The Express. — London, England, 1851-02-06 00:00:00

date/ for the posts created in this decree, are invited to inscribe their names for examination. An organi sation committee will be established in the first in stance to carry these provisions into execution. Btat.tx, FEB. 4.—TZoltui Lout, 1061 ; New Luau. Four-and-e-Ilalt per CenO tary ., 1001 ; Nationsl Debt, 841; Corn- Menial Marine Society's Prentina,l2B ; Bank Shares, 96. VIRNN•, Fun. 3.—Five per Cent. Metalliques, 961; Four-and-a-half per Cents., ditto, 841 ; Bank Shares 1148 Eichange on London, 12.42. PORTVGAL.—The Oriental Company's steam packet Jupiter, Capt. F. Meehan, arrived at South ampton yesterday, and landed her mails under the charge of Lieut. k P. Fair, R.N., Admiralty Agent. She sailed 27 hours after the Madrid, which arrived at Southampton on Tuesday. Her dates are Lisbon, January 30. WEST INDIES. PROGRESS OF THE CHOLERA. Yesterday, the mail steamer Thames arrived at Southampton, with dates—Vera Cruz. Jan. 7th; Tampico, 4th; Chasms. 9th; Honduras. 1 Ith ; Car thagcna, 11th; Jamaica, 14th; Berbice, 11th; Demerara, 11th; Tobago, 10th; Trinidad, 11th; St. Vincent. 12th; Barbadoca, 13th ; St. Lucia, 14th; Antigua, 15th; I )(aunties, 14th; Martinique, 14th; Giiloupe, I Ith ; Grenada, 12th ; Montserrat, 15th; Porta Rico, 14th ; St. Thomas, 18th; La Guayra, 18th; Nevis, 13th; St. Kitt's, 15th. She brings 87 pamengers; five hundred thousand dollars from Mexico, of which eighty-four thousand dollars are on account of 3lexican dividends; and gold-diet from Chagres to the value of nine hundred thousand dollars. The Thames brought 214 Californian passengers . from Greytown to Chagres, where she landed them on the 3rd and 4th ult., all paying saloon fare, 15 dots., though four-fifths of them were half-naked, and without sufficient to pay their way, while others had large sums in gold. One individual had 4,000 dollars' worth; a party of four had 40,000 didlars' worth, and another party of three, 30.001) dollars; many persons had 3,000 dollars' worth, and lesser tams. Upwards of 2.000 persons from California poised through Grey town, returning to the United States, in November and December last. By the latest arrivals it is said the cholera is raging fearfully hi California, 4,000 deaths being reported from the Ist to the 111th November. This route (of Grey town and Chagres) is not likely to be so much frequented for some time to come as it has latterly been, there being a quarantine of thirty days imposed on all vessels arriving ut Realejo from esSfornia. Realejo is the nearest and best Pacific port to Greytown ; it is about 2,600 miles south-cast of San F 111116 4 .0 by sea; about 150 miles from the town of Granada. which is on the north-west borders of Lake Nicaragua, thence through the lake to San Caries, at the head of the San Juan River, about 95 miles; thence by the river to Oreytown, about 90 miles more. From Iteulejo to Grenada is travelled on mutts. A small steamer, the Director, has, after much perseverance, succeeded in passing over the rapids, and getting wifely into Lake Nicaragua, while her consort, the Oral, is likely to be a wreck on the rocks of the same rapids. Much facility will be afforded to travellers by this route (of Nicaragua). The United States steamer Cherokee arrived at Cliagr+ on the 7th ult., with 45 cabin passengers and 11111 hands to work on the railroad now being constructed from Navy Bay to Panama. The Phila delphia steamer, with 230 passengers for California, arrived at Chagres on the Bth ult., and also the Prometheus. Greytown and (Ingres were healthy, although at the former port the crew of her Majesty's steamer Inflexible was suffering from intermittent fever, having had seven deaths, and her captain and fifty men on the sick list. Aecording to the latest advices from Jamaica, the cholera had left Montego Bay. Front Trelawney the cholera reports were favourable. At Westmore land it had not made its appearance. At St. Elisabeth's, Stewart Town, the cholera was still bad. It had just commeneed its destructive influence in the sawyers' district. It still prevailed, also, at Roby town and its vicinity. It was decreasing in the Ihincan's districts. }rum Hanover the intelligence is most disastrous. Sonnw anddespair reign there. All are panic-stricken. If it were not for the Coolies, the last restingdoers for the dead would not be .At M etcalf , also, the epidemic was very prepare St. Lucia the legislative council was to meet on the 15th Jainnurv. Fine crop weather pre vailed. Boards of health - had been established in the chief towns in the colony. A dreadful epidemic pre vails in French Guiana. Accounts thence are to the 31st of Ikeember. The government was mani festly alarmed, and the official organ of the colony is filled with various orders and proclamations, promulgating measures of various kinds to stay the of the disease, not only in Cayenne, but in speed districts. 'Thirty thousand franca had been voted for the relief of the indigent sick, and medical officers had been appointed by the government to attend the sick, especially in the Leeward districts. BRITISH GUIANA. The Revd aiziele of Jan. 11, in the review for borne renders, says: We consider it but fair to the Royal Wed India Mail Company, whose arrangements we have so often had occa sion of late to censure, to open our present article by stating that their steamer, the Dement, arrived on this occasion in ear river with the European and intercolonial mails pune titelly to her time. We irust add, however, that we believe this is only the second time that the Dement has been se regular for the last twelvemonth. The last fortnight has been a very quiet one in British Guiana. The Court of Policy has been in non-session, to suable members, we presume, like other mortals, to enjoy a little recreation and repose during the Christmas holi days. The court, however, will re-assemble on Monday neat, the 13th, for the transaction of business. The holi days have passed off very quietly. His Excellency the Governor wiled himself of the adjournment of the legis lature to pay a visit, accompanied by Mr. Barkly and some friends, to the Essequebo river. His Excellency we understand, who, with Mrs. Barkly and their party, returned some days ago to the seat of government, visited, in the course of his tour, the penal settle ment in the tlassaroony river, which is a tributary of the Bmcourho. and graciously remitted the sentences, some in pert, and some wholly, d several of the convicts who had conducted themselves at the settlement in such a manner to justify the extension to them of that act of grace and favour—so well suited to the season of general Christian rejoicing when bis Excellency's visit to that abode of punishment, misery, and remorse was paid. We hope that this art of gentle merry may have the effect of softening the hearts and reclaiming the habits of many other convicts, the more encouraged to good conduct from seeing the gleams of hope piercing the gloom of their prison walls, and from knowing that, although the lonely prisoner is an outcast from the world, there is yet, where penitence is sin cere, one generous heart left that feels for him, and a hand both willing and able to assist him. Our newly-constituted beards of health in the two chief towns of the colony, Georgetown and New Anbterdion, are busily engaged in organising measures for the improvement of the sanitary condition of those two places. The board in Georgetown have nominated district commissioners for each ward of the city. Hitherto the colony has been healthy enough ; and, seeing this, there are some persons who seem to think that it was needless for the colony, in its pride of strength, to constitute such boards at all, or at least, quite so soon. We confess, however, we sec no grounds for such confidence. If the colony is spared the scourge of an epidemic disease, it will be through the mercy of heaven. To the north of us cholera is mowing down its victims in Jamaica, one of the most generally salubrious as well as beautiful islands of the Antilles, by thousands; and, while we are writing, papers only a few days old from French Guiana are lying before us, containing most smile evidence of the alarm of the French authorities as Cayenne at the rapid spread in that province, only two or three days sail to windward of us, of some desolating epidemic, which we do not find mi otioned by name in the journals before us, but which is said to be yellow fever, though, for aught we know, it may be cholera. The reserve on the part of the Cayenne papers may be accounted for by remarking that, though France is at present governed by republican insti tutions, the government of La Guyana Franeaise is on the model which has usually prevailed at all time, and under all changes, elsewhere in the French West Indies, and upon which St. Domingo itself was ruled when it was a French dependency. The governor is a little Cur. There as. no popular institutions, no Houses of Assembly, no COIF bined Courts, and no opposition journals to control his power, or to thwart his designs and mar his obi:lulus:Ml The decrees and ordinances run in his name. He is, however, so far checked, that he can issue none, except on the proposition of an officer, called an Ordounateur, and with the advice of the Privy Council. The Privy Council is Fa mily obedient enough. But the Ordonnateur is a high officer of state, appointed from home, and as great a man almost as the Governor himself; and it sometimes happens that there are things which ho won't recommend. Bryan Edwards says that in St. Domingo the interests of the colo nists were always pretty sure to be consulted in the end from the jealousy which unveiled between the Governor and the Intendent—who played the same part there as the Ordon intent now does in Cayenne—and which made them pull different ways. In justice, however, to the government of French Guiana we mast say that they appear to consult the well-being of all classes of the inhabitants, and to conduct the affairs of the colony in an eidightensd and energetic manner; and that they have managed to make French Guiana pass through the ordeal of emancipation, compara tively scatheless and unharmed. Landed property in this colony does not appear as yet to be regaining its former value. The plantations, which are 1 from time to time brought to the hammer or disposed of by private contract, do not fetch one half as many dollars as ' they would pounds sterling a few years ago. As one proof of this remark, we may mention two sales of estates that have been effected privately in the course of the last few days; Coming's Lodge, once a fine, but now a comparatively abandoned stuaggaart estate on the east coast of Demerara, and in the i 'ate vicinity of Georgetown, sold to John Atkinson, Req., for 16,500 dollars, and Nooten's &till, a property once of considerable value, but now out of cultivation, and situated several mike higher up on the sew coast, sold to John Alt, Esq., for 3,500 dots. It does sot speak vevy flatteringly fur the estimation in which the prospects of this colony arc held by shrewd capitalists and 1 men of business al home, that both these estates should have Wormed to two well-known and influential firms in England connected with the West Indies ; Coming's Lodge having been sold by order of the attorney in this colony e Messrs. Bosanquct, Naghten, and Co., of London, and Nooten's Zuyll by order of that of Messrs. Dudek and Co., of Bristol ; those houses having been the owner. respectively of the properties is question. Pacts such as these, coupled with others of the same kind and of recent uocurneice, are rather disheart ening to the colonist* ; for they seem to show a desire On the part of capitalists either to close their connection altogether with the colony, or to restrict it within the nar rowest possible limits. And why should they do this, ex cept they perceive trouble and disaster in the distance ? except they see, after twelve years' experience of the eman eipation system and the unerring evidence of their books and ledgers, no grounds for believing that the future cul tivation of estates in this colony eau be carried on remune ratively ? Should such a conviction be prevalent in high , mercantile quarters at home, it cannot fail to b e at tended with most disastrous consequences to this colony; for it is not going too far to sumet that four litho of the agriculture of the colony is at this mo ment kept up by absentee capital, and, consequently, since we have no exports hut those derived from our agriculture to depend upon, that four-fifths of the swans of the resident colonist., and of the funds that go towards the maintenance of our local institutions, are derived from the same absentee source. It may sound strange to English ears, which are accustomed to emaciate Ireland and all its evils with the term absenteeism ; but nothing is more true, that, as regards British Guiana, our absentees have hitherto been the very prop and foundation on which the colony has rested, and from which the greater part of the comforts of its inhabitants has been derived. We am accus tomed to speak of immigration and labour as the two grand wants of the country; but the truth is, the country stands just as much in need of money as of Coolies or Kroomrn. Labour may he compared to some powerful engine which, set in motion, produces valuable fabric! , ; but capital to the steam, or other power, which makes it re volve and work. And in this colony, the more true is it, that capital is the fuel of labour, because where the means are wanting to remunerate men for their labour, they need not starve 50 elsewhere, but have only to choose between unre quited toil and a relapse into the semi-barbarous state, which the facility of acquiring the means of subsistence in this enuntry, the boundless extent of our fertile waste lands, and the mildness of our climate deprive of nearly all tbel penal vaults with which it would be attended in any country of Europe. Already have vast bodies of oar people retreated up the rivers and into the wilderness, far from the centres of civilisation and commerce; and we cannot entertain the least doubt upon our mind, that the poorer the colony becomes—the less of capital there is in it the more abundant will he the reflux of our Impala tion into the wild and vest interior of our colony. Foe purposes of agriculture and commerce, labour so diverted and allowed to run to waste is as absolutely lost as if it had never existed. The weather during the fortnight has been Reasonable. The planters had been complaining of want of sufficient rain fur the young canes ; but the showers we have had for the last few days have left them fur the present nothing to desire in that respect. THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 6, 1851. CHILI AND RI The Chilian government published, on the 12th of last November, a decree, by which it declared that the ships of all nations not admitting into their harbours Chilies vesseh on the conditions of their own bottoms, should in future pay a surto: of navigation to the amount of 6 nab; per ton, and that the merchandise imported by such ships must besides pay differential duties of 10 per cent. The navigation dues raised by the Chili Cur tom-house are as follows :—Anchorage duty per ship, 2 piastres ; registration due, per ship, 2 piastres• tonnage due, per ton, 2 reabi. These dues are not lei ied on whalers of any flag, ships in ballast, ships taking refuge against pirates or enemies, or entering for repairs, but they are raised on all laden vessels entering Chilian ports. This decree will not set upon Engli-h ships, because England receives the Chilian flag on the same footing as thou of I other nations. But the result to French trade with Chili, one of the largest France possesses, is very ditlrent. Chili receives from France exports which, in the year 1642, amounted to more than a million sterling. Almost a third of these' French exports consists of silks, woollens, and cotton-stuffs. The customs tariff of Chili, like that of the United States, is based on ad ralorem duties; and thus French silks, cot tons, and woollens, will have to pay, in addition to two mals increased tonnage, a differential duty of 10 per cent., not on the amount of the principal duty, but on the value of the goods. For instance, cotton stuffs, which now pay an ad valorem duty 421 per 100, must pay when iniported in ships not assimilated, 31 per tent. ad adorns. The same with woollens, which also pay about 21 per rent. ad raiment duty. Silks, which pay 15 and 21 per cent., must also be taxed 2.5 per cent. and 31 per nut. There are other disadvantages which accrue, for these differential duties become more unfavour able, in proportion ns the principal duty is low. In fact the [result of the Chilian decree of Nov. 12 must of necessity have been the complete prohibition of importations under the French flag; but we burn that, in order to prevent the evil consequences that must have resulted to the French flag in consequence of the decree above referred to, the French government has presented to the Chamber a bill, giving to the Chilian flag the assimilation which allows the French flag to be treated as that of the most favoured nations. France is thus obliged to abandon piecemeal the protection which must some time hence be given up al- I together. SALVAGE OF AN AMERICAN MERCHANT VESSEL, BY HEE MAJESTY'S STEAMER GLA DIATOU. PORTSMOUTH, FEB. s.—Lieut. Charles IL Robson, late of the Olathator, 6, steam-sloop, Capt. John Adams, on the westeoast of Africa statitm, has lately returned to Ports mouth from America, having been engaged in the following case of salvage, which possesses several features of a novel character ..—The Huntress, an American brig, trading on the north-west coast of Africa, was fallen in with by the Jackal, steam-tender to the Gladiator, the former having her flag hoisted union down, the ordinary' signal of distress. On being boarded, it was found that she hail lost her cap tain, that the mate was dying with coast fever, and that her crew, entirely ignorant of navigation, were worn out with anxiety and Ltigue. They had berm soiling for four days at random, sometimes approaching the main land, and then bearing away again, to avoid running ashore or to escape from piratical looking boats that sought to board them. When the Jackal fell in with them they were about to run up what they supposed to be the rive ? Cahoon, but which was in fact a small inlet wane '290 miles further north. Their vessel was a mere estray on the ocean, at the mercy of the first finder, unless protected by his sense of justice. The crew ghillie gave up the vessel and them selves into the charge of the commander of the Jackal, who I put an olhrer on board and conducted them to Fernando Po, at which 'place the Gladiator was lying, here every. thing was done for crew and vowel that hospitality and kindness could do, on the part of Captain Adams and his officer.. The surgeon of the Gladiator went on hoard to the aid of the mate, but he was already dead. The vessel was supplied with water, medicines, and stores; and an anchor was furnished her to replace one she had lost. The property, which was of ' considerable value, was collected, carefully inven toried and sealed up. Disinfectants were also employed to remove or diminish the causes of disease on board; and with the assent of the second mate, and in ateardauce with his opinion as to what was best for the owner's interest, it was determined to send her to the United States. Accord ingly Lieutenant Robson was placed on board to navigate ' her, and sonic men were sent from the Gladiator to com plete her eff.etive complement. Now the coast fever, of I which the captain and mate had died, was found to be in a high degree tualignant,and,notwithstanding the precautions which had been taken to disinfect the Huntress, and although Lieutenant Robson, in obedience to the surgeon's instruction, kept clear of the cabin as much as possible, sleeping on deck, and going below only to make out his I reckonings, he was attacked by the disease a few days after (leaving the coast, and struggled with difficulty and through much danger against its effects until he reached Philadelphia. On his arrival there, 69 days after leaving Fernando Po, he was a confirmed and broken down invalid •' su ill, that his physicians considered him " unfit to 100 moved." Having somewhat recruited his strength, Lieut. Robson sought to recover salvage from the owners of the Huntress, but failing todoso, he had recourse to the Admiralty Court at Philadelphia, when, in answer to the libel, the owners contended that the vessel should not have been sent home by Captain Adams, but should have been despatched along the coast, in search of a navi gator, under whose direction to continue her voyage ; that the vessel had a consignee at Sierra Leone, to whom shu should hove been sent ' • that the salvage was complete when the vessel reached Fernando Po in safety ; and this: the services of Mr. Robson in conducting her to the Unite 4 States were merely those of a navigator, and to be paid fir as such. Judge Kane, of the Admiralty Court, hewers, overruled these answers, and char/Leh:tilled the con duct of Captain Adams in the affair as . . judged, liberal-spirited, sedulously protective of the interests misfortune had cast upon him, and justly con flding in the country whose citizens he had relieved er merited." " What obligations," asked the judge (we quote from the Philadelphia Legal Intelliyeneer's report of the trial)," were there resting on these salvors to do as they have dons ? Absolutely none hut those of human fellowship They were strangers, subjects of a foreign power, at a great distance from home, armed and cruising for a special oh. jest, requiring their full complement of men to man priers and meet the casualties of a sickly climate. It illustrates well the advancing civilisation of the age, that alien flaps arc thus summoned on distant seas to perform offices of brotherhood, and the armament of war is found minis tering to the charities of man. These considerations higher and more noble than any of policy that would alon , prompt us to foster the spirit which these salvors maul. rested." In reference to Lieutenant Robson, the Judge said: "It manifests a determined energy of character at the part of that gentleman, which is praiseworthy in a high degree—that in shattered and sometimes critical health, ant with insubordination on the part of his only officer, the mate, he succeeded in conducting the vessel through an lonz • voyage safely home to her owners." The award was fir payment of all expenses on account of sickness, &e. on the part of Lieutenant Rohson and others engaged ; and sal. cage of one-fourth part of the value of the vessel and liar cargo, 14,600 dollars, one-third of which was awarded b Mr. Robson, and the remaining two-thirds to Captait Adams and the officers and crews of the Gladiator ant Jackal, including Mr. Robson, to be distributed accordinr to the regulations and usages of the British service. MINISTERIAL VISIT TO THE GAOL OE NEWGATI. —Yesterday, immediately after the conclusion of the trill of the " Slomes," which will be found in another portico of our columns, Lord John Russell, accompanied by Sk George Grey, and other officials connected with the in. spection of prisons, arrived at Newicate, for the purpose tf witnessing and inspecting the venous arrangement% ma& therein by the direction of the visiting justices for the health and care of the prisoners. Lord John Russell and Sir George Grey were received by the Lord Mayor, Sit Jena Duke, M.P., Alderman liumphery, &c., and es ode& by them through the prison. EXT7S.NsIVE FIRE IN TILE STRAND.—A few minutes before seven o'clock yesterday morning the family of Mr. White, of the Temple Divan, St. Clement's-churchyard, 11187 narrowly escaped suffinsation from fire. It appeared Ma! Kr. White, his wife and children, slept on the third flecm, over the billiard room, and at seven o'clock were aroused by a 'yang smell ig smoke. All escaped to the roof, except Mrs. White, whose weight, it aware, broke down a table on which she was standing. Fortunately Robinson, with a Royal Society fire escape, was present, and, being a powerful man, he ascended his ladder, entered the attic, and, taking Mrs. White in his arms, bought her down without injury Water was plentiful, mid several engines having speedily arrived, in about an hour the fire was extinguishe , but not until the billiard and ether rooms with the whole of their contents, had been destroyed. BRISTOL LOCAL MARINE BOARD.—The misun derstanding which subsisted between this body and the government has been removed, the latter having conceded to Bristol the privileges claimed for it. It will be remem bered that the Board of Trade had refused t o the Bristol board the right to examine for first-class certificates, a pro ceeding which was considered so capricious aol unjust in the face of the concessions to Liverpool, Glasgow, Grecnnck, Shields, &c., that the members of the board resigned en masa% and the mercantile population of the city expressed their determination not to appoint any summers. In this state of things the corporation stepped in, and adopted a memorial to the government, in which was set forth the sommercial importance of Bristol, the terriess which its mariners had at various times rendered to British com merce, and the extensive nature of its foreign and colonial trade. This memorial was presented to the Board of Trade on Tuesday by a deputation from the corporation, accom panied by the town clerk and the members in parliament. Mr. King, a member of the town council, and one of the merchants who had been returned on the decal marine board, support,sl its prayer, and showed by a reference to the Custom-house returns that Bristol was one of the largest porta of foreign imports, the duties pail by it being much larger than those of Glasgow and Greenock together, i and vastly in excess of those of Shields, Sunderland, &e. The noble president of the board admitted that an ample ease had been made out on the part of the city, and ex premed the readiness of the government to grant the re quired privilege. The concession of the Board of Trades has removed a great deal of dissatisfaction. Vbe Court. WINDSOR, Fan. 5. Her Majesty the Queen and Prince Albert dined with the Duchess of Kent this evening at her residence Froginore. The Royal family took walking exereise this morning in the tilupts and R incisor-park. Lord Dufferin has relieved the Marquis of Ormond° in his duty as lord in waiting to the Queen, and Lieut.-Col. th, lion. Robert Boyte has relieved Col. Berkeley Drummond in his duty so Groom in waiting to her Majgty. The Duke of Richmond bad an interview with Lord John Russell yesterday, at his official residence in Downing street. Mr. WotMauna*: had also an intcniew with the noble lord yesterday. Mr. 11. G. Gordon, Chairman of the Oriental Bank, bad an interview with Earl Grey yesterday at the Colonial ' office. The Cambridge University. Commission met yesterday at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury in Downing -street. l'resent, the Biahop of Chester, the Dean of Ely, Sir J. F. W. Ilerschel, the Rev. l'rofessor Secig wick, and the Itev. W. 11. Bataan, (secretary). Mr. Hodges, M.P., had an interview with Sir George Grey yesterday at the Home-office. Mr. 'W. C. flail and Mr. Thomas Hughes had an inter view with the Right Hon. Henry Labouchere yesterday at the office of the Board of Trade. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office from the Governor of Gibraltar. _ The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council at yester day. Present, Mr. Baron Parke, the Judge of the Admi ralty Court, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Cornwall, and Sir Edward Ryan. An appeal from Canada, " Quebec Fire Insurance v. Multion and St. Louis," was commenced. WINDSOR ELECTION. WINDSOR, WEDNESDAY.—The new writ moved for last night in the House of Commons for the election of a member of parliament for the royal borough, in conse quence of Mr. Mitchell, since his election (now just twelve months ago), having been appointed Attorney-General of Ireland, has created very little excitement, in Cause quenec of there not appearing the most remote probabi lity of any attempt being made to oppose that gentle- I man's re-election. It will be remembered that Mr. llatehell WWI returned for Windsor last February, in con sequence of Lord John Hay haling vacated the seat, upon his appointment as Port Superintendent of Devonport Dockyard. by his acceptance of the Stewardship of North stead. On the day of nomination Mr. llatehell will be, it is expected, proposed by Mr. J. T. Beilborough, one of the magistrates of the borough, and Mr. Henry Darcill, solicitor, will second the nomination. The learned gentle man avows himself to be a friend to civil and religious liberty, a strong advocate of the principles of free trade, and a warm supporter of the measures and policy of the present government. LORD ARUNDEL AND LORD JOHN RUSSELL. Lori Arundel and Surrey has published the fol lowing letter: 11, Carlton-terrace, Wednesday, Feb. 5. My Lord,—lt was not until this afternoon, alter reading the speech delivered by Lord Lansdowne in the Rouse of Lords yesterday, and atter referring again to your lord ship's speech in the other house, that the conviction forced itself upon my mind that your lordship did actually believe the recent appointment of a catholic hierarchy in this country to be an assumption of temporal power on the part of the Pope. It really had not occurred to me previously that you, or any of her Majesty's Ministers, did or could view the appointment of the hierarchy in that light. I beg, therefore, most distinctly to assure your lordship, in the strongest language I can command, that such is not the fact. The language made use of in various documents which have been alluded to does apply exclusively to spiritual jurisdiction, and the looser phraseology of news papers, which have also been referred to, either bears the same exclusive meaning or is incorrect. The appointment of the hierarchy does not make the smallest difference in our temporal position as subjects of her Majesty. This I distinctly amid unhesitatingly affirm. I therefore hope that, whatever may be said by others, no minister of the crown will on any occasion again attempt to stigmatise with disloyalty any portion of her Majesty's catholic subjects for accepting, as I hold it to be their bounden duty to do, the purely spiritual organisation given to theta by the head of their church. I have the honour to be, my lord, Your humble servant, ARUNDEL AND SURREY. To the Lord John Russell, &c. BARBADOES. In this island the planters were anticipating a very large crop of sugar; larger, in fact, than the place had ever produced. TRINIDAD. The Port of SooiN Gazsi'e, of the latest date (Jan. 11), says: "Our crop season has commenced with very favourable weather, and the sugar mills are nearly all about. I.abour, as far as we can learn, is obtained with desirable readiness. The crop pro mises to be at least an average one." Mr. Barnley, senior unofficial member of the Le gislative Council, died on the 28th of December. An unusual briskness in the business of the island was observed, caused by an advance in the price of cocoa, but otherwise commerce preserved its dull and ordi nary appearance. - - - ST. LUCIA. We learn that the work of sugar making bad begun pretty generally throughout the island. The Antigua and St. Vincent papers contain no news of importance. The Windward and Leea ard Islands generally were healthy, and the weather fine. The crops were expected to be good. The papal agitation was developing itself in the British West India Islands. COMMERCIAL INTELLIOENCE. DEoILOSTOWN, DEMERARA, JAY. 10. Our markets have been inactive the past fortnight. Ame rican provisions continue to be in limited supply ; only two vessels have arrived direct from the States since our last, and prices for bread-stuffs are firmer. The stock of cod-fish is getting small, but the quality of that on hand is not of a description to admit of holding fur higher rates; conse quently the price remains low. The falling off in the sugar crop does not appear to be so much as was at find expected, but it is said more of the crop of 1848 was cleared from the port of Georgetown in January, 1849, than there will he of that of 1649 in the present month by some hundreds of hhds. The export of molasses has been much less, which is to be accounted for by the excess of rum made. Our trade in hard wood timber has been more than doubled, and is becoming of con siderable importance. Freights have advanced Is. 9d. to 2s. per cwt., and can now he obtained. Prices of exports have consequently declined, and there are now but few buyers at our quotations. Exchange on London.—Private bills, 90 days' eight, 470 dole. to 472; banks, 90 days' sight, 477 dole.; 80 days' sight, ' 479 dole. • 30 days' sight, 481 dole. ; purcha s ing at 487 dole. Colonial Bank drafts on New York at 30 days' sight, par. KIEGHTON, JAN. 13. Bread.-50 barrels of Georgetown pilot have been sold at 18e. Crackers are in good inquiry; there are not any of Wattson's in the market. Cora.-200 bags of American have clanged hands at 65.61. per bag of two bushels. South American remains at our Le quotations. Flour.—The market is overstocked, and prices have fallen in consequence. The decline in the value of the ar ticle in the United States has also contributed to depress our markets. PORT OP SPAIN, TRINIDAD, J.N.I 11. Flour.—American, 61 dols. ; bread, navy, 1 dol. ; pilot, 4 dole. Rice.—American, 4 dole. per 1001 b. ; East India, 4 dole. per bag of 1651 b. Tobacco.—Leaf, 20 dole. to 25 dole. ; scarce. Brandy, per imperial gallon, 1 dol. to 2 dole. 50c. Gin, per use of 1 dozen, 3 dole Corn-meal, per barrel, 4 doh, Lard, per keg, 31 dole. Butter.—lrish, per firkin 121 dots. Pork.—lrish—none. A merican, 18 dole. ; ditto, prime, 111 dole. Beet—lrish--none. American, half-barrel, family, 10 doh. Cod-fish, per quintal, 2 1 dole. Sugar, 3 dole. sc. per 10016. Cocoa, 8 dole. SOc. per 1101 b. Coffee, 10 dole. per 1001 b. Rum, 70c. to 1 dol. per imperial gallon. Exchanges on L on don.—Colonial Bank, 30 dars, 488 per 100/. ; 60 days, 488 ditto ; 90 days, 484 ditto ; private bills, 90 days, 480 ditto. ADMIRALTY, FRB. s.—The memorandum of Dec. 13, 1847, has been rescinded, and any Commander may now be appointed to ships of the line and Bag ships. In future any gentleman on whom it is intended to confer a commission as second lieutenant in the corps of Royal Marines will be required to deposit with the Accountant- General of the Navy the sum of 801. to cover the expense of his first outfit. _ . PROMOTION.—TO be commander, F. L. Barnard. APPOINTMENTS.—Commander G. Ogle, to study steam at Woolwich. Flag Lieutenant and Commander F. A. Egerton, to the Lieutenant and Commander L. R. Reynold., confirmed to the Medina. Master W. W. Williams (a), to the Coast Guard. bERIOCe ACCIDENT TO CAPTAIN SIR EVERADD HOYE AND OFFICERS AND MIN OP THE CALLIOPE.-A very serious accident happened on board the Calliope, 26, at Devonport, on Monday morning last. The Calliope was being taken out of harbour into the Sound, in charge of Mr. llfius, assistant master attendant, and in tow of the Avon steam vessel. She was starting all well, when it ap peen the capstan not being properly attended to, the ship pined way on the men working at it, and on their walking back to gise each hawser an equal strain the capstan ran away,"earrying every one before it. The captain, Sir Everard Home, Bart., was most seriously hurt in the head, and also in one of his legs. One of the assistant surgeons ' had his let; or thigh broken, and a quartermaster was disn prouslr. injured.. These were immediately taken to the I Roal Naval Hospital. Si: or eight other men were more or less severely hurt, but not so seriously as the captain, assistant-surgeon, and the quartermaster. The ship was agile placed at her moorings in Hamoaze,and wi ll not leave th em until further orders. The Mope was to have been inspected and paid advance, and, together with the Funtome, 1 4 . rim lender Oannys, was to have pro ceeded to New ZiAlaud. REPEAL OF THE WINDOW TAX. MEETING OF THE METROPOLITAN DELEGATES. A meeting of delegates from the metropolitan pa rishes was held at the Court Roux, Marylebone, on Tuesday, to arrange the deputation for waiting on the Chancellor of the Exchequer on 'I hunillay next, the time appointed for its reception, Mr. NICUOLAY WWI in the chair. Deputations attended from the principal metropolitan parishes, and letters were read from Sir Benjamin Hall, Lord Dudley Stuart, Charles Lushington, Esq., Sir Do Lacy Evans, and W. Williams, Esq., expressing their in tention to attend the deputation at the interview with the Chancellor of the Exchuer. Lord DUNCAN begged to congratulate the meeting on the presence of the deputations from various parts of the metro ' polls. The tax was imposed in barbarous times ' and was a disgrace to civilisation, the objections to it were founded on principle, and it pressed most unequally upon the various classes of soeiety. Ile intended upon the very earliest day to give notice of his intention to bring forward his o!d motion on the subject : he was ready then, and would con tinue ready, to light the battle of the repeal of this in iquitous tax; he would not address himself on the subject of a house tav, because he did not think that with the pre sent surplus of the Chancellor of the Exchequer there was any occasion for a substitute. lie had information that not only in the metropolis, but in Oxford, Portsmouth, Sun derland, and numerous other large towns throughout the kingdom, the agitation fur the repeal of the tax would be strenuously continued, until the object in view was at tained. After some desultory conversation, it was agreed that the deputation should go to Downing -street in carriages pla earded with the words " uneonditional repeal of the window duties." - The thanks of the meeting were voted to Lord Duncan for his services on this other question, and also to the chair- PARISHES OF ST. GILES AND ST. GEORGE, BLOOMSBURY Yesterday evening, a public meeting of the inha bitants of the übote parishes, convened by the Parochial Association, was held at the Angel Inn, High-street, to adopt further measures for securing the total abolition of the window tax. Mr. COOPER was called to the chair, and trusted that those present would push on in the roam they had under taken; the parish of St. Giles was a quiet parish so far as the parish officers were concerned, but the iniquitous nature of the window tax was such that the inhabitants were determined no longer to endure it. Mr. SAVAGE rose to more the following resolution:— "That in furtherance of the objects of the resolutions passed at the meeting held at the Music Hall, Store-street, this meeting resolves that petitions be circulated amongst the inhabitants of these parishes, and that they lx re quested individually to use every means in their power to promote the success of the movement." The object of this motion was to carry out the resolutions they had before come to. Mr. MARSIIALL seeondixl the resolution, and observed, it bad been stated that there wax but a little agitation on the question in the provincial towns, but this arose from the peculiar nature of the tax, which was essentially a London tax, and bore most unequally upon its inhabitants. The resolution was carried unanimously. The CHAIRMAN invited those gentlemen who were de sirous of joining the deputation to the Chancellor of the Exchequer to-morrow (this day), to meet at the Marylehone Court Rouse, at 12 &dock, whence the deputation would proceed to Downing-street. The meeting then separated. THE CANTERBURY SETTLEMENT. Yesterday the first weekly conversational meeting after the assembling of parliament, of the colonists intend ing to go out to the Canterbury settlement, in New Zea land, took place at the Colonists' Rooms, 9, Adelphi-terrace, and was numerously attended. The chair was taken by Captain St sir rote. The CHAIRMAN said, when this scheme was first brought forward, the colonists had certain inducements held out to them, some of a minor and others of a higher kind. Those of the higher kind related to matters of religion and education. They had received from the association not only assurances but proofs that they would attend to the matter of religion. They took out with theta their own English church. The next matter was the college. Education and religion must go hand in hand. The college was highly important in every way, and it was intended not only for themselves but for a great portion of the eastern hemisphere, for they hoped to find fathers sending their cons from India and from New South Wales to it. It would not be merely a grammar school, but would comprise the higher branches of education, and would he assimilated to the universities in our own country. The Rev. Mr. WADE, rector of St Ann's, Soho, then read the outlines of the plan of the proposed college, which he said was now under consideration. It stated that one of the fundamental objects of the founders was to train up ministers to the colonial church, and also to fit young Melt to the peculiar occupations of a secular colonial life. The college was to be constituted as an independent society consisting of a warden, and not less than 5 nor more then 20 fellows under whose superintendence the practical busi ness of education would be carried on. The college will have power of self-government, subject to the visitation of the bishop. One-tenth of the revenues will be set apart for free nominations. ' , The education in the lower depart ment will be similar that at Eton, Harrow, Westminster, and Winchester. In the upper department the education will be as similar as possible to that at Oxford and Cam bridge ; but the general branch is to include not only gene ral literature, but also such brunches as are more peculiarly fitted for the pursuit in life of the students. Particular at tention will be given to the study of agriculture, and with this view there will be a model farm. The study of medi cine will also form a branch, and a hospital will be attached. There will also be a distinct department for the education and training of youth sent out from the mother country with a view to their settling in the colony. Lord LYTTELTON said the present meting was looked upon as of more than ordinary interest, as it was the first after the meeting of parliament. He was not aware, how ever, that there was much to he said with regard to that. There might have been if circumstances had turned out a little different. With regard to the college, the plan which had first been laid before them wascl a further development of what had been already agreed to. The most important addition was that which re lated to the providing a temporary home for young men who might wish to go to the colony. With regard to the scheme of the college generally, it warn as yet only a scheme. It had not yet been brought before the colonists, and the com mittee must ask for some time for its further development. There was another point of considerable importance, a fur ther development of the scheme of ecclesiastical manage ment, in so far as temporalities were concerned. The Rev. Mr. SEWELL then read a document, giving the details of the scheme of ecclesiastical management. The general effect of it was to place the revenues at the disposal of a board consisting of an equal number of clergymen ' and laymen, with the addition of the bishop, who is to have a veto. _ _ Lord LYTTELTON said this was not determined upon, but had been sent to the colony for the consideration of the colonists. Dr. THOMPSON then addressed the meeting. He stated that he had been in the colony and was well acquainted with its climate and general character. He trusted, that on going out to New Zealand they would endeavour to conci liate the natives, who in his opinion had not been treated as they ought to have been. They were well disposed, and if well treated would be of groat assistance, especially in the cultivation of flax, which was the staple of the country. With regard to the climate, there was not a country on the face of the globe which was superior. There was an erro neous idea abroad thut the natives were subject to consump tion. It was not consumption, however, but was a disease owing to an impure lymph applied in vaccination, and which brought on what medical men called atrophy. With regard to the soil he had made some chemical experiments, and he was satisfied that New Zealand and Van Diemen's Land will become the granaries of the southern colonies. The climate of New Zealand was of equable temperature, and might be compared to Madeira, but was preferable It was a delightful climate, and he wished he could transport some of his richer patients thither. If he could, he should like to live there. Mr. SIMEON, in proposing a vote of thanks to Dr. Thompson, expressed himself of opinion that the great ques tion of the colonies and colonial government had long bee n neglected, and that the question of colonial reform could not be much longer put off. Looking at the intending colonists before him, be considered it absolutely impossible that the association should long continue as a governing body in England. They must have self-government. A GENTLEMAN put a question to Dr. Thompson with regard to the wind, which he had been informed was some times so high as to amount to a nuisance. Dr. THOMPSON replied that it was true that in the northern island the wind did blow hard sometimes, but nothing more than was experienced on the coasts of Ire land and Scotland. He was present at the disembarcation of a number of the colonists, on one of the stormiest days ever known there, but the whole body of the emigrants wore disembarked in one day. There was every convenience for a good quay, and there was good anchorage. lie had also been asked whether there was any inconvenience from insects. At the time he was in New Zealand some incon venience was experienced from and-flies; there was no inconvenience from the mosquitoes. The CHAIRMAN—May I ask you about the forests? Dr. THOMPSON said the forests were immense, and there was a great growth of flax. The wood cut down amply repaid the labour, and the land could be made pro ductive in six or seven months. A few other questions, principally with regard to the duration of seasickness on the voyage, were then put and answered, after which the meeting was adjourned until Wednesday. TILE SAILOR? STRIKE.—Tuu TYNE.—Captain Beechey, from the Board of Trade, has visited North Shields this week, and had interviews with the committsses of the seamen on strike, in the presence of the local board I of trade and the commanders of the war vessels in the har bour. He entered very fully into the merits of the Mer cantile Marine Act, and explained to the men the nature of the shipping offices and the register ticket, but seemingly without satisfaction to the body of the seamen, for they have since met and resolved not to sign articles under the new act, either in the foreign or home trade. Notwith standing this resolution there seems a difference of opinion amongst the men u to the policy of such a step. The South Shicldi shipwrights are still out, and the Hendon men tented out on Tuesday. MEETING OF CONVOCATION. The two Houses of Convocation met yesterday, at the Jerusalem Chamber of Westminster Abbey. Shortly after twelve o'clock, his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury arrived, accompanied by Sir John Dodson, Knight, the Queen's Advocate , nud Vicar-General of the province of Canterbury, Francis Hart Dyke, Esq., her Majesty's Proctor and R egistrar -General of the province of Canterbury, and Felix Knivett, Esq., his Grace's secretary. His Grace was attired in his state and archiepiscopal robes. The members of the Upper House present were the Bishop of Exeter, the Bishop of Oxford, the Bishop of Salisbury, the Bishop of Chichester, and the Bishop of Bath and Wells. The Lower House assembled at the same time. There were present the Venerable Thomas Thorp, D.D., Arch deacon of Bristol, and Rector of Kemerton, Gloucester shire; the Venerable Archdeacon Harrison (Canterbury) ; the Very Rev. William Rowe Lyall, D.D., Deau of Can terbury and Prolocutor of Canterbury ; the Rev. William Hodge Mill, D.D., Regius Professor of Hebrew in the University of Canterbury, and Canon of Ely ' • the Rev. Gabriel Edwards Gillett, M.A., Rector of Waltham, Leicestershire, and Rural Dean, &c. The Lord Archbishop having . taken his seat, the usual preliminaries were gone through, when The Bishop of CHICHESTER ruse and said he hail to present a petition from the clergy and laity of the province of Canterbury. It had been entrusted to the bishop in whose diocese they were at present assembled (London) ; but in consequence of that right rev. prelate's inability to attend, the duties of presenting the petition devolved upon him. His lordship then handed to his grace a petition setting firth the grievous injuries experienced by the church through the continued suspension of her synodal action, whereby she had been prevented from exercising her proper authority for the maintenance of sound doctrine, the exercise of discipline, and the development of her ' internal resources. The petitioners express a belief that the recent measures of the l'ope having directed the attention of the Queen and the people of England to the religious position of the country if, at this time, the real cause of the decoy of true religion, as well as of the growth of popery, and other grievous errors, and of infidelity itself, were represented to her Majesty by the bishops of the church, 'to whom it especially belongs to advise the kings of the earth in regard to spiritual matters," there is great reason to hope that by their representations and entreaties her Majesty might be moved to restore to the church the freedom of her synodal action uin ancient time. The pe titioners conclude with a prayer that the most reverend and right reverend fathers in God will use their influence in obtaining for the two houses of convocation license to de liberate in order afterwards to take such measures as may seem for the good of the church. The petition was then read by FRANCIS HART DTIR, Esq., the Registrar, and ordered to lie on the table. While these proceedings were going on in the Upper House of Convocation, the Lower House had assembled in an adjacent chamber, under the presidency of the Very Rev. William Rowe Lyall, D.D., Dean of Canterbury. The Venerable Archdeacon Taoars presented a petition similar to that submitted to the Upper House by the Bishop of Chichester. _ _ _ A long discussion arose as to whether the Lower House was sufficiently constituted to receive the petition. Upon a wish being eirpreased through the prolocutor that the arch bishop's opinion should be ascertained prior to any further proceeding, the lower house was summoned to an interview with the Upper House. Upon being admitted, the PitoLocuron stated that a pe tition had been presented, and it was the wish of the mem ben that the opinion of his Grace and the Upper House should be obtained on the question of their competency to receive it. The Archbishop of CANTERBURY said that the Lower House wax legally constituted, and was in a position to re ceive the document alluded to by the Very Rev. Dean. The members of the Lower House then withdrew, and, an re-aa.embling in their chamber, the petition was received, and an order for recording it was made. The Lower Rouse vu about proceeding to the consideration of other business, ' when the members were again formally summoned to the llpper House, and on being admitted into the chamber, The Archbishop of CANTERBURY directed Mr. Francis Bart Dyke to read a precept proroguing the convocation to August 28. The proccedin . gs immediately terminated. PROVIDENTIAL ESCAPE.—The members of a cer tain officious fraternity which nestles on the borders, en countered, the other day,: in the prosecution of their voca ton, a formidable foe. A box of questionable shape arrived Tweedmouth from a Scottish town in the west, with an address directing its further conveyance southwards. It was raised by the officers of excise, and found heavy; it wts shaken but gave no satisfactory reply. The outer cover inr, which was of wool, was removed , but the inner cue orily excited greater curiosity. It was composed of lead securely soldered round the edges. It was evidently a prise. Btt how to get at it was the question. One of the searchers suggested that they should have the railway office poker ?tested, and with it melt the soldering. All agreed to this, but during the heating process one of the officers wiser that his fellows, suggested that as they must ultimately have a plumber to renew the fastening they had better have himat once to undo it. This proceeding, though delaying thengratification, was acceded to. The plumber was pro curet, and he decided that it would be wiser to cut than to meltthe solder, which he presently did ; when an °peen was made the contents were discovered to be—gunpowder Had the heated iron but come in contact with this, what wouk hare been the consequence? With " bated breath" the spetators congratulated each other on their escape, and beastly wished the suspected package a safe and speedy onveAuce to its destination.—Aorth British Moil CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT, THIS DAY. OLD COURT. Waiewrics I WARM" ♦S'l. MR h'ITIVR CIIAILUS 01 MA.IOILAVONT A'.AINAT AN ENGINE- DRIVI.n. Ronald Rater, 24, an engine-driver upon the Eastern Counties Railway, surrendered to take his trial upon an indictment charging him with the inamlaughtcr of Vincent Lodwiek. • • Ballantine appeared for the prosecution. The pri soner was defended by Mr. Parry and Mr. Parnell. Mr. Ballantine said that the grand jury in this ease had ignored the bill against the prisoner, and he was now ar raigned upon the coroner's ingui , ition. Upon looking over the depositions, however, it app. ned tohimthat there were no facts which at all juatilied the charge, and, indeed, if there was blame to be attached to any one, it appeared to him that it would rather point to other parties than to the prisoner; and, under these einainistantes, with the sanction of the court he should refrain ham offering any evidence against the prisoner. . . . . Mr. Parry begged to be allowed to .tate that the miaow, had beretotbre home the character of a skilful, steady driver, and there had never been the slighted imputation upon him up to the period of this transaction. Mr. Justice C'oleridge said ho thought the learned counsel for the prosecution had exercised a proper discretion in withdrawing from the prosecution, and the jury then, under his lordship's direction, returned a verdict of Not Guilty. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. THIS DAY. WORSHIP-STREET. DETItAtIDINO THE EASTERN ( . 01"NTIr.s RAILWAY LOY PANT.--J. Beasoky, a person of gentlemanly appearance was charged with riding in a 11l Bond-elan carriage of thi above railway, haring only paid for a third-class ticket. Henry Rogers, ticket-collector, at Shan:ditch terminus, deposed to having collected tickets from the 10 o'clock train from Colchester to London last evening, and receiving from the prisoner, who was sitting in a second-class carriage, a third-class ticket. Witness demanded the excess of fare from " Ilford," at which place it appeared prisoner had taken his ticket ; he refused to pay the demand, alleging that he had not any moneyl; but, on alighting at the l latform, took a shilling from his pocket, and, holding it up, asked the officials if "they did not wish to have it." When asked fur his ad dress, he refused to give it. Two gentlemen, who hadritlden in the same carriage with prisoner, stated to Shackell, the (Meer on duty at . the ter minus, that prisoner had been tented from the carnage into a third-clam before the train reaehed Forest-gato; but on reaching that station he again entered. In defence, prisoner said that he had entered the second claw by mistake, and complained of the violence of the company's officers, who refused hint a table of the fares, and would not allow him to send for his friends. Mr. Arnold thought the caters bud Mimed with great forbearance, and told the primmer he was liable, under the Railway Consolidated Act, to a fine of 40s. The company did not wish to press the charge, and the penalty was reduced to 55., with lc was paid. EXTRAORDINARY SCENE IN A CHURCH. EXPULSION OF A MINISTER IN FULL CANONICALS. On Sunday last the village of Iteveaby, in Lin colnshire (situate nearly midway between Boston and Horn castle), was thrown into commotion by an extraordinary scene in the church, being nothing less than the forcible expulsion of the minister while reading the service. Revesby was originally a monastery, and at the dissolution of those establishments the possessions end chapeiry were awarded to Charles Branden, Duke of Siitthlk, from whose family it eventually passed to that of the Earls of Exeter, and in later times to the family of Sir Jos. Banks. Mr. Banks Stanhope in now the lord of the manor, and he claims the church as his own private chapel, and asserts that the parishioners are admitted into it for divine worship only by his permission, and that the curate is merely his chaplain. The Rev. Andrew Vciteb was appointed (16 or 17 years since) to the curacy, during the minority of the present lord of the manor, and has dis charged the duties ever since till Sunday last. In conse quence of a misunderstanding between Mr. Stanhope and Mr. Veitch, the former, some time ago, gave notice to the latter that he should supers:de him in his curacy. and appoint another gentleman in his place. Mr. Veiteh disputed the power and the right to do so, and kept on his ministrations; hut last week a new curate (Rev. C. Bowan) was introduced into the village, and nu Sittur day night last, in order that he should get possession of the chinch on Sunday, a guard was placed around the edifice, and all intruders ware kept at a distance. On Sunday morning, sonic time before the service hour, Mr. V eitch presented himself at the doors, but was re fused admittance. Ile waited till the bells rang for the service, when he entered with the congregation (he being dressed in lull canonicals), and proceeded towards the reading-desk. That and the pulpit WPM plartitd, 11.. was also the com munion-table. Mr. Veiteh then took his plate on the steps of the altar; and when the bells haul ceased ringing, he commenced the service. At the same time Mr. Bowan began to read the service from the reading-desk, and each was reading at the same time. One of the churchwardens ap proached Mr. Veitth, and told him to desist; but he con tinued the service; upon which the churchwarden told him that if he proceeded to disturb the congregation he should remove him by force. Mr. Vein* still continued his reading, whereupon he was pushed or the steps, and forced along the aisle tic the church doors, he continuing to read the service until he was ejected from the edifice. This dis graceful scene, as may he supposed, caused the utmost ex citement among the congregation. In the aftentoon a large crowd assembled, expecting a repetition of the scene at th e ' evening service, but r. Veitch did not appear, and there was no further service. It is expected the affair will lead to litigation, as well as interference on the part of the bishop. THE WINDOW TAX.-.At the quarterly meeting of the Bath Town Council yesterday a motion was carried to the effect that the town clerk be instructed to draw up a petition to parliament, praying for a total and immediate repeal of the obnoxious window duties, and also that the city seal should be affixed to it, and, when signed by the mayor on behalf of the corporation, that it should be sent to the city members for presentation. EMIGRATION OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS.—The ship Ellen, Phillips, master, wan driven during the late gales into St. Tudwell's roads, having, off Holyhead, in col lision with a schooner, remised some damage. She was bound to New Orleans, and had on board no fewer than 460 emigrants, all of them Mormonites, on their way to the Mormon settlement in the valley of the Great Salt Lake. These voluntary exiles are front all parts of Eng land, fifteen families being from Sheffield. After leaving New Orleans the emigrants proceed up the river as far as 900 miles north of St. Louis, after winch they journey 1,000 miles to their settlement, across an almost desert country. The tide of emigration of Mormonites from Liverpool is very strong, nearly 000 more being ready to take kareof thetr native country. Mr. Pratt, the head of the sect, is also about to leave for the new settlement ; and hundreds of persons are preparing to leave the neighbourhood of Aber dare, Glamorganshire, in the course of the spring. A KNOWING Fox.--A very :tear accident hap pened in the course of last '1 hu y's run. The fox, after dodging for some time about the covers between Banstead and Chipstead took to the open country, and made for the railway,wherc a steep chalk cutting, about 50 feet in depth, and quite perpendicular, is crossed by a bridge. The road at this spot runs parallel with the line, and is separated from it by an embankment about 10 feet high. The hounds were about live minutes behind the tin, but they were well on the scent, and the pace was pretty good. They crossed the road, ran up the embankment, mad the first seven couple sprang clean down the cutting on to the rails. Eleven of them were killed on tha spot, and the other three have either died since or been destroyed. The two whips, bywo imstelbsyor ropes.veral geT h tl i cm fac en t , i was n4,l,tthkenotlietsootffhethheunlintie. man or to most of the hunt, for within half a minute after the cheek came to at the roil, a " view halloo" was raised behind, and the remainder of the pack, comprising 15 couples, were laid on to the second fox, and the field of course followed. It is not believed that the fox went down the cutting, but that knowing the place he ran some way along the edge behind the embankment, and then doubled back. The loss to the kennel is very severe at this season of the year especially as the hounds that were killed were of course the most dashing of that day's sport.—Essex Herald, _ _ ST. BARTHOLOMEW'S MEDICINE CHEST.—Between two and three hundred pounds are spent every year for strong sound port wine for the sick poor in Bartholomew's Hospital. It is bought in pipes, and drawn off as needed. Nearly two thousand pounds weight of castor oil, two hundred gallons of spirits of wine, at seventeen shillings a gallon; twelve tons of linseed meal; a thousand pounds weight of senna ; and twenty-seven hundredweight of salts, are items in the annual account for drugs. The grand total spent upon physic in a twelvemonth is two thousand six hundred pounds. Five thousand yards of calico are wanted fur rotten, for bandaging; to say nothing of the stouter and stiffer fabric used fur plasters More than half a hundredweight of sarsaparilla is used every week—a sign how much the constitution of the patients requires Improvement. In a year twenty nine thousand seven hundred leeches were bought for the use of the establishment—an invasion of fo reigners without parallel, till we have the influx of the Great Exhibition—for the leeches brought to bite and die in this London Hospital are gathered in France and Poland, in Africa and Spain. A ton and a half of treacle is annu used to make some kinds of syrup ; the five casks of hi which, mixed with a cask of sugar, makes linctus for mug . has been already mentioned ; hut one little fact, in addi tion, respecting it, should not pass unnoticed. This prepa ration for coughs is red in colour, and looks fruity, and and tastes somewhat sweet, having still, however, an acid dash. As winter comes the coughs increase, and the de mand upon the stock of linctus becomes heavier and hea vier. This is expected and provided for ; but one season it had been larger even than usual. The same children and the same women came again and again, most perseveringly; when, in consequence of some inquiries, it was found that one of the most urgent claimants for the favourite Omit lived by selling little sweets and p street near Smithfield, and that linctus to make fruit tarts - Worth." 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