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parties on a subsequent attempt to try the same question. As Mr. Acura, in his capacity of chairman of the committee of last session, declared that his mind was made np to the entire abolition of settlement, we pre sume that in his new official capacity he will bring for ward some measure for carrying out 11111 view. If settle ment was abolished, of course the law of removal would fall with it, and the whole country would share is the absence of litigation, already enjoyed by some parishes, which have disoovered that it is cheaper to maintain paupers, than attorneys and barristers. But, as we have often shown, there will be great difficulty in carrying such a mea sure through parliament, though its success is by no means to be despaired of. If it is defeated or delayed, the present law ought to be im proved by introducing a large power of amendment into the practice relating to examination and grounds of appml. if these documents can be relieved of their calomel inaccuracies at the trial of the appeal, no one will trouble himself to pick holes in them. A statement that a pauper served at Dumbdrudge, sup - podia by evidence that he resided there, would be considered intelligible by an opponent who knew that he would gain nothing by pointing out that it was unintelligible. The Paris journals of Wednesday, and our usual correspondence, have reached us. The report of the early part of the debate in the House of Commons on Monday evening, which reached Paris by express on Wednesday, produced • great sensation as well among the adherents and satellites of M. Guizot as among every shade of the opposition. We allude, of course, to the answers of Lord Palmerston to Mr. Osborne, in which the former declared that, tho civil war being terminated, " the question of mediation in Switzerland is at an end." This short sentence has dropped like a bomb-shell in the Hotel des Affaires Etrangixes. How little it was expected is indicated by the leading articles of the Journal des Debate for some days back, and especially that put forth on Wednesday, only a few hours before the arrival of the report of the speech of Lord Palmerston, on Monday evening: It is the Live great powers (says that journal), France, England, Austria, Prussia, and Russia, who employ this firm langusge to Switzerland. This imposing unanimity will have, we trust, a salutary influence over the approach ing determination of the Diet. Ac to us, it is impossible not to behold with a sincere satisfaction the great powers of Europe, and Enyland in particular, in accord with our go• yernment in attempting a mediation for the purpose of at last pacifying the Helvetic Confederation. It is to be re marked that if the tone of the note is firm, it is also amic able. No one wishes to wound the just susceptibilities of this small and interesting republic, and France, in particular, will always consider it important to live in good intelligence with it. So far from M. Guizot thinking, like Lord Palmer ston, that mediation "is at an end," he plumed himself on the assurance that it was " just beginning." The Opposition journals, meanwhile, are pitiless in the ridicule which they direct against the Minister of Foreign Affairs, who has thus brought himself and the government into so false a position. If Switzerland, says the Constitutionnel on Wednesday, should not accept the offer made to it in the note transmitted by H. Bois le Comte, what resolution will Id. Guizot pre tend to suggest to the five powers ? Wtll he draw up some fresh piece of eloquence to address anew to Switzerland counsels which will be again politely disregarded ? Does he propose to enter with arms into Switzerland, to cause the principle, that the Pact shall not be revised if the cantons are not unanimous, to prevail for the future ? Are they speeches or soldiers which he c :writs in the present state of things to send to the twenty-two cantons ? The more one examines the invention of M. Guizot, the more one finds it an inexhaustible stock of alseurdity end ridicule. Decidedly M. Guizot has just accomplished a chefirceuvre which will immortalise his preeideucy, and cause laughter to the most distant posterity. Much curiosity was expressed in all circles on Wednesday at the attitude which would be assumed by the French minister, as a consequence of the announcement of Lord Palmerston'a declaration ; and the official journal of Thursday was looked for with some solicitude. La Presse, a conservative journal, thus t - eata the policy of M. Ouizot, and his pretended fear of radicalism : It is pretended to be feared that the Swim radicalism should spread into the neighbouring countries, and be dis posed to absorb France as it has absorbed the saves can. tons of the minority. This, however, is evidently a phan tasmagoria, without any substance or reality. Beside., the existence of some fears, more or less puerile, on this subject, is no reason for assuming towards Switzerland the initia tive of a treatment so severely woundicg to her indepen dence. It is as much as to say that we had a right to kill another man, because he may a ime day attempt to kill us. Here again we cannot defend ourselves from an approxima tion. In 1839, Switserland was, as it is now, the focus of radicalism. There was then the additional circumstance that Prince Louis Napoleon was fomenting in the canton of Thurgau a direct agereasion upon the French government. It was only on account of this circtintance that the cabinet of April 15 addressed a firm note to the president of the Helvetic Confederation, which note we may say by the way met with full success. At this same period, H. Guizot could not find terms sufficiently harsh to characterise the policy of the cabinet, which he said was alienating from us the good. will of Switzerland, one of the oldest allies of France. He did not then, no doubt, foresee that a day might come when be himself would, without having any direct complaint, send to this old ally of France, and in concert with Austria, Prussia, and Russia (we will not add England), threatening notes to preveat radicals from being radicals, and interdict them from making any modification, in their internal in stitutions. As to the results of the mediation, which must shortly brume an intervention, the Journal des Delude forms for itself, in advance, a most advantageous idea. We, alas! fear that this will become an appendix to the chapter of its illusions on the vitality of the Sonderbund The fu tun will solve the question on this poict. But the um ranee with which the Dibats congratulates itself on the =union which isestablished on the object of this me between all the powers, is of aufficiently ill &mar,. the To boast of this perfect union after everybody Ye read categorical declaration of Lord Palmerston, h • trait of primitive simplicity, which does not badly mord with e a rthosiplomatic summonses, by which it is enteadsd te make two nes, which are no longer in the field, lay down that arms. The reform banquet of the Pas de Calais took place at Arras on Monday, under the presidency of M. Odilon Barrot. It was attended also by MM. Marie and Cremieux, deputies. A similar demonstration is in preparation at Grenoble. That of Cambrai will take place about the 20th December. The journals of Wednesday contain a report of the banquet of Amiens, which took place on Sunday, and Was attended by 750 guests. M. Odilon Barrot pre sided. The King and his family will remove from St. Cloud to the Tnileries on Saturday. The advioes from Berne are to the 4th. The Diet had not yet decided on the answer to be returned to the note of M. Bois I. Comte. General Dufour, who wu everywhere greeted with expressions of lively approbation, had passed in review all the troops now in — Berne. A serenade was given to the general in the evening. The federal troops were everywhere well received in the Valais. The Council of State of Unterwald had summoned the landrath. or cantonal council, for the 4th, with a view to convoke the landsgenteinde, or general assem bly of the people, for the purpose of electing depu ties to the Diet, approving the dissolution of the Son derbund. and reconstituting the muitonal government. A public meeting was held on the 2 nd at Sion, the chief - place of the Valais, at which a provisional government was appointed and a series of resolutions passed, of which the following is a summary : _ The dissolution of the brand Conn& ash Oewasa of Btate.—The suppremion of the immunnise el the The ineonspity between civil sad emiseleslisal tioes.—The withdrawal from the abbeys OK Yerarise and St. Bernard of the ri6c of collation to perocidal freashess— The property et the &op sad of religious eseptestessw to be placed under the superintendence of the state. sea fa eves of need under its ecntroa.—The legislative provider el die provisional government to be sanctioned by the ®tad Own cil.—The Grand Council to be named in the cease el the month of December—The Grand Council to prattled Wm diately to the nomination of the Council of State.—An in quiry to be made as to the conduct of the convents, sad those whose existence shall be found incompatible with public tranquillity to be suppressed.—All the laws, demo, and judgments in cases of peliticel offences, rendered siese 1844, to be null end veid.—The expenses of the was 110 be borne by such religious corporations and other pewees se voted for it, advised it, sr preached in its favenr.—The of sembly recommended the Grand Council to grant notarnb satires to such citizens as have taken up arms is we i r the country, of the cause of liberty and progress. struction to be under the superintendence and direetka of the state.—The expulsion of the Jesuits from the cantos.— Tie divinon of the canton, if it be not oppmed by the to& federation. *Two Madrid mails, those of the 2nd and 3rd, were due in Paris, on Wednesday, the former of which only arrived. The journals are occupied chiefly with the debate on the address.' At a late hour on the 2nd a division took place, when the address was adopted by a majority of 124 against 46. A royal decree effecting various administrative reforms was published in the Goutte. The band of the Camilla Bon wu completely -- :~ .~----.~ dispersed in Catalonia. The Cabeeilla himself had escaped, but it was expected that he would be cap tared. Letters from Florence of the 30th ult. confirm the in telligence we gave yesterday. The negotiations for the adjustment of the difference between Tuscany and Modena were in progress; meanwhile all movements on the frontier were suspended. Prince Charles Poniatowaki, created Prince of Monte Rotondo in Tuscany, was named governor of Lucca. This ap pointment is represented as being the reverse of popular. Letters from Bologna of the 30th ult. say that a convention was concluded between Rome and Austria 1 for the evacuation of the city of Ferrara. This corro borates the announcement we published yesterday of the same arrangement, obtained from another quarter. The evacuation was to have taken place on the 4th, when the Austrians would have retired into the citadel and barracks to which they were limited before the present dispute. HOLLAND.—TILE HAGUE, DEC. 6.—The King of the Netherlands entered his 66th year to-day. The day was celebrated with every demonstration of public rejoicing. There was to have been a grand review of the troops, but the rain fell in torrents. In the evening there were brilliant illuminations, and large supplies of money and food were distributed among the poor. PRUSSIA.—ADVANCE OP THE CllGLEßS.—Ae cording to the Cologne Ga:ette ef the 7th instant, several cases of cholera have occurred on the Prussian frontien, in the neighbourhood of Posen. It is now certain that the epidemic has broken out also in Warsaw. TILE JESUITS 1N ANUALT-KOTHEX. — It is stated in a corresponder.ec in the Frankfurter Journal of the 6th inst., that the Jesuits who were afforded an asylum by the late Duke of Anhalt Kothen will be compelled by the new duke to leave the country. TURKEY.—TntnizoNDE, Ocr. 31.—Tug CHOLIRA —The cholera has visited us this year severely. It appeared in the middle of August, under the milder form of cholerine, but en the 9th of September it assumed its terrible charactir, reached its climax on the 23rd of the same mouth, and disappeared on the 13th of this month. The greater part of the population, especially the christian, had fled to the neighbouring mountain villages, the Europeans of course giving the signal; those who could afford it hastened to Constantinople, and the residue were obliged to be content with the miserable accommodation which those mountain huts afford. In the higher Frankish circles, those families and individuals, therefore, who were least predisposed, both front their mode of living and the application of precautionary prophylactic remedies, were in the best case, and in fact one person only among them wee attacked by it, and won recovered. But among the natives it committed fearful ravages, and in several instances all the members of large families were swept off by it. Althoegh more than half, some say two-thirds, of the inha bitants le't the city (the population of which amounted to about 40,000 souls), there were daily fresh cases of 400 per sons who were attacked by it, and of these 120 to 140 died daily. There was a general depression; nearly al the places were shut up, and nobody came in from the villages. The want of provisions was great, especially of bread, and of charcoal (the usual fuel of the inhabitance of the East). The price of one egg was equal to what in ordinary times is paid for one dozen. Thus you see w hat has become of this fine city, "the seat of peace and happiness," as it was as justly designated. The steamers coming from Constanti nople would take in neither passengers nor goods, in order to avoid the quarantine on these return ! and new anything coming here mom Constantinople is plaed under quarantine since the cholera has broken out th c ere.—Flanders Mail, , Dec. 7. Snir ON FIRL—TM Tagus, Capt Evans, arrived at Southampton, yesterday, with that portion of the India mail (in charge of Lieut. John Davie*, Admiralty agent) not previously forwarded overland. The captain re orts as follows: —" 'Thursday, Dec. 9 Wind S.W., strong breeze. WI of Portland, S.W., 10 miles. At three, cm., perceived a fire in shore of us. Steered for it, suspecting it to be a whip on lire, which, on approaching, proved to be the case ; got the boat ready to take crew out should they not have already left the vessel. On neariog, she proved to be a ship apparently about 400 tons, walded, scroll figure head, masts, and decks burnt out of her, but the bowsprit was yet standing. We passed close ahead of her, and per fectly satisfied ourselves that the crew bad already left. She had no doubt, front the progress the tire had made, been on fire several hours. We reconnoitred well around us, and could not perceive any sitherefore p gns of bos, ceeded masts, at tofull p*, or spars, floating alongside. Vi• at ro speed." ale Court. The Duke of Cambridge visited the Cattle-show yesterday. Mr. Brooke, governor of Labnan, had an interview with Earl Grey )esterday.—Mr. A. Boyd bad also an inter view yesterday with the noble earl at the Colonial-office. — Mr. Rowland Hill had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday at his official residence in Down intstreet.—The Bishop of Tasmania had an interview with Sir G. Grey yesterday at the Home-offios.—Mr. B. Denison and Mr. Bmter had an interview with the Right 800. E. Strutt yesterday at the office of the Commissioners of Rail ways in the Board of Trade. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England bad a meeting yesterday. Viscountess Palmerston arrived in town yesterday from Brighton. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yesterday. The lords present were the Master of the Rolls, Lad Brougham, Lord Campbell, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Cornwall, and the Judge of the Admiralty Court. Mr. P. Cooper, Q C., for the appellants, with whom was Mr. Speed, opened an appeal of Flint v. Warren," from a decree of the Supreme Court in Equity of New South Wales. The case lasted the whole of the day. Mr. Wood, Q.C., and Mr. Cole appeared for the respondents. AGRICULTURAL PROTECTION SOCIETY. The annual meeting was held yesterday, at the oars et the society, 17, Old Bond street. The Duke of Richmond presided. XL L. STA/FoRD 61. 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Or of lillszeast &dm* le the me* thee. the Arias Feta* be Afar ANA The teepsetha of the Oen Dales Act =One la Mar" r per sreah» a t oe ble Or vaeld be azirlas at reit sespet Ng mom As lig the aostety re el 11. Moe ear hemisa ame ebegoreled In a lb ar 1 arm te amp OA Ale* Ale Wave of thz= lish the firtmes - tha therfft aow = l' I b mp A OM AWL Ise loth *pat that we are set ve MIA lege that thew ebe line are driigia ism of them litho split IA thet ore. asserrldle, •thilith* b tuA sal *meg Botha le lithe us *rim NAM FAO% mazy Age* NSW ISM* thatOf lAA sea beer the Vineethth w. FNMA the sew the diem * nth* berthathal A the Aar bare at kid the pi air otheraeg bate • Wood hthfildba lAA MB Mal her toes lege the thelltaithe el their offeethg, sat Ithe u- lna* e ar b engin *thigh the behttellie wani—lreoseve. Xt. BMW HAM tweed the adoption of the met. ~~ THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 10, 1847. After alluding to the objects of the eiciety, he laid he cam unrelated he members on the fact that it had ant been established in vain. Now that the experiment of the free traders had been so fully tested and found to be so inotiffi cient in its effects, the society had a right to exult in its triumph, and strive to bring back that state of the law under which the country bad flourished. He could not then help congratulating the society upon the great good which it had achieved for the agricultural and trading classed, and not only for that but for what it would yet achieve in their behalf. Under the present system of things--the immense taxation of the country, and the metallic currency, he thought it must be impossible for this country ever to com pete with foreign countries on free-trade principles. He had always entertained that opinion,' and he believed his views were shared by every member of the society. Vise. henairrun seconded the resolution. He had little thought on the formation of the society that they would be so soon called to bear witness to the results which had take& plane from the adoption of the suicidal policy of free trade. When the society was formed, it was the rallying point for what he might call the good sense of the country. It was only in the session of 1846 that the total repeal of the core laws was carried through both houses of parliament, and now, at the latter end of the year 1847, we were in a state of unexampled alarm and disaster. He trusted that, new that the predictions which they (the society) ventured to hold forth at the former penod had been so disastrously realised, they might calculate upon having the support not only of the agricultural interest, but of the manufacturing interest, which bad suffered so much more intensely. They (the society) counselled them that they would be the first to suffer, and that though the blow might be levelled at the agricultural interest it would reverberate with redoubled force upon the manufacturers. They (the society) had been told that this country was to be the great workshop of the world ; but there was not one nation who bad reciprocated the advantages held out to them. He trusted that the able report which had been read would go forth to the world, and that they might yet hope to stop the downward coarse of things before it was too late. It would be for the legislature to consider how far this could be accomplished—whether by an alteration in the circulating medium of the country, or by the revival of protecting laws. Mr. JONAS supported the resolution. He held in his hand a calculation of the value of the imports of this coun try in 1843 as compared with 1817. The calculation in cluded cattle and • variety of articles. The value in 1815 was 4,410,0911., and the value in 1947, 31,241,7661. There fore, the amount of money required to be sent out of the country to pay for there large import* showed an excess in 1847 over IS la of 26,831,6781. Now, if the exports of the country had increased according to the expectations of Mr. Cobden, then, at any rate, one class would have been bene fited; but such bad not been the case, and he could not but ascribe all the distress which was taking place to the ice-trade policy.—The resolution having been adopted, The CHAIRMAN said he rose to propose the appointment of a sub-committee to carry out that part of the report in which it was stated that it was desirable that a committee be ap pointed, consisting of owners and occupiers, to co ontunicate together, and give their opinion as to the question called tenantright. Now, he had always thought, and had fre quently expressed the opinion in public, that those who wished to do justice to both tenant and landlord, should not have selected such a name as tenant-right. lie had stated that opinion in the presence of large bodies of farmers, and he believed that they had always agreed with him. Yet still, if he understood properly what was meant by tenant. right, he HIS one of its wannest advocates. He did not think that a tenant bad a right to go to him, force bim to let a farm, and then he alone make conditions. Such would not be ust, though he would allow that the great body of tenants hail sufficient iotelligeuco to make a good and fair bargain. Bat there was a great deal of occupancy that was not derived from communication between landlord and tenant—lands held in trust, &c.; end with all respect for the profession, be tit not think that a solicitor had generally sufficient know ledge of how fanning should go on to make him a proper agent. Many of the lands held under trust, corporations, municipal bodies, &c., were held in yearly tenancy. Now, he never forced a tenant to take a lean from him, because he very oftin found that they rid not wide to do so. He could not but think it extraordinary that the advocates for granting leases only commenced to ask far them when it was impossible to know what was likely to be the price of oorn. lie was an advocate of leases, because he thought a prudent tenant would not lay out large sums of money on land of which he had only a yearly tenancy. Indeed, he thought the tenant would Dever lay out much money on land so long as he was uncermiu as to what measures a cold-blooded system of political economy, aided by the greatest treachery, might pas through the legislature. The customs with reference to landlord and tenant in this country required amendment, and he should go into the committee, if he was a member of it, with a desire to do his duty to both, because he thought it impos sible to sever their connexion without doing a great deal of mischief to the country at large. As a landlord it was bill greatest pride to meet his tenants in the market, and to make a bargain tending to the mutual benefit of both parties. But he thought there should be devised some customs of the country in the business of sgreemeat —some general rule laid down by which the tenant should he en titled to claim for himself the unexhausted improvements which he had made in the land in his occupation. He also was in favour of that part of the measure which was advo cated by Mr. Pusey last year : for he would suppose that his friend Mr. JOOll4, or any other person, had built a very good stable ; if he put this stable on wheels, in the event of being turned off his estate he had a right to remove it ; but if he built it in the usual way, though it had been finished only a year, and he had reaped no advantage from it; by the law as it at present stands, the stable would become the property of the landlord, and the tenant would not be allowed to re move it. Now he thought that the outgoing tenant ought to be allowed to sell any building of the kind to the in coming one, and if he did not wish to purchase it he ought to be free to remove it or sell it to anybody elec. At the same time he did not see why the tenant should not be ebb reed, if desired, to leave the site where the build ing stood in the same state ss when be came in. He had intended in the last session to move for a committee in the House of Lords to inquire into the subject, but when Mr. Puny brought in a bill he (the Duke of Richmond) thought it better to leave it in his hands ; but the bill not having passed, he thought Mr. Pusey could not complain if a com mittee was now appointed on the subject, so as to bring intelligence from all parts of the country, as to the state of feeling ; and he felt that it would be the means of effecting wan& ruble benefit to the agricultural interest. The Hon. H. WILSON, M.P., said, like the noble lord in the chair, he had always regretted that the words tenant right should have been adopted to express so just a principle. He had always endeavoured to promote contidence between landlord and tenant ; he thought that he had succeeded to a great extent; and he believed - the principal cause was, that he had always introduced a clause into every agreement, pro viding that the tenant should be repaid for all uneahausted improvements to which the landlord had not contribute& Mr. NEWDISGATI, supported the views of the chide man, which he conceived would result in great advantage to the agricultural interest; and be thought it desirable that they should recommend to the adoption of the committee' provisions which would only step in when mutual agreement failed. He believed that to be the view which the society had taken upon the question. He rejoined that the society had not been idle, and referred to two resolutions r they had passed upon the subject of tenant-right, hoping that they would that day be confirmed. Mr. JONAIL as a tenant-farmer, congratulated the society on their exertions in the cause. The present law was defi cient in many essential particulars. In the float place, he thought the custom of giving but six months' notice to a tenant to quit was unjust, because the fanner was often thrown out from one place without having another to go to. Therefore he thought that less than a twelvemonth's notice ought never to be given. His second objection was that upon which so much bad been said, with reference to re moving buildings and fixtures. It always seemed to him one of the most anomalous provisions of our law that a trader should have power to remove a building when a farmer was prevented from doing so. His third objection related to the remuneration for unexhausted improvement, with regard to which he concurred in the arguments of the p re ceding speakers. He coaciaded by moving " that a committee be appointed to weather w hat steps shall be taken to carry out the resolution pawed en the Bth of June, lin, with respect to the relations of le adismi sad tenant." Mr. CALLEY, M.P., supported the resolution, though be was not in favour of forcing email Meant' into lease*, be cause he found them very ohm thethelleed to enter into them. As for the large 'aphelia lima* the landkeds were quite as much da p eet then as they es the landlords. Mr. STASTORD, aka spoke to the resolstioe. After poiatingout the differences existing between the quashes Of tenant-right in England end Ireland, he said that severthe lees it could not be expected that the landed proprietors in either house of parliament could view the bill whit* her Majesty's government had announced to bring forward any other sense than ea applying to both countries; for if once the legialature recognised the right in one country of holders of land who have made no stipulation with their landlords to compensation for improvements, they mast re cognise it in the other. He supported the principle because he thought both landlord and tenant had an important duty to discharge, namely, to make the lend produce as much food as possible for the good of the community. lie could not, however, see how the principle could be associated with free trade, and he thought it would be curious to see how the advocates of free trade in the House of Commons would meet the question, ae they must either deny all their former doctrine', or nand up, for the fist time, for the rights of the landlords The resolution was passed unanimously, which concluding the business, the meeting separated, PROFITS or THE SHAKSPEARE NIGHT.—The gross receipts of the ith a kepeare performance, at Covent-Garden Theatre, oa Tuesday last, amount to 1,1341. 2a. The printed statement of the committee, made the day before, estimated them at only 1,0001. The fund is still 6001. deficient. DINNER TO THE MEMBERS FOR 011111111WICH.-- 01 1 Wednesday, the constitumite of Admiral Delia mil Mr. B. G. Barnard entertained timirwrizetimatives with a Orme at the Trafalgar Tama, thew to eshbrote their Mere to parliament. Twine's Beeps. BR., KY, took the chair, The way WHO having been rea, Admiral Demise, la nesegis denims hr earl, that the Admiralty lei beg, bus Win *glebe Noe and they were ready riot only Is re' thole ova but also to attack smother coast if asemsary. reaped more glory Is the late w ar them any Misr est but John Bull knew too well that eller all the gleey honour, he had • long Till to pay. ThihrpeedesnMaity Ms Admiralty, bad left the nary ia • poi Meth smi he wAdmiral - Dundee) hoped his eatheem ould take good care to keep me.--Tas j e l b il iVi John liamell and her Majesty's Milmitellir Wig bon desalts tag. Wise mopeds& by embig that the ministry of 1414,0 •6 Ike Mid hapaiese i tem mos of the people, ea/ Seems eggesidea bed .the same SI it was in - 111111111ffiliffir et Led lebn lltamsil woe math y of the enffikillfrdleihnSiffille= l 4l ll6ll .o ol .' her in daemon bionssimem ar eel& loilmsgembsesent of E pp ag o i si smi des eA s heland, eleellele w irir d in o Chsl , m nn ghee We 11111 m of their d ßovough • =lllll. r si i/ seemed them."—Anneirel so the late maissiod &amiss tar tbs essagb, 'peados is Tbegemmt the peop = l lllllllr os li ss seadtbsp ill" Vism i ts dry to spe bei rl iella melee, and to protest the samstry ageism all its enemies. —Mr. E.G. Barnard else vegilibt to the toast, referring to his pan 000 duct, stating that he served the constituency :or 16 years, that he was mortgaged (God willing) for five •us longer, and after that he hoped to enjoy repose.—Admiral Dundee proposed the health of the chairman, which that gentleman acknowledged, and stated that his father was under deep obligations to the voter. of Greenwich for the support they always rendered hint in the West Kent elec tions.—Mr. Wyse, in proposing the liberal members of the House of Commons, said that as he happened to cease to be one of them, he could with propriety propose their healths. He explained the cause why he had bean rejected at Water ford —b•Clittilt he would not vote for the repeal of the union. Ile declared that he would not vote for any such measure : no, not for a thousand seats in parliament. On the hustler, in 1832, when asked his opinion on the subject of a repeal of the legislative union, he replied, that if it were a possibility it was an evil, and if it were a good it was en impossibility ; arid those two axioms he had ever since maintained.—A number of other touts were afterwards given, and the meeting was prolonged till a late hour. ST. ANDREW, HOLBORN ABOVE BARS, AND ST. GEOILOE vita Mervyn, MIDDLEBBX. A weekly . meeting of the board of governors and direc.ors of these parishes was held at the board-room, Little Gray's-inn-lane, on Wednes day, the 7th instant, at which upwards of forty of the mem ben were present; William Shawe Mayes ;Esq., in the chair. Mr. John Dixon. of Brownlow- street , in a very ap propriate address, moved " that the public press be admitted to the discussions of the board by courtesy, which was ably seconded by Mr. William Hunt, the ex-churchwardea of St. Andrew, Holborn; on which Thomas Y. M`Christie, Sae., the revising barrister for the City of London, moved an amendment that the words "by courtesy" be omitted, and which was duly seconded by Mr. Sparrow, but on a show of hands this amendment was lost; upon which Mr. Ord Hall moved another amendment on the original motion, "that the press should be admitted upon making application to the chairman of the meeting, and that the words ' by courtesy' he omitted," which Was agreed to by a majority of 13 to 8. The fact of two amendments being put on the original mo- tion excited considerable discussion, and ultimately, on the question being put, " that the original motion be submitted to the meeting," an objection to it was taken by Henry James Castle, Esq., of Queen.square, and his protest was accordingly entered.—Mr. Dixon, in support of his original motion, referred to a very talented leading article in the Liverpool Chronicle of the 25th September last, on the ex pediency of admitting the public press to the board of governors and directors of these parishes, on which Mr. Winch stated that that article had co st: some peen in the parish a very oomiderable sum ; but Mr. Dixon merely treated this as a mistake on the part of Mr. Winch, or as a freak hlof fancy on his I part, as the public press of this country . was well known to be decidedly opposed to the practices insinuated, and its independent tone fully justified the assertion. Mr. biThrishe was anxious to learn from Mr. Dixon the reason of his inserting the words "by courtesy," to which that gentleman replied in the most courteous language, amidst much laughter, that his original motion was shaped fee the unconditional admission of the public press, as a matter of right; but that Mr. Winch having objected to this, he ( Mr. Dixon), in order to accommodate Mr. Winch's scruples, inserted the words " by courtesy," and stated that he was prepared to put in any other words which that gen tleman might dictate, with the view that he might not escape voting . on so vital a question. The chairman decided to put the original motion, when tam appeared for the el mission of the public press, 18 ; against it, 17. Thus the friends of freedom and the press, after a very hard fought battle, which lasted until ten o'clock at night, gained the victory by a majority of one. The board-room is opened on every Wednesday evening, at seven o'clock precisely. THE SANITARY QUESTlON.—Yeeterdav a meeting of the vestrymen of St. Anne's, Limehouse, was held at the Town-hall, to consider what measures should be adopted fur the removal of a nuisance complained of with reference to the 'ewer, which empties itself into the Limekiln dock, and to consider the propriety of addressing a memorial to the com missioners at Gwydyr-house, in reference to the defective state of the sewerage in that parish. Mr. Rugg, upper churchwarden, in the chair.—Dr. Adolphus Barnet said the first case of cholera that took place in that parish, when the country was visited by that calamity a few yeses was that of the case of an old woman , who was while employed at her avocations at the month of this 'ewer. (slimy of the inhabitants stated that the emanations from this sewer were injurious to their trades. Butchers could not keep their meat,, which soon becuse tainted. He had taken the trouble to analyse the water d the Limekiln - dock , and he found the principal ingredienb of it to be sulphuretted hydrogen, a deadly pones!, and a gas liquor. These two gases, taken together, were quite suffi cient to produce all the various forms of fever, and to assist cholera in producing . fatal results. The sewer complained of was one of the main sewers under the control of the late commissioners of sewers of the Tower Hamlets, and aoeu mutated the sewage from Bethnal.green, Mile-end Old Town, and part of Spitalfields. He thought that its course might be carried through New Poplar and under the river Lea to I the marshes, where it might be applied for the purpose of irrigation to the land. He moved that a committee be ap pointed to draw up a memorial on the defective sewerage of the parish, and the existing nuisance complained of with reference to the eawer which empties itself in the Limekiln dm*, unineg. the most practicable means of obtaining its removal, - - end that the committee form a deputation to prossat the mid memorial to the commissioners of sewers The ruelutioa was wisely agreed to, when thanks were voted to the chairman, slid the meeting separated. THE SAILOR& Hons.—Yesterday the board of direeton of the above inetiehisa was held in the board-roam a/the establishment, Well-etrese, London Docks. The re pert for the pelt year stated that during the twelve years of the society's Wows It kfd erinferred on many thousand ' seamen great sad Wing beset. During the last year 4,667 boarders had hew received into the institution, and I every effort had been web to improve their moral condition by affording religiose Instruction. The Holy Scriptures I were pvided, in virile' languages. There was an excel, pro id library et geisha eel lestreetive works. Lectures wen delivered as the essemosaglae, &c. A schoolmuter gays free iostrostkm end arithmetic. The establishowt gam M wrung of 100 indivl each of wires bad a esplaste er sleeping berth. During the hit year, the ambler bad received and paid on the priests roams of the seamen, 23,41131. ; 4,1951. lid been sent to themselves or their familial, at their own homes; while, in the amber beak, he May lam, stood 2,2881.195 71. to the credit el thelenhes. Loot year's expenditure left a balance in hand at wet 7001. RAILWAY IRON.—The vessel, New World, arrived from New York, has brought, in addition to 604 barrels of apples and a variety of other articles of food, 149 tons weight of railway iron; whether an original importation, being consigned to order or returned British iron, was not specifically mentioned. The vowel, John, K. Skiddy, also arrived from New York, has brought, in addition ton large cargo, comprising every variety of American provisions, 822 bars of railway iron, under similar circumstances, and con signed to order. Other arrivals of railway iron have also Wien plate by the vessels just arrived from the United States of America. THE STORY ON THE COMM.—Another deplorable wreck happened on the Goodwin Sande on Tuesday night. ' She Ymgmed to have been a brig, probably from the Ineednetial and as nothing can be learned of the crew, it is eggeobsaill that the unfortunate fellows have perished. Leak, a very dangerous shoal, the Fa master, belonging to Whitby, was gale of Sunday. The Crew saved =sfn Wag boat, and after drifting about for boom szposed to the full force of the gale, dry wee Mina sa board the Shipwash light vessel, and dare min ditty ramie! on shore. Early on the morning of the 7th, the _Aritams, Mr. Quinn, captain, said to be Wft:tre IWwWit. weal ea @he ft, n between Bomestie and . The wee Wheheme emisavemWg tonsure the Ives al all ea bated, lout me own, The ethers saved tasemesivsa The mosaateitosa Falmouth report the shipping to havosallautesverakr la *at district. The Duke of Cunt beillnleeneship Irma Leedom had arrived there, after encouo. Wines& tempsheswaweather. Sheloataman and a portion Ohre 'kW mega The advice' from the different ports all weak of the eldest Ratan of the gales, almost equal to die sad Unisons ht rel. ISM er po The barque Attain, bound I teem Itt. Itvol, at the time the last account Wee lobes received hest Holyhead, was observed to be riding cretabis the Deblois's . ' Bank, having lost her fore man MA resissere_ Lbat, at that time, it was supposed that she would Mk* led on until ass IMO rendered. A loam ken Beasmarie has the following:—" The wind is ilt i tt r t blowing. Th e barque Amelia, Atkin son, friss. for Liverpool, is on the Lavin Sande, 7=Neal" with km of rudder and keg, and is full 1 9 . The master and crew were tam elf the ship by the life isost„sad boded at Beaommin The Mesmer Duchess of Bent, temaDablin for Liverposi,bes pat la ham Ike coals." IRELAND. Dimas, Dsc. 8. There is an approach to amity between the parties which divide the city and the corporation—a feeling which the Earl of Clareadon will do all in his power to extend. At the last meeting of the corporation a memorial to his excellency for the externs= of maul- Icipal rights was almost unanimously supported, the conservative party tendering their adhesion to the principle. The improvements sought are just and reasonable, and wad not have been withheld in the framing of the 3d & 4th Vic., c. 108-9, had not mu tual discord and distrust divided the civic community. The following are the amendments urged in the me morial The reconstruction of the wards on the priof the 39th and 40th sections of the English ; and to carry out the reform it is pro mptasTlG—t two commissioners should be appointed— ana by each portion of the council — repeal and con sorvaillve—who shall appoint an umpire, and if they should not agree, the power of select ion to vest in Vie Bari of Quesica. 2. 'rho Wagon of the :. ~: .J.<w. 11.1 . 13 • I - .14 s;%l *nod watt 1. English system of three years' rating to the relief of the poor, vrithout lessening the ten pound rating clause, or the present system of paying taxes. 3. The restoration of the ancient power of appointing sheriffs to the corporations. 4. The transfer to the council of the powers now exercised by the paving and light ing board, and wide street commissioners, as well as of the fiscal powers exercised by the grand jury, which raises about forty thousand pounds annually off the city of Dublin. S. The abolition of city at tachment, consolidation of taxes, revision of carriage laws, and the power to carry out a sound system of sanitary policy in the municipality. The memorialists conclude that " much of the moral and political strength of Great Britain is derived from the duties which all classes in the community are called upon to : sad they venture to express a hope that pur suing, as far as circumstances will admit in Ireland, principles which are infused into the icstitutions of Great Britain, may lead to the happiest results." THE GENERAL MINING COMPANY OP IRELAND.—This company, formed in 1844, now employ 1,400 men daily in Ti y. THE CABE OP EMBIZZLEHENT OP PUBLIC FUNDS.—COX HISSION OF OYER AND TEILMINE/A—This da Mr. Henry Joseph Mason was put to the bar, and arraigne d on four ire ' dictraents, each containing forty counts, for having, on the bth of May, 1843, the 27th June, 1845, the let July , 184.5, and the 18th June, 1845, male, forged, and uttered certain false drafts on the Bank of Ireland for the payment of money, with intent to defraud the Queen. The unfortunate prisoner looked very ill, and wept bitterly. Mr. O'Hea, the. prisoner's counsel, applied to postpone the case. The crown opposed the application, but it was granted. THIS RBcaxr STORM.—The storm has been severely felt at Cork, but no damage was done to the shipping. Several houses in that city were unroofed. INTRBPID HFPULSIT—Oa Sunday morning last the ser vant man of a former, named Michael Kenna, living near Ardcroaey, gat out of bed to inspect the fields, as is his usual custom, when three fellows, who had been watching in some of the outhouses until he left the house, came to the door, where their further advance was checked by the house dog, who attacked them furiously. Enraged at the interruption, one of the party shot the dog, and they were proceethog to burst in the door, when Kenna, whom the noise had aroused, taking his gun, opened it himself, at the same time crying out, " Come on, boys, tire away—l'm ready for you. They then moved back and fired a shot, which the in trepid Kenna instantly returned ; and the marauders seeing such a determined opposition, and fearing lest the neigh bours would be upon them, took to their heels. Kenua's nephews and brother, both of whose dwelling' are within three or four hundred yards of his house, came to his assist ante, and commenced a hot pursuit, which, to the credit of the neighbourhood be it said, was cordially joined in by all the neighbours and the inhabitants of all the houses by which they passed. After a run of three miles the pur suers succeeded in capturing two of the party, whom they were conducting to Borrisokane, when a party of police came up and offered to take charge of the persons and hand cuff them, which the Kennas refused, and took their prisoners themselves to Borrisokane hridewell. The third person is well known. The names of the two in custody are Feeney and Foley, both inhabitance of Borrisokane. The happy result in this instance is owing altogether to the constant ex hortations of the excellent parish priest, the Rev. Michael Scanlan,to his people, to put down disturber like these. SCOTL AND. EDINOCROW, DEC. 8. The hurricane that visited London on Sunday has come north, and has done much damage, particularly on the east coast. The Firth of Forth has an expo sure to the sea nearly north-east, and the wind, for the most part, was from that point- The first effect was on vessels riding in the Firth. Three sloops and a barque were driven on shore at Granton and New haven, a schooner at Port Seton, a sloop at Cockenzie, and two at Berwick. Crews all understood to have been saved. On shore, the high tides caused by the excessive wind played sad havoc amongst boats and bathing-machines lying dry on the beach, and at a distance from the ordinary water-mark so great as was considered sufficient to place them beyond all danger. But at Newhaven alone 60 boats were in jured—three-fourths of the number, probably, being total wrecks. All along the coast a similar result took place, and boats, nets, oars, and other appur tenances, have been destroyed, to the value of several thousand pounds. The strongest piers and breakwaters had snore or less yielded to the fury of the storm, and private houses at a considerable dis tance from the sea were inundated in the lower floors. The railways in the neighbourhood have also been injured, but not to such an extent as to impede traffic or telegraph communication. And not the least re markable consequence of the hurricane was the tear ing up of an old grave-yard, near Trinity, by which teeth and grinnuiff skulls of the olden time were mixed with the litter of broken oars and masts. About thirty wind-bound vessels are lying in Cairn ryan ; the other shelters of the west are also filled. Some fears are entertained lest the new municipal bills for Edinburgh should be pamed without strin gent clauses being introduced for drainage. The landlord interest rules so paramount, that many who are friendly to the sanitary cause would rather accept an instalment of improvement than provoke their opposition, which, like an avalanche, would come down and crush any merely local effort. The proposed new water company, distrustful of the sufficiency of the supply promised by the old company, as well as of their ability to supply what they have promised, are wisely keeping together to watch progress. At present the water-rates are being collected, and the full sum unblushingly asked, notwithstanding the three months' dearth. What news man would get his yearly bill for the Daily NeWs, if a quarter's papers had all been but wanting? But corporation transactions seem to be ruled by diffe rent ethics from those of ordinary trading matters. Trade is beginning to improve in Glasgow, one large factory employing 1,000 hands, which bad been shat up for some weeks, has again commenced work, and is on full time. Others are soon expected to be in the same position. In Greenock, ship building and machine work are very dull. The first Scotch mortality bill for November that has yet appeared is that of Greenock. The deaths amount to 181—being 70 above last year. For the whole year ending that month, the deaths have been 2,008 ; in 1845-6 they were 913. WALES. • • ------ HIGHWAY ROBBERIES AND ATTEMPTED MURDERS. —During the put few days the neighbourhoods of Neath, Swansea, and Aberavon, have been disgraced bye aeries of highway robberies and attempted murders, some of which I were equally as daring as that recently made upon Dr. Bow - I i ring, M.P., n the same district. A few nights back Captain Dean Lovering, belougiag to Neath, we. proceeding from Port Talbot, where his ship was lying, to his honor, when he was attacked by two men, whe demanded his money or hie life. He tried to pacify them by saying he had no money about him, when one of the robbers replied that he bad got a good coat on his back, and they were not only determined to have his cash but his garment also. Captain Loverin bad fortunately takes with him a loaded pistol, which be ha d concealed in his coat pocket. He, on finding that the rob bers were not likely to let him go, proceeded apparently to take off his coat, instead of which he drew the pistol from Yin pocket. Having informed the fellows that the pistol was loaded, he told them if they persisted in rob- Wng him he would shoot them. They, however, still demanded his money, when he shot one of the thieves in the lees. He immediately fell bleeding to the ground. The ether then stated that he had not disabled both, and imme diately made a most desperate attack upon the captain, boot- Wlam with • heavy bludgeon over the head. After a m asocaoiter, Capt. Lovenng, by using the butt-end of hi OWL ease off victorious. Information was given to the basal police, but the fellows succeeded in making their amps. On the same night, two men made a most murder ess' Walk upon a person, named Martin Donohugh, in the roadbed/mg to Womb. They fun threw the man down, then kicked him in the head, rifled his pockets of 365., after whisk they left him on the ground. The man, however, was not so badly injured as they anticipated, and he followed , them at a distance until be met with the police. Both de linquents were apprehended, and having been taken before the magistrate, they were both committed for trial at the I nest amuses. PROVINCIAL. SHIPMENT OF MACHINERY FROM LIVERPOOL.- The first of a series of shipments of 'wahines and articles of iron wee made at Liverpool for (Meese within the last few days. The vessel selected for the ooaveysnoe of the first cargo is the barque Flirt, but contrary winds stall detain her in the Mersey. This large shipment of iron is being sent from England in conformity with • contract which was en tered into at Hieff on the 24th of last September, for the construction of • suspension bridge across the river Dnieper, at that place. " This contract (says the Liverpool Adver tiser) was made between the imperial government of Russia and Chula Vignoles, Esq., the eminent engineer, and will, whoa completed, be the most stupendous under taking te le found In any part of the world. We need scomely inform the European traveller that the Dnieper is a noble river flowing through the Russian domi nions—that it runs about SOO miles, when it joins the Bleak Sea, and that, with the ezoeption of a elder of attars" whisk begin below the mouth of the Samara, ft at certain ameeme ar i r t st. as intent aid ft it is peelbslly ai d Awns a tread esammme. It is pepased, es see said. by the &min megunuaent, to mem It by seams of a brides at IOW; and he this popes the ematimelr i bsea entered into with Mr. Vlipsies, and the mashies acrd ar ticles Oben have been earls at a foundry is libabam. The total net weft of this shipment is upwards of 274 h% and the view plOOlll d 610, 6c., amount to 4,678, aM 1 . a .fut., uut.iu3i ll , • ere numbered in the invoice from Ito 320. As Odessa is about 400 miles from Kieft; the machinery on reaching the consignees, will have to be forwarded to its final place of destination by means of carts drawn by oxen. THE INUNDATION OF THE COLLIERIES AT WIGAN will, it is now calculated, says our correspondent, throw nearly a thousand hands out of work for months to come, and a new and fearful interest has been given to the eaten strophe in the neighbourhood by an opinion given currency to by some of the more experienced miners of a possibility that the ill-fated workpeople in the nine may be still alive ! ANOTHER COLLIERY ACCIDENT.—On Wednesday evening another of those fearful calamities to which the workmen in these mines are so constadtly exposed occurred at a ool:iery a few miles from Wigan, by an explosion of fire damp. One man was reported to here been burnt tedesth, and several others also severely burnt; but our correspond ent up to last night had not obtained the full particulars of the occurrence. CHARGE OF MURDER AGAINST A CAPTAIN.—At Liverpool, on Monday, Mr. Michael Chesty, the muter of the Eliza, was charged with having caused the death of a tailor, named Patrick Crean, on the outward voyage from Dauguyan to North America.—Jame. Matthews ( whose evi dence, which war now read over, had been taken in Ame rica), deposed as follows :—I am a seaman, and have been sent home by the authorities of Halifax in the steamer Cambria. I arrived in Liverpool in the steamer on the 16th of Nov. On the 20th of August I sailed in the brig Eliza from Dungervan fora port called Bucktooth, near Richf bucto, in North America. The primner was the master of that vessel. A few days prior to sailing from Dungaree°, I saw the captain, Patrick Crean, and Crean's wife, go from the Eliu to the shore in a small boat. Crean was a tailor belonging to Dunerareen. A day or two after we had put to sea, he (Crean) was found con cealed in the forecastle; he wished to go out as a passenger, and had concealed himself in order to evade the payment of the passage money. When we wire four days out, the cap tain said—" We must have a lark with the tailor ;" and ac cordingly the captain called for some rum, and gave me a glass, the second mate a glans, and Crean a glass. The captain then gave Crean the jug containing the remainder of the rum (about five glasses), and told him to drink it. Crean refused to comply with the request, whereupon the captain took out a knife, and said he would cut his throat if he didn't drink it. Crean then complied, and soon became very much intoxicated. The captain then made one of the hands (Martin) to spar with the tailor, and he induced ethers of the hands to tar the man, who was then beaten by the captain with a fiat piece of wo od :cheat the thighs. One of his whiskers was ghee, d off by the captain with a razor, and he was left lying upon the hitchway all night, wrapped round with a sail. There was no blood observable about him at that time, but the next morning there were appear ances of blood and corruption on the sail. The next day he complained of having had something broken in his inside, and four days afterwards he died and wss thrown overboard, the funeral service being road by the mate. Ile crawled once on deck before he died, when the captain (who said he had got the fever) administered some castor oil to him, mixed with punch. The captain alto gave him some fish end pota toes, and also some pancakes, and the man's bowels were seriously affected. The captain was constantly drunk during the passage. Tits Tema arrived at Bucktoosh in the mid dle of September, when witness went before tl.e magistrate, and told him all that happened with reference to Crean's death. The magistrate promised to write to a hibher power, and in some days after witness, Martin, and the second mats ran away from the vessel into the woods, sod they were appre hended subsequently at about ten miles distance from the shore. Then they were sent to St. John'', N. 8., to Fre• derickton (where they saw the governor), to Halifax, and back to Liverpool. The captain was taken into custody at Richibucto, but, being discharged from gaol,•he sailed home in the Eliza, and, on her reaching Bristol last week, be was apprehended at the mouth of the Severn, by a constable of the Liverpool police force. In the course of his cross-ens minatien by Mr. Davenport the witness admitted that he bad quarrelled with the captain at Bucktooth, because there the captain bad taken his clothe; and the cloths be longing to Martin and the second mate out of the fore castle, fearing that they meant to run away and desert the ship. They arriv, dat the pier at Bucktooth on a Satur day ; on Monday the clothes let re taken by the captain ; on Tuesday they went before the magistrate ; and, in eight days afterwards, they ran away into the woods. Prior to leaving the yowl they sent word to the captain by the cabin boy that they wanted to go ashore to prefer a charge against him (the captain) to the magistrate, and they were permitted to go. They told the magistrate all that they had told Mr. Rushton that day, and they would have gone to the magistrate if the clothes had never been taken. They were sent to prison for fifteen days for run niug away, and the magistrate who sent them to prima was the same magistrate to whom they had told `hem cum stances attending Crean's murder. There was g deal of fun going on when the rum .was drunk, and the captain appeared us very good humour. Martin's evidence was next read. It was similar in substance to that given by Matthews, except that he did not see the knife or hear the captain threaten to cut Crean's throat with it if be did not drink the rum. John Power, the cabin boy, denied that Matthews bad sent a message to the captain to the effect that he wanted to go ashore at Bucktooth, to prefer a charge against him to the magistrate.—Stephen Cuddy was the next witness examined, but as he did not see the circumstances on deck, his evidence was unimportant, except in this respect—that he had heard Martin, Matthews, and the second mate say, on the passage, that they would desert the ship at Bucktooth. In reply to Mr. Rushton, constable Bates said the only entry made in the log, relative to Crean was, thathe was sick three days, and that he died on the fourth. The prisoner, upon being called on far his defence, said that he was as innocent of the man's death as Mr.Rushtoa was. He bad given Crean two table-spoonsful of rum and castor-oil, and ho was net aware that the man was afflicted with a loathsome disease until after he wee dead. He (Crean) was ill all the time he was on board, and for seven days prior to his death he had not eaten any victuals. Mr. Rushton said he disbelieved the story 'gland the captain; and the contradiction between the two witnesses, Matthews and Martin, was so great, that it was matter cf regret the captain should hare been brought to Liverpool at all. The authorities here, however, had no alternative but to investi gate. Having then pointed out the discrepancies in the evi dence, he ordered the captain to be discharged. CHESHIRE. LYNCH LAW IN ENGLAND.—A woman having endeavoured to corrupt the honesty of an errand-boy in the service of Mr. Booth, grocer, Halton, the lad presented her with some parcels of sawdust, made up to represent the booty which she coveted. No sooner was she in possession than three stout men, armed with holly branches and sting ing nettles, who had been stationed by the boy's muter, rushed out and inflicted summary punishment upon her, concluding their assault by dragging her through a horse pond. WARWICKSHIRE. EXTRAORDINARY RAILWAY AL`CIDENT.—On Wed nesday, u the Leeds train, which left the terminus in that town at a quarter past one o'clock, was approaching Rugby, and within four miles of that station, an umbrella behind the private arriage of Earl Zetland took fire in consequence of a spark from the engine falling on it, and presently the im perial on the roof and the upper part of the carriage were in a blase. Seated within it were the Countess Zetland and her maid. The train was proceeding at the rate of forty miles an hour. Under these circumstances, her ladyship and maid descended from the carriage to the truck, when, despite the caution to hold on given by a gentleman from a window of one of the railway earnages,the maid threw herself headlong on the rail and was speedily lostsight of. On the arrival of the train at Rugby an engine was despatched along the line, when the young woman was found severely inj ured, j and taken to the infirmary at Leicester. Lady Zetland remaiaed at Rugby, where she was joined by his lordship and the family physician in the evening, by an express train from Eustonageare. How long will railway companies delay establishing a means of communication between passengers -ward ? ENFRANCIIISEBIENT.—A correspondent of the Worcester Journal says ,—After a trial of six years, it is quits evident that the Enfranchisement Act of 1841 has proved a complete failure, though no other result could be reasonably expected, when its object could be defeated at the will of the Lords, whose interest it was to throw all possible impediments in the way of its enactment& ; because, under the prevailing system of Anew, fees , and oth er mano rial exac tions, they got more than their due from the substantial owners of the land. Fortunate it is, however, that in this country abuses are soon reformed or abolished, when once the voice of public opinion, backed by true statements of facts and grievances, an he heard; and in a town and county like this, in which eopyhold property abounds, there can be ao scarcity—the united testimony of widows, heirs, mortgagees, and vendors, and the legal profes sion, could (on em much mistaken) produce a an array of these as would convince the most incredulous that the existing system has produced a total of want end embarrass ment scarcely to be believed by those who do not power or deal with property of this tenure. Surely the example of other townawill destroy the apathy which has so long existed on this subject, and some influential person will all a meet ing to lend a helping hand to fellow-safferers here and else where. It is believed the Real Property Commissioners are favourable to "compulsory" enfranchisement; but "pres sure from without" is seoemary to give effect to their views. None need fear a measure trenching too much on proper manorial rights; the tardier manors are a sufficiently power ful body to take we of themselves, and know well how to do so. Alithat is needed is combi nation to procure " com pulsory" enfranchimenent on fair and equitable terms for both parties; and to attain that end, I trwa the support of the oopyholders of Worcester and Worcestershire will be given to their brethren at Wolverhampton and other placer. --------- A SPECULATOR IrIFORN.—A few days since the are of John Hooper, late of Heniton, nurseryman and market prdsaer, esmso leader consideration in the Exeter Court of Haaloraissey. 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