The Express. — London, England, 1847-03-12 00:00:00

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The noble and learned lord also moved for a copy of the evidence and warrant of committal, in the case of four boys who had been committed by a Middlesex magistrate to take their trial for felony, in consequence of one of them having thrown another boy's sap over some railings. The grand jury had indignantly ignored the bill, and he was desirous of ascertaining the name of the committing magistrate, considering as he did, that ho was altogether unworthy of retaining his °Moe. The Marquis of LONDONDERRY wished to put s question to the government. He had received information from Ireland that a watchmaker had issued a placard, offering for sale a consignment of arms and ammunition from England. He wished, therefore, to know whether the government intended to bring in an Arms' Bill, similar to that introduced in the last session. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE was ignorant of the fact alluded to, which might properly be referred to the relief committee of the district ; but he was not prepared to say that it was the intention of the government to introduce the measure referred to by the noble Marquis. Iu the House of Commons, a new writ was ordered for Lewes, in the room of Sir HOWARD ELPUINSTONE, who had accepted the stewardship of the Chiltern Hundreds. Dr. BoweiNo moved for the appointment of a select committee to inquire into an alleged case of hardship with respect to the pay ment of legacy duty ou property invested in the British funds, the testator having been domiciled in India, where he died after a continued residence of sixty years. After some discussion the hon. member withdrew his motion, with the intimation of bringing the question forward in another form, on the ground that the two legal authorities who had addressed the house had Mated that it was not the law that legacy duty should be paid by the representatives of indi viduals not domiciled in England. Lord o.llereriNex in moving . for certain returns relative to the number of deaths in Ireland in the last six months, said. the Irish people ought not to be allowed to die like do without any record of the ts, mortality. His Waa, to ascertain whether proper care had been taken to preserve the lives of the people in this period of scarcity. In the last year large supplies of food had been sent into Ireland; but m this, a system of political economy had been adopted instead; and that at a period when people Were dying by hundreds. Mr. LABOUCHERE Wait It a loss to know from what quarter the government could obtain any additional infor mation to that which it had already promised to supply, as there unfortunately was not in Ireland as in thus country, a register of births, marriages, and deaths, but every possible inquiry would be made to ascertain whether the information required by the noble lord could be furnished. He was wholly at a loss to know on what ground the noble lord hazarded the charge, that the great mortality in Ireland was owing to the government having acted on a system of political economy, while their predecessors had acted upon the principle of feeding the people, because, the quantity of food imported by the present, considerably exceeded that which had been intro duced by the late government. Political economy certainly did not teach a minister that unusual exer tions were not to be resorted to in an unusual state of circumstances, but it did teach this—that if those exertions were misdirected, the effect might be to in crease, rather than to diminish, the evil. After some farther discussion, the motion was withdrawn. The adjourned debate on the annexation of Cracow, was then resumed, the speakers being Mr. M. Mitten, Lord DALMENY, Dr. BOWRING, Sir W.MOLESWORTH, Lord MAHON, Sir H. INGLIS, Lord G. BENTINCK, Mr. T. DUNCOMBE, and Sir R. Peel., after which the debate was farther adjourned to Tuesday next. The report on the Landed Property (Ireland) Bill was further considered, and the sitting terminated. Tim government plan of education, or rather the three great principles of state-aid, state-inspection, and state-rearing of preceptor., has been subjected to a severe ordeal, from which it has come forth as triumphant as the warmest lover of popular educa tion could desire. In a public meeting, called at Leeds, the head-quarters of the enemies of the measure —a meeting, the doors of which were flung open to the operative as to the manufacturer, to the popular dele gate as to the magistrate, to low church as to high church,—the great principles adopted by the liberal party now wielding the government as the best for oveieoming the existing obstructions in the way of education, and for extending its blessings to the poorer classes—these, assailed by a fair proportion of the opposition ao zealously got up, were nevertheless . as sented to, and carried to the enthusiastic acclamations of an assembly as mixed in grade, and class, and creed, and political sentiment, as could well be ima gined. There are few measures of any government that could stand such a trial as this ,; and we take the result, not so much as a proof of the wisdom of go vernment, which it fairly is, but of the growing en lightenment, liberality, and sound sense of our middle and lower classes, in the midst of the most powerful efforts to enlist them in the cause of bigotry and For For our part we cannot comprehend, we had almost said we could not believe, the opposition of dissenters to what is avowedly the most promising, the most feasible, the only plan for largely and imme diately extending popular education. The elements of reading and writing, with the due exercise of the mental powers acquired in learning them, form, at the present day, what speech was centuries ago. They are the means of comprehending all that is thought and done around us, of entering into full communication with our fellows, and with the age we live in. The few scraps of knowl edg e that existed centuries ago, might be communicated by speech. There floats now a mass of facts, and truths, and knowledge around us, which those who do not read cannot catch. Those who do uet read, in our times, do but half live, cannot exercise but the hundredth part of an intellect, and scarcely rise above the more intelligent animals I of our day. To place what are such indispensable elements of human intellect and human nature in the power of oar whole population, is an imperative duty on the liberal politician, first of all, who would raise man from the rank of a machine, and then upon the liberal Christian, who would unite reason with religious belief. We can imagine the ser vile admirer of a paternal and despotic govern ment, uphold ignorance as a kind of darkness favour able to such a regime. We can conceive the prelates of a church, founded solely on authorities and tradi toOo, anxious to withhold the elements of knowledge, which leads to questioning and mooting. But for men who represent, or say they represent, popular in temota, and who are for the freedom and unlimited power of religious dissent in opposition to a state church —. for such men to oppose the extension of edu cation, nay, to crush education unless it be in their cron peculiar Shibb o l e th, i s on th e i r par t suc h a sui cidal and treasonable heresy, as really to be in credible. What are we to think of ministers and champions of religious dissent, who put so little faith in the bath and force of their peculiar views as to be con !laced, that no opening or increase of education is 14 ' 51 7 to bring converts to their fold ; but, on the con trary, who fear lest government aid, given necessarily in greater proportion to the majority of schools con nected with the Church of England, will suffice to tempt away and abstract families and children from their flocks. If such be the nervous mistrust of a small class of dissenters in that which they revere as troth, what a feeble and quenchable spark do they emiider religious truth to be. Mr. BAINES and the dissenters, who would put their extinguisher on education, look evidently on the large uneducated class of the English population much as a discoverer of the seventeenth century regarded • new continent. He planted his flag on the deserted shore, not to occupy, people, or cultivate it—for which he bad neither men, means, nor power — but to prevent other nations, which might have the command of those means, from oc cupying or cultivating. Mr. BAINKt is the' dog in the manger. He cannot educate the ignorant and the destitute, therefore he will let no others do so, because the instruments and officers are not of his appointment, and is his livery. Mr. BAINES knows perfectly that what the government plan, by its small concession to the clergy, and the great concession of the clergy to it, can effect, is to obtain the establishment of at least one school in every parish. This will give hundreds and thousands of such people who can read, and write, and reason. I will have none of them, exclaims the educationist. Better that Englishmen should for ever remain ignorant as brutes, than learn to read, if they learn with it the catechism of their fathers' church. The journal which has taken the most active part against the present extension of education seeks to excite fears of Church of England predominance, by pointing to the increased predominance of the Church of Rome, and by means of the great weapon of the age, education. Now what is the fact? It is, that the influence of the Church of Rome is certainly on the increase in France, where the efforts of both executive and legislature have been thwarted by the bigotry of the clergy, and the inert ness and avarice of the population. Whereas, throughout Germany, where the principle of state schools has been fully sirried oat, the influence of Catholicism is decidedly on the decline, even in exclu. sively Catholic kingdoms. We say this on the authority of pers we best and most recently acquainted with those countries. And we are quite confident, that Romanish tendencies are best combated by edu cation, and especially by popular education. But it is for its effect on the intellectual and moral character, quite independent of its effect on religious belief, th ati we prize education ; and therefore we hail its extension in the villages of Catholic Austri a or of Greek Russia, ornfident that it is the great civilising principle—the great step towards making , Europe and the world one community, in sentiment at least, and that sentiment a Christian, a charitable, and a moral one. Should the Pope himself establish pri mary schools, and set barefooted monks to be the pre ceptors, even then we should rejoice : for education is like glass, in whatever farnace molten or by whatever hands manipulated, its characteristic is to admit light ; in order to this it rejects, in melting, all admixture of impurity from its mass. We find the view lately taken by us of the pub lished reports of last year's trade confirmed by a weighty authority. BURNS'S Glance at the Cotton Trade attempts to all up_the blank left la the of the Custom-hones. , 0 ...- • • .— . quantiti!, corresponding ueciared official value of exported goods are mane ally published by Mr. MAN& This useful led lull► rious compilation for the year 1846 is before se, sad corroborates our assumption that increased quantities were represented by the decreasing values declared in 1846, as compared with 1845. The quantity of cotton consumed weekly in Great Britain amounted in 1846 to 31,796 bales, while in 1845 it was but 30,933 bales. The following are amongst the more striking items of increased bulk in exports. The quantities here given denote an excess of exports over those of 1845: lbs. 1 lbs. To Brazil 28,629 1 To Chios 1,687,939 Bele= 1,441,933 1 Na*es nod Icily ElreP l Ha us Towns 4,712,737 Trieste and Venice 1,239,394 Holland Past ladies 6,293,991 But the most singular falling off is in our export to Ruisia, which decreased by 2,748,9271 be., in spite of the large imports of raw produce made from that quarter. This serous diminution is attributable in part to the prohibitive duties levied in Russia on English manufactures, but is no doubt partly the result of an alteration made some time ago in the mode of levying the duties in the Russian porta. There appears, therefore, no hope of the Eng lish mantes , ' obtaining access to the large populations of central Asia - through Russia, a line of trade that our merchants commanded in the middle ages to the great profit of the Muscovite czars. Upon this point a question of international law would sug gest itself, were it not that the changes in more hos pitable quarters effected by the improvements made by our own tariff are more attractive matter for dis cussion. We recognise in the increased exports to the Bra zils, Holland, and the East Indies a result of the re duction in the sugar duties, and regard both the im portation of sugar and the exports of our wares as still susceptible of a large increase. Our trade with Germany increased also largely, bat has since met with a check in the increased duty on yarn imposed by the states of the Zollverein. As we shall probably export less in that direction in future, it may be anti cipated that the Germans will also send us less, and the growing supplies of toys, glass, ornaments, and metals will diminish. NI ere they to continue, the exchange being against England, the price would I be virtually lowered, and would not repay the ex porters. Another and more serious visitation has followed the injudicious step taken by the Zollverein in excluding English yarns. The numerous hand loom weavers in Saxony and in the provinces near the Rhine have been deprived of work, and are now in great numbers subsisting on food given in charity. Thus an unwise commercial system entails on them a calamity similar to that experienced in Ireland through the blight of an important crop. The dimi nution of our experts to oar West Indian colonies is matter of regret. The quantities exported to our American and Australian colonies seem to have diminished. West ladies North American Worths Anima Omit. 74.042 Australis. 26,9611 The trade with the colonies is, perhaps, more rag ceptible of improvement through some of the reforms that have been spoken of as about to take place, than is commonly suspected. By raising the tone of feel ing amongst the colonists, and giving importance to the resident cultivaten, their exertions will be stimu lated, and cultivation on a large scale, corresponding to machine power rather than to hand labour, will doubtless be adopted. The Colonial-office is now in hands eminently qualified to give this course a fair trial. Indeed it cannot fail to ensue upon any relaxa tion of the strict tutelage in which our colonies have long been held, to their own detriment and that of the mother-country. The increase of our exports to the pre-eminently open markets, Turkey, Egypt, and China, is on the other hand encouraging, and we are glad that all accounts agree in promising an increasing demand from the northern China ports now open. The limit to this demand seems only to lie in the power ' in our market to absorb the return, which is mostly in tea. We cannot regard the picture of the cotton trade, presented by the Glance, otherwise than as denoting a healthy state of our tr ading relations, and, consider ing that large amounts of bullion have been sent to the various quarters whence grain is importing, are induced to concur in the cheering views taken by the heads of the Board of Trade. That large quantities of grain will have to be paid for with bul lion is beyond doubt. Bat that these sums will cir culate, and eventually come back to us, can as little be doubted. SOME of those persons who are in the habit once a fortnight of glancing over the Indian news may have observed in our last accounts that a considerable mili tary force is engaged in suppressing some disturb ances in the country of the Khonds . 'f here are, pro bably, few who attach any definite notion to the cir cumstance. It is assumed that some chief has at tempted to resist English authority, or that some pretender is contesting the title of a protected Rajah ; and that the eventual suppreasson of the disturbance is as much a matter of course aq the quieting of a street row in London, and to be effected much in the same way, by the interference of the police. Although th'a view is, in the present instance, partially well- THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, MAT CH f2,' 1847. founded, . u the immediate pretext of the in surrection cossi.ts in the claims of a turbulent chief: Lain to a forfeited Zemindary, the course or police which has brought the government into colli-ion with the Khond tribes end their neighbours, and the cha racter of tkose tribes, are sufficiently remarkable to justify a less hasty notice than would be afforded by • paragraph in our Indian dispatch. It would probably be difficult to persuade en ordi nary person that the Madras government, by its agents, acting sometimes independently and some times under the direct control of the Supreme Govern ment of India, has for the last ten or eleven years been devoting great labour and expense to an enttr. I, philanthropic object, in the pursuit of which it is now engaged in a disinterested war. The transactions to which we refer are strikingly illustrative of the best characteristic of our rule in India, the consciousness of a mission to suppress anarchy and barbarism, di rected by a practical instinct which distinguishes the limits which must bound the general principle of nun interference with national customs. - • --- The Khonds are a wild nation of highlanders, inha biting a mountainous district on the coast of the Bay of Bengal, about 400 miles to the south-west of Cal cutta, and nearly double that distance from Madras, but included within the limits of the latter presidency. Till about eleven years ago this country and its inha bitants were little known. Though apparently of 1 Hindoo blood, the 'mountaineers are free from the restrictions of caste, and generally indifferent to the distinctions of food and other Brahminical observances. Within their own territory they were practically inde pendent, though they acknowledged some feudal relations to the Zemindars of the low country, which adjoins their hills. We have no room to describe their ' general character and habits ; but it seems that they' are in general an estimable, though rude, population, simple in, their habits, tolerab:y peaceable amongst themselves, and, after their peculiar fashion religious. It was their religion, indeed, which brought them into collision with the English authorities; and paradoxical as it may seem, after what we have said of the present contest, it is on our part both a breach of relieious toleration, and a direct attack on the freedom of trade. _ _ . It was, we believe, in the year 1836 that the Eng lish authorities at Vizianagur and Gamjam first be came aware that the Khoods were in the habit of offering human sacrifices ; and that their lowland neighbours supplied them with victims. The Indian government is justly called the most tolerant in the world; bat it seems no more to have thought of including the Khond superstition within its range of toleration, than of permitting the far more atrocious worship of KALI by the Thugs. lf, indeed, the tribes had been contented to provide victims among themselves, it is pro bable that they might have remained unmolested in their worship, at least till they became more directly subject to our authority ; but the practice of purchasing or kidnapping children from the low lenders for their sacrifices, made it important to attempt the immediate suppression of their revolting custom. Many plans were proposed for the purpose. Some officers attempted, with partial success, to reason the chiefs into the abandonment of human sacrifices; in some cases the meriahs, or victims, were rescued by military force, and some of the kidnappers who supplied the +aerial* market were tried for the offence. One of them who had undertaken to a victim, and had provided one whom the authorities rescued, was obliged to substitute his own daughter in his place, and the girl was actually sacrificed. The dealer was tried, but escaped through a wonderfully inappropriate adherence to English maxims as to the strict rules of evidence. Captain MAC rHERsoN, who has for some years resided in the Khond country under the orders of the supreme government, has displayed extraordinary ability in combating the obnoxious practice by alter nations of persuasion and force. Some of the Bis sayes, or chiefs of the country, seem to have honestly conformed to his wishes ; others have either temporised or directly opposed him, as circumstances allowed. The head of the religious party, SAM BMISAYE, seems to have derived a new pleasure in arranging meriah sacrifices, from the knowledge that he was deceiving or defying the English agent. The 1 contests between the canning and zeal of SAM, and the sagacity and decision of Captain MACPHERSON, would sf themselves form an interesting narrative. i On the whole, we believe his success has been con , siderable, though incomplete ; but a strong feeling of I dissatisfaction with the interference of the English I has spread through the tribes, and the pressure of the Seikh war last year diverted Lord HARDING a's atten tints from the danger of an impending insurrection. The rebellion is for the present confined among the Khonds to some of the border tribes, acting in con junction with the inhabitants of some of the lowland districts, who, though not practising the Khond re ligion, have a commercial interest in its maintenance, as producers of the victims required. It is in this point of view that our arms are engaged as we ob served above, in the suppression of free trade. Among our bitterest enemies are some vagabond and disrepu table tribes, neither Khonds nor lowlanders, who have hitherto enjoyed the carrying trade and broker age ,as purchasers or kidnappers of victims. With all our regard for the principles of political economy, we cannot but hope that this branch of industry will be forcibly checked, and that the supply of nieriahs will no longer be regulated by the demand. With the Khonds themselves, though the determi nation to put down their sacrifices is justifiable and praiseworthy, we have much more sympathy than with the tribes who supply them with victims. They all belong to the landed interest, their principal deity is the Earth, and the object of their sacrifices is gene rally an abundant harvest. It is not allowed to offer either a native or a prisoner of war; the victim must be bought for money, either from the patents or from , kidnappers, and generally comes among them as a ' child. It is kindly brought up, and lives among the natives on terms of friendship and equality, till the priests declare that the barrenness of the soil requires to be removed by consecrated blood. Then at a solemn festival, in the midst of hymns, of which the burden is the offering is ours, we bought kim with a price,' the priest passes the sacrificial knife across the meriah's throat, and the whole population rush in, cut him to pieces, and carry off each a piece of flesh to his own field, as a charm to ensure a good crop. We have often thought of the use which some of the Learn orators might have made of this system of "doing justice to the farmer," literally at the price of human blood. Sometimes, however, the Khonds rise in their supplications above the immediate prospects of the harvest to wider political considerations. The earth goddess or deity to whom human victims are offered, has, ameng other attributes, the remarkable title of , " God of things as they are." '• Oh, God of things as they are," so runs one of their hymns, "let us be as our fathers were—neither better nor worse, but as our fathers were,* and so the victim dies, and if their prayer is not heard, their wish has thus far been accomplished. They are now receiving lessons in another doc trine, the religion of things as they ought to be. We hop, the government may, by a judicious combina tion of severity and force, succeed in abolishing their obnoxious rites without driving them into permanent hostility, or expelling them from the lands they cul tivate so carefully. The Goomsur insurrection is possibly by this time suppressed. A conviction of the irresistible power of the government will lead the Khonds all the more readily to believe in its wisdom and to follow its advice. MALTA—By the Tague arrived at the Motherbank yesterday, brines! the Southampton portion of the India mail, brought by Weghorn's express, we have received papers from Malta to Feb. 19, and from Gibraltar to the 3rd of the present month. The Malta papers are occupied with the report of a eourt-martial held on the Ist ult. on the ease of Captain H. Daniell, of the 42nd, who was charged with appearing at the mem in a state of intoxication and impro perly dressed, and with having improperly imprisoned the surgeon of the regiment. The court, a fte r a deliberation of nearly two days acquitted the prisoner of the charge of drunkenness, but found him guilty of wearing an undress coat, and sentenced him to be admonished by the Lieutenant general. COLONIAL. SOUTH AUSTRALIA. New Bisnoreic IN A UATRALIA.—We have reason to believe that the name of the Rev. Augustus Short, vicar of Ravenschorpe, Northamp ton, has been submitted by the Arabishop of Canterhury to Earl Grey to fill the bishopric of Adelaide. Mr. Short was the Hampton lecturer of last year, 1844. This is one of the bishoprics founded by that munificent lady, Miss Burdett Coutts. It is, we understand, propose:l to appoint a bishop to Newcastle, on the Hunter's River, making—with the Rev. Mr. Perry's appointment to Port Phil'p_and the Bishop of Sydney—four ba&prics for New South Wales. • • ebt emu. The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, walked in the plantations of O•iliotne.house on Wednesday attemoon.—Mr. 0. E. AllllOll arrived at Oslxirne•house on Wednesday. 11 S.R. Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar and Mr. Anson joined the royal circle at dinner.—Yesterday morning her Majesty and her royal consort, accompanied by Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, took their accustomed early walk.—Tkeir RR. RH. the Prince of Wale, tha Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, walked out on Wednesday afternoon. Yesterday morning the royal children walked and rode on ponies on the heach.—LlS.R. Prince Edward of Sue Weimar left Osborne-hon.e yesterday morning ; erased, in the Fairy, to Gorgon; and proccededto Winchester.— Indy Caroline Somers Cocks (maid of honour in waiting) left o.burne-house, yesterday. ter tows. The Governor of the Bauk of England, and the Depu.)-Gov. rum, had a. interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, yesterday, at his o ffi cial residence in Down ing-stmt.—Mr. R. Gerd .n had an interview with the Earl of Clarendon, yesterday, a t the office of the Board of Trade. —Mr. Bagshavre had an interview withthe Right Bon. E. Strutt, yesterday, at the office of the Commission. rs of Rail ways, in Great George-street.—The Postmaster• General had an interview, yesterday, with the Chancellor of the Ex chequer. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England had a general meeting, yesterday, at their o ffi ce in Whitehall place. ACCIDENT AT OSBORNE-110USE.—On Wednesday afternoon, about half-pin.; four o'clock, a sad accident occurred at the new building at Osborne. It appears that some workmen were removing a centre under ono of the arched passages of a very conci lerable portion of the building now to progress, and it is supposed that, owing to something slipping, one end of the centre, sr framework, on which the arch WAS formed, acted is a lever under the arch, and raising it, caused the displacement of the materials of which it was composed, and the weight of which. falling on a scaffold be low it, precipitated the whole to the ground, together with some of the workmen who were engaged upon it. The principal foreman of the bricklayers, who was on the arch at the time, giving directions to his men, fortunately escaped ; but we regret to learn that three of the labourers are injured : one man, named Blake, very severely on the head; a second, named Gale, has his leg broken ; and the third, named Norris, has two of his ribs fractured. Her , Majesty and H. 11.11. Prince Albert, oa the alarm being given, hastened to the spot, aad gave immediate directions Vaat the best surgical assistance should be sent for, and every thing possible to alleviate their sufferings provided for them. Mr. IVeedon, of East Cowes, and Mr. Cass, of West Cowes, quickly arrived, and did all they thought the eases admitted of. The report of the medical men yester day mornincwas, that hey consider Blake is in considerable danger, but that the other two men ars doing well. COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL. Yesterday a court wu held for the despatch of public buiinem. INTIXDFD Nsw CITY Parso9.—The lord mayor pre treated the report of the gaol committee of the Court of Aldermen upon the referents to consider of a site for a new House of Correction for the city of London. The report, it will be recollected. particularly recommended to the attention of the Court of Aldermen • piece of ground belonging to the city, at Holloway, of the extent of 16. t. lit. 18r., and esti mated at the cost of 3.980/. The recommendation was favourably received by the court, and upon the motion of Mr. Wire it was referred to the committee on prisons with the power to co-operate with the committee of aldermen on the subject, and before the same should be carried into exe cution to report to the Court of Common Council TUB DleAo XXXXXXX BITWZIET THE TWO COIIIITS.— Mr. Asweasr, in brining up the report of the committee of the whole court, on the differences between the Court of Common Council and the Lord Mayor, and between the Court of Common Council and the Court of Aldermen on the subject of the qualification bill, arid, it was the object of the errive at toe most accurate CODCOISSITL SA to the rights and privileges of the two branches of the corporation, for which purpose, it would be necessary to ascertain the most desirable mode in which they could proceed for the at tainment of that object, and he recommended that the advice of counsel be taken, if such should be considered necessary. Deputy Stevens seconded the motion that the report be reeeived.—The motion was pet and agreed to. A conversation took place upon a second report brought up by Mr. Ashurat relative to the correction of the minutes, in which it appeared to the court there was some irregularity, and the report was agreed to. Mr. Ashurst said that as it was desirable the court should proceed to other business, he should submit the following motion " That the lord mayor having refused to put to the court the question of the third reading of the bill intituled ' A Bill to declare the qualifica tion of freemen of London to be elected members of the court of common council,' that in the opinion of the court his lord- I ship iv bound to put that question, and they protest against his refusal so to do."--The Recorder said that proposition was not calculated to compromise the lord mayor or the court in the slightest degree—The court were evidently of opinion I that the question would by such a motion assume such a shape as to be capable of being dealt with in the moat satis factory manner before another tribunal.—The motion of Mr. Ashurst was carried. SMITHTIELD MARIEET.—Deputy Bedford presented • pe tition, signed by 2,100 of the graziers, butchers, salesmen, and others interested in Smithfield-market for the protection of the court against the attempt to remove that market. (Hear, bear.) He believed it to be the opinion of all who were acquainted with the subject that Smithfield was the most eligible of all situations for a market, from its central position, and the vast variety of its approaches and salubrity of its climate. (Hear, hear) it was well known that a joint-stock company were influenced by a desire to benefit the City to remove the market ; and it was quite unnecessary for him to attempt to add to the feeling which the citizens of London entertained to so liberal and disinterested as inter ference with a place of business in which seven millions of money changed hands annually. He concluded by moving that the petition be referred to the market's COM mittee. (Hear, hear.)—Mr. Oodsonseconded the motion. — The petition, and another for the same abject from the in habitant householders, &c., of Smithfield, were then re ferred to the market committee. inasmuch FAMINE IN IRELAND AND SOOTLAND. Meetings were held yesterday at the London Tavern, =.7tnet, which were addressed by member, of rom Ireland, Scotland, end the provinces. bear foci teellsony to the destitution and suffenngs of the pea pia. TM Rev. James Csrlile, one of the hon. secretaries, 82rto the meeting for the non-attendance of B. B. Esq., M.P., who was to have taken the chair, but who, he believed, was prevented from so doing by parlia mentary business. Mr. Carlile announced that Luke Jamas Hansard, Esq., had kindly consented to preside. The CHAIRMAN briefly explained the object of the miseg lieThe v. W. JOHNSTON moved the first resolution; sad Is so doing gave many illustrations of the destitute state of Ireland, awl more especially of the more remote parts of Connaught. The rev. gentleman mentioned several most distressing cases which had come under his own observation, and in many of those came, he was grieved to say, though he said it to their honour, that the poor were the readiest, and the first, to relieve the poor: that, in many came person. only a little better of than their poor neighbours, had shared the little they possessed with those neighbours. The official returns had stated :50,000 as the number who had died from famine, hut there mast have been many in the remoter districts not included in those returns. He denied the assertion that the Irish would not help themselves they would help themselves, and would work when they could get paid for their work ; but he would ask whether eight pence, which was the average amount of pay for a day's work, was sufficient remuneration for twelve hours' labour? The Rev. R. MONHOS seconded, and S. C. HAW., Esi*segsported it. . T. CaurnaLt, Esq., wed the second resolution, whisk wee : 'M tide weds( wield emplatisally express Hs mown sing the=resmg war see amity both on i ls=effilm ei n MIMI senate, sod an OM of the Mier hme been themml, ft ward elf MS ewe alemileesi was. Mr. emarniu. awe to lay the Oft of ter Iligbbed• of teethed beers the puking. Ho was oddeed that as yes web ea amount of distrom did sot auk M Illettbed as is Irsimad. But one iciest* of cbeik ben wont had se pet occurred ; but it was only burrs the balorde beg driven to thairutalost,that bale! hed!csae titueboor averted. The landlords had sew exhorted ell their powers, and unless something were dame he them by governuent sad the people of England, there well soon be .ewes I. Scotland no less terrible than those theeribed as et dag is Ireland. Mr. Ltrotregg, though he had astbesa as eye-witatas of the distress, could vouch for the MA et what bed ben looted ; and he would oak windier dee itPleeig ab the lame situation, would, as Alibi& mss, lie down is their huts and die, like so many baba He, for one, mould arise food forcibly wherever he mold find it. A million Nei • bet was the lowest estimate heard a these who were ea the verge of ramie.: he hawed the awerber to be emit greater. It had bees tweerred that as heel ezertiees had been made. He hold in hh hand a lit of araboripeleme, amounting to Sioool. ' • and the entire mow et heel eel lections we. no less tha n 200,0001. It was the abseateet who had neglected their duty; the resident putty, as a ekes, he averred, bad leas their duty, and were still doing all in their to alleviate the sufferings of the people. He lint lie charity of the Irish towards one another wee meet mingoginry. He urged the neceseity of avoiding delay is wherever we dose, or he feared that next year thew wad be leid beam The Rev. G. R. Ihrosemse owed the third fowled= : That it is tee tweerarke=f etwormie vibe have limmittsdla maseastaree ea Mule of Quirks st • la Impagatuumthe ve drawn be grey yeenbimmmetsale Item solhattoll hull la Ireland; sad at the 111111111 peprielees elide.' to wino the serrelative dais etteelked to the width sad property they hue bthsd Item that country. The N. pedemsan directed attention to the maser in which Irish!retle . and rapufactories had bees superseded . . . . endmonopolleed by England; and alluded to the ancient , prohibition of the exportation of cattle from that country. He observed that there are corporations who draw immense wealth from estates is Ireland. The London city companies hold 260,000 acres of land in Ireland, yielding a rental of 100,0001. Thie being the ewe, and the estates front which large snms were derived being, with the exceptinn of the estates of the haberdashers', the mercers', and the drapers' companies, some of the woes-managed estates in the country, it was not to be wondered at that none of those c lap mice were repreeen•ed at the meeting—that none Of them had come forward es bodies to moist Ireland, and that the deputations had received so little encouragement from the lord mayor and the aldermen of the city of London. He remarked upon the El effects which had resulted from the decrees against the education of Ram= Catholic., who were formerly not I allowed to establish echoes for themselves or to reek educa. tion in other countries. Mr. Stnd:lart concluded by reading • letter from a Mr. Orahsm, of Mallow, which, among other I MOON mentioned one of three persons having dropped down I dead while waiting for admittance into the poorhouse. The Rev. Mr. CARLILK concurred in the views the ere. I gentleman had taken of the city companies ; hut with respect to the aldermen, most say that he b; hewed Aldermen Sidney and Farebraher would have attended the meeting had they been able. The Rev, DENNIS MAHONEY, in seconding the resolution, corroborated all the statements that had been made relative to the destitution of the Irish people, and could only say that any description was totally incapable of conveying an ade quate conception of the real amount of distress He was minister over a parish in the county Cork of 6,000 souls, and of these 6,000, 4,000 were in a state of actual starvation, sot having one substantial meal, of bread even, in the 24 hears In his parish 1,400 people were confined to their dwellings by sickness. He urged the new ibity . of suclfmea. mires as were adopted being put into force immediately ; within his own experience a single shilling given in time lad laved a life. The meeting was thee adjourned until seven in the even ism when Mr. Renard having again taken the chair, The Rev. J. T. CUMMING moved the first resolution of the adjourned meeting, which was as follows : That this weather, deeply affected by the peembff sad increasing of the popula calamities *glob threaten to destroy a tarp Man 800 of lebbliA would aspires its persaatimi Owl lie ',Ars of the mint , ' ON. dn ante Med pewee le easemellsake manutecturing Iledustrfi led le &nig tb silo vollellimi it the country by elbiftwlleetelft Ned ifpuipurW, W a parental care • ebeisliciekt of all dims deo sira makesorilty et the people, alebiuma 11 1 0 1 1 1 7 rAsdiber4=, Nei by all the lama moo fullgium, to make every eget and every pible wouriffee to mitigate the calms *bleb now so extensively presses au so large a portion of our know-subjects in Ireland and Scotland. Mr. COCHRANE, thought it a lasting disgrace to the City of London that such a meeting as the imen , +should be allowed to pass off with so scanty an at tendance. That meeting was convened for the purpose of devising expedients, to prevent hundreds and thousands of fellow-creatures from starvation. He alluded to a letter from Commander Cation, published in the Doily Nines of the 19th of February ' • and mentioned a cue described by a midshipman in the Royal Navy, of a person having en tered a shop and finding the body of the shopkeeper in a state of putrefaction behind the counter. He looked upon the 200,0001. collected in London as n piece I of mockery. Twenty millions had been expend; d for the I abolition of slavery, for slaves none of whom had ever died .[starvation • they were miserable, it was true, but never badshire been in so degrading and miserable a state as Wing the poorer dames in Ireland. Mr. MORGAN moved the second resolution : flat be the meastime the British public be earnestly ecilicited to eestlaas their gammas efforts to mime funds for alleviadm the pr ism evils of destitution and starvation In Ireland and Scotland : in amuck ea if this be not done, from two to three millions of the peptilation will probably perish. He observed that the &excelled " indigent roonikeepers," who were a respectable and much reduced class, could not possibly derive any benefit from government grants: nothing but private charity could ever reach them . and it was to that dams, more especially, that English charity should be di rected. Ile deprecated an economiesl view being taken of each an emergency. Mr. MAHONE seconded the resolution. There were 100 Catholic parishes in Ireland, is each of which the morta lity was 10 per diem, making an entire daily mortality of 1,000. Thy last resolution, moved by the Rev. W. Johnston, and seconded by G. F. Rarer, Ew., was as follows : Iliet de Vaned lief Am Wag wholly uneecterian In its L leffples Witselealkelles of hunk is worthy of the mostcor ks bemmeleat assellme• mitipte the sufferings of the =tie Beeteb, and entrees HMS ot destitution in our 01112 country. With the adoption of thin resolution the business of the day ended. New BRUNSWICK AND NOVA SCOTIA LAND COY PANT.—The annual meeting of this company took place yesterday, at the office, in Copthall-buildings ; John Miami, in the chair. The repot, Was of rather: a satisfrtorz ...lire, as soon trig a emu. increase in use numoer of settlers on the company's lands, as well as of the stock and produce. The position of the company for 1846 was as fol lows :—Larcla sold or granted to this time, 27,247 acres, there remaining 633,170 acres. The surplus of expenditure over receipts, for 11446, was 7941. 6s. 3d. In 1846, the num ber of settlers was 167. The produce of wheat was 1,020, bushels, of buck wheat 1,705, oats 9,663, barley 3.54, rye 10, corn and peas 1111, potatoes 14,833, turnips 4,632 bushels, hay 840 tons. The cattle was 497, horses 72, sheep 538, pigs 310. The new land was 476 acres, and lands ploughed and stumped 23.5 acres. The report was adopted unani mously. VICTORIA LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY.—The first septennial meeting was held yesterday at the offices of the company, No. 18, King William-street. The chair was taken by Benjamin Hawes, Esq. Mr. Ratray, the actuary, read the report of the directors, which stated that during the past year 188 policies had been issued, covering insurances to the amount of 117,8441. The receipts of the company during ' that period were 21,607!. 9s. 9d. ; and the expenditure, in cluding claims by death, & c., 9,064!. 17s. 44., which le ft a balance of 12,4421. 12e. 6d. to be carried to the general fund, which, including the subscribed capital, amounted to 80,3051. 6d. Thy total number of policies issued since the commencement of the company was 1,578. The income of the company was nearly 22,0001. per annum. The directors recommended a dividend of 16 per cent. on the amount of paid-up capital, equal to 12.. 6d. per share to the proprietors and the insured, on the participating scale,—a bonus ave raging 23 per cent, on the amount of premium paid. THE NAVIGATION LAWS.—MEETING OP SHlP owxnas.—A public meeting of " owners and com manders, and tradesmen connected with the building and equipment of British ships, and others interested in the prosperity of British navigation, se an indispensable element of national security," vu baa last evening et the Eastern Institution, Commercial•road, "fitr the adoption of the most energetic measures for averting the evils threatened by the proceedings now pending in parliament on the subject of the navigation laws." Mr. Dunbar, the chairman of the General Shipowners' Society of London, presided, and, in intro ducing the business of the evening, said that nothing would have induced him to present himself to the meeting were he not deeply interested in the question they were met to discuss, nor would he have been present were it not that they were demanding a right to which they were justly en• titled. He maintained that the constitution d the committee of the House of Commons was an un fair one, inasmuch as most of the gentlemen who composed it had already made up their minds on the subject, and bad expressed them in their writings and public addresses.—Mr. G. F. Young moved a resolu tion affirming the necessity of maintaining inviolate an extensive national marine. He explained, at some length, the existing navigation laws, more particularly dwelling upon the protection afforded to the shipiwners and the re strictions upon them.—The resolution was adopted ; and it ' was agreed, after other speeches, that parliament should be memorialised on the subject. PRIMROSE-HILL PARK.—Yesterday, the prepara tion. commenced for the formation of the ornamental-walks, plantations, and shrubberies, Into which Primrose-hill and the recently enclosed ground at its foot is to be divided, ex tending from the Regent's-canal to the Swiss-cottage, Harrow-road ; the farther erection of houses on this ground is interdictsd, government hemp determined to preserve this healthy spot for the use of the public. - - HEALTH OF MR. O'CONNELL. —Mr. O'Connell, ac cumeanied by his sons, John and Daniel. arrived at the Marine Hotel, Hastings, on Saturday. Mr. O'Connell is evidently mattering under great debility , and he bears about him undeniable proofs of having been seriously iIL He is reduced to a mere shadow of his former portly figure. At the same time, welters reason to believe that no immediate danger is apprehended. On the contrary, his medical atten dant (Dr. Duke) is sanguine that the quietude and salubrity of Hastings will speedily restore the patient to health and vigour.—Brighlon Owantiaa. CONTRIBUTIONS IN KIND FOR SOUP.—A corre spondent of an evening paper suggests, that committees of management of soup kitchens should acquaint the jobs. Want& of their towns that the contribution of the bones of the joints of meat from their tables would be acceptable sa the means of improving the soup for the poor. " I would then recommend," he continues, " that they provide a horse and neat light cart, to be lined daily with clean white cloths, and that it travene the town at a slow pace, end that a person immediately precede it with a bell, us announce its ap proach, that servants may be prepared to make delivery without delay, I feel confident that scarcely a butcher's shop will be pained without some contribution, such as trimmings of meat, being made, which will be found of great use. The produce of these bones, de., on being stewed, will be a valuable groundwork for the soup, to which should be added meal and vegetables, as recommended by M. Soyer. By the sale of the bones for manure, after having been used, a NUM of money would be raised fully equal to the oast of all the ingredients added to the soup." THE New COUNTY COURTS.—The offices of the various clarinet courts are to be opened on Monday next. The circuits have been formed, and days will be appointed for the hearing of causes, but no business is expected to be trans acted therein for three weeks or a month. The Palace Court is understood to be exempted from the operation of the set, and actions in that court are likely to increase, and to militate against the success of the new measure in the metropolitan districts, especially as the six exclusive &Qu otes of that court have offered to transact business for the profession on " agency." There is a provision in the Act (the 122nd) which is likely to be of considerable service in 'obtaining possession of houses and lend where the rent does not exceed 501. a year. The Act will effect considerable 'lterations in the law with respect to debts and demands not exceeding 201. INQUESTS, YESTERDAY.—MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF A COMIC eItCIAL CLERlL—Before Mr. Carter, at the Horse and Groom Tavern, St. Saviour's Southwark, respecting the death of Mr. Barnes Smith, aged twenty-four years lately in the sarvioe of Meows. Illiddlewooi, of Broad-street, City, —H. Smith, of Marsham-street, Westminster, stated that the deceased was his son. He was a clerk or underwriter, residing with witness. The deceased was in good health and Writs when he saw him last, which was on the evening of Wednesday the 20th of January. He left home about seven o'cloek, u was his usual custom, but he did not say where he was going to. He had not been seen [dive since, and witless made every inquiry at his office, likewise his friends and acquaintances, as well as forwarding hand bills to all the metropolitan and suburban police stations. Witness had ascertained that the deceased on the night in question met a friend, who left the deceased at the door of the White Hart, Millbank-street; ho was then perfectly sober, idler which he proceeded to the Prince's Head, Buckingham street, Strand, where he took a little refreshment, and de parted, saying to the landlord that he was going to Holborn to hear a song, and should look in on his way home. lie returned *boot one o'clock and partook of a glass of grog and a cigar with the landlord (Mr. Crooks), after which he bade Mr. Crooke good night, and acid he was going home. The deceased was perfectly sober.—Was. a waterman, deposed that on Tuesday morning last, whilst proceeding down the river off Jones's coal wharf, Bs:Aside, he s w the body of the deceased rise up out of the water, at the stern of his boat. He secured it and rowed ashore at the Welsh Trooper public house, where the body was place& in a shell and taken to the dead house. There was a large bruise on the head, his clothes were unfastened, seed hie pockets contained Is in silver and a pencil case. The body seemed to have been in the water nearly two months.—Mr. Jonn Rendolph, surgeon, said he had eiantined the body and found a large scalp wound on the left side of the head, six inches in length, emending front the temple over the ear. The nose and lower jaw were slightly coo -1 tired, as if the head had besn crushed between two opposing substances. Witness felt setisfied that the injariee had bees received after death, which bad clearly resulted from drown ing.—Other evidence having been adduced from friends of the deceased gentlemaa, the coroner obeerved that the ease was one of a mysterious character, which he would adjourn if there leered any chance of obtaining adlitional testimony, but the jury, in this absence of farther evidence, returned as open verdict of " Found drowned be the Thames." IRELAND. DUBLIN, fdsacn 10. This is perhaps one of the finest Neatens ever known for the early sowing of the oat crop. A day lost in expediting the hopes of an abundant future be comes a national calamity. It is consolatory t, find that the peasantry are beginning to look sarionsiy at the consequences of non-cultivation. They are quite sagacious enough to see that their own ruin would be inevitably precipitated by such a con scious abandonment of their duty, and though the landlords would fall, their descent would have the priority. independent of such consi derations, and looking at the matter 'es a food or famine question, they grow wiser with re flection. From whatever causes, it is certain that in at least three provinces the farmers are applying themselves actively to cultivation. Connaught ap pears to be an exception. All through the south the accounts are satisfactory. The landlords is many instances have stepped forward cheerfully with their assistance, and before the sowing period, which may be well protracted to four or five weeks more, shall have been completely exhausted, we expect that the cry of cultivation will be fairly, it not fully simmered. The Roman Catholic clergy will of course have much influence in directing the popular inclination, and to shape that influence to good. The following import ant resolution, signed by the Roman Catholic Arch bishop of Dublin, as chairman of the meeting, has been issued by the central relief committee. The re solution includes all pastors, but it applies chiefly to the one predominant class Resolved,—That this committee has taken into serious consideration the state of the country, as set forth in nu merous letters addressed to this body, and also from per sonal representations made to them on the subject of the cultivation and seeding of the 'and ; and as they cannot too strongly impress upon all persons the necessity of providing without delay against a recurrence in the next year of a dis tress similar to the present, they think it their duty to make. their most earnest and solemn appeal to the clergy of al persuasions to recommend from their churches, chapel , ^ o pt meeting-houses, the imperious duty on all person , every effort to assist and make provision for the en • t''; vest, end to impels nn them the indispensable mit , g. ur; cultivating and sowing the land without de' season is so propitious, and before the fe. " w4O, agricultural purposes assn allowed VI 4 .„,,,, r _4l •••• id Li eu ILAt UILT. t -Col. Douglas, whose address to tl 'e Tip. perary farmers made such a noise and c cr •ted such. an impression, is very popular in the 5 ott h Riding.. In a letter to the Rtv. Mr. Scanlan, wh , craved his interference with the British Re _, lief Association,. and very successhlly, the colonel says, N nth a very characteristic close I advise you to write to all the proprietors y .l. cfC them that the very servants and shopkeepers in FA ,land arse subscribing most liberally, and denying themselves, rn order to alleviate some part of the intense misery which rs now% the lot of their fellow-countrymen and frilow-Chrisi 'ns Ireland. Wishing you every success in the devoted s. "ices: you are, I fully believe, rendering to your suffering n hours, 1 remain, with much respect for every one who, uko yourself, is doing his duty now, your faithful servant; 11. DOUGLAS. Lieut.-Col. Drainage works are beginning to be extended; as th..X; public works draw near to a close. On the main drainage works in the county of Cork there were employed for the week ending Feb. 27, 1623 men and 261 horses. The Cork Slob, which afforded con siderable employment, is suspended for the present.. FLAX Soon.—The following circular has been issued . by the Royal Society for the Promotion and Improvement of the Growth of liar in Ireland: BELI - 11,, In Y., lei7.--far,-The committee have had under their consideration, for same time, the test means of running a dint-. eulty which the exigenciet of the time have given rine to, by enabling landlords to supply their tenant, with ft. seed he sowing. on easy terms. They are happy to mate, that they have succeeded making arrangements with the leading importers of Max seed, to thqr extent of woe thomnml Imre* on the following ten.. -The wee-, chants will he open to offers, up to the 10th duv of March, for Hem, tax seed, at the rate of 36is. per barrel, payable on lot Dec. next, . with interest from 14 April, at 6 per cent. This armnore•ocat, I.' nil, it . is trusted, enable landed proprietors to provide their tenants with this deecription of wed, to many instances, where the heavy demands, at prevent made on them. would limit or prevent the supply. This price Is fully 10s. under that of last year, and will noble the farmer to seed an sere of tool cheaper than for any main crop, while the promeet of remuneratme is much better for flax than for grain, the went, dock of the former being certain to mow the mice to rule • high ; and with the immense Impute of the latter expected fens ail • countries, there la every probability of the prices falling under what they were previous to the late extraordinary else. After a due consi deration of the above posts, I regnant you will state. previous to the 10th March, whether you purpose availing youreellof this ogler.- IMMO MAC4l2.lllff, Jun., fieseretery. Hors—Oats: The wet of wed for an acre, Irish niesnire, 3 met. at 17a., is 2/. Mt ; potatoes, ditto, 15 cwt. et 14a , in 10:. Vs., and manure, 4/. 10a ; faze ditto, I bit at 36a, Is 1/. 16e. SCOTLAND. EDINBURGH, MARcit 10. The industrial school system is making progress, and is even beginning to work aggressively, as will be seen from the toLowing occurrence at Dundee :—Two members of the school committee there accidentally learned that a boy. about ten years of age, had been taken up by the police for stealing a roll ; and it oc curred to t he m that this was a fit case for being looked after: They accordingly went to the police-office, and saw the boy—a picture of want and wretched ness, but otherwise rather prepossessing. When the case was called, and the boy asked what had led him to take the roll ' he pleaded hunger. The gentlemen having undertaken to see that the boy would be immediately provided for at the industrial school, he was allowed to depart ; and he is now comfortably accommodated within .ts walls. The herring and other 6shings on the west coast of Scotland are this season unusually productive. At Ballantrae, 120 herrings, that number being techni. cally "a fisher's hundred," have been selling for :s. 6d. and IP. 7d. Even at Liverpool, whither they are exported tram Ballantrae, a barrel, containing 700, has been sold for a pound. The unpopularity of trial by jury, in civil cases, in Scotland, is remarkably evidenced by the fact, that_ from Jan., 1816, to Jan., 1847, out of 1,400 eases be fore the Court of Session, only 32 were disposed of by juries. Although the amount of cases before the Supreme Civil Court is decreasing, arrears in judg ment are accumulating, • result traceable to the un- 1 equal number of cases sent to the two divisions of the inner court. DEATH OP THE [fox. ROGER ROLLO.—He woo the second son of James seventh Baron Rollo of Duncrob, born 1786, and entered the artillery service early in life, and gained the ronk of captain in that corps. He soon afterwards retired front the army—married Mime B. Rant, of Ashgrove —was appointed Collector of Customs in Ayr, and held that office for nearly forty years. PROVINCIAL. A VIRDICT OF Wii;t3l7lllaD7k ban been retunied‘l; the camper's jury against the sailor Williams, who stabb , T. Carat, the keeper of a house of bad repute, at Liver pool. The pri.oner denied that he knew anything whatever of the transaction. He bent his head during the whole in quiry, and buried his face between hie hands. He was esi dently much affected, and painfully sensible of the position in which he had placed himeelf. The deceased has hit a wife and five children. BncKLtM CO;IIL 7 T OF • RAILWAY EXOLNY-DILIYER.— - On Wednesday eeeaiag an alarming accident occurred on the Manchester and Leeds line of railway, from the mis conduct of one of the engine-drivers, a man named Wragg. It appears that the Yorkshire express train, which left Manchester at tire o'clock on Wednesday evening, wq• unusually heavy, owing to the circumstance that the half yearly general meeting of the proprietors had been held that day at Manchester. and by this train a large number of these geßtlemen, resident in the northern part of Ltiscashiry and in Yorkshire, were r..tur have contained neatly on the line, in charge of to give assistance to !'f ins ructions directed such trains wi..!:ol• of them that his then be to go upon to the train in front ever, Wregg dro.e speed after the expres by Mr. Rees, the c.etst observe caution (35 pared bat a taw roe returning horie. r The train is tai to • nearly 300 persons. WragQ was datior.ed loge of the Mersey engine, yak drantetiona t to heavy trains up the it , ted that • he should op up . . •-• • xdt a cignal from the goat l t amistasies was required, • m a aiding till his engtn l" • • , Int. la defiance of the . e". t so his engine along * spews train, and altho *T s 1 440 ^7" c,erk in charge of the .' --we 4c. • 31, If customary w • l 'sw minutes Preneutli Sfilallierl Jl