The Express. — London, England, 1847-09-30 00:00:00

The commercial news is, as we have already said, highly important. The following letter announces tee failure of Messrs. Prime, Ward, and Co. : N ew voila, Sept. 9.—Dear Sir,—We regret to inform you that, oe ing to the recent failure of some of our cot.- t espondents ia Europe, on whom we have a large amount of balls remaining, we feel it is incumbent upon us, both as a ra m of duty and as an act of prudence, to suspend payments. —Very r e-p-ctfullyyoure, Pains, WARD, and Co. The X,. York Herald says, on the subject of the finances of the government : / a ccording to the monthly report of the treasury depart ment for Atigust, it appears that the amount of money in the bands of the assistant treasurers and in the different mints, mss 372,041 ••, .itag com pnes the whole arailable e.spi• tat of the government. The other resources are not so t;n -r. available at short notice. It appears gible, but are, how." 2 '.".' by the report of the register of the treaser7 ' that the whole a mount of treasury notes outstanding on the Ist instant, was 15,808,439 die. 31 c., of this more then 14 millions were of the Wye auth orised under the act of Jan. 28, 1847, leaving but about 9 millionsof the amount authorised yet to be issued. The resources of the government to carry en the war, from this to the time Congress convenes, are pretty well reduced, and unless something is done to les‘en the expenditure, there will be a deficiency before ways and means can be provided for raising more money. The expenditures of the govern ment dunes the past year have been about one million of dollars per week, and there is every probability of the ex pease' continuing at this rate so long as the same policy is pursued is tarrying on the war which has marked its pro gress thus tar. It ie full twelve weeks from this to the meet mg of cons , ess, which, with the two weeks elapsed since the financial r. ports alluded to were made, make a period of fourteen u, ks, equal to an expenditure of at least fourteen rail:ions ofd tilers. It is impomible to make an estimate with say .1 , greet of correctness as to the amount of revenue likely to to received from customs from the Ist of Septem ber to the let of December, but we do not anticipate an income of more tha n five millions from that mime. The aggregate resources of the government from all sources, up to the let of December, with the amount of funds now on head, will not vary much from eighteen millions of dollars, and the expenditures, for the same period, we estimate at fourteen millions. This will leave a surplus of four million., every cent of which will, without doubt, be expended before congress gets ready to provide ways and means to carry on the war. We are r ipidly running up a mpectable.sized debt. On the let of I). , cember, 1847, the aggregate amount of the debt of the ge , ral government will not vary much from sixty millions of toners, the annual interest of which will amount to a pretty handsome sum. If our indebtedness was arrested at that po.t.i, there would be no cause for apprehension, but we see no .romedisto prospect of any suspension of our extra. ordinary a soenditures. Millions must be piled upon millions to almost an unlimited extent ; and it becomes a meter for serious ceo•ideration, whether we shall not soon be compelled to submit to a material alteration in our commercial system, for the po, pose of providing for the payment of the interest on the item, nee debt we are rapidly creating. General Kearney had arrived in Washington from Mis,onri. He reported himself to the President of the I nited States and to the Department of War. lie was in good health, and very de sirous, ft , •oon as he could-be released from his en erts in Washington, to join the army in tMexico. ('ol. Fremont was expected in a few data. The W.,,hington packet was to sail on the 23rd hut for Europe. COLONIAL. CANA i.I..—iONTREAL, SEPT. 13.—Since the departure o the last Boston steamer for England, the poli tical surfi,c has been unruffled ; but there is a deep under =rent of public opinion, which will produce, ere long, im portant rt •Ulti to the country. The decided progress that liberal epo.mns ars making in the mother country, and the equally rxpil strides with which thoy march in Nova Scotia —both evinced in the ;recent elections —produce a corre sponding , if, et here. Never was the reform party so buoyant with the hole of success. The mortality at the emigrant sheds was fisted ; still, the diminution was nearly as much attributail, to want of material on which to work, as to ge neral improvement of health. The daily rate of mortality varied from twelve to twenty-four. The offices of Adjutant General and Solicitor-General East were still unfilled. Some rumours the appointment of W. K. M'Cord, Esq., of Queb, e. to the otfice of Solicitor-General East, had been afloat, but they had died away. The Canada ;, , zette of the 11th, contains a proclamation' proroguinir the provincial par liament pro forma from the 6th of Sept. mber to the 16th of October. The serious fall in brae& oda in Britain was likely to produce very heavy losses in Montreal. The merchants have been serious sa fe/en by , ho panic in the money market in England; their property ha. been sacrificed, at the most unfavourable time, to meet engagements of their correspondents, who, having I .dscil up their means in speculations of their own, raise fund', toile veil mate, from the shipments of thee; Canadian e.,rrespondents. Much gloom, of course, pervaded the comm-rcial atmosphere ; and it wes to be apprehended that many who, a short time since, were possessed of con siderable wealth, might find their wealth crumble away. The harrot was most abundant; but prices did not keep pace in their downward tendency with those in Britain. The opinion was generally prevalent that there would be required for the consumption of the inhabitants of the British isl, •• during the next twelve montha—however pro ductive their harvest may have been—a large quantity of foreign grin; and, if so, it would have to be procured at prices sufficiently high to remunerate the grower here, which thy present prices in Britain decidedly would not. The mart.' • were in a depressed state, the whole holiness done in t 1.,. fortnight not being worth mentioning. ST. A • DREW S AND QUEBEC RAILROAD.—Captain Robinson arrived at St. Andrew's on his return from Ragland, and was warmly received by the people of that town. On the day after his arrival a protracted meeting of the board of directors was held, when Captain Robinson's report wss cowidered highly satisfactory, and resolutions passed anthorisinr the immediate employment of an engineer, and the commencement of the work. A vote of thanks was also passed to Captain Robinson and H. li. Paley, Esq. An ex. parienced engineer was expected to arrive shortly from the tinted States, with one or more assistants. CORNW.\ LL.—TORNADO.--li. severe tornado struck the town of Cornwall on the sth of September, about four o'clock in the afternoon. It lasted but a few minutes, but did an infinite deal of damage during that short time. It unroofed shout thirty houses, threw down many outhouses, killed some cattle, and, what is worse than all, drove a poor girl into the canal, where she was unfortunately drowned. Nearly at the same time a large water-spout discharged itself at the head of the Long Sault. PRINCE EDWARD'S ISLAND.—Mratontat To run Guy LRNOIt-GENERAL.—The Charlotte-town Islander of the 2nd inst. says—" A memorial to hi► excelleng the ' Earl of Elgin, explanatory of the present state of affairs in this colony with reference to the lieutenant-governor, was duly signed and forwarded to his lordship on Saturday morning last. /as the intended departure of Sir Henry Huntley was never officially announced, and the fact was only generally known just as the Electra was about to sail, it was found impossible to furnish the lieutenant governor with a espy of the same, he having left the Wand without any joublic notification. NEW BRUNSWICK.—Mon PRICE OF LABOUR. —Notwithttanding the immense number of emigrants that have come to S t. John's this season, labourers' wages are almost extortionate. We are informed (says the St. John's News) that the very toorest hands get 6s a day, while better ones get as high as is. 6d., and even 10s. in loading ►hips. They are the molt stiff and independent persons we have amongst us. You cannot get one of them to move from the head of the market-wharf for leas than ls. 3d. per hour. Some de mand as high as ls. 6d. Mu Court. . - At the Privy Counc il held by the Queen, at Os borne, Isle of Wight, on Tuesday, parliament wu ordered to' be further prorogued from Tuesday, the 12th October, until Thursday, the 11th November. The Queen Dowager, accompanied by the Duke of Saxe-Meiningen and the Duchies Ida, Prince Gustavus, and the Princesses of flaze-Weimar, visited the new palace, at Westminster, !yesterday, and inspected the new Hewn of Lords. The august party afterwards drove round the parks, The Duchess of Kent, attended by Baroness de 6peth, arrived at her residence, Clarence-house, St. James's, at one o'clock yesterdaafternson, from Frogmore-house, Windsor. Her Royal Hig hness visited the Queen Dowager, at Marlborough-house, en partook of a dejefiner with her Majesty and the Dachas Ida of Saxe-Weimar. The Duchess of Kent left town at half-past three o'clock, on her return to Frogroorehouae. His Royal Highness Prince George arrived in town on Tuesday evening. Yesterday the Prince visited the Queen Dowager and the Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, at Marlborough boue. The American Minister and Mrs. Bancroft returned to Eaton-square on Tuesday evening, from the Continent. Viscount Palmerston returned to his seat, Broad lands, Hants, on Tuesday evening, from Osborne.—The Lord Chancellor returned to his residence, at Copse-hill, on Tuesday evening, from Osborne. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial. oltce, from the governen of the North American colonies. THE REGISTRATIONS. WtaTmINSTER.—In the ease of Joseph Smith, which was adjourned for judgment yesterday, the Revising barrister said that, after giving a careful consideration to the claim, and looking into the cases which had been cited, he was bound to reject it as insufficient. The list for St. James's parish was then proceeded with.— Mr. Martin Steele, of Pickering-place, St. James's, claimed for the occupation of a cellar under the same circumstances " Mr. Smith, and the claim was rejected.—ln both these cases an appeal was granted for the opinion of the Court of Common Pleas. Poctor Edwin Lankester claimed to be inserted on the re gister for the occupation of a house in Old Burlington-street. It was stated that a rate due on April 8 had not been paid en July 31.—Mr. Haggett urged that the rate in question was cot made till April 21, or published till ,May 2, and, therefore, th ere cou ld b e no liability for a rate said to be doe on April 6. It appeared, however, that the rate was made under a local act, 2 Geo. 111., e. 68, and by the 7th section the rate was retrospective, being due on January 4, although made on April 30. The act required the rate to be made for a year, and it was, consequently, due from one Januaryto the next, and payable ffitanerly.—The barrister said he would look into the acts of parliament before giving his decision.—No other ease of eon etqueneefrecurred, and the lists for St. James and St. Martin were rose throegh with the following results : Objedions.-Bt. James : Sustained, 21; failed, 1 ; with drawn, I.—St. Martin : Sustained, 33 ; failed, 1 ; with drawn, 1. It appeared that the list of the result of yesterday's pro ceedings as to claims was not quite correct. It is as follows : Names expunged, 46; retained, 2; withdrawn, 8. ELECTION OF LORD MAYOR. Yesterday, being Michaelmas Day, pursuant to the terms of the City charters, and in obedience to the Lord Mayor's precept, a Common Will was held for the election of a Chief mestiatrate for the ensuing year. The announce went by Mr. Alderman T. Vesta tacit though next in rots tion he should not seek (in eonsessenca of the ilium of his wife) th e to which he has so often aspired. primed the proceedings of ilia usual animation which hereto- I fore have attached to this memorable day in civic annals. The Lord Mayor, attended by his cortege, arrived in state at Guildhall, and went in procession with several mem. hers of the Court of Aldermen, the sheriffs, and other members of the corporation, to the parish church of St. Law rence Jewry, where, after divine service, an admirable sermon was preached by the Lord Mayor's chaplain, the Rev. Mr. Cobden, M.A., who selected his text from the first Epistle of St. Peter, chap. 4., verse 10, " As every man bath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God." On the return of the Lord Mayor, the Recorder, the Sheriffs, and Al dermentto the hustings, The Recoanan, as the official organ of the corporation, addressed briefly the livery, and announced to them that they had been convened for the putpose of exercising one of the most important of their privileges—that of electing a chief magistrate to preside over them during the ensuing year. The names of the different members of the Court of Aldermen who had served the office of sheriff, but who had not passed the chair, would in regular order be submitted to them, and of that number it would be their duty to return two to the Court of Aldermen. The Lord Mayor, Re corder, and Aldermen, then retired, and The Common Serjeant, acting as assessor for the sheriffs, put in nomination in succession the names of the aldermen qualified to fill the office of Lord Mayor. On a show of hands, the sheriffs declared the choice of the livery to have fallen upon Mr. Alderman John Kinnersley Hooper, citizen and vintner, and Alderman Sir James Duke, Knight, citizen and spectacle maker. The Sheriffs and Common Serjeant then proceeded to make their return to the Court of Aldermen, and after • somewhat protracted delay, the session of the common-hall was resumed by the re-appearance of the Lord Mayor and aldermen. The Recorder then announced that the election of the Court of Aldermen hail fallen on Mr. Alderman Hooper to fill the office of Lord Mayor for the ensuing year. By the Common Crier (Mr. Beddome), the Lord Mayor elect was called upon by the usual form of ?roclamation to come forward and take upon himself the office, and to save himself from the pains and penalties which, in default, would accrue. _ Mr. Alderman HOOPER, in obedience to the call and the voice of his fellow-citizens, came forward, and having been invested in due form with the chain of office, briefly ad dressed the few persons who had congregated in the hall to witness the ceremony. Thg Lord - Mayor elect acknow ledged the high honour which had been thus conferred upon him. He was not insensible of the responsible duties which that honour involved, but he hoped to be able to bring to the discharge of those duties, requiring the whole time and best energies of the individual called upon to fulfil them, a sincere desire to do all that was right and proper. If he failed in the accomplishment of that desire , he could only fall back upon that mani festation of liberality which heretofore the livery and his fellow-citizens generally had been pleased to evince towards him. In his person the rights of the community or the hospitalities appertaining to the office to which he had thus been unanimously elected, should in no degree suffer or be depreciated, and with these promises he now took his leave, *saki( the livery for all the kindness they had over evinced towards him. (Cheers.) Mr. JANNII ANDERSON than came formai and sained the following resolution: That the milli nooks of this OmmeaHell be toThseem Challis, mid Beat Wea. bee eberifils or th is Czed shield el the maw NHaferez. kr the Was ad sesidaaes dining. et the *Wm d their high 011ie; ke the kle= aadembleraden mimihand bans* all who Inn re nd, eardetda* the prime =ler their sheep; tor = .l lllimal Import - et the ~We et Ma any; than urnikea war ow le their Mew diner ; aid dr tie isfesa. hospitable, riad jriteeseregare In width dry Mee ardsadast the dignity rad pet- Ahem et the tinknerty; and ea thidr -shaman boat its rasped bellies the msenbasere and mien diadem of this Common Hall are kw*, gnarl Ar their aulimpl bra aid yeeepertty. Mr. T. G. Ihmesost seconded the resolution, which was 7 adopted amidst load cheers. 11111 irr i 7Zaherilf KENNARD, in curt terms, returned thanks on behalf of himself and his late colleague Mr. Al derman Challis, and was loudly greeted. After this the Common Hall was proclaimed to be dissolved. MEETING OF MIDDLESEX MAGISTRATES. On Tuesday a meeting of the magistracy of the county of Middlesex was holden at Hicks's-hall, Clerken well, for the purpose of receiving a communication from Secretary Sir G. Grey confirming the rules to be adopted for the New House of Detention at Clerkenwell. Mr. H. Pownall presided. At the butt meeting a code of rules was read, and ordered to be transmitted for the approval of the Secretary of State. The following was the one most worthy of notice : RULE RELATING TO PRISONERS COMMITTED FOR TRIAL OR FOR RE•RIAMINATIOIL—Prisoners for trial shall be per. mitted to see their relations or friends on any week day, without any order, between the hours of 11 and 2in the afternoon, and at any other time on a week day by an order, in writing, from a visiting or committing justice; and they 'ball be permitted to see their legal adviser (by which is meant a certificated attorney or his autho rised clerk) on any day, at any reasonable hour, and in private if required. Prisoners of this class may write or re ceive letters, to be inspected by the governor except any con fidentially-written communication, prepared as instructions for their legal adviser ; such paper to be delivered person ally to such legal adviser, without being examine/ by any officer of the prison. But all such written communications not personally delivered to the legal advisor or kis clerk are to be considered u letters, and are not to be sent out of the prison without being personally inspected by the governor. Any person presenting himself as the clerk of an admitted attorney shall, in the absence of his principal, produce to the governor in each ease evidence (satisfactory to such governor) of his being such an accredited agent, and the legal adviser, or kis clerk, shall name the prisoner whom he wis h es to visit. . . . —.—... Mr. POWNALL called the attention of the court to the letter from Whitehall, certifying the rules as proper to be enforced.—The meeting having received the rules, and ordered their immediate adoption, 31r. Pownall vacated the chair, and the criminal business proceeded. THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 30, 1847. which he had been struggling free fivis4ad-thirty years. (Loud haraghter.) He (Mr. Duncan), therekire, had lopes that as ens as Sir Robert had flied Lord J. Russell and Sir Cbarlas Wood with pledges from . which they could not re ekte4Zermirrialgeor k for a manifesto from Tamworth, &t -enors on the currency question, and =L• ~comprehensive" plan of redress (Great i isswing.) AU that was necessary, in his opi nion, was, as usequirocal expression of public opinion in favour., the principles embodied in the resolution which hail just been read. Mr. TLYLOI reminded the meeting that before the bill of 1819 gold was a strictly protected commodity, its exportation being prohibited under pain of forfeiture. A curious story was told of Rminwm, who, having attempted to take some silver money away, was sto pped: aXDover, and all taken from him, leaving him so destitute that at Calais he was obliged to write a book to obtain subsistence. Mr. Taylor having at some length poblici out the evils of !metallic currency. er,o.. ciuueu oy affirming that a CUITeDeI of paper representing the whole amount of taxation, and having the guarantee of the crown and of parliament, would be perfectly secure, and at the acme time would give the amount of circulation re quired for our commercial operations. Mr. CAPPB contended that the present system had a most injurious effect on our foreign trade. A desultory discussion followed, during which several gentlemen, while dissenting from the resolution, proposed adjournment. Finally, the resolution was withdrawn, and another, proposing the formation of a league, but without pledging the meeting to any particular plan, was carried with only one or two dissentients. BANK oe ENOLAND.—The told court of proprie tees convened fur the purpose of e eating three directors in the room of Abel flower and Sir J. R. Reid, disqualified, mid of Mr. Prescott, who bas been appointed deputy-gover nor, was held yesterday. The directors were in attendance at eleven o'clock, but there were very few proprietors pre sent, and discussion was prevented by the reply given by the governor to Mr. Fielder, a proprietor, to the effect that it was not usual at meetings for the election of directors. Ac cordingly the ballot proceeded, and at four o'clock terminated in favour of the gentlemen recommended in the " house list," via., Mr. Alderman Thompson, Mr. Christopher Pears°, and Mr. John G. Hubbard. EDUCATION.—THE NATIONAL SOCIETY.—The cotn mane of the National Society has recently sent letters to the various diocesan boards, requesting information as to the means possessed by them for promoting education by means of training schools. The answers received subjoined are full of interest at the present time :—LoNnoir —There being no funds for the purpose, it is not contemplated establishing any training establishment et present—Dunn AM.—The train ing school in this diocese, partly built by aid from govern meet, before the issue of the recent minutes, is capable of accommodating twenty pupils. The demand for masters has exceeded the supply in the ratio of three to one.—WIN ESTER.—The training school which formerly only accom modated twenty students has recentl7 been removed to Wolvesey Palace by permission of the bishop, who pays the rates an taxes. The establishment will now afford room for fifty pupils. The tenure not being in accord with the re quirements of the minutes on education, being dependent on the will of the bishop, the privy council have taken a tee to remedy the defect in the trust deed. The num ber since 1840 up to the date of the reply was fifty four, and the reports of such as have been engaged in teaching are highly satisfactory. The average term of training is two years, and the advantages of the institution are not confined to the inhabitants of the diocese, but are open to all.--flocnEiTEkl—lncluding the greater part of Essex, formerly in the see of London. It is proposed to establish is this diocese an institution foe sixty female pupils, at a coat of 7,5001. (which will inclule maintenance for three yeses); 3,0001. will be obtained from the committee of council, and the remainder will be raised in the district. It ' is further intended to unite with the Cambridge board in founding a new institution for training masters. BRIBTOL.—The Bristol board possesses at present a large middle school, a choristen' school, sad a training school wilted: only five masters are now under tuition, and being unable, according to their present arrangement, to avail them selves of the government grants, the bishop has undertaken to confer with the Bishops of Oxford and Hereford, and also with the officers of the National Society, so as to devise the beet mode of establishing an institution which may come under the re gulations laid down in the minutes of the committee of council—Oxecinn.—The Oxford board report that they have 27 pupils in their male training institution, but that the premises occupied are held on lease terminable iu 1843, end do not come under the description for the requirements of the committee of council.—Woncluarat—This board answer, that they have six pupils only at their diocesan com mercial school. The want of funds, and the absence of co operation on the part of the archdeacons] of Coventry, have presented great obstacles, but every effort will be made to overcome them.—Lienrietn.—The Lichfield training school for mestere accommodates 26 pupils 40 competent masters have been supplied by it already, chiefly after three, and in some cases after two years' training. This institution, considering its limited means, is reported to have been very prosperous, and instrumental in effecting much good in the diocese. The board have expressed to the committee of council their earnest desire to oarry into effect the measures recently adopted by government, but no posi tive alterations have yet been determined on.—Denver. —Buildings are about to be immediately commenced for the accommodation of thirty-six pupil.—LlNCO. . . LN . . . The board in this diocese possess a commercial school for sixty pupils; a few master are trained here.—BATH AND WELLB.—An institution was established some years ago, but abandoned two years since. It is intended to join with another diocese to found <large establishment for training masters, and ono at Wells for mistresses, where the demand f 4. the latter is very great.—Ex ETEll.—The Exeter train ing school has admitted, since 1640, forty-nine male and twelve female pupils; eighteen of the former and four of the latter are now in residence. The demand (or Woollen is far greater than the supply.—CnicurArEn.—The training school, new established seven years, has at present twelve pupils. When the new house, for which funds are provided, is built, it will accommodate 24. The period of training is two yeah.—Yoga AND RIPON.—The institution for masters will accommodate 56 students. There are, however, but 4u in residence at present. The establishment for females will ac commodate 32—there are only 12 at present. The demand for schoolmistresses exceeds the supply in the ratio of 10 to 1. —BANGOR AND ST. ASAPH.—The Carmarthen training school for South Wales will be shortly finished, and will ac commodate 60 pupile.---.-CHEHTER.—There is accommoda tion for 70 students in the institution at Chester. The de mand for masters is double the supply. At Warrington, in this diocese, 36 female pupils can be accommodated.—The CONlAldliell Mike National Society have resolved that grants &NM be sand out of the special fluid towards the este- MiblllOOSOrteaining institutions in those dioceses in which thiOnSiOnomiderable mines and factories. That such grants ibedibe lei • rats varying from 101. to 261. for every student ale VW institution can accommodate and train; and that elbe &odd be in force for two years. TIM MOOT DIRTILESSINO FAILPRE OP ALL.—We NMI to state that the house, or rather the attic, of Mr. DUMP has suspended its payments. We have seen aetate- IMO st the liabilities, which are not large, though rather Mamas. Mr. Dunnp's paper was in the hands of his swam , by whom it had been held as a security for a debt, tit sines it came into his hands, for binding. Mr. Dunnp's largest creditor—his laundress—holds security, in the shape of two shirts ; but the realisation of this security cannot be effected in the present state of the market—Rag Fel:— without 'a sacrifice. Mr. Dunup 's credit had been a good 621 shaken lately by his knocker, which has been going iloasisiell4 he the last fortnight. A creditor had it in his Mob Ilia the suspension of payment was announced — An* *a letter-box. Mr. Dunup assigns " the state of mollemis Or City " as the primary cause of his failure, but be sapid= bitterly of the general want of confidence. He bee announced to his creditors a hope that he shall soon be enabled " to mune ;" but they say, they " hope he will not," and ask what is the use of his " resuming," when his goings on hitherto have ended in the present predicament Mr. Dusup's affairs will be easily wound up, for his watch is understood to be the only thing he has got remaining.— AcwA. • --- IMPROVEMENT OF THE WORKING CLASSES.—Last night we attended the first of a aeries of lectures which the committee of the Society for the Promotion of the Religions, Moral, and Intellectual Improvement of the Men employed in Manufactories have determined shall be delivered to the working men of London, in connexion with the several branch societies established in the metropolis. The commit tee oould scarcely have devised • better mode of promoting their object than that of a well-selected course of lectures. The subjects comprised in the series to be delivered in the Lambeth and Vauxhall Auxiliary Societies include elec tricity, chemistry, vocal music, poetry, astronomy, the croseAks, Joan of Arc, and London as it was and is. Exception might be taken to some of these, if we did not know that, in the hands of a skil ful lecturer, almost any subject may be rendered in teresting and profitable. The lecture of last night was de livered in the school-room, George-street, Lambeth, by Mr. T. Covens, " on the property and laws of electricity.' The room was tilled with mechanics and working men, who took great interest in the subject, to which the clear and simple diction of the lecturer and hie direct manner not • little con tributed. We understand that there are at present nine libraries in London in connexion with the society, the books of which are widely circulated among the workmen of various manufactories. To the society which helps them on the way we cannot but wish programs and prosperity. INQUESTS, YESTERDAL—MELANCHOLT SUICIDE OF ♦ Maitenarr.—Before Mr. Watley, M.P., at No. 10, Tun bridge-terrace, New-road, St. Pancras, on view of the body of Mr. A. Reynolds, aged sixty, who committed suicide there, his late residence, under the following melancholy circum stances The deceased, who was a merchant, carrying on business in the City, a short time ago lent a large sum of money to • person who became involved during the late commercial crisis, in consequence of which the deceased was fearful that he would not be able to meet hie engagements, though his affairs were not complicated, and that he should come to want. His attention seemed to be chiefly on the money which had been borrowed. On Sunday night, as usual, previous to retiring to rest, homed the family prayers. The following morning the female servant entered has room, the door of which was unlocked, to leave his shaving water, when she found the deceased suspended from the bed-pest by a silk handkerchief ; he was cut down, when it was discovered that the unfortunate gentleman had tied the hand kerchief in four knots, which he had placed under his chin. Mr. Judson, a medical gentleman residing opposite de ceased's residence, was pent for, who stated that life had been extinct eome hours. Verdict, "Temporary ioeaatty Mr. RICHARD WALTER.—Before William Carter, Esq., the coroner for Surrey, at the Purley-oaks farm, Sandhurst, near Croydon, the residence of Mr. John Walter, as to the death of Mr. Richard Walter, aged 50, for many years the landlord of the King's Head Tavern, in the Poultry.—W. Lewis, a servant in the employ of Mr. John Walter, stated that on IFriday evening the deceased le ft his mastatos, the Purley- Wm, about ten o'clock, as witness supposed to return to town. The horse which he was riding was steady, and the deceased perfectly sober. Witness afterwards want out near the Castle, when he saw • horse with a bridle and saddle on in a deep gravel pit. There was a road out of which they had been drawing the gravel, and he went round by it to get the horse out. It then struck him for the Bret tline that the horse belonged to his master's brother, the deceased. ! While he wu is the act of getting the horse out he saw a gentleman lying by the side of a ditch in the road, with his heed doubled up under his shoulder. The deceased, who teemed quite dead, was conveyed to his brother's house. ' —Mr. Burncastle, of Croydon, surgeon, who was called in, said that life had bean extinct some time. lie had, ' direction of the coroner, min;‘, epos: "forlorn examilutirn, ? es thebody. On looking at the body, he was shown the hat, which was lying by his side, and that was quite crushed in. On the heed of the deceased there was a slight abrasion of the skin. Ile found the viscera internally quite healthy. On removing the skull there was a discoloured patch of the size of a crown under the abrasion; but there was no effu sion on the brain or rapture of the vessels. He was of opinion that the deceased bad fallen from his horse, and that concussion of the brain had been caused,which produced death. The coroner further inquired as to the cause of the melan choly death, and it appeared that there was a mark on the bank, which had been broken down as if by a horse, and it was supposed that in going from the green to the road the horse had trodden on the edge of the ditch, when deceased was pitched off, and the horse thrown into the gravel pit. A verdict of Accidental death" was returned. IRELAND. DUBLIN, Barr. 28. At 8 o'cicck yesterday evening the Countess of Clarendon was safely delivered of a son. This morn ing the following bulletin was issued : Her excellency passed a good night, and is going on as wel u possible. The infant is quite well. At a later period of the day it was ascertained that the noble countess and her infant were going on most favourably. The Venerable Mr. Trulock, Archdeacon of Kil lala, died on Sunday last, after a few hours' illness, at the rectory in Skreen, in the 51st year of his age. The deceased had taken an active part in alleviating the sufferings of the poor during the last calamitous winter, and his letters in the public journals, descrip tive of the frightful condition of the district where he resided, attracted considerable attention at the time of their publication. His death is greatly lamented by all classes in his neighbourhood. The Kinvarra relief committee have published their final report. The district includes a portion of Clam and Galway counties. The number of rations distri buted was 786,898, and the daily average was 5,120 rations for adults. The greatest fortnightly average of rations was 7,478, being for the middle period of July. The average cost of a ration, including ex , pease', was lid. The whcle amount expended in temporary relief was 5,534/. 16s. 2d. The Cork relief committee have published their ac counts also. Their expenditure in the city of Cork was 4,8841. 50., and they gave daily rations to 8,500 individuals. The expenditure on coffins was 3431. 1 le. 4d., which, at the rate paid for each, indi cate 2,600 deaths, independent of those in the work houses, or amongst those whose friends defrayed their burial expenses. IMPORTANT LETTER OF TILE LORD LIEUTENANT. The following correspondence between the Lord Lieute nant end the Duke of Leinster, respecting the next year's crops, was published in the Dublin Evening Poet this afternoon : " Pine:lit-park, Sept. 23, 1847.—My Lord Doke: Feel ing the deepest anxiety fur the objects of the Royal Agricul tural Improvement Society, in which I have been honoured with the office of vice-patron, and knowing the interest takda by your grace in all measures for practicably ameliorating the condition of Ireland, as well as the zeal with which you have laboured in promoting agricultural knowledge, I am induced to suggest for your consideration an arrangement, by which I believe very considerable good may be effected, and valuable assistance given to the farming classes at the present time. I think it most useful to address your grace in your capacity of president of the Royal Agricultural Society, as 1 believe it is through the numerous branches of that most useful institution that the agricultural classes can best be reached, and as I consider the mesas of bettering the condi tion of the Irish people must, for a long time, at least, be looked for in the improvement of the processes adopted in the cultivation of the soil. Between the termination of the harvest works of the present season and the commeesoment of the operations for the ensuing spring there will intervene a period which, although in a proper course of husbandry fully occupied by its peculiar and important labours, may be coast- dered as agriculture is carried on,at least in the remoter parts et I reland, to be of comparative inactivity; and I believe that advantage might be taken of the leisure which the forming classes will then have, to supply them, to a certain extent, with sound practical instruction as to the great and well established principles upon which their operations should be based, and the means by which, in the milling anima they may be enabled to raise upon their farms the greate st pos sible quantity of food, and thus obtain for themselves increased pecuniary profit, and secure the state from • recurrence of the great calamities through which wo have just passed. With this eldest I would suggest to your grace that a num ber of perms should be selected, possessing sound prac tical knowledge of the 1110114 improved systems of agricul ture applicable ltssl sil, and of such general education as may enable tleatS emsannicate that information orally in • natisfactary mesas, and that those persons should be em ployed_ to whoa tends a circuit through a certain district of Ireland, to er o elt c =r grace rosy decide upon, and to deliver lectures on agriculture the farming population. For those oda • mall number of lectures in each locality would stales. Your grace may possibly consider that three lectures, devoted respectively to the demonstration of the advantages-Ist, of draining and sasoifing ; 2d, of rotations and of green cropping ; 3d, of economy of manures and house feeding, should embody most of the information of which the farmers could, under present circumstances, practically make use. Your grace will, probably, agree with me that it would be highly important that those lectures should not be con ceived or delivered in an abstract or purely scientific style unsuited to the habits of thought and state of education , of the agricultural cleat's; they should be couched in 1 clear but simple language, and might, in some cues, be usefully illustrated by practical demonstrations. In the delivery of three such lectures, your grace will, pro bably, find that a week may be usefully occupied; and, as each lecturer can embrace in his circuit about eight Ices- lities, his journey may be considered se likely to occemy 1 eight weeks of that dead season of the year. In the arrange ments of inch details as you may consider proper to carry out the object of this communication, your grace will, I am sure, be fully aided by the council of the Agricultural Society ; and in the selection of the lecturers required, your grace will probably derive assistance from the co- ' operation of Sir Robert Kane, whom I have made aware 1 of my wishes on the subject. The number of lectures to be delivered, and of localities to be visited, as well as their geographical distribution,will of course be decided on by your grace, according to your accurate knowledge of the &cum stenos and the wants of those localities in this respect. It is to those remoter districts, where cultivation is imperfect—where the mind of the farmer is depressed—that our efforts should be specially directed, to assist him, by explaining to him the means of his own advancement, which really he within his reach, and teaching him the modes by which alone they can be made available. On such grounds I rather think that the pecu liarly favourable circumstances under which the province of Ulster has been so loss placed,. and the resulting superiority in agriculture which character ises it, removes ti, in a great degree, from the circle of our present objects ; and similarly, it la probable that your Grace will consider the province of Leinster as being generally so far advanced in agriculture as net to require at the present time this peculiar form of assist ance. It a, therefore, specially to the province of Connaught mad Munster Olga eel altoolieet sty be directed, and in those districts the fat the delivery of lectures maybe aillOted II MOM : " Whenever • terming society ex ists, be essamittee et it may, is conjunction with the proprietors, snoop a place of meet. ing, notice as may secure a satisfactory atten dance Mao Omen athe surrounding country, and it should be a peculiar admin. of those local farming societicsin con nexion with your until institution, that, arter or between the lectures there misktbe dimussitute or explanations of the mat • tees lectured upon, which ahould render more definite and satis factory the information given by the lecturer. In those places where no farming society exists, and where, for that very reason, the beessity for supplying instruction in agriculture is motor, the local gentry, who, I should hope, would all aides* mill la promoting the public good, might arrange • pion of ,autos le the school-house—they might give notice to their tamatry--advise and explain to them the value they may derive from attending inch instructions. The selection of places should naturally rest with your grace and the Council of the Royal Agricultural Society ; and I would only recommend the principle, that, on the present occasion, it in not to those places that already possessing some knowledge, ardently wish for more, that we should direct our efforts, but rather to those less favoured districts where even that imperfect knowledge has not yet made its way. For carrying out those objects there will of course be funds required ; and I believe that for so much as may safely be undertaken on the present occasion the sum of 3081. will be required. I am aware that the Agricultural Society pos. amass no hinds applicable to this purpose, and unfortunrtely in the present condition of the public revenue it would be vain to look to the government for any grant. Further, it will be indispensable, in order to open the benefits of those lectures to all classes of farmers, that admission to them should be perfectly gratuitous. I cannot, however, believe, that for carrying out so important and so beneficial an object as diffusing that agricultural knowledge upon which the very safety of the country now depends, the noble men and gentlemen who, under your Grace's presidency, have already done so much, would hesitate is give them pecuniary assistance. I shall with pleasure myself contri- ' bute the sum of 501., which I shall place in your hands, pro vided the residue be made up by your Grace and others, and applied to the purposes that I have suggested in this CJIII - Your Grace will, I am sure, fully concur with me in the importance of considering these sugges tions as noon as possible. The period for executing them will rapidly pass by, and should we not exert ourselves, we may lose for another year the valu able Opportunity of contributing by this means to increase the comfort and promote the happiness of our people.—l have the honour to be, my , Lord Duke, your obedient servant, (Signed) CLAIM/WON.' We now subjoin the reply of the Duke of Leinster "Carton, Maynooth, Sept. 25, 1847. "My Lord,—l have had the honour of receiving your Ex. oellency's letter of the 23rd September this day, which I will forward to the council of the Royal Agricultural Improve ment Society of Ireland, and request of them to take it into their consideration. I will subscribe 501. towards the very desirable object your Excellency hu in view.—l have the honour to be, your obedient humble servant, (Signed) LEIN , ATEL—fIis Excellency the Earl of Clarendon, &c. &c." ANTI-GOLD-LAW LEAGUE. A meeting for the formation of an association under the above title, the object of it being the promotion of monetary reform, was held yesterday evening at Anderton's Hotel. At a quarter-past sight the chair was taken by Mr. BEN- I NOCK, who proceeded to state the objects for which the meeting had been convened. Every one was, he said, aware of the distress at present existing in the commercial world, and his belief was, that in the state of the currency might be I found the root of the evil. ( Hear , hear.) He believed that I a gold rtanderd was an unju s t one, gold having an arbitrary fixed value, while every other commodity fluctuated, and if he wanted any confirmation of this opinion, he found it in the fact, that funded property had depreciated within the last twelvemonths to the amount of about 80 millions sterling, while other property had, during that time, been reduced to the extent of 200 millions. (Hear, hear.) This had arisen from the state of the law which had caused the restriction of the currency when its expansion was most re gaited, the patient having been in fact bled at the time when he most needed to be in full health and vigour. The metallic circulation of the country, including the amount in the Bank, was about 52 millions. This would equal a year's labour of • million of men at 20s. each ; and if the necessity for this amount of metallic circulation were avoided, we should esquire, allowing five per cent. interest, an increase of revenue to the amount of 2,600,0001. What they wanted was,:not a metallic, but arymboliccurreney, a currency which, while it was amply secured and understood, should fairly represent the actual produce of the labour of the country. With this view it was proposed to form an anti-gold-law league, which by means of lectures, discussions, and pam phlets, should disseminate sound and clear notions through out the country on this all-important subject. Mr. STODOART moved, and Mr. FAIR/11118N seconded, a resolution to the effect that the currency of the realm should consist of exchequer notes of the amount of 11. and upwards, such notes to be issued with the consent of parliament, to the amount of the taxa tion of the country, to be put into circulation by the government in liquidation of their current expenses, and thus to become • legal tender. The resolution also provided for the establishment of a bullion office where gold and silver should be purchased, and paid for in bullion notes, such notes to rise or fall in value according to the fluctuations of the exchanges. Mr. J DUNCAN supported the motion in alengthyepeech, in the course of which he rated that a distinction should be taken between money and currency. Money was a legal tender, while currency was not. The Times had lately said " Anybody could make money, but who would they get to take it ?" His answer was, that, if it were a legal tender, every one should take it. The principle of a paper currency had been objected to, but that principle had already been recognised. Sir It. Peel had in his bill of 1844 per mitted the Bank of England to issue notes to the amount of the eleven millions due to it by government, and also three millions on account of exchequer-bills. Further, he per mated to the country banks a circulation of eight millions, to the Irish banks six, and to the Scotch two, and all this in the face of his own axiom that a pound should represent only five pennyweights. of gold. (Hear, hear.) His belief was, that Sir R. Peel had as a young man committed the blunder of 1819; but u he had in course of time changed all his other principles, perhaps he might in time come to a right view on this ques tion also. iCheers and laughter.) Before Mr. Horner died Peel opposed cash payments ; shortly after, he supported them. In Sir S. Romilly's time he opposed relaxation in the criminal code ; but when that statesman died, he stepped into his shoes as • law reformer. (Laughter.) Then, while competing with Canning, ho opposed catholic emancipation ; subsequently, as a member of the government, he proposed and carried it: and recently, the " unadorned eloquence ' of Richard Cobden bad induced him to give up principles for SCOTLAND. EDINBURGH, SEPT, A severe railway acct... °enured this morning at the Glasgow terminus of the Edinburgh and Glas gow Railway. It is thus described in the Mail:— • MEW kon Edinburgh, on daporWag her Corer sta rs Orris the soglisos ore detached, rd Leaf rids the trains de ; mend a Mew rim le Er tannings). merind Fmk a velocity, while par through tb• taarl. that the awa thatlened sit the brakes hod not power ore runt ie ethine• The troth ina heard by several were he Oremotrest arr. dews eles rare at such • rapid wee es to rape alarr whir dart Immedlerigelber, • tre mendous crash re hood white sheet the ithebbeatheeth On resohiug the roe of the we reed Mat the traiq with the fearful momentum it had ahrd , bed about ally feet into one of the nillway pop stores, store the Star Hotel, brine down, in Its hesdkog career, • Urn stone gable and ' two goal and watering Into two of the gates of the rata. Warmed. The sere id ruin that here presented Itself was mop appalling three bath% with a number of treks lying plied oboes the ream, Nth cowed with the Mora of the gables thal partillma atone the bomb Paler., Ind tharthAte of the dOlllllOOO, Were trimi her is ems mangled MEM WO tindery Meal Ur rem mese Mr or re ira ea the he et the thee; throe ban mewed that tide hoz mats waellthh two et them are se venth Isthand. wad two ono ail we evils= was am on the theme* bribe Ithesettheath thin esalelea them sale Ude death that be the Ma Ids daub wawag One dew gawk impel elan Ws am It etherare lbws the Ithael, ▪ emesed walla two is the bad wed a taw booths; the ether two who lath her And % m e the this Illieseiew, enema eleb a s e stheth, he la Perth 'atomly after, se fee ab be die in v.l. ow he yaw severely braised, bth hem the thalthaa that et the Wades we were unable to lee the psollseime mermis think er omen of the parties. Wellies@ dr =died sill wen en the spot, and everything dor that mai it reser re of tae parties hurt. Men we,, buryin exudates sad removing the rubbish, to drover, if they the holies arose miming. A similar • t, though, happily, attended with less disastrous consequences, occurred about three years since. A train of trucks, laden with stones, dashed down the incline, and cut completely through the booking-offices, paying an alarming visit to an hotel immediately opposite. On that occasion we believe no lives were lost. It is almost marvellous that such accidents do not happen more fre quently, from the steepness of the incline. Nothing but powerful brakes, in the best order, can avert them. A new terminus was talked of—but only talked of. Another Edinburgh assistant inspector of the poor has died of fever, being the second victim of a similar grade since May. Twelve of the police are also lying With these casualties, and a crowded infirmary, our local distress stands in no need of foreign seg mentation, and yet here is an awkward instance of the kind in a paper of to-day : On Saturday week, an Irishman, with his wife and four children, was sent to Edinburgh by the authontios for the poor in Berwick. Mooney's wife had been confined in the infirmary there, with fever, and wishing to join her husband who had been passing the time, both day and night, abort the walls of the town, she was discharged while f, : p e:lco i t n iv i tiocent. wick ror noon e afte o nr . a e rd i s sh i e l • y me w t h le o a , ll4l re ica r t e t ed to , th u c , f ir " me iage : 1 M the m,orh iManedril;, to ourgii In renoon train. On their arrival in Edinburgh two of the chilaren y were Imme diately taken to one of the fever wards in the infirmary, and the other two, who were also threatened with an attack, were, with their mother, sent to the temporary convalescent how. Water is denied to Edinburgh partly by the clouds—to Glasgow wholly by the water company, who threaten to cut off the supplies of the pure ele ment in those cases where landlords will not become bound for the payment of the water-rate by their tenants, a condition which the proprietors of domiciles let by the week and month naturally refuse to accede to. In crowded localities the service is by wells, and one would think that the withholding of a key from di latory tenants would be a sufficient punishment ; but no, the company wishes to cut off the industrious and paying poor because they may happen to live in the neighbourhood of some who are either not able or not willing to pay. The supply of water to towns should, like air, be unlimited, and the cost, like the repairing of streets, be defrayed by those who are able, while those who are not should have free right of pere grination. The municipal police board very properly take this view of the subject, and have intimated to the company that they are bound and restricted to keep up fountains and wells for all individuals who are willing to pay for them. But not only is Glasgow pinched for water, it is also being visited by police torpor. Besides housebreakings by the score, the sanc tity of the press has been violated —the brass knobs of the Mail office have been twice carried off in one week, catastrophes at which the Mail need not be I surprised, seeing that a few nights after, its pages re cord that a policeman, not a hundred yards from its own office, was robbed of his hat, belt, baton, and lantern, it being but fair to add, in order to lessen the estimate of the bravery of the thief, that the guardian of life and property was in a state of intoxication when so denuded of his accoutrements. More merrily still, the Examiner avers that it is no uncommon thing for some of the officers to be asking their way to the police-office, so that one thing with another, knavery in the west appears, like salmon in the north, to be enjoying a sort of jubilee. A slighter but more ludicrous annoyance to which the fair inhabitants of St. Mango's are exposed, con sists, in such of them as are of Scandinavian appear ance, being mistaken for Jenny Lind. The times have been that when a player left a town there was ' an end to him, but although Jenny's doings at Nor wich have been duly chronicled, so as to put her alibi beyond doubt, a light-haired, blue-eyed maiden in Buchanan-street, was yesterday mobbed, from her I supposed identity with the nightingale, and had to take refuge in a shop. And the trick of so hunting young ladies, either as a joke or for collecting a crowd b favour thieves, seems to have been resorted to more than once. PROVINCIAL. ACCIDENT TO A CONTRACTOR ON THE WORKS OP THE GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY.—A coroner's inquiry has been held at East Barnet on the body of Richard son, aged 76, sub-contractor on the intended tunnel on the Greatt - Northern Railway in the ♦icinity of Barnet. In the course of Wednesday he went with Mr. Frost, another con tractor, to the works at the commencement of the exclave times for the purpose of trying the capabilities of two horses which they had purchased on the previous day. While so engaged they noticed a fissure in the ground on which they were standing, and deceased called out to the workmen that a slip was impending, but was told it was vale. They were then standing between the fissure and the edge of the ex cavation. Shortly afterwards Mr. Frost felt the ground giving way beneath him, and sprang forwards. Ere, how ever, the deceased could follow him, he sank with the mass. On being released, although the soil but partially covered him, he was found to hate expired.—Verdict " Accidental death." _ . A PUBLIC MEETING OPUNEMPLOYED FACTORY OPERATIVES was held on Monday, in the Market-place, Warrington. There was a very numerous atteudanee. Thomas Grinishaw having been called to the chair said that the patience with which the workint classes had borne their privations was most exemplary. They had far rather work than live on charity. He called on every individual who ad dressed the meeting to do so deliberately, candidly, and with caution.—James Savory moved the first resolution:—" That this meeting deeply sympathises with their employers in the pment depressed state of trade." He did not, he said, blame the manufacturers; they would work their mills if they contd. The famine and the railway gambling had diverted the money from the trade channels; free trade was to have done wonders in opening markets for prodace, bat unfortunately we had had to pay for corn in money. The resolution was seconded by Richard Tipping, and carried with but one dissentient voice.—William Lawrineen moved—" That it is the opinion of this meeting that the put and present position of the factory operatives as a state almost bordering on starvation, and our prospects for the future are starvation, disease, and death." He said it wee now nearly twelve months since the stagnation began ; the winter was coming on with far worse prospects, hundreds who then had credit had now none—hundreds who then had comfortable clothing and bedding now had pawned all— many who then had a house to shelter them had now no home. Unless something were done there would be more disease than ever. Employers and employed, wealthy persons and shopkeepers, all ought to unite in devising plena for relief. Many families had not more than 6d. per head per week to live upon, for month after month ; but he would rather be in the condition of those persons than of those wealthy ones who, with a knowledge of these things, incurred the responsibility of refusing to amist them—George Mewnes seconded the motion.—John Har greaves supported it. He showed how much the shopkeepers were interested in the prosperity of the working classes. Crime, insanity, and pauperism were increasing; and unless something were done, terrible consequences might follow. The resolution was carried unanimously.—James bleliing moved " That it is the opinion of this meeting that our best and heartfelt thanks Sae due, and are hereby given, to those benevolent ladies and gentlemen who have voluntarily and liberally come forward with their subscriptions, and, by so doing, have in some measure mitigated , • sufferings • and at the present time we gratefully. - - neatly, solicit them to take - tion our present wretched obeereing that, although h partially out of employment, knee; and he had formerly is sad his wife not to taste food He recommended that vend their spare money unsure mitigated our sufferings ;and Property UM coma DM mg 55w0r.,,,......- -••- ------_,., _ we gratefully, humbly, but most ear. mother is stated to be an honest industrious woman. who take tub their most serious considers- goes out chafing ; and during her absents the house has died condition." He commenced by omen made the mooPtaolo for the booty taken. -... ugh he was now in business, he was 8310105 NUISANCES.-011 rileadly 111 ., / rbw.. 4 , :i oyrnent, through the badness of the ties wing land and marine engines war owed at ,6,. ,•.,..., lanierly known what it was for him Liverpool Police-court, charged with plinaittuso smoke to' r . taste food for several days together. issue from their chimneys, to the injury.o.,,age,noubitants --'i , . ts sat workmen in employment should Amon g st the steam-boats were the Queen' gumv.-. ta,; 11 t ney in clothing, instead of ale. Many Commodore, the Steam-tug Company, th MY, taid thq.„& 710 ..:, .....„ . _ t • 4t r e -' ‘ ' 4 4* e..) a S-' had good wages, and had relatives out of employ, but would not give them anything; they would rather spend it in what wrapped a rope round their necks, and launched them into eternity.—John Boardman seconded the resolution. He would rather be employed with his fingers than speaking at a meeting. It was not through idleness that he was "'chucked " out of employment. He was glad to say that the industrial school would be re-opened next Monday; and he hoped something of the kind would be opened for the young lads and men.—Mr. William Robson, postmaster, sop ported the resolution. He thought all classes had come short of their duty—the rich, in not extending intelligence and education among the people ; the working classes, in spend ing too large a portion of their earnings in drink. It could not be denied that, for many years past, they had spent 1,0001. a week in urink. One-tenth of this, saved for the last ten years, would have carried them through all their difficulties. He thought the Warrington gentry and trades men had done their duty "as times go," and would do so again. He was glad to see so much order, which was cha racteristic of a Warrington population.—Mr. P. P. Car penter also supported the resolution. He hoped the sug gestion of an industrial school for males would be followed up, in spite of its difficulties. It was far better than the soup charity, which, however well managed, had, to a cer tain extent, encouraged deception and pauperism. The speakers had spoken very truly of premature death from want: did they keow that only the day before four persons had come to a premature death through drink ? Many per sons were out of employment from the same cause.—Mr. Edward West also supported the resolution. He ho;wil a committee of rate-payers would be appointed to endeavour to find employment for every townsman. He recommended the cultivation of waste land. The resolution was carried unanimously.—Wm. Laurinson then moved, and James Melling seconded, " That a copy cf the foregoing resolutions be sent to his worship the mayor, with a request that he would lay them before the town council," which was agreed to.—A. vote of thanks was then passe/ to the chairman, who thanked the meeting for their orderly behaviour, and after singing a verse of Burns's well known song, " A man's a man, for e that," the assemblage dispersed. TUE TERNOUTS.—RIOT AT DARWEN.—On Mon day evening last a very serious affray took place between a mob of the turnouts from Messrs. Walth's mill, at Over Darwen, and a party of the police stationed in the town. For some time past the turn-outs have conducted themselves in a very disorderly manner each evening its the hands, who still work at the mill, have left work. The practice being to " mob," or follow the workers from the mill to their houses, the turn-outs abusing and insulting them in every possible manner as they welit along, the streets being in a complete state of uproar the whole time. On these occasions the police have becu obliged to escort the workers home, and protect them to the best of their power. On Monday evening some of the riogleadires among the turnouts hating been more than usually violent and abusive, the police had found it necemary to take some of them into custody, and march them towards the Darwen lockup. This was the signal for an immediate attack upon the police. An immense shower of stones fell around them, they were severely kicked, beaten, and wounded, and before the lockup was reached the pri soners were rescued. The police, numbering seven having vainly endeavoured to keep bark the mob, which by this time reached to between two and three thousand persons, retreated inside the lock up. An attack was then commenced on the lockup, and thousands of stones, some of immense size, were hurled against the building. There are only two front windows to it, the lower one being after dusk covered with an outside shutter. In the upper window every pane was smashed, and the shutter of the lower one was nearly beaten in. After continuing this attack for some time the mob dispersed. In the not Sergeant Holden, P. C. Thomas Holden, sad P. C. John Folden, were deeply wounded on the head ; the latter being seriously hurt, and it is feared that he will lose the right eye. On Tuesday, in consequence of private information received that a riot was contemplated at the closing of Messrs. Walsh's mill, a requisition was sent over to Blackburn for the assistance of the military. From some accidental informality in the requisition, Major Graham, commanding the detachment of the first Royals, in Blackburn, did not think himself justified in act ing upon it, and Mr. Superintendent Walker then proceeded to Witton, and a formal requisition having beta signed by Mr. Joseph Feilden, magistrate, a com pany of the regiment left the barracks for Darwen, under the command of ' Capt. fderrindon and Lieut. Poole, pre ceded by Mr. Superintendent Walker and • body of the Blackburn police, who reached Darwen about three o'clock, by conveyance, the military arriving at about four o'clock. The town was at that time perfectly quiet, aid after remain ing there for about four hours the military were withdrawn by order of the msaistrate, and marched back to their quarters at Blackburn. It was generally understood that an arrange ment had been made between Messrs. Walsh sad their men at the time the military withdrew. The whole circumstances have, of course, caused great excitement. A large number of the prime movers in the affray have been summoned be fore the magistrates. THE TERN-OUT AT Asnrox AND MOSSLET.—The Manchester Guardian rays " The spinners now on strike at Manley Mill refuse to resume work at the reduction offered by the masters. On Monday morning the mill of Mewl. Giles and Mark Andrew was opened ; but there being only two of the hands willing to commence work, it was again closed. The spinners of other districts are sub scribing towards their support. An address was issued on Monday, the nature of which will be seen from the subjoined paragraphs: A complete cessation from labour was the ooly real resource available, but how the people were to subsist fibrin; the cessa tion woo the grand obstacle to be overcome. we unhesitatingly declare that the masters ought to have united with the men to carry such a measure, and have lent their countenance and little support to have alleviated the miseries att. ndant thereon. The majority of the masters were anxious for the ces sation, but many wanted the men to do it thernselvcs, thus escaping the odium, if any should arise from each • bold and general step. But as the sorter. would be the greatest gainers by the bens. fits arising from the Ctillatioll making more plentiful the raw material, and consequently cheaper, and enhancing the price of the manufactured article by milking it scarcer In the market—they should either hare united with us, or told us, In answer to our resolutions pruned is almost every journal in England, they would have nothing to do with us; hut let the present commercial disease work its own core, sod wait, with the gravity of the Turks., the fatal principles of predestination. As they have united with us, and as we have tried to carry out the ccesaticra without any hostile feelings, but with the beet Intention of benefiting all concerned, and have failed, it now becomes our duty to do the best we can under existing carcum•tances, and If we fail, or hone failed, let the will be takes for the dent. One hun dred and sixty cotton-spinners are now out in tdoester, and all other hands of the mills; and If they are reduced the thieatened iti per cent., such reductions, we know by sad experience, arc remarkady infectious indeed, and would eon spread from Meedry here, and all over the manufacturing districts. THE MANCHESTER AGRICULTURAL DINNER wag held on Tuesday evening, at the l'alatine liotel, when Miirk Philips, Esq., took the chair. It was stated during the pro ceedings that 1051. had been taken during the day in fees from visitors admitted to see the show of stock, seeds, and implements. The chief matter of interest was the proposed amalgamation of this society with the Liverpool Aassocia tion (spoken of by the Chairman), under the tide of the ' South Lancashire Agricultural Society. Lord Stanley had first suggested the union at a dinner in Liverpool two years ago, when a conference respecting it was held at Newton, half way between the two towns. The Manchester associa tion bad been making an effort to put itself in a better con dition for the union, and had been so far successful, that, in addition to being able to pay off the last year's prizes (for they had hitherto always been twelve menthe behind in these matters), they were also in a position to pay the pre miums for the present meeting. Under these circumstances the members of the society, at a meeting that morning, had come to the following resolution touching the union with the Liverpool aIsOCinUOM : That the accretary be authorised to communicate to the Liverpool Agricultural Association, through its secretary, Mr. White, that the Manchester Agricultural Society, being now out of debt, kels noel( in a condition to effect a union with the Liverpool society at the earlie+t period within which the necCeaary arrang,:chte for that purpose can be mutually effeCted. Mr. James Heywood said a similar union of association in North Lancashire bad taken place with good effect ' • and their annual meeting or. the .sth of neat month, patroniscd by the Queen, was to be presided over by Lad Stanley, and to be graced with the presence of many influential land owner!. _ WHOLESALE BURGLARIES.—The Blackburn Stan deni says—Four youths, named Pickering, Walmsley, end Shakeshaft, the eldest 19 and the youngest 15 ra: l t i l age, are now in custody of the police, charged with a series of burglaries, committed at various times, sod in awe instances repeatedly at one place. On Saturday morn ing, between six and seven o'clock, the premises of Mr. Hilton, painter, traterstreet, were entered, and a box. of paints and some other trilling articles stolen therefrom. On Sunday night, or early on Monday morning, James, street school was similarly entered, and a money box and other things were taken away. The same school had been entered on the previous Monday night or Tuesday morning, sad • cleat and silk hand kerchief stolen. On Tuesday, the 21st, the dwelling house of Thomas Waring, school teacher, 10, Paradise-lane, was entered between two and See o'clock in the afternoon, when a number of books were taken away. On Wednesday the same premises were again entered, and a large volume of the British Cyclopadia taken away. On Saturday last in formation was taken to the police station that two lads had been offering some things for sale which had been stolen, and P. C. Dowd, 383, proceeded at once to the New Market place, where he apprehended the lad Pickering ; the other ran away. The constable then went to Pickering's house, and there found all the articles which had been stolen from Mr. Hilton. On Dowd going again to the market-place, with • view to apprehend Widmsley, he came towards the con stable and said," Do you want me r" Ile was taken into custody, denying at the tame time all knowledge of the robberies. On referring to the police minutes, Dowd learned the par ticulars of the robberies from the schools, and went again to Pickering's mother a house., when he found all the property which had leen stolen from both schools. From further Information received the constable was enabled to apprehend Afffeck on Sunday afternoon, and on searching him found seven door keys is his possession, one of which was identified as being the street-door key of a house near Messrs. Fielden's factory, inhabited by a person named Brown. Subsequently Shakeshaft was taken into custody on suspicion of being son cerned in the robberks enumerated above. A large amount of property was found in possession of the prisoners, princi pally is that of Pickering—including on one ring no less than 14 large street-door keys, several quite new ; • number of smaller keys, filed into a shape for picking locks, joiners' tools, boxes hooks, bells, pamphlets, des, for Um most Port property . that could not be easily . diepnd aL Pickert:t: mother Is S i ~{l -