The Express. — London, England, 1847-05-19 00:00:00

for the eclesuistscal commission, Mr. WILLIAMS, en aground that ho thought the expense ought to be eared oat of the revenues of the church, called gr a division, when the vote was agreed to by • apjority of 68, the numbers being 78 to 8. T un s truggle between reason and feeling, the and the sentimentalists, between political gooo ray and humanity, has been carried on amongst on w ith varying fortune. One time logic carries the ear, at another eloquence prevails over ratiocination. p o litical economy gets possession of a certain goes tson• , moulds and shapes it to its desires: sentimen talism is lucky enough to get hold of another, quite c k n it s e, and kin, twisting and ordering it in a directly con trary fashion. One of these antagonistic prin ciples has seized the poor-houses, another dominate, o ver the factories. How the same government and the same legislature can reconcile both, is difficult to imagine. But they seek to do so, and even prefer, if possible, combining and dovetailing the two, so that bey are sometimes found to unite, even in the same law and the same person. Some years back the political economists had de cidedly the upper hand; their influence was irre sistible; it dictated every law, decided every measure, and scou:ed even the smallest proposals of the humanitarian with disdain. From the question of the poor to that of the currency their word passed undisputed, and it has spoken dictatorially to all t eassee—to the labourer, the trader, and the lord. All have successively bowed under the yoke and felt the rattan of the political economist. But it was impossible to attempt everything, with out doing something wrong. And very huge doubts have arisen, and do arise, that these abstract laws, which so imperiously dominate, ought not to be allowed so absolutely . to pass unquestioned. The ten dency of future sessions of parliament will, we fear, be rather to reverse the decisions of certain political economists, than to endue them with the sanctity of the old ones of the Medea and Persians. In the currency question the political economists have gone wrong; is the poor-law too far. In other questions, such as taxation, criminal law, the caring for the food and condition of the lower classes, the humanitarian notions hare taken the start of the economical, and begin de cidedly to prevail. It is singular how, amidst these currents and counter-currents, political chiefs have lost their course, and been whisked into each other's places. Thus the whigs were the parents and guardians of political economy. PEEL, if anything, IS a humanity-man. His bowels of sympathy for the lower classes, he tells you, have disgusted him with the superannuated aris tocratic ideas of his party. He is for the masses, and the whip for the classes. So at least it is pretended. Yet we find Lord JOHN RUSSELL go with the stream of humanity in the Factory Bill, eon- Vary to every principle of political economy: whilst Sir ROBERT Peer, sacrifices his love of the people to his respect for the manufacturer—the claims of labour to the rights of capital. Questions in which both principles are deeply involved occupied both houses of parliament on Mon day and last night. The law for shortening the hours of labour in factories was voted almost with acclamation by the lords. Lord ELLESMERE introduced the subject in a beautiful, we might say a classical speech. He pointed out the necessity of the great object, to restore the wife and daughter of the operative to their home, to comfort, to education. We desire this with the partizans of the Factory Bill, but deem the Factory Bill as not the proper means to attain that aim. This aim is simply the moral and physical elevation of the condition of the operative. It is attempted to effect this by re stricting labour, lowering wages, and superseding all moral effort on the part of the operative himself for the attainment of this end. It is a commencement of ' , Chinese legislation, of which the tendency is to con vert the Englishman into the Chinaman. Lord CLA RENDON pointed out with a warning voice its inevi table effects upon trade. It in fact stops the works and blocks up the mouth of the mine which ARK WRIGHT opened. Sentiment, however, triumphed over calculation. And the bishops were na turally unanimous in desiring to thin and dis perse a manufacturing population, which they failed to reform, and despaired to ameliorate; their philan thropy, therefore, prompts them to extermination. For the bill is nothing other than the first step in the process of exterminating the factory operative. The turn of the agriculturist must now come. The Duke of RICHMOND declared that if it were proved that toe half of the agriculturists died from excess of labour, he would vote for instant remedy. It might easily be proved that more than ore-half starve on aunt wages. We must, therefore, have a law of tisieimum of wages : it would be quite as warrantable and as wise as the factory law. The new law for the administration of the Poor law can scarcely be said to affect the great question in dispute. The sister measure for Ireland has, however, so decidedly flung political economy overboard, that the sentimentalists may rest satis fied with having already gained this session a signal advantage. Even Mr. FERRAN D might have been satis fied with the deposition of the poor-law commissioners. Fortunately for the personal objects of his hatred, his eloquence was on Monday directed against the 43rd of ELIZABETH, a file sufficiently hard even for the teeth of the member for Knaresborough. Whilst Mr. FERRAN D chewed and mumbled this file, Mr. Lewis and Sir JAM ES GRAHAM escaped. Seldom has the House of Commons displayed more apathy. Its numbers were so scant, and its zeal so low, that poor Mr. FERRAN D was totally unable to lash himself even into his every day fury. And had not Mr. ROEBUCK given the spirit of his venom to the debate, it would have died off into passive slumber. The dreary dis cussion is to be renewed to-morrow. former of these points. The latterseems pretty apparent I already. It is desirable, perhaps, that the facts which an official inquiry has brought to light, should be ratified under the seal of a royal board. But we ap prehend thew functionaries will do little beyond con firming what is already before the public. They will find it a more difficult task, even with the assistance of the courts, to determine what the law is. In re ference to marriages with a wife's sister, in which the prohibition is most felt, the question is by ne mesas a simple one. While as to the effect upon titles and legitimacies of marriages which have been solemnised abroad to escape English restraints, we do not envy the commiirioners their task if they are to resolve by anticipation the host of legal questions latent in the confused mass of English marriage law. Before 1833, marriages within the prohibited degrees were not void, but voidable. We ought, perhaps, to explain this distinction for the sake of our non-professional readers. If the ecclesiastical courts chose to institutes snit during the lifetime of parties to such a marriage, the common law gave effect to their decision. The marriage was null and void, and the fruits of it, of course, illegitimate. But if no suit was commenced in the ecclesiastical courts, these marriages were good at common law, and no ecclesiastical process, issued after death of the parents, could affect the status of the issue of such marriages. In 1833, an act was passed declaring all such mar riages valid, if solemnized before the passing of the act ; and invalid from and after that date. The oaten , Bible object of the act was to remove the doubt exis ing under the old state of the law, by which the I validity of such marriages was left unsettled during the life•time of the parties. Its real and immediate motive was at the time said to be the confirming of a certain nobleman's union, then recently contracted within the prohibited degrees. Under this statute a point has lately been raised, which had been consi dered settled since the time of Ceattem 11. A man was indicted at Liverpool for bigamy; his first wife, living when he married the second, so as to con stitute the offence, was the sister of a previous wife. His counsel proved the facts, and contended fur an ac quittal, ontbe ground that this was no marriage, having beencontraeted !since 1833; and such marriage being by the statute of that year declared absolutely void. Advantage was taken of this opportunity to raise the question whether such marriages were really voidable by the law of England before 1833 ; in other words, if marriage with a wife's sister is within the prohibited degrees. Mr. CAMPBELL FOSTER, who appeared as counsel for the prosecution in this case, held, in an elaborate argument, carried to a length quite unusual at nisi pries, that these marriages were not voidable before 1833. A verdict of acquittal was taken, and the point was reserved to be decided in error before the judges assemblid in Exchequer Chamber. A newspaper is not the place to argue legal ques tions, involving the discussion of making statutes. We will content ourselves with referring those who are anxious to ace all that can be urged in favor of the validity of such marriages fn opposition to the leading decision on the subject by Chief Justice VAUGHAN in Hill r . Good, tried in the reign of CHARLES 11.), to Mr. FOSTER'S pamphlet, in which this view of the matter is set forth with completeness and closeness of argument We do not wish to inflict on non-legal readers the discussion which any adequate consideration of the question would render necessary. But we certainly anticipate, despite Mr. Foterea's in genious exposition of the strong points in his view of the case, that the decision of the judges will be against him. The case will turn upon two points, neither of which Mr. FOSTER has consi dered as carefully as their importance in the argu ment deserves. The question rests mainly, in the first place, upon the fall effect of a repeal of part of the statute 28 Hen. 8, c. 7, by the statute 1 and 2 Philip and Mary. Mr. FOSTER contends that the second of these, in repealing so much of the first "as concerned a prohibition to marry within the degrees" therein expressed,repealed also the declaratory part of the statute which sets forth these degrees. Those who take the other side, hold that the repeal extended only to the exempting marriages within these degrees from the effect of the papal dispenssaion, leaving the degrees themselves untouched. Certainly, it MARY'S respect for her mother's memory would have inclined her to the more sweeping abrogation contended for by Mr. FOSTER, her bigoted adherence to the Bomish faith must have stood in the way of her tampering with its table of prohibitions, which included the m wriage with a wife's sister. In the second place., Mr. Fos- TER relies on the 32nd Henry VIII., which confined forbidden marriages within the limits of the Levitical degrees. But he does not sufficiently notice the distinction drawn by Chief Justice VAUGHAN between "the Levitical prohibitions," and the "Levitical degrees," the former implying merely the relationships actually mentioned in Le viticus; the latter, all marriages within the same degrees as those therein prohibited. Thus, marriages with the brother's or sister's daughter, though not mentioned among the Levitical prohibitions, are clearly within the Levitical degrees. While, however, we indicate these, which appear to us weak points in Mr. Forras's argument, we go all his lengths in desiring an alteration of the law as at present understood, which we think fulfils all the conditions a law should fulfil to prove its own impolicy. It is not observed ; society winks at its infraction; the reasons on which it is based are insufficient. We trust sincerely that Mr. WORTLEY'S commission will bring the matter to a different issue from that which followed his father's motion in 1841, and Lord ELLESMERE'S in 1842, and that we shall no longer see in the statute book a law which bold men break at pleasure, and which weak men suffer from obeying, without that satisfaction which accom panies the recognition of sanctions ratified by the decrees of conscience, or the rules of public and social expediency, well understood, and reasonably proved. MR. STUART WORTLET'S motion fora commission to inquire into the operation of the marriage-law, as it relates to the prohibited degree s of affinity, and to marriages solemnised abroad or in the British colo nies, involves a disputed legal question, which will probably soon come on for argument before the judges, ea well as a subject deeply interesting to many members of society, in more ways than one. The petitions presented by Mr. WORTLEY, show, remarkably enough, the respectability of the persons interested, somehow or other, in a change of existing regulations as to wedlock. These petitions are signed chiefly by clergymen, solicitors, mayors, magiatrates, town-cowicillors, mer chants, and bankers, and others of the most influen tial section of the middle class. We have evidence that the law, as it stands, is violated every day, and by persons in the station of these petitioners. Three months' investigation in some fourteen towns, giving a fair average of the habits and pursuits of our provinc population, viz., Manchester, Huddersfield, r, York, Rotherham. Ipswich, Yarmouth, Nor wich, Southampton, Winchester, Portsmouth, Salis bury, Bristol and Bath, has brought to light no less than 1,848 cases in which the marriage law has been broken by 5 mayors, 70 magistrates, men of title and fortune, naval and military officers, barristers and physicians, 30 clergymen and ministers of the gospel, and 1,503 of the middle dames, including merchants, manufacturers, professional men, and tradesmen. It was found impossible to ascertain the cases among the lower dames; but there is every probability that , these were at least as numerous as among their superiors in station. Results like these certainly justify an inquiry into the operation of the law. To us they appear to call for something more decisive ; for nothing less, in fact, than an alteration of the law. This case is not, as Sir ROBERT INGLIS plausibly, but unfairly, put it, on the level of common cases, in which those who break the law would no doubt be acting very impudently in demanding its abrogation becalm they have broken it. We should certainly not listen to a . petition from Norfolk Island, however numerously signed, against the etatutable penalties imposed on felons. That the law is not observed is, generally, a better reason for increasing than for relaxing . its stringency. But the restriction most felt in the marriage law, which forbids marriage with • deceased wife's sister, is one neither recognised instinctively by the conscience, nor recommended by overpowering considerations of social convenience or morality. In these respects it differs from other positive prohibitou enactments. The offence is not " malum in se." To justify its retention in the statute book as a malurn proltilitum, requires, it appears is us, stronger argu ment& from policy or expediency than have ever been advanced by the opponents of a change. Mr. WORTLEY'S commission is to " inquire into the state and operation of the law." It will have to de termine what the law is, as well as how it works. The courts will probably throw some light on the THE theory by which tke Times defends the con duct of our Foreign-office towards Greece, is, we think, an exceedingly faulty one. It pleads, that Lord PALMERSTON 9 peremptory demand of the 23,0001. was not for the sake of recovering the money, justly due, but that it was a mode of cen suring the corruptions and abuses of the Greek government, as carried on by General COLETTL Cor ruptions and abuses are very vague crimes—crimes that have been attributed by one opposition or another to every government that has ever wielded power. If the existence of corruption and abuse in matters of internal administration are to warrant our inter- ference and oar peremptory demands of debt' with the cannon's month, there is not a conntry in Europe, that we may not bombard. How could Spain, or Mexico, or say of the South American republics, or Turkey, be safe from our guns, if corruption and abuse in their domestic administration is to be a fit and fair warrant for our menacing them? What a rednt is her, for French, for Russian, A e astriin interference! The French may stigmatise the Morocco cabinet as " corrupt ;" the Russians may say there are "abuses" in the Turkish government ; Austria may consider the liberalism of the Pope as fraught with - both. The precedent is al together a bad one. And the Times, in its more independent days, would not have condescended to gloze such things over. We have every wish to uphold REscuto PACHA'S government and Turkish independence. Bat, foolish as was the behaviour of Onto to M. Muutuaus, the Greek King's offer, as reported in the Greek papers, does not appear to us insolent or unreasonable. He objected to receive M. MT:MMUS sgain at Athens, and to entertain this objection the king has every right. But at the same time King Oren proposed to send an ambessador to Constantinople, who should offer excuses to the Sultan for what had happened. We do not see why the Porte, however Sublime, might not have accepted this reparation; nor why European diplomacy should not have approved of it as suffi cient, instead of backing up and exaggerating the sensitive pride of the Sultan, so as to produce an interruption of trade and create prospects of quarrel between the two countries. We have received the Paris journals of Monday. The bread-riots in the departments bad ceased, or nearly so. The price to be paid for bread during the next fortnight has been raised, but it is to be hoped that the crisis is nearly at an end. The weather is most favourable for vegetation which promises to be most abundant, and, according to the latest accounts from the provinces, the crops are in so fine a condition as to give hopes of an unusually good harvest. M. Odillon Barrot has laid a petition on the bureau of THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 19, 1847. I the Chamber of Deputies, from Jerome Bonaparte, ex-Bing of Westphalia, demanding the permission to return and die in France. He denies, both for himself and his sons, ever having taken n share in the political dimensions of France, and demands to return as a citizen, promising to fulfil all the duties incumbent upon one. The French colonial proprietors residing at Paris, aroused by the late revelations made in the Chamber of Deputies, have signed a protest, which is to be presented to the chambers, indignantly declaiming against the culpability thrown upon the colonists in general by the exposure of isolated facts. A letter from St. Petersburg of the sth announces the arrival at that capital of M. Felix Vernes, *mix gourertaeur of the bank of France, accompanied by M. Rodicr, one of the employjs of the same establishment. Don Enrique, accompanied by his wife (the Countess de Castellan), and travelling under the name of Duke and Duchess of Seville, arrived at Marseilles on the 12th inst., they having been married on the let inst., at Rome. On Monday the Chamber of Peers was occupied with the discussion on the re-organisation of the royal chapter of St. Denis. The chapter comes at , present under the jurisdiction of the Archbishop of Paris, and the proposed re-organisation consists in appointing a high prelate to preside over it, who will' be appointed by the King, and will be in nowise sub ordinate to the Archoishop. In the Chamber of Deputies, before proceeding to the order of the day, M. de Genoude said that he had a recionnati6n to make, that in the sitting of Saturday it was impossible to hear the report on a petition of high importance, he meant that on political oaths. He should have made some observations u•oon it. He demanded that his reclamation should be inserted in the Process-verbal. The president replied that a rectification was here out of the question, the proces verbal having been adopted. The order of the day was then the adjourned debate on the bill for a grant of 500,000 f. We have received the Madrid journals and our private correspondence up to the 12th inst. Rumours of a ministerial crisis were still current, and were strengthened by the fact that on the even ing of the Ilth all the ministers left the capital for Aranjuez. A modification of the cabinet with Gen. Narvaez in the department of foreign affairs was spoken of. A coalition of the Nloderadoe and Pro gressistas was also spoken of. But the departure of the ministers for the royal residence at Aranjuez was most probably occasioned by the late disturbances in the provinces. At Seville the troops were called out and a collision ensued, the soldiers were ailed by stones and were compelled to fire in self defence. Some of the rioters were shin. Great moderation is ascribed to the troops. The rioters arrested are to be I tried by martial law. The Ilerahlo has the following account of the riota: The riots at Seville were occasioned by a very slight come. The Political Chief issued a bando fining the price of bread. The bakers of Alcala de Guadaira, who supply a great part of Seville, misunderstood the Heade, and ceased to bring in bread. As 110.111 as this was knowu, some agitators took ad vantage of it, and urged the People to acts of violence, in which the new Political Chief Jose Maria Campoa was slightly wounded. The authorities acted with energy, and soon restored order. When the mail left, the disturbance was at an end, and the city was supplied with bread. Gen. Pezoela, Capt.-Gen. of Andalusia, published on this occa sion the following band, :—Art 1. Brigadier Don Joie de Herieta shall be acknowledged as Alcalde Corregidor ad ira terins of this city. Art. 2. From the day of the publication of this present bando, the whole of the judici►l and poli tical authority shall be entirely concentrated in the mili tary authority exercised by me, until the state of efferve scence in which the city now is shill subside, and another Bands shall announce the re-establishment of the other au. thoratis in the exercise of their fudetions. Art. 3. All assemblages of more than six persons shall be dispersed by the armed force, and those who may refuse to obey the roam. mons of the autherities shall be given up to the rigour of the law. Art. 4. Every person who shall utter alarming cries shall be brought before a court-martial. Art. 3. All private houses and establishments shall be kept open under pain of a fine to be imposed upon their owners or masters in case of disobedience. Art. 6 An soon as the Angelus is sounded, all the houses shall be illuminated. on this and every following night, until further order. Art. 7. The directors el the tobacco manufactories shall not allow their workpeopl • to go out together, under any pretext, before the accustomed hour. The Gazette publishes a circular of the Minister of War, recommending moderation and prudence to the ceptaine-general of the provinces, at the same time calling upan them to take energetic measures to put down every attempt at disturbances. A royal decree of the Bth deprives General Don' Juan de Pezurla of his post of Captain-General of Seville ; he is replaced by General Schelly. M. M. Chico and Avirsneta have been recalled from their banishment. It will be remembered that they were irnpliated in the late scandal at the palace. On the 13th there was to 'ae a grand reception at AraejCiez in honour of the King's birthday. A rich inhabitant of Cuba, M. Guell 7 Renti, has received orders to leave Madrid for Celia, where he is to embark for the Havannab, it being presumed that he had aspired to the hand of one of the daughters of Don Francisco de Paulo. His papers were seized, and, according to the Heraldo, have been laid before the Queen. FRANCE.—Psitts, MAY 17. On &MART the committee charged to make the preliminary investigations in the case of Glen. Despans-Cubiires sat till 6 o'clock, when it adjourned till year eaday A further search isaaid t have been made at the residence of M. Parmmatier. The resignation of General Cubieres, as President of the Board of Directors of the Paris and Strasbourg railway has been definitively ac cepted by that hody. The vacant place was offered to Gen. Count de Sigur, but, on bin refusal, Gen. Monthion has been , appointed. The committee of the Chamber of Deputies charged to examine the bill on Secondary Instruction has met almost every day, and has already far advanced in its labours It has just unanimously adopted two resolutions concerning Articles 8 and 16 of the bill. Article 8 is as follows: , " No one can direct a private establishment, or exercise . any functions whatever in it, who belongs to an unauthorised religious society. All facts contrary to this provi-ion will be I referred to the Tribunal of First Instance, and the establish ment will be closed." The committee proposed to draw up the article as follows, borrowed from the bill presented by M Villeneuve in 1842: " Every Frenchman wishing to open an establishment for instruction, &c., must depose a written declaration signed by him, that he do.s not belong to any aslociation or religious society not legally established in France." On art. 16 of the bill, which is thus worded : " Private masters can only make use of the books sanctioned lir the Minister of Public Instruction; or, in eases of reli. I gious instruction, by the bishop of the diocese, or by the different cossistories, according to the religion to which the pupils belong." the committee have decided that the word- ' ing shall be modified so as to express in a more ex• licit manner that the minister may exclude books of infraction, but not pre-cribs those that shall be used. • Prince Louis Napoleon Achille Murat, son of Joachim Murar, ex-king of Naples, and of Caroline Bona parte, sister of Napoleon, died in Florida, on the 15th of April, at the age of 46, at his residence in Jefferson snooty. Be le ft for America in 1821, where he became naturilised. Born on a throne, it was his destiny to die as a simple citisom in a foreign land ; and the resignation with which he supported his misfortune does him more honenr as a man than if he had followed the brilliant career to which he was entitled by birth, and for which he possessed ell the bright and requisite qualities. The Mexican consul at Bordeaux has, like his colleague at Havannah, notified to the merchants of that city, that all commodities which shall enter the ports of the re public in possession of the forces of the United States, and which shall have paid the customs duties according to the American teriff on entrance, will be confiscated whenever found in the interior. PORTUGAL—The Journal des Debals publishes news received overland from Oporto, to the 11th inst. ; that is a day later than the dates received here. This journal states that the Junta has positively refused to accept the pro posals of the government brought to Oporto by Col. Wylde, and demands that the Queen should submit to their con ditions. The junta alio demands a reform of the constitu tional chute's, the immediate convocation of the Cortes, the nomination of a Progremist ministry, to be chosen by the Junta, the reorganization of the National Guard, and the son firmatim by Donna Maria of all the nominations in the army and civil service, as well as all the loans made by the Junta, since the beginning of the war. It also requires that the army of the Queen be disbanded, and that the old and new promotions granted by the Junta to the officers of the old Miguelite army be confirmed. A vestal named the Eapaculador, arrived yesterday at Liverpool, with a few hours later news from St. Uhes. The captain says he heard that Dia Antes troops were in full march on Lisboa. This, however, is improbable. SWI rz EMLAND.--Oftsi EVA , MAT 12.—The li beral cause in Switzerland is triumphant, the Canton of St. Gall having returned liberal members, on the occasion of the renewal of its grand council. The news of this victory over the Jesuits, who are in great strength I. that parti cular c union, was received in all the radical manias with tranaports ofjoy. The vote of St. Gall will give a majority at the pilaff .1 Diet for the liberals. A deplorable act took place on the frontier in the district of the Preaches Montagnas. Some work men, occupied on the high road of Gonmois, had been in the h stsit of obtaining proviions from France, where they were cheaper than in Switzerland, and then smuggling them iota Bvitaerland. The custom-house °Seen, who had been on this look out, seised four of these workmen on the 2ith alt. in the act of smuggling, and imprisoned them at Gounsois—France. The greatest excitement was caused by the announcement of this set, and A. Manuals, I innkeeper, at Gounsois—Switzerland, pat himself at the need of rooftops men, crossed the bridge on the Doobs which separates the two territories, broke open the prima, and released the four prisoners, who's they brbught back in triumph to Gounsols—Sw needs, d. The government of Berne is disposed to meths utmost severity of the law myna the men who committed this audacious act. They have notified the same to the French ambassador in Switzerland. _ ----....—.—.--. I GEHMANY.—Paussia.—BERLIN, MAY 15.—0 n the 10th inst. the Chamber of the Nobles concluded the discussion of the proje de-loi far the exclusion of disreput able persons from the Diet, by adopting it with some verbal amendm-nrs. The debate on this subject is the latest that has bees reported. Ho[Atm.—KIEL, MAT :6.—The second plenar ' assembly of the equestrian order took place yesterday. It is said that • resolution was adopted to present a fresh remon strance to the king.—Borseraltolle. BAVARIA.--MUNICTI, MAY 10. —lf a very un pleasant rumour prove true, our WWI received yesterday evening lett. n containing intelligence the reverse of satis factory respecting the state of affairs at Athens. It would appear that no private letters have been received by the ex traordinary opportunity by which the despatches were for warded.—Letter in Allgenaeine PreuosiscAe Zedusig of the kith inst. MONTE VlDEO.—Advices have been received to the 11th of March. Affairs remained without material change. Oribe had issued, on the 23rd of February, a pro clamation prohibiting the entrance of cattle into Monte Video. If what is published in the Canintereio del Plata as a copy of this manifesto, be not a forgery, he has proclaimed that every captain or other individual shipping cattle from the snores of the republic for Monte Video, will be held guilty of piracy and punishes' with death. The pretext fur this extreme measure is, that the cattle being stolen it is re quired for the proteeti •n of property. The proclamation is dated at Crrrito de la Victoria. On the let of Marsh an official notification from President Soarer, and Don Jose de Brja, his Minister of Finance, intimated to the inha bitants of Monte Video that Don Bruno Mae had re signed the office of treasurer, and that the libra rian, Don Francisco Aeons de Figueroa, had been appointed to succeed him. A proclamation by the minister of war (Munoz), of the 2nd March, commanded all soldiers who had token refuge in the city, to report themselses to Colonel Conde, in order that they might be re-organised. It was reported at Monte Video, on the Bth of March, that from 400 to SOO men bad marched upon Maldonado from Oribe's camp at Cerrito. The latest notice, from Buenos Ayres were to the 4th of March. The only novelty was the intimation that exehanges'were rising. min Tours. The Queen will hold a Privy Council to-morrow (Thorglay) afternoon, at Buckingham Palace. The Queen and Prince Albert rode out on horseback yesterday. Lord Marcus Hill, Comptrollerof the Household, had an audience of the Queen. yesterday, at Buckinehant PaLee. H.R. H. Priuce Albert visited St. Paula Cathedral, in the afternoon_ Ifer Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Prince of Leiningen, honoured the Royal Itslieu Opera i,oll4., with thrir presence, yesterday evening. The royal suite conlisred of the Viscountess Canning, the Marquis of Ormonde, Lieut.. Col. the Hon. C. B. Phipps, and Capt. the Hon. A. H. Gordon. H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady A. Bruce and Baroness de Spetb, also honoured the performance rich her presence. H.R.H. the I)uke of Cambridge left his residence at Kew, yesterday, for the Royal Military College at Sandhurst. The Governor of the Bank of England and the Deputy Governor had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday at his official residence in Gowning street. Count Schimmelpenninck, the Netherlands Minister, transacted bunnies at the Foreign-office yesterday. Mr. W. P. Robertson, Consul General of the Ecuador, had an inter view with Viscount Palmerston yesterday at the Foreign office. The Rev. Sir Henry Dukinfield, and Mr. John Buller had an interview with Sir G. Grey yesterday at tia Home office. A deputation, conniving of the Earl of Mountrealiell, Lord J. Chichester, M.P., Sir Horace Seymour, M.P., Mr. D. R. Ross, M.P., the Hon. G. Handcock, Mr. Alexander Sham Adair, and Mr. J. Mac Neill, had an interview yesterday with the Chan c ellor of the Etehequer.—A depu tation, including Mr. Hudson, M.P., and Mr. G. Carr Glyn, had an interview with Lord John Russell and the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday.—Archdeacon Durham had an interview yesterday with Sir George Grey.—Mr. Wickham, chairman of the Stamps and Taxes, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday. Mr. Higham, Secretary and Comptroller-General to the Commistioners for the Reduction of the National Debt, had also an interview with the right hon. gentleman yesterday. Despatches were sent off yesterday esening from the Colonial-cffice, for the governors of the North American pr.ivinces. NEWSPAPER PATRONAGE.—The Standard is deter mined to be beforehand with all the world in disposing of ministerial offices It fixedly" sends Lord Clarendon to Ireland, ere the ink of Lord Bessborough's necrology is dry. It then transfers Mr. Laboechere to the Board of Trade, and makes Lord Normanby and Lord Clanrieude exchange offices. (From last night's Gazette.) ST. JAMES'S PALACE, APRIL 29.—The Queen has appointed the Hon. Flora Clementine Isabella Macdonald to be one of the Maids of Honour in Ordinary to her Majesty, in the room of the Hon. Anne Napier, resigned. WRITERAIL, MAY 18.—The Queen has oonsti toted end appointed the Right Hon. M. Brady, Chancellor of Ireland ; the Most Rev. the Archbishop of Dublin ; the Duke of Leinster ; and Lieut.-Gen. the Right Hon. Sir E. Blekeney, Hot., to be her Majesty's Justices and General Governors of Ireland. _ DOWNING-STREET, MAT 15,—The Queen boa ap pointed R. R. Madden, EN , to be Colonial Secretary for the territory of Western Australia. OFFICE OP ORDNANCE, May 15. Royal Hilt. Artillery.—Beer. Major F. Wavle to be Bect..eoL, aka Arbuckle, ref- as f.-p.; lee. Capt. J. H. Franck Lyn to be eat • First Lieut. H. A. B. Climatal' to be sec- mat. ; See. Um. C. Mutter to he first lieut. ; BR,. Me/se W. B. le fillby to be lieut.-ca. vice Freer, rat. of f.-pay ; Bee- Capt. II T. Byars to be opt. ; Fleet Lieut. R. B. Adair to be Ku. apt. ; Bee. Lieut. It. J. Hay to be first lieut. SURREY DI9PENBARY.—The anniversary dinner of this charity took place yesterday evening, at the Bridge-I home Hotel, London-bridge. Charles Allen Young, Rm.,' treasurer to the society , took the chair, in the almnee of Sir Molesworth. It appeared from the report, that this institution was established in 1777, and that the num ber of patients benefited by the dispensary, between the months of March, 1778, and January, 1847, amounted to 244,182. Of these, 4,697 were relieved during the past year ; and the treasurer's account of the funds proved that, consiquenee of the increase of patients, there was a de ' ficienty on the present ye ar amounting to 7571. 6s. The chairman, in proposing Prosperity to the Surrey Dis pensary," trusted that every endeavour would be made to remove, by charitable means, the difficulties under which the society now laboured. The total amount of subscrip tions announced on tke occasion was upwards of 4001. Some appropriate music was introduced in the course of the evening. RAGGED SCHOOL UNION.—MUNIFICENT DONATION OP A LaDv.-:-Yesterday evening, a very numerously at tended meeting of the above society vas held at the Hanover Square Rooms, when the Right Hon. Lord Ashley took the chair. Amougst the number oa the platform were the Lord Bishop of Norwich, Lord Kinnaird, Hon. W. Cowper, M.P., the Right Hon. Fox Maude ' the Hon. Baptist Neel, and a number of clergy. The re port stated that there were 16 whoa, open daily, morning and afternoon ; 33 open on the Sabbath, morning, afternoon, and evening; 44 buildings, comprising 80 schools of both sexes, which are situated in the lowest and most wretched localities of London. The total numbers of these are about 5,000 children of both sexes, and upward of 540 teachers. A special fund had been established for a school of industry or juvenile refuge in one of the most wretcoed localities in Westminster, to which a lady in the first instance subscribed 2001., and subsequently 3001., with a view, ander the latter donation, of receiving 50 girls A legacy of 2001. had been, bequeathed by Strut Avery, Esq., of the University Club . The report was adopted. Thanks having been voted to the noble chairman, the meeting separated. _ SALE OF TICE METROPOLIS ROADS.—Yeetorday the annual sale by auction of the metropolis roads, north of the Thames, took place, before the commissioners of the turnpike roads, at their Ake, No. 2, Whitehall-place, the Earl of Lonsdale in the chair, when there was 'it full attend ance of lessees from all parts of the country. They were to be let, from the Ist of July next, for the term of one year, subject to such conditions as the commissioner produced at the meeting, one month being paid in advance of the rent of each lot as a deposit. The following are the rims which the several lots fet ched . The Tyburn and 17xlindge reads, put rep at 8,5101., were sold for 8,5.501.; the Kilburn end Edgware roads, offered at 3,2631. 17s. 6d., bought for 3,2731. 17e. 6d. ; the Highgate and Hampstead roods were knocked down far 17,6101., the price asked was 17,5301., and one bar to be taken off; the City-road, the price demanded 3,0601., disposed of for 3,0601. ; the Hackney and Les-bridge roads purchased for 5,7201., and 5,7101. wee the sun named by the commis' - stoners. The following were among the lots, but there was no offer for them the Kensington, Elrentford and Ideworth roads, 16,1701. being the comusitaionem' price; the Stam ford-hill, upper and lower division, the Green-lanes and Seven Sisters roads, the sum proposed for them being 10.2001. ; and the Harrow roads, the tolls of which the noble chairman said in consequence of certain circumstances which had come under the notice of the commissioners, would be reduced one-half, end which were valued at 1,1101. The lots were bought by Mr. Levy, end there was competition bat for one of them. INQUESTS, YESTERDAT.—MURDER OF A CHILD.— Belpre Mr. G. I. Mills, deputy-coroner for the county of Middlesex, at the Yorkshire Grey Tavern, Hampstead, on the body of a new-born female Child, found in a pond, near Primrose-hill. John Sleight, of 12, Edward-street, Dorset square, deposed, that on Thursday ahernoon last, be was creasing towards Hempstead, when on peseing • pond in the corner of the field, at the back of Primrose-hill, he saw • bundle lying at the bottom. With the 11•1601115011 of police constable Hinton, S 62, he got it out, and, oa opening the bundle, found it to contain . the body of • tell-mown female child. The wrapper mailman the body conelated of a fine diaper towel, with the initials " W. P, No, 6," in one comm.—Mr. Lord, surgeon, of Hight, Rampstead,Mid ha had made • post-mortem examination ef the body, which, although much decomposed, 'howl that the shad had been been alive. The jury returned a verdict of " Wilful Mardis. against some person or persona unknown."— FOISON.—B Mr. Mills , at the Bank of Encland, South. wharf road , ?addingtoes, on the body of Elizabeth Baker, aged 18, the wife of an engineer. Front the evidence of de ceased's parents and brother, it appeared that she had been married seven months, and led an unhappy life in conse quence of her husband's unkind treatment. He had obtained a situation in Ireland, whither he intended to go, leaving his wife with her parents, with whom they had resided ,inee their marriage. Oa Saturday evening, abatis seven o'clock, he went accompanied by deceased to his bedroom to get his tools, preparatory to his departure for Ireland. They bad not been lone above stairs, when a noise was heard, and the husband exclaimed. "Do come up! your daughter has poisoned herself !" The witnesses inst tally rushed up stain, when they sive Baker holding the deceased round the want by the right hand, and having in his other h nd the phial produced, half-filled with prussic acid; she was thenquite dead. He told them that aftershe had packed up his toile, and as he was going down stairs, she snatched from his b a the phial of primer acid which he had bad tor months, and seal- , lowed a portion of it before he could prevent her. He in stantly ran off for medical assistance, which promptly ar rived. Mr. W. Robins and Mr. G. Gascoyne surgeons, who I performed a post- martens examination, depos ed that they de tected prussic acid in the stomach, in sufficient quantity to' cause death they also declared it to be their opinion that the deceased had poisoned herself—The examinational wit nesem having concluded, the coroner, addres-ing the jury, said, " Ars you satisfied, gentlemen, that the deceased lost her life by prussic acid 1" Jurnrs : "We see."—Coroner : " Have you any doubts about her having taken the poison herself ?" Jurors: " Great doubts, indeed."—The coroner then recapitulated, and commented upon the evidence; after which the court was cleared of strangers, and the jury re mained in deliberation half-an-hour, when th.y returned the following special verdict: "We find that Elizabeth Baker died from the effects of prussic acid passed into her stomach ; but how taken or administered there is no evidence to show." IRELAND. DUBLIN. Mai 17. The loam of the Earl of Besborough is widely de plored, and all lament the decease of a man who had Irish fielings, and his real and practical experience of Irish wants; for thesecould not fail to produce a very powerful effect on British administration as to the true nature and character of the required remedies. The avenues to the castle are filled with groups looking in at the sombre brick building which contains the remains of an Irish viceroy. The Earl of Besborough is the second Lord-Lieutenant, who has died in the administration of the government. The first was the witty and dissipat;cl Duke of Rutland, whose death at a comparatively early age, was accelerated by excesses, in the year 1732. Minute guns were fired early this morning from the park artillery, and the bells of the several cathedrals tolled. Many of the public offices were elosecL The Repeal Association met, but immediately adjourned in respect for the lamented chief governor. The only notification of the funeral is that it will be a public one, and to take place on Friday next. No connexion between Church and State is the ral lying cry of a large body of English dissenters. The cry, however, is slowly taken up by the dissenting classes on this side the channel, and even the presby tery of Letterkeuny has just had the hardihood to demand increased stipends for the clergy. " Con sidering," observes the resolution, "the position in which the presbyterian ministry have been placed, in the present calamity—exposed from their situation, to continual demands upon their charity, whilst their incomes have been, in many instances, greatly curtailed, from the inability of the people to pay their usual stipend—that the moderator of the assembly be requested to press upon government the necessity of an increased endowment, and, at the same time, the abolition of the rule requiring the annual pay ment, by each congregation, of 351., that it may be continued in the enjoyment of the royal bounty." STAFF OF MI COUNTRY. —Tae accounts from the pro vinces to-day open a Food prospect fur the future, but are melancholy enough with respect to the present. Fever does not abate, destitution does not diminish, and it is a very prevalent opinion that it will be very difficult indeed to pre serve the peace. The prevalence of disease is not confined to any one connty—it is general. In the metropolis it abounds, and seithee the public institutions devoted to the cure of fever, nor the houses attached to the poor law unions ran afford sufficient accommodation to the innumerable claimants for medical relief from fever. As to the future, however, the prospects of the harvest are most flattering. In Meath, the crops are described as vigorous, and promising an early harvest. The sane remark applies to time of Cork. There are similar accounts from Louth and Cavan, hom Armagh and Down, from Kerry and Galway. The rating in some southern counties pro mises to overwhelm all property, even though repayment should be extended over those years contemplated under some el the recent enactments of the legislature. In one electoral division of the union of Killarney (Killorglin), the annual poundage will amount to 19s. 6d. per pound upon the valuation. In many districts of Cork the rating under the recent relief act will amount to Ile., and la some of them it will reach 13s. This, let it be remembered, is ex clusive of grand jury cess, which generally rates 2s. 6d. to the acre, and of the rate for the maintenance of the work houses. SCOTLAND. EDINBURGH, MAY 17. Some improvements are at present contemplated in Aberdeen, but the impeding legislative difficulties are cede that the cost of an act would be about 1,0001. The community are, therefore, most anxious for the pawing of Lord Morpeth's bill, as under its operation all this expense would be saved. Scurvy has broken eat at Aberdeen among the railway labourers. From the communication of a correspondent of the Edinburgh Express it appears that the Scotch trigo nometrical survey is going on at Snizort, on the west mast. This authority states that a hydrographical map of Portree harbour, with perspective designs of landscape and architecture, as seen at sea, is being constructed under the command of Captain Otter, of the Avon government steamer. The same rou tine has been observed by him from the Tay, round by Duncan's Bay-head, and is completed to the Point of Steer. For the safety of anchorage, the harbour bottoms are thoroughly sounded, to ascertain whether they are clayey, sandy, rocky, or shelly. Sunken rocks are also very minutely noticed, and observations made on both bottoms and rocks, in the positions which they occupy on the charts. Every nautical mile of these hydro-typographical delineations is poen pied by eight square inches of paper, but the scale of harbours is in proportion to their commercial import ance and the danger of their shipping. It being understood that Mr. Adams has definitely declined the chair of natural philosophy in the uni versity of St. Andrews, some surprise has been caused at the delay in nominating some other candidate. The state of matters we believe to be as fellows : At the college meeting, held for the purpose of proceed ing with the election, a majority was, or would have been found, in favour of Mr. Madmen, rector of the Dundee seminaries, but an official present having quoted a charter to the effect that election can take place oily on " comparative trial," the meeting was adjourned. " Comparative trial " is the mode of election prescribed in other universities besides St. Andrews, but practically it has been in desuetude. The impending legislation on the subject of Scotch marriages has quickened the ecclesiastical authori ties to deeds as well as words. At present, procla mations of approaching marriages are made in the pariah churches by the clerk some ten minutes before the assembling of the congregation, and are heard I only by prurient young men and maidens who may attend early on purpose. The presbytery of Paisley propose that the minister should read the names in presence of the entire congregation, and that mar riages should be conducted in church—both proposi tions being revivals of the olden time. The cui bum, however, is not very obvious. WRECK OF THE EIXOUTB.—Up to the 12th instant 108 bodies have been recovered from the ',reek of the Exmouth, the greater part et them being naked. The hull la now in three or four WOOL BIIPEESENTATIOIF or THI BADDINGTON BORGNE—A correspoo --- broeTstatee Milkiest sou of the Bart of Mint*, is to contest the Bad- burghs with Mr. Balfour. The on dit hitherto has been that his lordship is to wend for B.ozburghshire, which is probably the more correct surmise. PROVINCIAL. A PUBLIC MINTING AGAINST TIM Coax -LAwe was nerreaed ifit yesterday, at Manchester, when it was to bine bees proper& that the inhabitants should petition wind the ern beee being allowed to emu into operation agala : bee the 'Wad or then who had ailed the meeting was breeds& The leaders of the ithartims had issued • placard, maw apes the people " to master in their thou suds," sad de mused the Town Hall, Girdle of balding about 2,000, was shrews gm, a rush was nods, end every part of it, except the yiedbra and a mash sesend. was Memel immediately bina yeennie• at Illienk Amines, • the mayor, pradded. sad me eneseesied by •• imp number of the very that werebsais esd eraelestearers,in. chiding J. Heywood, Bag., J. Potter, Bsq., Alderman Her thaw, Alderman Watkins, J. Brooks, Bart., and T. Baxley, 11/41. The lint resolution was proposed by Mr. Barley, and affirmed that the torn-laws had been deeply injurious to the country, depressing both the profits on trade and the wages of labour, and that all legislation for the excluaion of food being unjust, the tern-laws ought to he at mum abolished. )Lr. Alderman Harvey seconded the motion. Jams Tn■ the r 3 Leach, a chartist, moved an amendment to the effect that there could be no meurity for the British labourer until such legislative measures were adopted as would guard native industry against the avarice and caprice of foreign merchants, and the e Really cruel injualios aruang from domestic usury, forsetalling, and monopoly James Dixon, another cnarust, seconded the amendment. It wasoontended, for the amendment, that there would have been no want of food in the country, er high price., if the corn-laws bad not been repealed. The motion was sup ported by Mr. J. Worts. The ineeleg was a stormy one all the speakers, cxeept those for the amendment, being fre : qrtently iaternepted, a..d ii was thre e hours atter the com mencement when the mayor was enabled to put the ques tion, and the amendment was then corn. d by a large majo rity. Great numbers of the chartists present on this as on former occasions, were mere hoes. _ • -- AT A PUBLIC , MEETING OP THE MEIHCAL GINTLEXES of Liverpool, held yesterday anernoon, it was rvolved (with but three dustutitot •toceo to petition psilbunent in favour of Dfr. Wakley's R,iietration VOttkelltkit. REPRESENTATION OF WAKEFIELD.—On Monday night, according to previous arrangern. nt, Sir Edward North Bux ton, Bart.. addressed the liberal erectors of Wakefield at the Corn Exchange, as • ...audit:lt e fur their sultrier at the next c:ivia. The admire ou was 1.7 the pruduction of circulars at the door; but there were alto a condderable number of non-electors present. In enter t .ezplain the observations of some of the speakers, it may be proper t state that early in the morning large pirnerds were Relied, exhorting the elec tors to " make ni, pa dai ato unknown m.-n "as " a gentle man of moderate puliUad views, id' business habits, a resident among them, and a man more extensively engaged than any other in the step), trade of the lowa, might to.. induced to become their repriseutetive." Them- who were anxious to secure such a m at 114 their member were invited to sign • requisition to Geo. Sande; s, E-q., of Aleerthorpc.hall, to allow himself to be put in n oniaation.—Mr. Leathern, the chairman, said their friend D. Gasket', Esq., be:ore he left Wakefield, placed in hi. hands a letter which in stab/deism amounted to thin, that he :.egged not to be expected to stand now fur Wakefield, in wood owe with his answer to a re quisition presented to him at the close of 184.5, as the object for which they were then contending—the repeal of the corn laws—had mice be n aeompiislied. This letter, Mr. Leathern said he had tent to Mr. Holdsworth, who, be was sorry to say, had also tent him a similar letter, stating that he was quite fixed on the determination he bad expressed some time ago not to become a candidate. As they were thus put into the position of having a candi date to seek, after crawling with a few friends, he bad written to his very exceLent brother-in-law, Sir Edward Buxton ; and 'Woo reeently, • deputation of four or five gen tlemen, who were theft ill t 'ten, was appointed to wait oa Sir Edward, and they had an interview with him; and Mr. Iloldsworth, who was one of the deputation, was so well satisfied that he wrote to say that he would not withhold his support from Sir Edward on amount of the education ques tion. Thus stood matters, when another caodidate, Mr. Loch, arrived in Wakefield, strongly recommended by Lord Morpeth and others; but on learning their relations with Sir Edward Buxton, he returned to toe n without taking and further steps. Un the arrival of Mr. Loch it was deemed necessary to tend for S r Edw.,rd Buxton, who had since attended a private m, eting of liberal electors, which had decided upon calling 'he present assembly. Mr. Leathern concluded by recommending his brother-in-law to the favourable notice of the electors. Sir E. N. Buxton, Bart., then presented himself, but was rather coolly received. He declared himself favourable to eery just and wise measure of reform. lie was no advocate for violent and abstract principles, but would rather propene measures which there was tome chance of carrying, and which might lead to further meseures of reform. He did not go the length of thorn who said that they ought to have univerael suf frage. It was the duty of government to promote the greatest happiness of the greatest number. That was, to his mind, the great aim and scope of legis lation; and so far as the people were prepared by moral and temporal education to perform the im portant functions of legislation, be would gradually and wisely extend the suffrage of the cour.try. He believed that that might be done. Much discussion and some contusion ensued. Mr. Harrison, Mr. J. Horner, jam., Mr. Kershaw, and the Rev. E. Higginton, subsequently addressed the meeting, the latter strongly urging that the education ques tion was not one upon which the liberal elector. ought to risk the chances of defeat. Mr. Harrison moved "That the views propounded by Sir Edward North Buxton, Bart ' to this meeting are not sufficiently extended and liberal for the majority of the liberal electors of Wakefield."—Mr. J. Homer, jun., seconded the motion. He said he did not intend to vote fur a whig, even if it let in • tory. He was prepared to expect that Mr. Sanders's address would be far more liberal than Sir E Buxton's. Atter arms discurnion the proposition was submitted to the test of • vote, electors only being requested to hold up their bands, when it was carried by two or three to one. THERE 18 STILL A CONSIDERABLE INFLUX OF IRISR IMMIGRANTS INTO LEEDS. many of them being in an advanced state of exhaustion, attenuation and fever, doubt less, in the main, caused by the want of adequate means of sustentation. In many of the cases the fever is of a malig nant typhoid character. About ten days ego, the Rev. R. Wilson ' one of the priests at St. Ann's Roman catholic chapel died of the disease ; and we understand that the Rev. Henry Walmeley, the senior priest, is also confined with fever, caught in the discharge of his daily ministrations at the dwellings of the poor. EARNING A FOR7l7;i:Lihe 11•;rninghani Advertiser gives the following interesting sketch of the personal history of an eminent irountaster. :—Mr. T. M—, of well-known iron-works in the pari,b of Tipton, was formerly a working collier, and, to use his own simple narrative, went to work, when only seven years of age, under Richmond Aston, Esq„ with whom he continued some yearn. When he was sixteen years of age, his father was killed in a coal-pit. He was the eldest of eleven children, for whom, and an aged mother, he continued to toil. He suecee , :ed, by care and industry, in bringing up this large family, and he supports his aged mother even to this day. " When I marriid," said he " I gave my mother all the money I had, ch., feu: shillings sad sixpence." He married when very young, Gni ems exceedingly persevering, so much so, that be insmadl one shilling an hour; bur, uulike many in 111111011 situations, he never ente red a ribber 11:14belaing isly tur his family. Early in life he joined misysas, he whom he entertains the strongest Wee ties, believing, as he dots, that he attained to his present de through the aid, eustructien, and comfort he derived item. As a pruot of the sincerity of his affection, the intiriticent sum given by him at the centenary fund is already on record. At the present time, he has given upwards of two hundred pounds towards building reboots for the Wes. leyane, nor is his liberality confined to them, for he gave fitty pounds towards the enction of St. Paul's Church at Tipton, with seven pounds for incidental expense; and he states that he has found that the more money he has given away in the holy cause of charity, the more his wealth has increased. He reared in his own hetse 21 fatherlesschildren, all poor relations. Here was a mind not refined by education, yet always sensible of the sufferings of the poor, and always ready to alleviate distress. "1 ou see that man on the bank," he said to Verities, pointing from his drawing-room window ? " he was a pour basket-maker, living with his family in a cellar. I discovered, on inquiry, that his conduct wasgood ; I took him into my service, ant found him useful." Mr. M— went through all the gradations—first, the col lier-boy; secondly the bony; thirdly, the royalty-man; and fourthly, the sole proprietor of Iron-works; and is now universally acknowledged to be the largest freeholder iu the parish of Tipton. Notwithstanding the pressure of a large family, he earned enough by the labour of his hands to purchase a piece of laud of Mr. Isaac Aston, of Tipton, on which he erecteri six houses. These were his first traits. He nest bought, on Tipton-green, a piece of freehold land, which he presented to the Wealeyans, and on which their school now stands. At this time he began to prosper in the world. He took royalty under the Rey. W. B. Collis, then un der Mr Elliott, and tnen under Sr H. St. Paul. Ide finally bought, at the requires and ,olicitation of his late employers, Mourn Hateley and Jason, aeon, Tiptoq Colliery, for which he paid down seven thousand pounds, and the rest by instalments. This large purchase, the amount of which from prudential motives, we refrain to mention, excited the attention of his neighbours, who said that he would never be able to pai l = it, and that he must have taken leave ef his ye nses. could he be thinking of? Did he want to iciare hie chil dren, and lose his previous hard earnings? Time rolled on, and in a few years be completed his purchase. Having paid for it, he gave an entertainment to two thousand, In cluding the wives and children of his guests; the next day four hundred of his labouzing men ate up the fragments, so that nothing was lost. There were four hundred charity children, too, who ~artook of his bounty. He feeds the hungry and clothes the naked even to this day . ; his weekly contributions are large indeed to the necessitous. He got =they so fast that he bought the estate, adjoining his own, then an estate of Mr. Fletcher, then Burnt Tree estate, and Richard Fryer's estate and Dudley Port, then an estate of Danko!, Brothers at Wednesbury, as also other property : in addition he has seventy houses, all his own freehold; and at this time be employs between four and five hundred pair of hands. His property at this time is upwards of 200,0001., beside, the in creased value given to it by three lines of ilway that will go through his estates. Some years ago he was met by an old acquaintance, named George Bailey, who accosted him in these words," Well, TOW there is a blessing reserved in heaven for you, for the go od that you have done hers upon earth, in relieving all who are in a state of destitution, and particularly the fatherless children and widows !" He never had any money left or given to him ' • his whole lids seems sa though the sun never ceased to shine upon him. He took the property of Coaeley Moor Colliery, under Sir Horace St. Paul • it was the only one that turned out ladly, and was in spected by Sir Horace'. confidential agent, Mr. Bradley, who represented it to Sir Horace. He afterwards mask an appoint ment to meet Sir Horace at the hotel Dudley, for the purpose of obtaining a decrease of royalty. hso happened that Sir Horace was about to dine with Lord Dudley, but, on hear g of the arrival of Mr. M., he said, "Mr. Bradley, take off threepence per ton from Mr. M.'s royalty," Are you aware rejoined Mr. Bradley, " how beige a difference this will inks ?" Sir H. reph,d, " Never mind, M. is a wewthy man—let him have the benefit." The advantage he derived from this redaction was upwards of 1,0001. The family of this great man look back with pleasure upon the fact that their father has been the maker of inn fee tune, not like some oaten who are ashamed to own that once they and who have climbed so waddenly to . the top of \ I themselves. be esearlebe e they wens pow, and who have dished es seiisoly be hp el the balm that dwy how sea bow le hams wobees. wow* Meshed In Weelemiat,, Maur so had amide the io, I she hes withfe the ehmote et bee wa ll = 7end, as a proof hit 1 ior a antiater of proof , et=rt eaa ' Eli ' " 4ns eds. NIB PIOPERTT LEFT BY Tli* '-' u.—At ateeting of the magtorstor or =A a. ..e• . ' f"" 14 i " • ' ''' \ . V ..;;..- . ' .1'