The Express. — London, England, 1847-04-08 00:00:00

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The Advancing Mow of the " DAILY N EMU " mod "EXPRIIitS " have born REMOVED nes 90, PLF.ET-STREET, to No. 10, BOVVBRIE-STILEET, FLEET-SIRE/ft, =Abram to therrhotlng and Pub Diking Onage. 1 1 ,0 1 Advercuta Wooded for Mr Itorea, London ~Aug mar, sat to ta n Moe by Tao o'clock on the day of publication. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE. Tan DA4—Mandalt, 34 ago. p 6 ; Aftermaa, ~In. pest 6. To4loasom —Ronan". 30 man. post 7 ; Aftwoo" S min. pan 5. LONDON, THURSDAY, APRIL 8. IT is painful to observe so respectable a body of ' men, such approved staunch friends of liberal prin ciples, as the Scotch voluntaries, condescending to become the fag-end of the BAINES agitation, with which they have no little in common. The characters of Scotch and English dissent are marked by strong generic differences. This is said without any want of respect for either class of non conformists; simply because it is the fact—a fact by , overlooking which the Scotch voluntaries are in , imminent danger of placing themselves in a false position. Dissent in Scotland dates from the days of the Easxmes—from the era of the foundation of the Secession Church. To this day, the great mass of , dissenters in Scotland acknowledge the confession of faith of the established church, in all its leading features, as their standard. The congregationalist., , the only other in any degree numerous dissenting 1 body, concurring with them in doctrinal views, have also in Scotland approximated more nearly to the presbyterian forms of church discipline than is the case with their brethren in England. Among the presbyterian dissenters of Scotland, the recognition of the voluntary principle is an event of comparatively recent date. There is no reason to believe that the principle was held by the fathers either of the Secession or the Relief: at all events the question was not raised in their controversies, and no judgment was pronounced on it. The Scotch dissenters were voluntaries in practice long before they became colon- ' tuft" in theory. Their congregations little or no property: their ministers rarely, ever, accept from their congregations a bond securing them in a ent salary. When the voluntary movement permanent t na d n ecidedly commenced in Scotland, dating from the great public breakfast at Glasgow some twenty years back, its promoters merely avowed a principle upon which they had long acted. They held the tenet in the uncontaminated purity of comparatively new converts, and there was nothing in their social half hearted to inspire them with temporising, half compromises between conscience and conduct. The English dissenters are somewhat differently circumstanced. ,South of the Tweed, the epithet " dissenter" has come, by a kind of tacit convention, to be in a great measure restricted to the old denomi nations of nonconformists, who date from the ejections under CHARLES IL The newer noncon formists, Wesleyans, Whitfieldites, Moravians, have never fused thoroughly with that old aristocracy of nonconformity, and have generally been found opposed to them. The " denominations" (with the exception of the presbyterians, who, by the way, have never thoroughly amalgamated with the rest) held from the beginning the voluntary principle. Bat the congregations which adhered to the ejected pastors numbered among their members many wealthy citizens, and knights and squires, and even a few of the peerage. These gentlemen took care that their pastors should not want, and that their peculiar tenets should not run the risk of becomingobsolete on account of the expense of maintaining pastors and schools for disseminating them. All over England are to be found funds vested in trustees for the support of dissenting chapels and schools, pastors, and teachers. In the matter of endowment the ' denominations" are rather rival and less wealthy establishments, than dissenters from the establishment. The un questioning spirit which makes men adopt a religion simply because it was their fathers', has been as rife among the old endowed nonconformist congregations SS within the church : they, too, have, and have had their old high and dry formalists. The different character of English and Scotch dis sent was felt and complained of by the zealous Scotch voluntaries, at the outset of their movement The endowed nonconformists of England had, in truth, little relish for a dogma which denounced all endow ments. True, the dogma was one of the fundamental doctrines of their churches, but it was one which they had long agreed to regard as among those fine theories which are too good for every-day use. They' gave a languid assent to the arguments of the Scotch voluntaries, but, save in a few exceptional cases, no efficient aid to their propagandist efforts from the north was to be had from them. Missionaries were sent from Scotland to re-animate the zeal of the Laodicean brethren in England, but though WARDLAW himself was one of these missionaries, they had few " seals of their mission." But the English " denominations" are as jealously sensitive of any possible ester: lion ofthe establishment's influence, as they are indifferent to its permanent endowment. The ir temper inclines them to an armed neutrality—to a tacit agreement that they will not seek to make converts from the church of England, provided the church is polite enough not to seek to make converts from them. They have no objection to remain shut up within their old limits, provided the church is also forbid to extend her boundaries. This is the plain English of their anti-state education diatribes. If the church continues to educate the children of churchmen, and the denominational con- =ems the children of nonconformists, the of power between these sections of Christian ity is pretty sure to be preserved unaltered. But if once the state begins to educate, its pupils may be inclined to change sides, or perhaps to set up a third WV- Until within these few weeks it was never under- stood that the Scotch voluntaries had any objection to state education. They threw themselves frankly and unhesitatingly into the scale of the government which introduced the Irish system of national educa tion. They may entertain doubts u to whether the scheme now propounded by Ministers for England and Scotland holds the balance even between the church and dissent; and if so, they are wise to scru tinise it narrowly, and ask for modifications and safe guards before they assent to it. But they who have hitherto avowed Maros's principles in matters of ecclesiastical government, have also hitherto avowed Mu.ros's principles in respect of state education. Any objections they can have to the government education scheme can only be in respect of details : to the extension of national edu cation, so long as it is not made a cloak for sectarian proselytism, they can have no objection. Mr. BAINES, on the other hand, with whom they have shown a disposition to ally themselves, criticises the details of the measure only in so far as he can thus strengthen the prepossession against it : what he really dreads is a national system of instruction, which, by strengthening the sense of common citizen shiph., might weaken sectarianism ,though it s t reng th ene d trut If the Scotch voluntaries will give themselves the trouble to examine the Minute of Council for them selves, instead of taking Mr. BAINES' caricatures of it for exact likenesses, they will find little that can cause them a elision, and that little confined to the P sad easily susceptible of amendment. The distinction between schools promoted by the National, and those promoted by the British and Foreign Society, is not applicable to Scotland. In that country, the parochial schools, and a number of schools established and supported by churchmen, are those over which the church has exercised a control. On the other hand, independent of the Free-Church schools—all, necessarily, of recent institution—there are a great number of schools scattered throughout the country, over which the established church never was entitled to any jurisdiction. There are schools connected with dissenting congregations—as for ex ample the very efficient school of the congregation in Glasgow to which the late excellent Dr. HEUGH so long ministered. In the manufacturing districts there are many villages—long entirely neglected by the Establishment—which have been supplied both with religious ministrations, and with schools by the United Secession or the R elief. Again, the Roman Catholic schools in Glasgow—among the best managed in Scotland—have been, we believe, entirely managed, and in great measure supported, by dissenters. The burgh schools throughout Scotland have long been de facto administered by the corporations, not by the church ;and such institutions as the Ayr, Irvine, and Kilmarnock academies have been, from the be ginning, independent of it. Lastly, a great number of the schools towards which grants have been contri buted by government, have been established by the co-operation of churchmen and dissenters, on the un derstanding that the established church was in no wise to interfere with them. All this numerous _ . class of schools, and the widely-diffused interest which has upheld and is anxious to extend them, are jealous of church interference. They have no reason to be satisfied that an inspector, approved by the British and Foreign School Society, could enter into their views and maintain tin ir rights. They have quite aslittle faith in inspectors approved by the kirk of Scotland, or the Free Kirk. It is the want of some recognised organ to represent the sentiments of this important section of Scotch society, that has awakened the jea►ousy of the Scotch dissenters. But it requires, we are sure, only a frank expression of this feeling on their part to government,to ensure them respectful attention and any guarantee they can ask in reason. We submit these considerations to the dispassionate examination of the Scotch voluntaries. We should regret to see a mission, sent from England to inocu late them with the local jealousies of a section of English dissent, have more success than attended the exhortations of their own missionaries sent to incul cate a doctrine from which we may dissent, bat must admit its disinterested character and abstract logical consequence. Tots is unquestionably the age of material civilisa tion. Other great epochs in the world's history have been especially characterised by particular men tal or moral manifestations: there has been an age of . . . .. violence, an age of faith, an age of chivalry, an age of learning, an age of manners, and so forth; but these middle decades of the nineteenth century constitute pre-eminently an age of physical development On whichsoever side we tarn, the same class of evidence meets us. Everywhere the phenomena that are most striking are material. Enormous docks, railways, and other works, equal in magnitude to the pyramids, and with infinitely more of human purpose in them, grow around us with something of the rapidity of magic. There are no bounds to onr activity. Nearly all the working intellect of the age is in some way evolved and realised in these physical conquests. The complexion of the time is scientific. Art may almost be said to be is abeyance. Eighteen hundred and forty-seven would not build a St. Paul's, nor a West minster Abbey ; but, in its own way, does things sally wonderfuL In the social history of man a ny steamboat from Westminster to London is an achievement not less marvellous than the glorious dome of St. Pais; and a twopenny omnibus from Paddington to the Strand is the result of a problem infinitely more difficult and more useful than the elevation of the monument of Cheops. This train of thought is suggested by a perusal of the account of the festivities held Birkenhead— the new port on the river Mersey opposite to Liver pool—on Monday last, when Lord Alorterrir and other distinguished personages officiated, on occasion of the opening of the new docks, the new railway, and the new park; a report of which appeared in our columns of Tuesday. Birkenhead is certainly one of the great pheno mena of the age ; and, in its rapid growth and leading physiology, strikingly exhibits the character of that influence which commerce is beginning more and more potently to exercise in the social and political affairs of nations. Formerly, kings and courts were the principal founders of cities ; and to their pleasures and expenditures the inhabitants looked for support. We have changed all that. Other kind of considera tions altogether determines the sites of towns now. The interests of commerce are become more powerful than the interests of courts. New elements entered into our social system with the introduction of steam as a motive power, and revolutionised all the old modes of national development. Other authorities prescribe the grooves in which human events shall move than political legislators. Governments could not have made a Birkenhead without enormous cost and loss. Of commerce, it has sprung up with a good per center of profit in its hands. Here is a large, a beautiful, and wealthy town, rising as it were spon taneously out of the earth, not at the arbitrary dictate of a powerful despot, but in the quiet way of national growth, and solely in obedience to the requirements of an ever-increasing commerce. Commerce has certainly become a most imposing power! A very few years ago—we remember it perfectly—a few houses front ing the river, looking very desolate in their solitude, and some poor fishermen's huts, constituted the whole of the town, now counting its inhabitants by tens of thousands, and boasting its splendid squares, streets, crescents, and parks ; and within these dozen years we recollect the hounds of Sir WILLIAM STANLEY running down a fox, and hearing the hunts man's bugle in a wild spot where now stands a square of considerable architectural pretensions, larger than Belgrave-square in London, and every mansion in which has long been tenanted by the commercial and monied aristocracy of the place. Birkenhead has g rownup chiefly under the direc tion of a few enterprising individuals. It has conse quently had all the advantages of unity of effort and design, in its general arrangements, both of puqic and private buildings, and in carrying into effect the original plans with regard to all those sanitory regu lations which the researches of the last few years have placed at the service of the large builder. The founders of Birkenhead determined to make it a model city. They have studied the requirements of ponulous towns for the betterpreservation of the public health, and they have no cost to render their infant community as free from the ordinary elements of de terioration as posaible. In this respect they have set a noble example to the rest of England. The streets are wide, airy, and straight, cutting each other at right angles or ninnthOn parallels. This arrange ment gives them something of the prim monotony , of the streets of Washington; but if it detract from the picturesque, it serves to promote a free circulation of air—the great desideratum of crowded cities. The houses are only permitted to be built on approved plane. Model cottages for the poor, furnishing many of the conveniences which the houses of the middle classes are without in the metropolis of the country, have been erected, and are let out at an incredibly low rata—and yet they are found to produce a good per tentage on the outlay. The market is a fine building—one of the finest of the kind in the kiag dom—airy, spacious, plentifully supplied with water, and cooled with refreshing fountains—in every respect utterly unlike the reeking nooks and dens which to the disgrace of London are permitted to en gender all sorts of foul air and disease in the densest districts of the metropolis. The slaughter-houses— those fatal hotbeds of fevers in London—are built at some distance from the town, and are so constructed as to prevent accumulation of decaying matters, and are provided with effective means for carrying them off. Besides these enlightened regulations—tending to procure a constant supply of fresh air, light, and water—for the preservation of the public health, a wise forethought determined the projectors to set aside for ever, for the benefit of the public, a large piece of ground as a park. This has been laid out with waUu, trees, and so forth, at a cost of nearly 130,0001. Yet this will soon be repaid in the ad vancing value of the surrounding properties, all of which will be let or sold for budding purposes. Commercial transactions have taught the inhabitants of Birkenhead that the most liberal policy is ever in the end the most remunerative ; a fact that cannot be too well and widely known. As a port, Birkenhead offers many advantages to THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 8, 1847. the shipping of all nations. When completed, the docks will be sufficiently capacious to float all the merchant navy of the world ; While, from their form, and the railways being brought down to the edge of the water, they will afford facilities for loading and unloading goods, such as, perhaps, no other seaport in Europe can boast of. Besides this, there are river advantage, on the northern bank of the Mersey. Many eminent engineers have expressed the opinion that Liverpool was on the wrong side of the water. The authorities have likewise resolved to permit the use of lights and fires on board, as in the ports of London, Bristol, &c. ; a boon of considerable import ance to the crews, and especially to those of American ♦easels One of the great advantages to commerce likely to arise from the rivalry of the two ports, will be a re duction of the dues now levied upon all goods and shipping in Liverpool. The town dues, and the dues on goods, which in Liverpool amount to 200,000/. per annum, will not be levied in Birkenhead, and this amount will be saved to the owner, who will naturally enough use the new docks. In order to maintain her position, Liverpool will be forced to reduce, if not al together abolish, her most obnoxious imposts upon shipping, and to offer new inducements for the mer chants of continental Europe and America to enter into still more intimate commercial relations with those great manufacturing districts of Lancashire and Yorkshire, of which she is the natural outlet to foreign states. With ono of the richest corporations in the world, she can well afford this reduction. But the men of Liverpool understand all this too well to need our pointing out. As we anticipated, the fact of the cabinet having allowed the proposition of M. de Remusat to be dis cussed in the chamber, was received by the opposition press on Tuesday as a virtual check to the cabinet. The efforts made to ensure its suppression in the bureaux were too apparent, and the vexation and spite with which the pretended concession was made too ill-dissembled, to render the manccuvre effectual. The matter, in a word, has been clumsily managed, and the cabinet had done better to leave the victory, how ever precarious it might be, is the bureaux to chance. As the affair now stands, it labours under the discredit of failure, and the ill effects likely to ensue from a public debate on parliamentary reform. The debate was to have commenced on Wednesday in the chamber. . . _ . The heads of the report of the commission of the chamber on the project of law relative to the issue of email notes by the Bank of France, have reached us. It has not yet appeared in any of the Paris journals, but its authenticity is to be relied upon. The reporter, in summing up the arguments contained in the report, says that, "coupled with great advantages to be derived by France from the development of her banking institutions is the danger of exaggerating certain advantage, agai nst which she cannot be suf ficiently on her guard . The monetary circulation of France must be maintained even at the risk of great sacriflces, and any measures likely to harm that should be resisted, no matter how beneficial they , might otherwise appear to be. The circulation of bank paper is still far from that limit at which it might become dangerous, and it may be usefully in creased by the emission of notes for smaller sums; it would be prudent, however, for the present, to limit the sum to 200 f., an amount quite sufficient to answer all commercial wants, whether in Paris or the rest of France. It is now time to extend to the whole country the advantages hitherto reserved for most important towns, and to realise the plan origin ally started by the Bank—viz., the formation of counters. With regard to local banks, they should also form part of the general system of credit, either by combining in a common manage ment, or, - as seems more desirable, by being incor porated completely with the Bank of France. The accomplishment of such a task by the government and the chambers would be most useful, and would perhaps be the greatest service that could be rendered to commerce, manufactures, and agriculture." The journals on Tuesday were almost exclusively occupied by the Spanish question, the interest of which has been somewhat enhanced by the presence in Paris of four of the principal actors in the drama of the marriages. The Legitimist Union Monarchique has en article on Spanish affairs, and on the state of the British cabinet, more grotesquely false and absurd, than any Parisian Night's Entertainment yet con ceived. . . ... No Madrid mail was received in Paris on Tuesday. FRANCE.—PARIS,APRILB.—FRENCHCRA3IBERB. —Both chambers sat on Tuesday. Nothing of importance took place in the Chamber of Peers. In the Chamber of Deputies, Id. Chapnys Montlaville presented a petition signed by sixty publishers of Paris in favour of his proposi tion for the reduction of stamp duties on the public journal.. M. Cbapuys proposed that • reduction of the stamp duties should be made in favour of all those journals who would engage themselves not to publish novels in their fetailktons. That journal. desirous of taking advantage of the lave should make a formal declaration of the same, and that any journals acting contrary to the law after such • declaration should be deprived of the benefits of the law for the term of one year, and be compelled to pay the stamp duty to the Treasury on all the numbers which should have appeared since the declaration had been made. In support of his proposition,: M. de Chspuys pretended that the feuilletons were a drawback to the political importance of the public journahhind to their character es the expression of public opinion, and that they had become mere matter of speculation. M. de Chspuys took advantage of the occasion to pass censure on the Th.iatre Ilistoripse. which, he said, deserved rather to be celled Theatre dee Travestissetnents Historigues. It was high time, he said, that such a state of things should be put a stop to. The prise on COI Ilideraiioll was unanimously adopted by the Chamber. MM. Ouisot, Lacey., Laplagne, and Duchatel voted with the majority for the_prise en consideration. THE PRINCE DE JOINVILLE.—The Toulonnais states that since the Prince de Joinville hoisted his flag on board the flouverain he has rarely quitted the vessel; and when he does so it is in the evening. and with the strictest incognito. The same journal sa that the squadron will leave Total= on the arrival of the De,cartes, from Brest and Cherbourg, with the men required to complete the crews. COUNT ANTOINE 1101/.—Count Antoine Roy, whose death we announced the day before yesterday, was born at Chavigny, in Champagne, on the 15th March, 178.5, the same yes: as Napoleon, Wellington, and Marshal Soult. The career of M. Roy was a remarkable one. Re began by studying the law, and daring the republic he pleaded the cause annoy illustrious unfortunate families. In 1794 he threw up the law, turned his attention to commerce, and erected a large manufactory in the celebrated chateau of Navarre, near Evreux. Oa the 6th of May 1815, he was appointed secretary to the electoral college of the Seine, and was elected deputy on the 7th. This was the commencement of his political career. On the 25th of July Louis XVIII. nominated him president of the electoral col lege el limn:, and he was elected deputy on the 25th of August following. He was appointed reporter on the law of the Budget in 1817, and his report was regarded as • masterpiece of financial ability. On the 7th of December, 1818, he was made Minister of Finances, but only remained minister for two-and-twenty days, as on the 29th he with drew with MM. Richelieu, Mole, and Pasquier, and received the title of member of the privy council. As member of the Chamber of Deputies M. Roy phi particular attention to the affairs of the Bourse, the saltpetre and powder manufactures the sinking fund, and the depots and con signations, which were placed seder his surveillawm. On the 19th Nov., 1819, he was spin mob Minh et Flamm:es. The French fineness experiential tlas gresbalburat from his wise administration. He laseamesi lie saliva flotation w the Legion ofHeftweri,illlo,oollk. Os the 18th Dee., 1822, he retired has sin, mad ea the Miming day Louis XVIII. created bin • Num* sad peer of Fame. During his administration, the eggefpls ei this elege annually ex oeeded the .q to the easeest of 10,100,000 fr. In the Chamber of Poore we Mai Omit Asp hadektkrahle in his vigihmes on all doessiel crodems. On the 24th May, 1824, he made his iseserable "eta at the Chamber, in oppoaition to M. de and which obliged the minister to withdraw his motion. It was owing to his exertions that, in 1825, a modification took place in the law of indemnity. In 1827, he exerted himself in the drawing up of the law on the woods and forests. He attacked the lotteries and gambling houses, which have since gra dually vanished. In 1828, he was created Minister of Finance for the third time. He withdrew frees office in 1829. In 1832 he held the funeral oration over the tomb of Y. de Martignac. Since 1830 Count Roy always took an active part in every debate, upon any law regarding the finances, which was put to the vote in the Chamber of Peers. His authority in matters of finance was supreme. LYONS, APRIL 4.—Lyons wan visited on the 2nd by a violent storm of thunder and lightning, fol lowed by torrents of rain, which continued falling the part of the next day, and led to the expectation that greater water, of the Rhone would rise sufficiently to allow =vessels to proceed up the river with corn from Mar. CHEBBOIIRG, MARCH 29.—The English merchant man, the Berkshire, arrived at this port, bringing from Sydney Captain Leconte and the second party of the crew of the French ship lei Seine, wrecked in July last on the tout of New Caledonia. Notwithstanding all their hardships, only one man of the whole crew has died. ALGERIA.—Ann-Et-/CAnnn.—A recent letter Gan Oran says that all was gain in the Tell and Sahara. According to the statement of the Oalad-el-Nar, at the mar ket at Oran, Abd-el-Kadar had gone to the Ahmian Omahas to influence them against the French but, according to other accounts, he bad proceeded to the tubes of the Mouloula to demand their assistance against Boss-Zion, with whom he had had a Maile eneounter at the beginning of the month. What seems oertain, however, Is, that he will not be able for some time to come to mite any new attacks on Alget is. GERMANY. KONIGSBERG, MARCH 30. All the Russian students at the University of Konigsberg (Prussia) have been ordered to return to Russia. It is said that the Emperor intends prohibiting his subjects from fre quenting the universities of other countries. SAXE-COBURG GOTHA, MARCH 30.—This day the veteran of German philologists, Frederic Jacobs, died in his eighty-third year. —Allgerneine Preuu. Zeitung. AMERICA AND MEXICO. We yesterday alluded briefly to Mr. Benton's retire ment from the command of the United States forces in Mexico. Mr. Benton has sent a copy of the correspond ence between himself and the executive department to every member of the late congress. The circular enclosing the correspondence simply states that, " as a mark of respect," he transmits the letters which ex plain his reasons for declining the appointment of major general in the army. On the 6th of March Mr. Ben ton wrote to the President : " Without waiting for the formality of being presented with the commission of major-general in the army of the United States, I think it right to inform you at once "—that he could not accept the office unless with "the powers which I deem necessary to success; and these will be both military and diplomatic—the command of the army and authority to sign preliminaries of peace based upon terms previously approved by you." In support of these stipulations Mr. Benton urges " with a sub ordinate command, I could do no good in the army on the contrary, my presence there would be impro per and mischievous, for I am known to disapprove the plans both of the late and present commander ;" and authority to conclude a peace he maintains to be necessary " to enable the commander-in-chief to take instant advantage of all passing events, military or political, to close the war." The President replied on the 9th of March that after a careful examination of the question whether he had power to designate Mr. Benton, a junior major-geners4 to the chief command of the army is the field, the result was, " a settled conviction on my mind that such a power has not been conferred upon me by existing laws." As the President anticipated, Mr. Benton immediately, on receipt of this letter, wrote to him and the adju tant-general intimating that he could not accept of the appointment. Here the matter rested at the time of the latest despatches. The quidnunc. were cir culating rumours as usual on such occasions. Among other pieces of gossip, it is stated in the New York Horning Express that the cabinet had divided three to two on Mr. Benton's stipulations. Messrs. Bucha nan, Walker, and Mason negatived ; Messrs. Johnson and Clifford were for conceding them. The President, it is said, was also inclined to grant Mr. Benton's demands if the cabinet would have supported him. A New York correspondent attributes Mr. Benton's conduct to the game he is playing for the Presidency, and proceeds on this hint to dilate on the intrigues now afoot in favour of various candidates : " The fact is, that Mr. Benton aimed at the Presidency, staking everything on the chances of either treating success fully with Santa Anna, or beating his army, and marching directly to Mexico :—the one or the other would secure the election to any man. Failing in his object Mr. Beaton prefers holding his influential position in the Senate, to accepting the rank offered to him. With re gard to that Name high flight if ambition, the prasidency—oo less than eight friends of the present administration—seven of them actually in office—are at present pluming their wings to soar after it. These are— Della, Cam, Calhoun, Breton, Buchanan, Wright, Walker, and, u the uying gore, though last, by no means least, Mr. President Polk himself, who, I believe, even now, !els firmly assured that the war with Mexico is not only politic but popular, and that the event of it will be his own re-election. General Cara, during the whole of the session, kept almost open house at Washington, and is inlefatigable in working to obtain influence. His chinos, however, n not great. Mr. Walker is more likely to suc ceed in bringing in his relative, Mr. Dallas, than to obtain the presidency for himself. " Mr. Benton's hope., as I have above said, were Kind , pally based upon the chances of his success in Mexico, in the event of his appointment to the chief command. Now I fancy they are down to Zero. Mr. Calhoun—the Distance of-power senator—holds a very commanding position, as far as influence with members of Congress goes, but his popu larity with the " sovereign people" is not so well assured. Still I look upon hiv prospects as being quits as good as any of those named. Of Messrs. Buchanan and Wright, but little clan be said. If Mexican matters be brought to a very satis factory termination, without any brilliant display of military or diplomatic talents on the part of General Scott's, M. Polk's expectations of a re-electien may be realised, but should the general obtain a decisive triumph over the fee, either by force of arms sr negotiation, he may have the pre sidency if be will." The New York Herald of the 13th ult. contains a list of the United States naval forces in the Gulf of Mexico at the latest dates. There were :—One ship of the line rated at 74 guns • two frigates at 44 each ; three sloops of war at 20 eac h, and one at 16 ; two brigs at 10 each; five schooners at 1 each; two steamers at 10 each, one at 9, one at 6, one at 4, three at 3 each, and three at 1 each ; one stare-ship at 6, l and two at 2 each ; one bomb ketch at 2, and four at 1 each; a sloop with 1 gun, and a cutter with 6: in all, 324 guns. Most of these vessels however are pierced for more guns, and actually carry more guns than their rating. According to the Herald the probability is that the American navy in the Gulf carries from 373 to 400 guns. The gossip of the New Orleans papers represents General Taylor as in a most unamtable mood, on account of the whole regular force under his coin mend having been withdrawn for the operations against Vera Cruz, and nothing but volunteers left with him. The volunteer corps elect their own officers, and this is not found to render them more efficient or more amenable to discipline. Ravenna papers contain accounts from Vera Cruz to the 7th of February. The intelligence from the capital, thus supplied, is not exactly new but more full and coherent than had previously been received. Rejon had been finally appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs; Camilla° remained in the war.office; and Babied°, ex-governor of Guanajuato, had been appointed to the judiciary. The protests against the hypothecation or sale of the property of the church continued to increase. Con gress were said to be contemplating some lees ob noxious measure; and a proposition had actually been presented to repeal the hypothecation law, and sub stitute a loan from the clergy of 435,000 dollars monthly. On the 2nd of February a resolution was under consideration which would give the executive carte blanche to raise supplies by whatever means it could. Santa Anna wrote on the 26th of January, that "he had found it necessary to seize 98 bars of silver, mostly belonging to Spanish mer chants in San Luis." He adds, " I have again given my own individual security for this, u far as I can." He describes the wants of the army in strong terms; expressed a wish to retire into private life ; but intimated hie readiness to lurch against the enemy if required. The date o this letter, it will be observed, is one day earlier than the order of the day intimating his intention to march, of which we had notice by the Havre arrivals. The New York Horning Express of March 13 states (on the authority of a letter from Panama, dated January 22) that Col. Mason, of the U. S. Navy, " appointedgovernor of California, bad arrived there, but could not find any means of conveyance to his government, and was going as far south as Callao in search of some." The same letter tells the following tale: FLAX. novsylarship Herald, and belgrandora, arrived bees het week him the Straits of Sm Jima de Fun having lambed at Na. reargers, Sea Diego, Ifeentlaa, sad all the galailleihselmens ea the Maclean coast. At Oulsqweelo, a I psi* of cisme of the =told sad Psalms, erndselog of the two ce time misz ne vinseheiring some elg g lit's the pthelpsis ilis raem al t W r z ti with two beats' crews, west mem se mei le ons. On going ashore they were ompdsei wile* leg • party of some 400 Mexicans, sad talon phloem as Ancedeses. It was in vain they dosiared 6911111011111 to be Ms@ IA (Meets, and it weed swell" yak Mr them to ese their royal ca MMI• lb. likenfaimmenmmailer that it was a trick of the Yankees: *ey the mate Wow as the Americans, and um& they eleallhens *NV Me ordered a large hole to be dug under • tins, end @clingy requested the officers to go with him to view Mgr dial resting place, together with the tree on which they were to be hung. The poor tams wire also made to medomemel that their al stb was alsa m ark elgtoes, walla they WITS to gem M eg a _ ns the timers- TM however, Asa* oememiedi in esling • derail in the In the Maxisemeomil WOO pmemdeloil deepielt ems at their seeds to Amok*. to tie general la stommad of*. pro vince ; sad on return they were rams& It was useless for them to allemyt to wane, as they were informed that the Wet diemnodied leadem mods ea shipAseril la their favour, wail la the Ar owl mesa aka iv est WWI [let ths maim Ai end l the ots es leis Be I des not does not snow wadi tsemenihms to pain Is Maas. 'lids affair indicates whet Ameniseme awn, disald it be *sir fate to fall into the heads of the as their comet. Mazat lan is blockaded by two United States vends. mamas not given. The Milted States ship Dale wield ream on es about the 18th (Se the Stoiss, end bound firm liesiewej. Toe arrival by the W emalebe am Ammisee domestic news of morel Wow* eenagetimelihe RAW regulations prepared by the Postmaster - general to give effect to the law passed towards the close of but session had been published. LA PLATA. By way of the Brazna weha - ven ewe from La Plata: From Buenos Ayres the accounts of the defeat of Riviera are confirmed. The loss on both sides was estimated at 700 men killed and wounded. General Oribe had successively fallen in with the divisions of Flores and Medina, and en tirely cut them to pieces, these leaders escaping with only three or four men each. The papers from Monte Video to the end of January deny the defeat of Rivein by the troops of Oribe under Barrios, of which the particulars have been received by former arri vals. This is, however, established beyond a doubt by the accounts from Buenos Ayres. Rivets*, they else state, arrived at Maldonado, convoying a large herd of cattle, for the capture or collection of which he had been on an tape dtion into the interior. This he may have done after his defeat. We copy the following from the British Packet, c f Buenos I Ayres, Jan. 9, 1847: " The ominous Riveira himself led the main body of hie forces to the attack of the town of PliTsundu, whilst two divisions, the one under the command of Medina, and the other under that of Flores, were detached in differ ent directions to divert the attention of the troops of the legal government. Paysandu, although uncarrisoned by any regular force except a small party of artillery, made a ' most gallant defence, and would have eventually driven back the enemy, had it not been for the French brig of war Pan dour, who, seeing Riveira hard puahed, commented to throw shells into the devoted town, upon which the inhabitants surrendered, after an heroic resistance of five hours. The loss on both rides was extremely severe, being estimated at no lea than 700 into killed and wounded. Raveira's French Basques were the greatest sufferers, having lost a consider able number of officers, including their colonel, Bt ide. This dearly-purchased advantage was doomed, however, to he but fleeting. General Servando Gomez, having come to the re-sue of Paysandu, drove out the enemy, and, it is said, I obliged them to embark under the protection of the above mentioned French vessel of war. The confirmation of this news is hourly expected. On the other hand, General Igna cio Oribe had successively fallen in with the divisions of Flores and Medina, and entirely cut them to pieces, those leaders escaping with only three or four men each. COLONIAL„ CANADA.—The Kingston Wlty of 9th March says : " Every mail from Montreal brings lots of rumoun. Mr. Baldwin has been sent for by the Governor-General. Mr. Daley is to be Postmaster-General for Canada. Mr. Hinds, 5 to publish an official gazette for Canada West. Mr. Lafontaine is to be Chiet Justice. No ! Mr. Attorney- General Smith is to be that high and mighty functionary, and Mr. Lafontaine is to take Mr. Daley 's place. Mr. Draper is to be Vice-Chancellor, C. W., in place of Mr. Jameson, who is to he pensioned off. Mr. Morin is to be speaker of the lower house, and Sir Allan McNsb is to be—by the bye, we forget what the gallant knight sto be, if he give up the speakership—oh! his seat is to be declared vacant, by his acceptance of the adjutant-generalship, and a new writ for Hamilton issued. Anything else? Yes. Mr. Papineau is to be president of the executive council, and Mr. Joseph to be clerk of the legislative council. How many of these rumours will prove correckis more than a horsecan tell, and he has a much leafier head than the editor of a news paper. It seems to be gswerid'y believed by all parties that parliament will be celled together early in May." ISO &nut. —— - WEDNESDAY.—The Queen and Prince Albert took their accustomed early walk this morning. The Royal Family took walking and pony exercise to-clay on the eastern terrace and slopes of the Castle. Monsieur Isturita, the Spanish Minister, is expected to arrive at the Cantle this evening on a visit to her Majesty. Viscount Palmerton is also expected to arrive to-day on a visit. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Prince Lowenstein, rode out on horseback this afternoon. The royal dinner party at the Castle this evening is expected to include his Excellency M. Willits, H.S.H. Prince Lowen stein, Viseount Palmerston, and Mr. George and the Hon. Mrs. Hope. H.R.H. the Duchess of Gloucester visited her Majesty the Queen Dowager yesterday at Marlborough house. The Marquis of Lansdowne (Lord President of the Council) was sufficiently recovered yesterday from his recent attack of gout, to leave tewa in the afternoon for his seat, Bowood-park. Wilts. Viscount Palmerston left town yesterday afternoon on a visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office from the Governor. of Malta and Gibraltar. There exists little doubt that the Duque do la Vic toria will be the new Spanish ambassador in London. The Conde de Montemolin and suite visited Abbot's bill, the extensive paper-mills of Mr. Dickinson in Hertford shire. The prince remained at Abbot's-hill till the follow ing day. DEATH OF THE HON. W. CHETWYNTL—Lord Chet vrynd has addressed the following to theeditor of the Morning Herald Sir,—Having seen in your paper of Monday, which I received this morning, an account of the deaths of Captain Gibson, Dr. Howell, and my son, I beg to forward you the account I received from Colonel Vanderlienlen, the commanding officer of the 73rd Regiment, and beg that you will either publish the whole or so much of it as will lontra- Cot the unfortunate event having taken place in an amat .ur excursion.—l remain, Sir, yours, CHETWYND. Teignmouth, April 6.—P.S. I have left out parts of the letter where the lines are drawn, as they cootaised the regrets of the colonel and officers at the lea of their companion ; but if you should consider it necessary to see the original, I will send it to you. I leave it to you to make what use you like of the Maimed, either in part or whole, and hope you will consider it suffi cient to justify your contradicting that my son and his un fortunate companions lost their hese in an amateur excursion. I have a letter from my son, a midshipman on board her majesty's ship Provident, at the Cape of Good Hope, stating that Dr. Howell's horse was wounded, and that the others would not leave him : - . "CAMP ON THN KEN, HAY/INLAND, JAN. 15, 1847.—My dear Lord,—ft becomes my painful task to announce to you the death of your son, who was killed on the 11th inst., by Kaffir', when in the performance of his duty, in capturing some cattle for the troops in camp. He was detached from tke main body of the regiment, with 20:men, to assist in guarding provisions at the Ford, on the Kee, where they were detained in consequence of the sudden rise of the river. Being short of meat, a party went out in search of cattle, and having di , covered some at a distance, the few of the party who were mounted (imprudently and incautiously) pushed en by themselves, six or seven only in nom- her—via., two officers of the Rifle Brigade, Captain Gibson, isesistant-Sureton Howell, and three burghers, with your son ; and having secured the cattle, and driving them on, they were rushed upon by a horde of K affirs, out of a kloof (i. e., a ravine densely wooded), and before any assistance could be afforrkd them by their party in the rear, five out of the six were killed, stabbed by the swamis, the only man escaping being one of the burghers. The bodies were brought in, stabbed in many places. • • • • lam told they made a desperate resistance, and killed many of the enemy, but, having expended their ammunition, were overpowered. —I remain, my dear lord, very sincerely yours, C. J. SANDER MBIILEN.. ACCIDENT TO LORD BROWNLOW CECIL.—Lord Brownlow Ceal, the second eon of the Marquis of Exeter, who was thrown from - his horse Jack, while riding for the Five Sovereigns Sweepstakes at the Windsor Chases, on Tuesday, met with more severe injuries than was at first an ticipated. His horse which had cleared the last brook beautifully, and had got the lead by several lengths, fell at the second fence after the brook, throwing its rider, and partially rolling over him. Before be could be dragged away by the bynanders his lordship was struck by the next horse which was over the brook, and rendered for a short time insensible. Upon being taken to the infantry barracks, and placed under the care of Mr. Richardson, the regimental surgeon to the Soots Fusileer Guards, in which regiment his lordship holds a commission, it was found that his shoulder was dislocated, in addition to a severe sprain of the wrist, and bruises on various parts of the body. The shoulder was set within an hour after the accident, and, up to yesterday morning, his lordship wu going on fa, vourably. LORD MORPETH'S BILL FOR IMPROVING THE HEALTH OF TOWNS. This bill has just been distributed. It consists of 62 clauses. Clause I empowers her Majesty to appoint fear commis sioners (the head of the Woods and Forests being the first commissioner) of health and works. 2. Entitles two to act. 3 and 4. Enables them to have a seal, and to appoint inspec- tors and officers. The following clauses empower commis sioners to inquire into state of towns, inspectors to report, giving to towns fourteen days' notice of their intention to suit, previous to report. Inspectors to have power to summon witnesses, there being a penalty , for their refusing. 11. Obliges impactors' report to be published in the towns one month before it is presented to her Majesty. 12 and 13. Provide for order in council to be issued to enforce the act. 15. Makes mayor and aldermen town commissioners under the act iu corporate towns. 16. Provides for retention of boroughs. 17. Orders council to be enlarged, where a ward is added. 18. Regulates town commissioners in non corporate towns. They are to be not more than twenty seven in number, each possessed of 1,0001., or rated to the Leo e r lec on t z pbr;optehretyraotef ratepayers, annually, tw rd o-th ap irds of th ted te,ymoitoe crown. 19. Relates to the is is ( t assilor n o of th e city of London), divides it into sad the aim mode of forming the council observed,sseept the ahead soot km 5,000/. property, or be rated npaa ma es ausl value of 501. 20. Commissioners' clauses act bespmsAsd with the pre sent. 21. Boundaries of towns may be oilowisd. 22, 23. Commission of sewers may be granted Ai lowa otosselio, or p =re existing commission forted to construct sr sewers. 24. Town improvement act of 1847 is ' Ida the present. 23. Orders appointment of hWTh isffiesna 24. Local surveyors. 36. Takes away power of boil sisiasis goner. 39. Transfers property in such oommioissmr. 44. Empowers the levying of sewer rates oil Inpmellailat rata. 45. (firm power to light the town. dl. 3a . water. 47. Provides for town commienisnimis shares of water companies at seven yam' pa 7.. 16so dividend. 1 Such are the principal provisions of the sit. BLOOMBTIRT DISPENSART. — Yeetirday the annual ginteral meeting of the governors of tab charity was held at taw dispensary-house, Grant Übe llama. Mr. Griffiths in the chair. The minutes of the last quarter's pros — were read and confines& It appeared front the ti statement that the balance in the hands of the treasurer tau 1461. ; amount of stock to the credit of the chaise, 7,11131. 3s. 2d. The number . of patients admitted (4 the last year was 2,899 ; dismissed cured or partiall y 2,366; died, 63 ; remaining under cure, 470; patients • ' at their own homes, 481. Total number of persons ada r iew since the foundation of the charity in 1801, 108,647; di, mined cured or partially cured, 103,970; died, 2,351 ; 'loud at their own home., 16,510. On the moti on o f mr.o. Cooper, seconded by M . Hewett, the eleventh rul e un d er the head of " patients, " 'was rescinded. The report of % a medical officers, Dr. Roland and Mr. G. Cooper, was read : i t contained a classification of the diseases most prenk u amongst the pour of the district, and the numheri affe cte d by each. The cause of fever and other epidemic disorders was ascribed to deficient drainage and imperfect ventilations and much of the sickness might be eradicated by the sdop. tion of wise sanitory regulations. In one case, the nail dabs of the toes of a patient had been cut off under the Mh o , s of ether, without his being canniest, of the slightest p a i, The report was adopted, and ordered to be printed and eine. fated amongst the subseiihers. After some other feral bpiness the meeting separated. ROYAL HIBERNIAN BALL—The Royal Hiberain ball, in aid of the funds for the relief of the distressed In& took place last evening, at Willis's rooms, Kimrstreet, et: James's. The sympathy of the English public in them. rt o f their unfeunate brethren, and more, their desire to 4 that sympathy a tangible and useful shape, is being manif',ted, and was established beyond all douhtly complete success of the ball in question, which must Mee conduced greatly to the furtherance of its benevolent obis; We could not well calculate the numbers present last ermine. but there were sufficient to fill Willis's rooms not only mem; ably, but somewhat inconvenimuly, which is the great aim on these occasions. They included a large proportion 01 distinguished persons, the habitually benevolent, and three with whom charity isan exception, having apparently joie." io tho common cause. The arrangements were all extehme, Mr. N. Henderson officiated as master of the ceremonies; and the band (011ivier's), conducted by Mr. Tinney, pe", formed its part in an able and efficient manner. - OPENING OF THE NEW STE\ M-BOAT terday the new pier at Hangerforl...rido, for the convw nience of pa,sengers by the steam-hosts, WAN opened by the directors toll-free. The only aroma to the boats is now bf the pi from the tower OR the Middlesex side, and the Amt. Mg pier will be removed forthwith. REPRESENTATION oY WESTMINSTER.—COALITIOII Or THE WHIO CANDIDATES.—Yesterday the walls of Was.. minster were placarded with, " Vote for Lushington aai Evana" (Sir De Lacy), and an active joint canvass on Waif of those gentlemen commenced. FUNERAL OF THE BARON DE BODE. — Yeeteaq morning the remains of this nobleman, who died in October, 1846, were deposited in a vault adjoining the Catholic cbatei of Bt. John's-wood. The delay was caused by essay of tbs numerous friends of the deceased being prevented hitherto from posing their last respects to his memory. His KC kW ing now arrived from Russia, the funeral ceremony oso performed with all the solemnity required by the Hama Catholic church, in the presence of a large assemblage of mourner.. Mao. CAUDLE IN SPATX.—The King and Quin of Spain, like the masculine and feminine gender 4 Lindley Murray, never agree, in any cue. Poor Francisco in to rue for a separate throne : for it seems that the Qua p ai turned the sceptre into a cudgel, and makes him fag tie weight of her sway. She has cut off his pocket-money, sad only allows him one cigar a day; the poor fellow mallets remarkab!y well for a king, who cannot prevent it, throes he often threatens to go home to his mother. The seas savants of the Escurial look upon him as a raartyr; but we regret to say that the housemaids consider bin nothing better than "a milksop." It is expected ems will soon be two parties in Spain, the "Asses" eal the " Isabella, ;" but the former, it is said, wUI be considerably the larger party. The matrimonial guild abated a little when the Queen's respected mother liß Madrid, but it has broken out with increased fury an Francisco's mother has taken up her abode is the palm The two mothers narrowly escaped meeting, which is eo corded as a providential escape for all parties, hut especially for Spain, as there is no knowing what might have been the awful consequences if mother-m•law had met mother 4 law, and one of them a Christina! There would have ben no end of revolutions, and possibly amongst them, aril one.—Punch. ITALIAN PAUPERS IN ENGLAND.—On Friday, st midnight, the Princess Helmut steamer landed 56 Savored peasants at Folkestone, in the moat wretched state of filth and raggedness, to be employed, it was supposed, so itinerant musicians and white-mice boys in London. The peer wretch, s were shivering with cold (it being a frosty right, with a keen wind front the north), and in that state were kept for an hour in the harbour, the man in charge of them not being able to come to terms for a lodging for them, having only offered 4e. 6d. for that purpose. However, the landlady of the Chequers kindly gave them a resting-place in her stables on the straw, where the poor creatures were huddled together like swine. Many persons assembled the next inortung to me them depart, who commiserated their unhappy condition.—lloirlstone Gazette. MUNIFICENT GlFr.—Agentleman called last week at Mears. Herries and Co., in St. James's-street, and id, under the initial Z. Z. Z., live hundred pounds in aid of the funds of the Royal Free Hospital, in Gray's.inn-road. We are plod to find that, while enormous rums are being ghee by the benevolent for the sllevistion of Irish distress, * charities of our own country are not forgotten. UNIVERSITY OP LONDON.—Yesterday the Coast of ibis University Resembled at their chambers, SOIDIRIL house, for the purpose of appointing examiners for tot respective degrees for the ensuing year. The following gee Manta were elected :—IN A 11T11.—Classics The Rev. Jack Jerrard, ; and Thomas B. Burchnm, Esq., Burl* at-Law, late Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. Moths matics and Natural Philosophy : The Rev. J. W. Is Heaviside, M.A., Professor in the East India Compasyl College, Hertford ; and George B. Jemrd, Esq., SL ThFFW. H l. 7 .;: n n i s r . i c ßecii an . A L:o7 l .l, :f r i :E rd; w7 n ti ,: y. M .: l ea:ml i ,: p A T: t A . hb u . ; :jb... ll o.Re en unc an tp i hline. d T .T i f ß ud o .:l3 ,:o u lpri rc P tiroH ha h cr i = l m w E. , o E P w h Gn sq: o:m ., hy ß7 r arrieer: Nl7 : ll. . Th w T e e Ci t e t rm of i th ni strn lament, Greek Text of the New Testament, and l History : The Rev. W. Drake, M.A. ; and the 11: Stone, M.A. LAWS—Laws and Jurisprudence : Thomas Graves, Esq., F.R.S. IN DIPPICINI.4I4 rifle Archibald Billing, Esq., M.D. and F.R.S.; sodas ander Tweedie, Esq., M.D. and F.A.S. Surgery: HI Stephen Love Hammitt, Bart.; and Cresar H. Hawkish Esq. Anatomy and Physiology: Francis Kiernan, F.R.S.; and Professor Sharpey, M.D., F.R.S. Phrasing and Comparative Anatomy; Professor Carpenter, M. F.A.S. Midwifery Edward Rigby, Esq.. M.D. Che missy : Professor Brande, F.R.S. Botany: The Be,.?* fessor Henslow, N.A. Meteria Media and Pharmacy; Jonathan Pereira, Esq., M.D. and F.A.S. EASTER TERM.—Yesterday, on the opening d the Common Law Courts after holidays, the lista of the grew* for Banter Term, commencing on Thursday next, were hibited. The first of the three courts, the Court d Qom% Bench, requires particular notice the prang condo Hitherto the new trial paper of that court contained causes, and, on reference to the time the rules win twined, it was ascertained that eighteen months air proprog had elapsed, and it was found that to obtain a nib was in effect to delay justice for no inconsiderable pried. The learned judges, by their exertions, have rude great progress in diminishing the arrests, and the list for the at suing term clearly reveals their labours. There aro sow only 62 rules to be argued for new trials, the wind d which was obtained in last Easter Term, and of 5 reins for judgment, I case will decide 2 others. Of special arc and demurrers there are 61 for argument and I for pulgecol. In the Court of Common Pleas the remanet merest:ailed enlarged rules and 46 rules for new trials, all of Aids with the exception of two,were moved in, and since Killed ma, Term. There are S rules for judgment. in the* murrer paper there are 23 rules appointed te be hand Is the, 214 instant. The peremptory paper of the Coat d Exchequer has 6 rules for argument. Of eases in the spa paper there are 22 for argument, and 1 for judgment,wlag of demurrers there are 3 for judgment cad: 26 for ammo' In the new trial paper there are 6 rules for judgment, 1•1 1 for argument, all of which, with the exception ofd, now moved in Hilary Term. It is not too much to say dist*. lists of the three courts present on the whole a vary bait appearance, and that by renewed exertions the Coed • Queen's Bench will shortly reach the two other warn is dld number of rules for new trial. INQUESTS, YESTERDAY.—DETERYINED StaciD Before Mr. W. Baker, at the Cherry Tree, Binsilefr o the body of a male person unknown. It appeared *sills Monday morning last, a sailor, named Fainlield, was Wa" ing along the towing path of the river Lea, when 117 01 the deceased running in a very excited state from Lew Bromley. The deceased, on arriving at the new cut el ' river Les, suddenly plunged in. The sailor named woo_ In to his 'sentence, and o ff ered him his hand. The *IT! refused to accept it, and instantly dived his head seeder ,f; water, and disappeared . The drags were procured, 01 .7.1 body of the deemed was shortly afterwards recovered , conveyed to the above public-house, Mr. Garmal t aM re ' goon, attended, but life was quite extinct. He wee_ d= ak in a black dress coat, waistcoat, and trovrsers; Ws 15 = cravat and wellington boots. He is apparently_ fifty years of age, dark hair, and about firs feet " incises in height. The jury returned a verdict. the deceased committed suicide, but in what OW mind there was not sufficient evidence to show.' ALLIORD DEATH PROM ILL-TREATMENT. r Bakes, at the Rochester Castle, Stoke NewingW, O Z - a of the body of Mary Decker, aged 45, who died as_ Friday last from the slleged ill- tr e a tment of has har:, They had only been married three months. Oa Friaal tb ; , the demised was heard streaming loudly. SerrYl: ff neighbour went into the house, and saw the deemed on the bed in a state of insensibility, and her t standing by her side. Dr. Kenney, a surgeon, Ira, T/0 w_ but the deceased expired shortly afterwards. Stly l "!...t. nesse stated that the husband was in the habit of rps T.. , leg with the deemed, but they never saw him ilicres!n"_, Dr. Kenney maid he had made a post-mortrm esisiniaWist r tie body in conjunction with Mr. Bend. The OIWIM t was disadoured. There was a large quantity of r bland at dr right side extending downwards to thr , L.' whisk mesquite sufficient to cause death. It ssiel i ji boa tweed by violence. The jury then consulted s time, sod ultimately returned a verdict of "Natarel=. —...43INOULAR AND FATAL CART ACCIDINT.—&z. I Bedford, at St. George'S Hospital, on the body Weekly, aged 32. The deceased was a tartar in the Wel t