The Express. — London, England, 1846-11-02 00:00:00

I .---------- -------- A Cabinet i tateil itt w ert as held t on Saturda we y / lit at ß the edgitalintlat.'lkaquis of Lansdowne, the Earl of Minto, Sir iiiigeShtey, ue- Vitionnt Palmation, Earl Grey, Pa Chan eellza of the Exchequer, Sir John Hobhouse, Lord Camp sell, the Earl of Chit odors, the Earl of Auckland. Viscount seepals, the Right floe. T. R. Macaulay, tbo Marquis of Ciserfarde and the Right Hon. H. Jabouchere. The coutte g K t 'th r ee hours and a half. Atter the Council the use o f LleidOW/le !eft town air his seat, Bowood-park, Wilts St. Patrick Stout had an interview with Earl re Saturday, at the Colonial-office. grei = hes were sent off on Saturday evening from • .ottice, for the Governors of New South Wales, Australia, and Van Diemen's Land. Despatches went ,tat off on Saturday evening for the Governors of the ea Isdia Colonies. At the Chapel Royal, St. Jamas, yesterday, the were read by the Rev. Mr. Helmore, and the lessons t h e Rev. Dr. Wesley ; the sermon wu preached by the Dr. ?daddy; the anthem was, " Blessed are those" Go ne). Mr. Cooper presided at the organ. The Countess Wilton, and Lords Granville, de Manley, Norreys, and . Graham were among the nobility present. Sig Roussr PsEl..—We understand that the • hoe, baronet has been suffering from an attack of gout • the last week at Drayton Manor, Staffordshire. On y last St:. Robert was considered to be improving, was then unable to leave his room. gr. P. M. STEWART, M.P.—We regret to learn letters reeeived from Cu noch House, N. 8., on Friday 'ons th•t the above hon gentleman continues in a most conditiou, and that but little hope is given of his ' to reCOTtry. We understand that the Earl of Stair has got the . Ribbon of , the most ancient Order of the Thistle, - - of the Marquis of Ailso.—Cakdonion A Norfolk has left town for Arundel where every preparation has been made for 'her Dhje.ty and his Royal Highness Prince venerable baronial seat. The Earl and del and Surrey, who have been visiting the he north, are expected to arrive at Arundel \ numerous and distinguished circle has noble Duke and Duchess, and while at magnificent ball will be given, in compliment )usE.—The Marquis of Salisbury the public to go over his lor ds h i p s Monday and Tuesday last, without any rank. It is computed that not less than over the rooms. We have been supplied summary of the consumption at the house d u ring the visit of her Majesty and the Prince Consort-3 b u llocks, 8 sheep, 6 calves, 200 chickens, 50 capons, 150 par -100 pheasants, 50 grouse, 24 turkey 4, 80 harts, 24 rildducks, 200 rabbits, 4 bucks, 24 hams, 24 tongues, and 12 twee .. of turtle, besides the other accessories to the table in PIOPOrti'M Orst tyibtren iothi,c Th e . Duk e of N pee, Sweat. whey( , reception of her 3 lbert at thst vent minter of Arundel ily estates in the I adle this day. A c n invited by the ti the Castle l a ses magnil t o the roya t H A TFIELD 11 01 g ive permission to rincely house on 3 stinction as to rat ,000 persons went ov 'th the follon - ing it MARYLEBONE VESTRY. toi - --- RtILWAY FROM PADDINGTON TO THE T HAMES.- On Saturday Sr P. Laurie drew the :attention of the vestry an shred' ement calling a pubic meeting for the purposeof keeling a railway along the bed of the Regent's-canal, from Paddington to the Thames. The proposed railway would ruin all the property in the vicinity of the Park. The vestry lot year succeeded in terrifying the shareholders of the railway from paying up or going to parliament, and he was atisSed that the vestry would, by following up that opposi ton, also deter the proprietors from resuming the scheme. He moved the appointment of a committee to watch and re port the proceedings of the proprietors, and, if neceisary, to wait upon the Home Secretary and the Commissioners of Woods and Forests, to enlist their opposition to it.—Mr. I reminded the vestry that the railway would interfere '- rates to the amount of 34,0001. a ear;y and that, ' solemnly bound to watch it. The mo n. con. :mous Fittest) OP THE POOR.—The vestry. letter from the anonymous humane gentleman . to subscribe 5001. towards the comforts of those having. seen better days, were, through reverse of for : 'to become inmates of the workhouse. The . surprise that he had received no satisfac aication from the vestry ; and, in conclusion, the vestry did net avail itself of his offer, he it to another board.—Mr. Daniel regretted to er read. The offer, which was a princely one, .... condition that others made the sum 1,0001. Up -1501. had been ridded to it, hut the board of , when called upon to avail themselves of it, would Some years ago, 2,0001. was expended in build workhouse apartments for the parties for whose :5001. was now given, but after the outlay of that subject was lost sight of, and allowed to drop. He nothing so harrowed the feelings of respectable to were the inmates of the workhouse, as their compelled to associate with the depraved characters found there. He moved that the letter be referred of guardians.—Mr. Granger seconded, and Mr. ed the in - tion.—Mr. Bell said that as example n 'anger, they should themselves contribute it fund.—Mr. Ridgway said that he would do so, to rector offered to add to it 501., left with him for Nurposes.—The motion was carried. The vestry . that during the week 6,319 paupers had been and that there were in the workhouse 1,749 in after which the vestry adjourned. I I i I GRAND ENTERTAINMENT AT THE MANSION CSE.—The Lord Mayor gave a most splendid entertain 'on Friday, in the Egyptian-hall of the Mansion-house, Well 180 and 200 guests. The Lord Mayor and Lady • will give a grand ball at the Mansion-house on the . The grandest preparations arc being made for 1, and some of the first people in town are invited. ICHAELMAS TERM.—This being the first day of 2erm the judges will breakfast with the Lord and afterwards proceed, in state, to open at Westminster. The procession will be mar- Francis Smedley, Esq., the High Bailiff of GARDENS AT CIIELSEA.—The company of have appointed Mr. Fortune, the late plant Lie Horticultural Society's Gardens at Chiswick, just returivd from a horticultural expedition to '-ich he was engaged for three years, as curator at Chelsea, in room of the late Mr. Ander .s. GREAT BRITAIN.—The plan proposed by Mr. .h, for floating that leviathan ship, is, it is be tried. it has been thus explained .—There is to s of stones in a half circle placed at a short distant of the vessel, and some hollow iron shells in a with gunpowder, besides a few smaller zed along the course to which the ship is driven. Upon the semi-circular train being .., of the usual galvanic appliances, the water at the ship will be lifted with such force as to loosen bed, and immediately set her afloat, the conti . the wave being accomplished by the firing of the charges, while the tug steamers are towing in It is calculated that the water will be agitated to , nt. not more than equal to the force already the Great Britrin when at tea, and that a COT :of casks deposited in the engine-room will give it buoyancy. The grand point must necessarily such a precise arrangement of the explosive to prevent any untoward injury to the ship and time to accomplish a simultaneous action of the auspicious event come off, and the afloat. We have seldom known excite more interest here than this since the trial of Warner's Long the Great Britain will not become ty way not easily reparable. .6E.—The revenue authorities .neir minute of June, 1836, by which baggage warehouses are authorised to to passengers, respecting their effects, port from the continent after four and being of opinion, in order to accommodation to passengers, that ,r in his absence the landing waiters, warehouses, should be authorised to .ons, whether during or after the ,g the public business of the depart issued for the revenue officers at the a in the port, to govern themselves in accordingly, and for a proper form of from passengers, previously to the de- English horses, carriages, .and plate, furnished to the officers for the pro extension of the privilege of per the continent to make the required their effects, before the examining hours of business have closed, allowing be observed within the legal hours, or, ...a times, instead of obliging the, in many -respectable parties to attend at the Custom will be duly appreciated, and the very opportune period, when fami others are returning from their tours rendering it of essential and imme to the public. —The Leipaic catalogue just titles of 5,283 works, which have Germany since the Easter fair of the pre about immediately to appear, and 381 ,maps, plans, Bre. OEthe 5,283 works in have been printed at Leipsic, 514 at Attgardt, 163 at Vienna, 117 at Munich, and the remainder in the various other No less than 358 are exclusively cones movement in Germany.—Atheneum. - - , us—Tituurrs, Ocr. 20. that the steamer Ariel, now on the Mar to that via 'Trieste, belongs to the Peed's- Company, and it la far that Componl e t i o r government why they are despatches from the Wench Coo r = Alex ), Sze and carrying no portion el IL M. Gove . emeent or the Hon. the E UAW ...oy receive ems hundred end elxty4be theramd annually, for the Meglish mell melee : k is not nf my judgment le duns bow lbw ma jell* It aprons to se Sot ad Omen, wools • eft id, exempt Trim% Yet lesidsi drug pos route to has, std laismitet aflame will jot Ws time Mot.) too Ile Triode, tad orders have bent shed that Alexandria with the mall 16111011 , ere 11•111 to was bunt under esserset, to stem ea Ye me talling which die tumid be thaws an the we steam at die spied. Irbil, tie Avant ems It le • duelleide eseellesel me= dist I seek. Doe the alMit at as Balk sad voids' Dislod ormistal old dlis detest yossosft and ad a sodboolloo of do Mead 0804 Mait ika tia 41 easMi thoS yds do "odd ossommod Is pomodsoof iniollsoass dad doodiddy ft* la Idol olden Isabss. I do' di ad awl *or noddy, so 1 on diandool Is soma ; soossol I * do lord of gists Inierod. I beg yos sal pallia els Odor osalos, so I vik ths know lot, odd • bad of odd odd to do Arley, Ism aodisot that all I Sore Jaunted will be accomptlehad.-1 remain, sir, la., TISOMAII RAONOIM METROPOLITAN IMPROVEMENTS. The following extensive improvements in the vicinity of Leicester-square will commence, it is expected, early in the present month. The whole of Upper St. Martin's-lane is to be demolished, sad a street, 101 feet wide to be formed, to be ultimately carried through the heart of 'the Seven Dials to Tottenham eourt-road. A new street, to he funned at the junction of St. Martin's-lane, Cranboans-street, Newport-street, and Long-acre, in a line through to Singegreet, Covent Garden, and the St rand, the south end of St. Martin's-lane, Rear the ehunh, will also be widened by throwing back the houses at the corner of Hemming's-row, and a communication opened between Coventry-street and Oxford-street, by throwing down the pile of buildings separating Rupert-street and Berwick-street. The cost of these undertakings will be 120,0001. HEARTLESSNESS OF RELIEVING OFFICERS.—It is really time that some measures should be adopted to prevent the starving poor from being left to the caprice and defective judgment of workhouse officer. Persons almost perishing for want daily apply to the magistrates for redress and assistance; yet they , in all probability, form but a small proportion of the miserable objects who, turned ruthlessly away from the doors of workhouse's, have not the courage to complain at a police office. On Saturday no fewer than five cases of this sort of inexcusable cruelty came before the magistrates at different police courts. At Guildhall, Rebecca Allen, an emaciated and sickly woman, with a child in her arms, applied to Mr. Alderman Hooper for his interfereuce. She had presented herself to the officers of Cripplegate parish, to which she belonged—had explained that no food had passed her lips for some time, and that, having no home to shelter her, she was in danger of perishing in - the streets from want ; yet she was turned away unassisted - . The chief usher told the alderman that at Cripplegate workhouse, poor creatures were refused assis tance without the slightest explanation. It was an every day occurrence ; the magistrates' orders were quite unheeded. Mr. Alderman Hooper requested the chief clerk to furnish the unfortunate applicant with some silver, so as to meet her present wants. He then desired the officers of the court to convey to the authorities of Cripplegate his peremp tory order for her relief.—At Westminster John Matson, a wretched-looking man, wilfully broke a pane of glass. to obtain the (to him) luxury of a jail, because, though in a starring and destitute state, he was refused admission even for a night in St. Margaret's workhouse; to his great satisfaction be was committed to prison for twenty-one days.--At Marylebone Court, Thomas Mosley, a miserable object ' was else charged with breaking a lamp. He had applied for temporary relief at St. Pancras workhouse, was refused, and gained a fortnight's board and lodging in the House of Cor rection by his misdemeanour. Four other persons were committed for a similar offence for the same reason from the same court.---A destitute woman, named Jane Webb, had been refused admission to St. Saviour's union, and was taken before a Southwark magistrate. A FEMALE By RGLAR. —On Saturday, Hester Elizabeth White, 23 years of age, about the middle height, dark hair and eyes, and fashionably dressed, was accused before George Bernie, Esq., amagistmte, at hisresidence, the Grove, Hanwell, Middlesex, charged with having committed a dar ing burglary. On the night of the 20th inst., the house of Mr. Jones, a gentleman of property, residing at Woodland Cottage, Ealing, was burglanously entered and robbed of a writing-desk, with a Bramah's patent lock, containing four 101. Bank of England notes, 10/. in gold, and 201. in gold and silver coin, consisting of guineas, half-guineas, and seven shilling pieces, several trinkets, a miniature of a gentleman in a morocco case, and a pocket-book containing wills, deeds, and other papers. Information of the robbery, and the numbers and dates of the notes, was immediately for warded to the police and to numerous bankers in town, through whom they have been subsequently traced to various shopkeepers in Regent-street and Oxford.street, who had changed them in the sale of muffs, boas, and other articles 'f dress. One note was traced to Miss Warren, a stay maker, carrying on business at No. 1, Hanway-street, Oxford-street, who stated that she changed it in the purchase of two pair of stays for a female who gave the name of Miss White, residing at No. 20, Crown-court, Pall-mall. On Fri day Inspector Loxton proceeded to that address, accompa ni by Sergeant Tull, end found that such a person lodged there, and on going into the room shown him he discovered the prisoner in bed, apparently very ill. On searching the room the stolen writing-desk was found under the prisoner's pillow, broken open, but still containing the ancient coins and other property, except the Bank of England notes and sovereigns. In the prisoner's box was also found a parcel, done up in brown paper, directed to " Mr. Jones, Ealing," containing the wills, deeds, and other papers. The prisoner was removed to the station-house at Ealing, and while there she stated that she formerly lived in service with one of Mr. Jones's female servants, and by that means had obtained access to that gentleman's house. A short time mince she was down there for a week on a visit. On the 20th inst. she went down there for the day, mid left there at nine o'clock at night, and was accompanied by Mr. Jones's servant, and a servant at the next house, to the Ealing station of the Great Western Railway, who witnessed her departure by the last train for Paddington. Before she left the house, she managed to raise, unperceived, the bar of the kit chen window shutter out of the catch. On getting out of the train at Paddington, although it was a drenching night, she immediately returned on foot to Ealing, and waited until the family of Mr. Jones had retired to rest, which they usually did at half-pest eleven o'clock. When she found all was quiet, she climed over a wall, six feet high, at the side of Mr. Jones's premises, and, throwing the kit chen window up, had no difficulty in lifting the iron bar of the shutters, which, having accomplished, she got in, and in the dark went up to the front draw ing-room, and stole the writing-desk, taking her depar ture with it the same way that she entered, after which, regardless of the pitiless rain, she retraced her way to town, end reached Crown-court, Pall-mall, about eight o'clock in the morning, in a very exhausted state, and soaked to the akin, her stays having been saturated. The parcel directed I to Mr. Jones she intended to send back, the articles being of no use to her. She was remanded for the attendance of the necessary witnesses, and in consequence of her illness from the cold she had caught in the commission of the robbery, she was sent to the infirmary of the Westminster Bridewell for re-examination when able to bear it. ACCIDENT.—Many of the subscribers to the Daily News who got the it copies by the train leaving Padding ton at 6 o'clock, a m., did not receive them at the ordina ry hour, in consequence of the following serious accident which occurred to Clayton's newspaper express: The driver, a careful man, was proceeding rapidly along a street leading to the station, when, turning the corner, some mischievous persons set up a loud shout and clapping of hands. The horse shyed, ran the chaise against a projecting stone, over turning the vehicle with a fearful crash. The driver was thrown many yards over the horse's head, but providentially escaped, though much bruised. But his companion, a young man in the employ of Messrs. Marlborough. pitching, unto,. tunately on his head, concussion of the brain was produce& He was immediately conveyed to St. George's Hospital, where he remains in a precarious state. From the Strand to the Paddington-station is considerably over three miles; this is frequently accomplished in 12 or 13 minutes. Taking into consideration the number of turnings on the road, and the darkness of the mornings, this performance is equal to many of the extraordinary feats paraded in the columns of the sporting journals. Isgursrs.—The following were held on Saturday : —DREADFUL ACCIDENT.—Before Mr. Mills, at the Vine yard public-house, Clerkenwell, to inquire concerning the death of Charles Miles, aged 28. On Wednesday last the deceased was employed as an undertaker, to drive in the funeral procession of a gentleman who had been killed by a fall from a chaise, near Brighton. After the burial, the de ceased and his fellow-servants partook of some refreshment, which in a alight degree inebriated him, and when returning to town through Morden, Surrey, with his coach, he was suddenly missed from his seat by Samuel Meetings, the con ductor of the hearse, and his mangled remains were dis covered between a wheel of his vehicle and the splinter bar, his face being downwards close to the hoofs of the horses, which, at nearly every step, must have come in contact with his head. When extricated, he was removed with all pos sible haste to the residence of a medical gentleman, who pro nounced him to be quite dead, and by his advice he was at once conveyed to London in the hearse, and left at his home, No. 7, Wood-street, Spaftelds. The friends of the deceased expressed themselves satisfied that he had met with his death from accidental causes, &lathe jury returned a verdict to that effect.—SVICIDE FIT A BANE CLERK.—By the same coroner, at the Old Queen's Head, Lower-road, Isling ton, on the body of a gentleman, named Marshall, who at the time of his death was a clerk in the Bank of England. Mr. Roper, of America-square, Minories, a fellow-clerk of the deceased, gave evidence, showing that the unfortunate man, through some domestic differences, had become very unsettled in his mind, but it was not for a moment supposed that he would do an act to injure himself. On Thursday he complained of indisposition, and by Mr. Roper's recom mendation did not go to the bank at the usual hour in the morning, and about four o'clock in the afternoon he left that gentleman's abode, and was seen at dusk to drown him self in the river. Verdict : " Found drowned."—Setteine , AT Torrexuese —Bv Mr. W. Baker, at the Victory, Totten- ' ham, on the body of Mr. D. Greene, aged 83, lately residing in Union-row, in that neighbourhood. It appeared from the evidence that deceased, on Friday week, had been accused of stealing a piece of meat from a butcher's shop, and ever since he had been in a very low and desponding state of mind. The butcher, it seems, stated that he had suspected him for a period of ten years. lie acknowledged having taken away a piece of beef, and on Wednesday lut, whilst he was out taking a walk, a boy upbraided him, and said, " Well, old chap, how did you like the meat ?" He shortly afterwards returned home, and, on going into the yard, he said that the boy had driven him mad. A daughter of the deceased said that for some time past he had been in an im becile state, and he was not addicted to thieving propensi ties when in a proper state of mind. She had no doubt that the accusation of having stolen the beef preyed upon his mind and caused him to commit suicide, for the same morn ing he was found hanging in the stable, by a rope, which he had passed round his neck, and afterwards fastened to one of the rafters in the roof. He was cut down, but life was quite extinct Verdict —" That the deceased destroyed his life whilst of unecnind mind." THE NEW PLANET AND "PERFIDIOUS ALBION."— Some of the French papers insist IN strong and virulent lan guage that " Perfidious Albion" claims for her young astrono mer, Mr. Adams, of Cambridge, the honour of discovering the new planet. Mr. Verrier favoured at first this delusion by his published letters, especially that to the Guardian. At last, howev-r—we find by a letter from the Astronomer Royal, in Saturday's Atheneum—the real discoverer of the planet has discovered his error, and along with 2d. Arago, and the Daniel reminded the vestry that with their rates to the amount o erefore, they were solemnly be ;.n was adopted ,tem. con. AN ANONYMOUS FRIEND OF rk read a letter from the anon ho offered to subscribe 5001. t who, having seen better days, w tune, compelled to become enrna 'ter expressed surprise that h .ry communication from the id that if the vestry did net ould make it to another board car the letter read. The offer, made on condition that other ards of 130/. had been midi, eardians, when called upon to .got do so. Some years ago, 2,0 • gin the workhouse apartmcn netit the 5001. was now given, money the subject was lost sight knew that nothing so harrowe mots who were the inmate ing compelled to associate w t were found there. He mos the board of guardians.—Mr. 'ewell supported the an - tion.— was better than precep', they s wardsthat fund.—Mr. and that the rector offered to ad charitable purposes.—The moth clerk stated that during the w • lieved, and that there were tea ; after which the vestry a GRAND ENTERTAINMEN' HOUSE.—The Lord Mayor gave cot on Friday, in the Itgyptia between 180 and 200 guests. ayoress will give a grand ball h instant. The grandest pre .e occasion, and some of the fir MICHAELMAS TERM.—T} liehaelmas Term the judges w hancellor, and afterwards e Courts nt Westminster. hailed by Francis Smedley, " eatminster. PHYSIC GARDENS AT Cll potbecaries have appointed 'A • nager of the Horticultural S 1 who has just returrvd from hint, on which he was engage f their gardens at Chelsea, in 'on, F.L.S. THE GREAT BRITAIN.— acintoah, for floating that id, to be tried. it has been t • a ridge of stones in a half cif one the stern of the vessel, am 'ke circle charged with gunpov barges being placed along the apected to be driven. Upon ed by means of the usual gall c stern of the ship will he lifti c sandy bed, and immediate seance of the wave being actor slier charges, while the to . Vance. It is calculated that given extent. not more than ithstood by the Great Britrin a number of casks deposited r sufficient buoyancy. The to ensure such a precise al terials as to prevent any unt the same time to accomplish steamers should the auspi ble ship be once more allow .7 nautical occurrence excite s, and certainly none since ge. It is hoped that the ( ed or damaged in any wt PASSENGERS' BAGGAGE.- ring adverted to their mi e officers in the baggage • 'rater declarations to pus ho may arrive at this port 'clock in the afternoon, and ord greater facility and ace() e landing surveyor, or in h t the several baggage wareho • 'ulster such declarations, hours of transacting the ent, orders have been issued sal baggage stations in th e matter in future accordi eclaration required from p . very, duty free, of Englis ~ to be provided and turn ~ • purposes. This eaten tting passengers from the I e . claration with respect to the 'ter, after the legal hours o e same practice to be obaei • other words, at all times, i • stances, highly-respectable : ouse for the purpose, will er has been made at a ver es of distinction and others the continent, thus rend to service and benefit to th THE LEIPSIC übliahed contains the title n published in Germany I nt year, 258 others about i oeks including music, maps, 6 n l category, 849 have VA at Stuttgardt, 1 at Frankfort, and the n Germany. No less t ated to the religious moves TRIF.STE MARSEIL I beg to inform You that Wei route in opposition to th and Oriental Swam Comps plain to her Majesty's govern and conveying despatc • to France (Paria), Stc hes to either our Gov; palm although they receive taunt's (164,0000 annually, fos sithin the compass of my jildffth themselves to so doing. It apse have done better had they sports *the wish of all the world, ones use a duplicate overland route altogether. The Ardent will se with my despatches ria Trial 1 henceforth th leave Alexandrl 'fanglike The Ariel was ball) 1 rage 1 4 miles an hour falling ' builder's hands. Sh e dote stem anlY go miles an hour. It is dent of frame, that I seek. for THE EXPRESS, MONDAY • eaoowfs renudiates the bitterness of the French newspapers. Subjoined ,s portion of Mr. Airy, letter: "Royal Obseerstory Orainwidi, Oet. 26.—1 e the Netiessat French newspaper of the fist instant, there Ls a most virulent seeds ea the subjeet of the new planet ; eantaining a report of the of the French Academy on the Illth ((ht whlch the priorit at of the planet was dimmed), and loading Sir John h and myself with the grossest abuse. It gives mg map resat pleasure to be enabled to date that this article is most ei=idis claimed by the French Ambo Th y. e same which me the article of the National breight also tin faßawleg Wet Item M. Aram. which I sat easiblene will be nein& by year resew as equally honourable le IL Arnim seeltothe body whisk he rspeeinels;" M. Lamer° Ma. AMT. " Paata, Ocr. 221.—The Modem was occupied last 11=4ei u the clams to priority which yes, Mr. ILmichel 11114 Mr. thought it your duty to put forme,* In favour of Mr. Admen Ppd . ; • on that occasion. hut whilst eatMalllsg, se I think mend MIK did not forget that they were sappiest by men of greet talon and the most noble character. A Mareallat has reported cordlike' b i terms which hare excited my warmest indignation. This sentiment ha, been shared by all the entightesed friend,. of .cience. It wee say desire to give you thlo asetiranee. which I hope you may retakes kindly feeling , . Bemire, sir, the homage sr my highest . esteem. "I received, at the 1111:1e tint,. continues Mr. Airy, "a inter from M. Le Vcrrier, of which the following is an extract : M. Li TRULIZIt TO M. 51ST. "It is needless for me to assure you, sir, that my sentiments are the same so those expressed by M. Arian. One point, howes cr, I beg to press upon your attention, and that is, that our sittings are public and that the facts of the debate were often singularly garbled in the ne camera, so that we can only answer for what appears In our earspta reledte." "I am sure that the publication of these passage. will be aufilcient to prove to the English public that the discreditable article to which I base alluded meets with no sympathy in the French Academy; and that there is 'more the leading members of that noble body every disposition to discuss claims of historical priority with perfect fair- nem. If, in :he opinion of some F.nirlish periodicals, a Little semi- Uremia has been shown on the French side, I bi hem that it may be attributed to the circumstance that (as I am inforinel) a most un worthy attempt to detract from H. Le Verrier's^laims was originated within the Academy Itself—an attempt which lam glad to say was , speedily suppremen—G. B. Any, PUBLIC HEALTH IN THE SUMMER QEARTER, 1848.—The usual return of deaths has been made by the Regiurar-General for the summer quarter, ending Sept. 30. That return includes 115 districts, subdivided into 676 rub- districts. Thirty-four districts are in the metropolis, and the remaining 81 comprise, with some agricultural districts, the principal towns and cities of Ens-land. The population of the whole was 6,579,693 in 18+1. .51,235 deaths were registered within the quarter—a number exceeding by 1.5,227 these in . the corresponding quarter of last year. In the mild winter quarter ending March, 1846, the deaths were nearly 5,000 below the average; in the spring quarter ending in June, the mortality was slightly above the average: the intestinal com plaints which then arose, and became epidemic, have been the principal causes of the immense loss of life on record. With the population increasing at the rate of 1•75 per cent. annually, had the mortality corresponded wish that of pre• vious years, the deaths would have amounted only to 41080. The deaths in London were 12,409, while in the summer quarter of 1815 they were only 10,842. Of the excess of 1,567 deaths, 1,303 were from diarrhea, cholera. and dysentery ; which proved fatal respectively to 1,549, 197, and 7 5 persona. The mortality by intemperance, delirium tremens, jaundice, lirer diseases, and rheumatism, was also greater than usual. The five weeks from July 11 to August 15, were the un healthiest. Young children were the greatest eufferers, the form of the disease being what in America is designated cholera infantum. Though the disease—which also proved fatal to many old people and adul•e—could not, in some adult cases, be distinguished in its symptoms from Asiatic cholera, yet it wee evident from the first that it had not the characters of the malady of 1832. In London, the deaths rose fourteen per cent. ; in some other densely peopled towns the mortality was doubled. No such mortality had been wit ness.d in Birmingham for many years. The number, which in the corresponding quarter of 1811 amounted to 691, rose to 1.627. In Liverpool, the increase was from 2,59,5 to 4,090 ; in Manchester and the contiguous districts of Salford and Chorlton, from 2,411 to 4,248. 1,039 personsdied in Sheffield, though the mortality in any preceding year had never exrceded 617. Huddersfield , • Leeds, Hull, and York, also suffered severely. The mortality of the quarter was below the average in Pontypool and Newtown, but slightly above it in the other districts of Wanes. Generally, the country and southern districts suffered comparatively little. As regards the relative mortality of different dis tricts, it is stated that at the last census the population of Anglesca was 3.5,105, and the deaths in the last quarter were 160 the population of Gateshead was 38,717, and the deaths in the same period amounted to 473. The population of the seven Welsh districts was 273,000, and the deaths in the last quarter were 1,465 ,• the population of Manchester and Salford was 263,000, and the deaths amounted to 3,149. The population of the six districts of the South-eastern divi sion was 218,000, sad the deaths were 1.4.53; while in Liverpool, the population of which at the time of the last census, was 223,000, the deaths in the quarter amounted to 2,916. The high mortality of the towns is attributed to crowd ed lodgings, dirty dwellings, personal uncleanliness, and the concentration of unhealthy emanations from nar row streets, without fresh air, water, or sewer,. The returns of the last quarter prove that nothing effectual hat been done to put a stop to these causes of disease. The wealthy pari-h of Marylebone affords au in stance of the little regard paid to sewerage. A considerable part of that parish is still without sewers, or any direct open communications with the sewers; and it is said that half the houses have cesspools, many of which remain uuemptied from year to year. No effectual arrangements are made for the removal of decaying animal and vegetable matter. Com plaint is made of great neglect in certifying the causes of the deaths of infants ; and the natural inference is drawn that great numbers die without any proper medical assistance. The registrar of Deansgate, Manchester, remarks, " Of 279 children, the deaths of only 126 were certified ;" to which the registrar general olds, 'ln Manchester, 13,362 children p:rished in seven years over and above the mortality natural to mankind." The average mean temperature in the metro poll for the quarter was 63.1; while, in the corresponding quarter of 1845, it was 67.1. IRELAND. DUBLIN, Ocr. 31. THE CORK DEPUTATION. _ . The deputation of the several local committees of the ematy of Cork, named at the meeting at Fermoy on the 21th instant, had sterday an interview with the Lord Lieutenant, at they iee-regal Lodge, in the Phmnix-park. The deputation arrived at the lodge at ten o'clock, and was immediately uuhsred into his Excellency's presence. The following is an outline of the proceedings, to which much importance is attached in this country.—Mr. O'Connell having introduced the leading members of the deputation, submitted a memorial, which stated That believing thorough drainage to offer the beet means of em. ployment, and to be Indispeneable for the proper cultivation of a Ebreadth of land , they 1.2., with much pleasure, your Excel letter letter to the Chairman of the Board of Works, directing that • ties should ne afforded to the owners of land for obtaining advances for the purpose. That, having the utmost respect for your Excellency's wisdom and statesmanlike views, anal but little con& deuce in their own judgments, they mast reluctantly take the liberty of requesting a reconsideration of the terms proposed to the owners of land by the letter just referred to, which gave such unquali. led eatietaction to the mat majority of the people of Ireland, but they humbly submit, that proprietors who may become borrowers under its conditkine, must do so on terms much lees favourable than are offered by the money clause. of the million drainage act, insomuch sa they would have to repay the advances within ten yearn,and may be charged interest at the rate of flee per cent., instead of being allowed twenty two years for repayment, at a maximum interest of three onmhialf per cent. They fear this eared du ration will deter many persons from applying for presentments for drainage who would otherwise gladly avail themselves of the Smithies afforded by your Excelleacy. They venture to request that means may be devised for similarly modifying the drainage laws—say, by shortening the period allowed for the assent or dissent under the summary proceedings. Permitting tenants, holding under short leases to qualify as proprietors, by giving security for the inetal relnts payable during their occupancy, and making the residue a lip n upon the land. Enabling landlords, 'labs, are tenants foe life, to el• age the land, on certificate of the commissioners that its annual value would he Improved to an amount equal to, or exceeding the ye sly instalments, to become payable in respect of the advaneesmade for the works. Defining the preliminary expenses, by limiting them to a certain fixed sum far twenty acres; in all eases of mere field drainage, requiring no main escapes, or other works extending into sevoral properties, and where the necessary server, which may be nose simplified, shall be furnished by the applicant. Or, that the go. see unent would declare that the legislature shall be called on to le. galioe the extension of the term for the repayment of advances graded by presentment, to the pealed allowed by the drainage acts, and the limitation of the interest to thremand-mhalf. In cam of the ado dim of either suggestion, they pray you further to direct that landlords or others who shall obtain orders for the drainage of their lani.s may, on complying with all necessary preliminaries, be allowed to select their own overseers. On emulition, however, that the works should be completed, under a penalty. according to plans and specifi cations to be approved of by the Asartant-Coniminsioner of Drainage. That the works shall be done by task. That all payments are to be mad uti Z o.s the officers of the board. Should your Excellency adopt the herein coatained, your memorialists conceive that a feyourabie opportunity would be afforded for dividing baronies ; and they submit, that the inducements to landlords is avail themselves of such facilities would be increased in the ratio of the minuteness of the division, provided that a wholesome cheek be established by em powering boards of guardians, or some other public functionaries, to present employment winks, amounting to one.frirth of the net annual value, on any townland, where the proprietor fails to do so after due notice. As thorough drainage is admitted be all who understand the Industrial improvement of the country to beef paramount importance, your memorialists request your Excellency's most senate considera tion of the subject. And they, as in duty bound, will pray." Mr. O'Connell then proceeded to assure his Excellency that the deputation approached him thoroughly convinced of his paternal anxiety to do everything in his power to nave the country from the perils with which it was threatened. The deputation was composed of gentlemen representing thirteen different relief committees, comprising a very considerable district of the county of Cork ; and it was with deep regret they were obliged to inform bin Excellency that great desti tution existed in that part of the country, especially in those districts where there were not resident gentry. They wished to impress upon his Excellency the fact that the supplies of food brought to the market were lamentably insufficient for the wants of the people, so much so that in many cases human beings bad actually perished from starvation. They conceived that the time had arrived for immediate action, and that ge neral employment should at once be provided for the people. The labour rate act, which was the best measure that could be passed under existing circumstances, and every day's experience convinced him more and more of its wisdom, should be promptly and • efficiently carried out ; and he was happy to perceive, from LordJehn Russell's letter, that such was the intention of the government. There were some districts in which presentments had passed under that act, three, four, and five weeks ago; and yet little or nothing had been done to carry them into effect. The deputation felt that the Board of Works were not chargeable with any wilful neglect ; but they apprehend that the delay which had arisen was attributable to irdEficient staff of officers. There should not be any delay whatever in commencing operations ; the people had an absolute right to employ ment as the entire property of the country was mortgaged as security for the repayment of any advances which i government might make for that purpose. It therefore became incumbent on the executive to Issue imperative directions to their engineers to proceed with RAM suffi cient to employ the people without giving those officers any discretionary power to procrastinate or delay. The deputa tion would next take the liberty of suggesting that a com missary should be appointed for each — poor-law union, to EVENING, , 2, 1846. need between the Board of Works and the government. in order to obviate the possibility of any delay taking place lo Providing employment and payment for the labouring Population. The Lord Ueutenaat—What can J do On that tortieular point 7—l hardly know what you mean by "commissary." Mr. O'Connell replied that he used the word in its meet 1 extensive sense. He meant a person in the confidence of the government under the B oa rd of Works, Yam would set as • supervisor to see that the work was prope:dy done. A parson who understood engineering would bo bust suited to fill such a situation. The Lord Lieutenant said he had stopped Mr. O'Connell at that point, because he wanted distinctly to understand the proposition. He was most anxious to procure the greatest number of persons who could be got for the purpose of superintending the public works. Persons had been pte cured from the artillery and engineering departments in England ; but in most instances it was found that they knew very little about these descriptions of works. He was sure that all the gentlemen present were aware of the great difficulty that existed in commencing such works immediately in this country. Mr. O'Connell observed that on the other hand the people were perishing for want of food, and it was therefore abso lutely necessary that employment should at once be afforded to them. No nobleman who had been entrusted with the government of this country for the last century and a half ever had more onerous dutiesor more heavy responsibilities, imposed on him than his Excellency. The Lord Lieutenant—l shall only say that the great at number of persons that can be procured to superintend these works will be provided—that the works will be commenced as soon as possible, and that there shall be no delay in the paym•nt of the labourers. Mr. O'Connell—There is another point to which the deputation wish to direct your Excellency's attention. They conceive it would be desirable that peremptory orders should be given for the distribution of wages at least once, and if possible twice, a week. The Lord Lieinenant—That matter hu already engaged my attention, and I will endeavour to have the suggestion of the deputation on that point carried into effect. Mr. O'Connell said it appeared to the deputation to be absolutely necessary that local depots should be established for the purpose of bringing food more immediately within reach of the people; and they earnestly pressed upon the government the propriety of purchasing up the grain of the country from the farmers to furnish those depots. This necessity was particularly obvious with regard to moun tainous districts, and those portions of the country which were remote from market towns. There was unfortunately no mercantile speculation in the country to supply those parts with provisions; and therefore it was that they urged this consideration upon his Excellency. The Lord Lieutenant observed that, with regard to the establishment of local depGts, he was inclined to think that it could not be acted upon with advantage to the general in terests of the country, and that it would be rather a danger ous system to commence. He had however submitted the matter to the cabinet for their consideration. . Mr. O'Connell said—The next pr position they would sub mit to his Excellency was, that the labourers employed on the public works should be supplied with sufficient wages, either by a system of task work, or, where that was not prac ticable, by an adequate daily rate, the amount to be regu lated by the current price of provisions. The Lord Lieutenant—There seems to he a great deal of misunderstanding existing in the country on the subject of task work; but I feel confident that if the principle were generally understood, it would not only not be objected to, but be generally approved of. It is not intended by task work to give small wages to the man who works by task; on the contrary, my wish is, that the man who has done a good day's work should receive a proportionate degree of remu neration. The question then remains, of what is to ho given to those who can't dos hard day's work ? But I think that a plan may be devised which would afford a fair return to those indit iduals who should be physically incompetent to undertake the more arduous description of labour. I have spoken to the officers of the Board of Works on the subject, and it is now under their consideration. Suppose a man earns twenty pence or two shillings a day, thej may only pay him at the end of the week six shillings on amount; but they intend to pay the balance which remains due when the works were completed and measured. Ther are very little short of one million of persons employed by the Board of Works at present, and it would be quite impossible for them to adopt any other system but that of task work. The Rev. Henry Disney begged to suggest that it would be desirable if a scale were prepared which would show the labourers what wages they were likely to receive under the task work system. Such an adoption might have the effect of dispelling the apprehensions which seemed to exist with regard to it throughout the country. Mr. E. B. Roche assured his Excellency that the great object they had in view was to obtain immediate employ ment for the people, many of whom were in a state of actual starvation. Mr. O'Connell said the most important object of the depu tation was to represent to his Excellency the absolute neer:- sity which existed of providing immediate employment for the starving people. If this were not done—if prompt and efficient measures were not adopted to supply the people with the means of obtaining food, the peace of the country would be endangered, and the most lamentable consequences ensue. The Lord Lieutenant assured the deputation that the subjects referred to in the memorial had engrzed his serious attention, and that the government were most anxious to do everything in their power to ameliorate the condition of the people, by furnishing them with employment as the means of procuring the necessaries of life. Every exertion would be made to procure a sufficient number of qualified persons to undertake the superintendence of the public works, and care would be taken to have these works commenced as soon as possible. With regard to the regular payment of wages, th.tt was a subject to which he had devoted considerable attention, and every possible means would be adopted to carry out the recommendation of the deputatien on that point. No exertions would be spared on the part of the executive to carry into effect those measures which they deemed necessary for the preservation of the country, im mediate employment would be provided for the people wher ever it was necessary, and wages be given immediately.— His Excellency, in conclusion, again assured the deputation that their recommendations, as far as were practicable, should be carried into effect, and that, so far as he was personally concerned, not one moment should be lost in ministering to the necessities of the people. The Very Rev. Lord Mountnorris bore testimony to the awful state of destitution to which the people of his district were reduced, and expressed his admiration of the patience and fortitude which they evinced under the privations they were doomed to suffer.—His Excellency paid the deepest attention to the observations of the different speakers, and expressed his personal anxiety for the safety of the people, wishing them to believe that his best and untiring exertions should be devoted to that desirable end.—Mr. O'Connell : Am I to understand from your Excellency that I may inform the people, that you are determined to have prompt and active measures taken in every quarter to set the people at work ? The Lord Lieutenant: Certainly—l am most anxious that immediate employment should he afforded to the people, and that their wages should be paid regularly to them.—The deputation then retired. STATE OF THE COUNTRY. Mrantn OF A LANDLORD.—Tipperary has bees the scene of another awful murder. On Thursday night Mr. Benjamin J. Cooke, of Galbooly, near this town, was &et dead while proceeding from his stable to his dwelling house. Deceased, who was married, was not more than 23 rears of age, and was much esteemed in his neigh bourhood. He was respectably connected, being a cousin of one of our county members. It is reported that he was to have ejected three or four families this day for non payment of rent. The journals received from the provinces since my last communication furnish the following details of the condi-. tion of the country : FOOD STEALINO. —The Tipperary Vindicator states that on Thursday morning 52 d ra ys laden with flour be longing to the neighbouring millers, whilst proceeding to Shannon Harbour, escorted by the police and a party of the 16th regiment, under Captain Bolton, were surrounded by a starving multitude, who succeeded in carrying off two of the bags. Were it not for the forbearance of the commanding officer matters might have ended badly. On the account reaching here, Neal Browne, S.M. with a party of soldiers, proceeded to the assistance of the first escort. have been told Mr. Browne was struck with stones; how ever, it is said his conduct was not very conciliatory towards the people when he came up with them.—The ;Yenned Guardian says that on Wednesday last, as a car laden with wheaten meal was proceeding to Mr. Naughtmes at Poe cumin, and when near a place called Ratheabbio, a party, chiefly composed of women and boys. attacked it, and carried away three bags, about 60 stone, of the meal. COWL—MIDI ETON, MONDAY EVENING.—In Mae quence of its being announced in the Chapel on Sunday, that Mr. Benson, the county engineer, would be here today to commence a road which would give extensive employ ment to the labourers, a large body of men assembled oppo site the Hotel this morning awaiting the arrival of that gentleman. Having waited patiently until 2 o'clock, and finding he was not forthcoming, they went in a body to I the several bread shops and demanded bread, which was ! rodily given to such as appeared most in want; after which they quietly dispersed. The police under the direction of Mr. Knaresborough, R.M., were kept march ing up - and down the street, and the magistrates, assisted by the Rev. Dr. Keane, frequently exhorted the people to for bearance, and to return quietly to their homes without cora • • mittang any breach of the peace. On Tuesday the labourers Imustered very strong again, and meeting with a similar dis appointment to that of yesterday, headed by two men, strangers to this locality, who urged them on, were about to I break into the bread shops to plunder them, when the police arrested the two ringleaders, end put them into Bridewell. The crowd then quietly dispersed.—Cork Southern Reporter. BYPLOYMENT AFFORDED TO ONE MlLLlON.—According to the statement made on yesterday by his Excellency the I Lord Lieutenant, during his interview with the deputation from Fermoy, there are at present nearly one million of men • employed on the public works in Ireland under the Board , of Works. THE LABOUR RATE ACT. CO. MONAOHAN.—Faxxxx Pasenscriawr Seastorre. —The first presentment sessions for the barony of Forney took place on Wednesday last. The chair was taken at 12 o'clock by Evelyn F. Shirley, Esq., M.P. Mr. Mulvaney, of the Board of Works, was in attendance. It was agreed that the sum of 10,3631., or 20 per cent, upon the net annual value of the barony, should be levied at present ; and it affords us great pleasure to state, that the entire sum was presented for draining by the landlords of the district, except one small presentment br a necessary and useful work on a road. CO. DONEOLL—LI7PORD SESSION6.—These sessions were held by adjournment on the 22d inst. Sir E. 8. Hayes, Bart., M.P., in the chair. The Chairman read a cons- municatios Mai himself to the governmentorritten as chair man or • sunier, its purport will be learned truss the =bast We Yee ass. sod asswldised as atentstely as poasible the fold euseed et Ibis Wean sod have determhA the sessod—emegesd et• Ile pee vsimi—en We owe socessary to= We &Me. bibsisss• ibr • dlibllepodet lloWehit foot Set, seems see sew &Miele la to berm whore destitute I.leur is the Isms reds et ask wise, wallow timed it to zh i = o needsesei he mat& modes, as contradiatingnishad .0 09 imastlhat ; end have also done to to meet We sited udemelly estlessod desire of the proprietors to ex pend le whitest Worm to to aurresd la drainaste, and have only preassledtheee•.Wkdlwpellimuehsseuesstshe unequal destitution lbegassw dimbists. wit isseldbelsopeedlls So nose on them ••sul king imemmtisf nhafin regredlimattiesselta, while it would be unjust to tax We rfabsrastriple We the iseketadoe or the land in the poorer. CU an spot she usisrlekkg kr Ids employer for his expendi ture la preiralet werk• What We preprlstce is not on the spot, or canna iwe serealled t On • llMllmthe the whole et the reproduces. walla In its sYsWte, in theorem of the ether propri etors of it or eallailyt le do so? or does that refusal compel the expenditure of the whole monist on unproductive works in it 1" The following is Mr. nedington'l reply °Dublin Castle, 19th October, 1846. "Sir—ln reply to your letter of the 16th, lam commanded by the Lora Lieut.'s,* to state, that, on reference to the Mier secretary's letter, it will be a ssis i =less the regulations therein pointed out re o acted upon.** must be considered with strict reference to the provisions the Poor Relief Act. If the presentments have been made in the manner stated in your letter, they are clearly not in accordance with the letter referred to. lii. Eacelleney cannot rive any pledge IN to the course which it may appear expedient to him to adopt under circumstances which have not as yet anus-1 have the honour to be, sir ia r r : i • most obedient servant, P. "Sir Hayes, Bart., T. N. RIUMNOTOX. ." The Chairman said he did not heara dissentient voiee from any magistrate or ass-paper when the subject of the alloca tion of the 10,000/. was debated ; and now, he wouli say, let them go on with the presentments under the road act. It was agreed that 10,0001. should he expended in the poorer parts of the barony, and that then they should proceed with the applotmenta on the electoral divisions. It appeared now that they could not have an electoral and baronial reser ment. He had not said that what had been already dose was necessarily final. Mr. William Sinclair said, the Lord Lieutenant's letter clearly pointed out that they could not apply their money to reproductive works. He would pro pose. nevertheless ' that they should go on and :limns the 30,0001. as directed by the Lord Lieutenant. After some further discussion, the question was put to the vote, when it was decided by a majority of 13 to 4 that they should pro ceed to pans the presentments for the 30,0001. in the several electoral divisions of the barony. COUNTY DOWN.—BLRONT or MouNE.—At the pre- Bentment sessions for this barony Lord Newry, the Chair man said, after having made extensive inquiries on the sub ject, we have found it most difficult to arrive at an accurate estimate of the real facts of distress, but we feel we would be justified in saying that there are 300 able-bodied men, who are in circumstances such as that they will require employment for the next six months. If you take these at a rate of wages not exceeding a shilling a day, you will re quire 4,0001. to meet this expenditure, and beyond that amount you will not be justified in coing. Now, it so happens that, irrespective of any relief measures, the government has proposed to assist in improving Annalong Harbour. The entire sum required for that purpose will be 2,3561. 16a., and two-thirds of this they propose to grant us, not to be repaid, but as a donation, provided that those interested in the work will make up the remaining 800/. —After some angry interruptions on the part of the people, the sum estimated by the noble chairman, as sufficient to re lieve the destitution, was passed. COUNTY OF DUBLIN.—BARONY or RAIII DOWN.— An extraordinary presentment sessions was held at Dun drum, for the barony of Rathdown. There was a large number of the magistrates, clergy, gentry, and merchants of the locality in attendance. Lora Cloncurry was called to the chair. Mr. William T. Isf ulvany (one of the Commissioners of Pubic Works) attended. Ultimately, and on the motion I of Mr. Latouche, 7,2911. were presented.—The Rev. Mr. Ennis suggested that the bench would apportion 3001. from the amount given to Dundrum, for the enlargement of the Roman Catholic chapel of that neighbourhood. Such a work was very much required, and the taxes would be ren dered popular in that district if it were undertaken.—Mr. Crofton objected to any such vote. He would move that no money should be votea for any building whatsoever.—The Rev. Mr. Ennis withdrew hie suggestion.—Mr. Mulvany said, that any presentments for building works would not be affirmed by the board. SCOTLAND. GL kSOOW TOWN CM:KCIL.-01•ENINO 711 F. POuTS.- A meeting of the Glasgow Town Council was held on Thursday last, when Mr. David Chapman moved, that on account of the almost total failure of the potato crop, the en hanced price of provisionsconsequent thereon, and the appre henrion of a still farther advance, together with the inade quate mean* of the mate of the people to procure the better descriptions of food, dependent as they have been on the in ferior kinds, a memorial be presented to Lord John Russell, ' praying that all kinds of grain he admitted free of duty, till, at least, it shall be ascertained that the harvest of next year shall, with the operations of the new law, be sufficient for the wants of the country. The motion was supported by the Lord Provost, Bailie Brodie, Mr. Mastic, Mr. Dregliom, Mr. Bankicr, and others, and unanimously agreed to, with the exception of the dissent of the new Lord Dean of Guild (Mr. Bogle). It was also agreed to make an addition to the me morial, to the effect, that the navigation laws should be ens , /waded, so that foreign grain might be received by the ships of all nations. PROVINCIAL. LANCASHIRE. .......... . REPRE.ENTATION or MANCIIEVTER.—The Tories are already hatching an opposition to Mr. Bright, the future M.P., no doubt, for the borough of Manchester. Their idol, judging from what is slready rumoured, will be the Earl of Lincoln, supposing him willing to stand, and supposing that they can enter into a league and covenant with a few influen tial nondescript Whigs. The number of electors for the borough of Manchester is within a fraction of 13,000—a con stituency too numerous to be bribed, and one too well-in- I formed to be imposed upon by a merely specious candidate. A good man and true only ran succeed. North Lancashire, too, is deemed as secure as that of its twin-sister, South Lan cashire. The Lancashire elections will develop the herculean and successful labours of the League ; end instead of a Man chester M.P. being twitted by being asked to which half he belonged, he will have all deference paid to his vote.—Leeds Mercury.—[Mr. Bright is said to be labouring under the effects ofsevero ulcerated throat.] YORKSMRP. LerD9 AND BRADPO;; RAILWAY.-Art - Tnr.nrr. On Friday afternoon, a very serious accident betel the 3 o'clock train from Leeds to Bradford. Scarcely had the train ac quired the ordinary . speed, when, on arriving within a few yards from the point at which the line crosses the Leeds and Liverpool canal, and where there is a very awkward curve, the engine ran off the embankment, which is about 30 feet high, into a field on the north-west side of the line, dragging after it the tender, forcing away the buttress wall of the embankment adjoining to the bridge, and finally be came embedded in the earth, about six feet deep, and only being a few yards' distance from the canal, the ten der being thrown upon it in a perpendicular position. John 'Young, the engine driver,was thrown down the embankment along with the engine, and received considerable injuries about the head and other parts of his person, besides having ' his arm fractured. The stoker jumped from the engine, and be sustained a very slight injury. The coupling chain for tunately snapped an two, and separated the engine and ten der from the rest of the train, consisting of two second and two third-else* carriages, well filled with passengers, and to which their safety may be attributed, else the loss of life would have been considerable. The accident is supposed to have been caused by a loose plate having slipped. Two of the carriages were very much shattered. Mr. CHRISTIE has issued the following address to the elec tors of Weymouth: Gentlemen I have now closed the canvass, by which T might have been justly charged with prematurely disturbing the pence of the borough, if I had not been forced into it, as you are aware, in self defence. The result even exceeds the sanguine hopes which I en preased when I met you at the Royal Hotel. Old electioneerers in this borough assure me, that no candidate within their memory, even on the eve of an election, ever received PO many promisee as have been given to me, while the day of the next election in uncertain, and may be even twe.re months distant. lam proud to feel that I owe tho sum ., in a great measure,to your satisfaction with my pod conduct but I most gratefully acknowledge that I owe much also to the generous sympathy of political opponents, as well as friends, excited by the base intrigue which has been carried on against me. You have been good enough to view this intrigue principally as it affected myself. It is indeed true, that if it had suet eeeded, It would have injured me; but It aimed aloe a deadly blow at your good name and in lependence. There is no doubt what. ever that a tencme had been concocted, by three or four individuals in the borough, for bartering the seat which I hold to some gentle man of wealth, a member of the present government. I believe that the individual was not flied upon. I take upon myself to say that no member of the present government would have aided this scheme, accept under the influence of false representations, made to him behind my back. The new candidate would have been required to pay down a large nun of money, which would have been distributed among a few individuals; those who pocketed the money would alone have known how it was distributed, while the candidate, his friends, and the public, would have regarded you as a venal constituency. The candidate was to be a member of the government, It was pretended, because you required some one with large patronage. This foul libel on my constituents was a mere pretext. The real reason was that you might appear is the eyes of the government ea a pocket borough, in addition to having to bear the undeserved disgrace of a cha racter roreorraption. In the mean time I was to be beguiled by various false reasons into staving away from you, until you, ignorant of the ' cireumstanoto, had become offended by my absence, or the conspira tors had, in some other way, achieved their object. Such, gentlenlen, is the intrigue that we have baffled. The events of the last three weeks have furnished proof incontrovertible, to those who needed proof, that so long as I continue to pursue the line of conduct which I hare hitherto adopted, nothing will induce you to davvrt me—that I shall retain your confidence so long as I continue to deserve it. It is little for me to say in return, that no long as you wish me to continue your member, it will be my greatest pride to serve the constituency to which 1 owe my introduction into public life, and by which I have been so kindly and generously supported in a moment of great pain and difficulty.—l have the honour to be, &c., W. D. Canonic. Wry. mouth, Oct. 31. fiUSSEC. REPRESENTATION OP BRIO STOIC—The Brighton Gazette is labouring hard to expel Lord A. Hervey from his seat for BriFhton. " The clear duty," says this worshipper of protection, " of the constituencies is to send to parliament protectionist representatives, and the clear duty of all sections of the once powerful conservative party is to reunite their now scattered forces, under the guidance of Lord Stanley and the Duke of Richmond." Lord Hervey must feel deeply in debted to his former advocate. ESSEX. THE Cuoranr.vo POISONINOS.—The adjourned inquest was again resumed on Saturday, to investigate the deaths of Solomon Taylor, the illegitimate offspring of Lydia Taylor, and Thomas Newport, farmer, of Clavering, at the Cock inn, Maunden. It is no doubt in the recollection of our readers that the woman, Sarah Chesham (against whom a coroner's verdict of wilful murder was returned on Friday week, for poisoning her own children), was in the first instance de tected putting salve or some other deleterious substance into the child's mouth, and upon the charge of attempting to poison was apprehended and committed to Chelmsford gaol, when circumstances transpired which led to fb e discovery of th e snuseim by poison, of Sarah Chatham's ch.ldree• Tay lor, the re-asaenlbling of the jury the evidence o f P ro t e. g er chemical lecturer, of Guy's Hospital, was read as to the tests of the contents of the stomach, and his inability to dis cover any traces of poison. Ilse whole of tbe other evidence having aho been n:capitulated, the jury recorded the follow ing verdict :—" That the deceased, Solomon Taylnr, dit from mesenteric disuse of the glands, but whether front natural causes or otherwise there was nut sufficient evidenct , to show." lint arts. SALE OF THE FORD ABBEY rfert/Ritg.—The pic— tures at Ford Abbey, in Dersetakire, eighty-two in number, were sold on Tuesday last by Hewers. English and Son_ They were not of any very great value, though a few Were ' curioua. A picture, attributed to Aldegreeer, , 4- The Life and Passion of our Saviour, in which many portrait are in troduced." sold for 781. Two pictures, assiened in t he cata logue to Saleator Rom, sold for 2W. and 24 guinesi and a halt A " View of the Seven Dials," said to be by H %tar* and Scott, sold for 421. The portrait, were of greats. r con sequence. consisting of " family pict ures " collected b v Ed mund Prideaux, the son of Cromweb's attorney-genenii • and Francis Gwyn, secretary at the Treasury to Laurette. yde, Earl of Rochester, from whom the Owens derived the 1 o rd Abbey estate. Prideaux was fined in the sum of 15,0001. , or his presumed adherence to the unfortunate Duke of M. t l,- mouth; and the Duke's picture, in armour, one of the be 4 in the collection, was sold for 281. A three-quarter portra 't of Laurence Hyde, Earl of Rochester (an excellent epecime of lineller, and characteristic withal), sold for 161. ss. Gd. A portrait of Sir Edward Seymour, Speaker of the House of Commons in the reign of Charles 11. , sold for W. ; and a portrait of Colonel Popham, one of Cromwell's favourites officers at sea, fee 111. 1 ls. The Popham in the eatelowue is attributed to Lely, but it is more in the manner of Walker, a holder painter at times than Sir Peter Lely, and less known„ than he deserves. Maibetrity elsrual Orbs. Oxman, Nov. I.—Tla Stowell Chit Lox Fellow.hdp, founded at. • Cnicersity entletre, by the Visscounteva Sidwouth, and which is open_ to all members of the Dniveraity who have passed their examination for the degree of Bachelor of Arts, has been awarded to-day to Mr. noldwin Smith, 8.A., l)emy of Magdalen College. Mr. Smith h b t . during the five years he has been at the tnivendty, disting himself in no ordinary manner. In the early part of 1842 we find him a cornmonet of Christ Church ; in the same year he etma attune compete. for the Latin scholarship, and was also elected a liemy cif Motrdslen College ; in 1f1.5, he obtained the prize for Latin verse, " Noma Pnntptiiue," a first class, " No Literati liumanionbus,' Lind was elected Dean Ireland scholar the same year. Mr. Charles T. Malec and Mr. William k. B. nrisone, °mummers of Jeans College, have lust been elected ...chairs of that Society. C. W. Hankin has been admitted of Oriel Coll.; and 11. Temple, of Bra:Know Call., so Johnson lialaibitioners from Uppingham School. CANS bRIDOE. Ocr. 31.—At n Congregation holden mytterlay, the fol 10Wirg degn•es were conferred : —Musters of Arts—E. Corbett, Tri nity; V. Lush, Corpus. Bachelor of Arts—A. C. de Boinrille, Corpus. Ore. SKATONIAN PRI/E.—The Her. Thomas Renton's Prise of 40/. for the best English Poem on n *semi subject has been awarded to the Bev. R. Ewington, Dins . College. Subject—'• The curse upon Linssn." -GerirnOt. The 'ter. J. Y. Nieholron has been elected a Foundation Fellow, and T. It. Power • deacon on Gillingham'. Foundation at Emmanuel College—John Hell ha. been elected to one or Johnson's Exhibition. at aare from Upphigharn &hod. PRVII3OIENTI.—The Rev. J. Nottidge, M.A., to East Ilanningth+l, It, and the Rev. S. Nottid(r. 1t...., to .I•hingdon, It, both varint by the death of the late Rev. J. Nottidgr. Rev-1 74. Leir. MA., to Fin gringhor, V., on the erosion of thr Rec. R. 'Armin. Rev. J. S. Dod son, to Great I,ongetone, P.C., in the dlooe.e of Lichfield, valve 150 L per annum. Rev. C. 1.. M. Phillip's., to Gueettiborough V., I....eenter- Aix, PSI. Rev. G. S. Wetdemann, to Kingwood P.C., (Amender shirr, 91.. Rev. W. Wilson, to De.borough V.. Northampton.hire, 1491. with residence. Rev. J. T. Browne, to St. Edmund P.C., North ampton. Rev. J. Cotterell to be an lion.C..non of Norwich. Rec. W Ingby, to Clongui.h and Elliot', Ireland. Rev. J. Pletcher, to .111 Saints` Cur., St. Johle.-wood, Rev. 11. Greene to the Britieb Chap. lainer , joint) at Pisa and I.uece. Rev. A. Hndron, to the union of Kills dieralut Clandonnell, Ireland. Rev. C.W. Lola., to 'IMMO= V., Nor folk, ISO/. Per. J. M. Martin, to Ilaydan cur., Wilts. Rev. IL P. Menw.r, to the Prior's Portion It., Tiverton, Ilevon. Rev. T. New berry, to Hinton St. George IL 197/. with residence, and Searing tan st. 11khuel It re. Dinnington C., Somerset, 290/. with readenee. Rev. W. Gordan', to the temporary curacy of St. Stithisn'n, and not to the vicarage w previously stated. Hey. Simpnon, In the tem. porary curacy of Stanley, and not the incumbency w before 'dated. Vaisse.—Bmoke V. ; 2161., with glel, ho. flt for rcakiettse. Pat., the ford Chaneellor t—and 1 huxtun It., 2111. Pat., representa tive. of the Rev. W. hatell, by. %chow death they err now vacant: both in the county of Norfolk and din. of Norwieh.—St. lern, Hann.; railroad chaplaincy at.—Langpart school, Somenet, nutrnhipp of; not to be ...orate, or vicar, or linman having any cure of mull,— Ssiadon V., Wilt., dio. (ilournster and Itri.tul ; :ALI', with glebe ho. for re.idenee. Pat., the Loral Chancellor. Vacant by the resigna tion of the Rev. J. Grooby. NAVAL. PoItTXMOUTIT, Nov. I.—Tun CATS.—Tho Apollo, troop ship' is under orders to proceed to England front the Cape of G ood Hope. It is understood she is not to wait to convey the 47th regiment. CHINA AND rue EAST "MMES.—The For, 42, Commo dore Sir H. M. Blackwood, arrived at Aden frtm Madras on the 13th Sept., and sailed on the 20th for Bombay, to meet Itear-Admiral Inglefield. The 16, was at Madras when the Fehr left. The Scout, 14, Commander Lering, arrived at Singapore from Englnt.d, Aug. 211, and railed on the 23rd for China. The Spiteful. st. sip., left Singapore on the 23rd Aug. for Trincomalee. We quote the following twin the Bomloy Telegraph of Sept. 10: We extremely regret to record the death of Capt. W. Maitland, of ll.M.'s war-d. Spiteful, which occurred al midnight on Mcnilay Lat. The excitement arising from operations id the wreck of the Frederick VI. brought on fever on Wednesday hist, Attg. 6, necomixiuled by delirium. Just previonx to entering singaisne on Motidny lam, CAW- Maitland appeared to rally, hut after II p.m the virulence of the fever increased, which soon hastened his death. To say that Chid. Maitland was deeply rmpected by his broll e officers, would be to my little, a., by innaknianly and oftleer.lite bearing, he gained their esteem and re- , pert; but when we remark that Capt. Maitland won the reganl of all with whom he rime In c4mtlct, we my but a iknerved triune to his nwmory. (tint. Maitland was interred at the burial ground on Governinent•hill last evening, ettendef by bin brother officer.. the nullioriti,•nd a large portion of the European inhabit ants. We scarcely rt•member ever to hese seen one interred so much and so fervently respected; of the miscellaneous party isnembled at the burial-ground there was scarcely one who refrained (min shedding The Agincourt, 72, Capt. W. Johnstone, with the fins of Rear-Admiral Sir T. Cochrane, the Commander-in-chief, arrived at lions Kong, August 13, and remained there on the 27th. The admiral would shortly proceed to Singapore, to await the arrival of the Vernon, l'o, Capt. Fitzgerald, with the flag of Rear• Admiral Inglrfield , C. 8., appointed tn re lieve Sir Thomas. The Deed.%les, 20, Capt. P. M'Quhae ; and the Royalist, 10, Lieut. Commander Paynter, arrived at Hong Kong with the Agincourt. The Castor, 36, Captain Graham, C. 8., arrived at Sydney from Auckland, June 9, to refit. She is to be relieved by the Mclampus, 42 Cap tain .1. N. Campbell, C . B. The reseal, 26, Captain Talbot, : arrived at Hong Kong, August 23, from Chusan, and re mained there August 27. The Warcrm.e, 16, Commander Clifford, was at Whampoa ; she is to he relieved by the Ringdove, 16, Commander Sir William Hosts, Bart., which sloop arrived at Hong Kong from England, August 23, last from Manilla, which place she left August 14 ,• she remained at Hong Kong August 27. The Wolf, 18, was at Shanghae. The Lspiigle, 12, Commander Thompson, was at Amoy. The Young lithe, Lieut. D. MeD. Gordon ; the Alligator, hospital ship, Master Commander King; and the .&lin den, store ship, to be in charge of Mr. Tucker, Master, on her passage, were at Hong Kong, August 27. The Sapphire, troop ship, sailed from Hong Kong August 22, for the northern ports. Tho Vulture, deem frigate, Captain M'Dougall, arrived at Hong Kong August 2, and was there on the 27th. The Crocodile, Commander 0. Lowe, has been surveyed, and pronounced unfit for further service, except as a sta•ionary store or coal depot. She is expected to he immediately paid off, and her officers and crew turned over to some other ship, as she has only been in commission since December, 184.5. The Cyclops, steam frigate, sailed this afternoon for Lisbon, with despatches. Much inconvenience having occurred by a sailing vessel being employed (the French having a steamer) for the pro tection of the fishery on the coasts of Jersey, Guernsey, and Alderney, the Admiralty have ordered the Charon, a steam-packet at Dover, to be removed from the Post-office duty, and Commander Roepel and the crew of the Scaflower cutter will be turned over to her, and Lieut. Warren and the crew of the Se/via (the tender) transferred to the Sea flower. The Sylvia is refitting in the harbour, and will be made a tender to one of the port-admiral's flag-ships.—The ships Cattle Eden, Minerva, Sibella, and Romeo, have been engaged to convey a detachment of the 95th Regiment, and the whole of the 37th Regiment, from Chatham to Ceylon, and to convey the whole of the 9.3 th Regiment, and six com panies of the Ceylon Rifles to Hong Kong. The ships will be ready in about three weeks. WooLwten.—The Grappler, (s.-v.), Lient.-Commander Hawker, and the Sphynr, (s.-v.), Commander Cragg, will proceed down the river this morning, to try their engines, should the weather, which has, for the last two days, been very foggy, prove favourable. Orders have been received at the Royal Arsenal to prepare the armaments for the Grappler and Geyser, steam-vessels with all possible haste ; the former vessel will, it is expected, proceed to the Coast of Africa, as orders have been received to prepare accommodation for Mr. Hook, one of the commissioners for the suppression of the slave-trade. The latter vessel was commissioned on Friday by Commander F. G. Browne, with a complement of 160 men, and will, it is expected, be ordered for service in China. The launch of the Niger, steam-frigate, building in the dip No. 4, which was ordered for the 4th inst., is to be postponed for a fortnight. in consequence of the hull not being sufficiently advanced, The Garland (s.-v.), Master-Comm. L. Sccithett, left to Saturday to resume her station at Dover. Her speed was tried at the measured mile in Long Reach previous to her departure, and found to be about 131 knots per hour. The Tartarus (s.), Captain Wolfe, arrived here on Thursday, and is ordered to be paid off. She is to be surveyed prepa ratory to being again placed in commission. The Africa's steam tug synced on Wednesday from Portsmouth, with the crew of the Avenger, who arc to be turned over to the Amphion, 36 guns. The men have been plead on board the Seringapatarn receiving ship. The Seringapatam hulk, to be fitted as a coal depot, to be stationed at the Cape of Good Hope, and the Nymph is to he towed from Sheerness to Woolwich, to take the place of the Serinyopatans as a receiving ship. The Kite (a.) was towed to Deptford on Friday by the Charon (s). Commodore Sir Charles Napier, C.B. visited the dockyard on Saturday , sad went ov er t he Sidon, which still remains lashed to the Salsette. MOVEMENTS OP HEIL MAJETIT'S SHIPS IN Till MEDITERRANNAN.—Csmopos in the Tagus ; all well on the 24th of October.—Vanguard: in the ole, Gibraltar; all well on the 21st. At Cadni.—Pbrenix, s. ; all well on the 22nd. THE S4EADRON, AT PRIMENT. Hibernia, Trafalgar, Albion, Superb, Rodney—line-of-battle ships • Terrible, Virago, Rattler, Phcenix--eteamers: the day &lore all weft. It is expected they would proceed to the Tagus, and it it probable they are all there before now. Armor-112m% OCT. El.—Commanders: W. 11. 1 to the Poietiers ; R. T. Cre.,ooh, to the Victory. Naval Owlet W the raw/Or. hislitel-AIOMMIM: W.I. c4Ace, to Ike OMAN I