The Express. — London, England, 1846-09-03 00:00:00

erk, and his dais le be idealist with dam io tith oosalry f yesseeded Se thew st Ansarieth dowry twirusbasty bassemia Omaha of Americas islipsadesee in 1778, L gravely lad selereOg asoorted it to 1- bath the* an saes were alike, that tle wee obsolisese te God, aad tit* they deg up is ones sad dedszing thruseives sit Reties. At the period of that de. chose there were so leas Ohm 800,000 set saes who were simply laboariert leader *who Wire *Mei ea a aelheloble One. ran without as_ leiseh_pe *maths as was wish el the MK Had they deep doss bow, or shows • disposition te wash their ad Iniquity ? No • a the esetvery, th e tad increased to 3,000,11111, wheats thin trier, and whale theses el bad topeles. At the time et the al g als d titutioa, they bed 18 Bastes-7 Now they had 28 Btatee-13 a o7=l e sad 16 slave Stara. (Hear.) The value then was about 200,000,000 of dollars; shout 1.600,000,000 of dollars. The area than =3,000 square miles, it was now es. Thus had slaverylncreseed is Ante •it cried " Give, give, and Wu the grave *tidied (Hear ' hear.) As the alterptiag and slavery, it was as prepeolueus as incite fire and gunpowder, wasif America declared itself ballopmdar, ed, and still awaited her resaresesies, is hoped to have the aid wed 41111.4.110di11a oof England. (lbw. tore .) The Awl& their career in math * mum sal with den* to rid thus of theireel throth sir lips, ta il is caeca ad wade a the of /rider, for by that shivery wt use man in Anwriss wee sot wily deprived subjected to be paid** mai tortured to rant owners to a law d by the slave- vas, any o Africa for slaves was a pirate, and as a pirate. He had ire heritstios, what he had already adored to g thousand times, that trons hale Polk at slaveholder every sue of observed pirate—(cheers) ; for he esselered an ol as an African, and it was tly to enslave the re r the other. Her, ad begotten in America the mehoolent of castes, rendering every coloured in t being, and making the white mat eater sr of work that he would prefer keeping ogether by begging, or stealing, or any it was the evil influence of slavery; it and industry a crime, and reconciled the es that struck not only at the root of all I religion. It had been said that slavery lee of republicanism, and if he thought so, the monarchy of Great Britain, or cy of Russia. They were, no doubt, Lmerica, but it was there a slave 7, otherwise they could not go hand in ir R. Peel had said republicanism would is country, and to prove it appealed to the lent io America ; but ho forget that pro- a belief, while republicanism was from -corn-law movement was a republican one, oped the people of England would obtain are which were calculated to extend their eh a tyrant aristocracy withheld, and jus so by pointing to the inequality between s and the British freeman. It was therefore ple to cry out against American slavery ; for Went that it made them contented with a apotic form of government rather than har em in their owe hands. He could assure sympathised with them, and would hear a to overthrow the unholy and state, to obtain an extension of the and to get rid of the horrible law of pri which, after slavery, nothing more deserved id. resolution, moved by Mr. Lovett, and 'erry, was does adopted by the meeting:— '. beers Irma to the address delivered by as the sekleet of American slavery Cave ek fee liortodekenins, IlloradreseisAyb with thiamin Wry upheld by iria er the mimed • die andetion of Seth yeller err* NM the r sr kir of th i ll=s ark; *ay. thaw e aims this ty of ressrdlog their it Stee r rid maohlsai, adalivel Ma three madame et their mil rompie glue eetwerisee as leperra, aid Mardi the rend epee et draw -1 world. That the reetter_ wens their deep Gordan mad his Wirral, alleepre la their ours sad per embier to rims teeof Amery, sad resameed the= d kingdom to aid la tit grid work of hum= 1 AND HIS —The manatee has requested us to insert his contra tent made in a contemporary journal. M a inyolved, we cannot hesitate to do so ; but a portion of his letter, which had not a the point at issue : of the Timm.— Mr, should have takes extract from • Pram\ peer yesterday, Vii,landbailey. The story of Oe ism ormomea h i*" bee; like cam Ilia bin In mar her b pew, awl Pantry loy the am Yet tre y P &Geld be ow 7 pools be Loin ley me My • dm. oweve make fhb beedelas• tor • Mei l imp whoa me. Yea at lar Wabarier does sot WM pow kr as. mot et the masks to dionenaP ll Tltsl t ert=true. I was in Is stOmeges before the end of January. I somehmes abmet every question of importance, rseirOmmoses on Friday, when Parliament was r see•mbea with the electors of Westnibster, I eegq Memdless to thaw of the electors, at whose kise beasarable and independent esertione I aka' Watiadnater ; and I be leve they are mdis ming ray neat, I have acted according to their Mite to my own convenience. Your insinuatione • mire no answer. I cannot think that an id a inane moect for the many brilliant and e Trench nation need in the least diminish an it bre of his own country.—Your obedient rim nept. 2, 1844. TENT FEMALE REFUGE.—This ingtitn- Med close to Cambridge-heath, Hackney , ial meeting last nightit the Penitentiary; :spied by J. Dobie, Esq., supported by the e Davis, Talbot, Tyler, and several other ted with the neighbourhood. There were iresent. After a prayer and a short open. he chairman, the annual report was read It stated that the present year was the committee in annually meeting the friends not to report the society in debt ; but that here was now a balance, though a small cf the bankers. The receipts for the year, inted to rather more than 1,470 1 . Since institution, 867 females had been admit ' had left the institution only to take situa e families, while some had married, and ditable situation in life. The cases of incor ters admitted, but discharged for that red ly few. At the commencement of the past 5 females in the institution ; 13 of whom situations; 7 had returned hems to their lends; 2 had been discharged as incorri left of their own accord ; leaving 38 at he benefits of the establishment. The re- I adopted, resolutions were moved and ens appropriate to the occasion ; and, after o the chairman, the meeting separated. .LEGE.—Yesterday, the annual meet, ion was held in the chapel adjoinin/4e x haling been taken by G. T. Kemp, ~ r. Green, one of the secretaries, read e h it appears, according to the testimony of iy, Davis, Cox, the Revs. J. H. Hinton, others, that the progress and attainments ▪ Chaldee, Syriac, - Hebrew, Greek, and images, as also in the classiai, mathema ihilosophy, is of a most pleasing character, to average of similar institutions. During students have left the college, three of ed on the exercise of their duties as saki• n now in the college, to which must be nter on their studies in the course of the inking sixteen, being the whole number f the finances will allow to be in gib term of study is four years. The nding in June, amounted 1,3141. las. less than the expenditure. The ted, the Rev. J. M. Soule, of Battersea, if the United States, the Rev. W.W. Evans, red the meeting, several resolutions were meeting separated. IMENT OFFICES AT WESTMINSTER. — determined that the fronts of the Treasury hal be altered to accord with the great Ins et the adjoining government offices towards On Tuesday men were engaged in erecting folding for the purpose. IF THE WEEK.—The Regiatrar-Oene acre have been registered in the metropolis which ended last Saturday 889 deaths. give the average of that oft he correspond. Nix preceding years by 53. In looking for ernes, attention is naturally directed to pidenue ;" the severity of which is, how ase ; for although 128 persons are re liarrhcea, and the weekly average of f the last five summers is only 33, yet, weeks the numbers were respectively, 1 , f the 128 fatal cases, not fewer than 105 is under 16 years of age.—The number of last week are reported to be 693 males, and U, 1,389. /F SMITHFIELD MARKET.—SiIIOO the tailing and regretaleg. hen Wm 1 11 1) 4110 4 rgement of Smitideid. market fewhl .. .t least half Loading might be rum the country, Aare dos lrky — g Tke lois asemisasi lir immure. A asmespeed.t at the bulloeitsisellimes Isms eight atone, mare p about a stone be quantity, besides inp2 he meat and to the hides and wool. Th.r, ,000 head of beasts and 4,000 sheep Mid besides pigs and calves, it follow that the e extreme. Even taking t half, the e 6,000 stone of meat lost on one market, I, at half a pound each , 96,000 people, lied ket after market, would sustain some ran iof the year. Add to all this the driviss the crowded thoroughfares of London is T., Make* . eat flingersui' That a ameba har the abgaillant isspgip ea. =sompos timid szlki . lakepee- Anse et estaistry supply, no as Ma dealt; but k limb& bed_ the sabarbs Bology the immed to o th e abelltian Inslaeld to the edarenteat ref n 11 a public aroma se daillhAsid math*. 11 C LONDON Doci.—Dedag dr lest three Imaths the ledneel in this graft esemmundel mlehilebtassit I : 1 * m I h . Th igl 4= l" trgr er sgis e re t i tre basin, are now orserded with moor ot all aeliasa The yardman, are oared with leek .t envy sad a peel mszaher af bomber dna been 1 seserege at mereha ham ndiss„ I Ito semmtityol efoiC 'Mak tea, sugar, seism, wises, ash dear is unusually lams ; Weed the warehouses were never M aimed, some CM aneks• at the dock. Tb• immense lea warehouses opened het esmoner are all ailed with theses et tie, pdd Mews the aim. Asefees nage of ware. Naas daubs Wight mail ihmsodoms an now build*, es blot the isensain weals at the ten tide. For the lest all; months there have bun, ea as ammo, 1500 antra man employed in tbe daily mid this eadasalssiet employment Ms M o wa great rids( to Ile leirgegepaleksa of p... labium la the parishes at AL fleougeta-theßere, Ithadmill; Wag. ping, Stepney, and AlAgate, and has caused a samiles akai nation in the poor rates. IMPORTATION OF CATTLE.—The Batavier Die steam ship, which arrived yesterday morning at the Katharine's Wharf, after • quick pale from Beems dam, landed 80 sheep, 70 oxen, 29 ealw, and a large sms '- thy of German yeast. PonioN Branktii.—lt is said that excessively strong serps is an antidote to roll rowwa. THE NEW PAYMENT IN FLEET-ITTREET.--The above pavement, which would, it was boasted, last twisty les years, has sot answered thirexpeetation of the pahho. Although ally laid down a few days, the centre of the street from Gosling's Bank to St. Dunstan's Church, has, in many places, sunk very much, which will in a few days stop the thoroughfare between Chancery-lane and Fetter-lane again. But for this the whole of Fleet-street would have been com pleted by to-morrow. A PICTURE OF FLEET-STREET.—WO understand that the west front of Tempie-bar is to be adorned with cartoon, co • of a fresco of the French picture of the sentinel thus ' Napoleon :—" On ne passe pas iei !"—Piosch. B. FAlL—This annual Saturnalia is virtually abolished • the enormous rents required by the City authorities, together with the restrictions imposed upon the booth and show-keepers by the police, Lave rendered Bartholomew Fair anything but a profitable speculation. Yesterday there was no preparation whatever for holding • fair, though we believe it is to be proclaimed as usual by the Lord Mayor this day. DREADFUL ACCIDENT. Yesterday morning, an accident of a most dreadful character occurred to a lad named Samuel Cooper. aged fifteen years whose friends reside at Mill-pond-bridge, Bermondsey. It appears that the unfortunate boy was employed at the King and Queen Ironworks, Rotherhithe, and while engaged in the planing room, some portion of the machinery caught his trousers, which drew his right leg between the works. His screams brought the workmen to his assistance, who stopped the engine, but not before the poor fellow's leg was most fright fully torn and mutilated. He was immediately carried to Guy's Hospital, where he was promptly attended to by the surgeon connected with the institution. The poor lad is progressing as favourably as can be expected. VISIT OF THE GREENWICH NAVAL SCHOOL TO TEN SURILIY GARDENll.—Yesterday afternoon all the boys belonging to the Royal Neal School at Greenwich visited the Burrey Zoological Gardens. Upwards of 200 arrived in the Sylph steamer at two o'clock, when they formed into columns, headed by their youthful band, and proceeded along the Blackfriars-road, London-road, to the gardens, followed by an immense concourse of people. Lieut. Kong, the governor, and the other officers, were in attendance. They remitted i the gardens until six o'clock, when they returned to Greenwich. CHINESE BRICKS.—Some time since the arrival of cargo• of bricks from China was announced. We now find that a parcel of bricks which had been imported into the port of Liverpool b 7 a vessel called the Annie, from Bhang hae which were originally reported by the master of the vessel as being for exportation, are to be landed. The parcel com prises the large number of 15,000, and bean good our former remark with respect to the importation of bricks from China kr actual use in this country for the general purposes to viiieh they are applied. The importations which now take place from foreign and frequently distant parts of the world are so varied and remsrkable as continually to call for especial notice. _ . INQUESTS HELD YESTERDAY.—By Mr. Baker, at the Three Jolly Butchers, Tottenham, touching the death of Charles Lee, aged 30, who was found hanging to a ladder, as mentioned yesterday. The deceased had been coachman he the service of Mr. Rouse, proprietor of the Eagle Tavern, = iier ve gd e e ri, but had quarrelled with his mistress, and she had him. He was heard to say that he should sever get another situation. Verdict—" Found dead."— JO Mr. William Carter, at the Huntsman and Hounds, Park-place, East-lane, Walworth, on Francis Mewl'', aged iiy years, • costermonger, lately living in Park-row, East lose. The body gave unmistakable testimony of extreme destitution. His wife deposed that in consequence of ill health and the want of employment, they had suffered great privation, being often in the want of the common necessaries of life. The witness was hardly able to stand, which she assured the coroner and jury arose from the want of proper nourishment. (She was allowed to sit, and received a glass of wine.) That the only means they had of living were by selling and pawning theu goods, tic. They had not tasted any meat for three weeks, and the only food they had was a little bread and tea daily, for witness, the deceseed, and three children. On Monday morning last the decealed went out in search of work, and returned about 11 o'clock, very ex hausted and weak, and after a short time he was seized with a fit. Witness became alarmed, and called in a neighbour, who raised the deceased from the ground, but he was quite insensible. A surgeon wee sent for, but life was quite extinct. A juror—Why is it you did not make an application to the parochial officers ? Witness (crying bitterly)—Because my husband would rather put up with anything than dn so.— Brookee;tbe relieving-o May, said he had known the deceased for some years, he was a very sober steady man, but latterly he had been much reduced.—" Death from natural causes." The jury expressed great sympathy for the unfortunate family, and raised a subscription in the inquest-room to relieve their immediate wants, which was headed by the coroner. By Mr. Baker, at the London Hospital, on the body of Ellen Geary, aged 22. The evidence of several witnesses proved that, in a state of intoxication, she began fighting with several persona, at a late hour in the evening. The object of her anger was a female, named Catherine Gillespie, and while they were struggling together, they fell heavily on the ground, the deceased undermost, and sustaining a serious injury on her head. She was removed to the above hospital, where she died from erysipelas, the effects of the injuries she had received. Verdict accordingly.—By Mr. C. J. Carttar, at the Duke of Swum: Tavern, Woolwich, on the body of Francis, a convict, aged 32. Deceased had been sentenced to 15 years transportation, and having served eight of that period at Bermuda, had been sent home for good conduct, and was in expectation of receiving • free pardon. He was assisting in putting stores on board the Sidon, off the Dock yard, on Saturday last, and whilst lowering a coil of rope Into the hold, deceased and the boatswain were precipitated into the engine-room, • depth of 16 feet. Deceased's skull was fractured, and he died at one P.M. the next day. Verdict —" Accidental death." THE SMALL DEBTS ACT contains 143 provisions and 4 schedules. It may be regarded as an experiment in litigation for sums not exceeding 201., and will b' put in force in a few places at fret, to ascertain its practical opera tion. It would seem that the new law will not affect the Palace Court, which possesses a jurisdiction to 201., as it is not considered " one of her majesty's superior courts of record ;" but, with regard to the superior courts, persona bringing actions alter the passing of the act (28th of August), " for which a plaint might have been entered in any court holden under this act, are to be liable, under certain cir cumstances, to the payment of accts. Some very difficult points may possibly arise under the provision, seeing that her Majesty, with the advice of her Privy Council, is to order the act to be put into operation, and that any order made for the purposes of the act is to be published in the London Gazette, and notice of the intention of her Majesty to take into consideration the propriety of making any such order shall be published in the London Gazette one calendar month at least before any such order shall be made. The primary object of the act was to prevent the denial of justice which existed in respect to claims under 201., as in innumerable cases the emits exaseded the debt, and insolvency resulted, and in ether owes blame escaped with impunity because of the expense of the remedy proposed. ißy the 58th section the jurisdiction of the county court s to extend to "debt or damage" of not more than 201., whether on balance or otherwise, with the exception, among others, of actions for malicious prose cution, libel, dander, criminal conversation, seduction, or breach of promise of marriage ; but false imprisonment and assault cases are not excluded : and by another provi sion the parties to the action, their wives, and all other persons may be examined. By the 78th section, all forms of pro cedure to be used in the county courts under this act, with the general rules for regulating the practice and proceed ings of the same, are to be framed by the judges of the superior courts of common law at Westminster. As the rules will take some time to frame, and notice must be given of the intention of the government to enforce the act in a particular county, • month or two must necessarily elapse before it can be put into operation. It is provided by the 129th clause that if any action shall be commenced in any of the superior courts of record (other than those actions speeilled), kr any cause for which a plaint might have bests sedered is any court under the act, and a verdict be fossil he the plaintiff for a rum less than 201., if the said aides be boded on con tract, or less than 61. if it be founded on tart, the plaintiff shall have judgment to recover the NOM wily ass& as code ; and if a verdict shall not be Mei fer the the de fendant shall be entitled to Ids sests,es betimes ellerney and client," unless is Alm sem the judge who shell try the cause shall certify on the bock at the record that tie attics was fit to be brought in such superior court." The bas to be charged are specified in a miodule, and are or a very limited character. Whatever Mileultirie may arise In the operation of the act, ea ettempt bas been made to bring mat ters on claims to MC to a very narrow extpeati and, by selecting a lber please at the oomtmeeellefit, will be Neal in what name. it ears babe** es to into Mee the eh* re recommendatiss order mama Mr ported on the _ dottier be &Me 101. COPTRIOI4I="T rigusud—mit 61eastte of Tuesday oeidelas an Order et Oir= b ilmitil Aisne t 7, setting forth tali • treaty has bees Wisest Her Majesty sal Majesty the King of PMMIlik Mil= mi te s protection has bees secured within the Perlin L _. HE EXPRESS, THURSDAY I biski.desMoile works, CC alwathi sees. NA dr aredene. arrears, ot engravers Orebro estes ef seertees, art re athors, lamer% all =ow esaravaeoel say ether weeks whatsoever et lies sad sheds, ia mid& the lawe el Greet Mier ma of Prussia do sew or soy loreaarrre their respostlve telosels the privaw ydok eelering that. haft and Ite La day effsprolUdolso aetheas. iewasion, aorearean sad rare of Weirs pears. ardeiss of dramatic works, resisel erepritioes, and any ether works alliterative and dm Mae arta, ne which the laws of Great Britain give to British subjects the privilege of copy. right, and arigns of soak anther, lavestees, designers, vel e adoaduas,respeedver lad, IS respects worl:s ul a withia the doeninionsef Pr of after the said Ist Cy of Sept., 1846, have the privilege of ht therein for a period equal to the term of copyright w authors, in ventors, designers, engravers, and makers of the like works, respectively, first pu bli shed in the United Kingdom, are by law entitled to; provided such books, dramatic pieces, mu sical compositions, prints, articles of sculpture, or other works of art have been registered, and copies thereof have been delivered according to the requirements of the said recited act, within twelve months after the first pub Urethan thereof in any part of the Premien dominions. And further ordering that the authors of dramatic pieces and musical compositions which shall, after the said let of September, 180, be first publicly represented or per formed within the dominions of Prussia shall have the sole liberty of representing or performing in any part of the British dominions RICO dramatic pieces or magma composi tions, during a period equal to the period during which authors of dramatic pieces and musical compositions first publicly represented or performed in the United Kingdom are entitled by law to the sole liberty of representing or per forming the same ; provided such dramatic pieces or musical compositions have been registered, and copies thereof have been delivered according to the requirements of the said recited act, within twelve calendar months after the time of 'heir being first represented or performed in any part of the Prussian dominions. Another act of the council, of the same date, in respect to this treaty, orders, that from and after the litday of September, 1846, in lieu of the duties of customs now payable upon bo oks, prints, and drawings, pub lished at any place within the dominions of Prussia, there shall be payable only the duties of customs following—that ts to say—On books originally produced in the United King dom, and re-published at any place within the dominions of Praia, a duty of 21. 10s. per hundred weight. On books rehadied or republished at any place within the dominions et Prussia, and not being books originally produced in the United Kingdom, • duty of 15s. per hundred weight. On prints and drawings, plain or coloured, published at any Dl within the do minions of Prussia, single, each, id.; bound, or sewn, the dozen, 1 id. A NEW RAILWAY SIONAL.—A new railway signal, invented by Mr. J. li. Dutton, and intended to a ff or d a certain an d speedy mode of communication between the guard and driver of a train, was tried on Tuesday on the Eastern Counties Railway during a trip made especially to exhibit the same from London to Romford. The contrivance is simple enough, and consists of a small copper tube, about one inch in diameter, attached to the bottom of the engine and each carriage in the train. On the engine, and on each carriage where a guard is seated, an upright tube communi • fates with the longitudinal one beneath. This tube is sup plied with a small brass whistle and mouthpiece. A train tenanting of twelve carriages would probably have two guards, one stationed on the last carriage, and one about the middle of the train. The guard on the last carriage wishes to bring the train to a sudden stand, for this purpose he blows through the mouthpiece attached to his upright tube taking care, at the same time, by raising a small brass lever, to render quiescent the action of his own whistle. The attrition of the driver and second guard is immediately ar rested by the sound of the whistles attached to their respec tive tubes, the steam is shut off, the breaks applied, and the train stopped. The chief advantage which Mr. Dutton's invention appears to possess over others of a somewhat simi lar nature which have preceded it, is the placing the whistle at the extremity of the tube instead of near the mouthpiece, through which the air enters. The trial yesterday was with a Main of twelve carriages, and we believe the experiment was considered, so far as it went, perfectly satisfactory. The break between the is supplied by an elastic wire and India rubber tube, which is fitted and detached with great facility. The expense of the signal, Mr. Dutton states, will not exceed 30s. per carriage.—Morning Post. A FRENCHMAN'S SKETCH OF ENGLISH MANNERS.— The English never expand in society ; they seem to reserve all their spirit*, and all their good qualities for Mau—for " in-doors." It requires all the genial warmth of the do mes is fireside to dissolve the crust of ice, which envelopes them, when abroad in the world. In their own little cote ries, you will often find them good and agreeable ; and is the closet, the pen in their hands, they are often brilliant, often full of pathos or of humour. But they do not know how to talk. They are never at ease in the presence of a stranger ; except, perhaps, when the bottle has been freely passed at the dinner-table : but these are generally shallow pated fellows, from whom nothing is to be learnt. You see them always hampered by that bane of English life, la mock —the fear of being outof fashion—the thraldom of the coteries. When conversing with an Englishman you often read IS his face that he thinks more than he says, that he ho Ideas which he will not express. It is generally the best, the sleet profound, the most intellectual part of himself, which he re serves for his intimate friend, for his wife, or for his mistress; but he rarely pays this homage to society.— L'lnde Anglois par le Coast* di Warren. THE GOOSE DEPENDED.— It is a great libel to accuse a goose of being a silly bird. Even • tame goose shows much instinct and attachmeut ; and were its habits more closely observed, the tame goose would be found to be by no means wanting in general cleverness. Its watchful miss at night time is, and always has been, proverbial ; and it certainly is endowed with a strong organ of self-preservation. You may drive over dog, cat, hen, or pig; bat I defy you to drive over a tame goose. As for wild geese, I know of ao animal, biped or quadruped, that is so difficult to deceive or approach. Their senses of hearing, seeing, and smelling, an all extremely acute ; independently of which, they appear toot in so organised and cautions a manner when fee id og sir sicistiwg, as to day all danger. Many a time has my ut astt caution been of no avail in attempting to approach these birds ; either a careless step on a piece of gravel, or an e u l i d a to es f t wind, however light, or letting them perceive the portion of my person, has rendered useless whole hours of manoeuvring.— Wild Sports of the Highlands. SPONTANEOUS SOUNDS IN IRON AND STONE.— Singularly illustrative of the muck disputed property affirmed by the ancients of the sound emitted at sunrise by the statue of Memnon, in Lower Egypt, is the singular phenomenon of sound occasioned by the vibration of soft iron produced by • galvanic current. It was first discovered by Mr. Sage, and since verified by the observations of a tench philosopher, M. Marian. The experiments were' made on a bar of iron which was fixed at the middle in a horizontal predtion, each half being enclosed in a large glass tube, around which were wound spirals of copper wire. A cord of copper wire was afterwards substituted for the two helices, and placed with its axis coincident with the axis of the b ar. On completing the circuit, the longitudinal sound, although feeble, could be distinguished, the bar of iron being a little lengthened or expanded in the direction of its axis. The origin of the sound has, therefore, been attributed to • vibration in the interior of the iron bar, or a new arrange ment of the molecules, en explanation which has been more than once advanced for the mysterious phenomenon of the same kind connected with the history of the Memnonian statue. WHEAT AND POTATOES. The accounts of the harvest and the potato crop are in a contrast so marked as almost to imply a lesson, that the root is the worst, the grain the beet reliance for the national food. The potato fails uni versally in Ireland, in England, and Scotland, on the Con tinent. The failure is more absolute than it was last year. There is a striking difference in the durability of plant pro duced by human skill. It is notorious that many—such as celebrated varieties of the apple—have become extinct or worthless in England ; the Standard calls to mind that Ire land has witnessed a total extinction of the plane-tree ; the potato decays before our eyes. On the other hand, wheat seems to defy the mutations of time: grain found in the hands of mummies that were living men in the Biblical ages, if sown now, flourishes as well as any of the contemporary varieties, from which it is distinguishable only for the purpose of scientific classification; attesting the immortality of the great staple food for man.—Spectator. DERBY ELECTION. - . WEDNESDAY.—The nomination for this borough took place this morning at nine o'clock in the Town-hall. W. R. MOUPLET, Esq., the mayor, presided, and opened I the business of the day by stating that he had convened the meeting in obedience to the precept of Sir It. Wilmot, the High Sheriff, for the election of a burgess to serve in parlia ment for the borough of Derby, in the room of E. Stoat, Esq., who, since his election, had accepted the office of steward of the Chiltern hundreds. The formal proceedings having been gone through, J. B. Ceourrox, Esq., rue to propose Edward Strutt, Esq., their late member, as a fit and proper person to repre sent the borough in parliament. The honour, integrity, and assiduity of that gentleman was, fortunately, known to all the electors, and his usefulness as a member of Parliament had so attracted the attention of the present government that tkey had conferred upon him the important office of President of the Railway Board. (Cheers and groans.) Mr. D. Fox, in seconding the nomination, o bs erved that Mr. Stoat had never deviated from the direct path, either from the hope of gain or fear of loss. lie had always in formed his constituents beforehand what he meant to do. He had never violated his declarations, and had never be ' trayed them. He had out gone to parliament for the mere honour of the thing, but with a determination to perform his duties ea a legislator, which he had done, not in that dazzling manner which placed a man always before the public, but in the more useful and more laborious character of an indefati gable member of parliamen•ary committees. The govern ment had shown their confidence in him, and he doubted not that the electors would show that he had not forfeited theirs. Mr. L. Newzost proposed Sir Digby Mackworth. The contest in which they were about to engage was one in which he would not take part did he not feel that in it was involved a great end important principle. He did not deny that Mr. Strati had proved himself to be a man of the highest inte grity; and if the question were merely one of personal character he would not stand there to oppose him. But the question woe. hod Mr. Strutt supported in parliament that groat pliaelpie which was essential to the well-Dek o :f a ts washy email the happiness of the people ; had he the PTO eseisat shamelwr of this country (Cheers a nd biome) That gebelple bad teen already attieked in the mast soma in the late increased flitat to Ma wad haighlo*—wild it woo farther threatemei Ile pima MINGIMIIIeat. dtr Dl.Xsekwerth, it was tom, mos a eleeaß;lnt be wee a me of es high character, aui et is honour aa Mr. Bnott, and what was afar greater wegeotemee, he was a atea who brought principle to lam agaladvaalllatingazoseliessy. (Cheers.) Mr. Lewis asessioi the statination of We Digby, who it vENING, MEMBER 3, . 1843. was t dleff thewld blow had *Dewed the great Duke all the Plea=ler war, awl bad bust pesent at the shiny of Waterloo. telessee) The ironed, however, e be earned Ildreeikess wee, diet he wu the inewereleg minuses a reenheet Medlin (tear, shitty whit r hear)—t• whidt the Whip had et al duo 'rinsed a de . terrained hatred. air Higby's Miele bed beta with unnecessarily disearting mu of town,te s tV result of the can vase bed am* ant Nat was Me the *pike of the majority of the eiseesea. The characteristic of the Whigs was love of plus, awl it wee that love of place width had occasioned the present duties. (Hear, hear.) Lord J. Russell had accepted Dike on the do-nothing principle, and upon no other could he continue to hold for the moment he touched upon any one of those questions upon which the Whip and Conservatives differed, all sections of the Conser vative body would unite u one man and tarn him out. (Hear ) No other esedidate being proposed, - - - Mr. Brume came forward and was nerved with loud cheers, laimehd with somiesymptems et dhapprobation. He tendered hie grateful desks to his two Mends who had pro posed Gad soseaded and to the reposer and seconder of kb opponent, for the latiesmay they had borne to his charmer and peal >ih could not but feel lam arra that ha wee the manned rag to the elec tors the to area &aka. die MVO ispsaially as • disso lution of the mud pediment and& net he eery far , teat ; het he he dab eameletion that is weeptin g the dim whieh had hoes onlinved upon him by Her liajett be hell received the alms* unanimous approbation of h is folleele towasums, for in the mum of his canvass he hid foot= whaleveretherobjectioesseiglabe eatertained to his in other aspects, or the l ysiesit he had assisted in proem& gating, his aseeptad tan met been complained of by e any con The Send which he was appointed a member was to he memadel wider the aathority of an Act of Par liament whisk bed reesived the unanimous sanction of both bosses o p feisommt, and to which was to be referred pewees . for cook ag existing railways to conform to the law, ad to inquire, by means of local agents or otherwise, as to re relative merits of sew schemes, so as to provide in the met effectual way for the requirements of the matey, ant to prevent the expense and delay which, under the presses system of railway legislation, was occasioned. It was as mere love of place on his part that had rendered the premed election necessary. (Hear, hear.) He should be ea of their favoar if he were testy that he was imeasibieTor ri a tical distinction, or that he did not value the bar* beam which had been conferred upon him by those high in autho rity—beit as for the emoluments of office had be been in fluenced by those, be might have had themi long ago. Eleven years ago the offer of office had been made to him and de clined. (Chem.) For a man in his position, any emolu ment derived from official station could be but • poor sea peusatioo for the labour and deprivation of personal mean sod emenience which most attend it ; and it was not use be bed been repeatedly erred to do so, sad had been mares by his Meads that ha was fitted to preside . over the proposed railway board, and might in that illphirty be useful to his country, thee he hit that no love ge ewe or private cos shisretaoss Med Wean to dam bin to rem the ear. (Led drum.) Re New 'tea to the mein ob jeedon while wee mode aged* hie delonien, sad upset which he head& the election wed& hinere-611, vote he had given oa the liegnmeth Bill. TIM whibe had given after mature eseddleaties, and in acendemee Ida lie seascienoe. It was • veep be lid meet/ repeated. ned eim whisk he was now prepared i te e s , (Chmee.) Ha s had doe heard his puhde miedoet be k that hall nd elsewhere, and had SS many Mired with his constituents, but sash difereme nen neemeerfiy exist when mni acted heneily. (Hem.) He might in some eases have been in ewer tot me one amid accuse him of not having acted upon his Inn onaviniso of what was right —(cheers) --or of having rand to site fairly the grounds of his conviction, and the el:comeliness under which he voted. (Hear, hear.) Tb. Maynooth mat bad been continued first by t he Irish pediment, and after the Union, by the Enghsh perks. meat, be more than fifty years. It had received the mew ties of Burke, Pitt, Fox, and Percival—the grit Wearer the so-popery party of his day. During the dam puss he (Mr. Stria) had been in Parliament, he had always Moi in favour of it when he happened to be present at its dams 'ions, and no objection had ever before been taken modest him by his constituents on that ground. Sir It Peel, of whose government they knew he had never been a supporter, brought forward a measure to increase the amount of the gnat, and showed that the College of Maynooth was in • state of destitution ; that it did not posses the masse al giving even a tolerable education to the students, and that the increasing population demanded • corresponding in crease in the number of religious instructers, which the college, as it existed, afforded no means of supplying. Under these circumstance's he felt that they must either pat an end to the establishment altogether, or increase the peat in order to place it upon the footing government pro posed, when the question was first pro-mud to hire, that as the object was to provide more efficiently for the religious instruction of the Irish people, and as the revenues of the bith church were much greater than the wants of that charily the remenable course was not to tax the people of =bilater each • purpose so long as there was • surplus d epplicoble to it, and jingly so as he thought, in theme TIVISION of the Established Church of Ireland. (Cheers.) He eoesequently advised his hon. friend Mr. Ward to pro pose an amendment to carry out that view, which amend. asset he supported. It was, however, rejected by a hogs majority, and it wee then for him to consider whether he would vote against the goverment, and so put an end to the college altogether —that hieing the only alternative left by the stemma dr the bpi, Had the proposal been to establish fterthellsolt Mae • dime, eitherin England or Ireland—for Barna Cailidita, or any other particular sect—he would have WI se Manion in say ing that it would be unjust to tax the pimple at large for su a purpose, and for any such proposi tion he would not have voted. ( Hear, hear.) But he had net given his vote on this question without looking narrowly into the general state of Ireland, and above all without look ing closely into the question of religious endowment there. What was the position of the Established Church he Ireland ? While it was distinguished from all Ober national churches, as being the most wealthy, it wam also distinguished from all others as being the Emit of only a small minority of the people—and further fie revenues had all originally belonged to the Roma Catholic clergy, and sines transferred to the clergy of the 1 minority. He found also, that a different j ractice prevailed he Irelaud from any that obtained in England, inasmuch as every year a vote of parliament was taken for the support of Paissamt Dissenters in that country. Under these woun dless" he did consider that it would have been most unjust to deprive the Roman Catholics of Ireland Qf the smell I paean they had previously enjoyed, and, therefore, he bad ' me alternative but to vote for the bill. He was aware that may of his friends amongst the Dissenters were equally apposed to all endowment by the state for religious put poem. So far as he was personally concerned, that would have been an excuse for him, bad he voted against the grant, and so avoided the objection of some of his constituents, but he thought, as one of the Liberal party, that though, by leaguing himself for the occasion with the enemies of that party, he might have prevented the success of the govern ment measure, yet when be came in his turn to propose the abolition or reduction of those monstrous endowments of the Protestant establishment in Ireland, he would have been powerless, and defeated by those very men wilt whom he had so voted on the Maynooth question. (Hoar, hear.) He did consider then that the feelings of the Roman Catholic population of Ireland were entitled to some weight, and that this was peculiarly a . question in which it was no- cowry to adhere to the Christian precept of " do asyou be done by"—(cheers. laughter, and groens)—and upon which it was incumbent upon him to place himself in the condition of the Irish people, and consider what would have been his feelings were he an Irish Roman Catholic, and saw this vote negatived, and another grievance thus added to the long catalogue of which Ireland had to complain. (Hear, hear.) These were the grounds on which he had acted , They might think them erroneous, but all must agree thee they involved ccnsiderations so important as to deserve great attention, and such as must operate with great force on the minds of all honest men. It seemed to be sapposei time, because he had so voted for this measure, that lie masa friend to the increase of religious endowments ef Romeo Catholics and other bodies. No supposition could be mere at variance with the whole course of his political conduct. (Hear.) He had on every occasion voted against the coo tinuance of the present system of church-rates. (Cheers.) And not only that, he had also voted against the impurities of that impost on the public revenue', couaiderimg that it woad be equally unjust to impose in an indirect saanser this burden on the dissenters, as to charge it directly upon them as at present. (Hear, hear.) His feeling was as averse as theirs to taxing the people of England for the endowment of the Roman Catholic clergy, or those of any ether sect. (Cheers.) Now with regard to those measures to which it would be the duty of the government to give their •t station, or which had recently parsed. First it was of great importance to render the administration of the law more limp and effective. The small debts bill was a measure ham which he expected much benefit in bringing justice hem to the peer man's door, and he trusted that it was bat the beginning of still greater reforms for carrying this greed prison% an farther Into effect. As to other measures =et anialiala of the government, as the measure fire di Improvement of the condition of the Waking elesses—for the prevention of disease, and the removal of that absence of comfort—that squalid wretchedness which unhappily prevailed in many of our largaepwna—tboee should have his most anxious support. (Hear, bear.) And not only did the physical condition of Ne peer require the attention of parliament, but their mental ilifffilressent was of equal importance, and be should be pre game a give a cordial support to any measure for effecting efadi • purpose, which did not violate the rights of con edema (Cheers.) He had been somewhat =Mous to know on what principle his opponent, who he believed to be a man of the highest character and honour, presented himself to the notice of the electors, and he had looked to his printed address with a view of ascertaining. Without pride or sanity, he thought there were some points upon which his dim were superior to Sir Digby's. (Hear, hear.) In flu i z 'p of many of th e principal an etinal lntlasete knowledge of the local inm ost' d the tows—Sep mom he his tried public principle —(hesr)e-he themillit he hed a manertority ever his oppo teed, 01111.1.) HO also thought that he had sees superior *kit* vieno at sixteen years' faithful esrdm. (Minh diekkr.) He olidtbel thet pain principle yes the matter Mira* chief watiikeilisa BM to *passe bassi, in lialg thas eddrez e dideed hie ended enemy eme ef the sww agitated, ee lii serisi, tM 'lWasw what had hem hie (Mr. Sleut i g kaimilkilka Lei the MlaillieLDC l ltellek adienie A th• piggy Elm ;and add ethos Ilia had been ups rarbint of disilidemer Ilk Dllby ilackwordt on thin MOM they won Is fiammee. They knew thin he (Mr. permit) bed 'lmplant Ibe advocate for protesting the beriall!, Me by NOW —{poem.) Surely his hon. °moment soda not have boss amprhied with the feelings of the electors ef Derby, or he would have_ O rem them some intimation akin views on that subject. (Hear, hear.) They knew not whether Sir Digby was • free trader or a Protectionist. They knew not what were his opinions ss thed Irish Obleeh ara t heel hem Amami en nil gious PosteMent (Hair The_ irnentiees of Chureh-rates eel cedownsede he MA left un touched in his prfated address; all explained." on these im portant subjects was yet to come. For Ithredf he had oily to add, that if he was again returned te the Reuss of Com mons, he should go with a determination to drab himself to the interests of his eoestituentia and, he Dusted, with increased powers of usefulness. lf, cm the other lead, they should determine that the 0060440111 between him and his native town was now finally sad 4 ever to cease, he would not say he should receive that determination without regret and mortification, bat he should retire from their service with the conscious satisfaction that he had done his duty— (cheers) and with the convic tion that though he had lost the honourable poet of their representative he had lost it only because he would not consent to retain it by a compromise of principle. (Hear, hear.) And with the further conviction that if he fell a sacrifice, there was no cause in which he could be sacrificed with more pleasure or more pride than in that of religious liberty and the cause of an oppressed people. (Much applause.) Sir DIORY MACIWORTH, who wee received with cheers by his friends ; and hootings, groans, and hisses, by the sup porters of Mr. Strutt ; said he had not in his address entered into an explanation of his views on the numerous subjects to which his hon. opponent had referred, because, bad he done so, it would not have been read. The vote by ballot was an old worn-out story. (Oh ! eh, and groans.) He meant that as a matter of legislation, ft had gone by—he did not know that it had been brought forward in parliament for some time past and if it had, the question had been so completely answered by its total failure in America, where it had been tried, and ids folly and absurdity so exposed by the able pamphlet of the late Sidney Smith, that he could neverbelieve it would be introduced amongst hones*, straight forward Englishmen. With regard to the Sugar bill, he had always when abroad —where he had often been—endea voured to uphold the character of Englishmen amongst foreigners, by showing the enormous sacrifice she had made in abolishing the slave-trade. Before he could support the Sugar bill, in any capacity, he mast be convinced that en couraging the trade in sugar with countries which employed slaves to raise it was consistent with that hatred of slavery which this eon. ift-y had manifested almost as one man. (Hear, hear.) On th •• question of religious liberty, he knew there was great variety of opinion in Derby, but no one pre sent had a more earnest dears to see the principles of civil and religious liberty carried out to their full and legitimate extent than himself. (Cheers.) He would never vote for making invidious distinctions between the various sects which professed the Protestant religion. (Hear.) lie wee a churchman, but there was no warmer friend than he was to Protestant Dissenters of all denominations. (Hear.) He came not, however, to stand on any of those questions upon which his opponent had called for explana tion. He stood there on the principle of supporting the , Protestant religion of this country. (Hear, leer.) Had the question been merely political, or one of party, he would not have come forward as a candidate He had three times re. fused to bc nominated for boroughs in his own neighbour hood, and for the two counties, for he was no political cha racter ! but if they elected him, it would be his duty to enter more deeply into the consideration of all mattes of politics than he had yet done. He stood on the great ground of the Protestant religion. And he would tell them why. (Hear.) They could not but have perceived—and his opponent's speech led to that conclusion—that there had &en for • long time, and was now going on a species of conspiracy —(he did not use the word in its offensive sense)—to introduce gradually the Roman Catholic r.ligion into Protes tant England. (" Hear, hear," laughter, and groans.) His bon opponent reasoned that it would be unfair not to give to the Catholic majority of the Irish people the same privileges which the Protestant majority had here. In other words, his hon. opponent looked on the Roman Catholic roll gion as being on the same footing and entitled to the same privileges as the Protestant. (A voice " And why not ?" ) He would tell them why not. If they were to give the sup port of the state to the Roman Catholic religion in Ireland because it was the religion of the majority, why should they not establish the religion of the Hindoos in Ilindostan ? (Cheers.) He solicited the support, not of Roman Catholics, if any there were amongst the electors, but of those only who valued the Protestant religion and the Bible. (Hear, and cheers.) The Roman Catholics endeavoured all they could to suppress the Bible. (An elector ." I deny it.' ) He had heard it denied before, but in Italy it was im possible to obtain a Bible in the Italian language. and the late pope had prohibited by circular the circulation of the Bibles of the Bible Society on the Continent. Of late there had been a universal leaning amongst statesmen to the doctrine of expediency—and to expediency was to be traced the measures of the late government for the encouragement of popery and the threatened endowment of the Roman Catholic priesthood. It had been said that the people of Ireland loved their priests. He believed it was more fear than love, and that if the legislature would resist the priests, that resistance would be the greatest blessing that could be conferred upon the Irish people. With regard to education, • committee of the House of Lords had found that the grant to Maynooth had been perfectly ineffectual for that purpose. The fact was that the college was by no means popular in Ireland, but the grant was given for the purpose of conciliating the Irish priests by a government that always acted on the principle of governing Ireland through the priests, instead of governing the priests and teaching them not to preach treason in their chapels. Very few sermons were preached in the Catholic chapels on religious matters, but much sedition was preached in them. (Oh, oh !) Though Mr. Strutt objected to endowment by the state for religious purposes, he did not object to endow the Irish priesthood by robbing the clergy of the Protestant church in Ireland, and thus stop the progress of conversion in Ireland. (Cheers.) Whatever might be said of the Protestant clergy of Ireland fifty years ago, a more zealous or efficient clergy than those of the Irish establishment at present did not exist. His only object in coming forward was to resist the encroachments of popery. He had been induced to offer himself as a candi date at the solicitation of several friends, who agreed with him on this important question ; and he was determined to give every man an opportunity of expressing his opinion at the poll. He had no personal motive to gratify. He would never have sought to enter Parliament except in some great cause ; and if he were elected he would do his best to carry out the great principle he professed there. The Rev. G. GAWTHOILN inquired what course Sir Dighy would take, if elected, on the questions of church-rates and the endowment of a Presbyterian college in Ireland. Mr. lox Ea (an elector) asked if Sir Digby would (if elected) support flogging in the army ? Sir DIODE MACEWOIIIII would give no pledge except to support Protestantism against Popery. As to flogging in the army, he had been almost forty years an officer in the army, and if there was one military duty he abhorred more than another, it was that of attending the punishment of flogging. (Hear.) During the last Biz months that he had commanded a squadron of cavalry no punishment—not of flogging merely, but of any sort—had taken place. If elected he should support the determination of the Duke of Welling ton to limit the punishment to fifty lashes, with a view to its total abolition. With regard to church rates, he looked on that impost as a tax not on individuals but on property ; but he should be acxious, if returned,. to give the subject full consideration, with the view of relieving his brother Chris tians, the Dissenters, from all real grievances. He would also give his attention to the subject of Presbyterian endow ment, but he would make no pledges. An ELECTOR inquired if Mr. Strutt was prepared to ex tend the franchise, and if so, how far ? Mr. Sruurr—had always considered the franchise as esta blished by the Reform Bill too narrow. He was not pre pared to go the length of Universal Saffrage, but he thought the parliamentary franchise might be properly extended as far as the municipal franchise. Sir D. MACKWORTH, in answer to another question, de clared that he was an admirer of Lord Ashley's schemes for alleviating the condition of the working man, but would not say._how far he would go in limiting the hours of labour. Mr. Sriterr would protect children working in factories, but would not interfere between employer and imployed as to adult labour. be in f a a s v h o o u w r off Mhandss Strutt. b eing taken, the mayor declared Mr. LUCAS, on the part of-Sir D. Mackworth , demanded a it to poll, which will take place to-morrow (this day). IRELAND. DUBLIN, Barr. 1. THE Pour OP DUBLIN.—NOW that the government has set itself earnestly to aid in developing the resources of this country, its agriculture, trade, manufactures, commerce—in brief, to help the people to help themselves—it may be worth while to consider a few of those grievances, often of a local character and partial influence, which have long been com plained of, bat in a small voice that could not make itself hand amidst the din and clamour of party politics and sec tarian ravings. Foremost amongst these is the management of the port of Dublin. It is urged, and the truth admitted by good authorities who have no personal interest in the question, that the mercantile body and shipping interest are not represented at the Ballast Board, and their complaints, therefore, are not properly attended to. There is also a want of general views, or collective agency in the Board, be- Mile the practical management of the port, and of the lights, is entrusted to one or two members only, who do the work. Nor is it among the least of the com plaints, that the proceedings are conducted in private ; and that the accounts are not published in the local newspapers ; so that those who pay the dues know nothing of the manner in which they are expended. The money may be appro priated to good purposes, or to bad ; to some thine not necessary, while very important things are neglected. Those who pay, therefore, consider tkat they should be allowed to judge of the good sense, if any, which is displayed in the distribution of the funds. The substance of all we have been stating is to be found in the Report of the Examining Commissioner (Captain John Washington), who also enters into the details of various grounds of complaint, from which we extract the following: That*, balsa tioggisd to Snipping Is of se bad • quality as to have ben issoplebri of la 1343 by vine& Of 74 illystastm ; rd main In 11146 loss fleoly do Isom d i 1114 . 4155 e tbs Eves sod at t h is ballast swift atm ; sod shot Ilk IS dip ts to& lbs ballast hr lb" kr sWik..ll/ an psellimot. lie Mho Bowl ls. ILL. an. sr lasniagclin sit Itifitit It Welt be obtsiod. sod SIMIINMS an assuplia dot *we is a Poit gust et dubs, se Int mods lamas So Dalin are le me tf is ispirsi; *ado pet imps see wiry I a l " ahigellgell" to esbalullestlon~ ; lot aloe los - et mulsggslls along lio xi = p sni lust nip rusks Is taut Ss mot midi ssepsety min at Ow a est then Is bit or yddlsours.isi a swsiont swag • fa/- shim tope up &lonising ; rat Is aim any &am OR &ARNO AIM wit' Surely thee siesphiats are ermstedei awe di= nary evils; war As Ilbs, need that a son doll be interested Is order to seals him to nespis then. They =themselves in the simplest, practical, counien-plate vexations *MAO and potty abuse of authority. "It has Ines brae opmemoil no • empleasas bases le ventse at thentlesVis MOW WM; Met Os hell at the Nies 1.1011101 he hepresll; that the ir k ths river = INE2sw me me; tad IMO' serge at senses err*. carps MI Mink mit ihdrsiongs mOs; that Ohs sea plhes am moyll p me me sew limn at ma ssid elnemse et In= ;am Modem Wiled ths eempseleek et Se me owes mime le NM pis mom. met ammo of width Is ass as the raw_. - ` len thst 00 the remiss Mae port Is SUM& a year, • alt bee bees of aserly MAK" But akkessk smeral cd Mese abuses may be designated as petty grieving:ls, Ike oosisequencee to which thez a = lead are DT as UM= of a nature to be lightly being nothing lON than sundry add iticeal elallelni in loser of shipwreck. As for the debt which b. bees contraded in the face of so large a revenue, it is prediglees, and 410 'Litotes an unanswerable ground fur the damned that ea. amounts of the port should be published. The omelnislimi of the Board, se to the qualification of its rmaltses,b Os worthy of comiderstire. " The Harbour Board; rays Captain Washington. Nle erspeeell of twenty-two manhere Mc of whin are &biomes. be. at Ms ellsr corporation ; for the remenlng somism the Act of Peelbmeme tie Teresa' quallleation : it is not messnry that then:ooml sisseal to 1111 a mow shoed be a meramella era m. se wit s the dinasciderens, or a mg wry le esonsela sulk k ti she It wIS int masts mons 000 semelselm of e'ls'e. sae the mulls afllt, me newel wilt smiambis i lllmatlnhedis m A ''ewes of the rawnsOfla Indy me by the pelillsomenlM amt. after enamenethe worn , muses at wiyamM la the . barboar. 7n II; eMience. ' Ask the merchants of the eft I f timplent a to the wd Board arc attended to r - These arc grave accusations ; and when such a state of things is considered in its various requisitions, it becomes worthy, not of further inquiries into " inquiries," for the facia are publicly known, but ofgreater publicity and severe dentin. elation. Here is a Board established for the public service with reference to the port and harbour of the Irish metropo lis, having the exclusive management of all the lights (a most important and extensive work in itself, and requiring the mist accurate practical knowledge), and of all the buoys, beacons, and landmarks along the ceast of Ireland ; and the members constituting this board may have no accurate knowledge as to the sandbanks, rocks, and shoals of the coast, nor indeed any nautical skill or knowledge whatever, since no due examination takes place for their election, and no qualifications are required by the law. The construction of the Board is obviously bad, and the results as bad as might be expected from it. It is only a week or two ago that the Prince (mail steam-packet), having on board Mr. O'Connell, Mr. 'John O'Connell, Sir It. Kane, Sir William Verner and his daughter, The O'Conor Don, and the " Head Pacificator," Mr. Steele, ran foul of the Hill of Howth, in a fog, and smashed her bowsprit upon the rocks. Of course it was an extremely narrow escape of ship wreck, with the loss of the lives of all on board—a truly rich "Irish cargo," it will be readily admitted—and all for the want of proper signals at Howth ! Mr. Steele has sixes made application to the 13.41a5; Board, with suggestions for certain coloured lights, fog-horns, and a gong ; all of which have been politely received by the Board, like many other excellent suggestions concerning which they never more trouble their heads. SErTEMBIR 1. MR. PIGOTT'S SUCCESSOR AT CLORMEI: I -K Y — LW to day, that the lion. Cecil Lawless will be the sew represen tative fur Cloumel, iu the room of Mr. Pigott Au attempt was made to render Mr. Monaghan, the new Irish Attorney- General, acceptable to the constituency, but it was unsuc cesofuL Tug i'Vntra QUAKERI4.—Tho following paragraph ap pears in . 6 i:sunders's News Letter of this day : .h.UVA J.COL —After a lengthen , ' imprisoruncnt in the Your Courts Manshalsea, the trader of the sect, denominated White Quakers," Joshua Jacob, was on Friday Let liberated. Ms health for some time has been declining; it is even supposed that be labours under confirmed dmpsv, and upon application to the Lord Chanornor to release him upon the ground of in health, and the presuriousficas of his situation, his lordship was pleased to refer the consideration of the matter to Master Brooke, who reported that Julies could not be any longer detained in custody with safety to his life. Acoantingly his lordahip granted the order for his liberation, and, as we have already stated, he wa • remorrd on Friday, and so feeble and unwieldy was hie state from dbaeme, that four men were required to lift him in to the conveyance procured fur him. The residence to which he has been taken ix certain ly more likely to restore an Invalid than a small low mono in the Marshals...a, even though adorned by the choicest dowers and kept In the inset scrupulous etc:oiliness, as the apartment of Joshua and Mimi] Ik'ale has been nine,' their oecupation of it Joshua has gone amongst "hi. own people," and is now the resident patriareh of the Whits Quaker (Vilinty, whose local habitation is the antique building, once the abode of the late Lord Kilwarden, on the Sans-road; and a very rural coal salubrious situation undoubtedly for any patient. °MCAT SOUTUILILE AND WESTERN RAILWAY. IRELAND. —Open to Carlow, 661 miles. Return of traffic for week ending Saturday, he 31st day of August, 1816. Passengers only. 7621. 7s. 3d. DIERASED POTATOES.—Mr. Edward Davy, lecturer On chemistry to the Dublin Society, brother to the late Sir H. Davy, has written a letter on the subject of the potato disease to the society, from which I take the following ex tracts : ht Experiment —On dimmed pinks planted whole, 16 inches asunder, May ath.—Manure, Peruvian guano, 5 lb.. weight, mixed with 10113 a. fine roil, and 2 or. of the mixture placed under each potato. The plants were very tine till the blight, which, if I adshibe not, made Its and appearance early in July; affecting the leaves in spots, then emending to the stems. The previous sultry weather was followed by much thunder, lightning, hairy rain., and high wind., by which lambent of the potato stalks were broken, and the plants otherwise ro much injured that Mlle further growth could be expected. The potatoes were dug about the middle of Magma, before they were 9uite ripe. On carefully examining the produce, which wax nut considerable, one-half of the crop nearly was dammed; or, to epesk more oorreetly, the diseased part of the erw was to the sound part as 17 to 19. 2nd Experiment.—On the sound parts of the dimmed pinks, planted in eels, May 12.--Manors, dimmed potatoes, with about a meat spoonful of the mixed Perso guano, end soil similar to that used in the preceding ex t, under each mt. These plants were remarkably vigorous healthy, till they were, like those in the former experiment, affected by atinoapheric influences. These potatoes were dug the 19th August ; the produce was small, and there wise a COTlAlliffilltAr N1.11111M7 of the tubers below the usual site. Not one, however, could be found diseased, but several were atom-eaten ; In fact, nearly one-fourth of the whole. FATAL ACCIDENT AT MALLOW.—A melancholy accident occurred on Sunday morning at the farm of the Messrs. O'Connor, mail coach proprietors. A man of the name of Shea, in their employment, went to look after the herd, when a fierce bull turned at him and gored him in such a frightful manner that he died in a few minutes after being brought home. The deceased was a trustworthy man, and has left a wife and large family, who were solely dependent on his labour. REPRESENTATION OP Tilt COUNTY RERILT.--On dit that Mr. Herbert, of Madams, will start for the county at the next election, supported by the Kenmare interest. — Twice Chronicle. Inlets RAILWAT COMPANIER. —Mr. Laboucliere has stated that he would entertain the grant of leans to Irish railway companies which had obtained acts of parliament, and the parliamentary deposits on which had been botui fide paid up, and continued in bank to the credit of the companies. Serrixo IN OE RISE...SR.—A writer in the Cork Examiner says that "common cholera," meaning what is called " English " cholera, has set in decidedly at Listowel, owing to the diseased potato food eaten by the people. THE CONDITION OF THE PEOPI.E.—A statement was made some time since, and published on the authority of Mr. Gibson, a dissenting clergyman of Mallow, to the edict that • woman had actually sustained life in three of her children for several days by feeding them with her own breast milk from a cup. The story was too extraordinary to gain credence in London, and the editor of the Standard wrote to the Protestant rector of the parish to inquire whether such a circumstance really had occurred. The ray. Mr. Gibson has published the following further letter upon the subject. His visit was paid in company with the Rev. Mr. Collins, the Catholic clergyman lathe parish : " I waited on Mr. Collins to rimy me to the home ; he did no ; the mother was out. It was about eleven o'clock at noon. The cabin was poor and dark, so dark that I could not discern a child lying sick in a bed in the corner, or even the bat on whkt it lay. There were two or three (I cannot now really gay which, other crush chtl dren sitting in the chimney corner. The Rev. Mr. Collins asked the eldest child, in my presence, What had your mother to give you when I was here last The reply was, ` Sara, sir,' • Did she give that child any !" She did, Mid she flee Ong else any r 'Yes.' Itow did she give it!. • With • spoon, oat a . , a cup. This was sufficient evidence for me; I may just add that Mr. Collins stated, that the family was in fever.' The child in the lied was in fever) when I called I went from this house to the ounintittee, when the Rev. Mr. Collins and myself slated whit had Mat occurred. I request Mr. Baldwin to accompany the Rev. Mr. Collin. to the house of this family. The Rev. Mr. Collins requested him to do au; he refused to do so; I asked Mr. Baldwin what reply he had made to the communication he had received. Ile said, he replied that be had made strict inquiries in his pariah, and he found that no such circumstance had occurred. I asked him, Oaring been furnished with this further evidence, to write again. /le said he would not interfere any more in the matter.' Mr. Baldwin bad an opportunity at any time of asking Mr. Collins all about it. SCOTLAND. POTATOES Are selling in Glasgow at the extraordinary price of 10d. per static, or 68. Bd. per cwt. IN REVERENCE TO THE CROPS, the Glasgow llerald says : " Nearly two-thirds of the grain in this district has fallen before the scithe or sickle. A large portion has already been transferred from the stook to the stack-yard, and the quan tity, would have been much greater, had drying breezes pre vailed; but, instead of this, since Monday, the air has been very sultry, and the heat at midday intense." A CURIOUS CIRCVMBTANCE is narrated by the Kilmarnock Journal. Last year, in a field being under green crop, potatoes were raised ; like many more in the neighbourhood, the crop proved a failure, owing to the blight, in consequence of which, the sound ones alone were gathered in, and the dis eased ones left to rot on the field. No sooner had the spring time of the year conic round, than vigorous stems were ob served shooting up in every part of the field, indicating a ittli state of health in the tuber quite unexpected. The crop is prolific, and, what is of greater consequence, both bulb and plant are free from any disease. After reaping • plentiful wheat crop, the farmer has resolved to dig up the potato crop at the usual time. A DEER AT SEA !—Thursday morning OW of the hur boatsat Burghead landed a fine buck, about two years o ld, of large size, and fine head of horns. It is not known how long the tenant of the forest had been at sea, nor whence he had taken his departure from his native hills. He was first observed about five miles off Burghead, and strong efforts were made by several crews to obtain possession of him ; but he did not seem at all to relish the proffered assistance to rescue him from the mighty deep. He preferred to brave the dangers of the ocean to the kind offers of a - safe landing. After considerable exertion, however. i'— -" ceeded in capturing the prize swim, and that his head and y the "-- of the fishermen, ore After considerable exertion, however, one of the crews suc- ceeded in capturing the prize ; and, notwithstanding his long swim, and that his head and horns were somewhat injured _by the oars of the fishermen, he wu brought in safe to shore and is alive. PROVINCIAL. •\. 7 1 , BERWIMON -TWEE D. • THE BAHL ROBEEST is still the subject,' • • doe , / here. A very strong feeling of_sympethy is toeothitfif the town on behalf of Mrs. Thom a, `Li_of_k ia t maaeser of the bank, more • Y ' ' I W '' wawa Inhabitants, with whom she aad • —7; irsodseed. Few of the cinuastatoes z • •