The Express. — London, England, 1847-09-24 00:00:00

a rs milted 600 grammes al Limn 900 g rummies of salt, s ad upon on memo It of wits:. To obtain from the ores a Mai eINI Wary lase apassiday of dough when put in mestere* TIM pants lesolte. hi • loaf of 6 kilos. the shilikoml hew. 11111114 be 9M plumes, for a loaf of 2 kilos. card ter • loaf el ens pod 76 grammes. The of Peek tektite See weiskte as its data, cal who, la idle the Om, dot die teat itheold weigh 30 per Na owe Thee the mere wet* wisa of mit deer is it. Flour of the lint gmilln orb ia Par at 70tr. fre. the sick lop gllu., swift IX kilos. ls of Inead obtained therefrom is asW fee 796 t. We. Thus the dilierenes in price between the dent curd dee bread made tram it is 9fr. 25c. ; and this con yearn to he malty the wee whatever ms y be the prim' fibroid. Is Franc. it L reamed that 49,600,000 metrical quintals of dour are lanneßy mole into bread (the metrical Wand is VII lb.), and odeigssodi the bakers annually e3rb 457,875,000 f., aid hithiseet between the Prim of re flour consumed in gamEmibia and of the bread proctuad ha it is 60,000,000 f: If the MB which M. Arsgo pro to establish on the Tibia he Grenelle, to be moved Fa edturhine placed in the Sabo, to grind sufficient flour for supply of all Paris—if this wets at work, and were em ployed to grind the flour of all France, it would produce • saving of 100,000,000 f. Supple that in addition to this still the vast bakehouse which hat been talked of for supplying the capital with all the bread it consumes were actually erected and brought into work, it would cause a saving of its,ooo,ooor. ; and if it could be extended to the consump tion of all France, the loving would amount to 400,000,000 L PARIS Plusmhs.—The printers of Paris have been for some yeses past in the habit of dining together about the commencement of autumn. This year, on applying to the Prefect of Police for the customary permission, a refusal was given. The men, finding a public dinner thus ren dered impossible, appointed a committee to seek out private premises suited to receive their usual number of guests, namely, five or six hundred persons. M. Gerbes, a master printer, placed at the orders of the committee an en closed piece of ground in the commune of Vaugirard, and there they erected a large marquee, under which tables were laid out for the dinner. The men, on Sun day, were on the point of sitting down to table, when two commissaries of police entered, and, in the name of the authorities, ordered the men to disperse. Some of the jour nals, in narrating these circumstance., stated that • Large armed force was in attendance on the occasion, and that great violence had been used towards the printers. The ucn (cur Parisien denies the troth of this statement, and says : "It is not exact, as these journals an nounce, that order war troubled for a single instant. The men dispersed at once when called on to do so, and the armed force never interfered. The soldiers who were in attendance had been ordered to attend only to enforce, if necessary, the injunctions of the authorities." BELGIUM.—THE LINEN MANUPACITRE.—The linen manufacturers of the town of Ath have sent a petition to the ministers of war and justice, demanding the abolition of the linen manufactures in state prisons. Nothing less, they say, will suffice to raise the market of Ath, which is now almost abandoned, whilst during the empire, and even previously, it was the chief place where the best linen was manufactured for the use of the army. that the prisoners should be left in utter solitude. At Pentonville they were visited not lees then Isuetase them a day. He could not urge too strongly the great einelose of a frequent intercommunication between the gelossee end I the chaplains, directors, and other asihsellise. The Chairman then read the folloe gg.wpestl4esoe the sent subjects of discussion : CENTRAL OBSIILVATORY.—The Tarim' parts of the build. ing should be connected with a central point of inspection, from which the head of the establishment may inspect, with out being under the necessity of moving, all the essential branches of the service. Regard must be had to the inter nal dietribotion of the 'militias to the arrangement of the galleries, and to the choice of the materials of construction, in order that no material obstacle may thwart that inspection. CILIA. —ln the dieposision and immurement of the cells. must be bad to the following conditionc—l. The regard be large enough to allow of the prisoners' taking elude., carrying on trades, and enjoying sufficiect space and air for the preservation of their health. The space should vary from 28 to 35 cubic metres. 2nd. They should be lighted up, ventilated, and heated in a suitable manner. 3rd. Their construction shoul d be such asto allow of no communication between their inmates. 4th. They should be furnished with bed and bedding, with a fixed wash-hand basin with a tap, with a watereleeet and with other neces sary article*. The prisoner. should also have the means of giving the alum to the attendants in case of ilium or acci dent, or under any circumstance in which their presence might be necessary. 6. The prisoners should be subjected to an easy but unperceived inspection. SPECIAL CELLE.—In penal prisons it is necessary to have a certain number of special cells for the infirmary, for special punishments, for the different callings, and for prisoners on their first arrival. The cells for infirmaries, chiefly re served for patients who cannot be suitably attended win the ordinary cell, should be moru spacious than the former, and should be disposed in such a manner as to allow of the free access of the attendants. One cell of that kind for every 40 or 60 prisoners would possibly be sufficient. Calls for punishment should be stronger than others, and should be built in such a manner as to be easily darkened, if mom sary. One such cell would be sufficient for about 100 pri sone». The dimensions of the cells for the exercise of certain trades should correspond with the use to which they are to be put. They should be situated in preference on the lower stories, and their number must depend on the nature of the trades carried on in the prises. In prieens where prisoners are constantly arriving, a certain number of cells should be made in which each prisoner may be placed tem porarily, previous to being seen by the surgeon, and such cells might be of smaller dimen.ions than others. HEATING AND VENTILATION.—WheCTIN the system of ventilating by heating may be, its results should be the fol lowing :—A sufficiency to each cell of fresh air, or, if neces sary, of air tempered for each prisoner, without the inconve nience of draughts. The extraction from each cell of • quan tity of foul air equivalent to the quantity of pure air intro- duced ; and the carrying on of the heating and ventilation' without facilitating the means of communication, whether of soon-I or otherwise, between the different cells. Colonel JERE and others spoke on the foregoing subjects, and the discussion on them was adjourned till the following day. • r " 1 "UTP ,;ro l rTniv s l 'TAOISM - - ' THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 24, 1847. own reicklimeness. Trwpaw rs sufficed severely. Nineteen moose were killed on the various lines who had no business on them, sad seven were injured. One person was killed and ens injured in emmequenot of crossing the railway, at level crossings, owing to the misconduct of companies' servants. THE LIVERPOOL DEPUTATION AND THE ...RAILWAY COMPANIES. Yesterday a deputation, consisting of Mr. D. Neil son, Mr. 8. Woods, Mr. Henley, and others, deputed by the Liverpool Stock Exchange, waited on the chairman and directors of the principal railway companies, in accordance with the wishes of the members of the Liverpool Stock Exchange, to take into consideration the present state of railway prowq, and to adopt such measures as might be deemed ad visa ble. Thy deputation Brit proceeded to an interview with Mr. George Carr Glyn, the chairman, and the directors of the London and North Western Railway, who met them at the Euston station, where Mr. Neilson intimated the views that were entertained by the members of the Liverpool Stock Exchange, to the effect that the present depression of rail way property was being greatly aggravated by the enormous sums the railway companies were calling for, and that perms. reran.", in such a course would perpetuate the embarrw ments that exist not only in the railway interest, but in every branch of the commerce of the country. This in convenience might be be remedied by a cordial union among railway companies. Mr. GLYN, in reply to the representation' of the deputa tion, said he was not aware that he could add anything to the declaration he had already made public when address i ng the proprietors of the London and North Western, at the half-yearly meeting Last month. The directo:s of the London and North Western were fully determined to wry out that declaration, namely, that they would limit their calls as much as practicable, and not enter into any new contracts connected with bill; for lines that were granted last session, excepting under very special circumstanoes, shou'd any such arise. _ _ Mr. Hu DSON, M.P., as the representative of the Midlands, Eastern Counties, and other companies, concurred in what lad fallen from Mr. Glyn. The deputation then dilated upon what they conceived would be the advantages accruing from an aggregate meet• lag of the different railway companies. The directors preeent replied that the circumstances, financial and otherwise, of the several railway companies, were so diverse and varied, as to render it next to impossible that all should ',occur in the specific mode of action. The deputation, how ever, were perfectly at liberty to make use of the unqualified declarations of Mr. Olyn and Mr. Hudson in any public con ferences with other compenies. It was right, however, that they should know that a considerable portion of the calls that were now being made by the various companies of which Mr. Glyn and Mr. Hudson were the representatives, were for the purpose of paying off debentures, and a very large sou lad within a very short period been repaid to the Bank of Elgiand on that account, and consequently re-circulated, thus returning into the hands of the mercantile community.' Hence the calls which paid off these debentures' were calls which would have fallen on the proprietors, if the de bentures had not been issued as far back as the year 1843 and 1844. After considerable discussion the deputation inquiries, directed Sir William Somerville 61 re ply, and the Chief Secretary states diet with every_ disposition to encourage Irish manufac ture, his Excellency " cannot cha the arrange ments now in progres s w ith ou t r i s k of public inconve nience, and without giving just ground of complaint to individuals who may have made preparations to send in Proposals in the terms of the advertisements." He mays that, for the future, the wishes of Irish ma nufacturers ought as far as possible to be attended td; and his Excellency suggests that, "if they will submit such samples of their manufacture as will bear competition with the sealed patterns now deposited with the ordnance department, the Inspector-General of Police will gladly make any change to a free competition between the man ufac t ure r, ° : e ro r iboth countries." Nothing can be fairer than this proposal, and nothing more encouraging than the activity which gu the application. R e etard of guardians of the Antrim union have set themselves in determined antagonism to the Poor Law Commissioners. Immediately upon the New Poor Law coming into operation, the commissioners issued a general order to all boards of guardians to appoint relieving officers according to the intent and of the act. In Antrim the guardians met tits ids by a resolution in which they declare that Awe is abundant employment in the union for all who are willing to work ; that " the price of provi de= is so moderate as to place the means of subsis -11.00 within the power even of those whom the act WWI intended to relieve ; that the experience of the pot twelve months shows there is little if any reason la apprehend that any amount of destitution will affise with which the guardians cannot deal ; and that lime is in the workhouse at present room for 300 paupers. Therefore they decline to appoint relieving officers. The commissioners, in reply, re mind those guardians that the injunctions of the law are express; they remind them also that the guardians may prefer giving out-door relief in certain cases, though they (the commissioners) will be slow to fetter their discretion, should they prefer affording it in the workhouse; but even in this case they say the relieving officers can always give the guardians valuable in formation, and therefore reason and policy require they should comply with the law. The guardians refuse point-blank, and thus the affair stands at present. A circumstance has occurred at Nenagh, which is singularly illustrative of the source in which the opposition to rates has originated. It was proposed at the meeting of the guardians on Monday teat, that a rate of 17,000/.,laid on a fortnight before, should be rescinded, and that one not exceeding 3s. in the pound be laid on. This latter rate :could not be erfficient for the purposes of the poor relief under the act, and the proposition was defeated by the votes of the elected guardians, the ex officio guardians almost una nimously supporting it. A plot has been discovered to have been concocted in Armagh gaol, for the purpose of breaking prison after the murder of the officers. Fortunately no por tion of the creel plan could be put in practice. The accounts from the provinces to-day announce an universal advance in the price, of wheat, but not in those of other kinds of grain. MIL JOHN O'CONNELL ON THE STATE OP ISELAND.— Mr. John O'Connell has published in the Pilot this evening another address touching the present condition of the country. Ilia argument-is, that whereas the English press throws the burthens of Ireland upon " landlords employ ment and the poor-rates," the landlords must be crippled by the tenants' inability to pay rents, mach less can they pay rent and rates ; there is no employment front manufactures, and " the absentees drain away more than one-third the employment fund derivable from the land ;" and with regard to the alternative that "the estates mutt be seized," he reminds those who advocate this that before it is done, " the small rate-payers must be crushed down into the r anks of pauperism."—What then is Mr. O'Connell's remedy J II is thus detailed: _ _ . _ . Parliament should be maid at apes. and =as Ifenies temporary relief m em..er... as Os scmokihm el the oalikhed ef the Ilsed dspale gtm breethi o 4 expelmest hags be prO. =lt ideate at that yeeflair, NO wile, be metered by mesgellhay akemlem to retort Mem art not mops se saw walk the lamest of me mom Mt sive the Writ far: resoml Isemohell impenitent bY asiimme t host the sem On .ilia oe localities prase they drew the remora they new epasiabie ret ef the eon. try. Of coarse, it vial. aim at imiteat—gestegs the art Maim mreasky—to emy the IssikeiN WI to NNW and ONO= et the Ney, told lea erase *Mel algae would justi f y •ealang to ot ;submittals the mot week.l &Isom of mope sal eviettsa of temok no with fearful mpielity at this mo nomer swim perm • as most Instant end urgent is the moil dice= shed to them if wiwoold have a hope of preserving the I pease of theamary. No gum to the landlords if they don't show memo to therapist Mr. O'Connell then ps:oceeds to say, that the calamity .HILL to he easeidered an 'imperial " calamity, and be daft with sooordhpyly and on this ground he contends that as in 1842 the financial ability of Ireland was considered to be in proportion to that of Great Britain as one to nine, Ireland should only pay of the advances on account of the famine 1,112,0001., instead of 5,566,5001. Mr. O'Connell next enters into the question of =credited taxation, and recommending the reclamation of waste lands closes this his first letter. SCOTLAND. EDINIWROH, Bspr. 22. The North British Mail and the ScoiaMan are at present hunting couple, and their game is—the high lands. The manifesto of Lord Abinger's six tenants has caused the Mail to return to Torlundy Moss ; and it submits with some force, whether aix sheep-farmer tenants should be held as an adequate representation of the eighty names on his lordship's rent-roll, the majo rity being land-farmers. Moreover, there is a " wheel within a wheeL" The tenant meeting was called at the instigation of a tenant of Lord Abinger, whose son is said to have been the correspondent of the Times during the residence of the Queen at Ard verikie. Thea Mail reached London sooner than the written copy of the correspondent, and the Times coolly made use of the Mail's information without ack nowledgment. It was, therefore, very awkward that " our own correspondent" should appear to have at tacked his father's landlord in the Times, and the meeting was got up to neutralise its effect. Such is the origin which the Mail gives to the meeting. The Scotsman, on the principle of the division of labour, still keeps at the Highland Destitution Board, and quotes the government commissariat, Sir Edward Coffin, as to the ability and unwillingness of the Celtic proprietors to maintain their own poor, and it concludes with the following version of the manner in which the relief system was conducted : The Ent operation Gabe Edinburgh nation at Wick woe to poi, abase to Fsirwry_wwW_SPO *psalms d Ws at 40a,st a time visa taw vim wag lask Nistbst at Ws. Nal Ws. Tim Der. ram wars maim Ikea serbla atlMd laltribris; sal mhos who c ow us a s s Ass wan Maid. Ws ins Mad a reeve Alva kw Oda v• she sit dais *mbar Ora to isp that, If thew vie mist, Os Ilibbeigt lila ma ins bow vow Imas• bi a• asoa as awl similbe vas dialbissi4 " Wo matOs seam at Wilk la WNW lad Ma aaW S. ibis mow tbs view ban* bat rtYlrYd YE Harlan pitman*. Oa this Mug. ism big briny loatlag at tie stawriat me is Or mull anon a ma. As smis is tasis Jima. aiWati. Illsiraiti NMI= essarsa asar , mai MO bib st at Ws.— Wog sissiiffilay anis* pike. aitairilinalp bob= Oa asams ab as Oa milliers abed am Oa Am% bal lir *dr atom Win plies if 'dahlias= ailimimmamat as so save • bike la Ile dbleist, ap list walls are WI Est teen ea oar IR • to lai; awl Os maillemieb that as brat hautbois Id glib wady Arne beb la are "Mk. 711, imam, of this ie—that Ile berg bit de alms beaurial prise; Put they Ora wind bob swam•• laid ; that, after miegf via alt bi sigglist by private they soli* Wwia bad blow ma pnis ; and that, at dr amit the amalgam. Ow we WI alb lat s moll put of task ware stook min! _ _ Some interesting questions have been raised as to the vacancy in the Edinburgh chair of Hebrew. By law every professor should sign the confession of faith of the Westminster assembly of divines, but, seeing that many of the present professors are episx. palians, and one of them, Mr. Kelland, professor of mathematics, is in English orders, it is obvious that this restriction has either fallen into desuetude, or, if enforced, is practically inoperative. According to this view, dissent should form no barrier to admis sion ; but then the Hebrew chair has long been re garded as belonging to the theological faculty, and hence a presumption that the incumbent should be a clergyman, or, at all events, a layman of the esta blished church. Against that again has to be placed the fact that since the institution of the chair in 1642 an episcopalian and a Jew have taught therefrom; the latter not having been a christianised Israelite, bat what was Faistafa detestation—an " Ebrew Jew." Principal Lee, who knows more about univer sity . antiquities than any man alive, was consulted by an inquiring councillor ; but his response was so mysterious that the curious the satisfactory set up a rabbi of their own, and then the professor elect would be left to starve on his Hebrew roots, plus the thirty pounds allowed him by the crown and the eighty-five given by the council. But to other university matters. The council have neither forgotten nor forgiven the refusal of the senators to fit up the music class room at the cost of the Reid fund, and they have now found an opportunity of giving the professors a Rowland for their Oliver. The professor of materia medics wishes to have his class-room painted, of which, judging of its appearance some years ago, we should say it stands in need, and the council reply that the music-room cost them so much that they have no moneys. left, but on that item being refunded they will "consider." The council are to apply to government for grants to the Edinburgh University and High School. Were the tests in the former abolished, the application would probably be more successful. The council, how ever, are not altogether unmindful of university re form, as they are to solicit the Latin and Greek pro fessors not to admit students to their classes without a given minimum amount of preparatory learning. Out of doors the winter campaign of preleotion will be rather high. The philosophical institutions are understood to have engaged Mr. Morrell, Mr. Emer son, Professorßlackie, Mr. Westmacott, &c., to lecture to them. REPRIEVE TO LUTA TRIM VADERIIB,—A communication WU received at Dundee on Monday from the Home-office, by Mr. Duncan, M.P., in answer to the petition recently for warded, prayiqg that Leith's sentence of death should be commuted to that of transprtation. The basis of the petition was the petitioners' abhorrence of capital punishments, and I the sentence being passed on circumstantial evidence alone. I The Home Secretary's answer was prompt and decisive. He could not feel warranted in taking a favourable view of the cue, so that the law must take its course. Preparations were, accordingly, made for the execution on Wednesday morning, when, most unexpectedly, Tuesday mornings poet brought a reprieve for fourteen days. Public feeling here is certainly not to favour of .' killing by the hangman ." Tan WOO'S OP DR. CHALMERS.— 4' I . Scriptural Commentary" consists of two series. " The Daily Scripture Readings "as described by Dr.Chalniers himself, embody his first and readiest thoughts upon the paeans' coming daily under review. They begin with Genesis, and are carried down to the end of Jeremiah. The " Sabbath Meditations" are of a more devotional character. They embrace the com plete New Testament, and beginning with Genesis, in the Old, conclude with the Second Book of Kings. Besides these additions to our religious literature, the posthumous works include the theological lectures of Dr. Chalmers, which firm a complete and comprehensive treatise on sys tematic divinity. The aeries will also contain, besides the biography, a selection from Dr. Chalmers pulpit discourses. We are informed the sum of 10,0001., mentioned by the Ob server as the price to be paid by Mr. Constable to the repre sentatives of Dr. Chalmers for the copyright, is incorrect. The amount will, toe great extent, depend on the success of the publication. withdrew, Tin deputation next proceeded to Paddington, where, by appointment, they were received by the chairman and di rectors of the Great Western Railway Company. There were present Mr. Charles Russell, the chairman, Mr. Mills, of the firm of Glyn, HaUrfa:, Mills, and Co., Mr. Frederick Pratt Barlow, director of the Waterford, Wexford, and Wicklow, and other railways, Mr. Rufford Banked, of Worcester, chairman of the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolver hampton Railway, and Mr. Charles Saunders , the secretary. Having stated the tenor of their previous interviews with Mr. Glyn and Mr. Hudson, Mr. Realism. replied that he doubted very much whether it was in the power of any railway company to pledge itself distinctly as to any course that might be pursued. Ths Great Western Railway Company had for tome months past been doing all they thought they could do with propriety to limit the calla upon their proprietors, and to retard rather than accelerate their works. It was the intention of the Great Western still ,to act upon those principles of general policy, but when they came to the consideration of any par ticular lines, especially those where contracts had been taken, sad where engagements had to be fulfilled, they could not undertake to alter existing engagements. If the directors of the principal lines were brought together in the mode that had been suggested by the deputation, it might be productive of some advantage, but the deputation should be satisfied with a general concurrence of railway companies in their views. If it seemed to be the desire of the railway companies themselves that there should be a meeting, be (Mr. Rumen) would certainly attend it if he found that his own b oa rd approved of his doing so. After some further observations, pointing out what he thought were difficul ties La the way of the deputation, Mr. Russell concluded b 7 assuring the gentlemen composing it that neither he nor his brother directors wished to throw any impediment is their way. Mr. MIILB and the other directors present expressed their concurrence with the views enunciated by the chair man, and after some discussion, during which it was sug gested that the contracts for works should be thrown over • longer period, the deputation retired. They then had an interview with Mr. Chaplin, M.P., chairman of the London and South Western, and his col leagues, when they were assured by Mr. Chaplin of the anxiety of himself and colleagues to suspend the works in connexion with the South-Western system as much as pow sible, and, as far as was consistent with their engagements before the public, to avoid the pressure of calls as far as pm. sible ',that he and his brother directors had severally dis cussed the question at their board, and had limited the expenditure accordingly. lie expressed his desire to fall in with the views of Mr. Glyn and Mr. Hudson, and said be would have no objection to attend at an aggregate meeting ' of the companies, sod if others were prepared to specify what limit they world put to their transactions, he would be prepared to fall in with it ; but it would be highly requisite that some judicious distinction should be drawn, so as to prevent lines that had but comparatively slight public pretensions being allowed to have an advantage over those whose pretensions were far above them. Subsequently, the deputation waited on Mr. Ricardo, M.P., and the directors of the North Staffordshire, at the offices of the Electric Telegraph Company in the Strand. Mr. RICLILDO said, that whatever the chairmen of other companies from considerate motives may have told them, ha believed that every company would act for its own, irrespec tive of the general, interest. This, he believed, was the only way in which these matters could right themselves, and that such arrangements as were proposed never succeeded. , The only assurance that he could give was, that it was not the intention of the North Staffordshire to make any call during this year; but if it were to the interest of the company to make a call, and he considered that it was to the interest of his shareholders to raise the money, he should not not hesitate to do so, irrespective of every other consideration. He should be governed entirely by what he considered to be his duty to his own prepnetors, and he believed that every other company, whatever they might say, would be governed by the same principles. Under the circumstances he thought that an attempt at any general line of conduct for the companies would prove abortive. A great many of the railway companies had brought much of this embarrass ment on themselves. Instead of looking for sound consti tuencies, they had induced people who regarded their under takings, simply as share transactions, to enter upon them; and he did not see why prudent persona should be called on to make any sacrifice tor those who had been imprudent. Mr. trisconzoort, the chairman of the South-Eastern and Dover, who with Ida colleagues, Mr. Pritchard and others, received the deputation, explained that they would do all in their power towards a prompt and jiulkdous suiessement of the expenditure, and to defer the calls. In rift* they had already adopted resolutions ISMS the extent of 200,0001. They were slao engaged ea= out a large financial measure, which would enable who had the means to pay up their shares, and for which they ' would receive an adequate remuneration, while on the other hand the directors would pro kW* be relieved from making calla which at • time like the present pressed so heavily. The London, Brighton, and South Coast iatimated through their chairman, Mr. Grenfell, M.P., their readiness to con cur in any measure that might be agreed to by the general railway constituency. The Shrewsbury and Birmingham and Stour Valley Ocaa panics, through their chairmen, Mr. Ormsby Got*, M.P., and Mr. Ksox, appear to be of opinion that they have no choice but to proceed, having made contracts which they cannot suspend or protract without compensation to the con tractor. Did they do so, the rates for labour and material might in another year cause the cost of the contracts to be doubled. They would only during the present pressure proceed with the heavy parts of the line. The deputation, having now waited on all the leading railway companies, return with the above results to Liverpool. IRELAND. Dc-sux, Bart. 22. A correspondence appears to-day between the government and " the Irish council," which manifests the activity of the principle of industrial enterprise. It has reference to the contract for omuitabulary clothing for the whole of the Irish force for the year 1848, tenders for supplying which have been adver tised for by the Board of Ordnance. " The Irish council " represent, that in the patterns deposited in the Office of Ordnance, the article called " shoddy " is a component part ; and, as this article does not enter into the manufacture of Irish fabrics, the council com plains that Irish manufacturers are virtually: excluded from competition for the contract. They represent that, in reality, this " shoddy " deteriorates from the dumblenem of cloth ; and, though the use of it enables a manufacturer to sell at an appa rently lower price, still, in reality, they state ' -Anaed " ...corms 011116 :-1111 Silinliff e( steles swam aos Ds more in UM =Am an wa..., qr.... ....r.... .—.- _ r -.-- - - ......., ..... - - --, -.---, -- than three, ineln=t e r wand ism The rub of the twenty - three Milli°" of Pasienflerg Pm" °Ter di• "WM' " they are advised that articles preptired fio f in the mysterious - that the carious citizen 'came to the ic m 'e7t . theTlosTe - ig* eight - of - h - e - r - . - i'll - e - y - d - ir - e - cili - niad --- e to - - the - e - poi, I h ne u - ba . Tr e L ss ,,,, , imis7„,7„.;"pr,,To',Zed• .w.......'• than though Prison sp ee i s ny heparin= aodorgeloss their len- line during the half-year. Of this isgswiss essakss no unbroken fibre can be made in this count terms satisfactory conclusion that muc.h. " m ight be said - ' • ry on when they came in contact with some boards and baskets, Sil'oe , thould he disposed in owe a manner n, Ist. To allow MITI than 14 pusses Imre killed and 4$ Ikea ammo le g h i w ide virtually cheaper than the shoddied article of the on both sides." The election takes place next which left no doubt in their minds that she had sunk. It is at. a complete isperation by day as well as by night. 2d. To over which they Mieleledele had no give them the means of taking • ' 3d. To the companies ammt la sty open air exercise. dime be hell magiesible. Oa tame apparent quality." Under these circumstances week, and the council has appointed a con - now ascertained that the boat belonged to F.dward Cooper, fisherman and dredgerman, of Btrood, and that he and his she still labour ,, lab i r pro , v in . so e m nt e w de . ob. u erv , under o e n ea th m e e p im r rf nt ee . tion enable them .to be suitably employed ;to receive instruction the o th er hand, 8 Penteneeln were killed and S Injured the council prayed that the " proposals _should be mittee to consider and report on the eligibility from "II Barbiere di Siviglia," was and to r as • • son were on beard at the time she went dawn fringing ut at divine service and religious exercises, without solely from their own weal Ai madola Thug, of the modified by the withdrawal of the adied patterns, of non-conforming candidates. It is, no doubt, • ' and called forth a unanimous ewcor:l lllll nriralli s t it .- . :lon. The duetto by Md ll e. Alberni and Men. ataudigl, the rule of separation. 4th. To facilitate the vast section of the piddle conveyed by railway daring and replacing them with fabrics of the ordinary laudable thing for the 1 counci ,as patrons, to extend , Ran! FORTIFICATIONS OF SREIRNESS , says the Beason; or, as Captain Clifford says," b , mode of superintendence of the prisoners, and of frequent the time above specified, there were altogether kind, or that the tenders should be altered so as at the field of serection ;bat " cid bench" 'the chair is of server, are fast approaching completion. With the eluded part the first. T'le I, , v :. r communication with them. Before the last paragraph was only 22 killed and 51 injured. Mortality air r l oi l i nduries have mod, exception of a few yards towards the sea the whole line is The . second put, supported by the em i lipii ... , v r i )" . rag the ye- lead to leave the unshoddied portion of the contract use only to tkeological not general students, and, as finished, the gun-carriages fixed, all the mallet , guns admirably, been far greater among persons waged Inthe attend at the • s - 1 1 . 1 .. IN . . , 1., Mr. B. Rona . (one of the Middlesex magistrates) ad- dons lines ; and It be not a little extraordinary that officials, open . to Irish competition." The advertisements the free church, the . united presbyterians, the rode - mounted, and several of the larger ones are t o be seen 'nth snerniDg with that on ce iesterda ,w',AIP • C . ' - .....- . At . ~ the meeting in French. He observed that too file who have danger constantly ?remitted to them, should stipulated that each tender should to supply pendents, and the eptscopalians, have all orieotal from " kla do's '. . • Ornol the seam of the words solitary confinement and saldbit so great an amount of meautioumeas as this return all the .• • articles demanded , which in ude 1,042 kersey off tore of their own, students must be gathered from pre _ peeping ojer the parapet Last weak excavations were coin- in own a . emudia of Beethoven's wiec ' t l! n l • tenet 1 r ••-•‘ `. • •'.• "Pante. confinement were confounded. Both at the Frank- discloses. While eight servants of companies have been killed mewed is the open space trete the dockyard chapel, t lil fth I • overalls, 200 great-coats, and 19,337 kersey trowsers. the established ehurch alone • and hence if a dissent- prepaintery t° ile Town and Blue Maccabans. 1 e who e o ese se scar "e , congress and at theesent one it was declared b' hll and seventeen injured from causes beyond their own control, „„ Lord _ having _ ing ., The Lieutenant made the neoessat'y Proletteer were appointed, church have only to Town has been closed in • manner deserting of every praise. Tii=7l A l amtsry to se hd jiff killed and twenty-four hurt, solely by their 11l separate t prisoners, but no one ever imagined y-one wereftihresfoveunoraiti,:nwf„orksanp:teanaitnavepererangery Israel In Egyp . ,' --, . . , . . . . LY CONGRESS AT BRUSSELS. - DAL—SEPT. 22.—Bneinese was commenced ' at one o'clock, after the return of the m:mbers from their visit to the prison at Vilvorde, where they were received by the governor of Brabant and the authorities of the establish ment. H. VAN HORREBEILE, one of the secretaries, read the mi nutes of the proceedings of the former meeting. After • few observations, the minutes were approved of. H. Btorier pointed out the necessity of having accommo dation for more prisoners than habitually reside in the re spective establishments, in order to provide for a sudden in crease of inmates. An article in favour of that opinion WAS ado ciiieussion was then opened on the following subject or proposition : The buildings should be diepeoci in such manner as to facilitate the various duties, without any con fusion. To that effect it is indispensable to separate the prison, properly so called, from the accessory localities destined for the directors and other persons employed. The external communicitions may be maintained without exercising any influence on the preservation of order within. With that view messengers, purveyors, &c., should never come into metact with the prisoners Ea ch branch of the service should be carried on in some respects in an independent manner, with reference, however, to the principal direction from which it receives its impulse. H. HARDY-ROMAIN (architect of the Matson Centrale at Caen) spoke on the above subject. He observed that the architects who had studied the question would cheerfully, and, if he might he allowed to say so, ably, carry out all the plans adopted by congresses like the present one. He, for his put, bad drawn up plans in which, on one side, the severest discipline, that of perpetual seclusion, was adopted, and in which, on the other, the prisoners might be allowed to go out. He was fully convinced that the Italian brigand, who believed in God, hat who killed his fellow men ; that the French pickpocket, who believed in no one ; that the Englishman expelled from his factory ; and that the Belgian criminal, who preserved some religious faith, should not be all placed in common in the same establishment. He was convinced that the cellular system wu, on the whole, the best. He did not think, however, that the present congress wished that the cells should be kept constantly shut, bat though rather that they might be closed when thought fit, direct communication might be allowed between the in mates and the directors, guardians, &c., of the prisons. He felt that it was the duty of architects to make such arrange ments as would enable each prisoner to carry on some Bade or occupation in his cell, consequently it would be ae?essary to construct cells of various sizes. The speaker objected to the prisoners attending divine service in common. He wished that the cells should be open, so to speak, in order that the directors might exercise a surveillance at all lours He was jealous of anything like a free communica tion between the gaolers and the prisoners. He expressed the hope that prisons should be so constructed as to render the physical as well as the moral amelioration of the prisoners possible. He was in favour of bringing up youth ful delinquents to agricultural rather than industrial pur suits at least in France; for he had studied the question chiefly in a French point of view. He was of opinion that persons sentenced to imprisonment for minor offences should have the faculty of being sent to agricultural colonies, if they wished, and if they received permission to that effect: that with respect to persons condemned for serious offences, they should undergo oae-third of their punishment before being sent to the agricultural colonies ; and with reference to those in the tropes, that they should be employed in those colonies after undergoing two-thirds of their punishment. In fact, he was in favour of • graduated scale of punishment. Lieut.-Col. Jane remarked that there was an intimate connexion between the construction and the discipline of • prison. He was impressed with the necessity of having the serious departments and the various offices of the establish ment kept quite distinct one from the other, with • conve nient mode of access to the centre and the cells. It was also emential that the families of the officers should not live in the prisons; that the latter should come to their employ ment at a certain hour during the day, and attend alter nately at night. He saw by a paragraph in the programme that it was proposed not to construct prisons with more than three stories, including the ground floor. He thought, however, that when the number of prisoners amounted to 700 or 800, it would be moro convenient to have four stories than very long wings. With respect to the attending of divine worship, a mode existed in Pentonville and other places by which all the prisoners might proceed separately to the church or chapel, and hear and see the per son officiating, without being seen by any one except by him. The time occupied in proceeding to and departing from divine service was seven minutes respectively. He had been mach pleased with his visit to the Vilvorde prison; but he regretted to find that, although the chapel war in the centre, it was looked at from the dining-room. He felt thoroughly convinced that although judicious employment was highly instrumental in reforming prisoners, religion after all was the most powerful lever of improvement. (Cheers.) With respect to the sine of cells, he thought that, as a general role, they should be about 13 feet long, 7 broad, and from 8 to 9 fret high. Of course it would be necessary sometimes to make larger cells for special purposes. H.HAZON-ROMAIN remarked that the expenses of pur thating land for the construction of such large establish- Mats es penitentiaries, would not be so great es might be thought, for the worst kind of soil would be good enough for them. Vegetables for the use of the inmates might be raised /*them, and there would be no lack of manure. He saw with regret that in some prisons the inmates were kept closely in their cells at work, but he thought that, occa sioaslly, agricliltural pursuits would produce more moral results_ M. MOREAr Ca moron[]; said he could not understand very well the idea of a combination of agricultural occupation with cellular imprisonment. He admitted that the public walks in the prisons might, if the authorities liked, be turned into gardens ; but he could not see how persona subjected to the system of solitary confinement could be employed in agricul ture. lie would ask M. Heron Romain how lie intended to bring the prisoners to a chapel on a plot of ground t a die lance from the establishment ? 11.11aiox itox•ts explained that there could be no great difficulty in watching over prisoners conducted to church at • diatonic. In order to prevent them from being recog ailed by one another, it was sufficient to make them wear a species of cap which should cover their features more effec tually than the one employed at Pentonville. He was In favour of giving the prisoners a Sunday drew. With re spect to agricultural employment, a large extent of ground night be purchased, bounded by walls, on which a gallery should be constructed for the guardians. The use of the cap, sad • species of capacious blouse, would sufficiently disguise the prisoners while at work. Only • few might be em ployed at a time, and each might be placed at a distance one Von the other. The speaker entered into a full explanation of his plan for adapting agricultural occupation to the prin ciple of solitary confinement. The proposition forming the regular subject of discussion was then put to the meeting and adopted, as were also the following ones:—The number of stories should not be more • _ . cbe court. The Queen will hold a Privy Council on Tuesday next, the 28th inst., at her Majesty's marine residence, Osborne, Isla of Wight. The council will be held at one o'clock. 14 • Her ajeaty and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Prince of Wa'es and the Princeu Royal, arrived at Osborne about two o'clock on Wethiesday afternoon from town. _ _ _ Yesterday afternoon the Duchess of Kent, accom panied by Prince Ernest of Leiningea, arrived at Osborne, on a visit to her Majesty, from her residemoe, Programs House, Windsor. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office from the governors of the West India colonic. PORTSMOUTH, SEPT. 23.—This afternoon, at three o'clock, the Duchess of Kent arrived by special train at the Clarence-yard, where a guard of honour, furnished by the 60th Rifles, and the heads of the naval and military autho rities, received her royal highness, who immediately em barked in the royal steam-yacht, and, under salute from the shipping and garrison, proceeded to Osborne. THE REGISTRATIONS. CITY oe LONDON.—In the pariah of St. Andrew Hubbard, Aldgate, and Billingsgate Ward, Ralph Allen Hussy was objected to by Mr. Brown, on the ground that there was no such name in the rate book. It appeared, on the production of the book, that the name was entered as " R. H. Huaey." Mr. Smith said that this was nothing but the mere error of using the aspirate where it was not required. The Revising Barrister considered the discrepancy to be of such a nature as to vitiate the title to vote. He did not feel himself at liberty to alter the description. The vote was accordingly disallowed. In the parish of St. Botolph a person was objected to on the ground that while he paid rates for Nos. 29 and 30, St. Botolph-lane, he was on the list only for No. 30. It was proved that No. 30 was occupied as a warehouse by some other person, and that the claimant bad no access to it. Mr. M'Christie held that this was only one occupation, and that, as the party's name was on the list for No. 30, when in point of fact the premises were occupied by some one else, the objection must be allowed. John Frederick Woollett claimed to be registered in respect of premises in Lime-street-square. It was proved that the claimant had occupied the place for live years, that the rates were paid, and that the rent was sufficient in amount. The name was on the list of rate-payers for the electoral year. The overseer, Mr. Woodward, on being asked to state why Mr. Woollen's name was not inserted on the list of voters, said be could give no reason for the omission, incept that " they were not in the habit of going further back than half , • year." Mr. Smith observed that the vestry-clerk for that parish and some *then, Mr. Rivington, had somehow conceived the notion that partite claiming to vote ought to have been rated for 12 ealawalaw months, and not merely for the electoral year, and if dam had not been, the overseers, acting on that gentleman's advice, destined to insert the names on the list. They (the liberal agents) could not beat the notion out of Mr. Itivington's head. The claim war allowed, as were others of • similar nature. James Goule, whose name bad been inserted on the list of voters in respect of premises occupied by him as a counting house at 49, Limastreet, was objected to by Mr. Brown for the conservatives. There was no dispute as to the fact of occupancy during the hours of business; but it appeared that the landlord, Mr. Woodward, resided and slept upon the premises, and the dispute turned entirely upon the nature of the right of access possessed by the claimant. Mr. Genie stated that the general entrance to the house remained open during the day, and that he had also access to his counting-house, though merely by courtesy, through a shop let by Mr. Woodward to another tenant. R e further alleged that Mr. Woodward's servant acted also as his own. Mr. Smith contended that, as Mr. Gouts bad the freest possible access to his counting-house during the day, in feet a double access, the mere fact of the door not being open all night could sot disqualify him. Mr. Brown, on tke contrary, urged that there was nothing to take the case out of the ordinary rule applicable to cases in which the landlord resided on the premises. The voter could not get to his counting-house without the consent of the landlord or the shopkeeper. It might as well be argued that he had amass through the chimney. Mr. Smith observed that if a burglar brake into the pre mise* in question, obtaining access to them through the shop, an indictment which described Mr. Woodward and not Mr. Goole as the occupier would be bad in law. The Revising Barrister asked if the vote had ever been ob jected to before ? Mr. Gentle replied that it had been objected to twice, and in both instances the objection had been overruled. The Revising Barrister said it appeared to him that the landlord had entire control over the premises, and he really did net see upon what ground the vote could be allowed. The following was the result of the day's revision : liberal claims allowed, 14 ; disallowed, 11. Conservative allowed, none; disallowed, 5. Liberal objections sustained, 4 ; failed, none. Conservative sustained, 3; failed, 11. Objections by both parties sustained, 3 ; failed, none. THE ANTT-SANTTABIANS OF ST. ANDREW'S, HOL - 'max.—A special meeting of the governors and directors of the united parishes of Bt. George-the-Mr, and fit. Andrew's, Holborn, was held at the Dbooaa rrdd Little Gray's-inn-lane, on Wednesday evening, when Mr. Parlay proposed, and Mr. Hunt seconded, a motion to the effect that the representative' of the public press be at liberty to attend the MIIIMMIS for the future. The resolution was supported by Mr. G. TiLor, Mr. Dixon, Mr. Humphreys, Mr. 8. Pearson, sad and opposed by Mr. Southgate, Mr. Mayes, Mr.Wiseria the chairman. A division was then called for, when there appeared for the motion, 14 ; against it, 14 the chairmen gave his cutimprote against the motion, which was conse quently lost. Subsequently, on motion of Mr. Winch, se conded by Mr. Mayes, it was carried, by a majority of one, that the ratepayers be admitted. EMIGRATION TO NEW ZEALAND.—The New Zea land Company intend to despatch two vessels of 600 tons burthen each on the 10th of October next, one from the Clyde and the other from the port of London, with stores and emigrants for their new settlement, Otago. Bach vessel will convey 200 settlers. ACCIDENTS ON RAILWAYS.—An analysis of the Warn of the number of accidents which have occurred OS the railways of Great Britain and Ireland daring tl s six months which ended on the 30111 et last inns will tend very materially to Wixom the loodikoos of the public is this mode oLonveyanes. It amok that upward! of PROVINCIAL. BENEVOLENCE ILL REVTARDED.—On Wednesday a foreign gentleman, named Edmund Henry St. Peire, was brought up at the Liverpool police court, charged with ob taining money on behalf of the widow of the late Dr. Wetherell, that lady having, it was stated, given kim no authority for so doing. Dr. O'Donnell stated that on Tues day last the prisoner called upon him, and represented to him that he had been requested by Mrs. Wetherell to collect her late husband's accounts, she (not a naturalised subject) being prevented from doing so herself; and also to appeal to the benevolence of her husband's friends for some relief for herself and family. He (Dr. O'D.) gave him It ; and at the same time he stated that Dr. Bickersteth and Dr. M'Cul lagh had else given him It each. Mrs. Wetherell denied in the most positive manner that elm had authorised the prisoner to solicit for her in this way. Mr. St. Peire was asked for his defence, when he entered into a lengthened statement, from which it appeared that he had been influenced throughout the whole transaction by motives of charity, and had acted with great zeal on behalf of the widow, who, upon repeated occasions, had for his good actions severely abused him. On his statement being examined into, the magistrate ordered him to be discharged. DISTEMPER AMONG CATTLE. The Preston Guardian says, "We have on all hands complaints of disease among cattle. In various instances it has proved fatal. Cow-keepers, both in town and country, have been sufferers. We know one farmer who has lost seventeen good cows, and our Poulton correspondent states, ' The dis temper is prevailing to a fearful extent in sone parts of the country among cattle. I hear of one respec.able farmer having loot fifteen or sixteen, and others have suffered considerably.' " CILD3IIIRE. BIRKENHEAD A FREE — 4 3 ORT. —The adjourned meeting of the dock commissioners for the purpose of reducing the rates of the decks, in accordance with the recent proposal of the railway company to the board, viz., to reduce the rates of tonnage on all foreign ves sels to 6d., and on all coasting vowels Id. per ton, was held yesterday at the board room, Hamilton•equare, J. ii. Green, Esq., in the chair. Mr. Thompson moved the following remo tion : That the toenail* rates leeled at the Birkenhead Docks be chanted from t b .. date at the rate of 6d. per Vat on foreign vowels, and Id. on *mating reeaela ; and that the law dera be ordered to advertise the lame In the usual way. This motion having been seconded by Mr. Cole, it was pat and carried nent dia. Mr. William Laird obse rved that by this arrangement, the railway company were to pay all rates on vessels landing cargoes ; and although nominally the dock oommisaioners levied N. per ton on vessels from foreign pare , and Id. per ton on coasters, yet the docks of Birkra head were, in consequence of this arrangement,to be virtually free to the public, and there were therefore now no dues whatever on ships entering, or goods landed in the Birken head Docks. THE VALE OF iVE9FL4I47IGRICULTCRAL SOCIETY held its annual meeting yesterday. The competition in the ploughing was not so close u in former years, only nine ploughs entering. The match came off at Mr. Gough 's farm at Hinton-on-the-Green, about two miles from Evesham, and the majority of the prizes were awarded to ploughmen in the service of Mr. Niod. The exhibition of cattle and horses was satiafactory, but of sheep there was not so good en assortment as at former meelangs. Among the prize holders were Lord Northwick, Mr. Itandell, Mr. Beman, of Donnington, Mr. F. Woodward, an active Vale farmer, and others eminent in the locality. The show-yard was opened to the public at 12 o'clock. An unfortunate accideat hap pened in the course of the morning to a servant of Mr. Woodward, who, while attending to his master's cattle in the yard, was kicked in the stomach by one of the horses. He was conveyed to an adjacent Ilion, blood running pro fusely from his mouth. He recovered a little towards the evening. There were the usual premiums offered for com petition by agricultural labourers avid servants, shepherds, &c., for long and faithful service. Some of the prizeholders halived for more than half a century on the same farm. The dinner in the evening wail well attended. The chair was taken by J. H. H. Foley, Esq., M.P. Many eminent agriculturists were amongst the company. The usual toasts were given, and many practical speeches delivered in the course of the evening. Some of the speakers urged the ne cessity of using every effort to increase the produce of the country, and declared that the result of the working of these associations had already shown in that district an increase in the produce of the Vale. Tho party did not separate until nearly eight o'clock. • NN. T mamma IP DESECRATION OF THE DEAD.—On Sunday fore noon the assistant sexton, in digging a grave in St. Bene dict's churchyard, came upon the coin of a person named Ryall, who died not many years ago, which he broke, throwing out the human remains in a manner which pre sented a horrifying scene. It was witnessed by many per sona is the neighbourhood, and though he was remonstrated with, yet the man persisted. We (says the Lincoln Biloollorti) trust that the scene will have the effect of sinestbeffilag the movement that is making for procuring • samara mastery ; the burial of the dead in crowded beige edit& our city's walls is a crying evil TEE RECENT GALE.:ll3ejittry and Suffolk Hersh, Duriog the heavy gale of wind from the Wile. Id& which , we were visited during the past week, a sa propelled by means of an Arcbimedeaa screw, :tg= gnat distress into our roads. She is called the Archimedes. and trades regularly between Sunderland and Loaded'. Whoa only about half a mile from Hasborough Sands, • heavy swell of sea washed away her boat, aced drove area her davits in contact with • material portion of r screw part of her machinery. Whilst in this condition, another wave caught her • broadside carried away her main-mast, funnel, doing in other re. epees very considerable damage to her. She to get into the roads, and was on Friday united= harbour in a very shattered condition. She now Um mss. site the oil-horses previously to being refitted. She lista good many passengers on board, and on Saturday eaves of them applied to the magistrates for assistance, stating that they had only a few shillings among them to get to Sunder land. Of course the magistrates were not the parties to whom to apply, and the mayor referred them to the parish authorities, and to the secretary of the Shipwrecked Man ners' Society. KENT. A FATAL OCCURRENCE happened on Tuesday morn ing in the river Medway, whereby two lives were loot, by the capsize of a peter-boat, in Salt Pan Reach, half-way be tween Chatham and Sheeran'. The peter-boat was observed by the crew of the yacht Defiance, running down with all sail set, and observing a squall approaching the yacht was hove to, the crew immediately reefed the sails, and in a . . Pm! road having been made round by the beech, whilst two new drawbridges, with bastions and other defences, are being constructed. ROBING AGRICULTURAL SOCIETT.—The annual meeting of the members and friends of this society snug held yesterday at the King William, High Roding, which is situated about sixteen miles from Bishop's Stanford. There were present T. N. Abdy, Esq., M.P. for Lyme Regis (President), Sir E. N. Burton, Bart., M.P., Vice-President, the Rev. W. Shepperd, M.A., rector of Boding, and a large number of the gentry of the county. Letters ofapology were read from Major Beresford, M.P. and Mr. W. Brampton. The proceedings of the day commenced by the distribution of prises,. after which a grand banquet was served in a large marquee erected in a field behind the King William. 'About 100 persons sat down to dinner, amongst whom were, besides the gentlemen above mentioned, several members of the Royal Agricultural Society. The whole of the proceedings went off with spirit, and to the satisfaction of all present. GLOUCESTERSUIRE. WEST GLOUCESTERSIIIItE West Gloucestershire correspondent, before be took the office of correcting another, should have obtained better informa tion himself. The name of the Earl of Ducie is alone a sufficient guarantee to every honest reformer that his con duct has been, and shall be, in perfect consistency with his truly honourable character. Your informant says the activity of Mr. Morton, his lordship's steward, was very remarkable. He ought to have known that this gentleman has ceased to be Lord Ducle's steward for some years, and the oily thing which many persons deemed remarkable about his conduct in the late election was his inactivity. But the majority in favour of the sitting member was great est, says his friend, where the property was divided ; while Mr. Grenville Berkeley's majority was upon estates of great land holders, and composed of unfortunatee, who, not daring to express an opinion of their own, were driven to the polling booths. " Save me from my friends, as well as from myself," the hon. member for West Gloucestenhire mly well say, for on looking to the register of voters, you, air, or any other person, will find that, taking the three polling places where the successful candidate polled the greatest numbers, the voters on the register are in round numbers 2,600, of whom 470 are leaseholders and occupying tenants, chiefly under conservative landlords, while in the three places when the unsuccessful candidate polled the greatest numbers the voters are 2,660, and the leaseholders and cccupying tenants not 330, showing that the properties were more divided in the districts where Mr. Grenville Berkeley s supporters were most numerous.—A GLOCCESTEREFIIRE REFORMER. ..... NEW LUNATIC ASYLUM. —The county of Hereford is to unite with the counties of Monmouth, Brecon, and Radnor, to establish a joint pauper lunatic asylum. HAMPSHIRE. EMBARKATION OF SIR irgil I TIT. —PO RT SMO ['TN, SEPT. 23.—Lieut.-Gen. Sir Harry and Lady Smith (with his staff and attendants) embarked from the Victoria pier this day, at 12 o'clock, in the Lightning steamer, for convey ance to the Vernon (Indiaman), Capt. Voss, at Spitbead, to assume the command at the Cape of Gond Hope. The general was accompanied by Col. Lewis, R.E., and the field officers of the garrison, to the place of embarkation, where the hands of the 43rd Royal Marines, and Und lteg. re. wired the gallant general, by playing " See, the conquering hero comes." The pier (which was handsomely decorated with Sags) and the platform were crowded with people, who heartily and repeatedly cheered the gallant general on leasing the shores of England. - VCIITSHIBY.. ITIORwAY ROBBERY.—At the Cirencester Petty Sessions, a few days since, Richard Newport and Ann Baker, two of the parties concerned in the recent robbery of Mr. Church, of Burbege, were placed before the magistrates. On the let inst., Mr. Church, who is a butcher and inn. keeper, of Burbage, was at Swindon on business, and pro needed in the evening from the Old to the New Town, when he was attacked and knocked down by three men and two women, who robbed him of his purse containing 371. 10s. IA notes and coin.—Mr. Church, having been sworn, deposed that the prisoner, Newport, w► the same man who knocked him down and held bis head; that the prisoner, Ann Baker, was the person who held his legs, and that the shawl pro duced was the same as worn by her at the robbery.—After Rome corroborative evidence, the prisoners were committed for trial. Ate ALARMINO ACCIDENT, Bays a local paper, occurred last week to Mr. Sturrock, the resident engineer of the Great Western Railway Company, at S w indon. Whilst seated at his desk, in the office, the flooring of the room above suddenly gave way, and between two and three tons weight of metal was precipitated into the room below. Fortunately Mr. Sturrock's attention was attracted by a portion of the ceiling first felling, and he had barely time to remove from hie desk when the whole weight fell and completely demo. lisped it. Mr. Sturrock received sonic severe cuts and bruises. The accident was owing to some of the workmen having carelessly left the metal in the room above the office, the floor not being capable nor intended to bear the weight. THE POISONING AT TTCERTON.—On Wednesday Ann Fisher, who stands charged with the administration of arsenic to her husband, was again placed before the local examination. The evidence -^ masestrates for ex.— of the witnesses examined before the coroner having been taken—John Dunn deposed that be was apprentice to Mr. Rosseter, druggist, of Tiverton. About the latter end of July last he recollected a woman lilts the prisoner coming into the shop and uking Mr. Rosscter for some arsenic. Ile thought she asked for it for the purpose of killing rats and mice, and Mr. Rometer replied, that he kept an article, called " Butler's Vermin and Insect Killer," for that purpose, but not muftis. She then went away. Was almost positive that the prisoner was the person to whom he alluded.— Ann Fisher rose and exclaimed firmly, " Now look at me— don't go to swear unless you are certain."—The witness said he should not like to swear positively.—John Coble y exa mined: Was a labourer, and resided at Washford Fyne. Raeolleeted Fisher's marriage with the prisoner. A week or a fertni,ght after was at the Black Dog, and saw Leach, an aeguaintance of Mrs. Fisher, there. Joked him about the marriage—Fisher being an old man, and he (Leach) ayoung one—and he said, " The old man will not live long." Wit ness then said, " Oh, you are thinking of having the woman yet, and the property too ,• " and Leach answered, " Yes you are right." Could not say that he thought that meant that Richard Fisher would come to an untimely end. Had heard Mrs. Rattenbury say that Leach and the prisoner were seen walking from a certain chapel to gether only the Sunday before her marriage.—After a con sultation amongst the magistrates, the prisoner was again re manded. jute itrls. SCULPTURE IN IRELAND.—An exhibition of eculp tare was opened on Tuesday last, in the hall of the Royal Dublin Society's buildings. The works are the production of Irish artists, none other being admitted, and is at once uni9ue. His Excellency Lord Clarendon, wbo opened the exhibition, arrived at the hall at three o'clock, p.m., and was received by deputation§ from the Royal Dublin Society, and of the Royal Irish Art-Union, by which body the exhibition was projected. His excellency, who appeared not less sur prised than delighted at the beautyy, of the collection, was shortly after his entrance presented with an address from the Art-Union, which in brief and unexaggerated terms referred to what had been done by that body - fier the promotion of art, and soliciting his excellency to beim* a patron of the p* His excellency in reply soli: jag est& gismo accept the elite et patrea of a malty este. trader Ile authority otparliesent he the proneness of the den on la kind; and 10001 y, gam, may net thlsk it beengleg a east yes eon essellenees ea" I am eandesed that el silmeme mean of he egallehis and Pelleiese rules by whisk your teddy le gresened, et the large ems at warm you lave selinlel e inane Nommen vtddithet wary km bra me s,• OldteßoyalliYda4Ydn bee ben emendel h far- Idesl•edpstekrwfYlwenanned. 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Ibsen Tony, lama, soil admit Ovitelses Mlle I could am% that in DOOM swag =irk Is ipprieldsi as It dawns be Eel that snag my esestrymen, as reepele set, and I trust ha .1 War, NON to Ireland will set be leaked for in TAW. Lead Clarendon, having exposed swish to see the Schools of Design of the Royal Dublin Society, was conducted thither - by the officers of that body, of which he was pleased to approve.—Sir Robert Kane ? while his excellency was in specting some ornamental designs executed by the pupils, took the opportunity of stating a remarkable fact, that the present act of parliament for the protection of the copyright of designs was first set on foot, and obtained, through the instrumentality of Sir Emerson Tennent, by an Irish house, Mears. Henry, of laland-bridge,to protect Irish designs from being pirated and adopted as French by the Manchester houses. The act was made, of course, imperial, but its original object wax, as stated , to protect the designs produced in these schools and elsewhere in Ireland. It was nearly RP* o'clock p.m. when bin excellency withdrew. 'Husk. GLOUCESTER MUSICAL FESTIVAL. GLOUCESTER, evening the concert at the Shire-hall was well and fashionably attended. An aria from " Semiramide," " In el barbara eciagura," introduced Mdlle. Alboni to the andienee ; and long bofore the air was finished the audience had greeted the signora with an unrestrained bunt of ap plause, and when it was concluded an encore was insisted upon. A recitative and air by Fucks, by Standigl, followed. A duet by Miss Dolby and Mr. Locke? , •' The tailor sighs as sinks his native shore, •' was distinguished by the well-known characteristics of these charming vocalists. A song from the "Crusaders," by Mrs. Weiss, followed. At the last festival ' enunciation le - ipronounsed .