The Express. — London, England, 1847-04-02 00:00:00

..... ge parties of the public press has advocated the canes of inw he a rality more disinterestedly or more successfully than g nie _that, in ease another dogged agitation of the na a have . . ... i • -- e deacripaon •should occur in future,fwhat has appeared in 'Year columns may be referred to again with advantage. Thin has been a great dealt** much cant for a long period about " the voluntary principle," and on arrogant auump lien of ill merit wh ich ma y attach to it, as belonging exclu unity to the &reenters; as if all the exertions of the church ' the eduoitien of the poor had been " made grudgingly is of necessity," or that all its cost had been defrayed by the s tate. It is time that the truth should be asserted, and the public undeceived, for although the Church of England has not been forward is sounding the trumpet of ne itapplause, it must not be forgotten that every national school to which government aid has been given, was first founded by means of funds voluntarily contributed pa this and former ages by the members of her communion, se thst in truth this voluntary princ iple, , so daparagiogly set ap , ca ning a reproach upon the Church of England, and mu ch talked about by Mr. Baines and his admire rs, is, ryear all, no new principle, but has been for ages, as it now is, consistently acted upon by that very church. An lin awry instance there has n a voluntarily-formed fuud as a i ngem, before Resistance has been solicited for any school elanseted with it. If dimenters have not $3 often obtained mi nutiae, or if they affect to decline it, it is not baton it militates against a fixed principle (for in numerous betimes they have already accepted it), but because they Woe not had true charity eaough (spleen may perhaps now port • bastard benevolence) even to lay the nest egg for onamencing the liberal education of the poor. Mr. Baines bly may know something of the circumstances of Leeds although even there he does not appear to have been c.nsi infillible), and may probably have persuaded himself that his own dicta ought to be received as unerringly vim ' and sagacious in reference to large towns and opulent districts. That point I will leave him to Amass with Dr. Hook and others, more competent judges u m myself; but I will venture to till him, without ths least apprehen sion of well founded contradiction, that if he expects his principle to affect country wishes be neficially, he is most profoundly ignorant, and it we are to wait until the poor are educated in those localities on the "boom principle,without government aid, no one now living same it scomnpliahed. .1 a icores of country parisbes,Part len tally where agriculture is the sole employment of the people, then is but one school, and this (especially where there is co o resident landed proprietor, which is very frequently the sus), n and has been in numerous instances, for generations. tzty, and sometimes solely, supported by the voluntary and allowances made by the sucausive clergy. With m j i waited means as were at their disposal, it would have b en impossible that education should Lave been as perfect es was deniable. Is it, then, to be wondered at that the *IV and others really wishing for the educational advance- Mai oldie poor, should hail with joy and gratitude any Sae which may second their endeavours and improve their micas? Is there not much more cause for surprise that it should be opposed by those who have been ostentatiously theorising about the improvement of the condition of the peer, bat who, now that there is a chance of its practical accomplishment, with malicious industry invent the most mtillmal scruples to thwart this most just, most benevolent, and most unobjectionable proposal of the goverem oit—a proposal which will have greater effect in drawing to it the sympathy of all well-thinking men of all parties, than any ntesenre which has been proposed by any government for a very long period ? In many country parishes, the imperfect edocatioa, principally afforded through the instrumentality of the clergy, has always been received thankfully, even by dissenters ; but no sooner does government offer assistance to improve what is defective, and to render them more effec tive, than up spring unthought-of and before unheard of temples, not of native growth, but sedulously instillcd'iato the minds of the simple and unsuspecting, who, being triable be read, or not having !enure for it, and so to judge for themselves, become easily led dupes, as they are worked upon by the exaggerations and unfounded insinua- SOW of envious, discontented, and designing demagogues, who teach them most erroneously to believe that they are exerting themselves in "the cause of religious liberty," when, in reality, they are upholding a tyranny ever the minds of the ignorant as oppressive, as injurious in its effects, as intolerably subtle and jesuitical, se withering to true Christian knowledge, and consequent liberty as has ever been exercised by the priesthood of Rome, r different from the mild charity (I do not call it tolerance)) of the Church of England as light is from darkness, and whose motto !ought to be " In ignorance lies our power." If Mr. Baines wishes to know the real state of the case, he should apply to the " dissenting schoolmaster" who has written so sensibly and practically in the Daily News on this subject. His own views, if adopted in reference to the country, would cause the greater part of England to remain in a stagnant state of ignorance and darknes., whilst the rest of the world is advancing in knowledge and civilisation; and perhaps there is no stronger cause for anxiety that the whole country should be so educated so to be able to judge for themselves, than that they may not become a prey to the narrow-minded (perhaps self-deceiving) sophistries of this liolon of Leeds, to which place I trust he will hereafter confine his lucubrations. . ... . _ 111. se jectet in auls," but ever remembering the schoolmaster's charge, "Ne sutor ultra erepidam." I am, Sir. your humble servant, V. EXTRACTS FROM CORRESPONDENCE OF BOARD OF WORKS, ILLUSTRATIVE OF TILE STATE OF IRELAND. Mr. Parker writes, Feb. 6, from Armagh :—" Capt. Olsacoot proposes giving spinning -wheels to the females. In some localities that I have visited, there is no resident land lord, and not even an agent ; and were it not for the admir- able exertions of the clergy , Protestant and Catholic, the peer would be left to starve. " Capt. Broughton writes:—" The roads I visited are all of the greatest importance to the country as reproductive work', and will advance the civilisation of those parts at least thirty years ; by which, I mean, that under ordinary cii eumstanees, being a district in which no grand jsror resides, these works would never have been executed, whilst by opening some 1,000 acres of flue mountain land, the future means of sub sistence, to a large extent, will be Increased. Kr. Denyer to Captaia Larcom.—" Ballyquirk Castle, Burrischane, Feb. s.—The parish priest here, at our last re .llef committee, Lorha end Darks, represented to me that the pressure on the works was gone too far, and that the sooner we could stop cash payments the better. There were over 100 persons pressing to have their names put down. He told of one, a widow's son, who was employed to enable him to support his mother ancefamily, who bought a gun instead of taking home his earnings, which gun was taken from him again. The lads, who never touched a shilling in their lives, are now, since the potatoes' departure, wild, past the control of their clergy, gambling, dissipating, or buying arms or ammunition. Such was the parish priest's report to me. We talked over a plan, a sketch of which is enclosed, which, though not perfect, for still they might gamble for the tickets, or the shopkeepers might buy up the tickets at half value for cash, yet still these are comparatively small evils to the present, and with the present scarcity, would not be so likely to be abused. Fray give it your consideration end bring it to notice if it appears likely to prove generally useful." From journal of Lieut. Milward : "The parishes of Killen, Clonleigh, Touebboyne, and others in the north of this baiony, are the best in the county. They are principally on the Marquis of Abcreorn's estate, and there is very little destitution among them. I find generally that the people on the Marquis of Conyngham'a estate are the poorest. This property is much neglected ; it comprises an immense tract of land, principally waste, but a large proportion of it could be easily ree:aimed ; however, not a shilling has been spent on it. The other great estates in my district are Lady Anne Merely's, which is under Chancery, and so situated that sothing can be done with it; Lord Alaercorn's, which is very rich ; and Colonel Cenelly's which comprise^ a large tract of waste land, and some very good. Colonel Conelly is very averse to drainage under the board, and as the baronies of Banagh, Boylogh, and Turugh belong principally to him, Led, Anne Murray, and the Marquis of Conyngham, it is not likely that any drainage will be adopted in those ha- From Capt. Hancock, Fermanagh : " The markets are Mill very high in this county, but I fear that any increase of wages would not be advisable, as it would tell against the farmer, who is nearly as badly off as the labourer. The rate of wages at present is 10d., and the farmers do not seem in clined to take any of the men off the works, even at that rate ; indeed they are doing little to their land at this time. The drainage in this county seems to be given up till the laadlorils see what will be done by parliament." From journal of Major Clarke, county Galway, Feb. 20.—" No further appearance of the usual preparatory fuming operations of the season ; I do not see a plough, or an individual employed in top deeming. I think that the possessors of mall holdings of land look forward with plea eure to expected assistance, with food and seed corn, in pri vate tillage, but the mere labourers and squatters would prefer public employment. In my exertions to further the extension of soup establishments in my district, I have had to struggle against the passive obstacles of non-resident land lords, and the very active although private oppceitiou of corn and meal dealers, who frequently succeed in frustrating our exertions, notwithstanding the liberal contribarions of go vernment. I have not seen a single soup establishment suc ceed, union the precaution recommended by me was adopted, namely, of allowing the people, as far as practicable, fre quently to see the soup in process of cookery, to prevent thew credulity being imposed on by the monstrous reports put in circulation, as to the ingredients and materials, by interested persons." From report of Capt. Bull, county Leitrim, Feb. 20 : " I bee to state that I have used every exertion to induce the com mittees to strike persons off the lists who have means of sup porting themselves, or who ought to be employed in the fields, but I have failed ; and the only ones who have been struck off are three I have ascertained to eb improper per sons to receive relief. On the other hand, the demand for employment increases daily. At one committee application was made for upwards *1 600 people to be received on the Puts ; and on my representing the total impracticability of such being done, I was told by one of the committee, " that he should send the starving and dead bodice in carts to my house." From Sept. Hutchinson, Feb. 13: " Them is a feeling of apathy among the forming clam prevailing to a great extent : the occupiers of small holdings are unable to till their land, they cannot feed or pay the labourers ; and in the whole of Connemara, with little exception, the dismal prospect of an entire country lying waste and unproductive is too &p -een n.." The account from Mays, end of February is, that " Small fanners will not cultivate, expecting government to furnish From Longford, end of Feb. ;—" The spring work is com mencing with some degree of activity among the better (dames of farmers, but the smaller are too entirely dependant na the public works for their own and families' support to be able to devote any portion of their labour to their own ground." From journal of Mr. Cabmen, county Wexford, Feb. 6:—" But from all that I can learn the e are very badly off. Farmers holding 30 acres of lan , Irish, being obliged to seek employment on the public works, and, consequently, suspend all operations on their own farms. Farmers holding from 50 to 70 Irish acres, generally speak. ing, are tolerably well off, yet not empioying the number of hands employed for the proper or profitable management of their farms. Men holding two to five acres, Irish, are in almost utter destitution ; dime who hold no land at all, and who ere able to obtain employment, are best off." From journal of Captain Norris, county Tipperary, Feb. 6.—" I regret to say it is very difficult to keep im proper persons off the works, in consequence of some of the committees not performing their duty. The leading members of many of the committees are priests, who have no landed property, and consequently no interest in keeping dorm taxation, but, on the contrary, have an interest in enabling their flocks to pay their tribute. Some of the resi. dent geutry, from disgust at the proceedings, rarely attend the committees, and others who do are afraid to perform their duty ; for if they object to improper persons being put on the lists, the small farmers, who are also often members of the committees, and only one degree removed from those employed on the public works, soon legit be known out of doors who are the members of the committees who prevent their friends being returned. The police are tee only per from whom I can get correct information; and I am satisfied that, if every . list returned by a relief com mittee was given to the serpent of the police at the nearest station to the work Mr whim the men were returned, and the veracity of the return inquired into by him before the men were put on the work, that halt the abuses inflicted on the country by committees would be avoided." Mr. Lowe to Col. Jones.—Jan. B.—" It may seem irre levant in my expressing an opinion op political economy, still I cannot avoid saying that emigration offers one of the beat modes of enabling us to get through " the eziW," and it has one material point to recommend it, namely, that it coincides, as I have reason to be li eve, with the wishes of the people themselves. I have no doubt that it will he carried out to some extent by one class of the community without the aid of legislative interference. I mean by those farmers who have made the present calamity a pretext for not paying either their rents or other claims upon them, and having sold their stock and corn, are preparing with the proceeds thereof to remove themselves out of the country. We have, how ever, the " labouring poor" to provide for, who have net the mesas to purchase even a change of raiment, much less par passage money and procure provisions km a voyage; the expense of their transit must therefore be defrayed out of some public fund. The plan I would adopt for their conveyance would be to make our vessels used as transports for troops available for the purpose of carrying them to whatever colony they are disposed to go to, and the sum that would be paid for passage-money to a merchant vessel, say V. to 34 per head, would be a great aniliaolllll either to procure outfit here or to support thorn till they could get employment in their adopted country. As, bow- ever, the offer of a free passage ' would hold out meats to imposition by making persons who could afford te paTel ie flr their removal feign inability to do so, acertilleModaw by soma controlling body, similar to the press* vend committees, should be made the condition on which any per- eon would be taken on board, due regard being had thatonly a proportion of the population (the per centage to be fixed by law) be allowed to leave any townland." Captain Wynne to Captain Wynne, R.E.—Ennis, Jan. 9. I received a very kind and encouraging letter from Larcom to-day, which is some consolation under the fright ful pressure upon me this moment from the unprincipled conduct of the committees e they are sending in upon me lists containing thousand@ of names, which it is quite impos sible to employ, even if they required employment. I have come toe stand-Will ; shut shop. They refuse no applicant, and throw the entire odium of refusal on me. You may imagine what the consequence is the last two days ; I am hunted by thousands seeming me of refusing them relief, and intending to starve them. I am puzzled how to meet this move of the committees. I am afraid they will checkmate me : however, I shall persevere to the end, only taking a little additional care and pre caution, which will be now indispensable, as I feu my popularity, even amongst the very poor class, is at an end for a while. From my knowledge of the people, and from various inquiries I have made amongst them, I am clearly of opinion that the plan of paying which I send you, would knock a third of the people off the public works, vie, to pay in food instead of cash. The committees, who at pre sent receive a portion of the cash payment in the shape of rent, dues, &c., would no longer have this inducement to be dishonest, and few men would work fur food who had it of their own; many would be ashamed to work for meal, who would not scruple to grasp at cash under any . circumstances ; the circulation of food would insure no against starvation ; whilst the circulation of money is a strong temptation to dis honesty. I have no doubt of this plan haying the effect of sending thousands to till their farms, and thereby saving the country." Capt. Wynne to Mr. Walker.—" Ennis, Jan. 17.—1 have just returned from my week's excursion, a most eventful one, indeed. The amount of destitution is very alarming, snialthough the present amount of employment, if fairly and honestly distributed, is fully sufficient to meet it, still, in some localities, it is not met, in consequence of the commit tees filling up the lists (to the number they conceive them selves entitled to) with those persons in whose welfare they have most interest, and leaving to limiest and supplementary lists those whorled/km are strongest upon the inspectingofficer, and will afford them the strongest grounds of complaint should additional employment be refused. My committees are in tole rably good ordereeith the exception of two,which ought not to exist, being slices from the legally constructed ones, at Mil. town Malvay, and Kilrwih. The former hex been sanctioned by the lieutenant of the county, without any notification to me ; and in neither case have pains been taken to acquaint me with their separate existence ; they have been formed only a short time. I shall just mention a very shameful ease thateame under my observation at the Kilian committee, the latter of those alluded to above. On leaving the cora -1 raittee room, a man half starved, and considerably more than half naked, bare head, bare legs and arms, nothing to cover him but the skeletons of an old pair of breeches and waist wet, which upon inquiry appeared to bo all he was poseenied of, seised me by my coat with the grasp of death, and m inded upon being beard, when I found an interpre tation of his tale was simply this None of the' committee had any interest in his life, and be was therefore left to die. I brought him into the committee and exhibited him before them. lt was a picture well calculated, as I thought, to bring the colour to their cheeks ; but I can- not compliment myself on my success. It is hard to deal with such heartless met. Under such circumstances the Re lief Works must fail to keep the people from starvation. I met with many similar cases, and immediately redressed them ; but I cannot discover lin 60. I stated my intention dulling upon the lieutenant of the county to abolish these ennemittees, if within one week these abuses were not cor meted. There are, at present, employed in my district one in four of the pop ulation, according to the census of 1841 ; Clewing one-fifth increase since than, it leaves, at present, one in five, which, at the present average al wages and price of ed, would give nineteen-twentieths eif • pound of Indian corn per day to each mouth. It Is difficult to conjecture' what the result of a in the works just new may entail is the way of additional cost ; yet on yesterday there was no alternative but to stop the works, or submit to be mastered by the mis guided creatures we are all endeavouring to benefit. Distress prevails to a fearful extent in and around this district, yet such is the infatuation of the labourers, that for the last four or five payments, I had repeatedly to pant away from the works women who come round on such days to sell whiskey to themen, and it is (in spite of my instructions to have those whiskey vendors removed) sold to numbers on such days. Now, this would be considered evidence of anything but distress; I can only term it infatuation, for want, to the greatest imaginable extent, is nevertheless every where per oeptible: IRELAND, DUBLIN, Nsaos 31. The Mayo Constitution, a landlord journal, as it is termed, states that " some of the farmers cannot pur chase seed. Why don't the landlords do it ?" The same journal acknowledges that 20 per cent, of the labourers on the works in that county might, with perfect safety, and with all consideration for the destitute, be reduced, if the relief committees would exercise a proper discrimination. In the absence of that scrutiny, the inspectors of works have been obliged to act as they best can. The people of Kilkenny have adopted a very marked method of manifesting their horror at the murder of Mr. Prim, the pay-clerk. Some peasantry called at the police-barrack, where the wounded mur derer expired, and representing they were his friends and relatives, his remains were delivered to them. These they forthwith conveyed away—dug a pit, and casting them therein, threw in quick-lime, and covered them with earth. Those who know the habits of our peasantry—the extreme regard they show for the remains of their friends, and their anxiety that their bodies shall always be deposited at least in consecrated ground, will understand the deep exasperation which could prompt them to violate the usages and ceremonies which invariably in Ireland attend the burial of the dead. In the west of Cork fever is rapidly extending, and so inccaveniently small is the hospital accommodation, that recently "some families " afflicted with the ma laria have taken refuge under the arches of a bridge called the "Priest's Bridge," near Ballintrassy, where they are attended by the physicians and main tained by some ctable persons in the vicinity. Capt. Badgeon, th ec a ccessor of Major Parker, In specting Officer, who recently died of fever at Skib bereen, has resigned his office, to quit the district. Mr. Alcock, J. P., an active member of the relief com mittees, has fallen a victim to fever ; and the suc cessor to the Postmaster at Skibbereen, who recently died of that disease, now lies ill. Emigration is augmenting with the advance of the season. In Cork the emigrants arc generally " respect able farmers," and from other districts it is the same class which takes departure. Seven emigrant ves sels are ready to start from Cork ; and from the wart of Mayo," every vehicle" which approaches the ports is daily crowded with emigrants. The Earl of Shannon, a landlord resident in Cork, THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 2, 1847. has shipped off his hawing stud and hounds for male at Tattersall's. ATTSMPT TO ASSASSINATR D. O'GRADY, Min.—Yes terday (Monday), in the noon-day, a reckless attempt was made on the life of Darby O'Grady, Esq., in the town of Rathkeale. Just as he had alighted from the coach and catered the hall of Mr. William Mulcahy, a stout, athletic man, haring entered immediately after him, deliberately pulled out a pistol from under his coat, and having placed it quite close to the side of Mr. O'Grady, pulled the trigger, which fortunately missed fire. The would•be assassin then coolly said," I mimed you, Darby, but I'll not miss you the nett time," and deliberately walked off, handing the pistol te • man outside the door. Strange to say, though there were three bailiffs in the hall with Mr. O'Grady at the time, they made no attempt to arrest the fellow. The police shortly after went in pursuit, hut their search was fruitless. It would appear, from a paragraph in another column of the journal which publishes the foregoing deliberate attempt to murder, that the intended victim is a highly popular gentleman, for we are told : " Derby O'Grady, Esq., beiug about to retire from the office of chairman of the Newpallas Relief Committee, the population of the district asaembled no Sunday and presented him with an addreas."—Limerick Reporter._ , . _ 181811 PROVIDENCIL—WO (Dumfries Jerald) have seen it stated, in • published letter of the beat authority, that during all the bygr.ne winter there have been incessant small remittances from Irish emigrant, in America t• their dis tressed relative, at home. We know, too, as a fact of the same kind, that by far the greatest number of money-letter going from the labourers on the Caledonian railway, in our county, have gone from the Irish to their poor relatives. From the Eugln,h labouren comparatively few have gone. SCOTLAND. EDINBURGH, 31Laex 31. At last the organs in the press of the principal sec tions into which the public opinion of Scotland is divided have fully entered on the discussion of the government scheme of education. The Scotsman, which, in matters of ecclesiastical discipline, advo cates the voluntary principle, but is entirely free from sectarian bias, and which, holding the tenets of philo sophical radicalism, is uniformly lenient to the Whigs, expresses a fear that the plan will create too much government patronage, and a regret that the scheme has not been brought forward as a legislative measure in parliament. The Scotsman guards itself again it the supposition of being opposed to State education, and hints at the adoption of the American plan. The Scottish Guardian, a Free Church paper, is decidedly hostile to the scheme. The Witness, generally consi dered the Free Churehorgan, appears afraid to declare either for or against it. Tait's Magazine, though the organ of no party, represented under the old manage ment a numerous though unorganised section of public opinion; its actual position under the new proprietorship is not so easily ascertained. It admits that the scheme is " not only extensive, but in many respects admi rable; but objects to its tendency to undue centra lisation, and to its not having been brought before parliament. Lowe's Magazine condemns the scheme. This magazine is edited by Dr. Candlish, but, as might have been inferred from the Witness's hang ing in the wind, other leading clergymen of the Free Church are in its favour. The organs of the volun tary Dissenters are loud against it. The meet re markable feature of the discussion hitherto is the im perfect acquaintance with the details of the govern ment measure betrayed by all the writers. One and all of them appear to defer to the prepoesemions of the class of readers they rely upon for support, without having taken the pains to examine for themselves. The guarded and respectful opposition of Tait and the Scstsman shows, beyond a doubt, that a prejudice against the measure is widely diffused among even the most intelligent of the middle classes. Still, "for a that has come and gane," if ministers will court publicity, and throw themselves upon public opinion, they can carry their scheme, though it is not to be denied that the effort will task all their courage and energy. ANTI-ENTAIL MEETING IN GLASOOW.—This meeting wu convened for the purpose of following up the blow struck at the meeting recently held for the same purpose at Edin hurAls. It was addressed by Sir Hew Crawford (as eateiled proprietor), Sir David Baird, Sir W. M. ?dopier, Robert Lockhart, Req., of Castle-hill, and other landed proprietors, and by same of the leading and influen tial merchant; of Glasgow. The meeting was thinly attended; a circumstance accounted for by the Lord Provost, who was called to the chair, from the necessary absence on tonshiam of Mr. Oswald, M.P., and a number of landed gentlemen who were friendly to the object of the meeting. A fact staled by Sir Hew Crewfurd illustrates in a striking manner the bone ful operation of the existing entail law of Scotland There is at present funning on my property, and the p ink John Maxwell,' a Gravitation Water Company, to supply the day of Corbels sad places Mimed with pure and wholesome nem lo this ernes law neat& en or severe met ittagmat. Yet It me the meat Mimi Wit Inatiable Ow the mope, sapsilho awn to any Inn of ea eninni operelion. The dissisen al = b eerit fettered by the tame& of entall. and I =yeti by a threat of ciellary-oe mad so, that we IMO WWI atWre throw mush= ewer the Land Cleave Ant, and spent way Va, and mad le de& Way, to awed a yore sell eskaph•yen* may to peg sip weep pomat et their lconbia new haw they dare le taro a se& The ran sonewerd bee Ink as sa Lemon inmemmal Indy; the peetedgar dere aot tau& gm sinew of It - no, rod so mush as Enna Um lalseast-until he palm the Court or Sulks he ebony *do se, mid Mametely the petalpin sow Such out to rowsrehon Yak obi& Yid ant seals be ye-entailed. laws an the nets of &end bad system, and totally incompatible with the age we lee L. Sir David SOW pawed in a clear light the condition in which the Ischlineheir to an entailed estate often finds him self under the flag& entail law, as modified by the Hoot gummy sad Aberdeen Aar: It *I to readily esmtled Yi whams mum er had= Surnets te en en Waist asteatimpot by the orh&ed andel rd, hes line to the sant d a& sin= ea inertness' with the wend Sotto of a& sweeense In ewskeni-er, m other verb, hne hem * tag 'nen a ewienelos of the omen el thole reepostne eseestraiin No& no wseena =a= r i =oel to learn thee It ens ellehedioll Mine the enimillse ef &a Mem or Ounmen ask wider tbe ten whlsh I ham mud imed. Wier ney be tappeed son • able" emotes to an seasetmiang the aesamu'ated penes& et aws.tlids of their rani la more Mlle be leld tut hut the stimuli veso purposely kept within the mos Now, ft ululated tan simeeeds at the age d Wand th at is his slain of peania 27 year; lain inn as Ine malt- -that at the see itch eel sake apies et V roe% then seay bare been any / &Oft wadi be see Inn Int the ease fide "Moment of a yaw& sin& ta enapeohinfte, he one by the - • , d of his liggine In here entssidat It tree and uneasiness& Nose, I beg *lts ask of you, mews. whether, after thee shin& interfce fgati-ease this leisehrel nohetion of the swabs pelmet* on which then ame ef ow =MOM were constructed, nom sea properly obi r m,gmesm agpWsieb delicacy ae to farther *Won. Sir David made a direst application of this state of affairs to the distress actually existing in the Western Highlands and Wanda : Oily lieretoyearagen the mottion at this moment of such an we atm Ink dada pemeeloo, whose lot happens to have woo oe, M IM tioldende r din, with Me! proper feeling, pmt--with every anxiety to fulfil the duties of his hie& an absolutely maniocs for good-his deaden ing weensolad sa .a y i te plus-himself lectured na to his duties by the repeated by them to head-quarters, and FIG conct e r: - .4 priirlaty contranted wi,h that of the fee simple proprietor deopM it him. On the part of my clam, I firmly but ==protalltiparrat the coatinuance of such a state of Minns. ttellg Oal to this meeting whether I hare sot dta- Mild the tridents a precedent on which to found any amount of betide& (App ) Leakhart directed attention to other equally inimical ghats a the entail law. He mentioned: gemadof the dllhaeltbre alder which the law el ratan laid yen. = rnim arti=lar mo sirjhoZeesze th tun er Azona ,,,, Ye money hanowed er ash mann leak if hatrowed and en= off la Sanwa Wend lon *the innelnielantileddlleir lie mod "are* weir at lean /sales ant Mien moots cause they wen moirrit r Out, pad' Is as hone of the la* Tara antekey ant net nein &dr macerate at sal • wiseesig. Ile had as dun mesa nein to burgers, oedema le imbes. bet bur object nu to bon the mom at supparrint hlmseltniipseinikes keg as he velettell galgoity. one et the mos eves we, not It a gent m'. allenenne daughter to marry an baste en sanded }tale drat mint, sod biked forward to • comilarisbis graviton. yet If the her beepaill lo As Win We etas, veep a• wile meet be mat wirer r lmp Mr. Pee liewit, le would not let any el hi Inglites be In any wea slag& The medadosi pima lir sslM r pointed out the steady imam In the number of estdb i inferiority in r .ose of cultivation reserally olsonelde on satiated lands and fibs neeenity of an extensive asallitatima of the entail law te afford relief. The fourth ressislise Anima : That meet Medan In the earthen and ads et hod le hums. Seely dummied as pre ci the great mesas el Mende. To this resslidiss Sir W. M. Napier lanunted, on the ground that Waiting too much they not nothing • via file view, i would eat we peaks le hae ltil =w i ac to innent property in goer samegmse,s,,,b.g wage Ewe Mese as the law imputing egad ereentg In Imp km& . I Idl& tbe view on the subject etailint tip may et the len end in Seetheeds Soy 11111 0 CIt len they a m ta l e= " that if ma go fOrtne . , orillrtessede hum wham The retina, however, negatived, by • lugs majority, the papa& that this resolution be withdrawn. It was then re solved that petitions, founded on the reeolutioan should be presented to both houses of parliament. Tim DRAINAGE Acr.—The following application for a loan Lids thin act appears in the Edirtbeogh Gazette of the 30th of March : Lmis in Temple Y. Sin clair purl his Lynda Wanes _ _ . S s. d. 1000 0 0 CALISDONIAN CANAL.—We underatani the Caledonian Canal is now open from Inverness to Gair:oehy, and will, in a few days more, be open from sea to see.—Ross-shire Ad vertiser. WALES. IMPRISONMENT OT IRTSA PAUPERS TOR REFUSING TO woaa.—At the Newport police court. on Monday last, two Mont, able-bodied Irishmen, named Murphy and Barry, were charged by the governor of the Union Workhouse with having refused to perform certain work in gardening. The evidenco produced proved the two men to be strong and healthy, though very lazy ; that a few days since they ware ordared to do some light work in the garden, as they and their families bed been living spon the pariah about two months; but they refused, Mropll asserting that "because he was a tiler and plasterer, he esaldn't do a bit of garden• - • tag: ha would starve duet " and Barry mytag that "he would rather take his ehildrea out of the house, and die with them by the hedge." Fall proof being givea that the conduct of these men induced other able-bodied paupers to refuse to do even the moat trifling labour, the magistratem commented with severity on such ungrateful behaviour, and rent Murphy to prison for forty-two days, end Bury for thirty—each with hard labour. PROVINCIAL. TORKSHIRL THE GOVEIINNANT PLAN OW EDUCATION.—The Leeds Town Council held a special meeting on Wednesday, for the despatch of husinrn. One of the notices on the paper (given by Mr. Alderman Statuteld) was, that a petition he adopted by the council in favour of the ministerial plan for extending the means of natainal education. This question was taken into consideration at four o'clock in the after noon and after a warm discussion, which lasted until nine o'clock, the further debate was adjourned until Monday next. In connexion with this proceeding, a menacing cir cular, of which the following ta a copy, has been put into circulation _ _ - _ _ _ To vas Liatam. Manna or vex LZKIA Tows COVZICIL.—It boo been announced that the question of government education is to be brought before the member. of the town conned at their meeting to morrow, with a view to inituunce them to peititer iment in its favour. Sooh a course appears all.e irregular and indecorous, after the borough itself, In one of the most numerous and respectable meetings of the inhabitants that was ewer held, has pronounced its Judgmentunequirocally in condemnation of the measure. Should the members of the council be persuaded to adopt any muter at variance with this, they will, of necessity, set themselves in opposition to the areathody of their constituents, and they will then eon" parliament, not to repreeent the wishes or promote the inter.. of the men of Leeds, but to constant* and defeat them. There can be no miththe an to the opinion of the town, expressed as it was in the meet= eo fairly convened, and In the petitions which have been no numerously signed, the council would be doing violence to all the understood and acknowledged principles which thould govern their proceedings, were they to employ the office and Maumee with which they are invested, end to lend theoriesee to scree end aid & minority defeated at the town's meeting, and—for it could be nothing lees—thus to offend and insult the overwhelm ing majoeity, who pronounced their verdict oo that occasion. It beemes the Wseral members of the council to ponder well the posi tion in which they prod, and the ruinous consequences which moo t tallow any vote adverse to the decisions of their constii.nts and the public meeting. Conddevatleas of this kind, at all times important, are especially so in proepect of the election of new aldermen foe the bmioh, which must take place in the pr year, and when men of n.ary dice would have abstained front throwing the apple of Macon' into the couneiL —Leeds, March 30, 1647. Tot EDUCATION QUESTION AT KEIOHLET.—III Wove quenoe of a statement in the Leeds Mercury, that the whole town of Keighley were opposed to the ministerial plan fur extending the education of the people, a requisition to the rector of that parish was originated, and signed bye number of landowners, manufacturer., merchants, and traders, in viting a public meeting to ascertain the sentiments of the parishioners on the subject. The meeting took place on - Tuesday, the rector presiding, and some resolutions in favour of the government plan, at developed by the recent minutes damned, were adopted. THE OPPALTIVES or HULL have established a proprie tary mill for grinding their own corn, and a similar mill is to be established at Lincoln. LINCOL\BJIIRE. ARILANGEXENEB.-11; says the Lincolnshire Times, an early delivery of a letter from Lincoln to Sleaford is desired, the bat way to secure it is to send it to a friend in London, and request him to put it into a Post-office in London, as, by a strange facility in travelling, it can go 309 miles in a shorter time than 18 miles ! WARWICKSHIRE. THE EDUCATION QUESTION.—Our Birmingham corre spondent writes : " The government measure of national education is daily exciting more interest here. The dissenters are endeavouring to stir up an opposition to it, and during the last few days a requisition has been hawked about the town requesting the maybe to call • town's meeting for the purpose of petitioning parliament and taking such other steps, with reference to the measure, as may be deemed expedient. As this movement has originated with those who are known to be unfriendly to the government massive, little disposi tion has been shown to sign it ; and up to this (Thursday) afternoon but very few of those who have hitherto been considered the leaders of the popular party here had affixed their nanits. Meet of the dissenting ministers have signed, and, amongst the other persons who have done so, there are many who dissent from those who would oppose the measure really on sectarian grounds only. It is remarkable that all the newspapers published here have ably ad vocated the government scheme. At a meeting of the clergy of the establishment held here on Tues day evening, the Hon. and Rev. Grantham M. Yorke (brother of the Earl of Hsrdwicke) in the chair, a resolu tion was passed to the effect that the clergy whilst declining to pledge themselves to every part of the proposed measures, accepted the minutes with thank- fatness, as • greet advance in promoting the educa tion of the people. Out of the large number of clergy men who attended, there were only two dissentient voices to this resolution; and prior to the meeting separating, a committee was appointed to draw up a memorial in con formity with the resolution Since the above was written, I have ascertained that • meeting of those who have taken an active part in getting up the requisition above referred to, will be held this evenint, when the question will be die cured as to the propriety of presenting it to the mayor: there seems, however, good reason to believe that it will fall to the ground." SALE OP FICTITIOUS BANE NOTES.-011 Monday last a respectable bookseller, carrying on business in Birmingham, waited upon the magistrates, in consequence of an intimation he had received that he had (unwittingly on his part) sub. jested himself to heavy pains and penalties by the exhibition in his window for sale of fictitious bank-notes. These " pro mises to pay" have of late become an ordinary article of fancy stationery. They are printed on paper similar to the genuine note, with the word " five" on the left-hand corner, in white letters on a black or sable ground, the letter " " being platted before the " five," and the word " pounds" being introduced in the body, so that on the first glance, or to an ignorant parson, it would appear to be a genuine 51. Bank of England note. It was evident to the magistrates that the party who had exhibited these notes for sale had done so merely as an ordinary article of merchandise, and as a specimen of art, without being aware of the consequences to which he subjected himself. He was, however, informed that in doing so he had been guilty of a felony punishable with fourteen years' transportation, according to the pro visions of the sth sec. of 52 George 111., chap. 138. —Bie irsirsphom Journal. DERBYPIHRE. _ _ . MOIL TOR TUNNELS.—The works at the High Tor, Mat leek, feendig the apjrosshae to the intended tunnels, under the emilleelli NNW VINAIMN/10 and toadetone above-named, Oletialle 10 progress satisfactorily. At the centre portion of the narks a mass of limestone was raised from its bed by mechanism' power alone, without the aid of gunpowder, of the extraordinary dimensions of twenty-fire feet in length, air feet in breadth, and about one in thickness. -.....-. DETACHED DARD3RIB.—At the Gloucestershire esedans, last week, a resolution agreed to at the Weecorstershirs sea. sides was laid before the court, in reference to a peonoeed arrangement for rating the outlying parishes lis intermixed on the borders of the two counties; on the basis that Worcestershire parishes, locally situated within the Gloucestershire police boundaries, should be assessed to the pnlice.rate for Gloucestershire, and subject to the police jurisdiction of that county ; and that a similar rule should e applied to the Gloucestershire parishes locally !situated within the Worcestershire police boundaries. The parishes to which the proposition would apply were Twining and Kemerton, Gloucestershire; and Bruton, Overbury, Sedge. berrow, and Broadway, Worcestershire. The magistracy of the latter county declined to enter into the arrangement, on the ground that, as the Gloucestershire police-rate was heavier than that for Worcestershire, it would be an unsatis factory impost upon the ratepayers, and also on the ground that the arrangement was originally suggested to meet the case of the parishes of Marone and Little Waahbourne, which parishes had now been conceded to Gloucestershire. No further proceedings were adopted by the Gloucestershire searions. A Clack TO MEKDICANCT.—At • meetieg held at Bristol lest week, it was resolved to form a society for the g= of preventing the impositions practised by street , and relieving the deserving poor. The Rev. Heaphrey Allen, of Clifton, who took pert in the proceed ings, mentioned, among others, the following instance of gram • : Boma time since • benevolent gentleman west $ a at Jacob's-well, pointed out to him as the residesses of a bed-ridden woman. He found a little girl on the stairs and inquired for the unfortunate inmate. The child, with much simplicity, replied, " Please, air, she bent come yet." It seemed that this lbed.ridden woman came at 10 in the morning and went away at 4! It appeared further from calculations which bad been made, that from 12,0001. to 15,0001. a-year is given away in Bristol and Clifton to characters of this description. The necessity indeed for societies of the kind mentioned above throughout the coun try is manifest from daily occurrence., of which we may mention two:—A few days ago an inmate of the Hereford Union Workhouse raked permission to visit her friends, which request was at once granted. Instead, however, of ring home, she commenced a courts of begging through the town and succeeded in obtaining money from several individuals. For this conduct she was sentenced to 14 days' imprisonment —Last week a party of Irish called at the Lydney Inn, on their journey from Chepstow, and were " relieved " by the benevolent lsnd'ady. Accidentally, however, one of them dropped and left behind an old linen rag, which on being opened was found to contain five sove reigns ! A servant was sent after the party and the money was restored to them, but not without a severe and proper reprimand for the imposition which they were practising upon the public. -- • ---....- INSPICTION Or STSLM VEBSEIA.-It understood that Mr. Coming, Lloyd's surveyor at Plymouth, Mr. J. Pope, merchant, and Mr. J. Mare, engineer, proprietor of the Ply mouth Foundry, have been appointed Surveyors—(the two that named gentlemen for the inspection of shipwrights' work, and the latter the engine department), by the Lords of the Privy Council, in pursuance of the 14th section of the act passed last session of Parliament, for the regulation of Steam Navigation. This act requires that on or before the 30th day of April and the 31st day of October in every year, the owner of every steam vessel shall trans mit to the Lords of the Privy Council a declaration, in writing, from !Furman duly authorised, of the sufficiency and good condition of the hull and of the machinery of their vessel*. The met of such inspection and declaration, to be defrayed by the owners of the vessel, is foLevery vessel of or exceeding 360 tons burthen, 1/. 10s. ; IF those tinder 330 tom, 11. lc By the act it will be observed that all steam vessels will have to be surveyed and reported on twice every year—a wipe and salutary regulation. This forms part of the enactment 9 and 10 Viet., which came into operation en the let of Jen. last, by which all steam vessel* are compelled to mrry a certain number of boats, of certain dimensions, according to their tonnage—particulars of which we pub. lished at the commencement of the year, A Monti Eastertn.:rord Harry Vane, M.P., who has I recently become the proprietor of the great portion of the land in Ashton Keynes, has authorised his tenants to destroy, in what manner they think proper, the rabbits they may hereefter find on their respective farms. For such a proof of his lordship's liberality, not only the tenants themselves, but other occupiers of land, will feel grateful. This parish, like many more, has from time immemorial been infested with the destructive vermin now condemned to destruction. _KIDIT. East KENT COUNTY EZICTION.—The laid lienskl, of yesterday, says :—" We are glad to hear rumours, and wishes still more numerous than the rumours, of an opposition at the neat East Kent county election. The Liberal electors ere justly indignant at being so long sir-represented by one who, in his super-eminent conscienuonsness, procured his re turn as "an unflinching reformer," sad immediately and ever after acted sn a thoroughly unflinching Tory. And we be lieve the more enlightened conservatives think a much better choice might be made, and desire a county representative whose habits and feelings are mere in accordance with the spirit of the times, and who is fitter for the business, at any rate, of this every-day bustling world. Let the electors, then, be prepared fur a change ; few will think it for the worse, let who may be selected." lint S a rts._ STATUE TO THE LATE SIR FOWELL BUXTON.— A working mole' of the statue to the late Sir Fowell Bux ton which is to be erected in Westminster Abbey, has jud been completed by Mr. Frederick Thrupp. This testimonial has been well supported by subscriptions, amongst which are contribution tram thousands of negroes in Africa and the West Indies. His Royal Highness Prince Albert has for , warded a donation of 5111. CLERICAL Bounir..-The Rev. E. iligetra, trjai;siT3nary of the London Church Mitoionary Societe, who riereily arrived from Fateland, was ordained yesterday in the wants!, la the Mae.. of • foll congregation, by whom the solemnity was attaireed with profound attention. The Bishop preached on taw 000111111111.—Borabsy relegrnido, March 3. lisvost..—Lasvas.—lsv.7l. J. Jennings, chaplain of Kossowlee, foe two years. on medical erettleate, bruit to Cape, and tilted moods, to proceed to Calcutta to. esitretatfaa. Rev. J. li. Hammond, chap/Ado of Meerut, on medical orrtilkage, for one year, from April, 1847 to visit Simla. Mr. Hammond is appointed to Perform the coalesiseiiral dune. of Simla during his readesce there on leave. Iter. It. M. Price, chaplain of Agra, on medical certificate, for one year, to viol the lulls. Too BIM., or Wiscworna will conmerate the newlysareeted Church of • t. Thomas, Winchester, capable of affording aorminenods. Una to nearly a thowund persons, cc Friday, the 16th or April. On the preceding Wednesday he vrW conmerate a new hurls]-ground in the pariah of Upham, seer Blahop's Wsltham : and on the following morning. Trinity Church, tiouthampton, which bee been enlarged to contain 1,200 Malaga. instead 0(100, the former number. Too Now Cornett, the Holy Trimly, at Wolton Back, will be opened fur dieing service on Banaday next Paareasaur.—Thc Ker. W. Beal, LL.D.. to Brooke V. Norf., die. Norwich ; value 265/., with residence and Glebe ; patron the Lord Chancellor ; vomit by the death of the late Bev. W. CaatelL NAVAL. Pnwrowma, Aran. 1.-16 e Earrildloribe Admiralty embarked this morning, at half-put &elm* in the Ondine at. to lipithead, and in spieled the Sidon. On reaching the Sidon, the Admiralty dog win hoined under the animary salute: the vessel atm after got under weigh, and went away to the westward, with their lordships an board. . The Emerald, tender, bee sailed for Ireland, calling at Plymouth, to relieve the idereary.—The liestrel was ordered to be commimioned at this port this day, and to have a complement, 33 in sumber.—Tbe Dragon, Si., went oat of hartour this morning with toed and provi sion far Ireland.-11e Fairy was taken out of dock yesterday. The Cygnet, 6, Com. Somerville, arrived last night et 10 o'clock, from the mat of Africa. She left Sierra Leone on Feb. la, leaving the Penelope, 51.4 g., Capt. Giffsrd, which arrived there from Eng land Feb. 13, having last by , death on the voyage Mr. Cormlnahano, acting muter, fad Mr. Pritchard, midallipman. The Devastation, Com. Sir C. llotharo, err lying off the Bahama., in company with the Siren, arrived Boa Malta, end the Rolla, alio lately arrived from the Cape de deeds; also the Wanderer, clearing out under command of Co.. Mootresor, who bed eachanged from the Cygnet with Com. Somerville, of the Wanderer. The Ranger, 6, Coen. West, sailed for the Bight of Benin from Sierra Leone, Feb.l4. The Favourite, Contest, Prometheus, Alert, Ferret, and Star, all of the northern division, were well. The FApuir, to, Cont. Hand, ailed from the Bahama. with the Cygnet, Feb. 19, for England, but ported company c ostavy weather on the 11rd. when she shipped w a y en sews and most, captured MO slave, and 19 vessels, only four of which were restored, and she has been healthy during the whole period. Woo:Alta, Aran. I.—Mr. Robert Hurdles, lemma of the steam (Actor', leaves today, baying been appointed amistant-englemer to the comptroller of steam machinery at the Admiralty. The =hey Is stated at 3001. per annum. Mr. lilacklock, chief engineer of the Sala mander at.-v., will, it ia uaderstood, succeed Mr. Hughes at the fac tory. Growler at -v. la to he commiseloned, with a complement 01 90 men ; she is to be fitted with • mixemmast Echo SL-tug arrived from Vortamouth this morning, to have some defect. in her machinery mole good. Terrible M.-frig. dropped from her moorings this after noon at one o'clock, and proceeded down the river, on her lounge to Cork with provisions andscedo Tim roaowano OFTICIORO Mayo acts nommen this rooming, in accordance with the recent regulations of the Admiralty : Mr. Smart Tollager, foremen, to be timber inspector, with a salary of 4001. per annum. Mr. Stewart Barr to be assistant comerter, at 1301. per annum. Mr. Joseph Hawker to a similar alike. at 1251. Mews. George Pounder and W. Chambers to be memurere, ut 130./. per annum each. . _ . . . . Aran. I.—Com. C. W. to be captain; Lieut. A. P. E. Wilmot, to be commander; Mr. W. H. G. Pallier, to be lieuteaunt. A rrowntiorrs.—Lients. 0. F. Day, to Fncelimn; A. D. Jolly, to Vindictive; Midshipman W. Graham, to St. Vincent. MILITARY. - - Arroterirrer. Paamorioss, lee, annonnced Mom despatch of loot Overland Mail : —l7th Reg'.: Maj. F. Murray, from 60th Rides, to be major, vice Cordon. who exch.; Went. M W. Bere shied, from 86th F., to be heat, vice Ellison, who exch.; Angst... Burg. Heffernan proceeded to Europe In the Bombay, on the 14th uIL, with invalids. 22nd ftegt. Lieut. Bowden proceeded to England in the Bombay, with invalids, au the 14th ult 24th Capt 11. W. Coultman, from 63rd F„ to he captain, vice Ylanung, who each. 28th Rego. : Lieut. Butler pro ceeded to England in the ship tomboy, on the 14th Wt, with inn lide. 39th Refit.: Capt. W. H. Kirby, from 94th Foot, to be apt, vier Munro, who each . 50th Rep. : Major Tew, Capt. Knowles, and Lieut. Frampton, have leave to England, on medical certificate for two years; Lieut. Wily to do duty at the Landow depot. 53rd : Lieut. J. Chester is doing duty at the Landow depot; Lieut. 11. Limas ha been tried by a general court-martial at Fermis:pore, and acquitted. filth Itegt. Major Gordon, from 17th Foot, to 1w major, vice Murray, who each. {lot Itegt.: Motor Douglas la on leave at Meerut, on private affairs; Lieut. J. J. Mort is appointed to do duty at the Laminar depot. 63rd Kept.: Capt. E. J. Mewing, from 24th Foot, to be emit, vice Coaltmaa, who each. 60th Kept Weut.-Col. Nunn deceawil, at Meerut, on the 2nd WC 86th Kept : (Vt. Butler pro oreded to England in the Bombay on the 14th ult., in ahem , of inva lids; Lieut. Minion, from 17th Mo ot, to be lieut., vice Bereaford, who each. 94th Rcpt Capt. W. Manna from 39th Foot, to be eapt.,vicie Kirby, who each. Toe kw, 17.0, 39rn, AND 82gn R/311111f111, at the date of the last advice.' from Bombay, were cm the point of embarkation for Englaxd. SPORTING. TATTERSALLIk—TavmsoaT. The moot atiel Imam in yesterday's proceedings to Ds retreat of the to* tor the Nem=lee Haadicap; 5 to 1 an taken early in the ay, Deas wade% bat afar the elate the bidding; spinet meet° 7 to 1, Id IMML Id= Mb* se be deed. Aa even basedreaw la s= en wig Ma Wits. left di at an Impend speelmelen, bit Is ether respects the bairn ca this race wesprersoll by lleedees yew. The Port as befre, and wry little time as the Iletrepallies Himgimp, 2000 guineas sakes, sr Ch i Om; with nearer% kenserse, to the two lad. montionell ~As, we dwell dale the Pima roe belt a po at for on% end thee while DEW ems lawnted with Ibis premiership for the Glair, PM& vended is 33 to 1. TheDerfay betting we dull; albeit, Plead wee in tome 411 to 1, sag NOM, mastat WAR odour then en Monday ; Giushit and the liastsear were laid M Mont 301. en* end kinked& for 15M., or iheneksete. Clods( mks, Nornuerter liknerckv.-4 to 1 god keg Xt. 9 to 2), 7 to I age Euclid v.- (t), 7 to 1 sad Vaal* Be I east Footstool (t), 10 fa 1 apt Lyacetr, 13 to 1 spit ltesleag, U ks I not Humdrum, 15 to 1 egg Gnaw of Tyne, tO t• I agetlemTsikoh, 23 to I opt Hamm (t) TlOl PORT S.W. —ENO NI the soiStim ; 3 to 1 apt IM. arras HANDICAP.-12 to 1 eget Euclid colt; 17 to 1 mat leseein; 18 to 1 asst Haifa.* (t) ; 23 to 1 set Oder. f (t). Toe Tnoinsmo Gamma remise-5 to apps[ Planet (t); 7to 1 spit Lester (t). !filo Mt eget litbd Biersoritot Handicap and Port, end at the Two Inter! duesWU. (1); 50 to I age Footstool widths the N*lllllllllllll Tatou Sykes the Port, and Virs.eTwo Theemddlelneashbles (I). Car,-310 Is I opt IMOSt (1), 22 to 1 apt Mendicant; II la I apt The Lash (t) ;13 to I+t Panel; (taken to SOL); 33 to I ,pit t. l fib te I); C ‘ 11 . 41/ t zt t =ez t Oreara its ( 17 . te 2 1 1300 apt Tea 71‘ 100 t) ; to !art Planet 2; 14 03 IMe 1t an ; 23 t0 1 eget (Newt and • ale I 1/asellen(l3; 33 tr I eget Alfertonian (t); 4 0 to Li'Man ; • 110 2 age llogiuun ;50to 1 opt Pavilion ; tellewit Ilsslft ides, tridli a tikote, Vanish, Tam Tailed', end lewd ether% repedni to arrived st Newmarket r. NORTH OP ENGLAND NEDIDLII CHASER, NEAR Batt. Watemsoky.—Nowt: Tann Erma CIUM. of 10 eeva. arL, aed 30 added. ~3 mllca. Mr. llateblassm's Welber Om, 12M 11b (Bradle)) 1 Mr. W. H. Johnstone's Wag MM. Valley, 12st 71b 2 Mr. Batty's Nutboarns, 1 I TM Emperor, Catamaran, The Saar, and The Went also no. Wan may by sentral 1 --- ••••••.111•11D.417:=111 .. 117M21 C?Ali, 0f s WV& malt, 3 ft, 275 — ..ai;r Mr. W. Brown nd ml Dove . , lit (Mr. C. Hasdhiat) I Mr. J. smith nd Brunette, lit 2 The Tanner, Ooiden Plover, Bishop, and Ariel ales steeled. Won cleverly. brute. Cows Disco Brain, oil sm. onek, said a purse added, 12at each, I/ mile, were won cleverly by Mr. Poster's Langley Les, beating four others. Lab) Intelligence. EQUITY COURTS. Before the Iced Chancellor. CHAPPILL V. PI:MOAT.— BILL pIBMISSED WITKOI _ COSTS.—Arrut roe COSTS ONLT.—The plaintiff, Mrs. Chappell, filed a bill prayin g an injunction to restrain the defendant from pub ' end selling certain muaic fa' the opera of " Fra Diavolo,' or for an order on him to keep an account of the sale until the plaintiff, by an action at law, established her legal right to the exclusive publication of the said music. The Vice-Chancellor of England, before whom the case came to be heard, made an order in the moil terms—that the bill be retained for twelve with liberty to the plaintiff to bring her action ae by her, within that time ; but if she did not, then that bill might bediemiseed with costs. The action was brought, and a verdict was taken for Mrs. Chappell, but upon subse quent discussion in the Court of 'Exchequer, on points re served at the trial, the verdict was entered for Mr. Purday. The cause cosiest on afterwards helium the Vice-Chancellor for foam directions, his Honour dismissed the plaintiff's Isik but without aoata, that is, leav ing the defendant, the oatasedal party, to pay his own costs. The defendant appealed Ism chi port id do decree, and the matter was argued In 11011 tout em Saturday, the 20th of March. The Lord Chancellor now giving his judgment, said the decree appealed from was the decree made on further direc tions, and it elr•wed the history of the case so far as it was neteleary for the purpose of the appeal. It appeared that a verdict; &wad for the plaintiff on the trial of the action, was let aide in the Court of Exchequer, and a verdict was entered for the defendant; and afterwards, upon the hearing on fur cher directions, the plaintiff's bill was ordered to be disr,issed, but without coats. The verdict appeared to have h•.en matter of much consideration; showing, therefore, that it had undergone due deliberation in the Court of Exchequer, gsd that the plaintiff had failed to establish her legal title. The first order in the cause was in the usual course—of re taining the bill to let the plaintiff bring her action at law to establish her right, with this addition, that if she did not bring such action, the bill would be dismissed with costs. This was an adjudication that if the plain tiff abandoned the trial of the action, then the bill should be dismissed with costs. A party who came to this court for protection of • legal right must fail, if he failed to establish his alleged right, slid his bill must be dismissed with costs. If he tried to establish the legal right by action, and failed, it was the same as if he did nut bring the action. The two orders of the court below were totally distinct, and could not stand to ether. The court could never mean to say,' if you do nut bring your action, your bill must be dis missed; but if you bring your action, and fail to erablish your legal title, ern your bill, ,will be dismissed without costa." In the Sr .t act, or deceive, the court laid down the right course, and that ought to be followed out. The first order was consist. at with the practice of the court, but the second was incon intent with the first. It could not be in (erred that the curt refused the defendant's costs fro a any opinion with respect to his conchest in the case, because the court waited onl t to see the 'Ault of the proceedings at law. Deny unnecessary expense was Caused by the defendant's conduct in defee..ling the action, his conduct then could not be 'made to affect his conduct in Be suit at large. The question in this case w.s important in ' respect to the practice of this court in an..eals in which meta formed the only matter for considered., I. There were many CAWS in which the costs were in the pure discretion of the judge, and these could not be subject of appeal, inasmuch si the judge of appeal would he without i.nowledge of what influenced the other judge, and inasmuch as in such cases the whole filets would require to be slued, and, in fact, rehearing would be REEL'S r4ry. In sue'. eases there could not be an appeal for coats. But where th. re was a rule of practice laid down as to costa, the judge had no such discretion. And if, on the face of the proceedings, I lie costs appeared to be given in a way that was eoetrary to tle general rule of practice, this court might or might not confirm the decree. The ease of " Owen V. Griffith" (Ainbltr's Reports), referred to in the argu ment, was a ease of great importance on this point. The bill there was against a tenant by devil in possession of an estate, for an account of what he received, and for possmsion ; and the deer .e was, the defendant should pay the surplus rents found t . have been received by him beyond his debt, and also shoeld pay the plainer, costs. There was an ap peal against 'hat part of the decree for the payment of plaintiff 'a e its, the rale of practice in analogous eases of bffis by sserceiugors against mortgagees for redemption, beine, that the met tgagee should have his costa. Lord Hardwick° heard the avert', and declared that, in some eases, the rule against Rime .Is for costa only had been dispensed with, and so it ought i.n the use before him. That case was followed by ";Coope.• e. Scott," before Lord Northington (1 Eden, 17), and there were two cases before himself (the Lord Chan, blur), " Taylor v. Southgate," and " Angel e. Davis " t I Myloe and Craig, 203 and 360). His lord ship stated se much of both these cases as bore on the pre sent case, sat said he had allowed the decrees in them in respect to v.. costs. When the circumstances of • use happen to b: such that the court cannot decide the question of oasts, without going to a rehearing of the whole ease, then the order as to meta could not be appealed from; but whenever tie decree appeared, in respect of the costs, to be wrong on the face of the proceedings, then an appeal would lie for the costa. The decree in this ease appearing to be wrong in re- ;sect of the costs, as the bill ought to bare been dismissed with costa, must be altered in that respect. IN At BAOSTER, A LUNATIC.—COMPLAIIITS or COM MITTER OF TYR PRIMOM.—Mr. Chandlers stated that this was the petition of Mr. John Lyall, of Brighton, the uncle of Miss Bag ter, the lunatic. She was the granddaughter of Alderman Crowther, who left her • considerable fortune. Some years ago, she was taken off to Gretna-green by Mr. Newton, and they were 'married there, but that marriage was held v..itt, the young lady having been found, upon inquisition te!sen afterwards, to have been a lunatic before the elopement. She had ever since continued in • state of mind on the very confines of sanity. She was placed under the care of her mother, as committee of the person. The mother was married to a second husband, • gentleman named Waddill, and they lived at Sneresbrook, near Wan stead, or Woodford. The learned counsel reed from the petition a very long letter from Miss Darter to her uncle, the petition. r, written by a Miss Seales, who kept a circulating library at Woodford, but signed by Miss Barter, setting forth many complaints of her mother's irritable temper and conduct to her. Although the mother was allowed I,OOOJ. • year for the suitable maintenance of the lunatic, including carriage and governess, she was largely in debt to tradesmen for the mats ten supplied by them for the lunatic, so that the latter was unwilling to go out among the neighbours for fear of being spoken to on tie subject. The only persons with whom the lunatic could c .mmuaieate at all were Miss Scales and Miss Hopgood.the young lady who was the governess, or com panion, of the 1 inatic. Both these made affidavits, stating that trey belies ed the matters stated in the letter to Mr. Lyall to be true. Mr. Lyall hail no feeling adverse to Mrs. Waddell, but he thought it to be his duty to bring these complaints, made to him by the lunatic, before the court, and was anxious to provide for her comforts. The Lard Chancellor said he had received a letter from Mr. Lean on the subject. His lordship asked if he pro posed himself or any other person to be committee of the lunatic, instead u( her mother. Mr. Chandleas said he did not. He was tooold, and resided in Brighton. Mr. Lowndes and Mr. Green appeared for Mrs. Waddell, ready to show that the lunatic's complaints were groundless ; hut the Lord Chancellor said he must first see the lunatic, between this tim- and the nest sitting of the court (the 13th instant). In the course of the conversation which took plac • between counsel, it was stated and admitted that Mrs. Waddell owed no debts of her own ; they were debts due by Mr. Waddell before their marriage; and there was but 2004 due altogether to tradespeople on account of the lunatic, which would not be due if Mr. James Lyall, son of the peti tioner, and committee of the lunatic's estate, had not withheld 6001., one full half-year's allowance, which it was said be withheld in payment of • debt due to him by Mr. Waddell. IN as SAMUBL HARDT, • LUNATIC.—MAINTENANce or LUNATIC—ON Waage CREDIT'?—Mr. Cooper said, the petition he was about to open disclosed 'remarkable and an extraordinary ca.. It was the petition of John Hsrdy, brother and heir-at-law, and one of the next of kin of the lunatic. The latter was placed in the establishment of Dr. John Willis in 1812. In 1834, Dr. Willis sued out a com mission of lunacy, and Hardy was found to have been a lunatic from the year 1812. His father had died in that year, leaving his eon Samuel 10,0001., which is vested in Consols in two sums of 8,0001. and 2,0001. He was also entitled to a reversion of a sum of 4,0001. on the death of a lady without issue. A person of the name of Lee was the executor of the father's will, and trustee for the lunatic. lie hat made an arrangement with Dr. John Willis for his mainteennee, first at two guineas a week ; atter, two guineas and a half. Dr. John Willis died in 1835, and his executors claimed a debt of 2,2471. for ten years' mainte nance, from 182.5 to 1835, besides interest. The lunatic was continued in the establishment, to which Dr. Francis Willis succeeded on the death of his father, Dr. J. Willis. The arrangement made with him by Mr. Lee was at the rate of two guineas and a half per week. No part of that allowance was paid, and Dr. F. Willis claimed for 10 years, from 183.5 to 184.5 ; and there was another year's allowance due since. He was, however, willing to accept 2,1501, with out interest. The petition set forth these matters as found by the master's report, and the petition prayed confirmation of the report, and of the arrangement between these cre ditors and the petitioner • but he (Mr. Cooper) thought the matter was deserving of &ether inquiry. Mr. Thos. Parker appeared for Mrs. Hargraves, sister of the lunatic, opposing the confirmation of the arrangement contained in the petition. It appeared that the lunatic's father left a fortune of 70,0001., all which his executor, Lee, received, and only 7341. debt, including the funeral expen ses. Lee died insolvent, having wasted all his testator's estate, except what was paid into court in the administra tive suit of" Shore o. Lee. He had placed the lunatic with Dr. Willis, but neglected to pay for him. Dr. Willis had brought sn action against Lee, but the action did not go on. All the costa, however, were paid out of the estate. The Master found, by his report, that 6,0001. interest was due on the lunatic's fortune of 10,0001. Lee no doubt received it, but convertedit to hie own use. The Lord Chancellor expressed his opinion that credit was gives by the Doctors, J. and H. Willis, to Lee, and not to the lunatic. After the finding of the lunacy, no allowance or arrangement for the lunatic could be made without the sanction of this court. Mr. Craig appeared for the executors of Dr. John Willis, who had got the commission issued in 1834, but died in 1835, within a year after the finding of the lunacy. He had maintained the lunatic from 1825 to 1835, and never received any part llof the allowance. The administrates suit was not instituted until 1832, and no domes was made until 1833, so there was no way for Dr. J. Walls te apply for Pa ger Lod Chancellor : Was net the credit for the main. tenance sieve to Lee, who made the arrangement with him Mr. Craig submittal that the lunatic wee maintained on the credit of his own fortune, and not on the credit of an other person, who was debtor to the lunatic. He suggested that a reference of a very special nature ought to be made to the Master for the neoessaty inquiries in thou case. Mr. Smith appeared for Dr. Francis Willis (whom case the Lord Chancellor said was quite different from that of Dr. J. Willie), but his lordship waited to know what claim any one had for maintenance of a lunatic after commis sion, without first applying to this court. The learned counsel said it was a clear proposition of law that if a person maintains a lunatic he is entitled be be paid out of the lunatic's estate. The Lord Chancellor : Not after commission, without first coming here for the undies of the court. Mr. Smith believed such paymemb'of ex paid for necemaries before commission, were allowed is Lord Porta mouth's case and in others. The questior.awere, whether the things for which the expellees were incurred were suit able to the rank sad station of the parties. The petition before the court stated no debt due from Lee to the lunatic, and it wee improper, thimbles, to draw that matter into tinenniOn. The Lord Chancelke thought the report should be referred back to the Master, to be reviewed by him, and particularly to inquire on whose credit the lunatic, was maintained by Dr. John Wfilia. If he trusted Mr. Lee, then he should seek payment from him. He may, however, have a good cue, and the order to refer book the report would be without prejudice to the daises. Ex PARTE Kinney, in sea C•VINDL/11, • BANKEVYT. —This was a cue by way of appeal from a decidon of Vice- Chasoellor Knight Bruce, who declined to make any order in this case, which was as follows :—Cavoridlsh was made • bankrupt on his own application. Mr. Hembry was his solicitor. The preliminary payment of 101. was made to the secretary of bankrupts upon the issuing of the