The Express. — London, England, 1847-10-07 00:00:00

Cason that there must be &echoic, possession, as well as oe eepation, by the landlord.=lir, M'Christi• : What ! you NOM to say that all the parties with keys have exclusive perasesion ?—Mr. Smith: Yes.—Mr. M'Cluistis : Then both the landlord and the tenant have exclusive possession. —Mr. Smith ; Yea ; where the landlord does not reside on the premises. The point whieb I want to establish is, that each occupant who hat • separate key of • common door mtot be held to ho f an exclusive occupation. After some further converse. lion the decision of the coact was postponed, and it is pro beds that it ease will he drawn up for appeal to the Court of ' C om mon Pleas.—Henry—HenryFendt, 16, Bridgwater gardens, was objected to by Mr. Brew°, on the ground that he was an alien. He was objected to on the same ground last year, and the oppoeition broke down, because he would not ass urer the question put to dim—whether or not he was an alias, Mr. Arnold intimating his displeasure at the refusal, butoonfesang that he had nopower to commit tor contempt,— Mr. Brown made several fruitless attempt& to extract from the claimant admissions of alienage, asking hint where be was born, how long be had fired in London, where be bad spent the several periods of his life, Ike., all of which questions were met with a stolid expression of face. and the most amusing assumption of forgetfulness.— Mr. WClfrietie himself endeavoured to gain some informa tion, but with no better success, and, as he was of the same opinion as Mr. Arnold with reference to the absence of power to commit, the claimant's vote was necessarily allowed.—Before leaving the court, Mr. Fendt applied fur costs. hut the revising barrister rejected the application, and Mr. Brown, instead of handing over costa, promised that he would contrive to work the secret out of him before next year.--The result of the revision was as follows:—Liberal claims allowed, 5 ; disallowed, 40. Conservative, allowed, 0; disallowed, 1. Liberal objections sustained, 7; failed, 9. Conservative, sustained, di ; failed, 65. Objections by both parties. sustained , ; failed. 0. The court then ad journed until Tuesday next, at 10 o'clock. KARILEBON E.—The barrister was occupied yester day with the Pancras list. The sitting was held in Gordon square, but the parishioners having expected that it would take place at the workhouse, there were only two applicants in attendance. Mr. 1.1 'Getty, the vestry-clerk, applied for an adjournment to the new vestry•room on a future day. The revising barrister said he would correct the list, and hear any claimant who might attend, and then decide as to the propriety of adjournment. The list of claimants con sisted of—East division, 6 south division, 7; north division, 27. The objections, which are all conservative, amount to 269. The claims are made principally by the overseers. Mr. Charles Le Blanc claimed as occupant of the house, 60, Tavistock.speire, he having in February last married the occupant. Mr. Greenwood objected, that Mrs. Le Blanc having herself no vote, could not transfer it to the applicant. After a short discussion, the learned barrister disallowed the claim as not coming within the province of the ant. The overseers' lists were then revised, and some claims, on which no question was raised, having been disposed of, the bar rister decided on adjourning the sitting to the new vestry room, Old St. Pancras-road, at eleven o'clock this day. MIDDLESEX.—The revision court was held yester day at White Conduit House, Islington, where the lists for the Islington and King's Cross polling districts were taken. —Mr. L. Chafey, A.M., claimed on account of property en joyed by him in virtue of his office of second master and usher in the foundation school of Dulwich College, and as one of the fellows of the school. The stipend of 101. a year for each office was charted on certain freehold houses belonging to the college in Playhouse-yard, Whitecroustreet.—The barrister inquired if such • qualification had been recognised at previous registrations.—Mr. Payne Frequently; but as this was a new claim, he wished to amend the description by inserting the numbers of the heuses.—Mr. James did not oppose the claim, but objected to the descrip tion being altered in the absence of the party, or any N7authorised to appear for him—the more so as Mr. a: had intimated that the next would be a lengthened revision—for it was possible this might be one of the cues which he relied upon for his promised opposition.—The ' Barrister decided in favour of the claim as it stood, without amending the description.—Edmund Charles Luard, A.M., of Jesus College, Cambridge, claimed to be registered in re spect of one-sixteenth share of the rents and profits of eleven acres of freehold land situated in White Conduit Fields.— Mr. Payne objected that the description was too vague. White Conduit Fields were no longer fields—they were covered with streets and squares, therefore, it became neces sary to describe the property more particularly.—Mr. James contended that, according to • previous decision of the Barrister's, much a description in the case of a claimant was sufficient. The claim was allowed.—The: court sits to-day at the Sussex Hotel, Bouverie-street, for the revision of the lists of the City parishes. DEPARTURE OF JENNY LIND. —The Swedish Nightingale has migrated. She embarked with her aunt and servant from the Custom-house-quay on Tuesday even ing, on board the General Steam Navigation Company's mail steam-ship John Bull, for Hamburg, en route to Sweden. TItELEIGII CONSOLIDATED MINING COMPANY.— The annual meeting of the shareholders in this company was held yesterday at 57, Broad-street, Mr. 0. 8. Carr in the chair. It appeared from the ?rpm and financial state. meet that the amount of the receipt,. for the past year had been 19,2481.5 e. 4d., and the payments 15,4151. tm. 6d., leav ing a balance of 3.8321. 19s. 10d in hand, to which sum is to be added 9251. 6s. 6d. for ore sold on the 30th September last, making the total amount of assets to be 4,7581. fo. 4d. It further appeared that the present liabilities of the com pany amount to 1,6091_, leavusg a surplus of 3,100/. on the credit aide of the account. A dividend of 61 per share, or 51. per cent. on the paid-up capital, was then declared, being the third dividend of the same amount since the month of May last. SCOTTISII liosrrrai..—A quarterly meeting of the corporation of the Scottish Hospital was held at the insti tution yesterday—The Chisholm in the chair.—The Chair man read a note from the Dake of Richmond, resigning the presidency of the society.—Mr. Noble suggested that The Chisholm should nominate a committee to select a president, a recommendation in which the Rev. Dr. Cumming con curred.—The Chisholm then nominated himself, Mr. Do. naldson, Dr. Cumming, Dr. Dickson Capt. T. Forbes, and Capt. Lamont , as a committee for this purpose.—The Seers: tary was then authorised to solicit the Earl of Dandonald to take the chair on the occasion of the feast of St. Andrew's Day.—This being the business of the day, a vote of thanks to The Chisholm for his conduct in the chair was passed, and the meeting separated. BRITISH PENITENT FEMALE REFUGE.—Yesterday evening, the 18th annual meeting of the friends and sub scribers to this charity was held at the Asylum, Cambridge heath, Hackney, Mr. D. W. Wire in the chair. The re- port stated that at the last anniversary meeting the balance amounted to only 111. 41. 5d., but in the present year it amounted to 801. There was no increase in the annual sub scriptions. These were not sufficient to defray one-fourth of the ordinary expenses, which had to be met by casual supplies. Since the opening of the charity, in 1829, there were 896 females admitted. At the time of the tut report there were 38 persons in the asylum ; since then, 28 hod been received, making a total of 66, who I participated in its advantages during the year. Of these 18 had been sent to respectable situations, 9 bad been reconciled and restored to their friends, 6 bad remained in the asylum at their own request, and 2 had been dls mined for bad conduct, leaving 31 in the receipt of the advantages of the charity at the present time. Several persons bad applied for adrnia;on, but, from want of means, they could not be received. The expenditure for the year was 1,5191. 19e. 9d. The report, on the whole, was cal culated to give encouragement to the friends of the institu tion, and was unanimously adopted. The chairman, the Revs. Mr. Kennedy, Talbot, Viney, and others addressed the meeting, warmly approving the object of the charity. and reoommending it to the support of the meeting and the public generally. TAKING THE VEIL—The ceremony of taking the veil was performed yesterday, at noon, in the Roman catholic church attached to the Convent of Mercy. Parker's. row, Bermondsey. The novice is Miss Fox, a niece of Dr. Fox, of New Broad-street , City. As the convent bell was tolling the hour of 12, several distinguished members of the catholic clergy entered the sanctuary. Upon a given signal the choir struck up " 0 Gloriosa Virgsnuors," when the sisters advanced two by two, preceded by a cross-beam, next the postulants, after them the novice, in her secular dram. After the usual preliminaries, a very Impressive sermon was preached by the Rev. Dr. Wiseman, at the close of which Miss Fox was con ducted to the grate where, kneeling, she was interrogated in the usual form. She then retired, and on her return wore the habit (without a cincture), the gauge veil, &c. Dr. Wiseman having made the siva the cress over Mies Fox, said May the Lord put oa thee the new man," &c. The as sistant having taken the veil from Miss Fox, Dr. Wiseman, holding it over her head placed it over her. Finally, Miss Fox was sprinkled with bely water, end, after another hymn, the procession retired in the same order it entered. CORN HARVEST.—Sir,—The gaunt spirit of failure and distress stalks gloomily and with monster strides through our city, se evinced in the repeated failures which it is your melancholy duty almost daily to record. We have seen with wonderment and sorrow some of the wealthiest dour houses brought to desolation and distress, with scarce a moment's In/D/og, to enable them to meet in any degree their ill timed fate ; and the question naturally recurs to every one : " What and where is to be the end of all this ?" I have myself heard the question put, as the several late lamentable fauns came to light ; but nobody could answer, or, if they did, it was couched in such terms as conveyed but little com fort to those who might have large sums in the mercantile speculations of the day. At that time, sir, neither had I the power of answering the question in any more consoling terms : but for the last three weeks, during which time I have been down in the country, I could not bUt prescribe, what is not, I feel convinced, usually allowed in the City to be the we—vie.: that the seheat crop of this year is not by any means ass average yield. I have my authority from the cultivators of the ground themselves, than which, I believe you will readily great, there can scarce be one stronger. And although the markets of our provincial town' have been for the last three weeks somewhat crowded with sellers (from the necessity the small farmer is under of doing so to enable him to meet his Michaelmas rent), yet, from my owspersonal earriersce, I feel convinced that we shall, erelong, be unde ceived as to the quantity oldie corn in the country.—H. J. BRICKS FOR ROAD PAYEMENT.—lngenuity, says a " Projector," is nearly exhausted in devising improve ments in paving. Almost everything, even India-rubber, his been put in requisition. Bricks remain, however, to be tried for public roads. They might be laid on ond, end need not be more than six inches long. As they would all be exactly alike, the pariours would proceed with wonderful rapidity. Where the road is sufficiently wide, they could do one-half first, while carriages passed on the other, by which the very injurious interruptions to basins:se in our principal streets would be obviated. Probably the Commisatoners of Excise would grant permission, without waiting for • special act of parliament, to make bricks of any size and form, when confined exclusively to paving —The Builder. THE MOST LUCKS MAN IN TIIE WORLD.—The luckiest man in the world is certainly Abd-el-Hader. His great luck consists in being constantly unlucky. He Is not unlike one of those tradesmen who make their fortune by a mice of "enormous failures." He is always " re tiring bom busions " and yet you find him in the same in.: oe years afterwar ds, doing a better trade than ever with Wu M ruinous sacrifices." Whose name, too, has been oftener in th e „90,:ftte, and who has thriven more prosperously upon It? Wh o Imo been oftener put completely under, like a jack-in-the-box, az4 kept down with a force of 50,000 men, an d yet has come up l6,sin stronger than before ? Like the old giant, he seems to h.vo derived fresh strength from each fall. Who, also, has bush more repeatedly killed ? Talk of the at; why, it is nothing , to the lives of Abd-el- Kader, or to his facili ty of array, falling upon his feet. He comes out all the fresher each time of his d yisg, Jut like a piece of double-milled crimson cloth. He has been taken and re-taken more frequently than a Chevalier d'frdsisfrie, and yet he is at liberty again you see , drawing more Mi llen, than ever out of the pockets of the French. How often has he been left without a follower, without a horse! and yet, somehow, he is never so firm as when he has not a leg to stand upon. Da his troops spring out of the earth, from the blood sown by Frenchmen ? Has he only to stamp upon the ground, like Neptune, when he want, a horse, and, lo! • whole troop of them appear ! It is very strange ;—for directly he enters into service with Bugeaud, or any ether Scipio Africanus, direct from Paris, the cry ie instantly "No followers allowed," and yet no servant ever had so many people to run after him. He is he is poor, never so well supplied as when he is most desti tute. It was only yesterday that he was without arms, or an Arab who would hold up a hand for him, and yet to -day he is busy with 2,000 men and no end of arms, in giving Morocco a good leathering, previous to rubbing up Aumsie, and scouring the whole of Algeria so so to get every bit of the French polish off the surface. We should not be sur prised if next week he was killed again ; if so, make up your mind that he is the Emperor of Morocco, at ;set ; but if he is taken prisoner and on his way in • large bird.cage to Paris, do not be astonished to hear that he in quietly at Algiers, with Aumale for an easy-chair, and Pelissier for a footstool. Never was there a man so invariably fortunate in his ill-luck as Abd-el.Kader. Who knows, if Louis Philippe completely annihilates him, bat what we may shortly me him on the throne of France, smoking his ehibouk at the Tuileries ! —.Punch. _ _ . . _ THE CRICKET EXPLOSION.—Upon inquiry yester day at the Judges' Chambers, it was ascertained that the en gineer, Heiman, against whom a verdict of manslaughter was returned in reference to his conduct on the Cricket steamer, had attended on Friday last before Mr. Justice Williams,; at his chambers in Serjeante-inn, and put in bail, himself in 2001., and four sureties in 1501. each, to appear at the next scission of the Central Criminal Court. Re had given notice of his application, and, therefore, no habeas cor pus was necessary, as he was not considered in custody. FIRE NEAR FINSEURT-EQUARE.—Yesterday Morn ing, shortly before 5 o'clock, the police on duty in Chi , . well-street discovered a dense body of smoke issuing over the roofs of the houses near Finsbury-square, and after some time they found that the disaster had occurred in the cabinet-makers' workshops belonging to Mr. W. Atkins, situate at No. 1, Finsbury-etreet. How the fire originated is unknown, but it must have been smouldering for some considerable perixl before penTeived, for ins few minutes after its existence was known the entire building was completely covered with Hamm. Several engines soon arrived, and no time was lost in setting them to work, but they were unable to get the fire under until the workshops were burnt our, and the whole of the stock in trade consumed. Mr. W. Atkins was insured in the Sun Fire-office. INQUEST YESTERDAY.—STEAM-BOAT ACCIDENT.— Before Mr. Carter, the coroner for Surrey, at the Royal Oak public-house, Lower-road, Rotherbithe, on the death of John Henry Boff, aged 15, who lost his life by being run down by the Eclipse, a Margate steamer, whilst on the river in a pkuure-boat with four other persons.—W. Boff stated that the deceased was his brother. On Saturday week, witness, the deceased, another brother, and two companions, named Goech and Strong, hired a skiff from Lower Shadwell-stairs. When the boat bad reached the centre of the stream, which was running down, one of the persons in the a ft part of the skiff said there was • steamer ahead. Witness looked round, but the next moment the steamer was upon them. Witness lost all command of himself until he found that he was under the boat in the water. Could not see the others; but the persons on board the steam-vessel threw out a rope and pulled him on deck. The steamer was coming down very fast Gooch, of No. 19, Mulberry-street, Commercial-road East, &posed that he was in the skiff; and when they were off the Shadwell entrance of the London Docks, wit ' nem heard • shout, and upon looking round found that a steam-boat was coming right on to them at a very rapid rate. Witness could not recollect anything more until he found himself clinging to the paddle-box of the steamer. The skiff was then keel upwards, and had been struck on the larboard bow by the paddle-wheel of the steamer. Would swear the paddle-wheels were moving, but could not say which way ; they might have been reversed at the time. Had every reason to believe that the captain of the steamer had plenty of room to clear the boat, as there were no other vessels in the way.—J. E. Strong, one of the party, saw the steamer coming towards them, and could see the captain waving his hand to them to keep to the left. The course of the skiff was altered in that direction, but immediately after wards he directed them to the right, and the next moment the steamer was upon them. Deceased never rose to the surface of the water. Could net say whether the paddle. wheels were in motion, nor could he state at what speed the steamer was travelling when the collision took place, but she was going at a great rate —The Coroner here said, that in consequence of a very important witness being absent from illness be should adjourn the inquiry for a few days. IRELAND. would epter into communication with the Irish Council," which had Celled another meeting of the Irish ;somber* of parliament an: peers, and whether or not the huh mem bees should call on the peers to ensemble with them. Jt wu decided, alter a long conversation. that the first meets. l S should be fixed fur Tuesday, November 2; that to that council of membtre had been suggested and called be fore the Irish council had taken any steps for a like purpose they should continue is their course, without reference to it ; and that they should invite the representative peers of Ireland to join in their assembly. BALLINAISLOI, OCT. 4.—At haltpast eleven o'clock a de putation train the town of Ballinasloe arrived at Oarbally, to present to the Lord Lieutenant an address. The gent:eaten composing the deputation were ushered into the library, where tus excellency sat. The following address was then read :_ _ . . -- " 1- May it please your Excellency, —We, the inhabitants of Minimal°e acid its vicinity, gladly avail ourselves of this opportunity to congratulate your excellency on your appointment as the representative of her Gracious Mejesty in Ireland, and to convey to your excellency the high esteem in which we bold your excellency's personal character and talents. We hail with very great pleasure the arrival of your excellency among us, at our great annual fair, as an earnest of your excellency's anxiety (by mine-ling with all ranks, from all parts of Ireland, on this hue, occasion) to make yourself acquainted with the most prominent wants of the country, for the pur pas of being able to suggest the moat suitable remedies. Under divine providence, the measures of her Majesty's government, combined with the aid so liberally extended to the poor of this country through the hands of the British Association and the Society of Friends, and by individuals actuated by • like sympathy for the wants of Ireland, have saved many lives, and mitigated much of the sickness and sufferings inseparable from the late visitation of Famine. But, although • good harvest has been recently gathered in, We cannot conceal from ourselves, or your excellency, that the prospects of the country are most gloomy. The measures deemed necessary for the preservation of life, while they di verted the population from industrial avocation, necessarily encouraged the disposition to look to government for assistance at the very time when a spirit of self-reliance was most needed. It shall be our endeavour, as we doubt not it is your ex cellency's desire, to inculcate the duty of independent exer tion ; but we claim at the hands of a paternal government such measures as may conduce to the social improvement of the country, and to the development of its resources—the adaptation of the laws for the relief of the poor to the cir cumstances of the population—the encouragement and pro. tection, by all practicable means, of the long depressed and now greatly embarrassed agricultural interests—the intro duction of capita—the promotion and extension of railways —the improvement of our harbours and inland navigation —the encouragement of our fisheries—a cordial and effec tive co-operation of the Board of Public Works in the drain. age of rivers, with a view to facilitate the reclamation of waste and the improvement of low lands—and a well considered plan of colonisation for our redundant population, We beg to assure your excellency the present time is most favourable for the introduction of remedial measures. Touched by the distress of the times, all men seem inclined to cultivate the charities of life, and only to need confidence in their own resources, to awake from despondency to hope ful exertion. It is in this spirit, and with these hopes, we approach your excellency, and heartily, but respectfully, bid you welcome to our fair. We cannot, however, conclude this address without tendering to your excellency our cor dial coneratulations upon the auspicious event that bas so recently taken place in your excellency's domestic circle, and we pray that the Giver of all good may bless this and all other events that may hereafter be associated with your re collections of Ireland to your excellency's lasting satisfaction end happiness." Lard CLAREN Dom then replied as follows:—" Gentlemen —.I beg you to accept my cordial thanks for your congratula tions upon my appointment to the office which, through the gracious pleasure of our sovereign, I have the honour to hold, and for the flattering terms in which your opinion of myself is conveyed. I am not only anxious, but I consider it my duty to make myself personally:acquainted with Irish men of all ranks and classes, and to learn, as correctly as I am able, the condition, the prospects, and the wants of the country; and in no way could I perform this duty in a manner so satisfactory or so agreeably to myself, as under the hospitable roof of my noble friend, whom to know is to esteem, and at the moment of your great fair—the event which is regarded with so much interest by the agriculturists of Ireland, and which annually draws together so many per sons connected with that important branch of national indus try. It is most st ratifying to me to learn, that in year opinion the measures of her Majesty's government were successful, under Divine Providence, in the object that all alike had in view—to preserve the lives and to mitigate the sufferings of our fellow-subjects in Ireland. The preservation of human life being the first and paramount object, the mea sures adopted for that end, although they were the greatest, and, I may say, the most complete work that a government ever uadertook—for they consisted in first giving money, and afterwards food, to nearly three millions of people—yet they certainly did encourage the disposition, so much to be deprecated, of relying solely upon the government for assistance ; but the very nature of the emergency, at once so pressing and so appalling, rendered self-reliance, at that time, almost • matter of impossibility. Warned, however, by past experience, it is now our duty, each in his respective sphere, to rouse the spirit, and to in culcate the duty of independent exertion; and I cannot doubt that the inhabitants of Ballinaaloe and its vicinity will be foremost in this national work, and will imitate the ex • ample which they have always before them, in my noble friend Lord Clanearty. It is the duty of the government, and you have a right to claim that they should introduce such laws, and adopt such measures, as may conduce to the social improvement of the country. And I trust that you will not be disappointed in the anxiety of the government to meet the wishes you naturally entertain. and more especially upon that most important point to which you have alluded, the adaptation of the laws for the relief of the poor to the circumstances of the population. But allow me to warn you, that the introduction of capital depends upon Irishmen alone : the government is completely power ler in such matters, and so long as capital does not find in this country adequate protection, and consequently the prospect of profitable investment, all future attempts, like many past experiments here, to in troduce capital, must fail—so long as ignorance and pre judice render its introduction dangerous in Ireland—and so long will it be diverted frsm your shores, and seek invest ment in foreign schemes, until experience there, as it has already too often done in Ireland, teaches capitalists that their money is safer at home, with however low a profit, than embarked in projects which, brilliant though they may be in appearance, are in reality unsafe. Insecurity alone has prevented the investment in Ireland of the millions that have been squandered in foreign loans and mining specula tions; but if English capitalists can be convinced that they are safer in Ireland, and that education and example have taught the people better to understand their own true inte rests, you may rely upon it that capital and enterprise win be wanting here. I can with truth, and not as • mere form of expression, assure you that the condition of Ireland engages the mat anxious attention of her Majesty'? govern ment, and that they feel as I do, that the present is a most aided period in the history of this country ; that men of all dames having been brought by a common misfortune into kindly sympathy with each other take a more correct view of common interests, and that well-advised remedial metteares may now be introduced with more than ordinary =sOf elleeeel. I am very grateful to you, gentlemen, o:kind allusion to the event that has recently occurred in my family ; and I assure you that if my son shall here after regaled the land of his birth with the same predilection that I do, and inherit his father's desire to be or some use to Ireland, you will never have cause to disown your new countryman. Immediately after the deputation from the town had re tired, the gentlemen deputed to present the county addrem were admitted to the presence of his excellency. This depu tation was headed by the High Sheriff, Lords Clanearty. Clanmorris, and Dunsandle. The county address ran this : ,' May it please your Excellency,—We, the High bucoli c nobility, gentry, and clergy, of the county of Galway, leg he approach you with feelings of the highest personal rap" and to offer you our hearty welcome to this our WOOER ph AIM. We look upon your excellency's visit to this sem* ras a proof that, not wielding the pomp, but the pram a viessey, you are come to see with your own eyes, and M milk your own ears, the true condition of the people mabialked to your governance—earnestly desirous to enelisests the condition of the country, and to modem the powers of your high °files for the real hese& of Ireland. We gladly express to your excellency, sa ea Baeglish nobleman, our truly grateful sense of the gene rale. sympathy of your fellow-countrymen with our mar- Inge in the put awful season ; esteeming their analliesat tundelbeideas to the British Association and the Sodsty of Friends a far surer index of public feeling than the rapid ravings of a Roebuck, or the insulting inveetime of a por lion of the daily press . That there hes been no beekwurd nese amongst the gentry and the clergy of all deneasinalices in carrying out the relief measures is well known, and the awful catalogue of those who have lost their lives, or have narrowly escaped doing so in their bmudent exertions, is a sad proof that no amount of personal or personal labour has been spared by them it= charging their duty towards their suffering fellow-country men. We thank your excellency, as the head of the govern ment, for their well-intentioned efforts to alleviate the &e -trees ; the emergency was one of unexampled difficulty, and the national advents., at all events, saved much human life, and preserved public tranquillity. Your excellency does not come a mere stranger amongst us. Your previous residenos in Ireland eminently qualifies you to inquire into and esti mate its condition, whilst the need anspiekme additkm of an Irish member to your noble hews% gives Jew an addi tional interest in the land of hie nativity. We, therefore, feel encouraged to lay before you plainly the depressed cam dition of all classes in the community, and to* with eager solicitude to or excellency to avert the ruin now ans. rently impending over all, The failure of the staple food of the people his produced a degree of human suffering, and of pecuniary embarrassment unparalleled in thecountry's annals,. and notwithstanding the enormous expenditure of the relief measures, no class of the whole community has escaped un injured—all are involved in debt—all are struggling be the means of existence—a struggle rendered the man deadly by the monetary crisis which has supervened, and which bars all the avenues of credit. Nearly half the county rates of the last summer levy remaim uncollected. The myelin of former poor's rate are %mussily large, whilst the unions are everywhere in debt. The into reit on bonds and mortgages are unavoidably unpaid— annuities, rents, and all other engagements remain unliqui dated—our product is nearly umnleattke—deenands are flocking in on every side, and law costs accumulating; whilst the community, like a fever patient first rising from his bed of sickness, is scarce able to totter under its ordinary engage ments, mach ler to meet the enhanced rates and imposi tions now so unsparingly heaped upon it. We have no wish to repudiate our debts. As far as our abilities go, we an DUBLIN, OCT. 5 The prices for sheep obtained this year at the great fair of Ballinasloe, the criterion of the prosperity of the farmers of Ireland, do not seem to give much sells- , faction, but are not, after all, less than might have been anticipated, or more unpromising, considering the state of the money interests of the country, than the farmers must themselves have reckoned on. It is even questionable whether, on the whole, the prices of sheep are not, when compared with the price of money at both periods, higher than those of last year. The failure of the house of Mergin and Molloy has had a depressing tendency on liminess ; and there is no doubt that the continued dryness of the atmosphere this year, so very injurious to the grazing lands. has tended greatly to limit purchases of fresh stock at this fair, as the graziers have been unable to " finish off," as it is termed, those on band. I shall instance one cane, within my own knowledge. A farmer, resident within 12 miles of Dublin, purchased last year 600 sheep, at the fair of Ballinasloe. They were " store stock ;" he also purchased 150 heifers. This year his purchases will not surmount 150 sheep and 50heifers. Why? Because some of those purchased last year are not yet in a state fit for market, and because the growth of grass was so stunted this year his lands are not able to maintain the same amount as usual. These causes may, perhaps, not unreasonably account both for the depression in prices and the smallness of sales noticed in your report of the fair. It is time that the payment of " ministers money " ceased in Ireland. It causes perpetual heartburnings, and affords scope for much angry and bitter crimina don which it would be always well to avoid. In Cork, at this moment, the complaints against this payment are very bitter. The rector of St. Anne's parish, in that city, the Rev. Longfield Connor, din trained on Saturday the goods of a number of his Roman catholic parishioners, and proceeded forthwith to a sale. Those persons happened to be very poor— their rating was very small—yet, in many instances, they were totally unable to pay it. The exaction from such a set of persons, though probably due to the claims of the rector, must excite anger, and must convince reasonable men that it would be desirable the legislature should adopt some measure for the abolition of church-rates. An evening journal of yesterday makes an an nouncement of a nature worth mentioning, though one can hardly understand how it can be judiciously realised. The journal is the Erening Herald, and is the organ of a krge section of the evangelicals, cleri cal and lay. It is stated that government is prepared to submit to parliament, at the very earliest period of the next session, a bill whose object will be to repeal alike the Irish Poor-law and the Tithe Commutation Statute, and to transfer the maintenance of the Irish church and Irish pauperism to a common fund, to be raised off the land by a sort of income-tax. Govern ment would, of course, have the management of the unmanageable pauperism of Ireland, a task in which ' it would be the pleasure and the advantage of every landlord to embarrass them as much as possible. Hence, the Herald, a landlord paper, thinks the por tion respecting the transfer of pauper maintenance very excellent, but will not listen to so much of the measure as has reference to the church establishment. MEETING or THE IRISH Idannzits.—There wee a fur ther preliminary meeting of the Irish members to-day, when the following gentlemen attended: Mr. R. Grattan, Mr. John O'Connell, Mr. John Reynolds, Mr. James Fagan (Wexford county), Mr. Alderman O'Brien, Mr. Francis Scully, Mr. John Greene, and Mr. Daniel O'Connell.— Mr. John Greene was called to the ehair.—Mr. John O'Connell read a list of thirteen propositions, forwarded by Alderman Fagan, M.P. for Cork, and which he gave notice he would offer for the adoption of the council on its assem blage. Mr. O'Connell stated that one of those propoeitions was a pledge to obtain the repeal of the legislative union, and ae they had invited the attendance of gentlemen not repealer', the placing of a notice of that nature on their books thus early sight name some embarrassment. It was after some disenadem diesided that the notices should be re ferred for future ermaideration. The council then discussed the beet period for the flret meeting, also whether they anxious and willing to tem, to the last farthing, our just proportions of the Jutland advances. We believe the greet balm of national prosperity are unimpaired, and that, if leniently dealt with, permitted to recover from our present state of prostration, and oar resources judicionely developed, there are ample mean' not only to pay back the nation its advances, but to leave a considerable surplus to increase the prosperity of the empire. But we are convinced that the occupiers of land in Ireland are, at present, utterly unable to meet extraordinary levies, and i f such be now attempted to be enforced they most be so at treat cost to the executive, and such peril of the pnblipeace as may endanger the very frame-work of toddy. We recognise a similar conviction as operating on your excellency in the recent Treasury minute, directing the postponement for a short time of enforcing the Treasury advances. We thank your excellency for recommending such a step, and entreat of you to exert your powerful in fluelum that a sufficient time be given to the country to re view from its prostration ere repayments an sought, and assure your excellency that such a course will entitle you to the nation's gratitude, acd do more to restore prosperity than any other course yon could adopt. We now beg to conclude, by assuring your excellency that you will always find the county of Oalway loyal, peaceable, and industrious, and anxious in every way to cooperate with your excellency's paternal endeavours to develop the resources and promote the improvement and prosperity of Ireland. His Excellency then read the subjoined reply Mr. High Sheriff, my Lords, and Gentlemen,—l thank you sincerely for the kind and hearty welcome you have given me to your province, when I come at an important . moment, and at the invitation of my noble and excellent friend, Lord Clancarty, to perform what I consider to be the duty of one in my situation, which is, to learn, from the men authentic source, the real condition of the country, end to advise with those most capable of giving me information upon the measures that may best conduce to the benefit of Ireland. I thank you, also, fur assuring me—although such an assurance on the part of the nobilit gentry, and clergy of the county of Ordway, caanot be need ful—that you acknow ledge the sympathy exhibited by my countrymen in the dreadful calamity which has overwhelmed Inland. You may, perhaps, not be aware, bat I am sure you will learn with satisfaction, that the amount of subscriptions through the British Association, the Society of Friends, and other channels, exclusive of public grants, exceeded the sum of 700,0001. ; and as no similar effort for a like purpose was at any time, or in any country, ever made, so, I doubt not, you will consider it as • proof that the whole nation did its duty, although no more then its duty, in regarding as an imperial calamity the famine which laid Ireland waste. But ail have done their duty in their respective spheres ; and among the gentry, the ministers of religion, and medical practitioners, there are, indeed, melancholy proofs of the self-sacrificing devotion with which the sufferings of their fellow-creatures have been alleviated. Even if I had arrived in Ireland as a stranger I could no longer have the feelings of one, after the cordiality and kind ness with which I have been received, by all classes and parties; but I have no such feelings on coming amongst you, for time has only continued in me all the interest which a former residence created, and that interest is, if possible, in creued by the recent event in my family . , to which you have had the goodness to allude. I fear, indeed, the melan choly picture which you have drawn of the condition of the country, is by no means an exaggerated one, nor was it possible that a misfortune, unparalleled in history, should not have left behind it the traces of desolation ; and yet we should be disguising from ourselves the truth, of all things the moot important towards future improvement, if we attn. buted the present embarrassments of Ireland solely to the failure of the staple food of the people. It is unnecessary for me to particularise, but you will, I am sure, admit it, that many of the afflicting circumstances to wh ich you have alluded, are of a date long antecedent to the famine, and have their origin in causes quite unconnected with that calamity, the remedy for which will be found in resolute exertion, and by determining without fear, and without vain illusions, to face the difficulties by which, individually and collectively, we are environed. I am very certain that the county of Galway will never repudiate the debts to which its honour stands pledged, and that every effort will be made for the repayment of advances. That the government are fully sensible of the embarrassments which press upon the owners and occupiers of land, and are most anxious to bear leniently upon the crippled resources of the country, is proved by the fact that, as yet, no repayment has been asked for, and that no additional tax, consequent upon the great measures of relief, has hitherto been levied. I am conscious thst the same spirit will, as far as may be pos sible, guide all future proceedings ; but I take the liberty of reminding you, gentlemen, that when we talk of the government, we in reality mean the Treasury, or, in other words, the taxes, mainly paid by the working clas ses;i and that, as owing to the commercial and monetary crisis, now unfortunately of long duration, and to the enormous price of food for many months past, these classes are at present everywhere in a state of extreme suffering ; and as the re venue has, by a natural consequence, fallen off to a great amount, the government, as the gu ardians of the public purse, and bound to watch alike over the interests of the whole community, must necessarily find itself incapacitated from doing all that under more prosperous circumstances it would desire, and would think it a duty to do for Ireland. I feel assured t hat: under your precepts and example the county of Galway will always be found loyal, peaceful, and industri ous. I thankfully accept your offers of co-operation, and I shall always receive with pleasure any advice or opinion you may favour me with towards our common object of develop ing the resource, and promoting the prosperity of Ireland. His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant, after receiving the addresses from the town and county, went through the Raciepark, and appeared delighted with the immense flocks of sheep—he was accompanied by Lord Clancarty, and seve ral of the distinguished visitors at present stopping at Oar belly. His excellency afterwards rode through the town on horseback, accompanied by Lord Clancarty. SCOTLAND. EDINBURGH, OCT, 5. , Resisting all claims to Lowland regeneration, tke central board for Highland destitution are to restrict themselves to their original intention of relieving Celtic penury. They have issued an elaborate report, which was duly discussed at a general meeting held yesterday, and the above conclusion was all but unani mously agreed to. The report may be given at full length, as the declaration of a body whose proceedings have often been called in question. fraud, and wilful imposition," any . usage of the coffee trade notwithstanding. The curious point in this argument is that those who use it should ever have had &doubt that wilful adulteration is a misdemeanour; and that the doubt exists is shown bv their commisera tion of the culprit of the meal adulteration. To cheat the poor by . retail is too much a matter of course to be thought immoral ; but why the conviction of Bannatine—who cheated the starving by wholesale— ! should have excited the ire of even his coadjutors in trade, it is difficult to understand. His crime was, in its intention, manifestly so wide a step beyond the every-day chicanery of trade as to have been calcu lated to sharpen the dullest sense of morality. In principle, however, the offence was no worse than the petty frauds of retail adulterers, who deserve equal punishment. Fever in Glasgow has decreased 32 eases last week, the number of houses cleansed being 190. The Gorbals inspector, however, fell a victim last Sunday. The water company, eager for its rates, grumbles at the water abstracted for the quenching of fires, &c., alleging that only 20,090 of the 100,000 families composing Glasgow pay them dues. They claim com pensation for the water given to the poor through the public wells, and also for what is used for drain age. Crime has elicited the curious sanitary fact that the well-packed College Churchyard in Glasgow is used as a bleaching-green, a local paper stating that a thief lately cleared the yard of a quantity of clothes that were drying. Petitions are being sent from the west to suppress premature herring fishing at Ballantrac. The peti tioners state that— For years pan they have observed and experienced the *Leming defalcation of the Sabine at every station where the herring need to be obtained In myriads, which falling off they ascribe to the Oestrus tire flatting which Is annually tarried on at Ballantrae Badge, where the herrings resort in the wing; and while in the act of spawning, or in a sickly state, are, by the cupidity of stranger flehermen, caught, and thereby millions of spawn are destroyed along with the mother ash; so the. if the present system la allowed to go on for a few years longer, it will not only yearly diminish, but will be totally extirpated In the space of six or eight years. They further state — That there are from 1,400 to 1,500 boats at present engaged in the herring fishing in the wait of Scotland, each beat and nets averaging from Out. downwards, with a new each of four men ; and that this capital will be almost totally lost, and the fishermen, many of them bung old, will be thrown upon the charity of their oeuntrymen, unless some legislative enietnicut interposes, to prevent the Oestrus. tion of our national inherit.. They refer to the acts for the protection of game and salmon, by prescribing the respective seasons for shooting and fishing, &c., and conclude, that unless an act is speedily passed to protect the herring fishing in the same way, in a short time the went coast fishing will be amen the things that were. latex PIRACY.—On Saturday the schooner Elizabeth and Mary, laden with oats, from Limerick to Glasgow, arrived at the Tail of the Bank, and reported that she had been boarded when off Blackeod Point, west of Ireland, by a ban ditti of from seventy to eighty fellows, who forcibly took away from 16 to 20 tons of the cargo. RAILWAY ACCIDENT.-011 blandly kW a mason, residing at Saltmarket, Glasgow, was killed by a train upon the Garrikirk Railway. Deceased and other five men were em ployed in building a wall about a mile and a half distant from the station. 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He remembered seeing him strike i ha ta...nere Pen essilladaheestendndedr_flallie oo __chithres t h ere the deceased about a week ago last Thursday, about I ze ttot.. h.` I,...afedefelmi imsiiiiik ehliwee thedukiw ittikallefr om et k rZ olt •""% o w e p i ied, 'x' g 3 ot o'e t l i: o t ek fro i to a the morning . m bt o d r7in a g o . d A ma t de tha so t m t e im d e istu ieewed rbence. eel sees•imaid e.. ... oBolBl . k et e . a lle ....Pm* 'ea. bur...." .sedan Birthi ll asked him to go to bed but be would fetched the whip, which he used about j = 4, 1 0 of.", new Dud ‘ ,...0 s e w an that the not ; and u: o ld then he got hold of the small end and sk i m hi e the trust ersil la don bi g thealledbason. deceased's lege, ' 'ld *M u t lle 1 0 111 . 11 bilmoNam , relbtellNl th e ..., laid it about his ribs rod back. Deceased had then only his r_p_.,___ mpi. ___..e.....?,1-...b, 1i tr,,=.. ; shirt on. He got ioto bed and screamed out murder, upon .7”..ar imemere mara da r t retn.l7...... -- .7.1 ......... e n e d which fireball placed a sheet over his mouth to prevent him ' to &dm se s s o m a s d id k - 7,„, a m ile to eMakeld ardstaete doing so. On the mor..sieg following he saw that the akin =elia year, views MMEtam Mom which the was of deceased's shouldes . .blade, and it looked much in nod was to peewit The aggregate balances of the Glitegtite and Edin- da fla y m m e tr — ni ß u Y g th un e drr n si n m e i r la ' r a circuu . sew- ü ß tan ire ces hsi . l b l ta h t ere him was on n B o " oc: He said that he had burgh sections amount in round numbers t. 114 , 0001 . roca'2i"nhwt:f:hrmeßiehreithatl:. s t ri king him. d r ived W orde a rs t t th oTring he d Ai n p o . t ga l, Of Uhl troop of the Glasgow section the Clydes dale Bank allows 5 per cent., and efforts are to be woman nurse came into the hospital regularly to look over. made to induce the Union Bank to allow similar He remembered her inquiring about Rothwell's being beaten interest on the funds of the Edinburgh section. the second time. She asked witness and fireball how he had Some of the Glasgow merchants are wrath at the gotten a black eye, and Birchen and witness said be Lad conviction and sentence of Mr. Bannatyne, and f e t t r ` a t Pars:llling. note t d t l e t be no d it st .. o 1 11 keon troy, for dwell on the hardship of the peccadi ll oes of one fear o g t Birchen. fireball was always very kind to the sick branch of trade being exposed and punished, while paupers when the female nurse came in.—Some ether evi like usages prevail in other professions, and which deuce was adduced, principally of a corroborative sharaeter. are notoriously suffered to pass with impunity. Thus That of Mr. Harrison, governor of the workhouse, was fa bakers sophisticate their flour, sugar-refiners aeul- st oo l :le had never known his to to a t. : terate their stn le commodity ; and so on, ad sic- :f u s e ICin o a r d h ispo h a l ir ,B n bst . '2 . t Mr. Sn e ape, surgeon , said he the finilum, it might be said with truth that the deceased on Tuesday i week. His complaint was dysentery. monster public is extensively cozened with He appeared to be a man of imbecile mind. He observed, fraudulent mixtures. Nor are humble traders alone' two or three days before his death, a skin wound a little guilty. " Early this year," says the Mail, " a noble i below n the t cheek bone, wh ich was attended with a black eye. duke negotiating with a shipowner for tho transfer of a, ' am ee inati e on of the d lody, eath an i d ae he h" attribute e : hisedmeaatr tens h to so many human beings to a distant land, endeavoured a e severe attsek of dysentery. He had also a chronic disease to beat down the price, by suggesting several of the membrane of the brain; the latter disease was one of articles as substitutes for ordinary food of eo long standing. There was not sufficient disease in the head inferior a character that the shipowner de- to seo d o e u r ntor a death, but there was in the body. He did not indeed' was 11l b n e ets b ezu t000:se very s to to o th to e de clined the arrangement." The essence of the consi der ; that use Bannatyne crime, according to the Lord Justice violence of any sort towards him. The j v ur r y y retur!d a ver- Clerk, consists in the delivery of goods inferior to the diet that deceased "flied of dysentery." Several of the jury sample be shown to a family at a certain price, and furnished. Therefore, if a specimen of pure expressed themselves in strong terms at the conduct of the Mocha nurse, fireball, and desired that he *koala be at once re moved from his peat. We learn that this was don. by the the supply . afterwards be found to contain .. n .chicory., workhouse committee the day pr, y I ow* . the dealer is liable to be dealt with for f a l se h ood, , _ YORKSHIRE. STEAM-BOILER EXPLOSION AT HOLBECK.—Yester day, Mr. Blackburn, the coroner for Leeds, held an inquest at the Commercial Inn, Ho{beck, to inquire into the circum stances which led to the deaths of John Newton and Harriet Harrison, at the time of the explosion of a steanzengine boiler, on the premises of Moan. Smith, Beacock, and 'fan nett, machine-makers. A great deal of evidence was taken, and the coroner having summed up the case, the jury, after a short consultation, found a verdict that the deceased were accidentally killed by the explosion of a steam-boiler, which explosion arose from a deficient supply of water. The jury added to their verdict a recommendation that in future the boiler should be supplied with water by a common feed-pipe, and not by a force-pump. LYCENDIARISM, 1001. REWARD.—Yesterday the metropolitan police received information that on the even ing of Friday last some person or persons wilfully and ma liciously set fire to some farm buildings and a number of corn stacks, which were destroyed, belonging to Mrs. Re j been Hand, of Toyaton , near Spilsby. The Yorkshire Fire and Life Insurance Company idler 1001. reward for the dis covery of the offender. CIIF.BII.IRE. TIIE PLATE ROBBERIES AT STOCEI•OT.T.—Mr. J. Howard, silversmith and jeweller, of Corporation-street, Manchester, who stands charged with having received at venous times large quantities of plate, supposed to be stolen, was brought up on Friday at the Kuutvford Sessions-house. The only witness examined was Win. H. Ellis, a prisoner in Chester Castle under sentence of transportation. He entered into a detail of the numerous robberies—principally of plate —in which he had been concerned during the year, while following the occupation of a chimney sweep. A large quantity of the stolen property he had sent to hui aunt, Ann Mignon, end be had accompanied her several times to Man chester where she sold it. He described the facts connected with those transactions with the utmost minuteness. He spoke in particular of going to a shop facing Market-street, where his aunt left a basket containing some stolen plate, and subsequently called again with the witness. Ile says " The master came out, and said one-ball of it (the plate) is marked all over, and it would take him two hours or more to sort it out, and we must come again in about two hour.. He was a dark-complexioned man, in a black sunout, black cloth trousers ' and a bat. We came again in about two hours and a half. She went into the shop; it was then dark, about seven o'clock at night. I stood on the alp, but could not see into the shop. She stayed about five or ten minutes, and then came out. She gave me then three or four sovereigns ; we then went home. I never saw the person who had the silver more than once. He had black whiskers at the side. I think I should know him again. He would stand very near six feet. I have not seen him since. [The different persons in the room were here tusked to stand up. They consisted of the magistrate, his clerk, Mr. Hud son, and Mr. Needham, ealiciter to the prisoner; Mr. Joha Davies, of No. 1, Irwin-street, New-road, Man chester ; Mr. Sadler, superintendent of the Stock port police ; and a constable, and the hall-keeper of the castle.] I point out that gentleman (pointing to Mr. Davies), as something the name height. lam not certain it is him, but now I look at him I think he is very like him. I think that is him. He is not dressed in the same clothes. I believe the person I saw had black whiskers. (Mr. Davies's whiskers an black at the bottom.) He had his hat on when I saw him.—(The same parties were here naked to put on their hats. The prisoner was placed in a line with them, exactly as before, the witness being out of the room, without communication. On his return)—l think that is the man (pointing to Mr. James Howard); I am vire that 'is the man, but he has bad his whiskers shaved off. I be lieve him to be the man. I may be mistaken. I should be sure if he had his whiskers on. He is dressed in the same manner. Ido not know, even now, that any person is in custody for the silver; I have had no communication that any one is in custody.--(This, in consequence of some doubts raised by the prisoner's attorneys as to the knowledge of the witness.) I never went with any more silver, ray aunt took all the rest"— The ease was adjourned until the following day, when Ann Higson made a tong statement, in the course of which she said, " William Sisson Ellis told me he had got some spoons," and I asked him, " Where have you got them ?" He said, " That is my business, and not yours." He said that I must sell them; and I said I did not know where to sell them ; there was nobody in the town here [meaning Stockport] who would buy such stuff; no silversmiths here, and that I could not sell them without I went to Manchester to sell them; And he said I must .foe them there, then. I agreed to take them there; I went alone. That was the first time. I called at two or three places. I called first at a watchmaker's going down to Market-street, on the left-band side, below the public-house near the fish MILL near the Crescent, past Rutholme.lane ; in Bank Top it was. It was down on the left-hand aide, going up steps, There is a fish stall opposite. I went in to ask a young ma I saw there what they gave for old silver; and he told me 4s. Bd. I had the silver in my pocket. I came out, and left the shop, and said I would come again. I bad three table spoons in my pocket ; they were broken; I did not notice whether there were marks upon them. The bowl was broken off two of them, and one was bent double. I could not tell how they were broken. I did not show them to the young man. I came out, and went down Bank Top, an to Piccadilly. I called at • shop there ; one part was a silversmith's, and the other part had toys in the window. I saw there a man and two young women, and I spoke to the gentleman who sat at the back of the counter. I asked him if he bought old silver. Ile asked me to let him look at it. I took it out of my pocket, and he had it in his hands and looked at it; and he came round the counter, and said he would go and find some stuff to try it, whether It was silver or not. He left the spoons on the counter, and went out of the shop; and I stood • bit, and the young woman kept looking at it; and I mid, " He's a long time." I took it up, and said I would send a person that that belonged to it, for I felt uneasy. Shesaid to me, Stop a bit, he's , coming;" but I mid, • I'll send them;" and I took up the spoons and left the shop. I went nee straight down Market-street, and into a corner shop, a kie 1 of little earner shop, a new shop, a kind of new building o the right-head side of Market-street ; it just faces you as you come down. The door enters into the shop from the street turning down to go to Shudebill ; there is no door into Market-street. I went into that shop, and I saw a person I thought was the master, that I expected was the master, and a young man rubbing the windows. I asked him if he bought old silver, and he said yes ; and I asked him what he gave. lie said 4s. 6d. I gave him the same spoons I had Milt the shop in Piccadilly. Here the witness was removed from the room, and Mr. Cop pock (the town clerk) said he was going to ask a question as to her identification of any person th ere. He would request that all the gentlemen present who stood up with the pri soner would have their hats on. [The ,witness being intro duced when a number of gentlemen were standing in a row with their hats on, and Mr. Howard in the midst of them, she was told to identify Mr. Howard, on which she went up to him, and said, " You know me, Mr. Howard; I am sorry to say it, but you do."] The meditation of the witness, Ann Iligson, was then resumed : I did not know his name at the time. When I gave him the three table spoons, broken up, into his bands, he took and weighed them, and he paid me a sovereign and some odd silver. I said I thought they would have come to more; and he said, " You should get some of these little scales and weigh the plate before you bring it." He showed me his weights, what sort they were, and he asked me where I brought it from, and I maid those that gathered such like stuff travelled with a basket, and swapped it for geode. He asked me what the name was, and I told him James Hallam. I told him I lived in Demote:M. He said, when I did bring any more, if I saw anybody in the shop I most not take any notice, b ut put it down—put down what I had to bring upon the counter, and go out about my bwiness, and to come in again. The conversationT w his itneNten un too tta k p y lare ario tts time rmi lonawanot..77bih witaas Oa PINNOMIMI Minas. maw 4.......... _ ihe lad soil pito, laimi dm kid maw' froajki., to Mr. Halm{ deoriffikel rimy skomismo with oonaider- a s t c le k min pon utemem poth.. de JA il eallar ea w 1... .... , .. . 2 en 2 t of the ••• • nd Se t lan, I went with . . . f °Tenn- tendent of pollee, NanitleNT. an Oh.- •., A• James Howard, jewaller end '• '•y '• • 4 e" ri. of Market-atm% Maltabllolar.>: dal* 1: 8 1‘ r l'' "n now er prod a""n uce, nantel7 l". . • 7 ' 4,ot' •-. .. tit te of -spoon from Mr. J ......„, ..• _ January, 1847; tete ell - :II ... ~,,... , :ba r I : Watts, on the 20th el M op . .. 4,,,,T -e epooss, four silver malt epoten . , and throe plated egg spoons, frOnnlnt. • ~.uneon, of • a'. THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 7, 1847. PROVINCIAL. REPRESENTATION OP SOUTH LANCASHIRE.—TwO parties are spoken of as successors to Mr. Villiers, if he should resign his seat for South Lancashire. The one is Mr. Alexander Henry, of Manchester, a gentleman of great wealth, and a supporter of free trade ; the other, Mr. Chas. Townley, of Townley, the brother-in-law of the Earl of Sefton. THE LIVERPOOL Docge.—At the usual monthly meeting of the Liverpool town council, held yesterday, a recommendation was read from the dock committee, to the effect that the council should apply in the neat session of parliament kr power to borrow 300,0001., to construct addi tienol warebenose around the dock. at Liverpool. Mr. J. B. Moore, the chief of the dock committee, stated that not withstanding the reduction of 13 per cent. in the dock dues recently made, the revenue exhibited no lose, as the traffic had increased to a corresponding amount. The only docks round which it was at present proposed to build warehouses were the Prince's and the new dock at Wapping. A die emotion followed, in which the general opinion appeared to be that 300,0001. was not sufficient effectually to carry out the object. The principle of the recommendation was ap. proved of, but the amount deferred for future consideration. THE SHAKSPEARE FCND.—The proceeds of the theatrical pordtemance in Liverpool in aid of the fund for the Cligiet Ilbakepeare's house, amounting to 711., have s tranwnitted to F. Cunningham, Esq., treasurer of the London committee. TRADE IN BUENLET.—A local paper says it is cur rently reported that abort time is about to be commenced at neartj all the wise mills in Benley. One firm is said to have gives **bosh nodes le stop altogether, and several others are abase le ran only three days in the week. But for the somperathedy ire prise et previdons, the pros pects of the peer of this atigklmarboodbr the ensuing winter are:: pteemp sad dagrealai. Truly they may be said to be the piles harvest of prosperity consequent upon the weeperming silks " blessings of tree trade. " It is also sumetteed - Omit a emwdderable reduction of wages is in cos. We r il = WAS POUND DEAD oat Saturday morning last in a dad in Latchford. He was an Irishman, and (pike unknown in the neighbourhood. No marks of violence were found on him, end it is conjectured that he either fell from the causeway into the field below, or that he lay down to sleep, and from some natural canoe died. INCREASE OP PRESTON POOR RATES. The Blackburn Standard says: "Such is the pressure upon the office for relief, in consequence of the short time or no time at many of the mills, that the next six months' poor rate is expected to be 2a in the pound. This is a great increase Own 6d. or Bd., as formerly." CHARGE OF THROWING VITRIOL.—At the Staly beidge petty sessions, en Monday, Edward &clan a qua* &atm, was brought up, charged with having thrown a quantity of vitriol upon Henry Buckley, beerseller, Staly bridge. The complainant and some other persons were in a public-house, when the prisoner came in, and made known his profemional abilities in curing corns. Some of the com pany engaged the doctor. He accordingly went to a drug gist's shop, and brought back a small phial containing the cure-all. Having operated upon the corns of one of the party, he clumped a shilling. This was considered too much ; the "deist , ' however, persisted la having his fee, which led tis ems Ingienondseee miff the moult was, that be emptied the antenes et the belie upon Beicley's bask. Shortly efterweede fteidey hit a lownlag wessiden, end en calling the etewetien of Vire prime to en whet was the matter, they food a hone Irk barged though Ids coat, waistcoat, eel shirt ; his - back was also adbeered. The pri mmer was indeed to pew de. damage to VIN abetwa, a line of to. and cioala, ar be owamdtted for emo seenth. The money was paid, inliellating in ell to 11.75. hi. ILL-TIJIATNicvr OF A Ett7Pl*—On Friday an in w et. ea view of the body of a pupa inmate of the Bolton Walibenoe. aimed John Rothwell, god 7 2 , was held 161 b 8 sbee sib alese. loan J. Taylor, Esq. The inquieltiom win Is. k oloweglenee of a rimer having bosom yo ener lost that deseeeses death had bow aimed by Iwamoto. J. Ramon, inmate, mid he knew On deearsoL Be was a healthy . man, tut of weak intellect Ks emmatiered him going into the hospital last Thursday hat ewe. Bs was then afflicted with the dysentery, and wasattended V ia th ry s Burgeon, Mr. Snipe. He knew that • man nomed