The Express. — London, England, 1848-01-21 00:00:00

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I I in 300 to I on whirls a experiam adieu a day mint evening it and the: tr lependeir o't e•driven mitt'. echo a trail ace adomd the Grand asequenee 1. no im • nevent thi the middL ti on a nig' I have lights of Such an • ndcr the o company 1.• the 13th detonating is possible eing the eider that le g, and that 3 strict appli to be used at blame to occmionally the app • am not se proper CO ace to rules s• sen for rue d. The g • hat he woo! of the red ' ainst a role tan on the G • in (rota ee productive ding on en mho which ore one who cued in this thout say once, he kiug thriven% which it wog' occasion the hitherto mesh al attention p ermines on a equenees a• • in more earl t with a mi , k revised, and t of the line the strikitti the " de; ' !hese words stance. It • ace from chi was a good KI before pie di the marble have knows! ,000 miles sewage+ • ast I was in ••mpton. We Salisbury ari n after that. drowasraith ishopstoke • On arriving! so miles Of st brake. Wl° *tether with tot under the ith asked me trains. I ars sto p the Y were had repel , Ile contains tb Brown's:6th a basket. I leg sign °l° men at a went back. thing: that stopPed• add directed On eel a calling o i l . saw it was got to the tad much as s n, by which di • ad the Swabs ,' " reed onward 0 being Mc' s ; lag betwee f n ths ore Pert - • touching fu n I had left a are On the i CO the grata. din had not!' titers of a Inne' hat the trans , l out, but as* r ni sent to , have gone es , to line. Id conce. ; " ill attention tot reed tk° nia° 5-71 g , Brow signal sopPed• t. as it "6 down upon U. It is the duty of the driver to blow the whistle when he perceives a signal calling as him to stop. Me. J. T. Fireebse, eargess, of Waking, was sent ihr ea the eveeing of the aosidest, and west on to town in to. Madame upon some of the passeagare who had been injured. Saw the body of Marklsnd on Saturday morning. The skull was fractured in almost every part. It was oompletely smas hed. There was one injury, a blow through tbe edit into the brain, which was of itself suMeleat to eases WOW death. The left arm was also severely fractured. The Coroner, previous to adjouralag the repeated his intention to apply to the Secretary o l l= an outer for the attendance of Jones and Flemming. It was alao desirable, he mid, that the inquiry should not conclude without the evidence of Porteous, supposing that he should recover so far uto be able to attend. Calvert, the fireman, wasroo much injured to attend at present, and it appeared it night be a mouth or flee weeks before he would be able to do so. The inquiry was then adjourned to Tuesday, the let of February, at ten o'clock. THE DAILY NEWS. PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE. (From the Doily Nam) IT is now two years since we first ventured before the public, and undertook to record the news, and elucidate the opinions, of the day. The task was no light one, success in such an enterprise being neces sarily the labour of years, from the very laudable ten dency of the public to prefer old friends to new ones. We were emboldened, however, by thinking that the revolution which had of late years taken place in politics and party, and even in social life, had not yet had its influence on the press, which retained all its old characteristics, addressing the people rather in the name of some political, or aristocratic, or ecclesiastical class, and seeking more to cram them with opinions from above, than develop, in their own sphere, their wants, interests, and reason. We must confess, however, that the epoch ahem for starting such an enterprise was by no mane a favourable one. The great struggle which had axe pied the country for several years, had best just brought to a close. The victory had been achieved by the untiring energy and talent of a few leaders, who bad roused the publio mind from its absorption and apathy, and galvanised it into an earnestness and an activity, as irresistible as it was extraordinary. The great struggle past, there was naturally a collapse, a truce of attack and defence, an evaporation of political zeal, and a dispersion of political party. The public resembled a disbanded militia, each wending his way to his quiet home, the call of duty and the hour of danger over. Even the old journals scarcely held their connexions at such a time. The new one, notwithstanding the tranecendant claim of one name connected with it, came before a public desirous of repose, and satiated for the time with political novelty and agitation. The idea suggested itself of selling the paper at the very minimum of cost, on the simple principle that a large circulation must bring that crowd of advertise. meats, which of themselves would constitute a suffi cient element of profit. Such an idea so fully harmonised with the plan of founding a great popu lar organ, which would break up old monopolies, free the press from family and party influence, and fulfil the hopes so widely and warmly entertained of a daily oman„, of cheap knowledge, that it was eagerly and boldly put in operation by the proprietors, and, we may add, enthusiastically received and supported by the public. The attempt very naturally aroused the fears and redoubled the activity of the old and high-priced journals. They all forthwith combined to share amongst them, and thus lighten, the tremendous ex pense of procuring not only the intelligence from India, and from the several points of the old world and the new, but even from the different parts of this country. Whig, Tory, and Weathercock clubbed, if not their principles, at least their means, to swell out, by competition, the expenses of the cheap paper beyond what any rational amount of capital and patience were likely to bear. We met the combination with increased energy, and exerted ourselves, by the most liberal expenditure, to compete with and anticipate our rivals, in the procuring of prior intelligence. In that struggle, at times defeated, which is inevitable against such odds, we were still often signally vie- torious. One of our rivals, the nearest to us in politi cal opinions, soon showed symptoms of discomfiture, and lowered his colours, though certainly only half mast high. to the cheap price flag. Our tory rivals, suffering as severely, but not so frank, still hold t n their course, in hopes that the cheap flag may one day cease to float. In this, we can affirm, they are most egregiously I mistaken. What can be done with a cheap organ of the press is no longer a mystery or a conjecture. We have tested it fully, and though we have tested it under the great disadvantage and the most trying circumstance of bringing to it the full ma chinery of a journal, newly founded, yet on the old system—both elements of expence —still the feasibility of a cheap paper has been so fully proved by us, that our example has been widely and successfully followed. Yet there is no denying that the obstacles are great. Not the least one is the absence of political differences and that fusion of political parties, which render the public in general careless of the colour or tendency of the journal it reads or patronises. The Times has taken skilful advantage of this state of the public mind. It stands, as one may say, astride of the whole breadth of the political world, makes in direct appeals to the prejudices of every party, flatters in a breath the churchman and tory, the whig and the moderate, the radical and the economist, the chartist and the anti-poor-law tribune. It can laud at once Mr. DISRAELI, Sir ROBERT PEEL, Lord JOHN RUSSELL, and Mr. OASTLER. Although the whole strength of its real support is given to high church and to what remains practicable of toryism, it still takes a stand remote from that which it would protect, redeems its attachment to illiberal principles by personal attacks, meant to prove its independence, and by an affectation of tortuousness and wilful caprice, which defies any rational man to detect its motives or appreciate its justice. The great anxiety of the limes is to allow no other journal to take a popular position; and no matter what may be its own first professed opinion on any subject, such as National Defences at home, or the Esparterist party abroad, it no sooner espies a rival going in between it and public opinion than it veers round in a trice, unsays, with unblushing effrontery, what it said the day before, and relies upon the now prevalent contempt of the public for consis tency, to reap not only pardon, bat applause for the adroitness and agility of its conversions. The Times has long made a character and a practice of this with great questions and with small. Such was its mode of dealing with corn-law repeal, and with the origi- , nators of that repeal ; it began . with holding COBDEN up to contempt, and ended by inditing hie apotheosis. The sanction and the patronage given by the public to such a line of conduct in an estab lished journal certainly gives it an ascendency and a force difficult to shake, jest in the same way that the worship of suppleness and inconsistency in a statesman would give him a power calculated to render him superior both to principles and parties. We believe, however, that this arises more from the indifference than from the deliberate judgment of the public. Nor can the Times itself hope long to continue play ing this variety of parts on the political stage. With the first great question that divides the forward and the backward parties of the country, that journal must take its side, it must show its true tory colours, and mast abandon the disgraceful sham of pretend ing to supply the place of liberal organ to a liberal • ministry and party, when its whole heart is set on crushing mercantile interests and commercial develop ment, in order to rebuild the old edifx in England of a high priesthood, and a government from above, not from below. A minor difficulty with a cheap paper, though a very serious one at first, is, that advertisements and advertisers, on which principally the success of such a paper depends, seek in this coun try to appeal to the wealthy and the higher classes. The wealthy classes are supposed to patronise dear papers, and tory ones. Tory papers, indeed, live by this, and prolong their existence after the extinc tion of the principles which they profess, and of the doctrines which they preach. They fill their columns with news of fashion, for which really fashionable people care not one fig. But it impose! on the public, which imagines that an advertisement in such a paper comes instantly under fashionable eyes. The same mistake is made by venders of all kinds, who appeal not to the thousand eyes of the public, like them selves, but to the more gullible and wealthy few Thin is an error, the most grievous of obstacles to the success of a cheap and popular journal, of which the public itself cannot fail in time to see the fallacy. Another great obstacle to a cheap paper is the machinery by which journals are distributed in this country. This machinery consists of agents, who I receive a profit on the sale and supply et newspapers. With these sgeots the dear newspapers are favourites, very y, foe the venders make larger profits on the ale of a single copy of a dear paper, although the per oentsge allowed to the trade on the cheap paper was great with reference to print. We could point out numberless instances where eountry gentlemen and others have „been unable to obtain the Daily News, and who were forced to take dear papers or take none at all, from being at the mercy of newspaper agents. Ot course there are many highly-respectable news agents who supply the Daily News as regularly as any other newspaper. We are speaking merely of the obstruction, in the way of progress and enemas spinet which a cheap paper has to contend. In addition to these obstacles, raised by the machi nation of rivals, and by the apathy and indifference of the public, are those which proceed from govern ment and its fiscal system. Government shares with the public the tendency to worship fore@ —to fling its favour to the strong and the already successful, with the same disregard for principle or political b earingi which, for the present, is the charac teristio of all. But what weighs heaviest upon young newspaper enterprise is the taxation, which meets and drags . it down at every step. It first doubles the price of paper, and then trebles that again with a stamp duty, to return once more with inexorable rapacity to tax the chief use which the public make of a paper, and that peculiar portion of a newspaper value by which the cheap enterprise must live. We have dwelt, how ever, in former numbers on the hardship of the paper duty, the stamp duty, and the advertisement duty, the latter the most severe upon us, since it deprives us of a class of advertisers that would naturally flack to publicity in our columne, if the inexorable taxman did not menace and mulct their wants and means by the same ruse as the wealthiest. The journal itself, in the stamp duty, iatreated with equal unfairness, being made to pay a penny for its condensed universality of news, whilst the Times' I pays bir; a penny for its immense double 'sheet, and its thousands of pounds worth of advertisements, and but one halfpenny on a supple ment. This is simply the old system of helping monopoly to " thrive," putting the heaviest burden on 1 the new competitor, and deterring capitalists from in-' vesting money in an enterprise, of which the aim is to spread knowledge, excite discussion, cultivate and enlighten the public mind. All these drawbacks and difficulties we fully state and frankly admit, not as a proclaiming of weakness or an excuse for abandoning the struggle, but as an incitement to the public to use their best efforts in favour of a cheap press, of which, whatever our lack of talent or our other defects, we have at least the merit of being the champion and the standard. We are still full of confidence and hope. The circulation of the /May News is double the circulation of any paper, with the exception of the universal Times— on this point we may speak more plainly hereafter. We here merely express the resolve to bide our time, and redouble our energies to preserve public support, I by meriting public approbation and respect. MANCHESTER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ON THE CORN LAWS. Yesterday morning a numerows meeting of the Manches'er Chamber of Commerce was held, for the pur pose of considering " the propriety of petitioning parliament against the resumption ;of the sliding scale of duties on the importstion of corn on the Ist of March next." The President (Mr. T. BATLEY), in opening the meeting, said ; In convening this meeting of the chamber, gentlemen, your directors have been desirous of affording you an oppor tunity of determining whether you will petition against the resumption of that sliding scale of duties on cora which has always been regarded by us as a most abherrent system of legialatien. (Hear, hear.) You will, if you please, record your opinions in favour of the resumption of that act—not that I anticipate any such result from your deliberations. When the corn-law was last altered, in the year 1846, Sir Robert Peel made such an arrangement among the conflicting interests he had te deal with, so perhaps, upon the whole, gave very general satisfaction. We have not regarded the terms of alteration thus effected any settlement of the question, though we received so a grateful boon the service the Premier then rendered. The corn law has always been a fair and a fine weather law, and whenever social or commercial storms have troubled the at mosphere. then that law has had to be put aside. The law of 1846 has been very short•lived : it has been already sus pended on two occasion! since it was enacted, in little more than the space of a single year ; and we learn with regret that it is likely to come into operation again on the Ist March next. Now there is probably—or at least I trust there is • favourable harvest in store for us next year, but we are in the hands of Providence, and we may not have a favourable harvest, in which event the legislature will have to be called upon again to suspend that law, though its further duration as a law will be at an end altogether in ten or eleven months. During the debates on this subject in the House of Commons, her Majesty's ministers on the one hand, and the opposition on the other, have maintained that so long as we were called upon to supply food to Ireland, whilst obliged to import food for this country, we ought not to have a tax on that food ; but I fear that in the face of that declaration they are about to re-establish that law, and I fear that our countrymen in Ireland will still demand our aid. And you will bear me out, that the working man in this country can ill afford to pay taxes to government and at the same time pay for food to the starving Irish, while he is oleo paying a tax in the form of an exac tion to the privileged classes of his own country. Whether we shall succeed in our object, in the event of determining to petition against the resumption of the sliding scale, is of course a doubtful matter, but I conceive we are only pur suing the path of duty in placing our opinion upon record, and in declaring to the last that we are still opposed to any exaction upon the food with which the people of this country shall be fed. Mr. H. ASHWORTH said, the occasion upon which we have met is disappointing, but not calculated to fill us with dismay. This return to a vicious system of taxation is cer tainly unexpected, and exceedingly unwelcome. By her Majesty's communication to parliament, not very long ago, it appeared that the existing navigation laws were not to be directly repealed, but modified. You will also have gathered from what is taking place among the colonial protectionists, that they are also entertaining a hope that something will again be conceded to them. And you will find, from what has fallen from one of her Majesty's ministers, that it is their intention, on the Ist of March, to allow the re-establishment of the corn duties. Now, taking these symptoms, and con sidering the scope and bearing of them, and considering also the prostrate condition of the country, I cannot but feel it unwise, and altogether at variance with those sound prin. eples avowed by her Majesty's ministers when they came into power. We have not forgotten that memorable letter of Lord John Russell—we have not forgotten that when he entered into office, when famine was stalk ing over the country—when the failure of the potato crop rendered it necessary that his lordship should suspend the corn-laws without waiting for the expiration of the act, and when he felt called upon to offer public prayer and re pentance for the sins inflicted by the reeent corn-laws—if he was sincere on that occasion, if they who contrived that public humiliation were sincere in believing that the sins of the country could be atoned for by that means, what greater sin had we to atone for than a bread tax upon the people ? How stre then that before the last instalment of charity, which had become necessary to Ireland as the result of that sin had been doled out, to hear of the re-establishment of that sinful law which they had first repealed and then atoned for. (Hear.) If we are to believe that his lordship is the penitent he appeared to be, it does not say much for the piety of the man who is now so busily engaged in creating new bishops and bishoprics. But leaving that ; let us inquire how it happened he should repeal , the corn-law, taking it upon principle, and not upon religious grounds. I find that his measures were more or less based upon principle, and in the letter to ' which I have made allusion, I find the following. It is dated Nov., 184.5, when he was, I suppose, bidding for office The struggle to make bread scarce and dear, when it is clear that part, at least, of the additional price goes to increase rent, is • nsie deeply injurious to an aristocracy whish (this quarrel re in name in Proporty, strong in the construeuun of our rei(nre, strong In *Mon strong in ancient associations, and the memory of w h ich imortal services. Let us, then, unite to put an end to • system h has teen proved to be the blight of commerce the bane of sericaltore, the source of bitter divisions =clog classes, the canoe of penury, fever, mortality, and crime among the rit; if his lordship believed that how happens it that he is returning to the contrary course when he had once thrown it aside ? There is something refreshing in the letter before me that reminds one of old times. You will bear in mind that in 1838 the proceedings of this chamber gave birth to the league. We hare had seven or eight years of agitation, two years ortranguility, and now, in 1848, we are met together to do our work • secondlays with ourselves if we do not finish our work properly this time. We have spent no small sum of money ; we have published hundreds of tons weight of tracts and speeches to prove that monopoly is robbery ; and, gentlemen, we are not prepared to abandon that ground. It may take hundreds of tans more tracts, speeches, and as much money, but I believe, gen tl e men, that both will not be wanting it we are called upon to make the sacrifice. Mr. KEESHAW, M.P., after expressing his belief that the government could not be in earnest in intending again to bring the core laws into operation, said, I have no misgiv ings upon this subject. I have no doubt protectionists would be glad if they continue some remnant of monopoly for all time to come, and for them the greater the amount of it the better; but t his country, lam sure, will never submit to the imposition of a tax upon its food. After the informa tion poured forth by the league, and which has so enlight ened the country, I believe that it will never endure protte tion. I was perfectly surprised myself to hear that her Majesty's ministers did not at once say to parliament they s h ou ld propose that the remaining fragment of monopoly should be entirely destroyed. I re gretted sincerely to hear the President of the Board THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING. JANUARY 21, 1848. of Tends say it was intended to suffer =mop* to ems into operation attain. ky opinion is, that government ought so have grappled with the einesties at ewes, and it would have required bat little trouble in the pretest feeling alibi country to put it down; end, indeed, I hen little doubt the monopolists would have easily yielded to it, for it must bs known it can only remain deism months longer in operation, and I should say they would hardly have dead or have had the hardihood to °ppm. the total repeal of the.. Mostunjust and infusions corn laws. I thinkit would be ▪ to Lord J. Russell, or any whig admisistriktioe that eould be brined, that they should attempt to continue monopoly. Is this a time, when oar industry is depressed to an extent never known before, and when Emaufeesarers are compelled to work short time, and are reluctantly compelled to redoes the price of wages, when the pries of the ordinary food of the people, I mean potatoes, is nearly three times its usual amount—is this the time kw a liberal ministry to my they will suffer the sliding male to come again into operation ? I trait that the whole sernatry will be roused upon this subject. The SZCZETAST then reel the following petition : TO TIM are. Tam Meneelle err rex =lrina manor. Me paid= et the Cheerittrol Commene ma imandiaterare at Monalrearre, la meld gmeal melded esseasited, not petlibmese Mee heard silliseltiere mord that kwr s year lelasee hem onweessd pedhimest that k not Mir tonne year Imeeemble here Se Weed Mr penalise le Wpm eau tee lamed the Ist atlas embed tame &roe et thie mein of Ws ad- ram. nod lellem stile Wimp mein ea I the biewest et earnalil sea= evil WS Sal/014 . = YearlatiliSlNlS limiably wink Ihea open pledgee 'Atha whisk am dimeadast for subsisting* imeadesterld awl% Oath empiepere and employed, have. Irma maim asswo, Yew am. haled dabs the test eighteen aloft te vapreelkleil Isms mil dr wen) that want of employmmt bee bees maser rest with Imre prime fix andrZ i thr CO N . orgillfrordi br Ni peeple hoe within • int we beemes mweream kes .gi ro pat sosh is the depression el emeaseme et dub memeal. Menthe eta& MIMI Ole of this mitigation al watery le met yeamdeas, sal will be rewired kW here ea by the ceetempieled weeningthet se the Ain sada The expenditure of thirtynk minim Ist get, mike am knew bertardei kgrislation required be be welidemly kymtet s bee asteeenebeined the oaks With supirialealellael Way, it meg be denbeed whether the Mee tin he seildent te= the laden tet , mid the mat lama shell beam mailebte, rearrease ef dittos) end year poiltlamera believe that We eradirelies, email Tab a dee te hal waft imports be fore N. Ist ef /Ike* has einedp Waled weediest was may ked te a imemosed 'spirt alkalis% sale Mr OM Mira if COMMer ealmaddemeee lewd ter each se mid hp which the In. dreg ef the mastry sea be elm sesteined. wrieeing all the elreemeanses et the he lea yews, yeer.pwideres me ars ass to etassim m what sesameadhe rounds templed the aiding male et dales ea ems ea the la of March ask ea be deeseded. it be mimed that tise act of ISM, yid* lied the lat ef UM as M. day ea which • whir gases alma etatmeme= lee et a magnet, your pedant's mower lid the dimemileas of Divine Provide's= scattered sash maraud amps& is Me winds, and exhibited in irresistible the consequehesef which ere still heavy upon us, the Impiety d makik; compacts abed. es tica's hod. If the motive beta wool lest, hat still unjust, edientege In Ma agricultural interests, youipeekonera beliere that the resump tion el the eliding .sale on the let Meek will not benefit the owners, aN eel leas the occupiers of land. The ally apace of time over wide ths eliding male can exercise es harden' influence will be belhesee the Ist of March and the of the harvest of 1848. Da inept of that influence will be davra.d by the quantity of corn en Mad on the let of March ; and your km. house may fairly expect OM ea much foreign corn wi ll be introduced before that day as the mama of impoeters will permit. The tesumption of duties on gam day disturts the gradual current of supply, and invitee the ut ak& importation within the appointed limit. Your petitioners there. tam aspect that, though the payment. fir corn imported under such chenheleasee may again derange ocomnereisl industry, yet the prices of kali set be so seriously affected es to compensate fur a state of damp whisk will arise on the gathering in of the harvest, when, In ell probability, the autumn importations of foreign corn, either actual or prospective, in anticipation of the Ist of the following February, will induce the farmer. of this country, as in 1642, to Wag their pro duue forthwith to market, under the influences of tame, and to Fell at prices much below those which would be obtainable with the present equability of the trade net disturbed by the intendeu re-introduction, for so short an existence, of a vicious and repudiated system. That your petitioners believe that the return to the sliding scale, even for th short • period, will be most mischievous; that, without brute of benefit to any clam, it may tend to cease one of those repulsions ln commerce which have ever been consequent upon that system, and which will not only inevitably retard a return to activity in the manufseturing districts, but may involve • renewal of those privations Lunt calamities which the people have so king borne with exemplary patience, and hone which they have not had either time or opportunity to nearer. Your petitioners therefore humbly but most earnestly pray, that the law under which corn is at this mo ment imported, may he continsid to the Ist of February, 1819, and that your honourable house may not permit the resumption of the sliding scale of 1646.—Manchester, Jou. 20, 1618. r. Ald. Bkooxs moved the adoption of this petition, and that it be presented to both houses of parliament ; and Mr. THOS. ASHTON seconded it. Mr. HENRY, said it was unnecessary to add further remarks, but he might be permitted to soy that when he beard of the intention of government to resume this duty he heard it with dismay, and he felt within biraself that there men were not lit to reign over us. (Applause.) He felt that they should be wanting to themselves and the community, if they did not inform Cie minister that he was making • groat mistake. The connexion he happened to have with the United Staten led him to call their attention to the groat importation of manufactured goods to that couatry in consequence of the admission of grain from there ; and if it had not been that the United States kid taken those manufacture, for food the specie of this country must have gone to a much greater ex tent, as it would do again should food be required to make up for a short harem; and should this law come into operation. The PRESIDENT said he had a letter from Mr. Bright, re gretting he could not be present. He understood one rea son for bringing the law in force war that the Chancellor of the Etchiquer calculated on a million of revenue in the next year from corn ; but be that so it might it was a meet scandalous source of revenue. The President was about to leave the chair, when, The CORRESPONDENT of the Daily News rose, and ad dressed the assembly to the following purport lie had to claim the usistance of the chamber, and of the president, in a matter which, though not bearing upon the question which had called the meeting together, had some affinity to it. Unfortunately in the Manchester press there was a lingering remnant of monopoly and despotism ; and though he regretted to bring the matter before the chamber, he bad no other course to pursue in the die charge of his duty there as the representative of a London paper, the Daily News. At • meeting on the previous day, where • petition was passed for the removal of Jewish din abilities, the document was given to one of the reporters of the Manchester Guardian, but owing to some feeling el rivalry on the part of the reporter In question he remade) show the same courtesy to the Doily Amos as to the Man chester papers. Now, what he (the correspondent) had to ask was, that the Daily News—which had • very large circulation, • circulation quite unpre cedented in Manchester or a daily paper, considering the comparatively short time it bad been established— might be allowed to have a eupy of the documents be fore they were removed from the chamber. lie regretted that such an application should have been rendered', necessary. He had been compelled to make it before the president left the chair, well knowing that, as on former oc casions, while gentlemen were putting on their hats, and in the confusion which generally ensued upon the breaking up of a numerous meeting, the documents might be taken away, and he might be deprived of their use. The PRESIDINT said that as there was much a. feeling, he was very glad that the application had been made to the chamber, which was most happy and most minima on all occasions to furnish its documents to each member of the press alike ; and he wished it to be andenteod that every member of the press should have free access to them before they were removed. (Applause.) The Secretary politely handed to our correspondent an extra copy of the petition, the reporter of the Manchester Guardian having previously obtained a promise of the on ginal document. The latter made no reply to the charge. A vote of thanks was given to the President, and the meeting then separated. IRELAND. Donna, JAN. 19. Lord Suirdale, high-sheriff of Tipperary, has issued a notice to all the Boni et legates within his suspicious bailiwick, to come in on Monday next, and hear the royal commission opened. Jurors are particularly requested to attend, and if the same intrepidity and honesty be observed by the juries of the eouth riding as have characterised their brethren in Limerick and Clare, periodic outrage will be deprived of one of its surest stimulants. Another movement takes place simultaneously with the commission. It appears the surrender of arms has not been as general as the authorities expected, considering the heavy penalties which await non-compliance with the proclamation. To facilitate the disarmament, the police now go about in compact but secret detachments, and pounce on the musket or blunderbuss before it is laid up in ordinary. By taking parties by surprise the police in Nenagh have in one foray secured qty _ stand within a small circuit of the town. In the King's County and Ros common the same " ingenious device" has been prac tised with success. Mr. Baldwin, Q.C., obtained an order on the Queen's Bench, yesterday, to have the prisoners now confined in Nenagh gaol removed to Clonmel for trial at the commission. The prisoners against whom he moved on behalf of the crown were charged with murder, and by the recent act the Lord-Lieutenant, or any of the superior judges, could make the order. The Earl of Clarendon preferred submitting to the Court of Queen's Bench than to rely on his proprio molts. Appended to a series of long resolutions by the clergy of the deanery of Claremorris, Mayo, is a schedule of the schools supported by voluntary con tributions in that deanery. The number of whim is eight, and of schools sixty-one, or an average of seven and a half to each parish. The proportion is large, but the quality of the education may admit of improvement. Society is to be composed and improved by another Nation, more national and "spirited" than the great father of each patriotic publications. The secession from the secession is to have a representative to " in fluence public opinion" through the doctrines of Roche Fermoy. On the 12th of February will appear the first number of a weekly paper, entitled the United Trials.' man, with a motto from Wolfe Tone blazing meteori cally in the front, "Our independence must be had at all hazards. If the men of property will not support us, they must fall." Sic inmpitur. The projectors of this organ of progress are Mews. Mitchell and Reilly. Tired and disgusted with shams of Old Ireland and Young Ireland, "they believe that the public ear is thirsting to hear some voice holder, more intelligible, more independent of parties, policies, and cliques than any it has heard for a long while !" A further article of the new creed is "that Ireland really and truly wants to be freed teem English dominion. ' Now to make those convictions of Messrs. Mitchell and Reilly "racy of the soil," if the soil be not already impregnated with insurrectionary brimstone, ti e United Irishman will labour with more zeal, we reasonably expect, than success. The suit of new principles in which the projectors equip themselves consists of len "purple patches," right dazzling to be hold and to attract. Their good sense and practica bility are sure to be admired. I Tule Coartc:ox At-T.—tisane% FOR Anxs.—Tlre is from the Nenaph Guardian: "On Sunday morning last, at dawn of day, simultaneous 'earth, under the coercion act, was made in this division of the county by the constabulary. Large reinforcement. of police arrived here the preceding night at 11 o'clock and at an early hour the following_ morn lop, accompanied by the local men under Hr. P. Carroll, county inspector,idr. C. O'Dell, sub•inspector, proceeded in every direction of the county in search of arms. So admirably did the heads of the police manage the business, that not one in the town, save themselves, had the slightest idea of their Mended move Had it been otherwise, scouts from Nenagh would have spread the news in all directions, and the search would con sequently have been futile. It was not until nearly every hill and valley and mountain-top was ' dotted,' as it were, with police, that the bewildered peasantry were aware of their intentions. After a lengthened search they seised upon 60 stand of arms (20 of which were taken in /genus rh and its vicinity), and the various parties in whore possession they were found have been summoned to Nenagh Petty Sessions, and, upon conviction, are liable to a penalty of two years' imprisonment. Several pikes, some powder, &c., were also taken." . The Tipperary Vindicator states that the search was a failure. Here is the repeal journal's account of the affair: "Throughout the last fortnight great numbers of police men from Waterford, the Queen's County, Kilkenny, Car low, ?death, &c., have entered Tipperary, King's County, parts of Clare, and Limerick, sad under the surveillance of their chiefs proceeded in search of fire arm.. We believe that the delivery of arms, under the terms of the lord lieutenant's proclamation, has fallen immeasurably short of the expectations of the authorities, and that, only in com paratively partial instances, have ®rearms been given up. The police engaged in this duty have for the greater part returnned to thew respective quarters." SCOTLAND. EDINBURGH, JAN. 19. The Earl of Glasgow, in compliance with a requi sition to that effect, has called a meeting of the jus tices of the peace for the county of Renfrew, to be held- on the 25th, for the purpose of considering the expediency of establishing summary form of process in the trial of criminal cases before the justice courts. TEE LATE Lotto REAM —rim, Morning Post states, that although Lord Rosy sold the family estate, called, from its extent. tho " Keay country," to the Duke of Sutherland for 314,0001., he has not left any productive estate or fund whatever fur the purchase of an estate for his family, or as a provision, by annuity or otherwise, for any of his nearest relations. PROVINCIAL. HEARTLESS FRAllDTJAcWr;spondent requests us to caution the public against a set of swindlers, who are again actively employed in defrauding parties in this country woo may have relatives or friends abroad. They usually represent themselves as lately arrived, and as the bearers of letters and presents, which they state are detained at the Liverpool Custom-house until the payment of the usual duties. It is their plan to intimate a teturn to that port, to volunteer their services for the release of the articles, and to obtain money, if possible, for that purpose. It is almost needless to add, that where they succeed, their dupes never again hear either of presents or money, Ax UTILITARIAN YEOMAN.—At Pot Yates, in Littledale (says the Lancaster Guardian), there is now residing a substantial yeoman, named Fsithwaite, whose family have held uninterrupted poreision of the same farm for nearly 600 years. Another yeoman family, the Parkin-1 sons, residing at ao great distance from the Faithwaites, are said to have owned and cultivated their laud for a similar period. As a proof that the utilitarian spirit of the age is fast, putting to the rout the chivalric associations of the past, it may be mentioned that the present head of the Dept Parkinson is reported to have recently sold for old iron the armour in which his ancestor fought at Floddea Field. Schools INSPECTION.—Duriog the past week the Rev. Mr. Mitchell, M.A., one of her Majesty's inspectors of schools, visited Burnley for the annual inspection, and also to test the gushficetions of the various candidates for the office of pupil teachers. The time for the examinations was rather disadvantageous both for masters and pupils, as the schools inspected only reassembled on the day of his visit, and were but thinly attended. On the whole it is stated that the result was favourable, and at several of the schools the candidates acquittedtlaltstelz?creditably. Ttlisaostaos. NATIONAL DEPENCES.—Yesterday a public meet ing of the inhabitants of the borough of Leeds, convened by the mayor, in compliance with a requisition, was held in the court.house, under the presidency of his worship, "to ex press their sentiments on the expected increase of the army and navy, and the calling out of the militia." In opening the business, the mayor said that whilst he deemed it a pe culiar privilege as the chief magistrate of the borough on all occasions to afford his fellow-burgesses a full opportunity for the calm and dispassionate consideration of all subjects affect ing their welfare, he rejoiced that the first occasion on which he had to exercise that privilege was one which accorded so much with his own sentiments and wishes. The meeting had been mainly convened in consequence of the notorious letter of the Commander-in-Chief of the Army, which had reference to the state of the national defences, and to the intention which was said to exist of augmenting the army and navy estimates. It was to be regretted that after 30 years of peace, the necessity for safe guards against war should still be supposed to exist. He would venture to assert that the safety of this country did not depend upon the relative forces of either France towards England, or arty one country upon the continent, but upon the relative position of the different governments of Europe towards each other. Whatever might be said with regard to the balance of power, it hid this advantage, that it secured from sudden invasion, under ordinary circumstances, even the smallest principality against the strongest.—Mr. T. Nutunley proposed the first resolution : That this meeting has hard with regret that It is intended largely to Metairie the military establishments of the country, thereby seriously augmenting the burden of our present enormous expendi ture in the army, the navy, and the ordnance departments, and that, too, during a serious depression in all branches of national in. ; and would express its theorise that such a measure should be proposed at alerted when a lung continuance of peace has created a kindly feeling of brotherhood between large and enlightened sec- tons of all European nations, and after the recent sasurentes from the throne of the continuance of the snanabie dispcsltices of those nations towards this country. lie reviewed the present state of the army and navy as com pared with what it was tenor a dozen years ago, and showed that a large increase had taken place in those branches of our national defence ; and he adverted to the fact that Eng land had never yet been invaded, notwithstanding the at tempts that had been made, as an argument to show that there was no chance of the island being successfully in vaded. It would, therefore, be impolitic to increase the public expenditure in providing against a very improbable contingency, especially in the present state of the national resources, and with the existing national burdens. In fur ther disproof of the necessity for the anticipated expenditure, he enlarged upon the various circumstances which would prevent any surprise to the people of Great Britain in case any invasion should be attempted.—Mr. Darnton Lupton briefly seconded the motion, in the course of doing which he read a letter from Mr. Cobden, to Mr. Sturge of Birmingham, in answer to an invitation to attend a similar demonstration to the present in that town. Mr. Cobden expressed his hearty agreement with the promoters of the meeting, and said that, to him, it was utterly unin telligible why they should now be so suddenly stunned by this outcry on the apprehended invasion by France • and it appeared to be merely the gossip of the clubs of "Adam, or of the military men, who were impatient of the neglect into which their pronesion had fallen.—Mr Bawd. Baines, jun. moved the second resolution, as fo:lows That the astonishment of this meeting is increased by the then deration that the proposal, if sanctioned by parliament, will so imme diately follow the adoption of those enlightened and pacific measures of commeicial Intercourse, the ultimate and sure effect of which, it was *seated, would be go to unite nations together in the bonds of mutual dependence and osmmon interest that war would be seen and felt to be an intolerable evil, sod that such an augmentation of our m. 001 of offence and defence would be totally incotaistent with the recent Toney of parliament, and a practical expression that the go vernment and the legislature have no confidence in the principle on which that policy was so sucensfully advocated. He said he rejoiced from his heart to see such a crowded meeting of his native town to protest against whatever' tended to provoke war, and to raise its voice in support of whatever NFU favourable to peace. It was the saying of one of the wisest and greatest posts of England, that ether is • gases That, were their subjects wise, Kings would net play at." Mr. Maclea seconded the resolution, and, like the former, it pared unanimously.—The Rev. Thomas Scales (independent minister) moved the next resolution That this often Deflates that the best seen d gatherelng Inter national peen is for es& xenon to TIMM a 110.0111111010 10 COM. fteelal interemine; to Masts 10:111 el Wailer@ Is the b rinele er domestic aides el nsightewrin ram; eft le sorry Wle its eland pada, the are d sefte la ef often wast r at wattled te be I ow the aftest of wee la the Wakes et weld Ills—selther Its ewe dela kr We er Maw with them` et taw, nor reftviegthe shilm=r wakes in the state& et dams% tut alike sseWg ass yid—ft; Olga. =on in the temper of inn Wirranos sad the sOrlt thle —Mr. Robert Jowitt sesoshal the resolution, and briefly ad vocated the advantages ef pose .—Mr. Jessie Richardson proposed the next resolution, which shusgly depre cated the calling out of the militia, or the enforce ment of compulsory military service, as repugnant to the feelings of a vast majority of ell classes, as a causeless invasion of the liberties of the subject, and by many as an set of violence to their consciences and religious scruples.— Mr. Wm. Brook seconded the motion. He saw no reason why the working classes should be called upon to fight the battles of other people he did not see why, so long as they were dialed the exercise of the franchise, they should be called *pow to fight for others. His ay would be, end he hoped it wield be that of every working man, " If we are to have se "Mow tra have no vote. (Chien.)—The Rev. Was. Heim& (isispeedent 'daisies) proposed the Mb resolution, which declared that in accordance with these views the meeting earnestly depremted any addition to the military establishments of the country, but would express its coniideat bel ef that a large reduction of the weaned " peace establishment," which has been increased to a sum equal to the property and incense tax, would have the best effect. — Kr. Punt seconded the motion ; and after its adoption a pe tition to parliament, embodying the resolutions above set forth, was wend to. • t•tring . IffilSrrOF REVIVAL Or GREAT GRIMSBY PORT.—In the reign of Edward 111. the pert of Great Grimsby !unshed eleven womb' for the armament against Calais ; hut it gradually sankinto inagnilioasee natal • railway was projected to it. The mere preeped.ive advent of the Manebester, Sheffield, ea & Linmissb. Bail yap, which will be opened to Greet Grimsby In the present vpring, has been to ra the customs revenue fr0m3,9291, in 1843, t0 70,0731. in the last year, 1847. WARWICK/IMRE. BTRATFORD-ON-AVON.—kiorrespondent eay• : " This town, although in a singularly favourable situation, is almost isolated, from the fact that no rid' way approaches nearer to it than Leamington, a distance of eleven miles. To remedy this evil, the directors of the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton and the Oxford and Birmingham lines, applied to parliament during the last session for power to construct branches from their main lines, running from Weston-sub-Edge on the former, and from Kingswood on the latter, to the borough ; but, up to the pr. sent date, neither scheme has been carried out, and the inhabitants requested the mayor to convene a public meeting. He complied, and, on the 19th inst., a numerous and respectable company as sembled. Among the speakers were Dr. Thomson, E. F. Flower, Esq., Mr. W. Wall, and W. J. Harding, Esq. A series of resolutions were agreed to, and a memorial ordered to be engrossed and presented by a deputation consisting of the mayor E. F. Flower, Esq., W. Burman, Esq , and Mr. W. Wall, to J. B. Freer, Esq , and F. Buford, Eoci., gentlemen connected with the above-named railways. A strong feeling was expressed by the meeting, that if the directors did not accede to their wishes, some steps should be taken to place the::: o s, n , * . ma , liz with its neighbours as regarded railway facilities." COMMISSION 1311711171:01 . 1171:1ETTENANT.—T. Need, Esq., to be Captain in Royal Sherwood Furesters, or Not tinghamshire Regiment of I.l.pi!ia. i(E\T. THE BURNING OF A PaisoNEß IN TEE GRAVESEND LOCK-CP.—Yesterday an inquest was held on Thomas Budge, waterman, aged 49, who perished in the recent tire of the straw-house attached to the borough lock-up.—Sergt. Denyer, 1 of the town police, said between twelve and one o'clock on Saturday night the deceased was brought to the station-house considerably intoxicated and guilty of violent conduct. He bed him placed in the straw-house. It was well furnished with straw, and was generally used as a re fuge for destitute persons found wandering in the streets by the police, or intoxicated noisy prisoners. The deceased kept singing, whistling, and shoutteg for some hours after he was locked up. Inspector Penman, on leaving the station at half-past five, heard him making a noise, shouting and dancing about. At six o'clock a man named IVaeher, a labourtr employed in cleansing the market-place, came to the station house and stated that the straw-house was on fire. Knowing that Budge was there confined, he immediately ram with the keys to open the door. It was nearly burnt through, and on opening it the inside seemed all on fire. The steps leading from the door had fallen down into the store place underneub, used by the market people for the stowage of their stands, boards, and trestles. Saw or heard nothing of the deceased until the fire was subdued. His remains were foend in one corner of the building, lying 'cross the rafters.—By the Coroner : The last person who was put into the straw-house previous to the deceased was a destitute female, named Newport, r n Friday night. She sold lucifer matches about the streets. If nothing had oc curred to deceased he would have been taken before the ma gistrate on Monday morning. Sometim , drunken charac ters were liberated after getting sober in the straw-house. The police had no orders to visit prisont n whilst confined in that place. The deceased had frequently been placed in the straw-house. The magistrates have directed the imprisonment of disorderly persons there even when the ordinary police cells were vacant. The charge hook was produced, and it appeared that since March, 1843, the deceased had been in the custody of the police seven times.—D. Lewis. police.conatible,l3, deposed to taking the deceased into custody opposite Waite's Hotel. He was greatly intoxicated, and was using very disgusting lan guage. Witners assisted in placing him in the straw-house. J. White, police-officer, deposed to the some fact/. In pass ing the building at ten minutes past five be heard the de ceased's voice, as if speaking to himself. When he was:put in, no light or lanthora was used.—G. Washer, a helper in the market, stated, that at six o'clock on Sunday morning, while employed in sweeping the market, he saw fire issuing from the roof of the straw-house. He ran to the station-house and alarmed Sergt. Denyer, who proceeded with the key of the building to rescue the deceased. When the door was opened he could see the deceased lying on the blazing straw quite motionless. The roof fell before the flooring. He tried to save the things in the under part of the building, hut the flooring giving way and firing the couteuta pre vented him. He had a lighted candle there on Saturday evening lad at 10 minutes past 10. lie was not smoking, and was perfectly sober —John Por ey said he went by the straw house about 20 minutes to six, and saw a light gleaming through the iron grating. Made no alarm. Heard no cries. —Jane Newport, a miserable looking creature, who wan said to have once occupied one of the principal hotels in the bo rough, said she was married, but her husband bad separated from her. She now subsisted by selling Lucifer matches. Being destitute, she was allowed to sleep in the straw-house on Friday night. She then had no lucifer matches in her possereion.—Mr. Superintendent North, of the Gravesend police, was then sworn. Drunken, noisy, dirty, and disorderly characters were generally put in the straw house. The building was in the care of the police, and they had charge of the keys. It often happened that parties found on the pavement in a helpless state of intoxication were placed in the straw house, and on recovering were liberated, they not having otherwise miscondueted themselves.—The Coroner then summed up, and suggested the propriety of the borough magistrates directing the police to visit the prisoners every hour, as in the metropolitan districts, for this unfortunate occurratce, with. out imputing blame to any party, showed the necessity of such a regulation. The jury, after retiring, fouud that the deceased died from the effects of fire, but how caused there was no evidence to show. They also considered the deceased was in legal custody, and after recommending the adoption of the coroner's suggestion, pointed out other improvements which could be made in the rebuilding of the house.—The Mayor and Mr. Oaks remarked that the magistrates had al ready determined on carrying out those precautions. saitorsmitz. REPRESENTATION OF NORTH SHROPSHIRE.—The Shrewsbury Journal says :—" The distressing cunt which has caused such deep and universal sorrow throughout this county will, by the elevation of Lord Clive to the peerage, cause a vacancy in the representation of the northern divi sion. It is stated, and we believe on good authority, that Mr. Dod, of Cloverley, a gentleman well known to be a steady and consistent friend to the agricultural interest, and a firm supporter of the protestant church, has consented to come forward as a candidate." THE CASS OF STABBING AT WELLINGTON. — Francis Cunningham, the Irishman who was stabbed in a conflict with some colliers on Christmas-eve (en account of which appeared in this paper), died on Wednesday, the 12th inst., from the wounds he received on that occasion. An inquest was held on the body of the diseased on Friday, when the jury returned • verdict of "Wilful murder" against George Taylor; and against Thomas Murrill, for . 4 elsr.ng and abetting in the said murder." They were admitted to Shrewsbury gaol. H ur EREFORDSHIRE. ARE BUSHES AGRICULTURAL PRODUCE ?—Con Mon day last, at the Guildhall, Hereford, Mr. J. Jones, tailor, of Broad-street, was summoned at the instance of Mr. Buck ham, the lessee of the turnpike-tolls, for refusing to pay toll at the Above Eign gate for two horses drawing a cart laden with bushes. Mr. Hardwick read the clause in the act under which corn, straw, fodder, and other agricultural produce, not inten ded for male, was exempted from toll, and contended that " bushes" were not agricultural pro duce within the meaning of the act. Mr. Jones said that he rented land on both aides of the gate, and that he was removing the bushes tram one part to the other for the pur pose if repairing the fences. The bushes, he contended, had grown upon the land, and were as much an agricul tural produce as any other article—corn, straw, or fodder. He had been summoned once before for the same alle offence, when the magistrates had decided that bushes, being used for agricultural pupae., were exempt from toll.—Mr. Hardwick said the bushes were not the produce of Mi. Jones's labour; and it might upon the same ground be argued that timber was an agricultural produce, because it had grown upon the land, but without any reference to the skill or exertion of the occupier.—Mr. Barra thought Mr. Hardwick's comparison did not hold good, and he conceived that they were bound to put a beneficial construction upon the act under which Mr. Jones had been summoned.--The mayor and other magistrates coincided with Mr. Barra, Mr. Davis observing that if any doubt arose, it was their duty to give the farmer the benefit of it —Mr. E. Pritchard said that he was in no way concerned in the case, and perhaps Mr. Jones wculd not thank him for his interference, but he wished to re mind their worships that theraleof construction in theucases, as laid down by the most eminent members of the legal profession, was, that " all other agricultural produce" must be ejtudeg genesis —viz., of the same sort or kind as that which was mentioned before in the wording of the act. Mr. Barra : But, Mr. Pritchard, gentlemen in the law do draw extraordinary lines sometimes. It was only a short time ago doubted whether ploughs and harrows were articles of agricultural husbandry.—Mr. P.: If our legislators were all well versed in law there would not at ise so many diffi culties or ambiguities in our acts of parliament —Mr. Barra: I do not exactly agree with that, for our laws are made ab struse and unintelligible by lawyers themselves (laughter) ; you know if there was no mystery to be explained away, or no difficulty to be overcome, there would be infinitely lees work for you professional gentlemen.—At the close of this little episode the magistrates decided that bushes were agri cultural produce within the meaning of the act, and therefore exempt fr om toLL—Case dismissed. CLERICAL. Tan EXETER DIOCESLN CHURCH BUILDING SOCINTY met on Wednesday, when a grant of 251. was made towards the increase of accommodation in the parish church of Lan east, Cornwall, whereby 56 additional free sittings will be provided; 201. was also granted towards the increase 01 accommodation in the parish church of St. Buttock, in the same county, by the prop osed rearrangement of seem in which ea Increase of additional free sittings will be obtained. Paernanturre.—The Roy. J. L. Worship, to fitokesby R., with lierringby B. Norfolk ; dio., Norw.; mine, 5261.—0 n his own ?initial, Roo. W. C. Ward, to Bast Taddialtua ' . and Honionhant C., Norf. ; dio., Norw.—The Rev. T Byers, to the Chaplainship of Oakham County Gaol. NAVAL. PORTSMOUTH, JAW. 20.—An admiralty order has been received to enter 200 second-clan boys on board the Vic tory, for the perpcie of being brought up as seamen for the Royal Navy. Vine boys are to serve 12 months on board the Vinery previously to their being appointed to sea-going ships. Additional petty officers and artificers are to be ap pointed to the Victory to instruct these boys in their naval duties. Wootwiat, JAN. 20.—A fire broke oat yesterday on board the Dee steamer, lying in the basin. The alarm was given ten minutes before one o'clock, as the men were es turning frost dinner, and in about ten minutes the fire was subdued, the damage done being quite trilling. An engulfy is being held to-day before the authorities as to the cause of the fire, which is supposed to be perfectly accidental.— Banshee, at.-v , which left on Monday for Chatham, made the passage to that port in three hours and a quarter.— Caradoc, which wee to have been do-iced at this port on Monday, was not brought down in consequence of the tides not tieing sufficiently high to enable her to be got oat of dock. She will, therefore, remain till the next Trines, when she will be brought sl,srn to Woolwich.—Llewellyn, st.-v. (the last of the Holyhead and Dublin line of packeta), is announced to be launched from the yard of Messrs. Miller and Itavenbill on Saturday next at high water, which will be shortly after two o . clock.—Capt. W. Houston and Lista. J. Herbert have been ordered to study at the steam factory._ ADMIRALTY, JAN, 20.—APPOINTMENTS.—Lieut. W. H. Hood, to Oemn.—Surg. H. H. Turnbull and Acting &mist.- Surg. W. E. M'Clure, to Havanneh.—Clerk : T. 1). Con coni, to Perseus.—Master's Assist.: W. C. Hare, to Poictiere. —Assist. Engineers J. Sese.d, to Blenheim; H. Thorn ton, to Terrible ; J. Lawler, to Royal Sovereign.—Acting / Gunner Clentinson, to Excellent. SPORTING. TATTERSALL'S.—Tnr Ran ..r. The publication of the Handicap for the Cheater Cap has bad the effect of making Blaze tint favourite; 2.5 to I was the highest offer yesterday, and this only in one quarter; 1,000 to 30 was offered bar one ; 40 to 1 would have been taken, and Kelealie, we believe, would have been selected. A slight improvement in Surplice was the only change in the Derby. Latest pins: LEAMINGTON &CRETIN CHASE.-6 to 1 agat The Chandler (t); 7 to 1 apt Gseeley (t) ; 10 to 1 apt Proceed (t to Cut.); 12 to 1 apt Evergreen (t to 761.) Nawmainerr ILANDICAP.—Even on the field apt 1.5; 16 to I apt Kimblesworth. CRESTIR CUP.-25 to 1 apt Blaze (t 30 to V;33 to 1 apt Keleshe It 40 to 1) ; 1,000 to 20 apt War Eagle (t and sit off) ; 1,000 to 20 apt Giselle (t) ; 1,000 to 20 apt New court (t end aft off); 1,000 to 20 apt Cossack (t sod en off ; 1,000 to 15 apt Joe o' Sot ; 1,000 to 15 agst The Tartar (t.) DERRY —9 to 1 apt Surplice (t 10 toll) ; 20 to 1 apt Springy Jack (t) ; 2.5 to 1 at t it i t Nil Desperandum (t to uta 1601.); 33 to 1 eget Ce aft off ); 1,000 to 30 apt Besborourh (t) ; 60 to 1 apt eraun (t. to 701.); 1,000 to 25 apt Edie Ochiltree (t and aft off). RUTAL LEAMINGTON AND ROUTH•M STEEPLE CHASE. —Acceptances for the Grand Open Steeple Cbase Ha.idicap of 20 son each, : Chandler, list Olb ; Proceed, 1 tit Sib ; Jerre, llst 41b ; The Nigger, 11 st 31h ; Discount, lOst 121 b; Profligate, lOst ; Tamworth, lOst 6lb ; Chronometer, lOst 6lb ; Culverthorpe, lOst 61b ; Beekeeper, 10 , t 41b ; Gaseley, lOst 41b; Matchless, lOst 31b ; St. Ruth, 104 2!h; Eagle. flat 1011, ; Gayhurst, flat Mb ; Evergreen, 9,1 7 1 b; Miss Fop, Out 51b. NOMINATIONS FOR TIER ARISTOCRATIC CHASE. — Belshazzar, Repealer, Thurgerton, Red Lancer, the Dove, Kitty, Pullnsray, the Ticket, the Cart Hone, Forester, Cnlow, Ballybar. INTELLIGENCE EXTRA.—EITOM FIRST SPRING MEETING. HANDICAP POE THE GREAT METROPOLITAN STAREA of IS eon. each, 15 ft, and 5 only if declared on or before Feb. 1 ; Pyrrhus the First. 9st Sib; Jericho, Sat; War Engle, Bst 13'b; Lightning, Sat 131 b; inheritress, Bst 12ib; Jonathan Wed, gat 7lb Lady Wildair, Sit lib; Rattrap, Sit Sib; Blackbird. Set 21b; Mnrpeth Bet 21b; Reminiscence. tot 250; Mosta:tor, Sot; Velrts, est ; Antler Bet; Ranelegh, Sot: Rowena, Sat; Bourton, Mt; Mix Elis, ant Sweet Sauce, lit 121 b; Shawn Buidha, lit 1215; Atlarate, 7ot 1215 Sutlej, bet 121 b; Clermont, lot 121 h; Perp.V.Day Boy, lit 1015; Bri tannia, 7st 1016; Mirmilln, 7st 1016 ; Sir Arthur. bit 101 b; Clumsy, lot 1016; Joe Lovell, let 101 b; The Tartar, lit Jib; Crosier, 7Ft ; Montpeneier, Tat Blb ; The Best of Three. 7st Sib; Questannable. let lib; Walturrate bar-without, 7st 610; Tufthunter, 7Ft elb; RUB, let 61b; Projectile, lit 4.15; Spectator, 7st 51b; Cremorne, lit 41b; I Stults, Tit 41b; Premier, bet 31b; Rufus, 7st Mb; Alboni, 7st 21b; Executor, let Sib ; Enchanter, let Eb; Gannet, 7st Ilb ; Tim Whiffler, bit llb ; Sagacity, let lib; Commis, let; Marietta, 7st; Finer to Aigis, 7Ft ; Mountain Dew, lot; Tit Bit, Cat 131 b; Queen Mary, Set 131 b; Antagonist, bat 1 ; Fottinger, Get 12lb; MOKOW, Sat 1215; Vempyre, Est 1215; Praepert, 6st Illb; Sultans, 64 12lb; Maid of Lyme, est 101 b ; Columbus, Set Sib ; fist 91b ; Mulcahy Sit elb ; Marquis m Cuntngaarn, Gat 71b; Catherine, Mt ; Pamionate, Set 41b; Daughter of tie Star, Ist Sib; Widred, Set 415; Snuffbox. Set lib; Priem Charley, Sit lab; Tortoise, Mt 71b; &spoon, Sit bib; Easier Plume, Sot 7th; SARUM, Set 61b; Cracow, sst alb; Blelchingtor, Set 41b- Mack Ball, Set Sib; Glen Sadden, Set 310 ; Bacchanalian, 54 31b; Gnarl Boy, Set ; Madly, 5-4; Sclf [Mimics, Set 13Ib ; Slug, ilst 1216; Iktlection, 4il 121 b; Seaga, fat 1016; Remembrance, tat 1016. tab) inttlttputt. EQUITY COURTS. Before the Lord ChaaorUor. SILEARATT V. THE NOILTH STAMM/MIMI RAILWAY COMPANY. AWARD.— CONSTRUCTION OP THE LkNINI CLAUSES CONSOLIDATION Acr, 8 & 9 VICT. C. 18. a. 23 TO 31.—Thin was an appeal from a decision of Vice-Chancellor Wigram, setting aside an award made by an umpire between the plaintiff and defendants. The patties agreed to the op. pointmen• of arbitrators to settle the damages which the de ' fendants were to pay the plaintiff for the injury done to his property by the defendants' works. The defendants gave notice to the plaintiff on the 13th of February, 1847, and appointed their arbitrator on the 23rd. The plaintiff ap pointed his arbitrator on the 9th of March. The arbitrotors afterwards appointed an umpire, who made his award on the 28th of June, which was more than three months from the completion of the appointment of the arbitrators. The Vice• Chancellor held the award bad, chiefly on the ground that more than three months elapsed between the time of the completion of the appointment of the arbitrators and the award. Mr, Stuart and Mr. Bovill were in support of the appeal, and after referring to the 23rd end several sub sequent stations of the Lands Clams Consolidation Act, Bth and 9th Vic., cap. 18, submitted that the Vice-Chancellor's construction was wrong. Mr. Teed and Mr. St ere supported the Vice• Chancellor's decision, and contentledthat the award was bad on other grounds, such as partiality in the umpire and want of finality.—The Lord Chancellor said there was no proof of the charge made against the umpire, and after going over the clauses of the act referred to, his lordship held the Vice-Chancellor's oonstruction of them to be erroneous, and reversed his Honour's decision. Before the blaster of the Roth. &Jr/JELL v. GILLS.—The Muter of the Rolls gave judg ment in this cue, which principally involved a quedion of costs, the suit being instituted to recover certain money front the defendant as the representative of his father, and the liability to pay which was not disputed. Hie lordship appor tioned the costs smoogst the parties. Before the Vtee-Chancellor of England. RATCLIFFE C. BOND.—INJUNCTION TO RESTRAIN PRO CEEDINGS AT LAW.—Mr. Bethel' and Mr. Giffard showed cause against dissolving an injunction obtained in this case to restrain proceedings at law upon a bill of exchange fur I,oooi. It was alleged by the plaintiff that be bad given other hills in lien of that upon which the defendant Frede rick Bond hail brought his action, and that it was therefore cancelled —The defendant alleged that he had purchased the bill without notice of its having been satisfied.—Mr. Ralt and Mr. Freeling appeared in opposition to the motion.—At the conclusion of the argument+, the Vice. Chancellor said he should examine very carefully the allegations on hith sides before he gave his judgment. &foes Vice-Cbaneellor Wigram. REOOII v. THE DeltliTBllllllf, AND WONCUTILASHIRE RAILWAY COMPANY.—LIEN Colt COSTA.—The plaintiff in this case, and one Mr. Owens, of Moorgate-street, in 1845 projected a scheme for the forma tion of a railway from Kidderminster to Hereford, to be called the Direct East sod West Junction Railway. At a meeting called upon the formation of the company, the plaintiff and Owens were appointed joint solicitors to the scheme, and they, with other officers of the company, signed en indenture, by which they agreed at to held the members of the provisional committ: r, or the directors of the company, liable individually for the costs and expenses they might incur in forwarding the un dertaking, but to look for such repayment to the fund to be raised by the sale of shares. Mr. Owens afterwards resigned the office of solicitor to the scheme, which from that time was filled by the plaintiff alone. In 1847 the seteme was amalgamated with the company represented by the de fendants. The plaintiff, who, as well u Mr. Owens, had re , ceivcd a portion of hie costs, now filed hie bill for the remainder, amounting, as he alleged, to the sum of 1,2001. The equity ot the bill was founded upon the circumstance that the plaintiff claimed a lien in respect of his costs upon the funds of the original company, called " The East and West Junction Railway Company," and which were el :eged by the bill to have been transferred to the defendants upon the amalgamation of the two companies. Thebill prayed for payment out of the joint-stock funds and assets of the defendants, of the sum due to the plaintiff, as solicitor to the East and West Junction Company, to an amount not exceeding that handed over to the committee of mar age ment of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcester shire Junction Railway Company, from the East and West Junction Company upon the amalgamation of the two com panies ; and that the plaintiff might be declared entitled to a lien upon the same funds and to the same extent. To this bill a general demurrer was put in, and the cause now came on for hearing upon the demurrer.—Mr. Kenyon Parker, Mr. Amphlett, and Mr. Matthews, in support of the demurrer, contended, &at, that the indenture of indemnity did not actually create any charge upon the deposit' of the " Direct East end West Junction Company," but only gave the plain tiff and the other officers parties thereto a right to a special usumpait against the members of the provisional committee. As this was a legal remedy, the bill was simply a bill for tho payment of costs which the court would not entertain "Alli son v. Hering " (9 Simon's report). Secondly, that the charge, if any, was confined to the costa of the plaintiff and Owens while acting as joint solicitor, and did not extend to the costs of the plaintiff while acting as sole solicitor to the com pany. Thirdly, that the costs sought to be recovered were principally incurred subsequently to the execution of the in denture, and that the case therefore fell within the rule laid down in " Jones v. Tripp " (Jacob's reports, solicitor cannot enforce security for colts not i 322), that a incurred at the time the security is given.—Mr. Hominy ( with whom was Mr. Malin) had ouly partially opened the plaintiff at the -isms of the court. - ; 1, 44 - •• ;-rte * CAW 4.4* 1-71-0 i g IA ----..... a 'My