The Express. — London, England, 1848-06-13 00:00:00

one farthing on the first threeshalfpenee, and rising a farthing on each additional thres.halfisence, or a tar amounting to ono hitch of the selling price, which I should prefer to a t oat aboli ion. on account of the cone. nienee of eireulatirg throu stgh the Post odic°. The scale 1 propose would therelore and thus, Eric: of piper. Stamp. tot. :id. ........ id. 4,d. ed. And so o n, advancing a farthing for each three-half core; intermaie price paying the duty to which the ni xt higher would he liable. I enn convinced • rise like this would add cionhederatty to the revenue." Tft.sOittrlDC I.IGIITOOOSE.—A plan, with sag ryt,,,,t, for • telegraellic lighthouse, has lately been pre tented tog...vermin at by Mr. 0.-urge Wells, of the Atli:Muddy. M r . W e lls points out the num, roan accidents that search hhve thount. red, owing to the mistakes at mariner% as to the distance and position tot the ',trend lighthouses on our coat , end eta:es that the great to ylctions to those which now exist art, first, their untie cites:try eh section ; secondly, the mitres priett eta coli•und wield% cannot be disuogutshe i n f o ;gy w. tither ; nu.l thirdly. the general in ullicieney of the lid' t. mid its similarity in appearance. To oh. elate these di.a.vattt.igee, Mr. Wells proposes thst :0 the existing ltphthou•,a Dour or more cite ular apertures should he cot lost be low the 1 t•ite ro, nod the olwmn.s fitted with glazed r otten of mineral elute glas., wi:h the iniciei 1. tier tit the partieuLtr. lighthouse painted in an opaque colour thereon, the light being so r li. mid as to render the un• glass tracery:lei-tit, and thus exhibiting the lett. r itself ia bbl r, lief. It is also suggested that, in constructing new liOnhousere, it wicsl t be better that they should not be carried to the pre.ent altitude, as the nearer the light is to the let e! of the eve the 1. se probability would exist as to any misteke in the die thee of it. INQU EST YESTERDAY.—SUICIDE OF A GENTLEMAN or PicorwitTY —ltetore Mr. 0 Mills, at the Dull awl Lest Taver lie ntish Town, on view of the body of W. T Smith, Es 1., aged 51, of Grove Rouse, Kentish Town Mr. It Stitieh, • t eldt •w of the deceased, mid that his untie held a skewed,' in the office of affidavits to the C art et Chancery. but owing to an attack of para. lysis 1. el not performed his duties for many mouths p lost a w a s attacked • *emend onto, and let the use of the +hole of one ride, his speech awl lot nee b2ine into , re 1 by it. For this he was attended be Mr J. Smith, anotteer nephew, mid Dr. Borrows, and although it was deelo d necrw.ary that ha should be weds:heel nd re straint wha ever wat place d upon him. Prior to the att .ck he wan v than' t m it cats eel id temperament. Twelve months hack, i ciinsequirtme of stunt tont robberies in the neighb arho al of Kvitielt Town, the deceased di. need Ins servant, a men named Knowle, to re-laid some fire-ante, which ho constantly kept in his Teem Amour them wise b.u.oierhus., which was loaded, by dieectial of the thicelsed, with slugs. 0.1 Thur.by morn ing saw hint -al, iu boil about nine ifel. k, and shortly alter heard the r•-port of lire-armh pr ,cetti from Mt uncle's timen. lie, with th *seventh, went .o the spot, but found the dior t istened. A Lodi r was procured, acid, on ttrchig it. titranee icy' the aindtiw, the demi:4,d w bound lying upon the fi .r M.. ding frOill a wound in the low. r part of th- stomach, and the blunderbuss by his it le, lie was ally. and sensible, teid said to his nep'.ew that he mug have hren ii.sane when he did it. Monett aid we., initue diately resorted to, bat sa of no avail, the deceased ex piring soon after. 1i ,w the deceased could have Maillard to are age the blunderbow, the whole of one sid•• rat him being perfectly uselesh, could net b • explained.—The jury returned a verdict, '• Tnst dens.-. 1 died from the effects of a WOW d inflicted by his onus hand, he beiug at the time en an use *pupa state of mind." GOVERNNIEN r DEMONSTRATION AGAINST CilAlt mu. As we annouum d yesterday, great preparations were m ode by the Neurone-tit to prevent meeting. which were , eihe na to b e h e ld in ', t eeny, parte of the ne tropolie. Military, armed police, and pensioners were pewee in each toe-alit) in formidable erre, ; but the apereeended charm( demonetretion did nnt take peter. No symptom of cha mber...• stowed itself in ant. port of tne town, although i• was Whit Menden. Suinjoineet are tee accounts of our re porters ot the stale of ,a h of the localities to wnich appre hension sea. most directeel. BISIIOI. BONNER:6 FIELDP.—Fmna an early hour the den•x as nnt t is neteeb nerieuned evinced their anxiety in re ference tee tine steppe* d inueem••nt by el wing their tesprtive houses of buses.... By an aluve.t app. rent C Ulra.WC sent even the .publte lioeses in the vicinity were cloned, and upon tin ue of them aneouncemenes ware m ede in rude clar ractere, in cribed in clie.k, use tee proprietors did not men to open. in tut, the utmost consternati preveined in the neighbourhood, end Inept and deep were the execrations pour. d tortb by the small shopkeepers and eradeamen .n couneelennee of thine futile and unwarranted interferenc • Kitt their ordinary trad and mac. Soon ere!. 10 o'clock a nuterner of id.: bile, some few whets, act, es ueuel, A sprinkling of women, app &rod on the arena, but this tone:owe. , never exceeding in number 300 to 400, retired on the riVearinell of a seuldron ot the Lee Geode, who suberpteutly t olt rap their temporary roarters in Gardener. Bare. in the Orove-end.road, re oily t . ) eel shined coy em. enrolee calling fer their reappear ince arise. They we e speedily follusreni by a force of 80 o the mounted col c who adopted as 'heir centre the entrance to the hew church niediceted to St. James the Lem, which we believe lorninee toe object en` nitwit on a termer suesemelage. This force e• nnou iuded the southern tide of the greund, while other par a of the field were held by the eubjeined distribu tion of the civil I tee armed with cutlasses,—Of the K divi a en on the RAVt p lean p lice there were mustered, tied. r Sup. rietendent q•eard, We men; ot the N division, 40u men, under Sale nnteudent Johnson: of the M &venue, 203 wee, tinder Mr. Sep. rev Indent Evans, and of the II division 1.50 noon, n .eier Mr. Superintnndent Mettle tt. Tae whole civil loom dAy wile under the command of Cape Bee, the a-sistant pulic • commissioner; and we noticed on the grimed the fellowitie niece inaeistrates Mr. Se , ker, of the S ,uthwark Felice Court; Mr. Arnold, ot Wershipotre t, and the Hon. 0, C. Norton, of the Lambeth I'. lice Court. Senn nate r 11 u' le k em elt 400 of the armed Batt don niche Chelsea pensioners matched on to the ground lei It their haver-aek•, a d in fuel marching order, and wry occupied as a temporary narrecks—the Betnnaligreen union workhouse. All remainied tranquil, and the Bishop's fields only afforded space fir a few idle stragglers, attracted to the spot more by the police and the military (Ripley then from any political feeling. Shortly before two o'clock we un•terstand th it tome or the leaden in the chartist movement clime on to the gr mad, and, as may he aLlptptsed,were astounded by the formidable di-play of The eic torce reedy tor thetr reception. '1 reversnag the fields, en we were, it is impunsinle to answer for the occurrence in each corner, but we hove been tee' that a colloquy ensued be 'wren Dr. eleDuuell, wh wish other chartist Leaden, ap peared en the emend, tt this elf ct : Dr. WI/email, guldens mg one of the in-peewee of the K division, inquited it the 'need- g would be allowed to be held. Tho orticer r plied that it week! not. Dr. el•Deuall then sail he must see a magistrate ur one of the prinicipals of the force. On his way be met Mr. Supeantendeut Johnson, ur the It division, and that ntleuian assured ben that every me ens would be taken to di perse the meeting.—Dr. el•Douall thanked him for the intimation, and teed "Then we must oe about, it." lie uteri sent a messaee to Mr. Arnold, the pulic • tuagistra•e, arid re en iced the same pest lee answer, Dr. M•l4 and hi, blends then departs with a mob of begs and idlers alter them, end it was undermeount that they tad abandoned the idea In balkg the dennonsti anion. '1 liree o'clock, the hour amounted for the mei ling, had already elapsed, and no ap pearance of the promised demonstration exhibited it , elf. Fo tusentely, however, ales at lour o'clock a thuneerstorm with Inc vy rain, served to do more by a clearance of the green than even the strong police and military force coull have effected. We tell the •` Bi-hop Bonnier'. Fields" at six cee..s k, and tall was quiescent save the , lemente. Sexes GY•OREE r. aching this place we found it al most deserted. On inquiry em angst the residents, we were iafermed that no metunnt war expected in that locality. The preparations for arc Whiteun fair were going nnn as usual. When those were completed, there was an lathe* of holiday makers, about as great en is usually seen on a wet Whit- Ronda*. Insets oron•GHEEN.—The only persons on the green, from hal -oust 11 no half pest three, were three mimeo, the wenerman to the alt-stand, and our reporter. CLERKENWELL-ORKEN —ln consequence of a nanny , whist we, curren'ly circulated hod week, that the cheriente had selected Ci, rkenwell-green as one of their place.. of meeting to-day, evens ye preearations were made by the auherities for the preservation of order in that local' y. A large hely of the metropolitan and mounted polic. force (upwards of 800 in number), and three • rev' of the L,te Ouerdr, were stationed in the immediate neigh. bourhirel, at p into whence their services could he made tweeted' , at a minute's notie3. No meeting, however, was held there, nor did any occurrence requiring the interven tion • f even a single policeruna take place during the day. Smarts atter 11 o'eloce a troop of the Lite Gni tide m r :hi d on to the green, where they re Mainell mr about an I.bur. As it was tenuous that their presence was then unnreese ity, and Ita4 the effect of ad ecting a group of starers, composed princip lly of women and chibiren, they returned to their quieten, end did not make their appearance again during the eq. CURREALAND MARKET —This tierce wee appointed by the chartists as one of one -pots on which a d in nnstra• ion in favour of the People's Charter woe to heve taken place, and the re ecleary precautions were accordingly adopted by the wither ti. ne. At halt-past 2 o'clock, the appointed hour fee the girding to be hale, there were not hilt a dozen people on the seen, nor any attempt se. aes.mblage or a meeting of any kin.. tin rente limit the day. HtoHcate —lt was re ported in the eternoen that a large eniarusta had taken up a commanding position in this pe Ariel hamlet, and, cun-equently, that the 1 Call &Who re, had -eft off lee xpr, se ter the aid of the military f,r tle it dolidgment. On pen nnal inquiry, however, we cannot this intelligence, an at 4 o'clock everything presented its true' miet character, the only obstruction hi long the rain, which n, II in such newton in to carry everything before it doer. the "hill." Islington, lligbbury, Holloway, and von Wiiivington's atone, however, appeared unmoved and where the demonstration occurs , d of any such took pier)) wee not a-ctelainalde. It es perfectly true that Were w, ra are. el men nes.rvable en the road at intervals, rustics with phyla .eke, but who ac. minted for the potoessi et of thane for midehle anon by atat•ng that they were haymakers. BLACKHEATH.—Up to three onlock it was expected that ageiliering of the chiertista would take place at Blackheath. la the ruler part inf the day, however, no appearance of try poe• ice' asee.aleage took piece, nor hefore three did any this g like such a me. ti, g appear upon the spacious sward. Sundt, fib. passed the Orem Men Inn shortly before the beer et' three iu the • ieettion of Le sesha n, but just about that •inse the rain heron ti fall, and if any demonstration was inteeded it ie q..ite certain that up to nightfall no nuctiene took place. Odors connected with the Boyar tillety at Woolwich iteoured the ground, but happily their services were not required. All the men in the Arsenal and at the dockyard were under arms, fully prepared to meet the exiirency of any outbreak. 12 o'clock, p m.—At the present time the commissioners o' the metropolitan police, u well as Mr D. W. Harvey, the commissioner oI the City police, are engaged at their °Met s, and • continuous communication is kept up between the two bodies, and also with Sir Oeuree Orey, the Secretary of State. Mesaengers have just arrival from the K, N, (l, L, end 1), division-, announcing that the whole of districts are in • state of perfect quietude. The whole of the mounted police have been withdrawn from the quarters whets dua turbances were expected, but they are in reserve, under the commend of Supiriutendent Williamson, ready to start elf • moment's no ice, should their services be required. The mi.itary are still under arru., and ,'qua drone of the Here Guards are in reserve at Clerkenwell, Md- End, Westminster, and sevelol other places. The Hon. Aral!' rc Co t. puny is liketviee with r arms at the Armoury in the City-road. and several hundred of the Font (Nerds are on duty in the bride well, Somerect itiee, 11 ink of Eng land, and the Houses of P aliment. Nearly 200 police men of the M division remain iu the church at Hutson Banner's Melds, and are under the control of Superintendent Evans and Inspectors Hornsby, Freud, and Cowls n. Judging, boy/tete, from the present appi ar tine° of the district, it is nut at all likely that their services will be requir d unless assy riot should bo attempted when the de rent in-door meetings break up About ighty of the Horse Guards still remain . t Old Ford, an d the pensioner,' in reserve have had 40 rounds or cartridges ..erved out t, them in rose of emergency. The police belong ing to the P, H, K, and N, divisions ere under the iliretrion of S iperiiitentleute M..rquand, Meihi •ost, and Johnson. The whole force is ready to march off at a moment'. tattle°, and the various districts where no meetings have been announced to come off are well protected, not merely by the police, hut also by the usilitsry. 'lnc cev ral engine-smarms belong ing to the Lo .don eetablishoten: have a number of extra hands out iltry, end the various depots are well bsrricalled, in case any attack should he made on the engines Messen ger. bust stri. eil from Crayd.in, ill ielthr Joh, Battersea, Epsom, Hampstead, N sting-hill, and Chelsea; the answer •tr the coutamoioners in all cases being, that nil was quiet. From the etrin,ent measures adopted by the government yes erilay, it iv very iltregionat•le whether rtyy further unmet*. will lie mule by the charted body o 1 disturbing the public genet., fur iu eeveral places son ut erd by the " exe cutive" for Item m.trttions to be held rsterday, not the slightest att. mpt was made to get them up. CIRRTIST MEETINGS IN THE PROVINCES. Yostisiititit.—Yesterday the chartists of Lecds, Bee ford, auo the ittljecent towns and villages had what they were pl amed to c.ll a " greet West Riding dem metre. ti It." in favour et " Ltherty. equality, and treternity," on t•liteltaw-m mr, uleaut eight tidies from Leeds and four miles fe •rn Bredford. Tile placards convening the meeting eneounced tlia. the roarinh'uge would to addressed by Kru. at theme, E•q., of L ondon, and others. The tlas , was lune, ''lad the attettaance was proportionebly large, hut the stumhers did not at any time exceed 12.000 Shortly after the Brainerd pronasion had arrived on the ground, with mosic and tricolored and green thee, Mr. Lomplugh Wickham and Mr. John It •nti, two of this magiftr des, rode upon the ground, and Mr. Wickham stamen , rd that he heti been deputed to inform the promoters of the m. wing that, if they would undertake not to leave the ground in precession with flags and music their pros:et dings would not he eli.t urbed or inter rupted ; but that it would be the duty of the mogistratt e to er.sei vs the public peace if it was ioterropted by these means. A person on the hustings promis e d that those condi tions should be ohs dyed, upon which the magistrates ex. press 41 tnemselses setietied, and left the ground The ',m onru given by the couneitti•e woo IA far ohs , rved th ot within a very few minu es all the It cgs in front of the Mistletoe were ferled and removed to the re _,r or eleewhere, hut the tour tri e cgs which ti .ated from the fair corners of the sueatane tial ',knot= that had bees erected still remained. Immediately alter the magistrate,. had left the ground two carrier pigeons w re started, doubtless to convey the informer on to the neighbouring town.. The oratorio at part of the proceedings commenced by Mr J. M orri., of Leeds, being called to the chair. and whin-sing the is ?sons present. Other apes tern followed, and all concurred in the a 'miration of thee. aver, and the it determination not to Ce4 , eitgitatiun until it became the law oh the land. 111.7I1DER$FIELD.—A very poor muster of chartists left here this m reties for the Toftehati -moor meeting— indeed [lucid. esti. Itl may he a-id to b.: a thins apart from ettartism. We are remarkably quiet. MANCIIESTER was all quiet up to the time our express lett, loot re, ninet ; tile chartists having coun•en mended their • , pen air me•••ing be placard, and appointed an in io , e mewing at the Hull • t Science in its place. Tait military as well as police, however, was to be in 'audition at the places sseigned to them by six o'clock in the evening. StIeFFIRLD.—A public meeting of chartists " to take into coestderation the cane of the patriot Mitchel," was eumwoned to take place to-day (Monthly). Although no maim ak wan entiapated, the sup rintendent of police mode such arrangements an would mama of the entire (PICe being brought together on the shortest notice, and the enrolled rn i s n io r n , e . I fe-iTetioilis.:lie t t il as ,. se c t i s:lu i led puw f r . r . in i sre n c .. t e io d n in . :t r tl t t: yeomanry cavalry were ado we're arm.. Happily, however, the sub equent proceedings were not of such a nature as to being any of torso preparations into requidtion. Mr. C , •uncillor Ironside pe. sided, and was supper'. el by Coun cillors Witten and Briggs, the litter a member of the lute Chartist Convention. The resolution adoptnl by oho meting woe as follows:—" That this meeting is of npinion that the late triad of the patriot, J. hit Mitchel, by a a jury, which was aenwadly picked by the government, in a dinet violation Of the lib .rty of the subject; and that a memorial be sent to h Queen, praying fur his immediate liberation, and also for the 1., peal of the union, as first steps to reontre Inland to a moveable, pri'sperous, and happy rendition." Mr Bri*gli, in the MUM of his speech on mow rug the foregoing revolution, deprecated Lord J. Russell's emidu , t in treneportmg Mitchel. He said. I Lava to charge the governme• t with incompe• t. lacy to govern the country, and the sLupLI SAPS will not Ilt any one else try. The anthoriti. a of Sit' Mehl are fri.htened out of their wan at the chartists I cannot sae the came laneuage now as I did in the convention a month ago. I then add I did not think there was a single lake or musket in Shstfield ; but I cannot sty the some now. I think the convicti a is quite era'ai.heel that beere I , na we must have a revolution in this country, either morally or physi cally I dread a physic el revolution ; for if such an event were to take place in this country, it would be the bloodiest revolution that ever was. I have the trenchise myself ; but if I were in your position, and believed that the people's rights could not be obtained hut by physical fence, I would swap my • ight day clock for a gun. —A sure callus speaker, 'tamed Willey, spoke of the necessity for procuring arms thrthwith, and not delaying till it was time to use them. The general tone of the rpeeches wee of a more 'mode rate ehtracter than would seem to be indica el by the pre c oling extrac'e ; and the chuirsuan expressed himself de cidedly opposed to physical force, at all mots for the pre-ent. EirtmtvGDAM. —The chartists had an open-air meeting at Birmingham on Sunday afternoon. There were not, however, more than GOO present. A man named Scshitt pre-i•.-d. The assenahlage wax eddresattl by Mr. Kyed, Irma GI tteenw, by G. Mantle, a" physical torte man," and others. The speeches of these two p , runny were violent in the extreme. A governmen , reporter was present. Ihe meeting disp' reed quietly shortly alter 5 o'clock. There was a large civil and military force close at hand, ready, if necessary, for actien at a moment's notice, There WAR to be another La. eting last evening ; " but," says a correspondent, " the muster was en insignifinint on Sun -av, that there exist not the slightest wrounds for aeprehenston." BRISTOL, MONDAY EVENING, 51 P.M.—A corre spondent says: '• We were threateee a with one of the chartist' monster' meetings here to•dav, mid as it wan pro mised that it should bo ' the most decided declaration of the will of the peple ' ever yet made, we have police autho rities and all—been upon the Inok-out for it. It was a pledged' thing that it sle•uld telto place, end although no plecards spot ared on the walls to announce it, we were told that that circumstance amounted to nothing, as they had seen t means of c Immunicati on and summons, such as would ' defy the base epics of a cermet govern. ment.' The night meetings in London were appealed to, and the genteel opinion merited to be that it would come oft*, and that large or stead there weul , l be a gathering. I accordingly stationed inystof on Iltandon-hill, the usual puce of meeting, where up -'n thy tint arrival I Mond some hundred or no of children flying kit., and enjoy ing the holidey. At about 4 o'clock the bound of a band was heard, and banners were seen amidst the trees ,hit skirt the rue 1 1- ening to Clifton, and the b .ys and girls began to hurrah and sh..ut Tne chartists ore coming.' It team d out, hOwever, to be a (else alarm—it was the animal pews sioll of the Hibernian S iciety on its way to the St. John's potter house, where they always dine. Up to this time I have seen or heard nothing of the ' monster' mee ti ng." LoUGlitioiniUGlL PROHIBITION 'JP A COARTIsT Paocle~st s.—lf aelbills anneuecing that Mir F O'Llotsno • wool I visit Leughbormigh on Wednesday, stud that a prce cession would he h ened to give him a nublic con ; s , m • ex citement has prevailed; but the authorities bovine received information that the chartist a of the neighhourhood were secretly provulirg arms, a meeting of county m ozistrwes was hel I lust evening, and it was resolved to probild• any auak meeting or arr.-Aden taking place. The yeorna cry cavalry and the police force of the county are mustered. EDINBURGH, 12 P.M.—A chartist meeting was held here to night, at which it woe f htitneed from 12,000 to 1 000 persons a ere present. The prom diegs were very tame; but, as the people were dispereieg. a slitht disturb ance took piece, in which a b nine and a drum, which had figured in the meeting, were dest.or d. A large body of regular police and special conetablee were on duty the whole evening, and their (*trot preserved order effectually. -- • - - Loss OF TIRE PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAM- Suir Aititt,.— . l he announcement of this ut.fironnte die aster tas by en received by the secretary of the Penineular and Oriental Steam hiartgatinn Company. The Ariel was a new iron vessel, 850 tons burden, with engines of iioOehorse power, commended by Caldbrenk, mover. She was ceoployed on the 111,diterranean, Penimuloir, and Italian service, and left Genoa for Gibraltar and Souihomptini on the 2,1•1 of beet month, with a number of paisimaern and a full Largo. On the morning of the 2nd ins , ant she was ' , raining at a speed of thirteen knots per hour, when sud denly it was di-covered that the re-sel was runninc oa to a reef, known as the. Mal di Vero, situa.e twelve mile. and a half trim Leghorn. Iler envier" were inrantly eloped: before there was time to hock astern she o•ruck wilt tree met data force, kn , cicin ,, in, it is seated, pat of her bottom, ter she shertly tilted. By the aid of the ate emcee bents the I whole of the pa.seegers and e-e,a were s2y,(l. It i n diffi cu l t to say it the ship can bc got 011. Th.: steamer and cargo are valued at fr),Oulli. THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 13, 1818. THE REFORM MOVEMENT. ST. ANNE'S, WESTMINSTER. Yesterday a meeting of the parishioner, of St. Anne's, Soho, was held in the vestry-room, to ascertain the sentiments of tile inhabitants wiih respect to the declaration of Lord John Rusaell, that the people of this country do not require ally further parliamentary reform; and whether, in fact., their upliiione were nit in oeposition to that di clara tion. Both the m. other- , for Westminster were prevent. Mr. Child, the senior churchwarden, occupied the chair. The first resolution was proposed by Mr. GI KOKOS, weir said that Co fer from the people being opposed to returns, they were com rally of opinion that the best way of preventing • olent champ s in society was by granting those itnprovenunts in the rept . . minimise system which were so much wanted. V. hen that feeling became more manifest, the Times, which was now oppo.e.t to them, would be OR their aide , fur it wanthe custam of that paper to shift Pa nail to catch every ri.ing wind. (Hear, heat.) When Lord John Russell st tint that the people et this cowry did not require reform he might have 'yokel. his own will, and perhaps the will of a clais ; hut the will of aches was ea nothing when compared with the *aloof a peup'e. If Lord John Roswell wanted to be the prime minister of this country he mu.t ace mute's..., himself to the wishes, the wants, and the intelligence of the people. (Cheers.) The present system did not work will for any class, except, per her, the nristocrecy„ It did not prevent competition or reckless expenditure. lie called on the middle dust s to step in between the aristocracy and the woe kiiig dames—to bridge lover the gulf that separated them. 11 they did not, on their heads he the come quince. ; for, as eon as the working cases were coorn.ced that no further re forms acre to he granted, he believed they would take the it ge in secret modes of action. The eraolu boil be wsa going t i propose advocated the principle of househo'd nut logo. Ile believed that there w no many persons not householders who were qualified in every respect to morels. the right of franchise; but it was the of ninon of many that there wo re numbs rs of perions in those aims who ought not to tom ens it. With regard to vote by ballot, trieobial parliaments, and a noire equal epport onment of nit ushers to the population, he did not think that they could be opposed by any one who had been an attentive observer of what had taken :ol ice within the last few )ears. (Hear, hear.) 11e concluded by naming That Lord John Ituvell's 61.1.1`111011 that the people of Englund do not require any further rehirin in the lion., of Commis.. Is Wildly 0111101441 to with, nod evolves's , of his ignor.inee of the pre sent slave of the conotry. That it us the opinion of this inventor, In order to actor.- tile stability of the institutions of the c.sintry, eel niaint .in prihlie tranquillity. neies.aey -1. That the clertioc remain. Malt he en extenthrl tot to include all hou.ehotil rs ; 2. That the rol.n be taken by ballot; 1. 'that the duration .1111.1th...writ shall th e,sand three years; 4. That the sqoportioninent of members to the population Ash be ohttle inure equal. Mr. Joserif Rooms cccond.4 tile resolutio n. lie he- Novel that the di monstration of the middle clams un the 10th April, iii support of the inatitutions of the country, and ' Against violent chanaea in the comditution, had induced Lord John Halo-ell to say that the people did not require further reform. Now as a leader of special c inatables on that orca sloe, he hegastil to say that the iii idle classes, though they were aiilious to preserve the imititiitiosis of the country, were not anxious to preserve toe effuses that exiived. lle confessed he was nit IlllpriS d s• the cholla with etas of er the gratuitous insult of 1, ad John Hua.ell, that 'wittier the working nor the middle daises were Li favour of any change. Mr. JOHN ROO MIN spoke in favour of the reiolution, and dwelt on the aloaurtlity of such I orde constituencies as V tat mietster and the Tower Hamlets being swamped by borough conati•uencirs of two anti three hundred It seemed to him to be the only objec , of the notice of Conniving of late to throw a deco tot mantle over corruption in every shape ano form. Mr. W. Bakal', a chartiet, moved as an amendment that the word " mewed..." h.•subseituted for " householder. ' Ile Was Sane to take lie in the• p and by way a fieetalm• lit, with liberty to ask for the remaining sic. ('• Hear, hear," and laughter.) The amendment having been seconded and put, and lost, the otigioal motion was carried, only one ',emu holding up his hand Denied it. Mr. OILAST proposed a resolution in (Lenoir of a petition to parliement fir the "Neale contwieeil in the first rew'u.ion, and requesting the menders for Weetradieti r to pupteirt the prayer tat root. The rfeelutioa was carried unaininously. Sir D. L. levees, M.P., being called on to addle es the meeting, was lectured with I wit cheers, tweed with olissetot from one or two persons. He said teat he was not distracted or diwourvited in the unfenced degree by the few discerdunt I nsulate he had heard, for he knew it was impowahle for any II an to discharge his public duties independently, wiohent displeasing some person or outer. However, ho need hardly a iy, that fie would support, as he had always done, tb, erne elides an tinted in the resolution which had h en pastel. He Iselleved that wee the first parochial meeting l•rld in Westminster in favour of the new reform and he hoped it would not be the last he hoped the seven or eight other parishes al Westminster would mei t as the parish of St. Ailu*s had dime, because no de scription of public meeting WAS more irrepreaeliable than those where the people who attended them were known, and their feelinge distinctly manif-ueil. (hear, b. ar ) He could assure the m that the House of Caternons, as now con stituted, would not give them reform, unites the retormers in that house were supported by strung act out demonstra tions repeatedly made 1 y the peopli 4.ut ot doers. I Heat, hear.) The people had heretofore out hestirred themselves sufficiently in the matter, hot he helieved their sympathies had been aroused by the astounding events which had taken place in Europe, an-I that they would mani lost wide in so unmistakrable a manner as to leave no doubt of their wishes on the subiect of reform. Ho wan convinced the Lord John Russell won in error when he e iid that neither the middle nor the burn lie dame. were in favour of a chgnite; he believed that the middle class was anxious we a vary great change ; and as to the working classes b. ing desired' to agitate the matter, there could he no doubt. lie believed, wtth the gentleman who seconded t e resolution, that Li can equ nee of the de monstration of the low ot April, the idea passed through Lord John Russell's mind teat the midel e class wax con tented witt. the present state ot things; bet in his opinion it was inertly a declaration on their port that they would rt hist violence and the inruads on society witch had been previously •treatene l by the vier lists. Now, with respect to universal suffrage, which was agitated by the chartists, he hoped and believed that the time would come when it would he carried in thi- country; but, tram whatever rause or it er it pro. ce. cled, it w w not likely to be carried at present. There were 1,040,000 houses on this country, awl it every mole adult hanug-holder had the franchise, it woul.l he, indeed, a forge instalment. lie recommended the chartists and the middle dares to unite and c -operate together, as the beet residue of carrying the results which they all had in view. Mitgland now. instead of being in the van of the mains ot Europe with respect to political freedotn, was one of the most backward. (Hear, hear.) As Prince Metternich and M. Ouind had b. en mistaken with respect it. the wishes o their respective countries, and lied their governments over thrown, so might the prime minister of his country be mis taken with regard to the wants and feelings of its people. Mr. LUSHINOTON, 111 P., Mail hen , ed hardly say that he eupp •rued the lour points contained in the resolution, for it lie did not he never would have been memeer fa r Westmiu stet . (" Hear. hear," and laughter.) He belonged to the toun di at the Free-Trade Club, where he resolutions were con coat d, and they found it very d.ffieult to combine concise ness with compreheneiveneos in the terms. Ile was net sur prised at peremis saying that by adopting the principle of household suffiage they twou.d rxelude all lodgers, among whom were artisans and clerks, and many miters who from their intelligowee were enti•►eu to the franchise, whilst they would admi• the holders of rural cottages who were awonget the most ignora t portiere of the p pulati n, and who would be always preaan d, at the beediord's bock, to swamp the more intd.igi•nt voters. (Hear, hear.) Ile thought they might therefoteestahlish a retedential euffrege. (Loud ch-era ) He was nut one of those whit were for re feree bit by bit, and thereby keeping the country in a ante of ct nst.nt rialto ion 1 hey met a short time since, at the Flee 'Tad•: Club, ti n or twelve• of the leading chartists, amongst whom were Mr. Vateent, Lovett, Mr. Medi, and Mr. Hetherington, and they asked them what their opinions and their views were, and he must say that no nun eau d behave whit m ire moderation, m dullest more intelligence, or exhibit greater willingness to concur is reasonable measures ((fear, hear.) lie believed they had agreed no the principle ot a suffrage based on a two lye mouths' r. eidence. (Cneers.) In conclusion, he would only express hie eruire devotion to the great cause of reform and to their service, lied teat he was a11a101.14 at all tint a to manifest the sincerity of his opinions by coming amongst them. (Cheers.) A district committee was then appointed to obtain sig natures to the etition, an•l the thane. of the meeting wen conveyed to the two hoiourst•le member. and the chuirm in. WALLINGFORD.— A curre:pondent says : " The town of Waliinuford, which obtaioed such notoriety at the L a goitetal ewetion, and which has been tor man, years the tic 01 try domination, has at last made a inure. 6 tine rieod+ol the lib, ral mtereut feeling it to his thr ir duty to fol low the example of other places, cutlet: a public men thug to consul r the propriety of petoinotiue pieta uncut in fovaur of Mr. Home's lorthc ming motion for ex' elision of the suf frage. The meetiug was :.eld jut the Town. hall (which Way densely crow eI) on Friday reeling. S. veral gentlemen (electors) address-cif the atoeundy in very effective speeches, when a p• tirion to parliam lit in favour of reform was ado,uted by the met ti, g, and signed ou their behalf by the chairman, without one hand being held up against it." bony cheek". Presently a cart is seen driving up, the wooden the t and roughly tied bundles are fastened upon it, end el! they go to th e house of some cousin (the Irish here, are generally cousins), to sit down and talk of all that has happened since they parted on the Ned, of Ireland. At this lodging bowie the old people are pro vided with everything they n quire, anlngemeing hewing been previously made for their accommodation. Indeed the arrival of emigrant chips is a matter of general anxiety among the Irish here ; and it is well known that the morning paper, are generally well spelled over in the kitchen, before they are taken up stairs to be placed near the ore akhodtable, After some ten or twelve days' rest, with ablutions and change of clothing, to make the new. corners " decent," they are sent off to service, or to friends in the country, and they are soon lost in the masses of the population. The Irish, as a body, on coming to New York immedi itely seek employment. The young women reotily find places if they are at all clever and industrious. They plo tter to know all about housework, caking, and washing, but at find make hut a miserable piece of week of it. They are 2 1 nerally received into the families of the poorer and middling classes of American housekeeper., where they are kindly treat, d and instructed in their dude* by the nii*- Vetoes of the families. They pass from one piece to another, generally getting higher wages as th, y become more ekillul, sod soon ,ease to knnwthe pressure of personal want Alm net without exception their lirot earnings are placed upon their bat k.. They purchase the most expelisive home te, shawls, isotkings, and gloves, silk., and parasols. With these they repair to early mos on Sunday a, and after service remain in the streets seeking 2111, making acquaint ncea by the dozen. The °unlade of the Raman chapels is the general rendezvous of the lower Irish, and the streets are actua ly intipaesable fur the throng. The next desire is to send flume let their relations. base come out on' after the other, until, if pessitile, the whole family r -unites in " Ameriky." The remittances made by the l.,wer Irish to tin tie Inn nds are enormous in aonount, so much so that there arc numernue houses in New York who do no ether beef near than to sell exchange, pays& in 'tiff.-rent parts of England end Ireleed. The.* r. mtutecea are sometimes as 'mad as 102., White they rise to '2Ol. and 301. Tne Irishmen tire not no deserving of commendation gene. rally as the females It is a common thing for them to indulge freely in dram-drinking, the. oaportuniues for which are constantly occurring on their arrival here. The most sedate of however, seek employment as soon as pest. hie, and the great numhor of pubhc works conietautly going on generally affords them week and weges. It is a common thing to two notices posted in the neighhourh- uel of the wharfs, whieb state that 500 or 1,000 labourers are wanted on such or such a railw ny, and "all tawny*, are paid to the plane of destination." lit thus way large numbeis are constantly absorbed. D. in a singular tact that the lrislt emigrarto lien the only classes that teeilnly perform the hard work of the country. The American, are industrious on their farms and in their workshop. and tactorin, hut they do nut like to turn into a ditch or swamp, exc.*• vete the earth, and wheel it away in barrows. If they are found on the canals or raiiwuys it is as overseers of a gang of workmen, or with a team id oxen or horses, scraping up a load of earth at • time, or doing P ,me headwork, tonged by the ever read) blank book and pencil. So also we find the American young women quite averse to kitchen and acullty. 1 hey will go into a fac tory or up ni a farm, but if they take en nice it is with toe idea of lontotning heusele epers, and making good matches with young men tit respectable condition. All tine dirty work about the city of New York, cleansing sewers and decks, sweeping the streets, carrying brick, and m over, (scats/mug cellar, and carting cal , is performed chiefly by the Iri-h. As own as they acquit.- a little money they become saucy end independent in their demeemer. Tu keep a small green ry for the sale of beer and spirits, or to spicule'e in oration , , or candies, or to watch • email book stall at the corner of some street, appears the highest umhiti of limey of these emigrants Tiley rarely rise tenons , equality with the bettor portions of the community, even after the most suecemful I,b airs. AY • dam they are fond of political diecussions, and they an 21 become hot and noir, politicians. Circumstances favour this tendency. The whig and democrattc pieties 'are so nit sly divided, and so often alternete in power, that both seek to Increase their strength be. the addition of the foreign vote. It is curious to observe whit influences affect them Irish politicians. Some years ago, .when the genet De Witt Clin ton, a man as we would say here " • head and shoulders" above all his contemporaries was a candidate be election to the office of woverner of this state, she Irish voters often carried him through triumphantly. Their at tacomeni arose from the tact that, while he was mayor of the city of New Yak, he decided on a particular occasion, in a cuutt in which he presided, that a Roman cathol c clergy man, when on the Ennd as a attune, was nut bound to reveal the a Cr, to of the cunt; esional, however much oho evidence was necessary in the ease in which he testifin d. The priests and their tollowers never forget Mr. Canton for tbi • ' decision, which ha, become a precedent in our courts. More nen ntly, G•iverwir Seward, a succemor rat Mr. Clito ton, and a whig of omaiderable ability, endeavoured to pin back the Irish (who, on the death of their idol, nail gone liver to the dem writ parry), by recommending that we should support schools to he taught in the language of the tor.ign emigrants, and where their sectarian eduea non might be centinued. lit elan advocated repeal, and be. came the intimate friend o the leading priests and bialunre of the Ii euish church. This was each a h aerated bid for popularity that it di-gusted the public, and he fell from his offictel pedeetnl, not seen o rise again. In the view of these party seductions the Irish have be• come quite tensible of the value of their virtue, and in this city they occupy, as a return fur their support, a prepondn rating amount of small offices, and much to the n'isennutent of the 110112 Americans it must be admitted. Theo, of the 500 watchmen' or police in thia city, the Irish have a very large proportion. They are also employed about the pubbc buildings, parks, and quarantine. They very fre quently slip into the emporation as aldermen ant assistant einenten, and in various ways get mlitical remuneration for political services. This is not the case in the i nteri es, however. We lied among our population very f w Irishmen who ar rive at an advanced age. It is quite rare to find among them an old man. We attribute this to the hresking down of their constitutions before they leave In land and their free habit mitre alter they arrive here. Yet, strange to say, they are remarkably ennui of themselves, when they get " used to" the States. They make mere nurse about their personal mercy and convenie nee then any other class of our people. They ere dreadfully afraid of the hot sun, they fill ) the cars and omnibuses, and make a tremendous splutter when they get in and out. They plume themselves on their consequence, and eittnm talk of how they'll "thrash the metres." In ono of their newspapt rs they contended that they ought to own this country, for they took mach trouble to come here while the native born are here by chance! They are notoriously (*Alden in their promises : all smites for those when friendship they seek, all insolence to those whom they can tread upon. Th y are quarrelsome and turbulent. They are constantly • mowed in riots upon the public work,, and the moment their stomachs are filled they forget all obligations. lois is a picture of the Irish, and a true one. It is one that no party paper in the United States would dare publish. One thing is certain, that the treedorn of Ireland, if achieved by the present generation, would present a most revolting spectacle of government, if those wile remain at home are like the majority of those who come here. As to any assis tance they may give to their revolting brethren at home, we proonunce the ex,neetation moonshine. They will talk loudly and do nothing. They could not he induced to return to Ireland, even to procure the "Repale." IRELAND. DCALTN, JUNE 11. Mr. John O'Connell will read to-rrerrOW"Rtebaais of the proposed union," at the meeting of the associa tion. He will also withdraw the notice of suspension, and keep the "old house" open until the opinion of the hierarchy, clergy, and laity be freely obtained on the policy of the new organisation. The rules agreed to at the sereral conferences were, I hear, sent off last evening to the more prominent members of the asso ciation re-iding in the provinces ; arid according as they assent or dissent, so will the projected league perish or progress. The chief question of difference between the Old and Young Ir.landers is on the in troduction of religious matters. This difficulty h.is been at length solved by a sort of juste ieo adoption. Religion is to be excluded, unless where it is connected with a civil grievance. The great subject of political remark yesterday evening and this forenoon is the extremely captious tone, the subdued sentiments, of the ultra.repeal organs. The hotter spiel's of the clubs are openly speaking their discontent. It is still rumoured that Mr. Mesgher will be I nrre-ted t i.morrow on a eliaige of felooy, under the late act, fur the speech deliver. d by him at the meet ing of the Irish Confederation on Tuesday evening last. The "Treason Felony Act" provides that, in Cases of violation of its provisions by "open and advised speaking," the individuals so offending must be made amenable to justice within six days after the comMssion of the offence; to-morrow, therefore, will decide whether the rumour is founded in fact or other wise. The establishment of Mr. Williams, tea dealer, in Dame-street, was this day tot illy destroyed by fire. The agricultural letter in the Belfast Chronicle I speaks iu very confident terms of the nr °specie of the flax crops in Down an 4 Antrim, a circumstance no less important in a national than a local point of view, as the limn trade of the north of Ireland has long been a branch of trade of great importance to the empire. JOHN MITCHEL.—A younger brother of John Mitchel oiihd from Livrpool, on Saturday, in the Britannia, tor N. w York. He purposes, it was conjectured, to proceed to Bermuda, on mattersof a family na•ur.., to hut brother. SCOTLA AD. EinNACIIOH, JUNE 12. Edinburgh hat at last moved in the Mater of re form. On Saturday a meeting. of electors was called by circular in the roams of the Chamber of Commerce, Mr. William Chambers in the chair. The resolutions and petitions adopted were as follows : 1. Chat the plan of reform gen..r4lly, which is to be pro potato parliament on the 'Ann inst. opiolepn awn; En., M P., deserves the support of all sincere rett. rmers, and meet wilt the cordial approbation of this meeting. 2. That, ae the early period et which the mot• on is to he brought forward does not admit of arrangements beit.3 made for holding a public meeting, and the subsequent prepara tion of a pc ition emanating therefrom, a committee shoal,: now be appointed to prepare a petition forthwith, in support of Mr. Hume's motion, and to take all proper steps for sub mitting it to the inhabitants for signature. To the Honourable the Common of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in Parliament weembkd. TOE PETITION or THE UNLIIHRIONED INI ---• Or TIM Crrir or Eurssonos. Sheweth,—That the present extravagant expenditure of the public money, and consequent heavy taxation, as also numerous other prac tical abuses in I gelation, will not ; in the opinion of yt•ur petitiooeee, to remedied no lung an large and react agent closes of individuals are excluded tram their direct and just influence in parliament. Your pentionera, therefore, pray your honourable house largely to extend the franchise; to give t h e voters the protection of the ballot; to fleet a more equal arrangement of elactoial districts; and to ahorts n the duration of parliament ton period not exceeding three years. And your petitioners will ever pray. The workmen at Govan ironworks met, by permis sion of their manager, on the previous evening, when the following draft petition was approved oh The ne•ltkon of the undersigned workmen emplo)cd at Coven Iron Work., Clayrow Humbly nhoweth,—That the prevent state of the country calls loudly tor a great reduction in the national expenditure; to secure which your petitioners pray that (very householder in the kingdom may have the right of voting for members of parlinini at, with the protection of the ballot ; OM that the members may be elected from equal Matt iets throughout the country, and for a period not exceed rug three pure. And your peti loners will ever may. HO6BES FOR 'me Pooft.—A writer in the Edin burgh Courant points out the eligibility, as a money invest ment, of providing houses for the poor. " Having occaston," says We party, "w c.ll upon a poor widow in an infiri .r street,l had the curiosity to inquire what rent she paid for the simile room she occupied. She informed me that it was 40s. I measured its dimensions, and found Them to be 10 feet long by 9 wide. and 7 feet high. On my return to my own use —a flat—l found that it stood on au area of 1,778 square feet. The height of ceiling of the various flats in the stair, three in number, I found to be 131 feet, 12 feet, and 104 feet re spectively, giving an average of 12 feet. The rents, again, ere 341., '271., and 201., giving an average of 271. The cubic dimensions of the rur woman's house you will find to be 630 feet. The average ruble dimensions cf one of the better houses alluded to are 21,336 feet, which, if let out at the same rate, say 40s. for 030 feet, would produce a rental of 671. 10, ; or, deducting for the increased number of partition wails. necessary in small houses, say 601. instead of 271.—the present rental. Nor is this all ; my landlord, at my taking p ,•ses.inn, spent the first year'. rent on painting, paperu g, &c ;—a little whitewash is all that is necessary in the humt.l.- alwillinifs of the vow.. I now out the simple question, Could • better illy...fitment be found for money? Could a better time than the present be chosen for erecting such hom.ts, when materials and wages are at such a low ebb ? PROVINCIAL. LANCASHIRE. TILE NOBLE BEQUEST TO UNIVERSITY COLLEGE. —The council of University College. London, in their chit- Tact rot residuary legatees of t e late Dr. Holme, of Man chester, have examined the catalogue of hie valuable library, and have written to the es. caters requesting that the whole of the book., plate, antiquities, and other articles of multi, and a so such tattier chattels as the executors m .y think more likely to be sold in London than in Manenester are to he Packed up and forwarded to the cenlege, and that whatev, r it is not el arable to send, is forthwith to he sold. "We it (says the Man•hester Guardian) it is likely that, under theta instruction-, the executors will shortly give d,recti ns to have the hooks packed in boxy*, and, with the coin., plate, wel:ery, &c., forward then to London, and that the house hold furniture and a few other things will he sold by auction in Manchester. Amongst other articles which court go to London. is the ancient Runic stone (TOM, which we have noticed as having formerly auIA at Lancaster, and having subsequently found its ova) into a museum at Kendal, at the sale 01 which, on the death of its proprietor, Dr. Holme bought it. We regret that this fine specimen of Anal.- Danish or Anglo-Saaon antiquity should be removed fr m this county; and we thick that if a suitable application were made to the council of the London University College by the council of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical S wiety, or by that of the Manchester Natural History So ciety which peesessos au excel-rat museum, where it could he di posited with the certainty of its being extensively ac cessible • ithin doors and car, telly preserved, such an ap plication would be favourably received, and the stone woulu remain in Manchester. But no time should be loot in pre tarring • uch r, quist, as, once fi. L melon, the great weight of the stone would be an obstacle to its transmission hither. Indeed. the coot of its carriage to London, and its inutility in a building dedicated to causation and modern science emery it wool 1 he quite misplaced, are strong reasons why it should remain where it possesses the value of h. ing a me morial and an illustration of the olden time of the county palatine of Lancaster." ANOTHER UNREFORMED GRAMMAR SCHOOL.—The governors of the ilawkiturn Grammar School held a special meeting on Thursd iv last, to cons,der the state of the insti tution, and adopt means for its more efficient management. Se .cral meetings of this nature have b.eu herd during the past year, Ira they have been as yet 'runlet's, e number of scholars having dwindled down to four. 'the maximum, author toe year, has not exceeded six. The charter of the ach iol provides that there shall be a master and under mast-r, but there has been no under-master for a long time. The desideratum in the manage anent of the school is, that its master should be able and willing to impart a sound and useful commercial as well as classical education, and thin is alleged to be indifferently attended to. At the meeting on Tours day, &committee was appointed to confer with the master and desire means fur the renovation ut the ins , itutiou. THE IRISH IN AMERICA. IIY AN AMSISICAN. Among the thousands who emigrate to the United States, the Irish are conspicuous to. 01, it numbers and pecu liarities. They g•ntrully arrive hero through the aid of their relatives, who have come out in previous }ears, and who remit su u■ of money saved from their earnings in amounts sufficient to pay their passage across the At lantc. Generally they present on their airor .1 • moat wretched appearance. Their costume, if such a term is ap propriate, is of the poorest kind, scanty and grit tesque. They look hagzerd and careworn, and appear quite lost amidst the maids of nusy people they en counter. Frt quently they are met at the wharf ny the relit lives who are expecting them, and the contrast is narked and impressive. A oun,r womaa, with • silk or velvet hat, adorned with French artificial flowers, we ring an Italian silk drew, • handsome shawl, and patent leather gaiter bouts, is seen embracing some wretched-looking old man wish a hat torn and cocked by num. rolls thumps told long ill usage, velveteen hretchis, wooden stockings, mid heavy sho s, an affection that bet.a}s the ch Id, and is quite touehing. The mother with her dirty and much rattled cap, grey cloak, and hair streaming to toe wind, is neat mil:raced, and tsars ante tau down am fr..ckled and YORKSHIRE. PURSUING A RUNAWAY TRADEIL—The Ht , Guardian of Saturday recounts the adventures of a pollee effieer named Wirth y, who was iel.t from that town to the United States, to seize certain moneys with whim a run away grocer, named Merrill, had absconded to Amerna Brierley arrived in this country on Tuesday, by the Cam bria. We have noticed (rays toe local paper) on former occasions the clevitneas with which the bankrupt grocer was made to hand over his money, and also We trouble which Brierley subsequently had through the attempted revenge f Merrill and hi. wife. It appears that Mrs. Merrill had con trived to slip a few pounds into her idiot., and to COUCLIIi a gold watch in her hair, with which legal procee.linga were in-titure.l against Brierley, under th- hope of getting back some of the money. Fit at came a ant in an action for t w i ce , damages 2.000 dollars. Then a warren - for larceny w..s reed. Then two more writs, one for false imprisonment, and another tor assault end battery. Then another writ in an action for trove.r, and last though not lent a writ in an action for slander. In all these the damages were laid at '2,000 dollars, and bail had to be given for 1,500 dollar-. The British consul promptly gave bail in every case t and the writs were all discharged on being brought by affidavit be. fore the judges in superior courts. The action for larceny came off at the Court of General Sessions, New York, May 15. The British consul accompanied Mr. Bfrerley to court, and the Me was in courtesy taken out tat its regular order. Mrs. Merrill swore moat positively that she and her husband Came from England only to see their friends. and to see how they should like tne country—that they left all right in Hali fax, and only took the name of Smith on th • voyage from a little family difference. As to the money, she said it was all her own. Some she had before her marriage (17 years ago), 1001. had been lett her by her aunt about three years ago. and more than 1001. had been given lies by her father, wt c' was a rich farmer in Craven, and had lately retired from business. Her husband did not know she had this money (about 2501. in all); she had often lent money to him when he want. d some, by pretending to go out to borrow. Her hus band paid her all the money back, perhaps a week before they set off to America. That was the fist time he knew it was hers. She swore also that Brierl, y had not 1 ft them a cent., but subsequently admitted having put some gold pint s into hi r shoe, and also a watch and guard into her bonnet.— Merrill, her husband, also swore that he left England in good credit, and that his credit was rood there still, tor any thing he knew. His story of the d. pasture 11 , 111 Halifax did not agree with his wife's, which he xplaMed by saying that lie hardy knew what he w..s doing since this affair. He swore that his debts its England only amounted to 2501 , and the goods and hook-debts to 50/, besides a large quantity of hay. He drilled being a bankrupt, rthd swore he did nut know he was one. Even when the legal documents from the Leeds District Court of Bankrup•c: were pro duced, he raid he did not know what they acre, and never saw anything of the k.tid bef ire.—The Record. r stopped the case, but, on the ~01,a, , ,,an of the caun.el for the defence, permitted it to go on tor the purpose of eliciting the true character of the plaintiff. On the cross examination being resumed, Merrill swore that he had lett a young woman to manage his business, anti that he had niver written to h. r -ince he left. An intercepted letter was pro doted, in which he had told hit to sell all up and fill .w tins on whiett he sod, •• I thick I olitt'tth write to t.t•r t.) do tha', hot Fro so boUnrt d about it I don't exactly know." The watches he had ou him he said he bought in England, Inc he refute-d to say whether he had paid the duty on them, or on the cloth he also had with him—The Recorder said tnere was no sired for the counsel for the defence to say a word ; and the jury. without leaving the h tx. returned a verdict or Yoe guilty.—Brie rley was strongly advised to indict Merrill and too wife for p. rjury ; but on inouiry tie found that Mer ril (who had been working as a ;inner) had immediately alter the , rial gone to his lodgings, got all has clothes, and gone off—no sits knew where." HFSIIIRS. . . • RAILWAY ACCIDENT ATC.!ItTEWE.—A serious Reel dont took place on toe London and N ,rth W, at, ru It iilar at Crewe, Cheshire, on Sunday evenimr, by a luggage tram running into a train filled wit•issildi , in ald almost stationary at that place. The troops in cite last-mentioned train be longed to the fith Regt., and were on their way from Portsmouth to 'Manchester. They had left Portsmouth at ab.mt three o'clock that morning, My the South W, stern lire, and on arriving at Bus.on—quare were put into an emp•y train 3G carriage, which tad taken up from Man cheat, r and Liverpaol on the previous day a great number or persons tin one of the cheap trips This train left London on Sunday morning soon after six o'clock, and reached Crew. abaut seven, It had stood there about half an hour, and the officers had partaken of r, fr shments and r“eated themselves in the carriages, when a train was seen approaching them from behind, and the engineer attempt, d to get the bakes reversed and to move forward ; but beer, he could get the train into anything like a speed sufficient to remove it out of the way of the appeaseling fag gage train the latter ran int.) them, breaking and upsetting :t honcho:, a luggage van, and • I caTri - Rts, and a. rt. nusly hut not dangerously hurting m any of the passing, ra. •1 he officers of the regiment were in Ike last carriage, and but fir the lutzzaae van and horsebox beim; loe' , ind them would prof:W.4 have um slued. M,iox /lungs!, who was in command, jumped out, and fortunately escaped unhurt ; but Captain Harvey, Captain Freto , Cgptain Bethune, Lieut. Gaynor, Lieut. Snider', Lie at . lldunt, Lieut. Blunt- WI, Ensign Smith, Miura. W. Pdrrie, the bandmaster; G. • ()Hirer, armour sergeant ; Harry COX, paymaster sergeant ; Joseph Lynch, colour-sergeant; and David Woodhouse, drum-major, were all more or les. hurt with contusions about the n eed, face, or the hits, and most of them have been confined to bed in consequence of I air, arisi• q either from wounds or oat of the severe injury done to the nervous system by the shock. Two valuable horses were killed in the bores-box, and another had a narrow escape. The whole number of officers and soldiers injured is said to have been about sixty; but many of these, on arriving at Manchester, had so far recover, d tut to be able to take care of themselves. and refused to place themselves in toe care of the surgeon or the reilway com pany, or their own surgeon, who 'tappet ed to be in the train at the time and escaped unhurt. Ir is not appre hended that any of the cases will I,e fat; and, indeed, Capt. Bethune, Capt. Harvey, Lieut. Daunt, and Lieut. Gaynor, were reported last bight to ior only suffering from contusions and lacerations of the face, which are likely to be of slight inconvenience only. The cuts-ions and lacera tions of toe face are said to be the result of the parties having heard the alarm given be the r ilway whistle and looked through the windows of the ckti4ges just as the collision occurred. Th o r engint-driver of the luggage-train was taken into custody, and his conduct will no doubt be the subject of inquiry. _ _ WARWICKSHIRE. MODEL LODGING-lioUsEd Pun BIRMIKGITAM.—An influential meeting, convened by circular, was held in the committee-room ot the Town-hall, at Fridi”, for the pur pose of considering the pr pri. ty ot establishing modal lodging-housi* tor the poor in this town—the Mayor in the chair —Mr. Colquhoun addressed the meeting, Ina ing that the Metropolitan Association for improving the Condition of the Working Classes w.4e incorp rated uy royal charter, the property to be raised in *bares et 2.51. each, which were nut to realise the boiler more than five per cent. intereet. The op trati me of the society were nit confined to lodging-home-, bus they hid improved the owellings of poor families ; they had tried two expert meott, which were highly eatisfectory. The first WU with an old house which they purchased in the n, ighbaur hood of Covent-garden, and upon widt h they expended 1,1501. They paid 451. a year noir, and, by proper ar rant( ;runts, thy were now enabled to .uppq bads nightly to eighty-two persons for two aid/legs per week, tura by giving the Sunday free to the ledgers, and making the cost to them fourpenee per er, ek lees than they would base to pay in the wont of else mermen lodging houses. The result of that experimesit, in a bestial point of view had heel, most anti-factory, and the net receipts, atter paying all charges, lett 18 per cent intt re it for the m„.ney. The next experiment was tried in the eft...troll 01 a new house at 81 Giles',, which cost 6 315/ , but which had net u yet realised 6 per cent although the advaneere s con erred upon the poor were inceicalable. The two lodging-houses were paying good in•erest, sod so tar •xp riser,.,. sad sic is mint satisfactory. The ituociation was in s :pi ctstion that when the new sanitary measure should come in...opera-i.m they would be able to purchase a great number of aid hoes., which they could erase available fur the use of toe poor, as the present , ccupiers would not comply with the intended regulations, lie and his friends heel met to Birmingham for the purpose of laying the results of their experience before theist.—Mr. N spter said I.e was glad that the ministers of religion had taken up the subj. et. It was one befitting their calling. Their first gr, at or ject should be to obtain accurate bilormation respecting the actual condition of the poor, and none were better qualified to supply those teens than the ministers of the Gospel, who visited the poor, and who had daily opportunities of witn.uieg their condition. The first thing to be dune wall to set about fully and clearly ascertaining the real condition of the poor of Birmingham. They mutt find out the extent of crime in trie borough, and ascertain how tar it was in crewed by the low and wretched state in which the people were living—how far the degradation obstructed the progress of ri lig on and morale—and then apply a reniedy. On enouiry Is ey wculd hod that the degredetiou of the people debited their morale, and operated invoriobly in pro uucing that re-ult. They wood find thee, in pro ortitin to the physic .1 degradation of the pro. le, en wee t' eir physics' darkness, and the Christian and the philaathi opts% would see the imperative necessity or attendina to toe tempt ral condi tion of the people it they desired to practice a opiritual and moral improvement. They muse begin with getting rid of all übstrictions to virtue and morality, and by so doing they would be adding to the comhert ct their f. Bow creatures tree and increasing their nappinees hi-reader.— Joseph Iledgeon, Eq., said the PLAN, et heal occupied his ' attention far a loose time, in connexnm with other gentle , m a weo deeply lamented the state of the lower closets ' of this teem. In a report on the sanstor• sate of the town, he and carters stated very fully the condi ' titel of the lashing houses. It was not merely the con ! dirion of the to:ging brut, s olden was very bed, as stated in the report, but the condition of an im mense number of larniltts in the town as. most deplorable. The lodging-houses were indeed truly hid, and to his know ledge had been the came of disease end deluoraliestion. He t had seen crowns of persons in thre w.rtehed pieces with chronic diseases and coutegioue diaripter- +hitt it was impos sible to get rid of. It was only three week- ago, as one of the sanitary its peetors, he had occasion to visit a lodging heave. and in a hack room at the rear of the pit micas, almost in entire darkness, at two o'clock in the day, he found nine men playiiig at triode. The place wee an a mat ' beastly sate, sod the pereens there wire am king and drinking, arid every kind of aboffilirothm we. going on. ' —The Rtv. Meters. Yorke, Jite2te, Hutton, Bache ' and Meore.l.ylot, Raphael, and Cutler tu.Ving addresse d the meeting, ree,eutions in furtherance of the objects of the meeting were adopted. LINOOLNSIRRE. THE HUMBER FERRY—PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTUREI—ii thus dr-wined in a paper et ecidly re dl b. fore the Societyot Arta:—Althnngh Linculeshire is the most pro ductive agric3ltural county of Et,g.and, and although Hull is the el st , e , t town adjoining the northern div sion of that court , y, the obstacle in the never Bowing Ix tweets Yorkshire and L- ncolnshire prevented much comuineiention petit steam navigation was established, although It rries between Hull and Lincolnshire have existed ever shim. the time of Ed ' ward 1., and probably even earlier. Forty years ago the only communication between Hull and the opp site shore was candel on from the ancient decayed tow o of Barton, Ay a pack. t once a day either way. Ten years a tarry was esteblish, d at New Holland, by which the ;sewage of 21 miles was . (reeled in a sailing-boat In time vary. g from two hours to half an hour. Within Ile last five y. ars the time has been reduced to an avenge of halt an hour by ate am boats. A small wooden pier has b. en sr. end for the con venience of passenger, saving them grow a walk through mud, thigh not from a Dangler to mad b tat. at low water. On the Hull aide several attempts h ,ve be. n made to im prove the landing, but with vtry little messes& At present, n pier near the Victoria Hutei receive. at. ano es at high-water. At low water, unfortunately, nearly 100 net of mud and water interpose, requiting the assistance tit a temporary com munication, formed by small booty, plat.k., stud, as a con tinuation, of slippery, slimy slop-a, dent-riding Irons the pit•ra, to be elimhs d by the passengers. For goods and car ritigee no nt transit by hewn t nvided A• leig as New Holland on the Lincolnshire Awn had no further population then that contsined in a few farm.. sad barely supported a small inn, where teaseling wand tor this boat, or ie'restird aft, r a stormy voy .ge, n t ern/ improvs mente were t repent-4 or needed. But in IEIS 8 this obscure ferry beceme a terminus of the Or. at N. ethers and the Manchester, Sit Meld, and Lincolnshire Railways; and it became absolutely necessary to opt n up the best possible means of entamu..ication with the port 01 11%17 a.,{l with the nrthern rondo, through Yo. kahire, Hull. The terry was purchased by the Manchester, Bin meld, and Ln eolnshire Railway Comrany, and prep inions wire made for diminishing, to the utmost t•nsNhle Amount, the ihcon- venience .d the int. rvening Humber. Fi.r this purpose very simple m-ans only were within their resell. At N, w Hol land, where no valuable property and no active coalmen* in , i r'ered, the task we. compirativi ly easy; the railer*? has 1). • earned out on ph rs. 1,500 e t 1. 0 into the river —a *nth- tient distance to enable ateerni is to run ilongside at the lowest state of the tide; a con. regi •tAtin and 'tam will proteit passengers from the yr, ether, a. d et, am-hoats of an insorrived cam ructi .n will affect the pips sue in about tea minutes. The arrangemeres for stood are on en equally comprehensive merle A tidal basin id al, tit three acres wi ll receive the vetocla for loading or amnia:dime, and enable thins in discharge thiir cargo.a tient into *archon-4o eir into ra-lwat trucks uaiting on the qnaya. For the transit of cattle tie pr .visions are equally coinp.rte. The effect at the-e impmeements en local traffic has been siready enormona ; with only thirty miles of railway open, and the fares reduced:one-half, the steam-h at ri ci ip.a th,ve increased more than tour-told. llut the work o f th e n um b er and drawing closer the relations la twe. n Yorkshire and Loicilliodore is only half done so lung as the hthiling at Hull remains in its preaelit imperfect oon , it ion. The pier at Hull, alifficii lit fir the old traffic, is quite incapahle ul yeeommo ' dating the new. T‘iose wits f rdorly "two to the water's edge at New Holland wire in- re . ootent with the imperfect old faalcunad arrangement , at Hull teas the pas singers who now reach the pier of Hall by ly s-epping Iron. the vtram-carriage at New Holland to the au-am-boat. Hence the pi-plead arrangement. The upside represent a c -tete first-class railway ahvion ..:,,, a ,,, ro u ir . r o l t tri na r , h ‘ e i.. wa l ' o e r rLeil k v i e ng at ei H . u u l . h nevr. the arriving,u a large open yard, surrounded by pliers , for .' it accommoda tion of earritgi a and ornhibusca wsiimg for paaicaig..roi on one aide, and on the three other sides, too of wh.ati face the water, warehouses, pr. Tided with m. 0...., the arch. d base ment piers I g a convenient R. ties ul -halo. From the passeng. r station s fixed wooden pier, itontpletd) covered in, farming a visitors' 25 feet square, rums out 2_)o test into the river, toll. re it end- upon a atone irch —hying the u , most diosiice to which the Admiralty will IN ruht a tia.e. pier to fevond the stone arch it is 11 , ..p red to place, at a distance of 300 feet, an iron caisson, 200 feet long and 40 feet broad, eliding up and down with the tide between two triangular lattice like piers, and to canniect the floating caisson with the fixed pier by a tube of w r .ught iron, sisailsr in principle to that used at Conway. 16 feet -game. There are sear. rd points in this scheme well w.-rth for attrition of thiwe who are interested in the lahoura..f oor eotArra , tees on age-culture or manufactures. The peen hger London, or Lioodn, or Liverpool is to he c ho. tea to toe ',atheist pumi'de limits on the borders •Pthe llttn.lur t under covet be rte-tends, and is placed 06.bi..41 a fiat itteleper • tea minutes convey biro to the opposite shove ; then,igain, at all tins,' of the tide, be will be rev, mud ni.der cower, and dryaholi proceed to his destinatims. It *hi seedy ha under aloud that arrangements on so tit* arias a' d co:apee h,,,, i i" esas t ci a b : i s ir t p t i li t i c i e , u l l u o d .i t ° k:i m n Y th : t t c h i e a o t etthe:teeiciecet;stpewidofi;us their gigant ic l i g a i t tl f i e s nat i f great da undertakings.gwt Oeana B ps!eh it s re wsrva r s k ch e eme toe aurprovirg the internal communica.- 1 Lica at this kingdom —ate Mt. thetetaaktit Out or twiny of the I