The Express. — London, England, 1847-04-09 00:00:00

...............---------__ oat of the fire, three were saved. We now numbered ' ash w as on the raft, and, 10 haying gone off on the little made 70 saved out of 10l souls su,,ported to have bre, baar d. We had by this time gathered together '7 o es he r aft three b ar rels of Hour, one small banal of °° caw , a i one tonal cask of brandy , one barrel of nine - ore one case of clare t, about three entws of other Ties, l". t h ree biros, two small cheeses, one small brisket of preserve li appl . es, • piece of bacon, two live pigs, one sheep, one dog ali ve oar ve s d heep ria o f stuff like treacle, one small barrel o r of uttr, and one box of candles- Wo had also picked up n w clothes; so, when each bad rigged himself out as be b e t could, a strange lot we must have been. But there ~,a no grumbling, no comp's/as; each man was for himself i.the way of garments. A bag containing the ship's signals a ss found, snd one flsg was fastened to a spar which we bri,tril toll down ti any ip. T was night we bail room N A to lie on the raft. It was still very cold; and, 0 t h e r aft was still insecure, it was also an anxious night g Y, Fyn. 14.—With the first daylight all were ......me pl iflad to stretch our cold and stiffened limbs. To were gene to work we served out each half a o T e a ls • — h r on ho rly. S T oine . act off to collect pieces of the wreck a d ' gars, others pro visio n s, clothes, sic • some to gather y or tiry the . raft ; ot hers with co me to board . boarding pikes shish had hen picked up, to endeavour . .ca.c fish, - as we seen round about us. A venting-desk was w a llal . and in one corner was a little box of about a doz. n coo tiler matches; but they were wet, and would not b r i4 We stuck them in the dour to dry; but very cewiy lost them: one of the Spanish passenger. having bus 'bore, pocketed the ns box, box, throwing away n o the. ....tchea On searching we found them scattered in some the r e A f-w of them were picked up, and dried, ir .t .° 7:l. / s • we am . ck a light ! Oh, joyful news it was to all. o th r ee cheers. A candle was lighted, and placed in sWle gat e burl, and a . watch placed over it, with orders Be retta let it out, by night or day. A piece of board lined w ith iron was found, and on this we soon had a firs blazing, t w o.g plenty of sticks at hand. The doctor and purser then got die dead sheep, skinned it in a most skilful manner with ss old razor, and we soon had a portion of it cooked. A piece wov red out to each man , a nd all declared the y never tasted Wa i e/ T. OO, nt mutton. One " tottic " of wine follow° 1 round to each. At noon we offered up our thanks to God for his goodness This afternoon we picked up a few fish, one or two tic lobsters, three bottles of wine, and a can of oil. The engineers (now that we bad a fire) set about constructing an apparatus with which to condense water, if possible. First, they tried earthenware jars, hut these broke; afterwards, they got ho'd aurae copper vessel and lead pipes, with which they b„,i e d themelves. We began now to long for water, th e wo o: of which pained us most ; and the poor dogs, pigs, pod sheep seemed very thirsty. At 6 p.m. served nut to each sus before lying down one " tottle "of wine. Thirst began bs very troublesome. The vinegar-cask was much resorted el by all; some drinking a little, ethers only wetting their Np s with a wet rag of yin- gar. MONDAY, FIB. 15.—A1l up at daybreak. At 7, offered op eetdroks to God for hie goodness One party of a doses tpuggelated to gather together the fore, main, and miasma otaknyard, and other large spars, with which to form eublimtial floating raft and they set about it with right alga. At 8, the ship's cook made 69 small cakes, of letter, and salt water, which were baked at the Arson goblet sheet iron torn from a hit of the wreck, and served briar • piece of mutton, or fish, and never was a feast so AM. At 9, the distillery got into good order, and by 11 obi side about sit bottles of water,when some one called of " How it made our hearts leap with joy, libel soy were sceptical ; but some of the old seamen esaddep snood look, declared it to be a sail ; and a sail it penile be in a few minutes. We got another signal raised 011 Memos lashed together. At length she hauled round lb Mgt point of the reef; some six or eight miles distant, and Pee right up toward: us along the reef, keeping about two nimeataide. When there could be no doubt as to her in timates, we felt that the sadden and unexpected prospects glumly deliverance were almost too much for us. Only Ain ad our hearts seem to soften, and feel what we had pat through. All knelt down and joined together most Inently in thanking Almighty Ood for our preservation ; dear which each might be seen to grasp his friends by the hand and shake it, with something like a smile at last upon the lips, although the heart was too full for anything to be said. As the brig stood towards us about noon our claret was opened, and a double allowance (two moieties) was dealt round to each man, By one o'clock p.m. It was abreast of us, about four miles outside the surf ; she -.topped, and a small hoot, which we had observed tow ing astern, set sail towards us. In lees than an hour she hnd neared the surf, when she let down the rail, and eight swarthy fellows got out poles, with which they guided their canoe right through the breakers on to the reef, close by us. In a few words we may as well relate the adventures of our little boat. She left us at 5 p.m. on Friday, and con tinued to row and sail gently along across the reef, in great fear of noosing aground every moment and damaging bee frail hull. Ske touched often as she went along in the dark ,• but they were able always to clear her. The stem turned oat not to be her frailest part, when once they got clear away; she leaked in so many places in the bottom, that two men bailing could scarcely keep her free ; and had any of them stood up in her bottom, they would have gene through her. The chief officer sot with the compass between his knees m the dark, steering, hut with great difficulty nuking out the points of the compare ; only doing so by now and then getting a glimpse of the flourish round the north point . They scarcely knew how they got off the reef into open wa ter; remarking, on being asked, " Gud must have guided as At daybreak on Saturday they found themselves dear of the reef, and also saw that they were past the small ' island of Perez • to which they thought it best not to return ; bat kept on their course towards the south. The sea wan alm, and the wind was fair all the way. By Pitting all well aft they kept her bows out of the water. They riled all day and during the night, and when Sunday morn ing dawned had the happiness of seeing the coast a few miles off; at the same time they observed a brig in the offing, to which they at once made; but she seemed to avoid them, keeping away. The litt'e boat kept on towards her, however, making signals as well as they could, and, at last, got near her, and the chief officer banded her. He found them all in confusion, with loaded muskets ready to protect them selves, having taken the small boas for some piratical craft. The tee was aeon told to the chief mate, Senor Villoverde, tithe Spanish brig Emilio, and at once he got all on board, end set off towards Sisal to inform hie commander, the brig having been obliged to slip and run from Sisal, leaving her captain on shore, when the same " norther" came ea to blow which the Tweed encountered. Sisal being only eleven miles off, the brig reached it by 11 a.m., when the captain was at ones communicated with. On hearing of our disaster, he hesitated not for one moment, but getting some water hurriedly on beard, set sail towards fluent, which he reached, as has been said, at 1 p.m. the test day. The worthy, noble, humane, Bernardino Camp Ow such is the name of the excellent young officer who commands the Emilie), never thought of his cargo lying on the beach at Sisal, or his passengers ap painted to join him, to sail on a certain day for Savannah, to which port she is a regular trader; hie eery thoughts were on rescuing the poor shipwrecked Mel& Ire thought not of his insurance either, or the risk at an of coming on to a lee shore in the "norther" stetson ; and last of all, but not least, he never thought of remunera tion or reward, afterwards remarking, when spoken to on this point. " I did but my duty, which every man would have done in such a ease, and my reward is here" (laying his hand on his heart). We knew that many would not have acted so promptly as he had done. To return to the canoe alongside our raft. She brought some roasted fowls, biscuit, and two or three gallons of water mixed with sugar. Captain Camp also came with her, and for amble purpose, namely, to remain with us on the raft, as a "entity in himself that the brig would not leave us until all were rescued! The raft's muster-roll was at once got out, and 25 manses called over, commencing with the invalids, all of whom were to go off in the canoe to the brig. The writer's name was among the first called out, but, for certain pressing reasons, which need not he here mentioned, he prererred rr snairingg on the raft till the last. The canoe started with 25 pateneere, and was anxiously watched while the attempt was made to pull her through the breakers. After a struggle, this was anomplished, and their oars got out, and they were about to hoist the sail, when a sea struck her and turns d her broadside on to the surf, into which she was driven, and back on to the reef, narrowly escaping being capsized. Her crow said she was overloaded, so twelve only were sent is her; and this time she got over in safety, and made towards the brie, on board which they were placed. She returned about 4 p.m., bringing the brig's email bout, which alone came through the surf, the canoe stopping outside, an they were afraid she woad get stove if she struck the reef in the middle of the boilin g surf The small boat took off seven pasaengers to the canoe, and returned for severs more,with which she ect , slf but, when in the middle of the surf, one wave seemed to lift her high in the air, then dash her round broadside on, and capsize her. She turned over and over, and was swept back on to the reef, full of water, the people who were in being scat tered about in the surf. Fortunately, all of them, after a little, Rat a footing on the reef, in four or five feet of water, and reached the raft in safety. The boat was Wed clear of water, avid a few more seamen put into her. with mitre oars, and only four pasaengen allowed to go. This time she got safely through the surf, and alongside the canoe, which went to the brie, the small boat returning to the raft. Ttr.stis Y. FEB. 16.—A1l astir at six am., but no appear ance of the brig; but at 11 a.m. she hove in sight, and by 2 p.m. sent off the canoe to We now saw it was hopeless to attempt getting the people conveyed through the surf, which appeand to roar l o uder and rise with greater violence than before; and, should the boats strike the reef in trying to eel through the surf, they might get so much injured that the brig might be compelled to leave the greater num ber Of us behind; besides, it was dangerous for the brig to be kept so near a lee-shore, should a " norther" spring oe It was therefore proposed that the canoe should come through the surf to us, to be employed with the small boat M carrying us all at one time ecru. the reef to the southward to the email island, where the brig could go round sad pick us up. This was agreed on, as our only chance of !!.lretching the brig in safety. But there was no time to be 15 t; therefore Captain Parsons gave orders to us to embark forthwith, no one taking with him a single rag more than t°ll on his back, All set about embarking with cheerful she. ; before doing which, however, every one knelt down on the raft, and we offered up our united and fervent thanks to Almighty God for his gotalness. Captain Parsons was the lint man to step from the raft into the canoe. The ar- Zo i netnent was that the small boat, in charge of the chief cer and nine men, should take the lead, with the canoe is ow, the small boat steering by compass, and guiding the tones. fliTre were 42 people stowed in the canoe and 10 in the small boat. At 5 p.m. we shoved off in silence, all looking back at the raft, which had stood our part so long, with feel- Nn mingled with regret, sorrow, sod joy. Our voyage, we Lew was attended with great danger, for, were our canoe n UL cm a rock, or reef, she might tutu over, and drown, perhaps, the whole of as in fathoms of water alongside. The second officer took his stand in the bow of the mine, as she was obliged to take the lead, and, assisted by one of the natives of Sisal belonging to the boat, with poles sounding, he kept a look-out for reefs and danger. Sometimes we used the oars, and at others the sail, the canoe often grating over the reefs, which made us shudder, till we had gone three or four miles in the dark, when we thought it best to come to on anchor about 8 p.m. This was a trying night to all. Wentercbsy, Fee. 17. Sunrise brought us a lovely morning. We offered up our thanks to God for his pro tection and goodness, end set sail towards the south. After many times teaching on the rocks, at 11 o'clock a.m. we reached a small island, on which there was a hut, swarms of birds, piles of wood, mullets of our wreck, which had floated about ten miles, boxes, spars, clothes, and some dead bodies. The people iu the small boat loaded, thinking it was Perez, but, as we found it was nut that island, the boats then were kept on their course to the south, towards another small island, which was teen about five miles off. About 2 p.m. we reached Perez, on which we landed, observing the brig, at the same time, about 10 miles off, making towards us. There are a few good huts, built of wreck, and thatched with cane leaves. In one hut there were about a claret' butts of fresh water, kept there by the fishermen and turtlers, who resort thither from Compels ehy and Sisal. We lighted a fire in one of the huts, broiled some bacon, and with come bread and the fresh water we found in the casks we inude a good meal. The brig came round near to Perez, and the canoe in two trios placed us all iu safety on her deck by 5 p.m., when she set sail, and on the following day we reached Sisal, where, having received for a week the utmost kindness and hos pitality, we embarked on board the Emilio, fur the Havan nah, where we arrived on the 3rd of March. When the inhabitants of the Havannah learned how nobly Captain Camp earl Mr. Villaverde, his chief mate, had be haved in our rescue, a subscription headid by the Governor- General, was commenced for their benefit, as a mark of how much their conduct was esteemed by all. In a short time it bad amounted to four thousand dollars. When the two noble officers for wham it was intended heard about it, they at first refused to accept any pert of it, in the most kind and generous manner offering it for the benefit of the widows and families of the poor men lost is the Tweed! The consul and all concerned said this should not be, observing that the subscription made by the people of Havannah was for their two noble-minded country men ;an that, surely, "at home," the countrymen of the poor matters, on hearing of the sad catastrophe, which would bring destitution to many a poor family, would as handsomely " do their duty." It is to be hoped that the government, and the Royal Humane Societies, will not overlook the noble and humane conduct of the captain and chief officer of the Spanish brig pier owners would not accept any return for the four days employed in rescuing the shipwrecked people off the reef. . . . . The Tweed steamer was launched in 1841, having been built by Mr. Charles Wood, at Greenock. The engines were made by Mears. Cair' d and Co. She commenced running in Jansar7,lB42, and, at the time of her 1011d,Wall almost sa good as the hr.t day of starting. Captain l'arsons is a master of t 2 years' standing in the Royal Navy. Ile joined the Royal Mail Steam packet Company's service in 1842, u chief officer of the Dee, for one voyage. He then commanded the Medway for one voyage ; alter which he exchanged into the Tweed, in which he had made five complete voyages to and from the West Indies. three of which were to the Gulf of Mexie ). Many of the Tweed's men bad been in her ever since she first started running, and almost all had been several voyages in her, some of the men having followed Captain Parsons from ship to ship for 10 year.—Abridged from the "Times." _, _ t&tot amt. - THIMSDA Y.—The Queen and Prince Albert walked, this morning, in the grounds adjacent to the Castle. M. Isturita, the Spanish Minister, left the Castle today. LIS.II. Prince Lowenstein and Viscount Palmer ston, also took their departure to-day from the Castle. The Royal family rode out on ponies and took walking exercise this forenoon. Lord John Russell arrived at the Castle this afternoon, on a visit to her Majesty. The Royal dinner party at the Castle this evening will include his Excellency M. Van de Weyer, the Belgian Minister, and Madame Van de Weyer, and Lord John Russell. The band of tho lit Life Guards attend during dinner. Her Majesty's pri me band will afterwards attend in the Castle. The meeting at the Lord Chancellor's residence will not take place, an usual, on the first day of Easter term. ills Lordship will sit at Westminster, on Tuesday, the 13th day of Ail . , at 10 o'clock His M a j esty the King of Saxony has presented Mrs. Colquhoun with a bracelet and ornaments en suite of elegant workmanship. Lord John Russell left his residence, in Chesham ; place, yesterday afternoon, for Windsor Castle, on a visit to her Majesty. Despatches were received yesterday, at the Colo nial-office, from the Governors of the West India colonies. Despatches were sent off, last evening, from the Colonial office, for the Governor of West Australia. MARRIAGE IN HIGH LlFE.—Yesterday morning, at St. James's church, Lord Alfred Henry Paget, M. V., clerk marshal and chief equerry to her Majesty, led to the hymeneal altar Miss Wyndham, youngest daughter of the Countess of Listowell, by her find marriage with the late George Thomas Wyndham, Emu, of Cromer Hall, Norfolk. The ceremony was performed in the presence of Field Marshal the Marquis of Ar.glesea (father of the noble and pliant bridegroom), and Lady Adelaide Paget, Viscount and Viscountess Sydney, the Earl of Uxbridge, Mr. and Lady Eleanor Graham, the Esti and Countess of Listowell, Lord and Lady Macdonald, &c. The party returned to the Earl of Listowell's, Kingston House, and partook of a sumptuous ri6etiner a la fourcheete, after which the happy couple set off for the Duke et Devonshire's, at Chiswick. DEATH OF SIR WILLIAM TEMPLER POLE, BART.— We have to r: cord the demise of this baronet, who expired on the 3rd inst.. at Shute House, his seat in Devonshire, aged 6.1. 13c succeeded on the demise of his father in 1799, and was twice married, vit., first in 1804.t0 the only daughter of Georr Templer, Esq., of Shapswick, in Snmersetshire, by whin I lie had issue one surviving son, George Reeve, born in 1803, who succeeds to the title and etudes; and, secondly, to the daughter of John Fraser, Esq., and neice of the late J. Fsiquhu, Esq., of Fonthill Abbey, Wilts. By this union he bad issue four children. This family have been seated in Devonshire ever since the conquest. The deceased was a deputy.lieutenant of the counties of Devon and Somerset. ROYAL MAIL STEAM-PACKET COMPANY. --- The general annual meeting of this company was held yesterday at the London Tavern, fur the purpose of receiving the report of the directors ; for electing two director., in the place of Mr. T. Baring, M.P. and Cap tain Mangles ; and an auditor in the place of Mr. A. B. Roberts, all of whom retired by rotation, but were eligible for re-election, for which they offered themselves. The chair was taken by Mr. CoLytccs, who said he had to regret the news which had arrived, by way of Mexico, of the loss of the Tweed, the reports respecting which were mainly correct . The annual report stated that the working account as con trasted with that of the preceding year, shows en increase in the disbursements of 10,8901.35. 2d., partly accounted for by the general rise in the rate of seamen's wages, and an addi tion to the pay of the officers, and partly by the establish ment of a new agency and other arrangements at Panama, and by the expense incurred in increasing the coaling accom modation and general efficiency of the depdt at St. Themu. The only charge upon the insurance fund during 1846 is a sum of 2751. 2s. Bd., arising oat of sundry small liabilities; and it will therefore be seen that the investment under this head up to the end of the year amounted to 49,2811. 55., which has since been augmented by the annual appropriation of 25,0001. for the year 1847, making a total of 74,2811. 55., now invested in Three and.a-Quarter per Cent. Government Stock. On the other side of the account the receipts from freight and passage money show an improvement on the year 1846 of 20,6971. 16s. 10d. It is, moreover, matter of congratulation to notice that this steady advance (with the single exception of outward freight) has occurred under every head of re ceipts front cargo and passengers, outward, intercolonial, and homeward. The surplus upon the working account shows an increase upon the year 1846 amounting to 9,8071. 13e. Sd ; and, so far ss the transactions of the year 1847 can be known at present, the receipts of the company ere still steadily advancing. The arrangements for conveying pas sengers and treasure across the Isthmus of Panama are now completed : and an agreement has been signed by the Royal Mail Steam-Packet Company and the Pacific Steam Navi gation Company, fixing the rate of freight and all other particulars, so that there shall be every encouragement for parties to avail themselves of this line of com munication between the Atlantic and the Pacific °coins. After detailing the repairs which the company's fleet have undergone, the lose of the Tweed was alluded to in the fol. lowing terms: Since the above report was prepared, a confirmation of the low of the Tweed has Men remised Ws morning. The tom of life, in addi tion to that of the ship, is deeply to be Lamented, but it is satisfactory to find that the energy and limners of the passengers, as well as that of the officers and erew, were most worthy, and tended mucb, under providence, to the ultimate ra of the survirors who reached the reef from the wreck. It would br premature to offer ony com ment on this unfortunate occident, but tbe circumstances shall be strictly Inquired into. The CHAIRMAN said that, before putting the report, it was satisfactory to state that arrangements had been made to prevent any deficiency in carrying on the service in the West Indies. The vessel at present employed there had proved insufficient for the purposes for which she was in tended, and the Conway would consequently shortly leave Southampton for that duty. He had also great satisfaction in drawing attention to the first fruits of the arrangement for forming a communication across the Isthmus of Panama, there having been au arrival this morning, both of passengers and produce, from the western side of the isthmus. This was the only point that required any particular remark, and he would therefore put the adoption of the report to the meeting. On the report being put, Mr. Rtnowavexpreseed some dissatisfaction at the manner in whish the accounts were rendered. lie saw also that there was to be a new ship purchased, and be wished to know what was the name of that ship, as there were several naval men present who knew the merits a nds der neriti of every vessel on the coast, by whom the judicinem of pur chase might be estimated—(lt being miaseated that this might be injurious to the company, the hon. proprietor re knowed from further remark)—At any rate he wished to whether the Conway was to take out freight or a l e tter bat ; He saw aim that there was an outlay of some where • ut 56,0001. with the Bank of England, or else where. The CHAIRMAN replied that with reaped to the Conway, as it was dotimbla that she should reach her destination as quickly as possible she would carry out neither freight nor a mail. With regard to the 65,0001. now out upon loan, he had to remark th►t is was deposited with the North. Western Railway Company, tom whom ample security is hell, and the cash is already yielding dividends to the company. The low, of vessels since the establishment of the company hail been the Medina, the Solway, the Ns, and the Tweed, besides the Achoon, a small steamer, em ployed amongst the islands. By the general account it appeared that, during the year, up to lkc. 21. the expenses were 286,178/. Is. 7d., whsle the receipts were 407,116/. 18s. 2d. showing a profit of 121,6781. 9s. 7d. The CHAIRMAN then proposed a di•idend of 11. 15s. per share, which was unar..rnously agreed to, as also that it should be payable on Tuesday, the 13th inst. The retiring director* and auditor n ore re-elected, and thaukr having been voted to the chairman, the meeting was dirsolvcd, its members evidently bein g well pleased with the proceedings of the day, PENSION LlST.—fly the death of Mr. Plante, a saving of 1,5001. a year has been effeeted on the list. ROYAL SE.t BATHING INFIRMARY.—The general quarterly meeting of the promoters of this institution took place yesterday at the lendno Coffee-house, Ludgate-hill Alderman Gibbs preside Restated to the meeting that he was happy to say that Vs n infirmary would be open for the receptian of patients on the lOth of neat May ; and that the state of the society was extremely prosperous. Ite•olutions, re-appointing the directors and other effacers of the society, were unanimously agreed to; nothing further worth notice being done, except the refusal of the meeting to confirm the appointment of three visiting surgeon.. ROYAL FREEMASONS' FEMALE SCIIOOL.—A quar terly general court of the governors of this charity was held yesterday at the schoolhouse ; John Udall, Esq., in the chair. The minutes of the last meeting were read over and confirmed, and the following children were declared to have been admitted (without poll) into the schools:—Humphries, cooper, Mather (candidates at the last ballot); Williams, Wilkinson, and Tucker. The other routine business was disposed of, and the court adjourned to the last Thursday in May. ABOLITION OF SMITHFIELD.—Yesterday men were stationed in different parts of the metropolis with tables and sheets of pap?r and the necessary writing materials, for the use of the public who might wish to sign the petition to parliament for the abolition of Smithfield Market. About live thousand signatures were appended during the day. The graziers and others entrusted iu the maintenance of the market are also actively bestirring themselves; they have already petitioned the Court of Common Council for " pro tection," and are preparing to oppose the passage of the bill through the Houses of i'arliament. INQUEST, YESTEEDAY.—I)EATFI IN THE MILL. BANE PAlSON.—Before Mr. Bedford,inthe Millbank prison, on the body of Henry Wood, aged 22. Mr. J. It. Groves, the governor of the gaol, said that deceased was received on the 15th September, 1516, he having been convicted at the Old Bailey sessions of larceny. There having been a pre vious conviction, the deceased was sentenced to seven years transportation. ILe died in the prison infirmary on Tuesday last. He had never been punished, ►ut on one occasion he attempted to commit suicide by hanging himself. Mr. Bailey, the prison physician, said that deceased had died of pul monary consumption, the common disease of prisoners. More prisoners died of that disease than any other persons. It was frequently brought on front confinement.—Verdict, "Natural Death from consumption." ELECTORAL HISTORY OF ENGLAND. GLOUCKSTERSIIIRE. It has not happened to many counties, not even to the five or six included within the 't Bedford Level," and which, by that magnificent &theme of drainage, have been elevated from the precarious and fluctuating condition of marsh lands into the honourable and important rank of arable dis tricts—to undergo so organic a change as Gloucestershire has sustained within these few years. The completion of the Berkeley and Gloucester Canal, in 1820, has brought the magnificent estuary of the Seven, so completely to her westernmost boundary, and under the walls, as it were, of her metropolis, that the county itself may be said to have emerged, in coneequ nee, from the obscurity of an inland into the notability of a maritime one. The success of this bold enterprise has fully corresponded to the great mas of its design ; and it would be difficult to overestimate the extent to which the trade and resources of the city of Gloucester have been enlarged and multiplied by a contrivance that renders it effectively an out-port The county itself, extensive as it is, has derived advantages for its export—as well as for its import and local trade—by reason of tlin establishment of its "port" One such Gloucester has now become), scarcely less, though thy be more indirect, than the immediate and visible ones which lad been realised by its capital. Gloucestershire, like most of the counties in the south west division of Greet Britain, le of a very irregular figure. It has extensive outlying districts, stretching out,into tr her shires. On the east it is bounded by Oxfordshire; on the uorth, it has Warwickshire and Worcestershire; on the south, Somersetshire and Wiltshire; on the wt st, Hereford shire and Monmouthshire. Its greatest length is found in a line extending from S. W. to N. E. 69 miles. Its greatest breadth, measured from east to west, is 43 miles. But its actual area does not exceed 1,200 square miles, and, indeed, recent measurements reduce it to about 804,000 statute acres, whereof it is calculated thst 751,000 are under cultivation, 6,0110 are uncultivated, and 47,000 are unproduc tiee or incapable of being profitably cultivated. Within this surface are included many fine rivers; among others the Severn, one of the noblest of which Britain can boast ; the Upper and Ln see Avon ; the Isis, which becomes, in Oxfordshire, the r •nowued Thames ; the Wye, the Caine. &e. Among its woodlands are the remains of the ancient Forest of D.tan, which has supplied, in past ages, enormous quantities of oak timber to our navy, and, even now, occa sionally contributes " a mast fit for some tall admiral," thanks to the better management which has, for some years past, replaced the wasteful administration of this sylvan treasury that disgraces the executive of our naval depart ment from a period at least coeval with the reign of the first Stuart dowa ti the last administration of George the Second. But its mineral wealth, its coal, iron, &c., seem to be, even under the incessant mining processes which arc everywhere being carried on, absolutely inexhaustible. And we regret to add that, during the lest 60 years, the palpable influence which has been exercised by the chief owners of that wealth on the electoral returns f. r this great county appears to have been almost inexhaustible, too, in some families. Gloucestershire is divided into 28 hundreds, which include 280 parishes • it comprises one city (Gloucester) and part of another (Bris tol), two parliamentary boroughs (Tewkesbury and Ciren cester), and 23 market towns. Among the principal hundreds we may notice, Berkeley, Barrow, St. Briarell's (including the Forest of bean), Deerhurst, Dudatone, Thorn bury, Westbury. &e. Of its market towns, Cheltenham, Dean, Durslcy, Lechlade, Minchinhampton, Stowe, Stroud, and Tetbury, are among the most important, after the city and the borough towns. The trade chiefly maintained in these places ia in minerals, live stock, pin-making, wool stapling, rope-making, and malting; but the pin-making is i chiefly confined to Gloucester. It is valuable and flourish ing. Gloucestershire is famous for its fine pastures. the ma nagement of its cows, and the excellence of its dairies. Its agriculture has scarcely attained so high a point of excellence as its grazing. But the amount of its produeioa of grain, turnips, and potatoes, is very considerable. It has a few b op-gardens of superior character, and alto fine or chards, though it cannot compete in the p roduction of cider with the adjoining county of Herefoeishire. It ranks as the thirty-third on the list of English counties. Its position, in respect of density of population, it is not very easy to deter- Wee. The increase of its population since 1801 has been relearkable, not to say extraor finery. At each of the four iiheeenial periods here noticed, it stood, respectively, thus, We.: in 1801 at 250,809; in 1811, at 285,514 (increase, 131 par rent.); in 1821, at 33.5,843 (increase 34 per cent.); and IS3I, at 387,019 (increase, 541 per cent.), as compared with 1801. In the year 1841, the county population had expanded itself t i 431,307, showing an increase on the ten years only, elapsed since 1831, of 11l per cent, and on the census of 1801, of no las than 72 per cent., • ratio exceeding the average of very many counties of the united kingdom in the same intend of forty yearn. The poor-rate for this county, which in 1801, was 109,0 4 51., in two years only had so increased that the expenditure under this head, for 1803, was no less than 144,5651. (!) In the year lfill, it hod risen to 165,5761. In 1821 it fell down to 162,0941. In 1831 it absorbed 168,2881. For the year ended March 31, 1841, the whole sum expended for the maintenance of the poor was 130,3211., so that whilst the population had increased in the ratio of 72 per cent., the poor rate had grown in amount only 191 per cent., not withstanding the immense advance of the population. But this last element seems to have no certain influence on the aggregate poor-rate, seeing that in 1803 this absolutely amounted to 14,244/ stone than in 1841 (upwards of 11 per cent.), whilst the population was (257,000) lees by 68 per cent This is, per se, an indication of increasing prosperity; but it is somewhat marred by the consideration of the last returns we have been able to get at of the number of inha lifted houses, which, whilst it ranged between 77,000 and 178,000, was accompanied by • glimpse of about one nineteenth of the number uninhabited ; aud of nest more than one-eighteenth of the number building. In 1831, there were reckoned in Gloucestershire, out of 83,445 families, so many as 33,178 employed in manure.. tares, trades, and handicrafts ; 21,185 engaged as occupiers, owners, or labourers in agriculture ; 29,082 in all other ways Now, here is a constituency precisely of that stuff— of the mingled character and pursuits—which ought, on d T i t :t .d ri reasoning, to return represen.atives of sound and opinions, of enlarged end enlightened views of de. mastic, foreign, and commercial policy, and good specimen withal of the English national character. We shall devote a word or two presently to the consideration of how far the facts in this matter confirm or falsify the inference we should so naturally draw. And this consideration becomes of the more importance in reference to the weight of Gloucestershire in ear scheme of parliamentary representation. Its eastern and western dirt sious return four members ; its city, two ; Cirencester, two ; Tewkesbury, two • Cheltenham, one ; if we include Bristol, two more for that city ; for Stroud, two ; in all, fifteen members. Let us inquire, for the present, who the four representatives are, returned by the two divisions of this shire, by their united constituencies of some sixteen thousand registered electors (freeholders). The eastern division returned, in the first instance, Mr. C. W. Codrineton and the Hon. W. Charteris ; and they replaced the latter, in February, 1846. on his accepting the chiltern hundreds, by the Marquis of Worcester. This nobleman and Mr. Codrington are both staunch conservatives, we ob serve; but so the latter is a large West India proprietor, as well as a large landed proprietor in this couaty, we have little doubt that the experience he must now have had, in both characters, of the futility of all schemes for stab!ish ing what is called • protcetive system, either in respect of colonial trade and the prods& that enter IoW it, or of home , THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING', APRIL 9, 1847. agricultural production, will induce hint gradually to con form his own earlier views to those of the sounder and more liberal policy which her Majesty's present ministers are so honestly and efficiently carrying out. In such ease we shall not despair of Lnrd Worcester's conversion by his hon. colleague's example; and we should hell the El:tab/011 of two gentlemen who possess eo much of the respect of their party, not with the selfish gratulatisn of, party triumph, but with the respect and consideration due to those who can bring themselves to make great sacrifices of past political gradations to eonscientious conviction', when they once have formed these, though their tendency Inc in very different directions. The western divi sion is represented by Mr. Blagden Hale, • " staunch Con servative," and by Mr. Grantley Berkeley, who calls himself " a Whig." From his close connexion with so intelligent a constitueney as the Gloucestershire farmers and graziers, whom he represents, we have every hope that, ere long, wo shall see Mr. Hale contributing his aid to the diffusion of those principles of unfettered commercial policy aed of poli tical liberelity, to the salutary influences of which it is not possible that any gentleman of knowledge and intelligence can much longer close his eyes. 'I to the gradual ope ration of such convictions—convictions that we be lieve to be inevitable—we confidently look for each a fusion of parties as shall effectually extinguish the last energies of a destructive monopoly, andadvence the oh jecte of that only legitimate combination which acts consist ently and continuously for the true benefit of the masses. We can only hope that Mr. Grantley Berkeley's whig preposet s sem', which ho somewhat ostentatiously obtrudes on his county admirer", may not induce him at any time to under take the ail rocaey of these principles. If we may judge by the result which has attended his attempt. at vindicating the Game-lawn, the result of such efforts would be the exact con verse of the conclusion that his premises would attempt to es ablish. No person, being in his senses, can read Mr. Cratatley Berkeley's "Plea for the Genie-laws" without ad mitting that it has the accidental merit of making a very good case against them. The same negative praise, that is, the praise of producing a certain amount of good unintention ally, is due to Mr. Berkeley for Loring the public with the squabbles between himself and his brother. Nothing can he in worse taste, or more supremely absurd, than the grove delusion under which thin gentleman writes, that such expositions are • something " due to the public." The public dee; not care one rush abort all the worthless private history or politico-private interests connected with Berkeley Castle, its owner, or its owner's connexions of any kind. But Mr. Grantley Berkeley has written enough to provincial as well u London editete, to show that Glee cestershire electors would indeed he very silly people if, after suck controversies, they could be induced to uphold such • family influence at the expense of one drachm of consistency or principle. It would be very questionable whether the Berkeley influence had not been too long para mount in one division of their county, had it been recom mended even by high pretensions of mural conduct, of intel lectual endowment, or of political consideration oat the part of those who wielded it. The journals of the House of Commons comprise an entry in relation to this county which is probably the earliest on record, to show that, as Oldfield expresses it, " it is so far unnecessary to be a candid/to, in order to be a member, that a person may be chosen and returned, without either his knowledge or consent." For cur parts, we think that this is tee affirmation of a great constitutional principle. Ia periods of public peril and exigency it ought not to be in the option of an individual selected by the unsolicited carefree of his compatriots, to refuse the honourable distinc tion of representing them, when they have once conferred it —unless, indeed, on some very special grounds of personal exemption. April 9, 1694, the committee and the house determined, " That Sir Thomas Bateourt, having a majo rity of votes on the poll, WIN duly elected, and returned, although he had declared at the election that he desired not to he chosen." In April, 1640, the committee of privileges, touching the election of Sir Robert Tracey, reported that they found " many misdemeanours in the said election, and were, therefore, of opinion that Sir Humphrey Trecey, sheriff of the county of Gloucester, should be sent fur ass delin quent, by the serjeant-atarms"—which order was rescinded an Isle. George's undertaking fur the appearance of Sir Humphrey. There are other entries in 1662, 1695, and 1702, touching petitions from Sir John Guise, Bart., against the several returns of Sir Baynham Throekmorton, Mr. Howard, Mr. Stevens, and Mr. Howe ; but there is nothing peculiar in these election petition cases. In Jo , e, 1776, " the Hon. George Berkeley, and a number of freeholders, petitioned minima the return of W. B. Chester, Esq., and the partiality shown by the high sheriff of the county, See.' Out of this case arose the first material imprave ments in the registration of land-tax assessments. The merits of the petition were tried in 1777. It appeared to the committee that the owners of many estates paid no lend tax directly Smell estates carried nut of larger, had been parchased free fron land tax, i.e., the owner of the principal estate paid the tax for the whole after the dismem berment, and wits rated for it. In the course of a few years it often became difficult for the owner of the parcel to prove that hie land was assessed or paid for. The next entry in this case is an amusing example of parliamentary infallibi lity. A difficulty arises by reason of divers electors having one and the same name. The committee solve it, net by any resolution to proceed with the examination of that individual who can speak to the moat important matters under come demeion, or give the beet evidence to such facts as hear most stringently on the questions referred to them ; but by • " heads or tails" species of divi nation. There were three voters of the name of " John Ballenger," of the same place Resolved—" That as several John Ballenger* appear on the poll, the evidence shall be confined to the John Beilonger who pobed on the first day." The committee, after a three mouths' sitting, declereil the sitting member duly elected ; finding, at the same time, no cause to impeach the conduct of the high sheriff. The existing family paramountship influencing the elec tions for this county, is that of the Duke of Beaufort in the easteni division, and that of the Earl Fitzhardinge (suc ceeding to the ancient influence of the earldom of Berkeley) in the western division. It ie meet probable, however, this paramountship cannot long =rain itself against the multi plied and important relations with the county at large of other great houses, such as the De Clifford* Sherbornes, Norfolk', Bathurets, Iterientales, Dudes, &c., the well-known families of Codrineton, Hale, Hope, Charteris, Astleys, pingeotte, (lithe, Cockerel!, Bench, Boevy, Bethell, Codling ton, Paul, Ricketts, and Sand's, and many others, besides , thee° baronets. A' the election in 1811, the registered electors for the eastern division of this county, were 7,930; for the western, 7,743. together, 15,673. On the last registration (1846, see Peel. Paper, Sea. 1847, No. 284) they were, re spectively, for eastern division, 7,803; western division,7,6ol, together, 1.5,404. This ia, though reduced, still a fair con. stituency in point of numerical strength. We strongly ex put to see them, in future, manfully supporting the anise of enlightened progress and • liberal policy, domestic and foreign. X. IRELAND. DUBLIN, APRIL 12. 1 While the Relief Commissioners strain every nerve to give the most rapid effect to the Temporary Relief Act, they find themselves thwarted by some of the' local " justices and gentlemen," who refuse to act. The commissioners have issued a memorandum to the effect that the inspectors have reported " numerous " cases of neglect of ditty by the local gentlemen, thus seeking to throw the responsibility on the commission ers. The latter retort and fix the weight on the "gentle men." If the commissioners be impeded by refusals, they, or rather the Lord-Lieutenant, have a power under the act—where "special circumstances" war rant the deviation—to complete the imperfectly con structed committee from such materials as may seem advisable. On account of a six months' rate, which, with the Treasury advances, cannot be very heavy, these landlords cover themselves with unpopularity, and incur the imputation of carelessness for human life. For each persons a stringent poor-law was not unnecessary. A late statement in the Evening Mail relative to the taxation on the North and South Dublin Unions, has wofullv alarmed the landlords. Twenty-five per cent, in addition to all other rates and charges, made them quite nervous; and yet very little reflection would have dissipated the fact and the figures. To this facility of swallowing unfounded statements, may be attributed their " ignorant im patience" of a rate under the act which would not be likely to exceed Is. or le. 6d. in the pound. The quantity of provisions flowing into all the Irish ports is astonishing. Tralce is a comparatively humble port, though with a fast-increasing trade ; and inthis remote corner,within one week from the 28th of March there arrived 3,070 brie., 1,020 cwt., 1,940 sacks and 77 tons of flour and Indian meal, with large supplies of rice and biscuit. Kerry ought to be well supplied, for large quantities of these stocks will Snd their way into the interior and along the coast. Still the government fulfils its promise of relieving the districts where markets are too distant or inacces sible. The Bulldog, a first-class steamer, arrived in Dingle on the 30th tilt, with 100 tons of meal for the relief committee ; and, on the same day, a company of marines in the Blazer, with a further supply of biscuit. The new guardians of the Castlebar Union are said to contemplate declining to strike a rate, on the ground that it would not, and could not, be generally col lected. A similar regulation upon the part of the old body, recently dissolved, compelled the poor-law commissioners to dissolve the board by special order, and to give directions to the master to admit the paupers on his own responsibility. In refusinut mi ssion to the poor, for the workhouse wase the guardians had the sanction of the Earl of Lucas, the then chairman, and it is somewhat significant of , the temper of the new board, that 0207 have also elected that nobleman to the chairmanship. M. Soyer's model kitchen has not proved very popular, being attacked by the Freeman and Packet at either end of the political pole. Me purposes re turning to his duties in Pall-Mall in a few day s, a ft er having trained the cooking, distributing, and inspect ing staff which is to diffuse the blessings of his sydem from Cape Clear to Connemara. HRALTR or Mn. O'CoxNe.t..L.—fhe Pilot of this evening antains a communication from Mr. John O'Connell, en closing the following extract of a letter from his brother respecting the elder Mr. O'Connell's health. Its tendency Seems by no means favourable : La ensure, DIVARTRIMTT no LA Rinse. MAICII —We arrived here o.day, at half-past three, p.m., haring made a short joarney from Near, - our Loire. We are rnomeding cc ea'y at yrs, as my father tads the motion of the carriage fatigues him, and mires twin in his Seek. lie is today, thank God, very well, ate a pretty good dinner, ant we hare hopes he will seep well. Althonah he is ones very low indeed, we have rennet to thins that the journey &gm ■ with him, and that he may derive great benefit from bra visit to Rams. STATE OF TUE COUNTRY. The fated SClaull;ndgkiliberee;;;;nircue in the same de plorable condition. The captain of the Castleturn Mines btitts that Dr. Swestman, dispensary physician of East Sehull and Ballyilehole, estimates the deaths by disease, fever, and dysentery, induced by starvation, at 2,000. There remain in the district 16,000 souls, 15,000 of whom are, he estimates, destitute. To add to the horrors of these miserable people, the benevolent Dr. Trail, the amiable and humane rector, has been struck with fever. The pay-clerk of the district is also sick of the disea.c. Coder such cir cumstances, perhays we ought not to feel surprise that there are in Cork such outrages occurring as the following : —On Tuesday last, u two cars, employed by the Rev. W. Alcock, ware returning from Inchy near Timoleague, laden with Indian mad, for the purpose of being sold at prime coat to the poor around, they were at tacked by a party of about forty persons on the road leading to Shannonvale, and three of the sacks were plundered : and yesterday, somewhere in the same locality, two ears, laden with flour, the property of the MCRITi. Allin, gentlemen dis tinguished in this WS- Oil of calamity for their kindness and liberality toward. the poor, were in like manner attacked and despoiled of everything. SCOTLAND. EDINBURGH, APRIL 7. The town council of Edinburgh, by a majority of 12 to 11, have approved of the government scheme of education. The resolutions in its favour were moved by tho Lord Prim - oat, who is a voluntary ; and they were seconded by Bailie Mack, who is a churchman. The other councillors, composing the majority, com prise men of all parties ; while, with one or two ex ceptions, the minority is made up of voluntaries op posed, like Mr. 13aines, in all probability, to state education in any shape. Another public meeting is to be held in Glasgow on Friday, when, as discussion is to be allowed, Mr. Baines and his .loctrines may ex pect rough handling. Matters are almost ripe for a pro meeting in Edinburgh, but perhaps some difficulty would be experienced in obtaining clerical speakers, and custom has rendered them indispensable on a platform. The intemperate denunciation of the Marriage and Registration Bills by the Established Church Courts, has induced people to read those obnoxious docu ments, and the more they are read, the more are their real properties discovered. Sober lieges reading in one paper that a reverend divine proposes their con version into a fool's cap for the Lord Advocate's head —that a second denounces them as an assassin stab at the church—a tkird that they will open up the flood-gates of vice and immorality—and that, in short, on their passing, " red ruin will ride trium phantly"—lieges, we say, reading ouch things, have been agreeably surprised to find that, after all, the bills are consistent and necessary pieces of legislation. To-day, the Witness defends them, and laughs at the religious objections that have been made against them. In the Edinburgh Town Council, the Dean of Guild spoke in their favour, but having given no previous notice of his in tention, the subject was postponed till next meet ing. The Town Council of Dundee is also to take them up, and if that body takes its cue from the Pro vost's speech, the decision will be favourable. The Dumfries Courier, which at first was rather against the hill, has now veered round, and, quoting the statistical account of Scotland, gives striking instances of the defective character of the present system of registration. In the papers of to-day an Edinburgh bookseller announces that D'Atibigne, the French ecclesiaatical historian, is to publish a volume on Cromwell. The title is, " The Protector ; a Vindication founded on the latest documents." The Roman Catholics of Edinburgh have concluded the purchase of a large space of ground on the Lotluan-road, for the erection of a magnificent cathe dral. At present they have two chapels, neither of them possessing much architectural attraction. Government has granted 3,000/. for the completion of the buildings connected with the University of St. Andrews. PROVINCIAL. APOTRECA RI ics'Acr.=CAI.TION TO PARTIES PRACTISING. A conviction under this act (55 Geo. 111., e. 139), took place at the Bolton borough serious, on Saturday last, be indict ment for misdemeanour. The defendant was Ellis Flitcroft, a bricklayer, but of late scent for Dr. CotHu, of 5, Faulkner street, Maneliestir, for the sale of " Capsicum Lobelia," and as he stated, " herh., roots, and barks," Mr. Brandt ap peared for the proq eution, and Mr. Sowler for the defend ant. The indictment charged him with practising as an apothecary, contrary to the act ; and evident* was called to shovs that two inquests had been held in Bolton, arising out of his having administered his " herbs, roots, and barks " to the parties. Mr. Brandt insisted very strongly upon the evil% resulting from uncertillcated persons practising, and the ricks arising from their tampering with human life. Mr. Sowler argued that Flitcroft had not practised within the tar going of the statute any more than Mr. Morison, the hygeist, Cockle, or any other person of the kind, and that he was merely an agent for Dr. Coffin. The case occupied about three hours and a half and the jiffy returned a verdict of Guilty. Flitcroft was then ordered into custody, and sen tenced to one month's imprisonment in the House of Cor rection at Salford. TRIUMPH OP THE CHURCH AT LEEDS.—ELECTION OP CH URCHWAIDENA —A correspondent says, "A change seems to have come over the spirit of the dream of the people of Leeds. Yesterday was the day appointed for the annual election of churchwardens for the parish of Leeds, and, although for the last fifteen or eighteen years, the church. warder.* of the parish have been either dissenters, commonly so called, er persons more decidedly opposed to the interests of the church as an institution connected with the state, the parishioners have at length elected by an overwhelming majority the entire body of the churchwardens from the decided friends of the church. Before the votes were taken, one of the inhabitants urged very strongly upon the parishioners a'semblad the propriety of electing as churchwardens persons who would be opposed to levying a church-rate, as, according to the late decision of Lord Denman, a majority of the churchwarden*, and a minority of the vestry, could lay a church rate, if it were required, in opposition to the wishes of a majority of the parishioners. To this it was replied that there would be no more necessity to lay a church rate now than there had been for the last dozen years, as the expenses of the church not defrayed by the congregation, and which the churchwardens were legally bound to provide for by a rate or otherwise, scarcely exceeded 201. The proposer of the opposition list demanded a poll, which the vicar said be would grant if he should re ceive a satisfactory guarantee for the expenses before four o'clock in the afternoon." RAILWAY AcmnExr.—A lamentable accident occurred on Wednesday night at Hartford, on the London and North Western Railway. The engine of the down 5 p.m. expresi train, when arrived at Hartford, was blown to pieces by a sudden explosion of the boiler, and the engineer and fireman, we learn, were both killed on the spot. We have not at present heard of any other lives having been lost. ..... ... THE EDUCATION MOVEMENT IN BIENINOKAM.—The clergy of the establishment in Birmingham, at a meeting held - on Wednesday evening —the Rev. John Garbett, the rural dean, in the chair —unanimouly adopted the following meosoriol to Lord John Rowell: Yes memeghilats consist of the preshiel clergy of the lisesegh of Birmingham, teed of the clergy reeldlng wet the Boyal Poindstioe of Ells \award the sixth, and Misr mama le the mil dessere. That lbw ase thoroughly acqualtind wM re ate et arrehoe In this large end important locality, eM are pinta; senile that it is utt bedlqUate to the necessities Of Roe pepilstice ; so that, whilst mei et what exists is of az uraddrasey kid. there are arithstred Andrei who are elder manly wilkont Mel se millista adders, es without swaiss ChM deserves the 111111111: w ant et seam the trials at tereuess, rd the ails width Ir gnaw trerers, and detained et eq mans of magma gemsehes, and even of osenrlng a It parka in the memmity, or of kno wing their dote rapseibie avenues, and w cashes of society. Tour meniovialishe have, b eaemon with Mime, Moored diligently to supply this by waiting private aurally; bat they feel. with a einvisille partdeea rlleysslng daily, that saheb et Oh kla however oldigasey seal semessful, am guile rempshat to meet tunartellead mars sr a rest ea tits. The Os erstesse f las ran by as sera terra snort sthestherea sal larestre. ben red red wench and emleglellbseseb . 4 .. erketing w stlemialng gantry exer tion, se rah sow and arredbms Drip mw been raised, in keiliens read ethiritles hem marled thedinte, sed the aughgarat it Akar egefrt tradete bea eseanstsbly harred Ile wary of the tenth. Bet ths eatuarn. peer amen damaster etadreilen rpm& rt weer:. starer Wrap, Mersa the repartet areara risen Tr all eardere rterratha pear ate vistsey ▪ masts cruet amply Wars or trot ressar miter le a large abet, e as be admit giddlin inslibatisr ran ma rim as site• MEMO *II limn to thredwe et Ora airmiers the et the wore or rear gore era. rat. at Iltleree boss brae their ere triter d army klnd as le Ss red, ehr inmestias therede at the 'Nam iberser ere It Werra rd evil. pest aresrlerta tad St Ores Is a perrelety elllaera risk It tea sifter reject arrears arra thereametbrarg srarhatebtaty, tossing laser avers as, rant peivele liberality, or lathers wen re Arts and wr, may mem, to all that et a veer trader b arts neterty to all Thebkin a s to the alegi of like nation to sustain a este gig* involves stg at the 'tenon, Tour I marelellele alma r pram of exclusive right to national rapport el re part et Ohs telelished church, but freely recognise the dime f aim dermintierk of Cluistions, to the fill extent *Ars=at the Bart aye will allow. Tour enemorWists, =id the nine of the committee of council, rd i Zseimegeme angimakiens faun secretary, further show —that, though they are net greand ti . mea as coolest on every detailed part of the was. Jaw tift the &faculties with which the gorruert brand • prastirly with so hopcstant I question, and do met hesitate to moms their satisfaction with the I minute., an used in a wine, comprehensive, ini benevolent spirit, evincing a =nitre desire to reeoneile, u for se piv.iihle, realm* and conseivntious difference% and presenting the ooly ground on which se:awls of universal application can be eV... newly mesh lobe.!. Tee, believe t h at. if, their operation, the m!nutes mill ready aid rulantary efforts, sustain and benefit eid-ting ohm's, clivate the partition of masters and ml ereass% cite wortmlit leo for the advance ment of talent on I virtue ..berg it wonW be otherwise utterly des pressed, and vault the energies, hominy., and mind titbits of the community, b- imputing • religious and useful education to Many thnumnds of our poorer fellow-subjects, as well in the agricultural as in the commercial deiricht, who would otherwise over attain it. To tour lonl.hlp. therefore, and her Majesty's goTernrne, , , the me morialists dedre tooonscy their thanks Mr the minutes, th.ar willing ness to emonerato to varying them into effect, and their s.r.eete trust that they will be penivel not doubting the they will approve themselves to the general god sense, benevolent feeling. and moue cm:ivied...a of the great mass of the community. NORFOLK. ....... MY,TERIOI.'S POISON I NU.—ATTL RBURCi If TH 0 ILSDAY ineestigation opened by Mr. Pilgrim, the Nor folk coroner, on the 30th ult., respecting the deaths of Mrs. Mary l'earson, aged 50, and Mrs. Elizabeth Everett, aged 56, who were poisoned by means of arsenic, being secreted in their food, was resumed this morning at 10 o'elielc, at the Greyhound Inn, Tibbenhans, a village eight miles distant. James Warren, an intelligent lad, aged 18, servant to Mr. Joseph Pearson, was the first witness, but his evidence was so unsatisfactory that the coroner ordered him to the care of the police.—Eliza Sage, 17, another servant, stated, that on the day in question she filed the kettle fur hreakfast.— Coroner : If poison has been found in the tea kettle, eel you form any opinion as to how it got there ? Witness : I can not, sir; she was a good mistress to me, and I ton very sorry if that is the case. The water that remained in the tea kettle 0.1 Sunday morning the doctor took away. I filled a bottle with the water trim the kettle on the same morning to warm my mistress's feet. I put the kettle is the copper hole in the back house on Saturday night. I planed it on the fire on Sunday morning before I went milking. On the Thursday before her death, my mistress took me up in her room and showed me tome mi.' holes in a closet; she put some poison in the hole, it was mixed up in something in a basin. 1 swept out the closet, and some pieces of the poison w ere amongst the dust which she threw on the fire, and there was no vessel on the tire when she threw it there ; the kettle was not near it. On the Sunday night Mrs. John Peerson, a sister of the deceased, called at the house and directed me to fetch another tea kettle for tea, as she was amid to di ink out of the one that had perviously been in use ; she was afraid to have tea made in it. The medical gentlemen had the kettle which boiled the water on Sunday morning. A wrong one was given them at find, but the mistake was nctified, and the right oneentrusted totheen. Mr. G. W. Firth, surgeon, Norwich. deposed that on the 31st of March, in :onjune tinn with Mr. H. Howard, of New Buckenham, and his insistent, he made a post-mortem examination of the bodies of the deceased. The general external appearance of the body of Mrs. Pearson was healthy. The etoreach contained about 12 oz. of yellow liquid, a little tinged with blood. He had submitted the conter.ts of the stomach and a portion of the liver to a chemical analysis, and had et ,rated arsenic from them. Taking the circumstance of the death into con sideration, he had no doubt that she had died from weenie. The some conclusion woe the result, on examining the body of Elirabeth Everett. Ile had examined a teakettle, some water in a stone bottle, and some in a glass bottle, which war delivered to him by liloomsfeeld, the Tibt-euham con stable, and which he understood to be foetid in the de ceased's, Mrs. Parson's, le use. He also examined some tea-leaves from Mr. Howard, which was stated to have been token from the teapot which was used by the de ceased at the breakfast on the Sunday morning they were taken ill, and some greasy paste. He foetid arsesie in all these. The kettle contains only a small trete. The water in the glass bottle had but a small portion of the arsenic. The weter in the stone bottle contained the greater portion. The liquid in the former vessel was evidently not the same sample. In the tercleavea be found arsenic, as also in the greasy paste. After the evidence of the medical men the proceedings were adjourned. fmr Etas. ItoVAL ACADEMY.—The "Hanging Committee" Os the Academy, Messrs. Eastlake, Webster, and Herbert, are busily enraged arranging the pictures for the ensuing exhi bition. They have both an oncrous and a delicate task to perform. The first duty of a flanging Committee is inn rialsly to reject. "We have more than we have room for," is the yearly exclamation. This accomplished, they have first them'clven to serve, then their brethren in the Academy, and then the associates. The line of right is pretty well en gaged by the time the Rapti Academician* "nil associates of the Academy are taken care of. Should a good niche re main, it is given, perhaps, to a favourite student, or the son of an Academician, or just as chance and ac ident may deter mine. Then come the undecorated—the many who want the appendage to their names of R.A., or A.R A.. and who have little to look for but a place above or a place b,-low the line. This well or ill placing is u serious matter where a picture is concerntd. Wilkie's "Blind Fiddler , " the rioond picture he sent to the Academy, was PD in the exhibition that it was nearly obscured by a " Black smith's Forge" of a 1t0y..1 Acatlerincian immediately adjoin ing. It behoves Si* committee, then, to exercise their func tions with even-handed justice. In a space too limited to allow of all being well seen, some must be above and some below the line. But what the public pay* to ace, is the beat pictures in the hest plam* —not the measlier* of the Academy . in all the gond places. There are, we are told, better painters in the Academy than out cf it—which is per fectly true ; but just as true is it that there are better painter. out of the Academy than many that are in it. All we would urge on this year's cammit•ee is the principle of giving the best places to the best picturiv, and the necesdty of abolish ing that black hole of the Academy, called the Octagon Room, where the spectator looks to see a picture in vans, I and where the members of the committee " hang up" their opponents to a long three month, of unmerited obscurity. There see pleasing rumours afloat about this }ear's exhi bition. Edwin Landseer has a picture of Van Aiaburgh be tween a lion and a tiger, a commission, we ore told, from the Duke of Wellington ; Etty, a story of Joan of Arc, painted in three compartments Mulready, another ' , kilo*e from the Vicar of Wakefield, a commission from Sir Thom,* Baring; Mr. Webster, a picture of Village Choristen., a con.minion from Mr. Sheepshanks; Mr. E. M. Ward, a Scene in 'Chaser Alley in the time of the South Sea scheme ; Mr. Frank - Grant, two full-length portraits of Sir Henry Pottin ger and Mr. Hudson (the Railway King) ; Mr. Dibson, a statue of the Queen ; and Mr. M'Dowall, a colossal group of the Death of Virginia. ine arama. _ LycEuM.—A new drama in three acts, from the pen of Mr. Shirley Breoks, was produced here with success last evening. It belongs rather to the school of the Adelphi than to that of the Lyceum, where we usually expect more of the comic than the sentimental. No objection, however, is to be taken to it on that account. Madame Celeste has no legal or recognised monopoly in the tears of those who love "intense interest" and " strikit g situation" above every other sort of dramatic art. The sentiment of " The Creole," for such is the name of the drama, iv "anti slavery." If Frederick Douglass, now, see suppose, in the hold of the good ship Cambria, could have seen the author as he appeared on the stage last night he would have jumped from the boxes to the pro , renium to have embraced him. Mrs. Maurer, on the other hind, had she only heard Mrs. Keeley deliver the tag, would have been ready to scratch her eyes out, if only for the honour of Calhoun, " her own dear American statesman.' The scene is laid in the Mauritius, at the early period of the French revolution. A regiment hos arrived there, a young officer of which, a Al. de Nyon, is the proprietor of an COCO in the colony. Soon after his arrival he has fallen in lo,c with • Creole girl, with whose history he is unacquainted. There lives on an adjacent estate a man of colour, named Latour, who is enamoured with the daughter of a M. I. k oniron, a proprietor of rank, with whom De Nyon is intim:Ml,' con nected. Latour makes himself acquainted wild De Noss, and discovers his affection fur Louise. On this discovery he resolves to build his own success lie reveals to be Nyore that Louise is a slave of the estate of which he (De Nyon) proprietor; induces him to sell her to himself. in order that she may be legally freed; and, having thus obtained poneraion of the prize, turns round upon his aii• quaintance, and refuses to release Louike unless De Nyon will obtain for him the band of t'irginie Oarniron. The sufferings to which the unhappy Louise is exposed whilst under Latour's infitieuce, form a leading feature as the drama. A rivandiire, however, is her guardian angel. This Minerva of humble life has not only taken Louise under her protection, but has also thrown her shield ever Bakes, a Jew dealer in the colony, who, because he is a Jew, is persecuted by its inhabitants. Bokes has had deal lop with Latour, and it transpires, just at the right mo ment, that the latter has assigned to him all la's property. Here is a prospect of release for Louie.. Latour. however, has, it seems, been toa deep for tke Jew; for, under the law of the Mauritius, no alien can acquire property in slave*, and consequently there was no authority to put Bok.s in pos session of what Latour has by deed made over ti him. It is at this juncture that f.arour engages in a duel with a dathico young officer, named St. Entilion, who is in love with Virgin,. Damiron. In this duel Latour receives his deathblow. As he is expiring, the proclamation of the convention arrives, by which freedom is conferred on all slaves in the colonies of France, and thus Louise becomes free, and " virtue is rewarded," though Bolus lutes his principal and interest. The piece was prettily put upon the stage. Mrs K played the rioandiere, and her husband the Jew, with their usual skill. The latter, who had a long beard ant a coat al the latest Monmouth.street cur, was occasionally exceed , ins'' , amusing. Emery was east in the part of 1,10.111. which is rather above his usual range of character, thong\ he played it, as he plays everything, with energy and are. Mr. Leigh Murray was the officer (De Nyon), Mr. F. Mat thews the planter (Dantiron), and Miss May the capti vating slave. Miss Dickinson had • small part as St. Entilion, which she played with • great deal of dash and smartness. The drama was very much applauded through out, and at its close the principal actors, and subsequently the author appeared before the curtain, receiving all the ovations which attended a theatrical success. dam. CLERICAL. Tice Budior or LONCON :men !s alienating part of the rectorial rich., of Pt. otephen Coleman, Fenchurch•drect (new racant,„' • • bait of the district churches in Bethnal-green. The oat , • said, will be redrawn true 1,5001. to 800/. • • . ob. • sig A BILL Ls vow 10 IRE floisr. or Conroe.. • • • • of Doddington sr. March, in the Isle of El • • • sti. 11.11111101. The next ordination of the Lord Bishop of•W • 14 • ,4 the 154 h August. Ponytail:sm.—Rev. Wm. Ilse lowill, to ' I • Norw. ; Rev. B. J. Rolston. A.M., to South • Norf., dio. Nora, : ralne 163/..• patron, J. • rinalket, Suffolk. Rev. J. A. 'frees, M.A., • to be ace of her Modesty's preachers at VI h • • 101 to Nor h Lew R., Heron, q. itacter ; rah,/ - • patron, the crown : vacant by death of Be,. W. • • ' • ss.