The Express. — London, England, 1847-09-22 00:00:00

king a pensioner of the company; that he was a liveryman d t he company and a freeman of the City ; and that he T wirled within the prescribed distance. ID. Lodger, for the claimant, contended that the eel. ewe before the court being simply that he was a liveryman k g IL freeman residing within seven miles, and no notice of objection haring been given, the claim must be allowed. Mr. Smith, on the same side, argued that there was a distinction between parochial relief and relief received from , o , g peey; sod that the latter would not disqualify. The Revising Barrister said that, as the claim hed been made regularly, and no one appeared to object, he must allow the vote. Mr. James Davis, a member of the Patten Makers' Com pay, was objected to by Mr. Smith, for the liberal party, ein the ground of non residence. Evidence was adduced by Mr. Brown, for the conservatives, to show that Mr. Davis resided generally in the country, and that when in town he *occupied a reem at No. 12, Gibson-street, Lambeth,—the house of Mr. Griffith, a publican, and a friend of the claimant. This room was stated to be esclusively his own ; but, alit could not be proved that he paid any rent for it, the name was expunged, Georg, Greenhill, a member of the Tallow Chandlery' Company, c aimed to have his name inserted on the regis ter. Ihe cla.inant first gave "Brandon House, Barnes," as his resid..ne: but that being beyond the legal distance, be substituted for it " Bury-street, St. James's. where he carried or. the business of a wax and tallow-chandler. He stated that he let the upper part of the house in Bur} street, but retained a sufficient number of TOMS to qualify himself. It turned out, now ever, that the rooms thus reserved had not been slept in by the claimant for three or four years, and on this ground the claim was disallowed, Mr. Greenhill observ ing that he would take good care in future to sleep in the rooms for two ur three nights in the year, in order to secure his vote. The revision of the Livery List terminated yesterday, and it was rumoured that the revising barrister will next proceed with the wind, of Aldersgata-within and without, the parishis to be taken in their order. The result of the revision up to the present time is as fol lows : Liberal claims allowed, 4 ; disallowed, 1. Conserva tive claims allowed, 1 ; disallowed, 4. Liberal objections sustained, 132 • failed, 43. Conservative objections sus tained, 97 ; f,ilevl, 112. Objections by both parties—sus tained, 61 ; failed, 1. EAST STRUET.— The Revising Barrister, Mr. B. C. Fish, held his first court on Monday, at the Town-hall, Reigate. Meters. Drummond and Chrees at tended as the conservative agents, and Mr. R. Russell on behalf of the Jibe rale. Mr. Jeans was also present as the representative of the East Surrey Reform Association. There were very few objections or fresh claims, and none o them involved any point of public interest —The court wet yesterday held at Croydon, when the same agents attendeds The conservatives had made 45 objections, but they only. established one, and the whole of the remaining objections failed. There were /3 , 1 liberal objections, of which number they sustained 11. No new point was involved in any of the cases. LIVERPOOL.—IMPORTANT DECISION.—On Monday the court for the revision of the list of voters for the borough was opened before T. S. Brandereth, Esq., the revising bar rister. The reformers objected to 101 householders and 330 freemen, in all 431. On an objection being made by Mr. Bremner, the agent of the conservatives, as to the description of the pees en who had signed all the objections, the revising barrister decided that the description was insufficient, and that the objections on the part or the reformers were all in vslid. He stated, however, that ho would allow an appeal to be made against his derision, and proceed with the revi sion of the les. subject to the objection which bed been m►de. On the opening of the court yesterday morning, Mr. HuU, on the part of the reformer., was again referring to the poiht, when the revising barrister stated that he would not re-open the argument. —Mr. Hull then handed in his appeal, and after the lied of objections to the house holders had been gone through, the revising barrister submitted a case which he had drawn up on Mc. Hull's appeal against his decision. It was based upon the objection made to a Mr. Hartley's descrip tion, that he did not state in which ward his name appeared on the register. The above-named case, which, we under stand, will be heard at the Court of Common Pleas at West minster in January next, affects upwards of 400 votes now on the register. The revising barrister remarked, just before the rising of the court, that ;the list of voters, as made out by the overseen, was not according to the act of parliament. • TUE DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM'S AFFAIRS.—Sir : As solicitors to the Marquis of Chandos, we request that you will give insertion to this letter, to correct a mis-statement conveyed in a paragraph of 3 our paper of yesterday, re- : spectirg the Duke of Buckingham's affairs, which implies i that the fact of the change of ownership of the property was , rot made known until the execution was put into Bucking ham House. The whole of the duke's interest in his real and personal property was purchased by the Marquis of Chandon for considerably more than its value in May last. The deed of conveyance and assignment was regularly registered in Middlesex and Ireland ; and immediate notice was given to ; all parties then having clai re upon, or being in any way con muted with, the property, to the parish officers of the several parish.s, and to the sheriffs of Middlesex, Hampshire, and Buckinghamshire.—Crunte, WOODGATE, AND WIL LIAMS.-32,-Lincola's-lon-fields, 21st S. pt., 1847. CITY CO3IMISSIONEF.S OF SEWERS. ELIM CHAPEL.—Yesterday, at the Court of Sewers held at I Guildhall, at which presided the chairman, Mr. Deputy Peacock, Mr. Daw, the chief clerk, stated that since the 1 court had last assembled, a complaint had been made by Dr. Farquhar and Mr. G. A. Walker, surgeon, under the pro visions of the 9 & 10 Vic., cap. 98, relative to the state of Elim Chvpel, Fetter-lane; that a summons had immediately been taken out, and which had been heard, and although application had been made to the sitting aldermen, Messrs. Hooper and Johnson, by the trustees, for the hearing to be postponed, it had been refused, and the magistrates had de cided that the nuisance complained of was to be removed, and the necessary steps to carryout that decision were to com mence oa Monday morning.—The Chairman inquired whether the trustees of Eliot Chapel had commenced taking any steps to abut • the nuisance ?—Mr. Daw was not aware whether the orders of the aldermen had been complied with. —lt was then moved, and unanimously agreed to, " That Mr. Haywood, the surveyor, should inspect the vault and cellar which had been used fur the interment of the dead beneath the above chapel, and to report as to whether the trustees had commenced carrying into effect the decision of the two magistrates, and if so, whether the course adopted would prevent the escape of any effluvium or obnoxious gas. Should the necessary steps set have been taken, or not in accordance to the order, the commissioners of sewers will then proceed to take the necessary steps to abate the nuisance, and charge the expenses upon the trustees of the chapel, in accordance with the terms and provisions of the act." THE ST. PANCRAS POOR.—INADEQUACV OF THE WORKHOUSE DlETARY.—Yesterday a meeting of the direc tors end gusrdians of the parish of St. Pancras was held in the new vestry rooms, when the chair was occupied by Mr. Churchwarden lloworth, who, with reference to the condi tion of the inmates of the workhouse, begged to call the at tention of the board to the Mad, gusty of the dietary table, especially in the article of bread ' • the paupers had potatoespotatoeslnd pudding together, which he (the chairman) thought was a bad combination of food. Ho was not, however, aware that there was any great objection to the dietary table, but he considered it ought to be so regulated as to prevent, by supplying proper nourishment, the introduction of extra neous articles of food in the workhouse. The chairman then Ingested the appointment of a committee to inquire into the matter, and that the dietary teble should in future show the allowance of food for each meal.—Mr. Morris agreed that the board should establish a sufficient dietary to prevent the in troduction of articles which had been said by the medical men to be of a dangerous character.—Mr. Clarke said the matter had come upon him rather suddenly, as he considered the dietary table was everything that could be wished, and if the master or the medical officer had anything to complain of they ought to come for ward..—The Chairman repeated that the allowance of bread to the paupers was very inadequate.—Dr. Bermingham was not aware of anything that would lead to this alteration in the dietary, although twelve months ago he took a very active part in the question, when it was admitted that the quality of the food was good. whilst the quantity was consi dered to he inadequate, and he (Dr. Bermingham) thought the poor might still have a better supply of food. lie was, however, disinclined to yield to the rule attempted to be en forced by the poor law commissioners, that of not allowing any article brought to the workhouse to be received, even a little wine, perhaps brought to an aged and dying individual by an affectionate relative. He hoped the board would not submit to that kind of discipline. Dr. Bermingham then recom mended a larger supply of pearl barley, and also of peas, one of the most nutritious and least expensive articles that was introduced into the house. He thin brought forward the subject of dying paupers in the infirmary being exposed to the gaze of the other inmates, who were sometimes seriously affected by tho groans and contortions of the individuals in the agony of death. —Considerable discussion upon this matter arose, and at length it was moved and seconded that screens be provided for the infirmary. The question was put, and carried nem. con., and after some further business the board separated. CHRIST'S HOSPITAL.—The accustomed annual ora tions by the senior scholars of this noble establishment were delivered yesterday, St. Matthew's-day, before the Lord Mayor, sheriffs, and other corporation authorities, and a crowded auditory. The first discourse, a Latin oration, on the benefits of the royal hospitals of Edward VI., was pro nounced by Edward Hayman, second Grecian, about to pro ceed to Clare-hall, Cambridge. The speech, excellently constructed, as a classical composition, gave a succinct account of Edward's various benevolent institutions, and depicted the immense benefits they hays conferred upon society, in relation dike to health of body and to health of mind. The <ccond oration, in English, pronounced by John Daniel Williams, first Grecian and classical medallist, proceeding to Trinity College, Cambridge, pursued the same theme ; and the talented speaker, in more especial reference to Christ's Hospital, gracefully indicated the various persons who, acquiring eminence in the world, have owed their training to this learned establishment : Camden, Bishop Middleton, Coleridge, &c., and adverted to the circumstance, so gratifying to hospitallers, that at the present moment two professional chairs at Cambridge are occupied by sons of the school. The Greek oration on the same subject was delivered' by Charles Edward Searle, third Grecian and mathematical medallist, who is proceeding to Pembroke col lege as the Times scholar. Mr. Searle obtained well-merited applause for his discourse. The fourth Grecian, William Allan Russell, who is proceeding to Oxford, pronounced a French oration on the same theme, ably composed, lad admirably delivered. The ether productions were— Latin Alcaics, on Marcus Curti us, by Hermann Charles Heilbronn, bronn, ninth Grecian; Greek lambics—Milton's " In vocation to L'ig_ht," by James Lemprikre Hammond, fifth Grecian, and Mathematical Xeddlist, 1847; English Ode, on the recent Double Discovery of the Planet Neptune, by Adams and Leverrier, by D'Arey Wentworth Thompson, seventh Grecian, and Clinical Medallist, 1647; Latin Hens ateten—. The Country Clergyman," from Goldsmith's "Deserted Village," by CharlesDaere Craven, &Lath Grecian ; Greek Sapphic—Gray's " Ode to Spring," by Robert Black, eighth Grecian ; Latin Elegiacs—Antigone Burying her Bro ther Polynices, by Thomas ilolbrow ' eleventh Grecian ; and an Enghilt Poem on the Creation, by George Hector Creed, twelfth Grecian. The tenth Grecian, Lawrence Craven, was absent through Milne. The exhibition of great and various ability manifested by these productions must have been most gratifying to the respective friends of the speakers, and to the authorities of the institution. A liberal collection was made for the library purposes of the new collegians, and the proceedings terminated with the formal business of renewing the minor officers for the ensuing year. IRlsll WASTE LAND IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY.— Yesterday the half-yearly general meeting of the directors and proprietors of this society was held by adjournment at the King's Head, Poultry. From the report of the pro ceedings of the society for the put year, it appears that owing to the calamitous state of affairs in Ireland, by which the labouring classes had been wholly deprived of sustenance, and upwards of 708,000 men were employed at a monthly expense of 1,000,0001. on public works, and the estimated loss upon agricultural produce of the country wa512,000,0001., the society's agents, with a view to meet so dire a calamity, and prevent the tillage of land on the society's estates being thrown out of cultivation, gave direction, for carrying on various expetintents on small model farms, and quantities of rape and cabbage seeds were sown, kir the purpose of distributing plants to the te nantry if the potato crops failed, and the most sae cesaful results had arisen from the precautions taken by the society. At the present time the society were giving constant employment to about 250 men, besides women and children, thereby supporting 1,100 to 1,200 persons, the total population of the estates amounting to 3,000 souls. Prizes were to be offered this year to promote the branches of agri culture essential to the altered state of affairs, which were supported by the society's landlords. The society already possess tracts of land which had been recovered to the extent of 10,000 acres, and it is confidently expected that 10,000 more acres would be recovered. The court of directors had already entered into treaties for extensive tracts of land, one of which was 5,000 acres. On the society's estates in Ballinakill it was ascertained that seventeen new tenants bad lost their entire crops, and were without food, and that the remainder had lest from twenty-five per cent. ; and the average loss of the whole number was seventy-live per cent., er in value ' from 3601. to 480/. ; and it would require at least 7201. to re place the potato crop in any other food. In Gleneaske it was found that twelve tenants had lost their entire potato crops, cad the remainder from ten per cent. upwards ; their average loss on the whole being ninety per cent. These were valued at 7221. ; and it was calculated that it would require 1,9601. to replace the loos at the then price of provisions. The I crops on the model farm, with the exception of the potato, ' were very fine, and yielded • good profit. In Kilkerrin it was found that the crops of twenty tenants bad totally ' failed, sad that they were nearly without food ; the remain ing crops varied from b 0 or 90 per cent. low, but owing to the preservation of some very tine crops in a few fields the average lon amounted to only 331 per cent., or from 2,1271. value to 1,3711. The general improvements on the estates being made were going on favourably, and the coast road from Clifden and Ouchterard road, by Scribbe, Rushee's, and Carna, which had been so long sought by the society, was then being rapidly constructed, to which the society had contributed 4181. The society had also contributed 5001., by annual instalments, towards the projected pier at Rushers. The effect of this pier and the road will be to secure a direct line of communication between the county of Clare and the towns on Galway-bay with the western divisions of Galway and Mayo. Schools for the instruction of the numer ous children on this estate were in the course of erection. The estimated expenses and returns of the estates for the past year were—for expenses, including rents, salaries, and contingencies, in Bsllioakill, Glenraske, and Kilkerrin, 1,6711.17 r. 2d .; Ind the receipts from the same places, and Tulligoline, 2,1341. ; leaving a balance of 460/. 2s. 10d. The capital sum of the society is 500,0001., in 501. shares, of which 7,000 had been subscribed, upon which 101. had been paid, and there was now another call of '2/. The secretary said aa there was not a sufficient number of shareholders present, 15, the meeting must, under the provisions of the society's act, 6th Will. IV., HT. 39, be again adjourned for a week, after which time the directors would be empowered to continue to act, and if necessary enforce all calls. The usual time having expired, the meeting was accordingly adjourned. INQUESTS, YESTERDAY. A PERSON CITOKED WHILE DININO.—At the King's Head, Great Mitchell street, St. Lukc'e, before Mr. Baker, on the body of John Roberts, aged 85 years, a greengrocer, residing at No. 11, Great Mitchell-street. On Monday l ust the deceased was eating some beef and bread, when he suddenly fell from the chair. A lodger immediately went to his assistance, and extracted a piece of bread and two large pieces of beef from his throat. A surgeon was sent for, but he expired directly afterwards. The deceased was in the habit of eating fast and ravenously. Verdict—" Death from suffocation."— STlClDE.—Before Mr. Baker, at the Old Red Lion, Wilson street, Finsbury, on view of the body of Mr. Win. Priest, aged 50 years, who committed suicide by swallowing prussic acid. The deceased was an upholsterer, and was formerly in business with a partner. About twelve months since the partnership was dissolved, and the deceased opened a shop on his own account in Wilson-street. Finsbury. During the summer business was very dull, and deceased became much embarrassed in his circumstances, and on Saturday last, en being pressed for a bill which had become due, he was not prepared to pay it. On Monday last he was beard to go out of the house and return shortly afterwards. lie said he was very ill, and wanted rest. Some time afterwards he was heard groaning very heavily, and his sister went into the room. He was lying on the bed in an insensible state, and • surgeon was immediately sent for, but the deceased ex pired before be came. A smell bottle was found which had contained prussic acid. Verdict—" Temporary insanity." —Tee FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE THANE/S.—Mr. Higgs resumed an inquiry, adjourned from Friday, at the Essex Head, Essex-street, Strand, on Wilson Emery, who with Sergeant Patton, of the Fusili.r Guards, perished on the Ilth inst. by the boat in which he was training for a rowing match coming in collision with the Matrimony, near the Nine Elms pier. Last evening Corporals Bye, Smith, and Hopkins, who were in the boat with deceased, proved that the melancholy occurrence was purely accidental ; and the jury, after an inquiry which occupied six hours, returned a verdict of " Accidental death." As soon as it was known that Sergeant Patton lost his life by the collision with the Matrimony, the privates of Artillery quartered in the Tower sent '21., and the sergeants of the Guards forwarded 41. to his bereaved widow. A collection is now making by the military of the garrison, to enable Mrs. Patton to pro vide for h2r five orphans. Sergeant Patton, who was fifteen years in the regiment, was much respected by his officers, end beloved by his comrades. THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENI.NLI, SEPTEMBER `,'2, 1847. IRELAND, DUBLIN, SEPT. 20. Lord Courtown, at a recent meeting of a Wexford , agricultural society, advised the landlords that the improvement of the land must be effected by them, for the tenants had not the means ; he advised the tenants that their farming must be more cleanly, for he said it was quite notorious that wherever there was a bad crop of turnips there was a good crop of weeds. REPORT OF TILE RELIEF COMMISSION. In transmitting our sixth monthly report's commissioners under the Temporary Relief Act, 10 Viet. cap. 7, we have to record the progress made towards the cessation of our opera tions. The power to make advances for the temporary re lief has been restricted by the law to the last day of Septem ber, leaving it to the discretion of your lordships to select the most appropriate periodi up to that time for its discon tinuance in each and all of the unions. The state of the season, and the providential abundance of the autumnal crops, has enabled us, under your lordships' sanction or di rections, to commence reductions on a large scale in the middle of August. Out of 127 unions that were under the act, 56 have had no advances made them on estimate for any period after 16th August . ; 26 more ceased on the 29th of that month ; and the entire of the remainder will cease on the 12th of September, with the exception of the advances for the fever hospitals, which will be continued until the 30th September. There were but few districts in which the guardians were ready to take up the out-door relief that might be necessary, and for which provision had been made by the New Poor-law • but in many, the number in the poor house had been reduced by the system of distribution of ra tions, leaving hundreds of vacancies to be filled; several committees had small balances of money, or of food in hand, which, being husbanded, would carry them on for a few weeks, or longer; and occupation was provided for the people by the gathering in of the crops; and from all these causes combined, the rapid discon tiausnce of this vast and somewhat loose mode of relief, has not, as yet, been attended with the distress that might, per haps, have been apprehended. But as the power of distri buting rations shall be withdrawn from the districts where the population is most dense, and the property and the eociety less in a condition to support the mar ; and where the numbers maintained by them have been very large to the last, the means, above enumerated, of alleviating the change will be smeller, and the distress will be greater in proportion ; and will require every resource that can be brought to hear upon it to prevent very much suffering. Still we maintain, that it is more judicious to discontinue the ration system, while the greatest amount of harvest work that can be expected shall be in operation (however insuffi cient' that may be) than to allow it to continue through that period, and then to cease. Much dread was naturally entertained of the demoralisation that, in spite of every pre caution, would follow the large and almost indiscriminate support afforded by the powers given under the Temporary Relief Act; and certainly the facilities thus afforded to com mittees (many of the members of whom were intimately associated or connected with the poorer orders), of making the distribution a system of boons, rather than of necessity, increased the expenditure in an enormous degree, and re moved from many any desire to make exertions for self subsistence. The very evil itself, however, has been at tended with a salutary re-action; and the whole country seems, by this experience, to have been made sensible that it is only by the most rigid and thoroughly controlled prin ciple of affording relief, by any public arrangement, that society can be protected from a state of almost universal pauperisation; and that the charge of a more benevolent alleviation of distress than what is absolutely necessary for the bare support of the thoroughly destitute, must, and ought to be left, to the exertions and voluntary distribution of the charitable and humane, which, it is to be hoped, will always be largely afforded.—J. F. BUROOTNE, T. N. Ran i/4070N. 15.1. Boors, R B . TWOIXTON, D. McOaloon. —To the Right Honourable the Lords Commissicusoes of her Majesty's Treasury, &a, &O. STAT4MIXT of the Nerava of DAILY HATIONO being Jilted 011 Satur day, the 29th August, 1817, with the aggregate Number of Persons subsisted by them. Of the total number, 2,019 electoral dirldans in Ireland. 951 erased to bout rations, under Act 10 Viet., c. 7, after the 12th August, leaving 1,095 under the operation of the act. 8y Beturns received from 588 Electoral Daisies': The number of gratuitous rations moult to 772,725 The number of rations sold Total number of daily rations 752,320 Number at electoral divisions that have sent In their returns Number of clectund divisions whose returns are deficient !UP Received. Redone. Ifot received. Rations. If US E. D. : 7112,520 : : 210 E. I). = 185,053 165,055 Total 087,575 rations. Divide by 31 brine the proportion the population of eh& dren bears to the rations 276,450 children, in the ta"o of one-fourth co' population. 820,350 adult., in the ratio of throe-fourths Cr population. Ontollooe 1,091,959 Sold Total - 1,105,800 ',creme receiving relief. 2,520,376 to let August, 1817. 1,103,800 to 29th Aura; 1817. 1,414,676 demesne in put month. 500,336 decrease in previous month. -- 1,914,912 total decrease. It. M. Banner, Accountant. Relie(Commlesion.office, September 1, 1847. TENANT-RIGHT IN TIPPERARY.—MEETING AT HOLYCHOS3. In pursuance of a requisition signed by a large nun. ocr of the tenant-farmers of the county Tipperary, the meeting which has attracted so much public attention was held at liolycrou on Sunday, at two o'clock. The object of the meeting, as set forth in the requisition, was " to establish a tenant-league, or an association of tenant-farmers, for the purpose of asserting and securing the rights and improving the condition of the occupying tenantry of the soil." There were about 4,000 pereons present, considerable numbers of them apparently comfortable farmers, the remainder chiefly composed of small occupiers and labourers. The meeting was held on the fair green, where a small, rudely-constructed platform was erected. There was an evident absence of all the usual preparations fur a public meeting. The congreps. tion of the chapel at Itolycroes formed a considerable portion of those who attended. The chair was taken by Mr. WILLIAM LOVOIINANE, of Iloytoorath, a tenant-farmer. Mr. JAMES F. LAMM was appointed secretary to the muting, and briefly explained the objects for which it was called. Ile said the principal object was to establish in Tip perary the tenant-right of Ulster—a right which declared that any man who obtained possession of land as occupying tenant should be understood u having the perpetual pos session of it so long as he paid the rent ; that the rent was not to be fixed by competition for the land by the landlord or agent, or be regulated by the highest bidding, but by the general standard of the country, or by common consent, or by arbitration, or some equally fair and equitable mode. Mr. Lalor read in conclusion the following resolutions: .. - That of natural right, on the grant of God, the soil of Ireland be longs to the people of Ireland, who hare, therefore, a clear vested right of property in that soil to the extent of full, comfortable, in dependent, and secure subsistenee therefrom, which never could or can be parted with, paro, or perish ; and which no power on earth, or any length of adverse possession, can take away, annul, bar or di minish.—That the people of Ireland have been for ages deprived of the benefit of their natural right of property in their own roil ; that their right has been, in practical effect, utterly defeated and divested; and that it now requires to be asserted, enforced, and established.— That the claim of the occupying tenants of the soil to a hill and Rah. viral subsistence out of the crops they have raised, and to a sufficiency of seed for next year's crop. is g.rior and superior to every other claim whatsoever. —That the subsistence of the people of Ireland is in dan ger, and requires to be defended, protected, and secured.—That In de fence of our rights of life, property, and security for subsistence, we do hereby resolve and constitute crawly, into a public league or asso- ciation under the name of the Tipperary Tenant League. Mr. JOHN Cokrelca, a tenant-farmer, having proposed the resolutions, Mr. DOH ENT came forward to second the motion, and was received with loud cheers. He said—Mr. Chairman, I ap pear here as a tenant-farmer of Tipperary. I appear here because I have a personal interest, independent of the in terest I feel for the country at this most momentous crisis. I appear here because • dark hour of danger has come upon Ireland, and because I believe if the people be not true to themselves they will have no protectors—no safety. I know it has been said by the English press that this would be an illegal meeting; and I am here to say in reply that we do not assemble to violate any law, but to see justice done the people. (Cheers.) It has been also said by the English press that this meeting is the beginning of a crusade against rents. To that I answer, and say no; such is not the object. (Cries of" No, no.") Every man here is dis posed and determined to pay his rent to his landlord. I for one believe the landlord is entitled to obtain a fair rent for his land: but, on the other hand, I believe he has no right to an unfair rent. We did not come here to-day to resolve that the landlord shall not increase his rent, hut to ask his usiatance to settle this question for ever. (Cheers.) I know that this county has obtained an unfortunate notoriety throughout the world. I know it has been said that Tip perary is notorious for its mid-day and midnight murders. I also know that the direst cruelties have in most instances led to those murders ; and I ask the landlord as well as the farmer to redeem the county from this stigma by now coming forward and entering into an amicable agreement with one another. What do we ask? What do the tenant-farmers seek for ? We hear this and other parts of Ireland blamed, and the north praised; we are often told that the farmers in the north are industrious and comfortable, and that we are wretched and idle. We ask to-day from the landlords that we, the tenant-farmers in Tipperary, shall have the same security that is enjoyed by tenants in the north of Ireland. We demand no more; and I say firmly that we shall be satisfied with no less. (Cheers.) We demand that the bargain for land shall be the same as for a horse sr a cow, and that if the price of the land be given—a fair rational price, not settled by the landlord alone, but by common consent between landlord and tenant, when that lair and reasonable price is given, we demand that the landlord shall have no more right to take the land, as well as the price of it, than any other man in the community. In the north of Ireland when a man gets a farm he knows that he is secure in the possession of it so long as he pays the rent. He does not get a lease, but he has • title as good as the landlord's title to the estate. The landlord cannot re move him while he fulfils his engagement. If the landlord wishes for the farm he must purchase the tenant's interest like any other man, provided the tenant be willing to part with it, for when the landlord parts with the possession, he parts with all right except his right to the rent agreed on, and the right to purchase back his own land from the tenant if he can. And this custom is founded on the idea, the just idea, that if the landlord hes a property in the soil, the tenant has a more sacred property in the sweat and blood he has expended on the farm, (Cheers.) A new process is going on now. We hear • good deal from Hog land about the landlords of this country. Whigs, tones, radicals in that country have talked a great deal about the Irish landlords, about what they have done and what they have not done. Those English parties say, " Oh, we will confiscate the property of the landlords. We will impose • rate to support the poor which will confiscate the property of the landlords of Ireland." Now what is the fact ? Who pays the rate in the first in stance? Is it not the struggling tenant? He is, to be sure, to be allowed his proportion of the rate when he pays his rent, but not till then. I think it may be safely said that, as times go now, the day is rather remote when he will be able to pay his rent and meet the other demands made on him. I believe that another year like the past—nay, another half-year like the past—would reduce the landlords to the same state of poverty as the tenants are now reduced to. A notion has lately become very popular among the landlords, and has been very much promulgated among them, and it is this : that the small tenants should be got rid of in some way or other. They are a nuisance on the earth—an eyesore on the estate ; and the man who would not cut up a tree that grows in his demesne is ready to root out the people whom God has created, and to whom he gave the world as an inheritance. (Cheers.) He is ready to root them out, and too often does he do so. But he is sometimes so compassionate, merciful, and generous, that he gives them assistance to struggle into the emigrant ships to escape from the fever at home, where at least they would have some one to attend them in their illness, to encounter the more fatal fever on the bosom of the ocean, where they can get no attendance at all ; and the end of this is, that those who en deavour to escape from sickness and death here, meet certain sickness and death in far off lands, where there is no one to offer up a prayer fir the repose of their souls, or at the last moment to compose the members of the dying. Thus do many of the people die—thus are they tut off and buried in a foreign land, all through the kindness, compassion, and gene rosity of some of the landlords. Now will the people of Ire land quietly, tamely, and silently submit to the destruction or deportation of the small farmers ? (No.) Far be it from me to recommend that any violent means should be used to pre- I vent the extermination or deportation of the small farmers. On the contrary, I believe that violent means would recoil on the heads of those who would employ them. But I depend on the voice of the country—l rely [or the protec tion of the small farmers on the steady, legal, powerful, and overwhelming public will of the people. (Cheers.) Come you together, and come often. Resolve firmly, in the face of Heaven, tha t these things shall not continue. Your landlords will get their rents—if they can ; the government will get back their advances—if they can; and the condition of the farmers will become worse and worse until they find their last resting place in the poor-house. (Hear.) It is in your power to avert this. The famine which swept away the people by thousands in Cork, Galway, and Mayo, never reached the counties in Ulster, where there are =- manse numbers of small farmers, but where they are pro ' tected by the salutary, wise, and beneficent carom of tenant , right, which we ask you here to adopt. Will you, in every locality in your county, adopt that custom, as far as you can do so without violating the law ? (Cries of " We will.") Will you take counsel together how you can quietly and • peaceably insist on the enforcement of that right ? Believe me, that coming here to-day from a distance to hear speeches and cheer whatever sentiments maybe agreeable to you, is not the way to secure your ends. Your object can only be effected by each of you endeavouring, in his own locality, to carry out the resolutions of this meeting. Let each man • teach those principles to his neighbour ; show him the true [ way to independence and comfort, and say to him, " Here is your home; improve it, raise yourself, and do not quit it." For my part, I most warmly respond to the hers enter. • tamed by sanguine men for the redemption of this beautiful land ; and I say it without any attempt at dab eery, you, the tenant farmers of Ireland, are the people of this country. Ireland has no other resources but her agri culture ; and you are the men out of whose blood and sweat is formed the only capital that Ireland has. You are the men out of whose energies the strength of this land is de rived both in capital and in physical power. I call on you to exercise that strength now for the purpose of averting the last fatal calamity that ever betel a nation— namely, that her children should be banished to another clime, or snit into the poor-house in order to increase the domains of the landlord. (Hear.) It is not my purpose to make you an exciting speech. I stated before that I expected no good from violence; but I do expect every good from a determined people becoming banded together for a good and noble purpose—not hur ried on cy the impulse of the moment—not wafted before the breath of the popular feeling of to-day, but solemnly resolving in the depths of their hearts, to insi , t on the ful filment of that covenant which God made between the holders and the tillers of the land. (Greet applause.) They sly " Oh, surely you can't mean to do this ; for parliament has no power to deal with the rights of proprty." Who I gave them a right of property? Under which covenant of law does a landlord acquire a natural right of property ? Was there ever such • doctrine broached as this—that because • man is born in a particular sphere be may claim, a right unalterable and indefeasible to the soil of the nation ? The sole title that a landlord has to his property is the title that the law gives him. If that be hies only title surely the law can abridge or nullify that title ? Surely the law can say—" This property is to be yours, subject to the condition that the tiller of the soil shall have a perpetuity as enduring as your own." I wonder much at the landlords who say that the law cannot interfere with the rights of property. The law has already interfered with • higher right of property than that of the landowner ; and I believe the landlords are equally anxious with the tenantry that the law should so interfere to take away from the clergy one-fourth se the tithe—(hear)—and transfer it to their own pockets. Assuredly that same law, passed by the parliament in its omnipotence, can interfere with the title of the landlord; item say to him, " You shall take this land, subject to the condition of giving the tenant a perpetuity in his farm as long as he continues to pay the rent fixed upon it." (Hear, hear.) How is the rent to be fixed upon ? At present, there being no other resource but land in this country, there are at least 5,000 persons looking for each farm that is to be let. The rent is regulated, not by what the land is molly worth—not by compact between landlord arid tenant (for I deny that any arrangement having necessity for the basis of it is • compact at all)--but it is regulated by the great competition which unfortunately exists. The land lord, of course, takes advantage of this, and lets his lands at the highest penny which a man can offer—l do not say which a man can pay ; for, in many instances, the unfor tunate tenants are unable to discharge half the amount of their extravagant rents. (Hear, hear.) What de I propose? I ask parliament to interfere and pass a law immediately. or their law will come too late ; for it is idle to suppose, that this nation can endure much longer, tortured and oppressed as she is on all sides. I will not speak of her political condition, for I came here only to consult about the safest way of transferring the tenant-right of Ulster to Tipperary. (Hear, hear, and loud cheering.) I ask parliament to interfere, and provide some means whereby the land can be set at a fair rent. I think that a system of valuation would be the best plan that could porAbly be adopted. Let unbiassed persons be selected, and sworn on oath to discharge the duties confided to them with impartiality. L-t them set a fair value on the land, and let the legislature say, " So much, and not one half penny more, you (the landlord) shall take for the land ; and further, the moment you admit • tenant into possession he can have that land as long as you, provided he continues to pay the rent." I do not deny that a landlord may some. times have a necessity fora certain farm occupied by a tenant. If he does, let him pay for it like another man. In Ulster the landlord can sell the tenant-right for arrears of rent ; but, if he wishes to obtain possession of the holding of a man who pays his rent, he must purchase him out. (Hear.) I know there are many landlords listening to me now ; I know that many landlords acted most kindly towards their tenants during the past year—not only indulging their tenantry, but contributing largely to the support of others. I say boldly that I look upon the landlords as a class of my countrymen, and that I would not sacrifice any clam. (Cheers.) I seek to do them no injury, but the contrary. I ask fee the tillers of the soil a perpetuity of title in the land they cultivate. Si far from injuring the landlords thereby, I give them the happiness which arises from the knowledge of having done well. I give them the comfort of sitting down in their homes, and not only seeing themselves surrounded by every luxury and splendour, but of knowing that in no cabin on their estate was there a single person without a meal. For I deny that any man can ever be content, kneeing that around him death is busy at his work—remembering that though he enjoys every luxury that wealth can procure, the men, women, and children around him are the victims of an accidental famine. (Hear.) There is another subject of considerable importance, which may be alluded to here. Last year the entire potato crop was lost The government had authentic information of that calamity early in July. At that time the corn laws were in existence, the effect of which was to prevent any foreign corn coming to England, in order that they might glean from this country every particle of her produce. Oats, barley, and wheat were all taken away from us to the last grain; and why ? Be cause the government said, the merchants of England must be consulted. A fatality followed that export of our pro- visions. The people died in myriads—so fast did they perish that in Cork a single coffin sufficed for one parish. A Votes: Was that the coffin with the false bottom? (Laughter.) Mr. DoliavY : Yes, that was the coffin with the false bottom. These whigs are very fond or eiteisomy , they car ried their practice to the grave, and made a profit even out of the grim produce of death, for the coffin that was used to carry the father of a family to his grave one day, was used to convey his wife and children the next. (Oh, oh). Is that to occur again ? (Loud cries of " No, no.") We had as much wheat and oats as would have provided for our people. What became of it ? It was brought away to feed the Eng lish people. Lord John Russell, in effect said, " There are a certain number of people who live on potatoes, and a certain number who live on bread." Now the potato crop is lost ; yet still those who have lived on bread must continue to have it, and those who have hitherto lived on the potato must die—there is no help for it. (Hear, hear.) But the English merchants have their turn now. Dire adversity has some upon a great many of that class, for whose benefit the lives of the Irish people were sacrificed. Rich houses have been smutted and overwhelmed in ruin—creditors have gone to their doors which they found closed against them. During the time the distress was at its height in Ireland the English men of war were lying idle in the docks, and the govern ment peremptorily refused to allow them to be used in car rying food to save the Irish people from starvation. But the American nation, against whom some of us have eyeu fought, perceived our miseries from afar, and determined to alle viate them, and their charity supplied to the starving sub jects of the mistress of the sea , in vessels conquered from her power, the food which she refused to give us. (Loud cheering.) The government would not interfere to save the lives of the Irish people, lest the trade of the British merchants should suffer, but they were not able to restrain the hand of charity which was extended to tin from beyond the wave, by that glorious nation whose star spangled banner is the emblem of freedom. (Loud cheers.) Well, the merchants, to favour whom the people were left to starve, have suffered as well as the people, and another year has come—another year has come, and what is to be done ? This may be a delicate subject to speak upon, but I for one will not shrink from the free and honest expree 'ion of my opinion as to what course ought to be pursued. I say. come what may, the people shall not be left to starve again. (Cheers.) I have no lean, but to prevent this we will have the concurrence of landlord as well as farmer, of tradesman as well as mechanic, and of labourer as well as soy. I suppose no man will say that the people ought to be exposed to starvation, or that they should die of want for want of the food raised on their own land, Do I recommend you to keep that food by force ? Far from it. But let all combine for the one object—the salvation of the people— let the landlords and tenants themselves buy up the food with their own money for one-sixth of the price they will have le pay if they let it leave their shores. Let England pro 4:k • market for herself. Let her go to the Baltic—let her reseeek Poland and scour America for food ; but let her leave us our own. (A voice : " Let her buy yellow meal— we'll have no more soup kitchens.") Now, what should be done to effect our object ? We have only to combine among ourselves—to unite all classes in an effort to save the It will be in vain to rely on the British minister. Art been false before in the hour of our need, and het:mad be true now ; nor can we rely on the parliament, for It is the parliament of England, not of the empire. It wilil be idle and useless to call upon it for assistance, for it would not heed us—it has but little concern for us. The few Irish members who go .there and speak the truth, are scoffed at,: and even if all the Irish members attended there daily, and made out the beat and most conclusive ease for their country, they are too few in number, and would be out-voted by the British political economists who would again sentence the people to starvation. Well, have we the means of protecting ourselves at home ? I say that we can protect ourselves if we please. Not only should there be found enough left in each parish to feed the people, but to provide seed for next year. Some of the landlords boasted last year what they would de on this point. I ow not see that there would be any difficulty in forming a com mittee in each parish to see how much oats, not to talk of wheat, there was for food and seed. The people have not the means now they had before, and this is a question for the consideration of landlord as well as peasant, for no matter what the landlord's power may be—let him be able to wield the full force of the iniquitous laws made by landlords for their own use and interest, and against the tenant—let him have the unconquered army of England, with her ships of war aid all her power and might to assist and back him, he cannot make a starving man pay rent. (Hear, hear.) The people will pay the rent whenever they are able, but it is impossible for them to pay what they have not. I call upon you to meet your engage ments where you can—l ask you to pay the landlord his rent as far as you can. Pay to the last farthing where you are able; but I only repeat the counsel of Almighty God, which tells us that we are not to starve for the sake of meeting any demand. (Cheers.) And now this may be sneered at in certain quarters. It may be sneered at in England, and we may be called a reckless, violent, lawless people. But no matter. This great principle is beginning to be felt, and it shall be acted on. The tenantry of Tipperary at least understand their position—l trust they understand their siren ph also ; for all constitutional law in England is sup to be the emanation of the popular will. I ask you to assert your rights in the only way that they ought to be averted—;peaceably, legally, but with perseverance and determination. Humble though we are, we have come here to-day to give the first impulse to this great movement. Not many, perhaps, of those who read our will be indoctrinated with our principles, bat e seed s sown in the mind of the county ; it will grow to maturity ; and I do not fear that by this day twelve months you will In Tipperary be pomassad of the legal right called in Ulster, the tenaat-right of the North. (Cheers.) And give the people of Tipperary but the hold on existence—protect them from that ruthless extermi- nation which has desolated so many homes—enable them to maintain themselves and their families in comfort, and out rage and violence will disappear. ((sear.) I was travelling this week through n certain part of Tipperary, the name of which I s h all not now mention, and I saw there the work of the bailiffs and the police. I saw three cabin, which had bout the dwellings of some wretched families levelled to the around, I saw in one place several half-naked, hungry, wretched, and helpleu women and children endeavouring to obtain some warmth be nestling in the soot of one of thew cabins. (Sensation.) I raid to myself, black crimes are committed in Tipperary—murder is an awful thing—it brings calamities upon the countries where it is perpetrated, and the red era of God's vengeance is continually over the murderer of his fellow-man. But here is a crime equally detestable in the eyes of God, and equally to be reprobated by mankind at large ; and it is to prevent the continuance of that crime—to put a stop to those dreadful murders consequent thereupon—that I ask, for the sake of the landlord, of the tenant, and of the labourer—for the sake of the wealthy . merchant, the struggling shopkeeper, and the induatrimis artisan--that the tillers of the soil should have a right of possession is their holdings as indefensible as that of the landlords themselves. (Loud cheers,) I now beg leave to second the adoption of the resolutions which you have heard read. All that are in favour of forming a tenant-league on the principles which we have advocated will now hold up their hands. (The entire assembly here held up their hands, and there upon the resolutions were declared to be carried.) Mr. LALOR then pr.poeed the sixth resolution, which was put and adopted. That the sole and only title that can be Vended to any right of pri vate property in the mibstance of the soil is merely and altogether con ventional, and in ardor to be valid must be founded on common con sent aid agreement--be created by compact, and conferred or confirmed by the will and grant of the people, as defined and declared in the form of positive and precise laws ; and as it is CI., created by the law, the law, therefore, may regulate, retain, limit, or qualify it Mr. Don EN Y moved the adoption et the following resolu tion . . . That the custom of tenant-right now prevailing in Ulster, and hero /natter defined, is founded on justice, and ought to be the law and custom of Tipperary; and it is hereby solemnly resolved, covenanted, and agreed. that the drat great duty of the leaguo now formed shall be to establish and enhoree it thy every constitutional and legal means, and we hereby pledge °omelet:* to use every exertion consistent with the law to effic to. The motion was seconded and p►ssed. Tke eighth resolu tion wan proposed by Mr. LaLott, end wan to tue following effect That the tenant-right above referred to is as follows—that is to my, that any person or plates, now having and holding the actual posses sion and occupation of any parti in of the soil of this country, shall be deemed and taken to have a permanent and perpetual posesaioa of the same, for and during so long aa he shall eintinne to pay such rent as shall be fined and determined by the adjudication and award of sworn arbitrators, or other fairly constituted and impartial tribu nal, such adjudication and award to be made and given on such prin ciples and in such mode no may hereafter be determined by conven t'on and agreement between the landlord and occupier. The resolution having been seconded was adopted, and Mr. ',mot/proposed the following resolutions : That the landlords of this county are hereby requested and called on to subscribe to and recognise the tenant right, as slated in the terms of the prcvioou resolution., and that all lawful means be used to induce them to do a.—That tenant•farmen and people throughout the several counties of Ireland are hereby called on to adopt the de claration of tenaataigh. contained in the foregoing revolution., and to join in covenant and agreement wah us in :Inserting and eata bliallieg by force of public opinion the right and custom therein stated as the standing law of tenure in Ireland—That pros pion be made for organising the league now established into divisional or parochial committees. The resolutions wero carried unanimously amidst loud chum. •-.-.. - - • -• Mr. WM. Covet OR here claimed permission to address the meeting. But for a ruinous competition which gives the landlord the power to exact what rent he liked from the tenant there would not be a word of complaint on the sub ject, for otherwise the bargain between landlord and tenant could be fairly settled. He would illustrate the effect of competition and the landlord's power in this way : when a man wants a hat he goes to a hatter, who, perhaps. has 500 hats to fit him, which he would give at a fair value. The hatter is glad to see him enter his shop, and will do all he can to deal with him, because he knows the man can go else where and provide himself. But reverse the case, and con sider the case of landlord and tenant; and, instead of one man going to where the 500 hats are, you have 500 heads going to the one hat. (Laughter.) This competition for land enabled the landlord to take not only the value of the land, but also the value of nearly the whole crop. The com petition was the landlord's vice. He gets the tenant by the nose with it, and squeezes the last farthing out of h,m.— After some further observations, Mr. Connor was inter rupted by Mr. Lalor, who reminded him that the resolutions of the meeting had been already carried. But Mr. Connor persisted; Mr. Lalor again objected; the chairman inter fered, and the discussion went off into a personal squabble between those gentlemen. When it had in some degree subsided, Mr. LALOR moved the following petition to parliament, which was adopted • The humble petition of the undersigned tenant.farrners of the county Tipperary, humbly ehoweth, that the statutes, miscalled law, which relate to the relation between landlord and tenant in this county, are partial, oppressive, and noised, amt have been productive of enmity, insecurity, aretebednewi, and blonlabed. That there never eon be peace, happiness, or permanent safety Is Ireland, until this code is totally abrogated. That any law regulating the relation of landlord and tenant in Ireland, to be just, satisfactory, and enduring, should be based on the principle. of tenant.right, as established and prevailing in the province of 1." inter, and ghoul I rewagnise the tenant's interest in the soil sea perpetuity, provided he paid • fair and reason able rent to the landlord. That your petitioners respectfully call for speedy adjustment of that question on those principles, and they shall, as in duty bound, ever pi ay. • • • .• . , Mr. CONNOR again endeavoured to address the meeting, but was unable to obtain a hearing. A scene of much con fusion ensued, in the midst of which the chairman retired from the platform, and the meeting broke up. Mr. Con nor, however, continued to address the people for some time after. REPEAL AssOClATlON.—Alderman O'Brien, M.P., pre sided at Conciliation-hall to-day, where a letter was read from Lord Claud Hamilton, M.P., refusing to sign the re quisition for a meeting of Irish members, but stating that if he approved of what was agreed on at the assemblage, he would support it. Sir Andrew Armstrong, M.P., has signed it : Sir Andrew is a whig. A letter was read from Arch bishop Hale, giving his adhesion to Conciliation-hall— the first communication which reached that place from him since Mr. O'Connell's death. Mr. John O'Connell, in his speech of the day, strongly censured the meeting at Holy- cross, as extravagant in its objects, and likely to be dangerous to peace, as it left the people open to the instigations of the I designing. An abstract of the receipts and disbursements of the repeal rent for ten months was read, and left the asso ciation is debt over 1,2001., which, however, they have nearly 5001., consisting of two bequests, to meet. It is un derstood one of them is from the late Mr. O'Connell, and is nearly 7001.—The repeal rent was 40/. STATE OF TOE Cot NTRT.—Of a rate of 14,0001. struck in the Union of Tralee, the collector could bring in ne more than 4161. in a fortnight. A very brutal murder was perpetrated on a soldier at Tralee a few dare since. The name of deccased was Casey, and be was attacked while pro ceeding to his barrack in company with two of his comrades, one of whom is dangerously ill of the violence committed on him on that occasion. The attack on the soldiers was led by two men, named Sandy M'Alestrum and Patrick Riordan, the farmer of whom had a quarrel with a soldier of the 77th (Casey's) Regiment a few nights previously. SCOTLAND. EDINBURGH, SEPT. 20. The following resolutions were agreed to at a meet ing of the Glasgow Stock Exchange on the 1 ith instant : I. That while various muses are at present in operation te depress the market, and to depredate the value of share property, it metre to them that one came will be found in the continued drain at wow which has been taking place for a conaiderable time, for this apse of tootiting railway calls—that three have boon mete to ma en. =Vi c l with such rapidity, as to prem with gnat severity ea share gasman ; and to meet which, a kph portion et holden here been either to sell sleek at mien* low prliosow to bear mar et exorbitant raise et Ingured. 2. 214 la the pre sent widths et railway holding, sett waft et sway. sub new mil berm mere inemporMai, oil ter§ rrelher to • farther deposeletlea el railway stout S. Mt the ssrtlewldit this con doled eerie ker op, rams et eelle rd her. Ore meg seri eery *herr rd lry ef theavary_ .by rtbilterrtee large Ile INIIIIIIREIIE whelks= la=ne kidgheard reeriet met by Sr arra a Mr trissli=thessertleiereetteserame extent as t o amp errehr. 4. rat the sasetine =s re. view with aria Ere by the eemeittee el the Li , veol Molt draft Ira the yarns neer eor pear shawl& to la rd eraltaxersty valet a Imaslng the menet et relwerT S. That It farther appeals to this melba dr rile le evident that railway cans esseet, with ethers." le preerd au newsy works within a very sheet pitied of Wog completed, ar Mr ea the re at being Itie their =that it is eat , e serer of railway directors iift le re. tle present eve, by sessrg—thr to eater re • r entreats for new work, • rd. awed. et mike areerre err their mine. tore, by which 'than at peon& la episodes ary le grad war • Warr prod : —that the aid et sr il lIMIERIIIIIIIS WYE be, not hay at ere to lower the pre et Mort sr Wm re met et or liners. bet likewise ft errs, re mired term repay te a Emirate, extent 01110 earl be der by re inumilearil "F et or or kr& err . IL That the reser Invite re elleelies a Z regerriett et Miry illeselon, raliwgehateholders, and eke=le osanny ter the yap= d bringing Mood these i The lords of the tressui7 have declined a commission to inquire into the state of the high• lands and islands of Scotland. In his official letter, Mr. Trevelyan says : That their lordship. are of opinion that the state of the highlands and inland' of Scotland she so well known, that the appointment of a oommimion of inquiry would not be ;reductive of any advantage which would counterbalance the objections to that course of pro. ceeding. The Duke of Atholl appears to be relenting. The Aberdeen Herald has seen a written pass, of which the following is a literal copy, leaving out a name, the date, and the number : &auk CURLY, Sept., 1647. No. Admit and friend through Cleo Tilt, any day from the to the of September. Arnett. - - • - - - . The pass is partly printed, as above, and ;eels to be cut out from some old check admission book, for the year date is printed 183 . Lord Abinger, or some of his friends, have been publishing the minutes of a meeting of eight of his lordship's tenants, held on the let inst., together with the reply of his lordship to the chairman of the meet ing, all to the effect that the "commissioner" of the North British Mail has been calumniating Lord Abinger as a proprietor. The letter is dated 7th inst., and as the matter has for some time ceased to be dis cussed, it is only calculated to revive the controversy to publish it at this distance of time. Besides, making due allowance for the microscopic eye of a " gentleman lof the press," the "principal tenants . ' of our accused landlord will not be regarded by the public as im partial exponents of a system supposed to press rathet hardly on the minor tenants. Moreover, in these days of ascent to " first principles" it may be quite possible to conceive of many amiable and benevolent landlords, who, with the best intentions in the world, may seg. egate too large portions of ground for game pre serves, and so, to the detriment of the general interest, narrow the food produce of the soil. It only requires some dozen of English noblemen to purchase Scotch estates, in order to turn the whole country into a "hunting field," as the Queen says to Mucallumore, in the " Heart of Mid-Lothian." Lord Abinger may think it churlish, bat it is probably better for the country at large, and for tenants in particular, when an earnest land-improver,like Mr. Matheson, M.P., makes a Highland purchase, than it is when a sporting lord becomes owner of the soil. And it should be kept in view, that it is qua agriculture, not sport, that the real estimate of proprietorship should be formed. As formerly mentioned, the Educational Institute of Scotland dates its existence from Saturday last. The office-bearers are as follow :—Prcsident, Dr. Schmitz, Edinburgh ; Vice-Presidents, Dr. Melville, Aberdeen, Mr. Knox, St. Ninian's, Mr. Bryce and Mr. Cumming, Glasgow, Mr. Reid, Edinburgh; Mr. Cooper, Edinburgh, treasurer; Mr. Fergussen, secretary. As a nucleus, eight gentlemen were named senior fellows, and forty examiners were also appointed. There can be no question that the formation of th:s institute will give a great impulse to education—especially in so far as it affords an opportunity of showing what educators can personally do for education. In cor porate educational establishments many anomalies exist, and wherever private enterprise competes with. them it generally carries the victory. Take, for example, the chair of Hebrew now vacant in the metropolitan university. The salary is 115/., with fees reduced since the disruption of the established chunk to some sixty guineas. Who is to take such an appointment? The patrons cannot ask where is the best man, but where is the most passable man who can afford to take it. Now look at the Free Church College: there each professor is guaranteed a given sum, and the fees are cast into a common fund. The professor of Hebrew receives 400/. per annum certain, and the effect on the fees might be anticipated— last year they amounted to l $2l. The remedy for thisis not easy. The chair in the old university is looked on as belonging to the church—the church again not having the patronage, feels less interest about it, and so the Hebrew professorship is in the old position of being between two stools. In King's College, Aberdeen, something very like a job has been perpetrated. The professor of Greek, after fifty years' labour, has for some time felt himself incapacitated, and taking ad vantage of the indisposition of some professors, and the absence of others, has, by the casting vote of the principal, got his son (relationship being his chief re commendation) elected assistant, an office which with the stereotype character of the seminary is reckoned equivalent to ultimate appointment. The ethics pro fessor has entered a strong protest against the ap pointment ; but as the whole of the chairs in this uni versity are, with one exception, in the gift of the senalus noulemicus, there is ouch facility for the "gig-gill ' s ystem, that if the whole of the bad ap pointments are to be protested against, the protestors will have their hands pretty full. COMMISSION BY THE LORD LIEUTENANT or CAITHNESS SHIRE.—J. M. Junner, gent., to be lieut. of the :kith or Roas.shire, dm, Royal Regt. of British Militia. JENNY LiNn.—The demand for tickets to the Edinburgh forenoon concert of Monday was greater than even for the previous evening's entertainment. Three prices were in many cases paid, and the concert itself went off with excel lent effect. PEEBLES HEST/NOS.—The contractor who was indicted for so inefficiently doing his work that it fell down has been pronounced not guilty. The erection was composed of spruce fir, and wanted a centre beam and port, but it was duly inspected as the time, and the witnesses were contra dictory, and hence it is supposed the above result. PROVINCIAL. LANCASHIRE. THE RECENT GALES.—The Liverpool Standard of yesterday says : " During the last seven days he weather in this district and its neighbourhood has been unusually severe and stormy for the season of the year. The quantity of water that has fallen must be great, for the fi. Ids and roads not on acclivities, or imperfectly drained, were in most parts flooded. The wind varied from N.W. to W.N.W., and sometimes \V. The grain crops here having, happily, been nearly all secured, but little damage has, we trust, been occa sioned in an agricultural point of view. The Mersey has been unusually rough throughout. Seldom have wo seen its waters more crowded with vessels, including many of large size, many being obliged to put back, unable to weather the gale and the heavy sea way in the outward channels, and from many others, ready for sea, deeming it prudent not to weigh anchor. To this may be added the difficulty of docking. The casualties to shipping near the port have not, happily, been great, thanks to the efficient lighting and buoying of the channel. The barque Henry Ewbank, Cooper master, parted one of her cables abreast of the rock ou Thursday, and dragging the other anchor went sahore in Bootle Bay. She is laden with cotton and oil-cake, which will be partially damaged by leakage. Two sma ll sloops and a large schooner got ashore same day, a little to the westward of Leasowe Castle, on the northern extremity of the Wirral peninsula. The schooner was bound to Most)n, is Wales, and was quite empty. Shortly before one o'clock, p.m., she dropped anchor, but, being in danger of capsizing by heavy rolling, slipped her cable and took to the shore, where she grounded on the stone embankment, still rolling heavily. She was left high and dry when the water fell, and but little damned. Luckily for these vessels the tide was a low one that day (17 ft. 7 in.), so that all of them, if the weather la;inme any way moderate, will be got off by Friday (if not before), when we shall have a twenty feet tide. A barque got ashore at Southport; and another large vessel on the Horse Bank, with a subsequent lose of six of the crew. The Maguire, which sailed from New Orleans with the Mamlouk (the latter lost some time ago), was towed into port on Thursday, with loss of topgallant-masts and other spars. She has been on her beam ends, and six feet of water in her hold. An other ship was brought in totally damaged, having been on Great Bubo Bank; and another, which had left a few days before, returned, after having been cm shore at Dundalk, with the loss of great pert of her canvas." DISASTERS ON TILE HORSE BANK.—The Preston Guardian says :—"Wo regret to have to record the loss of the barque Hillsborough, the property of Mr. It. Dickson, timber-merchant, Preston. What makes the matter still more lamentable is, that it is feared 11 of the crew have met with a watery grave. The following are the full particulars supplied by our Lytham correspondent. The Hillsborough left this port on Wednesday last, for North America, with coals; she was towed out of the river by a steamer from Li verpool, which left her about the No. 1 buoy ; she then pro ceeded towards the north-west, and attempted to get a good offing, but the wind coming up from the south-east to the western points, and raging with terrific violence, she was obliged. to put off and on, and put about in every direction that art and skill could suggest to keep her from the shore. In this situation she was tossed the whole of Wednesday night and Thursday, up to the time of her atriking on the Horse Bank. The weather had been so furious, and the waves so terrible, that the poor seamen had to be continually at the pumps, and were not able to see any object to point out the position they were in. About four o'clock the cease' struck. As the tide was receding when the vessel came on, Swan, the pilot, was apprehensive that the next tide would break her up, and consulting with Capt. Lamb, they ordered the boat, to be got out. They remained with the tenet till about six or seven o'clock ; when darkness was coming on they, as a last resource, slipped away from the lee side of the vessel with the long and jolly boats ; before they bad proceeded far, however, the boats grounded. The night had now become very dark, and the wind blew with such fury that the pilot advised that every one wishful to save his life should leave the boats and follow him, as he trusted he could walk the hank and find his way to the shore. The captain and eight others of the crew followed his advice ; the others, however (five in num ber), being wet and fatigued, they huddled together in the long-boat till about one o'clock on Friday morning, when the tide assisted them, and they again roused every nerve for the peat trial of life or a watery grave. They succeeded, and although not knowing the place, landed at Warton Bank. One of the five landed was the first mate, who immediately accom panied a boat's crew to again visit the vessel, to see if they could find the remainder of the crew, thinking that after a vain attempt to reach the shore they might possibly have re turned to the vessel ; but sad to relate the boat has returned, but no tidings of those that are missing, and it is greatly to be feared that they have all perished. It is deeply to be re gretted that the captain was pressed upon to go to sea against his with when such forebodings of a storm were evi dent.—The same correspondent add., to the above informa tion that a fine vessel of the rig called a galliot has also been cut on the said bank not far from the ill-fated barque." ALLEGED RETIREMENT OF COL. WILLIAMS.— The Liverpool Mercury contradicts a statement which ap peared in the Mail, that Col. Williams was about to retire from the bench, adding—" the gallant colonel was not pre sent at the sessions when the notice of retirement is alleged to have been given. It cannot be correct, therefore, that he gave such notice on the day in question ; and we have the best authority for stating that at no other time has he ever intimated his intention of retiring from the bench." THE FEVER AT LIVERPOOL.—We lament to learn, says the Liverpool Mercury, that another catholic clergyman has been attacked by that dreadful malady which has al ready been so fatal to his brethren in this town, no fewer than nine baring fallen victims to its ravages. The gentle man to whom we allude is the Rev. John Fielding Whittaker, incumbent of St. Joseph's, Grosvenor-street . Oa Sunday week he preached a most eloquent discourse, on the duties of man towards God and his fellow-creatures, contrasting the death-bed of the humble and pious . Christian with that of the impenitent ainner, and contending that a virtuoso Mg day the preacher himself was taken ill, and we art* , ' learn that his disease has since Lammed all the symptom,/ typhus fever. He remains in a very dangerous an* r • • o° . .... or. was the only preparation fora happy • -, 4 death. On die , ,; '4 l *3 llk tr z 4 2 ' zi NI 0