The Express. — London, England, 1851-04-25 00:00:00

stoned together the keens so distributed. The principle upon which the mum will be taken is a very simple, and will be found, we bort, to be an efficacious one ; that is to say, the names of all parties sleeping within any given pre mises on one specified night—thatof the 30th instant—me to be stated in such forms, together with particulars of age, country, dte. We mentioned in our last review that some excitement I had been occasioned in the community by the arrival of the ' Intlexihle, steamer of war, in our river with a detachment of the 2nd West India regiment from Jamaica; and that, in consequence of a resolution arrived at by our board of I health that it would not be safe for the executive to allow these troops to land owing to the prevalence of cholera in Jamaica, the Inflexible had departed, with that detachment on board, for Barbadoes. We have now to announce that this steamer returned to the colony on the 24th with the same troops, which, considering that they had been away from Jamaica for several weeks,—that no ease of cholera had occurred among thern,—and that the latest accounts from that island advised the rapid cessation of the pestilence —were permitted by the executive to come on 'shore, not withstanding that the quarantine laws are still strictly in force in this colony against all vessels coming either from Jamaica, Cayenne, or Martinique. We pay too dearly for our people—importing immigrants every year at an im mense expense—not to he tenderly careful of their lives; and we may, therefore, give this public warning, that peo ple in other countries will be very much mistaken if they suppose, no matter what may be said against quarantine by all the plausible experimentaliets and theorists of the day, that lintish Guiana will not always close her ports all vessels, without any distinction, coming from infected t places. And here let us close this subject by saying that a more ill-advised, ill-timed removal of troops from one colony to another never took place than the removal of this 2nd WI .t India detachment from a notoriostaly infected Island to a colony like this, which was not only healthy, but had used extraordinary efforts, by the observance of sanatory regulations, to remain so; and that we hope some explanation will be demanded in parliament by some inde pendent and public-spirited member, of • matter, which, from its m ischievousnes s , and its apparent needlemness and wantonnem --jeopardising our lives tor n earthly rhyme or mason that any one here can see—has occasioned deep and general disgust and indignation throughout the community. The Indelible has brought us accounts of an accident having happened to the Royal West India Mail-steamer Eagle, which, it is expected, will deprive the colonies in this part of the world, upon the intereolonial route, of her ser vice* for some time to come. The West India Mail Com pany have at present only one other steamer, the Dement, upon this station ; and, as this accident will throw all the work upon her, we may expect more than usual irregularity in the art ivul of our mails. It le almost needless to mention that, though overdue, the mail has not yet made her ap pearance. It is quite. impossible that these shameful delays can be permitted much longer to continue. On the 21st instant the March meeting of the George town races took place on the lJ'Urban course. For several yeses racing was discontinued in this colony, and it was only last year that it was revived. It is not, therelore, sur prising that the running on this occasion, though it afforded much amusement to the numerous assemblage collected on the ground, was far inferior to what was in former days witnessed in this colony. This circumstance, however, so far from discouraging our gentlemen of the turf, ought to stimulate them to increased exertions. Two execution sales of landed property have taken place this week. One fourth share of plantation Metten-Meer sorg, on the west roust of Demerara, was sold on the 25th fur 10,100 dole.; purchaser, Gavin Fullerton, Esq.; and yesterday, plantation %Aught, on the same roast, was sold for 7,500 dole. ; purchaser, It. S. Bascom, Esq. The weather during the fortnight has been fine and fa vourable for the planters ; and the colony continues healthy. The Cu/mist, referring, in terms not over cheerful, to the financial condition of the colony, i4O fully entered into in the governor's speech, brought by a previous mail, says: The estimate for 1830. together with the civil list, and all theozrears due, amounted to 776,24 d o l e. 39e._ Fur 1 , 441, the estimate, &c., an prepared fur the Combined Court, was set down at 74!4,217 dols. 62c., showing an appa rent reduction or 28,069 dole. 77e. It turns out that two items of debts due have been Omitted, amounting together to 64,000 dub. Then we have already hail inerearesl votes for repairs of churches, for the police, imrnigation, &s., and are morally certain of a variety of others ere the estimate is closed, which, making allowances for an odd thousand dollars here and there struck off from the "ordinary expenses" of certain de partments to try and keep down the grows total, though these must be paid if occasion requires them, will raise the expen diture of the year to 830,000 or tl-10,000 dollars, and show an excess of some 80,000 to 100,000 dollars, instead of the reduction so fallaciously set forth. If we deduct the arrears due prior to 1860, may 56,000 dollars, but charged to that year, and compare the expenditure proper for the two sirs 18-10 and 1851, we shall have an increase shown of from 156,4801 to 156,000 dollars. Verily we believe that Sir Charles Wood will not call upon our financiers to assist aim in framing a budget, should he have occasion, which we very much doubt, to prepare another alter the present year. TRINIDAD. At this island the vrl.Sth ..... very fine, and the operations of the crop were proceeding rapidly. The Legislative Council was in session. Owing to the illness of his lady, Governor Lord Ilarriss was about leaving the colony, and would be temporarily suc ceeded in the administration of government by Lieutenant• Colonel Brown. BA RBADOES. With the exception of a few MICR of small-pox, the island was healthy. The weather was excellent for sugar-making, but fur too dry for the young cane plants for the next year's crop. The present crop would be reaped before the end of April, and was ex pected to reach nearly 40,000 tons. The session of the House of Assembly had closed, and elections for members for the new house were about to take place. We have our usual files from Grenada. St. Lucia, Martinique, and Antigua, but they contain nothing of interest to home readers. At Greytown so severe a shock of an earthquake bad been experienced as to create fears in the minds of the inhabitants that intelligence would be received from the interior of great damage having been sus tained. The Thames has brought a shipment of 600 bales of indigo to Grvytown. IMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Mon De Uartordes leMlipmentr.) - _ KINGSTON, JAMAICA, MARCR 31. A good deal of &mum has been grimed during the put fortnight by holders of dry and plaided 61. We regret, however, we cannot report any meat ingeevement in bread stuffs. A slight speculative feeling madisnly manifested itself during the early part of the fortnight, under which upwards of 2.000 barrels Baltimore dour MP disposed of: but it as suddenly subsided, and the waft Mops* into its previous quiet site. The sale, however, of se large • parcel has had the effect of creating a better halms for the article, notwithstanding that the supply in imapersen' hands is still considerable. The sugar market is heavy, sad the trade are endeavour ing to effect a reduction in the prime of the lower qualities ; holders are however firm, as there arc buyers fur shipment at better rates than home dealers are willing to give. Ruin is in good inquiry for export. We notice a somewhat • slackened demand for ordinary coffer. Ws may state with confidence that it is not just now con templated to make say alterations in the Import Duty Bill, • se the revenue derived alder it forms an important item in the eakidatiosa of the Finance Committee, whose amended ff is sow before the House of Assembly. rt Pant. misdates in heavy supply, and limited inquiry. lb. per barrel is with difficulty realised (or the best at market. POT;TONS.—A lof of 50 hampers English has changed Lads at fis. per hamper. Borron.—Tbe last males of Irish were at 101 d., at which irate it is still procurable —a better feeling, however, to be manifesting itself k, the artkle. Almeria& sZ eS a r t did. to 71d. 60 kegs Beldame have been placed at the baser rate, and 100 kegs Philadelit'da at the latter. 70 kegs Halifax, of very muse quality, have changed bands at Int pee lb. Bacon.—Plot broad appears to have almost gone out of itearamptioa. The sales have been trivial at 194. to 20s. for illeglessee. WO barrels crackers, of that brand have been pheed at 225. per barrel. Cl32ll2.—lioth English and American are wane. A TI of the former, just landed, is being placed at 12d. to per lb. ISSIIIa.-11111 market ia over-stocked with white he whisk only Ma. per 1,000 feet can be obtained. Iwo wood hoops bare been mold at 90s. per 1,000. Cane Oho glee are is drafted. Baar,--American Imaily sells at 425. to 16.. per half.l Darrel. Tumor/ea.—lrish pigs are worth 48s. to 608., and American 425. to 445. per half•Mitrel. Ox tongsea ere nand/able BUN DT.—The receipts bate hi en fortnight llartell's dark was sold preview to them arrivals. at Is. ed., and pie at 7s. per gallon in bond. Hem nossey's pale has been tamed at Is. 6d. Coax is ezeie d searae. A pared of 200 bags tram Baltimore has loads at h. per bag. A cargo of SW* Ailirricall de. per bushel, Era is worth 3s. Bd, to h. 9d. per gallon, 21 proof, duty paid, and 1.. U. to Is. 9d. he export. SvoAft.—We continue air kit quotations of 16s. for dark sod 17s. to 20s. for middling to fair Comm.—The demand for ordinary has slackened, at 345. to 38s. per 100 lb. PIKINTO.—Then is ant any at market. GINOTIL—None has yet been krought in. LosuwooD sells at Ws. to 40s. per ton. FittlOlSTS.—Then is a hie inquiry for teamp the tain ports. OuLD.—Doubleass me 4. WS par cent. America is u= s 4V iali keaL MALT is plea • Pale .1. DM at ULT.—Liverpool stowed emmtmels de. MI /LIM. per seek. Tonseco.—We quote Careen* at la al per lb., and leaf at 725. to 103 a. pee 11119 ma asisphisi 4. lizettaxom Taka-SF hoes Sed pm to _ W es _ yea =s lllo tame la N : MIL Iola; la days, 1 pm aikL e p Te la= ilgs. per; a"; psi NIS 1111 a" 1 peas. FAL THE SECESSIONS. TO THI IDITOR OF Tlll DAILT NEWS. SlR,—The recent secession of Archdeacon Man ning, Mr. Hope, and a group of clergymen and lay men at Leeds, has naturally created no small sensa tion, and has made people inquire more keenly than ever, what are the causes to which this ever-running stream of defections from the Church of England must be ascribed. Even the high church correspond ent of the Morning Chronick, "1). C. L.," feels him- 1 self compelled to notice these painful events, and to offer such explanation of them as may administer comfort for the loss, and suggest some remedy against its recurrence. The cause of the evil he finds in the imperfect carrying out into practice of the ca tholic principles of the Church of England; and his remedy is a more vigorous insisting on the doctrines and privileges of what he calls the apostolate. I conceive that he has mistaken the dews which infi;;;;il;;:cea;r74. It i. not defects in the ad ministration of the church which have driven them from its pale, but a settled conviction, arrived at after long and painful deliberation, that the church of England cannot stand the test of church principles ; that if these principles are true, that church cannot satisfy any consistent and honest inquirer who is seeking a church founded on those principles. This is the issue which has been and is still being tried; and no one can dispute the competency of the judges to determine it. Such men as Newman, Oakley, Dodsworth, Haskell, Manning, /4:c., were not the parsons to rend themselves away from a church which they loved on account of mere short comings of administration. They could not be blind to the prodigious influence which they were rapidly gaining over the minds of the clergy; nor to the manifest success which attended their efforts to spread their ecclesiastical theory. To sup pose that they abandoned the church of England because they had not yet won over all the bishops and clergy, would be to represent them as fools and traitors to their own came. Neither "D.C.L." nor any one else will feel disposed to place them in that category. But, indeed, there is no room for doubt. They have set forth abundantly the reasons of their change. They found that they must either abandon their principles or the church which contradicted them : ' they adhered to their doctrines, anti abandoned the church of England. And they did not do this rashly ; but with much reluctance and distress of mind, with severe struggles within their own hearts, after the most anxious deliberation, carried on by what "1). C. L," must admit to be consummate . . learning, eminent ability, the most reverential at tachment to the church of their birth, and the most heroical and truly astonishing efforts to justify their continuance within her communion. the sincerity of their religious convictions compelled them to try the Church of England, and they gave judgment against that church. And the result has been that every believer in the apostolate, or what is more generally known as church principles, in proportion us he is a logical and consistent thinker, moves on to the Church of ltome. gbe Court. WINDSOR, TRVIUIDAT. The Queen and Prince All;Wwiiieciiiiiirzorn ing in the slopes. The Royal family took their usual airings. The Queen and l'rinoe Albert rode out on horseback this afternoon, attended by the lion. Miss Macdonald, Lieut.- Col. the lion. C. l. Plupps, and Col. Buckley. The Queen and Prince also rode out on horseback in Windsor Park yesterday afternoon, attended as usual. The Princess Royal and Princess Alice took an airing in • pony carriage this afternoon. The Queen and Prince Albert, with their Royal High nesses the Princess Royal and Princess Alice, and attended by the ladies and gentlemen in waiting, promenaded for 'mac time on the eastern terrace, on Tuesday afternoon. The unfavourable state of the weather prevented the Queen, Prince, and Royal family walking on the eastern terrace on Monday afternoon. A deputation, including Mr. llsstie, 31. P., Mr. Marv, and Mr. Graham, had an interview with the Commis sioners of Railways yesterday, at the office of the Board of Trade. Despatches were sent off yesterday from the Colonial office to the Lord High Commis,ioncr of the lonian Islands, and to the Governor of Malta. Despatches were also tent off to the Governors of Ceylon and Hong Kong. THE MARRIAGE OP LORD WARD WITH Mts. SELINA CONSTANCY Da BORON, eldest daughter of Hubert De Burgh, Esq., of West Drayton, was celebrated yester day at St. tieorge's Church, Hanover-square. The cere mony was conducted in a comparatively quiet manner, owing to the recent demise of a member of the De Burgh family. THE LORD MAYOR and the Lady Mayoress enter tained a large party of private friends at dinner last even ing at the Mansion-house. About sixty ladies and gentle men sat down to a superb banquet in the lung parlour. The mayors,. afterwards gave her third soiree danswite, at which upwards of two hundred additional guest' as sembled. Lancing was prolonged until after two o'clock in the morning. FISHMONGERS' AND POULTERERS' INSTTEUVON.— LAM night the sixteenth annual meeting of the Fish• monger. and Poulterer,' Institution was held at the London Coffee-house; Mr. Sprigens in the chair. Mr. Brooke, one of the honorary secretaries, read the report of the com mittee, which stated that the institution had, during the past year, experienced considerable prosperity. The com mittee ha d been successful in obtainingan increase of perma nent income, nearly 100 additional subscribers having been secured. The casual relief fund had afforded timely assistance to a number of needy and deservinn persons. All the liabilities of the institution had ceased, with the ex ception of the ordinary and current expenses. The receipts had exceeded those of former years, and it was recoil'- mended that exertions should be'ma de' to secure funds, so that the taunt houses might be filled. The accounts of the treasurer haring been revel, it appeared that the income of the society during the past year had amounted to 2,040/. Ils. Gd., the expenditure to 1,6-i3l. and that there was a balance in the treasurer's hands of 366/. 164. Id. The report and treasurer's uccounts having been adopted, votes of thanks were unanimously passed to the president, the vice presidents, the treasurer, the directors, the solicitor, the skeretaries, and the auditors, for their efficient services to tho institution. A discussion then took place in reference to the filling up of the vacancies in the asylum, at the close of which it was agreed that the attention of the new committee " be particularly called to the present vacancies in the asylum, and the best mode of filling the nine at the earliest period, having regard as well to the iecome of the society as to the sum %Welt the former committee thought would be allowed to each inmate," and that the committee should report to a general meeting of the institution. The meeting was then resolved into a general meeting for the purpose of considering a number of alterations iu the rules, suggested by Mr. Ilubbard. The first of these alterations was, that the surplus of the occasional relief fund should be in future applied to the relief of the inmates of the asylum, instead of, as heretutere, to the endowment fund. This alteration was unanimously agreed to. The other alteratieus were in effect for the purpose of increasing the amount of the payments by which parties were entitled to the benefits of the institution. The meeting seemed generally of the opinion that the present pecuniary test was too low, and by a majority agreed to the alterations. A motion was then made and agreed to, that annual subscribers only should be eligible. Office-bearers were appointed for the current year, a vote of thanks was passed to the chairman, and the meeting broke up. Now, such being the case, it is clear that in the Judgment of these men, and grave indeed was their authority with high churchmen, church principles are brought to a reductio qd absurdum in the Church of Englund. They necessitate secession; they can not therefore be the principles of that church. The correctness of the logic whereby this conclusion is come to, is unimpeachable; and we thus ar rive at the causes of the calamity which I deplore in common with " 1). C. L.^ The true principles of the Church of England are repudiated by tractarian teaching; others are adopted which arc not hers; conflict and separation are the inevitable results. The Church of England, whilst she retained no small portion of the hierarchy and ritual of the church she broke away from, is at bottom a truly protestant church built on the two fundamental principles of protestantism—the appeal to the Word of God as interpreted by private judg ment, and the right of self-government inherent in every Christian society. For these, tractarianism substitutes authority, the authority of a perpetual ecclesiastical corporation; but as the Reformation was a palpable rebellion against that corporation, it has ever been found most embarrassing to reconcile that great event, solemnly recognised as her charter by the Church of England, with the doc trines of the high church theory. Accordingly, from Fronde downwards, every tractarian supporter of the apustolate has fretted against this cardinal, and for them most indigestible, fact. Every art has been = ted to get rid of the necessary inferences it It has been treated as an act of violence, a pawing storm, intervening between two periods of the same bright day. And undoubtedly such it might have been represented fairly to have been, had the Church of England been subsequently absorbed back main into communion with Rome. One society, one church, might then have been reasonably insisted upon. But, alas! the Church of England was isolated by the Reformation, and she persists in her isola tion : her very continued existence as a distinct church attests her belief that the act to which she owes her origin could confer a legitimate title on her. And thus the tractarian is compelled, solely against his inclination, to justify the Reformation, and to solve the difficult problem of making it a regular lawful normal proceeding—the result of an ordinary exercise of their functions by the regular authorities of the church. The Church of England is, therefore, denied to be the child of the Reformation ; she was the same church, we are told, before and after that event ; the Reformation was her own deed, an act of self purification, carried out under her own name and by her own authority. This latter statement is most Ms: but not in the sense in which it is made by the trattarian. lie proclaims the identity of the English church before and after the Reformation : but he ignores the absolute revolution which has occurred in her government : end the to tally new principles of government which that revolution has established. There is unques tionably identity ; but it is identity of the Christian people, the Christian society, but not identity of Christian government, nor of the principles on which that government rested at both periods. The first government was destroyed de facto, and also in respect of its authority; the authority of the new government was derived, not from any decree of its predecessor, nor from any sanction whatever emanating from it, but from the will of the Chris tian society to exercise its right of framing a new government for itself. Tho civil revolution of 1688 furnishes us with a perfect analogy, by the help of which wo may discern the real character of the ecclesiastical one. There was a coa -1 plete identity of the English people before and after the revolution : but that event put down the doctrine of the divine right of a particular family to the throne, and established the grand prin ciple, that by the will of God every nation may select any form of government it pleases. On this truth the legitimacy of the existing governments of the world is founded. Queen Victoria's title is built on no other charter. Precisely similar was the significance of the Reformation. The Chris tian society remained the same : but they set up a new government, which rebelled against the old. The regular authorities of the old church denounced the rebellion: far less did they authorise it. The new church was the creation of a minority. The bishops of the Christian church, of which England had formed a part in solemn mune% I branded our new polity with the charges of schism and heresy; and therefore that polity thus estab lished by a minority could find no legin! __lds• In the regular constitution which it, and had nothing else to fall bacC — up " Tn bat the right of that minority to think and set for themselves. Such a doctrine is the overthrow of the theory of church principles; and, to escape from such a catastrophe, a new modification is given to the application of these principles. It is asserted that no new government was set up, t bat only the ancient constitution restored; that the encroachments of a foreign power were swept away, and that by the regular constituent government of the English church; that the church reformed her r. self by re-asserting her rightful independence, and redressing abuses occasioned by the violence of a er usurper; and that therefore the Reformation was an L orderly proceeding rightly performed by the legiti 'l. mate authorities of the church. ek and I reserve my remarks on this allegation for another occasion. I remain your obedient servant, I at 31. A. de- C.ILI. TO TEI YOREKRIEE SOClETY.—Yesterday a meeting of the members of this society—the object of which is " to provide board, clothing, and education for boys, the sons of respectable Yorkshire parents or parent, reduced by misfortune, and resident within ten miles of the General Post-utlice, St. Martin's-le-Grand"—took place at one o'clock at the London Tavern ; Dr. Saner in the chair. The meeting was convened for the alteration of certain rules regulating the management of the charity. Hereto fore the first rule rendered it necessary that all applicants for relief should be three years resident within ten miles of the General Post-olfice In order to entitle them to re. ceive assistance from the society, and provided also that their parents should not have received parochial relief. In alteration of this rule a resolution was moved and adopted, dispensing with the previously required three years' resi dence, and extending the benefits of the society to the male children of Yorkshire parents, who shall have resided or shall reside within ten miles of the General Post-office, and whose parents shall not have received parochial relief. The seventh, eighth, and tenth rules were also altered to as follows That every person subscribing one guinea an nually be a governor, and entitled at elections to one vote for each boy to be admitted, and an additional vote for each annual guinea subscribed; that whenever such an nual subscriptions, by continuous payments, amount to ten guineas, the subscriber be entitled to an additional vote for ea ch; and every tea quinces, provided that an annul subscription of one guinea be eontinucd to be paid. That every person subscribing ten guineas or upwards at one payment be a life governor, and entitled on all elections to two votes for each boy to be ad mitted, for each and every ten guineas so paid ; and every life governor of ten guineas or upwards giving or subscrib ing to the amount of five guineas, in addition, be entitled to an additional vote for each and every such five guineas. That the elections into the school be by ballot by the majo rity of governors, each governor being at liberty to give all the votes to which he may be entitled in favour of one can didate, or to divide them, as he may think proper." Quar terly bills to the amount of 1861. were announced as having been paid, the sum remaining in the hands of the treasurer being about 3001., and the number of boys at present in the institution 39. THE MODEL FRIGATE FOR THE SERPENTINE.— Lord Adolphus Fitrilarence, of the Royal Victoria and Albert Steam-yacht, visited Woolwich Dockyard yes terday, accompanied by Captain Sparshott, for the pur pose of inspecting the progress made with the 20-gun frigate, preparing for being rigged, and at present in the mast-house at this port. This beautiful little craft is 38 feet long, and of 26 tons burthen, and will be fitted and rigged even to the minutest detail as one of the frigates in her Majesty's service. The bottom of the vessel is sheathed with copper, and her keel is of iron, weighing 23 cwt. She will be navigated by 20 boys. Her bilge-ways are already put on, and she will be launched into the river on Satur day morning next, and be towed up the river to the Tower on the same day by a steamer. On the following del she will be towed by boats, 'and at the height of the lids be twist 12 o'clock on Sunday night and 1 o'clock on hismiay morning be taken on shore at Vauxhall-bridge, end be conveyed overland to the Serpentine river in liyieirielt, where she will be launched at an early leas ea morning before the traffic commence In tae Noe* she i U have to pass along. The rigging is now all ready, and will be put up on her masts when afloat In the Serpentine. A CONVERT FROM ILOMANISIL —Oa the afternoon of Easter Sunday an overflowing congregation assembled in the Reformed Baptist Evangelising Chapel, Charles street, Jarratt-street, for the purpose of hearing, according , to announcement, " the public recantation, by a Masashi, of the delusive doctrines and usages of the papal church. ' The name of the convert, who is a labouring man, is Francis Read, who has, it would appear, been brought up' in the Roman catholic faith, end has fur the last four years emus 'stinted with the Rev. Mr. Tmppcs the priest of the Raman Catholic Chapel in Jarrett-s treet. In his recantation the convert declared that he was con vinced that the church of Rome was is fearful error ; that she had grievously apostatised from the truth as it is In Jews, both regarding faith and ralline • that he re pediated the debars doctrines of tiansubstintiation, of =to the Virgin Kern the here ti striate, and the of purgatory and he away preesseal Ids te in the holy mittens. the only Indelibleseerlard of faith and seethe." Towable the weirder et the serriee, • Ro mans In the body of the shaped iSiesprai to raise a dis turbance, in which he was seceded by sins ardent co religionists, who were pesaest, sad dermadsil te have the question of the sesgeative rievite d Pretestestist and Mo ussaka &sided en the spot by scatroverey. The minister, the Day. Mr. Males IOW& that he hal se sideetisa to do M • SSA line silks bat that the sherd la which they were essaided was agerdeed far reel • dismission. The digtabesse seatiaalag, Mr. Masa Shensi the peaty whit bed Urea solely isansteatsi In onakag it, that the chapel was • Memel plasm of sash*, esi that, than. fore, the movie's of • ptilseases sesM epeedly be procured, and the ellmakag yards polished es the kW provided. Oa this Wised= the snagyeses ceased, and the ileTs were KOK after gismiesed. The savert was baptdt ti tt i evening, at the estelusica of the evening serviee.—Beriens Counties Herald. FATAL ACCIDENT IN THE TEMPLE.—Last nig ht • barrister, named Tomlines, residing in Paper - bui ldings, Temple, fell from an upper window to the ground, receiv ing such severe injuries that he died at three o'clock this morning, in King's College Hospital. It is supposed that Mr. Tomlines, while going rapidly up stairs, slipped through one of the staircase windows, which are level with the landing - places , unprotected by ban, and generally left Wm- FATAL ACCIDENT IN REGENT-STREET.—Yesterday see deg' sere werinesa were engaged painting the Male 1 the hems is the Qmskant, and one of the MOE sesswied the Was far the purpose of getting one of hilaillodela previous te swkiveig the ladder, and had un framed** use width had hies attached to the railing', Whoa. la islesedleg. WAN slipped on one side, and prodoilMi Ilia to as him an the spot, Ma err Ise dews two young ladles, sad booking Ifs lag et ow of TEYPLE, Arai 24. —Alexander Denney, Bq., was this evening called to the aerie of burettes at law by this society. THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 25, 1851. MEETING IN MACCLESFIELD, IN AID OF A PUBLIC PARK AND FREE LIBRARY. On Wednesday evening a crowded public meeting was held in the Urge room of the Macclesfield Sunday School. in aid of the above object. The Rev. C. A. J. SMITH, minister of Macclesfield, said he took the chair with heartfelt pleasure, because he was happy to aid every object conducive to the welfare of the working class and the amelioration of their condition. He felt anxious on this point, because, whenever labour or capital affected the condition of society, the poorer classes were always the greatest sufferers. He came to that meet ing more 'as &listener than a speaker, in order to understand the plan upon which the committee proposed to act. Mr. J. WRIGHT, the secretary, then read letters of apology from the following noblemen and gentlemen, who were unavoidably absent front the meeting:—The Lord Bishop of Chester, the Dean of Manchester, Chas. Dickens, Esq., the Earl of Carlisle, It. A. Slaney, Esq., M.P., Rev. W. A. Osborne, Cornwall Leigh, Esq., M.P., J. Break hurst, Esq., M.P. J. Williams, Esq., M.P., J. Brother ton, Esq., M.P., the Rev. J. Thorneyeroft, rural dean, the Earl of Harrington, John Potter, Esqr., Mayor of Manchester, and Lord Ebrington. The writers expressed the best wishes for, and promised to support the move ment, more especially as it had been originated by the working classes. Mr. J. MAY, in proposing the first resolution, would state what the committee were prepared to do. Sonic 9 months ago a number of working men were desirous of perpe tuating the memory of the late lamented Sir It Peel, by the formation of s public park and pleasure-grounds, to be called after his name. The is uc of their labours had re sulted in the collection, by pence alone, of upwards of 3001., which had been put into the bank. They had fixed their eyes upon a plot of land, called tho " Town-field," which seemed eminently calculated to suit their purpose. They purposed to have this ground laid out with walks, gymnasiums, and cricket-grounds. They were to have a public reading-room, and they also proposed appointing a public reader, whose duty would consist in reading aloud every evening, on some popular subject, reserving one evening during the week for reeling from religious works. The manner in which the articles would be arranged would be the means of improving the tastes of many of our lowly householders, and he hoped this scheme would meet with their entire approval. In cosclusion, he would tell them that the committee would never rest satisfied till they had accomplished all that the working classes had entrusted them with. Ile then pro posed the resolution, which was in favour of the establish ment of a public park or recreation grounds. Sir J. K. SHE'TTLEWOIITII, in seconding the resolu tion, expressed the pleasure he felt in taking part in these proceedings, lauding the conduct of the 17,000 penny sub scribers who had originated the fund. lie alluded to the improved state of the working classes, in having abandoned those brutalising sports, such as bull baiting and dog fight ing, for healthful excursions to the various romantic and picturesque places in the country,—the great amount of travelling by third class passengers over those of the other classes—the abandonment of rioting, and the prevalence of peace,—all these were signs of improvement in the working classes. He advocated temperance for the industrious classes, reminding them that the annual expenditure in spirituous liquors, beer, porter, tobacco, and snuff, was fifty-three millionssterling. In 1819 government spent a million of money upon education, and had built 3,000 schools. Ile urged them to prosecute their object with un procrastinating zeal, reminding them that, whatever amount of money was collected fur the public park, the government would double it. E. W. M ILL'MOTT, Esq., rose to propose the se cond resolution. lie said he came among them no a farmer, and as the working classes were his best customers, they had a right to act together. He would support the improvement of their mind. It was the mind, and tha mind alone, that could make the man. Mr. It. M. MILNES next addressed the meeting, advo cating public parks and free libraries, as the best means of improving the mind of the artisan. Thanks were then voted to the chairman and visitors from a distance, when the proceedings terminated. SIIAKSPF.REAN CLUB ANNIVERSARY DINNER.— This annual gathering of the members of the club took place at Stratford-upon-Avon, on Weunesilay last, the din ner being provided for the members and their friends at the Town Hall, in commemoration of the birthday of the great poet. The chair was occupied by Mark Philips, Esq., the high sheriff of the county, and a numerous company was asAmbleil. The committee in their report stated that the debt incurred in 1848 with the Stratford bank for the pur pose of completing the purchase of tho Shakspeare premises was at present nearly liquidated, but that the state of their finances bad prevented up to the present time any attempt at their repair or restoration. COUNTY COURTS EQUITABLE JURISDICTION.—A correspondent says: " There are several forms in the County Courts Equitable Jurisdiction Bill in the House of Lords, which bill was noticed in the Laity News of Mon day, by . which it is proposed to effect some Chancery re forms in small estates and rescue that court from the ex pense and delay of its proceedings. The only question seems to be whether the County Courts, with the accu mulated business, can attend to such matters. It is pro posed to give a like jurisdiction to the Court of Bankruptcy in London, and there is no reason why the Insolvent Debtors Court should not be similarly used in assisting the Court of Chancery. In the schedules annexed to the bill there arc various forms in respect of claims which it is proposed may be entered in the County Courts of an equi table character, and which in the Court of Chancery are now attended with no inconsiderable expense, such as a claim by a creditor upon the estate of the deceased's per sonal assent, by • pecuniary or residuary legatee, by an - seeking to have the estate administered, or • of a partnership estate, or for the There -- . doubt for the appointment of a trustee. .. can be no - . that such matters were allowed to be beard, in a short time and at a small expense by competent judges, great assist ance would be rendered to the Court of Chancery, and that suitors in equity proceedings would be greatly benefited." DETERMINED ATTEMPT OP A MINORITY TO EN roitez • C 131: 11C11 RATS FIitSTRATED.—A handful of rate payer, headed by the churchwardens of Chorlton-cum- Hardy, near Manchester, and forming a minority of a meeting called for the purpose, have been aspiring to the unenviable notoriety of enforcing a church rate against the majority. The meeting was held last July, when the ma l i - jonty negatived the proposition for a rate, but it was laid notwithstanding, and the collection has gone on smoothly up to the present time; but Mr. T. Pollitt having refused to pay his portion of the rate, amounting to 71. Ss. Bd., he was yesterday summoned before the county magistrates for the hundred of Salford, troernbled at the New Bailey Court-house. Mr. H. L. Trafford, stipendiary magistrate, was on the bench, assisted by Mr. Samuel Fletcher, mer chant. Mr. Emanuel Turner, one of the churchwardens of Chorlton-cum-Hartly, was present to prove the lay ing of tin rate, and the Rev. W. Birlcy, the rector, and chairman of the meeting at which the rate was laid, was on the bench, but not as a ma gistrate, not being in the commission of the peace, —Mr. Tamer, hiving been sworn, stated that the de fendant was rated to the church-rates in his book to the amount of 71. Bs. &I. He had asked him for the rate.— Cross-examined by Mr. Bent (solicitor for the defendant) : The rate was laid on the 30th July, 1850. I was present at the time. The motion for laying the rate was not nega tived by 14 to 7, but it was negatived. It was negatived - by 14 to 13. The clergyman, the schoolmaster, and the clerk voted in that minority of 13. 1 did not vote.—Mr. Traf ford: We have nothing to do with who voted. Were they all inhabitant ratepayers who voted ?—Mr. Turner: I be lieve not, Sir.—Mr. Bent : The rate was not levied at all then ?—Mr. Turner: The vote was negatived, but the chairman declared the rate levied.—Mr. iTraffora : By whose authority is the rate laid?—Mr. Turner: By the authority of the minister and churchwardens. The rate-book was here put in, and Mr. Trafford pro ceeded to examine it. The book had a printed title-page and printed headings, and appeared to have been printed as a poor-rate book. The title was in these words: " Rate book. Clsoriton-cum-Ilardy." At the head of each of the other pages was written the words " church rate." At the foot of the last page was the following certificate: " I do hereby certify the contents of this book to be a true and correct copy of the poor rate useamsent for the year 1850 to 18.51, for the township of Chorkon-eum-Hardy. Edward Smith, assistant overseer. 23rd July 1850." Mr. Trafford having examined the book, continued his examination of the witness as follows:—What are y ou? I am one of the churchwardens. Mr. Trafford : Why have you not filled up this form in the rate book? This is a poor-rate form. Where is the church-rate form ? Mr. Turner : There is no church-rate form. Mr. Trafford : Then you merely take • poor-rate form and try to convert it into • church-rate book, you draw up a kind of assessment, signed by the churchwarden, without any heading to say for what purpose. All that I see here is, " I hereby certify the contents of this book tube a true and correct copy of the assessment of Chorlton-cum- Hardy for the year 1850 to 18.51. Signed, Edward Smith, overseer." It does not state for what purpose a rate was laid, it is not signed by the churchwarden, and there fore there is no rate levied. The rate cannot be enforced, for it has not been laid. The summons was dismissed. RAILWAY IN BRITISH NORTH AMERICA.—The Cape Breton people ate agitating for the extension of the Portland and Halifax Railway to Sydney, a great coal port on the norther coast of Cape Breton Island. At a recant I meeting hold ha Sydney Brown, Esq. said, the last time he wiser set ben , in the steamer, Sydney could have beat reedisdli ch lti:ys from the M ersey, whereas I they IMO are Halifax, 24 hours of which they were detained off that h arbo ur by log. In lea than a year we should have a telegraph from hence. lie had ascer tained that by the Quebec boats touching at this port for I eel% • semis' of 2,0001. soak voyage would be made, by reams of tees coal being shipped at Liverpool, and • greater amtent of freight, Ike.. and the difference in the price of the coal at this pees asul that at Quebec ; Havannah could washed frame Uverpool via Sydney, by the additional of I2S melee; that a saving to steamers bound thither would thereby be effected in the increased quantity of freight which they could carry. This is, however, a formidable objection against Sydney, which Mr. Brown was forced to admit. The port is frozen up four months of the year, whereas it is important that the port which forms the Atl antic terminus of his great communication should be always open. POPULATION OF BRADFORIL—EXTRAORDINARY licazass--The pepolation of Bradford, Yorkshire, has imunsitrana M 1,718 in 1841, to loaara. This is perhaps Oa amt re nerkable increase in population whack the prima asses will present. GREAT WESTERN AND SHREWSBURY AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY. A special meeting of the Shrewsbury and Bir mingham Railway Company will be held at Wolverhampton on the Bth of May, to consider an agreement proptra‘el by the directors of the Great Western Company with the di rectors of the Shrewsbury and Birmingham and the direct ors of the Shrewsbury and Chester Railway Companies fur en amalgamation of the said three companies, as from the led of January, 1868 or 1857. The heads of the money terms of the proposed agreement are to the effect that the Shrewsbury and Birmingham and Shrewsbury and Chester companies are to be secured, out of the grog earnings of the London through traffic to places beyond Bir mingham, and ries rersti, over the London and Birming ham line, rid Oxford, from the Ist of January next, such a sum as will, in case the receipts of the Shrewsbury and Birmingham and Shrewsbury and Chester companies, from their own proper and through traffic and other re ceipts fall short thereof, make up the following dividend on their ordinary share capital, after the payment of interest on the debenture debt and preference shares and all other outgoings of the two companies, —viz., 3 per cent. in the years 1862, 1853, and 1854 ; and either 3 or 4 per cent. in the year 1865 ; and if the former, 4 per cent. in the year 1956. The three companies to be amalgamated from the Ist of January, 1866 or 1857, into one company, receiving stock in the amalgamated company for their shares on the basis of their proportionate net earnini.., during the year 1865 or 1850, after payment of all fixed charges, including interest on debentures and preference shares. The above objects to be earned out by an act of parliameat. The chair man of the Shrewsbury and Birmingham Company states, in his letter to the shareholders on this subjeet, that the . . fund out of which the minimum divitleud is tube secured is the gross earnings or revenue derived by the Great We tern Railway Company upon uud over their line from London to Birmingham, tin Oxford, front all traffic brought to the Shrewsbury and LI irmingham,or the Shrewsbury and Chester Company to carry north of Birmingham, and rice rersti; and that, at the cud of the period above named, the company is proposed to be amalgamated with the Shrewsbury and Chester rind Great Western companies upon the basis of the earnings either in the ear 185.5 or 18. - al, as shall be determined. 'fire pro agreement presents, there fore, the twofold object o securing to the proprietors an immediate return upon their capital and a just fixing of its value after ample time has been given fur the development of the resources of their line. lt goes on to state that if the Great Western proposal be carried out a satisfactory de termination will be come to of much, if not the whole, of the present litigation and vexatious proceedings in which the company has become involved, 114 the arrange ment with the Great Western Company will be in accordance with the previous contracts of this company with the Shrews bury and Chester Company, and put an end to any contest upon the existing agreement with the Great Western Com pany. The chairman and deputy-chairman call attention to the strong feeling which exists in the important and populous districts connected by the undertaking us to the advantage of the line being made part of the great through communi cation between London and the North by means of an ar rangement with the Great Western, instead of being a mere branch of the London and North-Western Company. At the above meeting it is proposed to authorise the directors of the company, either alone or in conjuctiou with any other company or companies, to enter into au agree ment with the Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction Railway Company for working over the liar of the latter company by tho Shrewsbury and Birming• ham Company for such period, and upon such terms and conditions as may be agreed upon, and, if necessary, to apply to parliament for an act for the purpose or for including the Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction Company in the above amalgamation. It is also intended to alter or rescind any of the resolutions passed at certain meetings of the proprietors convened for the 12th of February and the 4th of April, 1511. It appears that the inhabitants of the districts through which the Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire, the Shrewsbury and Chester, and Shrewsbury and Birmingham railways pass are most anxious that thews lines should be worked in connexion with the Great Western Company, and, by means of the proposed amalgamation, to give them a second and independent line of railway to London and the south of England. The proposed new route from London by the Great Western to Birkenhead, Liverpool, and Manchester is about 24 miles longer than that by the London and North Western Railway. The route by the Great Western Rail way is from l'addiugton to the Didcot junction, thence over the Oxford junction line to Oxford, from Oxford to Bir mingham by the Oxford and Rugby and Birmingham and Oxford lines, and from Birmingham to Wulverhampton by the Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Dudley Railway. At Wolverhampton the latter line, belonging to the Great Western Company, forms a junction with the Shrews bury and Birmingham Railway, which extends to Shrews bury, and there joins the Shrewsbury and Chester Railway, which joins the Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Chester Rail way at Chester. NATIONAL FLORICULTURAL SOClETY.—Yeaterdav a meeting of this society took place, at their premises, 21, Recent-street. There was a show of flowers, principally cincrarias, auriculas, pansies, and rhododendrons. K. Staines, Esq., presideil, and, after the election of a number of fresh members, Mr. J. Edwards, the secretary, read the awards of the censors, as follows. Certificates: Geranium (Pelargonium), named Chieftain, exhibited by Mr. Hoyle, of Reading; a fancy pelargonium, named formissimum, by Mr. Hares, of Blackheath; cineraria, alha magua, by Mr. S. Smith, of Hornsey-road ; auricula, named Beauty of Bath, by Mr. Griffin, of Bath; cineraria, named Margaret d'Anou, by Mr. E. G. Henderson, Wellington - road, St. John `s-wood. The following were commended: A cinera ria, named Model of Perfection, exhibited by Mr. Hares, of I Blackheath; a pelargonium, named First of May; by Mr. Turner, of Slough; a cineraria, named Beauty, by Mr. Imre, of Peckham. The meeting was then adjourned to the 9th of May. LOSS OF THE. JENNY LIND, EAST INDIA TRADER.— We have to announce the wreck of this tine East India trader, a new ship, nearly 500 tons burthen, with passen- VMS for London front Singapore, on a reef of coral rucks in the Southern Pacific Ocean, 400 miles off the Australian coast, %hero they endured the utmost suffering and pri vation for a period of thirty-five days. The ship left Singapore on the 3rd of August for Melbourne and London, under the command of Captain Joseph Taylor; Mr. Masters, chief mate; Mr. Harper, second mate; and a crew of sixteen seamen aqd appren tices. Her passengers were Mr. and Mrs: Somerset, and three children, Mrs. Harpur, Mr. Noble, Mr. Acker man, Mr. Beal, and several others. The chief mate took charge of the watch at 10 minutes past 4 o'clock of the morning of the 21st, and enjoined the man on the forecastle to keep a sharp look out, and at the same time be directed the man at the helm to keep the ship N. by W. The wind at the time was W. by S., and the ship going nine knots through the water. Immediately afterwards the officer of the watch saw something black a-head, and asked the look, out man what it was, who answered that it was the reflection of a heavy black cloud that was hanging over head. A quick glance over the gangway seems to have shown the mate better, and he immediately had the helm put hard up, and all hands called fore and aft. The vessel wore off to the wind, but before the traces could be touched she struck aft, and immediately afterwards lay broadside on the reef, the sea making breaches over her. The masts were cut away as quickly as possible, but the vessel continued to lurch heavily upon the reef, and it was plain that she must soon break up. An attemt was made to launch the pinnace, but this was unsuccessful, and the master got him self hurt in the attempt. After great difficulty the jolly boat was launched, and two hands being placed in her, she SIRS Oaken to a rock a short distance inside the reef, which rdr.:to be the Keen's-reef, in lat. 21-15.13 S., loe. 8., some four hundred miles north of Pdureton Bay. The ideas of the passengers were got out of the vessel, sad leaded ma ea the islet, which was about 150 yards by 40. Pereliema were fetched from the ship, which with great maalsomot were made to sustain the party. Mr. Beal, a who was on board, contrived an apparatus for dis tilling for consumption from that of the sea, while a party were employed in constructing • boat in which at length they embarked on the ocean. They made for Moreton Bay, but the wind eventually in the course of five days drove the boats towards the entrance of the Brisbane river, and reached the town in safety, where they met with every kindness and attention from its inhabitants, all of them, including the women and children, comparatively well, a circumstance almost incredible, after having been exposed for 37 days and nights on a desolate cold bank in the Pacific. LOVE AND SUICIDE.-00. the 18th inst. an inquest was held on the body of William Creason Quiball Hall. at the Swan Inn, Sneinton. Deceased was a miller and corn factor, and lived at the Sneinton Hermitage Mill. Elisa beth Hall, housekeeper to the deceased, said that on Tues day morning last her master complained very much of a pain in hie head; during the morning his brother came and staid with him a short time, and When he was gone he lay down upon the sofa for a time, and shortly afterwards came into the kitchen, and said, " I've got a little errand for 'you to do," and gave her a letter to take to the post-office which he placed in her basket, and she put it into the office without looking at it. On her return she went up stairs and found the deceased lying upon the door with hi s face covered with blood. She immedi ately ran out for assistance, and was followed by Mr. Good son and Mr. Burrows, surgeon, of Sneinton, who said he was quite dead. On examination he found • pistol shot wound. He had 'pistol in his right band, and another in his left. He had been very lowspirited for some time, , and f requen tly moaned in the night. When his house- ; keeper asked him the cause of his depression of spirits, he • said, " It is a disappointment, a cruel disappointment ;" and at times sbe pressed him to tell her what the disap pointment was, when he told her that the lady he had a sincere regard for was married. This disappointment she felt confident had affected his mental faculties so as to render him of unsmuid mind. Mr. Goodson, of the Her mitage Steam Mill, had also observed a very material alter ation in his manners and spirits for some time, and was aware he was labouring under a disappointment in conse quence of a female to wham he was attached getting mar ried. Deceased had often told him he had felt the disap pointment, and he had frequently talked to him, and tried to calm his mind. One of the pistols had been recently dia. charged, and the other was loaded with ball.—Verdict, " That the deceased shot himself during a fit of insanity." Notts. Mercury. ROBBERY OF THE EX-MAYOR OF LEEDS.—As the late Mayor of Leeds (Joseph Bateson, Esq.), was last night (Wednesday) proceeding home from te half-yearly dinner of the borough magistrates at half-paet eleven o'clock, he was stopped by three men in Woodhouse-lane' who knocked him dawn and robbed him of a gold watch, with guard and two gold seals. The perpetrators of the outrage han sot been detected. IRELAND. Dritax. Arum 24. The Cork election passed off yesterday, as antici pated, in the return ofMr.Serjeunt Murphy without opposition, and totally unfettered with any political pledges. After the usual forms of the election had bccn completed, Mr. J. F. Maguire rose to put some questions to Mr. Murphy, to which the latter gen tleman vouchsafed replies, although the proceeding 4 were then out of order. He refused altogether sub scribing to any resolution calling upon Irish mem bers to oppose government on every questiou whilo the anti-papal measure should be persisted in. This was a course to which he never could consent, al though he was opposed in the most decided manner to the ministerial measure. Ile said he should be a fool were he to help to bring in Lord Stanley, and that he was resolved never to say black was white for any man, or for any constituency. Ile further assured the meeting that there was not a lawyer its England who assented to the opinion of Mr.liethell ns to the stringent nature of the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill in its present shape, and that he himself did not believe it. The Lord Lieutenant yesterday visited the Royal Dublin Society's cattle show, and spent a con siderable time in a most minute inspection of the several lots exhibited. Ilia Excellency appeared to take the utmost interest in the exhibition. The l'reematt's Journal has the ibllowing para graph under the head of" Sympathy of his Ili:Ames/ for Ireland :" We have been favoured with a copy of a letter which has reached this country lately from It %V b len tau sympathy of hi. Holiness ix expressed for the noble stand made at all times by the Irish Tuelates and people is behalf of the rights and liberties of the catholic church. The document indicates the great confidence reposed in the !unite constancy of the Irish nation, and emigratulates the Irish hierarchy upon the unanimity of counsel with whirl they have carried out the several recommendations that have hitherto emanated front the Holy See, in reference to the " Glory of God and the salvation of souls." -• . • The same journal states that the amount of contri butions for the catholic university," received since the 14th instant, is 1,4271., including three anony mous subscriptions, making together 84101. Three of the Roman catholic archbishops and 14 bishops have attached their signatures to the requisi tion for the aggregate meeting of Tuesday next. PARAGRAPHS FROM THE PAPERS.—The Itaitoon house and demesne, county Galway, put up fin Kale in the Encumbered Estates Court, was bought in, and subse quently sold for 2,000!. to Major Dickson, East India Com pany's service, who purposes expending a large sum in placing the concerns in repair.—There is more ground sowed with potatoes in the south and west of Irelmil than has been known since the incurable failure of IKl6.—Tho weather for the past week has been rather favourable to tho growth of the curly sown oats and potatoes. We base had several heavy showers of rain, which was much required to . . encourage vegetation. '1 he potato planting is, we regret to sac, very late this year, and not to that extent that was anticipated. Oat sowing is also late, which was unavoidable from the severity of the month of arch and the early part of the present month. Barley is still being sown, bat we would advise turnip sowing to a rash perseverance at this lute period of potato culture. There is suiting:at limo to prepare fur sowing swedes, and we most strongly recom mend every fanner to sow this crop extensively, as the pro mise of an abundant harvest is we fear doubtful—to use thu least alarming expression. Wheat looks very healthy, and we have heard very few complaints as to any injure by moisture to the potato.—Mayo Paper.---On Easter Sea day, at about twelve o'clock. noun, as party of sou r armed ruffians attacked and entered the house of llichanl Taylor, Esq., of liollypark, within a short distance of the police barrack of Stonehall. After forcing open tic hall door, they were met inside by Miss Taylor, who was iu a very delicate state of health, at whom they presented their guns, and threatened to shoot her if she did not immediately tell where Mr. Taylor kept his arms. From terror and weak ness the young lady was not able to answer. They next proceeded to ransack the house, breaking the windows and looking-glasses. Having found two stand of arms, a (Malik, gun, Koch maker, London, and single ditto, Vincent maker, Jersey, they left the house, and when outside tired shots, one through a large front window, and then decamped.— Liaterkk. Chronicle. AND CLERICAL. CAMBRllitit.. APRIL 24. FIR; NOItItis.AN nun. —This prize (a gold medal and books), given annually under the will of the late Mr. Norris to the author of thu best prose essay on u sacred subject, has been adjudged to B. A. Irving, 8.A., of Emmanuel College. MOIIEUN Hisrostv.—On Saturday, the 3rd of May, and on every following day in the approaching Mitbatmutex Term (Sundays and Thursdays excepted), the I'm:v.4l.lr of Modern History proposes to deliver, in the hall of Trinity Hall, at the hour of one o'clock pan., daily, a series of lea tufts on the History of the Constitution or Chit Ottera ment of France; commencing with a continuation of thu lectures which he delivered on the same subject in Mid summer Tenn, lscrn, and afterwards repeating the substauco of the last-mentioned lectures. I'ILEFEUXENM Rev. John Duningham, to St. Mary-at-the-Kt): perpetual curacy, Ipswich; value, 1031.; on the nomination of the principal inhabitants of the parish. Rey. George Crablse, to Melton rectory, Norfolk value, 1741.; on the presentation of Lord Walsinigham. SPORTING. NEWMARKET FIRST SPRING MEETING. THURSDAY. The betting on Wednesday night was on ton limited • scale to render a (urinal quotation neceusiry ; we need only mention that Aphrodite was again backed at even., and that Iris declined to 6 to 4 ; and that the Mountain De•r was backed at 12 to 1: Theseus very freely at 20 to 1 ; Iris (for the Oaks) at $ to 1 to 1601. ; and Payment, tor a similar amount, at 12 to 1. The One Thousand Guineas Stakes betting this morning was languid, and at the previous quotations: 13 to 2 was taken to 3001. about Teddingtou ; and 50,000 to 2io laid against The Black Doctor winning the Chester Cup and Derby. I .. Quiarr's PLATE of 10.1 GUISE SH ; for 4-year-oldo, fic. 9lb s lye, lOst 71b ; six and aged, lest 12.1 b. lt.C Lod motley's Una', a yrs (Y. Rolm) 1 Mr. thepheosou'a a by Dromedary, dam by Mu stio, 4 yrs. (Robinson) Lord Ezeter's Nweracler. 4 yrs (Marlow) 3 Betting: 5 to 4 art Nutcracker, 5 to 2 agst and b to 2 art Dromedary colt. Urtel, who had the race in hand from first to last, waited on the favourite to the hill, and won in a canter by two lengths. Run in 7 min. 2.5 sets. SIVSRPSTAIL BS of 100 sore. each, h ft.; fur 3-year-old colts, fist 71b. D.M. Kr. Orsvilles Miro* (Inatome) 1 Lord Manley's Ltoupier (Y. Butter) 2 Betting: 4 to 1 on Ariosto, who made all the running. and won in a canter by two lengths. Run in 1 min. 51 seam ONa Tooljti•ND (iut'eEAs STAKES ; of KO sore. each, h ft, for 3-year-uld fillies, Bat 7lb each ; the second to sari his stake. D.M. _ _ il;rliimlWagirodits ..... (J. Maraca) 1 Mr. GretwWiee Uwe& ((Retinal 1 Lord Suudeys Iris. R. Butler 3 Mr. bele:nem% Parts= (Bartholomew 4 Mr. Illarrimeee Trielothem ( remp'eman 3 ' I Mr. Oratericaree The Squaw (Kitchener) 6 6to 5 ois #phrodite,.2 to 1 - Iris, and Bto I agst Anspach. Tricksiress and Tin Squaw went off in front and cut out the work to the T.Y.C. post, where the three favourites went up, left them in a few strides and finished the race ; Aphrodite going on with the running and winninq in a canter by two lengths. Iris a bad thirst Run in 1 min. 60 no . Swasrsvaaas of 10 son. each : for 3-year-old colts, Bst 71b, and fillies, Bst 41b. The winner to be sold for lid son if demanded. de. First half of Ab. M. Mr. Delemere's Ouy alannenna (Flatmair) 1 BLISIOCES Atha (.l. Howlett)) I Mr. Italuebottowee Album Betting : 6 to 4 egg Anima, 7 to 4 agst Julia, and 2 to 1 agst Guy Mannering. Won in a canter by two lengths. Run in 62 secs. SWEEPSTAKES of 10 SOTS each ; for 3-year-old colts, &it 71b, and fillies, Bst 41b. The winner to be sold for 150 sees. if demanded, dm. T.Y.C. Sir. Barae'a Trinket „. 1 (ratatan) 41;jor Pitt's Ydward ot Tog ...... "....(Drakeray) 2 Mr. lioward's animist. (A. Do.) 3 Betting • Even on Trinket, 2 to 1 art Christina, and 4 to 1 agot Edward of York. Won easily by a length. Run in 1 m. 14 sec. The last train leaving half an hour after the race., we have only time to add that the weather on the whole was favourable, and the attendance moderately good. The result of the One Thousand Guineas Stakes had the effect ad raising Teddington to sto 1 for the Derby. Taken freely. BETTING UP TO SIX O'CLOCK. CHESTER CUP. — I' to 2 apt Rheims (timely). DERBY. 4 to I apt Tisk:bast= (t freely). OAKO. 3 to I east Aptirodste. EPSOM RACES. HANDICAP FON THII ARISTOCRATIC RACN.—Zgis. 6 yrs, 7st 121 b; Thringarth, h yrs, 12st ; Kissaway, 6 yra, I Ist 121 b, Warwick, 4 pa, Ilst 10lb ; Ese:ape, 6 yrs, 1 Ist 6lb ; Reindeer (It b), aged, clot 21b; Mogados, aged. iOst 12Ib ; Miu Spring, 4 yrs, lOst 121 b. --- EARLY CLOSING.—The committee of the Early Closing Association, apprehensive that, unless public atten tion is called to the subject, the large influx of visitors to the metropolis this summer will senously aggravate the evils of the late-hour system of business, have issued an iisal to the feminine portion of the communit , and espe cially those who will be but temporarily • ••• don, calling upon them to abstain from sh. • p rat o'clock in the evening, and to give reasonabl elocution of their several millinery and 116 dem. Were these roles generally • r3 . "' th ep i e t ti em ye p p loy he ir e r s s or cone us l i s n a ess ve o n pe o a m tju otire tte f.. . _ _ whsth now reOaa. • • 415Madrx