The Express. — London, England, 1847-01-25 00:00:00

INDIA AM) CHINA. The bi-monthly overland mail from India arrived on Saturday. when we published a short summary of Its leading news. Having since received the whole of our despatches, we aro now enabled to give de tails, and to present them simultaneously with— instead of, as on the last occasion, anticipating-- our morning contemporaries. The papers which we have received are op to the fallowing dates:—]long Kong. to Nov. 26; Singa pore, Ike. 3; Cal2utta, Ike. 8; Madras, Dec. 12; Colombo, 1/cc. 13; rind Bombay. Dcc. 16. For a complete summary of the news, we refer our readers to the letter of our Bombay correspondent. This mail was brought to Suez by the steamer Ihntinck, together with the following passengers : Mr. Massaro:. Mrs. Dr. Tweddell and three children, Ca t e. It'orster, Mee. Fonder and child, Lieut. Timbrell, Lieut. Shaded], Mr. Cruicklank, Lieut. Platt, Mr. Thontpoe. Mrs. bird, Col. Smeh, Lieut. Hawks, Mr. Win gate, Mrs.. Skive and infant, Mr. Patten, Mr. N. B. 81.iith, Col. G. Sanclyes, Mrs. Feuer, Corn. R. Christie, En+. B. Wily tit, eladarnr Cluzel, Capt. 11. Conereve, Mr. and Mrs. Ritete .. end two children. Mr. Mackie, Mr. J. C. Lorrein, Mr..t. F. Gordon, Mr. Stirling, Cut. Fargehatsen, Lieut.- Col. Starr. Mr. Dunne'', Rev. el. Gallo, Mr. Thurbaru, sere, Mr. Keraeree, Col. R. Wallace and lady, Mrs. Barker and two ebild•en, Dr. Meere, Me. Binning, Lieut. Shippard, Signor Granite and Mr. 11. IL Potts. Tel: PI:NJAVI3.—Th: aspect of the Punjeub is as change ful as ever. While everything is quiet throughout the eme'ry, and the army with'n a few slays of its departure from the capital, evidence of a treasonable conn-e:on 1-e -twili the'." weer LAI eingh and the Shaikh Eruaum.ood deen, leader of the Cashmere insurrection, is said to have male its appsarance. It will be remembered that by our font arrang-ments,Goolah Singe was to continue Wuseer, but that is censequence of the finpoteibility of effecting a re coucliation b torten him and his rival Lall S:ngh, and the inability of the government to pay the contribution leek 1 urn it, Loll Singh was made Wuzeer ; Ooolab Singh, oa takeig on 'select' . the liabilities the mate was unable to meet, was derided to the rank of an independent ;Maharajah, with Cashmere and other territories added to the dominion, of Jamoo. His assumption of authority over the chief part of hit new kingdom was for a time ieterrupted by an insurrection. which was, however, easily put done with eearcely any blood shed. Meanwhile, we learn from the Delhi Gazelle, that the suspicions retorting the secret understanding between Rejah Loll Seigle end Shaikh Emaum-001-deen were being fast strengthened; and the proof of the Rajah's double dealing is said to have been so completely brouglit home to him that there appears very little chance of his remaining at the h'ad of the Lahore gov innent much longer. Mr. Currie 's visit to the capital will ere feet have decided the quettion. The dis covery of the teeamemble correspondence probably prevented Shaikh Emanm-ood-deen from eyeing the Itavee. There ap pear, every probability that )Screen Juwaheer Singh, nephew of Maharreah Goolab Single, will succeed "teeth Lail Singh as Wezeter. Hitherto the pacific policy of Lord liardinee bas realist,' the anticipations of its supporters. The ne_es site of anne zing the Punjaub to our dominions continues as visionary se ever : equally unreal the likelihoed of danger from Seesh commotion or aggression. Colonel Lawrence was expect:id to reach Lahore on the 30th ult. Mr. Currie. secretary to the government of India, was also Inked for on the some day. Birder Tej Singh bad entered tee capitol on the 27th. S. iNDE.—None of the military movement , formerly an. nounoed leave as yet occurred. The chief subject of excite. meat is a derni.offidal admission of the charges preferred against the Seind. government, on the subject of a breach of faith with the widow of Noor Meliorated, who bad received pas.ports for messengers about to be despatched with letters and presents to her son at Surat—one of the late Areteen. The (nets, an gathered front a petition of tee aggrieved Lae, herself, and from naincenue letters defending the measure, are those: Meer Noor Mahonsed, one of tho oldest and staceheit of the friends of the British government in Ssincle, left two sons—Meer Shandad and Meer Hussein Ali. The latter was solemnly consigned by hie father on his deathbed to the charge of Colonel Outram, and afterwards adopted by the Iteeideut as his sue. lie was made prisoner with his ' kinsmen after the battle of Meeanee, and sent along with , them to Calcutta, a prisoner for life. Meer Shiehdact was suspected of kering been in some way con nected with the murder of Captain Ennie and a Parsee merchant, and on this suspicion was ordered I for solitary confinement for life in On castle at Send. In tee fourth ye ar of dreary nod hopeless captivity, he wrote to his mother, 'eliciting gifts, and she applied to Sir Charles Napier. for leave to send presents by special messen gers. The request was complied with, and the police autho rities ordered to grant a safe conduct beyond the frautier ; while, at the tame time, the officer who was to do this, was direct,' to waylay and search the messengers. is see whether anything was is their possession beyond what had been mentioned in the application. They fennel I acre and a sum of money. Thus far all accounts agree, Sir C. Napier's friends admitting that the info conduct was eiven and broken ; and defending the proccedieg as one justified by the exigencies of the occasion. The suet tarried by the messengers was originally given out an being no more than 701. (ra. 7i10); tees proves to have been only one of the lures meant to inert travelling cheeps ; others to an amount variously stated at 1,7ed1., 4,0001., and 17.0001., in gold ornaments, bars. and venetian, were also found in charge, and seized. Various conjectures are afloat a+ to what could hove been intended with a sum of money so large as even the lowest that has been set down. Bonner. —The lion. the Governor and the Commander in-Chief continue at the presidency, the latter having almost quite recovered from the severe attack of indisposition with i • which he hail lately been afflicted. The criminal 'onions were commenced on the 3rd instant, by Sir David Pollock, chief justice, assisted by Sr Erskine Perry, puisne j edge.— The English mail of the 7th Nov. had not reached Bombay up to the morniug of the 15th instant " When on mail I matters," says the Bac/0v Times, "we may be perm:Red to advert to the contra-t—the peretuality of the dispatch of the steamer as exhibited under the rule of our present gover nor, to the wont of it under that of nearly all his predaces sore The power of detaining the mail, in fact, was so capri ciously, and on many occasions PO inexcusably, exercised, that it might have been imagined that it was considered a privi lege and badge of distinction on no account to be left dormant. That the governor of a ;eetty presidency should, for the gra tification of a fancy, the display of fancied pomp or cere mony, or the indulgence of a little procrastination, detain for 12 or 20 hours the despatches of all India, when not only were the govenimenta at home expending millions, but pri i vote parties—the newspapees and their exeremes for example —were laying out tens of thousands to save as much time as was oftenthrown away in Bombay harbour, is surely very absurd and intolerable. The excuse of waiting for the benefit of the State was always admissible, but rarely indeed re quired to be claimed; and we suspect the letters to be waited for much more frequently referred to private than to public matters. The Parsee convert, liormusjee Pestonjee, preached a sermon in the American Mission chapel, en Sunday last, to • crowded audience—the navelty of the thing having attracted a large congregation. Mr. Roussac, an insolvent, formerly a proprietor of the Geallenian's Gazette, soils on the 7th discharged from cus tody. having been annwed the benefit of the act. At • meeting of the Royal Asiatic Society, held on the 30th Nov., Lieut. G. E. Ashburner, of the Bth N. 1., was ballotted for, and unanimously elected a member of the society, and Dr. J. Stevenson a vice-president. The moiety met again on the 10th inst., when • letter was read front Mr. Layard, releetiwe to the excavations recently made by that gentlemen " at and near Mosul, the site of ancient Nineveh," soma account of which appeared in the Dotty News, from the transac tions of the Asiatic Society, some time since. The liciinbay Telegraph observes on this subject : " Some of the splendid sculptarm discovered by Mc'. L. at le bombed, are at pre sent in Bombay, having been sent hither for shipment to England, as a donation to the British Museum. Major-Gem. D. Barr has been auce,eile4 in the office of Military Auditor General by Col. G. Moore, formerly stipendiary member of the Military Board. NOIITH-Witot PILOVINee.4.—The Lieutenant-Governor reached Nuseeerabad on the 28th Nov. He proposed leer ing for Ajmere on the Ist Dee. on his way to the district of Beawr.—Lortl Gough was to have left Simla about the Bth er 9th inst., for Umb4a. It was considered doubtful wecther his lordship would visit the J (illumine Doab or not —Sir J. Littler, who had just before reached Lnodhianah, it was said had been ordered to join the Governor-General forthwith in the Dash, in order to accompany his lordship on his inspec tion of the bridge of boats over the Bess.—The Jullundur division, which had proceeded towards Cashmeer under Brig:eller Wheeler, had arrived at Ferozepore, and were about starting for their several -rations in India, having been relic, ed in the Doab by other troops.—Several despatches of military stores have again been emit to the stations on the frontien—Munela, the celebrated e slave " girl of Lahore, has reached Meerut stn eel ablutionary journey to Gyejee, and her retinue of about five hundred Seikh horsemen, with elephants and camels. ltajah Heerah Singh entered those territories on a pilgrimage, with a train of nearly two thousand Seiklts, with several elephants, coasting gold and +ever howdahs or chain of all shapes and sizes. The beauty of the horses and their trappings is said tee be very meat—the dirtiness of his attendant, equally so.—Tke Pin mptured in the Puojaub campaign, in number two eunered and fifty-two, left Benues on the Ist December for Calcutta, where some of them are to be transformed into a teleran, to commemorate the battles fought on the Setlej, mil the gallant men who fell in them.—One of the independ ent Rajahs of Bundlekhund—he of Dutteeah—has given 200 e for distribution amongst the widows and orphans of the-e who fell in the campaign nn the Sutlej.—The pros pectus of "a communication with Europe, the Puniaub, and the North Western Provieees of Bengal, by the Indite route, sirs Bombay, and the advantages likely to occur from a trade thereon," by • Mr. Seiree, of Bombay and Paris, and a Hr. Regime,. of Agra and Ferozepore, has been published. —lt is an undertaking of magnitude, says the Bombay Tele- S"Ph, and has • dash of ire Massa in it which relieves it n somewhat of the dull commercial character. The proposer+ thjetest the establishment of an " Indus Trading Company," - ",,__eich is to provide steamers to ply between Loalianah and ~'e t hieeet and hereafter in the risers of the l'unjaub, and tat. to "embark in a general traffic with Europe and -L.''' . N IV parts of India." Agents, it is recommended, eeeeld be established at Lot don and Liverpool, Cadiz and lordeaux, Ceylon, Maulenain, and Singapore, Bombay, I lelueraehee, Ilyderabad, Sukkur, Bhawulpere, Philour, Jul. "eetht, Perosepore, Hooper, and Loodianah, and at ilmritair sad ' , there in the Punjaub—by which means, it is hinted, : company would " monopolise " the principal trade of 1..... c ' e Pm`thece. The "live rivers of the principal are re. —", , d to as being all navigaele—the coal mines on tho banks m the Chenab and Reece are elanced at—and it is observed *4 °l steam communication on those streams, the cern m'ecc "of Affishanistan and indeed of all Asia, between ' the t 44n:etsod the Geese : might be matured. Five s mor e tlis • Mused sway fillet the birth of the idea, anti still it is Mii mid,. • The Hight Honourable the Commander-in• Chief will, it is underwood (by tee Delhi Gavetrrt , leave Simla no the 6th or 9th instant, proceeding to limballah in the first instance, we believe. Ili, Excellency'. ulterior movements are not decided epee as yet, but it is surmised they will not be in the direction of the Julluniiir Doeb ca account of the scarcity which is apprehended in the new province, conse quent on tho pre-core of so large a body of troops as is at present congregated there—The force bete under Brigadier Wheeler reached Ferezepore on the 26th November, and the several regimen's would thence proceed to their respective destination.. The 41 move by Loodianah and Lintba ll eh towards Nuswerehail. The lo t N. le proceed to Mineela had, detaching the left wing at Deobun to Allvithur ; the 21th to Lucknow, the 30th to Delni, and e3rd t 6 Neemeeh. The 38th Light Infantry have been ordered to proceed frnm Umhellah to Faroe Pore, and will march eliortiv. The heavy baggage of the Jullundur eerie., moving to the pro vinces he r wepere, arrived at Umballah on the 26th NOT. 61st loot reached Umbellate on the 27th Nov. The 18th Iteeiment N. I. are halted at Umbellah. GWALIOIL—The Delhi Gazette gives the fol lowing account of the present state of affairs in the Owelior district ;—" The disturbance in the Tehur Ohaut district is soon likely to be at an end. The disaffected Takoor Moorlet ilhur Chowdree, has at last come in and tendered hi. allegiance and sulanie sion to the Duthie, on condition that his grievances be pro perly ins eetigated and justice accorded to him and his Elsner Lands. The troops are still out in the Jignoe leirgunnah to quell o:her minor disturbances in the neighbourboood of the Ghanr. Several movements have taken place amoneet the troops. The wing of the 3rd infantry have changed from Peons& to the emital, the heal quarters being about to proceed from Mahoneh to the same piece. The let revelry reached Gwelior en the 7th Nnv., aced the 2nd left for See pree on the 9th. A wing of the 82nd felt the capital fur Maheneti on the 15th, and the remainder of the feeli marched the tame day for l'oorsah. The weather was be coming cool, and the European portion of the military force suffering from intermittent fever. Nteem's DOSItStIoN3.—" Our latest accounts from the Deccan," says the Madras Spectator," siren! reason to believe that the ere of Inset:cal reformation is at leneth dawning on Ilydembed, and that British influence, which has hitherto wrought little beside unqualified evil to the people of that sovereignty, now operate* for their advantage. it would he too much to :assume that the brightening of the political east there visible is inleed the harbinger of an approaching noontide of good government, because it may prove but tee delusive promise of a trensient aeron ; appearances hoe ever are certainly favourable to a sanguine new of the suh het, soil Suraj-001-adoolk's elevation under the auspices of the resident, gives token of being followed by results which few had ventured to hope from it. Tumult and license have critic 1 to disgrace the site iets of the Nitam's capital, and blood no long e r floes in them without attracting notice or pros Aires vengeance ' • because a Dewan nominated by the British rower, and ha ving the counsel and assistance of the British representative ever a' his elbow, is not ore whom the lawisel can venture safely ei defy. The mercenary bands of Rehilles. Selkhs, and some others, have been, or are in roue , e of being, disbanded ; which is synonymous with their dismissal." Another beneficial project of the minister is, to enforce the use of stamped weights by the grain dealers. This mea sure will prevent fraud upon the public, and prove of great service to the poorer Classes. Manatee.—The Marquis of Tweeddale returned to the Neaglierries on the 13th November, and proposed visiting the mut, after which he would return to the presidency. Another hurricane, equal in siolence to that of 1836, took place at Madras on the night of the 25th Nov., though happily unattended with lons of life. The gale commenced about eight in the evening, and betwixt ten o'clock and midnight raged with terrific violence. Innumerable houses, roofs, walls. and tree., were blown down ; the said from the bench was drifted half a mile up into the town; :end timber lying on the strand had been cast up by the sea into one of the streets of the native town. The surge on the beach was terrific, The barometer at eight on the morning of the 25th stood at 29 70, and contested to fell during the day, till it ten at night it had descended es low as 29.03 ; from which time it gradually ascended, find at eight the fallowing morn ing had risen to 29.73. Accounts from the neighbourhood of the presidency describe the uncommon fury of the hurri cane. No former occasion on record was productive of the same amount of destruction to the timber. The whole country abounds in copious proofs of the strength of the storm, which raged at its maximum iolence for only the short space of two hours. The ship ping had been warned amine the (ley by the =Leer at tendant to leave the roads, wean they did. A few of them lest their MSS' in the storm, but hail nearly all otherwise retureed to port in safety on the 27th and 28th. Nearly 14031. had been subscribed for the relief of th sufferer* by the hurricane of October, and the government, with a fibs ratite deserting of the highest praise, had subeeribed the handsome sent of 1,009/. more. A diabolical atttempt was made lately by a Mabomedan servant to poison Colonel Newell, who bad letely arrived from England . The colonel had been sutftring from gout. On the evening of Saturday Li, medical attendant dented hint to repeat a sleeping drought, which hail been prescribed for him the night before. The empty bottle which, bad coo tained this medicine was sent, its the usual manner, to the Government Di ipensary, to be repleniehed A cooly was the bearer of it, and returned with it to the club-house about nine o'elocli. The culprit received the medicine, end after a short absence returned anti pieced it on the table with a o hie glass. At 11 oelock Colonel Newell swallowed tide draught, and in a few miutti s was seised with violent pain in the stomach, accompanied b I vomitiag. Fortunately for himself he favoured the. emetic npertaV , m by copious draughts of vi nein water. The peek and sickness continuing he sent for his medical attendant. He was then in a fearful state of collapse, from which be was with difficulty revived, and he remained in a precarious state for up wards of forte-eight hours thereafter, but is now, we rejoice to say, considered out of danger. The hlussulman servant had pat a quantity of arsenic into the me brine bottle, after receiving it from the cooly, bef re he took it in to his master. On the diWovery of this fart, information was immediately laid at the pollee-office, and the chief magistrate went per roually to the club-house to investigate the matter, where he took the deposition of Col. Newell, who was still in a very alarming state, and thereupon committed to custody the Mussulman servant, and a maty, the only other individual in the colonel's employ. Subsequent investigation has elicited the fact of the Mussulman servant having purchased arsenic in the hamar on Saturday, the vender thereof having come forward and deposed thereto. The servant confessed his offence, and inquiries are still going Onward which promise to lead to a full legal conviction. CA LIT rra.—Sir George Pollock, member of the Supreme Council of India, has returned from the Cape greatly im proved in health by his sojourn m that colony, and has re sumed his duties at the council board.—A second *teenier, named the Oatmeal McLeod, has been launched at Calcutta for the India General Steam Company.—The libel ease insti tuted by the proprietor of the Calcutta Star against the pro- prietors of the Englishman, has been decided in favour of defendants. The trial took place on the Ist of December, before a full bench. The action arose out of the following circumstance:—ln June last the Englishman received a copy of the Oeerland News via Bombay, but the Star did not. The latter being ciliated to a ropy of every paper issued by the former, sent to his press and obtained a copy of the Extra prepared by hint trans the Noes, an hour earlier than any other subscriber of the Eoglishmares. From this Extra the Star m inlet! an extra also, honestly acknowledging that he bed done so from the Englishman's reprint of the News. This, proceeding of the Star's dis pleased his more fortunate contemporary, who the follow ing day published in his paper an article from which the following is an extract, and which constituted the ground of the present action '—'t We are sorry for another reason— that is, because the want of any supply of his own in duced our contemporary to all and abet a theft front our printing office. We think the policy of tampering with another man's servant to betray his master, or make away with his property, is as bad as its morality, for what check can those who do it hero upon their own ? Our pressmen were tempted by some person to sell an early printed copy of our extra, from which the Star took his, with a notice at foot that it is printed i for James Hume, proprietor, a Calcutta magistrate (.? before whom we might if we chose take th e culprit ' It is said the editor of the Star intends bringing an action against hie brother of the Englishman for accusing him of ' " aiding and abetting in a larceny." —A public meeting took place at the Town Hall on the and instant for the pur pose of " adopting measures for cemenemoratieg the admi ration of the community for the character of the late Deearkenauth Tagore." Tho room was crowded. Sir J. Peter Grant was called to the chair, The sheriff briefly stated the object of the meeting. The bishop paid a well-merited eulogium on the late Baboo, drawing particular attention to the donation made by Dwarkenanth Tegore of 10,0001. to the District Charitable Society during he. life, ' and a like sum for like purposes bequeathed by him at his death ; his zeal in promoting the cause of education amongst his countrymen ; and his perseverance in the good cause in despite of the frowns and of his more bigoted country men. Mr. Colville proposed and "advocated the design to form a Dwarkenauth Endowment Fund, intended for the eupport of native student+ at University College, London, to i enable them to complete their education, general or pro fessional." The proposal was carried unanimously. The Cab-rata Star gives the following account of the opium affair The government sale of 2,105 chests of opium was amounted to take place on Nov. 30. Extensive gambling trensactions existed, depending upon the issue of this day's sale, and it was underatood previous to the com mem:intent of the bidding., that certain speculators had re solved to create a high average by buying up every lot at a price above its real value, never intending to complete the purchase, but to forfeit the deposit required by government to be ma ces by each bidder when the lot is knocked down to him. On the other hand, the parties who would have been losers by this fictitious average were determined that no sale should be male ; their contract heist: at a specified price to deliver a certun number of chests of the opium sold at yes. terday's aslcs, they would be free of their bargain if they could prevent such sale front taking place at all. Apprehen sions were entertained that they might endeavour to effect their object by cresting a riot, and a large force of police were marched to the spot to fruetrate sued an attempt. Observing those preparations, they resorted to another plan. The bidding, were opened at eleven o'clock, when a lot of five cheats was put un. For this lot the Ma ilings continued during the whole day, the price being run up to 1,30,995 rupees the chest, when the auctioneer was obliged to declare the business of the day at an end, not a simile lot having been knocked down. Government having had ample warning that some such attempt would ha made to render the whole day's proceedings null and void, would, we think, have been justified iu (lettering the plan, which they might easily have done by requiring a deposit of a con siderable per centage, say 25 per rent., on the price, instead of a smell fixed deposit upon each chest, and reserving to themselves the right of accepting any bid above a (Trude sum. By the latter expedient they wouhl have had the power to put a stop to a N:rtti?Wl SUCCOSSiOn of manifestly absurd bidding', and by the former they would have confined the bidding, among bond fide purchasers. The opium sale was ordered to be renewed on the 7th instant, rules having been published in an Extraordinary Government Gazette for the prevention of trickery, the principal of which was the following With a view to prevent fictitious bidding., designed to obstruct the sale, it is hereby notified that the officer of government superin tending the rile shot! be compeunt, at any time during the sale, to withdraw any unsold lot, and immediately to put it up again for sale at a maximum upset price, diminishing the same gradually until a bid is obtained, and the first lond fide bidder for a lot after it has been offered for sole in the mode here deserilvd, shall be held and declared to be the Purchaser of the said lot; irol the °dicer of government superintending the pale shall also be competent to dispose of as many of the subsequent lots as he may think proper."— Bombay Times. For I , OIIIC time the mesmeric practice of Dr. &dada has excited great interest in Calcutta. The experimental h :spit al granted by the honourable the deputy governer, to test, for one year Dr. Esdaile's experiments, was opened on the let inst. The first (Tendon since the opening of the mesmeric llcepital wan performed on the 4th December. It consisted of the removal of one of those large tumours so common iu this country, and was perfumed with perfect sneers., in too ' presence of a concourse of spectat,irs. We are informed that the operation took place on the fourth slay of the proems, that is the patient has only been under treatment since the opening of the hospital, a proof that in these cases ro incon venient delay may be expected, and that the ohjection to mesmerism on that WWI: is not vslid.—CakultaKuitisheran. KIN01)0‘l OF OCOlL—Upwards of 210,000/. have been subscribed at Lucknow to the New Five per Cent. Loa and further contributions were expected. A correspondent of the Delhi Gu:,:te says. " that this is the tint occaeon on which the subscription to the loan on the part of the King of Oudh Las not been attended with any peculiar advantage or privilege, so that the sums now invested may be fairly considered,' as the Court of Directors love to term it, a proai of the confidence in our government entertained by the native princes, who, by the bye, exist only by our or an en ler oar protection." Lord Elphiust one quitted Lucknow on the 21,t. of November; for what place is not stated. Major Tboresby, the new resident at elson', ar:ived on the 21st, on his way to Katmandu°, and - left the following morning. NEPAL t.—The Mahanjah left Kfttmandoo on a pil grimage to Benares, to bathe in the Ganges, there to cleanse himself from the polluticii attaching to him conacquent on the late murders at his capital! Matmeatht.— The news front Asa is important. The death of the unfortunate ca-king had given rise to certain commotions not very favourable, and the country win on the eve of civil revolution. Largo bands of robbers daily paraded the streets, and the authorities uem.d aide ' sided how to act in the crisis. But the regent has, however, made an Mort; and basing received very unfavourable re ports of the governor of Itengoon, he recalled and severely punished him. This gentleman is a Mr. M. Calder, for merly of Mnalme in ; and the severity of the punishment in flicted upon him terrified the lesser minions, and after a little exercise of severity upon certain unfledged robbers, the txxly of the people caught the moral, and improved upon it accordingly. Robberies have pretty nearly ceased, and the governors of provinces are in the greatest terror that all about them arc spies of the regent. SIXGAPORE.—We give en at-tract of the report drawn up by the registrar of imports and exports fur 1813.16. There is an apparent increase in the trade for the year under review to about the same extent it had decreased in the previon. year, thus making the result nearly the same as in the year 1843-44. But the experience of those who are best practically acquainted with the trade, represents the trade as basing been anything but pro-perous. It is only ly watch fulness on the pert of government to feet-r the trade of Sin la pure that it can be maintained in anything like a satistae , tory condition, as the tendency of events is to with draw a considerable part of it into other ehannela. The value of merchandise imported during the official year 1813-4 b (exclusive of transhipped goods, did the interme diate trade with Pinang and Malacca) agzr . eated 23,432,10.3, and of treasure and bullion Rs. 3,181,313, chewing an increase of Rs. 1,649,403. The exports trout Singapore during the above pitied show a decrease of: merchandise, Its. 8,835; tre..ure, &c., Its. 550,401. The general result of the whole trade is en increase in 1843-46 of 16. 2,341,192. The legislative council have promulgated the draft of an act for estaLlAing a copper currency in the Straits settle ments. _ . . . . . — (ForlndLa Markets roe our Counrercial Intelligence in the hot P• 1 CHINA. Cs.:croN.—The Chia Mail of Nov. 19 is partly occupied with cowl lints against a Mr. Compton, for raisins a dis turbance is etutton, which led to a loss of life. Mr. C. kicked to pin•.s a fruiterer's stall, struck the military otticer, Le-Tung-trews, and raised a popular disturbance, which ended in the use of tire-antes and loss of life to several of the Chinese. For these offences Mr. Compton was fined 200 del:ars. . . VEN PROVINCE has been in a very disturbed con dition ; and according to the governor's reports, the MULE rinshave exerted themselves moat meritoriously in restoring tranquillity, and are therefore recommended to the muticu lar notice of the emperor. The country i mouutsinoua, and the inhabitants ore a fine, strong and athletic race of people, with some of the liberal notions of mountaineers. There are also large trios of Meaou tore, against whom the present dynarty has roloeatedly waged destructive but un successful war. This renders the government of the pro vince a very difficult matter, and in the more remote dis tricts, towards Kolconor, the ntle of the mandarins is not even acknowledged. PENlN.—Coniiderable changes have recently taken place in the command of the life-guards, which will also lead to alteration in the political deportment; for the higher officers of these corps have frequent access to their sovereign when on duty, and can talk more freely to him than even a minister himself. Renee it has been an invariable rule for men in power to place their frimuls in this enviable situa tion, and thus indirectly secure their own interest. None of those who have been so fortunate as to obtain their promotion, have et.y a name in the court circle. Keying's son. King -wits, in addition to the honours conferred upon him, has been created Lieut.-Gen. of the Mongul Guards, so that he now holds two military appointments of the highest importance. l'rince Lit-ming-ah has been banished to Kopto in Son garia. We do not know what error he committed, hut the consequence was a sentence of degradation, and of incapa city for public serriec in future. Kin.: ping, the Mantchoo financier, had recommended him to the notice of Taukwang, and became security for his good behaviour. In consequence of his confidence in the integrity of his prol4e, the court has delivered him over to the Tribunal of Punishments, where he is likely to suffer severely, the more so a. he is rich. Amongst the celebrated personages who lately departed this world, we find General Yang-fang, the hero in the siege of Canton, who threw down two golden bracelets taken from his own wrist, as a peace offering to the offended Barbarion Eye. The emperor bestows no regret upon this departed hero, who won his laurels in Turkestan, and lost them at the provincial eity.—Frows Me Pekin Gasetlir. THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 25, 1847. •be soar. WINDSOR, SUNDAY.—Yesterday morning the Queen and Prince Albert walked in the slopes and grounds adjacent to the Castle. 11.R.H. Prince Albert enjoyed the sport of shooting yesterday morning, attended by Lord A. Paget, Major-Gen. owlet', Col. Seymour, Mr. Anson, and the lion. Col. Phipps. Their RR. HI I. the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal took their accustomed pony exercise yesterday. Earl Spencer left the Castle yesterday. This morning the Queen and Prince Albert, the ladies and gentlemen of the court, and the domestic house hold, attended divine 'orrice in the private chapel of the Castle. The Ron. and Rev. C. Leslie Courteuay officiated. H.R.H. the Duchess of Cambridge visited 11.1t.11. the Duchess of Gloucester on Saturday, at Gloucester-house. A cabinet council was held at half-past two o'clock on Saturday afternoon at the Foreign-office. The ministers present were, Lord John Russell, the Lord Chancellor, the hlarquis of Lansdowne, the Earl of Minto, Sir George Grey, %I/count Palmerston, Earl Grey, the ChalicePor of the Exchequer, the Earl of Auckland, Sir John Hobhowse, Lord Campbell, Viscount Morpeth, the Earl of Clarendon, the Marquis of Clanricarde, the Right Hon. T. B. Macaulay, I and the Right Hon. H. Laboucherc. The council broke up at file o'clock. A deputation from the Chamber of Commerce, Merchants' House, West India Association, brewers, dis tillers, importers of foreign sugar, and from a public meet ing of the merchants and cajun, of Glasgow, hat an inter , view with Lord John Russell, on Saturday, it his official residence in Downing-street. 'The deputation coedited of Messrs. Muskets, Campbell, Eccles, Midleton, Gray, Ten cent, and Kinnear; and woo accompanied by Mr. Oswald, M.P., and:Mr. Dennistosin, M.P. Mr. John Wood, Chair man of the Excise, was pre cent at the conference of the depu tation with his lordship. The Right Hon. 1)r. Lushington had an interview with Earl Grey on Saturday at the Colonial-office. The Marquis of Lansdowne, Lord President of the Council. has issued invitations to the cabinet ministers and the greet offiecrs of state of the Queen's household for the "sheriff: dinner," on Wednesday, Feb. 3, at Lansdowne House. The deputation on the malt tax to Lord J. Russell on Friday was composed of the Duke of Richmond, the Earl of March, M.P.: Mr. W. Mile., 'M.P.; Mr. Aug. 8. O'Brien, M.P.; Mr. Newdegate, M.l'.; Mr. Wodelacuse, M.P.; Messrs. W. Bennett and J. Pain, from Beds.; Messrs. It. Baker and W. Fisher Hobbs, from Ewes; Meow.. Ball and Jonas, from Cambridgeshire; Mr. J. Moseley, from Suffolk; fir. G. Shatkel, from Berke; Mr. J. Eamon, from Sure: ; Mr. T. Wenn, from Surrey ; Mr. G. Brown, from Wilts; Mr. G. Ililditch, from Salop; and Mr. J. Warvolii from Huntingdonshire. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England had a committee meeting on Saturday. Mr. Wickham, Chairman of the Stamps and Taxes, had an interview with the Right Hon. T. M. Gibson on Saturday at the office of the Board of Trade. The Duke of Wellington attended the early service yesterday in the Chapel Royal. St. James's. The Rey. Dr. Wesley officiated and preached the sermon. The President of the It,yal Society, the Ntarquis of Northampton, has tiled on the eveninus of Fr bruary the 13th and 27th, and March the 13th end 27th for his reeep tiuna of the member 4 of the literary and learned societies. COLONIAL CENTRALIZATION.—There are strong grounds for believing that ministers contemplate extensive changes in the government of the colonies. We are informed that the following may be taken as part, at least, of the plane now under consideration. That all the possessions in North America, shall be placid under one bed—name ly, a Viceroy, with Quebec for the seat of government. The governur of the different provinces to be located at Toronto, Frtdericktets, Ilalifax, St. John, and Charlotte-town. That the like system of centralisation be extended to the Wen India Islands, the Viceroy to reside in Jamaica, and each is'and to have its own governor. Each prov:aca and island respectively to have its own legislature for strictly local purposes, and bare the privilege of sending reprcen t t lite to general Legislative Asaemblies in Quebec or Jamaica, or in our Imperial Parliament. It is thought, should these changes be carried out, that Prince George of Cambridge "ill tie appointed to the Vicir valty of British North Amerlca. lVeeL'y Nonni l'ot..tr. ExenntrloN.—The following letter has been addressed by Sir John Ross to the President of the Astronomical Society —" Sir,—l beg leave to submit the following plan and proposal t, the President and Council of the Royal Astronon.ical Society far their consideration : The measurement of an arc of the meridian had long beer, a great desideratum ; ar.d the failure of every otte.a.pt that has been mode at Spitztcrgen far this desirable object, as well as the attempt made to reach the North Pole, has bees, be cause the summer has been selected for that purpose d whereas, the spring should have been the season chosen, namely, the months of April and May, for both se. riot*, list which could not be put in execution by the hitherto adopted. I have now to inform the president and c merit of the Rural Astronomical society, that I has. , sub mitted a plan to the Min:calve fur carrying Into exe cution there double and desirable objects, by wintering at Spitabcrgeu. aud math. ing my officers and crew under the direction of the tax: rated ton of the cele brated Prof. Schumacher, whom I have engaued fnr this purpose; while, at the proper serstmt, it L+ my intention to a' tempt to reach the North Pole on sledges drawn by Swedish hones. being a modification of the plan proposed first by Dr. Scoresby, and of wi,kh that highly-talented and well-in , formed 'individual has given his most unqualified approba tion. And, from the year's experience I have had in Swedes in that mode of tray, :ling, I can slid) , assert that there is uo other officer in the navy that possesses these advantages so necessary to complete ILICC:141, of which neither Dr. Knives by nor myself have the smallest doubt. I hose made this suattruent in the hope that, when duly considered by the President and Council of the Ithyal Astronomical Sock ty, they will be pleased to signify to me their opinion on the importance of the objects in question, and such a recommeo dation for its being put into executou as they may think lit." ACT F.s l'umr.—A grievous want of the age is a sleek exchange for dealers in literary wares and secu rities ; not so much for the sako of R place of meeting, as for the autkoriaed city quotations. The utmost uncertainty hangs over, ne.t only prices, hut the very nature of literary property; which a stock exchange committee might deter mine by the timple act of publication in their:ists. At pre; sent the literature is oft.:ct merely ancillary to the stationery business. A man wishes to 'et off regularly iar,e rnppa, s of piper; he causes it to he printed as newspaper, and in that shape it is bought: it ought to be quoted as so much , " decay," or as "Journal."—Spectator. RE-APPEARANCE OF TILE POTATO DPEASE.—A letter to the Gordener's Chronicle from Mr. Elphinstone, gardener to the Right lion. the Speaker at Heektield, corn munieites the int^lligence that the potato disease continues its attacks on fresh crops : I herewith forward (be gam) some of one walnut-teat kidney pots. toes, grown in po., every one of which within the lard three weeks has been atrieked with the disease. They were planted altiftly In It •lsed pots on the 24th November : every tuber came up well, and was going an or well as could I..inahert; the number of pots was 20. One part of the pot. was placed Ina t briery that I commenced forcing at the tare, and an tainly never from the above day has the teupera tore teen under 50 deg.; the other portion of the pots was pined In • new pit heated by hot water, and tee temperature hoe ranted from 55 deg. to Go d. . The potatraw at ti.t.ing.up time were et the very brad quality, and wren laid out to met .1. a practice which i hare fol io. ed for upwar,:a of twelve yet,. without • shawl,. Litho c w hen tali, :I into the aced-room they were la:'l on a boarded floor aril.: I the time of planting. I bare been very minute In examining the haulm, and not a single aphis hare I been able to detest. Another corre,pondent of the smite journal corroborates the fret from his own experience. APOLITIoN OP SMITIIFIF.I.D CATTLE MARKET. — Petitions to parliament for the abolition of Smithfield market as a live cattle market lie for signature at the London Tavern end several other establishments. Fricii.—l.ast evening, a fire (which at first threatened eeri , oin consequences) broke oat in the bakeLoure of Mr. Wymer, 70. Leataer-lane. A good supply of water being obtained, and the speedy arrival of Reiel's enielno, and others from the London and West of England establish ments, the fire was extinguished in three quarters of an hour, but not before the bottom part of the premises were destroy, 'rhe premiers were fortunately insured. ROBLIERT AT PRICE AND CO.'s B.tNKING-DOCSE.— On urday, between three and four o'clock a robbery was committed In the banking-home of Sir Charles Price and Co., King William-street, City. A lady named 'lB,lll came to the counter of the bank at the time in question, to obtain cash for • cheque of 1211. Having received twenty Bank of Englend notes of 51. each, she placed them in a side pocket, r.fter which 25 'sovereigns were given, which she counted, and was in the act of placing them in the same pocket, whet: to her dismay she found that the 100/. in notes had been taken from her pocket. She stated her loss, and an alarm was vices, when a lad, who was present, stated that he observed two genteelly-attired men, who had been previously cr.:razed in conversation, walk up to the lady, rake her dress white she was in the act of counting the gold, take the note. from her pocket and walk off. Imme diate search was made after the villains, but they have not yet been apprehended. IleilrEsT, SaTURDAY.—UNrOC/CDED ell.tllGE.—By Mr. W. l'ayne, in the Giltspeir-street Compter, correniing the death of John Davie, s prirmer committed for 11 dare on the 18th instant, for begging in Cornhill. AN the coroner and jury were proceeding across the yard to the room in which the body lay, several of the prisoners cried out through the grating o. en adjoining ward that the man (the de ceased) bad been murdered by the bad treatment he had received, and mentioned, at the ...Me time, the names of several prisoners who cool! give evidence of the fact. R. Thompson, a prisoner, said that be saw the deceased brought down to the workroom from the infirmary on Wednesday last, supported by two men, and evidently in a dying state, his eyes appearing glassy. Witness told Mr. Crocker, the task-master, that the deceased was in a dying state, and that he was unable to work, and the reply was, that he moot go on with his work—that he was an imporor —sad that if he did not work his victual should be stopped. Demised sold that Lis dinner had already been stopped. He sat on the' form, unable to pick the oakum ' which was given to him, and witness, after putting his name down for the doctor, saw him taken to the infirmary. Nearly all night witness heard him overhead crying out for water, but neether the surgeon nor inty . ef the officers went to him.—James McWelliam, also a prisoner, raid that the deceased and he, when brought into the prison, were taken into the infirmary for the itch, and were rent down into the work-room on Wednesday. While in the infirmary, deceased repeatedly asked the assistant-surgeon for medicine, lint none whatevsr was given to him.—Do ceased told Lim that he had five complaints, two of which were dropsy and rheumatism.—Mr. Idelelurdo, the surgeon, raid the deceased was not believed to be seriously ill. He died an Friday, in a fit, canned, as a post mortens examina tion proved, by disesre of the brain. He certainly did not want medicine.—Mr. Holding, the assistant-surgeon, denied that the deceased had asked for medicine, and that he had been refused.—Mr. McMurdo said the witness Thompson who made the charge, had threatened to "serve him i out." for refusing to recommend his discharge on the ground of ilinees.—The jury, after a short consultatiou, re turned a verdict of " Died from natural MILKS." WiIALINO. This is a subject which of late has been greatly before the public. It began in the Aberdeen Journal, in consequence of the return of the ships from the Greenland fishery to that and other northern port. This was followed by the formation of a chartered company in London, of which Mr. Thomas Baring was the president ; and lastly, by a plan to form a whaling station, by the Mesas. Enderby, in the Auckland Islands, IGO miles south of the New Zealand I group. Thus there are three 'dins. of which it is proposed to give an oreount, and to say a little of their merits. I. Mr. Baring's Company.—By this It was proposed to raise a capital of 210,00 W., and to engage in the Greenland as well at, the South Sea trade. It was intended to send out picked crews. That the best conducted were to succeed to be mates, and the mates to be promoted to the command of ships. All this put of the arrangement was excellent. Then it was thought that the average of voyages would yield a pro fit in a trade which was often attended with individual low— and great reliance wax placed upon the better arrangement made by a company and directors on a great seals than can possibly be done in any single ship. Still there were two difficulties which could not be obviated; lst., the severity of the climate of the Greenland seas. ; 2nd, the necessity of fitting out a whaling ship from the northern hemisphere for at least four years without the chance of any return under three years. Notwithstanding the mines, respectable in cha racter, in wealth, and amongst them gentlemen of great ex perience in whaling business, recommended by a charter from the crown, every attempt to give it vitality has been adjourned to speak in plainer terms, it has been abandoned. 2. Messrs. Enderby's plan was made known by the Times of the 13th lost., who, at the time of announcing, foretold its not being supported. Much is due to the Messrs. Enderby. Their respected father began the South Sea whaling business ; their worth, their talents, their means are univeraillv acknowledged ; so much so, that the French king. Loui. Philippe, has presented them with a espy of the magnUicent colic:thin of French marine charts, with which every French admiral commanding in the Pacific is furnished; and the Englishgovernment has made them &great of the Auckland Islands, containing 100,000 acres ; thissmall group was &a-covered by ono of their whaling ships in 1806. It is without inhabiteets—believed to have a fertile soil, and known to enjoy a delicious climate and excel lent harbour., and here Messrs. Enderby propose, under a royal charter, to establish a whaling colony. All this may occur, but it will take many years to establish. It is not, therefore, surprising, that the Tines foresees the little chance which it has of success. 3. Is what may be celled the Aberdeen plan—although the probability is that it will be taken up at Hull. The pranciple of their scheme is to avoid the difficulties of Mr. Beriug's plan, the severity of the arctic regions, or the fitting out of ships for three or four years, ana yet to take advantage of the beneficial parts of it, that of promotion of seamen, &c. I. The plan is to permit no seaman to engage in it who is not in some proportion a shareowner of the whole venture. 2. None but newly-married men, who arc to take their wives out with them, and thus pursue the business from their own doors. 3. None who have not, or who are not, racei. mated previous to sailing. 4. Like the Ameriean ship, to be manned by those who hare taken the temper Ince pledge. 5. Neither the men nor their wives to exece4 2. 'can of age. 6. To carry out a number of shipwright couples subject to the same qualifications. 7. A few experienced rope maken—the same. 8. Sotre fith-eurers. The whole are to form a colony for the deep sea whale fishery to be planted in Cook's Stairs, because there there is abundant tioilicr, and every material for thip.buiiiiing— because at Wel .:-ton and Nelson there are merchants, from whom stores can be purchased, and who will be glad at ell times to buy oil and bone as fast as it is taken. Thus it is intended to build new ships as fast as the colony is eatrialislie4, at a spot also where the abominable coasaboat killing whale stations OVA a population of bOO British American and hal'.eiste seamen, who will be found excellent men, bred in Cie bouts, used to the business with which to man (Mere ships. The schema is a v. ry humble one in comparison with either Mr. Bariug's or Mr. Enderby's: it is at present with. out powerful names; still it has be n read ti the Chamber of Como:inn at Hull • it cm be carried into execution so min as 5,0011. is subscribed for the purchase of the outfit of the ship and colony. A second will go out as soon as another 5,0091. is raised; it will remain for the suhezri hers to deter , mine %slather each should remain as a single sent ire, or ' whether a number should menbine. and thus take atLautsge of average success, as put forth in Mr. Baring'. In addition to them advantages it has the iienetit of rya , tea:ttic colonisation and aerial emigration. Any young maple availing thecnselvi a of these prospect's.' i May fettle theinnlyes edvantrgeously for the same sum which it wend prnbahly require to furnish a house • and, instead of the sea- faring husband enita"irl in the Scan limn inn seas of the northern hem:soli:re, he w .uld Lc working the whole }ear round in the lineal climate in Pt: world, and not subject to be frozen into idleness half his time; whilst the little colony would ho c .eerful communities ,:f neighbours, with their own chap:arm and achoilmast.r, mid surgeon. At Hull it is Mons. Richard Vance and Co., who are torahs .; a company in small sti UV!, of which any may par take, whether intending to so cut in the venture or trot ; but none will he allowed to einirrk who ace nut shareholders. Although the colony is to be planted where the mot-boat fishery is to he carried on, ita pursuit is the drop sea fishery, so that all serious are the FOIT1:!, and no period, need be de termined 0:1 as to arrival, when the coast season begins for killing the eon what:. with its eel* on the breeding grounds, a pursuit which should he forbidden by the borne guy:num:tit. IRELAND. DUBLIN, Luc. 23: The tone of the debate in both houses has, on the whole, been well received. The landed interests are pleased with the admission that the calamity has been regarded by ministers as an iin?eriol burden, and to be met with the resources of the state. How far, ho - rever, the principle will be carried is ye t in dark ness; and, until Inrd John Russell develops his scheme of policy for Ireland, the eoa:plement of lauded satisfaction will not be filled up. There is still some apprehension, but the exposition of to-night in the House of Commons will, it is to be hoped, wholly allay the lever. Three petitions are about to be issued by the Repro ductive Committee; the signatures to be attached by counties, so as to have parate petitions from each presented simultaneously to parliament. No.l repre sentsthe failure of food—numerous deaths from starva tion—the rapid extension of famine—the inefficiency of e system in operation to control itsprogress, and , with out the immediute application of en enectual remedy, the certainty that a large proportion of the population will perish. The remedies suggested are those which ministers have already:propos/A. No. ',then, is anti cipated. No. 2 comments on the evils of the Labour rate Act—its demoralising and ruinous effects on both labourer and proprietor—its wasteful and mischievous expenditure, and still more mischievous consegaences by abstracting labour from the cultivation of the soil and incimsin; the probabilities of future famine—and, lastly, the imposition on property of a charge which may he indefinitely augmented, and by drawing no distinction between the ii proving and unimprovkg proprietor, it establishes a principle which militates against individual exertion and private employment. The remedy pro posed consists in such amendments as w'll enable each proprietor to expend his pre portion of the baro nial assessment, in giving employment to the desti tute poor generally en any reproductive work, which will permanently improve the soll ' and thus absolve him from further taxation as to that particularasseas ment. No. 3 has been partially anticipated by min isters. It represents the justice of viewing the cala mity in as imperial tight, and prays " that the landed prof erty of Ireland may he relieved from so much of ; the charge imposed upon it by the 9th and 10th Viet, ch. 107, as has been expended in unproductive works, and that the same may be transferred to the general resoui cos of the empire." If the prayer be assented to, a heavy weight will be removed - front the hearts of the Irish landlords. One of Lord Londonderry's " juvenile statesmen," Lord Farnham, has issued a circular to his tenantry calling on them to till theirgmund without delay, and sow an additional quantity of seed. Ills lordship promises amistanee in cropping to all who may require it. The Central Relief Committee received yesterday subscriptions to the amount of 6701., and awarded 1,0201. to thirteen counties ; Mayo received 2401. The markets have exhibited tendencies of a cheer ing nature. l'citerday there was a better supply of " farmers' grain" at the Dublin Corn Exchange than for several weeks. The sale was unusually dull both ! for this and foreign grain, and though holders were firm and some of them put by their samples, yet those who sold were obliged to submit to a reduction—on I wheat Is., and on oats of fat per barrel. 'File former I is equal to 2s. per qr. Barley maintained its price. COMMISSARIAT RELIEF.—The following circular has been issued from the Commissariat-office, by order of the Com-1 misrary.gcneml, to the secretaries of all the relict commit tees in Inland, containing en incrcared ratio of government donations on private subscriptions fir affording gratuitous relief, and providing food for sale at first cost, &e. : Cosorta,tu,r Ree.rtr °MC:. DreLlif CARL, Jan. - Commissary-general sir R. I. Rooth dodoes to st ate that in conse quence of the distress prevailing in dittrieta where the union work. hint,. ore full or um, -Roble, his excellency the Lard Lieutenant bus autlic,rfred the recommend-Mon of grant. in an augmented ratio on subscriptions, having reference to the extent of deseltuCon in each district. Where much &strew mists the grant, will be equal to the subscriptions. In some ram a greater amount will be recommend,. Under the rircumslanees adverted to in the trot paragraph, the go vernment regulations allow of gratultmo Limes to the Merin paw, to widow., orphan.. and children, where the supporting member of tLe family is incapable from siciinCSS or other mime to Maintain them. Topa...one requiring relief on ouch grounds, the food la a free such charity ; but w hen the coinunttre scud, Eta not desirable to do so under cost ;rice. for it is an object to maintain the funds of the committee unimpared as ponible, so as to make them applicable to the whole reason bon4ioto granted before the present regulation was made cannot now be enlarged; lott ibe lover ratio of inch grants will be considered whatever It's, of additional subscript ;oils shall be received from the same relief districts. Subscriptions and donations in aid of them may be appropriated, where a distinction is necessary, to localities for which the mums subscribed shall have been in tended by the contributors ; but must still be meowed by the committee, or a sub-committee of its megabmo. I It le particularly requested that the certiticate_ requimi by the Nth article of the general inetroctlrma may be iiMsM to each Lion list. Grants are only given on mbscrintions piled at IV, rr pmal of Relief Committees appointed by the lientmigglinell= in the nner peinted out by the instmetons of throu; ' thieofftce. Whereat& committees do not exlst rmen :Zleeeks may be made to the lieutenant of the County to he them when nemeary. The food considered to be best mited ix ratan ma relief is soup. This should also be provided for rale, where practicable, with a view of economising the consumption of cora. Inquiries being frequently made as to the payment of salaries to the secretaries of relief committees, this opportunity is made available for recommending that In future a member o: the coistillittee be requested to act as secretary, and that a clerk be employed me...tonally, on re quired, and said out of the relief fund.. when secretaries , have been already employed in expeetatson of rece iving salaries, these can only be paid where relief fonds have been formed, there being no other source from which the eXpellacs Inaurred by committee can be de. frays - A.—l have the honour to be, air, 'oar obedient servant, W. er ,NUM, Secretary. PROVINCIAL. YORKSHIRE. ..... THE FAT N . ACCIDE T ON THE BRADFORD RAIL. WAY.—VERincr OF MANNLAVoIITEH.—The coroner's jury impanelled to inquire, before the coroner of Leeds, into the muse of the death, of Devil Anderson, who died at the Leeds Infirmary, of injuries received on the 15th inst. at the Calverley Bridge Station, during a thick fog, delivered l i their verdict on Friday afternoon, about half au hour after our reporter bad f Awarded his last despatch, landing a Ter diet of " Manelaughteragainst Jew Gee, the engine'-driver." Th.: foreman added, "and likewise the jury consider that the company have shown great carelessness in the manage ment of the crossing of the railway at Calverley-bridge." LECCOLNSIIIRF- IiEPRESENTATIO:I OP LINCOLN CITT.—Our local cor respondent says there is no truth in the statement which has gone the round of the papers that Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton has intimated Ns intention of again presenting himself so a candidate for the city of Lincoln. The hon. ,baronet has not visited the city, nor has he had much communication with hi. former supporters, since his defent in 1841 ; and as, mince his succession to his mother's property at'Knebwarth, some influential persons among the Ilerdordahire constituency have expressed a wish to bring him forward for that county, it is beheved he will accept their invitation. The result of the next election for Lincoln will most probably be the return of Col. Sibthorp and Mr. Charles Seely. The latter is an extensive miller and corn merchant, who has obtained promises of ,upport from more than half the constituency. Mr. Collett, Colonel; Sibthorp's pre. sent colleague, will, it is said, contest th4 o :: , ti. In the COUNTY ItEPURSIINTATION no change is expected . Sir M. J. Cholmcley, the representative newly elected in the place of the Earl of Yarborough, and Mr. Christopher, will not be opposed in the Lindsey division ; and it is be lieved that Mr. C. Tumor and Sir John Trollope will " walk over " for the Parts of Kesteven and Holland. Had the late Henry Handley been alive, he would most assuredly hare been returned for the latter division. and Sir John Trollope, probably, would hay.. retired. As regards the LINCOLNSHIRE. BOROUGHS, it is understood that Mr. Brownrigg (ConeetvltiTe) will retire (xcig BOSTON. Sir Dares Duke Liberal) is safe for re-election : and a. the bickering* which formerly w eakened the Reformers to the borough arc now healed, and the oppo,ite interest has lost ground, it is very likely that Boston may send two Liberals to the next pariiement.—At Gera rifest there is no idea of changing the present m., :bees, Mr. 0. F. Welioy and the Ilea. F. Tollemache, 1.1 tring the " preteetion' rig:teflon last year, there was a t .1k of turniag one ur both out fur their " lukewarmnesa but family interests preponderate tao much to render any at 'empt of the kind likely.—For Climatic Mr. E. Memoir will ap sin he elected : he is no: her liked by the constitnene7, and is supported by the Itrociclesby (Yarborough) interc , t, to which, though without any fear of oppression fur votir ; op posite, the Grimsby p.op!e are greatly attached. Th, rase so &ff. rent at STAN faun, where the opponents of the Mar quis of Bxt ter's uorni :CO3 are sure to meet with 1, oi custom, or notieca to quit :" at least this was the ease Ater Mr. Tennyson's election in 1331. According to the Atm ford dkivory neither of the present members w i:l again -Rae thrum:hoe : Sir CI( o. Clerk give ',Macre to his paten by seplawting the repeal of the corn law's, and the Marqu's of Clranhy is spoken of for E ect ',citrate:shire. Lard (lon of the Marquis of 1h et. wha attains-A hi. rasp , rity last year, end Lord John Meant rs, art spoken of as like y to he the new nominees. W ILTSIIIRK Tue It ErARSZNTATtoN or SALI ,, IitTAT.—r? to 10 cir:sek on Saturday both candid-t.at a; pared to be snaking r. 'Ty prep ration fir a spirited contest, when Mr. W. J. Chs:itis issued an addre., to the el. eters, stating that the rest, of his canvass sr. .s most aati.:actory, and that he should be placed at the top of the poll by an unprecedented toojoety, Shortly afterward; Mr. F. I'_ Martin announee ! his retire ment frdm the contr.:. "It was generally hoped," says a eurrcepowlent, " that Mr. IsLisain would address the eon sti. tuencv, that ho might have as opportunity of esplain:ag who tie parties were whom he says introduced hira to the constituent." of Salsbury and then deserted him ! It is t,:ti ne:..aly believed that had Mr. Martin demanded a roil, that Mr. Chaplin uould have recorded upwards of 459 trots% which number is con.iderably nu re than two-tin:J. of the whole coastitaera y ! lite frict:ds of Mr. Chaplin prom great thi...gs for tho trade of Salisbury, and Ili,: poor nre taught to b.lieve that they will not he forgotten. The et, non takes place to-day (Monday). It is currenCy v-epert that the otter member, Mr. J. U. C. Wvodham, sill nerve. diately reign, and th at some other gentleman, who is con • net d with railways, will be brought forward in oppositi td Mr. C. B. Will, - V;TH)LK._ Eiumeromer or Lux .rice.--The ninth annual repe of the Suffolk Lunatic Asylum, just published, ”1.8—" N hate been able this year, faun the retention of the lands, an I the addition of the fano and buildings, to carry nut the et - ployment of the patients to a much greater exte.it than w t hale ever done heron% We bare found is thvo a source nutiriug occupation to several who'were almost unemplsiyeas. The cows which were purchased in May last ::re vcry ear. - fully tended by three patients, whose only ambition steins t . be, to prove th.st their healthy condition and cleanly appeal - ance is their exclusive work. The cowherd, whose ir..erest • seem t I be chiefly identilied with them, was formerly one of: our most dangerous nun. Re used to walk ab..nt gal leries in a sullen manner, with discomfort to himself, and haranl, from quarrelling, to those about hie.. Ile is now °fey in the morning, end late in the es ening. with thaw objects of his solicitude, and though 8611 an ineurthle patient, is most decidedly a happy man. The employment of the year with the patients generally, was commenced by painting; they finished very !steely all • the bestea 's in the new building, and as the weather was open and fine, they were constantly engaged bath in inside and outside wink the month of March, when they began spade husbandry. Thee.• is now about am acres of affable or more properly spade I,nd ; the rest is pasturage, of shout eighteen acres, whicii they alsocultieate in all its uteessary requirements. The 4usintity of land dug and cropped at this season, was sitarist four acres, which joined to the heavy work of levelling and planting the pit in the front of the house, fully occupied their time till the hay season, when they eat down about eighteen acres of gram, and stvekc A ten ton. of hay. It was a eight of no ordinary or common inte rest, to see thirty : six insane men at work with the must orderly regularity in the hay field. In this labour there was profit, and our farming accounts not only present a re spect Ode balance sheet, but thou that we arc in possession of (what is of no small moment in these thcer:sing day.) the energies and exertions of practical men," E.:4SEN. Tue CLAVERING POIAONINU:4.—The farmer, T. New port, was again examined before the magistrates on Friday. when be made a %cry lenethencal defence. Ile admitted having told the mother of Lydia Taylor that she must get rid of the child, but be firmly denied being implicated in the poisonings mentioned by the woman C11t411171. Sho had only trumped them up ag..inst him with a view of extorting moues.. Lord Braybrooke cbecrsed, that during the many years).* Lail had the home* to act as magistrate in that dis trict, lie hal not bad No p a pie brought under his notice ra , the one now beture them. He felt that ho would not be doing his duty to the Fuld* did I e not commit the prisoner for trial at the ensuing mime. The sees itel, ss his ace used much *fretted he the drei , ion of the bench, applicil to be liberate( on bail. The magistrates refused to comply with the application. It was stated that Lydia Tas had born discharged from liir situation, owing to her having appeared as witness against Newport. Cowell, another important Mines', had hem treated in a similar manner by &brother of the prisoner. Graveseteneter Itoavine AT COLCHESTI:II.—On Thursday, N. Wetherell, En., barrister, and C. Fowler, Esq., archi teet, attended at the town-hall on behalf of the colurni,sion ere of Woods aid Forests, to open an inquiry into tee pro posed Imrroyement Bill, under the net pawed in the last cession `• for making preliminary inquiries in certain cases of applications for local arts." Evidence was heard as to the preeent drainage of the town and the streets in which it was still required ; with medical testimony as to the prevah nee of fever, in the last mentioned parts, arising from the defi ciency of sew: rage. Another principal Rohm in the pro ceedings c, as the examination of Mr. Broil' at to the capacity nf the bridge by which the new nut would 'maunder the Stour Vallee Railway embankment for carrying off floods. After considerable discussion, in which Mr. Marriage took an active part, an understanding was come to for the introduc tion of a clause into the Commissioners' Act for a bridge of sufficient capacity for the requirements of the eve, in the alternative of the commissionen being empowered to con struct in ease the company (bylined to do so. KIT. ........ THE LONG-NEGLECTEI. OVSTIR-OROI'NDS and beds, i.itnated at Quteuborough, on the Swale, are et length to be restocked with oysters and brood, u Nears. Fletcher and Co., of Gmattsenil, have hired them for a rerio4 of 2t years. Queenborough was formerly a very flourishing cor porate town, and returned two members to parliament, until it was disfranchised by the Reform Act. since which time the "grounds" have been gradually ne?lected, and in fact for some years past have not been stacked. Tits greater part of the inhabitants of the pint? being dependent on oyster fish ing, they have, in consequence of the loaf of employment, sunk into a state of extreme poverty and misery. "It is, therefore, with much pleasure," says a cmrarpondent, " have to announce the above, as it is confidently hoped the hiring of the grounds by a practical Erin will go very far to alleviate the distress of the resident fishermen. The Queenborough grout , es arc famous for fattening oysters laid in them, and the native oysters are justly renowned for their delicate flavour. " The whole Isle of Sheppy," continual our informant, " wish the above gentlemen may succeed in their new speculation. A public meeting and dinner will be held next week, to celebrate the letting of the grounds." lints. THE DESTITUTE HIGILLANDERS.—Mr. Wilson has announced en entertainment, to be given to-morrow even ing in the Princem's Concert-room, consisting of " Songs of the Highlands," the proceeds of which will he given to the fund for the relief of the destitute people of the Highlands of Scotland. We hope that the attraction, always prevented by the intrinsic excellence of Mr. Wilson's entertainments, will be increased by the benevolent object for which this performance is given. TuE ANCIENT CONCERTS will take place this season on Wednesday, March 10 and 24 ; April 21 ; May 5 and 19; June 2,16, and 30. It will thus be seen that these concerts are to be once a fortnight during the whole season. in place of once a week, as formerly, and that they will, conse quently. extend to a later pzriod of the season—an arrange ment, we think, greatly for the better. AND CLERICAL NEWS. CANIIIITI744 this morning, the Mowing gentlemen were admitted to the decree of Bachelor of Arts •- Of St. Peter's s E. L. Holm., J. 11. Chowne, W. W. Her . rinhain T. M. Hopkins, T. N. Luen, J. Lunacy, A. Male, J. Parnell, J. C. PoOle, J. R. Turner. Ot Owe —J. R. Hoene, H. A. Leicester, J. B. M , J. Wiliam-0f Pembroke : G. Raton, W. C. Bernie, W. J. Edward", T. Holmes, T. IL Marsh, J. B. Phew% Of Ganile and Onus :—S. W. Andrews. A. R. Ashwell, J. IL Boardman, J. P. Clayton, J. J. Cumming 11. I. Cummins, A. O. Day, P. C. Oates, J. W. Ocodwin, W. 11. lecle, W. D. Loma, E. Maitland, W. A. Roger., C. T. Smith, It. Y,. Tamer, It. Weir, W. Watteau —Of Trinity: J. G. Harding. J. Jervis, R. Wood/maw.— Of Corpus Christi: C. t.nrir. Wilson, J. Lanka W. Emery, J. A. Fdt, J. Ilewenon, C. king, J. G. k ' W. was:, C. R. limning. E. Mercer. F. Metcalfe, T. T. Pennine, 0. Ptdccel, It. X. Ilackham, T. Smith. F. Spnk, O. N. Welg4 Thi lt; i: P. Welch, W. Willimott.-01 Queen's: J. O. Clarkson. G. C. I G. Poole, P. R. Smith, R. Wat.on, W. WI:mall, A. W. Wilmek.—Of St. Catherlse's • C. Ilauguadey AL H. Beaumont, W. (lire, W. J. Den man, 3. B. Dykes, W. J. Jay, T. It. Llider, H. Muland, J. Miner, W. Ogle, J. Parton. T. Shoop, It. Skater. J. Spurrell, W. Turista!, W. Wray. —Of Jesus': A. 0. Cotton, W. Du Helium., A. Hutchins , W. M. hinge milk It. B. Matthews, A. P. Inoderson.—Of Quiet's R. Rick, H. T. Baines, U. Cooksmehy, B. (Bennie, J. H. Gray, J. S. Green, W. M. Bunion, J. Hamilton, J. Jackson, A. H. Jenkins, W. Jnnopp, W. F. Martyr, S. Korean, C. Peach, P. Pennington, E. G. Penny, J. 0. Piet" C. E. Plater.— Of St. John's : W. P. Andenon, T. Aston, E. P. Brett, J. R. thanes worth, 8. Charlton, S. Clark, N. T. Clarke, IL H. Cole, C. IL lOin. pan, C. Darin, Y. De Jeffrey, F. bohiramt, W. N. Dough., M. Yearnier, O. P. If. Yonne, J. S. Gibwm, C. D. °girlie, E. 0. Carton, F. F. Cfnigh, R. Gunnery, T. Harrison, H. S. Hawkins, E. Ileadlani, J. T. linbert, E. J. Hill, M. H. Hobe, P. Jacas, E. U. Lloyd, W. 1.11- teurr, J. Macintosh, A. ILant7, W. T. Maudaon, J. 11. Milian), 4. V. Murdock, W. 1. Newham, .0. Nornhank J. Newton, W. Nockella, O. P. Ottey, J. W. Pieter., E. Pent, T. Ratliff, W. J. Read, C. Rip.. pingall, H. Sandford, C. Scott, C. Stone, J. Sutcliffe, G. J. Taylor, G. I/. Thomson, 0. 1.. Toren, S. Truman, F. W. Triter, J. A. Warburton, E. D. Want G. Wlt3oll, J. 8. J. Watson, E. Which:on. W. P. Wilma, J. W. Young. —Of Magdalene: B. H. Bicknell, F. T. Fleming, C. Gooch, J. It Peam., J. Roberts.-0f Trinitr 0. h. Atereromby, H. Alder, 11. Back, R. Watford, S. Beal, E. 11. Rickenteth, IL D. Blanchard, J. Blonnfielil, R. Boyer, U.S. lima, T. Brookstank, W. J. Pull, A. B. Burton, G. Callbrop, J. J. Cann, T. 4.Carter, E. Clay, J. Clifford, It. Crewe J. /3. Davidson, T. DeJltrey, W. J. Eden, C. Emns, E. R. Garth, V Fitton , A. Gar, G. . Garland, V. W. Golifelp, T. Graham, J. W. Hayward, E. Healy, 0. J. /till, E. Hillier, H. T. Thur.ton, J. 0. 11411 way, O. L W. Horton, J. Itowe, C. M. Ingleby, IL M. Ingram, 8. King, E. Lawson, C. IL Leacrott, J. C. Loch, T. Lomas, H. It. Luard, J.linc Gregor I'. A.Msjor, IL Mandate, J. Y. idarillier, P. V. Mather, P.. Maine, C. J. Monk, W. Pakenham, G. Palmer, C. M. Remus, V. J. Reynolds, R. Ryan L. Sedgwiek, T. Shen*, T. R. Selebottorn, J. flinr,wan, fan., J. ItZmpson, kin., J. "owerby, T. 11. The, C. W. Town. ley A. A. Van Sittart, G. C.% eroon, R. Walker, It. Whittingem, W. K. Wir.tra, C. Vi ilkinaq K. P. Wolstenholmr, J. Wood C. Peaks. —Of Lamennel : IL P. Cooke, W. Gumcr, J. S. Hildebrand, P. A. Lonruore, B. raittcoxy B, igkerlxic, R, O. Nnytbies,