The Express. — London, England, 1852-01-23 00:00:00

THE STRIKE. liestenlay information from Manchester was re en, er dw aeretary el the Amalgamated Society of Be • rt, Mr. ,i Menden, of that city, whose shop bad nce the Ifith on Wednesday seceded to of the e &evince cooped. in consequenco of would i resuroe work yestenlay. Me, ~.tulliehment s a small one, employing not lt ,• " • W IN OAR 3,1 h but . it thought that the esiunple „„a ,peedity be followed by other and Luger em ' • -• Asycei. peal numb , r of returns from brunches upon the co_ 0", 0 ,„ 10.000/. received up to last night, sm I oared to eairtly lisl out of 121. Of thaw returns 66 Affirm tlu . propmation, 32 affirm it by large, but fiy , ni.n.dities, while eight arc in the negative. g • crowded meeting of society and non-society ids* at the l'honix Paver,,, Stepney, fur the • ,( is hia.• au equitable arrangenumt with regard to • ,astributiosi of funds r alerted for the support of the . the marling , vie understood, was convened iu con. si veniv °tome dissatisfaction basing been expressed by s blown - rs Olson airount tat the smallness of the sums La id. to their esker for the past week. TE,, t ew,who tweiiiiied the chair, called upon Mr. New ▪ t 4..!‘• his views upon the question to the meeting. et ~..xxw lON • DA t:l.st the executive council haring heard gid son, h..sitistaetnia had Ariten amongst the labourers ▪ tb , o f strike t, were elect Jingly anxious that .6 I r.q, -r t irolerstatoling should at once be come to. It of the .% malgArmittll Society that the 41 ,.▪ ~.„0 hid been thrown out of work; still they k e tm t 1 i w.nority of ease* hero discharged by roseate i•: hut a s t h an discharge had taken place wesi .....sis We Of al dispute between the employers and th,. Ars ngemateil Society, in which the labourers had sk „ a w s f art. the roamed thought it a part of their duty to Cl.l AS, t ar to rho id • for the wants of the labourers, to. .0,1% • hos so consideration h d been shown b l • their v.. Oh Ar, at.) IV hen the Executive Council pat •-th htese p ro position., (ruin which the dispute heal did not for on • moment suppose that the effect • is- to Ddr, , D out of work so I irge a numb rot men C our proceediugs. They we re h▪ is -.Try that the thin.: is id is Burr: d, and would do their us; ~roe the Dati••..l their unfortunate fellow work s,. I' h, hones isneol nut, according to their ruts•s, • toi a,-,utuulate of t h e society for that Purr.' 'D...., I' aid they 1111/64 t'. Nearer* . it the I had any ng t to pOrtital VI the amount raised by contributions 1 .. 1 p e r week he the society men remaining in ("nand, however, hail made an „, ▪ tor public su.s.eriplions expressly on behelf of the Wotan• . Std non-society men, and he had no dle , t but hut Cu I.)air amount which might to: so woad Iwo applied to that purpose exclusively, with out israhl to the society men wua hail a claim upon the has: et the • ki.,ty. Ile recommended the meeting to sp. roe a committee of labourers, to act in conjunction with t oLLlAlitti , . in other branches, for the divisioa of the swot! mi..' IT public sishaeriptious, according to their • a . of jests, . and thee might itt•oend up .a receiving all V. ins, stave,. which conid be fairly rendered by the oinnsitue. (Ilesr, hear.) Some disappoint expensed, because the labourers had only K 3, per awn fee the week which had elapsed since r , ist the shops. Ilut they must rsraeniher that sho:.• of that week bad been consumed in making pre. perd..... toe ocitemiehMa plus of raising subscriptious, so gt a t it was koperelAbe that up to that time any 1 swan: from that pewee could have been received. !. ;C t., the the whose amo un t so raised in Loudon during th. ...Is Li el not exceeded :xl/. --kr soico. " Not so much") - ..e would show them what hail been dune by the eas:r men on behalf of their unskilled brethren, 11 was known that • large amount bad h o es D.:•,*l by the contribution of • day's wages by ga, • earty mew in work ; and he had no hesitation s equip that the while of this amount had been , apj.a4 to the relict of the lalsomen and uon.society men. this pros( of the truth of this assertion mi4lit be found Ithi tart that is thlt one branch alone more money had brew 7 aid hi the labourers than the entire amount of public saiww.ritsnis in Loudon. (Near, bear.) They must hope for moth tag better truss the public in future, as he was sure fs imaminded public sympathy ; but should that hope so. d. brim, they could appoint • deputation to lay their mmn h hie the rittellaTe council, where, no doubt, in acme ef e. an allowance from the day's wages per man paid by thee lonely Sr. in work would DJ doubt be continued. iv. hear.) As • fair principle of de on, he retool -11. .1 that emit man should rsCID•e iu proportion to the err , which he had lost. In COntballol%, he recommended ;kis t ensiles t t lienisel gni in • pcneeable and orderly mau ler. std le interia,n no doubt as to the result. — sere duriti.i.u.tion was expressed by skveral labourers sit he net that nun-socirty men had been allowed is. fur Ur week, while the labourers bad reverted only 3.. fir J. Banos a said that he had interested himself ten murk is procuring subscriptions during the past week, sod L. Irs.ed that, by nest week, the sum would be eon weler..b:y iwteeard. if the meeting appointed • committee, . daisies et funds might be regulated at their pleasure. Artie now discussion, a deputation of five labourers was sip :wed to tont, r with the executive council upon the hest mesa. of supporting the labourers during the eoutindince oleiestrike; and the meeting then separated in on orderly MORAL FRENCH AsTECT or THE •• STRIKE."—The /nob yabiwii• the following letter train N. J. de Coninek, an emi. mot Mire Merl haat, and recommends it to the slim's at ter.t,o et the government .--.• Havre, Jan. 17, 18.1 J.—You Li Already informed put readers of the actions conflict to n in England between the operative eagineen, beam re. end boiler makers, and machine manufacturers. it 7pi oboble that the important branch of industry I.s.t.and which consists in the construction of machines ot to undergo extensive perturbations. Why should a.: hones in ...your to succeed to a large slice of this rci. u.heritanee ? Nothing would be easier. It only re sin: • a simple decree euthonsing our 'manufacturers to sea nee of brow, iron, and pit enal in bond, that i• • •,v free of duty for all machinery destined fur esparto t.,s We should at once see all those countries which now ••c!thiir enlev for machines to England come to France f i r e..• m, for they have hail an opportunity of seeing in the LAL Ezhilotem what out maker. are capable of doing. 7M f Breuer government authorised the use of cast metal in kA Polt the construction of machinery destined for es pors:,,n, but this timid concession was altogether inane- Builtri, which play su large a part in machinery, sr , cot made with cast metal, but with thin plates, and "sa to not them, and this causes • waste, which must be labia in consideration in the duty. Now that we have a 001011111 f et which has only to will to be able to perform, to call its attention to the fact that I have pointed out, will dvatd.w be all that can be netesaary to turn the circus games to the reedit of France. The subject ia urgent, and ver • y urgent; tor it our factories do not at once maw all tat ntitity which it would be so easy to bring back to tiara, it is evident that the English menufactorers, tired of !tics idle, will take away our workmen, and them bring cu itdistry to a lower state than it is at present." - • CoIIMISSION OF NEWEES.—A ape sial mart of sewers for the metropolitan districts was held on Wednesday at No. 1, Greek -street, Sobo. A letter was read from Mr. Forster, tendering his reugnation, Noon the grounds generally of ill health, ob. utsetion of 11.1 s operations, the dismissal of his best sea-tent (Mr. Phillip' and Mr. Giotto), and par. titularly the interference of Captain etch, H.S.— ecptsin Vetch said that in any past which be had takes in the business of the commission he had been actuated solely by a sam e of p u bli c d uty, an d he disclaimed any person al !while against Mr. loner. lie did not consider it n tamale any further remarks upon that occasion, but shout tedgagnes require an explanation, or should future ca per, he entered on, he should be quite prepared to justify hicatts.-1r J. Burgoyne vindicated Captain Vetch, and weltkist even had he been actuated by • hostile spirit to wards Mr. Forster, the other commissioners would have taken rare that he should not act prejudicially against Mr. bunter in the execution of his duties—Major Dawson was m a . ...t o and, stand the conduct of Mr. Fonter, which be thwnten.rd not only a. unaccountable hut as puerile. So far teem the commissioners having obstructed his proceed see It And to him that they had been only too indu110W.,,,.1 loW.,,,.1 halwanng, and that they had mason to complain et him that be had nut given • better retains for the confidence which had been reposed in him. 1.1 .' nosed that the resignation be accepted. Sir J Senitoyne smoothed the motion, and suggested that s vide of thanks should be convoyed to Mr. Forster for hie Pat sereices.—The chains.* stated that Mr. Forster was aso extremely dangerous state of health. The letter bore the mark. , of a hasty composition, and he knew that on the day was written Mr. I ,, ,ritcr'a pubir was at 110. Under the*c • arm...imam might there not he exploitations which at a future time Mr. Forster would wish to offer?—stir W f uhitt gladly &staid himself of the suggestion of the chairman to move an amendment. Mr. Fonter was i.I to he. present ; and he thought, as Englishmen, that they shouhl riot proceed too rigorously when a man was unc..le to defend himself. He should move as an amend 1111,t, That Mr. Forster's resignation be not accepted sat.: he Les a fair opportunity of attending and explaining roe a full court.' —Mr. Allison seconded the emend ate-a,. which was readily acquiesced in by Major Dawson ! his J. Burgoyne, and the other commissionen present, and unaeunously agreed to.—Sir W. Cuhitt then moved, ' I hat iu the absence of the engineer-in-chief, each of the ' , mope' or district engineers communicate directly with the mart, and be responsible for the works in their marc her denneta."—This also was unanimously agreed to; and after gime busiases of a formal character, the court %d -immed. FATAL NAPTIIA EXPLOSION AT lIIMIOATE. — Yesterday, Mr. Wskley, M.P , resumed at the Wood sun. 'Whole, the adjourned inquest on the late Mr. 'Amu. Wyss Edward., a law student. aged 24, who wee bilk dby as explosion of naptha. Serena witnesses having beg n examined, the coroner summed up at great length and 4.M. it as his opiaian that a satisfactory verdict could net Le armed at •ithout et least the opinion isf three practical eheini.ts being obtained upon the sedgen. They had • pso,4 duty to p er f orm , an d that* to satisfy the ps'slle *Po the safety or danger of tbi half In question. The Pr, ft vunurred with the carmen sad the inquiry . was (wa edionmed Is alma v epperianity of utessninet mfinninitiale Waded to by the leaned coroner. One of th, limb is to be selected by Mr. Wahlery, the second by lir Ow. re•lord, and the third Fiy Mr. HotWa. Fitketn EXtl.nn eRN lET.—OVIOra y I Lao, one victims of the French /Misr, has taken up his *.d , nee ia Jersey. flenerals L ier, Lsmoricie, in.l beatnik are daily expect e d t o arrive in ' re that island to MEETING AT SION COLLEGE, ON THE MAYNOOTH GRANT. Yesterday, a meeting of the clergy of the arch aise/eery of Loarionwas held at Sion College, " to eonaWler the expedieneyg .of petitioning parlument on the s a r ltt of the endowment of May noo tn,' , the Venerable A eon Haut in the chair. The meeting was numerously attendee', and among others present were the Rev. Doctors Croly, Worthington, and Vivian; Rev. Messrs. Hartwell, Horne, J. J. (jelling, Abbess, T. R. Redwar, T. P. Dale, Johnson, Ellis, Sergr o v e , W ren ch, Auriol,4loeichild, J. E. Cox, Porah, Kelly, Josiah Pratt, Webber, Hill, Item, Howe, Gibson, Streattield, Sands, Egerton, Williams, Le. The proceedings opened with prayer; the Chairman said the names of the clergy attached to the requisition inviting him to call that meeting, comprising those of 1/r. Vivian, Dr. Croly, Mr. Bennett, Mr. Ellis, Mr. Dean, Mr. Altfrey, and others would have left lain no choice, and it would have been his duty, even if it had not been his inclination, i at once to comply with the requisPion. The question be fore the meeting was " the consideration of the expediency of presenting a petition to parliament, praying that they should no longer grant au endowument to the College of Idaymoth." It had been a matter of deep consideration with him, and it was fur the meeting to consider whether a petition to parliament was the best mode of expressing their sentiments on this question, or whether they should adopt the course of making a public declaration. The lice. Dr. CROLY then addressed the meeting touching the Maynooth grant tit considerable length, as a theological question. If the government had merely en dowed error in the Nest place they were so far culpable, but adverting to the history of Maynooth it would be found tlut that institution hail propagated among all classes in Ireland sentiments the most hostile to the government. May nooth circulated those priueiples which were the privi leges of Itoinvnisin, and they were circulated there with an openness which would have deeerved the name of candour, it it had not better deserved the name of crime. They were now to consider whether they were to state to parlia ment their abhorrence of such principles. From the too. meat of the establishment of Maynooth there had been a perpetual mos ement among the people of Ireland, and fur twenty years Maynooth hail been the nuisance of the empire. There were educated yearly about 400 students, of w !vim perhaps 200 might be necewary fur the wants of the Roman catholic church, and if that woo so it was a " l'ropiganda ;" and were the people of this emus. try to support a " l'ropaganda." which was labouring to overthrow the protestant religion, and with it Christianity itself 1 For misty years the state of society in Ireland had been most melancholy, and she was reduced to a cJiidition tor which no parallel could be found in any country. Such was her misery and social disunion, that depopulation was considered so a proridvntisl Vlalt.aloll While no porwesor of property could lay his head on his pillow with any security against the blow of the assassin. Society was disunited, and almost dissolved; property had all changed hands. The leaders of public opinion hail been driven out of the coun try; and the tew landlords who remained were only deemed to be masks for the bullet of the mur derer. Them were only three countries in the world 1 where assassination 1•111 a trade : Spain, Daly, and Inland. In that unhappy land assassins could 6o sent to every part of the country, and the law was imps tent to punish them or to prevent their offence—could they hesitate to ea, that the curse of God has fallen on a land where such things were done with impunity? In one year 21,000 offences had been committed, and 1,000 only bad met w ith punishment. The spirit be had described had gone from the south even to the hitherto peaceled and wells urganised districts of the north. There must be a cause for this, and ho believed the cause to be 'emery, and the root of popery was Maynouth. In u Weill which he had before him, he could sea that popery hail spread limit' all over the kingdom in spite of the oaths which had been taken by its professors and bishops, and dioceses had been appointed without the Last notice of the supremacy of the Queen or the existence of the protestant prelacy. Were they prepared to submit to the dominion of popery ? If the Pope were to be supreme iu this country, they would he impotent, whi.e the throne and laws were controlled by the will ul an individual, and the liberties of the people would be extieguislied ; they would be in the same condition as the people of Rome, and, perhaps, have a foreign army sent over to support this usurpation. They had no right to amist error, or give money to support that which they thought wrong. The lie,. Dr. WORTHINGTON said the ' , retch of Dr. Cruly had so completely covered everything that could be said on the subject, that he had little to add. Cp to the present time he had had some difficulty with regard to denying education to the ILULLAJD catholic clergy; but that difficulty had "'mashed since he saw the powers which were claimed tor that purpose, which were not dreamt of in any country of the continent in which mixed education was prevalent. A declaration against the Maynooth grant, drawn up by the chairman, was then discus eel, after vrhi. h it was un animously agreed that it should form the groundwork of a petition to parliament. The Rev. Mr. J•usit and the ROW. ILULTWILL HORNS having spoken in support of it, The lire. Mr. Aeniot moved that the President of Sion College and Dr. Croly be requested to draw up the petition, and that it do lie for signature by the c.crgy of the diocese in the library of the college. The 'tee. Mr. ItEDWAII secuaded the motion, as was also a resolution that the petition should be presented to the House of Lords by the Bishop of London, and to the House 01 Commons by Sir Robert Inglis. The meeting then separated, having passed the usual compliment to the chair. MR. HUME, M.P., AND THE NEW REFORM BILL. At the recent meeting of a reform committee in Edinburgh the following letter from Mr. Hume. in which he lays : After the experience we have had of the working of the elective system, as amended in 1831-32, I called together 80 or 70 of the reformers in the House of Commons in 1849 ; and, at their request, I submitted to the Roue of Com mons a motion that contained the amendments that, in the opinion of our meeday, If adopted by parliament, would correct all or nearly Ma whose of the abuses that now exist in the elective system. " I moved for leave to bring in a bill to amend the national reprearatation,bv extending the elective franchise, so that every man of NI( age, and not subject to any men tal or legal disability, who shall have been toe resident oe cupierof a hoes*, or part of a house as a lodger, for twelve months, and shall have been duly rated to the poor of that parish for that time, shall be registered as an elector, and be entitled to vote for a representative in parlia ment. Also, by enacting that votes shall be taken by ballot, that the duration of parliaments shall not exceed three years; and that the proportion of representa tives be made more consistent with the amount of popula tion and property.' And after great consideration, I can not, in a mare condensed form, submit the amendments I think best calculated to promote the harmonious working of our representative system, so as to obtain security to the persons and property of all classes of the community. " I view parliamentary reform as a question in which the men of rank and wealth are more interested than even the classes which are new ezeluded from the elective franchise, and from their jut aramitutioael share of the govern ment of the country. It is, in my view, moot iespertaat 1... 1 . 657 t Mate of Europe, for the future= sad im a 'zit ; that our elective system is.. of the people, raw dimeawated by bass asiaded from the parliamentary _frenshise awl I would gamma thin rasa of mak awl labarreas ham hitherto steed sleet tram the retest mommeat, to join umilalip is pro madai sealloatmoat dm millions, and la airing to them ea Wawa is the pease, sod I. the liberal 'mikados, of the ltiogkow I bare= satisfies*. the pratosdiage et the roirmers of bleasbtw, sad ma pleased die have edoplad this elbows et 'Am osisabled by me of late years to the Some of Ormatows sad I bums the reamers of Sdia=Lill ow s=tbair eountMONO tO *lle safe and timid hare • oodormore assiast es saw he. which parser ham fallse, of maid se kr the ester, OM be should pay op the time idi be has beets seeemed sad registered. The pay ment of tams to enable elsown to give their votes was one of the most prattle maws of bribery sad eomption ia Wosbakestur, Southwark, and ether Waste, Won 1831-111. sot eriabh therefore, la say the that is made, po be raltsgsther ins away with. Ihaemesm stgl!ldep t sot reelisolo, 'Mold be the quellieedoa to oimegoleb the beembeiiet hes dr sweat, whisk is all that suaht to be dews Thu rate awl regisMr bosh sad time of abseil be the proof of qualification; awl the et tbe Imes er rates far which the beeseholder has wasesed thould be left in the same category with ell ether debt. dee by tits beseebolder. ROYAL SEA BATHING INFIRMART.—Yeoterday a sqcial general meeting of the vvernors of the Royal Bea Bathing Infirmary at Margate was held at the London Tavern, to take into consideration the report of a committee appointed tithe last general court to revise the byelaw' of the institution. The Right Honourable the Earl of Win chilies in the chair. The report was brought forward, and its several recommendations having been, seriatim, most carefully dimmed by Rev. Mr. Curling, John Curling, Esq., R. Pugh, Esq., and other gentlemen who interest themselves in the well-doing 01 the inetitution, were with some modifications agreed to. The malt of this revision is almost a complete alteration in the constitution of the sets blistunent—a measure which its friends have for a long time eagerly desired. His lordship haring espreased his gratifica tion on a 10 • . e of thanks passed to him by the meeting, the business of the day concluded. THR GALE OF WEDNESDAY NIOHT.—In the south of England it blew almost a hurricane on Wednesday night. In consequence of the severity of the weather the outward Channel Islands' mail-packet, which left Southampton on Wednesday midnight, was obliged to bring up in the Bakst; and the mail from the Channel Islands, which should have reached the General Pesi.ellke at 4 a.m. yetter. day _morning, did she arrive before midday of yesterday. UNTIMELY DEATH OF A PROFESSIONAL SINoER. —On Wedneeda &Iterating, the body of Mrs. Anderson, whose amides see hem Chlbert'ccourt, Tower street, Lambeth, created so mesh concern a few days so, was found la Lambastes ; and tha lady now lies at the Moor's Arms public-house, Row-common, awaiting an THE COUNTY COURT'S TREASURERSHIP OF RAMP isms is vacant by the resignation of James Hoskins, Esq., of Oosport. A number of candidates for the vacant situa tion are already la the field. THE KAFFIR WAR. Last evening, a public meeting wee held at the Horns Tavern, Kennington, to conal&er the cause. of the war now :vise in Kaflirlaed, the policy which has been , pursued toward the frontier tribes, and the propriety of memorialising government to revert to a more conciliatory system. The chair was takes by Mr. W. WlLeisite, the member for Lambeth, who, after explaining the purpose for which the meeting wee called, read an extract from a letter from Mr. D'Syncourt, the other member for the borough, stating that he should be prepared to concur in the benevo lent and ehristian views of his excellent and esteemed friend Lord (ileuclg, and hoped to see a speedy recurrence to them at the Cape whenever similar circumstance* should arise. ("Hear, hear," and "oh, oh.") He (Mr. Williams) was glad to see among hie constituents so string an interest in a question which deeply affected our national character. At this moment we were in the humili ating position of seeing the flower of our army contending with tribes of savages, and, instead of gaining gluey, as in other fields, were overwhelmed with difficulty. We saw that army unable to protect the colonists, or to prevent sa- vases from running over the colony plundering and destroy- ing . property, and murdering the people. It could not be denied that those who lied bought the colony into that condition were in the highest degr. e culpable—(bearj—and he was sorry to say the condition of the Cape was owing not to the Kafiri so much as to the arbitrary conduct and inca pacity of the Colonial Secretary, and Sir H. Smith, the Governor. (Hear, hear.) We - had sent out an addition to our force of ten thousand men—we hail spent im mense sums soil had sacrificed the lives of many of our best troops ' • and, after all, were as far of • satisfactory settlement of the difficulty as ever. In con clusion he would express his firm conviction, that while the colony wits governed by the Culonial-office, and governors appointed by it, we should never arrive at a settled peace with the natives of Africa, or with the colonists. If we would avoid the expense of these wars we must give the Cape of Good flop; flee institutions, and let them govern ' themselves. (Hear.) Let the colonies have the management of their own affairs and be responsible for the defence of their country. (Hear, hear.) Ilud this been dons 3 sears ago when Lord Grey first tampered with the subject of a con stitution for the Caps, the present war would never have taken place—the colonists themselves would hays taken. means to prevent it. (Hear.) M. CHAMEHOVZOW, the secretary to the Aborigines Protection Society, moved a resolution charging the war to the systematic course of aggressions upon the Kaffir terri tories which had been pursued, with only one intermieeion, from our first occupation of the colony ; our disregard of the naturist rights of the natives, aggravated by our endea vours to undermine and destroy the influence of their chiefs, and to the precipitate adoption of coercive measures when considering the grievances of which the Kalfirs and other tribes bad justly to complain, forbearance was not less demaraled by policy than justice. Ile observed that the question was one which bore on the financial condition, the honour, and the Christian character of this country. He proceeded to describe the systematic injustice which had been pursued towards the Kaffir' under Lord C. Somerset, Bir B. D'Urban, and other governors, interrupted fluty by the short period during which the milder and more just policy of Lord Glenelg obtained. He said the eolonists, if left to them selves, would speedily make peace. They were anxious for peace and to deal justly with the kitting. (An exclama tion of dissent.) Ile was aware that there was a small party in the colony who wished for war, but that party was confined to those who made large profits by supplying the troops with provisions —those who shipped arms and gun powder for the use of the Kattirs (and he was informed that but a short time ago a vessel had taken them 100 bar rels of gunpowder)—(hear, hear)—those who let out waggons to carry military stores at It. or 30s. a day—the refuse of the British population, who " lett their country for their country's good." and who, by reckless and unprincipled daring, obtained a footing in the colony. These, and the military, who looked to war as their vocation, and the only means of promotion and ad vancement, were the only persons who desired to carry on this expensive and humiliating war. (Hear, hear.) Ile was sorry to soy that the fist of extermination hail pile forth ; he had heard that it was emblazoned on some of the ' colonial colours, and in front of the Graham's Town Genelle. (hear, hear.) It might be an easy matter to exterminate' 100 people, but it was a different thing to talk of exter minating ,000,000. (Hear, hear.) Humanity forbade it, Christianity forbade it, and if nothing else forbade it our 'pockets forbade it. (Hear, hear.) Mr. H. H EIMER seconded the resolution, which was spoken to by Dr. Kxux, who said he was well acquainted with . the Kaffir tribes, amongst whom he had lived, and described them as a brave and noble-minded race, but a race which could not brook the annoying system of constant in terferenec and aggression which was pursue.) towsids them by the colonial government. Ile advised the people of this country to declare against that system ; for, unleu it was abandoned, there would be no prmanent peace. But not only woo it necessary to deal justly by the Kaffir., we must deal justly also by the Anglo-Saxon st (tiers and the Dutch Doers, who were as determined to tizht, and if necessary to die, in defence of their rights and liberties as wo were ourselves. If we did not, depend upon it, when no had put down the Kaffir*, we should have to meet a still greater difficulty, in the hostility of the white inhabitants of the colony. Mr. SIDNEY, amid some opposition, called upon the meeting not to place implicit faith in the statements of the paid agents of the Aborigines Protection Society, the mem bers of which could never find anything bad in a black or brown man, or anything good in a white colonist. Mr. TOWNSEND spoke in support of the resolution and in defence of the Aborigines Protection Society. Tho resolution was put and carried. Another resolution, declaring that the honour of the nip lion would be best advanced by treating the aborigines with justice and humanity, and that by whatever means government might attempt to terminate the present igno minious struggle, an investiiration into the grievances of the frontier tribes mast form an essential element in the permanent adjustment of the difficulty, and urging the establishment of an open court of inquiry on the spot un der the presidency of impartial civil commissioners, was proposed by Mr. Jas. BILL, seconded by Mr. RICHARDS, and carried ; as wu another, moved by Mr. Etiamorom, and seconded by the Rev. Mr. Limos, for memorialising the prime minister aad petitioning parliament. A vote of thanks to the chairman terminated the per• THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 28. 1852. NATIONAL DEFENCES. TO TUI IDITOR OF Till WALT AIRS. slll,—lf the information given by your correspon dent, " An Englishman," be correct, it would appear that we have scarcely a single vessel on oar southern or eastern coasts available for defending, on an emergency, even our principal harbouni, mach less our open coasts. And yet, though this is the case, and though government is said to contemplate asking for more naval forces ma security against sudden attack, they are sending to a distance the few vessels now in preparation, and paying of the crews of those which are returning from foreign service. Now, if it is really advisable to have our shores ins state of defence (and I cannot conceive of anybody denying this), it does seem the extreme of folly, nay, of infatuation, to throw wantonly away in this the services of these crews, who are already in a sta r ro e hraining and effeiency, at the very ties whee.w• we to be asked for more. Why not retain these skips to anion about the channel? Why not recall a_part, at bona, of oar Lisbon and Mediterranean fleets ? There I are amply enough there to form a Meet which, under good esionamad, would make a descent en our 160116 isagendble, sad the fears of an invasion utterly groundlom With on alio admiral at the hand of a ekes ships in the channel, s a r pt l e = knee sf milliory, sod shim ride corps on shore, as Ingliimen eronht be, to die rather than see their ssfl iseinlei br the itrommee of a foreign foe, England wenn U.S only to ode, het might again speak I with aniihorlty in lamps es MAW of humanity end Cree -1 din. 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He mid ire help okon= non bus adesed freellan le time by Ile Yes drew goveurasse atm Is get rid of ildr Who pm MO. govened all the °them erna i rdet sees albeeest snare,!, bit by bit, they was lin Ow Whir Meg &MIN t-howe, although well silted Ipiir 06 red the loss would 7.47.1. se! rbassees ( bis, bear.)—Mr. Fasdkasit Ilse - nora, of thee grew is the Ward irwrials 61111.0.- g reet would lea bass& rather this ire le Or der it would esealtkely be streamline of Os grwi Nov Dlefitzesteo BUICIDIL—Mr. Hobert Brest, the landlord or the dear Inn at Newport, Isle of Wl htt ,, com mitted suicide as Tuesday last. He nes es ustek and, after tiring some diner's. to hie erase ober the Mesa., de., he went up to Ids Mies. Notomalog down to break fast, nor enswerbw wltis the door was treed epee, when be was felted deed. He wet *sent to the ale of Wight rod LIMAS Mpg* °sway, and to vorloos ether meestri ee eseershre era egad. Se bad the greyer, ds par swim et puree IN la bee& OP BIIARRHOLDRRB. NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY. - MEETING On Wednesday List, a very numerous and in essential meeting of the shareholders of the North-Western Railway Company was held at the Royal Hotel, Leeds. The meeting waseonvened by advertisement and circular bearing the ' , lgnatius of Arthur M Price, one of the share holders, for the purpose of considering an agreement pro posed to be entered into by the directors of the company, to band over the working of the railway for a term of twenty-one years to the Midland Railway Company, and to appoint a committee to watch over the interest of share hulden. ARTHUR )[.PRICK, Esq., barrister, London, was Una ninionsly called to the their. After having reed the circular calling the meeting, that gentleman proceeded at great length to give an account of the present state of the company, and how it stood in relation to other lines. It appeared to be necessary to appint a committee at that time to see what the prospects of their own line were, as the Great Northern was rapidly approaching completion, and would have a great influence upon their interests. A committee had been appointed not only to consider their present state, and see if it could be improved, but also to treat with the directors of the other line., when to their surprise it was announced that the directors hail made arrangements, hastily entered into, to hand over their line to the Midland for a period of twenty-one years. As this was opposed to the wishes of the great body of shareholders, it was 'weft , wiry that stein should be taken to prevent its being carried into effect. If any precedent was required for their adopt , ing this course, there were several to he found both in con nexion with English and Scottish lines. He might assume, therefore, that the shareholders had a right to meet and appoint • committee for the proposed purlieu. Ile would ask what advantages would arise to them from their line being handed over to the Midland. He would like to find what good there was in it. He was ready to receive favours from any quarter, and if the Midland held forward any to him he would not object to accept them. What, then, did they offer ? hey proposed to pay 60 per cent. on the gross re ceipts of the line. lie found that for the two last half. years the working expenses bad been respectively 75 per rent and 72 percent. He did not know the reason why the working expenses of their line exceeded so much those of others, nor would he attempt to explain it ; that would be matter for after consideration. Besides the 50 per cent., the Midland also proposed to give more when the receipts exceeded 52,0001., a position which he would be very happy to see them attain, and which he thought they might yet see accomplished. Their lino hail within itself all the elements of a good line, and their testae was steadily on the increase. In the proposed agreement, the traffic allowed by the Midland Company to belong to the North- Western was not very clearly defined. Indeed it was a romarkahle fact that the agreement entirely corresponded with the letter of a lady, for although they rend it from be ginning to end there was comparatively nothing in it until they came to the postecriptand there they found the only allu sion which WAS made to their traffic, and which was so very vague that he did not properly understand it. If his view of its meaning, however, was correct, it recognised a principle which he would be very sorry to see adopted. It appeared to him that by it what would be considered their traffic would be completely at the option of the MidlandCumpany. There was another serious consideration. It was proposed to hand them over to another company at the present time for a period of 21 years. What would be their position then? The present was a meet important crisis. In the course of three or four years they would be able to know what their future prospects would probably be, and he would ask if it would be advisable to bind themselves down to any other body for a period of 21 years without first ascertaining the value of their own property? He had heard the Midland Company called them natural allies, and lie was glad to hear it. He would always bo most happy to reciprocate favours with them. lie thought it their duty to conter with them to see if they could approve of their terms, and at all events they would then know the worst. Ile would propose that they should take the line on lease at, let them say by way of illustration, two and a half per cent. as the very lowest terms. That was a course which he would not vs fuse to follow. (Hear, hear.) At present their proposal was so vague, leaving their prospects so uncertain, that he was not disposed to surer to it. Mr. Price then proceeded to state that the Great Northern by proceeding from London to Leeds and then to Skipton, and by the Lancashire and Carlisle line entering Scotland, opened to them the whole of the testae of Glasgow and the west of Scotland. At pr sent the receipts on their line only amount to 101. or 11/. per Tillie, but were it to be brought to act as a link in the great chain between the southern and northern divisions of the kingdom, it would bo increased fourfold. Mr. Price then alluded to arrangements which ho had heard of having been made between railway companies by which traffic WAS diverted from its natural chanced. It was impoitible that such a course of procedure could long con tinue, as parliament would interfere to protect the interests of the public, and disperse all such agreements as stubble before the wind. Ho would not trouble them with any further remarks beyond stating that the object of their com mittee would be to get the best terms from any one of the companies with whom they treated. They were open to all andinfluenced by none. Nothing, he was sure, would give the committee greater pleasure than to have it in their power to lay before the shareholders a proposal which would be advantageous to them. Having read the agreement proposed to be entered into with the Midland, Mr. Price concluded by saying that it was easy for that company to speak of their generosity, when by the posteript they retained a right to put their hands into the treasury of the North-Western and repay themselves for any deficiency that might occur. (Hear, hear.) Mr. PERKINS, Leeds, proposed a series of resolutions which were to the effect, that the agreement proposed be tween the Midland and North-Western Companies being unsatisfactory to the shareholders, it was the opinion of the meeting that they should not be adopted; that a committee should bo formed to take such steps as to carry out and protect the interests of the shareholder.; and, that the committee should have power to negotiate with other companies for their traffic, or with • view to being leased, and to report any proposal that might appear advantageous to the share holders, in order to Its being carried into effect. Mr. W. SIMPSON, Leeds, alter shortly drawing the attention of the meeting to how they stood with the Lon don and North-Western and other lines, stated that he entirely dissented from the agreement p roposed to be en tered into by their directors. It was ono that was most unwise, and one he could never enter into, as it left a loop hole to the Midland to put their traffic wh they liked, and wee such as never could be adopted at • meeting of wise shareholder,. The resolutions were then agreed to, and the following gentlemen appointed as a committee : Messrs. Wilkinson, Hull ; Newbold and Wilma, Sheffield ; Milligan, Brad ford ; Briswell, Barr, L. H. Dopler'. Gill, and Sangster, Leeds ; Henry Watson, York ; and Arthur M. Price, Lon , don, chairman. The meeting then separated. ANCIENT CoINB.—A large number of coins of tho reign of Queen Elizabeth have been recently found in • field belonging to a farmer of the name of M'Carraher, of Cabra, near Killiles, county Armagh. AN ORIGINAL MISSIVE FROM COLO/3MM TO FIRDINAND AND illADlL.—Captain D'Auberville, of the bargee Chieftain, of Boston, writes to the editor of the Lownills Varieties, that he put into Gibraltar on the 27th of August last to repair some damages his vessel had sustained, and, while waiting, himself and two of his pas sengers crossed the straits to Mount Abylus, on the African coast, to shoot, and pick up geological specinsent. Before returning the bream had freshened so much as to render it necessary to put more ballast in the boat, and one of the crew lifted what he supposed to be a piece of rock, but from its extreme lightness and singular shape was induced to call the attention of the captain to it, who at first took it for a piece of pumicestone but so completely covered with barnacles and other marine animalcule as to deny that sup position. On further examination be found it to be a cedar keg. On opening it he found • cocoanut, enveloped in • kind of gum or resinous substance ; this he also opened, and found a parchment covered with Gothic characters , near! illegible, and which neither he nor say one on board was able to decipher. Re, however, found on shore an Armenian book merchant, who was said to be the meet learned man in Spain, to whom he took it, who, after learn ing the circumstances of its discovery, offered 300 dollars fork, which efferCaptain D'Auberville declined. He then, says the letter, read word for word, and translated it into French as be seal seek sistenvie; it was a short but concise account of the dbeenery el Cathay, or further Indio, ad dressed to Ferdinand sal Labelle, of Castillo sad Anion, saying the ships could cal prodbly survive the tempest an other day ; that they the were between the Western Isles and Spun; that two lille narratives were written and thrown into the sea, in 41/11 the caravel should go to the bottom, that some amine would pick up one or the other of them. The strange doeueaset was signed by Christopher Columbus, in • belt emi ambits hand. It also bore the date of 1493, and masergeesstly W been floating over the an Atltic 358 years. The letter - elms with a menreace from the writer that he would gnarl' lb tremors safe until his return to the United leetes. width would be in April or May nut.—Satioene(U.S.)Paper. !The following from Mr. Winhington IreWs well known life of the greet ;M e i navigator, relating to the valuable document, alleged to have been thus renewed, will be read with interest In connection with the . The esmunittal of the barrel to the waves is stated es taken pleas on the 14th Feb., 1493, and after deserildiag " the Juanita sorrow and trouble" of Columbus a 4 the threatened defeat of his enter priseon the point of its sempletion, Mr. Irving goes on thus : In the midst of these glean sgsprehemthems an expedient suggested itself, by widely glieugh he end his ships should perish, the glory of his asidimenemit m kt survive to his name, and its advantages be assured le kb sovereigns. lie wrote on parchment • betel ese mat of lb vela •e and dis tiovery, and of his having taken psemed ea o f th e newly found lands in the name of their entbelle stabstios. This he sealed and directed to the king and gums; superscribing • promise of • thousand ducats to whomsoever should de liver the packet unopened. Ile than wrapped it in • waxed cloth, which he olaced In the centre of soaks of was, and inclosing the whole in a large barrel, threw it Into the se% giving his men to suppose he was performing some religious vow. Lest his memorial should never reach the land, he inclosed a copy in a similar manner, and placed it upon the poop, so that, should the caravel bo swallowed up by the wives, the barrel might Boat off and survive.") SPANISH NAMES.—A Spanish journal gives the as singular names those o f two empkris in the Finance department at Madrid :—Don Hpihnio Miruteur urdundua y Zengutita, and Don Juan Nerimuceno de Burl onagonatotoreeseogesscoecha. The journal, in quoting the name of the latter of these honourable gentlemen would have done well to have given some directions as to the pronuneiatiou. S MR. DISRAELI AND HIS VIEWS. Lord Boar Banana& : a Political Biography. By BINJAMIS DISE/A/LI. M.P. [ficeee-d Notice.] - . _ _ It is a very dangerous step for a politician to be come theologian; yet it is one into which, in spite of the warning held out hy Mr. Gladstone's example and his own diversified experience, Mr. Disraeli has been betrayed by the impulse of strong feeling and an irrepressible sympathy for his race. Mr. Glad stone propounded to the world an elaborate theory of church principles, which vastly delighted Anglicans sad made him the hope of their party ; but the course of events soon punished Ins transgression against the law of politics, and Sir Robert Peel's government had to deplore the loss of a cabinet minister, who had ventured to write a book for the purpose of enlightening the theological opinions of his country. Before many months are over, Mr. Disraeli may have become a cabinet minister also. It is a striking proof of his sanguine temper, and of the overwhelming strength of the bond which unites the members of the Jewish race to each other, that a man occupying so prominent a position, with so many peculiarities to render his career difficult and hazardous, should have travelled out of his way, without the smallest pressure of necessity, to insert a theological disquisition in a political biography, and that, too, on a subject sin gularly distasteful to the great and fastidious party of which the strange accidents of political life hair made him the leader in the House of Commons. The religious views of those who hold the highest offices in the government must ever be mutter of the deepest interest to a nation whose civil consti tution contains ecclesiastical elements so numerous and so vitally important as that of Eng land. The religious earnestness which charac terises our age, makes the country doubly alive to the theological opinions and tendencies of its leading statesmen : the more especially as many of the ques tions which most agitate the public mind and deter mine the course of our national legislation relate to our ecclesiastical institutions, and arc invested with surpassing interest by the strength of the religious convictions of the people, and their incessant efforts to influence in one shape or other the public litb of the nation. Mr. Disraeli had written much, but not directly on religion. In his "Political Biography " of Lord George Bentinck he supplies the omission by a long and elaborate argument in favour of the Jews, in which he strives not only to secure for them that equality of civil rights to which the House of Com mons has repeatedly declared them to be entitled, but also to vindicate for them, on religious and histo rical grounds, the highest pre-eminence among the races of mankind. Ile not only paints the Jews as the victims of a cruel and unjust persecution, but in his anxiety to dispel the feelings which have prompted the infliction of these wrongs, he arrogates for them by reasonings of a most q lest ionable character, a greatness nod a merit which arc as unfounded as they are offensive. It is greatly to bo regretted, for Mr. Disraeli's own sake, but much more for the sake of the great cause of his people, that he did not restrict his efforts to the establishment of those claims whose justice and reasonableness commend themselves with ever increasing effect to the general sense of the country, and did not forbear from urging demands on Gentile reverence and gratitude equally novel and unsus tainable. No pleading for his countrymen could be more injudicious than the advancing of new specu lations on religion in direct opposition to Christian opinions and Christian feelings. Mr. Disraeli marvels at the logic " which does not look upon the Jews as the human family that has contributed most to human happiness:" and then to account for the paradox of the greatest benefactors of mankind being subjected to the greatest persecu tion, invents a theory about the feeling of Christians towards the Jews which a Sunday-school girl would know how to answer, but which he is at the pains of refuting with the most pompous ostentation. The dispersion of the Jews was a penalty inflicted for tne crucifixion of Jesus by the Romans, and at the instigation of some Jews. Such a picture misrepresents the Christian view, and ignores the great guilt of the Jewish nation. The crucifixion was but the culminating point of a series of crimes unparalleled in history. No other people has offended so deeply as the Jews, because no other people has received such signal favours. To them alone was revelation given : they alone were ruled directly by God himself. And what does their history record? Little less than an unbroken succession of the moat ungrateful and the most impious rebellions against Him who was their King and their God. What was polytheism in Greek or Roman, compared with idolatry in a Jew? They possessed no divine oracle: the knowledge of the true God had not been communicated to them. Shall a nation whose annals record an uninterrupted stream of treason and apes tacy, not of some, but of the whole people, bo held up to the pm-eminent admiration of mankind? A very slender examination of the authentic docu ments of Jewish history would have saved Mr. Disraeli from the egregious discovery, that Christians connected the dispersion of the Jews with the crime of the crucifixion alone. Ho would have been spared the superfluous pain of proving what Christians learn as children, that the Jews were all along a stiff-necked and rebellious people—that their own prophets repeatedly announced their dispersion over the world, and that the sentence was carried out by the appointed ministers of divine vengeance many ages before the Messiah appeared. Mr. Disraeli's idle demonstration that the Jews were scattered into strange . lands before the consumma tion of their highest crime only establishes the anti quity and continued duration of the national guilt. No nation was so signally punished, because no other nation was so transcendently guilty. Mr. Disraeli ventures to tread on still more sacred ground, to which we almost tremble to follow him. Having refuted as historically false the notion that the Jews were dispersed abroad on account of the crucifixion, he next assails it as dug atieally un sound. "The immolators were pre ordained like the victim, and the holy race supplied both. Could that be a crime which secured for all mankind eternal joy ? which vanquished Satan, and opened the gates of Paradise?" What is this but to wipe away guilt with the good effects which the benevolence of Pro vidence may make to flow from it ? To destroy the essential character of good and evil, and to appeal to consequences instead of the feelings and purpose of the heart, for determining the moral . quality of human conduct ? Nay more, what else is it but to fall into the deep abyss of fatalism, and to find in the preknowledge of the Deity the justification of every crime? Does Mr. Disraeli mean to as sert that God compelled the Jews to crucify Christ P If he recoils with horror, as he must do, from such a blasphemy, will he pre tend that the guilt of the Jews was one iota the less, because God allowed them to work their wicked will on an innocent Being, and opened in their crime a fountain of eternal blessing for the human race? Will he vaunt the beneficial results of their sin, thus overruled to good by a Higher Power, as grounds for commanding the gratitude of men? It will not be surprising, if, after having subverted the distinctions of morality, Mr. Disraeli should be discovered to confound those also of religion. A "converted Jew" is ridiculed as an absurd phrase ology, and the Lombards are taunted with confusion of ideas for forgetting that it is they who are the converts. Either Mr. Disraeli has studied little the difference between the Jewish and Christian religions, or he has wilfully committed a very reprehensible equivoque. The Christians arc converts to the Jew ish religion, if by that expression is meant the reli gion which the Jewish scriptures point to and proclaim —the Jewish religion in its full com pletion and development. But if the phrase refers to the religion professed by the unbe lieving Jews, then it ia not only not identical, but the direct opposite of the Christian religion. It is the Jews who are traitors to the Jewish religion, and who, by rejecting the central point of the whole revelation, that to which every other part converged, and which gave significance to the whole, have re nounced the true Jewish religion. It is an act of dis ingenuous sophistry to attempt to cover the apostacy of the Jews under the shelter of an ambiguous phrase. Our complaints against Mr. Disraeli are not merely theological. His zeal to exalt the Jews has made him utter strange nonsense about the great ness of races which have resisted being absorbed by populations amongst which they were dispersed. Under such a theory he forgets that he must claim for the Gipsies parity of honour with the Jews. The absurdity would, however. be harmless and ridica lous but for its application. " The natural equality of man, were it possible to act upon it, w o uld deteriorate the great races and destroy all the genius of the world. What would be the consequence on secede Anglo-Saxon republic, were it s ci ti zens t o from their sound principle of reserve, and mingle with their negro and coloured populations?" That consequence, lie prophecies would be, the dete rioration of the Anglo-American, and the re-conquest of America by her aborigines. History tells us that the British are a mongrel and amalgamated people; but it does not say that they are inferior in all great qualities to the Norman, or Saxon, or other races of which they are composed. But what is Mr. Disratli's logic ? Is it the negro who is the parallel of the Jew, and is it to preserve his genius that the Anglo-Saxon is exhorted not to commingle his " pure blood" with that which flows in sable veins? Or is it the Anglo-Saxon who is the analogy to the Jew, and who is implored by this example of the Jew to keep his blood and genius uncorrupted? If so, we must leave it to the supe rior skill end talent of Mr. Disraeli to reconcile his protest against the persecution of the Jews in Europe with his advocacy of the proscription of the men of colour in America? We see no other expla nation than the ordinary one of all oppressors. It is wrong to persecute the Jews, because they are a superior race; but right to keep down the negroes, because they are inferior. UnfOrtunately for cinch maxims, each party who has the upper hand applies the epithets at its pleasure; and they are nude to justify all oppression. Such inconsistencies—and it would be easy to pro duce many more—betray the shallowness which dis tinguishes the whole of this unhappy chapter. But we confess, a feeling of shame crept over us when we saw a leading English statesman covering with the sanction of his authority the great crime, and, by the law of nature, the great danger of the west ern world. Mr. Disraeli's name has sometimes been whispered in connexion with the future administra tion of the foreign relations of England. Will the people of this free country endure that their foreign secretary should countenance the oppression of lice coloured races by the Anglo-Americans, under the soft name of a sound reserve? We arc mistaken if the utterance of such sentiments helps Mr. Disraeli to the Foreign-office. CLERICAL. I' It I'EMMEXTS. Rev. Maurice Atkin Cooke Collis, to Clondueanc Vicar age, diocese Cloyne. It. v. George Goodenough Ilayter, to Woodford Vicar age, Northamptonshire; value 27.11., with residence; pat ron, Lord Chancellor. Rev. J. Mayor, to Scorbrough Rectory, Yorkshire ; value, ; patron, Col. Wyndham. Rev. Clement Moody, to St. Cuthbert Perpetual Curacy, Carlisle; value 1.101., and residence ; patron., Dears and Chapter of Carlisle. Itev. T. ltankin, to North Dalton Perpetual Curacy, Yorkshire; value 751. ; patron, J. Walker, EN. Rev. C. F. Cook, to the Yicaraze of Disowurtb, county Leicester, and diocese Peterborough. Rev. W. Y. Nutt, to Cold Overton Rectory, county Leicester, diocese Peterborough. Rev. William Leyland Feilden, to be4Chaplain to the Marquis of Cholinmoh ley. , Rev. Edward Oritliths, to Oaks Perpetual ,Curacy, Leicestershire; value, 501.; patrons, Earl Howe and W. Merrick, Esq. Rev. Isaac Hill, to be Chaplain of I.snilguard Fort ; patrons, Board of Ordnance.l Rev. William Osborn Jenkvn, M.A., to MI Saints Per petual Curacy, Charltan, Wilts; patron, the Vi , ,ar of Downton. Rev. George Frederick Lacey, to the lie.ad Mastership of Drogheda Grammar School. Rev. George Harry PArminter, to St. John's Rectory and St. George's Rectory, Exeter; value, 21'2/. ; patron, the Lord Chancellor. VACANCIES. PltflifNLlAllY.—CfoSSp4t.liek, digeele of Formoy ; Rev. W. Huber, doomed. PtiIteETUAL CURAC T.— Sebtrabfell, Cumberland, dio ce,.e of Carliele ; value, 139/. ; patron.., Dean and Chapter of Carlivle ; the Rev. C. Moody, promoted.' CHAPLAINCY.—Hcrofurd Cuion ; Rev. G. U. Hayter, promoted. Cnaplaincy of Walton Union, Suffolk; Rev. I. Rill, pro. muted. CANONRY.-10 Durham Cathedral; value 5761.; patron. Biahop of Durham ; Rev. 1). Durell, dereas...d. ItrcroatßA —Lawrenny, l'omhrokeshire, diocese of SL David's; value, 168.; patron, heirs of 11. Barlow, Esq.; Rev. J. H. Humphreys, LL.D., deceased. Mongewell, county and diocese of Oxford ; value 3121., and residence; patrons, Trustees; ltev. D. Durell, deceased. _ . l'enselwood, Somerset, diocese of llath and Wells; value 180/. with residence; patrons, Trustees; nor. S. Marindin, deceased. Tenby (and Vicarage), Pembrokeshire, diocese of St. David's; value 3171., and residence; patron, the Crown; Rev. J. H. Humphreys, LL D., deceased. VlCAll4o6.—Newton-upon-Trent, county and diocese of Lincoln • value, 1.541., and residence • patrons, Dowa ger Lady Kiuloch and Mrs. Minster ; l ieu. M. M. Rayne', deceased. _ _ MASTRRISHIP.—March °rammer , School, Isle of Ely; salary, 201. and residence, and capitation fees; patrons, Trustees ; testimonials Feb 7. TILE AMAZON.—At the Court of Common Council, yesterday, Mr. Deputy Lott, having obtained the unanimous consent of the court to bang forward a motion in aid of the sufferers by the awful crlamity which befel the Amazon, proposed that a vote of 2001. be granted from the corpora tion towards their relief. lie described the event as the most dreadful he had ever heard of, distancing to an im measurable extent the late occurrences is France, and every other frightful catastrophe which had come to the knowledge of the public. (Hear, hear.) It was quite unnecessary, in his opinion, to do more than pro pose the vote, but he could not submit his motion without stating that he looked upon the conduct of young Vin cent, one of the officers, as heroical in the extreme. (Hear, hear.) The court by acclamation agreed to the proposition. MANCHESTER SCHOOL Or DESIGN.—The annual meeting of the School of Design at Manchester was held on Wednesday evening. Mr. Brotherton, M.P., presided, and • very encouraging account was given of the progress and prospects of the institution. POST-OFFICE ROBBERIES IN SUNDERLAND.— Complaints having been made for some time past that numerous letters containing money and articles of differ ent kinds, posted at the Sunderland Post-office, had not reached their destinations, an assistant.inspector, Mr. Mottle, was sent down from London last week to that town in order to discover, if possible, what had become of them. On Saturday night last, accordingly, Mr. Moule, without making himself known to any of the officials, put into the office an envelope marked inside in • peculiar way, con taining a sovereign, also marked, and addressed to an indi. victual residing in the Cowgate, Edinburgh. This should have been despatched at nine o'clock on the same evening ; but on the bag being opened at Gateshead, according to Mr. Moule's instructions, no such letter was found in it. Oa Monday the inspector called et the post-office, Sunderland, and having informed the official. who he was, commenced an investigation of the matter. The clerks who were present at the making up of the bags on Saturday evening were examined, and siepicion fell on a stamper named Marshall Dunn, who on being charged with the theft admitted his guilt. The marked envelope was found upon his person; and on searching his house the sovereign was discovered along with a gold watch, the eases of a silver watch, • pair of gold spectacles, and various other articles, which it is supposed have been abstracted from letters or parcels sent through the post office. Dunn was brought before the Sunderland magis trates on Monday, and the above facts having been detailed, he was remanded for a week, in order that further evidence may be forthcoming. BRITISH AND IRISH STEAM PACKET COM• PAN Y. The yearly general meeting of this com pany was held on Wednesday last. The report for the year 1851 was favourable, as announcing the termination, in April lot, of the hostilities in which the company, in common with many other steam interests, had been so long involved. The conse quence of the pacification was, so far as the British and Irish Company was concerned, the occupation of the Dublin and London line by two parties at uniform rates of freight, instead of by three as formerly, and with differential and necessarily competing rates. The directors have also opened two new steam lines, one between Liverpool and London, the other between Limerick and London, and with fair prospects of success. The heavy losses Accruing to the company from the protracted opposition have been all cleared off within eight months, end there remains a lair balance to the credit of profit and loss, warranting • divi dend for the last half-year at the rate of I per cent. per annum, which has been accordingly declared. The report farther announced that an association was formed among the Irish steam interests, haring for its object the cultiva tion of harmony among its members, the adjustment of differences, and the strict observance of the non-interfereece principle. Already the beneficial effects of the association have been felt in sundry ways, and the company has de rived practical advantage from it. ASYLUM FOR FEMALE ORPHANS, LAMBETH.—A special general meeting of the governors and subscriber of this charitable institution was held yesterday at the London Tavern, for the purpose of considering whether, in the case of the children rendered destitute by the loss of the Amason, the strict rule of the society, which required the payment of 100 guineas upon the admission of each orphan, might not be dispensed with. Mr. S. Wheeler occupied the chair. It appeared from the statements elicited at the meeting that the committee of this institution, with the readiness which hail always distinguished it, immediately after the state of these poor children become known to them, corn- menced taking steps to ensure their admission to the asylum. They had received a letter from H.R.H. the Duke of Cam bridge, giving his cordial support to this object, and trusting that they would be able to confer the benefits of the insti tution upon some of these children. Three of them were then elected, which was tantamount to a donation of 300 guineas.