The Express. — London, England, 1851-04-24 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL SAILORS' HOME BAZAAR. The grand bazaar irke and flower show, in aid of the above truly national undertaking, was opened yester day, at the handing recently meted for the Liver pool Sailors' Home, the foundation stone of which was laid a few years ago by His Royal Highness the Prince Albert. St. George's Day has, from time immemorial, been kept as a holiday in Liverpool, and this day having been s.teeted for the commeiwenent of the three days' fife, and the weather being renuirkubly propitious, all the rank, wealth, and beauty of the town and neighboUrhowl assem bled to do honour to this benevolent undertaking. Some notion of the straw may be gathered by itesupuing either of the great London theatres (looking from the stags to the drews circle), narrowed to the enact shape of the all part of • ship, and fitted with sit uninterrupted tier. of balustrade) galleries aU round, and lighted by a spenoliol glass roof; the pit, neatly floored, decorated with choice flowers and plants, and columns of ever n% and festoon?. of flowers alternating with the massive' iron pillars by which the splendid roof is supported. In front was stationed the full band of the 91st Regiment, whit.h, with other hands stationed in various parts of the building, continued to play popular pieces throughout the day. The drapery in fond of this gallery was adorned with an emblem representing the town of Liverpool supported by the sea and river gent., and the English and American union jacks floated on either side. Along the balustrade. the Hags of most European nations were displayed ; the English national standard bring surrounded by the French, Belgian, Spanish, Portuguese, and Austrian. Beneath the first gallery, and on a level with the door, devoted to the horticultural display, the room., which arc at no distant day destined to form the mariner's "home," while in this port, were appropriated to amuse ments of various kinds, all of which were liberally patronised, and none more so than our ancient friend 'anch, whose "dreadful att irk" on his better half. awl ultimate emitting of Jack Ketch and another personage, produced a harvest of si‘pnees. The dissolving views, some of which were in truth most admirable, especially thow more immediately appropriate to the object of the day, drew a fall share of ettra silver in addition to the original charge for admission. Beanies these, the fantoecini, the dotter) magnetic telegraph, and other amusements, con tributed to enhance the fun& of the charity. Ascending the staircases and entering the respective stall-moms the ladies of Liverpool beheld much to tempt the eyes displayed on the counters of the spacious bazaar, which were presided over by the wives of the most eminent merchants belonging to the port of Liver pool, among them being Mesdames John Aikin, of Wince's-park : Andel, of Birkenhead ; Bell, of Claugh• ton rule ; Bright, of Sand Hey, ; Joseph Cooke, of Farkfleld ; Coto...worth, of South-ill-grove ; William Fish. r, of Park-road ; Gardner, of Nile-street ; Robertson Giallstone, of Court Hey ; AlianiGhltirtnne, of Alsereromby square ; Duncan Gihh, of Upper Parliament-stmt' S. IL. Grave., of Eallener-spare; Michael Humble, of Rodney street ; B. Heywood Jones, of Lark-bill; Francis Shand, of Sunditeld Park; Tomlinson, of Fulwuod lark; Lynn, Steele, Walter Macgregor, gm Ice. As appropriate to the Dieu-ion, among the deniers were many of Nelson's. fib din's, and other sentiments, " England expects every man to do his duty ;" " Notre but the brave deserve the fair ; " se The hero of al lied tights defender of Ohl England's rights." And if the brave ho d looked on the assemblage of the fair of his country at the fair of today, he would base realised how the enchanting 'gene before him had sprung up, from the vast preponderance taken by the fair LancasWre witches in its management. On the right and left of the stalls the messes intended fur the sailors' berth% are arranged, neatly screened from observation by various national devices. In One of the galleries a printing pre, was siding in the objects of the day by disseminating a piers: of poetry written by the father of the late Mr. Ilw , htou, and also some poem* by a lady. The odicet of this Intraar has been most signally success ful. The sum inspired to finish the " lime' is 8,11001. We h a ve not boot an opportunity of aseert ir precisely what sum this, the lint ooh' the thus' days' rite, has yielded; but, considering that the interior of the building is calculated no bold Moto tarotrs as a proomenuele in the galleries, and that do stream we" continuous throughout the day, we shall not Grout in intimating that one-half that aunt will be et:Ain't by this day's receipts alone. Baring the post year, although the building has been only very parthelly opeiost, 1,301; meo have been added to the registry, making now ou the beet. 11,198 men of good cha racter. many of Hain having certified. , from captains of sin or seven which may he referred to with faci lity. There is attached to the " Home " u savings-bank, ht which 112 depositor. in number have placed the aggre gate sum 4.1,914. 17.. The number of CM., paid uhf is 2KI, awl the nand. rof men shipped from the II • 7,274. The Govermaent Marine Boont has constituted this tlw Liverpool... Lipping Aloe, and registry offices are now car ried on under the • roof ; hut, by the new instructions, it is left optional with lath captions and men as to the adoption or ntertion of all or any of the regulations some time voce made compulsory. Thin relaxation has given great satisfacti ~,, , and we are informed that where seamen determinedly rrsi-tent all the Haan, when to sign them was compulnty, they now very readily agree to such as the captain nirreliant may themselves select as the basis of the sailor's article, 1110 T AT TILE HosTON ELECTION.—At the close of ' the proceedings of this election, a ally attemnt was made by a pinion of the mob to get up a riot, which at first wore SO serious an aspect that a detachment of military was sent for from Nottingham, and the riot act was read. No injure, howevsor, was inflicted on either person or property, anti the crowd dispersed pre% itnialy to the arrival of the soldier.. Sion,. of the rioters were taken into custody and examined heroic the magistrates. They were remanded until Friday neat. Cit.‘unr:n or COMMERCE IN T.EEIrs.—A general mows:mint for the eatablialiment of a Chamber of Commerce in Leeds has Acton for some time in contemplation, and yes• terday (Willis-Iday) u meeting of hankers, merchants, and manufacturers was held ut the Court-house, with a view to the furtherance of such u'rjeet. The Mayor (George Goodman, Esq.,) preankal, and many of the leading manu facturers, merchant., and others were present, including Hannon Lupton, Eat. ; John Wilkinson Eq. ; S. J. Bir chall, Esq. ; W. B. iloltlaworth, E.g.; 'Euward Iludaon, Esq.; Charles Bouatield, Esq.: . J. Smith and Henry Oaley, Fore.; bankers; Edward Bainea, liaq., tic. The meeting was only, however, considered preliminary to a more gene ral one, to be hereafter convened. But one opinion existed amongst those present as to the necessity and utility of a chamber of commerce, especially in levity, which is re• gaoled as the capital of the West 'tiding perhaps the lliint populous and important manufacturing district in the kingdom. Many things were pointed out by the va rious speakers as grievances in connexion with the locality: such as defective postal arrangements, unequal import GRAY -'at, ACRIL 23.—At a p ens i on o f th e antic., and other matters which would come within the the II rabic Society of Gray ' s -inn, leaden this thy, province, and would have the attention, of a chamber of William ; minor ., E N .. nu t jj„ nry 0c„gi 0 ,..„.d ga l, commerce. Mr. Lupton (one of the speakers) mentioned Itsq., were called to the degree of barrister at law, one fact, as showing the necessity of some such unity of action so a chamber of commerce would secure, namely, that ST. M tit's IlloarlTAL, I'AIIDINOToN.—A general while Glasgow letters are delivered in Manchester by eight meting of the governors of this institution took place yes- a.m., letters from the same place for Iced. (only two hours terday ut the hospital. Capt. Wardell in the chair From journey from Manchester) are not delivered until 21 p.m. the statement circulated it :Ippeart d that a portion of the Another argument, showing the importance of a chamber hospital, calculated to contain 170 beds, was now ready for of commerce, was derived from the great variety of the the reception of patients. In order to procure the money manufactures of the district, all of which required some still wanted without delay, the governors h.iee established more certain means of united and influential action for oh three separate fowl., called the furnishing fund, the main- winner the redresa of special grievances, and the re- Valiance fund, and the general fund, fur the attainment of mot al of burdens and inconveniences to which they their object, and to the toutribution of these feuds the are at present subject. After considerable delibera support of the public was earnestly entreated. Some thin, the following resolutions were unanimously adopted: routine buaintas was transacted, a matron elected, and the 1. " That from information obtained from various sources, proceedings terminated with u vote of thanks to the chair - the meeting is of opinion that great practical benefits have man accrued to commerce and manufacturet in those parts of I r .tRLIAMENTART ASO FINANCIAL Its:Foax.—A the kingdom where ' Chambers of Commerce' have been public meeting of the friends of parliamentary and finan- formed: and that the operations of these institutions have cad reform war. held at the Lecture Hall, Tottenham, on auccesafully embraced mutters relating both to the home Monday evening last, and notwith.tanoling the v e ry un pro- and foreign tratle."-2. " That it appears to this meeting pitiour state of the weather, was most numerously and re- highly desirable to secure for the commerce and inanufae spectably attendol. Sir Francis C. Knowles, Bart., the m of this town and neighbourhood such advantages as pied the chair. The chairman, a ft er congratulating the an establishment of this nature is calculated to afford, and cause of rennin on the large oeoemblage before him, said he it is therefore resolved to form one, to be designated the should deviate a little from the ordinary course, and say a Leeds Chamber of Commerce.' "-3. " That a sub-com few word. on the objects of the nasociation ; perhaps t is mittee be appointed to draw up rules and regulations for the was she saary les he believed a branch was in the proper conduct of the businesa of the institution, with power course of formatio nform in the district. He said it had been to make all needful inquiries for that purpose, and that hound impossible, with u Howse of fo rm wi t as at present they be reuested to report at the earliest convenience to a constituted, to attempt financial reform with any propeet future me e ting . The sub-committee to consist of the fol. of aucceas ; and they hail Will compelled to originate the lowing ix:rwas, vin.:—The Mayor, John Gott, H. C. Mar association to obtain parliamentary reform. He believed that shall, John Smith, John Wilkinson, F.S., Donlon Lupton, it was of the highest importance that political power John Heaton Wm. Brown, Charles Bottstield, Henry Luo. should be taken from the hands w h ich u p to this dolt, Edward ' Irwin, 'l'. W. George, William Firth, John time had usurped it, and lodged in the hands of Jowett, jun., Wm. Pawson, R. Bissington, Edward Baines, the great bosky of the people, who were too numerous and It. 11. Wood, and John Wilson." strung to permit its abuse. We had a kind of human desert MEIIORI.VL OF I/R. SAMUEL JouNsos.—The in the midst of a cultivated country; a large mass of the churchwardens of St. Clement's Danes, having satisfac people Wrcr wholly excluded from expressing their political torily ascertained that a sent in the pew numbered IS in want. and w" 1 " , were generally u"eare"wo and where the north gallery of that church was regularly occupied for eared for, they had no belie f that this cure was sincere and many years by the great moralist, have caused a neat brass properly cline:nal. This was a most dangerous 'date of tablet recording the fact to be affixed in a conspicuous po things. Many, uo, were wholly uninstructed, and if not 'anon to the pillar against which the doctor must often assisted in forming correct opinions they must form crrone- have reclined. The inscription on the tablet is from the ous unea, and front these would spring mischievous actions. pen of Dr. Croly, rector of St. Stephen's, Walbrook. If the judgment were unsound, the conclusions would be unwound, and the rule. of conduct unwund ; acting there- SIIIPwRECK AND Loss OF LIFE.—On Sunday t o , on d uo ., ii,,, Insole w o uld n a turally f a ll into r i c h,. night last, the cutter Peggy, Kettle, which left Harwich on political habits. But if ths,se men occupied their true the 10th instant with a loud of cement for Jersey, struck on roams' by mean. of reprialentativea, they would we that the Grandees Grunts rocks , in face of St. Brelade's Bay, and they had public dune. to perform, and regard their interest immediately sank. The crew all escaped to shore ; but the ai t eosociatoal with the interests of their fellow-men, and not catastrophe caused a melancholy loss of life on Tuesday look upon them as isolated interests i s which they had no morning, when, it appears, six hands went off in a boat concern —they would he cies ated by being treated as men to the wreck. They had made feat to the mast of the ought to be treated. They were a ll brethren—all fellow- l'emory, and while one of them, George Matthews , was on Christians---were all formed by the name Almighty hand, the eross-treen, trying to save part of her spars and rigging, with the Name noble faculties of mind and thought, which the vessel slipped and suddenly sank in deep water, it waa our duty to cultivate and evoke; and the higher a dragging the boat down with her. In about a m aw. p os ition, th e gre ater hi s d u ty t o see th e peo pl e were quarter of an hour the boat's painter broke, and oat fleets-vital UP they had been. From this, lie !moneyed, she row bottom upwards. The hands in the would result the happiest etfects. He was not afraid of meantime were clinging to a spar. One of them, their touching the throne or the House of Lords, or invading Benjamin Pounds, suereeded in getting on the keel boat, and had with him one oar. In this distressing ro t i i 7 , ..r i t r y 4, 11: ., :e d a . ..15... o t r it r . co countrymen worn e w , e t re . , so u be vh r fi an ai t re that ct o si l tu th a . non they endeavoured to attract the attention of the if we wished to see what they were, we had only to cast our mail packet, which was passing by at the time, but did not eyes On the other Sidi' the Atlantic, and see all the ins ti- suceesn. Ilefore the boat drifted out of sight, the unfortu tutione of liberty in full and free play, and property as se- nate men were seen to drop one by one from the spar ; and cure as in England.—Mr. Vincent then addressed the sank to rise no more. 'I he boat struck against a rock, meeting, end was nate :1.1 to with many expressions of gni. when Pounds leaped out, pulled her on the rock, and titieation. At the eh., of his speech, a vote of thanks to then baled her out with his cap, and, aided by his single the chairman terminated the proceedings. oar, reached Gorey, after three hours' exertion and ex very much exhausted. He was brought to town in FlRES.—lleaween the hours of one and two la"ureo yeaterday morning, a tire, which was very near attended a cart by a brewer in the employ of Mr. De La Taste. He has since very much recovered, and was yesterday able to with fearful consequences, broke out in a low lodging-house walk out. The names of the men lost were—Joseph George ko:pt by • man names' Clarke, No. 4, Keats-stmt, Spin& Matthews, John Taylor, Joseph French, Richard Rich field'. The place at the time of the discovery was crowded 'rhe first two were part of the crew of with Kenitra as many, it was said, as 130, most of whom maid, Henry Curl. the l'eggy at the time of her wreck, and had gone off in the were eh -Duelers of the lowest description. It originateil hope of - recovering their effects. John Taylor was a through the r u n of a drunken woman named Elia widower,and has left two children. The others were abeth Booth. She came in drunk about half-past 12, and paying for her lodging til., went upstairs to the second tingle m en . —Jersey Times. Hour, and lighting a candle she took it with her in the " stall" THE PORTSMOUTH SAILORS' HOME was opened where she slept, and left it burning. About the time above- yesterday afternoon. Admirals Cape' and Austen, Cap mentioned the other " lodgers" were awoke by a sense of tun Sir John Parry, and other officers, delivered suit approaching suffocation. and in an in s t ant the stall occupied able addresses nn the occasion. The Home is situated by the female in question was discovered in flames . A scene in Queen-street, Portsea, and consists of very large business of the greatest confusion immediately followed, and in the premises converted into the requisite sleeping, reading, and rush to escape out of the apartment many were thrown dining-rooms. The present amount of [ c ar be increased to commodation is to down the staircase, and were much injured in coneequen ce • the extent of about 30 betbs; but this can Sono one more humanely stopped and contrived to drag 100 if accessary . The arrangements are all that could be the wretched woman out of the burning stall. She was desired for such a purpose, and must secure to those sea drealltully burned, and nee taken away without loss of men who may avail themselves of the advantages!it affords, time to the hoapital—apparently there was no hopes of her a much larger amount of comfort than they have usually Stir% i.ing the effects of her burns, which were most severe. poen:a-ea hitherto, and an entire freedom from the impost- S.overal of the brigade engines soon reached the spot, and non to which they have frequently been exposed. The cost the His was confined to the tiOnr where it commenced. It of the purchase and fitting up of the building has been is mastless to add that the occupier was not insured.—ln defrayed by subwriptions, and • moderate sum will be the course of yiwunlay afternoon two other fires ocearred. charged to inmates for rt sidence, board, tie. _ About one o'clock the engines were called out to Shen- ADMIRALTY, to 23.—A PPOINTMENTS.—AeIAng birern...iilser, Blandford-square, - • fire having broken out Surgeons : R. Sprowle, to the Impregnable; and IS. Denny, on the premises belonging to Mr. Bellows, which was not to the Queem. gut under until con/utterable damage had occurred to the Masten'-Assistants: J. R. Richards and J. M. Missing, upper portion of the building and its contents. It was to the Caradoe. uceamoucol by the explosion of some limiter matches. The Assistant -Surgeons: A. Adams and H. Slade, to the partite were not insured.—Soon afterwards another fire nustar lloapitsl. broke out at the house of Mr. Brooker , No. 2, Church-lane, Midshipman: C. 11. Johnetone,Sto the Victory. Lower-road, Islington. It was fortunately easily got under Clerk's-Assistant: D. F. Gay, to the Figura. before any serious amount of property was destroyed. isting-Ounser : IL Page, to ths Sp itiiri. THE NEMPSETT MURDER. EXECUTION OF WILES AND SMITH. ST DEMONSTRATION IN EDINBURGH. The long-talked of dinner under the auspices of the Scotch l'rotection Society, came off in the Music-hall, Edinburgh, on Tuesday evening. About seven hundred persons dined, and a considerably greater number would (it was said) have done so had it been possible to obtain tickets. Between two and three hundred gentle men were present as spectators in the gallery, while on the platform behind the chairman there might be about al many ladies. The Earl of Eglintoun occupied the chair, and L,,rd John Scott, M.l'., discharged the duties of croupier. They were supported, among makers, uy the Marquis of Aden, Mr. 0. F. Young, hlsjorCumming Bruce, Earl of Selkirk, Earl of Lauderdale, Sheriff Allison, Professor Aytoun, Mr. Christopher, M.P., Mr. Newdegate, M.P., Sir J. Stuart Forbes, Lord Naar, M.P. Sir J. Walker Drummond, of Ilawthornden , Mr. Forbe s of Cal lender, M.P. Hen. F. Scott, M.P., Lord Colville of Cuirass, Sir W. Dick ' Cunningham, Mr. Campbell Renton, M.P., Mr. hope Vere, of Craigie-hall, Sir J. 0. Baird, of Saughton, Mr. Bane. M.P., Mr. I'orbes Mackenzie, The routine toasts having been disposed of, The Noble CHAIRMAN proposed " The Protectionist cause, and the health of Lord Stanley, its leader." (Great applause.) After a few observations , he said :—When that sail change of 18111 came over us—when all the leaders, save one, in whom we confided deserted us is, the time of need, and we found ourselves, instead of a triumphant party, a broken and disheartened section—think you, that if Lord George Bentiuck had not rallied round him all that re mained true to their country, and thrown down the gaunt let to our unexpected adversaries, we should have been in the position which we now hold ? Think you that, if Lord Stanley had been satisfied with only obeying the dictates of his own honest and chivalrous heart by withdrawing from a ministry whom he could no longer trust, we should now once more be the most powerful party in the state, feared and respected by our opponents? (Cheers.) It is because Lord Stanley and Lord George Bentinck, the Duke of Richmond, and Mr. Disraeli, did not sit with their arms folded, because they did not fall down with co vered faces before the statue of free trade, when the blow came from so unexpected a hand, that we are now a com pact and hopeful body under leader% in whom we confide. (Renewed cheers.) But however holiest, however elo quent, however determined those leaders may be, it is in the counties and towns, among the loyal and the well affected, at the registrations, and, above all, at the coming elections—(cheers) —that the battle of the country is to be fought; and inactivity and irresolution at such a time would nut only be culpable, but ruinous. It is possible that we are mistaken. It may be that misery, and prostration, and ruin, are in store tor that imauriant interest which has made Britain what she is. It may be that we are nut to see around us the honest and friendly faces of a contented tenantry—that the smiling homestead% are to be ruined and deserted—our smiling corn-fields nu longer to gladden our eye—that our sturdy labourers must seek a precarious and congenial existence at the loom or on a foreign %hurt —that our proprietors must eke out the tenni:int of their fortunes in distant lands. It may bo that the majority of the constituencies of the country will so determine, but it has not yet been decided by them. (Cheers.) To such an expression of opinion, deliberately and consti tutionally Risen, we must bow—but we will not bow to the interested or flippant assertions of any family cliques— (hear, hear)—or any knot of politicians, however apt they may be in parliamentary tactics or powerful in " unadorned elo quence." (Cheers.) What is the cry with which we are met? That the country is prosperous,. export., increaaina, the revenue thriving. but can that be true or lasting pros perity front which the most important interest of all is ex cluded ? Can that be a healthy state of things, when the prevalence of agricultural distress is admitted in the speech from the throne, and yet the legislature refuses to examine into the causes of it, or seek fur a remedy ? (Hear, hear.) It is true, and we rejoice to hear it, that the looms are at work, the manufacturers employed. But when has such not been the case atter the recurrence of those commercial shocks which periodically affect us, and which overtrading and speculation must always bring upon us ? It nut the free-trade measures of 1846 which have causal the present commercial prosperity, but the reaction front the crisis of 1817, and the establishment of the leave of Europe. (Cheers.) When the markets of the world are again glutted with our manufactures—when the truu.mil lity of Europe is, again disturbed—when credit is again shaken—then will lie seen, but seen perhaps too late, the impolicy of the course that has been pursued ; then will the manufacturer , deplore the loss of their best customers, the home market, and grieve over the ruin of those who would have once more curried them through their temporary dif ficulties. (Cheer.) The noble lord concluded a speech of considerable length amidst loud cheer'. Sheriff ALLISON, in the course of along speech,said—lt is the glory of the protectionists to represent that great party—the party of British industry—once so united, re cently so fatally disunited—now, I trust, MI really re united. (Cheers.) But we must not shut our eyes to the strength of the opponents whom we have to meet. Ile contended that there was no class in the empire not interested in the reversal of the present policy, and then entered into a series of intricate statistical details to show that the position of the country now, as compared with what it was under the former system of defies, eSitillit, deterioration in wealth. Ile alluded especially to the home trade, the particulars of which he principally drew from Ireland and Irish agriculture, and showed that since the tommeneemeut of tree trade, that country had loot about eight millions of money ; he expatiated on the drafting of gold from this kingdom, and the consequent decrease ill look-note circulation, and explained that such a circum stance arose from our enormously increasing importations, and our decreasing exports. The learned sheriff then went on to show, by a lengthened statistical statement, the great increase which had taken place in the importation of grain since the commencement of free trade, which he said amounted, in March 1841, to one-third of the whole quan tity required by the inhabitants of Great Britain. A sensi ble increase had taken place in the importation of sheep and cattle. Ile greatly regretted that there were no means of knowing the increase or decrease of the internal state of British interests, except in Ireland. In that coun try they find that the exports of grain had decreased from three million qrs. of grain in 184-I to one million in 1849 ; and in addition to that terrible decrease of exports she hail vastly increased her imports of grain. The money value of the de cream, in Irish exports amounted to eight millions sterling. The next thing to which the learned gentleman referred, in order to show the decreased prosperity of the country during the term of free trade, was the statistics showing the in crease of emigration and crime which had, during that period, taken place ; and after referring to the heavy tax placed by Americans on British iron, the amount of British and foreign shipping before and after this repeal of the corn and navigation laws employed in the British traffic, showing that while the British tonnage had greatly decreased in this trade, foreign shipping had greatly . increased, he made a few allusion s t o the state of the colonies and the proposition to cut them off from connection with Britain, remarking that if such were so eomplished, Britain would be surrounded by a mighty host of foreigners, who would unitedly fall upon and overwhelm her, and where, then, he would ask, would be the interests of the Manchester school, by whose infatuated policy such a fatality had been occasioned. Ile then briefly defended the cauae of protection, which had been tested by long experience, and produced most beneficial reeulta—(loud applause)—and referring to the toast, passed a high cub°. glum upon the House of Peers, whose proceedings were at all times characterised, he said, by certain truthfulness and rectitude. Ho concluded by proposing "The House of Lords." The toast was responded to with loud cheers. Lord LAUDERDALE briefly acknowledged the compli- TAUNTON, APRIL 23. 'lho two 'wretched criminals, John Wiles and John I Smith, who were COli‘ ieted at the last Somerset assizes of the wilful murder of William Wilkins, this day underwent the last punishment which the law can award, at the County Gaol at Wilton, near this town. It will he remembered that the murder was marked by circumstances of great ferocity. The deceased man (Wilkins) was nearly 80 years old, and with his wife, who was almost as fur advanczil in ay as himself, kept a little shop fur the sale of groceries at sempnett, a small village, which hangs, RI It were, upon the hillside, in the valley of the Meath''. The prisoners, one of whom (Wiles) had worked for a short thaw at a smith's shop near the residence of the aged couple, wont on the morning of the murder and asked for some bread, and as the old man was quietly eating his breakfast, nod without his having offered them the slightest provoca tion or attempted any resistance, they fell upon him, and Was, with a stick heavily loaded with iron, and with ■ spade, which be found in the house, beat the poor fellow in a very savage manner, inflicted numerous wounds on his head and occasioned his death. They at the same time greatly maltreated the old woman, and left her fur dead, but fur tunately for the ends of justice, she was preserved, and gave evidence which led to the conviction of the mur derer. The time of execution hail been fixed originally for II o'clock, but it was subsequently changed to 9 o'clock, which prevented so large an assemblage as has generally congregated on such occasions. Still there was a numerous concourse. Many of those present belonged to the middle walks of life, and their demeanour was becoming the occa sion ; but there were not wanting those who in the very gaze of death indulged in expressions of levity, rib:dd jest, and profane oaths. Within the gaol, too, there were . metlitors beyond the mere uncials , as all ie convicted felons were paraded to see the execution. The indifferent and callous behaviour of the prisoners pending the trial will be in the memory of your readers. Subsequently to their conviction and sentence, however, their demeanour underwent a change. Upon their removal from the Assize Court they were placed in different cells, and were watched day and night, so as to prevent any de feat of the sentence by suicide. 'lhe chaplain of the pri son, the lies. Joseph Gamy, visited them both the same evening, and remained with each for a considerable length of time, and they both seemed impressed by his conversa tion. His visits after this time were frequent, and they were always gratefully received by both prisoners. Indeed, no men could conduct themselves better than they did. They confessed their guilt, acknowledging that they both participated in the murder, but denying that when they went to Wilkins's cottage they bud any intention to com mit any crime greater than robbery. At daybreak this morning the preparations for the execu tion were commenced by the erection of the drop—a work which occupied but little inure than an hour. Caleruft, the executioner, had arrived the previous night. At nine u'elock, the under-sheriff and other functionaries having arrived. the two prisoners walked with firm steps to the under word of the hospital, and thence to the drop. The signal being given, the Jolt was drawn, and the men died apparently without a struggle. After hanging the required time, their bodies were taken down arid buried within the precincts of the gaol. The prisoner Smith asserted, during his confinement, that lie hail given his wrong name, and he refused to the last to dieclose his right one, saying that he was respectably connected, and did not wish to expose his family to the re prisal& which must follow a knowledge of their being the r relatives of a murderer. Wiles has long been known as a 'r bad character, having abandoned his wife and family to indulge iu a loose life, and having been before convicted of Mon,. ment. Professor AYTOtJN, in proposing the next toast, said that down to the present moment the constituencies of the empire have never pronounced their verdict or have had an opportunity of doing so upon this all-important question. "In 1846 the deed was done. Right or wrong, free trade, as they still persist in calling their one-sided and iniquitous measure, was made the law of the land; and I put it to every one who hears me, whether it would have been right to expect —whether it would have been possible to expect an imme diate reversal of that policy ? The deed was done. With those who assented to it, contrary to their own distinct recorded opinions, lies the responsibility. They did it. They changed, with one violent wrench, the whole internal relations of the different classes of the community; and, having dune so, they asked—what, indeed, could hardly be denied them—that their so-called experiment should at least have fair play. This has been an experimental parliament. It has experi mented upon labour, it has exprimented on trade, and also, under the able direction of Sir C. Wo od, it has experimented largely upon budgets. (A laugh) Time enough has been given to enable even the slowest intellect to form a judg ment upon the succees of the free-trading measures, tool facts enough have emerged to enable us to test the acenrrey of the free-trade oracles. Is it true, or is it not, that Sir R. Peel, previous to the repeal of the corn laws, estimated the remunerative price of of the quarter of wheat to the British grower at Ws. ? Well, then, we find the prices is England dwindled to 375., and those in Scotland even lower. (Cheers.) Was Mr. Tooke right when he estimated the utmost amount of foreign wheat that could possibly be imorted into this country at 2,000,000 of quarters? Was Mr. Wilson, of Westbury, right when he calculated the coat of freights from Dantsie at 204. 9d. ? What has become of that monstrous economical dogma, that free importations could only equalise prices without permanently lowering them ? What has become of the assertion, more monstrous still, which we owe to the sage of the Economist, that, under the operation of face trade in corn, the price of labour in this country would rather be increased than diminished?" (Cheers.) The learned professor concluded by proposing The House of Commons and the Health of Mr. Disraeli." (Loud cheers.) Mr. CHRISTOPHER, M.P., after regretting the absence of Mr. Disraeli on the occasion, acknowledged the eompli meat, and having pawed encomiums upon Lord George Bentinck and Mr. Disraeli, concluded as follows , . It has been stated, as a reproach to the country party, that the cause of the late failure of Lord Stanley to form a cabinet was the incapacity of his party. It was not so. It was owing to several adverse circumstances, to which I shall briefly allude. It must be remembered that of that party there are only one or two who were ever in office before ; and the present government cunningly devised their mode \ of resignation at a time w h en not onl y the Mutin y Bill was unread in the House of Common s, but when not a single sum of money was voted to carry on the government of the country, and when Sir James Graham, supping from the high position he was entitled to assume, and once assumed, as the constitutional adviser of a constitutional Sovereign, counselled the army to mutiny and the people of Ire land to rebel if the identical measures were carried which Lord Stanley would have felt it his duty to propose. (Hear, hear.) In these circumstances it was Lord Staoley's duty to consider what security he had for the safety of the sovereign and of the country if he had assumed the reins of THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 24, 1851. government. (Loud cheers.) In the House of Commons, too, the most injuriously obstructive policy was followed; and tbr these reasons Lord Stanley found it impossible to form an administration : but there is no doubt whatever that, since these circumstances have been in a great measure re moved by the progress of the session, if ever again that noble lord should be called to place himself at the head of the count do of the sovereign, he would be successful in forming an administration. (Loud applause.) I am con vinced that, happen what may, you will fluid among the country party in Great Britain at large men who, in times of difficulty and danger, would be equal to the emergency. (Loud cheering.) Various toast., followed, such as " The Tenant Farmers," " Ships, Colonies, and Commerce," and the meeting sepa rated at 12 o'clock. IRELAND. ' THE PAPAL AGORESSION.-MEETING AT CONCILIATION-HALL. DUBLIN. A public meeting was held on Tuesday, in Concilia tion-hall, Burgh-quay, for the purpose, u stated in the advertisement, of petitioning parliament against the Eccle siastical Titles Bill, and to adopt an address to the Queen, praying her Majesty to dismiss from her councils any minister who shall propose the enactment of measures infringing the religious liberty of her Majesty's subjects. The galleries and body of the hall were densely thronged with an audience that consisted almost exclusively of the working-classes. Among those upon the platform were Mr. John Reynolds, M.P., Mr. Henry Grattan, M.P., Sir Simon Bradstreet, the Very Rev. Dr. Cahill, Very ltev. Dr. Sprott, Mr. James Burke, Mr. E. W. O'Mahony, Mr. A. R. Stritch, Mr. J. O'Neill, T.C., Mr. John Bagnall, T.C„ &c. At half-past one o'clock, on the motion of Sir Simon Bradstreet, the chair was taken by Mr. Joxst REY NOLDS. M.P. The CHAIRMAN said they were there in pursuance of a public requisition to petition parliament against the atrocious act introduced by the Queen's minister to annihilate the Ito mancatholic church, by depriving it of those rights and pri vileges which, even in the worst of times, it was permitted to enjoy. They were there also to raise their voices against an other insulting measure,callcd "The Religious Houses Bill," a bill that might he termed the twist sister of Lord J. Rus sell's bill, and the bare introduction of which was not only an insult to the virtuous, chaste', and religious women against whom it was directed, but also calculated to insult their fathers, their brothers, and their other relations.' (Cheers.) This atrocious bill had been introduced in the fell spirit of religious bigotry and intolerance. And what were its provisions? That those sanctuaries of female virtue and usefulness, to which he had alluded, should be visited at all times and seasons by commissioners to be appointed by the British government—(hisses)—that even their daughters and sisters, who had devoted their lives to the service of their God—to the promotion of moral and religious education, should be polluted by the visits of— whom did they think ? Discreet persons, the bill said. (Groans and hisses.) He (Mr. It.) had once supported her Majesty's government, but now he was one of their most determined opponents. (Hear, hear.) Why had he changed his mind and policy? lie would tell them—it was on account of Lord John Russell's letter to the Bishop of Durham, and his subsequent speeches in the House of Commons in reference to the Ecelesiutical Titles Bill. (Cheers.) Having read Lord J. Russell's letter, he went on to ask whether he was not justified by its contents in raising up his voice and recording his vote against its author? (Hear, hear.) They were on the eve of a great battle, and let there be no mistake about it ; they were determined to fight the battle out, and to tight it in any manner. (Loud cheers.) They should nut be allowed to trample ou the archbishops, bishops, and consecrated priesthood of the ROM= catholic church. (Cheers.) They were determined to fight every ouch of ground with the government on the re-assembling of parliament, and to put all the forms of the Rouse of Commons iu motion in order to save catholic religion in this country. (Loud applause.) Mr. JAMES BURKE (barrister) then read a petition to parliament against the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill, which described that measure as calculated " to deprive ROIMM catholics of that freedom which they, in common with their fellow-subjects of other creeds in this country, had a right to enjoy without restriction ;" and claiming Mr them liberty to make such arrangements fie the government of their church as they might think proper. Mr. HENRY GRATTAN, M.P., moved the adoption of the petition, and in doing so, said be came there to raise his voice not merely against the attempts being made to excite religious discord amongst his fellow-countrymen, but aloe against the separation of the two countries, which was in volved in the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill. If he were a rebel or an enemy to England he would support that hill; but he was determined to oppose it to the utmo t of his power, be cause he claimed for his fellow-countrymen the right enjoyed by the people of England of standing up, even to the death, for the preservation of their civil and religious liberties. (Hear, hear.) They would violate no law, but they would resist the ministerial measure to the full extent permitted by the eonstituti ~,, . (" Hear," and cheers.) He recommended them not to slumber or sleep on this great question, which went fur beyond what they imagined. It was nothing short of u dolly blow aimed at the prosperity of this country. They were hated at the other side of the Channel, not because they were Roman catholies, but be cause they were Irishmen—that was the reason. (Hear.) As the late Mr. O'Connell observed, "'They hated the men' they had injured, because they feared they could never repay the debt which they owed to them." (Hear, hear.) And what were they now going to du? They were going to distract and divide the people of Ireland at a time when they had begun to he united. (Hear ' hear.) Just when protestants and eatholies hail become good friends, and were living in peace and goodwill together, the demon of discord nude his appearance, and sought to roes: the foul standard of religious bigotry and intolerance. (Hear, hear ) Ile (Mr. G.) wished, for his own part, to live in peace. with all his fellow-countrymen, irrespective of creed or polities— they might be Turks, provided only they obeyed the law. Mr. MACKAY seconded the motion, which was put from the chair and unanimously carried. The Very Rev. Dr. CAHILL then rose to move the adoption of a petition to parliament against " The Reli gious Houses Bill," and commenced his speech by com paring Lord John Russell to an image in Milton's " l'ara disc Lost," representing Satan, when he was cast out of Heaven, engaged in making war back again upon Gal. There were two points embraced in this bill ; the first was intended to degrade female conventual life, and the other to withdraw the young women of Ireland from the care and attention of the ladies who resided in their con verts. (Hear, hear.) If they looked to another country, which he would forbear to name, they would WC the very ground stained with crime, and the daily papers filled with cases of poisoning and murder, and parricide and matricide, and all those fearful crimes which defied God upon his throne. (Hear, hear.) When they viewed these things, and considered what the nuns of Ireland were—all peace and love—spending their lives in stemming the torrent of wickedness and vice—that they were remark able for more than the purity of their lives—that they were the very missionaries of the Pope himself, no wonder that au attempt should be made to destroy them. ( hear,hear.) Their tabrts in the cause of education reached into every avenue of life ; they reached their wives, their daugh ters, their sisters, their aunts, and their nieces. (Hear, hear) They taught their young women to respect and love their husbands, and they, in their turn, taught their offspring to suck in with their milk fidelity to God and hatred. of op pression. (Rear and cheers.) Such were the establishments which Lord John Russell contemplated to overthrow. (Hear.) They were determined, it was said, to visit the nunneries, and, by the authority of six magistrates, they would have it in their power to perpetrate indecencies within their walls. (Hear, hear.) Would they, he asked, permit any filthy official, by the command of any filthy magistrate, to go into one of their convents, and institute a search for a nun who might be living there ? Would they place confidence in a Whig cabinet which stood by when the Speaker of the House of Commons declared, before God and man, that it was no breach of parliamentary courtesy to designate the Roman catholic nuns all over the world as persona residing in a brothel ? For his own part, he would say that if this bill pursed the Commons and the Lords, and if it afterwards received the signature of their beloved Queen, he declared before God and man that she would possess his allegiance and loyalty as a terrible task, but not as a pleasing duty. (" Hear," and cheers) Mr. E. O'MAHONY seconded the motion, which was unanimously adopted by the meeting. Mr. J. BURKE then read an address to the Queen, praying her Majesty to withhold her consent from the Ec clesiastical Titles Bill, and to dismiss from her councils any minister who shall propose the enactment of measures in fringing the religious liberty of her Majesty's subjects. Sir S. BRADSTREET moved the adoption of this ad dress, and in doing so, said that as a protestant and a friend of religious lirty, he felt great indignation at the insult which the two measures alluded to that day had inflicted on his Roman catholic fellow-countrymen. The motion was seconded by Mr. Baustress, T.C., and passed unanimously. It was then agreed by acclamation that the thanks of the people of Ireland are due to the Irish members of parliament who had opposed the present government in the House of Commons. Mr. O'CONNOR moved the last resolution, which aas as follows :—Resolved,that we deem it our duty emphatically to call on the Irish liberal members to attend its their places in parliament on the sth May next, when the government mea sure of pains and penalties is moved in committee, as well as on all other occasions when ministerial difficulties arise • and that we will deem any Irish member absenting himself on that day, or on any other important motion when the exis tence of the present or any other government is likely to he imperilled, and an opportunity offered of driving them from office, to have forfeited the confidence of his constituents, and to have basely betrayed and deserted the interests of his country and his religion. The motion was seconded by Mr. Ryan, and adopted by the mating teens. dis. A vote of thanks was then p meeting Mr. Reynolds for his conduct while presiding, and t separates'. and DVRLTN, APRIL O. The Royal Dublin Society's annual exhibition of black cattle, sheep, swine, &c., was opened yester day, and presented the largest and finest display of stock in the several departments remembered on any similar occasion in Dublin. It is generally - agreed that it is the best show of farm stock which the Society has had since its foundation. Among the successful exhibitors are his Excellency the Earl of Clarendon, Lord Plunkett, the Earl of Charlcmont, Lord Talbot de Malahide, Viscount Nlonck, the Earl of Mayo, Robert Holmes, Esq., Col. Latouchc, Col. Vandaleur, Sir Alan Bellingham, Viscount Hill, &c. In the evening there was a meeting at which His Ex cellency the Lord-Lieutenant presided, for the distribution of prizes; and after the usual routine proceedings had been disposed of, and an interesting lecture had been delivered by Pro fessor Ilarrison on the physiological principles of nu tiltion, or their connexion in certain points with the present exhibition of the society , Lord Talbot de Malahide proposed a vote of thanks to the Lord Lieutenant, which was most warmly and cordially responded to. His Excellency, after acknowledging the compli ment, and making some observations having more immediate reference to the proceedings of the day, said: I think that amongst other things . exhibitions, such as these, prove the spirit which now animates the great majo rity of the landlords of Ireland, who are so habitually and unjustly maligned. Far be it from me—even if I were so inclined to do so 1 shall not presume—to speak of them or any other class in the country in the language of flattery. I have nodoubt that in former timesmany of them have deserved censure, and that in the present time, here and elsewhere, in so large a class, there may be mauy ignorant of their duties :mil unmindful of their interests. But I say it is unfair to class with these the great majority of Irish landlords, who are now manfully struggling against difficulties, and bestir ring themselves with a epird, an energy, and a judgment. that reflect the highest credit, which I devoutly hope will le attended with the success they deserve. (" Hear, hear," and cheers.) Amongst other things, I shall notice one item, that of drainage uuder the late landed improvement act. The report of the Commissioners of Public Works last year gave the names of numerous gendemen in almost every county of Ireland who have undertaken great works, and you will tiers find what effiet their example has hail on their tenants, evidenced in the improved moral and social condi lion of the labouring classes. (Bear, hear.) Gentlemeiewith out alluding to any political subject, which is most properly excluded from this room, where the object is to promote the welfare ()full, and never to offend the feelings of any class in the community—but, I say, without analysing causes, 1 think we should he all agreed, that none but good farming is likely now-a -days to lie s uccessful. (Hear, hear.) Gentle men, I speak as a landowner myself, whose sole dependance is on the land, and therefore I have no hesitation here to express my opinion, that in order to maintain a position, and to command that consideration which is always and willingly conceded by the public wherever it is deserved, I think we have done right, as of late years, to come down from what I may call our feudal stilts, and iu times like sox of education, enlightenment, andintellectual progress, springing as t h ey have done, and lam happy to say, have sprung from below, because their basis is more solid and extended; while, on the other hand, they have been met in the spirit they ought to be, and received with uo jealous eye by the other classes. We must abandon, and we have abandoned, that agreeable notion, that we are a privileged class. We must be content to view ourselves as manu facturers; exposed, like the manufacturers, to active competition, interested, like them, in producing the are lent possible amount at the least possible cost. Attention to our business —knowledge of all its details, economy in all its branches--are alike essential to the land lord and the tenant ; and how often do we not prove that the abstruse science of agriculture is received us if it re quired us training? How often do we not see land taken by a man without capital, skill, or knowledge, and yet, when failure ensues, other causes than the real one are as signed for that which is inevitable in the natural state of things, area which would occur in any other pursuit under taken without skill, knowledge, or capital? (Hear, hear.) Gentlemen, there are two subjects to which the attention of the agriculturists of Ireland is at this moment chiefly directed, to one of which, with your permission, I will allude—l mean the cultivation of flax and the cultivation of beetroot for sugar. With respect to the latter, it is impos sible not to entertain very high anticipations. Those who have read, and I apprehend many of those I have now the honour of addressing must have reed, the very able, inte resting, and opportune work of Mr. Sullivan, the chemist to the Museum of Irish industry, must consider that the mast satisfactory and encouraging case has been made out fur the cultivation of this .root. It is plain that the produce of beet root sugar has vastly increased within the last few years on the continent—from 1847 to 1848, it increased from lin to 1140,1101) killogrammes ; and that nue,: 1248 it has increased to 200,000, a quantity equal to the wattle of the produce of the British \Vest Indies and the Mauritius. Thew is, therefore, every reason to suppose that this manufacture must be highly remunerative. But our case is not strictly analogous, for in those continental states where beet root is grown, the manufacturer is pro tected by a high luty against imported sugar. lu France, holvercr;.there is tome analogy, for there the duties on colo nial and French beet root sugar have been equalised since 1848. But the gnat it-cremee of beet rout sugar that has ' taken place in France since that time, and which is attribu ' table nut only to setter machinery, and to a more improved process, but to is manufacture being carried on purer in factories, and wilt a much larger capital, has removed all apprehension in the mind from the native producers. For instance, in 1844. there were 27,000,000 kilogrammes made in 380 factories, while in 1848, there were 48,000,000 made in 286 factories, showing that the concentration of capital, and a larger emanation of it, was necessary to attain suc cess in the mannacture. French best-root sugar and the French colonial sugar are both protected against the impor tation of cane sager. But whether we in Ireland should be at once abb to meet the competition of Cuba and Brazils is a question in reference to which we have no con tinental exampb to guide us. There is no case of beet root sugar being manufactured except under the protection of large duties. and we must also bear iu mind that the sugar can only le brought to market in such a refined state as will enable UI to compete with the fine sugar of Belgium and Holland. With terpect to flax, the subject has been so thoroughly discussed, it has taken such complete possession of the public mind—(hear) —the absurdity is now so generally admitted of linnirting from abroad se, material which we can produce so Huth better and cheaper at home, and which can command in insatiable consumption, that it is unne cessary for me to endeavour to demonstrate it. I shall, 1 therefore, do nothing more than congratulate you upon the determinates manifested in various parts of the country ' to give effect to ;his movement by extending the cultivation ' of flax, which '. know is at present taking place to a con siderable extent. The linen of Ireland is rapidly displacing the linen of all (Bier countries in the markets of the world ; and yet, to our shame be it spoken material for this pros perous manufacture we have been in the habit of buying from abroad. (Bear.) We have all seen the beautiful productions witch the city of Dublin has sent for ward as her contributions to the world's exhibition, and which amply testify het determination not to be hehiudhand in the great contest of universal skill and ingcuuity. (Ilear, hear.) Gentlemen, I will not detain you longer than by apologising for tie length at which I have detained you, and fur having travelled away from the subject which as sembled us, in my desire to convey my own impression, that Ireland is about ti become what she ought to be—that our agricultural and manufacturing prosperity is nut an idle dream—that itis not a problem impossible of solution that industry and clergy have already accomplished sufficient to encourage unto persevere to turn to the best account that which name has bestowed upon us. His Exeelency concluded amid loud applause. The society then adjourned to the Library to partake of refreshineir, and soon after separated. The Boone of Ulster says t " A correspondent, in the correctness of whose information wo have the utmost confidence, writes to us stating that the —' bested " Duncan Chisholm" is at length " taken, ...._ is now on his way back from America." This, in SUBMARINE TELEGRAPHS. The London adn some quarters, will be no very agreeable intelligence. North Western, Chester and Holyhead, South Eastern, and EMlfettATlO:.—Our quays are daily thronged with other railways are petitioning to be heard in committee persons belonging to the agricultural classes leaving for against the propowd eubmarine telegraphs, on the greund, America. Wilda the last eight days the following vessels ' railways of the it is understood, that the latter propene in their bills to have departed .rom our quays: The Dominus, for Quebec, I, obtain exclusive privileges along the 1.0 passengers; the Don, for New York. 160 Panengers ; . kin 4dons. the 'Marchioness of Bute, for Quebec, 120 passengers ; the BAKING BY STEAM.—Last night a number of gen \ Lockwood., fee New York, 280 passengers; the Sarah, for ticmen connected with the baking business assembled at Boston, lab aasserigers ; the Solway, for New York, 196 the establishment of Mr. Nevill, 16, Holborn-bare, tu wit passengers ; ate Try Again, for Quebec, 130 passenger.; nein a series of experiments with a new apparatus which the Favourite fur Boston, 120 passengers; the Clarinda, has lately been erected fur the purpose of applying Mr. for New York, 100 passengers; the Swift, for Boston, 120 Perkin's hot water warming apparatus to the heating of passengers; and Field Marshal itadetaky, for New York, ovens. The advantages proposed to be derived from this 88 passengers Making in all 11 vessels and 1,468 prawn- Plan arc, Ist cleanliness; 2ud, treedom from all the gers, mdeperdent of the crowds who leave for Liverpool by noxious effluvia which abound in common ovens, and which the steamer,. In addition to the above, yesterday one bun- render the bread much less palatable than that made in the dred paupers comfortably clad, arrived in this city from country where wood is used; 3rd, great economy in fuel ; the leenmare workhouse, and were put on board the Hot - 4th , perfect control of the temperature ; and, lastly, the spur, which proceed to-day to Quebec. This is the second i abolition of night and Sunday work , which is now alm ost batch that his been sent out within the last month by the I indispensable owing to the difficulty of heating common guardians of the above union. —Cork Reporter. ovens. All these ends promise to be attainable; and the company last night assembled appeared to be greatly gratis.' TIIE BEM OF ST. ALBAN'S Cuenca, LIVERPOOL, fied by an inspection of the apparatus. A substantial re- FILL on Saiday evening while, summon in g the congvega- I past, cooked in the hot water oven, proved an appropriate lion to divint service ; it weighs more than a ton, and in i termination to the explanations which were offered to those falling carried with it three floors in the tower, and other- 't taints present by Mr. Carroll, the agent of the patentee; and cer wise did considerable damage. No lives were lost, but a all' nothing could be more satisfactory than the manner Perron, who was ringing it at the time, received some hurt, in which the viands were dressed. LORD CLANCARTY UPON THE PAPAL AGGRESSION. TO TEE EDITOR OV THE TIMER. Sir,—Although excluded from parliament by con scientiowl objections to the oaths at present required to be taken by protestant members, and therefore unable to rx press my °Manaus in the house of lords, 1 cannot feel indif ferent as to the legislative measures that may he adopted with reference to those acts of the papacy which have given so much offence to the protestant feeling in Great Britain. I therefore request you will do me the favour of laying the following ruauarks before the public through the medium of yuur columns: — The strong and unanimous addresses referred to in the Queen's speech afford unquestionable evidence that the /.re tensions of the pope to supremacy over the realm of Eng land are repudiated by the autism ; but inasmuch as these pretensions are not therefore abandoned, it remains to be considered how they ought to be met by the Queen's govern ment ; what measures, early, arc requisite for vindicating the independence of the nation; and what restrictions Can (and ought to be) placed upon the proeredings of the hierarchy of the church of Rome within the United King dom consistently with the free exercise of their religion by Somali catholics. There can be no doubt that the papal hull for anew eccle siastical division of England was issued in total disregard of the rightful authority of the queen's government, and was couceived in a spirit of arrogance and ulfensiveniss to the protestant character of the British people; but us the pope is neither a British subject nor even an ally of Great Britain, and therefore can neither be made amenable to British law nor brought to reason by diplomatic agency, the question arises—Do his pretensions to catholic supremacy, as reei asserted over tile realm of England, form a Calla Delhi ! or have they not rather, as far as their offensiveness called for it, been duly reproved by their contemptuous and indignant rejection by the masses, including all classes of the Eng-anh people ? 1 think that in this respect nothing remains to be done. To the protestant mind it is most certain that this claim of the papacy to headship over the catholic church is a vain assumption, without foundation in reason or nerip , tare; but it is Lot less certain that the canon law of Rome makes the acknowledgment of this claim a matter of faith binding upon the ellteleielllXS of ltolll4ll esthetics. The part, therefure, for the government to take should be, dealing with questions of faith and all known facts relative to the subjection of the Roman catholic mind to papal. government ' as matters with which the state cannot interfere, to afford to the Roman catholics in all parts of the kingdom duo ' facilities for providing fur the ministrations of their church, to bring the exercise of the hierarchical authority, which is essential to it, under the control of the laws of the nalin, and to adopt such other measures as may be newsisary to repel all future encroachmeuts, open or insidious, of an ecclesiastical system, tending, as described in Lord J. Russell's letter to the Bishop of Durham, " to confine the intellect and enslave the soul." By the late act of the Pope in regard to England the protestant feeling of the nation has been happily awakened to the reality of papal aggression; the opportunity should nut be allowed to pass of examining into the state of the law as regards the religious establish ments of our Roman catholic fellow-subjects—how far their church has been recognised by the state, and how far it ought to be. It is idle at the present day to talk 01 the Queen's supremacy consisting in the banishment and total absence of all foreign ecclesiastical authority frum within the realm. It was, indeed abolished by the set of Elizabeth, and fur a long series of years was practically excluded front any legalised existence. But it is not so now. The Roman catholic religion, to which the episcopal authority of Rome is essential, is not merely tolerated --it is fostered by the state; and, by the Charitable Bequests Act, passed what the special object of promoting its permanent endowment, the constitution and discipline of the church of Bente in Ireland have "Milted a legalised footing. I cannot, then:bac, hat view it as a mockery of a matt solemn set that protesint amber of parliament, and persons called to civil or • ecclesiastical office under the crown, are still required to declare upon oath that no foreign prelate bath any authority or jurisdiction, spiritual or ecclesiastical, within the realm. But although the words of the oath of supremacy affirm what is u mere fiction in the five of a legalised 11.111.111 catholic hierarchy, 1 am far from considering that the supremacy of the crown in all the essentials of government is inconsistent with the principle of the act to which I have referred. Romish bishops have been expressly reeu-nisei as exercising spiritual jurisdiction within the ullitell'Ring dom. but it is not necessary that their action should he, as at present, without the control of the state. Powerful through the superstitious regard paid to their office by the Roman catholic body, they have been rendered still more so by the vacillating and inconsistent conduct of the govern ment. At tillltqf co urted and caressed, and at others and bound by no obligations of submission except to the pope, to them nevertheless and to their subordinates is chatty committed by the government the education of the masses of the queen 'is subjects is Ireland. They wield, also, a power not less important over the well-Icing of the nation through the confessioual ; through it the Roman catholic priest may become coguisaut of murders, thefts, conspiracies, At.., without being compellable to give cv deuce of them before a court of justice, and without even being required to give that security to the state fur a right use of thin extraordinary power whied might be aftbrded by an oath of allegianee to the queen, and binding tense the influence of the ministerial Olin: in upholding the laws of the country. It would be no less for the interest of the Roman catholics themselves than for that of the nation at large that the whole of their lTele , siastical arrangement should be made subordinate to the laws of the realm and their monastic institutions brought under the supers•imon of the state. But it is nut alone the Roman catholic church that requires the attention of government. The interests of the established church, within which so much has insidiously been done to corrupt the pure tenets of the protestant faith, require that more summary power should be given to those in authority to eject from the ministry all unfaithful hitchers, and that the clergy should be enjoined from time to time to point out to their congregations the distinctive doctrines of the reformed church. The utmost encouragement should at the same time he everywhere alibi-dial for the dissemination of scrip tural instruction (especially among the rising generati ~,, laying the best foundation for the Christian character, pre senting the highest motives fur moral conduct and useful exertion, and affording the best safeguard against infidelity, Wm: doctrine, mid superstition. I f this were done, " I may add," in the words of M. Luquet, the Pope's nuncio, in his letter lately addressed to Sir Robert Peel, " that the papal aggression of rim. IX., like that of Gregory 1., will have for its certain result the restoration of a great number to the interior liberty which only belongs to the children of God." I do not think the provisions of the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill at present before parliament likely to render any service either to the sous of truth ur to the interests of the 1 country. If they are made effectual for their purpoAesthey will only be productive of inconvenience to the Roman catholics, without in any degree lessening either the pre tensions of the court of !tome or the spiritual anthority of the Romish hierarchy iu England. If, on the other hand, I the bill having passed, those provisions should prove in effectual fur their purposes, it would only tend to bring the law into contempt, while it would leave upon the minds of Roman catholics the impression that the intention which I faded was to put down their religion by act of parliament. I um, Sir, your obedient scrviud, Garbally, April 21. CLANCAETY. BATHS FOR THE PEOPLE.—The public at Bir mingham have this week been permitted to inspect, in its completed state, a large and handsome building which has just been erected by the corporation, providing bathe :Ind washhouscs fur the people. There is every convenience, so far as regards the baths, also for the conducting the washing of linen for a great number of fatnilies—an accommodation open to the public at a small charge. The building is erected in a convenient part of the town. It is an experi ment made by the corporation, which, if it succeeds, is to be followed by the erection of a similar convenience in another part of the town. It is worthy of record that the erection of these baths has caused the purchase of all the saleable land in the locality. FATAL Aectuf.Nr.—Mr. Todd, a barrister, whilst cruising in a yacht, on Sunday last, near the Nore, thrown overboard by the boom suddenly jibing, and drowned. FATAL lIAILWAY ACCIDENT.—On Tuesday morn ing an old man, named Henry Lee, was crossing the Lanca shire and Yorkshire Railway at Heaton, near the junction of the Liverpool and Bury brunch with the Bolton and Preston line (about 20 miles from Liverpool), whin he was run down by the express train from Liverpool. Ire appears to have observed a train coming up in an opposite direction, and to have stepped back on to the down line out of its way, not perceiving the express. An arm and a leg were torn from the body, and the man was otherwise shockingly mutilated. There iv a road crosses the line on the level with the (fah at the spot, so that he was nut trespassing on the line, but had not observed due caution in looking out for approaching trains. He was 76 years of age. STAFFORDSHIRE AND SHROPSHIRE RAILWAY.-11i3. Honour Master Richards has deferred judgment in Mr. Archibald's case in this matter, to give that gentleman ua opportunity of proving, by the production of witnesses, that he had authority from the board of directors to remove the funds from the Commercial Bank. LONDON AND NORTH WESTERN ItAILWAr. Traffic for the week ending April 20 : Passengers, parcels, carriages, horses, and mails, 25,5611. 3s. ; merelsimilise, 16,5101. 2s. 11d. ; cattle, 7491. 4s. 3d. : t0ta1,42, 1 453 1 . 10,2 d. Corresponding week, 1850, 43,552/. 12s. sd.—Aggregate, 1850, 639,0761. 16s. 541. ;_ ditto, 1851, 647,9181. 12s. Bd. LONDON AND SOUTH-WESTERN RsawsT.— T 9 , ra o 2 fl s l i c . fo l r 6i. the 3 d week.; goods, ed i n g '2,1001. lb-. 1 2‘ bin . n.,:drrao — ing,dira, l t.ffic ' t aaw :.;: de f l eo i tkN g :r e tEt r s d u,t5:14t , 10: 11,1291. 15s. MIDLAND ItaiLwaT.—Traffic for the weekending April 20, 21,7991. His. • ditto April 21,1850, 20,450/.llld. \wa:lrtekOultenTndaillernSTAYFOßDSlllßE R:theLotWhnotsTit year, 4,3171. The above is exclusive of the rev ,ipt,vaii. —3 .W s 0 2 °A: P: 15 o al r e g o mi y . P 9a e a 8 Railwayst. e 9 d t i s hAl. a eB l t A P: Kiel' ti n; p : : ::: 4 1 , :' 9 G ; I FROM,meeting i t i . W . 8 I 1 1 r . " C O f : ' t ,;. d h rS e E T a inhabitants W IND- of Maidenhead took place at the Town ilall, to consider the best means of establishing a railw.ay communication from W yco mbe to Windsor, paw.ing through Wooburn. Maiden head, and Bray, thereby 'affording an opportunity of reach ing London by the Sneth Western Railway, and avoiding the journey from Paddington to the City. An unanimous opinion was expressed in favour of the project, and a com mittee was appsinted to negotiate with the South Wester 's Railway Corstpany on the subject. i J