The Express. — London, England, 1847-12-11 00:00:00

Theme, ret. on tbil.pay ; Firenlient. W. R. Diehard, to be see.. a pt, T u.:Tomcod; nor... Lint. P. Bediegneld, to be beetlieut., ✓ice iceard. ADMIRALTY, Dec. L. owpg of RI. Marino'—Wet Lieut. 0. IL Pune, to be cent, riee noott, ret. on htl. ey.;!des Ueut. IL N. Gen, to be yet• -Rest., eke INOwN ProW. SEE OF YORB. 7 CONFIRMATION OF THE ARCHBISHOP. The confirmation of the election of Dr. Musgrave, Bishop of Rerefcra,to the Archbishopric at York, took plane terday, at St. James's church, Piccadilly, at 11 o'clock, by virtue of her blelesty's royal letters patent directed to the Archbishop of Canterbury end other prelate*, to confirm the election made by tha dean and chapttr of York. The Arch bishop of York elect attended with the bishops specially ap waisted for that purpose, the commissionen being the Lord Bishop of Winchester !the president), and the Lords Bishops of Exeter, Sal isbury. C hichester, and Ely. The prelates having robed in tbs vestry, and the advocates and proctors the vicar general of the Archbi sho p of Canterbur y , and his grace' s ro ptem, with other officers, having as-embied, they W :re conducted into the church, where morning pr lyers were read by the Rev . J. Jackson, the recently tepprinted vicar of SL Jamts's. The Lords Commissioners then proceeded to a table in the body of the church and took their seats, the Bishop of Winche,ter being in the centre, the archbishop reading in his pew. The proceeding* commenced hy reading the license of the Archbishop of Canterbury consent ing to the confirmation lacing held is that church, and with inlik province. 'I he proctor of the Arches' Court, officiat ing for the dean and chapter of York, prayed the letters patent to be read. The Lnrd Archbishop elect then took his seat at the table opposite to the first commissioner, his grace being presented to his lordship by the proctor, who, at the same time, pro duced the original mandate; whereupna the president directed the spysritor publicly to call in all epposers thee, to. Nene,of course, episeered, and his lordship r. ad aloud the several instruments, which were afterwards signed by the whole of the lords commissioners. The oaths of allegiance, supremacy, and Antony, were directed by the president to be taken by the archbishop elect—at the time kneeling. The oath of supremacy is as follows : do sorer that t do from my heart abhor, detest, and abjure, as Impart nod Meeting that damnable doctrine and position that praises etrommumoted yr deprived by the Pope, or any authortty of the nee of dome ahoy he dews. d or murthered by their subjects, or an. other whonoecer ; and I do declare that no foreign prince, persmi, prelate, state, or potentate bath or ought to have any jurisdiction, power, superiority, pre-eminenoe, or authority, ecclesiastkal or spiritual, within this realm. The sentence confirming the election was then read by the Bishop of Winche,ter in a most solemn and impressive manner, in which are these words We Pace amply found that the elestdn was rightly and lawfully made and celebrated by the dean chopterut eothedral aul me tropolitiml church of St. Vein: in York, of the Right her. Father in God, Thomas Musgrave, Lord Bidinjo of Hereford .0 elected, s man both prudent sod &erect, deservedly Lod:dole for his life and eon. vermuon 0: a free condition, born in last tol wedlock, of hie age, and an ordained and cotateceoted blihup. and that there midair was nor in anything in the emlesto!tical laws that ought to obstruct or hinder his being confirmed arthbiabop of Fork by authority of her Mujesty. And the sentence directs that the mdibi-hop then elected and confirmed be immediately installed and enthronei by the dean and ch,pter of the cathedral of Y vk. The sen tence was then signed by the whole of the lords commis sioners. Tke church was filled by a very lash! unable congregation, and in the centre aisle were many clergymen in canonicals. SMITHFIELD CATTLE CLUB DINNER. The ordinary meeting . of tiro club was held yester day morning at the committee-room at the Bazaar. The Duke of Richmond presided. The rep•rt of the committee appointed last year to super intend the re-arrangement of the prize list, which contained a recommendation to do away with all restrictions as to the feeding of the cattle, was, after some discussion, unani mously adopted. Notices of motion to extend the same arrangement to the sheep classes, and to give re wards to the herdsmen sad shepherds of the stock gaiiiieg prizes, on their obtaining certificates of good conduct from their re spective maters, were also given ; and it was furthor unani mously agreed to requst successful commtitore to attend the anniversary dinner of the club in future. Tins DINNER —ln the evening about two hun dred graziers, farmers, and others interested in the improvement of the breed of stock, assembled at the Free masons -hall to celebrate the meeting by the usual anniver sery dinner. The Earl of Hardwicke was the president of the day, the Duke of Richmond being prevented by illness from attending; and amongst the principal guests were the Earl of Yarborough, the Hon. Dudley Pelham, Major• General Wemyss, P. Pusey, E.g., M.P., Col. Sibtkorp, M.P , John &Kett, E'q., M.P., Hon. H. W. Wilson, J. T. Shelley, Esq., Professor Way, Mr. Sinclair, Mr. Wood, chairmu of the sieve board, &c. &C. The CHAIRMAN, in opening the business of the evening, said it was with regret he found h:m..elf under the necessity of addressing them ea their chairman, in consequence of the absence of one infinitely better known to them, more re spected, and in every way better qualified :o till the peition be was called upon to occupy. He was aware that it should be the endeavour to pass an evening like the present with the greatest hilarity . They were hound together by ties of a remarkable descr iption, and they wet • met to celebrate a verrm w ar co ka n b d i u e et o himself L i a t tid eir he ch tfusted hen as l db e enabledmanner which should be agreeable so them all. Be would give them as the first toast, " Her Majesty the Queen."—The toast was drunk with the usual honours. The CHAIRMAN had the satisfaction of informing the company that there were nineteen bumper touts on his list ; he trusted, therefore, they had strong beads, or that those who had not would provide themselves with small glasses. (A laugh.) The toast he had next to propose was " The Queen Dowager, Prince Albert, the Prince of Wales, and the rest of the Royal Family." With regard to the first of these illustrious persons it was only necessary to re mind them that she was one of the greatest benefactors of the poor and most Ii ieral distributors of charity that per haps existed. To the neat, the Prince of Wales, they were bound by ties of allegiance as well as of affection; but the last name on the list had a peculiar claim upon them as a mem ber of the society, who was a competitor, and a successful competitor, at the present show. (Cheers.) He observed ,a gallant friend of his present, General Wimps, who con ducted the agricultural affairs of Prince Albert ; and, speak ing without any knowledge of the balance-sheet, he believed under that management those affairs had been eminently successful. With regard to the balance-sheet he was wholly ignorant. There were secrets in all families, and he knew many agriculturists who w, re particular y tender upon the subject of 'the balance-sheet. (Hear, hear, and laughter.) Great credit was due to his his Royal Highness, nut only for what be bad done in respect to the club, tut tor joining, se he had done, royal agricultural associations with toe view of giving all the assistance in his power to that important branch of national industry. (Cheers.) This toast was drunk with three times three. The CHAIRMAN again rose, and said—Mr. Vice-President and gentlemen, I believe we have now arrived at the great toast of the evening, " Success to the Smithfield Club," a toast which I ?egret my inability to do justice to. Though I have but recently brcome a member of the society I un dentend this club has beta now in existence something like fifty years. It was established first by a few gentlemen and yeomen, who were aoiembled together to celebrate a sheepshearing of the Duke of Bedford's. Since then it has been presided over successively by Lord Somerville, the Dike of Bedford, Sir John Sebright, Dal Spencer, and now by the Duke of Richmond, of all of whom I will say that men more remarkable for love of country, love of agri culture, and especially for love of the industrious classes, never met. (Hear, hear.) The names of those who have acted es its presidents I think stamp the charac ter of the club with honeety, impartiality, and seal, in carrying out the objects it has undertaken, and it desires still to maintain those interests it was esta blished to promote in its awn peculiar and 'articular manner. I feel it impossible to sit in this chair to-day without having in my bosom some feeling of irritation—irritation shall I call it ?—some feeling of regret, at least, that the public should be led on by any distinguished writers in this country to look upon this club as of no advautsge to society. (Rear.) Poor as I aam in speech, I am happy ID having an opportu nity of bearing my testimony in favour of this society, and showing my seal for the cause it seeks to promote. (Cheers.) I say this is a society whose intentions are as honest and as zealous for the public welfare as any that ever existed—a society having for its first principle the giving to the people food at the cheapest possible rate—(cheers); and I say further, that the mode it takes to (envy out th.t prin ciple has been eminently successful. (Hear, hear.) The object of the society is to produce for the public use animals of the best descriptions, brought to the highest con dition in the shortest possible period, and at the cheapest rate. The mode they adopt for effecting this great and im portant end may be questioned by many, but whatever dif ferences there may ha on that point, it cannot be denied that the most unremitting attention has been given by the society to accomplish the object—(hear, hen)—and by briuging together animal. to compete for prizes of no mean description once in every year they show what may be effected by con stant attention to the blood, the breed, and the feeding of stock. I know we have been told that the only result is to produce at a great cost monstrous and filthy animals, to raise enormous bodies of beastly fat, which is necessarily diseased and unfit to eat. Bat, gentlemen, those who use these terms do not remember that those who produce ataimals of that description to compete at these meetings have been engaged in an experiment, and though each such experiment nifty have cost, as I have seen it stated, more than would be sufficient to feed a labourer for a year, I would ask those who put forward that statement (which whether correct or not I do not know), to point out what experiments have turned out cheap to the society, or the in dividual by whom they were made. (Bear, hear.) What have the various experiments is the arts and is science met the people ? How much is expended every year in making experiments in out dock-yards, our arsenals, our military preparations, in trials of ships, guns, implements of war, canvass, and everything you can contemplate in science or in art Consider the cost of these experiments and the objects for which they are undertaken, and then say which clam of experiments is the most important to society—that whose object is to feed the people at a cheaper rate, or that which seeks at a chea pe r rate to destroy the lives of oar fellow-men ? (Cheers.) No doubt every one of those experiments which are undertaken through the encouragement offered by this society costa a large sum of money. But have there been no good results ? I am told by thou who are in a position to form the best opinion that it is through the instrumentality of this club, and the zeal with which its affairs are carried on—the great talents, the independence, the impartiality, and the high character of those distinguished individuals who have pee Bled Merit ; that we have brought the animal stock of this kingdom to a date of perfection which no country in Europe can compete with. Is it the climate of this country, or the food of this country, that has produced snob aerials ? I should say certainly not. (Hear.) But it is the intelligence, the unwearied zeal and attention given by these who are interested in this society, which has infused into the aricaltuzier a feeling that it is seenseare for great and useful purer to coup* before the public in this metropolis yearly,soof Wre, brio exhibi tion of animals of the highest breeding err thelpeasospata• thy of Her to show that they have eadeesermeilielleilerthe best description of animals for the food el the pee*. It en experiment to show the cheapest pos.ible rate at which the best animal food can be produced, and alao where the but rime's for improving stock can be obtained. It may be a question whether the mode we employ for carrying out our intention* is the wise• . and the beet, and I have often thought myself whether it would not be better to limit the tie during which each animal shall be put up, in order that the influence of change of food from the common gram and hay might be accurately ascertaiued. When, however, it was attempted to establish such a rule, many obstacles presented themselves, and it was found Impossible to carry it out. It may be said that the animals should be sent in lean, and that the club should see to the feeding, and no doubt if that could be done without exciting jealousy and complaints on the part of the utunte cessful competitors, it would be a good arrangement. But these subjects have been all diszussed, no doubt, by there who have bt fore filled this chair, and by the society, and they have found it better, upon the whole, to say at once, send to your animals; tell us the age and the (ceding, and we will appoint judges to decide on their merits, who :hail take all the circumstance* into consideration. I have thought it necessary to say thus much as to the objects and operations of this club, because within the last two years mucks have been made upon it in a manner wholly unworthy by certain gentlemen who pretend to he the conductors of public opinion, the orbiters of the fate of individuals—the sell-constituted judg.s of everything and every subject—but who are the tyrants, in my opinion, of the liberties of this country. (Cheers.) I speak of them as the tyrants of liberty is a limited tenon. God forbid that I shout I pretend, or that rt should for • inotneut be thought, that I intended it to go forth es my wish that the fete opinion of the people should not at all times be written, uttered, and listened to. (Hear, hear.) But what I mean is, tbat where a great writer, or a great company of writers, endeavour to influence public opinion wrongly— when they make use of that iutloence which they have gained for purposes which tend, as I think, to pervert and misinform the mind of the public—that, I say, ss an autho rity which, whenever exercised, must be a curse to the liber ties of the nation. (Cheers.) I have the greatest pride in being remitted to-day to occupy this chair. lam much attached to agriculture, and pre:end to be a bit of a farmer myself—(hear)—but I am yet young in the business, and 60 far as I have been able to undenesed it, harming can only be carried on successfully by the application of severe labour, great attention, and the west minute calculations. A Lamer, if be be really a good tanner, I hold to be a moot important and valuable subject of toe Queen. But a man who ventures upon terming without sufficient capital, places himself in the most difficult situation man cam occupy. He is in the position of a man plant d in the potation of a capital ist without capital—and all the consequences of such a por tion are sore to follow. Blame is inevitable, and they he becomes • discontented fellow, complains that he is unjuAly treated by the laws or by his landlord. The Beak does not issue money enough to please him—he calls for tenant-right, and all manner of things, and he be. comes an incubus on society, a pest to himself, and ono of the most discontented and disaffected subjects of the realm. (Rear, hear.) Having said no much as to what I under stand of agriculture, and having expressed my ope nion that only men of capital should undertake it, 1 will abstain from turther remarks, for I see the path be fore me would lead to other subjects, aid to difficulties, which are consequent upon the various combinations of society in this country, and which should be but gently touched upon, if at all, and which shall rot be by me on this occasion. I will, therefore, conclude by proposing, " Success to the Smithfield Cl ub," with all the honours which are due to its great name. The toast was drunk r usual with the utmost enthusiasm. Mr. Pussy, M.P., tormented " The Health of the Duke of Richmond," whose conduct so president of the club he eulo gised in the strongest teems, and wh e he said, though he had done more to improve hie property (especially in Sor e land) than perhaps any . other mats, had never removed a tenant from one farm without giving him Lowther waited to his means.—Drunk with honours. The Earl of ICA nooaouon gave "The Health of the Chair meta," and having spoken of tare beneti:conferred on agricul ture by the Royal. Agricultural Association, of which the chairman had been president, joined in regretting the mis taken view taken by certain public writers as to this associa tion. It was gratifying, however, to fad that they . had not succeeded in damping the ardour of agricultural improve ment, or in diminishing the public interest in the proceed ings of the club. (Hear.) The toast having been drunk, The CHAIUMAN returned thanks. In reference to an article, cotton seed, which he had been requested to bring under the notice of the meeting, as an article containing much oil and fat, to feed cattle, he remarked that cotton was as important to the people of England as wheat. Cotton ' was the fond of millions, and whenever the weedy was cut off woe betide the people. The b.st way to prevent that supply being cut off was to be prepared at all points for the foreign enemy. If we were not so prepared (and we were not eo now) the day would come when, instead of a supply of cotton, we should have • large importation of foreign bayonets. (Hear, hear.) A mithon and • half a year for six years, and a million a year atter ,earals, would raise a force sufficient for the defence of the country under all circum stances, and secure us on that score. (Hear.) The next tout, "Mr. Putty, M.P., and the 'Vice-Presi dents," wait given by Col. Sibthorp, M.P., and having been drunk with the usual honours was acknowledged by Mr. Pussy ; after which the several pm:, were distributed, the list of which and the names of the successful competitors has been already reported in the Express. The successful and unsuccessful competitors, the judges and other officers, the butchers, and the working aliases, were the subjects of subsequent toasts, which were severally spoken to by the chairman, the Berl of Yarborough, Mr. Shelly, Mr. S. Benett, Gen. Wemyas, and Capt. the Hon. Dudley Pelham ; after which the chairman declared the business at an end, and the company retired. REPEAL OF THE WINDOW TAX. Yesterday a meeting of the delegates appointed by all the metropolitan parishes took place at the Court house, Marylebone, for the purpose of considering the steps neces sary to be taken " for enforcing on the government the necessity of an immediate repeal of the window tax, without which they hare themselves declared any measure of sani tary reform an absurdity " Communications were read from Sir B. Hall, Lord Dudley Stuart, and other metropolitan members, expressing regret at unavoidable absence, but giving their cordial concurrence to the movement. Mr. G. Datum., of Marylebone, was called on to preside. He said, they had again assembled for the purpose of open ing the campaign in the present session against the atrocious window tax ; and he was happy to say that he believed they were in a better position than they bad ever been heretofore. The government had admitted tne evils and the gross in justice of this tax ; but they had now gone sr tar as to ap- I point a sanitary commission. It must be admitted on all bends that no sanitary measure could be considered per-' het which prevented health by refusing to the public the benefits of light and air without heavy eixation It ought to be made a sine qua non with the public, that no sanitary measure could be effectual unless the window tax were re pealed. Lord DUNCAN, M.P., said he was desirous of going slightly into what had taken place last session with regard to the repeal of the window-tax, and also what he (the noble lord) proposed to do in the present *mien. It would be re membered that Lord Morpeth was las year at the head of the sanitary commission ; and that in the report of that com mission it was said, " That no sanitary measure could be per fect which did not abolish the window-tax." He (Lord Duncan) waded through the evidence, and found very strong evidence to that effect from Sunderland and other places. After such a declaration, he fully expected that a proposition for the repeal of the window duties would have formed part of his lordship's sanitary bill ; but to his astonishment this was not the case, and he then gave notice of as amendment in the very words of the report, " That no sanitary measure could be perfect which did not abolish the window-tax." They said he would stop the sanitary bill if he persisted in his amendment, and he cemented to withdraw it of • promise that his motion for a repeal of the window-tax should have their support hereafter. It was now his in tentioa Ito call upon the government to redeem that promise. The government and the Sanitary Commis elan were racking a great stir about getting places ready consequent on the apprehended arrival of the cholera, but if the government and the sanitary commissioners were in earnest in the matter, they would immediately set about re moving the window-tax, that great obstacle to health by its operation in checking ventilivion. He had felt it his duty to communicate with Mr. Austin, the secretary of the Sans tary Commission, at Gwyder-heose, on the subject of venti lation, and hoped that the commissioners would not shut that important subject, in connexion with sanitary reform, from their report, as there were many gentlemen prepared to give evidence upon it. He replied, they had no objection to hear the evidence, but the fiscal pert of thy subject was under the Chancellor of the Riche/pier. lie (the noble lord) could prove that the effect of this tax was to deprive houses of proper ventilation, and the cause of a vast amount of ill health. He could prove many cases where, in order to evade the tax, houses which formerly had twenty win dows had the number reduced to nine. They hod now what was called a liberal government, and another point, as show ing the baneful operation of this tax, was its effect upon the franchise. Thousands of persons had been disfranchised, and the liberal cause placed in jeopardy, solely through the inability of the poorer classes to pay this tax. He intended again to bring the repeal of the window-tax before the house immediately after the Christmas recess, and he was happy to say that he bad not only a great accession of strength from gentlemen of his own political opinions, but from a number of gentlemen who, in politics generally, were opposed to Na, The English people were too quiet; they should take a leaf oat of the book of those pertain on the other side of the water, whole vociferous clamour tailed for eight millions, and ob tained it. (Hear, hem.) He had no doubt they would be met by the Chancellor of the Exchequer with the same bugbear as formerly ; namely, that he admitted the irupolicy and impropriety of the tax, but the state of the finance of the county would not permit him to take it off. He again said this country mast copy the example of those over the water, and demand it boldly, and not be so quietly put down as they had been. He (Lord Duncan) should bring forward his motion in the most tangible shape possible, but if he found the government offered him opposition, be should bring the repeal of the window-tax forward as an !amend ment to some of the government measures, let the result be what it might. (Loud cheers.) Mr. °RESIN, Of St, James's, Westminster, congratulated THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 11, 1847. the noble lord on having in the new parliament the assistance tench men u the metropolitan members, of whom there was not one who was not pledged to the repeal of this odious tax. Any unitary bill which did not secure a repeal of the window duties, situ, to use the expressive w,-rile of Lord Demean on a certain occasion, " a delusion, a mockery, and a snare." Mr. °win concluded by moving, " Th►t at the adjourned meeting of the conference the whole of the metro politest member* of parliament be summoned to attend." Mr. H. C. Wixsov, in seconding the resolution (which was carried), observed that he h►d no doubt of the probabi lity of a re-arrangement of the whole fiscal system of the country. If so, he hoped that In the repeal of the window tax they would content to no compromise. Mr. SODEN moved, " That it is the opinion of this meeting that no measure of sanitary reform con be effective or use. ful unless accompanied by a repeal of the most obnoxious and unhealthy impost, the window duties." The resolution was carried, and, after a vote of thinks to Lord Duncan and the Clubman, the conference adjourned. THE CLERGY AND THE GOVERNMENT EDUCATION SCHEME. An official correspondence has taken place between the secretary of the Council on Education and certain mem bers of the clergy, from which we select the following . Committee or Council on Education, Council °tee, Whitehall, .ov. 24, 1817. Very reverend Sir,—l have submitted to the Lord Presi dent of the Council your letter, dated Nov. 17, in which, as chairman of a corneal tee appointed by the Lichfield Diocesan Board (to inquire into the meaning and application of the mthute of the Committee of Council, relative to the manage ment clauses of school deeds), you ask, whether " the pro moters of education throughout the country have the earns liberty of choice as to the constitution of their schools as has been hitherto emeeded to them, both by the Committee of Council sad by the National Society." In answer to this question, I am directed to inform you, that though the mmute of the Committee of Council is dated June 2e, 1847, the administration of their lordships, In relation to school deeds, as described in that minute, bas undergone no material practical change during the last two years and a half. You will find the circumstances in which the practice of this office originated described in the letter address. d to thy Bridol Deanery Board, dated Oct. 6, 1847, a copy of which I enclose fur your information. The facts related in this letter appeared to their lordships to require their interference to InCLU3 the legal estate of paro chial schools from the consequences of local mismanage. meat. The Committee of Council have not, either recently or for some years past, accepted the choice of the local pro moters of national schools as in all respects determining the constitution of these schools; on the contrary, their lordship. have required, as a condition of their grants, not only secu rity for the legal estate, but that the terms of union with the National Society should form the bares of the constitution of scboolsconnected with that society. Their lordships have accordingly embodi . d these terms of union in certain management clauses, which are set forth in their minute of June 28, 1847, and have declared, in that minute, that they regard those cleans as essential for the constitution of church of England schools connected with that society. Accordingly, in parishes inwhich there were literate and respectable laymen who were bowl fide members of the church of England, and who, by their subscriptions and exertions, had testified their zeal for the education of the poor, my lords have felt it to be their duty to require : that certain of these lay parishioners should, in strict ac cordance with the terms of union with the Naaanal Such ty, be associated with the clergyman, in the management of the school. Their lordships have provided for the superintendence of the religious instruction by the parochial clergyman, and for I the settlement of any question r. lathe to such religious instruction by an appeal to the diocesan, whose decision is to be final. The clargyman is ex officio chairman of the board of managers, and has a casting vote, and he may also appoint his curate or curates members of the board. Due provision is therefore nude for his occupying a position of dignity and influence in the general management of the school, while the arrangements for the election of the com mittee confirm that influence, and afford him security against factious opposition. Their lordship have listened with attention to the sag. gestions of the local promoters of schools upon all questions relative to the adaptation of any particular clause to the circumstances of a parish; and, wherever they could do so without the violation of some thadamental principle, they have been disposed to concur with such suggestions. The enclosed copy of a letter to the Bishop of Ripon on this subject will explain to you the course which their lordshipa have adopted in large towns and populous districts. From this account you will readily infer what bas been the course of administration in purely rural districts. In these eases, however, in which the local promoters of schools connected with the National Society have proposed a depar ture from the obvious meaning and intention of the terms of union with that society, their lordships have felt it to be their duty to maintain the principles involved in those terms of union. In the early period of their administration, before the necessity for such interference had become apparent, clauses of the most various mid questionable chance r had been in serted in school deeds, forcibly illustrating the fact, that the discretion of the local managers cannot ee accepted is the stead of general rules. As examples, I may enumerate arrangements by which the parochial character of the school was unneceswily de parted from : the management being confided to clergyman of several surrounding parishes and their successors, or even, though rarely, to the trustees of the church, though resident! in didbient and remote parts of England, or to the patron of the benefice, even when the patronage was vested in a non-resident corporation; or, in rarer cases, to municipal or other officers, without any other provision as to their qualifi cation ; or power was given to some person or persona to appoint managers without any definition of their qualifies• twos; or • school erected in one ecclesiastical district has been under the superintendence of a clergyman in another ecclesiastical district, who has resisted all interference with management by the parochial minister. In other cases, though the constitution was parochial, no laymen (whatever might be their zeal, sacrifices, or exertions) were admissible to the management, which was vested exclu sively in the clergyman. It is scarcely necessary to remark, that, except where no literate and respectable lay sub scribers to the school are resident in the parish, such a con ! atitution is not adapted either to conciliate general opinion, lor meet the views of parliament in making provision towards the support of parochial echooto out of public fonds. The general adoption of such a constitution appeared to the& lordships to be likely to awaken the jealousy of the laity, as to the application of adequate funds from the public rea sources to the support of institutions, from the management of which they were to be excluded. When, however, is any Parish there are no literate and respectable lay subscribers to the school, who are bond fide members of the church of Rag land, their lordships have, by clause C, provided that the management of the school shall devolve on the clergyman alone, until the bishop shall direct that a committee of the subscribers be appointed. In other cases, it was proposed to their lordships to substi tute for the rule of the National Society, wLich enables any member of the committee of management to submit ear question relative to the religious instruction to the dicomea, another isle, enabling any single member of the committee to bring under the consideration of the diocesan any question whatever relative to the management of the school, and , giving the diocesan power, on the appeal of this single mem- I o ber, to sat aside any decision of the committee, even : I though it should have been adopted by every member ex- 1 cept the appellant Their lordship were of opinion that 1 there is no precedent in English institutions for so complete I a subjection of a body of local manages to any central I authority. The definition of the qualification of the electors and !managers has been the subject of another suggestion, dif fering from the terms of union with the National Society. I It has been proposed to substitute for the words " Members of the Church of England" used in the terms of union with the National Society, the qualification, " Communicants of the Church of England," or the wo rds " who shall have eimununicated three times at the least in the then currant year in the parish church." Hespereitig these suggestions, their lordship; have to re- Meth thee they were seldom or never made until within the Ire ysr and a half. In almost all earlier deeds the term n.hl of the Church of England" was inserted as eon relying a sufficient description of the qualification of the Amor and manager. To the use of the term " communi cant" (even when its want of a definite legal signification is in some degree removed by a specification of the times when, and the place where, the elector or manager is to communi cate) their lordships have entertained the grave objection that this word appears to revive the risk that the Holy Se. crament would be subject to desecration by those who had no better motive for partaking it than that of qualifying themselves for an office. But as it is their lordships' wish and intention that the ' managers of church of England schools should be bole= I members of that church, they would be peepeed le ' any other description of the qualificetiesseneheel manasees, which would insure this result, and which was not open le , graver objections than thou which it removed. But, if the discretion of the local managers were to be ae. oepted as an absolute means of determining the °multitudes of parochial schools, instances could be found in the earlier I deeds (for which their lordships are only responsible, in as far as they had not then conceived it to be their duty to is terfere), in which all precautions as to the qualifications at ' the managers were neglected, and in which, emmereeeetly, schools erected by the funds of menthes et the .heath et England have pared into the el peons "be will allow of no instruction heat the . There is no example, so hr ea their In of any echool in which they have interlined la the adoption of clauses, resembling thaw addend in their minute of June 28 1847, in which suth mosivashom bens ensued. While, tkerefore, my lords esneida. It to be lisle duty, as it has always been their prudes, to listen Ida attention to the suggestion, of tits keel nmegeeti ma W' endeavour to concur with them is the stsailieldies el the clause* aet forth in their minute of JINN Ugh 1 ....... ams ii inform you that as these clauses embeargrams principles ?roes which they are unwifibee legal ee ry cannot accept the dime:cation of the local media tutedwels, ' as an absolute role determining, in such matlews, their ell ministration, respecting the constitution to be admitted k the deeds oenational schools. Their lordship observe, that • min:oomph:in previa, that their administrativeprocedure relative to school deeds, now embodied in the minutes of June 28, 1847, is a recent condition of their grants, adopted in violation of some sup compact, compact, that the inspection of schools, as regulated by the order in ceuacil of August 10, 11340, wss to be the only condition on which grants of public money would be made in aid of the erection and maintenance of parochial schools. That this is a misconception will be apprent to yam, from the fact, that during the whole period of their lord shipe' administration of the public grants, the terms of union with the National Society were virtually adopted by the promotes of national schools, though the legal efficacy of that virtual adoption wu very questionable, if not in tact valueless; and that practical effect was given to the ;moll. slops of those terms of union, by the appointment of com mittees in numerous cases in which schools were :most prosperously conducted by the zeal of the laity ce-operating with the clergy. Their lord Lips have only sought to give legal form and practical efficiency to a system, the letter of which they found existing as a general rule, and the spirit of which they found to be the moat effectual means of securing the permanent success of parochial schools. My lords have imposed no new conditions, but they have been unwilling to participate the responsibility of sanctionieg a virtual adoption of the letter of a rule imposing a constitu tion on all schools in connexion with the National Society, which wu contradict, d by &frequent positive violation of its letter in the legal form of school deeds ; and of its spirit in the practical ►rrangements adopted for the management of national schools. The annual parliamentary grant has now risen to such an amount, and is attended with such numerous aad accu mulating advantages to parochial schools, that their lordships have been anxious you should be supplied with as full and clear a statement u possible, both of the principles and prac tice adopted in this department relative to the constitution of schools connected with the National Society. I have the honour to be, Very Rev. Sir, your obedient servant, J. P. KAY SHUTTLEWORTII. The Very Rev. the Dam of Lichfield. SANITARY STATE OP THE WARD OP PORT 80KEN.—Yesterday a meeting of the common council it.,cl the ward inquest of Yortsoken took place at the committee room, Aldgate, for the purpose of accompanying Mr. Alder luan Moon on a visit to those localities which had been pre sented to the Court of Aldermen and the Commieioners of Sewers as places which, for want of cleanlinessa, would, on the approach of the cholera or any other epidemic, become a focus for the germination of fever and death . — Mr. Alderman Moon said the presentation which had been made to the Court of Aldermen was considered so important, that he had been requested by the court to visit and report upon the state of these places, and in doing this he was anxious to have their aid and co-operation.—A deputation then pro ceeded to visit Seven Step-court, Stoney-lane, Lower Melior. place, Cock and Hoop-yard, Mount-square, and the vicinity, the state of which fully bore out what was set forth in the petition presented to the Court of Aldermen. On the return of the deputation, Mr. Alderman Moon, having adverted to the various places which had been visited, said that it was essential that some remedial measures should be adopted, but whether that should be done by the Court of Aldermen or the landlords of the property was for the meeting to de cide—Mr. Deputy Wright suggested that the vestry-elerks of Has respective parishes in which the properties were situated should write to the owners of the various places is proceed immediately to carry out the necessary improve. menu.—Mr. Alderman Moon said he had observed tne total absence of all cisterns or tanks for water for the accommodation of the residents.- -Mr. Santleir remarked, that in the several coeds there 4113 a standeock which supplied the inhabitants for about two hours daily; but the property in Stoney•lane had no water laid on.—Mr. Ald. Moon said he wished to see tanks or cisterns built. Although there was a daily supply of water, a very large number of the inhabitanu must, of course, be the greater part of the day without any. It could not be expected that they could purchase vessels to hold water until the next day. This was a mast important sub ject.—Mr. Nell said that the inhabitanta were coming hourly t , his house to beg fJr water, which, as far as was in his power, he supplied.—Mr. Ald. Moon said that some of the plates they had visited were the moat disgusting, filthy Inca. lilies he had ever witnessed. Talk of Elim Chapel, that bore no comparison to these places. The freeholders wt re liable, and he trusted their attention would be called to the state of the property, that the sanitary condition might be at once attended to. Same of the houses were totally unfit for occupation, by reason of the vast amount of deposit in the cellars.—Mr. Nell said he had, two years ago, called the attention of the district surveyor to the state of the place, but no notice was taken. lie then waited on the Lord Mayor, and the pubiicity so given to the matter produced the desired effect.—lt was unanimously agreed that the worthy alderman should make •report embodying the state. went already presented to the Court of Aldermen, and that the ward clerk should write to the owners of the property to comply with the clauses of the act, to prevent the spread of infections fevers, and for such steps to be taken that were necessary.—The meeting, having thanked Mr. Ald. Moon, broke up. • • TILE OAS QUESTION.—Last evening n public meeting of the inhabitants of Lambeth and Southwark was held at the Literary Institution, Borough-road, to take into consideration the measures to be adopted for obtaining a re duction in the price charged for gas by the various compa nies; Charles Pearson, Esq., M.P., in the chair. Mr. Savage read a report, which stated that, in consequence of the high price of gas in the metropolis, compared with the price paid in provincial towns, a committee was appointed to inquire into the matter, and to consult the large consumers in the district, in order to ascertain whether they were pre. pared to take any measures for remedying the evils com plained of. The committee had gathered a great quantity of information, and had waited upon the board of directors of several gas companies, who had declared their intention of reducing the present charge to 75. per 1,000 cubic feet, after Christmas next; but the committee considering that price too high, had come to the following resolution ; This committee, on looking at the position It has taken, with the view to obtain a reduction in the price of gas from Oa. to 6s. per 1,000 cubit feet, feel that the more information they collect, and the further they prosecute the inquiry as to the comp ,native charges of other companies, the more evident la it, that de. is a price that ought to command a good supply of nisi.-rate gas, especially when they take Into conaiderakion that the gas compiudes charge 6s. in Greenwich, supplying the railways at Se. 6d. and the eastern end of the metro polis at be. The prise of ma in large country town. ie only Se. Sid. per 1,000 feet. Mr. Thwalten moved " That the report meets with the cordial approbation of this meeting, and that the proposal made to the several companies of 6.. per 1,000 feet is a just and liberal one." It would be understood, Mr. Thwsitee remarked, that the gas movement was becoming a most im portant one, and it would ere long take a strong hold on the public mind, in consequence of the vast amount of the in terest involved. He proceeded to call attention to receipts of several gas companies, and he found that in Rateliff, and the east end of London, the price was 6s. per 1,000. The resolution was carried, and a committee was appointed to carry out the objects of the meeting. A vote of thanks to the chairman closed the proceedings. GAS UNDER SANITARY LAw.--The Act should re quire every public place, whether street, court, or alley, to be lighted with good gas, at a moderate price ; and should the existing companies refuse to do this, or in places where no gas works exist, the sanitary commission or commissioners should be required to establish works of their own; and the profits derived from this source should be applied to the re duction of the rates. Electricity might he applied to the lighting of the public lamps with advantage. Oxygen gas might, perhaps, be manufactured on a large scale, and sup plied by means of pipes, &c., in the same way as the carbu retted hydrogen now is, for the purpose of producing the brilliant light known by the name of the Buds light, or for increasing the combustion in furnace., ike., for which pur pose bellows are now used ; and the underground ways already urged by you would afford great facilities for laying the pipes along the streets, and communicating them with the houses, without the least occuion for opening the ground or taking up the paving . and stopping the traffic. Should electric clocks ever come into general use, these ways might also be available for this purpose. A supply of oxygen to improve the air in some buildings would be valuable, if it could be properly regulated.—Builder. MILITARY COLLEGE, ADDISCOMBE.—Yesterday, deputation from the East India House proceeded to the Company's Military Seminary, at Addiseombe, for the pur pose of distributing the prizes. The rewards gained by the cadets were distributed as follows: First Clam—Mr. E. Southey : Second prise in mathematics, second fortification, first Hindustani, military drawing, and first Latin ; Mr. J. E. Donne: First prize in mathematics ,• Mr. D. J. Nasinyth First prise in forti fi cations, second good conduct and military surveying ; Mr. L. Russell: Prize in mathematics, and first good conduct, with an artillery sword ; Mr. 3Goddard: Prize for military drawing ; Mr. D. C. Henchy : Prize in geology. Second Clam—Mr. A. Boulnois: Prize in civil drawing, in good conduct, Hindustani, and fortifications • Mr. E. C. G. Williams: First prize in mathematics ; Mr. P. Salteld: Prize in French ; Mr. J. Goddard : Prize in mili tary drawing and surveying. Third Clam—Mr. J. A. Bal lard : Prize good conduct. The following were appointed engineers: Means. Donne, Nasmyth, Russell, Goddard, Jervis, Dennison, C. Scott, and Henchy.—Artillery: Messrs. H. Manion, T. Graham, R. Pittman, L. Heathorri, T. C. Crone, A. Gillespie, P. A. Agnew, J. H. Grant, W. Wilson, W. Dallas, and J. A. Vanrenen. The chairman addressed the cadets generally, pointing out to themtheneemnity of the closest attention to their studies, to fit themselves for the important duties they would be called upon to perform. The company then broke up. - - DISASTERS AT SEA.—From radatowe we learn by aocountithat the Mild storm has resulted in the lose of a very fine ship, amdi one thousand tons burthen, and a por tion et bre mew, lk kw Mims from Trevose Head. Durum :as= it wee respereai that a large vessel in a distressed vise in the lam end at daybreak, on Thursday insming, sunk was howl to be the we. She seemed to be • rot-rate ship, and Itor elate showed the havoc she had imained in the plo. Her maintopmest was carried away, and her was Weak Wows to ribbons. Her position was VIM Alla four er fw miss to N.W. of Trevose Heed. To ramise Yt awl mmilmmse st that period was next to an ba ne MS Ira hit residing, and as she was drift glaYstmetwaird it eon booliaiev 'dent that she would go like did so within • 'bort th l as of low water at a paint called Gannet Creek, between Pedstowe port and Tre vose Head. She was tbut assorisined to be the Marchioness of Aberoorn, helm& tgi b larmiderry. She was bound to the Thames, from She touched at Cork, and from that port ozperlasoed dreadful weather. The crew being minor le gain the lan's eight of the SW men attempted to land by the t, whist is wee cogoised by the surf, and four of the men per ish ed. The wain drew of the ill-fated skip amounted to twisty-Ma% the nandaing tweatrese of whom chin gto the wreck, mad Woes awousts left thirgets they wa ealb bobble to It. It Is her= they wHi be name& Ls aillidas to being so much by tin 110.8.111111111 611 be wahriagged.—The Weadervel hot lA* atileullmielm, milk** • Channel lan& malls, am OM • ma w Mae, salted the Miry and hue M Jersey aimed the Jersey Oar =7 IMMO. thew ma flier, afore, and a total meth. The dz is brought and her crew were eared. • Zambia camel, able* 660 tp from Odessa, bound for Fabliau* hr Missy eb to run into Quemoy yesterday fig, having shifted er cullo• IRELAND. Dumas, Dac. 9. Since the institution of the police that body has not displayed so much activity or been so successful in its operations as at the present period. In the disturbed districts patrols are out at all hours, and experience directs their footsteps to the places where crime has been committed, or troubled spirits are in motion to that end. Since the advent of coercion this activity is especially alive, and gauging the success of the polies under the present laws, by the " new rules " which are to come into operation, we can guess at their future triumphs. Most of the country papers report cases of this exuberant and laudable zeal. The deputy inspector of constabulary, Major Brown rigg, has proceeded to Limerick, for the purpose of ascertaining the true condition of that county and Tipperary, preparatory, it is supposed, to the imposi tion of the new act. Although the Lord-Lieutenant is armed with absolute power to proclaim and punish disorder, he will adapt his coarse to the state and opinion of the district. Some idea will be formed of the condition of Limerick, from the fact that fifty crown witnesses or approvers are now maintained at the public charge, and in the safe keeping of the police. There was a meeting of the Irish council to-day, the first since the tenant-right debate. The proceed ings were of some importance. A report was adopted suggesting modifications in the poor law, including the question of a maximum rate, beyond which local taxation should not go; that all expenditure beyond that should be borne by a general rate in aid; and that the local rate for support of the infirm should be distinct from that of the able-bodied. The Earl Fitzwilliam, although an " absentee," is not inattentive to the wants of the poor on his Wicklow estates, as well as to the necessity of keep ing down the rates, by affording employment remu nerative to proprietor, occupier, and labourer. The noble lord, who is well seconded by his prosperous tenantry, has joined with them in a voluntary rate for the support of the unemployed for four months. The subscription is one pound on the poor-law valua tion. The rate having been collected, a list was made out of all who required support and were able to work. Their names were then drawn by ballot, and assigned to the subscribers in proportion to their sub scriptions. If a proprietor has not work, he may assign his right to any person he pleases. There is a re-ballot of labourers each week, which gives the sub scriber a fair chance. An indifferent workman one week may be replaced next week by a better. By the returns of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners to the Lord-Lieutenant, it appears that 14 dignities, 13 prebends, and 61 parochial benefices, have become vacant within the year, up to the Ist f August last; of which 20 are liable to taxation. The amount -- - appropriated to church works has been 21,8891., of which one-fourth has been set apart for the comple tion of some and the commencement of other works; 2,0001. has been expended on the external decoration of churches in the south and west; 1,0001. for the maintenance of fences, and the residue to the neces sary repairs of ecclesiastical buildings. The aggre gate receipts of the commission during the year amounted to 103,4741. STATE OF THE COUNTRY, On SaturdaylZstrasm;ll patrol of police stationed at Boy risokane, Tipperary, heard at midnight loud sobs, as if from , one in a state of suffixation. Drawing nigh, they discovered • man on the high road just dying, " with a stone buried in his skull." The perpetrators of the outrage, three in num ber, while hanging over their victim, were surprised. At tempting to mope they were captured after a smart chase. , Spots of clotted blood and brains were discovered on the clothes of one of the ruffinne. The name of the murdered , man was Sullivan. He was killed close to his own house. The police stationed at Mullinavat, Kilkenny, snide a capture on the same day of two " highwaymen," driven to " the road "by destitution and desperation. These notable followers of Freney were counting the poor spoil of which ' they had, during the night, deprived several on their way to I the distant market of Waterford. The exclamation of these worthies to all they encountered was, "We went a ' man's life ! we want blood!" They were armed with pistols. and in their possession were found powder and balls, perms- ' sion cape, and a bullet mould. The following exhibits a spirit in the individual which doe, not extent to the entire body. As two suteconstables of the Moneygall station, King's County, were returning lately from duty, they met three armed men. One of the police went up and demanded an unconditional eurrender. The reply was defiance, and a threat of shooting the con stable. The carbines of the police being unloaded they re. treated " in good order," when the armed band came up and chased the police. Thereupon one of the green gentry, feeling rather awkward, persuaded his comrade to cut with all speed to the shelter of the barrack,. The act of cowardice coming to the ear of authority, the discharge of the too discreet constable followed an inquiry : mach acts are rare. Tne police are, as • body, decidedly brave, and have often succeeded against heavy wide. A strange man on Sunday evening last called at the lodging, of a carpenter named Goggin, and left a letter threatening him with the same death toe Sheppard' got if he did not immediately quit the town. Goggin is a native of Limerick, and is employed at the nunnery.—A party of six men armed with guns, entered the house of Hugh Flury, • farmer, at Cough, a few eve Mop since, about the hour of 8 o'clock. They ordered the inmates to hold down their heads while one of the gang entered a room and took therefrom a gun.—A party of four men armed with bludgeons, visited the boom of a man named Martin, in the town of Frankford,within about men perches of the police barracks, and ordered him to quit his house within a month or they would visit him again. About five o'clock, p.m., on the 3d inst., a large party of armed men marched is military order to the house of a poor industrious man, named Coulahan, situate at Coolderry, and within less than three miles of Hanagler, where they were ordered to "halt" and "ground arms." Having obtained admittance, and finding that Coulahan was absent (a most fortunate circumstance for himself), they beat his wife in a most inhuman mariner, leaving her on the ground speech leas' having previously demanded the money which was in the house, and which she refused to give them. They find ing a box broke it open, and carried off a sum of upwards of two pounds, the full extent of poor Conlahan's wealth. A few nights since, Constable Burke, of the Philipstown I station, arrested, in Kilbeggan, • man named Cormack who is charged with being one of an armed party who attacked the house of a farmer named Hagan, near Ballyeommon, and greenly maltreated him. Since the murder of Mr. • Lucas, the tenants whom be had dispossessed at Scordaft, have re-entered into possemitn of the lands, and refuse I either to surrender or pay rent, and Mrs. Lucas, who has been threatened, is afraid to institute any proceedings against i them. Three persons are still detained in custody, charged l with being concerned in the murder. SCOTLAND. EDINBURGH, Dec. 9. An attempt is being made by some extreme liberals to induce Mr. Roebuck to stand against Mr. Cowan; but it is not likely that Mr. Roebuck will consent, and more unlikely that he will be successful, should he agree to come forward. Who are the opponents of sanitary progress ? Let the following extract from the proceedings of the visitors of the Dundee Board of Health answer : The viaitors dated, that in the majority of instance+ they bad been ' well received by the [manta, who bad already give° evidence of their willingnew in many mere to go along with them: but when they son the Seedier* or factor., they were often wet with etaky took., and *Wader thrown in WO way. In one baby locality, the factor of eV properly, on being spoken to about some of the nuiaancee, rid liserigere watt enenytt. The mortality in Perth is rather decreasing, and not without need. Ninety-one deaths in sixteen days, in a town of twenty thousand inhabitants, is a frightful mortality. The cholera did not devastate the fair city in anything like this proportion. PROVINCIAL. THE SOUTH LANCASHIREEr.crION is fixed for Monday the 20th inst., and it will take place at the Horse and Jockey, Newton-in-Mankerheld. A MEMBER FOR STALTBRIDOR.-00 Wednesday a numerous meeting of the rate.payen of fitalybridge was din the Town-hall, for the purpose of agreeing to a petition, praying her Majesty's government to in tr oduce a bill to obtain the privilege of having a member et parliament for Staiybridge. Hr. liandforth was called to the chair. Addresses in timer of the object of the meting were delivered by Main. B. 8. Treanor, J. Andema, I. 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COLLIERY ACCIDENT. rawarlwswo iOrr .—Os Wodnasdity morning s fassfsi sod Mel roast bolt photo in s cal min•at Harwood, ow Hal as, Wm*, bMr JUNO Haatisoctle, by chi* was awn amid two "Oaths hove hot their Um, asd bur other solids on moo or hoc owdowdy Altus& About mix o'clock as the corabg csoclion, use mew mad six crabs were d ra chow, tram suss owe not yet addax- wrily r nce to cid& the two tube in wkioh they _gave way, and they wsr• pacdpitated to the Mks pit laing gnat darik• odd the tabs hawks descended only to an inconsiderable disuse. he. the wreath of the shalt, two of the colliers were killed the spat, one a man named Smith, who has left a large family, and the other a youth, whose name our correspon dent did not ascertain. Another youth, named Turner, died yesterday morning from the injuries he had sustained. The other sufferers are: James Ball, who sustained a com pound fracture of both legs, and other injuries that render his life pr carious ; William Collier, iierioudy hurt and in danger; John Entwistle, seriously hurt ; and Thomas Ball, not much hurt. Before these men attempted tq descend the pit several others had been lowered with perfect safety, and it its at present a matter of some mystery how it was the rope gave way. It is stated by some that it broke ; whilst others allege that a person connected with the colliery had betas making some alteration to the rope on the drum, in ceder to facilitate its unwinding, and this is thought to have awed the accident. However, so various ate the statements, that till after the inquest net the bodies, which is appointed to be held on Saturday (this dry), it will be impossible to may with any degree of certainty to what this dreadful fatality is attributable. YORKSILIRE. COERCION FOR IRELAND.—On Thursday night a piblia meeting woe held in the Court-house at Leeds, by permission of the Mayor, " to take into consideration the Coercion Bill recently introduced into the House of Com mons, and the propriety of petitioning for measures whisk will have the tendency to do justice to the Irish people, and thus make Ireland a land of plent y , and its inhabitants an abode of peace, where good fee • shall reign among them." In the anonymous placard by which the meeting was con vened the men of Leeds were exhorted to attend and make known their sentiments at this important crisis, es it WAS for them to consider, as well u the Irish, whether coercion or Rutin was to be the motto for the future. The attendance, however, was scanty, scarcely 300 persons, and those princi pally Irishmen. The first resolution, which was carried, states: That this meeting cannot but Teasel the aerate. of life in certain pinta of Ireland, and would rejoice In measures beteg brought for ward permanently to remove all came for such Mho"a for the tutors ; that room the experience of a great number of years of the operation of former coercion ban, the measure now before the Roma of Commons will not have the etfict of rest clog pesos and good order for any length of time to those clitricts asap sin of that other measures are necessary to ocoomplbOt thin object, Ruch as se curity to the tenant against the rapacity of bis I-milord, the coins's don of the waste land cat Ireiond for the hearth of the people, and by the passing of aa measures which will have a tendency to do justice to a long oppressed and persecuted people. The second resolution declared that it was the opinion of the meeting: That the conduct of the government in bringing forward again • Cooreion Bill, in opposition to the declaration of lord Jilin Russell in taking Ales, tbot the time hid arrival what other measures M atelot of coercion ought to be tried for and, after the oppor tunity which they had Lost session to pass measures and ITMOrt con tentment to the starving Irish, merits the censure of all oonentent Inca. lastly, It was proposed that a petition, founded on the re solutions, and praying for extended literal measures for Ire land, be forwarded to Mr. Feargua O'Connor fur presenta tion to the House of Commons, with a request to Mr. John O'i)onnell said Mr. Wokley to support the prayer thereof. LEEDS BURIAL GROUNDS.—Considerable KRIM. lion has been excited in Leeds during the last week or ten days, by the operation of an order receatly made by the town council of Leeds, with the sanction of the Bishop of Ripon, under the authority of • local hir iii grounds act, for preventing any interments in the burial grounds con nected with the parish church after the 30th November last. The order contains no rieereation of the rights of the owners of vaults and graves in those churchyards to inter their dead therein, and it is only now that the order bas come into force that the extent of its operation has been felt as a great grievance. So strong was this feeling preva lent, that before the order had been in force a week a very numerous meeting of grave owners was held, at which a de putation to the Bishop of Ripon was resolved on, with a view to obtain some modification of the order. An attempt on the part of the omucil to procure a similar order far closing the burial ground of the pariah of St. John the Evan gelist having been originated, the grave owners in that parish have taken similar steps to protect their interests ; and on Thursday last both deputations had an interview with the bishop, at the palace, Ripon. His lordship listened is their representations with great attention, during a con ference which lasted upwards of an hour, at the close of which he said, that with regard to St. John's Churchyard, ha would take care to make the necessary reservations if any order relating thereto should be made, and that with re gard to the general parish burial grounds at Leeds, he would take the beat legal advice as to how far he could mo dify or revoke the recent order, without loss of time. MAINTENANCE OF GRANDCHILDREN. — Mrs. Ro berta, of Kirkgate, whose case had been adjourned for a week, to enable her solicitor to advise her to comply with the magistrate's recommendation, to allow 10s. per week towards the support of her deceased eon's children, was again called upon, on Monday last, before the magistrates at Wake field, when Mr. Ramsdell said he appeared on behalf of the overseers, and he h a d seen Mr. Whitham, the solicitor for Mrs. Roberts, who had told him she would not comply.— The bench then made an order for the payment of 10s. per week. CHESHIRE. THE STOCKPORT ELECTION will take place on Monday and Tuesday. Mr. Cobden has issued the follow ing address to the electors of West Yorkshire : Oentlemen,—Hanng been anxious to prevent Le inconvenience of a protracted struggle for the election of my enotessor at Stockport, I have postponed, until the moment when a new writ could be untied, this public expression of my gratitude (or the signal honour you have done me he choosing me In my absence one of tour reprenntatives In puliametiL To have been thu+ returned when a thousand miles distant, without solicitation, by the most numerous and in.. auential constituency of the empire, is probably the highest electoral distinction ever conferred upon a tublic man. Whilst fully appreciating the honour you have one me, I will not conceal tt this double return to parliament b.. imposed upon me a painful task In the eelection of my seat. Although in the unexpected situation in which I found myself on my return from the continent I did not hesitate to recognise your paramount claim to my bumble en-vices, yet in justice to my views of the obligations which sowtitu eneies and their repreeentatives owe to each other I will frankly de. clue that if I had been in England at the time of the nomination of the candidates for the Went hiding I should not have felt juitiled in consenting to sever my connexion with a borough from which I hare received repeated proofs of confidence mad kindness. Tau who have possessed and known how to appreciate faithful representatives will forgive me if !cannot lightly break the bee winch have united me to my termer constituents. I have only to express the hope that at the close of the present parliament LT/ . find that in our political views generally we are as much In sone as we are upon those commercial principles on which you mors, especially pronounced judgment at the late election, and reopening which there is now little difference of opinion amoog.t men of intelligent and unpreju minds.—l have the honour to he, gentle. men, your obedient faithfel servant, RICII.I, COWIN . —London, Dec. 9, 1947. 11,1111 • if SUNDERLAND ELECTIDN.- 1 A correspondent says: " The contest for the expected vacancy in the representation of Sunderland ie likely to be a very severe one, as the liberal party supporting Mr. Wilkinson are found, on the result of the general canvass, to be much stronger than was expected; and the opinion is all but general that he will succeed. Since Monday Mr. Wilkinson has been engaged in calling on the electors, and in every part of the borough his success has been uniform in obtaining promises of support ; and many tories, it is said, will vote for him in preference to his oppo nent, who is locally unpopular, in consequence of his hosti lity some years ago to the formation of docks on the south side of the Wear, mid also from the hostlity he always be fore evinced to the tories in returning one mem ber in their interest. Every effort is tasking to unite the tories against Mr. Wilkinson, but great Rumbas will either remain neutral or vote for that gentleman. The shipowners arc only induced to support Sir Iledworth Williamson very reluctantly on the ground of the naviga tion laws, and even rrith their strong prejudices on this sub ject many of them declare they will nut vote unless it be ne cessary to defeat his opponent. With such cold support Sir Hedworth Williamson has to contend, that even his most devoted followers admit that his election con only be won by the general aid of the tories, and it is expected that this party will at the last not be found to give the extent of sup port which will be requisite to gain the election." DISEASE IN SUNDERLAND.—The Sunderland He rald of yesterday says: " Fever, influenza, and antall-pox still have their victims—the latter happily few. Almost one-third of tne entire community suffer from inSueresa. The disease has assumed a much milder feature in general than it bad on previous viaitations, although its effects are thrown off with difficulty. In each of these lanes which abound iu thii town, where filth finds an undisturbed resting place, fever prevails ; and even in more favoured localities cams are reported. We believe, on the whole, that the dis ease has abated ; but until stringent measures are taken to produce and promote cleanliness there can be no hope of its eradication." TEE LINCOLN PETITION.—The news of the actual presentation of a petition against Mr. Seely's return arrived it Lincoln on Wednesday morning. The prevalent im pression," says the Stamford Mercury, " still is that the authors of the affair calculate upon frightening him into a resignation of his seat ; but it is declared that, if they choose to go before a committee, there the affair sill be fought out to the last, without costing Mr. Seely one single farthing; the means, to the content of 5,0001., were on Wednesday morning furnished by one gentleman, before Mr. S. had had the opportunity of communicating on the subject with any one." Maitxrr Totts.—The Court of the DnehLifthLaa easter has directed that the market - tolls for 'tan • upon the Castle-hill at Lincoln shall be abandoned. e re linquishment of the claim has been obtained through the instrumentality of the steward of the Bail, upon the re presentation to the court that the enforcement of the pay ment of tolls would have the effect of destroying the market, which is a great convenience to the residents in the upper part of the city. CAMBRIDOEBILIRE. APPLICATION OP CHLOROFORM TO A KICII:Dra Howe.—The value of chloroform is now folly established as an anwsthetic agent. Many extraordinary applications of it have been recorded, but none more remarkable than the following: On Sunday eight, as Mr. Garner, veteri nary surgeon, was returning through Cambridge with his hone and gig, he had occasion to alter his harness, for which purpose he stopped; he had scarcely got out of the gig when the horse began to kick in a most terrific manner, to the imminent danger of a lady who remained in the gig, as well as that of Mr. Garner himeelf, who was holding turn by the head. A crowd of persons had assembled, but such was the fury of the animal that no one could render any assis tance. At last the brute threw himself fairly down, Kr. Garner still holding him by the head, and affairs were in this disci:state, when Mr Cox, chemist, apprehensive of the that might ) ensue, poured about a drachm of chloroform hie handkerchief and applied it to the animal's Louth and amnia The furious patient readily inhaled it, and in one labiate became gait* insensible, and to all appearance deed. This allowed the gig and barmen to be moseyed with girdled security, and in shout firs inmates the effeet of the chloroform passed off, the horse got up, shook hiseelf, sad Talked quietly into the stable.