The Express. — London, England, 1847-11-10 00:00:00

E thee propose to introduce politics in that hall. (Hear.) It . 0 , however, right, in his opinion, that the government s hould kuow that they had the support and confidence of the City of London. The manner in which the pre mot ministers had exercised the funetiona of govern ment entitled them to the fullest confidence ; and he was quite sure that while they continued in the same course the citizens of London would go with them heart and hand. Feeling confident that they would carry out those measures o nly which should tend to the honour and conduce to the in terests and prosperity of this great empire, he bad great plea. sure in proposing The Health of the Right lion. Lord J. Russell and her Majesty's M inisten"—(Cheers)— whose exer tions for meeting theexigencies of the liana, end for provid ing for those difficulties which the present circumstances of the country bad occasioned, might be crowned with sumer was hie heart-felt prayer. (Cheers.) The tout was drunk amid cheer• from all sides. Silence being partially restored, Lod .1. RussELL said—My Lord Mayor, ladies, and gen tlemen, on the part of myself, and the rest of her Majesty's m inisters, I beg to return you our sincere thanks for the high homer you have done us in thus drinking our health'. We are fatly aware of the importance of the support of the City of London to any ministry who may be entrusted with the task of carrying on the government of this met ers. Your confidence, therefore., being so essential, we cannot feel other than deeply grateful for this public expres sion of it. I can assure you that her Majesty's government have in all they have done intended honestly to do that which they believed to be most beneficial to the best interests of the country—(hear, hear)—and in that spirit—omitting all subjects of political con•roverey—vre sha wll ennot hesitate to administei, and if ncel be exceed, the law hev or we may think it neeessaty for the public safety and the public welfare. (Cheers) I h...ve heard with great pleasure your lordship's wmtintonis w:th reference to the continuance of peace—'en tonics which have been so eloquently responded to by my illustrious triend, the French ambassador. I wish, like him, thst the peace which has now happily lasted 30 years may endure, and that the same desire for peace which, after the experience of the horrors of a long and bloody war, prevailed throughout Europe, may be equelly universal, now that we have had the experience and the benefits of 30 years of peace. (Cheers.) I trust that this company will permit me, before I sit down, to propose the health of the Lord Mayor. (Heir). It is of the utmost importance that the functions of the chief magistrate of this great city should be adminis. tired not only with integr but with &moue and temper, and I rejoice to find that the choice of the citixene has in the present instance fallen upon one who unites those quali fications, and Wh.) will, I em sure, show himself equal to meet any circumstances which during his period of officeimay arise. The Loan MAYOR then gave the Judges of the land," which Lord Denman acknowledged ; and the " Rrepresen tatives of the City of London in Parliament," coupling the tout with the healthy of Mr. Masteiman and Barns Rothe chill.—Baron Rothschild returned thanks.—To the conclud ing wa-u, the " Aldermen of the City of Loudon," the "Sheriffs of London and Middlesex," Mr. Alderman Lucas and Mr. Sheriff Rill severally spoke in acknowledgment. The Lied Mayor and the principal guests then retired, after which dancing commenced, and was contiuued till a late hour. The Gazette of last evening contains the royal pro clamation fur the further prorogation of parliament from Thursday the llth to Thursday the 18th instant, then to assemble for the despatch of urgent and important affairs. In the House of Lords on that day the business will be limited to the teen present taking the oaths and signing the parliamentary roll ; sn the House of Commons, to that of the election of Speaker, when, it is understood, the Right Hon. Charles Shaw befevre, member for North Hants, will be re elected without opposition. On Friday, the members of the House of Commons, preceded by their Speaker, will attend the House of L .rds to hear her Majesty's approbation of the right hon. gen:biman's appointment, signified by the Lord Chancellor ; and the interval between that day and Tuesday, when the royal speech will be delivered, will be occupied in either house by administering the usual oaths, and the sign ing of the parliamentary rolls. How THE GERMANS HONOUR THEIR Pons.—The tows of Weimar had purchased the house of Schiller. It is I now about to be restored and the rooms to be adorned with furniture of the same description as that which was to be found there when the great man inhabited them. His room will be adorned witk the same paper. And besides all this, a museum will be formed in the house, in which will be placed all Schiller's works and all writings and objects which are in any way connected with his memory. INQUESTS, YESTERDAY.—EXPLOSION OF Flag- ICORIO AND Loss or LlFE.—Before Mr. W. Payne, the coroner, an Monday night, at the Dover Castle, Old Kent road, on the body of Mrs. Isabella Beetroot, aged 27. the wife of a master corn-chandler, carrying on business at No. 1, Hendra-road, Old Kent-road, who wu killed by an explo sion of fireworks.—Mr. T. Huff, foreman of the goods depot at the Bricklayers';Arms terminus of the South Eastern Rail way, said that on the night of Friday list, shortly after twelve o'clock, he was in the yard at the back of Mr. Bart rope's house, in company with several other persons, amongst whom was the deceased. He had been asked by Mr. Church, one of the railway clerks, to go and let off a few fireworks to amuse the people in the house. A box containing a number of fireworks bad been placed in Mr. Bartrope'e wash-house in the yard, and u each article was taken out the door was ordered by Mr. Church to be closed, and to prevent the pos sibility of an explosion a bull's.eye lanthorn wan used to light the wash-house instead of a candle. Whilst they were letting off the fireworks, a rocket, which bad beea tied to a stick, as soon as the light was applied, instead of ascending into the sir, shot horizontally en one side and fell amongst the people in the yard. Mr. Church begged of deceased to remove, as she was then standing with her hand on the lock of the door; but, instead of so doing, the instant the rocket exploded, she ran into the wash-house, when the sparks from the rocket entered, and alighting on the box of fireworks,the whole exploded with a fearful noise, setting fire to the de ceased's dress and filling the place with sulphur. As soon as possible deceased was got out, when she was found to be most dreadfully burned —By a Juror: The fireworks provided had been sent by some one to the station to be forwarded to Margate, and to be left at the terminus there till called for. It being illegal to send fireworks by railway, acid one of the clerks suspecting the contents of the box, had the same opened; and as it was ordered by the directorsthat in the event of any fireworks being discovered they were to be destroyed by some means; and therefore the box had been detained. The Coroner : There is a heavy penalty for persons sending fireworks by rail?—Witness Did not endeavour to find out the party who sent them, as it was not his business. The Coroner : Surely it was some person's business. You say it is illegal to send such dangerous articles by railway, and that heavy penalties are recoverable from parties so sending, and yet no attempt is made by you to find out the person who brought this box to your station. Witness: I dare say the superintendent of the station has made inquiries about the case.—Mr. J. Taylor, surgeon, proved that he was called in on the night in question, about half-past twelve o'clock, to sec the deceased. On his arrival he found her lying in the kitchen, much burned over the head, face ' neck, and breasts. The usual remedies were applied without success, and she expired on Sunday morning last. —Mr. J. Fothergill, super intendent of the Bricklayers' Arras goods depot, said that he recollected a box being taken to the station about two months since. It was suspected to con tain combustibles, and was therefore opened and detained. Did not know to whom it was directed. They had every reason to believe that the person who sent the fireworks was the same person as they were directed to. A person called at the London station two days after the box was let and inquired if it had gone to Margate.—The Coroner: You could have followed him and have seen where he went to, or you could, on finding the box filled with fireworks, have emptied it, then sent it to Margate, and on the party apply ing at Margate for it have given him into custody. It cer tainly appears most extraordinary that these articles should have been left at your terminus. and no trouble taken to find out the guilty parties.—By a Juror Did not recollect that they were on the premises till Guy Fawkes day, and being apprehensive that an explosion might happen, and the com• pony's property get damaged, gave orders that they should be taken into the yard and destroyed.—A Juror: Surely there is some better way of getting rid of these articles than setting fire to them. Water would have been the best means of destroying them—By the Coroner: Had not reported the circumstance to any of the officialr, but believed the directors had been informed of it —The Coroner: It seems most extraordinary that although yen have the power of inflicting heavy penalties on persons so offending, yet no attempts are made to bad them, and, as far as we can learn, the case is not even reported to the directors Mr. H. F. Church stated that he was chief clerk at the Bricklayer,' Arms railway station. He was present when the explosion occurred. He had ordered, after a great many fireworks had been discharged, that they should be removed to the luggage bank, Mr. Fothergill having refused to let any more off. The sparks, however, fell in such directions that witness considered the luggage-boxes might be in some danger, and he had them removed.—The learned Coroner having summed up, the jury returned a verdict " That the deceased, Isabella Bartrope, was accidentally burned to death by an explosion of fireworks ; " and added, " that they considered it was through the loose manner in which the business at the Bricklayers' Arms italic's is done ; and they also considered that great blame is attached to the direc tors of the South-Eastern Railway Company in not giving sufficient and proper instructions to their servants."—The Coroner perfectly coincided with the remarks of the jury. ALLEGED NEGLECT.—defore Mr. Baker, at the Magpie and Stump. Cable-street, Wellclme-square, on the body of Aldrich Geirkin, aged 27, a German, who committed sui cide. The deceased was a malt roaster and had very good employment in the above vicinity. About a week prior to his death he went to lodge at No. 6, Elizabeth-street, St. George's, being at the time in n state of indisposition, but perfretly rational in his manners. On Sunday morniag the landlord went into kis room, and found him suspended to the bedpost with his handkerchief fastened round his neck. He was much alarmed, and wholly unable to cut deceased down, and suffered upwards of two hours to elapse before medical aid was procured.—Mr. Garrott, a surgeon, said that he saw the deceased shortly after nine the same morn ing, and the body was quite warm. He had no doubt from the symptoms that lite might have been spared had the body been released upon the first discovery. The landlord was, at the request of the jury, severely reprimanded by the coroner for his negligence, and a verdict of " Temporary in sanity" was recorded. IRELAND. Dtrninr, Noy. 8. Wexford though not a model county, contains districts which rank among the first in Ireland in agricultural cultivation, prosperity, and order. The shout of turbulence or shot of the assassin is rarely heard in that peaceful district Facing the coast of England, from which it is distant only a few hours' sail, Wexford has caught some of the quiet and indus trious spirit of that country. However, there is dig tress there aloe, and landlords are little better there than elsewhere. Exceptions there are, and among those moat worthy of notice are those of the Cour town family; The noble earl and his son, Viscount Stopford, are at the head of every beneficial move meat. They were the first to attempt an harmony of all classes by joining and constantly . co-operating with the Landlord and Tenant Association, one of those " smithies," in which, according to Dr. Maginn, " the thunders of public opinion are to be forged." At the last meeting of the society, over which the noble earl presided, his lordship stated that the county engineer was ordered to lay a report and plea for the improvement of Kilmer° before the Board of Works. This is an undertaking of great local utility. Fisheries next came under the notice of the association, but it was agreed to wait until an experi ment, now in progress, for the establishment of small curing stations along the coast by private enterprise, should have a fair trial. Flax cultivation was also among the objects of discussion, but practical steps to carry out so desirable an object were postponed to the next monthly meeting. The following sensible address to the landlords and occupiers of the county was then agreed to, calling upon them to take steps to provide employment for the coming winter. Copies were ordered to be forwarded to the boards of guardians and the chief absentee proprietors, through the medium of their respective electoral divisions : That Ireland being an agricultural country, the means to meet her present difficulties and to overcome them are only to be realised from the resource. of her mil developed by agricultural industry. That if her mil was improved, as it might ones ought to be cultivated, that means would be supplied under Providence successfully to com bat those difficulties, and raise tier to prosperity and independence. That supporting the labouring population in idleness, while her land Iles eterfie and unproductive, if permitted to coolioue, must over whelm the country with a burthen it is utterly unable to hear. Tot, therefore, the employment of the people in the improvement and cul tivatioo of the mil appears to be the only reisuroe left fur saving her from anarchy, confusion, and ruin. That a full and saving measure of employment could easily and speedily be effected by a combined and comprehensive movement on the part of the landed proprietors, if they would now come forward, and by their improvement and cultivation develop the na tural resources of their respective estates, and thereby give the taboo ing population the means of supporting their families out of the poor house. That it the yearly rates to he required for out-door relief were estimated in each electoral division of Ireland, and apportioned to the different landlords and tenants therein, according to their liability thereto, and, if each proprietor would advance his portion of such rate employing the idle labourers in the improvement and cultivation of his estate, and we his influence with his tenanta to give additional work to the same extent on their own Lowe, the poor rate would be converted into a repniductiie agent, which, in a short time, would engross all idle hands, besides adding dais to the fertility of the soil, the food, and the means of the kin . That by ouch a course as this bring univereally follow the ruinous absorption of the capital of Ireland by poor rates would be arrested, and the rate itself become a source of profit and in dependence to every individual engaged in this regenerating work, bringing peace and plenty for poverty and starvation. That if adopted by the landlords, this most desirable and healing measure could easily and promptly be put into practice and realised throughout Ireland by appointing a committee in each electoral division, to ascertain the individual liability of the several proprietors and their tenants to the rate, and the amount to he advanced, in work, by each of them, with a registry of the labourers out of employment, fur allocation amongst them. That this association earnestly invite the speedy and hearty co-operation of the landed proprietors of the never - al electoral divi sions throughout Ireland, to the full and fair development of this *un seen= for employing the idle people with the poor rates, and of making it an agent of essential benefit is all, Ostend of causing the to fission and ruin of many; besides which, %Forever faithfully applied, the payment of rem* would be secured, us the riches of the roil were unfolded by increased and multiplied produce.—Corarows, chairman. The opponents of Mr. Somers at the last election are detertnined to have a fairer field for the forth- coming municipal contest. They have written to the Under-Secretary claiming protection in the exercise of their rights, and Mr. ltediugten has replied, promi sing that the goal burghers of Sligo will find all fair play and no favour at the hands of the government in the exercise of their municipal privileges. This will be a heavy week in the Insolvent Court. The largest number of cases for hearing that has ap peared for many years is now on the list—over one hundred—one-tenth of whom are attorneys. THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 10, 1847. on Monday, pursuant to adjournment.—Mr. Stewart (soli citor ho the Board of Works) conducted the prosecution. With respect to the charge of embezzlement entered into on the last day, he observed that an objection was taken by the prisoner's counsel, that the bank book was not legal evidence to prove that no portion of the money in question (7901.) had been lodged by Mr. Mason. He (Mr. Stewart) had now the bank clerk to produce, who was able to prove that within tke period alleged not one shilling of the money was lodgedby the prisoner.—Mr. Hutchens, bank clerk, proved that no money was paid by the prisoner within the period stated.—Mr. Stewart then proceeded to offer evidence on the further charge of forgery. The first case he would bring before his worship with that object was that of a cheque for 1501., drawn by the Commissioners of the Board of Works for that amount. It was dated the 27th of June, 1845, and numbered 2,070, and was intended to pay the labourers engaged at the Limerick Canal, and signed " Tennent Smith." It was charged against Mr. Mason that he h 4 altered this cheque to the sum of 4501, by converting the figure I in the cheque into 4. The cheque was paid, and 1501. of it was applied as originally intended, for the payment of the labourers, but 3001. of it was lodged in the bank with au eudeavour to make up the deficiency of 7901. previously abstracted by Mr. Mason.—Mr. King identified the handwriting of the pri soner on the cheque. The figures " 4501." were, he believed, but he was not quite certain, in the handwriting of Mr. Mason; the name Tennent Smith and the endorsement were also in his handwriting.—Mr. Conway said he was one of the pay-tellers at the Bunk of Ireland. (The book produced.) This book was a blotter, in which the entries of paid cheques were made. There were entries of a cheque of tho Shannon Commissioners—one for the sum of 1505 and another for 3001. They were paid to Mr. Mason in dockets. The docket produced was one of the bank-bill docket', and was dated the 27th of June, 1845. It was in tke handwriting of the prisoner.—Mr. Stewart then brought forward the follow ing additional case, in further substantiation of the charge of furgery. It was that of a cheque, dated the sth May, 1843, and No. 1,578, drawn in favour of Martin King, and issued originally for 911., but altered to 1911., and paid to Mr. Mason.—Colonel Jones ; In the cheque produced I see the words, " sth May," and " Martin King " writ ten. I kept a record of that and all other cheques, when I signed them. I find I have a record of having signed a cheque ou that day numbered 1,578. The initials on that cheque are mine, and those of Sir John Burgoyne.—Mr. Stewart sub mitted that he had given sufficiently distinct proof, putting the charge of mhezzlement totally out of the question, that a forgery had been committed by the prisoner,—Dr. Kelly said he had enough before him to decide him upon sending the prisoner for trial, and would therefore commit him.—Mr. O'Hea then applied that bail should be taken for the appearance of the prisoner at his trial at the next en suing commission.—Dr. Killy refused to accept bail; but suggested that an application should be made to the Court of Queen's Bench, which had the power to grant it, which he had not —Mr. O'llea then applied for an order from the bench, to remove the prisoner from Newgate to the prison at Kilmain h am, on the grouad of delicacy of health.—Dr. Kelly refused to do so, es the matter did not come under his juriddiction, and ad vised that a memorial should be sent to the Lord-Lieutenant who had the power to do so.—A person, whose name we did not hear, informed his worship that a memorial had been forwarded to the Castle with that object, and that a verbal answer was returned to the effect that the power to make the order resided in the magistrate.—Dr. Kelly said that he would not make any order of the kind unless he received a written official notification from the Castle to that effect. His worship then committed the prisoner for trial at the next commission. SCOTLA-VD. EDISBUIIOII,.Nov. 8. A meeting is to be held in Glasgow this evening for the purpose of denouncing the adulteration of meal and other articles of food. It was convened by the Lord Provost in compliance with a requisition which especially alluded to " the important facts brought out in the Justiciary Court, on the 29th Sept last, in reference to the extensive and pernicious fraud practised on the population by provision dealers adulterating the common necessaries of life." The induction, or attempted induction, of the new professor of Hebrew was to-day the occasion of a " scene " at the university. After the annouace -1 went on Saturday that Lord Robertson would grant no interdict the magistrates requested that a meeting of the Senates Academicus should be called at ten o'clock to-day for the purpose of induction. At that hour, accordingly, the senators met, and the Lord Provost, accompanied by the pro- , lessor elect and the college committee of the town council, made their appearance ; on which, on the ' motion of Principal Lee, strangers and reporters were ordered to withdraw. In substance the after pro ceedings were as follow :—The Provost introduced Mr. Macdouall as the new professor of Hebrew. Principal Lee said that sufficient time had not been allowed for the senators to consider the matter; and on ascertaining that Mr. Macdouall had not sub scribed the tests, he had a protest against his induc tion. Provost Black stated that election by the town council was equivalent to induction, and that the latter, as hitherto observed, was merely a formal act of courtesy, and consisted in the simple introduction of a professor elect to his future brethren. Against this view a law professor took another protest. The Provost and magistratest hen retired. What precise shape the litigation will next assume it is difficult to say, but there is little clout): that the case will be a protracted one. SUSPCC rEn MI:RD/IR.—On Tuesday, the body of a female almost in a state of nudity, and apparently about fifty years of age, was found in the Union Canal, near Muiravonside ; and appeared to have been from ten to twenty days in the water. The body bore the marks of numerous stabs and cuts, which had apparently been inflicted with a knife or a similar instrument ; and from these and other circumstances it is naturally suspected that the woman had been murdered before being thrown into the canal. Various conjec tures have been formed of the parties likely to have committed the crime, and from the fact of the de. ceased being • stranger in the district where she was found, it is supposed that the murder (should it prove to be such) has been committed at • distance, and the body brought by a coal-boat or lighter, and thrown into the canal. From the remains of a shoe which was found on one of her feet the unfortunate woman seems to have been a poor person, and probably a vagrant. She ap pears to have been about five feet six sad a half inches an height, rather stout and well proportioned, with thin grey hair. The authorities are engaged in the investigation of the who'si circumstances, and the body is lying at Falkirk for identification. THE REPEAL ASSOCIATION. The usual weekly meeting of this body was held to-day , Mr. Maurice Power, M.P. for Cork, in the chair. There were 16 M.P.'s present, and the hall was crowded. Mr. Joust O'CONNELL read a letter from the Most Rev. Dr. fil'Hale, in which he described the distress of his diocese as excessive, and referred to the painful appeals daily made to him to know when the assistance promised by government in the Lord-Lieutenant's answer to the Roman catholic pre. lates' address would he available. He stated that the land lords were proceeding in many instances with great harshness, and regretted that their conduct was met by violence en the other hand. He earnestly implored relief (or the sake of peace and order ; called for the pro tection of the tenantry, and thy alteration of the condition of land tenure ; referred to the recent rescript from Rome, and promised that the pre lates would, by every means in their reach, endeavour to carry out the recommendation to establi‘h " catholic col leges." The archbishop referred to some statistics presented by hie clergy in reply to the questions put by the prelates who recently assembled at Loughrea. These are exceed ingly voluminous and psialul to dwell upon. I shall select two from amongst those communications, one referring to the sea-coast district of Westport, in the west of the county, the other to the inland parish of Ballagbaderrin, in its eastern extremity. Ido not say that the features they pre sent are not exaggerated ; but knowing the gentlemen who write them, I should judge from their characters that they are as little so as it is possible for men living in the midst of isaelt misery, to commit. The Very Bev. Dean Burke, P.P. and V.G., states—the reduction in taw number of my eerie/stoners by famine and its eon-sequence, epi demic disease, is about 1,000, to the best of my knowledge. The pre sent population of my parish is about 12,000. From two to three hundred families have been obliged to desert their holdings. Out of the entire population of the pariah, with the exception of the towns people, these are not 20 families that have sufficient food to sustain themselves until the coming harvest ,• and if all rents, arrears, and texas of all kinds are exacted, not a family except two or three will have a morsel of food at Christmas. Theentire population depending on comae are at this moment in destitution, as the trilling harvest earning in this country is now at an end. Never was the pupu'ation ao deficient in duly and night covering. The cloth shopkeepers have turned meal dealers, the cloth trade having almost disappeared. The present eve= is vastly more gloomy than this time laic year. The stock of cattle of all Mods le reduced certainly one-half: DO pigs, ex cept a few in the town ; poultry all but gone. The lies. Denis Tighe, P.P., of Rallighaderrin, gives the following account of the parishes of Kileoleman and Castlemore The popula tion of this parish at the commencement of last year was near 12,000, it is now reduced to 9,860 persons; 478 died of famine and its imme diate consequence since the Ist of October, 1846. There are at present 138 rectifies suffering from fever. The great bulk of the people hold very tittle land, which ia of inferior quality ; it barely supplied potatoes in past years, and now that the potato crop is gone, the poor are in the greatest distress 1 find that 129 families were obliged to desert their little holdings and cabins. There are at present 470 families, coneisting of 2,246 persons, in extreme want, living on turnips and a little Indian meal. No language can describe the miserable condition of the most of them. There were no public yaks carried en in this extensive parish from the let of May Last to the let of November. As there was little or no petato digging this season, alit& poor were idle ; I knew many who for not procures single day's work all the harvest. The landlords are for the most part absentees—aome of whom am. at present, selling out the oats of their poor tenants, and meting rents with the utmost rigour. One of this class "cleared" Ms estate of Lung, in April set, of 19 families, can na/rig of 128 indivkings. This was not enough to prove that " pro- ETbes its rights ;" his agent had carte employee is harvest carry. ,„ the oat =n9 and fiat of the estate, and the place Is new as Be te as if a plains had Bun swept over it, levelling everything in its way. The poor =enter= who had " happy homes" in Lung for the last 10 years and more are now in the greatest want, and are adding much to the mieeriss of the locality. Pigs and poultry have nearly disappeared from the poor—many who had cows last year are thu year without one. Fever Le again very prevalent. At this season of the year we hold stetsons of confession out in the country, end in some town lands it is difficult to get a cabin to assemble the people in. The prospects before us this winter are truly awful andappalling, most . M the people without clothing, without food, and, to crown our miseries, a heavy poor rate of 2s. 11d. in the pound already struck, and about to be collected from these paupers. No private charities can meet the crtais; if the government do nut give immediate and ex tensive employment the people will be lest. Mr. JOHN O'CONNELL having concluded the reading of the documents, entered on the business of the day. He re ferred to the course he had taken with respect to the measure for the establishment of colleges, and stated that be did so, not through opposition to the spread of education, but from a desire to have education connected with religion. He re ferred to the subscriptions already announced for the purpose of erecting a catholic university, announcing himself as a subscriber of 1001., as proofs that those who opposed " Peel's swindling scheme of education" were not the enemies of knowledge. His own subscription was he admitted small, but his menus were limited, and were sure to be more so. lie referred to the meeting of the Irish members, stating that they had agreed to certain resolutions, the substance of which had, he admitted, been given in the public prints, though the meetings were not public. The body were about to adjourn over to the 16th, when they would consider a motion, of which notice had been given, that their resolu tions should be submitted to a public meeting. Whether the meeting would be held would depend upon the consti tuencies, and they ought to call on their representatives to meet openly. Mr. O'Connell said that the resolutions were all excellent in spirit, though they might be sometimes more direct and pointed. As regarded the course they would take in parliament he said they would oppose in every way, and under every form, any ministry which should not do justice to the Irish people in the present crisis—which should not come forward to alleviate the distress, to feed the people, and to afford employment; and if Irish business were not attended to there should be none other done. Mr. O'Connell con demned the Irish Council, opposed the income tax, and called for tenant -right. Mr. D. CALLAGHAN gave expression to similar sentiments in all respects. Mr. M. O'CONNELL said that great cordiality and union bad prevailed at the meeting of Irish members—a proof that there was no foundation (or the assertion, that even had they repeal their own divisions would compel them to have recourse to England. Mr. O'Connell rid.culed the Irish Council, and said he regretted his brother should have gone amongst them and consented to play second fiddle to any of the body. Some other members having addressed the association, an address from Limerick was read, enclosing 761. Bs. Iod., con tributed by members of parliament, corporator', and Roman catholic clergymen.—The repeal rent for the week was 911. is. 7d. • THE CHARGE or EMBEZZLING PUBLIC Moxry.—The investigation of the charge of embezzlement of the public money entrusted by her Msjesty's government to the Com missioners of Public Works, for the employment of the people during the recent destitution, against John Meson (an officer of the board), was resumed at the Henry-street police-court, PROVINCIAL. TnE STRIKE STITI7CONTINCES AT ASHTON UNDEBeLYNE (op the Liverpool Standard), and on Fri day fears were entertained for the preservation of the pence, Nothing, however, occurred. The operatives parade from mill to mill, and it is feared that an attempt will be made to tura out the hands from the mills at work. CHARTER OF INCORPORATION FOR BIRKENHEAD.— On Monday, a public meeting was held in the Craven Rooms, to take into consideration the propriety of applying for a charter of incorporation for the town:hip. The meet ing was called by the overseers, on a requisition presented to them by the inhabitants of Birkenhead and Claughton. The meeting was very numerously attended. On the motion of one of the overseers, \V. Jackson, Esq., M.P., was called to the chair, and opened the proceedings of the meet ing by taking a graphic survey of the past and present posi tion of Birkenhead. He alluded to the position in 1844, then the admiration of the kingdom—then not a house un inhabited—now there were hundreds—th•n they had good credit, now that credit was destroyed. After speaking at great length upon the causes of their position, and stating that he did not wish to blame any individual in particular I for bad management, he stated that thousands and thousands of pounds had been lent to them in good faith, and now, when the interest was most valuable, it was not forthcoming. By this they had lost caste. At one time the whole kingdom was ready to trust them, but no one would do so now, and the reason was obvious; they had drawn from strangers money to embellish the town, and had not taxed the owners of property in the town for it. Mr. Jackson then went on at very great length, complaining of the present mode of managing the township affairs, observing that it was so easy to put into office, under the present system, sweeps or rogues as honest men. It had been said that their difficulties had bee's brought about by their being too sanguine, but their greatest crime was in having got hold of 400,0001. of strangers' money for their improvements, parks, and other matters, and not now being able to meet the interest of it. No one could say that his property had not been doubled by the accommodation they had received, and it was only right that a tax should be laid upon the property of the township to pay that honest debt. After speaking some time longer upon the subject, Mr. Jackson said it was wrong that per sona who came into the town at nine o'clock, and paid their rates at eleven, should have an immediate privilege of voting for the commissioners to govern the township. He then proposed a resolution to the effect that steps be taken to wards obtaining a charter of incorporation for the township, fur levying a tax upon the property towards paying off the bonded debts, and for having an interview with the commis sioners for that purpose.—Mr. Robert Hughes seconded the resolution.— r. Craven denounced the proposition. He denied that they had any right for inducing the commissioners to call a public meeting of the inhabitant for that purpose, and to suppose themselves in the position to which Mr. Jackson had alluded ; and as they had not been asked fur a tax by the commissioners, he did not see that they should tax themselves. It was not proved that they were in debt. Mr. 'leathern said every one knew they were in debt, and no one better than Mr. Craven himself. —Mr. Collins thought an act of parliament to tax property should be properly defined. Ile confessed as a landlord, that if 15 or 20 per cent. was to be superadded to his present taxation, be could not remain in Birkenhead.—The Chair man said they were only now met to affirm the principle. —Mr. Matthews, amidst the laughter of the company, made some singular observations. It was useless, ho said, without basing manufactories. A multitude of money had been spent to make a " garden of Eden," and it was, after all, a " Paradise lost." Mr. Matthews continued to go on in a somewhat incoherent manner, being met by expres sions of disapprobation from several persons present. The resolution was ultimately carried by a large majority, and Messrs. W. Jackson, M.P., Craven, Bailiff, Appleton, Hughes, Collins, Mortimer, Eastwood, and k. 0. Willoughby, were appointed a committee with full powers to confer with and assist the commissioners in carrying the foregoing resolution into effect. NORTHUMBERLAND. A DESTRUCTIVE FIRE OCCURREN AT NEWCASTLE on Friday evening, in the extensive marine store warehouse of Meters. Hudson. The warehouse was a large detached' building, four stories high, was formerly occupied as a brewery by the late Mr. Coulthard, and was filled in every department with piles of old rags, ropes, and other combos ' tible material,. A short time before the fire was discovered not the slightest indication was observable, and it suddenly burst forth from the second story. The usefulness of the engines wee greatly crippled owing to the want of an ade quate supply of water. Notwithstanding this, two of them were worked until two o'clock in the morning, when the water-pipes for the first time were found to be adequately replenished, and then the flames were got under. The premises, with their contents, were destroyed, and nothing now remains but the walls. The value of the property amounts to several hundreds of pounds ; but it is understmd that both the stock and premises are partially insured. The origin of the firs still remains unknown. KENT.. THE MURDER AT THE FAVERSHAM AGRICUL TURAL MEETINO.—The investigation into this affair was proceeded with on Monday, at the Town-hall. Several jus tices presided, and the prisoner, 'Thomas Solllett, was charged in the usual way with the murder of Richard Cox The proceedings lasted the whole day, but the following will be found to contain the principal facts :—The meeting of the association was held on Wedaegday, and the ploughing match took place in the village et Throwley, adjacent to the seat of Lord Ilarris. At the close of the match, a party of the competitors and their friends repaired to a neighbouring public-house. Here the prisoner created a disturbance, and the deceased challenged to tight him with one hand, and at the same moment struck him. They immeniately fought, and the prisoner was thrown down. On recovering himself, he was heard to remark, " If he meets me again, I'll do far him." They had a second round, and again he was knocked down by the deceased, who in some way fell on him. On endeavouring to raise himself, the unfortunate man was found to have been stabbed. He lingered until the follow ing morning, when he expired. Immediately after the at tack, the prisoner decamped, but was apprehended the same night, when a large pocket-knife, with which he said he had been eating his supper, was taken from him. He denied having possession of a knife when fighting the deceased.— The magistrate committed hint for trial on the capital charge. LITERATURE. Materials for the History of Oil Painting. By C. L. EASTLLIEE, &c. Longman and Co. The birth of Van Eyck—its time and place—have been the cause of much controversy, and led to much vilipendiog and abuse of authors among each other. Had John Van Eyck but known to what doubts and disputes his birth would have given rise, he would have carved the particulars in imperishable material for the benefit of posterity. We must only now regret that it did not occur to him to do so. As his torians are apt to combat facts established, if not by complete at least by fair evidence, by theories wilder than those they propose to reject, so the historians of Flemish art have endeavoured to transfer the honour of the invention of oil painting from John Van Eyck to Hubert. Mr. Eastlake hes entered this track, already fol lowed by so many authors, and, as we think, without success. Not content with demonstrating that to the Van Eycks we owe the improved method of oil paint ing, he has involved himself in a controversy, already of considerable duration, and advocated that ride of the question which has been decided against by many most competent judges. Theories should be based on facts, and not on inferences deduced from probabilities. Yet on such inferences Mr. Eastlake rests his main argument in favour of the theory that Hubert was the inventor of the im proved method, and on such grounds he has ventured to impugn the united testimony of Vasari, Van Mender, Baldinucci, and Facius. We have already said that the date of John Van Eyck's birth was involved in doubt ; Mr. Eastlake infers, from the portraits of the brothers, and from other circumstantial evidence, that John Van Eyck can have been but twenty years of age when the improved method was first employed, and, conse quently, much too young to have achieved what the maturer years and experience of his brothers were more likely to have brought about. If, however, it were to be shown that John Van Eyck was much nearer thirty than twenty when the invention took place, there would be an end to that part of Mr. Eastlake's argument which stands upon so narrow a foundation. It is not our intention to enter here into the discussion as to whether John Van Eyck was born in 1386 or in 1395, for this is the point upon which all argument must turn: we will leave the question as it at present stands, on debateable ground, where it is likely to remain, until some facts unknown till now turn up to indicate the truth more precisely, and show the partisans of Hubert that they have been mistaken in their calculations. Apart from these considerations, Mr. Eastlake's book is exceedingly interesting, more so, perhaps, to the inquiring mind which has studied the question than to the public at large. The processes in use previous to the 14th century are all stated in succes sion, and the discrepancies existing in the different treatises extant explained. These treatises were mostly the production of monks, and the time in which they were written, which is a matter of doubt, gives room for ingenious speculation. Mr. Eastlake shows bow the study of art stood at first in connexion with that of medicine, the making of colours and pig ments being then closely allied to the more abstruse sciences of the laboratory. The derivations of the names of substances from which varnishes were made are studied and explained, though we may be allowed to doubt the reality of some, such as that amber is derived from the Greek Beronike or Bere nice. It is also shown that the word venni, when used in the old manuscripts, often meant as much the resin with which the varnish was made as the varnish itself. Some curious accounts and processes employed for the painting monuments in England are also given, the information being derived from account rolls of different periods to which Mr. Eastlake has had access ; and the manner of preparing grounds for canvasses and panels used by the old painters, forms an interesting chapter. In fine, as in the words of Mr. Eastlake, in his pre face, "the work was undertaken to promote the ob ject" of the Commissioners of the Fine Arts, and to trace the recorded practice of oil painting from its invention," it is but just to state that the object in view has been fully attained, and the task performed in an able manner. The doubt which arises, however, is, whether artists will take the trouble to avail them selves of the information thus placed within their reach, in order to perfect the modes at present in use. We are afraid they will not do so. Brilliancy and speed are more desired now-a-days than truth and durability, and it will be long before the generality of English artists s ill be brought to imitate the con scientious care of the early school of the Netherlands. Observations on Game and the Game Laws. By J. Bumf MURDOCH, Esq. Mr. Murdoch is an apologist for the Game Laws. But his apology, when examined, will be found to contain admissions, arguments, and statements which are decisively condemnatory of the barbarous code he would maintain. Indeed, he adduces nothing new: his most showy plausibilities were tried and refuted before the Game Law Committee. Most of his argu ments have been before urged, though in a more harsh and offensive form, by Mr. Grantley Berkeley, of whose published plea for the game laws the present pamphlet may be deemed a mitigated version. Mr. Murdoch seems to have been impelled to the task he has undertaken, that is, to show " that game in its proper place and under proper management"—the italics are the author's— "is a blessing not a curse; and that instead of being always wasteful and destructive, it is in truth a remunerative and profitable article of cultivation, conducive to the subsistence and enjoyment of the human race," by his fondness for field sports. This is certainly a bold proposition in the face of daily experience, and especially since the result of a searching inquiry has been collected and recorded in a form so authentic, as the evidence printed by the Game-law committee. That Mr. Murdoch is a good sportsman we have no doubt ; bat we suspect he is a better hand at beating a cover or finding a hare, than at close observation or logical reasoning. It is, however, only justice to this gentleman to say that he abandons battue shooting and the preservation of " a large head of game" as utterly indefensible, and con tends only for "a moderate preservation of Fame." This, however, rather increasesthe difficulty of his task, for it has been clearly shown by Lord Hatherton, Mr. Pusey, and other landowners who have tried it, that a moderate preservation of game in the cultivated districts is next to an impossibility, as, if preserved at all, these wild creatures must be completely pro tected from disturbance, and then, food being abun dant, they increase with immense rapidity. Mr. Murdoch opens his defence in a way which shows he is entirely without a competent knowledge of the subject, beyond the narrow and superficial views of sporting men, for he supposes that " the game laws have been started as an excellent subject upon which toget up a grievance, and through which that amount of agitation may be produced, so essentially necessary to give zest to the speeches of popular de claimers." 'Dila is merely childish, and proves that Mr. Murdoch has never mastered the subject, for the "grievance" is one long and universally complained of by tenant farmers, and the statements made by public men are merely repetitions of complaints made wherever farmers congregate. Mr. Murdoch commences with the usual landlord's objection, that the reservation of game is matter of pnvate arrangement between landlord and tenant, and such agreements might still be made if the game laws were repealed. And this is no doubt true ; and the remedy for this part of the evils of Fame lies in the hands of farmers. But does it follow that because some landlords may be so unreasonable as to require tenants to feed game for the owner of the estate, and some tenants may be so imprudent as to submit to such a ruinous im position, that therefore a special code of laws should be maintained for protecting game? Moreover, this evil would soon be remedied. Even now there is scarcely a new letting in which the game is not a bone of contention, and landlords are in most cases making some, though often illusory, concessions with respect to game. He then enters into details about game animals, in which, however, his "facts" are the reverse of true. For instance, he says: Much error and misconception very generally remit as to the nature and quantity of food consumed by game. It is constantly and confidently asserted by one clam of individuals, that game feed exclu sively upon grain and other cultivated plants; and the msertioe is believed by them who have had neither time nor opportunity of making any investigation into its truth, and the animals are there- upon declared guilty of the crime of wasting human food, and then condemned to destruction. Now, horn the observations which I bane made, I have arrived at a very different conclusion an the subject. I am satisfied that when game (just like any other kind of stock kept span a farm) are properly managed, they are not only not de structive to human food, but they are productive of it or, to state my view in a perfectly mercantile manner, I would my, that from a cer tain quantity of grain (and that • very small quantity), more human food may be produced in the shape of pheasants and partridges than by its employment in rearing any other kind of stock. And again, rabbits being condemned, he says : flares are lee; destructive !in their habits than rabbits, and they may be reared in moderate quontilies upon an arable farm without causingany loan to the farmer. Theyare more moveable in their manner of feeding than rabbit., and unless kept in greatnumbera, never eat down a growing plant of corn more than once in its growth, and that cropping does not prevent the plant from thriving, and in due time producing its ears in vigour and abundance. After the plants have attained a certain stage of forwardni as, and long before the appearance of the grain-hearing stem, harm cease to feed on them. Young grasses, from the Natures, hedge mot• and woodland., *institute their food; and, until the winter frosts set in, when they will attack the turnips, bares are innocent frequenters of our fields. In severe frost, harm, in common with every other wild animal, lett attark turnips, although the depredations committed by them are but trifling when compared with the injury inflicted upon these roots by the wood pigeon and common crow. And in a note to the above passage, Mr. Murdoch naively adds, " Agriculturists are often in the habit of turning sheep upon growing crops, in order to thicken the sward, and cause the plants to tiller." Now this silly argument was suggested by some of the game preservers on the game-law committee, and ' the prompt and decisive reply was, that when farmers feed off their wheat with sheep—and it is only an occasional and exceptional practice induced by some peculiarity in particular seasons they put on the sheep at the right time, and keep them there so long only as may be beneficial ; but that hares are running at will through the crop, biting a blade here and another there, de stroying, with seeming wantonness, three times as much as they consume, and making tracks and runs " from seed-time until harvest." So far is it from being true that hares live chiefly on " young grasses from the pastures, hedge-roots, and woodlands," that it is a proven fact that hares cannot be reared in great numbers upon pasture land, where they have none of the produce of amble land, grain crops, tares, turnips, Sc., to resort to. Rabbits will live and multiply to any extent en pastures, but hares will not to any great extent. Then is it any reason that because crows do some damage to farm-crops, that game should be kept to damage them also? But it is a farce to pretend that crows or wood pigeons do a tenth of the damage caused by game; and it is notorious that wood pigeons have of late years become more abundant, from the rigid protection of the woods and covers in which they breed established to preserve the game. Mr. Murdoch, however, says— Flares, however, require to be regularly killed, and only a moderate number kept on the ground; they will °theme's. increase and multi ply, and get overstocked, and become an injurious and not a profitable stock on a farm. . Now, on this very point, Lord Hatherton said, "I soon found, as a farmer, desirous of introducing among my tenantry, and into the neighbourhood, a better system of cultivation, that it was utterly hope less to do so unless I completely destroyed the hares ; for the attempt merely to reduce them was useless, for a good season repaired their numbers to such an extent, that I found there teas no effectual means but entire destruction." And when we remember that it has been demonstrated by experiment, that four hares actually consume as much food as one Leicester sheep, it is quite obvious that so large a wild animal as the hare can only be allowed to exist in very limited numbers upon well-cultivated farms. Our author then endeavours still more earnestly to show that pheasants do little damage to farm pro duce, an assertion which the bitter experience of all farmers on preserved estates contradicts. The fal lacies of Mr. Murdoch are so nearly a repetition of Mr. Grantley Berkeley's "wiredrawn" arguments for pheasant preserving, wherewith the world hes been so much amused, that we do not think it necessary to extract them. There is one passage in the author's sporting experiences which se strikingly confirms what Mr. Pusey told the game-law committee, as to the practical impossibility of a moderate preservation of game, that it cannot be passed over. Mr. I'usey said, particularly in reference to pheasants, that game being no longer in the shape of wild animals, but merely preserved artificially, as soon as it wanders off the protected property it die appears. Now, unless pheasants are fed artificially— a practice Mr. Murdoch denounces—they are sure to wander and be lost to the person who reared them. On this subject Mr. Murdoch says: On certain days they will never be found at an, and a person who did not know of their existence otherwise, would not suppose such a bird had ever been rem in the locality ;—at other Mace they will he found congregated in number/4 in some outof the way and, it may be, very unlikely situation. For example:—One day, after haring in vain tried every spot on my own ground where pheasants usually were to be found, I reached my march. I there met my neighbour's game keeper. My remark was, " John, all my pheasants must hare paid a visit to-day to —'s shrubberies, for there is not oneon my ground ;" when, to my surprise, bin reply was, "Well, sir, I was just saying before we mow you that ell our pheasants must he in your young corers today, br there is not one to be found anywhere on —'e salute." Where the animals bad hidden them/elves was never disco- vered. for none of them were seen that day. That they were In exist ence, however, is certain, for they afterwards appeared, in due time, in their usual numbers. It may be remarked that the estate nest my ground Is as folly (although, for the ace" not Injuriously) stacked with pheasants as any gentleman's estate nand be. Again, upon the last day of the shooting lost season, I experienced another instance of the wandering habits of these birds. I had tried at isms eight or nine mall cavern, to each of which a few pheasants were generally to be fasted, without seeing more than messicaany astray bird. At last, in one corer jut on my march with the neighbouring property already alluded to, I found, I am convinced, not only pew, piteasorut belonging to my own ground, but am Wafted berry one from Shot derision of ;up , Iseighbour's reale next to mime. What had induced them to assemble at that spot could not be divined, bat so was the fact. Here, then, we find in the habits of these wild creatures the reason why game preservation must be managed upon the system so justly condemned, if it be practised at all in cultivated districts. Rigid pro tection, artificial feeding, abstinence from frequent disturbance of their haunts, are indispensable to the existence of game, and with such aid it is sure to swarm. The notion of a moderate quantity of game is a day dream of other days, and can no more be re produced in this country than oar 'squires can be retro graded into 'Squire Westerns, or our lords into feudal barons. Battue shooting, if game is to exist at all, is a necessity ; and it is plain that this demoralising thing must be speedily put down. Now, bearing this in mind, hear what this game-law apologist says of battne shooting : Ens elehoget the pleasured shooting depended entirely upon the ember of leis fired sad lane of game killed. I should call upon every to toren a pert of the great:Ann he may depend Srt.:, inn whet noesins with non latiethetios But l i stmet nos** eny nes tiding plasm is Mpg a ands n @thumbed* of ion la any given time. He gent probably will Ind a howlech. Acorns Unbland proprietor, who has tines for gone yore net the ' in such matters, lust year, according be the popes, kilted in on dese hundred and forty-five bran of grown eight or ten mangohere, banes None anon no—to r c to rotted sumbera, three homing of new, mining Oat he powered at Me Won Mais perin of a wan logsna' da, ten hours sod that de pained a shot, bo must hare fired ashetankilled erery two miones. ERA thin rate of kiting our ernine by two exalted iadividush he the ether end of the sunk wee wars yeported, is two boon sod a to ban killed above tar henna hens and neeonis and rek bits or Beast, three heed of pow awry two minutes Now I wend by norm hedsnee 04 ot theme honked enil fortpine lane of pewee Mire UV rims birds, or the any of dee =ft or eehldlibig ben =the proem le pedieren dr n o t d tho day ea whin their essowtles wee to take plies not gen gip Inn k son Inn= \bled at ; Wtt iss we hiss repined thst. wire nonbas tea the Nisei of the deeeles grow Inn hen yenestal to no berm el • not, deer cwmrg he mftent la also seen elemer, wet the balt• dedpl hate lesesehosion by a hamar *to the Won that, nos their atteneng to get up a b. they might become the legitimate object of the doelsee elm. We mast protest against the following libel upon British landowners, for we believe that they are now rapidly , awakening to the higher and purer pleasur e s afforded by the improvement and management of their Jose. own eetates, and that the abrogation of the piss laws, and the abandonment of game preserves, will do much to make them useful, popular, and happy in their own districts : Now, I am thoroughly convinced, that if game were extirpated from the mil, at least cis-sevenths of the lan d ed penprkWn of Bri tain would be banished from their estates. In rckrence to this oh. jest, it u, affaudion to talk of the game Laws. While proprietors an entitled to protect their Linda from forcible calcium, game will eon ' arum to alit. The title and right to protect their lands must be Man from them before game is benleW from the soil. The game lain, in fact, neither make the game, nor would their abrogation I destroy it; to effectuate that end, now so much Melted for by many. it will be necessary not only to repeal the old, but to place new laws I upon the statete-book; gad before game is extirpatod, every man, must be, by law, entitled to follow the noxious animal Into every place .to take and to destroy it. Were such • law in existence, few proprietons would chores to remain in the country; most of them would prefer the safety of the town and a good police, lathe ineecurit of the plain. Not to mention the mane of enjoyment and recreate) of which they would be thereby deprived, end io eoneequence which they would be faced to seek amusement in other quarters. few would choose to remain to witness the destruction of their feats end pLuaatione, and to have their wives and children exposed to the sbot descry ruetic who could obtain pomsemion Ma fowlinjpplece. in teeth, howcasr, if each had been the law for the last Vilely years, few proprietors could have witnessed the destruction of plantation or (me of t eir own rearing, for, verily, such would not have been in existence—but neither would the rural labour, re of the v Wages have been fed and supported by the wages which have been expelled in their formation. The proprietor would have vest his winter in the capital, and his summer at a German watering-place;—the middle man or factor, from the county town, would have appeared, no doubt. at regular intervals, to draw the rents, but he would have had no time to entity the growing of young trees or rearing of new tenon. What air-drawn phantoms are these ! What pro prietor ever found the game laws necessary to pro tect his land from hedge-breakers or forcible entries? Find as to planting and improving, it is notorious that when a landowner takes to improvement, he soon abandons game. Like Lord Hatherton, he soon finds that the two occupations, as preserver of game, and an improver of land by planting and farming, are " perfectly incompatible. " Milt Ans. TOE OTT Ptcrulte.—Yesterday, the large City picture of the " Lord Mayor and Aldermen presenting their address to Louis Philippe, in the Itubens Room, at Windsor Castle," wag hung for inspection and ornament in the Court of Exchequer, at the Guildhall. The picture toga painted by command of the King of the French, and the artist's name is M. Alton. It is a poor tame perform ance, not destitute of design or arrangement, but dull and heavy in colour, and without the every-day excellences of containing a number of portraits in any way resembling the individuals for whom they are intended. The most conspicuous figure in the picture is Alderman Ilumphery, who really looks, as Dryden expresses it, " goodly and great"—an alderman for two wards, and those the largest, " Farringdon Within," and " Farringdon Without." The worthy alderman it is understood went to Paris on pur pose, and sat to the artist rat least three times. Louis Phi lippe is a cheese-paring compared to him, and is so repre sented that the address (the object of the picture) seems really lost sight of, and the King is seen yielding the palm of the outward signs of good living to the alderman and M.P. But for these three visits to Paris it is perfectly clear that M. Alloy would have painted a picture of a London mayor and twenty-five London aldermen without a real London dignitary in the whole picture. "(fold chains, warm furs, broad banners, and broad faces," composed a civic procession in Pope's time, and the aldermen are of opinion that descrip tion is still true, for the picture will not be hung, it is under stood, in the place of honour, the Court of Common Coun cil, but in the less honourable situation where it was seen yesterday. The picture is a present from Louis Philippe. THE NEW COINAGE.—The new model penny piece —a circle of silver in a frame of copper—is not a new idea, one moreover unsanctioned by the Mint, and one that was found five-and-twenty years ago expensive and useless. The coin we see in the streets is therefore nothing more than • hawker's medal. The report that the five shilling pieces are to be treated in the same manner is equally erroneous. UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL. OXFORD, Nov. B.—ln a convocation holden this morning, Mr. F. Compton, 8.C.L., Fellow of AU t•ouls College, was unsd mously elected to the %kneel= Scholarship, secant by the election et Mr. T. 11. Iladdan., 8.C.L., of Ttinity Coll., to a Fellowship on the same foundation. Mr. P. Williams, Fellow of Ncw College, wan a candidate, but resigned previous to the election. WORCESTER COLLEDE.—An election to two exhibitions, founded by Lady Hotfoot, at this College, will take place on Wednes day, the Bth of bceember. Such members of the University as bait exhibitions from Charter House School are eligible. CAMBRIDGE, NOV. 9.—Tue NORRISIAN PROFESSOR his given notice that the subject for the present year for Mr.Norri , 's prim of 121. for the best pone English essay is, " The fitness of the times in which the promices of a newish were severally given to the churn► under the Old Testament disperuetien." CAMBHIDOR PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY—COVNCI I. ELlO eon, Nov. S.—President Rev. H. Philpott, D.D., Masher of St. CD. therine's Hall. Vice-Presidents: Hey. A. ()Ibsen; Trin.; Pro fessor Challis, MA., Trin.; R. L. Ellis, M.A., Trin. Treasurer: G. E. Paget, MD., Dawdle and Onus. tecretariee : W. Hopkins, /LA., St. Peter's; Professor Mil ler, St. John's; C. C. Babington, M.A., St. John's. Old fliceoil : G. T. Stokes, M.A. Pembroke; Proldeoc Felker, Downing ; Rev. J. Power M.A., e k e, ; Be,. J. C.artmell , M.A., Christ's ; A. Coyley, M.A., T rinity ; Professor Sedge kk, Trin.; Professor Willis, Danville old Calms ; Rev. W. C. Mathison, M.A.„ Trim New Council: Rev. Fl. Goodwin, M.A., Denville and Caine; Rev. P. Frost, M.A. ; St. John's; Rev. J. G. Mould, M.A., Corpus. At a meeting of this society held on Monday night, Profelsor V.P., In the choir, R. Walker, MA., and E. Walker, M.A., Trinity College, were elected members. Very numerous donations to the library of the society were announced. Mr. Hopkins mode a comma. siostroo, Being an application of the theory of vibratory motions to the phenomena of earthquakes. DURHAM.--At a convocation holden Nov. 2, the Rev. D. Melodic, M.A., Principal of Rp. Hattield'e Hall, and the Rev. R. A. Pears, 8.D., Tutor of University Coll., made the reqnieite de claration, on entering upon the oflloe of Proctor. The following degrees were conferred:—N.A.—J. R. Davison, 8.A., Univ. 001/.. Rev. R. Taylor, 8.A., Op. Hatfield'. Bell. Ad eundern B.A.—IL Garth, 8.A., Ch. Ch., 0x0n.., R. F. Elringion, R.A., Trot. Coil., MOW, G. Carey, 8.A., Trin. Coll., Dubl. B.A.—T. J. Monson, Univ. Coll.. G. It. Bulge, Univ. Coll., W. It. Lawrence, Univ. )11. The Rey. O. W. Henderson, M.A., Tutor of Univ. Coll., aud the Rev. R. Taylor, M.A., of lip. Hattield's Heil, were nominated w the Ake of Pro. Proctor, and made the requisite deciu - stion. The Profeesse of Di. linty, the Professor of Greek, and the Junior Proctor, were nomina ted by the Warden and approved by Convocation to be Esaminen is Tb e ' ° gy . The Annual Prizes, at the conclusion of the October Ex amination, were assigned as follows —ClassicaL—First year : Waite, Univ. Coil. Second year E. B. Dickson, Univ. Coll.—Math.- matical.—Firet year: R. 11. Blakey, Bp. Wetileld's Hall. taxed year : R. Hines, ruin. Coll. The Rev. J. Townson, 8.A., W. K. It. Coombs, B.A. J. Prior, WA., and P. Rudd, WA., all of Univ. Coll., have been elected Fellows of the University. The following have been admitted Scholarships on their respective foundation:—Van Widen, Ruseell ; Chapter, Waite ; Pemhei ton, Dodd—all of Univ. Coll. TRH ARCH BISHoPRIC or YORK.—It is rumoured that the Right Rev. Dr. Maltby, Bishop of Durham, will be trandsted to the vacant archbishopric. PHEYsltnENTs.—Rev. 8. Blackall, to laworth P.C., Sable; din. Norwich; 101 L, R. N. Cartwright, F,q.—ltce. J. Carnegie, V. of Cranborne, to be a surrogate for the diocese of Salisbury. VkCANCT.—Jordanston R., 911. ; pat., G. G. Vaughan, flaq. ; Llandeloy V., tr. Llanhowel V., 1201.; pate., the D. and C. of et. leivid's, Pembrokeshire: dio., Bt. David's; Rev. J. Bowen, deo. NAVAL. -•-- WooLWlca, Nov. 9. Commodore Sir J. J. Gordon Bremer, C. 8., superintendent of the dockyard, inspected the Virago at. acne, Commander Lunn, this merninte, on hoe return Irom Na Medi.erranean. Myrmidon st..v., Lieut—t.bm. Roberta, we• paid off and pot out of commies:on yesterday. Stromboli it. sloop, Com mander Fisher, is ordered to be paid off to-morrow, and re.commisa Mooed again with a crew of 160 men. Violet, iron it. packet, Mester- Com. Sherlock, was uadocked yesterday. Driver st..e. wan docked ay, to be examined. Niger, screw st. sloop, wile docked yetter. yesterday, be prepared for sea. Porcupine s4v. was unlocked yester day, twine been repaired by the shipwrighta. The Terrible st. fe w Rameay, is expomed to arrive here, so there are some defects in one of her boilers, whielo will require repairs. ADMIRALTY, Nov. 9.—S.PrOlNTLECTB.—Lienteminto : W. K. Jolliffe, to Cygnet; W. J. Pollard, to Penelope. Acting Master T. B. Wells, to Cygnet. Acting-Second Master C. J. Puller, to Preopem. Master.' Areetante : K Smythe, to Starer ;C. M. Palmer, to Meander. Assistant Surgeon : A. Aden., to Ma ger& Chief Engineer : J. Ward, to &don. Naval (JAM : P. Marian:a, to Fly ; A. Maalonnell, to Acheron. Clerk's Aesietust : A. Howard, to Porcupine. Seated Clare Au:latent Pkgineer : W. Norris, to Acheron. Third Clem Assistant Engineers : It. Alvin, to Regard ; J. Lee, to Medusa ; .1. W. German, and A. W. Suet, to regard- Acting Gunner : J. Steward, to Cygnet. Boatswain : J. Doeough, to Meander. Acting Boatswain D. Sullivan, to Victory. Carpenter of Victory : B. Beataton, advanced to Pint Clare. LAW Entrlttgence. EQUITY COURT, Before the Vice-02nmDor of England. THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY V. THE RIRIAINDHAY AND OXFORD RAILWAY.—At the conclusion of the argu ments on behalf of the demurrer Mr. Bethell commences his address in support of the bill, but had not concluded at the rising of the court. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. COHBETT T. HUDSON.—Is IT FOR TUE PLAINT VF 1N AN ACTION FOR A FALSE RETURN TO PROVE TILT TIER Rartatx Fatss ?—The plaintiff in person moved for • rule to show cause why the nonsuit which had been entered in this cue should not be set aside and a new trial had. The defendant is the keeper of the Queen's Bench preen, and to • writ of habeas corpus, issued at the instanse of the plaintiff, who was end still is a prisoner therein, for not putting in an answer to • oill in equity, made a return to the Court of Common Pleas which the plaintiff considered false. The present action was then brought to recover damages for the alleged false return ; but the plaintiff failed at the trial to show affirmatively that the return was false. Thereupon the learned judge directed a nonsuit to be entered. The plaintiff now submitted that it was for the defendant in suck an action to show that the return we; true ; he also suggested that he had been taken by surprise by the ruling of the learned judge, and could, if a new trial were granted, pro duce thereat evidence to show that the return was faise. —The court took time to consider the application. CONNOP AND OTHERS O. LEVT.—CAN A TR.TATORI PROMISE TO INDEMNIFY 31 PLEADED TO AN ACTION ,ST EIS ESECUTORS I—This was an action for work sad labour done by the testator of th e . plaintiffs, who sued u executors. The declaration r mime to the testator, selves. The defendant hour bad been done Dover, and Herne Bay . projected by the testator ; to join that company, ann harmless from all resulting was brought against him as committee of that company mended in this action were lost to the defendant. He r which the plaintiffs sued be made by the fraud and pleas there was a demurrer. lecraratio; ContiledcOw;ts on pro- T, and also to the executors these- ot pleaded that the -.and la- by the teetato ...... — " ° %;'" l ay Railway Co ....1172,Z . „T_f i r . or; that the •pt:7 .• =it , sad had • •''''. dar rizs molting oldi tW 4 "g'rr him Lai dr the Foe • ,mpany ; and tlea tlt•.• . d ~ were to be • 4 . `lil, He also ple . Lied had bee • • . l' , k and covin 0 lit, a • arrer.—]fir. Crow ; . .445 . -