The Express. — London, England, 1847-03-08 00:00:00

Chridae, and es the anniversaries of the battles of Water loo and fietaigar. T..e receipts of the past year were Loa 44.9.1. BRIDGE FROM WESTMINSTER TO LAMBETH.— Sir S. Brown, of Hetherbyreahouse, Berwickshire, • eaptain in the navy, has offered at his own expense to con ferral and maintain a suspension bridge acre* the Thames tuns Westminster to Lambetk, if he can obtain the autho rity of perliarnent and permission to establish a toll. An inenhayento the merits of the proposal has been entrusted to Capt. Vetch, of the Engineers, who has entered upon the invesegetion, with the assistance of Capt Washington, oae of the Ttd d Herbour Commissioners. The estimated cost, iaeludins structure, approaches, and the purchase of pro- P~y, is 90 000/. Sir S. Brown contemplates the erection of the bridge in two years from its commencement. Ma. DENS AND MIsS BURDETT COCITS.—Mr. Dann, since his incarceration in the Queen's Bench Prison daring t h e p a st week, bas written to sir George Grey, the Secretary of State fur the Home Department, complaining of having been put in what he calls solitary confinement, being placed in a mem by himself. Ile has also written letters to fat F. Thiele. r for the Tenn which he contended on the vial gave him the authority to draw on Mira Burdett Coutts, demanding to know why they were detained. Mr. Hum- D eem to whom the letter was referred, replied that they Aimed the grounds of the criminal proceedings, and they would be detained wile's a judo, or the court, ordered them to be returned; and on Saturday Mr. Dunn wrote to Lord Denman on the subject, an he intends to issue a writ of error. At his trill, Mr. Dunn subpiretied the Bishop of London, Colonel Rowan, the Commissioner of Police, and other per sons of note and station, to prove Miss Burdett Coutts's hand writing. OPENING OF NEW OXFORD STREET.-011 Satur day evening, be order of the Commeueoner • of Metropolitan Improvemeee, the thoroughfare from the east end of Ox- Med-street and Tottenham-court-reed into Holborn, was thrown opal to the public.. The buildings have all architec tural froarejel, and, with souse taw exceptions, are com plete!, many of them being open for businme. Tha roadway k rasaukuss.e 1, and about 70 feet in width, with a foot pavement on each side 12 fret in breadth. FRF.NCHFnsexAsoNs. — In an announcement of the opening of • lodge of French freemasons it was stated that ladies were admitted of the craft. This is an error, whirls the president of the lodge has written to ns to correct. All that to dose here is in imitation of the lodges in France, where Lai.% are sometimes invited to the banquets of free- SIMMS, alter the business of the day Is over. THE NEW MODEL PRISON, CLF.REENWELL.—This prison will be ready for the detention of persons remanded hem police-olEcee, and committed for trial, on the 25th instant, and will be used for this purpose only. There are one thousand cells, se constructed that persons under detention will not be able to hold communication with each other. M. SOPER AND HIS CHEAP Sour.—A correspon dent of the Gardeners' Chronicle writes that his cook has been making some of Sayer's soup. " I can," he says, " testify to its goodness awl palatable flavour. In truth, it is • much bitter soup than we oft. n get at our dinner tablet. I have had made two gallons, precisely according to the re esipt, to which end I directed my teivant to purchase lest *young, in Bath, all the ingredients, and to give me a note *Me cost of each article, so that I may be able to give my =neightrours in the country, as well as my 1111TaUltfi, not only s plate of it, but the mode and espouse of making it, which I know they will be delighted with. To a labourer, with five children, such a comfort. able meal, at so low a cost, is reall a Godsend. M. Boyer merits every gratitude. It cost S id., not estimating fire. Hat the articles been purchased in larger quantities, M.Soyer's estinaatewould have beenarrivedat, viz. 6d."--A writer in the Weekly Chronicle. on the contrary, denies that M. Soy es can be considered a poor man's soup, from the expensiveness of the utensils which he prescribes for making i. The IVeekly t l / 4 roniek apostrophises the artist thus: " You are the gentleman's artist, not the poor man's wok. The poor man has no time to brown onions in a fry. ing.pen, tied to snake liquid pastes in stew pans, in order that he may manufacture soup ate:rodent erten?. How many stew-pans do you think there are in Skibbereen ?" This writer forgets that the proposed - soup is not to he made by, but for, the poor, in well-appointed kitchens, which form a very , essential part of Soyeeeinvention. INTER-MORAL BURIALS.—We learn 011 good au thority that government have prepared a bill to prohibit in terment in the churchyards of 1 urge towns and populous districts. The greatest and most disetheing national nuisance of modern times is likely, therefore, to be sooner abated than was expected.—Sinulay Times. CAPTAIN WARNER'S INVENTLOSS.—A long Corre spondence has been published in the Molting Post between Captain Warner, Lord John Russell, and Corumetaioners Chads and Chaloner, relative to the inventions of the former. The two commissioners appointed to examine the " long range" of Captain Warner have reported to Lord Jobe Rowell " that the difficulties attending, end from the com plicated nature of the mode of operation, and the uncer tienty of the precision of aim, the invention ef the long range' cannon be made available for the general purposes of war, and we beg further to remark that the principle of action will always be discovered on the first exhibition." In reference to this report, Captain Warner complains that the sp chosen for the experiment was a most unfavour able one, being in a bowl of swampy load, and that the wind and the weather were against him. He repeats the expression et his firm conviction that hi, inventions possess all the merits be has always attached to them, and are capable of producing the results which he led the public to expect from them. lie offers to repeat the experiments at any time Lord John Russell may eppoint. The noble lord informs Capt. Warner that her Majesty's government do not think it ne cessary to make any further experiments to test the value of his inventions. Finally, the narrator Ole, a to appeal from the decision of the government to the public. "I am now prepared," he says, to try the efficacy of the long range in the face of my country—that country to consiet of members of parliament, men of science, and accredited delegates from the leach, g pub is journals." THE COLLISION NEAR GRAVESEND.—The efforts of the Whieenide smack-men in raising the sunken wreck of the schooner Rose, run down on Sunday last by the Royal Victoria, have proved most successful. They succeeded, alter mach lab our, in chaining down six smacks to the wreck ,and on Friday she was lifted and carried about a mile to the river. She there grounded, and the flood on Saturday morning car ried the smacks and their burden on to the k.assex shore at Shell-haven, where there is little doubt all her cargo, a most valuable one, will he saved. Her appearance, externally, forcibly shows the fearful character of the collision, her lar board bows being cut down nearly to the keel. the deck torn up to a considerable extent, and the foremast carried away. Captain Webber, the master, who was saved and takeninto Leith by the stem rnereetunied to Londnn ton Friday. • MAN AND HORSE DROWNED —On Saturday fore noon, a di Deming accident took place at the GrainfSarrey Canal Docks, Itotherhithe, by which a man and a horse lost their lives. Between ten and eleven o'clock, John Smith, about forty years of age, went with • timber-carriage and three horses to the dock, for the purpose of getting a load of deals. In order to get the carnage to the wig of the dock, the man unhitched two of the home., and sets backing the one in the shafts, when the animal backed further than it ought, and the carriage fell over the bank into twenty feet of water. The deceased, who had hold of the reins, I was polled in with the horse. The animal, AP the carriage drifted about, struck Smith a violent blow. Mr. Mackinnon, thesuperinteudent of the dock, gave orders to have the water searched, but upwards of an hour and a half elapsed before the body was found. It was removed to Rotherhithe parish dead-house to await a coroner's inquest. EMBEZZLEMENT BY A COLLECTOR OF CITY DUES. —On Friday information was forwarded to the police stations that Robert Albion lellowes, who had filled the responsible situation at the Custom House of receiver of wine duties, had absconded. He is charged with having at various times embezzled monies to a large amount. A reward of 1001. is offered tor his apprehension. The amount of his defalcations a said to he nearly 7,0001. The discovery took piece under the following circumstances:—ln the thane of the year 1846, the gauger of the City of London, who is appointed by the corporation to gauge all wines that arrive within the port of London, and who is paid the sum of 4d. per tun, made a large demand, which fur exceeded the amount that ought to have been paid on the duties paid in by the cellcetor to the Chamberlain. This le4 to an inquiry, and a committee was appointed by the Court of Common Council to inquire into the matter, on which an application was made to the alleged defaulter to render an account of the monies which had been paid to him. The collector refused to do so, on which he was suspended, and a gentleman of the name of Scott was appointed protein. to his oleos. The inquiry, during the period up to the 11th of last month, pro ceeded, on which day Messrs. Burn and Selson ' who had been appointed, brought up a report, and in which they re commended that proper legal proceedings might be adopted wicist Robert Albion Fellowee for embezzlement, as they friend that the gauger's charge for gauging fur 1841, at 4J. per tun, amounted to 439/ , and as the City dues were 41. pet tun, it showed 5,2681. ought to have been paid into the office ' of the Chamberlain, whereas only 3,358/. had been received, thus showing a deficiency of 1,9101. for 1841; the deficiency for 1842 was 1,73-41. ; for 1813, 1,7491. ; end for 1844, 1,8181.; that they also found that the yearly re of wine im ported into the port of Lenders was 9,003 tuns, or 17, 000 pipes, and that the defalcations in round numbers were up wards of 1,8001. a year. The report was referred back to the committee to amend, which being done, has led to the present proceedings. FIRE AT CLERKENWELL.—Yesterday morning, at • few minutes past three o'clock, a fire broke out at No. 22, Arnwell-street, Clerkenwell, in the occupation of Mr. L. Tani., publisher. It commenced in the lower part of the bantam, and was discovered by the police constable. The en gines of the parish, and London Establishment, with Mr. Colf, the district foreman, and an neape of the Royal So ciety for the Protection of Life from Fire, were early at the scene, and nn time was lost in setting them to work, but notwithstanding the vast bodies of water scattered into the premises, the flames continued to progress moat fearfully, and at one time the residence of Mr. Gee. Cruikshank, the artist, seemed in danger. The firemen laboured until nearly five o'clock, when they at length got the mastery over the fire. By that period the whole of the back portion of the house was consumed, and that which remained in the front was severely injured. The two adjoining house., in the ozeupation of Mr. Geo. Cruikshank and Mr. Eveeard, baker, have sustained trifling injury. The origin of the out break is unknown. EXTRAORDISAY EXPLOSION AND DESTRUCTION OF ?earner v.--On Saturday night an explosion occurred in Randall's-buildings, Saliunanca-row, Lambeth. It appeared that between ten and eleven o'clock the inhabitants of the travail surrounding streets were greatly alarmed by hearing a strange noise. At the same instant the whole of the win dows, shop-front, doors, and stock in trade belonging to Mr. Parebrother, general dealer, of No. 1, fLandalriebuildings, were hurled Into the street. Some of the neighbours IRELAND. sobered inte the ruins, whet they found Mr. Farebrother M a . al Illa bait in the parlour covered with rubbish and epseMbele. As soon as he recovered he stated that der he bad experienced a strong smell of gas, and Ilia liven solies of such to the gas company, but no person bad leen lest se look alter the pipes that are laid down ma is Md. From an inspection since made it has been ucer timid that one et the mains had become leaky, and the =ring escaped had entered the premises of Mr. Fare , and hence the disaster. INQUERTS, SATURDAY. DESTITUTION.—By Mr. Gast, at the Pitt's Head, Grange-road, Bermondsey, on dka body of James Leary, aged 3 months. A most frightful e was presented to the jUry, upon their going to view r i ml no tab .up; Th e roo m fe, no food wee bare; in and e f one ne o u r nure corner it was ha bed luil A. Menerthy stated that the deceased child had been . placed in bee OM for the last five weeks. The mother was going to service, and she (witness) suckled it —The Coroner : Had you any other children ?— Witness : Yes, I had one at the breast, and three others, and my husband was ill in bed.— The Coroner: What had you to support you ?—Mrs. Ma earthy: I had nothing from my husband but 31. sines Christmas, and then had the 4s. a week for this child. —The Coroner: Had you sufficient food?—firs. Ma- earthy :I had a little coffee and cold water, and some dry bread, and that did for me and the chiller. Evidence having been given that the deceased had died from convulsions, the jury returned a verdict of " Natural death." The coroner commenced a liberal subscription, followed up with good feel ing by the jury; and an amount was raised which will keep the toor nurse for some weeks, until her husband gets better.--- EFFECTS OE GODFREY'S CORDIAL.—At an inquest held on Saturday, before W. Payne, Esq., respecting the death of a child supposed to have died from the effects of Godfrey's cordial, the surgeon (Mr. Hooper) said that the article named was of a most d.mgerous nature, and thousands of children were killed annually by the Itieuf it, which was adminivered innocently by mothers to their offspring. It was a concoc tion of opium, aniseed, and treacle, and was given to children by persons ignorant of its poisonous qualities. The coroner observed that the leas of lift was certainly most frightful, for a short time since, he saw a document, issued in October last by the registrar-general, which proved that in Manchester alone so fewer than 14,000 children bad died in seven years from the us, of narcotics, suffoca . Oen. neakete As. Mr. Hooper added that Osslfrey'a cordial wee Reads ray by every chemist and druggist in London.— ALLEOED DMA= THROCOH CONFINEMENT IN A STATION- Moues.-0a Saturday evening, before Mr. W. Payne, at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, respecting the death of Samuel Linda, aged 76. Oa Saturday, the 6th of February, the de ceased took out a book fir the purpose of sehing it, and going to • the shop of Mr. Prettyman, bookseller, in the Poultry, offered to dispose of it for Is. 6d., when the latter having lookil at it. without saying a word, went to the door and calling in a policeman, gave the deceased in charge on suspicion of having stolen it. He was then—it being about three o'clock in the afternoon—convesed to the station _ . . . .... house, Bow-lane, where he was kept in custody till the Mon- day, when, on being taken before the Lord Mayor, at the Mansion-house, and proving that the book was the gift of his son-in-law, he wd liberated. His appearance at that time was very dejected ; he seemed almoat doubled, and was obliged to be assisted home and placed in bed, when he com plained of the pains he had suffered in his stomach and limbs through the cold while locked up in the station-house, and said had he been there another night he was positive it would have killed him. He further said, that at tire station hens* be was roughly treated, and even his snuff and Is. taken from him, and that during the whole time he was there he had only three cup of coffee and two thin sheen of broad and butter, for which 10Id. was deducted. The coro ner said. such mei no these required a public investigation. The chief thing to be regretted was, that the deceased was an innocent man, but even if he had been a thief he was not to be plated in such a situation. The jury coincided with the remark of the coroner, and the case was adjourned. PROFESSOR SCIIONBEIN KNIGHTED. —The Swedish Ambassador at Paris has notified to Professor Schonbein that his sovereign has conferred on the philooophir the honour of knighthood, in recognition of his invention of gun cotton. We happen to know that this distinction possesses a large share of Its value in the eyes of Dr. Schonbein from his belief that it has been conferred at the suggestion ot Her zelius—and conveys the opinion of that great chemist as to the merit of the dtscovery.—Atheneum. MINE EXPLOSION.—SEVENTY LIVES LOST. BARNSLEY, SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 6.—A fatal explosion of fire damp has taken place in the Oaks (or Ardsley Main) colliery, worked by Messrs. Firth, Barber, and Co., under the estate or royalty of John ?dicklethwaite, Esq., of Ardsley Howe, near this town. The shaft of the colliery in question is situate about a mile to the east of the town of Barnsley, and is a prominent object of notice to tra vellers passing from the Cudworth station of the Midland Railway to Barnsley, being situate on a hill on the left-hand of the road, about two hundred yards on the south side of the Deane and Dove Canal, mud about mid May from Bari a ley to the railway station. The explosion took place about three o'clock on Friday afternoon, at which time it is sup posed that there were from nini ty to a hundred persons at work in the mine, but owing to there being no account kept of the number of hurries and fillers employed by the pickers or getters of the coal, the actual number at work is difficult to ascertain until all parts of the pit have been ex amined, The main shaft of the pit is 28.3 yards in depth, and there is a second shaft, chit fly used for the purposes of ventilation, situate only a few yards distant, but there is no other opening from the surface of the earth into the work ings of the mine. The workings extend about 300 yards in a southern direction from the bottom of the shaft, and they extend to a width of about 230 yards. The precise cause of the accident is not known, but it is conjectures that the explosion was occasioned by a sudden influx of fool air from a " fault" or " throw," which the getters were approaching, but which in some parts had been crossed by the excavators, and which had caused a " disturbance " or up-rising of the seam they were working to the extent of about five yards. Each la bourer was furnished by the proprietors with a patent safety lamp, but it was a common practice for the men to work at their " basks " with lighted candles wholly unprotected, the mine generally being considered to have a very good draught of air through it, and to be not overcharged with sulphur. The pit has been in working about three years, and about a year and three quarter' ago there was an explosion which caused the leas of three lives, by a workman putting his lighted candle to the "waste." The explosion, on the present o Mien, was accompanied with considerable violence. ehe shock at the mouth of the shaft of the pit was so great, as to force some corves, which the banksmen were landing and wheeling, out of their hands, and also to force up some of the iron plates at the margin of the shafts, which had been laid down for the more convenient moving of the laden come thereon, but fortunately all the men at the bank escaped without injury. Two men were at work in the air-pit, which, as above stated, is only three or four yards from the other, and one of them was killed. Eighteen men and a boy, it is stated, were brought up to the surface alive, but most of them were severely injure ), havingbeen both bruised and burnt by the effect of the explosion, and one of them, a man named James Galloway, was not only much bruised and burnt, hut had his legs broken. Another man, named John Haigh, died this morning of the injuries he had received. Alter these had bees raised, some time elapsed before any of the dead bathes were got out, as it was not deemed wife to descend the shaft immediately. However, before one o'clock 1 this morning, about 42 dead bodies had been got out, all of them much blackened and burnt, many of them having compound or simple fractures of the limbs, and some of them so much mutilated about the head and face that their friends had difficulty in recognising them ; indeed, in one or two instances, their identity was only made out by some peculiarity in the mend rag of the shoes or stockings or trowsera, or some other articles of dress. It was expected that all the rest would be got up in the course of to-morrow. I understood that the coroner had fixed Monday morning for the commencement of the inquest. It is impossible to depict the gloom which this explosion, one of the most fatal that has occurred for a long time in Yorkshire, has spread over the town of Barnsley and the neighbourhood, where the frieodsof the sufferers reside. DUBLIN, MAucx 8. Emigration increases. From the inland counties shoals of small farmers are hastening to the ports ; and if the tide flows as strongly for the next three months, with a sufficiency of transport, the diminu tion of the secondary class of farmers will be felt very perceptibly. The Nenagh Guardian states, that from one district 400 persons are already moving to the coast. Some are flying from the dreaded future in the shape of distress, providential or proprietoriul, while others have fairly contracted with the landlords for the surrender of their lands, and been treated with kindly reciprocity. One Tipperary gentleman offers a fluctuating rate, between 3/. and 101. per acre, for the surrender of all farmsheld even on tenancies at will. Backwood discipline might have a beneficial effect on the hot blood of Tipperary, though, it is to be feared, much of the turbulence will remain. Another question excites considerable ferment—the procuration of seed. The resolve of the government to supply seed only for green crops is unpalatable with some. A writer in the Leinater Erpress suggests that the government should extend its operations, and give either seed, corn, or the prise to farmers,their payment to be secured on the fu ture crop, and to constitute a charge having priority over the landlord's claim for rent, and to be in like manner ' recoverable. There would be little wisdom on the part of the government to accept such responsibility, but if the same terms were offered to private parties, and a short bill were carried through parliament em bodying the principle of priority, all that is now re quired from the government would be accomplished by private speculation. No seed will be given to the small farmer on credit so long as the landlord can fall on the crop and absorb it for rent and arrears. The county of Wicklow grand jury has forwarded a petition to parliament in favour of " a plan of sys tematic colonisation," and the application of the crown lands in the colonies to the uses of the emigrant. They do not say how far they would co-operate with the government in giving effect to a system from which they would derive such great advantages. Of course, " it is peculiarly the province of the state " to do for them what they ought but what they will not do for themselves. The Cavan grand jury also looks to the " province of the state " for emigration, rail- THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 8, 1847. ways, &c. ; but the state must abandon out-door relief and such like intrusions on property. The landlords clearly arc all for themselves. As an illustration of the electoral system of rating which is so very popular with landlords and unpo pular in towns, the guardians of the Killarney Union have just struck a rate. On the electoral division in which the town is situate the rate is 2s. Bd. in the pound, while in the other nine divisions which com pose the union the rate varies from 7d. to 12d in the ' pound. Another instance of the oppressive effects of the present system of rating is contained in the Limerick Reporter of yesterday. The guardians of the Limerick Union have imposed the enormous rate of Gs. in the pound on the borough, which fm me in itself an electoral division. It is, of course, difficult to discriminate between the amount of po -city, in digenous and adventitious, but there can be nu diffi culty in conceiving that the rural proportion must be very great, as in seasons of acute distress towns and cities are the great points of attraction for surround ing poverty. There are few readers of the Express who do not know something of the destitution of Dungarvon. The name of that town has frequently been connected in my communications with misery, destitution, and death. I rejoice that I have now to join the name of Dungarvon with abundance, the fruit of industrious exertion. A considerable portion of the inhabitants are fishermen ; during the winter season those poor men, owing to the inefficiency of their beats, tackle, and gear, were idle —they were obliged to pawn their nets: a little benevolent exertion enabled the poor men to rely use the latter, and the weather having become milder they were enabled to go to sea. The' result has been that in five nights last week the fish taken realised 8001.. besides affording the men and their families a wholesome abundance of food. Mr. Sheil, their representative, has recently sent a canto of eorn to his constituents, so that Dungarvon must be free from the pressure of famine for some time. THE POOR-LAW COMMINVION.—It is now Undergood that Mr. Twisleton, at present at the head of the Iri , h depart ment, is to be the Chief Commissioner, on whom, in con junction with the Chief and Under-Secretaries for Ireland, will devolve the responsible arrangemccte of the anent d Poor law Commi-sion fin Ireland. IttINH POOlt-Low.—lt opp. ass from a return just laid be fore parliament, ' , hat ot the 8 million of Irish, aboua 106,000 were inmates of poorhouses in the last week of 1846; the houses having been originally destined to contain 94,000. The average cost of maintenance was two shillings weekly per head. CULTIVATION or THE LARD.—The following important circular on this subject was leaned today : " llublia Qrstle, Much 3.—Sir—Pam directed by the tent lieu tenant to request your attention. and that of the relief cenunitts e over whic'i Sou preside, to the great importance of eecuring, by ell possible means, the Joann diace cultivation sod merino ot toe land, in order that the country may be saved from a recurrence of famine in the amides year. The people should not be allowed to indulge in the idle hope that the presets: system of relief, tither by means of public employment or by orruitmos distribution of hod, can Is perpetuated. The only merino by which another famine can be awned is by endea vouring, during the prevent season doming, to secure future produce from thesoil. IlisExceilencv ha- obverted that the niunber of persons dolly employed on the public works tins of late rapidly increased; and he has also learned that many have been admitted OR the relief lists, who could not he considered depeadent on public employment for their support. lie IMAM, therefore, that immediate eteps may be taken for a revision of the limo of each committee, and that all who can by any other MOMS procure suhetstence for theineelve" and their Taulbee, as well as thane who, holding land, here tailed to take any stave for ate cultivation, may be immediately struck off those lists. Three are many , istricts when the farmers find a difficulty in procuring lab tuners to enable them to carry on the spring work. In such localities• the committee should refuse employment rn the podia works to the able-bodied la bourers who hare Mown their unwillingness to reek other employ ment. But the larger close are those who, bring themselves holders of land, would be enabled in many instances, while one of the family is receiving relief on the public works, to pro, ide for the cultivation of their email holdings through the other members of their family. It would be proper, in this case, to refuse relief or einpnyment on the piliblie works to those who neglect the cultivation of their farms. fill LIICOURIIty feels that he cannot too strongly impress no the minds of the relief committees the vital importance of using everts exertion, during the present month, to preide against that want in the sue cooling year which must of neves...4 ensue, if the land than he tell waste and unproductive.—l have, he., Ac., T. N. IluuseroN. OF/leaks AND GENTLEWEN. The Cork Southern Reporter of Match 4th contains the particulars of an outrage by some cavalry officers upon a brother officer, which, if toe details be quite true, it would Le difficult to match in the annals of e ease vulgarity and unfeeling" sno , •bishliesa." The officers of a cavalry regiment quartered near Cork, by some conventional arrangement amoosist themselves, have deter mined that none but scions of aristocracy shall hold commis sions in their corps. The son of a professional aentlernan recently joined too corps, and every species of miselvet and petty annoyance has been practised against him. On one occasion, having first induced him to join them in a des op libation to the merry god, they pulled his bed out of his quarters, and kicked it about the barrack.square, and when they bed sufficiently amused themselves with this most gen tlemanly sport, they left it there and walked off. On ano.her occanon—that of a champagne supper which he was to give them, they determined to make him drir.k deep, and then cut off his mustaches and whiskers, blicken him face, and while in that state perform sundry aristocratic freak". Fortunately, the confidential servant of thin inex perienced young gentleman got some intimation of the pr .- ceedings which were in contemplation, and having pieced his master on his guard, he evaded the annoyances by using the wine placed before him very moderately. This so annoyed some of the exclusives that they threw a great quantity of his furniture out of the window, and proceeded to cut up . his clothes, boots, &e. Having destroyed his clothing and property before his face, they wine into the tarrack-yard and piled his furniture op in a heap, after which they ran a train of powder from the mess-room to the quarter of the young officer, which they fired for the purpose of filling the plum with smoke. It is stated that their conduct was reported to the proper quarter, but the matter was subsequently hushed up. STATE OF THE COUNTRY. ___ _ The markets are not rising. This is a pleasant considera tion ; the more so as the speculators prognosticated that they would, and had, no doubt, adopted measures to realise their prophecy. Yesterday, on the Dublin Corn.exchange prices could with difficulty be maintained, though there was a manifest effort to force an advance in the limited quantities offered. The corn on vale yeaterdaywas very small of any description, but even for such qualities as suited for seed, nothing more than full prices could be obtained. The markets of Cork, which have so large a circle to exhaust them, maintain the reductions recently occurring there, and nine vessels laden with corn—the fire of the spring arrivals from foreign ports--having come to hand within the last three days, they are not likely to advance. hue, we may hope OF future prospects are brightening. The Tipperary r indieator, i n noticing the destitution which prevails throughout that county, deplores the "al• most total neglect" of preparation fur the next harvest, The land is, in a great measure, untitled, and the writer calls upon the landlords, if they would " save the country from famine and themselves from beggary," to stimulate their tenantry to cultivate the land, and to provide them with seed, that the land may not lie waste. The accounts to-day from Kerry are of the usually afflicting char ,eter, In Kdgobbin, on Saturday last, 'wren dead bodies were committed coffinlem to the earth; and in the same parish a Roman Catholic clergyman, on his visit to the sick, enter, d a cabin in which nine persons of one family lay sick of fever, and had not the attendance of sae human being. A child lay dead in a cradle in the house, and the clergyman believes that the sick are past recovery. in Dingle, where the workhouse is Pubsidiary . to that of Tralee, 85 paupers have died in the house during the last three weeks. Outside the mortality is greater. The corpses are left exposed in the churchyard, until s one person is found charitable enough to cover them with earth ; and one instance is mentioned wherein a father and son lay unburied—the former for eight, and the latter three days. Three vessels arrived at Dingle on the Ist of March, provision laden. SCOTLAND. EDINBURGH, Miacu 5. The Entail meeting held here yesterday, at which the Lord Provost presided, and which was attended by a number of influential parties, was probably the first of a series of similar meetings which will be held over the whole country. The entail system of Scotland differs from that of England in being more directly perpetual—heritable property being susceptible of crescent ad in . finitunt at the simple will of the owner, without any compact with his successors whatever. Different relaxing statutes have been passed for the maintenance of widows and younger branches of families, and for a minimum of agricultural improvement to estates so fettered, but the distinctive features of the system remain un changed. The advocates for alteration contend that on economical grounds traffic in land sLould be placed on the same footing as other commodities; that, in particular, the law of entail burdens a proprietor, at the discretion of his predecessor, with the sacrifice of the first three years' rental for the support of colla teral heirs—a burden which he, as a mere life-renter, has great difficulty in providing for; that from the same cause he cannot borrow money for improvements, except at an exorbitant rate of interest—that the system is fruitful of litigation, and, so far as Scotch cases are concerned, forms most of the appellate jurisdiction of the House of Lords — and that, finally, so far as the community at large are concerned, it limits the productive power of the soil, and gives to landed proprietors a method of eluding their creditors at death which no other kind of pro prietor can by possibility possess. Up to 1830, when the last register was made up, the number of entails recorded was 1,531. Since then they have been increasing, and at the present moment some 3,000 individuals monopolise the ownership of the whole soil. Usage is in its favour, and the sympathies of the legal profession, bat the example of other countries, and the great names in our own, who have recorded their opinions against it, joined to the altered state of feeling consequent on the repeal of the corn-laws, all point to its extensive modification, if not entire re moval. PROVINCIAL. REPORTED STOPPAO6 07;17. liftue.—The utmost consurnation was caused in Rochdale on Saturday last, by the announcement that the great anti-corn-law Bright's mills were closed ; and on inquiry, it was found the hands had been told the mill, would be closed for a time-- some say a month or six weeks—and no time fixed for open ing 'gam --Menthe:ter Conner. WEST RIDING MOVEMENT AGAINST THE GOTERNMENT MCASURE or EDUCATION.—The Leeds Mercury of Satur day says: "The agitation against the measure of government gains in strength and activity every uccessive day. During the week, meetings have been held in this town, and in Huddersfield, Bradford, and Wakefield, at which resolutions strongly condemning the measure have been passed, and petitions founded on the same agreed tn. Meetings are arranged neat week for Halite:, Rawdeu, Airfield, Farsley, and Bradford (a teird meeting); an active and well-orga nised committee having also been formed in Sheffield, lto therham, Otley, Settle, and other towns, which will take under their charge the surrounding townships in their re spective Is calities, there is the prospect of a string resistance being manifested by this part of the country, before the proposed grant of money can reach the House of Commons." DEATH FROM THESEASSING ON A RAILWAY.-011 Thursday nieht a fatal accident occurred on the Hull and Bridlington ltailway. The usual train, which leaves Hull at 6.30 p m., left a few minutes past its tune for Bridlington. When it arrived near the Cottenhain station, the driver thought he saw something fiy off to the roadside from the front of the engine. He immediately shut off the steam and reversed the engine, and as SOON as the train could be stopped an examination was made, when the body of a man was found jerked into a ditch by the side of the line, quite dead, sad between the rails another sufferer was lying, also dead. The man who was first found had his bark broken by the buffer. The skull of the other man wu completely cut in two, the wheels of the engine having pasoed over him, and his legs and arms were cut off. The sea& rat is supposed to have been caused in the following manner: The deceased were trespassing upon the line, and at the time a luggage train coming from Bridlington, which the men knew to fie coming towards them, and which it is supposed drowned the noise of the passe-ger-train which was behind them, and the men, to avoid being run over by the luggage-train, stepped on the ethi r line of rails, ant were almost immediately knocked down by the passenger train. ----- REPRESENTATION 01' WALLINOPORD.—A meeting of the electors of Walltuglord is about to be held to decide on what steps are best to be taken for securing a repreeentative in the event of the retirement of W. J. 13Iackidone, Esq., the present M.P. for that borough. REPRESENTATION OP EAST CiILOCCRSTMLAIIIRE —The Mira Journal animunces that there is a rumour that the Hon. F. Charteris will again come forward for the eastern division of Gloucestershire, and will receive the support of the free trade Couverrativas as well as of the liberal party. KENT. Toe CANTERBURY ELECTION.—Mr. Twirien Hodges, it is understood, will come forward as a candidate for the re presentation of uanterburv, in the room of Mr. Bradshaw, who died on Thursday. Mr. Wilkinson, chairman of the London and Croydon Railway Company. aed Mr. Nnnn, ere also spoken of The contest at the last election wan a very severe one, Mr. !lodges being defeated by a majority of seven votes only. The constituency comprises about 1,800 voters. Lord Albert 1). Conyngbam, brother to the Marquis of Conyn •ham, has issued an address to the electors of the city, declaring himse:f a candidate. His lordship was • returned by that constituency at the general electioei in 18.33, and again in 1837, but vacated his seat early in the • year IE4I, m eons, queues of ill health. Throughout his parliamentary career he was a supporter of the liberal' muse, and an ndvocate for the principles of free trade. We append cis addrss: tacntle en,—The demise of your late respected member having made a vacancy in the representation of your city, permit me who am an old friend, to solicit the high honour of again representing you in parliamcut. My political opinions, which formerly met with your approbation, are quite unchanged. I am still a tacitly supporter of those measures tending to the advancement of civil and religious liberty. Should I again become your representative, you will find me closely attending to my parliamentary duties, end always snivel,' einployed In promoting, to the utmost of my ability, the general and individual interests of my fellow-et/Mena. I trust that within two or three dam I shall arrive In Cmterbury, slid personally solicit the honour of your auffrages.—l remain, &a., &DWI' D. CONVN(111411. A correspondent at Canterbury says :—" I do not know anything certain respecting the Conserrative movement at present. It is said that a high church partisan, named Nunn, to to be their man; and it is has also been reported that Sir Brook W. 13ridat s, Bart., would become their candidate. We were to have had T. T. kludges, Esq., but some arrange ment, which I cannot explain at present to you, has taken place, and Lord Albert is deemed the best candidate to con test the seat. Canterbury is a clear place. We have so much of the " old.leaven "—freemen, who will vote as Swiss soldiers used to fight. The cathedral influence is also considerable." FSL't. TIM MURDER OP A POTICEYAN AT DAGENBAIL—The government has, at length, i,uued instructions for the pro secution of Serjeant Par.ons and the other police-constables belonging to the K division, for the grow perjury committed by them, in their evidence hefore the coroner, et the inquest on the body of their comrade Clarke, who, it will be remem bered, was found in a corn fi LI, must savegely murdered, on the 28th of last June. For some time past the inhabitants of Dagenham and the surrounding districts hose been far from satisfied with the conduct of the authorities in allowing the men to remain so long without Ming prosecuted, and leaving the matter in doubt as to whether or not they woald he indicted at all. All uncertsinty, however, on that head is new removed, Mr. Moule, of the Treasury, having received directions frost the government to prosecute, and this day (Monday) the indictment will be laid before the grand jury, at the assizes at Chelmsford. During the week several parties connected with the government, and also Scrjeant Kt ndatl, of the detective police force, hove been actively engaged in g tting up the evidence on behalf of the crown. Mr. Lewis, the coroner for Essex, who held the in quest on Clarke's body, and the various witnesses who were examined by that functionary, have been subpcensed by the governm nt to be in ►ttendance at the Assize-court. It is generally understood that Stevens, who has ever since the inquest been in the receipt of a weekly sum of 10e., will not be included in the bill of indictment, but will be admitted as a witness ou behalf of the prosecution. UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS. prstas.—The . Viee-clumilkes Prim ipseponitions b! prpe and eons, at the aprlse esensismentstt, Ines been awarded L/al low :—/n Rindiela Prese: I. Mao Deamell, B.A. Sch.; P. Young, 8.A.; W. E. Hearn, B.A. Sch.; W. Manila, B.A.—ln Greek Verse: T. R. Webb, Red—ln Ladle Vane: T. E. Webb; P. Mac Cioskey.— In English Verse: Mr. J. C. Kenny; IL F. Brookes; T. E. Webb; Z. Thsubjects for Tim-Chancellor's Prize Compositions at the Sam mercommencement are- For Graduate: In Gres k, Ltla, or Endish Pewee, "Retionalieen oppoed to Reason."--For Coder.Groduotes In Greek, Latin, or English Verse, "Poland." tompo*Plons with Befi t/OM signatures to be rent in to the Senior lecturer, on or before the Ist of June. Bishop Berkeley's gold medals for Greek hays been awarded to W. Nesbitt, B.A. Sch., and A. Ryder, 8.A., Sch. Mc dap+ appointed :or the general examinallon of the students in Triiiity term are: For Senior :.ophisters, April II and Id; Junior Pophisters, April .9 end 20; Senior Freshmen, April 2e and 27 ; Junior Frodunen, Aped 29 and 10. PREVERIIRNTIRCV. J. Beckwith, to Hall's Sacramental Lecture ship, Norwich. Rev. J. F. Binge, to Stomfordham V., Northumber land, dio. Durham; 574/. with nvldence; pat., the Lori: Chancellor. Rev. H. Blaney, to St. }:bbc's C., Oxford. Rev. G. L. p o rnm, to Littirmore, co. and dio. Oxford. Rev. 11. Darnley, to St. Mary's C., Ulverstun, Lancashire, dio. Owner. Rev. T. Jackson, to Bedford Chapel P.C., Exeter, 1361.; polo., Trustees. Rev. W. Smith, to Uxbridge C., Middlesex. dio. Loudon. VAC.C.IIO4 - Rilrhedyn It., Cartnarthenshire dfo. St. Inorid's; 1921.; put., the Lord Ch.dwellor ; by the death of the Rev. B. Lewis. Ovine= P.C., Northumberland, 1611. with residence; pat., C. W. Binge, Ern. Mickley P.C., 551.; pat., W. B. Wrightaoa, E 44. Northumberland, dio. Durham; by the promotion of the Rev. J. P. HMV. NAVAL. The speech of Mr. Wood spear tle Neeryllistirootee, hem been followed by the Issue of • parlimmenrj ppm stating a copy of the circular wait to the authorities of die Mimi lard naval yards. TM. docu ment displays in detail time Omar Ilee ourereno in for the future re. (edition of thole astleed efeallikeeemee. The following summary Will ere an idea dere *Ns : New REM' was AIIIMININ es Paoisorsee re area Ma teere's Does sudsier lathe yard are - - to remain very Dearly opals their prowl hake. `fit b i tertian Slllllber of apprestkee inumally, tame mew ere ea be entered, try learderder.vp le the eaperlastadeals Ilk ea the reemriedethe elle yawl elltaka.—ekateme Yr agenethee wet et** tier, ekes deer W bra wahreary, lot MI dr feet vamehe spa the eel& bikeeast. _ EDUCATIONAL Tort.—Doe rri to be shows ID IiSIOSIIIIM6I/0111, where hey relate to eb ikb ea diming erasers; bat me ley is to be wirktel after the Stet of MM. 1511, whe a not alb le rod mad mho wok er wbe bee of Ireowk.bre of rettlertle. 7M her =SWIe be beanie est byre surnarairt. the Met . limierts, la the mark of Mary Is my ; W throe be Mar Is • wires teat M re loord Star ree ar lee myrommeitim,—the ma-Kr of the herr; the Mei* ryes Ora dorm the yew twig ara lairet the ••••• of hie Mr If. peat as somedby his me Mem the MOM la er re Sae of a Mew; sad say ether iris rat my Mr Itoo hey to Mir LaMar/ Meemile eiseireallos. If II appresibro en Is be mien* lle mu met be mit op (erl re Ismer* he a brier or aralmr) ender of thew be let , will Meet the berldeele be 5e raft* DM wore fir egeralres I=ersiller solely apes neemendation Or esprria l It el re dim of tbe p lie will take me le re them re or empart le mit lloreut—se ikeriske lewd by the bie board oil the VII effune hes OM • Miro le aMlks. k 7 ensuring Is the but 'cho kes `Mt Mod re seer of eeradetlag their eierdes free of re els.. thrSlZermirs Wrier tomiire of mil be aketoll me* he Or par ▪ whos the are* me Ye giusedis•l sad reee who's mar et Pottemeh bra ritiMeor wir at the erred= ef their herb* remerlitel selearie ble re Fair or rm. ably arod he pemers. hat Mee re the the ✓oot Meity sire boys aro snare Y re mt V ii :e peeper outer to re user bat, Mil re rider yr Me era that re art poririer Mt moi la ter raw Me am rod tater kr art err Is fald. ores It et hens Mal he leek villerleture rth the Mitre red, eat deer doll WEED or *Ol be err Is hitere. to rho bort reerlem provided lla Mime niala le alliihiften awl Met he kr Med at Meet use no et his tools et theehiph Me. Arms= sem ma IM—he ewer* who lee med hY time le le he Mesi urea the selablireart Moat serer roped from re mew drerht b erirt ralillerrer ; this raper to g oer spoloir le the eirreler Mos of the mew eke, la the Mir Mess W lie bribe ma awl taispritve r which reared met eel. barer, he P•olGOTIOID&—se rialleribilrerW lL Mler reamer Pp err bred carrM are hiesholook lellrestim 4.447 TAM the Mori ort ter Mrs. t o up e e t o r e. i: l =t si rs % mike% rae{ h ala l; of verb, t ru ed to be orprior. res Mak remmeatimon le be Weirs Danny—Or Wang um to rehire, ts le elm yam, a aatkly mains tf — triesaasot ha a wal bad me, ea Or Itattasy Taersie ft b. sprats., aattagia it, aa las ala Iredotty taus al amplia art la bey sue nom le bib wire be um veseedebeee, lOW et work, tesubortlisetice, or bwetwiety, and, or the other, his minket of their nwpre ire merit*. - - Tim boteseroa will transmit these Marin, once a for'night, to the foreman of the yard, accompanied by remarks, stating whether, in his Judgment, the leading men have done their duty sandmen:oily. The foremen, in like manner, to transmit the inevecter'e reports and returns on the Ist array month to the master ships r eht. • - - Moos or 11101111UNDMO not Prionormx An L.PINO MAX.— Whmever a Tammy for • leading man occurs, the mater shipwright, with his mestains, will lay before the superintendent the three names which they recommend foe promotion, stating in writing the grounds of their recornmendatkm, and producing the returns upon which it is founded. It is, the duty of the superintendent to investigate *owl, these returns and recommendations. lie will alio direct the .mndi dotes to be eminsitied In his presence, by the master shipwright and his smistants, in those matters which are envential to the proper per formance of their duties. To be a leading man, an artificer should, In addition to a thorough prattle:it knowledge of his trade, be able to write a legible hand ; be should undfndared arithmetic, as far on vulgar and decimal tractions ; and he should be well soquaioted with the details of forming and combining the different ports of • ship, and the various methods ta,ed in trimming and fastening them. Upon all these points the saperintendon will draw up a report, which he will transmit to the Admiralty, with the original documents oanestd to it, submitted to him by the master shipwright: and, having reduced the list of candidates to two, by omitting the one whom be thinks lend qualified, one of the names thus sent up will be appointed by board order to fill the vacancy. PAOMOTION IRON LTADING MAN TO borneron.—Ort the lst of mn , t , m ontli, the foremen will prepare a main upon the efficiency or y of the officers %crying under them, which in to be kept in the master shirwright's after. statute any erroun,s of cooplsint that they may hove against them, and any particular came of sati-laction. Tole reports ore to be rent up quarterly to the Admiralty. When a money for an inspector occurs, the master shipwright will select from the leading men, and from the mould loft, the names of the had vidusts whom he thinks moat competent to ftli it, and submit them to the superintendent, with the reports of the foremen upon which ilseeeotence;tiefiroris founded. The.uperinte.dentwill, as in the am of the /ending men, direct them to be examined in hint pre seem by the master nhipmight and his aminomts. To be an inapeetar, a man should write well; he Mould understand arithmetic es tar as valgar and decimal Gactions, sod be able to measure plane cortices and cubes. He sluxild likewise understand Lying off Must on the mould loft goer, and the details of firming and combining the differ ent parts of phi" the various modes of fastening them. end the cor rect methods of takonit account of work. The no perintenitent will advent to all there points in bin report, mating his own opinion of the capacity of the candidates ; and having reduced the number to two, by striking off the name of that candidate whom he thinks tenet qualitied, one of the two careen thus sent up will be selected to till the vacancy. The Admiralty are of opinion that the inumectors have just ground of complaint of the mailmen of their nalarr and the slowness and unoertainty of their promotion,. They wink to see them take their proper Once as a clam of intelligent and independmt &term, upon who-r exertions the discipline of the vard mainly demmds, and who have it in their power to repay the public a bandredrold, for en, eacounigement that may be riven to them, by increaerad vigilanci in the discharge of their dude. Per AND Droem or Innewrom—The salary of inspectors to be Increasmi from 1001. to 125/. for the year beirinnmg Ist of Aped, 1017 • and on the let of Apell, ISO, a first clam of inspectors to be formed , with a salary of 1501., which Into be composed of one-fourth of the histreton in each yard, whose names they will themselves select, in the drat week of April, 1818, slue a rueful ex:mimtion of the quar terly reports made during the preceding tact,. months by the loco men and master ehipwrights._ New Snouts° or rag Ifaans.—Pour leading men are to be placed under each Inspector.—Twelve shipwrights under each feeding man.—The leading man will himself select a sunleading man, who will take charge of a portion of the gang, when employed upon ups. rate service, and who will be answerable to him for the expenditure of the stores and materials. This nib-leading mu will receive no additional pay, and will continue to work as an ordinary artificer, but his conduct is to be specially noted in the weekly returns, and if sans- Lactory, it will be taken into account when kn own time come. for promotion. The yards are to be "shoaled " afresh (no renewed gangs being on any recount permitted). for the of carrying out this plea ' • and as the number °novenae, will be reduced by it, some of those least qualified by age, health, or other decenniums, for the discharge of their new duties, are to be recommended for superan nuation. The abatement row made from enlaries, when aliment front Mamma, Under medical certificate, to be discontinued. , "Massuars'e . Orestes to be re-cstablithed, as a cheek to extrava gance in the the of match* and in order to twin the work actually done to • proper standard. FORBIdan or Tokio—The foremen of the yard are to be 'elected from the whole body of inspectors, 'resistant timber converters, and measurers, wiring& preference, under ordinary circumstances, to in epectore of the grit elmw. When a vacancy fora foreman occurs, the meter nhipwrlgbt is to eubmit three names to the euperintendent, ho will follow. In all reopecta, the rules laid down toe the promo tion of inspectors nod leashes men, taking rare, however, that the examination is conducted with due reference to +he higher godlike. times required in this class of officers. To be a foreman, a man should have a competent knowledge of sltuple equations in algebra, and be able to work problems deduced from the three Met beaks of Euclid. He should elm have a thorough knowledge of the mode of laying off ships upon the mould loft floor, and understand all the different me ths& of forming and combining them. Three qualifications are to be stated In the report made by the superintendent to the Admiralty, who will select one to MI the vacancy. Goon Beams Gmurr.—ln oonsideratiee of the important duties performed by the foremen, • gratuity of 501. shall be given annually to one foremen in each of the yard. KAM. Sisiewaimer's Ansierawr.—When a Toomey for a master ithipwrlght's araistant occurs, the master ahipwright will select the three mast competent men amongst the foremen as candidates; but no candidate will be considered qualifiedwho is not prepared to minim examination dt the Naval College in quadratic equations—the first six bloke of Euclid—and the general oriceiples of mechanic; and hydro etaties. Ile will alb be nubjected to an examination in the yard, and he will be expected to be able to give designs for the construction of ships, and to explain the principles by which it is regulated. The superintenckot will then investigate carefully the manner in which each randidate lets performed his duty as no officer of the yard, and he will transmit to the Admiralty the original reports rent in by him to the master eldowright, in order that their loripa may fudge of hie tins for higher duties. Ovum Paorimone.—The forms to be ohnerved in recommending for promotion no Inspectors and leading men of caulkere and Joiner., are to be precisely similar, every recommendation being founded rapes weekly ard monthly reports, which are to be transmitted to the master shipwright. The examination required for a keeling man of shipwrights will be eufficient for an inspector of caulkers or and a man will be qualified o become a leading man who &ell and write well, and keep accounts correctly, provided the weekly re port* bear testimony to his industry, socekty, and good conduct in other respeeta. The same will he remalredcethe foremen nod leading men of painters, and of the muter smith, who, with A salary of 2301. a year, ought to be • man of some education. His foreman should alio be able to read and write, and to keep accounts corneas ; and this will be required In all futon, appointerente, both in the smltheries and as leading men of labourers. Ton run TIMM 03/innaTEl in to be a man of much experience and great integrity; and a man thus qualified should have the entire superintend nee of all matters connected with the receipt, preserve. tron, and conversion of timber, and the timber amounts. reporting, thrueb the superintendent, to the board direct, upon the quality of the timber when first brought Into the Taut, and upon the etacking and other arrangements foe emceeing it, as well es upon anymore of Improper conversion which he may dlaeover. The bend timber converter Ir each yard, if properly qualified, shall exercise hencefor ward thin general superintendence, with the rank of "Timber Inspec tor," and with a salary of 4001. a yew., in lko of 330/. Ile ato have, me at prevent, two eutsceinverters under him, robe called "ADA/dant Chaverters" (at 150/. and 1250, who, with their two arsthitantsi (In. a day), will be employed exclusively in convershos at the enw-pita, sad bare the salary of Met and second clam inspeefor. But the general superintendence and conversion of the timber new to rest with the timber inspector, and no timber is to be received by the store receiver without ha certificate. Ir, ease deny failure in the contracts, or at tempt to introduce into the ,yard timed rof an Werke quality, or mit due, or not in accordance with the contrset, the Inspector is to report the sane to the superintendent, and copies of the repeceastations ss made ore to be cent to the Admiralty dime% in order that my lords may have the meana of judgine of the mum and ehar.eter of Ma objection.. When vacancies occur, the timber inspector will be selected from the foremen of the yard, end will be allowed one clerk to keep the timber account, being • charge and duty transferred from the storekeeper. The Lords of the Admiralty declare they well lay down no general rule respecting age, or removals at the timed promotion, but It is their intention only to fill up the vacancies upon the het of foremen and iropectore once in every quarter, when the quarterly returns from all the yards will be before them, and they reserve the right of Confirming all officer*, upon promotion, to any yard where it is thought they may prove most useful. My lords except from Oh regu lation the foreign yards, oe good grounds roar be assigned from family circumstances% or health, fur declining to en re in them ; but the oft. etre who volunteer for this duty, whether as foremen, inspectors, or leading men, will have their time and rank (in addition to their in. creased my) es if employed in her Majesty's yards at home, and will be 'most favourahly noted for promotion when their conduct abroad has provedsatiafactory. Ttrr Qmonvois or A .I.OE t. TOE NATAL USIPORY has been referred by the Admiralty to a committee of five n teal officers, in cluding Rear-Admiral Sir F. Collier, C.H. K.C.11., Capt A. Fonshavre, CIL, and Capt. J. Shepherd. The United Service Gazette me, the committee had it+ first meting on Tueeday, and wiU not be long in coming to a derision. IT IR nestivarn that the Admiralty have appointed Mr. Smith, whom &crew-propeller is adopted in her Migesty's vrnelr, to be saperintendent of the works connected with it, and all matters re lating to the tiring of the new in goverment steamers are to be ogler by Scotism The salary to be 6004 a-yntr. Podiums, Hawn 7.—The spivs"; is md to be repaired and fitted hemedlessly Or emetedon. The expenses incurred in ruble the Sphyu eat et her perilous siltation, we kiln, do not exceed 3,0001.. and the repels it MS micro Y the 4113 i are mimated at I,ooot. 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The whole of the company of Artillery alreody theist Ind* of Guernsey and Jersey, under the command of tiejor W. H. Henn* will then be transferred to Jersey, ap that reel idled will bate a full ram pay of artillery mate .d of a detachment. The Channel latun'a arc henceforth to become a termite station render the iontroand of a Aoki calker. to Entrlitatum JUDICIAL COMMITTEE OF THE PRIVY COUNCIL. Present: Lord Langdale, ford Brougham, Lord Campbell, the Judge eche Admiralty Court, and Sir Alexander Johnstone. Ex PAkIE JAMES MISCHIN, Msg.—Their lordships as sembled to make known their decision in this ease, which we reported at the time of the argument. Lord Langdale said—This is an appeal method an order of the Supreme Court of Madras, dated the Ilth June, 181.5, whereby Mr. Minchin was diamiseed fr.,m his office of Mas hie of the Court for alleged mist induct. He was appointed to his office on the 2nd Fel.rnary, 1841. His remuneration iliensisted of fees which I e was melded to charge and receive, and it was one of his duties to tax the bills of costs of solici nes. A table of the fres to he allowed to the Master and other officer", and to the solicitors, was pub lished in the year 1802, hut after the publicativa of that table, it had become the practice to allow vim, fees which were not distinctly specified in the table. That which has commonly happened eirewliere appears to have happened in the Supreme Court of Madre. 'f no fee. commonly allowed in practice seem to consist in part of fres strictly lawful, but considered to be reasonable, and in part of fees improper to be receivable as nu ithcr lawful nor reasonable. It appears that at the time of hi, apooiniment Mr. Minchin considered that he would he entitled to receive all the fees which had been usually allowed to the master, whether they were dis tinctly specified in the table or net; and this, his view of the subject, was ironfirmed by a communication which he received from the Chief Justice in the year 1842. At that time some reductions were contemplated, and, with regard to them, Mr. Minchin was asked upon what terms he had accepted the office; and, after he had stated the terms, the Chief Justice, in writing to him, expressed himself as fol lows:—" It is upon your theceseer, therefore, our retrench ments must fall." But in 1645, the judges of the Supreme Court having amain in view the very laudable object of diminishing the expense of proceedings by a ge moral reouction of fi es, directed a circular to be gnat to the solicitors at Madras, desiring information upon Mr embeeet of the coats allowed nn taxation. They were in- Immo& that some of the charges made in the Master's office were objected to and complained of, and on the 22nd of March, 1843, the partieulors art the various charges objected be were communicated to Mr. Minchin, who, on the 28th of March, gave such explanations of those charges es ho thosateht tit ; and on the 31st of the same month, the Chiet Justice informed him, by letter, that, with one specified ex emption, the charges objected to were not consistent with the Gable of fees, and that the judges would not be able to allow them in any future bills of costs. The judges considered that Mr. Minchin was entitled only to such fees as were dis tinctly specified in the table. Mr. Minchin, on the other band, considered that in addition to those fees, he was also entitled to such fees as previeualy to the time of his accepting office, and according to the supposed due conrtruetion of the table, had been received by his pr• decneors without objection or question. In these circumstances Mr. Minchin desired to examine witnesses upon the usage, and to appeal from the die allowance which had been announced, and on the lot of April he informed the Chief Justice that he should hold his office only until the queatien had been decided in England upon appeal from the decision, after an examin ition of the late Chief Justice, Sir Robert Comyn, and Mr. Savage, who was firmer'' , master. On the following day, the 2nd of April, 1845, Mr. Minchin expressed his desire to return to England, and r. queetrd lease of absence, and that another person might he allowed to act for him. He further re quested an expression of the opinion of the Chief Justice upon his conduct. In answer to teat letter. the Chin Justice stated to the effect that the judges wished to effec tuate the intention which Mr. Minchin had esteemed, to carry an appeal up to the Privy Council; and, in order to enable him to do so in'the least circuitous manner, it struck them that an order of esturt, prohibiting the paying or re ceiving the fees which the* condemned, would hest answer this purpose; and the Chief Justice, after expressing the desire of both the jukes to comply with Mr. Min chin's request for lease e f ahem cc, proceeded as follows:—" I could with perfect truth, and with the utmost satisfaction, bear testimon y to the zeal, energy, and ability which you have displayed in the different stations in which 1 have seen you employed, whether at the bar or as clerk of the crown, or master of the eclat*, and this testimony I shall be happy to give under my hand in the event of ;our departure ; hut it will be beaer to do so in a letter which does not contain other mature." Mr. Minchin was thankful to the judges for putting their constellation of the table off es in a form to enable him to make it the subject of appeal, and he expresed his intention to move for a commission to take the declaration of Sir Robert Comyn and the affidavit of Mr. Savage upon the subject. He inti rooted that the coulee punned might pn vent the necessity of his immediate departure fur England, and loped the judges would not hesitate to give him copies of the allega tions made to them against his office. To this the Chief Justice answered as follows, on the morning of the 6th of April :—" The order to which I refer, and against which you ma appeal, will, I think, be promulgated to-day. We are sorry we cannot comply with your ru quest to have copies of the allegations which were laid before us in relation to your office, and the charges in it." The order thus referred to was, in feet, mode on the 6th of April, 184.5, and it prohi bited the allowance of several fees which Mr. Minchin and his predecessors had been accustomed to receive, and to which Mr. Minchin thought himself entitled. Mr. Minchin thereupon petitioned the court tor a commission to examine Sir Robert Comyn, Mr. Savage, the late master, and Mr. Acworth, a former registrar, touching the matters in ques tion, and for copies of all letters or other writings containing representations. charges, or other intiirrnation reign cting the office of the petitioner, or the tees or charges thereof, refereed to in and by the order of the 6th of April. That petition was on the 18th of April, 1846, heard before Mr. Justice Burton, who refused to grant in prayer, and also refused to give leave to appeal from his decision. There is no appeal from that order, and therefore we are not required to give any opinion upon it. The endeavour of Mr. Minchin to obtain additioaal evidence, with a view to an appeal, was unsuc cessful. After some delay, arising from the want of a special court, which Mr. Minchin had in vain requested, he moved to rescind the order of the sth April. A joint affidavit of himself and Mr. D'Silva, his chief clerk, was sworn on the 9th May, 184.5. It is very long, and states at length the cir cumstances under which the fees in question lad been charged, and the grounds and reasons upon which Mr. Minchin considered himself to be entitled to them. The motion was made on Friday, the 16th May, and was dis missed. As the order dismissing that motion is not made the subject of appeal, we are not required to express any opinion upon it, or upon the order of the 6th of April, or upon the authority of the court to disallow the fees claimed by Mr. Minchin. But it appears that, on the mine day upon which Mr. Minchin himself was dismissed, the judges did of their own authority re mind the order of the 6th of April, as to two items of charge therein specified. On the 19. h of May, Mr. Minchin wrote a letter to the registrar of the court, as follows " I shall feel obliged by your communicating to the honourable the judges, that feeling it impossible for me (after the observa tions made on Friday last against my conduct individually, althourh the matters on which those observations arose ex tende d to the practice of the office. as established by my pre decessors) to carry on the duties of the office of master with satisfaction to myself and benefit to the suitors, I beg to re sign the appointment." It appears that pending the die evasion which had taken place respecting the order of the 6th of April, certain bills of costs which had been allowed by the master in the case of Moottee Ram r. Campbell, had been laid before the chief justice for his allocatur, and Mr. Minchin'" resignation having been tendered on the 19th of May, Mr. Justice Burma, on the next follow ing day, the 20th, directed hie clerk, Mr. Carruthers, to write to Mr. Wilkins, Messrs. Rawboson sod Rose, and Mr. Crampton, the saiciters who had been employed in the case, and whose charges appeared in the bill of costs, for information respecting certain matters of business, in respect to which aims of there charms purported to be made. Answers to the letters of Mr. Cprruthers were sent partly on the '2oth and partly on the 21st, the next following day. The answers afforded ground for believing that some charges were or might have been allowed for business not actually dose, and Mr. Searle, the registrar, by letter of the 21st of May, informed Mr. Machin that the judges had directed him to say that as there were allegations then before them which related to his conduct as master and taxing officer, and those allegations, if unanswered, formed in their opinion good ground for removing him from his office, they could not consent to accept his resignation. On the 23rd of May, Mr. Carruthers, the clerk of Mr. Justice Burton, made an affidavit setting forth his correspondence with the solicitors of the 20th and 21st, and on the 23rd, the same day, it was ordered that Mr. hlinchin should attend on Friday, the 30th of May, to show cause, if any he had, why he should not be removed from his office of master of the court for his misconduct in the order mentioned. The misconduct thus generally described was particularised in not less than twenty-six distinct allegations set forth in the order. Twenty-two of the distinct allegations related to affidavits of service of warrants to attend the master, in cases where the parties did really attend. The misconduct alleged was, that fees bad been allowed for affidavits of service, and for attendances to get the same sworu, and for the attend &me of the master to receive the same, when such affidavits of service were wholly unnecessary. Two others of the dis tinctallegations related to attendance upon warrants stated to be not attendable warrants. The misconductalleged was, that fees were allowed to the 'elicitor and the muter for attend ance thereon. The remaining two of the twenty-six distinct allegations related to copies of minutes never made. The misconduct alleged was, that fees had been allowed to the solicitor for such copies, and for beepeakieg the ante, and to the master for making the same. The time for showing cause against the order being enlarged, Mr. Minchin put in an answer upon oath on the 6th of June. As to the charges relating to the affidavits of service, he only stated that the same, and attendance thereon had always been allowed without objection; and that if any abjec tion had been made to the practice be would have brought the same to the notice of the court. As to the attendance on the warrants on leaving, which were alleged to be not attendable, he stated such at . sidereal to be attendable and had warrants; and it had been the s • co ing py u a pon th s : su ch r w l a e r ft ran ; an t to d rants to bring us pipers, and r. • . . ogt , attendable, he mutated they w ' . rants ; and with respect to • • • • • • •• of the two last distinct al one, Tr • • '"; • the sums of money in o • _ • such charge" had been made by his • "Ir . .. and slowed without any objection • 1S• • ty I