The Express. — London, England, 1847-04-28 00:00:00

statements are substantially taken, is not explained, hut in &wally may be gathered to arise from some distinctions drawn ab the trade of various parts of the Austrian states with contiguous constrict. COLONIAL CAPE OF GOOD HOPE—The only two adminia wire acts of the new govt rnor much spoken of, were a r ernment notice relating to municipal markets, and his A be In council on the Small Debts Bill, In the notice liis evnllency states that his attention has rea drawn to regulations within municipalities and else where in the colony, by which sellers are prohibited from Waging produce for sale into the towns or villages, " with. pat nein,: it through the market, and paving market dues thereon, whether sod I there or not." gush compulsory aken, he observes, are opposed to that free in wool trade in the products of the country which t h e right of all, and the interest both of leaded proprietors and consumers. Re therefore inti man that six months after Jute (10th Feb.) he will in tredve • bill in the legislative council to repeal and annul ;dirndl r egulations unlesa where it, can be shown that par ticular local circumstances render them expedient. On this document the Gralurn's Town Journal observes .—" This no tice is sitisfactory as indicating the quickness of apprehen sion which is here brought to bear upon a matter °tappet:antiy piv ia importance, and which would escape altogether the Munition of an ordinary mind. Without dwelling on what is new so extensively admitted as Gee-trade principles, it will be sufficient to remark that it is matter of congratulation that T of the first act* of Sir Henry Pottinger, en assuming T h. government of this colony, distinctly marks the breadth of his views in matters of social economy, m g a an encouraging augury of a better order of thicgs—of an enlightened, comprehensive, and liberal polity io the administration of the affairs of this important The vote in council on the Small Debts Bill is viewed with more diversity of opinion. The bill was thiown cwt by ths governor's casting vote. It contained a provides by which a defaulter in payment might be imprisoned by his m ditor. Sir henry, as it appears to us here, with some nom, objected that a penalty of so heavy a character in pilling cars was unreasonable. The colonists, however— nil they best know the state and wants of their owa so ciety, appear to have leaned to the clause. In Sans Sly's Africa' Jour sal, it is observed that " had his excellency ji v ed long enough in the colony, and had be had time to comider the subject with the attention which its importance demanded, he would have seen the neces sity of supporting the motion." Even the Grultane's Town Journal, while admitting that there was " great rea son" in the objection, only says that " perhaps it is better to CRT on the fide of ow fey," adding, so far as many frau dulent individaals are concerned, it is to be regretted that the bill has not passed late law." Too prment colonial minister appears to be much in favour, as well ea the new governor. The following pumas in one of Earl Grey's dispatches had given way general satisfaction " The amendment of the h e al..s and institutions, excepting those of the legislative sad chief executive authorities, should habitually, if net ex• obisivaly, originate with the local legislature. To her Ma jony's confidential advisers, and more especially to the lead of this department, it belongs to review all such local manments, and to advise the llueen as to the acceptance, 'ejectment, or amendment of them." Cape Toss and its vicinity had been subjected to a long Inatinuance of great heat. On the 7th of February the thermometer was observed to iodinate 156 deg. in the ma ; in the shade it ranged from 90 deg. to 96 des ; the whole of that night it stood considerably above 96 deg. The air, however, was perfectly pure, and nothing was com plained of but the heat. The high temp. retort and south east winds ointinued at the time of the last dispatches, when "the country was dreadfully parched; and the roads being eompowd of materials which require a great quantity of water to make them bind, stood sa much in need of rain as the gardens and fields." Heavy rains had fallen in the north west and midland districts. FIRE, AND LOSS OF LITE AT SEA. —Tbe brig Can- Ring, of Bristol, commanded by Albert Hancock, sailed from Way, in Peru, on the 16th November, 1846, laden with nitrate of soda. On the MO December she anchored at Port Famine, and the next morning, at two a.m., t►e captain awoke almost suffocated pith smoke in the cabin, the fire almost immediately afterwards bursting through the floor. He hurried his wife on deck, and with part of the crew got into the yawl, which was fortunately alongside, and pushing off from the brig, witnessed her awful destruction with three of the crew on boord. The layers of bags which contained the nitrate of soda, on being reached by the fire, exploded in succession with reports resembling the discharge of artillery. Everything was irrecoverably lost. Ten minutes later, and no one would have survived to relate the disaster. The survivors procured a passage in the French brig Le Nouveau Parse , which arrived in Havre on the 23d of April, when Mr. Hancock reported himself to her Majesty's consul. JURISDICTION OF BRITISH CONSULS IN TURKEY, — The Caudle of last night contains an order in council regu lating the jurisdiction of British consuisin Turkey. It orders that an all cases of British subjects accused before these func tionaries of arson, cutting, stabbing, fitc., the proceedings shall be conducted in the presence of assessors, and it will be lawful for consuls to send any person coovieted of such of fences out of the dominions of the Porte. In cases of fine or imprisonment 'trinity shall be given for the good conduct of the party so punished after the payment of the fine or the expiration of the term of imprisonment. Any person re fusing to give such security, it • hall be lawful to send out of the Ottoman dominions. 'Ube Court. We have authority to state that her Majesty's ball en the 14th of May is to be a full•dress ball The Queen took an airing in an open carriage and four yesterday. H. R. 11. Prince Albert rode out on honebac.k. Lor.l J. Russell and Viscount Palmerston had audiences of her Majesty at Buckingham Palace yesterday. Her Majesty and Prone Albers honoured the amateur per formance at the St. James's Theatre with their prises'« yesterday evening. The royal suite consisted of the Duchess of Sutherland, the Counties of Charlemout, Hon. Miss Kerr, the Earl of Morton, Msjor-Oen. Wimps, and Col. Bouverie. 11.R.H. the Duchess of Cambridge aloe honoured the amateur performances with her presence. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager took an airing in &carriage yesterday. H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady A. Bruce, Baroness do Speth, Sir G. Cooper, and Lord J. Murray, honoured the Royal Italian Opera wit► her ;re tinae yesterday coming. A deputation on the subject of the Windsor rail way, had an interview with Vi-count Morpeth, yesterday. at the office of her Majesty's Commirsioners of Woods and Forests, in Whitehall.place. Mr. Perry had an interview with Earl Grey yesterday, at the Colonial-office. The Marquis of Donegall had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, yesterday, at his official residence in Dowaing street. . . . . . Hts Excellency the Netherlands minister has re turned to town from the continent. - . Despatches from the Governors of New Zealand and the Cape of Good Hope, were received yesterday, at the Colonial-office. (From last night's Gazatte) Laver_—Notice is given, in lot night's Gazette, that her Majesty will hold a levee at St. Joint s's Palmd this day, at two o'clock. FOREIGN OFFICE, APRIL 23.—The Queen has been pleased_ to approve of Mr. William Carol, as Consul at the Mauritius for the United States of America. OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, Aran. St. Corps of Royal Eneiseers. —Brev. Maj. IL Y. WW ham to be lieut. col.; Seer. Maj. J. Jebb to ; Beer. Maj. G. Tait to be lieut.-eoL, nor Bonnyeastle, ret on h..p.; ger—Copt C. E. Ford to be rapt ; Pint Lieut. T. B. Colllemert to be tee. rapt ; nee. Lieut. C. W. Barry to be first lieut. Ordnance Medical Deplrtment.—F. Howard to be asidat..mg, ripe Templeton, prom. ADMIRALTY. Alan. Si. The following promotions have this de, taken phis% arum the death of Adm. Mr Adm. D. Gould, O.C.R. eith= L. M. Orowlin to he oda. of the red ; Ads- of the AWL Oilist to be dm. of the white ; Vim-Adm. of the 184 H. Demos le le Ma of use ; vice-Adm. of the White IL aim to dsr ml; Via-Adm. of the Blue J. Dick to be Aebeene. ef the while; IleavAdm of the Red C. B. H. Row C.B. to be do fir. dla hiss • Rear-Adm. of the White H. IL Cbriniaa to be neembie. el SIR red; Rear-Adm. of the Blue H. Parker, C.B. to 11111iNalm. stake white ; Copt It. Prescott, C.B. to be mama& albs liter. Aril ti.—Royal Matinee—Pleat Link W. P. Wiplas is be met., vice Beer. Maj. F. > pry, ret. on Bee. lAsszt. C. liwpittter to be knit Beat., vice Hopkins, prom. POST-OFFICE NEW REGULATION. —We have authority to contradict a statement, which we, nevertheless, made oo very good authority, of ita being the intention of the l'ost-office to render the pre-payment of letters am palsory. A more agreeable announcement, and one whirl, we feel certain, cannot be contradicted, is, that the London nonliving louses will remain open half an hew Wes. COURT OF ALDERMEN. THE SKIN BROKERS OF THE CITY OF LONDON.— A court was held principally for the purpose of sitting judi cially upon the matter in dispute respecting the akin brokers of the City of London. After the transaction of Nona routine business, the court proceeded to consider the petition Of Mr. Stephen Stuart Curtis, complaining of the conduct of Mesas. Goad and Rigg, brokers, of the City. He stated in his petition that he is a hide end leather factor, and is February last attended a public sale of hides in Miming lane, conducted by Messrs. Goad and Rigg, and that Mr. W. T. Goad cid, previous to the sale commencing, reed and set forth as part of the conditions of sale the weeds follow ing : " The remainder of the purchase-money (less 21 dia count), with a brokerage of half per cent., to be paid by the buyer into the hands of the selling brokers on receiving the order for the delivery of the goods, or on a prompt day, at the option of the selling broker." That Mr. Curtis, with numerous others connected with the hide trade, protested against that part of the condition relating to the payment by the buyers of half per cent, brokerage to the sell ing brokers ss being contrary to law and custom, bat Geed persisted in proceeding with the sale without Li tt: the condition. Curt* notwithstanding , purchased 2 00 es at 30. the pound weight, which were duly deli vered with an invoice, in which brokerage amounting to Hs., in oddities to the purchase money, wee charged, accord leg to the obnoxious condition On the Monday previous to the customary day of payment, Curtis tendered tie Goad and Rigg C t6l. 12s. 6d., when they demanded 14s. for brokerage in addition, and declined to remise the sum tendered, and on Feb. 26 sent Curtis a lawyer's letter demanding payment of 1371. stis Sd., which he was eventually compelled to pay. The petition farther sit forth that Geed and Rigg hid already received from their principal the customary brokerage, and that the charge of double broker ag e G to the civic Lana and . nalge, the petioner, re, prajod th e court to inquire 110.0 the circumstances. —The mart directed that the answer with which Messrs. Goad and Rigg appeared at the bar shout ~ be read. It stated that the charge of half per cent. brokerage to buyers of goods, complained of by the petition of Mr. Cur tis, her been recognised in various trail,' in the City of London, for upwards of 100 years. In proof of which thug produced an old account book used by their predecea ses* In business, commencing in 1738, in which are eon. tamed enteritis of charges of half per cent., by way of Wastage, against buyer,. That they laid the C 4.111 before owed for his opinion, which was SA WHOM,: I an et 'Onkel WO there is no legal °Weeks to the inaklnkr a a brabetege eemmbisette be paid by the buyer, we et the Nada lons et UK IMM a parehasse buybsc ea such somilMot. weft object to the yedmint et IL It la lake Meer hat the onter acts In mime sespeets Or the beer, end dee is tee Town why the eintassaryiriperstlia rata Reis. IBM issiependently of seek anstalemem, sad traded rat of the vet se he as, may I see no reran why be mg ast, wlt'v the es. seeit 12 the seller, mho It awe of the ittpulathns of the pmeheer, that half me Beet te be sit b the selling broker by has pmehmer. It to only so mach added ha the path Jes-money ; and lardy Me seller ha a right le Ile es vet WINS he will sell. hy mike tharette, thm the emellen may be properly and Malay ,Mid; and I *ha It be le mete It an express condi tion, then le Maw dm shim theellset INF. not think that say deed te es es =regards ssle., arises out of them bAglime he Me .4r the nee he ondort of broken admitted by die dm Ile ere ea brier aft' by auction Is not within the pirdsli . vhleh the Me fireldoilbs the tenter to recci:e Medi emmehen was heeded h yr guard arntinat ; and Mk bawd. arribit from the deem immediately follows, VW. the ems et pee mise Y enimed. Moreover, I do not eander the mind Weber at a /abbe sale to be hirlWt , prepor tr or Mehl: i abar : Ar el a .br,l4r. and tow awe tl mm i llea gir r k simtkiesse emit, vbehar bj seller or t he by WM, to lesmansel. As reps* pleats Wes, here alit the Maher, memo whist, inemearlly repreamile I.lk the seller and beer. and le nee by es the mem= sem of both—fur nap* he ~mos the banyan ea between Me two, by tse delivery Meade sitd. area and by the entry In linked. si of Meg deemsd • aelleilet Meuse by en wet, miler the statute of nee totted Di al bo Pram which of the Bartle. I r receives hiSIMMildllllll Is . aad If, by an emaliMhed new, he realms It hi poet hem the agar, NMI a pert ten the, ryer, the letter mat be emppomil he peahen vie a Imestlehle of, and sable m to. that madiden; and I see se ten he emit mete from It. This mad have bees the mend at Led 's dread= Le e lm: Z. Ishii lea disk • Mena y th.t *MB is the the lt meek to tate spina the sr me ef ' des. ateheind try the Owl , lainasa; bet I Mak ft le emly ha tees; he teat I. ez= me the briar hem levee Oneenieden end M (with the geed at the mar) • term oleo beget that belt la to be rid Irr the Wye& Art tbis, en It seise W no. Is what is doss to del lee by • mega of the "rule, the seeemieden Is sos at meter Ws be a• or nor, It le not very the i g i rthw id. ride In the his de emabilehed peed" dsidod by the highest amemity to be WA v ommu ee=he a beer et bib right to Fusee hr mee • spseee at ths rednistke.--elpeA J. H. Liar., King'. emit Walk, Dee. 210811. After having bawd the remainder of the petition sod semi argument upon the case, the court ordered the chamber to be cleared of strangers, and continued in deliberation for a considerable time. At a late hour the parties were called in, and informed that the court would resume the consideration of the matter on Tuesday neat, to which day it stood adjourned. A great number of mercantile men of the first res:wetabi lity were present. ART UNION OF LONDON. The eleventh annual meeting of sub;eribers, and distribution of prises took place yesterday at Drury-lane Theatre, which was crowded in every part. The eh:. it was taken by eke Duke of Cambridge, who having =dr, used a few words to the meeting with regard to the beneficial in fluences of the society upon art and artists, Mr. GODWIN, the honorary secretary, read the report of the council, which commenced by alluding to the legalisation atlas society, under Mr. Wyse's bid, which was passed in August last, and its subsequent incorporation by royal char ter. At every preceding meeting the council bad had to re port a constant increase in the amount of subscriptions, varying from 4891., the sum collected in the first year, to 18,9791. On the present occasion, notwithstanding a season of unexampled and lamentable scarcity in parts of the king dom, and much financial embarrassment, the subscriptions amounted to the sum of 17,0ri 11. The greatness of the amount they considered might be attributed partly 'to the increased interest in the fine arts, induced by the operation. of the society, mud partly to the increased exertions of the provincial and colonial secretaries, from whom a larger sum had been received than on any former occasion. The number of provincial secretaries is now 398. St. Lucia, Quebec, Australia, Sydney, and Jamaica, have I been added to the list of places where the society hos an honorary agent active in its behalf. The lilts before in cluded parts of Germany, New York, Mexico, Montreal, New Brunswick, Ceylon, Singapore, Bombay, Dominica, Monte Video, and China. Two hundred and fifty-eight works of art were selected by the prizeholders of last year, and were exhibited, as usual, four weeks, including a certain number of evenings. That exhibition was visited by 200,000 persons. The council could not but again remark, that the annual exhibition of works of fine art thus opened gratu itously to the public, might be regards d as one of the most important results of the association. They would gladly see greater facilities elsewhere afforded to the people generally than now exist. For the premium of 6001. offered by the coun cil last year for a group or single figure in marble, twenty I models sent In an the lat 01 July last were exhibited to the sub scribers and their Mends in the Princess's Concert-room ; and after due consideration the premium was awarded to the status, "The Dancing Girl Kerosine," which on opening the letter arcompanying it was found to be the work of Mr. Calder Marshall, A.R.A. Mr. Marshall is now executing the model in marble, and it will form one of the prime for an ensuing year, to which year's subscription of course the amount of the premium well be charged. In order to ex press their high opinion of a second statue, " Innocence," the council awarded to the author of it, afterwards found to be Mr. J. H. Foley, the sum of 1001., on condition of receiv ing from him a reduced copy of the figure, and the right of reproducing it in statuary porcelain; fifty espies, in that material, to be allotted that day. A third statue submitted in competition, " Iris Ascending," found to be by Mr. Kirk, was considered by the council well adapted for working in bronze, and they accordingly arranged with the sculptor to furnish a model of the required Use. A copy in bronze had been produced by Mr. Hatfield, and the right to twenty such would form part of the present distri bution. Mr. H. C. Selons's prize painting, from the selected cartoon, " Queen Philippa interceding for the Lives of the Durgcesso at Calais," was finished, and would be exhibited with the prizes' of the year. The mode of appropriation had not yet been determined on. The Chantry medals had been distributed, and the Wren medal allotted last year had been delayed by the indisposition of Mr. Wilson, the en graver, but might be expected in a short time. The council were taking other steps to obtain other medals, in comme moration of Hogarth, lnigo Jones, and Banks, the sculptor. The council had now to speak of the engravings. " Jephtlia's Daughter," and the illustratioas to " Gertrude, of Wyoming," due to the subscribers of last ,-ear, had been distaff/sited. The plate of " The Convalescent, from Waterloo," had been una voidably kept bath, but was now in the printer'. hands ; and those for the current year, "The Last Embrace," and " The Neapolitan Wedding," and the outlines from seven of the cartoons submitted in competition for the premium of .5001., were in the same stage of forwardness. The council pro. posed to issue fur the ensuing year a series of thirty illustra tions of Milton's " L'Allegro" and " II Penseroso," engraved en wood in the best manner, every subscriber to receive a copy of the work fur each guinea subscribed. For a future year, Mr. Frost's "Sabrina," engraved by Mr. Lightfoot, was in progress; and the council had arranged with Mr. W. Fioden to produce for the association an engraving of large size and in his best manner, after Hilton's picture, " The Crucifixion," aow in the on of the corporation of Liverpool. With a view of urther promoting the connexion between manufactures and art, the council had commissioned Mr. Nixon, sculptor, to make • reduced model, in cast iron, of a figure of " Thalia," in the Gal lery of Antiquities at the British Museum, which had been ably done, and is now ready for casting. The right to thirty copies of it would be allotted that day. Since the last meeting the council had been deprived, by death, of the valuable asaistaues of Mr. Mount, one of the earliest members of the society. Sir J. Jervis, M.P., had been elected to the vacancy. Under a bye-law, in a code receatly made for the regulation of the society, as required by the eftniter, four vacancies in the aim 61 will be declared an omaly, and four new members elected to fill them. The swerved fund now amounts to 2,1951. 16s. 4d. ; and with • view of increasing that fund more rapidly, obtaining a gal lery, and carrying out the great objects of the society, it was proposed that &ismer= of 21 per cent. of the amount of each annual subscription (or 6d. in the pound) should be made ; and with the game mid in view, it had been re solved to receive annual subscriptions in advance, and that " each member who pays for 10 or more years shall receive one of the society's medals in silver at the time of payment, in additi,n to the advantage to which he may be annually entitled." The billowing is a statement of re ceipts and disbursements. The cost of obtaining the charter teas On 1711.; bat the council charged t h e present year's adnedpies with • pardoa of it only. ILipmes so pre meta ardoust, Tverrematrpeart artlmi ta yawned rum% 401 13 dm Mail kr WWII. fa kargo,= p it a , ms s . En ear visa& sod u 1,090 0 0 p11iM11911111191111161 derinbi, paper, Ike , dprinta, 1,613 0 0 Be. fte. cresnam, 991 gmttr expeeditura by rbeholden. _ £17,871 0 0 The amount set apart according to that statement for the purchase of works of art would be thus allotted SO works at .. £lO £3oo 12 works at £7O £o4o 40 „ .13 CO 12 „ $6 „ ...... 20 ...... ..... 720 6 „ .100 OOO 36 „ 28 „ " " 20 „ 15 „ ,C 10,730 To these are to be added 20 bronses of " Iris Ascending ;" 30 statuettes of " Innocence ;" 30 casts in iron of " Thalia;" 273 lithographs of " La Fleur's Departure ;" and 30 silver medals commemorative of Flagman. 30 cuts of Mr. Mar shall's grouo, " The First Whisper of Love," would be in eluded in the distribution that day, making, in the whole, 706 works of art. The total sum thus appropriated, including the cost of outlines and engravings, would he 14,9331. 2.. 10d. After deprecating the system which had been proposed of confining the right of the pictures to the coursed,—a system which they " would consider it their duty to oppose by every means in their power, as being c .lculated not only to lessen the good effects of the association, but ultimately to destroy it altogether, I and do great injury to art and artists," and some general observation on the subject of art, the council concluded their report by "again urging the prizeholders so to exercise their right of selection as to furnish an additional argument in support of their views on the subject." The report was unanimously adopted, and the usual votes 1 THE EXPRESS, theaks purl le the massao, hon. secretaries, .ad other oaken of the sosiety, to Kr. Bonn for the use of the theatre, sad to the chairman for presiding on that ocemion. His royal hipbones then vacated the cnair, his piano being sup plied by T. Wyse, E,o. M.P , and later in Oa day by Mr. gerjesat Thompson. The drawing WAS then commenced, in which twolsdise assisted so usual-drawing rerpretiseig the numbers of the subscribers, and the amount of their prises. 300, R. Potter, Durtiord ; 300, Colonel Emott, Tetbory ; 300. Wm. Hoag, Crutehol-frims ; Iron, 0. M. It„ sosurs ; 20 0 . A. M O O O7O , Stroud ; ISO, T. Hustbek Halm ; 1 A Mm Morrell, Mortimer Rec tory; 130, Thome Keaudy, Chancene- We; ; ISO, - Havorbille°,„ lll Broad-street; 130, Col. Wilson, Camas, Veorouele ; 100, ,• Tint, Poplar ; ISO, Chaise , Duleatreet, Liasl 9 . ll ; 100, J. Deem* Lintyreno.pamege ; 100, ea Boldock, Sevenmeks ; 100, H. Thompson, Prinerme, Qitheroo ; 100, C. Doreen, Hamner smith; 80, Ur, Stanton. Chitonarrect, tristol; 80, IL M. Wilson, ; 80, J. Gs! am., Cork ; 00, SI. Cohn in, War.ollee ; 80, D. recheascher, De on; 80, W. Fripp, junior, Bristol ; 80, Iluctlngharn, Strand; 80, E. Parr, Earl-street, Greenwich; 130, Cowles Hitch, Chelsea ; to, T. B. therwood, Dewsbury ; SO, Thomas Gamer, Warwick ; 80, Mho Brown, Tarring tonoquare ; 79, - Rickards, Lewisham ; 70, Mime C. Oar, Greet Torrington ; 70, L. F. Oreesily, Broomfield- plan ; 70, J. Clarke, Huddersfield ; 70, MI.. C. Alexander, ; 70, W. Smith, Muth= ; 70, Mrs. Soothhy, Faringdon ; 70, I. Soon demon, Kingsland-rosd ; 70, View= Acheson, Grorrencrataet ; 70, A. Dickeos, Berwick; 70, 0. Rligiardwia, Norland-plaer 70 , J. Turner, Newstead ; SO, W. M. Delray, onto-sheet, Orrierewer !Pm.• 00, Mra IL Brown, Ingletam ; 80, Nemo, Cheneery-Isme ; 1 10, H. Light, Peas-place, Wandsworth; 00, Wm. Klng, fikipton 80, Jelin Valli, By& ; 60, J. Norris, Hammersmith; 80, J. ' Fermium ; 60, J. R. Coo , Resnforaereet, Lie ; 130, It Gibbs, Attry L. 60, Thos. Crete; 60, J. low, Gram churchatreet ; CA E. Word, Liverpool; 80, R. G. Forrest, Green. bitho ; 60, Mrs. a slyer, High-street, Camden-town; SO , G. F. Camp bell, St Andrews, New Brunswick; SO J. Wild, Claphs.m-ledge ; 50, W. Saltwell, Carlton Chambers, Regent street; 50, E. Ford, jun., Crooked-lane; 59. Mrs. Oliver, Twickenham; 50, J. A. Itsoriek, Woolwich; JO, W. H. Trewe, Coruhill ; 50, G. romps" Bur y St Edmonds; 3J, H. Roberts Northwood, Hanley; 5 1 , W. T. Cobbold, yowith ; 50, C. Ball, Trumpinertonutrcet, Cambridge ; 50, E. Steed. Northatreet, Fiteroyoquare ; 30, J. Moon, Hardwick-hall, Durham; 50, J. Aldrich, Holloway ; 50, J. Stamper, Omeedatreet, Liverpool ; 50, W. Butt, Trinity College, Cambridge ; SO, F. Cram Paredise-row, stoke Newington; 50, A. M. Newton, Queen'.. BleomsberT ; 30, Mho Smith, 06, listhiyotseet ; IL W. Reynolds, Thome, Oxon. On Friday last a special meeting of the com missioners of the Goodman'a-flelda pavement board was held at its usual place of meeting, to consider the provisions of the Health of Towns Bill, when the following resolutions wens passed unanimously That shin Ward having lan lets sertheration the Ito beetteht le by bar Weep minbenbe the Impressmetat thalthethrese, de wpm/bath prlne Odom embred thee it would emit M la pses the peeing Velwlw abbe of drebeee, pleb& led it bp of the pewee. dibble of the inetheplle, mid thresig prevent be ravages at freer eat ebbe dbesees ; end &heist ath • 11% If wristlets a law, will sepenula the power of the eteemileimes. yet this heard hum/tiling, Iran erg desire to retail' theme pewee% to steed to the way of a wren which appears to he be be emend art In partible' he the welfare of the yaws death That this erslieley the pars excellent beet et meet et the Crmaw beheliblen. spun which me lamp sera ee 3,000/. es i elly leen stheiblithde not ember it jest that, the event of the bill bebet=the Melba at present under the Jurisdiction of thts bard teed for the debt incurred by their resent Impales_ _ sums tins he enteset to pay • ate he pater ear Monti which have =VW bur wed at a 11; W the pesesent debit\ be Is the ere lathe aidolaing righbour_ hoods) are is • emy lei ebbl she this bond beethreds that the , biil sboold he la this reibet That ids beard liebeineetde. ' cidedl of robin lb* he, meths& ethmere. Mr. J. 11•16.1 he dirk, Mr. litiamoeYt the =I Mr. Maly, the sotheler, amid eat be deprived dale sppsmkmeaY without having ample weep re. tam do mob aeteelly veleamed that the chum herabed kto the bill for the ampeadllis of a peeler hal should bi retained to all Ile inteirlthe ; that her be wrongly urged set as esey assert to permk Ma d com petwatioo to be laterlbred with. That • oopy et theme rtheheisee, with • statement of the at mow 'terabit by this beard, eel the went of its Jules diMba ; and the an analysis of the Ceambierere sceonnu for the lea three :bests brwarded te Lord Morpeth by the clerk. THE ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF Lire maws illus.—The annual meeting of than society took place yesterday in the Hanover.square Rooms, Henry Pownall, Req. V.P., in the chair. The report showed the amount of subs'eriptione and donations to be 1,68 M.. and the total expenditure 1,704. The fire-escape stations had been increased more by controlling these expenses than by an adequate increase of subscriptions. At the present time there are 22 stations between Brampton and Aldgate, but, there are several intervening localities still unprorided. During the year, 136 fires were attended by the conductom with their respective escapes, and by their means the lives of eleven persons were saved. The official and authenticated details of thew cases having be. n read, several of the society's silver medals were preeented, as well as testimonials on vellum and pecuniary rewards. The report having been adopted, it was ordered to be printed and circulated amongst the subscribers. Resolutions in behalf of the society were carried, including one of thanks to the chairman, after which the meeting terminated. SALE OF A FIVE-SHILLINO PIECE.—A five-shilling piece of Charles 11. was sold at Colonel Durrant's sale, on Monday lest, for 1531. This was Simon's celebrated trial piece, with the inscription on the rim, and the identical coin presented by Simon himself to Lord Chancellor Clarendon. It was bought by a Mr. Bale. TF.A EXPENDITURE.—The expenditure fur tea is distributed an follows, in round numbers:— Net cost of 45,000,0000 s: awes,. lc per llb. 12430,0011 Exportout duty 'nail= 3-47 dollen per p.olor 41. pa lb ab 290,000 Shipping chary% ha. la Mae 33,000 Freight, &x., mom loftd, about bt Pl. IL 373,000 haulm.' a halfpenny 93,000 • Commission about ene i reghleg per lb. lO,OOO Tasting bia, Mon rowelpielk Ks paw per 11 23,000 Interest tor a h raft ea;AM'S% et Ike pot eat 7 ! .000 Tetal outlay In China .52,167,000 Profit to exporte• a la caw (about II pat eimL) 300,000 Leading charges, ko-, la Sagbuid ...........--...... Coet prim In bond la Eagiand £3,300,000 Duty receiced by government at 2s. ne. wpm/. Mad 4,920,000 Prat (livid., among taa-brakers, wbolerale sod Mau03,490,000 dealers, be., upwards or 40 per ant. 1,380,000 MAKI outlay by British public Car tea, at 4s. M. per lb £10,000,000 —Montgomery llarlisis CRIMINAL RETURNS OF THE METROPOLITAN PoLica Fonce.-Yesterday the seventeenth annual return of the Lumber of persons taken into custody by the metre politan police force, and the results of the past year, with comparative statements, from the years 1831 to 1846, in clusively, was issued by the metropolitan police commis sioners, although the year is made up from the 31st of De cember to the Ist of January, but in consequence of the re port being made up under no lees than twenty different heads, nearly four months of the current year is occupied in making the tabular returns, ire. ; and from which it appears that the total number of persons taken into custody fer the various offences which are divided into six di visions for the year 1846, were 62,834 ; of this number 42,269 were males, and 20,665 &mat s, Out of this number were discharged by the magistrate. 19,438 males and 11,951 females; while of the residue there were either summarily disposed of or held to hail, 18,965 males and 7,378 females; making a total of 26,233: while the actual number convicted for trial were 3,876 males and 1,236 females; total, 6,112. Out of this number, 2,987 males and 841 females, total, 3,828, were convicted, and 878 acquitted ; while against 288 males and 118 females, total, 406, bills were not found, or not prosecuted. Out of the gross number of 62,834, were 23 persons taken into custody for murder, 12 of which were discharged by the magistrates; and out of the remaining, 11 who were tried at the Central Criminal Court, 6 were convicted and sentenced, and 5 acquitted. The age at which the greatest number of offences were committed was between 20 and 25, there being 4,387 males, and 1,825 females. Of the number of persons tried and convicted out of the 3,828, 2,987 were males, and 841 females; of that number transported, was one child unaer the age of 10 years, for 7 years. Out of the total number of persons, the Lolloeing trales and callings furnished the greater number :-Bneklayers, 1,016; car penters, 1,711 ; cabmen, 1,095 ; milliners or needlewemen, 1,279; sailors, 2,045; servants (females) 1,003, do. (melee) 648-total 1,651; shoemakers (male and female), 1,749; tailors (do.), 1,761. A most important part of the return is that which relates to the state of education amongst those who had rendered themselves amenable to the criminal law; for out of the 62,834 there were of males who onold neither read nor write, 12,711; females, 9,51?. Read only, or read and write imperfectly, 24,836 males, 10,634 females. Read and write well, males, 4,222 ; females, 410. Superior instruction, melee, 600; females, 9. While out of the 3,828 who were tried and convicted were 1,039 males, and 385 females who had no adulation. While those who came under the second head were, males 1.726; females, 422. The third de gree of instruction presented 206 males and 33 temples, while those who could boast of a superior instruction were only 16 males and I female. Since the establishment of the new police, crime appears to be on the decrease ; the numbers taken ire(' cestody were: in 1831, 72,824; 1832, 77,543; 1838, 69,959; 1834, 64,269; 183.5, 63,474; 1836, 63,884; 1837, 64,416 ; 1838. 63,936; 1839, 66,965 ; 1840, 70,717; 1841, 68,961 ; 1842, 65,704 ; 1843, 62,477 ; 1844, 62,622 ; 1845, 69,123; and 1846, 62,831. In January, 1840, the police district was extended to 135 parishes, handeis, and liberties, with a population of 267,266 which amounts for the apparent increase of that year, while 1845 presents the lowest number. The charges of drunkennes• have materially decreased; as in 1831 the numbers were 23,788, while in 1846 the numbers were 17,668. [WEDNESDAI IRELAND. DUBLIN, Aram 26. I regret to inform you that his Excellency the Earl of Besborough is dangerously ill. The disease is dropsy on the chest, which, it is reported, has assumed a very alarming character. To inquiries at the castle to-day the answer was not very favourable. Fever is rapidly spreading among the higher classes. The deaths previously announced indicate the diffusion of disease among the higher cloves; and, in proportion to their zealous humanity and sense of duty, are the chanoes of infection and of death. It is stated that no lees than thirty gentlemen are lying ill of fever in the counties of Roscommon and Galway. The Mer, ury of yesterday announces the death of one of the representatives for the latter county, ec = T. B. Martin of Ballinahinch Castle. His had been stated and contradicted last week, but it is to be feared the last accounts are true. Sir John Burke, of Marble-hill, will be a candidate, and will probably be returned without opposition. Death has also made a second vacancy in the Roman Catholic episcopacy of Ireland, The Rev. Dr. Coen died yesterday at his residence, Loughrea. He had attained the patriarchal age of 90 years. His death was caused by dysentery. Bad though oar present proipecte be, we see Y EVENING, APRIL 28, 1847. glimpses of retrieval in the future. Much of the old inactivity has yielded to energy and self reliance. As the tilling season draws to a close, the greatest efforts are being made to compensate for put neglect. The fine weather has reacted on the popular despondency, and brought the listless and hopeless ' into the fields. In the south especially the past week has been one of real agricultural movement. Lime rick, one of the richest counties in Ireland, is reported to be full-sown--wheat beyond an average—oats and barley a fair average, and potatoes in reasonable abundance. " Crowds of people," says the Limerick, Chrnn ;rt. e, " are now seen from morn to night in the fieli..s." In all of Cork, with the exception of the unhappy strip of coast where labour is leas active, and in Tipperary, Clare, and Kerry, the accounts are equally cheering. Should the two ensuing months prove favourable, a large supply of early-planted potatoes will be available for general consumption in July. Discontent, however, reigns in other parts of the country. Between the 17th and the 22nd inst., five special sessions were held in the county of Longford, for five several baronies, and presentments for labour rate works passed to the amount of 31,3141. On Tuesday last, a number of the reduced labourers in that county, as infirm or incapable of full labour, waited upon a deputy-lieutenant of the county, Mr. bopping, and told him plainly, that unless they got employ meat or food, they were determined to commit plunder upon all sorts of property, as it was prefer able in their mixds to be shot then die of hunger. Nothing of this deliberate nature seems to have oc curred in any other county, and perhaps it is this cir cumstance which has suggested to the gentry of Longford to call on the high sheriff to convene his bailiwick, "to remonstrate with the government on the impolicy and danger of immediately withdrawing all assistance by public works when other and sufficb nt relief is not in operation for the support of the poor." These philanthropic gentlemen forget or overlook the fact that they might, if disposed, provide other and sufficient relief, by bringing the temporary Relief Act into operation. And their neglect to do ea, in the face of such a social state, would appear to justify an opinion very generally entertained in this country, that government should have reserved to itself plenary powers of giving effect to the act without the inter vention of the gentry. A far more formidable demonstration than that at Longford took place on Friday in the county of Waterford. A body of about 2,000 men, farming and mining labourers, proceeded to the house of the protestant rector of Annestown. They complained of destitution; he gave them a supply of bread, and they departed. Rumour swelled the fact to a meditated attack on the city, when the military were put under arms, and the police threw out videttes to signal in vaaion when it approached. But none came. Wexford Harbour is at length about to be sub jected to improvement. The celebrated contractor, Mr. Deegan, has gone down to see what might be done with the obnoxious bar in the present favourable weather, and according to the Wexford Independent, promises to commence the works on a large scale before the summer solstice. The greatest number of appearances ever known to have been entered in the superior courts have been entered this term. The Queen's Bench has the largest number of declarations. O'ComneaL.—lt was rumoured yesterday in Dublin, and the rumour was believed in quarters likely to be well informed, that Mr. O'Connell would return homewards from Lyons, instead of proceeding onwards to Rome. The hon. and learned gentleman's health does not, it is said, render it prudent for him to advanoe further on his journey. On the other band our Paris correspondent writes that," on the 22nd inst., Mr. O'Connell, accompanied by his son, a physician, and his servants, embarked at Lyons for Valence, en board one of the steamers. Mr. O'Connell Is to remain in the month of France until be is auSciently strong to proceed on his journey tit' Rome." STATE OT‘Till CoineTßY.—On Monday last, a country man having come into Athenry to take his place on the public works, and Ending that be was one of those excluded under the recent order, he proceeded to the house in which the relief committee were trembled, and broke the windows. He was immediately taken before • magistrate, and com mitted. Very great destitution is represented to exist in this district ; disease is also making sad havoc amongst the people.—A presentment sessions was held in Ger on Mon day last, when Lord Gort took occasion to lecture the pea santry upon the recent wholesale plunder of Mr. LAWs property. from whom 174 sheep were taken. " If such," rid his lordship," is the fateof gentlemen who are straining every nerve for your relief, they will become disgusted, leave you to your fate, and you will be eventually starved." The new relief ant has been put in operation in the Gott union, and • rare struck amounting to 13,0001., equal to Is. in the pound en the valuation. The temporary relief act has been put in operation in the town of Galway also; 35 paupers died in the workhouse there doting the met week. Sheep and cattle are stolen every night throughout the county of Clare, and in many districts of Limerick. The gentlemen of the latter county hare subscribed largely to a reward fund, for information us to the parties who attacked Mr. Wall plate recently, near Csstleoonnell. M Unirtit3.•--The papers to-day contain accounts of two murders of a character nearly similar, though perpetrated in localities far apart from each other, the one in Meath, the other in county Cork. In the county of Meath, • men named Molloy was murdered by his own brother sided by one or two others. The cause instigating to the crime was that the murdered man, the elder of the two promised the younger a portion of • farm of land be occupied, upon the marnage of the latter. But when that event took place he refused to perform his promise. Hence the younger man became ringed, slew kis brother with a hatchet, and, in conjunction with an accomplice, carried the body in a seek a distance of fourteen miles, and flung it into the canal,where it was discovered afiereerral days. The murderer and two persons charged as accomplices have been arrested. In the other case, in Cork, the victim was a man named Sheehan, and the murderers, his brother and his sister-in-law. The cause of the murder was that the victim had issued execution against his brother on foot of certain promissory notes of his fur a sum of 501. SCOTLAND. EDINBURGH, Aran. 25. In the matter of the Marriage and Registration Bills, " the Campbells are coming" forward briskly, four of the members of that ancient clan having an nounced by advertisement that, " believing these bills to be very objectionable in principle and detail, they will bring them ander the oonsideration of the commissioners of supply of the county of Argyll, at the ensuing general meeting, on 30th inst." A meeting has been held of the Glasgow Assccia' - tion for Procuring the Simplification, Abridgment, and Economisation of the Titles of Heritable Pro perty and Mortgages in Scotland, when, as might have been inferred from the recent deputation to the Lord Advocate, the association ap proved of the five new bills introduced by his lordship in reference to these matters. The association farther resolved that their favourable de cision should be made public, and that they should earnestly recommend to the various public bodies throughout the country, the expediency of giving the bills their prompt and energetic support, by petition and otherwise. _ . For some years past, Scottish proprietors, cope daily those in the neighbourhood of large towns, have been shutting up roadways and footpaths, which use and wont at least had made patent for centuries, and to such an extent did this proceed, that a board for the resistance of such encroachments was formed in Edinburgh, the present lord-provost being at its head ; and since its establishment complaints have very much ceased to be made. Unfortunately, how ever, they have now revived, as we observe that a public meeting has taken place in Renfrew, for the ofpreventing Mrs. Campbell, of Blythawood, purpose Tinthng up a footpath leading from the town of Renfrew to the junction of the rivers Clyde and Cart. Several members of council attended, arrangements were made for raising subscriptions, and it is antici pated that a similar meeting will be summoned in Paisley. Leith still continues crowded with shipping,. an unusually large number of foreign vessels giving variety to the scene. Grain, too, continues to be I largely ex , 2,000 quarters being named as the quantity in four days, while within the same period about half the quantity came in coast ' wise. A number of Ayrshire cattle have also been shipped for Sweden—and while talking of the marine commerce of the east, two matters call for notice on ihe opposite coast. The first is the commencement of the herring fishery in the west, which the Ckatgate Citizen has often and earnestly declared is there com menced, and particularly at Bs/huitrae, at seasons destructively premature. The subject is worthy of the attention of comparative physiologists, as the extinction of this national branch of industry, which the adzes predicts is no trifling matter. The second is the disoove7 of oysters at Loch Goil--hur in size and excellent in quality (the Citizen being judge), a circumstance which will materially add to the indus trial resources of the Strsnraer fishermen, and will oheapen natives in the Glasgow restaurants. RIIPRIMINTATION OP BIZWICIIIRIII.—WO understand that the report which bas been for some time current, to the an* that it is t►e Intention of Sir Hugh Campbell to retire from the representation of the county of Berwick, on the occasion of the approaching general election, is well founded. Our readers generally will concur with us in sincerely re ' Fretting this determination on the part of the hon. baronet. At the same time we are glad to be able to anosoce that the vat of the elect.srs will be solicited on precisely similar principles by the Hon. Franc:, Scott. at present M.P. foe the comty of Itnxburgh. Mr. Sett to well ksown throughout this distri.tt of Smtland as • man of independent character and great talents for business. He is also a member of a family which has been inti mately and honourably connected with Berwickshire for many generations. It is accordingly most gratifying to know that he will come forward aasured of the cor dial support of almost eery landed proprietor in t`te county, and that the MT, of hi. Persia.. a. Mete par iamen tary representative will be highly acceptable to a Test main rittof every class of the constituency. We think it very sntikelthat any serious opposition wall be offered to his re turn. The report which ha. been industriously circulated that Lord John Hay will be brought forward as the nominee of the government, is, we believe, wholly without founda tion. We are not yet able to announce who in likely to he Mr. Scott's successor in the representation of Rosborghshire. —Berwick Warder. WALES• SUPEIBTITIONS to 1847.—A few days since an unusual itireumstance (ea, s the Monmouth Merlin) was °beret:el at Pillgererilly, Newport. A patient sin stood near a house, and a fenaly of not touch more rational animal, were groupd around it. A father was seen passing his little son under the donkey, and lifting him over its back a certain number of times, with as much solemnity and precision as if engaged in the performance of a sacred duty. This done, the tither tank a piece of bread, cut from an untested loaf, which he offered the animal to bite at. Nothing loth, the Jerusalem pony laid hold orate bread with his teeth, and instantly the tither severed the outer portion of the slice from that in the donkey's mouth. He nest clipped off some hair, from the neck of the animal, which he cut up into minute particles, and then mixed them with the bread, which he had crumbled. This very tasty food was then offered the boy who had been round the donkey se mysteriously, and the little fel -I'os:7l:laving eaten thereof, the donkey was removed by his owners ; and the father, his son, and other members of his badly ware =neing off, when a bystander inquired what all these "goings on" had been adopted for. The father started at the ignorance of the inquirer, and then, in • half con temptuous, half condescending tone, informed him that " it . . was t o cure his poor eon's hooping-cough, to be sure !" Txa IRISH HerASION.—A correspondent says, " Pain filly degrading to observers is the lazy and almost inanimate appearance of the scores of able-bodied Irishmen who lie basking in the sun, with folded arms and outstretched limbs, at every corner where a snug, warm, sunny position can he obtained, in the streets of Newport. They do not ask for work, nor seek it. They are content to lie down in laziness and filth,—yawn, starve, and die. But the police have been about them. When Mr. Pakonham, seeing an Hindoo once 'ling down on the road awaiting his death patiently and like a martyr under the approaching wheels of the idol Juggernaut, thatgentleman approached the idiotic victim unperceived, and so vigorously applied the lash of his whip to his naked back, that he started up, flew, and shouted that a murderer was at his heels. Although he had been willing to die a passive martyr under Juggernaut, passive I resistance could not be chimed by him as a virtue under the I smart application of the whip. Thus with the policemen and the Irish. They are content to endure starvation lazily on the ground, and even to die there, but when the police I men.emne up with their smart canes. B 111 they are now ordered to do in Newport, and apply them vigorously to the backs of the lazy Irish, they start up, bag and baggage, and are off out of town in a qu'ck time. The board of guardians reit:dyed on Saturday that they would send no more back to Ireland, since it was ascertained that romper. were now sent from Chepstow, Usk, Cardiff, and other towns, to this, to be returned to Ireland at the expense of our rate-payers, which system would cause more expense than the maintenance of them in Newport. About four or five hundred weekly receive relief at the Refuge. PROVINCIAL. THE STATE or THE CHOPB.—The local parrs continue to report the condition of the crops. From WORCESTER setae we learn that the wheat plant has not been injured, nor has any cereal suffered from the cold weather, except some precocious barley. The promise of blossom in the orchards is groat, with every likelihood of being fulfilled. Sown( Haas.—At last, we ( Western Flying Post) may speak of the winter as past. We have had some fine April weather in the put week. The apple trees still promise a Vezo. p. Barley_ sowing is now nearly, if not quite --Boons Flovituomatesitteis — Spr ing seed-time is emended, with the exception of • few rolitary patches of taralp pound, which are about being cleared. The moot Ssonsises soils have worked down to a beautiful mould, is shirt, we (Nottingham Guardian), mar say of the Mitesed-ties of 1847, that it stands without a pared. the present century. We hare been fearful that the revere frosty nights, so prevalent of late, would prove de trimental to the early sown oats and barley, particularly on the low mooty soils ; but probably the dry state of the land may have prevented much injury being done. Generally the wheat is very backward, and a good deal seems to have lost plant during the last four or five weeks ; but we do not take alarm at this, for we have frequently seen thin wheat in April make rapid pronese in May and June, and come out better crops than neighbouring fields whit', were more promieinq in early spring. Beans are coming up, and look strong. A good breadth of land has and is being planted with potatoes ' • quick lime is used as a preventive against the disease in this esculent. Essex —The extraordinary se verity of the winter which we (Mart Lone Express) trust is now about to terminate, has produced • lateness of all descriptions of growing corn greater than has been known for some time, and the severe frosts of the 16th and 17th gave a still further check to vegetation. At the mesa dea r should a fine and mild temperature succeed, there to ha army encouragement to hope that a large and ehaadmt seep will follow. The appearance of all the spring. mown mops is good, a finer seed time throughout never having beam known- but wheat in many places has marred in plant from th e severity of the winter, though we do not report it to be so injured as materially to rata the general crop as warm rains and temperature combined would remedy much that now appears unpromising. We have very much im proved wind-blown wheat by early hoeing, and cannot too strongly recommend the plan. Medlin rowing of wheat which has been recommended by .any !triter., and economically adopted in the seed-time b 7 man o l Carmen, will this year be attended with great defideney plant, and coesseqsent loss. The breadth of wheat sown has been by no means excessive, the price at which barley has been sering affording quite as much inducement to grow that grain as wheat, if not more so. There has been a great quantity of barley sown, to the exclusion of oats. Of beans and peas a great breadth has also been planted, and these are good in plant. All have • most healthy appearance, and promise most abundantly. Turnip-lands are in a vi ry forward state, and menet- wurst I has been already planted to some extent. Potato...have not been sown so extensively as in many seasons, either by the farmer or his cottager, both tearing a recurrence of the dis ease so destructive to that hitherto useful pIasm—LANCS. arras.—The Liverpool Standard of yesterday, says:—Yield operations in the neighbourhood have gone on bristly, and nearly all the spring seed is in the ground. The first crop of early potatoes in gardens, and sheltered bits of fields, are fa some " early " localities in these districts, and particularly where covered with litter by night, in a remarkably forward state, considering the long draught and cold easterly winds. We have seen some upwards of two inches above the ground, and in full and large leaf—apparently quite heathy. The wheats srenerally look well. The glass, which had stood at o Fair," and even above it for many days, began to waver at the latter end of last week. On Sunday it perceptibly declined,aad on that day a very alight rain partially fel Monday morning, the w ind, after a previous threatening from clouds, shifted to the W.N.W., or thereabouts, and blew fresh, with a heavy downfall of rain, bat in the first instance of hail. This wet has dew mach gond already. The day was alb rwanle Ilea, bat esethas the force of the breeze. Soft showess sot& anshirs weal& arar much for ward all crops and roan the felled hem of the husband. man. TINANT RlONT.—Petitions in favour of Mr. Piney's biU are being extensively prepared and signed in vapour rural districts. The following places have " prosownced " in favour of the pregame' law :—Plympton, Devon : Reigate, Surrey ; Rowe, Devon : Baldock, Harts ; Lie of Ely, Cam bridgeshire ; Devises, Wilts; Newberry. Barka ; Norton, near Sheffield ; Isle of Thant, Kent Chelmsford, Bases; Peterstirld, Huts; Richmond, Yorks hire; Waltham, Lei. cestenthire ; Peterboro', Northamptonshire; Oreenford, Middlesex; ales, Suffolk; and Sandridge, Berta. The petition from Devizes and the neighbourhood ha. had the signatures of farmer' occupying upwards of sixty-font thousand scree of laud attaohad W it in one day. A petition front Rutlandaltire ebteisel eiguatarea by the holden of upwards of 14,000 amulet hod is lars than three hours. An address from the North Pothertas Fanners' Club, signed by 73 farmers, maiedmea of the club and other', has been forwarded to kir. Pessysad Mr. Asked, expressing approval of tenant right, sad giving it as them opinion " that it will tend to preemie infrooneent of the land, and to Mamas the domed far aphe)toga) labser." At an edfaarsed earget of the Oaehheetorreat Pons' Club, on the 17th bet., it the eiesikeetko of the lemma right bill, it mos uasedmmily teesked: The the smile d kola weelllmpart tie apes et emedme (at went est eel=l ,= % hese heaseley oft isuet iemms rooreihr Os mew el as wield meow sum ere* eamt Weir et kr week tet the kisedlue. Arrzwrlnso Hargrorzoi or WAG WI, ADD Drama or rat We awes/ma W Ithia the last few days the work people •uplja by main. I. Wilkinson and Co., and by Mears. .B. Meitiwrortk sad Co., both of Hanalei, near Leeds. Hen giros g sag by Megan. Boyle, Gill, and Co., of Leeths, Sea syhtemw ; Imre had natio, of the Intention of their twirbeyess to reduce waive from the com mencement a the resift week. As three ate the only firma of the many Is he lows sad usighboirbeed eepped in that branch of beim@ winks,* elempied redbeenoo, and as the workmen dasima ahmealeee voila to me the that=for welt a preessi e leepadally Weft award to price of peemaiese. here iselheed ts Ito the melodies, sad lave week. Several hands are thus oat of =Ea the tax task SSIMIAL CONNIASTON IT TIN Loan LiNOTINANT—E. P. Maha -1 warm' s, Eaq , to be eaplaia of Kiars Own Staffordshire Militia. OXPORDMIUM. COKIIISSIONS DT THE LO/LD idIDITTNANT.—Capt. the Hon. H. G. Spencer to be J.W.ier Fame, promoted. Oxfordshire Militia —Lieut . W 8. Churchill, Marquis of Blaadford, to be *via* Tice Lord Normys, promoted ; Cornet Lord A. 8. Churchill to be lientessent, vies the Mar quis of }Handfeed, promoted ; B. 8. Abbott, gent., to be cornet, vice Lord A. Clusraill, promoted. let or Queen's Own Yeomanry Cavalry. 3 NEOLTOBNT BLAPTING OF ROCCD.--COMNIPTAL OP A MAP POD MANALAI:OUTIIIL —At the Bristol tedioe-court. on Monday, John Millard, a quarry man, in the employ of Messrs. Bevan and Compton. builder, of Brieto4 In" charm d with feloniously killing and slaying a little girl, nine years old, named Mary . Casey, under the following eircuirt stamen.* :—M.sisrs. Bevan and Compton were en:aged in building some villas upon a piece of ground adjoiiiiiig Meri dian-place, Clifton, and the prisoner was einp:oyed to blast aurae rocks for the purpose cf making dreins. The inhabitants of the neighbourhood, which is thickly populated, had born for some time past alarmed at the danger to which they were exposed, and en Tuesday last, Mr. Trip;i, au ar. lii•ect residing in Meridiao•plaer, went to the men and told them did they moat not use pq.c , lef there. They gave him a distinct assurance that they would not lire any more, and the accused man. Millard, promised that.no more powder should be permitted to he used there. On Wednesday morning. however, he blew up another piece of the rock. The stoics were scattered in every direction — many large pieces slighted on the roofs of the neigh bouring houses, breaking holes in the tiles, and others were thrown to a greater distance, and fell in public thoroughfares. The deceased, Mary Casey, was the daughter of a poor widow woman, 111X1 (as reported in this paper) was sitting sewing on some steps, when a large stone fell upon her head and occasioned her death. The prisoner, in his defence, urge. that he bad been employed in quarrying all his lifetime, sad had never had an accident before. lie fur th er said that he bad represented to one of his employers, Mr. Bevan, all which Mr. Tripp had said to him, and had told him that he would not blow any more rock. On Wednesday morn ing, however, Mr. Bevan came to him soon after breakfast and ordered him to bore a hole in the mck, put in a little powder and blow it, and what he did he did upon his master's order. The magistrates, after a short consideration, said it was clear that he had occasioned the di ath of de ceased, and he was committed to take his trial fur man slaughter. . - PirITIONS TO BOTH HOUSE/ OF PARLIAMENT itlfaTOOF of the government measure fur improving the health of towns are in course of signature in Bristol. and have already been subterihed by many of toe prir.cipal inhabitants. COMMIFSION By THE LOLDLIBUTEN•NT.-R. C. Jenkins, Esq., to be eaputin, vice Tasirc 11, resigned. Royal 0 low:ester skits Hussar Yeomanry Cavalry. DORSM•11111.E. . COMMISSION By THE LOUD LIEUTENANT.—Cornet J. C. Mengel to be lieutenant, rice Start, resigned. Queen's Own Yeomanry Cavalry. LITERATURE. Prevention hater Man Cure ; or, The Moral Went. of the World we Igoe in. By Mae. ELLIs. It is now recognised as one of the great iesthetical truths which the progress of modern society has evolved end disseminated, that the primary evils which afflict society are not constitutional or political, but, on the contrary, the result of social organisations or moral conditions. The people of this country, and indeed of Europe generally, were long haunted with the hallucination that governments were the great, if not the only, generative powers of good and ill in society. It was thought that by improvement in the legislative and administrative machinery, men might he made wise and good, intelligent, industrious, and happy. The machinery of the state was expected to do everything. Bad citizens were to be put into the mechanical apparatus, as the pulp 'is put into the paper machine, and to conic out at the other end beautifully clean, and morally smooth and hot-pressed -- without s oil or stain, and cut down to the moat approved and normal condition of respectable Bath post. Hence, edicts, forms of law, and orders in council were the aims of social reformers. Nothing was attempted except through the aid of government But somehow or other these edicts almost invariably failed of pro-. during the results anticipated. There wire invariably found to be disturbing elements, rot taken into the calculation, which neutralised the expected result One of the great misfortunes of the last half .can-. tory has been the want of a clear and logical percep- • tion of the true province of politics, and the real end' and object of political effort. The reforming spirit has been potently evoked. Its energies have been grandly and violently taxed. It has been as age of change, of revolution, and of progression ; but much of that valuable labour has been loot Great things, however, have been accomplished—and perhaps the greatest gain of all is the conviction, now nearly universal, that politics is not the only science of life; that there are evils in oar social systems which go vernments cannot reach ; that the most primary and important of all reform' must not be sought for, but be self-originated. No reformation can be radical and permanent that does not commence at home. The amendments most needed are social ones. They must germinate in the individual and take place in the family. All other sort of effort at improvement must be futile, wanting these. Moral science, although a far less fashionable study, is a far more important one than that of polities. ' It wants, however, the eclat, the bustle, and the bril liancy of the latter. It has not, and cannot have, the same charms for the multitude. It lays no bait for ambition—no prospect of gain for the, avaricious. It stimulates no powerful instinct. It appeals mere to great principles than to great passions; and the mul titude is ruled almost invariably by the latter. Still the great work to be done, the true reformation to be effected, is a moral one. By every process d educa tion some result is realised, good or bad; yet too• sel dom is the moral end distinctly perceived, the moral purpose vigorously worked out. In t i e slow progress from barbirism to civilisation . ; infinite effort has been wasted. Men have fancied they were engaged in mortal conflict with the demons of ignorance and crime when they have' been only beating the air. The great work of the world has often been retarded by its being unnecessarily ember dinated to ministerial arrangements. Government is not, and never can be, a generative ware*, so Sir as morals are concerned. It may educate, diwzipline, and nurture, but cannot originate them. 'Political machinery is not competent to produce moral senti ments. We have acted too long on the supposition that it could. The world's active intellect has been largely appli e d to legislation, yet vice and ignorance continue to - exist-nay, to flourish more and more abundantly on every side of us, in the very heart -of our social system. A civil war, compared to which all open, outward, armed conflict is utterly insignificant, exists and rages unceasingly in the centre of society between law and crime. All our efforts barely serve-to keep the latter from gaining the ascendancy. A short re laxation would give it the vantage-grosnd. The well-springs of public immorality never cease to over flow. As society advances in wealth and refinement, the sources of corruption multiply. The most vital . problem of our generation is to find the remedy fur this. The politician talks of an improved edition of ' the constitution ; the lawyer would devise a better penal code; the economist would make commercial treaties; all in turn would trust to organisation--to external machinery; all lean for safety upee the mere • abstraction—law . A conviction that all these remedies meat some sort empirical, unsuited to the disease, and wholly inef fectual as curative agents, is rapidly spreading in society. Something more radical is required. A people that has learned to rely upon its mete institutions for support hes already ac quired one of the great elements of decay. It is a matter of secondary importance to a virtuous people what is the precise form of its government. Sparta was a monarchy : Venice a reptibrie ! A per fect law is no salvation to an imperfect people. During the oorruptest reign in our stutals, the °multi tutional law of England was at the height of perfec tion. Good legislation is of no value without that national morality which alone can give it vitality. It is mere idleness to ask from government that elevation which every man can and ought to achieve for himself ; political insignificance is impossible Lo an intelligent and virtuous people. Could the os4inal and motive elements in men, the primary moral in stincts, be augmented, all rational and visible im pent must follow. He who can induce men to more industrious, temperate, intelligent, and domestic, will effect the great reform which lies at the root of all others, and which leads most infallibly to the higher kind of political rights, and social rank. We have little to say of the 'minims at the head of • this article, and which furnished us with a point of departure in these observations ; like all the same writer's works, it is marked by unexceptionable see- • timent and a healthy moral tone, but it never rises to the height of the great argument with whinkit professes to deal. Sine Inns. • HER MAnery's Fmaux PtcrusEa—Tickets to view the two royal pictures by Winterbalter, In the banquet. ting-room, in St. James'a-pslace, will be issued from the Lord, Chamberlain's °Moe, from 12 to 4 o'clock. Each ticket will admit the lady or gentleman whose name will be inaerted in it, and fire other persons. All applications must be made personally, or through a responsible agent, as it will be int- possible to send tickets or to answer written Ladies and gentlemen receiving tickets will be requocd to leave their names and addresses on their cards, at the Lord Chamberlain's office.