The Express. — London, England, 1847-10-28 00:00:00

who are in service, and children whom the ay sufferiog, and evil example of crowded and busy ow ns have rendered prematurely conscious of the „ a iming instincts of womanhood. Such minds re e. the nicest care and the soberest intelleo- Pal aliment to preserve them is • healthy moral condition ; lord of which, often simply from want of counsel and ilirectioe from paeans of superior age and intelligence to leen, they imbibe only such nourishment as mny be Arded in this noxious literature, the intoxicating poisons dwhich tempt them to return to it again and again —as T eeth , under similar circumstances, are led on to habits of a mmo" us inebriety—until all natural sentiment is stifled, tree- lad simple womanliness of character Wet, and • diseased mewl feeling engendered, which ia incurable ia its subject, sad perhaps, requiring more than one generation to pus way before its effects can be finally eradicated. How far ;am disastrous but very common results are remediable, is ▪ qusetion of pressing and perilous magnitude fur those w pme position renders them more immediately responsible the the lapses of the poor and ignorant—to all, in fact, who are placed by society in offices and circumstance , of authority. Three of the weekly issues of the press in Salisbury-square we easy particularise, being those of largest circulation, and, therefore, most mischievous influence. These are called— arr. penny Sundae Times wad People's Police Garefte, ayart Entertaining Journal, and Lloyd's Weekly Volume of Asswimg and butruetite Literature. The first of these, is the title indicates, is a Sunday newspaper, of course tan gasped. of which one of the main features is the police re. Any thing that should be brought before the courts of a low, vagabond, or grotesque nature, finds ample poblieity in its columns, which are also enriched with the most abominable wood-engravings imagin able, the artist giving a decided preference in his Illustrations to the brutal and the humorous. After this comes—in the latest number lying before vs—continuations of two tales of " thrilling interest," en titled respectively "The Old Sanctuary," and " Almira's Curse or the Black Tower of Brausdorf ;" which latter is described as by the author of " The Gipsy Boy," "The Robber's Foundling," 8,:c.; and the remaining apace is filled up with matter of an unquestionably cognate character. The Enterosiniw Ammo( aspires to the rank of a ma gazine, and is arranged to bind in volumes—forming an em balmed pestilence. The recent numbers contain a disgust leg story called "The Stolen Interview ; a Tale of Passion." The hero is a Dr. Boyd, who, to amuse himself seduces his patient, the wife of his friend Mr. Gastrin, and elopes with her—an adventure to which the lady entertains no formidable objections. Every thing occurs in the most commonplace manner—duty, con science, go for nothing. Passion is the unction for every sin : a kindling leek sufficient to overcome every stabler feeling of the woman's heart. When Mrs. Gastone was a little sad, "Dr. 11 , ,d seated himself beside the lady, and, pressing her hand in his, gave her one of those earnest looks which kin dled the fire of passion in her soul, and at once removed every regret which her departure had oocasioned"—and so forth It is utterly impossible to receive such guests into the mind without contamination, or to harbour them without guilt. The Weekly Volume of Amusing and logructire Literature is of the same tone and calibre. In that, too, peculation, seduction, and adultery, form the staple of the materiels which are worked up into amusement and instruction for the manes. We are sorry to have to say that the great majority of these scandal. our stories are written by females—and, on that account, are the more luscious and dangerous to the young, because the filthiness is covered with a sort of sentiment, and the pre dation warranted by a woman's signature. Most of the scenes of the tales, we may add, are laid in North America, and display • knowledge of American social life—but whether tfey are written by Americans, and on the other side of the Atlantic, we have no means of knowing nor, considering the object which we have in view—the directing the attention of the teachers and guides of the uneducated cleans to the magnitude of an unfamiliar and secret cause of moral disease in the community—is it a matter of any importance whether the pollution springs from England or her ancient colony. The evil inhere, and it must be met on the ground where it openly manifests itself. RETURNS FROM THE GAS COMPANIES IN THE UNITED KINGDOM. This parliamentary paper, which was issued on Friday, possesses considerable interest, as it contains the statistics of the manufacture and consumption of gas. At the present time, when public attention is so strongly directed to sanitary reform, it is doubly valuable, for it is manifest that the efficient lighting of our towns must form • prominent future in all acts for their improvement. The history of gas lighting is of modern date. In 1807, and for some subsequent years, Pall-mall was the only street in which gas was used. Now, we believe, that nearly en ry street in the metropolis is ligh ted by gas, and the con sumption may be stated at 9,000,000 of cubic feet every 24 hours. The paper before us embraces returns from 94 towns in England, 2 in Wales, 7 in Scotland, and 3 in Ireland. The returns consist- -1. Of the date of the este dlshment of each company ; 2. Rates per 1,000 cubic feet at which the gas has been supplied ; 3. Price of the best coils in each year ; 4. Amount of fixed capital ; 6. Rate per rent. of dividend in each year. The oldest company is the Chartered, established in London in 1810. The other com panies were established at various periods subsequent to the above year. In all the old companies there is a remarkable difference:between the rate at which gas was supplied when the company was first created and at the present time. This, in London, varies from I7s. and 15x. in 1810 and 1817 to 6e. and 7s. in 1846 ; these prices in both instances applying to the charge of 1,000 cubic feet. In the provincial towns the dif ference is even greater. In Norwich, the price in 1820, for oil gas, was 4sa. ; in 1847, 65. Bd. for coal gu. In Bristol, the price from 1823 t 01836 was 40s. for oil gas; in 1847,6 a. foraged gas; but even when coal gas . was originally employed there is a difference of from ss. to ,s. per 1,000 cubic feet between the years 1820 and 1840. This great difference does not pro midst) much from the reduced price of cowl, nor from the company receiving smaller profits, but from improvements in the mode of manufacturing the go, which produce eco nomy as well as excellence. Indeed, in several towns the best coal was considerably cheaper is 1820-5 than at pre sent. The Birmingham Gas Company, in the former years, paid 4s. per ton for their coals ; whereas, in 1816, they paid from 12s. U. to 21e. 3d. The returns from Coventry, Bath, Dudley, Leeds, Warrington, and other towns, show that teals were cheaper twenty years ago than they . are now. In the metropolis, on the other hand, the price of coal hag fallen from about 265. in 1820 to 16s. in 1846 ; these prices must be understood to apply to the coal used by the companies. The amount of dividends enjoyed by the various companies ranges from 151. 15s. per cent. being that of the Manchester Gas Company, to 11. 10a. per cent. The average dividend is 81. per cent. The amount of dividend is not ruled by the rates at which the gas is sup plied. In Manchester, where, as we have seen, the highest dividend is declared, the price of gas per 1,000 cubic feet is only ss. 6d., whereas, in other towns, where the profits only allow a much smaller dividend, the cost of 1,000 cubic feet of gam i ranges from 6s. to 109. The average price in the metropolis s 6s. 81d. per 1,000 cubic feet ; and the average dividend enjoyed by eleven companies is 61. 16e. 4d. per cent. lathe principal towns of Scotland the cost of gas is 6e. 3d. per 1,000 cubic feet. In Ireland 6s. 2d. ; and in Wales, 75.6 d. The amount of fixed capital returned by the companies was as follows ;-in England, 5,415,2951. ; in Wales (embracing, however, only two towns), 19,0001. ; in Ireland, 22.5,0001. ; and in Scotland, 408,1871. • The profits we applied in moordance with the act of parliameat to effecting improvement. within the township of flattener. BENEVOLENT SOCIETY OF 4= ll :The usual half- Imre meeting of this satiety, w aa established in 1824, for die relief of persons edusated at ''s Hospital= widows, and orphans, wu held last evening at the Tavern; Mr. T. Hughes, vice-president, in the their. The minutes of the preceding meeting having bean duly eon. fumed, Mr. Sidebotham, the secretary, stated the result ed the election for pensioner, which had taken pleme that day. The successful candidates were Sarah Spencer sad MO M& Delafons and Willis. The candidate., both sisecoseful ad unsuccessful, attended, and the latter were presented with 11, sovereign each. The report of the directors was then road. It was brief, and contained little beyond a statement of the various applications for relief whim had been ;received during the half-year; sums of 51. and upwards haring been bestowed in most cases, except in two, where loans had been applied for, and these had been punctually repaid. The amount subscribed on the occasion of the dinner in April bat (6461. 16e.) had enabled the directors to increase the amount of stock belonging to the society by the purchase of M. Three-and-a-Half per Cent. Consols. The number of pensioners on the books was at present 18, which included the three that day elected. The receipts daring the hoS year, including a balance of 1481. 9s. 6d. boottala fkininak sistiented to 1,0591 13s. Id., of which a gelesal WNW SW maimed of 1481. 13s. 7d..—Mr. Barnard amell Ilie silsgslos of the report, which was carried woilliannff. Is Magratulated the society upon its meseetela• MOP flans, which, although not quite all that could be trim particularly cheering, when the general deprs benevolent bodies was taken into consideration. Oa the motion of Mr. Perkins ' Liest .- Col. Pettingall was than elected a vice-president of the society, and the places of the retiring directors haying been filled up, Mr. Perkins pr .s e resolution to the effect that in all cases of legacies Daubed to the society, the executor first named in the of the testator, or the acting executor, should enjoy duriag his life the earns privilege of voting at elections as Would belong to the testator were he living—subject how ever to the provisions of other rates of the society. The reso lution was carried without dissent, and the proceedings closed, slier the navel complimentary votes to the president, chairman, and officers. A handsome service of plate was exhibited in the room ; it had been presented by the society to the secretary for his services in their cause. L'aErvi. IMPROVEMENTS IN POSTAGE STAMPS. — The Post-office stamps having to be detached, either by cutting or tearing them from each other, great incon venience is felt, particularly by those of extensive corre pondence. To provide a remedy for the inconvenience thus experienced, a plan has been invented, by the aid of a machine, by which more than double the number of stamp 'keen' that is now annually required may be so minutely in dented in the direction of the white lines, as to allow the stamp to be instantly detached from the sheet without the operation of cutting—perfect, too, in every respect. The • contrivance will alio enable purchasers to fold a sheet of *maps, or any leas quantity, with unerring regularity, and in one-tenth of the time that is at present consumed in the operation. 7 fferapatles Journal. CIVIC REWAILDB.—We have not a word to toy anion Si, Peter Laurie's enthusiastic speech in honour of Mr. Brooke, nor the heartiness with which the Common Council received his motion to pirmant that gentleman with the City freedom in the established gold box. Mr. Brooke is ma spade of peace and cdvilisadon, eat It is not anon that Sir Peter's enthusiasm takes so rational a direction. Only we would suggest to the civic assemblage, that the apostleship of civilisation and benevolence has had as de voted members within the sound of Bow-bells as in the forests of Borneo .; that if Sarawak has had its hero, Farringdon has furnished its martyr ; that if Mr. Brooke succeeded in his attempt to suppress Malay piracy, Dr. Lynch perished In his struggle with London fever ; that " to protect the op pressed, emancipate the slave, and civilise the savage," is no nobler work than to succour the sick, toil fur the suffering, and enlighten the ignorant ; —that the humanity which penetrates the Jungle is twin-brother to that which walks the h spital. 'No selfish motive impelled " Dr. Lynch any mom than Kr. Brooke ; no avarice disgraced the conquests the one over filth and fever, NI more than those of the other over bloodshed and barbarity. The one triumphed, the other died, in the straggle. The Common Council is justly eager to reward the actor: why should it hang back from honouring the martyr? By all means let it present Mr. Brooke with his gold box; but why should it not, at the same time, present the widow and orphans of Dr. Lynch with the gold in another form ?—l'unch. CHEMISTRY AND THE CHOLERA.—A correspondent of the Oxford Herald questions the wisdom of a recent sug gestion made by Mr. Herapath of Bristol, that chlorine gas be generated in houses where the cholera is likely to come. The writer says: " Every suggestion from such a distin guished analytical chemist as Mr. Ilerapath is entitled to respect and attention. I pass over his conclusions se to the cause and character of cholera as purely speculative, and proceed to the immediate purpose of this notice. lie I re commends the general use of chlorine gas as a disinfectant, and gives a formula of its evolution, but without one word of caution as to its possible deleterious influence. His object is 'to give public opinion a right direction, so as to help future boards of health but, as it seems very likely that public opinion will anticipate boards of health, the public may set about preparing this' chemical preventive ' with no other direction than he has given, and without knowing that this gas is highly injurious to respira tion. Persons in this place already talk about purchasing the materials, and having them ready to mix In the passage of their dwellings, as simply as they would talk of putting a hot poker into a cup of vinegar. Irrespirable gases may, if sufficiently diluted with atmospheric air, be breathed with safety, yet inexperienced, and certainly uncautioned per. sons, might charge the surrounding air with a dangerous proportion, and inhale a quantity productive of serious mischief. Dr. Ryan gave • lecture here last winter, in which the extrication of chlorine gas formed part of the illustrations: there was enough liberated to excite coughing among the audience, which he jocosely treated as affectation, and begged the ladies to indulge in leas vocal exercise. Soon after, the doctor got a dose of it himself, and joined in the concert ; but he, poor man, was obliged to curtail his lecture, and has been senonsly ill ever since, in consequence of that inhalation of chlorine gas. Although the Times might not call this a ' great fact,' it ought undoubtedly to be a great warning. At the cholera hospital in Oxford, sixteen years ago, this gas was frequently evolved by the same process, as a disinfectant, as well as on several subsequent occasions ; and, though Mr. Herepeth deserves the thanks of the com munity for directing attention to its use, yet, after the above instance, the gentle public would act wisely to mix their manganese and vitriol cons grano salis-amplo." INQUEST, YESTERDAY. MANSLAUGHTER. Be fore Mr. Wakley, M.P., at the Pitt's Head, Henry-street, Portland-town, concerning the death of Thomas Henry Bur ' mincham, aged 26, a greengrocer's servant. On Sunday evening last, at the Sir Isaac Newton public-house in the above locality, deceased and a man named Good, also a greengrocer, whilst drinking, began to dispute and quarrel about the amount of business done at.their respective shops: the result was a reciprocal challenge to tight. The parties, accompanied by four others, proceeded to settle their dif ference in a field near Primrose-hill, it being then eleven o'clock at night. They fought one scrambling round, at the end of which both were down. Good rose immediately: but while decased was striving to do so, he fell again, as it was supposed, from a blow struck by Good ; none of the witnesses, however, actually saw the blow, but Good ac knowledged to the landlord of the Sir Isaac Newton that he had knocked deceased down with his left band. Deceased was picked up in an inser.sible state, and conveyed to his re sidence by his friends who had accompanied him ; Good and his friends refusing to assist. —Mr. Britton, surgeon, called in by the police, found deceased quite dead, and having sobs.- - quently made a post mortem examination, stated that the right lateral sinus of the brain was ruptured causing ex tensive effusion of blood in the brain. There was no cone aponding external injury. The rupture of the sinus was the cause of death ; but he would not swear positively that it had been caused by a blow, though it was his impression that such was the case.—After a long discussion, twelve out of fourteen jurymen returned a verdict of " Manslaughter" against Good. / THE CURRENCY. Sta,—Many hare doubtless, like myself, waited in expectation that " Spectator" would continue to enlighten the readers of the Times with his notions of currency. A reply to the numerous exposures of the sophisms in his letter which its appearance called forth war, perhaps, not to be ex pected. Bus it was reasonable to suppose that he would at tempt to show some of the workings of his problem ; and, since he bee not done so, allow me to do it for him. All that has been published on the passing of the Bank Charter Act shows that its probable effects were from the commencement foreseen by its authors, even to the necessity of speedily revising it. The piovision made by one clause in the act for the contingency of a short s m uni e ly o o f f i th nte er rin ul g ating uphold credit w tlt i t ch h p a now ribe ' bet e to u m p adopted by the government, showed that a scarcity of money in all probability would be • consequence of the limitation of paper issues. The division of profit clause shows that ita framers expected • rise in the interest of money to follow the anticipated pressure. The Governor of the Bank, in his letter to Mr. Goulburn, of the 30th April, 1844, does not, indeed, seem so sanguine as the Chancellor of the Ex chequer as to the expected profits. Indeed, his doubts in to the prudence of the measures of government are signifi cantly expressed in the demand to fix • smaller sum as the annual payment for the privileges of the charter than was paid by the Bank during the preceding term. This prayer he only withdraws from a desire to remove all difficulties towards making an arrangement. The Governor of the Bank, as might have been expected, proved right in his view of the proposed measures, and the Chancellor was in the wrong. But before showing the grounds which sup ported either view of the case, it may be well to explain why the Bank officers, with all their experience and the con fidence of the trading world to back them, assume • subser vient tone in their correspondence with Downing-street. Oa all renewals of the charter the Bank has been mulcted of • heavy sane, as it is supposed, for the benefit of the public. This being • matter of arrangement between the contract ing parties need concern no one until, as on this last occasion, in order to secure the supposed profits for which it was to pay, the Bank became • party to a scheme of which it disapproved, and from which, on the showing of the governor and deputy-governor, it anticipated a loss. When the charter thus notoriously constituted a monopoly which it was worth while to pay for the privi lap of carrying on, even to the disadvantage of the public, it beam the duty of every Englishman to proclaim the mis aide the precedent, and the protests were neither few seer gentle which the transaction called forth. The Bank directors feu on these occasions a fall in the market price of their stock, which government can at any time pay off at par. It hittinge that the Bank, which in 1844 evidently fore saw the manner in which the proposed experiment most work, had not the courage to throw itself upon the cosaMy, sad, claiming the then unimpaired right of Englishaemile bank as well as to carry on any other trade, reject the_preimed charter. We will venture to say that no House of Commies could have been persuaded to enaction a withdrawal of theme. nagement of the public balances, and the establishment el • treasury bank, unless it were 'hewn that malpractices hrelheen discovered inn the Bank of England agency, and that a bear and cheaper mode of transacting the mosey baiter of go vernment could be devised. To the atlelYsbi it mai MIS that the Bank derives credit from its memesies IMO meat. Bat all who know anything et_bembig am Sat, on the contrary, the Bank is egiseast with romemibilidee and expense by its inexperienced pertain In Dewolog-street. Of this fact I propose giving instances in my next letter. Assuming this fact as a basis of calculation, it must have been easy to fix the term when a pressure upon trade, caused by a contracted currency, would be more disad vantageous to the Bank of England than any temporary check to its prosperity, arising out eta caseation of its con nexion with government. To explain my meaning more hilly, the alternative which I desire to put is, that the menaced repayment of the loan of eleven millions by government under circumstances that constituted the Bank of England the champion of the trading rights of the subject, and averted the pressure under which the country has suffered so much, would, in all prebabolity, hLre.e.. pl ace d the Bank higher in public opinion, than its un • to waist in carrying out a scheme which has shaken eiTesal: credit, and nearly caused • ran for gold which add oily have been met by a Bank restriction act. The Met of the two lines of conduct would be the price of Bank Stock in the market under either case. Bank Stock was worth, in 1844, 211 per 1001. stook. Is large a ram as eleven millions sterling would not have bum paid off by government to try an experiment of sub dubi ous policy as the recasting of all the monetary machinery of the kingdom without producing • rapid fall in the funds. The fall would have been augmented by the withdrawal of capital from other investments to lend to government to pay the debt with. Consols, which then stood at 95, would in all probability have fallen to 75, at which figure the eleven millions paid at par might have been reinvested. Then, instead of the present 330,0001. interest paid by .vernment , the receipts would be 440,0001., ass 110,i k it. per annum more than before. If this sm..l nual sum be compared with 120,0001., the mu suit by the Chancellor of the Exchequer for the samengt•lMß of the public debt, no doubt ma be eMeetmied w Ihe subject of the vantage ground belil Metilemit, mid a lie great gain that woald bat nesened to the peoprietary their accepting the mm erne them, and then competing with other parties hien igen marketand without a charter, for the maaesemele of dm public business. But if by wadi a step all Or desseeeme eitninquencesi that have ensued fin l the CbariwAt* imlibmwmarted, and ludo been and the MAW to bear the drain for bulli on taken plonk 3gSl the Bank would again have largely pro fited by inermeed ta. With a much increased divi dend, people would elm vary little whether the Bank was in 'alliance with (overspilling or not. The price of its shares I would not be d for want of a charter, and must have risen is he the pro fi ts divide d.: Before t h e recent taYls Oe ea I have given might have been deemed obiaterioal. Facts have now shows that, in a I very modified shape, the attempt would have been advaata , Neoax for the Bank proprietary, whose stock is now down to 180, being a fall of full 311. per 1001. stock, while the divi- THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 28, 1847. dends are not to be allowed to swell, in order to counteract the effect of this depreciation. It must appear strange to all conversant with the money market, that a speculation evidently based upon a rise of Interest, however occasioned, should have been entered into apparently with a neglect of the inevitable effect of such a rose upon the principal or funded capital of the country. If our current rate of interest is to be 6 per cent. in future on merchants' bills, a depression io the price of stock must be expected, to correspond with the rise so brought about. Perhaps this fact has already been discovered by the parties most interested. SCRUTATOIL THE FINANCIAL CRISIS IN ENGLAND. From the Allgerneine Zeitung. A faint light is gradually dawning upon the financial crisis and commercial chaos which now desolate the city of London, and, we may add, England in general. But even thin light is not cheering, for it s►ows that even if the failures may he pretty nearly at an end, the effects thereof must still be felt fur a considerable time. It is now suffi ciently shown that the scarcity of money, caused principally by the immense importations of provisions, and also by the failures in the earn trade, has occasioned the eruption of an old sore. This is the way in which great houses, like Reid, Irving, and Co., Gower and Co., &c., carried on their business: . . Solely in order to be enabled to import much produce into England, large advances were made to the planters in the West Indies and the Mauritius, as well so in India itself— advanees which, in the sequel, led to this consequence, that immense properties cams factitiously, or even nominally, into the hands of the houses in question. Thus the defunct house of Reid, Irving, and Co., had more than 600,0001. locked up in Mauritius plantations exclusively ; A. A. Gower and Co., upwards of 200,000/. in the same island ; and Cockerell, Larpent, and Co. equally significant sums in indigo plantations in the Indian empire. The natural consequence was, that these houses, which had thus foolishly locked up :heir own capital in such (im mediately? unrealitable property, carried on their general business rather by means of their credit than by means of their own money, and were not prepared to meet great convulsion■ in the money-market or individual lopes in trade. The fall of these houses naturally pulled down others. Perkins, Schlusser, and Mullen chiefly suspended their payments because they had received by the last India mail bills of exchange upon Reid, Irving, and other fallen houses, to the amount of 2.5,0001., and the same with Fry, Griffiths, and Co. The whole fact of the matter—the ex- elusive cause of these dreadful disasters—is an exaggerated and unnatural trade. Asia was deluged with immense masses of English manufactures, and an attempt was made,in order to procure payment for the same, to increase the produc tion of Asiatic goods by large advances, these ill-advised sa crificers to what Shakspere calls the " dirty gods" of gain never once reflecting that this immoderate produc tion would in the sequel no longer find any outlet in Europe. Thus there are now lying in England above 36,000 chests of indigo —one year and a halts full crop —or, if what goes to France and America be deducted, two years' crops ; and that of the present year is extraordinarily high, being esti mated at about 27,000 chests ; and, at the same time, it is to be considered that the yearly demand in England itself and on the continent does not exceed 22 000 or 23,000 chests. If the fall of such houses as Reid, Irving, and Co.; Cockerell, Lerpent, and Co. ; and Gower, Nephews, and Co., is thus explained, the evils which arise therefrom are not on this account the less real, for the shipment of manufactures to Asia must necessarily fall *if for the next few years. The proepects in this respect are worse, because not only the Asiatic markets are overstocked, but the solvency of the Asiatics is declining, as the last news from Canton suffi ciently shows. Lyall, Brothers, and Co., chiefly suspended payment as a' preventive measure, and only partially on account of large acceptances upon fallen houses. On this side, therefore, there is little hope of a speedy improvement, and on the American not much more. It in true that at least 6,000,0001. has been sent this year to America in pay ment of provisions, and the freights paid in North America are estimated at scarcely leas than 2,000,0001.; but this money ' has gone to foster the flames of the Mexican war, and the American banks have scarcely a supply of ready money cot.- ! responding with this vast influx. Accordingly, a rise in the value of money is contemplated beyond the Atlantic, although some specie must necessarily come thence. 1,500,000 francs hare already been sent from New York to France. It is lucky that the immense exportation of provision from North America has ennehrd the purses of the natives, and the purchase of European, especially English, manufactures will take a profitable turn. In conjunction with these financial matters, the construction of railroads continues to claim attention. The error that was com. mitted with respect to Asia by a few large houses on a small scale, viz., locking up capital in unrealisable property, has ben repeated by the nation, as re gards the construction of railroads, on a large one ; and there is still no prospect that the directors will suspend their calls—in many cases they cannot. The scramble for ready money between the commercial world and the directors of railroads must therefore continue. All these circumstances— and many others, which we have no space to enumerate — taken together, render some step on the part of the govern ment imperatively n , were it only to restore the con fidence so deeply shaken ; f or the worst feature of the pre sent state of things is less the evil that has actually occurred —which, when all is disentangled, may prove less serious than is now supposed—than the general diffusion of distrust, which can only be lessened by an energetic step on the put of the government. charitable spirit of tenser times, and of the grinding oppremion dam poor that follows the destruction of thew asylums l which were treasured. in tract, for the indigent, the socumulationv of piety, chooply feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, educating the igno rant, and affording consolation under every infirmity Mat affects human Ware. _ such an earful Mole, which threatens each deetrnetion of human Ilk, mecoorialista, anxious to preserve the mak of their Rocks from Grime, and society from the denser of disorganieatirm, bag respell fully, by imploring your excellency to we your influence with bee Majesty's govenanteut, to procure measures of relief commessurate with the magnitude of the calamity. Fee from looking foe mere gratuitous relief from the government for the number. of able-bodied men who are without food, memorial ists should prefer employment, particularly of a productive nature window from experience that such gratuitous relict has a demo: reliving tendency, and may be perverted, ea a large portion of the public charitice has been perverted by many into means of pro selytism, thAe abusing what was destined for Laving the hiss of the starving into the meet annoying and vexatious aggression on the faith le well as on the morals of the poor—an abuse of charity which do mande our etronersit reprobation. The prospective measures calculated to check the recurrence of I famineand promote the proem ky of the country, memortaida tee to leave to the wisdom of her Majesty's government and the leftists,- tore, remarking only that an equitable arrangement of the rela tions between landlords and tenants, founded on commutative jos tier, appears to them an memory, that without A they despair of seeing the poor eufliclently employed and protected, the land mit lkieutly cultivated, or the peace and prosperity of the country placed on a secure foundation. Large tracts of land capable of cultivatiim are now lying wide; the coasts abound in fish, which would give a large .apply of food; enemeagement to work those and other mine. of wealth with which the country Is teeming would be well worthy of the solicitude of her Majesty's government The poor are patient and long enduring, though suffering grievously; they are looking with hoot and confidence to her Majeety government for relief, and a prompt and humane attention to their wants will wave the lives and secure the Meting gratitude of her Majelty's meet faithful people. + Jona, Archbishop of Tuam, Chairmen. ♦ J.lti Limy, Inahop of Clantert, Secretary. Dublin, October 21, 1847. . - The memorial having been read, and presented in the usual form, his excellency was pleased to make the follow ing reply : My lords,—l tram I need not enure your lordithipe of the sorrow and alarm with which I view the coodition of the western and southern district. in Ireland, and that, to common with your lord ship*, I deeply commiserate the distress of the people, and fear that In many localities the means indiepensabie fur the maiuteuthee of the destitute are lameotably detteent. I entirely concur with your lordships as to the ueefulaem of Ms. torical references, and we should, lathed, study the history of Ireland to little purpose, if we failed to Craw from past experience lemons for our future guidance, and, by analyeing the enures of evils, to kern how their remedies can be most effectually applied. The eternal principle of jurtioe sad Christen morality can never be violated with impunity, and the unrighteous letrielettort of bygone times hap left traces which moot be long and severely felt. By penal enactments, doubtless, Induotey was Maximised, property was one qually distributed, the growth of a middle clam wa. retarded, the people were demoralised, and the who fabric of society was hollow and immure. The remedy for push a Mete of things has of neseasity been glow sod dilficult • but it is for the legislature, the government, and for all there who, living In better tames, and exercising authority, have at heart the true interests of Ireland, to efface the memory of the past, and by equal laws, imparted justice, and forbearing snottily to carry on the work of social regeneratiou, and = a ge people of this country in the position they ere entitled to occupy. In no country of the world is the strict application of the great Christian thions cited by your lordships more neeemary than in Ire land. If the labourer was always worthy of hi. if all dames of men did to others as they would be done by, mush misery and many I meat mils might have been averted. If the entire crops of the hum bondman be appropriated without compensating him for the seed or the labour expended in the cultivation of the soil --that is to say, if an e =erbium and disproportlonnte rent be crue:ly exacted—Woo altered maxims are unquestionebly violated ; but, on the other hand, if the owner of the soil, who is as much dependent open it as the occupier, be deprived of hie fair and reasonable share of its produce—if he mu neither obtain rent nor the surrender of hie land, and el, in fact, dam' posemed of his property by • non-fulfilment of the conditions upon which he shared Elie rights with another—then, beyond doubt, • similar infringement of the maxim occur. That society should exist without laws for the protection of pro perty is inapanible; that these law. in Ireland have often been grossly abased is undeniable; equally true is it that from this have ensued • deplorable crimes, and also, that they have followed the due and legitimate exercise of rights. I well know that your lorilthipe always recogniee, oral inculcate the legitimate rights of property—that you deplore and reprobate the guilty outbreaks of violence and revenge, .d your precepts and your high autbority will, under Gods amen. thou, I venture to hope, impart to society • more wholesome tone, and teach the owner. and occupies of Ithd, that tent enemata, rightly understeal, are identical, that there exists between them a reeipne city of obligation, and that the well-being of bete elm*. are imepar ' ably connected. Towards this good work the general character of the people afforde hardily and encouragement, as no people on earth are more eager for justice—for kindness, none are more grateful than the It ise, and assuredly none have endured the cruellest privations with more exemplary patience and resignation. The legi s lature haa deemed it expedient to render property more available than hitherto fur the support of destitution. That the law may prove inadequate for Meaning all the relief required In an emer gency like the present, Is hut too probable; the extent, however, to which it will fall short, has yet to be amertained. No man who to resources of his own should bare • legal claims live upon those of others; upon none but tbe absolutely destitute should that nght be conferred; and in order to ascertain the fact, to prevent fraud, and to protect the it.dustriout agaimt the indolent man, the test of the workhouse has in Ireland, so in England, been deemed indispensable The workhouse., however, must not be overcrowded; if they are full, more athemmodation must he provided, or relief out of the workhouse must he given in the manner which the law prescribes ; if the guardians are relthtant to enforce rates—if them who are able to pay them refuse to do so, a groin dereliction of duty is committed by both; but the non-application of the law doze not prove its inade quacy. I can, however, aware your lordships It shall not be left wholly dependent upon the caprimem discretion of them who admi nister it, but that a clone, and constant, and vigilant inspection will, as far as posable, secure the effeetthl carrying out of its provisions. It would be unbecoming on my part to contest the judg. meat of _your 'ordain/. respecting the abolition of those mylume alluded to by you, nor shall I wheel to the oppo site conclusions to which I have motif arrived, after twig residence in countries where similar. establishments mined, but I fully admit that with the rapid increase of population, the charitable spirit of former times may have fallen into decay, and on that account the neoestity of rendering it coruptilaory is all the more stringent. Since the failure of the potato, the nit...oily has incensed tenfold of organising ter system of charity which exhaled in Ireland, when in ordinary years more than a million and a half of persons have no regular means of maintenance, and suteit upon the benevo lence and chantheriatio charity of th ose somewhat lees poor than themselves. But this charity was always administered in the s ha pe of food, and ceased with the failure of the potato. The support of the poor woo then necepthrily thrown upon property in Ireland as in England, where, although from a million and a half to two million perrone arc annually supported out of the rate ale a coat of are mUllom, equal to • tenth part of the whole national 1••• One, the rights of property are not thought to be unduly invaded, nor do we consider that we phould kill our 'nom' obligations, air could we reckon ugon the tranquillity of the country, If there wee no legal provision far the absolutely destitute; and ht the same fight I sm con vinced the law will eventually to viewed by every reamemble and re. il awiscian in Ireland. that the prospects of the winter arm shenem and foreseeing that scarcity would exid, and the amts at gram. ing feed would be insualcieet, I have endeavoured threagh every channel, private es well as official, to obtain aseerale M formation es to the state of the country, and the that were making.. Meet the cries ; end it le my duty c=27, ethane' le may gerts alkalised the landowners sad the Mum ere strenuously aid Mk maeljia . lounge exerting themedom MI are premiere N Mss IdlyM se to their owe lelmaila Moe, but to the trade at[ around thigh yet OM their =- duet le metrieled villithet al others, Mire se swab senile of obl apposotheadd; sal eft Mire maim I appeal to the whither hirilemee who have matributed little or Ma, est avail them. seem d i adealle i t i rthe i =e for imming their wente•—wbether pram le sew diameters who mid the pay ment at sates—whelser hems eh* retard list seems to cultivate Mr Md, unmindful of the vat desk Meier OM by the sweat of hie le man shall live, wldieelluelt lOW h well able to sit Silk absolutely idea teatemmebyment Is a es, and Me Mehemet time We - tenese may ask est emit•--mbetbes Vlset redly la atm Me mewls Nmellme smemblepe In biped lalladdelkg the gemilmed le ram the public vast, Midi Ne bi se kdsmarelliallea—l Male such as Me will mho is~ media me sairtim amedose, me In a mmalthes be WM NM /slier mita the premed el region aid the iskreft if sedity Imam ogee them ihresed be pesfermei Wan. ow Mar Alist tie us m far this Mehl ho smiled by the meesemmt Ina &MIS all oseulste• sad et • memmt Iles liwyleal trade INV= dlembooel newt the Mmailies Mere' el heti dredeatthimeme. y beteg throw it emsemmust. mod belay m et the awe M odium as Ike peermt semi be blind. I em sese yew lemblipe ME epee 'Mb me am the IA emeemet of milks Mill Oar remedbm hes Mid has mob Me•—eml that gibedlt.Y Milre elime abpealdelaterggd.ee am be I am, hews. OEM, sloe M Me Mel art be Emmy &Mete as s.in emikl mama, slab as mesa et lead imam ma time; sat Owe the imee• pammert IMM ef ▪ yemermilm enema 116—ern yeeleemeiL C=ler l— • bee sap. me mar M W emelleime U. sal lbws OM We MI sited mask Mem gear le week reaDy eigiaftdoe. eel I teed UM sal•tlMMonmearee mmelles oid tissesere m ths une mblek e. 47l 6 oomyy gendißs idiemsutis t the Omit areas kitbag um wit isaldmfary N oe Menai It am • stem at any time was iromfetbdiZawa by air ametmees 'M to ed meths, tt hare at the timme ; Way weep/ tram a Wu*, Mal her se he the maids :t a rn . , me me OM Is mar teerAber delis r i =mis midi lab m wind by ever Owes= • Mem Mem tssri kelp ma pay Milb BMW tegieri MIMI= e=erier!` le am, la Slue penes el a peal mil mama demw. Them maim ur a l se lom seem *Mg iem me deeds% EMI itftem *MOM Year re um will meet Mpfter l Vee Os mcs. We i r Sem albs Wag yeememme. e a/ e• wi n terile• his Mrs thelbmam. the ellielthe ef in MN l• dbmilibe• to an sled ivlaM arms bereselMe; eml HIM sabeelellere !IM- O% arm fa min ler eke gemi• le Meat la Melt of fir, al saifa s.l aid rielmalm Ida le ray km* hops Mies 'Weft ft Om Aided, will Meal Owl • s rem Mery IsMI wpm Mk 'wary. Se alemity • ter yammer to as tamesMals, bee Mem plemielm fa eemeeimomy hak e emit me to as, NM aftelegli the ma im lea vary melmiely mesa which I have eau Or has et vs whim your WY** yet lIM I hem wrest pleemee la miming milli yea; Iket, dim my mini in this stai I have bar. MIMI lb •••••••111.• penemlly with asst ion et the Whim hkeenly elm at Mom be la Nal* lAN viral Met ammeMemime mew ler/sMys• Ma m a r- MYblidmit of ea Mame mem Ibe put weed" the people amelly, Uz di Vtbe isemmec maid see bat maim M • oar reigeethe Mats_ ; Mt I mere mart Mae se al will Map beriselved by me Mk esimme to myself It meshy motel awl meeshis meek j amMA the me e sat . seimee milk Iwe &eke yew sac mocipseells• TM Wowing annsumunot s igma in S. imam Proms: Altar the depelmtlia et tb=bed MUM Ikea the argon the =lds le the enemblel Nehmen • Ze s =d eqnenlnt et thele Issiehlpst gem et Or fawns, vidi vlialle aellnew resolved the Ilunlail. end den he ihe re la• ply, wanthelleg es It did • strong dein le miedine 6e et Mgt& Male aine adepts. • rienWm a the gad lint It wee Mir 14 dm tag seneh it 'sift sat et wig et the her—venri at aw e or set dh dllle=the war =416 endleney led thsen le ape be winded to the use eliwily alleildsiteed villas Intel" ties aa= et go plan essemprlel by one 016 dew inns the reepethe gl==tetelt the bet et Os Seam soll there pm far the et thcee ehnesitk whatever Very ulgtgles, that prevented the estendea ot the prenhied tenet.. ROYAL AORICULTYLIAL ROCIITY OP laeLstro.—At the last anti g 9 of tido body, to consider the proposition of the Bea of C the following report was adopted, and allard to be lermiltael to la *saliency : • - - - - - That Ow emit ilebeedsr eqemeethelr warts Soh to big Kral. leasy the lesiLentionnt fee. the Merest wlieb. es vhno.pattoe the eeeletr.he his Vies be thek geweeedlese, awl Oe anxiety no bee &WM Mr ike Imeeseemet merleileee birdied end the general endieretien et Me sesillten eflhe Nqh The tally concerting with Idi mama/ k the *Men he hr espetwelel the opidisecy gad waft SI aellimir eirientenret leihrnedien men the smell him" sod loholf etampt duets Is hied pr een we fed It our duty le roped meet cordially te the Inet. tiUtO ormilene7, mg UM • entecriptlon lid be forthwith opened for airgag to dohs the mat of mirk Instructors, as suggested in hie WIN to the Duke of Leineter. That coinciding in die 'Mon espeemet by we learnt societies. teat it is not impasse Ilmt Ineireelees &sold be emilmd to say par ticular perks et LONA IPS ingprdeldregaler Ad general subscription donne Own • km; est et which obit smell Writ offer to damp a perdue et die emirs et • 'Mow a Woman in any ems le wb the care wain &odd amok/ in re Lillhoweve, robbing a power at varying tbe or wading down leetrealsee tree et charge to mettle ts in peetienier and preeleg eirennottnesa It wield fliellmr, In their wee be alike* ant IN togem amid be awn,' wath ek! yeestbeal treats be dis es mippesleal to lord Tient metre letter, end is referents es will hie Mores might be de livered; and that as far a panilienromedrald be previously taken, Is gennexion with landed hurl seeletisa or poor h+ guardians, to mere • sod aeWee et imam end ethers to hear the buten/41mgal ; or/1W be &NW mobs iiimeelt acquainted, by persona beipeedee. Ida the eartionlor etresembenes and tillage adapted to the loteSty eldeb be That Uda Mandl , however, feel it their du to state mg emphatically, haring in their consideration the edreemarnes of Ireland at the present time, that a systematic and perriner err to make agricultural in- stroctiost a part of the marry edeseiben the people, to teach the small fanners of Ireland mist their owe resources am, and how louse them, can alone new the (entry, and 01l dames in this country, front the rule whin\ sow hill them. And with a view to promote en important as sagest. recommend that agricultural schools, with a Gann atteeloirsro, should he established in each count) or union, to be mipperted in part by local movement, to which properly selected ale trey the union workhouse might be permitted to eaquthe ambits sea reword for good and industrious conduct, as well Mothers lu l u emit thenvelves of It. That it would fur ther be newt ragialle ad so egriculturiet should be appointed, nagoelated posdbly with them esbools, in each county or union in Ireland, w6hom badnere it shook be to explain the various melee of carrying out agricu'turni impirementa, and to inetruct the farmer practically on his own land. That we also consider it neeeseary to sugemt that some immediate steps should be taken to protide an industrial and agricultural education fir the young per : eons In our workhouses. We are persuaded that the coot of providing efficiently such an education, however considerable it might to in the gist instance, would in the cod be a measure of real economy to the ndepayera ; and we have farther to remark, that if it should be found advisable to remove mien young persons from the workhouses and to form industrial schools for the children of several anions combined together for the purpose, the measure would be at tended with the advantage of affording additional room in the week house, and thus supplying the mean. of applying more extensively the workhouse test. That we are well aware that there are consider able difficulties in carrying out measures such a those we have mg. grated for the consideration of his contrary, but we have ventured to surant them, in the lien methadon that at the prnent crisis it is essential for the adety and preservation of the land that extraordinary merino anould be taken to mak, the edema and practice of agriculture better known amongst call deem in this country. OUTRAGES IN MATO.—An evening paper gives the fol. lowing relation of a recent turbulent manifestation in this county : BALLINFOBV Ocr. 24.—teat night, a party of from two to three hundred men irseembled oa the lends of Ballinderry, the property of Mr. Nolan, within two miles of this town, and, having forced the Isei;mns, who were at the moment on the lands, to ay, forthwith pro c. t o carry off all the crops that were then on the property, and wised under distress ior rent. A similar outrage, on the same night, took place on the lands of Ciemffinnane, withialone mile of Birth ford, Is this county. This property belongs to the Rev. Mr. Ingedge. After carrying off the crops, the party were pur sued by the bailiff - a man named Galaber —who came up with the carter', in the town of theinford. Here a smart action took place between the bailiff and his party on the one ride, and the parties in terested in carryingoff the corn on the other. Twoof the latter were wounded severely, being stabbed by Uaiither with a pitchfork, and are now in custody in gwinford prison. Cialaher's eon WAS severely beaten. On Friday neat there will he an investigation into the circumstance et this riot. A stipendiary magistrate is to attend. It in greatly feared that the spirit now spreading so rapidly throagb this unfortunate county may produce dvastrous conaequenne. I m ito rest ER re.—The Limerick Docks will be forth with commenced, as also a lighthouse en the Beeves hocks in the Shannon. IRELAND. Delius ' OCT, 26. It is scarcely necessary to direct general attention to the important documents subjoined, or to add a word of comment. The reply of the Earl of Claren don is justly considered a masterpiece of ability, and raises him still higher as a statesman, while it proves at the same time his true knowledge of the evil and the remedy. The poor-law commissioners are strenuously carry ing out the intentions of the government. Relief is now about to be administered to 25 unions in which 1 the guardians have neglected their duty. Six boards are already administered by paid officers, and other refractory bodies will share the like fate. The sum I allowed for collection is 2s. 6d. in the pound, and if that will not suffice the commissioners will advance a still higher rate. The plan of Lord Clarendon to diffuse agricultural information has been hitherto quite successful. In stead of 300/„ as his lordship proposed, a sum of 1,0001. will be at the disposal of the Agricultural Society. This is compounded of the required 3001. which was at once subscribed by a few members ; of 2001. placed for that purpose at the disposal of the committee ; and a balance of the fund allocated by Lord Heytesbury to encourage thorough drainage. DEPUTATION OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC PRE LATES TO THE EARL OF CLARENDON. _ The deputation who waited on his Excellency yesterday protested the following memorial of the catholic archbishops and Whops of Ireland: Tat au saw aal i lhe mod pram" awn man* ma fin abma "alb. hr mad et a of V boo aka* at horst the wod" otaina. la ..al oar Widols amnia a nomoura of di Oa bean of as Le man nand. pans lan pan an not "Wan ad llama mans Wan& lir Maas nab he wad oallokat amplamost h dawn an mods lho aim aastry. board of yaw amidolas ma sow fan Ora or ma ~do bi Wok In Is bat hada", in the awsolas et wa. t OMAR slOole tostialse rdln Oa con al" haa tbdr Yams nonsapo flolfoandro. Oa a ago landa aro aroma oollokat manna roan= 1" mat as aclaaho as. dank* of Man Ilk ilbessitlmertallote am ba.li.. le abile yew babliabby la. by Idebtalial rehemes yet Um list. It veal hie mai, with • view iir ettiniki. ...lis. lag IMMO ramedlig n e ed. to th• sm. 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They loch ce web a lepl perlaten In the poor ea gum Inadequate; they &MIR la it eeimmee et the iweg el the SCOTLAND. EDINDCION, Ocr. 26. The Edinburgh academic season commences next week. Principal Lee is to deliver the introductory address in the university ; Dr. Cunningham in the new college ; Professor Pillans in the school of arts; and Professor Wilson in the philosophical institution. It is indicative of the liberal spirit of the times that, in the two last cases, university professors take the lead in popular institutes. Glasgow has lost her able city statist, Dr. Watt, who has been cut off rather suddenly by . paralysis. He was formerly professor of astronomy in the An dersonian university, and afterwards cathedral war den, from which he was removed to succeed the famous 1)r. Cleland in the office now vacant by his own death. The Courier says: " I )r. Watt was one of the founders of the science of vital statistics, and materially strengthened the hands of Mr. Farr, of the general registration office, the originator of the sanitary movement at present occupying so much of public attention." The " commissioner " of the North British Mail has passed through Glen Tilt unchallenged, but his immunity has proceeded apparently from the remiss ness of the watchers, and not from any relaxation of the ducal fiat regarding its enclosure. HOAX MEETING IN EGINEI:XOII.--Since the days of Orator Henley, hoax meetings have been little known, but one occurred in Edinburgh last Saturdey worthy of the re nowned hyp-doctor. A public meeting of the inhabitants, was called by public advertisement and printed placards, "on a subject of vital importance to all classes" of the community. The meeting took place at one o'clock, in the Waterloo-rooms, and at that hour a considerable tuaemblege attended, embracing individuals of all classes and shades of opinksi, who waited for half an hour with great patience, though occasional manifestations were made of their anxiety to ascertain the vitally important object of the meeting. At length a person of respectable exterior, appa rently about thirty-five years of age, made his ap pearance on the platform, and commenced to read a length ened written document, maintaining all the while the most inflexible gravity and seriousness of demeanour. The low tone in which he spoke excited great dissatisfaction, end the meeting pressed tumultuously to the platform with the view of learning the object of the meeting, and made frequent demands for the orator to raise his voice, but without effect. The document began with a recital of his pedigree and pa rentage, and stated that the name of the unknown was Ewen Alexander Cameron, and that he was a native of lint. It then proceeded to narrate the appearance of a beatific vision which hailed his delighted eyes while walking in Glasgow-green on the 21st June, 1844, eon listing of a seraphic choir, amidst whose resplendent throng shone the sainted form of his deceased mother, who greeted him as King of Saxony and Bavaria, and appointed him to receive the rights and emoluments attach. Mg to that royal office. The circumstances of this remark able phenomenon he stated he had recorded in the books of the police in Glasgow, but on recently searching them he was unable to find any memorial of the event. The object of his appearance, therefore, at that time was publicly to testify to the truth of the miraculous appearance, the cir cumstances of which he expressed his determination to place on the public records of the country for the benefit of suc ceeding ages. The reading of the document was frequently interrupted by the derision End merriment of the audience, which, however, did not in the least degree affect the stoicism of this object of celestial favour, who retired with an appa rent consciousness of having discharged an important duty ; and the meeting quietly separated. PROVINCIAL• STATE OP THE iiABII.:FACTUItING DISTIITCI74. Some vague apprehensions hare been entertained in certain quarters, with respect to the peace of this district under the severe privations to which the working dames are now, and may hereafter be, exposed, from the general want of em ployment. We (llareeiteeter Owardism) think it right to state, that so far es oar information extends, there never was a time of severe suffering on the part of the labouring popu lation of the district en which there was se complete an ab sence of all tendency to riot or disorder ea then is at the present time. The working people of Lancashire are per fectly well aware that their sufferings are caused by circum• stances over which their employers keys no more control than themselves ; and, "generally, duet universally, the best spirit prevails amongst them. Even in those places where the cessation of labour hes arisen from an offer of reduced wages, we have not heard of the slightest tendency to dis order. On the contrary, all seem determined to encounter their privations with patienoe and fortitude, in the hope, which we trust will prove well-founded, that the extensive diminution of produce which has taken place during the pre sent year must shortly produce its effect upon the markets of the world, and bring about a revival in the demand for that labour which is now so extensively in abeyance. FORGED SCRlP.—Several months since, some spu rious scrip shares of the Yorkshire, Doncaster, and Goole Rail way, one of the lines of 1847, were circulsted in Manchester, but although the matter then engaged the attention of the committee of the Manchester Stock Exchange it is only within the last few days that a satisfactory clue has been obtained to the forger. The mode of uttering the forged scrip appears to have been es follows :—A certain party (for obvious reasons the publication of names would beat present premature) would go to a broker's office, purchase, pay for, and take away a lot of genuine scrip in the line in question ; in a Saw days after he would return to the same broker, make some excites for re-selling the shares which he had previously bought, and deliver to the broker, for such re-sale, apparently the very scrip which the latter had handed over to him but a few days before. Not only was the scrip itself perfectly copied, but all the marks or initials (which each broker who receives snip places on it when received) that had been on the true scrip were so exactly Imitated on the hrged scrip as to lead even the parties who had last placed their initials en the true scrip to believe that the scrip which they received was the same they had parted with. The scrip so returned was sold by the broker, and continued to paws through different hands, in one instance returning in the course of business to the very broker who was made the vehicle of its bane. On a parcel of this scrip being sent te the office of the Yorkshire, Doncaster, and Goole Company, in London, for some purpose, the company returned it ea forged. On investigating the matter the following facts were the result, and afford a clue to the frailty person. On taking the same numbers of the forged and the real scrip it was found that the brokers' marks on both were alike up to a certain point ; that in every case of forged en ip the differ ence in the brokers' marks took place after the scrip had been delivered to • particular person ; that after that period, while the forged scrip bore the names of Masehmter having apparently, an was the ease, been re-sold and b = hem hand to hand in Manchester, the true scrip bore only the names of London brokers, haring been apparently sent up to London in order that the same numbers of scrip might not be found circulating together in Manchester, and thus lead to the speedy detection of the forgery. The matter, we believe, still engages the attention of the committee of the Stock Exchange, who have decided that the broker who negotiated the purchase of the fain scrip must make good the km. CRUEL NEGLIGENCE OP A MILLoWNER.—At the Rochdale Sessions, on Monday last, Mr. John Wilson, occu pier of Hosted Nook Mill, near Wardle Fold, about three miles from Rochdale, was summoned, on the information of ise sub-inspector of factories, on a charge of neglecting to len off an upright shaft in his mill, by which means a girl monied' Cothran - , seven years of age, had been seriously in jured. Mr. Leonard Homer, inspector of factories, was pre sent to watch the proceedings.—Mr. Bower, surgeon, who had visited the girl, said that her left arm had been torn or near the shoulder joint. Be had also found two flesh wounds on other parts.—lt appeared that, on the 11th lust., the girl went into the mill with her parent's tea, and when there her clothing was caught by the upright shag.—The child's mother said her daughter had no busine, a in the factory, and, an Mr. Wilson had promised to see to her, she hoped the bench would be lenient with Morner said nothing could repay the child for the loss of her arm, and the shaft might have been boxed off for a tew Warnings. What ever the bench thought fit to fine the defendant for hie neglect that fine should be given to the injured girl when she reached 21 years of age, at least he would write to the Secretary of State recommending that it should be so.—Mr. Chadwick, magistrate, said it was the worst case that had occurred in that neighbourhood, and if another as bed came before him he would convict in the highest penalty, 1001. As it appeared that Mr. Wilson had only just commenced business, he should mitigate the penalty to 401., with all expenses. SUDDEN DEATIL—On Wednesday, in the SCwaiOna Court, Liverpool, a prisoner named Jane Smith, who was arraigned on a charge of having stolen a mat on the 12th Oct., suddenly dropped down dead while the evidence was being proceeded with. DERBTRIIIRE. TUE DERBY OPEICAB - (S.IIVSERVATIVE ASSOCIA TION held their anniversary dinner on Monday. The occa sion excited more than ordinary interest among tbe conser vatives in the neighbourhood. from the circumstance of it being intended to celebrate the position which the conservative party in Derby assumed at the last borough election, and also to convey a compliment to their candidate, U. Raikes, Esq., who, at almost the last moment, accepted the invitation given to him to oppose the liberal candidate. About 500 sat down to dinner. SUSSEX. COMM:I-SORT' CHI:CU-RATE IN BRIGIITON.—We announced that • citation hunt the bishop of the diocese had been posted at the doors of the church of St. Nickolas, Brighton, addressed to the churchwardens and parishioners in general, summoning them to appear before the surrogate at the church of St. Michael's in Lewes, to show cause why a monition should not be issued commanding them to make a church-rate for the pariah of Brighton. On Tuesday, accordingly, the surrogate held a court in St. Michael's Church. The holding of such a court is •cry rsre, and as the proceedings at them, though of a tonnal character, are im portant in their consequences, we quote the following re port from the Brighton Guardian. The "court," we mean the place where the basins mu trans acted, and not the persons wko transacted it, was a little mouth of the altar. There sva. a de-k with a green cushion upon it, and there eat the surrogate; a pew below, in the osatre of which a mall table was placed, served for the oftleses. At 12 o'clock the proceeding% corn meneed, there being at that time present the Rey. J. timben, the our. .gate, took his seat at the desk aforiniaid ; Mr. Iloper, the cum ; Mr. FIMICOrIer, his partner; Mr. Curry, a erector from Doctors' ClIIII•101111 (these were in the pew below the surrogate) ; the Rey. 11. M. Wagner, vicar of Brighton ; the Rev. T. Cooke, incites beet of St- Peter'e, Brighton; Mr. It. Willieme, and Mr. J. Ilaikwele, churchwarden. 01 Brighton; two reporter, ; Meier, Hopes and Rua ooner's clerk, who noted art crier of the court ; the parish clerk of Se Mt. cheers, and a gentleman who warn peewit from curioeity, making in all what we have heard super/4111.0. people call the unlucky number 13. The surrogate having taken his seat, the erer wade protiama. boa b dam form, commending all persons who had berm cited to draw neer and give their attendance.—Mr. Duper then read the efts. Cal.—Surrogate limn I suppose in this Retire it rests with Mr. "Wow. You may appear, Mr. Wagner, either in person ar by a proctor, wording to you option.—ttev. H. M. Wagner: Then I appear in person now, but rtherve to myseit dissection to appear by proctor hereafter. —Surrogate: Then what is your prayer !—Rev. U. M. Wagner : Nly prayer is that we may have a rate, and that a monk. lion I i.ay Woe under the Peal of the enure—The Surrogate then called on Janice Curdy, John Iladcock, and Robert Williams, and the poirlehioners of the perish el Brighthelmetone, to appear.—Mr. Wit. hams and Mr. Badoock answered that they appeared.—Surrogate: Are any of the pariehionere present!—There wan no answer.—Sur. regale Then a monition lam been prayed for by the Rev. Henry Michell Wagner; have you any objectiun to offer to it! Have you anything to state to the court on this matter?—Mr. Williams: We are here willing and ready to obey the lawful commaeds of the court.— Surrogate: to there any opposition from any party cited!—No answer was elven. Surrogate : Then I decree that a monition, as stated In the citation, do now issue to that drive —Mr. Iluper You mutt fix on a day fur the erecting.—Mr. Williams Not km than six weeks hence.—Mr. Hover Very writ.—Mr. Curry Mx weeks appear so bog Rev. H. IL Wagner: It will revere a month to prepare a took, and then it would require a fortnight for adverti-emeeta, and so on. Lest there should be any objection made in the town that ft won not known, we are in the habit of giving notice of these bangle—Mr. Corey: Yes, that is desirable. —ltev. IL M. Wagner : I was going to my, that ...ending to local practice, oars thing will obtain in one place, and another in another. We hare been in the habit of putting oat advertisements, and they me it will require a north for the books.— Thtuaday the nth of December, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, was then fixed upon as the day on which the meeting should be held, subject I. the approval of the odic-al.—Mr. Covey Ido not think It wi ll be neto have the books prepared before you go to the meeting. -7— ° l;e7g. M. Wagner : We are so advieed In London. lam cleared to my that Mr. Cordy u concurrent in all that is dime.—Mr. Iloper : We can only heart the mein of those who arc here.--Mr. Curry I lave put it in this mop :rending the decree) "the raid Robert Williams and John Bedeock hiving alleged that foe therinelrot and their col -1 Jame, Cordy they are willing to obey the lawful commands eftre e court."—The decree that a monitioe do issue was then read, and was afterwards signed by Mr. Wagner, Mr. William,, and Mr. Badcoek.—The Crier (with great gravity) then mid " elyes ! Oyes! Oyes ! All peewee cited to sewer in this court may from hence depart, giving their attendance on a &cab citation ;" and as the stage or this important businwe, pregnant with difheultiee, 11l will, and heartbureingw, was brought to a clone. KENT. THE NEW TRINITY BEACON ON THE GOODWIN SANDS MU destroyed by the storm on Saturday morning last. DORSETSIIIRE. A FLOOD, caused by the recent hoary rain, did much mischief on Saturday upon the low lands bordering the river Parrett, in the neighbourhood of Thornford and Bradford. Two hawkers travelling in a one-hone waggon " were drowned in attempting to cross the Long Ford, on their way to Dorchester fair. Three hundred sheep were de stroyed by a flood on the same day, at Wells, in Norfolk. A HINT TO MOTTIERS.—Sir t —By the insertion of the following notice I think people may be put on their guard against leaving their infants in • defenseless and on. protected state where such ferocious animals as ferrets are kept: A poor woman, who tiro at To'Middle, near lliandford, left an in. fant, eta months old, in the cradle, while she went a short distance. [hiring her at.ence a ferret got into the cradle and picked out the child's eyes, end bit the tongue off. The consequence was the death of the child within an hour.—Thinft .Idrertim , r, Oct. 13. I remember an almost parallel case happening a few years ago, at Kingstoa•upon-Thames, and which is related in Mr. Jesse's " Gleanings," as an instan ie of the savage ferocity of the ferret. In this second case, tne animtl not only deprived the infant of one of its eyes, with great injury to other parts of its frame, but, from the lose of blood, was nearly occasioning its death ; and such was the daring ferocity of the ferret, that whilst Dr. Roots of Kingston waa rendering assistance to the infant the creature actually came out from its place of concealment, and seized upon his leg. The daring animal was crushed by a stamp of the foot, and a stop thus put to his sanguinary propensities. These cases show how careful nurses and mothers ought to be in leaving heir helplesti offspring where such dangers may possibly be met with.—R. JENNY LIND has re-appeared at Berlin, and has been received with an enthusiasm enhanced, no doubt, by the of her London mason. MADEMOISELLE ALBONI.—Our late Covent- en favourite has excited a prodigious sensation in Paris ; ugh, as she has only sung at concerts, her dramatic talent has not been displayed. The Parisian journalists are in raptures, to which they give expression ti Ia Franeoise ; and their high flown (but certainly not undeserved eulogies are min gled with many idle stories about the " life and conversa tion" of the fair vocalist. We are told, for example, that (as has been said of George Sand, abut Madame Dudevant) ate is in the habit of going about in male attire ; that she sometimes amuses herself by calling upon a theatrical manager, in masculine costume, with a cigar in her mouth, and announcing herself as the brother of the young singer with whom he is in treaty; that in Ger many she used to frequent beerhouses drinking and smoking with the university students, and so forth. ; for all which the poor girl if no doubt entirely indebtt d to her tall and stout figure and deep-toned voice, her ease and spirit in the representation of male characters on the stage, and her frank and lively temper. There is a talk of her appearing at the Academic Royale, but this seems unlikely, especially as she is positively engaged for next season at Covent.garden. - - ENGLISII SINGERS ABROAD.—Mies Birch is pre paring to make her debut, at the Grand Opera in Paris, it the charactar of Maths [de, in " Guillaume Tell." Madams Parepa, who is creating a furore in the principal Italian theatres, iv the sister of our excellent singers, Mr. E. Seguin and Mr. W. H. Seguin. Madame Leerti (late Miss Susan Hobbs) and Miss Eliu Birch, are pursuing the i r studies at Paris under Signor Emanuel Garcia, the favourite vocal teacher of the day, who was the instructor of Iddlle. Lind. AND CLERICAL. OXFORD, Ocr. 27.—1 n the convocation to be holden on the 29th Set., it will he fops'sd to wrut out of the tunverrity cheat, to the library a to the Inentution for Dirt Lity Students, established a tticwysposam, in the province of Tinrevelly, Ma dras, under euperinens of the lord bishop of that thow-se, thee ms s of to be upended in books printed at the university mow. A convocation will be holden on the 9th of Nov., for the Cre at a scholar on the found/Son of Chu Vies, Seq., rxen of T. IL Haddan, B.C.L, of Meter Oath, lately elected fellow. CAMBIUMS, OCT. 27. —At the Congregation on the 29th Inst.:the hilowing gram will be sewed In the senate :—I. To soorpt the repo' et the Tenessidearehlema Dare nee Ilenedstion of • " Panes Isholeedelp," rawer Nodding eopeowei la she =lke of the Ile bil. 2. In re.espiet dr qwhente er we rwr . 77 7 ... "• at tha Tlea•Cbeenedior and tbe sem Inpoeloof Ow r/ Ur Mistiar of AWN CIL, the ISailier of If tin% . 3.8. llll Mans ef Cdr. and Mr. C. C. follogen et w. .si vim newt= l.ll4 be ar: repor ti n g : So lbi oni•e Pi rws = liald • the ad diem sem, late. &>e. estadkvas Se ma it weeds the sown at as cepa for the elm& et IBM= peehar_ the resamendsodels of the Woodwardiall Onwlooe—la awl& Olio kw SIMI ef the Weedwantlen Feed, end the . it i poem Melly deigned as of It. b ola ad et the rant eassiflseilL. for painti In imiletilen the eendege W the eon of the Rhoolipos Mlle wflit . 8. , lately presented to the minuet: br the dinselsee et the India Ossepasy. Tanarr Cou.eoa.—The Rev. J. P. Lee, who was on Tneedar.gssetted is the first Bishop of blanehrefar, wee broody a •1 41 wow'