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

:, krality t white clayed, not being refined," and this rewas chosen from a sort of sugar ly unknown in England, from a quality which b . never entered into our con s:option i'ithout first undergoing a 'process of Tenianufac tire, and so different in all respects from tbe sugar c-wily consumed in this kingdom, that no F orty, how ver well acquainted with the qualities of sugar, cola— as importer, dealer, refiner, Customs officer, or c ..isomer, can make a correct com parison Is we. n them. Moreover, the particular tercel of • .gar selected for the standard is of a cha racter liab!c to constant change, according to the state of thc weathcr, and therefore, from its varying na t u re, not applicable for a standard, as other sugars bated by it may at one time be found equal or supe rior, and at other times inferior, in respect of any or the whole of the three qualities of colour, grain, and saccharine matter, of which it is assumed to be the constant and unalterable regulator. As the lowest rate of duty is chargeable upon sugars of ad qualities up to n point or value assumed tube fixe,., hut which we have shown to be change able, it bec •ines the study of the importer to produce such qualitiis as shall be found to be admissible at this rate; fur if he exceed the point in the least degree he becomes chargeable with 2s. 4d. per cwt. more duty. although there be no difference in the saleable vane from that of a sugar paying the lower rate. The importer has not, consequently, any in ducement to produce a good article; but the reverse ; for the uncertainty which at all times prevails as to the rate of duty to which any sugar approaching to the standard =I- be considered liable, and the cer tainty that, if the higher rate of ids. 4d. be insisted upon fur s sugar of merely the same market value as that upon which only 149. is charged, the party pay ing the higher rate is placed in a worse position than he who pays the lower—this certainly compels the importer to introduce only such sugars as can with anything 1 ke confidence be calculated upon for ad mission at the lowest rate. . . . During the last seven or eight years a large amount of British capital has been invested in India, and in our Eastern colonies, in the cultivation and manufacture of sugar, and a great improvement loss taken place in the quality produced; an improve ment arising from the employment of a more scientific system of manufacture ; and were it not for the opera tion of these difkrential duties this improvement in quality would still advance, for the appliances now avail:llle to the manufacturer enable him to produce the very finest qualities. But instead of encourage ment being held out to him to improve, the formidable obstacle of differential duties is thrown in his way, by which the whole of the extra price he would obtain for a better quality is absorbed ; and these increased duties virtually act as a prohibition of the production of the higher qualities of sugar. So far, we have referred only to the effect of the duty on white clayed sugars, or sugar rendered by any Process equal in quality to white clayed; but a still further check is laid on improvement by no line bring drawn by the legislature between white :dived not refined and other refined sugar ; the adju dication of which is left entirely to the judgment or the caprice of the officers of customs; and it has happened that sugars, which to a very small extent have been imported superior to the standard for white clayed, have sometimes been charged with the rate of 18s. tad as refined; although their market value has not been more than Is. to Is. 6d. per cwt. above that of sugars admitted at the same time at the lowest rate, or 14s. per cwt. Improvement in quality in India and our colonies being thus checked, or rather prohibited, by the legis lature, the finer descriptions of sugar are only to be procured in quantities from the refiners, for whose benefit alone these regulations seem to have been in troduced, and they are by this unjust act enabled to charge an extra price for the higher qualities to the consumer beyond that at which they would be supplied at by the importers of nearly the whole amount of the difference of duty payable under the act. Now, that a large increase in the consumption of sugar may, with confidence, be looked for from its unrestricted use in breweries and distilleries, it will become even more desirable than before that these tectrictions on imports should cease; and a fair field be opened out for the leg , timate exercise of skill and capital in the production of the very finest qualities It more reasonable prices than the public will be sup• plied at, so long as au exclusive advantage be granted to the refiner. Nor is there any redeeming or compensating quali fication in these mischievous rates of duty. The extra sum paid to the customs in the higher rates of duty has been very inconsiderable and unim portant as an item of revenue; although of much moment to the importers ; for it has abstracted his whole profit, and the amount would have been still =alter, but that many sugars which were in transits at the time of the passing of the act, and which would have been admitted under the old law at the lowest rate of duty, have been charged by the customs with the higher rates. Vl'c bring no accusation against the officers of the customs for the manner in which the provisions of the act have been carried out, although much might be advanced to show that consistency has not been maintained in their decisions. Our object is to prove that the act is unjust and inexpedient, inasmuch as it prevents the admission of fine sugars—whereby the community at large is greatly injured—and the extension of production, as well as the attainment of perfection in quality, is much impeded in British India and the tropical colonies. TLe diplomatic correspondence on the Spanish mar riages continued, on Sunday, to engross the public attention and the press in Paris. M. Ouizot made public, in the columns of his two semiofficial journal , , the Debate and the Frew, his reply to Lord Palmerston's note of the Bth January. It is remark able that these two organs of the cabinet are used, as snits the convenience of the minister, to wheedle or to vituperate England. The one is all for the English alliance, the other all for the Russian. Yet both are recipients of the confidences of the cabinet and the court. There is a great convenience in this arrange ment. We give elsewhere, in eztesao, a translation of M. Guizot's answer, which is dated so recently as ' Monday, the 25th January. It will be remembered that the dynastic opposition is the Chamber of Deputies was lately split by a schism which threatened a separation of the left centre, led by Thiers and (Milton Barrot ; from the left, led by MM. Dufaure and Billanit. Whatever may be the differences which prevail between these sections, they cordially agree in one thing, viz., to oppose with all their energy the present cabinet, both on its foreign and domestic policy. These sections had 1 meetings on Wednesday and Friday in last week to rattle the programme of their parliamentary cam reign. and MOM especially to decide upon the course to be taken in the debate on the address, which was to commence on Monday, and which will involve the Spanish and Cracow questions. La Siiele, which speaks the sentiments of these parties, declared, on Sunday, that the most cordial unanimity prevailed between these parties, and that they had resolved to oppose by all legal means "the unworthy system at home and abroad which had compromised the prospects of Prance, and was corrupting the public morals. The Cooditutionnel devoted its leading columns to a remarkable letter from London, dated i the . 27th, which that j ourna l affirms to be the production of use "who is in a position to be perfectly informed of public affairs," although unconnected officially with t.ities. This writer asserts the feeling against . i Guizot to be unanimous in England ; that he doubts whether there will be any debate on the marriage question; that the feeling is one of universal dirvust and unmitigated contempt and indignation. A report was circulated and credited in the wile des conferences of the chamber, on Sunday, to the effect that the Count St. Aulaire had written to Paris t°T .equest permission to leave London for France, gas reason the false position in which he found himself placed towards the British court. The ambassador says that, having lately requested an audience of the queen, he was decidedly refused, and no explanation or reason assigned. The debate on the address is expected to be very , amnted,especially on the Cracow question. Several Puties intend to demand the production of the diplomatic correspondence of the Marquis of Dal matia, Minister at Berlin, of the month of August wit h the view to prove that the cabinet must 3 ';: e cow heen . aware of the approaching catastrophe of theC°r° continues to rise in every part of France, and 1: Molar excitem en t, an d consequen t emer d es , are rePremet i ; or, if rep ressed in one quarter, break uoutr,i,ntan6o7thce, and r.._ , Flour inthe Paris market has' risen the consequent price of bread for the first fortnight of February will be Mc. per kilogramme, being equal to 2 . 1 d per pound, or ten pence for the common four-pound. loaf. The probable consequences of such a price of the article of prime necessity among such a population as that of Paris and its faubourgs are too fearful not to awaken all the activity of the authorities to devise and bring into operation means of prevention. It has been accordingly arrangedby the government and mu nicipal authoritiesthat ticketsaretobe delivered in un limited number to all applicants at the Maine of each arrondissement, by presenting which the bearer can purchase of any baker bread of the first quality at 40c. the kil., or 2d. per lb. The vendor subsequently presents the ticket at the bureau of the Maine, and receives the difference between the actual price of bread and that which the buyer has paid him. A large sum is weekly disbursed in this way to feed the people. Of course it comes ultimately front the tax-payers. . . . . . . . The following are the import duties to which grain and flour of different kinds are subject under the law just passed: Grain per quarter. Plow per cert. Wheat 74.1-10 I Wheat id. Rye 7d. Rye d. 6-10 Indian c0ne........... 4d. 3-10 Indian was Barley Barley Buckwheat ..... .... 41 .0 -]0 Buckwheat 1• t• lid. (keta ... ... 1. S-I / We subjoin a translation of the last diplomatic note of M. Cuizot to Lord Palmerston, which was pub lished on Sunday in Le Journal des Debuts and La Presse. These ministerial organs consider it unan swerable. "We know not," says the Myth, " whether it will put an end to the . dispute between the governments, hut, at all events, it is of a nature to do full justice to the subtleties and miserable chicane ries to which it has been lately attempted to reduce the question." M. OUIZOT TO COUNT ST. AVLAIRE. PARIS, JAN. V), 1847.—Monsieur le Comte,—Lord Nor manby came to corn annicate to me, on the 10th of the pre sent mouth, a new despatch of Lord Palmerston, dated the Bth, in reply to that addressed by me, on the 22c1 of Novem ber last, to Count de Jarnae, and which he communicated on the 26th to Lord Palmerston ; that reply, there ; fore, reached me forty-five days after miss bad been communicated to Lord Palmerston, and on the very eve of the opening of our chambers. [Expressing a wish to close the correspondence, M. Guizot gees on to say:] Lord Palmerston, after calling to mind that I had expressed some surprise that per sons pretended to be so well acquainted with the engagements of the Chateau d'Eu, of which, how ever, no official proofs are produced, whilst, at the same time, it is on the absence of official documents that they found their disavowal of facts and documents they find embarrass leg especially the memorandum of 27th of Feb., 1846. He adds, in the third paragraph of his new despatch : "Now, in answer to this , it is su ffi cient to say that the facts are such as were stated in my former despatch, that her Ma jesty's government had a knowledge of the engagements at Eu ; but had not, until after the marriages were declared, any knowledge of the memorandum of the 27th of February; and if M. Guinn will only bring to mind the circumstances connected with the engagements of the Chateau d'Eu, he will easily see that her Majesty's present government might acquire a knowledge of those engagements without the aid of any record in the Foreign-office." I am obliged to repeat that the engagements of the Chateau d'Eu have not been officially consigned to the Foreign-office, no more than the memorandum of 1816 ; that that memorandum was com municated on the 4th March to Lord Abenleen, with whom the conversations and engagements at the Chateau d'Eu were held, and that in consequence Lord Pslmenton, who declares himself to have been acquainted with those engagements, ought and must have equally been acquainted with the memorandum. It is not requisite at every change of ministry to renew the communications made to the ministry which goes out ; they pass from ministry to ministry as the affairs themselves. What is there, moreover, esiteatial in the memorandum of Feb. 27 ? It is the declaration that, if the marriage of the Queen of Spain, or of the infanta, with a prince a stranger to the descendants of Philip V., and es pecially to Prince Leopold of Coburg, became probable and imminent, the ro% emment of the king wouldconsider itself as liberated from all engagement, and free to demand the hand, either of the queen or of the infanta, fur the Duke of Mont pensier. And this nine declaration, I have made and repeated more than once, in the moat positive terms, to Lord Cowley, then ambassador of Eng land in France, who certainly did not omit to give an account of it to his government. [ld, Guisot then answers as follows to the paragraph of Lord la's letter respecting the repudiation of the memorandum.] The memorandum of 27th February affects in no manner either rights or pretensions. It simply declares, beforehand, the conduct which the government of the king will follow in a certain hypothesis. It is assuredly a clear incontestible right, and which requires the assent of no one to make such a declaration. We never pretended that that memorandum was obtiyraory for the English government. We only pre tended that it was acquainted with it. It is a manifestation of our intentions which we made from a sentiment of good faith, that the English government, informed of the line of conduct we should follow in a provided case, might, in its turn, take account of this information in the evidence of in own conduct. There are there nopretensions for Lord Palmer ston tither to reject or admit ; there is merely a resolution of the French government, communicated at different times and in different ways, notably on the 4th March, 1846, to the English government, represented, at that epoch, by Lord Aberdeen and to-day . by Lord Palmerston. Is that communi cation certain (rename), incontiestible ? Thatis the only ques tion which may be raised ; and when the facts answer yes, no one can reject that answer. [M. Guizot then complains that Lord Palmerston, on entering office, sought no explanations. A quibble about the simultaneity of the marriages follows, and is succeeded by another long quibble about the stipula tions of Eu, as to whether they stipulated the birth of a child or of children to the queen, previous to the marriage of the in fanta. All this is utterly immaterial to the general argu ment.] " Her Majesty's present government (says Lord Palmerston, § xiaare unable either to admit or to deny that any such engagements was taken by their predecessors ; but I will assume, for the sake of argument, that it was and, then, I would ask who, since the condition required by the French government has been fulfilled, anal knee the promise of the Britieh government has been kept, why has the engagement of the Chateau d'Eu been broken ?" Lord Palmerston here again forgets that if the marriage of the Queen of Spain with a descendant of Philip V. was de cided on the 28th of August last, it wan because the mar riage of the Infanta with the Duke of Dlontpensier was agreed upon and decided at the same time. "M. Guizot," says Lord Palmerston (§ 12) " endeavours to establish a con trast between the conduct of her Majesty's late, and that of her Majesty's present government, in regard to this matter but there is no just ground for such a distinction. For both governments have pursued in this matter the same course; both governments have held eve:4 the same language, as to the pretensions put forward by the French government to compel the Queen of Spain to marry none but a descendant of Philip V. ; both governments have been of opinion that it would be moat prudent for the Queen to marry a Spanish Prince, and borh agreed in their selectivn of the Prince 1 whom they ventured to recommend ; while neither her 1 Majesty's late, nor her Majesty's preaentgovemment have at any given any encouragement or support whatever to the choice which the Spanish Court wished to make of Prince Leopold of Saxe Coburg. Therefore the memorandum of the 27th of February is in no degree inconvenient to her Majesty's government, and could not, even if communicated in proper time, have afforded the slightest justification for the departure from the engagements of the Chateau d'Eu." The French government never bad the pretension to force the Queen of Spun to marry only a desoendant of Philip V. But it was frank enough to declare beforehand what line of policy it would follow in such and such an hypothesis. It might as equally be said that the English government had the pretension to force the Queen of Spain not to marry a French prince. We shall not make use of such expressions, which are as contrary to truth as to conrenonee. Every go vemment has the right to follow the line of policy best in accordance with the legitimate interests of its country. This is what we did in this circumstance; and the English government did as much. We do not reproach them for ft, but we loudly repel the reproaches it makes warn us. As regards the assertion that the preceding end the present government of her Britannic Majesty have followed, in this affair, the same steps and the same language, I am in the necessity of reproducing a few circumstances (rapproehements), very simple in themselves, which will &ow if it is well founded. On the 28th May, Lord Aber deen blamed Mr. Bulwer for having approved the step taken by the Spanish government for the merriage of the Queen with Prince Leopold of Coburg, and reproached him with having deviated therein from the instructions he had re ceived. On the lath July, Lord Palmerston, giving his in structions to Mr. Bulwer, indicated to him " Prince Leopold lof Saxe-Coburg and the two sons of Don Francisco de Paula," as the sole candidates for the hand of the Queen ; adding, that of those three can didates, the government of her Britannic Majesty could only express its sincere wish that the choice might fall upon him who was best calculated to assure the happiness of the Queen, and the prosperity of the Spanish nation. Were those instructions of Lord Palmerston similar to the instruc tions previously given by Lord Aberdeen ? Did they design only the same candidates ? And when there was question only of a single candidate, of the Infant; Don Enrique, Lord Aberdeen wrote on the 22nd of June, to the Duke of Soto Mayor "We have ventured, although without any English candidate, without any . English prefer- ence, to indicate the Infant Don Enrique, as the prince who seems to us as the beet adopted choice as likely to be most agreeable to the Spanish nation." What in kis turn did Lord Palmerston write to Lord Normanby on the 22nd August, as a resume , of his recent instructions to Mr. Bulwer? It is the opieba of her Majesty's government that Don Enrique is the way Spanish prince proper, by his personal qualities, to beans the husband of the Queen of Spain." Is this bringing the Infant Don Enrique forward in the same manner as Lord Aberdeen, or is it the same language ? M. Outset again reverts to my despatch of the 19th of July is Mr. Bulwer, and states that whatever may have been my intention, the mere order in which the name of the Prince of Coburg was mentioned in that despatch must have had the effect of an indirect recommendation is his favour. But M. Guizot forgets that that dispatch was a personal instruction to Mr. Bulwer; that it was not skinned to be communicated to the Spanish government, and that it never was cornmunica..nl to that government by him; and that, in the very outset of that dispatch,."l referred Mr. But- THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 2, 1847. what is the consequence ? That when he afterwards pro tests against what he calls the violation of the engagements of Eu, A is on the King personally that his accusation falls. Thus an inexact citation beoc;ines the origin and pre text of a proceeding moat contrary to constitutional prin. eiples and customs. 2. Lord Palmerston says again, in his devyritch of 31st of October, " The objections expressed by the King of M. French, u regards Irince Leopold of Coburg, however unreasonable, unjust, and unsustainable they may be in public right might nevertheless, in case that price should become the husband of the Queen, make e rr ervtable alteration in t':.e relation of Spain with France." I do not think that any remark* are necessary to point out the ,trangeness and unconstitutional tore of this language : nor need I quota other example, to justify the reclamation I made in concluding my despatch of 224 November last, a'id which I now formally renew. I request you to com noinicate and give a copy of this despatch to Lord l'alinetston. (Sigurd) Oeizot. ROME, Jaw. 21. Our new governor, ornzzel;ni, has addressed him self in earnest to the work of social reform. His first effort is arduous enough, 1:o less than an attempt to extirpate the old cancer cf mendicity which has lung disfigured Rome. FioreLce had shown, early in this century, what could be effected by an intelligent government to discourage and ultimately uproot the mendicant sys..cm from the midst of an industrious and thrifty population ; but the difficulties to encounter in tit's city arc far wore formidable; and therchwe success will be, if achieved a paramount triumph of administrative capacity. The process is &Bening of attentive study, for obvious reasons just now. For some days the active agents of Roman police were constituted into an army of observation, and the various haunts of eleemosynary practitioners were accurately mapped out. No alarm was given; but at the close of the last week several simultaneous and well-directed rozzias were made on the astonished natives of beggardom, and near 400 of the more prominent male and female characters car ried off to the several de:rOta prepared for their recep tion. Church-door corners and favourite thoroughfares were sudenly bereft of their immemorial sentinels; and the vested interest of each .egged incumbent set at nought. Rigid inquiry at each depot quickly brought out the long suspected fact, that not one twentieth of them were natives of the city, but had been attracted hither from all quarters by the alms giving renown of this capitaL In return for alms so given, an immense amount of vice was shown to be imported among the native loor, with inveterate habits of the vilest hypocrisy. Means of conveyance forthwith were found for these unbidden guests, and some hundreds of them are now on their road home wards, specially recommended to the village or muni cipal authorities, who are made responsible for their non-return. Accompanied with a land-tax on the great estates of the Roman nobles for their support or employment, this measure will greatly relieve the city ; though it may not be so palatable to the Piom binos, Rospigliosi, Rnslroli,Chigi, Borghese and other leviathan landholders, who would much prefer the practice of ostentatious almsgiving in Rome to the compulsory and inglorious payment of extra labourers on their farms. To one accustomed here, a walk through the lead ing streets of this town yesterday, without having to " run the gauntlet " of the usual professionals, was a real novelty. New Rome might be described in the graphic words of Scott's " Andrew Fairservice," when eulogising Glasgow cathedral ; whick appeared to him "all the better for being cleansed of popish (Trials," and trade by John Knox "as dowse as a cat when the flees are kempt off her."" Tastes differ as to picturesque effect, not merely with reference to the aforesaid eedolo, but with regardto the flxt attendance of a goodly row of mendicants at the porch of Christ ian churches. Long ago CI- rysoetom hoarded that Pagan palaces and temples might bedeck their porti coes with graceful statuary, but the maimed, the lame, and the blind, were the proper ornaments, metopes and triglyphs of an orthodox peristyle. This Byzantine standard of art may not be quite in fallible, though Raphael, in his cartoon of the " beautiful gate," has introduced the lame beggar of Scripture with a skilful eye to contrast. But as the business of a journalist is merely with social amelio , ration, the picturesque and archaeological part of this subject may be safely left to Mr. Pugin. The annual ceremony of blessing the cattle at the porch of St. Antonio, on the Esquiline, which during . the present week keeps all the ostlers and retturara of Rome alive with excitement, as well as the blessing of two milk-white lambs at the church of St. Agues, which interests all the young ladies from England, and took place this morning, are topics which the rude pen of worldly-minded journalism had, perhaps, better eschew also. The former of these yearly trans actions may, however, be looked at, not alone in a sentimental or asthctic point of view, but as an exhi bition of the native breed of horses, a kind of Roman Tattersall's. Very little has been done, and very much might be accomplished, for the improvement of what Frenchmen call la race cheralMe in these parts. A few of the nobility attend to their studs, having no thing else to do ; but the great mass of the working quadrupeds are miserably underbred, though the vast estates into which this territory is divided afford pe culiar facilities for rearing a superior stock of cavalry. The introduction of the Chesterfield fox-hounds has given some impulse to the breeding of saddle horses in the Campagna; and the now facility afforded by the Peninsular Company's steam communication direct between Cinta-Vecchia and Southampton may bring more English blood into the breed. The good friars' blessing can do the beasts no harm, nay, may tend to humanise the ferocity . of their masters, who can scarcely ill-treat the recipient of St. Antonio's benison; as such, this ceremony ought to be pa tronised by the " Animal's Friend Society," who might possibly get up a branch establishment for the benefit of London cabmen, or prevail on some benevo lent rector (say your editorial fellow-labourer, George Croly) to give the metropolitan cattle a benefit at the Elephant and Castle. A beggar on horseback is considered in England a rare combination : but a centaur of this kind was to be seen here on the Pincian hill, in the shape of a robust cripple, who rode in daily from his country seat, and, dismounting , took up his position on the great stairs of the Moils, nding off graria a're &mum at eve. I see him now from my window, his donkey being tethered to the accustomed tree. His is a torso as finely developed na that in the Vatican, with a voice to match. I rejoice to find he has escaped the razor, being a fellow of infinite drollery : he is in eooth the mighty P(query D)an of our Roman beggars. He has given his daughter 1,000 crowns dowry. 'Ube court. WINDSOR, MONDAT.—Her Majesty and Prince Albert walked this morning in the slopes. The Royal family took walking and pony exercise to-day in the grounds around the Castle. H. R. H. Prince Albert, accompanied by Count Alexander Mensdorff, enjoyed the sport of shooting this moraine. His Royal Highness was attended by Lord Camoys, Lord A. Paget, Col. the Hon. C. B. Phipps, and Capt. the Hon. A. Gordon. Capt. F. Seymour is expected to arrive at the Castle do-day, on a visit to her Majesty. Sir Hamilton and Lady Seymour took their departure from the Castle to-day. The Queen will hold a Privy Council on Thursday afternoon, the 4th instant, at Windior Castle. The Council is appointed at half-past two o'clock. H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent gave an evening party yesterday at Frognsore House. The Duchess was honoured with the presence of her Majesty, H.R.H. Prince Albert, and several distinguished personages. Her Majesty's private band was in attendance, and performed in the grand corridor. There was a carpet dance in the course of the evening, in which her Majesty joined. Lord John Russell has returned to town from Windsor Castle. Mr. Cunard had an interview with the Earl of Cla rendon, yesterday, at the office of the Board of Trade. Lord Clements had an interview with Eorl Grey yesterday, at the Colonial-office. Dr. Jemrd had an interview with the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson yesterday, at the Board of Trade. Despatches from the Governor of the Mauritius were received yesterday at the Colonial-office. Despatches were sent off last evening from the Colonial-office, for fhe Governors of the West India Colonies. llE.tTii OP LIECT.-GEN. SIR E. GIBBS.—This dis tinguished officer, who retired from the °aloe of Lieut. Governor, at Jersey, a fortnight since, on being promoted to the rank of Lieut -General, died on the 24th ult. at his tem. porary residence in that island, in the 70th year of his age. Though suffering f r some time from gout, Sir Edward's death was somewhat unexpected ; having given up posses sion of the governor's house, he proceeded on a visit to a fritnd in the interior of th e island, and while there sustained an attack of paralysis, which terminated fatally. OVERCHARGE BY NEWSMEN.—SIR,—OR Tuesday last I was charged fourpenee for your paper at the Euston station, while the newsmen at the other stations dune only threepence. The same imposition was attempted there on " Punch," but a rap from his truncheon has set matters right.—A. B. THE ACCIDENT ON THE GREAT WESTEILN RAILWAY.-ADJOURNED INQUE S T. - -- The adjourned inquest on the bodies — of H. Bishop and H. Halt, who were killed on the Great Western Railway on Monday last, was resumed yesterday morning, before Mr. Wakley, and his deputy, Mr. Mills. It will he recollect-it that the inquiry was adjourned in order that evidence might be heard with regard to the manufacture of the tires of the wheels. There were now several engineers present to give the requisite information. The first witness called was J. Faucit. He stated that he was a smith in the employment of the company, at the Swindon station. It wee his duty to are the tire: put on the wheels. If there was any external flaw he should dis cover it, but any other he could not. He had strict orders not to put on any that had a flaw. The tire in question appeared to have been weidad with one V (a kind of wedge of the form of that letter) ; it was not welded at Swindon ; it came to him in a hoop. He believed it had broken at the weld. J. Almond, the driver of the "Queen," was then called. He said that he had been misunderstood at his List examina tion. He did not mean to say that a similar accident had n,ver happened to the " Queen ; " he remembered its taking place once, hut then no person was hurt ; the accident did not occur to the same wheel as on the last occasion. The tire of that wheel was examined, and believed to be sound. If a tie: conies off it is liable to come through the bottom of the carriage; but he had known an instance when it had Slot done so. b - u itt, engineer, lived at New Cross, Deptford. He had had considerable experience, and had examined the tire of the " Queen." Ile believed the principal cause of its breaking was the unsound welding. He did not consider that the last mode of welding had been adopted, as in his opinion the single wedge was not so secure as two or three which were generally used. He was locomotive engineer to the Great Northern Railway, where he always rivetted with three pieces. He was quite satisfied that the the In question was unsoundly welded; besides being itself in • great degree unsound—so unsound in fact that had its con dition been known it would never have been put on the wheel •aucit was then recalled, and asked by Mr. Waklcy if, during the time he was at Swindon, any tire had ever been put on a wheel without having been previously tested by the stretcher.—The witness answered : Yes, when a tire was sent there is was considered to be ready for the wheel. Ile did not know if the tire in question had been so tested, but thought it had. lie was satiafied that every mre was taken that no tire should be used if any flaw woo to be seen. Mr. Cubitt's examination continued. If the tire had been riveted it would have been likely to have held on the wheel, but he could not say for certain. He knew but of one way to guard against such an accident in future, and that was not certain . it was to put on screw rivets front the inside ; the screws.to be inch screws, or a little larger, and placed about IS inches apart, and to be screwed quite up to the steel ; that was the cause he should pursue himself. Mr. J. Macconnell was an engineer in the employ of the Bristol and Birmingham Company. This evidence corres ponded with that given by Mr. Cubitt, whose remarks were also confirmed by the statements of Mr. Braithwaite, engi neer to the Hastert' Counties, and several other railways. The Coroner here said that it would be a satisfaction if they should hear that the plan recommender] by Mr. Cubitt and Mr. Braithwaite would be adopted on the Oreat Western line.—Mr. Gooch answered that the plan should be adopted: the screws should be used. The Coroner asked Mr. Braithwaite what proportion the unsound parts of the tire bore to the mound ? Ihe witness answered that there was at least GO per cent. unsound. It was for that reason that he thought that the screws would not weaken the metal ; because if the tire had run 25,000 miles with so great a proportion of it unsound, the mere drilling of a few holes could not diminish the strength so much as to prevent its running 2.5,000 mile* more. The Coroner here read a letter which had been received by the Great Western from the Haigh Foundry Company, expressing their regret at the accident which had occurred in consequence of their tire. Mr. Gooch then entered into an explanation of the means which he took to weld the tires, illustrating by means of a diagram, without which his information would be scarcely intelligible. The Coroner said that there was no more evidence; and from what had been adduced, be thought it quite clear that no blame whatever was to be attached either to the railway, the engineer, or the driver; it also appeared th ot even with a careful examination of the tires, the defect which ex isted might have been overlooked. lie believed that the witnesses had given concurrent testiminy on that point, and all agreed that the tire gave way in cons, quenoe of had weld ing; therefore it was quite evident that those parts of the metal where the fracture took place were unsound. Under the circumstances it was impossible to come to any other conclu sion than that the deaths were accidental. The jury then retired; and, after an absence of about 20 minutes, returned with a verdict that " The deceased acci dentally came by their death," accompanied by a recom mendation that the tires should in future be secured in the manner recommended by the engineers who had beeu exa mined. This terminated the proceedings. WrtrrriNcroN CLUB.—A quarterly general meet. ing of the members of this club was held last evening at the London Tavern for the purpose of receiving the report of the council. Mr. Jenkin Jones in the chair. The report stated that the council had partly agreed for premises in Gresham- street, built upon the Whittington estate at a rental of 1001. a year, for the purposes of the city branch of the club, to which for the present the council thought it judicious to confine themselves, leaving the west e.,01 branch for future consideration ; but the negotiation for this building, which was quite a new one, was still pending. 900 members had al ready joined the club, 400 of whom joined since the last gene ral meeting, and Mr. Douglas Jerrold had consented to become president of the chib,and numbers of other distinguished male and female literary characters had agreed also to join the club as vice presidents, amonest whom were Mrs. Mary Howitt and Mr. W. Howitt, Miss Cushman, Dr. Southwood Smith, &c. To defray the expense of opening the club, it was in tended to raise a mum of 10001. on loan .totes, bearing interest at live per cent., and a considerable amount had already been advanced by members of the council towards that sum. It was intended in the course of the present month to hold a aoire'e of the members of the club, at the London Tavern, for which purpose Meson. Bathe and Breach, the proprietors, had handsomely offered an elegant suite of apartments free of all expense. (Cheers.) Mr. Douglas Jerrold would preside on that occasion, and several eminent vocalists had offered their services for that night. The Mears. Aahurst had been appointed solicitors to the club, and Mr. Barnes, on whose recommendation the premises in Gresham-street had been selected, had agreed to act as their honorary architect. The report, after some short discussion, was agreed to, after which auditors were appointed, and the members of the council as named in the report re-elected, and thanks having been voted to the chairman, the meeting I separated. - - • ACCELERATION OP TILE MAlLB.—AMlngements have been concluded between the Post-office authorities and the directors of the South-Western Railway Company for the conveyance et the mail bags to and frogs Southampton, (Jetport, Portsmouth, and the towns upon and adjacent to that line, three times a-day. THE POST-OFFICE PACKET LISTS- - Compliunts are unceasingly made by commercial men abaut the loose and groasly incorrect way in 1k hich the daily packet list, prepared in the pod-office, is made up. - - INQUESTu, YESTERDAY.--SUICIDE.—By Mr. T. Payne, at the Bast India Arms, Fenchurch-street, on view of the body of Mr. Thomas Greenwood, aged 40, surgeon, No. 2, Fencburch-buildings, who committed self-destruc tion with essential oil of bitter almonds. It appeared that the deceased had been in practice for many years. On Sun day night previous, about eight o'clock, he returned home, having been professionally engaged throughout the day. lie was informed that he was required to attend the child of Mr. Jordan, a neighbour, for which he prescribed, and again went home, and proceeded to the surgery, his tea having been prepared by his servant. He was in a state of inebriation, and ordered the servant to bring him a tumbler, into which he poured some tea, and in which the servant saw him put some powder. About nine o'clock deceased's son called up the servants, who found deceased in a state of insensibility. Mr. Ballard, surgeon, was called in, who discovered that there was in the tumbler a smell of essential oil of bitter almonds. lie administered antidotes for that poison, and sent for Dr. Fox, physician, Bmul street, but life was extinct before his arrival. Deceased, who, a few years ago, injured his head by a fall from an omnibus, and who had on two other occasions attempted self-destruction with opium, stated to Mr. Ballard he was involved in pecuniary difficulties, which led him to the com mission of the melancholy act. Several of the jury had seen deceased suffering at times under men tal alienation. Verdict, " Temporary insanity." which he had received truep my m- war to a demenoe, in whieh a Spanish primes was named as the riaisdi data who appeared to the British government to be the most eligible, and the moat likely to prove acceptable to the people of Spain." This is not the only order in which the saute of Prince Leopold of Coburg is mentioned in the despatch of 19th July, which caused me to say that that despatel was likely to produce is his favour the effect of an iedirs et recommendation ' • it is the formal text of the two paragraphs which I have already quoted, and which I reproduce again : "The candidates to the hand of the Queen are reduced to three, namely, Prince Leopold of Saxe - Coburg, nod tee two sons of Don Francisco de Paulo. I omit Count Trapani and Count Montemolin, as there seems no chance of the choice falling on either of them." There was three fore a chance that the choice might fall on Prince Leo pold of Coburg, for, if not, why should not Lord Pal merston have omitted him as well as Count Trapani and Count Montemelin? H aving th us established himself that there was a chance for the Prince of Coburg, Lord Palmenton adds " Among the three above-named candidates, the government of her Majesty can only express its sincere desire that the choice may fall upon him meat likely to assure the happiness of the Queen and the proeperity of the Spanish nation." Assuredly in theme two paragraphs there is something fu different from the single order in which the name of Prince Leopold of Coburg is mentioned, although do nut regard that circumstance as indifferent. It matters little if the despatch of 19,h July was a personal instruc tion to M. Bulwer not to be communicated to the Spanish sotion. M. Bulwer was necessarily to regulate his soaduct and his language according to those instruc- Mons. The views and the intentions conteiiird in the despatch were to he made manifest in the actions and the words of the minister to whom it was rd dressed. It was the depths of the affair with which we had to occupy ourselves, and not with the mere form of the com munications and influences. In reading that he, however, referred M. Bulwer to an instruction received from his pre decessor, that is to say, to the despatch addressed on the 22nd June by Lord Aberdeen, to the Duke of Sotomayor, Lord Palmerston always forgets that the: despatch only men tions as candidate to the hand of the Queen of Spain the Infant Don Enrique, who ennui, says Lord Aberdeen, the most suitable ; whilst the despatch of 19th July mention. three, the Prince of Coburg and the two son. of Don Fran cisco de Paul, whom Lord Palmerston presents. as equally suitable and equally acceptable by the English government. [ln answer to that part of Lord P.'s letter, which corrects the punctuation of his despatch, M. Ouizot says] :—" I shall not insist on the erroneous situation recalled by those paragraphs, the errors of which Lord Palmerston acknowledges, if ho did not maintain that this erroe is:different and that the phrase which he quoted u coming from me, sod which was not from me, was the substance of a preceding passage of my despatch of the sth Oct. Ido not either recognize my ideas in the resume given of them by Lord Palmerston, a bit more than I recognized my words in the quotation he made. I never thought nor Raid that the court of Spain had such an inclination for the Coburg com bination, that if the British government did not oppose it, it might be presumed that arrangement was likely, by • simple act of la user alter, to have inevitably taken place I thought and said, that if on the me hand the government of the king had persisted in opposing the desires of the Spanish govern ment, for the marriage either of the Queen or of the Infanta with the Duke de Dfontpensier, whilst, on the other hand, the English government accepted, if but by en act of laisser alter the Coburg combination, that combination would pro bably have succeeded. I added, that in presence of that situation, the government of the king had changed its attitude and offered a different combination to the free choice of Queen Isabella and her government. This is • faithful resume of what I said in that part of my despatch of .sth October, and this resume: differs essentially from that which Lord Palmerston persists in giving, although he acknow ledges the error of his quotation:—" M. Guizot acknow ledges (says Lord Palmerston (118) that it was from Lord Aberdeen that he received the fleet information of the over ture made in May last by the court of Madrid to the Duke of Saxe Coburg. But he states that, as the communication from Lord Aberdeen was confidential, he did not think him 'elf at liberty, without Lord Aberdeen's permission, to may from whom it came. This might be a reason for not men tioning the circumstance at all, but surely it was no rea son for mentioning it in such a way u to give to those who might be unacquainted with the facts an erroneous impression as to the course of the transaction. I have not sought to give an erroneous impression on the first source of the information which I had received on the subject of the step taken by the court of Madrid with the Duke of Coburg. I simply abstained from indicating . that source as long as I thought I could not do so with right and conscience ; and the surprise I expressed was on the conduct of the English minister at Madrid, contrary to his instructions. "M. Guixot denies," says Lord Palmerston 0 19), " that the Marquis of Mira lions was sent to Paris in July last on a mission, on the subject of the marriage of the Queen of Spain." And after quoting on this subject a passage of my despatch of the 22d of November last, he adds: " Notwithstanding this apparently lenitive contradiction, her Majesty's spin rnment must still persist in the assertion, in regard to this matter, which was contained in my former despatch. Her Majesty's government consider themselves to have good ground for asserting that the Marquis of Mira flute was sent to Paris in July for the above-mentioned purpose; and though her Majesty's government do not pre tend to have a knowledge of all the communications which, during the two months which he spent in Paris, may have passed between him and those to whom he was sent, yet her Majesty's government do happen to know, that on the evening of the 19th July, a day or two after his arrival at Paris, he had an audience at Neuilly, and that, at that audience, he did, though ineffectually, endeavour to accom plish the purpose of his mission. I f the marquis had succeeded in overcoming at Paris the objections there felt to the selection of the Prince of Coburg he was to have gone on to London, to solicit the co-operation of her Majesty's government." I persist in thinking that Lord Palmerston hes been wrongly informed, as regards the mission with which M. de Mireflores was entrusted, he says, in the month of July let, and as regards what was said or done on that occasion at Paris, or even at Neuilly. In the 22d and the ten subse quent paragraphs, Lord Pa lmerton returns to and discusses anew the question of the treaty of Utrecht. I find there again the same idea, the same misconceptions, which I have already combated, as regards the meaning and the consequences of that treaty. I do not think it necessary to recommence that discussion ; I shall confine myself to • few short remarks on the assertions of Lord Palmerston, which seem to me to throw so much of confusion and error on the question. In his despatch of the 22nd of November, it was against the marriage itself of the Duke of Montpensier with the Infanta that Lord Palmerston formally protested, in the name of the treaty of Utrecht. To-day he acknowledges that the treaty of 1. trecht does not prohibit such • marriage. But he maintains that the issue proceeding front it are, in virtue of thst treaty, excluded from the throne of Spain, end he says that I have not contradicted that assertion. I for madly contradicted it. I acknowledged that, according to the Harms of the treaty of Utrecht, and the renunciations of 1712, the descendants of the Duke of Orleans could net, in case the liae of Philip V. became extinct, claim from the head of their line any rights to the throne of Spain. let I maintained that the descendants of Philip V. could not lose their own eights, the rights of their own line to the throne of Spain, on account of marriages with princes and of lines which had renounced theirs. I established ra t % is were the primitive sense and constant interpreta tion of the treaty of Utrecht. I quoted different facts in support of that interpretation: especially Ferdinand VII. and Isabella IL, King and Queen of Spain, as descendants of Philip V., although, b y . their mother and grandmother, direct descendants of Louts XV. I asked Lord Palmerton if he had ever dreamt of questioning the rights of Ferai sand VII. and Isabelle H. He gives no reply to the question. The aim of the treaty of Utrecht was, I repeat it, to prevent the union of the two crowns of France and Spain on the same head. If, then, it one day came to pass, as Lord Palmerston makes the supposition, that ;the rights of the one and the other country found themselves united in the person of a single prince, I do not hesitate to acknowledge that he could not gather them both. But as long u the two lines of the French and Spanish Bourbons exist, marriages between them, =not make the previous abandoning of its rights by one line to annul the rights of the other. A person may renounce for himself and his descendant's rights which be possesses, and which may be transmitted to them, but to esmounce rights which he does not possess, and which cannot be transmitted to them, is not admissible. Lord Palmerston constantly confounds this distinction of the royal lines and the rights which belong to each of them, and which remain always distinct. From thence spring the erroneous con sequences, which he deduces from the treaty of Utrecht, sad which would bring • most serious blow to that treaty itself, and to the equilibrium of Europe which rests upon it. "IC Guisot (says Lord Palmerton, f 33 and following) in the concluding part of his despatch, mya that he desire. to bring back the controversy within its legitimate and constitutional limits ; that in my despatch of the 31st of October I introduced a name which ought never to have appeared in this discussion; that his surprise at this was deep ; that his sense of duty commanded him to express It strongly • and to remind me that the responsibility of the polder of the king's government in this matter belongs entirely to himself alone. It is impossible for me to allow Si wear to pass mumps without a reply .' And Lord Palmerton =B,three from my despatch of sth last, in which the name of the king is mentioned. I did not, I must avow it, expect such a reply and such a recrimination. I never thought that • royal name and per sonage could, or ought not, ever to be pronounced, is any man ner whatsoever, in • diplomatic correspondence. How could I have entertained such an idea, in the presence of so many facts which reject it, and when I had, without making any observation on the subject, perceived the name of the King in Lord Pelmerston's despatch of 22nd Sept., when I had at various; times myself pronounced that name in my despatch of sth October, as Lord Palmerston remarks, by quoting three passages of it ? What I thought, mad what I still persist in thinking, is, that the royal person ought never to be named to be attacked; nor on the occasion of acts which are attacked. The King can do no wrong, such is in England, es in France, the fundamental principle of a constitutional monarchy. It was this prin ciple which I pointed out to Lord Palmerston, who seemed to have forgotten it. And, in fact, he did forget iton many occasions. I shall only mention two. 1. In his despatch of Oct. 31, after speaking of the engagement taken at Eu, in September 1843, by the King of the French and by his minister, Lord Palmerston says, that the memorandum of Feb. 27, 1846, " declared, that in case of a certain eventu ality, the King of the French should consider himself se free from the engagements he had taken relative to the mar riages of the Queen, and of the Infanta, and should think himself at liberty to ask the band of either the Queen or the Infanta for the Duke of Montpensier." First of all, that quotation is not exact. The memorandum of Feb. 27 dors not once speak of the King of the French, does not even mention his name, It is in the name of the government of the King that that memorandum it written ; the French and English cabinet. are alone mentioned. It is Lod Palmerston who brtils in the name of the Xing. And IRELAND. DUBLIN, 3.kx. 31. The Reproductive Committee, as I informed you, were to assemble on Friday to consider the ministerial measures. The result of their deliberations was embodied in a series of resolutions, which were unanimously adopted. The chief points may be briefly summed up : 1. The approval of the general principles on which the ministerial scheme is based. 2. The localisation of supplies of food throughout the country. 3. Satisfaction at the ter mination of the Labour Rate Act, and of the provision for the destitute by direct relief in food without requiring an equivalent in labour. 4. The necessity of rendering the re lief districts as small as possible to ensure an economical management of the funds and check fraud. With this view, they . recommend a relief committee for each electoral division returning one guardian, and a larger num ' bee where more than one is returned, to be under ' the inspection and control of government officers. 5. Inadequacy of the seed fund, and danger of making the landlords the instruments of its distribution, owing to the supineness of some, the absence of others, and the chancery managements of their estates, which preclude the activity of other proprietors. It is suggested that the loan should be extended, and the distribution of seed effected through the relief committees. The permanent measures are passed sub silentio, with the observation that the social condition of the country can only be improved by encouraging private employment, and distinguishing between the pro prietor who performs and him who does not perform his duty. Nothing of the poor-law as yet. The local journals are busily employed in com ments en Lord John Russell's statements. Unanimity of opinion is of course impossible amid such a diversity rsentiments] f s ~. and of interests, but the great m , jority of the provincial papers accept the programme as a sound searching, and comprehensive scheme of policy. T le chief doubt hangs about the poor-law. Its ten dency is rot understood, and the fear of additional taxation excludes all other considerations. The dif fusion of the relief system, and the dcfmyal of a por tion of the expense by the government are much approved of. When the s) stem of social regeneration is more fully before the country, and undergoes the proc WI of popular inquiry, its beneficial consequences will be the more appreciated. The Tipperary Vin dicator, which represents the opinion of that cele brated county, thus speaks of the premier's statement : —" The speech of Lord John Russell will amply re pay perusal. It is replete with matters of the deepest importance. If that portion of it which recommends out-door relief and the extension of the poor law ma chinery be immediately carried into operation, it would stay the slaughtering hand of famine. But Lord help the landlords. It is intended to spread the rate over the unions uniformly, by which the exter minator cannot escape." The government have sanctioned the earth-works of fifty miles of the Waterford and Limerick Railway. The Limerick t'Aronicle ascribes this to the " Irish Party "—it may, with as much reason, ascribe it to the " Council of the Irish Confedemtion." I have heard it stated that cert , ,in London capi talists are about to send over Mr. Robert Stephenson to inquire and report on the state and prospects of the Irish railway system, with the view of investing largely in tr.e present depressed state of the Irish market, sheuld the report be favourable. The markets are still receding. In Belfast the dulness was unusual, and a further decline is antici pated. The general feeling, however, according to the Northern Bliy is, that the reaction can only be temporary, arising from late wil.ds causing largo arrivals, and the suspension of the corn-laws throw ing a quantity of bread staffs en the market. The same journal says of Friday's market, "The farmer's supply of grain was quite unequalled in °stoat for a long time past, and buyers were not very keen even at the rates quoted." The following were the last Belfast quotations : Wheat, white, 16s. to 17s. 3d. per cwt. ; red, len. to 175.; oats, 12s. to 13e 6d. per cwt.; barley, 124. to 13e. &L ; oat meal, 20s. 6d. to 22e. 6d. per cwt. ; Indian corn, white, 171. lbs. per ton; yellow, IS/. 10e. pre ton; ditto meal, white. 161. ; yellow, 191. bs per ton. (Belfast mills) superfine flour, per cwt., 295. ; bakers' first, 275.; ditto se cond, 235; third, 234.; fourth, 20s. ; bran, 10s. per cal. Limerick appears to be an exception to the rule of falling markets, for though the quantities of corn offered for sale have increased each day during the last fortnight, the Limerick Chronicle informs us that prices have been gradually advancing, and on yester day wheat and oats were firm to the closo of the mar ket. Barley declined Is. 4d. per barrel. Oatmeal has advanced, and the price is now 271. per ton. The grass corn around Limericklooks very healthy, and six inches over the ground. The local journals add, that the extent sown is fully one-third less than last year. STATE OF THE COUNTRY. The Limerick Chronicle of yesterday i'Justrates the con dition of the country by something km than the average cases of outrage and plunder it has for some time contained. The slaughtering of cattle and removing the carcasses seems the crime of greatest heaviness and frequency. In one or two instances attempts were made to take arms, and in an other instance an overseer on the public works was sworn as to the rate of wages which the imposers of the oath esteemed the proper minimum ; and in one case we find that a man had been killed by the bursting of a gun which he had re cently purchased. The sum presented at the sessions of Upper °monde, on Friday, was 6,203/. In the barony of Owney and Arra, 9,882/. were presented. There are 849 paupers in the Tharles workhouse. The number of paupers in the Galway workhonse is 1,126, the average onst of maintenance Is. 10,1. An unobtrusive but praiseworthy society is established, VITA the Limerick Chronicle, in the parishes of Lorrha end Durraw, county Tipperary, by the benevolent Archdeacon Knox and hie amiable lady, for the purpose of employing f, males at knitting, &e., and its plan is to raise sabeer';,.. , no. and to maintain its funds ether by cash, wool, or m den for stockings. It is cruel, adds that journal, to see many poor women and girh at work nn the roads with labourers of the other FCX. Archdeacen K7le announcer the arrival of 1,182 leeks or peas from the Bntish Association, for the relief of Ireland, which arc placed in the stores at Hawlboline. The Recovery, a erase' sent from London, laden with corn for Ireland, and which put into Cork, is out from thence twenty days, hut has not yet reached Limerick, her destina tion. The Anne Moore (M'Fie, master), which left Limerick in ballast on the 9th Jan., when seven days out, fell in with the ship Elizabcth Bibby, of St. Stephen's, water-logged and abandoacd. Iler bowsprit and jib-boom were standing. ller main and wizen made were gene by the deck. Both anchors on the forecastle, and bead how port stove in. This was in let. 50 .40 north, long. 18.13 west. The Anne Moore expe rienced very severe weather, and put back into the Shannon with loss of sails and spars. Meats-teas' MONEY.—Therc was a meeting of the parishioners of St. John's, Limerick, held on Thursday even ing last, to petition for the abolition of ministers' money. The Rev. John Elmes, rector of the parish, attended, and addressed the meeting, announcing that he was adverse to the existence of the impost, and he stated that in those opinions his colleagues (the Dean of Limerick and Archdeacon Knox) fully participated. The announcement was received with loud cheering. SCOTLAND. EDINBURGH, JAN. 30. The north of Scotland is nearly in a state of insur rection. At Burghend, two vessels laden with meal for export were deprived of their cargoes. At Louie mouth and Findhorn, several carts laden with oats were seized, and the raptured victuals lodged in store houses. The other places in the neighbourhood being in a similar state of excitement, forty soldiers from Fort George have been stationed at Elgin; and a comirany . from Aberdeen has been sent to Port Gordon, into which the inhabitants of Keith, an in land town, are said ti be pouring in large numbers. Passing over intermediate districts, the food-riot folly has also reached the south. In Strauraer, distur bance was raised because two meal-dealers would not sell their meal at 2s. 6d. per stone. Carrots and loaves were also stolen ; but the promptitude of the autho rities prevented the riots from reaching any great height. The Edinburgh Destitution Fond amounts to-day to 24,0991. 6s. 2d. The Scotsman's " commissioner" to the Highlands appears to think that the High landers are by far too indolent, and that the distress, although severe, has in some instances been ex aggerated. A public meeting is to be held in Edinburgh on the 4th of March, for the purpose of petitioning for a modification of the law of entail. The Lord Provost is to preside. GLASOOW.—On Friday, a six-story granary, near Port Dundee, fell. It is said to hare contained grain to the value of 16,0001., of which about one-half is supposed to be buried amongst the ruins. °thee granaries are filled to repletion; but the authorities are to emirates) them.—Same day, a clerk in going from one bank to another was robbed o f 1,2001. ; the thief has not been caught. The dirk had the money in an outside pocket —At one o'clock in the morning of the same day a young man threw himself from the roof of the Globe hotel, and was killed. The landlord and others tried all their efforts to prevent him, even at the risk of persona danger to themselves. BERNER A.—On the 20th ultimo, sight men from the island of Bernera were committed to the In TC111(1111 priaon charged with stealing from the wreck of the barque Superb, in the Sound of Harris, a large quantity of flour, in barrels, and some lard. The theft was committed on the 18th ult. The prisoner—one of them an old and worn-out man of 60—were yesterday liberated on bail, Mr. Sheriff Tytler having kindly provided employment for them. WALES. Mr. LLOYD VAUOIIAN WATKINS, of Pennoyoe, haa beat appointed to the lord lieutenancy of the county of Brecon. PROVINCIAL. A DOUBLE sausation was pro- duced at Wakefield on Saturday last, by a report diet young man named Robert Harapeen, the son of the landlord tithe Fountain inn, in Pincheon-street, in that town, bad been foustthowned in the river Calder, not far from his *Aker's box" and that a young woman, a dressmaker, nosned UMW, whom mother was formerly in the service els hoeseath beg is the neighbourhood, had been found at tla ethoo tine me hoer, the deceased bodies befog tied together by the or three silk handkerchiefs. It seems that some a tts bad sprung up between the parties which led not been agreeable to the friends of the young woman, hut no very strenuous opposition had been made to their anion. About midnight on Friday, the young man went to his father's brewhouse for the pupae of brewing as usual, but from the state in which things were found in the morn ing it would appear that he bad not remained long. How i therrties came together on that night has not transpired as a, mpson was not seen after going to the brewhouse till the bodies were found in the water. A COAL PIT ACCIDENT of a mat lamentable nature, and attended with the lees of six lives, has occurred at one of the Darley Main Coal Company's pits, at Worsbrough Dale, about four miles from Barnsley, and ten from Sheffield. Some men who were employed in one part of the pit fired a blast of gunpowder for the purpose of bringing down a large piece