The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-02-22

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Great Britain.
INTENDED MINISTERIAL MEASURES REGARDING THE
FRANcHIsE-LoRD CLARENDON AT THE FOREIGN
oFFIcE-THE INTENDED OPENING OF PARLIAMENT
MEETING or THE FRIENDS OF ITALY-LoRD
sHAFTEsBuRY STILL HARPNG ON SLAVERY
MIsCELLANlEs. . ~
Sir Charles Wood, at public dinner at Halifax,
gave hint, (the first that has been gven) OF the
intentions of the government with respect 10 the
extension of the franchise. He said he did not
hold that there exists any peculiar test OF virtue In
the rental of fl0 house, but some such criterion
was necessary for the purposes OF registration
Nevertheless, the government is prepared to extend
the franchise as to embrace the most intelligent OF
the classes now excluded by reason OF not paying
rent to that amount. This is an important hint, com
ing it does from of the most cautious members
of the government, and would indicate that some
definite plan is decided on by the cabinet
The Earl Of Clarendon, they say, was TO receive
the seals of the Foreign Office the 18th inst and
will Immediately afterwards hold diplomatic levee
to receive the foreign ambassadors. Parliamentary
business was to be resumed on the 10th inst.
A meeting was held in st. Pancras, London, on
Monday, to petition government to use its inhu-
nee towards putting an end to the occupation of
tally by Austrian and French troops. Lord Dudley
Ituart, and others Of lesser note, made speeches.
Lord Shaftesbury writes to the Times another let
er, from Nice, on the subject of negro slavery. 1t
mainly consists, however, Of a laudaton Of Hon.
Charles Sumner and his speech in the Senate, in Au-
gust last.
The report of the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce
has the following 1T is ntmated to your council
that change is contemplated In the port of arrival
and departure of some of the American mail steam
ers; but as nothing is positively known as yet, all
that your directors at present can do is to watch
events, and so be prepared to oppose any such
change
The St. Petersburg journal, Abeiue du Nord, of the
25th ult., has long article on the possibility OF
l.. - H. s,x Encln n1
The British Scientific Association is to visit Hull
this season. Prince Albert will be invited.
There is great scarcity Of sailors at the English
ports just now.
4th inst in strictly private manner, from the ami
y seat Of Broeket Hall Hartford county to the tomb
in Hatfield church.
The first fax market for the South Of Ireland was
opened at Cork, with good deal of ceremony on
Friday, the 4th inst.
letter at Lloyds reports that the ship Maries on
her passage from Liverpool to Caldera, when twelve
miles from the equator, in lon. 10 W. met with re.
markable CONFUSION of the sea, similar to what
might be caused by the eruption of submarine vol
cano The waves continued boiling for about fifteen
minutes, all command over the ship being lost, and
and the wind blowing from all points of the compass
Shortly after, quantity of wreck, and fragments
ola screw steamer were passed.
There Is kind of strike among the government
shipwrights in the Woolwich and Deptford navy
yards at present. Six hundred have formed them
selves into an emigration club, and others are OBJ
tanning work from private parties at S.. sterling per-
day, government allowing them but 49, Meetingshave
likewise been held by the operatives at Macclesfed
in favor of the system of ten hours labor per diem.
number Of lads who were induced to enter the
Brazilian navy, but being ill-treated there were re-
claimed by the British government have just arrv-
ed in Liverpool where most of them belong.
The Galway Mercury gives some interesting infor-
nation respecting the progress of the "sOca revOu
tion," derived from q weeks travel through con-
siderable portion of the northern division of Galway
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all the districts through which the writer had passed.
"great and striking change was daily taking place
in the occupation Of the SOIL" The class Of small
tenants, who were SO numerous antecedenty to the
appearing fast, that in brief space few or none
will remain" The causes and the probable results
of this strange phenomenon are thus briefly set
he state of the peasanty throughout the whole vest
Of Ireland previous to the late visitation however salts
factory compared with that which succeeded It, must
Decd far beyond that of any other people in the world
The slaves Of the Southern States of America lived luxu
they could peay call their own for their property their
labor and indirectly their lives at the mercy of the
landlords and the landlords exercised the privileges they
possessed to the fullest extent We need not describe
how in the of time, the evil effects Of all this
coied upon the landlords themselves The money pro-
cured without regard to the dictates Of honesty justice
spent without reference to those Of prudence This
would not have lasted long only for the state of The
law which rendered it almost impossible for landed
Of the owners debts The consequence that mort
gage was heaped upon mortgage and incumbrance piled
ceedng the marketable value OF the land in the best
times, sunk in gulf from which it practically
impossible to them. The famine next and
shattered this rotten fabric to its very foundation The
tenany of those estates generally either died of desttu
paupers Heavy rates Of all Kinds fell upon property
and more than suced to swallow up the trAing rents
which could produce under such altered
and the creditors could no longer be paid the interest
upon their claims The passing of the Encountered Es-
tates Act the next great STEP The consequences
person will undertake to question their utility 1t
was however, only one step in the proper direction that
land an ordinary article Of commerce By its operation
the encountered properties placed in the hands of
men of capital who, they have enterprise also, have
open field for the most extensive experiments large
tracts out of cultivation and numerous holdings
daily either vacated spontaneously or by ejectment Of
the land which is thus placed in the immediate possession
Of the proprietor there scarcely any portion relet
save in farms varying in extent from fifteen
wards and the rents demanded for these are in general
moderate Such a plan must be attended with many
present bardships, but we think that ultimately it will
operate bcnefcaly BE this it may, the rage for
sodation is great in the districts to which
ferring to lead to the most mercess and wholesale
system of determination. The sheriff and his officers
enter village and possession of the enements is taken
mitted And they readmtted but it Is as caretakers
merely In the course of little time the real econs
begin TO take place and by the unfortunate peo
pie driven out of their houses This plan of action Is
adopted in order that public attention may not be at
but it precisely the 10 the sufferers Thus the
people fast passing from the land in the west of
Ireland The Landlords Of Connaught are tacitly com
bned TO weed out all the smaller occupers against whom
a regular systematic of determination is being
waged There cannot be doubt but in few years this
class will altogether disappear from Connaught, what
may be the result"
Farl st. Germans, the new Lord-Lieutcnant of
Ireland, held his first levee on the Sth inst 1t was
well attended.
Commander Ingle6eld, who captain Of the steamer
Isabel during her search for Sir john Franklin, is APP
pointed TO the command Of the Phoenix steamsloop now
fitting out at Deptford to sail first week in May for fine
Arctic regions,
Elihu Burrett viii visit Cork in few days. to agitate
for cheap ocean postage.
There Is report that the Fast India Company intends
TO increase the number of Europeans in its army The
total of the Indian army is at present less than
So 600.
Mr. George Crspe Is delivering lectures at the Polytech
mic institution the subject Of Ericsson's new motive
power.