are as nothing. The PRESIDENT
has bound himself to do the behests of the parti-
pretre: they demand the confiscation of the property
of M. VICTOR Iluco, and those who boast them-
selves the especial defenders of the rights
of property confiscate it accordingly. Since
this prohibition of the sale of the Evenement, a
similar prohibition has been extended against the sale
by newsvenders of the National, the Presse, the Siicle,
the Voix du Peuple, indeed of all, except the Minis-
terial and Monarchical journals. Never were men
more mistaken in their lives than have been MM
BAROCEIE and CAisLIER, if they imagined that by this
attack upon the liberty of the press they would
succeed in preventing the circulation of the prohi-
bited journals. On the first night that the sale of
the Evenement was prohibited the persons who could
procure the journal mounted on chairs and
read it aloud in the public streets, and already
a plan has been organized for ensuring the
presence of a number of each of the prohibited
journals in every wine shop, café, and place of public
resort in Paris, and for sending a number of each
regularly to every workshop. The only effect there-
fore of this blundering attempt to interfere with the
liberty of the press will be to turn the casual pur-
chasers of the various journals into constant sub-
scribers, and to increase their circulation enormously.
In the mean time it would be well that both the
PRESIDENT and his Ministers should remember that
they ere responsible to the Republic for their acts

that 1852 is approaching ; and that, Ministerial
responsibility under a Republic will not probably be
the farce it was under Constitutional Monarchy.
M. BAROCHE is exceedingly anxious to hurry the
Transportation Bill through the Assembly. It would
be curious if, PHALARIS like, he should be the first
to suffer by his own contrivance.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
The returns from all the polling places have been
received and examined, and they give the following
as the complete result of the gross poll :
M. Eugene Sue ... .. 128,071
M. Leclerc
• ... 119,626
The Presse has the following on the subject of the
recent elections :
" On both sides, the electors voted with equal emula-
tion and equal ensemble. The most perfect order and
calmness was preserved in all the sections. This is an
important fact, for the calm and order are the most con-
vincing condemnation of the alarm, whether feigned or
real, entertained of universal suffrage, and of all the at-
tacks, either direct or indirect, which might be pro-
posed against it. At a time when France had a very
small number of electors, two hundred thousand at the
utmost, England possessed relatively a very great num-
ber—more than three millions. Now France has eleven
millions of electors. Let a comparison be drawn be-
tween the manner in which the elections are carried
on in the two countries with regard to order and calm,
sad it must be admitted by every impartial mind that
the advantage will be on the side of France, although
she had a very much shorter electoral experience, and
has three times the number of voters. Nothing can be
more tranquillising for commerce and for the cause of
peace than this fact, and it cannot fail to rapidly raise
France in the esteem of all people, and even of all na-
tions whose attention is directed to what is !aking place
at Paris. The people, we do not doubt, at this election,
as well as that of the 10th March, were anxious to pre-
serve the sirname which they bad merited. That name,
already proved, is that of the Party of Order. On the
2d May, as on the 15th March, the people will abstain
from going to the Place de !'Hotel do Ville, in order not
to furninsh any pretext or any opportunity for collision.
They know that it is by the maintenance of order
that they will regain the plenitude of their liberty.
The order of which the people persist in giving such a
praiseworthy example tends to unveil the weak-
ness of which the Government continues to
present such a sorrowful spectacle. The co-
operation of time is secured to all that is true
and to all that is just; if Justice and Truth have not 3et
universally triumphed, it is because man has been want-
ing in patience; he has wished to outstrip the action of
time; he has not known how to wait, and has too often
preferred victory to progress. Progress is victory with•
out the battle. That which is acquired by force is always
uncertain; what is gained by patience is never so. The
liberty which is enjoyed by the English is a proof of
this; it was gradually acquired, and has never gone
back, but, on the contrary, has continued to advance.
Let us kuow how to imitate them. The French have
amply paid their debt to chance. They possess the
right of showing themselves prudent without any risk of
being called pusillanimous. The people have just
proved a second time that they form the real majority;
let them leave intoxication to those who govern them,
and let them conduct themselves as sovereign. Majesty
is impassable. It is thus that the people showed them-
selves on the 15th March; it is thus that they will be on
the 2d May."
It has been semi-officially notified that the publica-
tion of the Napoleon will be discontinued. The Mi-
nisters, it is said, declared they would resign en masse
if that journal again appeared.
M. PASCAL DUPEAT has presented the following
proposition to the National Assembly :--
" The dispositions of the law of the 27,h July, 1849,
relative ti the distributors and hawkers of printed papers
are not applicable to sellers in their own houses, or
tradesmen possessing shops, The authorisation required
by the law of 16th February, 1834, for the sale of
newspapers in the streets cars only be accorded in a
general manner, without privilege or exception for any
ne /v9apers."

M. BERIIYEE has been appointed President of the
Committee on the Budget of 1851, and M. GOUIN,
Vice-President.

The Archbishop of PARIS has directed that a Te
Deum shall be performed in all the churches of his
diocese on Saturday, the 4th of May, the anniversary
of the promulgation of the Republic.
It is said that there will be no change in the Minis-
try for the present, but that a proposition for modify-
ing Universal Suffrage (a proposition which, accord.
ing to the Constitution, it is not competent for any
Legislative Assembly to entertain) will be brought
forward by the Ministry.
The Evenement states that the Ministry of Marine
has received news from Senegal, announcing that an
attack was made by the natives of the Terra Firma
on the residents of St. Louis during the absence of
the Governor, Captain BAUDIN.
The Sentinelle de Toulon announces a severe colli-
sion between the crew of the Friedland, at Naples,
and the lazzaroni. Three shots were fired on the
ship's pinnace, and one of the seamen was stabbed
with a stiletto. The French sailors threw into the
sea four Neapolitan soldiers who took part with the
lazzaroni. The French Admiral caused an inquiry
to be instituted into the affair.

CRETON has given notice cf a motion in the
Assembly for a repeal of the laws banishing the
BOURBONS of the elder and of the younger branch.
The Petrie is ludicrously savage in its denun-
ciations of the 128,000 electors who have voted for
M. SUE ; it speaks of them as "ferocious hordes,"
and calls upon its own partisans " to charge the
enemy." Will M. BAROCIIE direct the Ministerial
journal to be prosecuted for "endeavouring to sow
hatred between citizens, and for publishing an
incitement to civil war ?"

PARIS BOURSE, MAY I.—Latest Prices—Five
per Cents., 87f. 50c. ; Three per Cents., 54f. 50c. ;
Bank of France, 2,080 f.

SPAIN.

Madrid journals of the 25th ult. have arrived.
The semi-official Popular announces the approach-
ing resumption of diplomatic relations between Eng-
land and Spain. The same journal says that the
KING had had a conference with one of the Ministers,
in which he showed great regard for him personally,
and admitted the right of the Cabinet to exercise its
mission freely. It also states that the negotiations
with the Holy See were proceeding satisfactorily. It
was reported that the administration of the palace
was to be restored to the KING, or at least to be taken
by the QUEEN. A decree of the 25th October, it will
be remembered, invested it in the hands of the Minister
of Foreign Affairs.

MADRID BOLSA, APRIL 25.—The Three per Cents,
were done at 313-; for paper ; the Four per Cents., at
12,,1; the Five per Cents., at 12 9-16; the Debt without
Interest, at 3 15-16; and the Coupons, at 7.

expelled. The Austrians then endeavoured to excite
the bigotry of the priests against the constitutional
order of things, and in this they have been more suc-
cessful. The Archbishop of Tuum, acting under
Austrian influence, has addressed the following letter
to his clergy, commanding. them to disobey the law :
" TURIN, APRIL 18.—Very Reverend Sir and Bro-
ther,--As the civil law cannot dispense the clergy from
the special obligations to which they are subjected by
the lsws of the church and by the concordates or con.
veLtions with the holy see, which regulates the appli-
cation of them, I charge you, very reverend sir, to in-
timate to a ecclesiastics of your parish the following
prescriptions:—

" 1. That if called upon to appear as witnesses before
a lay judge they roust, as heretotcre, address themselves
to the archiepiscopal authorities to obtain the prescribed
permission.

" 2. That, if cited to appear before any lay tribunal
for such civil causes as by the tenor of the existing con-
cordate3, should be of the exclusive appurtenance of the
episcopal jurisdiction, they must address themselves to
the bishop, for the opportune directions which the case
may require.

3. That if they should be proceeded against crimi-
nally by a lay tribunal, in cases not contemplated in the
convention of the 27th of March, 1841, they must, in
like manner, have recourse to the bishop, and if they
have not the time or the means of so doing, and appre-
hend serious damage from a refusal to answer the inter-
rogatories 132,1 e, they 'will have to oppose the incompe-
tency cf the jurisdiction, and protest that they yield
only to necessity, without prejudicing the right they
have to personal immunity; utter which, in consenting
to answer the questions put them, they will incur no
culpability or bh--.me.

"4. A similar protestation shall be made by the
parish priest of any church, every time that an set con-
trary to the local immunities of his church or right of
as)lum si a'l take place.
" 5. That it an ecclesiastic or a religioua establish•
went should have to proceed against another ecclesiastic
or religious establishment, each respectively must have
recourse previously to the bishop for the directions to be
followed in each case.

"6. In fine, that such prescriptions are to be con-
sidered as temporary, and to subsist until such time as
the apostolical see shall have made known the ulterior
instructions which have been solicited.
" Not doubting in the least, Very Reverend Sir, but
that, knowing the importance of the matter in question,
you will display all possible zeal, in order that such pre-
scs iptions may be strictly observed. I deem it useless
to add any spacial recommendation, and will only note
that, if it should come to your knowledge that any one
should infringe them, I expect to be immediately in-
formed of the same. (Then follows an order for public
thanksgivings for the return of the Pope to Rome.)
(Signed) " Louis Archbishop."
The people of Italy are, perhaps, less bigotted than
those of any other Catholic country • they are by
birth Roman Catholics, but if Papacy becomes in their
mind identified with Austrian obscurantism, they will
soon cease to be such, The Italian priests are play-
ing a dangerous game in thus lending themselves to
Austrian intrigue.

THE LONDON COFFEE-HOUSE AND EATING-HOUSE-
KEEPERS' Associaziox.—This excellent institution cele-
brated its anniversary last evening by a dinner at the Free-
masons' Tavern, Mr. Masterman, M.P., efficiently dis-
charging the duties of the chair. In proposing the health
of her Majesty the worthy chairman alluded to the interest-
ing event of the morning, and congratulated the company
upon the increase that had been thereby occasioned to the
Royal Family.—(Cheers.) After giving the other loyal and
routine toasts, the chairman proposed the toast of the even-
ing, "Prosperity to the London Coffee-house andEating-house-
keepers' Association," passing a high eulogium on the excel-
lency of the institution.—Mr. Humphries announced a list
of subscriptions, which included 101. 10s. by their chairman,
211. by the president of their association, and various contri-
butions by the proprietors of the public journals. The
number of coffee-houses, he observed, in the metropolis,
was about three thousand; many of them took in three
or four of the daily papers, and a considerable number
of them received as many as forty or fifty papers
per day. It was a source of gratification to their
proprietors to lay before the almost innumerable visitors of
their establishments the good and sound information that
the press placed before the public.—(Hear, and cheers.) In
reply to a toast, the treasurer of the society observed that
their object was to provide for their poorer brethren, and to
institute almshouses for the orphan children of members of
the trade.—(Cheers.) In acknowledging the toast of the
committee and auditors, Mr. Humphries said that amongst
the many strange changes and vicissitudes of life it had oc-
curred that among the first applicants for the assistance of
their association was one of the most well-known men in the
metropolis. Ile should stand excused for not mentioning his
name, because poverty had always difficulties enough to con-
tend against without the disadvantage consequent upon the
publication of that adversity.—(Hear, hear.) The object of
their association was to assuage distress, and he was per-
suaded that it was conducted in a manner in unison with its
object. Various other toasts followed, and the result of the
festival was announced to be a handsome subscription in aid
of its funds. The entire arrangements reflected the highest
credit upon the Freemasons' Tavt rn, and the company sepa-
rated higely gratified with the events of the evening.
SPIRITS.—A return printed by order of the House
of Commons, gives the number of gallons of proof spirits dis-
tilled in England in the year ending the sth January, 1850,
as 5,573,411. The number of gallons distilled in Scotland
wes 10,846,634. In Ireland the number of gallons was
8,355,083; making a total for the United Kingdom of
24,775,128. The number of gallons made in the same period,
for proof spirits, on which duty was paid for consumption in
England, was 9,053,676; in Scotland 6,935,003; in Ireland
6,973,332 gallons; making a total in the United Kingdom of
22,962,012 gallons. The number of gallons of proof spirits
imported in the same space into England from Scotland was
2,6 51,529 ' • and the amount of duty, at 7s. 10d. per gallon,
1,058,5151. The number of gallons imported into England
from Ireland was 890,021 ; and the amount of duty, at 7s.
10d. per gallon, 348,591/. The number of gallops im-
ported into Scotland from Ireland was 12,580; and the num-
ber of gallons imported into Ireland from Scotland, 766,405.
NAUTICAL ALMANACK.—An account relative to
the expenses incurred in the publication of the Nautical
Almanac has been returned, from which it appears that in
1847-48 10,000 copies of 1851 were printed, and 8,638 of
various years were sold by John Murray at ss. per copy, the
per-centage allowed amounting to 151. The expenses of pre-
paration, printing, and sale, amounted to 3,6771. 25., and the
amount produced was 2,1591. 10s., giving a balance against
the public of 1,517/. 12s. In 1848-49 10,000 copies of the
year 1852 were printed, and 8,776 of various years were
sold. The expenses amounted to 3,055/. 55. 4d., and the
amount realised was 2,19.1/., making a loss to the public of
861/. ss. 4d. In the year 1849-50 the usual number of
copies of 1,853 were printed, and the various copies sold
amounted to 8,8951. The expenses were 3,475/. 7s. 3d., and
the produce of the sales 2,2231. 155., the loss to the public
being 1,2511. 12,. 3d. In 1847-48 the sums disbursed as
rewards, &c., for scientific purposes, amounted to 3131. 95.;
in 1848‘49 they amounted to 748/., the principal item being
500/. paid to Mr. Charles Brooke for his apparatus for the
self-registration of magnetical and meteorological pheno-
mena. In 1849-50 the sums so expended amounted to 1001.
COURT OF INLAND REvENUE.—Stnuel Genese,
proprietor of the hotel and coffee-house, 125, Jermyn-street,
was yesterday fined in this Court in the sum of 1201., for
retailing wine and malt liquor without a licence.
Slanderers are, at all events, economical, for they
make a little go a great way, and rarely open their mouths
except at the expense of other people.—Eliza Cook's Journal.
HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.---The Queen's box at
her Majesty's Theatre was on Tuesday evening occupied by
the Countess Grey, Lady Mary Wood, Miss Copley, Sir Jo-
seph Copley, the lion. H. Grey, Mr. Rogers, Mr. Grey and
party. Among the visitors were—His Serene Highness
Charles Duke of Brunswick, his Excellency the Russian Mi-
nister, M. de Berg, his Excellency the Turkish Ambassador
and suite, his Excellency the Swedish Minister, the
Priuce Louis Lucien Bonaparte, the Marquis and Mar-
chioness of Kildare, the Marquis of Bundy, the Earl en
Falmouth, the Earl Bruce, the Countess Flahault and
Miss Flahault, the Earl of Cardigan, Viscount Clifden,
Prince Tamahama and suite, the Viscount Anson, the
Viscount Cantilupe, the Viscount and Viscountess Dupplin,
Lord Gardner, Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence, Lord G. Paget,
Lieutenant-Colonel Lord Augustus Gordon and Lady
Gordon, Lord and Lady Dalmeny, Lord A. Hay, Lord
Sandys, Lady Rose Lovell, Mr. and Lady Caroline Sand-
ford, Lady Henrietta Somerset, Comte Ferdinand Pergin,
the Count Jules B. de Richebourg, Lord Kilmorey, the Ho-
nourable Fitzroy Stanhope, the Honourable Mrs. Dudley
Ward, the Baroness de Rothschild, the Baron and Baroness
Lionel de Rothschild, Sir Anthony de Rothschild, Bart.,
the Hon. Augustus Chichester, the Marquis d'Azeglio,
the Hon. A. Upton, the Hon. C. R. Neville, Sir George
Carroll, Sir James Clark, Sir Isaac Goldsmid, Sir Thomas
Barrett Leonard, Bart., and Lady Barrett Leonard, Sir R.
Lopez, Baron de Krehmer, Baroness de Schertz, Sir George
Wombwell, Bart., Lady Thorold, Lady Shirley, Lady Gordon,
Sir J. and Lady Atkinson, Lady Davey, Mr. W. Pinney,
M.P., Sir Charles Mansfield Clarke, Bart., and Lady Clarke,
the Count de Civry, Mr. and Pars. Ewing, the Hon. Major
Needham, Hon. Grantley Berkeley, M.P., Hon. Claude Lyon,
Major Mountjoy Martin, Colonel Lowther, &c., /kc.
ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA.—Her MujeSty's box at the
Royal Italian Opera was occupied on Tuesday evening by the
Earl and Countess of Listowell and Lady Augusta Hare and
party. The general audience included, among others, the
following members of the fashionable world The Mar-
chioness of Westmeath, the Earl and Countess of Talbot and
Lady Victoria Talbot, the Earl and Countess Cowper, the Earl
Granville, the Countess of Beauchamp and party, the Coun-
tess of Malmesbury and party, the Earl of Darnley, the
Countess of Glengall and party, the Countess of Cadogan
and Lady Augusta Baring, the Countess Dowager of Essex
and Miss Johnson and party, the Earl of Gifford, Viscount
Sydney, Viscount Exmouth, Viscount and Viscountess Tem-
pleton, Viscount Macdowall, Viscount Maldon, Lord and
Lady Mandeville, Lord Alfred Paget, M.P., and Lady Alfred
Paget; Lady Uamoys and the Hon. Miss Stonor, Honourable
Francis Stonor, Lady Stanley and party, Lord and Lady
Monteagle and the lion. Charles Spring Rice, Lord Adol-
phus Vane, Lady Augusta Gordon Hallyburton and the
Misses Erskine, Lady Louisa Molyneux, Hon. Charles Pepys,
Lord Arthur Hay, Lady Suffield, the Hon. Miss Tracy and
party, the Count and Countess de Jarnac and the Hon.
Adelaide Foley, Hon. Fitzgerald Foley, (~eneral Count Ca-
brera and party, Lady Webster and party, Lady Flint and
party, Lady Templemore and the Hon. Miss Chichester, Hon
F. Chichester, Lady Morgan and party, Sir William and
Lady De Bathe and Miss De Bathe, Sir Henry Webb, Sir
George Armytage, Lady Vernon and the lion. Miss Vernon,
Sir Thomas Hare, Mr. Towneley and Lady Caroline Towneley,
Hon. George Milles, Hon. John Fortescue, M.P., Sir John
Bailey, General Meade, the Hon. Mrs. Meade and Miss
Meade, Mr. Henry Greville and Miss Greville, &c.
WALWORTH LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC INSTI-
- fifth annual soiree of members and friends of

the above institution was held yesterday evening, iu the New
Lecture Hall, Walworth ; the Right Hon. C. T. d'Eyncourt,
M.P., presiding. After a few general observations on the
advantages of literary institutions, Mr. D'Eyncourt con-
cluded by stating that the erection of the handsome hall in
which they were assembled had exhausted the funds of the
institution, and that a balance of 2COI. remained yet due on
the builder's account. Mr. G. Cruickshank, Mr. Parry, the
Rev. Messrs. Statham and Rogers subsequently addressed
the company, and at intervals an excellent selection of songs
and glees were sung by Miss E. Lyons, Mr. Seguin, Miss
Thornton, &c. We should not omit to mention that the
walls were decorated for the occasion with some excellent
copies of the great masters, the production of a lad not more
than 15 years of age, a Mr. Watkyns. The hall was fully
attended, and the company seemed highly satisfied with the
entertainment provided.

I MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER 2 0 THREE.
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were esti-
mated at 14,000 bales, of which 1,000 Brazil were taken for
export. and 3,060 American, 59t. Bahia, 1,000 Surat, and
1,000 Egyptian on speculation. The market closed with an
upward tendency.—Railway Shares were dull, and generally
at lower quotations.
The six weeks' average price of Wheat is 375. 10d. per
quarter.
We have received from Messrs. M'Nair, Greenhow, and
Irving, of Manchester, the following report upon the trade
of their district:—.-
" Excitement and quiet may again be said to have been
the alternate characteristics of this market during the
month. Since the date of our last circular its progress has
not only been very changeable, but very perplexing,
occasioned mainly by the different arrivals from
the United States, all concurring as to the mate-
rial failing off in the supplies of Cotton at
the different ports, as compared with the same periods in the
preceding year, the effect of which has been to raise the price
of that article since the 28th ult. nearly Id. per lb. It we
are not.mistaken, the date given was the period when Cotton
had reache,t the lowest point of this year. This advance,
and the receipt of more favourable accounts from India and
China, have caused the transactions of the month to be of
considerable magnitude in both Cloth and Twist.
"A material advance has been realised up, n 7-8 and 9-8
printing cloths, 36 and 40 inch shirtings, maddapolims,
water and mule twist, in both of which the transactions have
been enormously large. Stocks, with the exception of cer-
tain descriptions of domestic, 'l', and long cloths, are now
exceeding light. Purchases have a gain been chiefly for ex-
port; those for the home trade, considering the season of the
year, having been of a limited chari.cter."
Accounts from Brussels :tate that no parties had pre-
sented themselves before the Council for the re-adjudication
of the railway from Louvain to la Sambre (towards Namur
and Charleroi). The undertaking, therefore, must be done
away with, unless an arrangement is made between the
Government and the Luxembourg Company.
At Amsterdam the Funds were more animated on the 30th
inst., owing to the settlement of the account. The Dutch
Two-and-a-Half per Cents. were .55 3 16. Foreign Stocks
generally were more feeble. The Frankfort Bourse on the
29th ult. was fiat. Austrian Metallics,
The last week's railway receipts ascertained up to this day
were as under :

1850. 49
North-Western... X 42,883 18s. 2d. £40,5721825.. 11d.
South-Western 9,386 ss. Bd. 9,538 6s. ld.
Brighton 8,311 Os. 01. 7,468 Os. Od.
22,038 17s. O. 21,255 6s. 7d.
South-Eastern 9,631 19s. 11d. 7,129 13s. Id.
Caledonians
North Stafford
The English Stock Market has been firmer this morning,
but the business is still rather limited. The speculative
dealings are influenced a little by the Paris election,
but many augur favourably of it as a whole-
s, me cheCk upon the reactionists. Consols have ruled
at 95% to %. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents.
have been 96% to 971§. Bank Stock is worth 206 to 207.
India Stock is at 265. Exchequer-bills have been marked
675. to 695., and India Bonds 9Us. to 935. premium. Consols
now are 955 g 'jg.l
In the Foreign Market the trap: actions have not been of
any moment. Mexican Bonds have been quoted 28% 34,
and Peruvian 691/2 to 70. Brazil Bonds are 861/2 . for-
uguese Four per Cents. have been 334, and Spanish
Three per Cents. 36%. Belgian Four-and-a-Half per
Cents. have been 861/2, and DutchTwo-and.a-Halfper Cents.
551 jy.
Railway Shares wear still a heavy appearance, and there is
not much doing. North-Western are scarcely so good.
South-Eastern firmer ; Great Western steady ; Northern of
France higher.
BRITISH FENDS THIS DAT AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the OticiAl
Bank Stock 206 207
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities
S per Cent. Consols Anna
Now 314 per Cent. Anes.
Long Annuities, Exp. Jan. sth, 15360 8 4-16 81A
D 0.30 Years, Expire Oct. 10,1859 8
India Stock 265
Do. Bonds, 10001.— ...... • ... 93 SO p
South Sea Stock 1051%
Ditto Old Annuities 9P4 94X
Consols for Account 95%4 VB2d.
Exchequer Bills.
Pt arch. June.
67 69 p
67 69 p

1,0G9/.
500/ .

Small 67 69 p
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cult B6',
Mexican Bowls, 1846,.5 per Cent., Coupons
Ditto Ex Jan. Coupons
Peruvian Bonds, 4 per Cent
Ditto Account
Ditto Deferred
Portuguese Bends, 5 per Cent 8514
Ditto 4 per Cent.
Russian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cent —
Ditto 41/2 per Cents 9slis
Spanish Bonus, 5 per Cent......... Cent.........—
Ditto Account
Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent,lB4o :36%
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Belgian 414 per Cent.
Dutch 21/2 per Cent., 12 55341,4
Ditto 4 ner Ce..t. Certificates E4V4 14 85

lit VSINESS DONE IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK

RAILWATC.

PAID.

111cRARL

k herd on
'3ristol and Exeter
Do., Thirds ...... ... .....
'Aledon WI
!heater and Holyhead. 5O .....
Ditto, Preference
eastern Counties
Do. Exten.,s per ct. No. 1,6/. 13s. 4d.. p to
Do., do N 0.2,6/. 138.4 d... % p..... to
~astarn Union, Class A (late
E. U. Shares) ......... .. 25
Ditto Scrip (gua. 6 per ct.) 20
rf.:ast Lincolnshire, guar. 6 per
Cent......
Edinburgh and Glasgow
4reat Northern
Do. 14 A Deferred ..... ... 12% 1 ',...... to
Do. 14 B 6 per Cent. ...... 9% 4
Do., 5 per Cent. Pref. ...... 121/2...... 1043 to 10
lt. South. & West. (Ireland) 50
Great Western ..................100 51% 50/ to 51
Do. New 171 ... - ... 6% to
Lancashire and Yorkshire ...100
Leeds and Bradford 5O ..... 88 %...... to
Leeds and Thirsk ...-...
London & 81ackwa11......11/. 6s. 3d 3/ to
Lond., Bright., &: South Coast lOU ..... 7814 .
London & North We5tern.....100......1011,4 % 101 to 1011/,
Do. New Quarters.
Do. Fifths l2 ..... 11
Do. 101.... U. and B. (C.) 1
Loadon and S. We5tern.......100
%lanchr, Sheffield, and Linc.loo
Do., New 101. Preference.. 10 ... - 63
Midland .. -..- .... ........ -.100
o.idland, Consol. Bristol and

Birmingham, 6 per cent.... 100 119%,..... to ..
corth British .... ... ...... . 25 — ...... to --
Ditto, Preference
gorth Staffordshire.... . 171,4
Scottish Central
South Eastern 348- 14 ..... to 1358
Wear Valley 6 per Oent
Guaranteed ... 5O ......
Do. do. do.
Do. do. do.
Wilts,Somerset,&Weymouth 50 ..... 893‘t to •
York, Newcastle, and Berwick 25
Do. And Newcastle Exten. 20
Do. G. N. E. Pun or Pref. 8
fork and North Midland .. 50
Ditto, Preference
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Central of France (Orleans
and Vierzon) -
Datch Rhenish 8 .. ... 1% to
East Indian .
Northern of France l6 ..... 12 .. ... to 12
Paris and Rouen