The Express. — London, England, 1847-09-06 00:00:00

I /acrid, as well se on peace, which is the fruit of a good on- S ar ganding and of friendly relations between nations ; and 5. Some financial and purely economical questions columned the preceding ono. It is stated, moreover, in the programme, that men of all shades of opinion, and partisans al the Mims systems of political economy, have been ;vita to attend the meeting, in order that the above topics say bed te diactused, and resolutions be adopted, with a all kneel of all the circumstances. More than one hundred viduals from various parts of Europe have a lready expressed their intention to attend the meeting. Parties desirous of taking part in the proceedings are required to address their letters to M. V. Felder, avocet, 13, rue di Quartier Leopold, Brussels. BAVARIA.—LoII MoNT&. —a A letter from Manieh of Aug. 28, in the Cologne Gazetie, lays:—" The news of the intention of the King to create Lola Montes Countess de Landsfeld was known here before the appearance of the letters-patent, and the impression produced by this intelligence wax serious. Oa the 25th, a certain number of room belonging te the highest society met at the countess's Alla, end celebrated the event. The King's health was frank, and fireworks and other amusements lasted until midnight. The following is the royal letter gestating the new title We, Loud, King of Bavaria, announce to all whom it may con. an, that we have most granorly revolved to raise Maria Parr y sgmirs. of a noble Spanish family to the countal dignity , under the aka of Counter de tAndafeld. la granting her thus dignity, we miler on her all the rights and prerogative* attached to it in our kingdom. All functionaries and agents of the crown, and all our mesons great and small, and all our subiate in general, are hereby 'formed, that they will not only have to recogniae Maria Counter de Landsfeid av such, hat to treat her in conse q uence, for it is our will that every person contravening the practicer attendant on this our grant shall be preereuted by our law °facers before the tribunals, to ahem moor for Me Infraction of our orders, and the rights now acquired by a third party. In faith of which we have signed these yr rut with our royal hand, and attached thereto our royal sesl. L O CIA.—Ds hi or KILN us tirszeux—Aschaffenburg, Aug. le. RUSSIA.—ST. PETER-Sift:SG, AUG. O.—Accounts jut recviv,d from the Caucasus state that the cholera still continues to rage there, though it has disappeared entirely in come of the localities. The government, a few weeks agr, sent from here to Tiflis M. Piryroff, the celebrated sue. gical operator, as it was co,isidered that his extensive medical knowledge might prove of the utmost advantage there. A report has been circulated that he has fallen a victim to the cholera ; but it wants confirmation, and we sincerely hope that this excellent man, of European celebrity, may still be alive, and spared to science and humanity. The whole country, especially in the neighbourhood of Odessa, has been suffering from the plague of locests, which, in spite of all known reme dies which have been applied to exterminate them, seem to in crease daily and completely devastate the land. They have come from the mouth of the Danube and the provinces bor dering on that river. A private person living in Transcau casia, near Wiadiskowski, has lately discovered a silver mine en his Property , from which he took eight pounds of silver, and presented it, according to law, to the mint here to be assayed. This is the first discovery of the kind in Trans caucasia. Within the last fortnight we have had the most charming weather. Ihe hay has been very flue, and has been all got in. The cutting of rye will commence imme diately in ail the northern provinces. WEST INDIA & MEXICAN MAILS. • The Royal Mail Company's steam-ship, Great Western, Captain Abbott, arrived at Southampton yesterday, at 9 a.m. The Admiralty agent, Lieut. Miller, was left behind sick at Havanna. Mr. Elli son, the second officer of the Great Western, took charge of the mails. The dates brought by this arrival are :—Vera Aug. 2 ; Tampico, July 26 ; Havanna, Aug. 11 Chagres, July 27 ; Carthagena, July 29 ; La Gasp& Aug. 2; Jamaica, Aug. 8; Honduras, July 20; British Guiana, Aug. 4 ; Trinidad, Aug. 5; Barb.- does, Aug. 8 ; Grenada, Aug. 9 ; St. Thomas, Aug. 1b; Bermuda, Aug. 20. The Great Western brought home 49 passengers. The freight on board consists of 208,391 dollars on merchants' account; 591 ounces gold dust; 1,9411. British coin ; 26 bars of silver, valor 63,486 dollars; 10 scrons cochineal ; 2 boxes pearls; 6.5 bales tobacco; 114 cases cigars; 22 bales sarsaparilla; 8 bales jalap ; 5 boxes vanilla; 17 packets arrow -root; 27 cases pines ; 62 turtle ; sad 70 small parcels. The dates from Mexico are the same brought yid New York by the Hibernia, consequently we have nothing new of any moment. There appears to be plenty of money in Mexico, bat there is great di in a. calty getting it to the coast. General Varedes proceeded to Mexico, under the assumed name of Morgan, in the Teviut from Havanna. We have cot been able to learn whether he made good his landing, on which head great doubts were entertained at his departure. Santa Martha was sickly, and the want of rain much felt. On the arrival of the Clyde Packet at that place on the 19th of July she found there an Ameri can high-pressure steam-boat, the first of the three destined to navigate the Magdalena river. It had made the passage from New York in 24 days, touch ing at Bermuda and St. Thomas to coal. On the re turn of the packet to Santa Martha on the 30th of July the American steamer was still at Santa Martha taking in a Largo for Bogota. It was to sail in a week. With 200 tons of coals on board, it drew lees than 3 feet ' • with 80 tons of goods, one day's wood fuel, and 20 passengers, it will draw 2 feet 8 inches. Ano ther is expected in October ; the third is only to be built if they succeed. Our correspondent procured the following information from an American engineer employed in the construction of the canal between Carthagena and the Rio Magdalena: The steam-boats in question are to run between Santa Martha and Bogota, in opposition to others which are to communicate with Carthagena by the canal. The govern ment has given 100,000 dole. to each company, to keep up the opposition and prevent monopoly. The canal, or the communication by it with Carthagena, will open into the large bay or harbour opposite the further entrance, culled Boca Chia, or small passage, distant about seven miles from the town. It is an inlet of still water, which runs in a ser pentine direction to within 10 miles of the river 60 miles), var y ing in breadth from 50 to 600 feet, at times very deep and elsewhere almost dry ; bat by the employment of the necessary machines the whole will soon be navigable. On the canal there are about 500 men employed under American engineer', and seven, out of the ten, miles are completed. The new tariff was received from Bogota at Car thagena on the 28th of July : the duties on exports have been considerably reduced, and those on imports to a still greater extent. It was reported that, at the lest Congress at Bogota, the proposal to make Panama a free port was rejected by a majority of one ; the de puty for Panama, whose private interests are opposed to such a step, having voted in the majority. Govern ment, however, is understood not to have abandoned the measure. Don Juan Francisco Martin, plenipo tentiary to Peru from the republic of New Grenada embarked on board the Clyde at Carthagena, with his family, on the 20th of July, and landed at :PST, where arrangements had been made to for. tim en his way immediately. It is believed that his mission relates to a commercial arrangement with Peru, by which the produce of that country shall be transported by Panama, instead of round Cape Horn. The Rio Chagree had been flooded by the heavy rains at the time the packet arrived. The mails from Panama were three days in reachiog,Chagres, and in consequence of the state of the roads and weather, few passengers had arrived from the Pacific. Com modore Stockton was expected at Panama on his return from California, but had not arrived when the mails left. Some American officers far the Pacific squadron took a passage in the Clyde from Jamaica to Chagres among whom was Commander Rudd of the United States corvette, Dale, whose former commander had resigned from ill-health. There was much talk at Chapel' of intelli gence from Bogota that the government had made a grant of territory for 99 years to some European company (we suppose the Royal Mail Steam-packet Company), for the formation of a road across the isthmus. It is believed the road is to ran from Porto Bello, and that great privileges have been conceded to encourage the company in their opera tions. The feeling at Panama was that if this be true, the inhabitants will emigrate to Porto Bello. An American, who has been for some time resident as a medical practitioner in Central America, mentioned to our correspondent that the inhabitants of Costa Rica espouse the cause of Mexico against the United States with great warmth. Americans, he says, find it impossible to reside amongst them, and the Eng lish, as speaking the same language with the Amen cane, come in for a fall share of the disagreeable& Madame Rivera, widow of the late president of Hayti, was expected to arrive at Jacmel in the Clyde on the 10th of August. At the suggestion of the' general in command there, the British consul sent off • to warn her that imprisonment, and, perhaps, death, alight be the consequence of her landing, but she was hot on board. The Clyde learned on the 12th of August that a Newish frigate from Havanna had been in communi cation with the governor of Porto Rico all day, and bed made sail for Santiago de Cuba in the evening. It was said that the answer to her despatches was, to be seutthence overland to, Havanna to the captain-general. JAMAICA.—The political news from this colony 'pit, unless we are to give that designation to statements ' kit the governor hes appointed such or such a gentleman prising barrister, or that he has made a speech—apparently none of the wimM—at the St. Ann's cattle show. Of this speech in question, we have searched our files in vain for • I complete report, but • passe quoted by tbe Jamaica Despatch is as indacreet as could well be im a gined. ✓ lf that journal speaks correctly, his excellency "confessed that the indignation of a-British subject may well be stirred at find_ I ing himself driven into competition with the slave-trader." Now this, if really said, was pandering to the angry misap prehensions of a part akin audience. There can be no doubt that a system like slavery ramifying into all the social and economical relations of our sugar colonies could not he ex tirpated without creating some uneasiness. It is equally true that the bungling, alternately hesitating, 'and precipitated manner in which it was sat about aggravated the evil. But it is equally true that slavery could not be defended, and that its extirpation was inevitable; as also that further perseverance in a restrictive commercial policy would increase instead of alleviating the evils of the West Indies. These views are acknowledged to be just by the majority of the resident colonists, who sup ported negro emancipation before it became law. Those who cry out for continued protection, and make sentimental appeals to our "free labourers," as requiring to be pro tected against the competition of sugar grown by slaves, are precisely those who battled to the last to uphold slavery. (heir mistaken views and ill.humour we can pardon, but not the encouragement of it, for the purpose of obtaining a temporary popularity, by a man who knows better, as the I Governor of Jamaica unquestionably does. With reference to the general state of trade in the island, ' De Cordova 's Circular reenarksee—" If we except the de cline in the prices of some articles, which will be found par ticularised below, no change of any moment has occurred in the state of the market since our last report. The circum stances which were at that period exercising a depressing in- Beene° on our trade, continue to operate against it to the same extent. With Teepee& to the new tariff, nothing (either has been heard relative to the movements of the home government. We may mention, however, that the o:d tariff has been ordered to be enforced until the matter shall be finally arranged." There is &statement bearing on the delay of information respecting the fate of this same new tariff in the Jamaica Despatch, which, as illustrative of the habitual procrastina tion of the Colosial-olltes, may has Had a place wises. dole Item a eimestyxery was publicity to a rumour that the gentym sad minmarld math* be Ike as, tariff law pawed last si toss lady Isle vellierell let Se the Bonin of gitaembly for resendemetlan at IM wet se mien. Ba k trim tbs rumour being me rest. as rib the alletelmg menieele, engt Irby Lewis Ari Esq., free letters reselved br hie In Wand, will convince our readers to the contrary. The is an extract of a letter dated London, June I : 1 mblemed the Board of Trade upon ihesubjeet(ss per ;Imes then I have been at the Board .(Trade at sad analta 7lam Mr. Wm% the principal se sal, tdar_lelltdal Ildiagra3 p ermattaport duty, with drawlest, sad malmiJamillia • pit. as odd that both arc what worm mato Inaba cal r lelaemeset ; but there were other camiimathastawatted, psstleelmlly as* the Navigation laws, which are at tide arrasat viadir she eaistematir at the government, and midi bear as tie PMT aH d Ida* mold be fallsonakiered by the Semi et Teak ea plum nub tile y to adopt or reject Ike paltko sad 11101Marbe *as lambs ; sot, as I nagerelood the subject, ft was very prokelle dug I law he menummil leLife the board w give evidence on the .eels,. des did, I ban am Mr. Ixtevre wen, and he told we that the manialai WI pillion had not yet reached the °face, I shel Militylbrie midi am& they des''' Another letter to Mr. Aria, under dais 'ldadirk Jr the ' 1517, , from the mole correspondent, esehins the 1 Lave been at Islet a dozen lime be al Board of Trade, and crest the secretary about the hawks messerlal and petition: they have sot yet reached that office. TY saitetary has promised to write ISC when they do.' Neat packet ; no doubt, will bring some poeittve in .. . Next packet ! Ah, too sanguine Despatch ! You ought to have known the delays of Me office better. The packet arrived in due course, but, as our extract from 'Do Cordova will have informed the reader, not a word about tee tariff. The weather, up to the latest advice', continued anything but satisfactory. In St. Mary's it was most destructive. The rivers throughout the pariah were nearly all dry, there being in some places not water enough to supply the steam engines or the still houses. One estate in the lower part of the pariah had, for some time pest, been compelled to carry water in puncheons for the supply of the engine, but even this resort has at last been giv,n up, and on that, as well as on other estates, sugarmaking is entirely suspended. although there is a large field of canes yet to be takes off. Meanwhile the plants for next yeses crop were alm :rt burnt out of the ground ; some pieces of spring plants had been i supplied as often us four times to no purpose. At Montego Day the weather was very sultry; rein.clouds passed over, and carried away their contents to the ocean or distant lands. In the dearth of news possessing human interest, the following, relating to atmospheric convulsions, may have interest. It is contained in a letter dated Lucea, July 20: On Wednesday last one of the most frightful and terrible whirl winds that I believe has ever been witnessed In this island assailed the town and port of Loma. The wind blew from all ganders as If cooverging to a focus at the same time. The rain mined with hail stones fell in torrents The eel roe ILI a =MOIL, ned, and then retired several feet. It memeal as if an opening in its bed had oc curred, and that it limb into the boom of the globe. The lightning flashed, and then an earthquake followed, which la-led tererul meads. A gentleman who has nearly reached his Beth year, but whose strength of body and vigour of mind are unimpaired, declared to me that it wis me of the severest he ever felt, and that the bou.e literally rocked, while all the females ran =reaming out of doors. God be praised that, so far as we yet know, m damage has bees done and no lives loot. . . _ —•-- The earth, too, has been moved in Jamaica as well u the air We understand that during the Lug week of July the submerge mad of a considerable extent of land took plate et Greenland Settle ment, the mildew* of the late lion. Alexander Grant. We are In formed that it was gradual, but had attained a ooneiderable depth ; tits vacuum thus crerted was exlending by the crumbling edge•, of the surrounding earth, and the safety of some adjacent house. was con siderably endangered. The wreck created by the vortex embraced several large fruit trees. - - - TRINIDAD.—With the exception of the proceed ings in the Legislative Council there is little of general interest to record from this colony. And the inte rest evert of the senatorial deliberations is confined to • debate on taxation. and a discussion bearing on the principles applicable to the disposal of waste lands in • colony. With regard to the first, the governor declared that the government of the oniony could not b.. carried on under an annual revenue of 100,0001. The Po. t of Spain Gazette reserves its opinion on the subject till the estimates fur 1848 have been laid on the council table. We honestly confess that we participate in the scepticism as to the alleged impossibility hinted in the able journal to which we have alluded. The governor propose* • tax on all realised property, at a rate that will raise 40,0001. per annum. The council, after due deliberation, voted • tax of Is. per gallon on all rem of 24 proof. Doubts are enter tained as to whether this may not be an encouragement to the smuggler. The discussion on the disposal of waste lends hiu an interest for many colonies besides Trinidad. We therefore extract a very intelligent abstract of it from the Port of Spain Gazelle. We may premise that Mr. Burnley, for whose talents and intelligence we have the highest re spect. appears to us to labour under some misconception of the Wakefield system on one point. We have never under stood that • minimum quantity of crown land to be disposed of was considered necessary by Mr. Wakefield. Mr. Burnley inquired of the Chief Justice the meaning of the 4th article of the nonce reepectiog crown lands which had lately been published. It appeared to him that the governor could sell any quantity of land, from I ame to 640 acres. It was nece vary that the public should know If this was the case—The Chief Jardine stated that he had no objection In answering Mr. Burnhy's questaen, and as aMeSPOT of the Court of Intendant he held himself responsible for the advice which he had given. The Coact of Intendant reserved to Itself the right of granting any quan tity of land it chow, in conformity with the instructions of Lord Grey (which bad been read at that board sometime since). The instruction. were, fur village lots one acre, and for other grants 64.7 acres. The board would easily conceive Ike., with regard to estates adjoining crown lands, where SO, to, 10, Br 80 acres only were required, that it would not be right to make the party purchase 640 scree when be perhaps, wanted only acre, -Mr. Burnley considered, as far as the answer w..ti intelligible, it was perks tly satishc tory. lie, however, should give notice of a motion, that tin excellency be reepeethally reCoeMd to alter the 4th article of the notice in seW:hh 131•18 don of the Commissioners of the Lend and Dew& ftempint in Lord Stanley's despatch to Sir Hairy b INI. IN shreyeanderstood the difference between *nage Me aft the Isle ter stifte, but did not think the Conn of ntendent selherieed le mks a pent of any quantity be tween them. Mb eneethsey Lord Grey distinctly authorised Lida. Chief Justies— now objected to had been adopted Str Hasty Mile the advice of Mr. Fuller, at that time as, et** le Ifite26ll/. He could name a da z es eases where womb at ebb had lea hem mule.—Mr. Burnley con. teed at thiseleuhl lea OA be softy ant the W e gg steid prtnelple, it was neemeary th be rlibly Wh te.-1113 Bacelle considered that it wee abelftly ftiesmey fee lbblue prosperity nt7 el the colony, that the wweemer Amid hare the pews le make grant. or this bind, of weft eimstithe of bed Yrs 6W sena— Mr. Bonney, with all deftest* to the therbdib beam of his Kaceilieney, osaleedel that ea the gebable am welch he W studied the wmelbe l.. l . wee ebb this tarries should not bo bream bet balsa mmeurrence in the ydeelple Is nom, est The quemitty elsould oat ins ties No sere% se. tre dye leb.—ith Excel ' Way bee stmellde Weed wry =dm eamdandle• kr the hot IS yams. ad he bed stedlei ihe imam ancneieb red lea mot, bream mai le • ed , emededist bet unlit lila W h oa Horsley smatiom • dm& me sloe the Webildi syste strictly abbe/ lasby: It MI hem • emu at as.. plaint with Its mbeasiss bee the swam bed me bile wiled amt, Atter laying eat slip ble he lastrad 1 bed bum lend that they were WNW se • Masks deft budded Itr• ayes. Sem when they hid smell Wens at bed de biked it hid bees bond ebenteld ON le Mew bed they INlNl disl =eq elides IS Wiry way Amy eseli le Wee Memel ImeL-7tr. dareley bend ft wormy tor the pod at the obey, he &mkt Wag *award his motion at the nod meats& HONDURAS.—The grand oowt opened its sittings on Monday, the 28th of June, and closed them on Friday, the 2nd of July. The greater part of the civil cases were either withdrawn or thrown out on some informality. There were no criminal cases of any consequence. The public meeting assembled on Monday, the sth of July, and closed its legislative labours on the afternoon of Wednesday, the 7th. Five bills were submitted for the eemeideration of the meeting : 1. An act to enable a limited Mike of %OMNI= te In the courts of this Wiliam& IL As ail Maim tbs Ymeofawswains the public meeting. 3. As ants altor Me woolltoisa al dr Sum mary Court. 4. es Mt tar wast pa solar in dr mum nit,. S. An act far.las swami Ows of Iwoloners. The first of thew ISMOZIII was throws out by • 'ty of 15 to 10. The issued was peeled with so assssiweat thine the third Tuesday in January and the third Tuesday in July am the times of meeting. The third bill wee adored to be read a second time that day three months by a ma jority of 14 to 8. The fourth bill was passed. The fifth also pared. A slightly modified version of the first bill was intro duced, bat met with the same fate as the original. The annual estimates were next voted—their value and amount are not stated in the Observer. On a report from the board of gaol superintendence, representing that regularity and sound discipline were impossible in the present gaol, the meeting pledged themselves to meet the demand for a new one as soon as the specifications were laid before them. Earl Grey's letter on the subject of education for the labouring classes in the West Indies was submitted to the meeting who appear simply to have " acknowledged its paramount importune." The superintendent confirmed the acts passed by the meeting in a letter to the chairman, dated 16th July. He refused, however, to sanction one of their votes: With reference to a resolution adopted by the public meeting, en, powering consignees and owner. of meets, end the churchwardena t to send to the h ospi tal such of the man of the said Teasels as may be At and proper ,eta fee reception:" I comet Goodie it ayes THE EXPRESS, MONDAY dist le modes ee sea ea It however, laid sie f=en II ma sleds &w eedy aimed et by Me Is • isessers eerieehe to ebyeet tie goseel eorneriesee ; osel with Ns Weer the Oebuild Ikaraary, the peels trerierer, the of a le the hasyhaL pike mesteksas sal the pablh =Med ire, win is Mese sent NAM thohiles INDIA MAIL—The Tagus, Captain Wilson, arrived at Southampton yesterday afternoon, with the Southampton portion of the India mail, under the charge of Lieut. Wil son, R.N., Admiralty agent. The Tagus left Malta on the 24th ult., and Gibraltar on the 29th. FRENCH OCEAN SfEAMERS.—The Philadelphia arrived at Cherbourg on the morning of the lit inst., is 16 days, from New York. Her dates, as our readers are aware, are the same as those brought by the Hibernia. The Uoion, of the same line, sailed for New York on the 30th ult., with a full cargo, and a great number of passengers. Irk Court. - - ARDVERIKIE, THURSDAY, SEPT. 2.—Yesterday a continued wet day, in spite of which her Majesty and his Royal Highness walked in the grounds in the evening. Viscount Palmerston is expected to-day, as the Secretary of State in attendance upon her Majesty. The Marquis of Abercorn, Viscount Jocelyn, and Mr. Popham, will join the loyal circle at dinner this evening.--Sari. 3.—Yesterday Prince Albert and the Prince of Leiningem went out deer stalking. In the afternoon her Majesty and his Royal Highness drove out, attended by the Master of the Horse and Major-General Wemyse on horseback. Baron de Brunnow had an interview with Sir George Grey, on Saturday, at the Home-office. Earl Grey has arrived at his seat, Howick Hall, Northumberland, from attending the Queen at Ardvertitie. Despatches for the Governor of the Falkland Islands were sent off, on Saturday evening, from the Colo nial-office. -- --- Sir George Grey arrived in town, on Friday night, from his neat, Fallodon, Northumberland. Mr. Bellew had an interview with the right hon. baronet, on Saturday, at the Hoene-Milne. _ Despatches were received yestcrday ar the Colonial offios from the Governor of Gibraltar. Despatches mere re ceived on Saturday at the Colonial. office from the Governor of Sierra Leone. RETURN HE THE Qt EEN.—A correspondent at Carmarthen writes that the Queen is expected at Milford Haven on the 12th September, on her return from Scotland, and orders have been received at Pembroke Dockyard to pro vide coal for the use of the steam squadron. Her Majesty, it is expected, will land at Pembroke, and visit Lord Cawdor, at Stockpot° Court. The Duchess of Kent is expected to arrive in Eng land film the continent on Wednesday next; an order having been received for the whole of the extensive repair, and embellishments at Frogmore Howe (which were com menced immediately after her Royal Highness's departure fur Belgium, the Bth of last Jane) to be completed by that day. MARRIAGE IN HIGH LlPS.—Wynyani, the beau tiful seat of the Marquis and Marchioness of Londonderry, is just now the scene of brilliant festivities, consequent on the marriage of the Lady Alexandrine Vane, second daughter of the marquis and marchioness, and the youthful Earl of l'ortarlington. The noble marquis also availed himself of the opportunity to celebrate at the same time the return of his son, Viscount Seaham, as member for the northern divi sion of the county of Durham. The order of events is some thing as follows:—The marriage was solemnised on Thurs day evening within the mansion, and succeeded fly a magnificent banquet, at which coven were laid for 56. Shortly before seven o'clock the company began to assemble in the banquetting room. The ladies having taken their position on one side of the apartment, and the gentlemen on the opposite side, the Bishop of Durham entered, attended by the Rev. W. Casaide, vicar of Grindon, is which parish Wyoyard is situate. After a few momenta' delay, the bride proceeded across the gallery resting on her noble father's arm, and attended by • train of nine bridesmaids. As the bridal train passed up the banquetting room the visitors closed in, and formed a circle round the betrothed pair. li The noble bridegroom having received her ladyship at the altar, they took their places, and the Lard Bishop of Durham performed the enemony, at the close of which the noble bridegroom raised the veil from the face of his fair bride, and kissed her ladyship. The bride then warmly embraced her noble mother and father, and turning to the attendant bridesmaids affection ately kissed each of them. The noble pair, having brat re mised the congratulations of the assembled company signed the usual record of their marriage in the register of the ad joining parish of Grindon. The entry was attested by the Marquis and Marchioness of Londonderry, an well as by the Dake of Rutland, the Duke of Cleveland, the Duke of Devonshire, the Viscount Comberrnere, and Sir R. Peel. The bride and bridegroom then took leave of the assembled circle, and at 8 o'clock left Wynyord in • travelling carriage and fur for Scaham.hall, where they intend to pass the first few days of their honeymoon. ENBARRASsMENTB.—We learn that the myrmidons of the law forcibly took posoession of the princely seat of a noble duke, in a county long known for the political in fluence he exercised, on Monday last, and, it is feared, that the urgency of the demands made on his grace will even tually lead to the dispersion of ose of the finest collections of works of art and vertu possessed by a private individual is this country. We should have refrained from announcing this much-to-be-regretted fact, had we not felt convinced that it cannot fail to be made public very shortly. RECONCILIATION IN HIGH LIFE.—It will be a source of gratification to all our readers in the highest circles of society to learn, that the estrangement, which has caked in a ducal family, canoed by the indiscreet elopement of a youthful lady, has at length ended in a reconciliation, hap- pily_brought about by a near relative of the noble family. THE EARL OP DUNDONALD departed on Thursday for Edinburgh, to attend the election of the representative peer. for Scotland, at Holyrood Palace, on Wednesday next, the Bth inst. The noble earl is a candidate, and a general impreskion exists that he will be elected. THE PRISON INSPECTORSHIPS.—R ie understood that Captain Williams, the inspector of prisons for the Midland district, will succeed to the inspectorship of the Home district, vacated by the death of Mr. Russell. Captain O'Brien will move from the Scotch district to the Midland; and the inspector appointed for the Scotch district is Captain Kincaid, who has been for many years the governor of Brulewell prison.— Tinset. LIBRARIES FOR THE POLICE.—The Secretary of State for the Home Department has presented the sum of 201. to each division of the metropolitan police, to be dis posed of in the purchase of useful books, to be placed in the various libraries attached to the stations for the use of the men. The station libraries are already possessed of several hundred volumes, and the men pay one halfpenny per week subscription for their use. It is intended to form reading rooms at all the station.houses in the metro po lis. REMOVAL OP CONVICTS.—THE FREE TICKET SYSTEM.—On Saturday the first batch of convicts, who are to leave their country on the free ticket system for Austral asia, were removed from tho Millbenk Prison. They num bered between 70 and 80, and appeared in the best of health and spirits. The Waterman steamer, No. 7, took them on board for Woolwich, where they still remain until another draught arrives from the new Model Prison with about the acme number. On sailing, the vessel will call at Cork for another lot, and then proceed direct to Australasia. Oa arriving at their destination they will be treated as freemen, and everything will be done, by order of her Majesty's government, to make them forget the degraded state which they had formerly been in. REFUSAL OF AN ALDERMAN TO OBEY AN ACT OP Paatramexr.—At the City Police Committee on Saturday, Mr. bill, the pass master to the City of Londoa, attended with several Irish females before Mr. Alderman Farebrother for the purpose of passing them home. One of the persona, a woman with five children, informed the alderman that she was to be sent home against her will, for she had no person in Ireland living to whom she was related. The family had like many others come to Eegland through want, and were landed at Liverpool, from whence, although they were they were sent to London, where her husband died the next day. They had since been in the City of London anion, but the guankno had now determined to pass them back to Ire land. AVorman Farebrother said he should certainly not sign the order of removal, and directed Mr. Russell, the clerk to ikeboard of guardiam, to be soot for. That officer subsequently allamftsd, and said it was the wish of the woman to go bask ; leskiee it was necessary to send back the casual paupers.— Mr. Alderman Farebrother said she had, with tears in her oyes, told him a very different story, sad although it was necessary to send some back, he certainly should not sign a pass to send back a poor woman who declares that she has not a single relative left, and thus force her and her five children to die for want of food. He certainly would not be • party to such proceedings.—Mr. Russell submitted that he was compelled by act of parliament to carry out the law; but the worthy alderman maintained that he would not carry out an act of parliament that, for aught he knew, might saute the poor creature' to die from want as soon as they arrived in Ireland or on their passage.— Observer. DRAINAGE OF' LAND.—AIR DRAINS.—Sir,—On the 10th of February, 1846, I recommended in • pamphlet, the construction of air-drains or connecting head-drains, in addition to the ordinary parallel drains, a practice at that time entirely new to the public. Ex perienco having confirmed my opinions as to the advan tages of this practice, it may not be uninteresting to your readers to be informed of the result of one of the many ex periments I have made to test its utility. The field to which I shall refer is in the occupation of Mr. Stafford, of Mans ham, near Newark-on-Treut, and consists of ten acne of strong loamy soil, upon a clay subsoil. It was underdrained by Mr. Stafford four years ago, by twenty-five drains, two feet deep, and five yards apart, each diseha Bing into a covered Outran at the bottom of the field. In the autumn of 1848 it occurred to me that this being a somewhat shallow-drained field, it preeeated a good opportunity for experiment; I divided it into four compartments, each containing five of the drains. With the two outside and centre compartments I did not interfere. Into the two other compartments I in troduced what I call an air-drain across the upper ends of the five drains, in each ease, to join them together. I then connected the drain so cut with the adjacent open ditch at the top of the field, in order to increase the natural current or circulation of air through all the drains. The field was 4terwards cultivated in the usual manner for turnips, and I did not again visit it until Wednesday, the 19th of May, the heavy rains of the winter and spring having concluded late the previous evening by a pounog rain of tsar hours does. son ; Mr. Stedind and I on this day traversed the Add th - G, SEPTEMBER 6, 1847. every direction and the superior condition of the soli on the two air-drained pieces was everywhere distinctly apparent ; but what afforded proof more convincing and undenieble was the eireuenstancop that, on ploughing the field mom all the drains, on the following morning (Thursday), wet bright marks were left by the plough on the land within the two outside and centre compartments, but no indications of wetness appeared on the two air-drained pieces. We together again visited the field on the 4th of August, when we found the turnips, owing to the intervening and uninterruptedly dry weather, by no means fiourithintr; yet it was peculiarly gratifying to find the turnips on the air-drained land, cer tainly one half superior to thee* on the remainder of the field. Mr. Stafford informs me that, during windy or breezy weather, a draught of air through the drains is always perceptible at the outlets; and, at other times, • steamy evaporation is frequently visible. The conclusion to which my mind has been brooOt by this and similar expe riments is, that drains two feet deep, with air-drains to faci litate evaporation, &c., are equal to drains two feet six inches deep without such auxiliaries. Thus, by the simple and in expensive plan of introducing my mr-drains into lands drained by present innifficiently deep drains, the superior advantages of deeper drainage are in some degree acquired. —Sumer literceonsow.—Oranthans, Sept. 3. SUPPRES.OION OP PROSTITUTION.—It having been ascertained that a large number of the houses of a certain description, into which young and inexperienced females are inveigled, are kept by persons of the Jewish nation, the pre sent High Priest or Chief Rabbi (Mr. Alder) has, within the last week or two, caused it to ho intimated that no member of the Jewish persuasion who is the keeper of an improper house, either directly or indirectly, will be permitted to attend the synagogue, nor be acknowledged as one of the people ; that neither their sons nor their daughters shall be allowed to be married according to their Jewish ritual, nor will any of the religious rites he performed at the birth of a child ; and should the party die at the time of keeping such a house, he will be refused the rite of sepulture ; no prayers will be read, nor will they be interred amongst their fore fathers, but be buried behind what ate termed the boards, the same as if the party had died accurst—Sunday paper. THZ MARYLEBONK MURDER.—CONFESSION.—The unfortunate woman Mary Anne Hunt, who was convicted at the last eassion of the Genre Criminal Court of murdering an old woman named Stowell, still remains in Newgate, awaiting the decision of government, as to whether the sen tence of death pared upon her is to be carried into effect or not. It was proved at the trial that the wretched criminal would eventually become a mother, and the sentence, of course, menet be carried into effect for some time. The unhappy culprit has, within the last few days, in clear and undisguised terms, admitted her guilt. Immediately that she retired from the dock, after sentence had been pro nounced, she appeared to recover her selepossession, and said to one of the officials who was accompanying her, " They don't know yet how it was done." For some days after the trial she was very taciturn, but at length she detailed the cireu metinees under which the act was committed. She denies that the act waa premeditated. It will be remembered that upon the trial it was proved that on the Monday pre vious to the fatal occurrence the culprit and the deceased had a violent quarrel, and that the former made use of such terms towards the old woman as to induce the other lodgers to send for the landlordOf the house, and this was adduced as a proof that the crime was premeditated by the prisoner. She, however, declares that at this time she had no inten tion to hurt her, and that her threatening to "do for her" merely referred to her intention to prevent her from con tinuing to receive assistance from the family of Col. Wynd ham, by informing them that she was not a worthy object of charity. The prisoner states that at this time she was in great distress of mind, owing to her pecuniary difficulties, and her inability, from want of funds, to get to Brighton, where, u she was well known, she expected to have been able immediately to obtain a situation, and for several days before the fatal occurrence she states that she was hardly aware of what she was doing. It transpired accident ally in the course of the trial that the prisoner had been connected with • police constable of the detective force, and who, it appears, is the father of the child of which she is enceinte, and he it seemed had promised to send her some money, but failing to deli:), it increased her distress, and an she lam almost drove her beside herself. It was evident, from the contents of letters that were produced at the trial, but which Mr. Justice Erie, who tried the case, considered were not legally admissible as evidence, that the prisoner was in very great pecuniary distress, sad the repeated demands of the poor old woman for the trifling amount of rent, about 94., which she owed hor, created great excitement in her mind, and in all probability occasioned the fatal result. On the day of the murder the prisoner states that she was again pressed by the deceased for payment, and is the course of a violent quarrel the deceased attempted to strike her. This excited her, and induced her to strike the old woman in re turn: she fell to the ground insensible, and she then threw herself upon her, and did not desist from violence until the decreed was no more. It then occurred to her that the deceased had a hoard of money in her drawee, and she opened the one in which she believed it was kept, and was surprised to find that there was no more than one or two and twenty shillings, which she possessed herself of, and then went out to make her way to Brighton, but, finding that the last train had started, she returned.to the house, and stayed in the room with the deceased until the following morning, when, en her attempting to depart, she was arrested in the extraordinary manner detailed at the trial. It is imagined by the medical officers of the prison that the unhappy prisoner will become • mother in about four or five months, so that no decision can ha come to in reference to the sentence till the end of that time—Sunday Timer. . TWO CHILDREN POUND MURDERED.—Yeaterday morning, about six o'dock, the police-constable on duty on Walworth-common, diacorered a wicker basket hidden in a ditch on the common, and on opening it found the body of a female infant, about fourteen days old, wrapped in a blue cotton handkerchief, death having been caused by a ban dage tied over -the mouth. It was taken to Newington workhouse to await the coroner's inquest. About the same hour yesterday morning some boys bathing in the Regent's canal at Mile-end, found the body of a male infant, about three weeks old, that hod been strangled with a piece of cord and then thrown into the water. It is now in Mile-end workhouse, awaiting a coroner's inquest. FIRE3.—AT HAMPSTEAD.-011 afternoon the boarding school of Mrs. Jackson Smirk, in Hampstead, was discovered to be ea Snort tbr tbe flames had already robed sr rieer• Idea the mew floor for any oaf to saw k The ronelid MON vso speedily brewed le to rot, red set le week be. &prim the lawn. bat ealds hinds bebenete en the raorre me gt net toren erre evraberet of th e sled the Wee efisibel abeeml belkoonee of lomat* irks onlieet reit oretallr k t wore wheelie lbesetwent enbeeel lignigge bet ewe erfor amend tie of die pries was posed, nefbeesed olf, and tie lower Saes The belidipt rid fur niture is said to ben iins rred It is not harm how the fire m essed, and the damage is estimated at oneralbundred pounds. AT BILOYPTON.—Yederday forenoon, about half-past 11 e'siock, a fire,by which six houses were more or lees damaged, broke out upon the premises in the occupation of Mr. Porter, 12, Queen's-gardens, Brompton. The fire commenced on the first floor, and rapidly extendul to the roof, and from thence to the adjoining houses, numbered severally 13 and 14 in the tenure of Mr. Cf. Arter. The engines of the parish were quickly at the scene, followed by numerous others of the London brigade. Unfortunately the firemen had to wait 20 minutes before a drop of water could be obtained from the Chelsea mains, and the flames thus continued to progress without restraint, and for some time it wu expected that the whole range of builuings in the district would have been con sumed. Water at length having been obtained, the engines ware worked; but some time elapsed before the fire wu ex tinguished, and not until the building in which it commenced was nearly destroyed, and five other houses se verly damaged —AT RLTCLIIP-1110HWAY.—About half put 6 o'clock last• evening a fire Mike out in the premises numbered 106 and 107, St. George-street, late Ratcliff-highway. The flames originated in the lower portion of the premises, and, notwithstanding that im mediate assistance was obtained, owing to the combustible nature of the stock in trade the flames extended with emit rapidity, and in the course of a few minutes the spacious pits wu completely enveloped in fire. Several engines soon reached the scene of conflagration, and there being an abundant supply of water obtained, vast streams were scattered over the burning mass. Such, how ever, was the violence of the firs that for some time it ap peared to defy the exertions of the brigade. The men mounted the roof, of the surrounding louses, and thus were enabled to cut off the farther prey= al the flames, but it wee nearly eight o'clock before they were considered safely extinguished. The loss is very eensiderable ' one house being literally gate* sad the rime partially buried eat. One or two of the semaigneas berg have likewbe received some damage by water and keit, removal of the' are. IMQTJEITEI, t3ATURDAT.—ACCIDENT AT Mil MA JEIITT'S T . Before Mr. Bedford, at Chariarcrose Hospital, on the body of John Chapman, aged 67 a car penter at Her Idejeaty's Theatre. The deceased, cm Friday afternoon last, was at work in tog flies of this theatre, arranging the machinery, and whilst in the set of stepping from the flies into the grooves, it is suppo•ed that he most have missed his footing, for he was observed by souse other parties working on the stage to fall to the bottom. In his descent several workman narrowly escaped being knocked down. The deceased understood the working of the machinery perfectly well, having been engaged in the same sort of work for several years. He was brought bleeding to the above hospital, where he died in the course of an hour or so after his admission, from the effects of the injuries received. Verdict, "Accidental death."—A DEAD BODY CON CIALIM II( A Roost TIMID YlLEttl.—Befor• Mr. Wakley, M.P., at the Feathers, Warren-atreet, Fitzroy-square, on the body of the male infant of Jane Hinch, an unmarried woman. The body, which, from decomposition, wu reduced almost to a skeleton, was brought into the inquest-room in a box.— Sarah Cutler, landlady of 69, Warren-street, where de ceased's mother resided, stated that she had been her lodger upwards of three years. During that period a most intolerable stench issued from the room, of which she complained, and the mother ridged to adopt measures to do away with its same. At witness bad her boxes removed and exa mined, when bend the skeleton produced.—Constable Ring, 108 C, teak dee merle into custody, when she ac knowledged that the child was hem, and that it had been born dead.—lfr. Preston, surgeon, said that the child was born about three years ago, but that the body had so wasted away he could not pronounce whether it was born alive or not. A verdict in accordance with the surgeon's celibate was given.—Paosancx or MlND.—Before Mr. Payne, at St. Thom/Ps Hospital, on the bodyof Samuel Jerome aged 28, a labourer on the North Rent Railway. About 1 &cloak on Thursday morning the deceased, with some other missy was employed in sinking a shaft on Blackheath, for the pt pose of forming a tunnel to connect a railway between Greer with and Gravesend. He was at the top of the shaft, width is 9 feet in diameter and 46 feet in depth, and had drawn up by a windlass a pail filled with water, taken from a La win, when, soul s Ia the' act of it over, ha fell back. VOCW•cI immediately called out " below !" upon whic h the men at the bottom of tha shah", moved on one side, and the deceased, fell in the midst of them, Be was drawn up `0 • state of insensibility, when he was sem by a surgeon and moved to the above institution. Be was There attended to by Mr. T. Bull, home-surgeon, who found both thighs and the elbow bones severely fractured, and there was an ostensive scalp wound, from the effect of which injuries be died the same day in the afternoon s —V er di c t, " Accidental death." SIR ROBERT PEEL IN DURHAM. SEA 11•11, SATURDAY.—The ex-premier, who since Wednesday last has been the guest of the Marquis and Marchioness of Londonderry at Wynyard-park, in this county, where a large party are Resembled on the occasion of the 'marriage of the Lady Alexandrine Vane with the youth ful Earl of Portarlington, visited this place yesterday, in company with the Marquis of Londonderry and several other distinguished personages, for the purpose of Inspecting the newly-formed harbour here. The present being the first visit of the right hen. baronet to this county a considerable degree of interest has been excited among the inhabitants of all the principd towns, and the admirers of his political career have been very active in getting up congratulatory addresses during the past few days. All applications to be allowed to present the same have been met with an intimation from head quarters to the effect that Sir Robert was most anxious to avoid the exhibition of any political feeling towards himself on the occasion of his visit to Durham, which was stated to be of a strictly private nature. Notwithstanding this expressed wish, the town council of Sunderland, which is distant from this place only four miles, pressed their suit so closely as to obtain the con sent of the right hon. baronet, through his noble host, the Marquis of Londonderry, to receive the address from that borough on the occasion of his visit to this place yesterday. This fact having become known, the inhabitant, of the surrounding districts flocked into Seaham yesterday morning in great numbers, and before noon the town presented an unusually gay appearance. The vessels in harbour were decked out with flags, and the shops were all closed, the day being, in fact, kept as • general holiday. A triumphal arch, formed of evergreens, was thrown over the road at the entrance of the town from Wynyard and the Vane Arms. The principal inn, where a ckjeilrs.c had been ordered, was also gaily decorated with flags and evergreens. The party from Wynyard arrived at the Seaton colliery I —within little more than a mile of this place —at one o'clock, when a salute was fired as the noble owner of the colliery entered with Sir R. Peel, and the band played appropriate music. After having inspected the colliery, the harbour, &c., the party returned to the summit of the cliff, where a neat little pavili 41 had been erected to enable the corporation of Sunderland to present their address to Sir R. Peel. Through some mismanagement the pavilion was crowded before the marquis and has party arrived, and it was with some diffi culty that the right hon. baronet could make his way to the table. This inconvenience once overcome, and the borough offi cials having arranged themselves in due form, the mayor (Mr. Robert Brown) having opened the proceedings, the town clerk (Mr. Brunton) read the addrese from an en grossed parchment, which was handed to Sir R. Peel, who spoke as follows "Mr. Mayor and Gentlemen,—Since you were good enough to transmit me • copy of the document which you here just placed in my hands, and as I was not aware that such adequate accommodation would have been provided for that very valuable class of gentlemen (referring to the reporters), several of whom I see present, I had pre pared • written answer to the address which you have done me the honour to present. With your permis sion, therefore, I will read that, instead of making set reply." The right hon. baronet then read as follows: •• Mr. Mayor and gentlemen, I have visited this neighbour. hood for the sole purpose of gratifying feelings of private friendship and of being present on an occasion deeply inte resting to the members of a noble family for whom I feel a very sincere regard, and who bear a name which I must ever hold in the highest respect. Your kindness compels me to forget for • moment the private capa city in which my visit has been paid, and publicly to return to you my best acknowledgments fur the adorer you have presented to me in pursuance of the unani mous vote of the council of the borough of Sunderland. I thank you for the justice you have done to the motives which influenced my conduct on the occasion to which you have alluded in the address. On entering the service of our gracious Sovereign I accepted, together with the distinction and privileges of office, the heavy responsibility which it imposes. NVben, at a crisis of great difficulty, I offered that advice which in my heart and conscience I believed to be best calculated to mitigate the immediate suffering, and to diminish the risk of future peril, I was only fulfilling the solemn obligation which I had contracted when undertook the duties of a minister. It is gratifying for me to receive from you the emphatic assurance that I so discharged those duties as to have en titled me to your anprobatioa and esteem. I fully partici pate in the anxieties you express for the maintenance and promotion of our maritime interest. They are intimately connected with the general welfare of this great country, and with our national defence and security. I confidently trust that the several measures which have been adopted of late years for simplifying the commercial code, for abolishing vexatious regulations on trade, and for reducing the duties• on articles of the first importance in the construction and navigation of our commercial marine, will have a beneficial effect on those interests with which the town of Sunderland has ea intimate and important a connexion. Permit me, in conclusion, to offer my hearty good wishes for the prosperity of that town, the extension of its commerce, and for the in creasing comfort and happinere of its inhabitants." The right hon. baronet's reply was listened to throughout with the most profound attention. At its close, the Mayor of Sunderland asked and received permission to introduce the members of the council to the right hon. gentleman. This ceremony concluded, the Marquis of Londonderry invited the deputation to lunch with his party at the Vane Arms, expees.ing his regret that, as &team Hall was now occu pied by other inmates, he could not have the pleasure of en tertaining them there. The mayor having accepted the in vitation on behalf of himself and the council, the whole party proooodoi to the hotel referred to, where • dejeiner, com psYaa delicacy, was laid out. After dub justice had bust js~e to the noble marquis's hospitality, • variety of peasant and local toasts wire proposed, end appropriate opsooloto delivered. At five o'clock, they noble marquir, ac , omposiod by has guest returned to Wroyost, distance of some than 20 miles from the village. IRELAND. DIMITN, SEPT. 4. The conduct of the authorities in England charged with the removal of the Irish poor is considered here u scarcely humane. The last case has been attended with unfortunate results. The Duchess of Kent steamer took on beard at Liverpool 40 Irish paupers, on the warrant of the parish officers of the latter town and Rochdale, to which they had become chargeable. Of these two died on board; one in consequence of exposure to wet and cold in a very tempestuous night, having been transferred from the hospital in Rochdale to the Liverpool Railway, and placed cruelly on board in that weakly state. The in quest on the bodies took place yesterday iu the presence of the Lord Mayor and several respectable citizens, who appended to their verdict the following :—" We cannot too strongly condemn the treatment of the said Michael Dingman by the parish authorities of Rochdale, and attribute his death to their inhuman conduct in sending him in such a state of weakness to Ireland." Previous to the inquest an examination took place by two very eminent surgeons, Wright and Hatchell. In the case of the boy, they state that " death was produced by the exposure of his delicate frame to the cold of a tempestuous night." And in that of the other pauper, name unknown, that "his death was accelerated if not prematurely caused by his exposure." The evidence on the inquest is very pain ful, and shows how miserably poor humanity fares at the hands of authority. A few days to recruit might have been allowed the orphan Duigenan before his return to wretchedness. Another fact elicited on the inquest has created much indignation, that while the greatest activity is used in Dublin to prevent persons affected with fever sailing to England, there is no restriction on the other side. There is an embargo on fever in Ireland—free exportation in England. The poor-law commissioners have addressed a letter to the rural boards of guardians throughout Ireland, of a nature most interesting and important. It has reference to the transition from the temporary relief system to that of the poor laws, the former of which will finally close on the 12th of this present. At this period the commissioners remind the guardians " the poor rotes will be liable for the relief of a mass of epperent destitution, which, in many districts, usyrestetotally unmanageable," unless the guardians have prseime notions of the evil, and the beat way it may be " counteracted or mitigated." The extent of the " unmanageableness" • of the pauperism which would have to be dealt with by guardians, and the extent to which it may be mitigated, the commis sioners illustrate by reference to the North Dublin union. On the 15th August, when the temporary telief ceased in Dublin, there were in that union 20,000 houses on the relief list ; but, by offering re lief in the workhouse to all applicants, the guardians at once succeeded in reducing the lists to 3,000, for persons not really destitute will not accept relief in the workhouse. In order to extend the workhouse aocommodation as much as possible, and thus to ob viate the neressity of outdoor relief, the commissioners prescribe these instructions: Pint To root orotriaor road h dietlioie puma pousoodly MOM amodelmes Oak *WIN amoat *odd se loge ow* lopromelosplog.—SomorL Toja i. obist Ammo to Idiom •Itn twoor moo may te weitheees kr=isetibealis flows.. —TIM. Mir aloe SIONNIO a hsanwatibsrYd alhookoatar owl olooft Is • To limo booso whom kr Os of poripoma .16 boor or eabor asproo, mg to min wadi poor patinas liorgods plies= WY wet boos Mir wo/o. Lea Mossteethel is resolved ea a heed lee* he will not !Wee to the fat of the pesr-law sesiskie sms,iotio.nyoenaunirstoionfnthlhunee g ngae w lte ords dnaot ir,c m ewo d hficm strong hodvionugb s til o eisa rd e s t ea loi n frpece ma ror k vo : good his resistance. At the last meeting of the Fer the hearty support of . . Burke Roche. The propo- Ations are not of the violent class which the good se ,‘se of the guardians negatived on a former occa sion, but their admission would tend to no prettiest result, the reason which operates strongest on very man y berds. Lord Mountcasliel sets out with a p ro p os iti on that the population of the union is 92,352, and the poo.- law valuation 133,453/., which, on a division, would afford 11. 13s. 2d. for each individual. Lord Mounteashtl forgets to state what the real desti tution of the unimi is ; but this is among the transparent fallacies with which all his lord ship's arguments abou.id. Passing through se veral other propositions, in which he labours to establish the total incompetency of any class —proprietorial or occupying—to meet the heavy demands made upon their resources by the poor law—he deems it utter fatuity on the part of the government to attempt the recovery of the instal ments under the Relief Act. The effect of any strin gent attempt on the part of the government will be, according to Lord Mountcashel, the destruction of all credit, the increase of bankruptcy, and pauperism— the withdrawal of land from cultivation—diminished produce—and the promotion of famine and disease next year—together with general discontent, dis satisfaction,' and demoralisation. The remaining propositions only expose his lordahip's impatient ignorance of the plainest principles of economy, and in other respects arc of no value whatever. LIMERICK DEPUTATION TO THE LORD LIEUTENANT. The deputation, appointed at the late meeting in the city of Limerick, waited on his excellency, at the nce-regal lodge, on Wednesday, the lit hut. The following. memorial, adopted at the meeting, waa presented : 10 et . 11 V.A11 — .../411;11.00 1.011.111.11 . 1‘,14. or 111.1...11411. 11100064 01 the eitisens of Liol.ll// ' In public meeting assembled. 111.11 we approach your excellency with every rentimeet of respect for your personal character, and of acknowledgment of those Ligh qualities which hare so long distinguirhed the diaeharge of your official and public duties. We regret our first address to your excel lency, on your appointment to vioe-regal station, sh•uld be that of coniptaint, and to which we respectful, elicit your excellency's immediate and earnest consideration. We particularly refer to the unfinished state of the roads of our city and cinity, relented under the Labour-rate Act, which, In their present condition are • fertile retiree of publie dis content, • reproach to the policy of a government which we would willingly sustain, and a ditheenesies example of abortive legislation and put heavy ins=iling expooteiture. That those roads were adopted at the rompeolthe etheketh by virtue of an net of parliament, which might he arilered es otonthohory in its provision:, being the sole =diem at Mid Award as permitted by the edvernment In our late ealeadteesellasties; sad es optioui We to which, even the =et qaMidel, was atioadal by the reproacher, and often and naturally by the mmeou el olantes population ; that they were adopt. don the full sidolsedthrg the meerry amount for their execution should be advanced by doe deileilithilth And with every rroprct for an admin.. tration of oebioligemr eueollmey Y m distinguished an ornament, we hold that nen annineineett in their peen nt condition shall be not I ss a reproach le the good Nth of the government, than destructive of the later al@ of the emetry. That the grand juries of Ireland are unequal to the tank of *Or completion. The grand jury system works by holtyearly astamient ; but under the Labour Rate Act we had ten years for repaymint; that we submit to your excellency the rapid and unavoidable dthertoration incident to unfinished roads and the accumulated ezuense ef their subenuent repair. We pirtleularly incite your excellency's ealmthis to the heavy damages to which the landed proprietary Anil le =Mod, and winch could not, or would j not, be awarded bad then reeds been finished, the advantages of the Wily opened communisadon would more than equal the trespass Involved. That we aPeelelly cal! your eocelksey's regard to our present undeniable condition our highways impassable life Imperilled—put beery expenditure more than neutralised, and the aspect of the country one of ruin and devastation; and we urgently implore your excellency's gracious and imme diate interposition to remedy a state so disaster)la and unparal. lelled We now address your excellency on a subject Intimately 'dieting the keel intercom of our city—we allude to the completion of our port and harbour, provided fur by a special act of parliament, pared the last sesion, and which we gratefrily trace to the wise, the enlightened, and ;rely rem uterofire policy, in thla instance, of her Majesty's present government. tie tried that those comm. unprovernente, provided for by the act alluded to, may be ro t rttith commenced, thereby securing to our inerianule classes those commercial facilities for which they are cow paying a heavy Warne of harbour dues, and to our 11t00010.014, b1V.4114 unoccupied populaton, that employment, with it. kcitimate rcmuntrauon, which it is their right to expect, and the duty. of government to afford. We also submit to your excellency's conanieratiou the value •f the harbour of Lime. ick, in reference to the all. important, the now urgent and iseprebil gumtree, of transab. Untie communication. Limerick, the centre of commercial enterprise sad agricultural smith, with its capacious harbour, bud 101 rails ayw, now approaching maturity, within a few hours, by steam navigation, of the Atlantic, appals pedaled oat as the fitting oornmimication be tween the kindred empires of Urcat Britain and America; and we re. spect fully all on your excellency to submit to her Majesty's govern merit the propriety of adopting a city, so circumstaneed, as the packet station about being selected, and as the medium of those commercial sod irbernational intercourse% alike promotive ol the well-being and happiness of both hemispheres. That we ureter ly solaat your excel leacy's early and c.umest attention to the important objects referred to in thin memoriaL—Tuocas Watist el , Major. After the Meyor of Limerick had briefly indicated the im portance of the objects embraced in the memorial, the city members, Mr. John O'Connell and Mr. John O'Brien, strongly, and at name length, sustained the objects of the memorial, particularly calling the attention of his excellency to the fithesa of Limenck as the proper medium of trans atlantic communication. It appears that one of the objects 01 the deputation had been achieved, as by a late communi cation from the Board of Works, the contemplated improve ment in the harbour will forthwith commence. His excellency, in reply, stated the selection of Limerick as a packet-station was of great general interest; that there were rival claims, but that when those railways were com plete to which reference had been mode the subjsct should receive the full and dispasaionate consideration of the go vernment. He regretted the statements made to him re specting the unfinished roads of th.countey. But the period for the operation of the Labour Rate Aet had expires'. He was aware of the embarrassments surrounding the suhjeet, but the difficulties of the government should be also remem bered. He had used his beet efforts in obtaining from the treasury all possible aid for this country. He had secured a sum of 360,0001. for drainage operations. He apprehended the grand juries should finish those presentments ; that many had been unadvisedly granted. He wished to know. what suggestion, within reasonable limits, could be made by the deputation.. It was submitted to his excellency that the presentments in question were, in fact, almost compulsory—that they were the sole medium of relief devised or permitted by the government, and that any opposition was attended by the reproaches and menaces of a starving people—that the damages sought by the landed proprietary would be immense, which would be neither sought for, nor awarded, had these roads been finished—that it allowed to rema i n in their pre- sent condition, they would suffer fifty per cent. in the coming winter; that a selection should be made by competent engineers of such as were of unquestionable utility ; and that the country would reaaily repay the full amount of their completion ; but if the unfiniAsed wnrks were thus abandoned by the government, that a strong re luctance would be felt by the occupiers of land in Ireland in repayment of an expenditure so misapplied sad unproduc tive, a reluctance with which it was not improbable the gen try and landed proprietary of the country would strongly sympathise. After a lengthened interview, in which many details were alluded to, the deputation withdrew, with a full impression of his excellency's urbanity, and of his good feeling,. UNVeIrAL CASE OP DHOWNING.—A few days since, a young man named Osborne Elliott, was drowned near Enniskillen, by the upsetting sf a boat on Lough Erne. His body was drawn to the surface in a quarter of an hour after the accident by a diver, who found it in an erect posi tion at the bottom of the lake, the feet fastened ia the mud, and the hands pressed tifeht upon the ears. FEVER is still on the increase in Dundalk and Newry. It is to be regretted that parties of influence in those towns will not exert themselves, as the rapid spread of the disease Is attributable to want of sewerage and the utter uncleanli ness so well of the houses am the streets of certain portions of both towns. SCOTLAND. EDINRORON, SRPT. 3. The Edinburgh baths for the working classes are shut up for want of water, a result which the inventor of the famous sanitary query could not have contem plated, otherwise he would have included the pare element as well as " swap" in his interrogatory. The prevailing aridity is affecting vegetable as well as animal existence. Turnips, lean and half made up, threaten to run into seed, and cabbages and kale, the mainstays of kitchen and cottage gardens at this sea son, are shrivelled into a yellow deformity which will end in decay unless rain come speedily. As to pota toes, in some quarters the cry is that the disease has come, in others that it has net yet arrived ; but one thing is clear, that the drought is telling on them in common with other esculents. Meanwhile, the grain harvest goes on gloriously, and the staple fruit of the earth once gleaned and well garnered, we can afford to view minor disasters with somewhat of philosophy. As the sanitary cause looms in the distance, people here, very much satisfied as to its desirableness, have forebodings as to its expense : the Glasgow Argus, however, has an emollient. It considers that the coat of sanitary improvement might be defrayed by the economical collection of local rates. Local taxes in Scotland amount to two millions—the sources being city and county police assessments, burgh customs, harbour dues, lightage dues, commutation road-money, turnpike tolls, the usessments in the northern districts for Highland roads and bridges, imposts is particular localities for keeping up various descriptions of public works, such as gas and water works, court-houses, &c. In some places there are separate paving and draining assessments; religion and education g o the form of a tax in some localities, and, to crown the list, there are the poor amemment and the prison taxes. liso o f , 0 0!0: : 1 1 . 1 n amtowcol: Almost collectionpt from axes n : c;:s a t : q :: e u gu i it h g a la n o. !c l e aelv e sa 7 l :oral the endd short la b au s omber n 15.181 i -