The Express. — London, England, 1847-02-22 00:00:00

SUGAR FROM BIAM.—The Margaret Connal arrived in the Mersey on Thursday, having touched at the Cape. . Bankok, where the Margaret loaded, is situated on the river Minim (translated the mother of waters) shout 20 miles' • boss in mouth. After crossing a bar it is navigable for &ipso( any size, having a depth of ten fathoms all the way ▪ yr to that city. The river is deep to the very margin of its • rat. Sugar is the principal article of exported, but the abounds with ivory, sticklack, hides, gamboge, tin, 411 4:11 111 2er articles of eastern produce in great abundance. •Smesesise forests of teak exist in the interior. A considers • 1w portion of the inhabitants of Bankok arc Chinese, by =the trade of the place is chiefly carried on. The • themselves are of an indolent character, and r auk of the banana is erected by their women. The c of the Margaret Connal consists of 8,475 bags of "Me sugar, of the first class, with '265 picols of sapan weld, as dunnage, and two slabs of tin. Two thousand • beg, were shipped on board at the city, and the remainder 0( her loading was completed outside the bar. French and American missionaries are established in the country, and the Portuguese have a resident consul and vice - consul . There are two English mercantile establishments there at present, that of Messrs. James Hayes and Co., and that of Daniel Brown, p.m. Captain Marton (master ef the Mar garet Connal), is entrusted with a Siamese youth , for the of being educated in the habits and acqu irements r ee European civilisation. Captain he is said to have had an interview with the mother of the Siamese twins, who inquired concerning the welfare of her children. GREAT WESTERN STEAM-SHlP.—This celebrated vernal is announced to be sold by auction on the 11th of ant month.— Bristol Journal. THE SCARCITY.—We alluded on Saturday to the alarming estimates of the short quantity of stored food which were collected from 36 counties by the editor of the Gardener' Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, and pub fished in the last number of this journal. In corroboration of these returns, we find in the Liverpool Chronicle the fol lowing facts, derived from the most grain producing districts of England—the Eastern and Midland Counties. A cone spondent of the Liverpool Chronicle lays: "I speak within compass and without fear of contradiction, when I say that there are lewer stacks of corn now standing unthrashed ' than there were on May-day, 1846. It is the common • remark in everybody's mouth. So astonished have I 0 been at the rapid disappearance of these smiling tokens of plenty, that I have been anxious to persuade myself that, as there was a short crop of straw last year, the farmers had been at work merely to obtain bedding for their cattle, and had stored up their corn in their granaries. But I regret to say that such is not the case. Everything lane and hereabouts has been hurried to market to secure present prices, and the consequence is, that if, for the next seven months, we have nothing to depend upon but what remains in the stackyards, I tremble at the very thought of the ordeal through which the country has yet to pars. It is impossible to say whether buyers have wanted their earn for immediate consumption or to hold for speculation. speak only of what is in the first hands, and with regard • that, you may rely upon the facts which I have stated. I r freak, pertly, from what I have seen with my own eyes; from what I have heard from others who may id upon. I have allowed no one to pus me, ' hem any part of the agricultural districts, for weeks and weeks, without examining and cross-examining them on this meet intretant subject Landlords, farmers, yeomen, la ' bowl% ONMeeters, millers, have ali come within the range Ingmbise• ta r and the information derived front all us of Unease character. The only comfort is that the ~ wheel h et MOM excellent quality, and the yield abundant . peperries IMP the straw. Still when, ' in my mind's eye,' • I eat the Week in lurid against the time which it has to fill, I have anythbg but pleasant sensations at the thought of the ' last pinch width we shall have to endure before turning the corner which will bring us to another harvest." A MIDLAND GENERAL POST-OFFICE.--A corre spondent suggests that, to relieve the great pressure of busi ness which ts now felt at the chief office in London, another general post-office should be established at Rugby, kam,or or Derby. " At this office," he writes, " should be managed the whole transit bf letter from Scotland, the north of England, and midland districts to the south-west and west of England and the whole of Wales. As it is, all letters &writhe north to the south have to pass through the London arse, or generally so, being sent miles out of the direct route. If any person receive letters in Wales, or an part of the West of England, from the North, they go vie instead of directly through Birmingham. If the latter route were taken, a whole day would be saved. ATTACK OF A MOB ON LAMBETH WORKHOUSE.- - On Saturday afternoon considerable excitement prevailed in Lambeth in consequence of a violent attack made by a mob • of at least 100 persons on the pariah workhouse. It was stated that several men, women, and children had applied for relief, and though the parochial authorities paid every . possible attention to their cases, some of them were discon tented, and bricks, MOM and other rubbish were thrown against the doors, threatening at the same time a forcible entrance. Things began to assume the most alarming ap pearances, end expostulation having proved useless, a body • of the police of the L disisioa was sent for, end notwithstand ing the formidable number of rioters, the bobbies" suc ceeded in apprehending the ringleaders, and clearing the neighbourhood of their violent followers. This workhouse already numbers nearly 1000 inmates, the relief for which body forma no inconsiderable item for the burdened rate payers of the parish. FlAES.—lsur4oToN.—Yesterday morning, shortly after six o'clock, a fire was disowned on the premises of Mr. Hooper, Highbury-terrace, Islington. The cause has been traced to the over-bating of a kitchen flue, which set the jawing' and bond timbers in a blue. The pariah engine was soon on the rpm, and the flames were subdued, • but not until considerable damage was done to the premises and the furniture. Fortunately the occupier ia insured in the Licensed Victuallers' office.--BETHNAL GREEN.—,in the morning a fire broke out at 7, Manchester -street, Bethnal green. When discovered, about thirty trusses of hay and straw were burning in the stable at the rear of the private houses. The engines of the London Brigade and the parish one quickly reached the spot, and the firemen at length got the mastery over the flames, but not until the roof of the building was burned off, the stock consumed, and the floor ing_destroyed. The occupier was not insured. FALL OF A PART OF THE SUN TAVERN, BISHOPS OLTE.--On Friday morning, about 6 o'clock, the neighbour. hood of Sun-stmt, Biahopegate.atraet was placed in a state of alarm, in consequence o the fallitig down of the whole of the boundary wall of the Sun Tavern. The utmcet con sternation prevailed at the moment among the inmates, of whom there were 18 in the house, the whole being in bed. Mrs. Winds's, the proprietress of the house, instantly got up, and in a few minutes some of the lodgers, with their children, mine down stairs in a state of nudity. As the eldest son, and one of the lodgers, were not among them, a person proceeded to the attic, who found them both in bed, exposed to the weather, as the wall had been cleared away, and they were sound asleep—of course not at all aware of their imminent danger. It was subsequently discovered that the wall had fallen upon the bakery of Mr. Abbot, residing next door, who was employed in the bakehouse, and who had a narrow escape of his life. The surgery of Mr. Shaw was also nearly demolished. Fortunately no injury of any serious consequence was received by any one, though be tween 20 and 30 persons were nearly involved in the ruins. CONFESSION OF A ROBBERY OF I,oool.—The Shrewsbury police have sent information of the apprehension of Charles Fielder, a young man, who states that be belongs to St. Mary Lambeth, Surrey, and that he had been con nected with a gang of thieves in Landon, who some time no robbed an auction-room in Smithfield of 1,000 i., in bills • exchan , and had been concerned in various other rob beries.— . Issuarre.—THE WOOLWICH Coy vicvs.—Before Kr. J. Certrar, the Coroner for West Kent, at the Ord nance 'Arms, near the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, on the bodice of two convicts, vie , John Atkins, aged 70, convicted at the Stafford amine, and William Tates. aged 62, convicted at Liverpool. In both awes a verdict of " Death from na tural causer " was returned. Sir George Grey has issued an order that no convict body in future is to have a post mortem examinatioa made upon it until the coroner and jury have assembled and viewed the same.—Tm••• PERIOIIB BULLED ALIVE AT CAILSHALTON.—Before W. Carter, at the Greyhound Inn, Carshalton, Surrey, touching the re spective deaths of C. Cooper, aged 46 ; A. Cooper, aged 43 ; sad C. Cooper, the younger, aged 6 ; who lost their lives under the most painful circumstances. T. Bishop said—On the afternoon of Wednesday last, I heard something had happened at the house of Mr. Cooper, in the Chalk-pie On flg the house, I entered the left band room, and maw *weal person, therein. The brick wall at the beck, which bad been built up against the chalk rock, had fallen with an immense body of earth into the bedroom. A search was in meetly made, when the hand of a human person was found protruding through the loose rubbish. The whole of the perms present set to work and removed the bricks, earth, vbc., and then discovered the lifeless bodies ef three pmons. They were all lying on the bed by the side of each other, and covered with the clothes. The bedstead was broken to the ground by the violence and weight of the rubbish which led fallen upon it. They were removed into an adjoining room, and I have no doubt they were suffocated by the earth falling upon them while they were "sleep during the previous night. Elizabeth Wareham, a widow, IVY next called and stated; I reside in a cottage near the deceased person's residence, which is situated in Cloweer's thalk pit. The deceased man was a labourer, and left home every morning to proceed to his work. The female was his wife, sod she usually went (rein home daily to some employ ment; the boy was their son. The cottage they occupied consisted of three reoma on the ground floor, and was for merly used as a stable by the owner of the ground On the afternoon in question I heard a female exclaim, "Oh, my father, the house has fallen in." I ran out and saw the daughter of the deceased man, who called me into the house, and on entering the bed. room I found it half filled up with bricks and earth, The hand of the man was visible, and after considerable labour three lifeless bodies were found stiff and cold. I discovered that the upper pert of the brick wall had been reread in upon them. I have resided in the same house, and never apprehended any danger. The back part of the house was formerly a " rabbit warren," and I am of opinion that the rabbits undermined the plan; but they have all been destroyed some yearn since by the proprietor the property. The accident is no doubt solely at butable to the rapid thaw, arising from the recent .Leavy snow storms, which caused the ground to give 7ty• and force in the brick wall. Robert Allen, a m utate, basing identified the bodies, the coroner inquired if an_ f were present on the part of the proprietor of the chalk- 'o;vhesi a gentleman stepped forward and said, the owner not able to attend throncth severe illness, but 34 1 0,4 1 . /f Sr or jury might suggest for the preven tion of accidents would be most willingly end readily needed, to. liter had already been taken, and where any detect presented itself, the same would be immediately rec *inert Other corroborative testimony having been taken, the coroner summed up the case, and remarked at consider able length on the melancholy nature of the investigation, directing the attention of the jury to the evidence of the fe male Warnham, after which the room was cleared of stran gers, and when the public wet• readmitted, the foreman mid they had agreed to the following verdict : " That the deceased persons, Charles Cooper, Alice Cooper, his wife, and Charles Cooper, the younfrer, were accidentally suffo cated, by the falling of a quantity of earth, which forced in the wall of a certain dwelling house, as they lay asleep in bed." The melancholy catastrophe has caused great excite ment in the village, where the deceased persons were well known fur their industry and sober conduct. THE TRTE9TE ROUTE.—Mr. Waghorn left Rams pte yesterday morning, accompanied by Mr. Austin, the engineer, to obtain more land facilities (or the overland route, by way of Trieste. IRELAND. DUBLIN, Faa. 20. Every day increases the alarm for the future, and despondency is beginning to undermine the faith the people had in the advent of relief. There has occurred nothing to abate hope or evoke despair. Events are only realising what all must have fore seen that, with the diminished supplies of food, there , must have been destitution and even death among the people. The country papers supply some very melancholy details. The approach of death is borne with a fatalism or a fortitude which calls to mind the Mahometan or the Stoic. A gentleman, jast arrived from Kerry, informed me that in the small village of Ardfert, he had seen an entire family—father, mother, and children—carried in a common car to the burial ground of the village. They had died from want of food. In the same village the peasantry some days before congregated, scaled the landlord's demesne wall, and in the open day collected his sheep—about 200—and drove them off for sacrifice; but on reaching the outer gate they relented, mid the sheep were remitted to their pastures. The patience of the poor, under such terrible privations, is astonishing. An important order has been issued from the Treasury relative to the food to be supplied to Irish emigrants. Mr. Trevelyan writes to the Commis sioners of Customs that the attention of the Treasury having been directed by the Colonial Secretary to ob jections against the use of Indian corn-meal as an article of food in emigrant vessels, the commis sioners are authorised to withdraw the permission given last year for the substitution of Indian corn meal for potatoes on board ships clearing out under the Passenger Act. The objections to the use of meal is its liability to sourness on long voyages. In consequence of accounts which reached Dublin last night, the Rev. Dr. Miley proceeded this morning, it is said, to London, to attend the member for Cork. MREORIAL OP THE REPRODUCTIVE COMMITTER.-011 Thursday last this committee presented a memorial to the Lord-Lieutenant on the constitution of the relief commis sion. The memorial states the regret of the committee, in seeing the appointment of the commissioners made by the Home Department, a power which they conceived to have been vested by the act in the Lord-Lieutenant himself, a reasonable provision in a measure designed according to Sir George Grey, " to restore the ordinary relations between owners and occupiers of land and the labouring class, and to remove the alleged obstacles to the employment of labour in the cultivation of the land." Without impeaching the ability of the commissioners in their professional capacities, the memorial complains that only a single Inshman, Mr. Redington, appears on the commission, whose other official duties must absorb all his time and attention. The memorial further states that in the present condition of the country, the principle of relief varying with every locality, and a minute knowledge of the wants and habits of the people being requisite for the benefit of the poor, the protection of the public, and security to the rate-payers, a board so constituted and permanently sitting in Dublin cannot be a judge . of the required measures, and " is calculated to cause suspicion and mistrust in the minds of all claims of Irishmen." Under such circumstances, the memorial suggests the addition of some Irish gentlemen, as unpaid commussioners, and that the members generally should be ordered to visit and personally inspect the state of the several provinces and counties. The memorial emphati cally states that " country " alone is not the reason of the objection, but that, in a commission solely affecting Irish in terests, only one of the commissioners should be an Irishman is anomalous and inexpedient, and that a corresponding i practice in naming a commission for the other parts of the empire would evoke equal disapprobation. The Lord-Lieutenant remarked that the commission could not be reconstituted, as the commissioners were named in the act of parliament ; to which the deputation replied that, although Sir G. Grey in his letter named the commissioners, the power of appointment was vested is the Lord-Lieu. tenant. His lordship then urged the serious responsibility ' which the government assumed in carrying out the act, and that all governments justl desired to. give effect to their measures by their own pai d and reeponiuble effieen. The deputation then explained that the great objection to the commission was, the absorption of their time in their re spective situations, as heads of public departments, which precluded the power of effectually carrying out the temporary relief act, that the same evils would arise as under the operation of the Labour Rate Act, in which rates were rigidly adhered to without any reference to peculiar local wants; and that as the landlords were charged with the failure of the Labour Rate Act, they now anxiously desired to co-oper.te with the government In working the present measure. The Lord- Lieutenant, in conclusion, stated that circulars, soliciting in. formation, had been issued to the resident gentlemen, end begged the deputation to wait until copies of other circular., now in course of preparation, had been furnished. STATE OF TEE IRISH PROW/IC—The state of the Irish prisons is greatly improving of late years. Cleanliness, good order, and correctness of books and accounts, are gene rally reported to the provincial inspectors. Proper classifi cation and useful employment for criminals is still a want ; but every year adds to the improvement, and we soon expect the application of a regimen conducive to the pre servation of the moral health of the public. The first prison in Ireland in respect of importance is Kilmainham. This was inspected on Tuesday by Major Cottingham, Inspector- General of Prisons. He left the following memorandum on the visiting book " I minutely inspected this gaol, and hope to chew by my report the great satisfaction I expe rienced at seeing the extreme good order in which I found everything. The books are really models for other prisons, and as such I purpose making use of them." LANDO LET TO 00•111INKENT.—As an nigh - Edon of the reasonable views of some landlords on the waste lands re clamation, a certain Mr. Robert Alloway very fairly suggests that landlords having tracts of desolation, " be invited ' to let them on lease to the government for twenty years. Dar ing the first /estrum, they should be rent free, and for the remaining fifteen years, the proprietor to receive from one to three shillings per acre as per value. These lands " hav ing been built upon and tenanted by government commis semen, and reclaimed by drainage and tillage at the public charge," should revert absolutely to the proprietor at the end of the 20 years, with the tenants then in possession and ell improvemen's ! Mr. Alloway conceives that proprietors of wastes "ought to be well pleased at being ensured a good estate which before was a desert," and which after twenty years would revert to him or Lis hairy, meantime paying an ac cable rent. Danis cos Sraraws. —The coureil of the Royal Agricul tural Society of Ireland having applied to the secretary, Mr, lAbouehere, to have the several systems of drainage recom mended for this country tested by the engineer having charge of the drainage in the Phcenix Park, near Dublin, Mr Labouebere referred the matter to the engineer, Mr. Parkes, who declared against it for reasons not of a general nature : Mr. Lsbouchere, therefore, has declined to interfere. A FIRE broke out in Waterford yesterday, in a merchant's same, and property to the extent of 7,0001. was consumed. BIRIOVE RIOTS —GALWAY,THERSDAT.—The sheriff did not declare the return until nearly five o'clock yesterday, the day being spent in argument by Mr. Kelly for the solicitor general, and Mr. Close for Mr. O'Flahsrty, on the disputed votes. The numbers polled stood thus :—Monahan, 510• O'Flaherty, 506 majority 4 The Sheriff then declared Joseph Henry Monahan solicitor general, duly re turned as a member f o rk town of Galway. Mr. O'Flaherty proceeded to address the assembly at great length, referring to the absence of Mr. Monahan, and charging against hie agents bribery, intimidation, de. The sexton of the Protestant cathedral had the joy-bells rung, which excited the mob, who smashed the church windows and the windows of Kilroy's Hotel. The magistrates had to break open the church doors to stop the ringing of the bells. The militarry were called out, and the riot act read by Mr. Kernan. R.M., ; the populace then dispersed, and the night paned off quietly. The military and police conducted them selves with very considerable forbearance. The police orderlies of Mr. Leman, R.M., were struck with stones. The only person seriously Injured, as far an I could learn, was Mr. J. F. Blake, son of the late Sir Valentine, and it is said that he in not yet out of danger. SCOTLAND. EDINBURGH, Fan. 19. The Midlothian Yeomanry Cavalry have received orders to be ready for inspection by March 30. The ordinary time is in July, but as many of the regular military have been sent off to the north to keep down the food riots, it is probable that this may have led to the Yeomanry being called on thus early to keep themselves in readiness. The proprietors in Roes-shire have agreed to a guarantee for 4,0001. to the banks at Dingwall, and 2,0001. at Taira, to form a fund for the purchase of food to be sold under the auspices of a committee to be appointed by them, which will probably prevent further rioting. PROVINCIAL. beggars, in every direction, meet the eye, chiefly Irish, but with a very larg o a d m i xture o f English. While families of these wretched outcasts perambulate the streets from morn. sag till night, and enter the shops and warehouses to ask alms. Others take up a position on the staircases leading to offices and places of business, and remain there the whole day importuning every person going in or coming out. It is no unusual thing to see a family of six or eight persons (the wife loaded Irish fashion, with one child in the arms and another on the back), crowded on the large square en. trance step to such places, whilst another family has taken possession of the landing place above, as if to prevent mono poly. The entrances to the Exchange, to the Arcade, to the rooms of the League, to the Atheneum, and to the club• houses, are taken possession of daily by the people, who teem to have established a kind of prescriptive nght,and the condition of these poor creatures is such, that nobody, whe ther civil officer or private citizen, seems to have heart enough—or rather want of heart enough —to interfere with them. In front of the eating-houses, at noon, again, num bers of beggars assemble, and besiege the departing guest after he has relieved his own wants end is pocketing the change, and are frequently successful in obtaining coppers. Ort eating-house keeper, Mr.Wovenden, Market-street,daily VI% u away to the poor nearly a thousand quarts of soup. A I t public soup kitchen 6,000 quarts of soup and 1,500 Jl,Tee of bread are distributed to the poor every morning, and the applicants, who must first be provided with a ticket, to prevent c •nfusion, are marshalled and kept in order by • body of police regularly appointed to e duty. These wretched-looking creatures usually begin to th assemble some hours before the kitchen is opened, and the police haying formed them two or three abreast, the column often extends to several hundred yard.; in length, presenting to the passer-by a sad and melancholy spectacle. The tickets are furnished by the owners of warehouses and shops, who are *applied in proportion to their subscriptions to the charity, and when the poor get scent of one of these places, and learn that a large number are to be given away, immense crowds assemble round the doors, and the crush to get admission is sometimes fearful. The seems on such occasions are always moot painful and distressing from the excitement which pre vails during the struggle. The workhouse is full to such a degree that some of the weaving looms have had to be pulled down, and the work rooms turned into sleeping apartments. The majority of the Irish, however, who come into the town, never go near the relieving officer, but prefer taking their chaste in the streets. Meantime the shopkeepers in the town are beginning to complain most bitterly of the stagnation of trade; 'for the increased demand upon the labourers' wages for food (added to the system of working short time) is telling fearfully upon many descriptions of tradesmen. It is no unusual thing to hear of shopkeepers who are without a customer for a day together, and it was told by a draper renting a shop at nearly 90/., in Deansgate, that on Saturday last, crowded as that thoroughfare is on the market day, his receipts only amounted to eighteenpenes ! Again, one of the large retail establishments in the drapery and haberdashery trades is reported to have suffered in the average of their receipts to the extent of nearly 4001. per week. A great many shopkeepers make no secret of these things, and produce their books to prove that there is no exaggeration. FLOODS ON THE MANCHF.STER AND SHEFFIELD RAIL WAT.—During the past week the embankments on this rail way are stated to have been in some danger at several points alone the line, owing to the heavy rains which have fallen. It is well known that the railway passes through a moun tainous and difficult country, and over a number of ravines which at some seasons of the year are liable to be much swollen. The culverts constructed to carry these streams under the line teem to have been formed in two instances at least, as it now turns out, without a right estimate of the possible quantity of water to be carried away, 'and on Thursday, at these two places, one about eight miles, and the other seventeen miles from Manchester, the line was placed in great jeopardy. At the first of these places, Hurst Edge, the culvert burst at the higher side of the line, and was choked up; the water was, consequently, thrown upon the line, and washed bare the sleepers on which the rails rest, and also carried away the earth from under the real in some places. The mischief might have been serious, but that a policeman saw the occurrence, and giving notice, large body of labourers were set to work, and repaired the damage to the culvert, so as to remove the pressure of water before nightfall. The other accident was at a point called Torside, on Thursday evening, only two miles from the mouth of the summit tunnel. Here a torrent from the hill-side tore up stones and everything in its course, and washing them into the mouth of the culvert, the water was thrown upon the up-line of rails, and washed away the embankment on that side, so that the trains could not pass, and the down-line had to be made use of for thralls in both directions, on Friday, till the mischief had been repaired. The cessation of the rains happily rendered this of easier accomplishment than was at first expected. Ton LAW or Strrtaxerte.—At the meeting of the Man chester board of guardians, last week, a petition to the House of Commons for an amendment of the law of settlement, which had been drawn up by a committee appointed to con sider the question, was discussed and adopted. It appears that, in addition to 2,000 in the workhouse, there are now, in this union, 10,000 persons in the receipt of out-door relief. The guardians state : . _ . . . . Thai the bil of loot emir. tho Ilth and 10th Vict., e 66, intltoled " An Act to mod Ine limo riling to the removal of the poor" width random s pimp, inomenitio after • meidenorof live years in ray wish, W nme9 l,9kl G&W et your humble petitioner', been protive et Se eigesiMaga to the poor which wee contem pla*L net he tom bold out in that act to induce Sams woliont, tisi ,..: rkb persone to transport them mho es pedalo from which an be legally removed to their =et ennemont, in populous are very numeral.. That, eta pienw open to mak torresios, your petitioners humbly suggest Os eetaWmoat of a sonillownt many obtainable by the in. duotrione poor. Ind year madams yeah' humbly reeoraniend the repeal of the her Innoprol MR 9 and 10 Vic. c. 6 t, and, In Ilea thmeat, an eneolmant is Ike eilhot that every person who shall ham beam rated as an Inhohlhint lemseho:der, in any parish or town ship, for five ommemese ye" wtthoot having been Oa receipt of parochial rellsfi Wow en smount of himself or herself, or any of his or her children roirbir dams years of age, during such five years, or any portion tbeireet, dna be deemed to have *qui,* • settlement U any such with or towneldp. The mune to be retrcepectin in its operation. PREVALENCE OP Smarr ROBBERIES.—The Liverpool Journal of Saturday hoc an enormously long list of out rages committed in the streets of that town. About eleven o'clock, on Saturday evening, a man, named John Fitz patrick, was knocked down in Vauxhall -road by three men, and robbed of a silver lever watch.—About the name hour, a man named James Standing was knocked down by four men, in Clayton-strut, and robbed of 35c—About eight o'clock the same evening, a man named James Moore was knocked down by four men, in Whitley-street, Kirkdale, and robbed of 15e—About ten o'clock en Monday night a gentleman was knocked down in Vauxhall-road, and robbed of 10s. 41d. by two men. Fevea has considerably increased, within the last few days, among the Irish paupers in Liverpool. TEE NEW TRANS-ATLANTIC STRAY SIIIPS.—The new steamers of the British and North American Royal Mail Company, intended for the increased service between America and England, are to be called the Canada, the Europa, the Niagara, and the America. These several vessels are being forwarded with every despatch. "Tan Hoo Cam." of the United States this year is three times the worth of the cotton crop. The " standing army" of swine consumes annually two hundred million bushels of corn. . PREVINTION or Aceinesrrs.—Charles Croft, an engine driver in the employ of the Manchester and Leeds Company, was charged at Preston with being drunk whilst in the per formance of his duty. The charge was preferred under the ' 3 and 4 Viet., cap. 97, sect. 13, which gives the magistrate power to inflict a fine not exceeding 101. or two months' imprisonment. It appeared that the defend ant was driver of the eight o'clock train, which left Preston station on Sunday evening (yesterday sennight). About a quarter of an hour before the time of starting, the superintendent found he was intoxicated and incapable of taking care of the engine, and he was accordingly given into custody. The superintendent stated that the steam of the engine at the time was blowing off with tremendous forte, arising from the want of water, and an immediate supply wan necesear7 in order to prevent the tubes from being burnt. If this had not been done the consequences would have been serious ; and the state in which the engine was found was attributable to the neglect of the defendant. The company pressed the charge, because only a short time back an engine-driver had been guilty of the same offence. The mayor, after reprimanding the defendant for so gross a dereliction of duty, by which the lives of so many might have been endangered, ordered him to pay a fine of 21. ; or in default to be committed for three months. RIPRZSISTATION OF MANCHISTIIR.—The requisition to Lord Lincoln has received from 2,800 to 2,900 signatures, and is to be presented to the noble lord to-morrow, at his re sidence in London, by a deputation consisting of Mr. Tho m,. Bayley Potter, Mr. Jehn Peci, and Mr. Alderman Neild. These gentlemen are intrusted with the onerous and somewhat delicate duty of " popping the question" as to his lordship's future intentlyns, and the iseue will of course decide whether the next election for Manchester will be contested. STATI or MANCIIIIITI9..—To the most cursory observer Manchester presents a vary altered appearance. Shoals of FACTORY IWPOILWATION.=;;WiIid(Ord. on Wednesday, Mews Kershaw, of Allerton, were charged, upon five in formations, preferred by Mr. Baker, with not having allowed their workpeople the requisite time, fixed by the statute, for meals. The charges were not denied; and the defendants were convicted in 61. in each case, besides expenses, 13s. DlB7BlBB rev BRADFORD.—it will give an idea of the amount of distress at present prevailing in Bradford, to state that for the present week, Bairstow, the relieving offi cer for the township of Bradford, has on his books the names of 1,070 families receiving relief ; which, on an ave rage of five persons to a family, gives a total of 5,350 per ' sons. The other relieving officers are said to be equally pressed by the claims of the destitute. DZATH ROM IGNORANTLY TAMING AWILNIC As• MIDICIWI.—Last Monday, Robert Shaw, of Dewsbury, plasterer, feeling unwell, mentioned the circumstance to a carpet weaver, who advised him to go to a drueptist, and get Id. of mercury, Id. of spirits of nitre, Id. of spirits of wine, and take thirteen drops each night and morning. It appears Shaw preferred making his purchases at three separate shops, and obtained double the quantity recommended. At the place where be obtained the weenie, he said he wanted it to Mal With whiting to destroy bugs. He was cautioned as to its dangerous nature, and stated he knew that very well, as he had often used it with whiting for the pur pose of killing bugs. After obtaining these ingredients, he mixed the whole in an Boa. bottle, went into kis father's store cellar, and took, as he thought, a teaspoonful of the mixture about seven o'clock in the evening. At ten o'clock he was taken seriously ill. He returned home, but could eat no supper; he then went to bed. Medical aid was obtained, but he continued is great agony till about half-past tan on Tuesday morning, when he died. An inquest was held on Wednesday. Verdict, " Died from taking arsenic as a me dicine." Titi.Foinelloatoe SrogE of the New Town-hall, Don caster, was laid on Monday last, by R. Milner, Req., mayor. RIPIUNIVITATION 01 7. LIICIUSTEIL—At a r.eeting of the committee of liberal electors of Leicester, ball. as Wig= List, Sir helms Wal !risky wry.. intreamerit as • candidate Om the borough. After ease dielliefil it Wei riool,llld if~t art kr kin Wtakirr, and an twortaily skillet kik WaariWiaaOkadaY apikoss. awl sktionly nerhe nestmedfiats My astalsory ass aelltbre at kr =int *Am : ski arks, Osier liessiks to on k *air parer k arbor te some lit ntrik—Tllk It =moat kipletiktik rake isarmft d the lbseml THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 22, 1847. tercet, that the individual who Alan be recommended by this commit tee al the other candidate athall be • gentleman, who in addition to sound view. ajell commercial and exial pohq Is sleo • decided advo cate of the moat evended right of suffrage Lind of the wparation of church and stde. POVERTY OF THE FRAME•TrORX KNITTERE.—WAGES AND THE POOO-LAW/1.--A struggle is still Roh on at Hinckley, between the frame-work knitters and one leading house amongst the manufacturers, for a small advance of wages. The advance, if secured, will not average more than Bd. per week to the workmen. Many of the frames were taken in on Tuesday, and it is expected that more than 200 will be sent in during the week. Every other firm is giving this small advance. The board of guardians have taken up the subject on behalf of the workmen. Mr. Weale, the assistant poor-law commissioner, has attended one of th• meetings of the board, and has examined the subject in all its hewing', and crow-examined some of the workman. He ham also given the following important decision " That the earnings of the linsekk7 framework knitters are lama. dent, when hi full work, to sibed the neoseuries of life—that is, food, clothin shelter, and fuel. That It IA incumbent upon the para. chial authorities to see that the industrious poor should have these neeemaries ; but as the law will not .lbw that the wages of labour should be made up out of the poor rates, the baud are justified In taking all each families oponthe poor -rats funds, and to support them wholly, without autpectteg them to the workhouse tent." The board of guardians have agreed to take all the men who have a wife and three children and upwarls, who can not get the small advance of wages, sad allow them to work at the mill in the Union-house, and pay them for such la bour every night in Burin of money and breed, in proportion to the number of their children. This system is now adopted at Hinckley ; and at nine o'clock every morning the opera tive homework-knitters may be seen going in droves to the Union-house to " work atthe mill." The sympathies of the rate-payers are stated to be with the workmen. THE WHIPPING TOllB.—On Wednesday the prisoners captured for assaulting the police whilst attempting the sup pression of this game, were brought before the magistrates; after a lengthened examination 13 of the prisoners were com mitted to the sessions frir trial; one of the other. was fined 40s and casts, another 20.. and coats, and two others were ordered to find sureties to keep the peace for three months. STA MRIDSHI RE. AN EXPLOSION OP HYDROGEN took place on Tuesday morning in a pit called Walbuta Colliery, at Bilston. It appears that a man named Collier, with another men, in cautiously took a lighted candle into the working, when a quantity of gas exploded, burning Collier in a dreadful manner. His companion escaped with but a slight injury. The other persons in the pit were uninjured. TIMER Lives LOST FOR WANT or • Batoos.—On Saturday the coroner for this county concluded an inquest at North Minis, upon the bodies of Mary Linn, aged 23: George Lines, aged 18 months ; and Eliza Ellenham, and 12, who came by their deaths under the following circum stances:—lt appeared from the evidence of George Lines, that the deceased, Mary Lines, wished to go and sae her friends, who lived at Icledon, near Hitchen ; that on Sun day morning last, his wife, and child, and servant, stoned from home, in a hone and chaise, for that purpose. To reach Icledon, it was necessary to pass a ferry. Upon passing the stream in the morning, it was not dangerous. On his return home, ha arrived at the spot where the accident occurred, at about half-past six. It was quite dark, and being un aware of the flood which had taken place, he attempted to cross, and, before he had any suspicion of danger, the horse plunged into the deepest part of the river, and they were immediately swept away. The deceased, Ellenham, entangled m the harness, and was of course drowned with the horse. Witness then saw his wife, with the infant in her arms, snatched away by the impetuosity of the stream. He made every effort to save them, but he could not do ao; and it was with great difficulty he preserved himself. Two of the bodies were found next day, but his wife was not found before Wednesday last. Verdict, " Aceitlental death ;" but the jury expressed a wish that the surveyors of the highway, or parish authorities, would take immediate steps for constructing a bridge over the stream. NORFOLK. A MIFTINO was held at Norwich on Thursday last to take the necessary steps for the formation of a Chamber of Com merce in that city. TEN PERSONS DROWNED IN •E OKNINV3.—OD TUES day evening last, Bowden's omnibus, which plies between Bideford and Torrington, and is designated the " Safety," drew up opposite the quay, and at six o'clock started for the latter town. The vehicle was full of psasengers, eleven per sona being inside, and one on tee roof. It had not gone many yards before one of the horses became restive, and after making two or three plunges the pole and splinter broke asunder from the carriage, which instantly went down the declivity of the quay, and with the whole of its passengers was precipitated into the river. The night was dark, and there was upwards of twenty feet of water, the tide being up. There was a terrific shriek from the passengers, but It was only momentary. A woman, who was on the roof, fortunately got ashore, and Mr. M. Chapple, a glovemaker, of Torrinit ton, by a desperate effort burst open the door of the omnibus, and swam ashore, assisted by a soldier, who bravely jumped in to his rescue. He was the only one of the inside passen gers who escaped--all the others perished. Grappling irons were immediately procured, and every effort made to save some of them, but in vain. ft was nearly two hours before the omnibus was brought ashore. When raised on to the quay the sight was truly horrifying ; the sufferers were lying in a mass at the end furthermost from the entrance. It was evident they had struggled earnestly to escape. The inquest on the bodies WOK place on Thursday. Their names were given as follows:—Mrs. Fanny Frieildship ce led 40 (left five children): Ann Norman (a widow), 65 ; Mr.. Elizabeth Friendship, aged 3.5 (left six chi ldren); Mary Ann Friendship (daughter of the last deceased), aged II ; Mrs. Ann Page, aged 40 ; Mr. John Cbapple, aged 60 (bro ther of the gentleman who escaped) ; John Passmore, aged 30 ; Miss Elizabeth Griffey, aged 60 ; and two other female., names unknown. The burthen of the evidence went to prove that the melancholy affair arose from accident alone, for although the driver was charged with being drunk, and incapable of taking charge of his horses, the whole proved unfounded. After an inquiry, which lasted several hours, the jury returned the subjoined verdict : —" Accidental death, and the jury strongly recommended an indictment being laid against the authorities of the town for allowing the quay side to remain in the dangerous state it was." Tae PRIM TTTTT DU - OVIIEII PRODUCTIVE or CRIME.— At the half-yearly crown audit recently held at the Speech house, the subject of the pure ervadon of the deer in the forest of Dean was discussed, and a strong feeling wee gene rally expressed that the deer preserves were a nurse for crime, encouraging the growth of an idle and di sorder ) population, producingheartburnings, strife, and bloodshe, greatly increuing the burdens of the poor and county rates, and grievously interfering with the proper working of the mines and collieries in the Forest. These sentiments were embodied in an address, which has been presented to Sir M. H. Crawley Boevey, who is a candidate for the vacant office of Verderer in succession to his deceased father, and the parties signified that they could not vote for the ap pointment to the office of Verderer of any gentleman who is favourable to the continuation of the present aystern of pre serving deer in the forest. In his reply to this document, Sir M. H. C. Boevey says—" Having now for some years acted sea magistrate in the immediate neighbourhood of the Forest, I can quite understand and sympathise with them in thinking that the existence of a large herd of deer in so populous a district is calculated (m in other districts similuly circumstanced) to demoralise the lower orders of the people; but this I attribute mainly (as I have reason to think) to the great facility and impunity afforded to the poacher by those of a higher order, and who should know better, of selling the spoil with pecuniary advantage. The evil is very great, and much to be deplored."—Gloucester Chrottick. LITERATURE. Madagascar, Past and Preatnt, by a RESIDENT. London. The island of Madagascar already engages much of the anxious attention of those who are interested in the commerce of the eastern seas, and is very likely at no distant date to mile questions of difficult solu tion in European diplomacy. When it pleased Gwry IV. to present the island of Bourbon to the Count de Provence, that on his return to Paris as LOUIS XVIII. he might be able to gratify the French people by announcing to them a restored colony as well as a restored monarch, every one but the royal Sybarite himself foresaw that such generosity the way for a contest between French ra r rgglish intrigues in the seas and coasts of Eastern Africa. England retained the Mauritius, and, consequently, whatever claims that colony held OE Madagascar; claims of some importance, us the chief supplies of provision for the Mamithss wean derived from the latter island. It is off- known that these supplies have been cut knob Nero " who now rules in Madagascar : Qum Rana volona has prohibited commerce, fearing that its ex tension may lead to the introduction of civilisation and Christianity. Madagascar:which, from its size and situation bra; been called the Great Britain of Africa, Ike many other islands of the eastern sees, is tenanted by two races, one of Malay, and the other of African, the latter belonging to the ;Kaffir, not the negro= Unlike, however, the other islands, the more - roue, or African rue, is found on the am-coasts, while the more advanced Malayan tribes, or Royals, have 'on of the interior. A cause for this may be possession of the interior. A cause for tlns may be found l i n the great unhealthiness of the coasts, which are, fur the most part, pestilential swamps and marshes, capable, however, of being easily drained, and converted into most productive fields. The capi tal, Tananarivo, is in the centre of the island, at a distance of about three hundred miles from the nearest seaport. Thit island was divided among several independent tars, until the accession of Radama to the go vernment of Ankara, the district in which the capital was 'Austad, about the middle of the year 1810. Sir Robert Farquhar, who governed oar newly wiping conquests of Mauritius and Bourbon, anxious to put an end to the traffic in slaves which then flourished in Madagascar, opened negotiations with Radama, and found him so enlightened a prince that he resolved to aid him in establishing his supremacy over the entire island. In return for this aid Radama opened his country to the missionaries, who bad hitherto sought an entrance in vain, and a mission ware established at the capital with more than the usual prospects of success in a heathen country. European arts, though to a limited extent, were in troduced at the same time, and Madagascar seemed likely to be added to the list of civilised nations. These prospects were blighted by the premature death of Radama, in 1828. The throne was usurped by the Queen Ranavalona, who declared that she was called thereto by the idols Rahilimaza and ltamahavely. As a 'reward for the kindness of these deities, the Queen denounced the worship of "the new Gods, Jehovah and Jesus Christ," as treason, expelled the English resident with ignominy, and soon forced the missionaries to depart, leaving most of their property behind them. The Bibles, and other works of reli gious instruction, were collected and burned : to crown the whole, death was denounced as the punish ment of any Malagasy who should be found in pos session of a printed book. Ranavaloua did not stop here; she subjected British and French traders to each insults and outrages, that both governments found it necessary to interfere, and in 1845 the town of Tamarave, at the principal port, was destroyed by a united French and English armament. Though the forces of the two nations acted together on this occasion with creditable concert and harmony, the authorities in Bourbon and the Mauritius exhibited not a little jealousy and sus picion towards each other. The author of the in teresting little volume before us, plainly asserts that the French are resolved on the conquest of Mada gascar, and he attributes this determination not so much to that passion for colonies which the French ministers have found it so difficult to repress, as to the zeal of the Romish missionaries, who seem equally instigated by . the desire of spreading their religion, and an anxiety to extend the influence of France. Into the discussion of the missionary question, the author rushes with too much of the violence of a heated partisan, and urges the case of Tahiti as a proof that Ramisla zeal is a formidable enemy to the moderated exertions of Protestant missionary enterprise. We have no taste for such discussions, and we should be very sorry to find that the ardour of the missionaries on either side tended to excite or to strengthen national animosities. The danger of a quarrel about any of the eastern islands does not arise so much from the missionaries, as from the culpable weakness of the French ministers, who are afraid to rebuke aay of their subordinate functionaries when they achieve some unauthorised exploit likely to gratify the national vanity. The officers of the French navy are treated like spoiled children, and allowed to hoist a flag on a useless rock, to take pos session of a barren coast, to establish a nominal pro tectorate ever worthless islands, in order that a pompous paragraph in the journals may announce that France shares in the dominion of the seas. If, as our author dreads, the French intend to treat Queen Ravelona as they have treated Queen Pomare, they will, in this instance at least, ad vance the interests of humanity, though certainly not their own. If the statements before ua are to be credited (and they seem supported by good autho rity), Ravalona's victims are to be counted by hundreds of thousands; her punishment for any act of disobedience is the summary extermination of the inhabitants of an entire district; she has restored the practises of infanticide, human sacrifice, and ordeal by poison. It is, we find, a regular maxim of Malagasy law, that the strength of the conscience must be tested by the strength of the stomach. England and France have causes of war with this female fury in superabundance; but the author fears that the two powers could not be induced to act in concert to effect her overthrow, became they are not likely to agree upon the conditions of a joint protectorate; and even if the two powers should unite in such a scheme, he fears that their rival missionaries would soon involve both countries in very painful dis cussions. Laverdant's lugubrious pamphlet on the rejection of the scheme ho had formed for the French coloniaa ' tion of Madagascar, both by Thiers and Guizot, attracts a very . disproportionate share of our author's indignation. Like most of the writers of the Joinville school, Laverdant values colonial establishments only according to their probable use in a future war, and Madagascar is recommended chiefly for its convenience to the privateers which might interrupt British com merce in the Eastern seas. It may console the English author to learn that the policy of piracy is not so highly estimated by government as it once was, and that privateering, which is only a modified form of buccaneering, however acceptable to such men as Laverdant, is not likely to be again tolerated by civilised nations. We have been much pleased with this little volume ; it contains a great deal of interesting information, the more acceptable as it is presented in a simple and unpretending Corm. Were we disposed to complain, we should add that the work would have been better had it exhibited leas of missionary zeal and more of UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL. OXFORD, PM 20.—0 n Priam Mr. T. P. Craven. Ocounoner of Wor °ewer Col., wee elected to the Tama Chauta witeierehip. Dray 8C1101,11.11N-71110411.10111111 ageolatal by the Wrier of the Daly 8eliollus14,0" Miss eat ma eambealea 'albs holden in litegieisa BA au brim Ilerdi tho dam for *a of drab. a mbar au lot thweamke. 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W. mg a detbeimat el SS ma 11Wwisioni dim al am wipMed to aft* la a dsy or two for Peng:woke, to take dune of the pm recently sent to that poet. Tin, deo, is the drat detachment of Royal Artillery that has been sent to that port- Experiments took place yesterday, In the practice range of the Royal Arsenal, with two newly invented caecursion foam designed by two foremen of the Royal Arsenal. The practice took plate from a lb inch duo , It a name of 800 yards, but was unsuccanful, only One shell ort striking the bulk-hind, the remainder having exploded Tnr in digh• Eressaaarvis or Tin 27vu Pr rot from Gosport, for Scot. land, which ha. been revers' times postprimid on account of there being no vessel reedy sr It to convey them, I. now ordered for Tina day next, by which time the Birkenhead will be reedy. SPORTING. BETTING AT MANCHESTER.—Pamsw. LIVCIPOOL fircrwte ensas.-6 to I •LBrunette (t), 12 to I sad Leger (1), 12 to apt The Roarer (1 , 12 to 1 opt Saucepan, IS to 1 apt Culverthorpe, 160 to 7 sgst Red (t), 100 to 7 sgst Avoca (t), 100 to 6 apt Profligate (t), 100 to 6 apt Jerry (t), 100 to 6 sgst re. All, 100 to 11 agst Ihsontint. Norm Cer.-21 to 1 apt Mendicant (t), 23 to 1 spit The Lamb SOLD) apt Owner& Ohwura (t), 30to 1 sgat Punch (700 to 20 laid once). Mto ant Antler (offers to take 1,000 to 30), 40 to 1 apt Flitch (t), 40 to I met Crim Coo., 40 to 1 sgst Fitastlen, 30 to I apt Sting, 50 to I yet Duke of Rict Inherits-at unong, 50 to 1 apt No Unify on the Metropolitan and Newmarket /I Dour.-13 to 2 apt W. Tromp, 10 to apt Epirre rA . , 12 to 1 spePlanet (of), 23 to sgst Month (off), 25 tel 1 apt Onnyngtwas (a), LOOS to 13 sgst Cttristopher. tato Internam,. EQUITY COURTS. Before the Nester of the Rolls. ABRAM V. DAVIS.—PATMENT — OCT OP COCRT.—In this care, which was a creditor's suit, the plaintiffs were s 3 dead, and so were the executors of the testator in the cause, who were defendants. A petition was now presented by two per sons who had been reported the only judgment =editors, and who had received part of their debts under the decree in the cause, for the purpose of having a certain fund, which had been carried to the account of the testator's widow's dower, paid out of court to them upon the death of the widow, towards satisfaction of their debts, for which it was insufe cient ; there was no other outstanding estate, and the lund in question arose from the real estates of the testator. There were three surviving defendants—via., the widow's second husband, the person who was then the testator's heir-at-law, though not found so by the master's report, and a party who took a contingent interest under the will.—Mr. Kin ' deraley appeared for the petitioners, and Mr. Berkeley for the defendants, who consented to the application.—The Master of the Rolls made the order, but he observed that if there had been any other outstanding estate he would not have done so. Theioart heard several petitions and short causes of re in terest. Before tie Ticsalancellor of England. GROON O. STANION.-01AFECTION To ASSIGNEES UNDIE THE BANKRUPT ACT.—This nit was instituted by the assignees of Chambers, a bankrupt, for the purpose of setting aside certain deeds of arrangement, under winch Chambers had sold an estate to his mother-in-law for 4,5001., the pur chase money for which was to be paid in four years time, and was secured by a bond—the bond had been made over to an attorney with whom Chambers had formed an acquaintance during the period of his imprisonment for the purpose of satisfying a bill for law expenses. At the time the above transaction took place another deed was executed, by which It was agreed that the mother-in-law of Chambers, who had given the bond for payment of the purchase money for the estate, should be at liberty to cancel it at any time before it became due. An objection was raised that the plaintiffs were not legally entitled to sue as the assignees of the bankrupt, as there was no evidence of his bankruptcy, and that notice had been given, under the 92d section of the Bankrupt Act, of the defendant's intention to dispute the fiat. —Mr. Bethel, Mr. J. Parker, and Mr. Amphlett appeared for the plain tiffs; and Mr. Rolt and Mr. Terrell for the defendants. The Vice-Chancellor said it appeared, by the 92d section of the Bankrupt Act, "that the proceedings in bankruptcy should be evidence unless notice should be given in writing of a defend ' ant's intention to dispute the fiat within ten days after re. joinder." The notice in this case had been given after repli cation and before rejoinder. Ile did not think the antic sufficient ; he should, therefore, overrule the injection.— Decree for the plaintiffs. Before nee-Chancellor Wlgram. LETTS O. 111. LONDON ♦ND BLACK WALL RAILWAT COMPANT.—Cosrs.—With reference to the question of costa in this aim, the decision upon which had been reserved, his honour now made an order that each party should bear their own costa, both of the original and cross suits. BUTLIN O. MASTERS.—MOTION FOR NEW TRIAL. His honour delivered judgment in this case, which wits a notion for a new trial of certain issues which had been sent to a court of law for the purpose of determining whether the plaintiff, as rector of the parish of St. Sepalchre at North- I &raptor, was entitled to a customary payment in lieu of tithes of 6d. in the pound upon the annual value of all houses and lands within the parish and, secondly, whether the houses of the defendant, against whom the elaun was set up, were within the ambit of the parish. The trial, which took place before Mr. Justice Coleridge, at the Northampton assizes in July last, having resulted in verdicts apon all the issues in favour of the plaintiff, the present motion was made on behalf of the defendant in January last, upon the ground that the learned judge, in summing up, had misdirected jury se to the effect of the evidence of the custom. His Honour, after commenting at length upon the evi dence which had been adduced at the trial, and upon the reference thereto contained in the judge's summing up, re fused the motion with costs. DAWSON O. PATER.-INJUNCTION TO RESTRAIN COM MISSIONS/IA UNDER AN ENCLOSURE AND DRAINAOR ACT PROM EXERCISING IHZ POWRRB GIVEN TO THEM HT TRH ACT IN A MANNER INJURIOUS TO THE PLAINTI/7.—The plaintiff in this case was the owner of certain lands extend ing over 1,000 acres, in the township of Osgodby, in York shire; and the defendants were the commissioners named in an act of parliament (6 Vic., c. 6), intituled "An act for enclosing lands in the township of Cliffe-cum.Land, in the East Riding of the county of York ;" under the 27th section of which they had power to make drains, and to direct, by their award, in what proportion the expenses' of such drainage were to be paid. It appeared that the plaintiff* lands, which were bounded by the lands included in the Inclosure Act, bad been drained from tire* immemorial by means of an ancient drain ; and that the de fendanta, in exercise of the powers given to them by their act, had cut certain new drains, running into the ancient drain, without making any additional outlet for the water. Hereupon the plaintiff flied his bill (in Nov. 1844) charging that the ancient drain was not more than sufficient to drain the plaintiff's lands, and that the quantity of water breught down by the new drains would be so great that it would pen back the water in the ancient drain, and cause the plaintiff's lands to be flooded, and praying that the defen dants might be restrained by injunction from wing the new drains in such manner as to obstruct the free passage and flow of the water from the plaintiffs lands along the ancient drain. On the 26th Nov., 1844, an injunction was granted, ex parte, to restrain the defendants from permitting water to flow into the ancient watercourse, through the drains then lately cut by them, so as to obstruct the drainage of the plaintiff's lands, by means of the said ancient watercourse, im such manner u the same had theretofore been used and enjoyed by the plaintiff. The defendants put in their answer to the bill, and in March, 1845, moved to dissolve the in junction. Upon the hearing of that motion the court, an the 15th of April, 1815, ordered that the parties should pro ceed to a trial at law upon the Lillie whether the drainage made by the defendants into the ancient drain would, i 1 completed, to the damage and injury of the plaintiff ob struct the drainage of the plaintiff's lands by means of the ancient drain, in such manner u the same had theretofore been used by the plaintiff. On the 22nd of July following the Moue came on to be tried, when the jury delivered a ver dict for the plaintiff. A second trial of the same issue, as order for which had been obtained upon motion, having been afterwards attended with the same result, the a re came on for hearing upon further directions in January last, when it was argued by Mr. Anderdon, Mr. Romilly, and Mr. Crawford, on behalf of the plaintiff; sad by Mr. K. Parker, Mr. Malin, and Mr. M. A. Bhee oa behalf et the delsailieen lib fliesener sew illelivereljeftpenit, eliereine that two points heels= mile at the beering—eme„ • point of law, that the Mt emplained of was right, inamnuck as the detnienn were authorised to do it by she act of mimed ; the other, a quee4on or tessttat no dmigge would in effec t: accrue lout the in quietism. As to the Set point,. it might he eheerved that if the act of parliament had in eapr tenne fig by resenwery imphination empanelled tee °omen damn le Wafts with the property or rights offotbers, sad igen seeendeeinenelien el the act, that had appeared to M Menke by Ihe benblare, in stab a case ih aught have been the di* nee awn to give effect to the decree of the krigatoapasigemoil. That, however, did not appear to he the ewe le tie peeeent instance, for the act in gentian nenlyinibil emelt individual named to deal, *rough en etn=lellnleins with their cam proper! in the manner psirtei out. The ditinction between a private and a public aetofpa human wee materiel upon the present gentian. 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