The Express. — London, England, 1847-02-08 00:00:00

In the meantime, however, the &drawee that had been Lade to General Poeta were under the deep and prolonged °Druid/ration of that officer, and the result of his determina tion was awaited with some anxiety by those members of the govenulvat of Oporto who were privy to the facts. I have some raison for believing that the hesitation manifested by () f etid Payne took its rise in his reluctance to aban deo the cause in which be had formerly acqaired ("ai d ed') an honourable name ; but this reluctance gave way before the exigencies of hie country ; and it is a singular ..,1 significant feature in the aspect of affairs here that the scruples of the general were mainly silenced by the argu acute of bis brother, a canon of the Homan Catholic Church o f Portugal , who drew up, I believe, the proclamation wherein the former Miguelite general avowed his allegiance to the Septembrist Junta, adopting by that act all the consequences of their political creed, even to the extent of acknowledging the authority of the queen, in whose name the Junta exer cises its functions. Thus, it will be perceived are at length united in one common bond the various shades of political sentiment and elements of discord throughout Por tugal, commencing in the lowest democracy and terminating in the meet exalted ideas of kingly rights. Miguelite, enlists, fiepterabrista, democrat, are all animated by one spirit of hatred to the system of government pursued by Donna Maria, and what is of more importance than their anion, they have merged their individual sentiments in the beanie under wnich Sada Bandeiru fights, thereby dimipating the apprehensions that were entertained respect ing the division of the Seplembrist party, or a departure from their principles by some of its most important and valued adherents. rooms, though dated Guards, The proclamation issued by Jen. 17, was not io reality made public until the '23rd or 24th. It is most carefully worded, as the following extracts will prove; at the same time it fully bears out the remark, I have made upon it i " Inhabitants of the two Beiras ! The provisory Junta of the kingdom has, by a decree of the 9th inst., nominated General Povoies military commander of your province, i “ order that be may to the extent of his powers co-operate with them towards the triumph of the national cause. Gen. Povoas deems himself highly honoured by this mark of ciintidence on the part of the supreme Junta. His own convictions and the love of his country's good had already induced him to co operate, as much as was compatible with his physical and moral situation, in order to complete the glorious movement of Isist May ; but the events which have occurred subsequent to the unhappy day of the 6th of October, which imposed on all good Portuguese the obligation to take arms for the pur pose of redeeming the movement Of May, were such, as not to enable this old genera! to dispense with lending likewise all the assistance that was compatible with his situation. Inhabitants of the two Bevis; generals commanding division+ ; officers and commanders of regiments of the line of the popular forces, fixed as well as moveable, the General Pones calls all your attention towards this transcend ent national object ! It is not alone a question I of liberty which we have shed SO much blood to secure. It is the question whether the people shall be saved—whether 1 they shall be reinstated in their rights, preserving at the same time the rights of the crown, suet, as the elected deputies of the people declared them in the Cortes to exist, bolding In view the ancient prerogatives of the crown and of the people, modified by the light of the present age, dis cussed and adopted according to the forms generally observed ' In constitutional countries," tee. There is no mistaking such language as this. It is expressive in the highest degree, and coming, as it does, from a mina who, amidst all the conflicts of party has uniformly preserved a character for uprightness and consistency, the proclamation of General Povoas, of which the above is • specimen, cannot but produce a most important effect on the minds of the classes who are more particularly addressed by him : namely, the old Miguelitee. There will, doubtless, be many amongst this class who will still abide by their old convictions and refuse to coalesce with or recognise their former foes: but their number will not be very . great ; and I am disposed to think they will remain pasenve spectators of events. Whether • Guedes and some others of this class will so act is yet however a matter of doubt. During the last ten days two different forces of 1,500 and 800 men have sallied forth on the Braga road; the first was under the com- 4 sand of the General Baron raftelmargem, second in corn- nand ; the other was under the orders of Brigadier Csesar Vasancellos. Their object,. I apprehend, re simply to make such demonstrations as will suffice to let Baron Casa' know that he is carefully looked after. This officer is still at Viana, having only two moves left him—viz., from that place 'to Valence and from Valente' to Viana ; he, consequently, W suffered a sort of stale mate. The English merchants of Oporto are very anxious that he should remain at Viana, as his presence there protects the heavy shipments of maize which are now making to Ireland. Another object which the moveable columns sent out from this place have to effect, is to obtain supplies from the surrounding country, in which they are tolerably successful." &Idaho is still reported to be at Agueda, a small town near Serdan. The numerous bodies of guerillas which in het the country around him, and the presence of Penns, at Guards, with 700 men, are sufficient, it would seem, to bold the whole of the Queen's army in check. The exchange here is as follows: Exchange for notes, 451; metal, 56/ ; new crowns, 57 ; discount on notes, Porto, 231; 1,050 rs. per moidore Lisbon. H• POSTRUKIPT TO LETTER OF Jaw. IS, SENT TO Viola ha. 30, Five P.M.—The Iberia is expected from the south early in the morning. In the interval since my former dispatch nothing of importance has occurred, unless the' feet that Colonel Lip (one of Saldanha's subordinate officers) has crossed the Douro in order to reinforce Viscount Vin bees can be so regarded. Macdonnell is still hanging on the skirts of this last named commander threatening toattack him. If he di ee so, the Miguelite general will be doing the work of the Junta of Oporto. Povoas has left Guards; the force with him is said to he 2,000 well-seasoned and ancient soldiers, but unarmed. This is, however, a double exaggendion, as the guerillae about him are only raw levies, and half the number asserted. Saldanha is said to be at Lameho, but this is doubtful news. There have been a good many people ordered out of the city during the last week or tea days ; amongst them are an Englishmen (Mr. Perry), and two Spaniards, but their re spective consule have interfered for their protection in their rielas. la other respects, I believe there is the best order maintained in Oporto, and to do Senor Jose Paseos and his colleagues justice, it is but fair to erste, that in two in stances where they have detected foreigners meddling in this war, and earning supplies to the Queen's forces, these indi trdaals have been let off with a warning, and under a pro fligate again to commit a similar breach of neutrality, a Er 'M as el, I am sorry to say, one of them h broltra, iminting to carry money to Casal, at Viana or Valence. troops constitutuag the garrison of Oporto are in con- Mast activity, in so far as the very heavy rains will permit them to move. The services which they are employed upon are simply of marching a few leagues into the provinces, sad of receiving such voluntary contributions as the in habitants may offer, or, what is much more likely, of levy *, the supplies of corn, hay, and straw, which are required ler the soldiery and cavalry, after the same fashion that the beggar extorted a contribution from Gil Blas, when that worthy set out on his travels. They may, how ever, have another and ulterior object, tamely, to ma ilman between Saldanha's vanguard and Canal's hie, so as not only to prevent a junction, but ea endeavour to bring the latter to action, an event which is most eagerly coveted by the Septembrist officers, as be has not only been a thorn in their side from the moment that the soldiery were induced to desert Si da Beuideira at Valpassos, but bemuse also his mode of carrying on the war his sot been altogether of a character to excite much respect Or his so a leader. Independently, likewise, of these con siderations, Cooal is looked upon, with what reason I cannot ley, as a deserter from the opinions which he always main laud on political subjects; and desertion at a moment when his adherence and co-operation were expected, if not pledged, is not a circumstance of easy forgivenese. The force he has with him, is reported to me by an English gentleman, who arrived here from Viana on the 19th, as consisting of about 2,200 or 2,100 men, including a battalion of seamen of 200. Truer accounts, however, reduce it to 1,700 men underarms. He is said to be very ill at this moment at Viana, and unable to stir. A good deal of anxiety has prevailed in Oporto amongst the Portuguese 'immunity with respect to the intentions of the govera• out of the city on the subject of forced loans. Oa Tues day, Jan. 12, the vice-president of the Junta, together with tome others• presented himself at the Commercial Bank, in the Rua Nova das [mans, and ordered the treasurer to Poises his keys. There were about 12,000/. in notes and rid In the coffers of the bank, which sum was at once limmierred to the strongbox of the Junta, and a notice was Mask cep by the directors of the hank giving as a reason for MI son-payment of the dividend falling due the pro- Men in question. It ia difficult to vindicate such 0 I Nap, but it must be borne in mird that, at a atiosent when Don Pedro was in a position similar, if aft indeed less justifiable by circumstances, to that of Uinta, he levied very large suun on the subjects of Don 1 111•11, under the title of forced loans. Certainly, unless the Joe obtain the sinews of war their cause is gone, and wesidering that the large port shippers here have deferred Peking any entries of wine outwards until matters are set - tied, whereby an amount of more than 90,0001. is withheld ' from the customs, which, in ordinary times, would produce 1 that sum within the next five weeks, it can hardly be ids a matter of wonder however much it may be de- SIM and even censured, if the Junta takes precaution to its treasury from being empty. A decree, signed by 's bl t SlMmis of Louie. Civil-Governor of the city. COLONIAL. HoNlita.ts.--We have received intelligence from late (via New York) to the 19th of December. No =en gin is made of the results of the trials. A heavy gale had been experienced, but no disasters are reported. The ac counts of the mahogany trade are unfavourable.—" With tee, math regret, but with equal confi.lence and cer tainty, we predict that the present prices, bad as they ore, ca❑not Its, sustained." A decreased cutting hats been recommended to the settlers to restore prices. Ax ILLIetT DisTiLieitt—A seizure of a very large illicit distillery was effected on Saturday, by the officers of tsetse On proceeding to the premise*, Yo. 1, Grattan- Bethnal-green, where ostensibly was carried on the Dew or a general dealer in the wood and fish trade, they found in a lower kitchen under the shop a large still, fitted in brickwork, Shia appeared to have been recently at work, as it was warm; a quantity of fermented molmem wash, moo, for charging the still for further operation ; several barrel. of yeast, forty large barrels, a small stock of spirits, and the usual fittings of a distillery. A man, found on the Preours, gave th e name o f J o h n Spencer, an d sa id b e wor k e d the lfor his fathe r. He was taken into custody, and eva‘ried to Worsts street police station. The wail' sad E_ lt t were destroyed by the officers, and a van having ."" Procured, the still, stock , and utensils were conveyed to the excise warehouses in Bl:oadatreet, to be adjudicated *Poi ty her Majesty's Commissioners. glit 0301 M. WINDiOR, SUNDAY. Yesterday morning the Queen and Prince Albert took walking exercise in the slope" and grounds around the Castle. Their ItR.HII. the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Princes' Alice, took walking and pony exercise yesterday. H.R.H. the Princess He l ena was taken an airing yesterday. H.R.H. Prince Albert hunted yesterday morning, accompa nied by Count Alexander Mensdorff, and Wended by Lord Camoys, Mr. Amon, the lion. Capt. Boyle and the Hon. Capt. Gordon. Viscount Morpeth arrived at the Castle yesterday on a visit to the Queen. This morning her Majesty and her Royal Consort took their usual early walk. the Royal Family took walk ing and pony exercise this forenoon in the grounds around the Castle. The Queen and Prince Albert, the ladies and gentlemen of the court, and the domestic housekold, at tended divine service to-day, in the private chapel of the Castle. The Hon. and Rev. C Courteniy officiated. A deputation front the merchants and planters of Ceylon, consisting of Mr. S. Gregson, Mr. P. W. Ans. truther, Mr. J. G. Frith, Mr. W. 11. Thomas, Mr. R. Chris tian, and Mr. J. S. Stopford, had an interview with Earl Grey on Saturday, at the Colonial-offic ~ The deputation was headed by Mr. Pattison, M.P. Dr. Ferguson and Sir B. Brodie had an interview with Sir 0. Grey, on Saturday, at the Horne-office. A deputation of the Health or To ens Association had an interview with Viscount ?.1 orpeth on Saturday, at the office of the Woods and Forgets, in Whiteball•place. The deputation presented to his lordship suggestions for the heads of a sanatory bill fir the metropolis. The Earl of Powis and a deputation from the Shropshire Union Railway Company had an interview with the Right Hon. E. Strutt on Saturday, at the office of the Commissioners of Railways, in Great George -street. Despatches were sent off on Saturday evening, front the Colon'al•office, for the governor of Gibraltar. The Bishop of London has appointed Mr. R. Barnby ao gentleman of her Majesty's chapel royal, in the room of the late Mr. E. Hawkins. _ _ The Marquis of Lansdowne left town on Saturday. LADY J. HCASELL.—The illness under which the wife of the Premier has been for some days suffering, has so far abated that alarming sympt nes are no longer manifest. Drs. Righy and Ferguson are in constant attendance on her ladyship. The answers to inquiries yesterday evening were, Lady J. Russell plasod a geed night, and is going on favourably." COUNTY COURTS FOR THE RECOVERY OF SMALL DEBTS IN ENGLAND AND WALES. A supplement to the London datette was published on Saturday, containing two orders in council passed with a view to carry into effect the Act passed last session " for the more easy recovery of small debts and demands." The first of these orders declares that all courts for the recovery of small debts or demands under any previous acts shall be abolished on thr 13th of March next, with the exception of the County Court of Middlesex, one small debt court at Bath, two at Bristol, one at Liverpool, and one at Shef field, which are from that time to be held as county courts under the late act. The second order in council declares that on the fifteenth of March next, the act of last session shall be put in force in every counts' of England and Wales, End that the whole of these counties (including all counties of cities, &c., therein contained) shall (or the purposes of the set be divided into districts specified in the order. The descriptions of the districts are too voluminous for our columns, but we subjoin under each county the names of the plasm at which the district courts are to be held this enumeration will indicate approxima tively the relative positions and extent of the districts. With a few unimportant exceptions the districts named are to be taken to imply the several superintendent registrars' dis tricts, bearing the same names, constituted under the act " for registering births, deaths, and marriages in England." BEDFORD4IIIII-Ampthlll, Bedford, Biggkswade, Leighton Bas tard, Luton. Binssout.—AbingdoN Earring- 10 n, Hunierford, NewborY, Read' Mg, Wallingford, Wanner, Windsor. beektmoussisitian—Ayleabary, Buckingham, Climham, High Wy combe, Newport PagnelL C.abarimumaim. —Cambridge, Illy, March, Newmarket, &them, Cawintas.—Altrinchain, Birkenhead, Cheater, Congleton, Hyde, [numbed, Msecleafield, Nantwich, Nortbwleb, Runcorn, Stockport. Conirersi.—Bodmin, OusehM, Falmouth, Helton , Launceaton, Liskeard, Peasaixe, Itedrutb, St- Austell, Rt. Cciumb Major, Truro. Cuiessaaaan. —Alston, Carlisle, Cockermouth, Kercck, Pnuith, Wbiteharen, Wigton. DIRSTIMIIM—AItretan, AsMourne, Bakeweit, Helper, Chapel -eli te-Frith, Chesterfield, Derby, Gionop, Wirksworth. Dwrommuse.—Amioner, Barnstaple, Bideford, Crediton, Holarearthy, Horace, kinesbridge, Newton Abbott, Oakbampton, Plymouth, South Holton, Taristock, Tiverton, Torrington, Tanen. Dossirranias.—Blandlord, Bridport, Dorchester, Poole, Sbafteabtu7, Wareham, Weymouth, Wimhortie :Minter. [icem W.—Barnard (Nestle, Bbhops Auckland, Darlington, Durham, Ci l'ita, = erl a Shaky Bridge, South Shield., Stockton-on tagtinir &sm.—Braintree, Brentwood, Cbebnsford, Colchester, Mimeos, Misdeed, Harwich, Malden, Rochford, Raeford, Saffron Walden, Waltham. ca. —Bristol, Cheltenham, Chipping-Sodbury, Chen. ester, Dusky, Gloucester, Newent, Newnhara, North Math, Stow, Stroud, Tewkesbury, Monahan., Wischcomb. Homeless.—An dover, Alton, Baslogvtote, Bishop's Waltham, Christchurch, Fordingbridste, Lyraln, Newport, Peterstield, Portsmouth. Roomy, Sosittossuptan, Whotcr. 11/Wolll3ollM—lirom7ard, Hereford, /Goitre, Ledbury, Leo minster, Sam linavconmaz.—Bamet, Bishop Stortford, Hertford, Within, a B. Altana, Watford. rtoootaunm.—Huntingdon St. Scot's. Knev.—Ashford, Bromley, Canterbury, Dartford, Deal, Does, Faversham, Polk...tone, Gravesend, Greenwich, Ilythe, Maidstone, Margate, Ramagate, Rochester, Bonney. Seven Oaks, Sherman blittherbourne, Tenter fen, Tonbridge, Tunbridge Weths. Lstrosinam—Aalstamunder-Lyne, Blackburn, Bolton, Burnley, Bury, Charley, Clltherae, Cane, Poulton. Oarstang, Haslingden, Wartime, labellattf, Legit Liverpool, Manchestev, Oldham, Orme kirk, Preston, Rochdale, St. Rekll . l% Salford, Ulverstone, Warring tan. Wigan. Imicsensiuseraa.—Ashby.da-M-iouch. Hinckley, Learner, Lough borough, Lutterworth, Market Bosworth, Market liarborough. Mel ton Mowbray. LINVOI-NoMM—BAutarea Humber, Boston, Bourne, Brigg, Chis tor. Gamboroolfß. Onolithroa, Great Grimsby, Holbesch, Hanicastle, Unman, Louth, Market Nana, Siseford. SP•iding, Spnaby, 'Murton:l Mronaasnx.—Brentiasd, Dionsikos, Uxbridge. hlngeraus Muursartur Duran-le.—Westminster, Brampton, Msunetwara atibrawsktetaredite Bow, WhitechaveL Mansionssass.—Morpmeq, assroUsr, Monmouth, Newport, Pamtl it P oos i s ti=;&.lll6 ton Ilszttst, Bast Dew balk Dwllaime A 26... Irskinibsra, Du* Wel ' Um. Ihrwhib. wprasims. Clog Yamielli. Neassuarressmwriseddig, whidin i towwdkilmiam. aleTlat ilmul= 74.611 =aa le'Lli Woolor. . Norrnsetuamma.—ltinghsea. Best Retinal. Haaglekl, Newark, NottLew" Warbler. 011OlDWI RL—wry, Blassirs, Chtpglee Norton, Oxford, Thome, Witey, Woodstock. RINLANWHIM—Oakham, U Motoresim.--Blekeps eags aillPaarth. elcohnlT. Drarion. Ludlow, Hadrian Newport, Omieslay, Asbury, Wem, Weinng. ton, Whitchurch. SOMERAirralillte—Bath, Bridgewater, Chard, Cluttol, Crewkerne, Prom', laWmport, Taunton, Wellington, Wells, Weetensuper-Sfare, Wilßtoq Wincanton. &forma...sum —Burton-on-Trent, Cheadle, ILinley, Leek, Lich field, Newcastle-under-Line, Oldbury, Rugeley, Stafford, Stone, urtoteter, watrall, Wolverhampton. Sivivie.—Beccirs, Bury St. Edtuuodt, Eye, Emmlingbam. Had. kiffh. Halesworth, Haverhill, Ipswich, Lomond; Miklenhall, Stow market, Sudbury, Woodbridge. Scaaay.--Cliertsey, Croydon, Dorking, Epsom, Farnham, God. abasing, Guildford, Kingston, Reigate, Wandsworth. Southwark, Lambeth. Suroax.—Arundel, Brighton, Chichester, Cuckfleid, Feet Crinatead, Malaga, Horsham, Leona, Midhurst, Fetworth, Worthing. Wag on, Attierstone, Birmingham, Coventry, Nuneaton, Rugby, Solihull: Southam, Stratford, Tamworth, War wick. IsmoarLiso. Ambleside, Appleby, Kirkby Kendal, Kirkby T.a Wimantn—Bradford, Caine, Chippenham, Derima, Malrombery, Igarlbeirougb. Melksham, sallabury, Swindon, Tembridp, War 'Wafter, Westbury. unammaxaa.—Brommarore, Drottwich, Dudley, Err:sham, Kidderminster, Pershore, itedditeh, Shipston, titourbndge, Tenbury, Upton, WOlCOlter. rOlOOlll. ((tam Riding).—Beverley, Bridlingto. Groat Heil'- . field, Heaton, flowden, King/too-on-Hull, Pocklington. lORK.IIIt. (West Riding'.--Barnsley, Boston, Bradford, Dews bury, Hammier, Goole, Halifax, Holnifirth, Huddersfield, Kelghley, Kaareaborough, Lambs Oiler, Pootefract, Ripon. Rotherham, Saddle worth, Selby, settle, shefikid, Skipton, Thorne, Todmorden, Wake field. Tiara/mar. (Noma Rust...)—Esalugarold, Helamiey, = 7 n, Melton, aiton, NorthaUerton, Richmond, Scarborough, . Think, Whitby, York. BRITKNOCAIMIXI4 Bteckeork, BoUth, Criekhowell, Hay. CAULMAIMILZASKIII.--Caermarthen, Llangollodirwr, Liandoresy, Liansfly, Neweantio In Roslyn. C.N.aIVONMIIM—Baagor, Cara/men, Conway, Poennadoo, beti. CM4/110.1.1t1U.—Abgerayroo, Aberynwith. Cardigan, Impeter. DC.IOIILAIIIIIL —Denbigh, Llannest, Ruben, Rabin, St. Maph, Wrexham. ---- Fuserntir.—Holywell, Mold. 01.00.0.141111... —Bricgesd, Cardiff, Merthyr Tydfil, Meath, Maarcrevneesum.—BaJa, Oonres, Doirmni. Yokrookbarroork—Lbudyllin, Llueknoem Moebyolletb, New tons, WeleMpooL Preorrokosaum.—llarerkedereek Narbertb, Pembroke. Itomme.—ProMelgo, Ithaidr..,_ THE OVERLAND INDIAN MAIL. The Overland Mail from India, via Marseilles, did nut reach the offices of "The Combined" till Saturday morning, more than taw days after the despatches brought by Lieutenant Waghorn's express had arrived at the office of the Daily News. The intelligence unscrupulously trans. hared by our rivals from our own to their columns ; so com pletely anticipated the Marseille!. Express, that our rivals thought it not worth while to print a Bangle line of its contents. Even the Standard, which has the command of on all occasions of the Morning Herald's despatches, was con tent on Saturday evening to squeeze into an obscure corner the following modest paragraph : Ins OVVILIAND Mao..—The overland mail has arrived m due nurse; but the intelligence it brings has been already published. Provincial papers from all pert) , of the country have reached lus, containing the Indian news, iu which the source whence it is derived is honestly set forth. The Dublin papers in no one instance neglect that courtesy. Ono of the newspaper agents having forwarded a copy of the Daily News to the Coasimander-ux•Ctief of the Forme in Ireland, the following acknowledgment was promptly letursed : Bard 1i53064 fl 3, Clouser bane Twelve, u. The 'aide4l•4o.b wag Is &idol is return ai Edward lidakesey's bast tbrbis be Ns. MIMS it lle esertem In forwarding bins as captor copy Oahe DeoPy Naos. It is to be regretted that the London weekly petal in every instance save two (the Weekly Chronicle and the Weekly Tinsel) have been less scrupulous than the provincial edi tors, and have, like the daily paper*, omitted to state that they are indebted to the Daily News for the important Indian intelligence which they have adopted. It is pos sible, however, that the artful petty larcenies of the morn ing prints may have mystified them on the subject. THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 8, 1847. MARYLEBONE VESTRY. REPEAL OF THE RATR-PAYI NO CLAUSES OF' TIIE RE trona Acv.—On Saturday, Mr. George Daniell, at • meet ing of the Vestry of St. Marylebone. the Rev. Dr. Spry in the chair, brought up a return, which bad been moved for, of the number of persons omitted from the list of borough voters last year, consequent on the omission to pay the assessed tun, pour rates, and other onuses, rendered com pulsory by the rate-paying clauses of the Reform Act. The return showed that the number of persons dis franchised for non.payment of assessed taxes was 1,032; for nonpayment of poor's. rates, 334; on account of rates being compounded for by landlords, 1,448 • , and females, 1,950 — total number of houses in the panel; of 101. Mums' value and upwards, 14,017; deduct as' ineligible to vote on account of being compounded fur, and being females, 3,398 ; and also deduct disfranchised for non payment of poor's-rates, 334—it left the actual number out of which the 1,032 persons were disfranchised for non-pay ment of assessed taxes, as 10,R4S.—Mr. Daniell said, that by the return he had presented, it appeared that one in every ten of their fe low rate-payers had been disfranchised through the operation of the assessed taxes; but more particularly oa account of the odious window duties, which he contended government ought to abolish. — He moved that the return be entered on the minutes.—Mr. Harbert seconded the resolution, and said the assessed-tax coil, eters were greatly to blame for so large an amount of disfranchisement amongst the people.—Mr. Grange, as a commissioner of *messed taxes, defended the collectors from the charge of doing all they could to disfranchise the rate payers.—Sir Peter Laurie certainly considered the assessed tax collectors did not do their duty properly, and he had himself nearly been a victim to their irregularities. They all knew that on the day the Queen went to the City, ha (Sir Peter Laurie) had command of the city cavalry. Her Majesty's tax-collector had selected that very day to call for the assessed taxes; and because he (Sir P. Laune) was not there to pay, in a day or two after he received a notice from Somerset house, threatening to put him into the Exchequer. (Laughter.) He made it his business, however, to go down and remonstrate with the authorities of the Tax.office and they hail been very quiet with him ever since. ( hear.) The Vestry Clerk then brought up and read the report of the delegates appointed as a deputation to Lord John Russell, with a view to obtain a repeal of the window duties, which, after enumerating the various districts repre sented, and stating the names of the delegates who sccompa nied the deputation to the Premier, on the 29th ult., pro- seeded to Mate that CLERGY ORPHAN CORPORATION. A general court of the governors of this institution was held on Satur day, at the Freemasons' Tavern, fur the purpose of receiving the treasurer's statement of amounts, to appoint the officers of the institution, rod to r lect sin boys and nee girls into the charity. The Lord Bishop of Barbadoes was nominated to the chair, and the treasurer having read the statement of accounts, which was unanimously passed as perfictly satis factory, the other business of the meeting was gone through, after which thanks were voted to the chairman, and the meeting reparated. A CHARTIST LEADER IN TROUBLE.—Mr. Stewart, who wan tried at York with Mr. Feargus O'Connor, is new in Lincoln gaol, charged with having married Min Caroline Harrison, of Lincoln, his first wife being alive in Scotland, whom he married in 1837. _ _ • REPORTED CHARGE OP NIURDER.—The apprehen sion of Captain Kerr, of the barque Lavenside, for running away front the ship, off . Folkestone, with two caskets of dia mond., and other pvcious stones, valued at 3,3001. who was examination at the Mansion-house, on Wednesday) has created considerable interest among those connected with the shipping of the port of London, more particularly on its being known that government had received notice from the British Consul at Rio Janeiro, to the effect that the accused was suspected of having murdered one of the crew while on the barque's outward passage from England. The Secretary of State, on the receipt of the communication, gave inetzuo. tions to the commitsioners of police to institute the necessary inquiries on the wieet. The principal portion of the crew were taken before the Crown solicitor, at the Treasury, who carefully interrogated them, and the subjoined facts were elicited. The ship, ou her departure from England, took out a cargo of coals for Patagonia, in order to take on board guano. On reaching Gibraltar, however, the Cap- 1 tabs violated the instructions of the owners, by disposing of the coals. and entering into a speculation with a Jew of that port, to trade with miscellaneous articles to Cadiz and elsewhere. Two supercargoes were placed on board the barque •S a temporary protection over the property, the understanding being that, u soon as she had discharged her freight at Cadiz, they would be returned to their homes at Gibraltar, both being married men, and having large fami lies. The ship proceeded, as was thought, on a soya.. to Cadiz ; but for some reasons, after their touching that port, her course was altered, and she was steered for South Ame rica, taking with her the two supercargoes. The men implored Kerr to set them at liberty when she re-started, which he peremptorily refused. One of them became an object of much sympathy, and evinced the deepest grief on leaving his wife and faintly for so distant a land. At last:he manifested symptoms of aberration of intellect, and une night, in a very excited state, he jumped overboard and was drowned. The ship was brought to, and attempts were made to save his life, but to no purpose, the unfortunate man having almost immediately disappeared. It was gaffs factorily shown to the Treasury solicitor, that it was the poor fellow's own act, and that the captain did not throw him overboard, as described by the other supercargo on his arrival at Rio Janeiro to the British consul. (I Dm dsingates appointed hiving elected Mr. G. Daniell as their chairmen, proceeded to Downing-street, and bad an Interview, by With Lord John Russel', as First Lord of the Treesury. derpte ware Introduced by Lord Duman; and to the outset of the preseallap lard John Russell waa asked by the chairman whe ther It was kb wish that they should go over the proofs of the in justice, iniquity, and injurious effects of the tan on the health and morals et the esualry, or whether be would let the subj ect rest where It was lett be Sir Robert Peel laid year, with the admissions et the.. Das ; sill that his lordahip allowed It to rest them silittlag that my Lord Gorman had proved hi, cue. That the dakesia litim wended to point out But it is in the highest &Wu VI Da the poperty of Ireand should oe exempted from histWeik whisk Odd Great Britain is subjected, whilst, to make up the alder y, the heemboltless d}helm% an colic' upon for the additional asestad et Ills most unequal, =just, and impolitic tam (Loud dielmq.lie dr wed that the eilemptka of Ireland from the pro perty awl limegehins, emmeed tams, sal maim duties on carious articles etre rdesamydes, sad the dregs on the consolidated tend be Da st hi* es well as the ateorp- Man et gee et the tithes by the landed ~elm ef sa mak burden upon all 01 .. 4 4 p nil k =inny wpmllB nearer dames in this c o unt r y ; be end y Masted ca as repeal of the windowdan as allegedly ascemary In mimed= with the sanitary measure which the iromrsinent were about to inambete; declaring it would lead to a doubt of their sinewity in rehears be thews mamas, if they refused to take the me aim*" alp reenamerkd sasealy in the apart of the many ammbeilea, Mika sement et the t ministry bed etteehei Oak Emma, ot medlar • het MI L. health nal resale; nwirks Lord John Rene Oat my realika7 measure set esempended by this repeal, weal he ressedea merely es a men in the spasm centriduaties lir the yawn et pationage, and not es Mimed ke the public geed. Oa this - .Wee! air Benjamin Hall aka the attention of the Premier to the made to which thh tan acted is plembeee en the defective asminestlen Me sweets etaiderable number et hams vide& li b : u nmet( la year et this mischomos alba. Mx. Roebuck, Me. Mostermsm Ur. Pankan, Mr. Hume, De Ley Evans, and Me. Williams, Me Lard Damen, all supported Os Mews of the deputation, se did also Man. Walker, Creme, Oman, sad others, pointing out the aril malts el the tan, and or tits acres •ity for its repeal; and Lord John Russell soured the deputation that the subject should be considered. That he feared that If the tax should he repealed, OthCll, would he found equally ahnoalous, but that he would consult his colleamice, and give It his deliberate conadletstion. INQUESTB.—SATURDAY.—DEATH IN THE MILL BANK Poison.—By Mr. Bedford, in the Millbank prison, on the body of William Stance Kennett, aged 22. John Richard Groves, the governor, said that the deceased was tried and convicted at the Northampton sessions, on the let of last July, of stealing some wearing apparel, and sen tenced to lb years' transportation. He had presioualy been convicted. He was reared into that prison en the 20th of July, and he died in the infirmary on the 4th instant. He had frequently been punished previously to entering the infirmary. On one occasion he was kept on bread and water for talking to • prisoner after having been Ml timed. On another occasion be was placed in the refrac tory ward, and kept there three days on his full rations, for refusing to work, and threatening to cut his (witness's) liver out. Oa another occasion he was placed in the refrac tory cell, and kept on bread and water for two days, for refusing to draw his pewter and laughing at the officers.— By the Coroner The punishment was inflicted by witness, and the deceased did not complain at that time of illness.— Wm. Head, one of the warders, said that he had charge of deceased from the 10th of November to the 13th of December. On the latter day he placed his name in a book to see the doctor, and he was then transferred to the infirmary. The deceased 'entered in good health when he first came under his charge.— W. Bailey, physician to the prison, said the deceased had died from consumption.—Verdict Natural Death."— Reviles! or FORTUNE.—On Friday afternoon, by Mr. Bedford, at the George, Carey-street, Lincon'a-inn-fi.lds, on the body of Thomas Rolx rts, aged 65. It speared that the deceased had for some time past slept in those wretched casual lodging places in which the inmates are crowded to gether in dark unwholesome rooms. He was totally desti tute, and apparently friendless. Wednesday last, has land lord observing symptoms of dissolution, endeavoured to re move him to the King's College Hospital from Wild street, but the poor man died, during his transit, in Vere.street. Upon his person heaps cf duplicates, some dated as late as the 31st ult., were found, but not a farthing in money. Mr. Baker, the beadle, said that having observed the address of Mr. Virgo, solicitor, on a scrap of paper, in deceased's pocket, he inquired of Mr. Virgo concerning him, who said that deceased had been an eminent architect, and possessed large property in Cheltenham, but of late • reverse of for tune unaccountably took place, and he was reduced to desti tution. He also stated that his daughter, the widow of a Corsican officer, enjoyed a pension of 8.51., and lived some where in the metropolis. Mr. Stephens, house-eurgeon of King's College Hospital, having given his evidence respect ing the post-mortem examination, a verdict of " Natural death" was returned; but the jury at the same time ex pressed it to be their opinion that want and exposure to the inclement weather hastened his dissolution. Kr. Daniell moved that the report be adopted and entered on the minutes ; and the resolution having been seconded, was carried unanimously. _ _ ENGLISH lierrlLLEns.—Sir,—The liberal principles which your paper has always tulloaited, and the candour you :nice shown in inserting answers t n statements made in your journal, induces me to stud the following letter, though opposed to the sentiments expressed in an article in Friday's paper, upon the subject of British and Colonial spirits. Some part of those observations apply to the English d,stillers who are opposing the introduction of the new customs' duty bill. I wish, therefore, to correct the impression given in your paper that their opposition is based upon illiberal and selfish grounds. Now, I conceive the very essence of free trade doctrines, as applied to this subject, to consist in putting the distillers' trade of this country upon an equality with the foreign and colonial, as regards duties and fiscal pressure, levying such extra duties only upon the foreign and colonial manufactured spirit as will, as nearly as possible, balance in money the difficulties and duties inflicted upon the home manufacture which the former are not subject to. The excise regulations under which the English distillers work, occasioning so much waste and expense, are conceived to be necessary for the collection of so large a duty as 300 per cent. upon the value of the material; but whenever the legislature see fit to alter these regulations, so as to relieve the British distiller of any part of this expensive burden, the East and \Vest Indies would then be entitled to a corn• spending reduction of the differential duty. I think you must acknowledge that you have fallen into an error in referring to local advantages which the British distiller enjoys, as a set-off to hislegislative restrictions. The object of every manufacturer if perfectly unshackled, is to price himself in the most ad. vantsgeous aituatioa, enabling him to supply the public with his commodity at the lowest possible cost, and you surely would not advocate the doctrine of levying an extra duty upon that individual for the purpose of enabling a worse situated and more expensive manufacturer to compete with him. I, therefore, in my calculations throw out of the ques tion all considerations of this sort, and apply myself only to the direct taxation and legislative interference, weighing upon the English distiller which does not weigh upon the East and West India colonies. I now proceed to give you the calculation upon which the English distiller grounds his claim for a larger differential duty than the 6d. per gallon, which the new Customs' Duty Bill proposes, and as this bill is bro4ht into the house under liberal cohorts., I hope you will assist in preventing the stigma of injustice being attached to the free trade =mural of the present administration. The torn-laws not being entirely abolished, I, in the first place, estimate their enhancement of the price of British spirit at Id. per gallon. Secondly,—The actual amount of malt duty which the distiller pays upon the quantity of molt used in his distillery is equal to lid. per gallon. Thirdly,—The Excise restrictions are calculated to weigh upon the distiller to the amount of 4d. per gallon. Fourthly,—The advantage glean to East and West India rum by paying the duty upon what goes into consump tion, instead of whit is landed in the first iusturce, is by the returns of the Custom-house within a fraction of 31d. The English distiller, on the contrary, pays his duty immediately on the production of the spirit; being allowed nothing for decrease by waste. The excise-ofilcer being obliged to impose the highest of three gauges taken during the progress of the manufacture of the distiller's spirit. Filthly,—The malt distiller is not allowed to complete his spirit fit for consumption, which he could do at a very little additional cost, he is obliged by law to send it to the ex pensive establishment of the rectifying distiller, where it is prepared for the market. This additional expense has been variously estimated by the rectifiers at from id. to Bd., accost ding to the extent of their establishments. Supposing I take the medium 6d., and halve this, allowing 3d. for the difference of completing the spirit for consumption on the distiller's own premises instead of the rectifiers, the calcula tion will stand thus: -- • Par O.U. Enhasmasat by corn-laws Malt du* Allowadiel. Wadi Wank 4 we r ilmeires r bold — .Tar diners Legbialhe as Midi - daft set la psed sante sad by dlstlibee Daseserat °teat by lerielaore la sallkation. ...... 3d. 131 d. I feel that the foregoing calculation will fall very short of what many better acquainted with the subject than myself would estimate the distiller's Weal advantages to amount to. I am, however, anxious to give you *calculation which will bear the closest scrutiny even by the advocates of the new bill, and i feel confident that the above can be fairly and truly substantiated. Though this letter is exceeding all bounds, I must give you Oae instance of the pressure of the excise regulations. The utmost a London distillery is at present capable of making is 1,000,000 of gallons, but only remove the single regulation which prevents it from brewing and distilling at the same time, and the same distillery weld make 2.000,000 gallons at almost the same expense of iahoar and no additional expense of premises. This restriction alone causes the distiller an extra expense of 5000/. or 90001. alear. Remove all restriction, allow the distiller to use and mix any material which produces saccharine from any country duty free, and he is prepared to compete with the whole world upon equal duties lou blame the distillers for making common cause with what you call " the fag end of the old Protectionist party." 11'ow, though I have the greatest respect for the men and measures of the present government, I am not so much of a party man as to wish to sacrifice my own, or I hope anybody else's property, to a rapidly taken up and 'mistaken notion of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. I beg to observe that, though I may differ from the political opinions adopted by Lord George Ben-' thick, nobody will deny that he is essentially capable of taking a clear view of a question of this nature, investi gating closely the grounds of the calculation so as to detect any mistake or endeavour to deceive. If such a man can distinctly and accurately show to the house the error it is likely to fall into, by adopting the Chancellor of the Exche quer s bill, surely you cannot blame parties whose interests are so deeply concerned as the English distilled are. for seeking such legitimate interecisioe.—l rennin, yours, Le. ---- . . . THE LATE. REV. Ma. IfEWLETT.—Sir,-1 wish to correct an error in your paper of this day. Ina short notice relating to the affair, of the late Rev. Mr. Hewlett, you state, " You have learned with much regret that Ws wife and large family have been left, &c." I beg to inform you that Mr. 11. had been a widower some }tars, his wik haying died prior to his going to reside at Starahridge. This makes the case much worse, his large family, principally girls, being now left orphans, and, I believe, totally unpro ildmi for.—G. D.tria.—Abingelon. Fah. IRELAND. DUBLIN, Fro. 6. It is a strange phenomenon in our state that dis tricts which announce in one post comparative abun dance, or at least a check to the progress of misery, in the next fill us with details of horror. All is calm on Monday, and on Wednesday the scroll of the pro phet is unrolled, and woe is recorded within and without. Another singularity is, that the week begins in silence and ends in dismay. The inquests always crowd at the close. One fact is, however, certain, that, notwith standing the greatest public and private exertions, the famine—for it is really a famine—is making way. Bantry had been generously relieved; bat, when food grew seam again, death set in. On Tuesday LA fourteen inquests were held in one day, and in every cue the verdict was " Death from starvation." The relief committees of Cork have resolved to give one meal a day of plain and wholesome food to every object of relief, until eitherthe workhouse be re-opened, or until the ministerial measure comes into operation. They have also humanely arranged to give a ration of eight ounces of cooked Indian meal in three different parts of the city, to be consumed on the spot. This judicious course will effect much good. The wicked spirit indigenous to Tipperary has again manifested itself in outrage on a public officer, and a great number of persons thrown out of employ ment. An overseer was attacked on Wednesday morning last, within ten miles of Nenagh, and his head severely fractured. He escaped from the ruffians into a neighbouring field, and called on some agricultural labourers for assistance, which was refused ! The only effectual mode of check ing such enormity, though the process confounds guilt with innocence, is to make the community responsible for the crime. Mr. Dorgan did the same in the same district, about 12 months since, and com pletely succeeded. The Commissioners of Public Works have pursued the course which provoked such an outcry, but really accomplished much good in ('lace and Limerick. The works were at once stopped in five parishes, and 27 works brought to a sudden close. Eleven hundred men, horses, and donkeys have in consequence been unemployed. Two men have been arrested on suspicion. Application has been made to the Lord Lieutenant, to know whether, under the altered views of the government, and the change in the measures intended for the relief of destitution, it was contemplated that the public and reproductive works already presented at the special sessions, should be abandoned or con tinued ;—wliether, when the sums presented have been expended, new sessions should be called, as the Hoard of Works will not, it is understood, sanction any new work of a public. nature. 'The; following is the answer octhe Under-Secre tarlSsosh an alteration in the mode of affordmg relief will shortly take owe, yet until the arrangements for carrying it into erfeet ran be completed. it is obvious]: remmery that ;moot stao= l,l oald be afforded. It is very desirable that further PIES NI pew emted for maim, for whkh the ALMS already seastiewei anwe ant rased sufficient, and such ether labour prwidsd as will semi ma picryment Inv the next fortnight or three weeks, at alai War penal ;should no unforwen delays Amer, it may be hoped thattbaramr Measure for the temporary relief of destitution will be in operation. The funds to the credit of the poor-law gaardilne are very low in several districts. In some the rate has not been at all collected: in others, the old ar rears have been generously remitted preparatory to striking a new rate. In Nenagh. with 1240 persons in the poor house, there is only the small sum of three pounds to the credit of the guardians. More cannot be received, and yet in this district whi re des titution is so dreadful, where, according to the muter, " the screams of the applicants were terrible," and, according to the clerk, " they are actually starving; I never saw anything like it"—yet in this locality, where a day's work is necessary for the austentation of life, villains are found sufficiently remorseless to peril the existence of a whole neighbourhood by their crimes. The late measures to tifcilitate the importation of food are beginning to be developed. On every side provisions are pouring in and prices going down,per baps not permanently, but still the benefits of a tem porary decline in the present condition of the country are o f exceeding great value. In Belfast provisions have betzn accumulating for several days. Every steamer fe s un England or Scotland imports as a portion of its cargo—lndian corn, meal, or flour. Besides the regular traders, two other steamers on Sunday unshipped a large quantity of food. Besides the coast importations there have been immense supplies from New Orleans, Philadelphia, Nantes, &c. In Limerick and Cork several arri vals of Indian corn are announced. Speculation does not wish to recede from the high prices of last month, but there is a list of the future, which whispers present safety. As yet the fall has been confined to the wholesale trade, dealers in Hour, and oatmeal, &c., asking for a close approximation to the old prices. The price of corn yesterday at the Dublin Corn Exchange receded still farther, but the quantity sold was very . limited. It is now stated that the recent fall in prices was intended by the speculators to affect the American markets, and that now the steamer with the spring advice@ has sailed, the markets will go up again. I know not what truth there may be in this, but I know that moat of the holders of corn yesterday were firm. The sugar market on Thursday, was rather dull. The sales were from 475. to49s. 6d. for ordinary ; 31a. to 535. 6d. for middling : 200 bags of East India and 30 hhds. refined were offered for auction. but taken in. Rice has declined Is. per cwt., or 2s. from the highest figure. FORCEFUL% ON TEI BANE OF IRELAND.—Ia my letter of Thursday last, I stated that forgeries to the extent of 9,0001. in which a house, hitherto con.idered respectable, was seriously compromised, had been discovered. The affair is now made public, informations having been received to-day, and the case assumes a somewhat different aspect. It is as follows :—A gentleman, resident in Carlow, Mr. Clayton Browne, had some time since a sum of 9,0001. bequeathed him. Ile appointed Mr. Lanauze, c s'ockbrokcr, and of the firm of Lanauze and Co., his agent. The latter represented to Mr. Browne that it would be indispensable to the regularity of the transaction that the money should be transferred at the Bank of Ireland to hi. (Mr. L.'s) name and account. To this Mr. Browne assented, ' believing all was right. The interest was regularly paid him, but a few days since, baying occasion for some money, he went to the bank. o make inquiries, but found, of course, that nothing was standing to his credit, and that the sum of 9,0001., transferred to the credit of Mr. Lanaore by him, the latter bad drawn out. Informations were received against Mr. Lanauze to-day, at the suit of Mr. Browne, but he has been admitted to bail. DETECTION OP FORGED NOTER, BANK o IRELAND. — On Thursday, Thomas Jones Atkins, late of Grattan-street, and formerly of Wicklow-street, engraver; Thomas James, of Mecklenburgh-street, engraver; and Henry Fitxsimon, of Whitehorse-yard, printer, were brought before the ma gistrates at College-street, charged with being concerned in the forgery of notes of the Bank of Ireland. The notes forded were dated 11th May, 1844, and 6th December, 1840 A witness named Daniel M•Cormick, of Toomevara, who bad been engaged in circulating the forged notes in various parts of the country, was examined ut much length as to the mode of operations. An officer of the hank of Ireland was aloe examined. The prisoners were committed for trial at the commission. The suite of Atkins has, it is said, been arrested at Drogheda, and a large number of forged notes found in her possession. She so at present in Drogheda Pals PROVINCIAL. Scarcely a week passes but the country papers contain cases of mutilation and death arising from carelessness with tire•arms ; and if a statistical return of such mishaps could be obtained, it would present a very startling re cord of misery induced by implements used for amusement. An inquest was held on the 4th instant, at Basingstoke, upon the remains of W. ; Newlyn, the father of a young family, now thrown upon the world unprovided for. It appeared that he went out to shoot small birds, and had put the loaded barrel of his gun into one pocket, and the stock into the other, when as he was Fretting over • gate the gun was discharged and the con tents passed through his head,blowing nearly half of it away. Another reeeut accident was induced by the same amusement. A retired farmer named Golborne, living between Hertford' and Ware, went with a doable gun into his garden, where he fired at and wounded a buifinch, which, however, he could not catch. Whilst searching a hedge for Iris noble game, an explosion was heard, and the old man was found on the ground dead—A third instance presents itself. W. Jalland, aged 24, a joiner, at Woodborough, described as "very fond of going about with a gun," called upon his father-in-law on business, but with a fowling•piece under his ann. About half-an-hour after he had gone away, the father heard the report of tire-arms, and soon after found his son lying upon the road rolling about as if in great kiwn ; I gun was near him, and blood was running from his side. His only words were, The whole charge of shot is in me ;" he lingered till night and then died. Some of the evidence at the inquest may be given in the hope it may deter others from risking such a late. One of the witnesses said, " I saw smoke coming out of deceased's clothes, and asked him where it came from, but he gave no answer. I turned his coat aside, and said, ' Will, you are in flames,' and he said, 'Am I ? put it out.' I turned his waistband aside, and saw his shirt sopped with blood." The surgeon described the condition of the dying man. The shot had en. tered in a lump, he said, and then spread into his body. He could distinctly feel the shot and wadding in different wt.' of t abdomen. They had entered at the left and had passed to the right side. Is not this paying very dear for the pleasure of shooting sparrows and Imlfinehee ? THE RECENT MINEIXI47OB7/.;;iIATE given rise to much discussion as to the best means of lessening the liability to such accidents. A letter, published in the Alonchestcr Guardian, suggests the connexion of dangerous Ere-damn accumulations with falls in the barometer, The communi cation runs as follows : . . . The hnful ion of life that swab Una filar In our mann demands the serious consideration at all fly ; there fore I am sure that you will charrtany An one Is sleepy a mall space of your publication in dieing any anggreedon whin may Unto prevent It. In my communications with Gnomon imeanshissci ininent bare constantly railed the::: Minim to the literati= ~t andiontied hydrogen gas, or " Dresden, " as It fa usually eallad, en mann foils of the barometer. Mr Me dreadful endmiona Lit= tetallardshire, and nor Wigan, nee both Stith changes in the panne ef the Mearmleme. lu yew mihrems at this day, le aims. et mem lon el tatff whurile lII= it ew coal pit et Ipledla lal/A, mar lassbia. ter. Thiswok*. at Miffed see *Mork on Wednesday ineralne a rlth afro, the time of the greatest depromeloa of the barometer be a nag dm@ post .liimodiately after nothing this sodden demessioa, I mandened to a salestific friend of mice, my fears that we should Mr of meg of ere deep. By reference to your publhhel beremearler= fions, It will be found that the meetly stood every oinideralte height for some weeks. On Tuesday, the Itch alt., at four Vont p.m.. the day previous to the accident, it registered 29'14, whits a twelve p.m. of the woe day, it bad fallen to 21 70. If! ehiscing • tall of 44, near 'Wren inch in eight hours, and the intalbot ainswat of persoore about the time of the accident. Amens In reeks near seams of coal and cannel, geoerally esuldn Ire damp. When thew strata are opened by ankhld shalls, the this clowned in them on the" dip " or lower the for the most pat =cape, owing to its small specter nig much lighter than common sir ; but It will be conned the rise," or sipper pert of the strata, Jest like gee under a made! in a ppaeenaammaaaqYs nigh by • °Mania of water. :Co long as the prompore Mesrmphmemums the Ise, the pa will meth= pm an in the amines of the rock; hat as me so it dinsisistre, runes • wham of pa, and If peed candles ms red, like that at Ignite Pont, no Wan& intrinmat €lPl ir wager mins than the bowman to the num and Mars looter of a ailing, and sat an eitaMbhment might Is be without one plant mar mu, _wait pt, sod both eves el eel ems might le be ftested seeekelty churn It. I by DO MOM Intend Mat • birmiller simmld dhpeme with poll eratilatios, but tin Imilmilint sidle M he aria ebeerw al. so that the currents of the Mr amen mar pond, may be in. crowed, when be its fall it Indleke • 111 of atracepheric =and the consegoeut Illintion of gas in the none. wire ought alien, to be Own to ventilation whomever the mg nary in the barometer Wpm to fall alter It has imbibed =at e tent height ihr a weedderalle thne. Same will, with the but asesegresem e aemebemilly mem M matesdnen but a great way o f Me moat uedentitedly ma and aught te be premeasi Ise he Me soft cif M Ives et ebeemem, awl he the turn 411 owing =gal te the rem, erred by milledlem eillketes. every mutton aft met; end, seleftly the Idling enema of pierkelag te 7emehilly ebewetz4! a tiremaidar . tee enght a zit s fsr • moment to Anent= Drain 7110 K STARVAIIow has aceumed in Uverpool. The victim was a yang child, the sea ef an Irish pauper, who came recently frees Sligo. An impost was held on Friday; and some conversation that occurred between the coroner and the parish surgeon, illustrates the condition of the poor in that neighbourhood. The father of the deceased had, since he arrival, about five weeks ago. been subsisting upon the soup and other food tickets issued by the parochial authorities. On Sunday week his wife, with the deceased and another child, arrived. They were very badly off ; a few days ago they removed from Brick-street to a cellar in the Park thermt, end on Tuesday I morning made an application for relief. Mr. Temkin, the relieving officer, suited the parties immediately, and was shown what he at first supposed to be a bundle if raga, but which was decened. The child was found dead in bed by its mother at eight o'clock in the morning. The relieving °Meer gave them some bread, and they have received relief from the overseers since that time. Upon Mr. Gilmour, the surgeon, inspecting the body, he was satisfied that the child had died from starvation and want of food. The mother was half an idiot from the same nem. The jury returned a verdict aceordingly.—The Coroner expressed a hope that the woman would be attended to.—Mr. Gilmour: But I she to nut my patient yet.—Closer If she dies, I shall take a prompt step that will astonish all the authorities at the park and in this town too. You have had your attention drawn to the case, and you had better attend.—Coroner I give ou the woman now as a patient ; and I now give you leg al notice that she is in your district se parish surpreon—that the ie ill, and in want of the necessaries of life. No person with two eyes can go into that miserable cellar, but must see that she is now half an idiot with want of food. —Mr. Gilmour She is naturally stupid. Coroner If she had the smell of • beefsteak half a mile elf it would bring her to her lenses, I think. I hope sir, you will order her some beef and wine.—Mr. Hiknour intimated that he had power to give either beef, or wine, or spirits, if pees • miry, and would do so.—The jury exonerated the relieving officer and surgeon from all blame in the matter.—Mr. Mom produced • handful of tickets, and said that he had all them eases to attend to that night.—Coroner It is morally impossible that you can cult all these cases, and deal with them as you ought to do. It is not sufficient that you should just look round the homes, and inspect the eases. There ought to be more relieving Akers. Mr. Moss said that every case was visited in Torteth Park the same day that it was reported, He then offered to find the man with work, but he refaaed to break stones. The Coroner advised the man is go to week in the morning, observing that if he could get a couple of *billion by his day's work, it would cheer his wite's been. The jury sub scribed a trifle for the relief of the banj!e. __ . . A LOSOS Sex or MONET, isllllllo 051. nam and 100/. in gold, was (LE:Jeered by the cof Liverpool in the possession of some suspiaious eteurasdera taken into custody for riotous conduct. The Rumba's of all the notes ranged from 16,520 to 16,534. &max Man.—lt is stated that the mills in Wigan, which a few weeks ago adopted the short-time system, es• not likely to continue it much longer than the present week. Wokar.stEnnit Tea NINETEENTH CIINTORY !—A Scams IN RURAL ENGLAND LAsf WEEK.—The Worcaster Herald contains the following particular, and remarks :—" A gentleman waa riding from Redditch,to this city last Sunday morning, and, by way of diversifying his route, turned off down Oomehill lane, intending to come through Himbleton and Crowle. The way is a solitary one—one very little frequented, and, to any one riot in the habit of following the hounds as this gentle man is, very uninviting by reason of its roughness and dirt. He came upon an encampment or two of gipowi—the only fitting ocenpant+ of so lonely Is spot—and sauntered on, scaireely expecting to see another individual on his ride. Suddenly, however, he descried a large crowd of persona at a distance, surrounding a large horse pond by the side of the road, and his first impression was, that an accident had happened, and they were seeking to get somebody out of the water. Ile quickened his speed, and presently was at the spot. About a hundred persons, principally of the lowest grade of our a;ricultural population, were there gathered around a she et of stagnant water, muddy and filthy in the extreme. The ice bad just been broke from its surface, and in the middle stood a man, with his coat off, nearly up to his arm-pits in the filthy finial. Many others stood a's° in the water, ex tending from the banks in a line with the chief actor in the scene, and, to his astonishment, this gentleman saw him take them one by one in hls right h cod, and, lifting his left above their heads, pronounce their Christian manes and then these words, " Having authority from Jesus Christ, 1 baptise you in the name of the Fatter, the Son, and of the Holy Ghost." And then he dipped them so that the fretting, muddy element completely closed around them, and it might be seen Waning in is copious stream from their months and nostrils at they were br eight up again to a standing position. They were then left to clambs r up the bank as best they might, and with streaming clothe+ and gasping for breath, they ran across the fields to a thatched cottage at a little distance. It was not m-n sour who submitted to this nauseous operation—several women were immersed, and amongst the numb. r, one who appeared to be between 60 and 70 years of age! When the master of the ceremonies was putting her under the water, t e lost his hold, and had some difficulty in bringing her up again, a circumstance which caused a loud laugh from some of the spectators. The grin communicated itselt to the countenance of the dipper himself, but, checking the coming smile, he waved his hand and said, " Peace, my beloved brethren." • speech which caused • repetition of the laugh. The parties who underwent the ducking were entirely clothed, excepting that the men took off their frocks or coats and hats, and the women their bonnets and shawls. Six or seven were treated in the manner described during the time that the gentleman stood looking at the scene. He inquired of one party near him, and who was more respectably dressed than any of the nit of the crowd, what was the meaning of what he saw, and the man replied, with indignation, "If 1 had my way, I'd duck that fellow himself over head and can. They call themselves Latter Day Saints." When the gentleman rode away, some twenty or thirty appeared to remain for immersion, the water seething with mud, and becoming blacker and thicker at every fresh dipping, yet the mania seemed to be increasing, and some of the labour ers, who appeared only to have come as spectators, were strirping off their frocks, in order that they might receive at once the comfort and the blessing of the dip. The question somewhat naturally occurs, how is it that these things are going op close at our doors, sad yet remain un known save from the very accidental fast that a gentleman riding out of his road lights upon them ?--We have since heard (continues the Worcester Herold), that this is not a singular occurence—that numbers of this sect are to be met with in the neighbourhood of Astwood Bank, aadthat scenes similar to the above arc not unfrequeutly to be witnessed at !-tudley Pool at four o'clock on a frosty Sunday morning. Hall r+llllth. REPRMENTATION Or WINCHE,TER.—A rumour i+ pre valent in this city that Mr. J. B. Maid dots not intend to become again a candidate. Pm $3nS. DRITLSH LNISTITIJTIDN. The private view of the spring exhibition of " modern masters," at the Britala Institution, took place on Saturday. The exhibition is one of average merit, but the value and importance of the works produced are unequal to the number of competitors and the interest which art is creating among us at the present moment. This, however, is not the fault of the directors. They had a large harvest to select (nun, sod in a prefatory notes " regret the neces sity of returning four hundred pictures from want of room." If a column is opened for " artists " when our next Popu lation Return is made, we shall see a large and an alarming increase. Every year adds extensively to the catalogue of exhibitors pictures become more numi roue; but meritori ous works of art are scarcer than ever. Of the 543 pictures of which the t xhibition is compneed, nine are by members of the Royal Academy, and eight by associates of that body. This is somewhat unusual ; and we congratulate the Academy on keeping away, and thus affording a large field for the young and the less experienced. The royal onadtmicialishaye walls of their own and c;in can. mond places; and the young man who has hardly a fair chance at the Academy, may look with something like cer tainty at the institution for a good poaition—not fur six or seven rictures, but for one at least, and that one, whatever he may think, is pretty sure to be the best. The influence of the institution is great, and their rooms limited. The re jected complain, and, it is said, will exhibit on the;r own account. Every artist likes to have his work seen ; every poet an opportunity to appear in print nor ran the directors of the institution in their good will towards art wish the rejected from their walls to surfer in silence. We wish to see them exhibit on their own account ; make an appeal to the public ; and have the judgment of the country pared upon the wisdom of the selection. We have nu (ear for the result. In an exhibition where fifty will hardly gave 643, what must the rejected 400 have been like ? An instance of oversight, perhaps of prejudice, might occur, but not I enough to atone fora whole exhibition of atopifying medio crity, or sufficient to brand the directors of the institution ' with prejudice and neglect. In the prnent exhibition las:ideate-a abound, but none of a high or poetic character. Mr. F. R. Lee has lour, Mr. Crawl& two Mr. Bright three, Mr. &Adele's Wee, Mr. Linton two, Mr. Simeon owe , and Mr. E. W. Cooke cis. Mr. Lee's are in his usual told and careful style, such as custom has taught us to expect, and from which he has very little chance, we fear, of ever getting free. Mr. Creewick, in " Shallow Streams" (No. 54), has tried a higher flight, and a new manner of treatment. The composition, we may observe, is exquisitely true, and Mr. Cresoick has given to those shallow waters which Marlowe has commemorated in enduring seise: By Mallow elvers to whore his Melodious btrds slog madrigals. But the colouring is too green and blue ; and nature, which should govern all, is sacrificed to a system and a chance effect. Hr. Bright excel* in broader touches, and copies nature with a tine sense of the harmonies of colour and arrangement. His " Welch mountain scene, autumnal cloudy weather" (No. 67), is truthfulness itself. The mist is creeping perceptibly upon the hills—you can see them gradually tieing covered, and a cloudy atmosphere stealing over a piece of lovely Welch scenery. This, to our thinking, is the best picture in the exhibition. Equally excellent a a smaller picture by the same artist, " An old Water-mill at Ifiley, Oxfordshire" (No. 317). Here there is no "nig gling" or timorous expenditure of pin's-head touches upon trees and chimneys; but the pencil has been employed boldly, and with a proper confidence, the artist being connioua that, as he felt and enjoye d, so he could delineate the scene before him. Mr. Boddington is a landscape-painter in the school . or Mr. Lee, with all the ex cellences and defects of his master. His " Village Church" (No. 304) is an English scene, treated with skill and with a good effect. The materials are of a very simple character—a pleasant lane leading up to a village church, with a porch or covered way in front, the body of the church ensbonmed in trees, en d the spire represented in a clear blue sky. Mr. Linton, to whose merit be it said that he endeavours, not always unsuireer fully, to put some poetry:tato what he paints, has one good picture—" The Canspagaa, Rome" (No. 379)—unfortu. nately hang too high, but not too far away to escape notice or repay attention. Of • very different character from Mr. Linton's classic Camps fns, is Mr. SOO - "Drumossie Moor, or the }field of Culloden" (No. le9), representing a &oblate moor—the scene of the last battle that was fought in Britain. The place seems pointed out by nature for some such terrible catastrophe, and Mr. Simeon has thrown a desolate air over the whole com position, and a sky which harmonises with the sad enema, tions of the field. Mr. E. W. Cooke, the last on our list of the landscape painters in the gallery demanding attention, and an old favourite with all who enjoy and appreciate the beautiful in landscape art, has altogether changed hie style, and, without the aid of the catalogue, defies recognition in his new manner. He has paid, it appears, his first visit to Italy. and has returned—not with Italian skies, but composition skies of his own—chance arid not general effects— appearances which have bean and may occur again, but not what is: mixtures of purple, and green, and yellow : skin, in abort, which belong to another and a lower world, and not admissible in this. Of the six (the number Mr. Cooke exhibits) the best is the "Quit of Salerno and Mountains of Paestum, frees Amalfi" (No. 254); and this is the least violent in its Among the subject-painters, Mr. F.Goodall claims the pre eminence for his "Irish C °unship - ( No. 23); not that it exhibits any advance in his an but because the story or incident is told with humour, and the painting throughout (though somewhat brown) conscientiously executed. The scene is the interior of an Irish cabin, and the aeon an Irish lad of eighteen or twenty, all earneatneas and heart, seated on a wooden nib, telling his story, evidently with great effect, to a yeses link girl, seated on the floor, mending or making a net s perhaps, of her own position at the amen& War Mem with a kind of wild delight, and casts a fine pair of eyes eland her with =wing effect. Two children near her rather moist the composition than the story pretty. A barefooted boy in the foreground_ F r potatoes, and sill and linens -' thew' Irish lad who is making lore b. rival sits somewhat in the background, *Mk, ha. After Mr. Goodall we ma who MAI eantlaties to paint flesh as flesh before, and aware of hi, strength t , handmaids, and Magdalene and Graeae ft materials. Mr. Etty bar a tine eye for for fens, and, withal, a rough mane e beautiful. His " MittLilen reading" the story, but they are owed karts that he kr with measiduteet at to his skier, while a err l l'rV . : ,-,,.. ma, with a sullen ryiu• 7 . r, may name Mr. E ~, is w• .., 4 soh wu Dever pu n "!.• , make Haat, out ... 7 .r,„, rra we from very ord' . Oak - . 7 ! •A for colour Ten' h ' ' • ie coriermiion of 4 , it.. 161 • iog" (No. 206), i i • ' . ~..W. IV'. li •••• v ..) A f 7